Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1929, Page 2

o '"HE _EVE G .8 rhasattoe PAR. WASHINGTO D, . THREE HIT PERICRY CHARGES IN PLEA Pitts, Annadale and Hertz] : Charge Two Grand Jurors Were Disqualified. om the 8:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star. G. Bryan Pitts, chairman of the ,z:‘rd of the F. H. Smith Co.; M. C. El- jbert Annadale, secretary of the com- Dany, and Gustav C. Hertz, charged with perjury in connection with testi- y given before a referee in bank- cy in proceedings in relation to the Hamilton .Hotel Co., which. formerly conducted the Hamilton Hotel, at Four feenth and K streets, today filed pleas in abatement to the indictments re- Ported against them some months ago. They atiacked Eugene E. Thompson, foreman of the grand jury, which in- ted them, and LeRoy J. McCarthy, & member of the jury, claiming both o Rave been disqualified (o sit on the panel. ~ Thompson, it is claimed is a director 6af the Potomac Electric Power Co., which company has contracts with the United States and which would make him ineligible to sit on a grand jury. In reference to McCarthy, the plea is made that he holds a commission in the United States Army, being a first Heutenant in the Alr Service of the Officers’ Reserve Corps and being sub-/ ject to call for duty and being in the Pay of the United States during the time he 1s so recalled to duty. As & third plea, to break down the indict- ment, it is claimed that the proper method was not followed in bringing the alleged perjury to the attention of United States Attorney Rover. It is claimed that the bankruptey act, being special legislation and pro- viding new offenses, sets forth the method to be adopted when a referee in bankruptcy suspects that false testi- mony has been given before him. The act, provides that the referee shall certi- i fy the matter to the district attorney and the claim is made that no such| certification or reference was made by | the referee in this case, but that the proceedings before the grand jury were undertaken on the Initiative of the United States attorney. One Charge May Fail. Should the disqualification be upheld by the court and the indictment be quashed, at least one charge against &. Bryan Pitts would fail because of the expiration of the statute of limi- tations. the alleged acts having been commited more than three years ago i i | now. The sustaining of this plea of abate- ment might affect a large number of criminal cases presented during the three months that Thompson and Mc- Carthy were serving on the jury. A total of 318 indictments was reported by that grand jury, which went out of existence July 1. 5 CHILDREN HURT IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS Clasping Her 2-Year-01d Sister in Her Arms, Girl, 8, In Run Down. Five children were slightly injured in trafie sccidents Teported to police last night. ing Olasping her 2-year-old baby sister in her ' arms, 8-year-old Audelle McClanshan of 58 Randolph street suf- fered minor cuts and bruises to the; face and head when both were run; down while crossing the street at North | Capitol and Randolph streets by an automobile operated by Martin Ober- man of 27 U street northeast. Both children were treated at Sibley Hospital for slight cuts and bruises and Iater taken to their home. Twelve-year-old William Butler, col~ ored, was treated at Casualty Hospital for painful scalp and head injuries suf- fered when he is said to have run into the moving machine driven by Henry T. Ball of 1260 Oak street northeast. The boy's condition was said to be not serious by Dr. P. A, Stebbing of the hospital ataff. Sarah R. Watson, 8-year-old colored girl, was slightly bruised about the face and body when run down while playing in front of her home at 117 W street by an automobile driven by Frank H. Oifll:h, 26, of Baltimore, Md. ‘The child was treated at home by a private physician. Edns Petrie, 12 years old, of 4557 Conduit road, Georgetown, was the vietim of & hit-and-ran motorist when run down while skating in front of her home last night. The chlid was treated at Emergency Hospital for & broken left arm, while police broadcast a general lookout for the fleeing car. WAREHOUSE DEAL UNC Presidents Cleveland and Roosevelt Sought His Advice and Visited His Store. Retired From Sporting Goods Business and Went to Home | in Maryland. Death at the age of 86 terminated | yesterday the picturesque career of | William Wagner, once the counselor of sportsmen and Presidents in the nice- ties of target and game shooting. | For 35 years “Uncle Bllly,” as he was known to the sportsmen who assembled there, owned and operated a sporting goods store at 207!, Pennsylvania ave- | nue southeast. Each Saturday night for several dec- ades his store was the meeting place of | hunters and devotees of target shoot- ing. They called the sessions “conven- tions,” and Uncle Billy presided while endless yarns were spun. Among famous men familiar to his place were the late Presidents Cleve- | land and Roosevelt, both confirmed | sportsmen. John Philip Sousa used to | call at the shop, as did the late Col.| LE BILLY" WAGNER, FRIE OF CELEBRITIES, DIES AT 8 6 i | | WILLIAM_WAGNER. believing he held an unfair advantage over them. / He was a native of Washington and | spent most of his ‘life here. In 1912 he sold his business and retired, living quietly after that at Shady Side, Md., where he had purchased a home and | a large tract of land. Several . months ago Uncle Billy felt! ill, and steadily grew worse. The end STEVINSON LEADS Willlam ~ Cody, otherwise known as| “Buffalo Bill.” | came yesterday morning. He is sur- It was said of Uncle Billy that Presi- | Vived by six daughters—Mrs. L. F. C. dent Cleveland would shoot nothing | Heintz, Mrs. D. C. Stutler, Mrs. F. B, but shotgun shells loaded by his own | Wallace and Mrs. Elmer L. Irey, all of hands, and on several occasions sent | Washington, and Mrs. A. F. Kwis of for the sporting goods dealer o confer | Cleveland and Mrs. E. P. Hutchinson with him regarding guns and ammu- |of Indlanapolis—a sister, Mrs. Rachael nition. | Ready of Washington, and several President Roosevelt, likewise, con- grandchildren. sulted him on similar problems during | He was & life member of St. John's his stay at the White House, | Masonic Lodge, which will have charge Uncle Billy himself was a shot of |of services at the graveside in Prospect remarkable precision, His marksman- ' Hill Cemetery tomorrow afternoon. ship was so excellent that his friends Funeral services will be held at2o'clock | say he refused to compete with indi- [from the Zurhorst funeral parlors, viduals, regardless of the prize at stake, | Third and East Capitol streets. CHANG DEFEATED; REBELS DISKRVED DISTRICT GOLFERS Harry Pitts Is Two. Strokes Behind as Final Round Gets Under Way. “Ironsiders” Lose in Severe Fighting Along Northern Hunan Border. ISHEARER REVEALED AS MARINE PAINTER Employed by Transoceanic for Oil Pictures Depicting Proposed Liners. (Continued From First Page.) yesterday the drop of the barrier to th: most formidable marathon of modern times. Tomorrow the race of arma- ments will be recommended.” Approved by Grou “All this was acknowledged and ap- ' proved by the interested shipbuilding group until a small-navy paper, inter- national and pacifistic in policy, asked the Navy Department for information about me, Then came the disavowal | and damnation by the shipbullders ac- cepting the fruits of victory, but de-! serting the leader In the fight. I was!' to be made the victim of success, which was cowardly, contemptible and un- | just. ‘To carry out this ungrateful bol- | icy my citizenship and character were | attacked, not only to repudiate me, but to rob me of my just reward and rec- | ognition which was promised.” i Mr. Wilder, who was on the stand ven the leiter was read, denied that L2 had acknowledged the justice of Shearer’s claims against the shipbuild- | ing companies, as stated by Shearer in his letter. { [ ! Solleits Fund. There was introduced also in the: hearing a letter written by Mr. Bardo | on August 13, 1928, to E. M. Herr, president of the Westinghouse Elec- | tric & Manufacturing Co., in which Mr. Bardo solicited a contribution to help meet the expenses incurred by his company in connection with the mer- chant marine and Transoceanic Cor- poration campaign in_Washington in 1928. In his letter Mr. Bardo said, “The Jones-White merchant marine bill as glmd by the last Congress is the most | elpful and constructive national ship- | ping legislation ever presented to the American public. { “This legislation was only made pos- | sible by the energetic action of Mr. Wilder and his associates in the Trans- | oceanic enterprise, with the help and | co-operation of other shipping and ship- | building interests.” Senator Allen said that this letter indicated to him that there had been | lobbying by the shipping interests in ! connection with merchant marine leg- | islation. Mr. Wilder insisted, however, that he had not lobbied. Wilder Is Questioned. In reply 0 questions by Chairman Shortridge, Mr. Wilder testified at the outset that the corporation of which he had been head through its subsidiary had bullt the Saratoga, an airplane car- | Maintaining the same steady scoring By the Associated Press, | rier, for the Navy, and had other con- | As she appeared at the American Art Gallerles, 000,000 drive for a five-year development progral ows Mrs. Hoover (left) and Mrs. William Hoffman, president of the Girl Scouts, sur- | Photo, taken at the ceremonies, nded by Girl Scout officials. was employed the Transoceanic. After Chairman Shortridge had com- pleted his questioning of Mr. Wilder, Scnator Robinson, the ranking Demo- crat, closely cross-questioned the wit- ness. He drew an admission that Mr. | Wilder had quarreled with Mr. Bardo to do some work for fc jover the secret employment of Mr. | Shearer at the Geneva conference and | had urged to him to acknowledge him gubllcly as his agent and make a clean reast of the matter, which Mr. Bardo declined to do. Senator Robinson then forced an ad- | mission from Mr. Wilder that he con- | sidered it wrong for the shipbullding | 1 J. M. Hunter, jr., of Indian Spring, | pace that has kept him up with th® | front runners since the tournament cpened yesterday morning, Miller B. | Stevinson of Columbia led the fleld at | the end of the third round in defense of his District amateur golf champion- ship today with a 54-hole total of 223. Two strokes behind Stevinson as the final round started this afternoon was Harry G. Pitt of the Manor Club, | Stevinson's perennial rival for goif | tournament honors. { John C. Shorey of Bannockburn and | | who were tid with Stevinson for first | place at the end of the initial day’s p! yesterday. blew as high as the proverbial kite on the third round today, Shorey | today announced it had received ad- vices that Gen. Chang Fak Wel's re-| o NANKING, September 26.—National- | ist government military headquarters volting “Ironsiders” had been disarmed after severe fighting along the Northern | Hunan border. | Dispatches from Canton say that the | government there is continuing to con- | centrate troops along the Kwangsi bor- ders despite Teports of Chang's defeat. | However, no move has been made by | Kwangsi against Canton. | Central bank notes have been going | | council to employ an agent at the | Geneva conference secretly and sought | to force Mr. Wilder to admit that it was tracts, including wo:: for the Const Guard. He ais company was ‘Brict Cepry ’ BER' 26, 1929 MRS. HERBERT HOOVER, New York City, to open the loan exhibition of Americana and the $3,- m for the G irl Scouts of America, of which she is honorary president. —Underwood Photo. CHICAGOAN BOMBED FOR FOURTH TINE HGOVERENTERTAINS INSURANCE GROLP President Takes Jnterest in Wealthy Auto Dealer’s Ga-| National Convention in } rage Is Damaged—Child Is Session Here. Hurt Seriously. taking 87 and Hunter 83. These scores | up in Canton and are now 90 per cent eliminated them from any chance to- of par. Financlers belleve that the situ- | win. Pitt registered the best soore of -the | Action 18 temporary,.and the bank notes championship to date in the third round | 8re expected fo return tq par ynless| today, scoring a 72 to add to his total | Kwangsi should begin hostilties. “The of 153 of yesterday, for a 54-hole total | mint has reopened and the imgreased | of 225. Two strokes behind Pitt came silver reserve is expected to help the Charles 8. Cole, jr.. of Indian Spring, | financial situation. - who shot another consistent 76 for a ! The shell-riddled Chinese = steamer total of 227. Page Hufty of Congres- | Kiangchin, one of the three battered by | sional, the home club's_ace, registered Chang's troops near Ichang, limped into a 75 today and had a 54-hole total of | port today for repairs. 230. Next to him came W. C. McCallum The vessel showed effects of the heavy of Washington, who scored his third |artillery fire, the hull being seriously 77 for a total of 231, and one stroke be- | damaged. Officers said the ship was hind McCallum were Hunter and Frank | prevented from sinking only by heroic K. Roesch of Washington, both of whom | Work of the crew in effecting rapid re-| have totals of 232. pairs. The attack resulted in 75 men aboard being killed and 300 wounded, while in | | all 5,000 Nationalist troops were cap-| FOR ACCUSED BANKER &=z ‘ vitally int- . in the develcpment of | Ar: .. .n merchant marine, Its! shipbullding plant was s0 iarge, he said, | that & naval program, no matter v large, could not have supported it. Uniess there was to be more merchant marine shipping construction, he said, | the company would have Leen ~varrant- | ed m closing down :ts plant. The wit ness testified that he had been une of the principal stockiolders in *he con pany of which he was formerly head, ! but that he had disposed of practically | alt his holdings during the :ast vear. } ‘Taking up the subject of the Trans- oceanic Corporation, for the develop- ! ment of which Clinton R. Bardo, presi- dent of the New York Shipbullding Co. had earlier told the committee some | $143,000 has been expended, Mr. Wilder went into the details of those expendi- tures. He told the committee that the Transoceanic Corporation was organ- | ized_to_build and operate liners which would €ross the Atlantic Ocean in four | days. Back of the plan for the four- | day liners, he said, was & survey of the | entire conditions relating to the mer-{ with two major objections. The Ship- | distribution of one hundred billions of | plosions. Once the Denemark home, in | chant marine. The Transoceanic Corporation: was incorporated in 1928 in Delaware, he | said. Among the men interested in the corporation mentioned by Mr. Wilder | were William Flook, Theodore Smith | and Willam F. Kenny, New York | capitalists, | Although the plans called for 1,000.000 | shares of stock in this corporation, Mr. | Wilder testified that only about 20 had | sen issued. He said that on January ! 24, 1928, the representatives of the | | that more favora as equally wrong to accept such em- | ployment. Mr. Wilder said that the reverse proposition had not occurred to him until put to him by Senator Robin- son. The Senator sought to draw from Mr. Wilder how he came to employ Mr. | Shearer for the Transoceanic _after | he had learned of his improperly ac- cepting employment for the shipbuild- ing Interest at the Geneva conference. r. Wilder emphasized that Mr. Shearer had been Emg}oyed by the Transoceanic, of which Mr. the only executive officer, with the pri- mary and principal work of painting pictures of the proposed four-day liner | to impress the Shipping Board. He | emphasized repeatedly that Mr. Shearer | ad done excellent work as a painter and had been valuable to him as an | adviser on account of his general| knowledge of shipping matters. In reply to questions by Senator S8hortridge, Mr, Wilder said that in re- glglw a Senate resolution the Shipping rd on April 20 had reported un- favorably on the Transoceanic proposal | ping Board had other plans of its own for which it desired an Appropriation and the board was not entirely satis- | fied with the designs of the proposed | ship. But the Transoceanic hgd con- tinued with its work. hoping to win over | the Shipping Board later, and he feels = consideration has since been entertained. i | Consulted With Legislators. Mr. Wilder told the committee that h> had personally consulted with the | Having manifested a deep interest in life insurance and the protection it af- fords,families in a letter to the Na- tional” Association of Life Underwriters, | meeting in fortieth annual convention in the Hotel Mayflower, President Hoo- ver today had 12 prominent members of the association as his luncheon guests at the White House. | Among the guests, all leading insur-| ance executives, were: Paul F. Clark, Wilder was ' president of the National Association salesroom, at Ogden and Coringfield of Life Underwriters; Seaborn Ernest Julian S. Myrick, | T. Whatley, John H. Russell, | By the Associated I ress. CHICAGO, September 26. — Emil | Denemark, wealthy automobile dealer | and Sportsman, who in recent years has been the victim of bombers, kidnapers, | robbers and firebugs, experienced his | fourth bombing early today. A black powder “pineapple” exploded at the rear entrance of his g-rage and avenues. Property damage was several hundred dollars. A 4-year-old child, know nothing of the fate of the other two merchantmen which were captured | C. D. Waggoner Goes to Prison in| Default of Bond in Fraud Case. By.the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 26— | Charles D. Waggoner, Telluride, Colo., banker, charged with defrauding six | New York banks out of $500,000, was | in the Federal House of Detention to- | day in default of $100,000 bail. i The Telluride Bank president arrived from Cheyenne, Wyo. yesterday and was arraigned before Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy of Cheyenne, who is| sitting here as a visiting judge. The indictment charged Waggoner | with using the mails to defraud by| sending forged telegraphic money trans- | fer orders directing the six banks to| place sums -totaling $500,000 to the BY STONE IS AIRED BY SENATE GROUP| (Continued From First Page.) I nominations of the Farm Board mem- ‘bers who, up to the present, have been serving under recess appointments. | Yesterday concluded two days of ques- tioning Chairman Legge. The vice chairman, whose home is in | Kentucky, represents tobacco on the hoard and included among his sponsors for oppointment by President Hoover is former Gov. Prank O, Lowden of Illi- nois. There has been no advance in- formation of any opposition to his con- firmation. Five year Term. i Sfone originally mentioned for | the chajrmanship and now that that| position has been given to Legee, is con- | sidered next in line for the post. He; has been designated by the President to serte for five years. All of the eight appointed members of the board will be examined by the mmittee. There has been some talk 3 -gpposition to Commissioners - Den- man, who represents live stock, and Mc- Kelvie, who represents at, but whether this amounts to an attempt to bloék confirmation has not been dis- clo@d. The committee also has called Secretary Hyde, but inasmuch as he serves ex-officio he does not need to be Ohairman Legge completed his tesi- mony with a declaration tigat he did not want the position if he was to be col firmed under the ‘“misapprehensio that he would favor a hurried or hap- hagiird program of relief. .~ He pledged his efforts to making the farmer p but sald he would support no plan by which money was expended wit t suitable considerations of safety. Marketing Corporation. s chairman told the committee he favgred stabilization of farm commodi- ties-only when it seemed necessary alter a national marketing corporation or. simflar agency nad been perfected to conduct stabilization operations. Although none of the Senators who lookgd at farm relief with a different eye—than ge wotld comment pub- credit of the Telluride Bank. ‘Waggoner kept the court and United | States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle wnlt-} ing an hour, while in the custody of the deputy marshals who brought him East, while he visited a newspaper office. He arrived shortly after Mr. Tuttle had dispatched a deputy marshal with in- structions to use force if necessary in | bringing him into court. Manacled to an officer, Waggoner watched the proceedings calmly through- out his arraignment and showed no| concern at the amount of bail fixed or | failure to raise it. At the marshal's office he met his wife and son, Charles D. Waggoner, jr. J. M. SCHAFFER HEADS SOUTH WASHINGTON BODY | Citizens' Association Makes Plans for Membership Drive in Southwest Section. Jacob M. Schaffer, Department of | Agriculture chemist, was elected presi- dent of the South Washington Citizens’ Association at the first Fall meeting | held in the Fairbrother School, Tenth | and E streets southwest, last night. Dr. A. J. Olmsted was elected vice president, while Mrs. Charles Knight and Mrs. Etta Davis were re-elected | secrelary and treasurer, respectively. Mr. George S. Fraser was re-elected a delegate to the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. The association made plans . for a drive to obtain new members. It was pointed out that while there are 15,000 white persons residing in the southwest | section of the city, the number of paid- up members to the association i only 84, The need for a playground and for a new junior high school for this part of the city was discussed. It was sald at the meeting that the Jefferson Junior High School building has been con- demned for more than 25 years. It was announced that the next meeting would be held October 18. Hail Omen of Peace. JERUSALEM (#).—Jewish colonles them said.tbat opposition Senate A red inevitable. minis- tration ll::::l on the other hand, said 1hey were con B9 anproved by a substential<yote, | fident the chairman would A sheik's nephew, ~sang and watc) near Petach Tikvah are hailing an omen of peace. Some 150 guests from the colonies attended the wedding of helped eat a sheep, ouin dances. | Manchurian border the extensive armies | warnings | Red soldiers and peaceful citizens were by Chang Fak Wei. LOYAL TROOPS IN ICHANG. Take Over City Recently Deserted by Rebel Commander. HANKOW, China, September 26 (#).| —Loyal troops of the Chinese Nationalist | regime have quietly taken over lthln(k.* recently deserted by Gen. Chang Fak | Wel, rebel commander of the 4th Can- tonese Division, known as the “Iron- sides” because of their fighting quali~ ties. It is stated that Gen. Chang. who crossed the river and for a time at I~ast neld control of 50 miles of territory | among the Yangtse below Ichang, has penetrated well into Hunan Province. SOVIET WARNING ISSUED. Coutner-action Unléhs Attacks Cease. | MOSCOW, September 26 (#).—The Soviet government, incensed by con- tinuing attacks along the Siberian bor- der by Chinese soldiers and Russian | White Guards, last night issued another | grave warning to Nanking that a repe- | tition will mees with immediate and de- cisive counter-actions by the Red army. A note 'to this effect was handed the German_embassy for transmission to| China. Recently it was announced that the Soviet Union was prepared to main- tain throughout the Winter on the Decisive Threatened | assembled there following dismissal by the Chinese of Russian officials of the Chinese Eastern Railws It was stated that Russia was prepared to increase these forces if necessary. In its present note the Soviet govern- ment sald that despite its previous neither the Nanking nor Mukden governments had taken any measures to prevent border assaults or to disband the Russian White Guards organized by Chinese authorities. ) The statement cites 28 cases of at- tack on Soviet territory between Sep-| tember 10 and 23, in several of which sald to have been killed. It also called to the attention of China alleged acts of robbery and terrorization of peace- ! ful soviet citizens by bands of White Guards. DR. AND MRS. PIERCE ENTERTAIN AT DINNER Church Officers and Wives Among Guests at Formal Event Last Night. Officers ‘of the First m;lu'reuucvr\lLe Church, with their wives, were guests of Dr. and Mrs. Jason Noble Pierce at a “Tempus Fugit” dinner last night at the church. One hundred .and four persons attended the dinner, The affair was strictly formal, Dr. Plerce acted as toastmaster and haa distributed at the plates small buttont bearing humorous inscriptions. . ' ‘Addresses of an mio.mal nature were | ’| delivered by Dr. Charles G. Abbot, séc- retary of the Smichsonia) Ir:titution* Leonard De Gast, president of the| Washington Congregational Cluh; Will C. Barnes, president of ‘he Washire- ton Fine Arts Jlub; Dr W. Kuighton Bloom, secretary in charg: of Con- ll’!fl“tmll shurches eect «f the Mis- siss] pg:_ River ind south of New T ork, and Dr. Pierce. { corporation and their experts appeared | chairmen and other memb:rs of both before the United States Shipping | Senate and House committe>s who had J, Clark, Frederick H. Ecker, Aldlen HLK::MOE' ’rhnm]udl. P-lr:lnson, 2sleep at home a block away, was hurt Walton L. Crocker, Harold A. Ley. DI. geriously when force of the explosion 8.8. Huebner and William M. Duff. | ook o heavy plaque from the wall, Hoover's Letter. In e letter addressed to the grouj e public yesterday. Mr. Hoover sai 0 one interested in the progress of the American people could fail to be| Thrice before the salesroom bas been impressed with the significance of the |bombed. Two years ago a Negro jani- achievement which is marked by the |tor lost a leg in one of the bomb ex- head. Bombed Three Times Before. life insurance amongst them. There Oak Park, was bombed. is no single device In our whole| Mrs. Denemark owns a string of val- economiié system which is greater in | uable race I .rses, including Frances and its importance in safeguarding the wel- | Blackwood, the latter winner of the fare of our women and children as is|$25,000 Lincoln Fields Handicap early this. The great institutions which have | this month. Six thoroughbreds were been builded for this protection against | Gestroyed some time ago when the disaster rank with the highest forms of | Denemark stables were set afire. our national achievements.” | A year ago Denemark was kidnaped The letter was made public after and held 'veral days for ransom. President Hoover had received the ma- When he was released he declined to jority of some 1,500 delegates attending | discuss the abduction or say how much, the convention at the' White House yes- | if any, ransom had been paid. In one terday afternoon. The letter was broad- | hold-up he reported the loss of $25,000 ! cast over the: radio by the national |in cash and jewels and in another he the plaque striking the child on the | B! | associates, who handled all of the pub- Board, to explain the proposal for the | four-day liners. Mr. Wilder said that | there was not sufficient legislation to | | permit of the carrying out of the pro- ! posed contract for the four-day liners | and the Shipping Board was urged to | recommend the necessary laws. Lobby Expenditure Denled. Mr. Wilder denied emphatically that a dollar of the $143,000 to which Mr. Bardo had testified had been expended for lobbying. He called attention to the fact that auring Mr. Bardo's testimony, in answer to a question by Senator Allen, Mr. Bardo had admitted that this money was expended for lobbying for the merchant marine. Mr. Wilder testified that he had never known or seen or had any communica- tions with Shearer before January 14, 1928, when he saw him in Washingtol He told the committee that Shearer had been paid $4,550 out of the fund ex- | pended for the Transoceanic Corpora- | tion for painting pictures of a proposed four-day liner. H “Mr. Shearer is an artist and painted very excellent picturc~.” said Mr. Wil-| der. “I have one of them here if the | committee would like to see it.” The witness said that the employ- ment of Shearer had been for the year | 1928, that Shearer had painted three or four pictures in oils. He added that Shearer was very well informed on shipping. “Get under the froth” said Mr. wilder, “and Shearer knows shipping.” | Repeating that Shearer had not been employed as a lobbyist, and adding not | a cent had been spent for lobbying ! purposes in connection with the Trans- oceanic Corporation, he sald he had been approached by several persons while he was in Washington in 1928 who wished to be employed as lobbyists, but thet none of them had been given employment. Classifies Expenditures. Mr. Wilder gave in detail the items of expenditure for the Transoceanic| Corporation, showing much of the money had been expended for the preparation of designs for the ships. for the study of the whole question of their construction and operation. Among the items was $19,300 paid to Ivy Lee and lieity, including pamphlets and news- naper articles. Mr. Wilder said that Lee was a professional publicity expert Jlocated in New York. He added that thers had been no public interest in the merchant marine blem at that time and that it was “dead.” “We were putting out something new, to us to arouse the inte; d enthusiasm of the public at said Mr. Wilder. We used the | dy liner as something new. said that they got a lot of pub- ilelty out of the new project. ‘The witness told the committee that $24,000 of the money expended and re« ferred to by Bordo had been used for a design for a dirigible upon which his company wished to submit a bid to the Navy Department. Mr. Wilder said he had moved the ‘whole nization of the Transoceanic Corporati to Wash! when he came here in January and remained until June. That acounted, he said, for the large expenditures at hotels here. They some times had as high as 20 of their people and eéxperts staying here, Among the items listed by Mr. Wilder' was $167 for “uniforms for former Comdr. Hartley of than, who ‘our= He sought information from him because there was very little bibliography on merchant marine subjects. The legis- Iation finally enacted in the Jones- Whits bill was exactly what he and his associates ha d for. He explained that his corporation still hopes to build ships that will cross the ocean in four days when they get adequate financing which will amount to about $50,000,000. He pointed out that Germany has bullt two_such ships, England is building two, France has built one and Italy is building one. “We know that we are sound tech- nically,” said Mr. Wilder, “that is that boat could make the'trip in four days, based on what we have done with the Saratoga. The question was, were we right economically—that is, would the service pay?” He explained what they sought from the Government was mail contracts and to borrow under the shipping act 75 per cené of the first cost. He read into the record the pro- posal made to the Shipping Board. In reply to questions, Mr. Wilder said he had never met Mr. Shearer until| January 14, 1928, that previously Mr. Bardo had told him that the council of shipbuilders was sending an agent to the Geneva conference, but his com- pany was not A member of the council and sald Mr. Bardo had not informed him regarding the purpose of sendin, this agent. He admitted that it was Mr. Bardo who introduced him to Mr. Shearer after he himself had asked to meet him when he had heard that Mr. Bardo knew & man who was well informed on shipping matters. He admitted that he had employed Mr. Shearer after Mr. Bardo had advised him to have nothing to do with Shearer, be- cause he himself had quarreled with him and had found him to be a man who could not be depended upon, Mr. Wilder sald that he has asked Mr. Shearer for his record and had had that record checked up by Izy Lee, who acted as his publicity man, and that the record was correct and that Mr. shan{er could be depended upon for he was satisfied with 1's “record, nationality, and y,” explaining that his grand- father had fought in the Revolution and that he was a citizen of the United States. In answer to Senator Robinson, he sald that he believed open employment of Shearer by the shipbuilders would have been all right, but that secret employment was not all right, as he felt such a policy was detrimental to the industry as a whole. He sald that he could not pass on whether it was wrong for Shearer to accept secret em- ‘oyment because he did not know what representation had been made to him when he was engaged as agent of shipbuilders council to the Geneva conference. ‘Dry Dock Strike Settled. NEW ORLEANS, La., September 26 (/. —A strike of 400 boiler makers and shipbuilders, employed by the Jahncke Drydocks, Inc., here, ended two hours afte® the men wera scheduled to w0 work on the day shift. Officials of the company, in a meeting with the emph.ve:. today out_differences over thé provisions for an all night shift and the men returned to their Jjobs. The strike b o called Tuesday | night. T o | in landin| association at its convention session in the Mayflower Hotel this morning. An_ address by Frederick H. Ecker, | president of the Metropolitan Life I surance Co. of New York, on the sub- ject of “The Trend of Life Insurance Investments in the Era the Second Hundred Million,” also was broadcast during this morning's session. Mr. Ecker predicted that the $200.- 000,000,000 mark in insurance sales will be passed by 1940. At the same time he sounded a warning that while a period of prosperity is being enjoyed, the insurance companies must be pre- pared for periods of depression which necessarily come. “High Mission” Urged. TInsurance men throughout the Nation were urged to have a consciousness of a | “high mission” if they are to reach the | heights in life insurance selling. in an address at the session by Harold J. Cummings, superintendent of agencies, Minnesota Mutual Life' Insurance Co. His toplc was “Missions and Methods of the Average Producer.” Invocation was deliverd at the morn- ing session by Rabbi Abram Simon of the Washington Hesbrew Congregation, after which the delegates were led in singing by Arthur E. Bagley and “Bill" Mahoney, preparatory to the addresses. This afternoon the delegates are the gucsts of the Life Underwriters Associa- | tion of the District of Columbia on & trip to Mount Vernon. An ‘“agency management session” is scheduled to be hsld in the Hotel Mayflower to- night at 7:30 o'clock, and tomorrow the convention will be brorght to & close with the adoption of resoluticns and election of officers, following & series of addresse FOG AGAIN FORCES FLAMINGO DOWN Indianapolis Endurance Plane Is Halted After 149 Hours Aloft. By the Associated Press/ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., September 26. ! —Fog so heavy that the refueling plane could not be seen forced the Indian- apolis Flamingo plane down at 5:40 o'clock this morning on its second a tempt to establish a new refueling en- durance record. The plane had been in the air 149 hours and 36 minutes.. Lieuts. Walter Peck and Lawrence Genaro hovered over their home air- port all night, fighting rain, fog and a low flying oeiling. ite the murky weather, a contact with the refueling plane was made early this morning, but it was soon broken and the Flamingo received little gasoline. The fog be- nn?e tdhll:kur and the two pilots decided toland. . .. The Plamingo’s pilots were successful the plane at its home port without damage, The refueling plane became lost, but was landed undamaged several miles north of Indianapolis. Fog and’rain, in which Peck and Genaro lost their way, fe mingo to end its first attempt to set & lost $2,500. A police officer, on guard |at the Denemark home, was also held | ! up during the second hold-up. ! Shortly after the bombing of his Oak Park home, in February, 1927, Dene- mark's Negro chauffeur was mpysteri- ously slain, | $20,000 Damage. ‘The total damage done by the three | salesroom bombings was estimated to- | |day at more than $20,000. The sales- | room is also headquarters for Radio | | Station WEDC. owned by Denemark. A year ago Denemark headed a syn- dicate negotiating for the purchase of | the Arlington race track. It was stated | by newspapers that Terry Druggan and | Prankie Lake, Chicago “beer barons,” were behind a plan to gain control of the track. Denemark, however, made positive denial that either Druggan or Lake was connected in any way with | his offer. | A second bombing early today oc- | curred at the C. W. Cramer bakery, on | North Halsted street. The neighborhood was aroused by the explosion, but the | damage was small. | MRS. McPHERSON'S NEIGHBOR REVEALS HEARING SCREAMS| _(Continued From First Page.) shows the strain of his anxiety and al- though he declared that he does not care what newspapers report he reads | them carefully and at times criticises their statements concerning the case. Under the care of a physician, Miss Eleanor Sheppard, nurse and intimate friend of the dead girl, who is believed to be the last person to have talked to | her before her death, was unable to ap- | pear today as she is still confined to her bed. Lieut. Kelly of the homicide squad | yesterday emphatically denied that the | girl had been questioned in a manner | young nurse maintains that this was the reason. 8he had not been well for two days before the probe, Miss Sheppard de- clared, and when she was questioned at length as she waited outside the grand jury room it caused her to become 50 ill that she was forced to go home. “I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown after being questioned,” Miss Sheppard declared. “The whole thing has been so terrible that I could not stand the additional strain of being grilled.” . On the night when Mrs. McPherson i believed to have met her death Miss Sheprlrd telephoned her, but was told to call later. Officer Allen today declared that last night he took several friends to the spot opposite the Park Lane to demon- strate to them that it would have been possible for him to see a man jump from the roof outside the McPherson apartment. While there, Allen declared the apartment raised and & man_ step out on the roof. It was Lieut. Kelly. Police Inspector Shelby declared yes- terday that he was ready to tell the | bill. | that would cause her illness, but the | b, they were startled to see the window of | ing PLANES BEGINHONT *FOR B CAVADINS !Barren Beverly Lake Region to Be Covered—Prospectors - Missing Two Weeks. By the Associated Press. TORONTO, September 26.~A wide- spread search by air started today for a party of eight prospectors missing two weeks in two airplanes in the barren ilands of the Northwest. | A message received at the office here of the Dominion Explorers from Capt. |J. Blanchette at Stoney Rapids, in | Northwestern Saskatchewan, sald four planes had taken off from there on a 800-mile hop to Beverley Lake, one of | the scheduled stopping points on the | fight of the missing prospectors. { Experienced Arctic Flyers, i The pilots and crews of the rescue | planes are all experienced in Arctic fly- {ing. Two of the planes are to be used in_ extensive fiights in the Beverley | Lake section, while the other two will (fly with food and supplies. between | Stoney Rapids-and the lake. The mes- | sage said should the search about Bev- |erley Lake prove fruitiess it would be {extended to Peliey Lake. Meanwhile, other planes were con- verging toward the region over which the missing aviators had flown. It was expected more than a dozen planes | would shortly be engaged in the search. Chilly weather prevails over the en- tire Northlands, with unfavorable fi ing conditions. Members of the search- |ing partles, however, expressed deter~ mination to continue the hunt even after the freeze-up. Carried Food Supply. ‘The two missing planes were said to | have carried & supply of food sufficient to last to the end of October, while game is also said to be abundant in the region where the planes were lost. The exploring company also has placed under charter the icebreaker Ocean Eagle, which will sail fror1 Ches- terfield Inlet for Bathhurst Inlet, on the North Canada coast. to carry sup- plies to Baker Lake for use of the searching parties. The missing men are Col. C. D. H. MacAlpine, president of the Dominion Explorers: Pilots C. A. Thompson and J. McMillan, Richard Pearce, geologisty W. A. Broadway, Alex Milne, Maj. N. Baker and F. Goodwin. HOLDS PRESIDENT MUST MAKE VIEWS ON TARIFF CLEAR (Continued From First Page.) Marvin) came from that section where had besn held the idea of free trade for agriculture. Another member, he added. had been a lobbyist for one great industry. “Are we Western Senators to be asked to surrender our right of debate and vote and have this matter turned over to a commission on which we have no representation at all?”, he de- manded. “The power to levy taxes was placed in Congress in the name of God.” Borah said, “and in the name of God let us keep 1t there.” The President of the United States, he added, ehjoys greater power than any living soul, asserting President Wil- son once told him that he “shuddered when he thought of the power of the El_‘ment."u T umerating the various wers of the Executive, including his pCl’olflmlnd of the Army and Navy, practically the power to make war by his conduct of foreign _affairs, and the appointive power, Borah sald the Supreme Court now has decided that the President has the dismissing power and added: “No Senator who has served in this body will underestimate that power.” Reed Reserves Time. Reserving a right to speak later on the flexible provisions, Senator Reed, Republican. Pennsylvania. rose to an- swer a “few points” in Borah's speech “The troubie with the attacks on th flexible provision and the whole bill." the Pennsylvanian said. “is that these gentlemen who have appointed them- selves spokesmen for agriculture—and I deny their right to do it—are trving to drag down the rest of the country o the level of agriculture, while we are trying to bring agriculture up to the level of the best of the country 8enator King, Democrat, Utah, in. terrupted to ask if the President had not ignored his prerogative to seng such messages direct to Congress in- stead of giving them to the newspapers. “His words reached Congress and the people no matter what method was adopted,” Reed replied. Reed denied the tariff contest was between agriculture and industry, as Borah had claimed. he communities T represent are not waging such a fight,” the Penn- sylvanian asserted. “We are doing our level best to treat all Americans as equal, whether they be farmers in lIdl;lo or manufacturers in New Eng- nd." ‘The Senate meanwhile faced the pros- pect of a lengthening controversy over the flexible provisions of the tariff The Democrats were obviously encouraged by the evidence of support from the Republican indépendent group given by the attack on the flexible pro- visions by Senator La Follette of Wis- consin, while the Republican leaders felt they could count heavily on the President's statement urging econtinu~ ance of the policy they embody. e ‘The fact that Senator Bingham, Re- publican, Connecticut, a member of the finance committee, employed an agent of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ As- sociation as his secretary during his committee’s consideration of the bill, meanwhile, has injected an element of diversity into the situation. Bingham's Secretary Barred. Chairman Smoot of the finance com- mittee told the Senate that, at his sug- gestion, Charles L. Eyanson, the man Bingham employed, and other secre- taries of the Republican members- had been excluded from the committee room after they had attended several sessions. His statement followed a defense of Bingham's action by thes Connecticut Senator himself and Republican leaders, after it had been described as “brazen” Demourate. ‘The Democratic attack on the aomme- istration’s position in favor of contihye ing the President’s authority to raise er lower tariff rates upon recommendr- tion of the Tariff Commission was led by Senator George of Georgia, after La Follette had completed his denunciation of the policy and the seven-year record ot its operation. The President’s statement on behal? of the flexible pfinciple and “his silence n other respects” were interpreted by George as “indicating his acquiescence in all other matters in this bill.” Hoover’s only two pronouncements on important pending legislation—his pro- nouncement against the debenture plan of farm relief and his flexible tariff statement—were both, George contend- ed. aimed against the farmer’s Interest. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, held that it was “significant that e President has failed to give any expres- Democrat on the finance committee, has moved to restrict the Executive power.” Simmons’ proposal, offered s & stbstitute for the flexible provisions sponsored by the committee Republi- cans, would take away from the Ewecu~ grand jury that his investigation showed that Allen could not have been where he said hé was and have observed the: window from which he said he saw the man leave. . tive the power to change rates, direct- ing the Tariff Commission to report ita findings to Congress instead of the President.