Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1927, Page 2

*P RY ISSUE FIGHT - SOUGHT BY BORAH Agrees With Nicholas Butler That Showdown Must Be Forced Before 1928. Br the Accociated Press Proahibition and whether President ain 1028 apparently the question | Coolidge will run | are in for before the | of de- | an by in considerable discussion 1928 conventions velopments growing out of n New York Monday Nicholas Mu Butl In agreeing with Dr the dry ere met, Senator Borah ldaho, h announced ness in car issue a show Republican yeal s a result ad- dress Dy Butler that and must be | Republican, willing- way 1 final\ na- his every a co-operate the the ree to wn at convention next view taken by the lumbia University that a Presi has twice taken the oath should be considered as ved two has reply from Leslie M < Secretary of the Treas- the same address Dr. Butler belief that President who succeeded to the pres- President Harding died was elected in his own be a candidate in T resident e who office pro- Sha se terms In xpressed the Coolidg tdency wher :nd who later ght, wou 1d not a Borah Writes to Butler. Borah's pronouncement prohibition was made in an open let- ter to Dr. Butler, which was made - vesterday 55 with you perfectly we should not dodge this issue,” w “I shall_contribute in way I can to the e a final the next conven- tion He said the question should not be lef the “declaration the sup posed personal attitude of the candi date”; that the Republican party as a party should ‘“unmistakably declare itself,” and that the voters who make up the party should be given an op- portunity to speak in choosing con- vention delegates. Mr. Borah, who prohibition amendment ates, also declared his willingness to go into several States to assist in presenting the question directly to the people who are to elect the delegates, .and said_he would be glad to meet with Dr. Butler and others inclined to the wet side any time after March 4 for the purpose of defining the issue and arranging for the campaign. “President Must Be Elected.” Mr. Shaw’s views also wers made kncwn in an open letter to Dr. But- ler. He expressed the opinion, that, it the latter's statement were true, “then any President can get his third term by simply repeating his oath three times.” . Declaring the oath taken by Mr. Coolidge after Harding's death “‘was both innocent and unnecessary,” Shaw aid it was fortunate the former did not resign as Vice President at that time, because this would have made him a private citizen and established Charles Evans Hughes as “acting Presidant.” The former Treasury Secretary held that the Constitution made it clear that “no man shall be President of the United States unless and until he is elected to that particular office in the manner provided in the Consti- tution.” “The dutles of that office under cer- tain circumstances, but not the office, may fall upon the Vice President,” he asserted Holds Prohibition Will Stay. Senator o that he every in heiped place the before the [Train Kills Youth As He Goes to Get Body of Brother| By the Associated Press. NEW BERN. N Roy Bowling, 21 od ‘and his brother Alton seriously injured near here day when their automoblle struck by a passenger train they were en route to Vancehoro, N. (", to get tha body of a thimi brother. Walter, who died Sunday in a RBaltimore hospital The pilot a Norfolk and Southern train struck the automo: bile and carried it nearly 600 feet The body of Roy BRowling was dragged about 150 feet Curtains were up on the car and it i thought the youths did not see the train UNDERCOVER DRY METHODS ARE HIT .. February 9 was instantly kil 17. was vester was as Sproul Holds Congress Party to “Abominable” Practices. Is terday by | Republican. Congress was accused Representative Sproul Kansas, of being a party, through its agents, to undercover practices em ploved by prohibition officers o entrap dry law violators, Denouncing such practices as “ques- tionable” and “abominable,” he said that “we have the spectacie” of im peachment of a Federal judge being | demanded for alleged sanctioning of such practices. ~, These methods are abominable’" he declared “They are practiced by agents of Congress, which makes us a party to erime. No one can justify them even if we can excuge them Sproul urged passage of his bill which would prohibit use of medicinal whisky and tighten the dry law along lines of the Kansas “bone dry’ act The order issued by Prohibition Ad ministrator Mills of New York requir ing applicants for sacramental wine permits to supply the names of ulti- mate users also was attacked yester- day by Representative La Guardia, Republican, New York, as conflicting with the constitutional guarantee of freedom of any religion. In a letter to Secretary Mellon La Guardia accused Mills of “prejudice and persecution,” and continued “Families listed (as users of sacra mental wine) must expect a visitation first from one of the numerous col- lectors and then perhaps from one of the self-appointed, self-constituted reg- ulators of public morals, suddenly bursting into the peaceful home, peer- ing through a slit sheet seeking to in- timidate and otherwise annoy them in their constitutional right of wor- ship In accordance with their belief.” RAIL SHARES BREAK 2 T0 30 POINTS IN FRENZIED SESSION (Continued from Fir [ | [ | floating supply of this issue transac- tions were not very large. Selling orders in the other rails swept over the market like a tidal wave, creating a veritable bedlam around the trading posts as brokers tried frantically to execute their orders on a rapidly declining market. Total sales in the first three hours exceeded 2,000,000 shares. Spike Many Rumors. Bankers and rallroad officials, While agreeing with Dr. Butler that the eighteenth amendment is ‘*‘un- American” and ‘‘unreasonable,” Mr. Shaw asserted prohibition was here to stay and warned that no Middle Western State could be carried by a pronounced wet Republican candidate. Senator Borah's letter to Dr. Butler was as follows: “With your view that this issue is here and should be candidly met, it peems to me all must readily agree. 1 do not think it can be met, nor should we undertake to meet it, by Jeaving it to the declaration of the supposed personal attitude of the can- didate. The Republican party. as a party, should unmistakably declare jtself upon this question. The voters who make up the party should have an opportunity to speak. “In order to achieve this, the issue ghould be presented in the respective Etates and districts prior to the elec- ton of delegate so that the delegates may be elected in accordance with the popular view. The time seems short enough between now and the meeting of the convention to bring this about. Inquires Concerning Program. “] assume from your address that you and your friends are in favor of and insist upon the Republican party declaring specifically and definitely for the repeal of both the eightéenth amendment and the Volstead act. May 1 ask: Is this the position which vou take and for which vou stand ready to insist? Do T understand that it is your purpose to carry this issue thus expressed directly to the dele gates and thence to the convention end have the party declare itself once d for all upon this issue? What does your program contem- plate prior to the time that the repeal fakes place? Would vou oppose the Republican party pledging itself spe- cifically to the upholding and enforce- ment of the eighteenth amendment &0 long remains a part of the Constitution—that is. until it is taken out of the Constitution in the manner and through the process provided in f the Constitution for amending the game—and that thig pledge would in- clnde the enactment and maintenance of proper laws within the respective tates in aid of such enforcement? 1 repeat again I agree with vou perfectly that we should not dodge this issue. And, speaking, for myself. 1 am willing to go into the | Texpective States to assist in present. | ing this matter directly to the people who are elact the delegates. In order to do this effectively the issue must be framed I think vour speech timely. T #hall contribute in every way I can to the issue to a final conclusion ir wext convention. 1 shall be 13 with ve nd those who take of the matter at any tir of March for the the is 1 fter the 4th purpose of defining renging for the campaign in which this matier may be presented to the voters of the party who will select the de es to the convention.” TARIFF RERORT DELAYED. Senate Committee to Ask to Be Continued to Next Session. The special Senate tariff investigat ing committee agreed todav there was n sufficient time for preparation of & report of its findings before adjourn ment of Congress and decided to ask that it be continued in power until next session. It was agreed that the Senate will be permitted to vote at this session on the nominations of Lincoln Dixon of {terests them ix not being discussed in issue and ar., alarmed, at the dangers of reckiess speculation in securities of the coun- try's railroads, proceeded to spike many of the groundless rumors in circulation. President Storey of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe was quoted in Chicago dispatches as denying reports that his road was seeking the Chicago and Great Western, the stocks of which have been prominent in the recent advance. Rumors that L. F. Loree, whose proposed fifth Eastern trunk line system is believed to have been checkmated by the recent changes in the ownership of the Wheeling and Lake Erie and Western Maryland roads, was seeking control of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railway also were denied. “CRACK CREW” FAMIL Wheeling “Flyer’s” Personnel Uncon- cerned With Stock Corner. CLEVELAND, February 9 (#)—Gy- rations of the stock of the Wheeling and Lake Erle Railroad on the “big board” in New York have not inter- fered with the “business as usual” at- titude of the crew of the road's “crack flyer” between Cleveland and Wheeling, W. Va. The crew is more of a family than a crew and the train they operate is an institution in the realm of Ohlo railroading. The corner that most in- Wall Street. It is Simms Corners, Ohlo, where a trim young woman in white comes to the back end of the dining-observation car and discusses the price of eggs with a farmer who supplies that delicacy for the patrons of the train, if his price is right. I it isn't, the eggs are bought farther down the line. To regular travelers this bargaining by the roadside is a familiar sight. So, too, is the fact that the chefs, dining car stewards and porters are combined in two girls, Mrs. Katheryn Mason, the lady In white on the back platform, and Miss Marelda Stanley. Mrs, Mason's cooking is renowned all the way from Cleveland to Wheel- ing. It must be, for patrons make it a point to stick their heads into the cubby-hole kitchen on the little diner to praise it Miss Stanley helps with the dishes, “waits table” and, between meals, has been found handy with children in the ohservation end of the car, which is as shiny as a New Fngland homestead John Frye is the conductor, J. Dab- | ney is the engineer and Charles Bvans | is the brakeman. They all admit it's a great little train. SKEK STOCK ISSUE. \ The Wheeling and Lake Erie Rail road asked the Interstate Commerce | President” Includes | fiscal | removed THE EVENING S §1,205,863 MORE OR D.C. PROPOSED Many Lo- cal Items in Estimates Sub- mitted to Congress. for supple. Totaling $1,205.863.01 | mental estimates of appropriation for et of Columbia for the fiscal 6. 1927 and 1928, fogether ain audited claims and final fudgments against the District, Prosi dent Coolidge submitted these recom mendations to Congress tod with wlx items of proposed legislation af fecting existing appropriations He also transmitted supplemental estima mounting to $1.067.80 for the legisiative establishment under the architect of the Capitol. These in cluded $178 for the (Capitol power plant and $5£9.80 for maintenance of the House Office Building. $100,000 for Police Court Building. today ask the Dist The estimates submitted ed for £400,000 as a first appropria tion toward erection of a new Polica Court Bullding with authority to enter into contracis for completion of the buflding at Imit of cost of | $900.000. amount to $9 1926, $044 1927, $246.690 $2.661.1% for The Distriet ftems 507.23 for the fiscal yvear 20788 for the fis for the fiscal year audited claims and $2.7 ments against the Di The deficiency estimates for 1926 are as follows: Contingent penses, $2.398.60 $£431; on account jury services, for Court, $1,985; support of conv $890.88: writs of lunacy, $783.28: mis cellaneous expenses, including Colum bia Hospital for Women, $565.45, Roard of children's guardians for maintenance of feehle-minded chil Aren, $1,356.62; board and care of chil dren, $1.096.40. Supplemental Estimates. The supplemental estimates for the vear 1927 include for the License Bureau, $2.500; for the em ployes’ compensation fund, $4,000: con- tingent and miscellancous, $2,085.44; refund of erroneous collections, $1,500; teachers’ retirement _appropriated fund, $25.000; police and firement re lief fund. $135,000; Heaith Depart ment, $200; Police Court, $840 for sal arles, and $8,480 for compensatfon of jurors; for new Police Court Bullding, $400.000, with authority to enter into contract not to exceed $300.000 For the Municipal Court, $1.000 salaries of the Supreme Court, $7,500; salaries and expenses for the Court of Appeals, $5.750; fees of witnesses in the Supreme Court, $10.000; fees of jurors, Supreme Court, $15.000: print- ing and binding, Suprem° Court, and miscellaneous ex- for the Police Court of obligations for Jurors, Supreme ts, $3,000; division of child weifare, $40.- 000; workhouse, $15,000; maintenance Columbla Hospital for Women, $14.- 000, for replacement of two elevators now in a dangerous condition: for the Home for the Aged and Infirm, $3,000. $250,000 for Indigent Tnsane. For the Hospital for the $250,000, being the estimated deficit for care of indigent insane due to the removal of a large number of beneficlaries under the Veterans' Bureau, which has resulted in an in- crease per diem per c:\p!ln, 1 for District patients from $1.65. Refund to the Charles Schneider Baking Co., $442.44. The supplemental estimates for the fiscal year 1928 include: For buildings and grounds for pub- lic schools, $225,000, which includes $50,000 for the purchase of land and $175,000 for construction of buflding. It is proposed to purchase land in the vicinity of the Randall junior High School and erect thereon an elght- room building with combination gym- nasium and assembly hall For the support of prisoners, $8,690. This is to provide for eight additional guards at the District jail, in order properly to supervise the prisoner when the additiona) wing is completed. 0 Proposed Changes in Law. The six recommendations for pro- posed legislation affecting existing ap- propriations are to correct certain limitations and to make the appropria- tion acts more flexible In administra- tion. These include authority permit- ting the Director of Public Buildings and Parks to accept from a local strest railway company the sum of $2,500 toward erection of a comfory station and shelter at Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue south- east, on land owned by the United States. This location is the terminus of a car line and a_transfer point for a bus line, where the patrons are un- protected in inclement weather. One recommendation is to make $20,000 of the $75,000 for home care for dependent children to continue available for the same purpose until expended. Another recommendation is to au- thorize use of $50,000 of the unex- pended bdlance from $2,681,500 in the fiscal vear 1925 for public school bulldings and grounds for the im- provement of grounds of public school bufldings. Commlssion today for authority to isgue 222,276 shares of new common stock to relieve a stock shortage which has occasioned a disturbance on the New York Exchange. When issued the new stock will be exchanged at the option of stockhold- ers for 118826 shares of prior llen stock and 103,450 shares of preferred stock in the raflroad. The result will be to Increase the amount of common stock and enable those who have sold common stock hor to make the required delivery. In filing the application the com pany's officers questioned the necessity for obtalning authority from the com- mission before making the issue, but the application said the request for commission approval would be asked notwithstanding. No mention was made of the stock market situation which precipitated the demand for the new fssue. Control of the Wheeling and Lake Erfe has heen obtained by joint action of the New York Central and the Van Sweringen interests and the outright purchase of its majority stock has from the market the usual supply of shares. The corporation’s charter provides that holders of prior liens and preferred stock may ex- change these into common stock at will, but the company has not suffi cient commaon stock In i1 treasury to enable the conversion to he out. American Flyers Aid | Phe State Department officially dis. claimed vesterday knowledge of the| umstances under which Lee | Magon and Willlam Brooks, American | | aviators, are serving with the military forces of the Diez government in Managua. The two men are known officially to be employed by the Diaz govern ment. but were not recommended by the Washington Government nor has the latter any knowledge of thelr present status. The department knows also that Indiana, Edgar B. Brossard of Utah and Sherman J. Lowell of New York to serve as members of tha commis- ’ Daniel Rodriquez and Luclus J. Clay are serving us instructors, or in some other eapacity, with the constabulary ing Nicaraguans Without Official Recommendations! of the Nicaraguan government, but it does not know specifically the nature of their contracts or the ies for which they were enzaged The information was dis the State Department in response to requests for official records that would indicate whetHer the aviators were Jjeopardizing their Amerfean citizen ship by engaging in the military service of another government, The department has held in previous similar cases that citizenship is im periled only where an American takes an oath of alleglance to another gov ernment. Tt does net know whether any of the four men taken such an oath. for judg- | Insane, | arge | to | carried | closed at | named have TAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, WED Family Jokes and Stage Puns on Flivver Are Rated Among Ford Concern’s Assets Family fokes and stage puns about Ford's “flivver” were reckoned among {the intangible of the Ford | Motor (o, by George Lindsay, New York banker, who testified at today's |hearing in the Government's suit for | additional taxes on Ford stock trans |ferred by James Couzens, the Dodge | brothers” and other minority holders {to Henry Ford in 1919 | “The “amonnt of free advertising | gtven the Ford as a big help in | popularizing stated in assets the course of his analysis of the con dition of the Ford Co. in the Spring of 1913 In view of the steady progression in earnings and its outlook for rapid increases in sales, backed by skilled management and sound financial policles, he helleved the stock, as on March 1, 1913, was worth from $10,- 000 to $12,000 a share. “Ford was decidedly In himself, and there was a tendency to put Ford on one side and automobiles on the other,” said Lindsay CONFLICT 1S SEEN IN SHOOTING CASE Defense Testimony of Four Held in Busch Slaying Indicates Divergence. | | [ | | | The first indication of a marked con- | fict in the defense of the four men {charged with the murder of Policeman Leo W. K. Busch rred in Crimf nal Division 2 this afternoon. - when Clifford Grant. attorney for Samuel Mareno, one of the defendants. deliv ered his opening statement to the jury and claimed his client played a part {in the circumstances leading up |the Petworth gun battle, with which |John Proctor, another defendant, had |identified himself in hix testimony of | vesterday afternoon and today After attorneys Proctor had | rested thelr case Grant addressed the Jjury and declared that Moreno wore the biue suit and walked In front of | Policeman Frank 1. Ach and | F. McCabe, another defendant, as | they marched east on Upshur street {in search of broken-down car, “Defense Instinet ant told the jury | grabbed Moreno when | cers planned to make that Moreno fired, but oniy after had been hit_in the leg from | shooting by Officer Ach. Mareno drew his revolver with the “natural instinct in every man of self preservation.” declared nt. adding |that his cllent knew nothing of a | plan to resist arrest. Proctor had testified A blue suit: that he walked in the {rear of Mareno and Nicholas Lee | Fagles, who were in front, and that | Ach grabbed him when the officer { decided to take him in custody. Admits Story False, Pleads that the two an arrest of and he the that he wore | Proctor occupied the stand for near- {1y two hours today in Criminal Divi- | sion 2, freely admitted the falsity of some of his previous statements to | police, insisted he was telling the | truth “regardless of whom it hurt” and reiterated his contention of ves terday that either Eagles or Moreno, his companions on the night of the Petworth gun battle, opened fire on the two policemen who were about to take them into custody. Prootor submitted to cross-exami- nation by Assistant United States Attorney George D, Horning, jr., and Tannebaum, counsel for Eagles, and upon the conclusion of the ques- tioning James B. Archer and A. L. Bennett, the defendant's attorneys, rested their case. They announced | however, they would reopen it to- | morrow morning long enough to pe | mit a Baltimore physician to testify as to Proctor's condition when he reached that city for medical aid after having been shot in the battle. Accused Man in Raincoat. Horning occupied the longest time in the cross-examination and leveled a steady fire of questions at the wit- ness, who admitted that previons statements that he had signed or initialed were false in some respects. Proctor told Tannebaum that he thought Samuel Moreno, a third de- fendant, wore the raincoat on the night of the shooting and then he told Horning that the man in the rain coat was the one who fired on the officers. Policeman Frank L. Ach, wounded in the battle, has testified that the man in the rainciat opened fire, but to date that man has not positively been identified. “Proctor, tell us who officers? asked Horning. “One of the boys up front, Proctor. “Who was up front?” ing. “Moreno and Eagles,' he adding that he was “positive this statement. The witness was, fired on the replied ed Horn- replied, " as to howaver, unable ing after he declared the first shot fired struck him in the abdomen, after which he fled from the scene through an areaway and by utilizing an automoblle parked on a street he could not identify. “Wasn't Under Oath at Time. Proctor’s explanation for denying the truth of certain statements given by him to Detective Sargent Edward J. Kelley, was: [ wasn't under oath at the time and my lawyers told me to get on the stand and tell the truth regard- less of whom it hurt/ Horning asked the witness if he was trying to favor John F. McCabe, the fourth defendant or any one else and_Proctor replied: “Not a bit in the world. McCabe talked to me several times about what I would say on the stand, but I told him there were 12 men up here to tell it to.” Among the statements glven to Kelly, which Proctor admitted today | were not true were: That agles wore the raincoat: that he was 19 Vears old Instead of 17, that he met McCabe in the early part of Satu day evenlng September 25, that he did not know whether McCabe's car Was @ sedan or coach, that Moreno took out his gun and fired and then Sagles produced his pistol, that he was mot in the Maryland holdups, hat the police shot him, and that he took & taxicab from the scene of the shooting to his home in Seventh street southwest, Jdentifies Two Revolvers. wo revolvers which were found on the scene of the shooting were iden tified by Proctor as the ones he saw at kagles' home a few minutes hefore | they departed for a ride “to get some alr" Proctor identified them by marl Tannen- feet him by on eral weeks after the shooting. | haum held the revoivers ahout 10 away from the witness and asked put which one was used Proctor without hesitat left hand.” ! to point o | Kagles and “The one in your (hat the defendants were take the stand brought an Unusually large crowd of spectators to the trial this morning wnd at & | o'clocg there Was a long line formed at | he deor. Deputy Marshals Edward Rolger and Hugh J. McGuinness work ed with difficulty in trying to seat the Spectators with the limited amount of eate avaflable Directed Verdict Overruled. After the defense for a directed verdict terday afternoon Archer made ~his opening statement to the jury in Which he declared that he expected to prove there never was any combina- tion among the four defendants to “shoot anybody”: that Proctor never had a revolver and that when the first shot was fired it struck him in the ready to | | | | John | Ach | to give any other details of the shoot- ! s | on the ends which he placed there sev-| Justice Hitz denied motions of | Today in Congress SENATE. Senate lald on the table b, of 59 10 ofr Trammell of ¥ to bring from the foreign relations pending United World a vote to A motion Senator Demoerat orida, | committee the proposal to keep the entering the there intended States from Court Farm relief bill will again this afternoon Senate subcommittee jn charge of District appropriation bill made a tour of inspection of streets Privileges 1 elections commit tee held executive session on the case of Col. Frank L. Smith of 11l nois, whose right to a seat in tF Senate has heen questioned. but adjonrned until tomorrow without action Tudiciary subcommittee continued 1gs on the baking industry Special Senate committee held a hearing on the work of the Tariff Commission. be debated | h | HOUSE. The House today adopted a reso lution calling upon the Sena take action with regard to remarks made by Senator Bayard of De ware vesterday regarding the sonnel of the House House considers agrieultural lief tegislatlon House District committee orders favorable report on three hills in cluding one increasing the salaries of the District Commissioners; an nounces hearing on grade-crossing bill for Friday morning and tables District insurance code Subcommittee of appropriations continues hearing in executive session on second deficiency bill. House today recefves recommen- datlons from Budget Rureau on deficiency and supplemental tems for the fiscal years 1926-27-28 total- ling ~ approximately $1,200,000. This includes $400.000 for new Police Court building with a limit of cost of $900.000 Census committee continues hearing on reapportionment Veterans committee in executive sessfon on omnibus hospital bill Interstate commerce committee in executive session on rafiroad consolldation. Committee on mines in executive session minerals bill. Judiciary committee continues hearing on the Judge Cooper im peachment case. $1,000,000 BOOTLEG CONSPIRACY ALLEGED 13 Indicted by Federal Grand Jury After Investigation at Hart- ford, Conn. and mining on war By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., February milllon-doliar conspiracy to huge denatured alcohol to hootlegge channels is charged in 13 indictments returned the Federal grand jury, which heard testimony from a boot- legger now In State prison. The Solvents Recovery Co. of Dan- bury and the Connecticut Alcohol Dis. tributing Co., Inc., of New Haven were indicted with elevel individuals, including John A. Morse, in charge of New Haven district p who has been under suspension since February 1, and Josef Adler, former New Haven banker and treasurer of the Connecticut Alcohol Distributing who was found in his garage Mon- night suffering from the effects of ‘carbon monoxide gas. It is alleged Morse received §350 a week from boot legge Anthony Perrotti, seller of alcohol to other bootleggers, was taken from prison to testify. It is charged he bought denatured alechol for $4 a_gal- lon over a period of a year and a half. 9.—A divert down,” that hedge abdomen, “brought him he crawled through a rolled out of the pieture.’ When Archer completed, a wrangle | followed over when the other defend | ants’ counsel should make their open- ling statements. Archer contended that they should make them immedi |ately or waive them altogether. The | court disagreed with the attorney and | then Archer indignantly stated in a loud voice: “Proctor, take the youth, who gave his age as 18, stating his last birthday was January 21, {summed up his defense in this man- ner McCabe called for the taxicab at Georgla avenue and Upshur street and as he finished telephoning Officers Busch and Ach arrived. After inform ing the policemen that their car broken down and that he was from i Baltimore while the other three were i from Washington, they walked east on | Upshur street. agles and Moreno {walked in front, Busch to their rear |in the street, Proctor about 7 feet be- ! hind the two'in front, and McCabe and | Ach brought up the rear. When Ach [told Busch “to take two and T'll take !two" efther Eagles or Moreno shouted: {“Stick 'em up or I'll drop you. The | first shot fired struck him in the side, {he fell to the pavement, crawled |through an areaway onto another | street, got in a parked automobile and |drove to Eighteenth and 1. streets, where he had left his car parked ear- ler in the night, went to his brother’s lat 1102 Seventh | trom there to Baltimore. | He did not have asgun, and he did | not shoot. Either Eagles or Moreno fired the shot that struck him. As he crawled away he heard firing but was Lunable to tell who fired i Proctor absolved McCabe of partici I pation in the two Maryland holdups and likewise cleared himself by stat ing that hoth of them remainad in the sar, while Bagles and Moreno got ont | McCabe was drunk, he safd. He met | MeCabe on Ninth. street, and at the latter's request, they went to ISight eenth and L streets for liquor. Froc tor drove his car to that polnt and McCabe drove a closed car, and after sbtaining the whisky at MeCube's sug- gestion, Proctor gof in the closed car and left his parked th ‘Then they went to 319 (' street, where they pick ad up Bagles and Moreno for a ride to “get some air. On cross-examination by O'Donoghue, Moreno's counsel, stand." The Proc September 17, proposing an expedition to ‘‘get cases of red” and emphatically de- clared that on the walk along Upshur street the only person he versed with wag McCabe and the pature of that conversation {called. Proctor also denied reet southwest and | ESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, a class hy »hibition agents, | “and | 1 tor denled praticipation in the holdup | formerl of the Mylex gasoline station in near- | by Virginia on the early morning of | navy 20 { WOR, could net be re-|J. | Five 1927. BUREAU MAY DOCTORS' PERMITS Wholesale Liquor Traffic Probe at Maywood, Ill., Stirs Gen. Hines. | The Veterans' ng ors Bureau is consider- issuing orders forbidding all doc. under its jurisdiction to possess prescription permits, it was carned today following the disclostire that 19 physicians on the staff of the overnment hospital at Maywood, near Ohicago, were under investiga- in connection with a Wholesale traflic in whisky preseriptions. Roth the Veterans' Burean and the { prohibition enforcement unit of the Treasury probing the charges against the lilinols physicians, all of whom attached to the REdward Hines, Jr., Hospital. These investiga- tions have heen in progress for more than two weeks, it was announced. Maj. Gen. rank 'l Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau, safd he had received prelimina report from his own investigators today, showing that the alleged irregularities affected only about six visiting physictans on the hospital staff. He added that a more detailed statement probably would he given ont hy prohibition unit officials in Chicago later in the day showing early reports to have been exaggerated iquor |1 It | | ) tion are Situation Spurs Inquiry. Although the suggestion that the sd for intpxicants for medicinal purposes in hospitals under the bureau is understood to have originated some 1 time before suspicion was directed toward the Maywood staff, it is sald that this situation h done much to {accelerate an investigation to de- termine whether the ban on liquor | permits among Veterans' Bureau doctors would be feasible Should such an order was pointed out, it doctors who have any with the Veterans' Rureau. This wonld include many physicians who serve only in a visiting capacity and maintain their own private practices. Officials declared, however, that the amount of Ifquor used in the hospitals now is too negligible to be considered as part of the treatment for their patients Gen. Hines said Mayvwood came first time about he issued, it identification the situation at to his notice for the two weeks ago, when Dr. Robin W. €. Francis, medical di- vector of the hospital, called on the medical director-in-chief here and told him certain members of his staff were being investigated by prohibition en- forcement agents in connection with abuse of their llquor permits. Probe Promptly Ordered. Immediately upon being informed of the alleged irregularities, Gen. Hines ordered an investigation by the hos- pital officials and asked the Treasury to have its agents co-operate to the fullest extent of their ability. He of- fered, too, all of the facilites of his office’ to assist the prohibition agents in their own investigation. Since that time he received no further informa- tion on the case until today's report was received, Gen. Hines added. however, that he never put much faith in charges in- volving 19 members of the Maywood staff, which comprises a total of only 31 doctors. This number would have included many doctors who had ne use for prescription books, as they could have obtained liquor for hospital patients direct from the hospital drug store. Ordinarily staff physicians who have no outside practice do not own liquor prescription permits. Announcement of the impending ex- posure was first made by a Chicago newspaper this morning, according to the Associated Press. The Govern- ment hospital doctors, was said, were to be “questioned” along with many other doctors concerning the sale of thousands of prescription blanks to bootlegging druggists at $3 ich. The alleged frauds were un- covered by Prohibition Administrator E. C. Yellowley when his office at- tempted to check the names of pa- tients on the fraudulent preseriptions. Gen. Hines said he remembered only one other instance in which Veterans' Bureau physiclans have been suspect- {ed of abusing their liquor preseription Ipermits. This concerned a doctor in a Government hospital in New York. Rumors implicated most of the staff, {however. The doctor in question re: |signed before. the investigation was {completed, Gen. Hines said, but it later developed that he was the only one implicated. FIVE SAVED FROM BARGE. Norfolk-Owned Craft Burns Off Fenwick Island Lightship. LEWES, Del, February 9 (). members of the crew of the barge Marle C. Beasley of Norfolk were rescued by the tug Ballenas of New York early today, when the harge caught fire and sank 10 iles south of. Fenwick Island lightship, according to radioc messages received here The barge, believed to have been loaded with coal, was in tow of the tug when the fire was discovered. The Coast Guard base No. 9, at Cape May, picked up an SOS from the had | Ballenas shortly before midnight and five patrol boats were ordered to sea. They had proceeded but a short dis- tance when word was received that the barge had sunk, but the mem- bers of the crew had been taken off in safet Noted Hotel Man Drops to Death. MIAMI, Fla., February 9 (®).—Sam. uel Risman, 52, of Buffalo. N. Y., long- term lessee of the Henrletta Towers, fashionable Dallas Park apartment hotel, fell 10 floors from the top of the building to his death early today. would applw to all| Tabloid and Auto Breed Criminals. Investigator Holds By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 9.-The tablold newspaper and the Ford automobile are blamed for the in- crease of crime among youths by George W. Alger, who was ap- pointed special commissioner by Gov. Smith to investigate th prison system. Speaking at a luncheon of the Women's City Club yesterday, he sald modern youth s incited to crime by ple- tures and storles of criminal bra- vado In the littia newspapers, and as a result the averag of criminals has been been dily decreasing The Ford automobile, he con- tended, made the “quick getaway" possible for youths anxious to en- ter on a career of crime, with the result that robbery has increased 100 per cent during the past year. He belleves that the control of crime should begin In school, whara he urged application of the sclence of psychiatr: CHILEAN CABINET QUITS UNDER FIRE War Minister Had Demanded Stronger Government to Combat Bolshevism. By the Associsted Press SANTIAGO, Chile, February § Chilean cabinet resigned today follow ing demands by the war minister, Carlos Ibanez, for the formation of a atrong government to combat the “spread of bolshevism” in Chile. In a statement to the press the minister sald he advised the President that action was necessary. Inasmuch a8 he is supported hy the army and probably also the navy. it is consider. ed likely that his advice will be fol- lowed, Spread of Bolshevism. The spread of bolshevism, facilitated by a week goverriment, says the min- ister'sstatement, has carried the coun- try fo ““deplorable extremes™ and it is necessary to form a new administra tion composed of younger and more enthusiastic men. “It is time,” he adds, red influence of Moscow. He charges the Chamber of Depu- ties with openly adhering to the com- munist cause, and declares members of Congress have gone so far as to stump the country in support of that cause. ‘to break the Secret Moves Charged. The Communists, he asserts, have organized secret gocietles throughout the country, which are engaged in spreading propaganda seeking to in- cite the workers to rebellion. Extraordinary activity was noted in military circles vesterday. Two regi- ments were recalled to Valparalso from a training camp and held In b racks. Younger officers in the nav. are reported to be seeking a change in the ministry of marine. now held by Vice Admiral Arturo Swett. CHARITIES BENEFIT UNDER WILL ON FILE Catholic Institutions to Receive Bulk of Estate Left by Pauline A. Burr. The will of Pauline A. Burr, who died January 30, was offered today for probate. recelve the bulk of the estate, valued in excess of $90,000. Patrick J. Walshe is named as executor and trustee and he is represented by At- torneys Hamilton & Hamilton. The largest bequest is for $10,000 with which to establish a Convent of the' Cenacie In Washington by the New York Order of Sisters. This con- vent, If established, is to be residuary legatee of the estate after all specific bequests are paid. St. Charles College, at Catonsville, Md., and St. Mary's Seminary, at Bal- timore, are each to have $6.000 for the preparation of young men for the priesthood. Georgetown Unliversity Hospital Is given $5,000 and a like sum is pro-| vided for St. Matthew's Church for a | statue of the Blessed Virgin, and to the Provinclal of the Jesuit Order in Maryland. The Catholic Mission So-| clety at Maryknoll, N. Y., is left $3,000 | and a like sum is given to the col- | ored and Indian missions. The pastor of St. Aloysius Church i= to have| $1,000 for his parochial school and like | amounts are given the Convent of | Perpetual Adoration and the Christ | Child Society. The Old Ladies’ Catho-| lic Home I8 bequeathed $1,000 and be- | quests of $500 each are made to the House of the Good Shepherd, St Joseph's Asylum, St. Vincent's Asy lum, St. Ann's Asylum and the Lit-| tle Sisters of the Poor. The income from $10,000 is to be| pald Margaret M. Cox for life. Be.| quests of $1,000 each are given Mar-| garet, Mary V.. and Mildred C. Mer- rick: $200 to Ella L. Dorsey, and $100 each to Laura Mohun, Caroline Pyne | and Margaret Cox. The testatrix owned premises 2007 O street, assessed at $72,045 and had personal property estimated at 31, 24, Nearly 700 persons aged 70 or more are, entertained regularly at the !Dover, England, Town Hall by a soclety founded in 1918, Radio Setting-Up Exercises Reunite Long-Separated G NEWARK, N. J,, Feb Once upon ‘time there were second cousing who had not seen each other for 27 years and bhecause they were very brave and were not even afraid to get up at 6:45 o'clock in the morning to take part in radio setting- ises, the one as director and as directed, they were re a two uary a up exer the other united. And they formed a club which they called the Gambling club, but the police didn’t take any notice of that at all, considering iL none of their business which in very truth It Martin | wasn't John Rradley Gambling, of Cambridge, England, sometime radio operator in the British and now announcer for the “Wellville Gym Class” broadcast by is one of the cousins and he thought he was the only Glambling in Ameriea. And Robert Hale Gamblingy New York broker who lives at Nutigy, N. Is the other cousin and he teo. [ himself the only Qanfpling Anyway, belie; ousins in New Jersey lon this the Britannia. Robert, bearing in mind that he now was In the land of the brave, ousted himself wrom the quilts in the wintry dawn and dared his loud speaker to tell him to touch his toes and just see if he would. The loud speuker complied, in the | voice of John, and Robert sighed aud went docilely sbout the business of touching his toes. And then, above Ing of his knees he heard volce compliment the or leader and that gentleman rveply ““Thank you, Mr. Gambling. The toe.reaching broker saw no reason to implicate him in the matter and only after the announcer and orchestra leader had exchanged sev- eral remarks did he realiZe that there must be a second Gambling In America. A letter followed and a meeting followed that and.then came remi- nisences of the old days in merry Bogland und finally formation of the Gambling Club to which any and all other Gamblings there may be here or. there about the country are auto- matically eligibl side of waves from the chesta The | Catholic charities are to | the | | Ject, MILLER UNDER FIRE INBOND TRANSFER Witnesses Say Securities Given to King Found Way Into Other’s Account, By the Assoctated Press. N NEW YORK, February 9 The Government turned its legal guns on Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, today at the trial of Miller and Harry M. Daugherty, former Attorney General. Most of the morning was spent in an attempt to show how some of the Liberty bonds which Richard Merton, German metal magnate, gave John T. King. one-time national Republisan committeeman from (onnecticut, had turned up later in the Midland Na- | tional Bank at Washington Cou Houss, Ohlo, of which Daugherty's brother, Mal S. Daugherty, s presi- dent. { Fight Turns on Miller. Then the broadside on Miller be- gan. After calling a witness who identifled Government transportation vouchers showing Miller traveled to Philadelphia, February 1923, the Government called Mise Virginia Mul- len, a clerk in the Philadeiphla Fad eral Resarve Bank. She identified an application for exchange of honde made by Vincent A. Carroll, former alien property custodian bureau at torney, on that day The application showed that tws $10.000 bonds were exchanged for Car roll, he taking 20 honds of $1,000 denomination {n their stead. A witness was (hen culled to show that transportation vouchers from Philadelphla to Wilmington, Dl were issied to Miller for the same day Bonds fn Miller’s Name. Then Delbert Gallagher, cashisr for Tafrd, Dissel & Meens, Wilmington brokerage and bhanking house, was alled. He teatified that 14 of the $1.000 honds Carroll axchanged at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Rank were deposited the sama day to the account of Miller. He did not know who deposited them. The mysterious disappearance of original records of the exchange of the two $10,000 for 20 $1,000 Liberty bonds was told by Charles Herman, employe of the Philadelphia Reserve Bank. He said a woman represent ing herself as an investigator for the Department of .Justice asked for a copy of the application made by Car- roll. After her departure the orig inal could not be found, he said. Vera V. Veall, assistant cashier of the Midland National Bank, took the stand as the first witn of the day, after a delay of half an hour. Attor neys consumed the time in a confer- ence. Miss Veail testified that Mal Daugh- erty often signed Harry Daugherty's name. Myrtle rton, woman of the Department of placed Miss Veail as a witness. She testified that on April 28, 1922, cou- pons on §100,000 in Liberty honds were cashed at the Guarantee Trust Co, in New York. It was shown that thel proceeds of these, amounting to $2,1254 were deposited to the account of King Miss Veall then took the stand again and United States Attorney Buckner brought out through her that $2,125 was deposited the next day in| the Midland National Bank at Wash ington Court House, to the account off Harry M. Daugherty. The deposit siip) was marked “New York, $2,125,” and| was in Mal Daugherty’s handwriting Assistant Cashier Testiflos. Three witnesses testifled vesterday Miss Veail told of four $10,000 Lij erty bonds, bearing serlal numbers of bonds Merton gave King for his ald in having the Merton -clai passed, being received at the bank. They were received in November, 1923, two years after Merton gavel them to King. They were sold, shal sald, to Otis & Co. of Cleveland. The sale of the bonds brought $39,335. This, she said, was credited| to the bank. But on the same day| this sum was received—November| 19, 1923—a certificate of deposit for) a similar sum was issued to Mal S) Daugherty. This was taken up De-| cember 21, 1923, and on the same) day nine certificates of deposits amounting to $49,335, were lssued to Harry M, Daugherty. Buckner then brought out byl questioning Miss Veail that on De-| cember 21, 1923, Mal Daugherty had a balance of only $35,271.36, and that the proceeds of the bonds had tol be used to issue a certificate of de- posit for $49.335. The $49,335 In- cluded $10.000 that was not ae- ounted for when court adjourned Clarence Dauphinot, office manage of Goldman Sachs and Co., banking] and brokerage house, testified that in| October, 1921, two days after Miller] handed Merton checks totalling $6 453,977.97, King, whom he knew for 15 vears, came into the office with| Merton. While théy were there hel sald, Merton was given $391,000 in| liberty bonds. Miss Veall teatified she had heen in| structed in 1923 by Mal 8. Daugherty] to sell four liberty bonds for him. SENATE FAILS TO SET VOTE ON RADIO BILL McFadden Banking Measure Meets| Like Fate When Objection to Time Is Heard. Investigator Justice, re- Effirts failed again in the Senate this afternoon to obtain agreement fixing definite days on whic p vot on the radio bill and the McFadden banking bill. two of che impoptant matters awalting action in the re- malning days of this session. enator Pittman, Democrat, Nevada snnounced that he would ob- when Seuator DIl in churge o the radio Vil inquired If unanimous cousent could be obtained fixing time to vote on that bill. A moment later Senator Republican, of Pennsylvania unanimous consent for a vote at o'clock Monday afternoon on the hank ing measu to which Senato Wheeler, Democrat, of Montan objected. ACTION IS DEFERRED. By the Awsuclated Fress A vote on u bill to Representatives epper. asked 4 eapportion th House upon the 1930 census was deferred today in the House census committee, and s sim. flar move to vote on it tomorrow wa tahled. The committes decided to contin hearings next week, which, in th opinion of some members, indicated that if any reapportionment measure is reported it would get to the flooy too late for action this session. BAND CONCERT. TOMORROW, { By the United States Soldiers’ Fo Band Orchestra at Stanley Hall, b o'clock, John 8. M. Zimmerman, lead | ar; Emil A. Fenstad, second leader.