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WEA (U. 8. Weather Partly cloudy and slightly night: tomorrow showers in the afternoon. Temperature— Highest, 56, at 3:20 est, 33, at 7:35 am. Full report on pa HER. Bureau Forecast.) warmer to- cloudy, probably p.m, vesterday; low- . today ge 10. Closing N. Y. Mark ets, Pages 14 and 15 ch ¢ Foeni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNI NG EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular e tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. ng Star. Entered as seco post office, Wa No. 30,907, ond_¢ pshi ss matter n, D, C. WASHINGTON, WARTS IMMINENT, PARAGUAY WARNS INNOTETOU. S Bricf, hut to the Point. It Blames Bolivia for Tense Situation. WORD OF MOBILIZATION IS DENIED BY MEDINA He Adds, However, That He Sees Nothing Extracrdinary in Massing of Troops. A gua giving jlemn warning that the Para- -Bolivian boundary dispute is se to the danger of “imminent mitted today by the ge d'affaires through | identical notes delivered to the State | Department and td Dr. Victor Maurtua | of Peru, chairman of the conferces named by the Pan-American Conference to conciliate the differences between the | two countries. | A‘{ew Machine Exerts 'Pressure of 600,000 s Sg¢ Pounds Square Inch ¥ the Associated P CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 13 —A machine capable of exerting 600,000 pounds of pressure per square inch has been perfecteg here by Percy W. Bridgman, professor of physies at Harvard. The device, a small one, was said to mroduce pressure as great as would be exerted by an ocean 250 miles decp or an atmosphere 5,000 miles high. Eventually, Prof. Bridgman said, he hopad to Taise the potential pres o to $00,000 pounds per square | inch. i | | | | | | ARGENTINA MOVES 10 GUARD HOOVER Police and Military Mobilized | at Buenos Aires to Block Possible Discrders. By the Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Decem- ber 13.—While police today were holding Alejandro Scarson and Jaime Gomez | l | Following the assurances given the | Oliver, acAised of plotting against the State Department earlier in the day life of President-clect Hoover, the gov- .‘.‘;“,;’l‘mg‘fi‘.‘.“::;“_(é*i‘;‘; iend B | erament’s _ clockwork-like crganization | conference would do to avert a war in | for the protection of the Hoover party South America, the situation described | by the Paraguayan legation tended to | dispel the calm that was just beginning | to settle down upon the conference. Brief, But to Point. | ‘The Paraguayan 'note, brief, but to | the point, piaced the burden of respon- | sibility for threatened hostilities upon | Bolivia by calling attention to the fact | that, despite Paraguay's disposition to submit the difficulty to a commiittee of conciliation, Bolivia is massing troops and war supplies in’the neighborhood of the border. In explanation of the situation, the note added that, in view of the proximity of permanent Para- guayan garrisons in that region, the danger of an armed clash was very great. Bolivian Minister Medina issued a | statement today saying that he had no | information from his government as to warlike preparations. He added that he saw nothing extraordinary, however, in | the fact that his country might be send- | ing troops to the border as a prudent move. | Bolivia Position Unchanged. | On the other hand, the position of | Bolivia with respect to non-participa- | tion in the efforts of the pan-American | committee looking into the boundary | dispute, remained unchanged today. | Although Bolivia has re-entered the | general conference on instructions from | home, Minister Medina reiterated today | bogan functioning this morning in anticipation of its arrival. Police Chicf Col. Graneros mobilized 1,500 Buenos Aires police, including ti entire strength of the detective force, | and also had under his command strong detachments of military and naval | orces from nearby arsenals and navy ! yard. { Mr. Hoover’s arrival will be the signal | for clearing the Central Argentine Rail- way station of all persons without offi- ial status. A cordon of the police and military forces will keep crowds from pproaching the station gates until after | the departure of the official party. Route to Be Guarded. ! President Hipolito Irigoyen and mem- | bers of the cabinet will meet the Hoover | party at the station and will accom- | pany the President-elect to the home of Robert W. Bliss, American Ambas- | sador in Buenos Afres. The party will | be protected along the half-mile route | by mounted and unmounted police and military detachments. The ~ extraordinary precautions, de- | cided upon after the discovery of an| alleged bomb plot involving ~persons | suspected of previous anarchistic ac-| tivities, will continue effective until Mr. Hoover departs for Montevideo on Sat- urday. La Nacion published an elaborate ® | Buckingham Palace about noon. !be a hard and a difficult one. that until Paraguay makes “moral Hoover special edition as did the other | reparation” for the invasion his coun- | principal morning papers, and the en- try will not join in the efforts of the | editorials eulogized and special committee. . He further stated that he understood no . mobilization e et o e Salors of the Teserves. ‘The 'text of the notes presented by }he Paraguay and charge d'affaires fol- lows: “I have the honor of addressing your excellency with the object of amplifying the information which have been communicating to you regarding the regrettable incident between Paraguay and Bolivia. “This legation has received official information from its government that notwithstanding the peaceful senti- ments of the people of Paraguay and of that country’s disposition to submit the difficulty between the two countries to a committee of conciliation, Bolivia is actively concentrating large numbers | of troops and war materials on the | frontier, all of which tends to make the | outbreak of war imminent. d Bolivian Attitude Described. Despite its insistence upon “mora! | reparations” for what it regards as an affront to its national honor, the atti- tude of the Bolivian government was described as being always favorable to arbitration for the settlement of the “boundary dispute between his country and Paragusy. Regarding the latest border incident, | the Bolivian government regards that | its national dignity and sovereignty had been subjected to such a violent aggres- sion_that Paraguay would have to give a token of her regret for what occurred | before his country could agree now to | submit the matter to conciliation. President Siles of Bolivia, learned today in cable messages re- ceived at the legation, made his posi- | tion clear in the well-known Argentine Patriotic As- | sociation, which addressed him a com- | munication manifesting that American | fraternal sentiments require the neces- | sity of avoiding a “useless conflagration | in this continent.” | Invasion Is Cited. In his message of reply, President Siles used the following language: “You state that fortunately the honor the national sovereignity of Bolivia are not invol conflict I beg of you to con- sider if the invasion of our own terri- tory. the attack upon and the Kkilling | | | of our soldiers and the destroying of a | small Bolivian fortress in existence for | a long time, do not constitute a viola- | tion or an infringement of those same attributes—the honor and the sov- ereignity of the fatherland.” Minister Medina pointed out that this affront had come about when the two s had accepted the good offices e Argentine government and when their representatives were endeavoring to settle the boundary controversy in a peaceful manner. Attitude Pleases Officials. But for the advent of the Paraguay note, the gootl extended earlier in the day from the Argentine government would have paved the way, perhaps, for much progre. in the efforts to iron out the bounda dispute, State Department ~officiais made no attempt to conceal their satis- faction over Argentina’s attitude. Whether Argent would finally conscnt to send a delegate to the Pa " (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) | son, 21, and Caferino Gomez Oliver, 26, | in this international | surances and sympathy | tire press in wel the American party. ‘While Mr, Hoover’s special train was the. pampas, “the from Chile in a blinding snowstorm, Buenos Aires police maintained a close reserve con- cerning their investigation into the plot against the American Prcsident-elect. ‘The indestigation was launched after a raid on a private house had netted | several bombs, small arms, ammunition, counterfeit money and anarchistic liter- ature. Two young women, arrested with two men, were released in custody of | their parents because of their youth, it was reported. Sought “Vindication.” ‘The men, said to be Alejandro Scar- were reported unofficially to have told | police that they intended to use the | bombs “to vindicate those who have been exploited by capitalism.” It also | was said that they referred in detail to their terrorist activities, although they | did not mention any previous bomb outrages. Scarson, more loquacious than Oliver, is said to have shown no scruple about revealing himself as an anarchist. On maps found in the house the route of the special train was carefully marked and bore annoiations which left little doubt as to the interest of the plotters in the Hoover party. After crossing the border into Ar- gentina Mr. Hoover was afforded an! excellent opportunity to see at first! hand the agricultural life of the! pampas. He watched with interest the | magnificent scenery, and his trained eye | took in engineering problems which | it was | Were solved in the construction of the| and had watched the changing of the high trans-Andean railroad. Riders of the pampas, comparable to | formulating_a reply to| the American cowboy, in colorful garb, | the bulletin was of & somewhat reas- waved greetings to the train as it sped | past fields of wheat and large herds of | cattle. At every station along the route crowds were on hand to welcome and | cheer the Americans. The Argentine mission, accompanied | by United States Ambassador Robert W. Bliss, boarded the train at Lascuevas to ride to the capital with the party. | Dr. Diaz Leguizamon of the foreign | office headed the mission. Party Greeted at Mendoza. Descending the eastern slope of the Andes, the train stopped for an hour at Mendoza, situated in the foothills and within sight of the snow-covered peaks. More than 15,000 persons jostled in and around the station, cheering and applauding. The governor of the Province of Borzani and his official staff and also the mayor and officlals of the municipality gave Mr. Hoover a warm welcome. Allan Hoover, son of the President- elect, rode on the electric locomotive | | which pulled the train over the Andean divide. His father was also invited to (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) 11 PASSENGERS SAVED. - | ! Shipwrecked Party Being Cared | | For in Trapper's Cabin. | _SEATTLE, Wash,, December 13 ().~ | The 11 of the disabled steam- | ship Starr, whi truck & reef in a | heavy gale ye , were being cared | for today in a trapper's cabin on Dark | land, 177 miles west of Seward, Alaska. | Man Who Filed Suit to Bar »l;[oovcr From White House Jailed for Sanity Probe By the Associated Pres CLEVELAND. Ohio,, Gustave F. Ebding, who filed Herbert Hoover from the pre December 13 uit to bar dency be sufficiznt length today facing a e he dec the United St of time, was in charge of insanity. ‘The in: ity war Trene Nung e in oS ¢ Jail nt was signed by tant Uniled Stales had not lived | { | district attorney. charges Ebding with “utiering a false ment against the President-elect. The warrant was merely “routitie malter,” Federal authorities sald. It is | customary for investigation to be made |of all suspected threats against the | President_and President-elect. Ebding | the bar ir Customs Court yesterday in The warrant also KING PROGRESSING AFTER OPERATIONS: FACES HARD FIGHT 'Royal Patient’s Weakness of Grave Consideration Despite Improvement. MORE SERIOUS RESULT OF LUNG TAPPING FEARED FPhysicians and Public Gratified by Favorable Reaction—Blood | | | | { | Infection Found. | By ihe Associated Press [ LONDON, December 13. — King George, apparently relieved by last night’s operation for the removal of purulent fluid at the base of the right | lung, today was making progress. | At 3 o'clock this afternoon it was | stated in authoritative circles: { “The King is progressing.” | Shortly before this statement was | made Lord Dawson of Penn and Sir| Stanley Hewett, the King's principal | physicians, returned to the palace and again saw his majesty. ' | Queen Mary left the palace shortly | before the 3 o'clock statement for a | She had luncheon with who drove to| Prin- cess Mary also drove from the palace | some time after the Prince of Wales had left. Princess Reports Condition. Speaking at a League of Mercy meet- | ing at St. James Palace this afternoon, Princess Mary said: “You will be| pleased to know vhat so far the condi tion of the King is satisfactory.” ! It was stated authoritatively that the | weakness reported in the earlier morn- | ing bulletin was not unduly alarmin: but for the next few days, until it was known definitely whether the King's strength was sufficient to conquer the| weakness ‘or not, anxiety must continue. { Emphasis was laid in palace circles this morning on the fact that the strug- gle which the King faces was likely to \| That weakness was certain to result} was one of the grave considerations the doctors had to weigh before perform- ing the operation. It was understood, | however, that as soon as the fluid! around the base of the lung had been | detected yesterday mofning, there was | little doubt that an operation would | have to be performed. Word Anxiously Awaited. The feature of this morning’s bulle- tin which struck the public most grate~ motor drive. the Prince of Wales, | | | fully was the statement that his ma, Lty was not B¢ public had_anxiously awaited the Of the phylcians’ losing ground. 1 sult. examination this morning in fear that the surgeon’s work, however necessary it had bsen, might have had such an effect on the weak- ened patient’s general system as to brng about a rapid or gradual collapse. This foreboding was relieved by the doctors’ announcement that despite weakness and considerable blood in- fectjon, the King's pulse was steady | and” he’ was suffering no loss of ground. Sir Sianley remained on guard at the palace throughout the night as usual. the other doctors leaving after they | had issued a bulletin last night on th second operation. Sir Stanley was joined this morning by Lord Dawson of Penn and Sir Hugh Rigby, the surgean who operated on | the King, and these three signed the morning bulletin after examining their | patient. Physicians Show Relief. When Lord Dawson and Sir Stanley Hewett left the palace after submitting | the morning report they were smiling and chatting cheerfully. The crowd on hand to watch the posting of this mornin's bulletin was larger than usual because of the sen- sational nature of yesterday's develop- ments and widespread concern as to how his majesty had stood the shock of the operation. The crowd surged forward eagerly to read the report when it was placed on the palace railings. Among the specta- tors was an old army pensioner who had been waiting in the cold for hours | guard. He smiled with satisfaction, as did many others, when it was seen that suring character. Prayers Are Continued. Each day at noon until further notice prayers for the King will be said at | Westminster Abhey. Today all classes | and creeds went there to offer silent prayer for the ruler struggling against illness, Women in rich furs, side by side with those in plain and ‘worn clothes, knelt in the abbey and joined |in the silent prayer. They were fol- ! lowed at intervals by business men and zovernment officials who had taken a | few minutes from their luncheon hour. Before intoning petitions from the litany, Canon Storr announced that he | ad just received a messagé from Buck- ingham Palace saying, “The King has | had some slecp and is not losing | ground.” $500,600 DIAMOND GIVEN HEAVY GUARD Jewelry Interests Appeal Free En-| try of “Cyclopean Eye” of Indian God. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 13.—Guarded even closer than the most dangerous | criminals, a diamond was placed before a suit to decide its right to free entry. The stone, known in the Middle Ages as the “Cyclopean Eye” of the god Siva in a temple at Nassak, India, weighs more than 80!, carats and is valued as high as $500,000. It was car- ried to court in a special car and | throughout the court proceedings was flanked by armed guards. It was brought to this country in March, 1927, by Evon F. Bandler, New | York agent for a firm of Parisian jew- | elers, 1t was granted free entry as an arlistic antique, but American jewelry THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18— SIXTY (®) Means Associated P:en. PAGES. LooKsS LIKE THE) WONT LEAVE ME A THING i To Do WHENE, ‘82X~ 1 GET 10 - WRSHG (72N Dk = |Cabbages Displacing | T3EAPERTS ADVISED D. . HOUSE GROUP SINCLAR RENEWAL, PLANS STEP T0 A VWORK TELLS EROUP - PROMIBITION LAW fLegal and Technical Officers Propose Making Police More isince 1914, are expected to be ratified jciation at their annual meeting this CUT S APPROVED Board of Governors of Un- derwriters’ Association Will | Recommend Reductions. Appreciable reductions in fire insur- | ance rates on dwellings, office buildings and mercantile structures here which will bring long hoped-for savings to property owners have been approved by the board of governors of the Under- writers' Association of the District, it was announced today. The proposed rate changes, the first by members of the Underwriters’ Asso- afternoon at the Willard Hotel. Reductions Are Summarized. The percentage of reductions on COOLIDGE CONFERS. Melody Way Down UponSuwanee River By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 13.— Way down upon the Suwanee River, cabbages rather than melody are ap-’ parently now. becoming the main thing. Florida is to double its cab- bage plantings this season, accord- ing to a report today from the Gov- ernment Bureau of Agricultural Eco- nomics. The report adds that a preliminary estimate from Florida, Louisiana, Texas and California indicates that the cabbage area of the country’s four early shipping States, taken al- together, will be the largest in any recent year, 36,260 acres, an increase of 2,130 acres over last seasbn. SUPERDRY BODY |5 LAUNCHED HERE three-year policies, which are most nu- merous in the District, due to the fact \Workings Are Described by Lehlbach, Who Also Tells About Own Pay Bill. Representative Lehlbach of New | | Jersey, chairman of the House civil service committee, described to Presi- | dent Coolidge today the workings of | | the Welch act and the employes’ pay | relief- bill which he personally is pre- | paring and will shortly introduce in Congress to clarify the Welch act. The civil service committee chairman discovered that President Coolidge wnsf not only keenly interested in the sub-| Jject, but was especially anxious to have | | explained to him the reasons for the | many complaints that have arisen in connection with the Welch' act. In endcavoring to do this, Mr. Lehl- bach told the President that the princi- ON WELGH PAY AT that most loans on properties run for $hat period, are summarized in a state- ment issued this morning by Edward S. Brashears, treasurer of the assocla- | tion, as follows: | “Brick dwellings, 16 2-3 per cen! contents of brick dwellings, 10 per cen! frame dwellings and contents, 10 per | cent; combination brick stores and | dwellings, 16 2-3 per cent; contents of | combination brick stores and dwellings, | {9 per cent. | ‘The largest rate reduction, it was| | stated, would be on the one-year pol- :l(‘k‘s affecting all-brick dwellings in the | . District, “being a reduction of from 15 |0f America, the Women's 331-3 per cent in annial premiums. Contents rates in this class, it is an: nounced, would be reduced from cents to 18 cents per §100, or a reduc- tion of 28 per cent. Annual premiums on frame dwellings and contents also | would be reduced 28 per cent. The greater portion of householders here, however, it + explained this morning by an insurance writer, would be affected by the three-year policy | rather than the one-year term, due to prevailing loan practices. The foregonig reductions, Mr. Bra- shears stated, would apply to all new and renewal policies eficctive January 1 and thereafter. Mr. Brashears explained in his state- ment that when the association was formed 14 years ago, the experience of other localities and the District was used in establishing rates, that no changes could be made with accuracy without at least a 10-year cxperience and that such changes could not be made only on the experience here be- cause of the limited area of the Dis- trict. He added that for the last four years “the association has been giving its attention to adjustment of schedules as more pressing than attention to the less hazardous classes carrying minimum rates.” The changes in schedule effectéd hy the board of governors, based upon ex- perience statistics covering the period in which the Rating Burcau has been operating, will result in reductions rang- “(Continued on Page 7, Column 2) \ pal feature of the bill he will shortly introgue will be to m: absolutely plain_just what the Congressional in- | tent is in the mattev of pay increases and other bengfits under the Welch act Early Introduction Hoped. Mr. Lehibach told the President that he hoped to be able to introduce -his | bill before the Christmas holidays. In the meantime, it is his intention to Organization. Will Direct Pol- icies of 31 Temperance Agencies in U..S. A new “super-dry” organization was | launched here taday to direct the pol- | the i 0 icles af the 31, leading temperance or- | oy Brig; Gen. Lotd, director ol ganizations of the nation, including | and others intrusted with the adminis- | ich bodies as the Anti-Saloon League | U : | Mr. Lehlbach is giving particular study ration of the Welch act. Christian | % [cents to 10 cents per, $100, a cut of | Temperance Union, the Board of Tem- perance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church and others. The reins have been placed & the hands of the Rev. Arthur J. Bar- ton, a Baptist minister of Atlanta, who is chairman of the executive committoe of the Anti-Saloon League and social service secretary of the Southern Bap- tist Convention. All week the leaders of the dry move- ment in the nation have been going over the plans for the key organization which blossomed forth today under the title of National Conference of Organi- zations Supporting the Eighteenth amendment. Advantages Are Seen. Purely a delegate organization, with out open membership, the “conference, as it already has come to be called. unifies the aims of the large number of temperance organizations which are its component parts and dry leaders | today sald they expect it to result in one vast dry body with all of its energies directed in one broad channel. As explained today by Dr. Barton, its | president, the “conference” will main- tain a legislative committee here to direct the energies in dry legislation of all of the bodies represented and have complete sway over all prohibition matters of a national scope. This leaves the component organ- izations with dree rein only in the mat- ters of their State activities, with the “conference” the final authority on all " (Continued on Page 7, Column 1.) POLICE PRIVATE AS COUNSEL FOR PATROLMAN| IS BARRED Cross-Questioning of Officer Would Be Prejudicial to Best Interests of Force, Trial Board Holds. The police trial board ruled today that a policeman brought before them for a violation of the police manualfnat Corporation Counsel Fowler had | could not be represented by a fellow | officer because “cross-questioning of a police officer by a private would be prejudicial to the best interests of the force and might react harmfully to the policeman appearing as counsel.” The decision of the board grew out of charges against Policeman Luther J. ‘Walker of the fifth precinct, who intro- duced Policeman R. V. Allen as his counscl when he appeared- before the board this morning. ‘Walker was charged with leaving his post and removing part of his uniform. Inspector Objects. Inspector Lewis J. Stoll, presiding officer of the board, objected to Pvt. Allen appearing as counsel in the case. Pressed for a reason by Helen Eisen- hart of the Department of Justice, Stoll interests appealed irom the Treasury is the author of a book entitled “The ' World Not a Globe.” Depariment ruling. Decision was re- served. advanced the explanation that it would be embarrassing for the sergeants and lieutenants preferring the. charges if | they were forced to submit to cross- | examination by a private. g i Policeman Allen, however, claimed previously told him that, even though he is not a member of the bar, there is no legal reason why he should not represent. another officer before the trial board. Adlen, who says he has had considerable experience in cases of this kind, takes the position that one policeman can defend another to better advantage than a regular attorney, be- cause he understands better the diffi culties encountered by policemen in per- formance of their duty. Discrimination Disclaifed. in discusing the matter after the board had adjourned, Inspector Stoll said there was no intention of discrim- ination against Allen, and that he had no personal reason for objecting to his appearance as counsel. In other cases where policemen have trial board, they were all members of the District of Columbia bar, Stoll said. After refusing to permit Allen to represent Walker, the board granted the latter one hour in which to pre- pare his case. He went to trial without an attorney, . to the “relative position” clause. He is | studying a brief on the subject prepared \by J. W. Karsner, chief of the docket | ficctnun of the Federal Trade Commis- |sion, which has been brought to the attention of Senators and House mem- ! | bers interested in this subject of relief for Government employes by Luther C.| Steward, president of the National Fed- | sration of Federal Employes. | In the preparation of his brief Mr.! Karsner had the advice of a large| number of experts in important busi-i ness concerns and outstanding schools | of accountancy. It is elaimed that as; a result of McCarl's ruling hundreds of Government employes received only | (Continued on Page 4, Column 2. | 'EX-MAYOR AND WIFE | | SLAIN BY INTRUDER Revenge for Killing 40 Years Ago Seen as Motive for Murder. | | By the Associated Press. CARBONDALE, Ill, December 13.— J. C. Hundley, wealthy pioneer and | former mayor of Carbondale, and his | wife were shot to death shortly be-! fore last midnight by a burglar in their home. Hundley, 76, was shot in the head as he undressed for bed. The “intruder fled downstairs and cHased Mrs. Hund- ley up a back stairway. Killing her in- i | Concurred in Salt Creek Ac- tion, Ex-Secretary Says. READS PRINTED REVIEW TO LAND COMMITTEE | Memorandum Shows Department of Justice Was Asked Last April 27 for Opinion on Contract. By the Associated Press. Hubert Work told the Senate land committee today that he had renewed the Sinclair contract for Salt Creek royalty oil while he was Secretary of the Interior upon the advice of four officials appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate and nine other legal and technical experts of the gov- ernment. Work, now chairman of the Republi- can national committee, was summoned as a principal witness to discuss the Salt Creek contract, recently nullified on advice of the Department of Jus tice, in ‘connection with the committee consideration of the nomination of Roy 0. West of Chicago to be Secretary of Interior. West, himself, was before the committee at (wo sessions yesterday and tified that his connection with the contract was routine and that he had submitted it to the Department of Jus- tice upon the advice of his assistants. Appears With Statement. Mr. Work, who resigned to manage he campaign of Herbert Hoover, ap- peared before the committee with a seven-page printed statement about the Sinclair contract. “Before the senewals were made,” the statement read, “the executive officexs of the department carefully construed the law, having in,view all the facts and the complete data of the case, and recommended renewals. The Depart- ment of Justice later invalidated the original contracts of sale which, of course, nwllified the renewal of said contracts. In this respect conflict of officers of tha two glepartments.” At the suggestion of Senator Walsk, Democrat. Montana, Mr. Work read hi long statement, whith gave a chrono- “All the facts and details relating to the renewal of oil contracts or leases ‘made during my administration or prior thereto,” he said, “are of record and available to this committee.” “In connection with the renewal of the Salt Creek purchasing contract and ! the Cat Creek contract May 1. say thal | ! both, of these contracts for sale of the | government’s royalty oil were awarded i before 1 became Secretary of Interior. Both contracls contained renewa. clauses. - Matters Covered Eight Months. “Ths record shows that unusual at- tetion was given to this matter cover- inz a period of more than eight months foilowing the notification by the Sinclair Crude Ofl Purchasing Co. on June 7, 1927, that it elected to exercise it right to renew. under the original contruct. several objectors being invited several times orally and in_writing to submit any facts showing illegality or fraud. | The record further shows that copies of all papers relating to the origiual bid were furnished to the special Govern- ment counsel in the oil suits, Messrs, Pomerene and Roberts, and to the Emergency Fleet Corporation in 1924, | Copies of records were also furnished to the protestants and on March 27, 1928, to the chairman of the public lands committee of the Senate.” “The Secretary of the Interior in the determination of questions like this must depend upon the permanent ex pert legal and technical forces provided for him by Congress in this instance, the action of the department taken in line of duty only. by and upon the ad- vice of four officials appointed by the | President and confirmed by the Senate, and nine other legal and technical ex- perts of the General Land Office, the Geological Survey and the office of the solicitor. ‘The matter involves no irregularity or concealment in the re- newal, on the part of any officials of the Interior Department, but is solely a difference of opinion in the construing of the original contract and the law. “I have here a chronological recor (Continued on Page 3, Column 4. DISTRICT APPROPRIATION HEARINGS POSTPONED Work on Bill Will Be Resumed After Recess for the Holidays. Hearings on the District of Columbia legal opinion developed between the law | logical history of all facts in the case. | Effective Against Sellers of Liquor. HESSE AND BURLINGAME CALLED AS WITNESSES Doran Says 3,000 Washingtonians Are Engaged in Illicit Business. The subcommittee of the House Dis- trict committee proposes to recommend o Congress the adoption of drastic measures designed to give the Police Department more potent and effective weapons with which to enforce the prohibition law. The committee’s plans were disclosed | by Chairman Gibson at a public hear- | ing today, called for the specific pur- | pose of surveying the liquor situation |in the District and discussing legisla- | tion needed to bring about more stringent cnforcement. Maj. Edwin | B. Hesse, superintendent of police; | capt. Guy E. Buriingame oi ine sec- ond precinct and Sergts. Letterman and Little of the special liquor enforcement squads, were called before the commit- tee as witnesses, Representative Gilbert of Kentucky and Chairman Gibson were particularly | concerned with the liguor situation, the latter citing a statement of Prohibition Commissioner Doran that 3,000 pérsons in Washington are engaged in the illicit liquor traffic. “It is the opinion of this committee.” declarcd Mr. Gilbert, “that 2,000 or 3,000 places to buy liquor are too many. This situation must be broken up. We want the District of Columbia so that when visitors come here they will be impressed that this is a law abiding and not a lawless city. I am ashamed to.go home and tell my constituents that the chief prohibition enforcement officer of the United States had testi- fied that 3,000 persons here are en- gaged in the liquor traffic. “Our purpose is to co-operate with the Police Department to clean up these conditions. Certainly they are not what the country expects of its Capital.” Maj. Hesse described in some detail the persistent activities of the Police Department in enforcing the prohibition law in the face of numerous legal and technical obstacles, and pointed out that the entire force of 1,350 members only 38 of them are deputized as rev- enue agents and have authority to en- force the Volstead act. Wesse Cites Defects. Maj. Hesse, as well as t. Burlin- J{m. who followed him g the wit- | | | | ness stand, cited what they des<ribéd as | defects in the existing enforcement laws, and declared with the proper au- | thority the department could rid Wash- i ington of its bootleggers. Chairman | Gibson asked the police superintendent | for concrete suggestions for remedying the situation, and he presented @ few verbally, but was toid to put all of his recommendations in a report for the consideraticn of the committee. Aside from clothing all members of the Police Department with authority | to make arrests for violation of the | prohibition law, both Maj. Hesse and Capt. Burlingame suggested that legis- [ 1ation makinz it & felony to' purchase | liquor as well as to transport it would be very effective. Mr. Gilbert, how- ever, frowned on this proposal, ex- pressing the belief that it would mak: conviction more difficult. Maj. Hesse and Burlingame also rec- | ommended the tightening of the search | and seizure law, and authority to make | & search of a place suspected of selling liquor without the necessity of procur- ing a search warrant. In addition, the police superintendent urged thai the authority to issue reh warrants be placed in the hands of persons who could be reached at anf hour of the day and night. The au. thority to issue such warrants, he point ed out, now rests with the United Statey Commissioner, and it is difficult *» reach him at times, especially in t' 2 early hours of the morning when a waz- |rant might be needed. | Gibson and Gilbert both questioned Maj. Hesse as to the co-operation he re- | ceived from the courts and the District | attorneys’ office. and called his atten- tion to an article in a Sunday newspa- | per on the prohibition situation in | Washington with illustrations of cer- tain sections where the captions declar- ed liquor could be purchased. Maj. | Hesse was asked whether he had or- | dered an investigation to determine the | accuracy of the article and he replied irat the matter had been referred to the district attorneys office. | Statisties Given. | Maj. Hesse read into the record sta- | d appropriation bill for the fiscal year | jstics showing the arrests made by the begianing July 1 next have been post- | police in the last five years for Vol- poned until after the Christmas-New | stead act and Sheppard law violations. Year recess of Congress. | The total arrests for violation of the The program of the House appro-| Volstead act in the fiscal year ended | priations committee originally called for | Jast June 30 were 6,142, the largest in represented fellow officers before the | he shots, | escape. Hundley’s watch, which he held when shot, was not taken, and his pock- etbook was untouched. “The slayer's failure to tak> any loot from the wealthy couple strengthened police belief in their theory of revenge. Bloodhounds from East St. Louis aided police today in their search for the. murderer. The Hundley home. probably the most pretentious in the city, was in a well lighted district two blocks from the center of town. V. A. Hundley, the pioneer’s only son, Is the sole heir to the family estate. Mrs. Hundley’s brother-in-law, E. E. Mitchell, was & former treasurer of Tlinois. ‘The couple had planned to leave this week for their Winter home in Florida. Radio Programs—Page 42 House on January 18. It was decided | today mnot to start the hearings until January 3, the date on which members of the House return from their tion, and to report the bill to the Ho on January 22 or 23. ouse Quake shl;ciu in Bulgaria SOFIA, Bulgaria, December 13 (#).— | Pronounced earth shocks were felt today in the region of the famous Rila Mon- astery. The population fled to the streets. Rila, 8 market town in Bulgaria, about 40 miles southwest of Sofia. Eleven miles to the east stapds a large ‘and celebrated monastery of the Ortho- dox Greek Church, known gs the Rila Monastery. . | these hearings to start on December | the five-: r stantly with three pistol shots, he |50 and the bill to be reported to the | Thew asurcr o turned off the lights, went out the front | door, locked it and escaped. Neighbors, awakened by tl entered by a back door and found Mrs. Hundley dead and Hundley unconscious. He died shortly afterward. Mrs. Hund- | ley, his second wife, was 67. | Revenge for a killing of nearly 40 years ago' suggested itself to police as a motive for Hundley’s slaying. He killad a music teacher, they recalled, for holding a tryst with his first wife. He was acquitted, pleading the unwrit- tn law. His first wife, who obtained a divorce soon after the killing, now lives in Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Hundley was shot, police be- lieved, because the slayer feared she might recognize him. Her pocketbook was found near the front door as if dropped by the slayer in his haste to “These figures show wholesale viola- tions in the District,” commented Mr. Gibson. 'hey also show the activities of the police in enforéing the law,” answered Maj. Hesse. | "Gibson then referred to Doran’s | statement that there are 3,000 illicit liquor dealers in the District, but Maj. Hesse said he thought a figure between 2,000 and 2,500 would be more con- servative. In addition to the 38 men deputized | as revenue agents who have authority to enforce the prohibition law, Ma). | Hesse explained that the Police Depart- is | ment has a “road squad” in charge of | Sergt. Little, and & special flying squad- ron n command of Sergt. Letterman engaged in searching for liquor viola- tors, although these special groups do (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) By the Associated Press. IS STAMBOUL, Tnrkey, December 1. 3| !“Medicine Women™ Caught in Stamboul | Trying to Ca;t Out "Evil Eye” by Magic dogged practitioners have been arrested for having defled the Kemalist law for- Seven stooping, veiled crones with hair | bidding the exercise of their ancient and finger tips stained with henna and | art. wrists jingling with blue beads to ward off the evil eye, are mumblifg impre- cations against the new orderfof things as they sit in the prison cells.to which the police of the Turkish republiz hiavc gonducted them. ¢ Théy are the remnants of’a once powerful clan that of the !Moslem “medicine women.” . These seven last' _ Duridg one day's raid the polics found the seven in different old quare 15 of Stamboul, each in the act of efe 2:uUng some one of the many tradie mal cures, such as waving before s baby’s nose & burning hair stolen frors the head of the person who has cas\ the evil eve upon the infant and therc- by caused its sickness