The Washington Post
June 20, 1929

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? livery call The only newspaper tn Washington with the Associated Press news every morning in the year. For home de- National 4205. ⁊ * The Washington Post. fF >. were — —— — — XO. 19,362. —— —— ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. ©. WASHINGTON: THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929. * COPYRIGHT; 1929, BY THE WASHINGTON POST CO. FREE oA, olla DORAL, NEEDFUL TO NAVAL LIMIT Criticizes Dawes’ Speech for Omitting Safety of Neutral Ships. SENATOR SWANSON’S OPINION IS SIMILAR Virginian Holds Britain Should Call the Next Navy Parley. AMERICAN EQUALITY DECLARED ESSENTIAL Agitation, He Adds, Harmful Unless Conference Is Con- vened Quickly. By ALBERT W. FOX. Favorable reaction to the speech of Ambassador Dawes on the naval! limi- tation problem was manifest here yes- terday, but differences of opinion were moted in the Senate over the value of the joint efforts of Ramsay MacDonald, the British premier, and the American Senator Borah, chairman of the Sen- ate foreign relations committee, was geas. He believes that no naval reduc- tion conférence can accomplish real re- sults unless and until security is pro- ‘yided for neutral commerce on the geas in time of war. He further be- Meves that America will continue to build a navy strong enough to protect her interests so long as Great Britain . Continues to claim the right to be mis- - tress of the seas. He also believes that * necessarily have to-be reckoned with in any satisfactory arms limitation pian. ee | — — _jptatesmanship of pea an Dawes 4 po: — with the indicated plen ‘of Nmfting discussion to cruisers or any ‘other type of fighting naval craft. | @éenator Swanson, the ranking Demo- ctatic member of the Senate foreign re- lations committee, also noted the ab- gence of the freedom of the seas fea- ture in the Dawes and MacDonald speeches. ‘Mr. Swanson furthermore advanced two suggestions yesterday ’ mection with the next developments in- cident to grogress iri discussing a naval . peductions He believes the awakening of interest in this question will @6 more harm than good unless R is Yollowed up by «a definite move to call @ naval reductions conference. He _ Yikewise believes that Greet Britain and not the United States should call the conferefce, if there is to be a meeting prior to 1931. _ “Since America called the last confer- ence st Geneva.” Senator Swanson gaid yesterday, “I think it is incum-; bent upon Great Britein to call the next one if it is to precede the confer- ence of 1931, which must be called un- der the Washington treaty. Hopes for British Initiative. “T hope Great Britain will take the initiative and call such a conference and that the President will promptly accept. The United States was at some @isadvantage in having called the Washington conference, since it was obligated to make it a success, and in order to do so was compelled to make gome confessoins which I think were ‘unwise. “Great Britain knows-~that the United States favore the freedom of the seas, eo-called, which ultimately means that in time of wer private property on sea should have the same protection ex- tended to it that is extended now on _Jand and that blocade of ports should be similar to blockade of beleaguered towns. “Ambassador Dawes made a very ad- mirable speech and possibly presented the matter as urgently and fully as the circumstances of the situation would . permit. It was impossible for him to lay down a definite and specific plan, as Appear at Air Field After Cruise for Safe-Plane Prize Contest. Mitchel Field,-N. Y., June 19 (A.P.).— Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh came out of their honeymoon seclusion teday, the place of their return to pub- lie~ bis: 9 — Ottingly, an aeuen the mortiing to witness the first HOOVER CAMP SALE PROPOSAL OPPOSED Frederick Urges Richey to Retain Fishing Tract, Despite Trouble. 2 FINED AS TRESPASSERS Special to The Washington Post. Prederick, Md., June 19.—City au- thorities and civic organizations of Frederick today urged Lawrence Richey executive secretary to President Hoover, to reconsider his decision to sell the Catoctin Furnace estate here, as two Washington men were fined $15 and costs each for trespassing Sunday morning in what has been used prin- cipally of late as President Hoovér’s private fishing preserve. Pointing out he did not wish “to have the President embarrassed,” Richey made known his decision to Offer the property for sale in the fol- lowing statement: “As to. the discussion going on about fishing rights on Hunting Creek, near pn Purnace, I wish to say that I purchased about 2 miles of property along this stream on the representa- CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 2. Await Those Who Screen Well When Natural. “Be yourself!” | on oi Ne Bae cen eter cttom Rett Lindbergh and Bride End Their Seclusion Associated Press Photo. Here is the first posed picture of Col. Charles Lindbergh and his bride, the former Anne Morrow, daughter of the American Ambassador to Mexico, as they stood by Lindbergh’s plane at Mitchel Field, Long Island. held by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aéronautics in the hope of discovering a “fool-proof” air- plane. Before the g.of the first entrant, drove up to the hangar in the colonel’s car, mint ih Cieratenttieia ——— ere a PAGE 12, COLUMN 6. CANNON 1S ALLEGED BUCKETOHOP PATRON Political-Religious Leader One of Customers of Men Now Facing Indictment. IGNORANT OF GAMBLING New York, June 19 (N.Y.W.NS.)— Bishop James G. Cannon, jr., of the Methodist Episcopal. Church, South, leader of the anti-Smith forces in the Democratic party and chairman of the legislative committee of the Antisaloon League legislative committee at Wash- ington, was disclosed today as one of the principal customers of Kable & ©Co., the officers of which are now under indictment for using the mails -to defraud. Bishop Cannon has admitted to the New York World that he bought and sold stocks and options through Kable & Co. but has stated that he was ignorant of the fact that, according to the indictment, it was virtually a put- and-call bling house and that it was merely betting against ite cus- tomers instead of actually buying and selling stocks. Miss Failor, assistant United States CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 4. Be Yourself”? Is Direction In Post-Fox Film Contest Opportunities for Stardom This slang expression but describes — William Forsythe, Post Staff Photographer. DORIS ROSEDALE, , 12 years old, 609 Sixth street south- west, one of the early entrants in 000 PIPE, TORN PICTURE GLEWs IN GEM SEIZURE Customs Guard Follows Up Hunch and Finds Packet on Sailor. MAN, QUIZZED, TELLS METHOD OF DELIVERY Accomplice in Street Re- ceives Uncut Diamonds; Is Jailed. FATHER, ALSO-JEWELER, IS HELD HEAD OF PLOT New York Officials Regard Arrest of Pair as Big Blow at Smuggling. New York, June 19 (N.Y.W.NS.)—A torn photograph, given to a Belgian sailor in Antwerp, the jagged edges of which would fit the rest of the picture in America, and a long-stemmed pipe of curious design, which the sallor was to smoke_on a Brooklyn street until accosted by a stranger, played their part in one of the most ingenious dia- mond smuggling plots of international scope ever. uncovered by customs and Treasury agente in the port of New York. Today Mendel Silverberg, 55, a dia- mond dealer of this city, and his son Louis, 19, were arrested and $2,000 worth of diamonds were seized. The arrest of the Silverbergs with the alleged evidence in the shape of the uncut diamonds just handed to them by Louls Lemaire, a Belgian sailor jongthe liner Penniand, was brought about in a manner that rivals detec- tive thrillers. Halted as a “Hunch.” Lemaire entered the picture Tuesday night when he sauntered ashore from the Pennland, which had just docked from Antwerp. Customs Guard B, C. Huntly, assigned to the West Twentieth street pier of the Red Star Line, hap-+the pened to notice that nonchalent sailor, and decided to follow a “hunch.” He stopped him for quéstioning, and when the sailor became tiewous and at- tempted to avoid answering, Huritly “frisked” him. Concealed inside a package of Belgian smoking tobacco the customs agent discovered the dia- monds, and another pocket fevealed the pipe of unusual shape and the photograph. At first the sailor refused to give any information. Taken today before As- sistant United States Attorney John M. Blake, he was suddenly asked by Blake if $5 was to have been his payment for bringing in the diamonds. “How did you guess it?” asked Lemaire, who, when told‘ the value of his diamond packet, became enraged at the niggardliness of his reward and told the whole story. Diamonds Are Delivered. Treasury agents and the Federal at- torney’s office then planned to trap the receivers at this end, and sent the sailor to Brooklyn to make his delivery, as though nothing had happened. When Lemaire reached Hindsdale street, with the Federal operatives trailing. he took out his curious looking pipe and strolled up and down. Suddenly a young man detached him- self from the passing throngs, ap- proached’ the sailor, spoke to him, and produced the other half of the torn photograph. Lemaire handed over the diamond package, andethe agents, in turn, stepped up and seized it. The man said he was young Silverberg, and led the officers to his home where his father also was taken into custody. Both Silverbergs and Lemaire were taken before Blake for questioning, and the former two made a partial confes- sion, according to the Federal attorney. Examination is Waived. They waived examination by the Federal grand jury, and Mendel Silver- berg, being deemed the leader of the smuggling plot on this side, was held in $5,000 bail and his son in $2,500 by United States Commissioner Garrett W. Cotter. No date has been set for the hearing. Lemaire was not arraigned, but was released in the custody of customs guards. He will be a Government wit- ness when the case comes to trial. He told Blake that he was approached by a man whom he had never seen before on board the Penniand in the harbor at Antwerp. The stranger asked him to bring the package to Brooklyn and to deliver it. He told Lemaire that the package contained a diamond ring enemy at less than $100, and that he receive $5 for his part in the —— 11 Drown as Portuguese Cutter Sinks in Storm Lisbon, Portugal, June 19 (U.P.).— The Portuguese cutter Ile Santantao sank suddenly in a storm of the Ile Oiseaux Caboverde today, with a loss of eleven lives. The gunboat. of the sinking cutter persons. went to the aid and saved nine Improved BR. F. & P. Express Motor Coach Service to Richmond burg. See announcement inside.—Adv. GLASS CHARGES HOO IN LIQUOR CRISIS AS R FIGHTS DETROIT CUSTOMS M Government Agents Fired At off River as They Approach Craft. PATROL VESSEL IS HIT BY SHOT IN FUSILLADE U. S. Agents Are Attacked Without Warning, Is Story of Chief. BOOTLEGGERS RETURN TO SHORE OF CANADA —“ Declares ia Is Proof of Desperation of Prohibition Foes. Windsor, Ontario, June 19 (A.P.).— After a swift moving revolver battle in Detroit River today, ruth runners of the East Windsor sector retrea into Ca- nadian waters after shoot a hole in the prow of a United States customs patrol cutter. There were no known casualties. The rum runners deliberately opened fire without notice on the American boat, Walter 8. Petty, acting collector of customs at Detroit, said. His men returned the volleys and chased the in- truders back to the Canadian. shore. The battle started, Petty said, when the rum craft was about 100 feet off the / foot of Joseph Campau avenue, Detroit. The border patrol was gliding down stream and was about 50 feet from the runner when the crew of several men blazed away suddenly with revolvers, the bullets drumming against the Gov- ernment boat and blasting a hole above ite water line. “Our men returned the fire. prompt- ly.” Petty added. “The rum runners swung about and retreated toward Can- ada, maintaining a heavy fire at. our boat. Petty charges that the firing from the rum boat continued long after it hed reached Canadian waters. The customs boats abandoned i international. line. not determine the number of men on the rum boat as they hid behind-a high stack of liquor cases 4s they emptied their guns at the oncoming customs had opened fire without warning on @® customs boat in the Detroit River yesterday, said that if true it bore out | the Treasury contention that the Cus+ toms Service had a desperate class of men to deal with. “The unprovoked firing upon a cub- toms boat as reported in the press,” Lowman said, “is an example of the desperate class of men with whom the Customs Service has to deal. The Treasury can not send unarmed men to stop the unlawful acts of such a type of criminals and does not intend to disarm its customs agents. I believe the smugglers are becoming more des- perate as they see this Government closing their smuggling highways. We have planned our program at Detroit and we are going to carry it out. The integrity of the Government will be maintained.” No report on the firing upon the cus- toms boat had been received at the Treasury, but Lowman said he expected one to be made as spon as the Detroit office had ascertained the details. I Dead, Many Hurt In Elevated Crash Condition of Two Injured by New York Collision Is Serious. New York, June 19 (A.P.).—One man, a guard, was killed and scores of per- sons were injured, two of them seri- ously, tonight in a rear-end collision between a Sixth avenue and a Ninth avenue elevated train on the Inter- borough Rapid Transit elevated struc- ture between West 112th and West 113th streets. The other person seriously hurt was Motorman McGlynn, of the Sixth ave- nue train, who was caught in the wreckage of the front platform of his train and the rear platform of the Ninth avenue train. Virtually all of those who suffered less serious injuries were passengers in the fourth car of the Sixth avenue train. The force of the collision threw many of them to the floor of —* car and several were cut by flying glass. Hoover Likely to Fish In Recess of Congress (Associated Press.) Now that Congress has ordered a recess, President Hoover will have re- lef from the strain under which he has labored since the beginning of his administration and especially since he called the House and Senate into spe- cial session. His thoughts are turning to rest, and he hopes to be able to leave Wash- ington tomorrow for a stay of two or three days at his fishing place on the Upper Rapidan River in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Thus far the President has made no vacation plans, and some of his friends doubt" that ington speaking dates. He has many summers in W Young Heflini in Crash; | Faces Narcotic. Count) Senator’s Son Accused of Driving While Under Influence of Drugs. Charged with driving an automobile while under the influence of drugs, following a collision at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest yesterday afternoon, James Thomas Heflin, jr., son of the senator from Ala- GHURCHMEN PLEDGE HOOVER LAW DRIVE Presbyterians Launch Cru- sade for Observance; Call on President With Plans. WELCOMED BY EXECUTIVE A Nation-wide crusade for law ob- seryance Was launched here yesterday by the ‘Presbyterian Church fm the United States of America, when its newly created National Loyalty Com- mission personally pledged to President Hoover at the White House the de- nomination’s unqualified support in his law-enforcement program. The President told the delegation that he felt the need of the moral sup- port of the country in the adminis- tration’s undertaking. He wag quoted by his visitors ag declaring further that obedience to law is not a matter of politics or law, but one of morals, and that the principal factor in gov-~- ernmental stability is voluntary obedi- ence to law. This impromptu confer- ence evoked no comment or statement from the White House, Meting at the Willard Hotel yester- CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 6. (PONGRESS RECESSES: MEMBERS FLEE CITY « th ' { + eo ~~ AS & . ¢ 8 ⸗ e — ee > RY Aer at OM OE GOAN ED KL ON A LOG LE EE A —— PPP - Lt | back of a truck. The son of the eons, * Many Vacant Seats Cause Delay in Enacting Legislation. SENATE NEARLY EMPTY v (Associated Press.) With a sigh of relief from their members, the two houses of Congress closed their doors yesterday for a sum- mer holiday. , Many Senators and representatives had anticipate’ the action, however, and there numerous vacant seats when the g of the presiding offi- cers ended first meeting of the new Congress. House members were strewn from Maine to California, and the leaders had’ to delay action on one piece of legislation for twenty minutes until they could round up enough of those who had rot left Washington to piece out a quorum. In the Senate debate ran along in somewhat the fashion of a belligerent org conversation with but a handful of senators at their desks at times. Of, those who remained in the city, CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 5. — ⸗e Teachers’ Union Protests Lengthening of School Day UNCLE SAM AND THE HOMEMAKER HELPFUL HINTS FOR HOUSEWIFE AND MOTHER GATHERED BY THE U. S. BUREAUS IN ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY SUNDAY IN THE WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE SECTION ——————) 1 Unfair Both to Students and Instructors, They Declare. A protest was registered by the Teachers Union of Washington, Local No. 8, American Federation of Teachers. yesterday against the Board of Educa- tion’s recent action in adding one-half hour to the high school day, effective in September. The union, which claims membership of more than half the public school teachers of the city, addressed its pro- test to Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superin- tendent of schools, members of the of Education and the various citigens associations. | “We, the Teachers Union of Wash- ington, D. C., protest,” the communica~- tion said, “against the recent action of the Board of Education in lengthen- ing the school day for the senior high schools for the following reasons: “The Washington high schools rank high im college preparatory, business and technical accomplishments. Since ‘ : 2. > THAT which police say his sedan ran into the ? ; a _— debate, and only agreed to lay it asid when the House quit and wenf home... House Word on Resolution. * Word had come over from the Hause several days ago that there was 50 need of sending it the resolution, as the President was trying to shift the responsibility were openly made in the Senate debate. Senator Glass, whom Bishop — jr.. ils moving out against, delivered a most caustic attack, charging that the President's whole treatment of the pro- to the background, where it would Index to Today's Issue — Pages. 1—Glass Accuses Hoover of Laxznem.. -. J. Thomas Heflin, jr., Held in Crash, Dawes Views Incomplete, Says Borah 2—Virkkula Slayer Held for Trial. Secret Senate Sessions Ended: 3—Brakeman in Poison Case Held. . _ Sidney Prince, jr., Begins Sentences, 4—School Graduations Held Here. : 5—District Schools Graduate — 6—Editorial. 7-9—Society. 8—FPrench Sea Fliers Decorated. ’ 10—Radio Programs and Features... 1t—Theaters and The Once Over. ~ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12, COLUMN 6. 12—Justice Siddons Sentences * hibition problem tended to relegate 18 | * bs