Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1926, Page 5

JAWILL BE ADED BY GIFT PROGRA Associated Charities Board 1o Announce Annual ‘Op- portunities” Soon. The board of managers of the Asso- ciated Charities will carry out its usual Christmas program of giving the people of Washington an oppor- tunity to make this Yuletide a merry one for 14 needy families. These will, represent exceptional cases, where the sieed 18 pressing and deserving. The “Fourteen Christmas Opportunities” 1l shortly be announced, including a @escription of the needs and the mmount necessary to insure comfort- able care. 9 The work of the Associated Charities is increasing rapidly. Reports from 1he District workers showed that there 370 families being cared for now, s agalnst 355 at this time last year. Relief _disbursements for November were $5,351.66. Last year they totaled only $3,461.10. Depos.ts in the Provi- dent Savings Bank have shrunk from <097 in November, 1925, to $815 at the end of the November past. Explains Savings Fund. Some conception of the money the sociated Charities distributes to the be had from atement eorge M. Kober, chairman of | committee on provident funds. . Kober said he inquired into the | in this fund since its | inauguration in 1896. The aggregate | during the last 30 years was $260,000, an average of nearly $10.000 a vear. The board instructed the secretary -xpress to the family of the late ck W. Berthrong its sympathy and its appreciation of his services assi The resigna- | $ assistant trea tion of Mrs. CI . Richardson | was accepted w Mrs. Rich- urdson, who has been a member since 1909, stated that she found it increas- ingly difficult to attend the meetings. Welfare Work Outlined. George S. Wilson, director of public welfare, gave a brief review of the work of the board in the administra- tion of the new law for the care of de- pendent children in their own homes. Mr. Wilson stated that the board was endeavoring to study each individual upplication and to arrive at an esti- mate that would prove adequate in ch instance for giving the proper care to the children in accordance with the purpose of the legislation. Those present were Mrs. Whitman Cross, Dr. Edward T. Devine, C. F. Al Fadeley, Charles C. Glover, jr.; Arthur Hellen, Mrs. Archibald Hop- kins, Coleman Jennings, Dr. George AL Kober, Dr. William C. Rives, Dr. | | ‘Spain to Honor Eight American Naval Officers By the Associated Press. Eight naval officers who served with the American flotilla in European waters have been se- lected by the King of Spain to re- ceive decorations of the Order of Naval Merit and Efficiency. The decorations are held by the State Department pending authorization by Congress for their acceptance. Heading the list is Rear Admiral Roger Welles, who was recently relieved from duty as commander- of the naval forces in European waters. He is cited to receive the Grand Cross of the Order. Others named are Capt. Henry E. Lackey, third-class decoration; Comdrs. Har- vey Delano, A. B. Clifford and W. L. Beck, second class, and Lieuts. R. C. Welles, B. T. Talbott and A. W. Dunn, jr., first class. o ORMISTON, ELUSIVE- RADIO MAN, CAUGHT IN HARRISBURG, PA. (Continued from First Page.) from Atlantic City, and expressed as- tonishment that the officers had.pre- viously failed to locate him. Ormiston was taken to a hotel, where he spent the night, and Chief of Police Thompson said that he had not been placed under arrest, since no charges were booked against him at the police station. He is wanted in Los Angeles on charges of suborna- tion of perjury and a conspiracy to defeat justice. Today Chief Thompson was called detectives. A short time later Ormiston and the Chicago detectives left in the taxi. Not Under Arrest. The party left the hotel by a side door and hurried to the waiting car. “I do not know where they have taken Ormiston, but I think they in tend to go to Chicago,” Chief Thomp- son was quoted as saying. ‘‘Ormiston was not under arrest and that was the reason that the case was mot handled directly through the police station.” Detective Carson also admitted the trio had left the hotel. “I can’t teli you where they went,” he told news- paper men. Ormiston was not registered at the hotel and was kept strictly in thc custody of the detectives and, so far as is known, communicated with no one today. A check at the office of Gov. Pinchot disclosed that no effort had been made to obtain extradition papers. Ormiston was traced to his apart- ment by means of a letter, police said. Residents of the apartment house said that in the two months that he had rooméd there they had seen little of him. He had a two-room suite on the fourth floor and is said to have had only one or two callers during m Phelps Stokes and George S. GARFIELD CITIZENS ASK IMPROVEMENTS Better Police and Fire Protection and Traffic Signs Are Requested. The Garfield Citizens' Association last night, at a meeting in the Gar- fleld School, adopted a resolution to request several additional means of volice and fire protection for their community, including the installation of traffic safety signs and fire alarm hoxes. The resolution called for the follow- ing. as recommended in a report of the association’s committee on police and fire protection:t A police patrol box to be installed at Bruce and Fort streets southeast, installation of a stop sign at Alabama avenue and Ainger street southeast, also a stop slgn and a fire alarm box at Alabama avenue and Twenty-first street southeast, and the placing of fire alarm Loxes at Bruce place and Fort street southeast. The resolution further asks that a policeman be sta- tioned at the Garfield School during vecess and the opening and closing hours. Another resolution was adopted, upon recommendation of the committee on streets and lights, to request im proved street lights for Fort and Pier- ®on streets southeast. It was voted 10 the company operating busses along Good Hope road and Nichols avenue southeast to run them on a five-minute later schedule, so as 1o make better connections with the Washington Railway and Electric Co. street cars during the evening rush hours. The secreta structed to w sioner W. R. Giles, was in- B te a letter to Commis Taliaferro felicitating him on his recent appointment to the office of District Commissioner. pecial committee was appointed to arrange for some form of testi monial to A. W. Carroll, a former ident of the association, who re- cently retired from a position he held in the Garfleld School. W. H. Lewis presided. BIG INCREASE IN RUM FINES IS REVEALED Revenue Bureau Shows Total of $5,208,203, With $7,135,248 Levied by Courts. Vines and forfeitures by the In- ternal Revenue Bureau in the fiscal | vear 1926 totaled $5,208,203 in prohi- bition enforcement, an increase of $28.000 over a vear ago, while addi- tonal fines totaling $7,135.248 were levied by the courts for liquor law violations and $416,197 was collected under the tax and tax-penalty pro- Visions of the prohibition act. This was disclosed toda nual report by Commi: ternal Revenue Blair, who also report- ed there were 73,723 persons arrested during the year for violation of the darv law, including 58,391 by Federal officers and the remainder by assist- fnce of Federal officlals. Agents eeized 5,935 automobiles, valued at $2.877,894, and 187 boats, worth $225,561. Tederal courts handled 52,982 pro- hibition cases and 41,154 persons were convicted, 13,312 receiving jail sen- tences. ‘Thers was a decrease of 222 in the snumber of persons on the prohibi- tion pay roll during the yvear ending dune 30. A total of 26,568,999 gallons of dis- tilled spirits remained in bonded ware. houses June 30, including 23,814,140 gallons of whisky. There were 23, £93,964 gallons of wine on hand. Schooner Weathers Storm. CHARLOTTETOWN, Canada, De- cember 9 (#).—The schooner Edward ¥. Falt of Victoria Crapaud, Prince Y.dward Island, believed to have foun- dered in Northumberland Strait in a g4le on Monday, reached here vester- cav. Except for a missing foresail the vessel showed no ili effects of the plosn. his entire stay. NOT HIDING, HE SAYS, Ormiston, However, Will Fight Re- turn to California. CHICAGO, December 9 (#).—The Herald and Examiner and New York American, in a copyrighter story to- day said that Kenneth G. Ormiston, missing radio operator in the Aimee Semple McPherson case, has been found by one of its reporters in Har- risburg, Pa. The newspaper said that Ormiston admitted his identity when found in a two-room apartment in Front street overlooking the Susquehanna River, where he had been living under the name of “Fred Lininger.” “But,” he added, “this is only the beginning. There will be a long, hard fight betore I go back to California. Also I feel certain that District At- torney Asa Keyes is not very anxious to have me go back for trial.” Ormiston is charged in Los An- geles with subornation of perjury and conspiracy to defeat justice. Had Been Writing for Months. The account said that Ormiston, during the long months in which he had been the object of a wide man- hunt, had been quietly writing for radio magazines, and had recently sold an article which is soon to ap- pear over his own signature in a mazagine having nation-wide circu- lation. 5 Ormiston virtually was without money. All the personal belongings he had in his bare flat consisted of a brown leather brief case, a black Gladstone bag, a portable typewriter | and a homemade radio receiving set. He declined to discuss any of the stories which have linked his name with that of Mrs. McPherson, but he was quite willing to talk about anything and everything else. “I really can't understand,” he was quoted as say, “why it has taken so long for you to find me—or rather for somebody to find me, considering the great number who have been try- ing. For the fact is that I have made no particular effort to hide. “I have not used any disguises— aside from assuming a different name —and I have not avoided public places. 1 have been occupying my present apartment for two months. “Many of the cleverest detectives in the United States have stood close enough to me for a handshake and none of them recognized me. That happened at Atlantic City in July and August, when the American Detective Society was in convention at the Am- bassador Hotel. living in Atlantic City then, and I-used to stroll through the lobby mingling with the detec- ot one gave me a second Had Not Heard From Aimee. The reporter asked him If he had had any communication with Mrs. Me- on since he had been sought. one whatever,” he said, “and that all I shall tell you on that subject til T have consulted my attorney, ward H. S. Martin of Chicago.” Several recent’ communications pur- porting to be from Ormiston were iven out by Martin. In one of these Ormiston characterized as “‘bunk’.the | finding in New York of a trunk con- taining feminine finery and “the dear, darling man” love letter which Los Angeles authorities believed was sent to him by Mrs. McPherson. Attorney Knows Nothing. Attorney Edward H. S. Martin said he had no knowledge that Ormiston had been found in Harrisburg nor of later reports that he had started for Chicago accompanied by two private detactives. \ Harry Donnelley, mentioned as one of the detectives, is presumably at- tached to the office of Morgan Collins, superintendent of police, but there it was sald they had no knowledge of the Ormiston matter or whether Don- nelley was working on that matter. ‘Attorney Martin said that if Ormis- ton and his companions were en route to Chicago he would suppose that he would be notified. MEANS NOTHING TO AIMEE. Ormiston’s Arrest Doesn’t Affect Her, She Says. LOS ANGELES, December 9 ().— The arrest in Harrisburg, Pa., of Ken- neth G. Ormiston, long-sought An- gelus Temple radio operator, means to the hotel for a conference with the | THE EVEN FISH PUTS INBILL FOR BIG STADIUM Former Yale Athlete Wants Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt on Speedway. Legislation directing the erection of a glant stadium on the Speedway as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt Iwas introduced in the House today by Representative Hamilton Fish, jr., of New York, who emphasized that this proposal is in line with the sugges- tion of Engineer Commissioner Bell and one made several years ago by Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, for- mer director of the public buildings and public parks. This is the second measure for a stadium on Washington’s waterfront introduced at this session of Congress. Gallivan Has Plan. On the opening day Representative James A. Gallivan, Democrat, of Mas- sachusetts, introduced a bill for a stadlum to seat 100,000 persons, to be erected by the Army Engineer Corps. The author of each bill is a formerly famous athlete, Mr. Gallivan at Har- vard and Mr. Fish at Yale. The Fish bill provides for a com- mission composed of five members, one of whom would be the Speaker. This commission would act without salary and report to Congress at the | beginning of the next Congress re- | garding location, cost and feasibility of such a stadium. Army-Navy Game. | When the proposed stadium is erected, Mr. Fish explained, Wash- ington will become the logical place to hold the Army-Navy foot ball game and if these games are held here every two or three years the stadium would pay for itself. Chairman Elliott of the House com- mittee on public buildings and grounds has assured Mr. Gish that he will hold a meeting of his committee soon to consider this mieasure. Mr. Fish points out that Col. Roose- velt was the great exponent of out- door life and that such a monument would be most appropriate to his character, a fitting tributg to the love of physical exercise, fair play and sportsmanship which predominated in the life of Roosevelt. e RUDOLPH DINNER LIST WILL CLOSE MONDAY Robert V. Flem{ng Says Testimo- i nial Event on December 17 Will Be Memorable. ! The subscription lst for the Cuno H. Rudolph testimonial dinner, to be held at_the Willard Hotel Friday night, December 17, will be closed Monday, it was announced today. This step, according to Robert V. Fleming, chairman of the general { committee, is necessary in order that seating arrangements for the record- breaking list of dinner guests and the final working out of the elaborate entertainment program may be com- pleted during the three days interven- ing between the closing of the sub- scriptions and the date of the dinner. | “The response of Washingtonians to the suggestion that Cuno H. Ru- dolph’s splendid services under four | Presidents should be publicly recog- nized by the citizens of this city has been e gratifying,” Mr. Fleming states. “Not only will the { number of guests seated at this din- ner on Friday night, December 17, |set a record in Washington, but the {list of acceptances discloses the fact that the public tribute to Mr. Rudolph will be witnessed by an overwhelming majority of the representative men of the city.” Because of the record-breaking number of guests who will attend the ceremony, Gen. S. D. Rockenbach, chairman’ of the committee on ar- rangements, will issue in advance | printed lists of the guests with exact {table and seat locations indicated | alonzside each name. The entertainment program is now completed, and promises to prove a most interesting one. Some of the most noted celebrities of the Amefican stage have gladly volunteered their | services, in co-operation with the citi- zens of Washngton, to make the test- monial to the former Commissioner an event that will long be remembered. At the conclusion of this program an elaborate silver dinner set will be presented to Mr. Ridolph as a substantial token of the esteem in which he is held by Washingtonians, to whose interests he has given so many years of unceasing and unselfish service. AUTO CONCERN APPEALS. »P).— NEWARK, J., December 9 | New Jersey vesterday was granted an appeal to the United States Circuit Court at Philadelphia from a_decision { filed recently by Federal Judge Run- {von, in which he held that the corpo- ration had infringed on patents for “super-heated manifold for internal combustion engines.” The suit was brought against Gen- eral Motors by William P. Deppe and the Deppe Motors Corporation of Dela- ware. The appeal was granted by Judge Runyon after General Motors filed a petition citing 22 assignments of error. cerned,” Mrs. McPherson declared to- day, when she was informed that the missing principal in her disappearance case was in custody. “Whatever the State doss in his case has no bearing on mine,” she aid. “I know nothing about him, so what can I say?” Ormiston was charged jointly with the Angelus Temple pastor and others with conspiracy to defeat justice as the outgrowth of the reappearance of Mrs. McPherson at Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, in June after she was supposedly drowned at Ocean Park, Calif., last May. He was aiieged to have ved a prominent part in her mysterious disappearance. QUICK PROSECUTION PROMISED. Keyes, Here, to Return Soon to Press McPherson Case. Prompt prosecution of Kenneth G. Ormiston was promised today by Asa Keyes, di attorney of Los Angeles County, who is at the Carlton Hotel. Mr. Keyes arrived from the coast at 8:35 o'clock this morning to take the stand in the Fall-Doheny trial as a character witness for the defense. Acting_upon early press reporfs I that Ormiston would fight extradition, District Attorney Keyes immediately got in touch with the Harrisburg, Pa., police to determine the status of the case. He evidenced no anxiety over succeeding in having Ormiston extra- dited and discounted the latter’s re. ported statement to the effect that “District Attorney Keyes is not very anxious to have me go back for trial.” Mr. Keyes, who is accompanied by nothing to Aimee Semple McPherson, | Mrs. Keyes, made it plain that he pastor of the Four Square Gospel|would stay in Washington no longer urch here. | than is necessary hefore ming “There is no signifigguce in Mr.| persomal charge of the revived Me- Ormiston’s arrest as far a8 1 am con-| Pherson case, g NG STAR, .\WASHINGTON, D. C., |Work Digs in Own Pocket for Probe At St. Elizabeth’s Expenses incurred by a commit- tee of five prominent specialists in their investigation of the medi- I cal administration of St. Eliza- beth’s Hospital, which could not be met from public funds because of a ruling by Controller General McCard against such reimburse- ment on the ground of no con- gressional authorization, were made good today from the per- sonal pocketbook of Secretary of i Interior Work. Dr. Work had invited the spe- calists to make a survey of the hospital. Their services were gratuitous, but the Interior De- partment. sought to allow them subsistence of $6 a day and trav- eling expénses. When this item fell under the keen eye of the con- troller general, he cited a special act providing that executive de- partments may not appoint com- I missions or committees of the character of this investigatipg group without express authoriza- tion by Congress. He turned thumbs down on the expense ac- counts. Altogether the expenses aver- aged approximately $180 per man of the committee of five. Secretary ‘Work today sent a personal check to each of these men. DOHENY SAY% WAR SCARE MADE HIM TAKE OIL CONTRACT __(Continued from Fourth Page.) part of another oil concern, it became necessary for Fall to ask Doheny to divide part of his territory, he re- lated. This request was made in & letter from the then Secretary of the Interior, and Doheny in reply said he would be glad to surrender any part of the land Fall desired. Both letters, dated July 8 and 16, 1921, respectively, were read to the jury, and Fall's communication stated that President Harding had been advised of the ‘“‘patriotism” dis- played by Mr. Doheny in the matter. Doheny’s letter thanked Fall “for the way you mentioned me to the ‘big chief’” and closed with these words: “Be good, God bless you, adios. Your friend, Edward L. Doheny.” As Mr. Hogan undertook to take up the Pearl Harbor storage tank con- tract Justice Hoehling adjourned court for lunch. Inquiry About Fuel Oil. When court reconvened after lunch Mr. Hogan asked Doheny when he first knew about the Government wanting fuel oil in the tanks at Pearl Harbor. The witness related that in October or November of 1921 he had been ask- ed by Fall to get him information and estimates on the construction of tank: Fall had explained how much more ex pensive it was for the Government to do this work than a private company. Later in November Doheny obtained various estimates and data and trans- mitted them to Fall, but received no reply. Hogan at another point asked him about conferences. he had had with Robison. He said he had seen Robison about the Pearl Harbor project be- fore leaving for his home December 20, 1921, nd the admiral told him that the vy had declded on fuel tanks at Pearl Harbor, and tried to interest him in the project. Not Interested at First. Doheny said he was not interested in storage facilities though he had given estimates to Fall, nor was he keen about the negotiations at Pearl Harbor. Seeing this attitude, Admiral Robi- son then appealed to his sympathies, Mr. Doheny said. He related that Robison told him about the report of Admiral Gleaves, commander of the Asiatic Fleet, and that orders al- ready were issued for mobilization and maneuvers. Admiral Robison explained to him that the naval board of strategy had recommended these to offset any step pan might make, “Otherwise, we would be at the mercy of the Jap- anese navy,” Mr. Doheny said he was told. ‘With the possession of Pearl Har- bor and an adequate supply of fuel oil there, Admiral Robison had told him that the Navy would be able to prevent any fleet from reaching the, Pacific Coast bent on invasion, the witness sai Doheny then said that obison told him an invasion would be a repetition of the German in- vasion in Europe and that a ‘“menace actually existed.” And if the Navy was not in preparedness an inva- sion would result in a “reign of ter- rorism."” “He got me all worked up over this. He got me to give assurance that at least my company would make a bid.” Refers to Arms Parley. The fact that the arms conference was meeting in Washington at that time was brought up by Mr. Hogan. Mr. Doheny said that Robison told him about the disarmament confer- ence and that it had been called by the President and Secretary Hughes because of thé existing emergency caused by the ‘“gestures” a and conduct of the Japanese in the Pacific. Mr. Doheny mentioned. “Admiral Hughes” when he referred to Secre- tary of State Hughes and was correct- ed by Mr. Hogan. The ofl man de- clared that he had been given to un- derstand by Robison that the arms conference had been called to get Japan and other nations to.stop the Japanese maneuvers in the Pacific and to otherwise relieve the tension there. His talk with Robison took more than an hour, he said, and the admiral appeared very urgent and earnest. “He told me the oil supply would more than double the value of the fleet, and, more than that, without the oil reserve at Pearl Harbor the ships couldn’t move,” Doheny related. Admiral Robison stressed, he, said, that the allie§ had put victory on the de of oil and that our security also depended on oil. “I told him I would not figure on any profit in connection with the proposition,” Mr. Doheny said. He then added that he put J. J. Cotter of his company in charge of matters connected with Pearl Harbor. Denby Cross-Examined. Former Secretary of the Navy Ed- win Denby occupied the stand for 2 hours and 15 minutes yesterday aft- ernoon, most of which time was given over to cross examination by Mr. Roberts. The Government counsel launched into an attack on Mr. Denby’s mem- ory of the negotiations leading up to his signing the two contracts with the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Co. for the construction of fuel storage tanks, in return for which that concern was granted leases on the naval oil reserves Nos. 1 and 2 n California. The former cabinet officer showed some familiarity with dates, which cause$ Mr. Roberts to sarcastically ask when he had learned of them. Upon Mr. Denby's persistent replies hat this knowledge came to him at the time the contréicts were executed the Government comnsel produced the witness' testimonyy before the Sen- ate ofl committee §n the latter part of 1923 Wl hgwed that he bad He visited Robison in January, 1922, | THURSDAY, COMMONS REFUSES GENSURE ONSTRIKE MacDonald’s Attack on Gov- ernment’s Policy Results in Defeat. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 9.—Censure of the government’s policy during the coal strike aas moved in the House of Commons yesterday by Ramsey MacDonald, leader of the Laborites, but the motion was defeated, 339 to 131 The Liberals abstained from voting, although former Premier Lloyd- George, their parliamentary leader, declared that he personally agreed with Mr. MacDonald's criticism. The opposition benches greeted the MacDonald move with loud cheers, particularly when the former Labor premier declared that the govern- ment’s policy had steadily allenated the confidence of the country. He urged that a general election be held. The prime minister had a stormy reception from the Laborites, who sreeted him with hisses and shouts of “Mussolini.”” The Conservatives responded with cheers. Without going_into the details of his policy, Mr. Baldwin declared he was not to be intimidated by threats and said he would hold a genera) elec- tion in good time—not, however, until he was ready. no recollection of the facts surround- ing_the contracts. “Why you testified less than a year after 30,000 acres of Government iand had been leased by you and you cer- ried no recollection of it even then?” asked Roberts. Had Been in Hospital. “I do not admit that I carried no recollection of that,” Denby replicd heatedly. “I could not be properly charged with the testimony of that time and under the circumstances that T gave it. I had not an oppor- tunity to prepare for it—I just came from the hospital.” “Well, let’s see whether you came from the hospital or not,” answered Roberts. “You appeared three times before the committee, October 25 and 26 and December 7, didn’t you?” “I was in the hospital during the middle of October and I came out on the 23, two days before I testified.” “But I have been reading from your testimony all along from Decem- ber 7.” replied Roberts. This testimony read by Roberts in- cluded the statement reply to questions by Senator Walsh of Montana, that the possibility of drainage of the reserves by private adjoining wells and nothing else, brought about the leases. On the stand yesterday, however, Mr. Denby declared that fn addition to that fact, the vy's needs for fuel made the contracts necessary. Explains “Dynamite” Remarks. The witness concluded his testimony with the declaration that when he entered office he did not want to have anything to do with the matter of oil leases, but added: “I did take the re- sponsibility, carried the responsibility and mnade the leases whether I wanted to or not.”” This was in reply to a question from Roberts that after Denby had stated_oil was “full of dynamite” he nevertheless went ahead and identified himself with the leases. Mr. Hogan, on redirect examination, dwelt upon the multitude of dutles & Secretary of the Navy has which naturally prevents his remembering the contents of every letter he signs and the dates and facts surrounding every official act. Mr. Lambert questioned Denby at the end of the cross-examination, his main purpose beng to bring to the at- tention of the jury that the former naval Secretary had not appeared at any of the court trials involving the oil leases until his appearance on the stand yesterday. Government coun- sel blocked testimony from Denby, however, regarding his recollection of a cabinet meeting, at which the leases were discussed, and at which the At- torney General had informally ap- proved the opinion rendered by judge advocate general of the N as to their legality. Letter to Harding. Mr. Lambert did succeed in getting into the record, over objectons of Government counsel, a letter which Denby wrote to President Harding, April 21, 1922, in which the former outlined his policy of protecting the reserves from drainage for the greatest benefit of the Navy.” Several more character witnesses for Doheny were put on the st the close of yesterday's session by Mr. Hogan, who also called Joseph A. Carey, former private secretary to Denby and later to Secretary Wilbur, until his resignation in 1925. Carey testified that Admiral J. K N storage | DECEMBER 9, 1926. DISTRICT SUFFRAGE HEARINGS TO START Will Begin Monday Night at 8 0’Clock in House Office Building. District suffrage hearings are to start next Monday night at 8 o'clock in the caucus room of the House Office Building, and to be continued until the subject is exhausted. This was announced today by Chair- man Gibson of the special subcommit- tee of the House District committee authorized to make a systematic and exhaustive study of the administra- tion of the municipality of the Dis- trict of Columbia, with a view to recommending leglslation which would set up here the best possible govern- ment for the National Capital. For the last several months this subcommittee has been holding in- formal harings, inviting local busi- ness and civic organizations, the Dis- trict Commissioners and _the heads of various municipal establishments to I [ s~ D. J. KAUFMAN re make suggestions concerning any phase of this proposed study. At an executive conference today this subcommittee decided to start its formal hearings on Monday night, with suffrage as the first subject to be tackled. Phases Are Varled. All phases of the suffrage question will come in for discusston, including the Gasque school board bill, provid- ing for pop election, the bill which Representative Reid of Illinols, a member of the subcommittee, has drafted, known as the home rule bill, which provides for a board of five Commissione: to be elected by the people and with full municipal pow- ers; consideration of arguments in favor of a constitutional amendment granting national representation to the now disenfranchised residents of ‘Washington and all other suffrage proposals. Mr. Gibson announced that the hearings will be wide open and that the subcommittee will grant a hearing to not only representatives of local organizations, civic and business, but to individuals as well who desire to express thelr opinions. Pierce Bailey Is Freed. FORT MYERS, Fla., December 9 (#).—Pierce Baiiey, wealthy young New Yorker, on trial here for man- slaughter in connection with the death of Miss Katherin Lowrey of Chatta- nooga in an automobile accident last Summer, was found not guilty by a Circuit Court jury yvesterday after 20 minutes’ deliberation. A $50,000 civil suit against Bailey, in which the girl's parents are plaintiffs, is to be called at the present term of court. Robison, chief of naval engineers, had “free access to Denby at all times” and that the two consulted frequently about oil matters and the leases involved prior to the December 11, 1922, contract. Asked if he were present when Denby signed the con- tract, the witness replied that he remembered it very distinctly. “Mr. Denby went over the papers in de. tail,” he added. Roberts questioned the witness about the press release concerning both the April 25 and the December 11 contracts. The latter was pre- pared for the press at 6 o’clock in the evening, he related, and owing to the fact that many newspaper men would miss it at that hour, he urged Denby to issue it the following morning. He could not recollect whether Denby had prepared the statement himself, or not. Among the character witnesses, Thomas Grady of Los Angeles, who described himself as a ‘“partner” of Doheny when the two prospected 47 vears ago in New Mexico, was by far the most interesting. Grady said: “We ate together, we slept together, we stuck together, we prospected to- gether and we were partners.’ Since his early prospecting days, the witness said he had not seen Doheny again until 1925, “Ever since then, he’s been putting up for me,” Grady saild loyally, before Govern- ment counsel could cut him off. Other character witnesses were: Frank F. Barham of Los Angeles Evening Journal and the Evening Herald; Harold L. Davis and Forrest F. Mur- ant and assistant of Los Angeles and Edward H. 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