The Washington Post
July 2, 1930

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

The text was read from the page scans by machine (OCR), so it has mistakes and its columns may run together. See the pages · About this title · At the Internet Archive

Page 1

ee ed — SS ee ’ | ef the great national news services. - United States Navy to enforce prohi- _ imcluding the spy system heretofore Temperature. est, 88; lowest, 68. Detalis on page 4. _NO. 19,739. WASHINGTON: _ WEDNESDAY, — BY THE W COPYRIGHT. 1930, | THREE. CENTS = 4 ? a —A— au DRY LEAGUE SECRETS OVER 15-YEAR PERIOD Records Taken by Senate Committee Disclose ‘Snooper’ Program. DOCUMENTS INVOLVE MELLON AND M’ADO0O Secretary Defended Self From Pinchot Secretly Through Haynes. } PAYMENT TO CANNON HINTED AT IN RECORD Compensation for Bishop’s: Dry Work . Authorized by Committee. New York, July L Weihington Cispetch to the New York World says: How the Antisgloon League of America formally approved a plan for the creation of a Nation-wide spy sys- tem whereby members of the league would teport violatioris of the pfohi- bition law and bring pressure to bear on judges and prosecuting officisis to promote enforcement is now revealed froth the leagué’s own secret records. ' The documents, seized by the Sen- ate lobby committee, have been quiet- ly inserted in the committee record since the hearings closed. | In addition to revealing the plans for the. national snooping system, the — ‘records show: - ‘That’ Secretary Mellon made 4 secret report. ‘to the leggue in~1925 to defend the administration of the dry laws against charges made by former Gov, Gifford Pinchot of Pennsyivania: This. report was transmitted through missioner. for tomorrow we die.” Its that they might meet the through the morrow. ° . Ps : Calvin Coolidge S This country was not made on the theory ays: that we should “eat, drink, and be merry, tomed to prepare themselves with fasting and prayer They had their feast days, too for they found’a great happiness in their work. But these were a time of thanksgiving and praise. Instead of falling back and falling down on the claim that the world owed them a living they moved forward and moved up on the principle that they owed the world the duty of providing for themselves. ‘They sought to® live -in-the things of the spirit. first: They set small'’store on the things that are tem- poral but strove mightily for the things that are eternal. ‘If this Nation is to endure we shall have to continue to walk by their light: We can not give all our thought to material:success. We'can not be relieved of all hard- ships. We shotld not faint at the first obstacle. must aecept the lot of finite human-beings and with deeper faith and higher courage work out our own sal- vation through our Gwn sacrifice. (Copyright 1930.) Mr. Coolidge’s,comment on current events will appear every week — in The Washington Post. founders were more accus- serious obligation to live They put first things HOOVER CONSIDERS MEXICO CITY WISH {Tour, to Include Cuba, West Indies and Return via Texas, Studied. Roy A. Haynes, then ei, “bet MAY BE MADE ', MeAdao Sought Its. Support, at, . ‘That William Gibbs & personal written appeal league f _ Support in the ape. — dential | . Phat members of Congress, Govern- lds ment departments and newspaper information services have been by the league to disseminate mate on prohibition without —— the source from which such inf tian came. 8 That the league has paid a national publicity agency in an endeavor to get dry pro into the larger metropolitan papers and on the wires That the league favored using tile bition. . | That. league leaders admit that the younger generation is slipping from the contro] of the dry organizations. Cannon Payment Revealed. There are many other revelations in the.many thousands of words of the league recotds. The. picture is not without its element of humor, as illustrated: by the national executive committee forcing the’ manager of a Detroit hotel to eject a group of busi- ness.men whose bibulous recreations had offended the ‘sensibilities of the dry leaders during their nee there last January. Moréover; on January 28, 1915, the executive. committee of the league authorized payment to Bishop James Catinon, jr., for dry activities “at the same rate as that of his regular sal- ary as principal of Blackstone Insti- tute.” This was after the bishop, as chairman of the legislative commit- tee, had recommended that the dry leaders should be brought to Wash- ington to work for prohibition. It was back in December, 1921, when the league was riding high and havihg its own way about appoint- ments, that the national board of directors met in Washington and adopted a “law enforcement program,” referred to. The preamble of the progrem, declaring that the league “is not a detective or law and order organization,” was followed by a series ‘Continued on Page 3,.Column 2. Cozy Room Is Occupied ~ | “Whenever I have a room to rent, The Post always gets yp * This expression from Miss Lucille — of the Iowa Apartments. “Rooms for Rent” ads in the morning Post’s Classified. Sec- _ tion are listed in alphabetical onder accordirig to their loca- — tion, making it convenient — _ for readers to bring quick re- | advertisers. National 4205 : Ask for a Post Ad- Writer py NOMMET Banas: the| diane to. Visit Mexico City before Dwight W. Morrow leaves that capital ambassador, a drastic revision ot his previously ahnounced plens for a summer excursion from Washington. Instead of leaving Washington for a hit-amd-miss trip, through the na- tional parks, a few days at Palo Alto and back to the White House or the Rapidan Camp, the President is mulling over a brand-new project—it would be to'go by. boat to Cuba, the West Indies and then to Vera Cruz. There would be a visit of good Will to the capital of Mexico. That phase of the prospect is alleged to haVe grown in the President’s mind since the ex- jtreme cordiality with which the am- bassador stressed the importance of a Hoover visit. to Mexico. Prom Mexico the President would travel by rail to Texas, there to pre- side at the frequently deferred Gads- den- Purchase celebration, and through adjacent States to Kansas City, Mo., thetice he would proceed over the Southern route to California, stopping at the Grand Canyon and other national reservations in the lower tier of States. Returning from Cailfornia, Mr. Hoover would traverse the northern route and the northern string of Na- tiosial parks. That would reverse the order of travel which has been ac- cepted in Washington as the presi- dential tour from previous White House intimations. 7 . Probably the most significant aspect of the plan as now projected is that the Président might: undertake a few jeet speeches on the state of the Nation during his transcontinental tour. | After it had been intifiated to Washington correspondents that the President wold make a few speeches, Mr. Hoover went out of his way to Continued on Page 7, Column 2. . CONFEREES RESTORE BOULEVARD MILLION Parkway Item Put Back Into Second Deficiency Bill, Assuring Start. SUBWAY SUM, STRICKEN morial Parkway was put back in the second deficiency appropriation _ bill yesterday by the Sénite and ‘House conferees on that measure; The Senate a little later approved that item in the bill, and the House will do likewise. Thus a start on the big boulevard is assureg. It will skirt both ,banks of the Potomac from Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to Great Falls. | The Senate conferees yielded to the House conferees on the item of $250,- 000 for a. subway to eliminate the Fern street grade crossing and the item was stricken from the bill. The item of $1,500,000 for the pur- chase of the celeb Vollbehr col · lection of fifteenth century books, a collection which includes a Gutenberg Bible on vellum, was left in disagree- ment. The two houses must now de- cide whether this item is to remain in the bill. The item of $1,000,000 for the George Washington Memorial Park- ‘way was put into the deficiency bill by the House, but was knocked out by the Senate appropriations commit- tee, even though President Hoover had recommended it. Now that it is back, there is assurance that a start soon will be made on carrying out the pro- vision of the Capper-Cramton bill, a measure providing for a great park development program in and just out- side the District of Columbia. The item for the subway to elimi- mate the Fern street grade crossing was in the bill originally, but was knocked out by the District appropri: ations subcommittee. Then Senator Tydings (Democrat), Maryland, put it ‘back when the appropriations bill reached the Senate. Fearing that this bill would fail, he put it in the de- ficiency bill. Thus, although it is out of the latter méasure, it still is in the District bill, Fourth District, Taken Over by R. Q. Merrick, _ Includes Capital. There will be “nothing sensational” in thegnforcement of prohibition in yesterday took over thé job of pro- hibition enforcement. Pointing out that he is familiar — New Dry Aid Plans Steady, Nonspectacular Program — Memorial To Shakespeare Through the generous spirit and will to serve of 2 New York financier, the Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library is rapidly rearing itself on Capitol Hill. The edifice will embody a theater and a $10,000,000 endowment is also included to maintain Tabloid Magazine of the— SUNDAY POST SENATE RAISES VETERANS BILL PENSION RATES World War Measure Goes Through by Vote of ~ §6 to 11. AMENDMENT BOOSTS Item Is Expected to Be ‘Bone of Contention for Conference. PRESIDENTIAL VETO INDICATED. FOR SCALE One Provision Would Remove Bureau From ‘Control of Comptroller. . By CARLISLE BARGERON. The. Senate. boosted the ante and passed the hastily thrown together World War veterans’ pension bill yes- terday, 56 to 11. One Progressive, Senator Borah, and ten Ringham, Fess, Sana + . | Goldsborough, Hastings, Hebert, Met- calf, Moses, Sullivan, Vandenberg and Wolcott yoted against it. The vote on the highly controverted Walsh-Connally amendment by which the House pension range was raised from $12 to $40 a month, to a range of $10 to $60 was 37 to 26, the Demo- crate voting solidly for it, 27 of them, with 1 Farmer-Laborite, 6 Progressives and 3 Republicans. Twenty-five regulars and one. Progressive voted against it. Hoover Veto Indicated. This is the amendment that will i> the bone of contention in conference. The belief had been that it, would prevail in the.end. even over: the President's veto, but the senators are getting 80, tired thet. the indications are now that if. the House. puts up 6 fight for its provision, wor rather if Speaker Longworth caw “work the steam roller again, that the $12 to $40 range will be restored. The President — has, indiited ’ he would veto the Senate scale. : Eve how the House leaders hold their crowd together today. Undoubtedly the Speaker ‘will recognize Johnson, of the House veterans ¢ com- mittee, to move that the measure be sent to conference. Quite probably then there will be a move from the Democrafic .side to either concur in the Senate amendments or to ) instruct the House conferees to accept them. If Speaker Longworth lets the matter get to a vote it is believed this latter move would prevail. Upon the, tem- per of his Republicans deperids whether he can prevent this vote and the question of whether Congress will adjourn, - probably. tomorrow, or wrestle with the veterana’ bill indefi- nitely. Roll Call en Amendment: The roll cali on the Walsh-Connally amendment follows: Democrats for—Ashurst, Berkley, Black, ' Brock, Broussard, Caraway, — — Continued on Page 7, Celumn 2. RANGE SET BY HOUSE): would seem to turn on/| CHAT WIA RADIO Effort, However, to Put Interview on Air Is Hindered. ROARING OF MOTORS DROWNS OUT WORDS Microphone ls Lowered to. Endurance Ship “for Brief. Talk. FOG; RAIN, CONTACTS KEEP AIRMEN BUSY Mother of Hunter Boys Goes Up in Curtiss Condor to See Her Sons. Chicago, July 1 (A.P.).—“Mom and the kid sister” had a family reunion with the enduring Hunters today. John. and Kenneth came back to earth for the first time in three weeks —ctame back by radio, but kept their feet off the ground and sailed cheer- ily on through the pages of aviation history... Move the tune ‘of their faithful motor the pilots shouted a comfort- ing “Hello” to the folks om the ground and heard “‘Mom” and Irene send aloft wotds of concern and cheer. By }, means of a short-wave hook-up with another plane Kenneth and John broke gp the monotony of ceaseless circligg by a short “visit” with the rest of the Hunter clan below. As their twentieth day of flying diéd 9 third plane, the famous &t. Louis Robin, whose record of 420 hours has been beaten by the City of Chicago, made. contact, and Dale Jackson, tormer holder with Forest O’Brine, sent down their good }, wishes to the charhpions. | “Mom” Goes Alott.. “Mom” Hunter took tothe air. Weér- self ‘tonight.. The mother of. wie Huriter Boys, hot knowing whén ‘they would come © earth 6 pay her a visit, took matters in her own hands and went up to see them. With her daughter, Irene; beside her; Mré. Hunter’ went ‘up in a 21- passenger Curtiss Condor, as guest of Casey Jones, official observer for the National Aeronautical Association, and exchangéd signals with the two boys “who came up from the coal minés around Sparta, Ill, to become ‘world :champion “endurancers.” At the time they had been aloft in their y City of Chicago for 485 hours. After fying alongside for a time, mother and daughter came down enthusiastic about the trip. Chicago Gift Looms. “I couldn't see the boys distinctly,” Mrs. Hunter said, “but they waved at us. It was a wonderful trip. Every- thing looks so pretty up there. It was my third trip. I was up once the other day and I was up once be- fore with the boys in one of their smaller planes. But I really enjoyed this trip more than any of the others.” Here Irene cut in: “Yes, I really th think we'll have Continued on ‘Page 2, Column 4. U.S. Midshipman Dies By Own Hand in Paris F. H. Worthington, On Cruise, Tries Poison, Then Fires Shot. Midshipman Francis H. Worthing- ton, of the Naval Academy, died in a from wounds self-inflicted Monday afternoon in a hotel in the Rue Jean Beaushire there, while on:a three authorities’ there as declaring that Worthington resorted to a aetna after trying poison. Worthington was 18 years old, hav- ing béen born on September 13, 1911, m Unsankinko, Korea, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Worthington, of the Coyote Crossing ranch, Grover, Colo. The Navy Department notified Ithe parents and is now awaiting in- structions for disposition of the body. The youth, in a statement written a short time before his act, expressed the wish to be buried at sea. He entered-the Naval Academy on June 14, 1929. and was on the usual FRANCIS H. WORTHINGTON. play at Fourth of July ceremonies, and will proceed by rail to rejoin the ship at Kiel. Grover, Colo., June 1 (A.P.).— Francis’ The ‘Worthington family has oper-. » | ated @ ranch “2 miles east of here for the last seven years =. PLA PY WILL BE MARRIED TODAY | Associated Press Photo. Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets, of Salt Lake City,.prominent society léader, whose marriage to Senator ._Reed Smoot (inset), is to take place in: the Latter Day Saints Temple in that city today. Heber J.:Grant, president of the church, of which: Mr. Smoot is an apostle, will perform the ceremony at 9:30 a. m. DRITTOH NAVY CHIEFS UU! Parley Conclusions in Parliament. REFER TO INDIA TROUBLE London, July.1 (A.P.).—The navy's own viewpoint of London’s part in the recent naval- today w communicated by the —— k-th fleet, Earl Beatty, and Lord Jellicoe, war-time sea lord, to the House of Lords in vigorous attacks upon the treaty conclusions. ; Earl Beatty, who is. easily England's most prominent naval figure, assailed the treaty, declaring Britain the only nation that made eny disarmament or reduction and that the reduction mede was great as to render her ing control over the various states of her far-flung empire. The earl’s denunciation of the treaty contained a reference to use of the fleet for a Far Bastern contingency. This was taken by observers to indi- cate that the home government had not overlooked the possibility of a necessity for sending —— — sibly a fleet—to India. Earl Beatty said the London treaty had resulted in an increase of arma- ment for Other countries; the United States increase being 223,000 tons. and France being left without any restriction’ whatever. France, the speaker said, already had built three 10,000-ton cruisers, is building three more and has authorized ten others, Continued on Page 4, Coldmn 5. PACT impotent and incapable of maintain-. Japan’s 10 per cent of her strength BRANDEIS TRIUMPHS IT TONS SESSION Justice, judge ioe Mack Have 12 Representatives in - Administrative Group. RETIRING HEAD LAUDED Cleveland, Ohio, July 1 (AP.)— American Zionists, divided into fac- tions by a split in their organization in 1921, ended their differences to- day at the closing session of the thirty-third annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America and elected an administration represent- ing the presént and preceding ad- ministrations. An administrative committee of eighteen was named to succeed the present. directing heads, of whom Louls Lipsky had been president for nine years since retirément of 5u- preme Court Justice Louls OD. Brandeis, upon defeat of his policies. Lipsky submitted his resignation at the start of this convention: Supporters of Justice Brandeis and Judge Julian W. Mack, leaders in the previous administration, are in the ascendancy th the new leadership, having twelve: representatives on the administrative committee against six from the present administration forces. ; In addition to. the committee of 18, the organization’s controlling body will consist. of an executive commit- tee. of 40 and a. national advisory council of. 150. Among the “Big 18” is Rabbi Ste- phen 8. Wise; of New York, who issued a statement: in New York concurrent with the opening of the convention, Continued on Page 5, Column 1. Yoke Off Rhineland = Between one and twe billion dollars has been’ the cost to Germany _-6f supporting French, Sdgidn, British and Amefi¢an. military forces on _sié Rhine. Now, after more than a decade, Germany can once more boast of the. ia- tegrity of her terrain ... . The aftermath of the occupation has been treated in a just and sympathetic manner in 2 — article by David Ran- kin Barbee to appear in the Sunday Post— . TABLOID MAGAZINE Rhine Separatists Beaten” By Rioters; One Home¥ired | isoras? Follows in Wake _«@t French as Scores A ~ Ave Evened Up. Kaiserlautern, Germany, July 1 (A.P.).—What little life remained in the separatist movement in the Rhineland today was jeered, thumped. and burned out of it by German citi- zens of severa) towns. The worst dis- orders caused by evening up old scores with the adherents of the “Rhenish Republic,” occurred here where three persons were seriously injured and the home of one was burned. At Breslau and Mayence libera- | ber DISTRICT BILL HOPES — RISE AS CONFEREES PLAN TO MEET TODAY Session Proposed After Senate Group Revamps. Emergency Measure, © FEDERAL SHARE NOT. TO BE TOUCHED UPON Appropriation Committee Holds to $12,000,000 — as Rebuke to House. —⸗ 112 WEIGHTY POINTS YET TO BE HANDLED Four Alternatives for Lower Body When Emergency. Resolution Comes Up. Be Hope was renewed late yesterday for the $44,000,000 appropriation bill * the District of Columbia. The Senate and House conferees on the bill, who have been in a deadlock for nearly a month, agreed to meet at 10:30 o'clock this morning and tackle all amendments except the one having to do with the amount of the Federal contribution toward the city’s expenses. - It is true that this latter amend- ment is the one that has tied up the bill until now, but, even so, the fact that the conferees are getting to- gether is a hopeful sign. “Bluffing” Elicits Hesponse, The meeting for this morning was arranged by Representative Robert G. Simmons (Republican), of Nebraska, the chief House conferee on the bil, after the Senate appropriations com- mittee had thrown the fight right back to where it had a . His prapoes’. for 4 mesting (Republican), of Connecticut, #he chief Senate conferee-on the bill. The action of the Senate appropria- tions committee yesterday was an au the challenge that fecently was made “bluffing” on the bill. Revamps Emergency Plan. | Taking the emergency resolution that the House had adopted the day before, a resolution which merely conm- tinues so much of the 1930, or cufr- rent, appropriation as is needed for running expenses, the Senate commit- tee struck out all but the enacting clause. Then it tacked on to the resolu- tion its own version of the 1931 sp- propriation bill, a measure carrying $44,000,000 to run the city for the fiscal year which began yesterday, ‘oe calling for a Federal contribution of $12,000,000. | bution that the Senate wrote | the House had provided for a I¥d-« it was the. conflict on this question that put the bill in the — it now is in,' Other Weighty Points. Gealing with the Federal con tion there are something like 145. troversial Senate amendments alt gether. Of these 33 have béen agre upon by the Senate alid House ferees, but there aré still 112 to pose of. ¥ These include the amendment « ing with the reduction in the i of kindergarten teachers, atnendment for a change in the w rates, the amendment to di $100,000 in raises among D ployes, and many others oan portant. Representative Simmons House conferees thought it ! submit the question of a . z es ‘ F Index to Today's Issu in the House that the Senate was This was the same Federal contri · the regular appropriation bill, after eral contribution of $9,000,000, Ash A point that has been overlooked Se in the fight over the bill is the ro ie that in addition to the amendment : yesterday that he and the ot he one get these other a ꝛena ra gh a, Peo