Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and cooler tonight; tomorrow fair. ‘Temperatures: p.m. yesterda p.am. yesterday. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes Highest, 74, at lowest, 64, at .1 criminal branches. Full report on page 3: Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 No. 29,595, poreronls sy 0000POLCE GUARD BERLIN ON ARRNAL OFVONHINDENBURG Elaborate Precautions Taken ' to Prevent Clashes During Passage to Palace. S NATIONALISTS PLANNING GREAT DEMONSTRATION Playing of Monarchistic Tune Banned, However—Few Ad- mitted to Station. 1 Br the Associated Prese. i BERLIN, May 11.—Field Marshal von Hindenburg, who will be inaugu- rated tomorrow as President of Ger-| many, arrived at the Heerstrasse sta- Lion here late this afterfioon. The previously announced program for the reception of Gen. Hindenburg and his drive to the chancellor’s pal- &ce was carried out without a hitch. Ban Monarchist Tune. The Nationalists planned to turn the wrrival into a great manifestation mlong the route traveled by the auto- wmobile carrying their hero from the Euburban station where was due to arrive, late in the afternoon, up to broad Heerstrasse, through the Bran- denburg gate, and thence to the chan- cellor’s palace, where he will rest in preparation for tomorrow’s inaugura- tion. The air was charged with electricity, Entered as second shin This Sloth Fast Enough to Stop 44,000-Volt Line Gov. Walker of the Panama Canal Zone has officially reported to the War Department that serv- ice on the 44,000-volt transmission’ line of the canal was twice inter- rupted by animals recently. The first interruption was due to a sloth and the second one to. a porcupine. The sloth, which had come in contact with one of the charged wires of No. 2 line, the governor sald, was discovered about 10 hours later on the same tower in the act of climbing out on one of the charged wires of No. 1 line. Although burned and singed in several places by the flash-over, the slow-going animal was still very much alive, A few days later a porcupine was discovered by a lineman on a tower and in contact with a dead line. When an_attempt was made to knock it down with a stick the animal ran on_the ‘line in an up- right position as If on level ground, and_considerable difficulty was met in dislodging it and bringing it down. These incidents, Gov. Wal- ker says, probably. explain several previous wire - interruptions for which no primary_cause could be found. @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1925—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. DEBTS SETTLEMENT PARLEY 1S REVIVED BY U. 5. AND FRANCE Officials Here Silent Beyond Admitting Conversations Are Being Held. PARIS CALMED BY DENIAL THAT NOTE ASKED ACTION Caillaux Expected to Take Up Re- payment to Help Credit of Nation Abroad: By the Associated Press. Informal conversations relative to a French debt settfement are again in progress, it was disclosed today at the State Department. - Confirming the fact of megotiations for the first time, the Department reiterated that the Washington gov- ernment had sent no formal communi- EXTRA FLYING UNIT T0 INVADE ARCTIC Patrick Gives Third Plane Toward Making MacMillan both literally and figuratively—liter- aily because of a threatened thunder- storm, and figuratively because of fears that:the Nationalist demonstra- fon might be met with counter mani- festations and lead to trouble. The police issued sweeping. orders ! forbidding the monarchist”sympathiz- ers from having their bands of wel- come play “Fredericus Rex" or any other of the stirring marches reminis- cent of the days of the :Kaiser's power, They also prohibited the Com- munists and their sympathizers from staging the three monster open air demonstrations planned for today. Police Precautions Elaborate. The police precautions uplnnt] trouble were elaborate and included | patrolling not only the streets, but of the air and water. Aerial patrols were instructed to hover constantly | over all the important street crossings siong the route to keep watch for symptoms of disturbances. Y Potios Tugs were ta Py to and fro on the Havel River near the bridge to be crossed by Von Hinden! automobile, mest experienced and reHable < cycle police were detiled 83 an escort for his car. Tor the genersl saf guarding of order; the chief of augmented the 10,000 uniformed Schupos (security police) with several hundred officers from the political and Even the dogs were mobilized. Police trucks were stationed at strategic points with reserves, regdy to move whole burg’s 3 's | the Forty _of - the capital e police | a police | would bé two great. Expedition Success. Three Loening amphibian planes will be taken to the Polar regions this Summer by the naval-aviation section of the MacMillan Arctic expedition under the auspices of the National Geographic Soclety. “The addition of a third plane was made possible today by Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Service. Who turned over to the Navy the plane now being completed at the Loening areronaut- ical plant in New York, for the Army Air Service. 5 The two planes which the Navy originally had decided to ‘take also were given by Gen. Patrick—tbat is, priority on the orders of the two services with the plant was granted the expedition in order not: to delay its start. As plans for the flying in the Non’r‘.::na dgem. 'L.\eu:;‘ Com. n?ndtr hard E: Byrd, in co! of the naval aviation section, : more and more convinced that a eh - Loge! , and: Lieut. Comgdr. Byrd was’ convinced it one ould crash or become damaged to the’ extent it"fio" longér would be air- ‘worthy, - the resting on the lone airplane in the Arctic wastes With a third plane ready to take the air in the eyent one was piit out of the expedi- tion, it was felt the factor of safety and ‘success would be much higher. Purchase of Third Plane: Accordingly, ‘Rear “Admiral - Wil- platoons to any danger point in the event of necessity. Few Allowed in Station. MCHINESE CRUISER FIRES Socleties ‘assigned to places along Hindenburgh's route will be accom- panied by police to prevent clashes between Communists and National- ists. Y At Heerstrasse, the suburban rail- way station where Hindenburg ar- rived, he was greeted by Chancellor Luther, Defense Minister Gessler, Min- ister of the Interior Schiele, Executive Secretary Meissner, Chancellory Sec- retary Kempner, Gen. von Seeckt, Ad- miral Zenker, Lord Nayor Boess, Chief of Police Friedenburg: and other officials. Only 10 newspaper reporters were admitted to the station, which was closed to all traffic. Even suburban trains were not operated, contrary to the original idea of attempting to con- tinue these services. Chancellor Luther’s 10 - year - old daughter presented a floral tribute to the President-elect when he reached the station. The party then proceeded on_the long drive to the chancellor’s palace in four automobiles. The first car was occupled by the chief of police and high police officials, the second by Von Hindenburg and Chancellor Lu- ther, the third by Von Hindenburg’s son Oscar, his wife and Lieut, Col. von Feldmann, Hindenburg's closest ad- viser, and the fourth by cabinet min- {sters. LEAVES IN SILENCE. Hanover Bans Formality as Von Hin- denburg Leaves. HANOVER, Germany, - May 11 (A.P.)—In deference to his wishes, there were no formalities when Field Marshal von Hindenburg left today for Berlin, where he is to be inau- gurated President of Germany tomor- row Only a few local officials were at the station when the President-elect mrrived. He entered the station al- most unobserved through a side en- trance and imfmediately boarded the special car sent from Berlin for his use. ON BRITISH HQUSEBOAT ‘Wounded Fusillade. Others Narrowly Escape Injury. ble to The Star and Chicago Daily News. SHANGHAI, May 11.—A Chinese crulser anchored in the Whang-Poo River here fired on an Asiatic petrol- eum company houseboat containing a party of six Britons Saturday night, wounding . one, Lawson Hall. Mrs. Hall, two other adults and two chil- ren narrowly escaped. ‘Without warning one cruiser played a searchlight on the houseboat while a second directed on it a hail of rifle and machine gun bullets. It is esti- mated that about 200 rounds wers fired, a score of which struck the boat. The British consul-general here has entered a strong protest and has also deflected a British gunboat from Weihaiwel to Shanghal. It will ar- rive here tonight. The outrage is the cuimination of several similar incidents recently. Chinese - warships firing upon boats owing to Dpervous tension resulting from fear nlf‘ L:;um attack by an opposing polit lon. “Eoprriahs, 1026, bz Chisass Sullp@iovs.Cok One in By I llam A. Moffett; chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics,.secured the perfais- tion of Secretary- Wilbur to purchase a third plahe for the expedition and he and Lieut. Comdr: Byrd went to Gen. Patrick with the request the Navy be given priority. “Gen. Patrick,” said Lieut. Comdr. Byrd, “has given us the fullest co- operation in_the expedition, and we owe him a debt of gratitude. If we were unable to get the planes being bullt for the Army, there would be no expedition, and if the third plane could not haye been granted us, We would - have been forced to take alone a type much inferior and of little' value in the event of emer- gency.” Gen. Patrick, although flooded with plans for missions for the new am- phiblans to be carried out immedi- ately, declared his intention to do T (Continued on Page 4, Column 4. CONFESS TO BOMBING, CAUSING 160 DEATHS Conspirators Against Cathedral in Sofia. Make, Pléa for Leniency of Court. By the Associated Press. A VIENNA, May 11.—Dispatches from Sofia’ say “that all the principals charged with responsibility for the re- cent bombing of the Svetl Kral Ca- thedral in which 180 persons were kill- ed have pleaded guilty with, the excep- ton of one defendant named, Keoff. The court deferred judgment after the pleas of guilty were made. Marco Friedmann,.alleged leader of the conspiracy, asked that he be shot in the event the death penalty is im- posed. Zadgorsky, sacristan of the Cathedral,. charged -with having as- sisted the conspirators, begged that he be imprisoned, not ‘killed, so that he might atone -his misdeed by prayer and penitence, The other defendants pleaded for leniency. Gen. Squier Hitches And Virtually A _vigorous .tree, tapped at''a spot about two-thirds its ‘height from the ground and used as an antenna for radio reception, has been found by Gen. George .O. Squier, former chief signal officer of the United States constitute an excellent diminisher, if not a potential static. eliminator. i ' In the light of his recent discov- eries, Gen. Squier: declared today, in making public the results of his tests, that it is quite possible that a small American- boy, 'plugging into a tree near his' Summer camp, may stumble on the secret of com: plete elimination of statie. dlsturh-. . unces—the greatest remaining ob. stacle in the path of radio devel opment, Ditg Yenrs ago Gen. Squier. made ex- ,; fensive_experiments iy back, would mean a tragic predica- visibility is considered less dangerous cation on the question of France. Department officials would not en- large on their statemeént confirming reports that intermittent informal con- versations on the debt question had been in progress from time to time. They refused to indicate in any way the nature .of developments of the last few days. { The statement that the discussion was “again” In progress was taken as reference to the rumored dispatch to Ambassador Herrick last week of instructions belfeved to outline the suggestions he was asked to lay be- fore French officials in conversations he might have with them. There was nothing to indicate that these in- structions included any definite proj- ect as to terms of settlement or that they marked any change in the pol- icy of the Washington Government as to the form of settlements. Front Not Changed. It was said flatly that the Wash- ington Government had not changed front on the question of accepting an assignment of German reparation payments by France in working out a debt settlement agreement. It is understood that this question has been frequently raised and that the ‘Washington Government has always held that any settlement reached with France must be in_harmony with the (Continued on Page 5, Column Lr Polar Flight Is Tempararily Abandoned as Weather Continues Bad. BY JAMES B. WHARTON. Special Correspondent of The Star and North American Newspaper Alliance. KINGS .BAY, Spitzbergen, May 11. —The unabating severity of the Arctic weather has fo Capt. Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, leaders of the expedition that is at- tempting to reach the North Pole in two flying boats, to temporarily aban- don the undertaking. The decision to postpone the flight, for which all preparations have been made, was anounced vesterday in the following joint statement, written for The Star by the two explorers: “As Winter is still in full posses- sion here, with extreme cold and bad ice conditions, we have resolved to postpone the start of the polar flight to some later time in May or the be- ginning of June. Lost First Tiff. “The Arctic weather has beaten us in our first tiff against it. The Hobby returned yesterday from the Danish island, plowing through the_ harbor ice with great dificulty. The Farm is locked in the pack farther north and will not attempt to come out until con- ditions improve. “The intense cold has given the mechanics an opportunity to experi- ment on extraordinary remedies to combat motor balkiness. = Failure of the motors to turn, once the pole was reached -and the party ready to fly ment. - For this reason even poor than the cold. It seems reasonable to believe that the present frigid weather will end as suddenly as ‘it came. It fs wholly unseasonable. One feels that the eventual success of the flight is endangered.. News reached us today that Algarsson, our only competitor, has been indefimtely de- layed' by his inability to secure a blimp. With this worry eliminated, | our only race riow is against the ele: | ments, “which happens "to be quite! sufficlent.” - 3 i (Copsright 1925, o SO0 Americu by Central’ Newst in Germany by Ollates eniral Newat n Ge Verlax: i _France by Petit. ba i y e o o "Dilla ey b mirUme dn Scandi: Vi the "N Radio to Tree in United States. Cana- d_Japan by, : Ehnymues s Static|i “tree,roots and plant life as radio réceivers.” During the World War he again took up: this line of search consi ble success, and now in the era of radio broad: -casting-he is making Drl;nllbly his most figvt les. . “I have found that by driving a nail about three inches deep into a Tlive, healthy tree, about a third of the distance from the top, and then connecting the nuil to a re- . eeiving. set, that static disturb- ances are greatly reduced, signals altrclng();;enled .:dfl fading almost en- tirely eliminated,” Gen. L o : Squier ex: Gen. Squier predicted that' Sum- mer tourist camps throughout the country moon will select the mést spitable trees for radio reception and tap -them: at- the proper spots for the campers. \ 5 Fyr i RUM ROW HOPE FOR TRADE HERE Flotilla, Breaking Up Off New York, May Make Chesa- peake: Rendezvous. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 11.—Vanquished in this part of the Atlantic Coast by the dry Navy's blockade, Rum Row is breaking up. Some liquor craft re- main off New York, hoping for fog to aid them. Thick mist came yesterday for the first time since the blockade started last Tuesday. Rear Admiral Billard, commandant of the Coast Guard, has said in Wash- ington that he will be satisfied if ap- bie disintegrati Prociotis gy of Rum begins within a month, but ‘schooners Sl “Steafiers fin part of the fleet .lllum Cdpe Ann, Mass, and May, N. J., for four. years, have al- ready vanished. Either they -have gome to their foreign home perts or are seeking other marts along the coast. There seems to be hope that cus- tomers from Baltimore and Washing- ton can reach sources of supply, for several rum ships have appeared the entrance to Chesapeake Bay. The Coast Guard, which has taken pre- cautions in this section, has not been able to identify any of thé newcom- ers as haying been in business re- cently off New Yark. : Capt. W. V. E. Jacobs, * divisional commander of the Coast Guard here, received a radio message from his blockaders over the week end that some of the whisky ships were head- ing out to sea. Later there were re- ports that some of the rum-selling craft had headed inshore in the hope that customers could elude the Coast Guard's pickets in the fog ‘and do business. During a lift in the fog eight rum craft were noted lazily rid- ing the rollers off Sandy. Hook." With the blockaders having on duty 38 craft, it was believed smug- glers would have great difficulty in getting ashore, even in the mist. Instancing ~ the efficacy of the blockade is a story told by a seaman ot the dry navy. When a Coast Guard boat cut in close to a rum steamer there came a hail by mega- phone from the bridge: “We need water. How about 100 cases of whisky for 100 cases of water?” The patrol boat ignored the hafl and veered off. “The Atlantic seaboard institution of rum 1is & case for the coroner,” writes Samuel Taylor Moore in the New York World today. The paper identifies the captain as one who has had unusual opportunity to study the rum problem from the decks of the blockading fleet. The sea captain adds that the en- forcement problem is by no means ended, however, for, he says, along the coast there are immense caches of liquor, overland rum running by motor truck from Canada will revert to the prominence it had before the appearance of rum row and some of the liquor fleet may do business 50 or even 100 miles out from shore. The blockading forces will be aug- mented by five patrol boats.arriving: at the Staten Island base today. Four were from 'Southern ports ‘and one | from Benton Harbor, Mich. - Seven of the rum chasers which came in Saturday for supplies have returned to duty on rum fow. $20,000 FOR DOG BITE. Big Verdict Won by Boy Against Conway Tearle, Actor. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., May 11.— A verdict for $20,000 in-favor of Max Weinburg and his 7-year-old .son, Jacques, was. returned in . Supreme today against Conway, Tearle, actor, and _wife, ‘Supreme Court Justice Morschauser denfed a motion to set aside:the “ver: diét and counsel for the Tearles .an- nounced. that an appeal would be The: verdict ave $15,00 to, the boy the father: for hospital MANILA, May romen were killed in the recent earth- akes in the town of Bais and sev- e;nl Plniogs ety kBu'led as a result of 'm the tremblors at Bacong, Occide Negros - Provinee: lmmumam recelved Found! The Chap Who Redlly Can. Lose Bass Drum! The proverbial fellow “who even lose a bass drum” has found. He exists and his drum is still lost. 3 P.'F. Taylor, who handles jew- elry by day and plays traps in a dance orchestra by night, lost his bass . drum Saturday night be- tween Hughesville and Waldorf. An ad in today’'s lost column ad- mits the fact. Mr. Taylor today explained that he and two other members of an orchestra were returning to Wash- ington late Saturday night after having played for a dance at Bene- dict, Md. The bass drum, a saxo- phone and the snare drum were squeezed in the back of a roadster and the driver gave the car full throttle. Mr. Taylor kept an eye on his nocturnal bread and butter until the' car had passed Hughesville and after many miles had n he chanced *to_look d ‘The drum. was gone! has been seen” of it since. RIFFS AND FRENCH IN LIVELY BATILE Tribesmen Fail ‘to Prevent Relief-of-Surrounded Garrison. could been bass By the Associated Press. RABAT, Morocco, May 11.—Lively fighting occurred again today in the central sector of the Riffian front when Col. Freydenburg's column went to the relief of an outpost at Bab Ouender. The French suceceded in . getting much-nceded food and ‘water to the surrounded garrison. TETUAN, Spanish Morocco, May 11 (A.P.).—The attacks of the Riffian forces in French Morocco are report- ed to be increasing in force, and numerous French airplanes have been brought up to check the movement. All the French groups operating on the northern front have also been reinforced, especially with artillery. Actions of greater violence are ex- pected by the French, the advices say, s Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Rifflan invaders, considers his reputa- tion at stake, and 1is concentrating all his best forces against the French. The Riffian chief has repeated his call to the colors and is reported to be recefving ald from: some of the tribesmen in the invaded zone. He is sald to have pan-Islamic and Soviet agents working among those tribes which have mot yet thrown their lot with him. French reinforcements moving to the relief of their comrades along the front line encounteréd most trying conditions, being forced to cross open territory, in which they were subjected to sulping from the rebels. : PRESIDENT.T0 ATTEND LITTLE GMBINET DINNER Assistant Secretaries’, Body to Hold | Annual " Feast ‘Tonight. Clover to Preside. . President.Coolidge will be the guest of honor at-a dinner tonight to be given' by the “Littie Cabinet” at the Hamilton Hotel. .., = . . The “Little Cabiriet” is composed of the “assistant: secretiries of the sev- eral_departments ‘of the Federal Gov- ernment, 43" afscuss departmental the same time to become igh nt been given: to, gnderstand that he will not be called upon-for-a speech: - CAILLAUX PLAN GIVEN 0. K Cabinet. Approves Reinsursnces s France' Instead of Abroad: - PARJS, May 11 (A:P.)—The Petit L Y. reinsurances. in. abroad.: * ORATORS PAY VISIT 10 MOUNT VERNON Wilbur Is Host to Finalists on His Yacht for Trip to Sacred Shrine. ABOARD U. 8. S. SYLPH, Lower Potomac River—Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, having shoved aside his of- ficial-duties, is host today to Ameri- ca’s seven champfon scholastic orators on his palatial yacht, the Sylph, ply- ing its way down the historic Potomac river to the tomb of George Washing- ton, at. Mount Vernon. This trip, an' unusual honor paid by the government to seven of its out- standing voung citizens, is the final feature of a program.of eutertainment r _by The Star and carried out under-the d n of C. Fred Cook, representing paper as official host and gtide. - < Despite the somewhat gloomy weath- er the orators, refreshed by a Sunday f rest, boarded the Sylph at 1 o'clock this afternoon as she lay at anchor at the Washington Navy Yard and were met at the gangplank by the Secretary of the Navy. Parents, Friends On Trip. In_addition to the finalists, who are Robert Bessions, winner of the national contgst: Eugene F. McEimeel, reciplent of second honors: Max N. Kroloff, awarded third prize; Aiss Flora Longenecker, Northeastern champion; Miss Asenath Graves, local champion; George Stansell; Central States cham: pion, and Philip- Glatfelter, Eastern champion, the party included a num- ber of the parents, reltives -and friends. After being introduced to’ Secretary Wilbur the guests were escorted to the dining salon and tendered a lunch- eon, starting at 1:30 o'clock, when the yacht weighed anchor. The fare was provided by The Star, as the Navy De- partment has no funds for so unusual a purpose. As the trim Sylph slipped down the river past Hains Point and on toward its destination the Navy Secretary and his guests were busily engaged in en- joyment of a meal smacking genuinely of the sea, prepared by experienced nautical hands. During luncheon: Secretary Wilbur discussed with his youngfriends their ~"{Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) ) FLYER DIES.IN FLAMES. Licut. Barrigar Was Secking Men Lost in Philippine Wilds. MANILA, May 11 (A.P.)—Lieut: John D. Barrigar was burned to death when his airplane crashed and took fice- near Del- Carmen, Pampanga Province, yesterday...Prvt. John Ta- bor, his mechanie, escaped with slight injuries. - Barrigar was searching for three artillery. soldfers Jost in the mountains. Al Barrigir was. flylng low when the plane -.strucly, a .tree.: Tabor was threwn. clear“of the plane and landed in a river uninjured, but was seriously burned.in attempting to free Barrigar. Bai T, & native of Denmark, en- listed’ as & private, ROOSEVELTS IN BOMBAY. qu Leave at Once for Interior on Hunting Trip. BOMBAY, * British Indla, May 11 (A.P.)>Col. Theodore Roosevelt, his brother Kermit and the members of their Central ‘Asian hunting expedition arrived here today aboard the British steamship Razmak. All members. of the: party are well. 'They.propose to Jeave tonight for: Rawalpindi, in the njab, en route to Kashmir. Pardoned by Coolidge, Editor Pays Respects at White House Incognito he Absosiated; Press. “NEW -YORK, May 11.—Carlo Tresea, Italian editor, who has picthesd by “agents of the Mussolial gov ient as an enemy . of law .and r, came back to .New York. Iast night-from Atlanta - Penitentiary with the story of how he /had, after his release, shaken . with President C Tresca was sent to Atlanta Jan- uary 7, under a sentence of a year - ‘.and a, day, for.publishing a birth- Saturday’ Sunday’s ¥ ANGER OVERD.A.R ACTION FLAMES IN WOMEN'S COUNGIL fiefusal of Use of Building Despite Contract Evokes Warm Protest. MRS. HARRIS DECLARES | MOVE WAS UNEXPLAINED Had Given Pledge That Radical and Pacifist Talks Would | Be Barred. ! __The smoldering fires between the Tnternational Council of Women and the Daughters of the American Revo- lution blazed into the open today with | astatement from Mrs. Nathaniel E. Harris, head of the American del- egation, who tried to clear the at- mosphere. The International Council became aware of the trouble ahead about six months .ago, she said, when use of the D. A. R. Hall, for which a contract had been signed, was prohibited and no_reasons given. Since then, she said, the undercu: rent of insinuation against the Inier-) national Council has been steadily in-| creasing, -coming to a climax when the quinguennial convened here last week. She blames certain 13c:1u_ns" in the D. A. R. rather-than the entir>! organization. " Agreement Was Signed. i Mrs. Harris said: “We first were! Ziven to understand that we were to | have the D. A. R. Hall for the quin-| quennial about three years ago from | an informal conversation with Mrs.! Anthony Wayne Cook. She had not, then been elected president general. | When she was elected the agreement was made into a definite contract,sign- | ed with Mrs. Philip North Moore. We stood upon that. Programs were | printed with the pictures of the Con-! tinental Memorial Hall and distributed | all over the world. 1 “Sometime later I called on Mrs.| Cook at her office. She told me tha we must be very careful not to al- low any radical or pacifist speeches | from the D. A. R. platform. Of; course 1 assured her there would be | none. Such a thing was unthinkable | when the character of the women composing the international council is| <considered. ! “Nevertheless we took special pre- | cautions. We wrote to Lady Aber-! deen and to Fru Backer, our 1mer~| national secretary, asking them to ex- the pi um_prepared in advance in brdst oAt ‘anything which might be!gcene or lewd” books, pamphlets or objectionable to the D. A. R: might be eliminated. Anvbody who knows what the international council stands | for knows that there would be very | little likelihood of anything of the; kind, and there certainly has not been | at this convention. i ““The next we knew was late last | October, when we were told that our | contract for the hall had been rescinded. i ““Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Ellen Spencer | Muzzey, both D. A. R. members, at | once called on Mrs. Larz Anderson, | m _carefully und to| have manuscripts of the addresses on | offering for jed them. as fast as the papers are printed. 's _Circulation, 97,568 Circulation, 106,533 TWO CENTS. DRIVE ON SALACIOUS MAGAZINES OPENS; TWO' FACE ARREST Gordon Charges Revolt'ingly Lewd Literature Is Sold to Children. POLICE CONDUCT QUIET INQUIRY FOR 2 WEEKS Dealers First Warned Have For- feited Right to Leniency, Prosecutor Says. Warrants for the arrest of two newsdealers, charging them with vio- lating the District code which pro- hibits the sale of obscene or indecent literature, which was displayed in Ppublic places under the guise of “art,” have been asked by Assistant District Attorney Ralph Given and will be issued late this afternoon. At the same time Mr. Given served notice on every newsdealer in Wash- ington that the United States prose- cutor’s office was through with warn- ing them against offering for sale or even displaying questionable maga- zines, pictures and books, that every police precinct in the city would be ordered to begin a sweeping search for indecent literature and pictures and that each dealer would be held strictly accountable to the law. Gordon Started Probe. This action resulted today from quiet and carefully planned investi gation Mr. Given has been conducting under the authority of District Attor- ney Pevton C. Gordon, which has re- vealed astounding conditions through- out the city, whereby newsdealers are charged with offering the most re- volting sort of literature and pictures to high school students, both boys and girls, and to young men and women in every part of the city. Several weeks ago Mr. Given asked the captain of every police precinct to order their men to visit newsstands and bookstores on their beats, ascer- tain the kind of literature that was being sold or displayed by them and give samples of questionable publ tions to the District Attorney’s office. The result was an-accumulation of nearly 30 magazines which were re garded as ribald and flagrantly inde- cent. Dealers Given Warning. Mr. Given first warned the dealers that they were violating the District code which forbids any one “selling. sale or even having in their possession” any ‘“indecent, ob- pictures. The result was that scores promptly withdrew the objectionable articles frcm sale and many destroy- I urther investigation, how- ever, showad that some had again begun to display the forbidden litera- ture. Two news dealers who had been per- sonally warned by the district attor- ney’s office were found to be among this number, and Mr, Given, without further notice, asked this morning that the warrants be issued for them. The warrants, he declared, would be from whom the communication had | gerved late today, and the accused come, asking for an explanation. i would be brought to speedy trial, so “‘Isn’t it enough that we do not! that he would have a basis for in- desire you to have the hall,’ was all the satisfaction we got from her. ““We were almost at the last moment in plans for an international conven- | tion, where arrangements cannot be changed suddenly. Since then our troubles have mounted steadily. The | financial difficulties we have had in | hiring the auditorfum and in other | arrangements, which it was necessary | to change, are well known. “Just what our future action will be I hesitate to state. We will not | allow the matter to drop where it is. We have been prosecuted unjustly. ‘We have had untrue insinuations cas upon us. I am not attacking the| But I do blnmei certain members. The rights of minorities in culture | and language under a government caused a spirited discussion at the ses- sion of the council in the Auditorium this forenoon. Resolution Passed. The following resolution finally was passed, to be interpreted by each na- tional council as it sees fit: “The International Council of Wom. | en urges that all our National Coun- cils devote special attention to educa- | tional - conditions in regions where | groups of different nationalities are | living together, as in districts which | have changed sovereignty or in| frontier zones. It urges that in the schools of such districts the character and ;denlus of “each nation be re- | This resolution has been withdrawn | from the peace committee agenda as reported by Mrs. George Cadbury, hut Prof. Marion C. Whitney of Vassar (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) FELICITATES EMPEROR. Coolidge Observes Silver Wedding of Japanese Regent. President Coolidge has cabled con- gratulations to the Emperor of Japan on the occasion of his silver wedding anniversary. ‘The President’s message, sent yes- terday, read: this, the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the marriage of your maj- esty, 1 offer the hearty felicitations and best wishes of myself and of the Amerigan people.” his attacks on Mussolini caused his sentence. President Coolidge de- clared the case was a miscarriage of justice and pardoned-him. T stopped in Washington on my way back from Atlanta,” said Tres- ca last night. “I.went to the White House Saturday. A group of stu- dents from a college were there to shake hands with the President. I formed in line with them. A mo- ment later I was in the executive e. - The President stood there. silent. but smiling. We went by with a quick handshake. i My only thought was to thank | the President for his kindness to -me; However, since 1 was not an winvited.gyest, I remained silent,” augurating a sweeping campaign to rid Washington of the obscene liter- ature with which scores of its new. stands and bookstores are cluttered. No further warnings will be issued, Mr. Given said. “I am tired of being lenient,” he added. “The law holds every dealer responsible for the char- ater of literature he offers for sale, and so shall 1. The curse of this disgraceful situation is that many of these indecent papers are being pur- chased by the boys and girls in our high schools. It is up to the new dealers to read the magazines they in- tend to sell, and those who are found violating the law will be prosecuted mercilessly. Pictures Labeled Art. Not only has Mr. Given found much of the reading matter in magazines to be beyond the pale of decency, but there are half a dozen or more So- called “art” publications which openly display lascivious pictures of nude women under the guise of ‘“art.” | Many of them are nothing more than revolting photographs; some few are reproductions of famous paintings, but so coupled with cheapness and suggestive literature that even the Lecome ribald. “They are art in the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art, yes,” said Mr. Given. “But when included in these maga- zines and lisplayed in store windows to attract the trade of youths, girls and boys alike, for 10 and 25 cents a copy, they cease to be art.” Mr. Given showed several samples of the kind of “art” to which he referred, and declared he would base his prosecution on them first and if he succeeds in obtaining convictions he (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) COLORADO “GOING DRY.” Officials Express Great Faith in New Felony Law. DENVER, May 11.—Colorado is due to become an arid desert tomorrow, so far as moonshine liquor is concerned, when the new State law making own- ership and operation of a liquor still a felony becomes effective, prohibition authorities declared today. Officials claim that moonshine prices will soar to unprecedented heights after_tomorrow, while State Prohibi- tion Director L. N. Scherf said he has received information indicating that the majority of Colorado distillers will migrate to other States. EX-GOVERNOR ON TRIAL. Jonathan M. Davis in Kansae Court Over Pardon Scandal. i TOPEKA, Kans., May 11 (A The trial of Jonathan M. Davis, mer Governor of Kansas, on charges of conspiring while in office, with his bank commissioner, Carl J. Peterson, to obtain a bribe in exchange for a pardon, began today before Judge J. A. McClure. The former governor went to trial alone. Peterson, named jointly with Davis on the warrant, is to be tried later. i;d_id?:;ym:—fi:n 20,