Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, probably showers tonight and tomorrow; cooler tomorrow. t, 81, at 12:30 ‘Temperatures: Highes! .m. yesterday; lowest, 70, at 4 am. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes g% a4 ay. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 31,174 post office, Entered as second class matter Washington, Ce D. C. LINDBERGH JOINS HUNT FOR MISSING T A T. AIR LINER Borrows Fast Plane to Aid in Quest for City of San Francisco. FLYER FINDS FOUR MEN BELIEVED SURVIVORS Seventy Flyers Are Hunting for Liner—Gallup, N. Mex., Is . Base of Operations. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., Sep- tember 6 (/).—Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh today borrowed the trans- continental record plane owned by Capt. Frank Hawkes to fly “out West,” presumably to aid in the search for the missing T. A. T. plane City of San Francisco. WINSLOW, Ariz, September 6 (#)—Hope that at least four men of the seven men and cne woman aboard the lost air transport City of San Francisco were alive was brought here today by Lieut. D. W. Tomlin- son, chief pilot of the Maddux Air Lines and former Navy ace. By the Associated Press. GALLUP, N. Mex., September 6.— Nineteen airplanes, in the van of an aerial armada seeking the lost air liner City of San Francisco, took off shortly after dawn today to make a systematic search of the wild New Mexico border country. Fifteen of the planes operated out of Winslow, Ariz, and four from the local airport. The searching planes were each as- signed to a given territory in the re- gion where the tri-motored plane, with its eight passengers, was last reported sighted. While the concentration camp of the air-searching parties has been located here, officials of the Transcontinental Alr Transport planned to work to the southwest, between Grants Grant, N. Mex., where the plane was last authen- tically reported seen, and Winslow, Ariz,, its scheduled stopping place. The War Department order making Army planes in the Southwest avail- able for the hunt bore fruit this morn- ing with the take-off of five Army at- tack planes from Fort Crockett, near Galveston. These planes headed for ‘Winslow, Ariz., to join in the search. Seventy Planes in Search. With the arrival of other ex-| pected from points in Tex#s, and Southern California, it was esti- mated that more than 70 planes would be in the air before the day ended. T. A. T. officials planned to widen their circle of search with the arrival of other planes, assigning each to a specific locality. In the meantime, hundreds of Zuni Indians, cowboys and other persons, spurred on by T. A. T.s offer of $5,000 reward to the finder of the plane, set out on foot and horseback from scat- tered communities in the region seek- ing those lost. Clouds still hung low over the terri- tory, with poor flying conditions and low visibility the result. Mud from re- cent rains impeded the progress of those on foot and on horseback. An area about 500 miles in diam- eter, centering at Gallup, N. Mex., was concentrated upon, although much of this section previously had been cov- ered Additional searchers combed the depths of Bryce and Zion Canyons in Southern Utah and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona. Cowboys Add Efforts. An order from T. A. T. headquarters in St. Louis suspended eastward serv- ice on the line, but announced that a Westbotind plane would proceed as far as winslow today to jolu two T. A. T. airliners there. A band of 20 cowboys added their efforts to those of the Zuni Indians. Searchers afoot and on horseback were made up from the small communities along the Arizona-New Mexico border. Because first reports indicated that the plane was forced down in the forbidding volcanic area south of Gal- lup, officials of the T. A. T. and others chose Gallup as the central point for directing the hunt. ‘The aerial armada, marshaled from several States for the search, was vir- tually without a_clue where to look for the lost ship. One by one the reports of its wreckage having been sighted were run down yesterday, and each time the searchers returned and r they had seen nothing but frowning desert and extinct, forbidding volcano peaks. Zuni Region Searched. T. A. T. officials believed that the combing of the Black Rock Wash Coun- try south of here had been sufficient to establish that the City of San Francisco had not fallen there, as was first thought. The region around Zuni then was searched without result. Likewise ¢he district around Houck, Ariz., was surveyed n?m the air on the et of reports from a railroad section that p&ey h‘:s seen & plane believed to_be the missing one. 2 The much advertised report that the plane had been seen 23 midks south of here and its eight occupants apparently dead, was traced to its source yesters officials discovered that Courier on Missing Airplane Is Well Known in Capital M. M. Canfleld, 23, courier aboard the T. A. T. plane, a member of a prominent and wealthy New York family, is well known in the Capital, having ter here preparing for T. A. T. work. He was lu- from Harvard last June and immediately came to the Capital to prepare for the work he was doing aboard the City of San Francisco. While in Washington Canfield occupied an apartment in the Toronto, 2002 P street, with a friend. ROOT COURT PLAN FACES REAL FIGHT Formula, Indorsed by Admin- istration, Designed to Sat- isfy Senate’s Reservations. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Root-Hurst formula, relating to advisory opinions by the World Court, which yesterday received the indorse- ment of the administration, still faces & real fight in the Senate, before it is accepted there and the United States becomes a member of the court. ‘The Root-Hurst formula is contained in the revised statutes of the World Court and is designed to satisfy the reservation of the United States Senate regarding advisory opinions by the court and also the objection to that reserva- tion by member nations of the court. President Hoover and his Secretary of State, Mr. Stimson, have determined, apparently, that the Root-Hurst for- mula does fully cover the point laid down in the Senate reservation, which asserts that the World Court shall not give an advisory opinion in any ques- tion in which the United States has or claims to have an interest without first obtaining the consent of this country. ‘The administration is expected to back the proposal that the United States become a member of the court, after the revised statutes, including the Root-Hurst formula, shall have been agreed to by the member nations of the court. The League of Nations As- sem:ly is expected to ratify them next week, States Must Accept Formula. President Hoover, however, is under- stood to take the position that not only shall the League of Nations Assembly accept the Root-Hurst formula regard- ing advisory opinions by the court, but each of the member nations of the court shall individually go through the necessary steps for ratification before he will ask the Senate to act upon the matter. Whether such action can be had in time for submission of the World Court proposal to the Senate during the coming regular session of Congress or will have to go over until a year from December is problematical. ‘When mere than three and & haif years ago the Senate agreed to adher- ence to the World Court, with its now celebrated reservations, opponents of adherence, including most of the old irreconcilables who fought American entry into the League of Nations, in- sisted that the World Court was in reality the League Court and that the into it. ‘That was the position of Senator Borah, chairman of the for- eign relations committee; Senator Moses of New Hampshire, Senator Hiram Johnson of California and others. Eventually the resolution of adherence was_adopted by more than two-thirds of the Senate, but with reservations. United States had no business going he & WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1929 -FIFTY PAGES. BRITAINADVOCATES | COVENANT REVISION 10 END ALL WARS Henderson Offers Resolution to Make League as Strong as Kellogg Pact. DELEGATES APPLAUD GERMANY’S SUPPORT Moves for Treaty to Provide Financial Aid for Victims of Aggression. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 6.—The cove- nant of the League of Nations, inspired by Woodrow Wilson, has already been found lacking in effective means to pre- vent war by the statesmen taking part in the League's tenth Assembly ses- sion. ‘Taking a bold and progressive step to make the covenant at least as strong as the Kellogg renunciation of war pact, the British Labor governnent today in- troduced a resolution into the Assem- bly calling for revision of the League covenant so that henceforth war may be really vanished, s under the Kellogg pact. . The resolution was introduced by Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson of Great Britain and was made in behalf also of France, Italy, Belgium, Chile and | Denmark. Delegates Applaud Resolution. Great applause broke forth from dele- gates and auditors when Mr. Henderson, in resonant tones which carried to the remotest corners of the hall, announced that the British resolution also had the support of the German delegation. The resolution says that the tenth Assembly of the League of Nations notes with satisfaction the general ad- herence of states which are members of the League to the Paris pact, devised by former Secretary of State Kellogg and Premier Briand, which imposes on its signatories the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy. It considers that the Assembly should take account of the progress thus made and deems it desirable to examine arti- cles 12 and 15 of the covenant to de- termine whether it is necessary to make modifications in them. Mr. Henderson emphasized the fact that the League covenant was drawn up on the morrow of the great war and that its authors had been bound by the will of the governments of that day, but that now the Kellogg pact, which re- nounces all war, had. changed every- Gaps existed in the covenant wlfl there is no unanimity nmifi_‘;m- bers of the Councll as to which of the ting nations is the aggressor and when the nations themselves refuse to abide by the decision of the Council. Pact Beyond Covenant. “Therefore, under the covenant, the right to conduct private war remains legitimate, though under the Kellogg pact this right has been abolished,” he sald. “The pact has gone beyond the covenant and it is our duty to render the covenant as strong as the pact.” ‘The British foreign secretary again won applause when he came out in strong advocacy of a general treaty which would provide financial assistance Senators Disgruntled. Republican Senators who supported the resolution of adherence argued that the World Court was not a mere ad- Jjunct of the League of Nations, but actually a world tribunal. Some of them have been disgruntled over the manner in which the reservations of the United States were handled. In- stead of ha them considered by the League of Nations Council, as they were when first these ublican Senators bel ve been submitted to the, member ations of the court direct for their ratification. One of these Republican Senators, a member of the foreign relations com- mittee and favorable to adherence of the United States to the World Court, pointed out today that the manner in which the reservations of the United States had been handled abroad gave color to the charge that the court is after all the e Court. For that reason, he said, would have to be convinced that the Root formula really did cover all the points contained in the Senate reservation regarding the mrr:tt‘ln' of advisory opinions by the cou: Submit Revised Statutes. ‘The Root formula, as it relates to ad- visory opinions now contained in the Tevised statutes of the court submitted bly, is as assembly of the League and the the United * for an advisory States. o ‘Comes. 0 the eourt the Tepisiny s notify the United States thereof, (Continued ort Page 2, Column 7.) VOLUNTEERS CAN’T BE FIREMEN WITHOUT TRUCKS, SO THEY PAY West Chicago Department Members Purchase Apparatus Out of Own Pockets A B. the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 6.—If some West Chicagan hereafter finds it nec- fter Bond Issue Defeat. essary to emit that famous 8 O 8, | ~ “Piremen, save my child” the matter can be taken care of with neatness and dispatch. "#-1 Oh!n‘? voted mot to buy new fire equipment. In voting down a bond ropably @i mot roatize Haw bedy’ they Tea! vpren the fee'™g of their volun- | Saer Aea @rmarbmane b i in rolled two ;‘h':u new fire trucks. “A fellow can't be a fireman with- W as the best z‘tb-a. “80 U some pepine s may a ex- 3 i v J Shebs oy AP iticle 11 of the covenant, so that the 4 | council might deal more effectively with for '.hclwmnl:of the League Assem- | g g ne, to any state ming a victim of ag- gression and when he proclaimed that if this treaty should see the light of day the British government would sign it immediately. He wanted this treaty to be open to all countries, whether or not they were members of the League, thus including such nations as the United States and Soviet Russia. He also advocated giving increased piowers to the League council under ar- any international crisis which the specter of war, “Cut Out Dead Wood.” He urged his auditors “to cut out thé dead wood from the covenant.” Mr. Henderson made only brief allu- sion to the lo-American naval con- versations conducted by Premier Ram- | say MacDonald and Ambassador Dawes in England. He said it was useless for the League Preparatory Disarmament Commission to go on meeting until some assurance of practical results had been given, and urged all the nations concerned to con tribute their bit to a general disarma. ment agreement. Eloquently he drew a picture of the horrors of raised tary mind ‘would be like t] last war, but that he (Foch) belle (‘;h:t it never had been war to break out,” exclaimed Mr. Hen- Tson. “Let us therefore press forward with- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) CHINA ASKS NATIONS TO GIVE UP COURT Or. Wang Says Note Will Be Mail- ed to U. S. Today and Others ‘Will Follow. By the Assoclated Press. NANKING, China, September 6—C. T. Wang, foreign minister, informed i ig ; ing | of the ar | they had BANKER IS HUNTED 10 SOLVE SWINDLE Man Gets $180,000 Draft in Mysterious Half-Million “Gift” Transaction. NEW YORK, September 6 (#).— The Burns Detective Agency today announced that it expected to arrest befere night Charles Delos Wag- goner, bank president, of Telluride, Colo., in whose name $500,000 was obtained in certified checks under questionable circumstances from six big New York banks. By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., September 6.—In an effort to solve a financial puzzle in- volving the attempt of a man repre- senting himself as C. D. Waggoner, president of the Bank of Telluride, Colo., to obtain by telegraphic orders a half million dollars from six large banks of New_ York, pglice and te today began cxtu?:::u search’ Waggoner, missing for 10 days. ‘The mystery surrounding the trans- action was “eightened by the publica- tion here of a statement that a Denver banker. who refused to allow his name to be used, had received a letter from Waggoner Monday, saying: “I have just received a $500,000 gift from the Denver Clearing House Association, at least I assume it is a gift. for there are no strings attached to it.” Cashler Signed Drafts. Partly substantiating information from New York that code orders had been received ordering them to place in the Chase National Bank amounts nnfl:: cllrl:;:s s175,0'00 v?’ tloo,ooocncvg. at t al of Waggoner. C. W. Downtain, cashier of the Telluride Bank, declared that before taking a vacation in Denver from August 26 to August 30, he had a n of drafts for the bank president. It was known here that Waggoner left his home in Telluride August 25 and was in Denver August 28. Delos ‘Waggoner, the banker’s son, said he did not know his father's whereabouts. ‘Turning their investigation to Tel- luride for clues as to the motive behind the transaction, State banking officials found the bank of Telluride solvent, although its business had depreciated greatly during the last few years be- cause of the decline of the mining in- dustry in that section. Bank Reopens Today. Telluride was formerly a booming town and the bank once had deposits of more than $1,000,000. At present its deposits total $350,000. mwnotmh-nxhda-m'm last nl(’ht and declared the h[x)x: open for business today. wntain, the cashier, in e 4 his ing e bank he been of Waggoner. received & letter from York on Monday home this week end. SEEK MAN IN NEW YORK. No Real Money Lost in Half-Million- representing himself Colorado banker, to explain ous $500,000 transaction in .which six large 'k banks were victims of fake tel ‘Thus far lost, as the paper. was put into operation Amzl%hnfm:hen six - New York (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) —_— Advertising Copy for the ; ‘Educational Section to Be Issued as Part of The Bunday Star | By the Associated Press. , with 2 be | vanni Monti, with & reserve- TH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star. $H¥ (#) Means Associated Pres: as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,171 TWO CENTS. ICAPITAL TRAGTION |DOCTOR IS ACCUSED Half-Penny Coins Are Asked by Boys To Save on Cakes By the Associated Press. ‘Two Brooklyn boys want a half- penny coin to save their pennies. ‘They have written the House of Representatives a letter to that “Dear gentlemep of the House: “I would like to know if you could pass a bill providing for half pennys. The reason is that around our way they sell cakes 2 for five cents (5¢), one costs three cents. So if we could have half pennys we would only have to pay 2 and 1; cents. “Thanking you in advance. Answer please. “MORRIS RAPPAPORT, “1752 Sterling place. “MILTON WINSTON, “1731 Sterling place.” ‘The letter was addressed to the “House of Representatives, care of the Government, Washington.” It was delivered to the office of Representative Somers, Demo- crat, of New York, who repre- sents their district. SCANEIERRAGERS AL TESTS Ready for Seaplane Classic Tomorrow. CALSHOT, England, L&pumbfl' 6— All the entries for the Blue-ribbon Schneider Cup air race successfully passed their navigability trials in the Solent before noon today. The actual races will take place to- morrow. The trials today consisted of each machine taxiing across the start- ing line, flying in a short circuit, land- ing and taxiing at least a half-mile at a speed of not less than 12 knots. Seaworthiness Is Proven. The performance then had to be re- peated, and after another short flight, the itarting line recrossed and the ma- chines moored for six hours to test water-tightness. The idea was that the machines would prove by rising and taxiing at will their general maneuver- ml:n ability and that they are real sea- planes. The British flying team passing the tests consisted of Flight Officer H. 3 Waghorn, flying the suj Royce 8-6; Flight Lieut. D with a Napier Flight Lieut. R. L. R. At su teh . Lieut G. H. Stal with a Gloster Napler 6 was The Italian team was com) ‘Warrant Officer Tomaso & Macchi 52; Lieut. Rano Macchi 67; Lieut. Gio- w:;.dlflll 185 | Inventor Is to Be Permitted to FARM BOARD GROUP IS CALLED FOR 0.K. Senate Agriculture Commit- tee Will Pass on Qualifica- tions of Members. By the Associated Press. ‘The Senate agriculture committee de- cided today to call the members of the new Federal Farm Board to examine their qualifications in office at open hearings. Chairman McNary of the committee | sent word to the board members to lD‘! pear at their convenience, probably late next week. . ‘There have been signs of opposition to several of the board members. Several Senators from the Northwest are displeased over the policy announced by Chairman Legge that the farmers and co-operatives must exhaust other means of credit before applying to the board for loans. OFFIGERS PROTEST MERGER PROPOSAL Directors Object to Consid- eration of Plan Advocated in Fare-Raise Hearing. HOLD COMPANY READY . FOR UNIFIED ACTION | Believe Ladue's Measure Fails to| Conserve Rights and Contains “Unsatisfactory Provisions.” ‘The Capital Traction Co. at a spe. cial meeting of its board of directors to- day, adopted a resolution objecting to any consideration of the merger plan drawn up by the Public Utilities Comn- mission as a part of the present hes ing before the commission on.its plication for an increase in car fare. ‘The resolution states that the text of the merger plan has been considered by the company and that the plan| does not fully conserve the company's | right, and contains provisions which are in some respects unsatisfactory, with- out specific reference to which features are meant. ‘The company repeated its willingness to enter a merger, but said that such consideration should not delay the com- pletion of the present fare case. Full Text of. Resolution. ‘The full text of the resolution is as follows: “Be it Resolved, That the president be directed to inform the Public Util- ities Commission, first, that the Capi- tal Traction Co. objects to the consider- ation of any merger agreement as a part of the hearing on its application for increased fare and maintains that such a matter is entirely unrelated to the questions involved in determining the rate of fare which shall be proper and equitable under existing conditions; “Second, that while the agreement, as submitted by Col. Ladue, does not fully conserve the company’s rights and contains provisions which are in some Tespects unsatisfactory, the Capital Traction Co., because of its strong de- sire to assist in promptly bringing about a merger of the transportation facilities in Washington, is willing to consider the proposed agreement to the end that necessary modifications pro- tective of its interests may be arrived at through proper negotiations. Provisions Cover Fare Raise. “Provided that such consideration shall not delay the completion and final determination of the pending proceeding for increase of fare.” ‘The resolution was dispatched to the Public Utilitles Commission with & let- A provision in the bill to require such a policy and -therefore some Senators feel that . will Senators Brookhart of Iowa and La Follette of Wisconsin, both Republicans, probably will participate in the commit- tee’s examination, although they are not members of the committee. It is the intention of Senator Mc- Nary to have each member of the board come before the committee, starting with Chairman Legge. STOCK PRICES RALLY BRISKLY AFTER DROP Market Surges Forward After Open- ing—New High Levels Reached. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 6.—The “bull” movement in stocks, the death knell of which has been sounded by many economists and statisticlans " in the last two years, was resumed with considerable violence today after hav- ing received a drastic setback in the last hour of trading yesterday. Nearly twoscore issues were marked up $5 to nearly $15 a share, with several of the public utility shares being whirled up to new high records. The rally started from the- opening gong. Operators for the advance had th the result that was striken out in the Senate | 4o ter from President John H. Hanna of the company. The merger plan referred Wedks' dgo by’ Engincer Copumissioncs ago T ioner William B. Iadue at one of the rate hearings. Hearings on the request of the Cap- ital Co, for an increase will be con- t | tinued ‘before the eommission at 10 T8 | o'clock Monday, when People’s Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty and William McK. Clayton, counsel for the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, will be given an opportunity to present evidence. What evidence, if any, these will present has not been announced. The car fare case is expected to close, as far as the com- mission is concerned, next week, though any party at interest dissatisfied | by the finding of the commission may take the case to the District Supreme Court and eventually to the District Court of Appeals for review. Yesterday afternoon the case of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. was closed by examination of its president, E D. Merrill, by the commission and cross-examination by Mr. Clayton. Mr. Fleharty, through his assistant, J. Louis Martin, announced that he did not wish to cross-examine Mr. Merrill. | Plan Bus Extension. cross-examination if the fact that the bus company was owned by Harley P. Wilson, a director of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. and in the North American Co., had any bearing on_the fact that the bus company had (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) SALE OF RECORDS IS LAID'TO POLICE Fingerprints and Photographs Brought $3,000 From Crooks, Probers Hear. he | B the Assoctated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., September 6. —The district attorney’s office announc- ed last night it had received informa- tion indicating police had sold to crim- Government’s Sep- tember financing stimulated the rally. EDISON IS BETTER. Leave Bed Today. inals for $1,000 to $3,000 offcial finger- prints and phof ph records taken from department . The information, it was stated, was J. B. W;tmnn’l mn‘;! police bribery, which, charged, orded pro. tection for five for operation of a it Five will be called by the WEST ORANGE, N. J., September 6 —Mmefln%nmmmwu t, his pulse " He will be ‘were | allowed by physiclan to sit up for a half y.” LELAND HARRISON NAMED ‘hour today.’ British Premier Returns. minis- U. S. ENVOY TO URUGUAY | Donaid, arrived at Croydon Airdrome Career Man of Foreign lcrflu | Transferred From Swedish Capital to South American Post. ‘witnesses grand jury, which is investigating the Dormla, 0 proseat the mew angle of o1 leged police corruption. .. Anna Mussolini Baptized. FORLI, Italy, September 6 (#).—Anna et i T terday forenoon by the priest at Carpena, Mr. Clayton asked Mr. Merrill in his | uncovered during the investigation o!l OF PLAN TO FEED MAN RAZOR BLADES Gallinger Physician Denies Charge Made by X-Ray Specialist in Probe. DECLARES PATIENT ONLY SWALLOWED PAPER CLIP Dr. E. E. Kaplan Is Under Fire in Accusation Contained in Dr. Hemler's Statement. Startling charges involving the ex- perimental examination of a jail patient in the X-ray department of Gallinger Municipal Hospital developed at the concluding hearings conducted today by the medical committee of the Board of Public Welfare into conditions of the city hospital. The accusation was made by Dr. Wil- liam P. Hemler, former X-ray specialist at Gallinger, that he was forced to in- tervene to prevent his successor, Dr. Edward E. Kaplan, from sending out for safety razor blades to feed to a jail inmate during the course of a pri- vately-staged demonstration before an X-ray machine. The jail patient, he told the committee, had already swal- lowed a metal paper clip during the course of this unusual demonstration. Called upon to reply to the charge, Dr. Kaplan denied persistently having sent out for razor blades, but admitted that the patient had swallowed the pa- per clip. Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, super- intendnet at Gallinger, later testified that when Dr. Hemler had protested to him about such experiments being con- ducted, he had orglered them stopped. Kaplan Says Patient Agreeable. “I agree with Dr. Hemler,” he said, “that it was an unwise procedure and not a method of examination desirable in medical work.” Dr. Kaplan toid the committee the jail authorities informed him they had a man there who was in the habit of swallowing variofis metals and sub- stances. The patient, he said, was per- fectly agreeable to undergo-a demon- stration. “He was rather proud of the fact that he was able to swallow steel razor blades,” Dr. Kaplan said. ‘The ' demonstration was staged at one of the weekly staff conferences. Dr. Kaplan said it was for the purpose of | watching through the X-ray machine | the passage of the metal materials in the intestinal track. He defended his action by saying that such experiments were common. Hemler Is Reluctant to Speak. Dr. Hemler was reluctant to make his charge before the committee. He was forced into doing it when told he had allowed inuendoes to be made and that the committee as well as the public de- manded the right to hear what he had to say. He told reluctantly about Dr. Kaplan asking him to remain for the demon- stration. He said Dr. Kaplan gave the patient a paper clip, which he swal- lowed and asked him if he liked razor blades. Upon the patient’s agreeing to swallow them, he said Dr. Kaplan sent some one out to get a blade. Dr. Hemler told the entomologist he could not stand by and see such a thing done, and said he acquainted Dr. Bocock with the circumstances. As the result of his protest, he said, the weekly staff conferences in the X-ray department ceased. He has not attended them since, he said, in his present capacity as a visiting member of the staff. Kaplan Denies Blade Question. Dr. Kaplan, asked by the committee if he had sent for razor blades to give the patient, replied: “I absolutely did not. All the patient swallowed was a paper clip. He did this of his own consent. I did not ask him if he would swallow a razor blade.” Dr. Kaplan said the jail patient had told him he had a unique method of swallowing razor blades, by which no harm was done in the mastication. Phillip W. Austin, an attorney, en- deavored to get the committee to re- open the case of Mrs. Nettie Thomp- son, who died at the hospital and whose death was the subject of severe eriti- cism by Judge Sellers. The committee at first was disinclined to allow Mr. (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) BOND IS FORFEITED BY ). TOM HEFLIN, JR. | |Fails to Appear in Phenix City, Ala., Court on Charge of Drunkenness. ~ By the Assoclated Press. PHENIX CITY, Ala., September 6.— J. Tom Heflin, jr. son of the senior United States Senator from Alabama, and B. M. Haines fialed to appear im Recorder’s Court today on charges »f drunkenness and violating the State prohibition law and their bond was for- feited. The two were arrested here early this week after officers had heec at- tracted by the wourse? of Heflin’s automobile, which was being dArlllvm by Haines of Standing Reck, Heflin was charged with drunken- ness and when he claimed ownership of the car a charge of violating the State prohibition law also was pre- ferred. Haines was charged with driv- ing an automobile while drunk. LAUGH AND WORLD LAUGHS, BUNK, SAY BOYS ARRESTED IN THEATER o; Judge Will Decide if They Were Guffawing or Just Smiling Out Loud During Performance. lat 3 = 'flg’.mh“m