The Washington Post
April 30, 1929

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Ocis 26359 may -1 92. The only newspaper in Washington “with the Associated Press news every in the year. delivery call Main 4205. Yor home —ñ— , 4 5 4 Washington t v4 m 7 — ed —— * Bay n % — NX : * F tie — ee ae 5 “i 5 ta 12 Oi rs ¥ 7 . — ie ore aap he ae Ce, Seow 19.311. i nse FET [ — POSTOPPICE, WASHINGTON. D. ©. WASHINGTON: TUESDAY, APRIL 30. 1929. oe POST-SCRIPTS GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN “Strength in this life prevails and . sways— Bold Power oppresses W orth— He who J a gee — can not command obeys— In short, there’s not teo much te praise In thie poor orb of earth.” Ambassador Gibson, our promi- nent Western Union boy at Geneva, is being overwhelmed with praise from everybody—sxcept Americans. Irvine Lenroot, whose Vice Presi- dential balloon at the Chicago con- wention of 1920 got in the orbit of ~ e Me Cal Coolidge’s lucky star, receives a belated consolation prize from a Senate committee. Mr. Wheat will also soon be feel- ing his oats as a District Judge. With a $4,250,000 swatter Uncle Sam will now be able te show the > ae what's swat * *F — pesky Mediterranean fly in Florida _ Senator Wheeler wants to know about working conditions in the Southern textile industry, and the ‘thing we know there’s going to ‘another emancipation act in this — for n⸗ labor. ode geod enough for me.” thie’ oth equid by —— fovers. © OE amit thus ie See ce MAS RS °° ee — F oe — es . 7 . Ness 7 4 * e of . sashweight and picture-cord If Senator “Mans — really — Son pred up — ke i snapping their fingers for s@ long that they have forgotten they five hundred laws in at* which the people We GE on the matate books. te the great Marshal of the World * 7 Te " rie | porter. men. have been selected to Hopkins’ War. As Iago would have described TNR) he a eeldier 6t to ctend by cae Caesar And give — ‘Representative — of Wash- - fimgten, objects to a motion made in : the Heuse for expunging from the Record the fatal word Congressional which will disclose for all time that its Members applauded the descrip- tion of the slaying of a 21-year bey suspected of rum-running. seems to have lost something of that - sympathy and the milk of human kindness which one comes to expect ' te find in an old retired police re- eold He If the textile strike is being fo- mented by Communists the surest over his eighth | » that of Minister of new school for aées next Fall, and you'd better pames now, for you mag humble FIGHT IN HOUSE LOOMS AGAIN IN SMOKE oLAYING La Guardia Given Right to Talk 45 Minutes on Issue Tomorrow. ATTEMPT TO EXPUNGE DRY “APPLAUSE” FAILS Policeman Quits Chase of Rum Car When Fumes. Are Let Loose. PROHIBITIONISTS GAIN ® COURAGE FROM BISHOP Brief. Debate Ends Effort to Revive Controversy on Fleming Death. The bitter quarrel that started in the House last week over the killing of Ott- tions would not see it. This word, in mer Fieiiing. 21-year-old rum runner, be Policeman Clyde O. Rouse, is sched- uled to break out anew tomorrow. Representative La Guardia, fiery wet, of New York, has obtained permission to talk for 45 minutes. and it is .ex- pected trat his speech will be even more impassioned than the one he made Fri- day. That the drys who.applauded the story of Fleming’s death remain un- changed in their attitude was indicated yesterday when La Guardia made a vain attempt to have the word “ap- plause”: expunged: from the Congres- sional Record, so that future yenera- brackets, was inserted by the official reporter at that point where Repre- sentative Holaday (Republican). of Ili- nois, told how Policeman Rouse, firing reg ry os ap 4 ie aa of waninesn. objected. And so it will remain in the Record for all time. In the action yesterday of Représeh- tative Simmons (Republican). of Ne- braska, and Representative Underhill (Republican), of Massachusetts, there was further evidence that the last has not been heard of the Fleming shoot- ing. | Simmons called upon Maj. Pratt. su- perintendent of police, to supply him with a statement that will show how | many policemen have been killed or | wounded } in the line of duty in the last five years, and also a statement show- ing the number of smoke screen viola- tions in that period. Says Morale Is Endangered. In Friday’s debate in the -House. Simmons, while expressing regret for Pieming’s death. upheld Policeman Rouse and declared that unless police- men. were upheld in such cases the morale of the department would be shattered. Representative Underhill asked Maj Pratt for information as to the number of policemen and private citizens who have been killed here as a result of the pursuit of bootleggers and rum runners Maj. Pratt immediately issued a ver- bal order to his commanding officers to supply the information requested by the two representatives. Policeman C. E. Ripperberger, of the Eleventh Precinct, reported yesterday that he had to abandon the pursuit of ey runner when the latter bom- barded him with a smoke screen. » Notes Springs Sagging. Ripperberger said he was in his auto- mobile patroling near Benning road and Minnesota avenue southeast, when he spied a car containing three white men. ' “The car was riding light when it went east in the direction of Maryland,” Ripperberger said, “but when it re- turned 30 minutes later the body was ‘one member of .a family of six were | Cumsey, of Quarryville, Pa.: Senator Attacks Attempt To Mold Legislation on Dry Work. United States Senator Royal S. Cope- land (Dendocrat). New York, an out- standing ‘member of the Methodist Church, yesterday publicly turned on the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of that church and accused it of trying to “dictate and control legisiation.” In a scorching letter to Dr. Clarence True Wilson, executive secretary of the board, Senator Copeland expressed bitter resentment at statements that the board had influenced his vote on dry legislation, and warned that hence- forth he will not. permit his position to be misrepresented. In his letter Copeland said: “Nothing could be more painful to me than a controversy with my church or any of ‘ts officials. But I must FIVE IN FAMILY OF 6 DIE IN.GRADE Gr * acres Px titers Fal tates ade to. ‘vivor as Train Hits Car - Near Elkton. WARNED, SAYS: GATEMAN Elkton, Md., April 29 (A.P.).—All but killed late today when the truck in which they were riding was struck by a westbotind Baltimore & Ohio express at Leslies Station near here. Frank Mc- his wife, two sons, 11 and 9 years old. and a 4-year-old daughter were killed almost instantly. An 18-month-old child was slightly injured J.J. Tully, watchman, “he crossing, said the truck driven by “McCumsey drove on the tracks immediately after an eastbound freight had passed, the driver apparently not seeing the west- bound express. He said he attempted to wave him back, but no attention was paid to the signal. Coroner Howard W. Green, of Cecil County, called a jury to investigate the accident. The 18-month-old child, a “girl, was thrown from its mother’s lap when the truck was struck, landing on a grass bank. She is not seriously injured. King George Resuming Labors After Illness. London, April 29 (AP.).—King George hag so far recovered {from his iliness at Bognor that he is gradually resuming his regular state functions and desires to. deal personally with matters pertaining to the general elec- tion on May 30. It was officially announced tonight that his majesty would personally pre- side at a meeting of the privy council at Craigwell House, May 10, to this end.. The meeting will be attended by Premier Baldwin and Sir William Joyn- CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 5 son Hicks, the home secretary. Widow of Capital Doctor, Suicide Week Ago, Reweds Mrs. J. A. Dorsey Marries |f Again at Reno After Husband’s Death. A marriage yesterday was the sequel to the death of a Washington physician who committed suicide a week ago Mon- day, when the widow of Dr. John & Dorsey, Mrs. Margaret M. Dorsey, mar- | ried Tolla R. Boswell, jr., five minutes | after he had secured a divorce from his wife, Dorothy Hoag Boswell, of Easton, Pa., at Reno, Nev., it was learned here last —— Mrs. Dorsey was in Reno seeking a divorce, according to dispatches, when ‘she learned Saturday that death had set her free to marry Mr. Boswell. His divorce was granted yesterday and five minutes after he gained his freedom they were married. _ Dr. Dorsey, according to Washington authorities, was found dead in the home of G. L. Brown, 2660 Rhode Island RADIO FANS Vote for your favorite } program or against those which do not appeal to you in THE RADIO BALLOT On Page 8 OF TODAY’S | WASHINGTON POST Copeland Raps Lobby Of Methodist C Church | tinued, Cha Yachting, Reservations. Ashland 4000.—.Adv. ‘ Pe! . EBS J be ss hl RS ge ee A ene Pe gree CY Py, g z ges ee + Y Dr. Clarence True Wilson (left), ex- ecutive secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Church, and Senator Royal 8. Copeland (right), who wrote the former expressing bit- ter resentment at statements that the board had Influenced his vote. say something to you today that I do not like to say. “IT have been greatly concerned for years over what I regard to be an im- proper activity, the work at Washing- ton of the Board of Temperance, Pro- hibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Church, in its manifest ef- forts to dictate and control legislation” I disapprove this. That, as I view it, is not the function of the Methodist Church. “Our traditional ‘attitude has been one of rebeflion against ecclesiastical in- terference with the state. Yet we are doing exactly what we have demanded shall not be done by Catholics. Had that branch of the Christian Church CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 3. DUNES, RETURN, CTS MCRL v. 8. Has Only old inad- equate Cash Accounting System, General Holds. HOME FROM DOMINGO New York, April 29—Former Vice President Dawes, the newly appointed Ambassador to England, came home to- day from San Domingo. where he has been budget making and budget direct- ing. Mr. Dawes, who was accompanied by the other members of the commission of fourteen which went to the Domini- can Republic, came back with kind words for everybody except Comptroller General McCarl of the United States. But for Gen. McCarl, the head of the American budget system, he had, con- cealed in a long wordy statement, a good sound wallop. He criticized harsh- ly the McCarl direction of our nationa: accounting. Without mentioning McCarl by name, he declared that the budget. system here, of which he was one of the origi- nal framers, does not follow out its Original intent—and that it is now nothing other than the old cash ac- counting system that was formerly in vogue. Dawes was singularly unta!kative, al- though he was affable enough to inter- viewers and chuckled over kindly jibes about his underslung pipe. He looked a little thin after his five weeks in the tropics, and was attired in a gray suit, a double-breasted blue overcoat and a gray soft hat that had seen better days. “My statement speaks for itself,” he declared when the correspondents at- tempted to get him to amplify his at- tack on McCarl—and no cajolery could move him. The portion of his statement relating to the work of McCar! follows: “The system of accounting which we recommend for adoption by the Do- minican government is one which the framers of our present budget and ac- counting law intended to be set up in the United States as necessary to the proper understanding by the pub- lic and congress of governmental busi- ness operations and status. All the powers to install such a system are at present vested in the comptroller gen- eral of the United States, but he has thus far failed in carrying out the ac- counting purpose of our present law. We have in the United States, there- | fore, Only the old-fashioned and en- tirely inadequate cash accounting sys- tem.” “As for my personal plans,” he con- “l am going to Chicago Thurs- day. where it will take me probably two weeks or so to arrange my per- sonal matters before leaving. 1 will then stop off at Washington for a day or so to consult the President and Sec- retary Stimson and hope to sail for England during the latter part of May. “I am appreciative of the kindness with which my appointment seems to have been received in this country and England. but I remember Spanish saying: ‘It is not the applause On entrance but on exit which is im- Se eid and I am keeping humble in mind.” the only Those of the original party to go to San Domingo who returned with Dawes ‘on the San Lorenzo were: Theodore W. Robinson, vice president of the Illinois Steel Co.; John F Har- CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 3 berlin-Vanderbilt Hotel, Old Point ort. —Ove rnight. Golfins. Pishing- REED LAUNCHES FIGHT T0 BLOCK ORIGINS REPEL Pennsylvanian, Chided for “Bolting,” Says Hoover Deserted Party. BITTERNESS SEEN IN SENATE’S DISCUSSION Johnson Warns About Talk of Europe’s Pollution of U. S. Blood. SUPPRESSION, OF ALL IMMIGRATION HINTED Nye and Norbeck Insist Upon Explanation of Inferiors Flooding America. By CARLISLE BAKGERON. engendered by the fight to repeal the national origins law cropped out in the Senate yesterday when a huddle of re- peal advocates sought to rush Senator Reed, of Pennsylvania. They chided him with being “ir- regular.” with being against the Presi- dent, with unreasonableness and every- thing else they could think of but in the end they stood no better than they did in the beginning. The best they could get out of him was that he would not permit a vote on the question until he was convinced that the senators knew just what they were voting. This means that.as long asthe Pennsylvania senator has his way there will be no vote unless there are enough senators to prevent repeal. Senator Hiram Johnson, of California. who, according to indications, does not seriously care whether the law is re- pealed or not, could not resist the op- portunity to hold up the Pennsylvania. usually a party stalwart, as a ie bolter. Johnson Warns Reed; He warned him that every time he said anything about this country’s was talking against the “President of the United States.” Reed finally declared that it was not the party, but the President. National origins was legislated 1924, he explained. “It is worth while remembering,” the senator said, “that the policy of Congress was determined upon by & vote of 65 to 8, in the Senate, back in 1924. Both parties rose above poli- tics. It was determined as a patriotic American doctrine and that was many years before Mr. Hoover had expressed himself: upon the subject. “If anybody has departed from party policy, it is not the senators who to- day maintain the same position they maintained in 1924. If there is any irregularity—and irregularity means departure from ‘the straight line—we are not departing; we are merely re- maining consistent.” Exasperated by Pounding. The continued pounding by Johnson, Nye. of North Dakota; Norbeck, of South Dakota, and Bingham, of Con- necticut, exasperated Reed at one time into telling Senator Black, of Alabama, that “if the foreign groups who are now agitating so effectively this na- tional origins clause are effective in controlling the legislation of the American Congress, I, for onep shal] be in favor of the total suppression of all immigration into the United States until such. time as the people of this land have learned to think as Amceri- cans, and not as hyphenated citizens of some European country as well as this.” Black has a resolution pending for a suspension of immigration for ten years and he wanted to know how about it. When Reed expressed his feelings Johnson again warned him gleefully that it is “the President of the United States” that wants the law repealed. “Whence comes this agitation?” he asked. “Who is it that represents the hyphenated groups in America? Who is it that is asking for this repeal be- cause he is influenced by foreign groups, and who Is it that demands of Congress today that there be a repeal? It is your President and mine, the President of the United States and the head of the Republican party, of which the senator is such an ornament and in which I am such an outcast.” Thinks Hoover Uninformed. “Oh,”, Reed rejoined, “there is more joy over one sinner saved, like the senator from California. than - over ninety and nine regulars like me.” Reed declared that the President could not have had the opportunity to give a thorough study of the immi- gration problem. If he were as well informed, as capable, in population probiéms as he is in economics, the Pennsylvanian declared, he was satis- fied the President would be found “agreeing with us,” Nye insisted that the question of restricted immigration was not involved in the repeal proposal. He pointed | CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 3 Dpportunity Economical Trips Florida- Cuba very low fare round-trip long-life in tickets sold Atlantic Coast Line. May 11. 1418 H street, Washington.—adv, A forerunner of the bitterness to be blood being polluted by Europeans he. he was irregular, not he who had lef: Arms Are Anxiously Watched Here. By ALBERT W, rox. There are increasing signs of anxiety at the Capitol over the latest develop- Gibson is pitted against the trained veteran statesmen and diplomats - of Europe at the present session. of the preparatory commission of the League of Nations to discuss methods of limit- ing land and naval armaments. . concern is becoming manifest on penings: First—The persistent fiow of applause and flattery which is heaped upon the American attitude by Great | Britain, Prance and powers which here- tofore have been eagerly awaiting an- other opportunity to entice the United States into a bargaining game at an and eyen in statements. cabled to the Ambassador Gibson's. utterances and the complimentary references to every- thing w America has so far pro- posed or intends te propose stands out as a dominant feature, According to CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COLUMN 2. DEBT SETTLEMENT KEY — "Eines ce mise. Expected to * —* ceptable to Both Sides. Paris, April 29 (N.Y.W.N.S.).—Chances of « final reparations settlement being reached by. the committee of experts have greatly increased in the last 24 hours. A compromise on the annuities Ger- many is asked to pay in liquidation of her war obligations may come even be- fore Mr. Hjalmar Schacht, head of the’ German delegation, returns on Thurs- day from Berlin, where he went to at- tend a meeting of the directors of the Reichsbank, of which he is president. This week, at all events, it is be- lieved, will see success achieved by the conference. If it does not, definite failure of the negotiations wil] soon be evident. — The final outcome of the eleven weeks of deliberations is now up to Dr. Schacht, who, it is understood, has with him in Berlin a set of compro- mise annuities worked out by Owen D. Young, chairman of the committe. and by other American delegates. It is be- lieved that this schedule of payments could be accepted by Dr. Schacht be- cause they are considerably lower than the figures contained in the bill pre- sented to Germany by her principal creditors. These annuities are believed to average less than $476,000,000. The reason in the conference for be- lieving that Dr. Schacht may even tele- phone acecptance of the compronmiise is that it would immediately ease Ger- many’s financial situation and obviate the necessity for the Reichsbank takiny a series of severe restrictive measures to protect the mark. If Dr. Schacht were still to consider all. compromises acceptable to the allies too high he would, before he left Berlin, raise the discount rate again. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 2 As Gibson’s Parley Acts Cause Anxiety in C in * S. — —— on ments at Geneva where Ambassador | the Senate and House side and 1s -|Iinked with the following recent hap-— international conference. In public statements abroad, in préss comment Government via diplomatic channels and made public here the praise of YY LATER ANNUITIES PARED As Three Proposals Get Approval. — Geneva, April 29 (AP.)—Republican | Gérmany and Communist Russia are dissatisfic i with the work of the pre- paratory disarmament commission.’ No one can forecast what the nations may do in reducing the scale of their arma- ments. at a later international confer- ence, but neither Germany nor the So- construction of the drait treaty which ference. LEVIES ON INCOMES GAIN Federal] taxes collected during the first nine months of the fiscal year, ending Mareh 31, amounted to $3,137,- 178,647, ‘the Interhal Revenue Bureau announced yesterday, an increase of $60,310,689 over the same period of the last preceding fiscal year. Aggregating $1,689.165.158, income tax. collections were $74.000,000 more this year than iast year. but miscel- laneous tax collections, being $448,013.- 448 fell off about $13,000.000. 3 Of the total income tax paid, $763,- 304,114 came from individuals, an in- crease ‘of $119,000,000 over last year anc $925,861.043 was paid by corpora- tions, a decrease of $46,000,000 as com- pared with the corresponding period wi the 1928 fiscal year. The grand total] of taxes collected during the nine months period in Maryland and the District of Cohumbia was $37,386,642, an increase of $1,401.- 389 over last year. The income tax paid in Maryland and the District was $33,476,877. a gain of $578,755 over. last year. while the miscellaneous taxes amounted to $3.909.764, an increase of $€22,633 over last year. The income tax total in Maryland ano the District was accounted for by $17,247,666 from individuals, an in- bowease Of $2,115,949. and by $1%8,229,2:1 from corporations, a decrease of $1.- 557.193 as compared with the nine months which ended March 31. 1928. Virginians paid a total of $63,339,944 in Federal taxes during the nine months ending March 31, an increase of $581,961 over last year. The total income tax was $15,415,483, a decrease of $1,031,439, while miscellaneous taxes amounted to $7,924,460, an increase of CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 4 Edison Seeks Boy to Train Wizard's” Successor Young Genius Will Be Given Scholarship; District and All States Urged to Offer Candidates; Manhood and Ability to Meet Test Will Determine Selection. Orange, N. J., April 29 (U.P.).— Thomas A. Edison is seeking a young man of ability and genius who may be able to carry on his work, and to this end is offering a college scholarship, which will provide tuition for a four- year course, to the high school or preparatory school student who best meets a test to be given by the elec- trical “wizard.” Announcement of the scholarship offer was made tonight by Charles Edi- son. son of the famous inventor and president of the Edison industries. His statement said in part: | “As the weight of advancing years falls on the great inventor's shoulders. he is sseking a youth of unusual capa- bilities who perhaps will have the genius to carry on the ‘great work: he, has so well started. It is his desire to bring this unusual opportunity and e this unusua] youth together.” The governor of each State and the Commissioners of the District ef Co- lumbia will be asked to select the one male student in the high schools or preparatory schools of the respective States who is the best representative of American young manhood and pos- sesses the highest ability in acientific |} subjects during the school year 1928- 1929. These 49 winners will receive a free trip te the Edison laboratories here where they will be entertained. Each will beggiven a questionnaire person- ally prepared by Mr. Edison, and the one submitting the best replies will be CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 6. viets are getting satisfaction a regards will be submitted as a basis for work — oe igre ge — con- Count Von Bernstorft, who is fighting | Gi Bo" 5 et x. aa ee > ot? . . . 1h, * 7 " i ” be - 4 ~ F — * * sa — * 8 5 ™ . 7 7 if ij — a woman soaks eal On the linoleum on the hitchea Seer & large spot, believed to be # blood stain, was found, Capt. — vealed a 45 caliber revolver. After a short grilling, officers aii= nounced Peacox was unable to furnish them with any news of his wife, who, he said, he had not seen for two months. They said he had .accounted that he would be held as a material witness, and would be questioned fur< ther. Couple Married Year Ago. Pecaox and Dorothy Heinzelman with the girl’s mother. Mfrs. Heinzelman. in Bronxville, months and then moved to — ver⸗ non, where Peacox had employment as a radio repair man. They quarréled frequently, the mother said, and in her Opinion the daughter was chiefly at ——————SEE ees Index to Today’s “7 is Pages. 1—Torch Vietim’s Husband Held. Reed Fights Origins Repeal. New Debate on Smoke Slaying. — Copeland Hits M. BE. Lobby. 4 # 2—82,380 Gem Theft in Capital. =. ~ Couple Admit Beating Husvend. = Four Die in Elevated Wreck.- 3—Farm Relief Vote This Week. Sex Primer Author Is Fined.” ~ | 4—Lindy’s Plane Bogged in Mud. _ 5—Castle Speaks in Canada. 6—Editorial. : 7—Society. 8—In the Playhouse. Radio Preference Ballot. Vital Stati ti r ww ; = — oDady Legal Record. | : 10—The Weather. — 11—“Col.” W. A. Krell Is Dead. 12-13—Magazine Features, 14-19-20—-Finance, | — = Pe “A, _~ 18—The Post's Comics. — 21—Classified Advertising 22—International. Chamber | Plane Christened for Chile Firemen's College Planned. — } —— —— for his actions over the week-end, bué- were married in White Plains s year ago this month. They lived at aret * * * 15-16-17—Sports. 2 ey a. t “ — ;