Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1928, Page 2

2 . D. €. TUESDAY. MARCH 20, 192% THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, BASELESS BUGABOD OF VICIOUS NEGRD DOMINATION Totally Undeserved Slurs on Quality of District’s Population. ARE DISTRICT WHITES SPINELESS WEAKLINGS? Can a Colored One-fourth Dominate an Impotent White Three-fourths of District Population? THEODORE W. NOYES. be Amer 5.1 per ar this percentage domination of the t and renders unfit for participa- nent the the three- Fifth National Oratorical Contest Ashley Aderhoidt, Clyde Taylor, Louise C 1920 to 86 per er_cent in 1870 mar A he high an ols have been Howard s contribuced e and profes- combination 1 the much higher negro percentage in some of the States (reaching sometimes a 13 plus ation) becomes innocuous? Quality of Capital's Population. et us make specific comparisons be- tween the Capital and the communities neighboring District in which con- ditions are approximately identical. The District has the average negro population percentage of neighboring s and cities. Maryland, 16.9, and Virginia, 209, average 23.4, as agamst | the rict's 25.1. If the District is forbidden national fepresentation because of 25.1 per cent must not‘also Vir- ginta and Maryland (averaging in com- | bination 23.4 per cent) be deprived in consistency of national representation? ‘Will the whites of Virginia, who con- stitute 70.1 per cent of the State's population and who would resent hotly | the suggestion that they do not dom- | inate the State, slur the 749 per cent white population of the District by suggesting that the greater white per-| centage of the District is unable to| control a race minority one-third its size? The white Virginian will hesitate | thus to slur the white Washingtonian, | when he remembers that, of all the | States in the Union, Virginia contributes | far more of her sons to be permanent “ Tesidents of the District than any other | responding figure in seven States, Utah, State (over 63,000 native Virginians are | Vermont, Arizona, New Mexico, Dela numbered in D. C. population). The | Ware, Wyoming and Nevada (e hatatin 4 .| Shall prejudice against the 73,443 white Virginian in slurring the White| oporate 1o deny to the 231,807 the right ‘Washingtonian would be slurring his | and power of participation in their na- brother and himself. | tional Government? : Sl .| Does this prejudice justify the reten- 1f Washington is unfit for American- |, "0 1o Class of political aliens of & ization because of 25.1 negro percent-| grester number of white potential , are pot Baltimore, 14.8; Atlantic | voters than are collected in the whole ege ] City, 21.6; Richmond, 31.5, and Norfolk, | 0f Utah or Vermont or Delaware or "8 (AW | Wyoming? 315 (averaging 263), also unfit? Another column in the tables sub- ‘Washington's negro percentage has| mitted shows the number of na for 50 years been decreasing. Between | (United States) born whites in the . trict and comparable States. These 1910 and 1920 its percentage dropped | oo "y gbtained by subtractir from 285 to 25.1. In the same period | from the total population of voting age Atiantic City's percentage increased 0 the colored and the f. 216 per cen 21 years of age What negro percentage dominates g":," ( end contaminates? Does 25.1 per cent | Dako dominate the District, while not one of the 14 police precincts into which it is divided showed in the 1025 police census | & majority of negro population? | The assumption that the quarter emorandum concludes: “Th ase in the higher occupations ir es the progressive and of the negro popu There as been a_correspond the home life and ge organization The general progress and uplift of the negro population during the past 50 years toggther with thei ve spirit an@\purpose cle hat they should be regarded as a help- ful and participating “Thus the negro population decreasing in percentage as been steadils development Stau while of proper World War ! Germun€ sian sovietis While the er negro population does not pay one-quarter of the Dis- trict’s taxes, it contributed as soldiers in the World War more than its quoia of the total District e District Whites Not Weaklings. | Other tables submitted at the hear-| ing before the House judiciary comm tee show such strength in the potential voting constituency of the District that | all of the colored residents over 21 years | of age (73,448) can be subtracted from the total of voling age (305.255) and leave District whites of vou age | (231,807), exceeding in number the co:i- | Rhode 1 a (201,535 9), 1daho (1 » Vermont ( New Mexico (100,163), Wyoming Nevada (38,046 Is it fair or wise to slur as impotent weaklings our population of native- population of megroes will politieally | 5o EL S SR (e correspond. | dominate the three-quarters of whites, | ing populations of such States as Rho that one negro is politically stronger | Island. North Dakota, New Hampsh than three whites, inflicts an wunde- | 1daho, Vermont and Utah? served, humiliating slur upon the 400,- | Imagination vs, Facts. * 808 whites of the District today, In view of these facts it is difficult to The assumption that the negro is so conceive how any on:»’un 50 y:;r\fll | the modest proposals of our amendmer.t hopelessly and Incurably unfit for| .., ;ause o State, recking with graft Americanization that as a quarter ele- | dominated by the negro and threater ment of the population he infects with | ing the stability of the republic, to be his unfitness the whole community un- | evolved through compliance with its Sisiivelly ik Seutiingly sless tiss | DrOViSions. But with reckiessneas can negro of the District. | cerning facts and a vivid and unbridled imagination our opponents attempt Threat of Bolshevistic Aliens. glaring inconsistency of | something in this direction The immediate effect of our amend- ment 1z, of course, merely 1o add a new weis " T s | pOWer to the list' granted to Congress 1egro a3 the cONSPICUOUS | 4y, Constitution—to wit, the powcr ngerous unfitness in our | 1 admit resid rict to the disregarding in this the menace of the un un-American, action of our Hampshire 7 Utah (165 8,468, Arizona. 8,444, Delawa 91,617), and e, its of the I status of citizens of a State solely for the purpose of representation in Con- gress and the Electoral College and of | suing in the Federal courts, C o585 e power, which it may ex discretion, 10 give a representation in {tself w District, but i forbld ation o grant il stat be empowered e District, and t Mtutional power which the cour not even d 5~ fore observer recognizes ol American ele- ation not the yal negro, but that frac- | b immigration vd and wholesome) rad; communism erican thought and which nes American fa- id American principles No element of American population has shown sinee 1870 greater progress in radically reducing iiteracy and in the industry and thrift which honestly scoumulate property than the negroe of the District. In the World War the percentage of enlisted negro soldiers was distinetly greater in the District than the negro percentage of the Dis- trict's Wial population. The peaple of Washington—white or | solored—ure therefore not justly subject o slurring discrimination. They consti- tute a fine, strong, American com- munity, conspicuous for its high per- entage of native-born Americans, for rpassing ereellence in comparative Vieracy and for und, loyal, patrietic Americanism ed by & minimum of milated alien populat and of thought and influe conseryat L tion of ou : exclusive Iat | have declared gute. To make a nearer approach statehood another constitutional amend - ment will be necessary en of ed mere 1 by omitung b of power Jgglng the amendmen: ae to grant directly to residents the status of cltizens of there I8 your Dis y-State, &n Invitation or Chicago. or Philudel nd similar distinet state gerous menace W the is m of the Dist u Blate n spite ts powes b tier siral Prog Can Ma Tail Wag & Do ' the ived as 1he House must be conceived as dom pating the 435 Representatives of the Stater wnd the one-quarter colored pop f the District must b ¥ ir . uh doming District George High ovard ! 1 » . i Elates Their first table Jast fifty yesrs the the total population has decieased Srom 25 per cent to 250 per cent The mesmorandum sd0s. “Ahe negro will coutinue 1o dechiue us 4 relalive nu merical factor in the District of Co Jumbla (1) because Wa in not » manulacturing oty or an industrial | one stirscting barge numbers of un skilled workmen. bul Gecupstion b Yergely controlled by the Governmen Sy Leds, sni \2) because It 1o Bpb SuLibbl B vEhlgetial BL0 LULEBMEL Wiy § Prof Ve - snd Char shows that in the v percentage of domir mpotent whites, 1 Lie W msjority s o which YLVAN ORATORICAL CONTES' | Federal Trade Com | ing T competitors who are practicing their or. “usick, RAINE ES OF OXON HILL ations in woodland settings. Left to right: ry Breen and Llewellyn Heigham. | so accessible to the black belts of the South as Ballimore. Philadelphia and New York, which can be reached by land and water.’ to the Nation. and wherein the con- less moters who have ) Americanize the Washingto- h oand corrupt ends may ambitions for office und in political spoils, municipal and national Could any pipe-dream work out more nd impossible results? Of course, the President and Con- gress in the exercise of the exclusive gislative power of Congress could at any moment put a stop to the career of crime of the District’s conspiring one or tors and two Repre- two Senatc ntatives. Congress might not be in scler self-g fa: a position to prevent the powerful and | malignant one-fourth tion fri colored popula- mastering politically fon of weakling the corrpt con- ess the conspirators wint be brought to an utterly powerless o carry r devilish schemes. How could the spotls of office when 1d_ Congress would con- fce? How could they bility of the repuohc when they would command neithcr Army soldiers nor militia nor police force. and when at their first revolu- ture they could be arrested the solitary policeman on the’ trol every threaten the st ation In Congress by a few Representa of the District” would affect the despotic control of the ¢ by Congress: and to picture a ng, corrupt oyal and malig- government of the District is to e a future Congress and a future of this corruption and of this es nant that by failure of the Nation to grant representation in accordance with our amendment, the District shall become, with one or two millions of people, an area inhabited - by incurable political aliens, taught to belittle and despise the vital principles upon which the republic is founded: an area possibly for the intensive and extensive culti tion of colonies of mercenary voters, Lo be bought, transported and used. in per version of State laws, by the party or the candidate with the largest purse— a rotten spot of un-Americanism at the blood polsoning. NORRIS AGAIN ASKS NEWSPAPER PROBE Senator Urges Federal Trade Body to Investigate Cop- ley Enterprises. Furt ussion of the newspapers owned by Ira C. Copley, former member of Congress from .1linols, in Iilinols and ornia took place in the Senate ye ay, when Senator Norr lican, of Nebraska, again Suggs ssion_inquiry into their financing, in connection with the investigation of public utilities power companies The Nebraskan called attention that Copley had sald in an advertisemel published in one of his papers that $3.200,000 bond issue floated for the purchase of two San Diego papers had been subscribed to by banks and vestment houses, and he called for an of this along with the sugges- Copley that he might soon seck $4.200,000 for purchase of additional pa- { pers. He recalled charges that | papers were to be used s a “defense of publ ty companies, which are under ation by the Federal | Trade Commission John Callan O'1 tion b; ut 1nves ughlin, vice presi- it of the Copley Press, Inc., in the ab- e of Mr. Cop from the country, issucd statement describing the dec larations of Senator Norris s “bunk late in the day Senator Norris had read In the Senale a lelter from Mr O'Laughlin Previo Mr. Norrls denled that he | or Willis Spaulding of Springficid, 111 | whose letter about the Copley papers { he had rend last week, had said that negotiations are now under way for pur- | chase of the Lot Angeles Express. He Mr Spaulding had said negotin- had been under way and he read { & Wiegram from the owners of the Ex- | press stating that Copley had sought ce 1o huy stock in the paper, but that had not purchised wny WATCHTOWER FINISHED. vera! Counties Can Be Been From e Bhady Grove Lookout, FREDERICKS | The erection ne | in Bpotsy | BO-faot 1o The Star JIG, Vi, March 20 dy Grove Church County, of the new steel has Just been o b Lhe first The tower 1% o re kind in wnd ol fire L okout tower and b believed hough e it fire e b Liave ot ulready yet hegun fote been e 15 dainige top of the O a clear and n lnrge tal safely m 1o top. wnd the inclosed with glass both safe and com« ef was erected by the Forest Pire Preventive conjunction with (e and the HBlate and Hervices u Bl nas we led i from bot from the large tower aren dny Hidge excellent “I'he g the tower The n m Coulidge ex Teacher Dies. Ma 0 A U4, tormer principal Hiver Academy. died today at Vi He numbered President Coullage smong hié PPl ~ NOWTHIORO Bhernsn March in-| the | canon for the | and suppresied | CRAND JURY POLIE QIS RESUMED Officers Summoned in Probe of Charges Resulting From Transfer Orders. E. C. Meredith, acting foreman of the grand jury, today resumed before that body the hearing of witnesses in connection with the probe into the charges that Policeman George Heli- muth of the fourth precinct and Pre- cinct Detective Arthur Fihelly of No. 1 precinct were transferred because of their activity in gambling cases. The inquiry was halted last week after Maj Hesse and & number of other high po- lice officlals had appeared before the grand jurors, - Among the witnesses summoned for today’s session were Capt. C. H. Brem- erman, Licut. W. E. Holmes and Sergt Bailey of No. 4. Detectives Carlton Tal- ley. H. E. Ogle. Thomas Nally, F. A Varney and H. E. Brodie, from head- quarters, and the following policemen | from No. 4: Jobn W. Wise, F. A. Trus- cott and S. F. Gravely. W. A. Heddons of the prohibition unit was also ex- pected to testify Mr. Meredith was not prepared to say when the report of the grand would be ready for submission to the court, The hearing followed a request from the Gibson committee of the House of Representatives, while Fore- man Martin D. McQuade of the grand | jury was before the committee to deny charges made against him by Hellmuth and Precinct Detective Cox that he ha asked them “to keep their eyes closed in connection with certaln gambling places. Mr. McQuade has absented him- the | | heart of the body politic, threatening | () trom ‘the grand jury room during the hearings in the Hellmuth case and Acting Foreman Meredith has conduct- ed the inquiry. FIXING DOLLAR PRICE OPPOSED AT HEARING Use of Gold Standard to Govern Purchase Power Is Best, Strong Tells Committee. ! | Gov. Roy A. Young of the Federal | Reserve Board and other board officials | vesterday stated their opposition to the | bill designed to stabilize the purchasing | power of the dollar during a hearing | before the House banking committee. | Young will appear at a later meeting and yesterday merely told the commit- tee that “the board was opposed to the proposed legislation.” Any method of price fixing is not feasible, Benjamin F. Strong, governor of the New York Reserve Bank, testi- fled. He added. however, that the scientific application of the gold stand- ard was the most feasible method for stabilization of money. Owen D. Young, director of the New York bank, presented his views in a letter to Chalrman McFadden in which he expressed the belief that the meas- ure would tend “to create a central bank In Washington and fundamentally hange the whole theory of the Reserve system” by weakening the independence of the regional banks. TRACTION FIRMS OPPOSE | BUS LINE ESTABLISHMENT | Object to of Benning, Glendale and Orkland Citizens' Proposal Associations. Objections to & proposal of Benning, Glendale and Oakland Citi- |zens’ Assoclations that the Capital ‘Traction Co. be authorized to establish a motor bus line operating from the Benning Station to the District line, | were recelved by the Public Utilities | Commission from the two street rallway | companies and the commission's engi- neer, Capt. R. G. Klotz Both the Capital Traction and Wash- ngton Rullway & Electric Cos. snld that the bus service 1s not war- |ranted. Capl. Klotz reported that it [would be inndvisable to establish such |rerviceThe commission, however, has { 1ot you acted on the request of the L ussoclation, FLYER DIES IN CRASH. HRevervist Falls While Engaged in Texan Maneuvers. BAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 20 (A | First Lieut. Willlam_ €. Willims, Alr Corps Reverve and w judge in Atlantic lowa, wan Instantly killed here today when his plune crashed into & tele- phone post near the 24 Divislon Alr | Field at Fort Sam Houston The fiver was engaged In & contact misslon for the 9(h Infantry, which is now maneuvers, when the accident oce Hin observer, Lieut Russell " was not eritieully injured Shrine Club El Npecial Dispateh 10 he Star STAUNTON, Va, March 20 ~The Btaunton Shrine Club, which i in the Jurisdiction of Acca ‘Temple, Richmond lant uight held 1t annual election, re- ulting wx wh Capl. Morris T Warner, president; Robert K. Fifer, vice president; J- Hubert Wamaley, v sectelary . (b Fluley Hrand, (reasurer J K Lee nergeant-at-urms The clb wade 1nital plans to attend a banquet I Kichmond this Spring as gieats of the Sphing Club of that eity, and will sponsor the appearance here i con peil ol Acca Tewples bang, jury | the | ORATORS PRAGTICE ‘SPEECHES INW0ODS | in True Stump Fashion Preparing for Test. The victory of & Maryland boy. “Aleck” Loker of Leonardtown, In | vear has given contestants of the Mar !land countles preparing for the Fifth { National Oratorical Contest no end of | determination to repeat the conguest | for their State again this vear. They |are doing real work toward that end, and when a photographer and a re- | porter visited their schools to record | iheir _efforts the students generally were found rehearsing their orations. It remained for Oxon Hill High ! School, however, to show the newspaper | men how it is done. It was in the | middle of the afternoon on one of their recent tours of the counties that the photographer and the reporter reached | Oxon Hill School. J. Wesley Mumford the principal, was laconic when it was | explained that the remaining contest- {ants In his school ought to be photo- graphed. | “Orating” to Woods. “Well. they're not around here, so I guess they're out in the fields some- where,” he remarked, and he dispatched jone of his students to search for the orators, The boy was gone some time when the newspaper men decided they might as well join the hunt. Out across a wide open fleld they | hiked, through a barbed-wire fence and down info a fresh-scented pine woo where the fallen needles crackled and made slippery footing, and there, with the evergreens as thelr sudience and the blue sky as their auditorium. the contestants were “oratin, Voices that had been cramped in close classrooms were booming in all-out-of-doors, and see the accomplishments of the capital- on the subject. arms were flaying in oratorical gesti- suggestions teacher of English at the Oxon School Other Schools Try It. ‘The group halted in a clearing to pose for their pictures. When the brief interruption was over they flled back into the woods, and as the newsmen took up their hike back through the booming of oratorical voices was re- sumed in the woods, where Llewellyn Heigham, Mary Breen, Louise Cusick, Clyde Taylor and Ashkey Aderholdt, the contestants, had disappeared among the pine boughs. ‘This i not the only school that is resorting to the idea born in the mind of Demosthenes back in Athens cen- turies ago. when he threw his voice pebbles in his mouth, to develop his oratorical powers. Leonard Hall of | Leonardtown, which sent “Aleck” Loker training before its | chosen this year. Singly and in groups themselves to the woods, where, perched | Constitution to the trees. HOUSE MEMBERS FLY WITH LINDY | Two Woman Representatives Are First to Hop Off With Famous Aviator. Col. Lindbergh is taking his first par- ty of Congress members for an air trip over the Capital this afternoon, start- ing at 2:30 o'clock. The first batch in- cludes Representative Rogers of Mas- sachugetts, who has flown several times previously; Representative Langley of | Kentucky and Representatives Shreve, Pennsylvania;: Perkins, New York: Stobbs, Massachusetts: Burdick, Rhode Island: Kelly, Pennasylvania, and Maa Minnesota. Lindbergh arrived tod shortly after noon at Bolling Field from Curtiss Fleld, N. Y. More than 100 members of the House already have put in their names as de- siring to make a trip with Lindbergh and these requests are being sent by Speaker Longworth to the Department of Commerce every afternoon at the rate of about 35 & day. Speaker Long- worth flew with Lindbergh on an earlier visit to the Capital. Berger First on List. ‘The first member of Congress to re- quest & place in the plane of Lind- | bergh was Representative Berger, So- clalist, of Wisconsin, who for many years was & warm friend of Lindbergh's father when the latter was serving in Congress. As soon as the Speaker last Friday afternoon read into the record Col. Lindbergh's offer to take members of Congress up with him, Mr. Berger rushed to the Speaker's office to head the list. Representative Thatcher of Kentucky was the second. Representa- tive Berger expects to make his trip tomorrow. Many wives, daughters and sons of members of Congress and practically every secretary is anxious to make trip with Lindbergh. It has not yet been determined whether the members will be allowed to take up any members of their familles with them. Repre- sentative Stobbs of Massachusetts ex- pects to take his son with him this afternoon. Updike Is Pilof Representative Updike of Indiana is | himself a pilot and at one time made a parachute descent over Wilmington. | He was one of the earliest to ask for a place in Lindbergh's plane, With him on the trip will be Representative Wol- verton of West Virginia Members of Congress when they ap- ply at the Speaker's office indicate the day on which it will be most convenient for them to fly with Lindbergh, and then the Department of Commerce ar- ranges the schedule to sult as far as possible the convenlence of the mem- bers of the House WILL RESUME JOURNEY. Davison and Fechet Replace Plane Crashed in Panama Trip. MEXICO CITY, March 20 (4 - Dis- patches from Salina Crus today sald that two rellef planes en route to Minatitlan from Panama arrived st Salina Cruz from Managus, Nicaragua Ihe planes will be used by F. Trubee Davison, American Secretary of War for Aviation, and Ma). Gen. James & Fechet, chicf of the United States Army alr force, to complete thetr four ney by alr to Panama They will re. Kllu'o‘ a plane which crashed at Puerto Mexico on PFriday, . Orphanage Work Starts. Special Dispateh to The $iar RICHMOND, Va, March 20 Rishop Andrew J. Brennan at 4 oclock yes terduy afternoon broke ground for the first of 16 bulldings to be evected by 8L Joseph's Academy and_ Orphan Asylum st Hollybrook, some five miles notth of the city A wreal crowd of members of the ohureh were on hand “The money fur (he butlding, and for the | Maryland Contestants Found fields and that barbed-wire fence, the | above the roar of the rolling surf, with | | into battle last year, staged just such | | several months 5. MINE SLAYINGS - SCORED INMOSCOW 64 Countries Represented at Labor Congress of Red Internationale. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Cable to The Star and Chicago News.Copstight. 197K MOSCOW, March 20— Asserting that | a concerted capitalistic offensive against | organized labor in all industrial coun- | tries was the most significant charac- | teristic of the past year and outlining | a platform upon which world labor might unite, Solomon Lazovsky, secre- tary of the Red Internationale of Labor | Unions, in a speech opened the dis- cussions of the international organiza- tion's fourth congress. Delegates from 64 countries were pres- | ent, including representatives from the United States, Cuba, Mexico and Can- | |ada. The delegates profess to repre- | sent 17,000,000 workers, of whom 10,- | 441,000 are within Soviet Russia. { | _Will Dunn, well known American | | radical, was selected as a member of the secretariat, Messrs. Johnson and | Wicklos were made American members | | of the presidium. | 7-Hour Work Day Urged. | “Workers of all countries must unite | for a 7-hour work day, protection of | the unemployed against capitalistic ra- | tionalization of Industry, against taxa- | tion of wages and against class collabo- | ratlon,” Secretary Lazovsky sald. “We must develop & more systematic or-| ganization of strikes, since in no coun- | try s sufficient study given to the pre- | liminary preparation of strikes, Surveying the world everywhere, we | Daily | | \ istic offensive against labor. While fts | repelling_ and _disorganizing workers’ | ranks. Laws against organized lnbor‘; [ either have been passed or introduced {In nearly every country in the last | | year. Examples are the strike-breaker | |iaws of England, the anti-labor laws of | | Poland, Norway. the United States and | Japan. Capitalistic terrorism has been | added to the methods under the cloak of law in a long list of places, including | Pennsylvania, where hired thugs re [cently’ murdered several radical labo | leaders. | Naval Programs Cited. | “Two world movements doom the | capitalistic offensive. First is the grow |ing strength of the Soviet Union. Sec {ond. the awakening class consciousness of colonles. Added to this is the in- creasingly sharp conflict between im- | perialistic America and England for oil | {and rubber markets and exploitation of their colonies. Competitive naval pro»{ spokesman was | grams are a part of this commercial | TUAr conflict. England now is frantically de- | the contestants in that school hied |fending the colonies which she stole | toed from the natives. while America is tipon stumps, they told the story of the |preparing to_dominate Great Britain’s Dt & { use looted lands.™ Discussion of Lazovsky's report by the delegates will occupy several days. ESLEYAN DEBATE | WITH A. U. ENDS IN TIE. Judges Split on Merits of Discus- sion Between College |OHIO W Teams. | | | A tie vote of two to two among the | judges resulted last night in the inter- | coliegiate debate between Ohio Wesleyan ;('m\erslu‘ and American University, at | | Hurst Hall on the A. U. campus. American U. defended the affirma- | tive of the question: “Resolved, that | | American private investments in foreign | countries should not be given military | protection by the United States Gov- | ernment,” while the visitors took the negative The Ohlo debaters were: Paul Ander- |son. Bernard Mercer and Philip Ebe- | |ling. while the local texm consisted of Hugh Speer, Blake Espey and Roland |Rice. The judges were Representative John C. Ketcham of Michigan, Dr. Joy | Elmer Morgan, editor of the National | | Education Assoclation Journal: Dr. | Arthur J. Klein, chief of the division ! |of ‘higher education, United States | | Bureau of Education, and J. Austin | | Stone, attorney. Dr. Lucius 'C. Clark, chancellor of | American University. presided. Arthur | S. Flemming. A. U. debating coach, | graduated last year from Ohio Weslevan, where he had been & mem- ber of the debating team. NAVY FLYER DR ER DROWNED:; STUDENT SAVES SELF Break in Pontoon Sends Lieut. J. J Lenhart, Florida Down Strapped in Plane. Instructor, By the Associated P, PENSACOLA. F March 20.—Lieut John J. Lenhart, } fiying instructor was drowned, and C. A. White, student fiyer, narrowly escaped the same fate here late yesterday. when a pontoon on their seaplane cracked. plunging the craft into several feet of water off th naval afr station, fust before the ship struck the surface landing White was able to extricate himself | from his straps and struggle to the sur- | face after the ship had submerged. but | the instructor was found strapped in | his seat Lieut. Lenhart was a native of Nyack N.Y. He had been at the station here | He is survived by his | widow, who lives in Pensacola. | DIES N EIFFEL LEAP. | | | Parachute Jumper Killed in Fall From Paris Tower. PARIS. MaYch 20 ()~ The Ralloon Jumper Hotal in testing & new para- chute, jumped 380 feet o his death to- day from the second platform of the | Eiftel Tower | Tests had been made successtully pre- | viously with sandbags, but when Botal jumped, the parachute fafled to open He was the second person to die in at- tempting & parachute jump from the tower. ESTATE IS VALUED. Alaskan | | | Woman Leaves Monthly to Siater who died Febe valute valued At W the petition of executor, for the Tucome Martha A Gibson ruary 23 left an $30.000, according Robert Lee O'Brien probate of her will Included in the estate s the house at 1420 Twentieth streetTwo sisters, Bevtha F. Farwell and Minnte H. King, survive By the terms of the will of Mrs. Mary L Tles of Valdes, Alaska, who died March 8, $3000 in cash and an income of $100 per month is given her sister Budore ¥ Hatcher. ‘The remaining tatale goss o her husband, Alfved B los. | | | . . Pope Greets Smith's Danghter ROME, Mageh 20 (4 wranted an audience today o Ma) Pope Pun others to be bulll, was the gitt of the lata James A, Dooley, who died two' FeArs Ago, John A Warner and Mis Warner Mis. Warner 15 & daughter of Gov Sauth of New Ywk |and department store will op; It GARAGE ASSOCIATION WILL BANQUET TONIGHT Annual Function at Hotel to Mark Close of Two- Day Convention. Mayflower f E. G. Dorntge, president of the In-| ternational Garage Association, will preside at the annual banquet to be held in the Mayflower Hotel tonight, closing & two-day convention of the association here, “during which plans for the establishment of an advisory service for those planning to butid pub- iic garages and for the regulation of the public garage business were out- lined by several speakera. Mr. Dontge, who is manager of the Statler Hotel in Buffalo, predicted ves- terday that within a few years every first-class hotel, office building, theater make ar- rangemente fOoP parking garage space. MRS, WILSON SEEN SMITH ADHERENT Political Observers Believe She Will Declare Shortly for New Yorker. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Word is being passed around in po- litical circles that Mrs. Woodrow Wil- son will shortly apnounce herself in favor of the nomination of Gov. 8mith of New York In several of t battle for delexa formation is Wilson has made no public She attended son day dinner and has been taking States where culation. Too violent & gesture, or mis- | chief weapon is judicial procedure, the| an interest in the various functions * placed emphasis brought corrections and | whole apparatus of governments, eco-| held by the women's Democratic or- from Miss M. Waldron, |nomic as well as political, is used for | ganizations Since the death of the late President she has been living in Washington, but is known to have maintained many of the friendships of her husband with leaders of the Dem- ocratic party. Would Cite Cleavage. Wilson were to issue a pro- nouncement in favor of Gov. Smith. it would certainly emphasize the cleavage hich has developed in the ranks of the Wilson group. Wiiliam Gibs McAdoo, 1f Mrs. | son-in-law of President Wilson. is op- posed to Gov. Smith’s nomination. & number of Western drys who were stanch Wilson u oryus in t Some unpublished letters of President said to indicate the k gard that the President had for New ork Governor, but the latter political star, so far as presidential as- Dirations are concerned. was just de- veloping when Mr. Wilson died in Feb- will be recalled. ve- the Volstead act, the reasons given e time being considered technical. mong his advisers were men who to say he was of the opinion that. generally speaking, the act did not con- form to the purposes of the eighteenth amendment. One Wilson man who is ardently for Gov. Smith 1is his former secretary. Joseph P. Tumulty. Newton D. Baker of Cleveland, Secretary of War in the at th Wilson cabinet, has announced himself for Smith. ‘There is one thing X position of most of the W the candidacy of Senator Reed of M souri, and if the fight became one be- tween the Missouri Senator and the New York governor. it is believed many of the so-called drys their prohibition grievances ra port Reed. The Wilson s { the moment distributed. how: other candidates, some outstandi leaders like B. M. Baruch of New York. being said to favor the candidacy of Gov. Ritchle of Maryland. E. T. Mere- dith, Towa, Secretary of Agriculture in the Wilson cabinet. is opposed to Gov. Smith because of prohibition and is be- ing mentioned himself for the presi- dency. ‘The chances of the Wil ing on any one candida ered remote unless Senator Ree 1 andidacy. For the support given Gov. Smith y the Wilson men about equals the support given the various favorite sons (Covyright. 1928.) RABBI WISE HITS " “UNWRITTEN CODE Asks Repeal of Presidential “Barrier™ and Fair Trial of Prohibition. “Repeal of th none but Prote of President hibition was urged by Wise of New York Rabbi president tional {zation’s heads Speaking on Writing the Platform for 1928 Wise declared {18 not an tssue for & The American people do not oo the eighteenth amendment either pressive or unjust that prohibition admintstrations h trial " “Whispering against & non-Protes candidate for Pr ging violation of of the Constitution.” the clared. “The so-called that no one he is 8 Prot he assert Next week B York, an autho tons of the cou his tdeas regarding a pl Tomorrow the members of will hear the work of Wor lations Division of the War ment explained by Miss Antta Ph divector of that division, at a Le tea in the ¢ house 430 M. C. HAZEN REAPPOQINTED. Work i under two Rep s never had a f of 1808 Brings Praise District Surveyor Siuce Reappoiniment of M as surveyor of the Distiie four-year term was announced by the District Commissioners. Hazen's present term expives July The reappolntment was made on rec ommendatin of Capt. B C. White- hurat, Assistant Engineer Commission- er, who pointed out that his sersice A% surveyor atnce July 1908, “have been characterised by utmost et fAcloney and loyaliy . Quake Felt in Jugoslavia. HELORADE, Jugoshavie, Ma Karih shooks were telt at I the nelghborig oo lock s wmornig. n the Pakiac. Slavonia chimnevs today Aty th [ NTeb wt o collapsed Land several houses were damaged, but 0O CAUALLcs Were Tepariedy PS the | POWERS PRESSING .- * FOR PEACE ACTON Germany and Turkey Join Russia in Move to Have Pro- posals Considered. * BY JOHN GUNTHER. prelimina up befol mission today. Fran powers wan # in comm ited States and other en ag Move to Force Action. The Germa ver is an al into *the open t side N to disarmament postponements. L 8 Bu! et proposals were desi for domestic propagar of the comm impracticable at ude dete sion words dec! & Embarrassing te United States. On the Fra and the U they must make deferring the Russi Turkish-German proposals puts Russia.’ 'lll!‘ke}'_and 3 v in the 4 United States, “that try which by the outlawry of wa prepared the way for actual peace.” 5 Tewfik Bey, the Turkish delega also suggested that the American, R: an and Turkish viewpoints were s The most active sympathy for t ellogg proposals have been e former enemy states and Russia. SOVIET ASKS U. K ATD. Litvinoff Seeks American Help in Get ting Action on Peace Pact. GENEVA, Switzerland, March (#) —Russia yesterday appealed to ‘nited States to join ft immediate action on the Soviet pro for total disarmament within four The appeal was made before ’ ment head of t M. Litvinoff, methods be! the proposal logg for the outlawry of war and ther added: “The Soviet delegation feels author- ized to count upon the support of th e Government which be emphasized mare per- han by adherence h C useless were Id appear consis b e HUSBAND DENIES GOLF | INTERFERES WITH HOME 0 T, TaCevey Ankweis B Wife—Says He Left House With Her Consent. August J. La Cove: ¥ I golf s to the child, today filed his s X SIMMONS TO SPEAK. aska Represen se tive Listed NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICES 1220 to THEATER O Auspies Washington FEDERATION OF CHURCRES SPEAKER THIS WEEK Dr. Chatles L. Goodell Federal O Churchea CORDIALLY INV