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might and owest 40 dogrees Temperature today. lowest report K 34 \ | | Lal No. 30,641 te N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 colder to tonigh 4 tomorrow temperature today Highest noon at 5 am page 9 Ch g WITH Slg MO!/NG EDITION BY) WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH S, * Slar The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news I service. ES I Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,520 TWO CENTS. (#) Means Associated Press. 1928 —FORTY-EIGHT PAGE SPAIN REENTERS LEAGUE OF NATIONS ON BID OF POWERS Return Is Anneunced by Rep- resentative Following Cab- inet Meeting. WITHDRAWAL OCCURRED NEARLY TWO YEARS AGO Break Would Have Been Final if It Had Continued Five Months. Don com- aid that 1 was reached at a | Madrid this morn- made by wal n the League | ve become final of this year. two years of | resignation being necessary In view of the approaching termina- tion of the two-vear period, the Coun- cil of the League on March 8 sent Spain a cordial invitation to reconsider her decision to drop out of the League. That Spain would respond favorably to the appeal was generally felt in Geneva. | The withdrawal of Brazil will become final in June and an invitation similar hat sent to Spain was sent to her. in resigned from the league in plember, 1926, the Spanish resigna 1 following rejection of her demand for a permanent seat on the Council the League of Nations. Tied up Spain’s efforts to obtain a perma- nent seat was the problem of the in- ternational zone of Tangier, and since the Tangier question is well on the wi 1o settlement by a Franco-Spani: agreement, the return of Spain to the | league was confidently expected WANTS U S. IN LEAGUE. Archbishop Says America Could Aid World Peace. LONDON, March 22 toward world peace and ren of war would be stimulated if the United States would enter the League of Nations, in the opinion of the Arch- bishop of York. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, speaking on the Soviet proposals for total disarmament. | Referring to the Soviet proposals as | coming from a suspicious source, the hbishop said that they stood con- | imned to him i only because the tirely ignored the League of Nations. “I am convinced that it is quite possible now to substitute any other | eans whereby to end war than by | trengthening the covenant and mem- rship of the League of Nations.” The archbishop said if disarmament | ro] came {rom the United States | the British people would all enter into obligations to renounce war. “I think | the achievement of that end would | come more quickly and easily,” he said, | “if the United States, instead of tell g us to remgounce war, would enter the League of Nations.” GREEK-RUMANIAN PACT. mittee’s Proposals. BY JOHN GUNTHER. The Star o News. | Copyright. 1928 GENEVA, March 22—Greece and | Rumania today signed a treaty of arbi- | tration and non-aggression on the| model of the draft treaty prepared by the security committee of the disarma- ment commission. This is the first in- stance in which the labor of this com- mittee bore fruit and two powers actu- | ally committed themselves to a treaty | based verbatim on the committee’s rec- | ommendations. The treaty was signed by Poreign| Ministers Titulescue of Rumania and Michelapopolous of Greece, both of whom were sick in bed, Titulescue as | t of his arduous labors in the League Council, and Michelapopolous as | ® result of & recent operation. | &ince Greece and Rumania are not in dircet contact in any sphere, the treaty | not change existing relations, but | important as the first actual Bal- | treaty following the Locarno model and may presage others. Gossip has it that one of the reasons the Turks are here is to feel out the ground for a possible eastern Mediter- | ranean pact, in which Italy, Greece and | key woald be members. Negotfa- | rs once were started on this project they were broken | Daily azo | 1 e b FEY d’CdfiNOR SAILS AFTER VISIT IN AMERICA Dean of House of Commons Plans Vocational Endowment for Irish in Britain March 22 Sonnor, dean sailed 1 16 Aquit weeks in P of the England after a United the “Before mate to p reception he had received Jooking forward Lo anothr o sticcesded ealthy American: dowment 1o provide ational trainn b boys and s living 1o th While e number ® and Beotland Drog » 18 not compa at of e Irish in Am { them discontinue thei n the reach the age of tudies w Yacht Libeled on Dry Count JACKBONVILLE, Fia, March 22 (A The $80,000 yacht Rosmer, property F. D. M. Btrachan, Bavannah and k, Gu., shipping mar, today subject of s Federal libel action tended 0 forfelt it W the Govern- for alleged violation of internal was arrested ¥ I Guardsmen | the He acht quart whisky on wa d He missed charged Alfred four eolored »a prohibition laws. | sharply enough the road ahead “GOLDEN RUL IS PLANNED BY STAR TO GUARD CHILDREN Capital Motorists to Be Urged to U Gre ¢ ater Care, 92 BOYS AND GIRLS KILLED IN 5 YEARS Gilded Car to Tour City: Movie With Local Cast Will tress Safety. is the lization evard some- ab without ost shoot to kill spare children Yet during the Washingtonians h: of their neighbors. Nearly a hundred homes have been desolated. N a hundred child es that learned to lisp “Now I lay me down to sleep’ the knees of their mothers have been silenced forever. These children have been killed by automobiles on streets of Washington There are little graves and 92 desolated homes in Washington—all because these motorists took unneces- sary chances, ventured on the streets with bad brakes or failed to watch criminal compunction who will ast five years 902 killed the children 1y voil In some cases they violated the traf- fic code ot the District of Columbia In nearly all cases they violated the BLANTON'S APPEAL FOR STAPLES FAILS Demand That Commissioners Try Policeman ‘Refused. Justice Promised. Representative Blanton of Texas has demanded that the District Commis- ¥ | sioners give special consideration to |Of the vote in the Senate on the resolu- | Policeman Orville Staples of the third | precinct by hearing the charges pend- | ing against him instead of the Police | Trial Board, it was learned today at the District Building. Blanton made this demand for an unusual procedure in the trial of a policeman at the 15-minute conference he had Monday morning with Commis- foner Proctor L. Dougherty, who has | charge of the Police and Fire Depart- | ments. He was actuated. it was said, | by a fear that Staples would not receive | justice from the trial board in view of | reports that he had furnished some of | the information used in the recent at- | chairman, |tack on the Police Department and |Liberty bonds in exchange for a cam- Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent Commissioner Dougherty, it was said, | explained that the demand could not be | granted, and that Staples would be as- | sured a fair trial before the police | board. Staples, the Commissioners pointed out, can be represented by Counsel, and if he is not satisfied with | the decision of the beard he could ap- | peal to the Commissioners to review its | findings | The Commissioners _already have taken extraordinary steps (o assure the policeman a fair trial by directing the corporation counsel’s office to take 1 | clent pains in the preparation of the charges and evidence againsi make sure that it is conclusive. The firng of a builet through the | rear window of the automobile of Pa- trolman Staples last night and the burning of the automobile belonging to | Policeman Frederick A. Schenck, both | of the third precinct, are being investi- | gated by police today. Staples reported that as he was closing the door of his garage in the rear of his | home at 2008 Thirty-seventh street last night he heard the report of a pis- ol shot. A steel-jacketed bullet was found to have passed| through a rear | window of the garage and then through | the car window. Patrglman F. E. Stro- man, whom he summoned, found the missile on the floor of the car. enck’s automobile, it was report- | taken from its parking place on street between K and midnight and was found | an hour later at Lovers' lane and ssachusells avenue almost destroyed | fire e theft of another car belonging | 0 & member of the Police Department was also under investigation today. The car was the property of Detective Fred- erick Sandberg, identification expert, and was taken from Ejeventh street be E and F streeth, last night and been recovered this morning car, it was learned tak- ym Tenth and P streets last Friday night and found abandoned in that | nelghborhood Saturday morning n polson num m . | Shot Dead in Parked Car. DETROIT, March 22 (A off, vice president of a extablishment here and for- ieral manager of the Retail | | Cleaners’ Union, was found shot to de; oday at the heel of his car parked in a street here. Police attrib= uted Polakoff's death to a price and la- bor war among cleaners and dyer Samuel | cleaners and d mer g House Asked to Probe Organizations Called Foes of pectal House com- mittee of org tions which, he sald were protesting “agairist every measure directed at adequale national defense was asked today 1n & resolution by Rep- resentative Maas, Republican, Minne- Ola He the vestigation by id that one organization within wdow of the White House bowsts that It has 2500 trusted ag who on a day's notice can organize campalgn 16 send from 50,000 W 250 {600 Jetters 1o Congress & was commonly char \ d, he said, | since the established policy of handling ALL) il DRIVE FEDERAL ATTORNEY SALARIES RAPPED EFORE COMMITTE Interior Department Employe Ciaims Legal Talent Is Now Underpaid. BORAH REFUNDEM OILICANA 1T'SHA CoMIN | rildren to Take Part in Film: Sereen Tests 1o Be 8 Six Washington children be selected for parts in The S safety film, “The Penalty who desire to enter dren for this unusual opportunity should bring them to The Star Building at 11 _am. Saturday. Screen tests will be made of all children entered and those best adapted to appear be- fore the camera will be chosen for the lead parts. All the children who come, however, will be in the picture. Group views will be included in the finished production. The children should be over vears of age, but preferably un der 10 All will be given careful screen tests. e s e e | URGES WELCH MEASURE BE PASSED BY HOUSE Declares “Average Salary” Pro- vision Is Applicable to Only a Few rv of Fed- Govern- ir nd receives as a was dishearten the s i e tundamen law olving ides ali the others and a besides—the golden rule. If this law were obeyed be no need of any other laws Starting Saturday, The Star will sent a demonstration of the Gold Rule in terms of automobiles A large gold-plated car—certain aftract attention wherever it goes will cruise quietly through the streets of the city, exemplifying the merit hich in- ard 4 comparative “pittance House com ch bill to un- t would | folded today befor | tee considering the We -‘(14' Federal salarie: | plight of these unsung Gover ment legal heroes, on w decisions n depend grave industrial problems | d international treaties, was depicted civil service committee by George ¢ in- he to leg s FALL AND SINCLARR TRIAL 1S SEVERED:; OIL MAN T0' FACE COURT ON' APRIL 4 Government Counsel Moves for Separate Hearing Aft- er Justice Indefinitely Post- pones Joint Action. | DEPOS!TION BY FORMER SECRETARY IS OPPOSED Teapot Probers Will Not Take His Evidence at This Time, Walsh Indicates — Ex-Cabinet Officer Denies All Knowledge of Conti- nental Firm By the The conspiracy trial of Albert B. Fall COOLIDGE REPEATS HE 1S 0UT OF RACE President Makes Stand Clear for Third Time Through His Secretary. of careful driving. Pledge cards will be distributed throughout the city for motorists to sign, agreeing to play fair and guard the lives of others A feature picture. “The Penalty with a ca: of local children., will b filmed presented at the Fox The- ater starting Saturday, March 31 The whole object of the demonstra- tion will be to induce the motorist to put himself in the place of others—to realize the physical suffering and un- utterable griof the act of a careless sec- ond may bring So far as the present campaign i concerned the safety of the motorist himself is a secondary consideration. It (Continued on Page 2, Column MELLONTOLCNORE RESIGNATION MOVE Secretary Will Keep Post Un- less President Demands His Withdrawal. an attorney in the Interlor and member of a commit- deral Association andwiched into a pro- members of Congres the committee to o the House session this open hearings committee mem- ccutive session to SIN Four-Masted Schooner Abandoned Off New Jersey Coast BOSTON, March 22 (#).—The Boston owners of the four-masted schooner John C. Hildebrand received word yes- terday that the vessel, which sailed from Norfolk March 14 for Eastport Me., coal laden, had been sighted, aban- doned and in a sinkfhg condition, off the New Jersey coast. Her crew of 10 men_apparently been taken off by a fi vessel, the advices sald It was assumed here that the vessel had opened he ams in the gaie of Saturday night MUSEUM ROTUNDA 0SED T0 PUBLIE Slipping Keystones Cause Transfer of Exhibits Until Dome Is Strengthened. of eight shed to urge the bill favorably indicated that oon will conelu the bill and that will go into e nulate their report Warren Files Brief. I varren filed with the committee lengthy brief constituting a petition on |behalf of Government lawyers by the Federal Bar Association. The associa- jon’s brief was signed by the following. in addition to Warren: Edwin A. Niess. ch man; F. C. Baggarly. J. Ernest Downing. Thomas L. Eggleston, Charles William Freeman, Willis E. Monty and William R. Vallance Representatives who spoke in favor of the bill this morning were Mead, New York: Bohn and McLeod, Michigan Gambriil, Maryland: Bloom and Comb. New York: Arentz, Nevada, and Good- win, Minnesota Warren, in his oral plea to the ¢ mittee, followed closely the written br which he later filed with the clerk said the Federal Bar Association. rep- | | resenting the legal profession in the administrative service of the Govern- | ment, favors the Welch bill and earnest- | lican State committee of Wyoming. in ly urges its enactment at the present | which he very definitely refused the session, “believing the measure sound | importunities of that committee “to T ks ciiste: clake. todas in principle. greatly needed and in the | waive his personal preference and con- _was ar today at the | interest both of the general public and | sont to continue for an additional four Treasury that, regardless of the result | the employes, sl ibrglaidty i hak = Warren presented to each commit. | Y¢3rS that leadership which has brought tee member a chart showing how Gov- | honor and prosperity to the country. ernment employes “are almost com- | This avowal of the President, while pletely denied in each grade any but | almost as brief as that now famous the lowest salaries provided for in the | 12-word statement he made out in the classification act of 1923." | Black Hills of South Dakota last that Mr. Mellon would ignore the at-| “We believe.” Warren testified that | Aygust, in which he so completely BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG For the third time Calvin Coolidge has declined to become a candidate to succeed himself as President, and has made known his honest desire to retire to private life at the expiration of his present term His latest announcement spect was in the form of a letter he authorized Everctt Sanders, his secre- retary, yesterda afternoon to send to L C. Hinkle, chairman of the Repub- m- | of He in this re- Slipping kevstones in great arch supporting the dome of the Ne tional Museum. first discovered several vears ago, have caused authorities to close off the entire rotunda The order followed testimon: Congress by engineers who a: appropriation of $80,000 to strengthen the great dome. Extensive reconstruc- tion work will be undertaken shortly by the supe: arct of the Treas- ury Department Some difference of opinion as to the gravity of (he dipping of the stones ap- pears to exist between engineers who testified before the House subcommittee on appropriations and officials of the Smithsonian, but the rotunda, never- theless, has been closed to the public and exhibits are being removed to make way for the work. Great trestles will be built from the floor to repair the dome tion aimed to obtain his retiremen from the cabinet, would not resign. It was evident in Treasury circles t| Secretary Mellon (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) fook ion him . [Cdngtes silogy | W W a8 omen whate GEly T8 B el e country by axmoaneing that resident Coolidge should demand his | |he did not choose to be a candidate action was considered possible. The b move any existing doubts about the resolution for the Secretary’s retire- President’s attitude toward another ment, offered by Senator Couzens, Re- | teem s s the Teapot Dome inquiry and Mr Text of Letter. Mellon’s failure to disclose that Wil | T| 7 HiTag, fomer RepaIan This response (o the Wyoming Re- ‘pllbll('an\ was My dear Mr. Hink: (}Th? President has received your letter ] |of the 17th, inclosing a copy of | the resolution adopted by the Repub- claring the Senate In favor of ihe . | lican State committee of Wyoming. on resignation of Secretary Mellon, Sena- | | March 10. While he, of cour: very tor " Couzens today declared in the | SAY Proposed Commission | greatly appreciates and thanks you for Senate that the Treasury head hag | the expressions of confidence, the Presi- Would Take Away Con- —~ | dent directs me to say that he must gress Powers. | | decline ‘o grant the request of the = - commit INGUME .I.AX S."l_[ | After proponents of the Zihlman | The President saw to it that his let- resolution for appointment of a com- | ter was not made public until after the | mission to study fiscal relations between | stock market had closed, and as a ‘lh(‘ Government and District taxpayers | means of making it clear to the country | Receipts March 20 Now Lead Those of Last Year by had agreed to elimination of any refer- {and party just exactly what it is the Several Millions., withdrawal from office, and no .\\u‘h‘ to succeed himself. xpected to re publican, Michigan, arose partly from had offered him Sinclair paign contribution | Urging adoption of his resolution de- Warned to Remove Exhibits (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) Smithsonian officials were warned. it was learned today, to exclude the pub- lic and remove the exhibits Dr. A. Wetmore, assistant of the Smithsonian, said it had been found advisable to close the entire rotunda, but that the remainder of the building is perfectly safe. He empha- sized the statement that all exhibits of the institution are still on view in parts of the building where there is no dan- r whatever The principal slipping one keystone of one of the four aiches under the dome. This stone has dropped to a point where the ly perceptible to even an untra‘ned eve. It is also evident that the key- stones in the other three arches have begun to separate from the stones next to them, showing cracks in between Dome Will Be Bor incerely vours. ‘VERE' secretary : resident [ence to the 60-40 proportion, provision | President was _declining, ~the White | | for employment of clerks and even | House made public, with the letter | vielded the citizenship representation |signed by Secretary Sanders, the reso- lon the commission, Representative | lutions in question adopted by the Wyo- Simmons of North Carolina and Cram- (ming Republicen State comm| ton of Michigan, members of the House { which resolutions ere looked upon by appropriations committee, today object- | friends of the President as a part of | ed strenuously to the resolution the movement to set in motion an or- | Pormer Representative Stengle, chair- | ganized campaign to force or persuade {man of the fiscal relations committee | the President to change his mind abont |of the Federation of Citizens' Associa- | another term |tions, and Dr. George C. Havenner of | This last | the Citizens' Advisory Council and vice | ceived here with much inferest. espe- president of the federation. appeared |elally as it 1 the second time since before the Beers subcommittee, holding | the Black Hills renunciation that he has hearings on the Zihlman measure, and | made his attitude known, did not caus yielded these points, in the hope of [the sensation that followed the original bringing an agreement on the resolu- | statement, nor did it have the same tion effect as djd the speech of reiteration Representative Simmons' opposition | he made la$t December to the memb was principally on the ground that such [ of the Republican national committee A commission would infringe upon juris- | gathered ir the east room of the White diction of the House legislative and ap- | House propriations committee regarding the | It is felt very certain that this ist District action on the pare of the President will | P 20 far to block the growing movement {o draft him as the Republican stand- | Representative Cramton declared that | ard be or to bring about a stampede he was opposed to an investigation by |at the next Republican convention a congressional commission on which | The White House has veason to know | the District citizens have representation that most of the more influgneial Re- and Is opposed to a study of fiscal re- | publican leaders, with the exception of lations by & Joint commission, com- | William M. -Butler, chairman of the posed of members of the House and |Republican national committee; Charles | offset the extra returns from the in-|Senate, stating that if an investigation | D. Hilles of New York, vice chairman come tax {15 dusired it should be conducted by the | of that body, and C. Bascom Slemp. As usual the ncome flowing into the [House iiself or by 3. Commisalon” en- | national committeeman {rom Virginia il ;- |tirely of District residents huve long since come to the conelusion Government, coffers at this season 15| “p.,recentative Cramton asserted that bl that Mr. Coolidge had very definitely moving out again wiht equal rapidity, | ), ‘ouse wants an opportunity to vote | removed himself from consideration and directly on the lump-sum appropriation | from the party equation and that it to make It permanent law and charged | was useless to attempt to persuade him his bill that would do this has not | to reconsider ermitted to come out of the Dis- triet nmittee. i Mr. Stengle, at the opening of the hearing, declared that the organized citizens of the District are willing to climinate from the Zihlman resolution to a fixed proportion 5 « highly controverstal question witlc a view to permitting a fair-minded study of what is just has been In announcement. while e- “, By the Associated Press The principal e of the recon- struction work will be two great steel bands, which will be placed - entirely around the outside of the dome will be put in & position ab apart. and are red to the architectural ruction | there will be wer slipping no_further danger The New Natiot feat Another Jump in the rate of receipts rom March 15 income tax rcollections | was noted today in Treasury figur To the close of business Masck payments had reached $345,054,469, | while for the same period last year | the total was $358,504,66: ! It will be several days before the | actual total of the quarterly receipts can be ascertained, but the rate of the incoming returns on which tax revision will be based is still ahead of last year. Secretary Mellon holds the opinfon | hat the estimates of the Treasury as Government surplus will not need a revision, since some increased con- gressional appropriations arc likely to the | dest no fu 1 Museum was by in 1911, The dome i about 80 feet in diameter, and rises more than 80 feet above the floor Assistant Secretary We today that the dange now was not great The stratn and stress on the dome and ils supporting arches, however, he said. might n a small particle of stone, which drop- {ping for the great distance might in- flict serious injury RrC C. Part in Inquiry. more insisted to the public Building Design Criticired the W C Lyon expert o vising Architect’s Office of the ury, when appearing before the ubcommittee on appropriation matter, criticized the design Museum Building Chairman Madden of remarked: It does not look like very wad construction in the beginning replied Lyon. “1 think it A greal fault of design (o put the up eccentrically on - supporting without having backed up those (Continued on Page 5, Column T'reas. House on the bt the the Government’s floating debt left by the war is to time short-term loan pay- ments i harmony with tax payment Though the Treasury on March %0 | took in $87,000,000 and spent but $11,- 000,000 1ts actual cash balance was lower at the end of the day than the | day before because of the application | of the receipts to the short-time loan. | | the committee heen See iHelp for Hoover. Y wa dome plers plers Also & number of business men have been engaging i the draft Goolidge talk, but It is thought now that even these “die-hards” must aceept the President’s attitude as definite and final Another existing impression today, fol- lowing the President’s last reiteration, | is that the supporters of Secretary of | Commerce - Hoover will be greatly en- couraged., 1L Is the hope of many of | these friends of Mr. Hoover that he will | now receive the support of many of the | administration followers, and that this | last action of the President should be the means of swinging some of them \ :;:‘(I;:vnw Hoover line without any great | oAMPORGIANO. Italy. March Willinm R. Willcox of New York, who | Publicity pays, thinks the mayor of this managed the Hughes presidential cam- | hamlet pidgn_in 1916, predicted after a call at | There (h* White House today that President | vear idge will be renominated at the | here a5 City conventlon next June. | shy aether the President would aceept | wa (e nomination s problematical, Will- | (he problem up with his honor cox said, contending that he had not | The mayor said that he would offer disclosed defintely what he would dola gold fountain pen as a wedding pr under such cireumstane After Definite Conclusion. “The Federation wants this commis- lon to arrive at a definite and fair | onclusion. It widnts to know the truth id will abide by It so that all con- troversies that have continued for many years may be settled” In reply to question from Representative Bowles | of Massachusetts, Mr, Stengle expressed | the opinion that there are existing agencles of the Government which al- reudy have o mass of information that would be avallable for the proposed | against the new naval warahip con | comm Atd satd Hia thOURNL struction program recently passed by 4 : - 5 T Toume. he'maded. and the eharac.| (Continued on Page 11, Column 1.) ter of these letters and the clrcum surrounding this campalgn ere mificant to be ignored.” Defense chlslatlon B Ve B Bortto.€ that some organizations participated in such campaigns for profit and not pu- | triotism, and in addition that other rganizations were “dominaled and in- spired, If not actually financed, by for elgn Interests.” One member of more than 2,600 hasn't been a wedding here are pretty enough but the local swains were either or unwanted. The parish priest getting worrled about it and took n a Rirls Congress elved letters protesting ent to the flrst palr to have a nuptial g i ¥ Radio Programs—Page 34 { ange is | ‘Mayur and Parish Priest Use puHi\:it_v - | the priest are selecting a third for & | and Harry F. Sinclair today was severed TWODIE, IDBURNED &= == INSHIP EXPLOSION the Interior originally were scheduled to Fumes - Ignited as Crew | go on trial for a second time April 2, but counsel for Fall obtained a post- Ventilates Cofferdam on U. S. Vessel. | ponement on the grounds that he was too ill to be present Government counse! immediately moved to have Sinclair tried separately and the motion was granted by Justice Bailey, who set the trial date im- | mediately. Sinclair Counsel Fights. Counsel for Sinclair opposed the move | to sever the case. contending that Fall's | testimony was necessary to the oil man's | defense. There is to be no effort at this time by the Senate Teapot Dome committee to obtain the testimony of Fall. Both Chairman Nye and Senator Walsh of Montana, who have been di- recting the affairs of the committee, thought the former Interior Secretary’s seaman, second class, of 3606 Windsor | reply to the request of the committee as Mill road, Baltimore, and George Ed- | to his readiness to testify closed the ward Garrett, scaman, first class, of | matter for the time being at least. b | think this disposes of the matter . Mo. B | we had in hand,” said Senator Walsh. List of Injured. | A similar view was expressed by Chair- ‘Those seriously injured were: | man Nye, but it may be that the ques- Jonn Frederick 'Narr, machinist's | tion will be taken up at an executive mate, third class, Mount Royal. N. J. | meeting of the entire committee later. Donald Le Roy Burch, fireman, third| In the telegram to Chairman Nye | class, of Independence, Mo. |last night, Mr. Fall called attention to John Jay Easterling. seaman, second | the conspiracy case pending here class, of Streetman, Freestone County,|against him and Sinclair in ‘connec- Tex. | tion with the leasing of the Guillermo Dario, mess attendant. of | naval ofl reserve, and said he was ready San Roque, Cavite, Philippine Islands. | to tell the “whole truth” in a deposi- Willard Edmonston Jannie, seaman, | tion to the court. second class. of 906 Dale avenue south- Would Await Action. cast. Roanoke, Va bu hose who received minor burns g \mpm % 5 Pending the outcome of his plea for William Albert Gardts. chief gunner, l continuance of his retrial on the ground Twentieth avenue, Paterson, N. J. '|that his health would not permit a ank Benjamin Huslander, seaman, | i to Washington from Texas, Fail first class, of Pine Hill road, Chelms- | 3sked the committee if it would not ford, Middlesex County, Mass. | be better to await the come of the Edward Peter Michalski. apprentice | COUrt action before seeking his story seaman, 2211 Winterling Court, Balti- | {0 the committee records more, Md. Fall's telegram, filed from El Paso, Howard Franklin Bousquet, seaman, | Was in answer to one sent: him by second class. of Island City, Union | Chairman Nye calling attention to pub- County, Oreg. | lished reports indicating that the for- Marvin Warren Weaver, apprentice |mer Interior official was ready to “tell seaman, of 118 Catherine street, Johns- | the whole story and not just part of town, Pa it and stating a subcommittee would The official dispatch from Vice Ad- |Proceed to El Paso at once to take the miral Ashley Robertson, commander of | testimony “if you are ready and willing the scouting fleet, said the accident | to testify occurred at 9:40 am. on March 21| In his reply Fall said he had while the personnel were ventilating the | Statement in connection wit cofferdam adjacent to the gasoline |IN8 conspiracy case, but storage space. o the effect that he as “ready to " ave my leposition taken here (EI Court of Inquiry Ordered. {Paso) in’ any manner requested by the The report said the fumes were | court and that I desired the whole ignited from an undetermined source or | truth be told and would offer no objec- cause. tions to any question that might be The men who were seriously burned | pounded to me touching any p were transferred to the hospital ship | this entire matter.” - Mercy, where Delevett and Garrett died ; é o Ignorant of Continental Firm. The men less serfously burned were ! He denied any knowled 8 kept on_board the Whitney for treat- | of the Gontinemtal e o ment. ‘There was no material damage | disposition of Whose prodts. the to the vessel, the dispatch said. A cour mittee is now tracing, and also sa of inquiry was ordered fmmediately knew nothing abou s butions to any c VETERAN, LOST EIGHT | “wrtid YEARS, BELIEVED FOUND He said he did know matter W. E. Furlong, Kansas City, Had Been Given Up as Dead—Wife serve t tra d o by M. T. Ever- Married Again B hart son-in-law, regard! Three Rivers, Mex., ranch ho March after he ‘What I meant to say and I mean clght years ago from his home at now to say, am_perfectly Kansas City, Mo., William Edward Fur- long, 42, a World War veteran, is be- lieved to have been located in a veter- 1s” hospital at Great Lakes, 1il A letter to his brother, Lawrence Furlong of this city, purporting to have been written by the missing man, today took the brother to the Great Lakes hospital in an effort to establish the writer's identity 1 guess 1 have been insane most of time for 1 haven't known where 1 the letter id am Edward Furlong, assed and wounded in’the war dis- appenred i 1920, After a long search, his wife believing him dead. married E R Scala and is living Overland Park. M Two enlisted men are dead, five suf- d serious burns and four enlisted men and one chief warrant officer suf- fered minor burns as a result of a gasoline explosion yesterday aboard the destroyer tender Whitney, at Guanta- namo Bay, Cuba. The dead are William Melvin Delevett, F le financial his ated Ohto as dead soon respect to you e ate, I may ly, despite what is McLean letter, dictated by ssed to the committee, T was ready nd w to give (tormation in my possession to the co but by the terms of the Se ation No. 54, I re % teen convicted by e and comn and feare wony given me before commit { der the protection have tended to convic form. My und been and is co-dofendant, Mr. § pound nterrogatior ment cross-int cial proceedings answers just the law has ent my can pro- e Govern- the judi- use my esent in shell shock- at Clause Postponement Favored A Se resolution to postpone for ne vear the nlacing in operation of the ational origin clause of the tmmigra- Vv oact was approved today by the House immigration committee. Information Misleading Mel Tefer sram s Edward B, the Wash: 1 Marct McLe en the tion about Fall be- his friend. Al time that told to Beach in the Was correet—namely od Fall $100.000 in enterprise. but that were returned ¢ His previow: the celebrated $100,000 loa caused he desired to | The publisher insisted at t previous January that he checks the cheeks ashed et Marriages in Town knot tied. The priest passed the word around, bul although one couple pre sented themselves, (hey refused the sift. Neither could read or write, No more couples came along. Then the mayor had a story published in the provinetal papers telling of the sad ate of affaits in Camporgiano, The { loan was made made at Fall Later, Edward les | the now cance s ol reserve ‘ contract, admitte had loaned | Fall $100.000 the time the result 0 far s (hat (wo long-languish- | €48 was negotiat | also received g maldens have gone to out-of-town 000 of th nental Liberty hushands. one ' Tarmer” and one & | bonds o Sinclaiy atter the latter ob- lawyer of Turin. while t ained the Teapot Dome lease, but now ? g o (mauor 80 | sare he knows nothing sbouk Abay | police oficial tn Puebla, Mexico. (Continued on Page 4, Column & b et