The Washington Post
August 5, 1927

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The only newspaper in Washington with the Associated Press news every morning in the sear. 7 pa” One tomorrow fair; winds. Temperature 77; lowest, 58. Weather—Fair and warmer today; moderate southwest yesterday — Highest, Weather details on page 8. NO. 18.677. — UNTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON, D, ©. WASHINGTON: FRIDAY. AUGUST 5. 1927. COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY THE WASHINGTON POST CO. TWO CENTS. _ “| POST-SCRIPTS GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN \ ingly large number of people who “is a mystery that doubtless can be ~ “Boys, don’t quote me in no bad _ | “Be thou the first true merit to be- : _ that rather fits the enviable position a favorite-son campaign in Ilinois, ee ane comes aeons fer if | “Let your own discretion | tutor; suit the action to Aa nad: : the word to the action; with this | special observance, that you o’erstep J not the modesty of nature.’ - . . “Prompt sense of equity! To thee belongs The swift redress of unexamined wrongs.” The United States Golf Associa- tion, with “prompt sense_of equity,” brushes aside the District of Colum- bia Golf Association's petty perse- cution of George Voigt and declares his amateur fame unsullied, with that “swift redress of unexamined wrongs” which is the watchword of clean American sport. ~ . am ” The suspicion that President Cool- idge is merely trying to humbug the American people by a piece of cheap trickery has revealed an astonish- could never have thought of it tf they hadn’t been capable of it them: selves. Now that Leading Eagle is a full- fledged Sioux, doubtless there will be an ircreasing tendency in some quarters to explain that he is an Indian-giver. ° eS ° The disclosure that our old hero, Deadwood Dick, last of the bad men of the old frontier, is the caretaker of a tourist camp at $40 a month, makes every dime novel we have ever read turn to,ashes in our mouth. Let us hope we shall never hear that Huckleberry Finn is driving a milk wagon in St. Louis. ¥ * J > The Nevada law requiring a resi- dence of only three months before a divorce can be obtained is held con- stitutional, but some people will never be satisfied until they can get one within the cramped limits of the two weeks’ vacation. ” . & . The Government which they so venomously assail permits Sacco and Vanzetti to issue from their prison as inflammatory a proclamation as has ever been published in this coun- try, calling upon anarchy to avenge them. . s o “ The collapse of the Geneva con- | ference leaves the fate of our na- tional defense in the hands of the cheeseparers in Congress, a circum- stance which the British statesmen doubtless did not fail to note. * * * Hollywood beauty parlor ‘expert explodes the well-known theory that our movie queens owe their loveli- ness to the gymnasium, but what of it? As Robert Herrick says: “No fault in women, to lay on The tincture of vermilion; And there to give the cheek a die Of white, where nature doth deny.” Just why Gov. Fuller’s refusal of clemency to Sacco and Vanzetti should cause German radicals to march through Berlin bearing ban- ners labeled: “Hands Off China!” readily cleared up by the experts who have lately been devoting them- selves to the analysis of Mr. Cool- idge’s vocabulary. The American people will now look forward with what patience may be mustered to the time when we can scrap the Washington con- ference treaties and build the kind of @ navy We choose and not the kind of a navy Great Britain chooses us to choose. It is a wise man who does his own choosing. Inasmuch as Mr. Coolidge eiuld have won in a walk why so much excitement over his refusal to run? ~ - . + “His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn’d call rigmarole.’’ The old-fashioned Congressman who used to say to the interviewers: English,” is sitting pretty—Chicago jury of authors and editors puts the stamp of approval on nearly all the slip-shod English. Still, here’s “le news for all the rest of the candidates — they “put the ban,” as the copy desk would say, on.“none of them are here,” “it is me,” and “try and get it.” . ~ . As a matter of fact “try, and get. it” is a pretty good slogan for any gentleman about to throw his hat | ‘into the ring. Henry Ford joins Gov. Brewster on the Hoover band-wagon, and it _ looks as though seats would soon be scarce on all of them. f riend; , _ His praise is lost, who stays till all commend. “ed ss *¢ * a a there'd another line of Pope’s ~ of Gen. Dawes, spared *he brunt of Busi ns a Sremendons second-choice “Nor ane ! slight, nor fai her — favors call; NAVAL PARLEY ENDS iclared Hugh Gibson, | representative, at the closing session of the tripartite: naval conference to- No Rupture, Says Saito. | wrecked Dn two points—First, that of WN CLASH OF VIEWS, BUT FRIENDLY WORDS Tone of Leaders Takes Off Edge of Failure to Agree. DELEGATES SEE HOPE Gibson, American, Is Praised Officially and Personally by Other Chiefs. Geneva, Swit&erland, Aug. 4 (A.Py. War between Great Brita, the Uni States and Japan] “whthinkable, de- America’s chie day. Hence there is no reason, he added, why.an agreement, which has not been obtained at Geneva, should not be reached shortly as the result of dl- rect n-~ctiations between the govern- ments for a reconciliation of the dil- FOR AUXILIARY PACT | vergent views. The burial ceremony of the confer- ence, held in the presence of a large assemblage, was carried out without the employment of words of recrimination and, as W. C. Bridgeman, head.of the British delegation, said: “We are not dispersing in a spirit of bitterness or despair.” When the conference adjourned sine die, after the adoption of a joint declaration suggesting direct negotia- tions between the governments, Mr. Bridgeman walked up the Spairs of the Hotel Des Bergues, in whose ballroom the last act of the naval drama was played, to the private office of Mr. Gib- son and shook his American colleague warmly by the hand. This was hailed as an indication that the first lord of the British admiralty believed the dif- ferences between the United States and Great Britain, manifested at the con- ference, Were nothing more scrious than a slight family tiff. Admiral Saito, distinguishead member of the Japanese delegation, joining in the thought of Mr. Gibson and Mr. Bridgeman, declared in a valedictory address that he for one declined to view the results of the conference as a rup- ture of negotiations. He was con- vinced, he affirmed vigorously, that in some form or another, attempts to limit extravagance and competition in naval building, already limited in practice by common sense, will continue and eventually succeed. ° The joint declaration, adoption of which involves automatic adjournment of the conference, represents an effort to summarize the viewpoints of the three delegations on the matters on which they agreed and on those on which they disagreed. ‘The declara- tion shows that the conference was total tonnage limitation for cruisers, on which the British and the Americans were unable to attain an accord; sec- ond, on the problem of so-called eight- inch-gun cruisers. The declaration emphasizes that the British, while proposing a limitation of the size of warships of all classes, opposed the principle of limitation by total tonnage alone. This opposition was based on the ground that the largest ship and the heaviest gun per- CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 6. FLOGGER, CONVICTED, GETS 10-YEAR TERM Reputed Klan Head Fined $50 for Street Speech on Index to Today's Issue. Pages. 1—Naval Parley Ends. Fight of Doomed Men Goes On. Voigt Acquitted by Golf Chiefs. Wealth of Candidates Found. Lowden Holds Conference. 2—Guards Increased at U. S. Buildings. France Calls Ruling Monstrous. 20 Wounded in Berlin Protest. Heroine of Jilt Returns Home. 3—Failure at Geneva Regretted. Sees Hope for Cruiser Treaty. 4—Magazine Page. 5—Coolidge Inducted in Sioux Tribe. 6—Editorials. 7—Society. 8—Weather and Vital Statistics. 9—Ohio Guardsmen Sent to Mines. 9-17—Legal Record. 10-11-17—Finance. 12-17—Classified Advertising. 13-14-15-16—Sports. 16—The Post’s Funny Folk. ® 17—Radio News and Programs. 18—The News in Pictures. — Revoking of Permit Plan Effective. Police Captain Explains Order. Corps Camp Ends Course. _ ARMS PARLEY CONCLUSION CAUSE OF SATISFACTION American Delegation Beftéved Justified in Refusing Sur- render of Rights. HOPE FOR FUTURE SEEN By ALBERT W. FOX. As predicted in The Post from the start, the Geneva conference to limit naval. armaments has collapsed and ended in failuré. The failure is com- plete and in many quarters there is a feeling of genuine and patriotic satis- faction that the American delegation, under the guidance of President Cool- idge and Secretary of State Kellogg, has refused to jeopardize America’s na- tional defense for the sake of procuring an agreement. Statements yesterday by Secretary Kellogg and Hygh S. Gibson, chief American delegate, to the effect that a basis of agreement may later be found are regarded here as the usual diplo- matic expressions of hope designed to take the sharp edge off the announced disagreement. Both Mr. Kellogg and Mr. Gibson lay ‘the blame for failure at the door of Great Britain and the latter’s state- ment at yesterday’s final session of the conference particularizes in this re- spect without sugar-coating the issues. The fact that both Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Kellogg went over the Gibson statement and added ‘ suggestions of their own gives it added weight as an accurate expression of the United States Government’s position. Theres is, however, no attempt on the part of the United States to allow re- crimination or ill-feeling to creep into its summarization of the British atti- tude. The Anierican statements, de-. spite their frankness, breathe an air of conciliation into the hopeless nego- tiattons and translate the collapse into an amicable agreement: to disagree. Throughout the American state- ments there is reflected the outstand- ing reason for the failure of the con- ference, namely, the refusal of Great Britain to make any scarifice which in her eyes might directly or indirectly jeopardize her naval defenses in the fu- ture. America, as Secretary Kellogg points out, scrapped 780,000 tons of capital ships and “made greater sacri- fices than any other country” to pro- CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 7 Bridge Falls, 25 Die | In Swollen Stream Mexico City, August 4 (A.P.).— Twenty-five persons, gathered on a bridge to watch the swollen waters of the Contepec River after a cloudburst near San Miguel, were drowned as the bridge collapsed yesterday, say special dispatches from Zitacuaro, state of Michoacan. FIGHT OF VANZETT AND OAGGO GOES UN WITH NEW COUNSEL Lawyer Is Silent on Hint | He Will Appeal to U.S. Tribunal. DOOMED PAIR BRAND GOVERNOR MURDERER Both Men Again Refuse All Food; Guards Placed Over State Officials. Boston, Aug. 4 (A.P.).—Although Gov. | Fuller has refused to extend executive clemency to Nicola Sacco and Barto- lomeo Vanzetti, principals in a famous murder trial, the long battle to save the lives of the two men has not ended. Today while the minutes of the last week of life for the condemned men ticked away, it became known that the attorfeys who had fought their case before the State Supreme Court and the governor had retired, and that new counsel had been retained to take any further legal steps possible to avoid the electric chair. Arthur D. Hill, Boston lawyer, who formerly was associated with Fred Moore, of California, in the Sacco-Van- zetti defense, was selected as the new attorney. He refused to discuss re- ports that the United States District Court or the United States. Supreme Court would be approached in an effort to stay the hand of the executioner. “I have been consulted with a view to seeing what steps of a legal nature, if any, can be taken in the circum- strnces,” he said. “It is not possible at this time to make any further state- ment.” Reason for Change. The retirement of William G. Thomp- son and Herbert Ehrmann, who have had charge of the defense in the pro- ceedings before the Supreme Court looking to a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti. was based on the ground that new counsel would be “untrammeled by the commitments of the past and less disturbed than we by a sense of in- justice.” In a long statement issued tate to- day the retiring counsel criticized the secrecy with which Gov. Fuller con- ducted his personal investigation of the Sacco-Vanzetti case and referred to the fact that the decision of the ad- visory committee named by the gover- nor to conduct @n independent investi- gation had not been made public. While their friends were studying new means of averting their death sen- tence, now set for August 10, Saéco and Vanzetti. in the death house at the Charlestown State Prison, heard with | little show of emotion the news that CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 2. Girl Missing, Bogus Marriage Alleged Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 4 (A.P.) —Detectives. are seeking to un- ravel the mystery of the disappearance of an American girl, Margit Voerdes- mart, of New York. John Michalko, prominent, in Czechoslovak politica) circles, and his friend and physician, Dr. Klepetar, have been arrested on sus- picion of murdering her. It is alleged by the police that Michalko went through a bogus form of marriage with Miss Voerdesmart last year, after which she, Michalko and Klepetar left for Paris, saying they were going to America. Since then, accord- ing to authorities, nothing has been’! heard of her, although Michalko and Klepetar subsequently returned to Prague. Trial. Oneonta, Ala., Aug. 4 (A.P.).—Eugene Doss was found guilty of assault and ener and kidnaping by a jury today in connection with the flogging of Jeff Calloway, farm youth, several weeks ago. Trial was immediately begun of L. A. Clayton, another of the seven men indicted for whipping Calloway. Dr. L. S. Fennell; reputed Tarrant City klan head and one of the men under indictment, was fined $50 for contempt of court, because of a street corner speech last night, in which he told a group of persons that two Bir- mingham newspapers were responsible for his indictment, because of investi- gations they made into the floggings. Fennell, a witness in the Doss trial, had been cautioned by Judge O. A. Steele to say nothing about the case in public. Doss was sentenced to eight to ten yéars in the State penitentiary. Dark-Glass Bandit Caught in Cleveland _ Cleveland, Qhio, Aug. 4) (A.P.).—Joe (Smoked Glasses) Russel, for whom Cleveland police had been conducting rooming house on Cedar avenue here late today. Russell first - was wanted by Cleveland police following @ series of robberies of grocery stores and filling stations. At each ‘hold-up he wore smoked glasses which gave him the name of the “smoked glasses bandit.” After many days search for, him he was captured by. detectives, but on being. taken. to a suburb for identification he com- ‘| hands, sige: tte Ba spusdinies 4 Lad e: . ? ih lpg 4