The Washington Post
May 6, 1929

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> f er landing follow: Pa. MAY —8 1929 morning in the The only newspaper in Washington with the Associated Press news every delivery call Main 4205. year. For home ©ne 27172 ¥ The Washington — NO. 19.317. ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. WASHINGTON: MONDAY. MAY 6, 1929. 7 NINE BALLOON DOWN IN TEato; ~—TAREESTILL OFF Lieut. Settle, in Navy No. 1 Craft, Drops Note at Bay State Town. BAGS ARE BUFFETED BY TERRIFIC STORMS Van Orman and Aid, Down, Tell of Battling Snow in Adirondacks. ENT REPORTS CRASH WITH PLANE AVERTED Mail Flier Is Given Warning by Flashlight When 500 Feet Away. Pittsburgh, May 5 (A.P.).—Three of the lighter-than-air craft that set out from here Saturday as entrants in the mational elimination balloon race in quest of the honor of tepresenting he United States in the nternational race Jater in the year were still in the cir tonight, or were unreported as having made landings. Nine were reported down in various parts of Pennsylvania and New York. Approximate unofficial distances covered by the pilots who have report- Van Orman, Goodyear VII, 450 miles. Flood, Army No. 1, 297 miles. E. W. Hill, Army No. 2, 294 miles. Lawson, Army No. 8. 200 miles. ' Kilkoff, Aircraft Development Cor- poration, 32 miles. Richardson, Navy No. 2, 27 miles. Kepner to Defend Title. Those still in the air or unreported are: Detroit Times, FE. J. Hill, Detroit pilot; Arthur G. Slosser, Detroit, aid. ‘Navy No. 1, Lieut. Thomas W. G. Set- tle, Lakehurst, pilot; Ensign Wilfred Bushnell, Lakehurst, aid. Detroit Balloon Club, S. S. A. U. Ras- mussen, Detroit, pilot; Tracy South- worth, Monroe, Mich.. aid. Navy Pilot Drops Note. A report from North Adams, Mass., said Navy No. 1, Lieut. Settle, pilot; passed over that city tonight. A note ‘was dropped from the balloon by Settle te establish identification, balloon headquarters learned. Later a bag, be- lieved the same balloon, passed over Brattleboro, Vt. The balloons down are: - Army No. 2, Capt. E. W. Hill, Chanute | Field, Rantoul, Ill., pilot; Lieut. Roger Heald, Chanute Field, aid. Down at Branch, Ulster County, N. Y. The Pittsburgher, Dr. George N. Le- gallee, Detroit, pilot; Walter Chambers, Pittsburgh, aid. Down near Utica, N. Y. _ &t. Louis Chamber of Commerce, Capt. H. E. Honeywell, Clayton, Mo., pi- lot; Roland J. Gaupel, aid. Down at Middlesex, N. Y. Detroit Craft Forced Down. Aircraft Development Corporation, W. A. Elikoff, Detroit,*pilot; Thorvaid Larsen, Dearborn, Mich., aid. 7 miles west of Slate Rock, Pa. American Business Club, of Akron, A. C. Palmer, Akron, pilot; Walter B Griffin, aid. Down at Mount Pleasant, Navy No. 2, Lieut. Jack C. Richardson, — oe N. J., pilot; Lieut. Maurice M. Bradley, Lakehurst, aid. Down at Apollo, Pa. Army No. 3, Lieut. L. A. Lawson, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, pilot; Lieu. Edgar Fogelsonger, Scott Field, aid. Down at Roxbury, Delaware County. M. X. Army No. 1, Capt. W. J. Flood, Lang- ley Field, Va.. pilot; Lieut. U. G. Ent, aid, Langley eae Down at Wawarsing. } he ¢ Goodyear VII, Wade T. Van Orman, Akron, Ohio, pilot; L. MacCracken, Ak- zon, aid. Down at Keeseville, N. Y. ‘Batties With Storms Described. Tales of battles with the elements, Down | [ BALLOON PILOTS | Associated Press Photo. LIEUT. T. C. W. SETTLE. Ss. A. U. RASMUSSEN. TRUGK DRIVER HELD IN CHILD ACCIDENT Girl, 9, Taken to Hospital in Critical Condition From Several Injuries. POLICE “CHASE FRUITFUL Nine-year-old Blanche E. Hawkins. "Of 1112 Second. street southeast, was. ‘eritically injured yesterday afternoon | when knocked down by a truck while crossing New Jersey avenue at M street southeast. George. Baker, 31, of Suit- land, M@q., arrested, several blocks from the scene of the accident, is being held at the Fifth Precinct charged with leav- ing after colliding. The child was taken to Casualty Hos- pital in an ambulance and treated by Dr. J. Rogers Young for a fractured skull, concussion of the brain and bruises and contusioins which cover her body. ‘'t is feared she will not re- cover. Blanche was knocked down while on her way to a neighborhood store to make a purchase for Kenneth Johnson, of 1207 New Jersey avenue southeast, at whose home she was visiting. Policeman B. R. White, of the Fifth Precinct, who was patroiling his beat, witnessed the accident, he told his su- perior officers. When the driver of the truck which struck the girl did poi stop after the accident, according to police, White hailed a passing automo- bilist and gave chase. Baker was halted several blocks away. He would make nu statement last night. Raskob Donates $25,000 To School in Baltimore Baltimore, May 5 (N.Y.W.N.S.).—A surprise gift of $25,000 has come to McDonough School from John J. Ras- kob, chairman of the Democratic na- tional committee. The McDonough Schoo] is an un- usually thorough institution for boys, orphans being admitted free. Recently the farm was swept of nearly all its buildings by 4 fire and funds have been asked to replace them. The school is the result of an endowment of nearly $1,000,000 made nearly 100 years ago by John McDonough, son of a Scotch brickmaker. He ieft $1,000,000 each to Baltimore and New Orleans for free schools. —— Honor Is Presented to Former Governor at New York Session. New York, May 5 (N.Y.W.NS.)—In the’ presence of a distinguished com- pany at the Hotel Plaza tonight torme: Gov. Alfred E. Smith was pre~ented with the Laetare Medal, the annual award of Notre Dame University to the American lay Catholic:“who in nis par- ticular field of endeavor has achieved such distinction as reflects glory upon the Catholic faith.” Cardinal Hayes. Archbishop of New York, presided. The Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, president of Notre Dame Un!- versity, at Notre Dame, Ind, made the presentation. Frank P. Graves, State commissioner of education, delivered the principal address. @ Outstanding in the ceremonies was the reading of a letter from President Hoover, former Gov. Smith's recent and victorious opponent in the presicentia! ‘}election. The President acknowledged political his erstwhile adversary as “a CONTINUED ON ‘PAGE 8, COLUMN 3. LAW DISREGARD THREAT 10 U.,, OPEARERG AVER Parent-Teacher National: Delegates Hear Two Lawmakers. 1,000 ATTEND OPENING SESSION OF CONGRESS Bishop Freeman Declares Discipline Is Need of Youth. EDUCATOIN SECRETARY FOR CABINET IS URGED Association President to Talk at Morning Meeting; Dinner Tonight. One thousand delegates to the thir- ty-third annual convention of the Na- tional Congress of Parents and Teach- ers, assembled in the Hall of Nations at the Washington Hotel, were told by Representative Louis C. Cramton, of Michigan, last night at their first gen- eral meeting that America is free oniy while the laws that the people have made are observed. Representative Cramton advocated law enforcement and law observance. and warned the delegates that when the time comes that the people of this country will not obey the laws they themselves have made “the world’s greatest democracy” will go on the rocks. He urged his listeners to develop in the children under their care the ideals of home and school and law obe- dience. The representative.praised the young- er generation for ite rapid adjustment to what he termed the “most rapid and radical social revolution in history which has taken place in this country jin the past twenty years.” Says 1s8Ué Exists Now. “I have no fear of America in the hands of the next generation,” he ex- claimed in closing, “getting by. with this generation is the real issue.” The speaker claimed that since the passage of the eighteenth amendment there have been great tmprovements in this country. He quoted gains in life insurance, savings accounts and in- crease in comforts in the average house- hold to prove his assertion. An ardent plea to the delegates to do all in their power to secure the quick passage of the bill to establish a department of education with a sec- retary in the President’s Cabinet was made by Representative John M. Rob- sion, of Kentucky. Points Out Education Need. Representative Robsion pointed out that the Nationa] Congress of Parents and Teachers had indorsed the bill and promised its active, earnest and effec- tive support. He declared that the greatest need of a democracy is an en- lightened citizenship and that such a department would do much to banish illiteracy from the United States. “Investigations by great business concerns,” he asserted, “as well as by educational agencies show that a de- partment of education doing research Wed investigation to make this infor- mation available will effect economies amounting to tens of millions of dol- lars every year to the taxpayers and at the same time afford to the students better educational facilities.” This congressional advocate of the measure denied the statement that such a department of education would mean a departure from the general policy of the Government in education. He declared that every Congress since 1789 had aided and encouraged public schools and public educational] insti- CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 2 Hoover Congratulates Smith At Receiving Laetare Medal ——9 RADIO FANS Vote for your favorite program or against those which do not appeal to you in THE RADIO BALLOT on Page 10 OF TODAY’S WASHINGTON POST MAY FACE COURT | REPRESENTATIVE M. A. MICHAELSON MICHAELSON GOING TO TRIAL, (3 REPORT Representative Reported on | | charges Way to Florida, to Face Court This Week. ACCUSED UNDER DRY LAW Key West, Fla., May 5 (A.P.).—Repre- sentative M. Alfred Michaelson, of the Seventh Illinois District, Chicago, to- night was believed to be en route here to stand trial on charges of prohibition law violation at the six-day term of Federal Court beginning tomorrow Michaelson previously has declared he is innocent of the charges and that he would be present in court when his case is called. There appeared little likelihood to- day that Michaelson’s case would be called for trial before Tuesday. Henry H. Taylor, Miami attorney and former judge of the criminal court here, has been rétained to defend the Chicago representative. Michaelson was indicted last fall by a Federal grand jury in Jacksonville on charge: of unlawful importation, trans- portation and possession of intoxicat- ing MNquor.. The indictment followed discovery in the Jacksonville terminal station of a leaking trunk, containing Hquor, which Government agents claim was the property of the representative. The trunk was en route from Havana. Announcement of the indictment was not made public by the United States district attorney's office in Jack- sonville until six months after the 1ad_ been voted. William M. Gober, United States district attorney at the time, refused to confirm reports that the indictment had been returned He subsequently has resigned, but de- clared his resignation did not come about as a result of the indictment. John J. Casey Dies Of Panama Stroke U. S. Representative From Wilkes-Barre Passes in Balboa Hospital. Balboa, Canal Zone, May 5 (U.P.).— Representative John J. Casey, of Wilkes Barre, Pa., died at Gorgas Hospital to- day following a paralytic stroke last Monday. Last rites of the Catholic Church were administered shortly be- fore death. Mass will be celebrated Monday morning and the body prob- ably will be started on its trip to the United States on Tuesday aboard the Grace liner Santa Teresa. Six friends from Wilkes Barre resid- ing in the Canal Zone will serve as pallbearers. Wilkes Barre, Pa.. May 5 (U.P.).— Representative John J. Casey was 51 years old at the time of his death. He began life as a breaker boy in the coal mines when he was 8 years old, later becoming a plumber’s assistant and then taking up railroading. He, entered politics in 1908, being elected to the Lower House of the State Legislature, In 1912 he was elected to Congress, and was reelected in 1918, 1922 and 1928. He was president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor at the time of his death. Asylum Blaze Arouses 4,000; Damage $100,000 Morristown. N. . May 6 (A.P.).— Four thousand inmates of the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane were aroused early this morning when one wing of the institution was burned. Screaming in fight, inmates were re- moved to safety from rooms threatened by flames. The blaze could be seen for miles Fire walls prevented the blaze from spreading from the section in which it originated. The blaze was brought under control quickly. with loss esti- mated at $100,000. Plane Crash Into House Is Reported in Chicago Chicago, May 5 (A.P.).—Municipal airport officials tonight were attempt- ing to check a report that a tri- motored airplane had crashed into a house in the South Side of the city. A huge plane had been carrying pas- sengers on short flights this afternoon, airport officials said. Two fast pursuit planes sent up from the field to seek the passenger palne reported no trace of the ship. Florida-Havana round trip tickets for one way fare plus 25 cts., sold Washington, D. O. May 11, Atlantic rong Line, 1418 H 8t., Washington.— v. PANTO VEERING TO YOUNG OE PLAN, fo BELIEF for Franco-Belgian Decision Today. AMERICA ATTACKED IN PRESS OF FRANCE United States Is Accused of Greediness in Seeking Pay. GERMANY ANNUITIES NOT GREATLY SLICED Amount Only $714,000,000 Under Figures Drawn Up by Creditors. Paris, May 5 (U.P.)-——France is ex- pected to announce tomorrow its ac- ceptance or rejection of the so-called Young compromise for settlement of the German war reparations payments. If France and Belgium acce,. the general agreement. French official opinion was indef- inite tonight, but even the most hos- tile newspapers indicated that there was little ground for France to refuse acceptance: of the compromise, which was brought about by Chairman Owen D. Young of the reparations experts’ committee and accepted by Dr. Hjal- mar Schacht, chief’ German delegate. The compromise plan is a final. effort to reconcile the allied demands with the amount offered by Germany for annual payments, Official Comment Lacking. Press comment agreed that France could not reject the compromise with- out accepting the stigma for failure of the conference. Premier Raymond Poin- care was at Sampigny, however, and Emile Moreau, chief French delegate, has been-absent-in the provinces over the week-end,.so no officiil. comment | was available. Ameriea may be the heaviest suf- ferer in one way if the compromise is accepted, according to some observers here. A wave of resentment already is sweeping the French press, which caus- tically charges that the United States insists on collecting every penny of the war debts owed it by the allies. even to the approximately $333,200.- 000 cost of maintaining the army of occupation in the Rhineland. France, the newspapers complain, must be content with some $1,650,000,- 000 for war damages under the com- promise, although it already has paid out nearly four times that much for reconstruction of the war area. Closer study of the compromise— which is now being called the Young- Schacht compromise—shows that it comes within about §714,000,000 of the highest total sum the allies actually expected to get as contained in the memorandum presented at the experts’ conference April 13. Debt Plans Compared. The allied memorandum specified an- nua! payments over 37 years, averaging about $543,124,000, followed by annual payments over another period of 20 years averaging about $304,600.000, plus One payment which would have been about $214,200,000. Of this amount, about two-thirds was for payment of allied war debts and one-third for war damages. The Germans replied on April 17 offering annual payments over a period of 37 years, averaging about $394.- 308,000. The , compromise — plan provides for progressive annual payments over a period of 37 years, averaging about $487,600.000. This would be followed by twenty more annual payments av- eraging about $304,600,000. There would be one additional payment of about $214,200,000. The total figures in the three plans presented are calculated in capital sums. with interest figured at 544 per cent. The total in the April 13 allied memo- randum would be about $9,401,000,000. The total in the German offer of April 17 would be about $6,.188,000,000. The total in tne compromise plan would oe about 88,687,000,000. or some $714,000,- 000 lower than the allied demand. Auto-Train Crash Kills 5, Injures 3 Motor Car Stalls on Track of Pennsylvania Express, Witnesses Say. Riverside, N. J.. May 5 (U.P.).—FPive persons were killed aud three injured when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Pennsyl- Vania express train at the Lippincott avenue crossing here tonight. Wit- nesses said the automobile stalled on ithe tracks. The dead: Jack Bunge, 34; his wife. Clara, 32; their son, Jack, jr. 5; their daughter, Ada. 8, and Morgan Cham- berlin, 27. all of Riverside. James Weller. Philadelphia. a rela- tive of the Bunges. was critically in- jured. fractured leg. @is sor Jack. 4, and Clara, Bunge’s li-year-old daughter. were less seriously injured. The auto- mobile belon te Ch rlin and was purchased only yeste 4* was Compromise Comes Up receiving skull injuries and a Social Leaders Evade Mrs. Longworth Declines to Explain Shunning of Meyer Dinner. The battle for seating precedent on the social front between Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, Vice President Curtis’ half sister afild social hostess, chal- lenged by Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long- worth’s declination of an invitation to a dinner given by Mrs. Eugene Meyer, jr.. Saturday night, when she is sald to have learned that Mrs. Gann would be the ranking guest, resulted in a quick- according to secial gossip buzzing about one learned that as soon as Mrs. Gann learned that Mrs. declined because of the seating arrange- ment, she, too, sent a hurried declina- tion. Laughing over the telephone Iast night, Mrs. Gann refused to discuss the aftair and referred the reporter to Mrs Eugene Meyer. A social secretary at the Meyer home said that Mrs. Meyer re- fused to discuss. the matter and re- ferred to Mrs. Longworth. | The first call to Mrs. Longworth’s POLICEMAN CHASING SMOKE CAR INJURED) Aids Another Motorist to Make Escape. 20TH TO ELUDE PURSUIT Another suspected rum-runner, speeding through the streets of South- east Washington, early yesterday morn- ing escaped arrest by use of the in- creasingly popular smoke screen laid In the path of the pursuing policeman, G. FP. Newton, of the Eleventh Precinct, resulting in the officer losing control of his motorcycle and being thrown to the street and injured. Newton spotted the suspect at Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, when he saw a large and powerful automobile crossing west on the Pennsylvania avenue bridge without lights. Giving chase the po- liceman had nearly caught up with the machine when a dense smoke was belched into his path from the exhaust of the car. Despite the smoke, Newton continu- ed the pursuit until reaching Fourth and K streets southeast, where, tem- porarily blinded. he lost control of his motorcycle. In the resulting fall he received injuries to his right leg and knee, for which he was given first aid treatment at the Eleventh Precinct station, and later sent to the police clinic. The officer’s uniform was also badly damaged by the fall. As has been the case in nearly all of the score or more chases between policemen and suspected rum-runners who have employed smoke screens since the enactment of the Jones law making violation of the prohibition laws a felony. the suspect yesterday es- caped with his machine. Communist Plot Bered By Police of Budapest Budapest, Hungary, May 5 (A.P.).— Police announced today that they had unearthed a Communist plot against the government. They reported they had arrested five suspects who considerable seditious literature. witted move on the part of Mrs. Gann, | Washington yesterday. Between titters. | Longworth had} Screen Thrown Out by Auto: Issue in Gann Episode home resulted im learning that “Mrs. Longworth was out.” An hour latgr, during a second call, an age-old joke was born anew. “Has Mrs. Longworth returned?” the CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COLUMN 4. SINCLAIR. AWAITING CALL TO JAIL TONY Oil Magnate Passes His Final Day of Freedom at His New York. ——— FAMILY: way LIVE” Harry: PF: —5 his final Sun- day of freedom for the next three months yesterday at his palatial New York mansion, awaiting a telephone cal] that will summon him to Washing- ton during the early part of this week to begin a three months’ prison sen- tence arising out of the Teapot Dome case. In the meanwhile, a rumor persisted among real estate men here that Sin- clair was completing arrangements to obtain a private home in of near Washington for his family while he is “doing a stretch’ for refusing to al- swer questions put to him by the Sen- ate committee that investigated the oi] scandals. One report mentioned «a three months’ lease on a handsome residence at Dupont Circle, while an- other mentioned a home in Chevy Chase. A mandate from the United States Supreme Court, upholding Sinclair's conviction and sentence in jail, is to be laid before Associate Justice Hits, of the ‘District of Columbia Supreme Court, upon its expected receipt in the mail this ‘morning. A conference of the United States district attorney and George P. Hoover, Sinclair's Washing- ton attorney. regarding the time of surrender of the multimillionaire oil magnate, will. pave the way for signa- ture of commitment papers by the judge in the case. It is assumed by Sinclair’s friends hcre that he will be allowed the cus- tomary ohe day of grace before incar- ceration. Both Hoover and Martin W. Littleton, counse] for the oi] man in New York, have announced that sin- clair will be on hand when the Dis- trict Supreme Court calls for him and that he will surrender himself without any move of any kind to forestall in- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4. COLUMN 32 Crime Is Biggest Problem In U. S., Survey Vote Shows Court Justice, Prohibition Rank Next, Economic League Reports. Crime with disrespec* for law. admin- istration of justice and prohibition are the three paramount problems oefore the people of the United States, « ccrd- ing to a preferential ballot conducted by the Nationa! Councii of the Na ‘tonai Economic League, results of which were announced yesterday. Prohibition, which stands third on he list, is considered more important thon the prevention of war, taxation. cduca- tion, the tariff, public health and na- tional defense. That the subject of crime witp dis- respect for law received the most votes ax the lead'.g problem of the countrys coincides with the declaratio. oi Presi- dent Hoover that obedience to +i] the laws is the primary need of the * ation as this time. | The executive council of the National Economic League, which conducted the poli, consiste of John Hays / COMERIUED out PAGE a ‘COLES 4 |LONG LIST OF CR ————— Buffalo — Took Part in Fat al” jALLEGED LEADER H FOILING MAIL T a part of Kalkiewicz’s — a they went to a farmhouse on the ow skirts of Depew. rendezvous .of 1 geng where the prisoner said had executed their former pal. | shallow grave back of the barn. . spot indicated by the prisoner, the pe lice found the bullet-riddled body © | Chojnicki. Death Is Decide@d Upon. Chojnicki, the prisoner said, was a regular member of the gang. but a participated in ome of. their He came to Big money to get out of town. saying police were hot on his trail. Big Korney told Chojnicki to turn the next night. according to | confession, and after he left a ci] of the gang was held at which was decided that Chojnicki was~ coming dangerous to their safety al must die. The execution on the next confession states, took jf barn. Big Korney and took their victim to the, pretext of showing him that had been acquit had been dug Dack preceding day. down as he en ang ten minutes carried out the Got Gu Big Korney, had New Yc tions and @& cities. The Pedderfs p from QGhi¢é Kalkiewicz participated holdup, in N shot April 17 Charges of placed Index to Pages. 1—Bandit Three E Law Disre. Young C 2—Berlin Poli Mother Ser 3—5-Power A 4—Torch Death 5—Tornado 6—Editorial. 7—Society. 8— Weather 9—Great 10—Return ¢ Post Radi« 11-12-13—Spor 13—The Post's 14— Magazine F Radio News 15—Classified 16—Anticigarette Howard E Circus Lures ¢ Horsewoman Sa ee —— a | = : *