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WEATHER.
(V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with
probability of rain mixed with sleet or
snow; colder tonight: lowest temperature
about 32 degrees. Temperatures—High
est, 59, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest. 39,
at 7 am. today. Full report on page 9.
Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 &15
Entered as second class matter
post office. Washington, D. C.
No. 31,370.
HOOVER SELECTS
DR. REICHELDERFER
AND GEN. CROSBY
AS COMMISSIONERS
.Senate Confirmation Expect
ed in Time for Them to As
sume Duties When Dough
erty and Taliaferro Retire.
PRESIDENT’S DECISION
REACHED AFTER STUDY
Chief Executive Peels He Has Se
lected Men of Highest Standard,
Who Are Eminently Well Quali
fied to Administer Affairs of
Local Government.
Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer and |
Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby were
today nominated by President
Hoover to be the two civilian
members of the Board of Com
’missioners of the District of Co
lumbia.
The nominations were sent to
the Senate from the White House
shortly before noon and it is ex
pected that they will be confirmed
in time for these men to assume
their new duties when Commis
sioners Dougherty and Taliaferro .
retire to private life at the end
of this month. The terms of the
two latter officials expired five
weeks ago, but they remained in
‘office at the request of the Presi
dent until he had selected the
successors proposed.
The opposition of Washington's
trade and business organizations to the
selection of Gen. Crosby will be con
tinued. it was announced after the
appointment today. The fight will
center around an attempt to persuade
the Senate District committee to refuse
confirmation on legal grounds.
The appointment of Gen. Crosby, who
retired last night as chidf of Cavalry,
was officially announced by the White
House more than six weeks ago, but it
was not until within the last 24 hours
that President Hoover definitely decided
upon the appointment of Dr. Reichel
derfer as the second civilian Commis
sioner.
Dr. Reichelderfer is a retired physi
cian and for more than,2o years was
an otoct in the DtsWPfct National
Guard. During the World War he was
to the Medical Corps of the Army and
bad extended service overseas.
Hoover Studied Situation.
Im-Selecting these two men the Presi
ded feels that he has Selected two
gnen of the highest standard, who
are eminently well qualified to ad
minister the affairs of the local gov
ernment to a capable and satis
factory manner. The President is
known to have been painstaking in
looking over the field of availables to
appoint and it was only after the most
careful study that he finally made his
decisions.
At the time the President announced
bis intention to appoint Gen. Crosby he
Said that Gen. Crosby would take over
supervision of Police and Fire Depart
ments and the Traffic Bureau, and that
be felt confident this widely experienced
Army officer would serve with credit
and would strengthen the Police De
partment and would bring about a re
duction in crime in the National Capital.
Dr. Reichelderfer’s nomination was
rlicted in The Star several days ago.
has been a resident of this city for
more than 40 years and prominent as
a medical man and in the activities of
the National Guard, he has not been
prominent in civic or local affairs.
It is understood that Dr. Rlechelder
fer’s long and commendable record as
superintendent and chief surgeon at
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MEANS’ BOOK ON HARDING
MAY BE GIVEN GRAND JURY
Work Declares Jess Smith Was Not
Suicide, but Victim of
Foul Play.
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
announced today that he had received
a copy of Gaston B. Means’ book, pur
porting to give inside details of al
leged scandals of the Harding adminis
tration and had assigned John W. Fi
helly, an assistant, to read it and re
port whether he believed it contained
any information which might be laid
before the grand jury.
The book, copies of which have been
on sale here for several days, intimates
that Jess Smith, close friend of Harry
M. Daugherty, former Attorney Gener
al. did not commit suicide at the Ward
man Park Hotel as the coroner and
police decided, but was the victim of
foul play.
Means was released from the Federal
penitentiary in Atlanta in 1928, after
serving three years for violation of the
prohibition act.
"MODEL TOWN” BREAKS SPOTLESS
RECORD THROUGH ARREST OF PAIR
Ohio Village Is in Dilemma on Learning There Is No
Liquor Violation Ordinance.
8 7 the Associated Pres*.
FREEPORT, Ohio, March 21.—Free
port, the Ohio village which had often
been cited as a model law observing
community, has had Its first arrest
Since the World War.
Two men. accused of running 60 gal
lons of liquor through the village, were
apprehended and today were held in the
dafl which village council'had been at
tempting to dispose of in recent months.
• Mayor Jesse H. Jenkins first brought
Freeport’s reputation into national
prominence when he sent members of
4
[ NOMINEES FOR COMMISSIONERSHIPS
Above: Dr. Luther Reichelderfer,
whose selection as a District Commis
sioner was announced today by the
White House. —Harris-Ewing Photo.
Below: Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby.
Selection of Gen. Crosby was announced
several weeks ago, but his nomination
was not sent to the Senate until today.
Wide World Photo.
APPROVAL IS GIVEN
NEW BILLS SOUGHT
TO HELP DRY LAWS
Subcommittee Makes Favor
able Repart to Be Acted
Upon Thursday.
By the Associated Press.
With modifications, the entire pro
gram of the law enforcement commis
sion to strengthen dry law enforcement,
has been laid before the full House
judtotoiy wuamtttwi toy * subcommittee
for action next Thursday.
The subcommittee, headed by Repre
sentative Christopherson, Republican,
of South Dakota, today reported fa
vorably to the full committee the Wlck
ersham bills to strengthen the padlock
law and permit State officers to hale
liquor violators into Federal courts.
J The Stobbs bill to amend the Jones
law to define misdemeanor liquor cases
and the Christopherson bill to broaden
the powers of the United States com
missioners to hear slight and casual
liquor law s violators previously were re
ferred to the full committee.
Dry Hearings to Resume.
Before this is done however, the
united dry forces of America will
continue their intensive defense of na
tional prohibition next week with the
House judiciary committee resuming its
hearings on proposals that the eight
eenth amendment be repealed.
Additional time has been requested
by the prohibitionists—a half a day of
the seven days originally allotted them
remains—and the committee will ac
cede to their wishes.
The hearings will be taken up again
on Wednesday, foliowing the policy of
the committee in holding sessions on
Wednesday and Thursday of each week.
The drys have not yet made knov.n
whom they will present as witnesses.
They have yet to introduce state
ments from Prof. Irving Fisher, econo
mist, of Yale University, and the Rev.
Clarence True Wilson, D. D., of the
Board of Tempera nee, Prohibition and
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MADRID AUDIENCE HALTS
MUSIC OF ROYAL MARCH
Premier, Present at Concert, Leaves
Hurriedly as Shouts Drown
Out Orchestra,
j Srecial Dispatch to The Star.
MADRID, March 21.—At the end of
a concert here at the Zarzuela Theater,
where recently former Premier Sanchez
Guerra delivered his famous speech
against the monarchy, the orchestra
Thursday night attempted as usual*to
play the royal march.
The audience, however, protested and
with shouts and whistles drowned out
the playing oi the march.
Premier Bcrenguer, the late Primo de
Rivera’s successor, who was attending
the concert, hurriedly left. ’
(Copyright. 1930.)
council home to get their “Sunday
clothes “ The mayor Insisted that the
village “dads” appear in their best
when transacting public business.
Owing to the fact that the village
has been without crime for more than
12 years, the village council overlooked
the fact that no ordinance covering
liquor violations had been passed. Now
they are confronted with the problem ol
how to prosecute the alleged liquor run
ners.
Under the Ohio law, only municipal
ities that have ordinances are permit
ted to participate in fines assessed for
liquor violations,
n
fEk JEtimitto ifef.
V J V y WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION V-/ "
WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1930-FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. ***
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SATURDAY SESSION
OF SENATE ASKED
Watson Wants to Continue
Until Tariff Measure
Is Disposed Os.
By the Associated Press.
After the Senate today had refused
for the fifth time a tariff on oil, Sena
tor Watson of Indiana, the Republican
leader, announced on the floor that
the Senate should stay in session to
morrow until it passed the measure.
Prior to the vote of 38 to 37 against
oil protection, Democrats and Western
Republicans had rallied and put
through, 39 to 36, an amendment to I
slash existing rates on plate glass,
which were placed under the flexible
provisions by presidential proclamation.
Watson was joined in his demand
for speedy disposition of the tariff
measures by Senators Swanson of Vir
ginia and Barkley of Kentucky, Demo
crats.
The oil vote was on a proposal by
Senator Pine, Republican. Oklahoma, to
levy a duty of 40 cents a barrel on crude
oil and 20 per cent ad valorem on pe
troleum by-products, all now on ’ the
free list.
The same amendment was defeated,
32 to 28, Wednesday night and again
last night without a record vote.
Amendments by Senator Thomas,
Democrat, Oklahoma, for rates of $1
and 50 per cent, respectively, on oil and
by-products, were' defeated by more de
cisive votes previously.
The Senate adopted an amendment
by Senator McMaster, Republican,
South Dakota, to provide a rate of 17
cents a square foot on plate glass over
384 and not exceeding 1,008 square
inches,* as against existing levies rang
ing from 19 to 22 cents on sizes within
these limits.
The amendment also would cut from
22 to 19% cents the rate on plate glass
over 1,008 square inches.
Congress cannot adjourn before June
1 "under the most favorable conditions,”
Senator Watson told the Senate in
announcing a plan for a week’s recess
after the tariff bill is passed.
Opposed by Black.
The week's recess proposal was op
posed by Senator Black, Democrat,
Alabama, who ’ demanded that the
Senate take up the Muscle Shoals
• legislation as soon as the tariff is out
of the w'ay.
However, most of the nerve-worn
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MEXICAN POLICE SEIZE
10 SOVIET AGITATORS J
Two of Prisoners Had Been Taken
in Inquiry Into Attempt to
Kill Rubio.
By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, March 21.—Police
last night arrested 10 Communists after
a demonstration in the downtown dis
trict. Among those arrested were two
men who had just been released after
their arrest several weeks ago on suspi
cion of implication in the attempt
against the life of President Pascual
Oftiz Rubio February 5.
Police confiscated numerous banners
demanding resumption of relations with
Soviet Russia and demanding a war
Jon "Yankee imperialism.”
EXTORTION CHARGE
AGAINST SWORTZEL
COMES UP TODAY
Suspended Officer and Elgin
Will Face Judge Hitt
in Police Court.
CROTTS IS GIVEN GOOD
CHANCE FOR RECOVERY
Cases to Be Made Against Two
Women Involved—Bond Ap
proved for Hummel.
Ardie Swortzel, suspended fourth
precinct policeman, and John C. Elgin
of the 1200 block of K street were to
be arraigned before Judge Isaac R. Hitt
in Police Court today on charges of
conspiracy to commit a felony, to wit,
extortion, in connection with an al
leged attempt to secure S3O from two
women who occupy an apartment in
the 1900 block of First street, last Tues
day, as “protection money.’’
Assistant United States Attorney John
R. Fitzpatrick said that a similar
charge had been placed against James
Crotts of Silver Spring, who is now in
Casualty Hospital suffering from wounds
received when he was shot by Police
man Spottswood Gravely of the third
precinct, in the vicinity of the First
street apartment, when be attempted
to escape after Gravely had ordered
him to stop, while preparing to question
the men about the alleged “shakedown"
attempt.
At Casualty Hospital at noon today
it was reported that Crotts was in
"very fair shape.” with an excellent
chance for recovery. Previously it had
been thought that his wounds might
prove fatal.
The offense of conspiracy to extort
carries a maximum penalty of two years
in the penitentiary or a SIO,OOO fine.
Charges Faced by Women.
At the same time United States Attor
ney Leo S. Rover, after a conference
with Police Inspector Thaddius Bean
and Capt. William G. Stott, announced
that a charge of conducting a disorderly
house would be placed jointly against
Della Greathouse and Marie Foster, the
women in the case.
A search is under way for a man giv
ing his name as Richard Land, who de
scribed himself as a jockey from New
Orleans, and who is said to have nego
tiated the rental of the apartment in
question from the owner, John P. Daly
of the 4300 block of Thirteenth street,
saying that he wanted to use it as an
office in connection with his race horse
business. Mr. Rover today dispatched a
letter to Mr. Land informing him that
the apartment had been used for im
proper purposes. This is in line with
the regular policy of the United States
* ’•wttbmfy'Sr Office hr * Its dHVe against
gambling and disorderly houses.
At the conference between Inspector
Bean and Mr. Rover, the possibility of
lodging charges against taxicab drivers
who are said to have taken the trio and
other parties to the apartment at the
First street address, was discussed, but
it was decided that no charges could be
placed against the men.
The driver who took Swortzel. Elgin
and Crotts to the house last Tuesday
gave his name to the police and a sec
ond cab driver is under investigation.
Inspector Bean said today that it was
the second man who brought Miss
Greathouse to detective headquarters
when she complained that her place
had been held up the early hours of last
Sunday morning by some out-of-town
gangster and that the man said he
often brought men to the apartment.
Hummel to Make Bond.
Hugh L. Hummel of Plainfield, N. J,
who has been held as a material wit- |
ness at the eighth precinct since the
shooting on Tuesday, was to be released
today on a SSOO bond. This was given
I the approval of Mr. Rover today after
a conference witl\ Denny Hughes, at
torney for Hummel. Hummel is said
to have been in the apartment at the
time of the shooting of Crotts and to
have overheard some conversation re
lating to a request for S3O for “protec
tion."
John C. Cornell of the Ebbitt Hotel
is still under arrest at the third pre
cinct on a charge of investigation. He
is being held while headquarters de
tectives investigate his possible connec
tion with the hold-up of the apartment
last Sunday. Gravely, while not under
arrest, has been suspended and has
been ordered to stay in the station
house at the third precinct pending the
outcome of the injuries to Crotts.
_His_ suspension and that of Swortzel.
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DOUBLE HOMICIDE
BAFFLES OFFICIALS
Woman and Man Found in Filling
Station With Revolver Be
tween Bodies.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va. p March 21.— Henry
County authorities remained baffled to
day by the double homicide discovered
yesterday at Carlisle, where Mrs. W. L.
Stone, aged 46, was found with her
skull crushed in and Tom Howerton, 19,
dead from a pistol bullet through the
brain, with a large revolver lying be
tween the two bodies. The bodies were
found in Stone’s filling station after he
had returned from Martinsville, where
an errand had kept him for three-quar
ters of an hour.
The mysterious features were the
finding of a suicide note in Howerton’s
pocket Indicating that he was disap
pointed in his love for Billie Sizemore
and preferred death and the total ab
sence of a heavy weapon by which Mrs.
Stone’s skull was crushed or a motive
for her life being taken.
Sheriff J. J. Davis was of the opinion
: that Howerton tried to rob the safe of
■ the S2OO it contained, met with oppo
, sitlon from Mrs. Stone, a struggle tak
ing place, in which he kUled her and
* then took his life.
No money was missing, however. The
. small interior of the store and filling
t station was in confusion, evidencing a
1 fight. Two of the three shells in the
revolver had been discharged, but only
» one shot could be accounted for.
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SPRING, BUT NO TARIFF LAW!
BOLD BOOTLEGGER RETAKES CAR,
SEIZED AND CRIPPLED BY POLICE
Loses Wheel in Flight Which Costs Him
Auto to Begin With—Undaunted, He
'"Fakes” Murder, Tows It From Garage.
Some enterprising rum runner, hav
; ing lost most of his automobile and all
of his cargo to police last night, man
aged to retain one wheel, and early
today went around to No. 12 precinct
and towed off the very automobile to
fit it.
The car never would have been in
a po!-ce garage anyhow if one wheel
hadn't come bounding down a hill near
Eighteenth and Monroe streets north
east, straight at Patrolman J. M.
Gresham.
Aft?r dodging the wheel the officer
ATTEMPT 10 BLOCK
Petition Asks That Group
Now Sitting Be Dismissed
for Special Probers.
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md., March 21.
Blocking of an investigation by the
grand jury of alleged irregularities of
the Montgomery County government
was sought in District Court here today
j when a petition was filed by F. Barnard
Welsh seeking the dismissal of the pres
ent grand jury and asking the appoint
ment of a special grand jury.
The petition was filed on behalf of
the Montgomery County Printing &
Publishing Co., publisher of the Mont
gomery Independent, and W. S. Casey,
managing editor of that paper. The
petitioners alleged that the whole pro
ceeding was irregular and at the hearing
in court put on the stand Robert Peter,
States' attorney, and Capt. Joseph C.
Cissel, attorney for the commissioners,
to substantiate allegations in the peti
tion that more than one person was
allowed in the grand jury room at the
time commissioners made their formal
demand for an investigation of the
charges, which are said to have ap
peared in the Independent.
Cites Lack of Authority.
Judge Robert Peter, sitting on the
bench, said that counsel, in its argu
ment for granting the prayers in the
petition, had cited to the court no
authorities which would indicate his
power to act. Further, the court said
that it knew of no statute for the ap
pointment of a special grand jury nor
of any authority to stop the present
grand jury from proceeding with any
investigation which it saw fit to make.
He suggested that the proper time to
attack any alleged irregularity was
upon the presentation of any indict
ments, if any were returned. The court
added that it would examine the matter
presented and the authorities and make
known a decision as soon as possible.
In the meantime the grand jury may
do as it pleases. The court also ex
pressed doubt as to its right to appoint
a special prosecutor to conduct the in
vestigation which was demanded by
the county commissioners and E. Brooke
Lee, county Democratic leader and
speaker of the Maryland House ot Dele
gates. When Peter and Cissel were put
on the stand and interrogated by Mr.
Welsh they admitted that the Board of
Commissioners and Capt. Cissel were in
’ the grand jury room at the time the
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CHINESE SOLDIERY TRY
TO PIRATE OIL STEAMER
IT. S. Naval Guard and Troops on
Nearby American Ship Repulse
Attackers of Standard Vessel.
By the Associated Prees.
SHANGHAI, March 21. —Lawless
soldiery between Hankow and Ichang
today attempted to pirate a Standard
Oil Co of New York steamer which was
nearing Itu, midway between the two
to the combined efforts of the
United States naval guard aboard the
steamer and the guard aboard another
American ship which was nearby, the
marauders were repulsed.
went up the hill and found 120 half
gallon crocks of Maryland "rye” loaded
In part of an automobile. The other
part of the automobile had run off
down the street, which was exactly
what the driver had done.
The car, however, had had five
wheels. “I’ll put on the spare,’’ the
officer said, “and then go look for the
extra one.”
This the patrolman did. but he
searched at the foot of the hill in vain.
The fugitive, he said, must have re
trieved his wheel while the spare was
being put in place.
Somewhat disappointed, the officer
drove his prize to his precinct. There
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THREE-POWER PACT
IS BELIEVED NEAR
France and Italy Would Be
Asked to Sign Only Parts
Not Affecting Parity.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 21.—The American,
British and Japanese naval delegations
were understood today to be preparing
for quick, definite action next week In
the production of a limitation and re
duction pact.
In American circles It was said that
the moment the Japanese government
indicates its acceptance of the proposals
now being considered in Tokio for an
agreement among the United States,
Great Britain and Japan, France and
Italy will be called upon to put their
cards on the table in an effort to settle
their parity disagreements.
If France and Italy still cannot see
any purpose in further negotiating on
their difference, then the other three
powers will quickly frame an agreement
along the .lines of the Washington
treaty and France and Italy will be in
vited to sign such parts as they wish.
In other words, it was said, there will
be a three-power pact, with France and
Italy possibly signing some clauses
which do not affect their parity disa
greement.
Will Stand Pat.
It was said in American conference
circles that the United States and Oreat
Britain intend to stand pat on the pro
posals which the Japanese government
is now considering. Secretary Stimson
visited Prime Minister Macdonald in
Downing street before the American
delegation met this morning.
Later Prime Minister Macdonald had
an audience with the King and in well
informed quarters it was understood he
discussed with his majesty the present
state of the Naval Conference.
Reljlro Wakatsuki. head of the Jap
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DOHENY ARGUMENT
APPROACHING END
Defense Counsel Makes Dra
matic Plea to Jury for
' Accused Man*
By the Associated Press.
Continuing his fervent plea to the
jury that Edward L. Doheny be freed
on a charge of bribery, Ftank Hogan,
chief of defense counsel, began his ar
guments today with an explanation of
the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, naval oil
storage contract. Hogan opened yester
day. The case is due to get to the jury
by tomorrow.
The Pearl Harbor contract gave a
Doheny company preference to the Elks
Hills, Calif., naval oil lease, subject to
certain conditions. This preference
was regarded as mandatory.
The Government charges that Do
heny gave Albert B. Pall, former Secre
tary of the Interior, a bribe of SIOO,OOO
to influence his award of the Elks HUls
oil lands to Doheny interests and that
the Pearl Harbor contract was arranged
so that the man on trial would get the
valuable properties in California.
Answer Pomerene.
Atlee Pomerene, Government special
prosecutor, in his argument to the jury
yesterday, insisted that while Doheny
kept in the background during the
Pearl Harbor negotiations he had “his
hands on the reins. '*
Attacking this phase of the Govern
ment's contentions today, Hogan as
serted that Doheny knew nothing of
the details of the contract.
Hogan said the bids were studied by
experts, who decided an alternate pro
posal which gave the Doheny Arm
preference was the best for the Gov
ernment.
The defense attorney reviewed the
“preferential right” clause and recom
mendations of experts that it be lim
ited to the last half of the naval re
serve.
Preferential right meant, he told the
Jury, that Doheny interests would get
first chance to lease the land only if
it were willing to accept conditions as
laid down by the Government.
Subordinates Wired Fall.
“If Pall had been, paid, would he have
permitted a subordinate to cut down
the amount of the lease?” he asked.
Pall, he said, was *2,000 miles away”
when naval officers and Pali's subordi
nates decided to accept the alternate
proposals. He added they wired Fall
recommending that he authorize them
to execute the lease.
“There was his chance to change the
contract if he wanted to,” he said.
Hogan said the Navy’s decision late
in 1922 to increase the oil storage
facilities at Pearl Harbor had led It to
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SOUTH AMcnICAN FLIGHT
OF GRAF SET FOR MAY
Capt. Ernest Lehmann Says Giant
Air Craft Will Return Via
Lakehurst.
By the Associated Press.
FRIED RICHSHAFEN, Germany,
March 21.—Capt. Ernst Lehmann in
formed the Associated Press that take
off of the Graf Zeppelin on its first
South American flight would take place
between May 10 and May 15, with re
turn byway of Lakehurst, N. J.
The projected itinerary is from
Friedrlchshafen to Seville, Rio Janeiro,
Pernambuco, the West Indian Islands,
Havana, Lakehurst, Seville and Frled
richshafen.
SPRING MAY BE HERE, BUT WEATHER
FORECAST CALLS FOR RAIN, SLEET
Winter’s Official Demise Recorded at 3;30 A.M. as
Sun Moves Northward.
Winter died officially at 3:30 o’clock
this morning, but Weather Bureau pre
dictions for the next 24 hours suggest
that reports of the demise may be ex
aggerated.
This morning the sun was passing
over the Equator. This passage from
the Southern to the Northern Hemis
pheres marks the vernal equinox and
the beginning of Spring. It may be
that a solar traffic accident slowed up
the sun’s passage: anyway the Weather
Bureau is reasonably certain that It
will be cloudy and colder tonight and
TWO CENTS.
MOORE DECLARES
HUSTON DIRECTED
STOCK PURCHASES
ON CARBIDE MONEY
Tennessee River Improve
ment Association Head’s
“Confidential Man” Tells of
Use of Checks.
HOOVER IS SILENT'
ON RESIGNATION RUMOR
Senators and Representatives, Fac
ing Re-election Fights wair, Con
cerned With Outcome of Muscle
Shoals Activity of 0. 0. F.
Leader.
/
By the Associated Press.
Going further into the $36,100
which Claudius H. Huston, chair
man of the Republican national
committee, collected from the
Union Carbide Co., the Senate
lobby committee today heard W.
E. Moore, Huston’s personal rep
resentative, testify that he bought
and sold stocks with the money
at Huston’s direction.
I Huston had previously testified
he did not know that part of the
$36,100 had been used as margin
for stock purchases until he heard
Charles A. Krickl, member of the
brokerage firm of Blyth & Bon
ner, give the information to the
committee.
The money collected from the Carbide
company was given to Huston for the
Tennessee River Improvement Associa
tion, which has Interested itself in
Muscle Shoals legislation.
The Senate lobby committee, which
began to delve Into the affairs of the
improvement association in connection
with its Muscle Shoals activities, sum
moned Huston, a former president of
the association, after his name had been
frequently mentioned in testimony by
other witnesses. It decided to go further
' into the Union Carbide funds after it
had learned that the money had been
deposited to Huston's personal account
with Blyth & Bonner.
Carbide President Testifies.
Fred H. Haggerson, president of the
Union Carbide Co., followed Moore on
the stand. He told the committee that
he contributed $36,100 to Huston for
the Tennessee River Improvement Asso
ciation to advocate the bid of the Amer
ican Cyanamid Co. for Muscle Shoals.
Questioned about testimony by Huston
yesterday that he had sold the Carbide
company maps and charts prepared by
I the Tennessee association,for the $36,100,
r Haggerson said :
r “I wouldn’t say that we bought them.
> I believe it was a consideration for the
i money we gave.”
He added that he did not know any
■ thing about the maps, but he had been
' told by a member of his organisation
l that they were valuable.
Haggerson said his company was ln
r terested in the Cyanamid bid for Muscle
• Shoals, because his company had a con
t tract to obtain 50,000 horsepower if the
■ bid were accepted.
Huston has testified that the $36,100
> from the Union Carbide Co. was paid by
■ Haggerson.
He said the Carbide company had
spent "in excess of $100,000” in its at
tempt to obtain Muscle Shoals and for
: options and fertilizer.
“How much have you paid the Ten
’ nessee River Improvement Association? n
* Caraway asked.
“Thirty-six thousand one hundred
dollars,” the witness said.
He said Huston had telephoned him
in March last year about Muscle Shoals
and that he went to Huston's office.
Huston, he asserted, told him
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RED BRIGANDS PERIL
10 U. S. MISSIONARIES
Communist Bandits Besiege City of
Kanchow—Chinese Troops
Mutiny.
Special Dispatch to The Btar.
PEIPING, China, March 21.—Com
munist brigands are besieging the city
of Kanchow, in Southern langsi Prov
ince. the United States legation here
has been informed, and anxiety Is felt
for the 10 American Catholic mission
aries stationed there, including Bishop
O’Shea.
Another complication has resulted in
the sending of a British warship from
Hongkong to Bias Bay, notorious pirate
lair on the coast of Southern Kwang
tung Province. Chinese troops, who
were sent there for the purpose of re
straining piracy, have revolted and de
serted their posts.
(Copyricht. 1930.1
tPtorrow, with probable rain and sleet
at enow.
Records show that the first three
weeks in March have been colder on the
whole than were days late in February
when warm, fair weather led Washing
tonians to conclude that Winter had
bid an early adieu. A low of 32 degrees
was forecast for tonight.
Other sections had evidence of Win
ter’s continued stay. Jonquils and vio
lets are out in profusion in the South,
but in New York and along the upper
Eastern seaboard it was colder. River
Falls, Minn., reported a temperature of
11 below aero yesterday and Firestone,
in the same State, had in Inch of snow.
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