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Two investigations—one by a board of Air Corps officers at Bolling Field and the other by inspectors of the Fire De- disastrous fire at the air base last night which destroyed property and equip- ment valued at approximately $75.000. dition, consisting of pilots’ rest room, lavatory, locker space for flying equip- ment and quarters for enlisted clerks, regarded as the “pride of Bolling Field.” was destroved, while hangar N: | around which t operations buildin was built in an shape fashion, w badly damaged . fitmsy structures at the field for several vears, by a strange coincidence got a FIELD FIRE SOUGHT partment—were in progress today to! determine, if possible, the cause of the The operations office and its new ad- | The fire iinx. which has pursued the | second opportunity to wreak destruc- | [ tion to the property which was | trom the fire that heavily damage | supply warehouse of the post several ved | | weeks ago. What had been saved from | | this conflagration was checked and in- ventoried and with great difficul | moved into hangar 5. The last of this equipment was stored in the hangar | Tuesday. | Boyle Discovers Fire. The metal sheeting of the hangar.| |co\’ered with a tar composition, proved excellent fuel for the roaring frame structure adjoining it and the north portion was destroyed, together with a | large amount of parts for airplane en- ! gines and planes. ‘ this hangar at the time, however. Private John T. Boyle discovered the | fire in the operations office shortly be- | fore 10 o'clock while walking his sentry | post. He sounded the alarm by firing | his revolver into the air three times | This report attracted the attention of | Lieut. Peter Skanse, officer of the day, | who was on a & round of inspection. and | he ordered the city fire department | alarm_sounded. At first the fire seemed to be minor in character, its location having been the roof, and close to the heating plant spread with intensity and was aided by a high wind Realizing there was thousands of dol- lars worth of fiying equipment, includ- ing parachutes, in eighty large wooden lockers _within the blazing building. Capt. E. G. Reinartz, flight surgeon. and two enlisted men whom he pressed | into service rushed into the room in an | effort to save some of the equipment | The tall lockers are divided into two and the lower to accommodate the parachutes assigned to the locker-hold- ers. Using three master keys, Capt. Rein- No planes were in determined in the space between the | ceiling of the operations building and | As the District firemen arrived the fire | | sections, one for holding fiving suits | ot O Ruins of the operations office at Bolling Field destroyed by fire last night. IN WAKE OF BOLLING FIELD FIRE Sarah Bush, stenographers, who reported for work this morning ‘to find their office a tangle of charrsd w tion of bigamy, the court said, if it can be proved, may be used to attack the credibility of the witness, “I was married in Texas, some time in 1917,” McMullin replied. He sald his wife lived in Columbus, Ohlo. “Weren't you married to Violet Grace ’);m.:rnrlv;er on Jll’?.! 16, 1919, while your rst wife was still llving?” Douglas in- sisted. 5 8 “Yes,” McMullin replied. “While my | first wife was still living, but divorced.” McMullin declared he had been di- vorced twice. “Have you a record of these di- | vorces | " “No, but the courts have.” | | Resuming his questioning of McMul- lin, counsel asked him if he remem-! | bered being arrested in July, 1927, on | four charges of traffic violations in Pennsyivania. ! Denies There Was Trial. | | “I remember I was summoned. There | was no trial, and I understand I was| | convicted,” McMullin replied. “Do you remember that you under- | took to bribe a traffic cop by offering him $5?” he was asked “I did not attempt to bribe him,” McMullin _declared. “He shook me down for $5 and I paid him.” | “Do you remember a gentleman by | the name of Lantz>" “Yes, sir,” McMullin said. “Do you know the name of his wife?” “It is Jeanette Brewster Lantz.” “When was the last time you saw }lw"’ “Sunday a week ago.” | il | | In a report of the Sinclatr-Burns con- | tempt procecdings that appeared in The star of last Tuesday, the court was de- clared to have rebuked George P. Hoo- ver and James J. O'Leary, assistant United States attorney, for character- fzations used during a verbal clash. An examination of the court record shows, however, that the rebuke was administercd to' Mr, O'Leary and did not include Mr. Hoover, who had pro- tested to the court about a remark ap- plied to him by the Government attor- | ney. Justice Siddons' statement, dur- | ing the colloguy, was misinterpreted in | The Star's report as applying o both In the center Miwes Lola Nelson and od. L 7 Star Photo. ATTACK ON WOMAN WITNESS STIRS OIL CONTEMPT TRIAL | to be shown McMullin, the former de- tective replied, “T think I did.” The places looked Mke| “That was a false statement, wasn't | 42" For the first time McMullin's voice was rather faint as he replied “Yes." Mr. Douglas tried to get the witness to admit that he had served in the State police from 1921 to 1927 gued | remember making any_ such | statement,” McMullin replied. “I was | just given a blank to fill out.” g Further Questioning Barred. Fually, when pinned down to a di-| rect question. McMullin admitted he Once Employed McMullin. had been a member of the police force. | Justice Siddons barred further ques- He said that he had employed Mc- | tjoning along this line. Douglas per- | Mullln for two months. ending last d in another method of attack. March, as a special trafic officer at it not s fact that you had her | Millbourne, using him on Saturdays. | tofore been emploved by the Stahl D Sundays and holidays. On other Jays. | tective Agency and discharged because he said, the Government Wwitness | you had falsified three or four reports worked 1n an insurance agency and or | he demanded. | the Keystone Automobile Club. | “No, I was never discharged by Mr. (Continued from First Page.) no swelling slight bruises or scratches, he said. Dr. Mason denied having given the | police a report on the case, although the | police report today said he “rendered treatment for shock” and that her con- | treatment was “not serjous.” = 1 | Speaking of his errand here as a defense witness in the contempt case, Lantz, who said that he was a Penn- sylvania State highway patrolman be- fore going to Millbourne, declared that he had volunteered to testify in favor of the defense. attorneys. which was tncorrect. In fair- | ness to Mr. Hoover this correction is made. “Were you on parole?” Douglas asked. McMullin said he had been paroled | with directions to leave Ohio | Douglas persisted in asking if he had | G B0 1 OIL PROBE WITNESS I o tos aueion| 10 RETURNETOIU.S.,. | SENATORS ARE TOLD' i another way. Douglas asked if Mc- (Continued from First Page) | released Mullin had not been discharged by rea- son_of his conviction in Ohio. “I was discharged, but was not dis- honorably discharged,” McMullin re- plied. The witness insisted 1t was just | a “plain discharge.” Question on Marriages. ing his tactics again, Douglas asked, “How many times have you been married?” The court permitted the question and McMullin replied, “I've been married | three times. courts, but as understood here, that ruling does not go to the extent of re- | quiring him to appear in Canada be- | fore a Senate commission. Besides Stewart, those who guaran- teed the contract of the Continental company were Sinclair, Henry M. Blackmer of the Midwest Refining Co., |a subsidiary of the Standard Oil of Douglas tried to find out the name of | Indiana, and James E. O'Neil, former the first wife and the date of the mar- | president of the Prairie Oil & Gas Co riage and finally McMullin was directed | Blackmer and O'Neil fled to France to answer the latter question. | when the ofl scandal first vas uncov- He could not recall the exact date,|ered by the Senate lands committee except that it was in 1917. { four vears ago and all efforts to obtain Government counsel blocked a ques- | their testimony have failed. tion as to whether McMullin had been | Stewart was abroad when his testi- married when he went to Texas in 1919, | mony first was sougnt in the civil Te-- Justice Stddons interrupted to add.| pot Dome suit. Later. when he was Of course we are not going to try him | summened to testify in the Fall-Sin- But the ques- | clair criminal conspiracy trial, he came | ported his wife was assaulted andja | night. on Fall's word and nuzu(zvermw" claim possession. Both Fall and Bver- hart have said that Sinclair paid the ! money solely to acquire an interest in | the ranch property. | Sinclair Operations Told. The committee gained an idea of tne extent, of Sinclair’s finaneial operations from Harold W. Kenwell, secretary and treasurer of the Hyva Corporation. Bin- clair’s personal company. ~Kenwell pro- duced the corporation’s books, appear- ing instead of Sinclair, under an agree- ment with the committee. | The corporation, whose stockholders are Sinclair, his wife and mother, be- gan in 1922 with $20.000 paid-in capital. and in October of that year took over $17.023.500 of the stock of the Mam- moth Ol Co., the Binclair concern or- ganized to lease the Teapot Dome re- | serve. Book entries showed that in October, 1923, Liberty bond blocks of $3.055.165, $3,585,233 and $1558,240 were pur- chased. Two bond sales recorded were $99.500 on January 15, 1924, and $9! 125 on March 17, of that year. No record was kept of the bond serial numbers, the witness said. Testimony already in the records was that Sinclair formed the Hyva Corpora- tion so it could absorb his profits and eorporation income tax of 12 per cent instead of the individual rate, then as high as 50 per cent. ' OSLER NOW IN EUROPE. His Wife Attacked WILLIAM LANTZ, 0il contempt case witness. who re- Ietter stolen from her in a hotel last Former Continental Head Not Expected to Return Until May. TORONTO, January 26 (#.—It was stated at the offices of H. S. Osler today | that Mr. Osler had been in Europe for {a month nd is not expected to return to Washington and apparently was‘ ready to g0 on the witness stand when the conspiracy case proceeding broke upAfinI a mistrial patch of witnesses parad P nded before | to Toronto until next May. the comm - . [ hem aneimtod materatiy in gaiain tor | _Washington dispatches had said the inquisitors to the information they are | Shate oil committee planned to ask seeking ief development of the | APpointment of a commission to come imony by M. T. Ever- | Dere and question Osler, a former head the Continental Trading Co., in con- t, Fail's son-in-law and the man |° who'carried Sinclair's payments to Fall, | 2e¢tion with the Teapot Dome inquiry. . He said that so far as he knew Sin- clair had no papers to show that he| The Un had purchased a third interest in Fall's |to Canada, Souti Africa and Argentina, ranch holdings with the $233.000 pay- | but modern engines are replacing wind- ments, and that he would have to rely mills in most places. UNDER RALEIGH HABERDASHER MANAGEMENT Semi-Annual Sale Of Stetson Shop Fashion Footwear includes exclusive 120 13 SIS 5169 EVENING SLIPPERS NOW Although admitting that his testi- ven mony is calculated to attack the char- acter of the witness for the prosecu- tion, he would not discuss his sever- lartz and the two men rushed from locker to locker, opening the lower di- visions and dashing out through the fire and smoke with the ‘chutes, Which | ance from the traffic force at Mill- are valued at $350 each. They contin- | hourne other than to say, “Well, he | ued thie operation until 27 parachutes yasn't necded any more.” | were piled up on the ground outside | " Lantz stated that the letter which {and by this time the fire became 50| he reported missing from his room con- | intense that it was impossible to get | tains some information relative to Mc- | back into the locker room. | Mullin’s part in the oil case, written Maj. Howard C. Davidson. who re- cently took over command of the post,!in Huntingdon, Pa. would not hazard an opinion as to the | ronday. | cause of the fire. “We will investigate |~ In the party which assembled in Mr They arrived here a decision.” Maj. Davidson explained.| he assistant manager was Wiiliam J. “put I will say I feel that the matter Burns. his son Sherman and Frank J | him by his wife while she was visiting | every probable cause before reaching|pantz's room shortly after he had called | of defective electric wiring can be | dropped from consideration, as it was | recently installed in approved tubing.” | Fire inspectors agreed with Maj. Da- | vidson on this point. Activities Are Curtailed. | With the entire operations section in | ruins, activities of the field. although somewhat curtailed, were forced to g) n and a temporary operations office | was established in a small frame struc- | in front of hangar 7. Lieut. Comdr Homer C. Wick, commanding the naval air station, called on Ma). Davidson this morning and placed at he Army's ‘isposal all the Navy's fly- | ing equipment needed to carry on nec- essary fiying activities, Maj. Davidson accepted this offer pending receipt of fiying equipment from Wright Field Dayton, Ohio, which has been request- ed to forward a supply. | The operations organization of the post had been developed into one of the most efficient of its tvpe in the Air Corps through a system estab- lished as a result o} vears of experi- ence in handling air traffic. To carry out this system efficiently much paper work and record-keeping was 1 d and most of these documents were consumed in the fire Officers at the fleld, as a result of the numerous fires at the post. while {not in's position t recommend pre- | ventive measures. saw hte only possi- | bility of precluding future heavy losses {in the construction of modern, fire- | ture hangars and administration Investigators Named. The remodeled and extended opera- tions office was completed a short time 0 at & cost of about 33,000 and was he newest structure on the field The board appointed by Ma) David- | #on 0 investigate the cause of the fire | is eomposed of Ma) R F. lLongacre, Capt. Christian Schwarzwaelder pt. Reinartz and Lieut. Frederick Schauss. SPEAKS ON TALMUD. Representative Sirovich Addresses B'nai B'rith at Installation. The application of the tenets of the 46 o modern civilization In the of its origin, development, past hiswry and the great teachings of its ranbis was brought out in an address delivered Iagt night by Representative Irving Bwovich of New York, who poke st the annual installation of off- cers of the Bual Brith at the Jewish Community Center Mr Sirovich ponted out that the symbolism embodied In the colors of the American flag were first given thelr significance i the Talmud ages pefore 118 wdoption by the United States KAaward Rosenbium was jnstalled as B A Mimmelfarb, fitst vice Morns Mahn, relnstalied for the forteth consecutive David Welner, tecording wcre- Moe @ffenbery and - Phillp Wag Willium Jsadore JHirschficld was mas ! ceremonies and 50 Hermog, past presiden CLUB HEARS DR. HOWE. 12 it Addresses Rotary on “Chem istry and Industry.” Dr Marnsor Howe. editor of the Journal of Industiisl and Engineering Chemistry addressed the Washinglon fustary Club 8t e evening Winter meet ing I the Willard Hotel last nlght on Chemistry end Indusiry 1 Howe spoke in place of Dr Juln 3 Figert commlseloner of education, the sehied | uleG speaker. whio was caled oul of nexpectedly Herrell and Dr Edgar 1 Copeland. new membeis of the lub were ntroduced by J Frank SBaul and Allan Tuibol respect wnd med 0o the organize Vo by Vice Fresident George M. Wit well W W vt president, presided | O'Reilly, an operative. Detectives R. H. | | Mansfield and Curtis L. Trammell insti- tuted an investigation of the case last night, but were unable to do more than receive a report of the incident. Interviewed by Police, Capt. Guy E. Burlingame of the sec- |ond precinct and Precinct Detective R | B. Collins interviewed Mrs. Lantz this | morning “We could find no evidence of assault,” Capt. Burlingame stated, ! the case is still under investigation When the contempt trial opened t morning Mr. Douglas arose to address the court. He sald he feit it his duty to direct the court’s attention at this | time to an attack made upon Mrs Lantz, a witness in this case. He ex- | plained briefly the fact set forth in a morning newspaper report, and added | an but | demanded Stahl, otherwise I would not hav | him as a reference to Mr. Burns,” Me- | Mullin blurted out. The court ruled this | was an argumentative response and or- | dered it stricken from the record. Mc- Mullin repeated thereupon that he was “not discharged at all” Justice Siddons permitted Douglas to ask the witness if he had not told the Burns Agency last year he had never been indicted or convicted of an offense. “Yes, I said no,” the witness replied W “It was true as far as the name I used was concerned,” McMullin said. Queried as to References. The attorney then brought up the names of several persons McMullin had glven the agency as references. “Did you give them the name of Sen- ator Edge of New Jersey?” “Yes, 1 did." A Mr. Till who was in the courtroom | was identified by the witness as another man whose name was used as a refer- ence, and McMullin also admitted using the name of a Capt. Lamb of the Jorsey State police “Did you give these names as refer- -5 for Long or McMullin?" Douglas Justice Siddons intervened to rule that the witness previously had testified he had made his application in the name of Long fullin then admitted having made | { an application in July, 1925, for a posi- tion with the Burns agency and Douglis succeeded in bringing out testimony that Charles G. Ruddy. present man- en for bigamy in this case.” 3685 8885 81085 Gold and Silver Kidskin Brocades Satin Seventeen Years of History The organization of the City Club dates hack to 1909, when o group of business, Government and professional men, headed by E. C. Graham, organized the Commercial Club and opened its headquarters in the old Cameron Houge, on Lafayette Square. The club flourished under the administrations of E. C. Graham, the late Milton Ailes, W. C. Johnson, John L. Weaver and James Sharp and moved to larger quarters on Farragut Squa: In 1919 it hecame apparent that to the greater performance of if the club was to dedicate itself public service, its members! would have to he increased and a new clubhouse built. In 1920, under the leadership of J. A. Whitfield, the sixth and la presi- dent of the Commercial Club, plans were formulated which erys- tallized in the dedication of the new City Club bv President Calvin Coolidge and resulted in its completion in 19 For seventeen years the City Club and its predecessor have been an active and useful part of the community. STETSON SHOE SHOP 1305 F Street Its membership is not only interested in the sacial side of life, but also in the the civic development of Washington. ooy ey o ‘r’:d and Kl“fl"‘; { ager of the Philadelphia office, was not she was beaten during the struggle and | the manager at that time. o concussion, which neces- | | Tl | Asked About Prison Sentence. sited her removal to & hospital “The only thing stolen from the| Unable to elicit anything from the - witness regarding his police service, Mr. | | room.” Mr. Douglas said, “was a com- munication dealing with the witness B whtich had been hrought here | Douglas, with permission of court,| | for use in this case.” Maj. Gordon, who | shifted his examination to other phases | | replicd to Mr. Douglas, stated to the|of McMullin's record | | court e had not heard of the incident | He asked McMullin about his peni- | | until he read of it this morning. “It 15 | tentiary sentence { entirely inappropriate and reprehensible | T sald I had served two months and | | that this matter be brought here in this |was then transferred from Columbus. | case” he added. “If anybody was as- | Ohlo. penitentiary to Johnson City for | saulted it should be a matter to be|the balance of my year the witness handled by the police and not brought | replied. He admitted he was a prisoner up here.” at Johnson City, employed as a cherk R under the pentientiary authorities Maj. Gordon declared the incident | conveyed an insinuation against the dis- trict attorney’s office and the proper | course to deal with it was through the police. "1 make no charges, but have simply stated the facts well known to every- sody,” Mr. Douglas replied. “Mrs, Lantz herself 18 a witness under subpoena of | this court. 1 feit it my duty to call this matter 1o the att 1 had any char district attorney’s office 1 wowd make them * Justice Siddons remarked that he had ard of the incident unul it had ted 1o his attention by his It any attack had been mad wife of a witne: n the court he nssured counsel that the police would do thelt duty. Bo far as the Court protecting witnesses, as suggested by George P. Hoover, counsel for Harry ¥ Sinclair, Justice Siddons de- clared that was a matter which he could not deal with now He nssured Mauj. Gordon that Mr. Douglas had not intimated any connection between the « rnment and the assault and characterized the incldent as “a re- | ‘l(llflnlllv occurrence.” ‘ | | | on Ui “If any one 15 held on n charge of assault,” Justice Siddons added that he | ‘has no doubt but that the couits of the Distriet of Columbla will do thelr duty | MeMullin Aga Ntand, MeMullin faced another day of cross- examination in & quict and unperturbed manner As yesterday, the examina Gon was the center of frequent legal argument | Teestricted by rulings to proceed with’ L hits examinution subject Lo the discres | ton of the court, Douglas hammered Away AL the witness in an effort 1o Artve home his point that MeMullin surreptitiously impersonated William V Long, #n ex-Maiine, o perpelrate i fraud on the BUrns agency 1 applylng for w position st October The aete attorney tied dn vl 1 question the witness about the former | | positions b had held Did you we for State Police onee for yenrs? b neked No " MeMullin replied MeMuliin could ot recall whether he | had so stated Lo the Burns agency i hie mpplication. 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