The Washington Post
January 12, 1930

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At that time, those in favor of a new market and those who ELSON RELIEF TRI WINS WAY TO PORT Pilot Reid and Companions, Missing for Week, Reach Native Town. LOCATES CONVOY PLANE Reid was fiy- | Hughes and Jim Hutchinson, when he disappeared in the murky fog which covered Norton A comvoy plane piloted by Matt Niemenen, an Alaskan pilot, returned to Nulato safely after losing Reid's when unfavorable weather conditions kept other planes grounded at Nu- lato, Fairbanks and Nome. When he disappeared Reid was en route to Nome to take part in a search for Pilot Carl Ben Eielson and his mechanic, Ear! Borland. The report of Réid’s safety» came ust as the United States Weather Bureau predicted a storm in Norton Sound coastal country. A low pres- sure was said to be developing over St. Paul Island in Bering Sea about 500 miles south of Nome. — Plying conditions were good be- tween Fairbanks, and Nulato and Capt. H.' A. Oakes left behind in Pairbanks when Reid and Niemenen hopped for Nome last Saturday, had planned to fly to Nulato in an open plane to search for Reid and his com- panions. Weather was clearing in the Siber- fan. arctic region also and’ pilot Ed Young planned to hop from Teller, north of Nome, with food and gasoline badly needed at the ice-locked trading ship Nanuk at North Cape, Siberia. ° lanes at the Nanuk were in need fuel to continue the search Continued on Page 3, Column 2, —————— eee Continued on Page 3%, Column. 7. More Fever May Be Recommended to Halt Disease. (Associated Press.) ATi il 3 of VR; Bt ~ 4 Ill Parrots’ Origin Sought; Ban on Bird’s Importation Reports attributing two deaths and . and 12 can to this mending restriction of their importa- Hom, * y sreat character-building or- Three new cases of what was be- |} 8@nizati “a 1S spon- to be psittacosis, a maiady|# red in Washington and~ fatal and similar to Cases Appear LONDON PARLEY WILL BE AID TO HIGHER TAXES SEEN IF POLICE LEABUE'S PLAN Reconciliation of Work of Two Agencies Seen as Early Problem. READINESS TO AID GENEVA APPARENT U.S. Delegates to Oppose Need of Approval by Nations’ Council. BETTER CONDITIONS GREET CONFEREES Road to Peace Since Ses- sion- Here in 1922. 5. S. George Washington, at Sea, Jan. 11 (A.P.).—Reconciliation of the work of the London parley with the disarmament plans of the League of Nations appeared today to the Ameri- can delegation on this vessel, ten days before the opening of the meet- ing, one of the outstanding ques- tions with which the conference will have to deal in its early ses- sions. While America enters the confer- ence regarding the possible eventual agreement as binding without re- course. to any other organization the American delegates will be pre- pared to discuss the attitude of others that such am agreement should be linked with the work of the _| league as far as they are concerned. It was learned on the highest au- thority that Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. was ready to agree that the results of the conference should disarmament commission of general United States has cooperated. Will Oppose. Necessity of. Approval. PAY 19 AAIOED Be eee —_ a Sicnpiiais of Nebraska, Is Sure Wage Increase Will Be Costly. | ey SEVEN CENTS MORE PER HUNDRED CITED |HOOVER DRAFTS NOTE AS LIQUOR REPORT OF ‘CRIME BOARD LOON Thirty Planes Search | For Altitude Fliers * Much Progress Is Made on. > _— be turned over to the preparatory the league as a step in furthering the commission’s work on the question of disarmament, in which the On thé other hand; America is pre- Pee Key Man Asks Capital Residents Their Choice. ATTENTION CALLED _T0 REST OF BUDGET Committee Chairman Points Out Measures Pending | Total $25,000,000. (Picture on Page Three.) Representative Robert G. Simmons (Republican), of Nebraska, the key man in Congress, s0 far as Dis*trict expenditures are concerned, put & practical business pro ion up wo thé local taxpayers yesterday, and he now is waiting for their reaction. He asked them, in effect. whether they are willing to pay an increased real estate tax in order that the pay of Washington's police and firemen May be raised. He estimated that to give the po- licemen and firemen an average raise of about $400. as has been recom- mended by the Commissioners, would add $900,000 a year to the cost of running the District government. And in order to raise this, he said, ‘have to be increased to $1.77. Alternative is Offered. Either taxes will have to be raised. es the real estate tax of $1.70 on every $100 of assessed value would have Simmons said, or the $900,000 will have to be carved from some other item or group of items in the District If the taxpayers are willing | phe shes oe the ponent Pesaran street improvement Have Swept Aviators Miles Out to Sea. New York, Jan. 11 (N.Y.W.NS.).— Following a widespread and fruitless | air search, which lasted throughout the day and engaged 30 or more | planes, hope had waned to the zero point tonight for Daniel Marra and William Kirkpatrick, who disappeared | Friday on an altitude flight in a wasp- motored Fairchild cabin monoplane above Farmingdale, Long Island. and have not been sighted since. Fellow airmen expressed the belief it only “an outside chance” they would be found. Apparentiy not until late in the afternoon, when the disheartened searchers had returned from combing was ever and Connecticut shores and flying was called off for the day, were those directing the hunt aware that Marra and Kirkpatrick probably fell victims of a treacherous shift of wind that accompanied the departure of New York's brief January “summer.” As a result most of the search was carried out in a direction opposite to that in which the missing flyers Long Island and the Jersey, New York | woul have drifted as clouds blotted | Air Currents Believed to ee 'climbed intently toward their ses of | ae | Henry Miller Servies. DANIEL MARRA. | | enforcement out the ground under them and they : 18,000 feet. When Marra and Kirkpatrick took | off from the Fairchild Airport at 8:45 | Friday morning with fuel for only 5 or 6 hours flying there was a light Continued on Page 4, Column 2. Wreckers, Will Serve as Guard : emeguar ars. : DLO NATIONAL HOTEL SNELL NOT TO FIGHT TOE ho ARMORY BILL ON RETIREMENT Ancient Hostelry, Awaiting Dale Civil Service Measure. Which Coolidge Vetoed Is Sure to Pass. JHEY’ RE STILL HOMELESS HOOVER FAVOR IS SEEN | stancer ‘| President — | PROPOSALS INCLUDE’? i. ‘Statements on Situation and yesterday with Attorney General Mit- the White House will send to Con- | will legislation to effect these four pur- | courts. pared to oppose vigorously any plan to make the conference agreement for the United States dependent upon approval by the league machin- ery. It is the attitude of the American delegates, according to the samé au- thority, that consideration of limi-+ tations by the conference should be based largely on the changed world conditions since the conference of 1921. Paramount among these changes are considered to be the Kellogg anti- war pact, the fapid expansion of world social and economic exchanges, the growth in number of treaties of arbitration and concilation, and also the benefits derived by nations who are members of the League of Nations. budget, he said,-be wants to knoW it_f, “It is a practical business proposi- tion,” he «ald, “and one the citizens here should think over.” Speaking ‘solely for fRiimself, Siin- mons said that he didn’t think the pay-increase bill for policemen and firemen was necessary at thie time. Compered with the pay scale in other cities, he said, the pay scale here would seem to be a fair one. Pay Bill Discussed. The Nebraskan, who is chairman of the House appropriations subcommit- tee, that handles the District appro- priation bill, discussed the pay-raise bill in the course of a genera] review of District legislation. By BDWARD T. FOLLIARD. The historic Nationa! Hotel, street and Pennsylvania avenue, soon to become the property of the Dis- trict government, will serve as an armory before it is torn down, it was learned yesterday. On July 1 it will become the tem- porary home of the District National Guard, which outfit has been trying to get a permanent home for more than a quarter of a century. The quartering of the guardsmen | in the National Hotel will be the final chapter in that hosfeiry’s long and colorful history. Sixth | publican), New York, storm center | in the last fight over the Dale civil service retirement bill, will not op- pose that measure when it comes up in the near future. Mr. Snell, who is chairman of the powerful House rules committee, said as much yesterday, and his an- nouncement further brightened pros- pects for early passage of the bill. The bill, which passed the Senate | jJast week and which will be the subject of a public hearing before the House civil service committee Every President, Representative Bertram Snel) (Re- | h A eta yt Sg 2B, z ‘ss Pe wf and Mitchel — Confer Over Mesenge a. 1 for Tomorrow, OLD POINTS, map a 7% he " Prohibition Furor Goes ve On as High Officials ~ Are Attacked. WICKERSHAM, ADAMS FLAYED IN CONGRESS Commission System Itself Are Hit. President Hoover had « long session chell to prepare the message which gress tomorrow transmitting the law commission's initia? recommendations, which are reliably understood to be confined to tle four points already set forth in the President's message to Congress. The recommenaations, it is believed, merely call for the necessaty poses, which are: (1) Transfer of the Prohibition Bureau from the Treas ury to the Department of Justic’. (2) Relief from congestion in Federal (3) Codification of dry law 4) Unification of border paren under the Coast Guard. Meanwhile, the prohibition furt9 | continued to rage, with attacks upon | the statement issued Friday by Chait. |'man George W. Wickersham of the commission, and also upon Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adama, whose name was drawn into the situ. /ation for the first time in consge | quence of his recent Boston speech, | whYeh the Coast Gliard régefits ade Adatns Out of Earshot. Secretary Adams, safely at eee |} aboard the George Washington on the | way to the Léndon naval parley, was out of earshot of the attack made on him in the House by Representative | een. of North Carolima, and ft¥- 'mote from the censure which Coast Guard officials wish the President would visit both upon Secfetary Ad- ams and former Maj. Gen. Clarence Edwards, who was quoted as saying Army officers would resign before per- forming such duties as the Coast Guard has in dry law enforcement. Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, commandant of the Coast Guard, denied reports that he had filed § “It seems to me,” he said, “that | from Jackson to Lincoln, was a guest Continued on Page 3, Column 4. Unlike the situation in 1922 when the league. was in its infancy and citizens associations and other civic or trade bodies too frequently indorse Continued on Page 3, Column 5. 12 Autos to Be Given To Post Readers Efforts in Campaign for 28 Prizes, Worth $20,000, Will Be Awarded for Work to Be Done by Men and Women in Next Few Weeks; Radios Also Can Be Won in Novel Vote Contest. Twelve automobiles! Prizes worth $20,000! An opportunity of a lifetime! offers today in That is what The Washington Post announcing a super- liberal Automobile and Prize Cam- ing grand division prizes, according to their standing: Graham Sedan, Chevrolet Sedan, Ford Sedan. Out-of-town candidates (districts six to eight inclusive) also have a separate grand division prize list after the grand prizes have been awarded. there, and its register also bore the mames of such celebrities as Charles Dickens. Henry Clay died there, and, within its walls, Booth plotted the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. How long the National Hotel will be left standing is problematical, but it certainly will remain for several years. The site on which it stands is within the area that is being bought up by the city government for a new municipal center. In this municipal center will be grouped an array of handsome build- ings to house the various depart- ments of the local government. Un- der present plans, the site of the National Hotel will be the last to be cleared for a new bullding. The District National Guard, which has been wandering from one home to another almost since its organization, is now quartered in one of the 60- called “Government hotels” between the Capitol and Union Station. These buildings, erected to house war work- érs in 1918, are about to be razed and Continued on Page 3, Column 5. Wednesday, would liberalize the pres- ent retirement law by increasing the maximum annuity from. $1,000 to $1,200, by granting optional retire- ment after 30 years service, and by permitting the 400,000 or more em- ployes it affecgs to retire two years earlier than they may now retire. It was Mr. Snell who blocked action pew the bill last year until Congress was. almost ready to adjourn. The result was that when President Cool- idge let it die through a pocket veto, it was too late for Congress to pass it over his veto. That it would have been passed over his veto, had there been time, nobody can deny. The inside story goes that Mr. Snell, in opposing the bill, was taking a sort of legislative “rap” for President Coolidge, who was believed to be op- posed to.the bill, but would not say so publicly. Nor did he explain later why he pocket vetoed the bill after it had been passed unanimously by both houses. Yesterday Chairman Snell was asked if he would favor a special rule under Continued on Page 4, Column 4. Three Dirigibles for Line The prizes, 28 in all, ere absolutely free. Every one in the large terri- tory covered by The Post, with the exception of Post employes and mem- YOUTHFUL KNIGHTS Turn to the Knighthood of Youth section of the Tabloid Magazine and read about the great surprise arranged for members and their friends. bers of their families, is eligible to compete for the motor cars and the numerous radios. The campaign officially opens next Tuesday. Energetic men ahd women, however, will emter the race for the fortune in awards at once, thereby getting the advantage of an ear'y start. Six grand prize automobiles will be presented to the six candidates in the field at large who make the best showing during the campaign. The The out-of-town automobile list fol- lows: Pontiac Sedan, Chevrolet Sedan, Ford Sedan. | In other words, every or wom- Across Pacific to Be Built an entering the campaign has as a goal one of the six gran@ prize auto- mobiles or three grand Givision prize automobiles. ' Nine opportunities are offered to win a big new motor car, perfectly appointed in every detail! Perhaps the advent of the new model automobiles for 1930 has awak- ened a keen desire on your part to —— the prowd owner of one of Tune In On STATION | WOL ‘ This Morning Between 10 and 10:30. The Washington Post will sponsor a musical program and present a message of great interest to readers of Bringing of Orient Several Days Nearer to U. S.., Plan for 1932. Akron, Ohio, Jan. 11 (A.P.).-—Three giant dirigibles, to operate between the Western Coast of the United States and Japan, bringing the Orient several days nearer to the American traveler and business man, who has his eye on the commercial develop- ment of Asia, is the tentative scheme of dirigible builders here. t ig expected that 1932 will be the date the first ship is put into serv- ice. It will rum between Honolulu formal complaint against Secretary Adams and Gen. Edwards, which, s¢- cording to rumor. Secretary of the Treasury Melion was to present at @ Cabinet meeting. But he freely as- serted that the Coast Guard is “sore.” Representative Warren cited Gecre- tary Adams’ Boston speech, wherein the Secretary reminded his hearers that they should not adversely judge the Navy on the basis of the mén they saw in Navy uniforms, since the wearers of the uniforms might be only cOast guardsmen. Utterance Time, Is Charge. Secretary Adams, Mr. Warren told the House, “exercised his usual pre- pensity for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. This latest uttere ance seems to have been all timed im a place and atmosphere already sure charged.” The Adams speech. came in the wake of the Coast Guard kill- - ings in the Black Duck case. “Now that statement,” continued. Mr. Warren, quoting what Secretary Adams is reported to have said in Boston, “is a deliberate insult and slur upon one of the noblest organt- zations in the world, and it is utterly 4 unworthy of a mean who holds 6 high position in the official family of the President. I hate to think that « man holding the high office of the Secretary of the Navy would engage in loose and irresponsible talk, and |I believe the country is going to. waders e® Z NEWS | of SUBURBAN | ee