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WEATHER.
(U S. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Generally fair tonight and tomorrow,
except possibly thundershowers tomor
row’ afternoon; little change in tem
perature. Temperatures: Highest, 82, at
3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 63, at 4 a.m.
today. Full report on page 4.
Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15
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MAHON REFUSES
TO GIVE SENATORS
SOURCE OF “LEAK”
* Regards Information on Len
root Vote Confidential, He
Tells Committee.
CASE CARRIED TO FLOOR
BY CHAIRMAN MOSES
Meeting of Committee Tomorrow
to Consider Amendments to
Secrecy Rules Proposed.
Paul R. Mallon. correspondent for the
United Press, today declined to reveal i
to the Senate rules committee the ,
sources of the information upon which [
he based his story of the record vote j
on the Lcnroot. nomination, taken in
secret executive session.
Mr. Mallon told the committee that |
he regarded as confidential the sources
of his information, and for that reason
would not disclose them.
After the committee had concluded
questioning Mr. Mallon, it went into
executive session. Soon after the Sen
ate had met the case was carried to the ;
floor of the Senate by Chairman Moses
of the rules committee.
Senator Moses told the Senate that
the committee had met to consider
• what will pass into history as the
Mallon case.”
Senator Moses said. It was the plain
Consensus of opinion of the committee
at its executive session that two results
have followed as a consequence of the
episode; one. that whJ> took place
resulting in the liatnng of Representa
tives of the press associations from thr
floor of the Senate, the other is an in
evitable amendment of the rules of the
Senate.”
Meeting Tomorrow Proposed.
Senator Moses said it was proposed
to hold a meeting of the rules commit
tee tomorrow to consider such amend
ments. ,
Senator La Follette of Wisconsin
asked when the committee would make
a report on proposed amendments.
Senator Moses said that the present
sentiment of the committee ran the
gamut of full publicity to limited pub
licity. but that as chairman he would
say that the matter would be pushed
Without delay. . ..
Senator La Follette called attention
to the possible early recess of Congress
and asked that some time be fixed for
report, possibly early next week. Sen
ator Swanson of Virginia, a member of
the rules committee, said he was satis
fied that a report could be made in 10
Senator Jones of Washington said he
was not disposed to consent to a 10-day
postponement. He is the author of a
resolution to open up the executive ses
sions on nominations and clearly has a
majority of the Senate behind him in
his fight for such an amendment.
Change in Rules Seen.
Finally, after further sparring, it
was agreed, by unanimous consent, that
all pending motions to amend the rules
regarding executive session be re
ferred to the rules committee, with In
structions to the rules committee to re
port by Tuesday a week.
After the debate on the floor of the
Senate, it was generally believed that
the rules committee will recommend a
modification of the rule of secrecy re
garding executive sessions on nomina
tions. and that the fight for publicity
would be won. „
It is believed that the Mallon case
will be dropped, and that the rules will
be amended so that hereafter roll calls
on nominations taken in executive
session will be made public, even if
the debate on nominations continues to
be held behind closed doors.
Senator Jones’ proposed amendment
to the rules would provide for open ex
ecutive sessions on nominations unless
the Senate by a majority orders it
otherwise. His amendment also pro
vides that all roll calls on nominations
shall be published.
Inquiry Right Questioned.
At the outset of the hearing today
the question was raised by Senator
Smoot of Utah, a member of the rules
committee, as to the authority of the
committee to conduct the investigation
at all. Senator Smoot contended that
the Senate had given no such authority
to the committee on rules. Without
specific authority to make the investi
gation, he said, the committee could
not go forward.
Senator Moses, chairman of the rules
committee, pointed to the usual resolu
tion which is adopted authorizing com;
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SOVIET AIRMEN PLAN
FLIGHT TO NEW YORK
Four to Man Plane on 12,500-Mile
Journey From Moscow by
Way of Alaska.
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, May 27.—A flight by
Jtussioan aviators from Moscow to New
Soviets, will be manned bv Aviators
being planned by the Soviet Airway
Commission.
Announcement of the proposed trip
was made today by Chairman Unshlight
of the air commission at the opening
of the Summer season of the Soviet
Union’s air communications service.
The plane, called the Land of
Soviets, will be manned by aviators.
Shestakov. Bolotov, Sterlingov and
Mechanic Fufaev.
The proposed route covers about
12.500 miles. The plane will leave
Moscow and will make its first, stop at
Novisibirsk in the Urals. The next
stop the route following the Trans
siberian Railroad will be at Khabarovsk
on the Amur River. At this point the
landing wheels will be removed and
floats substituted. From Khabarovsk, the
airmen will fly to Petropavlovsk in
Kamchatka. Next they will stop at
Dutch Harbor on the Aleutian Islands,
whence they will fly to Sitka, Alaska,
and then down the coast to Seattle and
San Francisco. There they will turn
east to Chicago and New York.
Hughes’ Nomination Reported.
The nomination of Charles Evans
Hughes, jr.. to be solicitor general, was
ordered reported to the Senate loday
by its judiciary committee without ob
jection.
FORT WORTH FLYERS TELL
OF RECORD 172-HOUR HOP
Lightning, Flashing by Side of Plane,
Gave Worst Scare of All During
Their Week in Air.
Here are the personal experiences of Reg Robbins and Jim Kelly, the
machinist and cowboy, who broke the world endurance flight record by re
maining in the air for more than a week.
BY REG L. ROBBINS AND JAMES KELLY.
(Written exclusively tor The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance.)
FORT WORTH, Tex., May 27.—The world at large appears to be amazed
at our little flying feat accomplished in a 2-year-old plane, powered with a
second-hand motor, but our principal astonishment is that we were forced to
came down after only 172 hours and 32 minutes in the air.
'x i Although we are back on earth after spending
more than a week in the cramped environs of our
'v rebuilt Ryan as It slowly but surely flew past every
mwf \ world's record for endurance flying, we have not been
' icompletely isolated.
■B***“'“ sages from our wives and friends, were lowered us
X twice a day by K. K. Hoffman and H. S. Jones, the
fgSHf | - pilots of our refueling ship, and our only disappoint- j
jwz&g I ment is that we were unable to fulfill our promise of
HHlfr f staving up 200 hours or longer.
8H& L s if flyers were ever blessed with a perfectly per
* M jj forming ship and a motor that stood every test put
gMm.\ v A , si»to it we are those two pilots. The Ryan brougham in
j we made the trip has been in use two years
i MkP* * j^B ? #4gind has carried thousands of passengers for commer
•Ml JBf • .'JBBdnl hops. The Wright Whirlwind motor in Fort
Wbw * BBWorth was second-hand when placed in the ship less
UPF 'han two years ago. It has gone more than 50,000
Ljyi' nnlcs without a forced landing.
r AsSSfBSBASffiSiKiE! Was Cracked.
Plane and motor would have kept us up until a
enviable mark had been established. However,
Re. l Robbins the luck which had been with us throughout the
flight finally failed and the propeller was cracked
when the buckle of a safety belt hit it while the rocker arms on the motor were
i being greased.
This happened Monday, the second day of our flight while the rocker arms
were being greased in rough air, and we probably would have felt no ill effects
from the accident had it not been for adverse weather we passed through. Rain ;
caused the crack to swell, making the motor run rough.
The severe storm we passed through on Saturday
night also helped to weaken the propeller. However, Ijjpas&Sh.
it kept us in the air during the bad weather and
many hours after we had passed through the elcctri
cal disturbances. ;
At one time lightning flashed so close to our ship
that we both thought it had been struck. That was
our worst scare of the entire flight. The visibility
was poor and neither of us got much rest. Each of
us got about an hour's sleep during the night. *
We took off at 11:33 a.m., Sunday, May 19. from HPr -mm aw
the Municipal Airport here and landed on the same MHraH \ i-’
field at 4:05 p.m.. Sunday, May 26. There were sev- \
eral more hours in our ship had we cared to risk a ' * A 1
crash.
Advance Commercial Aviation. JW
The primary purpose of our flight was to advance fMgafel v;
the cause of commercial aviation though, and we \
both feel that a proper regard for safety is one of
the first qualifications of a pilot. ' Jkm ,
We were tired, but not over-taxed when we landed. laiMPißfc-
Two doctors have examined us and pronounced us
both in normal physical condition with the excep- ■■KiUfllHßßi
tion of being slightly deaf. This will wear off in James Kelly,
a few days.
There were more nervous strain during the first 48 hours than at any other
time. After we had completed two days and nights in the air we began to lose
our nervousness and felt more confidence both in the ship and in ourselves.
At various times during the flight we became slightly groggy, but at no time
did we lose the balance or control of the plane. Airsickness worried us both dur
ing the first 48 hours, but this must have been caused by nervousness because the
(Continued on Page 5, Column 5.)
PROPELLER FORCES
TEXANSTO EARTH
Flight Ends in 173 d Hour.
Blade Cracked by Striking
Belt Buckle.
By the Associated Press.
Air records were attacked yesterday
from various quarters, with the count
at the end of the day showing one
record broken, two claims of other rec
ords broken, one attempt still in prog
ress and one ending in failure.
A new refueling endurance flight
record of 172 hours, 32 minutes and 1
second was. established at Fort Worth,
Tex., by Reginald L. Robbins and
James Kelly, who brought their single
motored monoplane down yesterday
after a cracked propeller threatened
i disaster. They landed with all the
world's records for sustained flight.
Fog Balks Californian.
Another refueling endurance flight
was in progress from Wichita, Kans.
Owen Haughland and Gene Shank
varied the monotony of their flight by
cruising to Minneapolis, Minn., where,
after refueling their monoplane, Miss
Ranger, in the air they flew about the
city.
Fog and high w'ind frustrated the
attempt of Herbert J. Fahy to set a
new solo endurance record at Los
Angeles. He landed after 21 hours, 16
minutes in the air.
A new altitude record of 41,000 feet
was claimed today by Willy Neunhoier,
a German pilot, at Dessau, Germany.
The American record of 39,140 feet is
held by Lieut. Appolo Soucek, U. S. N.
A world speed record was claimed
by Majs. Weiss and Girier of the
French military air force, who covered
5,000 kilometers (3,105 miles) in 26'/ 2
hours for an average speed of 116.7
miles per hour.
r Atlantic Planes Await Weather.
r At Old Orchard, Me., two planes were
poised on the beach awaiting a change
r in the weather that would permit them
I to start transatlanic flighs. The French
)j monoplane. Yellow with a crew
t j (.Continued on Page 5, Column 2.)
‘‘64 BELIEVED KILLED
;l IN TURKISH QUAKES
t' By the Associated Press,
e I PARIS. May 27.—Havas Agency dis
t patches from Angora, Turkey, today
t! said 64 persons were killed and 72 in
- i jured in 74 villages in Central Turkey
c ! shaken by an earthquake Saturday.
e i Greatest damage was reported from
i j Karalissarand Souhehir. near Sivas. One
e thousand three hundred and fifty-seven
i houses were destroyed and 313 others
t j damaged.
>, On May 3 earthquakes continuing so.-
i. three days shook Russian Turkestan
d and Persia, destroying several villages
a and causing, according to unofficial es
timates, 2,000 deaths.
Gix Cuban Firemen Killed.
s T.IATANZAS, Cuba, May 27 </P>.—Six
s firemen were killed and a score of per
y sons injured hprp last night in a head
- i on rolllssion between a fire truck and a
.passenger automobile.
Wt laming JMaf.
V, y Jp V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION L/
PARLEY NEAR END,
ACCORD UNLIKELY
Debt Report, Leaving Prob
lem to Various Govern
ments Anticipated.
Ey the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 27. —End of the long
conference of experts on reparations
was believed today to be at hand, with
such further meetings as the experts
may arrange intended more to find
a substitute for the word “failure” than
to reach an accord.
These efforts, it was believed, would
take the form of a report to the gov
ernments concerned, such as the experts
have been formulating for the last few
weeks, which would state expressly
points of agreement and disagreement
and leave the problem of getting to
gether to the governments for diplo
matic negotiation.
There was some optimism, but it
seemed to be the optimism of sentiment
rather than of fact. Certain French
circles, for instance, charged the refusal
of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, German spokes
man, to recede further in an effort at
compromise was "bluff.” It was argued
he must know the consequences to his
country's credit if the conference failed
to reach an agreement and would
abandon his stand before he would let
the experts disband In failure.
Look to Young and Morgan.
Other circles looked to Owen D.
Young and his companion American
delegate. J. P. Morgan, to find away
out of the impasse. In its 15 weeks of
life the conference survived so many
vicissitudes and still lived that there
today was widespread disinclination to
believe it had finally reached its de
nouement.
As far as was known today, after a
conference of the creditor nation ex
perts with Dr. Schacht yesterday, the
gulf between the two viewpoints yawned
as wide as ever, with Dr. Schacht ad
amant on at least three points.
These seemed to be, first, that Ger
many could pay no larger amount than
the 2,050,000,000 marks (about $492,-
000,000) annuities proposed in the com
promise offer of Mr. Young; second,
that Germany could not grant the
Belgian demand for additional annuities
or 25,000.000 marks to cover depreciated
currency; third, that the new plan, if
an agreement is reached, should become
effective almost at once instead of in
definite postponement, as the creditor
nations have insisted.
Germans Fail to Reply.
The Germans have failed to reply to
the creditor’s memorandum concerning
conditions and reservations to the an
-1 nuities recently suggested by Mr
I Young. At the German headquarters
I it was said that no written reply will
j be made, since Dr. Hjalmar Schacht,
, | chief of the German delegation, ex
j plained the German position amply to
■ j Mr. Young.
! This explanation, as communicated to
i i the creditors by Chairman Young, made
, |no change in the situation and this
J morning it was decided to try a last
j desperate measure.
This effort has been received with
j sympathy in expert circles here but
. I without any real sign of confidence.
State News, Pages 10 and 11
WASHINGTON, I). C., MONDAY, MAY 27, 3929-FORTY PAGES. *
POCKET VETO 0.0
BY SUPREME COURT
IN SHOALS DISPUTE
Word “Adjournment” Used in
Constitution Is Made Basis
of Decision.
ACTION IS EFFECTIVE
AT END OF ANY SESSION
Method of Killing Legislation in
Closing Days of Congress
Is Upheld.
I By the Associated Press.
Pocket vetoes by the President were
declared by the Supreme Court today
to be effective in killing legislation sent
to him in the closing days of a session
even though it was not the last session
of a Congress.
The court held the word adjourn
ment used in the Constitution meant
the end of any session of Congress, and
was not confined to final adjournment
of a Congress.
The decision covers the Muscle Shoals
bill, pocket vetoed at the close of the I
first session of the last Congress.
The opinion was summarized by Jus
tice Sanford as holding in this case
that the adjournment of the first ses
sion had prevented the President within
the meaning of the Constitution to re
turn the bill within ten days and that
the bill failed to become a law.
The court declared that Congress had
for years acquiesced in the construction
given by the President to the meaning
of the Constitution on the subject, ana
asserted Congress could not by law
authorize an employe to act in receiving
a bill after its adjournament.
The house judiciary committee took
the view that the word ‘ adjournment”
related only to final adjournment and
not to adjournment between sessions.
On June 24. 1926, a bill authorizing
j the Colville and other tribes of Indians
j in the State of Washington to file suit
in the Court of Claims to determine
whether they were entitled to com
pensation for lands which they alleged
had been taken by the Government,
was sent to President Coolidge. He did
not sign it or return it to Congress, but
pocket vetoed it.
Indians Begin Suit.
The Indians began suit on the theory
that the bill had become law’ without
the President’s signature, but the Court
of Claims, contrary to the opinion held
by Senator Norris of Nebraska and
other friends of the Muscle Shoals Gov
ernment operation legislation, which
suffered a similar fate, dismissed the
case on the ground that the bill had
not become law.
Word Adjournment was Issue.
The Constitution provides that if a
bill is not returned by the President
within 10 days, Sundays excepted, it
shall be a law in the same manner as
if he signed it, “unless Congress by their
adjournment prevent its return, in
which case it shall not be a law.” The
question in this case was whether the
word “adjournment” in the provision of
the Constitution refers only to a final
adjournment of Congress or covers the
case of an adjournment of a session.
It was a question of great importance,
because that was the fate of the Muscle
Shoals bill, passed by both houses of
Congress during the first session of the
Seventieth Congress. President Coolidge
took the position that by not returning
the bill he had vetoed it. Senator
Morris, who sponsored the Muscle
Shoals bill in the Senate, and other
members of Congress have taken the
position that the bill had become a law,
since the President could have returned
it to the officers of the Congress, which
was still in existence.
Representative Sumners of the judi
ciary committee argued that the pocket
veto is not an absolute veto, and was
not intended as such by the framers of
the Constitution. The Constitution pro
vides that in case the President vetoes
a measure he shall return it to the
House in which the bill originated and
must give reasons for his objections.
The exception to the rule exists where
Congress, by its adjournment, has made
it impossible to receive Executive com
munications. This, he argued, is the
case only when the Congress has come
to an end; during the vacations of Con
gress, that is, between the sessions of
Congress, the officers of the respective
Houses are authorized to receive Execu
tive communications.
120 Instances Are Cited.
The Attorney General argued that a
practical construction of the provision
in the Constitution leads to the op
posite conclusion. He pointed to no
less than 120 instances in which the
Presidents of the United States, be
ginning with President Madison, “pock
eted” bills of Congress by failing to
return the same, where the bills were
submitted to the President within 10
days from the end of first sessions. To
the argument of the judiciary commit
tee that the officers of either House
may receive executive communications
between sessions, the Attorney General
argued that no act has ever been passed
to authorize any officer of either House
of Congress to receive returned bills,
and that no message of the President
is received by either House, except
when it is in session.
Ludendorff Will Attempt to Prevent
Publication of First Wife s Memoirs
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. May 27.—Gen. Erich Lud
endorff, Germany’s wartime quarter
master general, said today he would
seek an injunction against the Munich
of at ’’When I Wa * PjPf^
Ludendoril's Wile,”K|||;
purporting y®<» *J
Margaretlie’ Luden
“The book pre-lL H . i
sents a wholly un-» i i
true picture of my H; 4 •s'■**>,, # 1
first marriage,’® M
Gen. Ludendorfl : , ■
declared. Jm sa<SS«fv Ml*. % *
Installments of ' *
the book have been Gen. LudendorfT. j
published in Ger
man newspapers and are highly com-,
recomputed
PRISONER LINKED
WITH 11 MURDER
Man Held in Wife’s Death Is
Believed Slayer of Car
olina Girl.
i By the Associated Press.
I CHARLOTTE, N. C., May 27.—Ex
' pressing the belief that H. Colin Camp
bell, held in Elizabeth, N. J., on the
charge of slaying his bigamous wife,
may be Henry A. Hartsfield, wanted in
Columbia, S. C., for the slaying in 1904
of Maude Allen, Henry E. Thomas,
United States Secret Service agent here,
today had mailed details of the Allen
case to John A. Galatian, chief of po
lice of Elizabeth, N. J.
Mr. Thomas also gave the Elizabeth
police details of tattoo marks and other
information that might lead to identifi
cation.
Campbell, according to a letter writ
ten to Columbia, S. C.. police, made j
admissions to the Elizabeth police re- i
garding a Maude Allen he knew in
Columbia 25 years ago.
The Elizabeth police wrote to the
Columbia police and Mr. Thomas was
called upon for any information he
'might have regarding Hartsfield, who
is said to have served three prison
terms for counterfeiting.
Hartsfield was a native of Wake
County, N. C. Shortly after he was
released from prison, he is alleged to
have left Raleigh for Greensboro, with
a young country girl named Maude
Allen. Secret service men used the girl
to trap Hartsfield on charge of counter
feiting. The latter evaded officers and
took the girl to Columbia. In August,
1904, the girl was found dead, her head
crushed with a flat iron.
HEFLINTELLSOF PLOT
TO ASSASSINATE HIM
Letter Revealing Threat Is Read
on Floor—Alabaman Blames
Catholic Leaders,
By the Associated Press.
The Senate was told today of an al
leged plot to assassinate Senator Heflin
of Alabama.
The information was contained in a
letter which Senator Heflin had read
by one of the clerks, in which the writ
er. who signed himself “Not a Mur
derer,” said the plot was hatched in
Detroit.
The plan, the letter said, was for two
men and one woman—who the letter
said were on their way to Washington—
to shoot Heflin with dum-dum bullets
from one automobile and escaped in an
other.
The writer of the letter said he was
one of the committee which decided the
j plan, but that he had become conscience
I stricken and decided to disclose it.
“I want the Senate and country to
| know about this,” Senator Heflin de-
I dared. “I am convinced that no deci
j sion is ever reached to kill a public man
I until it has been decided upon by the
| Catholic authorities.”
The writer of the plot letter said he
■ had given Detroit police the names of
all concerned in the conspiracy.
plimentary to the former officer of the
Kaiser.
Gen. LudendorfT and Frau Margarethe
were divorced July 9, 1926, the decree
stating tersely both were to blame. He
charged she smoked cigarettes exces
sively. I
Gen. LudendorfT later remarried. He
was Frail Margarethe’s second husband, j
their marriage taking place Just before !
, the World War.
Bank Statements
Washington clearing house, $4,073,-
688.60.
Treasury balance. $149,799,447.54.
New York clearing house exchange,
. $579,000,000.
■ New York clearing house balance,
. $108,000,01.
VALENCIA SEES POPE.
Mexican Bishop Refuses to Com
ment on Conference.
ROME, May 27 (A>).— Mgr. Guizary
Valencia, Bishop of Chihuahua, Mexico,
left Rome after an audience with Pope
Pius yesterday, refusing to divulge any
thing which transpired during the
course of the interview, even declining
to see representatives of the religious
press.
Members of his entourage, however,
let it be known that he might make a
statement when he returned home.
ITALIAN KING SIGNS
LATERAN TREATIES
.
Only Signature of Pope Is
Needed to Make Pacts
Effective.
By the Associated Press.
ROME. May 27.—King Victor Em
-1 manuel 111 today signed and ratified
| the Lateran treaties between the Italian
government and the Holy See.
Only the signature of his holiness the
Pope is now needed to render the
treaties effective and heal the breach
that has existed between church and
state in Italy since the end of the
Vatican's temporal power in 1870.
The King signed the treaties after
he had received Premier Mussolini and
other ministers in the Quirnal Palace.
The treaties will be published in the
official gazette tomorrow or Wednes
day and subsequently the duce and
Cardinal Gasparri will formally ex
change ratifications at a date and place
not yet decided.
The first visit of the Italian sovereigns,
accompanied by Premier Mussolini, to
his holiness is now only a matter of
days, the Tribuna said this afternoon.
The Vatican authorities have not yet
decided whether the visit should take
the form of a solemn reception, such as
on the last visit of King Alfonso of
Spain, or follow the simpler model set
at the last call of King Albert of Bel
gium.
MISSIONARYCAPTIVE
OF CHINESE BAND
Seizure by Communists Follows
Escape From 2,000 in Pillage
of Lungyenchow.
By the Associated Press.
AMOY, Fukien, China, May 27. —Dr.
C. H. Holleman, Reformed Presbyterian
Church missionary at Lungyenchow,
west of here, is being held captive by
Communists.
Mrs. Holleman and their children and
Rev. Henry Poppen and his family
escaped to Amoy and were safe here to
day after having lost everything in an
attack by 2,000 roving Communist
troops May 23.
The troops entered the city and at
tacked the missionary compound, loot
ing the mission, residences and hos
pital. The attack apparently was pure
ly antl-foreign, since no Chinese houses
were molested.
DORAN SHOWS RUM RAIDS
IN TEN-MONTH PERIOD
Reports 61,682 Gallons Whisky
and 2,258,357 Gallons Mash
Seized in Baltimore-Washington.
By the Associated Press.
Commissioner Doran of the Prohi
bition Bureau announced today that
In the last 10 months dry agents in
the Baltimore-Washington district raid
ed 840 stills and seized 61,682 gallons
of whisky, 2,258,357 gallons of whisky
mash and 519 automobiles.
During the period, he added, a total
of 3,195 prohibition prosecutions were
instituted in the Federal courts in the
Baltimore district.
j Doran declared he made public the
figures of the drive against the manu
facturers of illicit liquor as a result
of a recommendation by a Baltimore
Federal grand jury which advised that
prohibition agents direct attention to
the source of supply rather than at
• hip-pocket” purveyors.
The commissioner contended the fig
ures showed agents had done so and
that they would continue their cam
paign against illicit stills.
*
Apple, Auto Pioneer, Dies.
| TAMPA Fla., (A s ).—Simon B. Apple,
66. said to be a co-worker of John
! Hayes in building the first automobile,
died today.
“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.
Saturday's Circulation, 105,899
Sunday’s Circulation. 112,008
<JP) Means Associated Press.
SHERIFF DECLARED
; SUBJECT TO ARREST
; Court Holds Philadelphia Offi
. cial Liable for Refusing to
Answer in Vare Probe.
By the Associated Press.
Sheriff Thomas W. Cunningham of
Philadelphia was declared by the Su
| preme Court today to be subject to ar
. rest by the Senate for questioning con
} cerning his refusal to answer certain
questions in connection with the inves
tigation of the election of William S.
« Vare as Senator from Pennsylvania.
During the investigation by the inves
tigating committee, Cunningham tes
tified that he had contributed $50,000
to the Republican State committee
during the 1926 campaign and that his
salary at the time as clerk of the
Quarter Sessions Court was SB,OOO.
. Upon the advice of counsel he refused
, to answer any question touching on the
1 source of his funds or the manner of
l their accumulation.
He was arrested on a warrant issued
, by the President of the Senate, under
' a resolution directing that he be
‘ brought before the Senate to answer
i questions and that he be held in cus
i tody until further order of the Senate.
Cunningham, at once sought by
‘ habeas corpus proceedings to obtain
his release, claiming that ne had twice
■ appeared before tne committee as a
. witness and had answered all properly
1 put questions, but refused to disclose
; private affairs into which the commlt
' tee had no legal authority to inquire.
j The Federal District Court at Phila
delphia refused to release him, but the
[ Circuit Court of Appeals held he had
acted within his rignts, and discharged
him from arrest.
1 ROSIKA SCHWIMMER
: DENIED CITIZENSHIP
Supreme Court Rules Against
Women Opposed to Use of
Military Force.
By the Associated Press.
Alien women woh refuse to bear
. arms in defense of this Government
and who also are opposed to the use of
military force under all circumstances
are prohibited from naturalization, the
Supreme Court held today in the case
of Rosika Schwimmer from Chicago.
Justice Butler, in delivering the opin
. ion. said when doubt exists in the mind
, of the court as to any essential quali
fication of the applicant for naturaliza
■ tion the Government must be given the
benefit of the doubt.
I OHIOAN SLAIN IN STREET
j BY MURDERERS IN AUTO
■ Police Believe Death of Ex-Convict
Was in Reprisal for Earlier
. Killing.
By the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, May 27.—Charles La
Presto, 37, died in City Hospital today
after being shot down on the street in i
I front of his home by men in a large
touring car w'ith side curtains.
La Presto was stepping out of his
. front door when the car rolled up to
the curb. As he turned to walk up the
street, a shotgun muzzle protruded from
the curtained car and iwo shots roared.
His wife, standing in the doorway, was
an eyewitness of the murder.
La Presto is believed by police to have
‘ been shot in reprisal for some past of
' sense. Detectives reported the victim
once served five years in the peniten
! tiary for being involved in the fatal !
I shooting of another man.
! RHODE ISLANDER GIVEN
JOHN MARSHALL’S POST
Charles P. Sisson, Appointed For
mally Assistant U. S. Attorney
1 General—ls 39 Years Old.
By the Associated Press.
Charles P. Sisson, attorney general of
l Rhode Island, today was formally ap
pointed as Assistant United States At
torney General to succeed John Mar
shall, resigned.
Mr. Sisson, who is 39 years old. has
been attorney general of Rhode Island
, since 1925. He will have charge of the
personnel division of the Department
of Justice, one of the most important
< offices under the Attorney General.
TWO CENTS.
MUNICIPAL CENTER
SITE PURCHASE 01
er CONGRESS SEEN
Legislation Authorizing Im
mediate Acquisition of Prop
erty Is Expected to Pass.
SIMMONS WILL PRESS
FOR EARLY DECISION
Method of Financing Airport Proj
ect Should Be Made Plain, .
Chairman Insists.
Legislation authorizing immediate
use of $3,000,000, now available in the
Federal Treasury, as surplus taxes paid
by District property owners, for acquisi
tion of the four parcels of land between
Third and Sixth streets, Pennsylvania
avenue, Indiana avenue and Louisiana
avenue, for a site of the new municipal
center, is expected to pass at the pres
ent extra session of Congress.
Chairman Simmons of the subcom
mittee, handling District appropriations,
said today that if any appropriations
are authorized by legislation at this
session he will be insistent that the
municipal center appropriation is
Included,
Believes Emergency Exists.
He believes a paramount emergency
exists, since property owners in that
area already know that this is to be the
site of the municipal center and the
cost to the Government and to District
taxpayers would steadily increase were
actual purchase delayed. He sees no
reason for delay since the amount re
quired is already in the Treasury with
an understanding that it is to be used
for this purpose.
Chairman Simmons also emphasized
today that if legislation is passed carry
ing out recommendations of the joint
Congressional Airport Commission he
will insist that the method of financing
this project, urged as an emergency,
must be made plain. As, according to
present plans, any one member on the
unanimous consent could block this
legislation in the House, Chairman
Simmons’ statement is equivalent to
serving notice that he will feel it his
duty to record objection unless the
method of financing is definitely stated.
$500,000 for Purchase Proposed.
Proponents of the airport legislation
have told Mr. Simmons that the pro
-1 posal is for the Federal Government
i to pay the first $500,000 for acquisi
. tion of the air field to be used by
Government departments as well as
[ serving as a municipal airport and that
. all of the rest of the cost of the field
; and development of a great airport is
to come out of District revenues in the
[ same proportion as all other expenses
• of the District are met, under the
, lump sum plan of Federal contribu
tion.
SENATECOMMITTEE
l
VOTES TEXTILE PROBE
Action Reverses That Favoring In
vestigation by Federal Trade
Commission.
By the Associated Press.
The Senate manufactures committee
reversed Itself today and voted, 6 to 5,
to conduct the proposed Investigation
of the textile industry itself rather
than have the Federal Trade Commis
sion do so.
Chairman La Follette announced that
the same members who voted in favor
of the Senate inquiry voted to report
the resolution to the Senate. He said,
however, that the Senators who voted
against reporting the resolution did so,
not because they opposed an inquiry
into working conditions in the textile
industry, but because they thought the
investigation should be made by the
Federal Trade Commission.
The intention of the resolution is to
have the manufactures committe or a
subcommittee make the inquiry. It
would embrace the entire industry.
Chairman La Follette said he would
endeavor to receive Senate approval of
the investigation as early as possible.
STOCK PRICESBREAK
AGAIN IN SELLING
! Market Weakens Further Under
Strain of Uncertain Credit
Conditions.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 27.—The stock
market again broke wide open today,
scores of issues tumbling $2 to sl2 a
| share, many breaking through the low
levels reached in last Wednesday's
drastic collapse.
Predictions of a severe scarcity of
money during the mid-year shifting of
balances and another break in the
wheat market, carrying prices below a
dollar a bushel for the first time in 15
years, caused the heavy selling.
LORD BALFOUR’S HEALTH
IS WORRYING RELATIVES
Earl Advised Not to Transact Any
Public Business as Visitors
to Home Are Barred.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 27.—The Express to
day says the health of Lord Balfour is
causing anxiety to his relatives and
colleagues in the government.
Since attending the privy council at
Craigweil House on May 10, when the
King signed documents dissolving Par
liament, the health of the earl has not
improved and he has been advised not
to transact any public business. He is
staying at the house of his brother and
heir, Gerald Balfour, near Woking, and
is not receiving visitors. The earl will
be 81 years old in July.
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