Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1929, Page 2

HOOVER'S TARIFF STAND DEFENDED Within Rights in Announcing View on Flexible Prin- ciples, Fess Says. B the A)sociated Presr. President Hoov announcement TRUE STORY OF McPHERSON CASE MAKES REAL MYSTERY ‘THRILLER' (Continued From First Page.) | way from the Park Lane, where he had T I ~" "~ |gained from a man an admission that and dashed back fo.the city room of ‘he and his wife had been quarreling The Star. They reported that there |after midnight, Friday, “for hours.” certainly seemed to be something to| In short, every other point raised by | what Allen claimed. The latter stood | Allen in support of his murder conten | by with a triumphant smile on his face. | tions were answered, more or less plaus There was a discussion as to what by, by Kelly and Shelby. Finally. course to take. Allen warned against|Lieut. Kélly took the reporters in the consulting the Detective - Bureau and | headquarters ear to the death apart- gave some pretty startling reasons. ment once more, to clinch his argu- A call was put in for District At-|ments on various angles, and went over torney Rover. Mr. Rover was out of the case there. his office, 30 Assistant District Attorney | Out of this conference the reporters Collins was advised of the developments. | emerged more befuddled than ever. Collins also was told that it would be |They bluntly informed Inspector Shelby wise to issue orders that the apartment and Lieut. Kelly that while they were favoring retention of the flexible t“‘"“remnlned undisturbed, The prosecutor | not convinced Mrs. McPherson had principles was defended in the Senate | gi4q he would issue such an order, and | been murdered, neither were they con- today by Senator Fess of Ohio, the Republican whip. who said, however, he doubted the wisdom of a presidential - expression@n pending_legislation. Fess sald that Mr. Hoover, neverthe- less. was wholly within his rights and those criticizing him might as well “make up their minds that the country will support the Executive whenever he assumes any authority of leadership. The Ohioan argued that this was whether it was a wise or unwise prac- tice. or whether it was “humiliating” to some_Senators. If he had been consulted, the Senator said. his decision probably would have been against the President’s action. * Stores Borah Speech, The flexible clause, he added. was “policy-determining item and not me: v administrative.” and if the President was concerned about a change in a pol- icv of importance. he, Fess, did not be- lieve there was bacis for criticism. Pess characterized _yesterday's speech of Senator Borah. Republican. Idaho., ax an “appeal to sectionalism” and an “unfortunate utterance.” Senator Connally, Democrat, Texas, said the power delegated to the Pres jdent in 1922 should be “recaptured and redeposited with the legislative branch of the Government. where it Belongs.” for the fiexible provision “sets the President up in the theory as merely #n adding machine.” Vote Fxpected to Be Close. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader. said that those urg- ing retention of the flexible provisions in the pending tariff bill as a “prompt remedy” for correcting mistakes in rates between sessions o0i Congress were speaking without foundation in either “fact or consistency for supporting their conclusions.” Robinson opened the fourth day of debate on the clause which authorizes He added the bill's proposal | ! tnvited the newspaper men to come to | his office and tell him all about it. ‘The quartet—three newspapermen and | a_policeman—went at once to Collins’ | office at the courthouse. There Allen | | repeated his charges and claims and | statements, and the two reporters veri- fied such of his statements as related to the blood stains, position of the body. etc. The assistant district attorney said he would go with them to the Park Lane and look into the situation. Party Divided Inte Groups. _The party now had grown so large that it was divided into two groups, | Allen and the two reporters going in the policeman’s car and Collins and the city editor in the mssistant district at- torney's machine. | Arrived at the apartment, Allen went | over the ground previously covered and made some more demonstrations. In his enthusiasm he sought to tie a pajama cord around the neck of Collins or Corn or Collier or Snure or Manager Ruff or | almost any one—to let them decide for | themselves whether Mrs. McPherson {could have strangled herself. Collins and the newspaper men reneged, £o Allen had to content himself with tying the cord around his own neck. He thus | demonstrated that even this could not | stop him from talking. There were some other circumstances tending to bear out Allen’s murder | theories that do not bear publication. The prosecutor studied the death scene | carefully, examined articles in the | apartment, heard Manager Ruff repeat his story about the body against the door and tell of his doubt as to suicide. | and. finally. questioned Miss Conway, blonde telephone operator: a youth | named Templeton, emploved in the | Park Lane drug store, and a colored | elevator operator. Miss Conway failed to mention to de- | tectives when first they had talked { with her that she had visited the | McPherson apartment on the night the | murder, or suicide, is presumed to have | | vinced she committed suicide. They | were sure, however, there did not then exist sufficient evidence of murder to {lay any suspicion against any one. Both Shelby and Kelly emphasized | that they, too, realized the case had “peculiar angles”: that the case was | “still open on the books,” and that any | additional information nointing toward | murder would be investigated carefullv. The Star decided fo withhold' publi- | cation of Allen's theories until there was something more tangible to sup- | port. them. | Mr, Collins, the assistant District at- torney, decided to droo the case unless there were further developments. | __But Officer Allen would not. drop it. He went to the office of Senator Over- man of North Carolina. from whose district Mrs, McPherson ‘had come and | Whose secretary had attended, at the Senator's request, the Inquest. Officer Allen convinced the Senator | that there was something peculiar about the whole proceeding. The Senator had | his_secretary eall The Star and two Star reporters immediately went to his | office and into conference with the ' Senator’s secretary. The reporters told | the Senator's sccretary what they had found. While the secretary was study- ing what to do a telephone call came | from Officer Allen. Then a letter was | | sent to District Attorney Rover stating that it was understood that certain | information was in possession of the District attorney which, if “true. would | tend to disprove the theory that Mrs. ' McPherson had committed suicide. The Senator urged Mr. Rover to continue the investigation. Following publication of this letter | the town began to buzz and detective | headquarters to stir. The whole homi- | cide squad was turned loose on the | case. Inspector Shelby asked _the ' coroner to reopen the inquest. ‘The ! coroner didn’t think that would be | legal, but decided he could do it with | the same jury that sat in ‘the original inquest. Mr. Rover was consilted and | | {at the 1,200 and 1400 yard distance COSTE IN FLIGHT TOWARD SIBERIA Mystery Cleared ‘as French! Ace Tells Plan to Attempt Long-Distance Record. By the Associated Press. ! LE BOURGET, September 27.—East- ward from Paris early today streaked | Dieudonne Coste, French air ace, and his bosom friend, Maurice Bellonte, in | the famous sequiplane Question Mark on a long-distance fiight aimed to break | the world reeord. and put the pllots | down somewhere in far Siberia. H Announced as a distance fiight to the | East, nevertheless the objective of the | intrepid and temperamental Frenchman and his eompanfon remained uncertain untfl after the start, because some thought Coste had prepared for another attempt to fly the Atlantie to New York. | In keeping with its name, the Ques- tion Mark was rolled from its hangar at dawn to puzzle watchers. Stripped of wireless equipment and heavily load- ed with every gallon of fuel that eould , be stored, the start was made at 8:16 ~.m., the plane clearing the runway at 1,000 yards, then touching lightly again | before rising sluggishly to 100 feet to ! veer into the east and disappear in the | direction of Soissons. i Headed Into i Returning military air escorts attest- | ed to the fact that Coste really was headed east, that he had already passed over Crepy-en-Valois at a fast clip, this point being about half the 90 s to Laon, northeast of Paris. i The last bit of freight Coste took ' sboard was fishing tackle. He has no | wireless to keep in’ touch with civiliza- | tion, but his fish hooks will help him | if_he should be forced to land in the river districts of North Russia. Toklo One Objective. Coste announced his intermediate destination as Irkutsk, on Lake Baikal. From there he plans to make another | hop to Tokio. Maurice Bellonte, who has been | Coste's constant flying companion on | recent thrilling adventures, is alternate | pllot of the Question Mark, which can remain in the air 50 hours. 1t is loaded with 1,350 gallons of fuel | HOOVER REGEIVES com) | | t IAPANESE ADVIRA Official and Social Functions Discovery Long Awaited District Law with a party from the Japanese Navy. —Star Staff Photo. DERWRITERS Pash’for‘ Radio 'I'U UN C. Francis Jenkins Makes Presents Snag LEGION CTES LAWS T HS SPONSORED Calls Cruiser Bill Victory in Report Made. for An- nual Meeting. By the Assoclpted Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky. September 37.— | Enactment of the cruiser bill by Con- | ress last Pebruary is listed as one of ithe outstanding legiglative_victories of the 'Amériean Legion “dufing the year in the annual report ofthe Legion's national . legislative. commifies, eom- | piled for .the, eleventh national cpnven- {tion.of the Legion, to be held here next | week. The report lists the various legislative { measures affecting World War veterans n general and disabled veterans in par- { tieular which have been enacted - into {laws in the last year with Legion in« | Gessement. Among Mhese were lfberal- | izing dm-nts to the adjusted com- pensal L, measures _giving civil | service,. prefereiie_to veterans, appro- |priatiens for Govefment homes and hospitals, severa} measurés-in the inter- jest ofHational defense whifh.had the support of the Legion and various other /bills in which the Legion was inter- ested. The enactment of a law by Congress | which proviaes for a pilgrimage of gold |star mothers to Europe to visii -the Igraves of sons burled overseas was among other measures which received the active support of the Legion's na- | tional legislative committee. ~ This pil- | grimage is 4o be conducted under the | supervision of. the War Department from May 1, 1930.to October 31, 197 All expenses are to be paid by the Gov- ent. As World “War veterans ky the seore began to arrive for the-gonvention. reg- istration of delegates was startéd today and speetal committees in charge of various activities opened headquarters. Gov. Flem D. Sampson and Mavor William B. Harrison yesterday called on Louisville. emplovers to regard Tuesday as a holiday, so veterans could take part in the annual parade. A holiday across the Ohlo River. by Mayor New- {ton Greene. : Held for Visitors From Imperial Squadron. the President to change duties up or down within a range of 50 per cent after investigation by the Tariff Com- mission. ‘Although President Hoover has thrown his influence behind retention of the taken place. She readily told Collins | Mr. Rover said it would be better not ' and 60 gillons of ofl. The fiyers took a | about this, however, and also added 0 try to reopen the inquest. So that |§00d stock of food. Coste expected to | her own doubts about the suicide | was dropped and Mr. Rover decided to |cover 5000 miles i theory. She sald she had listened in | bring the case before the grand jury. | 2P0 et Ly { when Mrs, McPherson had hung up. R R <) “SHEARER sobbing, on a girl friend who had called | provision, a vote on the question is eX- [ 5 "and’ was 5o impressed that she rang | On last Monday, the day before the pected to be close. Republican leaders ' \ne McPherson apartment several times. grand jury began taking testimony. STAND ON MONDAY lmTkhfor'{:':;]t;'e "::’qur;::: "::f‘;-ndm"bm got no answer. Wnrkned or:er r:v Allen received information that a man 3 ublican s. nding | incident. she got & pass key when she by the name of Gauthey, in re, | the policy with the backing of President | was™ relieved from duty 20 minutes | Md., had entertained persons resane | BEFORE COMMITTEE Hoover. were faced with the powerful ijgier and, failing fo get a response to' Mr, and Mrs. McPherson at his home | |on the night that Mrs. McPherson was | supposed to have ended her life. - Allen, | with a Star reporter, started for Ard- | opposition of most of the Democrats in | per knock, entered and found the apart- combination with many, if not all, of lh!‘ ment dark. She snapped on the light more, taking photographs, and Gauthey | Of Some ol the American naval experts T D Ceuthey | at the conference, that Shearer to Insurance Men in “: Convention Here. in Aeronautics, | - 'ROVER APPOINTS | NEW ASSISTANT John R. Pi'rzpnri.ckril;robfll’y Wil Be Assigned to Police Court. ‘ | "An “electrié shadow" which extends | a searchlight beam behind, airplanes | Vice Admiral K. Nomura, command- ™Ay solve a problem which has dis- ing the Japanese training squadron now ' turbed acronautiéal and radio-engineers visiting Baltimore, arrived here today L A6 B Wit Iis en - ARAViReE Y|for many years and which has cost {tary " Adaiti dna’ Adsira) cmu‘:f + alrplane manufacturers and operators Hughes. chief of naval operations, and many thousands of dollars, it was an- other “high Americ#n naval officers at'nounced today by C. Prancis Jenkins, i Depa E % { ":d'::“r':, N 1ater e guest | Washington sclentist and inventor, fol- ! of President Hoover &t luncheon;at the l0Wing tests yesterday afternoon. iwhlte House affer the Chief Executive , For several years scientists have been .. “The American College of Life Under- writers,” conductéd” in connection with' the National Association of Life Under~ writers, now in fortieth annual con-! ven‘ion in the Hotel Mayflower, ran| into & snag today when it was unable to | award “degrees” 1o 61 graduates of the| college, because of the District’s nev“ law forbidding the awarding of “de- < $Continy “T7L oM ARt Bage.) The latter group, on the other hand, | oown"jay in the middle of the floor. was confronted with the knowledge that | 51e” 40e%. 10 the bedroom was elosed. farm State Republican mdependents | in“t S5 0% 0om ™ hiack evening and some of these officers had in con- United Sta‘es Attornev Rover today at Jeast one Democrat, Fletcher of | 11 G900 10 (8 Broent under the Florida, would support the President’s | 300 POGIENt U0 8PP N P herson position that the flexible principle }..q gone to sleep, or had left the apart- Thould be retained In the tariff revision | had 8one o SICB. OF Hag O ment, still resembled those who had been in his | place on the fatal night. Allen took Gauthey and rushed back to town. They went to the bank where | | versations in a hotel lounge expressed bil} and not repealed. as the majority of his party colleagues hope. Borah Makes Atlack. The strength of the Republican in- dependent support which will go to the Democratic proposal for repeal was em- phasized shortly before Fletcher made h*_announcement by the lengthy attack on the flexible principle by Senator Borah of Idaho, one of President Hoo- ver's leading campaigners last year. | somewhat curious. Cigarettes Taken to Apartment.. | | | The Templeton boy said he had | taken two packages of cigarettes to . Mrs. McPherson in her apartment { around 8 o'clock that Thursday night. {and had found her in good spirits and | ready to “step out.” Templeton had {known Mrs. McPherson in North | { Carolina. He sald she was wearing a | Mr. McPherson is employed and Allen | called the young man from his work. When McPherson declined to come with | him. Allen told him he was under ar- | rest. But about that time Gauthey spoke up and said he had never seen | McPherson before, and that he was | certainly not the man who had visited his place. i In the meantime. Mr. McPherson, considerably upset, went into a_tele- | The Floridian said it disgusted him | black evening dress and told him she ' phone booth and telephoned his father, not to be able to “go along with the | was going to a dance with “Bob,” her and Allen, yithout a word as to very large majority of my Democratic colieagues” on the eissue, but he found thy ent's statement on the flexi- i vore#l the proposal of the Republican members of the finance committee to continue it In effect. substantially as it is under the Fordney-McCumber law. “After all these months of study and Iabor,” he observed, “you now have be- fore you a bill which is seriously de- nounced as an ‘iniquitous bill, a ‘mon- strosity.’ an ‘abomination.’ “This Js the work of Congress. Could the President do worse if he tried?” MENACE OF STORM IN FLORIDA IS LESS " AS WINDS WEAKEN ___(Continued From First Page.) ported no unusual disturbance over the stralts. “Pilot says there was no indication of a hurricane in his vicinity,” the Miami manager said in a long-distance telephone call. “We are continuing on our regular schedule. The Havana- bound plane will take off this morning. All the hurricane warnings have been taken down along the coast.” SOUTH CAROLINA FLOODED. COLUMBIA, S. C.. September 27 (). —Although upper South Carolina today generally was past danger of serious floods, threatened yesterday, when heavy rains sent streams out of their banks. some sections today still were menaced as the waters moved south- ward. Reports received at the State High- way Department offices showed addi- tional highways closed by washouts and flood waters, while a telegram from the Augusta (Ga,) Chamber of Commerce secretary to the Columbia Chamber of Commerce said that citv was cut off in-all directions by flood waters ffom the Savannah River. Greenwood today reported heavy rain still falling 48 hours after the start. The total fall there was 9.83 inches up to 8 o'clock this morning. Spartanburg reported conditions improving in that aection. The 6th United States Cavalry. waterbound at Ninety-six Creek, 15 miles from Greenwood, today was re- ported trekking for Saluda on a round- about route to Camp Jackson at Co-, lumbia. One hundred men and the headquarters staff of the regiment, who had crossed Ninety-six Creek befor: 15 of their number were washed down: stream and a dozen horses drowned. went to Saluda late yesterdav. The remaining 400 were reported returning to Ninety-six this morning en route to Saluda. Ninepy-six Creek stil was rising today, reports from Greenwood said. The State highway department office at Greenwood_reported fhat the Saluda River at Chappells was higher than ever known and -that the water had reached the wooden approaches to the bridges spanning the Enoree River at ‘Whitmore. The highway department office at Greenwood this morning re- ported the Edgefield-Augusta road closed by flood waters at North Augusta. The Greenwood-Laurens highway also was closed. Laurens reported 10.72 inches of rain in 24 hours. % The town of Hamburg, across the Savannah River from Augusta on the South Carolina side, was under 12 feet of water. Residents had fled to higher ground. The local weather bureau predicted that the Savannah River would go to at Jeast 46 feet by midnight tonight. It was thought that the city proper will ‘be in no danger unless the river to 50 feet, which is not believed likely. ‘Hurt in Polo Game. EL PASO, Tex.. September 27 (P).— Lieut: -Co}: 'Arthur H. Wilson of Fort Biliss, member of the Army international ol team, was in a hospital today with several broken ribs received when he was thrown during a game vesterday and trampled by his polo pony. inciple “convincing” and he fa- | husband. | The elévator man gave no informa- tion worth while. Assistant District _Attorney Colling ! plainly was impressed by what he had | seen and heard. He said the case had | some angles that would have to be | cleared up and he laid particular stress ! on the blood in the bathroom. He an- | nounced he would have the blood | analyzed. It is well to point out that one of { the important claims—possibly the most ! important claim—made by Policeman Allen was kept a dark secret by him during The Star's preliminary inquiry. hat he would do with his “prisoner," de- | parted also. Allen ran past a stop sig- | nal and collided with a truck. A traffic policeman, examining his per: satd “Ah! So.iyou. are Allen. Inspector Shelby has been Jooking for you all day.” and, in respomge to a general look- out sent out from:detective headquar- ters, asking officers.to apprehend Allen, he started with to headquarters. McPherson also Went immediately to headquarters to sé¢ what his lrrel'.", meant. He found that it did not mean | anything. as far &3 headquarters was | concerned, but wm thefe he came | face to face with n anfl there was The claim referred to is the one that 8 short, but heated gixchange of wor Allen, personally, saw & man emerge & | from a window of the McPherson apart- | Relieved of Polibe Authority. i ment that tragic Thursdsy night. Allen Allen, st headquarters, was suspended | announced this just prio: to the grand | from the force and relieved of his police goes | jury probe. Collins announced his determination | to take a hand in the investigation, and | to reopen the case. But the situation | changed materially overnight. Collins ! quarters with Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, | head of the homicide squad, and his doubts as to suicide began to ipate. | In the morning the prosecutor said he had learned the detectives had con- | sidered the murder possibilities, had | run down many clués of which Allen ' knew nothing and had failed to find any definite evidence of murder. Col- | ! lins said he was satisfied the Detective | Bureau had conducted a thorough in- | | vestigation, ‘and he was inclined to | agree with Lieut. Kelly that the murder | | theory could not be supported. Collins { s2id there were only two things that he | | didn't quite understand. viz., why the i lights in_the apartment were out if | | Mrs.. McPherson committed suicide at | night and why there were stains on the | bathroom floor. He said he would ask Inspector Shelby, head of the Detective Bureau. to have the blood anslyzed | “Just to settle the blood question.” Situation Changes Aga With that information on which to | base a story, the reporters returned to | their office and collaborated in prepar- | ing an article for publication. In the | meantime The Star's police reporter at | the District Building was asked to check up on the blood analysis developments. | With the story completed, word came i back from detective headquarters that | Inspector Shelby said he had just re- | turned from Collins’ office and no re- | quest had been made of him to have the | { blood analyzed. Thet cnanged the sit- | uation again. Collins was called back and he said that while he had not for- | “requested” the analysis, he had ggested” it might be a good thing. The story was withheld, as there was| nothing to substantiate it. Nobody, it seemed, was going to do anything. i The Star, in view of conflicting ce- velopments, decided to interview spector Shelby. Snure and Collier went | to Detective Headquarters at 9 o'clock in the morning and remained in Inspec- tor Shelby's office, with the doors locked from the inside fo avold interruptions, until after 1 o'clock in the afternoon. During those four hours Inspector Shel- by and Lieut. Kelly “laid all their cards on the table,” to use their own expres- sion. They said they wished to convinee | the reporters of the thoroughness of | their investigation. Kelly disclosed he had gone to the Park Lane the night before and, with hammer and cold chisel, removed the stained tiles from the-bathroom floor «nd taken the tiles to headquarters, where they now are. The District chemist, he declared, re- ported that a satisfactory analysis was im) ible. hen_the reporters frankly told In- spector/Shelby they were pot clear on the point made by Manager Ruff with! regard to the position of the body | against the bedroom door, the inspector removed his coat, lny prone on the floor of his office, with one foot against the door and had Lieut. Kelly open the door, | to demonstrate his point. ~Shelby showed how to account for the fact that Manager Ruff had to push the door open with force, after Mr. McPherson had preeeded him into the room, when he discovered the body of his wife & few minuies befare. As for the screams heard that night. Lieut. Kelly asserted he- had traced them to an apartment across the alley- { | In- i |SHELBY RECALLED | physician appeares !Phe authorty. Then the grand jury began its hear- | ings. More witnesses have been called | than in any case since the Wan case, | famous Chinese murder investigation. | out of the grand jury room. where everything is supposed to be strictly secret, than the average newspaper reporter can keep up with. Detective headquarters has been more or less demoralized. and the case has somehow | simmered downt to a finish fight be- tween Allen and the Police Depart- ment. If Allen wins, Inspector Shelby has promised him a detective sergeancy. If he loses, Mr. Allen will have a num- | ber of things to explain before the | trial board. which in recent years has become his old stamping ground. i Whether any new evidence has been | brought before the grand jury remains ' for that body to make known later.| Some of the witnesses have made statements that, on their face, add weight to Allen’s theory—that is, state- | ments to reporters. What they told| the .grand jury, of course, .remains | secret, Allen himself has made the most startling statement of many startling statements. He now says that he, him- self, saw & man leave the apartment house on the night that Mrs. McPherson is supposed to have come to her death. He did not tell the reporters, with whom he worked on the preliminary angles of the case, of that most important. fact. }{gr did he tell District Attorn-y Col- | s ‘Was Mrs. McPherson strangled to death by her own hand, or by the hand | of some one unknown to Allen, the! Police Department and the grand jury? Is Allen, responsible through his own efforts for this unprecedented investi- gation, rldmr to glory or to a fall? ‘The sequel to this story will be writ- ten within the next few days by the grand jury. BY GRAND JURY IN McPHERSON PROBE (Continued From First Page.) the hope that the conference vwld; not succeed. Redr Admiral J. M. Reeves was the officer named by Pearson as expressing frequently that the conference would not succeed, After the committee has completed its interrogation of ‘Shearer, it is expected that the naval officers mentioned durink the investigation will be heard, either | at their own request or after being snmmoned by the commiittee. Shearer’s testimony may bring abou' & recall of some of the witnesses al- ! ready heard by the commitiee. It is considered likely that the de-| fepse of naval officers against the charge that they had expressed a hope the conference would fail, if they admit they expressed any such hope, will be that they believed the conference | should succeed only in the event that ! the United . States was accorded full naval parity with Great Britain. Names Other Officers. Other naval officers mentioned by | Pearson as having been in the company of Shearer were Rear Admiral Frank M. Schofield, now commander of Battle Division 4 of the battle Seet: Comdr.| C. Train, at present with the General Navy Board ' in Washington, and Lieut. Comdr. Halloway H. Frost. t present attached to the Army War College in Washington. Pearson was anxious to say that Ad- | miral Hilary P. Jones, retired, of the Navy and Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium, the two delegates of America | to the parley, worked “sincerely for an | agreement.” He said they never met 1 had a long conference at police head- | And more conflicting storles have come | Shearer. Describing Shearer as & “lavish” ! spender at Geneva and the occupant of a “luxurious apartment,” Pearson said | the “observer and reporter” for the | shipbuilders attended the newspaper ' conferences, passed out memoranda and | was “primarily integested that the con- ference should not succeed. Reeves Held Sympathetic. Pearson said Admiral Reeves “was very sympathetic with Shearer and quite loquacious.” Comdr. Frost, he said, was frequently | with Shearer, “but he was a youmger | man and didn't say much.” Neither Admiral Scliofield nor Comdr Train was with Shearer so much, the | witness testified. Pearson also told the committee that | Albin E. Johnron. Geneva correspondent | for the New York World, had shown him a facsimile of what pui ted to ve & Scotland Yard report on Shearer. Upon returning to Washington, Pear- son said he met Shearer here and that the latter told him of going into Johi son's room at Geneva and demanding the so-called Scotland Yard document and getting it. He added that Shearer sald Johnson was going to be “fired.” Pearson said his memory about the document was “vague.” Johnson is still the correspondent of the New York World at Geneva. > As Pearson told ‘his story, /sometimes | demurring at answering questions of Serator Allen, Republican, Kansas, Shearer crouched forward on a chair directly behind the witness. Occasionally catching the eye of news- paper men, Shearer would grimace and point a finger at Pearson. As the newspapermen ‘left the stand, Shearer snapped. “‘Get that bird back here to answer this question!” Pearson returned at the committee’ request and apswered & question pro- péunded by Shearer's counsel, stating in the afirmative that his former wife is a cousin of McCormick-Goodhart. an attache of the British embassy in Wash- ington. | with the investigators, byt merely listened to testimony that was given. To corroborate the testithony of James Miils, colored janitor at the Lombardy, who alleged he heard screams on the night of Mrs, McPherson's death, Leonard Scott, colored telephone op- erator at the Lombardy, was. ealled. Mills was said to have been awakened by the cries and to—have gone up to the switchboard to ask Scott if he had heard of any difficulty. Scott, dccord- ing to m previous’ statement by’ Mills, had not heard the sounds, but was summoned to establish the faot that the janitor had questioned him on the night of the tragedy. * Shortly before the close of the grand Jury session yesterday a forthwith, sum- mons for Dr. Adams Kimble, “prom- inent pathologist, was issued: = The d before the investi- and was questioned 't length bloodt found .in the Mc- rson apartment, 3 j7 To_terminate yestorday'’s: proceedings Inspector Will 8. chilef of e Srre ity hall an T, gated for aj " an’ hour, In addition to giving his opinion of the death of Mrs, McPherspn and an- gators Wig Bills $500 a Year. With the discussion of whether long or short hair shall prevail, feminine heads in Europe have come so promi- nently in the limelight that many so- clety women are spending $500 a year K are used to cover up | the gray hairs and are dyed the exact shade of the hair which is left er- posed. ~The wigs are so light and so well made that they can be slept in with comfort and without any fear of their_falling off. swering questions pertaining to his ln-l vestigation of her demise, Inspector; Shelby, while on the stand, scored Policeman Allen, and declared that the suspended officer violated all rules of discipline when he went over thé heads of hi nmm officers and imparted the informa he had ned to per- sons outside of the Police Department. irl was questioned for nearly two rs, the grand jury ordered him to pear again today so that he would be on hand to answer ather pyestions that might arise. ! a_sightseeing tour of -the had reviewed the Japanese midship- men on the south grounds, as Sec tary Adams had done a little earlier the department. R T At} struggling with the problem of over- coming electrical disturbances from the ignition aystems of airplane motors which formed one of the chief stum- grees” by any institution not duly lie- ensed to do so. This was made krown at the morn- | ! announced the appointment of John | R Fitzpatrick. secretary to Justice Frederick L. Siddons. as an assistant United States attorney. Mr. Pitapatrick Admirai Nomura was accompariled by hiing blocks in the way of radio com- his staff and the captains of the Asama [ mypjcation between airplanés and the and Iwate, the two armored cruisers of the imperial Japanese Ni the squadron. i Ted: program for the visitors from Japan called for a buffet luncheon the midshipmen at the Naval Air St tion, Anacostia, at 2 o'clock, followed by an inspection of the air statios A buffet luncheon for 41 avy forming panese | junior naval m2dical officers was given at_the Naval Hespital here, and the medical men had an opportunity ta in- spect the institution later. The Japa- nese naval attache was host to 50 Japanese officers at his homelllhn city wallary ranged. Admiral Nomura's afternoon scl g.rom for placing-a’ wréath ‘ontthe omb of the Unknown. Boldier atZAr- lington Cemetery at 3:30 o’clock. is evening, the Japanese Ambassador will give a @jnner in _honor of Adndiral Nomura at the Carlton Hotel. Amerfean naval officers. who are invited, aré to wear evening full dress ufiiforms. . A few of the Japapese officers visited the Marine Barracks.at ico, ‘Va., and had luncheon there. A great num- ber of the officers and midshipmen spent the day sight-seeing here, arriv- ing_from Baltimore in busses. Meanwhile, the 315 Japanese enlisted men, the crews of the two Wlnhlz‘. spent the day sight-seeing in Balti- more as guests of that city. Tomorrow another round of festivi- ties will be held. Sight-seeing will occu- py the major part of the day. The Japanese Ambassador will tender a buffet luncheon at the embassy for the midshipmen. Admiral Hughes will give a lunch- eon at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in honor of Admiral Nomura at his quarters at the Naval Observatory. The Japanese naval attache and Mrs. Sakane will give a reception tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock at the Mayflower Hotel in honor of Admiral Nomura and his officer colleagues. United States naval officers attending will wear undress blue uniforms, with- out sword and belt. Secretary Adams will give a dinner in honor of the admiral tomorrow eve- ning at 8 o'clock at his residence, 2221 | R street. Sunday Admiral Nomurs, his staff f0r | of the ignition system to prevent radio | wiring them into a single electrical unit. | defined by him. The coilege, it was | | trouble and & source ‘of danger to pilots | would have to be: known merely as the und. Long and costly research wark finally to the development of a system of eiding” of the high tension wires led “shie interference. In connection with the . shielding it became necessary to bond | not the type of institution to be award- all the metal parts of the airplane by Costly Operations. | Shk&n‘ and “bending ; sre ’Pol'lyi operations. the expense, it is said, run- ning as high as $1,700 for certain types | of planes. Not only is the operation ex- | pensive, but it has been the cuuse of | and passengers. Electric “leaks” develop | in the shielding system and it is claimed | that the shielding is apt to cause short | circuits in the itfon system, result- ing in forced lafdings. Shielding and bonding are_done away with in the Jenkins device and per- | feet two-way radio communication possible from any airplane, he claims. Flying in an unshielded and unbonded ing session by Dr. 8. B. Huebner, dean | of the college. As a result the college is subatituting | “rank” for degree. Dr. Huebner quoted Dr. Caarles F. Cerusi, president of the Board of Edu- cation. as having stated that, while he thought the college a good thing, it is will be assigned tb Police Court, it is expected. : | _Following the resignation of Mr. i Fitzpatrick, Justice Siddons recom- mended to the general term the ap- pointment of J. Leonard Townsend. who Tecently passed the bar examina- ition and is awaiting admissjon aext month, as his secretary. Fitzpatrick was born at Dixon. Di. in 1898 and removed to Chicago in 1908 and to Omaha in 1910, where he | was an instructor at Omaha Technical | High School. Prom 1917 to 1926 he was in the diplomatic service. consular service and foreign service of the De partment of Commerce, seeing servi gn l;ussnH Denmark, Eendzhnd and College of Life Underwriters, e i : Nol having such a Jicense, however, | ENzabeth M. Kelly of this city in 1920, the full mame. “American- Coliege of | , The new assistant was given his law Lite "Underwritem could b mmain. | degree from Columbus University and Pl e e was formeriy a member of the faculty of ‘The' college sdme time. ago. in mes- | DAL universits, but now is an instructo sages 10 the Board of Eduéation. main- er | Mr. Townsend, the new secretary to ained that the ecollege heuid DelJustice Sidaons. is a native of Washing- J ;| ton and was educated at the Business Harry O. Hine, secretary of the Board | i Sehool, Jater taking his law degree ed a license for awarding degrees, as| pointed out, is incorporated under the laws of the District. + (E. 8. Brashears, a--member of the college’s board of trustees, also ex- plained. that were the. jnstitution to have a license to issue degrees it could | not use the term “Americtn.” buti airplane of -the standard commercial | of Education, stated that the matter of production type, Mr. Jenkins maintained 'granting the collége a license has not continuous = iwo-way radio-ielephone | been “inally acted upon by the board. communication between the plane and’and indicated that the board will de- his Connecticut avenue laboratories cide one way or another next Wednes- | from Columbus University. He was far- | merly connected with the Chevy Chase | Bank and 1s a graduate of the American Banking Indtitute. | and the captains of the Asama and | Iwate will return to their ships at Balti- more and the Japanese enlisted men will spend the day sightseeing in Wash- ington. Further activities are on the program for Monday and Tuesday, the | squadron leaving Wednesday for New York. WHOLESALE GROCERS FIGHT PACKERS’ SUIT Denying that the District Supreme Court has any jurisdiction to modify the consent decree of February 27, 1920, | by which the packers agreed to divorce their business from unallied industries, the American Wholesale Grocers' As- soclation and a number of allied cor- porations today filed motions to dismise the petitions of Swift & Co. and Armour & Co. for a modification of the decree The association points out that the | decree has been sustained by the United States Supreme Court and de- clares that the petitions contain & con- fusing mass of impertinent and irrele- | vant statements and violates the rules | of pleading in several instances. Hear- ings on the petitions are scheduled for | October 2. Attorney Edgar Watkins | appears for the American Wholesale Grocers’ Association. BAND CONCERT. By . the ‘United States Army Band. Curtis D. Alway, captfin Infantry, com- manding; Willlam J. Siannard, leader; ‘Thomas Darcy, second leader; at the Capitol Plasa this evening, 7:30 o'clock: March, “Amigos Espanoles” (“Span- ish Friends”)..............Stannard Dedicated to the people. of Spain in appreciation of the many cour- tesies extended the United States Army Band while in their country. Overture, “Narcissus” | Tone poem, “Finlandia Sibelius | rooke's Chicago Marine ‘Waltz, “Carolina uo’;m." Davis and Bourke Suite, “From the South™........Nicode Mareh. “Capitol”..... Rappee and Axt “The Star Spangled Banner.” 4 |4 inches. This unit was placed on one | | a eushion. | erated on a 47-meter wave length, one yesterday afternoon on a trip to Langley | Field, Hampton, Va., and return. Today | he was making another test flight to Philadelphia. | “The solution of the problem has bzen ridicilously simple,” Mr. Jenkins sald. “We have found that there is an ‘electrical shadow’ behind an air- | olane, spreading out like a searchlight bcam, In which there is no interference | from the electrical high tension wires of fhE moter. Yowing in “Shadow.” | “To avoid interference it is necessary only to tow the radio sntenna in this | “electrieal shadow.' There is no need for | shielding or bonding. Perfect reception and transmission are possibie.” The antenna is made fast to the top | of the airplane rudder or is reeled ont from the fuselage through a guide in | the rudder. The antenna ma¥y be mndel' fast before the plane takes off #nd the bare wire towed off the ground, Mr.| Jenkins said. If a reel is used, a small | wind cone or_“sock” is attach>d to the | end of the antenna to draw the wire out through the rudder. ‘The complete radio equipment used | on yesterday's flight, Mr. Jenkins said, | weighed but 36 pounds, including bat- teries. The receiving and transmitting apparatus and atterles were contained in s aingle unit measuring 17 by 13 by | of the seats in the plane, protected by | “No wiring was necessary beyond plug- ging In the head.phones and antenna and grounding -the set on the metal fuselage,” Mr. Jenkins said. ““We ‘op- of the five lengths allocated to us by | the Government. ' There was no diffi- culty in transmitting or.receiving at| any time. On the way back from Lang- ley Field I asked one of the men at the Iaboratories'to have my ear driven to ‘Washington Alrfiort .and’ ‘when we | landed it was waiting there | | M. Scott of Philade day. ° The annual election of officers of the National Association of Life Under- writers was held at the morning ses- sion, with S. T. Whatley of Chicago. the ‘ranking vice president during the Dast year, elected to the office of presi- dent. C.'C. Day of Oklshoma City was electad to the office of ‘ranking vice i . president. Other officers elécted are: Both Store 77 for First 18 Holés George W. Ayars of Los Angeles, first vice' president; E. J. McCormick of | Memphis. second vice president; Thomas ; eiphia, third - vice pesident: H. O, Wilhelm of Omaha, | ourth vice president, and.Hugh Mec- Connell 'of ‘Montreai, "honoraty viee| Plaving fof the championship he won president. . John F. Cremen of-this city | 1ast_year, Lieut: E. A. Baldwin of the was elected secrefary and Robert L.| 2d COrps Area was one up this after- [ noon_at the end of the first round of Jones of New York, treasurer. | The association adopted a number of | the 36-hole final for the Army golf championship at the Army. Navy and resolutions of thanks and another pro- | viding for associate membership in the | Marine B‘l":;?:y . e 4 Fort Benning, Ga. National Association of Life Under-|Q: writers, | Both players scored 77 for the first 18 = of spe Dr. Huehner, who listed as one ; holes, and each man had an eagle. the principal kers on the | Baldwin had an eagle 3 on the par morning program, told ‘in detail the | 5. fourth hole and Bradley had an eagle objects of the college in offering “stand- | 2 on the par 4 sixth hole. ardization of me'msuunce education.” | _Capt. J. T. Menzie of Fort Riley. “Whatever the outcome, I feel that | Kans.'was 2 up on Maj. E. 8. Hughes wes hould not be overly concerned. Our | of Washington at the halfway mark educational stantiard™i§ high.” he said. in the consolation final. Baldwin won Addresses = delivered by | the champlonhip last y at the William M. Duff, gei chairman of | Chevy Chase Clul the_“Edward A. W Foundation”; | e % Whisss ubiebhwes The segimnes s | FEDERAL CLERK DIES AFTER ANESTHETIC whose subject®was “The Beginner in BALDWIN IS LEADING BRADLEY BY STROKE in Army Champion- 2 ship Final. ‘the Era of the-Second Hundred Billion.” | and By Edward D. Duffleld, president of the Prudential Life Insurance Co. of America, who:spoke on *“The Mission of the Indusirial Agent in the Era of ! the Second*Hundred Billion.” | Addresses. by several leading insur- | ance execytives this afternoon will bring, the eonvention to aclose. O I a clerk in the Bureau of Engraving a Unemployment Incre; ed. Printing. died in Garfield Huplm yes ROME, Septembei 27 (#).—The min- | terday after. being administered anes- Engraving Bureau Aide, Former Sucumbs Be- Service Man, fore. Operation. John' Green, 68 years old, for 28 years | visory committee for’ aeronautics; Henry. | room. | _ Full length paintings of George and Martha mmm "bmuxm a and sparkle an added ting. | has Fro e At Langley Field the instaflation was | examined by Dr. ‘George W. Lewis, di rector of research of the national ad- | ister of corporations reported at today's cabinet session that:the number of un- employed . i Italy. or. August 31 had reached 216,000, or 31400 more than | at_the end of ‘July.. He said this was dué tq-normal: al causes and that the number was 13 pscc:m less than A 1928, % at the e‘hdfl‘Aul'!t. WASHINGTON PORTRAITS GRACE EAST ROOM IN NEW GROUPING Pictured George and Martha Offering Silent Welcgme to| Throng of Sightseers. |'House belongings atcording to periods, |lnd selected the east room as most suftable for the Washington portraits. That of George Washingto saved by Mrs. Madison at th> time the White House was burned in 1314 and she moved with her husband tempo- arily into Octagon House. The portralt of Martha Washington 1s of later date. ides, uninstructed about the not tell their first groups to take note of the pictures. By the Asscciated Press. ‘The Hoover rearrangement ite House portraits, which has in progress for several weeks, has reached the histtoric east of Whi been lower eorridor, were hung today in the room to which tourists from the four corners of the country daily troop on sightseeing schedule. Looking down graciously and benignly from the east wall, the pictured George nndufi ha offer silent welcome to the I rich old Toom.., The erystal chandeliers | piano. . They came cut wmmuns on have just had their annual cleaning. | the portraits, the first President and his wife nmrlutkmnbly dominating the White | rcom as it is now arranged. ) Mr. Hoover been grouping thetic preparatory to an operation. He had rtly recovered - from a former operation, performed a short while ago. it whs stated. Priof .to entering the. Government service. Mr._ Gfeen served in Troop C. 4th United States Cavalry. He was. a member of the' Army and Navy Union. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nellle Green; a_son, John William Green:, & sister, Mrs. Nellie Mulvaney of Ware, Mass., and a brother, Jobu P. Green of San Jose, Calif.’ Funeral servicés will be conducted in the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church tomorrow morning at 9 o'elock. following brief services atithe residence, 4519 nth street. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery. TAXATION HITS TURFMEN. i B | Austrian Court Decision Drives ‘Racing Stallions From Tracks ~ i ‘' VIENNA (®).—A judgment from the higlt" court declaring racing and horse hreeding , & profit-making _proposition subject to'taxation has driven many & famous stallion. from the Austrian track. Owners of stables are abandoning their establishments pn account of high taxes and patronage at the capital’'s race courses, Famous turfmen who kept expensive” stables before the War ‘are ‘now “transfe; .théir colors fo Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and even Rumanian race tracks, where no restric- tions are placed on racing.