Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1928, Page 1

1\ WEATHER. (0. 8, Weather Burean Porecast.) Cloudy tonight much change in Temperature—Highest, 53, at noon today: lowest, 32, Full report on page 5. and tomorrow; temperature. not at 6 am. today. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular ed tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,827 —ee No. 30,667. post office. Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as second clas Washington, he ZEbening : WASHIN D, C . D. O, TUES L Star. APRIL 17, 1928—FORTY-SIX PAGES. (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. BREMEN CREW OFF OF GREENLY ISLAND ON- RELIEF PLANE, SAYS WIRE: REPORT Huenefeld, Koehl and Cuisi- nier Reported Aboard Craft Piloted by “Duke™ Schiller. AIRMEN WILL ATTEMPT TO COMPLETE U. S. TRIP Plan to Take Bremen to Halifax Aboard Ice Breaker Montcalm for Repair Work—Transatlantic Flyers May Go to New York Without Stopping. ~ OTTAWA, April 17 (By the Canadia Press).—A message from Quebec morning Teported that the crew transatiantic monoplane Bremen was on its way from Greenly Island to Mur- ray Bay in a relief plane jointly piloted by C. A (Duke) Schiller and Dr. Lou Cuisinier. The relief plane was taken to the is- Jand by Schiller and Culsinier from Murray Bay. and vesterday Schiller flew back to the mainiand with Ma) James Fitzmaurice, Irish member of the Bremen crew, leaving Baron von Huenefeld and Capt. Koehl. the Ger- msn crew members, on the island with Cuisinier. Schiller and Fitzmaurice land- #d 200 miles from the island. at Natash- quan, and there had been no word of their having left there until todayv’s message indicating that they had re- turned to the island and picked up the Germans and Cuisinier. The message this morning was relay »d by Quebec from Seven Islands. It was received by J. E. Gobeil, general super- ntendent of the government telegraphs Text of Message. ‘The message read: “Nine-thirty am. Seven Islands re- ports crew of Bremen on board Cana- dian transcontinental hydroplane piloted Dr -Cuisinier and Duke Schiller Jointly. Will arrive at Murray Bay sbout noon. A Junkers plane from New York will take Fitzmaurice, Baron von Huenefeld and Capt. Koehl direct to New York. Montcalm to take Bremen to Halifax for 3 The Junkers plane mentioned would Be the P-13, sister ship of the Bremen, which went 10 Mf.mwa.l'e y:sm fllg pilot_and a an: . Junkers, Germsn plane Message Shows Flyers Encountered Fog and Snow. QUEBEC, Aprii 17 UP.—The two German members of the transatlantic | plane Bremen were waiting at Greenly | Island with their damaged plane early | today At Muvntreal where it had been flown | purpose, | was the i the . the ;m(n F-13. with all the necessary for repairing the ocean plane. | Additional detalls as to the damage the from W. 8. Barrett, radio Point Amour, 25 miles from the scene | of the Bremen's landing, and from the German baron himself. The Point Amour operator's message | 2iso t additional detalis of the | perils h the fiyers faced in their | ocean fight and the difficulty of their | “Bremen had fog and snow during ! E;:" of s fiight” his message L ook Greenly Island lighthouse for| sealing steamer, but ascertaiped that it | was lighthouse shortly afterward and made landing on small pond. Crew | were rather exhausted. but quite re- covered after short time” Woman Assists in Relief Plans. Miss Herta Junkers, representative in the United States for her father's com- y. bullders of the Bremen, flew 1i ¥-13 ‘0 Montreal from New York ses- terday In three and & half hours. With her were Fred Melchoir, her pilot, and Erhardc Junkers, her brother. A Junkers mechanie, with additional spare was here waiting fuel used by the Bremen, % w Greenly Lsland with the ’ dian steamer 5 been battling the ice flors n Belle Lie Straits since Saturday at- tempting w reach Greenly lsland, was #tfil seversl seore or more miles from her destir. held offshore by the foe barrie Capt. Mercier wired th governs tation st Halifax he hoped o be abie o 1 the isiand by hugging the north shore if the wind eontined st Montealm n the Wes Just before the men left Ireland Maj Fiansurice 1 v the Azsociated Pre future generstions Bess i or &r i sald . e olAained. b pured for in sirplane before tiw W ever yealind “We know | the whoie future upon he fuel tampling w Bremen of of flight, but end engine unds @ gallon BOVES TO BEACH IXLAND, or sUtempting fuel welghing QUEBEC, April 17 (By the Canadian Press) ~~Capt. Mercier of the Canadian @overnment. ik brcwker Moulcalm re Corted by wireless day that the wind oas shiftug from southerly b north eust, which he believed might open wuy for him through the e W Greenly Jsland Bince shortly sfwer e German-Irish Byers landed on e wlund Fridey after- Boon the Montealn les been Wying o weach them, hul Lie close pucked joe Bes prevented Frogress has been st Uhe peie of only wo knots under the best eonditions 5o far and sl Umes Prasmier hes been carried away 7o'Mock thie morning Capt Mercier gave bis position s 856 miles wesl-soulhiwest o Cicenly iend Licutenant, TINADRICE A s SWSHSSUGHT IFI ;Villagers Give>_w;rm Weléome to Flyers ‘ Forced Down in Storm—Guests { of Mayor. ‘ | { th American | which is given me. no matter where | | that may be or how big the city in NATASQUAN, Quebec, April 17.—| Which it is given, ean touch me more | pan your warm welcome. . b This little town has given a tender wel- | “You may be sure 1 shall never for- | come to Commandant James J. Pitz- | co” The memory I shall keep with me maurice and Duke Schiller, who were | always. Natashquan and its people are | | forced by storm to stop here on their | in my heart from this day on.” | flight from Greenly Island to Murray | The French Canadians, all of the | Bay. habitant class, who devote their time Every person in the village turned | [0 fishing and lumbering, shoof the | out to acclaim them when they dropped | them every hospitality. Some of the | i so unexpectedly yesterday. Men, | natives were content in their svhness | women and children followed them |to touch, very humbly, the clothes of wherever they went, and even the dogs | the Visitors, as though virtue was to e it ively ol | be had in that simple contact. trotted inquisitively at their heels. | "y, Canging of the fiyers in the home | In s happy little speech, the MAyOr | o¢ {hese simple folk was to them an Ay Wircless to The Star and N, | | Newspaper Alliance pralsed Comdr. Fitzmaurice for the fevent of almost as much importance | pravery of his fight across the At-|as the transatlantic flight was to Com- | ! lantic. in the Bremen, and with equal | mandant Pitzmaurice and his two | var exd 4 ake | companions. “m?‘l”: h;”":"‘1;""';‘:“0;‘:’;‘(‘:“'}‘&&““ Finally, Commandant Fitzmaurice | evicaper. Alllarioe Biace. expressed a desire to meet the parish | : Father Joseph Gallix. So he! It was Schiller, fiying this plane Scorted to the tiny church, which | through 900 miles of storm from s even tinier because of its prox- | Murray Bay to Greenly Island. who to the towering trees of the for- the first to reach the stranded Crew .ct which surrounds the town. the Bremen, and carry them aid Father Gallix, about whom the life he mayor presented the freedom of [ o¢ the village revolves, met Comman- the city” to the unexpected UeStS.| dant Fitzmaurice at the door of his | After lauding the achievement of Fitz- | home He took” his caller into the | maurice and his companions on the transatlantic flight, he turned to church, sat with him on a bench and talked with him for a long while. Schiller. “And you," he said, speaking in French, “are a man of great courage and nerve and skill. Without knowing whether you would be able to land on that bieak island. you took a chance )| and were the first from the outside It is safe to assume that to this kind- Iy priest Commandant Fitzmaurice spoke frankly and fully of his real feeling | during his_perilous flight across the | Atlantic. Before leaving the church | the young Irishman offered a prayer of thanksgiving. and received the blessing {of { northerners claims o have recapturea world to reach the Bremen with offers of help.” After the mayor had finished his | speech. the group of onlookers who formed the entire population of Natash- | quan clustered about Fitzmaurice aud Schiller with their individual welcon. “I thank you. I thank you.” exclaimed | Commandant Fitzmaurice. “No reception NATIONALITSTAKE ‘SNCLAR DEFENSE TWOCHINACITIES ~ UPHOLDS LEASES of Father Gallix. Every one in the village wanted to| entertain the fiyers for the night, but | | the mayor. who had given them break- | | fast, finally won this honor. The mayor | wasé a determined host, and he looked | almost ready to battle for the privilege | 1028 ? . by North | merican Nows ) fSpring Offensive Begins With‘Prosecution Brings Out In-| | Rush—750,000 Men Fight | formation That Market Was | § on Long Line. | Not Tested First. i | kit { By the Associsted Press. | Testimony tending to show the ne-| ! NANKING, China, April 17.—The | cessity for leasing Teapot Dome due to |Spring offensive of the Nationalist | the possibility of drainage; that consid- | armies, with Peking. ancient capital of | eration was given to the possibility of | | the Manchus as its goal, has got under | seven oil companies handling the lease | | way with a rush. of the reserve; that Albert B. Fall, fore { “Prom the theater of war, stretching | mer Secretary of the Interior, had not | from the southern tip of the Dmnmih,und anything in the law requiring | jof Shansi to the coast, where almost | advertisements for bids for the lease, | three-quarters of & million men are in | and that injunctions against publicity arms, has come the first word of fight- | of the negotiations leading up to the {ing—an official communique from | o5 were given by him at the request | Hsuchowfu, Nationalist headquarters. | ot the Navy, was presented by the de- | reporting the capture of two important | fense in the Sinclair conspiracy trial key cities in Southern Shantung. | today. communique. sent from the | rpe gefense had no sooner established | headguarters of Chiang Kal-Shek. Na- | ihe fact through one of its star witnesses tionalist commander-in-chief, says that | Dr. H. Foster Bain, former director of Kenchowfu on the Tientsin-Pukow the Buresu of Mines, that considera- railway line, and Ichowfu, on the Yi-Ho | tion was given to companies other than | 1 southeastern Shantung, have been the one owned by Harry F. Sinclair, {than the Government through cross- SRS b S SR . | examination brought out no effort was North of Battle Line. | made to test the market and find out Yenchowfu is approximately 70 miles | ¥hat companies were Jarge enough to north of the battle line which existed at | Sreviouly had testiied Tor the def reviously testified for efense the beginning of the Spring offensive | ot Wt availabie oll companies either | on April 7, while Ichowfu is about 35 were too conservative, were too sma miles north of that Line. lor were dominated by men holding | hThr;:d :;‘5\” ',’."'J‘..,f‘fi:m h-_\"_rmm high posts in the Government. | unc a was from an’m;";llh its objective | Robison Takes Stand. \ Weihsien on tag-Tsinan Rail- | jug pefore the luncheon recess an- way. The second was from Hsuchowlu |oifier prominent defense witness, Joho | along the Tientsin-Pukow Rallway, the | g “pobison, who in 1922 was chief of | immediate objective being Yenchow!u, | p, Bureau of Engineering of the Navy and the third offensive was from Tsag- | Department with the rank of rear ad- | chowfu, also to Yenchowfu. {miral, and who represented Secretary Makes Steady Progress. | Denby in negotiations leading up to the & ! signing of the lease. took . the stand The first offensive appéars making | gohison had not had opportunity to go s st Lt Dacturg | N0 the story of the part he played In | Enchg, Wit oweyes,” the | e, Desotistions sa the recess was | During the course of the morning proceedings the deposition given by Fall | at his home in El Paso, Tex., two weeks | ago for the defense was formally filed | with the clerk of the court and by di- | tection of Justice Jennings Bally was | sealed. 1t will remain with the eourt | until the time elected by the defense | 1o offer it in evidence, M. H. Bull, El Paso notary public who took the «deposition from the for- mer cabinet officer, delivered the state- ment in person, An unusual procedure Sunday after an attack by 5,000 picked men under the personal direction of Gen. Chang Tsung-Chang. In the third offensive, Feng Yu- Hstang, driving northward from Tsao- chowfy, was recently reported at the walls of Tsining. just southwest of Yenchowfu, and today’s communigue reports the capture of the latter city. | The action of Japan in preparing for the d hll;a!"h of troops for Bhantung is generally interpreted as confirming Na- tionalist claims that thelr northward ing proposition. Bain | 19; DATA ON'BONDS HE GAVEG.0.P. LEADER Widow o scribes Visit to Home Early This Year. U. S. CHARGES SECURITIES WERE GIFT OF SINCLAIR| Former Property Custodian Denies He Took Part in Bond Transaction. Py the Associated Press. Testimony that Will H. Hays, former Republican natfonal chairman, visited her home early this year in search of the record of a Liberty bond transaction with her late husband was given the Senate Teapot Dome committee today by Mrs. John T. Pratt of New York. f John T. Pratt De-| | | | Mrs. Pratt had no personal knowledge | of the transaction between her husband and Hays, and Thomas W. Miller former alien property custodian, now under penitentiary sentence, likewise told the committce he knew nothing of the operations of the Continental Trading Co., from whom the bonds came. Previous testimony has been that Harry P. Sinclair turned over a large batch of Liberty bonds to Hi and that Hays gave $50,000 of them to Pratt to dispose of in wiping out a campaign deficit. Through Pratt's records the names of Secretary Mellon, William M. Butler, present Republican chairman, and John W Weeks, former Secretary | of War. were brought into the inquiry ?‘( prospective reciplents of the securi- es. Tells of Visit. Mrs. Pratt sald she belleved Ha came to her home on Lincoin's birt . February 12, “and asked me if I could find the record of the Liberty bonds he gave to Mr. Pratt™ “That was February of the present vear?” Mrs. Pratt to Hays’ visit “Yes, sir; it was then that I went 1o the office of Charles Pratt & Co., and looked up the record.” “When was the previous visi “Two or three years before." “Mr. Hays gave us the distinct im- pression that he was a frequent guest of Mr. Pratt.” Senator Walsh said. “He was not stopping at our house if that is what you mean,” Mrs. Pratt re- plied. She satd that Hays had formeily been a frequent visitor at her home, when, in 1920, she was vice chairman of a Republican ways and means commit- tee in charge of organizing women to obtain contributions in small amounts, on Stand. When Miller took the stand, he was asked what he knew about the $75,000 in bonds which Hays turned over to Senator T. Coleman du Pont of Dela- ware. Miller sald his only knowledge was what he had read In the news- pers. He added that Senator Du t had told him that the Republican national committee had a note at the Si". Trust Co. of New York City. “Did you take part in any Libery bond transaction between Harry P. Sin- clair and Will H. Hayes?" Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, asked “No, sir.” Miller sald he knew nothing of the transfer of bonds by Sinclair to Hay a political contribution. Hays was ma #ager of the Republican campaign 20 Neither did he recall attending a White House luncheon soon after the accession cf President Coolidge to of- fice He was never at the White House with the late John T. King of Connecti- cut, or with former Attorney Genetal Daugherty, he said. Clarence C. Chase, former collecto of customs at El Paso, Tex. and son in-law of Albert B. Fall, testified that Pall asked him to go to Cleveland in November, 1923, andesee Price McKin- ney as to why he had not replied to a letter written to him by the former Interior Becretary. Reads MoKinney Testimony. ‘Mr. McKinney was to come to Washington and tell the commitice (Teapot Dome) that he had made ar- rangements to supply the money for the purchase of the Harriss ranch prop- erty.” he said “But the Harriss ranch already had been purchased and $10,000 in cash paid on it” “Yes, but Mr. McKinney was to tell the committee that he furnished the money Instead of Mr. Doheny” E. L. Doheny, who transmitted $100.000 to Fall, was the lessee of the Elk Hills, Calit,, oll reserve. ol asked, referring | o offensive s progressing. was sdopted In connection with this o | official welcome the from e dslend by the Ude-borne fce. AU B | experience |in that usually such depositions upon receipt by the clerk are opened and made public. Owing to the extreme Im- portance of the Pall deposition and the injunction given by Justice Balley yes- CROSS-SEA AIRMAN MAY VISIT CAPITAL i b e, bl | tion was followed Bain Tells of Report. Bain In direct examination yesterd | told of reporting to Fall in’ October, 1 1921, the results of & trip to Teapot Dome, In which he found that strip {lensing would not prevent drainage of | | the reserve. Rear Admiral J. K, Qobi- sony, chief of the Bureau of Englneering of the Navy Depsrtment and acting for Becretary Denby os the ““0" e is bringing & messsge from Presi- | MAUEr, was present snd observed, the * bringing o miesage from Presi- | g ol (g hat Teapot Dome would President Coolldge, | nor be worth much 10 the Navy us & Minister Bmiddy | source of ofl in time of war unless the | fields were connected by & pipe line Irish Legation Understands Fitz- maurice Brings Message to Coolidge. ‘I'ie Irish Legation here understands Pllamsufice, the Irish transatientic fiyer dent 0 be delivered here 3/ n Ne ol ut (! T4 Is pow in Wew York, but an attache of } Lo, S qoontinent feld, After Bain the Jegation s expected 40 AITANEE BN hag told of the possibility of m druin- when it is determined | age by private welis he sald Pall asked | (Continued on Page 2, Column 6, Coxgrave 10 where the aviators will Jand Priest Ready to paysloo Bandits Missed ' For Another Crack at One Who Beat Him By fha Asss 1 Pre KANBAS CITY, April 1111 police will wrrange s fstic encounter belween | e My John W. Keyes, B3-year-old of Bt Jumes Catholic Churen and the Jargest of the two rob- who sevfrely best him Bundey Lhey recelve $100 Futher Koyes, who obtained money W cgmplete his education about 30 year§ ago by eppearing n the ring [ under the name of Jack Armstrong, made that offer todey in describing nle and started 1o wbuse me, 1 knocked the biggest fellow down,” Pather Keyes told police. Fhen his companion struck me with something, and 1 regained my sensen 0 6 strange nelghborhood. They togk my watch and clgars, but over- looked $100 1 cash " 1 know It was foollsh to fight those banadite,” he continued, “but 1 earned money W detray school expenses i the ring. 1 just couldn't keep from fNghting beck.” Beveral years ago Father Keyes routed two robbers. When Although the robbery oe- he knocked one down the other fled. be did not report 1t | . & coned me | Radio Programs - Page 30 pastor here bnrs, night curred Bunday ) until yesterday “When the twe bandits ‘: | plied. Senator Walsh then read McKinney's testimony, given in 1924, that he had been usked to say that he had made & loan and that he had refused to do so beeause he had made no loan to Fall “But you knew that $10,000 had been paid on the Harriss ranch In your office in El Paso?" Chase was asked, “Yes, sir” “Did you came from?" “Yes, 1 knew Doheny.” ‘The former customs collector sald he met Fall at Kansas City after the visit o McKinney and accompanied him (o New York, Atlantic City and Washing- ton, X know Where the money it eame from Mr. Fal's New York Visit, “What did Mr. Fall g0 to New York for?” Walsh usked To see M. Doheny " What did he want to see him for?" “To see whether Mr, Doheny still had the note Mr. Fall had given him when he barrowed the $100,000," Chase re- “The note was mutilated, the signature having been torn off At Atlantic City, the witness said, “Mr. McLean dropped in one day." re- ferring o Edward B, MeLean, Wash- ington publisher, who agreed at that conference Lo say that he had loaned Fall $100,000 Asked why he had refused to testi- |ty before the commities in 1024, Chase sald he had a joint aceount with Fall | and had handied some of the Doheny money and was apprebensive that he ) aht be indieted with Fall, s the Ben. ate had directed the employment of spe- clal counsel to prosecute the oll nases “1 intended to n‘)p«ur before the com- mittee, but when I got a telegram from Pall saylng he was coming on 1 decided not o appear.” he sald. Fall Memorandum Resd, was excused until wmorrow, when the hearing wil be resumed, with Hurry M Blalr and O M, Huston of Hew York as the principal withesses (Continued on Hage 3, Columan 3) ¥ D. AR BUILDING 10 START AS SOON ASCASH IS READY {Mrs. Brosseau and Mrs. | Magna Expect to Complete Fund This Session. CONTRACTORS’ BIDS ALREADY RECEIVED Edifice to Have Library for 48.500 Volumes in Addition to Great Hall. With $1,000,000 in pledges pract | assured, construction of Constitution | Hall. the proposed imposing D. A. R. auditorium and library to Memorial Continental Hall, ‘as soon as this amount is de |in hand." the Thirty | advised today at | Washington Auditorium. | Enthusiastic reports on the project | were made to the congress by Mrs. | Alfred J. Brosseau. president general of News Note—Fire broke out again last night at the residence. of Speaker Longworth. HOFFMAN INDICTED | ONURDER CHARGE Accused on Three Counts of‘ First-Degree Crime in Death of Girl. Louis W. Hoffman, physiotherapist, was indicted for first degree murder today by the District grand jury and an additional indictment charging the wse of an Instrument in attempt to | perform a criminal operation was also | returned against him. The two indict- ments result from the death March 3, | In Hoffman's office, of Miss Eleanor M. | Lehman, 23-year-old typist. | Hoffman is charged by the grand jury with “wilifully and purposely” causing Miss Lehman’s death by “turning and twisting” her head and neck and thereby fractu it Y United States Attorney Leo A. Rover expects to put Hoffman on trial for !m life about. 15. Miss ? McCall and William H. Collins, assistant United | States attorneys. will handle the case | for the Government. Faces Death in Chair. | There are three counts in the first indictment. The first two relate w the alleged attempted lllegal operation. In {the third count Hoffman is charged | Miss Lehman by “feloniously, willfully | and purposely” twisting her neck and shaking her head by the use of his hands und arms. is death in the electric chalr, with the | sentence mandatory. - The penalty for conviction under the second indictment while Mu-mgunu to commit an offense | | for which t | in the penitentiary, causes the death of | another intentionally or otherwise, such person is gullty of frst-degree | murder Harry W. Nice of Baltimore, formet about the middle of May. Follows Double Probe. homicide squad of the Police Depart- , at the request of Miss McCall, ino all the conditions su office, In the Victor Bullding, March 3 An_ autopsy performed by Dr. A M. McDonald, deputy coroner, immediately had died of a broken neck also known as Mrs. Monroe, testified at the mquest that she had accompanied Lehman for a headache. She sald that the girl died while Hoffman was mak- ing ar “adjustment” of her neck. in an attempt to relieve the headache After the inquest Dottle King left the city and iater was brought back by the authorities from Paterson, N, J She then confessed that Miss Lehman had gone to Hoffman's office to have & criminal operation perforived. and had gone iInto convulsions while lying on the er-nufi table. 8he charged | that Hoffman then deliberately broke | the girl's neck to cover up the attempted operation Second Post-Mortem, At the request of the United States Attorney, Justice Siddons of the Dis- | triet Supreme Court ordered the body of the dead glrl exhumed at Mount Olivet Cemetery about n week ago and o second post-martem examination was made. Following this examination Miss M- Call and Mr, Colling presented the cnse to the grand jury, with Dottle King and the physiclans who performed the | two post-mortem examinations ax the principal witnesses, The investigation into other of the case Is continuing ADMR. COLLARD RETIRED AFTER ROYAL OAK CASE| Central flgu_r: l; n;m- Aftaly Is Relieved of His Command, angles By the Assaciated Press. | i the State highway 14 miles south of | | 1 [ | with “contriving and intending to kill" | Unil Night Falls TRAIN PASSENGERS By the Associated Press, TULARE, Calif., April 17.—Scores of motorists were stung and several minor collisions resulted from a bee blockade which jammed traffic on | |Gets $5,000 Loot as Over land Limited Pulls Out of Chicago. here for several hours yeste-day. The blockade started when a truckiead and a traller of beehives collided. A huge swarm of bees arose from the hives and immediate- Iy got busy. Traffic officers were stationed at strategic points to warn motorists, but the bees proved to have a wider range than expected. It was impossible to remove the bees and clear the highway until nightfall. when they returned to their hives. * | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 17.—A man wear- | the Overland Limited as it pulled out of the Northwestern station for the | West Coast last night and escaped with cash and jewelry valued at $5,000 or more. PRESIDENT ASSALS. - FLOODBAL S tional Bank of San Prancisco and Re- | publican national committeeman of California, who lost $600. His daugh. ter Helen also was robbed “ cash, but saved her jewels. ‘The robbery took place {train was running the four | | Asks Press toDemand Show- | {5t "four bandis gt -1 d rob- el B e et haftne the st dpeoed Bill—Cites Land Boom. |rushing s revolver, the wobber merdcd — | form and rapidly among them. Among those robbed was W. H.“ Crocker, president of the Crocker Na- the national society and chairman of KLhe Constitution Hall committee, and by Mrs. Russell Willlam Magna of Massachusetts, chairman of the finance committee for the undertaking. Mrs. Magna stated that before the close of the present convention she expects to be able to announce attain- ment of the financial goal. Mrs. Bros- seau disclosed that bids already have ibeen received from contractors. Will Have Fine Hall “The building will not only have a |splendid auditorium, suitable for the | needs of the D. A. R." Mrs. Magna said. but will be adequately equipped for |afl kinds of convention purposes, and ‘:fl?b‘: will contain a library which i |ing a blue polka-dot mask held up 10| passengers in the observation car of |,, With a dispatch and unanimity that | amazed the delegates themselves, the congress voted to write off the books a million dollar Innd’i;ue for Constite- in 192 ‘The indictments against Hoffman fol- | after the girl's death. showed that she | Dotty King. | H Quickly Over. down on $1,500,000,000 | | Flashing a revolver, the robber herded ! BY J. RUSSEL YOUNG. | jew Because of what he considers the ex- ‘1 J,‘,’,’n the train was approaching tortionate nature of the Jones-Reid | Kedize avenue, at about 45 miles an | “'The penalty for first-degree murder | gooq control bill. which has passed the hour, the man pulled the emergency | Senate and is now before the House |cord and dropped into the darkness conductor, told officers | President Coolidge contended today 15 from 3 to 20 years in the peniten- |that the press should demand a more a1 the yaurder indictment the | thorough exploration of the motives | 1%, Tememberse first two counts are brought under a | that have prompted certain provisions ' goorway, bidding good-by to an imag- provision of the law that, if any peison. | in the bill. fr In all his public experience, Mr. {posal of such an extortionate nature. He doubts If the Senate itself knew | very much about what the bill meant hen it passed that body. He believes | Mail and express guards, hearing the | | eries. seized machine guns and revelv- | wl this is borne out by the fact that the | behind this legislation Resents Boast. | vides for an expenditure of more than $1.200,000,000 more than was estimated unding the in the original plan of Gen. Jadwin, | death of Miss Lehman in Hoffman's | chief of Army Engineers, which plan ratiroad officers were was approved by the administration and submitted to the Senate for its infor- mation, in itself is enough to warrant extensive inquiry. While discussing this legislation to- day, the President was repressnted as saying the original Jadwin plan pro- Miss Lehman to Hoflman's office in | vided $110,000000 to be spent in the | order that Hoffman might treat Missa interest of navigation on the Mississippl devoted to actual flood-control work. The fact that the Jones-Reld bill in- creases the amount from $300,000,000 to |taking wallets, purses, rings and ot {of the yards. George Lane, seeing the man, un- asked. in a drawing room |inary friend. As the train got under way he slipped on his mask and set tc e penally is imprisonment | coolidge holds, he has never seen a pro- | work. | As soon as he dropped off at Kedsie |avenue his victims ran into the Pull man cars ahead. crying “Hold-u State’s attorney, bas been retained by | measure was speeded through the Sen. | ers. expecting a robber attack. Hoffman's father to assist in his de- | gio virtually without debate. He doubts | fense. At the request of Mr. Nice & 410 {f the committee which framed it | Pullman cars and were not aware of date for the tria) will probably be fixed | iy completely familiar with all that lies | the robbery until the victims Most of the passengers were in the spread the alarm. A half dozen Were on the ob- ;o o | servation platform. waving good-! ker was completing the filing Crocl The President feels quite satisficd that rams as the robber’s ~Hands Jow an investigation condicted by the | the fact that the Jones-Reid bill um-;:‘;f-.nu:":,d ey bt | Among others who reported losses to | Joseph H. Hurst. general manager | Horton Manufacturing Co. Bristol, | Conn., $150. | Eustace Cullenmore, general sales | manager Horton Co. Bristol, Conn., | 84T2 H. Russell, Cheyenne, Wyo,, $200 F. Bates. bound for Chevenne, $250 | Others robbed declined to give their in the flood area and $190,000.000 to be hames or the amounts of their losses. | It was not until the lmited had reached Clinton, lowa, that special ofi- 'cers questioned passengers and tearned $1,500.000.000 impresses the President ! that the robber was a small, dark man o rpmjcex was indorsed “as an endurmn- | testimonial to the life and character ¢ Eu\e Father of his Country.” i Members Kept in Tension. While there was no semblance of | anything but harmony on the flcor to- | day, rumbiings of threatened discontent | continued to keep members in & tension | Mrs. Helen Tufts Bailie, the Massa- | chusetts member who has become th | stormy petrel of the so-called black | dispute, again sat in the auditoriu jand heard Mrs Willlam Cumming Story. honorary president general, issue to the Daughters a wamning against | “borings from within™ the society. Mrs | Story’s remarks were roundly uded |, Indications were that pacifistic fac- | tions would ‘not overlook the oppor- | tunity before the close of the congress {to express their views regarding the national defense issue. Mrs. Bailie, Mrs St. Omer Roy. secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and i and a delegate fram Fort | Scott, Kans., have announced off the | foor their resentment at the s bigger Navy taken by national oficers | It was reported that opponents of | the society's defense policies might pre- | cipitate the controversy onto the floo through a resolution proposing that that the legislation Is being considered more in the nterest of lumber com- pantes and owners of lumber lands and contractors t general public. Seos Land Boom. The President made 1t very clear that his advices are that the owners of lumber tracts already are boosting valu bullding of spillways and reservoirs in connection with (he control work ‘The President has recently discussed the legislation with Republican leadess, to whom he has very candidly ex- pressed his disapproval of the Jones- Reid bill, and he s hopeful that they will be successtul in elther bringing about modifications in the bill which would make it more acceptible, or else its defeat, TODAY'S GAME OFF. Raln Halts Contest With Athleties at Philadelphia. ‘The base ball game between Washing- ton and Philadelphia seheduled for today was postponed at noon, due to valn, it was announced at Philadeiphia PEASANTS CALL MEETING. LONDON, April 17.--Rear Adi Bernard Bl G Collard, central ' in the famous Royal Oak affair, whioh involved the court-maritaling of Capt Kenneth G B, Dewar « nd Comdr. H h Daniel, has been relleved of his com- mand and placed upon the retived lst Annou. oement of this was made when the House of Commons convened today after the Baster recess by W. O Bridge~ man, first lord of the admivalty, 1n & long awaited addiess on the Royal Oak controversy, Opposition to Bratianu in Rumania Tssues Call for Congress. RUCHAREST, Rumania, April 17 (49 Newspapers of National Peasant party persuasion today print a notioe algned by Julio Maniu, party leader, an- nouncing that a great \m\unl oo ,‘mlw Il be held at Alba Julia on L) .’l‘m National Peasant party s ar- vayed againag the Liberal government of Vintila tianu.) {0 his early twenties, shabbily dressed | Crocker had been at Kansas City, Mo.. conferring with other Republican lead- han in the interest of the | ers on arrangements for the coming na- | after | tional convention. He arrived in Chi- jcago yesterday a few hours before the i scheduled departure of the limited. \ The train consisted of a mall car, Inine Pullmans and the observation car | Among the passengers who had reser- stions anticipating purchases by the | yutions was James J. Jeffries. former | from the floor by el | Government or else reimbursements as ' neavywelght champion of the world, but | [a result of damages Incident to the his hame was not mentioned among jihose who were robbed. {ORVILLE BOU;\ASSA DIES AFTER SPILL ON TRACK Saddle Gimh Breaks While Jockey | Is Giving Horse Morning Workout. | By the Associated Press. \ HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. April 17 | Orville Bourassa, nationally known | Jookey, was fatally mjured this morns g when a broken saddle girth threw | him from his mount onto the fence | & warkout. Hourassa was taking Julla H for an L early workout, and just as they reached | the “four-furlong past the saddle girth broke. The rider was thrown against | the fence, hix head striking the top of fan upright post. He died within an yhour after the acoldent | Ploked up unconscious. Bourassa was | rushed to the Havre de Crace Hospital, |nn¢n it was found his skull was frac- tured, and an tmmediate o Uon was tried in an effort to save his Mfe. Bourassa, & 2T-year-old French- Oanadian, had been riding about six years and had been in many feature races, ineluding his mount an Fair Star two years ago in the Pimlico Paturity He s married and his wife, living i Raltimore, was summaned to the - Al DUt did not arcive until after he the future the officers of the national soclety be prohibited from expressing their \kn"\\nndmmnM questions unty) referendum has been taken of ilh.-rhr:.‘m\b‘rmhk\ e | it Mrs. Magna's prediction that Ithe building fund woald be «!:r;\.\"' | before this congress adjourns was 1l founded was apparent today. scares of additional fifd‘m were moring delogates from manv States. In xr:a‘. hv‘.;‘i:\" Which resulted from the - enthusiastic {attempts of many of the \delegates to | Announce their contridutions at onee 11t was impossible to tabulate the tota) of the spontaneous gifts, hut the oftic: were hopeful that they would go ward meeting the deficiency i the Mrs. Magha sald that the State have subscrided for baxes @ the new hall at 313000 each. Ome box was burchased for Mrd Brosseaw by her husband and another for the presiden: by Ool. Walter Scott of New York. The ‘I?I!\\‘liium"fhhu\ AL $130 & piece, are Virtually all sald It is expect Inledges will be received dw ~ oongress to complete the sale [ Dlatform chairs at $300 esch donations have been received other sources, “Must Seat Delegates.” | Mrs. Brosseau charactertsed the dabid {lg praject as “the most temeadius un tertaking of this society for the past three years. ™ “When questions of wisdom and ex- { pedieney arbe.” she said, “there s dut (One answer. W must have some place [ Chich o seat our delogated body and {10 care for aliernates and viing jDaughiers who come from everv part jof the country to attend Coptinental &\uu"u' “A fow years age the probable answer would have been reduced SeRLA- tion, but that action s now neither fea- isible nor wise. 'n our deliberations we wed the sirength that emanates from Ereat numbers and the States and ehap~ «osum'u on Page & Columa & [ pring this of 13 Many from