Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureaa Forecast.) Cloudy and colder, preceded by rain this afternoon and wearly tonight; to- morrow fair and colder, Temperature— Highest, 45 today; lowest, 41 day. Full report at noon . at 11 pm. yester- on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 he Foening Sfar. 30,544, post office, Wa Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, = /0y D. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- as fast as the papers 1927 —SIXTY -TWO PAGES. i (#) Means Associated Press. tion is delivered to Washington homes are printed. Yénerday's Circulation, 102,840 . TWO CENTS. LINDBERGH T0 FLY 104 COUNTRIES IN CENTRAL AMERICA Decides to Visit Guatemala, San Salvador, Honduras and Panama. PLAN SEEN AS WIPING OUT ANTI-AMERICANISM WARMTH OF ME para NOW Se BY COL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH. War Department Wireless Direct Star and the New York Times. KICO CITY, December 16. Mexico. I had no idea that Mexico City was so beautiful or that the cli- mate was so delightful, and the people have been so generous in their recep- tion that I cannot say too much in appreciation. They could not have been kinder. The warmth of their wel- Mexican Congress Confers Highest come will remain with me as an un forgetable impression Today has been so filled with many Honor—Will Spend Christ- | thines that T am a bit confuseq as to « mas There. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY. December 16.—Col Charles A. Lindbergh will y.-pn.lj Christmas in Mexico and then plans | a flight to Central America. The American fiying ambassador of good | will intends te fiy \from Mexico City to Guatemala City, San Salvador, Hon duras, Panama, posibly Nicaragua and then probably visit Havana. He expects his mother to come to Mexico Ciiy as guest of Ambassador Morrow to spend the holidays with him, The order inm which the American airman, who so completely captivated Mexico on his arrival here Wednesday, will visit the Central American repub- lics has not been decided nor has the time of his departure from Mexico City been made public. Neither Col. Lindbergh nmor American Ambassador Dwight W: Morrow would reveal these phases of the projected air journey. May Not Stay Long. Col. Lindbergh. feels that because the arrangements are being made between the Department of State and the gov- ernments of the Central American countries, he is at present in no posi- tion to make a statement. In addi- W to this he is pursuing his charac- teristic policy of little or no advance talking' or announcements of his in- tentions. tic circles are intensely in- terested in indications that behind Col. Lindbergh's good will flight to Mexico City a ntly were also plans for etxy good will mission to Cen- tral America. If this should be as effective as the American aviator's Mexico City mission seems to be it mean, some think, the sweeping oft one great dramatic gesture of much {ll-feeling against the United States in Latin-America, which has been frequently reported for some Climate Pleases Him. The American air hero, who Is a guest at the American embassy, arose about 7:30 o'clock this appeared in the pink of breakfasted and He “eggs, toast, ce and - ‘.-t:ctfid out ecnn:g‘.rd between the residence and chancellory, - He u::kma:m preat! ‘mountai o o{mthe in ;‘hl \::llhm sun- us blue Y. R e, S ‘M the perfection dh).uxim on fty's climate, which he is Andig at fAts very best. T "y detail ‘morning, Ambassador Mor- row fiyer free 10 ve the American from ments as far as Much interest attaches to whether Col. will attend a bull fight on Sunday, the day when all the big- bull fights are held in Mexico City. Telegraphic protests have been | received at the American embassy ad- dressed both to Lindbergh and Am- bassador Morrow from organizations in the United -States, i otudlnxllmclm ties for the prevention cruelty to animals, against Col. Lindbergh's go- fng to a bull fight. ‘When asked about the protests he responded: “?lhlnk Mexico is perfectly capable of etioosing its own national sport.” He said that he had seen one bull fight once in Laredo, but smilingly declined to answer when asked what he thought of it No Decision Announced. Excelsia, recalling the oid_adage, *wWhen in Rome do as the Romans do.” thinks that the American fiyer may follow that principle and see a bulifight Sunday notwithstanding the protests. No_final decision has been announced. It Col. Lindbergh does not go to a bullfight he will not be in a posi- tion of having declined an invitation or having offended anybody. ‘While the Mexican officials who are arranging for the colonel's entertain- | ment have considered taking him to a bullfight on Sunday, no formal invi- | tation has been issued and consequent- | Jy it will be possible for the American | fiyer gracefully to avoid going if that | should be ydecided to be the best course. A bullfight is usually considered here as one of the things to show visitors, one of the curious sights of the country which should be seen at Jeast once just for the experience. Gets Highest Honor. For the first time in its history the Mexican Congress held a “solemn gession” for a private citizen. when Lindbergh was received in the Cham- ber of Deputies. This was the high- est honor Congress could pay him, as such a Session is ealled rarely and only for the most important govern- ment officials. Lindberzh is not a “but an of good will 10 the Mexic * the deputies de- cided by formal vote. He was there- fore entitled to receive highest honors. During the session cheers for a President of the United States were heard, probably for the first time. TThe deputies gave “vivas" for Presi- dent Coolidge, Lindbergh and Dwight W. Morrow, American Ambassador The fiyer was presented with a gold medal by Dr. Alejandro Cerizola, president of the Chamber of Deputies. On one side was the Mexican coat-of- arms, on the other was inscribed: "o Col. Lindbergh from the Mex- joan Chamber of Deputies in behalf of the Congress of Mexico and in order t6 express our admiration foy Bis noble feat and glorious mission.” Makes Short Speech. Lindbergh stood on the rostrum be side the President and bowed in ap e citizen, preciation as deputies and spectators cheered. Then addressing the as- sembly, he said: ] for all these dis- where 1 have been. but there is n bt in my mind as to the meaning o | them all, | lkave had the experience of seeing the cordiality of Mexicans toward an Amer- ican, T think that they would feel the t friendliness toward Mexico. 1 have heard nothing but expressions of friendship toward the United States and a desire for a better understand. ing. I do not see why more people do not come down here. When 1 left the United States it was cold and rainy and the weather was v 1€ all those at home could | XICO RECEPTION IS PRAISED BY COL. LINDBERGH !Flyer Sees Great Opportunity for Air‘ Travel Between States of Republic. ted by Hills. Inot all_that it might be. There are | many Winter resorts where people go | to zet away from our cold storms, but I have never seen one where the clis mate is so equable as here, It is cool in the evening and at night, and dur ing the day it is warm and sunny. 1 had no idea that it was so pleasant. Naturally, 1 did not see much of the city yesterday, but today 1 was anx- ious to get around a little, and that de- sire was gratified. When we left the embassy for the foreign office, it was possible to get another impression the broad avenues and the street: | Mexico City seems to have been laid out by an artist At the foreign office T was received with a whole-hearted ve rmth which made me feel that perifaps my trip might not be ent hout result. It the flight does anything to improve | the . relations between the United States and Mexico, it will make me happier than anything else. That was the chief purpose of the flight, for there is a feeling of friend ship between men who fly, no matter what their nationality may be, and 1 bave found that in Mexico, That that feeling has been extended | to_the people af the city is very gratify (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) TROOPS NOW GUARD OKLAHOMA SENATE Chamber’s Use Refused to Representatives in Im- peachment Squabble. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, December 16.— National Guardsmen today again were stationed at entrances of the State Senate chamber by Gov. Henry 8. Johnston, preventing members of the House of Representatives from accept- ing" the invitation of the Senate to meet in its rooms. The Senate before adjourning last night until December 28 organized as a court of impeachment to try Gov. Johnston, Chief Justice Fred sSranson of the Supreme Court and Harry Cor- dell, president of the State Board of Agriculture, én charges preferred by the House in self-convened session. A resolutiop was adopted by the Sen- ate ordering the militia to allow House members to obtain records from their chamber and to use the Senate rooms. Senator C. H. Terwilleger of Tulsa, came to the capitol shortly after the troops were stutioned at Sehate doors. 1!:: S-flnnen said they would aa: mators. but they had orders to allow no House members to pass in. Su) ed by court decisions holding the islature is not in legal session, Gov. Johnston last Wednesday with- drew soldiers from the Senate cham- ber to permit the Senators to meet as “citizens.” The Senate, howevyer. voted that its meetings were legal and de- cided to go forward with preparations for the trial of the' executive. “VOTES FOR WOMEN" FAVORED IN FRANCE Government to Support Measure Granting the Ballot to Sex in Municipal Elections. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 16.—The French government has decided to support the cause of “votes for women” in mu. nicipal elections when it comes up in the Senate after the budget has been adopted, Premier Poincare has written a Jet- ter promising this to Mme. Maria Ve- rone, president of the French League for Women's Rights. “I have the honor to inform you that the government has decided to support before the Senate the amend- ment establishing the municipal elec- torate and eligibility of women to hold municipal offices,” the premier wrote, DEATH HELD SUICIDE. Laundry Employe Killed Self, Coroner’s Jury Says. A coroner’s jury decided today that Quillan W. Christ, killed yesterday |at the plant of the National Laundry Cy 19 Pierce street, deliberately walked into a fly wheel to take his life. Grist, 50 years eld, who lived with his wife and children at 121 Seventh street northeast, was foreman of the ashroom at the laundry. It is said that he had been ill and despondent since his daughter, the wife of Po- liceman James Godbold, ended her life with poison several months ago. President Grants Three-Day Holiday To U. S. Employes President Coolidge assumed the role of Santa Claus today for Fed- eral and District government em- ployes in Washington. but warned that his action might not again be_repeated. By executive order, he stipulated that all Government departments shall close all day Saturday, De- cember 24, which will give the emploves a three-day Christmas holiday since Christmas day, fall- ing on Sunday, actually will be celebrated Monday. The order, understood to have heen executed to give the employes a chance to shop, ends with these words: “This order is not to be deemed as establishing a precedent.” . 41 PATIENTS SAVED IN HOSPITAL FIRE Mother and Newborn Baby Figure in Rescue by Nurses = at Annapolis. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 16.— In a fire at 3:15 o'clock this morning, which practically wrecked Emergency Hospital, 41 patients, including erip- ples and a newborn babe and mother, were rescued, and several firemen were overcome, Heinie Weaver, one of the firemen, being removed to hix home in a serious condition. Led by Miss Marcella Delaney, night superintendent, the 12 student nurses and 4 supervising nurses, in thin attire, rescued many of the patients, some carrying persons larger than themselves from the building. Twenty-two patients were _rescued from the second floor, and 19 from the main buflding. The more serlously ill were cared for at the Naval Hospital, at the United States Naval Academy. Others were taken to the homes of citizens in the neighborhood. Damage Is $40,000. The damage is estimated at $40,000 The flames started in the attic of the supply room. City Fire Marshal Jesse A. Fisher, after an investigation today, said conditions in the attic, where an oil mop and other appurte- nances were kep indicated spontane- cus combustion. A meeting of the board of visitors was called, and plans were made for immediate care of the patients at nearby hospitals, some probably to be sent to Baltimore. The question of rebuilding is under con- sideration. One of the nurses gave the alarm when smoke was discovered in the building, and firemen and citizens were quick to respond. Within a few minutes after the discovery the flames enveloped the building. Mrs. Sarah Southerland Greer, district Red Cross nurse, and Mayor Charles W. Smith provided ambulances and emergency measures for the attention of those mostly in need. Miss Ruth Rhodes, hospital superintendent, was absent at the time of the fire. Two Firemen Bruised. Reiger Rosetti and Walter Scherger, comrades of Fireman Weaver, were bruised by falling timbers and affected by the smoke. Weaver recovered soon after being removed to his home, Scherger had made a dash through flames to the third floor, where he had been told a prostrate body lay. He brought out of the building a form used by students in bed-making train- ing. Boy. 18, Finds Chri Joe Dobleski found his Christmas today, and he found it in the last slace in the world anybody would go looking for Christmas- You see, Joe wasn't looking for Christmas. He was looking for a job. money and his father didn't have much money, so Joe bummed his way to Florida to get a job. But jobs didn't last long in Florida, and Toe started out again. He landed in Washington broke, still looking for a job. There were W jobs in Washington—at least here were no jobs for Joe. He was 18 and sirong enough and willing :nough to work. but nobody seemed to have just the sort of job they wanted to give Joe. His money was all gone and he was hungry and he lidn't Lave any place to sleep. lle wrote to his father and his father wrote that he was broke too. So “T am thankful tinctions which are being given to me (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) Toe gave up and went to the police. He would rather be in jail than jus aowhere, he said, LS in Police Court. Out in Milwaukee Joe didn’t have much stmas in Court When Haled Before Judge as Vagrant They charged Joe with vagrancy and in_Police Court today Joe told Judge Hitt he would just as soon go to jail. But Judge Hitt was feeling the Christmas spirit and he thought it would be a pity to send Joe to jail to spend his in a cell. He asked the courtroom at large if there wasn't somebody who had some sort of job for Joe. There wasn't. But Attorney Harry T. Whelan said that if nobody would give Joe a job now he would take care of him un- til somebody did. Judge Hitt dismissed the charges. By that time the Christmas spirit had gotten into the jury. Somebody got out a hat. The hat went the rounds of the jury box and then it went the rounds of the courtroom Then Judge Hitt said he wanted a chance to put something in it. Waen Joe got the hat there was $10 in it. Joe left the courtroom trying to grin and having a hard time to keep from crying instead. The first thing he was going to have for Christmas, @ 8aid, was a shave and a haircut, CHINESE EXECUTE RUSSIAN CAPTIVES; - RAID CONSULATES War on Communists Pressed in Hankow and Canton. Women Arrested. PARADED IN STREETS TIED TOGETHER BY ROPE Japan Aroused by Treatment of Koreans in Manchuria—700,- | | 000 Now Living There. | By the Associated Press. | HANKOW, December 16.—Chinese | authorities raided the Soviet consulate | here this morning. All Russian and | Chinese occupants were arrested. The authorities then proceeded to round up all Communists and all those suspect- ed of being Communists throughout the city. » Hankow was the scene of intense ex- citement when the Chinese troops oc- cupied the former Russian and Ger- man concessiol and carried out a systematic house-to-house search for Communists. Even dancing halls frequented by Russians were visited and it was esti. mated this morning that virtually every Communist or suspect had been rounded up. March to Jail Screaming. Early rising foreigners saw Rus- sians of both sexes being marched off to jail in night attire, some barefooted and disheveled. Many women were roped together and some screamed hysterically. One terrified girl jumped from a second-story window and was seriously injured. A number of those arrested were de- tained at the police station and it believed that the Soviet consular offi cials themselves were taken to mili- tary headquarters. FIVE RUSSIANS EXECUTED. Street Crowds Invited to Attack Pris- oners, Say Refugees. HONGKONG, China, December 16 ().—The South China Morning Post today printed the following dispatch from Canton: “Five red Russians, who were com- missioned by Moscow to direct the spoilation and destruction of Canton, have paid the extreme penalty for their iniquities. They were caught when the White army counter-at- tacked. “The need for a trial, which could only have had ope result, was a thing nobody thought of. _“They were led to a vacant lot not far from the céntral police station. “Five times rifles spat their leaden charge. Five bodies In turn wilted to rise no more. Believe Consul Fled. “When a detachment of soldiers nesday afternoon it is reported they found that the consul general had left his colleagues to whatever fate the gods might have in store for them and had departed from Canton. “Russians and Chinese, men and women, every one on the bvremises from the vice consul down to the (Continued on Page 16, Column 6.) NEEDY FAMILIES APPEAL FOR HELP Associated Charities Lists 14 Opportunities for Gift Givers. Christmas—a season of gayly deco- rated homes, thronged stores, heavily- laden tables, family reunions, rejoic- ing and plenty. Christmas—a season of hunger, humiliation, tragedy and despair. There are two sides to the picture— especially In a large city like Wash- ington. Seldom do the happy crowds of fur-clad shoppers that throng the streets, arms loaded with bundles and hearts full of thanksgiving, pause long to consider the pathos and pov- erty just around the corner. A Chance to Help. But it is there. And Christmas, of all times in the year, is the season when it is felt most acutely and when there is the best opportunity to rem- v it. “&ln one Washington home last year, Yuletide was a happy time. There were four children waiting for Santa Claus and their stockings were stuffed on Christmas morning. The father could afford it. He was working steadily and receiving excellent wages. But even then he felt unduly tired when the day's work was over and he was afflicted with a hacking cough which seemed to be growing worse. He didn't pay much attention to it. Before the Summer was over he was dead—and there wasn't a penny in the house after funeral expenses were paid. ; The mother thinks that if she is enabled to carry on this year she'll be able to get a job next year and earn enough to support her family. But just now she has no job and no money, also she has a tiny infant to care for. All she needs is $18 a week, or $336 for the year, to win out. Husband Gives No Help. Then there's another Washington home where father is living, but he gives little help to his family. There are seven children, one of them sick and requiring special care and diet. The oldest is a boy of 14 and the youngest is only 4, still blessed with an implicit faith in Santa Claus. The mother has stood by the ne'er- do-well husband through many hard ships for many years. She's had enough Her first duty is to her chil- dren. It will require §1.300. or $30 a week to support this family for the year. Well. what about it? Then there's the case of the mother and four children who are getting (Continued on Page 16, Column 1, . Radio Programs—Page 47 broke into the Soviet consulate Wed- | MAGRUDER ASSAILS T00 MANY ORDERS Admirai Tells House Body| Officers Afloat Are Given Little Discretion. By the Associated Press. Attacking what he described as too many orders from Washington, Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder told the | House naval committee today that officers afloat were given little discre- tion in planning their work. He cited in this connection arrange- ments made for the flight last Sum- mer by Clarence Chamberlin in carry- ing mail to the Leviathan while that ship was several hundred miles at sea bound for Europe. ¢ Magruder, then commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, said that he received orders giving in' minute detall arrangements for delivery of the plane, the amount of gasoline to put in it and other arrangements. Scores Bureaus Here. The admiral scored alleged concen- tration of power In Washington, de- claring there were too iy bureaus in the Capital admini naval ac- tivities. Admiral Magruder argued that the Navy should turn over to private yards its repair and construction work, declaring that recent repair of a privately owned vessel in the New York Navy Yard cost $400,000, while chree other similar ships were re- paired for $250,000 each in private yards. “The naval pay bill” also was touch- ed upon, the admiral saying that bachelors received less than married men and officers in the intermediate grades received more money than their services were worth. —o- TOLL OF ORPHANAGE BLAZE REACHES 36 Fourteen Children Missing—Dan- ger of Falling Walls Delays , Search for Bodi By the Associated Press. QUEBEC, December 16.—With the recovery today of the hodies of three more children. the deati. toll of the Hospice St. Charles fire reached 36. Fourteen others were still missing 36 hours after the blaze. Danger of falling walls halted search of the ruins for a time, but temporary * reinfarcement of the masonry permitted the work to con- tinue. Bodies recovered today were so char- red that identification” was virtually impossible. BROCK "LIGHT DELAYED. Winds Again Balk Attempt to Set Endurance Record. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., December 16 (#).—Continued adverse flying weather today caused Edward F. Schlee and William S. Brock to post- pone again_their proposed hop-off in the Pride of Detroit monoplane in an effort to break the world's endurance flight record. Overcast skies, (threatening rain and strong westerly winds which have prevailed during the past three days made a take-off today unadvisable. Forecasts for tomorrow call for more favorable weather, however, and the fiyers hope to get away then. D. C. PROJECTS APPROVED House Favors Local Appropriation of $703,000. The House today approved the con- ference report on the. first deficiency appropridtion bill which carried $703, 000 for strictly municipal projects; $300,000 for acquisition of land for the national arboretum and $600,000 for relocation of the National Botanic Garden. There are numerous other import- ant appropriations of particular inter- est to the National Capital, including those to carry on the Federal building program. WILL PROBE CONTRACT. Smith Orders/Inquiry of Charges of Fraud in $16,000,000 Job. NEW YORK. December 16 (#).— Gov. Smith today appointed Supreme Court Justice Townsend Scudder to conduct an investigation into charges o | 75 Years Ago Today The Evening Star Began Publication in Washington EIGHT ARE INDICTED INDIPLONA SCHOOL D. C. Grand Jury Charges Mail Fraud Against North Dakota College. Conspivacy to defraud by use of the mails is charged in an indictment re- ported today by the District of Colum- bia Federal grand jury, against offi- cials of the Central Scientific College, 1416 Third avenue north, ‘Fargo, N. Dak. The college was incorporated in the District of Columbia and is said to be one of a series of such incorporations, on which an indict- ment for a similar conspiracy recently was returned. Miss M. Pearl McCall, assistant United States attorney, in- vestigated the case and presented the evidence to the grand jury. The overt acts in furtherance of the alleged conspiracy consist of the delivery in Washington by mail of five letters, addressed to Miss Helen Hurley, 407 Sixth street southwest, from some of the accused persons in reference to a supposed course of in- struction In the college. Other letters were received in Washington, Miss McCall said, which will be used if the case comes to trial. Named in Indictment. Those indicted are Ben Martin, otherwise known as Noble Ben Mar- tin, superintendent of schools at Dear- ing, N. D.; Otis J. Briggs, president of the school, Indianapolis; C. H. Gun- solus, also known as Rev. Charles H. Gunsclus of Indianapolis, headmaster of the college; Irene Conley of Minne- apolis, principal of the Central Scien- tific College; W. H. Ames, Harrisburg, Pa., a director of the school; Dr. O. L. Betty, address unknown, named as a professor at the college; A. A. Gal- breath, former State Senator of Ohio and conductor of the Carnegie College at Rogers, Ohio, also named as a pro- fessor, and Jerome L. Gibe, Bridge- J.. but formerly of South Ha h., who is described in the correspondence with Miss Hurley as director of admission of the eastern district of the college. The indictment is based on a recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in which it was held that in case of fraud by use of the mails the Government may elect to lay the charge at the place where the letters were mailed or at the place where the letters were received. The indictment charges that the de- fendants unlawfully and feloniously congpired to use the mails to defraud Miss Hurley and others unknown to the grand jurors hy the mailing of the letters in which Martin is named as dean of a college at the ‘address in Fargo, which has been accredited by over 100 State departemnts of educa- tion and leading universities and which, after January 1, will be under regulation of the Federal Trade Com- mission. Letters Are Listed. The letters also asserted, it is charged, that the institution is a bona fide college, the diplomas from which would be of benefit to students. None of these representations is true, the grand jurors allege. §289,770,000 SLASH INTAXES BY.HOUS Mellon and Committee Defied by Coalition—Bill Goes to Senate. By the Associated Press, - A product of clashing wills and freighted with controversy, the new tax bill stood today on the doorstep of the Senate finance committee. It arrived there during the night, speeded toward the second lap of it legislative steeplechase by the House with a vote of 366 to 24 that climaxed a week of hectic and partisan assay- ing of the public's pocketbook. As it faced today the gamut of the Senate committee and beyond that the troublous Senate itself, the measure would reduce the Treasury's revenue by $289,770,000. The wide spread between that figure and the $232,735,000 reduction proposed by the ways and means committee, which drafied the bill, and the 3225, 000,000 maximum fixed by Secretary Mellon, was nt testhnony to Democratic unism and a Demo- cratic-Republican coalition that gained the upper hand in the final skirmish- ing in the House. Consideration of the House tax bill by the Senate finance committee prob- ably will be deferred until after the Christmas holidays. Garner Expects Senate Boost. ‘With many of its provisions bearing little resemblance to the Treasury’s original recommendations, and differ- ing radically in sports from the form in which it came from the ways and means committee, the bill now would deprive the Government of $64,770,000 more revenue than the Treasury had proposed. It goes to the other end of the Capitol with a prediction from Representative Garner of Texas, rank- ing Democrat on the ways and means committee, that its reduction would be raised to a half a billion by the Senate. The print of Garner's long-experi- enced hand stands out among those of the many that juggled the bill's mass of figures. It was Garner who, al- though speaking only for the minority, put through two of the three impor- tant amendments which at the last found Republican leaders figuring vainly to strike out. The Garner amendments affect corporations, their taxes and methods of filing returns, while the third, by Representative Mc- Laughlin, Republican, of Michigan. and member of the ways and means committee, would repeal the tax on automebile sales. Adopted earlier in the week under rules that prevented a roll call vote, the three changes were cemented into the bill yesterday with sufficient Re- publicans joining the Democrats to carry the'issue. The vote on the automobile tax repeal was 245 to 151, about a score of Republicans voting with the minority party. Coalition Votes Reduction. A similar coalition supported the Garner amendments, 212 to 181, on the corporation tax, and 210 to 187 on the proposal to have corporations and their subsidiaries file separate instead of joint returns. Instead of the flat rate of 11%; per cent tax on corporations with net tax- able ‘ncomes of $15,000 or less, as pro- posed by the committee, the Garner amendment establishes brackets of lower rates on Income groups from $15,000 down to $5,000. In desperation, after their failure to upset the three amendments, Re- publican leaders then sought to send the measure back to the committee, a move which.-if successful, would have undone much of the work already ac- complished. The House willed other- wise, however, and defeated the motion. by Representative Bacharach, Republican. New Jersey, 301 to 93. Chairman Green of the committee was one of those who opposed returning the bill to its framers. “Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929,” Is Knit On White House Spread by First Lady A hand-knit bedspread in the White House is mute evidence that Presi- dent Coolidge had made up bis mind to stand by his declaration, “I do not choose to run.” This evidence covers the historic Lincoln bed on the second floor of. the White House and was finished by Mrs. Coolidge almost a year ago. In the center of the filet-knit spread is the coat of arms of the United States. A decorative piece to correspond is in each of the four corners, but it is left to the side pieces to tell the tale, On one side is knitted the name Lincoln and the dates, 1861-1865. of irregularities in the $16,000,000 sewer construction in the’ Borough of Queens. On the other side is Calvin Coolldge, 19231920, 3 She must have discussed the matter with the President before she took those last laborious stitches. It was Mrs, Eberle, wife of Rear Admiral Eberle of the General Naval Board, who saw the last stitches taken and protested that they could not be cor- rect. Mrs. Coolidge stood her ground with & remark to the effect that she knew very well what she was donig. Just as the patchwork quilt. was left in the Black Hills to remind those who pass that way of the skillful handiwork of the President’s wife, so the fillet spread, so well adapted to the style of the richly carved Lincoln bed, will remain in the White House. PROBE 10 BOTTOM OF HEARST CHARGES PROMISED BY REED Chairman Says Senate Com- mittee Will Trace Mexican Papers to Source. DECISION IS ANNOUNCED AFTER CLOSED SESSION Editor Claims He Sought to Prove Authenticity of Charges—Sena- tors’ Reply Unchallenged. " By the Associated Press An investigation “to the very bot- tom” of the source of the documen purporting to show creation of a $1,215000 Mexican fund for four United States Senators was promised today by Chairman Reed, Republican, Pennsylyania, of the special Senate committee. After hearing moare testimony con- cerning the documents today the com- mittee held an executive meeting and decided to go to the end of the trail of the papers which Miguel Avila says he bought, There was a hint from the commit- tee room that the secret service might be asked to aid in the investigation. Already Department of Justice agents are with the committee. clogely guard- ing the documents turned over to Chairman Reed vesterday by Willlam Randolph Hearst. Aided by Translator. At the committee’s executive ses- sion the documents were gone over with a translator. -Chairman Reed said Avila had given in secret the names of clerks in Mexico with whom he dealt in obtaining the papers, but had not revealed the Thame of the clerk in the Mexican consulate office in New York. with whom he said he ed in obtaining documents there. The maza of contradictions dumped onto the committee the Hearst- { Mexican documents was taken behind documents was taken behind closed closed doors hw the committee today in its effort to trace authenticity of the papers. As on the opening day of the investi- gation. there was none to dispute as- sertions of the Senators—Borah, Nor- ris, La Follette and Heflin—that no such fund had ever reached them, and the committe» did not even go into this phase of the subject. Doors Are Barred. After hearing George Hinman, John Page and Victor Watson of the Hearst organization, on details of how the papers were procured, and after again questioning Avila, the doors were barred untl 10:30 o'clock tomor- row morning. v morning. Especial attention was given by the committee today to Avila, who was pressed for details, and he was even asked to describe the offices of the fexican consulate in New York, from which he testified he obtained some of the documents. His deseription was of a general nature. ‘Watson, editor of the New York Daily Mirror, testified as to plans for publishing the documents and said he had made efforts to au- thenticate them. Replying to a_ques- tion from Senator Robinson, Demo- crat, Arkansas, he said he would not consider grammatical errors in the papers would prove they were not au- thentic, hecause many Mexican clerks | were illiterate. Claims Affidavits, Page, who was Instrumental in obtaining the documents, said he had some additional affidavits relating to their authenticity, one of which was igned by Almicar Zoutella, a member of the Mexican Congress. Another was signed by a stenographer in Mexico City, he said. He added there were also affidavits bearing on a Japanese secret treaty. The witness did not believe there were misplaced accents on_the docu- ments, as some of the members of the committee had concluded. He said he knew Spanish well enough to know when accents were properly placed. Some accents were missing, however, he declared. Hinman Takes Stand. Hinman, the first witness today. { said he was in Mexico City when John Page, a fellow reporter, got the docu- ments, but he never saw them. Last March, Hinman said, he had heard papers were in existence pur- porting to show payment of money to Americans. The next . he said, ihe was called home by his father's death. Meanwhile, he said, Page ap- parently had obtained the papers. After I returned to Mexico, I got impression that Mr. Page was ing on these paper: he con- tinued. Chairman Reed pressed him about his first information on the docu- ments and he id he merely had heard from Mexican sources that they were in existence. He did not know whether his informant was the same as Page's and knew nothing of the genuineness of the papers. The witness said that Miguel Avila had told him that he believed some documents could be obtained from the Treasury. Quizzed About Papers. “I believe he approached me on the question,” Hinman said. *“This was early in April. I told him we were interested. It was gossip around Mexico by Summertime that these papers were in existence.” Page had testified he went to Avils in May and asked him to get on the trail of the documents. Watson was called when Hinman concluded his testimony, but he failed to respond and Hinman was asked to communi- cate with him. . ““There are no other witnesses that know of,” Senator Reed said. “Please tell him the committee is waiting for him.” William A. de Ford of New York, senior counsel for Hearst, told the committee that he had made inquiry about Watson and was informed that he was en route to the committee room “I am informed that he is a little under the weather.” de Ford said. The committee members conferred among themselves while they wafted for the witness. Watson Arrives. “After about 10 minutes Watson reached the coramittee room, but Avila was recalled to the stand and he testified he was first informed about (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.)