Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Falr much change in temperature. est, 86, at p.m. lowest, 61, at 5 a.m. toda: Full report on page 9. tonight and tomorrow, not High- vesterday; Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 he Fhen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 4 No. 28,989, Entersq as seeo Entered as second class matte shington, V. C. WASHINGTON, SEAT FOR GERMAN ATALLEISTSNOW OBEC OFLEAGLE Special Council Session This Summer May Be Called to Decide Question. CHIEF POWERS WILL ACT IF SPAIN AND BRAZIL SULK Three New Non-Permanent Places Planned—Question of Public Meeting Causes Tilt. By the Associated Press GENEVA, June To get Ger- many into the League of Nations at the September meeting at all costs appears now to be the definite pro- gram of the league leaders. 1f necessary, a speclal session of the council will be convoked during the Summer in order to render im- possible any repetition of the March fiasco, when the Reich statesmen ! were obliged to return to Berlin| without belng elected to membership. | This means that if Spain and Brazil continue their present policy, which is termed here as “sulkin they will probably be jettisoned by | the main powers, the work of re-i organizing the council proceeding without them. Commission May Not Meet. It is conceivable that the projected meeting of the reorganization com- mission, set for June 28, will be abandoned, and that the problem will be taken in hand by the council itself, with every probability that it wil' quickly decide to create no per- manent seats beyond Germany. an increase the non-permanents by | three, with allocation of the third| seat to a Latin American power. Brazil and Spain would therefore be ohliged to stand their chances of re- election as temporary members of the council. The crowd which packed the council cham! today in the hope of lively incidents growing out of the crisis was not disappointed. Announces Public Discussion. Just before the adjournment of the | public meeting. President Guani an-' nounced that it had been decided to discuss the reorganization of the coun- cil in public instead of private ses- | &ion. The auditors craned their necks at this, suspecting that dramatic de- velopments were in store touching upon the demands of Spain and Brazil for permanent seats and the alleged tactics of those two countries aimed | at Intimidating the council into favor- able action on their demands. Dr. Mello Franco of Brazil and the mecretary of the Spanish legation at Bern, who were present, made no move, but Viscount Ishii caused a stir by insisting that the question should he discussed in private or at least ad- Journed. Chamberlain Insists. “An adjournment, if you will,” in- terjected Sir Austen Chamberlain, British forelgn secretary, rather spicily, “but I cannot consent td this matter being treated in a private meeting.” The Japanese statesman looked rather blank at this. Finally he said | he had not wished to insist upon privacy, but merely wanted an oppor- tunity to consult his colleagues pri- vately before the problem was offi- cially_handled. This was agreed to and the matter was adjourned to the i council's next public session, which | probably will be held tomorrow. H Dr. Mello Franco of Brazil did not speak during the. entire meeting, but | alternative. {cannot be settled by {Was Taken Out While Still Fighting Last Year, She Says. Arrives in France Sure of Victory, But Needs Encouragement. BY GERTRUDE EDERLE. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, June 9.—I arrived in Paris last night, on my_way to swim the English Channel, ' which is rough, tough water and cold to the touch and cheerless to look at. We met once before and T came out of the water stung inside and out. The jellyfish stung my skin and the defeat stung my spirit, because I didn’t think I had been allowed to do my best, for reasons that I will tell you. Of course, that swim is finished business now and there is no way for me to know whether 1 could have beaten the channel or not. But I do know that T 'was not all in when Jabez Wolffe, the great swimmer who trained me and supervised the at- tempt, lost confidence in me and ordered Helmy, the Egyptian swim- mer, to touch me and disqualify me after all my weeks of preparation. I could have kept going, although 1 don’t know how far. 1 need all the encouragement that can be given me. After all, I'm no Jack Dempsey and I don't get a IGERTRUDE EDERLE, READY TO TRY CHANNEL AGAIN, ASKS FAIR SHOW GERTxuvr EDERLE. half-million dollars for my efforts. £o if 1 dance in the evening or pick a ukulele for pleasure I don't think it should be reported as a scandal in the training camp. as happened last r. You swim thi WADSWORTH STIRS POLITIGS TO BASE Outright Wet Stand Seen as Creating National Fight. May Oppose Coolidge. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Senator Wadsworth's statement calling for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the substitution for it of another amendment conferring on Congrets the power to deal with the prohibition question has produced a political sensation here. The New York Senator is the first Republican of national prominence in Congress to go to the heart of the modification controversy and declare frankly for the repeal of the eight- eenth amendment with a constructive In this respect even the “drys” concede there is more logic in Mr. Wadsworth's method of attack than in any of the cries for modi- fication of the Volstead act which have been the basis for the prohibi- tion agitation for several years. The drys have always preferred an out-and-out statement that the issue modifying the Volstead act, but can only be chang (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) MISSIONARY'S WIFE MURDERED IN CHINA Mrs. W. E. Sibley, Canadian Meth- odist, Attacked With Knife. Motive Not, Established. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, China, June 9.—Mrs. W. E. Sibley. wife of a Canadian Methodist missionary at Junghsien, in Szechwan province, was murdered on the attitude of the Spanish secretary, Senor Querboul, attracted general at- tention. It appears that he has re- ceived instructions from Madrid to abstain from: voting on the various items on the agenda. Continues Calling Absence. President .Guani told him it was | unnecessary to intervene each time and that if he merely maintained si- lence his abstention would bhe un-; derstood. Nevertheless, as each reso- lution was adopted Senor Querboul raised a finger toward Senor Guani | and said laconically, “Abstention.” | The league leaders will endeavor to | patch up the crisis in private confer- | ences. | Dr. Franco. who presented himself | for the opening meeting of the coun- | efl. took his seat at the conference | table when the session began. Thus in an affirmative manner did the Brazilian diplomat solve the burn. | Ing question, “Will he come?” His ab- | sence on Monday was explained as; dne to illness, but it was remarked at the time that he appointed no sub- | stitute from among the members of his delegation. Franco Greeted Pleasantly. He was the picture of energy as he | struggled smilingly through the | crowds at the entrance of the bulld- | ing today and with difficulty made | his way to the famous glass room to | participate-in the meeting. With his | arrival an atmosphere of good humor | once prevailed. He was greeted | pleasantly, though with some evident reserve, by his colleagues on the coun- el), who politely asked as to his health. M. Paul-Boncour, who replaced Pre- mier Briand at the council table for France, shook Dr. Mello Franco's hand warmly. H Sir Austen Chamberlain opened the proceedings with a glowing tribute to the League .of Nations and Austria for successfully achieving the finan- cial rehabilitation of that country. On his motion a resolution was adopted | terminationg the league control of Austria’s finances on June 30, and voicing gratitude to the league's com- missioner, Dr. Zimmerman, for his able services. Reconstruction Hard Task. Sir Austen sald it was generally the most useful work of the league which attracted the attention of the world, and that the Austrian case was an example of this. He revealed that the reconstruction of Austria seemed well-nigh hopeless when the league ‘took the Situation in hand, and re- marked that all the greater honor should be pald to the league for suc- Monday ‘in the streets of Chengtu, in the same province, according to a message from the latter place. The murderer, who used a knife, was captured after a chase. The motive for the crime has not been | established. Born in Manitoba. TORONTO, June 9 (®).—Mrs. W. E. Sibley, wife of a Canadian missionary in China. who was murdered on Moni- day in Chengtu, was born in Nelson, Mantoba, in 1878, a daughter of the late Rev. J. M. Harrison, who years ago was a home missionary in the western provinces. Her husband is a native of Erin, Ontario, and is a graduate of Victoria College, Toronto. Mr. Sibley is at present a mission- lary from the Manitoba Conference of the United Church of Canada, sta- tioned at Junghsien, in Szechwan Province. He and his wife went to China as missionaries in 1906, shortly after their graduation from college. They have one daughter. POLICE DRY ORDER LEGALITY UPHELD | capture the weary pigeo Probably Will Not Be Used in California Because of Opposition, Says Chief. By the Associated Press. The Senate judiciary committee to. day approved its subcommittee find- ing that the recent executive order permitting enroliment of State offi- cers as Federal prohibition agents is legal, but at the “same time dry en- forcement officials indicated no im- mediate use of the authority was con- templated. The vote of the judiciary committee was described as overwhelming. A minority report was submitted by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah. Although the order was signed by the President more than a month ago, Treasury officials said no ap- pointments had been made under it and that it had been decided none would be made unless a request was received from prohibition adminls- trators in the field. The order was issued primarily to meet a situation in California, they explained again., but Administrator Green at San Francisco, who first rec- ommended it, has not renewed his re- quest for authority to go ahead with his program. NOT TO BE USED. Dry Order Hurt by Opposition, Says California Chief. SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 (#).— Because its “‘usefulness is likely to be practically destroyed” by opposition of State and local officials, the Federal Government’s plans to deputize local peace officers as prohibition agents will probably be dropped in California, Col. Ned M. Green, district administra- tor, said here today. ‘'The opposition expressed by State officials has caused county officials, who otherwise favored the plan, to shy at it,” Col. Green said. afraid they will lose their jobs if they take Federal appointments.” The administrator declared the le- gality of the plan had been ascertained before it was launched. ‘“State offi- cials have decided that county officers can accept Federal appointments to ‘non-lucrative’ positions,” he asserted. ;mlfiru-yelr Jobs come under that ALCOHOL FRAUD CHARGED Five Rochester Varnish Makers Ac- cused of Falsifying Records. ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 9 (#).— Albert E. Hutson, president, and four others, officers and employes of the Don-O-Lac Co., Inc., of Rochester, manufacturers of varnishes, were named in Federal indictments return- ed today. One indictment charges altering, forging and falsifying records of dis- position of denatured alcohol, and an- other conspiracy. ! | Miss Ederle to Tell in The Star Of Her Attempt to Swim Channel ERTRUDE EDERLE, who holds more records than any other girl swimmer in the world, arrived in France yesterday for her second—and what she carecr. nationally known coast. nose and forehead when she is ceeding in the great enterprise. He (Continued on Page 5, Columh 5. W “I am determined to swim the channel,” Miss Ederle said. want.to do so more than anythin able to swim across this time, ani hat, I But if I fail in this attempt I'll keep on trying.' The swimmer is 19 years old and strong as a young oak. She is sturdily bui't, with wide shoulders and powerful hands. She has a wide-eyed, happy face and a queer way of wrinking her dark brown hair is short and straight. She e than her few years and amazingly unsophisticated, in spite of manner, which, at first acquaintance, seems a ) laugh is booming and full-throated and always at attention. confidently expects to be her suc- cessful—attempt to swim the English Channel. i During her trip abroad -and the entire period of her training Miss Ederle will waite her experiences exclusively for The Star and Chicago Tribune and associated newspapers. trains; how she reacts to conditions that she finds in France and what difficulties she will have to combat in the greatest test of her She will tell how she The young swimmer was accompanied by Miss Julia Harpman, who will ‘act as Miss Ederle’s official chaperon. H rivate life.is Mrs. Westbrook Pegler. Henry Ederle, the swimmer’s ather; Mrs. Margaret Deuschle, her sister, and Westbrook Pegler, writer, were also in the party. . Training quarters will be established by Miss Ederle at Cape Gris Nez, a little village in the sand dune country on the Brittany Miss Harpman in o in the world. I hope I will be I feel that.I am going to do it. puzzled or perturbed. . Her tery She seems even younger a bit brusque. Her he | the D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, The only evening paper in Washington wil the Associated Press news service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 99,011 1926—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. CARRIER PIGEON'S MESSAGE REVIVES SEARCH FOR WARD “Held Prisoner Near Tren- ton,” Says Note Bearing Millionaire’s Name. POLICE RUSH TO SHACK, CREDITING NEW CLUE Bird Is Found in Bryn Athyn, Pa. Appeal Asks Help Be Sent Immediately. By the Associated Pross PHILADELPHIA, June 9.—A ¢ Pa., today bearing a message purport Ing to have heen sent by Walter . Ward of the New York millionaire haking family. The message, signed Ward, said the writer was held cap- tive in a shack three miles abov |Trenton, N. J., on the east side of ! Delaware River. Ward disap | peared about two months ago. The pigeon was found exhausted on a pile of lumber at the Bryn Athn station. The message read: “I am held a prisoner ina shack three miles above Trenton on the east side of the Delaware River. Please send help. Hurry. Ward." Bryn Athyn is 15 miles from Phila delphia and almost half way ecross country to Trenton. The bird was found by Patrick McNulty, a con- tractor. It was a simple matter to Attached to one of its legs McNuity roll of paper bound on b aluminum. The message was written on a piece of brown wrapping paper in_pencil. The State police at Doylestown, Pa.. were notified, and Sergt. Hughes tele. phoned the New Jersey State police at Trenton. A squad of six men were sent cottages that ot the section above Trenton. One of the reasons impottance was attached to the finding of the message was that Ward's automobile was found in Trenton May 6, after his dis- BRYAN'S DALEHTER SLEADNG N RAE |Sears Is 96 Votes Behind in Florida Race—Fletcher Holding Place. By the Associated Press MIAMI, Fla., June 3.—Incomplete returns from the 18 counties of the fourth congressional district, tabu- lated at 1 p.m., gave Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen a lead of 96 votes over W. J. Sears. The totals show Mrs. Owen “‘Some are | 18,107, Sears 18.011. Representative J. H. Smithwick, from the third district, issued a state- ment from his home at Pensacola de. claring that on the face of scattered returns from the 15 countles of the district his opponent, Thomas A. Yon of Tallehassee, had defeated him by a4 majority of from 500 to 1,500 votes. He declared, however, that he would not concede defeat until complete re- | turns had been received. Fletcher Is Leading. United States Senator Duncan U. Fletcher held a commanding lead for renomination against two opponents. Taking the lead early in the eve. ning, the Senator's majority remained virtually in the same proportion through last night. With returns frem 637 precincts in 51 counties, Senator Fletcher had amassed a total vote of 33.328, against 18874 for Jerry W. Carter, State hotel com- missioner, and 2,142 for .John Van Valzah, a former member of the State Legislature. Mrs. Owen carried her campaign to every portion of the District. She first came into prominence as a chautauqua speaker. Recently she was elected a vice-president of the new University of Miami. Married British Officer. Born_ in Jacksonville, Tll.. in 1886, Mrs. Owen has led an active life. As a girl she accompanied her father on many of his speaking campaigns and for some time acted as his con- fidential secretary. She was married shortly before the World War to Maj. Reginald Owen, a British army officer, and accom- panied him in service in Palestine. Headquarters for Mrs. Owen at Miami today neither claimed victory nor conceded defeat. ‘“Mrs. Owen is leading by our tabulation,” an an- nouncement said. ’ | SHERIFF HOFFMAN ASKS STAY OF JAIL SENTENCE Justice Butler of Supreme Court Takes Plea of Convicted Officer Under Advisement. Justice Butler of the Supreme Court took under advisement today an appli- cation by Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman of Cook County, Ill., for a stay of the 30-day sentence imposed upon him for aiding in extending the unusual liber- ties to Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake, prisoners in the county jail. Austrian, 'man’s attor- ney, presented the application asking that Hoffman be permitted to remain out of jail until the S8upreme Court could pass upon a petition for a re- view of the case. Unless this was done, it was asserted, Hoffman would serve his sentence before the highest court, now in recess, would have an opportunity to act. Wins Divorce From John Gilbert. LOS ANGELES, June 9. (®.— Final decree of divorce from John Gilbert, motion picture star, was granted here yesterday to Leatrice Joy, his former wife. She obtained an ocutory decree a year ago. rler pigeon was found in Bryn Athyn. | 'iCommittee to Try Again to | from Trenton on motor cycles | |\\llh instructions to search the Sum- | mer ARE NOT FOOLING ME, "\ IPINCHOT EXPENSES FILIBUSTER DELAYS POLICEWOMEN BL | Untangle Situation at Meet- | ing Tomorrow. For more than three.quarters of an hour today the House District com- mittee filibustered on the Policewom- en’s Bureau bill and then went into executive session at 11:40. o'clock, when there was only 20 minutes left. No progress was made in the execu tive session, and a special meeting was called for tomorrow morning to continue consideration of this meas- ure. Representative McLeod of Michigan, | as chairman of a subcommittee, start | ed the filibuster with a report on the | bill to regulate the manufacture and | sale of mattresses and other bedding material. This measure has passed the Senate, and carriés the approval of the District Commissioners and the Citizens’ Advisory Council. In em- phasizing the need for this legislation | Chairman Zihiman stated that the | District of Columbia is= a dumping | ground for second-hand materials | used in the manufacture of mattresses jand that disease and unclean condi tions result. | Mattress Bill Approved. After a lengthy discussion led by Representative Hammer, Democrat, of North Carolina; Underhill, Repub- lican, Massachusetts, and Reid, Re- publican, Illinois, the Senate bill was favorably reported and Mr. Underhill served notice that he reserved the right to offer amendments on the floor. Although the Policewomen’'s Bu- reau bill was unfinished business, Rep- resentative Gibson, Republican, of Ver- mont had yielded time temporarily for consideration of the other meas- ure. He stated that the proponents and opponents of the Policewomen's Bureau bill had come to terms, so that .the legislation could be acted { upon. M here then developed a lengthy con- troversy over whether the commit- tee should go into executive session or not. Mr. Underhill. one of the leading opponents of the bill, said that “a good, workable. honest bill cannot come out of this committee unless it goes into executive session.” Says Pressure Is Exerted. Mr. Underhill said he made this statement because he knows what pressure and what methods are being exerted upon members of the com- mittee in support of this legislation. Mr. Hammer also made a statement regarding the propaganda and influ- ence that has been at work. He said his objections to the measure are that it transfers judicial' powers to the bu- rveau; that it grants independent au- thority to investigate neighborhood conditions; that it authorizes 94 new privates instead of 23 as »i present. running up the cost to the District more than $100.000 a year. He said | he favors establishment of a police- women'’s bureau absolutely under the superintendent of police and believes said the policewomen themselves ought to ask for a uniform for their v tection. u“A" !nel:l'es of roll-call votes was then taken, which eventually resulted in a tie vote of 6 to 6 on the question of going_into executive session. Chair- man Zihiman broke this tie by voting in favor of an executive meeting. NEW POLISH MINISTRY ANNOUNCED N WARSAW Bartel Cabinet Same as Last Onel Except for Posts of Finance and Commerce. By the Associated Press. AW, June 9.—Premier Bar. mrvakrfilddght last night, announced o 'new ministry to take the place % ‘that formed May 18. It is the same as the interim cabinet, with ns. “’& e;&cl:x‘:'rtnieur. former minister of com- merce in the Grabski cabinet, will take the place of M. Czechowicz as minister of finance, and the portfolio of commerce given to M. an engin ;T;u“coworkor with President Mos- in building up the Chorzow in Silesia. '?\rfi:'uu Zaleski remains in_charge foreign ministry, and rshal gll::l!;skl wl'll continue in charge of military matters. —— Radio Programs—Page 29. Bootleggers Face } 40 Days in Jail on | Bread and Water Br the Associated Press. LINCOLX. Nebr., June 2. Two | bootleggers, sentenced to 60 days ’ in jail, will get only a bread and | water diet for 40 days. = | The two, Rav Carson and | Thomas Nelson, appealed the sen- | tence given them by County Judge | Chatt of Burt County, but the Ne- | braska Supreme Court ruled today | the sentence did not constitute | cruel and unusual punishment. L The bread and water diet is ef- fective for the first and last 20 days of the sentence. PARIS RETERATES DISARMING VIEW Land, Naval and Air Forces Cannot Be Treated Sepa- rately, Parley Is Told. By the Associated Prees. GENEVA. June J.—France today reiterated her contention that land. naval and air armaments cannot be treated separately in any effort to bring about any degree of disarma- ment. This view, on the whole, dif- fers from the British and ‘American thesis that they can be studied separately. The French viewpoint was em- bodied in a memorandum submitted this morning to the military com- mittee of the preparatory disarma- ment commission. France presented three main reasons for her attitude. The first was that land, naval and air forces served an"identical pur- pose, either in the protection of land, sea and air frontiers, or communi- cations. The second point was that in the case of a large number of countries the value and entire efficiency of land forces depend directly upon naval and air effectives. The third French contention was that any decision made with ref- erence to armaments of one cate- gory could not be confined solely within that category. In support of this France argued that airplanes can act against objectives on land and sea, that land forces can attack an adversary in the air or fleets at- tacking a coast, and that countries possessing command of the sea may combat airplanes and the transport of land forces by the fleet. Discussion of the interdependence of land. naval and air forces was postponed. BRITISH JOBLESS GAIN. 2,720,000, Including Miners, Now Unemployed. Big Increase. LONDON. June 9 (#).—The latest official_returns on unemployment in Great Britain show a serious increase in the number of persons out of work during May. Apart from the coa) miners, the total unemployed May 3 was 1,105,916, but on May 31 the number had risen to 1,614.200. An unofficial estimate of the total unemployed today, including miners, is 2,720,000 RETIREMENT BILL CONFEREES CALLED Agreement Reached for Ses- sion Tomorrow—Senate Expected to Yield. Conferees for the House and Senate on the civil service retirement bill are to meet tomorrow morning under an agreement informally reached today by Chairman Lehlbach of the House committee and Chairman Stanfleld of the Senate committee. The Senate committee chalrman lsl awaliting the report from the House on the appointment late yvesterday of conferees, following which he will ask that the Senate appoint conferees to meet the House representatives. Those appointed on behalf of the House are Representatives Lehlbach w Jersey, Smith of Idaho and of Alabama. It is a foregone conclusion that the Senate conferees will yield to the House. The House leadership had em- phatically insisted that it would not allow this measure to go to conference until there had been assurances given that the Senate would yleld to the House. The House_measure is the Budget Bureau plan, %hich has been approved by President Coolildge and carries a maximum annuity of $1,000 instead of the present maximum of $720. It also increases the contribution by Gov- ernment employes from 213 per cent of their salary to 313 per cent. It means an actual saving to the Gov- ernment of about $30,000 annually. —_— e ———— CEDING OF FRENCH LANDTOU.5. URGED Deputy Proposes Exchanging Colony to Grow Rubber for Part of Debt. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS, June 9.—It is reliably re- ported that M. Outrey, deputy for French Indo-China, proposed recently in a secret session of the colonial commission that the Chamber of Deputies cede to the United States REACHED $161,000, COMMITTE FINDS Governor Is Questioned by Senate Group on His Knowledge of Fraud. HEARD OF TAMPERING WITH VOTES, HE SAYS Theodore Roosevelt,” Jr., Among Those Present When Inves- tigation Opens. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Diggins into the expenditures in the Pennsylvarnda Republican senatorial primary campaign which culminated with the nomination of Represent- lative William S. Vare, the Senate investigating committee today brought out the fact that approximately $161 000 had been expended for Gov | Pinchot, including his own person:! contributions, and contributions to | the Pinchot committees in Philadel- phia and Pittsburgh. The accounts of | the county committees have not vet been filed, it was testified. The expenditures for Mr. Vare and for Senator George Wharton Pepper are not yet before the committee, ex- cept for the statement of their pe: sonal contributions. Mr. Vare expend- ed himself something over $71,000 and Senator Pepper, $2,500. Pinchot Is Questioned. Gov. Gifford Pinchot was the first witness called to the stand at the opening of the investigation today in the Senate Office Building. After having been questioned at length in regard to the expenditures made in his own campaign, Gov. Pinchot was asked: “What do you know of attempted election frauds in this election?" The governor replied that it had been reported in the newspapers that election returns in Pittsburgh had been taken into the offices of the county commissioners, that they had been held there an undue time and the charge made that the returns had | been changed. He said he had no per- sonal knowledge of this matter. It was common talk, he said, that “the election in Pittsburgh was not held on Tuesday, but on Thursday.” Vast Expenditures Charged. ‘When the inquiry by the Senate committee began this morning, both Gov. Pinchot and Mr. Vare were pres- ent. They shook hands pleasantly enough wiien they came face to face in the committee room. Charges that nditures in the senaterial cam- Ign, which was closely hooked up with the race for the gubernatorial nomination, had run into millions of dollars—even as high as five millions, ‘were largely responsible for the ap- pointment of the committee. The seats in the committee room were only about half occupled when the hearing began, but filled up later. Among those attending the hearing were Col. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., looking in fine shape after his long hunting trip in Asia: Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the Speaker: Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, Mrs. Charles B. Wood, aunt of Gov. Pinchot; Mrs. David A. Reed, wife of Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, and Cyrus E. Woods, former ambassador to Japan, who was ;hltl- Pepper manager during the cam- gn. Governor’'s Committes Report Following Gov. Pinchot's testimony about his own personal eontributions to his campaign, amounting to $43,767,31, P. S. Stahlnecker, secretary- treasurer of the Pinchot state-wide committee; presented to the committee a statement showing that committee had collected $119,324,13. This in- cluded $6,000 contributed by Gov. Pinchot and already contained in the statement of the governor’s personal statement. | The Pirchot committee in Pittsburgh ihad $5.885, including $2,000 given by | the governor himself, Col. Charles G. McGovern, Pinchot western man-* | ager, testified. Gov. Pinchot told the committee that the moneys raised for his cam- paign had been expended for organi- zation headquarters, for publicity, in- cluding newspaper advertising, for watchers at the polls, for campaign organizers and campaign literature and circularization. The money on hand, he said, did not permit the em- ployment of many watchers at the two million acres of land in Cambogia for the purpose of growing rubber. M. Outrey’'s idea was that the United States, in return for this land, should cancel a large part of the French debt. The question is said to have been referred to a subcommittee for further study. The idea of ceding part of the French colonies to the United States in payment of the war debt has been suggested repeatedly, but never be- fore in this form. There is strong opposition to giving up the West In- dian colonies of Martinique and Guade- lope, as was suggested in the United States Senate, but there would doubt- less be less objection to ceding a part of Indo-China. Nevertheless, French opinion is profoundly reluctant to see the national territory diminished for any reason whatsoever after a victorious war. (Copyright. 1926. by Chicago Daily News Co.) Nose Tweaked by Too-Familiar Secretary To Senator, Former Newspaper Man Says An assault charge, resulting from the alleged tweaking of the nose of George S. Roberts over a boarding house breakfast table, by Edwin L. McCulloch, secretary to Senator Means of Colorado, caused the latter to tem- porarily leave his congressional duties and appear in Police Court today. Several witnesses were missing, and the case continued over until to- morrow by Judge Robert E. Mattingly, and the defendant released on his per- sonal recognizance. Ham and eggs bad just been passed at the ordinarily quiet little table at 1820 I street, when McCulloch is said to have aroused the ire of Mr. Roberts, 65 years old, former newspaper man, and now local representative of the Foreign Credit Exchange Bureau of the National Asscclation - of Credit Men, by addressing him by his first name—that of George. Mr. Roberts is said to have objected strenuously to the familiarity, and to have said, “That name is reserved for my family. Only a coarse brute out- side would use it.” ‘Whereupon McCulloch is alleged.to have leaped from his seat and pulled the nose of his objector, at the same time calling him a nam¢ Although McCulloch is said to have tried to apologize for his action, Mr. Roberts swore a warrant out for his arrest the following day, accusing him of assault. He was arrested by Police- g&n A. I Bullock of the third pre- nct. Friends of McCulloch in court today denied that Mr. Roberts’ nose was pulled or that any name was used. McCulloch was only teasing Mr. Roberts, they declared, and he became irritable as a result. E | polls. | Denles Workers Were Assessed. i | Senator Reed of Missouri, chairman {of the Senate committes, questioned | Gov. Pinchot at the start., and then | Serator La Follette of Wisconsin took !a hand in the matter. He asked . Gov. Pinchot if any employes of the i State government had n assesséd | for contributions to the governor's campaign. | “They were not,” declared Gov. Pin- chot emphatically. He said that in the past this had been a practice in Penn- sylvania, but that he had announced i he would not stand for it. Gov. Pinchot said he had made it clear to the State employes that a voté for any candidate they might prefer would not be charged against them in the executive offices. He had insisted, he said, that the employes not campaign during ‘“Government time.” Many of the Government em- ployes, he said, had supported him. Indorsed by W. C. T. U. He testified that he had the in- dorsement and support of the State | Federation of Labor, the United Mine Workers and the W. C. T. U. He said it was his understanding that under the law these organizations would have to file their expenditures made in the campaign. Senator La Follette asked the gov- ernor if he had not called a special session of the ure this year and sought to amend the State elec- tion laws. Gov. Pinchot replied that he had done so, but without result. Elsven bills which he urged for ing the election laws, he ‘had been beaten and one in form had “What was the nature of the op- position to these bills?”" asked Senator La Follette. State Senat Gev. Pinchot was asked if the Anti- ¢« (Continuad on Page 2, Column 1