Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) cloudiness, not quite so cool tonight; tomorrow cloudy, not so cool. ‘Temperatures—Highest, p.m. yesterday; lowest, 43, at 7:15 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Inereasing Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 63, at 3:30 ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ng Sftar. o ‘From Press The Star's every city black as fast as the pap to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes vere are printed. Yesterday’s Circulat'cn, 113,850 No. 31,208, T omis “We Entered as second class matte: C B C. shington. b 1929 —BIXTY PAGES. = #*% (@) tleans Associated Pres: TWO CENTS. . MACDONALD LEAVES CAPITAL ASSURED U. S. WILL ATTEND NAVY CONFERENGE Formal Acceptance of British Invitation Is Announced by Stimson After Premier Ends : Visit in Washington. CEPARTURE IS LACKING IN OFFICIAL CEREMONY Congressional Leaders Have Chance | to Discuss Affairs With Prime Minister at State Secretary’s Dinner Attended by Hoover, BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- donald of Great Britain today left Washington with the acceptance of the United States to attend the projected five-power naval con- ference, figuratively speaking, in his pocket. Secretary Stimson announced at the State Department, soon after'bidding farewell to Mr. Mac- donald at Union Station, at @ o'clock this morning, the United States’ formal acceptance of the British invitation to attend the naval conference, set for the third week in January in London. Th2 text of America’s reply will not be published until tomorrow morn- ing. It is brief, however. Accept- ance by this country was assured. Primarily it was the progress made by the British and United States gov- ernments in recent months toward an agreement on naval limitation that roved the determining factor in Mr. acdonald’s decision to visit President Hoover and Washington. Complete Accord Reached. He leaves Washington conscious of a complete accord between the Fresi- dent and himself on the broad princi- ples of naval limitation between the two countries, one of which is parity. Announcement uf" thl; gnmnenll: acceptance of Britain’ vitation the conference was the capstone of a isit prime minister, which s generally regarded as fraught with great importance. y text of the United States’ reply to the British nme" 'r Tm:h.&:meg permit an opportunity for to the British minister for foreign af- airs, Arthur G. Henderson, through Ray Atherton, the charge d’affaires, in London. ‘The replies of t invited_to Ittend‘ the dm::l confer- ence, France, Italy an apan, are awaited with the keenest interest, both here and m London. No military display marked the prime minister’s departure. The Cavalry escort was missing and no Artillery and Marine guards of honor were placed at the Union Station this morn- ing. However, Secretary of State Stimson and other high officials of the department were present to bid Mr. Macdonald farewell. White House automobiles conveyed the premier and his paty to the station. Capt. Alan Buchanan, the President’s naval aide, rode with Mr. Macdonald and Sir Esme Howard, the British Am- bassador, from the embassy to the train. Lady Isabella Howard accompanied Miss Ishbel Macdonald. After shak- ing hands with the officials who had come to see them off, the prime min- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BALTIMORE CHEERS MACDONALD ON WAY | Premier Is Given Honorary Mem-| bership in St. Andrews Society and Maryland Academy. American B/ the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 10.—An ova- tion ' from several hundred people | greeted Premier Ramsay Macdonald and his daughter when they came to the observation platform of their car dur- ing a 5-minute stop of the train her!_i today. < During the stop here, engrossed scrolls giving him honorary membership in the St. Andrews Society of Baltimore and | the Maryland Academy’of Science were he other three nations o d | the meaning of the covenant and drive | still rests upon official Washington. The | | Refuses to Receive Doctor Who Rebuked Him Be- fore President Wilson. Three Examiners Named | Will Report to Court if IlI Defendant Is Able to Leave Bed. Albert B. Fall's personal objection to Dr. Sterling Ruffin, who was one of President Wilson's physicians, today complicated the question whether his bribery trial, halted by his illness, is to continue. A mistrial loomed as a certainty to- | day when Justice William Hitz in re- | cessing court for the second time, or- dered a further me@ical examination | of the stricken former cabinet officer to determine his physical ability to con- tinue with the trial. Dr. Claytor Reports. Justice Hitz informed counsel on both | sides at the opening of court today that he was dissatisfled with the in- complete examination which Dr. Thomas Claytor was able to make of Mr. Fall early this mom\‘l;s at the request of the court. He sta that he would ask three other physicians to examine Mr. Fall “as early as possible today,” not only for the purpose of informing the court of the defendant’s “present con- dition,” but what it is-likely to Le dur- ing the next month, Dr. Claytor in- formed Justice Hitz after the examina- tion that the 68-year-old defendant is suffering from a congestion-of the right OIL CASE MISTRIAL SEEN; FALL REJECTS DR. RUFFIN ! DR. STERLING RUFFIN. ~—Harris-Ewing Photo. lung, and was unablée to leave his bed ! to_attend court. Dr. Ruffin was designated by Justice Hitz to examine Fall after his own phy- siclan”had refused to permit him to leave his bed. The elderly defendant refused to re- | ceive the noted specialist and it was | explained, on his behalf, that his action was a purely personal matter; that Dr. Ruffin was the only physician in the | country whom he would not permit to | examine him. Dr. Ruffin attended President Wil- son as a consulting specialist during | his long illness. Fall at that time was in the Senate, a bitter opponent of the | war President, and was one of a com- | mittee that called upon him in his sick (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) ANGLO-. . NAVAL POOLTO BAR WA 1 Hoover - Macdonald Agree- | ment Is Seen as Welding : Armadas to Keep Peace. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Great Britain and the United States have in effect agreed to pool their navies to maintain the peace of the world. This interpretation, startling as it may seem, even though no understanding or alliance of § spegific character has been made, is nome the less derived from the fact _that President Hoover and Prime Minister Macdonald in their joint state- ment announced to the world that each of the two English-speaking govern- ments “will direct its thoughts and in- fluence toward securing and maintain- ing the peace of the world.” The use of the words “securing and maintaining” is the most significant in thousand-word statement _issued jointly by the President and the British rime minister. Although there has geen much discussion in the Senate w0 the effect that the Briand-Kellogg treaty did not oblige the United States to use force to maintain peace, the rew declar- ation is so pointed in expressing the obligation of both the United States and Great Britain that no other mea; ing now will be attributed to the ani ‘war pact. Capital’'s Breath Taken Away. With apparently univérsal approba- tion of the Hoover-Macdonald confer- ences, the two heads of governments have taken a step which is so un- precedented in American history that Washington has had its breath,taken away. It might well be asked: Where are the frreconcilables of yesterday? Any such statement of the kind just made could not have been even hinted at 10 years ago without raising the cry of entangling alliances and meddling in European politics. It was an argument -of this sort which defeated the coven- ant of the League of Nations and it was the anti-British feeling which con- stantly reminded American audiences of the six-to-one voting strength of the British Empfre in the Geneva league. Reed Is in Private Life. Gradually, however, the irreconcilable have diminished number. ~James Reed, the flery Senator from Missouri, is in private life; Senator Borah, as chairman of the foreign relations com- mittee, has acquiesced in the general purpose of the Macdonald visit. hardly to be expeced, on the other hand, that while Prime Minister Macdonuld is in this country the opposition will gather. It will ve recalled that the first impression of the League of Na- tions was favorable and it was only when irreconcilables began to dissect | it home to American audiences that they really made headway. ‘The spell of. Mr. Macdonald's visit British prime minister has something | of the romance and idealism of Wood- | presented to the British statesman. (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) TWO MEN DEFY INFERNO TO BLAST | OUT DEVASTATING OIL WELL FIRE B the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., October 10.—Two men crouched behind metal chields continued today to pit their ekill against a” gigantic roaring torch flaming h in the air over what once was the Sinclair Oll & Gas Co.’s num- ber 3 stamper ‘well, in the Oklahoma ity oil field. Trundling loads of high explosive near the 100-foot pillar of fire, and directing final connections of a battery of approximately 20 steam boilers, M. M. “Mack” ‘Kinley and his brother, F. “T. Kinley, prepared to snuff out, in one glant puff, the flame which, fed by 50.- 000,000 feet of gas a day, has whlrped and writhed over the Sinclair lease since shortly before 3 a.m. Tuesday. Hardly more than five miles fi the dovmwlzn business district, ';Yem fire | | brothers were reticent regarding the | exact time—one man, crouched low be- hind a metal shield that grows sizzling hot despite streams of water which constantly drench it, will creep toward the plume of flame. Clad in a heavy asbestos suit, he wiil drag 200 quarts of nitroglycerin al- most to the mouth of the well. There he will place it so that the force of the explosion will be directed at the base of the flame, and then from the broiling heat. ‘When he is safely out of range the charge of explosive will be fired. The force of the explosion is expected td hurl the flame above the gas from the hole. A heavy blanket of steam. played from the ntu7 the mouth of the well, is expected w retard the flow of gas until the flame has burned out. . With the fire extinguished the gas will be allowed to run wild while debris. could not be removed before the ed from the well, 'k will be Wi erected n the twisted, ‘white hot steel scurry away titude toward divulged. of bollers onto | 52 JAPANESE LEADERS DISCUSS NAVAL BD Official Attitude Toward Lon- don Parley Has Not Been Divulged. By the Assoclated Press TOKIO, October 10.—Highest court officials, all living former premiers, ranking naval officers and most of the cabinet today attended a meeting at the naval ministry to hear Kyo Takarabe, lord of the admiralty, explain the in- vitation from Gireat Britain to partici- pete in a naval reduction conference in [London in January. Japan's official “‘1 the conference was not ‘Those preser included Lord Privy Seal Makino, Lord Chamberlain Suzuki, Household Minister Ikki and former Premiers Yakamoto, Takahashi and Wakatsuki and Admirals Takeshita, Abo, Okado and Yamashita. At tomorrow’s cabinet council that body will give its first consideration of the invitation, after which Preniler Hamaguchi is expected to report it to the Emperor and discuss it with him, SECONDARY FLEET IS URGED. Parls Newspapers Stress Delicacy of | French Naval Position. PARIS, October 10 (#).—The French | press today continued to emphasize the delicacy of the French position at the | projected London naval conference. It | was pointed out that France must in- sist, like Great Britain, upon a large secondary fleet to protect Mediterranean and overseas possessions and, like Japan | and Italy, will be obliged to preserve the submarine as a defensive weapon. It was insisted anew there could be no question of accepting for submarines and cruisers the low ratio established | in the Washington conversations for | battleships. : Some dispatches from Washington interpreted the British naval invitation | to mean that any London accord would not await the conclusion of a general | glurmnnent treaty before going into | orce. 1t has been suggested both Italy and France could sign conditionally “upon the later satisfactory negotiations for reduction of land and air armaments, and that Great Britain and the United States could make the London treaty definitive as between themselves. MUSSOLINI HOLDS MEETING. Discusses British Invitation With Two | Members of Cabinet. ROME, October 10 (/).—Premier Mussolini held a meeting with two of his ministers today to make an exami- nation of the naval disarmament invi- tation received from the British govern- ment on Tuesday. | The two ministers were Dino Grandi, | minister of foreign affairs, and Giu- seppe Siriani, minister of marine. MASSACRE SUSPECT ARRESTED IN CHICAGO Claude Maddox Admits Identity Brothers Prepare Charge of High Explosives to Snulfll Out Gigantic Roaring Torch. ! After Questioning—Sought for Eight Months. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 10.—Police have arrested Claude Maddox after hunting him nearly eight months in connection with the Valentine's day gang massacre. Maddox is the man who owned the Cir- cus Cafe, headquarters of the men who are held responsible for the .septuple slaying. Oak Park police who made tfe ar- rest last night said Maddox denied his identity for several hours, but finally admitted he was the man sought. One E report to police during the massacre in- vestigation was that Maddox rented the e in which the death car used in ying wes hidden. he ! | i WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOABER 10, AGENTS FIND LIGHT WAS BURNING WHEN NURSE MET DEATH New Evidence Contradicts Earlier Account of Darkness in McPherson Apartment. KELLY-SHELBY PROBE ORDERED SUSPENDED | Commissiorers Hold Up Special Hearing Pending Outcome of | Operatives’ Work. New evidence believed to have an im- portant bearing on the question of whether Mrs. Virginia McPheison was strangled by a pajama belt tied by her own hands or by those of a murderer has been uncovered by the Department of Justice, The Star learned today. The new “lead,” sharply contradicting previous reports concerning conditions at the death scene when the body was found, has developed from the apparent { establishment of the fact that a light | was burning in the bedroom, when the Park Lane tragedy was discovered. Prior to the investigation by the Department of Justice it had been claimed the bedroom was in darkness | after the nurse's death, a claim that | was used by advocates of the murder | theory in attacking the suicide verdict | of the coroner’s jury. | Point Made of Darkness. | The point had been made repeatedly | that it was unlikely a person would | commit suicide in darkness, or that a | woman would be able to turn out the | lights while in the throes of strangula- | tion, | With the point se>mingly decided that a small table lamp in the bedroom was turned on when the body Wwas discovered the qucstion at once arises: “Would a murderer risz the possi- bility of being seen by escaping throygh a window with the bedroom lamp lighted?” At _the same time it is apparent that the Department of Justice so far has not endeavored to draw any conclusions whatever from any of the evidence or testimony now in its possession. It has recelved much information of conflict- ing nature, and until all the data are at hand and weighed in relation to known facts in the case, the importance of “new leads” as well as old ones can- not be estimated. ‘Work With Open Mind. The Pederal investigators emphasize that they are proceeding with an “open | mind” toward all theories and their first | efforts will be devoted ‘whether the girl ended was the victim of a mure A It was in &nmc' # establish at outset whether ‘a crime |- Nad been committed that a thoro study of conditions at the scéne of ti death was undertaken. This study is not yet completed. ‘The question as to the lights in the room naturally was one for special con- sideration, in view of the stress laid on that point in the preliminary local in- vestigations. It was generally under- stood until today that witnesses had testified, without discrepancy, that the bedroom lights were extinguished. Evidence Regarded as Convincing. From whom the Department of Jus- tice obtained the information pointing to a different condition with respect to the lights has not been divulged. It is indicated, however, that the department regards the new testimony as rather convincing. - The fact that the table lamp in the bedroom was lighted during and after the tragedy does not necessarily pre- clude the possibility of murder, it is pointed out. A muyrderer does not al- ways think of such details as extin- guishing lights, although it is certain that if & murder was committed on the night of September 12 at the Park Lane Apartments, the guilty person exercised what trained detectives regard as re- markable ingenuity. ‘The theory that a murderer fled through a window of the apartment onto a low gravel roof outside was ad- ! vanced first by Policeman Robert J. | Allen, central figure in the reopening of the case. Allen had sworn he saw a man on the roof near the McPherson | apartment late in the night of the tragedy. Janitor’s Testimony Recalled. ‘William Mills, colored janitor of the Lombardy Apartments, next door, was one witness whose statements support- ed the supposition that the McPherson apartment was dark that night. He has declared that when he was awakened by screams he went into the away between the two buildings and saw no lights except in an apartment far re- moved from the scene of the woman's death. ‘The possibility of an escape by way of the bedroom door has been ques- tioned because of the testimony that the body rested against the door, on the inside, and that force was necessary to shove the door open after Robert Mc- Pherson, jr., husband of the girl, re- ported finding his wife dead. Await Trial Results. Mearwhile the stigma of the grand Jjury's bitter attack on the Detective Bureau for the alleged bungling of the investigation probably will not be re- moved - until final disposition of the case in the courts, it was indicated at the District Building today as a result of the action of the Commissioners. in directing the special board of inquiry to suspend indefinitely its probe of the charges of inefficiency against In- spector Willlam S. Shelby and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, ‘The decision to call a halt on. the investigation came late yesterday after- noon after several previous signs that the m«}:nry was on the verge of col- lapse through the failure of the grand jury to support its charges. The Com- missioners, however, explained that suspension of the investigation does not mean that no further effort will | ed be made' to determine the innocence or guilt of Shelby and Kelly, but on the contrary, the inquiry will be resumed at some future date when it will not be so likely to prefidice the case of Robert A. McPherson, who has been indicted for murder in connection with u’:‘e mysterious death of his young wife. In the meantime, the status of Shelby and Kelly will remain unchai l, it was sald despite the efforts of friends to have them restored to their former roslllnm in the Detective Bureau pend- ing completion of the inquiry. Inspec- tor Shelby, the deposed chief of the Weather Ties Up British® Airship. By ‘the Associsted Press. LONDON, October 10.—The air min- istry announced early today that bad weather would ent hauling out of the new British dirigible R-10 for its first test this morning, as had been Detective Bureau, is now in command of the uniformed forces of the Police Department, & post which had been | naval | proclamation which, while leaving Lieut. {by Baker has bitterly riled them. A PORTO RICO FAVR S WON BY HOOVER President Acts to Restore| San Juan Garden Spot to Island. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Hoover has unobtrusively but signally ingratiated himself with the people of Porto Rico by conveying to them the title to their most cherished plece of property—the historic San Geronimo military reservation. It is located in the heart of the island capital, San Juan, and for several years has been the storm center of legal en- tanglements over what the Porto Ricans call their “Teapot Dome. The San Geronimo affair got that name from the fact that land and ancient buu:lnu - upen it :ere over. on mfin lein:hzn lormer American officer, Lieut. Comdr. Virgil Baker, without substantial consideration. H Lease Signed in 1921. The “10-century lease” was signed by Col. Theodore Roosevelt (who has just assumed office as vernor of Porto Rico) in 1921 while he was acting Secretary of the Navy at Washington. San Geronimo having once been under, War Department control, the miiitary authorities took legal steps to dispossess Baker, who lives on the place. They asked the Federal courts to annul his “fraudulently procured” iease, but early this year, atter several years of litiga- tion in the lower courts, the United States Supreme Court validated the Roosevelt-Baker transaction. It found that the lease had been granted under a proper act of Congress. President Hoover has now issued a Comdr. Baker undisturbed in tenancy of San Geronimo, restores formal own- ship of the property to “the people of Porto Rico.” Eminent Ownership. They, instead of the United States Government, will hold the right of eminent domain over it. Henceforward, it comes under the Porto Rican tax- ation system and under all other forms of control and supervision to which is- land lands are subject. The Hoover procjamation was forthcoming under the organic act by which Porto Rico's government is maintaihed. The act clothes the President of the United States with authority “from time to time, in his discretion, to convey to the people of Porto Rico such lands, build- ings or interests in lands or other property now owned by the United States and within the territorial limits of Porto Rico, as in his opinion are no longer needed for purposes of the United States.” Five acres of the San Geronimo property are reserved for Navy wireless station needs. Just before proceeding to San Juan at the end of September, Gov. Roosevelt declared his purposs of doing what lies in his power to see San Geronimo re- stored in fact, as well as in title, to the Porto Rican people, Source of Annoyance. The reservation’s private possession distinguished Porto Rican stationed in Washington once told this writer that the 999-year lease of San Geronimo irritates his countrymen as it would excite Americans to “wake up some morning and find that the White House had been handed over to an oil magnate for a private residence on a lease for a thousand yeats.” The War Department fought, the Navy's lease to ker' tooth and nail. Its briefs in the Porto Rican and Mas- | sachusetts appellate branch of the Fed- eral Courts assailed the deal in sizzling terms as illicit and fraudulent. The Porto Rican court invalidated the lease, but the Federal appeals tribunal at Boston reversed that finding. Finally the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the lease cn the ground that it had been granted under a specific act of Congress. The War Department sug- gested that Congress acted under un- due influence and without full knowl- ige. Representative W. Prank James of Michigan, chairman of the House mili- tary affairs committee, has bills pend- ing in Congress, providing for purchase or condemnation of San Geronimo and Lieut. Comdr. Baker's eventual eviction from the reservation. Presumably President Hoover's proclamation ob- viates the necessity of such legislation. San Geronimo is worth upward of $500,000. 1t comprises some 15 odd acres beauifully situated on the San Juan water frort. Its traditions stretch back to ancient Spanish times and the site is hallowed in Porto Rican seAti- ment. Baker is said to have got it for a “song.” (Copyright. 1929, .. vacant since the death several years fi of Inspector . Evans. , who was command of the homicide squad, is serving as the Police Department’s complaint officer. A _statement issued by the Commis- (Continued on P;U 2, Column §.) Snow Blankets Canadian Prairies. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, . October 10 (). —Prairie districts west of Winnipeg were covered with snow today. At Bran- g::l and Virden the fall was especially Y. i i e e | the Oolum%ll ignalers in Raid Acqpnitted as Judge Delivers “Pointer” By the Associated Press. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., October 10.—Municipal Judge R. P. Wil- liams has decided that pointing fingers at officers does not con- stitute a misdemeanor. George Dooley, 19 years old. wag arrested by two policemen who said he pointed them out to a man whose home they were approaching to raid. Judge: Williams dismissed the case. MOORE OF VIRGINIA DOUBTS CANDIDAGY Representative Does Not Ex- pect to Seek House Post Next Year. Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia, who many years has repre- sented in Congress the eighth congres- sional district, said today that it was “improbable” he would be a candidate next year to succeed himself in the House. No definite announcement has been mafle, however. Mr. Moore has been a member of the House for the last 10 years. He has had a distinguished career as an at- torney as well as a legislator. He is a resident of Fairfax, Va. and is widely known in Washington. THREE MEET DEATH IN TRAIN COLLISION Passengers Are Uninjured in Head- on Crash Near Portage, Pa., Station, By the Associated Press. PORTAGE, Pa, '‘October 10.—An eastbound passenger train and a west- bound freight train crashed head-on west of the Pennsylvania passenger station here late last night, killing three trainmen. The dead are: W. T. Johnson, Young- wood, Pa., engineman of the passenger train; W. C. Read, Altoona, engineman of the freight train, and G. L. Burk- holder, Jeannette, Pa. fireman of the passenger train. J. C. Flenner, fireman of the freight train, leaped to safety. The wreck occurred, railroad officials here said, when the trains met as the freight train, pulling out of a mine siding, switched from an eastbound track to a westbound track. The cause and responsibility for the crash was un- determined by railroad officials early today. The locomotives telescoped and two press cars left the rails with the en- nes and 8 or 10 freight cars, tying up the main line for several hours. None of the passenger coaches left the rails and none of the passengers was hurt. FLEXIBLE PROVISION FORUM TOPIC TONIGHT | Senators Vandenberg and Barkley to Discuss Tariff Question on Radio. ‘The _flexible provision of the pending tariff bill, which has become the sub- ject of a controversy between President Hoover and a coalition of Democrats and Republican progressives in the Sen- ate, will be discussed by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican, of Michi- , and Senator Alben W. Barkley, &uwcrlt, of Kentucky in addresses from station WMAL at 10:30 o'clock tonight in the National Radio Forum arranged by The Star and sponsored by Broadcasting System. Senator Vandenburg will support the flexible provision and Senator Barkley will -attack it. This provision of the bill, which is similar to that of existing law, has been stricken out in the Senate by the Democratic-Republican progres- sive coalition. The contest that has developed threatens to imperil the final passage of the tariff bill. The flexible clause authorizes the President to raise or lower the rate on any article in the tariff bill as much as after investigation and by the Tariff Commis- ‘The opponents of the provision substitute a by which the commission would make its rt to Congress, leaving to that body de- cision s to the raising or lowering of mhznh. COLORADD BANKER 15 NEN 5 YEARS | Plea of Guilty Brings Imme- ‘ diate Sentente to Atlanta. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 10.—Charles Delcs Waggoner, Telluride, Colo., bank president, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in Atlanta Penitentiary today on his plea of guilty to mail fraud in connection with a scheme to obtain $500,000 from New York banks by means of forged authorization papers. Witnesses had been assembled from as far away as the West Coast for Wag- goner’s trial, but when the case was called tcday defense counsel entered torney Charles H. Tuttle then moved ‘The presence witnesses was used by Tuttle in his He “;)lnded that they were undergoing hardships by remaining here with only $5 a day allowed for expenses by the Government and that several would be in danger of losing their jobs. OPEN LOBBY INQUIRY WILL START TUESDAY Caraway Authorized to Issue Sub- poenas for Senate Probe. By the Associated Press. The Senate lobby investigating com- mittee decided today to begin its public hearings Tuesday. Chairmen Caraway of the committee ‘was authorized to issue subpoenas for witnesses, but no decision was reached as to the first persons to be called. Caraway has said he desired Joseph R. Grundy, Washington representative of the American Tariff League, as the first witness. “We are going first into the lobby on the tariff bill,” Caraway said. “We are going to get a list of those gentle- men who sat around so close that no one could get his breath while the tariff measure was being framed.” Caraway added that Charles L. Eyan- son, a representative of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association, who was employed by Senator Bingham of Con- necticut, a Republican member of the finance committee, to assist him on tariff matters, would be given “full op- portunity to explain his double salary.” Asked if Eyanson could be prose- cuted for drawing a private salary while on the Government pay roll, Senator Caraway said there was a law providing fine and imprisonment for any Govern- ment_employe accepting private pay, “but I am not passing judgment on this Autogyro Is Damaged. PHILADELPHIA, October 10 (#).— The American-built Spanish Autogyro undergoing tests at the Pitcairn Field at Hollowell, 18 miles north of this city, was damaged during a trial today. A report that the inventor of the machine, Juan de la Cierva, was injured was denied by G. S. Childs, executive vice president of the Pitcairn-Clerva Auto- gyro Co. & plea of guilty. United States At- ‘STRANGLER OF GIRL ORDERED HELD FOR GRAND JURY ACTION \ |Dexter Dayton Declines to | Take Stand in Own Behalf During Inquest. |MISS 0’DONNELL’S SLAYER MUST AWAIT INDICTMENT | B et {Former Insurance Salesman Still Refuses to Retain Lawyer to Conduct His Defense. Dexter Churchill Dayton, 25 years old, was held by a coroner’s jury to the grand jury shortly after noon today for the murder by strangulation of 23- year-old Marjorie Lucy O'Donnell. The young defendant, who has refused to retain a lawyer, sprang a surprise when he declined to make a statement in his own behalf. Dayton previously had made a volun- tary and complete confession to police, in which he detailed the incidents leading up to the death some time Tuesday morning of Miss O'Donnell in |an eighth floor room of the Hotel Roossvelt, on Sixteenth street at Florida avenue. - ” During the course of the hearing this | morning, Dayton ‘sat with bowed head, | and shielded his face from the gazs of curious spectators with his hand. His only outward show of emotion came when Lieut. Joseph C. Morgan, chief of the homicide squad, read the farewell note, which Dayton wrote to his mother, after he had killed the 1 and was sitting on her bedside t: to steel himself to commit suicide. When the lieutenant repeated -impas- sioned passages of the young man's let- ter, Dayton sank forward in his chair between two police officers and his shoulders moved convuisively as he bowed his head in his hands. Text of Slayer's Note. ‘The dramatic note which precipitated & sensation #t the trial follows, in part: “I am going to kill my s and then myself. God knows I love her. Perhaps we may find haj and mutual understanding in death or the other life, if there be one. upon her. “Soon I will start drinking again to get up sufficient Dutch courage to kiil myself. If only I could not see the in_her dear eyes. I} heart is broken. I have live for now. Nietzsche is K argument for an early trial date for the indicted banker. | longer. and she has my watch. remove them. "My jealous rage was aroused. I wish my love had died a quicker, cleaner death. God, forgive us both and receive us both:" Can’t Recall Letter. The missive was unsigned and Dayton later told police that he his handwriting, but that he could not re- member having written the words. It is believed he framed the message while in a semi-stupor. Another witness before the inquiry was Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, deputy coro- ner, who performed an autopsy upcn the body yesterday morning at the Dis- trict Morgue. Dr. Rogers testified that death was due to strangulation, the result of asphyxiation. He said he found bruises and small scratches on the right and left side of the neck, and that body bore evidence of death at some hour perhaps 12 hours previous. Assistant Attorney Present. The District attorney’s office was rep- resented by an assistant, Arthur G. Lambert, wno asked an occasional ques- tion, but for the most part contented himself with the statements of the " Richard B Wi ichar . Wilson, night clerk at the Roosevelt Hotel, identified a photostatic copy of the register on Monday. He pointed to an entry at 11:30 a.m., show- ing “J. H. and R. C. Burton, Baltimore,” and said that Dayton had registered under that name. He pointed the de- fendant out and said he was the same man who came into the hotel, and secured a room. The clerk testified that Dayton told him he was expecting & brother later in the afternoon. Dayton h.dt.l hand rr;];. Wilson said, and ap- prently ws sober when he presen himself at the desk. o 75 Wilson was followed ‘o the stand by Lorenzo Jones, colored bellboy at the Roosevelt Hotel. Jones said he was on the ground-floor lobby of the hotel | about 2:50 am. Monday when the elevator was summoned to the eighth floor. He took the elevator to that and there was met by Dayton, with the words: “I have just killed my sweet- heart and I want you to call the police.” Jones said he thought he was being kidded at first, and got into his elevator and started it downward. He caught a glimpse of Dayton's face, however, and changed his mind about the seriousness of the occasion, reporting the matter to Willlam W. Bowman, house detective. Bowman was next to testify. He (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) POLICEMAN BENE By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 10.—You could have knocked Policeman William Shea with a feather yesterday when a long arm reached out, handed him a box seat to the world series ball game and disappeared. Officer Shea was on duty at the exit turnstile of the Addison street “L" sta- tion. Trains were disgorging pas'rngers and there was a big crowd clickin through. Officer Shea stoc1 there shouting, “This way, to the ball park.” Out of the mass of masculiniiy whirl- ing through the turnstile the arm came and a hand shoved the ticket into the policeman’s hand. By the time Shea realized what had happened Santa Claus had SEES EIGHT FITS IN ERROR, INNINGS GRATIS Man From Maquoketa Breaks Through Turnstile Just in Time for Game’s Finish. Officer Sheu reported at once to Lieut, Thomas McGrath and asked per- mission to_use the ticket, which was granted. He went to the park and plu:lked himself down in the choice | seat. !MA lit:le“ll'fr 2 v;z‘n Angy men from aquoketa, Iowa, T - liceman. He said he hlnnflp‘d % B world series ticket to a policeman at the “L” turnstile, thinking it was the entrance to the park. Eventually he |came to Lieut. McGrath, who realized might have had. . Radio Programs—Page 43‘