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WEATHKR. <O. $ Weather Bureau t-'oreoast J Fair and colder today, tomorrow In creasing cloudiness with slowly rising temperature. Temperature: Highest. 6s, at 12 noon; lowest, 50. at 10 p.m. Full report on pa#e 7. Ve 11 >l*) NT,-, ‘lll Kntered as second class matter -1,10. ISO. 0U,.) 11. past office. Washington. D C HANKOW IN PANIC, NAM CITY FIRED BY LOOTING MOBS Civil War Flames Anew in Yangtze Valley as Tang Evacuates Town. JAPANESE MARINES REPORTED lANDED Foreign Concessions at Former Nationalist Capital Barricaded When New Fight Starts. Bv thf Associated Bre^s HANKOW, Chinn November 1C. — The evacuating troops of (lon Tang Seng-Chi set tire to the native city of Hankow tonight. Thousands of troops and civilians are roaming the city, looting. Panic reigns. Civil War Flames Anew. SHANGHAI, November 12 C4 > ).—The Yangtze Valley is again ablaze with civil war, with the important inland : commercial center of Hankow once j more the scene of disorders. The flight today of the military die j tator at Hankow, Gen. Tang Seng-Chi. before the steady advance of the Nan king Nationalists who have been op posing him. has left almost leaderless his unpaid troops, free to loot the city and strike terror in the hearts of the wholi population, including the foreigners. Reports from the former capital of the Nationalist regime state that Jap anese marines have landed, that the foreign concessions have been barri caded and that the Chinese inhabitants of the city are moving on the foreign sections for protection. Fighting and looting is going on in the city, say the advices, while au thority over the Wuhan cities of Hankow. Wuchang and Hanyang is being handed over to Tang’s successor, Gen. Ho Chien, who is seeking to take command of the situation. Nationalists Near Hankow. Meanwhile, the Nanking National ists, seeking to consolidate their posi tion in the'Yangtze Valley again, are rushing on Hankow and the head of their column is within 15 miles of the city, according to reports received here in foreign commercial circles. The vernacular newspapers are in formed that thousands of the defeated and disorganized Hankow forces have arrived at Wuhan and the population of Wuhan and Hankow i* described as panic-stricken, A body of 10.00‘) Hankow troops has crossed the Yangtze to Wuchang and is proceed ing southward and the area through which the retreat is being made now fears wholesale disorder. The foreign naval commanders are known to be keeping in extremely close touch with the situation, the j wireless being constantly in use be tween the flagships at Shanghai and the patrol boats at Hankow and other ports on the Yangtze. A checkup of the patrol on the river of the various powers that there are 54 ships be tween Chinkiang and Chungking, with a heavy concentration at Hankow, made within recent days as a result of the tension existing within the Wu han city. American vessels total seven for Hankow, with others at Chinkiang. Wuhu and Kiukiang. Great Britain, 25 ships; France, 4, 2 of which are at Hankow, and Italy 3, 2 of which are at Hankow. WOMAN HURT ENTERING REAR OF ONE-MAN CAR I * Clothing Catches in Automatically j Closing Door Near Fourteenth j and H Streets. As scores of passersby looked on in horror early last night Miss I’hoebe A. Howell, *»4 years old, 3459 Hoi mead street, was dragged a short distance along the 1400 block of 11 street, caught in the rear door of a j one-man car of the Washington j Kailway Fleetric Co. Becoming confused arid attempt ing to enter the car by the rear door, which is used as an exit on one man cars. Miss Howell found her clothing caught by the automatically closing door. Attracted by her ' screams and the shouts ot those who w itnessed the accident, the operator | t>rought the car to a stop after it j was reported she had heen dragged i about 10 feet, in front of 1415 H Btpret. , ; .She refused hospital treatment and was taken to her home in a passing i automobile. Police stated that Miss Howell is a retired school teacher, BOY, ACCIDENTALLY SHOT, NEAR DEAjH IN HOSPITAL Maryland Youth Wounded When Gun He Is Carrying Is Discharged. Shot in the chest by a charge from r. it old-fashioned muzzle-loading gun which he was carrying home from his grandmother's, a mile away. James Mozingo, jr., 12 years old, Brandy wine, MM. staggered home, reached above the door where the key was hidden, unlocked the door and fell unconscious on the kitchen floor. The hoy's father, a farmer, found h s son when he returned home, and 1 lie wounded boy was taken to Emcr geney Hospital by Ur. J. E Bowers, where it was said tiiat he has hut a lighting chance to recover. The shoot ing occurred about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. .Several days ago the boy left the gun with iits grandmother, Mrs. Annie Sanders. Yesterday he went to get it. Somewhere along the road home the gun was accidentally dis charged. FIVE KILLED IN FIRE IN INDIANAPOLIS HOTEL Jtv Iho Ai««f I.ilf-Il Pirn INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., November 13.-Five persons were killed here a early this morning in a fire in the I Grays-oue Hotel in Ihe downtown dis ■ trier. Smoke, began pouring from the ■ building shortly before midnight and ■ *several women were said to have a Jumped from second storj windows. Cold-Looking Water Changes Woman’s Suicide Decision By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE. November 12. ! Because ’’the water looked too * I cold.” Mrs. Minnie Risik changed j her mind at the last minute today | j after she had resolved to end h-T life in the harbor. i Her husband, Joseph, asserted that he returned home to find a note telling of her resolve and in dicating the exact spot where Iv r j body could be found, i After frantically notifying police, I he hurried toward the harbor, he i said, only to meet his wife return j ing. I Laughing for the first time in months, Risik said, Mrs. Risik in | formed him that "the water looked j too cold." HOOVER ELIGIBILITY DOUBTED By SOME Friends Hold He Has Resided ! in U. S. for 14 Years, Despite Long Trips. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. j Eligibility of Herbert Hoover. Secre j tary of Commerce, under one of the | constitutional qualifications for Presi dent, has been questioned in a ‘Whis pering campaign” in the National Capital and elsewhere. It came into the open recently through the publi cation of a letter in the Springfield. Mass.. Republican. The attack upon the potential can didacy of Mr. Hoover revolves around that provision in the Constitution which says: “No person except a natural born citizen, or citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to that office (the presidency); neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of 35 years, and been 14 years a resi dent within the United States." Was Out of I'ountr The whispering campaign is based on the last clause, which says that to be eligible for President a person must have been 14 years a resident within the L'nited States. Prior to the World War Mr. .Hoover was out of the country for long periods. Close associates of the Secretary of Commerce maintain, however, that he has always been a citizen of the United States, and that he has main tained a residence and a home within the United States for a long period. Any attack upon Mr. Hoover's eligi bility. they say. must fall to the ground. Edgar Rickard of New York, who was associated with Mr. Hoover in his Belgian relief work before the United States entered the World War, in a letter to the Springfield itepub lican said. "I have known Mr. Hoover intimate- ] ly since 1910 and during a portion of \ this time have been associated with j him in Belgian relief. Without going , into the legal question of whether the 14 years’ residence period mentioned in the constitution must be imme diately prior to March 4. 1929. or whether it is cumulative. 1 can state at once that Mr. Hoover not only maintained a residence and a home within the United States for the whole of my 16 years’ acquaintance with him, but that, while he from time to time traveled abroad upon proses sional work and public service, yet 1 ! know positively that in each and | every separate year ending March 4 j he was himself physically within the I United States. The conduct of the j Belgian relief which you mentioned was directed both from the United j States and Europe, and he was con j stantly bark and forth from the United ! States during the whole period of the j ' war.” Matter Appears Closed. : The Springfield Republican, com ; menting editorially upon the matter, j said: j “The telegram from Edgar Rickard j ! seems to answer the question (of Mr. ) i Hoover's eligibility) and close the mat j ter.” Mr. Hoover is a native of the L’nited States. He was born'in West Branch j lowa, in 1574. He took an A B <Je , gree in engineering in Stanford Uni I | versity in 1895, and from 1895 to 1913 j he was engaged in engineering work | ' in the United States, Mexico, Canada, j Australia, Italy, Great Britain, South j Africa, India, China and Russia. iL represented the Panama-Pacific Ex position in Europe in 1913-1914. When | the World War broke out lie became ! chairman of the American relief com : mittee in London, which aided Aroeri ! cans stranded in Europe to i -'turn ' home, and soon afterward became i chairman of the Belgian relief com j j mittee. j When the United States entered the j | World War in 1917 Mr. Hoover re- j turned to this country and became j head of the Food Administration. He i has resided constantly in this country I since that time. When 1929 rolls j around he will have been here 12 i years. It would be strange, indeed, ! ! his friends point out, if the years he spent immediately prior thereto as beau of the American Belief in Bel gium hoiild be counted against his j eligibility for election to the Presi dency. if the constitutional provision was interpreted to mean that a man ! must he continuously a resident “with | ir. the United States” for 14 years prior to becoming President, j Constitutional authorities here said ! last night that it was a question just i what Hie clause of the Constitution (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) WOMAN IS SUCCESSFUL IN 7TH SUICIDE ATTEMPT Mrs. Annie Heath Ends Life With Gun . After Six Other Efforts Failed. gix times Mrs. Annie Heath, 41 years old, tried vainly to take her own life, despondent over ill health, but the seventh time she was sue- j cessful. Repeatedly she tried poison, once j she jumped into the Tidal Basin, hut j ! each time physicians saved her life . • against her will. Yesterday afternoon while her husband, Vernon Heath, a steamfitter, was at work she shot | herself with a .38-caliber revolver, ; dying almost Instantly. The body was discovered bv her landlady. Mrs. Ado line Glasscock. 1813 Mount Vernon : place, when she opened the door <d the Heaths' fourth-floor room to clean : it. No one heard the fatal shot, j Coroner Nevitt issued a certificate !of suicide. Mrs. Heath is survived by ! | her husband, a sist<u- and a 4-year old ] daughter, Margaret. * *? ' t ©he JluntLxu ptaf. C WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, 'll. O, SUNDAY MORNING, NOV KM HER 13, 1927-122 I’AO NS. (YALE TEAM BEATS ! BYGLOIG RALLY | Eli Eleven, Before 80.0C0 Gets Two Touchdowns in Last Quarter. BRUCE CALDWELL SEES GAME FROM SIDELINES Wiltmer Is Star for Losers —Fish- i wick Snares Pass From Hoben to Clinch Game. j Special Dbpat'-h to The Star. | NEW HAVEN. November 12.—Yale i beat Princeton 14 to •(« this afternoon 1 in one of the greatest games evet witnessed in the Yale Bowl, but the win spoiled the makings of a perfect foot ball tragedy. On the bench at the bottom of the bowl sat gruce Caldwell, Yale star halfback, disqualified on the eve of the big Princeton game because he had played freshman foot ball ai Brown University four years ago. He was not in foot ball togs, not on j the players bench. He sat. a hare- j headed resigned figure, muffled in ar | overcoat beside the coaches and old j grads. Garvey Plays.the Game. Half of the bowl full of people 80,000 of them, who had payed $400,000 for the privilege, looked at Caldwell and groaned. In Caldwell's f-miliar place at left halfback was Johnny Garvey, trying to live up to ano’hei man's reputation. Garvey played like a man. Twice he helped his team march down thp field to the Tigers’ goal line. But there Yale’s rushes failed, for Garvey, nor anybody else, could punch through Princeton’s lino, which stood like brick and mortar. For that scoring punch, the cold steel stamina of Caldwell was plainly indispensable. Therefore the Yale stands groaned Princeton was playing a close, eon servative. thrusting game. with VVittmer carrying the bail reliably for short gains, until they had marched GO yards down the field towards Yale’s white posts. At the opening of the second period. Wittmer went through 2 yards for a touchdown. Fishwick blocking the subsequent kick-off. so that the extra point was not made. The score was G to 0 for Prince ton but that was enough, and Cald well’s face was blank as he looked on. The Yale blue was blue. It was blue as blazes, as blue as a corpse, as an old nose on a frosty day. To tell the truth as blue as oniy Yale can lip when a big three game is tied up in the. bag against ! them. Eight Minutes Left. I The sun was shining like Spring above hut nothing could warm the heart of Yale. Over on the Princeton side, they were singing "Wo, Wow, (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) ARMY VANQUISHES NOTRE DAME, 180 Service Eleven, in Big Upset,; Smothers Indianans Before 75;000. t Special Despatch to The Star. NEW YORK. November 12.—1 n | what was perhaps the biggest upset j of the year in foot ball, the strong J i rushing and powerful Army eleven j t blanked the fast, experienced and ; clever Notre Dame grldders by an ; 18 to 0 score at the Yankee Stadium | this afterrtoon, before a crowd of : 75,000. With the score standing 6 to 0 in the third period and when one pass might mean a lie and another defeat for the Cadets, William Lester Nave of Cleveland, a youth who had sat. an idle sideline slave, was railed upon by Army. Veterans had failed in what j lie was to do. Intercepts Pass. “Seven-eleven-twenty-two,” began j the Notre Dame quarter. It was I John (Butch) Niemiec’s number being | called —Niemicc, the deadly passer, j Bill crouched for a spring. His heels : were the grass. Back snapped the ball. Twenty-one players were in combat. Heels, over head they tumbled as they met and lifted up. Off from the firing tangle was the i lone hall catcher. Over came the : spiraling ball. Into the waiting hands | of Nave, the young knight, came thej oval. His arms steeled and lie jumped j aheqgi. He whirled about a flying tackier twisted off two teammates’ backs. His | legs found a foothold and he gained ground l»v bounds. Off lie pushed three opponents, straight • arming them away. Fiftv-five yards lie cov (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) OuMantlinu Scores in Fool Bull (»amcs Yale, 11; Princeton, f>. Army, Ik; Notre Dame, 0. Michigan, 27; Navy, 12. Harvard, 18; Brown. 6. Dartmouth, 53; Cornell, 7. Pennsylvania, 27; Columbia, 0. Pittsburgh, 21; Nebraska, 13. Illinois, 15; Chicago, (i. lowa, 16; Wisconsin, 0. Indiana, 18; Northwestern, 10. l-'lorida, 13; Alabama, 6. Vanderbilt. 7; Tennessee. 7. Washington, 6; California. 0. Santa Clara, PI; Stanford, 6. Georgetown, 17; Boston Col lege, ti. George Washington, 411; -St. V ceeiit, HI. Virginia. 21; Maryland. ('. Delaware, 12: Gallandet, 7. !St. Xavier, 26; Catholic Uni versity, 18. Bridgewater, 7; American Uni versity, 6. /to create paragraphPGP POLICE PICKETING I SOFT-DRINK PLACES Parlors Suspected of Violat ing Liquor Law Being Watched in Drive. Picketing of soft-drink establish ments. where it is suspected by the police that liquor is being sold, has been ordered by Capt. Maurice Col lins in command of precinct No. 7, in Georgetown. Observers yesterday found police j officers waiching the entrances of sev- > era) places at frequent intervals. At one place, it was learned that 10 or j more policemen have taken turns j standing in front of ihe door, closely j scrutinizing everybody who goes in or comes out. John C. Reidy. who conducts a soft- ! drink establishment at 3004 M street, ' one of the places being watched, has employed a lawyer to find out whether j the police were within their legal rights to picket his place. Further-. ; more, Reidy said the policemen often | enter and stand at the liar alongside the patrons and sometimes they ques tion the patrons as they enter and ask them what they are going inside j to get. Neglect Is Charged. Reidy declared they could stand in \ front of his place or enter it as often ! as they please without discovering j anything wrong, but lie insists that the picketing is hurting his business | of selling near-beer, ginger ale and cigars. Mat tin J. McNamara, the ; lawyer whom Mr. Reidy retained, I said that he may take steps to pre j vent the police from interfering with j the patrons, but he did not see how they could be prevented from stand j ing outside. McNamara says so j many policemen have been picketing the Reidy place that the “proper busi ness of protecting people in this part of the city against robbery and other crimes is being neglected.” “Maj. Hesse has told me that the j police are trying to prevent the law j from being violated." said Mr. Me- j Namara. "but I do not think that D j i the province of ihe police in a ease i like thi«. Their duty is to arrest per | I sons who violate th“ law, not to j | break up a man’s legitimate business, j j I am waiting to see how long they j j keep this thing up before I decide : what legal steps to take.” When a reporter entered Reidy’* j place yesterday, three policemen were j standing on tiie sidewalk in front < f th door. They said nothing, hut seemed to be keeping a close watna on everything that was going on in the vicinity. The room inside was deserted ex cept for I). J. Bradley, brother-in-law of Mr. Reidy. who was in charge. Claims Business Injured. ! “People are being turned away I from our place,” said Mr. Bradley, j "You cannot expect them to come in | when the police look at them as if j they were criminals. There is nothing | to be found here except what we have a right to sell, but our business will soon be gone entirely if this keeps up." Capt. Collins said tiiat he had one 'man detailed for inspection work in j Georgetown, and that not only Reidy s j place hut several others in that vioin- j ity were under surveillance,"and yrould j remain so. Capt. Collins said that lie had nm j given any instructions tor names to. be taken, but that he himself had 01. j ' tained the names of persons emerging j I from other establishments in his pr<“ ' cinet, and they would be summon’d; j nm witnesses if future events justified j Collins described his activities as a “cleanup”: said that lie had received complaints tiiat certain conditions in his district needed attention and that j he intended to give it. — Georgetown Graduate, Seeking Bank Roll As Sailor, Hero of Blast on Tanker i I , By the Associated Pres*. . NEW YORK. November 12.—A tall Norwegian sailor, who went to sea to “build a bank roll,” was hailed today as the hero of an explosion which tore the bow off the tanker Beta, killing three of her crew and severely burn ing a fourth yesterday. lie was Chief Mate G. A. Larsen, graduate of Georgetown University, wKt risked his life after the blast to climb down over the shattered how through the gaping ho.e and train a fire hose on the smoldering hold. “Sure," he said, “we knew there might be another explosion, but some body had to get down there and put out the fire before it spread to oil fumes in the next compartment. That's all there was to it.” •*We.” he explained, included him self and Bos’n Jamas O’Keefe, who fol Navy Builds Blimp j To Land on Water As Well as Ashore By tli i Associated Press. LAKEHUKST, N. .T-. November i 12. —Ail airship of the non-rigid type which will he able to alight on water as well as land is being assembled at the naval air station here, and will he ready for its final ] tests in about a week. With its boat-type control car j stream lined, the craft will have greater speed than others of the ' same kind, because of a lesser re sistance to the wind. The airship will be known as the J-4. and will he a sister ship to the J-3, now in commission here. The J-4 will have a capacity of 200,000 cubic feet of helium, and, powered by two Wright engines of ISO horsepower each will have a cruising speed of at) knots and a range of 25 hours of continual fly* I ing 'ihe craft will be used prim j eipall.v Cor cross-country flying in the train, ig of personnel for quali fication in rigid airships. 1 TRAIL BLAZERS j TO BE GUESTS HERE Pioneers in Noted Flights Will See Lindbergh Get Medal Tomorrow. Virtually all of America’s trail-bias- I ing crusaders of the air will be on the ! platform at the Washington .Audi ; torium tomorrow night when the j President of the United States wjll ] present to (’ol. Charles A. Lindbergh, on behalf of the National Geographic Society, the Hubbard Medal, awarded only for outstanding achievement in, ihe field of exploration. Banked about the noted trans atlantic flyer as he receives thp award i from the hands of President Cpolidge j | will be nearly all his comrades on the.; i uncharted highroads of the air—from | I Lindbergh, the trail blazer, to Ruth j I Elder, landed only Friday in New j j York after an air journey which took j i her more than two-thirds of the .ay i ! across the heaving wastes of the ; | Atlantic. The distinguished group of j ! airmen and the one woman pilot of ; j the air. are to he the guests of *’rcsi. ; I dent Coolidge at a White House luncheon Monday. .Medal Awarded Seven Times. Oniy seven times previously has the Hubbard Medal been presented. Lind | bergh is the* second flyer to receive Die j award. The other airman who owns a Hubbard Medal is Comilr. Richard j E. Byrd, awarded him for his epochal j feat in crossing the North Pole by plane. In the group of aviators and j | officials of the National Geographic j ! Society on the stage will be the t mother of Col. Lindbergh. President | Gilbert A. Grosvenor of the Geographic Society will preside at the presentation ceremony. Guests' of the President at the; White House lunch-on inc'ud* the j following aviators: Col. Charles A. | Lindbergh, pioneer New York Paris iflyer; Comdr. Ricnarl E. llyrd. North : Pole and transaP -ntic flyer, and his comrades on -he Atlantic flight. Bert i Acosta, his pilot: Rernt Bale-hen end j George O. Novilh-r Ruth Elder And her j j pilot, Uupt. Georg- llaldeman; Olur-! ; once T>. Chamberlin ;ml Charles A. j I Levine, New Y u-k-io Germany avia j tors: Lieu is. I/ester J. Maitland and Ernest ) fe,; mberger, first to fly from: j California ‘o Hawaii; Ernest L. Smith! and E. B. Bronte, California to Hawaii j flyers; A. C. Goebel, winner of the j j Dole flight to Hawaii; J’aul Si hutter J and Martin .Ten*«,i. second in the: ' (Continued on Page 4. Column 1.) , lowed him dov/n the Jacob's ladder to keep the hose dear of jagged pieces of steel projecting from deck to water line of the Beta's bow. Larsen explained that he had gradu ated from the School of Foreign Serv ice at Georgetown University, but found himself "broke'' after ending the course. He went to seu, he slid, to save money and complete a study of tlie export business. Several times, lie said, he had lectured on mechani cal dentistry at Howard University, in 1 Washington. ('apt. .1. B. Kehoe, master of the tanker, said lie could not tell what had caused the explosion, ”1 think we struck a hidden war mine,” he said. “Maybe it’s stretch ing the imagination some, but I’ve seen practice mines exploded in war time and it was just like that.” PRESIDENT WRITING | ANNUAL MESSAGE Mr. Coolidge Gets Early Start on Recommendations for Congress. RY. I. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Coolidge has begun the I actual writing of *his annual message J to Congress. He entered upon this task during the past week, ami at the rate he has progressed, he expects to have this highly important paper com j pleted considerably in advance of the convening of the Seventieth Congress Ordinarily the President completes the writing of a speech or message in a surprisingly short time, once he has concluded a study of the sub-, jeets he is to discuss and has made a comprehensive rough draft. But the President has indicated to those With whom he has discussed the un dertaking he has just entered upon, that he intends to proceed very care fully and therefore will consume more time than usual. Takes Unusual Care. He has been represented as wanting ! | to give more than ordinary care t.;' the wording of his treatment of the j variety of subjects he will Incorporate I in this message, and for this reason I he has made an early start. There is reason to feel that great interest is being attached to this ines sage, probably more than any mes sage Mr. Coolidge has submitted to Congress. It is natural to assume that his decision not to be a candidate to succeed himself in otlice is responsible for considerable of the interest. In this respect, it is suggested that he can deal with the problems of tin Government, both domestic and for eign, without fear of his words being misinterpreted, now that he has an nounced lie does not choose to be a candidate. Aside from Ifiis, unusual interest will be attached t> this message, not j only because of the vital nature of | the subjects, hut because the coming j year will witness a national election. I The President realizes that what he [will say cannot help but have an im i portant bearing upon his party's for j tunes in the next election. Moreover, i lie is mindful, too. that the next ses j s'on of Congress, if it runs true to form, will he more of less political. Politics Held Absent. Mr. Coolidge, therefore, has set about the preparation of a message itt which lie will candidly report upon the state of the Nut ion and recnm (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—S 2 PAGES. j General News—Local, National and Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Pages 22 and 23 Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 32. Around the City—Page 32. Army and Navy News—Page 33 Y. YV. C. A. Notes—Page 34. Girl Scouts—Page 35. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 36. Radio News and Programs—Pages 37. 38 and 39. Y'eterans of the Great War—Page 40. 1). A R. Activities—Page 42. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 42. Financial News—Pages 43. 44 and 45. 5 News of the Clubs—Page 48. PART TWO—-20 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Notes of Art and Artists —Page 4. Children's Book Week —Page 4. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 11. PART THREE—I 3 PAGES. Amusements —Theaters and the Photo play. Music—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 and 7. Serial, "The Four Stragglers"— Page 8. Fraternal News—Page 9. District National Guard —Page 11. Marine Corps Notes—Page 11. Spanish War Veterans—Page 12. W. C. T. U. Notes—Pgge 12. 1 PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—B PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea tures. The Rambler—Page 2. Civilian Army News —Page 8. PART STx—lo PAGES. Classified Advertising. At the Community Centers—Page 9 GRAPHIC SECTION—I 2 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES. Mutt and Jeff; Reg’lar Fellers: Mr. and Mr* ; High Lights of History. A 3 ) Means Associated Press. FIVE CENTS. BURNS IS ACCUSED OF OIL CASE PLOT j BY OWN OPERATIVE McMullin, Hired for Spy Work in Fall-Sinclair Trial, Reveals Seheme to Pinehot. i : FORMER GOVERNOR RELAYS STORY TO U. S. PROSECUTOR _ . | Confession Shows Affidavits Involving Lamb Were “Fiction,” Maj. Gordon Says in Statement. j Revelation that evidence had been presented to the grand jury that the Burns Detective Agency had "induced” one of its operatives "to make and sign false reports" about one of the jurors . in the ball-Sinclair trial "for the purpose of provoking a mistrial | if needed” furnished a sensation yesterday in the jury tampering investigation. | Further, it was revealed at the United States Attorney’s of hce this same operative was told to sign an affidavit of “sheer ; fiction,” charging an official of the Department of justice with approaching a juror during the trial “for the purpose and effect of showing that the Government was tampering with the jury and to justify such stirveilance” by the Burns agents as had been ! discovered by the Government. This was the basis for justice j Frederick L. Siddons withdrawing the jury from further con sideration of the conspiracy case. Burns Operative Became “Disgusted.” The operative was “William V. Fong.” whose real name, how ever. is W illiatn J. McMullin of Philadelphia. L nder the name of "Long.” he obtained employment with the Burns agenev in I hiladelphia on October lo; was given an assignment of jury shadowing on October 18 in Washington, and learning “of the real purpose of the surveilance. he became very much disgusted,” United States Attorney Peyton Gordon declared in bringing to j light the story which lias been in possession of the Government j since October 24. Pinehot Repeats Story to Roberts. McMullin communicated his charges to former Gov. Gifford Pinehot of Pennsylvania on that date and 20 minutes later. Owen J Roberts special Government oil prosecutor in the case then on trial, was informed ot the matter by Pinehot, Maj. Gordon explained. It was not until that moment that the Government knew the jury was being shadowed bv private detectives. ’ FALL SAYS HEALTH IS FAILING RAPIDLY "Fears He May Not See Home I Again After New Trial in January. By the Associated Press. Albert B. Fall said good-bye to Washington last night with a lurking presentment that after his new trial here in January he may not be strong enough to turn homeward again. A few hours before train time the 66-year-old former Interior Secretary received an Associated Press reporter in the hotel room where he has l battled illness for the last week. He said his intention was to go to his New Mexico ranch, so that he might , build himself up to be able to return i here on January 16. the day set for a new trial of the Teapot Dome case in which he is a defendant with Harry F. Sinclair. “I would like to feel tint there is more than an even chance for my i returning home after that," Fall con tinued, "but I think there is only a 50-50 chance. I shall come, if it is | possible, because I want to have the opportunity, as far as possible, to clear my name.” Denies Jury Case Knowledge. Fall sat low in an easy chair, his j stooped shoulders shrouded in a blue ; velvet bathrobe. The paleness of his j cheeks showed how illness had sapped his vitality, but his eyes were bright and his voice strong as he referred , to the grand jury investigation gr w- : ing out of the recent mistrial of the '■ Teapot Dome case. "I had not the slightest idea that j any detectives had been hired to in- | I vestigate jurors," he said. "This j whole affair was absolutely new to i me, and at no time was the matter J mentioned in my presence. Mr. Sin-j clair never intimated to me knowledge I of such activities, If he even knew, j During the trial I visited his room ! only one afternoon, and he was in i m.v room only a few times.” Fall revealed that on the day of j the mistrial, he sought to ask Justice j Skldons to have the ca.4e go on im- j mediately. “My plea was interrupted by an ob jection by Mr. Pomerene, of Govern merit counsel.” he said. “I was will i in.sr to have the case go on with that jury, or to start again the next day with another jury. Built l’p for Each Trial. "It took me 12 months to build up i for the trial, and even longer than that to build tip for the Poheny trial. Now I intend to rest and walk in New Mexico, where Ore warm climate and ! altitude agree with me. Unless doc- j tors forbid me to return to Washing ton in January, I will come. But l i must consider my family and, al- J though I am old, perhaps I can re- j main with them a little longer before going across the great divide." The Washington climate has never J suited his health, Fall said. “In 10 years as Senator and two as j a member of the cabinet. I spent only one Christmas here," he went on. Reticent about talking for publi cation. the former Interior Secretary said, “It was always my custom never to say what I was going to do. but to do things. That is why I told nobody about the Teapot Dome leases. I was" Harding’s representative, and I will not now seek to try my case In the newspapers. What I will say, though, is that no person connected with my side pf the case will stand on their constitutional rights of im munity. Fall declined to amplify the state ment. in response to an inquiry whether It meant that he intended to take the stand in his own defense when the new trial is called. At that “(Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) "From Press to Horn 9 Within the Hour” I The Star is delivered every evening ittd Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. ! M hat was revealed yesterday after noon is only part of an eight page affidavit signed by MeMullin an<f ' which has been in Maj Gordon'! custody for a week. “There wouK be no objection to the revelation o» i ; MoMullin a activities in connectior with this matter in detail,” explain J ed Maj. Gordon, "but public interest i requires that no' disclosure be made as to his testimony or to his activ ities or reports relative to his superio* officer and fellow operatives." ; In oral statements to a large gather -1 L ns L °J newspaper correspondents who had followed the trial and grand jury proceedings closely. Maj. Gordon ani his assistant. Neil J. Burkinshaw. re' lated how McMullirt “was induced to make and sign false reports" about Juror Norman L. Glascock, and how Dong s affidavit that a man. identi tied in an accompanying affidavit by another Burns operative as H. R. Damb. a special assistant to the At* ' torney General, approached Glascock at Hoover Field on October 24 “was j sheer fiction." .. was tol<l hy the operatives of K™ 3 ? sency sign the affi* davit about Lamb and to stick to the !f story . ry ln reports in giving his estimony before the grand jury and that he would be taken care of,” Mai | Cordon declared. Maj. Gordon’s Statement. p.niu Ce * Octobpr - 4 - when Gov. I l inchot was informed of MeMullin'• charges. Long" has remained in the set vice of tlie Burns agency, carry ! J ns 0!lt orders and instructions from i , superiors. His service with that concern obviously terminates todav. | As tar as could be learned, none of the numerous Burns detectives in the , corridors yesterday afternoon sus | peeled "Long." 1 V; 0, ' dMn ' 8 tormal oral state : ment, follows: The man who has been operat ! > n « under the name of "Long” is named William J. MeMullin. McMul | , ’° Washington on the ISrh I „ October as an operative of tf.e j burns agency with directions to re* ; port lo Ruddy (C. G. Ruddy, in charge jf the detail here). Upon being giv« jnis assignment in connection with the surveillance of the jury in the Fall j Sinclair conspiracy case be so»n teamed of the real purpose of the I surveillance and became very muen disgusted. lie is from Philadelphia and hav ! ing known of Gov. Pinchot, ano iiav*» Img read the day before in Wash i j n »t°n that the governor was here, : he called upon the governor on Octo j her and informed hint of the situ* : Dion. Gov. Pinchot then sent for Mr. • | Roberts and MeMulhn has been in j communication wiih fJoverninent counsel ever since—for th.ee weeks— , and •while still working with the burns agency. MeMullin was Induced to make and sign false reports of Glascock and others for the purpose of pro* yoking a mistrial if needed The visit to the Hying field and the fol lowing of the Oakland roadster and his report as to Lamb was sheer sic -1 tion. I-a.vs Plot lo Agency. "This was known to* the Burn* j agency, as they supplied the license | number of La nib's car to put into the ; report. All of this was known to the | Rums agency and was knowingly ! used as the basis of the affidavit made ’ by "Long” and sent to Justice Siddona j four days after the mistrial. "This was done for the purpose and 1 effect to show that the Government ! was tampering with the jury and to j justify such surveillance. There would be no objection to ihe revela tion of McMullin’s activities ia con nection with this matter in detail, but public interest requires that no dis closures be made as to his testimony or to his activities or reports relative to his superior officers and fellow operatives. "This office hits been ln possession of an affidavit of eight pages of Me* Muffin's for a week disclosing in de tail the operations of the entire crowd. He was told by the operatives of the Burns agency to sign the affl. davit about Lamb and to stick to th* story in his reports in giving his testi mony before the grand jury and that he would be taken care of—all of which was immediately reported to this office. He was instructed to play (Continued on Page 5, Column s.j *1