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WEATHER, Temperal yesterday; Full report tures: Highest, 62, at 2 p.m. lowest, 51, at noon on page 10. today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as sec post office. No. 31,199. Washington. ond class matter D. COMPANIES WANTED WORK KEPT SECRET, SHEARER DECLARES| OF GAPITAL, DIES Employers Insisted That He Not Divulge Their Connec- tion, Senators Hear. WAKEMAN GAVE HIM INSTRUCTIONS, HE SAYS Witness Clashes With Allen Dur- ing Hearing Over Testimony Involving Legislator, BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Willlam B. Shearer, today told the CHARLES J. BELL, FINANCIAL LEADER Succumbs in New York City After lliness Lasting Several Months. BODY WILL BE BROUGHT TO WASHINGTON TODAY Was Connected With Score of Cor- porations and Identified With Civic Enterprises. Charles J. Bell, chairman of the| { board of directars of the American Se- Senate committee investigating charges | curity & Trust Co., president of the he had been sent to Geneva by Ameri- | Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co., can shipbuilding companies to prevent & naval limitation agreement, that his employers had -insisted that he keep secret the fact he was representing them there. He named particularly . W. Wake- man, vice president of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., as giving him instruc- tions that the employment should be kept secret. The representatives of the other companies, he said, acquiesced. The witness suggested that the de- mand for secrecy may have been made because Charles M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, which owns cne of the shipbuilding companies, would have been em- barrassed if the charge had been made that his company was working in the interest of the Navy. Shearer Cites Palen. Shearer testified that he had been told by Frederick P. Palen, a vice presi: dent of the Newport News Shipbuil ing and Drydock Corporation, that offi- cials of the Bethlehem Corporation had been called on the mat by Secretary of State Kellogg and told there must be no more employment of Shearer. Shearer said that the Bethlehem com- any was involved in a $15,000,000 suit gmughl by the Government in connec- tion with war contracts and that he had heard a threat was made to press the suits if something were not done. Shearer, completely at his ease, an- swered the questions of the committee ! lin, Leaving home when a young man, readily today and frequently launched | into long explanations which the com- mittee sought to cut off. He was l.sl(edI if he had ever been employed by the ! Daughters of the American Revolution, | the American Legion or any other patriotic organization. “1 have acted as their adviser,” said | Shearer. “But I never got a cent from them.” He said that the patriotic or- ganizations never put out any money. Says Pacifists Spend Millions. “It's the opposition, the pacifists, who spend millions,” said Shearer. Shearer told the committee that he had gone to Boston to do publicity work and to interest the “Irish” dur- ing the last presidential campaign. He said that some of his articles on the marine and sea power had been sent out to newspapers in envelopes supplied by the Republican national committee publicity bureau. Because there were charges that the Republican candidate for President was pro-British, Shearer said, it was agreed he should go to Boston and talk to the “Irish.” He mentioned Senator Moses of New Hampshire, Eastern campaign mana- ger; Representative Bacon and a man named Archer, said to be the New York representative of Senator Allen. who is said to be the head of the publicity bureau, as having been consulted be- fore he went to Boston. ! The committee questioned Shearer about his more recent employment by William Randolph Hearst. Shearer said he had a contract to work with | patriotic societies against the entry of | the United States into the World Court | and the League of iiations. The agree- | ment, he said, was to pay him $2.000 | a month, out of which he was to pay all expenses for printing and traveling ; and so forth, He was to furnish the patriotic or- ganizations with resolutions to adopted and arguments supporting them. This employment, Shearer said. was ended “when the Senate ordered this investigation.” ““All employment stopped then,” said Shearer. “I found myself walking by myself. All engagements, social and otherwise, ended.” At ‘one point in the hearing today, a memorandum of an interview between | Shearer and C. L. Bardo, president of | the New York Shipbuilding Co., was read into the record. This memo- randum was from Mr. Bardo. It stated that Shearer had made threats to kill Wakeman and had sought to blackmail Bardo and his company, at this confer- ence, which was held in Washington, after the shipbullders decided to end the employment of Shearer. Shearer Denies: Threats. Shearer denied emphatically that he had made any such threats.” He said it came out at the conference with Bardo that Wakeman had declared Shearer had been a German spy. “There was no row, no gunplay; I don't carry a gun,” said Shearer. He insisted that he made no attempt to (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) AVIATORS FEARED TARGET OF GUNS French See Possibility Coste Got | By the Associated Prese. Inside Lines of Chinese Army in Manchuria. By the Assoclated Press. LE BOURGET, France, October 1.— Possibility was advanced todsy that Capt. Dieudonne Coste and his me- chanic, Jacques Bellonte, might have flown within the lines of the Chinese Army in Manchuris and have been mistaken for Russian aviaiors. It was feared that in such an event the Frenchmen would have been fAred upon, since the machine was painted Ted, the color most often associated with the Soviet military. ¥ The two aviators have been missing more than 100 hours since setting out Friday morning for Vladivostok, engeru. A message that they had been sighted vesterday flying eastward over Novo- i *vrsk, Siberia, toward Irkutsk, gen- as garbled and es or early Sunday was g Saturday than Monday. Lute by the board of directors at that { trict, and be | Washington llennnl 1,100 members of the Milk Pro- Assoc {milk to Kansas City | plants after next Sun director of a score of corporations and for more than 40 years one of the lead- ing figures in Washington's financial district, died at 0 o'clock this morn- ing in St. Luke's Hospital, New York { City. His death followed an iliness of several months, but it was only recently that his physicians realized that he { could not recover. He was 71 years old. Mr. Bell was first taken ill last Feb- ruary. He was operated upon in the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hos- pital in this city, with the aim of re- ! lieving him from intense pain due to headaches. For a time he improved.| This Summer, accompanied by Mrs. Bell, he went to Belgrade Lakes in | Maine. After remaining there and at { another fishing camp in Maine for sev- | eral weeks, Mr. Bell went to Litchfield, { Conn., with the hope that the change { might benefit him. From there special- ists decided upon his removal to St. Luke's Hospital in New York. Relatives had been constantly at his | bedside during the past few days. It was announced here this morning that his body would be brought from New York today, but that plans had not been completed for the funeral. Born in Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Bell was born in Dublin, Ireland, April 12, 1858, and was educated in Wesleyan Connectional College, in Dub- i i i | he first went to Canada in 1875. His | first connection with a financial lnsu-i tution was with the Imperial Bank of | Canada, with which he remained until | 1879, laying the foundation for a bril- liant financial career. ! At that time he became interested with his cousin, the late Dr. Mex-nder] Graham Bell. in the telephone indus- try, and was appointed general manager of the National Telephone Co. of Eng- land. He held this position from 1880, until 1882, He came to this city in| 1883 and organized the private bank- | ing firm of Bell & Co. | n 1889, when the American sec:umyI & Trust Co. was organized, Mr. Bell be- came vice president. Four years later he was elected president of the trust company and remained at the helm for 35 years. The veteran banker asked to be relieved of the presidency in Febru-| ary, 1928, being succeeded by Corcoran | Thom and being elected chairman of | the board. He was paid a brilliant trib- time. However, Mr. Bell did not retire from work, remaining actively con-| nected with the bank until his last ness. He found time for a trip to Ire land a year ago and had a trip to Alaska | arranged for this Summer, when it was | discovered that his health would not permit such a long journey. For almost { half a cexl:tuav hl‘s :gvlcfle hl(li lb;en; sought by leaders in the financial dis-| 5 i )5.! recent absence had bezni keenly felt. Public-spirited Citizen. i Mr. Bell did not give all his time to financial matters by any means. He. was one of Washington's most public- spirited citizens, ready to support every cause that would advance the city’s, civic interests. He was one of the incorporators of | the American Red Cross, trustee and | member of the board of the George Memorial Association, | chairman of the finance committee and | member of the board of the Public Li~[ brary. Mr. Bell was also on the board of the Washington Sanitary Housing Co. | He was chairman of the board of directors of the Potomac Electric Power Co. and of the Washington Railwav & Electric Co. He was a member of the board of trustees of American Univer-'| sity and a valued member of the Chap- | ter of Washington Cathedral. Mr. Bell also was a member of the board of directors of the Terminal Re- frigerating & Warehousing Co., Wash- | mgton Market To., Security Storage Co., National Geographic Society, Real Estate Title Insurance Co., Norfolk & | Washington Steamboat Co. Columbia | Title Insurance Co. and Columbia Sand | & Gravel Co. President of the District of Columbia | Bankers' Association. many years ago. | Mr. Bell always took a deep interest in this organization and in this connec- tion offered many prizes for scholarships | in the American Institute of Banking The veterans financier was always greatly concerned in the education prog- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) = o 1,100 Kansas City Producers Vote| to Cut Off Supply to Plants Next Sunday. KANSAS CITY, October 1.—A milk strike which will leave Greater Kansas City without pasteurized k was ap- proved last night by delegates rep: ducers’ iation of _the annurl Kansas City district. By unanimous vote the producers decided to deliver no Cif pasteurization | day unless the plants m:“w an increase in price of affected, city's is unpasteurized and with- drawal of the pasteurized supply would create a serious shortage. . C. Murphy, city commissioner ot sanitation and imspection, said today the health department, forewarned of the strike, had a for an ade- quate supply of from distant sources and nearby producers not allied with the striking ization. Milk Producers' Cities served by tion include Kansas City, Mo.; | bel dence and Associal Kansas City, Kans.; In North Kansas City, Mo., bined population of well willion persons. - with a' com- over & half- | still had been in operation a i Deputy | Blandford, he WASHINGTON, D. C, Fi TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, & 4111 ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ’ . o Sfar. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular e tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 113,936 1929—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. SPEAKT NG OF PREDICTED HURRI ICANES. OALON TIL 5 SEZED ON FARN {Eight Men, Two Trucks, Auto, Horse and Quantity of Mash Also Taken. The two-day effort of Mrs, W. W. ‘Wright, wife of the Department of Jus- i tice attorney, to clear a still from her farm near the District workhouse at Occoquan brought about a spectacular raid last night, which resulted in the dynamiting of a 1,000-galion still, the arrest of eight men, trucks, an automobile and 20,000 gallons of mash, to say nothing of another horse for the prohibition department to feed. When Mrs. Wright returned home from a long trip to China she learned that a still was in operation on the un- tenanted farm, which has not been cul- tivated for several years. From her home in Arlington County Bunday she communicated with a dry official of that | er county, who later called and son to Accompany him to the farm, which is in PFairfax County. Yielding to the entreaties of his mother and wife, the son declined to accompany the agent. Later Mrs. Wright charges that an attorney called her son and suggested that he “give two days to get the still removed.” Wright refused and, accord- ing to his mother. was informed that he would find $100 at a store, with $100 ad- ditional monthly, if the still was not ‘molested. Young State's Attorney Wilson Farr of Fair- fax County at 3 o'clock yesterday after- noon and with prohibition officers work- ing out of the District. The raid last night followed. Held in Alexandria. As a result, the alleged operators of the still are being held in Alexandria awaiting a hearing before Deputy United States Commissioner John Bar- ton Phillips. They are J. R. Montgom- ery, 37, of 1420 R street; Edward Juli- ano, 23, of 2105 Fourth street; Harry | Johnson, 36, of Orange, Eugene Willlams, 27, of Woodbridge, .: Roy Limerick, 28, and Norman Simpson, 33 both of Lorton, Va.: A. D. King, jr.. 25, of Rosslyn, and Burron Edwards, 24, of Fairfax. Four of the men were taken into custody when the prohibition agents reached the still shortly after 10 o'clock. Waiting to determine if there were any more connected in the opera- tion the agents were rewarded by the appearance of the two trucks shortly afterward and the two drivers were also arrested. Continuing their vig- flance in the heavy rain the agents were still further rewarded when two more men in ‘the touring car put in| an appearance and submitted to arrest. Equipment Is Taken. In addition to the trucks, the auto- mobile, horse and mash, the agents seized 28 cases of corn whisky, 60 gal- lons in various containers, forty 500- gallon mash vats, hundreds of empty glass jars, 12 pounds of yeast, an 800- gallon doubler, 300 feet of 3-inch colls, two tons of coke, a 15-horsepower steam boiler, a 50-gallon doubler, one wagon and some garden hose. ‘The automobiles and 'trucks will be taken to Richmond to be confiscated by the Federal Court in that city. It was said by the agents that the proxi- pable between three and mately 20 days and that it was of manufacturin; i four hundred gallons of whisky a day. The raiding party was headed by Administrator Willlam R. chief of the Prohibition Enforcement Bureau here, while others In the party were Federal Agents John | T. Weigel, M. E. Thompson, Joshua T. Young, Thomas Fleming, Mr. Smith and Virgil Williams of the Virginia prohibition force. . HOOVER MAY SPEAK. President Declines Armistice Day Invitations Outside Capital. By the Associated Press. Because of prelllng duties, President Hoover will be unable to accept any of the invitations received from various organizations to make an Armistice day speech at some city outside of It has not reen decided whether the President will make an address in the Capital Fire Razes Yale Building. NEW HAVIN@« October 1 (#).— Historic North leld Hall, on Pros- pect street, seat of Yale University mathematics de ent, was de- fire of undetermined origin The building, a three: fire started. seizure of two | Wright communicated with | ’ | immediately summoned detectives from BROKER LEAPS, DIES. Losses of $124,000 in Market Are Blamed for Suicide. | NEW YORK, October 1 (#).—A broker leaped to his death from a win- dow on the eleventh floor of the Hotel | | Shelton early today, after writing = | note telling of stock market losses of 24,000 since last April. | The man was identified as W. J | Keyes, vice president of the C. A. Earl Radio Co. A note addressed to “Dearest mother,” said. “Last April I was worth 13:30‘01'0. Today 1 am $24,000 in the | | red.” | e | RAYON WL CHEF 5 RAZOR VT [Konsul Kummer, Head of Big Tennessee Plant, Is Found Dead in Bed. | | \ | | | By the Associated Press. | . ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., October 1.— unim ln: president | | of the American Bemberg and American |- | Glanzstoff Corporations, rayon plants, was found dead in his bed shortly after | | 8 o'clock this morning. His wrists had | been slashed and a bloody razor was found in his room. Dr. Kummer's body was found by his | | secretary, Dr. S. Peander, who imme- | diately summoned officers. | Suicide is Hinted. Dr. J. B. Shoun and a Dr. Baughm: physicians, said it looked like a “cl | case of suicide.” | | Members of the family and several | servants were in the house, but none heard any sounds of a struggle. The razor was found on the floor and blood | spots were spattered about the room. | The body was discovered by a maid | | who aroused members of the family and | summoned officers. The razor blade wes | found on the floor by the side of the bed. Spots of blood led into the bath- | room from Dr. Kummer’s room and his | bed was covered with bloodstains. _ Inquest Is Delayed. Ben Allen, county attorney gdheral, an, ear | | Washington and Atlanta and held up | the inquest until after the detectives have arrived and made an investigation. No motive for suicide could be ad- vanced by members of the family or of- ficers. Officers would not discuss the | probability of murder. A front window | of the house was open and a flower box on the edge had been smashed. ‘The house was immediately placed under guard, Sheriff J. M. Moreland and John Nade, chief of police, taking charge. No one was admitted. A. B. illiams, a deputy sheriff, who, with Sheriff Moreland were the first officers to reach the house, said it looked like suicide. Dr. Kummer had suffered an attack of gallstones last night and was at- tended by Dr. J. B. Sshoun. He ap- peared resting comfortably when he re- tired. Members of the family said no sound of a struggle had been heard throughout the night. During the recent unrest of opera- tives in the big mills here, Kummer adopted a direct plan of action in de- termining the attitude of the nearly 4,000 employes in the plants. Avoided Strike. ‘While officials of the local of the United Textile Workers of America prepared for & vote on a strike because of alleged discriminatign, he directed taking a ballot within the mill under the supervision of workers’ committees. ‘The vote was overwhelmingly against a walkout. - Kummer, was not actve during the strike this past Spring that tled up the mills for some time. Kummer, a native of Barmen, Ger- many, succeeded Dr. Mothwurf as directing head of the two plants here a few weeks ago, and was a director of the J. P. Bemberg, A. G. ration, of which the local mills are subsidiaries; 1 ! Associated yon _Corporation and | Kodak, A. G., in addition to a number of smaller companies. — 1JUDGE FINIS GARRETT SITS ON DISTRICT BENCH Judge PFinis J. Garrett of the United States Court of Customs and Appeals today sat with Justice Peyton Gordon t the impanelt:fd of the mew juries. Judge Garrett that, although he had been 24 years in Congress, he had never seen the District Supreme Court embers of the Court eligible to serve in District Sup: of | cases, and Hope that those are now ‘.meu- {a director of British Bemberg, Ltd., the | % HODVER ASTENS ORY LA REFOR Names San Francisco Attor- | ney to Study Pians for Con- | gressional Consideration. President Hoover announced today that he expects to be in a position to recommend to the regular session of Congress certain changes in the Fed- eral administration and judicial mi chinery for the more effective enforce- ment of the prohibition laws. With this object in view the President has appointed John McNab, prominent lawyer of San Prancisco, who placed his name in nomination for the presidency at the Kansas City convention, to study Department and the Law Enforcement Commission. a plan to be submitted to Congress with the view to strengthen | the enforcement and judicial systems. | with Paul Olaf Uljee, 27, who is In making this known at the White House today the President made the following statement: “Mr. John Mec- Nab of San Francisco has accepted the joint request of the Attorney General, Secretary Mellon, Mr. Wickersham and myself to study and formulate in co-| operation with those departments and the Law Enforcement Commission the changes in Federal Administration and judicial machinery which will be | recommended to Congress for the more effective enforcement of the laws under | the eighteenth amendment. “As stated before, the general lines of reorganization on the administra- tive side are to centralize the admin- istrative agencies and thus the re- sponsibility for investigation and en- forcement into the Department of Justice. The study also includes methods of expediting judicial action. Those pro. posals have to do solely with admin istration and procedure in enforcement of the laws and not with change in the laws themselves. “It is expected that we shall be able to make definite recommendations_to Congress at the beginning of the De- cember session. I am in hopes that Congress may in the meantime appoint a joint committee, which I recommend- ed on June 6. Such a committee co- operating with the administrative agen- cles would expedite legislation and ‘would possibly enable bills to be formu- lated with less delay for hearings.” PUNISHMENT ASKED IN PROBE CONDUCT Senator Blease Congratulates Over- man for Part He Took in McPherson Case. Senator Cole Blease of South Caro: lina declared in the Senate today in discussin, “those Hoover, tempted to conceal evidence and their endeavors to shield crime.” “It seems that North Carolina and South Carolina were forced to come to the rescue of the people of this District to get any action from the District at- torney's office and the grand jury of the District in regard to two heinous crimes.” he said. “I have nothing to say regarding the gullt or innocence of any persons con- nected with this case. I have practiced in the criminal courts too many years to condemn before a fair and impartial trial has been held, and I love too well the old doctrine of justice, ‘all men are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty’; but I do congratulate the very distinguished Senator from North Caro- lina, Mr. Overman, for his part in the McPherson investigation and in forcing the District Attorney's office to take on. “Speaking for South Carolina, she is not through vet, and I am very proud that my remarks of the other day have brought results Had the Repre- sentatives of North and South Carolina not spoken what would have been the result? “One newspaper article states, ‘the grand jury which considered the case went out of office yesterday, and the fact that the indictment was returned is mhnbly due to the reason not been returned the new Jury would have been forced to take this o1d grand Tury_ had becn goine. io old grand jury n go o stay in there would have never been any action taken in Lee case, but the . 's office, in view of the | that we have forced hand in both of these he , including Mr. Hoover-will “m'lfl‘ who sttempted to conceal evidence and their endeavors to shield crime. WHITE H DETEC MPHERSON HOLDS TOHIS CONTENTION WIFE ENDED LIFE Sleeps Well First Night in Jail and Denounces Those Blamed for Plight. X TWO CENTS. OUSE TO ORDER (/) Means Associated Press. THOROUGH INQUIRY INTO TIVE SITUATION POLCEMANALLEN To Legislators . Summoned to . Conference. 'HOLADAY HITS | 2 ACCUSED MEN 'He’s “Sitting on Top of the | World,” Young Lone-Hand iD C. Heads Delay Investigator Declares. | Action on Shelby *SAYS SERCEANCY 5 ASSURED Hi Undismayed by the prospect of his | Policeman Robert J. Allen is “sitting | approaching trial or the grim interior | 0'; top {:lflthe ‘wgrla,” to use his own ex- | | uberant_description. of the District Jail. Robert McPherson, | ""Tii1Y SERCURCRE L) 0w author- | jr., yesterday indicted for first-degree | jzed” independent investigation of the murder, slept quietly last night in his (f;enlh :( vlrgmia l:cl’herson_ won him | cell, to awake today professing his in- | irst_the scathing denunciation of his 1 | superiors and then the vindication of | nocence and denouncing those responsi- the District grand jury, is enjoying the | ble for his plight. | fruits of victory. Ordered to a small cell at the jail, | and Kelly. President Hoover thinks that the disclosures made by the re- port of the grand jury in the Mc- Pherson case are of such a serious nature that a minute investiga- the McPherson case that | When, without the authority of his | after the grand jury reported its find- { ings, indicting him for the murder of | his wife Virginia, whose body he found | !w a reporter for The Star said: “T | have an absolutely clear conscience and 1 am confident that I will be out in no | time." “They can keep me here for the rest of my life, but I will always have a i { smile for my friends, as I am at peace { with the world. The truth is bound to come out.' “My only regret” McPherson de- clared “is that such men as Lieut. Kelly and Inspector Shelby should have their words questioned.” Holds to Suicide Story. | i | “My friends know that I wouldn't do |a thing of this kind. It is funny that |a person who wouldn't harm a kitten | could be so misjudged.” | . McPherson not only maintains that he is innocent, but continues to con- tend that his wife committed suicide {and that no person is responsible for her_death. “I am convinced that Virginia com- | mitted suicide,” he said. “There was no one who disliked her so much that !they would have a motive for murder. She was a sweet kid."” “To prove that it was possible for her to strangle herself, if they would | and formulate, in co-operation with the | permit me and give me a good doctor, | Department of Justice, the Treasury /I would take a cord, similar to that bound around her neck and choke my- | <elf into unconsejousness.” From cell No. 25, which he shares serv- | Ing 360 days for receiving stolen prop- erty, McPherson can look across to Gal- i linger Hospital where he first met his { wife less than two years ago. | “It's funny,” he mused, “"that when {I first met her on a blind date she used to come over here to see prisoners. i Now, I am here, accused of her murder.” Hopes for Early Trial. ‘The only fear that McPherson admits he bronchial pneumonia. “It i5 so damp and cold here that I am afraid I will get sick again, as “I do want to make a good appearance "\l'hen I go to trial and not be weak (and sick. I hops they have me tried socn as possible.” | _Theyouth wore no coat or vest today jand was obvipusly chilled by the damp air of the prison. “The cold hir is bad, but the food is j worse,” McPherson continued. “Last | night'I was given noodles. bread and |tea. This morning for breakfast they you can call it coffee. on that diet. No exercise either. | Locked in that cell I can't do a thing | until they let me walk down the stairs |to the rotunda to talk to you. But I fear and believe that I will be out be- { fore long.” Asked if there was anything that he | wished, McPherson requested that his parents be told he was all Tight. “Tell them that I am all right, that I slept last night and not to worry,” { he requested, and added, “I have ihe finest mother and father in the world. | They have surely stuck by me and be- | lieve me if they can stop worrying and keep up their nerve, then so can L” FEDERAL RAIDERS SEIZE LAKE VESSEL $30,000 in Liquor Is Seized on Buffalo Steamer at Mil- waukee Pier. By the Associated Press MILWAUKEE, October 1.—A huge lake freighter was impounded, 32 men were in custody and liquor valued at more than $30,000 was in the possession of Federal agents today, the aftermath to the most spectacular raid ever staged in Wisconsin, Docking here from Windsor, Ontario, | the S. S. Utica of Buffalo, N. {met by prohibition and Coast forces late last night. y every part of the vessel whisky, ale and wine were found and the belief was | expressed that another day's search would unearth more, Capt. Robert Koch of Buffalo, the ship’s master, and the crew of 31 men were arrested vestigation to determine responsibility for the smuggling. They were per- | mitted to remain in their ship quarters for the night, under guard. The agents said they found bottles packed in burlap bags, suit cases and cartons _in ! ] boats, the main office, mates’ quarters and a dozen caches among the freight cargo and elsewhere. ‘The raiders met no opposition from the crew when they boarded the craft. Other than denying knowledge of the presence of liquor on his ship, Capt. Koch had no comment to make. . Chile's Finances Normal. By Cable to The Sta SANTIAGO, Chile, October 1.—The economic and monetary situation of Chile is normal, according to a financial seview issued by the Central Bank todsy. Radio Projrnms—l’u/ge 38 | precinct captain, he began a probe to | ticn of every phase of this case two weeks ago, the youth when talking | {8l has is that conditions at the jail | may causs him to have an attack of | | I was under a doctor’s care before they | brought me here,” McPherson declared. | 8et- gave me bread, sirup and coffee, if | I won't get fat | 1O don’t mind because I have nothing to | pending a thorough in- | coal piles, ll!e' | prove his charges that the young nurse | | had been murdered, many of his col- | leagues predicted he was riding to a | | fal, Instead, he rode a perileus course lo‘ most extraordinary triumph. Elements of Romance, | It was a triumph that carried with it all the story-book elements of romance | and mystery needed to capture popular | imagination. Think of .it—a 28-year-old | beat-pounder bucking the whole police department and winning. A ‘“corre- | | spondence school sleuth” the grizzled | veterans of crime detection called him, | but his despised evidence swayed a | grand jury to indict a man for murder | and condemn a matured inspector and | & gray-haired lieutenant of detectives for “inefficiency.” What a victory it must be for Allen to see the officers who suspended him | themselves recommended for suspen- sion by a jury of men and women. Naturally of a boastful disposition, Policeman Allen may be pardoned for gloating over the “spoils.” Demands His Reward. | The chief reward which he now de- mands is a detective sergeantcy at po- lice headquarters. He says Inspector Shelby, chief of the detective bureau. | solemnly promised him the promotion | in the presence of Maj. Pratt, superin- | tendent of police. Newspaper men alsc | quote Inspector Shelby as having de- | clared he would make Allen a detective | sergeant if he proved the case was | mur la i t's the greatest thing that ever happened to me, that detective ser- geantcy,” Allen exclaimed again and again today. “But_suppose they don't give it to you?” it was suggested. | “Why, they've got to give it to me | Allen " declared, emphatically. “The | honor of the police department is a | stake. Maj. Pratt r | Shelby promise me that job. They | can’t back down now. It was a gentle- | man's agreement. I've kept my part of it and they've got to keep theirs. Buys Home Furnishings. “Listen, I have been so sure all along of getting that promotion that I have bought a lot of stuff at the stores for my home with the $600 increase I would They couldn’t leave me in debt like that. after making a solemn prom- {ise. I'd be in a nice fix, wouldn't I. with all that stuff not paid for.” Allen leaned back in a chair, flectively, and paused. ay, won't I be cutting a figure with that sergeant's badge on, though?” he chuckled. “All my police career I have been looking forward to being a detec- | tive sergeant. That's why I've stuck to | the fight through all my troubles, to | get it. Nothing else would satisfy me Te- “I wouldn't even let them make me a lieutenant. I am satisfled to be a de- tective sergeant. I wouldn't trade that job to be President of the United States, honestly.” Has Been Depressed. | Allen admitted he was pretty de- pressed at stages of the investigation, ;mnmuxmy when he thought his part- ner, Policeman Botts of the third pre- | cinct, “had gone back on” him. He be- lieves now Botts must have corroborated |'his (Allen's) story about seeing a man emerge from the window of the Mec- | Pherson apartment on the night of the tragedy. “I felt from the way things were going in the grand jury room while I was there, however, that matters were going favorably for me,” Allen said. Asked what he meant by this, he de- clared the grand jurors at one time hissed one of their number who indi- cated animosity toward the policeman 1and that the jury applauded him when he finished a description of how he thought Mrs. McPherson was strangled to death and how police had “covered things up.” He said there were tears in the eyes of woman members and of sev- eral men at another time. _ Allen declarxd several women mem- bers of the jury embraced him after (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) 'SOVIET FLYERS DELAY * STARTING SEATTLE HOP | row if Weather Is Favorable. By the Associated Press. SITKA, Alaska, October 1.—The four Russian aviators flying the monoplane Land of the Soviets from Moscow to New York remained in Sitka today after ) deciding to postpone a scheduled hop this_morning for Seattle, 700 miles ‘They probably will take off for n tomorrow if weather conditions are favorable. They arrived here Sunday from ! Seward. The plane's radio transmitting set was dismantled yesterday, but the re- south, the An escort of six Navy planes, tom- manded by Lieut. Comdr. Jol Price of the Sand Point base, will mest the fiyers when they near Seattle. sentative of the“Priendsof Soviet Rus- sia,” an American organization, also will greet the aviators. — Duchess of Fife Unchanged. A o) Dl mieq this. mosping m me sald the condition of the princess mst Louise Victoria Alexander Duchess of Pife, was unchanged disturbed night. She is King George and two years his junior. heard _Inspector | Russians Plan to Take Off Tomor- celving l{pll‘l!lll was kept intact to! learn weather reports. v Repre- | the sister of ' Arcos should be made. The President has been kept posted during the progress of this case, and, following congressional advices he received today, it is au- thoritatively known that the Dis- trict Commissioners will receive word frcm the White House to go into this matter most thoroughly. Representatives Simmons of Ne- braska and Holaday of Illinois, ! chairman and ranking member of the subcommittee on the District of Columbia appropriations com- mittee, went to the White House today to discuss the local police | situation, not only as it is reflected {by the McPherson case, but in |general. These two Representa- ! tives were in conference for nearly {an hour with Walter H. Newton, lone of the President’s secretaries. The President was engaged with |the members of the cabinet at the time. Concerned the Police. The two Representatives, when |leaving the White House, declined to discuss the nature of their call |other than to say that it had | bearing upon the local police sit- | uation. | It is understood that the Presi- ident as a result of the advices |left at the White House by these two Representatives is not going |to summon the District Commis- | sioners, but will have his views | conveyed to them. o After he returned to his office Repre- sentative Holaday made this statement: “The disgraceful = situation ~which exists within the Metropolitan Police | Department did not arise within the | 1ast two weeks: it is the natural result of conditions which have been present | for many months. This situation was | called to the attention of the District | Commissioners, in charge of the police, | last February, but no adequate steps were taken to remedy existing condi- ! tions. | “The grand jury. in a written report | to the Supreme Court of the District ¢f | Columbia. has charged Inspector Wil- liam S. Shelby and Detective Lieut. Ed- ward J..Kelly with inefficiency and neglect of official duty, and in this in- stance has accused them of removal or destruction of evidence, giving of false testimony under oath, and attempting to influence the testimony of ‘witnesses appearing before the grand jury. Questions the Usefulness. “Can a jury be asked to convict on the testimony of these men in the | future? It would seem that their use- | fulness to the Police Department was at an end. “The chief of polige is responsible for | allowing a situation like this to exist. | If he is unable or mot willing to take | the necessary steps requisite for the maintenance of an efficient policz or- | ganization, he can be removed by the | District Commissioners. In the final analysis the responsibility rests squarely upon these men.” | “What is necessary in the present unfortunate police situation is to put in charge. of the Police Department some one with stamina and force to straighten out a situation which is a disgrace to the National Capital,” sald Representative Simmons after the con- ference. “The chief of police and the District Commissioners cannot avoid responsi- bility for the situation that exists,” he sald. “They have lamentedly fallen down on their duty.” Before receiving notice to appear at the White House, Representative Hola~ |~ (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) | | | == ENGLAND AND RUSSIA EFFECT AGREEMENT | Secret Meeting Results in Decision to Ex;hlnge Ambas- sadors, { ! | 1 By the Associated Press. LEWES, England, October 1.—Great Britain and Russia today agreed to an exchange of ambassadors, thus paving the way for full resumption of trade and commercial relations between the two countries. The agreement, which is subject to | parliamentary approval in England, was ireached in a secret meeting here be- {tween Foreign Secretary Arthur Hen- forem 3 ot gl it evtn i lor ler| , Wi {came from his Paris post. 2 The necessary documents are being ! prepared for signature before M. Do galesky returns to Paris i} | pointment of Ambassadors before taking H the actual negotiations on outstand- jing questions removed the objection which Russia made in breaking off the negotiations early in August. Intercourse between the two countries after - Parlia. ters in London, tn 1937,