The Washington Post
April 29, 1930

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, P r Washington Post is the only Washington "publishing 4 ) a U | 4 | | Hh — — / LLIO — —* eH ashington Post. |== — = —= Weather—Cloudy to- “NO. 19.67 675. ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER, SOSTOPFICE, WASHINGTON. D. ©. _WASHINGTON : TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1930. COPYRIGHT, 1930. BY THE WASHINGTON POST CO. THREE ie i URGES FOREIGN) = MARKET STUDY ‘Knowledge of Economic Needs of Europe ls — Held Essential. ° LEAGUE OF NATIONS OFFICIAL 1S SPEAKER 18th Annual Meeting of U. S. Commerce Body Is Opened. ENGLAND IS CALLED NEW BUFFER STATE World Bank Is Defended by Speaker’ Who Tells of Its Functions, What American business men need, above all, if this country is to con- tinue to prosper, is a better under- Standing of Eurdpean economic con- ditions, Lucius R. Eastman, American member of the economic committee of the League of Nations, declared |. last night at the tenth annual dinner of the American committee of the International Chamber of Commerce at the Mayflower Hotel. The dinner Was the high light.of the opening “ day's program of the eighteenth an- nual meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce. . . “I am very glad the United States fs not i nthe League of Nations,” Md. Hastman asid, while explaining that when the league was first formed he was a strong advocate of America’s entry. And then he added: “If the United States had joined, the league would not stil lbe in existence; we would have wrecked it with our American habit of demanding quick results.” Mr, Eastman was the first speaker at the dinen rHe was folowed by lvin A. Tra¥lor, “Chicago banker, ro is the amerſe⸗· member of the prqanisation committee for the Bank for International Settlements under the Young plan. Owen D. Young in- toduced Mr/ Traynor, while Silas H. Strawn, distinguished lawyer and vice (president of the Internationa] Cham- ber of Commerce, who acted as toast- master, introduced Mr. Eastman and Mr: Young. “England is going to be the buffer Between the United States and Europe in future economic clashes,” Mr, Eastman declared after explain- ing some of the workings of the’ league's economic acommittee. “She must, of course, keep on good terms with Europe and she's sure to remain friendly to the nited States.”. The difference in business methods, percentages and points of view in this country and continental and British Nations was dwelt on by Mr. Eastman. America is more flexible, he said, and is accustomed to much higher profits and ah abundance of resources. Contrary to popular belief, Euro- peans are “less critical of our national] cisco about 9:36 a. moon's shadow . ata Phenomenon Witnessed By Many Thousands in Northwest. San Francisco, April 28 (A.P.).—The rare phenomenon of a total eclipse of the sun was witnessed over a narrow path across the Northwestern United States today and in addition to being a spectacle of muen interest may have brought to astronomers new in- formation regarding our chief source of heat, light and energy. As a spectacie the eclipse. brought many thousands of persons in north- ern California, Nevada, Idaho and Montana out+into the open with smoked glasses to witness the sun's occlusion by the moon. The th of totality was both narrow a rela- tively short. Start at a point in the Pacific Ocean west of San Fran- 4P. 8. T.), the _nor rate of 1,200 miles an hour, en- tering Nevada at Honey Lake, Calif., Moon” s Shadow Falls BL sid Portion of U. S. ' Associated Pres« Photo. Senators Dill, of Washington (left), and Robinson, of Indiana, eager to see the eclipse of the sun yesterday afternoon, looked throhgh a smoked glass from the steps of the Senate Buliding. ? and passing onward into Idaho and Montana, where it left the earth, The path of totality was about 3,000 feet wide. Each direction from that path the percentage of totality di- minished until’ 300 or 400 miles away there was little to see. The darkness occasioned by the eclipse was of an eerie sort, like that in a graveyard at twilight. Not only darkness but a coolness resulted that brought the mercury down perceptibly. There was also a hush that may have been partly imaginary. In San Francisco, the largest city mear the 00 per of totality, where the sun was essary indoors. As to the scientific espects of the @ctipse;: reports from rors Camptonvijie and Continued on “Page 5, Column 5. WASHINGTON FAMILY GRAVES ARE OPENED Wakefield Association Puts 30 Bodies in Rebuilt Tomb on Estate. VAULT SEALED AT ONCE Close by the spot on which George Washington was born, on the Wake- field estate along the lower Potomac River, the remains of. more than members of the Washington fa~ were reinterred yesterday in a | on ‘character than we are ourselves.” h —R iat + irae Dem re: » MC) services by the Wakefield National stated. Memorial Association. World Bank Is Praised. With the removal from the graves A staunch defense of the interna- jtional bank was put forward by Mr. ‘Traylor, following a lengthy eulogy of this character and public service by Mr. Young. The bank is “not a financial oc- topus,” he said, but rather “a rele- tively small bank created to perform @ specific function”—the correction for creditor governments of German reparations payments. “Except for the problems involved fm the collection and distribution of Teparation,” he explained, “there would not be at this time an interna- tional bank. It is in no sense a re- flection of the desire of international! bankers or political intrigues to in- Wolve the world, and especially the United States, in some kind of a mys- terious financial oligarchy.” Replying to critics of the bank who, he said, heve- “alleged that Continued on Page 2, Column 7. CRITICAL REVIEWS —of Rudy Vallee’s own story, “Vagabond Dreams Come True,” must be received by The Washington Post by midnight tonight to be eligi- ble. for consideration in awarding $100 in prizes . . . Reviews should not exceed 250 words in length and will be judged on the ideas ex- - pressed rather than upon literary merit . . . Winners will be announced next Sun- day; May 4, in— THE ‘WASHINGTON POST > of these venerated dead, belonging to four generations antedating the First President, another major step was taken in the restoration of this his- toric spot, now taken over by the Federal Government, preservation as a National monument or park. looking to its The reinterment was conducted with services conducted by the Right Rev. Bishop of Washington, assisted by the Rev. Floyd Cartwright, of St. Church, King George, Va. James E. Freeman, Episcopal Paul's The bodies were removed from sev- eral scattered burial plots and from the old family cemetery, which re- cently was incorporated in the prop- Continued on Page 2, Column 5. DENTAL THIEVES GET $3,000 IN GOLD HAUL 14 Offices in Northwest Sec- tion Are Plundered Over Week-End. FORCED ENTRY IS GAINED Thieves made off' with more than $3,000 worth of dental gold after a } Lucas, Dr. William M. Sweet, Dr. Car! raid on offices of fourteen dentists in the northwest section sometime be- ween Saturday and yesterday. Thieves gained entrance to the apartment house at 1835 I street northwest and stole dental gold from the following offices: Dr. Lester M. L. Mess, Dr. Charles D. Cole, Dr. Steven C. Hopkins, Dr. Charles W. Roditim, Dr. Lacey M. Payfair, Dr. Arthur L. Haryin and Dr. Otto Wendt. The other offices were located in the Kresge Building. The offices looted were conducted by Dr. Frank C. Brightwell and Dr. Percy M. Mer- ton. The thieves also raided apartments at 1129 Vermont avenue. The apart- ments were conducted by Dr. J. H. Rielly, Dr. C. W. Camalier, and Dr. C. A. Baker. Detectives Sergeants Curtis Trom- mel and James E. Kane who investi- gated the robberies discovered that entrance had been made by jimmying doors. Papers May Be Denied War Nurse, Loath to Bear Arms Federal Judge Reserves Decision on Citizenship Re- quest After Minister’s Daughter Persists in Re- fusal to Take Oath to Defend America. then, may prevent The case of Miss Bland, which had been reported unfavorably by natu- ralization examiners because she told them she would not take the oath to bear United States, came up before Fed- eral Judge Bondy today, and assuming former war nurse reiterated in court her refusal to bear arms. arms in d of the the un- She is 47, and has lived in New York since 1914 except for the nine New York, April 28 (N.Y.W.NS.).—!months she was a nurse at Brest, Her conviction that war is wrong. a conviction which took root in the nine months she acted as war nurse in France and has been growing in the years since Miss Marie Averill Bland, Canadian- born daughter of an English clergy- man, from becoming an American citizen. caring for shell-shocked soldiers. Americans among these. Her father is the Rev. Edward Bland, of Lin- colnshire, England. “Is there any circumstance under which you would take up arms for your country” Judge Bondy asked her. “None,” she replied. “If some one threatened to you, would you let him” “Oertainly.”’ A remark by Judge Bondy that this “parallels the Rosika Schwim- mer case’ was denied by Emily Marx, attorney for Miss Bland. Miss Marx Continued on Page 3, Column 5. kill 99 per cent obscured, lights were nee⸗ | SCIENCE. ASKED TO LEND AID IN BAKER MURDER Other Articles to Go Under Microscope. CHEMISTS WILL SCAN MAN’S SCARF, GLOVES Police Hope Some Stain or Dust Particle May Be Clew to Killer. SEVERAL SUSPECTS CLEARED IN INQUIRY Mysterious Guest at Hotel in Alexandria Still Is Chief Hope. Science, which is usually frowned upon by the practical detective, has been summoned to assist in the cap- ture of the murderer of Mary Baker. Today Washington police will trans- mit to chemists for microscopic ex- amination the personal effects of the slain girl and other articles found with them in a sewer near the crime scene. In. the hope that the mitroscope will lead the searchers to the killer, & man’s scarf and a pair of men’s gloves discovered with the Baker girl's clothes will umdergo the painstaking scrutiny of chemists. There is a faint hope tn the minds of detectives that some particle of dust may divine the occupation of the owner of the scarf or gloves. Or perhaps, they point out, some organ- ism or fungus growth on the articles may tell how long the clothes were in the catch basin on the experimen- tal farm of the Department of Agri- culture. Amother Suspect Cleared. . Officer Ray Cobean, of the Arling- ton County Police, who left early yes- terday for Bowling Green, Va. to question & suspect, reported t night to Sheriff Howard B. Fields that thé man had no connection with the Baker murder. The suspect was ar- reated there on April 11 by a Virginia State police officer and was being held for questioning by Arlington au- thorities. In addition to the scarf and gloves a handkerchief found in and a suitcase of clothes left in an Alexandria hotel on April 11, will also be examined with the microscope. The handkerchief is a man’s and bears the initial of a suspect previ- ously questioned and released. It was found in a culvert near Arlington Cemetery, 10 feet from the spot where the Navy Department Clerk’s body was placed by the murderer. Arlington County authorities were unsuccessful until a late hour last night in their attempt to trace the owner of the luggage left tin an Alex- 9 Continued on Page 3, Column Effects of Slain Girl and. the culvert . HANDITS oLfy 1 UD GhiNtot AND HAZE CITY Residents Who Escape Machine Gun Fire Are Kidnaped. TWO PRIESTS TAKEN FROM U. S. MISSION Canton Receives Plea for Aid From Kanchow, Red-Besieged. COMMUNISM GRIPS AREA IN SOUTH CHINA: Nationalist Adherent Boiled in Oil in Village Street as Crowd Watches. Shanghal, April 29 (Tuesday) (A.P.). Chinese press advices received here today said that the two Catholic priests, kidnaped yesterday by ban- dits who raided and looted . Sientao- chen, Hupeh Province, had been shot by their captors, The priests, from the Saint Colum- bans, Nebraska mission, were believed to have been Father Patrick Lassan and Father Francis Murray. Shanghai, April 28 (A.P.).—Bandits, armed with machine guns, massacred 1,000 residents of Kingsuchen, north- ern Kiangsu province, Saturday, it was learned today. One thousand captives were carried off with loot of the city, -vhich was burned. This latest massacre by outlaws. who recently have slain thousands in other sections of China, took place within 100 miles of Nanking, seat of the Nationalist government. The countryside about Kingsuchen was fevaged and peasants were tortured. Mounted upon horses, the bandits dashed into the town, posted machine guns and mowed down the helpless inhabitants, afterward looting their homes _ before setting fre to them Two priests were kidnaped by brig- ands who sacke” the city of Sien- taochen, 50 miles northwest of Hankow. The priests were attached to the mission established by the COhi- nese Mission Society of St. Colum- bans, Nebr. Most of the personnel are Irish born priests. Other priests and sisters of the mission were be- lieved safe, while four American sis- ters were reported to have fied to Hanyang. City Defenders Ask Ald. Hope was felt that 25 foreigners immured in the bandit-besieged city of Kanchow were still safe. A tele- gram received by provincial authori- ties at Canton from the commander of the Chinese defending troops, ask- ed that additional forces be sent to assist in clearing out the Reds who have surrounded the city for seven weeks. Officials in Canton believed the message indicated that defenders Continued on Page 4, Column 1. Women Held in Death By Hit-and-Kun Auto Man Is Dragged 50 Feet By Car and Flung | Into Canal. While riding a bicycle along Canal road about two blocks west of Key | Bridge. Fillmore Ray, colored, 21 years old. of «1018 Twenty-ninth street northwest, was killed by a hit-and- run automobile. The machine crushed him against the stone wall along the roadway at that point and dragged him 50 feet. He was finally, in same manner, flung over the wall into the old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. The accident o'clock last night. Two women were held by Seventh Precinct Police in connection with the death. They gave their names as Miss Martha Russell, 24 years old, of D street near Second street northwest, and Mrs. Lillian Walsh, 20 years old, of Pifteenth street near M _ street northwest. They are held for an in- quest scheduled for today. Crashing into the wheel, the ma- chine, a yellow roadster, proceeding in the same direction as the cyclist, toward Washington, dragged the man. entangled in the bicycle. close against the low wall before it swerved, toss- ing Ray into the waters below. The machine then turned and sped in the opposite direction toward nearby Maryland. Motorcycle Policeman Frank Sco- ville, of the Traffic Bureau, and Dempsey Schwartz, 18 years old, of Twenty-fifth street near. [I street northwest, on reaching the scene dived several] times in an effort to re- trieve the body before arrival of the Fire Rescue Squag and volunteers. After a half hour's dragging, the! occurred at 7:15 TRE esas body was recovered’ by W..T. Reynolds | y Panch at Bridge Game Paralyzes Nine Women | April 28 (A.P.). || Wichita, Kans., The Beacon said today that nine women, members of a bridge club In the fashionable College Hill district here, are under the care of physicians following a bridge luncheon at the home of one of the mem bers where punch “spiked” with alcohol was served. Three of the women were re- ported completely paralyzed, three others confined to their beds, hav- ing lost the use of their legs, and the others were able to get about only on crutches. Two of the women told their physicians they had but one drink of the punch — PARKER DEFENSE HIT. | AS BORAH LAUN CHES” FIERY SENATE FIGH - ™ a Text of Hoover Message Urging Crime Bills Action (Associated Press.) President Hoover yesterday strong- ly urged Congress to act on his twice- transmitted recommendations for more effective criminal law enforce- ment before the present session ad- journs. The text of the President's message follows: “In my messages of June 6 and December 3, 1929, I placed before | Congress the urgency of certain im- provements necessary to criminal law enforcement. “Substantial progress has been | made upon some of the measures pro- posed, yet we are nearing the end of | | the present session, and I can not | too strongly urge the necessity of |action upon all these recommenda- | tions before adjournment. | “The most important recommenda- | tions made by me were ‘five in num- ber. the functions of detection and pros- ecution of prohibition cases from the | ment of Justice and thus an ending of divided responsibility and effort.) “1. There should be a transfer of | Treasury Department to. the —“ “An act providing for this transfer was passed by the House of Repre- sentatives and has now been reported to the Senate by its judiciary com- mittee. “2. There must be relief afforded from congestion in the courts. While this congestion is evidenced by the | dockets in many courts, its full im- | Plications are not shown by them. ‘The so-called bargain days, when ht fines are imposed as the result tig effective Of pleas of guilty, clear the docket but the result distincily undermines | respect for law. “No conclusion appears to have | been reached as to the method of ac- complishing this either by the judici- ary committee of the Senate or by the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives. “3. There must be extension of Federal prisons with more adequate parole system and other modern treatment of prisoners. We have al- ‘ready 11,985 prisoners in Federal establishments bullt for 6,946. “The mumber of Federal prisoners ‘In Federal and State institutions in- | 9 Continued on Page 3, Column MUTINOUS CONVICTS PURSUED IN TUNNEL “Shoot to Kill’ Orders War- den as Soldiers Seek to Quell New Disorders. Thirty-one - national gu@PGemen with loaded rifles aria’ teat gas bombs were sent into Ohio Penitentiary tonight to quell disorders among prisoners in a tunnel leading from a cell block to the prison power house. Seven of the soldiers went into the prison court while 24 men stationed themselves in the guard room with fixed bayonets. A “shoot to kill” or- der was issued by Warden Thomas. Col. Robert Haubrich, commander of the national guardsmen stationed Outside the prison since last Mon- day’s fire in which 320 convicts died, preceded the soldiers into the court. entered the tunnel. The convicts apparently bad planned to shut of darkness. lights in the White City idle house. When the cell blocks became black soldiers cut two holes in the roof and trained searchiights into them. Later tear bimbs were dropped into the holes. It was learned that the mu- tineers had cut through a concrete wall in order to reach the tunnel. Soldiers were kept on the cel! block roofs and a company of guardsmen were stationed across the street from the main entrance to the prison. Indications were that tonight's ac- tivities would bring about a show- down in Warden Thomas’ determina- tion to end the passive resistance movement against his rule. and that they had partaken of no other alcoholic beverages for weeks. Dr. M. H. Hostetler, county physician, today reported 25 new liquer paralysis cases outside the elty in Sedgwick County. Twenty- eight men and one woman now are being cared for at an i) emergency dormitory at the county poor farm. and W. A. Findley. of the Reynolds Boathouse nearby. Furnished by several witnesses with the mumber of the car, police launched a wide search which result- ed in arrest of the two women about an hour later by Second Precinct Po- liceman R. P. Goode when they re- turned the machine to an automobile rental agency on Fourth street be- tween I and K etreets northwest. Taken to the Seventh Precinct Sta- tion, Miss Russell admilitted that she was driving the machine along Con- duit road at the time of the acci- dent, but that she did not remember striking a bicycle. | |The law of the pistol runs the length It previously had been thought the ‘mutiny had been broken up this after- noon when leaders in the movement were transferred to the London (Ohio) prison farm. The convicts, however, apparently found new leaders. that followed week ago in which 320 lives were lost the prisoners rose up ip revolt again after a comparatively quiet week- Continued on Page 2, Column 8. TROOPS FIX BAYONETS: Columbus, Ohio, April 26 (A.P.).—| Upon reaching the court, the soldiers | the power and throw the prison into) They cut off the power supplying | {HOOVER ASKS SPEED WIE MEASURE 'deiite and House Uraed by President to Expedite Legislation. FIVE POINTS STRESSED ! i i | . (Associated Press.) Adopting th4 Unusual course of writing to Congress urging compietion of his législative law enforcement pro- gram, President Hoover yesterdsy found a Senate so busy with other matters that it even waived the for- mality of having the Executive mes- sage read. It was referred to the judi- clary committee without a word of discussion. | Most of the measures cited by the President are caught behind the tariff and the controversy over the Parker | nomination in the Senate, but both | Houses are progressing with the legis- | lation, and Republican leaderg believe ample time is left at this session for [action at least on the high points of ‘the administration program. Calling attention to the approach- ‘ing adjournment of the legislature, Mr. Hoover asserted “substantial prog- |reas” had boen made on some of the ‘relief measures he proposed, but he | added that early adoption of the com- | Plete five-point program was neces- sary “if I am to perform the high duty which falis upon the Executive of enforcement of the Federal laws.” The five points stressed were trans- fer of prohibition enforcement func- tigns from the Treasury to the Jus- tice Department, methods to relieve congested court dockets, extension of Federa] prison facilities, consolidation of border patrol agencies more effec- tively to prevent illegal entry of aliens jand goods, 1nd an “adequate” dry en- ‘forcement law for the Nationa! Capi- tal. | The prohibition transfer bill has | passed the House. The Senate judi- |clary committee was prepared to re- | port it to the Senate, but only yester- Still seething in a spirit of unrest | 7#Y referred it back to a subcommit- the disastrous fire a | | transferrin tee for modification of a proviso g employes of the dry unit to the Justice Department. The committee previously had voted against transfer of the Treas- ” Continued on Page 3, Column District Provi ider of Guns For Use in New York Crime Capital, Allowing Unlimited Sale of Pistols, Is Im- portant Source From Which Manhattan Thugs Draw Supply for Nefarious Pursuits. New York, April 28 (N.Y.W.NS.).— and breadth of New York City, where the writs of the law never reach. New York curls its hands gently around the butts of more “rods” than almost any city in the world in spite of its rigid Sullivan law. Out of 357 homicides committed in this city last year, 182 involved use of a gun. Out of 2,490 felonious as- sault cases, pistols or similar weapons were responsible for 333. Out of 1,172 cases of assault and robbery, firearms were used in 975. These statistics were compiled at the instigatiom of Police Commissioner Whalen. But this city never has teken to the submachine gun with the Best that has characterized its adoption by ‘im these places volunteer to send a Louls and Philadelphia. Since the | skull of Frankie Yale was blasted | away by bullets from one of these “choppers.” as the underworld terms them, there has been no proved ma- chine gun murder here Police here say that most of the pistols carried by unauthorized per- sons in this State are bought in ad- joining States or are shipped in from one of the hundreds of mail order houses that specialize in this kind of traffic. idaho Senator Takes Up Cudgels of Labor in His Attack. RED JACKET CASE DECISION IS CITED 7 A * — — Supreme Court Nominee Was Not Bound by Precedent, Claim. SEES NOMINATION AS THREAT TO RIGHTS Overman, of North Carolina, Defends Jurist as Man of Ability. By CARLISLE BARGEON. Senate consideration of the case of Judge John J. Parker, recently nomi- nated for the Supreme Court, Began yesterday with the venerable Senator Overman defending a fellow North Carolinian and Senator Borah voicing the opposition of organized labor. Senator Overman's was a defense of the homefolks “who know Judge Paf- ker best.” a defense of his — JF— ability and courage. With none of these did Senater Borah have any quarrel. His was ati- other step in the battle of “human, versus property rights.” which tie senator declared had not been de@- nitely settled, regardless of Supreme Court decisions, but which was still a living. moving issue yet to be aerate mined. Strikes Parker's Main Defense. He launched his attack on J Parker's main defense in the la phase of the fight agsinst him, asd the main defensé made in his behalf. by Attorney Gene Mitchell, the-d¢- fense that fn in the ce Red Jacket case ting from West Virginia coal mining felds, followed the Supreme Court. Not ag- mitting that had he followed uf ets « preme Court his position would justified, the Idaho senator declared that he did not follow it. Indeed, the senator contended that in so far as he could ascertain, the principle enunciated by Judge Par- ker in the Red Jacket case was the first time it had ever been iaid down; that Judge Parker went fur- ther than the Supreme Court had ever gone. “It seems to me.” he declared; “that the judges of the Circuit Court of Appeals (the Fourth, over which Judge Parker presides) were anxious to find some way to sustain and maintain that contract.” The contract referred to was that which 316 coal operators of West Virginia made the miners sign, un- der which the miners agreed they would not join the union or discuss with each other any means looking + * a 4 to an improvement. of their work- ing conditions or an increase in wages. The union come into the West Virginia field in 1917 with tie avowed intention of unionizing that field. Borah Reviews Issues. The operators got an injunction restraining the union, and the iat- ter appealed to the circuit court of appeals, which upheld the- order. “We are not contending here that labor organizations can employ force or violence,” Senator Borah said. “There were ample facts to justify the injunction. This is not & com troversy between employer and eme- ployes. It involves for greater prine- ciples. “Transcending all interests in inf- portance is the interest of the pule- lic, of the State and of the Gove ernment. Is not the public, is net the State and is not the National Government interested in striking down all those overreaching contracts which rob those who work of the liberty to conduct themselves — erly?” Senator Borah described the con- Twenty-five stores in this city were visited without finding one where & piste] could be bought without a per- mit. Nor would any of the pistol to an ad some other State, although th a violation such cities ag Chicago, Detroit, at. | Continued on Page 3, Column 6. tracts forced upon the miners as relics of the medieval days, as have NEWS of SUBURBAN Washington and the — States