Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. 10 8 Weather Burean ®arecast ) Cloudy and warmer tonight, followed by rain late tonight or tomorrow; colder tomorrow afternoon or night. ‘Temperature—Highest, 53, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 41, at 7 am. today. Full report on page 9. Late N. Y. Marke ¢ ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNI NG EDITION g Star. ts, Pages 14 and 15 service. No. 30,632. ond elass m. ashinzto™ Entered as s atter vost office. D C, WASHINGTON C. T ISDAY, MARCH 1 a 3y * (#) Means Associated Press. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news e Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,249 TWO CENTS. "HUNDREDS KILLED AS DAM COLLAPSES WATER SWEEPS DOWN ON SLEEPING FAMILIES IN CALIFORNIA VALLEY Seepage Blamed for Catastrophe. Victims Trapped Between Walls of Canyon. RIVER VILLAGES AND RAILROAD PERILED AS FLOOD SPREADS OUT Film Actor’s Ranch Is Inundated—100 Dead Found at One Spot—Red Cross Workers Rush to Scene. By the Associated Press. . MOOR PARK, Calif., March 13.—A rancher near Fillmore, along the line of the St. Francis Dam break flood, telephoned a request here at 10 am. for a truck to convey five bodies L.o Moor Park morgue. The dead were washed up on the man's property. By the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, March 13.—More than 100 persons were swept to death early today in San Francisquito Canyon, north of here, when St. Francis Dam, impounding part of the Los Angeles water supply, burst and unloosed a 75-foot wall of water into the narrow valley. Officials expressed fear that the death toll might reach 400. A telegram received at the sheriff’s office here from Eugene Biscailluz, undersheriff, in charge of rescue work, said that 100 bodies had been recovered, where the flood waters entered the Santa Paula and Santa Clara Rivers. Ten Bodies Taken From Canyon. Ten bodies were taken from the canyon this morning and were placed in a morgue at Saugus. So great was the volume of water that poured through the wide break in the dam that, despite the 36,000-acre feet of sup- ply in the big reservoir, the flood spent itself in a few hours. ki N e e I Im&ml;t;‘!;w: b'msmalle Dvs?;um was left break. Four truckloads of emploves where in the tragic hours of early morn- | were rushed to the district when news ing death to a degree that may not be |of the break was received. . The Edison Co.'s known for days. if ever. was done. By substation this time the vanguard of the thousands | Saugus. near the confluence of the creek | of rescuers was on the scene and a sVs- and the river. was put out of commis- | tematic search of the areas was Le- |sion by the onrushing water and the| sun. - {jrsznclzml;s rbl:ower’ lines runn:ng !lnm . the tolal number of | Santa Barbara also were swept awa m&‘m:s &I:ud canyon area #t a little| Collapse of the St. Francis Dam, more than 500. | marked another milestone in the series | Survivers there were, but they ~ame of disasters which have hit the Los| in straggling groups and cheir total had Anzeles city water system since 1924. | ot caused rescue officials to cut their The disaster came close on the heels estimate of possible loss of life as the of the settlement of the Owens Valley | forenoon hour passed. water war between the ranchers of | Inyo County and the city, which re- Sand Covers Victims. sulted in several assaults on the long | A deep layer of sand was l2 NOTWISETOSLIR DISTRICT FOLKS AS INCURABLY UNET {Vain to Try to Check Trend | Toward Enfranchisement of Fit Americans. 'A VITAL HURT TO BOTH CAPITAL AND NATION, Power, Prestige and Vast Increase of Influence to Small States From National Representation. Editorial Correspondence of The Star. THEODORE W. NOYES. No more glaring inconsistency in | treatment of the District can be noted than that of political leaders who every- | where else have recognized the trend | toward liberality in extending fran- | chise as to women and in admitung | territories to statehood and who, with far-seeing policy or wise prudence, have competed for recognition as the special champions of the newly eufranchised and smoothed the way for extension of enfranchisement. but who neglect, slur | and humiliate the potential 300,000 vot- ers of the District who are ncreasing wonderfully every year and who are certain to vote some day. Are our practical but inconsistent politicians deaf and blind> Do llu‘)‘. not tea that American opinion favors' _ THE ANIMAL TRAINER. BOARD T0 REVIEW the kroadest national enfranchisement? That in recent years national repre- sentation has been rightfully extended | to millions of women and to all the ter- ritories in continental and contiguous America so that from ocean to ocean and from Canada to Mexico every Ter- | ritory has been exalted into statehaod. that the District of Columbia is the only remaining American community | in this apéa whose people are still com- pulsory occupants of the National Hos- | pital for Politically Defective and De- linguent Americans? Do they not realize that those who | | have opposed themselves to the rising |should pay toward the development swelling tide of national enfranchise- ment have politically suffered and that those who have sympatheticallv and wholeheartedly aided have been politi- cally rewarded as a result of the grate- ful appreciation of the recently en-| franchised? Listening and hearing, do not the pol- | Congress to appoint a commission to ft on l}e\d: Los Angeles aqueduct system. yon, and it was believed this covered | &nm of many victims of the ¢Cis-| aster. gt ] engineer, expressed op! i had caused a portion of the| mme west nflewodl 'Mmmm:? crumble. He discredi! repol an earthquake had wrecked the dam. | In its pelimell rush to the sea, the| flood traveled dozens of miles of ter-| ritory. sparsely settled, and through | which only tottering lines of communi- cation in normal times are available. The tremendous wall of water tore | through the ranch of the film actor Harry Carey, devastating it. The fate | of 30 Indians ‘who had been living on the property at least until a short time ago. was undetermined. Some persons they left the canyon several days 229. 16 Farmers Missing. Sixteen farmers living near the actor's cabin also were unaccounted for. Wreckage of every description was strewn for miles along the narrow canyon which winds its picturesque way into the rolling hills northward from Fzugus Orchards, garden arcas and »1l manner of ranch equipment. with fowl and live stock, were swept away by the walers : The dam. a structure 185 feet higl impounded the waters of San Francis- o Creek, forming a storage body ive miles long and the full width of the canyon MOIM y!lu! of the canyon. the flood spread out between the sloping b of the Banta Paula River, which held | the volume. It cut a power line of the hern California Edison Co, ning into Bants Barbara, washed out » Bouthern Pacific branch line and bore down upun the lemon belt at the town of Banta Paula Below there fear was expressed that it might strike the ol field at Ventura N Once out of the littie valley where # wrought so much damsge, the Wil 1ok the course of the Banta Clars River w flow 30 miles 1 the Pacific Oces Officials declared the damage along the Banta Clara would be enormous completed @ little more d ! 16 cam v a year sgo and was the seoon in the series of reservoirs of the city's huge water system Three Bodies Vound The bresk. which occurred sbout 1 snlesshed the flood 21 high speed three hours 1 wes more down the valie workers were rushed 1 v efforts were regarded 3 officer eless Wil liam Bright. in cherge of the shenff’s rescue saued, Geclared there would be Jittle use for relief work 1elt Virually sl the inhabitents the canyon hed verished \ 2 2 shenfi's substation i Newhall ehout 20 miles south of the dam. in & Girect line with the Tampant waters caid eftorts were belng made ¥ 0 yenchers in the path of the flosd A least one family wus Teported cut off from rescuere Towns Near Dam Ban Fraucsouiy Csnyon 4 sweep et the location of b owas it W moound e Ben Frencisauln Creel “The von runs straght southwest Viwerd L pogeles snd sfter o fev miles it spred out into roling country dovted i vencher wnd dvelling: Saugus. Newhsl) oher mouptain valley owns wre lucsted poutn of the dam site. Among renches in the neth of the flood e Rhet of Harvy Cerey. motion picture vy The Fdiser wek yould b than h he of v i en wrncanced thel 500 o hefore cey- anks | El Rio end several the | The ceries of depredations on the | aqueduct was punctuated by three out- standing incidents. One was the wrecking of the no name siphon by dynamite. Another was the dynamite explosion at Cottonwood, which also {tied up the flow of water from the Sierra country, 200 miles away, to the city. The third was the selzure two years ago of the Alabama gates when a large band of men from the valley took possession of the flood gates, opened them and turned the pent-up water loose in the desert. They main- tained control of the gates for several | davs. but finally dispersed. ‘The water war arose out of charges by Inyo County ranchers that the city had used unfair means to obtain the water rights in the valley, to which Los Angeles Bureau of Water and Power officfals replied that, in many cases, several times the value of the land had been paid by the city to obtain title to the water With the business collapse of the Watterson Brothers, Mark Q. and W. W.. owners of Owens Valley banks and many of its business houses. several months ago, the backbone of the fight against the city was broken. LOSS SET HIGH AS 500. Sheriff Holds Small Hope of Finding Survivors, NEWHALL, Calif., March 13 (#).— William Bright, in charge of the sher- 1f's squad assigned to police and rescue work in the 8t. Francis Dam disaster, estimated today that between 200 and run- 500 persons lost thetr lves when the | Qunlo o8 dam went oul Red Cross workers were on the scene went from Los Angele; Th d blankets and other 500 and 600 ifts, who were rushed into istrict carly to preserve order and aid I rescue work 500 Lived in Canyon. Bright, after & hurried survey, d:- clared his beilef that few if any of the ranchers pover workmen and power substation employes in San Prancis- quilo canyon had escaped ‘The total number of persons 1ving in the upper canyon he placed st 500 Eugene Biscailluz who rushed here from 1 utveyed the desolate scer pressed the bellef thiat ben the yellow earpet that covered the canyon were ihe bodies of virtually every one ot the persons who lived hetyeen it A few bodies, he thought have heen swept toward e 1 he directed his men 1o search fur these lower down A manch line of the Southern Pi cific was wathied out, but the main line held intact, Five persons who came through the urdeal by joining hands, forming & hu- lnan chain and belng carried to satety by the wuter giant after 1L had taken them trom thelr beds tsurvivors reported in tirst wdvices They | W Humick, his father another runcher named Hols- i his wite and father Al ived north of Saugus. & considerable o the dam site year-old wirl wnd baby were ) huve been swept sway AL Hunick reported whose names wore e orted Holschat plac unche ana s e, wh missin the residents of thet section of the breach in the dam, were moving aut of thedr homer and taking 1o high | uronund | The first report of the disaster. v hi)y LTS 2, Clumn 4) A undersheriff. | were the only | i | vices from Oxnard declared that hearing | {tticians recognize in the dewand of the three hundred thousand potential voters of the District (persons over 21 years of age) the same kind of warning as well as appeal that they heard when the women of America (outside of the District of Columbia) and the men and women of the Territories made urgent and successful claims for thelr political rights as Americans? “Voteless League of Women Voters." Do they not understand that the | women of the Nation, uding those | iul the District who have won franchise tor themselves everywlere except in the District, will never permit this ex- | ception and this discrunination to con- |tnue to exist? The hiden mockery of a “Voteless League of Women Voters” in the District of Columbia will not be wr{x-lul!t'd. The women of Amer- {ica will never permit this slurring in- | consistency to endure. { Do they not realize that the National | Federation of Labor will not ‘orever assent to the repudiation as voting Americans of ts strong, intelligent, | { anti-communistic membership in the | District? Do they not recognize that the ex- soldier and patriotic organtzations, civil- lan associations and clubs of the Dis- |trict with strong national aMliations [ will successfully send out an 8 O 8 call to thelr voling assoclates 10 rescue them from shameful political tsolation? Do they not recognize that outside of and greater even than all of the influential npational organizations in- dicated 15 the combined sympathetic blooded, patriotis Al {lcans, ndividually and collectively. of | both sexes, of all classes, all races and | all religions. ‘The District has gr and resources thin any time of admission to the Oklahoma. In intellig-nee, It, loyal whole-hesried American and In readiness W make patriotic rifices of money und life the altar of national welfare no other American community of half & milllon anywhere surpasses it . In L wise o slur as unfit the three {hundred thousund potential veters of [ the District (men and women over 21) because as @ result mainly of the per- nicjous apportionment-of-oMces law a | small fraction of these three hundred Hhousand potentinl voters maintain, un- der compulsion, an - expensive votiog residence i outside States? ‘The ap- toortionment-of-offices law, relic ot the old spolle system cwhich divides oMees o the classifica service among the Hlates according to population like ban- dits” epolls divided wecording o strength, s ws hurtful to the Nation (s ALl unjust 1o the District and 1s sure some duy o be repealed or radi- | cally modifed | After suffering all reasonnble, care- | Tully caleulated reductions the potential | voters of the District constitute a great army for whose favor the worldly wise, | far-seeing politiclans will some day ompete with sine display of wy ! puthetle, helpful id [ of slurringly and [ puting incurable polt 1 the community and | this evi The e he app Hee and falr play remember Why Warry About Non-Hurtful Inconsistencies? says some one "Why worry verbal, non-hurvtful inconsisten- ten? - Who cares nowadays ahout ah- vt princlples and ideals? Why ater population threat ingraty, o He noles and wi Hut about G40 PLAN URGED | | Citizens Make Plea for Com- mission Before House Subcommittee. | | | The citizenship of the Capital pre-| sented a solid front today in -sklnz“ make an honest study of fiscal rela-| tions between the Federal Government | and the local taxpayers, in order to determine the fair percentage that each and support of the Capital. | ‘This request was made at the opening of hearings before the Beers subcom- mittee of the House District committee on the Zihiman resolution, which pro- | poses creation of a commission com- | posed of five members of the House. five | members of the Senate and five resi- | dents of the District of Columbia. to be appointed by the Commissioners. The speakers included Rovert J. Cot- trell, executive secretary of the Washing- ton Board of Trade, who presented data gathered by the board during an in- tensive study of the question covering more than a year; Representative Zihlman, chairman of the House Dis- trict committee and author of the reso- lution, who summarized the history of fiscal relations; Charles L. Stengle, | chalrman of fiscal relations committee | of the Federation of Citizens' Associa- | tions; James G. Yaden, president of the Federation: E. C. Graham, president | of the Board of Trade, and Dr. George | C. Havenner. who presented the ryport of the Citizens' Advisory Council. | Ask D. C. Voice. All of the speakers emphasized that | they are not particularly interested in the form of the commission, or the | number of its members or the matter | of their selection, but that a commis- slon should be created to make a care- ful study. They believe District citizens shouwd in some way be represented. Members of the subcommittee, includ- ing Chalrman Beers, sald they belleve the District citizens should be repre- sented Representative Bowman, Republican, {of West Virginia, said that he knew of nobody opposed to the resolution and fore can see no reason why the | hearirgs should be extended, and asked | that any persons desiring to be heard in_opposition should be invited to the ““(Continued on Page 4, Column 2) U. S. ENVOY IN JAPAN WILL RETURN FOR VISIT MacVeagh and Wife to Sall in June—Will Go Back for Royal Wedding. By the Assuciatod Press TOKIO, March 13, Charles Mac- Veagh, American Ambassador, today sald he would return to the United States with his wife i the latter part | of June. They will stay at their Sum- mer home, at Santa Barbara, Calif, and Mr. MacVeagh sald he would probably make some campaign_speeches on the Pacific corst in behalf of the Republi- can candidate He will veturn to Jupan enrly In October for the wedding of Prince Chiclubu to Setsn Matsudaira, daughter of Tauneo Matsudaira, Japanese Am- hassador Lo the United Btates. and for the coronation of Emperor Hirohito IMARINES IN NICARAGUA | CAMPAIGN REINFORCED | Detachment Bent to Matagalpa to Ald Drive on Bandino Rebels, ated e MAN, A, curagua, March 13 A detachiment of approximately 60 Amertcan Marines was on Its way o Matugalpn toduy. They will remforce the patrols which have spread over | @ wide area In that reglon to end | the revolt led by Gen. Augustine Handino, Hine ench By the March 1 five hundred oxearts, ying 1,600 pounds of sups plies ve moved from Leon Into orthern Nioaragun and distributed the supplies at varfous hases (Qunbinied on Page 2, Colmn §) Radio Program - Page 25 1 'HINCHCLIFFE OVER ATLANTIC IN PLANE DASH British Flyer Takes Off From English Field—Mystery Surrounds Identity of Passenger—Machine Off Coast. By the Assoriated Pross | LONDON, March 13.—Off on a dar- ing attempt to conquer the Atlantic, Capt. Walter Hinchcliffe, one of Eng- | land’s brilliant airmen, sped from the i serts Secretary Uses Office | FOR NEW YORK! in the plane, there was no positive con- firmation of his presence. When plans for the Atlantic flight were first announced, it was reported that Miss Mackay, who has supported {and Republicanism, Cranwell Airdrome at 8:40 o'clock this|the project financially. would make the morning In his American-bullt plane, | trip, but she promptly disclaimed any the Adventure. ! intention of doing so. ‘The mystery that attached to the, Inquiries at Miss Mackay's home this take-off, which was made with the ut-| evening, however, failed to elicit any most secrecy, was further complicated ' information concerning her whereabouts. by the presence of a mysterious passen- | A plane, believed to be the Adventure, ger that may possibly have been the | wud r;p;mcd lh!s. afternoon over Ire- Hon, Ellse Mackay. daughter of Lord| “pe T v o e nchcape. eaving Cranwel!, k Although first reports said that Capt. | :he lnfim?ln: n:rlssfk:‘:“ s ety Gordon Sinclalr. a reserve pilot, Was| —(Continued on Page i | | 5 . Column 2) {a bootlegger, was heard to remark that GORDON IS OPPOSED AS DISTRICT JUDGE Witnesses State Obiections‘ to Official Acts of U. S. | Prosecutor. WS | The nomination of Maj. Peyton Gor- fon, for a number of years United States | district attorney, to be an associate jus- | tice of the District Supreme Court was | opposed before a Senate subcommittee | today by two persons, who criticized the | conduct of the District attorney's office In a number of cases. After listening to the complaint for nearly two hours, Maj. Gordon took the witness chair shortly after noon and be- gan answering the protests specifically. John A. Savage. who sald he was an electrical contractor, complained of the method of the district attorney's office in the handling of & number of cases ) persons seeking release from St. Eliza- beth’s Hospital on writs of habeas cor- pus, the manner of investigating deaths at the hospital and a number of other cases. Attorney Makes Complaint, J. . Adriaans, 337 Pennsylvania ave- nue, complained that Ma). Gordon had talled to give him proper consideration in efforts he was making to obtain an indictment ngainst rson whom Adriaans claimed he had a grievance against. Adrinans also eriticized Ma) Gordon's handling of the indictments growing out of the Knickerbocker Thea- ter disaster and several other cuses A third witness was Alfred D. Smith, an attorney, who told the committee | of n conversation & member of his family overheard I a grocery store some time ago. In which & man, who, Smith satd, had the reputation of bemg he was prepuring to take s group of his customers on a Oshing tip and that Mal Gordon was golng In answer o questions, Smith sald (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) WIFE OF IRISH PEER KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Pupil Also Dies in Accldent at Nairobi—=Baron Wit- | nesses Fall By the Assnctated Pioss NAIROBIL, Kenya, Africa, March 19, Lady Carbery, wite of Baron Carvs bory, Irish peer, wan killed yesterday | noan alrplane erash. A pupll named Cowle With whom she was fying also wan Killed. The wlune loat wpeed while fiving and weat Into a spin. Lovd Qarbery Anw the aceldent from the alvdrome. Lady Carbery had been taking up friends for short flights during the afternoon, Ehe was giving Mr. Cowle a practios Alght with dual contyol when the crash oecurred, | Sullivan, connected with the cftice of GRAND JRY HEARS HESE S WITAES Nature of Police Head's Tes- timony Not Revealed in Hellmuth Case. Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent | of police, was a'witness today before the grand jury, which is investigating the | ransfer of George Helimuth. a police- | man of the fourth precinct, and of Precinct Detective Arthur Fihelly from | the first precinct, because the officers were sald to be too active in their cam- paign agamst gambling As he waited in the witness room to appear before the grand jurors Maj. ! Hesse was surrounded by an array of | police officials Including Inspector Wile llam H Harrison, Capt. Martin Reilly, Licut. Mina €. Van Winkle and Lieut. J. A Sullivan. No information was obtainable of what Maj. Hesse told the grand jurors, Martin D. McQuade, foreman of the grand jury, took no part in the hear- ing of the Hellmuth case remaining outside the grand jury room throughout the hearing both yesterday and today. Foreman McQuade declared he wanted to be entirely fair with Hellmuth and did not want him or the other grand jurors to be embarrassed by his presancs | in the room, | Headley Among Witnesses. Among the witnesses mentioned yes- terday was the namo of Inspector Ale bert J. Headley, but Mr. McQuade ex- plaimed today that Headley was not Present fn connaction with the police transfer inguiry, but was a witn'ss in a case growing out of the sneetally con= structed van which Representative Rianton exhibited some davs ago at (he House Office Butlding, In which, ft was claimed, itoxteants were brought into Washington Other withesses summoned o before the grand jury ate Privat testity Faul Inspector Willam 8 Shelby, Peter Bs- panapolas, 232 Four-and-a-Hali street southwest; James Daras, 630 Four-and- A-Half street southwest, Earle Mobad- den, 337 Maryvland avenue southwest Joseph Catlath, 308 Fouv-and-a-Half streot southwest, and CGeorge R. Jaok- son, 34 Four-and-a-Half street southe west; Miss Catherine Garvard, Mus, Ruby Grant and Miss Frances M. Bird, the last three policewomen Hellmuth Calls Witnesses. It s understood that Policeman Hell- muth asked that the following witnesses be summoned th his behalt: Capt. Mavs th Rellly, Policemen Moore of No 9, Franklin of No 8 Lawson, Sayers and Morrow of No 40 M. Biill, manager Kann's warehouse, and Inspector Suuth of the Capital Traction Co Reconsidering his previous deolshn to withdraw from the police (nvestigas ton launched by the Gibson subeom- mittee, l;e\nenru(ullw Rlanton stepped back Into the limelight today and an- ounced his intention of quissing Maj | Wontinued on Page 4, Calumn ) & | by Owner Notes Loss Of 5,700 Chickens By Poison in Food By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, March 13.—Casimir Smukowski, who operates one of Wisconsin’s biggest chicken ranches, has asked the county prosecutor to investigate the polsoning of 5,700 chickens at his ranch during the past three days. Smukowski, who ships 1,500 to 2,000 chickens daily, said that the first day he fed his flock a patent chicken food which he had pur- chased from a Milwaukee concern 3,500 chickens died. In the next tw® days 2,200 more were lost. A report from the Wisconsin School of Agriculture, Smukowski said, indi- cated that meat used in the pat- rn‘:ed food had been cured improp- erly. HOOVER DISMISSAL BY COOLIDGE ASKED BY WILLIS LEADER :Representative Brand As- to Boost Candidacy. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. A demand for the removal from the i cabinet of Secretary of Commerce | Hoover was made when the Willis- Hoover campaign for Ohio’s delegation to the Republican national convention was carried into the House today. Senator Willis’ spokesman was Rep- resentative Brand of Ohio, and Repre- sentative Burton, also of Ohio, took up the cudgel for Secretary Hoover. Assailing Mr. Hoover's Americanism Mr. Brand took much the same line in his address as did Scnator Willis in his Wellston, ! Ohlo, attack upon Mr. Hoover a week | ago. Mr. Brand charged that the Depart- ment of Commerce is “honeycombed with politics” in the interest of Mr. Hoover's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, and demanded that President Coolidge ask the resig- nation of Mr. Hoover from the cabinet. | Charge of Inefficiency. “I am informed from _reliable sources.”” said Mr. Brand, Department of Commerce honeycombed with politics; per cent efficient tn that department; that today it is not even 50 per cent efficient: that all of the officers of this department out over the United States are now using themselves as political factors in this campaign. This can readily be belicved by anybody in Ohio. “We have seen an ex-city political boss picked up in Ohio and made As- sistant Secretary of Commerce after Mr. Hoover began to run for President. We have seen this man occupying this position and drawing the n&r] run- ning Mr. Hoover's campaign in Ohio; spending half his time there and the other half in Washington running Mr. Hoover's national campaign. Now under these circumstances the cam- {paign of Mr. Hoover for President is being pald for to a very large extent jout of the Treasury of the United/ | States, and I ask the President to ask the resignation of Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce, in the interest of economy and in the interest of fair play in politics.” Representative Burton “severely con- demned the address” of his colleague. It abounds in erroneous statements,” said Mr. Burton, “and half truths, illus- trated by statements on quotations ig- noring the contest and the occasion. Any man who has contributed such splendid achievements to the wellbeing of the United States as has Secretary | Hoover should be free from such an at- | {tack. If we are ever to maintain hon- | est, capable and devoted public serv- ants, they should not be subjected to such viclous criticism. “This address is not the product of one man alone. It contains all the material. slanderous or otherwise, col- lected by snoopers who have scoured the world to find something in the rec- ord of Mr. Hoover. Mr. Burton denied in detail the charges made by Mr. Brand against the Secretary of Commerce. Replies on Patronage. My, Burton declared that the number of Federal office holders. postmaste: United States marshals and others, a tively engaged in the campaign for Sen- ator Willls in Ohlo far outnumbered any Federal employes who might favor the nomination of Mr. Hoover i that State He read to the House a letter written Mr. Brand himself to Mr. Hoover under date of January 21, 1923, de- claring that he would go to the Prest- dent and urge Mr. Hoover's appoint- ment as Secretary of Agriculture, save g that “I don't know anybody who fits the place so well as you' The House rocked with laughter as ' Mr. Burton read this letter and an- nounced that it had been written by Mr. Brand The House floor and the gallertes were crowded during the dobate over Mr. Hoover. Democrats, rejolcing the Republican strife, clapped and cheered My Brand when he demanded the vestanation of Mr. Hoover from the cabinet On the Republican side there were cheers and applanse when Mr. Brand first mentioned Mr. Hoover's name as a candidate for President. But Mr, Brand also revealed the in- wardness of the fght being waged against Mr. Hoover in Ohto, for one of the sublieads I his address read: “If you want Willls, Dawes or Low- den. vote for Willis" The Ohlo Representative frankly (Continued on Page 3. Column 1) Levine Secks Air Record. WEST PALM REACH, Fla, Mawch 13 (P —~Oharles A Levine announced to- day he will take off here Saturday WMOrNIE I AN attempt to break the world's endurance veeord for atvplanes . Three Jersey Hotels Burn, WILDWOOD, N. 1. Maroh 13 () | “that the is today that the Government's business is not today 75| MELLON TESTIFIES OF HAYS' ATTEMPT | \ | 1 10 PARGEL BONDS ONEN BY SCLAR ;Treasury Head and G. 0. P. | Chief Admit Being Ap- proached in Effort to Shield 0il King’s Contribution. BOTH DENY HAVING PART . IN SECURITIES’ DISPOSAL Secretary Joined by Butler in Plea of Ignorance That 0il Scandal Loomed—Explain Their Silence on Matter to Committee. | By the Associated Press. The efforts of a Republican national | chairman to dispose of bonds turned |into the party treasury by Harry P. i Sinclair was traced through another graphic chapter today by the Senate Teapot Dome committee. Two outstanding Republican leaders, Andrew W. Mellon and William M. Butler, toid the Senators how Will Hays had sought unsuccessfully to parcel out consignments of bonds to them in 1923, while Hays was Republican national chairman, in exchange for “contribu- tions” to the party war chest. Hays himsel! corroborated this testi- mony, but again denied that he had done any wrong. He sald he had not disclosed the information in his previous testimony before the committee because he felt it was irrelevant. Mellon Explains Silence. Questioned mercilessly during two ‘ho’:uh.:nb:ehe witness ;una. Mellon, jw n Secretary of the Treasury isince the beginning of the Harding | administration, insisted that he also |had kept quiet these past four years use he could not see how any good would be served by disclosing that Hays bhad approached him. Mellon said he understood the $50.- 000 in bonds tendered him by the then party chairman came from Sinclair. Butler, now Republican national chair- |man, testified he did not know the source of the $25.000 Hays sought to give him in exchange for “contribution* of like amount to the national commit- tee. Each thought the pu: was to prevent the record from showing the whole bond contribution came from one source. Bonds Were Rejected. Mellon refused the bonds. he said, but he declared that at that time he knew nothing of the naval oil scandal which has been pending for five years. He ?:::'Hnw :‘9:3 had lt‘zml“‘zhlm of a subscription to the blican w’:"l{e b)éefmchlr. i retary said Hays, a former Postmaster General, had gnt him the $30.000 in bonds from New York. He took them to his home for safekeeping. and & day or so later. when Hays called on him. he told him he could not sc- cept them. because the deal would not | be what it purported to be. |, A few days later he sent the bonds back to Hays in New York, In the care ©of S Parker Gilbert. then Undersecre- {tary of the Treasury and now agent general for German reparations. Contributed $50,000. On December 6. 1923. Mellon ~aid he | sent Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the Republican national committee, a $30.- 000 check to be used in wiping out the committee's debt. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, conunittee prosecutor. ren.inded the Treasury official that the Tespot Dome investigation had been in progress a | month when Hays approached him re- | garding the bonds, but the witness satd | he could not keep pace with the Sen- | ates investigation. | Pounding the committee table and raising his piercing voice as he replied to his inquisitors, Hays declared he took full responsidility for having asked Stn | clalr to contribute, and for the methods {he subsequently adopted to get the 1 $260.000 of Sinclair bonds out of the Treasury's strong box. Hays Sticks to Denial. When Sinclair made the contridution, Hays said. he knew nothing of the Con- | tinental Trading Co.. and the $3.000.000 | profit it piled up and disdbursed mysteri= ously after Teapot Doms was leased to | Sinclatr. | . ¥hen e said he had not previousty disclosed his approaches to Mellon and | Butler because he felt they were “ir- relevant.” he was asked by Walsh of {Montana, the committee = prosecutor, whether it should be hidden “if you {attempted to bride 4 vudlic oficlal with {such bonds and he rejected you™ “That's an unfatr question.” he re- torted. 1 Ordered (o Sit Down, As the examination of the former Republican chatrman proveaded to e accompantment frequent persanal jufts, it became manifest that Wakh [ has seeking o draw a contrast e tweenl Hays' sworn testimony on previs ous occasions and today The prosecutor went back to March 122, 1924, when Hays told the committee Sielair could not gosaibly have given the party fund mare than $35.000 I & certain Kind of bonds. Then the recwrd 10f the withess' testimony on Mareh | last, was produced. Once when Havs got up out of his chatr, Walh said USIt down: sit down Hays did so hurrtedly. sh becamis very rigorous making the paint that Havs had dented the bond stary and demanded Now the only @ifterence Is that you Three frame hotels. the Towers, Rilt- more and Wilows, were destrayed by | fire early today. The Towers and Wils | owa wers unoccupled, The losa la e imated at $300,000, ‘hun and that denied (that you got Smeclalr Coasalis dated bonds when you dit get Sinclaw Qovernment bonds ™ Hays disputed that and a hot argus ment ensued Walih called attention as he ;:o- ceadedd With his questioning that tn late 1023 the Quntinental Trading o four pack Of Liberty bands oon- taning 3§ each, Stelate aventually tee 383,000 amount of & Witliam Bovee Thempsen SO0 wes tha (ot wWanthed o Page & Columa A