Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1930, Page 5

PROBERS CALL ALL | TAMMANY LEADERS Ewald Jury Seeks Extent ’of Office-Buying—Curry and Kohler Charge Insult. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 25—Sub- Poenas were out today summoning all | the Tammany district leaders in Man- | hattan before the special grand jury | Investigating alleged judgeship pur- | chasing, after John F. Curry, Tammany | chieftain, and Charles H. Kohler, city | budget director, refused to waive im- munity. X The special grand jury which was ordered by Gov. Roosevelt already has indicted former Magistrate George F. Ewald, his wife, and Martin J. Healy, a Tammany leader, on charges that Ewald paid Healy $10.000 for his ap- pointment. The grand jury now is seeking to determine whether office buying is prevalent. Witnesses Are Angered. Curry and Kohler emerged from the grand jury room yesterday showing signs of anger and declaring they had been insulted. They said they had been asked to sign waivers of immunity .and had indignantly refused Curry said, “I came down here to testify and I was insulted.” Kohler, who in addition to being a member 'of Mayor Walker's official family, is leader in the tenth assembly district, was more specific. He said: “They asked me ta waive immunity as soon as I got inside. I told them I came here to answer questions, not to sign papers, and I told them I wouldn't sign.” Sees Probe Hindered. Hiram C. Todd, special Assistant At- torney General, in charge of the inquiry, sald: “The refusal of a public officer or a quasi-public officer to waive immunity in an investigation of this character is a hindrance to the investigation because it cuts off our natural source of in- formation. “Some time ago I said that any one | who refused to waive immunity in this investigation casts suspicion upon him- self. I think that is fair and I repeat it.” The grand jury wished to question | Curry concerning the processes by v hich Tammany fills vacant posts on the magistrates’ bench and other city offices. Kohler was called to testify to the circumstances of the appointment of Judge Amadeo Bertini to the general sessions bench to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Prancis X. Mancuso. NEW YORK’S G. 0. P. LEADERS FIGHT TO KEEP DRY POLICY (Continued From First Page.) Wwithout reaching the general conven- tion, but this hope appeared offset by the threat of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, one of the wet leaders, to bring the matter to the floor of the con- vention. . Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State, in the keynote address, declared the Hoover administration by legislative or executive action has redeemed 34 of its 35 campaign pledges. He made no mention of prohibition, one of the major problems before the convention’s platform makers. He devoted his address to praise of the national administration and asked . that it be measured in the light of the business depression. Citing President Hoover's activities after the stock market crash last Fall, Secretary Stim- #on declared these had held “the ship of business steady.” Sets New Precedent. t was the first time that such leadership had been exercised by any of our Presidents in a similar crisis, he said. “It prevented the immediate panic which threatened in the Autumn of 1929, and to date throughout a long and world-wide strain it is still holding tie labor and industry of the United | States in a situation which is favor- ably compared with that in other coun- tries, and in this country in other times, t is inevitable that this economic | situation should be in the background of our minds when we appraise the work of the administration, whose thoughts and work it has occupled so prominent a position during these past | months. “Not only has it added smmense | problems and burdens to the original ! program of the administration but un- | doubtedly it has blinded many people to the actual accomplishments of the Government during the last 18 months.” Reviewing the achievements of the administration Mr. Stimson dealt with the tax reduction effected on last year's incomes, enactment of the Smoot-Haw- ley tariff and the agricultural market- ing act and the strengthening of the merchant marine. The principal problem to which President Hoover addressed himself on | assuming office, said Mr. Stimson, was the betterment of foreign relations. The Secretary praised the manner in which these were handled and declared: “The entire relations between this country and Latin-America have been placed upon & new and sounder basis. | Must Watch Irritations. “The maintenance of peace is an ac- tive practice with Mr. Hoover. The best way to maintain peace is to watch incipient irritations between nations and remove them—to study and plan IPLAN COMING DRIVE THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY Seeks Senate Seat CANNON COMPLAINS OF NEW CHARGES Attack During ‘Absence by Members of Own Church Is Regretted. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 25—Bishop James Cannon, jr., of the Methodist | Episcopal Church ~South, complained today in a radio message of the action | of elders of his own church filing | charges against him while he was in | Brazil on church work. | The message was sent to the Asso- ciated Press from the American Legion, on which he is coming from Brazil. New Charges Made. vh’l'hesl' &hsrge&dwhilo their context 9 as not been made public, are under- ALBERT W. NOONE, stood to involve Bishop Cannon't stock Eighty-four-year-old Peterboro, N. H., | speculation operations and political ac- manufacturer, who received the Demo- | tivities, as well as certain new charges. cratic nominatio” to the United States | They have been brought by the Rev. Senate in the New Hampshire State | Dr. Forrest J. Prettyman of Baltimore, primary. P. Photo. | Dr. J. T. Mastin and Dr. Costen J. Har- —— |rell of Richmond, Va. and Dr. I P. in { Pariin of Abingdon, Va, | “After detailing circumstances of his | notification, while he was spending & . U. | honeymoon’ in Brazil with his former | secretary, that new charges were to be | filed against him, Bishop Cannon his message said: “I shall protest the legality of the hurried and premature | action taken before my arrival, mak- | ing impossible conferences with me, | which the disciplinary provision ‘to | carefully inquire’ necessarily includes.’ Increase in Membership Dur- Conference Refused. i : According to the Bishop's message ing Fall and Winter Is he was notified briefly by the four clergym?n‘un Septcmtz(-r 8 that they 9 2 were inquiring into his case. Group’s Desire. | "He cabled immediately offering to | meet his accusers in Washington after | October 2 ‘and received an answer Plans for the campaign to be con- | Which refused his right to confer with ducted this Fall and Winter for an in- | them. creased membership were discussed | Friends took up the matter for him yesterday afternoon by the membership | With the complaining elders, but had commitlee of the National Capital Re- |no more success than he himself had, | publican Club at the Willard Hotel. | wherefore he boarded the first boat The ;Rsmess meeting followed a lunch- | from Santos. eon glven in honor of the committee | Phdami s o by Samuel J. Prescott, president of the | ELDERS FILE CHARGES. club, and chairman of the Republican | e State Committee in and for the Dis- trict of Columbia. The aim of the membership com- mittee is to bring the membership of the club up to 1,000 by hext Spring, at which time it is expected the recently purchased building at Scott Circle and Sixteenth street and Rhode Island ave- nue will be ready for the club to occupy. Luther W. Linkins, chairman of the committee, presided, and among other things announced that from now on until * further notice the committee would hold a luncheon meeting each week. Among those who addressed yester- day's meeting were President Prescott, Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Republican national committeewoman for the Dis- trict of Columbia: Willlam Tyler Page, clerk of the United States House of Representatives, president of the League of Republican State Voters; Edgar C. Snyder, president of the League of Republican State Clubs; Mrs. E. A. Harriman, president of the League of Republican Women of the District; Douglas Whitlock, vice chairman of the Membership Committee of the club, voters’ information division of the League of Republican Organizations of the District. Besides affairs of the club, plans for conducting the 1930 Republican cam- in this city were discussed at this meeting. AIR EAVESDROPPER IS SOUGHT IN EUROPE Police Asked to Locate Short-Wave Station Listening in on Stock Deals. By the Associated Press. BREMEN, Germany, September 25— The German police have been asked, with English and Dutch authorities, by the New York police to try to locate a secret short-wave wireless receiving sta- tion or stations used for eavesdropping on transatlantic service. The New York police have endeavered to set up machinery for “spotting” listeners whose evident purpose is the securing fllegally of American and | European stock exchange transactions. financial plans and other confidential information. ‘The police charge that such matter is reaching outsiders before deals on the New York Stock Exchange can be ef fected and that Eavesdropping specula- tors are acting on information so ob- tained and thereby , pocketing large profits. Nearly 25 per cent more Americans | visited Austria this year than last. to guide events beforehand as far as possible. A method particularly char- acteristic with Mr. Hoover. This is | shown by the way in which he created the opportunity for the London Naval | Conference. | “The results of that conference are | #0 recent and well known it is unneces- | sary to review them. When that treaty is finally ratified, for the first time in | history, naval competition will be en- | tirely ended between the three greatest naval powers—America, Britain and Japan.” Summing up, Secretary Stimson said | *“no President in recent years, if at any | time, has so completely translated his | campaign_pledges into performance.” | This was accomplished only by means of an efective co-operation between the President and Congress, a co-opera- tion rendered unusually difficult by factional divisions in his own party in | the Senate. | “These accomplishments were the re- | sult of study, planning and foresight by the executive, and the constructive | solutions thus obtained will be of fun- | damental and increzsing benefit to the | public.” | Sightseeing Excursions by Steamer around New York Harbor In Connection With Low-Fare Excursions to New York City SUNDAYS September 28, October 12 Columbus Day, Monday, October 13 Rail Fare (round trip)....$5.00 Rail and Sightseeing Fare.$6.00 Leave Wi ..12:30 AM. Pennsylvania Railroad Startling Values! Pay as Little as $1 Down — Then $1 WEEKLY! n Ay Chas 708 7th Street N. W —— and A. E. Chaffee, director of the | GRUEN WATCH | Investigation Necessary After Church- men Make Additional Claims, RICHMOND, Va., September 25 (#).— | The filing of new charges against Bishop James Cannon, jr., was announced here | Saturday by four traveling elders of | the Methodist Episcopal Church South, | who submitted the accusations to Bishop | | William N. Ainsworth of Birmingham, Ala. | Dr. Costen J. Harrell of Richmond made public the announcement, which was signed by himself. Dr. J. T. Mastin, also of Richmond; Dr. 1. P. Martin of | Abingdon, Va., and Dr. Forrest J. Pret- | tyman of Baltimore. Investigation Mandatory. They refused to make known the | nature of the new charges, which have also been withheld by Bishop Ainsworth. The Baltimore Sun, in a story published Sunday morning, said the accusations included charges additional to the stock speculation and political activity allega- tions which Bishop Cannon faced and of which he was acquitted last May in Dallas. Whatever the nature of the charges, | the rules of the Southern Methodist Church make an investigation manda- tory. Bishop Ainsworth is required to call & committee of twelve who would inquire into the matter, and, if eight voted for a trial, Bishop Cannon wou be suspended and his trial be held the next General Conference in 1934, Cannon Was Exonerated. At the Dallas Conference charges | were brought against Bishop Cannon | accusing him of speculating in_stocks {and of improper political activities. After an expression of penitence the | bishop was exonerated. | " In declining to make public the nature of the charges preferred against the | bishop last week, Dr. Prettyman of Baltimore said he had acted for “what I believe to be for the best good of the Methodist Church South “Por the last two years charges of vhe most serious nature have been made against Bishop Cannon,” he said, “in | certain places and in the press, and | allegations have been published from | which inferences have been made. “I do not think these charges should be permitted to go unexplained and | without investigation, solely because of | the effect it will have on our church.” AINSWORTH IS SILENT. | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., September 25| (#)—Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, chair-| man of the College of Bishops. 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