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“ Witness Firm in Denial He Was Told to “Get Some- thing™ on Oil Juror. Government counsel in the Sincls Burns contempt proceedings teday | sought to impeach the testimony of | Paul D. Steer. a Burns detective. when the witness denied he had been in- structed to “get something” on the | brother of John P. Kern, Teapot Dome juror whom he was shadowing during the oli conspiracy trial Steer had denied flatly on the stan that he had been told at a midnigl conference in the Mayflower Hotel Oc tober hat Kern's brother was a *well known gambler about town” and as shacowine the subject to g on him ial was made. Neil George P. Hoaver of counsel P Si rupted to AsK if B AW Was ing to invok t :{:cw of the e which permitted counsel to cr n witness 1 surprised by b He that what 1. betore the testimonv oi | utside the scope ' statute. { ck L. Siddons held that e of the ny overnment attorney tald the t when Steer was before the v e admitted g been in- ed fo “get something” on Kern's| r. and when asked what he by that had replied. “I mean | vou mean it or any one else ean it.” nshaw declared that the opera- ed the grand jury that he i by Frank J. O'Reilly. his brother was a town. At this point 1 Thew Wright. of counsel | Mason Day. protested that stify the at- tness stand inshaw remarked ch intention. Wright | ed to put him on the stand. ted to cross-examine the wit-| n this phase of the situation. Burkinshaw encountered considerable €ifficulty. Steer is 24 vears old. although | he looks like a high school boy. He re- | ma.n perturbed throughout the! The Gt 0 operative could not recal} 8t first whether he was before the grand | jury either in October or November, but when pinned down admitted that he had been. Burkinshaw repeatedly tried to get the witness to admit that he had been | ven such instructions by his superiors. ut each time when confronted by the grand jury's questions the young oper- 8tive parried with a remark that “he not recall or could not remem- | He stuck firmly to these an- nshaw went after him repeated- | 1y. “You said then that you were told | to get something on Kern's brother?” | the Government attorney pressed. | Ruddy Told Him to Wait. | “1 believe 1 testified before that the | g 1 remember was Charles G telling me to hold myselt in| ence the following morninz for | hy ed. | ble to break down the witness, | rkinshaw demanded if he would deny | that he had given ansvers to ihe cua- the grand jury. | know.,” Steer insisted. | Justice Siddons halted the examina- | on o0 admonish Burkinshaw that he tness to deny a statement when Steer had already said be couid not remember ha Pursuing another tack, the Govin- | ment attorney examined the witness sbout the inguiries he nad made con- | cerning the juror's brother. Sicer then reiated going to the neighborhood of the home of a Mr. Voight, who is a| brother-in-law of Juror Kern, t; inouiries from residents in the By usinz “a strong pretext,” ha¢ found o from a wom w25 mak biock, | he said, he quite a ot about Veizht | 3 several door; away who quite a goszip " Shadowed Ju:tice Agent. shadowing of Charles R. L. ial assistant to the Attorney Gen. eral, who figured in the Burns reports, | ¥as louched upon by Bteer the man alieged in Burns' sfda fied with the court, to have been seen | 5 k! :1'hPJ r Norman L. Glas- | ok 8t the Potomac Ply ur- e e mac Flying Pield dur. 1 er s2id he was unable 0 get the 7 cf Lamb's car at the d 10 the attorney » of Justice. He hung ten Lamb answercd t said on one occa- | rr's car being fol- | was one of the instances ) beljey were shadow ared th the & car from the [ had wumber by the # the * operative who former Goy the ernor Figh one of nglon. Dwyer he approaci.eq he would be dis ne was misses Wiere the Ve J ¥ To s 1t nothing 4 i4 that surors £ nstructions from mised Burkinens sement of Mr By eourt. the oy v de he knew Borns i the ngency QUITS COLORED POST. | L M Heisk Over whit red Lan w st Odde With Group Beyregation i M Distrier, the Ad has beer, m of Lafayets erignation o . we B Airecun of the f Columiie Association fo ancement of Couored People recesved by NH. Thomas, president of Ve msoielion. Hershsw s an vestigator in the Land Ofce The restgnation wes requested when Merstiaw refused v support U organ Sation i w fignt W sbolish racisl Seyregution 4 the liderior Depuiiment land Offce authori'les. according Thomes stated thet colored clerks were setisfied with comditions This BLelement war Laken Lp by members of the orguniza said. pluned a petition segregstinn Herehsw @io not cgn, end L Teigustivn wes Beguested. a k THE EVENING == [ y JOHN KNOX ! The Fact Story of American Aviators in the World War Part 2—The Lafayette CHAPTER V. ICTOR CHAPMAN won his spurs on that same May morning which saw _the victories and wounds of Thaw and Rockwell Attacking three German aviatiks r behind the enemy lines, almost the first enemy shot sliced a long rip in his forearm. Forgetting the intense patn and loss of blood in the thrill of com- bat, he continued his attack until one of the Germans crashed and a second went down out of control: the third fieti. Miles from home. wounded and with new enemies swarming to attack him. Chapman succeeded in winning his way back to the French lines. His two victims had fallen far out of sight of the French ground observprs, and neither was ever officially acknowledged. although he was praised for his heroism in the foilowing citation: “CHAPMAN. VICTOR. corporal pilot of Escadrille and American citizen, en- fi duration of the war. He is i for his andacity, con- ntly hurling himself upon enemy air- planes without regard to their number or their altitude. On May 24 he at- tacked alone three German machines during which combat he had his cloth- ing cut with many bullets and received a wound in the arm.” Capt. Thaw's Citation. Thaw, already twice cited before he joined the Escadrille, was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and given the following citation “THAW, WILLIAM, licutenant in Escadrille 124, Amcrican, enlisted vol- untarily for the duration of the war He is a pilot remarkable for his address, his devotion to duty and his contempt for da He has recently taken the offensive in 18 combats in the air, all within a short period. On the morning of May 24, 1916. he a and brought down an enemy aiwrplane. The same day he again attacked a group of three enemy machines and pursued them from an altitude of 4.500 meters down to 2,000 meters. Severely wounded during the course of the fight. he suc- ceeded. by his energy and audaci directing his airplane within h jlines, where he landed safely. although the machine was badly crippled.” Rockwell received the Medaille Mili- taire and the following citation from Marshal Joffre: “The Medaille Militaire has been con- ferred upon the following soldier: ROCKWELL. KIWWIN YATES, cor- poral in Escadrille 124. Enlisted for the duration of the war, and was wounded first on May 9. 1915, during a bayonet charge. He passed into aviation, and has proved himself a skillful and courageous pilot. On May 18, 1916. he attacked and shot down a German air- plane. On May 24. 1916, he did not hesitate in attacking a large group of nemy machines, during which combat he was seriously wounded in the face This nomination carries with it the Croix de Guerre with one palm JOFFRE." v woun( # of the day’s casualties in the Escadrilie. His shattered arm put him definitely out of the fighting for wecks to come. In telling of is visit to Thaw at the hospital. Capt. Thenault. the French commander of the Escadrille. draws a graphic picture of conditions during the German drive on Verdun. Capt. The- nault says “The roads were choked. for the Ger- means were firing on the Meuse bridges. Shelis were bursting in the water, rais- ing splendid fountains. Fish floated belly upward on the surface and our poilus, careless of the shelifire, picked them out with nets, delighted with the addition to their mess. We found Thaw comfortably fixed up and well looked after. They were going to put his arm in plaster and send him off two days later to the American Hospital at Neui!- Iy on the outskirts of Paris. He tald us that while he was engaged in a co™me bat he received from the German ma- chine gunner a ball which had frac- tured his left elbow. Despite the agony of the wound and the loss of blood, he was able 1o keep control of his plane. “He had only one thought—to get back westwards. Quite exhausted. he landed in' the barbed wire without knowing where he was. Then he saw blue uniforms. He was saved." Air Fighting at Verdun. The pageant of Verdun marched on #ithoud regard to casuaities. Every d when weather permited, the Escadrille patrolled, observed and fought The Americans learned their art rapidly in e great school of experience, and ed at the resirictions imposed hy formation flying and the wise caution of the French High Command. which The Yorktown Ciga- rette was first intros duced in Virginia— right in Richmond, its own home town. Thereafter it spread —chiefly through one smoker telling an- other about it. You know how it is—when you get just the right kick out of a smoke, you like to passonthegood news, For the smokers who have tried it, Yorktown seems to have IT, Twenty for 15e, Lasus, Kichmond, Virginia Sscadrille Norman Prince of Boston. whe orig- inated the idea of the Lafayette Escadrille. was nursing every human and material resource through the stre of the great German effoit. The guiding minds of France knew that the German pendu- lum had come nearly to the bottom of its swing and that the offensive would soon pass to the allies, when the Ger- mans had spent their strength in the fruitiess effort to take Verdun. They were saving every ounce of French strength. s0 that it might be ready at| the moment of German exhaustion. In that early Summer of 1916, time was the strongest ally of France and Eng- land—but this was not always clear to the hot-blooded young Americans. They had enlisted to destroy the enem patience was zn in: their equipment Chapman’s Will to Win. On June 17, the Escadrille was pa- trolling the west bank of the Meuse ers to stay on that side of the tream. Across the river the sky dotted with German planes, also ping 1o their own side of the water- 1y Chapman left his comrades and swept across the river to attack a group of Fokkers. As they scattered Chapman was attacked by a heavily armed German plane carrying three men, and would have been in seri- ous trouble if Thenault, de Lasge and Jalsley had not come to his rescue cr a bitter fight of several minutes, 1 was forced to dive for recalled his hawks, ollowed him back the Meuse, the absence of ihe missing fiyer not being 7th and D STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928. noticed until the Escadrille “checked n” at the home airdrome. Instead of returning to the home field, Chapman landed at Vadelaincourt, where he refllled his gas tank and took ff again without disclosing his destina- tion.” Not safisfied with the result of his fight with the big German plane, he went back to reopen the debate, His three-seater foe had disappeared, but he found himself attacked by a squadron of five German planes. The leader of the German planes fought and flew with a skill far above anything in Chapman's experience. Outnumbered and outclassed, Chapman fought, des- perately for his life; this time there were no friends to come to his rescue A fighter of no mean skill himself, the struggle soon resolved itself into a 'duel between Chapman and the leader of the enemy fight. But no matter how he turned or what device of flving_ skill he employed, the German leader always | anticipated his move, and every second was working closer—closer to the po- sition for the last. fatal burst of fire. Chapman’s plane was riddled. A bul- {let glanced from his head, tearing a painful wound in his scalp. An inch lower and . realizing that the odds were hopelessly against him, he con- | | centrated his skill and nerve on getting | out of his entanglement. Round and round rushed the planes—with Chap- man _darting—diving-—wing slipping-— | anything to avold the direct fire of his | enemy. ~ Chapman’s every sense was | alert for the first error in his opponent maneuvering. Ah—it came, and in an instant Chapman broke off the dog | fight and packed for home! He. made a { forced landing at. Froldos, the home of Escadrille 67. His machine was literally shot to pleces: two struts had been al- most cut through by bullets while broken control wire dangled from his | tattered wings. Furious at his failure | and raging against his foe, he demanded a new plane that he might take the at once. The French commander knew a brave man when he saw one, and re- fused to let Chapman, exhausted by his wound and the strain of the fight, go | aloft again that day. | Boclke, German Ace, v Later, the publication | written by Boelke, the great German jace, disclosed that he had been the | cnemy fight leader who almost ended | Chapman’s carcer. Chapman, compara- | tively inexperienced. had fou | deadliest of the German fiyers. Two days later, on June 19, Clyde | Balsley of EI Paso, Tex.. attacked a | Fokker north of Verdun. He manenvered Chapman. of a lette into position, sent a first burst at his | opponent when his gun jammed. At the |same moment another German plane attacked him from the rear. The | venomous rat-tat-tat of a machine gun was his first warning of new dangers. | An explosive bullet (outlawed in civ- | lized warfare) pierced his abdomen {and exploded at the base of his spine, | splitting his pelvis bone to fragments. { With his plane upside down and help- iless from the shock of his ghastly wound, the apparently doomed Ameri- can plunged spinning to the ground. (Conyrizht. 1078.) Tomorrow—Read the story of Clyde Balsley's miraculous escape from death, of his steadfast cour- age in the face of torture and Victor Chapman's supreme sacri- fice on the altar of friendship. GOVERNMENT HOTELS MAKE $1,000 A WEEK. Yearly Profit of $52.000 Shown by Structures Built in War Period. | Wi 51 ght ofl the | KINCER IS ELECTED 00D FELLOWS' HEAD Other Officers Named—An- nual Reports Are Read at Meeting. J. Burton Kincer, chief of the Divi- sion of Agricultural Meteorology of the | United States Weather Bureau, last night was unanimously elected grand master of the Independent Order of | Odd Fellows for the District at the| annual meeting of the Grand Lodge in | 1 Odd Fellows' Temple. Millard F. Zepp was chosen deputy and the other officers ! elected were: Elmer Cummings, grand | rden; Harry L. resen, grand | tary for the fifth consecutive term; am H. McConnell, grand treasurer, also for the fifth term, and W. W. Mil- lan, grand representative for the tenth | | arand master onsecutive two-year term. Representative’ William Galliher was | clected to the board of trustees and | | Representative L. H. Bailey to the I. O. 0. F. Home Association. ! ‘The master’s, secretary's and treasur- | er's annual reports were submitted, § were the reports of the standing com- miftees | Grand Master Kincer joined the order | at Wytheville, Va., in 1902, Since com- |ing to Washington in 1908, he trans-| ferred his membership to Friendship | | Lodg . 12, and has been affiliated | | with Fred D. Stuart Encampment, No | 7; Canton Washington, No. 1, of the rchs Militant, and Schuyler Col- < Rebekah Lodge, No. 10. He is a| rustee of the lodge and the business agent for the Kidder Charity Fund of | Friendship Lodge, said to be one of the largest individual lodge endow- {ments i this country. He s also a member of Wytheville | Fraternal Lodge, No. 82, A. F. and A {M. a member of the council of St. { Paul's English Lutheran Church, chair- | Iman of the executive committee of the | Northwest Suburban Citizens' Associa- tion, and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society. | SANDINO REPORTE SLAIN BY MARINES IN AIR BOMBARDMENT __(Continued_from_First_Page). thought this might have been the gen- eral's method of warning his followers to quit the town. Sandino, a 33-year-old clerk who be- came a general, declined to lay down his arms last July when the agreement negotiated by Henry L. Stimson, per- | sonal representative of President Cool- idge. He withdrew to the mountains and organized a republic. The newspaper El Universal of Mexico | City has received a letter purporting to | come from Gen. Sandino appealing for | medical supplies. The letter. dated Jan- uary 2. at El Chipote, was intended for publication Sunday when Sandino was| sald to plan an attack on the Marines | The letter accused Marine flyers of | bombing civilians, including women and children. It was addressed “to Nicara- quan Liberals in Mexico City.” It called | | the Marines “bandits." A Nica The Government made a profit of | | nearly $52000 last vear through the | operation of the so-called “Government | Hotels.” originally erected to house war workers during the extreme housing shortage. and which occupy land be- tween the Capitol and ,Union Station | which has recently been’ purchased for & parkway extension of the Capitol grounds. It is expected that the pres- ent sesson of Congress will authorize | the demolition of theie dormitories. The income received from the Gov- ernment Hotels last year aggregated $445.730 68. according to testimony at hearings before the House appropri- ations committee Operating expenses totaled $393.96747. The deposits, th fore, exceed withdrawals by 851, Testimony also showed that 3 trom the service which the Governmen Hotels are rendering to female employ of the Government, they are housing the Bureau of Home Economics of the Department of Agriculture, the | National Guard of the District and the Juvenile Court They are also laundering towels and other miscellancous articles for 50 other | agencies of the Government, totaling | upward of 2,400,000 pieces for the past year. | The pilgrimages taken by so many miilions of people in India each year are held to be one cause of spreading disease. Money is a medium of exchange. our dollars to exchange uct of other men's labor. uries and pleasures are | tivities in Nicaragua aguan Red Cross unit is being organized in Mexico City in answer to the appeal President Diaz has had a conference with Conservative members of the House of Deputies relative to the so- called McCoy electoral law, which would have placed an American as president of the eliectoral commission for the 1928 presidential election. This meas- ure, adopted by the Senate, was amend- ed by the House. which placed an American on the. commission merely in an advisory capacity The President requested the Conserva- tive deputies to reconsider the McCoy law, but the deputies said that parts of it were unconstitutional. They told the President that they would send him a copy of the law as modified for trans- mission to the American State Depart- ment for cons! ration, CHILEAN EDITOR RESI After Publishing American Policy. SANTIAGO. Chile, January 19 () - Luis Cruz, editor-in-chief of La Nacion the government mouthpiece, resigned vesterday after his signature appeared on an editorial in the newspaper last Thursday criticizing the American ac- Quits Attack on Senor Davila. Chilean Ambassador to the United States, was publisher of La Nacion until the government took it over and sent him to Washington. We earn them for the prod- Necessities, lux- exchanged for the dollars our day's work has brought. The improvident man exchanges his entire day’s labor to satisfy his He will mortgage tomor day's pleasure. immediate wants, : row’s labor for to- T'he thrifty man looks upon the frui labor as the right to obtain necess uries and pleasures as he may wish them. He stores away a part future use. Day afte year he continues to st day's earnings, LEventua right to enough of life ures to enable him to ¢ vears of his life without Are you Saving part of the future? Our Savings Depart storchouse for fut treets 17th a day and y of these rights for i after we up part of his Ily he possesses the s neeessities and pleas- oy the remaining burdensome labor. your carnings for ment is a good wre comfort, incoln National Bank nd H Streets | with the controversy ROBINSON UPHELD AS PARTY LEADER BY CAUCUS BALLOT (Continued_from_First Page.) mittee would do everything in its power to ascertain the responsibility for the documents and would denounce those responsible Senator Bruce of Maryland, while the | S Glass resolution indorsing Senator Rob- inson was before the conference, de- clared that the debate between Senator Robinson and Senator Heflin was not a mere personal controversy. He sald that Senator Robinson was not speak- ing for himself alone, but, for his party. He said that Senator Heflin had framed an indictment of 18,000,000 citizens of | this country and that the position of | the party ftself would have been sub- ject to a misconception if a reply had not_been made. ‘The reply was properly made by Sen- ator_Robinson, the party leader, Sena- tor Bruce continued. He added that if Senator Robinson had not replied to Senator Heflin, he himself and other Democratic Senators would have done s0. He sald that Senator Robinson had | borne himself excellently. | Bigotry, he said, drove the Catholics | into the Democraiic party, and if the sort of persecution indulged in by Sen- ator Heflin was continued, it would drive the Catholics into the Republican | party. | P21 the Dereoeratic party 1s to become | a Catholic baiting party, I for one wili | get out of it.” said Senator Bruce. He | added that it was an evil day when a candidate for the presidency, like Gov. Smith of New York. was to be attacked | on religious grounds. | Caucus Delays Senate Work. The conference was called for 10:30 o'clock this morning. The Senate was to meet & half hour later. When it did meet only & single Democrat was on the floor, Senator Please of South Caro- lina. A few minutes later Senator Hef- | lin stroiled into the chamber. A roll call disclosed no quorum of the Sen- ate. For more than half an hour the | clerk called the roll of absentees and the Republicans waited for their Demo- cratic colleagues to settle their dif- ferences in party conference. Those Democratic Senators not at tending the conference were: Ashurst | of Arizona, Blease of South Carolina, | Dill of Washington, Edwards of New | Jersev, Havden of Arizona. Heflin of | Alabama, Neely of West Virginia, Rans- | dell of Louisiana, Reed of Missourt, and | Smith of South Carolina. | Senator Heflin continued to breathe defiance to Senator Robinson. He sald that he could understand easily how it | was possible for Senator Robinson to obtain an indorsement of his leadership at a meeting engineered by himself, but that he could not understand how Senator Robinson wished to remain a member of the special committee when he, one of the Senators attacked in the Mexican documents, had declared that he should get off the committee. “If it had been me,” sald Senator Heflin, “I would have resigned imme- diately.” Heflin Explains Absence. | Senator Heflin later in the day took the floor to explain why he had not | attended the Democratic conference this morning, and to announce that he con- sidered the action of the conference | as no rebuke to himself. He declared that he would continue to attack Gov Smith of New York whenever he wish- | ed, adding “I don't have to go to the Senator from Arkansas to get permission to talk about Al Smith. He is a public| man and the Governor of New York.” | “And bound to be your nominee for President.” interjected Senator Moses} of New Hampshire. Republican. from across the aisle. while the galleries rocked with laughter. “Oh no, oh no.” said Senator Heflin The Alabama Senator continuing, satd “I wouldn't have expected the con- ference to do anything other than it/ did this morning. I indorse Senator Robinson’s leadership, in the main. my- self At the outset of his statement in the Senate. Senator Heflin said that last Tuesday Senator Robinson asked him if he were willing to make his address, delivered yesterday. today: that he wanted a party conference Wednesday on the merchant marine. “I told him I preferred to speak on Wednesday,” said Senator Heflin. “I did not know that the conference this morning would have anything to do between mysel! and the Senator from Arkansas yes- | y | terday. The conference passed a resolution such as I would have expected 1t to pass. It was a sort of white washing arrangement I would expect that but some of my enemies in the press {to my face. ] gallery are going to give out notlee | that Senator Heflin was rebuked by the Democratic side. It isn't true. It was distinctly understood in the con- ference that the resolution was not to Le considered a rebuke. Denounces Critics. “Those who took advantage of my absence to speak harshly of me are cowards, They don't dare to stand up | ‘They were told in that conference this morning that if Al ‘mith is nominated, New York will go Republican.” ‘Upon what does the Senator base his information?" demanded Senator Moses. “Does the Senator from New Hamp- shire want me to give him what Demo- crats do in conference?” replied Sena- tor Heflin. “Will the Senator from Alabama tell the galleries and the country what, hap- pened in the Democratic conference which he did not attend?"” sald Senator Moses. Senator Simmons of North Carolina interrupted. “It may be that the Re- publicans have conferences which are secret,” he said, “but I have not under- stood that the Democratic conferences AERO INTERESTS HERE IN SYMPATHY WITH NEW’S PROPOSAL (Continued_from_First_Page.) malls from planes to the New York City Post Office as @ result of thess isolated flelds. While Washington be the “gateway” to the South fo East and West bound air mail and may some day develop into a vital stoppinz point on air lines, the jdea of us the Union Station area for the mail planes alone is favored for this reason For the development. of municipal a:r interests, however, the committee heid, there must be sufficient hangar space, machine shops, meteorological but ings, dormitories, restaurants and like. At a first-class airport the owner of a plane for pleasure purposes ca: receive hangar rent, mechanical and plane service, fuel, spare parts and 2 uncrowded area to take-off and land Further, the committee explained, tre safety requirements are high as said Senator Moses, “that the Senator from Alabama had not sufficiznt notice of the conference, al though he was on the floor yesterday | and in the record I see that the Sen- ator from Arkansas gave notice of this conference. The Senator from Ala- bama, although not present at the eon- | ference, undertakes to tell what hap- pened. Obviously, I was not there, but I understand that the vote on the reso- lution was 35 to 1, and that the one Senator who voted with the Senator from Alabama really didn't wish to op- pose the leadership of the Senator from Arkansas. In other words, the one ally of the Senator from Alabama wanted to keep it a dark secret.” Some of the Democratic Senators were clearly perturbed today over the raising of the religious issue in the Senate by Senator Heflin and Senator Robinson’s criticsm of the Alabama nator. They saw in it seeds ther party disruption. One of the most prominent Democrats from the South deplored the calling of the con- ference today, although he predicted that Senator Robinson’ leadership would be overwhelmingly indorsed. The | Democrats are fearful of the effects which the controversy may have back home. Republican Senator on the other hand, were inclined to twit the Demo- crats on_ their party troubles. They saw in the controversy newly arisen only an advantage to the Republican iparty in the coming campaign. “Houston, Heflin and Harmony!'" { was the slogan suggested for the Demo- crats by one of the Republicans. | In some Democratic quarters it was said that the actien taken by the Sen- | ate Democrats today would be con- | strued by the country generaliy as an | indorsement of the recommendation | made by Senator Robinson that reli- glous issues should not be interjected into the debates of the Senate, or into | the national campaign. | " There was a difference of opinion as | to whether the action taken by the | Democratic conference would be effec- | tive in allaying party discord. Some of the Democrats took the view tha the “fat is in the fire” and that it would be difficult in the extreme now to get away from this controversy. Heflin Starts Row. Events leading up to the calling of the catcus started vesterday afternoon | on the floor of the Senate when Senat Heflin denounced Gov. Smith. declaring his nomination would lead 10 a sweep- ing defeat of the Democrats and a'- tacked the Catholic Church, asserting that it was back of the forged docu- ments, published by Hearst. which in- volved himselfl and three other Sena- tors. - At the end of his scathing speech Senator Robinson. the Democratic leader of the Senate. took Senator Heflin to task and said there was no evidence presented before the special committee which investigated the docu- ments connecting the Catholic Church with them. Senator Robinson is & member of the committee. Beginning with Heflin's criticism of Hearst for his publication of the Mexi- can siush fund documents, the drama moved to iis starting climax after the Alabaman had demanded Robinson’ removal from the committee which in. vestigated the scandal quickly met that c! quest that the Se: the question of ht obiected. Heflin had attributed publication of the purported Mexican documents, nam- ing him and three other Senators as siush fund beneficiar a Roman Catholic Church conspiracy aga: him. His demand for Ro tee removal, but Heflin by committee my the Rol iliIlilIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIlmlllIllliill;IIIIIIIIHIIIMIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIilllllflllIlllIHIIMIHHIMHHIHIfllllfllfii‘*iiHjfllklllflflmmm fleld is not and probably never {surrounded by congestion in the of buildings. This enables forced 1 ings to be made either in the water o {on undeveloped portions of nea | round if engine failure should de- shortly after the plane takes off | The aviation committee of the Boa-d of Trade. which has indorsed | Gravelly Point. site, discussed Mr. Nea 5 suggestion at a meeting y | noon. but took no action. individual members expreswed selves as against any plan which wo | Tob the District of the possibilit getting for its “a and enthusiastic” cf Ing to agree that the Union Stat e the interests of of | landing or taking | sible for experienced p: { take off in an area | air enthusiasts would not recom | such cramped space for | carryving passengers “for ward | Catholic Church had nothing to do with the documents. Robinson then denounced Heflin's at- tack on the Catholic Church and Gor. Smith, to which the Alabaman retorted The Senator from Arkansas cannot without utional Denounces Intolerance. Robinson declared d H and the car the priests an: eed of Misso Later Heflin moved of laughter when response. Heflin said t disapproval of Robinson's leadership R Lt i Rich’s shoes reduced! Semi-annual sale women's misses” & children’s footwear at exceptional savings 59.20 and {uty fashion t and "I.'. It from our reguiar stock—at r Qur entire stock 3 lots women's shoes Greativ red 0. 59.90 & 4 lots misses” and Sale of wome children’s shoes n's hosiery 3 pairs, *4 RICHS F Street at enth