Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1931, Page 2

CITY HEADS START BOARD SELECTION Five Members to Be Chosen to Try Any Accused in Staples Inquiry. Belection of the personnel of the extraordinary civilian board tp be ecre- ated to try any members of the Police Department recommended for prosecu- | tion in connection with the alleged “framing" of former Policeman Orville Staples. was started today by the Dis- trict Commissioners. Members of the board will be picked from a list of 30 outstanding citizens, nominated by presidents of Washing- ton's five major civic and trade or- ganisations. The head of each group, at the request of the Commissioners, submitted five names. Names of the 30 nominees were not made public because of a desire to pro- tect from any possible embarrassment those who might not be willing to serve on the special trial board. The per- sonnel of the board, however, will be announced as soon #s five are chosen. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, chair- man of the Board of Commissioners, said a definite plan of procedure would be followed in selecting members of the trial board. From the list of 30 names, five will be picked, and then the Com- missioners will ask those chosen if they will serve as a cwvic duty. If any de- cline, others will be selected unti] five | are found In view of this procedure, Dr. Reichel- derfer expressed the belief it would take several days to appoint the board. This means that there is little likelihood of organization of the board before next ‘week. However, the Commissioners do not regard the appointment of the board as urgent, since it will not be calied into service unless the investigation of the grand jury's charges by a special committee of five lawyers provides a basis for prosecution. The committee of lawyers is to meet tomorrow morning at the call of Henry P. Blair, temporary chairman, to or- ganfle and map out its plan of pro- cedure. Will Determine Policy. ‘The committee also is to determine whether its setsions are to be public or conducted behind closed doors, the de- cision resting largely on the nature of the report desired by the Commissioners. Should the Commissioners ask the board to go into the legal phases of the grand jury report, then its investi- gation, it was said, likely would be conducted privately. Commissioner Reichelderfer indi- cated he is highly pleased with the type of persons recommended for the civilian trial board by the five civic and trade organizations. All of those named, it was said, are outstanding citizens, in wdhom»:;i reposed public confidence and res Aside from selecting the trial board, the Commissioners also are planning to frame a reply to a letter from Senator Brookhart of Towa demanding to know why Policeman Joseph H. Hunt of the second precinct has not been suspended on the of the charges against him in the grand jury report. Want to Assure Justice. ‘There was no intimation as to what the Commissioners propese to tell Sen- stor Brookhart. It was pointed out at the District Building, however, that the course of action being religiously followed by the Commissioners is de- signed to assure justice to Policeman Hunt as well -as to the officers involved allegations. Policeman Hunt is pa larly anx- for an opportunity to defend hix: f, and has urged the Comm! against him imme- is constituted as an in- group, and it is unlikely will be granted until the lawyers determine whether thcre is a basis for the grand jury's charges. other police in the grand jury’a|staff reparter ‘Then, under mnt arrangements, the tivfl'.l:n trial would have to pass on e case. Hunt, through his attarney, Albert W. Jacobson, declared the board of lawyers is satisfactory to him and he “is will- ing and anxious” that charges be pre- ferred against him immediately and gtdhe be given a trial before that rd. POLICE HIGHER UPS ./ MAY BE INVOLVED .[§ IN 3D DEGREE PROBE this week are said to name policemen in virtually every precinct. It is under- stood that no high police officers, prosecuting officials or others are directly involved in the crim! Pproceedings. The grand jury is said to feel, how- ever, that policemen of lower rank | should not bear the whole brunt of punishment for third degree practices uncovered by Government investigators. { It is predicted that the jury, on com- ! pleting criminal phases, consider , administrative responsibility. A re- port caustically criticlzing the police admnistration is a likelthood. Director Hoover's report to the Com- missioners will be submitted upon com- pletion of the grand jury seas Th report, it is said, will detall “all the facts” regarding the bureau’s third- degree findings, without naming officials. Martz, first of the long list of wit- nesses, was brought from the District Jail, where he is awaiting trial under a first-degree murder indictment. Ma:tz’ | complaint first received public notice 4 when he volunteered s statement to a reporter of The Star who had gone to the jail to interview another prisoner. Later, when interviewed by Inspector louis J. Stoll, Martz is sald to have Tepudiated his statement, charging that the reporter, Philip Love, had “induced” him to make the stateinent by promis- { ng that it would help his case. { * Love denied the charge and was sup- ported in his denial by Capt. W. H. Arnold in charge of the jail guard, who ! was present at the interview, and by | Col. William L. Peak, superintendent of the jail. It was understood Capt. Arnold would be questioned today. WALKER LEAVES LONDON TO SAIL FOR NEW YORK ¢ Mayor Expresses Great Regret at Not Meeting Mahatma Gandhi Before Departure. By the Associated Press. LONDON, _September 16.—Mayor ‘Walker and his party left for South- ampton this morning to sail for New ! York on the liner Bremen after an 11,000-mile tour of six European coun- ; tries in search of health. Mr. Walker expressed great regret at not meeting . Mahatma Gandbi, who waited for him in Kingsley Hall last night while the mayor was viewing London's night life. It was said he had kept the late after- noon free for the Indian leader, but the latter was detained at St. James' Palace. The mavor arrived in Bremen on August 10, Speed Record Plane };_ Dive. CALSHOT, England, &fiflnbfl 16 (4. —The sesplane in w] Stainforth broke S i s & B ying 386 miles 's Tecor hour Sunday capsized in Southamp- water today at the conclusion of & fight. Stanforth climbed out the pilot’s seat unhurt. L} - “Wrecked Plane and Flyers Parker Cramer and Oliver Paquette, wreckage has THE }into efTect he missing fiyers, and their plane, whose been found in the North Atlantic. MARTZ BRUTALITY SARAZEN FOUR P TESTMONY FRST layer of Zirkle Arrested on May 23 After Pool Room Murder. Robert . Bmmett Martz, 19-year-old | commercial, the first alleged victim of | ‘Washington police strong-arm practices | to be heard by the District grand jury | in its present probe of brutality by the | department, was arrested May 23 last | after fatally wounding Irvin Leroy Zirkle, 27,1 a pool room at 937 Ninth | street. Martz sald he was beaten by | two detectives in an effort to secure an | admission to the shooting after he told | police he shot Zirkle accidentally lni trying to “get another man.” He was arrested with Harry Burch, 928 New | York avenue, who was held as an ac-' complice in the shooting. In an interview with Philip H. Love, | of The Star, at the D trict Jail, August 24, Martz voluntarily stated he was beaten severely about the face and head by the fists of two first. precinct detectives in an effort to | make him admit he shot Zirkle in-| tentionally. | Martz sald he repeatedly insisted the was accidental, but the officers | ose and pummeled him | while he punched ‘He pulled out a handful of hair,” Martz added. Previous to the shooting, Martz was on a charge of possession of | liquor, but was acquitted March 2. He was involved in a fatal automobile acci- dent December 26, 1929, in which James E. Ward of the City Service Radio Studio was killed. Martz and James A. McGowan, 15 M street, who were rid- | ing in the car, which collided with that | ;)‘: ‘Ward's, were releases by the grand iry. RAIL SHOPS TO CLOSE MONTREAL, Quebec, September 16| (#).—The Angus Shops, which have been working on short time, will be closed indefinitely September 18, Grant Hall, vice president of the Canadian Pacific Rallway Co.. announced yester- | day. The shops normally employ about | 3,000 men. The Angus Shops form one ‘of the | biggest manufacturing and repairing headquarters for rolling stock in the Canadian Pacific System, | ‘The Weston Yards of Winnipeg also | will be closed on Priday until further | notice, he said. It normally employs between 2,000 and 3,000 men. BARS HALL TO HEFLIN | BAKERSFIELD, Calif., September 16 | (). —The City Council voted yesterday to revoke a permit recently issued by the city mapager to former United States Senator Thomas Heflin of Ala- bama, to speak ot the Greek Theater in | Beale Park here September 25. The revocation order was passed at the re- | quest of the Rev. J. Stack of the Ro- | man Catholic Diocese, who headed a ! protest delegation. | City officials at Fresno refused Hefiin | a permit Iast week to use the civic au- ditorfum there, No reasons for the protest against Heflin were announced here, but at Presno officials said they did not wish | to stir up a religious controversy. | Shoots 72 to Runyan’s ONP. G. A. RIVAL : 76 Over Wind-Swept Wanna- moisett Links. By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. I, September 16. —Gene Sarazen, Long Islander, who is making a great bid for his third P. G. A. championship, today had 2 4-hole lead on Paul Runyan of White Plains, N. Y., his sturdy second-round rival, when they completed their first tour of the wind-swept Wannamoisett | A course. Sarazen’s card was 72, two over par, and Runyan's 76. Runyan, without a single really poor hole, was only able to take the honor away from Gene twice during the round. Sarazen had him 4 down when he took the ninth with a regulation 4, Sarazen topping his tee shot into a trap and takiag 3 to get on. ne trapped another drive on the twelfth and took 2 getting out, as his opponent reached the n in 2 and took 2 ‘putts to win his other hole. Sarazen's best play came on the two longest holes, the second and seven- teenth, where he shot birdie 4s. Horton Smith of Detroit was 5 up on Willle MacParlane, former open cham- ion, despite a round of 77. MacFar- ne had an 83. Billy Burke, open champion, went out in 37, two over par, but his play was ood enoug;hw give him a two-hole B an Crowley of Haverhill, Mass. Pete O'Hara of Verons, Pa, who knocked Walter out yesterday, played the first nine in par and was 2 up on Tom Creavy, Albany, N. Y. at the turn. Johnny Golden of Noroton, Conn., won three of the first nine holes with Cyril Walker, ‘Ridgewood, N. J., and halved the others. LEGION DRY LAW VOTE IN DETROIT FORECAST |Fess Quoted as Saying Congress Would Act in 60 Days if Veterans Express View. Special Dispateh to The Star. DETROIT, September 16.—The Free Press says a high American Legion official said yesterday that the. Legion National Convention here next week will vote on the prohibition question. This Legion official, who is not named, was quoted by the Free Press as saying that Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, chairman of the Re- publican National Committe, predicted action by Congress within 60 days of convocation if record as favoring modifieation or change of the present national pro- hibition laws. Senator Pess was not represented as favoring a change, but as giving it as his judgment that Congress will con- sider revision of the gy laws as result of the weight of the Legion' recommendations. The Legion officlal was quoted as saying there will be a lively battie on the subject of ibition, hereto- fore kept off the floor of Legion na- tional econventions, and that there is little possibility of peremptory tabling of the matter. BUTLER RECEIVES FROM MARIN $1,000 DESK ES AT QUANTICO General and Wife Cheered by 3,000 as They Are Given Surprise Present by Men. Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler was Joudly cheered last night by 2,000 Mn~i rines and 500 ex-service men, as he entered Quantico Gymnasium to recelve | & surprise gift of a $1,000 mahogany desk, presented by officers and enlisted men to Gen. and Mrs. Butler, Met at the door by a delegation of senior officers and enlisted men, they were escorted (o the platform while the crowd sang “Hail Hall the Gang's All Here.” ull on the return trip. Gen. Butler sald: earth. My retirement merely means that wherever I may be, I will alwa: be ready to help the man who weal the uniform, boost the Army and Navy and remember our glorious traditions and our history as the finest body of fighting men in the world. We are al- ways first to fight. We advance or dle, but never surrender. We are the only organizations on earth that is allowed by Congress to write our name on the American . Our name is there be- cause we wrote it there with our blood. ‘Pacifists may try to take our arms. Communists may try to steal our food and clothes, but don't forgst that more woo red-blooded ex-Marine k nd I'ke a stone wall between America snd the wolves that are snap- ping at her throat. m}wt men, and that is to fight like hell, but don't cry when you are licked.” The desk presented Butler is one of oF e ariginal i the Metzopolitan M- of the orf n Mu- seum of Art, New York City. The desk uipped With phone, and EVENING STAR. IHEARING END NEAR | [ Body Founa the Legion goes on | I close with one, WASHINGTON., D ON GAS PRESSURE Commission to See Labora- tory Demonstration—Rus- sell Quiz Continues. The hearings on gas pressures before the Public Utilities Commission prpb- ably will adjourn some time this week to the Gecrgetown laboratories of the | Washington Gas Light Co., where demonstration i¢ being arranged for members of the commission to show the effects of varying pressures on gas flames used in ihe various gas ap- | pliances. It is the company’s contention tnat | within reasonable limits increases of | pressure such as they are seeking to put | e no effect on customers' bills and result tn better and more effi- cient, flames. At this moring's session, the com- pany’s chief engineer, Walter M. Rus- sell, started on his third day of cross- examination. Questioned by George E. Sullivan of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, the examination was con- fined largely to an Inquiry into the con- stituent compounds of illuminating gas and the effects of maladjustments in producing carbon monoxide. It yielded little not already in the reeord Mr. Russell testified that gas app!i- ances under very bad adjustment prob- ably would not Telease as much carbo monexide in the average kitchen e average citizen is compelled to inhale | daily as he walks or rides about the | streets. A. E. Peirce Expected. While the hearing today dealt with the hydrocarbons, principal interest centered on the expected appearance next week of Col. Albert E. Peirce, who has been subpoenaed to testify on the ownership of the local gas company. Mr. Peirce is president of the Central Public Service Corporation of Illinois and owns the Westfleld Trust. The ownership of the Washington company is sald to be in the hands of one or both of these groups. If this can be pinned on the Central Public Service Corporation, the result probably will be a lawsuit attempting either to compel the corporation to sell its stock inl the local company or to restrain it from voting the stock under the terms of the La Follette ant!-merger act. George A. G. Wood, , resident of Je local company, has had an open quar- rel with Peirce and has announced he | will not support Peirce at the next election of officers of the local company in January, 1932, In a letter made public yesterday, an- nouncing his position, Mr. Wood claimed Mr. Peirce was bringing about a very serious curtallment in the scope of Mr. Wood's duties, He sald also Mr. Peirce was giving undue credence to many false rumors prompted by ulterior mo tives, and referred to “the unfair method of secretly reporting upon mat- ters indisputably within the jurisdiction or discretion of the executive ofcials.” Quizzed on Flames, Yesterday afternoon’s hearing was concerned chiefly with the' subject of flames. Russell was plied with search- ing questions on this matter . Roberts, assistant _corporation coun- sel, and Richmond B. Keech, people’s counsel. From his answers it was gathered that in each flame there is a green cone immediately above the orifice of the appliance, and that this is surrounded by a blue mantle. If the appliance is not adjusted properly, he said, a yellow cone appears above the green cone— with disastrous results to the cooking utensils, since it is this yellow flame that deposits carbon. This does not"go for pllot lights for oil furnaces, however. These are of two types, the long yelow flame and the long blue flame/t'seems that the tong yellow flame e#Anbt be changed to blue, but that the long:blue flame, if im- properly adjusted, changes to yellow, with disastrous results. Explains High Pressure. High pressure, within reasonable limits, Mr. Russell said, has no effect on gas bills. Its effect is that the flame gets & little higher and a little “harder.” or, in other words, it is not so easily caused to waver by a breeze. High pres- sure gives a better combustion of gas, and since more gas is passing the orifice per second under high pressure than under low pressure the same work is ac- complished in less time. Low pressure, however, is inefficient and wasteful, it was said. Pressure is never stable throughout the day, and adjustments are regularly made by €00k to the varying conditions with the gas cock. Where the flame is in the oven and cannot be seen by the cook the latter usually judges by the sound of the gas as iy escapes from the orifices and is burned. BREWER CLEARED OF FRAUD CHARGES IN RHEEM FAILURE (Continued Prom First Page.) rection as the executive head of the corporation. The embezzlement charged in the in- dictment concerns $162,000 worth of mortgage notes held by the Washing- ton Loan & Trust Co. It was said the trust company officials discovered that the trust securing these notes had been released by Rheem, and they demanded that the face value of the notes be pald in cash or that some satisfactory se- curity be substituted for them. Rheem Admits Withdrawal, To meet. this demand, Rheem in- | structed Brewer to withdraw from the ! vaults of the Swartzell, Rheem & Hen sey Co. $162,000 worth of notes ad quately secured which belomged to cus- tomers of the company, who had left them in the vaulis for safekeeping. ‘These notes were then turned over to the Washington Loan & Trust Co. in place of the one secured by the released mortgage. Rheem admitted this transaction and mquenuy made restitution to the Cleared | i _C., S WEDNESDAY, BENJAMIN COLLINGS. BODY OF COLLINGS WASHED ASHORE AT SCENE OF ATTACK ___(Continued Prom Pirst Page) ing. The hotel register showed the name of a Mr. and Mrs. Collingborne, but Mrs. Collings convinced the au- thorities that she and her husband had never been to the hotel. Further mystery was added to the case by remarks little Barbara Collings made when she was found in the cabin of the deserted Penguin. H. L. Noteman, one of the yachtsmen who boarded the Penguin, told the authorities that she told him both her father and mother had gone for a swim with all their clothes on and that Collings had lost his job. Collings, who began a career as an engineer after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, soon retired and had not worked, so0 far as could be learned, for seven years. He was 38 years old at the time of his death, Collings' body was rolled in by heavy breakers and thrown up on the beach of the Marshall Pleld estate. It was face downward, and was left that way pending arrival of the proper officials, but positive identification was made by a and sapphire ring on the rizht hand. Signs of Force Seen. The body was dressed as Mrs. Col- lings had described Collings at the time he was attacked, barefoot and wearing dark brown mechanic's overalls.. Both hands and feet were tied tightly, in what officials called ‘“zailor’s knots™ with & half-inch rcpe. The arms, tied behind the back, bore bruises officials said were inflicted before death. 24 were taken to indicite that considerable {x"ca had been in securing Col- ings. Pockets Inside Out. After examination of the body at the morgue it was announced that all there were no articles of identification on the body except the gold-and-sap- phire ring. Capt. Emil Morse of the homiclde squad studied the knots with which Collings' hands and feet had been tied, ;nd' described them as ‘“revengeful nots.” 1t was sald that the rope used to tie Collings was not like any found on the & kind commoply used for tying up small boats. John Pox, captain of the Willlam B. Leeds yacht, who was asked to examine the knots studied them carefully and then announced that they were not any kind used by saflors. They were “very good,” however, he sald. The rope was unlike any found on the Penguin. Blue considered this evidence as valu- able in that he said it proved conclu- sively to him the attack had not been made by men accustomed to the ways of water craft and so narrowed the hunt by just so much. BENEFITS OF SHP HOLIDAY STUDIED |Borah and Grandi Plans Find Sympathy in Adminis- tration Circles. By the Associated Press. The State Department has been study- ing the advantages {o be derived from a naval building holiday and officials | there are swnpathetic toward the pro- vance@ by, Foreign Minister Grandl | of Italy and Senator Borah of Idaho. Three reasons were outlined /n offi- clal cifcles today for the bellef at- ! tributed to the administration ethat a | naval holiday ‘would be beneficis, First named was the expectation that such a4 holiday would create *a better atmosphere at ,the- General Dis- armament Confefence in Geneva in February. It also way explained that such aetion would give time for the solution of political peoblems standing in the way of complete disarmament, and would g‘ovma the governments with needed budgetary relief. Administration leaders were _de- scribed as feeling the naval positfon of the United States would not be made. relatively worse than that of other n: tions by such a holiday if the fol most maval powers subscribed to it, and provided the period covered by the Lon- don treaty was extended by the amount of the Toliday. The United States was sald to have a better balanced fieet constructed and under construction than it had at the time of the London Conference to there | would be no serious objections on that | se the pockets were turned inside out, and | Penguin. It was half-inch jute rope of | | posals for one which' have been ad-| stoc EPTEMBER 16, 1931. FESS 10 ABDRESS RALLY OF G. 0.P, | Republicans of Pennsylvania Will Meet on Saturday in Lehigh County. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator Fess of Ohlo, chairman of the Republican National Committee, is to speak Saturday at a rally staged by the Republican Committee of Lehigh County, Pa. The meeting will launch the Republican campaign in Pennsyl- largely by leading Republicans from different parts of the State. Senator Fess was strongly by Brig. Gen. Edward ‘Martin, the Repub- lican State chairman, to attend the meeting, which is to be near Allentown, and to be the principal speaker. From the regular Republican of view the imj of what hap- in Pennsylvania this Fall in_ considerable. Gov. ford . Pinchot belleved be willing and possibly anxious to lead a Progressive host in the next Republican National Convention, _the spotlight is more or less on the Key- stone State. The' delegates who will | represent Pennsylvania at the Repub- lican National Convention next year | will be elected in May, and unless Gov. Pinchot determines to keep out of the make a drive for & Pennsylvania dele- gation to support him for the nomina- tion against President Hoover. Pennsylvania Republican Jeaders in- sist, however, that Gov. Pinchot is not likely to have more than 35 per cent | of t‘e total delegation from Pennsyl- Ivlunnl: it he throws his hat into the i Borah Mentioned. Progressive Republicans from _the ‘West, members of the House and Sen- ate, have become more and more ac- tive in efforts to line up one or more prominent candidates to run against Mr. Hoover in the preferential primary States next Spring and Summer. Some of them realize that Gov. Pinchot, they say, would be entirely willing to lend himself to such s movement. But Pinchot is not as strong in the Far ‘West as he is sometimes lumed to be. Senator Borah of Idaho been put forward in some quarters as a potential candidate for Progressive support in the presidential primaries next year. But even among the Progressives a feel- ing prevails that the Idaho Senator is not inclined to permit his name to be used, or to get into an aciive cam- paign for the presidential nomination. Johnson Sought as Rival ‘The man whom scme of these Pro- gressives realy have in mind to make the race for the Republican nomination i3 Senator Hiram Johnson of California. They profess to believe Senator John- son eould carry California Mr. Hoover in the scramble for delegates at the National Convention. This jdea is pooh-poohed by regular Republicans, who declare the President is strong in his home State. Johnson undoubtedly would have the backing of William Randolph Hearst and his newspapers if he made the race. In 1924 Senatcr Johnson entered preferential primaries in some of the Northwestern States against former President Coolidge, but was badly de- feated. He soon after dropped out ef the race entirely. After that campaign he let it be known that his presidential | aspirations had been laid on the shelf, Benator Johnscn personally is an an- tagonist of President Hoover. That he | could be nominated against Mr. Hoover | next year is not credited really in any | quarter. But that he might be in- dueed to go into some of the primary States to stir up trouble for the Presi- dent is considered to be another matter. At present he is in California and not expected to return to Washington until November. — 'NEW SMITH CO. BOARD |VOTES BEING COUNTED | —— | Master Supervising Tabulation of Result of Ballot Ordered by Court. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del, September 16.— i Counting of the ballots cast yesterday for directors at & meeting of the stock- holders of the P. H. Smith Co. of Wash- ington and New York was resumed to- day under the, direction of Charles Weedy, Wilmington, *master appointed by Chancellor J. D. Wolcott, Keedy | said he did not expect-the result to be | known until late tomorrow. The election was held to elect a new Mhond of directors after the chancellor shares of outstanding coramon the corporation which the court said Jiad been issued to the ofi- cers without valid consideration. THree tickets were voted for yester- day. One was sponsared by the pres- | ent management, one by a group of pre- | ferred stockholders and the third by a | group of stockholders not identified with the other groups. | PLANE OF CRAMER i IS FOUND.WRECKED IN NORTH ATLANTIC ___(Continued Prom Pirst Page.) of wreckage of the plane in wi husband and mp r dmmmhmh" . Pacquette, who has refused steadfastly to admit that her husband perished, announced recently that she was preparing for a flight to the Shet- land Islands next S g to search for the mussing men. e strain of inten- sive study of navigation and wireless | telegraphy that she might be useful on | the fiight taxed her s G It will be at lcast a week, the doctor before she will be in condition to ld of the finding of the wreckage. | | said “be By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, September 16 Accusations that prisoners in the fed- eral district. jails are subjected to tor- ture rivaling that of the inquisition period were turned over by President Ortiz Rublo to Altorney General Jose Agullar y Maya today with instructions to make a thorough investigation. Tne prob: was ordered at the rzquest of Congress after state authorities of Vera Cruz charged that six Vera Cruk students were illegally detained here and subjected to treatment that “wounded the state's dignity.” ‘The studs TORTURE RIVALING INQUISITION CHARGED IN MEXICAN PRISONS Rubio Orders Thorough Probe of Student Stories About Third Degree Methods. campaign. They were released after days. ™ ihe students and other former pris- oners publicly accused the police of torturing them in an effort to force t a wall and a squad of police | fved a volley & Tew inches o one side to frighten him. Othérs sald they were forced to Te- main standing 24 hours, were denied | foad or water for periods of 48 hours, | were obliged to stand for hours under | er bath and were stripped to thelr underciothes and left in a cell which pre; had been soaked T, ag X of Po- Palencia ¥ on Calt. e leave in Los vania and is expected 10 be attended | presidential pleture he is expected to| | confessions. One declared he was stood | of UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR SAYS WIFE FELL INTO WATER." ELISHA KENT KANE, Professor of Romance languages at the University of Tennessee, who is held without bail at Hampton, Va. waile a coroner’s jury investigates the drown- Ing of his wife. Kane said she fell into Chesapeake Bay after slipping off a rock. Officers said his stories of | the drowning varied. They said fisher- | men heard Mrs. Kane's screams and witnessed the drowning, seeing Kane | pull her ashore and piace her_ body {in_an_ automobile. —A._P. Photo. HUNT FOR MOTIVE | Letter Said to Involve New York Woman Also Is Sought by Police. By the Associated Press. HAMPTON, Va, September 16.— Search for a motive, missing in what was termed a “confused tangle of con- flicting statements, today spurred. offi- cers investigating the death by drown- ing of Mrs. Jenny Graham Kane, whose husband, Prof. Elisha Kent Kane of the University of ‘Tennessee, they have charged with murder. The search was being conducted in- dependent of a hunt for an alleged letter, to or from Kane, which Dr. George K. Vandelslice, coroner, sald was not In possession of officers, but which they had been informed in- volved a New York woman. Kane, stiil held without ball, today had his father, Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane of Kent, Pa, 71-year-old surgeon, with him here. His counsel had also been increased by the addition of his uncle, Francls Fisher Kane, a former United States district attorney at Philadel- phia, and a cousin, E. K. Kane, jr., of Bradford, Pa. Belleves Son Innocent. Dr. Evan Kane said he was confident his son was innocent and had given the oOfficers a correct version of the drown- ing of Mrs. Kane. Kane, who disclaimed responsibility, 1 says his wife slipped from a rock whil | they were swimming in Chesapeake Bay and that his efforts to resuscitate her were unavailing. ’ Dr. Vanderslice, who last night. said “the case looks more like homicidé the deeper we get into it,” today said he had no intention of exhuming the body of | Mrs. Kane, being satisfled that she met death by drowning. The coroner is taking the complete testimony at his inquest in long hand and every sitatement is being. verified by qnnmmm‘1 of other Witnesses. He also said he had a number of letters exchanged between Kane and his wife, saying most of them were “affec- tionate.” READ AND SKETCHED. Prof. Kane Was Often Accompanied on Jaunts by His Wife. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., September 16 (#)—Playing the violin, . reading and sketching were ton, Va., for the drowning of his Mrs. Jenny Graham Kane. About Knoxville and the University e, a constant companion a large German police dog. in the languages he taught, Spanish, French and Italian, and. a library for his personal use. 7 Dr. John L. Kind, German professor, said during pleasant weather Kane and his wife went together to some secluded place to read and do sketching. FOR MOYLE AND ALLE ARE FOUND SAFE ON ISLAND OFF SIBERIA _ (Continued From First Page.) faflure would not mean' so much to them as might be expected. The weather was not of the best be- tween Japan and the Aleutian Islands on the day they :tarted their flight, but it was thought they had outraced a storm blowing down from Nome. The ship should have passed over the Aleu- tians at about midnight on Monday if they maintained the they held over the stretch between the take-off and Point Erimo. Lindbergh Sent Greetings. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who was in Japan at the time of the take-off, sent them his best wishes, acknowledg- ing that they had undertaken a dan- | gerous job, but pointing out that the weather over the Aleutians was less im- portant than the weather at the point where they would land. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, who are still in Japan, having aban- doned their round-the-world flight when they got into difficulties with the Japanese authoritles, also wished them luck, Pangborn sald the{ had accom- plished the most difficult part of the flight when they got away with their 11,500-pound load without accident. MISS BRESSON OVERCOME. RIVERSIDE, Calif, September 16 (#).—Miss Francis Breason, financee of Don Moyle, missing tnnsr-cmc avia- tor, who with Cecil A. Allen was re- ported found safe today, received the news of Moyle's resciie with utter silence for 15 minutes, after which she broke into tears and jumbled words o Bresson, a stenographer at the Muncipal Light and Water plant oi- fice, recelved the first news of the res- cue from tha Associated Press. She had not yet received tie message reported to have been sent her by Moyle from the steamer Buriat through the St. Paul ‘station, which relayed it to Cordova. “I am 80 over their rescue ly talk,” Miss Bresson that I can said as the office staff crowfled about Iations. last night.” hl'x'".h 255 "1 gave 2 -H:'gmmlehdhnbnnl Ae INKANE DROWNING!. DEATH OF MORR 15 LAID TO FALL Coroner’s Jury Unable to De- termine Cause of Fatal Plunge. __(Continued From First Page.) Morrow for some time, but that she had seen him but three times ainde Pebruary, when she returned to Wash- ington. Describing Priday night's hag- penings, she sald that Morrow calivd her up and asked her to come over t Hinshaw's apartment in the 1100 blecc of Seventeenth street, saying that he wanted her to meet Hinshaw. She de- murred, however, she isaid, on the ground that she had an appointment with Trafic Officer Cidwell, whom she described as her “best friend.” Hinshaw then came to the phone and asked her to come over, but she again demurred, she said. She said Morrow asked when her date would be over and she sald 11 or 11:30. Her company left at 11 or 11:15, she sald, and then she got another call from Morrow and at that time she went over to Hinshaw's apartment. She =aid drinks were served, but that :he did not drink because she had hay ever. Under questioning as to what they did in the apartment, she told Assistant District Attorney John J. Sirica, who is conducting the questioning, that they “read poetry,” citing that it was & “book on life that some little Jew fellow wrote abput 500 years ago.” They got reidy to leave, she said, and, on ac- count of Morrow's condition, which she described as drunk, she drove him in his own car over near Unlon Station, where she got him some sauerkraut to a3 up. She sald he half fell leaving the apartment and then when they got outside she told him to “stop stagger- ing and walk like a gentleman.” .. Says He Fell Asleep. - After’ Jeaving the restaurant cream, custard. and driving him around the Speedway. He Wwent, to sleep during this trip, she said, Finally they drove back up to where her car was parked near Sixteenth and S streets and she turned Morrow's car over to. him. He was in much better shape by that time, she said. “As I got int> my room it was fust 2 o'clack.” she said. Under questioning by Sirica, conferred frequently with Capt. Ed- ward J. Kelly, assistant chief of de- tectives, Miss Habey denied that she ' had been “keeping company” with Morrow, but that she had been * ing company” with Cidwell since 1 came here in 1929. Asked If she had told Cidwell about being out with Morrow Priday, she’ said yes, and that he wanted her to: tell Kelly. but she demurred. “think- ing silence the best,” addi that “T had just started out in wanted to keep a good reputation.’ Did Not Notice Footprint. Asked what her relations were with Morrow. she sald, “He always came to meflwnwne-;huu!.hnc-ux‘; ways fim i e was % she had " d}u 1¢ on row’s shirt, but she said not. have said the print was made by Mor- row himself. = - = black, he ice o m“l.hlu ack, her voice breaking as tempted to describe her night-long vigil awaiting the return of her hus band, Mrs. Morrow finally broké down B nghts o e pleture eir She was then e from™ further questioning. « E Mrs, Morrow told of from her husband PFriday that he complained of his ing him and that he was out a little while. returned at 1:30, she Mrs. Joseph Pacyna, friends, at 200 Massachusetts svenue, their car went down on the beat Morrow should haye been, around $s5 E% it : gii {4 £ ¥ S Emt_ i the he ¢ | can't say why, but I knew it.” she mong the hobbies of Elisha Kent Kane, University of ‘Ten- | ¢ - nessee professor. who is held at Hamp- | to the police theory, Morrow lay dead Priends sald he was fond of reading | woman. She did | E Seventeenith street, and then the Speedway, hoping trace of him. Arri back home at 2: she f his car in front ment, told the Pacynas T § &F the embankmen to have fallen. I knew it; e where he is supposed “I felt he was near; Af, that very time, nearby. Mr. and Mrs. con- firmed her story of looking for Morrow. Miss Louise Saunders of the 1600 of Tennessee campus Prof. Kane had as | block of Q street said that she was in ent when Morrow Hinshaw's returned with the other after went out a ward, she sal ed apd Officer Cidwell in taking the stand said that he had left Miss Habey Fri- day night as she bad testified. He sald she also told him that she had that he urged her to make a report to police, but that she said she was afraid of the publicity. James Hood, who rooms with Cidwell in the 1600 block of Lamont street, said thet Cidwell was in bed asieep when” h‘e. h:nne in after midnight Friday n Other witnesses were Detective Sergts. James A. Springmann, chief of the homicide squad, and George R. Darnell, who iievestigated the policeman’s death, and E. R. Donaldson, police who said that the grass stains and found on Morrow's clothing were same as that in the ravine in which body was found. Cecil had lost in their effort to spam the Pacific and up until last night I hope they would be rescued.” he returned, but he may wish to try another flight when he comes back.” she continued. “I am v;lbl;emx to marry him as soon as pos- sible.”, Miss Bresson sald she did not know whether she would go to 8::;&\. to be in Seattle Septem| son flew to Seattle two days after Moyle and Allen left Ja on their attempt ter in atop Bight %o Beattie water in & non. “Something told me Cecil was out there somewhere in the world well, and coming back to me sagain, Mrs. Mary Allen, wife of the tescued transpacific aviator said when she - informed her husband and Moyle been patched up in letters Allen while he was in the tm-o:;d s’ . In Maywood, Angeles sul o and Mrs. W. E. Moyle, parents of le, veiced a prayer of thanks. 1 :nld xlf:el:nd her husband had o0 wa days before giving up for the safety of their son. “And he has been