Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1930, Page 2

BAN ONCANDIDATES N HANDS OF JUDGE ppeal Is Planned if Ruling Keeps Names of Two 0ff Ballots. By the Associated Press. _, RICHMOND, Va, September 20— The case of Jacob A. Garber and M. J. Putnam, seventh and tenth district Republicans, who failed to give 60 days’ motice of their candidacies for Congress, tonight was in the hands of Judge Julien Gunn Richmond _Circuit Court, with more court action looming :hhouln he return a decision adverse to em. The arguments of the two candidates for a writ of mandamus, forcing Sec- getary to the Commonwealth Peter Baunders to certify their names to the warious electoral boards, thus placing their names on the Nevember election Ballots, were heard by Judge Gunn to- day. rber is the seventh district incumbent. Judge Gunn took the case Ainder advisement, announcing he would Yender a decision early next week. Upheld by Opinion. ‘When notice of their intention to be- fome candidates had not been filed with Secretary Saunders by midnight, Beptember 5. he announced he would ot certify their names to the electoral boards. An opinion by Attornev Gen- eral John R. Saunders upheld this ew. ‘The law under which Secretary Saunders acted, requiring that 60 davs’ Rotice be given the secretary of the €ommonwealth by convention nominees Before a general election, was attacked At the hearing todav as “unreasonable and unconstitutional” by the com- Plainants’ attornevs. - Before the hearing began Mr. Garber #aid he intended using everv legal fheans to fight the decision of the sec- tary of the commonwealth, which kept his name off the election Hote. Appeal Planned. < Tn the event of an adverse decision from Judge Gunn, Mr. Garber said he d furnish his supporters with rub- Nearly a Fourth Of D. C. Population Arrested in Year A total of 108,305 persons, rep- resenting nearly one-fourth of the population of the District, were arrested by the Metropolitan Police force in the fiscal year ended June 30, last, These fig- ures were disclosed yesterday in a report submitted to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent cf po- lice, by Capt. L. 1. A. Edwards, personnel officer of the depart- ment. The 108,305 persons, the report showed, were responsible for 124,- 284 cases entered on police rec- ords for all offenses. The largest number of arrests were for vio'ations of the traffic regulations. PFifty-three thousand three hundred and ninety-nine were arrested for breaking the traffic rules. Misdemcanors were responsible for 37,836 cf the ar- rests. There were 2.654 arrests for felonies and 5,557 for viola- tion of the prohibition law CAMPBELL RENEWS REQUEST FOR GUN Meets D. C. Prosecutor’s Ob- jection to Examining Pistol, He Asserts. Examination by a defense expert of the gun that two ballistics authorities claim was used to fire the bullets that killed Mary Baker was demanded again yesterday by attorneys for Herbert M. Campbell, Virginia Highlands rea! estate man, after he had been released under bail of $30,000. A surprise conference between oppos- ing counsel in the Alexandria Corpora- tion Court room resulted in an agrvee- ment under which Campbell waived stamps at the election, November 4, e Virginia Supreme Court of Al Supreme w:;v. JJoes ot unt 'ovem| 3 e expressed the Intention of carry- ng the case to the United States Su- preme Court if necessary, and sald it ‘was possil tional House of ten. MUST SERVE YEAR FOR SLAYING MAIMER Alabama Constable Convicte: Murdering Man Who Crippled Him With Shot. PR SN By the Associated Press. < JASPER, Ala., September 20.—Con- This move Judge D. Lawrence G, hearing any of the dozen or more ¥itnesses produced by the defense. ‘The bond which permitted Campbell ble he would appeal to the|to depart from his ¢ell in the Alex- f Representatives if | andria City Jail calls for his appearance in the District Supreme Court October 7. A plea of not guilty will be entered in his behalf at that time. Charles Henry Smith, chlef of de- fense counsel, announced plans to con- duct a strenuous fight to obtain momentary possession of the Govern- ment exhibits as soon as the bond was signed. He sald he would use every means at his command to hasten the d of | new examination of the pistol turned over to the authorities by Campbell and the bullets removed from Miss Baker's body after her lifeless form was found April 11 in a culvert st the edge of Arlington National Cemetery. Pointing to the fact that District At- torney Leo A. Rover previously had de- clined to permit another inspection of ticted of the slaying of the man who | the Government exhibits because Camp- ago fired a shot which made | bell was a fugitive from Washington, two years Rim a _cripple, serve 12 months in . A jw ‘Walker County inal Court . = Indicted on murder charges for the #@laying of Newt Earnes, constable,| H. Hamilton of Auburn, N. Y., l&“:( first | be able to prove the fatal bullets were Eegree "maostaughisr. A ‘proter, Tatt mi ughter. , Tal PFrost, indicted with him, was freed. - Defense counsel Led Gray announ an ‘will be taken from the jury’s ~"Although he told investigating offi- eers following the killing of Earnest, t he shot the officer for revenge, on stand he pleaded self defense, iming he fired when JEarnest gave dication of reaching for a gun. Earnest was shot to death while a fending a_mock trial at Corona, Ala. Brewster Frost fired three shots at the efficer from an automobile in which Be had been driven to the theater by Taft Frost. Taft Frost was absolved of connee- fion with the killing in testimony of his brother who declared the former did not know he was armed at the time of the shooting. CANNON ACCUSED IN NEW CHARGES MADE BY ELDERS (Continued Prom First P non, jr. bearing the signatures of r Methodist ministers and calling for another investigation into the ac- tivities of the church official, has been forwarded to Bishop Willlam N. Ains- worth of Birmingham, Ala., chairman ©f the College of Methodist Bishops. = 'The complaint announced today would bring Bishop Cannon a second time before an investigation committee. The first investigation, concerning al- bucket-shop transactions, was at the Methodist Conference at Dallas Jast May when Bishop Can- non red before a general session of and expressed himself as being contrite. Letters Revealed Since. - Since the General Conference at Dallas the so-called Goldhurst letiers, maid to have been written by Bishop Cannon to H. Goldhurst of Kable & Co. have been revealed. Kable & Co. was the concern Cannon was alleged to have dealt with. It was indicated from these letters ti this company did not transact business like the ordinary ‘brokerage houses and that Bishop Can- mon was familiar with this matter. - The letters, sald to have been written several instances upon stationery of Anti-Saloon League of Virginia, were spread upon the pages of the Con- gressional Record of July 3, 1930. The Qongressional Record quotes a long- hand letter to Goldhurst, dated April 21. 1929, as follows: =“I ean get some additional advances when my friend is satisfied that sales are made, as I agreed, but he cannot understand failure to send regular statement of sales as is done by other Tpuses. Send at once to Richmond re- port of all sales. ‘Sincerely yours, James Cannon, jr. ZP, § Tell Al's friends not to count their chickens before they are hatched.” Now in New Light. - At the Dallas conference the hearing en charges against Bishop Cannon dealt for the most part with evidence af gambling in stocks through Kable & Co. In his appearance before the Assembly of Delegates to express his sorrow over the matter, the bishop sbught to show that if he had violated the Conference law against gambling Me had done o in ignorance under the Tellef that his transactions were purely ihvestment ventures. The Goldhurst I8tters are believed to have placed the transactions now in another light. “FIRE HITS STOCK YARDS CHICAGO, September 20 (#).—That donstant fear of Chicago fire flighters— blaze in the stock yards—became | manager of $47 and tried to forestall ! reality tonight. It brought out nearly half the city's apparatus on five alarms and one special call to fight a conflagra- tlon that is estimated to have burned Brewster Frost must | Smith expressed in | development had made it incumbent on ded | the prosecution to accede to his request. | { the opinion that the The defense attorney insisted he was confident his own expert, Dr. Alhsn would not fired from the Campbell revolver. ‘The communication follows: No Longer a Fugitive. “Now that Herbert M. Campbell is no longer a fugitive from justice from the District of Columbia, I agaln renew my request that Dr. Albert H. Hamilton of the firm of Hamilton & Hamilton, Auburn, N. Y., micro-chemical experts, be permitted to examine the Govern- ment exhibits held in your possession in the case of United States vs. Her- bert M. Campbell. “Dr. Hamilton would appreciate it very much if the persons who have examined these exhibits for the Gov- ernment could be present at the time of his examination. “Inasmuch as we have been as- sured a speedy trial will be given Camp- bell, probably during the month of October of this year, it is urgent that & time be fixed at as early a date as possible. Naturally, Dr. Hamilton will not accept & retainer on behalf of Herbert M. Campbell until he has ex- :zlnedtma &xhlhlu. because he can- anticipate what his inves will disclose. o “In behalf of my client, Herbert M. Campbell, I offer to permit the Govern- ment to use the testimony of Dr. Hamilton in the event his findings contention. “I shall appreciate it if you will let me know at your first convenience what attitude you have taken with regard to_this request.” The bond was signed by the de- fendant's brother, Frank G. Campbell, ‘Washington patent attorney, and John G. Graham, Alexandria real estate deal- er. Campbell told the court he owned ae:‘lhemud ll')lfl odmh"u" worth $75,000. am declare e was worth than $100,000. i Those in Conference. Among those who participated in the agreed on were Willlam H. Collins, an assistant_district attorney from Wash- ington; District Attorney Pau! W. Kear of Norfolk, Smith and Herbert S. Ward, special advocate designated by the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars to assist the defense, In the meantime, Collins and Smith expressed divergent opinions concern- ing the new turn of events, Collins declared the Government was content to permit Campbell to leave jail for the time being so long as a heavy bond insured his appearance in Washington. He sald it would be impossible to pre- dict when the defendant would be placed on trial until Criminal Court convened next month. Campbell was delighted over his re- lease. He said he would leave soon for & quiet vacation “not so far away” with Mrs. Campbell. He added Smith would be informed of his whereabouts in order that he might appear should his pres- ence in Washington be needed before the appointed date. |BANDIT SLAIN AFTER KILLING GAS CUSTOMER Turns on Policeman, Who Shoots Him in Exclusive Residential Section of Shreveport. By the Associated Press. SHREVEPORT, La., September 20.— A Shreveport automobile salesman who turned bandit was killed early today after he had shot to death a customer in a flling station he was trying to rob. The dead bandit was id:ntified later by a former employer as Cecil (Red) Barnes. The customer, R. L. Schley, was killed as he attempt-d to interfere with the robbery of a filling station in :‘r:yexclulive residential section of the The customer drove up while Barnes was und-rtaking to rob the station the hold-up. The robber shot- Schie m:;rugh the lung and he died an houyr $50,000 worth of hogs to death in the Union Stock Yards pons. Firemen were Tpt busy for several heurs keeping the deed L:mes ficm reaching the huge pack- Bie aFumte i b extradition to Washington in exchange | d if defeated there would appeal o for his temporary liberty. ‘meet. eliminated the p!c!ssl!y of Federal shall be favorable to the Government's | conference at which the bond was | A2 - ke ; i THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, |[WICKERSHAM BODY THOUGHT DRYSHOLD POWER, McBride Sees Cut of 8 or 9! Votes in Lower Cham- ber This Fall. ___(Continued From First Page.) tor, and increase its membership in | the House of Representatives. “The Democratic party has been con- stantly increasing in vigor in Mas- | sachusetts and has developed a strength capable of giving the Republican party | & real battle under normal conditions, | {vote of the State. | | will lose votes bv the thousands, par- when it presents candidates who are able to attract the large independent Such candidates have been nominated. Sees Democratic Victory. “The conditions that affect political | elections are so unmistakably favorable | to the Democratic Party that, in my | judgment, Democratic victory is cer- tain. Economic conditions have cre- ated general unrest in Massachusetts as elsewhere. There is no mistaking the fact that the greatest asset that the Republican Party has enjoyed in the North and West has been the fact that it was capable of convincing the elec- torate in election after election that it was the party of prosperity. The pros- perity slogan has collapsed; so has the issue, ‘Elect Republican Senators and Republican Congressmen in order to uphold the hands of the President.” “In addition to this present political advantage to the Democratic Party, there is an active wet and dry issue in Massachusetts, which is certain to prove tremendously helpful to the Democrats. The Republican Party in Massachusetts is split almost in half on this issue. An ‘increasing number of Republicans belfeve intolerable con- ditions _existing in the country today make the wet issue the most prominent of all issues, and_are no longer willing to suport Republican candidates who approve of present conditions. On the other hand, the Democratic Party is practically united on this question. Its candidates will not lose a handful of votes, while Republicans on this issue ticularly in the large cities, because it is supporting the dry side.” Wet Planks Adopted. Another Democratic Senator, Sena- tor Dill of Washington, also returned to Washington yesterday. Out in his State both the Republican and Demo- eratic party conventions adopted wet| planks in their platforms this year. In | the primary elections, Representative | Miller, Republican, representing the Seattle district, was defeated for re- nomination by @ wet, and the Demo-| crats in the same district have nomi- nated a wet. But Senator Dill js not ready to concede that his State is really wet in sehtiment if the matter comes to a showdown at the polls. Senator Dill himself has voted dry in his service in the House and Senate, but he has not stressed the dry issue in his cam- paigns in the State. The Seattle dis- trict, he admits, has been consistently wet and it was due to the fact that the drys were caught napping, he says, ihat the party conventions in Washington this year were dominated by the wets. This is much the same point of view on Washington expressed by Dr. Bride of the Anti-Saloon League. Senator Walsh, although he is up- holding the wet cause vigorously 1m Massachusetts, will campaign for Scna- tor Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat, who is seeking re-election in Montana, against a wet Republican, Judge Galen of the State Supreme Court. The Mas- sachusetts Senator will deliver two ad- dresses in Montana for Senator Thomas J. Walsh in October. He has cast aside his wet preferences in this matter and will support Senator Thomas J. Walsh as a Democrat, of value to the service of the country. Ohio Fight in Limelight. The Ohlo fight for the senatorial election is in the spotlight. Robert J. Bulkley, Democrat, former member of the House from Cleveland, is an an- nounced opponent of the eighteenth amendment. He is opposed to Senator McCulloch, a dry Republican, who has the hearty support of the Anti-Saloon League. The drys are making a des- perate effort to eiect McCulloch and in- sist they will do so. How much the wet and dry issue will figure in the Nebraska senatorial elec- tion remains to be seen. Senator Nor- ris is a dry. His opponent, former Sen- ator Gllbert N. Hitchcock, Democrat, voted against the resolution for the submission of the eighteenth "amend- ment to the States on August 1, 1917, when he.was a member of the Senate, The Anti-Saloon League counts Hitch- cock & wet and will support Norris, al though the progressivs Republican Sen- ator aroused the ire of the drys when in 1928 he came out for the election of Al Smith, wet Democrat, to the presi- dency. The stage is set in Delaware, too, for a knock-down, drag-out fight between the wets and the drys in the sena- torial ra Senator Hastings, Repub- lean, is the dry champion there, and is opposed by former Senator Bayard, Democrat, an avowed wet. Possible Wet Gain of Six. Should the wets win in the senatorial contests in Massachusetts, Delaware, Ohio, Montana and Nebraska, they would pick up five seats now held by dry Senators. Add to this the Illi- nois Senate seat, now held by the dry Senator Deneen and it makes a total gain in the next Senate of six seats. The pronouncement of Wheeler of Montana in favor of repeal of the eighteenth amendment adds still an- other wet, although he is already a member of the Senate. Subtract from the wet group in the Senate the seat now held by Senator Gould, who will be replaced by White, a dry, and the total possible gain of the wets in the Senate 1s six seals. Senator Walsh of Massachuseils ex- pressed the view yesterday that 20 was the outside strength of the vets in the Senate today. That would mean that 76 represent the dry strength in the Senate. Give the wets every break in the coming elections and they will have considerably less than a third of the total Senate strength. Gov. Huey Long of Louisiana, the Democratic nominee for the Senate, is, according to the officials of the Anti- Saloon Lesgue, a dry. It is reported that Long threatened to veto a bill re- pealing the State dry enforcement law if the Legislature should pass it and send it to him for his approval. Long will succeed Senator Ransdell, who also is a dry and voted for the eighteenth amendment. When the eighteenth amendment resolution was adopted by the Senate the vote was 65 to 20, with several of the Senators absent oi “paired” The! change from dry %o wet strength, even after the coming election, apparently will not be great numerically as com- pared with the strength of the wets and drys in 1917. In the House, it is estimated that the outside strength of the wets is less than 100 today, and if the wets make even a gain of 40 votes, which is not likely, there would still be 295 drys to 140 wets in that body Wets Hail Gains as Change. ‘The very fact that the wets are mak- ing gains, however, is hailed by the anti-prohibitionists ‘as_significant of a real change of sentiment in the country. The in for the wets of sc-ttered House seats in Washington, Michigan, Tennessee, Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin and some of the other States is held to be significant in the extreme by the wets. The answer of the Anti- ! A patrolman came up to investigate | tricts which have really been wet in and ord:red the robber to surrender.! sentiment right along, or in districts He tuined on ths officer and was shot which have gained i widaw and e Saloon League is that these gains have been made only in congressional dis- greatly dn population in recent vears, as in thefiudson end “av iaprjets in Michi¥An, compris- UNDECIDED ON ENFORCEMENT THOUBH WETS GAIN e o Srtcm Callin for Moditcation| FOR MANPULATION Expected to Be Recommended—Merits of Amcndment N BY THEODORE C. WALLEN. Washington Correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune. There is a growing conviction in Washington that a majority if mot all of the Wickersham Commission has come to the conclusion that prohibition in its present form is not enforceable. That this feeling is shared by conserva- tive authorities of high responsibility suggests authoritative origin. Certain of these individuals go so far as to say that the Wickersham Com- mission, or & majority of it, must rec- ommend some change in a system which it believes can never succeed. George W. Wickersham, the chairman, already has announced that it will not deal with the merits of the eighteenth amendment. Accordingly, any recom- mendation from the commission for a change in the prevailing system neces- sarily would call for modification. Since the courts have held for more than a half century that beer having 3 per cent or less of alcoholic content is iu fact non-intoxicating, it is consid- ered possible that the commission, or rather a part of it, will recommend modification of the Volstead act to per- mit beer of 2.75 or 3 per cent alcoholic content, That the subject has been discussed in the commission is vouchsafed in in- formed quarters. In fact, so much dif- ference of opinion is reported to prevail on the means to remedy the existing order as to promise a divided report, but with a majority standing for an exten- sion of the present alcohoilc limit of one-half of 1 per cen Search and Seizure Issue. In line with the policy of the Depart- ment of Justice to stress honest and de- cent enforcement methods, to avoid of- fending law-abiding citizens, the com- mission is expected also to recommend steps to end the gross abuses of the | vight of search and seizure so deeply resented throughout the country. The report of the commission is to be laid before Congress in the December session, according to present plans. Especially in view of the primary re- sults reflecting dissatisfaction with pro- hibition as it stands, any recommenda- tion for modification which the com- mission might make is expected to be hailed not only by wets but by the large group of border-line members of Con- {gress s a basis of modification action during the Winter. In this way the forces of modification, some of their leaders, might, after all, transiale into some legislative action the sentiment shown in the primaries. Otherwise the wets would have to be content to accept only psychological advantage in the approach to the presi- dential election of 1932 for the extra | congressional support they have won in the primaries. What they have gained is admitted to be insufficient by far to upset the drys' control of Congress. They would have to look for border- line support to bring about any change in the enforcement s tes. It is here, they believe, that psychological effect will count heavily. A great many drys who withstood the shock of the “terrific campaign of the wets” as the Anti- Saloon League called it, were neverthe- less impressed, admittedly, that the wets’ progress reflected a turn in public sentiment at the least a protest against the prevalling conditions. Welcome Legislation. This group, it is believed, would wel- come a chance to vote for legisiation which the Wickersham Commission, or a majority of it, was willing to sponsor. he view, however, of Deets Pickett of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals that the extreme drys will yleld to no measure | of modification whatever. He has said that the “real drys” have been all over the ground and satisfied themselves that any such proposal as to raise the alco- holic limit to 3 per cent would be im- practicable in enforcement. In *their judgment it would inevitably lead to the re-establishment of the saloon and “the other evils of distribution.” Outstanding dry leaders, confidentially, concede that there is more to the wet gains in the primaries than the result of extra effort and ex- penditures by the professional wet lead- ers, Several of them were in Washing- ton during the week for a conference of organizations supporting the eighteenth amendment. Certain of these leaders see in the primary results a gradual Republican national drift toward modi- fication on the one hand and a Demo- cratic drift toward repeal on the other. ‘They would not be surprised if this di tinctions were to be made clear in the presidential nominating convention nearly two years hence, with the efforts of responsible Republican leaders di- rected toward modification and the ef- forts of the Democratic leadership aimed at repeal. Such a situation would offer small comfort to the extreme drys. Their leaders. foreseeing it, ar to be lay- nominated candidates over the old drys. The drys admit that the wets have made a stronger and more sustained fight this year than in any of the years since national prohibition came into ef- fect. They are not disheartened, they say. ‘They see nothing, for example, for the wets to clamor about in the nomination of Dwight W. Morrow for the Senate in New Jersey, for he merely takes the place, when elected, of an- other wet Republican Senator, The question which may be deter- mined at the polls this November, how- ever, is whether the anti-prohibition issue is to gain such impetus as to dominate the presidential election in 1932. The drys have lost their hold on the Democratic party, it is clear, ex- cept in the Southern States. They show igns of losing their grip on the Re- publicans in several of the States where they have hitherto controlled the party organization or, at least, have made their demands felt. This is true In New York, Washington, Michigan and New Jersey, which for the first time wrote a wet Republican State platform this e Do You according to | speaking | ot Vital, Is View. |ing their plans well in advance to avoid it by striving to keep prohibition from being made a party issue. It probably accounts for the warning which went out from Anti-Saloon League head- quarters last week that the presidential campaign “is already on,” and that drys could afford to let no grass grow under their feet in the present con- gressional campalgn if they did not want to lose ground in the struggle for control in 1932. Meanwhile the extreme drys will re- sist anything tending to give the modi- ficationist trend a foothold in Congress next Winter, A division between the Republican and Democratic parties on the question of modification or outright repeal would revolutionize the whole prohibition aspect in the United States and force the Anti-Saloon League and kindred organizations to retreat from their pres- ent extreme stand. As to which of these positions would make the stronger appeal to the Nation remains to be seen. The fact that President Hoover, while keeping an open mind on the fundamental prin- ciple of prohibition, has given no en- couragement whatever to those Repub- licans who seek to force the question of repeal, is taken to mean that he would prefer modification to repe it he should be convinced of the necessity for any change at all. ‘The conclusions of! the Wickersham commission are expected to weigh heavily with the President. Senator Frederic Walcott, Republican, of Con- necticut, a close friend of the Presi- dent, confirmed that belief the other day when he said that the outcome of the commission's inquiry into methods of law observance and law enforcement | would probably furnish a basis for the | administration to declare its position | on prohibition, Leaders’ Concern Justified. ‘That there may be some justification for the apprehension of dry leaders that the trend in the Republican party is toward modification is seen in the pri- vate reaction of party leaders to the primary results. From one exceptionally highly placed quarter comes the observation that the advocates of repeal might find them- selves outmaneuvered if the modifica- tionists should bring abcut a simple act of Congress restoring beer to the Nation on short notice. It was estimated that it would take at least 10 years to repeal the eighteenth amendment. This observation comes from & na- tionally known Republican leader who | is_generally understaod to be dry. An- other who still prefers to remain anony- mous submits that there is just as imuch justification under the eighteenth | amendment for 3 per cent beer as there | is for one-half of 1 per cent. | The latter percentage, it is pointed out, was developed as a standard in the old days when the powerful brewing in- terests were struggling to hold down &: competition of ginger ale and root T In this way the brewers managed to subject soft drinks to some of the rigid restrictions applying to hard liquor. The courts meantime had held in many cases that 3 per cent beer was not in fact intoxicating. Yet the Voistead act took the lower limit that had been fixed, paradoxically, by the brewers themselves in an earlier fight. Not a few members of Congress, notably Senator James Couzens, Re- publican, of Michigan, are on record as favoring a 3 per cent limit. William 8. Vare, the Philadelphia Republican boss, running for Senator in 1926, advocated a 275 per cent standard. The repeal demand has gained considerable ground in both major parties since them. CHARGE TRUCKERS AID RACKETEERS | Unions Described as Furnishing Gang Lords Easy Money in Chicago. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 20.—Prose- cutors peered painstakingly through the records of Chicago labor unions again today and pleced together another amazing story of how teamsters and truck drivers filled their hands with callouses so the hands of racketeers might be filled with easy money, Assistant State’s Attorney Charles J. Mueller and C. E. Lounsbury, pouring over accounts seized In ralds on several labor organizations, found checks and memoranda that told how men listed on the roll of public enemles were able to ride in $5,000 automobiles and live in luxury. Their Inquiry is a part of the grand jury campaign against racketeers, or- dered by. Chief Justice John P. Mec- Goorty of the Criminal Court. To yesterday's revelations that gun- toting hoodlums had blustered their way into the places where union money is spent, investigators added today the disclosure that the money-hungry gang- sters were not satisfled with bilking I‘ngle organizations—they drew salaries and so-called “expense money" from several. The Newspaper Wagon Drivers’ Unjon was added today to the list of victimized groups and its offices raided in search of evidence that Anthony ‘Red” Kissane, reputed former body- guard of the slain Alfred Lingle, and John Barry, .nother gunman, had gained control. ‘The Coal Hikers' and the Coal Ped- dlers’ Unlons were found to have been contributing to the oppulence of George “Red” Barker, who yesterday was found to drawn $500 a month from the Coal Teamsters' Union and to have had his $5,000 car and his costly attorney fees paid by the mem- bers. Assistant State's Attorney Muel- ler estimated that Barker drew $25,000 a year and “expenses” from the three labor bodis Buy Safe Butter? The Milk Law of the District of Columbia insures a first-class supply, in this city, of Milk and Cream, but it doe Butter made of unpasteurized Cream. s not guard against infected We advise householders when buying Butter to ask for such which is made of pasteurized Cre marked on the container, am and if possible has it so The Department of Agriculture has positive proofs that when Butter is made of raw cream from infected Milk containing disease germs, like typhoid or tubercu- losis, these germs remain alive and virulent in the butter for a number of months. Such butter is dangerous for children, invalids and all those whose resistance is reduced by lack of proper care. Nobody knows how m uch disease has in the past heen caused by infected butter, Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Telephone Maine £883 10722 1149 Street N.W. SEPTEMBER _ 21, 1930—PART ONE. EXCHANGE BLAMED Hyde Holds Russia Is Physi- cally Unable to Deliver Wheat. (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) ment would ration its people and yet | have a surplus of wheat to sell abroad— yet the Russian trading syndicate insists the wheat will be avallable for de- livery. I say that'in view of the tariff | and transportation obstacles, delivery is economically impossible. i “It would appear that the short sales were nothing more than hedging to protect wheat sales at Liverpool. If that is so, then it is the first time in history that a forelgn government has attempted such a_manipulation in the American market.” Admit Short Selling. Assoclated Press dispatches from New York quoted officials of the All-Russian Textile Syndicate as admiiting the wheat was sold short on orders from Russia “as a usual hedging operation,” but they argued the transactions were so smail, relatively, that “they could not appreciably affect the standard prices.” The Agriculture Secretary said it was not unusual for private agencies and individuals to indulge in ‘“hedging” sperations and that often such activities were_justified and legitimate. “The idea of a forelgn government manipulating grain prices so as to de- press the American market and seri- ously affect our farmers and the pub- lic generally, however, raises an entirely new question of public policy,” Mr. Hyde said. “I feel, moreover, that it is wrong for anyone to try to beat down the prices of American grain, as was done in this case.” While he. does not favor elimination of all grain futures from market specu- lation, Secretary Hyde sald the present case is “a glaring instance of the necessity for proper rules and regula- tions to govern such operations in the exchanges. “The Chicago Board of Trade owes it to its own integrity to minimize trad- ing, which artifically lowers or ralses prices,” Mr. Hyde asserted. Action Undetermined. The Secretary could not predict what steps the Government would take in the event the Chicago Board of Trade does not meet the exigency “in a satis- factory manner.” He said the grain futures act of 1922 had guided the de- partment in its investigation of the Russian dealings, and that the depart- ment had gone about as far as it could in its inquiries. The committee, of which Representative Pish is chairman, had broader powers, he explained, and its probe can enter channels barred to the department. Under the grain futures act provision is made for a commission, composed of the Secretaries of Agriculture an Commerce and the Attorney General to investigate conduct of boards of trade licensed under the act. While the act also gives the commission au- thority to revoke licenses of exchanges and traders where law violations oc- cur, Mr. Hyde pointed out that this part of the act never has been tested. Representative Fish conferred with Secretary Hyde late yesterday regard- ing plans for the House Committee's inquiry. Later Mr. Fish said the com- mittee would call officials of the Rus- sian syndicate to testify at a hearing in New York on segctember 27, and that the committee then would go to Chicago and hold another hearing Sep- tember 29. To Call Former Amtorg Official. “This is obviously a matter which is properly within the scope of the committee,” the chairman announced. He said a former vice president of the Amtorg corporation would be called and predicted the committee would be able 10 obtain much informa- tion from the witness, whose name was not divulged. In reply to the first message from Secretary Hyde, President Bunnell of the Chicago board suggested that Hyde take up with the State Department the right of Russia to transact busi- ness in America through incor- porated agencies. The Secretary, in commenting on this suggestion, said the State Department had no authority to make such an investigation. Secretary Hyde sald that when the Russians launched their short sales the grain market in Chicago was on the upgrade. Wheat opened three-quarters of a cent up on September 8, the day of the first transaction, he recalled, but fell off and closed under the market. On the next day the opening was lower than the closing price of the day be- fore and the market closed still lower. “Of course, all the blame for this fall- ing off cannot fairly be put on the Russians,” he explained, “but the short selling by the textile snydicate un- doubtedly had a depressing effect that was felt widely. A bearish movement quickly spreads.” “Hedging” Explained. Grain experts here explained yester- day that the operation of ‘“hedging” is really a marginal deal designed to pro- tect traders against losses incurred be- tween the time of contract and de- livery of grain. By “selling short” is meant contracting for the sale of a certain theoretical amount of grain at a future date with the expectation of reaping & profit by a possible decline in prices before date of theoretical de- livery. Thus. if the Russian traders feared a possible loss in cash wheat transac- tions at Liverpool, chief market of Russian wheat, they might counteract this loss on this side of the ocean by a marginal deal on market, While Seeretary Hyde does mot| charge the Russian government with | any act more serious than possible’ manipulation of the market for its own | benefit, with consequent deleterious | effect to American farmers, it is under- | stood Representative Fish's committee will delve into the added possibility of a Communist plot to spread discontent in this country. Samuel R. McKelvie, grain member of the Federal Farm Board, was confl- dent the Chicago Board of Trade could formulate rules to prevent a continu: tion of the short selling by the Russian government., At the same time, he doubted the Farm Board had any legal authority in the matter. May Desire to Further Unrest. ‘The Farm Board member said Rus- | sia in selling short may have desired to further unrest and discontent among American farmers. | He sald through their collectivist farms, by using modern machinery and ' cheap labor on large scale operations Russia could grow wheat for 30 cents a bushel. This however, he said was only a small part of Russian produc- tion. Comment on Capitol Hill was varied, with no administration Republicans joining in. Among the independent Republicans and Democrats who dis- cussed the matter, Senator Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, ngreed with Hyde to the extent thdt “even more blame at- taches to the Board of Trade than the Russians, since the former should have taken steps to prevent such a situation as_has been reported.” ator Frazier, Republican, North Sel Dakota, sald the Soviet agency, if the report were true, was not only the one that had used the exchanges to injure the farmer and characterized the amblers who used the grain and cot- ton exchanges for years to manipulate prices for their own benefit” as the “biggest ‘bolshevists. " Sensfam DI Mamosr-* Wash'netan the = declining | - Probes Wheat Scandal REPRESENTATIVE FISH. fort by the administration to deflect the biame for the low price of wheat. GOVERNORS DELAY ACTION. Await Amplification of Evidence Before Launching Probe. CHICAGO, September 20 (#).—Gov- ernors of the Chicago Board of Trade tonight awaited an amplification of the Government’s evidence before entering u})o 1 an investigation of the alleged use of Board of Trade market facilities for speculation in grain by the Soviet Rus- sian government. John A. Bunnell, president of the board, telegraphed Secretary of Agri- culture Hyde today that he would be glad to submit to the Business Conduct Committee whatever evidence the Gov- ernment forwards. But, he added, hedg- .ng operations by foreign grain traders are customary in the Chicago grain pits, and he had no further comment late in the day when informed of a second message from the Agricultural Secretary challenging the board to con- sider its position as an open market in view of the “manipulations” by the Russian government. “It is up to the De&lrtmant of Agri- culture to present its evidence,” Mr. Bunnell said. “I expect to hear from Mr. Hyde Monday. The board will be glad to co-operate with the department, but we must awalt a message from Washington before we proceed.” “Hedging” Customary. In his telegram to Secretary Hyde earlier in the day he had suggested that the Agricultural Secretary confer with the State Department as to the ri7hts of the Soviet government to transact business through its corporate agents in America. “It should be remembered” Mr. Bunnell wired, “that the Chicago Board of Trade is a recognized world market and hedges protecting grain in all posi- tions all over the world are customarily placed here.” A similar view was taken by James E. Bennett, head of the grain firm that bears his name. He called Chicago “the greatest hedging market in the world,” and sald ‘“we gladly receive orders from Canada, Russia or any other country.” “So-called Farm Relief,” Mr. Bennett sald in his statement, “is hopelessly in- effective and it looks like somebody is looking for an alibl. Of course, we have to have something to wi our feet on and Russia makes a door- mat.” Drops to Record Low. The net result of the discussion on current wheat values was negligible in the early trading today, wheat fluctu- ating through the morning, moving up as much as 2% cents a bushel, and then, immediately after the publica- i WOODCOCK ROUSED BY DRY CASUALTIES {Looks to States to Punish Murderers—Certain Poli- tics Plays No Part. By the Associated Press. Confident, that politics plays no part in the new prohibition enforcement ma- chine, Prohibition Director Woodcock | vesterday outlined a program to “gain further public respect” for his force and to ¢ssure punishment of the mur- derers of dry law agents. Mr. Woodcock insisted there was no political influence operating in the new dry regime when he was asked about charges made by Maurice Campbell, former dry administrator for New York in recent articles. He expressed con fidence, too, that the politicians were not bothering his workers. Worried by Casualties. But what worries the busy dry law chieftain is the increasing number of casualties among his men, augmented yesterday by the killing of an agent during & raid on an Elizabeth, N. J., brewery. Woodcock sald he proposed to meet this problem two ways. “First,” he emphasized, “I hope by administering the law decently and honestly to gain further public respect for it and its inforcers. Secondly, I ask the States to prosecute murderers vigorously.” Woodcock said he was satisfied the New Jersey authorities would do all in their power to apprehend the gang which attacked the dry raiders yes- terday and killed one of them. He is leaving the problem with the State officials and ohibition Administrator Pennington. Plans Inspection Trips. The dry director will go into Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey next week on an inspection tour, starting at Philadel- phia tomorrow and going to Pittsburgh on Tuesday. He will go also to Lewis- burg and then to New Jersey. Returning from an inspection tour of New England, Woodcock said he wi well satisfled with his workers in that area and “highly pleased” over the co- operation given them by local authorities. He will continue his inspection trips and emphasized he is just as anxious to hear about the complaints as well as the reports from his workers. He goes to Tennessee and Kentucky the following week, to New York October 6 and to the Chicago district October 13. Later he plans to get to California. KILLERS ARE HUNTED. Posse Searches for Murderers of Federal t in New Jersey. By the Associated Press. ELIZABETH, N. J. September 20.— The police power of the Federal Gov- ernment, the State of New Jersey and Jocal authorities was marshalled today to track down 11 gangsters who am- bushed and killed a Philadelphia dry agent yesterday during a raid at the Rising Sun Brewery. The victim was John G. Finiello, 44, married and the father of two children. His body was riddled with bullets by & gangster who held another agent in front of him to prevent re- . Pive companions of thé in_prohibition agent were disarmed d lined up previous to the shooting. Posse Given Information. On information furnished by seven men arrested in the rai and under- cover sources, & posse Was concentrai- ing its search near the Union County line in a mountainous secticn, where the ring which operated the brewcry tion of President Bunnell's telegram to Hyde, dropping to new record low levels for the deferred future months. At the close wheat was unchanged to one-half cent lower than Friday. The Farmers' National Grain Corpora- tion was revealed as the source of the investigation of Russian short sales. George F. Milnor, general manager of the government-sponsored co-operative, declined to disclose how it learned of the sales and added that he knew of no evidence that the selling was illegal. He raised the question whether Ameri- can grain m.r:eu should be used to hedge the world crops. e s my guess” Milnor sald, “that way will be found to prevent the Rus- sian Soviet from abusing the privileges that our hedging facilities provide.” OFFICIAL ADMITS SALE NEW YORK, September 20 (#).—The statement of Secretary Hyde of the Department of Agriculture that the All-Russian Textile Syndicate sold wheat on the Chicago futures market at the order of the Soviet government was de- clared today to be correct by E. V. Belitzky, vice aresld!nl and treasurer the syndicate. o"I'he slylea were made, Belitzky sald, vas the usual hedging operation, were of a purely business nature,” and were not intended, as was charged, to drive down the price of wheat and discomfit the American farmer. “It is evident” he said, “that the sale of a small quantity of wheat by the textile syndicate through the Chlclg Board of Trade could not appreciahl¥ affect the trend of prices in view of the fact that the turnover cn the Chicago Board of Trade is from 50 to 60 million bushels a day,” Belitzky sald. The All-Russian official said that he did not know exactly the amount of wheat it sold, but that Mr. Hyde's estimate of 5,000,000 bushels was “a little exaggerated.” The operations were carried on over a period of sev- eral months, all, however, during this year, he asserted. The orders were executed through an unnamed Ameri- grain broker described by Belitzky as “one of the best and biggest in the trade.” He expressed surprise at the action | of Secretary Hyde. “There was no investigation when we bought $250,000,000 worth of Ameri~ can goods,” Mr. Belitzky said, “but we sell a little wheat, and—-" He shrugged and left the sentence unfinished. A formal statement Belitzky issued sald that the syndicate was an “inde- pendent organization and not a sub- sldiary of the Amtorg Trading Corpora- tion,” but when questioned as to the directorates of the two organizations he said that Peter A. Eogdanou, chairman of the board of Amtorg, also was a director of All-Russian Textile Syndi- cate. The syndicate was organized in De- cember, 1923, to act as buying agent in this country for various Russian trusts (official government agencies). It deals only in commodities like textiles, grains, sugar and other products. It does not infringe in any way on Amtorg’s activi- was believed to have its headouarters. John D. Pennington, prohibition ad- ministrator for New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania and Delaware, said the identities of the slayers were known. Prohibition officials were endeavoring to learn who owned the brewery, acting on a rumor that the plant had been sold to a prominent politician several week ago. They were also investigating ti possibility that the agent's departure from Philadelphia had been tipped off to the gangsters. Seven Under Arrest. Of those under arrest, August Gobel of Maplewood, N. J.; a fireman who witnessed the shooting, and Leo Weis- haar of Philadelphia, who appeared at police headquarters and asked to speak o Gobel, will be held as material wit nesses. The other five may have little knowledge of the erime, police said. ‘The encounter at the Rising Sun Brewery was the second this week be- tween prohibition agents and gangstera. Tuesday night, raiders at the Peter Breidt Brewery were prevented by 25 gunmen from dumgm; alleged beer into the streets. In this connection, John J. Dunne, former West New York beer baron, was released in $10,000 bail ye: terdsy on charges of manufacturing liquor and interfering with Federal of- ficers. G. 0. P. VOTERS GET REGISTRATION DATA Residents Here Urged to Qualify to Vote at Home in November. With registration’time close at hand, Republican leaders in Washington are now actively engaged reminding men and women living here, but legally en- titled to vote in some one of the States, to attend to this voting detail if they want to cast their ballot on November 4. The voting and registration laws af- fecting absentee voters are not the same in the various States and the aim of the local Republican Campaign Committee is to furnish the prospective voters with the necessary information regarding these laws and the dates upon which registrations must be made. There is a large force at headquar- ters, 1331 G street northwest, from 8 o'clock in the morning until 10 at night for the purpose of answering questions. ‘This coming week the local committee is directing its attention to the voters in those States where the time for regis- tration expires within the next two weeks. A notice issued by the commit- tee yesterday contains the following ad- vice as to last days for registration in such Stat Arizona, October 4; California, Oc- tober 4; Connecticut, October 7; Chi- cago, October 6 (those who voted at the last election in Chicago need not regis- ter unless they have changed their vot- ing address); Pennsylvania, October 4, precinct registration close, but Phila- delphia voters may register from Oc- tles, which are those of purchasing agent for industrial products. E. V. Kadlk is vice president in gen- eral charge of All-Russian Textile Syn- dicate in the United States. The presi- dent is G. M. Melintshansky, who is in Moscow. The corporation, Belitzky said, buys only in the United States and has not been purchasing wheat in Canada. Exports of Russian wheat to Europe during the month of July. according to figures supplied by the American-Rus- sian Chamber of Commerce, totaled 1,905,286 bushels. Total of all grain exports was 5,404,172 bushels. Great Britain and Germany are the two greatest buyers of Russlan grain. No Russian grain is exported to the United States because of the high tariff, which is 42 per cent on wheat, It was one of the points of Secretary Hyde's protest to the Chicago Board of Trade that the All-Russian Textl'e Syndicate could not_hope to cover its “ales bv dsliver'~~ Russian wheat be- tober 8 to 25 at the office of the com- mission. In Pittsburgh and Scranton, Federal employes, their wives and bus- bands, may register by mail not less than two weeks before election; in third-class cities, absentees may regis- ter by mail to October 4. Virginia, October 4 for voters not pre- viously registered; Ohio, voter must register in person if he or she lives in & place of 16,000 population or more, with dates of precinct registration Oc- tober 2, 10 and 11, but absentees may register at any date before October 11 at the office of the election board, after which they vote by mail and need not reregister. Maryland, Baltimore, October 9 and 16; Waorcester County, October 14: elsewhere in the State, September 30 and October 14, These dates are for voters not rrwbluly registered. New York, central registration closed on Sep- tember 10, so that precinct registration is the only opportunity for voters ig that State The dates are, for New York City, October 6 to 11; elsewhere, Ontohar 10 1117 snd 1R,