Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1927, Page 2

MEXICAN SCENERY Flyer Taken on Trip to Beavty Spots in and Around Capital. BY COL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH. By Mexican War Department Wireless, direct to The Star and New York Times. SAEXICO CITY, December 19.—Yes- terday was another of those wonder- ful Mexican days. There scems to be 10 end of them, And I have seen two of the sports of Mexico under a per- fect sky and brilliant sun. The _exhibition of roping and riding at the Rancho de Charos was one of the finest things of the kind I have ever seen. Then came the review of members of the Mexican labor unions at the National Palace, which was a gratifying expression of friendliness toward the United States. The much-debated bullfight came in the afterncon. I received a beautiful cape there, presented by Jose Oritz, one of the matadors. The workman- ship on it is different from anything of the kind I have ever seen and it is one of the best nationalistic gifts I have had. 5 Draped Over Shoulders. T am not quite certain yet how I should wear it, but Senor Oritz placed it over my shoulders and I suppose that is the way it should be worn. Last night I had the first oppor- tunity of seeing some of the country around Mexico City from an automo- bile, in which we drove out some way toward Puebla over a wide and smooth road. The road went up through the mountains, from which there was a splendid view of Mexico City and the valley. I should think this would be & great tourist center. It is ome of the most picturesque places on the continent, easy of ac- cess and with a delightful climate. If a few hotels were built on these hills, with golf courses laid out near them, so that it would be possible to stay in the country, it should be one of the most attractive places in North America. This valley has a romantic history and contains the remains of the old ~Aztec and Toltec civilizations, which ‘were the oldest north of the Isthmus. The Toltec and Maya peaple were a cultured people, whose remains are among the most interesting in the world., I am looking forward to a visit to the famous pyramids, where I may see what is believed to be the ruins of the Toltec city. A Beautiful Spot. It is hard to believe now that this whole valley was originally a huge lake, with little islands in it, on which the ancient cities were built. It must have been a beautiful spot in those days, even more so than now, although Mexico City is one of the most de- lightful cities I have ever visited. If tourists should come to Mexico in great numbers, it should be possi- ble to build up air lines, which would make it much more accessible. The United States is now two days away by rf Iroad, but it would be only a few hours by airplane. Flying in multi-motored planes is as safe as traveling by rail, and in the next few years there should be developed a series of air lines which will connect all this part of the continent and ex- tend to South America (Copyright, 1927. in the Uni Catadh, Hexico. Ciba. Contrar e S . Ciiba, ica, E: and the B: fi}‘?&)s&"&?‘m Times Co.'* All Tigbte For "MOTHER OF LINDY . ON FLIGHT SOUTH ." TO JOIN HER SON (Continued from First Page.) start of her 2,000-mile flight she dis- missed suggestions of danger on such a long journey, as “so negligible as to be unworthy of consideration.” “The public is coming to know,” she declared, “that aviation is as safe a méthod of transportation as any other.” “It does not require any especial courage to make such a trip as we plan,” Mrs. Lindbergh said. ' “Ajr mail pilots fly over much more dangerous terrain every day and night and in every known kind of ‘weather, and the public never gives them a thought.” Route Is Announced. It was planned to follow as nearly as possible the Government model airway route through the Southwest- ern district. The route runs from Detroit southwest over Kokomo, Ind.; almost due west from there to Rantoul, Ill.; southwest to Belteville, IL.; due west to St. Louis, southwest to Springfield, Mo.; thence to Mus- kogee, Okla.; due south to Dallas, on down through Waco, and ends at San Antonio. From San Antonio the plane will travel to Brownsville, Tex., along the Gulf coast to Tampico and thence to Mexico. The party expects to reach Mexico City Wednesday or Thursday. LINDY AT BULL FIGHTS. Flying Colonel Is Guests of Honor At Arena. MEXICO CITY, December 19 (4).— When Charles A.' Lindbergh hops oft for Central America the loving eyes of his mother for the first time will watch her famous son start one of his long_distance flights. When Lindbergh hopped off for Paris, his mother had bid him good-by several days before, not wishing that her presence at the beginning of that great adventure should disturb him: When he started from Washipgton for Mexico, Mrs. Lindbergh was teaching school in Detroit. Despite more than 60 protests from individuals and organizations in America, Lindbergh saw two bull fights. At the first of these one of Mexico’s most popular heroes came out of his retirement to pay a bull fighter’s tribute to the hero from the North. At the other, six bulls were killed, two of them being dedicated to Lindbergh, Lindbergh went to a ranch where the National Association of Charros or horsemen staged a rodeo in his honor. First there were exhibitions by famous horsemen and then Will Rogers stepped in*, e ring and dis- played a number of his roping tricks. F | Shiop ity December 19 6 Days to Christmas Seal Your Gifts GALE HALTS S-4 RESCUE WORK, WITH SIX MEN STILL ALIVE (Continued from_ First Page.) of the collision, the Navy Department at Washington and every navy yard and Coast Guard base along the At- lantic Coast sprang into activity. De- | stroyers, mine layers, tugs and other vessels were ordered to proceed with all speed to the scene. By morning a good-sized fleet was assembled in and near Provincetown. | It was a fight against time today, in which every minute was precious and the odds were admittedly against the slowly suffocating survivors in an almost impossible ratio. In the ears of every officer and man of the rescue fleet from Rear Admiral Brumby down to the rawest recruit | rang the desperate cry of the unfor: tunate men, laboriously pounded out | by hammer in_the metallic dots and | dashes of the Morse code to a diver | | alongside on the sandy bottom. The messages follow: Diver—Is gas bad? Submarine—No; but the air. long will you be now? Diver—How many are there? Submarine—There are six. Will you be long now? | Diver—We are doing everything possible. The message that told the fleet that men still lived on the S-4 came from the torpedo room. From the other| compartments there was no encourag ing word. | Great Hole Opened. A great hole ripped through the heavy steel plates starboard at amid- ships and just forward of the ship's four-inch_gun left little doubt of the fate of officers and men on duty there | when the speeding prow of the Pauld- ing clove its way into the submers: | ible’s side. Aft of the conning tower there was silence, too, but there was also hope, however slight. Divers had been un: | able to elicit a response to their tap-| pings because of the mass of wreck- age which obstructed the decks. On the surface the frenzied, yet orderly, efforts at rescue went forward with zeal. There mine layers which sfood by continuously since shortly after the crash formed a triangle about the spot. . | The Mallard and the Lark steadied the Falcon, aboard which Admiral | Brumby and his staff directed the op- ‘erations of the dive Two subma- rine tenders, the Wandank and the Bushnell, were prepare” to help, while a short distance away .our destroyers restlessly awaited orders. Tugs Rush to Aid. Farther off, the naval tugs Saga- more and Iuka raced under forced draft against a handicap of heavy seas and adverse windssto bring six pon- toons from the Brooklyn, N. Y., Navy Yard. The pontoons wege similar to those used to raise the .51, which went déwn off Block Island two years ago with a loss of 33 lives. Naval officers pinned their hope of effecting a rescue on these, should attempts now in prog- ress fail to lift the wreck with com- pressed air, fail. The pontoons would take at least two days to attdch under the most fa- vorable circumstances, but weather conditions were said never to have been worse for such work. A brisk, cold breeze and a choppy sea number divers and made their work hazardous. Should it appear that there was no immediate prospect of bringing the submarine o the surface with air, an tempt will be made to introduce an airline into the compartment where the six men are. Two men were aboard the rescue fleet on whom the Navy banked espe- cially high. Both were veterans of the 8-51 operations. One was Capt. E. J. King, who sal- vaged the wrecked hull of the Block Island disaster ship and who raced by seaplane to take over direct charge of similar work here. Offers His Services. The other was Comdr. Ellsberg, re- tired, of Westfleld, N. J,. who super- vised diving work there and whose emergence from the quiet of his re- tirement was voluntary. Comdr. Ellsberg was at home when he heard the mews. He immediate- ly offered his services, and the Navy Department speedily cut the red tape involved by his status as a, retired of- ficer by ordering his enlistment in the Naval Reserve. No sooner had he been sworn in Saturday night than he was ordered to active duty. A fast express took him to Boston, while the destroyer Burrows raced from here to that port. The commander embarked late last night, and today, after a swift run across Massachusetts Bay, was ready for work. Nearly 20 divers, hastily assembled from Naval ships, and the torpedo School at Newport, R. I, were on hand to await his orders. Another reminder of the 8-51 was the news that the derrick ship Cen- tury of the Merritt-Chapman-Scott Co. was on its way to the scene. Two ships of the Century type and owned by the same company attempt- ed to raise the 8-51, but that craft, al- though of the same line, might be employed here with more success. Sees Hope in Pontoons. Comdr. Ellsberg said, that from a preliminary study of the situation he believed it might be possible to bring the bow of the submarine to the sur- face by attaching two pontoons to its nose. At least two days would be needed. If the ship could be put on end suf- ficiently to egpose the torpedo tubes, the men in t§e forward compartment would be hauled out. He emphasized, however, that any optimism would be decidedly premature. Thomas Eadie and W. J. Carr were the naval divers fir.. to reach the wreck, which lay 102 feet below the surface and almost at the scene of the crash, 1,800 yards off the Wood End Coast Guard station, on the outside tip of Cape Cod. Eadie went down first, was the first to locate the ship and to flash word that men were alive. Carr followed and carried on the hammer conversa- tion that brought to the outside world the dramatic details of the plight of the six. The divers found the S-4 resting on an even keel, a fact which Admiral Brumby said would contribute ma- terially to expediting the work of rais- ing. Ashore, Provincetown seethed with {unwonted animation. This historic old town, first haven of the Pilgrims, in Summer is a mecca for tourists and artists, and in Winter is usually de- serted by all save its fisherman resi- dents and their families and a few shopkeepers. But although a great drama was taking place a bare mile from shore, Provincetown was forced to depend for its news of the progress of rescue upon telephone and radio from Bos ton, A treacherous sea made boating Hov hazardous. p The Diver's Boat Falcon and a Coast Guard Cutter at scene of the disaster. Lieut. J, H. McGinley, an officer- aboard the submarine. RELATIVES AWAIT NEWS OF D. C. MEN Families Depressed at Re- port That Rescue Work Is Suspended. Although retusing to abandon hope; the families of the four Washington men entombed aboard the sunken sub- marine §-4 off Provincetown, Mass., realized today that the latest news from the scene of the disaster is very discouraging, and they are prepared to hear the worst. They are eager for every scrap of information from press dispatches and the Navy Department. Their anxiety was immeasurably increased when they learned this morning that the rescus work had to be temporarily abandoned because of the 45-mile gale blowing off the Massachusetts coast. Still, a shred of encouragement was found in reports that the airline, which has been run down and at- tached to a valve on the boat, had not been broken. The disaster has entirely dispelled the holiday spirit which had been manifest in the four homes until the terrible news was received so sudden- ly Saturday night. Plans to observe Christmas, with sons and husbands at home, have been sorrowfully aban- doned. Wife Is Prostrated. Only little 1-year-0ld Dorothy Loulse Bishop, daughter of Radioman Wal- ter Bishop, at her home, 1413 E street southeast, is_entirely undisturbed, as she toddles back and forth between her distracted mother and grand- mother. Mrs. Callaway, wife of Lieut. Comdr. William _Frankiin Callaway of 201 Shepherd street, Chevy Chase, Md., is prostrated and unable to see any one except close relatives. Her 7-year-old son, William Franklin Callaway, ir., is with her. The disaster seems es- pecially hard to them, because Lieut. Comdr. Callaway was not regularly assigned to the submarine, but had gone to inspect it for the board of in- spection and survey of the Navy De- partment. Col. Graham D. Fitch, retired Army ofticer, of 2400 Twentieth street, father of Lieut. Graham Newel Fitch, and the lieutenant's sister, Miss Hermione Fitch, are bearing up bravely today, but Mrs. Fitch, mother of the young officer, 18 in a state of collapse. She kept up her courage through Satur- day night and Sunday, but the strain, as she waited hour after hour for defimte news. has been too much for her, and she has taken to her bed un- der the care of her family. Officer’s Bride Awaits News. Still, if thcre is the slightest hope of her son being found alive and that he might live even for a few minutes after being brought to the surface, Mrs. Fitch wants to be there with him. The family is eager for the latest word, in order that they may By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 19.—Edgar Johnson, who was a third baseman on || the Memphis team of the Southern Base Ball League before he became a || New York policeman, today fought a | | winning battle with a man who at- tempted to end his life under the wheels of a subway train. Johnson was standing at the front With Health Stamps door of the train when he saw a man, who later proved to be Nicholas Ger- e 'Policeman Saves Would-Be Suicide From Ending Life Under Subway Train nett of Brooklyn, jump from a sta- tion platform on the subway tracks. He banged on the motorman’'s door to make sure he had seen the leap, and the train was brought to a sudden stop a few feet away from Gernett, who had calmly laid on the rails. Jehnson hopped out of the car and Gernett, seeing his effort frustrated, fought with the policeman. He was subdued after a struggle and later re- moved to a hospital for observation, Gernett told police he wanted to die, but gave no reason. e ‘ decide whether to make the trip to Massachusetts. Lieut. Fitch's young Costa_Rican “bride, Mrs. Maria Her- rera Fitch, is in Boston with an aunt of the officer. She is sitting at the telephone waiting for news. She is only 19 years old, and they have been married by eight months. Lieut. and Mrs. Fitch have been expected to spend Christmas here with his parents and sister. Mrs. Bishop lives with her mother, Mrs. W. L. Coon, and her stepfather. Since the Navy Department record in her husband’s case was made up, she has moved from 1228 Pennsylvania avenue southeast to the E street address. For that reason she has not received word of the disaster or the progress of the rescue work from the Department, but has been kept ad- vised by the newspapers. “We have bought our Christmas presents for Walter,” said Mrs. Bishop this morning, “and I and little Doro- thy Louise were waiting impatiently for him to come home to spend the holidays with us. We expected him Friday. Now, I do not know what to think. It is terrible.” Still Clings to Hope. Miss Grace M. Ford, sister of Charles A. Ford, civilian draughts- man, who went from the Navy De- partment with Lieut. Comdr. Calla- way to inspect the overhauled sub- marine in its tryout trip, has not given up all hope yet. She is buoy- ing up her aged mother, while at the same time preparing her to receive the sad news if the men on the sunken submarine are found to have perished. Stricken with sorrow, but hoping that her husband may still be alive, Mrs. Ruby E. Jones, wife of Comdr. Roy Keller Jones, commander of the Lieut. Comdr. R. K. Jones, in com- mand of the ill-fated submarine S-4. WALTER BISHOP Of this city, radio man. ADMIRAL H. W. WILEY, Commander-in-chief of the U. 8. Fleet, who has been lered to con- vene a court of inquiry into collision. S-4, is confined to her bed at Hale- thorpe, Md. Mrs. Jones was reported to have been prostrated by the news of her husband’s plight. P e, RITES FOR MRS. FINCH. Mrs. Annie Finch of 201 Cedar ave- nue, Takoma Park, Md., died yester- day morning at Sibley Hospital, after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held to- morrow at 2 o'clock at the funeral home of the S. H. Hines Co., 2001 Fourteenth street, Rev. E. C. Primm, officiating. _ Interment will follow in Arlington National Cemetery. Mrs. Finch had been a resident of Takoma Park for the past 24 years. She was 87 vears of age. She is sur. vived by three sons, Marion D. Finch, postmaster at Takoma Park and a member of the Takoma town council; Willis Finch and Walter Finch of this city. S Wife Is Seeking Divorce. Charging her husband, Nicola Cec- chini beat her with his fists, kicked her “and threw missiles at her, Mrs. Filomena Cecchini, 52 H street north- east, today asked the District Supreme Court for a limited divorce. She also wants an injunction to prevent the husband from visiting their home and molesting her. HOW WORK OF RESCUE GOES FORWARD until the .S5-8 - PUMPING "AIR INTO TORPEPO : ROOM; OF. 54 — DEFENSE SCORES ] INCONTEMPT CASE Burns Men Frove Good| Witnesses During Close | Grilling of Gordon. Two Burns detectives, called ernment witnesses today upon sumption of 11 tempt proc construed as favorable in_at least two instances Through Barton Stewart and Ar- thur Sullivan, who were assigned to shadow Gardner P. Grenfell, Teapot | Dome . defense counsel there was reason to be the juro brother, almost in appe: nce, had been under surveillance most of t Efforts of the G ment to estab- | lish that one of the operators had been i informed that Harry lair had $200,000 to spend in connection with | the jury surveiliance were broke down through emphatic denial Stewart that any such statement been made to him. re mon defense 2 time. h Witnesses on Grill. tinue before the Ch Friday, United ton Gordon continu discredit _the repc various Burns ope; both Stewart and 1 examination, Every movement for the purpose of bringing out any possible discrepancies in their testi- mony, as given to the court, and the facts set out in their reports on the shadowing of Grenfell and Juror Ed- ward J. Kidwell, j Interest centers chiefly in the forth coming testimony of William J. M Mullin, the former Burns operative revelations to .the District part Dome mistrial. McMullin _ has important testimony which was not divulged to the public during the grand jury investiga in which he was a principal witness. The Government also intends to put on the stand this week Don K. King, local newspaper reporter, and J. Ra Ackers, former street car conductor, whose affidavits concerning conversa- tions they had with Juror Kidwell also aided in bringing about the l.mistrial. these witnesses through a rigid cross- examination since the defense hopes to establish through their testimony that the real cause of the m was their contact with the juror and not the mere shadowing of the jurors by Burns detectives. Burns Detective on Stand. Stewart, who was on the when court adjourned Friday, called again as a witness the procéedings were resumed day. Maj. Gordon at once put the Burns operative through a close examination of all the minute details of his movements during the days he shadawed Jurors Edward J. Kidwell, jr., and Gardner P. Grenfell. The witness' memory Friday was faulty, and the examination today was an effort to controvert statements made in the .eport of his opecrations. The questioning led to Octcber 25, when the witness received instructions from Charles G. Ruddy, chief of the operations here, to discontinue and re- turn to Philadelphia. On that day Stewart had a talk with Ruddy and Operator McMullin, known also as Long, in the latter’s room, in the Har- rington Hotel. “During_the conversation did hear Ruddy say that the other had $100,000 to spend and th: clair would spend $200,0007 Gordon demanded of the witness. “I did not,” Stewart replied em phatieally. Before the operative answered de- fense attorneys had objected to the line of interrogation on the ground that Ruddy was not a respondent in the case. Ruling on Statements. Justice Siddons ruled that state- stand wa when to- his employment might be binding on the respondants who had employed him, Since frequent statements made by Ruddy had been the object of ob- jections by the defense during the trial, the court’s ruling on this phase of testimony was considered impor- tant. Reécelving a negative reply to his question, Maj. Gordon asked the wit- ness if he had ever heard such a statement made at any other place. Stewart replied just as emphatically that he had not. It developed that McMullin took Stewart to the station to catch h rain and during he ride it was con- tended by the Government that the witness had remarked: “Here's one man who is tickled to death to get off this job.” Defense counsel objected to Mal. Gordon asking whether Stewart had made such a statement, and the court overruled the question, since it was conversation between two “strangers” to_the contempt proceedings. The diligence of Maj. Gordon in ask- ing the Burns man about his move- ments on various days was illustrated by asking him to go to Center Market during the noon recess and refres his memory about the corners and streets in that location. The witness had dif- ficulty in_recalling the names of streets and locations where he shad- owed Kidwell on a certain morning when the juror had gone into the Museum grounds. Quizzed on Instructions. On _cross-examination Charles A. Douglas, attorney for William Burns, questioned the witness about the in: structions he had received from Rud- dy upon reporting here. As other operators had _ testified _previously, Stewart pointed out that these in- structions were not to talk to any of the jurors or to let them know they were being shadowed. He was told any one coming into contact with a juror would be discharged. During his testimony last Friday, Stewart had stated on several oc- casions that he was not positive the man he was trailing as Grenfell was actualiy the juror. Douglas asked him if he knew whether Grenfell had a brother who looked very much like him. “I didn’t know that at the time, but learned so later,” Stewart replied. ‘The Burns operative explained that this was one reason why he had told the court he was not positive the man under surveillance was Juror Grenfell. Second Operative Called. Stewart was asked how he first learned about Juror Grenfell's brother, but he cculd not say whether it was at the courthouse or during conversa- tion he had with Ruddy snd other operators. The Jdefense attorneys put questions to him in an attempt to show that his first information had come from Neil Burkinshaw, assist- ant United States attorney, who was directing the grand jury investigation. But on re-direct examination, Stewart sald he had not learned about the juror’s brother from any oue in the district attorney’s office. The next witness called by the Government was Sullivan, who also had shadowed Grenfell and Kid- well. Asked about his first meeting with Ruddy, the witness said he had suggested that since he was on an ‘‘undercover investigation” it would be better if he turned over all marks the two Burns men was inquired into | | Defense counsel will put hoth of ®| tioned by ments made by Ruddy in the scope of | M ENORAL TOFRST PRESDENTURGED Plea to Congress Considered for Speeding Up Building on B Street. Advisability of asking Congress b. make an appropriation to spesd up progress on the George Washingtom ial Building, which was started 1 years ago on B strest hetween h and streets, i3 being sever Seve consider | over a few ¢ between membx ings Commis: | Dimock, president of the Geo ington Memo While noth cided, it is u is that if t partial appropriat terior walls it w < of obtaining f al Association the stru 20, up to t cial comm ed upon plans on in 1 the des n to se time for to be ociatic in strue- bicen- | te b | addition a litorfum {that would seat from 7,000 to 11,000 | 3 1 s call for her rooms for smaller State gather L0 'MAGRUDER BRANDS SIX CRUISERS JUNK Would Abolish New York Navy Yard and Foresees Big Hampton Roads Base. | By the Associated Press. American cruisers are obsolete, expensive to maintain and should be ; decommissioned immediately, Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, de- | posed commandant of the Phila- | delphia Navy Yard, told the House naval committee today in continuing a defense of his charge of waste by rtment in administra- tion of naval activities. | The ships named were the cruisers | pittsburgh, flagship of the Asiatic ! fleet; the Rochester, flagship of the pecial service squadron in Nica- | raguan waters; the Cleveland, the | Denver, the Galveston and the scout cruiser Tu The adm ould be maints ore economically in Hampton Roads, Va., and with only a little loss strategically. He favored z the navy yard at New York, f yards at Beston, mount Needs.” He predicted that some day the Navy would have 1t base in Hampton he thought h on the At- P mount ships. k were men 15 his choice for Pacific, ahead of and Norfo! ruder naval training s During discussion of the navy yards Chairman Butler remarked that the nment had spent a total of 2,000,000,000 on navy yards since and .}I.u:lu ler said that $4 Die rd, $1,800,000 by ¢ f A total of 1,700 additional officers will be needed for the 71 new ships proposed in the Navy's $725,000,000 building program, Chairman Butler id at a committee hearing. Would Increase Appointments. He indorsed a committee recom- mendation that each member of Con- gress be allowed five appointments to Annapolis instead of three. This would provide for 3,276 ap- pointments each year instead of 2,205 as at present. Butler also said he understood that the Navy planned to place five airplanes on each of the cruisers of 10,000 tons proposed in the program. This compares with two carried by the 7,500-ton cruisers of the Memphis class. . PROBE REQUEST BLOCKED Fletcher Resumes Attempt to In- vestigate War Agency. The move of Senator Fletcher, Democrat, Florida, for an investiga- tion into the affairs of the extinct War Finance Corporation was blocked temperarily today in the Senate bank- ing committee. Rejecting a proposal to report im- mediately the Floridan’s resolution, the committee decided instead to confer with Eugene F. Meyer, former director of the corporatiol before acting finally upon the resol tion, Mildew Restricts Trade. American shoe manufacturers Who have been trying to increase their busi- ness in Malaya find that one of their chief obstacles is tropical mildew, which attacks all leather articles. o Dealers cannot afford to carry large stocks or proper assortments of sizes and styles. Only a few of the more pretentious stores carry anything ap- proaching adequate stock. Another handicap to trade is that only low shoes are worn. AN A T NS & 1. deputy of Delaware County, P 0¥ the past year. Maj. Gordon submitted Sullivan to the samec lose examinations regarding all his activities that he subjected Stewart to, without bringing out any new light on the jury shadowing. Gor. } don asked him about a man believed to have been Grenfell whom the oper- ative reported came out of his house one day during the trial to tinker with his automobile outside in the street. ' Was Trailing Brother. He was asked if he knew positively whether the man was Grenfell or the brother. ~According to the wimess statement, Burkinshaw pointed out to him when he was being examined that he may have been mistaken in their identity. But Sullivan admitted what he learned from the District Attorney's office satisfied him that it was the juror’s brother he had been trailing. Sullivan told about trailing Juror Kidwell from place to place and at one time during the examination Jus- tice Siddons interrupted to remind Gordon it was unnecessary to cover old ground unless he had a specifie reason for doing so. Sullivan told about trying to form a contact with a real estate man named C. A, Burr, who was seen operatives to be in the company of one of the jurors. By using a pretext that he was interested in Atlantie of identification and his. credentials. He then gave Ruddy two wallets and his deputy sheriff's badge. Sullivan ex,plun.d‘to the court he has been a — City real estate, he sald he picked up the acquaintance of a Mr. Simmonds, who at one time worked in the same real estate firm with Burr. .