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BARRERE, DEFIANT.
PARRIES QUESTIONS
* Prisoner, on Way to Capital,
Denies He Even Knew
t* ' *
Mary Baker.
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his Identity, but later admit
ted It. .
He said he had become acquainted
With his woman companion In Phliadel-
Kla and had taken a bus with her as
■ as Syracuse, where they were Joined
by another couple with whom the girl
Was friendly.
The four drove from Syracuse to
Montreal, afteV Barrere had changed
his mind about returning to New York.
. The second couple returned to Syra
• cuse, but Barrere and the woman ob
tained a room.
Declares He Planned Deal,
ijl Barrere declared he had *‘a $3,000
deal on” involving the sale of some
novelties at border points, and that he
lc«t that amount of money when the
plan collapsed.
Details of this "deal” were not cleared
up. Inspector Foucault said Barrere
had no money on him when arrested
and the woman said she had been
paying the pair’s expenses.
As the grilling of the prisoner con
tinued today it became apparent that
Oloth and Kelly were more and more
puzzled over the man's attitude.
Increasing doubt as to Barrerc’s con
nection with the murder was written
on the furrowed brows of his questioners
and was hinted in their comments dur
ing brief rest periods.
Gloth said Barrere stolidly contended
he knew nothing whatever about Mary
Baker or her death, except what he
had read. He denied ever having had
a gun of Herbert Campbell in his pos
session and when Qloth, seeking to
trick the prisoner, implied that Barrere’s
fingerprints had been found on the
weapon, which is not the fact, Barrere
Waved his hand and laughed outright.
“If my fingerprints are on that gun,
ha a miracle, Barrere said, “because I
never handled it in my life.”
As the officers wearied- of their in
quisition, they virtually came to a de
cision to remain overnight In New York,
In which event they would resume the
journey to Washington early tomorrow
morning. The train will reach New
York at 9:45 o’clock tonight. Gloth
pointed out it would be impossible to
sleep on the train with the prisoner
In their compartment. In New York
Barrere could be confined in a police
eell until morning.
[THREE TO TESTIFY
i TO BARRERE ALIBI
IN BAKER MURDER
/Continued From First Page.)
police may have against Barrere,” Mr.
Smith said, "but I am absolutely cer
tain he was not the man seen beating
Miss Baker In her car near the Ellipse
at 6:05 o’clock that night. On April
11 he was seated here In my apart
ment talking to my wife and me from
• :30 until 6 o’clock.
Mr. Smith, who is employed in the
publicity department of the National
Republic, said he had known Barrere
for about a month prior to the murder.
Barrere was employed as a chauffeur by
the Smiths.
When Barrere left the Smith apart
ment shortly after 6 o’clock It was to
drive Miss Helner to a downtown de
partment store which closes regularly
a few minutes after 6 p.m. They found
the store closed, whereupon Barrere
drove Miss Helner to her home. "It was
at least 6:30 o'clock when we reached
my house,” Miss Helner said.
, Miss Helner, a middle-aged, gray
haired woman, said she has employed
Barrere In various capacities during the
past four years. “He impressed me as
being a boy who never grew up.” she
said, “and I certainly do not believe he
killed this girl or knew anything
about It.”
Saw Barrere Next Day.
After letting her out of the car at
her home. Miss Helner said, Barrere
told her he was going over to Virginia
to sign a painting contract with some
man.
She said she was waiting for a bus
to Virginia near the spot where Miss
Baker’s car was found the next after
noon when Barrere drove past in his
automobile. “He stopped his car,” Miss
Hatoar said, “picked up Deputy Sheriff
Archie Richards and drove him to Alex
andria. Later, when police were look
ing for Barrere, Mr. Richards was
greatly surprised when I told him that
It was Barrere who had taken him to
Alexandria.”
Miss Helner said she did not know
what Barrere was doing in the vicinity
of the culvert where Miss Baker’s body
was found at that time, but that he
appeared to be perfectly normal.
Mrs. Smith first met Barrere about
May 15. She was waiting for a street
car in Anacostia, she said, when Bar
rere drove up in his car with a woman.
They offered her a ride to the city,
■he said, and she accepted.
Asked If She Knew Miss Baker.
"Barrere and the woman drove me
to an antique shop in Georgetown,”
■he said, “and later he returned for me
and drove to a place near Lyon Park,
where I bought a Persian rug. Several
times during the ensuing month Mr.
Smith and I engaged Barrere to drive
for us, and Z always found him most
courteous."
When Barrere learned that Mr. Smith
had formerly been employed at the
Capitol, Mrs. Smith said, he asked her
If she knew a “Miss Baker, who worked
for the Government.” Mrs Smith said
she told him she did not know the
woman.
That was the only time, she declared,
that a Miss Baker was discussed by
them. She denied emphatically that
Barrere had ever asked her to keep her
mouth shut regarding Miss Baker or
that he had ever made ar.y similar re
mark to her.
TWO CONVICTS SLAIN
TRYING TO ESCAPE
i
Two Police Injured in Dash From
Australian Jail Quarry—Battle
Menaces Children.
Sr the Associated Press.
ADELAIDE, South Australia, July 18.
—Two convicts were killed, one wound
ed and two police injured In a dash of
prisoners to escape from a Jail quarry
today at Yatala.
Four prisoners, suddenly producing
shotguns with sawed-off barrels, forced
the guard to stand on the running
board of a motor car, ran the machine
clear of the jail precincts and pushed
the guard off as they sped along.
Ch*Md by motor patrols from Ade
laide the fugitives took refuge in a school
yard when a tire on the*r car burst.
A hot battle followed, during which
bullets pinged on the walls of a room
to which children were at itudy.
Emboldened .by this attempt, two
other convicts seized a motor car and
fled, but arete Shot down by pursuers.
Before the othets were rounded up one
convict was hit by a bullet and two
i police suffered hurts. One convict
, escaped from the school, the others
’ captured.
Bringing Barrere
Here From Canada
j Is Costly to Gloth
Has to Pay for Release of
, Prisoner in Addition
to Own Expenses.
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON
FROM MONTREAL, July 18 —William
C. Gloth. Arlington County prosecutor,
has learned to his sorrow that the cost
of returning an American prisoner
across the Canadian border is not a
minor item. In addition to paying out
. of his own pocket his railroad and
, hotel expenses on the trip to Montreal
to get Barrere, he had to dig in his
pocket again to day for $49. demanded by
Canadian police before they would re
, lease the prisoner.
Gloth found he must pay S3O
“extradition fee,” $9 for expenses in
curred by the Canadian authorities in
arresting and feeding Barrere and his
woman companion, and $lO for having
an officer accompany him to the border.
The prosecutor whistled when he
i learned of the additional fees, all of
. which must come out of his personal
, bank roll because Arlington County has
, no fund for the purpose. Since Bar
rere was wanted also by the District
[ and Federal authorities, It was expected
, some effort would be made to reim
burse Gloth, at least partially.
"Gosh," he said today as he counted
his few remaining greenbacks, “I may
have to borrow some money to get
home.”
The prosecutor declared the Baker
case already has cost him more than
SI,OOO of his private funds.
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TREATY OPPONENTS
DECLARE INTENTION
“TO DIE FIGHTING”
(Continued From First >
think I-should express my appreciation
to those of my associates by whose
favor I am permitted to be here today
outside of the shadow of garrote which
is soon to be put upon us. One might
think, from reading the Record this
morning, that the Republican leader
deems my absence from the Senate to
be illegitimate. I deemed it to be im
perative. I may add that I was absent
from Washington just 62 hours, 55 of
which I spent in traveling.”
Says Few Informed.
Senator Moses left Washington be
cause of a death in his family.
In his formal speech to the Senate,
Mr. Moses said:
“The pitiful thing about this treaty
is that so few people know anything
about it and that so many people care
nothing about it.
This treaty comes to us either too
early or too late. I incline to the be
lief that both of these criticisms may
lie against it.
If the merits of the instrument are
so obscure or so imperfect that they
cannot demonstrate themselves In the
short time between now and Autumn,
it is probable that the treaty contains
so many defects that it ought not to
be ratified at all. In other words, if
this treaty must decay instead of ripen
beneath the suns of Summer It cer
tainly contains germs- of destruction
which we should try to avoid.
Negotiations Began Early.
"As pointed out in the message of the
President urging prompt ratification of
the instrument the negotiations prece
dent to its drafting began a year ago.
The probability is that they really began
earlier than that. At any rate, we do
know that one of the first essays put
forth by our present ambassador in
London was with reference to the ne
gotiation of this instrument. We do
know that it is well-nigh & year since
the charming and seductive Prime
Minister of England visited us. and in
this very Chamber bade us to take
parity ‘without reserve, heaped up and
flowing over.’ We do know that It is
fully nine months since the work was
begun of preparing the agenda for the
London Conference. We do know that
the plenipotentiaries—aided by a vast
number of naval experts who were rarely
called upon to render their opinion and
by a corps of super-numeraries such as
always attend an International confer
ence—spent 14 weeks In preparing the
instrument which we are asked to ratify
out of hand.
“We know, further, that, except for a
few fragmentary and unimportant por
tions of the incunabula which were
heaped up as the plenipotentiaries
labored, we have been denied our con
stitutional right of access to the papers
which mark the steps by which the
treaty, was finally put upon paper.
“Under these circumstances, I continue
to maintain that we are asked to deal
with this treaty untimely. It should
reach us at a time after the negotiating
power has shown a willingness to share
the constitutional prerogative which has
been set up for treaty making. It should
reach us after a time when the mem
bers of the Senate have had full oppor
tunity to. explore, to discuss and to de
termine the propriety of the antecedent
and attendant circumstances which
surrounded the work of the conference.
It -should reach us after a time when
Senators, refreshed by a brief vacation,
could give alert and attentive study to
the document in all of its implications.
“Instead of all this, we are handed
the document with sparse and incon
clusive statements of its purpose and
are told somewhat superciliously by the
Laird of Stanmore that we must take
it or leave it in its nakedness.
Delegates “Pliable.”
“To thia doctrine, acting as one of
the agents of the Senate in its Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, I have al
ready dissented. I continue to dissent
on the floor. I have recorded my opin
ion of the Indecent haste with which
this Instrument is being forced upon us,
and I have not diluted that opinion.
“We could have had a treaty like thia
three years ago. The conference at
Geneva met under exactly the same
conditions which surrounded the assem
bling of the conference at London—save
this: The American delegates at Geneva
were less pliable than those at London.
| The conditions which the British dele
gates put forth at Oeneva as prerequisite
to the making of a treaty differed in no
essential feature—if, indeed, they differ
at all in actual form of words—from the
proposals put forward by the British
delegates at London. I should add here,
of course, that I can not speak with
textual authority on this point, because
we have been denied the papers which
would reveal to us in official terms ex
actly what the British proposed. But
. it is safe to say from all the collateral
evidence which we have been able to
glean that the British carried their
point—otherwise there would have been
no treaty.
“Nor do we know from any official
document what proposals were set
forth by our delegatee. From the re
sults we are free to assume that they
announced in advance that they would
' j accept whatever our British cousins
• chose to hand out to us. At any rate,
r that is what has been brought back
from London, namely, a sacrifice of
she principle of the 8-lnch-gun cruiser
' for our Navy, a principle which we
l maintained at Geneva, which was de
. nied to us at Geneva, and which con-
I stituted the point upon which the
Geneva Conference finally failed.
1 “We are told that the treaty before
us is the only treaty obtainable at Lon
■ don. Evidently it was also the only
l treaty obtainable at Geneva, but at
Geneva Calvin Coolldge refused to *c
> cept such a treaty.
i “Byway of further apology for the
instrument we are told that certain of
> the British dominions, notably those
l which he nearest to the Japanese em
. pire, refused their sanction to a treaty
f in terms other than that which we
j now have before us. Since when, Mr.
t President, has the United States been
s accustomed to limit Its treaty forms by
conditions set up by subsidiary portion*
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C-. FRIDAY. JULY 18, 19.10.
NEW TRIAL ASKED
FOR YORK SLAYERS
Juror Discussed Case With
Taxi Driver Before Con
viction, Attorney Charges.
i — —
Misconduct of one of the jurors who
; sat at the trial of John Borum, John
Logan and Milton Guy, all colored,
convicted last Monday of murder in the
, first degree in connection with the
, killing of Lamar Watson York, a pro
. hibitlon officer April 12 last in Brooks
Court, is charged in a motion for a new
, trial filed this afternoon by Attorney
Bertrand Emerson, jr., on behalf of
i Milton Guy.
Attached to the motion is an
i j affadvit of George J. Sanderson, a taxi
i cab driver, that he had Otto A.
Schoeps, a member of the jury, as a
passenger in his cab Saturday evening,
' July 12, two days before rendition of
the verdict, and that they discussed the
case on trial.
; The passenger, he swears, broached
the subject with an Inquiry of “what
do you think is going to be Jhe out
come of the case of the three colored
fellows held for the death of the pro
hibition agent?”
Says Opinion IVu Given.
When the driver had declared he did
not know, the juror Ls said to have
stated. ’lt ls going to be hard to
identify the slayer, three men being im
plicated. but I don’t know what they
will do.”
Sanderson declares h? was present in
court Monday, July 14. and observed
Shoeps in the Jury box and identified
him as the passenger in his cab. He
says he was accosted by the man he
claimed to recognize as the juror in the
northwest section of the city to take
him to an address on Owens street
northeast, in Trinidad, between 6 and 7
o’clock In the evening.
Dfoclalmet by Juror.
Assistant United States Attorney Wil
liam H. Collins,; who conducted the
prosecution, learned of the intention to
charge misconduct against the juror
and called to his office yesterday all the
members of the panel who convicted
the three colored men and asked each
one individually concerning any viola
tion of the court's instruction not to
talk to any one during the trial about
the case. Each juror assured him, he
says, that he did not violate the In
junction of the court.
Other reasons assigned for a new
trial by Emerson rce errors of the trial
justice In admitting and rejecting evi
dence offered and the refusal to grant
a motion to acquit Guy.
Counsel for Borum and Logan are
expected to file similar motions before
the court closes today.
VOLSTEAD TO'OPEN
DRIVE ON MALT SALE
Father of Dry Enforcement Actj
Says Vending of Home Brew
Material Illegal.
By the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL. July 18.—A concerted
drive on shops and stores that sell the
specific kind of malt used for the man
ufacture of “home brew” will be made
by prohibition forces in the Northwest
district, it was indicated today by
Andrew J. Volstead, legal adviser of
tha district and father of the prohibi
tion enforcement act.
' The corner grocery store which sells
this malt is likewise to come under
the scrutiny of dry forces.
“Malt sold in grocery stores—that
specific kind used for making beer—
ls no different than the malt sold in
regular malt stores.” said Mr. Volstead.
“It’s sale ls illegal, whether in the
neighborhood grocery or the downtown
malt shop.”
of another country, or even by condi
tion set up by any other country as
a whole? Evidently we must fix this
date as that of the period of the con
ference of London.
“It is sufficient answer to all this to
retort that it was not necessary for the
United States to have any treaty. We
were going along well enough after the
failure of the Geneva Conference. We
had authorized our new cruisers and
were proceeding to build them. We
were predicating our naval program
upon our naval needs as we envisaged
them atid not as they were laid down
for us by other powers. And it is sig
nificant to note, Mr. President, that
following the breakdown of the Ge
neva Conference there was no feverish
anxiety in Great Britain for further
naval disarmament until the American
Congress bv an overwhelming vote pro
vided for 15 new cruisers. Until then
the British government and the British
naval advisers were most Indifferent.
But after then the Indifferent British
became very different, and while it is
true that a Labor government succeeded
a Conservative government, I cannot
count that as the moving cause for the
British action in summoning the con
ference at London.
And moreover, Mr. President, there
was no crying need at all for the as
sembling of this conference this year.
Under the terms of the treaty of Wash
ington—which so far as we are con
cerned ls the supreme law of the land—
provision was definitely made for the
convening of a disarmament conference
in 1931. This ls a contract among the'
signatories of the treaty of Washington.
It has not been repudiated; it is still
in existence, and the chief declaration
of all delegates at the Oeneva confer
ence contained these slgnflcant words.
Says This Country Conceded.
“My deduction ls that each of the
powers signatory to this treaty pre
sented its own proposal for the limits
to be set upon naval armaments. My
further deduction is that two of these
signatories—Great Britain and Japan—
varied their proposals little or none
from the original form in which they
were presented at either London or
Geneva, and that it was the United
States which made all the material
concessions. As a consequence we now
find ourselves so limited in our freedom
of action in naval construction that we
can provide ourselves only with that
size of fleet made up of the type of
vessel which the British admiralty per
mit* us to have. To my mind, sir, this
is a piece of colossal effrontery on the
part of those who sat with us at the
London Conference table. It is diffi
cult to find a suitable parallel with
which to describe the situation which
confronts us.
“It is, however, as if you should say
to me, ’Take your own money and buy
yourself a dozen 13-inch collars.’ To
which I n lght retort that 13-lnah col
lars do not fit me, that I cannot wear
them and that I do not want to spend
any monev for them. But you, sir, insist
and I am compelled to buy the 13-inch
collars which I cannot wear and for
which I have no use.
“It is no sufficient .argument to point
out that the 6-inch-gun cruiser which
we are permitted to build has a useful
purpose. I admit that it has—for the
British Empire. That power with its
numerous naval bas«s. with its shorter
trade routes, wit! its hundreds of mer
chantmen which mity be armed over
( night, stands in a far different position
t from the United fitates. The total
r mileage 6f our trade routes, air. Is today
• astounding. The total tonnage of our
r ocean-borne trade is gigantic. And it
» must never be forgotten that the
. primary and constant purpose of the
i American Navy ha*, been protection of
r our trade rather than combatant
| strength of lta fleet.”
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160 YEARS LIKELY
IN NOWELLS CASE
Woman Found Guilty of Em
■ bezzlement and Larceny
on 16 Counts.
(From Yesterday’s 6 30 Star.)
Miss Elzina Howells, 48 years old,
faces a possible sentence of-460 years
in the penitentiary as the result of a
verdict rendered this afternoon by a
jury of seven women and five men in
Criminal Division 1, Justice Jesse C.
Adkins presiding.
The jury found the woman guilty on
all 16 counts of an indictment which
charged her in eight counts with em
bezzlement and In eight other count*
with the larceny after trust of $5,700
instructed to her for stock speculations
by Miss Irene Biggs and Miss Lilian
Girard, nurses, residing at the Toronto
Apartments, between December 10,1928,
and June 21, 1929. The maximum sen
tence on each count is 10 years’ im
prisonment.
Miss Howells took the witness 6tand
In her own defense earlier in the day.
She claimed that the money was bor
rowed from the nurses and that the
whole transaction was a civil on* and
relied on a note which she had given
the nurses, which purported to become
due last February, many months later
than the time ldd in the indictment.
Miss Howells declared that she had
borrowed $5OO from the two women on
the first day of their acquaintance. She
admitted on cross-examination by coun
sel for the Government that she had
been convicted of larceny at Auburn,
N. Y., and sentenced to serve 14 months’
imprisonment in 1916. She admitted
drawing checks for the “complimentary”
European trip on which the nurses said
she sent them and giving them a
letter of credit totaling $1,600 when she
had only $18.20 in her checking ac
count. She declared she had expecta
tions that the overdraft would be taken
care of, but was not explicit as to who
was to do this.
Assistant United States Attorneys
William A. Gallagher and Charles B.
Murray conducted the prosecution
while Attorney Paul J. Sedgwick of this
city and Donald W. Smith of the North
Carolina bar appeared for the de
fendant.
bus service'extension
TO BE SOUGHT BY KEECH
Visit to Anacostia Convince* Of
ficer* Resident* Are Not
Adequately Served.
Richmond B. Keech, people’s counsel,
intends to seek extension of the bus
service of the Washington Railway Se
Electric Co. in Anacostia, so the* it
would connect with the Capital Trac
tion Co’s street car line on Pennsyl
vania avenue and provide a shuttle
between Nichols and Pennsylvania ave
nues southeast. He made a personal
inspection of the location yesterday and
was satisfied that the residents of that
section are not adequately served with
transportation facilities.
Quorum Call of Senators Is Answered
By 62 Members at Pact Session Today
I I ——l
Sixty-two Senators answered the
quorum call at the opening of today’s
session of the Senate on the London
naval treaty.
Senators present were:
Republicans—Allen, Kansas; Bing
ham, Connecticut; Blaine. Wisconsin;
Borah. Idaho; Capper. Kansas; Coqzens,
M higan; Dale. Vermont; Deneen, Il
linois; Feas, Ohio; Olllett. Massachu
setts; Olenn, Illinois; Goldsborough,
Maryland; Gould. Maine; Greene. Ver
mont; Hale. Maine; Hastings. Delaware;
Hebert, Rhode Island; Johnson, Cali
fornia; Jones, Washington; Kean, New
Jersey; Keyes, New Hampshire: La Fol
lette, Wisconsin; McCulloch, Ohio; Mc-
Master. South Dakota; McNary, Oregon;
Metcalf, Rhode Island; Moses, New
Hampshire; Norris, Nebraska; Oddie,
Nevada; Patterson, Missouri; Phipps,
Colorado; Pine, Oklahoma; Reed, Penn
sylvania; Robinson, Indiana; Robsion,
Kentucky; Schall, Minnesota: Short
ridge, California: Smoot, Utah; Sulli
van, Wyoming; Thomas, Idaho; Town
send, Delaware; Vandenberr Michigan;
Walcott, Connecticut, and Watson, In
diana—44.
Democrats—Black, Alabama; Cara
way, Arkansas; Copeland, New York;
George, Georgia; Harris, Georgia; Har
rison, Mississippi; Kendrick, Wyoming;
McKellar. Tennessee* Overman, North
Members of the Senate District subcommittee yesterday began an Investi
gation into real estate mortgage transactions in the District. In the photo, right
to left from the end of the table: Senator Blaine, Senator Kean, O. H. Brink -
man, special counsel for the committee, and Senator Vandenberg. On the right
is Judson Jacobs, testifying for tlic B. F. Saul Co.
Below: Jacob S. Shapiro, head of the Joseph Shapiro company, who made
bond of SIO,OOO today on fraud charges similar to those alleged at the hearing
yesterday. —Star Staff I’hoto.
SHAPIRO ARRAIGNED
IN MORTGAGE CASE;
GIVES SIO,OOO BOND
(Continued From First Page.)
Frisble'a complaint was the first actual
ly made to this office.”
The property at 1718 Irving street
is one of a number of houses in that
block which figured in testimony given
before the Blaine subcommittee yes
terday.
Rover said that Frisbie told him he
had purchased the house two years
ago. He had assumed a SIO,OOO first
mortgage on the property and was led
to believe, the district attorney stated,
that the only other mortgage for which
he was obligated was a second trust
of $5,000.
“Frisbie paid off the $5,000 second
trust and learned later about the exist
ence of a hidden trust of approximately
$4,000,” Rover said.
The district attorney pointed out
that the purchaser had never received
a certificate of title at time of the
transaction with Shapiro.
Shapiro, he stated, had made efforts
to straighten out the matter of the
second lien, which had been held by
a man now dead, but had been un
able to get it all paid off.
Hearings Suspended.
In the midst of investigating the real
estate transactions of the Shapiro Co„
as the first phase of an inquiry into
mortgage operations in Washington, the
Blaine subcommittee yesterday suspend
ed its hearings pending the outcome of
the naval treaty situation in the Senate.
All witnesses under subpoena, how
ever, were ordered to hold themselves
in readiness to answer a call of the
committee at a moment’s notice. When
this may be appears dubious. Senator
Blaine explained the committee could
not meet today as the presence of toem
bers was required in the Senate.
“It is pcssibl we may not be able to
meet again this Summer and the hear
ings In that event would have to be
suspended until Fall.” he said. On the
other hand, he added, there was a
chanoe that another meeting could be
called within a day or so.
Wide Inquiry Possible.
It was clearly evident from the results
of the first day that the work of the
committee would extend into many
phases of the real estate situation and
mortgage business. Inquiry Into the
operations of the F. H. Smith Co., it is
understood, will follow closely on the
heels of the Shapiro affairs.
When the committee suspended late
yesterday, J. W. Jacobs, vice president
of the B. F. Saul Co., was on the stand.
He had been questioned at length
by members of the committee regarding
the firm's connections with operations
of the Shapiro Co. Jacobs had brought
documents bearing on cases in which
the committee was directly interested.
He had indicated his willingness to re
veal all the Information In his posses
sion by agreeing to waive immunity
from prosecution in the courts.
According to Oscar H. Brinkman, spe
cial attorney for the committee, wit
nesses remaining under subpoena in
clude John Saul, secretary of the B. F-
Saul Co.; Arthur J. Linn, controller of
the Federal American Bank, and L. E.
Breunlnger, president of the Real Estate
Mortgage & Guaranty Co.
Hidden Trusts Charged.
The transactions of the Shapiro Co ,
according to the testimony of witnesses
yesterday, involved the sale of houses
Incumbered by a “hidden trust,” the ex
istence of which the witnesses said was
unknown at the time of settlement. •
The B. F. Saul Co., in most of the
cases, had held first mortgages on the
properties. Testimony given by its vice
president Indicated to the committee
that the Saul Co. and its subsidiaries
had been the victims of deception in the
transactions.
The Shapiro Co. had been advanced
“hundreds of thousands of dollars” by
the Saul 00., Jacobs testified, over a
period of 10 years in the building of sub
divisions. The Saul Co., he said, had
taken a “blanket trust” on the prop
erties, which really became a second
lien and superseded the ordinary sec
ond trust deed which the purchasers
of the houses later signed. Unknown
to the Saul Co., Jacobs testified, the
Shapiro Co. had sold houses without
paying off this second builders’ lien, the
exsistence of which was revealed only
when the purchaser, months later, went
T- ■ " ~ *
Carolina; Robinson, Arkansas; Shep
pard, Texas; Stephens, Mississippi:
Swanson, Virginia; Thomas, Oklahoma;
Trammell, Florida; Walsh, Massachu
setts, and Walsh. Montana—l7.
Farmer-labor —Shipetead, Minnesota
—l.
Total present, 62.
Absent Senators;
Republicans—Baird. New Jersey;
Brookhart, Iowa; Cutting, New Mexico;
Frazier, North Dakota; Goff, West Vir
ginia; Grundy, Pennsylvania; Hatfield,
West Virginia: Howell, Nebraska; Nor
beck, South Dakota; Nye, North Da
kota; Stelwer, Oregon; Waterman,
Colorado—l 2.
Democrats—Ashurst. Arizona: Bark
ley, Kentucky; Blease, South Carolina;
Bratton. New Mexico; Brock, Tennessee;
Broussard, Louisiana; Connally, Texas;
Dill, Washington; Fletcher, Florida;
Glass, Virginia; Hawes, Missouri; Hay
den, Arizona; Heflin, Alabama; King.
Utah; Pittman, Nevada Ransdell.
Louisiana; Simmons. North Carolina;
Smith, South Carolina; steck, Iowa;
Tydings, Maryland; Wagner, New York;
Wheeler, Montana—22.
Total absent, 34.
There are seven of these Senators not
answering the roll who are understood
to be In the cityjmd available if needed
to maintain a qwfcum,
to the Saul Co. to have the first trust
renewed.
Mr. Jacobs, who Reted as trustee for
his company, said when the Saul Co.
learned of these “irregularities," It
severed Its business relations with the
Shapiro firm.
The company had found out that
sales had been made and that its Hens
had not been paid, he said.
“In other words, the Shapiro Co. was
imposing on you and others?” Senator
Vandenburg interrupted.
“That is right,” Jacobs replied, ex
plaining that since that time his firm
has had no financial dealings with the
Shapiro Co. except in clearing up its
existing loans.
Mr. Jacobs testified further that early
last Winter there had been conferences
l>etween creditors of the Shapiro firm,
but he did not press inquiries into
Shapiro's affairs because his firm's notes
were secured. Under close examination,
he said that he had never made in
quiries as to whether Shapiro had sold
houses on which Saul Co. held liens.
Creditors Are Called.
The first of the creditors’ conferences,
| he said, had been called by Julius Peyser,
president of the Security & Commercial
Savings Bank. The conferences de
veloped, he said, that the Shapiro firm
apparently was in financial difficulties.
‘That was generally known,” he ex
plained.
Attorney Brinkman at times chal
lenged testimony given by the mortgage
officer. When Jacobs said he had not
learned of the financial difficulties of
the Shapiro firm until the creditors’
meeting, the attorney produced two
letters, written a year before, threaten
ing foreclosure if Shapiro did not pay
back interest on certain mortgages.
Jacobs said he thought the Shapiro firm
was merely temporarily embarrassed at
the time.
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WATER SUPPLY CUT
SEEN IN MARYLAND
UNLESS RAIN FALLS
fContinued From First Page.)
four and five, placing the number of
persons supplied close to 50,000.
The boundaries of the commission's
district run along the Marlboro pike,
take in Berwyn and Seat Pleasant,
cross into Montgomery County, includ
ing Burnt Mills and Garrett Park,
swing around to Glen Echo and back
along the Potomac River to the Dis
trict line. The entire area within these
points is included.
Serious shortages of water have been
' experienced in other portions of Mont
gomery and Prince Georges Counties.
Notable among these is the Rockville
section, which recently had to com
mence pumping water from a well half
a mile outside the town limits. Fire
engines were used until suitable ma
chinery could be installed.
More Water Used Here.
The present warm spell, coupled with
the drought, also has caused a large in
crease in water consumption in the
District. Figures at the Water Depart
ment show that consumption this week
has been in excess of 90,000,000 gallons
a day, reaching a peak of 98,360,000 gal
lons for the 24-hour period ending at
8 o’clock this morning. Normal con
sumption is about 80,000,000 gallons a
day.
The increased consumption has neces
sitated the use several times of the
old Bryant street pumping station to
keep pressure up to normal in the high
service areas. Otherwise the Water De
partment has not felt the effect of the
abnormal consumption. The new water
supply system, it was pointed out. has
allayed for years to come any possibility
of a shortage.
Several so-called “bottlenecks” in the
distribution system, it was explained,
causes the reduced pressure in tfie high
service areas when consumption in
creases. These “bottlenecks” are to be
eliminated this Fall with the laying of
larger mains.
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BAND CONCERTS.
TONIOHT.
By the United States Army Band,
Curtis D. Alway, captain, Infantry,
commanding: William J. Stannard,
leader, conducting: Thomas F. Darcy,
second leader. East steps, Capitol, at
7:30. First half hour broadcast through
Stations WJSV and WMAL.
March, “Sword and Lance” Starke
Overture, “Festival” Latann
(Based on the song “How Can I
Bear to Leave Thee?”)
Xylophone solo, “Listen to the Mock
ing Bird” Arranged by Stobb
Performed by Charles D. Hershey.
Concert Waltz, “Hydropaten” Gungl
(The composer of this waltz was
born in Hungary in 1810. He be
came a bandmaster in the Austrian
army and later toured Europe with
his own band. His works are very
numerous, numbering over 300
dances and marches, for the most
part being distinguished by charm
ing melody and marked rhythm.)
Suite, “Scenes Pittoresque”.. .Massenet
(a) “Marche.”
(b) “Air de Ballet.’*
(O “Angelus.”
(d) “Fete Boheme.”
(Following three numbers conducted
by Thomas F. Darcy, second leader.)
“Virginia Rhapsody” Wood
"Mile. Modiste” Herbert
March. “National spirit” Hummel
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
By the Community Center Band, In
Meridian Park at 7:30 o’clock. James
Miller, director
March, “Thunderer” Sousa
Waltz, “Valse des Fleurs".Tschaikowsky
Medley, “Melodies” Romberg
Fox trot, “Should I?” Freed, Brown
“Fifth Nocturne” Leybach
March, “Royal Hussars” King
o\erture, “Light Cavalry” Suppe
Serenade. “Farewell, My Love”.. .Evans
“Master Trombone” Davis
Mexican serenade, “El Sereno”.. Holmes
One-step. "Keep on Smiling”,.. .Fisher
March. “Stein Song” Fens tad
“The Star Spangled Bannes,”
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WHALEN TESTIFIES
IN RED INQUIRY
Former Police. Commissioner
Answers Subpoena Issued
by House Group.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 18—Shortly after
a subpoena had been Issued for
him, former Police Commissioner Oro
ver A. Whalen appeared today as a wit
ness before the House committee In
vestigating Communist activities In the
United States.
He apologized to the committee for
his late arrival, saying he had been
misinformed as to when he was to ap
pear.
In less than 15 minutes of testimony
before the committee recessed for lunch
eon. Whalen said that when he was
police commissioner a survey of the
Communist situation here was begun
by. the police at the request of the
Labor Department In Washington.
More than 2,000 questionnaires were
sent to suspected Communists. 500 of
those receiving the questionnaires fall
ing to answer them.
Whalen then began a discussion of
the criminal records of strike leaders
who participated in Communist walk
outs in New York during the past four
years. He said that practically all of
the Communist strike leaders had crim
inal records. As illustrations, he said
that Peter Darck. Harry Raymond and
Irving Potash had been convicted of
misdemeanors and felonies.
Late at Session.
The former police commissioner, who
shortly before his resignation made
public documents purporting to show
that strikes and violence were instigated
here on direct orders of the Third In
ternationale at Moscow, was due before
the committee at 10 o’clock (E. D. T.).
When he had not arrived half an hour
later, Representative Hamilton Fish
announced that a subpoena would be
issued.
The Representative w T as informed that
Whalen was under the impression he
was supposed to appear at 2 o’clock in
stead of 10, but Fish said that the
subpoena would be issued anyway and
the former commissioner be brought in
immediately.
While awaiting Mr. Whalen, the com
mittee heard S. Stanwood Menken,
president of the National Security
League, who declared all Communists
who were not Americans should be
deported.
Representative Bachmann of West
Virginia pointed out that in view of the
lack of diplomatic relations with Soviet
Russia, the United States Government
could not deport them to that country.
Menken said he was not afraid Amer
ica would become communistic, because
of the form of the Government here,
the savings accounts, the homes and
"the common sense of the American
people.”
“Prison Makes Martyrs.*
Asked by Representative Eslick of
Tennessee what he would do with
American-born Communists, Menken
said he would make them men without
a country.
Chairman Fish of the committee
asked him if he would favor the plac
ing of all Communists on an island
where they could practice their theories
without interference. Menken replied
that he doubted if it would be feasible,
and said that to place them in prison
would make them martrys in the eyes
of their sympathizers.
Representative Nelson of Maine in
terrogated him as to the plan used in
England; where undesirables are given
a -limited time in which to leave the
country. Menken said he thought it a
sound policy, but that one of the best
ways in which to counteract the Soviet
influence was to reason with them and
to convert them to American ideals of
government.
156-YEAR-OLD TURK
IN U. S., SAYS FIRST
100 WERE EASIEST
(Continued From First Page.)
steamer Sinaia and talked of wars and
women and the third set of teeth that
he grew at the age of 105.
Teeth Not Very Good.
“They weren't very good teeth,” he
said in Turkish to his great-great
grandson, who repeated it in French to
his patron, Assim Redvan.
"Not very good teeth; more like baby
teeth, and they lasted only 15 years.”
Zaro Agha has been married 12 times
and had 36 children, all of whom are
now dead save one daughter, who was
born when he was 96. He has lost all
track of the number of his grandchil
dren, great-grandchildren, and great
great-grandchildren.
“My first wife I married when I was
20,” he said. “I always got along with
all my wives very nicely.
“Os the descendants through my later
wives that I married since I moved to
Constantinople 120 years ago I have
some record. I know that before the
World War I had 22 great-grandchil
dren living in Constantinople.
Married in Asia Minor.
“But I was married first in the land
of my birth, in Asia Minor. And of my
descendants there I know nothing.”
For 112 years, until he was 135, Agha
says he worked as a porter. His last
Job was in a piano factory, moving
pianos, and in between times he was
always going to war.
There was first a war against Na
poleon, in Syria and Egypt. He said he
fought in that, in the Turkish army.
Then there was the war with the
Greeks—“oh, more than 100 years ago,
I can’t remember dates”—and four wars
with Russia, in the last of which he
said he served as a l-olunteer at the age
of 103.
“I was in the artillery,” he explained,
“and carried cannons on my shoulders.”
Denies Divorce Report.
Agha indignantly denied a report that
he had divorced his eleventh wife to
marry the present Mme. Agha—“she’s
young, only 66”—who waits for him In
Istanbul.
"Me? I never divorced any of my
wives,” he grunted. “I got along with
them all, very nice, and they all died.
“Now women—l always am interested
in them. I like them brunette best and
plump.”
He sighed and went on:
“In my youth I had a very good time.
Yes, a very good time. How long did
my youth last? You want to know—oh,
until I was 103. I’m getting old since
then—see? And he held out one of his
claw-like hands, covered with skin that
was brown and dry and almost trans
parent. He pulled the skin up Into a
little fold on the back of his hand, and
the fold remained there until he
smoothed it out.
Never Tasted Alcohol.
Agha again today said he had never
tasted alcohol In his life, nor tobacco.
He Uves, he said, mostly on vegetables
and sweets.
His American manager said he had
signed contracts for Agha to appear be
fore two American scientific bodies, but
declined to reveal the names of the
societies or the fees.
He has refused, he said, an offer of
62 weeks at $2,500 a week from an
American syndicate which operates a
circus in Times Square and a boardwalk
side show in Atlantic City.
And Agha, whose eyes sparkled with
recognition of the mention of some of
Amerioai| other celebrities of the past,
had nev ■ heard of P. T. Barn urn.
FIVE D. C. GOLFERS
WIN AT BALTIMORE
Hunter, MacKenzie, T. S. and
H. G. Pitt and Porter Sur?
vive Second Round.
♦
BY WALTER R. McCALLI’MI
MARYLAND COUNTRY CLUB. jßal
timore, Md., July 18.—Five Washington
golfers won their matches in the first
round of the Maryland Country Club
Tournament today and are playing in
the second round this afternoon. In two
of the afternoon matches Washing
tonians are engaged against each other.
Roger Peacock of the Argyle Country
Club was 1 up on Alex M. Knapp of
the Baltimore Country Club, who won
the qualifying round, at the fifteenth
hole, but lost three holes in a row to
lose the match by 2 and 1. Knapp
was one under par for the 17 holes of
the match. Other first-flight results
follow:
J. Munro Huhter,- Indian Spring, de
feated Volney G. Burnett, Beaver Dam,
5 and 4; Albert R MacKenzie, Co
lumbia, defeated Donald McPhail, Mary
land, 3 and 2; Thomas S. Pitt, Argyle,
defeated Leroy Sasscer, Indian Bprlng.
2 and 1: Harry G. Pitt, Manor, defeated
Thomas W. Sasscer, Maryland, 2 and 1;
Austin M. Porter, Columbia, defeated
Lindsay S. Stott, Beaver Dam, 1 up;
E. B. English. Maryland, defeated E. H.
Whitaker, Maryland, 5 and 4; Billy
Howell, Richmond, defeated H. A. Parr,
Elkridge. 7 and 6.
Second flight—H. John Heimens,
Lancaster, Pa., defeated John Holzberg,
Columbia, 2 and 1: Nelson Halsey, Bal
timore, defeated J. A. Pox, Argyle, 5
and 4.
Third flight—W. G Oliver (Mary
land > defeated Ray Farrell (Manor
2 and 1.
Fourth flight—John MacKenzie (Bal
timore) defeated Mike divert (Argyle),
2 and 1; C. Hoffman (Baltimore) de
feated William W. M. Kochenderfer
(Columbia), J. up on tha nineteenth
hole.
Fifth flight—Ralph Fowler (Wash
ington) defeated Jack Bowie (Colum
bia), 4 and 2; J. T. Sherrier (Colum
bia) defeated A. W. Miller (Balti
more), 3 and 1; W. E. Richardson
(Manor) defeated R. W. Kolb (Balti
more), 2 and 1; Henry Marcey (Balti
more) defeated Jack Biggs, Jr. (Argyle),
5 and 4; Hugh MacKenzie (Columbia)
defeated Dr. E. Bacon (Baltimore),
3 and 2.
First extra flight—F. G. Butler
(Argyle), defeated C. H. Gemer ’
(Manor), 5 and 3; H. M. Reed (Balti
more) defeated A. E. Landvoigt
(Manor) by default; W. A. Taylor
(Baltimore) defeated W. Carey (Ken
wood), 4 and 3; E. Baurnschmidt
(Baltimore) defeated Dwight Burnham
(Manor), 1 up; J. Hodges (Columbia)
defeated E. E. Krewson (Columbia),
2 and 1; A. S. Gardiner, Jr. (Columbia)
defeated C. R. Allen (Congressional),
4 and 2; B. R. English (Indian Bpring)
defeated W. B. Legg (Chevy Chase) by
default; Harry D. Casman (Washing
ton) defeated Robert C. Gormley (Col
umbia), 1 up, in lk* holes.
TRAIN IS WRECKED
BY RAIL REMOVAL
Engineer and Fireman Escape, but
Two Others Are Badly
Hurt,
V
By the Associated Press.
TRINIDAD, Colo., July 18.—Removal
of a rail from the Colorado Southern
track* caused the derailment of the
■ locomotive and three cars of a passen
ger train near hare last night and
serious injuries to two men riding
between the locomotive and baggage
car.
The Injured are Carl Bloch, Clinton,
Okla., internal injuries, described by
physicians as probably fatal, and Pete
Lee, 19, Paducah, Tex., right foot
amputated and left leg fractured. Dan
' Horan, engineer, and Jim McCauley,
fireman, escaped serious injury, al
though the engine rolled 150 feet be
yond the removed, rail and then over
turned.
1
GERMAN REICHSTAG
DISSOLVED TO SAVE
NEW TAX PROGRAM
[ (Continued From First Page.)
1 burg and himself were wholly drowned
; out.
The Communists shouted, “Down
1 with Hindenburg and Bruenlngt” and,
' “Down with Fascism!”
As the shouting died down the Com
munists sang the “International.” Pres
-1 ldent Loebe and other party members
1 left the chamber. Finally the Com
munists also walked out.
The members hardly were out of the
' building before the first gun of the
political campaign made necessary by
dissolution of the Reichstag was fired
by Count Westarp, who announced
formation of a new "German Conserva
tive” party, bidding for the allegiance
of Nationalists bolting from .he party
led by Dr. Hugenberg. Indications of
a split In the Nationalist party had
been evident in the early stages of the
discussions.
Immunity From Arrewt. /
Not all of the members, or even all
of the Communists, waited for the
demonstration* A number of the Com
munists and some National Socialists
left the house immediately after hand
ing in their ballots, knowing that their t
parliamentary immunity from arrest
would cease the moment the Reichstag
was dissolved.
Immediately after the dissolution, the
police threw a cordon around the bulld
ingto prevent any demonstrations.
The new Reichstag, under the law,
must assemble 30 days after election.
For that reason there will not be an
other Reichstag session until October
14, next.
Bachelor Taxes Bring Crisis.
It was the bachelor and bachelor
maid taxes, among other items in the
Dietrich financial program, that pre
cipitated the crisis.
Drastic readjustment of budget Items
became necessary to meet a deficit In *
the 1930 budget of more than $115,000,-
000 and half that much In the 1931
schedules. Warned by 8. Parker Gil
bert, when he retired as agent general
of reparations, to cease juggling with
the formation of the new Reichstag In
1928, Herman Mueller, Socialist leader,
became chancellor and set up a coali
tion ministry which Included members
of the Centrist party, the Bavarian
People’s party and the Democratic
party.
The Mueller cabinet continued In
power until March 27, 1930, when It
resigned after difficulties with the
Reichstag, particularly* over the finan
cial program, and the Bruening cabinet
took power. The Bruening ministry
has had hard sledding, the financial,
program again being the chief problem/
Representative Douglass 111.
BOSTON, July 18 (/P). —Representa-
tive John J. Douglass, Democratic Rep
resentative of the tenth Massachusetts
district, was removed from hfc home, in
East Boston, to the City Hospital this
morning in what, physicians there said,
was pulmonary hemorrhage. His con- '
tfittoa is serious,