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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
OPEN LOBBY INQUIRY
WILL START TUESDAY
Caraway Authorized to Issue Sub
poenas for Senate
Probe.

BY the Associated Press
The Senate lobby investigating COM
mittee decided today to begin its public
hearings Tuesday.
Chairman Caraway of the committee
was authorized to issue subpoenas for
witnesses, but no decision was reached
as to the first persons to be called.
Carawsy has said he desired Joseph
r. Grundy, Washington representative
of the American Tariff League, as the
first witness.
I'VE are going first into the lobby
on the tariff bill," Caraway said. I'VE
are going to get a list of those gentle
men who sat around so close that no
one could get his breath while the tariff
measure was being framed"
Caraway added that Charles L. cyan
son, a representative of the Connecticut
Manufacturers Association, who was
employed by Senator Bingham of Con-
necticut, Republican member of the
finance committee, to assist him on
tariff matters, would be given ''full op-
portunity to explain his double salary"
Asked If Eyanson could be prose-
cuted for drawing private salary while
on the Government pay roll, Senator
Caraway said there was a law providing
fine and Imprisonment for any Govern
ment employe accepting private pay,
but I am not passing judgment on this
case"
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OIL CASE MISTRIAL SEEN:
FALL REJECTS DIR. RUFFIN
Refuses TO Receive Doctor
Who Rebuked Him Be.
fore President Wilson.
Three Examiners Named
Will Report to Court if iii
Defendant Is Able to
Leave Bed.

Albert B. Falls personal objection to
DR.. Sterling Rufiln, who was one of
President Wilson'S physicians, today
complicated the question whether his
bribery trial, halted by his illness, is to
continue.
A mistrial loomed as certainty to-
day when Justice William Hitz in re-
cessing court for the second time, or
dered a further meGical examination
of the stricken former cabinet officer to
determine his physical ability to con-
tinue with the trial.
DIR. CIaytOr Reports.
Justice Hitz informed counsel on both
sides at the opening of court today
that he was dissatisfied with the In
complete examination which DR.. Thomas
Claytor was able to make of Mr.. Fall
early this morning at the request of the
court. He stated that he would ask
three other physicians to examine Mr..
Fall "as early as possible today" not
only for the purpose of informing the
court of the defendants present con-
dition," but what it is likely to he dur
ing the next month. DR.. Claytor in
formed Justice Hitz after the eXamina-
ton that the 68-year-old defendant is
suffering from a congestion of the right
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
TWO MEN DEFY INFERNO TO BLAST
OUT DEVASTATING OIL WELL FIRE
Brothers Prepare Charge of High Explosives to Snuff
Out Gigantic Roaring Torch.

brothers were reticent regarding the
exact time-one man. crouched low be-
hind metal shield that grows sizzling
hot despite streams of water which
constantly drench it, will creep toward
the plume of flame.
Clad in heavy asbestos suit, he will
drag 200 quarts Of nitroglycerin al
most to the mouth of the well. There
he win place it so that the force of the
explosion will be directed at the base
Of the fame, and then scurry away
from the broiling heat.
When he is safely out of range the
charge of explosive will be fired.
The force of the explosion is expected
to hurl the flame above the gas from
the hole. A heavy blanket of steam.
played from the battery of boilers onto
the mouth of the WELL is expected tu
retard the flow Of gas until the flame
has burned out.
With the fire extinguished the gas
will be allowed to run wild while debris
which could not be removed before the
explosion, is dragged from the well
Then q new derrick will be erected III
place Of the twisted. white hot steel
skeleton which was dragged away, piece
by piece yesterday. and. efforts will be
directed toward conflnine the now.
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COLORADO BANKER
IS GIVEN Is YEARS
Plea of Guilty Brings Imme-
diate Sentence to
Atlanta.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 10-Charles
Delos Waggoner, Telluride, Colo, bank
president, was sentenced to IS years
imprisonment in Atlanta Penitentiary
today on his plea Of guilty to mail
fraud in connection with a scheme to
obtain 100000 from New York banks
by means of forged authorization
papers.
Witnesses had been assembled from
as far away as the West Coast for Wag-
goner's trial, but when the case was
called today defense counsel entered
plea of guilty. United States At
torney Charles H. Tuttle then moved
ror immediate imposition Of sentence.
The presence of many witnesses was
used by Tuttle in his argument for an
early trial date for the indicted banker
He pleaded that they were undergoing
hardships by remaining here with only
SIS day allowed for expenses by the
Government and that several would
be in danger of losing their jobs.
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ANGLO-U. S. NAVAL
POOL TO BAR WAR
Hoover Macdonald Agree.
ment Is Seen as Welding
Armadas to Keep Peace.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Great Britain and the United States
have in effect agreed to pool their navies
to maintain the peace of the world.
This Interpretation, startling as it may
seem, even though no understanding or
alliance of specific character has been
made, is none the less derived from the
fact that President Hoover and Prime
Minister Macdonald in their joint state
ment announced to the world that each
of the two English-speaking govern
rnents will direct Its thoughts and In
fiuence toward securing and maintain
ing the peace Of the world"
The use of the words securing and
maintaining" is the most significant in
the thousand-word statement issued
Jointly by the President and the British
prime minister. Although there has
been much discussion in the Senate 20
the effect that the Briand-Kellogg treaty
did not oblige the United States to use
force to maintain peace, the rev declar-
alton is so pointed in expressing the
obligation of both the United States
and Great Britain that no other mean
ing now will be attributed to the anti
war pact.
Capitals Breath Taken Away.
With apparently universal approba-
ton of the Hoover Macdonald confer
ences, the two heads of governments
have taken a step which Is so un-
precedented in American history that
Washington has had its breath taken
away. It might well be asked: Where
are the irreconcilables of yesterday?
Any such statement of the kind just
made could not have been even limited
at 10 years ago without raising the cry
Of entangling alliances and meddling in
European politics. It was an argument
of this sort which defeated the coven-
ant of the League of Nations and 1t
was the anti-British feeling which con-
stantIy reminded American audiences of
the six-to-one voting strength of the
British Empire in the Geneva league.
Reed Is In Private Life.
Gradually, however, the irreconcilable
have diminished in number. James
Reed, the fiery Senator from Missouri,
is in private life; Senator Borah, as
chairman of the foreign relations COM
rnittee. has acquiesced in the general
purpose of the Macdonald visit. It is
hardly to be expeced, on the other hand,
that while Prime Minister Macdonald
is in this country the opposition will
gather. 1t will pe recalled that the
first impression of the League of Ma
tions was favorable and 1t was only
when irreconcllables began to diSsect
the meaning of the covenant and drive
it home to American audiences that
they really made headway.
The spell Of Mr.. Macdonald's visit
still rests upon official Washington. The
British prime minister has something
of the romance and idealism of Wood
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Formal Acceptance of British
Invitation Is Announced by
Stimson After Premier Ends
Visit in Washington.
DEPARTURE is LACKING
IN OFFICIAL CEREMONY
Congressional Leaders Have Chance
to Discuss Affairs With Prime
Minister at State Secretary's
Dinner Attended by Hoover.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Prime Minister Ramsay Mac
donald of Great Britain today left
Washington with the acceptance
of the United States to attend the
projected five-power naval con-
ference, figuratively speaking, in
his pocket.
Secretary Stimson announced
at the State Department, soon
after bidding farewell to Mr.. Mac
donald at Union Station, at 9
o'clock this morning, the United
States formal acceptance of the
British invitation to attend the
naval conference, set for the third
week in January in London. The
text of Americas reply will not be
published until tomorrow morn
ing. It is brief, however. Accept
ance by this country was assured.
Primarily it was the progress made
by the British and United States gov
ernmentS in recent months toward an
agreement on naval limitation that
proved the determining factor in Mr..
Macdonald's decision to visit President
Hoover and Washington.
Complete Accord Reached.
He leaves Washington conscious of
a complete accord between the FreSi-
dent and himself on the broad princi-
pies of naval limitation between the
two countries. one of which is parity.
Announcement of this Governments
acceptance of Britain's invitation TO
the conference was the cApstone Of a
visit by the prime minister, which IS
generally regarded as fraught with great
Importance.
The text of the United States reply
to the British note was withheld TO
permit an opportunity for its delivery
to the British minister for foreign at-
fairs, Arthur G.. Henderson, through
Ray Atherton, the American charge
d'affaires, in London.
The replies of the other three nations
invited to attend the naval confer
ence, France, Italy and Japan, are
awaited with the keeneSt interest, both
here and IN London.
No military display marked the prime
minister's departure. The Cavalry
escort was missing and no Artillery
and Marine guards of honor were
placed at the Union Station this NOM
ing. However, Secretary of State
Stimson and other high officials of
the department were present to bid
Mr. Macdonald farewell
White House automobiles conveyed
the premier and his patty to the station.
Capt Alan Buchanan, the Presidents
naval aide, rode with Mr.. Macdonald
and Sir Esme Howard, the British Am
bassador, from the embassy to the train.
Lady Isabella Howard accompanied
Miss 1shbel Macdonald. After shak-
ing hands with the officials who had
come to see them on. the prime min
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FLEXIBLE PROVISION
FORUM TOPIC TONIGHT
Senator'S Vandenberg and Barkley
to Discuss Tariff Question
on Radio.

The flexible provision of the pending
tariff bill, which has become the sub
ject of a controversy between President
Hoover and a coalition of Democrats
and Republican progresslves in the Sem
ate, will be discussed by Senator Arthur
H. Vandenberg, Republican, of Michi-
gan. and Senator Albeu w. Barkley,
Democrat, of Kentucky in addresses
from station WMAL at 10:30 o'clock
tonight in the National Radio Forum
arranged by The Star and sponsored by
the Columbia Broadcasting system.
Senator Vandenburg will support the
flexible provision and Senator Barkley
will attack 1t. This provision Of the
bill, which Is similar to that of existing
law, has been stricken out in the Senate
by the Democratic Republican progress
sive coalition. The contest that has
developed threatens to imperil the final
passage of the tariff bill
The flexible clause authorizes the
President to raise or lower the rate on
any article in the tariff bill as much as
so per cent, after investigation and
Recommendation by the Tariff Commits
sion. The opponents Of the provision
would substitute a plan by which the
commission would make It's report to
Congress, leaving TO that body the de-
cision as to the raising or lowering Of
the taya1 rate.
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, october 10.--You could
have knocked Policeman william Shea
with feather yesterday when long
arm reached out, handed him box
seat to the world series ball game and
disappeared.
Offlcer Shea was on duty at the exit
turnstile of the Addison street Il" sta
ton. Trains were diSgorging passengers
and there was big crowd clicking
through. Oficer Shea stool there
shouting. This way to the ball park. "
Out of the mass of masculinity whirl-
ing through the turnstile the arm came
and hand showed the ticket inta the
policeman's hand. BY the time Shea
realized what had happened Santa
Claus had gone.
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MOORE OF VIRGINIA
DOUBTS CANDIDACY
Representative Does Not Ex-
pect to Seek House Post
Next Year.

Representative r. Walton Moore Of
Virginia, who many years has repre-
,sented in Congress the eighth congress
sional district, said today that it was
improbable" he would be candidate
next year to succeed himself in the
House. No definite announcement has
been made, however.
Mr.. Moore has been member of the
House for the last 10 years. He has
had a distinguished career as an at
torney as well as a legislator. He Is a
resident OF Fairfax, Va, and Is widely
known in Washington.
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MASSACRE SUSPECT
ARRESTED IN CHICAGO
Claude Maddox Admits Identity
After Questioning-Sought
for Eight Months.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, october 10.-Police have
arrested Claude Maddox after hunting
him nearly eight months in connection
with the Valentines day gang massacre.
Maddox is the man who owned the Cir
Gus Cafe. headquarters of the men who
are held responsible for the ,septuple
staying.
Oak Park police who made the ar
rest last night said Maddox denied his
identity for several hours, but finally
admitted he was the man sought. One
report to police during the massacre in
vestigation was that Maddox rented the
garage in which the death car used in
the staying was hidden.
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THREE MEET DEATH
IN TRAIN COLLISION
Passengers Are Uninjured in Head.
on Crash Near Portage,
Pa, Station.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTAGE, Pa, october 10.-An
eastbound passenger train and a west
bound freight train crashed head-on
west of the Pennsylvania passenger
station here late last night, killing
three trainmen.
The dead are: w. T. johnson, Young
wood, Pa, engineman Of the passenger
train; w. C. Read, Altoona, engineman
of the freight train, and G. L. Burk-
holder, Jeannette, Pa, fireman of the
passenger train. j. G. Flenner, fireman
of the freight train, leaped to safety.
The wreck occurred, railroad officials
here said, when the trains met as the
freight train, pulling out of a mine
siding, switched from an eaStbound
track to a westbound track. The cause
and responsibility for the crash was un-
determined by railroad officials early
today.
The locomotives telescoped and two
express cars left the rails with the en-
'gines and or 10 freight cars, tying up
the main line for several hours. None
of the passenger coaches left the rails
and none of the passengers was hurt.
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By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. October
10.-Two men crouched behind metal
shields continued today to pit their
skill against a gigantic roaring torch
flaming high in the air over what once
was the Sinclair Oil & Gas Co.'S num-
Der stamper well, in the Oklahoma
City oil field.
Trundling loads of high explosive
near the ioo-foot pillar of fire, and
directing final connections of battery
of approximately 20 steam boilers. M.
NJ. Mack Kinley and his brother, F.
T. Kinley, prepared to snuff out. in one
giant pun, the fame which, fed by 50.-
100000 feet Of gas day, has whipped
and writhed over the Sinclair lease
since shortly before am. Tuesday.
Hardly more than i've miles from the
downtown business district, the fire
has cast weird glow over the city's
streets at night. and in the southern
section Of the city. three miles from
the we'll. has made street lights almost
unnecessary at night.
Some time early tt>day-the Ktnley
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lung, and was unable to leave his bed
to attend court.
DR.. Ruf1in was designated by Justice
Hitz to examine Fall after his own ply
sician- had refused to permit him to
leave his bed.
The elderly defendant refused to re-
ceive the noted specialist and it was
explained. on his behalf that his action
was purely personal matter; that DR..
Ruffin was the only physician in the
country whom he would not permit to
examine him.
DR.. Ruffin attended President Will
son as consulting specialist during
his long illness. Fall at that time was
in the Senate, bitter opponent of the
war President. and was one of a COM
mittee that called upon him in his sick
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Autogyro Is Damaged.

PHILADELPHIA. October 10 R).-
The American-built Spanish Autogyro
undergoing tests at the Pitcairn Field
at Hollowell, 18 miles north of this city,
was damaged during a trial today. A
report that the inventor Of the machine,
Juan de la Cierva, was injured was
denied by G. s. Childs, executive vice
president Of the Pitcairn -Cierva Auto
gyro Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
POLICEMAN BENEFITS IN ERROR,
SEES EIGHT INNINGS GRATIS
Man From Maquokea Breaks Through Turnstie Just in
Time for Games Finish.

Oficer She.s reported at once to
Lieut.. Thomas McGrath and asked per-
mission to use the ticket, which was
granted. He went to the park and
plunked himself down in the choice
seat.
A little later a very angry man from
Maquoketa. Iowa, began pestering po-
liceman. He said he had handed his
world series ticket to a policeman at
the IL" turnstile, thinking 1t was the
entrance to the park. Eventually he
came to Lieut.. McGrath, who realized
what had happened. He escorted the
man from Maquoketa into the park
Just la time to see the ninth inning
and in time to see what a nice seat he
might have had.
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Signalers in Raid
Acquitted as Judge
Delivers s'POinter''
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, october
10.-Municipal Judge r. P. Will
liams has decided that pointing
fingers at officers does not con-
stitute a misdemeanor.
George Dooley, 19 years old.
was arrested by two policemen
who said he pointed them out to
a man whose home they were
approaching to raid.
Judge. Williams dismissed the
case.
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BALTIMORE CHEERS
MACDONALD ON WAY
Premier Is Given Honorary Mem
bership in St. Andrews Society
and Maryland Academy.
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, october 10.-An ova-
ton from several hundred people
greeted Premier Ramsay Macdonald and
his daughter when they came to the
observation platform of their car dur
ing a 5-minute stop of the train here
today.
During the stop here, engrossed scrolls
giving him honorary membership in the
ST. Andrews Society of Baltimore and
the Maryland Academy'of Science were
presented to the British statesman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
MUssOLINI HOLDS MEETING.
Discusses British Invitation With Two
Members Of Cabinet.

ROME, october 10 P).-Premier
Mussolini held meeting with two Of
his ministers today to make an exami-
nation of the naval disarmament invi-
tation received from the British govern
ment on Tuesday.
The two ministers we're Dino Grandi,
minister of foreign affairs, and Giu-
seppe Siriani, minister of marine.
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SECONDARY FLEET is URGED.
Paris Newspapers Stress Dclicacy Of
French Naval Position.


French Naval Position.
PARIS, October 10 Q9.-The French
press today continued TO emphasize the
delicacy of the French position at the
projected London naval conference. 1t
was pointed out that France must in
sist, like Great Britain, upon a large
secondary fleet to protect Mediterranean
and overseas possessions and, like Japan
and Italy, will be obliged to preserve the
submarine as defensive weapon.
It was insisted anew there could be
no question of accepting for submarines
and cruisers the low ratio established
in the Washington conversations for
battleships.
Some dispatches from Washington
interpreted the British naval invitation
to mean that any London accord would
not await the conclusion of general
disarmament treaty before going into
force.
1t has been suggested both Italy and
France could sign conditionally upon
the later satisfactory negotiations for
reduction of land and air ornaments,
and that Great Britain and the United
States could make the London treaty
definitive as between themselves.
MUSsOLINI HOLDS MEETING.
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Snow Blankets Canadian Prairies

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, october 10
P).-Prairie districts west Of winnipeg
heavy.
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Weather Ties Up British Airship

BY the AssocIeted PresS.
LONDON, October 1o.-The air min
istry announced early today that bad
weather would prevent hauling out of
the new British dirigib1e Rio for It's
first test this morning, as had been
planned.
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JAP PANESE LEADERS
DISCUSS NAVAL BID
Official Attitude Toward Lon
don ParIey Has Not
Been DivuIged.

By the Associated Press
TOXIC, October 10.-Hfghest court
officials, all living former premiers,
ranking naval officers and most of the
cabinet today attended meeting at the
naval ministry to hear Kyo Takarabe,
lord Of the admiralty. explain the in
yitation from Great Britain to particle
pete in a naval reduction conference in
London in January. Japan's ofIiciai at
titude toward the conference was not
divulged.
Those preser included Lord Privy
Seal Maxine, Lord Chamberlain Suzuki,
Household Minister Xxi and former
Premiers Yakamoto, Takahashi and
Wakatsuki and Admirals Takeshita,
Abo, Okado and Yamashita.
At tomorrow's cabinet council that
body will give its first consideration of
the invitation, after which Premier
Hamaguchi is expected to report it to
the Emperor and discuss it with him.
SECONDARY FLEET IS URGED.
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''From Press to Home
Within the Hour"

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers arc printed.
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WEATHER.

90. s. weather Bureau ForeesSt1
Increasing cloudiness, not quite so cool
tonight; tomorrow cloudy, not so cool.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES So. at $50
pm. yesterday; lowest. 43. at 7:15 am.
today.
Full report on page 9.
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