Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1929, Page 2

e 2 kkk ARNOLDIS GRILED * Y LOBBYPROBERS Blaine Accuses Southern Tariff Group Officer of Pocketing Donations. _(Continued From First Page) contributors to the league, which Blaine read into the record, were: The Insull $1,500; William $1,000: properties of Chicago, Wrigley Oua., Illinois, Aluminum Co. of America, P. and M. J. Van Sweringen | $1,000; Armour & Co., $1,000; the Kellogg Co. Battle Creek, Mich., $500; Ilinois Central Rallroad Co. of Chicago, $500, and W. L. Mellon; Pittsburgh, $1.000. { Mellon’s contribution was listed as, miscellaneous. Blaine asked Arnold if | he knew of any reason Mellon should wish to hide it “No.” the witness said, “I suppose « there are men who do not care to have it known.” He said Mellon had con- tributed $1,000 a year to the Taxpayers' | League for the last three years. “Do you mean to say that the Secre- tary of the Treasury has contributed to your organization?” Chairman Cara- | way asked, confused by the similarity | of names. W. L. Mellon was identified | s the nephew of Secretary Mellon. ' i H. LEWARK. r Staff Photo. 'DEFENSE TO IGNORE LEGAL LOOPHOLE IN McPHERSON’'S CASE ___(Continued From First Page) street ear barn and on Saturday at the Department of Justice, he admitted this Blaine Becomes Sarcastic. “Y suppose,” Senator Blaine said. “that you wanted to educate Joseph | R. Grundy in taking a citizen's part | in his Government. Just what ap-; proach did you make to Grundy and | these corporations that gave smail amounts? Fach time sought to optain a comprehensive de- scription of what Arnold gave in re-| turn for contributions the witness re- | ferred to “educational service He | said in reply to questions that the two organizations had no expert and that | most 6f the matter sent out as bul- letins was prepared by himself. Blaine read into the record the cor- yespondence between Arnold and the firm of Hornblower & Weeks, bankers | and stockbrokers of Boston. & committee member for certain information about inher- | itance tax laws in several States. Blaine brought out that the information 1.as not furnished for a month and finally | was obtained by Arnold from a firm of tax experts in New York City. Arnold Replies to Blaine. “Did you represent to your contribu- tors that you could influence legisla- tion?” Blaine asked. | “I did not,” Arnold answered. He added that he supposed that legislation | was influenced by education. Blaine | asked him if he thought for a minute | his bulletins would educate anybody Arnold sald he hoped so. ymenting on numerous statements Senator Blaine made in ridiculing Arnold’s services, the witness repeatedly stated, “Well, they are satisfied, Sena- tor.” At one point, he asserted that if he sent a year's bulletins to the com- mittee, the members would be satisfied of the value of his work. “It is their money,” Arnold said. “It is not the taxpayer's money. These people are as Tt a8 you or I.” Do you expect to get contributions | from these companies this year?” Biaine asked. “I do,” Arnold asserted. “I am sure | they will contribute, if they haven't already.” Blaine Questions Arnold. Senator Blaine, when the hearing was_resumed this morning, questioned ‘Mr. Arnbld about the activities of Mrs. Ida M. Darden, Vance Muse and W. F. | . Mr. Arnold said they were sal- | aried canvassers, who collect money and | “do- organization work” throughout the | country both for the Southern Tariff | tion and the American Taxpay- | ers' He denied that these so- licitors were working on commission. tor Blaine read what was pur- ported to be an agreement whereby these three solicitors were to receive 40 ger cent of the money they collected, ut Arnold said the agreement had never been signed and was not in effect. Mr. Muse, according to the witness, is | now in South Carolina “setting an organization” for the Southern riff Association. During the Summer, he sald, Mr. Muse was working for the Taxpayers' League in Minnesota. iying to questions by Senator, Blaine, Mr. Al ld sald the three so- Jicitors had made no collections for the National Council of State Legislatures. That m{nm-mm. he explained, was directed by John Henry Kirby of Hous- ton, Tex., its president. Answers Held Evasive. ‘When Senators Blaine, Caraway and | ‘Walsh endeavored to get the witness to | explain in detail how various corpora- | tions and individuals are induced contribute to the Southern Tariff Asso- ciation and the American Taxpayers' League the witness answered in & way | characterized by the Senators as “eva- | sive.” At one point Mr. Arnold admit- ted that some of the books showing the | financial transactions of these organi- | zations prior to 1928 had been “thrown into the waste basket” or otherwise de- stroyed. “Why were thesé books destroyed?” demanded Senator Blaine. “We had no further use for them,” ed Mr. Arnold. “I am_curious to know,” continued Senator Walsh, “how you induce people 10 contribtue to your taxpayers' league.” “We tell business men about the poli cies of the league.’ declared Mr. Ar- nold, adding that in 1924 the league | bhad indorsed the tax revision n recommended by Secretary of the Treas- ury_Mellon. ‘Well, what have you done. since | 1924?" asked Senator Walsh. “We have been getting men to study | the tax question,” declared Mr. Arnold. | Western Centributors Bared. A little Jater Senator Blaine read & letter found in the files in Mr. Arnol office in the Munsey Building in Was ington, indicating that the Taxpayers' | League was opposed to a Federal inheri- tance tax and also was working to have the corporation income tax reduced. From a transcript of Mr., Arnold's hooks for 1928, Senator Blaine read va- | rious items, showing contributions by | corporations in Kansas City, Missouri | and other cities of the Middle West and Far West, to the Taxjayers' League. He asked Mr. Arnold whether these entries in the books were correct. - “I can't recall the details,” replied the witness, “but I suppose they are all right. When we go into a city “We try not to miss anybody.” ‘While contending that he did not ‘have anything directly to do with the National Council of State Legislatures, Mr.:Arrold admitted that several shou- sand letters addressed to members of State Legislatures had been sent out from his office in the Munsey Bullding. | He said they were signed with a fac simile signature of Mr. Kirby with hs Senator Blaine called attention to the fact that Mr. Arnold had written 8 letter recently suggesting that money be solicited for the Southern Tariff Association from the railroads Senator Blaine asked whether this Jetter was the result of disclosures at the lobby investigation that the Con- necticut Manufacturers’ Association had collected money from the raliroads. Mr. Arnold said that the Taxpayers' League had in the past solicited money from from the railroads, but the Southern “Tariff Association had not. “Your letter would indicate that you | wil : of Raleigh. i | timore: statement 10 be true. “I didn’t want to be dragged into this case.” Lewark said. “I didn’t voi- unteer as a wiiness. They came and got me. I was at the Department of | Justice a1l day Saturday and of course 1 had to tell them the truth. They had | some other folks in another roow, but I don't know who they were.” “I'm not talking to anybody but the government people.” Lewark said. “Would you know McPherson if you saw him?" “I ought to know him. He's a friend | of mine. I've known Bob McPherson | for a vear.” Lewark asserted with em- phasis. “T tell you I didn't want to ! get mixed up in this.” | Talked ta Many. ! Having, learned that Lew k's name It was|had been in the hands of the defense | fectly proper for Mr. Rover to dslay brought out that the firm had con-| for some weeks prior to his interrogation | sending him a subpoena to appear be- tributed $500 to the Taxpayers' League by the prosecution, the conductor was |fore the grand jury, because of other and on one occasion requested. Arnold | asked it Mr. Leahy had not talked with matters that were being attended to in him a month ago. “Y¢ wasn't a month ago,” he replied. | ell, recently, then. H ‘ve talked with & lot of people,” he | said. | Lewark's car was plloted by Motor- | man Jorden T. Green of the Washing- ton Railway & Electric Co.. Who also was questioned by the Department of | Justice. The street car on which the | pair was operating left Soldiers’ Home | four minutes after midnight on the night of the Park Lane tragedy, traversing Petworth by way of Georgia avenue. A total of 10 fares was collected on the trip to the War College. The car ar- rived at Ninth street and New York avenue at 12:23 o'clock and at Ninth and F streets two minutes later. Garnett. Melvin Frye, taxicab driver, has sworn to an afidavit “identifying” | McPherson as the passenger he carried fiom Fifteenth street and New York avenue to an alley in the rear of the | Park Lane about 1'o'clock onethe fatal | night. Denies Statement. McPherson has denied the taxicab driver's statements, claiming he was in bed at the home of his parents at 1| o'clock that night. His parents have corroborated this claim. The Government now is checking | carefully the testimony given by the conductor, with & view to seeing if it fits into thrl;:ld!. 1"hll the ‘nr‘," tes mony is rega; as important, however, is attested by the fact that Prosecutor John E. Laskey decided abruptly Satur- day afternoon to proceed with the prose: cution, Raising Defense Fund. It became known today that friends of McPherson have begun raising a “defense fund” in his behalf. Circula- tion of an appeal has been reported. The appeal is quoted as declaring Mc- Pherson is being “persecuted” as the result. of “political” pressure and urgini all citizens of Petworth and elsew to rally to the support of “Bob” Mec- Pherson, both moraily and financially. ‘The petition, it is said, is signed by Clive Wilson, who resides on Upshur street, several blocks from McPherson's home, and who is employed at the bank whete McPherson was a bookkeeper. DR. J. E. INGLE RITES TO BE TOMORROW Episcopal Clergyman Was Member | of O0ld Washington Family, Funeral services for Dr. Julian Ed- ward Ingle, 91 years old, one of the oldest Episcopal clergymen in the United States, native of this city and member of an old Washington family, who died in Raleigh, N. C., yesierday, be conducted in Hines' funeral parlors, 2001 Fourteenth street, tomor- row morning at 9 o'clock. Interment will be in Congressional Cemetery. Pre- liminary funeral services are being held in Raleigh this afternoon, the services i being conducted by Bishop Joseph | Blount, assisted by Episcopal clergymen Dr, Ingle was born in & house which occupied the site of the present House Office Building here. Dr. Ingle, who had made his home in Raleigh since his retifement from the active ministry in 1910, is survived | by his widow and one son, Bassett Ingle of New York. His education was received at Ritten- house Academy, Washington, the Epis- copal High School, Alexandria; the University of Virginid, and the General ‘Theological Seminary, New York. His first assignment wi at St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, In 4, where he was assistant rector. He was slso chaplain of the Church Home in Bal- later he became rector at Ascension Church. Westminster, Md., and Trinity Church, Woodbridge, N. J. Accepting a call to Holy Innocents Church, Henderson, in 1879, he re- mained in charge of that parish for 30 years. ‘The diocese of North Carolina con- ferred many honors on him. He served as dean of the diocese for a number of years, He was also examining chaplain, secretary of the diocese of North Caro- lina for over 25 years, and deles to three triennial gener: conventions of the church. He was a trustee of St. Mary's School and St. Augustine’s School. the day, Arnold rose from his seat to appeal to the committee to study the books of the two organizations more carefully. “You have charged that T have gotten money that doesn't belong to me,” he said haltingly. “Won't you please send somebody down to go over the books?"” “Have you your income tax returns | tion next to the three Times reporters * 'BROOKHART NAMES SENATORS WHO ATTENDED “WET" DINNER the Senate recently mentioned Senator nded this dinner. sald Senator Brook- ‘or Smoot was as much { (Continued From First Page) | speech he made in ST 7 — |in which he had forcement. Referring to the action of | Smoot of Utah atte Sir Esme Howard In deciding to forego “I want to o in future the diplomatic immunity ex- | hart, “that Sc! - tended to foreign representatives, Sena- | disgusted at the lquor arinking as I tor Brookhart continued: was, I do mot want to _put out any “I am ready, If the other ambassadors | suggestion that Senator Smoot ook & do not do the same, to compel them by | hip flask or used one. Senator Smoof law to do so." | said the other h?n_v .:‘t‘n:g. he had no Senator Brookhart said that the first | recollection of this party. first time he came to Washington in| Senator Brookhart said he had sprung 1896 there was a bar in the House the dinner party at Senator smrx:’lls:x!l; restaurant. In order to show that there | denly and that he did not immediately has been a marked improvement si recoilect it, but that since then Se prohibition, Senator Brookhart Smoot had told b clared that he u'k “more drunk Con- m-r‘nbrr n‘x!e‘ gn:ts'; ressmen in & week” at that time than 1 was ] Bla be seen In the whole city of Wash- | dent Hoover.” said Senator Brmvkv'::;:-' ington now. . “over prohibition en!orcrmra:. 1::" Vas Senator Brookhart said that when he | Ington when I spoke of th=s "mt~ som arrived in Washington he was invited| He exonerated Senator Smi but to a number of dinners, but that he|any part in the liquor drinking, was not invited a second ‘:!me_ |\ as for the Wall Street pmtv, ‘:::: Turning_his _attention to the bad|Senator Brookhart, “the Senatct CTUR effect of aleohol on the human system, | Utah has got to take care of BIESC Senator Brookhart said he noticed Senator Brookhart said tha B cently a statement that the Presbytes Senator Gooding of Idaho was among | Hospital in Chicago has not used as | those at the dinner. kA | much as a_quart for medicinal purposes | “Gooding and I did not :1 G | since prohibition has been in effect and |said Brookhart. “As to wheife | fhat the Mayo Hospital follows the same | other bovs took them or not, they can policy. answer for themselves. “Belongs Among Poisons.” Between Kahn and Loomis. “It s unfit for medicine,” Senator | ‘At the dinner table, Senator Brook- Brookhart continued. “It 1§ & polson | hart said, he was seated between Otto and belongs among the polsons.” |Kahn and Mr. Loomis, the claim rep- The Senator said his expertence as | resentative of Kuhn Loeb & Co. snd tor of soldiers the J. P. Morgan i:‘n: ':.“am;rm;mflm; c::“m: ;.‘:; He said botn of them tackled him i to railroad valuation legisia- ORARSY: 49’ biS BAR WM Tooose.” o e proposed to take up with At this point Senator Tydings, Demo- | the Senate interstate commerce com- crat, of Maryland, asked Senator mittee. Brookhart if he would permit an in- He said that Mr. Loomis dnflnr ;‘P‘t; rookhart said he would not dinner took one of the beautiful flasks out of his pocket and poured out yield because he wanted to see the tar- | & drink. Senator Brookhart sald that iff debate continue as rapidly as pos~{ he had enough experience to know that sible, and that he would not have takend the liquor had a heavy alcoholic con- the floor at this time except for cer- | tent. At the close of the dinner, he tain circumstances which had arisen. |sald, he and Senator Gooding “broke Senator Tydings started to say he |away" He said that Gooding had told wmed to ask a question, but Senator | him that he had been approached on Bfookhart repeated that he would not yield for an interruption. Senator Brookhart next stated that there had been some mention in the newspapers of a confliet between him- self and District Aitornéy Rover. He said there was no such confiict. The Senator said he thought it was per- troversy with Presi- ing railroad legislation by those at the | dinner, Converses ‘With Edge Senator Brookhart said that as he was leaving the dinner Senator Edge of New Jersey said to him, “Do you know who you were in between here tonight?" “1 said.” went on Senator Brookhart, “‘Well, I had some suspicion of it.' He sald, ‘Well, you had Kuhn, Loeb & Ci on your right and you had Morga Co. ‘on your left’ He said, ‘Don’t you think you got contaminated just a little?’ " I said, ‘Well, I think not, be- cause 1 have been vacoinated against the district attorn office. He then referred to the reccfd effort to bring | about more rigid enforcement in Wash- ington. Cites Case of Reporters. Senator Brookhart turned his atten- cluded that my vaccination took, be- cause I was not invited (o the next dinner.” Senator Brookhart read to the Sen- ate a letter which he recelved this who were sent to jail for declining to answer certain questions before the grand jury. “I think the Washington Times prop- erly pointed out that there had been him that he did re- | the long and short haul clause regard- that stuff.” and I guess they con- | DAWES HAS BRIEF TALK WITH HOOVER Ambassador Later Goes jo State Department to Con- fer With Stimson. Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, Amer- ican Ambassador to Great Britain, is at the White House for a two-day visit preparatory to going to New York to sail Friday night for his London post. With Mrs. Dawes and their daughter, ' Mrs. Carolyn Ericson, the Ambassador arrived at the White House at 9 o'clock and soon afterward was closeted with ' the President. ‘They talked for about an hour, when they parted company temporarily. the President - entering upon his engage- ments for the day and the Ambassador going to the State Department to con- fer with Secretary of State Stimson. The arrival of Ambassador Dawes ai the White House offered the President his first opportunity to talk with him since Dawes successfully promoted on- versations with Prime Minister Ma donald and initiated the correspondence between the latter and President Hoo ver, which resulted in a virtual agree. ment between the two governmenis as to a principle to follow at tne forth- coming disarmament conference in ar- riving at naval parity. It is also the first time the President has had an op- | portunity to discuss personally with thc Ambassador the forthcoming five-pcw:r disarmament conference and the pro- gTam to be pr by this Govern ment, It is understood also that the President will during the Ambassador's visit announce his appointment to the American delegation to the London con- ference, Much to Be Discussed. Naturally there is much to be dis- cussed between Mr. Hoover and Am- bassador Dawes, Their conversations are expected to cover a wide variety of subjects, touching upon the relations between the two governments. The Ambassad®r had only a brief talk with Secretary Stimson in the lat- ter's office when they had to be inter- rupted because of the hour arriving for the Secretary to attend the Tuesday cablnet meeiing. Ambassador Dawe: said that ks would make some calls a the State Department while awaiting the Secretary’s réturn. This permitted him to talk briefly with Underseeretary of State Cotton and Assistant Secre- tary of State Castle. The Secretary returned to the building about 11 o'clock and he and the Ambassador re- sumed their conversation. Not the slightest change In either the appearance or manner of this pic- .uresque American statesman was noted by his old friends. His service in Lon- don has not altered him In the least. | discrimination in not issuing summons | to United States Senators.” Senator Brookbart added, however, that he wanted to say to the Times that he is going before the grand jury and answer questions and that, in his opin- ion, it is up to the Times “to advise their reporters to do the same.” Senator Brookhart declared that | “confidences will not do when it comes to law enforcement.” “I want to give the administration praise for what it has done to enforce the prohibition laws” said Senator Brookhart. “Buf there are some big things that the administration has not done which I intend to mention.” Senator Brookhart said that he had | recently traveled along the Canadian | border from the Thousand Islands to Vermont and that there was not a sin- gle prohibition agent stationed along that border. The enforcement of pro- hibition, he said, on that stretch of the border ' wax intrikta8 to“the immigra- tion and customs services. He sald that there were not enough immigration and Boston, Mass., Noveriber 2, 1929, and | which he puffs incessantly. He ap- was addressed niator Brookhart. It | peared to be just as democratic an <was nn}efl N Mintone. The let- | friendly and as good humored as dur- ter _rear : ., Lollow: ing the period he served in Washington | confirmed. The East may be effete, but | the comical States of Kansas »nd Iowa, | common _reporters of Washington who morning. It was dated Quincy House | He atill clings to his underslung pipe, “If the Inclosed represents your ides of the ethics of & guest invited to a pri- vate dinner (the inclosed was a clipping telling of Senator Brookhart'’s summons before the grand jury) to broadeas! tales about his hosts, the suspicion that you are a charter member of the Great | American Polecat Club seems amply as Vice President and as director of the budget. Refuses to Be Interviewed. The Ambassador lrpelnd happy and willipg to converse with newspaper men with w he came in contact as old friends, Lut not for the purpose of in- terviews. He positively refused anything bordering on an interview, expiaining that being an Ambassador gives him a perfect alibi to say “no” to newspaper men's inquiries ‘The Ambassador returned to the ‘White House in time for luncheon and decided to go to the Capitol for & brief it this afternoon. He said he was anxious to «<all upon his old friends in the Senste and to redew acquaintanees. A dinner party will be given in the Ambassador’s honor at the White House it 1s mot yellow, and I notice that all this kind of cheap snooping comes from: You might take a lesson in the code of honor among gentlemen from those preferred jall to_ information obtained in confidence. Pretty sickening dis- closure of a standard of honor of a Senator of the United States.” Doesn’t Knoew Writer. Senator Brookhart said that he did customs officials there to see that liquor not know who Mr. Mintone was. that was not. sm across the Canadian he might be a perfectly honest man. border: that the enforcement of prohi- | He said that it was true that Mr. ition was only incidental to their other Mintone did not know the circumstances duties. | Of.thll dinner. . Semator Describes Place. 1 want to say this," went on Senator tonight, to which 25 or 30 guests have been invited. Among them will be Senators Moses of New Hampshire and Edge of New Jersey, Henry F. Guggen- heim, who has been recently appointed Ambassador to Cuba, and several mem- bers of the foreign diplomatic corps in | Brookhart, “that mo man can invite “I went out,” continued Senator me to a dinner and talk to me about my duties in the United States Senate against my constituents and call that ‘confi- dence’ No man ecan invite me to a | dinner where crime is in evidence in | any way and say to me that because of his confidence as a host I shall conceal the crime or neglect to testify to the facts exactly as they occur. “That is w.at is the matter with thie | country. It is these infernal secret so- cieties of high soclety, these secret societies which think they are above ' the law, these societies which say the | law is for little men and not for big men. That is the thing that makes T wonw ll'olllb;‘e. in b:hln tfioun"lly' et By the Associated Prea “I have been through all of this ex-| INDEPENDENCE, perience many times before. 'This iden- __Handioapped. bu the sarme o mc tical thing is nothing new to me, I ool srror in whic! had 1t all as prosecuting attorney in he is held by his neighbors, county my county in the early days. I had |officers today continued their search for it as an officer of the National Guard, | George Hostetter, alleged assassin of Mr. and Mrs, Albert Weddle, who were where I exposed the officers of a regi- | ment who violated the law th my own | shot to death Sunday night as they sat in their farm home, near here. town, “1 got some of this same kind of | ;‘:L'-e‘lcv‘::l l‘l ‘:':tl,::m.lrl‘:ln fl‘::’l’l ':-.::r".)x Neighbors of the Weddle family told which I prize almost more. than any | Investigators they would not talk until Hostetter was eaptured, and others said they would never testify against the man, who usually was armed. An extra letter I have ever received, and a year later I was the guest of honor of those force of deputy sheriffs patrolled the community today at the request of resi- same officers and that same regiment, dents, who feared the trapper. and I got an advance for having & Ht- tle more nerve to tell the truth about this thing County authorities linked the slay- ing with the opposition of the Weddles to the ,proposed marriage of Hostetter SYSTEM CREDITED- IN AVERTING CRASH | i i Wega’™ it "oty farm only & short distance away. Miss e b Hunter, questioned yesterday, admitted Situation in Wall Street Held Similar to Money Crisis she and Hostetter had planned to be | married. Miss Hunter's sister, Maud, of 1907 and 1908. Brookhart, “to what I was told was the | worst place for smuggling liquor on the border. Tousaint Twombley is the | owner.” | Senator Brookhatt described the barns | and other buildings.on the place, which | he said he was told held liquor and automobiles to bring it across the border. “The owner of this place has a patrol of his own, said Senator Brookhart, “to watch for the Government immigration | patrol. ~As soon as the Government patrol is gone, in 10 minutes he has automobiles across the border with liquor bound into the United States. Three prohibition agents patrolling this road could put a st to this ¥|quw smuggling in a short time. | “I am not after the little fellows,” | continued Senator Brookhart, “I wish | to say that Andrew W. Mellon, the Sec- | retary of the Treasury, is to blame for this situation on the border. We voted him $50,000,000 to improve the pro- inibition force, He said he did not want | it and turned it down. Still he has put | no prohibition agents on this border. I want to call the attention of the President to this, too, for he is on the top. He should remove Secretary Mel- lon to get a Smedley Butler or some one else who is- willing to enforce pro- hibition and put him at the head of the department which has charge of en- forcement.” Discusses 1926 Dinner, .Senator Brookhart -then took up & uch-discussed dinner which he at-| tended In 1926, given by Walter J. Fahy. At this dinner, Senator Brook- hart has said, he saw much drinking. Senator Brookhart said that he had lost his invitation to the 1926 dinner, but that he held in his hand an invita- ' tion sent two years later to a_similar| dinner at the Willard Hotel. The in-| vitation, he said, describes it as a| biennial dinner to Republican Sena- | tors given by Walter Fahy. The invi-| tation, he said, contained the list of guests. That dinner; Senator Brook- hart, said, he did not attend, and he | would not give the list of guests. “I don't know if any booze was | served at this 1928 dinner,” said Senator | Brookhart, “but it was a Wall street dinner and the list of guests contained | with a view to influencing me SLAYING OF COUPLE SPREADS TERROR Fears of Victims' Neighbors to Talk Handicap Hunt for Suspect. co-owner of & 165-acre farm, said she opposed the match. ‘eddle’s body was found slumped in an easy chair in his home. Mrs. Wed- dle, who was found at his feet wounded, oAl A aiaaTores: died in a hospital yesterday afternoon Credit again is given in official Wash- | Tithout glying any information as to the ington to the Federal Teserve banking| Hostetter lived at the Weddle home system for what is regarded by those Aboucl 2 mnm. mN-mr his return last who have analyzed the situation ay the | YAr from Eiko, Nev., where he had been 1solation of the recent financial ‘erisis | Toan "t aceih tn ‘hase’ of Jeonnection 10 the stock market itself. Jand, a prospector with whom he had bunked. A grand jury dismissed the the names of many Wall streete: i The present situation is likened in Senator Brookhart raised a laugh : these quarters to that of 1907-08, with when he said that five members of the ' the difference that then the crisis ex- Senate had come to him and asked him | tended to the business and financia! it they had attended the Fahy dinner | fapric of the country because there was in 1038, i no Federal reserve system to intervene Brookhart sald that he had received ! to keep down interest Tates when large the invitation from Fahy while he was | uantities of capital were withdrawn in Yowa soon after he was elected in | from the speculative centers, 1926. He said he had not answered it) A5 viewed in official circles, the ulti- and when he came to Washington he mate result of the recent phenomenon met “the distinguished president co-|of the stock market will be the release temporary,” Senator Moses of NeW | of capjtal in large quantities for the Hampshire, and Senator Moses had ' hond and mortgage market and the cre- asked him why he had not answered |ation of a considerable reserve for gen- the Fahy invitation. L, e e ot | 16 waa expianed that many Siaies triend of MOEriy ette and | an nicipalities have been holding {rePd ought w0 g0 (o the dinner. 1 in | 1oy municieel true that at one time Fahy was a|io obtsli. what were regarded as fair friend of Sensor Norris and Senator!prices, and that with the general wave La Pollette. I went to the dinner and ‘o¢ speculation diminished more advan- the first man I met there was OL0, tageous markets for these securities Kahn. 1 did not recognize him as &' youid be presented, with an extension particular friend of Norris and La Fol- in public improvements and a conse- lette.” ot I Nart’ sald that the ' Quently increased market for labor. & lig e iece 1rtha "hecegtion| NOT CLASSED AS JOKE. for the last four years?” Chairman Caiaway asked. “Your corporation or income taxes paid by the organiza- h-+ discovered a new source of revenue in ‘e railroads,” remarked Senator B * M 'Arnold said that he had found lead” in sojiciting money for the “sociation. : was concluded for Wh~ the hearine tions?"” Arnold sald the organizations had paid no taxes of any kind, not being subject to income or corporation tax. Senator Caraway directed him to fur- nish the committee informatior show- ing the amount of income tax he has paid in the lash four years. Arnold was told to apepar again tomorrow. rinking_took place in the 3um. ‘llc added that among those ' present was Willlam 8. Vare, Senator- elect from Pennsylvania. Some 10 “A curtain or a cover was lifted from | Highlands Citizens’ a table on which there lay a lot of very much dej last night when, beautiful silver hip fla continued after the mee adjourned, they found Senator hart. “The guests were 'all of their automobile tires flat, r themselves. The flasks | They apparently were the victime of were filled with Scotch or something | the youthful jokesters, who diligently else. Some of the guests did &Ip them- | openad the valves on ail the automobile aelves.” 3 |tires. The eleventh precinct police are Senalor Brookhart referred to & investigating. -~ Assoclation were ! up their bonds because of an inability | members of the Washington | da. charges, reporting that there was in- sufficient evidence to convict. L FEDERAL POSTS VACANT EXAMINATIONS LISTED Civil An- nounces Competitive Tests of Ap- plicants for Appointment. Service Commission ‘The following open competitive ex- aminations have been announced by the | Civil Service Commission: Geneticist ((sugar beets), $3,800 to $4.400 & year; assistant geneticist vege- | table ecrops), $2,600 to $3,100 a year | Bureau of Plant Industry. for duty In field or in Washington. Assistant edi- tor, $2,600 a year. Bureau of Standards, Depariment of Commerce, Was Assistant medical officer (dermatology), $3,000 = year, United States Public H=|th Rllis Bexvice. N. Y. ho! ver, Government Printing Office, at $1.20 an hour with extra al- lowance for overtime, Sunday and holi- y work. Under laboraf apprentice, $1,200 a year: minor labora appren- tice, $1,020 & year, departmental service, g the Bureau of Standards. Tests include elementary physies or ! miles to the gallon at a cost of 7 cents. IMPOVERISHED 1 at Low By the Associated Press. Graziano claims to have hit on an will serve as a substitute for gasoline The invention was inspected by O. A.| Eskuche, former chief engineer for the ash Motors Corporation, and N. E. O'Connor, an airplane inspector during | the World War and now with the | Studebaker Co. They said that at least | it was “not fraudulent.” Just eto show that his idea is all right, yesterday, Graziano took an au- tomobile, the tanks of which he said were filled with fuel oil, and drove 45 miles an hour in Central Park. Graziano’s invention consists of two small compartments to be added to an ordinary carburetor, in the first com- | partment, he sald, the fue! oil L!‘ “chemicalized” and broken. Next it is sprayed into the second compartment, | where it is vapor by heat from an Joseph Graziano, poor Ttalian immigrant, believes he h: buretor that will revolutionize the automobile world. makes it possible to burn fuel oil instead of gasoline, he says, and results in/50 | 'WAY TO BURN FUEL OIL IN CARS]| Engineers Inspect Immigrant's Invention, Which He Says Will Triple Mileage NEW YORK, November 5.—Out of an old pot. an ancient cook stove and a dream has grown an invention which Joseph Graziano, Italian immigrant, hopes will put him in a class with John D. Rockefeller. Fuel oil can be bought for 7 cents a gallon. ARMS PARLEY SITE -AGAIN CONSIDERED Objection to London Climate and Location of Hotels Given as Cause for Action. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 5.—The Express today sees a possibility that the whole question of the meeting place of the five-power naval conference called for January may be rediscussed. The newspaper understood that the conference might be held at Torquay, a favorite Devonshire seaside resort, in- stead of in London. It said the for- eign office was considreing the mattery in view of objections raised agaifisi the Winter climate of London ai | considerable distances separatifig the hotels at which the delegatés would stay. ¢ The Express bcleves \hag if a fresh loestion is ruggested, France will make the counter-suggestion that the French Riviera be used. Prime Minsiter Macdonald, making an eagerly awalted statement in the House of Commons today upon his re- cent trip to the United States, ex- pressed thanks to President Hoover, the cabinet, the Senate and Representa- tives for the welcome they gave him. They showed the best kind of friend- ship, he said, by the candor with which they exchanged views and the straight- forwardness with which they raised and discussed questions of delicacy. Has Little to Add. Mr., Macdonald remarked that he would have little to add tc what had been printed in the press. His discus- sions with Premier MacKenzie-King of Canada had been only provisional. Although he had had to raish some questions that might easily have been presented to.the public in such & way as. to reawaken old prejudices, from beginning to end he had found noth- ing but thoughtful fariness-and a de- sire to co-operate an to place facts and issues justly before the oeuntry. “No Ambassador could h: received & warmer welcome,” he said. “No gov- ernment or people could have opened their doors, their minds and their hearts more to a guest.” Mr. Macdonald explained that he had gone with no agreements in either his | mind or his pocket. He had gone “to | try ‘by personal contact to establish a new relationship between two nations, on mutual understan I must leave the result to fructify in action.” PEACE “DAMPER” EXPLAINED. Gra uretor —P. & A. Photo. TALIAN CLAIMS er Cost. idea to create a vapor from fuel ofl that and give three times gasoline’s mileage the * ordinary spark plug. :‘hon used in the same manner as gaso- ine. Graziano said he had worked on the invention 10 years, while living in vir- tual penury with his wife and eight children. He sald he conceived the idea in his native city of Palmero, Italy, where he saw vapors rising from the fuel oil in a stationary engine. He took home & can of the oil and, heating it in & pot on his kitchen stove, began experimenting Later, he said, he dreamed he saw air mixed with oil in certain cuantities, which caused an explosion #nd killed one of his nearest relatives. The dream induced him to start work on his car- buretor. FOUR DIE IN PLANE Aguascalientes Governor, His Secretary, Pilot and Air Line Official Are Victims. By the Associated Press. TOLUCA, Mexico, November 5.— | Bodies of four men were here today ‘nw.mu claimants after the crash of the Mexico City-Juarez mail early yesterday. The four men are: Manuel Carpio, governor of the State of Aguascalientes. De Valera, his secretary. John Oarmichael, pilot of the plane. Robert G. Lowry, 40, traffic superin- tendent of the air line, (he Corporacion Aeronautica de Transpories, formerly of Fort Worth, Tex. The four men left Valbuena Aero- drome, Mexico City, in a single-motored cabin ship at am. yesterday, apparently crashing a half hour or so later at Pena del Monte Ranch, near Villa Carbon, in the mountainous coun- _try on the rim of the Valley of Mexico. Plane Is Destroyed. ‘The plane was destroyed. Position of | stantly, Cause of the crash was un- determined, but airways officials said exceptionally bad flying wyeather pre- vailed, with heavy fog. @nd believed posstbly the craft lost its way in the mist. Persons discovering the wrecked air- plane learned the identity of the four men only through papers found in pockets of thelr clothes. In view of the condition of the bodies, the mayor of Toluca, which is the capital of the State of Mexico, asked per: on to arrange interment here, but’ officials of the Corporacion Aeronautica de ‘Transportes refused and said they would come for them. Lowry was said here to have mar- ried recently before coming to Mexico from the United States. Little was known of the pilot, Carmichael. Official Was Returning to Post. Manuel Carpio, governor of Aguas- calientes, recently flew from Aguascali- entes to Mexico City to appear in defense of his administration before the Mexican Senate, where political enemies had charged him with malfeasance in office, He was returning to his post when the accident occurred. The Mexican Chamber of Deputies, meeting last night, voted to drape the speaker's desk in black for nine days m_his memory. Mexico, the Yucatan La Vos de la Revo- lution and the Havana El Triunfo, was widely known in the United States, where he visited frequently. ART PROMOTERS CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS’ STAFF Felix Lake was elected president of the Art Promoters’ Club at its first business meeting last night at the Play- house, 1814 N street. officers elected were Isaac Miss Margaret Louise O'Brien, Miss Mae Vance and Jess Rohrback, vice presidents; Miss Mittie Burch, cor- responding secretary; Miss Deal Bogue, treasurer: Miss Marie La Oavera, re- and Miss Pauline chemistry. Full ini and application blanks may be ed_from the Civil Serviee - Comm 1724 F street northwest. . SECRET DISCUSSION TO SETTLE DOYLE CASE IN PROGRESS ‘The vapor is | Sudden Action of British Cabinet Is Revealed for First Time. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, November 5.—It is now pos- sible to reveal, owing to a partial indis- cretion of the Echo de Paris, what here- tofore has been a strict secret known only to a few diplomats and one or twn journalists—the story of - the British cabinet m-eting which put a sudden damper o the supposed results of the conversat._ns between President Hoover and Premier Ramsay Macdonald at Rapidan, . It will be recalled that an announce- ment was made at the close of those meetings that an important statement was about to be made. British jour- nalists went so far as to announce it this statement would concern the F dom of the seas. It is certain, in faet, that Hoover and Macdonald had reached a tentative dgreement on this vexed question. The exact details ,are un- CRASH IN MEXICO known, for Macdonald will not give a detalled explanation to his cabinet un- til tomorrow. Great Britain's Offer, But whatever the American contribu- tion to the ba may have been, it it g U _(Continued From Pirst Pe~e.) | was Allen's commanding officer when | he was attached to the third precinct. | Indications are, however, that the regular trial board may be reorganized appears that Great Britain's offer was i v to abandon the right «ef at Allen's request by the substitution | seizure olnntutr:l vgnell 'cl!rer;;:lz c;':: | of alternates recently appointed by the | traband on the high seas and to_dis- | Commissioners. These alternates are | Mantle naval bases not only in .he West plane the bodies indicated all had died in- | | Capts. F. W. Burke, Fred Cornwell, C. P. M. Lord, William E. Sanford, J. E. Wilson, Charles T. Peck and Inspec- tor Thaddeus Bean. The text of Allen’s letter to Attorney Burton follows: “Dear 8ir: While I feel that you | and Mr. Marye have done evefything that could have been done in my be- | half, in view of the repeated denials on | the part of the officiais of the District | of "Columbia having to do with the | Police Department to accede to any request on my part which wauld assure | me of an impartial trial, I cannot con- | scientiously accept your services in de- fending me before the Police ~Trial | Board. “It is perfectly clear that any de- | cision which may be reached by the ibolrd must be based upon an inter- | pretation of my letter of October 18, | 1929, to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, and, in | my opinion, it is perfectly useless to appear before that board if it is con- stituted of police officials, particularly when they absolutely refuse to permit | an examination upon their voir dire, a | right which is accorded to every person | in either civil or criminal cases and one which the courts have repeatedly stated {1s & matter of right. | “Had it been decided by the Commis- | sioners to give me a board which I would feel was impartial, there would have been a basis for making a defense, but I do not feel at liberty to ask you | and Mr, Marye to devote your time in | what seems to be a perfectly futile effort, because I am 1foc in a position to pay for your services unless there was | at least a chance of my being restored to duty, which would enable me to pay you: and while it is true that you have offered to proceed regardless of | that, I cannot consclentiously permit | you to do so. ot “While, as you know, I have secured | & temporary position as helper at the | Mid-City Gas Station, nevertheless you probably realize that I secure very little recompense for my services in this posi tion—barely enough to pay my house- hold expenses, as & matter of fact. Indies, but at Halifax and Esquimait. Before issuing the joint statement, however, Macdonald thought it best to inform London. A full cabinet meeting was immedi- ately called, including the heads of the three fighting arms, on air, land and sea. o Arthur Henderson read the premier's cablegram and added that he would be unable to agree to abandon the right to search and seizure until he knew more details of the views of the United Swates. Alexander, speaking for the admiraity, said that he was unable to agree to the dismantling of the bases which, in | his opinfon, if the Kellogg pact meant anything, would be quite unnecessary. Big Naval Budget. Questioned by Philip Snowden, chan- cellor of the exchequer, Alexander said that even after the agreement with the Unitéd States the naval budget, now about $280,000,000 would still be around $265.000,000 or $270,000,000. After this discussion it was decided to cable Macdonald to say nothing about these matters until after he re- turned to London and gave the cabinet fuller particulars. Thus is explained not only the de- lay in issuing the Hoover and Mac- donald joint statement, but the general surprise, after so much was promised, that it should contain so nmfl in the way of concrete promises. (Copyright, 1029.) —— PATROL BOATS SEEK T0 SEIZE LIQUOR New. York Customs Agents Move * to “Dry Up” Celebration After Election. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 5.—The New Carpio, former editor of Heraldo de | “There is yet another consideration | York Herald-Trisune today said which actuates my attitude, and it is | high-powered customs h’uhm-’ mn":zl this* boats have put forth o combat “You will probably recall that I once | forts of three foreign steamships to. before trusted my fate to the hands of | land 300,000 bottles of assorted liquors, & Police Trial Board composed strictly | brandy and champagne for consump- of police officials. I was ch: at | tion by election enthusiasts during and that time with an offense of which I |after the mayoralty election, felt perfectly innocent. Nevertheless,| The two fastest boats, carrying ma- they sentenced me to dismissal from the | chine guns, proceeded to the Raritan police force. But I was sustained by | River, where a short time ago escaping the thought that I was innocent and | rum runners raked a customs boat with went to great expense, time and trouble | machine-gun fire. Information that two British ships and a French vessel were lying 150 miles off the New Jersey Coast, waiting to land their contraband cargoes, was obtained through a tiny crystal radio receiver by two former Marine ser- eants who saw_service ther in the orld War, the Herald-Tribune said. They built their “cat-whiskers” set after the sensational rald a few weeks ago at Highlands, N. J., when the oper- ations of & liquor syndicate were un- coven:;‘ Be";w“io:n u‘::m Sunday and sundown yesterday s gt - 'y stood off Sandy | to present my appeal to the proper | authorities, My appeal was sustained. | T was restored to duty. If the alleged | feeling against me on the part of cer- tain police officlals was sufficient to cause a trial board composed strictly of police officers to sentence me to dis- missal on one occasion without just cause, they probably would do it again. “I have taken a great deal of pleasure in my work as a policeman. 1 dislike the thought of losing my position intensely. Nothing gives me more satis- faction than playing a personal part in the aj hending of major criminals. boat and. inter- In‘spite of this, Rowever, in view of the | cepted code messages between the three t determination of District m ships and owners of rum boats not to grant me an impartial trial, I feel it ““I:e-h.i lI‘m you to make a defense in my 3 “I want to make it clear that it is my intention to appear at the time Man Gets $5,000 it He Weds. NEW YORK, November 5 (#). Bruner, social secretary. % specified before the trial board and|and when he gets Jose) s ‘William E. Huml?’um ‘was appointed .f«’fm t to- e such defense as it is | Farland will !e'ulve fmnn\‘..inue: executive director he organization. ible in own behalf, which is all tate of his father. Meanwhile, the will A meeting of the new officers will be m: 1 can ajford to do under the con- directs that the money be held in trust held Friday night. ditions.” by other children, 3