The Washington Post
May 1, 1927

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wy: a : ‘Snyder left the or Judd Gray. won oT the poets down, ; t, chyeaing skate Now West Virginia, in the newe, er: 2 one more Muse, And soon we'll read upon Fame’s ecroll Epics immortalizing coal, ‘The while the bard one his bank roll, > Thus, it has been since Chaucer's 2 * day, writers have worked best for Bs pay. e ‘Thie one knows how it is himself — He'd only scrawl this stuff for pelf. Shes: * . . . 4 ~ oy . s The radio commission leaves to » dodgasters themselves the er question of a censor- nae which the minds of nd have been controlled in one or another since this bold in- ray Ee liution, as D’Israeli calls it, was * f. ie cae ee ~ “You can ap them sigh and hope ie u i wh of a When direful meteors bed through glowing air serested to muzsle the press. If the an people submit to this in- rr nt upon their liberties, and “free as the air” to become lie, they will be living under a spotism inside of half a century, an invention that should have devoted to the uplifting of the will become a curse. " Women voters deplore the fact ‘pow they have the ballot they *"t care for it. hen | behold what _— is 4 ~pureuit, a hat life, what glorious eagerness ¢ it is, 4 mark how full possession falls ‘ : * from this, ’ Hew fairer seems the blossom than 7 the fruit, em perplext, and often stricken ee mike.” tg a The YD Club will hold a llisite ag at Fort. Washington, which, be recalled, in the days be- ® preparedness was used for that by the British army. The old Romans were too smart te be washéd out by floods — they built aqueducts and reservoirs which stand today, but other people have > béen less inventive, and the deluge - devastating the Mississippi valley is | last in a leng story of disaster. 758 400 families were drowned in Glasgow, and in 1617 50,000 persons - were lost in Catalonia. Fifty thou- sand houses were inundated in Vienna in 1830, and 1,000 lives ‘were Tost at Canton, China, in 1832. -:Medern man should have learned as much about flood control as the Ro- mans knew, but hasn't, with the ex- ception of Parhert Hoover. What's hi lak as drys in hail- the murder of poor Snyder, who had been drinking, by his wife who hadn't, as a solemn warning? o . . * Nich Longworth says that the one thing he had when he entered poli- ties was hope—bat has he still got Fashionable hats this season will » vemain small, but it is not so with , °°: FS te, die, r As them wink the other eye, | At the whe broke the bank at 3 Monte Carle.” Here's the inside low-down on how everybody. can walk along the ; pemeperd with an independent air. “Terrible comet will lash us with ite tall of poison gas on June 26, but td that time the campaign should be ‘far enough advanced for us to have become immune. Now comes ithe time, spread _ bene trails of light, and shake am cog heir.” Views, So Far Expressed, Alarmed, Say. PROHIBITION TO FORE Becoming Indifferent to Governor, Is Claim. By NORMAN W. BAXTER. sDespite Gov. Alfred E. Smith's nounced declaration that he does not wish to take part in the preconvention activities of his friends in the Demo- | cratic party, the New York chief ex- ecutive will, it is understood, be forced to take his stand on the question of prohibition within a’short time, much as he did in the matter of his religious beliefs. There are two reasons why the most intimate advisers of the New York chief executive are urging him to de- clare himself on the wet and dry ques- tion. One is that the aftermath of the answer to the Marshall letter has dealt almost entirely with Smith’s views on prohibition. The clear-cut reply of the to stir up religious prejudice, there are a good many Democrats who ‘now say that the fundamental ques- tion is prohibition. The other factor gradually forcing Smith out is that some of his friends, acting, it is now said, without his knowledge or con- sent, made public extracts from his public writings and announced that they represented Smith's views on the wet and dry issue. Would Let States Decide. The quotations in question might, except for the fact that they expressed the desire to let the States decide what constituted intoxicating liquor with limits of 2.75 per cent alcoholic con- tent, could easily have been written by Wayne B. Wheeler, general counse! of the Antisaloon league. They made entirely too dry a picture to suit some of Gov. Smith's most en- thusiastice supporters. ‘The New York World, one of the papers which pub- shed the quotations originally. pre- sented an editorial the following day criticizing Smith's friends for the views expressed, and said that it would be much better to allow Smith » talk for himeelf than to present him in a false light to his et friends. Papers outside of New York, in sec- tions where the prohibition law is not Overpopular, have expressed some doubt as to Smith's appeal, if the published quotations reflected his views accu- rately and generally the anonymous declaration of Smith policy has had a t ° effect since it is not believed that it influenced many drys in his behalf. Analysis of the reaction has alarmed Smith supporters, and pressure to ob- tain some official declaration from the governor has been great. According to information received in Washington, decision virtually has been reached for Smith to make some declaration on his own authority that will more nearly express his views and sentiments on }prahibition as a national’ issue. The f and manner remains to be deter- mined, but the Smith faction feels that something must be done to still the false impression and with considerable speed. | Governor Called Dry. The quotations from the State pa- pers of Gov. Smith which caused all of the storm and gave some reason for the belief that Gov. Smith, as Senator Borah had predicted, would be as dry as any other candidate in the event af his momination, are all accurate (CONTINUED ON PAGE 19. COLUMN 6) Snake Hibernates In Radiator’s Pipe Special to The Washington Post. Luray, Va., April 30.—George Free- man Pollock, owner of a summer re- sort in the Blue Ridge and known as the “Daddy of the Shenandoah Na- tional park,” is the possessor of “Jim- n snake which es- 't fall while in his came crawling from a fadiator pipe, where it had been hibernating through the winter. | Mr. Pollock is an. authority on snakes, having spent years in the wilds, where, he says, he made pets of speci- bid | Mens of every species of snake known ta this section. | \Life Term for Girl, AS DOMINANT ISSUE Drys Not Impressed and Wets| Tammany man has softened the effort | the Vought Corsair observation, but | gg WASHINGTON: ‘SUNDAY. ‘MAY. ow Make Him Dry, Friends, | _ LIEUT. JAMES D. BARNER. w-| NAVY SEAPLANE SETS ANOTHER SPEED RECORD Corsair, Loaded, Covers the: Course at 136,023 Miles an Hour for wer Mark. AMADA ME ERLE LORE ALO CT BRAG At: he, AEAAIEADEE AG ED Three Planes Seized by U. S. Immigration Men Near Los Angeles. ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE CAUSE FOR SHOOTING Slain Man “Had No Chance,” Says Companion; Chinese Brought In, Is Charge. Los Angeles, April 30 (By A. P.).— Arthur A. Daugherty, 24, aviator. was shot and killed, seven other aviators were taken into custody and three air- planes seized by Federal immigration officers early today in what they de- clared was. the breaking up of an air- plane alien smuggling ring. The officers said Daugherty was fired upon when he attempted to escape in ‘his plane as the three planes landed . Eagle airport after being reported by ——— LIEUT J. D. BARNER PILOT The navy won another world’s record | at Hampton Roads, Va., yesterday, when Lieut. James D. Bafner, U. 8. N., flyihg in “hich Lieuts. G. R. Henderson and 8. W. Callaway recently added two other records, established a new world's speed | record for seaplanes carrying a load of 500 kilograms or 1,102 pounds. Lieut. Barner's average speed al 136.023 miles an hour for 500 kilome- ters over the 25-kilometer inclosed course at Hampton Roads, Va., taking off from the naval air station at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the plane which Lieuts. Henderson and Callaway broke the world’s altitude and 100-kilo- meter speed seaplane records on April 14 and April 23, respectively. Lieut. Barner’s was the first attempt by an American to capture the 500 kilometer speed records. The previous record for this distance was made by A. Pasaleva at Sisto Ca- | lende, Italy; December 30, 1926, who averaged 116,406 miles an bour. “oy The-immigration officers also casa terday's feat was witnessed by Carl F Schorey. official of the National Aero- nautic association, who fiew from this city. landing at Hampton Roads at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, to be official observer for the filght. President Por- ter Adams, of the association, an- nounced the successful attempt late yesterday afternoon. This is the fourth record which ‘has been annexed by the United States during the past month, three of them being made by naval airmen, in the same Vought “Corsair” plane, which 1s equipped with 400-horsepower Pratt & Whitney “wasp” air-cooled engines, developed in cooperation with and for the navy. Lieut. Barner, of Anecostia Naval Air station, was born at Albion, Mich., in 1890, and attended school at Cobieskill and Schenectady, N. Y., enlisting in the navy in 1907, and being commissioned an ensign in 1917. During the war he served on the star of Vice Admiral De Witt Coffman and was designated a naval aviator in No- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6, COLUMN 7.) State Poet Laureate For West Virginia Charleston, W. Va., April 30 (By A. P.).—The State office of poet laureate, paying $900 annually, has been created by the West Virginia legisjature, which early today ended its 1927 regular ses- sion. A three-day extra session will be inaugurated today to dispose of the biennial appropriation bill, which was in dispute at the conclusion of the reg- ular session. ederal agents to have taken aboard i: Chinese in Tia Juana, Mex., last night. Rex Purcell, one of the arrested avia- tors, declared that Daugherty was ‘killed “without a chance for his life.” The officers said that when they or- dered the pilots of the landing planes to throw up their hands Daugherty put on speed apparently to take the air to Distiller is Accused. Chief Immigration Inspector Walter Carr charged that Hugh McLenny, own- er of the Ted Top distillery in Tia Juana, was the financial backer of the Eagle airport and of the entire alleged airplane alien smuggling ring. An all-day search by police and sher- iff’s deputies failed to find any trace of the ten allens which immigration offi- cers charged probably had been un- loaded in an oat field somewhere on the outskirts of the city. The officers said bunches of green oats caught on the running gear of two of the planes was proof of the landing of the ships. They declared the arrested aviators failed to make any explanation of the presence of the oat stalks. they had found a large caliber pistol and ammunition in the cockpit of one of the planes. Emmett Longbrake, one of the ar- rested aviators, was taken into custody several weeks ago as the pilot of a plane that landed at Yorba Linda, soyth of the city, and which was suspected of smuggling aliens. He was released be- cause of insufficient evidence. The others under arrest are Jack O’Brien, pilot’ of one of the seized (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8, COLUMN 1.) Woman Prefers Jail To Losing License Berkeley, Calif., April 30 (By A. P.). Miss Fred D. Callaway, 22, graduate of the University of California Law school has decided to spend a 5-day jail sen- tence studying for the State bar ex- amination. Convicted on a charge of speeding. she chose the jail term rather than lose her automobile driver's license. The judge set Wednesday for begin- ning the sentence. $195,000 New Record For Exchange Seat New York, April 30 (By A. P.).— Recent predictions that seats on the New York Stock Exchange would sell at $200,000 came near fulfillment today with announcement that transfer of a membership had been arranged at a new record figure of $195,000. This follows transactions this week at $192,000 and $194,000. The identities public next Thursday, Dreadnaught is Aground Despite Efforts of 18 Tugs Nose of the Colorado Held on Shoals in East River; Oil and Ammunition Taken Off; Big Guns Also. May Be Removed to i Craft: | New York, April’ 30 (By A. P.).—Ef- forts to pull the steel nose of the superdreadnaught Colorado off the shoals in the East river, where it has been stranded since early today, were abandoned tonight until flood-tide to- FY yiF lis + + g i 3 5 cases gtopped altogether, by the acci- dent. Vessels of all types slowed down to watch the struggle and several freighters due to ‘sail had to cancel their schedules when tugs, too busy | with the Coloardo, failed to appear to | tow them down the harbor. The blue-clad boys of the navy, 30,- 000 strong, today had deserted the sea to view the wonders of New York, s d = . . 4 » * Tih se q a Ne : ; , + 4 : Index to Today's Issue. MAIN SECTION. Aviator Shot Dead in Raid. 11 Killed, 80 Believed Dead in Mine. Spreading Flood Fought Vainly. High Waters Hit Vicksburg. 2—Ohildren Bxamined on Health Day. Citizens Demand Jail Reforms. | Two Men Are Hold-up Victims. 8—To place Lorraine Snyder on Stand. Gays Birger Paid for Killing. 4—Notabies to Greet Gcod-Will Fliers. May Send New Note to China. 5—Charges Callies Wars on Religion. Anarchists’ Arsenal Discovered, 6—Relief Fund Passes $4,000,000. News and Sidelights on Flood. 7—Social Set to Bee Circus. 8—Lenroot Tells of World Court Plan. 10—Congress Library Given Chorals. 12—-Virginia Is Given Portrait. 14—-L’Enfant Honored by City Dump. 16—Fliers Get Air Reports on Weather. 16—Police and A. A. A. to Test Brakes. 17—Palestine Group Asks Volunteers. 18—Monument to Heroes Called Duty. 19——Weather and Vital Statistics. 19-20-27—Financial. 21 to 236—Sports. 28—At the Chess Table. EDITORIAL AND SOCIETY. 1—Editorials. 2—Letters to the Editor. 3-4-5-7-8-9-10—Society. 6—Fashions of Capital Women. 11—Service and Voverans Notes. AMUSEMENTS AND TURES. 1-2-3-4—Stage and Screen. 4—Music and Musicians. . 5—Art and Books. 6—Activities of Women’s Clubs. 7—Schools and Colleges. 8-9—Radio and Electricity. AUTOMOBILE SECTION. 2-3-8—Automobile News and Gossip. 4-5—News of Fraternal Organizations. 6-7—-Notes of Departmental Personnel. REAL ESTATE—CLASSIFIED ADV. 1—The Washington Realtor. 2-3-4-5-6-7-11—Real Estate News. 8-9-10-11—-Classified Advertising. 8—Auto Bus Schedules. MAGAZINE, COMICS AND ROTO- GRAVURE. SECTIONS. GIALS AUN ROOFS IN AMID: MAN CRASHES SKYLIGHT Police, With Sledges, Batter Doors of Fourteenth Street Apartment; Guests Flee. 4 PRISONERS; NO WHISKY ane the third floor of 826 Fourteenth street northwest, sent several men and women fleéing over adjoining house tops to es- cape through windows and down fire eacapés of nearby buildings and result- ed in the apprehension of four persons who were taken to the First police pre- cinct. : One man, whose name was given as Thomas C. Thomas, 37 years old, of 1927 G street northwest, narrowly missed death when he fell through a skylight while seeking to escape and fell three floors to a basement. Unconscious, he was unable to grasp ropes lowered to him by police and the fire department rescue squad was called. Edward R. Curtis, one of the squad, was lowered by a rope to the bottom of the shaft. belt about Thomas, who was hauled (CONTINCED ON PAGE 8, COLUMN 2.) LL BRISTOL IS REFUSED A VISA BY MOSCOW Rear Admiral Sought to Go Through Russia on Way to Chinese Post. . Moscow, April 30 (By A. P.).—Permis- sion to traverse Russia on his way to China has been refused Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, who is slated to suc- ceed Rear Admiral Clarence 8. Williams, commander of the American fleet in Chinese waters, the Associated Press was advised tonight. The grounds for this attitude by the soviet government were stated to be Washington's refusal to permit former finance commissioner Gregory Sokol- nikoff, George Piatakoff, economic com- missioner, and Mme. Kollontay, soviet ambagsador to Mexico to enter the United States. Rear Admiral Bristol, who is high commissiones to Turkey and com- mander of the United States ‘naval forces in Turkish waters, is said to have asked for a visa for himself and his Admiral Bristol is believed to be now . Dut tg soon return- ing to the United States. . 2 Students, 93 Quarts And Girl Taken in Raid Berkeley, Calif, April'80 (By. A. P.). bestil it aH H I “ z a “ . - La = q + hey . es. py iy om 4 p 4 ; rf a ’ . *. ne : : . . . / 1—Would Force Smith on Dry Stand. | ~ SOR ia SC He placed a life 1927 NINETY ‘SIX PAGES Two. Victims Meet Fate orking on Tipple Outside Shaft. RESCUERS BRING OUT roa bn By < : ‘ 4 3 : wer F “~ ‘ya a + ERE pes ae ii a) y Sa os , + *. “? ' ar " ‘a: oe | 4 '’ PA. Pi heal a a) Bok a oe Pe ISFOUGHT VA 2,000 FACE DE! Refugees Ave Indignant At Plan to Kill Off Dogs Memphis, April 30 (By A. P.)— 8 BODIES; 15 INJURED | Heroic Efforts at Everettsville, W. Va., to Reach En- tombed Miners. Fairmont, W. Va., April 30 (By A P.).—Ninety-one men are believed to have lost their Mves in a terrific ex- plosion late today in the Everettsville mine of the New England Fuel & Transportation Co, The known dead had reached eleven late tonight. Eight bodies were removed from the mine, two men were killed at the tipple out- side while another deed in a local hos- pital shortly before midnight. While the fate of 80 men atill en- trapped in the workings remained un- known, rescue crews which have pene- trated the debris-strewn mine said con- ditions were such that none of them could have survived. Of the fifteen known injured, several were reported by hospital authorities to be in a critical condition. Harold Davis. 18 years old, a check weighman, was so badly injured when the explosion blew off the front of the office in which he was working that he died later in a hospital. One rescue party penetrated the smoke filled workings, and brought out eight dead and seven men seri- ously injured. Leads Rescuers Back. Manuel Porpo was the first man to come from the blast-torn workings. He said he had come through the dense smoke with difficulty but he was un- harmed. Shortly afterwards he led a purty of rescue workers back into the mine. ; The blast set fire to the tipple, but the Morgantown fire department quickly extinguished the blaze. The mouth of the mine and the main Bpparentiy..were not -badiy: damaged. The ventilation system was operating and a good current of fresh. air was being circulated late tonight, company Officials said. Federal Mine Inspector McKaa, ac- companied by five other attaches of the United States bureau of mines at Pittsburgh, were reported en route to the scene of the disaster to aid in rescue work. Company. officials said the origin of the blast was undetermined. Fire Boss William Cannon said he had inspected the mine early today and found noth- ing unusual. Harvey McKay, brother of J. W. Mc- Kay, superintendent of the mine, is among the men entombed. Mine resue cars operated by the State of West Virginia were rushed in from Clarksburg and Morgantown. Volunteer rescue teams were organized, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6, COLUMN 7.) Girl, Severely Beaten, Saves $700 Pay Roll Chicago, April 30 (By A. P.).—While the Chicago police- were busy with their task of “driving the crooks out of Chicago in 90 days,” robbers staged four holdups in the heart of the down- town district today, meeting with suc- cess in three of them but being frustrated in the fourth attempt by the heroic resistance of an 18-year-old gir). Miss Stella Chichowski, 18, saved a $750 payroll for a jewelry firm when she refused to give it up despite the fact. that she was beaten over the head until the blood streamed over her face. The robber fied when screams brought suggested. “Nol” shouted Dr. C. W. Garrison, public health officer of Arkansas. “Leave the dogs saione” | to thelr suffering, it was said. FLOODS HiT VGKSBURG; OFFICIALS ARE WORRIED Glasscock Dike Gives Way; Hoover Coming Here to See President. WATERS SPREAD MADLY): New Orleans, April 30 (By A. P.).— The nation’s most disastrous flood was spreading tonight with increasing rapidity and Federal and State offi- clals made no effort to conceal their apprehension of the dangers yet to come. Driven madly by the slowly moving flood crest, the Mississippi river swell- ed over a part of the levee at Vicks- burg, Mias., flooding the lower section of the city and sloughed off a hundred feet of the main levee at Glasscock, La. 25 miles south of Natches, Miss; threatening inundation of. wocv area | ng : througk the three gaps in the Arkansas river embankments rapidly were making complete the flooding of south- of Gould and adding to the flood depth in half a dozen other towns which may be destroyed. Flood waters around Yazoo City and farther northward in Mississippi, con- tinued their spread, devastating new fields and causing half a million dol- lars’ worth of damage to cotton stored in a compress in that city. While news of these major events In the flood area were trickling in, fore- bodings came of still more and danger- ous floods yet to come. The weather bureau announced that “the greatest flood of record” was in prospect next week for the Ouachita and Black rivers, adding that “a serious situation exists in northeastern Louisiana.” As a result of the break at Giase- cock, Charles H. West, a member of the Mississippi river commission, an- nounced that “every possible effort should be made to raise and strength- er the levees from the mouth of the Red river to New Orleans. The commissioner said the water plunging through the Glasscock crev- asse would joi: with the Arkansas flood waters which are sweeping into Louisiana and for the present should lower the river stage from Natchez, where the highest gauge in history is recorded, to the mouth of the Red river. “If the levees along the south bank of the Black and on the upper way.” he added, “this also will act as branches of the Atchafalya rivers give lowering the Mississippi river for the help. (CONTINUED ON PAGER 6, COLUMN 6.) Nancy Carr Jilts Fiance; Is Wed by Student Here Prominent Atlanta Girl, Betrothed Two Weeks Ago to Princeton Athlete, Becomes Bride of E. F. Rosenbaum at New York. New York, April 30 (By A. P.).—Miss Nancy Carr, 20-year-old prominent member of the younger set of Atlante, Ga., who only two /wenks ago an- nounced her engagement to William T. Healey, Princeton university athiete, surprised her friends today when ‘she was married to Edward FP. Rosenbaum. a studént of Balt“Lake City, Utah, in the Little Church Around the Corner, val at Philadelphia, representing Princeton university, where he is | sophomore, and member of the Ivy club, On: returning to Princeton tonight, Healey refused any comment when told 08 the marriage. The bride’s mother, ’who is staying at Hotel Plaza, also re- fused to comment, | Salt Lake City, Utah, April 30 (By A. P.).—Edward ¥. Rosenbaum, who was | ways which were eastern Arkansas, inundating the town | ATH | TIrales of Horror of Horror in Area : Inundated. Confirmed by Relief Head. HUNDREDS HELPLESS IN ATTICS AND LOFTS Rapid Rise of Ashley County Bayou in Arkansas Brings. Peril to Many. Pine Bluff, Ark., April 30 (By A. P.). Roaring through a crevasse est!matec at a mile and a half wide in South Bend ievee flood waters from the Ar- kansas river tonight menaced et icart 2,000 persons within 20 miles of the crusnbling rampart. A warning of increasing danger ws telephoned, or dropped by airpiene in towns without wire communication, residents who remained in Dumas, Wa!- nut Lake, Tillar and McGehee icft the lowlands as quickly as possibie, although none of these towns wae in immediate peril. A fleet of boats ferried the fleecing inhabitants across sections of high- inundated to‘sy when the new break poured in volumes to swell the flood already in the low- lands from previous crevasses, the majority of the homeless were takcn to the refugee camp at Montice.io, who were exiled earlier in the week by the flood in Lake Village, Arkansas City and other towns. Stories of Horror Confirmed. Boats were dispatched today ‘om Monticello to join the many cratt »ow. combing the ifundated section. T*y will nose through flooded fields and farming communities as far ewt ** the Mississippi river -in search of Another fleet is engaged in remc' ing refugees from McGehee, Lake Village and other towns where inhabicstts elected to remain until the people from the lowlands had been rescued Crumbling houses in McGehee hastened the evacuation of that town and with engineers unable to predict how deep the final height of waters will »e, sections. | Ready to Clear Entire Regtou. Military officers in control from Pine Bluff to McGehee reached a ‘iei~ inite agreement to evacuate the whoic territory in event the rise of waters is greater than expected. Col. Harris believed. that “nearly ai! % ae - w ¥ =— Ps . * ss - 4 . s ’ ~ : Se ree Natches, Mise, April 90.(By A. P.)-— The Mississippi” river was married in New York today to Miss| nigh Nancy Oarr, of Atlanta, Ga., is the son Rinkmaty ho’ te Gals’ Late Clty fot Washington, D. C., with the intention of preparing himself for the diplomatic service. pai an gia ed S| | | ouge ie Se nt ’ every effort was made to take outg’ ag every one who would. teave <8: aftectou™. «8