The Washington Post
January 26, 1930

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ington eet "bain —— om pte mn teil ir: eg wo —— Ba —⸗ Weather—Fair and slicht-~ — colder teday: tomerrew in- creasing cloudiness. 19.582. ENTERED AS MATTER. aa - WASHINGTON : SUNDAY. JANUARY . 26, 1930. COPYRIGHT. 1930. | BY THE WASHINGTON POST FIVE CENTS. WASHINGTON & SUBURBS 05P.. HIGHER WATER RENTAL S SHNCTIONED Improvement Program to Cost Far More Than , Present Receipts. MAIN ASSESSMENTS BOOST ALSO IN PLAN District Commissioners Give Approval After Studying Crisis. AVERAGE HOME’S BILL WOULD GROW TO $9} Higher Rates Will Go Into Effect July 1 if Congress Approves New: Works. An increase of approximately 25 per cent in existi-g water rents and an increase of 33 1-3 r'- cent im the as- sessments for new water mains is @alled for under a ter Department mprovement program decided on by the District Commisioners yesterday. It is estimated that he water im- provement program will cost about $425,000 a year above the present an- mual revenues of the Water Depart- ment. The program is tobe carried out over a period of five years, ‘begin- ming with the fiscal year 1932. ) The increase in water rents and main assessments, however, would be put in effect at the beginning of the next fiscal year, that is on July 1. fm order to provide the Water Depart- ment with the additional revenues it must have on hand to permit launch- ing the improvement program. Congress Approval Needed: | BD the situation before the ‘House Dia- trict subcommittee on tions’ or 2 The improvement ‘program is the result of a study of the existing meeds of the water department, to- ther with a forecast of the needs ” the department ‘for ‘the next ‘sev~’ eral years. This was ordered several months ago by Col. William B. Ladue, Engineer Commissioner, and was drafted by & committee of water de- partment officials and Capt. Hugh Oram, Assistant Engineer Commis- I sioner. The decision to recommend in- crease in existing rates was reached sioners; Capt. Oram and Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor. Alternate Plan Rejected. In reaching a decision in favor of higher rates the Commissioners turned down an aiternative proposal by Capt. Oram and Water Department | officials that the moneys necessary to provide for extensions and improve- ments of the water system be taken out of the general revenues of the District. Under the law the Water Depart- ment must be self-supporting, thet is, improvements and ‘service must be paid for out of its revenues re- ceived {rom assessments - fer water mains and charge for water con- sumed. These revenues, however, were admittedly inadequate to provide for the improvements and were estimated by Water Department officials to be about enough to meet the ordi- J mary needs of the Water Department during the next fiscal year. The proposal to get the additional of. the District was justified, officials said, by consideration of the im- This plan, however, was eliminated when Maj. Donovan prodiced figures at the conference yesterday showing that the District can expect to have at the end of the next fiscal year beréd bélanhte ‘ of ‘only about $500,000 in the Treasury. Self-Confessed Bomber Held in Insane Asylum Los Angeles, Jan. "Jan. 25 (AP) —A Pse- “the course of the hearings ‘on the |‘ Imates. These are to begin to-/ 14 Million ‘Capital Leaders Prepare| for Sharp Increase in Business. Survey by Trade Board - Indicates Swelling of 1930 Pay Rolls. A survey by the Washington Board of Trade of 75 of the leading business concerns of the District reveals that they are looking forward to an in- crease in business ranging as high as 30 per cent in 1990, and that 60 of them are planning to sper@ $14,000,- 000 in improvements, The survey also shows that during the year there will be a substantial Increase in the Federal and . District pay roll, and that employmient con- ditions in the National Capital now are and are expected to continue to be better than in other sections of the country. The survey further dis- closes that the stock marke. collapse had had no permanent tll effects on local business; that the banking situ- ation is highly encouraging, and that the hotels of Washington are doing good business and are preparing for more. The survey, it is explained, is in- tended as a cross-section of business life of the city and has been answered by. representativé concerns. The Continued on Page 5, Column 1. 60F irmsHere Budget This Year; Apartments on Gain dea Growth of City Is Reflected by Gain in Dwelling Units. Monthly Rentals Average $59.94; Percentage of Vacancies Light. An increase of approximately 8,000 apartment units in the District of Columbia, during the year ended last November, was more than absorbed by the steady growth of the city and the continued trend to apartment dwellings, it is disclosed in an analy- sis of a survey just made public by the Department of Commerce. Two-room, kitchen and bath units are the most favored, with monthly rentals averaging $59.94. The survey covered 18,674 units in 626 buildings. or approximately 40 per cent of all the apartments in the city. Of that total 7,563 were of the two-room, kitchen and bath type. The average monthly rental per room was found to be $19.98. The percentage of vacancies {mn «he buildings covered was 99 per cent, compared with 109 per cent in ~he survey of the previous year, while the higher percentage of vacancies in hoth years ‘was in apartment of three rooms, kitchen and bath, or larger. I. Mansfield Spasoff, of the division of building and housing, Bureau of Continued on Page 5, Column 4. - BEGINS FEBRUARY 3 Sifting Mystery About Woman’s. Death. ‘DOT KING | LINK IS SEEN ~Amventigntion lof the-'death -ot- Mra} Aurelia Fischer Dreyfus, > — fet | was announced —“ United States Attorney Leo A. Rover. Net Burkinshaw, assistant United States attorney,’ wilf be in charge of the hearings. Although ‘Mr. Rover said. he was not yet prepared to an- nounce the number of witnesses who will: be called, nor their names, he stated that the investigation prob- ably will last at least a week. Mrs. Dreyfus, ‘Desutiful young di- vorcee, who was’ the “mysterious blonde” alibi witness in the celebrated Dot. King ‘death case in New York in 1923, had attended a dance at the, boat club here, accompanied by her’ brother and sister and by: Ed- mund J. McBrien, New York ‘broker, who had been named as corespon- dent by Mrs. Dreyfus’ husband when he divorced her less than a year after their marriage. At the conclusion of the dance, as the orchestra was playing the final bars of the last. number, Mrs. Drey- fus plunged from the balcony to a boat landing 20 feet below, and died a short time later at'Emergency Hos- pital. McBrien was taken into cus- tody for investigation, but was re- leased after he claimed that he had left the woman before her fall while he went to get their coats from the checkroom. Six. persons, mostly members of Mrs. Dreyfus’ family here, recently submitted affidavits’ to’ Mr. Rover tending to upsét McBrien's alibi and show that he was: with her when she fell, amd did. not .leave the bdDalcony until after her body had struck the landing below. At the police hearing during the investigation of the death of Dot King, “Broadway but butterfly,” who was Continued on Page 10, Column 3. SENATE VOTES FD OF PORT COURTESY Would Deny Privileges Now Enjoyed by Officials and Congress Members. Eaves NOT whe ECTED ————— estan ta ent ¢ Public | Fine representatives. as « means of smiling their way past customs in- spectors with untouched luggage. If the Harrison amendment to the tree list section of’ the tariff bill, which was given approval by the Sen- ate, weathers the storm of the House and Senate conference, courtesies of the port im the future will be known only by foreign diplomats. The amendment provides that “no courtesy of the port. free entry or special privileges or preferences in examination of merchandise or bag- gage shall hereafter be extended to any person subject to the payment of customs duties.” In the same determined mood the Senate also decided to restrict the Privilege now extended to American tourists which permits duty free ep- trance of personal belongings bought abroad in an amount not to exceed $100. The restriction is that no resi- dent of the United States shall take advantage of the $100 exemption within a period of 30 days from the last exemption claimed. The proposal to terminate the free entry of the port was adopted with- out debate and no mention was made Of recent incidents in which members of the Congress have been charged With bringing in iqiuor from West Indies, ; Several scandals involving members of the House in connection with the alleged’ transportation of liquor un- der courtesy of the port privilege have occurred in the last year. Representa- tive E. Alfred Michaelson (Republi- can), Illinois, was arrested in Jack- sonville, Fla. by prohibition agents following the finding of liquor in a leaking trunk in his hotel room. He denied that he had brought any liq- Continued on Page 6, Column 1 Letter of Charles Carroll Stolen From Office Here ES of: Francis Scott Key Robbed of Precious Missive. A letter, sent by Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, to Francis Scott Key, a. wr TIMELY INFORMATION First news is always of great- er interest and more definite LEVEE GUARDS GET ORDERS TD ONUUT PLANES: Attempt to Free Flood Waters by Bombing Is Feared. RELIEF IN ARKANSAS DELAYED BY FREEZE | | Aviators Speed Succor to in Indiana. NEW MERCURY DROP FELT IN —“ Horses Found Frozen Track in Woming; Coast Guard Cutter Battles Ice. in Greenwood, Miss., Jan. 25 (A.P.).— With the Tallahatchie River flood in the Swan Lake section of northwest | Mississippi cresting, levee guards tej day were ordered to shoot down air- | planes, through feat of bombing at- tempts to release the stored-up, waters. Bud Pepper. Greenwood aviator, to- day was warned by «a friend on the levee to fly 10,000 feet high if he | passed over Tallahatchie again dur- | ing the flood. He was told all that saved his plane yesterday from ma- chine gun fire was the fact a friend on the levee recognized it. Lands were inundated in stretches 3 to 5 miles wide by. the floods from the Tallahatchie and Coldwater Riv- ers, and the guards feared attempts to blast the levee’ to release further water and lower the level. Freeze Cripplies Relief Fleet. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 25 (A.P.)— Carrying on despite the crippling of | five of the six motorboats of the re- night had ferried to safety more than 200 farm dwellers. from, the over- flowed lowlands in the Big Lake area of northeastern. Arkansas. Ice, sheathing the flood today, put the five boats out.of commission, but with the one m@tor-driven craft at their disposal and the smaller buars operating in the flooded section,. res- Cue crews moved more than 50 per- sons from submérged homes to safety. New ‘parts for’ the damaged boats were ordered rushed to thé base of operations near Blytheville. Ark., doy airplane and the full fleet was ex- pected to be back in commission to- morrow. Observers in airplanes today re- ported that ice floes which clogged the overflow were melting rapidly. Rescue crews operating today fol- lowed directions given by airplanes which s:outed the area to “spot” buildings in which refugees had gath- ered. River Lower at Memphis. The Mississippi River at Memphis had fallen today to a stage of 34.4 feet, a drop of five-tenths below the peak stage of early this week. Flood stage here is 35 feet. At Helena, the Mississippi was nearing a stand at 43.9 feet, one-tenth under flood stage Distressed Towns | PRATT OFFERS HUGE PROGRAM FOR fla FORGE Police Chief Recommends Ten New Buildings and Radio Station. —— — — — — EVERY POLICEMAN SEEN AS DRY AGENT ——— — — — — Scientists in Crime Clinic and New Gambling Law Asked. PAY RAISE IS URGED FOR VARIOUS UNITS PERE E. F Women’s Bureau Also Asked in His Exhaustive Survey. — — — — — An extensive program for the im- provement and expansion of the Po- |lice Department was set forth in a lengthy report which was submitted to the District Commissioners yester- | day by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superin- tendent of police. The report was prepared at the superintendent's di- rection by Inspector William 8S. Shel- by, assistant superintendent of police, in charge of the detective bureau. Its purpose, the Commissioners were told, was to bring to their attention improvements “most essential to bring the force to a standard of éffi- clency and effectiveness comparable, in so far as may be possible, with that of great municipal departments of European cities.” Among other things deemed essen- tial were an increase in personnel, higher pay, increased mumber of de- tectives, better training of policemen and detectives, improved examina- tions for promotions, employment of “under-cover” agente whose pay would not depend on the number of warrants they swore out against citi- zens, increased motor equipment and uttication facilities, including a short-wave police radio | station, employment of an analytical chemist and development of an ana- lytical laboratory, a police headquar- ters building. a new house of deten- tion and woman's bureau headquar- ters, seven new precinct buildings and a department garage and repair shop for its motor equipment. For New Vagrancy Law. A traffic survey by a body of engi- neers, amendment of the national prohibition law to make all District police prohibition agents, enactment of the vagrancy law drafted some time ago by the Police Department and legislation giving the police unusu- ally broad authority to make gam- bling raids, a clinic to determine men- tal defectives among prisoners as dis- tinguished from habitual criminals, increased clerical force and amend- ment of the police regulations to make dismissal from the force man- datory on conviction of certain speci- fied things were. among other recom- mendations contained in the report. The report summarizes the task of the policeman as the “regulation” of the conduct of others and declares that “it is generally conceded by Continued on Page 2, Column 6. Continued on Page 3, Column 4, Test Case May Decide One Wickersham Plan Proposal for Abolition of Jury Trial in Lesser Vol- stead Law Violations May Hinge on Traffic Decision. By DUNBAR HARE. The District Court of Appeals is expected to hand down shortly a de- cision that may shed considerable light on the constitutional questions involved in the famous Wickegssham proposal for abolition of jury trials in lesser Volstead law violations. The problem to be settled in this case is: Whether a defendant in a case wherein. a jail sentence of 30 days may be imposed, may be denied «a jury trial. This case, entitled “Willlam H. Colts vs. The District of Columbia,” originated in the Police Court, where the appellant, having applied for and having been denied a jury trial, was tried by the court on a charge of chinery for the expeditious handling of Volstead cases nationally, but may result in burdening the local Police Court to the point where possibly four or five additional judges will be needed. ‘Curiously, Colts reposes his great- est hopes of a reversal of the Police Court on a case of the United States Supreme Court, Callan vs. Wilsn, which had its inception in the local Police Court. The brief of his counsel quotes the Constitution of the United States: “That the trial of ail crimes ex- cept in cases of impeachment shal! be by jury.” Great emphasis is placed in. the brief on the statement of the Su- preme Court that this article of the Constitution is “not. to be con- strued as rejating only to felonies or offenses punishable by confinment in the penitentiary. It embraces as well some classes of misdemeanors the punishment of which involves or may involve the, deprivation of the liberty of the citizen.” The Callan case, decided by the Su- preme Court in 1888, has many fea- Continued on Page 3, Column 6. FRANCE, ITALY —— —_ * FAIL . = TO HEAL NAVAL SPL IN FIRST CONFERENC — — Hoover Orders Index Of U.S. Workers Here | Service or Bureau Appointed by Legal Residence State city Cong. Dist. Dept. Position Salary Other compensation Date appointed Tenure Tere expires How excepted (Cow teow ot cell eervice reguiatice) Remarks: j » Facsimile of questionnaire sent out Questionnaires Are Sent | by White House to secure data on For Data on Every Appointee. all Federal emplorves in Washing- ton. Secretary Newton ts In charge of this task. — — — — — — — — — By CARLISLE BARGERON. | service, and quite probably covers) (Copyright. 1930. by The Washington jan even broader scope. Por exam- Pest Co.) | ple, the questionnaire asks the icgal A card index system of all Gov-| , | 3 Page 8 8 | Or voting residence of the employe, | ae Sa oe eee Oe * | his State, city and congressional dia- | ington, is belng complied for i litical tm ne | trict. It asks by whom he was ap-| White House political department o —â — tne Mate ae'iete a —A which Secretary Walter H. Newton is and when his term expires. It as in charge. . * his salary and the amount of any Whether emp yr * > of — compensation made on the side. NGOS Gre HONE Smarty catalogu All of this information is to is not known. kept in Mr. Faia —* * —* more —* —* easy reach. employ ere, however, it is the | Just wha r most elaborate plan of its kind ever o eee oy. 0 se Reeve J a matter of considerable speculation. | undertaken and is believed to strike | The nature of some of the ques- the high note of efficiency for which | _Uons asked precluded the explana- | the present administration is famed. tion that the index might have to Questionnaires have been sent to | do with Mr. Hoover's proposed gov be | Newton's office within | all of the various departments and | ernmental reorganization, and, bureaus hete with instructions that | t, this exp tion not b ac lana was asard- they be distributed among th m- y uted a ; * ed at the White House. es returned to .N a Sot <b reo House. = — Mr. Newton professed to know The information sought covers | nothing about it, unless it was some haps evéry question that the Cannel vague idea that had occurred to him SS when entering ‘ned Continued ‘on “Page % Column 2. MRS, WILLEBRANOT ‘RED ACTIVITIES HIT REFUSES TO TESTIFY BY JESUIT EDUCATOR _ viewpoints. | understood Italy Set Forth Anew. by Envoy Leaders. HOPES FOR PROGRESS | “in THIS WEEK CHERISHED Paris Nervous Over Plan to Compromise Tonnage Transfer Proposal. MAPPING OF AGENDA PLANNED TOMORROW Delegation Heads to Meet on Order of Category Discussions. — — — London, Jan. 25 (A.P.)—Tonights encounter between Foreign Secretary Dino Grand; and Premier Andre Tardieu once again failed to achieve the result sought by both delegations —that of healing the differences Be- ‘tween the Prench and Italian naval This problem was be- lieved to constitute one of the greate est dangers to the success of the five- power conference. . Not even a semiofficial statements followed this conversation, but it was that M. Tardieu agaif enumerated the naval needs of France to defend her long coast ling on three seas and to protect the next most vast colonial empire after that of Britain. “ The French premier came to the conclusion that no other country ot continental Europe has needs coni- 2 ~ | parable with those of France and @ no other nation of continental Europe can claim a fleet equal to hers. Italy’s Needs Listed. Tt was reported that Signo? Grafidi opposed to these arguments the fact that Italy is almost an island, with 10,000,000 of her sons scattered IB various parts of the world. while the homeland, opening only on the Med- iterranean, lacks sufficient food and raw materials for her population. He also pointed out that Italy must defend not only her coasts and communications but also her prin- cipal cities, all of which, except fer Milan and Turin, are situated on oF ‘near the seacoast, so as to be open She Gives Respect for Those | Dr. Walsh, Fresh From Stay Charged With Enforcement |__ in Europe, Cites Recent as Her Reason. Soviet Moves. | (Associated Press.) Armed with fresh material bearing | Out of respect to those charged; on Communist activities abroad. for | with enforcing the prohibition law, |& new series of. public lectures on Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, for- | soviet Russia. the Rev. mer Assistant Attorney General, de-|, Walsh, 8. J. clined yesterday to testify before the | House expenditures committee con- | sidering transfer of the dry enforce- ment unit from the Treasury to the | Justice Department. Mrs. Willebrandt refused the invi- | %®0"¢ hurried trip abroad since his taition of the committee in a letter | turn from Mexico last July. which said she had no more intimate | Dr. Walsh, while in Rome, contact with prohibition questions now than had any other citizen. She | * advised Chairman Williamson, of the | committee, personally, that she would | appear only in answer to a subpena. The committee is not empowered to ran «dp g#ummon involuntary witnesses. ; The invitation was extended Coming straight to Washington through adoption by the committee of from the scenes of anti-Soviet dem- a eae 4 ng carcen — as. 2 in London aroused by (Repu mmun propaganda. Dr. Walsh of 8 —* She was to have appeared (was not surprised to read in the This development in the prohibi- | Papers of Mexico’s recent drastic ac- tion, tangle on Capitol Hill came as tion in closing its Legation In Moscow Continued on Page 3, Colamn 5. | Continued on Page 12, Column 6. Youth Who Missed Drills Slain by Militia Sergeant ? Dr, Edmund | president of | | Georgetown University and regent of the School of Foreign Service. re- | , turned to Washington yesterday after | vice was re- | long audiences, one of | ' in two which lasted over two hours. He de- | clined to comment on the subject of _these conferences, explaining that | they were “mainly of a private na- |@ two-months absence in Europe, his | to bombardment from an enémy fleet. He emphasized that the needs of Italy are not absolute but are rela- tive to the sea strength of other ntries. Italy therefore SAYS VIEWS ARE KNOWN) MEXICAN STAND PRAISED | obiices to insist on parity with the ‘continental Buropean power haying the strongest fieet. He emphasized that this demand was not directed againts France as a nation, but af- fected her simply because France now has the strongest continental navy. Hope of Progress Lingers. Although neither of the statesmen yielded anything to the viewpoint of the other, the hope was still enter- tained that some progress may’ be | made in the meetings to occur next week. There will be none tomore —* at the Vatican by Pope Pius row. While the French premier and the Italian foreign minister talked this evening, the Japanese looked cati- tiously from their London headquar- ters and Prime Minister MacDonald and Secretary of State Stimson rested in the quiet of their country retreats. Though the first week of the confér- ence has ended without signs of sen- sationally rapid progress, plans have been perfected for resuming the work on Monday morning, when the chiefs of the five delegations will meet at 10 Downing street to discuss the general agenda for the conference. British Oppose U. 8. View. After this meeting the order in which the categories of ships will be taken up probably will be known. It is believed that a general compromise between the methods of measuring naval strength by global tonnage and ‘Noncom. Asserts Victim | Fled Before Arrest, Ignoring Shot. AUTOS OF e 1930 The automobile section of to- day’s Washington Post will reveal the newest créations of automotive engineers and de- signers and contains much information of value to everv owner and driver of a motor car... News of Washing- ton’s big auto show is an add- ed feature and the section is liberally illustrated in half- tones that show the grace and beauty of newest models. THE WASHINGTON Detroit, Jan. 25 (A.P.).—A 16-year- , | old member of the Michigan National | | today by a sergeant who had been | sent to his home to arrest him for | missing drill. | The young guardsman, Stanley Prusinowski, had missed dril) for sev- eral weeks and Sergt. Jose Poggione, 28, had been sent to place him under arrest. According to the given to police by Poggione, the th Tran out of the rear door of his home as the sergeant came to the front of the house. Poggione started in pursuit, and his quarry was outdistancing him as they ran through an alley. The sergeant gaid he called to Pru- sinowski to halt and fired one shot in the air. His order was disregarded, he said, and he fired his revolver at the Guard was shot and killed here late | NEWS of SUBURBAN Washington and the Surrounding: States “a ) — Appears on Pages 2, 4, 5 and * To Continued on Page 3, Column 5 |Positions of France | .. Pp! o4