The Washington Post
May 16, 1930

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call National 4205. —_* ‘The Washington Post is the only _ Washington newspaper publishing the reports of The Associated Press every morning. For home delivery ™s * ‘slightly cooler. est, 72; Westher—Fair today; tomorrow rain Temperature — High- lowest, 57. Details on page 14, NO. 19,692. SBCOND-CLASS MA POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. WASHINGTON: FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1930. QOPYRIGHT, 1930, BY THE WASHINGTON POST CO. ATE MalT CURB UN PRIMARY IN QUAKER oTATt Fight Hot, but Eye Kept ~ on Senate Campaign Fund Inquiry. EXPENDITURES SEEM MODEST ENOUGH NOW Belief Held Legislature Candidates, However, Have Spent More. CHIEF ISSUE HINGES ON HUMANITARIANISM Davis Backs Hoover Policies While Grundy Stand Is Called Revolt. Pennsylvania Politics ‘Bad as Ever,’ Says Nye , Pittsburgh, Pa., May 15 (A.P.).— Senator Gerald P. Nye, of North Dakota, chairman of the Senate campaign fund committee, ex- pressed the opinion at the conclu- sion of a day of conferences here today that indications of corrup- tion in the senatorial primaries in Pennsylvania are “as bad as ever.” He added that an investigation into campaign expendtures was & practical certainty following the voting on May 20. The senator, who came here’ from Philadelphia, where he con- ferred with officials concerned with election inquiries, spent the entire day in conference with Dis- trict attorney Andrew T. Park, of Allegheny County; U. 8. District Attorney Louis H Gfaham, the Board of, ion Commis- | sioner, and "adivil aig. with coni- Newspapers Praised As Advertising Media |Macy Executive Flays Retailers’ Tendency to Exaggerate. 5 Declaring that newspapers consti- tute the “one dominant. medium” and command more than 95 per cent of his company's advertising budget, Kenneth Collins, executive vice presi- dent of R. H. Macy & Co., of New York, yes flayed retail advertis- ing im general as “dull, dishonest, un- Sightly, and inconsistent with the type of readers to who it is di- rected.” These charges were made at the thirteenth annual convention of the American Association of Advertising Mayflower Hotel, attended by about 200 representatives of leading adver- tising agencies throughout the United States. Radio, billboards. and other forms of advertising were dis- cussed, but the principle topic was newspapers. “If the charge is made that news- papers are losing théir pulling power as advertising media,” Mr. Collins he- gan, “the fault is not with the pub- lishéts, for newspapers now are far superior from every standpoint than they ‘were even a ‘decade ago. The trouble is that newspapers are mis- \handled by the rtail advertisers, al- though another factor affecting news- Agencies which began yestercay at the. OGDEN L. MILLS. paper advertising is the spreading out of business districts into residential areas.” The speaker called. attention to the vastly imcreased speed with which Continued on Page 5, Column 2. FATE OF TARIFE BILL RESTS WITH SENATE Democrats Resolved That _ Measure Shall Retain Flexible Clause. MAY DIE IN CONFERENCE (Associated Press.) The question whether the tariff squarely before the Senate today. This.critical stage of the negotia- tions bétween the Senate and House ‘plaints to vibmit:” te TP aie By CARLISLE BARGERON. Pittsburgh, Pa.. May 15.—The im- préssion seems jer general, around here that this year’s resurrection in Pennsylvania is not to be so joyful. That is to say that the periodical carnival when departed spirits arise from ‘their tombs and participate in the primary elections is not to be so well attended as it has been in yeazs past. . Ordinarily this year’s reunion would be a most enthusiastic affair, with such a galaxy of the State's humanitarians running for senator and governor as has seldom been the case. There is Senator Grundy versus Secretary of Labor Davis as the main senatorial attraction, Shunk Brown and Gifford Pinchot as the headliners on the guberna- torial card. And an uncertain quan- tity is the wet ticket of former Rep- resentative Thomas W. Phillips for governor, and Prof. Francis H. Bohien for senator. e Funds Committee Respected. So heated and bitter is the race that were it not for one thing an unusually large attendance of the departe@ souls might be expected Tuesday, when the primary comes off. The one thing is the Senate campaign funds subcommittee. One is impressed with the respect that is being given the committee. If its standing is discounted in Washington because of the absence of “Jim” Reed, it nevertheless rates very high here. After’ the experience of the Key- stone politicians with Senator Reed in 1926 they are willing to take all Senate committees as very powerful things. Their general attitude of wariness is not lessened any by the visit just at this time gf Senator Gerald P. Nye, the chairman of the committee. The» politicians were in- clined to be careful before, but after his visit to Philadelphia yesterday, when he rode around mysteriously in a taxicab and visited very mysterious Places, shaking off newspapermen as hé moved, and with the same kind of goings-on here today, they are inclined to be more so. Witness Recalis Line-Tapping. Some of them tell with considerable depth of feeling of their experience before the 1926 slush fund commit- tee. One fellow even arotises sym- pathy when he relates how the com- mittee listened in on a _ telephone conversation of his just before he ap- peared n the stand and told of this conversation. THis gentleman vows that the committee will have no oc- casion to question him this year. The cynical Observers here say it is too much to expect that this will be a cleancut campaign with no monkeyshines at all. that. with the campaign now drawing to.a close there has been no evidence of lavish expenditures as yet. News- paper advertising has been mogt par- simonious, it is declared, aithough the radio has been freely Pog found to creased expenditures In " continesd om 7, Column. 2. and Francis But they agree |. evet.the Hawley-Smoot measure was brought about by a decision of Sen- ate Democrats yesterday to oppose an attempt by the Republican regu- lars gain a free hand in working out an adjustment of the flexible pro- vision and debenture plan over which the confereeg’are in «deadlock. The Republican independents said they would support the -Democrats in their fight, but they were not as confident as their coalition friends that the move would -be successful. Leaders of the Republican regular forces were frankly worried, but are counting: heavily on returning the bill to conference so the final showdown will come on adoption or rejection of of the complete conference agree- ment. Today Senator Smoot (Republican), Utah, will make a technical motion to insist, without instructions, on the Senate’s amendments which have been turned down by the House. This would get the bill back intc confer- ence on a negotiable basis. The House managers have refused to con- fer until the Senate has given its conferees a free hand. The Senate. Democrats will counter with a move to instruct the con- ferees not to abandon the debenture and. flexible provision withdrawing presidential rate-changing. power. Senator Norris, of Nebraska, a leader of the Republican Independents, who benture and legislative flexible provi- sion into the bill over the protest of President Hoover, said he: would vote for the Democratic motion, but doubted it would carry. He based this prediction on the be- lief that many advocates of the Sen- ate’s provisions would rather see a cOmpromise worked out than to tie the hands of the Senate managers and have no bill at all. “All agreed, however, that success in Continued on Page 14, Column 1. bill will go to the White House or die in conference wille be placé@ with the Democrats wrote the de-/ ‘Britain NAVAL PACT MEETS LONDON OPPOSITION Scored by Conservatives in Commons After Talk by MacDonald. CHURCHILL LEADS FOES London, May. 15 (A.P.).—The Lon- doy naval treaty was hailed by the government today as it was debated in the Hoiise of Commons, but ran into heavy Conservative opposition. “Pume Minister Ramsay MacDon- ali spoke .at-léngth.-for the treaty, asserting that upon its foundations were laid the hopes for future dis- armament. He said he was most hopeful for good results from the continuing conversations between France and Italy for solution of their parity argument. But the Conservatives, with Win- ston Churchill leading them, declared that with the treaty Great Britain had not attained parity with the United States in the sense that both should be equal on the seas, and, instead, had given formal acceptance of definitely inferior sea power. “We can not invest this act of the government with national sanction,” he said. The prime minister reminded the House that while the London con- ferencé had been marked. by ‘an agreement among Great Britain, thy United States and Japan, its work was not finished. Conversations were continuing between Italy and France, he continued, and he had hopes those talks would result in an agree- ment which would transform the three-power treaty into a full five- power agreement. Then he said that the London meeting had not been merely a na- val conference, but had aimed at contributing to the’ cause of general disarmament. , “We must bend our attention not merely to the sea’ but to the air and the land as well,” he said. “The lim- itation of one férm of armament will not go very fer to secure the peace of the world.’? The foundation of real security and internationg] understanding, Mr. Mac- Donald added, must be an agreement between fe United States and Great Auch as the one reached at London? “And that piece of work has been Céntinued on Page 3, Column 2. Hoover Proposes U, S. Job For Widow of Agent York Executive Order OA Civil Service Rules Can Be Waived. Mrs. Helen Hall York, of 1244 C street. northeast, widow of the late Prohibition Agent Lamar Watson York, who wes shot and killed while on duty five weeks ago, will be ap- pointed a Government clerk upon the waiying of regulations. President Hoover last night issued an executive order making publit the proposed ee which ona in full: “Mrs. Helen ‘Hall York May be ap- pointed “a clerk in the classified serv- ice of the Treasury Department with- ments of the civil service rules. i “Mrs. York is the widow of former _| Prohibition, Agent Lamar W. York, who met his death while in the per- formance of his official duties at Washington, D. C., C.. am agen 12, 1930, out compliance with the require- | ~ Continued on ‘Page 2, Column 1 MIXING OIL AND GOLF H. I. Phillips THE FUNNIEST MAN IN AMERICA, DISCUSSES THE RESULT OF A WOM- AN’S LUCK IN GOLF. AND OIL IN HIS INIM- -ITABLE WAY IN THE COLUMN CALLED VT he Once-Over ON THE EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE POST TODAY q JONES STATES OPPOSITION T NAVAL TREATY Adviser to Delegation at London Sees Danger to U. S. in Pact. DOCUMENT DEFENDED BY PRATT IN HEARING Adams Admits Program Did Not Have His or Aids’ Support. PARITY ATTAINMENT IMPOSSIBLE, CLAIM U. S. Technicians Mystified| by America’s Sacrifice of Building Rights. By ALBERT W. FOX. Admiral Hilary P. Jones, naval ad- viser to the American delegation at the London Conference and America’s foremost representative at naval limi- tation conferences since the Wash- ington treaty, expressed unqualified opposition yesterday to controlling features of the London pact. The veteran naval leader informed the Senate foreign relations commit- tee that these provisions of the Lon- don treaty are disadvantageous to American interests, harmful to the United States Navy, responsive to a six-year British’ effort to influence American policy, subservient to Japan's desire to obtain superiority in the Pacific and dangerous to Amer- ica’s future from the standpoint of national defense. The admiral clearly indicated a reluctamce to say more than. he deemed necessary in response to ques- tions but gave his testimony in con- cise and direct language and ex- pressed the conviction that his pasi- | GANNON FACES bAUNGH TRIAL, REPORTS AVER Members of Episcopacy Still Keep Silence on Rumor. BISHOP TO PRESIDE AT SESSION TODAY Delegates Assert Charge Has Been Delayed for That Reason. WORDS SERVE, OBEY, TAKEN FROM RITES Conference Enlarges Upon Charges Applicable to Ministers. Dallas, Tex., May 15 (A.P.).—De- spite the silence of episcopacy com- mittee members, a report grew today at the quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, that Bishop Cannon, jr., of Washing- ton, D. C., and Virginia, would be brought to a church trial for specu- lating on the stock market. Leading members of the episcopacy committee, who heard the complaints discussed for nearly six hours yester- day, still refused to commit them- selves on the report that the commit- tee voted last night to ask the church trial. The nearest that could be ob- tained to confirmation was the state- ment of one member of the commit- tee that the generally credited report “probably was true.” Other delegates, who discussed the rumor more freely, pointed out what they considered a pertinent reason for the committee’s adjournment last night, until Friday. Bishop Cannon tion is supported by the overwhelm- | will preside at tomorrow's session of ing majority of opiniof in the Navy. Adams Admits Concession. Before he testified, Secretary of the Navy Adams had reluctantly conceded that he fought a losing fight at Lon- don for the 8-inch gun cruiser pro- gram, adaptable to America’s needs, but finally yielded because the other powers insisted. Likewise Mr. Adams admitted that he fought against per- mitting Japan to increase her ratio but again had to yield and make the best of the situation. Neither the Secretary of the Navy nor the general board of the Navy sponsored the pro- gram adopted at London, it was brought out, though at the end Mr, Adams joined with the other delegates to preserve unanimity. Meanwhile the treaty was defended before the naval affairs committee by Admiral William V. Pratt, first naval viser to the London conference. dmiral Pratt supported the policy of abolition of submarines, which was advocated by the joint Anglo-Ameri- can policy prior to the conference, but not carried out, and Ne supported the 6-inch gun program. When Sen- Continued on Page 3, Column 4. | nounced unless the committee de- the géneral. conference, his name having been reached on the rol] of | bishops, and they said it would have | been too great a personal affront to. prefer the charges on the day before | he served as chairman. | Cleared in Political Acitivity. The exact accusations have not | been announced, nor will they be an- | cides upon the trial. Bishop Cannon | last night was vindicated in his po- litical activities by a committee state- ment clearing four other bishops of like complaints. Should a trial be oxdered, the jury of clerics would have to return one of three verdicts—acquittal, suspension, |Oof Brooklyn, N. Y., | wall yesterday. and Navy fliers, whose planes rode the | |rough waves from noon yesterday un- or expulsion from the office. of bishop. Twenty-two laymen including some | of the leading delegates to the con- | ference signed the accusations against | Bishop Cannon. Judge G. T. hugh, of Memphis, and Josephus | Daniels, of Raleigh, N. C., head | the st which includes at least two | State Supreme Court judges. It was | understood that the accusations were | accompanied by photographs of rece | Continued on Page 3, Column 2. Texas Split Into Five. States Is Garner Aim | Fields, near here, to Hilo, Hawaii. | Navy seaplane and two Army amphi- Fitz- The Texas Legislature could, if so disposed, transfer the balance of na- tional political power from New England to the South and obtain for the ,Southern States the political power, prestige and recognition which has long been the prerogative of a group of small Northeastern States. This declaration is made by House Minority Leader Garner in a detailed statement inserted in the Congres- sional Record yesterday. ‘ Mr. Garner points out that Texas is the only State that has the power, merely by act of its legislature, to subdivide its area into not more than five different States. If that step were taken-—and assuming Congress would admit the entire quintet into the Union of States—Texas would have eight additional senators, or a to- tal of ten members of the Senate, in- stead of two as at present. The minority leader points out that this right is accorded Texas in the joint resolution of Congress for’ an- nexation of the Lone Star State ap- proved March 1, 1845. This resolu- tion provides that “new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to the said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by consent of said State, be formed out of the Territory thereof, which shall be en- titled to admission under the provi- sions of the Federal Constitution.” Mr. Garner contends that this leaves entirely to the State the right ’ | ,into five States, each would have an | to determine whether Texas shall be carved into five different Common- wealths, each with equal representa- tion in the Senate. Texes has an area of 265,398 square miles end is approximately 70 per cent larger than its nearest competi- tor, California; which boasts an area of 158,297 square miles. If the State were divided equally Lone Star Commonwealth Could Swing Balance of |"% "¢0°** ‘ "8°. Power to South by Exercising Congressional Privilege, Minority Leader Says. area Of 53,175 square miles, or ap- | proximately the same as Arkansas, — Mr. Garner points out that Texas | would make 220 States the size of | Rhode Island, 112 the size of Dela- | ware, 32 the size of New Jersey or Massachusetts and nearly 6 the size of New York, | “With an estimated population of | 5,600,000,” Mr. Garner states, “Texas Tanks fifth among the States, being | exceeded by New York, Pennsylvania, Tilinols and Ohio. An equal division into five States would give each State a population of about 1,200,000. In this respect the Texas subdivisions would rank with Maryland, Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, Washington and West Vir- ginia, and would have far larger pop- ulations than many other States. “These figures clearly show the jus- tification for division of Texas into five separate States. The five of the) six States of the New England group, with less population and only asmall fraction of the aren of which Texas Continues on L Page 1, Columa L MORROW A ee SKS REPEA OF DRY AMENDMENT I LAUNCHING CAMPAIGN Underwood & Underwood. DWIGHT W. MORROW, FLIER DIES AS PLANE FALLS INTO PACIFIC Capital Pilot Makes Heroic. Effort to Save Victim, but in Vain. a eee JURY FREES KOHLER OF ELECTION FRAUD Judge May Return Verdict Opposing Findings in Wisconsin Case.” PARACHUTE IS TANGLED NEW MOTIONS PLANNED Honolulu, May 15 (A.P.).—A dra- | matic adventure of air and sea cost the life of Staff Sergt. Joseph Becker, loss of three military airplanes be- tween the Islands of Maui and Ha- Twelve other Army til early today, were brought safely ashore by rescuing surface vessels. Becker died when an Army bomb- ing plane fell in to the ocean while accompanying a fleet of 41 Army and Navy planes from Luke and Wheeler A bian planes were brought down by their crews to rescue the bomber’s men. They picked up three men, but the) rescuing planes were unable to rise | from the rough waters. While flying 8,000 feet high, the bomber broke an aileron control and began ifs descent. Becker's parachute opened prematurely as he was about to leap and became entangled in the | Two other mem- | bomber’s rigging. bers of the crew parachuted at an altitude of 4,000 feet and were picked up by the rescuing planes. Lieut: --Tellmadge Leslie Boyd, Washington, D. C., pilot of the bomb- er, remained with the ship in an heroic effort to extricate Becker and was drawn into the whirling stabili- zer. Boyd's legs were lacerated, his shoes and socks torn off and his cloth- Three thousand feet above the sea,.Boyd freed himself and leaped with his parachute into’ the waves. A naval seaplane commanded by Lieut. M. A. Schur followed the para- | chuting men down and picked up : of | | Boyd, Staff Sergt. H. Alexander, Kennedy, Ala., and Private H. L. Continued on Page 7 7, Column 1. and caused the | of Sheboygan, Wis., May 15 (A.P.).— Exonerating Gov. Walter J. Kohler of |Wisconsin, who, was charged with ‘violating the State corrupt practices | act, a circuit court Jury tonight an- \swered negatively eight questions in a special verdict. Judge Gustave Gehrz now must formulate a final | verdict which need not agree with the jury's findings. Judge Gehrz announced he would postpone a decision until all motions are in. The State plans to make’ sev- eral motions; and these, he said, may be offered at Milwaukee, where his circuit is located. He allowed prose- cutors three days to file motions. | When the decision was returned the | courtroom spéctators stood on tables, shouted and waved their hands. The ‘crowd pushed forward to onake hands |with the governor. | The charges were filed by the Pro- 'gressive-Republican faction leaders | fifteen months ago. Gov. Kohler is a i'member of the rival “conservative” faction in Wisconsin. Attorneys of both sides have an- nounced they will appeal to the Su- preme Court in case the decision is against them. For this reason the unusual “special verdict” was ordered and much time was devoted to legal technicalities. Moreover, the end of this: case i# to mark the pressing of charges against three other States officers—-Henry Hu- ber, lieutenant governor; Theodore Damann, secretary of state, and John W. Reynolds, attorney general. All are members of the Progressive fac- tion, and all are charged with the same thing as the chief executive. Referring to thé governor’s plumb- Wis., } i i ing fixtures factory. at Kohler, he judge said: “The law does not charge a stock- | holder of a corporation with knowl- Continued on ‘Page 2, Column 1, Lobby Inquirers Bare Fall In Antisaloon Body Funds — ’ GERMANY’S DEMPSEY -. Max Schmeling WHO MEETS’ JACK SHARKEY ON JUNE 12, THIS MORNING BEGINS TELLING | Post Readers HOW AND WHY HE IS CONFIDENT OF WIN. NING THIS CHAMPIO™ - SHIP FIGHT— In Today’s Sport Section et a AG — Se ee a a Wealth tal Kresge Revealed as League’s Money Mainstay. mae From a million-dollar-a-year busi- hess in 1919 the Antisaloon League of | America has declined to a point where | its receipts were only about one-quar- | ter of that figure in 1929, according to Official league figures made public yesterday by Chairman Caraway (Democrat), Arkansas, of the Senate lobby committee. The committee had obtained the figures from league rec- ords in connection with the current inquiry into the lobbying activities of dry organizations. Coincidentally with the disuin of the figures showing total league re- |ceipts from 1919 to 1929, both inclu- sive, Chairman Caraway also gave out [ the names o’ individual con of $1,000 or more for 1927, 1928, 1929. || and 1930, Tne laser ROR. 9a ie State Control of Liquor Urged by Candidate for Senate Seat. SUBSTITUTE ACT HELD PROBLEM’S SOLUTION ‘ ae ee eee Plan Would Let U. S. Aid sections Adhering to Prohibition. ANTISALOON LEAGUE ~ Leader in New Jersey Hints Independent May Be - Backed in Fall. ; Newark, N. J, May 15 (N.Y.WNS), - Return of liquor control to the States by repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment and the substitution of another amendment are the solution of the prohibition problem proposed by Krueger Auditorrum here, tonight, formally opening. his campaign for the Republican nomination for United States senator from New Jersey, " The substitute amendment, he said, should “vest in the Federal Govern+ ment power to give all possible pror tection and assistance, to those States that desire complete’ prohibition, do not.” So long as the eighteenth ee ment and its supporting statutes are the law of the land, he favored, he said, “generous appropriations” for their enforcement. But he ures ee the Federal Government devote first, to stopping the importation “ atid imterstate commerce in quale While there s no doubt of its powes, under the eighteenth amendment “to perform local police duty,” Hp said, it might well leave that to the several States until it has done a good job in the “purely Federal field.”* Drys May Stay Out of Primary. Shortly before Mr. Morrow made his speech, Dr. James K. Shields, State superintendent of the New Jer- sey Antisaloon League, indicated that unless Representative Franklin W. Fort, Republican dry, should enter the senatorial primary, the organized drys would probably not . participate in the primary, but would support an independent dry candidate in the election in November, should the Re- publicans mominate a wet. Former United States Senator Jo- seph 8. Frelinghuysen, Mr. Morrow's only declared opponent so fas, has declared himself in favor of of the eighteenth amendment. a former dry. The idea of entering Mr. Fort in the primary had sot originated with the Antisaloon League, Dr. Shields said, alhtough it would undoubtedly support him if he should decid@é to make the race in the primary and Mr. Morrow's position on prohibition should be found unsatisfactory. Law’s Friends Addressed Too,’ When asked what the drys would do if Mr. Morrow declared for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and Mr. Fort did not enter the cae. Dr. Shields replied: “I don’t know. Probably nothing in the primary. I think we might walt until fall.” Although Mr. Morrow’s declaration places him in the category popularly called “dripping wet,” he addressed himself as much to the friends of prohibition as to its enemies. ° He devoted almost all his 3,000-word speech to the prohibition questida, sketching the history of the effort to control liquor from colonial days. The problem is primarily one of government, he said, of the mogt effective distribution of authority between the several States and «he Federal Government. The fundas mental difficulty can not be reached, he said, by an amendment of the Volstead act. He admitted that "Te He is — > NEWS | ot SUBURBAN Washin gton and the Surrounding MAY AVOID PRIMARY ' Dwight W. Morrow in his speech th - against invasion from the States re de %