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A—-2 *kE -DOHENY DEFENSE SHINLETTERFGHT *Untrue Fall Explanation of $100,000 Loan Ruled Inadmissible. - By the Associated Press. The defense scored in the bribery trial of Edward L. Doheny today when Justice Hitg upheld its contention that the untrue explanstion made by Albert B. Fall to the Senate ofl committee as to where he received $100,000 in 1921 could not be introduced against Doheny. ‘The letter, written in December, 1923, told the committee that Fall, then Sec- | retary of the Interior, had borrowed the $100,000 from Edward B. McLean, pub- lisher of the Was] Post, and that he had not received money from Do- heny or Harry P. Sinclair. A month later Doheny appeared before the com- mittee and told them that he had sent $100,000 in cash to Fall on November 380, 1921, as & personal loan. Protection Attempt Admissible. i ‘The defense argued that the letter | could not be introduced against Doheny, | as he knew nothing of its contents and | did not know Fall was sending the com- munication. The prosecution argued that it was admissible to show that Fall was trying to protect Doheny. E. C. Finney, solicitor of the Interior Department, was called as a Govern- ment witness as soon as Justice Hitz taken up by the prosecu- reading carefully questions and before the committee. Do- ces in testimony Fa gave him 1n return for the $100,000, burst out: Fall “Are y:n“u"y!nl to get me to admit I lied about it?” Depby Testimony Offered. iigadiy betore the commitiee of the late Edwin the Nevy, by, former Secretary of vy, TRIPARTITE NAVY PACT SEEN AS U. S. * AND JAPAN AGR m i by i g i : i i E E [ E t i ; ? % 4 ge8 i ] | ] sEE A 3 America, will on Italy now to produce some concrete on naval requirements, instead of merely demanding parity with the strongest continental navy. ‘The French never have concealed 724,000-ton im Was that 1t o3 ible for lans to up ] t.hmnlmzw 1‘; ‘might u:e‘ poms ible '&’ ap- y grant er parity in ean and in the Atlantic, ts. Unofficial reports credit Grandi with ess to consider a compromise with ardieu some such lines, Once the Pranco-Italian parity controversy is ironed out, the Anglo-French tonnage differences automatically should lend'o themselves to solution. ‘The British are not concerned much with the kinds of ships into which Prance puts her tonnage. What John_Bull wants to avold s an exces- ;lve Prench big cruiser and submarine orce. U. 8, Group Reveals Strain, Becretary Stimson and all of his col- lJeagues reveal distinct traces of fal and anxiety, At least one of them succumbed to chronic insomnia. They are doing their best to keep their frazgled nerves from giving way under the strain, but admit it is a task, As some indication of the tensity in the situation, Becretary Stimson has canceled a projected talk over the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System next Sun- day and has requested that no other American delegate should address the home radio audience. The London newspapers now report the conference under the gloomiest of headlines. An eminent British states- man, not identified with the conference, told The Star’s correspondent today that if its leaders had the courage and vision, they would hold all further de- Mberations in public. The result would be, he declares, that world opinion would take by the nape of the necks, the statesmen who have blocked the con- (!l;jnu and shake them into decisive wsction. REED MEETS MATSUDAIRA. LONDON, March 14 (#).—The Amer- ican and Japanese naval delegations were said in well informed quarters this afternoon to have achieved an agreement which is only dependent on confirmation from the home authorit! Senator Reed and Ambassador Ma sudaira, two old friends who have been threshing out the complicated difficul~ ties between the two countri met again this morning and observe leduw believe that they had nnm big task which they reported w) are to have all but accomplished included ttlement of the Japanese claim for ?et cent cruiser ratio. This ha¢ - tl‘:: nm?dm:l uum'fllu block ce Inf negotiations. Just fl\mm;ent is projected was mot indicated, but well informed persons i KR THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, “PURSUIT TRANSPORT” PLANE DEMONSTRATED HERE DISCOVERER OF NINTH PLANET THRILLS ON SEEING NEW WORLD| Former Kansas Farmer Boy Fulfills His “Kid" Sister’s High School Prophecy of Years Ago. BY CLYDE TOMBAUGH. 14 P).— p] er X telling him I gsi 5 § § 2. 38% Zsig £ i i o i ¥ b . i i ¥ k] B g, § L i : kid uncle used to tell en I got all the books about stars and the skies I could find. bool guess my kid sister sized me up right in the high school prophecy at Burdette, Kans,, for she had me dis- covering & new world. was goin, interested . | sun, and is “at least no “One day last Fall I just decided I to do what I wanted to do e world, 1 had always been in Lowell Observatory at they to Dr. d ask for _a job, wouldido” any kind of work. And they put me to work on the dome, in which I later took the picture which revealed ‘this new planet, “I guess T'll just keep on tak pie- tures of stars. That is what I like to do. I am studying Mars and the moon now. Thereis enough here to keep me | busy for a long time. MAY BE BIGGER THAN EARTH. Planet Discoyery Is Second for Mathematical Astronomy. Discovery of & new world, probably larger than the earth, brought to mathematical astronomy today its sec- ond achievement of the kind. new and nameless planet, whose actual ce eptunian space was first detected last February 18 by an astronomy-loving farmer boy from Kansas, was heralded by an an- nouncement here yesterday by Dr. V. M. Slipher of the Lowell Observatory. A strange “blotch of light” on a photographic negative, registered by an extremely delicate instrument at the observatory, led to the discovery, hnnL- ing the known number of major plane in the solar system to nine. ‘The new body is approximately 45 times farther from the earth than the aller than the earth.” Like Neptune, it cannqj be seen by the naked eye. The task now remains to determine its size, exact distance from the earth, :::4 orbit and other planetary character- cs. Two_years before his death, Dr. Per- cival Lowell, founder of the local ob- servatory, announced calculations on the transneptunian planet, and, al- though he never had seen it, his com- putations indicated that such a body must exist. BAND CONCERT. By United States Soldiers’ Home Band rel , John 8. M. Zimmermann bandmaster and Anton Pointner assist- ant leader. in Stanley Hall, tomorrow at 5:30 o'clock: March, “U. S. Pleld Artillery” Overture, “Britanicus”..... Entr'acte— ‘Trailing Arbutus’ Gem.ydfmn musical comedy Prince of Pilsen” Fox-trot, “My Bin". Whaltz suite, “Dreams ale, “Sixty Miles an Hour”. e “The Star Spangled Ban! ] believed it included concessions on both sides. Observers say that if this agreement has been achieved, it is not one of the outstanding features of the conference but 1s of paramount importance at this ment. ' m“‘l‘hls is so because it would permit of a three-power agreement between the United States, Great Britain and Japan | it the conference failed to settle the Prench question and the Franco-Italian ‘Waldteufe: Hagar problem. A meeting between Secretary of State Stimson and Foreign Minister Grandi of Italy this afternoon featured renewed energies of the conference. The Italian foreign minister later will see Foreign Minister Briand of France. From all directions pressure was being brought to bear on the Franco-Italian deadlock. Prime Minister Macdonald vesterday pulled the conference from the brink of a precipice, not as head of | the British delegaticn, but as chairman of the conference charged with keeping the machinery going, and today Sec: retary Stimson was hard at work on the negotiations. Conference Set for Sunday. The British and French statesmen will review the whole conference posi- tion Sunday. ' on igraliand today” by be. AppoIDL: was . - | ;c:;fm of ;. ‘mv technical ':onnlzm ly what changes may be required in the under the Washington treaty for old ships. In Purim Play Demonstrations of the fast Fleetster monoplane, shown above, which s being considered by officers of the Army Alr Corps for pursuit squadron tra service, began y at Fleld and the Anacostia Naval Air Sta- tion. The Fleetster is faster than any. military plane in standard use in either the Army or the Navy and can run away 'm; eight persons aboard from a single-seater fighter with the same horsepower motor. The lower picture shows Lieut. Alford J. Willlams, jr. holder of the United States air speed record, who has just resigned from the Navy to continue speed plane - ment, and Lawrence of the Con- solidated Aircraft Corporation, Buffalo, N. Y., which built the plane. —=Star Staff Photos. HOSPITAL RECEIVES $20000 BEQUEST Mrs. Louise Kauffmann Simp- son’s Will Is Offered for Probate. ‘The Children’s Hospital of Washing- ton receives $20,000 under the will of Mrs. Louise Kauffmann Simpson, widow of Dr. John Crayke Simpson, offered for probate in the District of Columbia Su- preme Court today. Her interests in The Evening Star Newspaper Co. she leaves in trust to the three nephews and niece, S, H. Kauff- mann, P. C. Kauffmann and R. M. Kauffmann Murray of Dunkirk, N. Y., or their heirs, to share alike. Samuel Hay Kauffmann and Henry G. Hanford, both of Washington, are named executors of the large estate, the residue of which is left to the three nephews, S. H. 'mann, R. M. Kauffman and P. C. Kauffmann. Other bequests under the will are as follows: To a cousin, Mary C. Mearns of ‘Washington, $20,000; to Mary K. Fracker of Zanesville, Ohio, another cousin, $5,000; to Elizabeth Boyd Reed of Greenwich, Conn., $10,000; to her namesake, Louise Kauffmann Sullivan of Passaic, N. J, $10,000; to Lane Kauffmann, son of Philip Christopher Kauffmann, $10,000; to Horton Simpson |of Albany, N. Y., brother of | her late husband, $5,000; to Caro- | line Simpson Stuart of Oonstantine, | Mich., sister of her late husband, | 85,000 to Catherine Josephine Murphy of Washington, $500; to Mar~ garet Brazel of Washington, $500; to Harriet Macqueen of Jamaica Plains, Mass., $500; to Florence m, wife of Horton Simpson, Albany, N. Y., $500; to Mary McCauley of Washington, $500; to Johnetta B. Sanger, nurse at Johns | Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., $500; to Hope Coiner of Washington, $200; to IJeute Murray, adopted daughter of Louis N. Murray and his wife, Barbara | Rauffmann Murray, $500, and to the | Assoctated Charities, $500. Mrs. Simpson died $500. last Sunday. 'CHANGE IN AIRPORT | Bingham to Present Proposal De- signed to Aid D. C. in Financing Project. A change In the municipal airport bill designed to give the District tax- payers more leeway in paying back to the Federal Treasury the $2,500,000 to ib' advanced by the United States to | establish the airport was announced this afternoon by Senator Bingham of Connecticut, who will introduce the bill this afternoon. In the report it submitted to Con- gress recently, the joint congressional Airport Commission recommended that the loan be paid back in annual in- stallments of $250,000 each. Senator Bingham said today the bill to carry out the recommendations of the com- mission has been modified to provide spent at the outset, the reimbursements would be paid by the District as the money is spent. To illustrate the effect of the change, Senatq Bingham said that if $1,000 of the total loan should not be spent for four years, the District would not begin to pay back that million dollars until one year after it was used. Stating it in another way, the Sen- | ator said that all of the money spent in any fiscal year would be paid mk during the next 11 years, the payments . beginning one year after the expendi- wure and continuing for 10 years. Sen- ator Bingham declared this arrange- . ment is fairer to the District than the original recommendation of $350,000 & year for 10 years, In all other respects, the bill to be ‘ntroduced this afternoon carries out the plan as already announced by the | commission to establish the airport near the south end of the Highway Bridge by acquiring the two privately owned flelds and combined them with the ground of the Department of Ag- riculture Experimental Farms, a por- tlon of Columbia Island and the Mill- tary Highway which runs between Hoo- ver Pleld and Washington Airport. HEART ATTACK FATAL TO HENRY B. MYERS Henry B. Myers, 41 years old, district manager for the Lehigh Structural Steel M | Co. and a lifelong resident of this city, A1 i3 MISS ANNE DWORKIN, Who wil take patt in the Purim pla y be present Sunday n at the synagogue, Fifth and I —=Star, Pl 3 died of a heart attack at his home, 33! Rittenhouse street, about 7 o'clock this morning, after he had been stricken in | Kauffmann of Washington and Barbara | POO! that in case all of the money is not | Wil {and colle PRISON CHAPLAIN PRAISES DRY LAW New York Has Improved Be- cause of Prohibition, Says “Bowery Bishop.” (Continued From First Page.) ment. Late yesterday a furore was stirred up in the committee room when Representative Celler, Democrat, New York, a committee member, accused the Massachusetts dry leader with co_-xfln( those on the stand. morning, immediately after Graham's announcement, Representa- tive Dyer, Republican, Missouri, sought LR ly arges made Ty et B i e s and liquor in violation of the law. Dyer, however, was unsuccessful, as Chair- man Graham ruled that a witness, Robins, then had the floor. Robins tes- tifled that measures before the commit- tee repeal of the eighteenth amendment or a change in the Volstead act did not have s “Chinaman’s Robins told the committee that both major parties were dry and “dare not be otherwise.” “Still Be a Saloon,” He Says. “Even the wets plously declare that do not want the saloons” he m “put & rose by any other name is still a rose. The saloon is simply & place where men drink liquor and more liquor, and modification, the Canadian system or straight-out repeal would bring us the saloon again in one form or another—even if we painted 1t white, sold lilles at the door and had Uncle S8am for & bartender.” National prohibition came, he said, because wet States would not allow dry States to be dry, and because “any social problem of such far-reaching effect, involving all the people, is ulti- mately forced to yield to national con- sideration and treatment.” Robins said prohibition grew from the tremendous underlying forces of na- tional development. He cited the urban movement as a deciding factor. “We began 97 per cent rural,” he said. “We are 54 per cent urban this morn- ing. A jver asleep in a lumber wagon is a different social factor than a driver drunk behind the wheel of an auto. If ever there was a personal Jiberty right to get drunk, that right is ed labor conditions, living standards and entertainment have made the American people dry in sentiment, e ed. n I-I.erg;ld o'I the t}:gfl Lv;;hen.|u -“coal. , he frequen! e _saloon mtnr“mnn'! cflb‘ adding that a “toler- able life” had done away with all that. Suftrage Power is Cited. Universal suffrage also functions, he declared. “Women, one-half of our race, who have borne the burden, suffered the cost of drunkeness, have in this generation come into full power of the ballot boxes and can protect themselves and their children from the curse of alcoholic liquor,” he said. Replying to Representative Sumners, Democrat, Texas, the witness said he desired no law enforcement legislation beyond that recommended b the Hoover commission, which he indorsed. “Including the abolitlon of jury trial?” asked Representative Browning, Democrat, Tennessee. “I do not consider the recommenda- tion an abolition of jury trial,” answered Robins, adding that giving President Hoover any legislation needed for en- forcement was the duty of Congress “rather than academic discussion of re- PR asserted if it were not for “me litan wet newspapers and spe- cial interests” prohibition now would not be & national issue. Denounces Wet Press. He testified there had been editorial- izing in news columns of great papers empl the “wet side.” This he denounced. Robins said this newspaper influence was sufficient to cause discus- sion, but not to change opinion. Re) tative La Guardia, Repub- lean, New York, told the committee that after 10 years there was too much disregard of laws to make enforcement BILL IS OFFERED | le. The witness blamed the “nolsy 20 per cent” for this, and La Guardia observed there was too much liquor drunk for 20 lcent of the American people to do it all. Callahan, the next witness, testified that great good has been brought about in the Bowery by the dry law. “Ten years ago there were 44 saloons in the Bowery; next year they dwindled to six,” he said. The witness told in picturesque lan- guage of “McGurk’s Suicide Hall," the “Tub of Blood” and similar places on the Bowery, which he said had now dis- appeared. He sald hundreds of men whom he knew 10 years ago who had lived “with- out God and without hope” now had homes, families, autos and radios as a result of prohibition. “I hope to God the dry law will stay on the books and be more consistently enforced,” he declared. ‘When he was called upon by the com- mittee, he arose from a seat in the second row of spectators. “When I think of the old days —," he L Then Mrs. Lenna Yost, who was in charge of the presentation of the dry tnesses today, motioned him forward toward the witness chair. Talking as he walked he took a posi- tion in front of the committee, then turned his back on the members and 0 | continued: “I was reared on the lower East Side of New York and there I was for 39 years a missionary.” Drank Rum When He Was 9. He sald he had had no education, but was drinking rum when he was 9. He asserted it was the influence of a “dear old grandmother” that started him away from liquor, but that he had become & “derelict” through the influ- ence of the saloon. It was & Christian mission that final- Iy made him & “man among men,” he said, adding that if “I had continued on as I was at 35, I would now be in e asserted that in his mission under present conditions, instead of having to put out a “dozen drunks a night,” only one a week must be ejected. Frank Dippel of the Brotherhood Mis- sion on Giard avenue. Philadelphia, told of & campaign to clean up “Old Fishtown” years ago. There were 35 saloons and 24 speakeasies then. Now, i he said they are closed and liquor is under cover, while ice cream sold onl ve taken the place of the so- F:oxlm Says Students Drink Less. The committee also heard Ralph H. White of New Haven, research secre- tary of the fact-finding committee on Connecu;‘:uc, hwm, schools had reduced thelr drinking since prohibition. “The youth of this generation in Connecticut,” he said, “have broken all h!lMllu&. r. Myer was a graduate of George Washington Universft; and was a mem- | ber of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternit He also was a member of the Columl Country Club, the Washington Board of Trade and a former member of the University Club. He 1s survived by his widow, Mrs. Alva i 1. Myers; two daughters, Miss Martha i A Myers and Miss Jane Myers, the lat- | ter 11 years old; and two sisters, Mrs. i A. L. Williams of this city and Mrs, Lee | Conwell of New York. Hlmbul"l. 8. C. once the terminus of the count first lengthy rallroad, 1s being rel the schorlarship and athletic records of - | their fathers. But when it comes to tting drunk and making careers of i) , those records are safely in the possession of the fathers, and no youth of today could get rted in such a career before he would be mmd from the student body.” te testified his commitiee was a private organization, headed by Horace :’;, Taft, brother of the late Chief Jus- ice. “The liquor law really is one of easiest laws on the lb’ntuu I:o:umt: enforce,” he % lcut courts get from 70 to per cent convictions, ppling with 1 gl:la that bootl MARCH 14, 1930. HERBERT HOOVER, JR., FINISHES WRITING JOB AT RICHEY CAMP Returns to Washington With Radio Talks and Maga- zine Articles. Worked Fast in Solitude He Failed to Find at the White House. Driven by the hustle and bustle of his father’s home, the White House, to seek the tranquillity he needed for the writing of several radio talks and maga- zine articles, Herbert Hoover, jr., re- turned to the White House today from the fishing camp at Catoctin Furnace, Md., his writing done. Young Hoover, who is vice president of the Western Air Express of Los An- geles, earlier in the week tried to do the writing at the White House, but found his father’s house not the place for the sort of work he wanted to do. Amid the trnvlgullmy of the Richey fishing camp, with only a caretaker about to attend to his personal wants, young Hoover plunged into his writing and got it out of his system in short order. The work done, he will soon return to Los Angeles. Herbert arrived at the White House last Sunday. When word reached the President’s aide that the young man wanted peace in which to do his writ- u:, the use of the camp was quickly offered by Mr. Richey and accepted by the President’s son. Two days of complete solitude the young man enjoyed. Yesterday Mr. Richey, with Delano Large, a nephew of Mrs. Hoover, went up to the camp. With the balmy breezes of Sprini tempering the air already, Presiden Hoover’s own thoughts are turning to woodland solitude and the trout that | | HERBERT HOOVER, JR. —Underwood Photo. abound in the brooks sbout the head- waters of the Rapidan River, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. It is expected that within a few weeks the Chief Executive will resume his week end visits to his camp on the Rap- idan, there to whip the streams and the river for his favorite fish. The season for taking trout begins A 1, and it is believed that the President will not tarry much after that date in getting out for the sport. It is the President’s intention to establish a miniature hatchery at his camp to augment the fish population of the already well stocked streams that form the headwaters of the Rapidan and to stock also the streams nearby for those who would fish outside his pre- serve. He will be assisted in the estab- lishment of the hatchery by Henry O’Malley, United States Commissioner of Pisherles. as compared with 20 to 40 per cent con- victions for reckless driving. It is & much easier law to enforce than the laws against driving under the influ- ence of liquor. “In fact, it is only when the boot- legger violates other laws—conspiracy, bribery, perjury, forgery and sometimes murder—that he can make bootlegging a paying business, and it is really be- cause of the difficulties of our courts in these more serious of- legging can exist.” ‘White offered the opinion that drink- ing assoclated with college fraternity life had increased in his State. the old days,” he said. “The youth who drink today are characteristic of the kind of boys who like to drink with women and are not adverse to doing things surreptitiously.” Yale Deans Are Cited. ‘There is a difference of opinion among the Yale deans regarding the ment and also the effects of the liquor laws on the character of the student body. Most agree, however, that cou- d;tzlzm have steadily improved since 1924, “At Wesleyan University the college authorities state that there has been an entire in the attitude of the students and the faculty toward drink- ing, so that the present time they have only about one disciplinary case a year in a body of 600 students. And for a student to be known to drink liquor at all is immediately followed by serious discriplinary measures, and a repeated offense means ‘dropped from the student body.’ d “There is, howle”m, some ell.:‘d"u‘tlm rinking, especially associated re- ‘mmln{ol.lumm and the fraternity life.” ‘White said his research w had sent him twice into Canada to study Canadian court records on cases of the necticut. After tario and a study of the general sta- government, he law observance of law in that country was United States that we could afford to double the national debt to secure it. dg; pcrmleug:m of Ontario and the sal erns of Zu:‘:e, however, have no sign of being a solution of the liquor problem, he asserted. “They do not prevent bogl.?:lng." White said. “Drinking has s lily in- creased under them and crime related to drink is rather alarmingly on the increase in these provinces. “Deaths in Connecticut from diseases that are more or less related to the drinking of alcohol,” he sald, “have been cut in half since prohibition. These are pneumonta, tuberculosis, cirrhosis of the liver and alcoholism.” Jail Rate Is Pointed Out. During the last 10 years under Hi- cense there was a steadily increasing jail rate for our population. During a three-year transition Perwd it fell three- fourths. Since this it has returned to about three-fifths of the old rate. Com- mitments to jail for drunkenness fell off seven-eijghths and have returned to about one-half the former rate. Com- mitments to the State Hospital for the Insane for alcoholic insanity fell off two-thirds during the first years o{‘goro- hibition, but have returned to ut one-half.” A questionnaire sent out by White to heads of public high schools of his State, showed, he said, that only one principal would admit that drinking was a_problem in school and only one himself, in favor of the dispensary system or any modification permittin, the sale of beer and wine. He said o per cent of the schools had replied. “Those who had knowledge of pre- rohibition conditions in the schools,” e said, “were almost unanimous in stating that the drink problem was not as serious as it was in the last years before prohibition. S8ome of them stated that there was some drinking among high school pufrlll!, but that it was not s0 serious as in pre-prohibition days, and there was almost unanimous con- sensus that conditions were steadily !mg;ovlnp" cIntyre, the next witness, presented on behalf of the gospel missions of the zens to uphold “with absolutely no com- promise now or forever” the eighteenth amendment. La Guardia asked about the plan to establish rescue missions in every city of the country, and the witness said they were intended to rescue ‘" fortunates now and in the future.” John W. Helmbold, superintendent of a Camden, N. J, rescue mission, in- troduced himseif as the “product of the saloon and the son of a drunkard.” Session Ends in Confusion. Yesterday's sesslon ended in confu- slon, terminated abruptly by Chairman Graham in the midst of a heated argu- ment am members of the committee. Mrs. Peal , who had testified on Wednesday, in company with more than a score of women, was called back to the stand for cross-examination and faced an accusation from Representative Celler, Democrat, New York, that she had Bl;fll!nud the committee from learn e true views of several of the womenI e ey e imony. He deman perm! l';lld rfii the transcript to prove his ol arge, This request was denied by Chair- man Graham and an argument ensued, with several committee members ex- pressing indi ed Celler's “insult” to the witness. Representative Sumners, Democrat, Texas, asserted he had never heard of such treatment. Representative Stobbs, Republican, Massachusetts, asked that. advisabllity of the eighteenth amend- | same type he was investigating in Con- | research in Quebec and On-| efficlency of the Canadian system of enforcement and the attitude of | so much in advance of that in the| , with the beer tav-| shown country a resolution calling on all citi-. r un- ing ! ation at what they term- | Dr. | | | | Mrs, Peabody be permitted to inspect e out any remarks the record and stri she might care to. tative Hammer, Democrat, made a motion that Celler's charges be stricken out. | At the hell:‘: of the discussion, Gra- SMITH CO. GROUP n adjourned. | Bondholders, Following Refusal of Receiver, Making Arrangements for Another Trial. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. WILMINGTON, Del, March 14.—Al- though Chancellor Wolcott on Wednes- day denied the motion for a receiver pendente lite of a group of bondholders for the F. H, Smith Co. of Wash! . counsel for the defense is going ahead with plans for the final hearing. Sen- ator Daniel Hastings of Delaware rep- resents the complainants, The final hearing will be held after an inspection of the books of the com- ny has been made and evidence thered to prove the points in the bill led. In denying the motion for a receiver pendente lite, Chancellor Wolcott held that the facts were not in accordance with the principles laid down hereto- fore in cases in which nfpflumm Was made for the appointment of a receiver pendente lite. Counsel for the complainants ex- plained that it was necessory to prove that facts. developed since the flling of the original motion for the appoint- ment of a receiver, warranted appoint- ment of a temporary receiver to pre- vent waste of assets of the company and then only in an ary clean-cut case. There are also still pending applica- tions by the Attorney General of Dela- ware for a receiver and revocation of the company’s charter. These two ac- tions are on the same facts al- leged In Senator Hastings' petition. CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA SUBIECT OF ADDRESS Robert W. Dunn of New York to Speak at Meeting in National Press Club. Conditions in Russia will be discussed Sunday night at 8 o'clock at a meeting in the National Press Club auditorium committee on justice for Russia. Robert W. Dunn of New York, author of “American Foreign Investments,” who has spent many will speak on “Russia’s Five % and pub- W Russia chairman . ‘The publie. | | | | ! | meeting Wi - ope: n to vel on the table and | PLANS REHEARING SENATOR ACCUSES CABINET MEMBER Blease Claims Offices Are Sold in Carolina With Brown’s Knowledge. By the Associated Press. ‘The assertion that postmasterships were being sold by Republican officials in South Carolina with the knowledge of Postmaster General Brown, was made in the Senate today by Senator | Blease, Democrat, South Carolina. : | Blease said the Postmaster General “continues to send nominations to this Senate when he knows that they have been paid for.” He spoke after Senator Brookhatt, Republican, Towa, had notified the Sen- ate that tomorrow he would submit to the Senate a final report on the in- vestigation of patronage conditions in the Southern States by the post office committee. Demanding to know why Blease had not placed his charges before the in- vestigating committee, Senator Brook- hart promised to go over the evidence of Blease, and, if it warranted, to re- . has done Amhln: I don't know it. want action and I am going to get it.” Senator Blease said he had been “reliably informed” that evidence had been placed before the Post Office De- t of the charges of the - ment for office by postmasters and rural route carriers. He said he understood Joseph W. Tolbert, Republican national committeeman for South Carolina, had submitted evidence to Federal officials. s loorx i&t‘o it," !ll: Brookhart, see new patronage com- mittee for South Cu(filnl ni:'u bad as the old one. I will say that condi- tions down there were intolerable be- fore. Joe Tolbert was just as bad as Howard in Mississippl.” Senator McKellar, Democrat, Ten- nessee, told Senator Blease to submit his evidence against nominees for Fed- eral offices and he would help fight tion if the facts war- by J. C, expenses. He also read a letter written self by Andrew F. McKnight of §) tanburg, which said: “I have been asked to contribute. “I can't contribute. I have had two to him- jpar- the enumerator’s place.” sald that Tolbert had told gt _HUSTON CLASHES WITH BLAINE AT LOBBY HEARING (Continued_Prom First Page.) company 10t so prominent” in ongress embodying the because it was the bill before Cyanamid pro- Worthingtan Letter Read. . __ Represen! North Carolina, era “We have got them in a hole.” Huston said he could not explain the rthington ing him a telegram expressing the that Huston would not see C. W. craft of Alabama. ‘The telegram said Ashcraft was com- |ing to see Huston and expressed hope | that “You will not find it convenient or necessary to see him.” “But if you do,” it added, “tell him not If he learns of Rave alsous The telegram was dated 16, 1929, which was after Hi came chairman of the Republican na- tional committee. e Met at G. O. P. Quarters. The witness said that Ashcraft saw him in the headquarters of the Repub- lican national committee, but no details of their conversation was given. He said later Ashcraft issued a state- ment which he did not regard as im- portant. . Huston was asked Senator Black. Democrat, Alabama, he knew what had happened to telegrams and letters between him and Worthington, which the Senator said had not been found In Worthington's files. “I do not know what happened to t.benz" Huston said, adding that he would be glad tb do everything possible to turn over to the commitiee data it wanted. Huston testified that money had been collected from power interests for the association while it was opposing the attempt of the power interests to obe tain Muscle Shoals. He said that the associatior nessee River and to the power compani through a survey of the river to reveal its power possibilities. Sources of Money. Mcney was obtained from Knoxville Chattanooga, Florence and Sheffield to Co. contributed $7,500 to the associa- tion at about the same time he made a speech against the company, “I always said there were no strings to any money contributed to the asso- clation and if any one wanted it back, they could get it,” he asserted. Questioned about a $20,000 contribu- tion from the Union Carbide Co., Huston said it had been turned over to his umm" 50 it would be availavie at any e. Huston asserted that all the money he had recelved had been turned ove¥ to the association. He sald he had so- g:.;m'g money from the Union Carbide obtained from th Chester ony.“u representative _of Farm Bureau Federation; testified before the Senate committee that bis organization advocated acceptance of the bid of the Cyanamid company.