Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today and tomorrow, not much change in temperatire. Temperature: Highest “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening »nd Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 lowest, 45, at 8 pan. Full report on page No. 1,154—No. 30,315. he Entered as second cla: post office, Washington, matter. . C. 1 FLOOD OVERFLOWS: VICKSBURG LEVEE AND GUTS THROUGH DIKE IN' LOUISIANA Officials Alarmed at Dangers‘ to Come as Worst Disaster | of Kind in History of Na-| tion Continues to Spread. | CUT BELOW NEW ORLEANS LOWERS LEVEL SL|GHTLY1 Greater Rise Forecast fer Next Week on Tributaries—No Hope Seen for Embankments Above , Mouth of Red River—Great| Fleet Is Mobilized. | Army’s ¢ DESOLATION WROUGHT BY FLOOD) BY HOOVER ON RADIO| PICTURED Secretary of Commerce Paints Dreary Scenes of Havoc in Mississippi Valley. Declares 200,000 Persons Have Been Financially Ruined by Disaster. Associated Press MPHIS, Tenn., April 30.—Deso- lation wrought by “the most danger- | ous flood our country has ever known in its history” was pictured for the Nation tonight in a radio address by Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com- merce, who just had completed a week’s survey of the swollen Missis- | sipp River from: Memphis to New | Orleans as the personal representative of President Coolid fore he faced the which he painted the dreary pi Hoover joined witk gar Jadwin, chief of the neers, in a statement that stron wider and higher levees af- forded the only hope for relief from | future floods. Restoration, flood con- | trol works, in the upper reaches of | microphone en. | the river and other ideas presented | By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS. April 30.--The| Nation's most disastrous flood was | spreading tonight with increasing | rapidity and eral and ate officials made effort to control their apprehension of the dangers yet to come. Driven madly by the slowly mov- ing flood crest, the Mississippi River swelled over a part of the levee at Vicksburg, Miss., flooding the lower section of the city, and sloughed off | a hundred feet of the main levee at | Glasscock, 1 25 miles south of Natchez, Mi threatening inunda- tion of Concordia and part of bprder- ing parishes. Floods Continue to Spread. Increasing volumes of watsr flow- ing through the three gans in the Arkansas River embankments rapidly were making complete the flooding of southeastern Arkansas, inundating | the town of Gould and adding to the flood depth in half a dozen other towns which may be destroyed. Flood waters around Ya no continued their spread, de new fields and causing half a million dollars’ worth of damage to cotton stored in a compress in that city. While news of these major events in the flood area were trickling in, foreboding came of still more and dangerous floods ‘yet to come. The Weather Bureau announced that “the greatest flood of record” was in pros- pect next week for the Oachita and Black Rivers, adding that a serious situation exists in northeastern Loui- siana Urges Work on Dikes. As a result of the break at Glass- cock, Charles H. West, a member of the Mississippi River Commission, an- nounced that “every possible effort should be made to raise and strength- en the levees from the mouth of the Red River to New Orleans. The commissioner said the water plunging through the Glasscock crevasse would join with the Arkansas flood waters which are sweeping into Louisiana, and for the present should lower the river stage from Natchez, where the highest gauge in history is Jecorded, to the mouth of the Red er. 1f the levees along the south bank | of the Black and on the upper branches of the Ate rivers | give way,” he added, “this also will | act as lowering the Mississippi River | for the time being. There seems no hope that these levees will hold and any disaster there will bring greater strain on the Mississippi levees sepa- rating this flood from the main river south of the mouth of the Red River w New Orleans.” Level Drops at New Orleans. e was one bright spot in_the | ture, the gauge at New | Orleans showing a drop of one-tenth of a foot in five hours as a result of v deliberately opened at orr below the city, The first effort at dynamiting the | massive levee yesterday having been | only partially successful, the engi-| neers continued blasting today until | they had a great rush of waters from the Mississippi flowing into the now | almost deserted parishes of St | Bernard and Plaquemines. So serious is the situation presented in the remainder of the State, how ever, that the Coast Guard, acting on requests former John M. | Parker, civilian flood dictator for th ate, is conce here and at 2 th ef expedition in its histos 1 One hund and eomi N the coasts and the G will b tion every pri are being craft, large | g assembled here, and Guif | at Lakes, and 80| ased at N In| it vernment | owned motorized | requisitioned for | othe ad and Boats to Scout Area. ns to have undated who 1 craft sm: concent 1 Rouge and il the homeless and is entertained ations loss of floods in will be these ope attended Mississippi, he Returning to Memphis, week spent flood ecretary Hoover said he had found the situs S0 serious that he would return terr next week after shipgton to consuit Jidge and the cab committee which is co-operating the Red Cross ‘he immediate problem is that of i ing 200,000 homeless people escuing ot " Mr. Hoover said tehabjlitation has been given some thousands, but many have to be at- tended to later Little Hope Ts Seen. to the Caernarvon vasse, Mr. Hoover said it insur safety of New Orlean: but created no hope for the tween where the above the hest record, and New £t with Reter Cre- d the that it foot President’s personal represent- ve in the fleld said all the refugees {Continued on Page 4, Column 4. | was held unfeasable. for controlling the father of waters 200,000 Persons Ruined. Ruin to 200,000 persons, 6,000,000 acres flooded, 00,000,000 damage, thousands still clinging to their homes | where upper fioors remain dry, more thousands needing to be removed in | boats and established in great camps | on higher grounds, and vet other | | ing crest? WASHINGTON, D. C 9 91 BELIEVED DEAD INMINE EXPLOSION: B0 STILL TRAPPED Rescue Crews Seek Entomb- ed Men in Smoke-Filled Workings. | SMOKE AND GAS DRIVE | RELIEF PARTIES BACK | First Miner to Reach Safety Leads; | Workers in Search for Mates in Wrecked Pits. {CRETARY HOOVER. By the Associated Press. FAIRMONT, W Va April 1ety-one men are believed to have lost their lives in a terriffic explo- sion late today in the Everettville mine of the New ngland Fuel and Transportation Co. The known dead | had reached 11 late tonight. Eight bodies were removed from the mine, | two men were killed at the tipple | outside, while another died in a local hospital shortly before midnight. | While the fate of 80 men still en- | trapped in the workings remained | | unknown, rescue crews which have penetrated the debris-strewa mine | said conditions were such that none | camped upon broken a view of the disaster given by Mr. Hoover over the radio. “In the miles of river below Vicks- burg, which has not yet been reached by the crest of the flood the battle to control from breaks in the levees is on,” he said. he question in the mind of every man in these districts tonight is ‘will the levees hold against the approachs thousands. levees, was Pictures Work of Thousands. He npictured thousands of men rung mile upon mile working in long strings, like ants piling the levees h: er and higher,” and added that while important levees have been | s 3 held against the water enemy, vhat | of them could have survived. ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) | Of the 15 known injured, several PRELATE ATTACKS CALLES AS TYRANT Witness, Judge and Execu-| tioner in Exiling Catholics, } Says Archbishop. I By the Associated Prese. 1 SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 30.—| The most Rev. Leopold Ruiz y Flores, | Archbishop of Michoacan and spokes: man for several exiled Mexican Cath. olic prelates here, tonight issued a| written statement denouncing Presi-| dent Calles of Mexico as the perpe- trator of an outragesus campaign against religion: | taken of northern West Virginia were push- | ing their way into the mine in the | hope of saving some, at least, of the 80 men still entombed. Of the dead, two were killed while at work on the tipple outside the main entry, while eight of the injured | also were at work outside the mine. One rescue party penetrated the | | smoke-filled workings and brought out five dead and seven men sericusly injured. Survivor Leads Rescue Party. Manuel Porpo was the first man to | come from the blast-torn workings. He said he had come through the dense smoke with difficulty, but he was unharmed. Shortly afterward he led a party of rescue workers back into the mine. The blast set fire to the tipple, but | the Morgantown fire department quickly extinguished the blaze. | The mouth of the mine and the main | passageway apparently were not badl damaged. The ventilation system was operating and a good current of fresh air was being circulated late tonight, company officials said. Federal Mine Inspector McKay, ac- BY L. 5. OFFICERS | Mine rescue crews from all sections | Seven Others Held, 3 Pianes Seized on Charge of Smug- gling Aliens Over Border. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 30.—Arthur A. Daugherty, 24, aviator, was shot ud killed, seven other aviators were into custody, and three air- planes seized by Federal immigration officers early today in what they de- clared was the breaking up of an air- plane alien-smuggling ring. The. officers said Daugherty was SUNDAY MORNING, BIG TRADE PARLEY Archbishop Ruiz categorically denied | fired upon when he attempted to Mexican government charges that the | escape in his plane as the three planes Episcopate was responsible for any|landed at Eagle Airpor* afterbeing acts which constituted open armed re- | Févorted by Federal agents to have companied by five other attaches of the United States Bureau of Mines at Pitteburgh, were reported en route to | volt. The statbment was issued m;f\’;‘;;;r‘u"“;g;:"m}"hé"‘"“e g Rnms, Rex Purcell, one of the arrested aviators, declared that Daugherty was killed without a chance for his life. The officers said that when they or-| poqq Vijjliam Cannon said he had in dered the pilots of the landing planes | S508 G P EEROC AU CGay and to throw up their hands, Daugherty | ghPFRC T TS T put on speed, appatently to take the | "}y ey ‘McKay, brother of J. W b McKay, superintendent of the mine, Distiller is Accused. is among the men entombed. Chief Immigration Inspector Walter | Shortly after the blast came shoot- Carr charged that Hugh McLenny, |ing from the shaft mouth a rescue owner of the Red Top Distillery in | crew, equipped with helmets, went Tijuana, was the financial backer of | into the smoke-filled pit. They went the Eagle airport and of the entire | but a short distance and were forced slleged airplane alien-smuggling ring, | to retreat to the surface by the heavy An_all-day search by police and | smoke and gas. They were unable sheriff’s deputies had failed to find | to determine the fate of any of the any trace of the 10 aliens which im- [ men trapped in the workings. migration officers charged probably | _ Mine resc ars operated by the| had unloaded in an oat field some-| State of West Virginia were rushed | where on the outskirts of the city. The | it from Clarksburg and Morgantown. officers said bunches of green oats | Volunteer rescue teams were organ- caughtron the running geat of two of | ized, reinforcing the trained rescue lhe‘p]zlnt‘s was proof of the landing men from mines at Grant Town and of the ships. They declared the ar- other nearby settlements. rested aviators failed to make any ex Small Force on Holiday. planation of the presence of the oat| According to company officials the stalks. mine, known as Federal, No. 3, and The immigration officers also said | one of the largest of the northern they had found a large caliber pistol | West Virginia coal fields, was entirely and ammunition in the cockpit of one | rock dusted. | the conclusion of a meeting attended | by eight Mexican prelates, exiled fol- | lowing an attack by bandits on a pas: senger train near Guadalajara, when 60 or more persons were killed and | many injured. | “This statement is issued only un der the necessity of answering a o ernmient which believes it necessary thus to bolster up its outrageous cam- paign against religion,” Archbishop Ruiz said. Persecuted, He Charges. “Before all we declare that we and all our priests and many laymen are victims of the cruelest religious perse- cution of modern times. Both the| laws passed and the inhuman applica- tion of them are proof enough of that. “An official account of our arrest and expulsion follows: April 21, 6 of the 15 bishops, in- cluding Archbishop Mora Del Rio, ranking prelate, and Archbishop Ruiz, sequestrated in the capital, were called by Minister of the Interior Te- jeda to his office. He told us that b: the president’s orders, we must leave the country that night. “He said: ‘You are the leaders of th revolution and by. vour silence the scene of the disaster té aid in res- | cue work. g Blast Origin Undetermined. | Company officials said the origin of | the blast was undetermined. Fire | | | after the Archbishop of Durango’s re- | offered no proofs. of tha planes. Pilot Previously Suspected. Emmett Longbrake, one of the ar- ators, was taken into cus. cont pastoral declaring lay Catholi justified in résorting to arms in sel defense, you were guilty in taking in rebellion.’ This was his only tody seve a plane that landed at Yorba Linda, south of the city pected of smuggling aliens. He was released because of insufficient evi- dence. The others under arrest are: Jack O'Brien, pilot of one of the seized planes; B. R. Chaney, manager of the airport; F. Cunningham, A. E. Flem- ing and Ford Wheeler. Purcell and the last three were found at the air- port The immigration officers said that a week ago they had gained information that extensive alien smuggling opera- tions were being carried out by means of airplanes, and that as a result they had laid in wait five nights in the vicinity of the Eagle airport. Late yesterday two planes left the | port and were reported by Govern ment agents in Tijuana to have ar rived there last night, taken on 10 Chi- | nese and later departed. | McLenny is at liberty on bail, await- ing trial in San Diego July 19 on three Federal indictments charging him with smuggling liquor across the Mexican border. declaration. He “He (Tejeda) gave a sign to Col. Del| Gado, chief of the secret police. We| were led thence under an armed guard “{Continued on Page 6, Column 3. STRANDED NAVY SHIP | DEFIES 18 TUGBOATS 2,000 Tons of Supplies to Be| Taken Off U. S. S. Colorado in : Attempt to Refloat Her. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 30.—Efforts to pull the steel mose of the super- dreadnaught Colorado oft the shoals n the East River, where it h: bheen tranded since early today, were andoned tonight until flood-tide to morrow morning. A fleet of 18 t worked for 12 hours to release ship today D Stands Off Score of Police. enn., April 30 (#).— icaded on the second floor of a publishing house two doors from the central police station, had wounded one officer here early night and was besieged by more than a score of policemen sceking to cap. ture him. the the night 2.000 tons of oil together with ammunition and su plies. will be unloaded from the dread- t to lessen the vessel's draft. The ship's 16-inch guns may be re- | moved if she does not floa at flood- {tide tom Navy officials ind ated row, i);strict Is Unable to Assist Insane, But St. Elizabeth’s Will Find Plan The District government will be un-| which failed to pass at the last session | able to assist officials of St. Elizabeth's | of Congress. Hospital in working out a plan for| “We will have to tell the officials of | caring for the more than 2,000 pa-|&t. Elizabeth’s that we are very sorry tients quartered there as charges upon | because we cannot pay our bills,” said the District, it was announced yester-| Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro. | day by the Commissioners. “There are no funds available which | The recent decision of Controller |the District could use to pay for the | General McCarl forbidding the District | care of the patients. It seems that to make an advance on 1928 appropria- | the matter now is one for the hospital tions to care for these patients created authorities to work out with their a serious problem, which the Commis- | creditor sioners, after serious consideration,| Monie Sanger, vice president of the d they could not solve. The hos- ital, gave definite assurance, Low- | pital, therefore, will be forced to care or, that none of the Distriet’s ra- [ for the District’s inmates without pay | tients would suffer in the least because until the close of the current fiscal|of the Controller General's decision. ear. An item of $250,000 for the| The hospital, he said, would find £ome | care of the patients ugtil June 30 wn!lwav to provide food for these unfor- ! contained in the second iciency bill| tunate inmates. AN G [ n 1l weeks ago as the pilot of | and which was sus- | The usual half holiday Saturday | caused only about 100 of the normal | force of 400 miners to report for | {work this morning. Early in the afternoon some of these men came {0 | the surface. The injured men were brought to| |a Fairmont hospital on a special train. Reports from the mine were that after several hours of hard work res- cuers penetrated part of the work- ings and recovered four bodies. Additional rescue crews from all parts of the region were arriving hourly. The fresh helmet crews were pushing their way back into the workings, where they hoped to find the missing men. BRISTOL IS DENIED " ENTRANCE TO RUSSIA Representatives Out of [ United States. [ i LBy 4lia Arsostatea MOSCOW, Russia, mission to traverse Russia on his way | to China has Leen refused Rear Ad miral Mark L. Bristol, who is slated to succeed Rear Admiral Clarence S. | Williams, commander of the Ameri- can fleet in Chinese waters, the As- | sociated Press was advised tonight. The grounds for this attitude by the Soviet government were stated to be | Washington's refusal to permit former | Iinance Commissioner Gregory Sok- | olnikoff, George Piatakoff, economic | commissioner, and Mme. Kollontay, | Soviet Ambassador to Mexico, to enter | April 30.—Per- the United States. Rear Admiral Bristol, who is high commissioner to Turke; and com- { mander of the: United tates naval |ferces in Turkish waters, is said to have asked for a visa for himself and his wife, explaining that Mrs. Bris- tol was unable to stand a long Pacific voyage. The Soviet government agreed to grant a visa for Mrs. Bristol should she desire to proceed alone. Admiral Bristol is believed to be now at Constantinople, but is soon returning to the United States. A Brewery Seizure Asked. COVINGTON, Ky., April 30 (). — Suit for Federal confiscation of the 1,600,000 George Weidemann Brewing Co. property was formally filed in United States District Court here by Sawyer A, S istrict attorney, prbon | the openi |ing | rived Soviet Retaliates for Keeping of |’ s WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION and seryice wil MAY 1 N \ 1927. —128 PAGES. 11 start immediately. FIVE CENTS. MAY CHANGE POLICY Third Pan-American Confer-| ence Will Open in Capital Tomorrow. Out of the third Pan-American com- mercial conference, which opens its four-day session here tomorrow under the auspices of the Pan-American Union, there is expected to issue a new and progressive policy affecting | | the future trade relations between the nations of North and South America. Chief interest, consequently, is fo-| cused on the address which President | Coolidge is to deliver Tuesday night |at a joint session of the Pan-Ameri- | 4 can delegates with the Chamber of | Commerce of the United States. The | President’s recent New York speech, | dispelling any doubt of the peaceful | and nondimperialistic aim of the United States in its relations with Latin America, has done much to bring the business representatives of the 21 American republics into a closer | and more sympathetic harmony on the eve of the conference. | Expected to- Sound Keynote, | Just as the President enunciated in unmistakable language the foreign | policy of the greatest single member of the Pan-American Union, so the delegates are looking forward to his | forthcoming address in the expecta-| tion that he will sound the keynote | of this Government’s future commer- | cial relations with its sister republics. | Coming at a time when there is ap- | parently an urgent need for co-opera- tive action between the 21 republies| in all matters respecting their mutual | relations, ‘the conference, it is be. lieved, will be one of the most im-| portant and significant of its kind| ever held. Questions vitally affecting | their trade relations will be discussed from every angle by prominent offi- cials of the various governments and | by many of the leading business men among the 400 or more delegates who | will attend the sessions. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who always has stood for a vigorous pol of co-operation in fostering trade rel: tions between the Americ is sched uled to make the principal addre: session_tomorrow m ing in the Pan-American Union Build- Most of the 400 delegates had ar- here last night, for while the conference does mnot open officially until tomorrow, registration of the delegates will take place at the Pan American Union at 11 o'clock this morning. This will be followed by a | luncheon in their honor to be given at the Willard Hotel by the Radio Corporation of America, whose presi- | dent, Maj. Gen. J. G. Harbord, will| speak on “Radio’s Message to Latin | America.” The afternoon will be de- voted to sight-seeing. Speeches to Be Broadcast. Speeches of President Coolidge ani| others at the joint session Tuesday night with the United States Chambe of Commerce will be broadcast by the National Broadcasting Co., which is making an effort to secure the longest ook-up” yet established The session tomorrow morning also will be broadcast. On that occasion addresses of welcome will be made by Secretary of State Kellogg, who is also chafrman of the governing board of the Pan-American Union, and by the Minister of Colombia, Dr. Enrique| Olaya, vice chairman of the governing hoard of the Pan-American Union There will be responses by delegates from different countr In many respects this conference will be the most representative of all the interlocking groups yet held here. Besides representatives of the respec- tive governments the delegates have been chosen from the leading trade | groups and organizations in North and | South Ame . Chambers of com-| merce, industrial organizations, mari- time exchanges, exporting and im- porting associations, highway, aero nautic and automobile associations, foreign trade clubs, banking organi- zations and others will participate | through their representatives in the deliberations of the conference. Among the outstanding subjects ‘o| be taken up at this time are trans-| portation and inter-American com- merce, foreign Investment and inter- American trade and barriers to inter- American commerce. Others of a vital nature will include arbitration of com- mercial disputes; consular procedure and customs regulations. One meet- ing, a joint session with a group ses- sion of the Chamber of Commerce of th= United States, will deal with Latin- American trade relations, considered both from the North and the South American viewpoints. An important event at which the delegates of both these great commer- cial groups will meet is the dinner to (Continued on Page 13, Column 3. | | the Pan-Ame: | Americ | the United States and the TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—60 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign “Montgomery County of stories on M ginia communitie: and first of serips nd Vir- — Page Activities—Page 41. Skies in May Radio News and Programs—Pag Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 51. Financial News—Pages 54, and . C. T. U. News—Page 5 PART TWO0—16 PAGES. | Editorials and Editorial Features. ‘Washington and Other Soclety. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Reviews of Spring Books—Page 4. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 12 PART THREE—14 PAGES. | Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- | play. Music Motors and 8 and Navy News—Page 9. ct National Guard—Page 9. Civilian Army News—FPage 10. 3irl Scouts—Page 10. At the Community Centers—Page 10, Seria), “Red Head"—Page 11. Motoring—Pages Page and 6 T | Fraternal News—Page 1 Veterans of the Great War—Page 13. Spanish War Veterans—Page 13. rent-Teacher Activities—Page 14. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 14. Boy Scout News—Page 14, PART I"OI'R:I PAG Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and tures. The Rambler—Page 3. Fea- PART SIX—10 PAGES. Classified Advertising. round the City Y. W. ¢ ews—Page 10, APHIC SECTION—12 PAGES. ! World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; High Lights of History. BOOD-WILL FLYERS HERE TOMORROW Fresident to Greet Pan- American Aviators on Ar- rival at Bolling Field. Separated from their official destin tion by a fight of less than two hour an “Good Will” airmen at Langley Field, Hampton, Va., to. day are preparing for the last leg of their 15,500-mile aerial journey around South Ameri to Bolling Field, where an official re ception rivalling that given the vi torious Army world fyers will be tendered them at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. President and Mrs. Coolidge, the cabinet, members of the Diplomatic Corps, highranking Army and Navy officers, delegates to the Third Pan n Commercial Conference, vir- the entire alreraft industry of neral p lic will he at the field when the f. (Continued on Page 6, Column 5. L tually . Which will bring them | EMORIAL DRIVE - OPENS TOMORROW | Speakers at Luncheon Siress Need for $140,000 to Honor D. C. War Dead. ‘Washington must approach its task —beginning tomorrow—of raising an appropriate memorial to the 535 men and women of the District who died in the World War, in the light of ful- filling a national as well as'a civic duty, for the eyes of the Natlon are upon its Capital. Only an afirmative answer may be expected to the ques- tion of whether Washington will build this memorial. This was the message received yes- terday from the lips of speakers, who addressed the men and women assem- | bled for luncheon in the Willard Hotel preparatory to beginning their cam- paign tomorrow, a campaign which | has for its objective a subscription by | the people of Washington of $140,000, which, added to the $60,000 already | in hana, West Potomaec Park of a memorial dedicated to the memory of Washing- toniar | thei | Wi country’'s service ‘during the d War. Speakers at Luncheon. | | _Right Rev. James E. Freeman, | Episcopal Bishop of Washington; Rev. | Francis P. Duffy, who won renown as | the famous “Fighting Chaplaii” of | the 165th Infantry; Watson B. Miller, |a past commander and speaking as representative of the District depart- | ment, American Legion, and Maj. Gen. | John' A. Lejeune, commandant of the | United States Marine Corps, joined in | praising the spirit which | the memorial project, and urged that | those who take an active part bring home to Washington the necessity of success. In addition to the pre-campaign luncheon yesterday a joint statement, signed by leading churchmen of Wash. ington, urged upon the clergy of Washington their active support :n | the memorial project. Every pastor | and the head of every congregation in | Washington was asked to bring the | campaign to the attention of church- goers this morning in messages from their pulpits. This statement was signed by Bishop Freeman, Bishop Villiam of the Methodist : Mgr. C F. Thomas Patrick’s Catholic Church, and Rabbi Abram Simon of the Washington Hebrew Congregation yes of Nation on Capital. Praising the public spirit which led | to the memorial project, as indicative | of the existing gratitude for the sac- | rifice of the District men and women | {in the World War, Bishop Freeman, | in his address yesterday, declared that Washington is the most single city on the American ¢ | “What happens in this ci Capital of our Natfon, affects cvery | other city in the United States,” he said. “To have the Capital recreant in such a duty as that which now lies before us would be a disgrace.” | The speaker praised the unifying in- fluence of such movements as that of | thy memorial campaign, for, he poin:- ed out, its appeal is confined to no | Broup or creed. It is something which unites all of the people behind it, he said, regardless of their differences of | opinion in other matters. Donations |to the District war memorial fund which are given grudgingly, he | warned, ‘should not be accepted. for the very mature of the memorial de- mands that it evidence a spontaneous love for those who did their duty. Mr. Miller, who spoke in the absence ntinent. v, the ontinued on Page lumn 4.) The Roosevelt-Cannon Row 1 inside” stories only one of scores of revealed in the Memoirs of Uncle Joe Cannon It is dramatic, fascinating history, told in the picturesque language of one of the most dynamic characters ever in American public life. Publication, in daily installments and with illus- trations by Berryman, begins tomorrow in e Evening Star will ‘assure the erection in | who fought and who died in | is behind | important | MAIL SCHOOL CODE BEING FORMULATED IN CLEAN-UP DRIVE Correspondence Institutions Launch Campaign After Federal Warning. AGREE TO END UNFAIR PRACTICES AND FRAUD { | | Trade Commission Will Recognize Valid Set of Rules, Nugent Tells Conference. Special Dispatch to The Star. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Apri Faced with the solemn warning that unfair practices in advertising and publication and use of fraudulent and misleading claims by the industry must be eliminated under threat of Federal prosecution, American cor- | respondence schools today launched |a “clean-up” campaign among thel | membership, with the assurance that |the Federal Government will recog: nize a valid and workable code of | ethics to be rigidly followed by each | member of the industry. Out of a meeting here today, called by the Federal Trade Commission, and attended by representatives of most |ot the large correspondence schools | taroughout the Nation, came a code |of ethics drawn up by representatives |of the industry as the guiding pro- gram for business conduct and ad- |vertising for the industry which |claims an annual income of $70,000,- 000 from tuition fees. | Will Prosecute Violators. The code was adopted late today after Federal Trade Commissioner John F. Nugent told the conference it must eliminate the unfair practices within the industry of which com- plaint has been made to the commis- sion. He asked the 350 correspond- ence school representatives attending the meeting to set up the code, speci- fying what they considered unfair practice, and said that any school violating this code in the future would be prosecuted. Mr. Nugent said the complaints now on flle with the Fed- eral Trade Commission against cer- tain correspondence schools have been placed upon the suspense list and promised that the commission will in- dorse any workable code arrived at by the conference. He made it plain that there are two distinct classes of ecorrespondence schools—bona fide institutions, among them those conducted as auxiliary courses of prominent colleges and universitiés of the Nation, and an- othér class, advertising éxtensive courgés in a few lessons with the guarantee of a high-salaried position on the completion of study. The lat- ter class, he said, constitutes the group which have been attacked in complaints now on file with the com- mission. Code of Ethics Drawn. Armed’ with the promise made by Commissioner Nugent, a committee representing the major schools of the country drew up the following code of ethics: “Resolved, that overstatements or misrepresentations relating to actual or probable earnings are unfair practices. That overstatements which set forth the demands and opportunities m any vocation or fleld of activity constitute unfair practices. ‘That to represent employment service in a misleading manner consti- tutes an unfair practice.” The following are declared unfair practices: “To promise or guarantee & job or a raise in pay. “The making of an offer limited as to time or otherwise when in fact | such offer is not so limited. “The representation of an offer pecial,’ when in fact it is ‘reg- 1 30— | 5 of a marked-up or ficti- cious price is misleading. ‘The offering of a series of redue- | tions in the price of a course or serv- |ice to prospects, resulting in the con- rrent quoting of different prices for the same course or service, | Subterfuges Prohibited. “To resort to the subterfuge of of- fering a scholarship or a partial scholarship which is merely used as a selling device. “The offering of a series of reduc- service_as ‘free, when in fact such | commodity or service is regularly in- | cluded as part of a specific course or | service. “The disparaging competitor or to | courses or service 'he use of any name which indi- ates or implies that the institution s a plant, factory, shop, association other than an institution of learning, unless the name of such institution is always used in connection with ex- planatory words or phrases, which clearly indicate its nature of an edu- cational institution. “To confer degrees or to lssue di- plomas except when earned under con- | ditions that assure adequate teaching facilities and under auspices which conform to recognized standards as to quality and thoroughness of instruc- tion and_condition of course. “To misrepresent the character and scope of any course of instruction or any course of service offered. Accuracy of Faculties. “To list inaccurately or state il relationship of members of faculty, advisory boards, instructors, writers or_others. “To ciaim students are given per. sonal instruction by the head of the institution or department when such is not the fact. “The use of ‘Help Wanted’ columns in newspapers or other publications for the purpose of getting in touch with prospective students. “The use of ‘blind’ advertisements to attract prospects when the copy" does not clearly set forth that such instructions are offered. “The use of superlatives in adver. tisements of selling, except when Justified by the fact: “The enrollment or retention of stu- dents in any course or ice which they are obviously unfitted by reason of educational, economic dis. qualifications. ‘'The use of the word ‘guarantee’ in the description of money-back agreements between the institution and its students. “Money-back agreements or tracts not clearly stating the (Continued on. 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