Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and tomorrow: not much change in temperature—mini- mum temperature tonight 38 degrees. Temperature—Highest, 51, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 35, at 11 a.m. today. Full report on page 2. Closing N. 7. Stocks and Boads, Page 14 e ——— No. 30,293 post office. Wal BRITISH DESTROYER - SILENGES YANGIZE SHORE. BATTERIES ,Ne-ssel Replies to Chinese Rifle and Field Gun Fire Near Chinkiang. BARRACKS DAMAGED; EMPLACEMENT RAZED Advance of Cantonese Army To- ward North Is Reported Checked by Marshal Sun. China, April 9 (. —The American, British, French, 2 meeting here this morning. It 1s belleved that they discussed the making of demands by the five powers on the Peking goveynme:xl . regarding the Nanking affair. PEKING, By the Associated Press. 5 SHANGHAI, April 9.—The British destroyer Veteran engaged in an ar- | tillery duel yesterday with Chinese ‘batteries 15 miles below Chinkiang, on the Yangtze River, it was learned ‘og;l)a Chinese opened fire with rifles and field guns, whereupon the destroy- er opened up with her main arma- ment; consisting of four 4.7-inch guns. She fired $0 rounds. The shells de- stroyed a Chinese gun emplacement and hit the barracks, doing consider- able other damage. The Veteran was strick by Shrapnel | end rifle bullets, but there were no casualties aboard® U. 8. Warships Fired On. British, American and other foreign warships traveling up_and down the Yangtze have been under intermittent fire from the banks since the outbreak of the anti-foreign movement in that yegion. Most of the Chinese firing is with rifles. In !uchh:x!efl the war- s reply with machine guns. filsx;m“r; Y everses were reported to- day to have been met by a Cantonese @Nationalist) expedition up the Grand ©anal at the hands of reorganized remnants of the army of Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang, which originally held hai. mh‘(’:nr wireless mess: from Chinkiang, about 40 miles east of Nanking, at the jufiction of the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River, indicate that the Cantonese were being driven ck steadily. h’l‘he Kortl{!rn forces were reported to have already reached Yangchow, just nporth of the Yangtze, from Chinkiang, with ou a8 far south @as the confluence tl nd Canal and the Yangtze. ,flu%, _Capn- | tonese wgund‘edmwm ‘\: o ross the Yangtze A :r:here it was reported the Nationalist had already been hauied down. Japanese Quit Hankow. About 1,300 Japanese, mostly women and children, arrived -in Shanghal this morning from Hankow on the Joyo Maru and Taifuku Maru. They »will proceed to Japan aboard the steamer Kore Maru. Eight hundred Jepenese are still in Hapkow, mostly men. . The Japanese evacuation of Hankow was started early in the week after a serious situation developed in the Japanese concession through at- ‘hinese . "El::ob!tlugther Northern victories are yeported. - Cantonese advancing up the Tientsin-Pukow Railway are said to have been thrown back toward Fengyang, which is about 95 miles n west of Nanking. Defeated Near Kiangyin. e second defeat is reported to hl-{.: ‘ocourred on the morth bank of opposite feat to the Cantonese :II"“MHI Pukow and therefore the ntonese rear. a’l‘h‘ entire difficult question of the position of Soviet Russia among the Ppowers in China has been brought 1o the fore by the events at Peking and Shanghai, in so far as they affect the ‘Soviet's diplomatic representa- tives, during the past few days. The apparent ostracism of Soviet Russia among the powers diplomati- cally represented in China has been emphasized by these events, and the situation has become the most im- poptant topic throughout = China wherever foreigners and Chinese have me into contact. wl!.il widely recognized that the fncidents in Peking and Shanghai are filled with dynamite, and Mos- .eow’s reaction, thus far unindicated, i3 anxiously awaited. Filled With Dynamite. ‘While the ministers of the powers at Peking and the consuls at Shang- hai are taking up technically correct positions, the former protesting egainst the action of the Northerners in exceeding the terms of their per- Entered as second class matte: C T5MASKED BANDITS { By the Associated Press. PUNTD Kiangyin, | r shington, D. C. Slush Committee Dead, Keyes Rules, Withholding Funds Caught between two fives, the Reed campaign funds investigating committee found itself today hacl in the woods from whizh it had emerged triumvaant two days ago through a ruiing frem Vice Presi- dent Dawes that it was legally in existence. Chairman Keyves of the Senate audit committee, which has the power of life and death of the existence of committees through its control of the pursestrings, de- clared today that, despite the ruling of the Vice President, no funds would be authorized for the committee's use. Chairman Keyes stuck to his original contention, which was that the committee died when the Sen- ate failed specifically to authorize its continuence during the recess of | Congress. | ! | | LOOT WATCH PLANT Gang Uses Machine Guns and Rifles in Three-Hour lllinois Robbery. CHICAGO, April 9.—Fifteen masked and armed men held up four employes of the Iliinois Watch Case Co. plant at Eigin, I1l, early today, ransacked the vault and several smaller safes and escaped in four automobiles with gold valued at §15,000, Three of the workers were bound and gagged and placed inside the vault. The fourth man was com- pelled, at the point of a revolver, to make his usual rounds and ring call boxes, to prevent police learning that anything was wrong at the plant. Remain for Three Hours. The robbers, armed with ritles, ma- chine guns and revolvers, entered the plant at midnight and remained three hours. The engineer, fireman and two watchmen were made captive, after which the robbers, using one of the watchmen as a gulde, went through the large building, in which 2,000 per- sons are emploved, breaking into sev- eral small safes, as well as the main vault. More than two hours passed before the acetylene torches of the safe rob- bers ate through the inner doors of the vault. Gene FEdelstein, an officla] of the company was unable to give an ac- curate estimate of the amount obtain- ed by the robbers. He said, hpwever, that the gold and gold alloy used in the manufacture of watch cases, which was kept in the vault, may :l“v' amounted ht'o tw),ggl:- in v-:;a: though a* ‘check. morn indicated tzl‘:" o0 h. estimate to be much Watehman Struggles Free. After the robbers had roared away toward Chicago in their automobiles, one of the watchmen succeeded in freeing himselt and called the Elgin police. Two hours' later a speeding auto- mobile containing three men was challenged by police of Melrose, a Chi- cago suburb. The occupants fired a score of shots and the driver increas- ed his speed and outdistanced pursuit, The plant of the Illinois Watch Case Co. covers nearly two city blocks. RENAME ELORIDGE DENIED Blanton Prediction Ignored as Commissioners Seek Resident for Post. Despite a prediction by Representa- tive Thomas L. Blanton of Texas that { M. O. Eldridge would be restored to his former position as director of traf- fic, the District Commissioners have not the slightest intention of taking such action, it was learned authori- tatively today at the District Build- ing. The appointment of a new di- rector will be made shortly, it was said, and it positively will not be Mr. Eldridge. Mr. Blanton made his forecast at a luncheon of the public order commit- tee of the Washington Board of Trade yesterday at the Raleigh Hotel, and added that if the Commissioners did not see fit to restore Mr. Eldridge to the post from which he was demoted he would endeavor to have Congress do so. The Commissioners, however, are mit to pass through the legation quarter, and the latter askipg the municipal council to explain the cordon placed about the Russian con- sulate, it is felt that there can be no question that neither affair would have been possible had any power offered the slightest opposition. The actfon of the municipal coun- ol of Shanghal in placing a cordon *mround the Soviet consulate was ba on fear of possible hostile demdnstrations against it, it was stated. This fear was prompted by information reaching the commis- sioner of police that the raid on the buildings attached to the Soviet em- bassy in Peking had revealed matters which were likely to create feeling ®gainst the Soviet consulate here. Responsibility Placed. Responsibility for posting the cor- @on was entirely that of the municipal council. The cordon was made up of the municipality’s paid police force, hich includes police volunteers, in- cluding forelgners and Chinese and white Russians belonging to the Rus- mian company of the Shanghai volan- teer corps. This latter company, re- cruited largely from the defeated Yorces of the northern general, Chang Teung-Chang, is under the orders of the municipal council. ‘While the Russian angle of the sit- uation now 1is holding the center of attention, the evacuation of foreigners from the interlor, the political maneuvers within the ranks of the Cantonese and military movements in China’s clvil war also are continuing. Gen. Chang Kai-Shek, Cantonese eralissimo, who has been involved in a complicated political controversy between the moderates and extremists within the Cantonese political organ- feation, left Shanghai for Nanking yesterday. Christianity never will be wholly TiContinued on Paxe 2, Column 6. {nul taking Mr. Blanton's statement | serlously and are proceeding to can- { vass the applicants for the position, | of which there are many. | At least 60 persons have made for- | mal application for the post, some of | whom, it was revealed, have all of | the qualifications which have been | laid down by the Commissioners. The | successful applicant, according to the | Comissioners, must be endowed with first-class administrative ability as a prerequisite. Combined with this he must have sound Jjudgment and an engineering background. Plan to Name Resident. It is the plan of the Commissioners to give the position to a resident of Washington. Restoration of Mr. Eldridge was in an_address made yesterday be- fore 75 members and guests of the SACCO SENTENCED, he WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION pening Star. D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927T—THIRT WITH VANZETTI, T0 DIEIN 3 MONTHS Convicted Men Assail Judge in Speeches as They Hear Fate. CHARGE PERSECUTION AND HATRED OF CLASSES| Vanzetti Halts Tirade to Beg Court’s Pardon—Appeals Sent From Four Nations, By the Associated Press. DEDHAM, Mass., April 9.—Sen- tence to death in the electric chair in the week of July 10 was imposed to- day upon Nicola Sacco and Bartol- omeo Vanzetti. Judge Webster Tha er of the Superior Court, who presided | at their trial, pronounced the sen: | tence. i After District Attorney Wilbar had | moved that the sentence of death be pronounced and suggested the week beginning Sunday, July 10, for its| execution, Judge Webster Thayer turned to Nicola Sacco with the for- mula, “Have you anything to say why sentence of death should not be pro- nounced on you?” Sacco Denounces Judge. “Yes," said Sacco, as he stepped forward in the dock. Then in English, sometimes broken, with a decided accent and sometimes faulty grammar, he made his final plea. “I never knew, T never heard, never read, even in history, of the op- pression or cruelty of this court. After seven years of prosecution, they still consider us gullty. “I know there are two classes—the oppressed and the rich, It is always between those two. We fraternize the people with books and literature. You prosecute the people, terrorize and kill. We try to educate them. That's why 1 am here today—for hav- Ing been in the oppressed class, while you are the oppressor and you know it, Judge Thayer; you know it. You know why I am here. Denies His Guilt. “Now after seven years of persecu- tion of me and my poor wife, you are going to sentence me to death. “I've never been guilty, never. Not yesterday, not today, not forever.” Sacco had addressed practically all of his remarks directly to Judge Thayer. He had turned, however, for 4 moment toward his friends seated in the courtroom and -sald: “I thapk you all, my )Wy des, {Continued on Page 7, Colum: DISTRICT PENSIONS WILL NOT LAPSE McCarl Says Same Ruling Applies to Local as to Federal Annuities. Pensions for retired school teachers, policemen and firemen and relief funds | for disabled Federal employes were found today by Controller General McCarl to be payable despite the fail- ure of these items in the second deficiency bill. This was learned today when the controller general sent to the Board of Commissioners of the District a decision which authorized the use of these three funds: Employes’ compensation fund, $4,000; payment of annuities to retired school teachers, $25,000; policemen and fire- men relief fund, $135,000. Welfare Fund Cut. The controller general, however, found no way by which the Govern- ment could use $40 000 prior to the beginning of the next fiscal year for the board and care of children com- mitted to the guardianship of the Board of Public Welfare. It was understood, however, that sufficient money 1s left in this fund to proceed on a 50 per cent basis for the rest of the fiscal year. The decision of Controller General MeCarl, contrary to a statement given out by Director Lord of the Bureau of the Budget at the White House yesterday, found means for relief in three of the principal places where it was thought the failure of the second deficiency bill would strike its most severe blows. Decision Hailed as Relief. Gen. Lord had indicated that he had information that no way had been found to relieve the emergency and that the Controller General would rule against the use of such funds, The decision by Controller General McCarl today, however, relieving, as it did, an acute situation resulting from failure of the deficiency bill, was hailed with great relief by a large group of those who otherwise might have been reduced to want for lack of their due payments from the Govern- ment. In his decision the Controller Gen- eral pointed out that these funds could be used on the same principle | i ! public order committee of the Wash- by_which _he recently authovized pay- i ntinued on Page 7, Column 7.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Gov. Smith Answers | | 1 By the Assoclated Press. | NEW YORK, April 9.—Gov. Smith's | reply to the open letter sent to him by | Charles C. Marshall, New York law- yer, asking his questions concerning his religious beliefs will be made pub- lic on April 25, it was learned today. The reply was sent to the Atlantic Monthly, Boston magazine, which printed Mr. Marshall's letter. Among other things, Mr. Marshall asked the governor to reconcile his religious bellefs with the oath of office required of the President of the United States. The governor is a Roman Catholic. ] tuv alter & The governor, he Magazine to Publish His Views April 25 Religious Queries: strenuous session of the Legislature, declined to discuss his letter. He said that the writing of it, amid the high pressure of the closing days of the Legislature, “took one solid night out of my life The governor said the editor of the magazine had acknowledged receipt of the letter with these words: *You letter is a notable public document. The questions have been answered in a straightforward and unflinching manner." Radio Programs—Page 38 {HORNSBY WILL GET g NFTER HEARNG ’:fi YOU 'M MORE CONVINCED THAN EVER! Y-EIGHT PAGES. * Roosever HALL Jaint. DEBA WE . BORAH-BuTim DRY-WE: 19 DEAD IN FLOODS; MARINES IN DANGER Troop Train Stopped on Edge of Roaring Stream With Track Undermined. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, April 9.—With 19 known dead in Kansas and Oklahoma and thousands of acres of valuable land inundated, new flood warnings were broadcast today as streams rose to record marks following cloudbursts that crippled trafic and communica- tions throughout a large area. Most railroads in southeastern Kan- sas and northern Oklahoma were forced to reroute trains following three derallments yesterday in which three persons perished and more than a score were injured. Fourteen Mexicans drowned near Rockyford, Okla., when the Washita lver geveral feet in p few hours. fought the Oklahoma dead to 16, hundreds of head of livestock drowned when farmers were forced to flee. ’X special train carying Marines from Bastern points to San Diego for duty in China narrowly averted being de- railed when an unidentified man noti- fled the station agent of a washout near Walnut, Kas., early yesterday morning. A red flare stopped the train on the edge of a raging creek that had undermined the track. The train was rerouted and today was speeding through eastern Oklahoma. MISSISSIPPI MENACING. Rising of River Threatens Levees— Torches. Ald Workers. COLUMBUS, Ky., April 9 (@) Flaring torches beneath a sullen gra sky early today illuminated the lapping waters of the Mississippi River seep- ing slowly over a broken levee here. Every able-bodied man available toiled to the point of exhaustion to hold back the flood which had reached a level with the top of the levee's lowest point. A part of the dike broke away last night, sloughing into the turgid river directly in front of the town, so that each wave lapping against the bul- wark drove a slow trickle across its barrier. Should a moderate wind spring up before hundreds of sand- filled sacks are thrown into place it is feared that the waters will crash through to submerge the town to a depth of six feet. Three Children Lost. Early reports from other levee towns along the twisting length of the Mississippi indicated no immediate danger from the tremendous weight of the rising waters. Families, how- ever, were steadily moving their pos- sessions to higher ground, while en- gineers supervised the disposition of thousands of emergency sandbags to strengthen threatened weaknesses. Threo deaths have been reported as a result of the floods. These occurred near Ridgley, Tenn. where three children of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Press- ley were drowned when a skiff over- turned yesterday. l $116,700 FOR STOCK Dispute Over Holdings in Cardi- nals Settled by Compro- mise Agreement. By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, April 9.—The dispute over Rogers Hornsby’s ownership of St. Louis base ball stock was settled today by a compromise agreement calling for a price understood to be about $100 a share, or approximately $116,700, for the Giants' star's hold- ings. Settlement of the controversy was reached at a conference attended by President Heydler of the National League, President Stoneham and Man- ager McGraw of the Giants, together with Hornshy and the latter’s attor- ney. It followed a deadlock in the special National League meeting held yesterday at Pittsburgh. The agreement averts prospects of any court action by the Glants to keep Hornsby in the line-up and as-| sures the presence of the former Car- { dinal star in the opening game next Tuesday at Philadelphia. —_— Good Will Fyers at Martinique. NEW YORK, April 9 (#).—~The good will fight squadron of the United States Army has reached Martinique on its return flight from the voyage around South Ameri the French Cable Co. announced Yo i might have gone to the metropolis on CHERRY FETE DELAYED. | Festival Will Be Held Next Satur- day Afternoon. The Japanese Cherry Blosson Fes- tival, which was to have been held this afternoon, has been postponed, and will be held next Saturday after- noon, April 16, at Hains Point. Cold weather, which delayed the appearance of the blossoms at Hains Point, and rain today caaved the Na- tional Meniorial Foundation, which is giving the festival, yesterday to an- rounce the postponement. The en- tire cast of the pageant will par- ticipate next Sunday, it was announced after a dress rehearsal this morning. CAPT. KOPPER SEEN ALIVE 2 DAYS AGD Friend’s Report Causes Plan to Drag River to Be Dropped. Was in City. Acting on definite information that Capt. Frederick Kopper, jr., U. 8. A., retired, was seen here alive on Thurs- day, two days after his mysterious disappearance, Montgomery County police today abandoned all theories of foul play and began an intensive search for him in Washington and vicinity. “Capt. Kopper conversed Thursday afternoon on Connecticut avenue, near the Bureau of Standards, with a friend, L. M. Gawler of Wheaton, Md.,” Policeman Oldfield of the county police force announced today. “Mr. Gawler told me he saw Capt. Kopper driving a new brougham and that the two engaged in a short con- versation about Kopper's plans for buying a racing car this Summer. 1 am satisfled now that the captain is alive and I believe he is in Washing- ton or nearby Virginia, with friends. Why he should remain in seclusion while we are searching for him is something yet to be explained.” Despite the announcement of the po- lice, fellow members of the Costello Post of the American Legion, with which Kopper was affiliated, refused to believe their comrade alive, and set out in the rain this afternoon to scour both sides of Conduit road. About a score of the Legionnaires formed themselves into a posse and combed both sides of the road from the Dis- trict line to Great Falls. Will Not Drag River. Policemen Oldfield and Gawler will come here this afternoon to visit sev- eral places which Kopper is said to have frequented in the past. A house near Glen Echo and one in Virginia will be included in the search, Old- field stated. Oldfield said that the search for Kopper in the vicinity of Great Falls, near which his automobile was found locked and abandoned, has been call- ed off in view of Gawler’s assertions. As soon as Gawler conferred with him last night, he said, he called up police headquarters here and canceled a suggestion that the Potomac River be dragged. The first belief of the Maryland au- thorities that the missing war vet- eran had been drowned or waylaid,| arose from the discovery of Kopper's muddy hat in the rear of a house near the Falls. A man answering the captain’s description had asked for use of a telephone late Tuesday night at this house, police were told. Bloodhounds brought from Occoquan failed to pick up a scent yesterday afternoon. The hounds were permit- ted to sniff the hat and then were led around the scene of Kopper's disap- pearance, but it was explained that the trail had “grown cold.” The New York police were re- quested today to post a “lookout” for Capt. Kopper. It was thought he business connected with the estate of his sister, Mrs. Stuart Capen, who, with her husband, lived in Kopper's home at Chevy Chase, Md. ‘It is sald : that John W. Davis is the attorney . in this case, and inquiries will be made at Davis' office, it was under- stood. Five Model Homes To Be Erected in Washington Under Auspices of The Evening Star Full Details Today in the HOME AND GARDEN SECTION U. 3. STOLEN-NOTE! MYSTERY DEEPENS Attache in Mexico City En “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi tion is delivered to Washington homes () Means Associated Press. President’s Feet Very Wonderful, Expert Declares President Coolidge has two feet any man would be proud to pos- sess, according to a noted ortho- pedic expert of New York, who yes- terday afternoon made a minute examination of the President’s fet and then carefully measured and autographed them In the opinion of this expert the President's feet are really very wonderful, they are so near per- fect. They are normal in size and formation, for a man of his phy- sique. The President's size is an aproximate eight. The expert de- duced also from this examination that the President's calm, steady life, and his regular habits are clearly reflected in the shapy and condition of his feet. He also measured and autograph- ed Mrs, Coolidge’s feet and describ- ed them as being perfect. ‘These measurements and auto- graphs were taken preparatory to making several pairs of shoes for the President and his wife. The expert also measured President Harding’s feet for shoes. He wore elevens. The specialist's grandfa- ther, also an orthopedic expert, came to the White House several times during President Lincom's administration to take measure- ments of the feet of the lresident and his wife. Mr. Lincolr ccord: ing to the records, wore a size four- teen shoe. 1. IGNORES ING'S TALK T0 SDLDIRS Not Concerned About Sena- War Officials Say. Route Here on “Con- fidential Mission.” Lieut. Col. Edward Davis, military attache to the American embassy in Mexico City, is en route to Washing- ton “on a confidential mission,” it was confirmed at the War Department to- day in the face of unofficial reports that military papers of a highly con- fidential nature had been purloined from the embassy files and turned over to President Calles. He is due to arrive here Tuesday. Other than to say that Col. Davis himself is under absolutely no sus- picion, the War Department officials declined to discuss rumors that his mission Is to assist in an investigation to determine responsibility for the leakage said to have been traced to Confldence In Davis. They added that both Col. Davis and his assistant, Maj. Harold Thompson, retain the utmost confidence of the department. Inquiries at the State Department today were met with the response that neither Secretary Kellogg nor any other officlal would discuss the matter either “to deny or confirm" the alleged pilfering of the United States Government's correspondence, which was divulged, according to re- ports, by President Calles, who, when the fact that he had them became known, delivered them to the State Department. Further inquiries as to whether this situation dove-tailed with the so- called ‘“mystery note” as reported seemed to cause some amusement to officials, but elicited no explanation. So far as can be learned today, neither the naval attache in Mexico City, Lieut. Comdr. Donald W, Hamil- ton, nor any other embassy attache has been summoned to return to Washington. State Department officials seemed to prefer to leave the whole matter open to surmise rather than shed any light on the situation about which there is a maze of unconfirmed rumors. Total Placed at 300. Unconfirmed reports stated that the papers involved numbered some 100 official documents from the military attache’s office and 200 others obtained from the embassy proper. These latter included correspondence that had passed between the State Department and Ambassador Sheffleld over a con- siderable period. It is not believed here that any of the papers were taken from the diplo- matic mail pouches in transit to Mexi- co City because of the unusual pre- cautions against such possibilities. Those in a position to know the State Department rule governing code messages throw doubt on reports that the contents of the correspondence had been decoded and transmitted to President Calles. It was explained that in connection with all highly confiden- tial correspondence the code used is destroyed. Caused “Mystery Note.” According to some reports certain messages had been rewritten, after being decoded, so as to make it appear to Calles that the United States Gov- ernment was in sympathy with the revolutionary movement in Mexico, Upon finding this attitude, which was directly in contrast with sentiments expressed openly by the State De- partment, President Calles is said to have taken the matter up with Ameri- can officials. The forgeries, it was explained, brought about a situation which re- sulted in the exchange of the so-called “mystery notes” some time ago. ‘When President Calles learned that he had been deceived, evidently by forged correspondence, it was said, he called the matter to the attention of the State Department and turned over what ever papers he had in his poé session. Officials Still Silent. ‘The investigation, which no one the War Department or the State De- partment denies is to be made, un- doubtedly would pry into reports that President Calles paid $50,000 for the information he is said to have ob- tained through the Embassy leak. At the same time there is no information obtainable here through a reliable | source to’ indicate whether anyone connected with the Embassy cepted any bribe. 5y ending the arrival here of Col. Davis Tuesday there is little liklih of the State Department of cussing the matter at all. Bomh Injures 13 at Prayer. * LUCKNOW, British. (#).—A bomb was th of'a lon o a sal at, the ot of ac- in. midst near tho Medt hirteen of them 2 Indla, April 9|had the The War Department is not con- cerned in the least with what Senator King told soldiers, who gathered to hear his version of why he was ex- cluded from Haiti, while aboard the transport St. Mihiel, it was stated to- day. And if the War Department was concerned, it was added, there is nothing it could do about it. No formal reports of-the affair have been entered In the files of the department and none is_expected to be entered. Maj. Gen. Eli A. Helmick, inspector general of the Army, was a passenger aboard the St. Mihiel at the time that Senator King, upon the invitation of Chaplain Edward L. Trett, transport chaplain, spoke to a group of soldiers. On the day following the speech Gen. Helmick, as a _matter of routine and upon hearing Senator King's remarks discussed, made it his duty to find out what had occurred. Silent on Incident. Gen, Helmick declined today to dis- cues the matter, further than to state that he was aboard and that he made inquirts congerning what Senator King had said. From other sources, however, ft was learned that Chaplain Trett invited Senator King, as ranking Congress- man aboard the transport, to speak, and suggested that if it would not be embarrassing, be might say some- Senator King was reported to have replied that it would not be embar- rassing in the least. According to one version of the af- fair, he told the soldiers that his trouble with the Haitian government arose primarlly over the fact that he had always sought to obtain self-gov- ernment for free peoples, and while they make mistakes in government, they uszally come out allright in the end. Applying this policy to Haitl, he said that President Borno was afraid his presence in Haiti would enlist the support of many Haitians who were not in sympathy with the present ad- ministration, and that the American Government gave the Haitian govern- ment its tacit support by refusing to protest his exclusion. Quoted on 1915 Action. Senator King declared, it was re- ported, that the United Stal Gov- ernment in 1915, fearing t Ger- (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) SHIFLDS CONVICTED - ONTWO CHARGES Brewer Acquitted on Other 14 Counts of Indictment Alleging Bribery. Daniel J. Shields, millionaire brewer and politiclan of Johnstown, Pa., was convicted on two counts of an indict- ment charging him with bribing Miss Della M. Hayes, now Mrs. Della H. Evans, while she was empoyed as a stenographer in the prohibition unit, to furnish him with confidential re. ports made by agents concerning brewerles in Pennsyvania. the jury in Criminal Division 1, which reported this morning to. Justice H‘nehh'“ng after being locked up over night. Released Under $5,000 Bond. Shields was allowed to remain at liberty on a bond of $§5,000 to await hearing of a motion for a new trial The two counts on which Shields wa: found guilty charge that March 20, 1924, he paid Miss Hayes $100, and on April 22, 1924, paid her $200. The total bribe alleged in the indictment was $2,100. The penalty for the brib. ery is three times the bribe and im- prisonment not to exceed three years on each count. Under the verdict Shields might be sent to prison for six years and be fined $900. New Trial to Be Asked. Attorneys J. S. Easby-Smith, M. M. Doyle and F. A. Thuee for Shields will file the motion for a new trial within the four days allowed by rule of court. They expressed surprise at the ver- dict, for, according to coynsel, the in- it it charged that these pay- ments were made after Miss Hayes had joined forces with the Govern- ment's special agents and was acting under. ‘Mr direction. The $200 pay- ment, they say, was made after sha resigned from the prohibition Assistant United Statés Attorney John Finelly conducted the case for the prosecution and oppose the tor’s Ship Address on Haiti, | thing about his being kept out of Hait} | The defendant wa$ acquitted on the | other 14 counts of the indictment by | as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,328 TWO CEMTS. BORAH AND BUTLER DEBATE ADVANCES DRY ISSUE T0 FORE [Participants in Boston Ses- sion Say They Will Press Views at 1928 Convention. {3,000 CROWD BIG HALL; LEAVE UNCONVINCED Unofficial Judges Decide, 6 to 3, in Favor of Senator—G. 0, P. Leader on Platform. clated Press. April 9. — Prohibltion loomed today as a possible big issue tor the Republican National Conven- tion next year. Debating the question | last night, both Senator Borah of | Idaho, dry, and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia Univer- sity, wet, sald they would press their views on the convention. As Senator Borah put it: “I agree with Dr. Butler. The fight is on. It will be presented to the American | people in the campaign of 1928.” In this connection, Dr. Butler said: “The war is on. * * * No candidate jfor the presidency hereafter will be | permitted to avoid the issue by hid- !ing behind law enforcement.” Winner Not Decided. Some 3,000 persons who crowded | Symphony Hall and uncounted thou- sands of others who listened by radio were dlvided as to who won the de- bate. Thers was no official decision, ;but the Boston Herald, Republican, appointed nine Republicans of State prominence as unofficial judges. Their :‘ole was 6 to 3 in favor of the Sena- or. The Herald, in announcing its list of judges, said: “The Herald carefully refrained from asking their opintons on the question.” It added that it was assumed that one of them, President Marsh of Bos- ton University, “is a firm bellever in prohibition,” ‘and that another, Wil- llam H. Coolldge, Boston lawyer, “has been a consistent critic of prohibi- tion,” and continued: Others’ Sympathies Not Known. “As to the others, the Herald cannot stats with any definiteness that they are wet or dry.” The Herald’s judges were: George W. Coleman, president of the Babson sta- tistical organization; William H. Cool- idge, financier, unrelated to the Presi- dent; Frank S. Deland, corporation counsel for the City of Boston; Carl 8, merchant; Frank Hall, attorney, . b the Republican State iel L, Marsh, president of versity; Arthur P, Stone, ju ’C- nbridge District Court;% Mark Sullivan, lawyer; Benjamin Loring Young, speaker of the State House of Representatives, G. 0. P. Leaders on Platform. The debate was sponsored by the | Progressive-Republican Or[lnllzflon. i the Roosevelt Club, Inc., and counte- nanced, even though the political {ssue may not have been, by the presence on the platform of the chairman of the Republican national committee, Wil lla’llr;‘ A\Liflutler. e disputants agreed from the jon the evils of liquor and the ul';nn and that the present state of enforce- {ment throughout the country was not | satisfactory. Dr. Butler, who teok izhe affirmative of the question, | "Resolved, That the Republican na- tional platform in 1928 should advo- cate the repeal of the eight amendment,” declared at the ning that their differences as “wet or dry,” and to this ponent assented. For a broad summarization, Senator Borah contended that the amendment was a law to be enforced and obeyed and not to be abandoned, in the face of the lack of a suitable substitute, until it had had fair trial of 25 years. Holds Theory Alfered, Dr. Butler argued that the amend- ment was not germane to the Consti- tution; that it changed the theory of our Federal Government and that Quebec government control wi far better way of correcting the evil. The audience, judged by its applause, was divided at the start of the debate and divided, although more enthusi astically at the close. It was audience of substantiality and breed- ing. Itsfew audible interjections were all good natured, and fell chiefly to the lot of Senator Borah, whose dramatic pauses sometimes offered the opportunity. In declaring the subject a national issue, the speakers varied somewhat. Dr. Butler said, “it is more important than any since the issue of slavery and secession. It is primarily and chiefly a question of government, of the protection and perpetuity of the form of government established by the Constitution. My appeal is from the legislative and judiefal branches of the Government to the American people to undo the damage done and correct that stupendous error.” Takes Up Three Plans. Senator Borah urged, however, “to abandon prohibition now would be to betray the principles of the party. It would be criminal to break down and disregard the Constitution. What we need is not a party giving orders to retreat, but orders to advance. The Republican and Democratic parties may sidestep this issue, but the people will not.” After declaring that to abandon the amendment without a substitute would be to return to the old saloon days, Mr. Borah took up three of the most often suggested plans. Modi- fication of the Volstead act to per- mit light wines and beer would be to seek to control the liquor traffic by glving it “an additional aroma.” “Government control would rot out the pillars of government in 50 years.” “It would be a bureaucracy, a bureaucracy drunk.” Finally, of State determination, he declared, that the dry State would have no protection under the interstate commerce laws. Dr. Butler chose Government con- trol to support as his alternative, 'Not control by Federal Government, but control by the States as deter. mined by their respective citizens." He stated that his own careful and impartial investigation of the opera- tion of the Quebec liquor commission had convinced him that that was the ideal way to tackle the problem. Both arguments sparkled with igrams. 'To choose a few: Butler: “We have returned fo the saloon, only we don't see it.” Borah: “A wet State can ship its (Continued on Page 4;. ne of the