Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1926, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular ed tion is delivered to Washington hornes as fast as the papers are printed | (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast ) Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle north and northeast winds. Highest, 88, 0 p.an. vesterday; lowest, at 5:00 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. l WEATHER. | | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,941 ¢ Toening Star. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 No. 29957. ou omee. LOOTING OF SHOPS FEARED IN LONDON; HUNGER GROWS AS PAY CHECKS SLUMP Entered as second class matter Washington, E D, C Police Reinforced to Preventj 1 Week End Demonstrationsi and to Keen Essentiall Services in Operation. WELSH MINERS APPEAL TO OFFICIALS FOR FOOD Disorders Negligible—Ar- mored Cats Moved Into Metropo- lis-—Train Is Stoned, Two Are injured Government State- ment Says Situation Is Same. Today B ‘ Ifitensive prep LIF government to deal| with any untoward situation and to keep the vital services running fea- | tured the fiith day of the general | i ke Chief Observation Flight Into Unknown Land Awaits Only [his being Saturday, a half holi v, there was little atiempt to con- - bus A tatement factory ters did not issuc atemeny, bu s far da duct ord 1ess anywhere at 1 p.m. said as ves- government he si v terday and Labor he 15 usual ence imong the re v wdaqu con- | wally | there | official ! miners’ | i going the the nothing of an no signs reopen peace ne leader, A ciated P indicate parley Asso w to v such hundreds ave applied to the for reliet the congested dis tricts of London were reinforced to-! as a pr m against possible ! g of shops tc receive st nal we the the pinch nge of | minery families poor gua The p: G ca 2. when the | pay instead | nvelopes ers of their Armored Cars Made Ready. < are heing moved to- om the Aldershot mili- a tank ¢ i em st this 1 g for an tion sorders of 1nd heen reported up to | London time. ers continue to and from the ans of motor lorries. The | > 110 trouble at | sailings are pro- “hedule. between Ber- pproached the Kiilingworth last | noticed that the £ order. When he n a mob, esti vanged them- n and pelted | ceading a the and 1 rossing night the eng s were ont lowed down mated to number 4 selves alongside ihe t it with stones. survey of lo country showed | ‘hat food stocks were normal and the | maiis were mov Z ! Wherever temporar: r | food have irred, the announce- | ment said, they have been due to the | diffjcuities of retailers in transporting | wpplies from the wholesalers' stoc was asked again not to nteer workers in the Lon- ave reached 100,000, Wher- s ond line of defense” tependently of the trades | orders or was forced | ving stagnation of in- | teers were rapidly filling | nion congl by the try, vol 2aps. The the provinces were generally quiet, although isolated acts of violence con- tinued. The London police report for | Thursday showed 4 arrests in Fins- bury, 4 in Bow, 4 in Camberwell and 23 in Hammersmith, for which sen- tences were given ranging from four days to four months. Medical Supplies Moved. | i Organization of the transport of | medical and hospital supplies has been extended, the government announce- ment said, but some delay has been caused in road deliveries through Swansea. and Poitsmouth because iruck drivers refused to move the supplies without permission from | their unfon. A ton of insulin was ! sent to Scotland yesterday within an hour after a request for it had been recelved. The London-Midland-Scottish Rail- way ran 769 trains yesterday, the TLondon ortheastern ran 760, the Great Westera ran 47 The an- nouncsment further says that large numbers of workmen have been re- suming duty. At Portsmouth 90 per cent of thi nway workers were veported to have gone back to their There were 3,500 men working at th iverpool docks unloading 25 steamers today. Of 339 dock gate-| men at Liverpool 245 have resumed duty. Tn the Liverpool and Manchester areas the government says 20,000 men have volunteered for work, while 150 tram _drivers have returned to work at Southampton. The govern- ment has notified striking tram em- ployes at Reading that all will be discharged unless they return to work toda jobs. New Difficulties Loom. 1 sovernment reports further however, at veral other ! points wocal unions at Bristol and Birkenhead have threatened io call | out employes of the mills if the mill | owners continue delivering flour, but the owners still are unloading grain ships. Two food ships at Manchester are tied up and a naval patrol is pro- ceeding to the scene to supervise their unloading. Municipal _electrical employes at Leeds have been called out and the Jocal Trades Union Council at Here- ford has announced that the gas works emploves will be withdrawn niniess supplies for indust 1 purposes, nued e Poge 4, Column 4. " The difficulti | fini: | August | operatc | ship for at least 500 miles. | charge in default of $2. Weather Report. BY FREDERICK LEW] espondent of The Star aj American Newspaper Alliance FAIRBANKY, Ala My The triple-motored monoplane Detroit er the Detroit Arctic expedition is tuned up and fueled ready to tuke off today for its expioration flight north to Point Barrow as soun weather repo from Barrow and Wiseman, 200 miles to the north all goes well the Detroiter should its work within a week and wk in Fairbanks with his crew George W. Wilkins, the expe dition commander, Maj. Thomas G Lanphier, United States Army ob server, and Pilot Charles M. Wiseley It the gasoline supply on the Arctic be 1 | shore is not sufficient the party will be obliged to wait until mid-July for more fuel (v by ship via Nome Communication Plans Made. The Eskimos in Barrow are eage to greet the new plane, which re places the familiar Alaskan, wrecked 1 on the landing field here or radio communication with ! expeditions overland party last informed them that Capt. Wil and a new ., watchmen of the native vil ! lage are mounting guard to listen for the droning engines al day long, and a day at Barrow at this season {long Howard Mason, chief radioman of i the expedition, today transferred the! radio sending =et from the wrecked | Alaskan to the Detroiter, so that com munication may be had between Fair. banks and the ship for a portion of the journey at least. We do not expect to be in commu- | nication with the Detroiter during the entire vovage, but it is likely that on the latter half Robert Waskey, the at Barrow, may hear the ter we lose contact and relay word back. Eielson to Remain at Fairbanks. Pilot Ben Efelson, who successfully completed three round trips to Point Barrow, will remain in charge of the expedition’s base here. After arrival at Barrow all avail-| able gasoline cached there will be placed in the Detroiter's tank, and he will push out over the ice pack Capt. Wilkins is hopeful of going farther, but be | lieves that a. flight of that length will determine whether any extensive land | in. the unexplored region of the f we start north with clear weather,” Capt. Wilkins said, “we Pol Our limited gasoline supply may pre- vent our reaching the Pole—of rela- | tive inaccessibility—the principal ob- Jective of the expedition, but we should get far enough into the ice to find out whether land exists there. Wilkins Pleased with Aides. “I hesitated to ask Maj. Lanphier to | make the long trip under the circum- stances, for I realize it will be a long, dreary wait until the ships get in next July or August with fuel so we ean fly back again. It means his leave of absence from the Army must be ex- | tended. “Wiseley is considered one of the | best pilots who ever flew a plane for the United States Army. He was long in Maj. Lanphier’s command, and each has confidence in the ability of the other. “T have spent S0 many years in the polar regions that many of the human interest features have escaped me. Lanphier and Wiseley will see things through new eves and thefr report on what we observe will be well worth recording.” The tentative course of the Detroiter will be by way of Wisemam, 300 miles north of Fairbanks. then northwest to the John River Pass and along the headwaters of the Anaktuvuk in or- der to cross the Endicott Mountains at_the lowest elevation. The captain has been over the course 50 often now that he knows the twists and turns and landmarks, so the question of navigation should not be a serious one. (Copyright. 1926. by North American News- Daper Alliance.) HELD IN ARSON INQUIRY. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., May Porter L. Custer, 36 vears old, w sent to jail late yesterday on an 00 bond. lie is charged with setting fire to a house of the Maryland Coal Co., at Detmold, near Lonaconing, after he had re- moved household goods to Cumberland. Several days after the fire, accord- ing to the authorities, Custer put in a claim with an insurance egency for $1,200 for household goods destroyed. The Detmold house had not been oc- cupied several days before the fire, cording to the officers, Joseph Mo» «a neighbor, reported discovering ihe odor of kerosene from a closet under th irway. The Custers have three small childr, s are recelved by radio | be brought { ship would arrive WASHINGT RETIREMENT BILL'S Is to Be Taken Up a Week From Monday. LEADERS MAKING FINAL TEST OF COST FIGURES Farm Rehef, Rivers and Harbors, Coal, Veterans and Judges’ Legislation Scheduled. The Lehlbach revised liberalized civil service retirement bill is to | taken up w week from Monday, House | leaders agreed today, and will un doubted ssed by an overwheli as there Is no known was learned today following a conference hetween House Leader Tilson and Speaker Longworth, who are in agreement that this measure should be disposed of at the earllest possible date. This I all predicated on the fact that 'the costu nder the revised measure, { on which a favorable report was made | to the House yesterday by the civil service committee, is as stated in [ Mr. Lehlbach's report. The House leaders are taking for granted that figures are correct. House Tilson and Senator Smoot suference today on these The Lehlbach report under this new bill the ernment will actually 2 annually. | were {cost fgure: { shows that cost to the C | be reduced § | Cost of New Plan Less. Under existing law the total cost | of maintenance of the retirement tem, assuming the liabilitles of the | riod of 30 years in equal annuity pay | ments, is 4.88 per cent of the pay roll. | or $36.520.491. of which the [ ment pays 2.38 per cent, or $17.8 Under the bill which is to be acted upon in the House a week from { Monday ihe total cost is & {of the pay roll. or $4 { which the Government pays cent, or $17.786.598. Mr. Lehlbach re. ! ported that the increase in retirement | benefits to the employes will be | 456,002 annually. Tt is these figures | that are being checked up in the con ference today. | Mr. Tilson insisted that retirement !legislation is nothing but old-age insur- ance, and that even if the Government | does” contribute a_ percentage of the { premium cost, that should be consid iered a part of the salary of the em- ploye. Other Bills Scheduled. | In his statement today Mr. Tilson | said that “the program for the House | | for the balance of this session will | probably include agricultural relef i legislation, a rivers and harbors bill, coal legisiation, liberalization of the | civil service retirement law along the | lines of the Lehlbach bill, the judges’ salary bill, the bill creating additional Tederal judges and minor amend- | ments to the World War veterana’ act {on the basis of the bill sponsored by | Representative Johnson of South | Dakota. | “The Touse is now at work on agricultural relief and there is hope that a bill will be agreed upon which will be economically &ound and at the | same time give as much rellef as can | be given by legislative action. } Johnson Bill Modified. “The Johnson bill for World War veterans has been modified so as to cost, as is claimed, only a fraction f the cost of the original bill. | of | the problem of fitting our expendi- | tures to our pocketbook, and as we | enter what T hope to be the final | month of the session, I see the pros- pect of favorably considering, in | modified form, most of the matters which have received popular atten- tion. Every one will not be satistied with the modifications made, but I believe the several bills will be as | liberal as possible without commit- government &pokesman said | ;23:;%’:‘:25 e ':\E’,“fm iniles | ting the Government to more than it can afford, under the new tax law. | Some meritorious proposals cannot be.considered at all, even in modified form, and the supporters of such proposals will undoubtedly be disap- | pointed, but I feel confident that the | country as a whole will approve of | the efforts of the House to keep ex- penditures within the limit of esti- | mated income. DISTRICT WILE NOT’GET TIME IN HOUSE MONDAY Tilson Says Day Will Be Used for Consideration of Agricultural Relief Measure. Monday will not be “District day,” as anticipated by members of the House District committee. It will be | used instead for further consideration | of_agricultural relief legislation. | House Leader Tilson today empha- | sized that there are no hard and fast | District days on the House program, but that under the rules the second and fourth Mondays are days on which | it is in order to call up District legis- lation. He feels that the House lead- ership has been very liberal in allow- !ing District legislation to be considered at this session. M: son realizes that there are several more District measures upon which action should be taken, and sald that an opportunity will be given for consideration of these measures on their relative importance to other legisiative proposals which are await- ing action. He appreciates that the ! bill to create a new Public Utilitiek | Commission, distinct from the pre: s |ent Board of District Commissioner: {is one measure of major importance which has united support and which should be brought up in as soon as possible. Thi measure |has the unanimous support of the | House District committee and of the Board of District Commissioners. Mr. Tilson said that he will try to find tine for this and other important non-controversial District measures to be considered before Congress ad- journs. overnment to be amortized in a pe | “We have been working hard on ! the House | Radio Programs—Page 42.' C ON, | 105 SATURDAY PASSAE DECLRED SURETH SESSON Without Opposition, Measure i i i I | SEEK MAY 8 1T VERY IMPORTANTE THAT YO! ING A FACTORY SIT , 1926—FORTY-TWO PAGES. TING. KELLOGG TACKLES NEW TAGNA CRISIS iSecretary Confers on Peru-| vian-Chilean Issue With Charles E: Hughes. 1 By the Associated Press Another critleal stage is apparent | Secretary Kellogg's mediation of Tacna-Arica dispute between Pern {in | the | Chile and | Mr. Kelloge's latest proposals, for | warded three weeks ago to Lima and | Santiago, appear to have been reject ed, elther in part or in whole The Secretary today canceled all other engagements in order to confer at length with Charles I3, Hughes, the former Secretary of State, and Tacna Arica. experts of the State Depart ment. There was a bellef in some inter ested quarters that Mr. Kellogg was facing the necessity of presenting new offer of settlement or else pub- licly conceding that the mediation had been a failure. In the latter event it was indicated that he would seek to | show that the responsibility for fail ure did not rest with the United States. PARTY LINES SpLIT - OVERFARMBILL General Debate Ends House, With Outcome of i E Votes Uncertain. | By the Assoctated Press. | General debate in the House on farm | relief legislation will be closed tonight | after three days and two evenings of | continuous discussion. | | The three bills under considera- | tion—the Haugen price- stabilization | measure, the Tincher credit plan and | the Curtis-Aswell national commodity marketing proposal—will bo taken up Monday for amendment. Party Lines Split. ‘With, party alignments split, leaders are reluctant to forecast.the result. Proponents of each measure claim growing strength. A number of mem.- | bers, on the other hand, predict that the Haugen and Tincher bills, which apparently have most of the support, will “kill each other off” and no farm legislation will be enacted. The second successive nizht session | ! was held last night and brought out | a defense of the Haugen bill by Repre- | sentative Andresen, Republican, Min- nesota; Dowell, Republican, lowa; | Kvale, Farmer-Labor, Minnesota, and | Little, Democrat, Kansas. The meas- ure was assailed by Representatives Robsion, Republican, Kentucky, and | Brigham, Republican, Vermont. Mr. Andrésen said the Haugen rheasure would give stability to agri- culture and would ‘“stimulate co- operative marketing associations to the fullest extent.” Mr. Kvale held that, while the Curtis-Aswell bill was meritorious, he could not entertain it as a substitute for the Haugen meas. ure, and the Tincher bill was “mere! a banking proposition.” The effort to {pass farm legislation, he said, was | not due to any desire of the adminis- tration, but to “the political revolution of the West.” Denounced as Subsidy. Representative Strong, Republican, Kansas, thought any one of the three ! bills would be beneficial to agriculture, and Representative Robsion, favoring the Tincher bill, said the farmers had opposed a ship subsidy, and hardly could be represented as favoring a subsidy for themselves. The Haugen bill, Mr. Robison as- | serted, would mean an increase in taxes, but Representative Little, favor- | ing it, said its effect would be to send up the price of wheat and other hasic commodities. s L0 S Execution Halted by Insanity. RENO, Nev.. May 8 (P).—Guada- lope Acosta, Elko County, murderer, sentenced to die in the lethal gas chamber a* the State penitentiary the week of May 16, has been found in- sane and the death decree suspended. Warden William J. Maxwell suid a new date would he set if Acosta re gained bis sanity. Waterspoul Hurts 2 on Cuban Launch Chasing Rum Craft o ng Br the Associatad Press. MATANZAS, Cuba, May 8.—A waterspout near here last night narrowly misged wrecking a cus- tom's launch with eight men on board, which was chasing & sup- posed rum runner flving the Amer- ican flag. The captain and the en- gineer were slightly injured. A high wind on shore during the phenomenon uprooted trees and broke the telephone cable be- tween Matanzas and Limonar. WOMAN'S CHARGES DENIED BY PASTOR He Will Discuss in Pulpit Her Injunction Against “An- noying Attentions.” Es tha Assoctated Press. MONROE, Mich.,, May 8. Rev. Willlam R. Curtis, pastor of the First Baptist Church, plans to preach a Mother's day” sermon on the sanc. tity of the home tomorrow, he said despite a temporary injunction grant- ed Thursday to Mrs. Iva M. Bryan. a member of his church, preventing him from annoyving her with his atten tions. The minister said he would refer to the injunction in his sermon Mrs. Bryan in her petition for an | injunction” eaid she first became ac- quainted with the minister in August, 1924, and that he had visited her at her home frequently to discuss hurch and lodge work. The visits, she charged, became so frequent they caused gossip und when she, and later her husband, asked the minister to cease his visits, he refused. Suggested Trip Charged. The petition further stated that the minister asked her to accompany him to Ypsilanti, a nearby town, and that he made “improper suggestions” her. Rev. Mr. Curtis denies the charges, and says he will fight to have the in- junction dissolved to clear his name. He has retained Edgar G. Gordon as counsel. The minister said he did not think he would file counter charges against Mrs. Bryan, but Gordon inti- mated such action might be necessary “to prove the false fabric of her alle- gations.” ‘Will Not Assail Her. Asserting he would discuss the case from the pulpit Sunday, Rev. Mr. Cus- tis_said, “‘but don't come thinking I will rail against her. I won't, but I will talk about the home and its sanc- tity. You know I've always been a fanatic on purity. I've done a lot of work here in that cause, and, of course, have made some enemies. This is an outcropping of that fight which 1 have carried on against unclean liv- ing.” After the injunction was granted, Mrs. Bryan left town. Her attorney, | James J. Kelly, said she had postponed the action for some time in hope that the minister would accept warnings given him. “My client is determined to go through with it and make the injunc- tion permanent,” Kelly sald. ‘“She stmply says Dr. Curtis has been an- noying her with devotion and she wants no more of it. POST CARDS AND CHICKS MAY GET LOWER RATES | A recommendation for return to the one-cent rate on post cards was agreed upon yesterday by the joint eongressional postal committee. The committee also decided to recom- mend: A reduction in the rate on transient second-class matter, estab- lishment of a C. O. D. postal card and a reduction of the service charge on baby chicks. The committee will to make a final su in consultation with Joseph Stewart, executive assistant to the Postmaste: General. Asserting that the committee ma- jority had done “absolutely nothing" with the most important questions affecting postal rate revision, Senator McKellar, Democrat, Tennessee, an- nounced that he would file a minority report favoring these proposals: Restoration of 1920 rate on second- class matter and bundle rates on newspapers, reduction of rate from 11 cents to 1 cent on circular matter and the removal of the service charge on parcels poe meet Monda: to | vey of its report | DEBT PACT ACTION UPTOFRENCHFRS [Both Countries Are Delaying, | With Chances in Congress Better Next Fall. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. “After you my dear Gaston.” as the I'rench character of a famous cartoon used to say—this expresses the atti tude now assumed by the Congress of the United States toward the | French Parllament in the matter of | approving the recent settlement of | war debts made by the | Debt Funding Commission and Sen- ator Henri Berenger, the French envoy. Cable dispatches from Parls have | | sald the Irench Parliament would walt for action by the American Con gress. Now leaders of the House, par- | ticularly members of the ways and means committee, who are in charge of the legislation, say they intend to wait to aot first. Better Chance In Fall. The truth is the American Congress is nearing the end of its session, and |any debate on the French settlement < hound to be prolonged, and might | keep Congress here well into the Sum mer, with good chances of defeat in the Senate. If the administration | waits until the Autumn when senti- ment will have had a chance to crys- |tallize, and when the congressional elections are out of the way, chances of a favorable vote would be improved. | Naturally the French parliamentary leaders, who want to get the agree- ! ment ratified, would like to use as an | argument that the American Con- |gress had already approved the pro- | {pusal. Their experience with the | American Congress in the matter of | ratifying international agreements has not been a happy one, particular- {1y when France took it for granted | that the Versailles treaty would be ratified when once it had been signed by the executive branch of the Gov ernment. 'There is no doubt, there- fore, that a French ministry would | have a good argument if it could say that an agreement which has alread been approved by the American Con- gress deserves ratification by France, because it might be doubtful whether another agreement could be pushed through Congress. Up to French First. But it looks as if the French will have to act first after all, and the American Government will then apply the foregoing argument to the Amer- ican Congress, contending that the agreement having passed the French Parliament it ought to be accepted by the Senate and House here as an act of international good-will. Representative Burton has intro- Smoot has brought an identical meas- ure into the Senate. After allowance is made for certain cash payments the amount of the French debt is fixed at $4,025,000,000, which is com- puted as follows: Principal of obligations held for cash advanced under Liberty bond acts, $°.933,405,070. Accrued and unpald interest at 4% per cent until December 15, 1922, was $445,066,027. These two items total $3,378,471,097. Principal of obligations for surplus war supplies purchased on credit, $407,341,145. date prior to December 15, 1922, to that date, $6.324,940, making a total of $413,666,085. . Interest from December 15, 1922, to June 15, 1925, minus payments of ahont $51,000,000, make the net in- debtedness as of June 15, 1925, $4,025, 386,686, which is to be funded into bonds and pald over a period of 62 years. (Copyright. 1926.) Bill Asks Favoring Of Veterans’ Sons In Naming Cadets Sons of soldiers, sailors and ma rines who lost their lives in the World War would be given prefer- ence in the appointment of cadets to Annapolis and West Point under a bill favorably reported yesterday by the Senate military committee. Senator Harris, Democrat, Geor- &la, author of the measure, appear- ed before the committee and urged favorable action. Under the bill the President would he directed to appoint 40 sons of late service men to each Institution, 10 to be named ennually fer four years. American | for the French Parliament the | duced the bill in the House and Mr. ' Interest from last interest payment | UP) Means Associated Pr Barrie, Grieving For Sons, Writes To Amuse Himself By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 8.—Sir Barrie, reputed to have quit writ ing after the deaths of his two adopted sons, one in the war and one by drowning afterward, still 18 populating fairyland for his own amusement, but he avolds publish- ers. W. C. Lenrel, magazine editor, is the authority. He returned from London vesterday on the Berengaria and tells how he visited the author of Peter and Wendy in his study overlooking the Thames. He suggested an article to Sir James, who said: “It’s the first good idea for an article I've heard suggested in vears. | think I'll write it —but you'll never see ft.” Then he showed Lengel pile of unpublished nuseripts but would not let him read them. M HUGE SUMS SPENT ANDVARECONTEST Prophets Unable to Predict Race Because of Many Complications. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN Staff Correspondent of The Star PITTSBURGH, Pa., May .- Down 1 Oliver avenue, a kind of glorified levway running through the heart of the city, stands a building plaster ed with signs from the first floor to the roof. One side of the hullding i devoted to the Pinchot-for Senator headquarters, the other is the h quarters of Vare r Senator ieidleman for govern: A Pinchot meeting is opening one side of the huilding and erisy man invoking divine blessing, through the open windows comes the <ound of jazz wmusic, almost drowning out the man’'s the crowd troops into the Vare headquar ters for a simuitaneous r: The in cldent 1s typicsl of the campaign and issues involved. On the one side is Gov. Pinchot, the crusader, bone dry and anti-gang. On other is Rep resentative William are, wet and head of the Republican Philadelphia | machine. ad and is cley voice. as Both Assail Pepper. Both sides turn loose and lam! Senator Georze Wharton Pepper charging him with being drv with the drys and wet with the wets, anti | gang in Philadelphia. and gans in | Pittsburgh. At the same time Senator i and his supporters denounce Var | and Pinchotism, making an appeal t Pepper the conservative, safe and sane people | of the State. Pinchot they character {iza a fanatic and Vare a product of machine politics - Pepper ue—which per cent leer ple, and particularly the wets, be fooled by any such prope that if it went through and bec the law it would amount to move than a few drops of alcohol from an eve dropper in a bottle of mear beer or | grape juice. Along this line of argument the | newspapers here carried advertise {ments from the Pepper-Iisher head quarters bearing a black-face banne: | “Be wet if you want to, but be wise, {and underneath was developed the thought that Vare's wet program | would amount to nothing. ! Aroused Tre of Dr: the he He telis the pec | on some resentment among drys, who one be wet, whether they want to or I not. INPEPPER, PINCHOT on | not to me | This advertisement, however, roused | did not like the suggestion that any | € TWO CENTS. LEGALITY OF BOND FEES DEFENDED BY FENNING ON STAND Commissioner Is Witness at Hearing Before Auditor of District Court. {DENIES COMMISSIONS TAKEN FROM ESTATES Says U. S. Fidelity and Guaranty Co. Paid Him for Services in Guardian Case. Fmiphatic ceepted denial per from a bonding company that he illegail commission in which he honded as « onipetent Commissioner Frec it a hearing anditor Court. whic to investigate he: Dav eme e g the 1 & has testified beio £ Congress that the for which } an & 25 per cent on bonds him I Ad competent ansferred 1 pital two ve | the Bronz. New his served filed the turning estate to futh comm New <um of ittees | company. 4ys him }Hw by The ing centered Iph Adle 1ally e in 1 and f £15,000 the Y sented at New an the exam when the he Maj. Arnold at { Mr. Fennin companied by | his attorney ans, who § prepared 10 ' legal aspeet Hearing. turn, ot | terested | Davis G. Mr. Fenning was sworn by to My i Asked by {tice has been « inissi replie Mr Gans began the e stating he noticed in the f jof the Adier estate that [ning had entered $36.67 premiut | “What proportion receive personaliy? « - and Mr Fenning e detafle the story that he n t of t United Fidali arant | Co., which pays him sion « 5 per cent on all bonds taken out ! I him and through his office. He in the A h a fon was pa Explains Notary Fees. sndd the notaria listed on and Mr. Fenning ex paid them to an er who also receiver He explained was in a position notary fees as she wa ques The attorney f which als [ fina plained that he { however, to receive able to earn | *No portic to me in any Mr. Fenning “Is it not true ov came bacl hape or form t the ward canno tell the difference in denomination | of money?" asked Mr. Gar ou won't find T paid a | direct to the ward.” replied ness. “Who did it go to the 3 at the voucher.” ti ¥ mone the wit o witne Senator Pepper also urges the voters | |in this Mellon stronghold not to turn | down |in this election and. along with him. | President Coolidge, of whose cabinet Mr. Mellon is so important a member. This is no piker's campaign in Penn sylvania. Money is being expended like water for publicity, for headquar ters, for workers’ expenses. These ex penditures are not confined to any one camp. They are all well supplied with the sinews of war. be raised that some one is trying (o buy the election Out here in Pittsburgh—or rather in Alleghany Courty, which includes the City—the situation is vastly mixed in the senatorfal race, notwithstanding the great influence of the Mellons both financial and political. The ma chine politicians, led by Max Leslie | ordinarily would be for Vare on both | the wet and dry issue and the gang issue, but Leslie has declared for Pep per at the behest of the Mellons. It still_remains a fact, however, that Pittsburgh and the county Is wet, one of the wettest sections of the United States. Baird Reveals Wetness. It there was any doubt about this fact, the evidence given by Prohibi | tion’ Administrator Frederick C. Baird | recently before the Senate judiciary | subcommittee would set the doubt at vest. Mr. Baird testified that he seized during his seven months in office stills capable of a daily production of 68,000 i many plants producing illegal beer. | Vare is going to get many of these wet votes. He has held meetings here which rival in size those of his oppo- nents. It is suggested in some quar- ters that this turnout may be due to curiosity to see and hear the Phila- delphia boss. But it is a wet-looking crowd that pours in and out of the meetings. Four years ago when Pinchot was running for office. Allegheny County cast in round numbers 155,000 votes, jof which George E. Alter, who had the support of the regular organization, polled 100,000, Gov. Pinchot received 50,000 and 5.000 were scattered. While the registration in the city of Pitts burgh today is some 14,000 shy | what it was four vears ago, the great {interest aroused by the present cam paign and the issues involved are ex pected to bring many more to the polls, probably 185,000 to 200,000 votes all told. Pinchot May Get 40,000 It is estimated Gov. Pinchot will re. cefve perhaps 40,000 of these votes though the Pepper leaders put it as low as 25,000, leaving 145.000 to 160, {000 to be divided between Pepper und (Contiued on | 7, Column 3.) A the Secretary of the Treasury | The cry may yet | { zallons of liquor: that he shut down | of | then asked Mr. Fennu; K ee of an cstate w | not permitted to take any of { profits or share in the income in way. Mr. Millans arose and declare! he would not permit his silence to admit that such a question is prope |at this thme and entered an objection | on the grounds of irrelevancy, incoms | petency and inadmissability | Questioned on Rights. | hen has he a right to share in the expenses or earnings of an e tate?” pursued Mr. Gans “My opinion ¢n that is incorporated in the argument of counsel.” repli the witne “Do you decline to state vour att tuge?" ‘asked Mr. Gans. *No. T do not.” replied Mr. Fenning He explained that the commission he received was for services rendered to | the bonding company and that in ac | cepting it he was not taking anything | whatsoever from the estate, which was required to pay a flat fixed rate of premium. The New York attorney asked the witness if he knew that a numbe: of surety companies, who receive « volume of busine: from one but the Com “So far as 1 an re there is a flat fixed rate for bonds charged by companies in the District.” “Am T to understand vou to sa | that you are willing to allow the con mission credited to the man's estate asked Mr. Gans Would Violate Code. i¢ say that,” replied M | ut as 1 read the law such credit is prohibited because it comes under the classification of rebates | Tf I should undertake to give that commission back to the estate I would be giving it to a person not having a license and therefore would violate | the code.” I “Then I construe vou will keep | commissions earned rather than {low the money to go to the competents” “T cannc | the e portion | pensation paid by the bonding con pany,” replied Mr. Fenning. “Whe vou asked me to give the benefits to the estate I can cite that in the pur chase of clothing for these wards. he is able to obtain 10 per cent dis count from the merchants.” Mr. Gan# thought that there is no law regulating the limit t premiums, but the witness dis | declaring that it both of them | Immedia to_obtain bonds in Wash (ontinued on Page | view, return of the con mn &)