Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain today, tomorrow mostly cloudy and warmer, possibly showers. Temperature—Highest, lowest, 85, at 10 p.m. Full report on page 7. 42,8t 4 pm.; he Sunty Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Main 5000 to “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Sta:'s exclusive carrier service. Phone start immediate delivery. - e e No. 1,199— No. 30,630. Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON Al D. SUNDAY MOR NING, MARCH 11, 1928 — 104 PAGES. - ed Press, THREE LOSE LIVES IN RESGUE OF 263 ON WRECKED LINER Coast Guardsmen Die. When, Surfboat Overturns Near Shore. ALL OF PASSENGERS ARE LANDED SAFELY Few of Crew Stay Aboard—Waves Pound Vessel—Salvaging Is Held Doubtful. Br the Associ BOSTON. March 10.—The rescue of the 263 passengers and crew of the | By the Associated Press. 1200 DEAD OR DYING AS LANDSLIDE ~ HITS SANTOS, BRAZILIAN PORT Side of Mountain in Center of City Buries Scores of Homes at By the Associated Press 1 SANTOS, Brazil, March 10— | Eighteen bodies had been taken late today from the debris of the ava- lanche which crashed down the side of Mount Serrat at dawn today. Three others, who were removed to- day were still alive and were rushed to hospitals. Work was frantic to- night in an effort to recover others buried beneath the mass of earth and rocks, some of whom, it is be- lieved, may have escaped death. RIO DE JANEIRO, March 10.—Sud- den shifting of a side of Mount Serrat, situated in the center of the city of Santos, State of Sao Paulo, crashed thousands of tons of earth and rocks without warning onto a section of that place this morning and left a dead and dying toll estimated at more than 200.| steamer Robert E. Lee, aground off Manomet Point, cost the lives of three Coast Guardsmen. Two were drowned when a surfboat of the Manomet Point station capsized n the surf. A third member of the crew of the surfboat died while being cyed to the Chelsea Naval Hos- on board the Coast Guard cutter third victim was Edward P. x of Taunton. a surfman at the Manomet Point Coast Guard station. | ‘When he was taken from the surf after the overturned boat was washed to shoal water he was unconscious. Ef- forts to restore him were in vain. | Those who were drowned were Boat- i Houses and buildings in the path of the slide were crumpled and buried. | their occupants apparently unable to escape the huge avalanche. Tonight while 2,000 men were en-| gaged in rescue work in the stricken | section of the city there were indi- ! | cations that the slide on one side of the mountain had weakened the dirt on another side, and there was fear that another catastrophe in an adjoining area was impending Mount Serrat, with a moderately high peak, is situated virtually in the | center of Santos, Brazil's principal cof- | feet port, with residences and business | buildings spread around it on three sides. While details received here are com- paratively few, it was said that the| Dawn—Additional Avalanche Feared. this morning. Although there had been previous warnings of a possible shifting of the side of the mountain, there had been no indication that any such danger was immediate. Coming as it did it undoubtedly caught many residents of the stricken area asleep. Dispatches to the Buenos Aires pa- pers sald 16 houses were completely crumpled and buried; other estimates were even higher. Between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 cubic meters of earth are said to have shifted, completely bury- ing to a depth upward of 12 meters an area whose bounds were placed as 100 meters from the old base of the moun- tain. . Among the buildings nearly destroyed is said to be ‘the Hospital of Santa Rosa and it is believed a number of patients there are among those killed. Opera- tions at the place were suspended after the avalanche and all medical mate- rials that could be salvaged were sent | to the Quirogico Sanitarium for usc there. Rescue forces were recruited from the Santos army and navy forces, from the city’s sanitation and fire departments. Although their work was hampered con- siderably by the mobility of the shifted carth, a report shortly after noon today said they had recovered 20 bodies from the debris. Entire families in homes crumpled as if built of paper, were among those whose bodies had been Tecovered. Although Santos is more than 300 miles from Rio de Janeiro, the catastro- phe has excited consternation here. At Buenos Aires large crowds are said to have thronged the bulletin boards of local newspapers throughout the day. It was announced on these that the| “situation is most grave." Santos is the leading coffee exporting swain's Mate W. H. Cashman, in com- | avalanche occurred just before dawn ! port of the world. mand of the Manomet Polnt' station, and PFrank W. Griswald of Manomet, surfman. ‘Three other members of the boat crew were brought to the Chelsea Naval Hospital on the Paulding suffei- ing from exposure. At the hospital i wa2s said they appeared to be in no| immediate danger. ’ ALL PASSENGERS LANDED. Scas Pound Steamer—Salvaging Called Doubtful. PLYMOUTH, Mass., March 10 (®).— The steamer Robert E. Lee was hard | aground on the rocks off Manomet Foint tonight, but her passengers and crew were safely ashore. The last of the 150 passengers aboard | the Lee when it struck on M=ary Ann rocks last night were landed here this alternoon and a few minutes later all but a handful of the 113 of the crew ! abancdoned the ship. | The sea still pounded heavily against | ;he steamer as she resle: un_r;n even | eel upon the rocks tonight. e pros- | pect of foating her was uncertain. She lidly upon the shoals about 8 ‘clock last night, es she headed Igr Cape Cod Canal on her run from New York. A southeast gale snowstorm had driven course, but the crash came | without warning to those aboard. No Panic on Liner. was little confusion and no aboard passengers finally went to bed, only to | be turned out sgain when water be- [ 10 sleep on the decks, | :?tfu “dfl;:dlm chill and lack of | L was no great suffering. i Rescue , respending to the | SOS calls from the Lee, rushed to the | scene, but the boiling seas and mlck; snow prevented any attempts to aid. From the shore side the Coast Guard attempted fruitlessly to launch boats. Kot until morning were they successful, | and it was as a result of one of these | siiempts that the two men of the Mznomet station lost their lives. As the sea abated during the fore- noon surf boats succeeded in reaching; the craft. and, with much danger. the| passengers were transterred from the | ‘wrecked ship and ferried to other larger boats standing by. Then they were! brought to shore, where walting friends end relief workers cared for them. Automobile busses sent from Boston | cerried many back 1o that city. where they took trains for their destination | or returned Lo their homes 50 In Crew La.aded. | Fifty members of the crew were | lznded here in a Coast Guard patrol | Loat, znd 60 others, including Capt. | Foninson, left for Boston on the Coast | Guard cutter Red Wing. The watch| ieft on board the vessel was made up | of the radiv officer and one of the| mates. A Coast Guard patrol boat 5104 by the wreck Pirst Officer Ralph McDonough, who was among those landed at Plymouth, refused Lo answer questions or to dis- | cuse the wreck | “The steamer went on the rocks in & snowstorm,” was his simple version of the mishap. A. P. Moffatt, another of the officers. #ai0 the vessel was badly damaged and that be did not know what could be Gone sbout ralvaging her Oldfield, general passen- it of the Eastern Steamship who represented the company the scens Woday. ssid no plans for the ship off the reef had been t doubt Ivaging ger the been on Joy Btaniey id Ruth Adler of st Boston private niess of the silustion untl the 1 Light revesled the ficet of rescu 1 wus jesding in my berth when crash came” she said. “The ship stopped wilh & thud, but 1 paid no st- wention o that the girls came s my room snd ssid we were sground. ‘Then the lights went out. We gro the deck until we found Miss Marcus' yoom. ln s very short Ume Kerosene Jemps hed been lighted end members of the crew had placed Wrches in the Prasbagewsyr “Throughout the night and sang W the music of the pino. wody seemed W want W sleep, &lthough some w8t i their chairs with blankets wrapped about time W Uik, We shw 100 penic o fear “The only passengers affected seemed U Lo s woman suffering {rom heart trou- bie snd enother who hud & sick baby The waler covered the three decks Three youug women tavelng gether spent the night playing cerds #nd took (he whole affair as & joke we danced Wontimiud on Pege 2, Column 6.) A little later one of | 4 our way around on | No- | them snd dowd from | lower were Malcove Fayston of Chicegy, | COUNCIL OF LEAGUE| POSTONESISLES Hungarian and Rumanian Madden, Committee Head,| Disputes Held Over as | Session Ends. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, March 10.—The Council of the League of Nations wound up its chairman of the House appropriations | forty-ninth session today after dispos- | ing of several questions and postponing others until the next regular meeting in | June. | League circles gave dominating in- | terest to the urgent appeals which were sent to Spain and Brazil to reconsider their resignations from membership, and to Costa Rica, inviting that republic to resume its place in the organization. |the Budget Bureau on the prerogatives | |of Congress; to Garrett of Tennessee, Gun Probe Delayed. | The most important matters ad-| journed until June were the incident arising from the seizure of a machine gun shipment near St. Gotthard and the claim for indemnity by Hungarians | residing in Transylvania territories that | were given to Rumania by the treaty of Trianon. In the debates on the latter question Nicholas Titulescu, Rumania foreign | minister, fought for the interests of his government inch by inch. His dissatis- faction with Council proposals to add two neutral judges to the tribunal which is considering the claim were s0 | pronounced that rumors of his resigna- tion from office arose. M. Titulescu was absent from the two meetings of the Council today. It was explained that he was hurt be- cause he had to give an Immediate vote on the question of adjournment with- out first having opportunity to consult | his government Silent on Resignation. His place was taken by M. Antoniade, Rumanian minister accredited to the League. When the latter was ques- tioned about the resignation rumors he replied that for the moment he must abstain from all comment. ‘The 8t. Gotthard machine gun Inci- ' dent, which threatened to be a thorn in the flesh, was put over after the com- | mittee of three neutrals, which had been | considering 1t, had reported that it | could present no findings until it had further information. The report said some of the needed facts could not be obtained thus quickly from the Hunga- rian government and it might be nec- essary to send experts to the scene of the gun ure. Gen. Tanczos, Hungarian representa- tive, promised the council that if the experts were sent every facility would be afforded them. | SPAIN MAY REMA MADRID, March 10 (&) —The belief was expressed in authorized circles here tonight that Spain will remain in the Lrague of Nations, “The official answer 0 the appeal addressed to this country, Brazil and Costa ica by the League Couneil through its chalrman, Francisco | Jose Urrutia of Colombla, has not, how- ever, been framed Private iformation received here in- dicates that Bpain, If she remains in the League, will be given the post of | permanent undersecretary on a parity with other countries 1 First in And Leader | | paper in America, i \ BUREAU OF BUDGET ASSAILED IN HOUSE Defends System Against Vigorous Attacks. Bs the Associated Press Martin B. Madden of Illinois, veteran committee, bore, single-handed, yester- day the brunt of one of'the most con- centrated attacks ever launched in the House against the Federal Govern- ment’s budget system . For more than an hour the House lis- tened to Luce of Massachusetts and Johnson of Washington attacking what they described as an encroachment of the Democratic leader, who expressed apprehension over its power; and to Madden, a vigorous defender of the budget, who declared thelr fears groundless, Madden's Defense. Chaos prevailed before the budget | Madden sald, and the Secretary of the ‘Treasury ! ministerial duty of gathering all of the | practical and idealistic estimates.” He then transmitted all these “unrelated, unco-ordinated, extravagant mass fig- ures to Congress to unscramble.” “The Congress was no better organ- ized to receive the heterogeneous mass than was the executive branch of the Government which sent it.,” he added. But Luce and Johnson took a dif- ferent view. Both, as well as Garrett, sald they had no fault to find with the present budget head, Director Lord. The practical resul’ of- the budget system, Luce declared, is that it holds the “whip hand” over the committees of Congress. ‘The director virtually | exercises the veto power over a very | considerable part of legislation. he said. | “Greater Than Veto.” Johnson declared the Budget Bureau was developing “Into a third House of Congress, with more power under cer- tain conditions than the Senate and the House.” The bureau not only exer- cires & veto power, he added, but it is “my bellef that it is a power more for- midable than the Executive veto.” Garrett sald the point causing him apprehension was that of possibly plac- ing in the I)ud?et the question of de- termining policies that should be de- cided by Congress, he said that the budget frequently reported on bills un- necessarily, “If we owe France, for instance, a debt, we either owe it or do not, and it s not a question of whether this is in accord with some fiscal plan.” He ar- gued that many of the measures eni- bodled matters of congressional policy (and should be vetoed by the President | if he did not approve them . Asks Ban on Merchandise, A bill prohibit the sending of unsolicited merchandise through the malls was Introduced yesterday by Iepresentative Watson, Republican, Pennsylvania to America in Censorship The Star's volume of local display advertising for the past year was the greatest of any news- This was largely due to the confidence of The Star's readers in everything that appears in its columns, For years all advertising has been strict- vertising eliminated, ‘The public has been i plaint will immediately b | | I ly censored, and all fraudulent and deceptive ad- nvited to call attention to any untrue or misleading statement. Any com- e investigated, “performed a perfunctory | BORAH OPENS FIRE ON CONVENTIONS - RULED BY BOSSES 'Demands> Candidates Tell Voters How They Stand on Vital Issues. SENATOR;ALKS BEFORE IDAHO STATE SOCIETY Brand Due to Launch Attack on Hoover in House—Burton Then to Take Floor. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator Willlam E. Borah of Idaho | last night rapped boss-controlled con- | ventions for the nomination of presi- | dentlal candidates, demanded that | | candidates for the presidency tell the | voters how they stand on important | tssues, and that the Republican party [ shall not avoid these issues. H | He attacked sharply the methods of | financing presidential campaigns with | vast contributions by men “who have | business with the Government at Wash- | lington,” and the “organization method | | of running conventions and campaigns.” | The Idaho Senator, himself the choice of the Republicans of his own | State for the presidential nomination, addressed the Idaho State Soclety at its annual dinner here last night at| 2400 Sixteenth street. | House Fight Looms. | | One round of the Ohio campaign, | for the election of delegates to the Re- publican national convention, is to be fought in the House, probably tomo | row. Representative Brand of Ohlo, a | Willis Republican, is ‘slated to deliver |a vigorous attack upon Secretary Her- bert Hoover, who has entered the pri- | mary against Senator Willis. Repre- sentative Burton. also of Ohio, a Hoov- er supporter, is to take the floor im- mediately after Mr. Brand has fin- ished lambasting the Secretary of Commerce. If the House completes the radio bill in time, the battle will be | staged tomorrow afternoon. There will | be a large and interested gallery. | The Democrats are not displeased 1over this Republican fracas. Fighting out primary election contests on the | floor of the House is a new wrinkle in nolitics. However, there is a national interest in_the Hoover-Willis contest | in Ohlo. Efforts were made to stage the affair yesterday afternoon, but | unanimous consent was denied, and the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. | SANDINO 0 FIGHT INVADERS, HE SAYS {Leader Expresses Defiance of Marines in Letter to ‘ Mexican Friends. | S By the Associated Press | MEXICO CITY, March 10.—Gen Au- | gustino Sandino declares he will con- tinue fighting “as long as there is one hand's breadth of Nicaraguan soil oc- cupled by the barbarious invader,” in a letter attributed to him sent to the Mexico City organization of the Union of Central and South America and the { Antilles. The letter was given out by ilhll body today. | MARINES KILL TWO IN CLASH. Officer Reports Two Guns Captured in | Fight. | MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 10 (#). —Lieut. Howard Kenyon, leading a | Marine patrol, encountered a band ot | aguan insurgents near the Hon- rder, killing two and capturing two guns, it was reported here today jdrom Jalapa., Lieut. Kenyon returned here today after five days of observation near the border. There were no Marine ci alties. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, Natlonal Forelgn. Politica! Survey of the United States— Pages 12, 13 and 14, { Bchools and Colleges — Pag» | PART TWO—12 PAGES. Editortal and Editorial Features Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4 Review of Winter Books —Page 4. Radio News—Page 6. District Naval Rescrve—Page 7 District Natlonal Guard—Page 7 Financlal News—Pages 7, 8 and 9 Veterans of the Great War-—Page 10, Civillan - Army News—Page 10. PART THRE News of the Clubs-—Pages 6, 7 and 8 Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 8 Around the City-—Page 8. D. A R. Activities— Page 0. At Community Centers—Page 9 Parent-Teacher Activities— Page 10. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 10 Berial story, “The Devil's Mantle"— Page 10. Spanish War Veteruns—Page 10 W. C. T, U, Activities—Page 11. Y. M. C. A, Nows—~P 13, PART FOUR—14 PAGES, ‘Theaters, Music and Hcreen. News of the Motor World—Pages 6, 7, 8, 0 and 11 Fraternal News—Pages 12, 13 and 14, PART FIVE—4 PAGES, Pink Bports Sectlon, PART BIX—K PAGES. Classified Advertising ‘Marine Corps News PART S Magazine Hectlon, Fiction and Humor GRAPHIC BECTION=-10 PAGES, Warld Events In Plotures, COLOR SEC and Page 8, EN—#& PAGEN, Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lay Follevs: My, and and Mrs,; High Lights in History, A == - A ? S o@' — L% ON THE UTILIFY BENCH. e U\ cqhane g Ve PRESIDENT OPENS CORCORAN WG Notables Attend Private Showing of Clark Art Treasures. A simple but impressive act per- formed by the President of the United States last evening brought to a happy climax a serles of events which had begun with the publication several years ago of the will of the late Senator W. A. Clark of Montana, who be- queathed his varied and valuable art collection to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, an institution of which until his death he had been a constant and munificent patron. President Coolidge | removed from its fastening one end of | a heavy silken rope which until that | moment had separated from the origi- | nal portion of the gallery the new specially bullt wing which houses the | treasures accumulated by the testator. | The Chief Executive was escorted by Charles C. Glover, president of the gal- lery, and by Mrs. Clark, widow of the donor of the collection, to whose gen- | erosity to the cause of art, together | with that of her daughters, is due the | ability of the Corcoran institution suit- | ably and in a remarkably brief space | of time to accommodate and display these unique exhibits. They were fol- | lowed by the Secretary of State and | Mrs. Kellogg and Mr. and Mrs. Frank | W. Stearns.. Closely following were the daughters of Senator Clark, Mrs. Mary Clark de Brabant, Mrs. Katherine Clark Morris and M. Huguette Marcelle Clark, escorted James Parmelee of | the board of trustees. After them came the other members of the board. several of them accompanied by their wives. A speclally recruited floor commit- tee, headed by Robert L. Parsons ot the gallery’s staff, was in attendance The presidential entrance was accom- panied by the strains of “Hail to the | Chler,” played by a large orchestra, | which later throughout the evening | contributed a spécial musical program from a point of vantage on a broad landing in the new wing. Mrs. Coolidge Not Present. | To the regret of all, Mrs. Coolidge was unable to be present. The several | thousand guests specially invited to this opening private view included ce- lebrities in the realm of art, repre- sentatives of high governmental cir- | cles, of the diplomatic corps and of | residential art and social circles. Many | artists, art critics, directors of art mu- | suems and kindred institutions and pa trons of art came to Washington for | this occaston, which had been long and eagerly anticipated. Beginning tomor- row the collection will be thrown open permanently to the public of the Dis- trict and ta the vast public which con- | stantly visits the Capital. To those who followed the President and the other guests of honor, a prom- ise of pleasures in store was given by the first glimpse up the broad marble stairway of the older portion of the | gallery. Where once on the landing | stood “the famillar full-length figure of | Augustus Cauesar has been cut a door- way which leads one naturally into 8 | circular-domed chamber. This, replete | WIth rare pictures, serves as an entry | hall to the new wing and the second extension Incorporated therewith, and utilized more spaclously to accommo- date the older permanent collection, ‘The new doorway {rames n snowy mars ble statue of Aphrodite by Canova, while the eye, passing beyond this fig- ure, can penetrate even into the sulon beyond. From the rear of the cireu- lar gallery one can see the street lights on the east side of Seventeenth street, On the walls of this circular gallery | hang masterpleces from the brusl | such artists as Rubens, Rem 3 Gainsborough, H “Tittan &Ino, Renesse, Reynolds and Van Cleve, while the treasures to be viewed In the s cceeding salons prove no D to this first selection. On every hand the visitor last evening met with rare and diverse treasures, which have been -pprnnrlu(rl{ noted and described by the art critlo of The Htar In_another section of this issue. It 1s suMelent to suy that without doubt every person in attendance went with the idea of belny surprised, and yet was surprised even beyond his or her most optimistio ex- rwlulhul. Not only did the wonders of he W. A, Olark collection come in for constant and excited pratse, but likewlse did the artistic and painstaking lation aecomplished by the dire A Powell Minnigerode, and permanent staff of the gallery, In Orderly Plan, The new salons and gallorles “tloup” 80 cloverly with the old that it seems as If the whole must have been origi- nally planned by some masterly archi- tect. “Thelr wall coverlngs, espectally imported from France, are in four dif- fevent and harmonfous tones—taupe, 1, mulberry and red. Theve none | (Continued o Page 3, Column 3) | arth, Moth 'MINER'S WIFE SAYS HUSBAND ' “FIRED" AFTER HER PROBE TALK er of Eight Cl;ims Coal Worker Lost! His Job Because She Aided Senate Inquiry. By the Associated Pross Economic factors in the struggle between coal operators and union miners were shunted aside momentari- ly yesterday before the Senate commit- tee investigating the bituminous situa- tion while a mother of eight children— nestling the youngest in her arms—testi- fied that her miner-husband had been discharged by the Pittsburgh Coal Co. because she hac “talked too much” to the Senate subcommittee which re- cently inspected that area. Shrinking into her chalr, Mrs. Eva Barr declared that she had been re- buffed at the store of the Pittsburgh’ Coal Co. when seeking to obtain shoes for her children who had none. “He said if he give me shoes. he stop eats on me."” she continued. “We got to have cats.” The appearance of Mrs. Barr and her husband, Charles Barr, led to & clash Dbetween the committee and Horace Baker, president of the Pitts- burgh Terminal Coal Corporation, be- cause attorneys for the Pittsburgh Coal Co. were not present. He exchanged sharp words with Senator Wheeler. Democrat, Mcntana, and insisted that | the couple be kept here until Monday for examination by operators’ repre- sentatives. Officials of the coal company had previously denied that Barr was dis- charged because of the testimony his wife gave the Senate subcommittee. Senator Gooding. Republican, Idaho, noted that an announcement of the calling of Barr was made while C. E. (Continued on Page 4. Column 4.) AR CHEFS PLAN FIHTT0PANA Davison and Gen. Fechet Will Make Inspection of Canal Defenses. F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secre- tary of War in charge of aviation, and Maj. Gen. James E Fechet, chiet of the Alr Corps, were ready last night to start at dawn today on a 7.500-mile round-trip flight to Panama to study the aerial defense of the Panama Canal In two amphiblan observation planes, piloted by Ira C. Eaker and Lieut. Muir | S. Fairchild, they will go overland through Mexico and Central America | Plans call for daylight flying all the | y. with arrival at France Field, Pan- ama, Thursday afternoon. It will be the first time that Govern- ment officlals have employed the atr- plane to make inspections outside the borders of the country. Itinerary of ‘Lrip. Pope Field, Camp Bragg. N C. will be the first stop after taking off from | Bolling Field here. It was expected the planes would reach there about 9 am. replenish thefr supply of fuel and con- | tinue on to Maxwell Fleld, Montgom- ery, Aln., arriving about 2:30 pm. A/ short hop then will be made to the | Pensacola Naval Station, arriving about | 530 pm. for an overnight stop. ! Daybreak tomorrow will find the two | planes in the air, bheaded along the Quif Coast for Galveston. where a stop will be made about noon. They will | continue on to Point Isabel, Tex., ar-| viving about 5 pm | Tuesday's trip also will be along the Gulf Coast with a stop at Tampico about 9 am. and one at Vera Cruz at | about 1:30 pm. Minititlan, Mexico, is | the destination of that day and it is expected they will arrive there about 5:30 pm. The distance on this leg s about 705 miles The fourth day'’s flight will Managua, Nicaragua, as its objective, distance of 803 miles. A stop will mado at San Salvador to retuel 1t is expected the filght will be com- (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) have " pe | WATSON NOT TO ENTER | RACE IN OTHER STATES; Senator Tells Indiana sditors He! Will File in His Own | State Only. i By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, March 10.-Sena- | tor Jumes K. Watson, candidate for the | Republican nomination for President, | does not contemplate l\lmr i primary | slections in other States than Indiana, | the Senator sald tonight betore leaving ' for Washington. Sepator Watson satd he would probably return to Indiana to make several apeeches 1w primary campalpn against Herbert Hoover for the Hooster delegation to the I(rpuh-; ltlean nntional convention The Henator came o Indianapolis | from Washington to attend a banguet ¢ of the Indiana Republican Editorial | Assoclation last night. He was in. | dorsed by the eaditors for the presidens (Ul nogination, FORT DRIVE PLAN WINS HOUSE FAVOR Other Proposals for Capital Development Presented to District Committee. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. for a 28-mile parkway drive, Pl linking in the old Civil War forts coms- | manding the best views of the National Capital, and entirely encircling the Cap- ital, the right of way for which can be secured now at a cost of about $2.750.- 000, were enthusiastically supported by the House district committee in special sessfon yesterday. Charles W. Eliot, 3d. city planner of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. To facilitate the passage of legislation to make possible the ac- complishment of this and other plans of | the commission, fhe House district com- | mittee ordered 1,000 copies of the hear- ing to be printed for the education of other members of Congress. This was but one feature of the pic- ture of Washington of the future that was depicted for charts and verbal descriptions by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive secretary of the commission: Maj. Carey Brown, enginee rof the cemmission, and Ar. Eliot. The entire program of the com- mission for comprehensive and co- ordinated development not only of the National Capital, but its environment and approaches. as regards parks and playgrounds and school but‘du\j and establishment of branch libraries, high- way development and guidance in the preservation of the natural beauties about the Capital was explained to the committee Not for many years has the District committee shown as much sincere in- terest As was expressed at the hearing. Help was promised on a number of leg- islative measures that the speakers (Continued on Page 2. Column 2 VAGRANT SUSPECT KILLS SELF IN CELL Using Shirt for Noose. Making a noose of his shirt, Lyle Chamin, 26 vears old, giving his ad- dress as 1311 L street, killed himselt by hanging in a cell at the first pre- clnet poljee station at 4343 o'clock last night, about an hour after he had been arrested near Ninth and B streets Puliceman V. D Hughes and brouy noand charged with solleliing alms and ntoxteation, Policeman Q. E Heyne discovered Chafin hanging W the cell and sum- moned Ofticers K. K. &helton and o« seph Stncowts. who cut him down. he Flte Department vescue squad and Emergeney Hospltal ambulance were summoned, but efforts (o restore Chat- fn_were futtle. Chafin gave his ocoupation as & olerk, His belt and tie had beon taken fram him before he was placed i the vell an the vesult of the suleide eptdemte that has boen In evidence among pre- ot prisoners recently, 2 | when explained by | the committee by | w o | FIVE CENTS. MMELLON SAYS HAYS SENT HIM §20.000 OF SINCLAIR BONDS Secretary Declares He Re- fused to Accept Them for Contribution. | GAVE EQUIVALENT SUM OUT OF HIS OWN POCKET | Letter to Teapot Dome Committee Follows Testimony About “Andy.” Secretary Mellon informed the Sen- | ate Teapot Dome committe last night | that he received $50,000 of the $260.000 |of Liberty bonds which Harry F. Sin- clair, Teapot Dome leasee, advanced ta cover part of the deficit of the Republi- can national committee in 1923, but that he had refused to retain the bonds in exchange for a like contribution. The Treasury Secretary disclosed that | the bonds had been sent to him by Will |H. Hays, former chairman of the Re- publican committee, and that when | Hays subsequently called upon him to explain the purpose, he had declined | to keep them as suggested. He added | that he had returned the bonds to Hays iand shortly thereafter made a contri- | bution in the same amount from his own funds. Total Gift $52,000. Mellon wrote that this was the sum that he had intended to give when he | was first asked to contribute to the | fund being raised to clean up the Re- | publican deficit. He also informcd t! | Senate committee that this was only contribution he had made !5 tha | natioral campaign fund of 1920, cr- | clusive of $2,000 given during the cam- | paign. ‘tp"l‘gl:le Secretary's letter, addressed to of the Senate inquiry into what be. | came of the Continental Trading Ce. | Liberty bond profits from the now cele- | brated Humphreys oil deal, was writien | after.the Senator, upon adjournment of | the committee, had forwarded to him the record of hearings held { committee earlier in the day in w appeated the name “Andy” along | that of “Weeks,” Butler” and | Pont.” These names Were written on a | memorandum of the late John T. Pratt of New York City, a heavy contributor | in his time to Republican campaign funds, showing that he had handled $25.00C of the Liberty bonds and had sent a check for twice that amount to the late Fred W. Upham. then treasurer of the Republican committee. | “I know nothing whatsoever concern- ing these transactions.” Mellon wrote, |“nor do I have sny knowledge as to ! the contributions to the Republican | national committee by Mr. Pratt. ~1 desire to take this oscasion, how- | ever, to state to you all facts relating to my contributions to the Republican | national committee. Hays Sends Bonds. | “Some time in 1923 I was asked to | contribute to the fund then being raised to clean up the deficit of the Repub- ! lican national committee. I said I would help. d Prees. but no amount was . | Subsequently Mr. Hays telephoned me ,’cne day that he was sending me by | messenger a package containing valu | able documents and that he would see me shortly and explain what was e volved. The package contained as nearly as I can remember $30,000 in Liberty bonds. “There had been no previous under- standing of any kind as to sending me bonds, and until I saw Mr. Hayes later 1 had no knowledge as to the purpose in sending them to me. Nor did I have any knowledge as to contributions | the form of bonds. “When Mr. Hays called shortly there- after, he told me he nad received these bonds from Mr. Sinclair and suggested that I hold the bonds and contribute | an cqual amount to the fund. ‘rhis declined to do. Aceor 1 at once returned the bonds to Mr Havs. “At the same time. or shortly there- after. I made a contribution of $30.00¢ of my own funds amount 1 had intended to and which, incidentally, is contribution made by me to tional campaign fund of 1929, exc of $2.000 contributed during the came the only atgn.” When Hays was tecalled before the | committee recently. he testified that | $60.000 of the bonds went to 'Upham, $75.000 to Senator T. Colman du Pont of Delaware, and $23.000 to the late John W. Weeks, War Secretary in the | Harding cabinet, but he made no meu- | thon of hav ither Mellon {ar 1o “Butler. | speculate as to the mentioned 1! | but they | was to W the Re Whether | undeter the comm Hays' Testimony Recalted. 1 Hays' testimony & week ago was that Smeair gave $T3.000 to the Reput- | lcan committer outright and advanced another $183.000 i Liderty bonds to savure part of the committee defieit. | He said that the $TO000 was sent th | he Bwmpire | Trust Co ot v | Detailing th S$183,000 “advanced | went to Upham devame of the Hays said $80.000 33000 1o Weeks and !Prisoner Ends Life After Arrest,|$30.000 to Pratt and that he returwa | the rematmng $30.000 to Sinclair, Pre« | SuMAbly this was the $30.000 which he | sent to Mellon and which the Treasury | Secretary said he returned | Senator Walsh said that Havs would | be recalled to explain his fatture © tell the committee that he had sent $30.000 of the bonds to Mellon. The Prosecutor also aunounced that he had sent a telegram to Willam M. Buter vitng him (© appear defore the com- mittee At the next mesting Tuesday. There had beend B Provious sugies- tion up until the Mellon statement hast night that elther Secretary Melln ar former Senator Butler had anything o do with any of the Quntinental bonds. Mellon, at the time of the transaction, Wwas Secretary of the ‘Treasury, but Hutler had not then teen made chairs man of the Repubdlican cummittes. The Pratl memorandum was [mto the tevard after Senator Wakh had developed foum other papers from Pratt’s files that the S5O0 payment had been made o Upham out of & spe~ ol fund the fnancier had set wp the United States Morigage & \g\su O And $23000 of which came from WWontinued an Page 3 Coluaw t“ 4