Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1927, Page 1

“*From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening dnd Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 3000 and service will start immediately SATHER. (0. 8 Weather Burean Forecast ) air and colder tod: tomorrow In sing cloudiness with slowly rising temperature, Temperature: Highest noon: lowest, 30, at 10 p.m. Full report on page 7. 88, 12 Sunday Stae, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION he 30,511, WASHINGTON, | = = Cold-Looking Water HANKOW IN PANE, oo v YALE TEAM BEATS NATIVE CTY FIRED . Swiide Decison. pRNCETON, 145, BY LOUTING OBS © Y CLOSHG RALLY BALTIMO wember ause “the water looke ed . e | Civil War Flames Anew in Eli Eleven, Before 80,000 Yangtze Valley as Tang cold,” Mrs. Minnie Risik chan Gets Two Touchdowns Evacuates Town. (#) Means Associated Press. * FIVE CENTS. BURNS IS ACCUSED OF OIL CASE PLOT BY OWN OPERATIVE M Mullin:ffi’l;;d for Spy Work in Fall-Sinclair Trial, Reveals Scheme to Pinchot. past office, NOVEMBER 13, 192 No. 1,182— No. T ol e D. (., SUNDAY MORNING, —122 PAG W iv the Assocln body could be found After frantically notifying police. he hurried toward the harbor, he only to meet his wife return. her mind at the last nute te in Last Quarter. ifter she had resolved to end her life in the harhor Her husband, Joseph, asserted BRUCE CALDWELL SEES GAME FROM SIDELINES that he returned home to find a B"—”’Y | Wiltmer Is Star for Losers—Fish- | note telling of her resolve and in dieating the exact spot where her - ‘ _ S N A i Confession Shows Affidavits Involving S[]ME - Lamb Were “Fiction.” Maj. Gordon Says in Statement. for the first time in . Mrs. Risik in he water looked t month: formed too cold.” HOOVER ELIg DOUBTED BY FORMER (;()\'ERN’;)RV RELAYS PROSECUTOR JAPANESE MARINES REPORTED LANDED STORY TO U. Foreign Concessions Former Nationalist Capital Barricaded When New Fight Starts. at ick Snares Pass From Hoben to Clinch Game. 3 Dispateh to The Sta NEW HAVEN. November | Friends Hold He Has Resided | near vrinceton 14 106 this . in one of the gre <t 1me ever in U. S. for 14 Years, witnessed in the Yale Bowl, but the Despite Long Trips. HANKOW, The evacuati Seng-Chi fire of Hankow ton housands trocps and civilia > roaming the | city, looting. Panic reigns | Civil War Flames Anew. SIIANGHAL November 12 (#).—The « again abl with | 78 Valley with the important inland commercial center of Hankow once more the scene of dizorder: The flight today of the mil Hankow, Gen. Tang Seng hefore the steady dvance of the D king Nationalists who have been pesing him. has left almost leaderloss his unpaid troops, free to loot the city and strike terror in the hearts of the whols population, including the foreigners. | Reperts from the former capital of the Nationalis ime state that Jap anese marines have landed. that the foreizn have heen b caded and that the Chinese inhabit of the city are moving on the foreign sections for protection. Fighting and oting i ty. say the advices, while au- thority over the Wuhan cities of Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang is heing handed over to Tang's successor, Gen. Ho Chien, who is seeking to take command of the situation. Nationalists Near Hankow. Meanwhile, the Nanking National- Ists, seeking to consolidate their posi- tion in the Yangtze Valley again, are rushing on Hankow and the head of their column is within 15 miles of the city, according to reports received here in foreign commercial circles. The vernacular newspapers are in- formed that thousands of the defeated and disorganized Hankow forces have arrived at Wuhan and the population of Wuhan and Hankow is described anicstricken. A body of 10.000 troops _has “cressed the | \atze to Wuchang and is proceed | ing southward and the area through —Yale China : rnoon troops of to 1t Ge native Revelation that evidence had jury that the Burns Detective Ag operatives “to make and sign false repor bout one of the jurors in the Fall-Sinclair trial “for the purpose of provoking a mistrial {if needed” furnished a sensation yesterday in the jury tampering mvestigation _ Further, it was revealed at the United States Attorney’s of- fice this same operative was told to sign an afidavit of heer fiction,” r:hur;:in;: an official of the Department of Justice with approaching-a juror during the trial “for the purpose and effect jof showing that the Government was tampering with the jury and to justify such surveilance” by the Burns agents as had been PRES"]EN]. WRI."NG | discovered by the Government. This was the basis for Justice ANNUAL MESSAGE Frederick L. Siddons withdrawing the jury from further con- The operative was “William \". Long sideration of the conspiracy case. LeC | Mr. Coolidge Gets Early Start ever. is William J. McMullin of Philadelphia. Under the name ) of “Long.” he obtained employment with the Burns aency i on Recommendations Philadelphia on October 131; was given .'lm : v;::—l’\:(-n:;)’f:f“-}u:; for Congress. nted induce heen the grand ' one of its pre | win spoiled tze makings of a perfect | foot ball tragedy. | ©On the bench at the bottom of the | bowl Pruce Caldwell, Yale star halfback, disqualified on the eve of | the big Princeton game because he ved freshman foot ball at | - SOFT-DRINK PLACES the players bench sat, a bare ‘hr-‘ulv»d resigned fi muffled in ar beside the and old Parlors Suspected of Violat- ing Liguor Law Being Watched in Drive. BY G. GOULD LI | Eligibility of Herbert Hoover. Secre- ! | tary of Comme under one of the | .| constitutional qualifications for Presi- | "’h“ | dent. has been questioned in a * C pering campaign” in the N M| Capital and elsewhere. It the open recently thr | cation of a letter in Mass.. Republican. The attack upon the potential can didacy of Mr. Hoover revolves around that provision in the Constitution which s NCOLN. Navy Builds Blimp To Land on Water He ire. came into conches the publi- the Springfield. | { overcont rads. Garvey Plays.the Game. bow! full of people 80,000 of them, who had payed $400.00¢ for the privilege, looked at (% Idwell |and groaned. In Caldwell's feniliar t a natural born | place” at left halfback was Johnus oF citizert;of ithe Tinited St rvey. trying to live up to ano‘kel man’s reputation time of the adoption of e aven e Sonian, i <hall be eligible to t he helped his team march dowa the | office (the presidency); neither shall|ficld to the Tig zonl line lany person be eligible to that office | there Yale's rushes failed. for 3 who shall not have attained to the age | nor anybody else, could punch through of 35 years, and been 14 vears a resi- | Princeton which stood like brick | dent within the United States. and mortar. Was Out of Countr-. For that scorin steel stamina of C: The whispering campaizn is I indispensable. on the last clause, which says th Therefore the Y: |be eligible for President a Princeton was pis must have been 14 rs a resident vative, within the United States. Prior to the [ Wittmer World War Mr. Hoover out of [ short gains. until they the country for long periods. 60 yards down the field towards Close associates of the Secretary of [ white posts. At the opening of the Commerce maintain, however, thit he | second period. Wittmer went throuzh has always been a citizen of the |2 yards for a touchdown. Fishwick United States, and that he has main- | blocking the subsequent Kkick-off, so tained a residence and a home within | that the extra point was not made. the United States for a long period. The score W 6 to 0 for Prince. Any attaek upon Mr. Hoover's eligi- [ ton but that was enough. and Cald- bility, the, 4 must fall to the|well's face was blank as he looked | ground. Ed; kard of New York,|on. The Yale blue was blue. It who was associated with Mr. Hoover | was hlue as blazes. as hlue as a in his Belgian relief work hefore the United States entered the World War, s an old nose on a frosty To tell the truth as blue in a letter to the Springfield itepub lican said: only Yale can he when a hiz three which the retreat is being made now . {=ame is tied up in the. bag against fearn wholesale disorder. | I have known Mr. Hoover intimate- | them The foreign naval commanders are Iy since 1910 and during a portion of | Xnown to be keeping in extremely | this time have been associated with him in Belgian relief. Without going close touch with the situation, the ! e into the Jegal question of whether the Half of the N 1., Novem! 12.—Anafr of the nonr type which Le able to on water as well as land is be mbled at the naval air station here, and will be ready for its final tests in about a week With 1ts boat-type straam lined, the craft will have greater speed than others of the same Kind, hecause of a lesser re. «istance to the wind. The airship will be known as the J-4. and will be a sister ship to the J-3, now in commizsion here. The J-4 will have a capa 200,000 cubic t of helium, and, powered by two Wright engines of 180 horsepower each. will have cruising speed of 50 knots and range of 25 hours of continual fly inghe craft will be used prin- cipully {or cross-country Aving in the train. of personnel for quali- fication in rigid airship ; Burns Operative Became “Disgusted.” tan whose real name, how- concession th the Constitution control ear | shadowing on October 18 in Washington, and learning “of the {real purpose of the surveilance, he became v much disgusted,” | United States Attorney Peyton Gordon declared in LI'il;"’iH” !‘0 3 h_ght the story which has been in possession of the (ju\c':'m;ent gun the | since October 24, message | going on in ne, punch, the coll clz ldwell was plainly BY. J. RUSS President Coolids L acu iting of h [to € s He ente L YOUN has b ann Picketing of soft-drink establish ments, where it is suspected by the | police that liquor being sold, has been ordered by Capt. Maurice (ol lins in command of precinct No. 7, in Gedrgetown. Ohservers yesterday officers waiching the entrar eral places at frequent interv one pluce, it was learned that more policemen have taken standing in front of the d serutinizing everybody who or comes out John C. Reidy. who conducts a saft drink establishment ai 3004 M street, | one of the places being watched, has employed a tawver fo find out whether | the potice were within their lezal rights to picket his place. Further- s Laft Jmoro, Reidy said the policemen often | 3 4 | enter and stand at the bar alongside | like Spring | the patrons and sometimes they gue: warm the ity of ; Pinchot Repeats Story to Roberts. red upon this task during | the p week, and at the rate he | has progressed, he expects to have | this highly important paper com- | pleted considerably in advance of the | moment that the Government | sonvening of the Seventieth Congress. | private detective been in Maj. Gordont Ordinarily the President completes | '3 = = the writing of a speech or messaze FALI- SAYS HEAI--[H 3 y for a week here woule | N RAP be mo objection to the revelation oy in surpr zlv short time, once MeMullin's activities in connectior Fears He May Not See Home McMullin_communicated his charges to former Goy of Pennsylvania on that date and 20 minutes later, special Government oil prosecutor in the ca of the matter by Pinchot, Maj Gifford Pinchot later, Owen J. Roberts, e then on trial, was informed rdon explained. It was not until that the jury was being shadowed by found police E S of sev At 10 or turns ely | in What was revealed is only part of ned by sterday after n eight-page McMullin - ané AR TRAIL BLAZERS 10 BE GUESTS HERE | he has concluded a study of the sub- with this matter in detail,” ex Jects he is to discuss and has.made a comprehensive rough draft. But the President has indicated to those with whom he has discussed the un- ed M 3 Maj. Gorlon, “hut dertaking he has just entered upon requires that no :n:ululs':{-’yclv'om;:;e;. that he intends to proceed very care- as to his testimony or to his activ ties or reports relaiive to his superiot thicer and fellow operatives.” In oral statements to a large gather- Eight Minu Cully and therefore will consume more < of newspaper correspondents who The sun was shininz above hut nothing could | tme than usual. kes Unusual Care. I tion the patrons as they enter wireless being constantly in use be-| tween the flagships at Shanghai and the patrol hoats at Hankow and other ports on the Yangtze. A chackup of the patrol on the river of the various powers that there are 54 ships be- tween Chinkiang and Chungking, with a hes concentration at Hankow, made within recent days as a result of the tension existing within the Wu- han ci Ame Hankow, can v seven for with nd iiuk Tlankow, and Italy 3, 2 of which are at Hankow. WOMAN HURT ENTERING REAR OF ONE-MAN CAR! Clothing Catches in Automatically | menting editorially upon the matte, | Closing Door Near Fourteenth and H Streets. As scores in horror Phoebe A. carly Howell, 64 , was dra the 1400 block in the rear door of a | oneman car of ihe Washington | Rajlway & F ric Co, Becoming confused and attempt- | ing to enter the Which is used as an exit on one | man cars, Miss Howell found her i ht by the nutomatically Attracted her uts of those who operator 9 | short of street, she had h in front was ted about stwet. repe 10 cet, of ital treatment and home in a passing tomobile. stated that Miss | Howell is a retired school teacher. efused hos: BOY, ACCIDENTALLY SHOT, NEAR DEHH IN HOSPITAL jand Youth Wounded When Gun He Is Carry Discharged. Mary Brandy reack and floor. farmer returned hor y was taken to Emer i hy Dr. J. E. Bowe s suid that has but o rece The shoot ears old, 1 home the doo! 1nd 5 sterday hoy left mothy Mrs. went e voad accidentally dis chargesd FIVE KILLED IN FIRE IN INDIANAPOLIS HOTEL November Jilled hers a fire in the the downtown dis n pouring from the | fore midnight and said 1o have windows, e rear door, | | position in found | the | 14 years' residence period mentioned in the constitution must be imme- diately prior to March 4, 1 or whether it is cumulative, I can state at once that Mr. Hoover mot only maintained a residence and a home within the United States for the whole of my 16 years' acquaintance with { him, but that, while he from time to time traveled abroad upon profes sional work and public service, yet 1 know positively that in each and every separate year ending March 4 he was himself physically within the United States. The Belgian relief which you mentioned was directed both from the United States and Europe, and he was con stantly back and forth from the United States during the whole period of the war. Matter Appears Closed. The Sprinzgfield Republican, com said: The telegram from Edgar Rickard seems to answer the question (of My er’s eligibility) and close the mai a native of the United born’in West AN He took an A B Jde ring in Staniord U'ni 3 and from 1845 1o 141 he was engaged in enginee:iny wor in the United States, Mexico, C Australia, Italy, ‘a, India, China the F rope in 1913 the World War broke out he became chairman of the American relief cor mittee in London, which aided Areri | cans stranded in Europe to 1~ | home, and soon afterward be chairman of the an. relief mittee When the United States entered the World War in 1917 Mr. Hoover r turned to this country and became d of the Food Administration. He resuded eonstantly in this country that time. When 1929 rolls he will have been here 12 It would be strange, indeed friends point out, if the years he spent immediately prior thereto o of the American Itelief in Pel uta -hould ) unted against his sility for election ta the Presi if the constitutional provision interpreted to mean that a man 1 resident “with United for 14 years 10 becoming President utional authorities ptthat it was a4 qu e clane the_Constitution 1 on T ‘olumn Hoover i States. He w lowa, in 1874, e in engi Mr. represented E bas since around ve must be cont prio Consti last n s here said na (Contin WOMAN IS SUCCESSFUL IN 7TH SUICIDE ATTEMPT Mrs. Annie Heath Ends Life With Gun_After Six Other Efforts Failed. x times M Annie Heath, 41 vears old, .tried vainly to tuke her own life, despondent over ill health, but the seventh time she was suc cessful Repeatedly she tried poison, once <he jumped Into the Tidal Basin, hut Jch time physicians saved her life nst her will. Yesterday afternoon while her husband, Vernon Heath, a eamfitter, was at work she shot self with a .38-caliber revolver = almost instantly. The hody w ed by her landlady, Mr 1sscock, 1813 Mount when she opened the door he dyi dizeoy line ¢ nlace. Vernon of the Ieaths' fourth-floor room to clean | » one heard the fatal shot Coroner: Nevitt 1ed a certificate of suicide. Mrs. Heath is survived by | her husband, a sister and a 1y old daughter, Margaret, it Ade | heart of Yale. Over on the Princeton e, they were singing “Wo, Wo (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. QUISHES ARMY VAN |Service Eleven, in Big Upset, | Smothers Indianans f Before 75;000. Specinl Dispateh to The Star, NEW YORK what was perhaps the big th rushing { blanked clever —In upset November eleven ed and by an powerful Army fast, experienc Dame gridder and the Notre .| 18100 score at the Yankee Stadium afterfioon, before a crowd of to 0 in s | With the score standing 6 | the third period and when one shit mean a tie and another defeat | tor the Cadet William Lester Nave |of Cleveland vouth who had sat, in idie sideline slave, was led upon iy Army. Veterans had failed in what he was to d Intercepts ven-eleven-twenty-tw the Notre Dame quarter. Jt was | John (Butch) Niemiec's number being uled—Niemice, the passer. Bill crouched for were ol the grass. Back snapped the ball players were in combat head they turabled as they iifted up. O from the fiving 1 lone ball eatcher O spiraling hall. Into the 2 hands of Nave, the voung knight, came the oval. His arnis steeled und he jumped ahead He whirled ahout a twisted off two teammates found a foothold and he gained by bounds. Off he pushed opponents, straight - arming Fiftv-five yards he OV- Column 3.) Twenty-one o was the came 1he flving tackler backs. His legs zround three them | TContin AWy Outstanding Score in Foot Bzll Games Yale, 11; Princeton, 6. Columbia, 0. 1: Nebraska, 13, ois, 15; Chicago, 6. 16; Wisconsin, 0. 8; Northwestern, 10. Pittshurgh, essee ifornia, 0. Stanford, 6. Boston Col- on, 40; St. Delaware, | St. Xavier, 26; e e - NOTRE DAME, 180 conduct of the | year in foot ball, the strong | and |ask them what they de o get. are going insic Neglect Is Charged. Reidy declared they could stand in | tront of his place or enter it 4 as they please without discovering anything wronz, but he insists the picketing is hurting h of seiling nearbeer, sing Martin_J. McNomara, yer whom Mr. Reidy retained that he may take steps to pre nt the police from interfering with the patrons, but he did not sce how they could be prevented from stand ing cutside. M = 50 | many policemen have been picketing the Reidy place that the “proper busi ness of protecting people in this part ot the city a t robbery and other svimes is being neglected “Maj. Hesse has told me t | police ‘are trying to prevent the law | trom being violated.” said Mr. Mc 3 “but I do not think that is 1ee of the police in a case “Their duty is to arrest violate the not to business how long they hefore 1 decide the the p iike this | sons who | break 1o o thing up | what legal steps to take When a reporter entered Reidy | place vesterday, three policemen were standing on the sidewalk in front cf th do They sald nothing, hut seemed to be keeping a close watca on everything that was going on ir the vicinity. The room cept for D. of Mr. Reldy | keep inside was deserte Bradley, broth who was in ch Claims Business Injured. turned awi Mr. Bradley m to con “Peaple are heing from our plice,” said | “You eannot expect th the police look ¢ were criminals. There is nothin to be found here except what we have |a right to sell. but our husiness wil | soon be gone entirely if this keeps up.” Capt. Collins said that he had one bman detailed for inspection work in 1€ etown, but sev 1 othi ity were under surveillance, ain ko )t Collins said that any instructions for, taken, but that he himsell had oh tained the names of persons emerging from other establishments in his pre cinet, and they would be summon=d as witnesses if future events justified it . | colling described his activities | “clean-up”: said that he had re | complaints that c n conditior his district neec he intended to give it in that vicin nd would s a ved Tt in and that not only Reidy’s | ded attention and that | Pioneers in Noted Flights Will See Lindbergh Get Medal Tomorrow. all of America’s trail-blaz- ing crusaders of the air will be on the platform at the Washington . Audi- torium tomorrow night when the | President of the United States will Charles A. Lindberzh, Virtuaily | present to Col n bebalf of the National Geographic | Society, the Hibbard Medal, awarded | only for outstanding schievement in | the field of exploration. Banked about the noted trans. it < he receives the award | from the hands of President Coolidge | swill he nearly all his comrades on the, uncharted highroads of the air—from Lindbergh. the trail blazer, to Ruth | janded only Friday in New | York after an air journey which to her more than two-h s of the .y the heaving wastes of the 1o distinguished group of nd the one woman pilot of 2 to he the g across | Atlantic airmer | the air. # dent Medal Awarded an times pre Iy has the ial heen presented. Lind ond flyer to veceive tie airman who owns 1 s Comdr, Richard | 15 Byrd wrded him for his epochal feat in crossing the North Pole b plane. In the group of aviators and of the National Ceographic siety on the stage will be the mother I Lindbergh. President svenar of the Geographic iety will preside at the presentation ceremony. Guests' of White House | following av Lindbergh, | fiver; Comar. Pole and t | | comrades on | Acosta, his 2 0. Ne [ pitot.” Capt ence . Ch | Levine, New tors: Lients Frnest e, California 1M s the sel : The othe Hubbard Med the the President at metud - Charle Yo rd, N the hunch ators: Col pioncer New narl E ntic flver, Atlantic nt 1 Rtuth *lder‘and her Halde: lar- B an: Lo pile wertin Yorsdo G tor J. Maittand first 1o fiy ‘o Itawaii: Ernest 1 onte, California to Hawati Goebol, winner of the i Paul Schutier pnee. second _in the Column 1) ind from Smith flye Dole and fliht Martin (Continued on 1% 1o ze 4 Georgctown Graduat As Sallor, Hero \‘ R By the Associal NEW YOR Norwegian sailor, who went to sea to “build a bank roll,” was led today as the hero of an explosion which tore the bow off the tanker Bet killing three of her crew and severely burn- ing a fourth yesterday. He was Chiet N graduate of Georgetown who risked his life after the bl climb down over the shattered how | through, the gaping hoie and train a |fln~ hose on the smoldering hold. Sure,” he said, “we knew there might be another explosion, but some- body had to get down there and put out” the fire before it spread to ol fumes in the next compartment. That's all there was to it." “We," he explained, included him- self and Bos'n Ja O'Keefe, who fol- . { the course, c.isrcci*:ing Bank Roll of Blast on Tanker‘ | lowed him doven the Jacol's ladder to keep the hose clear of jagged pieces | of steel projecting from deck to water line of the Beta's bow. Larsen explainad that he had gradu- ed from the School of Foreign Serv- at Georgetown Unlversity, but found himself “broke” after ending He went to sea, he said, to save money and complete a study of the export business, Several times, he said, he had lectured on mechani- cal dentistry at Howard University, in Washington. - Capt. J. B. Kehoe, master of the tank said he could not tell what had caused the explosion. “I think we struck a hidden war mine,” he said. “Maybe it's stretch- seen practice mines exploded in war- time and it was just like that.” ing the imagination some, but l'vbl He has been represented as wanting to give more than ordinary care to riety of subjects he will incorporare in this message, and for this reason he has made an early start. There is reason to feel that great interest is being attached to this mes. | sage, probably more than any mes Mr. Coolidge has submitted to | Congress. It is natural to assume that his decision not to be a candidate to ucceed himself in office is responsibl | for considerable of the interest. In this respeet, it Is suggested that he n deal with the problems of the Government, both domestic and for eign, without fear of his words being misinterpreted, now that he has an nounced he docs not choose to be a ndidate. Aside from this, unusual will ke attached t» this me only beeause of the vital the subjects, but hecaus - will witness national election. 'nt realizes that what he annot help but have an im portant bearing upon his party’s for- tunes in the next election. Moreover he is mindful, too. that the next ses. sion of Congress, If it runs true to form, will be more of less political. Po s Held Absent. Mr. Coolidge. about the pre interest sage, not nature of the coming therefore, has set ion of a message in which he will candidly report upon the tion and recom TODAY'S STAR 32 PAGES. I, National PART ONE General News—Lo Foreign. Schools and Clleges Clubwomen of the Around the Cit Army and Na YW Girl and A. Notes—Page 34. Seouts—Page 35, “Teacher Activities—Page 3 and Programs—Puages 37 | s 43, 44 and 45 ews of the Clubs—Page 48, | TWO=20 PAG orials and Editorial hinzton and Other Society Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Children’s BooK Week—Page 4 Tales of Well Known Folk—Page PART T Amusements 1L REE—12 PAGES. Theaters and the Photo. | 5 's and Motoring Serial, “The Four Page 8. Fraternal News—Page 9. District National Guard—Page 11. Marine Corps Notes—Page 11. Spanish War Veterans—Page 12. W. C. T. U. Notes—Pgge 12. g PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and tures. The Rambler—Page 2. Civilian Army News— Page PART SIX—I0 PAGES. Classified Advertising At the Community Ca’ntirl-—}‘nx' 9. GRAPHIC SECTION—I2 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. . COLOR_SECTION— PAGES. . Mutt and. ‘J’.E; Reg'lar Fellers and au,; High Lights of History. Pages 6 and 7. Straggler ! wording of his treatment of the | Golumbia Naval Reserve— | | Again After New Trial | in January. By the Associated Press. Albert B. Fall said sood-bye to Washington last night with a lurking presentment that after his new tvial here in January he may not be strong enough to turn homeward again. A few hours before train time the vear-old former Interior Secretary received an Associated Press reporter in the hotel room where bas battled iliness for the last week. He aid his intention was to go to_his build himself up to be able to return here on January 16. the day set for a new trial of the Teapot Dome case in which he is a defendant with Harry F. Sinclair “I would like to feel that there is more than an even chance for my returning home after that," Fall con tinued, “but [ think there is only 50-50 chance. I shall come, if it possible. hecause I want to have the opportunity far as possible, to clear my name.” Denies Jury Case Knowledge, | Fan sat low in an easy chair stooped shoulders shrouded in a blue velvet bathrobe. The paleness of his cheeks showed how illness had sapped his vitality, but his eyes were brixht and his voice strong as he referred to the grand jury investigation gr-w- n: out of the recent mistrial of the Teapot Dome case. “I had not the slightest idea that any detectives had boeen hired to in- vestigate jurors. “This whole affair was v new to e, and at no time was the matter mentioned in my presence. Mr. Sin clair never intimated to me knowledse of such activities, If he even knew. During the trial 1 1 his room only one afternoon, and he was in my room only a few times." Faull revealed that on the dav of | the mistrial he sought to ask Justice Siddons to have the cafe go on im mediately. | “My plea was interrupted by an ob- jection by Mr. Pome v | ment counsel.” h ‘I was will- to have the case go on with that or to start again the next day nother jurs. Built Up for Each Trial. took me 12 months to build up | for the trial, and even longer than } that to build up for the Doheny’ trial his jur; with ow I intend to rest and walk in Ne Mexico. where the warm climate | altitude agree With me. Unless doc- tors forbid me to return to Washin, ton in Janus I will come. But I must consider my family and, al- though T am old, perhaps 1 can re main with them a little longer before going across the great divide. The Washington climate has never suited his health, Fall sald. ars as Senator and two as of the cabiner, I spent only one Christmas here,” he went on. Rbticent about talking for publi- cation, the former Interior Secretary said, “It was always my custom never to say what I was going to do, but to do things. That is why I told nobody about the Teapot Dome leases. I was' Harding's representative, and 1 will not now seek to try my case in the newspapers. What I will suy, though, is that no. person connected with my side of the case will stand on their constitutional rights of jm- munity. % e Fall declined to amplify the state- ment, in response to an inquiry whether it meant that he intended| to take the stand in his own defense when the new trial is called. At that (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) 5 1 ew Mexico ranch, so that he might | had followed the trial and grand § proceedings closely, Maj. Gordon ang | his assistant, Neil J. Burkinshaw, re lated how McMullin “was induced to make and sign_false reports” about orman L. Glascock, and how ,AMdavit that a man. identl. ccom 2 Vi at Hoover Field on October 34 & gek a¢ Hoover Iield on October 24, *was “He was told hy the Burns agency davit about Lamb and to stick to the story’ in his reports in giving his (estimony before the grand jury and 14 he wou il 3 CATr 4 Gordon declareq, " CFe 06" Maj. the operatives of to sign the afti. Maj. Gordon's Statement. Since Pinchot w charges, service when Gov. n’n ed of” McMullin's as remn i of the Burns. a Gy Ing out orders and instructions from his superiors. His service with that '\mlwlll obviously terminat S tar as could be learned, no :.)\.. :;Iumn(' is Burns detectives l'lllefl?a el m[ rday afternoon suse | Maj. Gorden's ment, follows “The man who ing under the named William J lin came *o W of Octcher as | Burns formal oral state- has heen operat- nam “Long” is McMullin, McMul- ashington on the 18th an operative of e | ney with divections to rre 0t 1o Ruddy (C. G. Kuddy. in charxe o the detail here). Upon being given | his assiznment in connection with t surveillance of the jury in the Fa Hr conspiracy case iie s rned of the veal purpose of the urveillince and became very mucn | sir | ie L from Philadelph ing known of Gov. Pincl ad the day before in Washe ! Pn that the sovernor was here, Im cilled upon the governor on Octo v;lu . nd nlwlvnlnr\vl him of the situ- ition. Gov. Pinchot then sent for 3 [ation. ! E or Mr. Roberts and McMullin has been in communication ith Government counsel ever since—for thiee weeks— working with the nd have ana have still od of to make Glase of pro= eded The ind the fe * Oukland road his r s to Lamb wa tion. port Lays Plo was | th to Agency. | Mhis azency, | number of 1 report. Al of own totthe Burns d the license A's car to put into the this was known to the was knowingly ie aftidavit made ice Siddons ‘fter the mistrial. 'his was done for the purpose and t to show that the Government | was tampering with the jury and to justity such surveillance. There would be no objection to the revelas tion of McMullin's activitfes fa con- nection with this matter in detail, but public interest requires that no dis- closures be made as to his testimony or to. his activities or reports relative to his superior officers and fellow operatives. “This office has been in possession of an affidavit of eight pages of Me- Mullin’s for week disclosing in de- tail the operations of the entire crowd. He was told by the operatives of the Burns agency (o sign the afis davit about Lamb and to stick to the story in his reports in giving his testls mony before the grand jury and thut he would be taken care of—all of which was immediately this office. He w: Sructed ta piay " (Continued on Page