Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1928, Page 1

W (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and slightly colder with lowest temperature about 32 degrees tonight; tomorrow fair with rising temperature. Temperatures: Highest, 52, at noon today; lowest, 42, at 4:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. “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 as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 107,359 Tntered as seco: post office, Wa nd class matter shington, D, C. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1928—FORTY-TWO PAGES. * (#) Means Associ ed Press. TWO CENTS. i, . RESCUE SHIPS STAND BY TO HUNT MISSING OF 339 WHO ABANDONED VESTRIS 300 MILES OFF VIRGINIA Dirigible Los Angeles Ordered to Prepare to Aid Search, Leav- ing This Afternoon. FIRST LIFEBOATS NOT SIGHTED j UNTIL EARLY Merchant Craft to Bring Most of Pas- sengers and Crew to New York. Others to By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 13.—A compilation from radio reports at 1 o'clock this afternoon showed 215 known rescued of the passengers and crew of the steamer Vestris, 1 dead and 123 still unaccounted for. The American Shipper had 123 survivors aboard, the tanker Myriam, 63; the liner The dead man was picked up by the Wyoming. By the Assoclated Press. One man was known to be dead, a woman and child wer2 re- ported floating in the ‘rolling waves and other deaths seemed prob- abie as reports from the rescue fl pieced out the story of the sinking At noon, almost a full day and night since the 339 passengers and crew went over the tilting sid boats and rafts, only 203 had been of the lifeboats had been picked up. ‘Woman and Child in Water. One man taken from the wat seeing a woman with a child in her arms floatmg was begun for them and lookout was kept for ot! no room in the boats, or who had b The dead man, unidentified in first reports, was found by the battleship Wyoming lying on the ra; The rescue began before dawn, their paths on the errand of mercy being led to the lifeboats by fiares sent up by the chilled persons who all night long had tossed waves left from a week end gale. was sighted and as the morning -lifeboat was taken aboard with its shivering complement of men and women. The American Shipper got most, the liner Berlin got some, the tanker Myriam others and the battleship Wyoming still more. More Than 100 Unaccounted For. < EE&: after- accounted for and there was a growing fear death would claim many of these before they could be save S| Shortly after noon the Navy Department ordered the dirigible Los Angeleys to prepare to leave its hangar at Lakehurst, N. J., this afternoon to join the rescue fleet. would have been dispatched yesterday had it not been undergoing an overhauling at its hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. Coast Guard Report Hopeful. A message declaring that all passengers of the crippled steamer Vestris had been rescued with the Jiferaft was received today at Coast Guard headquarters from its Norfolk, Va., office. The message did not estimate the number of persons aboard the raft nor did it say how many lifeb reports from the rescue fleets had accounted for six lifeboats and It has not been learned how many small boats were one raft. launched by the Vestris. The information, telephoned here from Norfolk, was a compila- tion of reports from Coast Guard cutters on the scene of the disaster MORNING HOURS| Norfolk. Berlin, 21, and thp Wyoming, 8. eet off the Virginia Capes slowly of the liner Vestris today. e of the stricken vessel into life- definitely accounted for and most er by the steamer Berlin told of near him. Search ers who had found een washed from the rafts. ft, where he had died of exposure. the ships that had turned from passed But at noon more than 100 others were apparently still to be d. It was explained that the airship exception of one group aboard a . oats had been picked up. Earlier made up by C. F. Howell, chief of staff at the Norfolk headquarters. Reports Account for 203. NEW YORK, November 13 (#).— ‘Wireless reports from rescue vessels at the scene of the sinking of the liner Vestris off the Virginia Capes received up to 10:45 this morning accounted for 203 of the 339 passengers and crew. The North German Lloyd line was in- formed that its steamer, the Berlin, had picked up 21 survivors. The Ber- lin will dock here tomorrow. The American Shipper of the Amer- ican Merchant line got 90 members of the crew and 33 passengers. The French tanker Myriam was re- ported to have 53 aboard. The United States battleship Wyom- ing picked up eight from the water among the wreckage of the ill-fated liner. This left 136 to be accounted for. Will Continue Search. The steamer American Shipper said in a later message that it would con- tinue the search until dark before proceeding The American Shipper is a freighter f 4013 tons, and is under the com- d of Capt. Schuyler Cummings. was built at Hog Island, Pa. in She is in a combined freight and enger-carrying service between New York and London. She was inbound from London when she left her course to answer the S O S of the Vestris. Officials of the Lamport-Holt Line asserted at 10:30 o'clock this morning that they were still without official advices that the Vestris had' sunk. hey were hoping she was afloat and salvagable. It would hafe been impossible for imperfect cargo stowage to sink the vessel, they =said. ‘The Vestris was carrying 3.200 tons of merchandise, in- cluding fruit, automobiles, cotton and machinery Some Lifeboats Not Used. Officials of the Lamport & Holt Line, in New York cxpressed the yion that probably not more than or six lifeboats been launched from the sinking ve She was re- ported to have had a list of 32 degrees when abandoned, which probably would have made impossible the launching of lifeboats on one side. The Vestris carried five of her ixtecn lifeboats on each side, the rest astern with the motor boat, and the officials believe it was those five along one side which were launched, probably carrying the major portion of the pas- ngers and crew. The rest might e been forced to take to the raft if the ship sank before they could clear ancther boat. The offices of the line, at 24 Broad- were filled today with friends and of the lifeboats that had tossed so many hours on the rough Atlantic. ‘The booking office, where inquirers were received and accommodated with such information as was available, was busy all night, too, answering personal inquiries and long-distance telephone calls from many cities. In the lines of anxious seekers for the latest word were numerous negroes, whose kinsmen and acquaintances com- prised part of the Vestris' passegner list for Barbados. Most of the vessel's crew were Brit- ishers. The Coast Guard reported that a partly inpdistinct message has been picked up, supposedly from a foreign vessel, reporting the finding of life- boat No. 13. The message said some wreckage also had been found. The Radio Marine Corporation, at 3:30 a.m. today, received a message from the steamship American Shipper, saying that she had sighted red flares at latitude 37.19 north, longitude 70.38 west. The American Shipper was then among the vessels seeking men and women who put off in lifeboats from the steamship Vestris at latitude 37.35 north, longitude 31.08 west, and this: was the first ship to report finding sur- vivors. TENSE NIGHT WAITING NEWS. | First Hopeful Word Comes at 3:30 0’Clock This Morning. 3 NORFOLK, Va., November 13 (#).— | All but a comparatively few of the 339 | passengers and crew of the steamship Vesiris today apparently were safe on board the vessels of the rescue fleet. Five lifeboats and one raft were known to have been picked up by the steamship American Shipper and the oil | tanker Myriam and these reported by {radio that only one boat and one raft i had vet to be found. i ‘The lifeboats had a capacity of 57 ! passengers each, making a total of 2! that had been rescued in addition to those on the raft, the capacity of which | was unknown. | Spent Harrowing Night. ) The survivors had spent the night tossing about on the stormy Atlantic while the rescue ships sought for them in vain. It was not until 3:30 that the first trace of the survivors’ red flares shot skyward from the lifeboats was seen and a half hour later the first of the boats was found. Ashore, it was a night of suspense and hope. Until well after midnight the rescue vessels, poking into the gloom Where Ship Sank Star indicates area in which Vestris met with disaster, a spot estimated at 300 miles off Virginia coast. RESCUED By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 13.-—Appar- | ently most of those identified by the French tanker Myriam as having been picked up from the Vestris' lifeboats | were members of the crew. The garbled | condition of some of the messages| coming through from the rescue fleet probably atcounts for confusion in the list of names. Only a few names had been received early this afternoon. Among those identified from the pas- senger list as having been saved were the following: Harry Fay, Pittsburgh, pugilist. Herman Hipp, Chicago, representa- tive of Swift & Co. Raymond Garcia, New York. William M. Fields, New York. A. C. Patterson (no address given). C. S. Slaughter of Chicago. (Mrs. Slaughter also was a passenger, but since another woman was identified in the Myriam’s message and the name “Slaughter” came without the “Mrs.” It was assumed it was Mr. Slaughter that was saved.) G. Prestwich, fourth engineer. Capt. W. J. Carey. A. M. Jones (no address given). ‘The Radio Marine Corporation re- celved word shortly after noon that Paul Dana, its South American repre- sentative, was among those rescued and was safe on board the American Shipper. William W. Davies, New York cor- respondent of La Nacion of Buenos Aires, was taken aboard the American hipper. Agip;t of the 23 survivors taken aboard the German Lloyd liner Berlin follows: Passengers: Q. Abbadini, Carlos Quiros, T. Mack, H. Schulz and Cark Schmidt. Schmidt was picked up swimming. The others taken from boats. Crew: Chief Engineer Adams, Trimmer Alkins, Steward Boyd, Boatswain’s Mate Bannister, Steward Duncan, Sailor Dyer, Steward Evans, Sailor Elixcie, Engineer Forsyth, Trimmer Gittens, Stewards Hudson and Harris, Boat- swain’s Mate Myrick, Steward Knill, Cooks Coleridge, Licorish and Moore. ‘The message also said there was one stewardess, name ungiven, and one “gleeping person.” Rescued by Wyoming. The battleship Wyoming reported to the Navy Department today that she had picked up eight survivors. The message gave the names of the survivors as follows: Mrs. Fernand, Mrs. Inouge, Mrs. Bar- rer, Mrs. Batten and Mrs. Oelrich, pas- sengers, and John Morris, Gerald Bur- ton and Joseph Boxill, colored members of the crew. EMPLOYMENi‘ SITUATION IS HIGHLY ENCOURAGING President Hears Conditions Country During Coming Winter Are Good. The employment situation generally throughout the United States during the coming Winter is highly encouraging, according to advices received by Presi- dent Coolidge. This fact, along with the report made to him several days ago by Postmaster General New to the | effect that postal receipts indicated a substantial increase, caused the Presi- dent to feel that prosperity shows no signs of lagging or diminishing for the ; time being. At the cabinet meeting today Secre- tary of Labor Davis produced figures | showing that the employment situation ; is better than it was at this time last year. The Labor head informed the cabinet session that there is a good de- mand_ throughout the country for labor and the fears on the part of the Labor Department that the coming of Winter would find many people out of work } have, to a large extent, been removed. in PASTORS OPPOSE RACING ! FUND FOR ORPHANAGES | ! Kentucky Methodists Un:\nimouslyl at Charity Event. { By the Associated Press. S sy | LOUISVILLE, November 13.—Loui: ville ministers of the Methodist Episc pal Church South, in regular weekly | conference here, voted unanimous op- position to having orphanages of their denomination accept any of the money raised yesterday at Col. E. R. Bradley’s | one-day charity race meeting at his Idle Hour Farm, near Lexington. Proceeds of the six-race card, featur- ing the “Orphanage” Stake for a silver cup and $5,000 added, were to be divid- ed among 30 orphanages of the State. Col. Bradley bore all expenses of the meeting, which attracted approximately 9,000 visitors from all sections of the Against Accepting Money Raised k Eight More Die in Sinkings of Other Craft. SIX ARE SAVED BY GUARDSMEN chooner and Motor Boat Go Down Off Virginia. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., November 13.— After a thrilling battle with heavy surf, Coast Guardsmen early to- day succeeded in taking six men off the steam trawler Ruth Mil- dred of Gloucester, Mass., which had been driven ashore 6 miles South of Virginia Beach. The vessel, whose master was Capt. M. Shaderburg, was report- ed to be leaking badly and it was feared it would be a total loss. The rescued men were being cared for at the Middle Island Coast Guard Station. THREE LOST ON SCHOONER. Ship Sank 150 Miles Off Cape Hatteras, Baltimore Hears. BALTIMORE, November 13 (#).— Capt. W. W. Covert of New York, master of the J. W. Hook, and two negro sailors, were reported missing yesterday by Baltimore agents for the vessel, who received word of the sinking of the ship 150 miles southwest of Cape Hatteras. George Elliott, mate, also of New York, two negro sailors and a negro cook were reported rescued by the Clyde Line ship Huron in a wireless from the Huron. ‘The radio message offered no explana- tion of the fate of the three missing men. The J. W. Hook, a wooden four- masted schooner, lefi Georgetown, S. C., on November 8 with a cargo of lumber for Baltimore. It was expected to dock ‘Thursday or Friday. BODIES OF EIGHT SOUGHT. Fishermen Lost When Hunting Scow Off Virginia Coast. NORFOLK, Va., November 13 (#).— Search is under way again this morn- ing for the bodies of eight men drowned yesterday when they ventured to sea, with high northeast winds blowing, an effert to retrieve a small fishing SCOW. Capt. Lee Hartman, veteran deep sea fisherman, and seven members of his crew were lost off Hog Island Bar in Accomac County, when the heavy sea swamped and sank the motor boat in which they were searching for the SCOW. Besides Capt. Hartman, those drown- er were Engineer Leroy Bundick, Cleve- land Bailey, William Taylor, John Wat- son, Alonzo Sneed, Robert Badger and Edward Hunter, The captain and his crew set out early vesterday to fish six miles off Hog Island. On reaching their traps they found the sea too rough for fish- ing. While returning they lost a small scow they had in tow. Other fishermen in the vicinity made an effort to rescue the men, and Coast Guardsmen from the nearby Hog Is- land and Palmers Beach Stations as- sisted, but nothing was found except the boat used by Capt. Hartman and his men, adrift with bow up. FEDERAL PRISONER MURDERS CELLMATE Slayer Enraged by Four-Year Sen- tence Imposed for Threat- ening Doctor. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, November 13.—Enraged by a four-year Federal prison term im- posed upon him, James T. Nevins, 39, a prisoner at County Jail, killed his cell- mate with an iron pipe early today, ac- cording to_his confession to police. Donald Prentiss, said to be district manager of the Detroit territory of a large automobile manufacturing "corpo- ration, was the victim. He died without regaining consciousness. Nevins confessed he intended to use the iron pipe on Federal Judge Paul Jones, who sentenced him, but did not get a chance to do so when brought into court yesterday. Nevins originally was sentenced to two years for threatening a doctor at the Cleveland Marine Hospital, where he was a patient. While serving this sentence he wrote the physician a let- ter, again threatening him “when my time is up.” In September Nevins was rearrested. Prentiss was under & one-year sen- tence at Atlanta for a statutory offense. The feader-confidence vertiser. barred from The Star. country. ‘Total receipts of the meeting with their long white fingers of light, reported only failure. With the excep- ves of Vestris passengers, all eager % jeara the latest news as to the fale tion of some little wreckage. there w (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) \“ were not announced. Radio Programs—Page 28 from ove-stating values. ENVOYS AID HOGVER - IN'PLANNING TRIP Fletcher En Route West to Help Frame lItinerary for Good-Will Tour. BY REX COLLIER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PALO ALTO, Calif.,, November 13.— President-elect Herbert Hoover and his aides pored over maps and examined an influx of diplomatic messages yesterday in preparation for a history-making voy- age that will carry him more than 2,000 miles below the Equator and into nearly every South and Central American cap- ital. Half a dozen formal invitations al- ready have been received from heads of Latin American republics, and indica- tions are that official requests are com- ing from every nation in the continent to the south. It is believed Mr. Hoover will accept almost all of them, for he in (intends his journey to be an all-em- bracing gesture of American good will. Fletcher to Join Party. The itinerary cannot be completed until time has been afforded all of the countries to make their formal bids for a visit by the President-elect. There are numerous diplomatic problems to be worked out, too, and these must be handled by representatives of the State Department. Henry P. Fletcher, Ambassador to Italy and former envoy to Latin Amer- ica, is en route here, with other State Department officials, to take charge of diplomatic arrangements. Mr. Fletcher will accompany Mr. Hoover as the personal representative of President Coolidge. Two State De- partment interpreters also will be taken, for no one in the Hoover party speaks Spanish. Col. William J. Donovan, Assistant Attorney General, was due at Mr. Hoov- er’s home today to pay his respects to the next Chief Executive before he sails Monday from San Pedro aboard the batteleship Maryland. The Hoover party will consist of about 35 members, all men, for there are no accommodations for women on the big dreadnaught. Mrs. Hoover will remain here until time to rejoin her husband in Florida some 60 days hence. Fifteen in Official Party. ‘There will be approximately 15 mem- bers of the official staff, including the President-elect and his son Allan, his assistant, George Akerson; Ambassador Fletcher, 2 interpreters and ‘a secre- tarial corps. The press contingent will be limited to about 15 correspondents, and in addition there will be 5 news cameramen. Great pressure is being exercised on Mr. Hoover to permit rep~ resentatives of a large number of news- papers, magazines and syndicates to make the trip, but because of lack of cabin space only the correspondents who came here from Washington with g{;. Hoover are sure of accommoda-, ns. “We are giving first choice to news- papers that had foresight enough to send representatives with us across the country,” one of Hoover's aides ex- plained today. “The others must take what is left, if there is anything left. We would like to take them in, but there just isn't room.” Mr. Hoover and Allan will occupy the admiral’s suite on the ship. The news- paper men will have the junior officers’ quarters. Cabins now are being put into condition and the whole ship is being made spic and span in dry dock at San Francisco. The Hoover party will leave Palo Alto by special train for San Pedro next (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Reader-Confidence in the news and editorial columns of The Star is reflected in the advertising columns to the profit of both the reader and the ad- All fraudulent and misleading advertisements are Honest advertisers refrain Any complaint will be Immediately # investigat. Chicago Rackets Total 168, Study Of City Reveals By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, November 13.—There are 168 rackets—organized criminal attacks on business—listed in a re- port of the Employers’ Association of Chicago prepared for State's at- torney-elect John A. Swanson. Of the total outlaw schemes to destroy legitimate businesses, 79 are active, the report states. It mentions 101 “business bombs,”- exclusive of other kinds, that have been thrown this year. Judge Swanson in his campaign pledged himself to rid Cook County and Chicago of racketeering acti- vities. The Employers’ Association has estimated that the cost of crime to Chicago—not including bootleg- ging—has been $100,000,000 an- nually, or-$35 a year for each man, woman and child. STIRLING SALARY CUT 1S BLOCKED McCarl, Upholding Smithso- nian, Hits Squarely at Clas- sification Board. Attempts of the Personnel Classifica- tion Board to cut down the salary of Matthew W. Stirling, distinguished sci- entist and African explorer of the Smithsonian Institution, were blocked today by Controller General McCarl. In supporting the position of the Smithsonian Institution that Mr. Stirling should be allocated to a higher salary than the classification board was will- ing he should have, McCarl hit square- ly into the heart of the long-standing battle over the Welch hill salary raise. This battle has been carried on inter- mittently ever since McCarl issued his orders making raises automatic under the Welch act and allowing administra- tive officers. in departments and estab- lishments wide latitude in fixing cer- tain salaries themselves without any supervision from the classification board. Disbursers Follow McCarl. ‘The board, on the other hand, has contended stoutly that responsibility for allocating positions under the Welch act rested with it. But McCarl, the controller general, of course, has of ne- cessity been followed by all disbursing officers, who have made the raises au- tomatic. In the case of Mr. Stirling, who is (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) FOUR SLAIN IN DAY IN CHICAGO HOLD-UPS Bandtis Kill Druggist and Cus- tomer—Two Robbers Shot to Death. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, November 13.—In deaths, the forces of order on the one hand and disorder on the other stood even today over a 24-hour period: Two for each. PRESIDENT SPURS NAVY BILL BACKERS Restatement of Policy Also ' Follows His Armistice Day Reference to Cruisers. By the Associated Press. President Coolidge’s Armistice day assertion that “world standards of de- fense require us to have more cruisers,” has served to strengthen the deter- mination of administration leaders in the Senate to obtain passage of ihe $274,000,000 naval construction bill at the coming short session of Congress. It has been followed, too, by a re- statement of policy by the Navy De- partment. This was formulated by the general board of the Navy, and, bear- ing Secretary Wilbur's approval, was made public today. Revisions were noted in many ‘det4lls which Mr. Wil- bur said had been made for the pur- pose of eliminating obsolete projects and expanding the aviation branch cf the service. The naval construction bill is ready for consideration by the Senate. It has been passed by the House and ap- proved by the Senate naval committee and now occupies a place on the Sen- ate’s calendar of business. It calis for construction of 15 cruisers of 10,- 000 tons each, the largest that can be built under the terms of the Wash- ington Arms Treaty, and for the build- ing of one aircraft carrier of 13,800 tons, approximately half the size of the Lex- ington or Saratoga. 16 Would Cost $274,000,000. Under the terms of the measure the cruisers would be laid down at the rate of five each in the fiscal years of 1929, 1930 and 1931. The construction of the aircraft carrier would be before June 30, 1930. Exclusive of aircraft equipment, it is estimated that the 16 vessels will cost approximately $274,000,000. Originally a much larger building program was recommended by Secre- tary Wilbur, but his proposals were whittled down to the proportions of the present measure by the House. The revision of naval policy is the first since the Washington Arms Con- ference. It sets forth that “the funda- mental naval policy of the United States is that its Navy should be main- tained in sufficient strength to support United States policies and commerce, and to guard its continental and over- seas possessions.” After pointing out that building and maintenance policy must conform with arms limitation treaties, the general board in its statement said that it was purposed “to build and maintain an efficient, well balanced fleet in all classes of fighting ships, in accordance with the capital ship ratios; and to preserve these ratios by building re- Pplacement ships and by disposing of old ships in accordance with continuing programs; to make superiority of arm- ament in their class an end in view of the designs of all fighting ships, and to provide for great radius of action in all classes of fighting ships.” Small Cruisers Eliminated. In view of America’s comparative lack of fueling bases, which makes small cruisers, with ir necessarily narrow radius of activity, of little value, a point stressed by President Coolidge, (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) STATION BROADCASTS CORN-HUSKING EVENT Thirteen Compete for Champion- ship of United States in Meet on Indiana Farm. Louis Kovifz's revolver, purchased | py the Associated Press. after one experience with robbers a| month ago, accounted for a hold-up man last night in _the cigar store where Kovitz clerks. He killed the rob- ber after the hammer of the latter’s weapon had fallen harmlessly on a| gta defective cartridge. Kovitz_told police the man was the same who held him up a fortnight ago. The robber was identified as Mor- ris L. Smith, who served a sentence for robbery in 1924. The first bandit death came earlier the day when Patrolman Michael in Wellgarecki fatally wounded Lloyd Mor- | w; row, 18, fleeing after robbing a filling station. Bandit victims were Charles Emmert, killed in his drugstore by a robber, and Matt Luck, shot dead in a drugstore where he was a customer, FOWLER, Ind, November 13.—Out on the Willlam Strasburger farm today the corn-husking championship of the United States was being settled by 13 expert huskers from seven Midwestern tes. The event was regarded as sufficently significant, at least to farmers, for broadcast and station WLS of Chicago had installed equipment to make possible a ‘“play-by-play” or “ear-by- ear” account of the contest, which was to start at 11:30 a.m. Among the contestants was Elmer illiams, runner-up in this year’s Illi- nois State championship and holder of the world record of 35.8 bushels, estab- lished in 1925. States represented be- sides Illinois were Indiana, Kansas, meemtn, Iowa, Nebraska and Mis- sour STEWART DENIED HE KNEW GF BONDS, WALSH TESTIFIES {Montanan Swears Accused 0il Man Said He Had Noth- ing to Do With Distribution.. QUESTION NOT ASKED, DEFENSE COUNSEL SAYS Declares “Errors and Misunder- standings” Occurred in Steno- graphic Reports. By the Associated Press. The Government reached into the Senate today for testimony in its ef- forts to prove that Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, perjured himself during the long-drawn-out investigation of the oil scandals. It placed on the stand as its first major witness Senator Walsh of Mon- tana, who pounded for months at those who appeared before the Senate inves- tigating committee, and the Montanan swore that the oil man had last Febru- |ary testified before the committee that he knew nothing about bonds of the Continental Trading Co., which figured largely in the case. Senator Walsh said he had asked Stewart whether he knew anything about the bonds, and that Stewart re- plied he had nothing to do with the distribution of any bonds. “The question was asked again,” Walsh added, “and he replied that he knew nothing about the bonds.” Bonds Reach Fall. Testimony has shown that a large batch of these bonds found their way to Albert B. Fall, who leased Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair. Leo A. Rover, district attorney, in- quired whether Stewart had been asked about his knowledge of any recipient: f the bonds. __Saying_that Senator Nye of Nortk Dakota had asked such a question, Waish added that Stewart had said he had nothing to do with any distribution of the bonds and had not “made a dol- Jar out of them.” Upon repetition of the original question§ Walsh said that Stewart had denied any knowledge of how the bonds were distributed. On cross-examination by Frank J. Hogan, defense counsel, Walsh could not recall testimony in the trial of Stewart last Spring on contempt charges for refusing to answer questions by the Senate committee. When his memory was refreshed by excerpts from his testimony, however, the Montanan sai¢ he was willing to accept the transcrip’ as_valid, Rover sought to bring up Stewart' testimony before the committee in April, when he acknowledged having received $759,000 in bonds from profits made by the Continental Trading Co. in an oil deal, which he turned over to a trustee. Hogan objected, and this phase was benpaaed over after a conference at the Asks “Not Guilty” Verdict. Earlier in the day, after Hogan had asked for a quick “not guilty” verdict, Rover said his office was endeavoring to ascertain the identity of the young man whom Robert N. Caldwell, a pros- pective juror in the case, Had said called at his home wanting to know whether he would “hold out.” The investigation would continue, said Rover, with the matter not being placed before the grand jury unless evidence to substan- "r‘efi Caldwell's information was uncov- e Hogan reviewed Stewart’s two appear- ances before the Senate committee and declared that no such question as those upon which the indictment is based had been asked. “It was never asked and never answered,” he said, “and if it was, it was never understood.” The defense counsel recalled that 457 questions had been put to Stewart in February and 479 in March. He con- tended that the stenographic reports of these hearings were not entirely ac- curate, and that “errors or misunder~ standings” had occurred at that time. Hogan read at length from tha stenographic report of the February committee meeting, centering his at= tention on the questions and answers passing between Walsh and Stewart on that occasion. In several instances the Senator agreed with defense coun- ::d!ehnfi errors in reporting had been Emphasizing Stewart’s refusal to answer as to any knowledge he had of - the distribution ¢f &-~nds from the Continental Co. profits, Hogan read the resolution presented to the Sen- ate February 3, calling for the oil man's arrest on contempt charges. He asked why, if Stewart had denied any knowl« edge of such distribution, it had not been included in the report, and Walsh sald he could give no reason. The stiff cross-examination of the oil prosecutor went on for nearly two hours. Ingham Mack, clerk of the Senate committee, as the first witness, identi- fied various minutes of the committee hearings, including those of the ses- sions at which Stewart appew:esl. On cross-examination Hogan developed that the witness could not say definite~ ly whether there had been a quorum present when Stewart was questioned February 2. The court admitted the minutes into evidence over objection. Justice Bailey yesterday ordered the jury locked up for duration of the trial, This action came at the close of the opening session, as Hogan was winding up kLis opening statement to the jury, The nine men and three women had earlier heard the Government's case sidsdad by Rover. ‘Justice Baile~ conducted the exami« nation of prospective jurors, declinin over objection to allow defense counsel that opportunity. As finally selected she jury included Albert K. Baker, street car conductor; Carl W. L. Horn, sales- man; William E. Egan, salesman; Mrs, Eva Buckley, widow; Mrs. Sadie G. Jen- kins, clerk; Morgan C. Emmons, sales- man; Walter N. Hogan, insurance so- licitor; Laurence L. Kiefer, secretary; Hugh R. O'Donnell, unemployed; Mrs. June P. Chaffee, housewife; Fred P, Haas, clerk, and Charles E. Henderson, department store floor manager. All of them denied acquaintance with any figures involved in the oil scandals, or counsel in trials growing out of these, or with witnesses in the present case, )