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WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair tonight, followed by showers tomorrow: afternoon and night. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 8( yesterday; lowest, 71, Full report on page 9. “Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 31,173, post office. cooler tomorrow at 7:45 Entered as second class matte: Washington, nic ah ‘WASHINGTON, D. ¢ Foenin ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION, (98 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Star. Associated service. The only evening in Washington witl per the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,196 5, 1929—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. FH¥ (#) Means Associal ed Press. TWO CENTS. T.A T. AR LINER'S FATE IS MYSTERY AS STORIES DIFFER AND SEARCH FALLS Situation Is Complicated by Alleged Denials of Rail Agents That They Gave Out News of Crash. EIGHT REPORTED KILLED WHEN BOLT STRUCK SHIP| Company's Statement Stands Until Facts Are Learned, but Official Is Beginning to Doubt Authen-| ticity of Reports—14 Planes| Begin Hunt. By the Assowfated Pr LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sep- tember 5 (#).—Earl Gordon and Lindsay Gillis, Los Angeles fly- ers, en route here from Albu- querque, N. Mex., telegraphed friends today that they were safe at Kingman, Ariz, and were leaving shortly for this city. Their plane was believed previously to have been forced down in the region where a search is being made for the missing transcontinental transport liner City of San Francisco. LOS ANGELES, September 5.— Confusion and mystery drew a] double veil today around the facts concerning the Transcontinental| Airport’s lost air liner, City of San Francisco, which previously hld. been reported by company offi-| cials to have been wrecked in the wilds of the New Mexico-Arizona border region, and its five pas-| sengers and three crew members ' dead. The inability cf searchers to! locate the plan2, which disap-| peared Tuesday while on its way from Albuquerque to Los Angeles, | together with alleged- denials of Santa Fe Railroad agents that they had circulated reports of the wreck being found, further com- | plicated the situation this mom-; ing. | The chief dispatcher of the Santa Fe Railroad here declared, however, that the Santa Fe tele- graph operator at Perea, had not denied having reported reports of the supposed finding of the City of San Francisco in the Black Rock wash country. No Change in Announcement. Informed of these details, H. W. Beck, ‘Western traffic manager for the Trans- port, told the Associated Press that the official statements of his company say- ing the liner had been wrecked and its passengers and crew killed had been based upon information from the; Santa Fe. In the face of the conflicting state- ments from the various Santa Fe agents and another from the postmaster at Gallup, who denied that any of his mail carriers had reported sighting the wreck, Beck announced that he would make “no change for the present in our previous official statement quoting this (the Santa Fe) report until further in- vestigation establishes whether there is | any basis for it.” Authenticity Doubted. Beck declared, however, that “‘we are ‘beginning to doubt the authenticity of the report given us.” He reiterated that company officials here had no definite information from its own search for the facts. The Perea operator communicated today with Supt. Collins of the Trans- continental Air Transport in Gallup, N. Mex., the Winslow dispatcher said. and reiterated that he yesterday had passed along a report, for delivery to T. A. T. officials, that the plane had been seen. The dispatcher quoted the Perea man as having told Collins that the report first was received by his wife from a driver of a school bus in the Zuni Indian Reservation. The woman, who was in Gallup, N. Mex., transmitted the.information to her hus- band, the dispatcher said. T. A. T. offices here also announced that information had come to them from Gallup that the Perea operator bad reiterated his story. A telephone call from a banker in Gallup to the T. A. T. in Winslow ‘brought information that an Indian runner had reported at Gallup this morning that he had seen a plane go down in Carbon Wash, which the bank- er said was south of Gallup. Whether this was a repetition of an Indian run- ner report received from the Zuni res- ervation last night and believed to in- walve & plane flown by Early Gordon, with Lindsay Gillis of Los Angeles as a passenger, the banker did not know. Virtually all T. A. T. officials who reviously had been directing the search From ‘Winslow preceeded to Gallup. 14 Planes Begin Search. Perea consists chiefly of a railroad air | Autoist Hangs Self Afiter Hurting Child On Chicago Street By the Assoclated Press, CHICAGO, September 5.— Frank Schlec, driving his auto- mobile last night, ran down a little girl and was arrested. hlec’s wife and children were waiting at home, and he asked the policemen to permit him to telephone them. The policemen said no, and put him in a cell. An hour later, with his belt as a noose, he had hanged himself. The little girl he ran down, it developed, slightly bruised. HOLY WAR' AGAINST PALESTINE IS URGED Prepaganda Calls Moslems to Revolt and Move Against Government. was only By the Asscefated Press. JERUSALEM, September 5.—Moslum Arabs throughout the Holy Land and the bordering states are being called lupon by highly inflammatory propa- |ganda to revolt and move against the government of Palestine. Floods of this propaganda material were said here today to have emanated from Jaffa, Haifa, Egypt, Beirut and Aleppo and to have been in- strumental in the smoldering of re- | newed discontent. One of the proclamations in circula- {tion among the Arabs heralded a “fighters’ holy war” and called upon all Arabs to help Arab insurgents in Pal- estine, whose condition was described in !Lh! blackest terms. Border Clashes Continue. Although Jerusalem was quiet today, British troops continued their incessant clashes with bands of tribesmen who have penetrated the Palestine borders, One automobile which yesterday at- tempted to cross Allenby Bridge from ‘Transjordania to Palestine was found to contain 14 rifles and 1,000 rounds of ammunition. British military authorities immedi- ately ~dispatched armored cars_into Amman in an attempt to cut off the Palestine Aral ammunition at its source. Reports persisted despite official de- nial that skirmishes with Bedouins had occurred near Beersheba. in which six native Christians were killed. Jews, who hailed the first proclama- tion of the high commissioner, Sir John Chancellor, as aiding their cause, were not so joyful today over a second proc- lamation by the high commissioner, which announced constitution of spe- cial courts presided over by British Jjudges to try criminal cases among both Jews and Arabs growing out of the re- cent disturbances. The new proclamation said: “Since crimes of various descriptions are known to have been rerpetuled by both Arabs and Jews, all offenders, without dis- tinction of race or creed, will be brought to trial before courts set up under an ordinance enacted yesterday.” British Repulse Attack. Official confirmation of fighting with Bedouins was contained in a colonial office communique, which said: “On Monday night a party of mount- ed Arabs attacked the village of Tal- ploth, 2 miles south of Jerusalem. which is occupied by British troops. The at- tack was repulsed with a loss to the assailants. “Our troops in conjunction with the Palestine police have carried out searches based on Jaffa, Bethlehem and Jerusalem, 170 arrests having been made in the neighborhood of the village of Weleta, near Jerusalem. At Beisan, 66 arrests have been made including two important agitators. Pl:umon continue to indicate the passage of Arabs into Palestine by way of the northeastern frontier. No con- certed tribal movement is believed to be taking place, but isolated marauding bands maintain unrest in that area. “The Arabs of Haifa, Gaza and Ji reported quiet. Transj tranquil. The whole country is p: trolled systematically by aircraft. SITUATION IS GRAVE. Jews and Arabs Are Boycotting Each Other in Palestine. LONDON, September 5 (P).—The sit- uation in Palestine continues grave in communities where no troops hdve been sent, according to advices received by the Exchange Telegraph agent in Cairo. Airplanes have killed 5 and wounded lus. 2 A N dics of Nejd tribesmen are rted aching Palestine. T Hiaifa Jewish shops are stili closed. The situation is calm, however, and peaple are resuming work. Curfew reg- ulations are maintained and troops pa- trol the streets nightly. Jews and Arabs are boycotting each other, The Anglo-Palestine Bank, which is Jewish, refuses bills of credit to Arabs, while Arabs are boycotting the Rm:‘n::rz Electricity Co. and the Jewish . Following the repulse of Bedouin tribesmen by the British at Safed and Samkh, 80 wounded have arrived at Haifa. Airplanes have repulsed Arab forces endeavoring to attack Tiberias and Arab losses are believed heavy. o Quadruplets Start to School. ST.JOHN'S,New Brunswick, September 5 (/).—Chrismas quadruplets have be- gun to go to school. girls and a boy, children of Mr. and Mrs. William Maharey, born December 25, 1023. ‘The boy has to be in a dif- ferent classroom than his sisters. Damascus, | source of arms and| They are three | BRIAND'S ORATORY ON LEAGUE'S WORK STIRS ASSEMBLY Address Scoring War-Makers Brings * Biggest Ovation Ever Given Premier. HOPEFUL OF SUCCESS OF NAVAL CUT TALKS jConIeunce of World Court Signa- tories Puts Approval on Root Formula. GENEVA, September 5 (#).—The tremendous desire for peace shared by 95 per cent of all the peoples of the world will enable President Hoover and the British prime min- ister to solve the naval power prob- lem, said Ramsay MacDonald, speak- | ing today at a luncheon given the Council of the League of Nations by the International Association of Journalists accredited to the League. | By the Associated Press. 7 / 7 s 7 il T /, 0 | GENEVA, September 5.— Premier Aristide Briand of France, whose ora- | torical triumphs have won him the reputation of the most brilliant orater of Europe, received the biggest acclama- tion of his long career today before the | tenth assembly of the League of Na- tions, when he made a stirring tribute to the decade of work by the League and scourged war-makers and all those who secretly foster the spirit of war in the coming generations. When, in his memorable address, he sent forth an appeal to the women of the world to protect their children from false ideas of strife and from those | doctrines calculated to inculcate preju- | dice and hatred among peoples, the | great audience which packed the as- sembly hall burst into wild and pro- longed cheers. 'I!he French premier cotnented him- self with a modest reference to his project for a “United States of Eu- rope,” saying that although his idea had been described as a dream he was convinced that the nations of Europe could establish closer ties to their mutual benefit. Economic Disarmament. i i He asked the governments to studs | this_ problem, remarking significantly | that in addition to military disarma- ment there was another kind of dis- armament that :n nec:lry‘ and that was an economic one. problem nhol:ll:n‘:t attacked from the litical stan t. WAll the delegates, including nearly a score of premiers and foreign min- | isters and as many again of former; premiers and former foreign ministers, | rose to greet M. Briand as he came; down from the rostrum. | It was an impressive tribute to the great French premier, whose small form seemed modestly ddulxoul of effacing tself in the crowd. ‘s’l‘he ovation did not end in the as- sembly hall itself, for a big crowd had gathered in the streets oufside and hailed him with m:mers of sz:nnneou: on appearance. ldm"‘m.n bypp-:ylnl that the League's decade of life had demo strated its active power in many do- mains and triumphed over the heavy! difficulties which faced it at first. Called Great Moral Foree. “The League has vanguished irony and criticism. It has lge confidence of all peoples and it is a great ‘moral force,” he declared impressively. 1 M. Briand said that the League had waged.a tremendous campaign against war and has l‘)’een lhleml: do :o b'pc):e“r': it had prepared a propitious atmos E He &Bh‘ed that the pact signed in Paris Jast year really framed the; ideals of the League and announced that he had deposited a text of it wllhi the League for registration. | ‘The French premier, however, saw the necessity for further measures to assure consolidation of the progress made toward peace. War had been condemned as a crime, but it was now essential “not only to condemn war, but also to make war an impossibility.” “What will happen if one or more nations violate the pact? How will the signatory nations prevent it?” he asked his auditors, composed of some of the| greatest statesmen In the world of in-| ternational affairs. Defends Concessions. Extending his comment to the field of { world affairs in general, the PFrench premier remarked taht at The Hague reparation conference he would have been untrue to and concord if he had allowed “several millions of money” to prevent France from helping to liquidate the problems of the great war. Had he held back on concessions he would not_have been entitled to be w;‘lice%med back to Prance, the premier added. He had a firm hope that the Anglo- American naval conversations wouid succeed and that the disarmament com- mission of the League could convoke a conference. ‘There was, however, another kind of disarmament, Premier Briand is hearers, and that was eco- rmament. He belleved this | the project of a “United States of Eu- ‘bank of Telluride in rope.” M. Briand said that this idea (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) station and two or three houses. It had no telephone connections and no means of communication except Santa Fe lines. On the basis of the newly reiterated report, two T. A. T. planes, two Army g i e ins| oVt terrian in which it was believed the T4 ships, piloted by Lieut. Kenneth Barnes and Lieut. John Bodle. were searching south of Gallup and westward toward Houck, Ariz, while the smaller. commercial planes - were th Desert, it eriss-crossing Painted of wuum' N:tunlneolma nt.x-_;. i tinued on Page 3, ) 63-Year-Old Letter Carrier to Death in into the Detroit River and was drowned shortly before last midnight. Smith, who operated a boat livery in addition to his work ploye, was arrested RUM SUSPECT DROWNS TRYING TO ESCAPE DESPITE HANDCUFFS| &2 today. Boatuun.w- Plunges From Customs Detroit River. g BUNCO GAME NETS . TWO MEN $450.000 New York Men Swindled by Unauthorized Use of Cor- respondents’ Names. By _the Associated Press. DENVER, September 5.—A pair of | bunco men, one working in Denver and | the other in New York, swindled six New York City banks out of $450,000 last Saturday, police were advised today. ‘The six New York banks were cor- respondents of a like number of Den- ver banks. Each of the New York institutions contributed $75,000 to the scheme of the swindlers. ‘Through ths use of unauthorized tele- grams, the Denver member of the swindle team notified New York'cor- respondents of Denver banks to de-| posit $75,000 each to the credit of the the Chase Na- tional Bank of New York City. ‘Bear Unauthorized Signatures. Each of the telegrams bore the un- authorized signature of an official of the six Denver banks. were in code of the American Bankers’ Association. They were sent from va- rious branch offices of the Western Un- jon Telegraph Co. by the Denver mem- ber of the bunco team. Saturday in New York City the New | York accomplice of the local swindler appeared at the Chase National Bank and presented a cashier's check for | P withdrawal of $450,000. The cashier’s check is supposed to have been forgery. Charge Slips Bare Swindle. Discovery of the swindle was made when the Denver banks received from their New York correspondents the usual charge -ur. ‘These showed the Denver banks had ““authorized” the transfer of $75,000 each to the Chase National Bank for the account of the Bank of Telluride. The president of each of the Denver banks immediately notified officials of the New York institutions they had not authcrized the transfer of any money to the Chase National Bank for the account of the Bank of Telluride. | NEW YORK-MEXICO CITY AIR-RAIL LINE PLANNED Schedule, Starting Sunday, to Place Cities Within Two Days Reach. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, September 5—A new international air-rail combination, bring- ing New York and Mexico City within two business days of each other, was announced here today by the Universal Aviation Corporation. The service will be_inaugurated Sunday. ‘The schedule of the new system calls for a flying time of 67 hours and 15 minutes on the westward trip with an overnight stop at Brownsville, Tex. The return trip would be made in 49 hours and 5 minutes, with no overnight stops. The service, the announcement said, calls for departure from New York on the New York Central lines to Cleve- land, the Universal Air Line from Cleve- Brownsville and the Mexican Aviation Corporation from Brownsville to the City of Mexico. In addition to providing a link be- tween the Atlantic. Coast and Mexico, the new line will afford direct airsrail connections with the East to sections of the Southwest not on a transconti- nental route. JOINS CATER.PILLAR CLUB. Lieut. Schuylgen Jumps in ’Chute When Crankshaft Breaks. COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 5 (). —Lieut. George F. Schuy%l: of Dayton qualified for the Caterpli Club last night when he leaped to safety in a kshaft of All of the wires | BRITISH LEAVE RHINE. Last Soldier to Be Gone by Decem- ber 13, Germany Is Notified WIESBADEN, Germany, September 5 (#).—The last British soldier will have left the Rhineland by December 13, British military headquarters have in- formed the German authorities. The | | Spas of Koenigstein and Bad Schwal- | bach will be the first districts free of | foreign troops, the evacuation endirg by_September 28. | The_last British detachments are to | leave Wiesbaden itself December 7. | TRAL IN OCTOBER ‘;Scores of Prominent Wit- ,:nesses Being Summoned. | Daugherty Is Subpoenaed. Bx the Associated Brgs. il | names were household words long be- | fore the tempest began to blow over Teapot Dome, and some whom the oil | scandals have brought to public atten- | | tion, are being summoned by the United States for the trial of former Secretary | of Interior Albert B. Fall. The name of former Attorney General | Harry M. Daugherty is among the first in the list of persons subpoenaed to | appear October 7, the day Fall goes to | trial on the charge on which he was | first arraigned, June 30, 1924--the | charge which reads “Violation of sec- tion 117, United States penal code: Ac- cepting bribe as Secretary of Interior.” It is reported, meanwhile, that Prank Hogan, who was successful in the de- fense of Edward L. Doheny, is to appear | as counsel for Fall. Hogan's office, | however, declines to comment, explain- | ing that he is now in the West and will not return until the middle of the month, Expect Many Exhibits. Articles as well known as the wit- nesses have been ordered brought to the Capital and produced at the trial— among them the $100,000 check of the First National Bank of New York, made to the order of the bank and signed by Blair & Co. of 24 Broad street. Clerks of the District Supreme Court expect, | in fact, that they will be called upon | to take care of hundreds of exhibits. | They look for at least a hundred wu-; nesses. | Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of | the Navy, has been summoned and s | has Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post. Whether with a touch of irony or no, a subpoena also | has been issued for Harry M. Blackmer, | whose protracted sojourn abroad has kept him off the witness stand. To Bring Ledger Sheets. J. E. Benton, vice president of the First National Bank of El Paso. is to bring the ledger sheets of Fall's ac- count. Clarence C. Chase, Fall's son- | in-law, is to appear, and George D. Flory, vice president of the, State Na- tional Bank of El Paso, is” to appear with Chase’s and Fall's accounts’ ledger sheets, particularly a deposit slip by Chase for $13,500, December 7, 1921, and another by Fall and Chase for $26,200, three weeks later. Among others summoned are George C. Horton, president of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Works; Graham Youngs, treasurer of Blair & Co.; Gano Dunr, president of the J. G. White Engineer- ing Corporation, and J. W. Clarke of Color 0. ‘With Blackmer in the list of those 1y who could not be found when efforts | were made to serve zubpoenas are Paul N. Schoup, president of the South- ern Pacific Railway, who was com- manded to bring two letters he received from Fall and correspondence concern- ing the leasing of the oil reserve be- tween himself and other officers of the Oil Co. and the Associated Oil | | Co, and Government officials. | TREASURE HUNTER SLAIN. Mexicans Hold Search in 0ld Church Is Sacrilege. 1 D0C-ACRE AIRPORT URGED BY BINGHAM Sees Need for Large Ter- minal After Visiting Cleve- land Races. Senator Bingham of Connecticut, { airport legislation for Washington, re- turned to the Capitol today from the air races at Cleveland, more firmly con- vinced than ever that the National Capital should have close to 1,000 acres of land for its proposed air termin: “The city fathers of Cleveland bought 1,000 acres for their municipal airport,” said Senator Bingham, “only expecting to use 300 or 400 acres of it during the first 10 years, During the big air meet the entire fleld was utilized. Of course, only a limited part of it had a good turf surface, but the remainder was graded off and in use. Senator -Bi ingiam expressed the that the House would be able to '{.T: action some time during the remainder of the special session on the pending resolution authorizing an immediate ap- propriation of $500,000 to permit an early stdrt on the acquisition of land and development of an airport. Another thing which impressed the Senator at Cleveland was the large number of private hangars which had been erected on land leased from the city. He said about 25 companies had started such developments. Senator Bingham said the Cleveland air meet also indicated to him tha United States is now making great | headway in civilian aviation, as com. pared with military flying. When he visited the international event at Paris about @ year ago, only about one- tenth of the planes were civilian, the rest being military. In contrast to this he said that in Cleveland during the past few days planes were virtually all of civilian type. . 'HEAT WAVE SWEEPS WESTERN EUROPE London, Paris, German Cities and Rome Record Temperatures of 90 and Higher. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 5.—Nearly all of Western Europe sweltered today in & September heat wave which began at the first of the month and has shown no signs of letting up. London temperatures bordered 90 Fahrenheit yesterday, which is a high figure at any time for this country. The figures early today were above those of corresponding periods yesterday. Temperatures well into the nineties | have been registered in Paris and other | parts of France, in large sections of Germany, and even in Switzerland during the past few days, various places reporting the highest September figures in_years. Unseasonable demands have been made upon ice’ distributors and short- ages, with consequent suffering, have | been reported in some instances. Rome Also Is Sweltering. ROME, September 5 (#).—Sweltering in a heat wave reminiscent of late July, citizens of Rome today watched their thermometers mount from 90 degrees in the shade yesterday to 94 this morning. o Seek to Revive Gaelic. DUELIN, September 5 (#).—A new map of Ireland with names in Gaelic instead of English, hangs in every schoolroom of the Free State as part of an effort to restore general usage of ancient Irish speech. ONLY SOLUTION OF MERGER IS CALLED | TRAGTION PROBLEM Vandenberg Sees Unifiedi System as Sole Method of | Settling Troubles. HEARINGS ARE RESUMED ON FARE INCREASE PLEA Right of W. R. T. to Pick Up| Local Passengers on Interstate Busses Is Questioned. After following developments in the | local street rallway situation before the Public Utilities Commission since Con- | gress recessed in June, Senator Vanden- berg, Republican, of Michigan, member of the District committee, is firmly of the opinion that merger offers the only complete solution to Washington's transportation problem. Senator Vanden- berg made this statement today as the Public Utilities Commission resumed its hearing into the application of the street car companies for an increase in fare, Senator Vandenberg took a leading part during the last Congress in work- ing out the compromise plan of merger | which was favorably reported by the | Senate District committee, but which died on the Senate calendar without having been acted on when the Con- gress adjourned on March 4. Question Is Back to Merger. Since that time the companies have | | renewed their request for an increase | in fare, and during the hearings that application the Utilities Commis- | sion _has submitted to the wmp:nies{ for their consideration a new outline of | merger terms, based on the findings of | the Senate committee, with still further | modification. | I have noticed recent developments, and it seems to me that the question | all comes back to merger as the only | permanent solution,” said ‘Senator Van- denberg. “The sooner we get back to consideration of that basis of solution | the better.” Chairman Capper of the Senate com- mittee, upon his return several days ago, also renewed his belief that the transportation lines should be merged, but indicated 1t would be up to the Utilities Commission to bring the mat- Congress. No merger legislation has been introduced since the old Congress expired, so the question is not before the committee now. Commit{ee Members Eavorable. Several of the returning members of the committee have indicated they would give the question of merger care- ful study again, if it is brought once more before the committee by the Util- ities Commission. Further evidence that members of Congress still are devoting attention to the problem was given today when Sen- |ator Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin, | said he had obtained a copy of the Util- |ities Commission's revamped merger plan and now is making a comparison | between it and the plan which the Sen- ate committee approved last year. Senator Blaine was the leading op- ponent of the merger plan as worked out by the Senate committee with the aid of Dr. Milo R. Maltbie, because he felt that it should have included a more complete definition of the method | several other amendments which he re- terest. Senator Blaine said today that he had not progressed far enough with his study of the commission’s new plan to | say what his attitude would be toward |it. He said he was inclined to believe | the commission ' had not given consider- ation to one of his objections, namely, brought about by contract rather than by law, which, he felt, might weaken the control of Congress over it in the future. He saild he was calling this one question to the attention of the commission for its study. He said he noted that some changes had been made on the subject of valuation, but | on this change. Sackett Favors Action. | Senator Sackett, Republican of Ken- tucky, another member of the commit- | tee, expressed the opinion today that | | the question of merger should be given | further consideration during the regu- lar_session beginning in December. | Senator King of Utah. ranking Dem- ocrat on the District committee, said | |that if the utilities board makes new recommendations to Congress in Deccm- ber, he felt confident the Senate com- | ittee would take up the subject again. | |The Senator said he was somewhat | disappointed that the people of the Dis- trict haa not been able to agree on the | | question after a modified plan of merg- | | er had been worked out in the last Con- | | gress. Interstate Bus Pick-ups Hit. | President E. D. Merrill of the Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co. took the wit- ness stand in the hearing before the Public Utilities Commission today and was put through a long examination by Chairman Mason M. Patrick and | Vice Chairman Harleigh H. Hartman of the commission. The questions were directed princi- pally at the company’s right to pick up intra-state passengers within = the District on their interstate busses going |to Maryland. Mr. Merrill contended | that sinee the company had a right |to do both classes of business, both in its own name and, over part of the route, as agent for the Capital Trac- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) EASY CHICAGO DIVORCES SCORED; JUDGE CONTINUES CASE 2 YEARS Declares Failure to Inquire of New Reno. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 5.—It won't be 50 easy to get a divarce in Chicago if Into Pleas Gives City Name Chicago. Because judges fail to inves- mmmehgl-luynunwemknwn new I were to give you a divorce you ‘turn umgd and get married ‘Then, easy divoree, first 0 1 = i ter before the committee in the new | | ot valuing local utilities together with | | garded as necessary in the public in-; that the proposed merger was to be ' { he wag not ready to pass an opinion | JUDCE MAKES NEW CHALLENCEINNOTE INCALLINGER CASE Kathryn Sellers Denies Doc- tor’s Right to Operate With- out Patients’ Consent. DECLINES TO APPEAR IN PERSON TO TESTIFY Jurist Cites Instances in Which She Has Been Interested, in Note to Board. The authority of Gallinger Hospital | physicians to perform operations on city patients without their consent or the consent of persons known to be inter- ested in them was challenged today by Judge Katheryn Sellers of the Juvenile Court in her written reply to an invita- tion of the Board of Welfare to testify regarding charges she made about con- ditions in the hospital. Judge Sellers referred specifically to the case of Mrs. Nettie B. Thompson, who died at the hospital foliowing a minor operation. Declining to appear before the board, Judge Sellers delivered her letter to W. W. Millen, vice caairman of the board, in which 'she expressed her views re- garding treatment given patients and her disapproval of methods there, Questions Thompson Case, Referring in her letter to the death of Mrs. Thompson, Judge Sellers as- sumed responsibility for the confine- ment of the woman to the institution, but declared she questioned the advis- ability of conducting the operation and n | the authority of its performance with- out consent. Regarding Mrs. Thompson's objec- tion to treatment, her final persuasion to be sent to Gallinger and the opera- tion, Judge Sellers said: “Mrs. Thompson strenuously object- ed to going to the psychopathic ward {of Gallinger Hospital. I agreed with { her that she was perfectly right in re- { fusing to go to the psychopathic ward. {Mrs. R. R. Miller of the child welfas division, Board of Public Welfare, m: the suggestion that Mrs. Thompson entered in the newemedical ward Gallinger Hospital, where she could have a complete physical examination. i Mrs. Thompson objected strenuously to | going to the hospital at all, maintain- {ing that she was not ill and that she was afraid to go to the hospital. { Persuaded Her to Go. : “It was with great difficulty that I persuaded her to go to Gallinger Hos- | pital for a week, with every mssurance {on my part that nothing ould be done iw her except to give her a complete | physical examination, including met- | molism _test. She reminded me plain- | tively that the complete physical exam- | ination had already been made at the : George Washington University Hospi- |tal. If I remember correctly, I used about these words: “Mrs. Thompson, I !am your friend, and I have thought all i along that you ought to have a mother's | pension, but if you ever get this pen- | sion, you will have to submit to every icondition laid down by the mother's | pension division of the Board of Public | Welfare.” After some time she finally isaid: “Well, judge, I will go to this | hospital for ~ you.” Knowing Mrs. Thompson, and her fear of the | hospital. I cannot believe that she con- sented willingly to any operation. “Within the week she was dead. To one not particularly endowed with the | gift of insight into medical practice, it would seem that inasmuch as this un- fortunate mother died as a result of the operation, that even the practition= | ers who performed the operation would be of the opinion that the operation in the light of the result, should not have been performed. Many questions occur to me—what official at Gallinger Hospital makes the decision as to whether a poor person is to be oper- | ated on? 1Is this operation the result |of a conference? Is it customary to | operate upon poor people without their | consent or the consent of persons in- | terested in them? Was it necessary for Mrs. Thompson's immediate recovery? Was she in danger of dying if time was not taken for consultation with her friends? Is a patient who is so ill that an operation must be performed capable of knowing what she is doing when she gives her consent to an operation? What was this operation performed upon Mrs. Thompson? Was it an operation in which a hemorrhage is likely to occur? What was Mrs. Thompson's blood pressure? Is it cus- tomary to operate upon a person who has low blood pressure? Just why was she operated upon at that particular time? Some of these questions being a matter,of opinion, physicians not con- nected with the hespital might properly be heard.” Recalls Friend's Case. The failure of Gallinger Hospital at- tendants to allow an intimate friend of Judge Sellers to communicate with the magistrate, after she was taken to the institution from a train suffering from the effects of a drug. in spite of the fact that she was a probation of- ficer of Detroit and possessed special police authority, led Judge Sellers to comment in her letter on the possibility of persons being confined in hospitals without being allowed to summon friends. She said: “I regret exceedingly that I should have mentioned the third case, because it may bring unpleasant notoriety to my friend. Upon receipt of a telegram from her superior officer in Detroit, T sent Miss Ezekiels to the hospital and my friend was released. Miss Ezekiels, | I understand, signed a required paper assuming responsibility for my friend. “The great point in this case was that my friend should have asked for me almost immediately and repeatedly without avail. It raises the fear in the minds of many that great hospitals may be ports of missing persons, where men, women, boys and girls may call in vain for those who would seek to protect Discusing at a previous date the ordering of children and poor persons to the hospital. Judge Sellers declared (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Poincare Resting Well. PARIS, September 5 (#).—It was sald today at the home of Raymond Poinca: former premier, t if he gained stre; as he has for the past fort- night the operation for protastitis could be performed at the end of the month. He eats and sleeps well, but his doctors want him to get the greatest possible nd. " | amount of repose