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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Mostly fair tonight and tomorrow; tonight. hi ler A sug'&:’m : Highest, 91, at 3:45 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 71, at 5:50 a.m. page today. Full report Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as seco Washington, No. 31,097. post office, on @he FEoening ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION %; nd class matter G “From Press to Home Within the Hov-™ 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, 106,600 WASHINGTO! D. C, FRIDAY, ’ JUNE 21, 1929—FIFTY PAGES. UP) Means Asscciated Press. KLOTZ 1S QUSTED AS ENGINEER FOR CAR FARE LETTER Utilities Commission De- mands Resignation, Which Is ‘Agreed To. HOLDS CASE PREJUDGED WITHOUT HEARING FACTS Coiisider Action Amounts Almost to Breach of Public Trust, Says Hartman, ‘The Public Utilities Commission to- day requested the resignation of Capt.| Robert G. Klotz, the commission’s en- gineer, because of a letter he wrote to People’s Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty yes- terday giving his opinion that the Capi- tal Traction Co.’s request for street car fare increase should be granted. The company asked a 10-cent cash fare and that the token rate be three for 25 cents instead of four for 30 cents, as requested in the company’s petition. Harleigh H. Hartman, vice chairman ©of the commission, endeavored to call a meeting of the commission yesterday as moon as Capt. Klotz's letter had ap- peared in an afternoon newspaper. He could not obtain a quorum, but Mr. Hartmand and Engineer Commissioner William B. Ladue held a meeting short- ly after 9 o'clock today and decided on their course of action. Announcement of the decision, however, was delayed until Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, who is out of town, could be reached on the Jong-distance telephone to confirm the decision. Gen. Patrick is chairman of the commission and Mr. Hartman is acting chairman in his absence. Kiotz Agrees to Resign. Capt. Klotz was requested to resign effective June 30 and to take leave of beginning immediately. He Gapr. Siots letter especla 'apt. lotz's Jetter, b; :Irt.ue of the fact that he u;ned“ylt -i public hearing on its last application Tor an increase in fare. “By implication, Capt. Klotz's action made it seem that the commission also had prejudged the case. commission 1s in |clear and open, should have bee:x‘ Capt. Klotz's usefulness, certainly in this case, and by analogy in other cases, & petitioner of relief before this com- mission. “‘Our action must not be taken as in ition of prejudicing the case into which his letter has tended to place the commission.” Mr. Hartman said that he had asked Capt. Klotz specificially if there had been any communication between him and Mr. Fleharty on which to base the letter and that Capt. Klotz had replied that there had not except for a mimeo- copy of & letter sent by Mr. to civic associations asking for their expression of opinion as to the :mmny'l petition for an increase in are. Summary of Letter. Capt. Klotz's letter, summarized, is | to the effect that the company needs an increase of fare; that revaluation might postpone, but could not forever ‘withhold this increase; that if revalu- ation is undertaken, the proper fare to (be charged on the new value to be found might be so high as to be pro- hibitive, and that therefore the logical rocedure is to grant “a substantially her and Jogical rate of fare, ac- companied by a complete overhaul of the transfer situation and the establish- ment of free, universal intercompany transfers, with restrictions sufficiently only to avoid abuse.” After reviewing the history of the two local street car companies, Capt. Klotz pointed out that in the World (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.), HOSPITAL EXPLOSION IN CANTON REPORTED Dispatch to London Says 100 Died in Blast—Many Patients Rescued. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 21.—The Exchange ‘Telegraph Co. said in a dispatch from Hongkong today there had been an explosion in two vaults under the Compound Vestbund Hospital at Can- ton, followed by fire. Nearly a hun- dred persons perished, among them 30 patients. The main building was de- stroyed. 3 ‘There were more than 400 patients, rescues being effected by Cross workers, police and the military. | Engineer Removed l il CAPT. R. G. KLOTZ, Engineer of the Public Utilities Com- mission, who was asked to submit his resignation today. RUM BOAT SEARCH FOR ARMS IS URGED ALERANORIA POLIE SLAYER DECLARED KNOWN TO DFFCERS Believed to Be Man Who Recently Escaped After Arrest. SERGT. McCLARY KILLED IN RUM INVESTIGATION Mayor Offers $1,000 Reward for Apprehension of Murderer Said to Be Colored. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 21.—-More than a score of colored men and women, picked up in the dragnet spread by police last night following the fatal shooting of Police Sergt. Charles R. McClary, 32, by an unidentified colored man, were to be questioned today by local authorities. Struck by a .32-caliber steel-jacket bullet, which entered near Canadian Crown Attorney Proposes Move to Curb Liquor Shootings. By the Assoclated Press. ‘WINDSOR, Ontario, June 21.—Search of liquor boats by Canadian officials for firearms is advocated by Crown At- torney James S. Allan as a means of combating liquor smuggling. Allan advanced his suggestion in op- posing release on bail of Alfred J. ‘Woods, wealthy Amherstburg dock own- er, arrested on a charge of receiving a camera stolen by rum runners from a newspaper photographer whom they kidnaped last Tuesday. The crown attorney pointed out liquor runners are permitted to land unmolested and unquestioned, while other persons entering the country by ferry are closely scrutinized. Hardened Rum Runners Remain, “At the present time the stricter en~ forcement by the United States river g:r‘oln has weeded out ‘the weakened RUM DEATH SURVEY STARTED. State Department Begins Study of Detroit Sheoting. ‘The Department of Justice has launched a Nation-wide survey to as- certain the number of local and national officers killed in enforcing act and also the violators or suspected of that law who have been Prior to this announcement yesterday came 'word that the State Department Fodersl campaie - hart e u - gling along the Canadian gog;g:‘ge of the survey was defined as merely to gather law " enforcement information. Much similar data bas been made available to the investigating com- mission appointed by President Hoover. Secretary Stimson asked the Treas- ury Department for & report of the De- troit River affray. While he did not in- dicate his purpose, Government officials asserted if the nationality and identity of the rum boat and its crew were es- tablished, there was a possibility that rican Government. might make representations to Canada seeking their apprehension and delivery to the Amer- ican authorities. Information reaching the Government indicated the attacking craft had esca) inf adian waters of the rl‘zleecll'. e Report Is Ordered. After the request of the Secreta f State, Assistant Secretary Lowman of ties at Detroit to report on the shooting. Lowman said he expected to receive and dispatch the report to Secretary Stim- son today. “The firing upon customs boats by the Treasury ordered customs suthori- | Cla mfla‘nm is nothing unusual,” he de- h:’m'e Department officials sald there the United States and Canada in con- nection with the recent concentrated drive of the American prohibition au- thorities in the Detroit River area against liquor smuggling. Prohibition Commissioner Doran an- nounced today he had a complete re- port concerning conditions in Northern New York prohibition district, persided over by Palmer Canfield as administrator, whose headaqr are at Albany. Doran, who said recently he was not satisfied with conditions in the district, due to the sale there of illegal beer, and who summoned Can- fleld here for a conference, said that he would announce his decision in Canfield’s case within a day or two. Doran declined to give any intimation of what action he would take. Meantime the commissioner said he had assigned L. B. Connell, a special investigator, to make a survey of the administration district and he expects a report within 48 hours. Ontario Report Ts Asked. ‘TORONTO, Ontario, June 21 (#).— Alfred Cuddy, deputy commissioner of the Ontario 'provincfal police, today (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) . U. S. Most Law-Abiding Nation on Earth, ! Judge Says, but Individuals Are Lawless By the Associated Press. MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, June 21.— ‘The individual American is lawless, but the Nation as a whole is the most law- abiding on earth, Judge Andrew A. Bruce of the Northwestern University School of Law, said today, He was here to address the Iowa State Bar Assocla- tion. ‘ Controversies that Individual States have settled without a thought of vio- lence. he said, would have meant war in Europe. “But the sense of law and order was so strong in this country that a Supreme Court of nine men gowns was able to settle the disputes and to settle them without the firing of a gun out a soldier,” he added. Pations) Meal. Wht wE meed. chieh a na . What we y, 15 a personal ideal” ! been no correspondence between | arms the | ored man, but he had disaj the left shoulder and plowed through his neck, cutting a jugular vein, Mc- Clary died almost instantly. The slayer made good his escape, while several witnesses to the crime cringed in hor- ror on their doorsteps in the 500 block North Patrick street, as the man dis- appeared into the night. Less than 15 minutes after the slay- ing, 1,000 citizens were gathered in front of the police station, many armed with pistols and rifies, and there was no doubt in the minds of local police but that a lynching party would have been organized had the murderer been apprehended. Search for Suspect. Alexandria Police definitely estab- lished this afternoon that “Kid” Lilly, L ONE KILLED, 3 HURT IN TRIPLE GRASH William H. Davey Dies at Hospital After Defense Highway Accident. ‘One man was fatally injured and five 51-year-old colored man, wanted in Wilson County, N. C., for the murder of a policeman in 1922, who was ar- rested in Alexandria Tuesday and later escaped, was seen in the same block of the city last night where Officer McClary was killed, shortly before the The clothes Lilly was wearing at the time correspond with the description furnished police by eyewitnesses of the r. Lilly also had e | crash. He never regained consciousness ,;Oslgu Capt. W. W. Campbell that he was_carrying a revolver and proudly to Chatham, Va., police, who were pre- to send him to North Carolina g answer to the murder charge there. He leaped from a bus, handcuffed, while being to Chatham and escaped. A search has been going on for him ever since and a reward of . | road northeast, who with a after efi:vcmnl glet:l (:-'pblé ‘cam_lp_:el] and Police L. e Tly, ey drove to the hlo:t North Patrick street, parked Sims’ machine and their way into an alley behind a colored dwelling notorious for the sale of liquor. McClary Entered Alleyway. The two policemen stood in the alley watching four colored men and two col- ored women sitting on a huge box in the rear yard of 523 North Patrick street, when McClary, without saying a word to Sims, suddenly went through a hole in the fence of an adjoining yard and en- tered a narrow alleyway leading between 523 and 525 into Patrick street. As he entered the alley, according to reconstruction of the crime from state- ments made by Sims and three colored persons, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Price and Phoebe Reynolds of 527 North Patrick street, the latter three of whom were eyewitnesses to the actual murder, McClary called out to a colored man who was making his way through the narrow alley toward the street. Man Refuses to Stop. . ‘The man refused to stop, and Mc- Clary quickened his pace and nearly caught up with him as they galned Patrick street. The man suddenly wheeled and fired four shots point blank at the policeman. Only the fatal bullet, which entered his throat, struck Mc- ry. Sims, who was still watching the six people in the back yard from his posi- tlon behind the fence, ran down & large alley 50 feet to the north of where he was standing and had nearly reached the street when McClary sud- denly appeared around the corner, lunged toward Sims and threw his around the detective’s shoulder. “They did it,” McClary muttered, and then lapsed into unconsciousness. Sims said that McClary’s gun had not been removed from its holster. The detec- tive laid McClary down in the alley and raced into the middle of the street in hopes of catching sight of the col- peared. Ordering Price, who had been sittin; on his doorsteps with his wife an the Reynolds woman, to turn in & call to police headquarters, Sims, with the ald of Paul Robey, placed the wounded (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) HAYS GRANTED DIVORCE; GETS CUSTODY OF SON ‘Wife Did Not Contest Action, Al- though Represented in Court by Attorney. Ily the Associated Press. SULLIVAN, Ind, June 21—Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, was granted a divorce in the Sullivan County Circuit Court yesterday from Mrs. Helen Hays. The divorce was granted by Judge fi::':v:y. mléndn Arthur de Baun. The procedings were conducted quietly and news of the legal separation did not. become known un- til today. Hays was given custody of their young son, ison Hays, Jr. ‘The action, filed some time ago by Hays, was not contested by Mrs, Hays. She did not appear in the' courtroom, but was represented by Michael Foley, 4n attorney otuldndl;’nlp:m. Mr. l;:{ul was _represen ttorne Btratton snd Alonso Owen, others sent to the hospital when three cars collided on the Defense Highway near the intersection of the Ardwick road near Bladensburg early this morn- ing. The dead man is Willlam Herman Davey, 21 years old, a Western Unlon telegraph operator, of the 2100 block [night of First street, who sustained a fracture of the skull and internal injuries when thrown from one of the cars in the and died at Casualty Hospital at 11 o'clock this morning. Sy, was a passenger iven by Francls Cog- ave- nue, who was held at the ninth precinct on request of Maryland police, after hefi:g.uewed at the hospital for injuries to head and back. Returning From Resort. ‘The Cogland machine, according to , collided with a car driven by ul E. Goodrich, 1900 block of Naylor pcnly of oung le, was returning from J rgor. ‘The Goodrich car over- turned. A moment l;:ll; ;nnctbe{ l:elx; chine, the driver of w] nof identified by the Maryland authorities, plowed into the two that had collided. Constable Andrew M. Gasch of Prince Georges County, Wwho was passing, extricated Miss Helen Nix, 19, of the 1300 block of West Virginia avenue northeast, and Miss Catherine Gleason, 1100 block of Fifth street northeast, from the wreckage of the Goodrich car and rushed them to the Bladensburg Fire House, where they were transferred to the automobile of E. J. Waters of Berwyn Heights, who, with Constable George Wiseman, took them to Casualty Hospital. Summon Rescue Squad. Gasch then summoned the Prince Georges County Rescue Squad, which, under the direction of Chief H. L. Leonard, removed the men to the hos- pital in their ambulance. ch was found to have severe lacerations of the scalp and arms and remained in the hospital. Although so badly cut that 15 stitches were required to close her wounds, Miss Gleason in- sisted on leaving the hospital, as did Miss Nix and Gilbert Wright, 206 Twelfth street northeast, a member of Cogland’s party, after treatment for cuts and bruis Martin Alexander, 100 block of South Carolina avenue southeast, another er in the Goodrich car, was unh|;lrt Tl,na‘ll refused transportation to e hospital. mflm&nd authorities said they would place charges of reckless driving against Goodrich and Cogland. WAGE CUT IS FACED BY BRITISH SPINNERS Notices Will Be Posted by Em- ployers Tonight for 12.82 Per Cent Reduction. By the Associated Press. MANCHESTER, England, June 21.— Announcement is made that notices will be posted ll.rflpfl cent reduction in wages in the Lancashire cotton spinning industry. Decision to reduce wages was reached by the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners early this month. Representatives of the 200,000 work- ers estimated to be affected, declared that any attempt to reduce wages would be strongly opposed and there was talk of calling a strike. —_— VATERLAND ON CRUISE. Count Von Luckner Expects to Reach New York in 24 Days. NORDENHAM, Germany, June 21 (#).—The four-master Vaterland, with its owner, Count Felix von Luckner, aboard, salled for New York today. three months' deep sea exploration cruise in the West Indles was planned. Capt. Ibecken said that he expected to reach New York in 24 days. Dawes Accepts Dinner Invitation. LONDON, June 21 (#).—Ambassador accepted the Council of e to "The | Durocher. by the employers tonight for a ey Heflin Will Help Son, Under Arrest On Traffic Charge Senator Returns From Speaking Tour as Son Loses Driving Permit. “I am deeply pained to learn that my son has been drinking again, but shall continue as a father who loves his son to help him in every way that I can,” declared Senator Heflin of Ala- bama today when he returned from a speech-making trip to Ohio and learned the details of the arrest of his son, James Thomas Heflin, jr., on a charge of driving an automobile while under the influence of drugs Wednesday t. The statement follows: “I am deeply pained and grieved to learn that my son has been drinking tions and conquer the harmful forces that beset him and be what his mother prayed he would be and what I expect him to be—a fine and useful man to his day and generation.” In Toledo Senator Heflin' said, “The boy may have had a drink, but I am mxaemmnummawaowm:nu- cotics.” Following a special investigation by Assistant Traffic Director M. O. Eld- ridge, the driving permit of young Heflin was ordered suspended today. At almost the same time this morning the analysis of the contents of a bottle found in young Heflin's car when he was arrested Wednesday night was completed and no narcotics found. — A'S LEAD YANKEES, A1, IN OTH INNING 27 65,000 See Start of Big Double-Header—Grove and = Pennock Hurl, Line-up. PHILADE . Bishop, 2b. o Haas, cf. Cocl Umpires—Messrs. McGowan, Campbell and Moriarty. By the Associated Press. YANKEE STADIUM, New York, June 21.—The Athletics were leading the Yankees in the sixth inning. The score was 4 to 1. More than 65,000 fans were in the stands, with other thousands pouring through the turnstiles, here today as the teams squared off in the first game of a double-header, the first skirmish in a crucial series of five engagements. ‘The Mackmen led the champions by seven and one-half games as the game gan. H Miller Huggins surprised fans by starting Herbert Pennock instead of ‘Waite Hoyt. Connie Mack ran true to form with Robert Moses Grove, who up to today had won 10 and lost onl 1. The weather was perfect, if a warm, Rath in Right Field. Babe Ruth resumed his_customary place in right fleld, and Bob Meusel was in left. FIRST INNING. ATHLETICS—Pennock tossed out Bishop. Durocher threw out Haas. Cochrane lined to Durocher. No runs. YANKEES—Combs fanned. Robert- son singled to left. Gehrig tripled to left, g Robertson. Ru and Lazzeri struck out. One run. BECOND INNING. ATHLETICS—Simmons _singled to left. Foxx singled through Lazzeri, sending ns to third. Miller hit into a double play, Durocher to Lazzeri to Gehrig, Simmons scoring. Dykes flled to Ruth. One run. YANKEES—Meusel and Grabowski ;‘t;uck out, Grove threw out Durocher. THIRD INNING. ATHLETICS — Boley grounded to Grove fanned. Bishop| (Continued on Page 3, Column 4) SHORTRIDGE TOTELL Senator to Discuss Process { of Framing Pending Law in Radio Forum. ‘The making of a tariff bill, and in particular the making of the bill now pending before the Senate finance com- | mittee, will be discussed in the Na- tional Radio Forum, conducted through The Star, by Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge of California, a member of the Senate committee, at 9 o'clock to- morow night. throughout the remainder of the Sum- mer and into the Fall. It is the first revision of the tariff law in eight years, President Hoover has recommended a limited revision of the tariff, par- ticularly in the interelts of agriculture and of cemiay industries ;lut have ered . recen of enlarged importations from abroad. The House bill has been criticized in many quar- u‘;‘saulolnzxubenndl“llmtcdu- YRES™ The fight in the Senate will be to reduce or wipe out many of the tariff duties imposed in the House bill. Se lican, Senator Shortridge, like President Hoover, is a native of Iowa, although, like the President, he is now rated a Californian. He is a lawyer, practicing long and successfully in the West, He was a presidential elector for in 1888, for McKinley in 1890 and for Taft in 1908, having for many years in politics. He was elected to the Senate in 1920 and re- elected in 1926. PATERSON PRESS SOLD. Charles D. Whidden and Ridder Brothers Take Over July 1. PATERSON, N. J, June 21 (®.— Sale of the Paterson Press-Guardian to Charles D. Whidden of Montclair and the Ridder brothers, nationally known newspaper blishers, was an- nounced today by Charles Currie, pres- ident of the Press-Guardian Printing & r will change hands July 1. | 80D dder brothers are publishers of the New York Journal of merce, the St. Paul (Minn.) Ploneer Press and Dispatch, the New York Staats Herola and other papers. WALES TO BE 35 SUNDAY. Prince Plans to Spend Quiet Birth- | day on Estate. LONDON, June 21 (#).—The Prince of Wales will pass another milestone on the age record Sunday, when he be 35 years old. He will spend his birthday quietly at his count estate of Sunningdale, where he during the past week, driving as lived over to Ascot daily for the races. No arrangements have been made for any special celebration, but ‘Windsor Castle it | the prince will motor to to see the King and Queen. Air Mail Line Opened. COLON, Canal Zone, June 21 (#).— A Pan-American plane, piloted by F. Crmsby, left France Pleld this morning on the first mail flight to the east coast of South America. Stops were planned at Cartagena, Colombia; Barranquilla, Colombia, and Curacao. The plane also }vul ‘(’,l' wmmrmg ':hen President uan T. Trippe, who is a passenger, will visit the recently elected President of Venezuela. ngv:;\xlnmm clearing house, $4,340,- Creasury balance, $365,133,805.03, clearing house $1,380,000,000. New York clearing house balance, $155,000,000. ¢ Radio 4 OF TARIFF MAKING; - ‘The tariff bill will hold the limelight | I!armu- alderman, is “King Saul” Stabs Himself in Arm in Play Death Scene | Aim Is Bad, Injecting Too | Much Realism Into Col- ored Church Part. Edward Sewell, who frequently for- sakes his role of janitor to play emo- tional roles in colored church theatri- cals, is recovering from sword wounds and shock incurred the other night when he injected too much realism into the King Saul suicide scene of a| church play at Mount Zion A. M. E.| Church in Gedrgetown. Sewell, veteran janitor for the local telephone company, was back on the job today after ving four stitches taken in his forearm at Georgetown University Hospital. Sewell was taking the part of King Saul in a play led “Men of the Bible” when the incident occurred. Bedecked with a crown, regal robes and white sandals and armed with a yard- long military saber, the King was sup- posed to stab himself in a dramatic climax to the play. He did. Slight Error in Aim. A tense silence prevailed in the church auditorium as King Saul strode onto the stage and flourished his sword with abandon. The King, it had been agreed by Sewell, was to end it all by running the sword between his body and his arm. In his fervor, however, his biblical majesty failed to take tne proper aim and the sword ran through his arm and emerged on the other side. “It sure hurt,” Sewell admitted to- day, “but I didn’t let the audience know about it. I pulled the sword out and to floor like I was to do. I raised up and groaned once or twice—and I mean I really groaned —and then I said, let's see, what did I ? Oh, yes, I said: died mighty King Saul!” ou that from the “Andso. sir, I want to tell that blood spu when I sa ea: spo my arm, I thought I truth, for sure.” Cast Helps Tie Up Wound. The King then jumped up and ran behind the scenes, where other mem- bers of the cast helped him tie a piece of his tunic around the wound. He was rushed to the hospital, regalia and all, and surgeons there told him he had Wark 10t several dsys. work for seve : Exhibiting the same sort of bravery as marked his continuance of the role while wounded, Sewell announced today he didn’t intend to let a sword wound blight his career in histrionics. “Yes, sir,” };uid 'lg‘?;.lln flm;lnfla. “I'm gonna do King again | couple of weeks at the Third t Church—stab or no stab. “But I'm gonna practice up a little on my aim in the meantime.” ROTR AR {LEPROSY CURE SOON, | FORECAST BY DOCTOR {Rats Have Been Found Upon | Which Experiments Are to Be Conduoted. By the Assoclated Press. B , California, June 21.—Dr. | E. L. Walker, professor of tropical med- | icine at the University of California, told the Pacific Division of the Amer-l can Association of Scientists here yes- | terday that a “quick and permanent cure for leprosy” may be looked for in the not too distant future. ‘The lej , Dr. 'alker re- ST R is the agent responsible for a certain disease among rats. These rodents, he said, can now used experimentally in working out leprosy treatments. Heretofore, he as- serted, there has been no creature known but the human being which had leprosy or a disease akin to it. ONE DEAD, TWO ARE ILL IN ROOSEVELT EXPEDITION TWO CENTS. BAN ON CAMPAIGN GIFTS BY FEDERAL EMPLOYES SOUGHT Legislation Under Considera- tion by Brookhart and Sen- ate Patronage Committee. ROBSION IS ACCUSED OF DEMANDING FUNDS Statement Describing as “Coercive” Methods Used by Creager Inserted in Record. By the Associated Press Legislation to prohibit Federal of- fice: holders from contributing to polit- ical campaign funds i5 under consid- eration by Chairman Brookhart and the Senate patronage committee as a result of the investigation of disposal of Federal appointments in Southern States. Brookhart made this disclosure today during a committee meeting at which a letter was placed into the record from R, B, Waddle, former postmaster at Somerset, Ky., charging Representative Robsion, Republican, of that State, with having demanded funds to meet campaign expenses. The communica- tion added that Robsion's statement of expenditures for the 1924 election gl:dwede d that “no expenditures were The Towa Senator declared he be- leved legislation should be enacted that +“would stop any such methods of collec~ tion from Federal employes.” Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, con- curred in this view. Brookhart also placed in the record & statement by himself describing as. “coercive” methods used by R. B. Creager, Republican national commit- teeman for Texas. At the same time he filed a letter by Creager denying charges of coercion. Another letter filed with the com- mittee, this one by Sidney F. Bailey of Madisonville, Ky., accused the t- master in that place, whom he did not name, with having been “often drunk on duty.” It said two inspectors had asked removal of the postmaster for “concealment of shortages,” but that the case was “whitewashed thoroughly.” Methods Investigated. Other communications filled by the ol concerned questions in South Carolina and Arkansas. Waddle's letter said he refused “cer- tain illegal demands” of Robsion and was mnot reappointed when his term ot 'hotostatic copies of letters he said had been from the Kentucky. member were furnished ‘Waddle. The first of these, dated August 5, 1924, said the expenses of his cam- paign that year in Waddle's county Were considerable and he unds ‘Waddle “did not help.” 1 “As you have the best office in the district,” the letter said, “I should be very glad if you would contribute $200. A member of Congress cannot run all the races and bear all the burden all the time,” i who was not appointed I busy and contributing.” Another Letter Quoted. Another letter said that Robsion “did not want anything for himself” and that whatever Waddle gave he “in- tended rt;n tnn‘x it o:le‘r to the tz‘w per- sons who up the money for e fhere.” R campa! . “I understand,” this letter added, “hat they took care of the situation there, but I have never appointed any one of them to any office and have not done anything for any of them. I felt that it was nothing more than right that those who had received the good appointments ought to help those who (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) P il R HOOVER IS SILENT notice was Dr. Hendee, in Subsidiary Group, Expires Near Saigon—Others Unable to Travel. Special Dispatch to The Star. SHANGHAL, June 21.—C. S. Cutting of New York, member of the Roosevelt Thibetan expedition, arrived at Shang- hai today from Saigon, Indo-China, bringing word of one fatality and two serious ilinesses among members of the party of four. This party is a sub- sidiary of the Roosevelt expedition and has been doing work within a 50-mile radius of Saigon. According to Cutting, Dr. Hendee from Brooklyn, but attached to the British Museum as zoologist, died as a result of fever 45 miles from Sai- Harold Coolidge of Boston is serious- ly 1ll in Tongking, unable to be moved with the party to Hanol. Dr. Wheeler is 11l with Coolidge. Theodore Roosevelt is due to arrive July 1 at Saigon, where he will meet Mrs. Roosevelt, due here from the United States Monday. (Copyright, 1929.) _— LAWYER, ARM GASHED, FOUND DEAD IN OFFICE Milwaukee Police Believe Joseph A, Bennett, 28, Victim of Injury on Bookcase Door. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 21.—Found in his office, whose furnishings were stained with blood, Joseph A. Ben- nett, 28-year-old lawyer and son of a lieved by police have bled to death from a wound suffered when his arm crashed through & bookcase door. ‘The body was discovered by a char- woman. IN NEW YORK ISSUE President Will Not Interfere in Selection of Republican State Chairman, By the Assoclated Press. It was stated cfficlally today at the White House that President Hoover will not interfere in any way in the se- lection of a chairman of the State Re- publican committee of New York, to succeed H. Edmond Machold. Officials said that any reports to the contrary were entirely erroneous and that the President regarded the selec- tion of the chairman as purely an in- ternal matter for the State party or- ganization. ©One report was that Mr. Hoover was behind W. Kinsland Macy, who was a Hoover supporter both in the pre-con- vention and the central presidential campaign. Mr. Machold has called a meeting of the county chairmen for next week to select his successor. He was made State chalrman during the last presidential campaign and after the election was named by President Hoover as chair- man of the New York State committee to deal with patronage matters. The other members of that committee were Charles D. Hilles, Republican national committeeman fr New York, and Wil- lam H. Hill, who headed the independ- ent Hoaver-for-President movement. After Machold's successor has been selected some readjustment in the line- up of the patronage committee unques- tionably be necessary, but the Presi- dent will not give the matter his atten- tion until after the new cl has been selected. Wife Who Wrote of Husband as Old Man Granted Divorce By the Associated Press. coln Steffens, who wrote, & few months a magazine article on “How It % to Be Married to an Old Man,” vmuuu. divorce in Superior Court here rday. yms. lens, who is in her early thirties, charged Joseph Lincoln Stef- cently wrote a mi “How It Feels to Be a Father at 60.” Shortly afterward Mrs, Steffens’ arti- cle, philosophizing on her of ‘:;n’ “old man” husband, appeared. Winters. They Have s aons Peier Sianley 'y \ve & son, fens, 4. by Califqrnia Court sttending parties or dances and was SALINAS, Callf,, June 21.—Mrs. Lin- mnua‘ testimony was heard be- d closed doors. Steffens, born in San Francisco, re- agazine article on Steffens’ pen name ‘They were married is _Ella in Paric last Btef-

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