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ROOSEVELT FOES WIN TWO-THIRDS RULE
CAMPAIGN MANAGER REVERSES
STAND ON CONVENTION CONTROL;
WALSH GIVEN EDGE OVER SHOUSE
Position Haiied
as Complete
Surrender.
6-BALL.OT PLAN
IS LAID ASIDE
Chairmanship Fight
to Be Showdown
of Strength.
CHICAGO STADIUM. June
28 i/P). — Senator Huey Long's
Roosevelt-backed Louisiana del
egation was voted admission to
the Democratic National Con
vention today.
The vote, which was on the
minority report to seat the San
ders delegation and oust the
Huey Long delegation, was as
follows: No, 514'2; Yes, 6383
This means the seating of the
Long delegation.
! CHICAGO, June 28 VP).—The
rules of the last Democratic
convention requiring a two
thirds majority for nomination
o fa presidential candidate were
adopted by the Rules Commit
tee today after the compromise
was cast aside.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. June 28—Roosevelt |
leaders called off all proposals for
any change in the two-thirds
nominating rule today t>s th«* re
port from the Rules Committee
impended.
A new meeting of the Rules
Committee was ordered by Chair
man Kremer after James A. Far
ley, spokesman for Gov. Rcose
ve’t of New York, made a sur
prise appearance before the com
mittee this morning and announc
ed he favored retention of the
two-thirds rule throughout the
convention.
The majority of the commit
tee, which last night voted for a
special rule permitting abrogation
of the two-thirds precedent by
a majority vote after six ballots,
withdrew from the committee and
went into conference with Farley.
Calls Special Meeting.
Later Kremer. who is supporting the
special rule calling for abandonment of
the two-thirds requirement if six bal
lots fail to nominate, returned to the
committee room where the minority
members were assembled and announced
that a special meeting of the commit
tee would be held on the convention
floor later today.
“This new meeting will be held.” ex
plained Kremer, “with a view to getting
a report acceptable to the minority.”
Leaders of the minority, headed by
Daniel F. Cohalan of New York hailed
the move as a “complete surrender."
The anti-Rooseveltians had agreed
earlier to take to the convention floor
a report calling for adoption of a reso
lution frowning upon use of the rule at
future conventions.
Carolina Holds Caucus.
Kremer had announced a few min
utes before, however, that the majority
members would nevertheless bring in
their icport, drawn up last night, pro
viding for the submission of the ques
tion of changing the rules if the con
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YANKEES LEADING
NATS, 4-0, IN FOURTH
Sewell's Home Run Drives Combs
Across After Pass in Third
Inning.
BY JOHN B. KI.I.LER.
NEW YORK, June 28 —The New
York Yankees were leading the Na
tionals here todav in the first of a two
game sens in the fourth inning.
The score was 4 to 0.
FIRST INNING.
WASHINGTON—Lazzeri threw out
Judge. Myer singled to right Manush
hit into a double play. Gehrig to l,ary
to Gehrig. No runs.
NEW YORK—Combs walked Combs
went to second on a wild pitch. Sewell
also walked. Ruth flied to West Gehrig
flied to Manush. Chapman popped to
Cronin. No runs.
SECOND INNING.
WASHINGTON — Cronir flied to
Combs Reynolds doubled to center.
Lazzeri threw out West. Reynolds going
to third. Blacgc fouled to Dickey. No
tuns.
NEvV YORK—Dickey filed deep to
Reynolds. Lazzeri popped to Myer
Cronin threw out Lary. No runs.
THIR DINNING.
WASHINGTON—Lary threw out
Spencer. Thomas fanned. Judge
fouled to Gehrig. No runs.
NEW YORK—Allen tapped in front
of the plate and was thrown out by
Spencer. Combs walked. Sewell hit
a home run into the right-field bleach
ers close to the foul line, scoring
Combs ahead of him. Myer threw out
Ruth. Gehrig flied to Reynolds. Two
runs.
FOURTH INNING.
WASHINGTON—Myer fanned. Man
ush fouled to Sewell. Combs made a
good running catch of Cronin's hoist.
No runs.
NEW YORK—Chapman flied to
Manush. Dickey went out the same
way. Lazzeri walked Lazzeri stole
second. Lary walked. Allen also
. walked. Combs singled to right, scor
ing Lazzeri and Lary and sending Allen
to third. Sewell flied to Reynolds. Twc
runs. ... _
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Blunders Hurt
Chances of
Governor.
RITCHIE, BAKER
GAIN STRENGTH
Choice of Nominee
May Precede Plat
form Action.
BY G. GOUU> LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
CHICAGO, June 28.—Franklin
D. Roosevelt’s political fortunes
hung very much in the balance as
the Democratic National Conven
tion assembled for its second ses
sion at noon today.
With the Democratic president
tial nomination practically within
his grasp, stupidity or. the part of
his friends in Chicago and bad
judgment on the part of the New
York Governor himself have per
haps endangered the whole
Roosevelt movement.
The Roosevelt leaders capitu
lated entirely today on the rules
fight. James A. Farley, head of
the Roosevelt command, an
nounced to members of the Rules
Committee that the Roosevelt
forces would accept the rules of
the 1928 convention, including the
two-thirds rule and the proposal
that the platform be dealt with
first by the convention and then
the nominations be made.
Farley Confident.
Farley continued to assert vigorously,
however, that Gov. Roosevelt would be
nominated for President. In other
quarters, however, there was grave
doubt expressed as to whether, after
the vacillating leadership exhibited by
the Roosevelt people in connection with
the rules fight, that it would be pos
sible to hold the Roosevelt delegates
in line.
A victory today in the fight over the
permanent chairmanship of the conven
tion appeared essential if the Roosevelt
forces are to be rallied. A defeat there
would give Roosevelt a terrific setback.
Another fight which the Roosevelt
people face today is over the report of
the Credentials Committee, where the
Louisiana delegation, headed by Senator
Huey Long, faces a contest on the floor
oi the convention. Long has been tied
in with the Roosevelt faction. If he
should lose, and the convention should
not seat him and his delegation, it
would be another marker against the
New York Governor’s candidacy.
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Bruce Kremer, chairman of the Rules
Committee, announced at the opening
of the session of the convention today
that there wouia be a meeting of the
Rules Committee to consider m.iking a
revised report °t the convention hall
Itself immediately.
The decision to hold such a meeting
followed after Farley’s declaration that
the Roosevelt ramp was against going
any further with a fight on the old
rules. Kremer is a Roosevelt, lieu
tenant.
The report of the Committee on Cre
dentials is expected to cortie first in the
order of business today.
If the Rules Committee, which has
been controlled by the Roosevelt torces,
follows the Parley leadership the fight
over rules on the ficor of the convention
will be avoided by bunging in a report
favoring the old rules.
The Roosevelt leaders realize today
the mistake they made when they
launched last Thursday night the plan
for abandonment of the historic two
thirds rule for nominations In Demo
cratic National Conventions, and prob
ably Gov Roosevelt realizes his own
poor judgment in not at once making
; a frank statement declaring it his de
j sire to be nominated under the old ruie.
The Rules Committee voted to bring
in a report recommending the adoption
of the 1928 rules, two-thirds rule and
all the rest. This was done, it was
explained by Daniel C Roper, the Dis
trict of Columbia’s member of the com
mittee, in order to promote harmony.
No minority report will be submitted.
So ends the fight over the rules, al
though it leaves many scars.
The effect of the belated withdrawal
of Gov. Roosevelt and his friends from
the battle to bring about a majority
rule in the national convention has
been to weaken his prestige and to en
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FARM CLUBS INSIST
ON GOV. ROOSEVELT
Leader Says Third Candidate Will
Ee Chosen if New Yorker Is
Not Nominated.
By the Associated Press.
KENTON, Ohio, June 28.—C. E.
Wharton of Kenton, president of the
Federated Farm Clubs of America, said
here today that his organization would
\ project a third candidate into the presi
j dentlal field if the Democrats fail to
nominate Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I of New York.
"No candidate except Roosevelt will
be acceptable to the six million members
of the Federated Farm Club? of Amer
ica." he said, adding that all those op
posed to the New York Governor are
j "Wall Street candidates" and “if any
one of them is nominated a third candi
date will be a certainty.”
If Roosevelt is not nominated, Whar
ton said, he would issue a call to all
Progressives of the Nation, especially to
members of the farm clubs, to meet in
! convention at Cleveland July 9. In con
junction with the League for Inde
pendent Political Action, to name a
third candidate for the presidency, i*
In Showdown
Todav
J
SENATOR THOMAS J. WALSH.
JOl’ETT SHOUSE.
Today’s Program
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. June 28.—This is
the official program for the Dem
ocratic National Convention to
day:
Noon—Call to order.
Invocation by Right Rev. Mgr.
Ostrowski of Chicago.
Report of Committee on Cre
dentials, followed by roll call on |
seating contests.
Report of Committee on Per
manent Organization, followed by
a showdown on Shouse-Walsh
chairmanship fight. .
Address by permanent chair
man.
Report of Committee on Rules.
PLANK ON D. C. VOTE
District Committee Head Of
fers Own Declaration at
Convention.
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
CHICAGO. June 28—Representative
Mary T. Norton, a delegate at large
from New Jersey and chairman of the
House District Committee, today pre- J
sented to the subcommittee drafting the
Democratic platform a plank pledging
the party to support national repre- !
sentation for the residents of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee
promised Mrs. Norton that the subcom
mittee would give her recommendations
earnest consideration.
William J. Eagan; New Jersey's rep
resentative on the Resolutions Commit
tee, will speak for Mrs. Norton in the
executive session of the full Resolutions
Committee.
Makes Personal Appeal.
Mrs. Norton has been making a per
sona! appeal to her many friends on
the Resolutions Committee for support
of the District plank.
Mrs.' Norton says she is more con
vinced each day that it is not onlv
the duty of the Federal Government
to desist from withholding this voting
privilege and a voice in the law-making
body, but that it would be an impor
tant relief to Congress if a citizen of
the National Capital were made chair
man of the committee handling Dis
trict legislation, since the exclusive con
trol over the District is by the Consti
tution reserved to Congress.
As the first woman ever to be desig
nated as chairman of any committee
in Congress. Mrs. Norton accepted the
chairmanship in duty to women. But
she stated before the subcommittee she
is ready to step aside any time that
Congres makes it possible for a Dis
trict resident to succeed her.
Offers Own Plank.
Although she has been sick for
several weeks, Mrs. Norton hurried to
Chicago to present this plank and per
sonally to urge Its adoption by the
Resolutions Committee. Her plank is as
follows:
“The right of our citizens to vote
and have a direct Influence on public
officials who make and administer
their laws is inalienable under our Con
stitution.
“We believe that the citizens of the
District of Columbia should no longer
be discriminated against tn this re
gard.
“Therefore, we favor national repre
sentation for the residents of the Dis
trict of Columbia in Congress and
pledge our party to take steps toward
that end.”
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Insul! Reported in Paris.
PARIS, June 28 (VP).—Paris newspa
pers said today that Samuel Insull, Chi
cago public utilities magnate, had been
living quietly in Paris for a week. Pas
! senger lists of steamships recently ar
rived did not include his name.
Chinese Hurt in Plane Crash,
VALLEY STREAM, N. Y- June 28
(/Pi.—Lee Kar, 22, Chinese flying stud
ent of New York, was critically injured
i today when a plane in which he was
making an instruction solo flight nose
dived into the back yard of a Valley
Stream resident.
He suffered fractures of the skull
and both legs.
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Radio Programs on Page C*3
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4.
WET CHIEFS DRAFT
REPEAL VOTE PLAN
__*
Plank Will Be Submitted to
Resolutions Committee
Tonight.
BT WILL P. KENNEDY.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
STADIUM CHICAGO. June 28 —
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, in
collaboration with Senator Bulkley of
Ohio and Major E. Brooke Lee of
Maryland, and 17 other members of the
Committee on Resolutions made public
today the text of the platform plank
they will present to the Committee on
Resolutions tonight. The language of
this plank has been agreed upon after
several meetings by 20 members of the
Committee pn Resolutions who are in
sistent upon a flat declaration of re
peal.
"If this proposed plank should not be
adopted by the full Committee on Reso
lutions. it is proposed to carry the
fight to the floor of the convention,”
Maj. Lee stated for the entire group,
which he said "expects the support of
enough additional members of the
full Committee on Resolutions to make
a majority report.”
Text of Declaration.
The plank reads as follows.
“We favor the repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
"We demand that the Congress im
mediately propose such repeal to truly
representative conventions in the States
called to act solely on that proposal.
"We urge that the Democratic party
co-operate in the enactment of such
measures by the several States as will
actually Qfomote temperance, effective
ly prevent the return of the saloon and
bring the liquor traffic into the open
under complete supervision and control
by the States.
"We demand that the Federal Gov
ernment effectively exercise its power to
protect States against importation of
intoxicating liquors in violation of their
laws.
"Pending repeal, we favor immediate
modification of the Volstead act to
legalize the manufacture and sale of
beer and other beverages of such alco
holic content as is permissible under
the Constitution and to provide there
'from a proper and needed revenue.”
Backers of Plank.
The States and their representatives
on the Resolutions Committee who
joined in support of this plank are;
Colorado, Phillip Hornbein; Connecti
cut, William E Thomas; Florida, Rob
ert H Anderson; Illinois, Michael L.
Igoe; Iowa, E. H. Pollard; Maryland,
Maj. Lee; Massachusetts, Senator David
I. Walsh; Michigan, William A. Com
stock; Minnesota, Robert Butler; New
Hampshire, Robert C. Murchie; New Jer
sey. William J. Egan; New York, Mayor
James J. Walker. Ohio. Senator Bulk
ley; Oregon, Joseph K. Carson; Penn
sylvania, Guy K. Bard; Rhode Island,
Senator Peter G. Gerry; Wisconsin, J.
R. Pfiffner; Alaska, John W. Troy; Ha
waii, L. L. McCandless, and Philippine
Islands, Robert E. Manly.
HUNDREDS TERRIFIED
BY PLANE FOR HOUR
Storm-Tossed Ship Finally Plunges.
Killing One and Fatally
Injuring Pilot.
By the Associated Press.
| PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y„ June
28.—A storm-tossed airplane, which
| terrified hundreds of Long Island resi
j dents lor almost an hour, finally
crashed last night, killing Gilbert Bur
; nett, 23, an Army corporal, and fatally
injuring the pilot. Lieut. T. J. Creedon,
j 30, a Reserve officer. The latter died
I in the hospital today.
Returning to Mitchell Field from anti
: aircraft practice off Fort Tilden, the
plane was caught in a torrential thun
derstorm. Swinging about in great
circles close to house tops, it sent resi
dents of Port Washington. Great Neck
and other towns scurrying to cellars.
1 Graduation exercises at the high school
i here were Interrupted.
THE PUZZLED DONKEY.
HOUSE RETURNS ECONOMY
REPORT AMID UPROAR
Bvrns Cuts Off Debate on Reconsidera
tion of Conferees’ Action, Letting
Senate Have Papers.
Amid a scene of confusion, the House today complied with the !
Senate’s request that it return to the upper chamber the general
economy bill with all accompanying papers.
This paved the way for a vote in the Senate on a motion which '
Senator Jones, chairman of the Senate conferees, is expected to make
to reconsider the previous action of the Senate in sending the bill,
with the payless Government furlough plan, back to the House for
a further conference in an endeavor to iron out admitted inequities, j
CnanUor rtornor oorllor in tho Hov i — ■ ■ ■■ .— .. . ... i
had expressed the hope that the Senate
would speedily agree to the economy
bill so that it could become law before
the expiration of the fiscal year on
Thursday midnight.
Cochran Shouts Objection.
Shortly after the House convened at
noon Speaker Garner laid before it
for unanimous consent the resolution
which the Senate had adopted late yes
terday requesting the return of all the
papers connected with the economy
bill. Representative Cochran, Demo
crat, of Missouri, one of the House con
ferees, shouted his objection. Other
voices were heard on the Republican
side.
Sensing the defeat of the purpose
Chairman Byrns of the Appropriations
Committee immediately moved that the
request be complied with and called for
the previous question which cut off all
debate.
Protests from members were voiced,
but Byrns contended that the motion
was undebatable. It was agreed to by
a loud chorus of "ayes,” which drowned
out a fleebler but insistent cry of "nay."
With the motion disposed of, dis
appointed House members who were
anxious to have the conference report
brought up for another vote in the
House sprang to their feet to voice
their objections.
La Guardia Voices Protest.
Representative La Guardia. Repub
lican, of New York, excitedly declared
that "this conference report has been
rammed down our throats.” He pro
tested that the bill as revised in con
ference was "an unscientific measure"
and that the House should have another
opportunity to vote its views.
Joining in criticism of the action
taken, Cochran warned that Controller
General McCarl had Indicated he would
give rulings under the furlough and
other provisions of the bill which would
not carry out the wishes as expressed
by the House.
"It is the duty of this House to ad
just all the differences in the bill," he
added. "The House should be given
another chance to vote.”
He indignantly criticized Mr. Byrns
for making the motion to send the bill
back to the Senate without giving
members a chance to be heard against
the motion.
Mr. Byrns, however, did not appear
disturbed by these criticisms. He de
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SENT UP 65,000 FEET
Three Test Balloons Exceed Record
Set by Dr. Piccard.
STUTTGART, Germany, June 28 </P)
—Three test balloons carrying measur
ing instruments were sent up 65,00(1
feet today under the direction of Prot
Erich Regener. of the Technical Uni
versity. The altitude was greater than
that attained last year by Prof. August
Piccard in his ascension to the stratos
phere.
Each balloon was fi'-'2 feet in diameter
and the three were hitched together 13
feet apart with the instruments in a
gondola between them. They were
hauled down after three hours.
Sim RELIEF1
AGREED ON FOR IDLE
Conferees Permit President
|
to Administer Part of
Fund for Distress.
By the Associated Press.
Congressional conferees on the un
employment relief bill agreed today on I
a $300,000,000 emergency aid fund to !
be administered partially by the Presi- i
I dent on the basis of need.
The conferees determined upon the j
i $300,000,000 figure provided in the
Senate bill, but compromised on the
distribution of it to meet President
Hoover's wishes for an allocation on the
basis of distress rather than entirely on
population.
Adds to Borrowing.
Under the compromise plan, the fund
will be created by adding to the bor- |
rowing power of the Reconstruction I
, Finance Corporation.
Of this amount, $200,000,000 will be 1
allocated to the States on the basis of I
population and the other $100,000,000 ;
will be distributed by the President as
he sees it.
Chairman Ncrbeck of the Senate con
| ferees said no agreement was reached
j on the other two sections of the bill,
j which contain the more controversial
j issues.
He pointed out that President Hoover
! had criticized the $300,000,000 section
i because it was not elastic enough to be
j distributed on the basis of need.
‘‘The conferees felt there was dis
tress in all States and that there might
| be more in some than in others. The i
Senate has surrendered to the President '
! on this.”
Another Meeting Called.
Another meeting was called for late
j today in an attempt to iron out the re- j
j maining differences.
The spirit of give and take over un- j
employment relief and other pending i
i matters has pushed Congress a little
nearer possible, if not yet probable, ad
journment Saturday.
But disturbing the otherwise smooth
ly-running machinery was a charge by
j Senator Moses, New Hampshire Re- j
I publican, that Democrats were think- j
ing too much about conventions and '■
| too little about Congress.
His blast came shortly before House
and Senate conferees on the $2,300,000,- |
000 Garner-Wagner relief bill reached j
! an agreement on one phase of this j
troublesome legislation. I
CONGRESS MEMBERS’ COOL AIR
EQUALS 1,333 POUNDS ICE EACH
- —
$323,000 Machinery at Capitol Not Showing Heavy
Strain of Huge Daily Output, Experts Reveal.
Government experts today announced
the outcome of their inspection of the!
refrigerating system at the Capitol yes
terday to determine the strain on the
machinery used to keep members of
Congress cool on Summer days.
With the temperature reaching 91
degrees yesterday, the experts figured
that the machinery for both houses
manufactured enough cold air to equal
*08 .tool oX ice a day,___I
Figuring there are 600 Senators, Rep- :
resentatives and attaches on the floors
deriving benefit daily from the air-con- i
ditioned blasts turned out by the ma- \
chinery, which was installed two years
ago at a cost of $323,000. the experts
declared that each Senator. Represent
ative and attache consumes 1,333‘i
pounds of ice a day.
The machinery so far is not showing.
any heavy strain, according to the ex-1
perU. . ....
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[INDY SAYS CURTIS
Colonel Testifies Hoaxer’s
Story Practically Ended
Work With “Jafsie.”
By the Associated Press.
FLEMINGTON, N. J„ June 28.—Col.
Charles A. Lindberg testified today that
the activities of John Hughes Curtis
had impeded both his own and police
efforts to trace the kidnap-murderers
of the Lindberg baby.
‘‘1 don't believe Mr. Curtis ever had
contact with the kidnapers,” Col. Lind
bergh said under cross-examination,
"but I did believe it at the time.”
Speaking of the $50,000 ransom paid
for him in a Bronx cemetery to a mys
terious "John'' by Dr. John F. Condon.
Col. Lindbergh said the police were not
given an opportunity to surround the
spot where the money was paid.
Details Kept Secret.
He said the police knew the money
was to be paid but that only he, Dr.
Condon, and a few others knew the
exact time and place in advance.
Col. Lindbergh was followed to the
stand by Edmund Bruce of Elmira, N.
V.. a friend of Curtis.
“I was interested primarily in the
return of the child and * apprehension
Df the criminals afterward,” Col. Lind
bergh said in telling that the police
bad not been invited to the rendezvous
where the futile ransom was paid.
Under cross-examination this after
noon he said Curtis' story of having
seen some of the ransom bills paid by
Dr. Condon in the hands of the alleged
kidnapers he was dealing with caused
Lindbergh practically to sever com
munications with Dr. Condon.
He said Dr. Condon represented "the
most important thing we have now "
Attention Held Diverted.
Col. Lindbergh was not specific as to
just how Curtis may have impeded the
police investigation.
‘ Please state what clue was being run
Sown when Curtis appeared and was
then abandoned.” he was asked by De
fense Attorney Lloyd Fisher.
“I had no personal knowledge of
this." Lindbergh replied. “I don't
know of any particular investigation
discontinued, but I know the attention
af the authorities was diverted to a
certain extent.”
Lindbergh told of Rear Admiral Ouy
W. Burrage, U. S. N., retired, introduc
ing Curtis to him.
“I still have confidence in Admiral
Burrage." he said.
_Col. Lindbergh^ testified this rr.orn
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IRISH SENATE 0. K.’S
BILL ABOLISHING OATH
Amendment Nullifying Measure
Makes It Unsatisfactory to
Government.
By the Associated Press.
DUBLIN. Irish Free State, June 28 —
rhe Irish Senate today passed the De
Valera bill to abolish the oath to the
English crown, but the measure carried
in amendment which nullified the pur
3ose of the Free State government.
Minister Connolly of Telegraphs said
he government had no intention of ac
cepting the measure in its present form.
3ut would let it go to the Dail “with
;he results that might be expected."
The Dail Eireann or lower house of
he Free State Legislature originally
massed the bill abolishing the oath. It
vas the intention of President De Valera
hereby to proclaim the Free State's
complete independence. He had cam
paigned on the issue and insisted he
rad a mandate from the voters.
Opposition arose in the Senate and
imendments were oflered and approved
that would have sterilized the bill. There
ire now two alternatives. The Dali may
igaln pass the measure, and after 18
nonths it would become law despite any
iction by the Senate. The other alter
native would be to call new elections.
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7,978,386 Sacks of Coffee Scrapped.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 28 OP).—
Slightly more than 263,000 sacks of
coffee were destroyed by the government
last week, it was reported today. This
brings the total destroyed since this
policy of reducing the surplus produc
iWn was adopted to 3,818sack* _
“FOX” IS CAPTURED;
IDENTIFIED IN PEOT
BX MRS. M’LEAN
Norman T. Whitaker, Former
Washington Attorney, Held
in $100,000 Bail.
VICTIM SAYS HE POSED
AS LINDBERGH KIDNAPER
Evidence Lacking to Show New
York Suspect Received Share
of $104,000.
Arrested in New York by Justice De
partment agents on a Federal conspiracy
charge, Vorman T. Whitaker, former
Washing*,n patent attorney, chess ex
pert and ♦<-convict, today was identified
by Mrs. fcvalyn Walsh McLean as "No.
19," alias "The Fox," whom Gaston B.
Means introduced to her as one of th«
Lindbergh baby kidnapers.
wnitaaer, who was located in Brook
lyn after an intensive Nation-wide in
vestigation by special agents of the
United States Bureau of Investigation,
will be brought back to Washington to
face a trial expected to prove a color
ful sequel to the sensational prosecu
tion of Means, who was convicted of
defrauding Mrs. McLean of $104,000 in
a fake plan to return the Lindbergh
baby. Means is in the District Jail,
pending appeal.
Direct Evidence Lacking.
There is no evidence, it is understood,
that Whitaker received any of the
money turned over by Mrs. McLean to
Means for ransom purposes, nor that he
actually had any connection with the
abduction and murder of Charles
Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Whitaker, however, is alleged to be
the mysterious "gangster” with the
assumed name, "Neil Williams,” to
whom Means was authorized by Mrs.
McLean to turn over $100,000 in ex
change for the Lindbergh child. A note
containing such authorization was in
troduced at the trial of Means.
There was some intimation from
Means’ attorneys at his trial that "The
Pox” might also have been the "No.
11” agent to whom Means said he gave
the $100,000 at Alexandria. The sug
gestion was that perhaps "The Fox”
had “hi-jacked” the money from Means.
Mrs. McLean in New I«rk.
Mrs. McLean was in New York in
anticipation of the arrest last night of
Whitaker and promptly identified him
as the “desperate” kidnap representa
tive who conferred with her at Aiken,
N. C.. and El Paso. Tex., during the
weird negotiations with Means.
The capture of Whitaker was ar
ranged by Vincent Hughes and John
M. Keith of the Washington office of
the Bureau of Investigation and E. J.
Connolly, agent in charge of the New
York field office of the bureau. The
investigation which led to the arrest
was under supervision of J. Edgai Hoo
ver, director of the bureau.
Whitaker, who served two years In
Leavenworth Penitentiary for violation
of the Federal motor vehicle theft act.
and who has been sentenced to another
three-year term on a similar charge,
was taken in Brooklyn at 10 o'clock
last night with the co-operation of New
York police. He was held overnight at
the field office of the Bureau of Investi
gation and the arrest did not become
I known in New York until this morning.
| It is understood Whitaker refused to
I make a statement and had little com
! ment to offer when Mrs. McLean point
I ed him out today as the confederate of
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CALIFORNIA TO PARDON
ESCAPED PRISONER
Man, Who Lived 19 Years in New
York After Departure, to
Go Free.
By the Associated Tress.
NEW YORK. June 28 —Informed of
dispatches stating Gov. James Rolph of
California, will grant him a full par
don that will prevent his being re
turned to San Quentin Prison, from
which he escaped in 1913, William H.
Collins. 42. said in Tombs Prison to
day “this is a great break."
"I can go back now and save my
family from becoming public charges."
Collins said. “The police couldn't have
given me a better break. I've been
treated fine all along the line.”
Collins, who has been employed here
since his escape after serving 30 months
of a 25-year sentence for robbery, was
arrested last week and it was not until
then that his wife. Della, learned that
he had been in prison. They have two
children. May 13, and Mildred, 6.
Collins’ arrest resulted from an alter
cation in which he was arrested and
his finger prints taken. A check up of
the finger prints in Washington dis
closed he had escaped from San Quen
tin Prison.
u. s. boats’hunt yacht
No 3race Yet Found of Six on
Keewatin. Missing Four Days.
NEW YORK. June 28 (#).—Coast
Guard cutters and patrol boats cruising
off Long Island were ordered today to
search for the motor yacht Keewatin.
which has been missing since It. p«i out
from Amityville Friday attemoon with
three men and three women to witness
the start of the yacht races for Ber
muda.
Of the six aboard the missing craft
Coast Guard officials had only the
names of Gorton Baldwin, jr., and his
wife of Amityville.
GROUP VISITS T0KI0
League Commission to Draft Re
port Late in August
PEIPING. China, June 28 (JP).—The
League of Nations commission investi
gating affairs in the Far East left to
night for Tokio. They will return late
In August to draft a report.
There were no Chinese in the party
which left tonight, Wellington Koo
having remained here to prepare certain
document* awtaUai to 0* import.