Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1926, Page 2

THE EVE D. €, WEDNESDAY, MERGER BILL GOES OVERTO DECEMBER Senator Capper Predicts| Consitleration of Car Lines Issue in Next Session. The problem of bringing ahout a merger of the stresi rallway systems of -Washington undoubtedly will be ziven further consideration by com mittees of (‘ongress at the next ses sion in December. Senator Capper, chiafrman of the Distriet commitiee, predicted today in discussing the’lat developments at the District Rullding vesterday on the question of cohsolidation. « 78 Tt fe too late to accomplish any thing in the wav of new legisiation looking tn a merg: hefore the résent session ends.” sald Senator Gapper, “but 1 have no doubt the matter will be given attention early in the next session. n the letters received by the Public Utilities Commission yester- day from the two raflway companies. there was some indication that the | diseussion of possihle merger plans | has heen delayed partly by the knowl- | edge that a blll iz pending In Con grees reorganizing the Public Utilities Commission. This measure has pass- | ed the House and Senator Capper ! mafd today he expected the Senate | wonld act on it hefore adjournment. Personnel of Commission. The House provided for a new com mission of three members completely separated from the Roard of District Commissioners. The Senate District | committee has amended the measure | to.retain the Engineer Commissioner of ‘the District as a memher of the new utiliting hoard Hopeful that Congress will take up | the merger at its next session. Fn ginger Commissioner Bell pointed out today that the commission, by its awn initiative, cam effect a somewhat sim flaf resuit by ting the companies | &s a consolidat unit. i While Col. Bell is not strongly in favor of such a plan. he Indicated that it might he adopted in the ahsence of | compulsory merger legislation. The procedure under such a plan. he in- dicated. would he to ignore the terri. | torial rights of the two companies. #holish pay transfers, reroute existing | lines and permit one company to ex | tend its lines into a territory served | by the nther Compapies’ View Given. The commission’s request for leg- felation to force a merger was sent to Congzress vesterday afternoon. fol Jowing receipt of statements from th heads of hoth traction companies tha ther did not intend to take any fur th Aefinite steps toward veoluntary consalidation in view of the likelthood of the passage of the hill creating a new and separate utilities commission. and the lack of assu nee from the commission that 1 vould pprove s gerviceat-cost plan of operation, ten tatively suggested as gamation. The proposed service-at- cost plan would provile for automatic regulation of fares hisedon a reason- | Able return on the fa ue of the ! properties of the compapies. Officialz of the com m make no effort conceal their @ pproval of | A proposition which would base the merger on a consent valuation. The commission. however, ording 1o Commissioner Rell. has heen willing to recommend fo Congress a merger based on guaranteed net income or | the eontinuance of the present rates of fares over a perfod of years while merzer arrangements; are prefected, and has heen willing to consider the initiation of a serviceat-cost plan approximating the jnvestments which | have been made in developing the | properties. | REED QUESTIONS VARE AIDE ABOUT TELEPHONE CALL Page.) | (Continued from First step out.” said Mr. Mackrell, and “T write some time in April to the Pepper chafrman in Philadelphia.” {'Senator Reed questioned Mr. Mack- | rejl closely as to why he had given | SR.000 in ecash and whether Kenna had iven him a receipt for it. 1M1, Mackrell replied that “any one | who knew Mr. Kenna would he satis- | fiRd to turn money over to him. His veputation is that of an henorable | j'Haven't vou heard that Mr. ! :finna has the reputation of being a ! n who takes money in a campaign afd makes money ont Rsked Senator Reed i 'Ne. 1 never heard that said of | h replied the witness. Mr. Mackrell testified that he mever | bafore made contribution of $5,000 | Iniia cumprizn. that the largest con- | trdhution he made before was $1,000. | i county campalgn when he was | ® Handidate. l The money which he had collected | Infihis own cash box duving the last | twh or three vears. he said, was in préparation for his own campaign for | X 4id he had heen a| Reidleman since 190 he gladly contributed the | help him. anator Reed wanied know whether Mackrell had distributed | £3.000 to the Reldleman campaign four | veArs ago. The witness said that he | had come out of a campalgn from | thigre he didn’t have the money. | C“h-" A man ge!s through run- nifle for mavor of Pitichurgh he is| bréfe then.' said Sen Reed, amid | geperal lauchter. Maror Kline of Piftsburgh was in the room at the| tinfe. having heen summoned as a ! Silions. ?A poor man veply. ator. King of Utah asked Mr. Mdrkrell if it were not ct that in hig conversation with Cooper over the. telephone there had been an understandinz that Mackrell was to! disclose nothing damaging about the | regent campaizn and that was to b thd price of smoothing things out f Nackrell in Pittsburgh INa, no” sald the witness n, $ Tabulation, | After Mr. Mackey, the Vare man.| zér. had taken the siand he presented to ithe committee a tabulatfon of i vote in Philadelphia by wards in tif sedatorial primarics. Senator Reed questioned him closely regarding the | vofe in many of the wards. In the fourth ward it developed that Vare received 4,381 votes, Pepper 39 ard | of politics?” | £3p00 1 ' was Mr. Mack- | rel Presents Vote kind of people live in th " asked Senator Reed. 5 Jewish with some | was the reply. | Mrckey said that these people n enough 1o make money. He. estimated that probahiy several | hundred American native born people live in the ward. i “Isn’t it a fact that somebody votes these Jews enbloc?’ asked Renator Reed. “Oh, of thei n right.” said M In reply 1o a further question he | said he was sorry to say that he | thought they stuck to their rights in voting m tenacions than some flr] the American born l Mackey. | Taking up the first ward Senator Reed pointed out that Vare had re- | Bedo: | Bedova hasis for amal- | | fey 1107 re | ke o Wed Diplomat ONDERWOOD MISS JO HINE MATTESON, A license was issued to day for Dr. Santiago K. Bedova, sec ond secretary of the bassy, and Miss Josephine Matteson daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ( Matieson of Berkele. a gave his age as 34 and Miss Matteson is 19. Canon William L. De Vries will officiate and the cere- mony will probably be performed in Rethlehem Chapel of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul. although the date has not vet heen announced. Miss Matteson is with her mother 1t the New Willard Hotel and will he foined hy her hefore the wed ding "I'he brid ect is one of most attractive of the younger circles n California and has been a frequent visitor in Washington Dr. Bedoya has heen the Peruvian embassy fr and has heen active diplomatic circles and is a member of one of the wealthiest and most families of Peru. he announcement is a fociety in Washington, of Dr. Redoya's \Washington for some mon Houghton secu marriage attached to irprize to the rumor engagement to a has heen persistent Mr. Woodson P ed the license for Dr B — eived 8936 votes: Pepper, £75 and Mr. Mackey described ‘the melting pot of all nationalities in- with think that makes for com- of acti as shown by demanded Senator Reed. said that this was a the ity in which Mr heen born and raised and his hers who had heen leaders hefore that the Vares had cared for » people and heiped them to get playgrounds. 1o one else who would piete cor this vote Mr. M had pose,” | commented Senntor Overwhelming Vote Cited. in the third ward it was shown that Vare had received 7,203 votes: Pepper, 5, and Pinchot Senator Reed di an admission the voting precing wards Mr. Pincho receive A single might have been Pepper. The W from that M number n this an probably did net vote and the same true of Senator of fifth ward Pepper, 30 and Pinc er of this ward, was the high sheriff of Philadelphia. “What's that got to do with the right of citizens to vote?” Mr. Mackey repiied that he merely mentioned the lead position to cave Vare 4589 ot, 14 The lead- Mackey said, how the character of the leadership in the ward. “Vare was not born In that ward, was he?” asked Senator Reed. s Were he was only ward,” replied Mr. M is one of the south wards. Senator Reed wanted to know if all decent people were not in fuvor ols in Philadeiphia as well as Mr, Vare. Mr. Mackey suld that he pre sumed so,' but that the schools had zotten far hehind in Philadelphia that he himself was not in sympa thy with the Board of Fducation, whose members are appointed by the Judges. “The judges are elacted by the peo- ple, are they not, and this organiza- tion of vours controls the elections and has power to correct this, hasn't it?" asked Senator Reed. Mr. Mackey said that they have not plaved poli- ties with the judges. born in one Pepper Vote Gro “Why not?’ asked Senator Reed. “You tell me that getting schools for these wards was one of the jewels in Mr. Vare's crown of virtue. If there are not enough schools, why didn't ou use vour influence to correct this, We'll Jet it drop at that In the tenth ward the 2894 for Vare, 745 for Pinchot Phat's @ surpri for Pepper. isn't it Reed. “llow did awav? T vote stood Pepper and ingly " asked it come large vote Senator o get dn't tell you,” sald M Ma When Senator Reed had completed |a canvass of the votes, by wards, he | said: “There have heen repeated charges of fraud in Pennsylvania elections for many years, haven't there? “Very few,” replied Mr. Mackey. Asks of Past Charges. “Raliot hoxes many tmes to said Senator Reed. Mr. Mackey said there had been somie caxes where they were opened. “You've heard it charged thut some- imes ballot e ure switched,” sutd have been exumine the opened vote,” heard that,” replied . It couldn’t be done, be. cause fu every election board there i minorits representative and theve : watchers at the poms. “IF no votes were cast for Pinchot precinet how could he have wat hers there?” nskea Senator Reed, Mr. Mackey admitted it would be very difienlt. 4 Denles “Gross Inaccuracies.” nator Reed questioned Mr. Mac- Kkey about an election last Fall in Phil- adelphia where .Judge Renshaw of the Municipal Court was seeking re-elec. tion. He was defented and charged that he was defrauded out of 30,000 voles. “One ballct hox was opened, wasn't it?" asked Senator Reed. Mr. ke ome were opened,” said Mr. Mac- | “And it was found that Judge Ren- shaw had recelved more votes than he | had been Reed. “There racles.” Mr. Mackey denied that the inac- curacies had been gross, although he redited with,” said Senator were gross {naccu- | admitted that 50 votes in a precinct | Reed Ihese people are tenacious| were not counted for Renshaw, but | for his opponent. Sena Iteed pointed out that an effort had heen made to open other hallot hoxes. hut the matter had been ' taken into the courts and the Ren. shaw people had been prevented from opening them. “Your Republican organizatisn took Peruvian em- | the some years ' prominent | SCHALL IS VN Vare | other | it this | CAPTAL GOLFERS SCORENENCLAND |Roland Mackenzie Has 79, McLeod and Armour 74s in British Open. By the Asso [ Jones, y the quall ish open lead over | sparkling ted Press. June 16.—Bobhy ing st Sunninedale in fug round of the ehampionship, took e feld with e 16, W open 1ip began el Annes. AU Sunningdaln, #) ern section of the qualiientic there 14 stavier iy the 49 < a ihis section wper. while at’] Were entered | LONDO = ying play * chumpion- nzdale and tests, | eve : for | i the chamniog St 1 Mehthorn \m-e! ane to start at | were followed he- | od. plaving | around with upson, Rritish | pro. | hhy T k and ( jas Newton of New | m Elm, Los An. . were schieduled 1o play. after | {lunch, Jones teeing off at- the late | hour of 4 Py Wenther conditions nidale and St he Americans seek the cent “ection Annes re Roland Mackenzie and Watts Guun, amateurs, and Jim RBarn Walte Hagen. Coril Walker, Tommy Armour, ‘red \i w AL Watrous and Emmet French, professionals hieen holes are heing | Aay and another 18 tomorrow Sunningdale and St Anne's, Scores early 1oday were Roland MacKenzie, 7 red MelLeod my Armonr, Walter Hagen Joe Kirkwood George von E Watts unn, 7 pmett French, Ted Rav. $3. Al Watrous Jim Barnes, 7 at both Sun- were ideal. to qualify In ed to at both 8 | - MINNESOTASEAT | Attacks Opponents in Fiery| Speech Read on Floor | After Decision. | - - | The se | mously ado e this afternoon unani- ted the resolution of the | privileges and elections committee de- | | claring Senator Thomas D. Schall, Re iblican, to have heen duly elected om Minnesota, hut a spirited del | | ensued immediately on the question | | of Whether the vecord of the hearings | in the Minnesota election contest | | should be printed as a document. The election of Nenator Schall was con- tested by former enator Magnus Johnson, but the committee filed, a unanimous report in favor of Senator Schall. Che debate ove | records of the hes | the action of Senat *hall in taking | | the floor as soon as the report of the committee had heen adopted and ask- ing the clerk to read into the record a statement in which he made a severe attack on those who had taken part In_the contest against his election Before the statement of Senator whoWps blind, was read into ecord the Senate had voted not [t print as a document the volumi- | nous hearings in connection with the | Minnesota contest, Afte the pre- red speech of enat chall had however, Senator Robin- Democratic W o the ol nade Ly Senator the entire record should be printed. lof North Dakota moved t the previous decision on the printing |of the hearings, and the Senate re- | versed its action by ordering the hear. ings printed While the clerk of the Senate was in the midst of the reading of the speech of Senator Schall, in which Iw was attacking those who contested | his election, Senator Ashurst, Dem- ocrat, of Arizona appealed to the Senator from Minnesota to withdraw the speech. In an impassioned volce Senator Schall declared that he was entitled to put his defense in the records, so that it would be made known to the people of his State, Senator Ashurst did not press his request and the readinz of the stutement was com pleted. the printing of the ring was caused by son oy lie of the Senut Lelieved hearings Frazier reconsider the matter In court and prevented the opening of tne boxes,” sald Sen- ator Reed. “No, the Republican organization | had nothing to do with that,” said Mr. | | Mackey. He said that Renshaw had been a Democrat and was appointed a judge to fill a_vacancy by Gov. Pin- chot, but the Republicans felt that they ought to have that office. Senator Reed drew from Mr. Mac- key @a description of how the organi- zation worked to take care of the peo- ple in the different wards and pre- cincts. Mr. Mackey sald that the ganization fed the poor when it was | necassary, and went to the aid of citi- zens who got into trouble. He denled, however, that they furnished counsel for anybody charged with serfous of- fenses. Most of the ald is given to peo- ple who violated the traffic laws or | charged with having committed some mino: offense. “Haven't you furnished counsel iu cuses - where serious /crimes are charge not that T know of,” was the reply 'No Ald for Bootleggers.” “In bootlegging cases?” | “In cases of lllegal, possession of { nquor.” | Mr. Mackey said he nimself had helped old women who had been ar- rested for having a pint in their} possession. | “Where does the money come from ito pay the counsel furnished by the | organization?” asked Senator Reed. “Every ward leader has in his ward young lawyers willing to do it for | nothing,” sald Mr. Mackey. Mr. Mackey Insisted that he had never heard of - the debauching of voterg in Pennsylvania nor had heard !n! a vote bLeing bought in the State. Deules Votes Were Bought. | “There is trouble with your {hearing, s asked Senator no ther. “No, sir.” { “And yet you heard it charged here {in this ‘commlttee that votes were [Pought,through paying watchers $10 a da y Mr. Mackey denied that paying for votas. “If vou have to pay votersy organization'is a failure,” he this was the I south. | | { sued for $100.000 dam t nied | still loves her | deughter-inlaw Va. | meen -at WAN RECEIVING CONGRATULATIONS AFTER BEING FREED Zinng S photographed nsel for Wan o Chinese studs h ease toda, STILLLOVES WIF, | VORGT, R, CLANS Defending Parents in Court, | He Denies His Affections | Were Alienated. Edward Volgt, jr. president of the American ial and Savings Bank and now with his father in the jewelry business, todayv took the witness stand in Cireuit Division 2 hefore Justice Hitz and a J in defense of his parents, who ave hein es by his wife, alienating his & Voigt de had heen he loved Mrs. Hilda . Voigt, fo affections from her. Yo that hls affections changed. 1le asserted that his wife when he m: d her and He is ready and will ing to have her back if she will re turn to him, the hushand stated. Other witnesses declared they had never heard the parenis of Young Voigt speak derogatorily of thelr and had often seen them together, on which oceasions all | appeared to be on friendly terms, the smilie Bodell, a wil her wcquaintance with all Voigts, and testitied she had been guest at their cottage at Ocean City, when she deciared the conversatio were ganeral and all the parties we n speaking terms A colored hutler of the Voigts de nied there were any locks on the pantry doors, as claimed by the plain tiff, and sald he never saw a key for the fce hox Harmon Mrs. RBurns former assistant cashier at the American Commercial and Savings Bank. told of frequen visits of the plaintiff to her hus at the bank. He said young would direct him to give his wife the amount of money she asked nd told | him to charge such payments to his own account. The younger Voigt witness stand again in defenge of his ing e Durr. At uppears for the wite, . 30 Edition of Yesterday's Star will take the this afternoon who are be Dary Wampler (From the MRS. PEGGY ALBION IS SERIOUSLY HURT Mrs. Edouard Albfon, wife of the director of the Washington Opera Co. and better known to radio fans here and elsewhere fn the country as “Peggy” Alblon, was seriously injured in an automobile accident late last Saturday afternoon, when she was re. with her little son and her secretary, Miss Martha Adams, from Virginia Beach, where they had been spending a- few-days for u rest, “The automobile skilded off the foad on a curve into a ditch opposite the Natlonal cemetery at Fredericksburg, The chauffeur was only shake up, us was the secretary, Miss Adan wrwoud, the T-vear-old son of M and Mrs. Alblon. also badly shaken up and his left leg was sprained. Both he and Miss Adams are nearly recovered from the accident and Mrs. Alblon is recovering quite satisfactorily. Her infuries, which in- cluded a shattered bone In her right arm and the spraining of her left knee were very painful, and pros- trated her for the first two days, She probably will he confined to her room for three or four weeks. NOTORIOUS MAIL BANDIT BAND'S CAPTURE SEEN Three De Autremont Brothers, Sought Nearly Three Years, . Trailed in Virginia. By the Assoclated Press, RICHMOND, Va., June 16.—Rich- mond and Henrico County police were belleved to be hot on the trail of the three.de Autremont brothers, eharged with dynamiting a mail coach ‘in a tunnel near Siskiyou, Oreg.. en Octoher 11, ‘1928, killing the. mail- clerk -and then shooting to death the.engineer, fireman and brakeman. They were Went Point this. morning. Local post office inspectors were noti- fied, but while arrangements were being made for taking them into cus- tody they made their getaway in an automobile and were helieved to have headed toward this city. turning T Will Take Training. First Lient. Herbert Mitchell, Ordnance Department Reserve, of 1701 Park road, this city, has Loen ordered to the lnited States Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill., for duty in training. Boardwalk Completed. Mayor Caldwell of (‘olonial Beach, Va., annennces the rompletion of the £10.000 ““hoard walk," which runs for i mile along the beach there. The walk is 16 feet wide and is of cement eonstructien. - are also shown, the former at right of pict | feell | of the corridor. held at Dis s shown beside him. Wilton e and the latt t jail for more than seven JUNE 16, 1926 | necesmary for the i | der, . Lamberi and A. 0. Stanley, leading | at the extreme left. | WAN WINS FREEDOM | BY ORDER OF COURT; WAS ONCE CONDEMNED | (Continued from First Page.) ihree different counts, one for the!| Dr. T. Theodore Wong, di-| Killin of rector of the Chinese Educational Mis- sion: another for the killihg of Chang Jisi Hsie, secretary of the same insti- tution, and the third for the killing of Ben Sen Wu, a clerk at the mission three men were found shot tu th in the mission on Kaloram a in January, 1919 Justice Hoehling ordered that each count be nolle prossed Brother Also Freed. At the same time, the conrt that the charge of forgery inst Tsong Ing Van. Wan's brether, who < wecused of forging signatures to a check for $5,000, which had a_direct hearing on the murders, should also e prossed. This order, too, wax t the request of Mr. Gordon who declared that the Government had never been able to find such eck, and said that he did not be. llieve it would be possible to “make ut even a prima facle caxe against Van." in be made granting the United States at torney’s request, Justice Iloehling pointed out that although Wan had been convicted Ly the fivst jury that tried him and sentenced to he hanged, the United tes Supreme Court ordered @ new trial and two sub sequent juries had disagreed. “And 1 understand that at the second trial the vote wax 10 to 2 for acquittal, while at the third ft was 9 to 3 for auittal,” he said. It was generally known that the last chapter of the famous Wan trial would be closed at 10 o'clock this morning and the courtroom was pack |ed with lawyers and interested spec- tators. Alsles were jammed. door. wavs completelv blocked and even the window silis were crowded with men and women who struggled a | view of the proceedings. A minute after Justice Floehling entered Wan was hrought in through the prisoner’s door and was motioned to a seat at the counsel table, where he had sat 50 many times before. Difficulties Pointed Out. Maj. Gordon came to the point quickly Although he did not admit | ihat the Government's cuse had failed | completely, he pointed out that five important witnesses had died, seven others had retnrned to China, and sald he w confident no jury would agree unantmously. In the case of, Wan's brother, however, the United tates attorney made no effort to con the fact that the Government had no basis whatever for eriminal pro- | ceedings. Wilton Lamberi, who assumed charge of Wan's defense at the last two trials, was the first to grasp the freed man's hand. Immediately the two were surrounded by men and women who crowded each other to rveach both Wan and his attorney and congratulate them. When a baillff finally Wan outside a throng raced after him through the corridors of the courthouse. milling and fghting ound him and shouting spproval | of the termination of the long case. Wan Iy shouted back hix own thanks, but he headed straight for prisoners’ cell under the court Louse. There he had walted day aft day during his trials, and it was there that he was carried the day he was sentenced to death, Ile had left that once never expecting to return 1o it. Twice he had been returned to it en route to the courtroom to hear his execution stayed. Today he seized the ‘iron bars and rattled them loud. Goes for His Hat. Joe,” he shouted to the et me in. I want my hat.” The turnkey unlocked the door, slapped Wan on the back and he was immediately surrounded by prisoners whom he had come to know well in the District jail. Wan had spent much of his time- selling pies to the other prisoners at the jafl—a business that cost him $160 in bad debts, but which helped him take his mind off of his uwn situation. “S'leng Wan, vld boy, ubss. yo won't be sellin’ no plen to- Nght,” velled a big negro ss Wan dashed out again. This afternoon Wan will visit the District jail unce more to get his be- longings. Then he intends to turn his back on it and try to forget every: thing. When reporters called early this morning they found Wan already the door to the rotunda. He wa: neatly dressed in a gray suit, gra: felt hat tilted at & jaunty Angle over his left eye and tan shoes. He had heard that he would probably be freed today, and he feelingly bade good-by to some of his prisoner friends. * Looks at Fatal Spot. When Deputy United States Mar- shal Cerimele called that he was ready to take him to court, Wan requested him to wait a minute and deliberately walked over to the door of one of the long mess halls. His eyes rested for a full minute at the wall at the end It was there that he to have been hanged on Decem- ber 1, 1920. Later, at the courtfiouse, after he had been freed, the only sad minute he experfenced fvas when he recalled his narrow escape. Just think,” he exclaimed, becom- ing serfous for the first time, “T was only two days from death once. I don't see how 1 stood it. 1 had seen others pass my cell on thelr last urney through lite; T had heard the singing, it was awful. and the pray- ing. And then a dull thud as the | trap was sprung. I decided I didn't dered | MISS WILLS DRAWN INWIMBLEDONPLAY | Will Meet Greek Star First if She Is Able to Par- ticipate. ated Press WIMBLEDON, Eng., June 16.—The | draw for the Wimbledon tennis cham pionship made today provides for a | probable ing in the second round hetween Vincent Richards and Henri | Cochet, who won the men's hard court singles’ championship. Howard Kin- sev and J. B. Gilhert. the British left- hand plaver. probably will meet in the second round also. Richards and Cochet were drawn in the third quar- ter. and Gilbert and Kinsey in the second. | The draw has worked out unluckily for Senorita D'Alvarez the brilllant Spanish girl star. who is likely to | meet Mile. Lenglen as early as the fourth round | Helen Wills, who has entered the tournament despite her recent opera- tion, was drawn to meet Lady Cros- | field, representing Gireece. The match, | however. Wil he contingent on | whether Miss Wills decides that she | is able to appear. Mre. Molla Mallory Ameri champlon young McKa were drawn in the last quarter. In the women's doubles Miss Ryan and Miss Browne will meet Miles, Lenglen and Viasto in the second round, hoth pairs having drawn first- rownd byes. Richards and Kinsey meet Nicholas Mishu of Rumania and Dr. G. G.| Sharpe of Australia in the first round of the men’s doubles Richards and Miss Ryan, and Kin- sey and Miss Browne are in oppoesite | halves in the mixed doubles, — BRICKLAYERS’ PAY RISES. CHICAGO, the former Fry. the June 16 (P).—Effective July 1, wages for Chicago bricklayers will be increased to $1.621 an hour, although some time ago they renewed their old agreement, which provided #n hour. president of the Asso- iated Ruilders, who announced the increase, sald it was granted hecause | wages paid in the bullding industry have been increased since the brick- layers made their agreement The agreement is effective May 31, 1929, e — untit want to have any singing at miner T guess T was golng crazy. But then T learnedqyo laugh. deliberately practiced Shghine ana grew shorter and shorter, : sed like minutes, T laught, ed every time 1 thought of what they were going to do to me. Pretty soon 1 could liugh well and when I was within two days of (he gallows [ was pretty well resigned. Then they gave me a respite. 1 could fight as well | as laugh and 1 decided | would nat give up agatn. Won't Forget to Laugh. “Oh, 1 praved. T always sald my prayers at night. But I did not da spend my dayvs praying and reading. 1 had to spend them laughing or I would have collapsed. Eleven times during the seven yvears 1 was in jail I saw poor men pass me, and heard the same singing and prayer, and finally the thud that meant their troubles were over—justice had been satisfied. I'll never forget it, but nefther will I ever again forget how to laugh.” ‘Wan left the courthouse shortly before noon and went directly to Mr. Lambert's office. He declared he would go from there to “a fine restau- rant somewhere and get a good, big meal.” He expects to spend two mor days In Washington attending to nec: essary business and then he and his brother will go to New York. It is possible, he added, that they will soon return to China for good. Wan prepared a typewritten state- ment for the newspaper men in an- ticipation of his release. 1In it he thanked his friends and attorneys for their help and incidentally criticized one or two features of American jus- tice. “To step out intq sunlight and freedom after seven and A half years of stone walls and iron bara! Tt is past the imagination of any one who has not experfenced it. “To walk in the sunshine and be consclous of trees and grass and sky again 18 all T want for some days to come. Walking was ever my favorite exercise, and it has been my greatest déprivation during these seven and a half vears of horror. Incidentally, it would seem a worthy reform to pro- vide facilities for open-air exercise for the miserable inmates of the District “I feel deeply grateful to the public and the press for many expressions of confidence and support. Not one of the three trials brought out clearly the real facts of my case. ‘Rules of evi- dence’ in your law courts seem d signed to cover up instead of uncover actual facts, and so it has happened that many facts which if fully under- stood would, I believe, have exonerat ed me completely, and Jong azo. could not be developed. and in some in- stances were not even touched upon.” INCOME TAXES PAID REACH PREDICTIONS Treasury Passes Successful- ly Over First Quarter Period Without Borrowing. ofcials were receiving preliminary reports today on income tax receipts at the end of the quarter yesterday fully bore out the optimistic predic- tions of lncreasing revenues under | the 1926 tax-reduction law. Actual figures were not Special I WORLD CIRCLERS HAVE CLOSE CALL Racing Boat Narrowly Avbids Striking Buoy in New York Harbor. ateh 1o The Star. NEW YORK, June 16.—Fdward €, Evans, Detroit millionaire, and Lin- which it wak understood | oSy Ll man, are off on | their race to establish a new record | time for circling the globe. At 12:30 disclosed, | a.m., v astern standard time, th but there was every indication that |leaged into an automobile waiting he. the Treusury hud successfully passed | fore the New York World Ruflding over the first quarterly period since | cavan minutes la the end of the war when no new financing was necessary to meet ex- | penditures. A total of about $78.000. 000 was received vesterday from for-! eign powers on their war dehts. | Britain's Payment Largest. at Britain made the largest pay- with $67,950,000. all in short- term securities of this government, which matured today and therefore reduced by that amount the total Treasury to retire Next in size was the payment by Italy of $5.000,000. in Liberty loan | bonds and short-term securities, which | had been turned over to the Treasury | al the time of the signing of the Itulo-American debt funding agree ment several monthx ugo, with cou poux clipped ax of yesterday. - natloys pald In cash follows: n $2.094.160.70; 'z vakla, $1,500000: Esthonia, Finland. $1 THungary, $29.442. | Lithuania, $76,578.38: Poland, | 50,000, and Rumania, $200.000. Lat- | via_previously had paid fts §30,000 in- ! sfaliment dua yesterday. | France and ~Jugoslavia, although | they have negotiated deht agreements | with this country, made no payments | hecause the setilements are not vet in effect. 1 JUGOSLAVIA DEBT BILL UP. i Chamber’s Finance Committee Votes for Settlimg With U. S. BELGRADE, Jugosiavia, June 16 (#)—The finance committee of the | Chamber of Deputies today adopted. | 17 to 9, a bill providing for settlement | of Jugoslavia's war debt to the United ANDREWS ACCUSED | BY EX-BOOTLEGGER ment, vester- rhoslo- $50.000: Witness Says Chief Failed to Act Against Go-Between Banks. | By the Associated Press William C. Davidson, who said he is a former bootlegger now “going struight.” today told the House alco- | holic liquor traffic committee a vivid | story of five vears' experience as a| wholesale hootlegger and how, when he reformed, he was unable to get Prohibition Chief Andrews to take ac- | tion against several Calffornia hanks that had acted as mediums of ex-! change in his liquor transactions. He is the surprise witness produce by Representatve lLa Guardia, Pro- gressive-Socialist, of New York. who | demanded the hearing. threatening to hold it all by himself unless the com- | mittee heeded his wishes. | Seeks Andrews’ Aid. Declaring that in the bootlegging | game he wax known as William Caine, the witness sald Gen. Andrews had referred him to Federal prohibi- | tion officiaix in Low Angeles, and that | 8 € rith,” prohibition adminis trat or xouthern California, his ussistant, W. W. Anderson, hud declined to accept evidence he wax prepared to offer. Throughout his testimony Caine made clear he would not tell on those whom he described as “regular fel- lows.” e said Anderson told him | he “didn’t want anything” he had | and that from then on he was unable ! to mee Frith personally. He charged that the Vermont and | West Jefferson street branch of the | California Bank in los Angeles had | negotiated a $3,000 check on a liquor transaction and that when he told An- derson of this. Anderson safd: t would look fine in the head- lines—California Bank in the Whisky Business.” Not Put Under Oath. Davidson, who was dressed in khaki riding pants and an olive drab shirt, Was not put under vath. the commit tee huving no such suthority. He said the transaction ith the Califo bank took place “around” October . 1924, He added that bootleggers have but little fear of prohibition agents, and are more in dread of hi-jackers than dry agents. He said he had served a brief term in a California jail; that at one time he gave a thousand dollars to Cali- fornia State enforcement agents for protection, and that he had been wounded in a battle between bootleg- gers on a California highwa The witnesa testified he knew in one instance 11 prohibjtion agents had raided the former residence of Tru- man H. Newberry, on West Jefferson in Detroit, had found a IfFge of liquors, bit that the case was dropped in court. Davidson sald his home was in Los Angeles, Calif., but_he declined to give his Washington address, sayving that he “didn’t want to be bumped off.” Civil Service Extended. An executive order, just issued, places five Indian boarding schools in the Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, in the classified civil service of the United States. The order savs that employes in these schools who are efficlent and whose names are report- ed to the Civil Service Commission may be considered as classified, but that all future vacancies shall be filled in accordance with civil service rules. Dog Shields Child From Deadly Viper Until Help Arrives By the Associated Press. McCOOK, Nebr., June 16— Duke, a pet dog of Billie, 2-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Gar- rison, shielded the child from a poisonous viper for several mip- utes yvesterday untll a paving gang here, attracted by the dog's frantic barking, came to the rescue. Duke, ¢he men said. ran re- peatedly between the reptile and the infant, lller.nntel.\' pushing him out of danger ‘and Iunging at the snake. of | thelr progress to The Star and and | r they wére at the Rattery, and less than twe hours later Coast (iuard patrol hoat 184 lay along <ide the Aquitania at Amhrose light «hip, 20 miles from the sleeping cftv, while the two clamhered up tha ropa {1adders which swung down from the Cunarder's deck. In order to break the world record John Henry Mears—-35 dave 31 hours 35 minutes and 4.5 of a second for elrcling the globe, the two must re. turn to the curb before the World ! Buflding before July 21 at 1006 p.m Eastern standard time. Seek to Lower Time. They will attempt to do from five to eight s better than this. This morning’s dash by automobile and cut- ter was preliminary to a serfes of al most uninterrupted dashes by air- plane, boat and train, continuing for from 27 to 35 days, which little more than one day, altogether, will he spent in transfers and pauses between transports, The start of the race immadiataly followed a dinner given for the two men by the North American paper Alllance, and they went up the side of the Aquitania in evening dress after a rough trip from the Battery to Ambrose lightship. At the hour of the start, a large crowd had gathered at the starting place to cheer the two as they shook hands around and smiled for the news pho tographers. John Henry Mears, holder of the record, wished them good luck In smashing his mark of 13 vears’ stand ing. Vilhfalmur Stefansson, famous Arctic explorer. holding a stop watch gave the word to start and the auto which served as the first of man conveyances of the long trip, preceded by & police escort, roared throuzh lower Manhattan. Have Narrow Escape. A very narrow escape from catas- trophe awaited the travelers hefore they were 20 miles on their jou illustrating the assertion of Mr. that the success of t p eannot he predetermined by the most care ful_arrangements. With the lights of the waiting Aqui- tania_in sight and the little Coast Guard cutter plunging over the rongh water at top speed, Ro's'n Schweizer suddenly swerved the boat aside and a “dead” buoy slipped off into the dark less than 20 feet from the ves- sal's side A square-jawed sailor whistled and tnurned to the group of newspaper men on the deck. “If we hadn't two good men in the pilot house youse boys would he swimmin' back to town.” he said cheerfully Evans and Wells should arrive in Cherbourg on June There the community wardrobe will be stripped to essentials and the men will start a grueling 12 days of travel across Furope and Siberia to Yokohama During the entire journey hoth men will furnish exclusive dispatches the American Newspaper Alliance. 1926, he North American News- maper Alliance.) WILLIAM S. !EILPATRICK FUNERAL RITES HELD Services Conducted at Home for First Assistant to Treas- ury Official. Vuneral services of William & Kil- patr first assistant to former ssistant Secretary Moss of the Treasury Department, who died Mon- day following an operation fc . pendicitls, were held at his home in Vriendship Helghts, Md.. this after- noon. Masonic services were conduct- v Bethesda Lodge, No. 204, of i he was & member. Mr. Kilpatrick was born at Phila- delphia, Miss., June 12, 1867, was a widower and is survived by a daugh- ter, Mre. Willlam T. Carrigan of New Yotk City, and by four hrothers and re sister, all residents of Noxapater, M He was active in Masonie cir- es. He was past master of Rethesda Lodge, No. 204: past high priest of James F. Allen R. A. Chapter, No. 33; nember of King Solomon's Council, R. and 8. M.. No. 13, and the com- mandery at Rockville, Md., and direc- tor of the Masonic iall and Library Association at Bethesdu, Md. He was educated st lebanon College, Ohio, und afterward taught school in his home district in Mississippi. He en- tered the service of the Baltimore and Ohlo Raflroad at New York City. He served for a time win the old Rich- mond and Danville Railroad, and when that road was reorganized and became the Southern Railroad he became fits chief clerk and right-hand man to the general manager. Resigning from the Southern to become for a time the representative in Southern territory of several firms engaged in the rail way supply business, he traveled aver the entire South In tne discharge of his new duties. He entered the Navy Department as a clerk in 1902 and was rapidly pro moted to private secretary to Truman H. Newberry, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Department. Resigning in 1907, he re-entered the service August 24, 1912, as private secretary to Sher- man Allen, then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. North «Copyrizht, KLAN PARADE BANNED BY JERSEY CITY MAYOR Lawlessness “Inevitably Attends” Such Demonstrations, Is Offi- cials’ Reply to Group. By the Associated Press. JERSEY CITY., N. J., June 16— Mayor Hague today refused permis- sion for the realm of New Jersey, Ku Klux Klan, to hold a parade and dem onstration here. with from 10,000 to 30,000 persons taking part. He said rioting and lawlessness had Inevita- bly_attended” such demonstrations. The request was made In a letter from Rev. Edward Young, D. D., of Belmar, grand klokard, who said thera were 7,000 Klan members in Hudson County and that it has been operating here for five years. He said the Klan of Hudson County planned to invite the Klan of the entire State for a large meeting and parade to take Jjace on & Saturdsy afterncon. prob- Iy at_the end of August or the mid- dle of September. Ohio Mayor Bars March. . Ohio. June 16 (). —Mayor Harvey ", Kistler today refused the Ku Klux Klan a permit for a proposed parade here July 3. Bloodshed during an attempt to hold a similar parade hera twe years ago brought out State troops.