Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER, (U. 8. Weather Bure; Mostly cloudy top l:ulhly showe tempera Temlrfi;% p.m, today. Full report ol " Closing N. Y. Markets, P: ond el ¥ntered as o. Vst office, 31,195. Highest, 86, at 2:45 owest, it and tomorrow; . ow; little change 30 am. n’page 1 s 14 and 15 The WASHINGTON, 8 matter 81 shington, D. pening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Sfar. . The only evening in Washington wit| Associated Press service. news Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,347 D. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1929 _FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. QUESTION WHETHER CRIES CAME FROM MPHERSON SUTE Man Living Across Hall Con- tests Statement of Two Other Witnesses. CouLD H;WETHEARD THROUGH OPEN -DOOR Unidentified Woman Tells Allen Nurse Advised Her Against Attempting Suicide. The question of whether cries were | heard coming from the apartment of Mrs, Virginia McPherson on the night two weeks ago when she was strangled to death, fcll in dispute today as the grand jury neared the end of its Jengthy inquisition designed to decide whether the comely young nurse was a suicide or killed hersell with the gay- colored cord of her pajamas. After Mrs. Ethel Schuttler of Idaho. who wax visiting her son in the Park Lane Apartments, where Mrs. McPher- gon lived, had come before the grand jurors today to add her voice to that of Mrs. Roy G. Heavrin, another resi- dent of the apartment, who told of cries emanating from Mrs. McPherson’s | rooms that night, a man residing in the apartment contested the story of | the cries. Could Have Heard Cries. Communicating with Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, head of the homicid: squad, this morning, Eugene R. Weisbender, occupant of apartment No. 220 in the Park Lane, opposite 219. where Mrs. Jqueat.‘ was the spayk which eventually was to blow the * REAL McPHERSON PROBE STORY PROVES “THRILLER” Star Reveals How Allen, Single-Handed, Kept Trying Until He Did Succeed in Getting the Case Reop'éned. | A policeman’s remark to a Star reporter that “something is crooked about | this case—it's going ta be A whitewash"—made just prior ta the McPherson in- stery” case wide open again, with revelations that echoed from Capitol Hill the secret cham- bers of the District grand jury. 5 1t ‘was & spark that had little effect at the time, but Which, in view of rapidly pyramiding developments, soon fanned into flame the fnterest of news- paper men, of a United States Senator, of the district attorney and finally the grand jury itself. 3 The explesion that resulted started reporters gum-shoeing hither and thither in quest of elusive clues, led an assistant district attorney to visit the death scene, induced the head ot the homicide squad to chisel stained tiles from a | bathroom floor and even had the chief of the detective bureay examining a o he Subcommittee Sets Time to, Hear Testimony of Geneva | Parley “Observer.” | BY GOULD LINCOLN. | William B. Shearer, the so-called bass drum of the Geneva naval eon- | ference of 1927, is to be interrogated by the Senate naval affairs subcommit- tee Monday morning in the committee’s investigation of charges™that Shearer was hired by three American shipbulld- ing companies A0 work against the | rainspout at 3.o'clock in the morning. b Without a’ doubt the McPherson case—murder or suicide—will go down in police records of the National Capital as one of the most intere g and color- ful on the books _All in all, it is a mystery-thriller, with mel matic comedy touches, that rivals the most lurid SHEARER IU TAKE e ‘The remark passed at the coroner’s inquest into the death by strangulation of the young wife of Robert McPherson, bank employe, fell from the lips of Pvt |fore the Police Trial Board. in whose ! ecinct Virginia McPherson came (o T death. Allen Makes Prophetic Statement. Policeman Allen, since. suspended be- “independent investigation” of the case. directed his sensational statements to John Snure. a reporter assigned by The Star to ccver the inquest. Policeman Allen macy other remarks to Snurc, sides predicting a “whitewash” by the | coroner’s jury, he predicted that “im- portant” witnesses who thought ths pretty nurse had been murdered would not be called to testify and hinted that ; verdiet 50 as “to keep its records clear | of unsolved murder cases.” Feeling this way, Policeman Allen told the reporter he had a notion to| interrupt the proceedings if things | “true story” ever printed in the détec- cause of his activities in ponducting an along more or less prophetic lines. Be- | the detective bureau wanted a suicice | went the way he was sure they would ! office of the German agent of the com- | { mission WORKMAN REVEALS NEW EVIDENCE IN KINGSLAND BLAST Man Sought 12 Yegrs Admits Blaze Started at His Bench in Foundry. [l ! RORAM SNS g QLD LRESIDENT SN o DENIES HE WAS ACTING AS AGENT FOR GERMANY Material to Place Blame for War Disasters to Be Laid Be- « fore Commission. By the Associated Press. New evidence in the $40,000,000 sabotage claims aganist Germany, based upon alleged responsibility of German agents for the Black Tom and Kings- land, N. J., disasters of 1916 and 1917, shortly is to be Jaid before the Mixed Clalms Commission. The evidence tells how Theodore Wazniak. who worked at the Kingsland Foundry and had been widely sought for | more than 12 years, appeared at the! » Washington several weeks ago, adfnitted that the Kingsland fire | started at his workbench, denisd that he was in the service of Germany and told how he had lived in New York while the search for him was in prog- ress. Evidence Fills Five Volumes. | Tender of the evidence—a mass of documents and papers filling five vol umes—produced in the commission & state of tension virtually unmatched in | the history of ths body. Immediately | after it was offered, the American agent | submitted objections to its admission. | ‘This move brought a reply from the | Germdn agent, and now the commission | MENACE OF STORM N FLORIDA IS LESS Tropical Disturbance, Now Centered Southeast of | Key West, Weakening. #¥% (p) Means Ansocia TWO CENTS. DONALD SAILING FORU.S. TODAY ON MISSION OF AMITY | Daughter and Small Party Accompanying Premier on Visit to Hoover. G0oD WILI; EXPRESSIONS IN PRESS ATTEST HOPES Message on Eve of His Departure Prophesies Success of Undertaking. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 27.—Prime Min- ister Ramsay MacDonald, with his daughter, Ishbel, and the members of his small official party, leaves London tonight to board the liner Berengaria at. Southampton for a visit to President Hoover and a conference on limitation of armament. Hearty expressions of good will. which appear today in the British press of all i political chades, testify to the high | | Automobiles Kill 91 Persons Daily in U. S., Figures Show By the Assoct 2 CHICAGO, September 27.—An average of 91 persons a_day, equivalent to a rate of 33.215 a year, were killed in automobile accidents in the United States during the past month, statistics of the National Safety Congress showed today. This was the highest average in the Nation's history, the report said. | 4 Pr ! i hopes of the nation for the success of what the premier himself has called a ‘voyage of exploration.” With Ameri- ecan ald he hopes tn “give the world an energetic faith instead of a hesitating skepticism.” Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, who has taken a large share in preparing | the way for the British mission, will not accompany Mr. MacDonald's party to | Southampton, having taken his farewell DENIED 1. 5. ENTRY Playwright and Poet Held by thieriai sodspesd. . Many others i : N 5 ‘be on Hand at Waterloo Station after |mmlm‘at|0fl Aulhorlties on dinner tonight to wave good-by when Orders From Washington. GERMAN RADICAL | the train pulls out at 8:20 o'clock. Two hours later Mr. MacDonald will board the Berengaria. Details of plans for the reception of | success of € naval conference. | the British representatives in the United States have been cabled here in great |length. Home political divisions and McPherson met her death. said that he night of September 12 the door and demand, “as a citizen,” the right | Must decide what parts, if any, of the on the night of eptembel to be heard. The | new material is to receive consideration. Jury he’h-d l::n::lr‘:dh;r:g;x ]?h’:;“m"';, The new evidence also purports to! An apparent decrease in intensity : | ! A means of preventing a still | | | | turther increase in the death rate will be a q@estion of major con- By the Associated Press. from his room to the apartment cor- have heard cries had they been madfe. Meanwhile an unidentified -woman appeared outside the grand jury rooms this afternoon, sought eut Policeman Allen, who has lined up against the police contention 6f suicide, and in- formed him that she was cared for by the nurse whén she was a patient at Gallinger Hospital. She had attempted suicide, she said, and informed Mrs. McPherson that when she left the hospital she would make another at- tempt, but, according to her story, her nurse advised her against ending her Iife. “No matter what happens, or what- ever trend things might tal 1 would | never commit suicide,” the woman sald Mrs. McPherson told her. Several Witnesses Recalled. Several witnesses who testified pre- viously were recalled by the grand jury this afternoon to give brief testimony. They were: Policemen F. O, Brass, Hart- man and Capt. Stott, all of the third precinet; Headquarters Detective Sergt. Dennis J. Cullinane of the homicide squad. who accompanied Lieut. Kelly to the McPherson apartment on the Sat- urdav afternoon her body was found. The grand jury also ordered In- spector William Shelby, ehief of de-| tectives. to reappear for his second grilling by the invesiigating groups” He was questioned for one hour, although he occupied the witness stang>for almost that length of time last night before the tribunal recessed.. | Witnesses are deing called and_re- | called. Although she shows the effect of her iliness caused by the strain and | anxiety and the questioning she has | | | Mr. shefrer has listened to the tes- | t of the officials of the shipbuild- | % companies during the last week, | ridor had been opened and he woulg ‘waiting his turn to be heard. All of these officials denied that Shearer was employed for any purpose beyond that of an “observer” at.the Geneva con- ference. The principal officials of two of the companies denied they had ever known of his employment until after the conference was over. Shearer is suing the three companies jointly, the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, a subsidiary of the Ameri- can Brown-Boveri Electrical Corpora- tion; the Beihlehem Shipbullding Cor- { poration, a subsidiary of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and the Newport News Shipbullding & Drydock Cor- poration, for an additional $360,000. hi§ services at Geneva and elsewhere, Scope of Questioning. ‘The «festimony has e did all in his n agreement on naval will also inquire about activities in Washington in with naval and merchant ne legislation, as an employe of the hlpbulldzlz companies. There are in- dications, too, that the committee plans ties at Geneva. been to the effect power to preve] limitatfons, Shearer. According to testimony presented and according to his own statement in his suit, Shearer has been pald upward panies in the last three years. Of this experienced since the _ death of hfl?ffrl?nd, Miss Eleanor Sheppard, who probably was the last person to talk . McPherson, appeare the grand jury against the advice of her | physician. Miss Sieppard called her | friend on the night of Sep but only talked to her briefly. She | will tell of that conversation as well as the report that Mrs. McPherson | before her death had informed her of | a date which she had with a physician, said to have been engaged to her at one time. Tennis Ball Disappears. Policeman Allen has subpoenaed a | " mew witness, E. R. Vass, who resides | in the Lombardy. Vass informed a | reporter this morning that the testimony he was to give would concern the posi- tion of a tennis ball on the small roof outside of the window of the M Pherson apartment. For months, V, #aid, the tennis ball had been in fain position outside of the~“&indow | across from his apartment,-fnd it was | the source of speculation’ among his own family, as it wAs never moved from the one particular spot. The | morning after the death of Mrs. Mc- Pherson. on looking out of the window Vass observed that the ball had been moved and was not to be seen. Allen Noticably Worn. Allen is noticably worn by the tedious eedings. This morning he entered !nlfl a dispute with the manager of the Park Lane Apartments, whom Allen ac- | cuses of being too ready to clean-up | the McPherson apartment and, the policeman says, destroy evidence. The manager would not discuss the matter with Allen further than to say that he had received his authority from offi- cials who were competent to give it. - Before recessing At noon today the grand jury subpoenaed Dr. H. Woolley, one of the country’s foremost alienisis and temporarily in oharge of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, to_appear and ve his version of Mrs. McPherson's ath. !Przviously questioned, Dr. Woolley #aid that, although suicide by strangu- Jation as in the McPherson case was out of the ordinary, it is known that on occasions persons have ended their lives in this manner, and it is possible for the dead woman to have done so. Assistant United States Attorney Wil- Jiam Collins said today that young Rob- ert McPherson was forced to sign a walver of immunity before he testified yesterday before the grand jury. By his signature he did away with his right to immunity from prosecution, although there has not been any hint of sus- picion in the grand jury investigation. Listens o Testimony. United States Attorney Rover co! ferred with the grand jury yes! afternoon, after Mrs. Lillian way, telephone operator at_the Lan had been recalled and Miss Sue Thomp~ son, clerk at the establishment, had ap- peared before the tribunal for the sec ond time. Tt was reported that Rover did not_discuss the McPherson case (Continued on Page 2,,Column 3.) y Geneva. Drew Pearson, & newspaper respondent, who attended the Geneva d before | Conference in 1927, testified yesterday | that it was a common report in the conference city that Shearer was said to temBer 12,1 represent the Bethlehem Co. and some | patriotic organizations. Pearson mentioned in this connection the Daughters of the American Revolu- fon and the Patriotic Sons of the Golden West. Pearson also testified that Shearer had been constaptly:in_the company (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) o BORGER-BAD LANDS _FACE MARTIAL LAW Moody Sees Conspiracy Between Texas Officials and Criminal By (he Associated Press, AUSTIN, Tex., September 2%.—Gov. Dan Moody today prepared to issue & proclamation declaring marital law for Hutchinson County and Borger. “There exists a conspiracy between officials and the criminal element, or tained instances of money passing fo peace officers for protection from en- forcement of the law,” Gov. Moody said in making public findings of those who investigated the situation there. He- declined to say definitely whether trict Attorney John A. Holmes was assassinated recently. POLICE SUMMONED Girls and Women, “Piece” Work- ers, Demand Wage Scale Back. Polic gubids were Aed. today at the ce guards were at the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co. plant following a l::ka o):n :6.00‘; and 2,0?'.0 workers, Wl plained of wages and working cmdlflon&w No violence was reported, the strikers contgnting themselves with jeering com- officfals and making sarcastic ns{comments to the police. participants in. the walk and girls, Pay under a e?."m recently inaugu- rated was based on proguction, The ‘workers chmxd they were. pitted against each otfier, and po matter what production resulted the salary was less. James McQueeny, manager, said in- dustrious workers could earn more money than under the old plan and ‘Wt the scheme was devised to =M= The;members of the copmittee<plan- | ned, he sald, to go fully Ingo-¥he activi-| to go into the past record of Mr. of $50,000 by the shipbuilding com- | $25,000 was paid him for going to cor- | law violators, and thére have been ob- | he would send State troops to Borger, | C.| Hutchinson County oil town. where Dis: IN STRIKE OF 1,000 McPherson was murdered. Snure, naturally, awaited develop- ments tensely. He sensed a “whale” of & story about to Allen was in the hearing room and he glanced at | Snure significantly as the brief session proceeded, as though to convey the thought *T told you so.” Allen’s pre- diction that ‘“‘certain witnesses” would not be called turned out to be true |enough. His forecast that the jury | would render a verdict of suicide also | was substantiated. His intimation that he would “blow up” the inguest by falled to materialize, however. i | I got cold feet.” he explained after- | | ward. “when I saw how the case was | handled " ! Continues to Make Charges. ! Policeman Allen continued to make | eharges --andu0 - amplity them. . He! offered to prove his murder theories to The Star, and reed to accompany Snure to The Star Building and at |them to his superiors. Allen talked | with Herbert F. Corn, assistant eity | editor of The Star, and, in view of the serfous nature of some of the police- ! man's statements, he agreed to Allen’s | proposal thas two reporters go with him | to the apartment in the Park Lane and | |“see for themselves” whether it was mutder or suicide. | “I'll prove to you in 5 minutes that Mrs. McPherson was strangled to death | by some one—that she could not have | done it herself!” Allen insisted. Snure and Rex Colller, ‘enother re- | porter, went to the Park Lane Apart-| Jmenu with Allen, forthwith. Allen in- i troduced the newspaper men to Manager Ruff as “friends” assisting him in the | { investigation, and the manager obtained | a key to the McPherson apartment and | escorted the trio to the death chamber. It was a gruesome sight which met the eyés of the visitors. Allen pointed ! out bloodstains in two rooms of tne apartment. | “I contend that Mrs. McPherson was | standing here in the bathroom,” Allen | announced dramatically, “and that some | one slipped up behind her and strangled | her to death with a pajama_cord—like | | this!” He demonstrated how he thought | |1t was done, \ “Then she was dragged or carried into | the bedroom, placed against the door to make it appear that she had strangled herself and fallen there, and the murderer escaped through one of these windows"—indicating the double windows of the bedroom, opening onto a x{nvel-cnnred roof, one story above the | al ey, Stirs Reporters' Interest. “If she committed suicide,” Allen con- | i tinued excitedly. “why is there Blood on the bathroom floor?” Could she have strangled herself in the bathroom and then walked into the bedroom and pulled out the light? And closed the door before he could look in when, with McPherson, who had found the body and called him, he en- tered the apartment? How about { these screams and groans heard on the | night of the murder? Why didn't they {let Mr. Ruff testify at the inquest—and | the ones who heard the screams? Why iwnent all these facts and the other | things brought to the attention of the | coroner's jury? Why—-" TnapmreApg:t: need have uldh}m ’mn"- g s were thoroughly inter- ested by this time. And when Manager { Ruff ‘corroborated the statemerts about the position of the body and added that “there are some mighty funny things! about, this case I'm not satisfied about” the b:’s:: for a full-fledged mystery was 1 complete. | _Snure and Collier hurried out of the | apartment, climbed into Allen's . ear | (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) |MEETI 1 i 1 NG TO PROTEST. SLAYING IS DELAYED Labor Defense Unable to Obtain, Auditorium for Mrs. Wiggins [ | Démonstration. By the Assoclated Press, CHARLOTTE, N. C., September 27.— | Unsuccessful so far in securing an audi- { torfum to hold a “protest” mass meeting ragainst the slaying of Mrs. Ella May Wiggins, International Labor defense ;has announced post t of the lly umm for Sun- meeting original day until some time next week. fense and prosecution attorneys meanwhile went ahead with prepara- tions for the second trial next Monday of 13 men for murder and three women for -degree murder in the death of O, F. Aderholt, Gastonia A ' % wez daslared A mis- meet United States charges implicating | and very little movement during the directly two other alleged German agents—Kurt Jahnke, admitted head of the German secret service in this | last 24 hours were the observations of the Weather Bureau today on the trop- making sensational charges to the jury | country during the war, who has now [ ical disturbance off the Bahama Islands. returned to his home and become a| At the same time the Weather Bu- member of the Prussian Diet, and . the | Lothar Witzke, the only German spy | "®*! officials were hopeful that the who ever was convicted and sentenced | Present storm would got strike with any Hamburg for a vacation. The United | intensity the southeast coast of Florida States, having been tried at Fort Sam | Houston, Tex. The death penalty later | was commuted. Everglades section could return to their | Te Consider New Material. homes, for the present at least, with- | Germany's ‘commissioner, Dr Wil- jout danger from the disturbance. | helm Kieselbach, recently returned to| The reports to the bureau indicated Hamburg for a vaction. The United | the center of the storm was a short | States' member, Charles P. Anderson, |fl south or southwest of Andros js en route to Hamburg, and they are | Island, Bahamas. 150 miles southwest of | to meet there and consider the v | its position on Wednesday morning. matede _StormpWarnings. Are. Up. . Karl von Levinski.eonsul general at"New York and the German agent | les and winds of probably hurri- | of commission, has just salled for | cane force, however. still prevail near 1t is understood he will give|the center of the storm, the bureau | a yeport on the case to his superiors | said. and the display of storm warnings | in the government. | from Jupiter to Key West, Fia, Reading like s0 many chapters from | ordered continued. The future course a war novel, the new evidence tells how | of the storm is as yet “uncertain.” the | A representative of the German agent| bureau r , but no rapid move- | received a telephone call from New | ment in any direction is expected dur- | York to the effect that a man de-|ing the next 24 hours. u:rl;t:l himself as xfl“fi. h:‘: - hfl)}édw'._hcn . meteorologist at Miami, peal A e consulate iere Al e followin, clared his identity. He Jaid he had | morning: e Tead 2 new story of & hearing the com- “The storm this mornin; * mission held last Winter, and that he | was apparently located lb:u.tt lw::%ce: had remembered his own connectlons |scuth of Miami and 175 miles east of with it. | Key West. It may cause winds of mod- Par {rom being & German agent,|erate gale force at Miaml today or to- the man said he was a Russian sym-|night, but there is no danger of hurri- thizer, the evidence explains. and he | cane winds. There is no reason for any anted to tall his story to the proper ! further alarm.” authorities. ‘“Mofimm .;Ie winds are from 39 to miles per hour. Saw Flames Ignile Gasoline, | _In the absence of vessel reports, Mr. Describing how civil authorities held | Gray would not predict a possible course him for questioning immediately after for the storm. High winds probably the Kingsland fire, he is quoted as|would not be experienced at Key West saying he told them at the time that he ; until tomorrow. and perhaps not at all, was employed in the foundry, and how | he said. The weather man described the | he noticed the fire's beginning—a small ' storm as the most erratic in its move- | mh’imh r:n leaped tmlnk slmuhme at!ments of any he had ever observed. | which he was at work, into a con-| tainer of gasoline, spreading quickly | ENSRER” Rysm Bt | thereafter until it destroyed the tre-: Comdr. R. L. Jack of the United and advised in a message to its Jack- sonville office that the residents of the | | mendous quantity of munitions held | States Coast Guard base at Fort Lau- | nearby. | derdale announced the receipt of a ‘Wazniak is said to have declared he | radio communication from Bimini say- | never “disappeared,” as the United ing that the barometer pressure there | States agent holds he did after the|had dropped to 20.60 and that a 50- | first investigation. The German agent | mile northwest wind was blowing. has produced hospital, Army draft and | Commander Jack also advised Fort court records in support of this state- ment, The United States contention is that Wazniak was seen during this period confraternizing with other known German sples in Mexico. Other records included in the new evidence purport to show that Jahnke —sald by the United States to have : set the Black Tom explosion in New Jersey, across the harbor from Govern- ors Island, N. Y.—signed a time sheet only two days earlier while working as a watchman at the Anglo-London &ul’lrl.! National Bank of San Fran- cisco. Of Witzke, the evidence offers to show that he wrote, from California, a letter to his parents, dated two days| before the explosion, for which the Anzgrlcln c:‘alek hnl;sl):nlm“ with Jahnke and one e Kristoff, responsible. Kristoff died last year. . ‘ LETTER COSTS $3,600. | Spanish Firm Fined for Statement to Italian Trade Body. MADRID, September 27 (#).—It has cost a Spanish business house 25.000 pesetas or about $3,600 for writing the Italian Chamber of Commerce:. “We ?'a:un anu;‘ ll'm:he ccmmerdll relations you while there is no the Italian political me’_’mnn Premier Primo de Rivera announced that the Spanish government had im- posed this fine upon the Barcelona | business house “Casa Masport” because | of this statement. GETS 30 YEARS IN PRISON. | Anti-Fascist Leader Sentenced for Plot Against Duce. ROME, September 27 (#).—Cesare anti-Fascist leader, who was charged with conspiracy to overthrow the regime and to foment attempts on the life of Premier Mussolini, was sen. tenced to 30 year, imprisonment by special tribunal today. 1 Naval Officer Drops Dead. MOBILE, Ala.. September 27 (), William Williams of the Guard Division at Stamford, oca 1 habat tepa S adeu it iy Lauderdale business establishments not {to remove storm shutters at the pres- |ent time. The shutters were put up iseveral days ago when it was feared !that the tropical disturbance would | visit Florida. | There was & slight nge in! barometer readings at Havana early this morning with a slow but certain tendency to rise. Strong northwest winds continued to blow and a par- tially storm clouded sky prevailed. The highest sea of the Summer was beating at Havana sea walls. According to Dr. Gutierrez Lanza at Belen Observatory there the change in | direction of winds at Key West, which veered tfrom northwest to northeast maintaining & steady velocity of 22 miles an hour, indicated that the | tropieal storm was decreasing in in- | tensity, He said that this condition was a good indication the storm was | of little present importance and that it held no menace for Cuba. Southeast of Key West. “The storm is now centered southeast of Key West at an approximate dis- tance of 55 miles, moving leisurely toward the Gulf of Mexico in a westerly direction and will not visit Cuba,” the Belen report read. Although Nassau, capital of the Ba- hamas, had been silent since Wednes- day afternoon, Tropical Radio's station | in|at” Miami spoke to Bimini and West End in the Bahamas this morning. Miami officials of the Pan-American Airways reported to the line’s offices in New. York today that the Havana- Miami-mail plane had arrived safely | at the Floriday city from Cuba and re- | ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ARKANSAS FIRE SPREADS TO BIG TIMBER TRACT Two Mills, Post Office and Store Destroyed and Several Homes Are Damaged. By the Assoclated Press. MALVERN. Ark., September 27 —Ef- t further h.euatruclum by | i { tract of timber, today occupled crews, who patrolled the area to stop new fires. 4 Besides the mill. stor? snd nost offie~. carers] Awatians * sideration by the industrial engi- neers and safety experts at the eighteenth annual congress, which will convene here next week. NEW YORK. September 27.—Ernst party opinions have been for the most Toller, radical, German playwright and | part kept out of all discussion of the poet. was in custody of jmmigration | Mission, whose aims have the approval S8 of the great bulk of the natio. irre- authorities today after they had for- | bidden him to land from the liner No explanation other than that they CHICAGD PAVING 75 e SCANDAL PROBED State’s Attorney Investigates Charges of Ex}ortion and ““Murder Conspiracy. Jroe e, e TE By the Associated Pross, v | CHICAGO, September 27.—A paving scandal, ramified with charges of ex-| tortion and eonspiracy to commit mur- der, today started State’s Attornéy John A. Swanson on an investigation of the Paving Contractors’ Association. James A. McGarry. secretary of the association ané wealthy head of the paving company bearing his name, was one of six men called to police head- quarters for questioning. MeGarry was released early today after denying charges of conspiracy to control all pav- ing jobs and to “freeze out” smaller contractors. The trouble started Monday when three unions employed in completing the outer drive from Thirty-ninth street called out their men. The unions in- volved were the laborers, the engineers and excavating teamsters. Seek Walk-out Motive. The McGrath & Swanson Co., an in- dependent concern, has posted $200,000 bond to guarantee completion of the outer drive by November 2. The walk- out, according to charges the State’s at- torney was sitting today, may have been promoted by a desire to embarrass the McGrath-Swanson Co. Some revelations of that kind were made by James Rowan, & sub-contrac- tor for McGrath-Swanson; and it was Rowan, police said, who told of an in- tention to “bump-off” a labor official who he believed had double-crossed him. Rowan, Steve Oswold and Daniel Mc- Geoghegan, the ler known as a gun- man once sentenced to life for murder, were arrested in the office of an attor- ney where it was believed they had gone in an effort at extortion. Hired to “Get” Man. “We weren't in the office to extort money from Hayes McKinney" (the at- torney), Rowan was quoted by police as saying. “That's been done already. I hired McGeoghegan and Oswold to ‘get’ a man for me. We expected this man—John J. Flynn, business agent of the Excavating Ta?ns‘t;m' Union—to" appear at the lawyer's office.” plg::‘lln explained that the strike had affected him, as he had a sub-contract from the McGrath-Swanson Co. e said Flynn had promised to “fix it up’ for the members of the three unions to return to work provided he were given $5,000. Rowan said he gave the money to Flynn, but that only the laborers re- turned to work. Flynn was located early today at Sawyer, Mich. The State's attorney sald an effort would be made to compel his return to Chicago. Assistant State's Attorney Mueller said today he already had sufficient evidence to warrant conspiracy charges against mempers of the Paving Con- | tractors’ Assoclation, which, he declared, virtually controlled all paving work in the city. Among those ht for questioning was Patrick H. Moynhihan, former chair- n!un of the Rlinois Commerce Commis- sion. g .STOCK PRICES TUMBLE. Market Breaks Again on Big In-. crease in Brokers’ Loans. | NEW YORK, September 27 (A).— Wide open breaks in a dozen or moui high-priced stocks, which broke $10 to ng : share, brought about another sweeping rneu&m rices in today's stock market, which wi out hundreds of millions in quoted values. afEE e i un arge incs - 000,000 in Federal Reserve brokers’ ve Toans any iced after the close of yes- orkst, o was made by the inspectors, who re- fused the former Socialist member of the Bavarian Parliament permission to enter the country. The usual procedure required him to | be held at Ellis Island until a special board of inquiry has passed on his | case. | He could give no reason for his de- ! tention._pxcept-his- activities 10 years ago, when he was known as one or the most influential Soclalists and rev- olutionaries in Germany. He was vice | president of the workers' committee and spent several years in jail for his political activities. He said he was coming to this coun- try at the invitation of the Thea T | Guild and to lecture for International | Labor Alliance. Some officials of the | Theater Guild said they knew nothing of an invitation to him. t 10 During the I rs, he said, he had withdrawn from politics and | | had been engaged in writing pla: of which, “Man and the Masse: | been produced by the Theater Guild. “Why should America dig into my 5t?” he asked. “In youth all men, if they have any brains, are radical, and 10 years ago I was but a youth.” He is now 35 years old. one 'WAGGONER ENTERS ~ NOT-GUILTY PLEA Trial of Colorado Banker on Mail- Fraud Charge Set for Next Friday. | | | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. September | Charles D. Waggoner, president of the 27— spective of party political problems. i Women Plan for Journey. An air of suppressed excitement per- vaded the prime minister’s household at ‘Nm 10 Downing street yesterday in an- ticipation of the journey, which for at least two has much the character of an adventure. These are Miss Ishbel, the | premier's daughter, and Miss Rose Rosenberg, his personal secretary. The |two women have been much together the last few days, sharing preparations | for the journey. Ishbel admitted to her municipal con- stituents that she was “terribly excited” about her trip. Natural Scottish reserve experience as head of the prime minister’s household combine to eloak any exuberance she may feel, there is the serious appreciation’ of the | object of the visit and the hope that | she may be able to some extent to con-; | tribute to its success. | _ The deep feeling MacDonald himself | holds regarding his American mission was indicated by the message he gave the Laborite Daily Herald on the eve of his departure from England. | | MacDonald's Message. “The greatest contribution this gener- ation can make to the history of the | world is to establish peace among na- i tions and induce them to feel a sense ! of security by political agreements car- | ried out by judicial means,” said the | message. { . “The United States and ourselves, | having the same objects in view, should | prociaim them with a united voice. Good and cordial relations between us twn can change the outlook for peace and | give the world an energetic faith, in+ stead of a hesitating skepticism. 1 go away to see what can be done I have the help of my colleagues in the Labor movement and of every influence making for peace. Who dares say that | success is impossible?™ | The prime minister spent last night at No. 10 Downing street, holding an in- formal reception attended by ministers and Parliamentarians. especially those closely interested in the outcome of his mission. During the prime minister’ absence Philip Snowden. chancellor of | the exchequer, will act as premier anc leader of the Labor party in the Housd { of Commons. . He | Bank of Telluride, Colo., pleaded not | | gullty today in Federal Court to an in- | dictment charging mail fraud. His trial | | was set for next Friday. Waggoner was arrigned before Fed- eral Judge T. Blake Kennedy of Chey- |enne, Wyo., who temporarily is sitting {in this jurisdiction. Bail was contin- | | ued at $100,000, which he could not im- | mediately furnish. | Charles H. Tuttle, United States dis- | trict attorney, told the court that he was anxious to bring Waggoner to trial | as early as possible and asked that next | :‘u:sdly be selected as the starting ate. Allen R. Campbell, Waggoner's at- torney, entered an objection, stating that he was “a stranger as yet to many facts of the case” and needed time to prepare for trial. SCORE INJURED IN WRECK. CLAY CENTER, Kans., September 26 (#)—A score of persons were injured, none seriously, when Rock Island ‘pll- senger train No. 224, southbound from | Omaha, was derailed four miles north of here early today. A Pullman and a chair car over- turned in a ditch and all six cars back of the fender were derailed. |STIMSON DINNER TO iVlACDONALD TO BE STRICTLY “STAG” AFFAIR BRITAIN AND SOVIET AGREE ON SUBJECTS List to Be Settled by Negotiationy on Diplomatic Relations Fixed in Conversations. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 27.-It was of- ficially stated today that conversations between Foreign Secretary Henderson and M. Dovgalevsky, Soviet ambassador to France. had resulted in an agree- ment on the list of subjects to be set- tled by negotiations on the resumptions of full diplomatic relations between the two countries, including an exchange of ambassadors. Channel Swimmer Gives Up. LONDON, September 27 (#).—Edward Bernat, an Austrian, who began a chan- nel im last night from Dover, was reported by the Exchange Telegraph Co. to. have abandoned the effort to- day when 3 miles from the coast of Prance. | Event Arranged to Give Premier Opportunity to Meet American Officials in More Informal Way. In striking contrast to previous cus-| will be spared the heavy burden of act- tom, the dinner. which Secretary of | iNE as hostess at Woodley, the Stimson State Stimson will give on October 9| IOMe for the party by the “stag” invi- for Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald | Secretary Stimson, it arranging the will be strictly A “stag” affair, the only | “stag” affair, also desired to afford one during his visit in the Oapital | Prime Minister MacDonald an_oppor- which the British premier is scheduled tunity to meet American officials and other guests in a more informal man- to attend without his daughter and of- ficial hostess, Ishbel. ner that would be possible at mixed Not even Mrs, Stimson will attend functions. Heretofore official dinners invariably the dinner. The wife of the Secretary | have included the hostesses of the host of State has been ill for some time and only recently came to Washington from and guests of honor. and the stag af- fairs have been con! to the more n~" mtimeons' Tong Island home. She! infarmal lnnehenn tima,