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WEATHER.
Showers this afternoon and tonight;
tomorrow fair and much colder;
south, shifting to west gales; tem
perature for twenty-four hours end
ed at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 72, at
2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 54, at
12;30 a.m. today. Full report on page 2.
N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 13
OQ 1 G 1 ? Entered as second-class matter
i ’ u ’ post office Washington, D. C.
SENATORS EXAMINE:
SCAIFE ON ALLEGED
ITSUIFIRM DEAL
Former Justice Agent Says
He Was Blocked by Special
Aide to Daugherty.
SAYS AIRCRAFT DEALERS
WERE GERMAN AGENTS
Managed Affairs With Government
in Interests of Enemy,
He Claims.
Taking only a passing notice of
Harry M. Daugherty’s disappearance
from public life,* the Senate’s Daugh
erty investigating committee today
tried to piece out details of one
SIOO,OOO deal and heard hints of
another.
By I£. L. Scaife, a former Depart
ment of Justice agent, the committee
was told that investigation into the
Mitsui aircraft case, in connection
with which Gaston B. Means has tes
tified, Jess Smith received SIOO,OOO,
Was blocked by A. F. Meyers, a spe
cial assistant to the Attorney Gen
eral, after it had been discovered
that the company owed the govern
ment many millions.
Scaife said he had been told by
Guy D. Goff, then assistant attorney
general, that Meyers received his ap
/ Polntment through former Attorney
Genera] George B. Wickersham. whose
Jaw firm, he said, was retained by the
Mitsui Company.
.The r ®ferences to the second SIOO.-
COO transaction were made by Nicho
las timmo, a New York restaurant
man, who testified that he had over
heard a conversation in a hotel here
about a "whisky deal in which Mor
timer got SIOO,OOO from a party in
littsburgh." He knew none of the
details, and when committee mem
oers put him through a course of
questioning “to test his memory” he
, S u he , c °didn't even remember
v nether he had been prosecuted in
New lork for a liquor law violation.
Plan Executive Session.
Instead of examining confidential
flies of the Justice Department in
public, as originally planned, the
committee decided to consider them In
executive session.
The files in question related to al
leged activities in this country on
, dehalf of Mexican revolutions in
Dower California and’had figured in
the correspondence between President
Coolidge and Mr. Daugherty, resulting
in the latter’s retirement. W. J. Burns
chief of the Justice Department’s bu
reau of investigation, had been sum
moned to lay the files before the com
mittee. hut instead of questioning him
the committee put on the stand Nich
olas Cimino of New York, who testi
fied regarding Mr. Daugherty’s rela
tions with Howard Manington and
ethers.
He said he had met Will A. Orr of
New York at “the green house on K
street.” Manington lived at the
green house,” he said. He told of
• "interceding” with Manington to ob
tain an appointment as commissioner
of immigration for Philip Giordiano.
also of New York, and of being taken
to see Daugherty.
Questioned by Brook hart.
Chairman Brookhart, questioning
the witness in the absence of the com
i mittee prosecutor. Senator Wheeler of
Montana, who was kept at home by
Illness, asked if Manington had asked
for money.
“Nothing was ever said about
money,” Cimino replied.
He had acted on behalf of Gior
diano as a candidate, both for immi
gration commissioner at New York
and for commissioner general of im
migration, the witness said.
Cimino also sought to procure
through Daugherty stenographic con
tracts in the New York federal courts
he said, for two stenographers named
“Price” and “Moore.”
“They paid me money from time
to time,” Cimino said of Price and
Moore. “It ran from SI,OOO to $1,500.”
He said that he got some of the
stenographic contracts.
Bootlegging Conspiracy.
Chairman Brookhart took up the
New Y'ork bootlegging conspiracy.
The witness said he had complained
to Manington because “everybody
seemed to be getting something out
of It,” and Manington told him “to
go over to New York and see what
I could do.” He then went to see
Orr who told him “there was noth*
• ing doing.”
Cimino also sought to get some of
his friends appointed prohibition
agents.
“Now you met Orr and Coroni dur
ing their trial and Orr told you every
thing was fixed?” Chairman Brook
hart asked, referring to prosecu
' tions on the liquor permit transac
tions.
Overheard Conversation.
“No, he told me it would be all
right,” Cimino said.
Asked if he remembered a whisky
deal where Mortimer got SIOO,OOO
the witness replied:
"I overheard a conversation where
one of the fellows said Mortimer got
SIOO,OOO from a party In Pittsburg*.”
A man named “Grant” was men
tioned. Cimino went on, as having
been "double crossed” by Mortimer
In the SIOO,OOO deal. The money was
to be paid by a “certain party In
Pittsburgh,” he said.
Cimino then told also of having
heard of a “$50,000 deal” In paroles
from a federal penitentiary, but could
give no details.
Questioned on Contracts.
Reverting to the stenographic con
tracts, Senator Ashurst, democrat,
Arizona, asked whether Price and
Moore were not to make notes of
grand Jury proceedings and "change
the notes of the proceedings when
rich people were examined.”
“No, sir," Cimino exploded. ‘“There
■was no such understanding.”
None of the money he got from
"Price" was passed on to Maning
ton the witness said. He in
sisted he got the money to cover
"expenses” and had sought to inter
cede with Daugherty and other
> Washington officials only In his ca
pacity as a party “ward captain” in
New York. That, he said, was legit
imate political work,
i Former Senator Chamberlain, Mr.
(Continued on Page 4, Column 2.)
\VANDERLIP DETECTIVES ON TRAIL
OF MANY GRAFT CHARGES HERE
Retired Banker Says Name of Next Cabinet Officer
to Resign Will Cause Shock —Tells of
Investigations of Bureaus, >
B.r th* As»ort*tf*<l Pr*«f»,
NEW YORK. March 29.—Frank A.
Vanderlip, retired banker, asked
whether he thought that any other
cabinet members should go, said in
a statement published today:
"That will develop later. If I said
•yes' you would want to know the
name, and if I told you that it would
shock you.”
Mr. Vanderlip's citizens’ research
bureau now is invei ligating new
charges against the internal revenue
bureau, the War Department, the
Veterans’ Bureau and the alien prop
erty custodian, he says.
He asked why no one had been
indicted as a result of recent dis
closures in Washington.
POINCARE POLICIES
TO BECONUNUED
New Ministry to Follow Along
Lines Laid Down by
Predecessor.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 29. —The policies of
the former Poincare cabinet, both
foreign and domestic, will be contin
ued by the new ministry, it was de
clared by leading members of the
cabinet after its first formal confer
ence with the premier this morning.
M. Poincare officially presented all
the members of his new cabinet to
President Millerand at the palace of
the Elysee this noon. The president
warmly congratulated the premier on
having succeeded In grouping about
him “the most brilliant personalities
composing his cabinet” He added
that the new government could be
assured of the president’s full collab
oration on all occasions in conform
ity with the nation's best Interests
for the settlement of the difficult
problems of the present situation.
Before calling on President Mille
rand the cabinet held its first official
council. The premier informed his
|colleagues of the broad outlines along
which he intends drawing un the
ministerial declaration to be read in
, the parliament at 10 o’clock Monday
morning.
All the ministers appeared to be in
high spirits. Louis Lousheur, minister J
of commerce, said:
“My immediate efforts will be di
rected toward bringing down the cost
of living.”
Justin de Selves, minister of the In
terior. was spokesman as to the gen- i
era! course the cabinet would take. 1
"The unanimous sentiment of the
new government is to continue the
policy of Premier Poincare,” he said.
“That goes for Internal affairs, as
well as foreign policy.” put In Minister
of War Maginot.
M. Francois-Marsal. the minister of
finances, declared the affairs of his
ministry would be directed along lines
of economy. “No expenditures will be
made unless they are covered by
equivalent receipts.” he said.
OILPRIEIES
OVERJO TUESDAY
William Boyce Thompson
Then to Be Questioned on
1920 G. 0. P. Finances.
The Senate oil committee was In
recess today until Tuesday, when It
plans to question William Boyce
Thompson, former chairman of the *
finance committee of the republican |
national committee, about the liqui
dation of the republican deficit in
curred in the 1920 campaign. Mr.
Thompson was to have been examined
yesterday, but was not called.
W. L. Kistler of Tulsa, Okla., pres
ident of the Producers and Refiners'
Oil Company, was subpoenaed yester
day, and Senator Walsh, democrat,
Montana, announced that he planned
to call three or four more witnesses
to substantiate the sensational con
vention “oil deal” story told by A1
Jennings, once famous train robber
and friend of the late Jake Hamon.
TOLL OF LANDSLIDE
LIGHTER THAN REPORTED
Blocking of Beads and Bail Lines
Prevents King and Queen Beach
ing Stricken Interior,
By the Associated Press.
SALERNO, Italy, March 29.—Late
returns show the actual loss of life
from the landslide in the Amalfi dis
trict to be less than was at first cal
culated.
The blocking of roads and rail lines
and the disturbance of the sea has
made it impossible for the king and
the Duchess of Aosta to reach the out
of-the-way villages, which suffered
the most, and both have returned to
Rome after Insuring copious and con
tinuous relief.
Four ships have arrived at Amalfi
with clothing, mattresses, milk, bread
and preserved meat
GET $24,000 PAY ROLL.
Bandit Trio Hold Up Employes of
Tampa Cigar Company.
TAMPA, Fla., March 29.—Three
armed men held up a dozen employes
of the Hav-a-Tampa Cigar Company
in the factory office here today and
escaped with the weekly pay roll of
$24,000.
WARS ON ‘MASHERS 5 HERE
Commissioner Oyster today In
structed Maj. Sullivan to send a de
tail of policemen and policewomen
in plain clothes to break up “maeh
ing” on F street. .
The Commissioner said he was
prompted to issue the order follow
ing receipt of complaints from par
ents who said their . daughters had
been accosted while walking on that
thoroughfare.
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W\c Mtiennw irks.
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“The perron to ask why Fall is
not indicted la the President of the
United States.” he continued.
“This country is still far from
understanding the Washington situa
tion. The country, instead of being
in a state of hysteria, is in a coma.
Newspapers- have printed an endless
amount of evidence —so much that
few could read It. but they have
printed little real interpretation.”
Mr. Vanderlip said that he and j
members of his bureau had been !
shadowed by detectives since they
had been helping the Wheeler com
mittee in Its investigation of At
torney General Daugherty. The
bureau has a staff of about forty
men including detectives, five lawyers
and paid newspaper men.
125SAVEDIN BLAST
BY MINE OFFICIAL
West Virginia Explosion Kills
26 as Warning Is Flash
ed by Superintendent.
By the Associated Press.
BLUEFIELD, W. Vi, March 29. —
The presence of mind of T. J. Dawson,
who three weeks ago became super
intendent of the Yukon-Pocahontas :
Coal Company at Yukon. W. Va.. to- !
day is credited with saving the lives <
of 125 miners in No. 1 mine yester- '
day, when an explosion claimed a toll \
of twenty-six dead in No. 2 mine.
Only six of the men in No. 2 mine es
caped.
When the blast came Supt. Dawson
was near the entry leading between !
the two mines. Realizing what had
happened, he rushed into No. 1 to i
warn the men there. Some of these !
workers were injured when they were
knocked down by the force of the ex- i
plosion.
. Eighteen killed In 1910.
All the bodies of the victims were j
recovered last night from the mine,
which was the scene of a similar dls- [
aster in 1919, when eighteen lives
were snuffed out. Rescue work was I
at first done by volunteer teams from
nearby mines, and later was in charge :
| of the crew of the United States bu- !
reau of mines’ rescue car from Ne- i
mours.
j No plans for an investigation have '
t yet been announced. Officials of the i
j company and mine inspectors who i
| have been in the mine since the blast
| believe the explosion was caused by ;
the head lamps of three miners who
took a short-cut through an aban
doned working to their places of
work.
THREE MEN ENTOMBED.
CLARKSBURG, W. Va., March 29.
Three men are known to have been en
tombed today when an explosion of gas !
wrecked a section of Penshaw mine. No. :
I. on Bigamon creek, near Shinnston, |
W. Va.; other miners may have been ,
trapped in the workings, it was said, j
BALDWIN ASKS POST |
VACATED BY MILLER
I
Deputy Insurance Superintendent
Would Succeed Ousted Dis
trict Official.
Thomas M. Baldwin, jr., deputy su
perintendent of Insurance of the Dis
trict, today applied for appointment
as superintendent to succeed Burt A.
Miller, who was asked to resign yes
terday following the publication of
i the charges made against him by Rep-
I resentative Blanton.
Mr. Baldwin tells Commissioner Ru
dolph in a letter that he believes he
can “step right Into the breach and
put this department where it ought
to be.” He states that if given a trial,
if he fails to put the insurance de
partment where it ought to be, he
will promptly resign.
Commissioner Rudolph indicated
this morning that it would be several
days before the vacancy is filled. He
made it plain that he wants to con
sider carefully applications received. ,
In submitting his resignation yes- I
terday, Mr. Miller requested thirty
days leave, but it was not gramted. !
Deptuy Superintendent Baldwin is i
acting head of the insurance depart
ment today.
Although the request for Mr. Mil- ■
leris resignation was made by Com- I
missioner Rudolph yesterday on the ,
heels of publication of Mr. Blanton’s
charges against the superintendent, j
the Commissioner has not made any
statements with regard to the re
quested resignation. I
Greek Orthodox
Bishop Wants to
Be an American
i
Renouncing his allegiance to
Turkey and Greece, Vassilies Com
vopoulos. Metropolitan of the
Greek Orthodox church, has ap
plied to the District Supreme Court
to be made an American citizen.
He holds the rank of archbishop
and has been designated by the
patriarch of Constantinople to
establish the seat of his see at the
National Capital. As his future ac
tivities will be In this country, the
archbishop decided he could be
come best affiliated with the
American life and thought by tak
ing out naturalization papers.
The archbishop was born in Si
nope. Turkey, of Greek parents,
March 12, 1880, and Came to Ameri
ca last September. He is unmar
riad and resides at 3935 15th street
northwest. .
Rev. Demetrios Papa-Stamatlon,
thirty-two years old, a priest of
the Greek Church, accompanied the
archbishop, and, like him. made
application for citizenship. He
gave his birthplace as Larisa,
Greece, and said he came to this
country August 10. 1910. He is
married and resides at 3516 11th
street northwest. i
RIGOROUS VICE WAR
POLICE REPLY TO
STINGINGpn
Sullivan, Roused by Charge
Capital “Wettest City,”
Plans Thorough Clean-Up.
EVIDENCE IS COLLECTED
PREPARATORY TO DRIVE
Superintendent Returns From Con
ference With Butler in
Philadelphia.
Stung by criticisms that Washington
Is the wettest city in the United States,
Maj. Daniel Sullivan, head of the metro
politan police department, has issued
orders for the immediate inauguration of
a campaign to rid the National Capital
forthwith of bootleggers and every form
of commercial vice.
Announcement of the war was made
by the police superintendent today, fol
lowing his return from a second visit
to Philadelphia, where he was in con
ference with Brig. Gen. Smedley D. But
ler. the Quaker city's fighting director
of public safety, who is in the midst of
a similar campaign himself.
Maj. Sullivan has been in constant
| touch with Lieut. O. ■ T. Davis, com-
I mander of the vice squad, and his con
sulting staff since his return from Phila
j delphia. As a result similar squads are
expected to be organized in every pre
! cinct to co-operate with the flying
; squadron in its drive upon vice and
crime.
To Give No Quarter.
“There will be no quarter,” Maj.
. Sullivan declared. “Let the ax fall
; where it will, this city is to be swept
; clean—completely ridded of every vice
| we are accused of harboring by per-
I sons from other parts of the country.
; Rum running, drinking and gambling
j are to be the first to go.
“Congress has given me a full force
■ for the first time In years. The clti-
J zens of Washington trust the police
| department. I am sure. I intend to |
i vindicate that trust Congress and the |
, people have imposed in me by show- [
1 ing them that if there is any vice i
rampant here its doom is sealed. We i
j intend to clean house thoroughly this
; time.”
Maj. Sullivan seemed to display '
; some of the devil dog “pep” that has i
j made Gen. Butler the terror of un- |
scrupulous politicians and criminals
I n Philadelphia. When his attention :
! was called to the fact that ft has \
become a common practice for in- I
: toxlcating liquor to flow freely at
public banquets, reminiscent of the j
days when each course was punctu- 1
ated by a flowing draught, the police
director asserted with emphasis that
no privileges will be granted.
If over Asked for Protection.
"I have never had a request for
protection,” he declared. “But if
| some of our more prominent citizens ]
\ fall Into the net that is already j
. spread, they must suffer the conse
i quences. I have been in conference
1 with the members of my vice squad
j for some days. They have been busy
I collecting evidence. We are ready
| and when the signal is given we shall
j (Continued on Page 2. Column 1.)
2 TRAINS ISOLATED
IN POTOMAC FLOOD
Bridges. Washed Away,
Banks Overflowed —Water
Rushing Toward Capital.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md.. March 29.
General warning for all inhabitants
along the Potomac river from Cum
berland to Washington to move to
high ground was Issued this noon
with the river and its tributaries
peaching flood stage and in many lo
calities already overflowing the
banks.
( Both passenger and freight traffic on
! the Western Maryland is at a complete
: standstill. Four railway bridges have
I been reported as washed away. Two
passenger trains are marooned by six
feet of water near Keyser, W. Va. A
! special train carrying several hundred
. Shriners to the ceremonial In Baltimore
, tonight has not been heard from. The
train left Cumberland early this mom-
I ing, via Hagerstown, but up to noon
nothing pould be learned of Its location
because of the crippled condition of the
' wires.
Many of the streets of Cumberland
already are under water. The princi
pal thoroughfare. Mechanics street. Is
flooded with three feet of water. The
entire town of Piedmont, W. Va., is
Inundated with four feet of water
with the river still rising. The In
■ creasing wall of water is rushing on
to Williamsport, Md., where the river
. Is rising at the rate of thirty Inches
an hour. According to estimates, the
beginning o fthe flood stage should
reach Washington about 7 o’clock to
night.
Melting snow and the heavy rain
of last night are rapidly contributing
to the flowing of all streams. The
downpour still Is continuing, with no
abatement In sight, according to the
weather bureau.
Prediction Is made that the flood
will be the worst the Potomac river
region has experienced since 1889,
when unestimable damage was done
and the C. & O. canal banks were
washed away for miles.
WASHING IS ISSUED.
Weather Bureau Says Serious
Flood May Come.
Flood warnings for the upper Po
tomac river regions and southwest
storm warnings for the Atlantic sea
board from Jacksonville, Fla., to New
York city were ordered displayed by
the weather bureau today.
Last night’s heavy rains and the
first signs of a spring thaw in the
snow-bound mountain regions are
i (Continued on Page 2, Column
AS THE MARCH HUNTING ENDS.
SENATORS FAVOR
HOUSEBONUS BILL
G. 0. P. Members Back 20-
Year Insurance Plan —Re-
port Sought Next Week.
The bonus and tax bills both came
! under the eyes of the Senate finance
j committee today with members
j pressing consideration of each in the
; hop© of reporting then to the Senate
| next week.
Army and Navy officers were called
| upon first for data which is to be
I used as the basis of the committee’s
: own estimate of the probable cost
j of the soldier bonus bill passed by
| the House.
Chairman Smoot has announced
1 that night sessions will be renewed
next week. Sentiment, he says, is
fairly well crystallized among re
publicans of the committee in favor
of the bonus hill passed by the House,
providing for paid-up twenty-year
! endowment life insurance policies and
i cash payments to veterans not en
titled to more than SSO in adjusted
service credit, while the democrats
are almost solidly for a full cash
payment option.
The estate, gift and excise tax
schedules are practically the only re
maining sections of the revenue bill
to be considered by the committee
after disposal of the corporation tax.
Proposals to change the form or
(.Ting corporations temporarily
blocked progress in the Senate
finance committee yesterday in its
consideration of the revenue bill.
Neither the bill passed by the House
nor the Mellon tax revision plan
proposes any change In the corpora
tion tax. ~ ,
The section was finally passed over
by the committee, however, and some
of the technical provisions of the
corporation tax system agreed to.
The estate and gift taxes and the
miscellaneous and excise schedules
will be taken up in rapid order now,
after which. Chairman Smoot said,
the bill would be reported im
mediately. Such action could be ob
tained by next week, he thought.
Senator Reed, republican. Pennsyl
vania, suggested that the corporation
tax of 12 hi per cent he increased to
14 per cent and the special tax on
capital stocks of $1 for each SI,OOO
worth of stock of a corporation be
eliminated. Senator Jones, democrat.
New Mexico, told the committee he
would offer some form of graduated
tax in place of the flat corporation
levy. He did not mention the rates
he would propose, however.
The committee did agree to the
Treasury draft of the bill in regard
to eliminating a provision placed In
the law in 1921 which changed the
basis of fixing valuations of certain
stocks. This provision affected prin
cipally lumber companies.
TAX SALE DEED HELD
BAR TO REDEMPTION
Owner Must Deal With Buyer
After Issue of Paper, Ru
dolph Rules.
Hereafter a p?operty owner whose
real estate has been sold for taxes
will not be permitted to redeem it at
the District building after the tax
sale buyer has applied to the Com
missioners for a deed.
Commissloner Rudolph made this
announcement today, following a
public hearing yesterday, at which
a number of lawyers contended that
under the law the Commissioners
were bound to allow the real owner
to redeem at any time before a deed
Is actually delivered.
The law provides that the tax-sale
buyer must wait two years from the
date of the sale before applying for
a deed, and during that time the real
owner may redeem by paying the tax
due plus 12 per cent a year penalty.
The Commissioners feel that If at
the expiration of the two years the
tax-sale buyer applies Immediately
for a deed the District must issue it
promptly.
After a tax deed has been issued
the real owner may still redeem, but.
In addition to the penalty, he may
then be required to pay the tax-sale
buyer a bonus. These deeds, it is
said, constitute a cloud on the title
to the property and must be paid off
before the original owner can make
any disposition of the land or build
ings.
BERGDOLL POSTPONES
RETURN FROM GERMANY'
Unofficial Proposals Fail to Im
press Him as Genuine, Draft
Dodger Says.
By the Associated Press.
EBERBACH. Germany, March 29.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the Amer
ican draft evader, whose departure
from his hotel here early in the week
was responsible for reports that he
was on his way to the United States,
returned to the hotel today. He said
he was not making any preparations
, to return to the United States.
Bergdoll had been on a motor trip
to the Black forest. He said that
i although he was prepared to return
. to the United Slates under certain
. conditions, the proposals made to him
from unofficial quarters failed to im
press him as genuine. He and his
1 three companions, the Stecher broth
. ers. preferred to await something
more tangible in the way of assur
’ ances that they would not be dealt
- with too severly.
i 2 PIGGLY WIGGLY
; SUSPECTS CAUGHT
i
| Blundon and Reidy Taken
Without Fight in New
York Hotel.
Special DUrpatch to Hie Star.
; NEW YORK, March 29.—Earl Blun
! don and Dennis Reidy, both of Wash
; ington, alleged to be members of the
1 Piggiy Wiggly hold-up gang, which es
caped with $14,000 last Monday morn
• ing, were arrested as they entered their
' room on the seventeenth floor of the
Hotel McAipin early this morning. Their
i arrests complete three apprehensions
• in the hold-up. A fourth is still at
’ large.
Blundon was strolling into his room
• about 2 o’clock this morning when
Sergeants Kenny and Lowenthal and
i House Operative Dennison descended on
1 him. He put up no fight. Reidy was
) walking in at 6 o’clock when he also
5 was taken into custody.
’ Detectives Find S7OO.
I In their possession detectives fonnd
J approximately S7OO, but through tele
phone “tracers” they discovered that
s they had beeh in touch with a New
[ York bank during the last few days.
, and an investigation of their account
i with the Bank is now under way.
’ Both used aliases. It is believed that
approximately $4,000 is in the bank.
Blundon and Reidy, who are still in
the early twenties, were too surprised,
it is stated, to put up any opposition,
but a bigger surprise awaited the
New York detectives when they found
I no pistols or dangerous weapons 1n
their possession.
• Held as Fugitive*.
• They were taken to the "West 30th
street station and held for a hear
ing later this morning as fugitives
from justice in the Jefferson Market
court.
It was learned by detectives that
they have been in New York since
Tuesday, going to Newark, N. J.. in
! an automobile and then to New York
i by train. Neither would make any
statement to New York police when
questioned regarding the Piggiy
Wiggly hold-up.
Desperate Man at Large.
Much secrecy was thrown about the
i capture In the hope that quietude
might aid in effecting the capture of
• Joseph Frank Nalley, represented as
i the only desperate man implicated.
t Blundon is twenty-eight years of
age, and has a police record, being
’ the accredited ringleader of the jail
■ delivery recently at the Arlington
[ courthouse jail when eleven inmates
escaped. Reidy is twenty-one, and !
has no police record. It is believed >
s that this alleged hold-up is hia maiden ,
, venture with persona of known crim- j
Inal recorda
‘ Nalley is well known to police.!
I Tracers to principal cities have been (
* sent out in the hope of his appre- ;
- hension. ,
I VOTES AIR MAIL FUNDS.
r
House Agrees on $1,500,000 Ap
l ...
propnation.
r The House today agreed to appro
-5 priate $1,500,090 for operation of the New
3 York-San Francisco air mail service J
> during the fiscal year beginning
f July 1. i
s It also approved an additional ap- j
- propriation of $1,250,000 for operation 1
of the air mall service by night flying.
“From Press to Home
Within the Hour ”
The Star’s carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
MEMORIAL BRIDGE
TOCOOTI
Potomac Project Estimate Is
Held as Expressing View
of President.
When the bill authorizing the Ar
lington Memorial bridge to serve as
a connecting link across the Potomao 1
river between the Lincoln Memorial I
and the Lee mansion in Arlington j
national cemetery, passes Congress, j
it will provide for the expenditure of
approximately $7,500,000.
Two Provision* Made.
At least this is the opinion of those
who discussed this proposed legis
lation with the President today. This
amount, it is pointed out. will in
clude $5.000,000 for the bridge struc
ture itself, and $2,500,000 for the
necessary ornamentation and the con
struction of the immediate approaches
at either end of the bridge.
It is understood that while the Ar
lington Memorial bridge commission
has some fairly well determined ideas
regarding the future treatment of the I
main highways directly leading to the
north and south approaches to the
bridge, they will be left for future
consideration. To carry out these ideas
would necessitate the outlay of an ad
ditional sum that would make the en
tire project cost upward of $20,000,000.
In the interest of present day economy
and as a means to expedite somewhat
the building of the bridge itself, au
thorization for the latter feature of the
project will not be requested at this
time.
Lord Approves Measure.
The bill authorizing this bridge and
providing for its plans and construc
tion and its cost has been drawn up
by Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, executive
officer of the Arlington Memorial
Bridge Commission, of which the
President of the United States is
chairman. That part of the draft per
taining to the appropriation for the
bridge has been gone over carefully
by Brig. Gen. Lord, director of the
budget, and, except for some sea- i
tures. considered unessential to the
bridge proper, it has his approval.
It was said at the White House to
day that President Coolidge will call
a meeting of the commission some
time next week, at which each item
in the Sherrill draft will be gone
over, with the view to putting the
bill in gnal shape. When the com
mission meets, Senator Cummins of
lowa, President of the Senate, will sit
with it as a new member. He fills
the vacancy created when Mr. Cool
idge became President.
RUSH TROOPS TO SCENE
OF MINE HOME BLASTS
Authorities Seek Dynamiters at In
kerman, Pa., Following Fifth
Outrage in Year.
By the Associated Press.
SCRANTON. Pa.. March 29.—State
troopers and county detectives rush
ed to Inkerman, Pa., looking for the
persons who discharged dynamite
early today under the homes of two
anthractie mine workers.
Two explosions, one following the
other, seriously damaged the homes
of Stanley Cadiski and John Bezanus,
and smashed windows in a dozen
other dwellings. No one was seriously
hurt.
Today’s explosions at Inkerman
brought the total of dynamltlngs in
Luzerne county in the past year to
five.
EXPECT EARLY VERDICT
IN LUDENDORFF TRIAL
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 29.—According to
advices from Munich, Dr. von Kahr,
! Gen. von Lossow and Gen. Selssier,
■ who contended they were coerced
, into joining the Ludendorft-Hitler
j putsch of last November, have gone
to Italy "on a fortnight’s leave of
I absence.”
j The verdict in the trial of Gen. i
\ Ludendortf, Hitler and their 00-de
i fendants is expected to be rendered
soon by the Munich court.
FOUR TRAINMEN KILLED.
By the Associated Press.
NEWARK, Ohio, March 29.—Four
Baltimore and Ohio trainmen were
'reported to have been killed when a
' freight train on the Shawnee division
i went through a bridge south of here
jthls morning. High water was said
I to have caused the trestle to give
way. _
Yesterday** Circulation, 102,889
DRIVE ED COMPEL
MELLONTORETIRE
STARTSINSENATE
Resolution Questions Legal*
ity of Position in View of
Secretary’s Business.
OTHER CABINET MEMBERS
MARKED FOR ATTACKS
Hoover and Wallace Mentioned as
Next on List for
Investigation. 1
A drive to force the retirement of
another member of President Cool
id(?e’s cabinet. Secretary Mellon, la
now getting under way in the Sen
ate.
This attack on . Secretary Mellon
is described by some of the organiza
tion republicans and others in the
cloakrooms as merely one step In
well defined plans attributed to demo
crats and radical republicans for
disintegrating the cabinet one mem
ber at a time. Secretary Denby and
Attorney General Daugherty have left
the cabinet within a few weeks as
an outgrowth of sensational investi
gations, and the gossip has It that
Secretaries Wallace and Hoover are
next in line after Mellon for the
same kind of treatment.
Administration leaders, however,
are confident the drive against Presi
dent Coolidge’s cabinet will meet with
failure in its attack on Secretary
Mellon.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, repub
lican leader of the Senate, who called
at the Teasury today, scouted the
idea that the opposition would be
able to oust Mellon.
“There is not a stronger man in
the country today than Mr. Mellon,"
declared the senator.
Asked if he thought there was any
possibility that the campaign admit
tedly being waged to uncover corrup
tion in the administration, would also
retire Mr. Mellon, Senator Lodge re
plied emphatically in the negative.
Secretary Mellon was out of the
city today. He has repeatedly re
vealed, however, that he is not wor
; Tied over the attacks directed against
i him from the Capitol. He recently
j replied sharply to the charge that he
j had influenced the bureau of Internal
j revenue to make refunds of taxes to
companies in which he is interested,
and declared that the Treasury De
partment was being operated on the
basis of efficiency only. He has reg
istered no objection so any proposed
investigation of his conduct of the
department, but has repeatedly re
j fused to all access to the tax returns
|i n hies of the internal revenue bu
j ream Certain returns have been
i made available to Congress through
j executive order-
Tskes Concrete Form.
The Mellon attack, which has been
I developing for several days, reached
j concrete form during general discus
! sion in the Senate yesterday of Mr.
i Daugherty’s retirement, in which
| President Coolldge also came in for
| a share of the uncomplimentary com
! ment. The executive also, was
j assailed for "delay and incation” in
1 a statement issued by Chairman
j Hull of the democratic national com
mittee, who found the Daugherty
resignation "a matter for public
gratification.”
Senator McKellar, democrat, Ten
nessee, introduced a resolution for in
vestigation of the legal qualifications
of the Treasury head, but debate on
the proposal was delayed when Sen
ator Wadsworth, republican, New
York, objected to immediate consid
eration and forced it over under the
rules until Monday, since the chatn
' ber is in recess today.
Asks Connections Probed.
; The resolution, which cites evidence
relating to “Mellon companies" ad
duced by the committee investigat
ing the internal revenue bureau,
calls for an inquiry to determine
whether the Secretary "is directly or
indirectly concerned in carrying on
the business of trade or commerce”;
whether he owns any sea vessel "In
whole or in part,” and whether he is
holding office in violation of statutes
cited, which prohibit maintenance of
commercial connections by the gov
ernment’s fiscal agents.
Speculation as to Mr. Daugherty’s
successor has simmered down to Chief
Justice Arthur P. Hugg of the Massa
! chusetts supreme judicial court, Har
j lan F. Stone, dean of the Columbia
University School of Law, Gov. Groes
beck of Michigan, William S. Kenyon,
former senator from lowa and now
judge of the federal circuit court of
appeals for the eighth district, who
was offered the naval secretaryship;
and Secretary Hughes of th© Slat©
Department.
Beck to Held Post.
The President is known to be seeking
for the post a man possessing adminis
trative capacity as well as knowledge
of law, and until his choice Is made
and confirmed by the Senate, James M.
Beck, the solicitor general, will act as
Attorney General.
i Several other resignations in the De
partment of Justice have been pre
dicted in some quarters, but officials
mentioned, Including W. J. Bums, chief
iof the bureau of investigation, and
I Augustus T. Seymour, assistant to the
Attorney General, said last night they
did not intend to follow Mr. Daugh
erty unless the President or the new
Attorney General should desire their re
tirement.
Text of Resolntlon-
The McKellar resolution, relating to
Secretary Mellon, follows:
“Whereas, section 243 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States provides
as follows:
“ ‘No person appointed to the office of
Secretary of the Treasury, or first con
troller, or first auditor, or treasurer, or
j register shall, directly o indiectly, be
concerned or interested in carrying on
, the business of trade or commerce, or
be owner in whole or in part of any
sea vessel, or purchase by himself, or
another in trust for him. any public
lands or other public property, or bo
concerned in the purchase or disposal
of any public property, or be concerned
in the purchase or disposal of any pub
lic securities of any state or of the
United States, or take or apply to his
own use any emolument or gain for
negotiating or transacting any busi
ness in the Treasury Department other
than what shall be allowed by law; and
every person who offends against any
of the propositions of this section shall
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