Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1932, Page 2

T A2 kEH KENSINGTON . OF C. FIGHTS MAPES BILL Chamber Adopts Resolution Against Measure for Income Levy. KENSINGTON, Md.. May 26.—Vigor- | ously opposing the Mapes bill providing | for a graduated tax on incomes earned | in the District of Columbia, the Ken. smgton Chamber of Commerce unani- mously adopted a resolution disapprov- | ing the measure at a meeting here last | night. The proposed bill. it was pointed out by President W.I.Cleveland, would tax the incomes of residents of Maryland employed in- the Capital and would therefore impose double income taxa- tion on the people of this area who ! work in the District ! Will Attend Hearings. Senator Arthur Capper, chairman of the District of Columbia Committee, wili be requested te inform the local chamber when hearings are held on trie Mapes bill, and a delegation will be appointed by Cleveland to appear be- fore the District Committee to oppose the measure as it now stands. The resolution was one of two passed by the chamber against legislation pending in Congress. The second urges that a sales tax. be adopted in licu of the increase in tax levies, as proposed, | to balance the budget. H. S. Bean, sec- | retary, was directed to notify the Mary- land delegation in Congress of the chamber's action. It was announced that the chamber has raised approximately $500 in addi- tion to its own $20 contribution toward the $8,000 needed by the Social Service League of Montgomery County to com- plete its $39.000 fund for welfare work during the coming year. Campaign to Continue. The campaign. which is being con- ducted by the Chamber of Commerce. will continue. Cleveland said, until the $680 quota for Kensingion and its en- virons has been obtained | A special meeting was called for June | 27 to pass upon a number of revisfons | in the by-laws suggested last night by | the committee recently appointed for| that purpose. One of the new laws pro- | vides for meetings each month through- out the year instead of adjourning Gur- ing the Summer. Washington ) ETERANS of the World War who threatening to prevent a freight received transportation. ' St. Clair County sheriff. DISQUIET IN PARTY LAD T0 HOOVER {Talk of Wet Plank to Bring Drys to the i FACTIONAL FIGHT Capital. | FACES STATE 6. 0. P.| i Maryland Republican Convention | to Develop Battle for Party Control. By the Associated Press. The stir of preparation for the Re- publican National Convention has de- veloped an undercurrent of disquiet harboring trouble for the meeting which !is to renominate President Hoover. News that the President has been | talking of the party's prohibition plank Bpecial Dispaich to The Star. | to Republican officials has caused a BALTIMORE. May 26.—A lively con- flood of inquiries to descend upon the test is expected this afterncon at the Oapital. They come largely from pro- Republican State Convention, with | NiPitionists. many of whom are dis Washington to demand bonus pavments of Congress photographed near the Tllinois border line, where they were conveyed by motor busses after | Williams, chairman of Program Com- | Commissioner Walter R. Herrick “if / THE. EVENING STAR, ‘WASHINGTON, D. (., THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932. IHOUSE BALL GAME ' MEETING CALLED I jCommittee to Convene To- morrow to Make Final Plans for June 4 Contest. Final arrangements for the biennial base ball game between the House Democrats and Republicans, June 4, in Grifith Stadium for the benefit of the | District unemployed will be discussed at |a meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Willard Hotel. The meet- ing was called by Joseph P. Tumulty |and Edward P. Colladay, chairman of i the committee. ‘The Democrat nine, captained by | Representative Thomas 8. McMillan, is working out daily in Central Stadium, | while the Republican stalwarts, under the leadership of Representative Vin- cent Carter, are limbering up in East- ern Stadium. 5 Tickets were placed on sale today at the House Bullding under direction of the sergeant at arms. Others at Meeting. Besides Mr. Tumulty and Mr. Colla- | day, other officers of the committee in- clude Robert J. Cottrell, secretary; J. K. | Seyboth, treasurer; Mrs. Virginia White Speel and Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro, chairmen Sponsors’ Committee; Ray- mond Florence, chairman Audits and Budgets; Mrs. Reginald Huldekoper. chairman Box Committee; Lawrence Their Goal are making a strenuous effort to reach train from making its way until they | mittee, and the following vice chair- Trucks and automobiles were furnished by the |men: George C. Havenner, Christopher Pope, Dr. H. C. Hopkins, Willlam R. Vallance, J. M. Bowie, S. Percy Thomp- son. Edwin Hill, Mark Lancburgh, Harry King, Ben Webster, Proctor Dougherty, | Miss M. Pear] McCall, Francis Wells, A | Mitchell Palmer. J. Harry Covington. | Robert N. Harper. Charles A. Douglas, John F. Costello, John B. Colpoys. Col | Arthur J. O'Brien, Maj. D. A. Datiscn. | Herbert B. Crosby. Luther H. Reichel- | gerter. Waiter Johnson and Clark Grif- ' fith. | General Committee. A partial list of the general com- i Judge Payne Advises Hoover e mentery gions, Gares 4. 23.000,000 Bushels Have | Hea"5i. n" Leese, Thomas . Titiier Been Given to Needy. ‘Wide World Photo. FREE FLOUR SENT INTO EVERY STATE | page. Edgar Morris, Claude W. Owen, | H. M. Siarling. G. A. G. Wood. Fred | Buckholtz, Odell 8. Smitb, Ensign | Charles H Dodd, Mrs. F. W. Mondell, ! C.'J Waters, Dr. Wlliam H. Jernagin, | President Hoover was advised today, Dr. John E. Washington, Dr. John R by Judge John Barton Payne, chairman ' praneis, Garnet C. Wilkerson, Ralph ' of the American Red Cross. that al-|j Buneh. J. Frenklin Wilson. Robrt readv 23.000,000 bushels of flour of the | T scott, John F Crosby. T. T. Ans- 40.000.000 bushels turned over to the'parrv john Walch. George Allen. Hugh Red Cross by the Federal Farm Board: pj Obear Louis A Spiss, John H for diciribution to the needy throughout Ciapp and George H. O'Connor. the country has been given away. i Pt Uiy in” his opimion the 17000000 wushets' GLASSFORD PLEADS FOR BONUS VOTE remaining will be sufficient to care for | the nungry through the coming Sum-| mer and into the early Fall, but after that he feels confident that additional | i suing his questioning about the block | | Hyde, M. A. Leese, Thomas P. Little- | WALKER CHARGES MOVE T0 0UST HIM: Says Seabury Is Preparing to Ask His Removal by Gov. Roosevelt. (Continued Prom First Page.) | |than two years without making nny| | investment. : {_“What do you think, Mr. Mayor,” | ' Seabury asked, “was the reason for Mr. | Block establishing tne account?” i . “Td prefer you to ask Mr. Block,” Walker replisd. l | _He then launched into a eulogy of | Block and his generosity, private and public. | J. Allan Smith Present. | Among the spectators today was J. 1 Allan Smith, bus company agent, who | bought a $10,000 letter of t for the | }mlyor in 1927. Mayor Walker testified ! yesterday that he never heard of Smith | |and that the letter of credit was paid | for by himself and members of his| party. | Another present was John J. McKeon, | who, according to earlier testimony, delivered $26,000 in bonds to the mayor from J. A. Sisto, a banker. "Have you been the beneficlary of an: other funds or accounts since you've | | been mayor?” Seabury asked today, pur- ' account |, Tve had countless kindnesses.” |Wllker replied. As Seabury pressed him for a more direct answer, he added: “Not that I remember.” r was asked on the telephone by Parky he’ | still had his Interstate Trust stock” and if he replied to Herick “No. I put it up | for collateral, and it's all gone.” | Committee Members Argue. | An argument developed between Sen- | !ator John J. McNaboe, Democratic mi- | { nority member of the committee, and | | Senator Samuel Hofstadter, chairman | {of the committee, over the propriety of the question. McNaboe objected to . Walker answering. The question was read to Walker | again. i ! 7“1 have said,” Walker said. “that Mr.! | Herick _never telephoned me on that | subject.” “Do you recall telling Herrick you put | it up for a loan”" |7 “T don't remember his ever talking to i me on the phone on this subject” | | “You mean you're not sure you didn't | discuss this subject on the Lekphene' with Herrick?" ! ‘Neither on the phone or in person | did T ever say I had the stock or didn't | have it. The only conversation I ever | | had with him about the stock was when I told him the stock was put aside and he could buy it if he wanted to Records “Never Existed.” Seabury asked the mayor if. in re- sponse to a subpoena, he had produced ‘any other records” for the committee. “Most of the records asked for never | existed,” Walker replied. “There are | no records of any financial transactions ' New York Probe Principals LAWYERS WRANGLE IN COBLENTZ CASE ‘Assistant Bank Commis- sioner of Maryland Re- sumes Testimony. CUMBERLAND, Md., May 26 —Ex- amination of witnesses in the trial of State Senator Emory L. Coblentz, pres- ident of the Central Trust Co. of Fred- | erick, charged with receiving a deposit when he knew the bank was insolvent, | was resumed today in the Circuit Court here, the case having been removed | from Howard County, where the indict- | ment was found in connection with the | closing of the Washington Trust Co. Bank. a branch of the Prederick In- stitution. Constant objection of counsel marked | the proceedings. | John D. Hospelhorn, assistant State bank commissioner, resumed his testi- mony. He said the Blue Ridge Securi- |tles Co. owed the Central Trust Co. |$31,792,762.22 and the Central Securi- | ties Co. owed $2.375.569.36. |~ These were subsidiaries and the bank held collateral to secure notes. "It was not the kind of collateral you could go out and get figures on,” Hospelhorn declared. The witness attended a conference in Baltimore September 1 in connec- tion with the Central's affairs which was attended by Senator Coblentz, | Gov. Ritchie, Attorney General Wil- liam P. Lane, State Controller Wil- liam S. Gordy and Howard Bruce, Al- bert G. Towers, Hayward Boyce, W. Graham Boyce and Donald Symington, Baltimore bankers. The court sustained objections to questions by the defense as to whether anvthing was said at this meeting to Coblentz or in his presence to the effect that the Central Trust Co. was then insolvent Bankers Asked for Help. Referring to a meeting between State Banking Commissioner George W. Page and Senator Coblentz August 21, 1931, Hospelhorn said no suggestion was made that the bank was insolvent, but reports showed shrinkage. “What did you and Mr. Page do?" he was asked. Hospel- horn replied ‘We made arrangements |10 see the Governor and the conference followed” Hospelhorn admitted upon Questioning that at this conference Baltimore bankers were asked to put up money to aid the Central Trust and they refused. Hospelhorn read from his record that he advised that the dividend of per cent paid the last six months by the Central Trust Co. would have to be reduced. No dividend was paid by the subsidiary securities companies When asked by State's Attorney James Clark. heading the prosecution, if he did not testify before the Howard County grand jury that he had engaged extra help several days before the Cen- tral Trust closed. Hospelhorn said he did not remember clearly. Cl:rk thes read from his notes that Hospelhora hod testified that some help had been engaged from the Union Trust Co. an?t some from the Baltimore Tru e e G ol e Talt o | orDecacEreporfe thint tHeRulank ftalk with Fageol, J. Allan Smith, Sisto or chief counsel for the Hofstader Legisla- | _The defense objected to the State re- members of the Goldsborough-Tait and | jeans toward re-submission. 7 the Norris-Harvey factions fighting for | Individually and in organized groups control. the drys are planning a descent upon e ! the Capital next week to consider cam- When the convention delegates meet | in the Marvland Theater, Addison E.|Poel SUSUBY i some dis- Mullikin. candidate for Governor in | ieasre” within the ranks of party 1926, will be given the chairmanship yheelhorses. The President is having without opposition. according to mem- | gimcyities shaping plans because of the bers of the faction headed by Galen L.| hogqipility that Congress may still be in Tait. chairman of the State Central| coccion when the convention opens. But Comuittee. he has failed, apparently, to consult It is expected the Norris H“"'yiwnh some of the party's congressional grovLp, from Baltimore County, will start ! 10g ders upon his designs. a floor fight on the certification of State | “Eyen Senator Fess, the party chair- Senator Wallace Willlams as nominee | i€l WHREECE SO 01 ed after the for the United States Senate. He won | i t advieed il atter the nomination on tHe unit count, but | SOPYERtOn., Was no | it was over, of a recent political dis- was defeated in the popular vote by Lin- | cusson the President had with Post- b master General Brown. James Francis The countians are expected to ask|pyrie, the National Committee’s coun- that Mr. Clark and Senator Williams oi™5 17 2R toh Silies " New York withdraw, with the post being offered to N S e Sond Gl e “‘“'%'gl'r'e' lc\::“:el::exfll?mument backed defeated. the countians will ofter Mr.' ('S0 ok ™0l 16 “what the Presi- Miller as national committeeman, 1t is | dants. views on the prohibition plank recorted. enstor Joseph Irwin France,|W8Y be. Influential Republican drys T T win France:, maintain he is waiting for the prohibi- e e R orees 1o tionists to take a definite stand ofl 1e. o e b submission. A score of high-placed O ey K Senator are PATLY men have been asked to draft a Friends of the former e, and appar- said to be bitter against the Goldsbor- | PIARk OB the VEnE St ARG PP ough-Talt group for flling at the last minute President Hoover against France | ierent plans to offer, = H party in the Maryland présidential primary | & ¢ point rath D aIand | chairman—indications now point rather The France people claim that tne | SUOTBIY to Patrick 4. Hurlcy, the Sec- last-minute entry of Hoover prevented |Tetary of War—the Hpotient o e the Maryland presidential cnntender},':‘i“{h‘f“°n1§,§ o décisionthas begn from conducting anything like an ade- 205 (0 ¥ A% 7 ST R ey, who quate campaizn in his own State. and | 2R U0 peen offered him. takes attribute to this his loss of this State’s | 523 il direct Mr. 19 votes in the G. O. P. convention, | ihe chairmanship he w Gl It was thought probable that Dr,|HOOVEr's election campaign. France will take the floor and make a —— cathing attack upon the method pur- f:el(\il b}]tha }gno\':’r m:nager, not gnl}'lTwo MOTORCYCLISTS arvland. but in other States, where the former Maryland Senator claims lhel KILLED NEAR STAUNTON delegates to the naticnal convention are — rightfully his by virtue of the will of the ' goad party voters, as expressed in the pri-| maries | Denunciation of a Republican regime | is a performance that has hitherto been | left to ‘:ré- I;:m’)crallc fian‘vex’;tlona and' Sossial Diapateh to/ THe 8ter a speech by France might, it is said, set the gathering in an uproar. STAUNTON, Va.. May 26.—Charles e | Curry, 22, and Isaac Riddle, 18, of Waynesboro, Va., were instantly kilied MISSING PASTOR TRACED |!ast night on the Waynesboro highway TO SHIP STATE ROOM near Staunton, when their motor cycle | crashed into a car driven by John W. Minor of Charlottesville. Identificaticn Hat, Key Ring but Bed Had Not Been Occupied. Crash Costs Lives of Waynesboro Youths as Auto -on Driver Is Injured. i of the victims was delayed some time 4 | because of the mutilation of the bodies. 4nd | The head of Curry, evidently the driver of the motor cycle, was practically torn from his shouiders ~Riddle’s neck was broken and his face unrecognizable. Clothing was torn from both bodies. By the Associated Press { The impact of the crash caused Minor NORFOLK, Va. May 26.—The state- | to lose control of his car, which turned room assigned to the Rev. D. W. Naff, g\er l}h}:‘e; tifixgs and -;:5 :;’l;.flpslfil:fi . A | demolished. Minor esc missing Orange. Va. minister. was| {iuRCSTeG N O RanGer Son of D opened when the steamer reached New, j [, Alexander, Staunton physiclan, York, but the bed had not been occu-| who was an occupant of Minor's car, pid, officials of the Eastern Steamship ' received a badly sprained back. Co. advised Norfolk police today. | An investigation exonerated Minor Steamship officials said a bat and and revealed that the motor cycle was key ring bearing Nefl's initials, and a traveling without lights on the wrong purse containing $1.60 and other per- side of the road. nor::rl ;Hect;[ wereflro\mdhln th: roo‘m. i . e =y | of. J. H. Neff of the University of Virginia, brother of the missing man, | FLOWER SHOW TONIGHT | e e D | ?sked (l!(} dol' Nm'folkhpOhC; Wh:]n ]th ttes 1] to t 1 New York Neff drove an aotomobile Burleith Garden Club's Exhibition to Open. Virginian's Purse Found, New York. Neff drove an automobile here from Charlottesville and engaged a stateroom on a steamer sailing for | restored. exempting sterling and plated | silverware and jewelry New York Moncav night. From Charlottesville today came re- ports that the young minister had re- cently suffered a severe illness. TAXPAYERS’ UNION ASKS HEARING ON MAPES BILL Newly-Formed Body Oppose ! Principle of Graduated Income Taxes. to Opposing the principle of graduated income taxes, the newly formed Tax- payers' Union has asked to be heard when the Senate District Committee takes up the Mapes bill, which contem- plates a tax on that basis in the Dis- trict. The Bureau of Efficiency sug- gested lower rates, but indorsed the principle of the House bill, with vari- ous changes. A spokesman or the Taxpayers' Union ' said that the Dupont Circle Citi: 2 Association also took action sometirhe ago against graduated income tax legis- lation. This method was criticized as result- ing in the payment of most of the tax money by relatively few personc. A general sales tax is favored by the ‘Taxpayers’ Union as a substitute for the graduated income tax. The Burleith Garden Club exhibition of Spring flowers opens tonight at 7:30 at Mount Tabor Church, Thirty-fifth street and Wisconsin avenue, and will | be open tomorrow from 2 to 9 p.m. Each Dollar Invested in Your Home Will Save Many Later A well kept house is A happy home is an asset to any com- munity. A well run community is a national asset. Let your home be country. A DOLLAR SAVED IS help in this respect will be needed if lhe‘ relief is to be continued. i Judg> Payne 2lso reported that dis- tributicns of this flour has been mace ! in every State and in the District of Columbia and Alaska. The bulk of the cistribution has been in the smaller cit- ics and rural districts and mining and lumber towns. He said his information | is that the poor of these sections have been well cared for, but he was not in a position to report accurately as to the | condition among the needy in the larger | cities. Regarding the latter, he said the Red Cross received many reports that large numbers of persons were unable to take advantage of this help because of toeir inabilitv to make bread with/ the flour. principally because of the lack | of facilities. i EXCISE TAX RATES TO END LONG FIGHT ___(Continued From First Page.) erazes, 5 cents on grape juice. 2 cents a gailon on fruit drinks, 2 cents on min- eral waters and exempted apple cider. A 8-cent per gallon tax on fountain | siiups and 5 cents on sirups for bottled ! carconated beverages was approved by ! the Senate. Luxury Sales Taxes Restored. Before the Senate began action the commiitee had restored numerous .lux- ury sales taxes to the revenue bill in its attempt to provide funds to balance the budget. The_committee exempted soaps and | dentrifices from a 10 per cent tax on toilet preparations and cosmetics. It voted a 5 per cent sales tax on furs, to be paid by the dresser who | prepares the article. A 10 per cent tax on jewelry was costing less than 10 cents. { A sales tax of 2 per cent was voted | for candy and a 10 per cent levy was put on sporting goods, refrigerators, cameras and firearms, with aerial cameras exempted. A levy of 2 cents a thousand on wood matches and one-half cent a thousand on paper matches was agreed upon. Theater admission tax exemptions were raised to 30 cents from 10 cents. Soft Drink Tax Put Back. A permanent levy of 10 per cent of the rental charge on safgty deposit boxes was voted. The House provisions for taxes on soft drinks were restored. The soft drink tax, as agreed upon by the committee. would be 1.25 cents a gallon cereal beverages; 11 cents on unfermented grape juice; mineral wa- ters, 2 cents a gallon; sirups for foun- tain use, 6 cents a sirups for bottling carbonated agallon. Pure apple cider was exempted. ?he estimated yield from the various excise taxes approved by the commit- tee was $59,000,000. DR. VAN RENSSELAER DIES Dr. Martha Van Rensselaer, head of the College of Home Economics at Cornell University, died this morning in New York City, according to word rec-ived here today. She was the associate head of thel President’s Conference for Child Wel- fare and was widely known as an | educator. Now a happy home. B! an asset to your A DOLLAR EARNED j National Guard Trucks Carrying 300 { vance on Washi | time) TO END MARCHES)| (Continued Prom First Page.) egreed that every effort should be made | to prevent their staying here more than 24 or 48 hours. should they arrive. Carrying out the campaign of di: couragement. Gen. Glassford :ald he intenced issuing daily bulletins to press associations pointing out that there are no faciities avai'able to care for the marchers Also, he said, he would tele- graph the known leaders of the various brigades now on their way here, asking that they turn back. | MILITIA MOVES MARCHER Across Indiana. WASHINGTON. Ind.. May 26 (#.—The bonus brigade” today resumed its ad- moving out of | here at 8:10 am. (Central standard in 26 Indiana National Guard motor trucks. Lieut. Col. R. H. Stillwell. in charge of the truck convoy. doubted that the | brigade” would reach the Ohio Su!e‘; line before tomorrow. Gov. George | White has said he will provide similar transportation across Ohio for the 300 World War veterans who are moving jon to Washington to ask cash pay- ment of their adjusted service certrfi- cates. \ Reach Ohio Tomorrow. Lieut. Col. Stillwell fixed a tent. i tive schedule which called for an over- night stop tonight at North Vernon,| Ind. The remaining 40 miles from North Vernon to the Ohio line near Lawrenceburg will be covered tomor- row. Stillwell said. { ‘The bonus expedition had been in this city since early yesterday morning. The | veterans had taken advantage of the facilities afforded here and had “policed up” a bit. Railway Police on Guard. Lieut. John Hamilton of the State | police and 10 patrolmen escorted the truck procession. Sixty-five railroad detectives were on ! duty here to prevent seizure of trains, | but’ there was no disorder. The men staged a parade through the main streets of tge city. Solicited contribu- tions totaled $32.10, wnich was turned over to the mess fund. e NEW BOTANIC GARDEN MAY BE RE-ENFORCED Architects Consider Strengthening | Aluminum Portion of Structure. Consideration is being given by the office of David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, and by consulting architects on tne new Botanic Garden Bufldln'l as to the advisability of adding ad. ditional struts in the aluminum frame- work at the top of the palm room, to strengthen the structure. Conferring on the problem are ex- perts of Mr. Lynn's office, of Bennett, e 1 never had any finan- Seaburv indicated he had been un- able to find the mayor's brother. Dr. William J. Walker, and asked where he “I don't know,” Walker said. “T haven't seen him for five or six months. I'll be very glad to get in touch with him and have him communicate with you. | G Walker said he had $10.000 “evidence ' of additional geneiosity” in a bink that | was absorbed by the Bank of Manha | tan | He said it was profit on an invest- nent made on his behalf by Esmond O'Brien Questioned by Seabury about his business transactions since he became Mayor in 1926, Walker replied “There are no records, I had no busi- ness.” Of those with whom Walker said he had had no financial transactions the men besides Smith and Sisto, not fully identified by him. were Frank R. Fageol and William O'Neill, both backers of the Equitable Bus Co. which sought a franchise here, which Mayor Walker signed the day before Smith, an Equi- able agent, bought the letter of credit Tells of Taxi Bill. Walker said he did not remember what the stock was O'Brien had bought for him that gave him the $10,000 profit. Whatever records there are of his financial transactions, Walker said, are check stubs in his law office. He prom- ised to send for them Seabury then asked him if he in- troduced to the Board of Aldermen in January, 1932, a bill regulating taxicab control. Walker said he did. “My design.” he said, “was to draft a bill that would follow the report of the Taxicab Control Commisison that had held several public hearings on the subject.” Says He Is on Trial. Walker said he wished to call to the attention of the committee the fact that his_motive might be questioned. “I recognize,” Walker said, “the an- tagonistic attitude of Mr. Seabury. I'm | here as a witness, but it begins to look as though somebody were after my life.” “It is aprarent to me that this is an examination before trial—that it is pre- liminary to preferring charges with the Governor asking for my removal.” He challenged Seabury to meet him “on some other ground and discuss this subject ” Seabury angrilv charged him with making cheap political stump speech.” “Can't Remember All of Them.” Walker was asked if he ever dis- | cussed the taxicab situation with Mor- ris Markham. | “I might have” he said. “At least a thousand persons discussed that sub- Jject with me.” Asked if John J. McKeon brought J. A. Sisto to his apartment in an Atlantic City hotel in 1929, Walker replied: | “I met Mr. Sisto in Atlantic City, in 1928 at a convention. He was in- troduced to me as the brother-in-law of Sidney Kent, vice president of Para- mount-Famous Players. “T was co-guest of honor at a dinner with the then secretary to the Presi-' dent, George Akerson. We both spoke at the dlnner‘.“ It was after the dinner I met Mr. Sisto.” Seabury lugm"uld ‘Walker met Sisto ting. Parsons and Frost, of Chicago. consult: | P6I95e that MCEMN® o )0 sata, “1 ing architects for the building, and ' w a great man; 7 others. The frame work of steel lndl;m‘:\}:‘%fi;}' ren'lrember tl{e:ol:fi aluminum is now virtually complete, | but please don't tell them about it.” but careful study has led all engineers A number of those who attended lo consider the advisability, Mr. Lynn | ne dinner later met in » private party, said, of extra precautions. ] % Sid. decision in the matter will be reached ! Wk soon. he explained, and work will pro- | Tells of Oil Pool. Walker sald he “participated in a ceed. The lower part is of structural’ steel and the upper part of aluminum. Cosden Oil stock pool to the extent of $26,000, but that he did not put up any It is virtually ready for glass now. money. o He was told, he said, when he first met Slsw.“ullt Sisto was Interested in en Ofl. $4,000 THEFT REPORTED i Sisto was interested in into the Jewelry Taken From Car of Mrs. pim Wik vit, L. Sebury asked whun; if he was ora‘ fered a chance to buy in the pool an Roberta E. Timberlake. if he said he couldn't afford to. Jewelry valued at $4,000 was stolen MWllker said he did not say any such ng. from the automobile of Mrs. Roberta E. | M€, 0 . 1y Sisto you coutan't Timberlake, wife of Representative | afford to buy any stock?” Charles B. Timberlake of Colorado, she| I did not. I never met the man in reported to police late yesterday. my life until I met him in Atlantic Mrs. Timberlake said she left the|City.” jewelry tied in a handkerchief in her| Walker also denied he had ever dis- car beside the East Park golf | cussed the taxicab situation with Sisto. course. Windows of the car were closed | Walker started to discuss the $26,000 and the doors locked, ‘Timber- | worth of stock—and paused. lake reported. “Are you being interrupted?” Seabury She said she did not discover her loss * asked. until she returned home, 1801 Sixteenth “I am being interrupted.” Walker re- street. The jewelry included two dia- plied, down at some one at the mond rings valued at $1,800 each, and ' counsel table, “and with the utmost » wedding ring valued at $250. discourtesy. I am conscious of s sneer PPER: Samuel Seabury (center) tive Committee, at of his assistant: Mayor James J. Walter Lowe recess. It was ne the crowd d at on the face of an employe of the State of New York" “You're very Seabury “1 am not sensitive,” plied Walker said the oil stock pool was discussed at Atlantic City He was told about the pool and acked what it would cost to join. He was told he said, it would cost nothing to jein because the market had gone up 15 points since the pool has been organized Later. he said, he was notified the pool was closed. Took Profit in Bonds. PFinally, he said. he accepted his profit in bonds because of a shortage of money. He said McKeon brought them to him at his apartment “I gave them to Mrs. Walker.” he said. “She still has them.” There was a good ceal of an uproar while the mayor told the story of the $26.000 in bonds. Substantially his story was that 1t might have been “any one at the At- lantic City, farty,” who told him about the 1, but that to the best of his recollection it was not Sisto. After he had been told the pool was elosed, h» “forgot all about it.” he said. “until they celivered the bonds. “Oh. it was after a banquet.” he said when Seabury asked him how he hap- pened to forget about the pool. “I just forgot it, that's all.” Walker, after the recess, said he gave the bonds to Mrs. Walker the dav after they were delivered to him, in Decem- ber, 1929 or January, 1930. “Mrs. Walker or Mr. Sherwood.” Walker said. “deposited the coupons in the bank. Probebly Mr. Sherwood did, foy he transacted all her business for her—deposited money. paid bills and o as he did for me.” After some discussion among mem- bers of the committee, who demanded to know what “is the motive behind this line of questioning,” the mayor broke in, saying: | “Mr. Chairman and all the commit- | tee, the mayor has many things to do. Please don't keep me here any longer than is necessary " “If I'm willlng to take a chance he added. turning to the Democrats, | “you ought to be.” | The mayor sajd he had never heard | that Sherwood, as testified Monday by Samuel Ungerleider had sold to Unger- | leider’s firm stocks at more than $30.000 | above the market value. He said he never had discussed Sherwood's private affairs with him | “Sherwood was ycur representative, ‘wasn't he?” “He was never my representative.” | “Didn't you have a safe deposit box with him?” “I did not.” (Showing him & record) “Is that your signature?” | “Apparently it is.” | “Doesn’t that convince you you had a “v:’lnt safety deposit box with Sher- wcod?” “It does not.” “How do you account for your signa- ture being on this application.” “The box was taken temporarily to | store some valuable papers belonging to | a client of mine, when I was still with | law firm.” The mayor then addressed the com- mittee saying: “If there is any question of my meet- | ing with Sisto having any bearing on the taxicab situation, if there is any innuendo that Sisto tried to bribe me, I want to say that after the bonds were | delivered, an ordinance was to increase the taxicab rates. e mayor | could pass the ordinance and increase the taxicab fares or the mayor could | veto it, killing the raise. “The bill came to me in April, 1920, | six months after I received the bonds. I vetoed it 10 days later. During that| time, there was plenty of chance for | Mr. Sisto or anvbody else to come to me and try to influence me if they had wanted to.” | The mayor then read to the com-| mittee a transcript of the statement he | made to the Board of Aldermen at| the time he vetoed the bill. | “By the way,” the mayor interrupted | himself, “there was at one time dautn] whether the law would permit the mayor to sign a taxicab control bill. | I referred the matter to Mr. Justice | Seabury of the Supreme Court, and was told that the mayor could sign such a bilL" “Justice Seabury,” he added, leaning sensitive today,” seid the mavor re- g New M?o York City. photographed with two the court house for his examination of Maycr Walker outside the court house during the noon ary for police to el ear a path for the mayor o 3real vas —A. P. Photos. forward and nodding at Seabury, “MTr. Justice S~cbu v gave n thai opinion. The Parma e p Waiker said as h- finiTiea reading the statem a* that time had 1.000 taxicabs oa D street: of New York If T had d thet bil', the Parmalee company have profited $1,000.00) in cne Tells of Stock Account. The mayor fought flachily v d = of his poliical honor, Seabury went doggedly to the attack. There were two high spots. One came when Waiker acknowledged that. without investing anv money, he realized $246,692 from a :tock market account he had jointly with Paul Bleck, newscarer publisher. He said the a count was cpened “on Mr. Block =1 ~cid ci7di and repw n” and that he deposiied the money in a safe in his home until he and Mrs. Walker “just spent it." The other highlight came when Sea- bury pre-sed him about a $10.000 letter of credit he and his party used on a trip to Europe. This letter was pur- has>d by en agent of the Equitable Coach Co., for which the mayor signed a bus franchise, but Walker maintained the money came from him and his party, not frem the bus egent. “It is in evidence,” Seabury said. “that on August 10 vou signed thc Equiiable franchise. IL is in evidence that on that day the man who had charge of the distribution of funds, J. Allan Smith. secured a letter of credit for $10,000 running in your name. Now I ask you whether that is not a matier within the purview of a legislative committee?” Walker's face hardened. his eves glinted, his finger wagged at Seabury Cold:y he reminded th- counsel that. when the latter invited him to sign a waiver of immunity. ascurance was given that there was no implication of wrongdoing. “I would like counsel for my benefit to make up his mind whether or not | he meant what he said when he handed me a waiver, or whether he means to imply now that this was subject mat- ter of a bribe!" “Let us go to it,” the mavor chal- lenfed. “Whichever you choose.” There was a moment of silence. Then the room rocked with roars of approval form Walker's supporters. Into yesterday's testimony there came & mysterious person, unnamed by either Walker or Seabury. The mayor a knowledged that he authorized the pa: | ment of $7.500 to this unnamed person from the joint Block-Walker account. He said “there was a circumstance at- tached to it.” Between answering questions and ac- cusing Seabury of being in cahoots with the “traction interests.” Walker | found time to joke with friends wedged | into the court room near him. He lifted a glass of water and toasted them in pantomine. “I better not drink too much of this,” gebn‘ti-ee-whupered. “it might become a freshing a witness’ memory and wanted to know where the notes of the State's attorney came from. It was then brought out thzt they were made by Assistant Prosecutor Jerome Laughlin in the grand jury room. Early in the case a plea in abatement was denied the defense which sought to have the case dismissed because it w he'd Laughlin was not legally in jury room Allen McCullen Te-tifie-. Allen McCullen of Washing cr president of the Southern Ma Trust Co., with branches at Sez ant and Marlboro, told of depositing es in the amount of $79.000 of the Central Trust Co. among its assets at the time the Southern was in diffi- culty. Of this amount $30.000 was later obtained and the account was closed out by accepting mortgages. For this service $500 was paid the Central Trust Co. He said that Coblentz at that time. 1930, complained of financial conditions. Late vesterday afternoon denied the motion to strike out the testimonv of Isaac Taylor and his bookkeeper, Hilda Shipley of Ellicott City, who made the deposit of $316.50 with the Washington Trust Co.. sub- sidiary, the day before the Central Bank closed and on which the indict- ment was formed. The defense held Coblentz did not receive the deposit, was not in the bank and had no knowledge of the deposit. the court WHEELER TO DEMAND VOTE ON FREE SILVER Montana Senator Serves Notice He Will Ask for Poll on 16-to-1 Coinage Ratio. By the Associated Press. Senator Wheeler, Democrat. of Mon- tana. served notice on the Senate to- day that he would demand a vote be- | fore Congress adjourns on his bill for the free coinage of silver at the ratio lof 16 to 1 with gold. He urged his bill during debate om an_amendment to the tax bill Senator Wheeler pointed out that Chairman Smoot of the Finance Com- mittee, who is opposing the silver tax, had not obtained action in his com- mittee on the silver monetization bill. “Why is it,” Wheeler asked, “that the chairman of the Finance Committee and the chairman of the Banking and Cur- rency Committee (Senator Norbeck of South Dakota). who have sald they favor bimetallism. have not uttered one | word in favor of the bill and have not worked as diligently on this matter as | on other measures pending before Con- | gress?” Smoot replied that Norbeck’s commit- |tee was considering silver legislation and he did not see any use in both com. mittees working op the same subject at | the same time. “Either we must adopt bimetallism,™ Wheeler said, “or go off the gold stand- {ard. It would be much safer to resort | to bimetaliism.” NICKEL TRACTION FARE JINGLED N WALKER-SEABURY CLASH Fought Against By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 26.—The nickel fare, dear to the hearts of New York straphangers, has jingled into the tilt between Mayor James J. Walker and Samuel Seabury. Both brought it up right at the start of yesterday’s hearing of the Legislative Committee investigating the mayor's administration. The mayor accused the “traction interests” of spreading propa- ganda that a 5-cent fare was not high enough and said Seabury had worked for those interests. Scabury, denying this as a “red her- ring.” sought to show that a bus com- pany for which Mayor Walker signed a widespread franchise had proposed a zoning system which would make fares higher than 5 cents. Walker incisted the proposed fare was 5 cents. The bus com was the Equitable formed one of the chief ttack oo the mayor. | Mayor Says Investigator Worked for “‘Interests” Who Five-Cent Rate. | Mitking what its foes called an attempt | to dominate the New York transit situ- | ation, involving untold millions of dol- lars, the company secured a tri-borough | franchise in 1927. The mayor signed the franchise, but the company never got into operation. Seabury charged it -was a “financial paralytic.” Walker replied the reason why it could not get financial ba¢king was that the traction interests closed | the door to it by propaganda that it couldn’t make encugh money on & | nickel fare. | Prom backers of the Equitable, Sea- bury elicited information that State Senator John J. Hastings, close friend of the mayor, got paid for being their “political contact man.” Seabury sho\ ed that an agent of the company pur- | chased a $10,000 letter of credit for the mayor’s use on a trip to Europe. The | mayor said the money was contributed lby htm and his party, nct by the bus agen!