Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1926, Page 5

GROSVENOR LAUDS | . EXPLORERS' FEATS Says America May Take| Pride in Part Played in Achievements. America may take pride in the fact hat its energy and talent have played o vital a part in the Amundsen- worth and Byrd expediti wpinion of Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, dent of the National Geog: iety. These expeditions havs the achlevements of the g sgators in world history, 10" says. The full text of his statement fol- )3t ot since the great vovages of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | has any explorer made such o long | traverse across the unknown as this | 3,000.mile journey of the Norge from Spitzbérgen to Alusika | Match Greaiest “Amundsen s well as Cc as dramatic ar » world explo progress as the Listory “We ma that American ene talent were so lavg this extraordinar: Norway, Italy igeous and scientific The progress of Nobile, | uided | wpters | scien take trated in the ¢ cen the | imonths of arduot effort it | ook Peary to 1 v flag at the Pole, a quired for Ryrd ind later for | Stars and lent Coolidge ripes presented b The world did w0t learn Peary's success five mon but ou ige mundsen’s ements | 1as simultaneous with plishment. Sees La; ceom: ‘ man Puzzled. preciate the into account an ar factors of safety and lose accy of aerial v auired not only to cross also to reach a landir ‘The parts played the bubble rd’s invention. : h flight: Comdr. rtograp eraphic by ) , are sub, » students of « Morcqver, the by both men Byrd's present plorer of both in accor the gallan rack out the arth.” PILSUDSKI SELECTS CABINET OF ~LEFT” T0 GOVERN POLAND| turn spean pol titical is a q ticla: odshed \ appre es of the of a satisfact was avoided hension as 1o return to powe statesman who Yrench, whiie the tional policy of Poland liance with the Fre Pilsudski X tive of Poland. is represente 4s a sincere demon W only the go atry. and by others as character whose viole: at this time is not only calev 1o snoil Poland's chances to secure the place she wants on the Council of the League of ations, but to compromise Polish connections in other ways. Support 1s Uncertain. i The political it in Poland the govern-! Parliament | despite the surrends ment, remains uncertain. s so divided in consequence of the| electoral law g for - tional represen for that it may he | s it was for it Skzyn former premier, 1o find o jority to supi his govern less the r. 1l decides to g without the Any government he sets up it regarded as certain to meet with se ous obstacles. 100 KILLED IN FIGHTING. | 2 e ma ient. un- | along | pport of Parllament. | isf State Department Also Hears Several Hundred Were Wounded. | More than 100 persons were killed | and several hundred wounded during the fighting in Warsaw between Pil- | sudski revolutionaries and loyal fed- | eral troops, the State Department was | advised late yesterday by the Ameri can legation in Warsaw The legation's dispatch said- ““The President and cabinet have re. signed. “The President and all but two of | the cabinet ministers are out of War. saw. *The general strike i public utilitie the tramw repair of ““Absolute quict and order prevall in Warsaw. ““The speaker of the Diet, in accord- ance with the provisions of the consti- over and all are functioning, except and trains, which await tution, has assumed the presidency during the interim “A Pilsu cabinet has taken charge rovernment depart- ments. ‘The country is quiet. ““More than 100 were killed and sev- eral hundred were wounded. No Americans were killed or wounded.” HEINEN LAUDS AMUNDSEN Says Los Angeles Could Go From Lakehurst to Pole Every Week. TOMS RIVER, N May 15 (B).— Capt. Anton Helnen, consulting en- gineer and test pilot aboard the Shen- andoah, declared that Amundsen's flight across the polar wastes to Alaska was “a fine performance.” “Every inch of the Arctic Circle could be mapped and surveyed dur- ing one season with the use of a rigid airship,” he said. ‘““With the To8 Angeles and operating from Lake- hurst, I could make & trip to the Pole every week.” 2 Norfolk Bid Is Accepted. Formal announcement of _the acceptance of the bid made by Nor- folk, for Willoughby Spit at a price of $110,100, was made yesterday by the War Department. All bids for Phoebus Point. one mile north of ¥ort Monroe, Va., have been officially rejected. Gets Reserve Commission. Sergt. Morse E. Smith, Army Med- ical Corps, on duty at the Army Med- jcal School, this city, has been com- missioned by the War Department a second lieutenant in the Medical Ad- ministrative Corps, Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Axi WORLD GEOLOGISTS | 'Dr. George P. Merrill of Na- 'HE 'SUNDAY ' STAR, ' WASHINGTON. D. ¢ THE CREW OF THE NORGE 0 GATHER IN SPAIN tional Museum Here Sails for Conference. Dr. George P. Merrill, head curator of geology in the National Museum, under the Smithsonian Institution, sailed Wednesday for Madrid to repre- sent the Smithsonian and the Geo- logical Society of Amer at the four- teenth International Geological Con- gress. The sessions of the congress, which King Alfonso of Spain is hon- orary president, will last from May 24 to May 31. They will be attended by leading geologists from every land, who will discuss some of the major problems facing their sclence. “The congress has decided to empha- size particularly the world’s resources in phosphates and pyrites, and has enlisted the collaboration of the geo- logical and mining surveys of all countries in the presentation of mate- Hal on this subject. Other topics to be discussed include the geology of the Mediterranean, modern theories of metallogeny, Cambrian and Silu- ran faunas and tertiary vertebrates. Dr. Merrill is particularly anxious to attend the excursions to study the geology of Spain and of the Canary and Balearie islands, which will pre- cede und follow the sessions of the congress. Spain represents many fea- tures of peculiar interest to geologists. Its mercury mines are the most im- portant in the world. After the congi Dr. Merrill in- tends to visit the principal museums of France, Iingland, Austria and Ger- many to study their geological collec- For the last 10 years Dr. Mer- ialized on the study of me- is now the leading au- of are the only material evidences we have of what composes other Worlds. He has prepared a mono- graph on meteorites, and wishes to make a first-hand study of material in European museums before publish- ing and concluding his long years of study. ‘which Overseas Women to Serve Tea. The Women's Overseas League will serve tea this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock, at the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines’ Club, 1015 I, street, to all service men who wish to attend. The bi-weekly dance for enlisted men last | ridge disputed in regard to this 2 lleged | talsification Mr. Above, the men who operated the chix, Ardninox, Natalex, Pommeliax. Back row: G. mundsen, Norge, left to right (in front); Bell Ramm (third from left) and Omdal. 5‘ xplx. Riiser Larsen (chief officer), Carratti and | Left center: Col. Nobile of Italian army, pilot of the dirigible. Lower right: Roald Amundsen, lead: Lower left: Lincoln Ellsworth, onl; succeeded in financing the exploit. er of the expedition. ¥y American on board, whose efforts DOCTOR IN CL (Continued from First Page) ishly,” as Mr. Blanton termed it, the latter warned him, “We'll take it out of you,” and the witness replied, “Go te it.” Both Mr. Blanton and Mr. %on told%he witness that they had been informed that he had expressed himself as desirous of nppeanr‘u: be- fore the committee =o as to ‘“teach them what's what,” and that he had boasted that he would “show the committee where they headed in. Mr. Blanton asked Dr. Eldridge if he knew about the famous Brown ¢calding case at the hospital 20 vears igo when the coroner admitted under onth that the hospital report on (‘h(' death was falsified. When Dr. Eld- Blanton asked the committee to wait while he went to his office as he wanted to read the sworn testimony of the coroner “to show this witness is 1 M, Blanton read the testimony of the coroner and the certificate of death. Dr. Eldridge protested to Chairman Gibson that Mr. Blanton had not read the testimony in its entirety and he demanded that the complete testl- mony of Dr. J. Long Thompson should be included in the record. Mr. Gibson ruled that whatever was es- sential to the committee’s considera- tion would be included. Clash Over Death Rate. In one of his’clashes with Dr. Eld- ridge, Mr. Blanton commented, ‘with 142 deaths this year when it is now only May 15, vou have to take them into St. Elizabeth’s pretty rapidly to keep going.” Dr. Eldridge clllmevd that the death rate in St. Elizabeth's is no greater comparatively than the death rate in the District outside of St. Elizabeth's. Mr. Blanton also questioned Dr. Eldridge about the patient, Joseph Walconis, who died June 27, 1925, hav- ing become exhausted and in convul- sions after being in a cold pack for 7 hours. Dr. Eldridge testified that the usual length of time for leaving a pack on a patient is from 1 to 2 hours. He claimed that the records showed that the patlent had been out of the pack repeatedly during the 7 hours. Mr. Blanton forced him to admit that he had not seen the patient at all while in the pack or until some time ] after the death. Mr. Blanton renewed the charge that Capt. Willlam West had been punished at St. Elizabeth's since he had testified before the Gibson sub- committee and asked the chairman to instruct Dr. Arthur P. Noyes, assist- ant superintendent, who was present | at the hearing last night, to have Capt. West brought before the com- mittee so that the members might find out for themselves just how he had been punished. Denies Pack Caused Death. Dr. Eldridge said Walconis' death was due to inflammatory reaction of the muslés of the heart and of ficially recorded as acute myocarditis. Mr. Blanton insistently asked the witness, “If this man died froni $eing kept in the pack too long, would acute myocarditis be the true cause of death?” The witness said that the.death had not resulted from his having been kept in the pack too long. - When® Mr. Blanton insisted that Dr. Eldridge knew nothing at all personally about the cause of death the doctor answered that he had de- termined it by a post mortem. He admitted the hospital conducts au- night at the club was attended by many men from neighboring posts and ships stationed here. . topsies on about 80 per cent of the patients who dle. He also said that since Mr., Blanton had started his 'BLANTON AND ST. ELIZABETH’S ASH AT HEARING charges and since so much had been sald about the mutilation of bodles it had been more difficult to secure permission to hold autopsies. Mr. Blanton then said he was glad to find out the attitude of the witne and the hospital authorities in regar to Congress “interfering with cutting up at will of patients who die.” The witness declared em- phatically that never had the back- bone been taken out of a corpse at St. Elizabeth’s as far he could find any record and definitely stated that none had been removed during the six years that he has been there. When Dr. Eldridge said, “My resentment i3 not against the committee,” Mr. Blan- ton interrupted by saying, “Then I accept the full responsibility and onus.” Says He Is Worth Salary. Mr. Blanton asked Dr. Eldridge if he realized that he was employed by the American people, that the Ameri- can people were paving his salary and that this investigation was being vour | MAY carried on by a committee of Congress representing the American people. Dr. Eldridge replied, “Yes, and the American people are getting full serv- ice for every dollar they pay me.” Mr. Blanton remarked, “Oh, you think you are worth all you get. Well, I don’t think I'm worth all I am getting; in fact, I was willing to continue working for $7,500.” When Dr. Eld- ridge said, “I agree with you,” Mr. Blanton declared, am going to find out all about you Mr. Blanton declared, “If Walconis died from being in a pack too long, then this is a false statement in the record as to the cause of death.” The witness answered, ‘“‘but that is not a fact,” imitating Mr. Blanton. Mr. Gibson assured Dr. Eldridge, who sought to insert statements in the record, that Dr. White would be given an opportunity to make a state- ment in reply to any charges. He and Mr. Blanton both said they wanted the record in regard to the death of Walconis testified to by the doctor who made the record. Dr. Eldridge was allowed to insert the report of the autopsy, at which he was present. District Support Opposed. Mr: Gibson then put into the record the report of Auditor Donovan on a letter from Jesse (. Suter, represent- ing the Citizens' Advisory Council, in | which complaint was lodged with the | Gibson subcommittee against the Dis-| trict being obliged to pay $1,160,000 st year for support of insane at St. Elizabeth's and $1,000,000 in the ap- propriation bill for the next fiscal vear. Mr. Suter had expressed doubt as o the legality of charging the Dis trict for the support of many indigent insane patients sent to St. Elizabeth's. | Auditor Donovan In his report stated | | that the “District did not permit it | to ralse the question of indigenecy in| {any case of a_commitment to the hos | pital by the District Commissioners.” | | He also reported that the District is, | required to compensate the hospital | | whether indigency is or is not pres-| | ent. It was at this point t Gibson | said that the controller 1 ought | to make an investigation of St. | beth’s to determine equities in > matter. He insisted that the District | should be responsible only for bona fide residents of the District sent to | the institution and the subcommit- tee was agreed that there was no rea- son why the District should be charged for Indigent insane except | Such as where bonafide residents. | Col. Bell agreed with the subcom- | mittes and said that the appropria- tions made for this purpose are ex- cessively large, being almost one: thirtieth of the total appropriation for all purposes in the District; that many of these insane people come here to | see Congress or the President and that many times they were “drifters.” | Representative Gilbert suggested that | perhaps they came and listened to Congress for a little while and went crazy. | May Demand Witnesses. | Mr. Gibson then made a statement | saying, “We are pursuing this in- vestigation under some difficuity. We have no examiners to study the tes |timony. We have no Investigators to | dig up evidence for us. The members | of the committee have to get that for | | | themselves. We incurring no expense bevond the cost of transerib- ing the testimony. We have had | very good co.operation from District officials, and the comumittee is grate ful to them for the fine spirit of help- | fulness they have shown. Some wit nesses have refused to come. If those | witnesses continue to refuse, we will apply to the House, and If authority | is granted we will have those wit- | | nesses taken into custody by the | | sergeant at arms.” i Fenning Aides Noted. | Mr. Blanton that that stat ment applied especially to Paul V.| Rogers, a former law partner of Mr. | Fenning, who now occupies the same | ofices with him in the Evans [(ull(‘-l ing, and whose name has appeared | with Mr. Fenning's on official court | i i said papers in several cases which have bheen brought to the attention of the committee; and to Helen Lozano, a | clerk in Mr. Fenning's law nmm,‘ i whose name also has appeared in court papers, and who have refused to present themselves at the past two meetings of the committee. 1 W. H. Hayden, a record clerk at the | MANTELS_TILING | Have the Bath Tiling Repaired ELLE 1106 9th St. e “Main 8331 | MT. 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In reply to other questions the wit ness said he realized that this was improper, and he warned the chief clerk of the danger of it, and that he | warned Dr. White three times over | his own signatuge, and in one of those letters forecast what would happen if it was not stopped. Still replying to questions, Mr. Hayden said that Mr. Fenning had enjoyed privileges that others had not “until orders came from Dr. White,” about December, 1921 or 1922. Mr. Hayden, in reply to questions sald that Mr. Fenning hid . been granted tbis extraordinary privilege by Frauk M. Finotti, who was chief clerk until July 1. Mr. Gibson asked: | Do you want’ this committee i un derstund that Mr. Fenning had cess to the records while Finotti chief clerk at the hospital?” and ihe witness replied “yes.” Mr. Gibson que tioned’ Mr. Hayden closely regarding how the records are kept and the dif- | ferent classes of records. He also questioned him about the report made | by Dr. Henry Ladd Stickne; made an Investigation at St. F beth’s for the Velerans' Bureau, who | and who also reported that Mr. F had access to the records at St abeth's. Asked concerning Ar ning’s alleged access to financi rds in the record room, the witn 5 | id: ,”’ know it to be a fact that he went in there quite a good deal, and didn’t go in to play.” Mr. Blanton also drew from this witness that Frank Finotti lovked up records for Mr. Fenning. and “kept him posted all the time Asked if | he had seen Mr. Fenning hand Mr. Finotti any checks, he said that he hitd, and that Mr. Fenning asked Iin. | otti if he could use them, and Mr. Finotti replied that they had come in the nick of time, as he had ove drawn his bank account. Mr. Hay sald ft was quite evident to him that | Mr. Finotti was “getting a little rake | oft.” Mr. Gilbert, by a series of questions. hid the witness confirm previous | statements and explain more definitely | y regarding the letters he had written | to Dr. White, warning him against Mr. Fenning being allowed to go into | the records. He said he tho it Security Is a Surety” Mortgages Guaranteed by an Qutstanding Surety Co. | D | ness called. ask RESORTS. /¥ 5 White did not know about it, and that he should tell him, but he never received any reply from Dr. White. Mr. Blanton and Mr. Gibson both advised the witness that if any at- tempt was made at the hospital to punish him in any way for the testi- mony he had given before the com- mittee he should advise the commit- tee. Mr. Gibson said that such action would be considered as contempt of | the House and that the committee would see that the partles attempting it would be dealt with. Mr. Gibson questioned Mr. Hayden over how long a period and to what an extent Mr. Finott! had been tele phoning to Mr. Fenning about vet- erans’ cases. He said it had been done about Civil War veterans, Span- ish War veterans, and “wholesale’ in regard to World War veterans. He sald that when he warned Mr. Fin- otti that if he didn't look out he would “get in Dutch,” the latter had sald that he knew his own business. Mr. Hayden testified that since Mr. Finotti had left the institution he had seen Saul Lichtenberg looking up relords and that he had had several rows with him warning him that he ! should keep out of the record. He said that he had forced Mr. Lichten berg to admit that he had brokeri into the files oyer which Mr. Hayden has custody and said “I threatened to knock heck out of him.” Mr. Lichtenberg was the next wit- He gave his age at stated that he had been employed at the hospital since December 4, 1922, s clerk-stenographer. He denied that he had ever seen Mr. any money from Mr. checks. ning at the hospital only once in all the time he had been there, and that he had never seen him consulting the records. He had merely heard him Mr. Finotti for the correct spell- ing of a man's name. He said he had Fenning, or had trouble with Mr. Hayden over the | files. He said that he had gone into | Mr. Hayden's record once during his absence Mr. Lichtenbers ions said that Mr jealous of the records in his custody nd guarded them very efficiently. He denied that he had ever broken open the files, but said that he had | gotten the key from the chief clerk. In reply to questions from Mr. Blanton, Mr. Lichtenberg testified that he had recently been at the court h 10 different davs looking irough ‘the official papers for in- formation Dr. White might need | when called again before the commit- tee. be resumed Mon 6% lst Mort inotti receive | He said he had seen Mr. Fen- | MARRYING PARSON SILENT ON DEMAND Elkton Minister Was De- nounced in Classis for Not Having Pastorate. Special Dispatch to The Sta: BALTIMORE, May nest Weaver of Elkton, known the “Marrying Parson.” declined to- night to discuss the “demand’ of the Maryland classis of the Reforme: Church of the United States, of which body he is a member, that he Elkton and resume pastoral wo The “demand” was voiced at annual meeting of the cla May 3, 4 and 5 It was pointed out t 15.~—Rev. Mr performed approximately 3.000 mar | riage ceremonies last year. it is said The clergyman, who was pre: plained at the time his going to Elkton. 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