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HUGE FENN|NG
INCOME

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from cases in which he acted as
guardian by appointment by District
courts. 3
The fleming case was opened at
today,s meeting by representative
Frank r. Reid of Illinois, who in
quired whether any action has been
taken on pending resolutions for in
vestigation of Commissioner Fen.
ming.
Expects Report
II have a firm belief that the
House Rules Committee will vote
out my resolution of inquiry within
week, Representative Blanton
said.
Representative Blanton promised
that Thursday, when he will adj
dress the House under a unanimous
consent agreement, he would pre-
sent evidence regarding Commits
sioner Jennings activities which
viii compel the House to institute
an Investigation.
When I get through Thursday
there will be no question about the
House having to act Representa-
tive Blantor1 said. Il am going to
show the House facts that would
ruin any political perty, no matter
how powerful. if it failed to act on
them. -
When Representative Blanton
stated that he had information
about the total earnings of Com
missioner Fenning, aside from his
official duties, Representative Will
liam c. Hammer of North Carolina,
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Farmer Helps Chapman

DAYTON, Ohio, April 5.-Gerald
Chapman, super bandit" and con-
victed slayer Of Policeman James
SkeIIy in New Britain, Conn, was
in the vicinity Of Dayton in a cot
taze on the farm Of John Farrell,
wealthy farmer who lives at stop
Is on the Troy Pike, between
October 3 and October 16. 1924, Far
rel told newspaper men today.
Chapman is under sentence to hang
for the murder of Policeman James
Skelly at New Britain, Conn, Oh
October IL. that year.
The man who occupied Farreis
cottage went under the name OF
Mark Smith, according to Farrell.
who believed his temporary tenant
10 be Chapman but was not sure
until he found memorandum books
which definitely established the
dates of the mans sojourn there.
Farrell is positive his tenant
was Chapman and asserts he is
willing and ready to go East and
identify the super-bandit as the
man who occupied the cottage.
He said he can pick out Chapman
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percentage Of doctors would probably
have broken any law in this particu-
lar as do percentage Of society
in many other particulars, the entire
profession was put under the ban.
Questioned By Means
How much better it would have
been if the SO per cent honest doctors
had been trusted and the / per gent
put undee supervision. The Anaeri-
can Medical Association has pro.
tested against the insinuations and
differences which must be drawn
from this determination to control
their use Of alcohol for medicine"
Edges plea for referendum led
Senator Means (R.) Of Colorado,
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Bruce and Edge Open
Var on Dry LaU

fication OF the dry law would bring
true temperance to America.
.'In my judgment, and / am quite
sure. in the Judgment of a large
majority of the pAople Of this coIin-
try, prohibition has not only failed
to prohibit, but has created an at
mosphere Of protest and challenge
and almost defiance which demands
Congressional consideration, = said
Edge.
"Of course, no one defends viola
ton Of the law, no matter how In
Just q law may be, but it avaiIs us
nothing to fall back on the defense
that the law should and must be
enforced.
"AT law should, but the. facts are
It is not enforced, and in my judg-
ment, never can be satisfactorily
enforced.
Points out Corruption.
ANY law that brings in its wake
such wide corruption in the pub
lie service, increased alcoholic in
sanity, and deaths, increased ar
rests for drunkenness, home bar
rooms and development among
young boys and young women of
the use Of the flask never heard IF
before prohibition, can not be sue
cessful1y defended.
Those who urge modification Of
the Vo1stead act are usually classi-
fled as encouraging violation Of the
law. What a trayesty. No more
ridiculous assertion could he made.
".The time has arrived for Con-
gress to cease trying to find excuses
to postpone modification or to re.
fuse to meet this situation.
1.-THE time has arrived for Con-
gress to help find legal way to
do So"
A "glaring Inconsistency in the
present law, Edge said, was in the
court ruling which permits manu-
facture of wines and fruit bever-
ages to the point of being 'intoxi-
eating in fact while malt and
cereal beverages are limited to less
than one-half OF one per cent alco-
holic content.
Believes Referendum Needed.
mo one can possibly or success
fully defend such glaring dis
elimination" Edge declared.
THE farmer with his grapes or
apples can legally go the limit. Tho
Industrial worker with his beer can
go to jail
Edge explained his various we.
bills~and referred to his proposal for
a National referendum on prohibi-
ton.
Frankly, 1 believe the country
would endorse a referendum" he
said.
Edge also urged favorable action
on his bill to remove all restrictions
from the issuance of LIQUOR prescrip-
tons by physicians.
Congress has in effect deliber-
ately insulted the physicians of the
country and maintained the insult
for six years." said Edge.
I'm other words because a small
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EASTER EGGS
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Holding treasured baskets -
weirdly -coIored eggs. candy and
the papier-nache effigaes Of rabbits,
chickens and ducks, thousands of
little ones trudged through the
gates OF the Executive Mansion.
gathering IN one vast, colOTful con
gregation on the spacious green
sward.
president Coolidge did not leave
hts office to visit the children dur
ing the morning. as he was very
busy, but Mrs. Coolidge. clad all
ii white. walked among the play
Ing Youngsters and the pretty
young mothers, with the two White
House dogs.
Crowds watch First Lady"
Hundreds Of adults. who unfcr.
tunately had no eggs to roll, stood
through the morning hours, staring
up at the south portico Of the
white House, where the First Lazy
stood. with Cabinet and Congress
sionai children and other older
friends.
The gates were opened ct
o'clock and swarm Of waiting
children rushed past the policeman
ara gri1r their parents and guard
ians. AZ constant stream Of little
ones passed through the big gates
into the grounds, which within g
hour were literally strewn with
the powdered yolks and shattered
shells OF thousands Of hafd-boiled
eggs.
The Girl Scouts did noble services
at station Njust below the porticOs
where a score of lost children and
their parents were reunited during
the morning This was a typical
scene:
Comfort fearful Mother
A Young mother. her nnien tense
and almost fearful, hurries toward
the Emergency Hospital tent and
addresses DR.. Alec Pritchard:
Have you seen anything OF
little girl with q blue coat and
grey fur collar?
us she lost?'' kindly asks Mr..
ZolMe Pritchard, the nurse at the
hospital tent
Il can't find her anywhere. I'm
her mother. Her name Is Phyllis
Taylor"
A Girl Scout, anxious to be busy,
breaks into the conversation.
She's up at our station. I'll
show you"
within i've minutes, the lost has
been found.
Pop Eggs On Heads
A considerable part Of the egg
rolling was egg-rolling in name only.
for some of the jewellers discovered
a more exciting pleasure in pop
ping their eggs against the curly
heads OF friends or strangers The
results Of these encounters were In
teresting to the children and to
their parents.
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since prohibition was written into
the American Constitution six
years ago that the country-wide
"wet and dry" battle was actually
given q public hearing before .
committee Of Congress.
Called Enemy to Morality
Prohibition as it now exists,
Bruce declared, has become an
enemy to human morality turned
America into nation Of law
breakers, created a super under
world" Of crime, transferred the
brewing industry into the homes of
citizens, increased drunkenness,
blighted human happiness and last
Present conditions cannot con-
tinue, as the Federal Government is
powerless to enforce prohibition, he
said, and the Congress must face
the truth. =
The Canadian system he said.
would restore temperance. reduce
crime, bring back great revenues
to the Government, thus allowing
tax reductions, appease the imper-
ishable human appetite for liquors
and restore respect for all laws.
Under this system. he explainde,
the Government supervises the man
ufacture, distribution and sale of
distilled spirits. beer and wine.
Saloons are prohibited and sales
are restricted.
In Quebec WHISTLES and their
like, Bruce said. are sold one bottle
at a time in government stores and
must be taken away to be drunk
at home"
Wines are sold at government
stores and in hotels.
Beer is sold in these places and
in grocery stores and restaurants.
The right OF local option is
jealousy preserved" he added, and
the result has been "a steady de.
cline in drunkenness"
To adopt this plan Bruce offered
an amendment to the Constitution
for the committees consideration.
Quotes Nations PreIates
Prohibition, he continued, has
never gone into effect" In America
The appetite for drink, he as
serted, can never be legislated away
and has existed ever since Jesus
at Cana manifested forth his glory
by converting the water in six water
pots into wine"
Brands Prohibition Failure
The second witness was Senator
Edge R) of New Jersey, who cham
pioned the legalization Of beer and
light wines.
He denounced existing conditions
as "indefensible" and declared modi-
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aal.s table and shook hands with
his chief attorney, Frederick j.
GroehI. former New York city
magistrate, and his other lawyers.
The bandit appeared i'll at ease,
twitching his shoulders nervously.
He attempted to conceal his feel
ings by picking up a newspaper
and apparently scanning the head
lines.
AS Groehl began his last appeal
upon which the fate OF Chapman
rested, the bandit laid his news
paper aside and listened eagerly.
GroehI told the board that he
did not want the responsibility OF
failing to take advantage Of this
final step of appealing to the Board
OF Pardons in an effort to save an
innocent man.
This man Chapman who is
scheduled to die tonight is IN
nocent," Groehl declared dramati-
cally. I'VE have witnesses here
who win show that what say Is
true
A mysterious young woman, said
10 be prepared TO testify in Chap
mans behalf. accompanied Fred
srick j. Groehl, chief counsel nor
the bandit, into the prison build
Ing. She waited in an ante room,
ready to be summoned.
The girl witness is a brunette,
slim and good looking. Attorneys
declined to reveal her identity.
Groehl then told the board OF al
legged inaccuracies in the testimony
gfven at the Chapman trial by wit
nesses who claimed that Chapman
and Walter Shean were seen near
New Britain, Conn.,, the night be-
fore the murder.
c+roehI claimed that he had a
new witness, Edward Higginson. OF
Merfden, Gann., who would refute
the testimony of Lillian KnoeH and
Louis Kubec, respectively. waitress
and proprietor Of an inn.
Then GroehI mentioned the affi-
aav;t Of William O'Leary, OF New
Britain, who he said would swear
that the man who ran from the
Davidson and Leventhal store where
the alleged crime was committed
was not Chapman.
P.centlemen. declared GroehI dra-
,,atically. "a life gone cannot be
returned. 1 beg of you not to
make it impossible for Chapman to
pet justice. / appeal to you TO
give him a Communication OF sem
tence.''
aWalter Sheehan, the Springfield
man. had his hand in that shoot
ne said Groehl, dramatically.
THAT is why the dying Policeman
Skelley identified Sheehan as his
murderer
.sNinety-nine per cent OF the
citizens of Hartford believe mat
Chapman is innocent.
During Groehls argument, Cnap-
9rnan stunned into his characteristic
ls.ose. head bent, eyes on the floor.
when the condemned man first en-
tered the roona, a dark. purplish
hue suffused his visage, but as the
dramatic fight for his life pro-
ceeded the purple gradually re-
coded. leaving in its place the
prison pallor.
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Scratches, Jockeys,
Official Program At
Bowie

weather clear; track. fast.
RsT RACE-.Four kurlonKe.
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and not Chapman did the killing,
saw Pierce and tried to get him
10 make q confession and save his
former pal. Pierce has d bad, very
bad record and he knows full well
that he will be hanged IL he gives
himself up I believe IL he knew
he would get q life sentence he
would confess and relieve Chapman
from paying debt he does not
owe
Il feel certain Chapman il 70.
ing to die for a crime he did not
commit Z
Pierce Did Not Confess
n al reformed ex-conyict. living in
Washington for some years. where
he now holds a position Of trust
at high salary, budding said.
brought Pierce to the Prisoners
Relief Society offices, 201 p st.
N. w, last Saturday
Pierce did not admit the killing,
budding added, but when urged to
come TO the front to save Chap
man, said IF / go back to Con-
necticut to help Chapman, they will
hang me.
That's as near as he came to
confessfng budding said todays
However. am convinced he either
did the actual killing or knows who
did. He told me that Chapman did
not, as he was in New York at the
time. He also said that the entire
underworld is convinced the Con-
necticut authorities will be execut-
ing the wrong man when they hang
Gerald Chapman.
Chapman Won't SqueaI
The reformed convict who
brought the man to me was parolled
to me seven years ago from a
Federal prison, and have every
confidence in him. He went TO
Philadelphia to get Pierce, and the
latter returned to that city after
talking with me. That may not
be his real name, but he is known
generally In the underworld as
Pierce, and could be located by the
police under that name"
budding said the man told him
Chapman knows who killed the
policeman. but has refused to give
his name because OF the code among
crooks against "squealing."
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Chapman In His Last
Plea Against Moose

from so men and that he can take
10 persons with him who can also
identify Chapman as the man who
lived in the cottage.
In a pocket of the mans coat,
he said, letters were found adj
dressed to Mark Smith and the
salutation in the missives were: My
dear Chapman the letters, Farrell
maintains, referred to Smith as
Gerald
Chapman. who was driving a blue
coupe, which had two sawed off
shotguns in the rear, made one trip
to Muncie, Ind, while he was occu-
plying the cottage, Farrell said.
At various times two girls were
with him. at the cottage, but there
were no men ever seen there, ac-
cording to Farrell.
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chairman, to question him whether
his proposal was constitutional.
There may be no legal power
for Congress to demand refer
enfIum from the States" said Edge.
The Congress, 1 believe, could ask
the States to take q referendum,
requesting 1t as a matter Of in
formation even though it could not
compel the States to submit the
question to their voters"
''I can find no authority in the
Constitution which gives Congress
dunn, on this question, no matter
how desirable it might be-" Means
rel1iied.
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Eyed Susan" played while well In
middle age. had all the vim and
action OF a young man, and he danced
The Sailors Hornpipe' as gracefully
as OF old.
Helen and Lucille Western were
daughters of Bill English of Boston,
an old-time actor. Helen was the elder.
q very handsome woman, but had not
the dramatic fire Of her sister. / first
saw them on the old Bowery stage In
Three Fast Men, classed In those
days as popular play and what one
of today would cab a 'biood-and- thun-
der production. The sisters played
together for some years. and then
Helen married James III. Mead, actor
and singer, and died not long after.
Lucille, being the daughter OF a poor
actor. had no educational advantages.
but like Rachel and other iliiterate
geniuses. won her way to the top, UNI
aided, through hardship and suffering.
She was OF dusky beauty, with large
soulful eyes, wonderfully expressive
countenance, and of fine physique. A
pure woman, generous to fault. and
while not having many plays IN her
repertory every character she under
took to play she made famous AS
Lady Isabel In East Lynne she stood
celled Charlotte Cushman and others
who played the parr. The first Bill
sykes to her Nancy was F.. j. Daven-
port, but the Bill Sykes Of all was
the late James A. Hearno Of Shore
Acres fame and father Of CRYSTAL
Hearne The late Matt Lingham
used to tell q story Of his experience
with Miss Western. The company
was billed to play Oliver Twist at the
Park Theater, Brooklyn, when Mr..
Hearne was taken i'll and Lingham
was asked to play Bill Sykes. Matt
was one of the quick study sort and
soon mastered the lines. At rehearsal,
when 1t came to the murder scene,
Lingham started In perfunctoril3
when Miss Western stopped him.
"'Mr. Lingham.' she. said; we play
tonight and as the murder scene Is
the climax. Mr.. Hearne and have
made 1t very realistic. Now, we viii
rehearse.it as we will play 1t tonight.
Be as rough as you can and don't be
afraid of hurting me-. Now she said,
after rehearsal. you have done fairly
well, but there must be more fire in
that scene tonight.
That night related Lingham,
when 1t came to the murder scene,
l grabbed her by her long nui abuna-
ant hair and dragged her about the
stage. She gained her feet and fought
me like tigress. Again and again
threw her to the floor like sack OF
grain, while she kept whispering,
That's right but fight harder Fin.
ally dragged her of stage center
where the last blow was supposed TO
be struck and I was to make my es-
cape. Standing in the wings ] saw
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are IS bells, with the lighter bells
hung at the. top. It, is chiefly on the
light bells that the automatic play
ing of simple folk songs, which the
traveller constantly hears as he wan
ders through old towns Of Belgium
and Holland, is produced. with now
and then a deep base tone sounding
in the melody.
The carlton has developed from a
crude beginning centuries ago. when
timepieces were rarity and the people
depended upon the town or village
clock It became the custom, as a
premonitory signal, to precede the
striking of the hour by a short auto
matte Ginning of three or four small
bells hung in the clock tower.
From this beginning, as each town
sought to surpass its neighbor In Its
hour music" more bells were added
to the towers until the musical scale
OF tones and half-tones became com.
pIete Brief melodies began TO float
from the towers, and as more bells
were added whole tunes were played.
Up to this stage. all of the playing
was done automatically.
With the adoption of the key.
board and expansion of the note range
of the bells, the carlton entered upon
its development as really majestic
instrument, responding fully to the
art of the accomplished musician. In
the later development pedals were
devised for the playing of the heavier
bells.
In Belgium and Holland the key
board playing by a carillonneur is re-
served for such special occasions as
the market day and on Sunday; and
during the Summer weeks, In the
larger cities, concerts also are general
" fixed for certain evening in each
week On such occasions there Is an
elaborate concert for perhaps an hour,
with a program of the best music of
the great composers, such as Bee
thoven and Schubert, and beautifully
arranged Flemish and French folk
songs and hymns. For the thousands
that gather for these concerts, quiet
is usually maintained In the vicinity
of the tower by an order of the city
heads diverting vehicular traffic from
nearby streets.
Mr.. Rice has counted $50 carillons
in the world today. OF this total 134
are located in Belgium and The Meth.
erlands, with the remainder scattered
in other parts of Europe, the United
States and Canada. Eleven carillons
were destroyed in the World War, but
of these, three already have been
replaced.
The finest instrument of the kind in
this country is that in the Park Ave
nue. Baptist Church tower, in New
York, the gift Of John ID. Rockefeller,
jr., in memory of his mother, which Is
to be transferred eventually to the
commanding tower of the great
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throughout the country the beauty Of
the carlton through radio transmits
sion OF the recitals.
4 4
a YOUNG Canadian. T. Percival
Price of Toronto, Is now studying
under JOSEPH Denyn, at Maiines. who
is known as the Paderewski Of the
carlton, In preparation to become the
player OF the Park Avenue Church
carlton. Denyn, who has served IS
years as the carillonneur Of the most
glorious of all the worlds singing
towers, that which rises above st.
Rombold's Cathedral at Malines, is
the director OF free school Of
carlton instruction there, which is
maintained in part by music-loving
Americans. "
The first municipal singing tower II
the United States win be the City Hall
tower at Albany, N. r, where,
through public subscription. the neces.
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Sixty-Seven.Y Year Fire.

BURNING for 81 years. a FIRE in
= the Summit Hill coal mine In
Pennsylvania has not yet been extin-
g1Iished. Engineers estimate that It
has consumed 14,000, 900 tons OF coal,
SAYS Popular Mechanics, Involving an
area about mile long and 1900 feet
wide. More, than So 900. 900 has been
expended in fighting 1t.
The blaze was started in much the
same way as many fires in the homes
Of coal consumers originate, from hot
Goals mixed with ashes. It was com.
mon In the days before the Civil War
to have large stoves at the bottom OF
the slopes for the comfort Of the
miners. The man who tended the;
stoves was late one morning and. IN
his haste, shoveled out Live Goals with
the ashes and dumped them into a
wooden car which was hauled to one
OF the unused gangways and forgot
ten for about two weeks. When re-
pair men were sent to get the car
they found the Goals had started q
blaze that had spread to the mine
timbers into piles Of loose coal.
An open cut was made which iso-
lated the blaze, but instead Of burning
out. 1t spread into the coal areas be-
You'd. Next q barrier was attempted
by sinking holes s inches In diameter
and spaced Is feet In each direction,
and filling them with fine silt OF coal
dirt mixed with water, but this failed
to check the fire. Finally q 12-foot
gap was sunk 100 feet into the earth.
lined with concrete, and the interven-
ing space filed with clay. making a
fire wall 700 feet long.
The men had to work in short peri.
DDS OF 20 minutes each because of the
intense heat from the fire, which
spread rapidly and almost gained the
barrier before this was finished. The
defense halted the fire; but for double
security the west face Of the wall was
cleared and a water seal constructed.
Engineers now believe that the blaze
cannot get across the barrier.