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WASHINGTON, D OCTOBER 13 * SENATE PLANNIG * FULL POLIE PROBE ; Subcommittee Ordered to Take Over Inquiry Dur- ing- This Week. (Continued From First Page.) re-examined Dr. | The agents also ‘Thomas F. Ballard of New York. & friend of Mrs. married. Senator Capper, chairman of the Sen- ate District committee, said last night the whole matter of the senatorial in- quiry is now in the hands of the police subcommittee, and that he will over to that group the letter he received yesterday from counsel for Inspector Shelby and Lieut. Kelly. in which they | ask for an opportunity to be heard on | the charges made against them by the | grand jury. After pointing out that the plans for | the investigation are to be worked out i by the subcommitee, Senator Capper | added: “Just how far they will go-or | how soon I have no means of knowing | at this time. Sackett Out of City. Senator Sackett, Republican, of Ken- tucky, chairman of the subcommittee, was out of the city when the full com- mittee acted yesterday. and the next | step at the Capitol will awalt his re- turn, possibly Tuesday. The others on | the subcommittee are | Senators Jones, Republican, of Wash- | ington: Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan: Copeland. Democrat, of New | York and Blease, Democrat of South Carolina and author of the investigatin; resolution. The resolution, as passed by the Sen- ate, is couched in broad terms. men- tioning the Commissioners and “'those in public offices connected with the gov ernment of the District of Columbia. in addition to the police and district attorney's office. The discussion at the full committee meeting yesterday, how- ever, indicated that there are three gen- eral propositions to be considered by the subcommittee, namely: ‘Whether the committee should launch | 2 probe of how local authorities handled | the McPherson case while the death of Mrs. Virginia McPherson is still being investigated by the Department of Justice and while Robert A. McPherson. jr., her husband, is still awaiting trial on the murder indictment returned by the grand jury. Whether there was delay in the dis- trict attorney’s office in the handling of indictments returned by the grand jury in connection with the killing las". Summer of Lee King, a Chinese, found dead on the street. < “The-extent to which permits have been issued in the District during the past year for the carrying of concealed weapons. Senator Blense, author of the investi- ld the commitice | esterday that the last two rcntioned matters are the only ones on which | he is anxious to get immediate action. | McPherson before she was He sald that if the subcommittee will, | take sieps at this tie to obtain from the proper authorities the records he desires relating to the investigation into the death ol Lee King, nad the reco; as to _the issuance of conceale:d weapon perniits, 1e has no objection to what- ever they may decide is the best course. to follow in regard to the remaincer of_his resolutiol “The Souti Carolina Genator said fol- lowing the meeting that he will cenfer with Chairman Sackett of the sub- cominits>e as roon as the latter retuins 1 turn graphed yesterday at the Navy Secretary of the Navy, Adams (lefl) Notre Dame foot bal SPEED ON TARIFF - TOBE WATCHWORD Party Leaders Hope to Put Measure Through at Special Session. Bv the Associated Press. The Senate lost another day in its consideration of the tariff bill yesterd: bul assurances were given by pariy leaders before they departed for various sports attractions that from now on expedition would be the watchword to get the measure through at the special | | session. President Hoover hopes this can be accomplished, but leaders of his party in the Senate differ as to the prospects. Chairman Smoot of the finance com- mittee assured the President at a White House conference yesterday there still was a chance of the issue being dis- osed of by the Senate. by November , provided dilatory tactics were not | indulged in by the coslition opponents. Date Put in January. | Only Friday Senator Watson of In- | diana, the majority leader, informed the Executive that congressional action could not possibly bz completed before the first of January, considering that rhf Senate has yet to act on 3 single | rate. After leaving the White House Sen- ator Smoot arranged for a conierence over the week end with Senator Rob- inson of Arksnsas, the minority leader, | in an effort to arrive at some agreement | lookinig to a speeding up of debats. | Senators Robinson and Simmons of | North Carolina, the ranking minority | member of the finance committee, re- iterated their pledge to the Repub- and Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, photo- game in Baltimore. —Associated Press Photo. | | | | | SAMUEL HERRICK. NATIONAL PRESIDENT HUGUENOT SPEAKER Opening Meeting of Washington licans that they would do all they could to obtain early final action on the bill provided ample time was allowed to dis- cuss major Tates. That the Senate machinery would be working more smoothly when the rate | schedules are reached was indicated by | Senator Norris of Nebraska, one of the Republican independent leaders who, with the Democrats, are uniting in op- | posing regular Republican amendments | to the administrative provisions. May Shorten Debate. DELAY REOPENING OF NURSE'S GRAVE Cemetery Custodian 5 { would be more clear cut and debate | pared to Begin Work on {orca Thae e Westsrn Republicans, 2 | a Moment’s Notice. well as the Democrats, probably would break away from the coalition on many rates, which is in line with administr; tion Republican clalms that the com- bination could not hold its lines where i iennwr‘s are interested in a particular uty. Although nearly two dozen individual mendments to the administrative pro- isions remain to be acted upon before | ates are reached, assurances were | given by sponsors of the export deben- | ture plan as a rider to the tariff bill that this would not b~ rought out per- | haps until the r chedules are out | of the wayr < had been indica- | tions ™+t debenture proposition | might be injected into the contest over the administrative features. | Senator Thomas, Democrat, Okla- | homa, still plans to make his motion to | Tecommit the bill with instructions to limit the proposed revision to agricul- | By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHINA GROVE, N. C., October 12.— Despite emphatic denials by the agents of the Department of Justice that th exhumation of the body of Mrs. Vir ginia McPherson would be made before Monday, A. R. Davis, custodian of Cueenlawn Cemetery, where the body is interred, intimated tonight that pro- ceedings might begin on a moment's notice. He is prepared, he declared, to disinter the body at any hour of the day or night. ‘The investigators, although mysteri- ously silent regarding the proceeggs, said positively that they would nol n- dertake the task during the ni Sunday, they declared would not be st lected for the work because of the large owds that probably will gather at the cemetery. Residents Await Action. As the unexplained delay continues, residents of the surrounding country ! before the 15 rate and free list sched- ules are taken up. Both Democrats and | | Republican.Independents, however, be- | lieve there is little prospeet of this pro- posal carrying now, despite that it lost only by ane vote last June when it was sponsored by Senator Borah, Repub- | POLIGE KILLING " INQUEST DELAYED | Officer Who Shot Navy Yard| Worker Is Confined in Hospital. The_inquest into the death of Wil- liam Douglas, 40-year-old navy yard boilermaker, who was slain early ‘yes- | terday by Policeman B. F. Howze of the | eighth precinct, has been postponed in- ! definitely until the officer recovers suf- | ficiently from the beating he received, before shooting Douglas, to appear be- fore the coroner’s jury. Douglas took Howze's night stick from him and broke it on his head when the officer came to an apartment at 1321 Mnj. Henry G. of police, has recefVed a report of the affair from Capf. Robert E. Doyle of ! the eighth precinct, and although re- fusing to comment as to whether Howze was justified in shooting Douglas he has taken no action toward the suspension of the officer. Meanwhile Howze is technically in custody at the hospital. Companion Under Bond. Thomas Edward Smoot, 24 vears old of Ballston, Va., who togetier with Douglas and two 23-year-old telephone operators, were at the party, was a rested immediately following the shoot- ing for assault on Howze. Late yester- day he was released under $5,000 bond. The two girls, Margaret Elizabeth Frye, in whose apartment the party was held, and Mae Virginia Campbell, of | 1617 Riggs place, were still being held at the House of Detention last night as material witnesses. When the officer entered the apartment, he said, all its occupants undress. . According to attaches of the Women's Bureau, the two young women seemed composed last night, although during the " day Miss Campbell had been slightly hysterical. Douglas had been Miss Campbell's escort to the part; which was being held in his honor, since he was to have left yesterday for New York, where he had'been offered a job. Howze was patrolling his beat about 3:15 o'clock yesterday morning when he heard nolses coming from the Prye apsrtment. He entered the bullding and knocked on the door. one of the men told the girl not to let him in. Instead, however, she requested him to wait a few minutes. Waited 15 Minutes. Howze sald he walted in the hall mlmost 15 minutes before he was finally admitted. Meanwhile an occupant of 2 neighboring apartment, disturbed by the moise, telephoned the eighth pre- cinet and Policeman C. C. Williams was sent there in the police emcrgency car. Smoot. the two young women and Howze all told Lieut. Joseph C. Morgan of the homicide squad substantially the same story of what oceurred when Howze entered. They said that Smoot hit Howze in the eye with his fist, corner. Howse said | 1929—PART 1 i i | with the Elk Hills naval oil lease. PROBE OF LOBBIES COMING THIS WEEK, %Shearer Investigation to Be | Resumed Some Time Next ) Short Delay. | | (Continued From Pirst Page) | 'INSULL GEM LOSS BELIEVED §100.000 Second-Story Worker Prob- ably Aided by Woman in Secretary’s Home. By the Associat Press. CHICAGO, October 12.—A daring second-story worker invaded the High- j land Park home of Martin J. Insill while the family was at dinner Tuesogv The former Seeretary of the Interior as he left the Di yesterday in a wheel chair, after attending a_session of his trial in connection At the left is his physician, Dr. H. T. Safford, behind is his nurse and at right is Houston Fall of Nashville, Tenn., Kis cousin. rict Supreme Court ~—Associated: Press Photo. EFALL STAKES ALL | ON-FINAL BATTLE i -FOR VINDICATION _(Continued From First Page.) He brought to the attention of the jury a picture of Fall in distant El Paso, Tex., while negotiations for the leasing of the naval oil reserves were being conducted by his subordinates and the | | Navy Department. It was during that time that the |leases were being negotiated that the | Government charges that Fall received 1$100,000 from Doheny for awarding the | contract to the latter's company. | Son-in-Law Testifies. ‘The defense, which brought out from ' to high heaven. Their reports involved | name. These charges were based on Fall had told him the money was a data furnished to the newspapers by | loan, for which he had given his note. A pumber of members of Congress by C. C. Chase, Fall's son-in-law, that, | Martin M. Mulhall, a_former agent of | the N. A. M., and the World is reported | to have paid him $10,000 for the story. | The House promptly appointed a se- tural products, and this must be settled | knocking him onto a lounge in the |ject committee, headed by former Rep- Then Douglas snatched his | resentative Finis Garrett of Tennessee, | Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawail, to |drew from Finney the assertion thal | Fall_had turned the entire handling |of the negotiations for the contract ith the Pan-American Co.*for con- | struction of naval oil storage tanks at baton and struck him repeatedly on the | q Democrat and later the leader of his | Finney and H. Foster Bain. then di- head. The officer sald that his assallant struck him twice after he had leveled his gun at him. He fired three shots, all_of them taking effect in Dougl rty in the House, to make an inves- gation of these charges. The Senate | judiciary committee also made a similar investigation. The 'Mulhall investiga- tion ran for weeks and months. The | pa % vector of the Bureau of Mines. | ‘The negotiations, Pinney s'd. were | conducted in co-operation ‘ith the | Navy, and the terms of the contracts | were drawn in_aceorde e with the | evening and, aided perhaps by a woman confederate, escaped with jewels of & value estimated In some quarters as above $100,000. ‘The burglary was not discovered until Mrs. Insull examined her jewel case Wednesday morning, and was concealed from the public until today while de- tectives began a quiet investigation. In- sull is president of the Middle West Utilities Co. and of the American Pub- lic Service Co., director of several other corporations and the brother of Samuel Insull, who is also a leading utilities magnate of the Middle West. Es''mates at Odds. Mr. and Mrs. Insull were reticent about the theft, minimizing their loss. Insurance ‘executives said a very con- servative estimate of the value of the gems would be $15,000, but the inven- tory showed the loss would be nearer six figures. Lake County authorities estimated it at $175,000. Among the articles stolen were a platinum bracelet set with 38 dinmonds and a similar one with 24 diamonds, a platinum bracelet watch studded with diamonds, & platinum ring set with emeralds and diamonds and a similar ring with a diamond of 1 o s, & pearl-and-diamond tassell, a diamond- and-sapphire_bracelet, a 14-carat gold mesh bag and vanity case and a plati- num’ diamond-and-sapphire cluster ring containing 14 small diamonds, four center diamonds and a sapphire weigh- | Ing 1% ecarats each. $150,000 Held Too High. Mrs. Insull made no reply to queries whether her gems were worth $100,000, | but said $150,000 would be too high a | price. i Mrs. Insull was accustomed to carry i most of her jewels with her, and upon j returning from the city Tuesday after- noon had placed them in her usual hid- ing place. During the dinner hour, it | developed, a woman had heen sern parked in an automobile near the Sheri- dan avenue home of the Insuils in the North 8hore suburb. Police believe she aided the burglar in his get away. The intruder apparently had gained access | to Mrs. Ingull's second-floor bedroom | by climbing’to the roof and descendinz | @ rainspout. |MACKS BLAST WAY | TO 10-8 TRIUMPH IN FOURTH GAME inued Fron | the sun-blinded Wilson “for four bases | and three more runs. The left-handed Nehf was permitted to linger long enough to put Cochrane on base with the muntrll tying run | via the pass route, and when his suc- cessor, Sheriff Fred Blake, yielded hits to Simmons and Foxx, the second for {the inning for each, the count was lican, Idaha: body. Apparentl; th e | Navy's desires. The award to the Do- |“knotted. jca: aha. Ppa y death was instan- | names of many promient persons were y's de: tract was made | _With only one out and two on base. | anxiously await the exhumation ‘and | Vs tor” King, Democrat, of - Utah, who took am active part in the dis- cugsion at the comniitte¢ meeting yes- tarday, last night reiterated his belief that it would be ‘s mistake for & con- gressional committee to enter at this eneral police investiga- tion of how the McPherson case was handled, since it is still pending in court_and still being investigated by the Department of Justice. He said he had confidence in the Commis- sioners, and felt that a general study of finu affairs should await the regular session beginning in December. Tariff Bill May Interfere. ‘Two of the Senators who are on | subcommittee to which the in- vehtigating resolution has been referred | indicated terday that they did not | see how they could devote time to { genersl police investigation in the Dis- | trict’ while the tariff bill is before the | Senate. As soon as the full committee got down to consideration of the resolution yesterday Senator Blease made it clear to his colleagues that his chief interest at this time is to obtain the records relating to the death of Lee King, the | Chinese. He said information had | reached him to the effect that the | grand jury which investigated the ) death of Lee King had returned a true | bill in June, but that indictments were not presented until September. He said he wanted to find out whether there was delay in the district at-| torney's office in handling this case. He next explained why he wanted the complete records from the proper | local officials as to how many permits to carry concealed weapons have been issued and denied in 1929. He said he understood there were two organiza- tions of Chinese in Washington, one rich and the other poor, and that his mt_gm-m was that the rich group could get permits to carry weapons, while the others could not. He said his position was that neither of them should be given these permits, Senator Blease also Tepeated at yes- terday’s committee meeting the charge he made in the Senate recently that marcotics could be bought within a ew blocks of the Capitol. To suppoit s statement he told the committee Yesterday that he has in his office safe | now a quantity of oplum that was pur- | chased within the past few days near | the Capitol. | When the discussion turned to that Aection of the resclution calling for an quiry into the reason for the suspen- jon of Policeman Robert J. Alien, who ade an Independent investigation of Rhe death of Mrs. McPherson after the Hetective bureau had concluded it was # suicide, the committee became 1u- | olved in & spirited debate over the} Swisdam of taking up at this time a | oMce inquiry that would relate to the | 'herson case. lhlr? colloquy ensued between nator Blaine, Republican, of Wiscon- n, who contended the efficiency of | e Police Department could be in-: tigated now without interfering with he probe into Mrs. McPherson's death, | gna Senator King, wh> declared an in: uiry into the Police Department at Zhis time would necessarily revolve P-ound the McPherson c 2 Jary Troubling Senator, z “If I had been in the Senate when ihe resolution came up I think I should asked that it be not acted on esent,” sald Senator King. “I Mink that with the grand jury work- q'l the Department of Justice in- est] Ehe Commissioners to consider the po- Jce handling of the matter, we are lling it on rather thick at the mo- ent. I would have preferred waiting e outcome. This McPherson case ]l probably go to trial at an early jate. An investigation now would stir e public up. It would make it more cult to get a jury.” = He then recalled that the Gibson g:eommmee of the House has spent rly two years investigating the - iet government, - particul lice De) rly rtment, with the ald of the reau of Efficiency. " At lg[ rate,” he continued, “investi- Lion the District government bas m going ‘on for a long time. tant investigations Society Will Be Addressed | 207000 ™o may throw light or the ‘While Sepator Smoot believed con- | ¢ by 3. L. Merrill. | ferees would be given ample time to f the il th, Shuse of the gitis Seedh settle ' differences ' bétween the two In CM:\:’ | Grove, where Mrs. McPherson Iivi _— the arrival of every stranger is viewed | houses before the regular session if the s with anxiety. He is questioned as to | Senate piised the bill by November 20, The opening meeting of the Washing- | whether he 15 going to Assist in the ex- | Senator Simmons. sald it would be im- ton Huguenot Society next Friday eve- | pinciavie 1% % B0 08 10 B0SE Ml take | possible for the conference to act in ning will be addressed by John Leonard | place. Many drive to the cemetery at | the nine legislative days remaining be- Merrill, president of the National | {ntervals to see if the weather-beaten ' tween November 20 and the first Mon- $(fcient, and that some think increases {ing a League of Huguenot Socleties. A short business session will be held &t the meeting in St. John's parish hall, | Sixteenth and H streets, at 8 o'clock and | will be followed by & reception at whicir | time Mr. Merrili, president of the All- | American Cable Co., will be introduced. | The executive committee of the local | organization, presided over by Samuel | Herrick, met Tuesday and made plans for the ensuing year. | in salaries have not reduced inefficiency. But he added that he was not willing to make that wholesale charge. | Senator Hastings, Republican, of Del- ' aware, suggested that instead of launch- investigation “we might do all that Senator Blease has in mind by a single meeting of the committee.” { At this point Senator Jones, Republi- can, of Washington, and & member of the subcommittee to which the resolu- tion later was referred, pointed out that the preamble of the resolution refe.s to charges based on newspaper articles, | and questioned whether the resolution | was specific enough as to what the com- mittee is expected to investigate. | Senator Blaine, denouncing the Police Department as being inefficiently | directed, and extending his criticism to | the Commissioners, argued that, even though the charges set forth in the | flowers that cover the surface of the | day in December. grave have been removed or any at- | tempts made to disturb the body. Every one who knew her had the greatest regard of the girl and praises her. She I gErhal BOY ELECTROCUTED | was one of the most liked young women | BY UNCOVERED WIRE of the community, they say. At the | Farm Life School where she ' attended, ON LIGHT POST HERE her old classmates say she was ex- i b tremely popular. With their knowledge | of her the girl's friends do not be: lieve she took her own life. The pre- | vailing opinion is that she was mur- | dered. By whom theey do not know. | Should the identity of the murderer, if there is one, be established, China Grove would not be the place for him to venture. It would not be the first | time the populace has taken the law into its own hands as they are ready to act_ with sufficlent provocation. | (Continued From First Page.) d one of his companions. “What for?” he was asked. “Just for the fun of it,” the boy | answered. Wrapping his arms and legs around the post, Dick then pulled himself up the post. Just after reaching the top, he locked his legs around each other nd peered into the hollow post. Then | e touched the wite. The shock was Dr. C. W. Armstrong, county health g, great he swung in midair a half | officer, has had no requests for authority | fo conduct exhumation, he 3aid 1ast | o Thegonud. menocame e opbed night. Although permission might be ing the post did Dick cry out in pain. given by State officlals, it s considered | e was ' unconsclous a5 soon as his unlikely that Dr. Armstrong will not be | companions recovered from the shock | consulted. Davis, the Custodian, d°|and rushed to his side. He showed no| o recognize credentials from the St le,;i:x'e":m‘:{nf:f s edinieli ekl he also would desire permission from - the county health officer. Venturesome Spirit. | Dick was & student in Proceedings Will Be Secret. grade of the Bryant School. Davis announced last night that per- | known for his venturesome spirit, often coted with 'the | baving displayed his nerve while at| Smoot hurried from the apartment to telephone for an ambulance and the two women, scantily clad, ran scream- v Miss Frye left the building and hid in the tonneau of a parked car until the police a rived. Miss Campbell went to an ad- jacent apartment. When Smoot re- | turned Howze refused to allow him to | | leave the scene of the shooting again. Last night at Emergency Hospit physiclans said Howze's condition was much improved and it is thought now | that his skull s not fractured: as was | first feared. GAS VICTIM REVIVED. Man Saved by Rescue Squad Be- lieved to Have Fainted Near Stove, Members of No. 2 rescue squad of the Fire Department last night revived Leonard Samuels, 26, of 3800 Harrison street, who was overcome by illuminat- ing gas in the kitchen of his home. Samuels was found by his mother, who summoned help from No. 14 police precinct. According to police, Samuels is sub- ject to fainting spells and apparently suffered one of them while alone in the kitchen and fell across the stove, two burners of which were turned on when his mother entered. Before the arrival of the rescue squad, first aid was administered by Dr. Jerome F. Crowley of 5211 Thirty- ninth street and by Henry Auth of 5201 Thirty-eighth street, a neighbor. dragged into it. The House committee heny company of the con in the end submitted @ report criticising | on its alternate bid, the withess said, the N. A. M. and censiring at least cne;lnd was approved by Admiral J. K. { the throng sensed .a° killing as-Blake gave way to Pat Malone, and when the member of the Housr, Representative James T. McDermott-of Iiinois. Mc- Dermott in the end was ousted from the House. Views of Commiitee. The report of the House committee in the Mulhall investigation states the views of the committee on the question of lobbying very clearly. It says: “Your committee is of ths’ opinion that any individual or association of individuals interested in legislation pending in Congress has the unques- tionable right to appear in person or through agents or attorneys before | committees and present his or its views |upon and arguments in behalt or { 2gainst such legislation. To place the | Congressman in a cloister to legislate, | influences, would be impossible, and if | possible, it would be exceedingly ridicu- ut your committee feels assured | that whenever any person or associa- tion attempts by any secret or insidious r methods, by either giving cr g the hope of other reward than that mental and spiritual exalta tion which springs from the conscious- ness of having walked in the light of honest judgment and followed it to its logical end, or by threats of punish- ment to be vindictively inflicted, then such methods become a menace to the free exercise of the legislator's judg- ment and the true performance of his solemn obligation and duty, are im- proper and merit the severest con- demnation.” The House committee mot only in- latter hit Miller in the shoulder with his first pitched ball, to load the sacks, the multitude was convinced Dykes was equal to the task of producing the | Finney said that he had opened three | lethal punch. Jimmy felt the same | bids for the California n: royalty | Way about it and made with his | oft on April 15, 1932, These weve from | third hit of the combat, a double that Robison, who represented Secretary | | Denby of the Navy, and officials of the | Bureau of Mines, without being sub- | mitted to Fall. { rendering him immune to extraneous | the Standard Ofl Co. of California, the Associated Oil Co. of California and | the Pan-American Petroleum & Trans- portation Co., whict submitted their proposals. He turned the bids over to Bain and A. W. Ambrose of the In- terior Department, asking them to make |a report as to which was the best. | They later reported, the witneess con- | tinued, that the alternate kid of the Pan-American was the best and pro- vided for the construction of the Pearl Harbor tanks wanted by the Navy. Says Papers Unchanged. After a conference withgNavy officers, Finney said, he wired Fall in New Mex- ico that the Navy and himself recom- | mended acceptance of the Pan-Ameri- can contract, and Fall replied that Secretary Denby and Admiral Robison wished to let the contract to the Pan- American and give widest publicity to the deal. It was then, Finney said, grazed the outstretched fingers of Stephenson, close to the barrier in left. and produced the tallies representing Philadelphia’s margin of victory. | It ‘mattered little that Boley then fanned and that Burns did likewise, or ‘thlt Simmons also was victimized on strikes in the eighth by Hal Carlson, | the fifth of the Cubs’ pitchers, following | bingles by Bishop and Cochrane, for | the dejected Bruins were disposed of | In masterly fashion by Grove in their ll-st two batting turns. {WORLD EYE SPECIALISTS | TO MEET AT BALTIMORE | A two-day conference of the leading | eye specialists of this country and Eu- | rope will be held in Baltimore next resolution may not be specific, he did | sons not directly connected with the not believe the committee could avoid | Work of exhuming the body would be | play with his young friends. ‘The youngster's parents, Mr, and Mrs, ting, and a board appointed by | the | making a sweeping investigation, now | that the Senate has approved the Blease resolution. “The charges may not be specific,” said Senator .Blaine, “but the Senate has adopted the resolution, and it is too late now. We cannot escape the responsibility of going into everything in the resolution, indefinite as they may be.” | Senator Vandenberg, who is also & | member of the subcommittee which | must now decide what is to be done, agreed with Senator King that the resolution leaves it to the committee to determine when it would be practi- | cable to report its findings to the Senate. He added that he did not believe it would be practicable while matters are in liquidation in court. | Senator Blaine insisted that the subcommittee could not escape its re- sponsibility, except by going back to the Senate and having the resolution reconsidered and redrafted. Scores Police Officials. | ‘The Wisconsin Senator then declared that he thought “Washington has the most_inefficient direction of its police department of any cily. The 1ank and file of the department is far above the directing force.” ! Senator Blaine also criticized the ad- | ministration of District affairs gen- erally, declaring that “Washington is a conglomeration of politics. Senator Kirg again called attention to the extensive investigations of the | District government recently made by the Gibson subcommittee and to other studies the Senate committee has made | of local needs. Senator Blaine con- | tended, however, that these arguments should have been made to the Senate before the present resolution passed. | Senator King insisted that Senate | committees have some discretion as to | how and when they should proceed | with investigations, and cited examples. He said he would be willing to take the | responsibility of letting the proposed |investigation await the December ses- slon. Senator Vendenberg declared would be, satisfactory to Senator Blease, provided he could get at this time the | particular evidence he wanted immedi- iately. The Michigan Senator said he | would not care to serve on a commit- | tee uniess it had some discretion as to its procedure. | Senator Blaine declared that “no | mind could picture the ineficiency of | the detective bureau in that case,” re- | ferring to the inquiry into the death | of Mrs. McPherson. Wh‘;'yz 2 demorsiizing Utah' Senator said there are many who believe the police are inef. Senator at this point proposed that the qu of the scope of the barred from the cemetery. No crowds as he expects will gather, will be permitted to assemble in the grounds. He believes the proceedings will be secret and he in- tnds that such an order shall be obeyed. Local undertaking establishments in- Phillip P. Quinn, learned of the lccl-‘ dent a few minutes after it happened. | | Phey went to_ the hospital and paced | up and down the corridor outside the | emergency room while the attempt to | formed Dr. Armstrong that as vet they | FeVive the boy vas made. | have not. been requested to assist in the | Both parents y:carly collapsed on be- exhumation. A firm at Concord, 12| \Ng told there was no hope for the | miles from the cemetery, however, is Youngster. W said to have received communications - He wassuch a good boy.” Mrs. Quinn from Chester, S. C.. where the giil's S0bbed as her husband endeavored to parents now reside, regarding the task. | comfort her. No definite details were arranged. |, Quinn is employed at the Powhatan Following the disinterment of the | Hotel. body it is not knowh where the body will be taken for further examination. The popular belief, however, is that the autopsy will be conducted in Sali bury. Should it be planned to remove the body from the county Dr. Armstrong | will be called upon to give permission. | He has stated that he would raise no objection. | The question of who will conduct the examination has also been raised. Local physicians say that they have not been | consulted. and it is believed possible that skilied medical assistance may come from other sources. APARTMENT TENANTS DRIVEN OUT BY SMOKE Fire Damages Basement and First Floor of Ashmead Place Building. A score or more residents of the apartment house at 2310 Ashmead place | fled through smoke-filled hallways of the building to safety early last night when fire of undetermined origin dam- ged the rear portion of the basement and first floor. . Tennants of the building were terror- ized to find the halls filled with pun- gent smoke so thick they couldn’t see their way to the stairs and automatic electric elevator. A number were as- | sisted from the building by other ten- ants but none was injured, Firemen of the No. 21 engine com- pany and No. 9 truck companies, under the direction of Second Battalion Chiel Andrew Wolter, responded to alarms and quickly had the fire under control. ‘The blaze was confined virtually to the boiler rooms at the rear of the basement, thoug! ter and smoke did some damage above, Tenants reported there had been a short cirewit th},‘ d wi system in the base) ‘This bate investigatjon left to the subcommit- declaring He had confidence in it. ring is thought this may hav blaze. a Navy Yard broken when it was wielded on the the Howse, resulied in the peliceman firing his revelver and ki AUTO INJURES CHILD. Boy ' Bolier ARAtiAg Int Strest Ts Knocked Down.. Samuel Pole, 9, of 1836 Sixteenth street was slightly injured about the head and body when run down while skating in the street at Nineteenth and V streets by an automobile operated by ‘Willlam V, Johnson of 1339 U street. The child was treated by a nearby physician and later taken home. SLAYING Pal William Douglas, —Star Staff Photo. vestigated the activities of the N. A. M | but also those of the American Feder: |tion of Labor and other organizations | having headquarters and “lobbies” in | Washington. Its censure went, how- | spring, the National Council for Indus- trial Defense. It held it was “out- rageous” for these associations to have aid hirelings about this Capitol, but- | fonholing members of Congress and striving to have them remain from the chamber when a vote taken. was No Report Filed. The Senate judiciary committee also | held a lobby investigation at the time, but_never filed a report. Going back to yet earlier days, the Credit Mobilier scandal created a tre- mendous sensation in Washington in the 60s and 70s. The National Gov- ernment_ had chartered the Union Pa- cific Railroad. The Credit Mobilier Co. was taken over by those interested in the rallroad company to do the aSual work of construction. So generous were the Government's gifts and loans to the railroad that the promoters found it possible to pocket between $25,000,000 and $40,000,000. The lob- byist who put across these deals was & member of the House from Massachu- setts, Oakes Ames, who was deeply in- terested personally In the whole project. He sought to gain friends for the road and_to prevent any unfavorable action in Congress toward it through the ex- pedient of selling stock to important members of the House and Senate at about one-half what it was worth. The House committee which conduct- ed an investigation brought in a report | recommending_ the ~expulsion of Mr. Ames and of James Brooks, a Govern- ment director of the Union Pacific, the one for using stock to influence’ the | other for using his position to obtain | stock for himself or his family. Both Men Died. ‘The House, however, merely censured both. Both men died soon after and it is said that the shame of the whole conducted an investigation and its affair killed them. e Senate also committee recommended the expulsion of Senator Pomeroy of Kansas, but no acuon ‘was taken on the recommenda- jon. | _Among the members of the House | who were charged with havirg taken | some of the stock of the Credit Mobiller Co. were James G. Blaine, then Speaker, and James A. Garfleld, who afterwar became President. Mr. Blaine, it de- veloped, had been asked by Mr. Ames to take stock in the company, but he had decided not to do so. Mr. Garfleld agreed to take 10 shares. He did not pay check for them, but received a for that J. J. Cotter, representing the Pan- | Tuesday and Wednesday, in connection American, urged the early granting of | with dedication exercises of the Wilmer a lease to lands in Naval Oil Reserve | Institute of the Johns Hopkins Uni- |No. 1 to his company, and he and | versity and the Johns Hopkins Hospi- Ambrose and Robison agreed upon |tal. The institution was founded four what land was to be leased and what ! years ago, largely by subscriptions of | the royalty was to be. grateful patients of Dr. Willlam Hol- | “Ambrose then took all the papers to | land Wilmer, a Washington ophthal- | Fall in New Mexico, and Finney said | mologist. Fall did not make any changes in any | Previous to the founding of the in- of them. stitute, most of America’s foremost eve specialists were trained in Europe. The Wilmer Institute, and its close connec~ | tion with the great center of medical | votes of members of Congress and the | 0IL TRUCK STRIKE | ever. to the N. A. M., and to an off- | Police and Guards With Machine Guns Protect Tanks in New York. away | | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, - October 12.—With police riding almost every load and guards armed with riot guns standing vigll_over storage tanks, the strike of gasoline oil truck drivers tonight went |into a week end deadlock while both | sides made conflicting claims for the duration of the fight. The strike started in Long Island City, Queens, Saturday and spread | rapidly through that borough to Brook- {lyn and Manhattan and Nassau County on Long Island. Near Hoboken, N. J., where the drivers are not on strike, an |oil truck was tipped over and its load istt afire after the driver had been forced to flee from three men. Similar acts of voilence in the city brought out 1,000 police guards, 200 of them being concentrated in Long Island City. Riot guns guarded the storage tanks of the larger oil companies. |, Company officials said the 3,000 strik- |ing drivers had been replaced, and iwhlle there was no serious shortage of | gasoline or fuel oil, distribution was at least 20 per cent below normal. Some | of_ the emergency drivers were con- | centrated at the Times Square subway station in Manhattan and driven to | their places of employment in a van |guarded by a special police detail. | " The truck drivers union wants a | weekly wage increase from $35 to $47.50, an eight-hour day, time and a half for | ganization. Morrow Nearing Mexico. bassador Dwight Morrow, accompanied by his secretary and several friends, passed through Laredo this morning on the return to his post in Mexico City. T::l Ambassador did not leave his coach wi Mexican line. dividends. The House committee, how- ever, found that he had not heen in- {:rmcrd db’z' a:‘b‘l:l I.hlc',° the div\dfifi &f e Cre: lar . were 'acl an A e W little about the whole matter, overtime and recognition of the or- | LAREDO, Tex., October 12 (#).—Am- | it was being transferrad: to the ! learning and experimentationat Johns {"Hopkins, however, is making Baltimere a national center for advanced research | work in ophthalmology and the train- !ing of eye specialists. [ Printer Leaps From Ship. HAVANA, October 12 (#).—The American steamship Mongola was sev- eral hours late in docking here this aft- [rrnoon because of a ch made for | John Blackburn, 40, said to be a printer, who jumped overboard. The body was | not recovered. | Blackburn was said to have been | making the voyage from San Francisco ;10 P:‘ehl' York in an effort to recover his ealth. | September Circulation. Daily... 102,122 'Sunday, 107,694 | District of Columbis. ss.: !~ FLEMING D. ,of THE EVENING | does solemnly swear <= of copies of the paver namer ribu ring ‘mon A.D 1929, was as follows: Business. Manager D SUNDAY STAR. aciual number sold and dis- of September, S5E5T5eramaung : . 103,396 adjustment. 108,474 adjustments.. ice. etc. i Average Sunday net cireulatic . 107,004 : P e or bed and sworn. s befors of Oetober, lo3p. : e Tager. H Qe me this o -