Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1928, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. TUESDAY MARCH 1928.° 27, HOLDIN * CARAWAY REQUEST REACHES . C.HEADS Resolution Asking for Police Trial Board Information | Given to Taliaferro, | ! The Caraway resolution the Senate yesterday, calling upon the et Comn joners to furnish the te with certain information relat- to_members of the Metropolitan nt who have appe I board. wa adopted by Te- called for name who has appeared ial board in the last three of the offense. what by the bon cases were Tev t puni e officers ers who faced tl The resol the pol rmit him tc ng SHEETZ ADMITS HE RELIED ON STAPLES AS “G0OD OFFICER” (Continued from First Page.) got Lawrence | \i* 3 SPOTLIGHT IN STAPLES GASE TODAY Capt. Ira Sheetz, commander of the third precinet, and Lieut. Michael Raedy of are sure he said th 5 havwe heen afier Oc records to answer that hen Blant ning shing . ared number of arrests that d be 4054784 ar for every man, wom: child in the District.” Sheetz suggested pernaps tha Called “Sober Man.” Leaning over toward Capt ) askea: “Have ples take a Grink? Sheetz replied he had not admitted 1 le prompting, t toward Staples Sent Staples Whisky. | ms objected to Blanton's hod of cross-examination and | Chairman Wahly suggested that Mr. Bianton ask Green about specific dif nces between his affidavit and his testimo Resuming the questioning ucceeded in getting Green 10 | i No. 32" he asked. excitedly that he bad sent Staples a pint ' hisky after the truck was seized Green said he did this “to show that we_were better fellows than he was.” Capt. Sheetz was then called to the d and produced the incidental book the call book of No. 3 precinct covering the latter part of March, 1927 The patrol book, Capt. Sheetz testified, showed no record of a run to Twen first and L streets March 27, 1927, but sere was & record on_ March 29 of | & run to No. 7 Alexandria court, which | showed that five cases of corn whisky were seized but did not show the names of the officers making the ru Mr. Blanton read an entry which Capt. Sheetz sald was in the writing ! Private Agnew, as follows “No. 3 has a truck, D. C. 99682 nd abandoned and containing liquor. Hold for revenue department.” {about his k Staples’ Name Listed. | The name of O. Staples was under | far the entry S Upon_que: *'No. | he?” Blanton demanded | sheetz repiied that he was | The Texan seemed jubilant | ed courtroom. Mr. Blanton, dently said he had not meant levity and asked that stricken from the record his res ton to cinct at roll call on the morr the men that he had cers clalm they he had not stand for a frame-up on {or any one else, and thi police officer. The witness declared Ve 7 e there was ning by Mr. Williams, | 525 duite B0t in the usual form and that it should | eied; and 108 TRl have been more particular s to amount | "1, 35 of liquor ficulty in pu ing the method of making entries in| the precinct record book. and finally nen Willilams was upheid in his ob- | jections to the method of cross-exami- Bianton threw up his hands in | despair. I'm a stranger remarked mourn istant Corporat Counsel Mc- had declared the Texan could e a witness on matters tumony following his inquiry. witness said he had not nge land,” he should have h: the office | lams, that ftem eorrected made it Seen as Horse Play. be many n the floor of the moon between and Repres over Mr. Bj ¢ regarding t rded by most of those h as horsep two members Bome of their ¢ n publication ame during cor proposing pena House % Arrests Yearly. ve S coming J ime BStaples 5 were n another pre- N questioned made by 8 st No, Blanton declared would show 643 & of service, or an average o N ¢ commission of crime Mr. Bchafer for g b warging high e officers ting bribes in liquor enfor He called attention th e member had Mr floor Sheetz was methods Blantor neer o provisions re a police oficer to go declared | member of floor in be- i before the | Basoline board, He improper for an House 1o speak on the of any man whils he sald that wowed th w171 for he ! the board ld the Hou assistant had urged and then atte in relation had been who wi ano Asks Seizure Report 2de ® Fevenue A demand Bu report o the sworn o arge which by & womar ther woman had ner name in er u Called & “Cyclone nton used the ¥ the false 1 ) the floor th 4 1 il ing v imp v wre e Cayg but attempting 1 the irial ihed Mr Inose like an Lhere This remark awn by Mr. Blanton w Underhill stated th withe ok oW illie Kz charged @ with “God & s ng inge wina w the wes M P law ) Seizure Heported It Agnew éon't - Biant no!" the Blwels Blapies wrd hater Blenton trying when Mr. described M run the House mude Blaples a wrong ent with he g the Police Depariment aown 1t was then that Behaf sored Mr of Officer Bleples and said f myself on the floor tie! Mr seizure testify ed v, go e on INeTTID hie skirie or chletf sna excleim Honse will not he intimidated 1 he mskes here or 2y Blaptn of fisticuffs t by an W her ed th Jne Wher " ench otk Lerw 1 wil ) welgh in with me | excess i welght.” me ¥ “yn not even 1 will yecord in heven't ny better Bohefer, with his 279 Wb Wy BB Lo b UAAILIYS BLEUMETs was correct St you ever “Ever smelled liquor on his breath “He's one of your sober men, “One of the few of your sober men There was considerable laughter in the crow who ovi- had made a slip of his tongue, to induige in Capt. Sheetz was asked by Mr. Blan- ell about his visit to No. 3 pre- March 8, and the captain said Blanton were gOINg Staples because they believed tipped the Congressman | about the hijacking case. Blanton add- |ed, the captain admitted, that he wou st t Staples was no more to him than any other honest Blanton then questioned the captain nowledge of Staples’ efforts 10 get a warrant for the arrest of Cole from Assistant District Attorney | ungualified support of the police head that some ques- |tion about the license on the truck !as wholly satisfactory. Capt. Sheetz said that this entry Was|geized, and for that reason the war- was ‘The captain told about an investiga- | tions with the Prohibitio.. Bureau, but 3 ton of the circumstances under which Blanton encountered considerable dif- | yho truck was taken and said no unfa- | cers had with local pol ing his inquiries regard- | yoraple report about Staples was made | Blanton asked the captain if he had | Government without reservation,” said ever corrected the incomplete entry on his call book regarding the seizure and later ad- mitted, under examination by Mr. Wil- ad r thought was a ne Representative af nton's speeche Staples case who en- betwee Record eration of for giving ormation to the police regard- Blanton recent with er asked the Com- y or indirectly w in superintend empted 10 read 1 the Btaples d author board n Hepre . Nebraska Mavor Phones for Lindy At Traffic Burecau of 1 R, L. FEARN. NEWS WRIT Former President of Gridiron Club Was Widely Known Correspondent. oln, Nebr Charles A Mayor He nted to talk to Col Lindbergh today, and for some un- known reason he telephoned the Dis- trict Trafic Bureau to locate him Trafic Director Harland made 3 strenuous efforts to accommodate the | Lincoln official, but he was unable sive transatlantic .| to locate the Isn’t after a city-wide survey by [ . Why Mayor Hedge called the Traf- fic Bureau is still puzzling Mr. Har- land DR. DORAN DEFENDS HESSE AS OFFICER ! Police Head's Attitude Toward En- forcement Satisfactory, Dry Commissioner Says. Richard Lee Fearn, former president of the Gridiron Ciub and once a widely | known newspaper corespondent here. | died here Thursday. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at Lee's Chapel, Rev. Charles T. Warner. Mr. Fearn was president of the Grid- fron Club in 1906, and he served as the club’s secretary from 1898 to 1903 He was chief of the Washington bureau { of the New York Tribune from 1902 | to 1909. He had been on the staff | the Brooklyn Eagle from 1886 to 1891 | and later served as Washington corres- | pondent of the United Press and also as London corespondent for that press association. He was secretary of foreign affairs for the Chicago Exposition from 1891 to 1893 A native of Mobile, Ala.. Mr. Fearn studied at the University of the South and at the University of Alabama and ived_an M. E. degree from the evens Institute of Technology in 1884, was married to Mary Eleanora on of Baltimore He is survived by a son, Richard Lee Fearn, jr., of the Rockwell Co., New York, and a daughter, Mrs. Richard Stockton Field, wife of Lieut. Comdr R. 8. Field, U. 8. Navy, now stationed in New York Mr. Fearn had been in ill health for several years. FLOODS THREATEN heard that Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent | of police, accused by Representative Blanton of laxity in law enforcement and of drinking, was stoutly defended today by Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran, who came out with apl he attitude Dr Hesse's enforcement toward prohibition Doran characterized This at reflected, the commission not only in the major’s personal rela- also in the contacts which Federal offi- e. further than the Federal Hesse has even gone to offer his support of Dr. Doran. “He has voluntarily come The® forward with co-operation He has been in my office, and I have been in his office discussing matters relating to the enforcement in Washington, In | my opinion, Ma). Hesse is & good polic official and a good executive. He ha the right attitude toward enforcemen and he has infused that attitude into gl men.” the who Pontoon Bridge at Burlington Tak- i | en Up as Waters Rise—Other STINSON AND HALDEMAN | START TEST TOMORROW rofist er of Span Closed. n i BURLINGTON, Vt., March 27.—Be- cause of high water on the Winooski River, this city, last night was isolated almost as completely as it the great floods of last November The pontoon bridge between here and Winooski, installed by Army Engineers after the' . 1 bridge was carried way last Fall, was removed to safety yes- terday afternoon. ‘The fce on the Winooski River was reported breaking up_as far as Waterbury The other avallable bridge the Lime Kiln Bridge, was closed to vehicles because of the deep mud on both approaches The road leading to Fichmond, Bolton and Waterbury along th Winooskl was dotted with itomobiles. The rond south of the city at Ferrisburg. where there is a stretch of dirt highway, was impas- sable for cars, f Burlington was nearly suspended A temporary bridge at Milton, con- tructed after the floods of November, went out last night In addition to causing a sudden ri of water in the streams, the sudden warm spell of the past few duys thawed out the ground rapidly and dirt high- ways were left deep in’ the mud with- ers Will Record Seek New Endurance Flight Over Florida. | | Fl; in JACKBONVILLE, Fla, March Fddle Stinson, Detroft airplane manu- facturer, arrived here today and went 0 the municipal airport, where he and Capt. George Haldeman will start to- morrow on an attempt to shatter the flight endurance record e big Btinson Detrojter monoplane which will be used w ared to b in fine for the 1t carrie with a capacity of 540 fould | €alions powered by a single Wright Whirlwind 220-horsepower mo 1ts crufsing speed is approximately les an hour e fyers said th | and down the during their weather forced In that would either move hward sibly Fie peninsula ac- known as f the would erutse up of Florida unless ad 9 to change thelr they sald they north d 1o the Carolina coast or to the lower end age cons flight them his case that n da JEWELERS DIAMONDS AND PLATINUMSMITHS is nothing o him | Other Precious Stone: wh. it expunged fr Members of Amsterdum Diamond Fachange as tr er Blenton’s sctivities in behalf 1 can take ! or outside of this House, and || y with @ laug® friend from Wisconsh aslum compel him waive my every depariment of Government. from | and sald e krew well whom hie referred » Ofi/c)tfin O]nc. ie at Street e L4 P This 935 1 and o ADOLPH KAHN Frestdend ARTHUR J. SUNDLUN Treasurer Blenton welghs close (o 200 pounds, ds, Uiice Whp - ER, 1§ DEAD Pennslyvania avenue by | VERMONT TOWNS| was during | Bus service in and out | LINDY TAKES 1,10 FOR RIDES IN AIR Colonel Makes 110 Flights, Establishing Record—Many Others Seek Trips. While his Ryan monoplane stood | ready for service on short notice at Bolling Fieid to take him on his next dash into the sky, Col. Charles A Lindbergh kept out of the public eve | today. after closing his unique “flying school” last evening. He established a record by taking up some 1,100 people in the 110 flights he made in the six Idays he made good his invitation fs- | “IN FLANDERS FIELD” ON CANVAS l i | sued to celebrities desiring to ride with | him. His jaunts took him across the | Potomac, over Arlington, then for a \swing above the heart of the Nation's Capital and then near the Capitol dome back to the field Last night, after greater part of the with society folk of diplomatic Washintgon, he [turned to join the flying men of Bol- {ling Field ‘at the monthly smoker for the enlisted men of the command. He {applauded during the half-dozen bouts and remained for about an hour and la half with the enlisted men, but laughingly declined their call for a | speech. ving spent the Many Desire to Fly. He shared the enthusiasm of the | Army men when Corpl. Patrick Con- roy of the 56th Service Squadron knocked out Michael Kashman, the company cook, in the first 10 seconds of fighting In the second round of the main bout He did not wait for ths challenge bout, which followed the reg- ular program Requests to fly with him continued to pour in today to the office of Assistant Secretary Willlam P. MacCracken, in charge of aeronautics at the Commerce Department Mr. MacCracken return- |ed today from Parkersburg, W. Va |but was unable to throw any light on | Col. Lindbergh's whereabouts, for at the Racquet Club. where he is staying Left to right: W. I. Wahly, assistant corporation counsel, who is chairman of the Police Trial Board Inquiring into | it was said that he had gohe out dur- the case of Policeman Orville Staples |ing the morning Miss Marguerite Mesny of 2817 Twenty-eighth street, a George Wash- ington University student. granddaugh- |ter of the late David Wolfe Brown reporter of debates in the House, was among those who was given a ride with Col. Lindbergh 1,100 Passengers in All. Col. Lindbergh was still smiling 1 night when he announced that his fiy- ing program for Senators, Represent- { atives and diplomats had come (o an | end. He made trips yesterday and | carried more than 2 in- cluding several Amb, Min- | isters, a few Senators and Represent- | atives and otgers. In his ‘fiving | school.” which he started a_week ago | today. Lindbergh carried 1,100 passen- { gers and made 110 flights. all without | a single mishap. He again utilized the | Army's Kokker air transport with the { yellow wings and olive-colored body | and the Navy's Ford plane. all-silver | colored, both of them triple-engined { machines, and there were enough pas- | sengers on hand to keep him busy an hour before noon until dusk began to | settle over Washington. Yesterday's passenger list included | Princess Albert de Ligne, wife of the Belglan Ambassador. and their daugh- | ter.” Princess Elizabeth: Viscount de | Lantsheere, first_secretary of the. Bel- gian embassy. Thomas E Robertson United States Commissioner of Patents | Voislay_Antonievitch. Juglosavian Min- ister. and John A Chumbley. councel- |lor “of that legation: Mlle. Reine Claudel, daughter of the Ambassador | of Prance. and her brother: the wife of Comdr. Louis Sable. French naval attache: the wife of Engineer Lieut Paul Duban, assistant naval attache of France: Robert Lacour-Gayet. financial attache of the French embassy: Am- bassador Mouhtar Bey of Turkey and these members of his party: Ahmed Bedy Bev. counsellor of the embassy Mme. Afifch Bedy Bey, Kemal Djenany Bey. second secretary of the embassy and Munay Preston Other passengers included: Senor Don E M. Sosa. attache of the Lega- tion of Panama: Renato da Cunha and Manuel Pena of the Brazilian Embassy: R. H_ Luttrell, Eleanor R.| Nolle. Mrs. A. G. Anderson, Mrs. H. | R. Tull. Mrs. Tytus McLennan, Miss Mildred Tytus. Miss Victoria Tytus John McLennan, jr.. Luang Deba third secretary of the Siamese Legation and the attache. Nobpawan Purnasti: Dr. and Mrs. O C. Kelp, counsellor of the German Em- bassy: Countess Sherr-Thoss. Michael Wright, third secretary of the Embassy of Great Britain: Miss Hester Ann Le Fevre and Miss Exilona Hamiiton | _One of yesterday’s passengers was E. H. Young. one of the early experi- menters with aircraft around Washing- ton. He alded in organt an aero- nautic assoclation with 63 members wnich used to meet at the Y. M. C A he said. Mr. Young explained that [he flew the biplane Horme on the }pn-mm Lincoln Memorial grounds | about the site of the present reflecting | pool, adding that he assisted in get- ting up Washington’s first nerinl auto exhibit at Convention Hall Senator Glass of Virginia and Sena- tor Ashurst of Arizona went up with | Col. Lindbergh during the day | A letter from a Senator or Repre- | sentative was considered a suitable passport yesterday and many who came armed with such missives were given rides. ‘The week end rains laid the dust that was kicked up last week by the airplane propellors. so that the diplomats were saved from literally gotting & taste of Bolling Field | and | America became motorized paper money lasted about 50 per cent longer because it did not have to stand the grease and dirt from Weing handled At gas stations Before month. Look for the “Were giviga hg’ Grocers are making special offerings on Quality Canned Foods all this dows as the place to buy them. They'll add tempting variety to the menu, The above painting. an illumination of the famous poem “In Flanders Field,” was placed on exhibition today at the Red Cross Building, under the auspices of the American War Mothers, before being sent to the American Ceme. tery at Waereghem, Belgium, which is officially called “Flanders Field.” The painting is the work of Miss Edna E. Davies, a designer in the Quartermaster’s office, War Department. The picture will be sent to the “Flanders Field” Cemetery as the gift of Col. Kensey J. Hampton, chief of the cemeterial division of the War Department. | The poem, whi is reproduced in full, was written by John McCrae, a Canadian, | who fought in Belgium and France during the World War. Col. Hampton visited “Flanders Field” Cemetery last Summer and then made up his mind that a copy of McCrae's poem should be there. LINDBERGH “SELLS" CONGRESS | ON VALUE OF TRAVEL BY AIR BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Col. Charles A add to his lau those of a thoughts about Lindbergh a pos- sibility of enlisting his support in the 1928 presidential campaign. 1f the fiy- ing colonel has any partisan politics, he's contrived to keep it. like so many other things, strictly to himself. That | he would be a superdrawing card on the husting next Summer and Autumn if he stood up alongside the spokesmen of any White House candidate—or the candidate himself—goes without saying Lindbergh’s father was a Republican progressive of radical tendencies while he sat in the House of Representatives for a Minnesota district at the time Lindy” was a schoolboy in Washing- ton. Whother the world hero has in- herited paternal political predilections is a deep-dyed mystery which he has signally failed to unravel. If the cir-| cumstantial stories now teing published about “Lindy's” determination to have some seclusion are based on his actual intentions, the hopes of parties and politicians, as far as 1928 is concerned are likely to crash eht Lindbergh can now a foreign Ambassa- ry effective domestic politician. His recent activities in tak- ing members of the House of Represent- es and United States Senate for round Washington have, by uni- nt, made Congress “air- y extent hitherto unknown probably done more for naval and postal air serv- week of passenger flying at Capital than all the propaganda, lobbying and “boosting” ever carried on for aviation since it became a Government interest Doubting Thoma. dor " to has it s on Capital Hill, skeptical about both afety and the utilit f fly have vanished under the magic of the skipper of The Spirit of St. Lou They have seen and they have flown, and they are now believers. Congress is about to give a_ practical example of its faith in aircraft by vot- ing roundly $64,000,000 for the three | ederal services which employs planes. The House voted the Army Air Force | $24,848,562, and the Senate added to that sum another $580,000 for bombard- ment planes and equipment. Both houses joined in appropriating $6.730.- | 000 for the Post Office Department’s air | which Lindbergh has pro- | r than anything Europe | House is still consider- fons of $31,548,560 for | val aviation. That is the minimum | Congress will give the Navy for air pur- poses this year, and it is possible that either the “House or Senate, or both, may fevise that figure upward. | 1928 ) (Coor All streets in Jerusalem are to be im- proved. D.J. KAU Believes in Alrplane. | avier-than-air “ship,” 1. e has apparently come to be the aviation weapon that Congress | believes in. 1 y's” achievements | with it have helped to bring about that | situation. The Senate the other day knocked $187.000 from the House air- service appropriations for the Army, | allocated to dirigibles, and tacked on | more than thr times as much as that amount for bombing airplanes. Col. Lindbergh's practical interest in all_concerned with aviation, especially the men of the service, was exemplified | March 21, when he went before the | House committee on military affairs at its invitation. Chairman John M. Morin | of Pennsylva wanted “Lindy's” views | on the general subject of promotion in the Army Air Corps. He was the first| witness heard on the subject during the present session of Congress The com has before introduced Representative Furlow Republican Minnesota, which pro- vides a separate promotion list for Atr | Corps officcrs. Col. Lindbergh was not | prepared to recommend a separate pro- motion list for Army Air Corps officers. but he strongly sed the necessity of improving the promotion rates. Chatrman Morin described “Lindy's testimony as “a valuable contribution,” and 1t Is soon to be printed and made avatlable to the whole Army. The sub- fect Aflr Corps promotion has been before Congress for two years. It in- cludes retirement provisions. Lind- bergh's advocacy of the proposition has undoubtedly advanced the prospect of action It's parties The the a b rp .\"0 lnfE‘P'PSt or it _a bill by ckwear. If '\-ml.d secret that both political been harboring covetous an open have Austrian, Swis SILK 1 1 Machine Made a $ Top 1t Of With a S\\riug Tupnml Spring Colors Stk Trimmed A \ bigQon store wine Narrower R Robinhoods Drift around and usual window display of gorgeous Spring Mallorys GASCH SENTENCED 10 3YEAR TERM Former Hyattsville Bank Cashier Ordered to Atlanta After Pleading Guilty. ecial D \ to The Star BALTIMORE, Md., March 27.—Clar- ence B. Gasch, former cashier of the First National Bank of Hyattsville, was entenced to three years in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta today by Judge Morris A. Soper after he had pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of misusing $11,000 of the bank’s funds. Testimony disclosed that a total of approximately $135.000 was involved in the shortages, which covered a period of about three years. All of this sum it was testified, "has been restored with the exception of the amount charged the indictment Engaged in Realty Development. Gasch, who is 31 years old. has been connected with the bank for severai years, and has been active in real tate developments fi: lle and urrounding _ commu for some ears. Department of Justice account- ants said the defalcations were largely due to his real estate activities, Raymond B. Dick of Washington and Robert R. Carman, c se]l for Gasch, made pleas for leniency on the ground that most of the money had been returned and that Gasch had & wife and four all children. Gasch own defense, took the stand, ar ed that the notes which were given to secure the loaus were seen by both the president and vice president of the bank. He denied having any criminal intent and declared he had intended repaying all the loans as soon as he sold properties he was building in the ds opments. Gasch has turned over to the bank his home, valued at $24,000; the real estate development, whose value is said ;’n [}‘.a'.s depreciated, and what cash he ad. decl: Father and Wife Aid. His father and an uncle have gi $5.000 each. to the bank, and Gasc was bonded for $25.000. Bank officia. say they will still lose $30,000 or more. United States District Attorney Amos W. W. Woodcock, in outlining the case referred to the attempts that had been made by politictans of Prince Georges County to have him “let up” on Gasch, In summing up the case he said: “I may conclude by expressing the hope that the somewhat untactful ef- fort by his friends to influence tue prosecution of this case. an account of which, I regret, appeared in the news- papers, will not prejudice the court against him.” BANK BANDIT SLAIN, TWO OTHERS SURRENDER By ted Pre LOS ANGELES, March 27.—One hold-up man was shot dead in his tracks and his two accomplices arrested when | they attempted to rob the Santa Fe avenue branch of the Merchants’ Na- tional Bank here yesterday. George R. Fisher, guard employed in the bank. was stationed on the mezza- nine floor, where the robbers did not see him. 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