Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1928, Page 4

g - - CLOSE VOTE SEEN | ON POWER INQUIRY Both Sides Claim Victory as| Pressure on Senators Grows Stronger. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Both sides in the fight over whether the public utility industry shali be in- | westigated are claiming victory today. | The power interests feel they have at | 1east 10 votes margin on the prospective | vote in the Senate to refer the whole| question to the Federal Trade Commis- ston, while the friends of Senator Walsh. | Democrat. of Montana admit the vote will ve close. but are confident of hav- ing the resolution adopted which calls for the appointment of a special investi- gating committee of the Senate Senator Walsh has been advised by 801 of his colleagues that in all their experience in the Senate they have never been subjected to such intense pressure from back home as they are to vote against the pending resolution. | The power interests announced severa!| months ago that they intended to carry | their case “back_home” to the constit-| vencies of the Semate. and the way| Scnators who would be expected ordi- | narily to follow Senator Walsh are go- ing over to the ranks of the other Sldri is an indication of the way the battle | 15 going. The Montana Senator says frankly that he does not believe the public unlity industry could stand a public| investigation, and that to refer the| question to the Federal Trade Commis- sion. which he understands is the present effort of the power compauies, would be to bury the matter for a year| or more. . | Democrats’ Stand Revealed. | Senator George of Georgia, Demo-| crat, already has announced that he will vote to refer to the Federal Trade | Commission. and it is reliably reported that Senator Robinson of Arkansas, D>mocratic leader. and Senator f‘nl] Harrison of Mississippi will do likewise. | Presidential politics has been brought | into the cloak room discussion, for it{ 18 being urged upon some of the friends | of Democratic candidates that if! Senator Walsh is able to got his| resolution passed he will take the| center of the stage for several months ust as he did in the Teapot Dome | vestigation. and that such publicity | would crowd the other candidates somewhat. | ‘Another line of attack which has been | effective in the case of one insurgent| Republican who would ordinarily vote with Senator Wash is that if the Mon- | tana Senator become occupled with the | giclock, was on 212 Ninth strect, and public utility investigation he will side- track the present oil inquiry which it is believed will lead to greater revelations of a political nature than could pos-| sibly be expected out of the utility in- wvestigation. This same Senator is au- | thority for the comment that even 1 the Federal Trade Commission fails to bring a prompt report the Senate can | ment witnesses also were taken. | then just as well as now. pass a resolu- tion of investigation similar to that companied the detectives on this raid. | proposed by Senator Walsh. Faith Held Lacking. The Montana Senator, in appearing | before the Senate interstate commerce | committee, used excerpts from the pre- liminary investigation of holding com- panies made by the Federal Trade Com- mission and when he opens the de- bate next week he will point to the con- clusions drawn by the commission. Others, like Senator Norris of Nebraska, ®ho have lost faith in the Federal Trade Commission because of a belief that President Coolidge by the use of the appointing power has “stacked” the commission with ultra conservatives, will contend that the place for an in- vestigation is by a Senate committee. The vote will be closed and the utility in‘erests may spring a surprise as they | @id when v mustered enough votes | liminary hearings in the first place. It i a battle of the giants. and the indi- | vidual Senators accustomed o being | buttonholed in Washington are feeling the effects of a pressure from their own political lieutenants at home, who in turn have been told of the reasons why the power industry does not want what it fears will be a political investigation by the Senate, welcoming on the other hand a thorough inquiry by the Federal Trace Commission. 1908 ) GOV. BYRD CHEERED | AS PRESIDENCY HOPE' Banquet of Winchester Fire Co.! Brought to Feet by Men- tion of Name. Eperal Diapath to The Star WINCHESTER, Va bruary 11.— | An ertion by Lieut. Gov. Junius E. Y/est that Gov. Harry F. Byrd of Vir- ent of Winchester, “would brought a Fire Compan of wealthy business and men of Winchester ing the city upon its ad e from many prine such benefactors as Cha y Rouss and Judge John Hand- fact that 3t was the rich- capita in the Btate, Mr. red that “yon are known in | 1 s the home of Comdr Byrd and of Gov. Harry ) &nd mavbe in the future the nhome of President Byrd Peryomal, he suid, “1 helieve the Uime has arrived when the Bouth should assume jeadership in the Goy- tat Washingon. When we de- we will ger 11, and Byrd possesses much of Anudrew Jackson v of Bamuei 11l exvcutive abiity o and the vision of Wilson make a grest Presd oy of epplatse and cheers prected Jeutenant governor's apprasal of | chtet executive \he Jower 4 Valiey hse glven 1he Blate an hslt w century The out- omtinued for same Ume FACES NEW CHARGES. | Coulored Eoy Accused by Girl Bus pected of Orher Offenses Welter Mettiew Moore colored. 19| genss o4 of 128 € sireet southwest W wee mrrestsd last pight o oom- | for, with Goft plaint of Helen Wilbon, colored, 19 yeurs ola, ot 524 1z onur Bei0 the! ne Lad wlacked her de e Hever U, dw Ve marauder who Nk st Vecken wnd wlarmed severs) eolored wonmen i1 Soutl Washingon duriig the | et tho werks ! by Washington and other Presidents | ! of the United States in retiring from | | the presidential office after their sec- | ance of this precedent by the Presi-| | none of them contained the key words ole om R | MERGER PLAN SOON READY ‘ . | Kellar, Mayheld, Neely, Overmun, Pit- matnwes) wiin | « THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G, SATUKDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1928, PROPOSED EXTENSION OF OLD FAIRFAX COURTHOUSE Architect’s drawing of administration building to be erected to relieve congested business at Fairfax Courthouse, Va., | The present county and remodeling of the cler! TOHELD AS POLICE. | Senator saying he resolution had he been free to vote Reed, Democrat, and Keyes, Republi- | can, "were paired without _announc 16 Men and 2 Women Arrest- ed as Search of Houses {COAL MINE ‘S'TRIKE Yields Liquor. Strategy came into play yesterday afternoon_ during two raids by tives Richard Cox, Willam F. | and Detective Sergt. O. F. Letterman which netted four men and two women as principals and 12 other men as Gov ernment witnesses. | Mrs. Edith Ella Donchue, 40 FERTS | e it ibPeEL GoR] old.and Edith Hyatt, 20 years old. were arrested during R raid on Mrs. Done- hue's apartment. 1459 P street, about 5 o'clock. and charged with illegal Pos- [ o ratorc from the strike district, who | | did not ask to be heard, Chairman | ssion of liquor. The detectives called at the apartment and told Mrs. Done- hue the, ere just in from Baliston™ and needed refreshments. She sold them two half pints, it is alleged. Then they got a warrant and returned to the apartment. They notfeed that while they were talking to the women Mrs. | Donehue kept in front of a side closet and repeatedly tried to pull a black screen in front of it. Search of the rooms disclosed about 20 gallons of beer in th~ closet, hidden behind some clothes. ive gallons of | “red liquor.” some of it in a garbage can, were also found in the apartment, Detective Sergt. Letterman sald. ‘The other raid, conducted about 4| resulted in the arrest of John M. Po ell, 28 years old, 716 H street, and Al- bert J. Lowry, 41, 1911 Newton street, an charges of setting up a gaming table, and Louis Harpert. 45, 1002 Pennsyl- vania_avenue. and Louls Young. 1545 | Fourth street, charged with violation of the prohibition laws. Twelve Govern- Policemen fram No. 1 precinct ac- and the force was divided. so that the | exists to the premises were covered. Realizing a raid was in progress, several of the men in the room dashed for freedom —into the hands of the waiting policemen. ‘About five gallons of “red liquor™ and five gallons of alcohol, together with some money and betting paraphernalia, were found in the room. SENATE INDORSES TWO-TERM POLICY | | ment as to how either would lm\'o} | junctions; assailed Gov. Fisher of Penn- | company. George, Democrat. for, with Phipps, Republican, against. Senator Caraway, Democrat, an- nounced a_general pair with Senator Metcalf, Republican, the Arkansas ould vote for the voted. Senators du Pont and Deneen, Re- publicans, were recorded absent. INQUIRY FAVORED BY SENATE COMMITTEE __(Continued_from_First Page) | ers, complaining of the operation of in- conspiracy sylvania and charged a timore by the Pennsylvanis Ohio and the New York C prices and the miners' union, Murray's story was listened to atten- tively by the committee as well as by Watson explaining that they realized a | case had been made out for the adop- tion of the resolution. Murray complained particularly of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., which he said | had started the trouble by abrogating the Jacksonville wage agreement. He mentioned that R. B. Mellon, brother of | Secretary Mellon, was a director of the | With respect to Gov. Fisher, Murray | said miners “‘unfortunatel felt there | was some connection between the gn\'-; ernor’s former association with “the | Clearficld Bituminous Coal Co. and his | administration, He mentioned especial- | ly In that connection the authority granted to the “Iron and Coal" police | and declared “this army of 4,000 men employed by the operators was strik- ing terror in the strike region.” Assails Pennsylvania Injunction. Murray complained of an injunction | aranted by Judge Langham of Indiana, Pa., describing it as ‘the most drastic of its kind ever allowed.” He sald Judge Langham still interested in the op- eration of mines in the county where his_injunction applies. The Clearficld Bituminous Coal Co., with which he said Gov. Fisher had been associated, was credited by the witness with having secured the Langham in- | junction. The injunction granted by ihe Fed- eral court of western Pennsylvania, Murray told the committee, restrained organizations {rom filing an appeal or placing bonds in eviction cases. While individuals were permitted to file ap- peals, their funds did not permit the action. “As a result there were whole- | sale evictions,” he said, adding that | “our miners conldn’t act alone for lack FOR PRESIDENTS, 7 s | (Continued_from_First Page.) * the resolution held up for pre-|<on of Indiana and Willis of Ohlo, voted against the resolution Senator Fess tried a third time to amend the resolution, but was defeated with a rumbling of “nays” when he sought to eliminate a phrase declaring third terms “unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions.” Sen- ator Bingham then proposed an excep- tion to the third-term rule in case of | ‘great national emergencies.” but that didn’t even reach a roll call. The same fate killed off an amendment by Sena- tor Neely, Democrat, West Virginia, which would have removed the resolu- | tion's _application 1o President Cool- idge if he “changes hix mind and de- cides to become a candidate.” | Resolution Assailed. ! Others who led the administration | fight against the resolution were Sen- ators Jones of Washingon, Shortridge of Cahfornia, and Edge of New Jer-| | sey. They insisted that the Senate was it of bounds in passing the resolution, | deseribing it as a “politiacl gesture.” As adopted by the Senate reso- lutionread: the | Senate that the precedent establiched ond term has become, by universal con- currence, & part of our Republican system of Government, and that any departure from this time honored cus- tom would be unwise, unpatriotic and | fraught with peril o our free st | tutions.” | The paragraph eliminated by Sen- r La Follette read 'he Benate commends the uhw-rv-i dent.” The vote follows ¥or the resolution Blane, Borah, Brook- zens, Curtds, Cutting, ooding, Howell, Joh , MacMaster, Norris, Nyr, Backett and Schall 18 Demnocrats - Ashurs!, Barkley, Bay- ard, Black, Bratton. Broussard, Bruce, Copeland, Dill, Edwards. Fletcher, Gerry, Glass, Harris, Harrison. Hawes, Haye Meftin, Kendrick, King, Mc- man, Robinson of Arkansas, Eheppeard, Simmons, Smith, Bleck Thomas, Trammetl, 'Tydings Walsh of Montana and Wheeler- 37, Furmer-Labor - Shipstead - ), Toral- 56 Against the resolution Tepublicans - Bingham, Dale, Fdge, Pess . Gould, Greene, Jones, Melean MoNary, Moses, Norbeck, Oddie, Pine Jued of Pennsylvania, Robinson Indiann, Shortridge, Smoot, Stel Wearren, Waterman, Watson and Wil Demorrats Blease, Ferids and Walsh of Mussuchusetls “otn 26 Jtansdell | petition of the Pittsburgh Coai Co. to sephens, | Wagner, | of funds and couldn't act through their organizations.” Murray said the independent coa! producers stood by the Jacksonville wage agreement_until oveed by com- MRS. HOUDINI GETS “SPIRIT MESSAGE” Believes Communication Comes | From Magician's Mother—Con- tains “Key Word.” | | By the Associated Pross NEW YORK, February 11.- Mrs Harry Houdini, widow of the magician, | believes she has received a spirit com- | munication from his mother, who died in 1913, A message containing the, word “forgive,” purporting to comé from the magician’s mother, was received at a Spiritualist. seance, and this, Mrs Houdini said, was a key word known only to herself, Houdini and his mother, An investigation by newspapers, how- ever, showed that in an interview pub- Iished in 1927 the keyword arrange- ment was disclosed. Arthur Ford, the medium, said he knew nothing of any previous arrangement between Houdin and his mother Mrs. Houdini sald she now was hope- ful of hearing from her hushand, who died in October, 1926 She safd that his h they had nagreed code of 10 words which he would try to use to communicate with Der “Mbe saldtaris Jiks rhoeivia: hitne dreds of “messages” from medfums, but Houre Committee Redrafting Bill on Railroad Consolidation, Hearings on the Parker raflrond con- solidution bl whieh have been In prog- ress for the past month, wi meluded | yesterday by the House commerce com- {mitteee, which will now begin redrafting of the meas Louts B Cs {ident of the Ame i )- |1oad Ansociation, described present operating dieulties of smull and long Hines as the committee’s final witness, | YOUTH VICT-IM OF AUTO. 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Plans by W. I Deming, Washington, D, C. ! WILLIS INDORSES DRY ENFORCENENT Senator Tells Borah He Is Opposed to Change in Present Laws. A vigorous, faithful and effective en- forcement of prohibition was advocated night by Senator Willis, Republi- w, of Ohio, replying to the question- | sent to him by Senator Borab, ho, who is calling upon various presidential candidates for | their views on the dry issue. | Besides declaring for a prohibition | plank in the party's platform, the | Ohioan also declared that if nomi- nated and elected he would “put forth | every effort to see fo it that the elght- centh amendment s observed, obeved | and respected and the laws enacted | thereunder_enforced. | In reply to the third of the four ques- | tions addressed to him Willis said that | he did not favor a program of legisla- | tion which would enable every State to determine for itself the alcoholic con- | tent of beverages. | “I do not favor the repcal of the Volstead act, nor do I favor repeal of | the eighteenth amendment,” ~ Willis wrote in reply to the last question. “I} believe the eighteenth amendment s | here to stay and that citizens and officials would better put in their time how they may observe the law of their country” and respect its Constitution, | rather than to give their efforts to plans whereby the law may be evaded and the Constitution broken down.” DIFFICULT ISSUES CONFRONT COMING | GENEVA SESSIONS _(Continued_from First_Page) | is known to oppose the investigation | and Great Britain is hesitant, Accord- ing to the action decided by the coun- cil in this case, the entire Teague dis- armament control system will be Judged | Finally, on March 15 the disarmament commisston will again meet and de- cide the date of a general disarmament | conference which, under German pres- sure, it has already been decided shall be held before the end of this year. 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