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A—2 »x» - WALKER TESTIMONY DENIED BY FRIEND Witness Says He Bought Stock for Mayor Which Lat- ter Said He Never Owned. (Continued From First Page.) ‘Walker said at the same time he want to get some for himself. . Herrick said Walker’s share was paid | for with $39,000 sent to him from the City Hall by either the mayor of his secretary, Edward Stanton. He testified that 350 shares of the stock were issued in his, Herrick’s, name, and that the indorsement on the cer- tificate showed that 25 shares were to go to Oliphant, and the rest were to be broken up into five units, two of 100 shares each, two of 50 shares each and ore cf 25 shares. Herrick testified that all were put in his name, but that he actually got only 25 shares. Herrick testified that whether the $39,000 came to him from the mayor directly or from the mayor’s secretary, there was no doubt in his mind that the purchase was made for Mayor ‘Walker. Met Stanton Recently. He said he had met Stanton recently and had talked about the matter with him and that Stanton told him he (Stanton) had probably handled the | matter. “There is no question, however.” Her- rick added, “that. if Stanton handled it, he handled it for the mayor.” While Mayor Walker was on the stand Seabury questioned him about the ownership of the Interstate stock, part of which, according to testimony previously heard, was used by J. Allan Smith, New York agent of the Equitable Bus Co., to obtain a $23,000 loan. After Mayor Walker had denied he ever owned any of the stock, Seabury intimated to him that Commissioner Herrick had given contradictory testi- mony in a private examination and asked the mayor if he wished to make any further statement about the stock. Walker repeated his denial, and said he had nothing more to say on the sub- Ject. Refers to Sulzer Offer. ‘Walker testified that former Gov. Silzer of New Jersey, while organizing the Interstate Trust Co.. set aside for him 350 shares and gave him the privilege of buying them at $130 a share, He said he never bought any and never owned any, but that he tipped off & number of his friends, including Her- rick, that the block of stock was there and that they could buy in if they wished. Commissioner Herrick testified he turned over 300 shares of the Interstate stock to Stanton, with the understand- ing that they were going to the mayor. He said he indorsed all the certificates in blank and that none of them bore any other indorsements when he turned them over to Stanton. He said he gave Stanton two certifi- cates of 100 shares each and two cer- tificates of 50 shares each. After Herrick had identified two 100- share certificates as those he had given Stanton, Seabury said they bore in- dorsements to J. Allan Smith, the man who, according to previous evidence, bought a $10.000 letter of credit which | the mayor and his party used during | a European trip in 1927. Hastings Used Certificate. One of the 50-share certificates identified by Herrick as having been turned over to Stanton, was indorsed to Kincaid, Florentino & Co., Seabury brought out. Herrick testified he had been told by two Federal internal revenue men that Senator John A. Hastings later put this certificate up as collateral for a loan. The second 50-share certificate, identified by the witness as one he turned over to Stanton, was split into two indorsements, according to nota- tions on the certificate, Seabury said. Twenty-five shares, Seabury said, went to Mrs. Mary A. Smith, 129 De Witt street, Syracuse, the wife of J. Allan Smith, and 25 to Frank R. Fageol, who was one of the backers of the Equitable bus venture. Shares in Sealed Package. Commissioner Herrick said definitely | it had been his intention the stocks should reach the mayor, even if they ‘went first to Stanton. The witness said he gave the 300 Bhares to Stanton in a sealed envelope. He was not sure, he said, whether he delivered it himself or sent it by mes- senger. Commissioner Herrick repeated testi- meny he gave at the private hearing and which Seabury read to Mayor ‘Walker from the record yesterday. ‘That testimony was that some time afier the ceiivery of the stock to Stan- ton, Herrick asked Walker if he still had it, and Walker replied: “No, 1 put it up for collateral on a Joan. and it's all gone.” ‘Walker denied yesterday he had ever said any such thing to Herrick, and Tepeated again his denial that he had ever owned any of the stock.. Sticks to Story. Herrick today admitted having given this testimony at the private hearing, and when he was asked if he still re- garded it as the truth, said: ! “I have no reason to belleve it was incorrect, except that the mayor testi- fied differently yesterday.™ Senator John J. McNaboe of the Democratic minority, asked Herrick if he had read the mayor's testimony, and Herrick said he had. “Did it serve to refresh your recol- lection?” McNaboe demanded. “It served to shake my recollection, not freshen it,” Herrick replied. *“I can only say the testimoney I gave at| the private hearing was what I thought was correct.” \ One or Other Is Wrong. i “What do you think now of your | recollection?” asked Senator McNaboe. *Either mine is wrong or the mayor’s is wrong,” Herrick replied. “I don't know which.” Seabury produced deposit slips indi- cating that Commissioner Herrick had made three deposits of $13,000 each in his bank account in September and Oc- tober, 1936, at the time when the shares were purchased. - Herrick testified that this money had come to him by messenger from the city hall. The session this morning opened with a summation by Seabury of the facts already brought out. Seabury adduced records to show that of the $700,225 Sherwood ' deposited from January 1, 1926, to last August, more than half was in cash. Walker insisted Sherwood’s only connecticn ‘with him was as an old employe of his law firm who “did little services for my wife and me.” 4 When Seabury showed that. Sher- wood withdrew the $263,000 from the secret account on August 9, 1927, the day before the mavor left for a Eu- ropean trip, the Democratic minority on tne Legislative Committee protested bitterly. “Headlines” Charged. “Counsel Seabury must have his headline, and this is it,” shouted As- Honor Men | | at Annapolis HEAD 1932 CLASS AT NAVAL ACADEMY. Here are the three honor men of the 1932 class at the United States Naval | Pk Academy, at Annapolis. Left to right: 0l Emerson E. Fawkes, Des Moines, Iowa, and Edward A. Ruckner, Westwood, N. Richard S. Mandelkorn of Peoria, II —A. P. Pho the mayor called the inquiry detrimental to New York City's financial credit. Before the mayor left the stand, to be showered by roses from shouting | women admirers, he urged the commit- | tee to do something about New York's “archaic, obsolete city charter, the cause of all our troubles.” Seabury, spending a great deal of time on the matter of Sherwood, who has been fined $50,000 for not coming back from a honeymoon to testify, be- fore the committee, introduced evidence to show that his associations with Walk- er were close. The evidence was that he held stock that was formerly Walk- er’s, that Mrs. Nan Walker Burke, the mayor's sister, cashed Sherwood’s checks, drawn on his own account, for $15,500; that Sherwood drew checks to pay expenses incurred by Mrs. Walker in ‘using the family steam launch. and that Mrs. Walker sent bills to Sher- wood. not to City Hall. ‘When the minority members pro- tested the testimony about Sherwood’s withdrawal from the secret account Walker stilled them and ironically at- tacked the logic of Seabury’s thrusts. Hits Logic of Implication. “Please,” he said, “I am trying now to follow the reascning that the news- papers are supposed to get and this, not only the $102,000 which I have testified to that I had from Paul Block, but now it develops that I got $260,000- odd the day before I ieft fr Europe. and yet I had to sell my soul for $50,000 to the Equitable Coach Co. to get a $10,000 letter of credit.” The minority members joined in the whoop from Walker supporters in the audience. ‘The maycr admitted J. A. Sisto, head of a banking house interested in taxicab securities, gave him $26.500 in bonds, but denied any impropriety. He said the bonds represented his share of profits from a pool which was long on Cosden Oil. Smile Comes Off. Tt was the mayor's second day on the stand, and the smiles of Wednesday rarely played across his face. Instead he frequently scowled down at his ques- tioner and made his replies in crisp, pointed sentences. He waved for silence whenever the spectators, who had staged many wild demonstrations in his favor, showed signs of applause. The shouted protests of Democratic committee members that the whole 14-month inquiry, costing $750,000, was nothing but an attempt to obtain the maycr’s removal brought equally heated charges from Walker. “I recognize an antagonistic attitude toward me,” he said. “I am here on an inquiry, but it looks as if somebody wants my life,” he shouted a moment later, looking Sea- bury directly in the eye. “This is preliminary to preferring charges to the Governor for my re- moval, and no one is fooled by the fact that- * he began at another point, but Seabury stopped him with the re- mark: “This is & simple stump speech.” Tells of Stock Profits. ‘The morning was taken up with the the extent of $303,227 from stock transactions and pools in which he made no investment. Late in the day the questioning swung around to Sherwood. “What steps did you take to locate him?” Walker was acked. “I made an urgent effort to find him and have been trying ever since,” the of Sherwood in Mexico. “If I kaew where Sherwood is I might not have F\ld to spend these two hot days down ere.” ‘When Seabury introduced Sher- wood's bank and brokerage accounts he said to Walker: “From January 1. 1926, to August 5, 1931, these accounts show, Sherwood deposited $700.225, of which $472.094 was in cash. Can you explain where this money came from?” T am either guilty of perjury or I am not,” Walker said. “I never knew B’&y‘l’:m‘ about Sherwood’s personal affairs.” Checks Linked to Deposits. ‘Testimony was produced tending to show that shortly after Walker in June, 1927, cashed two checks for $25,000 each, similar amounts were de- posited in a secret trustee account by Sherwood. Walker denied knowing about this secret account, and said there was no connection between his cashing the checks and Sherwood’s deposits. At the morning session Walker de- nied with indignant words and force- ful gestures fhat the profit of $26,000 from . the n Oil stock pool in which he had made no investment constituted a bribe for favorable taxi legislation. He denied Sisto suggested he get in on the pool, and read his veto message of & bill increasing taxi- cab rates to prove he had not been influenced by the stock profits. He said the firm in which Sisto was interested “dt that time had 1,000 taxi- cabs on the streets, and if I had passed that bill the company would have profit- ed $1,000,000 in one year.” The “unusual friendship” Paul Block, publisher, had for him was Walker's ex- planation of a joint Walker-Block brokerage account in which the mayor made no investment, but from which he drew a profit of $246,000. Describes O'Brien Deal. He volunteered that without making any investment he had profited to the extent of $10,000 from an investment made by Esmond O'Brien, whose iden- tity was not disclosed. He also told of making another $10,000 in a similar way as the rasult of a con- versation on a railroad train with an unidentified man. When asked if he had been a bene- ficiary of any other such deals, he said he h‘ld had “countless kindnesses from people.” The hearing had many of the ear- marks of a combined prize fight, county fair and circus, semblyman Steingut of Brooklyn. “Why, in the darkest days of Russia nothing I'%e this would take place.” “It's a balloon,™ cried Semator Mc- Naboe, another New York Democrat. The mayor broke in smiling: “I hope,” he said, “they prove the :\&nei{"l& mine and I will try and col- - Snorting that “somebody 1 1 life” and hlnttl‘il preparing removal cl ‘hefore Gov. Fraaklin D. is seeking t Sea- to Enthusiastic thousands stood in the -sweltering -heat outside the court build- ing for hours just to get a glimpse of the man they call “Jimmy,” whether they krow him not. Mothers, . who had with & neighbor. 5o they could come dovgdmd get a glimpse of “his honor,” dotted the throng. Stenographers, who were risking their. jobs by lingering, added their shrill voices to the “cheer- ing section.” Tammany zealots had come from all c the city to ‘hafl “the chief.” Newsboys mingled mayor's story of how he benefitted to | mayor said, adding he had last heard | MILLS HITS SMITH - BOND RELIEF PLAN Declares Public Works Pro- gram Would Destroy Bal- anced Budget. | Urging a balanced budget as a pri- mary necessity for business recovery and advising Congress to put an end to governmental borrowing, Secretary of the Treasury Mills, in a statement last night answered the recent proposal oi former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New | York for a public wcrks program financed by bonds. Mills said such a program as recom- mended by Smith would destroy a bal- anced budget and thus outweigh any benefits from the public works program. The Secretary made no reference to the Garner program as such. Mills paid tribute to Smith’s “cour- age in recent public statements and his valuable suppcrt by his outspoken declaration in favor of the rest of the President’s program.” e asserted the former Governor himself advocated a balanced budget, hut at the same time destroyed such a plan through his advocacy of a vast public program to be financed from the Federal Treasury. Budget Balancing Put First, “Public works, then. mean public borrowing, an unbalanced budget and a shock to public confidence,” Mills said, “for the country has relied on the definite assurance of the administration and of the congressional leaders that the budget would be balanced. “The cnly wise and sound course to pursue is to balance the budget and put an end to borrowing *“Gov. Smith says business cannot get under way on its own initiative. I be- lieve he is wrong. Business can and will get under way.” The Secretary said that professed to be unable to distingu between a so-called productive and an unproductive loan, the funds to be ob- tained in the first case by the sale of reconstruction finance securities and in the second by the sile of Treasury obligations. In both cases, he continued, the money must be obtained frora the pub- lic. In the case of the productive loans Federal credit was only indirectly in- | voked through sale of reconstruction | finance securities, and first and last the loan would not constitute a charge om Public funds. Any loss, he said, would be a charge | against the resources of the Recon- | struction Pinance Corporation and per- haps ultimately against its capital, | which already has been fully paid and ‘lncluded in the current year's budget. Beer Tax Defeats Cited. | In the second case, Mills said, an | unproductive loan made by the Treas- jury would require the initial loan to | be paid out of the general fund and the | lunds must be obtained through sale {of Treasury obligations, the interest cn which and the redemption of which must be secured from taxes and re- flected in the 1933 budget Mills said that the former Governor spoke “vaguely of a beer tax and & gereral manufacturers’ sales tax to cover the cost of public works.” He said the first had twice been de- cisively beaten, and as to the manu- facturers’ sales tax, no one has sug- | gested superimposing it on the selective | sales or excise taxes proposed in the pending revenue bill “and it would be unfair to do so.” He added that the manufacturers’ sales tax would not fur- nish the additional revenue for public ‘works. |~ Mills said a public works program such as proposed by the former Gov- ernor could put comparatively few un- employed to work during the next 12 months. | “The only way to give real relief to | the American people is to restore confl- dellace and get business going,” Mills said. { —— e WALES GIVES LECTURE YEOVIL, Somerset, England, May 27 (#)—The Prince of Wales, here to at- tend the county fair, where he is ex- hibiting a Devon heifer, read a Iecture on efficient production today to an audience of farmers. “A couple of cutlets for mother has | replaced the great joints of beef that used to be eaten with relish by the family on the Sabbath,” he said. “It goods that were suitable in England 30 years ago—big cheese and big joints of meat.” |in this | shouting: h “Jimmy wins second round,” or “Read what Jimmy's telling 'em.” Cameras Dominate Scene. Men with cameras seemed to be every- where. Nearly a dozen,movie machines, atop trucks, were trained on the court- ‘house door. | 'When the mayor came or went it was the signal for a deafening demon- stration. The crowd didn't know what ‘Walker was being accused of or what he had told his questioners, but it cheered him to the skies anyway. surging sea of humanity, utes tc go the 200 feet to where his car awaited him, and another 10 min- utes before the picked squad of de- tectives could clear a lane for its pas- sage. Two long lines of bluecoats extended from the street right into the court room, forming a line for the march of the mayor to the witness stand. Once when Seabury had won some hand-¢lapping, Democratic committee members shouted an accusation that the room was “stacked with ap- plauders. Peanut venders, ice crgam salesmen hawked their !t.:uul(memwdlhuwmewm a show. But for the mayor and Seal 1t was o ayo bury 1t we %ion, rivers and harbors and flood con- Mr, Smif seems to me we still are producing| On one occasion it took him 10 min- | IRELIEF HEARINGS 10 OPEN TUESDAY Tentative Draft of Garner Bill Revised-to Cor- rect Errors. (Continued Prom First Page.) billion-dollar construction program,” Garner asserted. “Other relief proposals in another branch of this Congress do not pro- vide a means of meeting the interest or the sinking fund. Our \bill is the only one thus far presented that car- ries that necessary provision.” Garner estimated the return from the gasoline levy at $42,500,000 which, he added, “will be more than enough to meet the interest and which will not disturb the budget, but help it if any- thing toward becoming balanced.” Acting Chairman Crisp said Speaker Garner would be the first witness to testify before the Ways and Means Committee in- support of the relief 11 ‘This will be the first time Garner has gone before a committee in this Congress. It will be the first time the Texan has ever testified before the Ways and Means Committee, of which he was a member for nearly & quarter of a century. Garner was the ranking Democrat on the group before he assumed the speakership of the House last December. Meanwhile, the House Rivers and Harbors Committee was asked to decide whether to continue hearings in view of the rivers and harbors projects in- cluded in the Garner measure to be con- sidered by another committee. Mansfield said projects his committee had not approved were included in the bill and others his committee had ap- proved were not in it. Representative La Guardia, Repub- lican, of New York, a leader of the inde- pendents, and Representative Mead, Democrat, of New York, a sponsor of re- lief legislation, said today they would support the Garner program. Mead, La Guardia and Representative Kelly, Republican, of Pennsylvania, con- stitute the committee of three desig- nated by independents of both parties to lead the fight against adjournment of Congress unless relief legislation is | enacted. Democrats Hear Plan Expbunded. It was explained at the Speaker's office that because of the quickly called | Democratic conference yesterday, the confidential prints of the bill carrying provisions for hundreds of projects could not be corrected before being made public. The information on the projects came from the Treasury and War De- | partments. | The Democrats of the House met by themselves last night to hear Garner expound his plan, and to give it an informal, standing vote of approval.| Accentuating the meaning of this move | | was the simultaneous enunciation by | | Secretary Milis of the administration’s | flat opposition to a public works pro- gram, and to any further borrowing whatever as a “shock to public con- fidence.” This relief measure provides spe- cifically: $100,000,000 to be spent by the President, through any agency he may designate, to relieve destitution wherever it may occur: capital expan- sion 10 $3,000,000,000 of the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation, with provision | that it may make loans to any private | American interest or any State or po- litical subdivision furnishing proper se- curity; and expenditure of $1,000,000,000 on public buildings, highway construc- Under the Garmer bill the following | new public buildings will be structed in this section: Maryland — $680,000 (post offices); Bel Air, $70,000: Cambridge, $50,000 Chestertown, $75,000; Elkton, $75,000; Hagerstown, $300,000; Silver Spring, $70,000; Baltimore (quarantine sta- tion). $40,000. The bill would increase the author- | ized construction costs at Huntington, W. Va. from $390.000 to $465,000. H The bill would authorize $90.000,000 for public buildings already authorized, : but whlcthn\'e not heretofore reached the contrdet stage. No specific allo- cations would be made, but the Treas- v would be directed to use as much can be advantageously utilized” in following projects: | Maryland (post offices) — Crisfield, Easton, Baltimore (appraisers’ stores). West Virginia (post offices)—Beck- | ley. Huntington, Princeton, Weston. | The Garner bill allots $5,800,000 for new post offices in the $100,000 cost class, | $101,080,000 for new post offices in the 1 $70.000 class and $46,310,000 for new post offices in the $55,000 class. Maryland — $100,000, Woodsboro; 870,000, Aberdeen. Berlin. Centerville, College Park, Denton, Elliocott City, Federalsburg, Havre De Grace, Hyatts- ville, Laurel, Oakland, Pocomoke City, Princess Anne, Rockville, Snow Hill; $55.000, Brunswick, Emmitsburg, Han- cock Lonaconing, Mount Rainier, Ocean City, Upper Marlboro. | West Virginia—$70,000, Cameron, | Chester, Dunbar, Follansbee, Hallidays Grove, Kenova, Lewisburg, Manning- | ton, Marlinton, Mount Hope, North- | fork, Richwpod. Romney, Ronceverte, (St. Albans,. St. Marys, Shinnston, Spencer, W Sulphur Springs: $55,- €00, Berkeley Springs. Fayetteville, King- wdod, Madison. Mullens, Newell, Oak Hill, Pennsboro, Piedmont, Ravens-! glwld, Salem, Sutton, Terra Alta, West nion. AKRON READ; TO RETURN | EAST OVER U. S. ON JUNE 3 Rosendahl Reports Dirigible Will Start Back After Mansuvers With Scouting Force. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J, May 27.—Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rosendahl, com- mander of the naval dirigible Akron, in a message to the Naval Afr Station today indicated that the Akrcn would be ready to start on her homeward éoume‘y from the Pacific Coast on June or The messege, sent to Cept. H. E. Skoemaker, said the Akron would par- ticipate in exercises with the scouting force between May 31 and June 3. The commanding cfficer of the Akron also advised that he had recommended to the commander in chief of the United States Fleet, Admiral F. H. Schofield, that the Akron depart for Lakehurst as soon as practicable after completion of the exercises with the scouting force, scheduled to end June 3. Naval officers here said the route of the return flight would be determined by weather conditions. R . THREE HURT IN CRASH One in Serious Condition as Result of Collision. Three colored mén were injured, one seriously, in an automobile collision early this afternoon at First and N streets southwest. The man seriously hurt is Morton | west, 30, Oxon Hill, Md. He was rid- ing in a car driven by Raymond E. , Tarlton, 25. also of Oxon Hill, who was slightly cut and bruised. The other car was driven by Raymond Dorsey, 1100 block of New Jersey avenue. He was slightly injured. con- -— Electricity Makes Dyes. of producing dyes. .are as st produced Local Women eceive Diplomas GRADUATES OF BED CROSS HOSPITAL COURSE. A Smith Hempstone. women who recently completed the Red Cross work, given both at the naval institution and Allan Dougherty, Mrs. Homer Hoch, Mrs. Thcmas H. C. Reed, Mrs. C. A. Blakely, Mrs. Edward S. Jackson, Mrs. F. Dickinson Letts, Mrs. Jouett Shouse, Mrs. Francis Savage, Mrs. Thomas Armat, Miss Margaret Maize, Mrs. BOVE: Capt. P. S. Rossiter, commander of the Naval Hospital here, presents diplomas to a group of Washington ray Lady course in hospital administration and social service ‘The women are (left to right): Mrs. John alter Reed Hospital. AGED MAN IS KILLED | WHEN HIT BY AUTO Stephen F. Hamilton, 89, Former Pension Office Employe, Dies Instantly. Stephen F. Hamilton, 89-year-old Civil ‘War veteran and retired Pension Office employe, was killed today when struck by an automobile at Rhode Island ave- | nue and Mills street northeast. 1 Mr. Hamilton, who lived at 1905 Jackson street northeast, was taken to Sibley Hospital by a taxi driver, Edward P. Tallinghast, 1338 Emerson street northeast. There he was pronounced dead by Dr. R. E. Dunkley, who said death apparently had been instanta- neous from a fractured skull. The driver of the car that hit Mr. Hamilton, W. F. Scanlon, 32, of 1010 Twenty-second street, declared the Oivil ‘War veteran walked into the side of his machine. Scanlon was taken to the fifth pre- Walsh and held pending the outcome | of an investigation by Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. | Mr. Hamilton, who was retired from | the Government service about 15 years ago, is survived by his widow. Mrs. Katie Hamilton, 89, and two daughters, Mrs. Frank Beech and Mrs. John A. Radcliff. The accident occurred just a few blocks from his home. FOUR SEAMEN DIE IN SHIP COLLISION OFF BLOCK ISLAND ? ___(Continued From First Page) Savannah. New York and Boston. She eft New York last night, Boston bound. She is a craft of 4,343 net tons. Thunderclouds hung over the Rhode Island coast line this morning as all Coast Guard craft in the vicinity joined the search and the s°a was run- ning high. The City of Chattenooga remained at the scene of the collision at_anchor. 1 From Baltimore it was learned that H. E. Collis of Norfolk was listed as master of the Grecian. S. W. Dix was listed as first officer, J. R. Touchton, second officer; T. E. Allen, third offi- cer; E. S. Smith, chief engineer, and J. R. Davis, E. L. Forrest, J. P. Barber and Mortimer Jones, assistant engineers. PROCEEDING TO BOSTON. City of Chattancoga Making Slow Progress Under Own Power. BOSTON; May 27 (#).—The stean- ship City of Chattanooga was reported by the Coast Guard to be proceeding to Boston today with 32 survivors of the steamer Grecian, rescued after a collision off Block Island in which the Grecian was sunk. The Chattanooga was able to proceed under its own pow- er, but conditions at sea. where heavy fog prevailed, indicated the trip would be a slow one. FORTY MISSING ON YANGTZE. American Company Boat Sunk in River After Hitting Reck. | SHANGHAI, May 27 (#).—Forty per- sons were oelieved to be missing from the river steamer Iling of the American Yangtze Rapids Steamship Co. A re- port to the company said the boat struck a rock 235 miles above Ichang Wednes- day and sank. J. Anderson of Brooklyn, N. Y., cap- tain of the boat, who made the report to the company here, was rescued and arrived yesterday at Chungkung, 115 miles above the scene of the wreck, | aboard a Chinese steamer. One hundred members of the crew and forty ngers were aboard, he said. all believed to be Chinese. Chi- nese junks rescued a number of the passengers and crew, he said, but 40 | were missing and at least 10 were be- lieved to have drowned. —_ Smallest Baby Dies. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 27 (#).+ Eugene Jordan. infant who weighed on! 15 ounces when born last January 13, died today at Charleston, Pa., near here. where his mother had been keep- ing him for the advantage of rural surroundings. The child weighed 54 ounces a few days before his death. reau, addressed the veterans | Poulkrod of Philadelphia. | gleaming with medals, __ STEPHEN F. HAMILTON. 3 cinct police Bation by Offcer 5. J. GLASSFORD NAMED OFFICIAL OF BONUS ARMY AT CONCLAVE _(Continued From First Page) 2 park bench near the old Pension Bu- “Fellow veterans and comrades: I shall be very glad to do everything I can for you. I can't tell you men how | much in’ sympatby I am with you and ‘nll others who are unemployed. “I hope these two jobs wil. never con- ct. I shall be very giad to accept this responsibility, buty hope you will app-int two cr three OF your own men to assist me. Recognized in Background. Before his name hid been suggested for the position Glassford was called upcn to speak by onme of the veterans who reccgnized him hovering in the ! background. The police” chief began by saying: “We are doing everything we can to care for you men and I have worked all day today and even vesterday laying plans for caring for vou. “But there are 19,000 unemploved residents of Washingt:n whom we must care for and our funds are very low.” he said. “We do not know at this time how many veterans are going to come here, so cannot plan definitely just how we are going to handle the situati-n. “You must remember that while you are in Washington, the reason for your | visit lies on Capitol Hill, yet the bur- den of caring for you rests solely. upon the residents of Washington. We should hive Federal funds for housing and feeding you: and I hope sincerely that we can get ‘them.” Praising the veterans for their or- Gerly meeting and for adoptirg reso- lutions pledging co-operation with the police, Gen. Glassford added: “The only point where we might clash would be in case of an emer- gency, where we have more men than we can handle. Then, if such a crisis arises, we may have to ask that <ome of you leave to make way for others. “Until such time as it becomes neces- sary to take such action, let's be friends.” - A loud cheer went up as he con- cluded and, as the meeting broke un about 9 o'clock, the veterans gave three rousing cheers for the police chief, their “comrade.” But he did not altogether escape un- scathed. For one veteran, Harold B. his chest attacked the general for drawing a salary as super- intendent of police in addition to Army retirement pay, calling it “unfair and un-American,” while thousands of other veterans are walking the streets with- out work. Glassford's proposal for rouncing up | unemployed veterans and all other job- less who are not bona fide residents of | ‘Washington contemplates their depor- tation from the city within 48 hours after their arrival. He pointed out, however, that the plan was only tenta- tive, but said he would take it up with the District Commissioners and the various veterans' organizations here and ask their approval. Meanwhile on the floor of the House yesterday Representative Paul Kvale, Parmer-Laborite, of Minnesota, called ‘upon the leaders of “bonus brigades,” now reported to be en route here, to turn back home and mot burden al- ready depleted . relief resources of the city. “The leaders, whoever they are, are taking a terrible responsibility in Each Dollar Invested in Your Home Will Save Many Later Good clothes make the man and indi- cate a person worth coat of paint on t neighbors worth knowing. Appearance is half the competition. Keep your chin pressed and your house painted. can command a better price for your services and your house will find a better market.. . A DOL‘.AR SAVED IS Now knowing. A good he house indicates up; your clothes You A DOLLAR EARNED $12,750,000 VOTED TO PAY PENSIONS, iEmergency Deficiency Appropria- tion Is Ready for President’s | Signature. | By the Associated Press. The Senate today passed and sent to | the White House a measure providing | $12,750,000 for pensions for veterans' | widows and orphans foy the balance of the fiscal year. The House passed the measure earlier today. Chairman Byrns of the Appropria- | tions Committee said the legislation | was necessary to meet pension pay- ments coming due June 4 “This_appropriation does not arise | out of any legislation enacted at this | Congress,” Byrns said. ! bringing here under such conditions a { group of men unable to provide for themselves,” he asserted. He began by saying “Mr. Chairman, the statement I am | about to make is made at the request | of a hastily formed citizens' commit- | tee of this city of the most representa- tive and all-inclusive chararter, which is deeply concerned over the prospect | of wholesale suffering and misery which must almost surely result if pub- | lished reports that a large number of | ex-service men are soon to reach the | City of Washington in the interest of | adjusted service certificate payment legislation, prove to be true. “No one can challenge my position in | respect to that legislation. I am for it now, and I shell ccntinue to be for it: | but after sitting yesterday afternoon in | that earnest grcup which met with tha | District Commissioners and -the super- intendent of police. and after receiving | from them this request. I voice their plea, and I think I have reasonable ! assurance that it is also the plea of this House, to those groups of veterans not to come here in the numbers | planned. but to turn back to homes. ¢ * ¢ “Perhaps these veterans would revise | their plans if they could know that be- ! cause of these depleted welfare chests | and municipal resources, money spent | to feed them will be taken from chil- dren and dependents * * * who are| already undernourished and undersup- | plied with barest necessities.” their | { TRUCKS AWAIT VETERANS. Bonus Marchers to Be Given Ride| Across Three States. SEYMOUR, May 27 (#).—The “hitch- hike' of the Oregon bonus marchers to Washingtcn, D. C.. today turned into a parade of National Guard motor | trucks. The 27 Indiana Guard vehicles that | brought the World War veterans here | from Washington, Ind., yesterday, were expected to reach Elizabethtown, Ohio, | on the Indiana-Ohio State line near | Cincinnati, shertly after noon. | Waiting for the ex-service men there | were trucks of the Ohio National| Guard prepared to haul them across | that State on their way to the National Capital to demand immediate cash pay- ment of the bonus certificates. West | Virginia and Pennsylvania made similar | |plans for movement of the “bonus brigade.” i | The veterans took to the trucks after train rides from the Far West ended at | East St Lows. Ill, and a “capture” of |a Baltimore & Ohio freight train there | failed to gain them a ride farther east. County groups at Caseyville, Til, pro- vided motor transportation to Washing- ton, Ind, and then Gov. Harry G. | Leslic of Indiana ordered the National Guard trucks into action. “Marching strength” of the brigade was cut to approximately 240 yester- | day. A numbe. of veterans proceeded | to Cincinnati by freight trains nndi other means, instead of waiting for the | motor cavalcade to form. | LEGION AIDS MARCHERS. Party of 24 Stranded in Indiana. Food Is Donated. | The American Legion came today to | the aid of two dozen World War vet- | erans stranded here in their bonus | march to Washington. The “army” was ejected yesterday from Baltimore & Ohio freight cars |after free transportation to Chicago |from Utah on Western lines. | _R. N. Robinson, commander of the | Twin Cities Post of the Legion, wired Gov. Harry Leslie for permissicn to use trucks of the State Highway Depart- ment to move the “army.” An answer was expected later today. | Enough supplies were donated to the | veterans encamped here in an aban- | doned warehouse for several days' meals. The “army” has its own field kitchen equipment. BRIGADE REACHES OHIO. Resumes Journey Eastward After Ar-| rival From Indiana. AURORA, Ind, May 27 (#).—Ohio | authorities took over transportation of the Oregon “bonus brigade” here today. ‘The veterans unloaded from Indiana trucks here this morning and climbed aboard a fleet of Ohio Highway Com- mission trucks. A few minutes later their journey eastward was resumed. Ohio had sent a fleet of 35 fast trucks | to transport the veterans. Stricken by Heat. NEW YORK, May 27 (#).—Two sons were overcome by the heat yesterddy and taken to* hospitals. The ture hit a high point of 85 de- for the year. - | Tour Battlefields. PARIS, May 27 ().—The contingent T | served notice that referendum prop, | tional EAST CHICAGO, Ind., May 27 (#).— 1 LEN SMALL FAVORS DRY LAW' REPEAL Frank L. Smith, [llinois G. 0. P. Chairman, -Also Turns Wet. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 27—For- mer Gov. Len Smazll, Republican nomi- nee for Governor, told the Republican State convention today he was for re- peal of the eighteenth amendment. His declaration came soon after Key- noter and Temporary Chairman Frank L. Smith of Dwight, Ill, a personal “dry,” urged the delegates to adopt a platform plank for resubmission of the liquor question to the States, and blamed the Democrats for placing the eighteenth amendment in the Federal Constitution. The statements of both Small and Smith were interpreted by observers as indications that for the first time since prohibition came into effect, in 1920, Republicans in Illinois would wage a campaign on a platform that included resubmission or possible prohibition re- peal among its planks. In his address, former Gov. Small, who in former yeirs had been sup- ported by the Illinois Anti-Saloon League as a “dry,” quoted the outcome of the Illinois referendum of 1930, which showed sentiment two to one against prohibition. He said “it 15 plainly evident that the sentiment of the people of Illinois is now even more overwhelmingly against prohibition than in 1930 *'{ declare for the repeal of the eight- eenth amendment. Pending such re- peal, I declare for modification of the Volstead act to permit the sale and manufacture of beer and light wines “The speedy modification of the Vol- stead act to permit the manufacture and sale of beer and light wines would furnish employment in the brewery industry alone for 300,000 persons and many times' that number in inter- related industries. A Federal tax of 25 cents a gallon * * * would yield approximately $500,000,000 annually, to say nothing of local licenses. * * ¢ “Even more important, the reopened brewery industry, figuring on the 1914 basis, would require 3,000,000,000 pounds of foodstuffs a year, including grains produced upon the farms of Ilinois, with the resultant immediate increasc in the price of farm products, due to this increased demand “Moreover, the repeal of the present prohibition laws would mark the end of the reign of terror of the crime sys- dicates.” Small said he wanted to warn the State against what he asserted was an attempt by Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago to extend his rule to the en- tire State. PROHIBITION PLANK CENTER OF G. 0. P. CAMPAIGN WORRIES (Continued From First Page) of the favorite son States could turn the trick. His supporte sending out feelers, particularly toward Missouri, Illinois and Ohio, but there {5 no sign of 2 determining development in the immediate offing At the center of the Republ treubles stands the question to do about prohibition Hoover with encugh undispu gates now behind him (o insure rte- nomination on the first ballot. has given party leaders the impression that he would not cbject to the right kind of referendum proposal. but that h: has no proposal of his cwn. There is a general disposition not to alienate the organizad drys, whose leaders apparently are making no promises On the contrary, Bishop Cannon 1-»1). are to be regarded as “futile” and of the dry leaders are listening to spe lation whether Senator Borah, who cently discussed prohibition with Mr. Hoover and came away unsatisfied, might not be wiling to run for Presi- dent as an independent dry. The meet- ing of drys to be held here next week may make real history. The flare-up of certain congressional leaders over party organization presents for the President a lesser, but bv no means unimportant, problem. Some- how word reached Capitol Hill that the White House would just as soon see Con- gress remain in session during {he con- ventions and was making plans for a Senator-less, Representative-less show at_Chicago. That hurt several of those who have long been prominent convention figures. It hurt them still mcre when they re- flected that they had not boen asked about jt. They told administration leaders about it quietly and confiden- tially, but forcibly. The result is yet to Je seen. WET PLANK WARNING. CHICAGO, May 27 (#).—The Repub- lican Citizens’ Committee Against Na- Prohibition wired Postmaster General Walter F. Brown, an adminis- tration leader, today that any prohibi- tion plank in the Republican presiden- tial platform that would be acceptable to wets and drys alike would “defeat the party.” In a statement drafted by its vice chairman. Raymond Pitcairn of Phila- delphia, and sent from Chicago and other Middle West branches, the com- mittee urged Postmaster General Brown to exert his efforts toward keeping the party from “pussyfooting” on the pro- hibition question. “The people are suspicious of schemes to get votes from both sides,” the téle- gram said. “Experience has taught them the political parties love such double-dealing. * * * The Republican electorate * * * counts much on your efforts to save the party from pussy- footing that will bring inevitable de- eat. The Committee Against National Pro- hibition is an organization of former contributors to campaign funds pledged to withhold contributions this Fall un- less a repeal plank is adopted by the Republican National Convention. FOWLER, FOR.MER HOUSE BANKING EXPERT, DIES Member of “Old Guari” of Can- non's Day Was New Jersey Rep- resentative for Ten Years. By the Associated Pre: ORANGE, N. J, May 327.—Charles N. Fowler, 80, former Representative from New Jersey and for many years a member of the House Banking and Cur- rency Committee, died tocay. Fowler was one of the “Old Guara* Republicans in Congress, and was a ciose associate of the late “Uncle Joe” Gane non of Hikois. He fostered 1aany beve~ ing reforms, and was often credited with ‘):flvldh‘ the main principles which ter were included by Senator Glass in the banking laws. He was a member of Congress from 1895 to 1911. Earthquake Recorded. SYDNEY, Australia, May 27 (#).— The observatory at Riverview recorded a heavy earthquake shock at 2:14 a.m. today. The quake was centered 2pprox- imately 1,500 miles away, officials said, probably in New Guinea. Financier's Father Dies. TORONTO, Ontario, May 27 (#).— mh H. l‘.lton.o&‘ father of C;.Tnui financies, is dead here.