Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Burean Forecast) Fair and continued cold, with lowest temperature about 32 degrees tonight: tomorrow fair and warmer, Temperatures—Highest, 55, at 6 pm. yettreday: lowest, 32, at 7 a.m. toda) Full report on page 7 i enim WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION service. | : VYe!trndl f The only evening paper hington with the Associated Press news s Circulation, 105,396 g Star. { - L 5 T e . o No. 30,650. [i"ohde Niahingion e GTON, D. €, SATURDAY, o B 1, 1928 — Dies Suddenly WILLIS FALLS DEAD | | * AS HE QUITS STAGE. ATPOLITICAL RALLY ¢+ Ohio’s Favorite Son Candi- date Stricken Suddenly at Delaware, Ohio. ‘NEVER FELT BETTER.' HE | SAID EARLIER IN EVENING End Comes Town Near His Birthplace—Wife Is at Side. Militia Guards Body. n TOR FRANK B. WILLIS. 0410 CONTEST NOW IS FOUR-CORNERED Lowden Looms as Chief Fo By the Assoviated P DELAWARE. r the ination. | the contest DY | an old ration before from t Ohto Wes- e Co- e His death, which five physicians s was caused by cerebral hemorrha occurred within five minutes. He 56 years old Wife at His Sidge. He had told his private secretar Charles A. Jones, he was “feeling ver bad.” Soon after, the Senator (-x;l- lapsed. Mrs. Willis, called from the! stage where she had been sitting W ith | her husband. reached his side a few | minutes before he died. | The audience first was informed the | Sepator had been taken ill and would be unable to speak. They sensed some- thing more distressing had happened | and as they lingered to learn the truth, { many of his old friénds, both men and women, cried. Some women became: ost hysterical. | .mflluon:l Guard troops that had par- | ticipated in the parade and demon- siration, took charge and dispersed the | crowd, which was excited but orderly. With the Senator when the end came, besides Mrs, Willis, were his brother. | Buell W. Willis, his father-in-law, John | Dustin of Galena; three brothers-in-law. | his private secretary and a few person- | al friends. H Mrs. Willis was unconvinced for | sometime that her husband was dead. | Escorted from the chamber on the verge of hysteria, she was gkm to the home | her father in Galena. | Of et Felen Wills, the only child, was | notified at Ada, Ohio, where she Is a | professor at Ohio Northern University. | National Guard troops formed an es- | cort of hongr as the Senator’s body W rem Can a). L. C. Riddle he | :mmdd‘ umnn) tain a guard over the body] il funeral. 3 mfin“;mo( the Senator's death spread | rapidiy over the city. His pictures, dis- | played in the homes and business places. were draped in mourning. l arrangements have not | vet been made, burial probably will be | at Galena, hll;‘bbh":hpw, 1 heast of city. 4 w?r}he how just preceding the Senator’s | death hed been one of pleasing triumph | for him. In the town he called home he | had been signally honored The nn"eu were decorated in red, white and blue. | His name streamed across the thorough- | fares teeming with his sdmirers ! Arrived Yesterday. il enator Willis had arrived in Dela- | 15 e eterday afternoon from Colum- bt where he was met by a boyhood | riend, Roy Brower. . willis told B: rest and went 1 2 was rower he wished to hotel for about two | Cleep, Upon arising, apparently | Senator Willis went to @ nis Club dinner in lh’z g::m;nh y. one of the ysi= | NS eator when he died. | 0 atterided the dinner. said 'nad told him during the : meal that he “never felt ter in my We” | sathy, continued to pour in e Willis and relatives of the dis- inguished Benator. Political opponents wese unanimous in their praise of the Senators character, ability and sinceri- ty. All declaged they had the deepes yegara for Senator Willis in every re- or's Ballot Net to Be Changed f UMBUS, Ohio, March 31 of Benstor ¥ Bep would all the POLAND OFFERS PEACE PLANS TO LITHUANIA Sumite Propossis o ste Traffic and Control Communication KOENIGEBERG, Germir w Mageh 31 e conter with 1ithusnis Folish Lithu ing Wiy Controversies, pre LW plens 10 the AAthusnisn delegation one tie Gorder wud elegrap LAtz ould reguiste Wafic over wnotier would develop e 1t i Iyl e oI sludying U Radio Programs Page 29 lo. of Hoover as Death Eliminates Willis, BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Ohio campaign has become, in the twinkling of an eye. a fight between Herbert Hoover and Frank O. Lowden, nator Charles Curtis and Vice Pres- ident Dawes, although the last named does not have his name entered in the primaries. The death of Senator Frank B. Wil- | lis has eliminated the favorite son candidate, behin@ whom the “field” was massed to beat the Secretary of Com- merce in Ohio. From now until the primary, April 24, 1t will be the anti-Hoover people against Mr. Hoover. It is no secret that Senator Willis was deriving sup- port from the friends of Mr. Lowden, Vice President Dawes and Senator Cur- | tis in his fight to win the Ohio delega- tion to the Republican national conven- tion. Representative Brand of Ohio. & Willis supporter, in an address in the House, declared that a vote for Willis was a vote for Lowden, or for some other opponent of Mr. Hoover. Majority for Lowden. U:der the Ohio law, delegate candi- dates must express a first and a second choice. The Willis delegates have given their second choices as follows: Thirty- for Lowden, 8 for Curtis, 3 for Wat- son and 9 for Fisher, a , 50 “dummy,” candidate. The question now arises whether the choice announced by the dele- as | gate candidates must now become their {fizst choice, One Appears cer- tain: that there is no way in which to substitute a first choice candidate for Senator Willis. case, it appears that the run, from a practical point of view, for their second choices. Secretary of State Clarence Brown ruled today in Ohio that Senator Willis' name must remain on the ballot, both miles | in the preferential primary and the delegate race. This means that there will be no substitute for Senator Willls, either as first choice of the Willis dele- gate slate, or in the State preferential vote. Only Senator Willis and Mr. Hoover were entered in the preference contest Little doubt is expressed here today that Mr. Hoover will now have a ma- jority of the Ohio delegation to the (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) REACTION IS SWIFT ON STOCK MARKET Radio Slumps—Tremendous Out- burst of Trading Swamps Ticker. NEW YORK. March 31.—All Satur- day trading records on the New York Stock Exchange were broken today when @ spirited opening rally was fol- | lowed by a swift reaction, which wiped out most of the early gains of $1 to $5 & share and sent & number of issues 81 w $7 below yesterday's final quo- tions 1y behind the market, with the final quotation printed on the ticker 59 min- after the market closed, the Iununl‘ ute delay on record | contrasted with the previous Baturday record of 2,198,100, on March 10 of this year The longest previous delay on ticker was 54 minutes | decline of March 2, 1926 the Bince that time the printing of quotations has been | speeded up considerably through an ab- breviation in form General Motors Bropped from an early high of $19487), to $186, closing | wt $187 for & net loss of 85 a share Radio broke from $194.50 to 8185, clos- 1 8186 for @ net loss of 89 a share sghouse Electric fell from $110.75 w shightly above that s of $2,50. General shumped from $161.50 1o $156,50 i snspped bk 0 $159, unchanged o the duy. Wright Aeronsutical plunged from $99.25 o 893 Y That being the ht muun:fl'c The stock ticker fell hope- Total sales were 2,501,400 shares, as | in the drastic | ‘nroll me as a member of The Foening Sfar Golden Rule Safe Drivers Club FRANCE PROPOSES SIX-POWER TREATY * TO OUTLAW WARS |Would Incluc: Germany, Italy, Britain and Japan in U. S.-French Pact. OUTLINES 3 NEW POINTS IN NOTE TO KELLOGG Abanfions Insistence That Agree- | ment Be Limited to Conflicts | | of “Aggression.” 1 | By the Associated Press | | France today asserted her readine: |to submit to the German,, British, | Italian and Japanese governments all | the Franco-American anti-war corre- | spondence, along with the draft of a | general treaty pledging them not to re- | | sort to war. | The purpose of these submissions, as outlined in a note handed to Secretary Kellogg by Ambassador Claudel, would be that the four governments might “join in sceking. in the spirit and in | the letter of the last American note, lany adjustments which in the last | | analysis may be forthcoming with re- | spect to the possibility of reconciling { previous obligations with the terms of | the contemplated treaty.” i Three Points Outlined. | While the new French note abandons | | previous insistence that the anti-war pledge be restricted to wars of aggres- | sion, three points are outlined as neces- |sary. in the French view, if an agree- | ment is to be reached. They are: One. That the treaty be open to the accession of all governments of the orld and to come Into force only after “universal acceptance,” unless the pow- | ers which had signed or acceded “should agree upon its coming into force, despite certain abstentions.” Two. That if one signatory state “should fail to keep its word,” other | signatories be released automatically | from their engagement “with respect to the offending state.” Three. That the war renunciation to be proclaimed in no way deprive sig- natories “of the right of legitimate de- fense.” The new proposal of Foreign Minister | Briand is that the signatory powers of | such a multi-lateral treaty, “while not | prejudicing their rights of legitimate de- fense within the framework of existing | treaties. should make a solemn declara- tion condemning recourse to war as an instrument of national policy, or in other words, as a means of carrying out their own spontaneous, independent policy.” Shall Refrain From Attack. “They would specifically undertake, among themselves,” the French note goes on, “to refrain from any attack or invasion and never to seek the. - ment of any or of ‘whatsoever nal or Which arise betwen them save by pa- ns. mea “It would, however, be clearly under- stood that an obligation could only exist for the signatories in the event | that the engagement was contracted by all states, that is to say that the treaty. open to accession of all powers, would only come into force after having re- ceived universal acceptance, unless the powers having signed this treaty or acceded their due should agree upon its coming into force, despite certain abstentions. - “Pinally in case one of the contract- ing powers should contravene the treaty, the other contracting powers would be automatically relieved, with respect to that power, of the obligations contained in_the treaty.” The Prench proposals were described | at the State Department today as a forward step, but no indication as to the form or nature of the American |reply was forthcoming. It was sald that no forecast of the American_attitude would be possible | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1,)’ 38 DEAD, 55 HURT ~ INSHIYRNA QUAKE | Seven Sharp Shocks Create Wide Ruin in City of Many Disasters. | By tha Awsociused Press CONSTANTINOPLE, March 31, | Thirty-eight persons were reported dead and 55 Injured in & serles of peven sharp ear hauakes w ich shook Bmyrna, mmmmnf at 2:30 o'clock this morning. The city, famed since antiquity for {its many sters, saw houses rebuflt |since the terrible fire of several years #go and the Turco-Oreek war, crash down Half of the neighboring village f Tourbali was destroyed and in the vil- lave of Beidikeul 10 dead and 40 in. jured were reported The Turkish ed Crescent Bociety s | rushing help o the stricken dlstrict All telegraph potés in the Smyrna re- |gion were hurted down and communi- | cutions were cut off completely lof the ‘quake reached Consta by way of Konia . News ntinople INAWE vt Address 1 agree 1o abide by the Golden Rule of Muotordom, you would have odhers drive, considerate of gedestrions und children. Rign and Mall Iy The K ipg. B1ar_or Mand 1o Aur Polliemep “Drive ws and ut ull times be DRY AGENTS LINKED WTHCHICAGO FIGHT | Shooting of Thompson Aide | Brings Federal Officers and Police Into Conflict. By the CHICAGO, March 31.—Chicago's mil- Associuted Press lions, with their political aplomb jarred | within the fortnight by bursting bombs and shotgun assassinations, looked to- day for a possible connection between recent activities of special prohibition agents and the torrid primary election campaign. Who's who in prohibition enforce- ment in Chicago has become for the time being a more interesting question than which Republican faction will ’ccme out in front at the April 10 vot- ng. The shooting by dry agents Thurs- day night of Willlam Beatty. Municipal | Court bailiff and worker for the Mayor ‘Thompson-State’s Attorney Crowe Re- publicans, has been followed by Beatty's indictment by a Federal grand jury on @' charge of resisting an officer, Two Elements Conflict. The Beatty case has brought Federal | and police authorities into apparent conflict, due to the action of the raid- ing agents, preventing police from in- terferring after Beatty had been shot during a saloon raid. Both Mayor Thompson :nd his - lice commusisoner, Michael Hughes, a stand inst what they believe to be high-handed tactics employed by the Federal men. Police indicated they planned to ask warrants against the Federal men for shooting Beatty, who is recovering from his wounds. The commissioner sald he would see that the warrants were served, “regardless of any attempt on the part of the Federal men to resist service." Mayor Thompson charged the shoot. ing of Beatty to “the Deneen crowd”— the Republican faction headed by United States Senator Deneen, which is opposing Thompson candidates at the primaries. “No Major Crime in 24 Hours.” “The Federal Government can't shoot down citizens in Chiczgo and get away with it," the mayor sald Commissioner Hughes answered De- neen group criticism of crime conditions in Chicago under the Thompson admin- | istration by declaring that up to late major crime reported to the police for 24 hours, “unless you call the shooting of @& court balliff by Federal officers & yesterday there had been no crime.” The commissioner angry over treatment of his men by Pederal agents at the scene of Beatty shooting. “I want to know,” he sald, “whether # bunch of gun-toting toughs can come rmed man and then tell the Police Depart- into Chicago and shoot an un ment 1o go chase ‘tself” In an interview with the Assoclated Press Mayor Thompson enumerated the ecity’s virtues and declared that orfme has been greatly reduced undep his ad- ministration. Blames Prohibition -for Bombs, “We have the best health record of any big city, We have the most won- derful park, playground and school sys- We have wonderful Industries, and they are growing. Busi- ness is good In Chicago and getting tem for children. better,” he sald. “Crime? Sure we have crime. Chica- 0 15 Just like any other big city. Crime lpmlubl)/ always will be, here s, and but it 1s dwindling. There will bombings as long as there is prohibl- ton." Pol were told last night by Albert IR, Brunker, a manufacturer friendly to the Deneen faction, that a threat had been made to bomb his home and kid- nap his small daughter if he did not stuy out of polities, A police guard was placed ut his home, Circuit Court Clerk Thomas Walluce, & Thompson candidate for re-election, was another who received a telephone threat that he would be bombed The Wallace home was bombed in 1021 No clue had been found early today W the motive for placing & bomb con- sisting of 16 sticks of dynamite at the South Water Btreet Produce Market ‘The snowfall extingulshed the fuse The body ‘"‘li:lls'll"‘:!lllhl;:::ll:; ?l‘ll‘“ll | Y le LV || on New Hampshire avenue and set fire, lonely rond Thursday night, was identi- fled by his wife ws Oharles Adragna, an “ulky peddler” and friend of the slain Dismond Joe Esposito, This slaying was outside the city Hmits. SHERIFF 1S REMOVED. MADISON, Wis, March 31 (4) Permitting prisoners to take airplane rides, hold gambling and drinking riles wnd have access o fall keys, s resulted In the removal by Gov Zimmerman of Walter Plummer a8 The S Si S¢ s sald to have asked the policeman sheriff of Winnebago County The Sunday Star... S0 per eopy |[]I1, 2010 0 R0 resaman. ' Giatimare Flummer denled (he charges replied MARCH THIRTY-SIX PAGES. was _particularly the 'GOLDEN RULE CRUSADE IS BACKED BY MANY GROUPS| | i | Hammer were the only members present | Inspector Stoll was deliberately shield- | | ¥ leet Operators Aid by Instructions to Employes—Campaign to Be Con- tinued Another Week. Indorsed by civic organizations, citi- | zens assoclations, Legion posts, busi- | | ness organizations, churches, schools and leading business firms, the Golden Rule safety driving campaign of The Star concludes its first week today. ‘ Approximately 2,000 pledge cards, in | which the motorists promise to drive as they would have others drive, had | been received this morning, largely from | persons who nad not been solicited to sign by anybody but had acted solely | on their own initiative after seeing the Golden Rule car on the streets. | The campaign will be in progress during the next week while the motion | picture film fllustrating the dire conse- quences of motorists disobeying the | Golden Rule is being shown at the Fox | | Theater. The entire campaign has | been planned with the idea of letting | the idea “sink in.” | Greater Results Expected. b Before next Saturday it is expfl‘!l'd‘ that a considerable majority of the | citizens of Washington who drive.gu- tomobiles will have thought the matter | over and enrolled as_members of The | Evening Star Safety Drivers' Club. | An_encouraging feature of the cam- | “The Penalty,” Movie of Traffic Dangers, to Be Shown Today “The Penalty,” the motion picture drama, depicting vividly the unnecessary sacrifice of child life in careless traffic conditions in the District of Columbia and environs, will have its premier showing at the Fox Theater to- day. The picture will be shown at two performances every aft- ernoon for the coming week at 1:48 o'clock and 3:48 a'clock. The movie, which is an integral part of The Star’s Golden Rule safe driving crusade, has seven :\'llhlnfl‘t'on‘::lflll.m ‘t;:ln lead- ing pa ting n, confronting motorists in elufn': heedlessly romping and playing in the streets. cars have been frequent offenders in the past, but with this humanitaria viewpolnt hn&:mdhon the minds of re the drivers ev indication operate fleets of trucks or other motor | 320V Teproach in the future. | vehicles about _the city. Commercial | 3, Column EARLY ACTION SEEN BANK ROBBERS GET FOR DISTRICT BL 8875, WIS 100 | Senate Will Discuss Measure{Runner. 60, Jostled at En- and 60-40 Amendment | trance to Commercial Na- Next Week. | tional—4 Others Held Up. The District appropriation bill, carry- | Jostled by two men at the entrance ing a number of important increases |of the Commercial National Bank while as well as the amendment for a return | trying to elude one whom he had seen to the 60-40 ratio in fiscal relations, | watching him, Enoch G. Johnson, 60- will be taken up for consideration In |year-old runner for the institution, was the Senate early next week, it was in- | robbed of $8.750 shortly before noon dicated today by leaders. yesterday while returning from the Debate on the measure Is likely to | Treasury with $18.750. center on the fiscal relations amend- ment, which represents the first-step "|in a determined effort to have Con- gress adhere to the substanlive 60-40 law. In a speech in _.tlfe Senate Wed- nesday, Charimap Phipps of the Dis- trict subcommittee on appropriation lald stress-on the fact that the sub- stantjve law never has been repealed, but has been departed from for the past four years by substitution of the House policy of a $0,000,000 lump sum. Start Lump Sum Fight. The House again this year inserted the $0,000,000 lump sum provision, but the Senate appropriations committee decided to take a stand this yuar against continuation of the lump sum practice. 1f the Senate approves the recommendations of this committee the question will go to conference with th.se who handle District appropria- tions in the House The amendment inge y the Sen- ate committee making $25,000 available for the establishment of the Board ot Public Welfare of a recelving home for children under 17 years of age is in- tended to separate small boys and girls from the older ones who are kepl at the House of Detention Following & study by the Bureau of Efciency of the child-caring institu- | tions of the city, the Commissloner B] F V . recommended that the welfare board be permitted to set up u receiving home ! anton Iirst 1ctim for small_children. The Senate com- (Continued on_ Page 2, Column 8.) he checked in at the paying teller's cage, and no report was made to the police until late in the afternoon, when bank officlals were certain that the money was gone. It was the second bank messenger robbery here within a week, and came on a day that saw also four other hold- ups, one of & woman. Johnson told his employers and the police that when he went to work yes- terday morning he noticed a man | loisurely walking about the lobby of the bank. The man apparently had no intention of transacting any busi- ness, he said. Later when he went to the Treasury to get the funds required for the day's business he again saw the same man there, he said. | Money In Trousers Pocket. Obtaining the money, he placed the $8,750 in his leftstrousers pocket, $5,000 in his inside coat pocket and carried an- other $5,000 n his hand. When he reached the bank at Four- teenth and G streets, he said, he was so suspicious of the actions of the stranger that he decided to enter by a private passage through the G street entrance . (Continued on Page 3, Column 4) iU Representative Blanton of Texas, who s defending Policeman Orville Staples before the police trial board, was the first victim today of a speoial crusade of | the Traffe Bureau to break up speeding The Con- | gressman’ prominence and his activity in defending policemen saved him a trip o the police station and & probable fine, According to @ report made to Ma) Edwin B, Hesse, superintendent of police. Notice to City and | | {| Suburban Subscribers | within the city and suburbs is as (ol lows: The Evening Star, A5¢ per month | The Evening and by Inspector B W. Brown, i charge of Sunday tav the ‘Trafo Bureau, Blanton's machine (when 4 was “hitting 1t up” along New Hamp- days) . 00c per month shive avenue on Its way to the police trial board, when it was stopped by Motor Oyele Policeman Galimore, The oficer informed (he driver that he was “doing 32 miles an hour.” “Do you know who I am?" Blanton The Evening and Sunday S tav (when 5 > days) | L .05¢ per month A Johnson missed the money only when | (#) Means Associated Pre GLBERT SUPPORTS HELMUTH CABRGE AT IFQUADE Gibson and Hammer Concur in Formal Statement of Legislator. ' DENY GRANTING BLANTON RIGHT TO CONDUCT PROBE Taliaferro Seeks Missing Portions of Hearing Record Concerning Inspector’s Testimony. A formal statement by Representa- |tive Glbert, Democrat, Kentucky, and | concurred in by Representatives Gib- son, Vermont, and Hammer, North | Carolina, that in spite of the decision | of the grand jury and the statement of | Foreman Martin D. McQuade, he be- lieves the testimony given by Policeman | Georg> Hellmuth, to the effect that | McQuade had advised him to keep his |eyes shut regarding certain gambling | houses on his beat, was true, was placed In the record of the Gibson subcom- mittee of the Hous» District committec at its hearing today. Gibson and in addition to Mr. Gilbert. At the same time the subcommittee placed itself on record denying that Representative Blanton, Democrat, Texas, or any one else had been author- | ized to speak for the Gibson body or to represent it in the Staples case before the police trial board or in any investi- gation of the Police Department by the District Commissioners. Commissioner Taliaferro appeared be- fore the committee to find out why cer- tain portions of the transcript of hear- ! ings had not been furnished the Com- | | missioners, principally that containing the testimony of Inspector Albert J. | Headley. While the Commissioner was present, the subcommittee received de- tailed information regarding amounts paid to certain hotels by bus companies | granted exclusive concessions near the | hotels and tended to point to discrimi- nation against other bus lines. Attacks Abuses. Gllbert advised Commissioner | mr Taliaferro that there is no other busi- | ness before the District Commissioners | more important than to correct such | abuses, particularly as the Commission- ers are supposed to protect people from all parts of the country against being fleeced in_the Capital. | After Commissioner Taliaferro had explained to the subcommittee that | checking up showed some of the most | interesting testimony was missing from the transeript of the hearings. a search | |showed that it also was missing from | the transoript furnished other members {of 2 subzommittee. On the motion of M- Gilbert, the original transeript of | the missing sections was turned over to “This :mmllue has turned over to the District Commissioners the investi- gation of the Police Department, and | will not examine any more witnesses !in police matters unless it becomes | | necessary to do so. and then notice | will be given to the Commissioners n advance: but on request of the Commis- sioners the committee will hear any witness the Commissioners desire us to Our inten- | hear in executive session. | tion is to be of assistance to the Com- | missioners in their {nquiry. The Com- | missioners already have asked that we hear one witness, and this will be done in the near future. We place ourselves at the convenience of the Commission- ers to help them in any way we can. “The committee is turning over to the Commissioners the original tran- script of the hearings March 1 and March 6, so that the committee- may MERGER APPROVED BY TRACTION BOARD President Hanna Announces Action of Directors Favorable to Re- | vised Draft of Plan. The board of directors of the Capital Traction Co. today approved the transit merger agreement, as revised by the Public Utllities Commission. Announce- ment of this action was made by John H. Hanna, president of the company. following & meeting of the board. The directors of the Washington Raflway & Electric Co. will meet Mon- day afternoon to consider what action t should take with respect to the revised agreement. The changes recom- mended by the commission were dis- cussed at & meeting of the directors of this company yesterday, but action was deferred until a special meeting to- morrow The directors of this company, how- ever, are expected to follow the action of the Capital Traction Co. board to be submitted to the Capital Traction Co. for ratification, it was explained. as the board of “directors is empowered to act with respect to any minor changes that might be made in the merger pact As soon as the modified agreement 1s returned to the commission it will be transmitted to Congress. Congressionul approval 1s necessary before a unifica- summated. e G st | ToEnd Speeding on New Hampshire Ave. | “I'm A very busy man, you know,' Blanton is sald to have explaimed. “But what do you want to do with me?" ‘1 realtze that you are a busy man"! the policeman answered, “you may go on your way." Blanton, despite his haste to get to the trial board, is sald to have taken sev- eral minutes to explain to Ofcer Gall- more what he is doing 0 improve conditions in the Palice Department When Galimore returned to the Trafo Bureau, he made a report of the neldent to Inspector Hrown, who for- warded 1t 0 Ma), Hesse, Inspector Hrown explained that Police- man Qalimore was assigned especially to the New Hampshire avenue seetion today to cateh speeding motorists. The Trafflo Bureau, he said, has received a | number of complaints regarding mrl excessive spoed &t which automobiles proceed along the avenue. ‘The revised agreement will not have | tion of the transit lines can be con-| TWO CENTS. BLANTON ACGLSED OF ATTENPTING T ITIMOATE POLE Prosecutor and Texan Clash | as Stoll Is Asked of ; “Mystery” House. TRIAL IN UPROAR AGAIN | AS RECESS IS ORDERED Inspector Admi | Shielding Resi- | dents From Publicity and Draws | Sharp Rebuke From Defense. | Frayed nerves at the trial of Police~ man Orville Staples, before the police trial board, resulting in charges and counter charges between opposing coun- sel, threw the hearing into another up- roar a few minutes before an unexpecte ed recess was taken until 1 o'clock. Representative Blanton of Texas, who had put Inspector Louis J. Stoll under another grilling about the “mystery” house, was charged by prosecution coun- sel with trying to intimidate the police trial board, policemen, witnesses and even counsel for the prosecution. | . The Texan retaliated by claiming that ing the people in the house at 1242 Nineteenth street, where affidavits ac- | cusing Policeman Staples had been pre- | pared by several woman witnesses. i Staples’ Wife Testifies. An unexpected call from the office |of Mr. Blanton broke up the proceed- ings at this point and prevented | further clashes between counsel. | The tilt between Blanton and As- sistant Corporation Counsel Robert L. | Williams occurred immediately after two negro bootleggers had denied brib- | ing Staples and after Mrs. Staples, the | defendant’s wife. had toid the trial | board details of the happenings in her | home following an attempt to shoot I her husband the Thursday before the | trial commenced, when she had to ap- ipeal for police protection for fear | “somebody would come and shoot him again.” in. Inspector Stoll was recalled by Blan- | ton to give the definite location of the so-called “mystery house” which led to | protests from Wiliams. “He has answered that question three times. and to the best of his know! | the house was on Nineteenth street,” | Willlams declared. | I submit that this course of pro- cedure is irregular and out of any sense of_justice, reason and right.” Turning to Chairman William H. t | ‘Wahly, the proseeutor further protested. Charges Intimidation. “This amicus curiae and counsel has | made persistent attempts to intimidate this trial board, every police officer of the department called as a witfiess and even counsel.” Mr. woulnmu added that mnw&: method examining Inspector S | was “manifestly intimidation of this witness now.” Mr. Williams' fight | blood was thoroughly He protested to the board against the | “slurring remarks” of Blanton, who had referred to Inspector Stoll several times during the trial in q boot- | leggers as “that officer with the brass buttons on.” Purther conduct along this line, Mr. Williams told the board, beneath the dignity of this tribunal. Mr. Blantoy, who earlier in the day had held out a clenched fist to prove that his nerves were steady. declared i that Mr. Williams' statement to the trial board was “unfair and untrue.” “Inspector Stoil has never stated posi- tively the location of the ‘mystery house,”” he explained. He then turned to Stoll and repeated his question. “It is just as I told you yvesterday, at 1242 Nineteenth street,” the inspector |replied. He explained that he went {there last night under orders from | Superintendent of Police Edwin B. | Hesse and said the house looked more | tamiliar at night than in the daytime. Shielding Is Assailed. In reply to a query by Blanton as to why he did not want to state positively | yesterday about the address, Inspector | Stoll said he “wanted to shield the | peovle from notoriety because they had | nothing to do with this case.” { “And vou came in here deliberately |and tried to shield these people in this house where these false afidavits were made out? Blanton demanded angrily | pounding the table | Looking the irate Representative in the eye. Stoll replied. “I'l go before | the whole city and say they never had | anything to do with it" Blanton had jumped to his feet to make a rejoinder | when he was interrupted by a mes- |senger, saying he was wanted im- | mediately at his office and the crowd |of spectators, including the “man with the gold teeth.” who has been con- Istnully n ndance in the front row, and on one or two occastons figur- | Ing i the trial, scemed disappointed as recess was taken Before the recess Blanton called as withesses two colored men. Robert 'Slitm™ Caldwell, and Silas Jefferson, alias Brother Gales. who testified with- out batting an eye that they were “professional bootleggers” and known | a8 sueh to the police. Rootlegger Unashamed. Jefferson, who is in appearance exactly what his nickname applies, was | asked by Blanton what he was doing ! in the courtroom before taking the | stand. | "Just walting around®™ he replied. “Why didn't you stay outside where | witnesses are supposed to stay?” BRlan | ton_demanded. | “You are a well known professional | bootlegger. aren’t you?" Rlanton asked | Ves," Brother Qales answered nd you're not ashamed to say so** 0. Indeed.” “And not afrald to say so with all | thase palice around? Brother Qales looked at Inspector Stoll's brass buttons and gased i un- | perturbed manner at other palicemen, | “No, indeed.” he said Blanton asked him, as he had asked {Caldwell before him, about Inspector | Stoll going to him and questioning him {about” alleged bribe money given 0 | policemen Caldwell had denled giving Staples or any other officer bribe money, and Jefferson foined emphatically this dental as regards himself. Many Officers Meutioned. “Rrother Qales.” told of golng down o palice l\rna“mxun o see lxufioflu Stoll after he had heard from his girl friend that the officer had been look! for him, “Did Inspector Stoll ask you about K.yln; money (0 any paliceman®” lanton h ‘Yes, he mentioned seversl plwes, (Continued on Page 2, Columb & n