Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer tonight, followed by showers nd probably thunderstorms tomor- r Highest, at noon today; low- 9, at 5 a.m. today. ull report on page 9. M Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 Enterad E The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION § Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,583 TWO CENTS. TENNING COUNSEL ALLOWS BLANTON COMPLETE SWAY Declines to Object to Any Evi- cence Despite Jurisdic- tion Claim. * second clas: i c class matter () Means Associated Press. Washington, D, C. CABINET MUST G0 [0 Seviry ExmiRery ABsiNt m R[SBUE FRANB, 1Would Be Unrecognized | in Berlin, Writer at BRUANDISWARNED ~ poorn i Bankers Tell Premier That! National Union Ministry Cnly ! Can Meet Need. i WASHINGTON, D. C, 1926—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. COAL BILL CHANCES | FOR THIS SESSION HANG IN BALANCE Coolidge Gets Conflicting ALt W : NN R N | Views on Desire for Regu- e AR | latory Legislation. No. 29,970. FRIDAY, MAY 21, AWWHAT, THE. o Dail ‘alks Bring Nod of Greeting From All in Town. HOUSE MEiMVBERS ASK EXECUTIVE’S POSITION COMMITTEE MEMBERS PERET, HOWEVER, CLAIMS QUERY PROSECUTOR SITUATION IS BETTER § dispacch | ‘&pe | wore | | Representative Seeks to Prove Of- ficial Guilty of Barratry in Practice. Message of December Cited With Intimation Action Is Now Up to Congress. Government' Demand That Bank's Gold Reserve Be Used Is Basis of Rupture. Willlam of plendor at Pof who w , trom 1902 to bureau of the . s in personal mperor. nce of the Pa chiet of sociated | contact | then he | ris bureau. come to visit Doorn to | how the onetime warlord is he new life forced upon him ‘ortune of war and how he ay atter the passing of these 15 eventful year: » B nton tod the, House ju nts in b hers ar Repres BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Conflicting views regarding coal le<- | 2 2 tinued t |islation at this session of Congress < elar | were presented to President Coolidg at the White House today by three | | members of the House of Representa. | { tives, two of whom—Representatives Merritt of Connecticut and Wyant of | | Pennsylvania —want to postpone | | action until next year, and the other ssie | | ono — Representative ~Treadway of et ine : U ER HUSE USED BEIDLEMAN TAKES !Mus«xmhusmts—m-nenflv advocating | e htse el |8 C vithout delay. | St sdlanton and Frank - | s allice (p & mpperent (st 'RAFFIC ENFORCEMENT SUFFERS ANOTHER BLOW ik e b | their object in discussing this subject | | The committe: | even s o s oo s UI.E NEBESSARY !DETROI’I"S PICTURE TO BE TAKEN % " INWHPPING BOYS FIGHT INTO COURT 2225 DETROITS PICTURE T0 B TAKEN | tion. They needed no reminding of ot feat | structive legislation to give the Fed-| i Br the Associat PARIS, May ment and the over measure opinion neial WILHELM HOHENZOLLERN. » pl. arcely would be recognized in Ber- in if he were to stroll through Unter . den Linden as he does today through the streets of Doorn. The rigid regi mental face atly chansed by the beard and ¥ smiles benevo 3) 1 chi s now at odds franc, the itical and exchange a cabinet rm of rded testi letters, « ony in supy ichment ch Commissioner by grown venerable! The white - haired warlord 1ge. sovern Column ns is les of a political r have prevented ! what shall lone to protect the franc. ! bankers hold that the political | isis must be brought to an end first the formation of a national union would exclude from its and doc 1 pol (Continued on Page 6, fons 1d_possibly Monda sht and 1 that night meet s would be conducted durin ng week. When the co yurned M p eviden: sess| B y & Tremendous Significance From Military Standpoint at Dayton. 1 the for: mor ves | the President’s desire for some con- ind tomorro | eral Government authority to protect | FUR RE-"REMEN]-’ - |18 going to be for Congress to enact|) ahlhach S ——— nounced that ut Representatives Find No ' Charges Rival Faction IS Try- | the public’s interests in futuro strikes. | this legislation before adjournment. Realizes Fight g : !"The President’s ideas have been rec- | Indication of Cruelty at | 5 5 CorErn o e e Ahead to Send Bill to | BY ROBERT T. SMALL. lofty “celfling” for taking the “s [ tive, . i resent ee members of the House Dis- | By the Associated Press. trict committee, making an unan-| PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 21.-At nounced inspection of the Training |torney General George W. Woodruff School for Boys, on Bladensburg road | of Pennsylvania, together with coun- roctors of ndepend- morning . and ing to “Steal” Election. |ommended to Congress in two of his Training School. | members of the House interstate com- | : s the DAYTON, Ohio, May 2 Qi AL b tp Bl et Gl informed tii annual messages. What the visitors 12,800 Behind. | merce committee, which has been con- -~ o vels of aerial photography are Detro phic “stunt pose no ol | wanted to learn from the Executive | personally was just how insistent he | sidering this legislation and which is Dets tun expected shortly to report out a bill | Hected (o result: trovii expeviments | rded important D mber photo 5 of vas It will m Conference. he Bank or Briand cabinet discovered that whippings rubber hose were adminis- in cases for extreme fon, and that meat on the menu only a few times a week. But the indications were that the beatings were conducted der the supervision of an offic Robineau France. inf govern: a to indicate that their opposition fashioned in Americs rather than a n homes of bygone any inhumane day flailing un- | tally and | The a were more in the manner of the old- | man leaders that fanning,” once prevalent | made in the count sel for the Vare-Beidleman organiza- tlon here, went into court today seek ing a writ of peremptory mandamus to force the commissioners of Alle- gheny County, of which Pittsburgh is the center, to open to them the sheets of Tuesday's primary. rtion followed charges of Beldle. an effort was being “to steal the nomi- natlon for governor.” The court ordered the commission- & party included Rep- |ers to file an answer during the aft. Vermont, Bow- and Gilbert of son of f West Virgini wcky. They inspected the study and the school, the sleeping qua , the kitchen and al opinion of the commit- that the boys looked well f and nourished, but Representative iilbert couldn’t understand how th could be so unless meat was on the bill of fare more than a couple of times a week. Boys Do Not Complain. Supt. George A. Sterling, in charge of the institution, readily told the committee that a rubber hose was used for whippings in extreme ses, but from the boy themselves and from statements by employes at the school the committee gathered that the whippings were not done with reckless severity. Special attention was paid to the menu by Mr. Gibson, who rement bered from his Army days that a lor of good food could be purchased at wholesale prices for 51 cents a day in tho: times And he recalled that never a day passed when some sort of meat wasn’t on the doughboy’s bill of fare When he inspected the menus, Views Still Divergent. with but recon erred isters, hout points. g the Quai 1 reference to the dif: saving only that zovernment and the Bank of France were co-operating on meas- ures to save the franc, regarding the ¢ for which there was com-| plete accord. The government continues to con- sult techniclans on all sides to maks | the frano safe from violent market | movements. | The government has not confined its consultations 1o Frenchmen. There are a number of foreign bank- srs now visiting Parls and the gov- rnment has reques their views. Among these is Clarence Dillon of New York. Baron Ginzhurg, noted ¥rench financier, and Mr. Dillon had long conterences with M. BEriand d M. Peret. M. Robinecau has|of the talked over the situation with Ben-| was not found as frequently at the amin Strong, Jjr., wernor of the | training school as it was in the ‘ew York Federal crve Bank. i boys he found' that meat | Army_camps. And then he learned | that $1 a d ing the boys. The committee is goin { of whether the food supplied at the PRISONER IN PIE SCANDAL : SLASHES THROAT IN CELL | fhe™iiowiae, w8 well a5 whethor ! there have been any justified com- | plaints as to the “lickings” with the | rubber hose. | Outside of that the principal thing to attract the attention of the com- mittee was a_course in practical ap- plied psychology which was being 7ail Inmate Faced Quiz About Sheriff Kohler's Alleged Prof- iteering and Underfeeding. Br the Assoclated Prees | CLEVELAND, Ohlo, May 21.—Sigil | rockdale, county Jjail prisoner | nwaiting transfer to the peniten 1o begin a life senten lashed hi Hiroat with a razor blad short time before he Wz before the grand jury investigating | treatment accorded prisoners | Stockdale was to be questioned con- | cerning char, t Sherift Fred | Mittee his pri g L Kohler of un: prisoners and | Rich I8 shown by some of the boys : and | \fany of them, he tola the committee, profiteering in celling “extras,’ 2001 are loath to leave the institution, and Jeaders in a 22 hour mutiny of PEISOR. | to allow them to return there after =it ) | they had served their time and heen shdied ek 55 { discharged. A report of the wxand jury's find.| At the outset of the Inspection it s« may be made 1c w o if e T oo completes today an inquiry 2, Column 3. Jressure” salesmanship methods whereby all food was lls ex sold p MISS BOOTH IS WORSE. f ple were atira | A Qisplayed for sale at meals, which | NEW_YORK, May 21 (.—Evan ed of dry bread, thin soup and | geline Booth, national commander of | the Salvation Army, was today in “a very critical condition the development of character. In gen- eral it was learned that the keynote of the educational system there was to instill into the b a desire for | happiness and then to show them how to attain it. Praises School Spirit. Supt. Sterling expressed to the com- mittee his pride in the school spirit mtinued on Page SRR Iy at her home near White Plains, it was announced at the army headquarters. MACHINE GUN AND SHELLS | however, and spoke to some | used in the teaching of the boys and | { | | | to give consideration to the question | modif ernoon. A further change in the Allegheny County vote was made today, when it was discovered that Edward cidleman, the Vare candidate for ernor, had béen credited with 5 votes In the fifth ward, Pitts- rgh, a stronghold of John S. Fisher e Mellon candidate. An error in buiation, it was explained had re- Ited in crediting more than votes too many to Beidleman. change increased the Fisher the State to more than 12,800 This lead in FISHER WIDENS LEAD. i | Vare's Margin Cut by Later Senate Race Figures. By the Assoctated Press. PHILADELPHIA, May 21.—Scat tering returns in the contest for R publican nomination for governor to lightly increased the lead of John sher, candidate of the forces led Mellon, over Edward cked by Representative William S. Vare. With 14 districts missing, Fisher’s plurality v 8. The vote Beidieman, 625,68 Twenty of the districts not heard from were in Allegheny County. Aaditional figures in the Republican senatorial slightly reduced the lead of Mr. Vare, who maintained tion of the Volstead act was the paramount issue in the campaign. With 265 districts missing, Mr. Vare had a plurality over Senator George Wharton Pepper of §8,348. Gov. Gif- ford Pinchot was 171,639 behind Pep- per. Pinchot ran on a bone-dry plat- form, and Pepper also was classed a dry. In" the Democratic gubernatorial contest Judge Fugene C. Bonniwell of Philadelphia_still maintained his lead of about 1,000 over Judge Samuel E. Shull of Stroudshurg. EXPECTS MORE WET PLANKS. Fisher, 638,541; Nicholas Murray Butler Declares Other Candidates Will Follow Vare. YORK, May 21 (P).—The vania primary will induce candidates for high office to come out for the repeal of the Vol- stead act and the eighteenth amend- ment, Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- dent of Columbia University, sald yes- terday. “It ought now to be pretty clear to | political the open of ecclesi- candidates for office and to managers,” he said, “that support of that company astical politiciuns known as the Anti- Saloon League 1is the severest of handicaps. Every true friend of tem- perance and every one who really un- derstands the American Government will put his shoulder to the wheel until the end is accomplished and the rule of the fanatic brought to an end al- ready too long delayed.” FOUND ON MOTOR BOAT | Helium Produced From Hydrogen, | Police Seize Five Men on Craft Off | Coney Isiand—Charge to Be Disorderly Conduct. May 21. [ chemist at McCook Field, air field here, belleves himsell the world’s first succe chemist. Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May police who overtook a motor boat off Norton’s Point, Coney Isiand, today found a machine gun and 500 round 3 of ammunition aboard the craft. Five day that he believes he has transmut. en four of whom wave New Jersey |ed hydrogen gas into helium and ddresses, and one from New York,| other elements and that he has pro- were arrested. |duced gold from mercury. Adams e 5 e tiitiing dnd pateol | Ciimstoday ilils Glxovaries antetste e e bout | (he, alonewmy. ollimp OLTIE Aistne |of Germany and Dr. Nogioka of moving slowly away from them. They | {f Germany D oTE overtook and boarded the craft. The[T4BaM oo o ohen, head of men said they had been hired by a 2 mun - named Goldvers, whose ad-| gepartment, to a certain extent corrob- dress they did not know, to test the|,ateq Adams’ claims. Admitting that cugine, and that they knew mothing | ho was “extremely skeptical at first,” of the machine D i “They will bo w1 the helium experiments and is much givoiderly cowduet appointed that the United States Marine )1 wed. charged with | | a Army Air Service Chemist Claims tul al- | | | Following his announcement yester- the University of Dayton chemistry | known sources in the world. ! which answers thy Bureau of Standards has mot taken them under control. Dr. Wohlleben says he has not witnessed Adams’ ex- ments with mercu he univer chemist Adams had < gas and obtained a gas which ap- parently is helium. Two tests remain to be made concerning the residue of the gas, he said—its inflammabiiity and its density The experiments have been conduct- ed during the past four years, they said, in an effort to find a source of helium to supplant the natural sup- ply in Texas and Oklahoma—the only / The McCook Field officials, com- menting on Adams' claim of having produced gold, said that undoubtedly said that he has watched | he had procurred a yellow residue from gold and mercury which leoks like sests of gold. | along the lines recommended by the | | President, contended that the coal in- | dustry is in a sorry plight just now and that it sholld be given ample op- | | portunity to revive before any legis-| | lation, whether it ba mild or drastic, | |is enacted. They declared that any | | legislation would have a serious psy-| hologlcal effect upon the industry | now, and hecause of this the admin-| | istration should be willing to await | @ more opportune time to secure any | law desired. i Finds Opposition to Law. | Mr. Wyant, who has been interested ; in the operation of coal mines in| Pennsylvania, stated that the people | of his State are hoping that the en- | | Gctment of coal legislation will be| Chairman Lehlbach of the iHouse civil service committee failed to ask unanimous consent of the House to- day to go into conference with the Senate on the liberalized civil service retirement bills as passed by each house. He realized, it was understood, that unanimous consent would not be given, due to the attitude of the House leaders, who have openly de- clared that the, Senate must accept ahout to be made at McCook Field, the Army aviation station here. An effort will be made within the next few days to take a picture of Detroft from Dayton. The Army | fiyers are confident of success. De- | troit Is the House bill containing the Budget | Bureau retirement provisions or there will be no legislation at all upon the subject at this session. Mr. Lehlbach will be forced to go 8 miles away. This m that if the effort is successful York City can be photographed from Washington tured from New York. To accomplish this feat it will be necessary for the photographic plane to ascend to someting like 5 mile: possibly more, and the long-range cameras will be fitted with four or five lenses. The same fast-climbing | plane which Lieut. J. H. MacReady 2,200 | postponed. This, he said is also true|before the House rules committee to of many cltizens of West Virginia, | get a special rule before a conference | Tennessee, Kentucky and other sec:|between the House and Senate can be | tions, where coal is mined. {held on the Standfield bill, which was | The two opponents of coal legisla- | substituted for the House bill. {tlon said that after hearing their | Willing to Bear Onus. arguments and pleas the President ! | dismissed the subject by saying that| It was said by House leaders today |it is now a matter for Congress to de- | that they are willing to bear the onus termine. They went away with the|if the legislation fails at this session. | impression that the President's po.| They reiterated their position that | | = (Continued on Page 4, Column 1, | according to present indications the | | retirement prov. | Budget Bureau and approved by the { President, as embodied in the bill that | passed the House last Monday, | temperature they will ntegrated hydrogen | 0 GAIN TWO DAYS { Reaches Moscow by Wednes- | day if He Catches London Plane on Time. BY JOHN GOLDSTROM. Special Correspondent of The Star and North American Newspaper Alliance. ABOARD S. S. MAURETANIA, May 21 (by radio). — Twenty-four | hours and 625 miles of my race | around the world against time were | behind me at 5 o'clock this afternoon. | The Mauretania {8 on the open sea now, however, and the swiftest of | ocean lners will soon be up to the | daily average of 530 miles which I must accomplish to complete my trip | in 35 days and break the record of John Henry Mears for such a jour- ney. Capt. Rostron, as a special cour- tesy, has promised that the Maure- tania will run at extra speed. He undertakes to drop me outside Plymouth harbor before dawn Tues- | day. This will enable me to reach | the Croydon airdrome, outside of Lon- | don, in time for the departure of a regulor passenger plane to Berlin via | Amsterdam. | T hope to pick up my first day on | Mears by that move As he traveled . Sngland on this same hoat when | set his record of 35 days, 21 hours, | minutes and 4-5 seconds in 1913, T | can hardly hope to beat his time | across the Atlantic. However, after reaching England in five days, on July 7, he took a day to get to Paris and another to reach Berlin. I should j be in Berlin en my sixth day out of New York. Mears then took two,| days to reach Moscow. 1 hope to be in the heart of the Soviet state next Wednesday, seven days out, which will put me another day up. Although by map “distance I am travellng a slightly shorter distance than the record holder, as a matter of fact my journey will be as long as his or longer. He followed the tracks of | the raflway. T travel on an air line. | . It was somewhat misty this morn- |ing, but the fog cleared up early in | the day, and the weather mrophets on hoard—every passenger on an oceam, steamer is a weather prophet—say { that we will have a good voyage. I hope so. The President Madison leaves Yokohama June 7, whether I am aboard or not, and if I am not aboard some one eise will have to try his luck at globe circling. This is really a two-lap race, the first being New YorK to Yokohama, then Yoko- hama to New York. 1t is dinner time and I do not like to miss the dinners they serve on these ocean boats, particularly, as I expect to dine on chocolate and cylinder oil a good many times before this trip is overfand I put my feet under a table in New York again. {(Copyright. 1926, hy the North American % Newspaer Alliance.) . - . | i | ference, | possibilit will be no retirement law. Informal conferences, however, will be held between members of (the House civil service committee with House leaders and between the latter and Senate retirement leaders looking to an agreement which may open a way for final passage of the retire- ment bill. The working out of a compromis ions dictated by the } civil service retirement plan in_con- | in the event the stands for its $1,000 annuity against the $1,200 maximum voted by the Senate vesterday, was seen as one in the retirement situa- tion today. If the question goes to confer- ence, both groups would advocate the terms approved by their re- spective branches of Congress. It was pointed out today, however, that | if there are no Indications of efther side yielding. it would be within the purview of the conferees to discuss any terms within the limitations ap- proved by the House and Senate. Senate for Compromise. Supporters of the Senate bill are known to entertain the hope that if the legislation goes to conference, and is taken back before the House, there might be a chance of obtaining approval for some retirement plan (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) SLAYER EXECUTED IN LETHAL GELL Nevada Man Loses Con- sciousness in 30 Seconds. Dead in 2 1-2 Minutes. STATE PRISON, CARSON CITY, Nev., May 21 (#).—Stanko Jukich, murderer of a 16-year-old girl, was executed this morning by lethal gas, the second time this form of capital punishment has been used since legal- ized in 1921. He entered the cell at 10:55, the gas was turned on a min- ute later and he was unconscious in half a minute, but his head was mov- ing. Jukich was pronounced dead: two and a half minutes after the gas was turned on. The execution chamber in the prison yard was robbed of one vie- tim yesterday when the State board of pardons commuted to life im- prisonment _the death sentence of John H. Randolph, who killed his mother. Randolph made a desverate after courts had used here in his attempt so break the New | or Boston can be_pic- | altitude record of the world will be | employed, and both pilot and pho- tographer will be equipped with oxy- | gen helmets and heavy furs to fight | and the below-zero et at their he rarefled air COUNTER REVOLT Feverish Activity in Garrison at Posen Held Harhinger of Further Strife. House | By the Associated Press. POSEN, Poland, May 21.—At the conference of members of the parties of the Right, which was concluded here this morning, an agreement was reached that Posen must carry on as the center of Polish lfberialism ntfl the National Assembly is self- governing.” The National Assembly is the com- bined sitting of the Diet and Senate, which is called to elect Polish Pres dents. The opponents of the Pilsud- ski regime contend that the present| Diet and Senate should not meet to elct a successor to President Wojcie- chowskl in any city where the mem- bers will be influenced by the military forces of Pllsudski. There 1s an unconfirmed rumor here that former Premier Witos, who was unseated by Pilsudskl, is in Pomme. rellia. Counter Revolt Denied. Denial 18 made that a counter revo. lution against Pilsudskl is being plan- ned, but the fact remains that the military garrison in Posen is being strengthened and that feverish prep- arations are being made by patriotic societies and veterans’ and students’ organizations for any eventuality. The controversy which has arisen in Poland over Pilsudski’s coup d'etat has now taken on an_international aspect, in ~view of the fact that con- ferences are taking place between rench government and secret ents sent to Paris. The secretary of President of the Senate Trompezynski has returned to Posen after a visit to Paris. He declined *|to make known the reason for the visit. M. Trompczynski was sent to Posen from Warsaw in an effort to placate the feeling of bitterness held by the five Right parties against Pilsudski for having carried out his coup. The province.of. Posen is vir- tually a state within a state, run- ning affairs without orders from the ‘Warsaw government. The Nationalist group here desires that dictatorial powers be given Gen. Hauser, commander of the garrison, and Count Bnimski, the provincial governor. ‘M. Trompczynski has de- ‘clared, however, that for the present the normal functions of these men are sufficient. Civil War Threat Seen. The Right parties in Poland are demanding that the session of the National Assembly to elect a new President shall be held outside War- saw, that the new President shall not be actively identified with poli- tics and must have the confldence of the entire nation, and that the appeal for elemm{ refused to chance his sentence. The | o cobinet must not include revolu- pardon board decided Randolph’s crime was not premeditated after amining a petition signed by 65 law- tionaries, like Pilsudski, but non-po- litical personalities. ~The conserva- tives assert that a dictatorship. by vers, including the district attorney Sl wite thlel ad Sentenced | CURSQSAL would, jnean oivil war and him. on Page 2, Column 5.) telescopic camera can pierce a A tance invicible to the human eye. looking for m: their experiments conducted ield here, and they see photography reconnaissance values beyond anvthing the experts of he past ever thought possible. Already pictures have heen made of | Dayton from a_height 2,000 feet and the detafl of these photographs is so clear t. pedestrians on the streets | are shown. If this new svsiem of photography had been available dur ing the World War, the Germans from their home stations might have made snapshots of their bombing davlight raids in London, or of thelr “big Bertha” cannonading of Paris. But there is a d value to these experiments mapping inaccessible country and locating highway grade. Special (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) tinct commercial | also, in of the ad and ers | STATE DRY FORCES LOONS IN POLAND PUT AT U. 5. CALL Coolidge Order Permits Dep-i utizing Where Law Does Not Bar Such Aid. ! By the Associated Pross Addition to the Federal prohibition | staff of State, county and municipal officers was made possible today un- der an executuive order issued by President Coolidge. This move, made at the request of | Assistant Secretary Andrews, in | charge of prohibition enforcement, is expected by him to augment the Fed- | eral dry forces greatly. | The executive order carries no local application, Director of Prohibition James E. Jones declared today, inas- much as the prohibition unit has been | authorized for many months to depu- tize certain members of the Metropol- | itan police force and send them over the Maryland and Virginia borders in their rum-running activities. Director Jones says the general import of the order is to be able to follow the same policy already pursued in the District | throughout the States where n | anclent law of 1873" has deprived | them of this privilege. Officers to Be Used. | Prohibition officials plan to place | the local officers on the Federal staff, | perhaps as dollar a year men, since | they will be serving as Federal offl- | cers in addition to their vegular du-| tes. i While local officers in most States | and cities are already co-operating | with the Federal Government in the | enforcement of prohibition, it w said at the Treasury, today's action will clothe men with full Federal au thority, and it is believed by Mr. An- drews to be a big step forward in the dry work. How soon Mr. Andrews will take advantage of his authority and the exactextent of the scope to which he will put it has not been decided. The plan was first suggested by the California prohibition administratory and it is expected to be put in prac- tice in that area first. Terms of Coolidge Order. The order of President Coolidge re 3 H In order that they may more effi- | ciently function in the enforcement of the national prohibition act, any State, county or municipal officer may be appointed, at a normal rate of com- | pensation, as prohibition officer of the | Treasury Department to enforce the provisions of the national prohibition act and acts supplemental thereto in States and Territories, except in those States having constitutional or statu- tory provision against State officers holdig office under the Federal Gov- ernment.” Appointment of the State and city officers “ed: will be done ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1. | triet have | | day yeal the con t in con he wou of the Dis not_be i ch Con were, but that he did want to have in mind Kte “ommissione Columbia could by Congre: he ntained of peached f Columbi { known wit nd aside United a_willingness to have everything Mr | Blanton wanted to present go the record. Cites Broad Powers. Chairman Dyer informed the coui | el that the resolution under whcl | the hearings are beinz held is rathe: oad and that the committee 1s n sverned stri by rules of ev n again pointed jecting, but mere! point to the committee's | tention. Mr. Blanton centered his present. tion of evidence today on his charges |of barratry and champerty. In this i«'onnerlinn, he presented volumes o | correspondence between Mr. Fenning {and H. P. Fellows of Boston, in the {case of Miss Endora S. Kelly. Mr | Blanton ~contended that the case | which began in 1912, is still pending His point was that Mr. Fenning “writes to people and solicits them to employ him as attorney,” and “t {leads right up to the present.”” He also sought to show by the correspon: | ence that Mr. Fenning was willing aim for which he would undertake a i not receive anything until the clai « paid. Thesa two examples, told the committee, ratry and champerty. Mr. Blantor constituted bar Interrupted by Members. Mr. Blanton was interrupted fre quently by members of the committea with questions on what he was at tempting to show. One of the most frequent interrogators along this line s Representative Hersey, Republi n, of Maine. The only decision ren dered by the committee in its two session on the admissibility of evidence came when Mr. Blanton sought to read into the record extracts of paragraphs of Mr. Fenning's pre pared defense statement made before the Gibson subcommittee several weeks ago. Mr. Hogan strenuously objected, and the matter was put to a vote. The result was the majority dectsion that all of the matter should be read into the record After Mr. Blanton had read cor respondence in the Kelley case, begin ning in 1912 and ending in April, 1924, he requested Mr. Fenning's counsel to produce three additional letters that had been written by Fellows since nuary 1 of this year. Mr. Hogan replied if there are such letters in Mr IFenning’s files they would be produced willingly, but as far as he knew the last one bore the date of April, 1924 Without making known his purpose Mr. Blanton switched over to a dis cussion of the case of Adolph Adler. a_ mentally incompetent veteran, for whom Mr. Fenning, until a_few days ago, was guardian. He read into the {record all bond premiums, notarial fees and commissions to Mr. Fenning «ince 1920. Mr. Hersey then asked him what was illegal about them and Mr, Blanton replied that when he got to the legal argument he would show the relevancy. He then began the reading of the report of Auditor Her bert L. Davis of the District Supreme Court, in which Mr. Fenning was not allowed a commission of 10 per cent for the final report rendered in- cident to turning over the estate to the veteran's father, who had been appointed guardian. Says Fenning Was Agent. “What is the purpose of that? asked Representative Gorman of II- is. To call to the attention of the committee that Mr. Fenning has charged bond premiums when he did not disclose to the court he was an agent for the company and received 25 per cent on all premiums paid,” replied Mr. Blanton. “He admits being a representative of the company for years and has been recefving 25 per cent profit on the premiums. Upon section 841 of the penal code, which provides a forfeiture of com mission when a fiduclary violates hi: obligations, Mr. Davis, the auditor. based his action.” Radio Programs—Page 47 ¢ Mr. Gorman inguired if the court WContinued on I 5, Columin i, l