Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably showers and somewhat cooler tomorrow. Temperatures—Highest, 82, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 55, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 31,194, Entered as second class matter post office Washington, D. C. No. ah WASHJ{NGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o “From Press to Home $ Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. L 2 Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,751 26, 1929—FIF' TY-EIGHT PAGES. WILDER TESTIMONY | [_pies suaens ‘REVEALS SHEARER ASMARINE PAINTER Employed by Transoceanic| for Oil Pictures Depicting Proposed Liners. WITNESS OPPOSED BARDO ON MISSION TO GENEVA Says He Favored Open and Pub- lic Announcement on Send- ing Observer to Parley. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. William B. Shearer, center of an in- vestigation by the Senate to determine | whether American shipbuilders sought| . “" " 1o prevent an agreement at the Geneva ‘SAN DIEGO, Cni{r. Bo5 ambaz 198 naval limitation conference in 1927, was | ;e co i S B RS 1 the Tevealed today to the Senate committee | oS0 M IR T (R SO O et as a painter of marine pictures. T T s T s R Laurence R. Wilder, former presi-| oryoc anceles, said a message received dent of the American Brown-Boveri || ot L AW, Edmund Electric Corporation, and president of | o @ Y L8 O AT ned the Transoceanic Corporation, testified | the message, other than that Mr. Grant that in the six months from January to had died while asleep, probably a vic- June, 1928, Shearer had been employed | tim Of & heart attack. by him to paint three or four oil pamt- == e iz s GETSHOTEL PARTY ULYSSES §. GRANT, JR. hoped to build. this work, and also for his information | regarding shipping, which Mr. Wilder | said he considered valuable. | Shearer also was paid, Mr. Wilder testified, to make a trip to California to see William Randolph Hearst to in- terest him in the Trans-Oceanic Cor- poration. In all, Shearer was paid $9.500, Mr. Wilder testified. The witness told the committee that he had known nothing of Shearer's being sent to ‘the Geneva conference by the shipbuilding companies until January, 1928, when he first met Shearer. He was president of the American Brown-Boveri Electric Corpo- ration which owns the New York Ship- huilding Co., one of those which em- ployed Shearer to go to Geneva. ‘Wilder said he had been told nothing about the matter at the time of Shearer’s employment. He sald he re- #igned as president of that’corporation in June, 1927. Mr. Wilder, he said, differed with Clinton L. Bardo, president of the New York Shipbuilding Co., over the matter of an open and public announcement of the employment of Shearer to go to Geneva. Mr. Wilder said he had told Mr. Bardo he thought the shipbuilding companies should have announced they were to be represented at Geneva by Shearer. The witness also told the committee he recollected a conversation at lunch- eon with Mr. Bardo in which the latter had told him that the American Ship- builders’ Council “was sending,a man to Geneva” The man's name, Mr. ‘Wilder said, was not mentioned. Cohalan Submits Questions. Henry C. Hunter, counsel for the council, yesterday testified that the council had nothing to do with Shear- er's employment, although he. Mr. Hunter, acted as paymaster for Shear- er's services at Geneva. Before the morning session of the in- vestigation ended Judge Daniel F. Cohalan, counsel for Shearer, submitted a number of questions which he desired the committee to ask Mr, Wilder at the afternoon session. 1t developed at the morning hearing that Shearer was asking further pay from Mr. Wilder, although Mr. Wilder said that he considered he had paid Shearer for all of his employment by him. & It also developed that Mr. Bardo had strongly recommended to Mr. Wilder not to employ Shearer or to have any relations with him during the early part of 1928, which was after the ship- building companies had broken with | Shearer. A letter written by Shearer to Bardo, president. under date of February 21, 1928, was read into the record. In this letter Mr. Shearer called attention to the opposition of Mr. Bardo to Shearer's further employment by Mr. Wilder. In the letter Shearer said: Explains Issue, “The fissue is not whether T am a German, which has been disproved. or whether I am socially qualified to asso- clate with shipbuilders or something worse. The issue is whether the Amer- ican-Brown Boveri Electric Corporation, the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corpora- tion and the Newport News Shipbuild- ing Co. benefited by my campaign in their interest, for which my expenses were paid and acknowledged. 8 “Your superior officer, Mr. Wilder, justly acknowledges my services and my just claim against the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation and the Newport News Shipbuilding Co. therefore assume he will acknowledge my just claim against your company as it benefits proportionately in ship construction as a result of my cam- paign. 4 “You say I was to go to Geneva as an observer only. Every member of the shipbuilding group, including Mr. Hunter, received my releases before. during and after the Coolidge naval conference at Geneva, and at no time was 1 instructed to change or stop my tactics which demanded a naval parity for the United States. “At the close of the conference, the European press announced th> follow- ing: ‘The triumph of the theses of William Shearer, the American, gave (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Mr. | ‘Rover Starts Study of Al- . leged Rum Affair—Ignores ‘ Brookhart. | PR, = A report made to Dr. James M. Doran, prohibition commissioner, by dry agents on a party at the Carlton Hotel, which was aired in the Senate by Senator Howell, was in the hands | of United States Attorney Leo A. Rover | today. Mr. Rover said he was studying ’l!h‘ee report and would issue a statement ater. | Asked today if he planned to follos | up charges made by him in the Sena yesterday that flasks were in evidend \lt a dinner in the Willard Hotel whic] he and other Senators attended, Sena- | tor Brookhart, Republican of Iowa, de- | clared that “shouid I make a complaint | against anybody, it would be against uhe | | district attorney for not doing his duty.” | Senator Brookhart explained that | what he meant was that the only com- | plaint he would make would be if he | thought the district attorney was not | | doing his duty. The Senator said that { it seemed to be the position of the dis- trict attorney that a complaint should be made to him, whereas, the Senator takes the view that when the district | attorney knows where a witness is it is the district attorney's duty to call the | witness. | ingness late yesterday to go before the | grand jury and tell what he knows about the dinner, but said this morning that he had heard nothing from the district attorney’s office. Waits on Brookhart. Mr, Rover late yesterday afternoon |saild it was not his intention to if the Iowa Senator came to him with into the case. The first reference to the dinner came during debate in the Senate two days ago, when, during a discussion of prohibition enforcement here, the Iowa Senator told of the incident. He said at that time that a man named “Fahy” of New York had given the dinner for the pul e of meeting newly-elected and re-elected Senators. Senator Brook- hart said’he had seen flasks under the table behind a curtain. The Iowa Senator yesterday after- noon sald that if the district attorncy wanted to look into the matter the thing for him to do would be to cali him before the grand jury. He said that if requested he would not hold back Within Time Limit. Although Senator Brookhart did aot diszlose the date of the dinner, he said, in answer to questions, that it place at a time that would still fall | within the statute of limitations. Senator Howell, Republican, of Ne- braska, whose speech in the Senate .ast Saturday gave rise to the whole dis- cussion on enforcement here, also re- ferred today to the dinner incideat raised by Senator Brookhart. “Senator Brookhart has voluntsered to go before the grand jury,” said Sena- tor Howell. “That is a te: Is there the will to enforce the law?” Senator Howell pointed out that the question he rai in his speech last Saturday was ether there is the will to bring about enforcement. The Nebraskan Senator also said to- day that it was his understanding that in the District of Columbia an officer must have evidence ¢f a sale in order to obtain a search warrant in a prohibi- tion case, and that the warrant could not be obtained if the officer only had knowledge of manufacture or possession. Senator Howell reiterated today his belief that conditions in Washington are better than in most places, but em- phasized the point that there is a greater opportunity for enforcement in the National Capital than elsewhere be- cause of the Federal control here. HOUSE OPENED FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY BY Mrs. WOMAN’S GAVEL Edith Nourse Rogers Presides at Four-Minute Session, With Longworth Absent. By the Associated Press. A woman for the first time in history presided over an entire session of the House today, when Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican, Massachu- setts, opened and closed the four-min- ute session in that chamber. No business was transacted and after the reading of a letter from Speslkar Longworth designating Mrs. Rogers as Speaker pro tem for the day, a prayer by the chaplain, and the reading of the Journal of the last session, the House adjourned until next Monday. 2 Although several of the woman mem| have occupied the chair for pel during a session of the House, non®of them had ever formally opened and closed a séssing. Senator Brookhart declared his will- | summon Senator Brookhart, but that | a report on the “party,” he would go | because he was a member of Congress. | " HURRICANE TURNS NORTH; WILL MISS COAST OF FLORIDA Storm Unable to Blow Through High-Pressure Area Off Mainland. AIR AND WATER TRAFFIC HELD TO BE SAFE NOW | Disturbance Changes Course After Sweeping Over Bahama Islands. ‘The Tropical racio in New Orleans at 11:30 a.m. received the following message from the United States ‘Weather Bureau at Miami: “Indications “are that the storm center is moving to south of Miami. Winds have been steadily northeast for more than an hour. If storm moves west from south of Miami it will pass directly over or slightly south of Miami, giving in either case | a maximum intensity of storm. ! “Miami barometer, 20.81, steady. | There has been no appreciable nearly 24 hours.” By the Associated Press. HAVANA, Sentember 26.—Father Gu- | change in barometer in Miami for i | tierrez Lanza of the Belen Jesuit Co}- lege Observatory. was of the opinion to- Edny that storm danger was over along | the east coast of Florida, which has made great preparations against a trop . ical disturbance centering yesterday in | the Bahamas. | Father Lanza told the Associated %Presx this morning that all traffic, both air and maritime, bstween Cuba ard Florida could be resumed .without dan- | ger this morning. | The center of the storm was said to | | be sweeping out over the waters of the ! Atlantic in & northeasterly direction. i Pressure Stops Storm. | According to Father Lanza, the Ba- thaman storm was unable to blow | through a high-pressurc area which | spread over the Atlantic seaboard from the Northeastern States yesterday and | last night. This high-pressure area forced the | storm from its westerly course out to { the northeast, sending it away from {the Florida coast. A fast-rising barometer since 7 am. at the Belen Observatory and at the National Ob- servatory indic&téd that the strength North-northwest winds were blowing in | Havana this morning at a rate of 14 miles per hour. The sky was clear and forecasts were for moderate winds and possible light showers. | Shipping Is Resumed. Shipping activity, which ceased yes- lerday, was resumed today in Havan | harbor, though there were fewer fish! boats than usual to leave at dawn. ‘The only indication in Hav: today that a storm of hurricane Intensity had | passed within a hundred miles was the | spray_that swept over the Malecon or Sea Wall drive from unusually large waves. Ten airplanes of the Pan-American Airways Flying Field at Miami, which | had been brought here yesterday after- | noon as a precaution, were made ready this morning for the return flight to Miami. Regular flights will ALO be resumed. STORM FAILS TO APPEAR. | Winds of Gale Velocity Are Forecast on Florida Coast Tonight. MIAMI, Fla,, September 26 (#).—The population ‘of the lower Florida east coast turned with puzzled expectancy to the eastern skies today where a tropical storm yesterday lashed the Bahamas Islands, but had not put in its pre- dicted appearance on the mainland. The Washington Weather Bureau at 10:30 am. issued a storm warning |suung that the disturbance had re- | mained almost stationary during the last 12 hours with its center apparently | & short distance northwest of Nassau. | _The bureau declared it was likely that winds of hurricane force prevailed near the center of the storm and the world | still was without word from Nassau. which lost radio communication shortly after noon yesterday when the storm 00k | moved in New Providence Channel. Gale Is Forecast. The bureau at 10 o'clock this morn- ing issued a weather forecast for Florida stating that winds would reach gale force on the southeast coast tonight and Friday. Practically stationary barometric { pressure and cloudy weather prevailed along most of the shore line where last ! night's reports said the storm likely | would strike after daylight today with | hurricane intensity. There was no relaxation of vigilance on the part of the inhabitants of the area between Miami and Jupiter, out- lined last night as the probable hur- ricane area. Houses remained boarded up and rellef units, hastily organized on the basis of yesterday’s warnings, stood by their posts. The Tronica endeavoring to ralse its station on that it was unlikely that the Nassau station had lost its power, but that it might be able to receive messages from ihe outside world. Course Uncertain. Future course of the storm is uncer- tain, the Weather Bureau said, but no rapid movement in any direction was indicated for the next 24 hours. Fort Lauderdale and Miami had the lowest barometric pressures of half a dozen East Coast cities reporting this morning, the reading at the United States Coast Guard base at the former place being given as 29.78 and records of Forecaster Richard Gray showing 29.80 on the Miami gauge. ‘West Palm Beach gave the unofficial reading there as 29.83, While the weather was generally cloudy on the :owe‘:é E::;d(:oum vmbfll'-ynem.ll'la o at Daytona 3 g’\n coastal cities Augustine and farther north. Rain showers were re- ported only at Fort Lauderdale. . No Ilves were lost at Governors Har- bor, Eleuthera Island, Bal last night exnelrim:: a vy hur- ricane,” according & message re: ceived from the island Tropical Radin hore shortly’before novh. " of the storm i the South was spent. | Radio Co. still was which | to a——== SN = TN NS FHP () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. PANIC HITS ISLE | FOLLONING QUAKE Feared When Temblors Wreck Seismograph. | BY the Associated Press. HILO, Island of Hawaii, September 26.—Suspense and excitement ‘gripped the populace of Western Hawali today after residents had been frightened away from their homes by a violent | earthquake which was believed to be | the forerunner of eruptions from the | three big volcanoes nearby. The most violent quake of a series | the western half of the island aquiver ifor more than 24 hours came shortly after 6 o'clock last night. Walls and bulldings in various parts of the quak- ing area fell and residents rushed from their homes. | Shocks Ruin Seismograph. ) | So violent was the quake that the seismograph at Kealakekua was ruined. | It was the most severe shaking the island has received within the mem- \[ory of its oldest residents. J\\'l:ln:-nulansl, a few hours before the | most violent shock was felt, asserted the frequent quakes portended an eruption of one or more of the three large volcanoes on the western half | of Hawaii. He declared that all three, | Kilauea, Maunaloa and Hulalai, might | erupt simultaneously. The three vol- jcanoes stand in a straight line run- ning across the island from southeast to northwest. At one end stands Hu- ‘lllll. with Kilauea at the other. tween them is Maunaloa. i Eruption to Be Expected. the district. in which Hulalal , appeared to have been shaken more frequently than any other. Jag- gar, who has studied Hawaii's vol canoes for many years, said an erup- { tion, possibly on’ the west flank of | Hulalai, may be expected within a | the surface from Maunaloa or Kilauea He asserted it was possible tha would pour from all three craters. “Earthquakes in the Kona district | are most like vibrations ending in sud- den jolts,” said Dr. Jaggar. | sibly is the result of lava forcing its | way up a huge crevice. It is altogether | possible the tremors may cease in time, the subsequent eruptions coming in lflvle years. However, this is not prob- | able.” NICARAGUAN CANAL IS FORUM SUBJECT Resolution, Will Discuss Project Tonight. Senator Edge of New Jersey will dis- cuss the proposed construction of an interoceanic canal through Nicaragua in an address in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Star and sponsored by the Columbia Broadcast- | ing System, which will be broadcast at 9:30 tonight over Station WMAL. | Senator Edge was the author of the | resolution passed by Congress provid- ! ing for a survey of the pro canal | route through Nicaragua. An appro- i priation of $150,000 has been made for {this survey, which may require two years to complete. A detachment of proceed to the site and make the study. | Senator Edge, who is soon to retire | from the Senate to become the Ameri- | can Ambassador in Paris, has made a thorough study of the question relating | to the projected new canal route. It | is asserted that the ever-increasing use , of the Panama Canal indicates that be- ! fore many years have the con- | necting link between the Pacific will have reached its full pacity for commerce. LEAP SAVES NAVY PILOT. | Lieut. De Shazo Picked Up by Fish- ing Boat After Parachute Drop. | —A last minute leap an fiying at sea was credited toda) saved the life of Lieut. J. P. De | having Shazo, Na t. De”lhlflv, w 4,000 feet above ‘the water north of here yesterday when his plane fouled a target which was béing wed by another c'nn. ih mm"l-mr & ot med him up. He red. s atrplane of about 150 temblors that had kept | | cause houses to shake freely. This pos- J b %cellor of the exchequer, will be acting Senator Edge, Author of Survey | | | | | | { | month, but that the lava might reach | premier free of all official cares while “These | MacDonald returns to England. | ) Nassau. Last night the company stated | engineers already has been ordered to | juries. | , Calif., 6 (), Justice Ric] SAN DIEGO, Cali mmberl (). grouse HOUSE DATE CHANGED. | Three-Day -l';ecessrl to Centinue Until October 28. House Republican leaders annsunced | today they would continue until October | 28, instead of October 14, the present plan of three-day recesses during VOlcanoes of H"o, Hawaii' Senate consideration of the tariff. The office of Representative Tilson, the Republican leader, sald Representa- tive Garner, the D>mocratic leader, ap- proved the change. DAWES PAYS FINAL VIIT TO PREMIER Wishes MacDonald Good Luck on Eve of His Depar- ture for America. Ay the Associated Press, LONDON, September 26.—Ambassa- dor Dawes paid a farewell visit to Prime | Minister MacDonald this morning in Downing Street. The visit was purely of a personal nature, the general wishing the premier good luck and giving him Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, Government useful.tips about the United States. ‘This 1§ the last time that Ambassador Dawes will see Mr. MacDonald before the latter leaves tomorrow night for Southampton to board the Berengaria. which sails early Saturday. Mr. Dawes will not accompany him to the boat. Among the passengers on the Beren- garia will be James W. Gerard, war- Be- time American Minister in Berlin; Sir Joseph and Lady Duveen, and Tom Van Oss, artist, who is painting Mr. Mac- Donald’s portrait. The desks of Downing Street were | being given a final clearing today, pre- paratory to the prime minister's depar- | ture. Yesterday the British cabinet sat for four hours clearing up business, the details of which will be completed | today and tomorrow, thus leaving the | he is conducting negotiations with President Hoover at the White House. ‘The cabinet also reviewed the work of the forthcoming session of l’m‘-J liament, which will start beforenM&‘ expected that Philip Snowden, chan- prime minister during MacDonald’s | absence | PERSHING SHOOTING REPORT IS DENIED Baruch, Host to General and Jus- | co-operative. SENATORS T0LD OF DEAL BY STONE Farm Board Vice Chairman Explains Warehouse Trans- action of 1921. By the Associated Press. Senator Brookhart, Republican, Jowa, mittee today what he said was testi- mony in the Shapiro-Ford libel suit, in which a witness accused Thomas C. Stone, now vice chairman of the Fed- eral Farm Board, of selling his ware- house, purchased for $165,007 in 1916, to the Burley Tobacco Growers' Asso- MRS, MPHERSON'S HOLDS PRESIDENT NEIGHBOR REVEALS | MUST MAKE VIEWS * HEARING SCREANS ON TARIFF CLEAR Mrs. Roy Heavrin, Res‘ident‘Scnator Borah Says Hoover i of Park Lane, Called Be- Must “Assume Responsi- fore Grand Jury. bility” for Whole Bill. 4 | {SAYS MOTOR CAR STARTED DUTY TO SAY WHETHER IN REAR OF HOUSE LATER ~ HE APPROVES MEASURE Grand Jury Men Visit Death Scene in Probe of Strangling Evidence. | 'Declares Fl exible Plan Has Work- ed Principally in Up- ward Revision, Called before the grand jury as a BY the Associated Press Government witness in the investiga- | Semator Borah, Republican, Idaho, tion into the mysterious death of Mrs. | $21d In the Senate today that President Robert A. McPherson, Mrs. Roy Heav- | 100Ver. having thrown his influence be- Fin, who occuples Apartment 115, the | Pind the flexible principle in the pend- Park Lane, next to that of the Me- | N8 farifl discussions, must “go through Phersons, told reporters this afternoon | ' the end and assume the responsi- that she distinctly heard supplicating | PUItY” for other parts of the measure, cries of “Please let me alone” in the | BOrah asserted he would not criticise midst of terrifying screams about 2 | the President for issuing his statement a.m. on the night that Mrs, McPherson | UrBIng retention of the flexible tarift is believed to have died. Shortly after | POlicy adopted seven years ago, but now th: 0 Vi - { the cries ceased, Mrs. Heavrin declared. | traveres n",'.’.‘:‘s'{,,:',‘,“’";“,‘grfiy':‘,;,fi;’,’(‘, | she heard an automobile start up in | he approved other parts of the bill. | the rear of the apartment house. Duty to Advise Country. | She added other details. one of them | el [ being to the effect that the crles were o115 the duty of the President.” he repeated again and again, until “t country in the same plain and specific almost made me sick.” v whether the industrial schedules in Mrs. Heavrin's story to a certain ex- | | this bill meet with his approval. ’um corroborated that told by James | Borah who campaigned for Hoover i | _ An opponent of the flexible principle, Mills, colored janitor, who said he was | the last election campaign, said that if | awakened from a sound sleep by screams | the Chief Exccutive had established a of A woman about 2 a.m. Mrs. Heavrin | precedent by issuing his statement on the tariff, the action would be con- | appeared before the grand jury yester- day for the first time and was called again toda < She previously has been questioned by Detective Kelly, who gave her name | to the grand jurors. ! Kelly said today that Mrs. Heavrin ! did not tell him the same story when | he first questioned her that she related !to reporters today. He said he had | read before the Senate agricultural com- ! traced the cries to a nearby apartment | where there had been a domestic Tow. i Citizens Praise Allen. ! As the grand jury began the third day |of its probe " into the death of Mrs. McPherson, a representative of a arge group of North Carolina «itizens arrived at the District Suprame Court House to commend Policeman R. J. demned by him. | “It is not my idea of the division of the dutles of the various branches of Governmert under the Constitution,” the Senator satd. | But, he added, the practice had been going on for about 60 years and there- fore he conld not with justification erit- ic’se Mr. Hoover. Provision Worked Upward. Instead of being flexible and resulting in a reduction of duties, Borah said the provision had been inflexible and had worked principally in the direction of upward revision. “I take the position that not a single reduction of ‘any moment whatever has been made or recommended to the clation, of which he was president, for | Allen on his single-handed investiga- Tariff Commission under this provi- |$225,000 in 1921. | The witness, in the libel suit, who Brookhart said was named Buckley, was quoted by the Senator as testifying that Stone had urged him (Buckley) to heip organize the co-operative because they would both gét good positions at good salaries, After the testimony had been read, Stone said it was “partly true and some | absolutely false,” He then proceeded to testify to the committee regarding tne transaction. Warehouses Held Need. Stone told the committee that the co-operative had organized to do some- thing about the depression in the tobac- co industry and that warehouses were needed badly. His warehouse, he said, was valued at $276,000, and he first offered it to the co-operative for $250.- 000 and then cut the price $25.000, so another warehouse desired could be bought. “There was nothing that was not open and above board in the deal” he the McPherson apartment on the night | y;; said. “Nothing was done under cover: | of the tragedy and observed the black ' rg it was done with the fullest knowledge of the board of directors.” Buckley, Stone identified as John L. Bucklev, vice president of the cor- poration, who had been his partner in the Lexington Tobacco Warehouse Cor- poration before the formation of the The committee ap) to be satisfled with Stone’s explanation, as the questioning on the case was not | pursued. Experience Is Cited. Stone earlier informed the committee | that as vice chairman of the Farm perience in tobacco raising and market- ing toward solving the farm problem. He said he had relieved himself of | all outside connections and that he had no financial interest in the processing or_storage of tobacco. He said the tobacco growers had not | yet asked for any financial assistance, | i | but had begun,to form a strong centrai | | marketing agency. In response to a question by Senator Smith, “Democrat, South Carolina. whether tobacco growers would not | Board he could give a lifetime of ex- | | tion of her death. ! " Residents of China Grove, | where Mrs. McPherson formerly resided, | are greatly aroused after heaving re- | ports of proceedings here and reading | letters that the girl wrote to her parents concerning the alleged trea:ment !2' her husband, the representdtive said. | They are preparing. he declared, to ise a large fund ds a veward for th» { apprehension of the murderer. if it is determined that the girl was slain. | Guarded by a deputy marshal, mem- i bers of the grand jury late yesterday i visited the apartment in tne Park Lane | where Mrs, McPherson was found dead. { Immediately after convening this morn- | ing. shortly before 10 o'clock, & black shaw] which was sald to have been | Worn by the slain woman on the night {of her death was exhibited to the tribunal and Mrs. Lillian Conway, tele- | phone operator, and Miss Sue Thomp- {son, both of the Park Lane, were or- | dered to appear before the investigating | group. |~ Mrs. Conway is said to have gone to N e, | evening dress lying on the floor of the |1iving room. Other witnesses testified | that_they { wearing_the | her_death. The questioning of alibi witness was resumed with the calling of Samu d seen Mrs. McPherson rment on the night of d | Riggs, fellow employe of Robert Mc- | " Pherson, jr. He was followed to the stand by J. Tarbell Howard, Prentice Jones and | Elmer Holland, all alibi witnesses. | Janitor Tells Story. One of Allen’s star witnesses, James Mills, colored janitor of the Lombardy | Apartments, next door to the Park Lane, who is reported to have heard screams land cries on the night Mrs. McPher- | son met her death, was next quizzed. | According to Mills, he was asleep late | that night when he was awakened by cries and hastily donned his clothes and ade a vain search for their source. Lieut. Edward J. Kelly. chief of the homicide squad, who leads the many | persons who believe in the suicide theory, attributed the screams to an | cement, as sion.” the Tdahoan continued. While the duty on Bob White quall was being reduced. the straw hat tariff was raised. he said. When the duty on paint brush handles was cut, the pig iron duty was raised, adding to “the ’:'l;e:fl)' exorbitant profits of the indus- { It reduced eresylic acid and increased plate glass rates, he added; increased | wheat and reduced milifeed duties and reduced phenol, a chemical. This was the extent of the reductions under the flexible tariff, he said, adding that under the flexible principle, “we are asked to turn over to a commission practical ratemaking power, and inside | of whose chamber the public seldom is | permitted to look.” The best evidence that the flexible tariff had not accomplished what it was intended, he said. was the fact that the last campaign was fought on the need of adjusting inequalities of the teriff | between agriculture and industry. | Fight Over Industrial Rates. Borah asserted the question “which 1l be fought out here until the snow ls” is whether the industrial rates are justified. “Does tne’ President them?" he asked. “Does he approve of the duties on f{g iron and those products which will increase the profits of the teel companies? Is he satisfied with the agricultural duties, and finally, is he satisfied that this bill meets the promises of the last campaign?” | Discussing the farm rates, Borah said the agricultural interests of the country | “want to know whether they comply with the campaign pledges.” | _He called upon the President to tell | the Senate to “lay off” the industrial | rates until the Tariff Commission has had time to recommend adjustments. | “A tariff expert told me last night.” | he said, “that it would take 25 years tc iron out the industrial rates.” He added, however, that the “time to | adjust agricultural rates is now, and that was the promise.” Against Flexible Clause. Borah voted against the approve of flexible | benefit by a closer association with the tice Lydon, Says There Is No |manufacturers in disposing of their crop Truth to Radio Story. the vice chairman replied this objective undoubtedly should be sought. If real business methods are introduced in co- through a central marketing agency, | altercation which & man and his wife | principle at the time it was incorpo- residing in the Lombardy had on that rated in the 1922 Fordney-McCumber night. Lieut. Kelly, although he has| tariff act and now is one of the leaders not hesitated to disclose the names of | of a Republican independent group | other witnesses and their connection Which, together with the majority of | with the case or disregard their state | the Democrats, is opposed to its reten- By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 26.—A radio broadcast story that Gen. John J.| Pershing accidentally shot and slightly wounded Richard P. Lydon, New York Supreme Court justice, while hunting grouse this Summer on the Scotland es- tate of Bernard M. Baruch was denied today by Mr. Baruch. An account of the shooting was given last night over Station WOR by Alex- ander Woollcott, dramatic critic. Later he told reporters he learned of the in- cident from two members of the shoot- ing party. The general and the jus- tice, he said, were in two shooting boxes and when Pershing fired at a grouse some of the birdshot entered the justice’s face, inflicting slight in- Mr. Baruch denied the story. “I never saw a scratch on Justice Lydon’s face,” he Said. “To my knowledge, nothing of the sort happened, and as I | was host I think I should have heard | of it if it had.” | Mr. Baruch confirmed the fact that Gen. Pershing and Justice Lydon had been guests at the same time at Atlantic and | Buchanan Castle, his estate on Loch ca- Lomond. Gen. Pershing and Justice Ly~ don are still abroad. Pershing Makes Denial. PARIS, September 26 (#).—“There is absolutely nothing to it,” said Gen.| John J. Pershing today when informed of & New York report that he had ac- cidentally shot and slightly wounded hard P. Lydon while hunting | in Scotland. The general de- y_with | clined to say anything further. Zeppelin on Switzerland Voyage. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, September 26 () —The Grat lin took off this momflhlzrxmlur a flight over Switzerland. ‘The ible ca 30 passengers, | operative marketing, Stone added, a | better price can be demanded. Soundest Policies Urged. Stone continued that he favored the organization of co-operative marketing associations only on the soundest of policies. “By employing good sound business methods of marketing,” he said, “we can dispose of crops better than in the old way.” __The committee is considering _the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. N BADEN-BADEN SITE FOR BANK SESSION of Intelnational Com- mittee Will Be Offered Ameri- can, It Is Understood. | | Presidency BY the Associated Press, PARIS, September 26.—Official cir- ganizing the bank for international set- tlements, provided in the Young plan, will meet in Baden-Baden, Germany, on October 3. It is understood that the presidency of the committee will be offered to Jackson E. Reynolds, American delegate and president of the First National Bank ‘of New York. Mr. Reynolds sailed for Europe on the Leviathan | yesterday. ‘The committee meeting was arranged at The Hague Reparations Coriference in August, tion of the interna- it r&nt items left unsettled by the dele- E. cles today said the committee for or- ! | of mind, carefully refrained from iden- | tifying this witness. He declared that | rather than have the man embarrassed | he would refuse to divulge his name and | that Assistant United States Attorney | William H. Collins had promised that | he would withhold his identity rather | than disclose him. k Husband Seems Unworried. Young McPherson has not as yet been called to the stand, but strolls about the corridors with his family or a detective, apparently undisturbed by the proceed- ing. His mother declared that at no time had she been in fear for her son and that she knew everything would be all right. Mr. McPherson, however, | tion in the present bill in any form. While not opposing the protective tariff system, Borah told the Senate | that he felt the principle had been so applied to industry as to amount to | an_embargo. He asserted that protection was more necessary to the West than the East because the West is a developing coun~ try just as the East was many years ago. “I am unwilling to leave the West and the agricultural industry to the Tarifl Commission.” he thundred, add- ing that the Tariff Commission largely has been made up of Idbbyists. Turning to the personnel of the com- | mission, he said the chairman (Thomas (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) | (PARTY WILL SEEK RARE FUR SEAL | i l S | | i By the Associated Press. Scientists and naval officers made ready to sail today aboard the U. S. S. Koka and the U. S. 8. Eagle 34 for Guada- lupe Island, off the coast of Mexico, in search of sea elephants and a speci- men of fur seal which until recently ‘was believed to be extinct. In the party were D. C. H. Town- send, director of the New York Aqua- rium: Dr. M. Wegeforth, ht Dr. H. A. pathologist of the same_organization, and L. M. Huey of the Natural History Museum. Naval officers making the trip are Comdr. G. H. Bowdey, Lieut. Comdr. J. G. Mc- Nulty ‘and Lieuts. Alva Henderson, R. SAN DIEGO, Calif., September 26,—‘ of the Zoolog! Society o 1San Diego; | AND SEA ELEPHANTS OFF MEXICO Scientists and Naval Officers Will Sail Today for Guadalupe Islands. Wilkinson and E. B. Kruger. Luis Andrade of the Mexican fish and game con:minkm also is a member of the party. The much-sought variety of fur seal, which is named ,in honor of Dr. Town- send, was last seen in the vicinity of Guadalupe, when he identified it as a separate species. Sealers were believed |to have brought the animal to extinc- tion, until the Spring of 1926, when two were found alive .nd were brought zoological ens. to_the local . The party will land at Guadalupe, Where efforts to capture elephant seal specimens will be made. Dr. Whiting will attempt to determine the nature to have both in the vity. | of the disease which is attacked the huge free state and while in