The Washington Post
May 21, 1929

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y ™~ > » od oe 6 “and eight years of Wilson, and then ' PH rise and - minds at ease ee PE oi 2 Ka a 9 : 4 r The only newspaper in Washington with the Associated Press news every morning in the year. delivery call Main 4205. For home 4 May 29 29 “ Oe zor05 pe NO. 19,332./ ENTERED AS SICOND-CLASS MATTER POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. WASHINGTON: TUESDAY, MAY The Washington Post. 21, 1929. ‘POST-SCRIPTS | y GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN “There ie always hope,” says John Stuart Mill, “when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend only te one that errors harden into prejudices.” Here's a case where the Senate will be forced to listen to both sides of the roll call on the Lenroot con- firmation. Leok over it—and don’t let anything “harden into preju- dices!” Senate conferees on the farm bill debenture insist on a slap in the face from the House and will accept no substitute. While others patiently ponder the personnel of the President's prag- matic prohibition probers we. hop ahead te the day after the day their ‘report is finally made and scoop _ everybedy by announcing that one- half the people are still agin’ licker and the other half still for it. Any copy of a daily newspaper can furnish an adequate report on the extent of the crime wave and the failure of prohibition enforce- ment for two cents, but the American people will never be satisfied with - ene that costs less than $1,000,000. _The report that Mr. Hoover got a black eye on the Rapidan appears te be merely the garbled version of @ recent incident that happened dur- - ing the farm bill vote in the Senate. * *« @& ®& “Comrades, comrades, ever since we were boys, Sharing each other's sorrows, sharing each other's joys!” Back in 1909-10, when Norris was fighting the Speaker's power in the House of Representatives, instead insurging all over the place together, and the G. O. P. received the black led to the downfall of Taft ~ This is the first time that a nine- mile railroad has kicked up a billion dollars’ worth of fuss in this coun- try since Mary Irwin used to sing her famous song— “On the dummy, on the dummy line, PU rise and shine, for to pay my fine, A shine, for to pay my fine, When I ride on the dummy line.” Old-fashioned Wilmington moth- er-—Heaven bless ‘em!—loses her fight to have her daughter attend . high school bare-legged. ~~ Blessings on thee, bere-legged girl, With thy bobbed hair in a curl, ‘And thy little dimpled knees, Kissed by every naughty breeze. . Marshal Snyder beats the prohi- bition probers to it and sets their . on what isn’t the cause of the crime wave. ‘North Carolina missionaries d@& neunce smoking as a recently ac- quired habit by women, but what do they want the girle to go in for, Delly Madison's enuff ? . oa * - Geod omen in the laying of the Internal Revenue Building corner- stens in the rain—may it always pour in! ~ . President t Heover’s offer to can- s it I > «ff i? % : pet ee THREAT CAUSED LINDOLAGH HOF NORTH, REPORT Letter Declared to Have Promised Killing of Constance Morrow. DEMAND FOR $50,000 BY EXTORTIONIST TOLD Hurried Flight of Colonel and Fiancee’s Family Called Precaution. GUARD PLACED ABOUT GIRL, 15, STORY AVERS Torture Claimed Described in Epistle Sent to Sister of Anne at School. Boston, May 20 (A.P.).—The Boston Post in a copyrighted story tomorrow will say that a plot to extort $50,000 from Dwight W. Morrow, United States Ambassador to Mexico, by threats of mutilation and death to bis youngest daughter, Constance. was responsible for the unheralded flight of Col. Charlies A. Lindbergh and members of the Morrow family to North Haven, Me., Saturday. The Post will say that the plot was responsible for the guard of secret service operatives which has besn posted about the Morrow summer home. It will say that Constance wax secretly spirited away from Milton Academy here while another girl im- personated her. The girl is 15 years old and a sophomore at the academy. The story will explain that Miss Morrow first received a letter demand- $50,000 and threatening her with she did not get it and leave at a named spot. She showed the i the girl, The Post will say. It gave de- tailed instructions as to how the money was to be delivered last Saturday after- noon. When this letter was received an appeal was made by the Morrow family te Amabassador Morrow’s former part- ne the firm of J. P. Morgan & &B. and action also was taken at Washing- ton. Secret service operatives and private detectives were sent to work on the case and guard the girl, The Post will say. It was decided to move her from the school secretly. This was done and her arrival in New York was timed for Col. Lindbergh's hop-off with other members of the Morrow family. The Post will say that Lindbergh’s failure to use his regular landing field at New York and the secrecy veiling his flight was due to the plot. «Impersonator Leaves Bundle. The Post will say that the imper- sonator of the Morrow girl followed the instructions in the last letter Saturday and left a bundle at the designated spot. Detectives watched but no one came to claim the package. The story will say that the watch was being kept tonight in spite of the fact that ‘the authorities believed news of the girl's flight to North Haven with other members of her family frightened the would-be kidnaper. It will say that the guard about the Morrow home is not to keep curiosity seekers away from Cel. Lindbergh and his fiance, Miss Anne Morrow, but to »protect the 15-year-old student. North Haven, Me.. May 20 (U.P.).— Col. Charles A. Lindbergh celebrated the second anniversary of his flight to Paris today with a spm over the At- lantic Ocean. Lindbergh spent several hours fiying over Penobscott Bay in the monster CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 4. Roll Call of Senate On Lenroot Revealed Executive Session Ballot tion to Customs Court ~. Parties Divided on Hoover Appointment. That Confirmed Nomina- Bench Bared, Showing ‘ se The roll call: Gillett. Glenn. Goff. Gould. Greene. Hale. Hastings. Hatfield. Hayden. King. Howell. Johnson. La Follette. Blaine. Cutting. Frazier. Dill. Fletcher. Harris. Heflin. Barkley. Black. Caraway. Connolly. Brookhart for with Borah against. ABSENT AND Thomas (Idaho), Walcott, Warren. Farmer-Labor, 1—Shipstead. By PAUL R. MALLON (United Press Staff Correspondent). The executive session roll call by which the senate confirmed, 42 to 27, the nomination of Irvine L. Lenroot, of Wisconsin, as a member of the United States Court of Customs Appeal was obtained by the United Press last night from a confidential but indisputably authoritative source. FOR LENROOT—4?2. Republicans—33. Democrats—9. AGAINST LENROOT—27. Republicans—11. Democrats—16. PAIRED. Republicans, 11—Couzens, Goldsborough, Keyes, Patterson, Sackett, Schall, Democrats, 14—Bratton, Broussard, Copeland, George, Glass, Harrison, Hawes, Kendrick, Pittman, Robinson (Ark.), Simmons, Swanson, Tydings, Tyson. Much interest has been manifest in@— Reed. Robinson (Ind.). Shortridge. Smoot. Steiwer. Townsend. Vandenberg. Waterman. Watson. Hebert. Jones. Kean. McNary. Metcalf. Moses. Oddie. Phipps. ‘Steck. Stephens. Walsh (Mass.). Overman. Ransdell. McMaster. Norbeck. Norris. Nye. Pine. McKellar. Sheppard. Smith. Thomas (Okla.). Trammell. Wagner. Walsh (Mont.). Wheeler. NOT VOTING. the vote because of the campaign now being conducted in the Senate against the secrecy rule which permits senators to conceal their votes on nomi- nations if they so desire. Amendments COURT UPSETS PLAN OF I. G. 0. VALUATION YErred in~ Fixing Worth of O’Fallon Road, Rules Supreme Bench. DECISION FAR - REACHING (Associated Press.) The result of years of labor by the Interstate Commerce Commission in valuing railroads for rate making and other purposes was seriously impaired, if not entirely swept aside, yesterday by the Supreme Court. The highest tribunal, dividing 5 to 3, with Justice Butler not participating, held that the commission in ite valua- tion work must observe such elements as the present cost of construction or reproduction. The controversy reached the Supreme Court ‘through an appeal by the St. Louis & O’Falion Railroad, a 9-mile coal. line in southern TIllinois. It sought to have set aside an order is sued by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission calling for a refund of a part of its earnings. Coming under what is known as the recapture clause of the transportation act, permitting rail- Moads to retain one-half of their earn- ings in excess of 6 per cent, and re- quiring thém to pay over to the Gov- ernment the other half, the case was based primarily on the validity of the methods used by the commission in valuing railroad property. The opinion of the court was de- livered by Justice McReynolds after a quoting of the law which requires the commission to “give due consideration to all elements of value recognized by the law of the land for rate-making purposes” and of the court's former de- cision on the subject of valuations for rate-making purposes. The opinion stated that among the elements “is CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COLUMN 2. Two Guards $13,800 Obtained in Hold- up of Auto on Busy San Diego Road. ‘ San Diego, Calif. May 20 (A.P.).— Two special police officers, identified as N. Monroy, and A. Borreto, were shot and killed here today by three ma- chine gun robbers wh: escaped with $80,000 in checks and $5,800 in cash, which the policemen were bringing to a Bandits’ Machine Gun Kills of Money Car = SKYROADS - BY LIEUT. LESTER J. MAITLAND LITTLE LESSONS IN THE ART OF FLYING POR. TRAYED BY A SERIES OF | INTERESTING SKETCHES DAILY On the Comic Page OF THE WASHINGTON POST seeking to abolish these rules were drawn several months ago by Senator Jones, of Washington) assistant Repub- lican leader and Senator Robinson, of CONTINUED ON PAGE 7, COLUMN 1. FIRST LAP OF ROME HOP MADE TO MAINE Bad Weather Likely to Halt Atlantic Air Race for Several Days. FRENCH FLIERS WAIT ALSO Old Orchard, Me., May 20 (N.Y.W. N.8.).—The “Green Piash” with Roger Q. Williams and Lewis A Yancey, pilot and navigator, arrived here just before dusk today on the first lap of their proposed hop to Rome. Both Yancey and Williams expressed the hope of taking off at daylight tomorrow. Only one element, and a most im- portant one which may give the French filers time to catch up, was against them—tl.e weather. James H. Kimball, meterologist of the United States Weather Bureau, who has |-en supplying the aviators with reports for the past week, joined other weather experts in describing condi- tions as unfavorable. He said tonight that his report to the Americans who hope to be the first to make the air crossing this year was against an im- 1 ediate attempt and that no favorable report might be issued until the middle of the week. The filers who took off from Teter- boro Airport, N. J., at 2.55 p. m., head- ing their plane in the direction of New York, with Old Orchard as their im- mediate goal, were accompanied by Ben Zbori, a mechanic. Zbori will not make the Rome flight. Arriving at Old Orchard, Williams Said the take-off tomorrow morning would be made only under favorable weather auspices. Their plane is the one in which Marten Jensen recently broke the world’s solo endurance flight record. It is being refueled tonight, Williams and Yancey bringing with them today only enough gasoline for the Old Or- chard hop. The filers, though disappointed by Kimball's report, wer: buoyed up by re- CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 3. Guard of Rothstein Taken in Homicide “*Legs”” Diamond Is Held in Tony Marlow Death of Last November. New York, May 20 (A.P.).—John T. “Legs” Diamond, former bodyguard for Arnold Rothstein, slam Broadway gambler, was arrested tonight on a charge of homicide in connection with the shooting of Tony Marlow here No- vember 5 last. Diamond. who described himself to police as a salesman, was shot and critically wounded in October, 1927, when Jacob Orgen, lower East Side gang leader, known as “Little Augie,” was shot to death in what police de- scribed as an outbreak of gang war- fare. The two were ambushed on the lower East Side and their assailants escaped in an automobile. At one time it was reported that Diamond was being sought by police in connection with the slaymg of Rothstein, but Inspector John D. Coug- lin, then chief of detectives, later de- clared “Legs” was not being sought ‘as | Rothstein's slayer. i BINGHAM BILL. FOH AIRPORT TO UME UP TODAY Commission Will Consider Chairman’s Measure at Session Here. CONTENTS SHROUDED IN DEEPEST SECRECY Site for Plant and Plan of Payment Among Big Problems. IMPERATIVE NEED IS SHOWN-BY EXPERTS Davison Launches Survey to Decide Best Methods for Surfacing. Washington advanced along the road to a municipal airport yesterday, it be- ing learned that Senator Bingham (Re- publican), Connecticut, has drafted a bill which would provide for one and that Maj. D. A. Davison, Assistant En- gineer Commissioner of the District, has instituted a survey- to obtain informa- tion of the experiences of cities which have established them. Senator Bingham has called a meet- ing of the Congressional Airport Com- mission, of which he is chairman, fot today to consider the bill he-has drawn up. The senator declines to make known the provisions of the bill, how- ever, until the commission has author- ized him to introduce it. Members of the commission agree that Washington should have a large, adequate national airport and that it should be as close to the city as pos- sible. At hearings on the project twelve or more experts, including Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, have emphasized the needs. Two Problems Encountered. Two problems that confronted Sen- ator Bingham in drafting his bill were the lacation of the airport and the amounts to be paid toward it by the Federal Government afid by the Dis- trict government. The District Com- missioners have recommended it be lo- cated at the Gravelly Point site, oppo- site Hains Point, and that it be paid for on a 50-50 basis. The commission has not permitted its views on these phases of the question to become known. Maj. Davidson is chairman of the municipal airport committee of the city official’s division of the American Road Builders’ Association, and this organi- gation has undertaken the work of col- lecting returns of a yuestionnaire pre- pared by Davison. This questionnaire, which deals principally ‘ith the sur- facing of landing fields of municipal airports, was distributed among dele- gates to the airport convention in Cleveland, Ohio, last week. Answers are to be filed with the airport divi- sion of the American Road Builders’ Association. The information thus. obtained will be studied and compiled into a report which later will be available to all cities and towns developing or con- templating the development of iir- ports. The questionnaire, Davison ¢x- plained, was prepared in the light of his experience as the representative of the District Commissioners in present- ing the National Capital's airport needs and problems to the Bingham com- mission. Development In Infancy. Airport development in America ig in its infancy, Davison believes, and only experience can give the final answer to many of the questions now con- fronting those charged with the, build- ing of airports. ” “That does not mean that Wash- ington should wait several years and see just what is finally arrived at as perfection,” Davison added. “We should go ahead now, taking advantage of general experience and knowledge and building toward the eventual ideal air- port. If a man refused to buy an auto- mobile because he knew an improved automobile would be available next year he never would have an automo- bile.” More than 100 questions are con- tained in the questionnaire, dealing with various stypes of field surfacing, runways and the manner in which the field is laid out. Replies are expected to bring out valuable information use- ful not only in the development of the Washington airport but those in other cities as well. Chicago-New Orleans Air Express Is Planned New York, May 20 (A.P.).—Formal announcement will be made within a few days of the organization of the Mid-continent Air Express, operating air lines between Chicago and New Orleans, Wall Street learned today. The project is backed by the Talbot-Han- shue-Fokker group, which controls tre Western’ Air Express, operating lines along the Pacific Coast, and which re- cently sold a 40 per cent interest in the Fokker Aircraft Co. to the General Mo- tors Corporation. Philip Philbin, jr. who has been named general manager of the com- pany, is making a survey of proposcd routes along the Mississippi. Valley. Al! details regarding routes, landing ‘fields. &c., are being withheld until Mr. Phil- bin has filed his report. ' 7 % 2 ee - oe ‘ 9 4 = . * és : re ~ar™ ‘ r : Ps ; a* > ‘ : ME 4 . beac OS: . . — r: cd = ‘es =o . - , on ap een ct AF 3 x ss . sae s : - a > eon ¥, = 27-- fe r : eee FP yer. ve : Pi ae tee , « ; " he sat Lao Serr : —s ' a. te Oars 7 ‘ “* » ?*. . ’ : =. ; ¥ ' “S 2 Re ye « “> z ane a ne tS , og “i aN - » : : .= is = esas z CKERSHAM AT — - : Members of the Hoover law-enforcement committion. Left to right, upper—Kenneth R. Mackintosh, State Supreme Court; George D. chief justice of the Washington | Wickersham, chairman, former Attorney General; Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War. Lower—Willam S. Kenyon, United States Circuit judge; Paul J. McCormick, Federal District judge for Southern California, and Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law School. FOR DEBTS ACCORD ss Ready to Accept Cut in Ger- man Payments if All Powers Share It. U. S. INTERESTS GUARDED By ALBERT W. FOX. President Hoover has paved the way for American acceptance of the new reparations plan, which has been prac- tically completed by the committee of exverts at Paris. The American ex- perts, Owen D. Young and J. P. Mor- gan, have been notiiied of the views ) which Mr. Hoover entertains toward the features of the program which affect the interests of the Ini ed States and the President’s views have matured after frequent conferences with mem- bers of his Cabinet and after a White House conference on Sunday at which several congressional leaders were pres- ent. There is nothing binding on the United States as yet in the expression of the American viewpoint, trans- mitted to Paris by direction of the President; and Secretary of State Stim- son made it clear yesterday that the respective governments will not. be bound by any recommendations of the experts until such governments take steps to bind themselves. Mr. Stim- son. in a frank and thorough discussion of America’s interest in the new plan, pointed out that if the recommenda- tions of the experts follow the ex- pected line, the American views as now formulated will represent the reaction of the United States Government. The following features stand out in Secretarv Stimson’s explanation: Pirst—The executive branch of the United States Government, with the cooperation f the Congress, will pass final judgment on proposed changes affecting America’s payments from Ger- many, which include the 2% per cent of reparations payrients and the costs for the American Army oj ° which have been coming at the rate of $5,000,000 gold marks annual:y unae the Dawes plan. Second—America is ready to agree to receive 244 per cent of a reduced total CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 2. ALS ARMY ATOR Kansan, Fighting for “Red” Side in Ohio Maneuvers, MOTOR FAILURE Yellow Springs, Ohio, May 20 (A-P.). Second Lieut. Florin W. Kans., attached to the group of the United Sta Corps at Selfridge Field, Mich., his death late today when crashed in a plowed field a fare over central and southern Qhio. Shade was fiying to Norton Fteld from Wright Field, Dayton, when death over- took him. Engine trouble apparently was the cause of the crash. P. A. Donley, near whose home. the ship fell, said that Shade was soaring along at an altitude of about 125 feet when his motor suddenly began to miss and then stopped entirely. The plane plunged into a nose dive and Shade had no chance to right it. Donley ran to the field where the heap of wreckage had burrowed itself into the ground. The pilot apparently had been killed instantly, he said. His head was badly crushed. Wright Field, which is but 8 miles west of notified at once and Army officers were dispatched to make an investigation. Lieut. Shade, who was regarded a6 among the best of the pilots in the first pursuit group, crack unit of the Air Corps, had experienced trpuble with his motor when he left Norton Field today. His was one of eight pursuit ships that accompanied Maj. Ralph Royce, commanding officer of the Self- ridge Field outfit from Norton Field to Wright Field. Although the first pursuit group, mainstay of the Red army. is supposed to be at war with the Blue army, which has quarters at Wright Field, Maj. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6, COLUMN ¢ the scene of the crash, was) i Victim of Wreck, i a & 2 a2 Go a = ’ ? Woe v 4 =o a » Ste ¥ ° “The President’s commission is in 4- position to do a great service to the country by going to the bottom of the perplexing probsem of Federal pro- hibition. We shall gladly present te the commission all of the pertinent facts assembled by our research deq partment, in accordance with our letter to the President of April 5. and his Board of Trade Bars Plan . Lo Snoop on Law Violators Informing on Smoke-Screen Operators Banned by Body at Meeting Here; Salary Increase for Police Department Indorsed by Vote. There will be no snooping against law violators by members of the Wash- ington Board of Trade. according to a vigorous vote to table a motion to the effect that members inform against all persons seen with smoke soreen ap- paratus. at the dinner meeting of the public order committee of the board last night at the Raleigh Hotel. Another motion advocating a raise in pay for the Police Department, virtual- ly as recommended by the District auditor, which consists principally in a $300 a year raise for privates, was car- ried, as also was a motion indorsing the idea of preventing the sale and impor- tation of firearms, if possible. “I can not see the Board of Trade becomnig snoopers,” Odell Smith, chair- |man of the committee, declared after | % placing the motion for discussion. “It’s damnable and I don't think it’s right. However, that is my -personal opinion.” United States 2 ye Edgar Snyder. in a plea for law enforcement and obedience to the law. declared that President Hoover is a great crusader in his efforts for law enforcement and law obedience. “And don’t you believe for a minute that prohibition is responsible for the increase of crime, for it isn't so,” the marshal said. He said that Washington is better governed and has less crime in proportion to population than any other city in the United States. However, Ernest W. Gibson, repre- sentative from Vermont, and chairman CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 38. Index to Today's Issue. Pages. ans . 1—Hoover Names Crime Commission, _- ' Bingham Airport Bill Up Today. Rail] Ruling Hits I. C. C. Plan. Rol} Call on Lenroot Revealed. Miss Morrow Is Threatened. Pliers in Maine for Rome Hop. 2—Fliers Roar Toward Record. Church Divorce Rule Retained. 3—Press Control Seen by Norris. Lord Rosebery Is Dead. 4—Coolidge Sugar Tariff Policy Told. 5—-Hoover Debt Offer Held Helpful. 6—Air Bomber to Attack Bast. 7—Pushing Peanut Up P*‘kes Peak. Vital Statistics. 8—Editorial. 9—Society. 10—The Weather. 11—Behind the Screens. In the Playhouse. 12—Return of Old King Brady. 13—Magazine Features. 14-19-20—Pinance. 15-16—Sports. 17—Daily Legal Record. 21—Classified Advertising. 22—Cadets Drill in Rain. ~ * . ~ > . eae 2 - « ne. = = ~~ 4 ae < 3 a ri » Realty Frauds Charged. Slugging Victim Found wen ae? a a ~