Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Burexu Porecast.) Immulng cloudiness and warmer ?:‘dly, slightly cooler at night; tomorrow T ‘Temperatures—Highest, 70 at 5:18 p.m. lay: lowest, 43 at 6 a.m. y. yesf Full report on page 7. . he Ssundiny WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Star, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. (#) M¢ans Associated Press. No." 1,282—No. 31,211. Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, D. C. A'S SMOTHER CUBS IN TO-RUN' INNING T0 TAKE 4TH GAME Ten Hits in Seventh Including 2 Homers and a Double, Mark 10-8 Victory. FOUR CHICA(;b PITCHERS DRIVEN FROM MOUND MeCarthy Tribe Did Some Slugging of Their Own to Take Early Lead. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, October 12— Flashing the most sensational exhibition of sustained slugging power ever recorded in world series history, the Athletics of Philadelphia today battered a quartet of Chicago pitchers to come from be- hind and register their third victory by[ a count of 10 to & and attain the posi- tion where they need but one additional win to achfeve the championship of the base ball universe. Cofning to bat late in the fray trail- | ing by eight runs as a result of the/ hammering inflicted by the Bruins on a trio of Mackian moundsmen, the cause of the A's seemed hopeless, in- deed, but never has the truth of the famous axiom, “Take nothing for granted in base ball,” been more strik- ingly demonstrated than by the 10 hits | for as many runs which the home guard | proceeded to amass from the offerings of a quartet of Cub curvers. There feat surpassed the mark established by the Giants on October 7 of the 1921 title get against the Yankees, when they tal- lied eight times in a rally which, like that of today, was steged in the seventh | inning. Macks Held Six Innings. Having been limited to a trio of scattered hits through th;ofln‘t “;(l in- nings by Charley Root, wio gave How- lrd“!h\!!ke such a sturdy box batile in the opener of the s2t at Chicago Tues- day, while first Jack Quinn, Rube Wal- berg and then Ed Rommel had felt the m'& the Bruins’ bats for what ap- an insurmountable lead, not even the most rabid rooter among the | close to 30,000 fans assembled in Shibe _Park harbored more than a faint hope that a cause so far lost-eould -Be-g@s. deemed. p o There was none among 'that ~vast throng, including the athletes on the |yl Philadelphia bench, who would have | been so bold as to predict that before | three put-outs were registered, two | home runs, a double and seven singles| could be collected to give the Mackmen the two-run advantage which they held | to the finish. The fact that they did | hold their lead was due principally to the superb pitching displayed by Lefty | Grove, who struck out four of the six men to face him in the last two innings. ¢ Wilson's Great Catch. Disappointed Chicago adherents found little to cheer them in retrospect, despite the fact that Wilson had made the greatest individual play of the series thus far when he raced back into right center for a one-hand catch of Boley's bid for an extra base blow that pre-| vented a pair of sure Mackian markers | in the fifth, nor from the fact that| Hack's hitting example was followed by | Hornsby, who also got two safeties, and Cuyler who gathered three. In fact many among them were in- | clined to lay the blame for today's | debacle on Wilson for his failure to | | friend to another, Fall is sald to be | 100,000 cash transaction which is the | Georgia and Brown Surprise Grid Fans In Startling Upsets Foot ball yesterday was marked by two big upsets and one dis- tinct surprise. Upsets occurred when Georgia beat Yale, 13 to 0, at Athens, and Brown took the measure of the Princeton Tiger in its own Jair, 13 to 12. Northwestern 1 kicked over the dope bucket by beating Wisconsin, 7 to 0. Notre Dame won the feature game of the day in beating Navy, 14 to 7, in the Baltimore Sta- dium. Notre Dame was a slight favorite. American U. broke into the limelight locally by defeating George Washington, 8 to 0; Georgetown trimmed St. Louis U.. 13 to 0. Catholic U. won from Balti- more U., 18 to 0; South Carolina proved too much for Maryland, 26 to 6, and Gallaudet lost to St. John's of Annapolis, 2 to 0, on a safety. FALL STAKES ALL ON FINAL BATTLE Paves Way for End of Trial! Soon by Waiving Right to Be in Courtroom. Staking everything in & final fight for | vindication, Albert B. Fall, former Sec- retary of the Interior, yesterday paved | a way for the possible conclusion of his bribery trial at the end of this week by instructing his counsel that in ease illness prevented his appearance in court they were to waive his constitu- tional right to be present and continue in his absence. This decision on the part of the sick defendant undoutbedly was actuated by a realization that a mistrial at this | time perhaps would deprive him of his last chance to win an acquittal at the hands of a jury and thus clear his name | of the one remaining indictment stand- ing against him. Acquittal of Fall in the pending case would prove a double victory for the defense. His friend of 44 years, Ed- ward L. Doheny, also is under indict- ment on a charge of giving Fall a bribe of $100,000 in return for a lease on the naval oil reserve in California. Fall Vants Trial to Go On. Confident that the jury in the pres- ent ease would decide as did a previous jury that this alleged bribe in reality was merely a “loan” from one old ready to take every possible physical and legal measure to prevent the inter- mgtlon of the pending trial. t is not at all ceptain that the 68- year-old defendant will be able to ap- pear in when it reconvenes to- Morrow. | e has him thus far to bear strain of the la: opportunty ‘of ‘& complete rest over the week end he will make the effort, if it is humanly possible for him to leave his sick room. Barring unforeseen ‘circumstances the case may go to the jury either at the end of this week or by Monday or Tues- | day of next week at the latest. Owen J. Roberts of special Government coun- sel expects to conclude with the exami- nation of witnesses within a day and a half or two days. Chief of defense counsel, Frank J. Hogan, expressed his desire to conclude its case in perhaps | four days. Will Not Take Stand. Due to his physical unfitness to stand the ordeal, Fall will not be asked to take the stand in his own defense. The announcement of defense counsel yesterday to that effect caused no sur- prise. Hogan will rely upon Doheny's testimony to explain to the jury the basis of the bribery indictment. Disclosure was made by Government | counsel yesterday that Edward B. Mc- Lean, publisher of the Washington the 185t t%o sessions. Given ; Leagus catch a fly from the bat of Mule Haas | POSt, 8 witness, will not be able to ap- in that soul-searing seventh, which | Pear in court during the trial because went for a base-clearing home run | of illness. By agreement, his testimony when Hack lost the ball in the sun and | in the former trial will be read to the it bounded past him to the corner of | jury. g the field in center. | With the uncertainty of the defend- Nor did the Athletics, prior to their | Ant's condition hanging over the whole winning onslaught, derive much satis- | Proceedings, counsel on both sides are faction from & spectacular stop by | doing their utmost to speed the trial. | Boley in the fifth, when he sprinted | Examination of witnesses that formerly | to the far side of second base for a |required several hours or a day and a one-mitt grab and off-balance throw at { half now is completed in a compara- | the expense of Root, for the returns | tively short time. This was particularly from the early innings indicated a Chi- | significant in the case of E. C. Finney, cago landslide would completely swamp | solicitor of the Interior Department and ustice m Hitz al s taking an CNI: Blarted ta Fath. | interesting hand in the proceedings, It was in the fourth that lhaTr(‘:euh.though in a different way. cannoneers started to function. Then, o single to Tight by Cuyler who had | Hitz Avoids Impressing Jury. been victimized for the seventh time | He orders the jury of four women during the series wtih a pair of mates | and eight men to remain in the ante- on base in the opening round, became |room while the defendant is being in effect a triple when Miller fumbled | brought into the courtroom in his wheel the bounding ball and a swat by Grimm | chair. When he is seated in his own that eleared ihe right-field fence for | special chair, the jury is permitted to Chicago's first homer of the set got enter. At the end of the session, the the Bruins off t0 a two-run lead. | jury files out of the room before Mr. Quinn then settled down and got | Fall leaves. g through the fifth in fine shape, but | In this way Justice Hitz has sought in the following frame he was mulcted to avoid whatever impression the sight for successive singles by Hornsby, Wil- | of the helpless, white haired defendant son, Cuyler and Stephenson which | might make upon the jury as he is be- | netted two additional tallies. | ing_ aided by an attendant physician | Rushing to his relief Rube Walberg |and nurse from his wheel chair. The grabbed Grimm's bunted single and jurors, under lock and key during heaved the ball far over the head of | leisure hours, are not permitted to read | First Baseman Foxx. another brace of the newspape markers accruing from the error which | also placed Grimm in position to count on a long fly by Tavlor, getting a close | decision at the plate on Haas' finc heave to Cochrane i Walberg finished out the inning strong by whiffing a pair of Cubs, but was withdrawn at the start of the seventh in favor of Ed Rommell, who, | although he was crecited with today's victory, was nicked for Chicago's eighth ' and final run, when Hornsby tripled to deep left center and scored, after Wilson walked, on Cuyler's third straight single, this uprising mmg} squeiched when' Stephenson drilled into & double play. A’s Blast Way to Victory. Whén Al Simmons led off in the rear | end of the seventh with a drive atop ihe stand in left for his second home run of the series, it was regarded | merely as the means for the Athletics ' to avert a shut-out. A clean shot to | right by Foxx and a Texas Leaguer to center by Miller enthused the throng but little, as the A's still were seven runs in arrears and how could a lead of such proportions be overcome? 8ingles by Dykes and Boley, and an- other by Bishop, after George Burns had been disposed of as a pinch-hitter for Rommel, brought the Mackian total of tallies up to four and gave the fans their first inkling the game might yet be pulled out of the fire, The spectators were agog as Man- rger McCarthy halted play to -direct Arthur Nehf to the box im ‘place of Root and the e “ns Mule Haas Elhny Minor Details Are Agreed; | week, the committee of bankers who are | Hogan yesterday completed his cross- examination of the witness. Pinney. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) REPARATIONS BANK | PLANS TAKE FORM | Upen During Opening Conferences. By the Associated Press BADEN-BADEN, Germany, October | 12.—Sitting twice a day throughout the | discussing the operation of the Bank for International Settlements has sticceeded in, completing the first reading of the proposed statutes, but has left the most vital points open for negotiation behind the scenes. | Broadly speaking, the bankers have | cleaned up only points on which agree- ment was easy without diseussion. | The vital questions left open include | the location of the bank, which is cer-| tain to eause difficulties; the nomina-' tions of the chairman of the board of directors and of the general manager, & more precise definition of the bank's WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1929—-136 PAGES. VIEWS OF FRANCE ON NAYAL PARLEY PLANAYBARHE | Difference of Opinion on Finality of London Meet- ing Stands in Way. NEW INTERPRETATION OF POWER TO BE ASKED French Expect Second Conference at Geneva to Settle Arms Status. BY LELAND STOWE. By Radio to The Star. PARIS, October 12.—There is & re- newed pointing today of the weather- vane of French official opinion regard- ing the possibility that French partici- pation in the proposed five-power naval conference may be curbed very ndl-{ cally, if not altogether blocked, by the wide gap between the interpretation given by Washington and by Paris as to the degree of definiteness that any ensuing agreement should have. Quai d'Orsay authorities expressed great surprise tonight over dispatches | 1rom Washington purporting to reflect the views of the State Department that | the United States will insist that any ccord reached on world navies- should fn‘;:” Ifilmedll!z validity and be decisive n 5 See Preliminary Parley. ‘The French view during the recent Anglo-American naval discussions has been that the proposed London confer: ence should, in the words of the sem official Temps, be ‘“‘preliminary and pre- | paratory” in its findings and that the hoped-for London agreement could only be consummated when it had been stud- ied by the “to-be-convinced-sometime” Geneva conference for di aments. In other words, the French idea is that naval limitation must remaln in- definite until it can be patehed: up and harmonized with the prospective serial ! and terrestrial disarmament. This thesis | has been thought here was recognized when London issued the invitations to | the five-power parley, the French claims for Anglo-American admittance of this fine point being based upon the con- cluding sentence of the invitation as issued by Arthur Henderson, British sec- | retary of state for foreign affairs. This passage states that the Brtiish govern- ment has never had any intention of establishing & new organism for treat- ing naval disa d adds, “On the _contr: ary, flnt'.r this means » text may X el-llxmm ted which act e of the prepara-. :’o‘u disarmament. commission oP \'fii tions and the general con- ference of disarmament which will fol- low.” e of Regard Geneva Final. This the Prench have freely taken to mean what clearly it does not say, namely, that the decisions of the Lon-| don parley would have no definite ap- plication until they had been consid- ered by the Geneva conference on gen- eral disarmament. The belief has been general among ‘American observers here that the American Government had no | such understanding, but would insist | that the London conference decisions be | as binding as were those of the Wash- ington naval conference. The immediate response of Paris to| the Washington dispatches to this ef- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) KANSA; HEALTH BOARD DRAFTS KISSING RULES| Guard Against Sudden Change in | Temperature Is Part of Advice Offered. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., October 12.—Rules for the guidance of kissers were issued today by the Kansas Board of Health | in co-operation with the United States | Public Health Service. Never kiss in crowded places or a poorly ventilated room, the instructions say, but if you must kiss, take a hot mustard foot bath and avoid drafts in case you feel “all in" afterward. Other rules: Guard against sudden changes in tem- perature when kissing. Kissing in a coon-skin coat one minute and a lighter apparel the next is extremely dangerous. Don't kiss any person who has chiils and fever, At a party, where post office and sim- flar games are played, be sure to gargle frequently. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—32 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. S{:hooll'lnd Colleges—Pages 22 and 24. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. and | Note® of Art and Artists—Page 4. Review of New Books—Page 4. At Community Centers—Page 5. Marine Corps _ Aetivities—Page 7. W. C. T. U. Activities—Page 7. PART THREE—16 PAGES. News of the Clubs—Pages 9 and 10. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 10. Spanish War Veterans—Page 11. Y. W. C. A. Activities—Page 14, PART FOUR—18 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Music. In the Mctor World—Pages 5, 6, 7 ard 8. Aviation Activities—Pages 9 and 10. District National Guard—Page 11. Veterans of Gi ‘War—Page 12, Fraternities—Page 13. Radio News—Pages 14, 15, 16 and 17. Organized Reserves—Page 17. PART FIVE—10 PAGES. Sports and Financial. PART SIX—10 PAGES. Classified AdV!rthln{. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 9. Serial Story, “Death Treasure”"—Page 9. Army and Navy News—Page 10. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 10. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. Magazine Section. Cross-Word Puzzle—Page 21. GRAVURE SECTION—10 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. Screen functions and the problem of where the bank drgws its authority from. Another problem is how to make pub lic opinion effectively control the bank’s # to_center which policies without meddling with the bank as a business wumm-.“ COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Mcen Mullins; Mutt and Jeff; Pellers; Mr. and Mrs.: Little Annle; Betty; body's J.R. CLARKE DIES IN ATLANTA CELL New York Banker Was Serv-| ing 8-Year Sentence as Result of Crash. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., October 12.—James Rae Clarke, who entered the United States Prison here on August 31 to serve eight years for using the mails to defraud, in connection with the fail- | ure of the Clarke Brothers private bank | in New York for $5,000,000, died in his | cell at 7:20 a.m.. today, after being stricken by a chill. He was 71 years of age, A Clarke Has 4séen Treported «ill - ever since he entered pricon, but the nature of“Jiigsilness has not been revealed. Inquiry as to the state of his health | on September 23 brought a denial from | the warden that his condition was | serlous. | His death today was shrouded in secrecy and not learned until late this | afternoon. Prison officials refused to either deny or confirm reports of his demise, nor give out any information in absence of the warden, who was at- tending a fair and could not be located. Clarke's body was being sent to New York tonight for funeral services. Clarke came to Atinta in a private car with his brother, Phillip L. Clarke, and John F. Bouker, both members of the banking firm and sentenced to a year and a day each on the same charge upon which James Rae was convicted. Another brother and firm member, Hudson Clarke, jr., also was sentenced but probated in New York to care for his aged father, who since has died. In the hearing on the bank's failure, James Rae took all the blame and | pleaded guilty to enough charges to | have sent him to prison for 127 years | bhad the maximum penalty been im- osed. In addition to the Federal indictment, James Rae also faced a New York in- | dictment charging acceptance of de- posits after he knew the bank was in- solvant. R BUXTON SEEN AS BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA Tabor Member of Commons, Once | & Texas Cowboy, Is Expected . to Get Post. By the Associated Press. LONDON. October 12.—The early edition of the London Sunday Dispatch tonight said that Charles Roden Bux- ton, Labor member of the House of Commons, was almost certain to be the new Ambassador of Great Britain in Soviet Russia, when formal diplomatic relations are renewed. Mr. Buxton, who s a brother of | Noel Buxton, Labor minister of Agri- | culture, was once a cowboy in Texas and has had a long parliamentary ca- reer. He is the author of several books. BOY | N CLMBING PO Prank Is Fatal RICHARD QUINN, ELECTROCUTED Exposed Wire Proves Fatal to Richard Quinn, 11, While at Play. Climbing to the top of an electric street light post “fust for the fun of it” shortly after 9 o'clock last night an 11-year-old boy was electrocuted when he touched # live wire while his young brother and two other playmates looked on. The youngster, Richard Quinn, of 1515 D street southeast, was playing opposite 1627 C street southeast when he placed his right hand on an exposed wire and was catapulted some 15 feet through the air to the ground. Young Quinn was removed to Casu- alty Hosp:tal by a passing motorist, G. L. Humphries o 1521 Isherwood street northeast. Though the boy appeared to be dead on his arrival at the hos- pital, Dr. J. Rogers Young employed every possible method of resuscitation fi. an unsuccessful effort to revive the | patient. Rescue Squad Called. Dr. Young first injected adrenalin, a | powerful stimulant, into the boy's heart. H- then summoned Fire Rescue Squad | No. 1 and resorted to the administra- tion of oxygen and artificial respiration, The boy was finally pronounced dead about an hour after being taken to the hospital. Phillip Quinn, a 12-year-old brother of Richard, and Jack Lacoste, 11 years old, and Harry Lacoste, 8 years ol also brothers, of 1408 D street southeast, were walking along C street when “Dick” noticed the bulb of a lamp post had been broken. _“I think I'll climb up there." Dick (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) | Special Dispatch to the Star. ceiving unexpected word that Mrs. Her- bert Hoover, wife of the President, would attend the game today, officials at the Baltimore stadium and the hosts for the day, offi- cers at the United States Naval Acad- emy, for a time were placed in.a quandary. No box had been reserved for the President and Mrs, Hoover. ceipt of the communication of Mrs. ! Hoover's contemplated attendance, Rear Admiral 8. 8. Robison, superintendent of the Naval Academy, made rapid ar- rangements for her reception. Then came a message that Mrs. Hoo- ver would be accompanied by a party of friends, Attendants at the stadium hurried to and fro arranging with boxholders to care for any guests of Mrs. Hoover. The communication from Washington did not state how many persons would be in Mrs. Hoove work of the doubly Academy Officials Step Lively to Arrange for Party on Receiving Unexpected Word. Navy-Notre Dame | On re- | the to look out for her comfort retir MRS. HOOVER FAILS TO APPEAR AT NAVY GAME, AS SEATS WAIT| |rector of the stadium, soon had ar- place additional chairs in their boxes |to care for the number of persons in the official party demand. A watch was posted at the entrance | to the administration building to signal |the arrival of all automobiles bearing Washington licenses escorted by motor | | cycle police. On the arrival of Charles | | D. Gaither, police commissioner, he was | | questioned about any plans he had | made for an escort. He said he had | | not_heard from the White House per- | taining to Mrs. Hoover's planned {rip. Then word was flashed that Mrs. | Hoover would not arrive until late, | having stopped on the road for a picnic | |lunch. Admiral and Mrs. Robison, [clurlsl Francis Adams, Secretary of | the Navy, and Mrs. Adams and other | distinguished guests then left the ad- | ministration building for their boxes. As the first whistle for the game was | heard members of President Hoover's secretarial staff drew up to the door. Replying to questions, they said Mrs, Hoover would not attend the game and was remaining in Washington. The staff of watchers and others de:lflll!"d‘ the amphitheater to witness the game. GAS SALE LEGALIY Utilities Commission Ask District Supreme Court to Decide Issue. ‘The public utilities commission prob- ably will call upon the District Supreme Court to determine legality of the re- cent sale of the Washington Gas Light Co. and its subsidiaries to & group of | New York financiers and investors. Court action is being seriously con- sidered, it was learned yesterday, as an outgrowth of an exhaustive investiga- tion of the transaction by the commis- sion, Corporation Counsel William W. Bride, its general counsel, and the De- partment of Justice, ‘The “inquiry. was started several sale was in conflict with the La Follette anti. law,. which {¢ a for- eign holding corporation to owh, trol or vote more than 20 per cent of the stock in any Washington utility corpotation. Bride’s Report Awaited. Although the investigation has not was pointed out at the District Build- ! ing, have paved the way for iegal ac- tion. The commission, however, does | not propose to make any move until | it receives a report from. Corporation Counsel Bride. Bride announced that he expected to | have the report ready for presentation this week, although he wanted to con- fer with an important witness in the case before he put it in final form. He said he had written to this witness asking for an interview but *had not received a reply. Bride’s report will contain an outline of various phases of the investigation together with recommendations he be- | lieves the commission should follow in | mind, but from another source it was " UG BEETED May, months ago to ascertain whether the ! con- | | been completed, the results thus far, it | | the prosecution of the case. He de-| | clined to disclose the step he has in | learned that he may suggest to the | * FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN CENTS FLSEWHERE SENATE PLANNING - SWEEPING POLICE PROBE THIS WEEK Subcommittee to Take Over Inquiry—District Attorney’s Office Also Cited. SENATORS IN TILT OVER INVESTIGATION Justice Department Agents Expect to Exhume Mrs. McPher- son’s Body Soon. While Government agents seek to wrest from the grave a clue that will help them solve the mystery of the death of Virginia McPherson and guide them in the prosecution of her hus- band, charged with murder, the Senate this week will lay plans for a sweep- ing probe of claims that local authori- ties bungled the case. The scope of the Senate investiga- tion into the police department and dis- trict attorney's office, and the question of when various phases of the probe should be undertaken, will be decided this week by the police subcommittee, to which the entire subject was referred yesterday at the close of a lively ses- sion of the Senate District committee. To Re-Open Grave Soon. The body of the strangled wife of Robert A. McPherson, jr, bank book- keeper, may be disinterred at any time from the quiet resting piace in China- grove, N. C., to which it was consigned three weeks ago, a dispatch from a staff correspondent of The Star indicated last night. By this drastic move the Department of Justice will test the soundness of a physician’s opinion that Mrs, - Mc- Pherson may have suffered a fractured skull, in addition to strangulation in- duced by a tightly drawn and knot- ted pajama belt looped around het neck, The original autopsy report failed to mention such a fracture, although Dr. Edward A. Gorman, first physician to view the body when it was found in a i bedroom at the Park Lane Apartments exactly a month ago tomorrow, has told Justice agents he saw some evidences of concussion. Dr. Gorman was convinced the girl had been murdered when first he ex- amined the body after McPherson had reported finding it. He formally pro- nounced the woman dead. Passed Up at Inquest. Dr. Gorman naturally expected to be | summoned to testify before the cor- oner’s -abut.the s 3 come. conel Mrs. Mc- Pherson had committed suicide after perfcrmed the autopsy and Lieut. Ed- ward J. Kelly, then head of the homi- cide. squad. | . A grand jury reopened the case and heard many witnesses. Dr. Gorman would not have had an opportunity to give his testimony to that body had not The Star published the fact that he had never been asked to testify. Then he was summoned as the last witness and members of the grand jury have de- clared his testimony helped them decide the girl had been murdered. Called as a routine witness in the special inquiry launched by the Depart- ment of Justice, Dr. Gorman provided the Federal investigators with a real sensation. He told them he thought it possible that Mrs. McPherson's skull | was fractured. This epinion was re- garded so important that J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bureau of Investi- gation, conferred at once with John E. Laskey. special assistant to the Attor- ney General, and the decision was reached to exhume the body from its grave in China Grove, N. C. | hearig the testimony of surgeons who | LOBBYING INQUIRY T0GET UNDER WAY. INSENATE TUESDAY |Shearer Investigation to Be | Resumed Some Time Early Next Week. SIMILAR SESSIONS HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED IN PAST | Additional Witnesses Scheduled to Be Called in Arms Parley Activities. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Capital is about to be engulfed |in another wave of investigations. |~ The Senate lobby inquiry starts Tues- | day and promises to hold the center of the stage. It will probe first charges that an army of lobbyists have been | working here to influence rate making in the pending tariff bill. Eventually, however, this inquiry is to broaden out and to cover the activities of every tbrand of lobbyist in Washington. ‘The Shearer investigation, with a Senate committee sifting charges that three American shipbuilding companies hired Willlam B. Shearer to break up, or rather down, the Geneva naval limi- tation conference in 1927, is off until next week at least, Senator Shortrld{l!. chairman, announced yesterday. The | Shearer inquiry was halted more than a week ago because the members of i the committee believed it would Be un- | wise to continue with it while Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald of Great | Britain was here discussing naval limi- tations with President Hoover and the plans for the conference which is to be i held in London next January. | May Call Shearer. Frank B. Kellogg, former Secretary of State, may be called as a witness | before the Shearer committee, Senator | Shortridge said. During his examina- | tion by the committee Shearer said he had been told by one of the shipbuild- ing company officials that Kellogg had called officials of the Bethlehem Cor- jporation “on the carpet” and practi- | cally made them give Shearer his “‘walk- ing papers.” The Shearer committee also is ex- pected to call back to the stand Clinton L. Bardo, president of the New York Shipbuilding Co., and ask about a mem- | orandum now in evidence of a meeting | between himself and Shearer in which | Bardo claimed that Shearer had threatened violence to one of the of- ficiais of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. { Rear Admiral J. I Reeves, U. 8. N, | whom Dréw Pearson, a = rospondent, tnt:n‘e}d' e pr a Tould nov gubesed. ko HES be rocaiea { for examination. Admiral Reeves testified in a direct statement to the committee that he had never enter- | tained or expressed such a hope. Probe Secret Document. i Z | When the Shearer hearing halted i more than a week ago, the committee | was questioning Shearer about an al- |leged secret document, said to have ; been written by Sir William Wiseman, former head of the British secret serv- ice in this country and at present con- nected with Kuhn. Loeb & Co. in New York. Sir Willlam Wiseman will be called, in all probability, if the com- mittee goes ahead with this phase of the inquiry, and also Judge Summers of Los Angeles, from whom Shearer says he got the document, and naval officers to whom Shearer showed the document and who had copies made of it. | The wknesses who have been sum- { moned to appear in the lobby investiga- tion are six in number and include Chairman Thomas O. Marvin of the United States Tariff Commission and Edgard B. Broussard, also a member jof that commission; ‘William Burgess i commission that a suit be filed to dis- | solve the transaction. This move would automatically shift the responsibility of ! determining the legality of the sale to | the court. strength. The fracture would explain | "F.’s. Burroughs of Harris & Forbes 'several points raised against the homi- Co. of New York, who became a director | cide hypothesis. Lieut. Kelly, in ad- |in the Washington Gas Light Co.|hering to the suicide supposition, had | shortly after its acquisition by the New | reasoned there would have been signs | York group, has insisted that the trans- | of a struggle had the woman been action was not in violation of the La !strangled to death by some one other | Follette act. The stock, he said, is held | than herself. If, however, she had been | by the Seaboard Investment Trust, hit over the head first she could have | formed for that purpose. [?u"ng:"&co?:h:“}‘: when kthe pajama belt | as tied about her neck. There would Five Corporations Hold Stock. i have been no struggle. A skull fracture According to Burroughs, the benefi- | also might explain the blood stain on cial interest in the 110,000 shares of | the bathroom fldor, as a nasal or mouth stock acquired in the sale is divided | hemorrhage might have ensued from equally among five holding corpora- | the blow and-from the strangulation. tions, each of which controls less th: Police who visited the McPherson May Strengthen Murder Theory. If Mrs. McPherson’s skull was frac- tured, the murder theory must gain in | | | itself a holding corporation and the|day. It is known the Government | holding of the stock is therefore not in ' probers are endeavoring to obtain a violation of law. | definite picture of the death scene be- Considerable igterest was manifest by | fore it was disturbed. They must de- | both Bride and members of the commis- | pend on the memory of those who were | sion in a recent report from New York | there for this picture. An important | that the Harris-Forbes interests had | point to learn now, as a result of Dr. | undertaken the creation of a vast public | Gorman’s opinion, is whether there was utility system, rivaling any now exist- | an instrument in the apartment that |ing in the United States. Th; re;‘:;ma | might have been used as a club. | followed an announcement by Bur- | | roughs that the Public Utility Holding | Shelby Again Questioned. Corporation of America, of which he is ‘!nSPectur William S. Shelby, who, president, had entered into an agree- ' With Lieut. Kelly, was criticized by the ment to acquire extensive holdings in | 8rand jury for their handling of the an electric power company in Oregon | CASe. again was auestioned by Federal 20 per cent of the total stock. The In-|apartment shortly after the body was which serves Portland and vicinity. e REICH PROCLAMATION ATTACKS PLEBISCITE Calls It Monstrous Attempt to |agents yesterday. A police private whose name was not divulged also was i examined. Inspector Shelby was among | police officers who first viewed the body. | (Continued on Pag "2, Column 1) FILL CROWD {DRY AGENTS of Morristown, Pa., a former member of the commission, and Frederick L. Koch, {a pottery expert for the commission. The attention of the investigating committee, headed by Senator Cara- way of Arkansas, will be directed first | to “charges that attempts have been | made to influence the Tariff Commis- ision in fixing_a valuation basis for pottery. Mr. Burgess is now charged with being a lobbyist for the pottery interests. Koch, according to rm will be questioned regarding | efforts of pottery interests to have him removed from his present office, be- cause he did not meet their views in the evidence which he gave meml of the House ways and means commit- tee when the tariff hearings were on. Will Take Up Sugar. After the committee has delved into vestment Trust, he maintained, is not | found were interrogated again yester- | the so-called pottery lobby, it plans to dig into the activities of the sugar in- terests. These have been very active on both sides of the question, whether | the sugar duties should be raised or |lowered. H. N. Austin of the United istnles Beel Sugar Co. and H. C. Lakin, i president of the Cuba Co. of New York, |are the first of the sugar witnesses { called. Literally the members of Con- gress and the newspaper offices of the country have been flooded with litera- ture and statements about the sugar | dutfes. The lobby investigation was ordered by the Senate after Senator Caraway had offered a resolution calling for it It is to be made by a subcommittee of the judiciary committee, just as a simi- lar investigation was made in the eariy days of the Wilson administration. Be- sides Senator Caraway, the subcommit- tee members are Senators Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana, Robinson of Indiana and Blaine of Wisconsin. The lobbyist is a familiar animal in Unite Germans Against Gov- | AT TENNESSEE GRID TlLT]:v-shlnmn. as he is in State capitals ernment’s Good Will Policy. BALTIMORE, Md,; October 12.—Re- | ranged with a number of boxholders to | By the Associated Pr: BERLIN, October 12.—The Reich to- | day issued an official proclamation against the plebiscite which the Na- tionalists are holding to discredit the ‘Young plan. The proclamation said that plebiscite was “a monstrous attempt to incite the German people against the government and annihilate the 10-year good-will policy of the republic witia Germany's former enemies.” It appeals to the people to choose be- tween common sense and nonsense, and points out that the Reich’s concillatory foreign policy has secured material re- ductions in the reparations bill, the liberation of the Rhineland and antici- pated discussion of the Sarre question. Mozart Coflection Sold. BERLIN, October 12 (#).—One of the most noteworthy auctions of Mozart manuscripts ever held took place today at the offices of the Berlin firm of aatiguarians, Leo Liepmannsohn. A collection of 39 Mozart writings were ll\zcknd to_ the highest bidders and a tol§l of 81,000 marks (about $19,440) realized, > the ! Enforcement Officers Fail to Find Evidences of “Public Tippling” at Game. | By the Associated Press. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., October 12— Some 175 prohibition agents, police and sheriff's deputies attended the Ten- | nessee-Mississippi foot ball game here | today. They reported they enjoyed the !’u"une and had nothing to do but watch jit. i Carroll Cate, deputy prohibition ad- ' ministrator, had placed his agents there |to co-operate with police and county forces in “keeping down public tippling” in ;he stands. It surprisingly. “It was a very orderly crowd.” ~ Neither agents, police nor deputies made arrests in the stadium. But the tampaign is to continue each ! Saturday a foot ball game is played here. Cate said a larger force would be detailed from all three enforcement agencies from Alabama-Tennessee game next Saturday and for the Vanderbilt- Tennessee gam Federal, city e. and coun®¥ forces num- brred about 25 each. ’ g nd in capitals of other nations. Old Noah Webster defined a lobbyist as “a person, not a member, who tries to in- fluence the votes of members of & legis- lative body.” The term lobbyist s taken on a sinister meaning because so often those who have sought to in- fluence votes in a legislative body have undertaken to do so secretly and in a corrupt manner. It is clear that lobby may be maintained in the in- terests of the finest causes, of legisia- tion for the betterment of the people. It is the improper lobby, conducted in & corrupt and secret manner, which at- tracts the widest attention, and for which the Senate committee is now seeking. 1 Lobby 16 Years Ago. Soon after the late President Wood- row Wilson entered the White House, 16 years ago, and the Democratic Con- | gress was engaged in rewriting the tariff law, the charge was made by the Presi- dent :flms?{f n:h;; “an insidious lobby was at worl ashington, seeking to Imx;r‘slee ;‘nu legislation.” t the same time the New Yorl World and the Chicago = E{sohmx sensational charges that the nal tio] { Manufgcturers had condiiched & lobby hers that smened (Continued on Page . b- p:l-