Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1926, Page 1

WEATHE! S Weather Bureau sht ge w Fair, warmer to creasing winds. terday Highe Towes 5:30 pum. R. Fo! ntle variahle ves today. 0 Am Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 Entered post offic s sec No. 29,956. Wa cond cla matter hinzton, G D ah WASHINGTON, D. C, SOLDIERS ORDERED | Indicted 10 LONDON DOCKS 10 QUELL MIOTERS; PEAGE MOVE BEGUN Troops Are Assured Any Ac- tion They Take Against! Reds Will Have Full Sup-| port of Government. THREAT TO DARKEN CITY MADE BY POWER UNIONS Notice of T H. Baldwin Week Danish Labor mpathetic Serves Tie- and Premier Confer—Peace Within Predicted in Negotiations. Thomas Br the Associated Press wearing steel helmets and full field equipment, were afte e dock dis London the rough are becoming too unruly for armed po governme today forces of the crown carrying sent th rnoon into t tricts of where The radio ed ceive the government's full the nounced all ranks of that will upport in any action they may find it neces <ary to take in honest efforts to aid the civil powers dealing' with strike disorders in Peace Move l/hunchei The fourth day fof the general <trike found both sfles standing pat, but guarded prediftic were made in 'abor quarte t the crisis might be settled ext week Premier Baldwin Thomas, labor leader, ha confer- ence. An international aspect was given to the strike when the ecxecutive committee of the Danish Trades Unions at Copenhagen gave prelim- inary natice of a walkout in support of the British workers. The Communist International in Moscow seeks to bri together representatives of ench, Belgian, Czechoslovakian, Du and Ger- man labor organiza to frame measures aiding the British strikers. Money is being sent to the British workers by Mexican and Argentine labor bodies, and American labor has been asked to contribute. Few Disorders Today. There v today, although di in Edinburgh last night and at dleborough, where the freight s was wrecked and an attempt made to wreck a passenger train The Welsh coal fields are quiet the attitude of the strikers in has become menacing The government ciaims the ers are trickling back to their job making overtures protection they should return Volunteers for necessary service are Increasing and many more busses and trains were available today. The Lon don subway has posted “No help wanted” signs. carly nd J urbances oceurr Mid was but rdiff work i Power Plants Closed. While the deliberating electrical workers declared at the ) port power plant trades whether union congress is to call out the and New Imost improving and Dublin. and mail services are ner. Belf The telephone Improving. The House of Cor mons has been hor employes, bus conduct pro eedings without electric lights if necessary to the dis but number of led Electric LONDON gener: question I cil repor The coun: the alectrical fi understoo continuance be decided dispu tha elec Strike Debated. 7] Whether to kers in the t important union coun- according to May as the mos the trade. pssion today ts is the will it power iy s possible veports there i some ng » whether cal wo 1 be call ed out, as opponents of the plan con tend that led the houses lahorites would he e to of the al hy en- - ment s it h plans made to replace any striker volunteers rmy electrical neers. The emy power plant ham walked out a eroon. All power Ing that for st strikers posted works. the municipal e borough of Ful o'clock this afs was cut off. includ- et lighting. The pickets outside the Newport Faces Darkness, Newport, the biz ind will be without electric power tonight unless volunteers can he provided The corporation refused to discon tinue supplving power ta the indus trial concerns. whereupc committee advised withdrawal of the men from the power station. and the aperatives have given notice that they will quit this afternoon The u tla Electric Supply Co. went on strike there early this morning. The man aging director of the plant said the emergency staff available was ade- nuate. and that there would be no in terruption in the supply of power. Official details of last night's rioting at Middlesborough show that heavy lorries were chained to the railwa line in an attempt to wreck the late passenger train A crowd prevented the closing of the grada-crossin invaded the p “enger siation station and d An ontinued on Page 4, Column 1.) as little disorder up to noon or| there | s well as the gen- | -ial center, | the strike! on_ employes of the New Cas- | “ | He HARRY RRY DAUGHERTY INDICTED WITH HOMAS W, MILLER John T. King Also Accused With Them of Conspiracy.in American Metals Case. HA ) Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 7.—Harry M. Daugherty, former United States At- torney General, was indicted by a Federa and jury today with Thomas W. Miller, former alien prop- erty custodian, and John T. King, former Republican national commit eman, for h the American Metal Co. case. e indictment charges conspiracy to prevent the Government from ve. coiving the honest and unbiased judg ment of Daugherty and Miller, both acting officially, as to the turning {over of the metal company’s secur | ties. The indictment charges that { was part of the conspiracy to enabl Daugherty. Miller, King and the late Jesse Smith to recaive from the claimants of the securitles the sum of $391.000, which was paid for put ting through the transfer deal. Miller Indicted Before. Miller was indicted last vear with four German and Swiss citizens and ‘man and Swiss corporations s of conspiracy to defraud the United States Government in the release by Miller, as allen property stodian, of about $7.000,000 of sequestered assets of the American etal Co. to prater ded Swiss owners. | The Federal grand jur which re. jturned today's indictmenr had been | investizating for several months the transfer of the American Metals to the alleged German owners rities, representing 43 per of the company's stock, was during the war as enemy i The cent seized appeared before the ¢ last January. He the investigating | body he had been cited | for contempt of court because of his 1sal to ver certain questions | before the grand jury. He escaped a possible jail term for contempt by before the grand jur Facts Discovered Abroad. United State: Attorney Buckner anr discovered by F. impson, while recently caused the decision to dismiss the indictment previously returned against | Miller and to return a new one, | naming also Daugherty and King. Mal S. Daugherty, brother of Harry M. Daugherty, was a witness before the grand jury returning to day's indictment. He is president of the Midland Natlonal Bank of Wash ington Court House. Ohio Mr. Buckner declined to comment the reason why the German and Swiss and individual were mot included in ment DAUGHERTY NOT WORRIED. Kenneth toda indict Never Heard of Case While in Office, He Asserts. COLUMBLUS, Ohio, May 7 (P have nothing to fear.” Harry M. Daugherty, former United States At. torney General, said today when in- formed he had been indicted in New York for conspiracy in with the American Metal Co. case “I am in no way apprehensive as to ithe outcome,” he said. { He asserted he never heard ahout the case until after it was disposed of. He continued: “The case upon which this charge | is based was decided nearly five vears ago by a division in the Department of Justice regularly authorized to pass upon claims of this character. As in many other matters of a like nature. I was not even called upon to-review | their decision; in fact, I never heard | about the case nntil long after it had heen disposed of. “In a professional life covering 45 1 have never discussed or tried T will con vears cases in the public press. | tinue to adhere to that policy. time, I know the fair minded public will withhold its opinion until the case is decided. 1 have nothing to fear and am in ne way apprehensive as to the outcome. mnspiracy in connection | that factsysoci connection Mean. | MISSMYRTLEPOSEY WIN FIRST PLACE INORATORY FINALS 'Eastern High School Miss to Represent D. C. in National Contest in June. i | i | | | | | | | | PHILIP EVANS IS THIRD tion—Is Leader in School Dramati For second in ossion the of E: I | has heen carried to victory in local ion of the National vear stern the suce hanner School the Ora zh divi in consecutive vears this honor has come to a girl pupil in a District of Columbia public high schocl as a re sult of the dacision of the judges this morning in awarding the distinction of national finalist to Myrtle Posey, 17 vear-old Eastern senior Miss Posey achievement automat fcally entitles her to Star's combined cash award of $300, the distinction of speaking against the six other adjudzed hest youthful orators of the United States and a three-month education and pleasure tour of the leading countries of Eu | rope | Canfield vsh of Central and Philip Evans of Western. tied for second place, with a low point total of 9 each. This tie, upon being broken upon analysis in relation to the two contestants, gave Marsh second and third place. Her Experience Counts. | The winning speaker’s wide experi | in her school d in her notable er girl and five oration was of ex cellent quality, and was delivered ease and confidence, and marked | her as a certainty in assuring ‘the Star region a most creditable repre sentation in the national contest June 4. She possesses a pleasing personal ity and excellent presence and a gond speaking voice. Her subject was the newly designated theme this year America’s Contribution to Consti utional Government.” She is the daughter of David M. Posey of 1346 North Carolina avenus, and a_popular and most representative pupil of her school, with a special leaning toward dramatics Evans Prominent at School. Lvans is the son of Representative and Mrs. Evans of Montana and is a pupil of his j ence in dramatic wor siood her in zood s victory over four boy orators. He 1 | schoc He is but 16 years of age, but will | finish his school cours . this year. He |is particularly prominent in the dra- | matic_and newspaper fields of West- | ern. He has taken part in the leading school plays and has conducted with | much credit to himself and his school a paragraphic column in the school | weekly. His oration on the Constitu showed excellent preparation is delivery marks him as pos: sing great further possibilities in atorical He spoke with con fidence and muck earnestness Central has not had in many cars a more ontstanding school figure than Marsh. He Is active and promi { nent in almost every branch of schol “as:]r endea He {s lieutenant col lonel of the fivst regiment of the cadet corps. president of the School Debat- 1.'\51 Society, president of the Central pter of the National Honor Soclety, lation manager of the weekiy school publication, a scholarship hon or roll studen:, secretary of the Off {cers' Club and secretary of the Quill lig Central's honorary literary He expects to pursue a college in e eering and is hopeful winning a scholarship in a large astern university. He fs the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Marsh of 17 Kenyon street northwest. Jist of Contestant | | The list of contestants this {and their schools includes: Virginia | Kettley, By High; Canfield | Marsh, " Centr Myrtle Pose E High E. Sorrells ern Kinley Tey 1igh; Philip | s | rorning Joseph corporations | Academy: Va.. High, and Hyattsville. Md., High As in years the various participating echools were visited by | the judges and each or: heard {in the school auditorium. The schools were visited in the following orders stern, Dunba Armstrong, Mec nley. Business, Central, Western Paul's, Alexandria and Hyatts ville, The judges were Dr. John J. Tigert, United States commissioner of educa- tion: Mrs. Edna M. Colman. former | \ Pen Women. and Judge McKenzie | Moss, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Tha low point composite tem of scoring was employed in e Jjudging. i DR. MITCHEI:L IN CRASH. t Mitchell, 1344 Nine. | teenth st prominent 1Incal sur- geon, was severelv shaken up when his automobile coilided with a street car last night ahout 10:45 o'clock at | the intersection of Rhode Island and New Jersey avenues. The automobile was badly damaged. Although Dr. Mitchell still felt the | effects of the shock suffered in the collision, he was able to keep his pro- {fessional engagements today. Dr. James | | Clyde L. West of Indiana. who of- fered his life in the tests made in | Havana about 30 years ago by Col. Walter Reed and others to establish the source of the vellow fever scourge, has just been appointed a watch- man in the office of the director of public buildings and parks. West was A hospital steward at the time of the | teats, and volunteered to take them. was first inoculated with germs aken from a yellow fever patient and net aficeted by the ition however, when =ufferine him Jself to be bitten by a mosquito knowo Man Who Sa('ri';'iced Health in Tests Of Yellow Fever Made Watchman Here to be infected, West succumbed to the disease in virulet form and barely sur- Vived the attack. Several years later he was honorably discharged from the Army, and be- | cause of his impaired health has made little_progress in civil pursuits. Sen- | ator Robinson and Representative Hall have recently taken an interest in his case and intend to introduce a bill in Congress to grant him a pension. His | present appnintment, to which he was | found eligibie under civil service rules i designed merely ag a_ tepiperars form of yrec nitinn af hi saerific for the Lenefit of maunkind. ¢ Ty |CANFIELD MARSH SECOND, | Winner Takes New Theme for Ora-| torical Contest and for the third time The Evening | am Hutch- | president of the League of American | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION FRIDAY, Lfi_?" EARLY ¥ ADJoURNMENT ning MAY 1, 1926 —FIFTY-EIGHT Star. PAGES. * I The o Associa service. in Washington wit nly evening paper the ted Press news Yesterday's (#) Means Associated Press. Circulation, 101,958 TWO CENTS. Scientists Find Ancient Walled City in Palestine Br the Associated Prase JERUSALEM. May Excava tion on the site of the huried city of Kirjath Sepher. in southe Palestine, has revealed one of the most complete and well preserved of Canaanite and lIzraeljte walled cities h in made W is rezard Palestine by 1 The discovers ed as most eaploration, archeological pedition headed by Dr. Melvin G. Kyle. preside of the Xenia Theological inar St. Louis. in co-opera tion with the American School of Orfental Research at Jerusalem The uncovered w are 40 reet high and 10 to 14 feet thick. Thes contain complicated gates with towers and butire The rui reveal that the of the city went H possibly 2000 vears before Christ. An extensive tem of galleries and rooms storing grain water supnl was found wa r 1 CONTROL OF STATE NORGE S LANDED ON SPITZBERGEN 'Community Roused Early This Morning to Help Put Dirigible in Hangar. BY RUSSELL D. OWEN. Special Corraspondent of The Star KINGS BAY. Spitzbergen. May The dirigible Norge of the Amundsen | Ellsworth-Nobile polar expedition ar rived here this morning at 4 o'clock | Greenwich time. The community was | aroused to aid in landing the ship | after her 1.400-mile trip from Trotsky. | At half-past 10 last night the Norge | had crossed the scattered drifting ice | south of Bear Island and passed | through patchy fog stretching to the | northward. The ship crossed the east i side of Bear Island and then set its course to the west of South Cape On leaving Vadso at 2:50 p.m. the Norge had 5,000 kilos of petrol aboard The weather prospects were good The first word direct from the Norge reached Spitzhergen at midnight when the radio operator, Merk, re. ceived at Kings Bay a message from the dirigible that she had passed Bear Island some time earlier. An earlier message by way of Green | | \ | with the wind aft At the little radio station atop the Bluff at Kings Bay the progress of the | dirigible was watched with intense in terest. as this was the eritical part of the trip The stations for directions as she felt her | way through the snow over the sea | (Copsright. 1926, by the New York Times and St. Louis Globe-Democrat. | CRAFT EARNS CONFIDENCE. Trip to Vadso Proves Merit Crew Credited Ship With. BY FREDERIK RAMM. By Wireless to The Sta VADSO, Norway. May The | Norge, anchored to her mooring mast |at Vadso yvesterday morning. Confl. dence in the airship was fully justi fled. | Leaving Leningrad after the Rus jsian soldiers had slipped the dirigible, we rose immediately, carried by a | strong northeast wind. A few seconds | (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) JAPAN EXPECTS LITTLE LABOR DIFFICULTIES | Two Federations Start Move to So- licit Funds to Aid British ‘Workers. | By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 7.—Minister of Com merce Kataoka stated today he does not expect the British strike situation | to affect trade or labor conditions of Japan seriously. Police are watching various labor bodies and intend to prevent any radical demonstrations. | The Osaka Labor Union, second to the Japanese Federation of Labor as the largest in Japan, voted the British strikers moral and financial support and made arrangements to collect funds for their assistance. A movement was started vesterday hy the Japanese Federation of Labol to sollcit funds for the British labor unlons after the organization had pledged its moral and financial sup- port to the strikers. MRS. CAPPER FAILING. Condition Very Grave—Kansas Senator Is at Bedside. BALTIMORE, May 7 (#).—Mrs. Ar { thur Capper, wife of Senator Capper of Kansas, suffered another relapse during last night at the Hospital for Women of Maryland, and attending physicians today described her condl- tion as ‘‘very srave. Senator Capper is at her bedside Mrs. Capper underwent a major oper- ation several weeks ago, the first re- Japse occurring two weeks after the operation apparently had been suc- cessful. JAPAN SHIFTS ENVOYS. TOKIO, May 7 (£).—It was learned from official sources today at Arata | Aaki. Japanese consul general at Hon- olulu, who has been ordered to return will succeed Shiget U. Furuya. who f= now in Japan. It is expected that Furuya wili be named Minister to Austria, Harbor said that everything was well, | orge was heard calling land | shortly to Tokio, will be appointed | Minister to Mexico. In that post he | | BOMB USED IN PASSAIC. | Home of Worsted Mills Employe Is Damaged by Explosion PASSAIC. N. J.. May 7 (®).—The | home of Richard Stier of Garfield, a loom fixer in the Garfleld Worsted Mills, was damaged today by the ex plosion of what police said was a bomb placed on the porch Several windows were smashed | A Levendusky and Mary Voltik | 13.vearold girls, arrested last night | for throwinz tin cans at Helen | Schegel, aged 48 a worker in Gera mills, were released without bail after having been several hours at | police station. They will he siven a hearing tomortow TEETH EXTRACTED FROMDRY BILLS Several Proposals to Tighten Up Law Discarded by Senate Committee. Several the administration pro posals for tightening up dry law en forcement virtually have been dis- carded by the Senate prohibition com mittee. While final conclusions de ferred until next week. it was indicated that the proposal for the forfeiture of aft seized while engaged in the rum running trade would he abandoned as well as that under which customs sollectors would he permitted to with | hold papers from craft thay suspected | would engage in the rum-runing trade Some Senators said the sections of {the six administration bills recom | mended by the Treasury and agreed | pon by the committee would be whip ped into one measure, which would be yecommend:d to the Senate judiciary committee, probably next \Wdenesday or Thursday. The provision of the Goff bill pro posing search of private dwellings used for the commercial manufacture of liquor was materially amended. As now tentatively agreed upon. search could be instituted only where the evidence showed there was manufac ture of intoxicants to be used in vio- lation of the prohibition act TWO PRISONERS BEAT ALEXANDRIA JAILER| Escape Thwarted as Sillex Breaks | Away and Slams Door—Third Inmate Calls Police. were Spectal Dispatch to Tha Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va.. May 7.—John | Laughter and Elijah Lawson. held in | the city jail awaliting action of the | grand jury on a charge of stealing an |Automobile, attempted to escape ves- | erday afterncon at 5:30 o'clock, at- tacking Jailor James T. Sillex. ~Sillex had just entered the second door of the main corridor, when he was grab- bed and beaten. Thomas Love. serv- ing a short term, telephoned for police assistance. Sillex in the meantime got away from the prisoners and out of the main corridor, slamming the door | and locking it. Subsequently, E. J.| McDermott, deputy motor ~ vehicle commissioner, and Policeman Wright arrived. The men were then placed in the dungeon The prisoners were arrested in Maryland about three weeka ago with | another man. Following a plea of guilty, they were held for action of the grand jury. Laughter claims to he from Atlanta. Ga., and Lawson trom Greenville. 8. C. WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY IN STOCK FRAUD CASE Mrs. Grace Ott Bange Confessed to Mulcting Friends Out of More Than $200,000. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. May 7.—Mrs. Grace Ott Bange, who confessed to mulcting her friends out of more than $200,000 through pretense of investing the money for them in fake stock deals, today pleaded guilty to grand larceny. She will be sentenced May 18. She is lable to 5 to 10 years' imprisonment as a first offender. | Mrs. Bange, an employe of the Amer- |ican Telephone and Telegraph Co., claimed that she could buy stock as an employe at less than the market | e takes law | acerual ! quotation, and her principal vietim | was A. A. Denison. an official of the Standard Oil Co., who intrusted $54,000 I to her, . RETIREMENT VOTE IS EXPECTED S00 Lehlbach Makes Plea for Lib-| eralized Bill—Saves U. S. 1 $30,000 Yearly. With the to ‘)v! Government liberalized retirement system for actually annually by the com reement reached by those who have been fathering this legisla ion in conference with the President and Budget Bureau, there is probability that the House will take action on the measure, so that n hecome law hefore Congress s away for the Summer Chairman Lehibach of the Hou rivil service committee vesterday p nted 4 unanimous request from that committee to have the liberalized civil service retirement bill recom. mitted to the committee. There is be fore the House membership today a report by the civil service committee for ctment the compromise hill, as follows: (1) The provision for voluntary retirement after 30 yvears of service is eliminated: (2) the maxi mum annuity is reduced from §1.200 10 $1.000, where under the present law it is $720; (3) the divicor used in com- puting annunities is 45 instead of 40 (4 contributions by the emploves are reduced from 4 per cent of their basic salaries to per cent, while the present contribution is per cent Otherwise the bill now reported iz substantially the same as previously reported to the House cost service 9.33 employes re fo dne L the early se 31 Expects Prompt Passage. Lehlbach said today that for granted this measure he promptiy passed, as it in effect & the Government em e their annuities by ihutions from their salaries and ' really saves the Government nearly $30.000 a year He explained that under existing the total enst of maintenance of system. assuming the jes of the Governrlent | to be amortized in a period of 30 vears in equal annual payments. is 3.88 per cent of the pay roll, or $36.- 2,491, of swhich the Government pave 2.35 per cent. or $17.515.30 Under the new bill, such total cost is | 587 per cent of the pay roll. or $43. the o Chairman the retir of which per cent, Government £17.786.508 pay | Thus it appears that the increase in | retirement benefits to the emploves | will he $7.456,092 annually. Provides New Method. | The Lehlbach report points out that | this bill provides a new method of | computing annuiti | The present method of fixing annui- ties at percentages of average sala ‘ es. ranging from 30 per cent ta 60 | per cent, according to length of serv.|vears ahead for the Philadelphia or-| ice measured in 3.vear periods and | with maximums ranging from $720 | per annum down to $360 per annum, s abolished. The report says that this methed is | “inequitable and unscientific.” SHIP LIMPS TO PORT. WITH BOILER VICTIMS Explosion Injures Three Seamen, Two Possibly Fatally, on Great Lakes Ore Boat. 1 | | By the Associated Preas CLEVELA Ohin, May 7 ore _hoat. Matafa her speed cut in! half by the loss of one of her bollers, | due to an explosion, limped into Cleve. | land Harbor today.to obtain medical | aid for three members of her crew who were serfously burned in the accident. Radio calls for aid were not intercepted. The mlen, two of whom may die, were injured when the head of a boiler tibe blew off and steam and bolling water were hurled into the fire hole. The injured are E. R. Call of Con. neaut, Ohio; Donald Schwitzke, Port ‘Huron, Mich., and James Brock, Con- neaut, Ohlo. Call - and'* Schwitzke, both burned about the face, arms and body, may die. .. . Call and Brock were able to erawl éut_of the fire hole. Chief Engineer C. 8. Maccalroy and three aides res- cued Schwitzke. The Matafa left Conneaut last night bound’ for Duluth. The accident oc- curred early today when the boat as 26 miles north of Cleveland. R_adio l’,rogrum —Bage—46. ] | svlvania 1 day | State | of Penr . politics. | myriad of offi | was elected in 1922 IS PENNSYLVANIA'S SENATE RAGE ISSUE Pepper-Pinchot-Vare Contes Hottest in Years. Has Real Wet-Dry Flavor. t BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staft Correspondent of The Star PHUILADELPHIA, May In mpaign and election for Re. for publican nomination Pennsvivania is stagin contest at the polis over the wet and dry issue since the launching of the 1926 offensive of the anti-prohibition The wets are banking mendously o come of the elec If they can w for the am nomination figure they can chalk up a real which w make t ip and take notice But underlying the wet and dry fs sue there is another which has far greater significa the political leaders, the nffice holders., the cen tractors and other ir ts. Tt is political eontrol of the State of Penn This great stake for which the game is heing plaved to Involved ue is the race the nomination even to a greater extent than the ser atorial contest State Control Split. Since the death of Senator Foise nrose no one has yet been ahle to the role of political boss of the Control has been di drew W. Mellon. Secretary of Treasury during the last five vear with his huge interests in the State, has been a big figure. He hails from Pittshur Had he been a Philadel phian the tion today might be vastly different. This City erly Love doesn’t take kindly to being wagged by any tail. no matter how large. In Philadelphia today the biz hoss is Representative William Vare He inheritad his leadershin his brothers hefore him, bu through leng vears of careful or At the head o organization tion across se they ietory the e sit for P fi is Hi v Baker, State chairman Mr. Raker = a gond or ganizer. He put through the election of an entire Republican State delegza tion to Congress. thereby strengthe ing the Republican hold upon House, But he has not filled the sho TWhen the time rolled round for the selartion of a Republican State ticket and, {ncidentally, the nominee for the Senate, the Mellons. Secreta: and his nephew. W. L. Mellon figuring on a slate of their own. Th Zoal was the election of a gove with the entire domination of State They were friendly to Se ator George Wharton Pepper and wil ing to nominate him. But they wan ed the governor. tno. locked horns with the boss of Phila delphia. Mr. Vare, who alse had sena torfal aspirations. Say Lean Years Ahead. The Republican machine of Phila- delphia and Mr. Vare saw the hand writing on the wall. With the Mellons in power in the Statehouse at Har burg on the one hand and Senator Pepper. who happens to be a Phila- delphian, reelected to the Senate and gaining power. they visioned lean ganization as it now exists. Next vear there is a municipal election here, with a may to be chosen and a < to fill. The time had arrived for a stubborn fight. And the fight is now on Owing to the division of control in the State, very largely, Gov. Pinchat he hand of the organization has been against the gov ernor in Philadelphia and in Pitt burgh and elsewhere. He was elected in spite of the organization and in a contest which made “the gang’ an issue. He has been a crusader in Har risburg and throughout the State. himself had be been so inclined. the governor up the “gang.” and his tactics have not been conducive to the erection of a machine. He has no candidate to cucceed himself as governor. He is out this year for But of the United States. He relies for his support on the people outside of the organization There is one thing that the governor has done, however. while fn office which has enhanced the value of the goternorship to the organization. He brought about the enactment of a new code which gives the governor almost unlimited power over all State em ployes. and even enables the governor to deal with appropriations much as he desires. The election of a governor, therefore, has become even more de. sirable to the faction which seeks State control than it was in the past. Four Seeking Place. There are four candidates for t Republican nomination for governor. One of these bears the Mellon hall mark, John S. Fisher. He also has the backing of Joseph R. Grundy, of the Manugacturers’ Association of Pénnsylvania. Former Lieut. Gov. E. E. Beidleman has the support of State Chairman Baker, and is hooked up with the Vare candidacy for the Senate. Bejdleman is a warm per- sonal friend of Baker, a friend of many years' standing. and Bake of Broth- | rom | State Republican | Mellon | began | Right there they | He | might_have built up an organization | ent into office to clean | ! t just one thing—the | The | nomination and election to the Senate | HINES OFFERS PLAN TOLIMIT CUARDIANS * TOFVEVETERANS Would Give Bureau Complete Control, With Power to Remove Committee. URGES INVESTING ESTATE IN GOVERNMENT BONDS Declares ‘Wholesale Guardianships’ and Divided Responsibility Must Be Eliminated d of Colu ed to the House today b veteran Gen Frank era Exp who! guardian - bureau e Ver no more thar d g destres | At the s | Rankin The director | mittee that div | hetween the court for the ment | welfare must cease a reau | plate supertisior Could Remove Guardian. = com ed responsib and the bureau d either t c ha | Under f the b 1ardian | should. Gen. H ourt. obtain the r | mittee and take ove | personal The was not vare | of 4 per cent income a do 5 and the expenses « enterpr b é witk per uardiar | ward could he eo reau at little Government exper be whol general decl s possibla to cor 14 be do swe tve & | nessee. the director declared, “If a law passed 1 will take over the whole | sale guardianships. and even if [cehn Cremi R it make & effort. t« to a ques Five Wards Enough. How many wards do ) guardian should have sentative Bulwinkle. Democrat Carolina “If one gu care of five wards sufficient work to do ness. It's a phvsical care of 100 Representat | Missou That's difficult e guardianst ed Re N i impos ward fve Mil Demoacrat but whole desir wered the witness. epresentative sachus ed to deple red Republican | he wa ernment entative Trwir Republicar stand, about ite propos nment hon: what you is to take I ; = expe a little less and be safe Urges Safe Investment. “That's Gen. Hines 12 tle lese curity Represen and Brow that a ward's es ment control and | penses for manag just as much by Government securities cent could at 6 per first reil estate notes Gen. Hines opened his te with the' explanation majoritv of the courts the eountry are handli fanship cases correctly ation from them. The w ever, asked for legisla | to go tnto court “with and protect the ward gement by say the courts hrow | now." he declared, “but it |is denied we are stopped Court Could Stop Action. “Would it he necessary for vou have leg! tion to take over cases I now appointed?” asked Chairman Johnson. Republic outh Dakota “If the court refused to remove guardian, then we would be stopped replied the witness Some of said Mr. Rankin | “are going to demand that a peti | tion be filed to remove Fenning as guardian and that there be recov- | ered back to the veterans money that { has been taken from them in the way | of fees. We are going to demand | also that each one of thesa cas: |be gone into and be thoroughly | audited. Does vour bureau have the | machinery to do it?" “Yes," sald the witness. “I feel | that “on the question of fees, we lsho"ld spend every effort to get a | minimum fee.” Only recently, the director ex- plained, did he have an opportunity | to see a guardian's account before it was audited. To Attend Hearing. He added that the bureau had been invited to participate in the hearing at the courthouse tomorrow befors ‘Auditor Davis, which will take up the Qquestion of Mr. Fenning's receiving 25 per cent commissions from the bonding company he represents. “We have no way of telling if a fee is all right. unless we are at the hearing.’ the witness said. “If_we my _ suggest ‘The ear but there an hded under suffe Rankin however Govern z no ex could e: invested at per cent thr g th and th; t co-opera- how uthority 1tus misman- “I don't out a request ness ~ (Continued on Page 6, Column 3, ? . (Conynued on Page 2, Column 6) P A