The Washington Post
February 13, 1930

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In the meantime, Senator Watson, ‘Republican leader, pressed particu- larly by the Young Turks, redoubled his efforts to get a vote and put out -’ the fire before its spreads too far. He threatened a night session last night and was dissuaded only by the warning of Senator Norris, of Ne- braska, that he would have to take the consequences of trying to shut off debate, the expressed opinion of both Senator Norris and Senator Borah that a vote would come today, and undoubtedly, to some extent, by the taunts by the Democrats that he did not have the votes to force a night session. Specific Time Effort Fails. He failed in an effort to get a unanimous-consent agreement to vote at a specifiedd time today, Senratio of total American tonnage. Inside this global _ figure Japan will demand a 70 per cent ratio of America’s 10,000-ton, 8-inch cruis- ers and her present submarine ton- nage of 78,000 tons. This would leave Japan with less than a 70 per cent ratio in destroyers and small cruisers. British, U. S. Figures Knokn. Since the British and American tonnage figures are already an- nounced, and Italy claims parity with France, when the Japanese and French programs are issued the Lon- don naval conference for the first time will be at grips with, its supreme problems. On the eve of the issuance of the French and ~-Japanese programs America’s wonder battleship disap- peared into the gathering haze today after Premier MacDonald and First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexan- der had told the chief American dele- gates yesterday Great Britain could not agree to it. Technically, the American claim to the right to build this ship remains. In fact, the atti- tude in American circles indicates the so-called “eHnry L. Stimson’ has faded into the category of ghost ships. Mr. Alexander has informed the House of Commons that there was no question of Great Britain's scrapping of the Rodney or any other of her latest battleships. French Line-up Cited. The New York World News Service is able for the first time to indicate how Premier Andre Tardieu proposes to divide up the French fleet of 724,-' 000 tons into catagories and the Continued on ‘Page 3, Column 2 Connie Mack — Of $10,000 Bok Prize Has Done Most for His City in Last Year, Committee Finds. Philadelphia, Feb. 12 (A.P.).—Cor- nelius McGillicudy, better known throughout the country as Connie Mack, manager of the world’s cham- pion Philadelphia Athletics, tonight received the $10,000 Edward W. Bok award for 1929 for “having rendered the most outstanding service to Philadelphia” during the year. The award, in the form of a check, was accompanied by a medal and scroll. The presentation was made pri- vately tonight after a dinner at a cowntown hotel attended by the Bok award committee and a number of prominent citizens. In other years the presentation ‘was made a public affair, but the usual exercises were dispensed with this year because of the recent death of Mr. Bok. Charlies E. Fox, former district at- torney, made a brief presentation speech, in which he praised Mack for his long directorship of the Athletics, his clean sportsmanship and the at- tention he had attracted to Philadei- phia in winning league pennants and the world series. Mack, who had been in Florida un- til yesterday, was accompanied to the dinner by his son, Connie, jr., but nore of the baseball warriors who carried him to his fourth world series championship last year was present. However, in acknowledging the award, the @7-year-old leader ot the cham evitably—Simmons Haas and Miller, Cochrane, Grove and the rest—-as coinheritors of his honor. It was not of past achievemen<s that Mack spoke, but of the future ond what he hoped: for in the years — — — | | | CONNIE MACK. Crime Commission Aids Are Selected — — — — — Dr. W. M. Brown Is One of | Three Named to Help Hoover’s Group. (Associated Press.) Appointment of three additional expe assist the law enforcement commission in its study of the causes of crime was announced yesterday. They are Dr. Emma A. Winslow, of New York City; Dr. William M Brown, of Lexington, Va., and Dr. Stewart Paton, of Princeton, N. J., formerly a professor and lecturer at Yale and Johns Hopkins Universi- ties. - Dr. Brown was the defeated Vir- ginia gubernatorial candidate of the anti-Smith Democrats last year. “7 Bloodhounds Hunt Pair That Wounded Ray- mond Crack. Raymond Crack, Arlington County motorcycle policeman, rode more than half a mile before he dropped after being shot in the face by a rumrun- ner during a furious chase and gun battle late yesterday on the Mount Vernon boulevard, Arlington County. The vehicles were running at the rate of 65 miles an hour at the time. Two men, occupants of the auto, were being sought with bloodhounds | in Prince William County late last) night after they had abondoned their | car, which contained seventeen cases | of liquor, at Shady Side Camp, near | Occoquan, on the Richmond highway | Crack and C. W. Carr, another | county motorcycle policeman, were directing traffic at Rosslyn, near the south end. of Key Bridge when the) high-powered convertible touring car drove by at a high rate of speed. The | policemen saw the cases of liquor, | ~ they said, and immediately took up| the chase. One of the rumrunners kneeled in RAYMOND CRACK, the rear of the fleeing car and began | firing on their pursuers. The police- Continued on Page 2, Column 1. GERMANY EVOLVES, INVINCIBLE WARSHIP Projected Sea Fighter Could Outrun or Outrange Any Known Foe. Kiel, Germany, Feb. 12 (N.Y.W.N.8.) A 10,000-ton battleship which can outrange and outrun anything on the sea is planned by German naval con- structors and needs only authoriza- tion by the Reichstag to be built. It will be a long step ahead of the cele- brated Ersatz Preussen now about 30 per cent completed in the shipyard of PLAN IS REVOLUTIONARY DAY HEARING BARD WILD PARTY DETAILS Prohibition Era Scored by Huose Committee Head in Opening Sessions. LOGICAL CONTROL IS AIM Failure of prohibition and the al- leged evils that have followed in its wake were Vividly portrayed yesterday before the judiciary committée of the House of Representatives. Chairman Graham opened the hear- ings with a vigorous statement de- nouncing as a failure the attempt “‘to forbid the American people to deter- mine for themselves what they shail the Deutschewerke here. The Ersatz Preussen itself—a sub- stitute for the old battleship Preussen —has already obliged other nations to make changes in naval construc- tion, though it won’t be completed until the autumn of 1932. ._ But its successor on the Kiel ways is going to show further evolution which will affect all classes of warships afloat. This battleship, which is simply marked “Substitute B” in the Ger- man naval program—the Ersatz Preus- | sen being marked “A”—will profit by | all the construction geins shown ip | “A” and also by further advances now under study. One million dollars is asked by the navy from the Reichstag before laying it down. The Ersatz Preussen, the final name of which has not been deéided, will be able to outrange anythifig it can’t outrun and outrun anything it can't outrange. Its successor is expected to be even faster than it, which would enable it to outrun any vessel] which carries guns anywhere near its own li-inch batteries. While it won't be | able to make the speed of smaller | craft, it would have them within | range for so long a time before they could bring their batteries into ac- tion that they would all be sunk Continued on Page 3, Column 2. | throughout the country and | tions reeking with murder, bribery. |Governor of Michigan, drink.” He pictured guerrilla warfare “condl- corruption, violations and evasions and disrespect for aii law.” The statement of the 79-year-old chairman of the judiciary committee must have come as a distinct shock to dry leaders in the audience, mean- ing, as it did, that Mr. Graham had abandoned a “judicial” attitude and definitely and formally lined up on the side of those who are demandinc the adoption of some other system that will lessen the evils developed /under prohibition. Walter H. Liggett, magazine writer, the first outside witness, told of his investigations in Washington, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, in Kansas and elsewhere. He said he found absolute failure of enforcement at every turn, and named high officials who he said have been drawn into the maelstrom of corruption. He told of a “very wild party” at a roadhouse on an island near Detroit attended by ‘the four circuit judges, the’ head of the Detroit police, |chief of Michigan State police, poll- ticians, criminals, bootleggers, gam- blers” and declared that at that “drunken debauch,” the liquor for Continued on Page 2, Column 2 Arizona Gallows Awaits First Woman Victim, 52 Killed Will Die on Clemency Plea Denied, Housekeeper for Recluse She Seaffold at State Prison February 21. Phoenix, Ariz. Feb. 12 (A.P.).—/| Death on the gallows seemed inevit- | able today for Mrs. Eva Dugan,’ 52- year-old housekeeper, whose last hope for life was extinguished by the State Board of P ms and Paroles in a denial of her petition for clem- ency. On February 21, she will die on the scaffold at the Arizona State prison in Florence for the murder. three years ago, of her employer, A J. Mathis, aged recluse of Tucson. Ariz., the first woman in Arizona criminal annals to be executed. The board's decision was rendered with one dissenting vote, that of C. O. Case, who recommended clemency He was opposed vigorously, however. by Attorney General K. Berry Peter- son and L B Orme, boara chairman. Appended at the last moment to the woman's appeal was a brief let- ter she received at the prison sag lendbacenes “Jack” absolving her — all blame. The writer ciaimed that Mrs. Dugan “had nothing to do with it’ and that he “had to hit old mah Mathis” when he came “at me with a knife and would have killed me if I had not struck him.” No cognizance of the claim taken _by the board, who pointed out that Mrs. Dugan had received similar let- ters in the past and that investiga- tion of the missives had produced nothing to mitigate the evidence against her. . Eariy in 1928, Mathis’ body was found in a make-shift grave near his rafich. Mrs. Dugan was charged with the murder, tried and convicted in February, 1928, and was sentenced to hang. She has declared throughout her imprisonment that the youth whom she knew only as “Jack” com- mitted the crime and she ran away » State al- FIRST ARREST MADE HERE IN LIQUOR BUY BECOMES TEST CASE Cycle Policeman Shot In Wild Rum Chase 4a a Half-Pint Purchase of Gin to Be Basis of Action in District Court. MAN IS RELEASED | UNDER $500 BOND Assistant U. S. Attorney Voices Confidence of Conviction. ORCUTT APPROVES ~ LAW’S INVOCATION Similar Philadelphia Trial Resulted in Freeing of Defendant. The first charge of violation of the prohibition law by purchasing liquer ever filed in Washington, was entered yesterday against JosephyPatrick Car ley, 40, by Second Precinct detectives. Carley was arrested when he left an alleged speak-easy on Vermont avenue near L street. The detectives said he had a half pint of gin in his possession, for which he said he had paid $1. 2 Since the provision of the prohiiaie tion law tending to make the puB- chaser equally liable with the sellér of liquor has never been brought to a test in the District courts, it was dé- cided to make Carley's case a teat. He was formally charged “with bug- ing a half-pint of gin.” and later re- leased on a $500 bond. He gave ®s Kanawha street address which was believed to be incorrect, Will Make Test Case. It was reported that the detectives decided on making a test of 21 after consulting with Hart, assistant United @tates a 12 charge of prohibition enforcement in Police Court. Hart later declared that hé did not order the chatge ‘booked against Carley, but that ‘he was prepared to try him under the statute. : “Purchasing liquor is just as muth an offense against the national] pro- hibition act as bootlegging, if the Purchase is made from an illegal seller,” Mr, Hart s@id. “When the police advised men that they had ar- rested a man for buying whisky I told them to hold him and that I thought I could convict him under section 6 of the national prohibition act.” 7 of Law. This section specifies that “no one shall manufacture, sell, purchase, transport or prescribe any liquor without first obtaining a permit from the commissioner * * *” Capt. Harold W. Orcutt, assistant United States attorney in charge of padlocks, said that he did not undere stand why the provision had not pree viously been invoked. Despite Capt. Orcutt’s statement that the provision apparently covers “purchasing liquor” records of the United States Court of Appeals in Philadelphia show that a decision convicting the “buyer” was reversed. Decision is Reversed. This court held that the purchaser is not punishable under the national prohibition law in the case of Alfred E. Norris, New York broker and clubman, who was fined $200 after he had purchased liquor from Joal D. Kerper, alleged “society beot- legger.”’ . While Kerper was sentenced to one year and three months in jef and fined $20,000, the eppeal by Norris was sustained and the verdict of Judge William H. Kirkpatri¢a overruled. Judges Victor B. Woolley and W. H. 8. Thomson concurred 4n. the decision with Judge Joseph Buf- fington dissenting. Senator Sheppard, (Democrat), Texas, apparently is not convinced that the present law covers “the buyer,” for on October 8, 1929, 2 introduced a bill which would make make buyers guilty along with manufac = Provisions NEWS of SUBURBAN Washington - and the Surrounding