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WEATHER.
IV. *. Weather Bureau Foreran \
Fair and continued warm tont and
tomorrow, except possibly a t *r
shower tomorrow afternoon.
Temperatures—Highest, 87, at 3 p.m.
yesterday; lowest, 73. at 3 a.m. today.
Full report on page 9.
Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 &15
vr_ 4QO Knt*red an saoond class matter
OljTOi/. post office. Washington, D. C.
BARRERE DENIES HE KNEW MARY BAKER
SUSPECT BEING GRILLED
RELENTLESSLY ON WAY
HERE FROM MONTREAL
Tells Questioners He Never Saw
Murder Gun and Had no Idea
He Was Being Sought in Case.
FAILS TO RECALL MOVEMENTS
ON NIGHT GIRL WAS KILLED
•JDefiant, Prisoner Maintains Iron Com
posure as Officers Fire Barrage of
Queries at Him.
BY REX COLLIER.
Stall Correspondent of The Star.
EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON FROM MONTREAL. July 18
Professing amazement that any one should accuse him of the brutal
murder of Mary Baker, Hermann Henry Barrere, long-sought suspect
In the case, remained defiant today as officers returned him by train
to face his accusers in Washington and Arlington County, Va.
Attired in a pair of travel-worn linen knickers, golf hose and a
eream-tinted shirt, the former World war veteran, Washington fire
man and itinerant painter was being grilled relentlessly this morn
ing as the train sped southward toward New York and the Capital.
The questioning, begun last night at police headquarters in
Montreal and resumed this morning in the compartment in which
he is under custody of Commonwealth’s Attorney William C. Gloth,
Detective Lieut. Edward J. Kelly and Federal Agent Samuel W.
Hardy, appeared to be as wearing on his inquisitors as on the prisoner.
Denies He Ever Knew Baker Girl.
Barrere not only denied any connection with the slaying, but
steadfastly maintained he never knew the Baker girl. Never saw the
gun used to slay her, knew but few details of the murder case from
meager newspaper accounts he had read and had no idea he was the
objective of an international police dragnet.
“It’s all a big mystery to me why you should think I had any
thing to do with the Baker case,’’ Barrere declared again and again.
“I don’t understand it at all.”
“How do you expect us to believe you didn’t even know we were
looking for you?” Gloth demanded angrily, “Why, we even had your
description sent out over the radio, and thousands of circulars were
sent in every direction.”
“I'm telling you the truth, Mr. Gloth,” the prisoner replied with
warmth. “I’m not lying to you about anything. I’m a square-shooter
with everybody.”
“You lied to those Montreal officers when you said I had arrested
you and questioned you ip connection with the Baker case in
Arlington County,” the prosecutor shot back.
“Well, there must have been a misunderstanding about that, I
probably was not entirely responsible for all my statements when I
was arrested,” Barrere explained.
According to the Canadian authorities, Barrere was under the
influence of liquor when he was taken into custody, and on being
quizzed about the Baker case he said he had been jailed once as a
suspect and released. Apparently Barrere referred to his arrest
several days after the death of Mary Baker on theft charges pre
ferred by Herbert M. Campbell, whose house in Oakcrest Barrere
had contracted to paint. At the time Barrere was not regarded as
a suspect in the murder case.
Manner Becomes Belligerent.
Efforts of Gloth and Kelly to gain from the prisoner an hour
by-hour account of his movements on the evening of the killing met
with little co-operation on the part of Barrere. Quick-witted and
smooth of*tongue, Barrere replied readily and emphatically to most
of the questions hurled at him, but his manner became belligerent
when the questioning carried implications of serious import. He
declared he could not remember clearly what he did or where he
was on the night of the tragedy, but added he could And out by
talking with some of his friends.
The man maintained an iron composure in the face of the never
ending barrage of queries fired at him, although it seemed at times
he was hard put to restrain himself from losing his temper or his
nerve. A scrubby growth of beard did not hide the smiles of irony
or of incredulity that alternately played across his features.
Willingly Surrenders to Officers.
Having waived extradition in court proceedings yesterday, Bar
rere willingly surrendered himself to the trio of officers who had come
for him and seemed in a light-hearted mood as he climbed aboard
the train in Montreal at 10 o’clock this morning. Entraining with
him was the Philadelphia woman with whom he had arrived in
Montreal last Sunday night. The woman was not under arrest, but
was to be questioned before leaving the train sit an upstate city in
New York. Barrere may be held overnight in New York.
Gloth, Kelly and Hardy were closeted with Barrere for hours
last night in the office of Inspector of Detectives Victor Foucault
of the Montreal police department. While the Montreal officer sat
by the trip of visiting officers plied the prisoner with hundreds of
questions until early in the morning.
When Gloth emerged from the room t
•everal times he was mopping persplra- |
tlon from his forehead. j,
Gloth Complains of Evasion.
“He hasn’t told us a thing we wanted
to know,” the prosecutor* declared with
a shake of his head. “He’s evading too
many of our questions. His memory is
bad at times. He will need a lot of
questioning. ” Oloth said that about ail
Barrere could remember about his
movements on April 11. the day of the
murder, was that he signed a contract
with Mr. Campbell to paint the latter's
house, the agreement being negotiated
about 2 or 3 o'clock In the afternoon,
and that afterward he “drank some
coffee with a woman friend."
He gave the name of a woman who,
he declared, probably could aid in de
termining where he was on the evening
of the tragedy. This woman's name al
ready was known to police.
When Gloth sought to draw out the
prisoner as to his knowledge of cir
cumstances attending the crime, Bar
rere impatiently declared he knew noth
ing about it beyond what he had read
In the papers.
“And I haven’t read a newspaper for
a whole month.” The prisoner re
marked with a laugh. “That’s one of
the reasons I didn’t know you were after
■ae.”
Assisting the trio from Washington In
grilling the suspect last night were A.
E. Farland, another Department of
Justice agent who had been in Montreal
for several days on a tip that Barrere
was headed for Canada, and Capt.
Joseph Gorman and Detective Sergeant
Hugh McCoy.
Sergt. McCoy accompanied the party
on the train as ’far as Bouses Point, at
the international boundary, and there
formally turned Barrere over to the
Washington officers.
Sergt. McCoy had the prisoner
securelv handcuffed, but the shackles
were removed when the train got under
way.
Barrere Voices Indignation.
During last night's inquisition Bar
!rere expressed acute Indignation that
his name should be on a State warrant
charging him with murder and on a
- warrant branding him as a
; Federal fugitive.
“Wait until I show you the gun you
used to kill Mary Baker,” Oloth burst
out.
“You don’t mean , me,” Barrere re
plied quickly. “When they told me
yesterday I was wanted for murder I
asked them ‘My God. you’re kidding me,
aren’t you?' I came here yesterday
on another matter altogether—about
two bottles of liquor and a SSO bill.”
Barrere walked into police headquar
ters at Montreal to complain that a
man to whom he had given a SSO bill
for an order of two pints of whisky
had failed to come back. Barrere had
been drinking, according to his own
admission and he created a disturbance
outside the office of the detective chief.
Inspector Foucault took him in hand
and, learning he was from Washington,
recalled the Barrere "Lookout" circu
lars and soon convinced himself he had
Barrere before him. Barrere at first
(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.)
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CAPONE QUOTED AS HAVING PAID
"PLENTY” OF CHICAGO REPORTERS
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Lingle Was His Friend, and Police Know Who Killed
Him, Gangster Adds in Interview.
B y the Associated Press.
8T LOUIS, July IS.— The St. Louis
Star in a copyrighted interview obtain*
ed by Harry T. Brundidge, staff writer,
with Scarface A1 Capone at Miami
Beach, Fla., today quotes the Chicago
gang leader as saying he has paid
"plenty” of Chicago newspapermen.
Brundidge has been called to appear
befoie a Chicago grand jury to testify
concerning his previous stories of al
leged "racketeering” among Chicago
newspaper reporters.
Capone is quoted In the interview
, as having said that Jake Lingle, slain
, Chicago newspaper reporter, was his
, f lend "up to the very day he died”
and that "the Chicago police Mow who
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graphed in Montreal yesterday, and
Capt. Gorman (below) of the Montreal
detective force, who arrested him.
THREE 10 TESTIFY
TO BARRERE ALIBI
Baker Suspect With Them
From 5 to 6:30 P.M., April
11 % Ex-Employers Say.
As Hermann H. Berrere was being
brought to Washington today to answer
a murder charge against him in con
nection with the slaying of Mary Baker,
three of his former employers were
prepared to testify under oath to an
alibi which may absolve him of any
connection with the crime.
These witnesses, who say they are
willing to “go the limit” in Barrere’s
defense, are Mr. and Mrs. Harrison W.
Smith of 224 East Capitol street and
Miss Edith W. Heiner, 2119 o street.
Barrere, they say, was in the pres
ence of one or more of them continu
ously from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on April
11, the date of Miss Baker’s murder.
“I don't know what evidence the
(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.)
"How many newspaper men have you
had on your pay roll?” Brundidge
wrote he asked Capone, and the reply,
he said, was “plenty.” The gang leader
used the same word, "plenty,” accord
ing to the published interview, in re
plying to a question as to whether he
had received any telephone calls from
Chicago newspaper men recently. •
Capone also is quoted as warning
Brundidge to “lay off Chicago and the
money-hungry reporters,” because "you
can't buck it’ 'and that “it is too big a
proposition.”
The interviewer further quotes Ca
pone as saying he gave Jake Lingle a
diamond belt buckle worth $250 be
, cause "he was my friend.”
WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1930-THIRTY PAGES. ***
WATER SUPPLY CUT
SEEN IN MARYLAND
UNLESS RAIN FALLS
Half Rations Planned in Ten
Days for Area Near
Washington.
DISTRICT ALREADY AIDS
SUBURBAN COMMISSION
Million Gallons Daily Capacity of
Pipe Feeding Burnt Mills
Reservoir.
Unless there Is rain within the next
10 days 50,000 residents of nearby
Maryland, served by the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission, will be
compelled to curtail trfelr water con
sumption by half.
This was made known today with
the announcement by Robert B. Morse,
chief engineer of/the commission, that
but 10 days’ supply of water remains
in the reservoir at Burnt Mills, and
when this Is exhausted the metropoli
tan areas of Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties must rely on the
water that can be pumped from the
Northwest Branch and the 1,000,000
gallons a day that can be furnished the
commission by the District of Columbia.
District Now Aiding.
For the past two days the District
has been pumping all the water the
present facilities will allow Into Mary
land mains for storage In the Burnt
Mills Reservoir. There is a single con
nection between the Maryland and Dis
trict water systems. It is located on
Rhode Island avenue at the boundary
between the two jurisdictions and per
mits the flow of approximately 1,000,-
000 gallons a day.
This water Is pumped at night when
the consumption In Washington is at
its lowest ebb so as not to decrease
the water pressure in the city. It is
sold to the suburban commission at a
rate of $66 per 1,000,006 gallons.
According to D. W. Holton, superin
tendent of the District Water Depart
ment, the law allows the District to
Sply 3.000,000 gallons dally to Mary
d if It can be spared. At the pres
ent time such an amount could be
spared, he said, but because of the lack
of sufficient connections it is impossible
to transfer it to the Maryland mains.
A second connection between the two
systems has been authorized at Chevy
Chase, but has never been constructed,
and could not be laid in time to relieve
the present emergency.
Reservoir Recently Finished.
The Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission serves practically all sec
tions of Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties adjacent to Washington. Its
water is taken from the Northwestern
Branch and until February was pumped
directly from the stream.
Last February a reservoir at Burnt
Mills, in Montgomery County, was com
pleted and put in operation. At that
time its use was urgent because of the
four or five thousand more persons sup
plied by the commission than last year.
Without it, even with help from the
District’s mains, the consumption of
from five to six million gallons daily of
nearby Maryland would have to be cut
in half.
It is this curtailment that is faced.
The level in the reservoir is feet
below the crest of the dam, Mr. Morse
declared today, leaving only approxi
mately 16,000,000 gallons. It is esti
mated that the 16.000,000 gallons, sup
plemented by water pumped directly
from the stream and from the District’s
mains, will last 10 days unless rains
afford relief.
May Regulate Use.
Several showers or a day's steady
rain would relieve the situation to a
considerable extent, Mr. Morse said.
It was intimated that if there is no
I rain within the next few days, the com
mission probably will meet and pass
regulations for sprinkling lawns and
similar uses of water. Meanwhile, Mr.
Morse declared, residents of the section
could help materially by exercising care
in conserving the stater supply.
The unpleasant taste of the water
supplied by the commission recently,
which brought a flood of complaints,
has been removed through treatment
with copper sulphate. Mr. Morse said,
explaining that it was due to the pres
ence in the water of algae, which
multiply rapidly in warm weather, but
have no harmful effect. The copper
sulphate does not affect the taste of
the water.
Large Number Served. ,
There are more than 11,000 connec
’ tions to the sanitary commission's
mains in Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties. The number of per
sons served by each connection varies,
but it is estimated by officials of the
commission that the average is between
(Continued on Page 3, Column 6.)
FLORIAN LAMPERT
DIES OF INJURIES
I
Member of Congress From Wiscon
> , ... _ >
sin Was Hurt m Crash
I Ten Days Ago.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July It. —Florian Lam
pert, Representative In Congress from
l the sixth Wisconsin district, died to
. day from Injuries sustained in an auto
' mobile accident 10 days ago as he was
1 motoring to his home from Washing
• ton. He was 67 years old.
Mr. Lampert died in a Chicago
j Heights hospital. He had suffered
numerous fractures and internal ln
[ juries when his automobile skidded into
• a ditch after colliding with a truck,
i He was accompanied by Charles F.
i Nolan, a student at Georgetown Uni
versity in Washington, who was not
. hurt.
l Mr. lampert, a Republican, had
. served In the House oL Representatives
> Since 1916, W
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A SUGGESTION TO THE SENATORIAL WHIP DURING THE TREATY DEBATE.
GERMAN REICHSTAG
ENDED BY BRIBING
Dissolution Nullifies Revoca
i
tion of Chancellor’s Revised
Tax Program.
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By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 18.—The Reichstag
today was dissolved by presidential de
cree to safeguard enforcement of the
German tax measures made law by
proclamation under article 48 of the
constitution.
Knowing that Chancellor Bruenlng
had President Hlndenburg's authoriza
tion to send them home If they revolted
his revised program, which earlier in
the week he had pushed through under
article 48 of the constitution, the Reich
stag members nevertheless today passed
by 236 to 221, a motion revoking the
cabinet’s measures.
Dissolution Nullifies Action.
Chancellor Bruening thereupon de
clared the Reichstag dissolved, nully- j
fying their action amid the howls of
the opposition.
New Reichstag elections, according to
the constitution, must be held not later
than September 14, this year.
Until the election, the Bruening cabi
net will continue in office, ruling under
the emergency powers conferred by I
article 48. The article under which the
situation was handled contains this pro
vision.
“The President, in the event that
public security and order in the Ger
man nation should be considerably dis
turbed or endangered, may take all nec
essary measures to re-establish such
public security and order and, If re
quired, to Intervene with the aid of
armed power. To this end he may
provisionally arrogate, in whole or in
part, the fundamental laws established
in articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124
and 125.”
The late President Friedrich Ebert
used the article once against Bolshe
vism, in 1923, in the midst of Ger
many’s blackest financial depression,
when Gen. Hans Von Seeckt, chief of
the army, was appointed virtual dic
tator. Once the crisis had passed nor
mal conditions were re-established.
Reichstar in Uproar.
The Reichstag was in an uproar when
Chancellor Bruening read the order of
dissolution. The din was so great that
he could not be heard. His utterance
of the signatures of President Hinden
lContinued on Page 2. Column 8.)
ALEXANDRIA CALMED
BY BRITISH WARSHIPS
Trouble Fails to Materialize After
Prayers in Mosques, and
Worshippers Disperse.
By the Associated Press.
ALEXANDRIA, July 18.—The British
battleships Princess Elleabrth and I
Ramillies arrived at Alexandria today
and their appearance was felt to have
had a calming effect upon the populace.
A possible recrudescence of trouble
after today’s midday prayers did not
materialise, large crowds of worshippers
dispersing quietly from the mosques.
FREIGHTER IS STRANDED
AFTER STRIKING ICEBERG
Liner Standing by Craft Believed
to Have Ripped Bottom Out
in Crash.
By the Associated Press.
1 MONTREAL, July 18.—The liner
Athenla is standing by the freighter
Dalyran, 11 miles west northwest of
Belle Isle, where the freighter has
struck an Iceberg, a wireless message
from Capt. James Black of the Athenla
brought word today.
The message said the freighter was
stranded on the iceberg and that it
was believed the bottom had been rip
ped out of her. The Athenia, inward
bound for Montreal, had been standing
by for 24 hours in a dense fog.
' Radio Programs on Page B-3
156-Year-Old Turk
In U. S., Says First
100 Were Easiest
Zaro Agha to Let Scien
tific Circles Study Him.
Wedded 12 Times.
By the AmiocUted Press.
PROVIDENCE, R. 1., July 18.—Zaro
Agha, who says he is 156 years old and
that the first 100 years were the easiest,
landed here from Turkey today tp get’
himself a set of false teetlyand, for a
consideration, to let Anterican scien
tists have a look at him.
The date of hia birth, as given on his
passport, was February 16, 1774, and
this was based, said his great-great
grandson, Ahmet Mussa, who accompa
nied him, on an actual record In the
possession of the Turkish government.
Yellow and wrinkled, with a hawk
like nose, bristling gray mustache and
lively, curious eyes, weirdly alive in
their deep-sunken sockets, Zaro Agha
sat inthe sun on the deck of the
(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.)
NORM RUN
AS INDEPENDENT
Nebraska Senator to Decide
on Abandoning G. 0. P.
Ticket Later Today.
Senator George W. Norris of Ne
braska today withheld final decision on
*Jie proposal that he run as an inde
pendent for the Senate because of the
candidacy of another George W. Nor
ris, a grocer at Broken Bow, Nebr.,
who has entered the Republican primary
contest for the senatorial nomination.
Senator Norris has been informed
that a hearing is to be held at 2 o’clock
this afternoon before Chief Justlc Goss
of the State Supreme Court at Lincoln,
Nebr., where another effort will be
made to untangle the situation growing
out of the candidacy of his namesake.
Must Act Shortly.
If Senator Norris is to run as an
Independent ne must withdraw his
name from the Republican senatorial
primary before midnight tonight. The
primary is to be held August 12. Un
der the State law no candidate in a
primary, if he has been defeated for
nomination, may enter the senatorial
race as an independent in the Fail
election.
Some of Senator Norris’ friends have
strongly urged him to drop out of the
Republican primary and make the race
for re-election as an independent.
The secretary of state of Nebraska,
according to reports received here, has
held that the George W. Norrk of
Broken Bow is entitled to take part
in the senatorial primary.
Jobless Funds Increased.
LONDON, July 18 (/P).—Appropria
tions of about $310,000 for the Empire
Marketing Fund, and $2,500,000 for fur
ther unemployment relief schemes, are
Included in the 1930 supplimentary esti
mates, which were brought to a total of
$5,100,000 by another issue of $2,800,000
today.
GEORGIA’S CONGRESS QUOTA
MAY BE REDUCED TO ELEVEN
Population of 2,887,280 Shown by Census About
370,000 Under Estimation.
By the Associated Pres*.
The possibility that Georgia might
lose one of her delegation of 12 Repre
sentatives developed today as unofficial
calculations were made on the reappor
tionment of the House of Representa
tives on the basis of the 1930 census
enumeration.
Georgia'* population, as compiled
from announcement* of supervisors, is
3,887,280. 7 .
The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press news
service.
Yesterday’s Circulation, 109,282
Gd 1 ) Means Associated Prese.
TREATY OPPONENTS
“TO DIE FIGHTING”
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Led by Johnson, Coherence
Votes for Refusal to
Ljmft Debate.
r " G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The die-hards opposing the London
naval treaty, under the leadership of
Senator Hiram Johnson of California,
.determined at a conference this morn
ing “to die flghtfhg.”
The opponents of the treaty in the
Senate flatly declined to agree to any
time for limiting debate on the treaty
or reaching a vote, it was said after the
conference.
The supporters of the treaty imme
diately prepared to go ahead with
sessions of the Senate tonight and
tomorrow and possibly tomorrow night
in order to bring the debate to an end
and to get action. Senator Watson of
Indiana, the Republican leader, said
that if it is impossible to bring to an
end the debate in a reasonable time by
holding day and night sessions the sup
porters of the treaty then probably
would bring in a petition to invoke the
cloture rule. The petition has already
been signed by 38 Senators, which is
far more than enough to propose that
the cloture rule be invoked.
Senator Watson took issue with
statements made by the opponents of
the treaty that they were not filibuster
ing. He added that after a night ses
sion or two has been held "it will be
obvious to the whole country that a
filibuster is on to prevent action on the
naval treaty.”
Night Sessions May Speed Action.
In some quarters today the predic
tion was made that by holding night
sessions the Senate will really dispose
of the treaty more quickly than if an
agreement were made to limit debate
and to vote the middle of next week.
It is true that a number of reservations
and others will be offered which must
be acted upon. There is a limit, how
ever, to the length of time which the
opponents of the treaty, a mere hand
ful, will be able to talk.
Senator George H. Moses of New
Hampshire, one of the leaders in the
fight against the treaty, returned to
Washington today and delivered an ad
dress at the opening of the session to
day, attacking the measure.
At the outset of his remarks, the New
Hampshire Senator twitted the sup
porters of the treaty with their evident
desire to wind up the Senate debate.
He said:
“Before beginning the formal remarks
which I wish to make to the Senate I
(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.)
DEATH STRIKES DOWN
MAN BEATING STEPSON
Michigan Man, Swinging Ax at
Head of Youth Cornered in
Yard, Expires.
By the Associated Press.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 18.—
Walter Garbarczyk, 38, dropped dead
today as he swung an ax at the head
of his stepson, John Jarosik. whom he
had cornered in the rear yard of a
neighbor.
Police said Garbarczyk attacked the
boy in a drunken fury. He had struck
several blows during a chase which
started in their home.
When the apportionment calculations
were made for the Census Committee
of the House on the basis of the esti
mated population as of January 1, this
year, Georgia was credited with 3.258.-
000, and it was Indicated on that basis
she would retain her present delegation
of 12 members.
As Georgia’s actual population is
about 370,000 less than was estimated,
it now seems likely that in the reap
portlooment she will Iqm one member.
TWO CENTS.
SHAFIRO ARRAIGNED
IN MORTGAGE CASE;
GIVES (10,000 BOND
False Pretenses in Sale of
House Alleged by Fed
eral Employe.
OPERATOR IS EXCUSED
FROM SENATE HEARING
Refuses to Waive Immunity From
Prosecution to Testify for
Blaine's Investigation.
Charged with making false pretenses
in the sale of a house to a Govern
ment employe, Jacob Shapiro, president
of the Joseph Shapiro Co., Inc., into
whose real estate operations the Sen
ate District subcommittee has started
investigations, surrendered voluntarily
to the United States attorney today
and was released on SIO,OOO bond.
Shapiro presented himself earlier in
the day to Mr. Rover when the United
States attorney, acting on the complaint
of Walter S. Frisbic of 1718,Hrving
s reet, had a warrant sworn o&t before
Commissioner Needham C. Turnage.
Refuses to Waive Immunity.
The real estate operator, when called
as a witness before Senator Blaine’s
subcommittee yesterday, had refused to
I sign a wgiver of immunity from prose
cution fn court. He declined on the
advice of counsel, he told the chairman.
Senator Blaine excused him, being un
willing to let him testify under the cir
cumstances.
"There may be another department of
the Government which will intervene in
this matter,” he said, "and it may be
defeated in its purpose if we permitted
you to testify without waiver of im
munity.”
District Attorney Rover said today
that the transaction which Mr. Frisbie
had with Shapiro, about two years ago,
was practically identical with that al
leged in testimony by various complain
ants before the Senate subcommittee
regarding the discovery of a ‘ hidden
mortgage” on property purchased from
Shapiro, without a certificate of title,
in Frisbie’s case, the "hidden trust
amounted to approximately S4,WO, Mr.
[ Rover, said.
Expects More Complaints.
The district attorney stated that
Frisbie's was the only complaint of
! this nature his office had received in-
I volving the Shapiro firm or any other
: real estate firm in tile city.
"But I anticipate a flood of similar
complaints tomorrow.” he added.
For this reason, Mr. Rover explained,
he deemed it advisable to ask for bond
in the amount of SIO,OOO.
Commissioner Turnage set Shapiro's
hearing for August 5. The real estate
operator appeared at the Commission
er's office in the company of his at
torney, Alvin L. Newmyer, when it was
known that the warrant had been is
sued. It was sworn out by R. F. Cam
alier. an assistant United States at
torney, at the direction of Rover.
Shapiro at once furnished bond through
Milton S. Kronheim, professional bonds
man.
The warrant charges that Shapiro
falsely represented to Frisbie, purchaser
of the house at 1718 Irving street, that
the property was clear of all encum
brances except SIO,OOO. He concealed,
it was charged, the existence of a sec
ond lien of approximately $4,000.
Rover charges that Shapiro had been
making payments on this second lien,
and, consequently, the amount of the
false pretense as charged in the war
rant, involved only about SSOO.
Frisbie Not Senate Witness.
The District Attorney revealed that
Frisbie, who is employed in the, De
partment of Agriculture, had made the
complaint several days before the Sen
ate District subcommittee met yester
day. The complainant was not one of
the witnesses before the committee,
however.
"We have had rumors of the eaist
ence of such cases.” Rover said, "but
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PRESIDENT AUTHORIZES
LEAVE FOR VETERANS
Order Issued Making Medical
Treatment Possible Without
Penalizing Rating.
President Hoover issued an executive
order today making it possible for dis
abled veterans in the Government
service to have special leave of absence
for medical treatment beyond the
annual or sick leave permitted by law.
The President’s order reads: “With
respect to medical treatment of dis
abled veterans who are employed in the
executive civil service of the United
States, it is hereby ordered that, upon
the presentation of an official statement
from duly constituted medical authority
that medical treatment is required, such
annual or sick leave as may be per
mitted by law and such leave without
pay as may be necessary shall be
granted by the proper supervisory officer
to a disabled veteran in order that the
veteran may receive such treatment, all
without penalties in his efficiency
rating. *
"The granting of such leave is con
tingent upon the veteran’s giving prior
notice of definite days and hours of
absence required for medical treatment
in order that arrangements may be
made for carrying on the work during
his absence.
"(Signed) HERBERT HOOVER.”
COLLAPSES AT OPERA
Former Claire Dux, Singer, Report
ed Suffering Acute Indigestion.
CHICAGO. July 18 UP).— Mrs. Charles
H. Swift, the former Claire Dux of the
opera stage, collapsed last night, while
attending a performance of "Faust” at
the Ravinia Opera.
She was taken to a hospital, where
she was reported to be in great pain.
Physicians were unable to determine the
seriousness of her illness early today,
bui Mr. Swift said she frequently suf
fered from similar illness. It was diag
nosed u acute indigestion, . .