Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast ) Fair, not =0 cool, tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy. Temperature-Highest, . at 335 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 40, at £:15 am today. Full report on page 9. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Fpening SHtar. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,601 e TWO CENTS. (/) Means Associated Press. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 e Entered as second class matte vost office. Washington, D. or WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1927 —FORTY-TWO PAGES. = {Father Is Released Famous Disasters ALL BUT 3 HELD RESCUED AS LINER FOUNDERS ON REEF "OFF BRAZIL COAST Dispatch to Montevideo Says 1,224 of 1,258 Reported Aboard Are Picked Up by Vessels at Scene. EXPLOSION OF BOILERS RELATED BY SURVIVORS Steamers Standing by Radio Prog- ress of Search—Cause of Disaster Not Definitely Known—List of Survivors as Sent From Boats Varies. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oc- tober 26 (A.P.)—Only 34 of the 1,238 persons reported aboard the steamship Principessa Mafalda were missing late today., said a message received here by the local agency of the Navigazione Generale Italiana. The total rescued was given as 1224 in this message, with the quota of saved of the various rescue steamships as follows: Formose, 430; Athena, 450; Em- pire Star, 202, and Rosetti, 122. The Rosetti has not been men- tioned ™ previous .dispatches, which included 300 rescues by the British steamship Avalona. The variation in the number saved by the above ships with previous dispaches may be due to the transferring of rescued pas- sengers from the various ships. By the Asociated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Octo- ber 26—Fighting a winning battle with death, at least half a dozen res- cue vessels today were standing by the Islands of Abrolhos, where the Italian steamship Principessa Matal- da sank last night, secking trace of the persons still reported missing from the stricken ship. A Latest advices received here indi- eate that almost all of the more than 1,200 persons aboard the g,;amfi.ip were saved. e Of the total list of passengers and crew aboard the vessel, given as 1,256 at the office of the steamship company in Genoa and as 1219 at the office here, 720 are known dei- jnitely to have been saved by rescue .ships, with it held certain that the total will be much higher. b (The British steamship Avalona, which had not been previously men- tioned in Rio de Janeiro dispatches, reported to its London office today +that it had rescued 300 persons irom the Principessa Mafalda. This would raise the total minimum rescued to 1,020.) Many Reach Coast. Many of those shipwrecked have arrived at Bahia in small boats. These confirmed previous news that the boilers of the ship had exploded. Although wireless advices received from the British steamship Andes placed the number of victims at 300, a radio from the French steamship For- mose, one of the chief rescue steam- ors, stated that the rescue vessels thoped to save “almost all” of those aboard the Mafalda. most of whose passengers were Italian emigrants, bound for their new homeland in Brazil and Argentina. The caplain's message, filed aboard his ship at 9 o'clock this morning and addressed to the Associated Press, yead: “We hope Wour more sto: 1o rescue almost all. mers have arrived.” In another message, apparently filcd during the nikht, the captain said that the rescue work was proceed- ing regularly. The Islands of A of the Hidden Rocks. are ahout 30 miles from the Brazilian coast and @re usually surrounded by calm wa- waters in which, it is believed. of olhos, or Islands %20 Reported Saved. The rescue fig today from the rep d early ships at the 5 steamship. Athena, $00: British s Pire Star, 200-—a total of 720. The RBritish steamship Radioleine, the Andes and the French Mosella also are at the scene, but no figures have been received from them us to their rescue work (The only report from the steamship Avalona come through London, telling of ite 300 rescues Inasmuch as these ligures have been given in round numbers. it is hoped That the total will be even greate While the exact cause of the sink- fngz was not known definitely here this * afternoon. various advices received fndicated that the vessel struck off the Tslands of Abrolhos. ahout Jast night, and sank within after her hoilers had ex- ploded with a terrific ro The Brazilian authorities immedi- ately took all possible steps to give 21d 10 those rescued from the ship, as goon as word of the disaster was 1 ceived. The cruiser Rio Grande do Bul was dispatched to the scene of the sinking in order to aid in tran ferring passengers received by steam- ers which are not scheduled to siop st Rio de Janeiro. Orders also were fssued to officials d to prepare for the shipwrecked zilian main- i h land in lifeboats. Brazil Is Stirred. The news of the sinking caused a tremendous stir throughout Brazil and thousands of calls have been received by newspapers and stesmship com nies from the public, since many Felatives and friends of South Ameri Column 19 the | the sunken | In Marine History From 1898 10 1921 By the Ass ted Press, 1912—Titanic, sunk i collision with iceberg in morth Atlantic Ocean, 1,517 lives lost. 1915—Lusitania, sunk by Ger- man submarine, 1,198, 1914 — Empress of Ireland, sunk in collision with Danish collier Storstad, 1. 1904—General | n - steamer), | | River, N 02 190i—Norge, wrecked off Scot- land, 616. 1898—T.a Bourgoyne, collision with British ship Cromarty- . —Hong Kong, wrecked off l 000, 1918—1", heard fron bads 4 h warship Van. guard, explosion, 800, 1916—Chinese steamer Yu. sunk off Ch 1,000, 1916—French sunk 0. uxiliary erniser Provence, in Mediterra- nean, 3 1915—~Eastland (excursion steamer), overturned in Chicago River, 812, 1913 —Japanese steamer Kick- er Maru, sunk off coast Japan, [ | 1.000. RUMANIAN LEADERS Government Plans to Crush Carol Coup by Force at First Move. By the Associated Press, BUCHAREST. Rumania, October 28, —At the least sign of opposition against the government the Br: no ministry was ready today to arrest the leaders and proclaim a state of siege throughout Rumania. Troops were ordered to eccupy all government buildings, carr: the state of martial law proclaimed throughout the country upon dis- covery of the plot to restore former Crown Prince Carel to the throne, which he renounced in 1925 when he eloped to Paris with Magda Lupescu The country is seething with excits ment as the government and opposi- tion parties line up for what is expect- ed to be a bitter contest for suprem- y. Premier Bratiano tomorrow will demand from all political groups in Parliament a declaration of their at- titude toward the present situation. The opposition leaders have sum- moned their members to appear in full strength. The people’s party, of which M. Manoilescu, whose arrest led to the discovery of the Carolist plot, intends to interpelate the governme sidering his arrest rn’ung‘l Proclamation Seized. A proclamation addressed to the Ru- manian people at large by Prince Carol was found in the possession of Manoflescu, who was undersecretary of finance in the Averescu govern- ment, which the present regime sup- planted, the authorities announced. They also said they found an inter- view with Carol intended for the Ru- manian newspapers and explaining his position. In a statement issued in Paris last week Prince Carol announced that he would not return to Rumania except under perfectly - regular conditions, adding, “There are many ways to call a sovereign when his return is agreed upon—by vote of Parliament, by a plebiscite and by an understanding between the parties.” Several letters from Carol were found on Manoilescu, and they were believed to indicate that Carol desired a referendum of the people of Ru- mania as to their wishes regarding his return. Other letters dealt with the question of the dynasty, which was settled on January 4, 1926, when a regency was established and Carol's son Michael proclaimed the successor of the late King Ferdinand. The government declared that Ma- noilescu _had gone to Paris and in- | teryiewed Carol nad sympathizers con- cerning his aspirations. Princess Delays Trip. Manoilescu, who is now in the mili- |tary prison at Jilava, will be court- | martialed within a few days. Gen. Averescu is expected to defend his former cabinet minister, and it is cer- | tain that the latter will be accused of high treason. | Princess Helen, whom Carcl aban- | doned, has postponed her departure for Florence, where she intended to go for several months. This postpone- | ment was made to avoid the appear- ance of leaving the country on ac- count of the present crisis, The boy King, who was celebrating is sixth birthday when the plot was losed. is at the Summer palace at inala. Quecn Marie is with him. She has frequently expressed the desire | that her son Carol, who is reported |in a Parls suburb at present, remain |away from the country, and warned that to reopen the dynasty question | would only cause turmoil throughout | the country. |PRINCE ESCAPES IN CRASH | NUREMBURG (). —Former | helm. en route to | rowly escaped de: train, | Sigmar! | | was killed ! the expres 1 crown prince, aken up. The prince was on his way to the | funeral of Prince Willlam von Hohen- | zollern-Sigmaringen, brother of the | late King Ferdinand of Rumania, who | died at his home on Monday rrvm( | heart disease Germany, Oectober Crown ce Wil- funeral today, n: h when the express in which he was speeding to ing ran in freight train. brakeman on the freight train but the passengers aboard including the former merely were badly PREPARE FOR CRISIS at, ctn:i CURTIS ANNOUNCES HiS CANDIDACY FOR 1978 NOMINATION Republican Senate Leader‘ Accepts Proposal of { Kansas Backers. | | FIRMLY CONVINCED PRESIDENT IS OUT it | Nation-Wide Canvass for Delegates | Held Unlikely—Has Friends in East and West, BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Curtis of Kansa Republi- ¢ of the Senate, taking Presi- wlidge at his word that he does vun for President in | gave formal acceptance to | | the proposal of Kansas Republicans that the Sunflower State send a| Curtis-for-President delegation to the Republican national convention. Senator Curtis' statement, made public today, is contained in a letter | to Roy L. Bone of Topeka. Kans., State bank commissioner and secre- tary of the Curt of Kansa Is First Announcement. The announcement of Senator Cur- < that he ix willing to be a candidate s the first formal statement of the | kind eminating from any Republican | of prominence that he is willing to enter the race. Former Gov. Frank | 0. Lowden of Ilinois has permitted | his friends in the agricultural States 1 to b me active for him, but without | | as definite a_statement as that made | | by Mr. Curtis, | nator Frank B. Willis of Ohio, who is expected to seek the Ohio dele- gation, recently announced the issues the next campaign as he saw them, and his announcement was interpreted as throwing his hat in the ring. It has remained for the Republican leader of the Senate, however, to state openly and frankly that he will be “greatly pleased” to he the candidate of his friends in Kansas for the presidenc: The Kansas Senator made it clear letter to Mr. Bone, too, that if 2 sas delegation was sent to the convention for him he intended to fight for his own hand. He would not be a sialking horse for some other candidate. The significance politically of the Curtis statement today, as interpreted in the National Capital, is that the Republican leader of the Senate has become convinced that President Cool- idge is really out of the race next vear: that the President will not be drafted. Mr, Curtis has been friendly to. President | His Letter to Bone. The letter to Mr. Bone follows: “My dear Bone: have your letter of recent date advising me of the action of my friends in Kansas in organizing a state-wide ‘Curtis-for-President’ Club; of the organization of similar clubs in various counties of the State, and of the circulation of petitions asking me to allow my name to be used as a candidate for the presidency. “Kansas has honored me by elect- ing me to office under every national administration_since 1892,” and the (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.)° PERIL IN DWINDLING WAR SUPPLY SEEN Reserve Army Munitions in ‘Desperate Circumstances,’ Says MacNider. Senator [ ean e | dent not ek | 1828, today | | | ~—Reserve ammunition gtocks of the Army are ‘“in desperate circum- stances,” due to dwindling supply and old age, Assistant Secretary Hanford | Macnider of the War Department said in an address prepared for delivery here today before the annual conven tion of the National Association of Manufacturers, “We have no munitions,” he said, “to bridge the gay between the last hour of our rapidly deteriorating and fast antiquating supply and the day hen industry can get under way in its quantity production, Sees Nine-Month Gap. “Three months after our regular and National Guardsmen recruited to strength go into action, not a rifle, not a machine gun on the ground or in a plane, not a ‘seventy-five' will be able to speak with authority. The hest possible advance plan- ning for the manufacture of that kind of authority leaves a gap of from six to nine months, and during that time, a helpless Army. Do you want your sons called to the colors with any such situation confronting them and the nation they will be expected to l[}l't:!fl('l X ve ary MacNider said the War Jepartment had been striving to | bridge this gap with savings in ex- | penditures made “by cutting down | the needs of the living Army—our | peace time establishment.” Small arms ammunition loses its useful life @n years after manufacture, he dded. and the war stock now in re- (Continued on Page 5, i 1 |a i ‘| Parents Scout Girl's ‘' And Wal(i to Find §_l..500 Brooch Taken their Mayo Believing that | daughter, Jane dreaming when she arous mother in the nizht saying that | had scen “a man going down ¥ | 3433 Thirty-fourth sireet failed | look for the intruder and awoke this | ce e morning to find that their home had | fame individual who has robbed other | been entered and robbed of a brooch st with more than ot jewelry and $80 in cash. ear-old | to the home by jimmying the kitchen was her | she | the | steps,” Mr. and Mrs. 0. R. Evans of | money to | pockets of Mr. 50 diamonds alued at $1,500, two smaller pieces| jngtances, it was stated, entrance was olumn 2.) Fear of Burglar door. Every drawer had been taken from the bureau in the room in which Mr. Evans was sleeping, it was found, and papers and other contents were | found scattered on the floor. The had bheen taken from the Evans’ clothes. Police believe the burglar is the houses in the Cleveland Park and Chevy Chase neighborhoods the past {two or three weeks. In most other | zained through windows or doors that The terglar had gained 'mrm«-hw ‘heen Jeft unfastened, > . | chugetts, Go.F —| \928 SWIMNMNG HOLE i 5 EXPLORERS' CLUB LEFT WAITING AS AMUNDSEN SAILS FOR HOME Captain’s Sudden Departure Unexplained on Eve of Ceremonies. Arctic Hero Was to Get Med- | al—Prominent Speakers Were invited. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, October 26.—His de- | parture unexplained, Capt. Roald Amundsen was on his way to Norway today, leaving behind a canceled lec- ture tour and an Explorers’ Club medal which was to have been awarded him at a banquet in his hosor Saturday evening. - “Am sailing today. Sorry I can’t be with you,” said telégrams sent be- fore he left on the Bergensfiord to Lee Keedick, lecture bureas manager, and to Rudolph Kersting, secretary of the Explorers’ Club. ¥ E resnit ‘of Capt. ‘Amundsen’ departure more than 200 prospective guests and members of the Explorers’ Club were notified by wire that the dinner and presentation of the medal had been postponed indefinitely. Maj. Gen. A. W. Greely, U. S. A, was to have made a special trip from Washington to deliver the presenta- tion speech. Speakers at the dinner | were to have been men famous in exploration and aviation fields, includ- ing Comdr. Richard E. Byrd and his pilot in the North Pale flight, Floyd Bennett, and Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, skipper for Rear Admiral Peary. Club officials and Mr. Keedick, man- "Bt E ager of {he lecture tour to have begun | next week, said they had received no intimation’ previous to the telegrams that Capt. Amundsen intended leav- ing America at-this time. As recipient of the Explorers’ Club medal Capt.” Amundsen would have joined a distinguished company of nine so honored—Rear Admiral Peary William Curtiss Farabee, Gen. Ron- don, Vilhjalmnr Stefansson, Maj. Gen. Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, Dr. Rasmussen, Dr. Fridtjof Nan- sen and Capt. Bartlett. The matter of sending Capt. Amund- sen the medal has heen held in abey- ance, club officials said. BOND GETS DEWEY TREASURY POST Income Tax Expert Appointed by President as Assist- ant Secretary. Bond of Massa- attorney and income tax expert, was today appointed by President Coolidge to succeed Charlex S. Dewey as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Mr. Bond, a native of Florence, Ma having been horn there in 1881, prepared for college at Waltham High School and was graduated from Harvard College in 1904 and Harvard Law School in 1906, He was as- sociated with the firm of Whipple, Sears & Ogden in the practice of law in Boston from 1906 to 1914. Mr., Bond was engaged in private practice until 1916, when he was ap- pointed as income tax deputy of Massachusetts to organize the income tax department and to administer the new income tax law, enacted in that year. He continued in this position until 1919, From January fo July, 1918, he served also as a member of the ex- cess profits tax advisers, the group appointed by the commissioner of in- ternal revenue to assist in reorganiz- ing the Internal Revenue Bureau and administering the first excess profits tax law. Since then he has been en- gaged in the private practice of law with offices in Boston nnd this city, specializing in corporation and tax matters. Mr. Dewey, whom he succeeds, re- signed recently to hecome financial zd viser to the Polish government. Mr. Dewey has had charge of working out the public buildings program for the Treasury Department. It is not known yet whether Mr. Bond will take over the public buildings work in con- nection with his other duties. SOVIET AND E.GYPT IN DEAL Russia Reported <o Have Cloled| Large Cotton Purchase. LONDO! October 26 (#).—The Daily Mail's Cairo correspondent says that Soviet Russia has concluded a deal with the Kgyptian government for a large amount of cotton at a price helow the market quotation. The government is said to have feared a refusal of the Russian offer would | affect the market unfavorably. The Fgyptians are reported to have asked £300,000 as a guarantee before delivery. Henry Herrick | -Radio Programs—Page 29 “lirectly -to the ~Kmperor, POLICE COURT JURY DOCKET CLEARED Cases Practically Up to Date for First Time Since 1912, Bride Reports. The long clogged jury docket in the District branch of Police Court has been virtually cleared and the court for the first time since 1912 is almost up to date in the prosecuticns of these cases, it was revealed today hy Corporation Counsel William W, Bride. The rapid disposition of the ac- cumulated cases has been accom- plished, Mr. Bride said, by Walter L. Fowler, Richard B. Keech and Elwood H. Seal, the three assistant corpora- tion counsel assigned to the court, who had worked lonz and hard in order to clear the docket. Jury trials have been held on as many as five days a_week, he pointed cut, where- as'in the past only two days a week were devoted to such cases, There are now approximately 75 Jury trial es pending, Mr. Bride said, compared with 457 on July 1. By November 1, he predicted, dates for the trial of all these cases will have heen assigned, and within sev- eral weeks the court will be in a po- sition to try current cases. Mr. Bride explained that with the court up to date on the jury trial docket law violators no longer will be able to escape prosecution by demand- ing jury trials which sometimes in the past did not come before the court for months and even years on account of the congested docket. A report on the disposition of the jury trial eases will be prepared by Mr. Bride for submission to Commis- sioner Sydney F. Ta port will be completed, he said, about November 1. WOMAN ACCOSTS RULER. Jailed in Japan After Trying to Present Suffrage Plea. TOKIO, October 26 (#).—As Em- peror Hirohito was leaving his palace this morning a woman attempted to thrust a petition into his automobile asking him to consider granting suf- frage to women. Police frustrated the attempt and the woman was arrested. It is stated that the woman at- tempted to vote by proxy at the last election for her husband, who was ill. ‘When she was forbidden to do so sh brooded over the situation and finally, in desperation, - decided to lml CVIC ASSOCIATION | TOURS PROVIDENCE Speakers Stress Lack of Common Sense in City Planning. | | 1 | | P BY BEN McKELWAY, l Staff ‘Correspondent of The Star. PROVIDENCE, R. I, October 2 The Providence metropolitan distr L.nsidnrnd with Greater Boston one of | lthe two outstanding examples in In Order to Provide ForHis43 Children' | By the Associated Pre SHERIDAN, Wryo., October 26.— Mexican, from jail. Chavez pleaded guilty to stab- bing Joe Stuka at a ranch near here in a beet workers' row and was given a jail sentence, which was suspended. Two automobile loads of children came to the trial, swarming over the courthouse lawn and disport- ing themselves in the corridors of the building. After a check-up of the family C vez' count of 43 children was accepted and placed on the court records. All the children, he said. were his. He is ahout 60 years old. MAGRUDER T0 ASK PROBE OF REMOVAL | Wilbur’s Decision Viewed as Act of Discipline—*“Shock- ed,” Says Admiral. By the Asenciated Prese. The future status of Rear Admiral | Thomas P. Magruder. eritic of Navy methods and professed advocate of widespread economies in maval ex- penditures, remained in doubt today, following notification from Secretary Wilbur that he had been removed from command of the fourth naval distr Surprise and speculation were rife among Navy men here, especially in view of the fa by the admiral's article had been de cident by the S tary himself. The opinion was ad ced, however, that Magruder's subsequent actions had \roused the ire of the department head and that his detachment was an act of_discipline. E Meanwhile Admiral Magruder await- ed at Philadelphia the arrival of his successor, asserting that he would ask a thorough explanation, and preparing for a trip to Washington in response to a summons from Secretary W ilbur. Magruder Is “Shocked. recent clared a closed in- | America of metropolitan communities, is under inspection today by the| aveling meeting” of the American | je ssociation, which last night | | completed its two-day tour of Boston. | While Boston Monday and yester- | | day, Providence today and tomorrow | | ind the Conneeticut Valley and Spring- | | field on Friday are serving more or | less as laboratories in which the foremost experts in the art | of city and regional planning may | { witness the success and failure of sundry experiments in the develop- ment of this comparatively new science, greater interest attaches to the fact that the round-table discus-| sions, speeches and lectures by =iy planners revolve around a single point. This point is the necessity plus the difficulty for an application »f common Intelligence on the part of American communities today in pl ning for the growth of tomorrow, lest failure so to plan will result in mis- | takes, requiring more effort and more | money to correct than timely p ion | would have cost in the first pla Delano Is Speaker. Presiding last night at the regional | planning dinner which closed the | American Civic Association’s visit to | Boston, Frederic A. Delano, president lof the association and a member of | the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, reminded hearers (that in the days when the population |of the Federation of States numbered less than 5,000,000, a few men had the vision and the wisdom to plan for the growth of the National Capital, but today, more than a century and a half afterward, their plans have not | advanced as far as they saw them. He mentioned the retrocession to Virginia of one-third of the area of the original District of Columbia as one mistake which those living today must always regret, and which has damaged the original plans for Wash- ington's development in a ‘manner | that *“cannot be undone.” Later still, when the population of the District |had reached 200,000 persons, and Florida avenue was considered the utmost limits on the north to which the city would expand, “nobody had (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) i {JOHNSON MAY TAKE NEWARK CLUB OFFER Veteran Twirler Sought as Man- ager and Pitcher for New Jersey Team. The possibility that Walter Johnson | will manage and pitch for the Newark Club of the International League loomed strong today as a result of the conference the veteran hurling star had at his home near here last night with Owner Paul Block of the Bears. The exact terms of the offer made to Johnson by Block have not been divulged, but it is known that the former star of the Washington club has been offered a two-vear contract. Johnson today said he is consider- Ing the Newark offer along with about a dozen from other minor league clubs in addition to several from major league teams. “I haven't decided just what 1 will do yet,” Johnson said, “but expect to make a decision shortly, probably within a few days.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 26.—Punishment | bo) for the parents rather than the child when the latter are unruly, was the advice of Percy Dunhg. Smith, psychiatrist, who spoke t_n l{l‘(m the Illinois Soclety for Men! Y shown that in nearly every case of qu mruly child n;:}.djmmmu in ® home or paren -“f:uh- were to blame," he said. th fathers | t i ‘A recent international survey has | vary. He said the Secretary's notification, which reached him last night, came as a “distinet shock,” that he was much attached to his present post and had hoped to remain for his fuil tour of duty. m“l\ do mot know why I have heen detached,” he declared, “and I shall insist upon a thorough investigation. His magazine article, which aroused considerable comment, was followed by assertions from the admiral that his purpose had been constructiye and that he had not intended to embarrass the Navy Department in any Way. Secretary Wilbur called upon him to submit any reorganigation plan he had in mind, but Magruder replied that he had none and that it would be impossible to prepare such a pro- gram without much time and clerical Sesistance. Meanwhile, newspaper in- terviewers had pictured Magruder as belligerent in his attitude. The ad- miral said he had been misquoted. Data to Be Published. Speaking later in Philadelphia, Ad- miral Magruder declared the depart: ment was imposing ‘1pon him by re- quiring that he back up statements made in his magazine article with con- -rete information. He disclosed that Secretary Wilbur had sent him a set |of 10 guestions to be answered, and that when his replies were late in reaching Washington he had received an order to hurry them up. After his answers had been submitted, he said. requests for further information were made. Secretary Wilbur planned to make this correspondence public today. APPEAL HELD LIKELY. Say Magruder May Take Case to President. PHILADELPHIA, October 26 (). —Feeling, he said, that an injustice had been done him, Rear Admiral Magruder said today that he would urge Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to reconsider his order detaching him from command of the 4th Naval Dis- trict. While the admiral declined to out- line his pla in detail, close friends #aid an appeal to President Coolidge with a complete official review of the magazine article controversy and subsequent events leading up to the order of detachment, might be sought if Secretary Wilbur refused to recon- sider his action. Pointing to his 42 years of service, during which they said he had frequently been commend- ed for meritorious service, but never reprimanded, the admiral's friends said his summary detachment prob- ably was without precedent in the United States Navy. “Secretary Wilbur's order was a hard blow for me,” said Admiral Ma- gruder. “I can't understand it at all. I was under the impression that the controversy arising from my maga- zine article had been straightened out. Surely I have not been detached through lack of attention to duty, for I have alw: worked diligently to build up the Y. Since’I have been here I have worked from early morn- ing_until late at night. “I have become very much attached to Philadelphia and Philadelphians and had hoped to stay here for the full tour of duty. It will be a bitter disappointment if I have to leave.” e el Soviet Executes 10 Bandits. MOSCOW, October 26 ().—Ten men, members of a group of bandits who have terrorized the population of Briansk for a long time, were executed today after their capture by secret police. The men were con- victed of holds-ups of trains and banks and the murder of several of- ficials. Friends Punishment for Parents Instead Of Unruly Child Held Better Cure tests before and after each child is rn. Dr. Harold S. Hulbert, psychiatrist. declared: “Young people today are no worse than they were 60 years and no better. Human nature does not change, only the means of nxpr-_du goodness and badness Urging examinations for glandular cles, Dr. Philips J. Trentzsch that the affair created | magazine | FALL GONGEALED SINCLAIR OIL DEAL, His plea that he had 43 children to | support saved Julian Chavez, | Denied Plan to Lease Teapot | Dome While Negotiations Were Cn, They Testify. {OFFICIALS OF THREE RIVAL FIRMS ON SND Col. Roosevelt Called to Show He Knew Kothing of ex-Secre- tary’s Transaction. by link, through the testimony of former applicants for leases on Teapot Dome given today at the oil conspiracy trial, the Government forged a chain of evidence to support 1'"’ charge in the indictment that Al- bert B. Fall had misrepresented facts S0 as to protect Harry F. Ninchr from competition, thereby defranding States of property useful | Through this testimony, Owen J. | Roberts of special Government coun- | sel, brought to the attention of the jJury that while negotiations with Sin- clair actually were in progress, and |even at the time when the lease was |in the final stages of execution, Fall had informed certain of the applicants that the Government was not conside ering the leasing of Teapot Dome. Three Witnesses Heard. Before the morning session had closed the jury had heard three such applicants for Teapot Dome. These were F, Kistler of the Producert and Refinars’ Corporation; Amos L. Beaty, president of the Texas Co. at the time of th asing, and Ber! Helms of the Pacifie ¢ and Oil Co. Immediately after Roberts had pre zented the evidence of the competing oil men and firms, he called to the stand John C. Shaffer, prominent Chicago newspaper publisher, whe testified that Fail told him during a conference on the subject of Shaffer’s getting a lease on Teapot Dome im March, 1922, a month before the lease as signed, that he had ‘“requested Sinclair to reserve 200 acres” in Tea, pot Dome for Shaffer,’ Shaffer then saw Sinclair and a contract wai drawn up whereby Shaffer was to get 400 acres, but was never executed be- cause of certain conditions that were not fulfilled, the witness declared. Shaffer had applied for 640 acres on Teapot Dome on behalf of himself and the Marland Oil Co., and on June 17, 1921, Fall wrote him that there “are no developments in this reserve and under present conditions this de- partment does not feel warranted im leasing the reserve af the present time,” according to documentary evidence which Roberts fired into the record. The letter added that if the situation justified the leasing of the reserve Shaffer’s application would be given consideration. After arranging with Fall for a conference early in March, 1922, Shaffer said he called on Fall and re- minded him of his application for the lease in Teapot Dome. “Fall said he had requested Sinclair to reserve 200 acres for me,” he declared. Roberts interrupted to inquire how Shaffer knew at that time that Sinclair got the contract, and, as the defense stormed objections, Shaffer said he “read it in the press.” He was per- mitted to continue his story of the conference, and quoted Fall as saying ith respect to an arrangement with nclair: “You see Sinclair, as I am sure he will adjust matters for you.” Visits Sinclair in New York. Shaffer visited Sinclair in New York and on March 23, wired Fall that he had “agreed with Sinclair for cer- tain amount of acreage” and that he was very grateful “for your help in the matter.” Shaffer was still on the stand when recess was taken for ‘luncheon. At that time a heated argument was on between counsel over the admissibility of the carbon copy of a letter Shaffer wrote to Sinclair under date of Octo- ber 16, 19. the original of which Sinclair was to have received is not in court. The letter was a continu- ation in chronological order of the barrage of documentary evidence which Roberts laid down in connec- tion with Shaffer's testimony. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, former As- sistant Secretary of the Navy, was called as a Government witness at the outset of the trial today for the purpose of showing that he knew nothing at all about the negotiations under way for the Sinclair lease. He testified that he first learned of the lease during the latter part of April, 1922, after its execution, and had no knowledge of the intent of the Navy Department to lease Teapot Dome be- fore them. The oil men went into explicit de- tail of conference with Secretary Fall, at which proposals were made to lease either the whole or portions of Teapot Dome. Conference Opens Court. Roberts and Littleton approached the bench this morning immediately after Justice Siddons entered court and indulged in a lengthy conference in the course of which a glass of water was upset accidentally, and the court bailiff, clerk, messenger, and the two attorneys made vigorous efforts to prevent the water from further damaging the court’s papers and data, While the conference was in progress, the results of which were not made known to the jury in any form at that time, Sinclair and Hoover chatted and laughed frequently hile Fall sat alone in his chair close by with his eyes turned on the floor. As the principals in the case enter- ed the court room, Roosevelt and Fall encountered each other at close quar- ters, but neither showed any sign of recognition. Returning to their respective places Roberts and Littleton began the day's proceedings. Roberts called Roosevelt to the stand and after iden- tifying him with respect to his tenure in office as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, which was from the middle of March, 1921, until about the end of September, 1924, Roberts questioned the witness about his knowledge of the Navy's war plan for storage of oil, Roosevelt Describes Plan, The plan, Roosevelt replied, called for storage capacity for 45,000,000 bar- rels of oil along the coasts and the estimate of cost for the construction of tankage and filling the tanks with oil ranged from $86,000,000 to $103,000,- 000. Included in the plans was Ports- hat | mouth, N. H., which later became the *®Contipued on Page 4, Column 2))