Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1928, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes WEATHER. (0. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy; occasional showers to- night and tomorrow; slightly warmer tomorro w. Temperature—Highest, 77, at 4:15 pm. yesterday; lowest, 59, at 5:45 am. today. Full report on page 9. Foening Star, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION as fast as the paper s are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 105,639 - Entered as second class matte) post office, Wa shington, D. C. WASHI G’i‘()N, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1928—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. F¥ HOUSE REAFFIRMS LUMP SUM STAND BY 286-10-35 VOTE Action Follows Petitions From Citizens Opposing $9,000,000 Appropriation. GRIFFIN MAKES PROTEST AGAINST ‘PICAYUNE’ PLAN New Yorker Insists Colleagues Do Not Understand the Situation. By a vote of 286 to 55 the House this afternoon instructed its conferees on the District appropriatioin bill further to insist upon its provisions for the $0,000,000 {ump-sum appropriation as against the 60-40 proportion amendment which the Senate substituted in the ap- propriation bill This is now the only point of differ-| ence between the House and Senate, as the House today concurrad with the Senate in all other amendments as re- ported by the House conferees. Immediately after this vote was an- nounced Representative Griffin, Demo- crat, of New York, the minority House conferee, said: “The vote has been taken, but I insist that the matter was not presented in such a way that the House is acquainted with the actual situation. “The Senate conferees did not refuse to yield on the 60-40 provision, but some of them were ready to accept a one-third to two-thirds proportion and some members of the conference were ready to accept as low as 27 per cent to 73 per cent.” Petitions Presented. Petitions _signed by spokesmen for virtually all representative groups of assuring_ Con- Had Planned to Low By the Associated Press. KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, May 17.— The dirigible Italia had progressed so steadily in its flight over the ice-cov- ered Arctic that members of the base crew of Gen. Umberto Nobile's expedi- tion today believed that he had reached his objective—Leninland, about 1,000 miles from Kings Bay. They eagerly awaited his return to this base to learn what the explorers had discovered on their trip over un- charted wastes, and at Leninland, which is situated north of the Taimyr | Peninsula. and has never been explored. Gen. Nobile had planned to lower a party to the ice on Leninland. While they conducted their explorations the dirigible was to remain moored to the ice, since Gen. Nobile intended to take no chance of the party being marooned. Gen. Nobile is expected to return tomorrow and then start almost im- mediately on another flight of exploia- tion to the os-called Crocker Land, which Peary and other explorers ex- pected to see. Good Flying Weather. Messages received by the base ship Citta di Milano from the Italia indicat- | ed that generally the airship had favor- able flying weather. It made a spced of from 30 to 50 kilometers an hour, depending on the wind. In passing over Franz Josef Land and heading to- ward Lenin Land, the dirigible foupd a little fog, but visibility was good for 100 kilometers. The last message received from the airship at 7 o'clock (Greenwich time) NOBILE THOUGHT AT LENIN LAND ON FLIGHT OVER ARCTIC WASTES and Moor Dirigible to Ice—Favorable Weather Encountered. er Exploration Party last night said that the explorers were within signt of Cape Nicholas. The weather was fine with a little wind. It was hoped that the Italia would be over Lenin Land at 10 p.m. The sea beneath was a vast ice- covered expanse, brief radio messages yesterday indicated, with little fog and visibility good for 100 kilometers. At Lenin Land, which, roughly speak- ing, is 30 degrees east of the last given vosition of the Italia, and just North of he northernmost point of the Siberian mainland, it was planned to lower three men to the ground to conduct some explorations. An ice anchor will be used to moor the dirigible there temporarily. Ice Forms on Gas Bag. All in all, since leaving Spitzbergen the Italia has experienced favorable flying weather. Fog once just west of Franz Josef Land impaired visibility and caused formation of ice on the gas envelope, decreasing speed, but did not cause the ship's return. Speed through- oyt the day was between 30 and 50 | kilometers an hour, dependent upon the | wind. | The first of the ceremonies attendant on the flight was observed yesterday | morning at 7 o'clock when the Venetian | flag was dropped over Tipliz Bay. Franz Josef Land, in honor of Franco Guerieni, | who followed the Cegni expedition there in 1909 and perished. Gen. Nobile expects to bring the Italia back to Spitzbergen tomorrow. The third flight is expected to start soon afterward to the so-called Crocker Land, Chimerical Island, which the explorer Peary and others expected to find north of the American continent. FOREIGN FORCES GUARD TIENTSIN Concession Area Barricaded world.” In announcing the intention of the conferees to Teport back to their re- spective houses inabllity to agree on the division of expense, Senator Phipps, Republican, the plea of the legislation committ-e of the executive committee of the Citi- zens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Re- lations, advising Congress that “socn- er than accept the contribution of $9,000,000 only for the upkeen of the District of Columbia, this committee is willing that the appropriation bill shall fall.” Measure Totals $37,625,208. This ples, signed by the heads of the largest trade, civic and other groups in the city, was backed up by a separate | Jetter from the executive committee of | the Washington Board of Trade, voicing the same general sentiment, and point- ing out that this organization repre- sents 3.200 of the leading business and professional men of the city, “upon whom falls by far the largest burden of loca) taxation ¢ * " After adjusting practically all of the Getalled items that were in dispute the conferees have worked out a measure totaling $37625,208. As the bill passed the House it carried $37.059.035 The Benate raised the total 1o $38,151428. Through & series of compromises the conferees arrived at & new total about midway between the action of the two Houses. The final figure of $37,625208 is $566.174 more than the House origl- nally voted and $526,220 less than the Benate had wilowed On the outstanding issue of appor- tioning the cost the House repeated its practice of the last few years of putting forward the $9,000,000 Jump sum. When the bill reached th by & decisive vo! of organized Wi sustuined the appeal hingn for a relurn 10 the 60-40 ratio fixed by substantive lew in 1922 and never vepealed. Bix weeks of conference falled W bring # settiement of the issue The test on resubmission I expected t0 come first in the House, where Rep- resentative Simmons, Republican, of Nebraska is likely W call upo the con- ference report Wis afternoon. In th Bengte the guestion will be submitted by Benator Phipps, who with Senstors | Jones, Jeepublican, of Washington snd Gisss, Democrat, of Virginia b deavored in conference o oblain n adjustment of the fiscal probiem Compromise on Park Iem, The House members yielded on the question of whether Maryland and Vir Benate that body, | en- | relations | as Northern Chinese Draw Up Lines. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, May 17.—Northern forces were moving into position today to battle against the Southerners threat- ening Peking as American and other foreign troops prepared to protect their nationls in Tientsin, fearing it would fall into the hands of the Nationalists. Companies of American and British soldiers, who were beginning their Summer training at Shanhalkwan and Chinwangtao, were ordered tg to Tientsin. American Marines, Italian LOWDEN INSISTS ON FARM RELIEF Demands G. 0. P. Meet Issue or He Will Not Want Presi- dential Nomination. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 17.—Frank O. Low- den declared here today that if the Re- publican party will not meet the farm issue, he does not want the Republican presidential nomination. “I-do not want the kind of fame that rests on an unsuccessful campaign,” he added. Against Unsuccessful Campaign. The former Illinois Governor made his statement, which he emphasized by pounding the table before him, in an in- area and threw walls of sand bags about them. for Other the defense of the concessions went troops captured Pao- miles south of Peking, Mon- 50 miles Ve | of the Republican terview with reporters on his return today from the East, where he cons ferred on business and politics with men. “If the Republican party will not megt the farm issue, I do not want the nomination,” he said. “If I am not nominated my troubles will be over. If I am nominated, I will have a long, hard campaign ahead of me. And do not want the kind of fame tha resti:on an unsuccessful campaign.” Hopes President Will Sign Bill MELLON APPROVES - PAY INCREASE BILL PASSED BY SENATE Secretary of the Treasury Characterizes Welch Meas- ure as “Desirable.” AMENDED LEGISLATION SENT BACK TO HOUSE Likely to Go to Conference for Con- sideration of Difference in Costs, Although admitting that he was not familiar with all details of the Welch salary raise bill which passed the Senate last night, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon today declared it would prove a benefit to many parts of | the Government. He raised no objec- tion to the total of more than $20,000,- 000 total increase in salaries, as an addition to the Government's expendi- tures. The main features of the bill are all right, in the opinion of the Secretary. Generally speaking he characterized it as a “desirable measure.” Cites Treasury Cases. In the Treasury Department, for in- stance, Mr. Mellon pointed out, there |are provided raises in salaries not only for lower paid employes, but for some of the tgx experts, who the Treasury has had difficulty in retaining in the Government service. The salaries of these experts have been insufficient, the Secretary pointed out, to retain men of such experience, when firms on the outside have offered them much higher salaries. “To an extent,” Mr. Mellon believes this difficulty has been partially remedied by the increases provided in the Welch bill for tax experts. The Government employes’ pay in- crease bill passed the Senate in amend- ed form without a dissenting voice and today was on its way back to the House, where it is expected to be sent to conference for consideration of the changes made by the Senate. The Senate, by a vote of 48 to 0, ap- proved the measure as it came from the Senate civil service committee, with ad- ditional steps added at the top of many of the grades for the purpose of having the same number of steps in each grade as exist under present law. Different Views on Cost. ‘There are two points of view as to the cost of the bill in this form. Sena- tor Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa, who had charge of the measure on the floor, holds the Senate amendments place the total cost at $20,101,080. Sen- ator Smoot, Republican, of Utah, be- lieves the cost of the Senate blll would be $25,287,000. The cost of the meas- it ure as mned_n% l-bun;mhn: :,: “The roll eall abou last night after a brief debate and be- fore crowded galleries. A muffled wave of gratification arose from the specta- tors as the clerk called the roll and the members responded, “Aye.” ‘The House could either concur in the Senate amendments, or ask a con- ference. 1If the latter course is fol- lowed it is probable the.conferees will be named today or tomorrow and get to work without delay on the task of Mr. Lowden's intimation that faflure party to include farm relief in its platform would spell defeat for it was followed by the observation that “if President Coolidge signs the Hchry-H.l\lgn farm relief bill it will make a much easier campaign for the angtl, | pepublican presidential nominee.” Manchurians Plan Fight. A dispatch to Rengo, a Japanese from Peking said the decided to launch an offensive against Gen. Feng Yu-Hslang, southern (Na- tionalist) commai . The northern forces choose the Peking-Haukow Rail- way as the line of their drive and for this pus Yang Yu-Ting, -aief of staff under Marshal Chang, and Chang Hsueh-Liang, the marshal’s eldest son, left for Paotingfu, about 100 miles southwest of Peking on the Hankow firoad. of Colorado made public | Ral (An earlier Tokio dfipaich said that Gen. inteccepted uorthern troops withdrawing toward Tientsin at Machang, 40 miles to the south, and heavy fighting resulted, Apparently the pian of the northern commani was to gather their scattered forccs together near Paotingfu, about 60 miles west of Machang, for a determin~d stand.) Another Rengo dispatch from Peking sald Gen. Wu Chun-S8heng, military governor of Hellungkiang Province, Manchuria, who was at Shankalkwan, at the seacoast end of the great wall, was ordered to withdraw toward Muk- den Accede to Japanese Demands. C. T. Wang, diplomatic committee- man of the Nationalist government, to- day sald that anti-Japanese hostilities and propaganda had ceased and that Chinese troops had been withdrawn from the areas in Shangiung mapped out by the Japanese in thelr demands. The Japanese chief of staff at Tsinan has reported that overtures were I ceived from Chiang Kal-8hek, the N tionalist commander-in-chief, saying that he wished to confer with Gen. Fukuda, the Japanese commander in Shantung, regarding the Tsian inci- dent_and asking for the wave length of the Japsnese wireless station at Tsinan. Gen, Fukuda replied that he would not negotiate by wireless and that would talk only with a duly suthorized delegate of the Chinese chlef of staff, adding that the demands put forward by Japan for satisfaction were unalter- able Japanese reports from ‘Tsinan alo state that a cavalry division under Peng, { which has achieved fame by its rapid advances sgainst the North 'in the re- cent fighting, 1s composed of four Mon- |poliun regiments organized and trained | by Boviel officers, “The Jupanese say {that each regiment is headed by two Boviet officers and has 400 emissarics {from the Boviets attached LEGATION GUARDS READY. | New Wall Bullt In Front of Foreign Ares in Peking. | PEKING, May 17 (#)-—/Threatened | by advancing Nationalist troops, Peking | wae tense today. Larger patrols than ginia children should be admitted 1o the local schools They agreed o Lhe action of the Senate In surtking from the bill the House language “Continued on Page 4, Column 1) wihilch | | ususd moved through the sireets of the | native city and shout the forelgn con | cessions Preparations for the defense of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) ““The people in the East,” he said, “counseled me against championing the equalization fee in the McNary-Ha bill. That bill without an equalization fee would be like a protective tariff without schedules. Striding about the room and empha- sizing his remarks with frequent pound- ing on the table, Mr. Lowden said he had told the Eastern people most em- phatically that there is a real farm problem and that it needs to be met squarely. Refuses to Discuss Candidacy. “It. will do no to criticize the present proposed legislation,” he said, “unless we are prepared to offer some- thing better. For that reason and in the absence of anything better, I am for the McNary-Haugen bill.” Mr. Lowden refused to discuss his own candidacy in connection with the candidacy of any others in the Republi- can presidential race. LOWDEN AND MORRIS CONFER. No Significance, However, Attached to Talk in New York. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, May 17.—Frank O. Lowden, aspirant for the Republican guldemm nomination, was on his way Chicago today after meeting (ifiorlu- K. Morris, chafrman of the Republican Btate committee, for the first time. “We had a very interesting visit” Mr. Morris sald. “I found Mr. Lowden & man of vigor and quite unusual charm. It goes beyond saying that he discussed politics, but Mr. Lowden did not ask for my support.” “There 1s no significance or any ground for concealment in the State charman talking with candidates for the presidential nomination, I had a talk with Secretary of Commerce Hoover a couple of months ago in this city and I saw United States Benator Charles Curtis of Kansas, another presidential candidate, in Washington when I was there some time ago." The New York delegation to the Kan- sas City convention is uninstructed. It becal nown during Mr. Lowden's visit here that one of his lleutenants, who was an active worker for Hoover in 1920, has served his connection with the Lowden-for-President Association. W, Ward Smith, formerly secretary to Nathan L. Miller, when the latter was governor, who had joined the Lowden forces early this year, announced he was no longer connected with the Low- den movement, MURATORE REPORTED ILL; MARRIAGE IS DISCLOSED By the Apsociated Press. NICE, Prance, May 17-Lucien Muratore, noted opera singer, who is now living in nearby Biot, is reported 0 be 1l with complications, which set in after a severe cold, His condition was wadd not to be serlous Colneident with the announcement n | ate amendments ironing out the differences. None of the administrative provisions of the bill is in dispute, so that the chief ques- tion in conference is likely to be the wV:ll cost of the bill. Effort to Simplify Measure. Senator Brookhart assured his col- leagues, in response to queries from the floor, that the purpose of the Sen- is to simplify the carrying out of the increases. He said that the House bill added new steps to the tops of the grades, but in many cases reduced the number of steps within grades, and that this had left the employes in doubt as to which step they would go to under the measure. He said that under the Senate bill every employe can tell just where he will be placed. Senator Brookhart replied that he agreed with the general thought ex- greucd by Senator Reed of Missouri, ut he wanted to say that the com- mittee had not received any threat or suggestion from the administration. “The committee has proceeded upon the merits of the question and every confidence that it will receive that kind of consideration when it reaches the Executive,” said Senator Brookhart. Sees Danger in Increase. Senator Dill, Democrat, of Washing- ton previously had said there were re- ports that the final enactment of the bill might be endangered by the addi- tional cost sald to be involved in the Senate amendments and he suggested that if it came to a question of keeping the cost to a certain figure in order to complete the legislation it might ve well for the Senate to cut out the ad- ditional steps it had added to certain of the higher grades. He said he had no objection to the higher positions get- ting a aru{:xmunn!n increase, but he wanted to be sure a law could be en- acted taking care of the low-salaried clerks. Senator Brookhart explained thad there are only compatatively few em- ployes in the higher grades and the elimination of the Senate amendments relating to those grades would not ma- terlally. change the total cost. Lower Pald Cared For. Senator Jones, Republican, of Wash- ington, sald he wanted to be assured the bill did full justice to the lower paid employes, Senator Brookhart ex- pressed the bellef that the BSenate amendments take care of the situation, Referring to the variations in esti- mates of the cost of the amended meas- ure, Senator Brookhart sald: “If T am mistaken In the figures and it the cost will go beyond the point o aucd on Page 4, Column 4. “THE PENALTY” “Golden Rule” Film Produced by The Evening Star To further traffic safety will be shown tomorrow alon with the regular program al The Lincoln Theater that Muratore was 11, It was learned today that he married a Parisian, Marle Loulse Brivard, April 8, on 23-yeur-old | 1215 U St. N.W, FARM RELIEF BILL GOES TO PRESIDENT Mr. Coolidge Expected to Veto McNary-Haugen Meas- ure, Now Political Foot Ball. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, containing the equalization fee princi- ple, goes today to President Coolidge for his approval or disapproval. The conference report on the measure was adopted by the Senate late yesterday. It was confidently predicted today that the President would veto the bill and give his reasons for his disapproval of the measure. It was also predicted that would adjourn without passing tural relief legislation. A two-thirds vote to qverride the President’s veto is required, and the leaders do not believe that such a vote in favor of the bill could be mustered in the House. There would be greater chance of passing the te, notwithstanding the the President, bill in the Sen. I were more before the the session mmdmhrmblfl ) meet the approval of the for which might President. Politics Played With Bill. ‘The politics of the day is playing its part in the farm legislation situation. Such disaffection as there is in the Republican party lies in wheat belts, the States West and the Northwest. These States have their candidates for the Repub- lican presidential nomination. The of farm legislation at fore the Republican na- tional convention, would in a measure the corn and of the Middle issue eliminated. They demand McNary-Haugen bill or notl al- though the bill in form amen: to meet the views of the administration might be of much assistance to the farmers in dealing with their surplus crops. Nor do the Democrats of the Sen- ate and House wish to see this farm issue settled by the final enactment of legislation at this time. An approval of the McNary-Haugen bill, as now wril ten, by the President would give the Democrats cause for f. They to split the West wide open in national election' if Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, is the Repub- lican nominee for President, They are relying on the opposition of the wheat and corn farmers of that section to Mr. Hoover, How far they will be able to convince the farmers of the country would farc better at the hands of a Democratic President and Democratic Congress re- mains to be seen. So far there been nothing from the leading Democratic candidate for the presidential nomina- tion, Gov. Smith of New York, that he favors the McNary-Haugen bill as it dtands. Reed Fought Measure. The New Yorker has expressed his sympathy with agriculture, declaring that something should be done for the farmers. But so has President cwlld'r. who 1s now, it is reported, to veto the bill for the second time. Some of the other Democratic candidates for the presidential nomination, including Sen- ator James A. Reed of Missourl, have opposed the McNary-Haugen bill vigor- ously. wyhm Congress assembled last De- cember the stage was well set for the ge of the McNary-Haugen bill, its ultimate disapproval by President Cool- idge_and_the throwing of the farm (Contintied on Page 4, Column 5.) .- BRATIANU TO REPORT CABINET WILL REMAIN Parliament to Meet June 2 to Rat- ity Franco-American Sta- bilization Loan. By the Amsociated Prows. BUCHAREST, May 17. - Premier Bratianu will tell the Rumanian Par- Hlament today that the cabinet has no intention of rulgulnu or heeding other of the peasants’ demands, it was learned from semi-official quarters last night Adverul, Bucharest dally, says Par- Hament will sit in extraordinary ses- slon June 2, to rabd Franco-American stabllization toan, Lupta, another dally, at the same time says the peasant deputies who recently walked out of Parllament as a protest against the government will resume thelr seats then to fight the atabilisa- len measure gnd the prospective forelgn loan, Radio Programs—Page 42 of| ma- terms of the |is $1,800,000 Is Paid At Sale of Holford Picture Collection LONDON, May 17.—A thousand guineas were being bid every few minutes for pictures in the sale to- day of the final portion of the late Sir George Holford's collection, at Christie's rooms, which were packed with connoisseurs and experts. The total amount realized at to- day's sales was 364,094 pounds (ap- proximately $1,800,000). The biggest price paid up to mid- afterncon was 48,000 guineas for Rembrandt’s portrait of a man hold- ing the Torah. Rembrandt’s por- trait of a young man with cleft chin brought 44,000 guineas. Both of those picoures went to Knoedlers. Rembrandt’s portrait of Martin Looten sold for 26,000 guineas, and Albert Cupy’'s “Dordrecht on the Mass” for 20,000 MARINE PLANE OFF ONNEARAGUA 0P Craft Leaves Miami on1,1 7 Mile Non-Stop Flight to Managua. By the Associated Press. R e S b icaragua, plane over the Island of Cozumel, off the Yucatan Peninsula, at 11:15 am. The message was relayed to the Tro] Radio Telegraph Station here from its correspondent station in Castilla, Honduras, which picked up the plane’s signals at 9:45 am. By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fla, May 17.—Three United States Marine Corps fiyers hopped off | tf at 5:15 o'clock this morning in a trans- port monoplane for Managua, Nica- ragua, 1,100 miles distant. The tropical station picked up its first signals from the plane at 5:33 am., less than 20 minutes after the take-off. Lieut. Hughes, at the radio t- | key aboard the plane, sent & message an hour later saying everything was going well. At 7:35 he reported passing 90 miles south of American Shoals Light, well beyond Key West. Dawn has just broken when the big plane roared down the 3,500-foot run- way. It rose before it had covered two- thirds of the distance, circled the field and then sped away in the early morn- ing mists toward Havana, Cuba. Three Men Aboard. Licut. H. D. Palmer, commanding offt- cer, and his companions, Lieut. W. R. Hughes, radio man, and Sergt. Dugald Steel, mechanic, were aboard. It was the fourth Marine plane to leave here recently for service in Nicaragua against Sandino. Two of the flights were completed without a stop, the other was halted by darkness at Tela, Honduras, 250 miles short of the goal. Reports to the Tropical Radio Tele- graph Co. from land stations and ships over much of the route indicated favor- able weather conditions today. Th fiyers hoped to make Man by nightfall, Route Is Planned. A route carrying the plane south to Havana, west to the tip of Yucatan and southward over sea along the coast of Yucatan to Tela, thence across the Honduras mountains to M-nngx , was to be followed. The speed of the plane is about 90 miles an hour. Arriving_here late Tuesday after a non-stop flight from Washington, the aviators spent yesterday getting the three-motored craft in tune. . NINE HURT AS CAB SKIDS ON VIRGINIA HIGHWAY Speclal Dispateh to The Star, WINCHESTER, Va, May 17.—Seven Washington girls, their chaperon and the driver of a Washington taxicab are in the Winchester Hospital suffering from injuries received at 9 o'clock this morning when the taxi skidded at a curve and turned over. Miss Katherine Nolan s sald to be one of the party, and the driver's name iven as E. R. Brown. COonfusion Incident to thelr arrival at the hospital and efforts of doctors and nurses to rellove thelr suffering made it diffieult to obtaln information, but it was learned that the party was on its way to visit the Luray caverns and that the taxi belonged to the Wardman Park Taxtcab Oo, The highway was made Aufipnry by & shower of last night and this i belleved to have caused accldent, (P) Means Associated Pre: SENATE CAMPAIGN PROBE MAY SHIFT Committee Considers Plan to Make Trip for Inquiry in North Carolina. . By the Associated Press. ‘The names of a dozen witnesses were submitted to the Senate campaign com- mittee today for examination as to ex- penditures in the presidential campaign in North Carolina, and the committee, after an executive session, decided to defer until later a decision as to whether it would go to Raleigh to call them. ‘The witnesses were understood to behalf of Gov. Smith of New York. George R. Van Namee, manager of the Smith campaign, testified last week in New York that his organization had sent no money to North Carolina, where the governor spent a vacation wmm Neither testified as to any large penditures. committeeman for Pennsylvania, that he was credited wit . sending $1,000 to David L. umnoeinul;:s\mr of the of the amount and did not know for what it was used. On the basis of a telegram from Phila- delphia an alliance between the Democrats and the William S. Vare Republican machine, Kistler was asked if he knew anything about such an un- derstanding. He replied in the nega- ve. The telegram, signed by Lewis C. Cas- sidy, read: “As Smith candidate for delegate Philadelphia, wish to deny Guessy statement before your committee that anti-Smith candidate running obliged Guessy to send O'Donnell $2,000. Al- liance between ts and Vare in Philadelphia national scandal.” Chairman Steiwer said that it was assumed that “Guessy” in the telegram should have been Guffey. Kistler told the committee he did not know Cassidy. Bank Cashier on Stand. Oscar C. Wilt, cashier of the Clarks- | burg, W. Va., Empire National Bank, wsl;!flfll that he had taken practically no part in the Republican primary cam- paign in his State. “What, if anything, did you do to- ward inducing the Secretary of Com- merce to enter the West Virginia cam- paign?” Steiwer asked. “Nothing that I know of" Wilt said. He added that he had made no con- tribution toward the Hoover campaign and knew nothing of how it is being financed. “The editor of a paper told me yes- terday Hoover had had some cards printed and the editor did not know where he was to get his money for the printing " Wit said. ‘WIIt said that “obviously there was an organization in West Virginia for Sena- tor Goff, who is opposing Secretary Hoover in the primary to be held on May 29. “Banners are strung across the street,” he said, referring to Clarksbury. “Have you seen any evidence of the expenditure of large sums of money in w"’r: vg.lnh?“ the witness was asked “No, sir™ Wilt told Senator McMaster, Repub- lican, South Dakota, that he had ex- pressed a preference for Secretary Hoo- ver. When Wilt was excused the com- mittee adjournad until tomorrow. Final Smith Witnesses. Guffey, Democratic committeeman for Pennsylvanta, and Mrs, Hemry L. Moskowits of New York City, who has taken a large part in forming the Smith organization, were the last of six wit- nesses examined yesterday. Guffey testified that he had been active for the governor for seven years and that, besides $3.000 he received from Qeorge R. Van Namee of Smith's uunp-lgn staff, he had collected $8.623 from 40 Democrats in Pennsylvania for use in advancing Smith’s campaign n that State. Of the $3,000 recelved from Van Namee, Guffey sald he sent $400 to David L. Lawrence, treasurer of the Smith organization; $1,000 for salary to TWO CENTS. JARDINE PROTESTS KEPHART QUIZZING . BY CAPITAL POLICE “Third-Degree” Methods Al+ leged in Letter to Commis- sioner Dougherty. BRUTALLY OFFENSIVE ACTIONS ARE CHARGED | Secretary Praises Member of Scieme tific Staff—Warrant May Be Issued Soon. Secretary of Agricult: day wrote an nquali to District e Jardine tos ed protest® | used by police in quizzing L | Kephart, Depart; t, who is erious attack made on h | Eoldters’ Home grounds a Police investigation of the {said to have reached a noint w warrant may be asked for short Secretary Jardine declared the ported mistreatment by police seriously impaired Mr. Kephart's cone dition resulting from the abduction and assault, and charged that the police had implied that Kephar: “was in some way responsible for an ate tempted abduction of E. Percival Wil- son, a citizen of Chevy Chase, Md., some hours after the attack on Mr, Kephart.” The cabinet officer asserted that “it would appear the police in this instance, in their zeal to determine the responsi~ 4bility for the attempted abduction, en- urely disregarded not only his ( ;um 's) rlghg n{s a citieen, but also lundamentals of or h consideration.” e Jardine Praises Kephart. Mr. Jardine described Kephart as “a respected and highly regarded member of the scientific staff of this depart- :_wnt." l‘homlt the time of the attack as en route to the department the presentation of mmm uflclhml' work upon which he is - Commissioner Dougherty referred the Secretary’s letter to Supt. of Police Hesse for investigation and report. tary Jardine, Schator Cappe nator Capper, chairman of the = ate District committee. The h'.ltrs:;.fl today that Mr. Jardine told him that Kephart's associates in the department felt he had not received “a square deal” from the police. E&r. Jardine’s letter. in full, follows: ‘There has come to my attention j through items in the press and other channels the recent action of the §ge lh;et rlem;xl\xs by persons of unknown identity which g nt. departed with his luwnmbflepm l‘ih‘_h he bad alighted upon their representation that one of their number was in need of as- s&llll.lh(’: Some hours later, after re- covering consciousness, Mr. Kephart |m-d_e!\}snysomehaspiwmttn Soldiers’ Heme grounds, where he was given emergency treatment and the Pol{l;.‘ lt"pumnr en;nnfined. “Members of the Police Departmen? Staff then took him from the Soldiers Home Hospital to police headquarters, in the Municipal Building, where friends | met him and took him to his home. On | his arrival at home his personal physi~ [cian was called and attended him. {Later Dr. Roy D. Adams, no doubt well {known to you as an outstanding diag- | nostician, made an examination, and 1 jattach it to a statement by Dr. Adams of his diagnosis and conclusions as & re- | Sult of his examination. Since then he has been under a physician’s care and Istill i in a serious physical condition as a result of the attack and exposure and the brutally offensive and uncalled- { for action of the police. T understand from the morning pa- g:rs and from personal information rnished by associates of Mr. Kepbart who have a knowledge of the matter that last evening while still suffering and dased by the effects of the com= | tusions resulting from the attack, h¢ was taken to the tenth precinct poliet |Station and subjected for two hours to | what is commonly designated as ‘third degree’ treatment, whi resulted in a further impairment of his condition, | the implication of his police tnterro- ;gmurs being that he was in some way | connected with or responsidle for an {attempted abduction of £ Pereival Wilson, a citizen of Maryland, residing in Chevy Chase, which occwrred some hours after the attack on Mr. Kephar¢ in the Soldiers’ Home grounds. Mr. Kep- hart's stolen car being used in the secs ond attack. Inquisition Charged. “Mr. Kephart was brought to the station by his friends at the invitation of the }\v‘m\-. astensibly to identify cer= ftain of his clothes which had been found, the police iInstead subjecting him, in his dased physical condition, without the beneft of counsel or ‘lrk-mls, to a two-hour nquisitia “It would appear that the pol m { this instance heir zeal to determine the responsibi for the attempled ad- duction entirely disregarded, not only his rights as & citizen, dut also the fundamentals of ordinary humanitartan consideration of a man whose hgh repute and excellent standing his as- sociates I the public service are A position to vouch for, and whose re- mr;ry n\\mhmv hn-suzts of the attack made upon him has been seriously re- tarded Dy this (reatment. 1 uu':? that 1 do not need to assure you of my desire to co-operate in every practicadle way with the duly constituted authori= ths I their Imvestigaions of crime committed here or elsewhere, but I cannot refrain from voleig my proe test against the course which appears o have been followed I this mstance uul\‘ respect o the victim of the s~ sault, “1 bring this matter to your attention At this thme In order not only thas this Warren Van Dyke f munkin or- ganising the slate be the Pennsyl- vania primary, and 1804 to B S Zimmerman for traveling expenses for similar work. He also b $600 his own money for tra over the Btate. Mrs. Moskowits, who has sent out Hteratire_to_combat_Ku KMx_Kian, (Continted on Page 3, Column 8.0 case may bo prompily and adequate investigated and further IM‘:« tuvL! stalled, but that any comparable oo ourrences in the future may be pres of | vented." The letter of Dr. Adams which See- retary Jardine attached to his eome o 4R - OR Saturday, May 13, 100, 1 made Wonilnued on Page 3, Colunia Ly