Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1928, Page 42

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D LOCKEDBALLOTBOXESGIVE PLIGHT OF VOTELESS CITY| Impressive Parade and Plane Dropping| Pleas Other Features—Movie Record to Carry Appeal. An appeal to the American sense of justice and fair play in the | face of probably the greatest vote for President ever recorded in the United States was made in a spectacular manner here today on behal of anchised American citizens of the District of | Columbia. the disfr es “bombarded” the Capital City with legend-bear- | ing sons emphasizing Washington’s “Day of Humiliation” a greatj decorated float staged a street demonstration earlier in the morn- ing in front of the District Building and the ‘White House on Pen: Through tiese mediums, arranged under the aus- t Committee on National Representation for the Dis- a, tr mificant fact that American citizens at the deprived of their right to vote for Preside: n-wide through news reels and sound pictures. Voters Watch Demonstration. : re forlunate Government employes who reside | irginia paused on their return from casting e ly h sympathetic interest the demonstration staged] in front of the District Building. Other | State, War and Navy Buildings crowded | ways the float proceeded bac}(tg‘f i‘l;)e‘_;rr%asury and through E utive avenue to a space in front of e ite House, \ 111?*1'; .2\ : ~:1x ¥ were taken to spread the tidings of the District’s plight throughout the country of a score of Wash- 1 avenu P of the Join trict of Colur seat of Go will be bro: in Maryland windows and_door | The Washington Star, Post and Times WHY “DAY OF HUMILIATION” This November 6, 1928 IS WASHINGTON’S DAY OF HUMILIATION TODAY a new President and a new Congress are made. ¢__IN their making 550,000 inhabitants of the District of Columbia have no part. BECAUSE they comprise neither a State nor a Territory, Washingtonians are voteless and voiceless—a yawning void in the American body politic. THAT is WHY they are in political sackcloth and ashes at an hour which finds 120,000,000 enfranchised Americans at the zenith of patriotic fervor—panoplied in the proud garb of United States citizens. THAT is WHY this is the National Capital's DAY OF HUMILIATION. WHAT MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT? nd civic Ameri a e wa crowd s d about the Formation of Procession. Headed b achment of pol and the tory Pc 4, of the American Le- , the great_decorated float wended he White House about 9:30 d followed Depart- n Wood of the . individual legion- resentatives of busin: Bringing up the rear d team of the Wom-~ 8 and 40 and rep- e s and the s d 40 march- edly colorful. 0 3 Chamber of nmerce of the Mer: cturers’ Association he: umn of ¢ and business represented in the parade the col- mizations present commander of the \ H Howard Fi departmental adjutant; Maj. Frederic William Wile, Am zation cfficer of the Legion; Charles Cohen, departmental welfare officer; Maj. John Lewis Smith, past depart- mental commander; Maj. William Wolfe Smith, alternate member of the execu- tive committee, and Capt. Henry H. Woodhouse of Costello Post. i Description of Float. The float itseif, standing nearly 2 was a mass of Autumn foliage h evergreens. Seated on a orm in the center, Miss man and Harry V. Krichten, g the “Voteless District of . sat beside a closed ballot In ecach of the four corners bal- lot boxes were stationed to represent the four sections of the country where millions of American citizens are cast- | ing their votes teday for President. Under a sign reading, “The West Votes Today,” stocd Miss Thelma Schmitt, a farmerette, amid great sheaths of corn. The East was repre- sented by Harold E. Landgren, typify- ing a business man; the North by John Hyde At} , a pioneer axman, and the South by Miss Thelma Storm, & girl in white costume and picture- standing surrounded by orange 0 | | | | own banner, was rep- 3 Leon Arnold, presi- Miss Anna E. Hendley, honorary president; Mrs. Percy M. Bailey and Mrs. H. M. Bradley. S Represe s of the following civic And busines organizations were lined up | in the parade: i | The Bar Association of the District of | Columbia, Washington Board of Trade, | Washington Chamber of Commerce, | Washington Real Estate Board, Wash- ington Merchants Manufacturers’ Association, Federation of Citizen: sociations, Federation of Women ssoclated Retail Credit Men, Washing- Monday Association, Ad- vertising Club of W , Central Labor Union of Wa: Columbia League of Women Voter: Club of Washington, Women's Bar ciation, Twentieth Century Club, Asso- ciation of Oldest Inhabitants in the Dis- trict of Columbia, Susan B. Antheny Foundation and the Women’s City Club with a_deep mourning d around his hat fo 3 V: eless condition was W ham, representing the A ; nts of the ad the Society of Natives. ted his residence with crepe. James F. Duhamel, who repre- sented the Al Smith Democratic Club, was another in the line of march. Signs and Banners Prominent. depicting the dis- ngton's residents d float. Depart- Wood were g re good eno pointed to | 500,000 Ameri- | banner at onal Rep- onstration, House joint for a con- ation, citizens onal taxes | Texas River Country Arms Self, demonstrations intended till further the unusual g hereon election day ged at 11 o’clos d at noon. Ballot Boxes Tmpress. Locked ballot tationed at veral of the of th nting ibia e these iard over thase anck Evening ' bore a| House | . Kann's, Woodward & Loth- | rop’s and in front of the headquarters |in the Transportation Building. Committee of Women. The committee of women was headed by Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, president of the league, and Mrs. Edna L. John- ston, chairman. Their numbers com- [prised Mrs. Harwood Read, Mrs. lfiuis | Ottenberg, Judge Mary O'Toole, Mrs. | | George A. Rickes, Miss Muriel Fritz, | Miss Edna Sheehy, Mrs. Charles L. Mc- | Nary, Mrs. John L. Hyde, Mrs. William | C. Harlee, Mrs. H. L, Parkinson, Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell, Mrs. Kate Tren- | holm Abrams, Miss B. M. Custenborder, Mrs, A. J. McKelway, Mrs. Thomas J. Howerton, Mrs. Howard 1. Earle, Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt, Mrs. U. G. B. ierce, Mrs, Harrison T. Baldwin, Mrs. Edward Keating, Miss Helen Anderson |and Mrs. Henry C. Newcomer. | _Taking off in three airplanes from | washington Airport at 11:45 o'clock, | the committee of debutantes made good | work of their bombardment. Scores and small balloons bearing the slo- 3ive Washington National Rep- resentation,” wgre dropped below. Some | [ them wafted far afield on account of | the brisk wind blowing. | Flowers for Balioons. For each balloon turned into the | headquarters of the Voteless District of | Columbia League of Women Voters this afternoon, the lucky finder will receive | a chrysanthemum from Miss Queenie Smith, musical comedy star of “Hit the | Deck,” who is co-operating in the dem- | onstration. The aviators who piloted the fair ‘bombers” were Capt. Joseph E. Boud- win, Stewart Reiss and D. H. Stuart. These were the young women who took part in the “stunt”: Miss Marion Jardine, Miss Peggy Tyner, Miss Eliza- beth Dunlop, Miss Rahel Davies, Miss Nancy Beale, Miss Beatrice Littlefield, Miss Elizabeth Kennedy, Miss Anne Carter Green, Miss Adair Childress, Miss Dorothy Dial, Miss Lalla Lynn and Miss Jean Peeples. Tonight the young women will be the box party guests of Miss Smith at the National Theater. At 1:30 o'clock the six young. men and women on duty with the float were luncheon guests at the Madrillon res- taurant and later witnessed a perform- ance at the Earle Theater before re- suming their part in the afternoon demonstration. Until 5:30 o'clock the float will take position in various parts of the city and during the afternoon will proceed up Pennsylvania avenue through the Capitol grounds to visit the southeast and northeast sections of the city. Re- turning via H street to Eleventh, the float will finally come to a halt in front of The Star Building. Plea Made Over Radio. Edwin C. Brandenburg of the Joint Committec on National Representation for the Distrigt of Columbia spoke vver Station WRC last night in the Interests of the “Day of Humiliation.” His address in part follows: “Tomorrow will be a Day of Humilia- tion for the citizens of the District. Under the Constifution more _than 40,000,000 citizens of the United States will be given an opportunity to express | their choice at the polls for a President, and at the same time vote for their representatiyes in Congress. The 540,000 | citizens of Washington are denied this right under the Constitution. It is the only place left in this land where taxa- tion without representation still prevails. Do the people ‘of this country know we are denied the'right of vote, and have no representation in Congress? “Do you know that through our taxes on real and personal property, tangible and intangible, we paid last year $31,- 337.308 to run the District government? The United States pays nothing for taxes on any of its vast holdings of property, receives without cost the water it uses, and has police and fire protec- tion, and for this it contributed toward the maintenance of the Capital $9,000,- 000. If the Government paid taxes to the District at the same rate as pald by ts citizens, it would undoubtedly be in excess of the amount of this contribu- | tion. Other Tax Payments. “In addition to this, citizens of the District paid to the United States in other taxes $18,227.332, which is more | than that paid by the people in each of 25 States and 2 Territories, and_more than the aggregate paid by 8 States and 2 Tterritories combined. These States are represented in Congress by two Senators and also Representatives according to the population of the | States, while the District has no repre- sentation in either House of Congress. “We appeal to you to write your Con- d | gressmen _demanding that they support the resolution pending in Congress approving an amendment to the Consti- tution granting the right of franchise to the people of this District, in order | that it can no longer be said that taxa- tion without representation still exists in this countr \ESCAPED CONVICTS’ ATTACK IS FEARED Against Robbery and Hijack- ing Outbreak. | By the Associated Press. | FREEPORT, Tex., November 6.—The | home guard of the lower Brazos River | country armed itself today against a ! possible outbreak of hijacking and rob- berles by the 19 conviets still at large | frem Sunday's prison break at the near- ton debutantes | by Clemens State Prison Farm, ington from the | £ky in three a The ballot boxes anes were placed glso in Many of the able-bodied male mem- bers of families in the lowland rural | CONGRESS must adopt the Constitutional Amendment now pending before it, empowering Congres the purpose of representation in Congress and the Electoral College. HERE is the Amendment: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following Amendment to the Constitution of the United States be proposed for ratification by the Legislatures of the several States, which when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, shall be valid as a part of said Constitution, namely, incert at the end of section 3, Article 1V, the following words: “The Congress shall have power to admit to the status of citizens of a State the residents of the District constituting the seat of Government of the United States, created by Article I, section 8, for the purpose of representa- tion in the Congress and among the electors of President and Vice President and for the purpose of suing and being sued in the courts of the United States, under provisions of Article III, section 2. “When the Congress shall exercise this power, the residents of such Dis- trict shall be -entitled to elect one or two Senators as determined by the Congress, Representatives in the House according to their numbers as deter- mined by the decennial enumeration, and presidential electors equal in number to their aggregate representation in the House and Senate. “The Congress shall provide by law the qualifications of voters and the time and manner of choosing the Senator or Senators, the Representative or .Representatives and the electors herein authorized. “The Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into executiom the foregoing power.” 200,000 AMERICANS VOTELESS TODAY 2 YOTING Toot: o e | | while those left behind were barricad- ed in their homes against the expected attacks which have characterized other and frequent deliveries in this section. Two prisoners plodding wearily back | toward the prison last night were taken in tow by guards, thus bringing the number of those recapiured to 12, Thir- ty-one convicts bolted after sawing their way out of the faultily constructed bar- racks in whieh they were housed. Prison officials believed hunger and weariness would drjve the 19 men into the open . and predictions that all would be back behin name was on a Moose Lodge card in his ket. Higgins was walking on the boulevard in the direction of Washington. Sat- dent Blamed to Blinding Lights. |terwaite told State police that he was Special Dispatch to The Star, blinded by the headlights of an ap- | LAUREL, Md,, November 6.—William | proaching car, and though traveling | Higgins, 55 years old, was killed when | cautiously could not stop soon enough KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE. William Higgins Victim of Acci- i struck by an automobile driven by Pen- | to avold running down Higgins, who | nington Satterwaite, 60, of Short Hills, | stepped suddenly in front of the car. N. J.,, early last night on the Washing- State's Attorney Ruben Rogers of | ton-Baltimore boulevard near Waterloo | Howard County deemed an inquest un- Inn, The body is at the undertaking | necessery. Justice of the Peace Gosnell lishment of Lloyd Kaiser here. His | of Sav: ., acting coroner, releasad to admit the residents of the District of Columbia to the status of citizens of a State for —Star Staff Photo Upper: “Humiliation day” float pho- tographed before the White House as it began its tour over the city. Lower: Distribution of locked ballot boxes which portrayed the District’s plight. Left to right: Mrs. Kate Tren- holm Abrams, Mrs. Edna L. Johnston, Mrs. Howard I. Earle, Miss Bonnie Cus- tenborder and Mrs. Harwood Read. TOPHAM MOURNS | OVER ‘HUMILIATION Black Crepe Drapes Suf-| frage Advocate’s Home as Election Arrives. ‘When neighbors awoke this morning to find the brick house at 43 U street | draped in mourning they were genuine- | | ly concerned, and some of them hasten- | ed to find out what was the matter in the home of their old friend; Washing- ton Topham, long prominent in local | affairs and because of his interest in | District of Columbia history. ‘When they inquired of Mr. Topham, | however, he smilingly assured them that ;lhE broad band of black crepe which | | traversed the entire front of the house | under the second-story windows was | | not significant of personal bereavement, | but was simply the expression of a| | principle. Mr. Topham has been a lifelong resl-‘ dent of the National Capital, and today, }\\hen 43,000,000 fellow Americans from | Maine to California, day laborers and | bank presidents together, are exercising | their rights as freemen in one of the| most exciting political contests in the | Nation's history, he has not the right | to vote. He had merely entered fully | into the spirit of Washington's “day of | humiliation,” an expression of protest to the Nation over the unfortunate sit- | uation of residents of the District of Columbia. Mr. Topham has long been a promi- { nent worker for District suffrage. He es no justification, Mr. Topham ex- plained today, for the gross discrimina- tion between Washingtonians ond other Americans on election day. So he draped his house in black last night so that it would be strikingly evident when the neighborhood awoke in the morning. Besides decorating the front with crepe he placed on the front door a specimen ballot from a Prohibition party caucus which his son sent him from California this Fall and also with printed matter urging suffrage for Washington. SCHENCK IS FREED IN ROBBERY GASE | Court Acquits Former Police- man Because of Discrep- ancies in Testimony. Widespread discrepancies in the tes- timony of the complaining witnesses in the robbery case against Prederick Schenck, former policeman and promi- nent figure in the Staples trial, led Judge Isaac R. Hitt to discharge him following a hearing in Police Court to- day. In freeing Schenck the court ex- pressed the opinion that the men who had testified against him “had lied.” ‘William H. Aller. colored, who yes- terday swore to the warrant charging Schenck with taking $50 from him, tes- tified today that only a portion of that sum was his personal property, the rest belonging to Clinton Watson and John Logan, both colored, his companions at the time of the alleged robbery. Wat- son and Logan, however, each told the court that $25 was theirs. On cross-examination by John H. Burnett, defense attorney, the cordplain- ants all admitted in open court that they had obtained the money by hauling liquer. They not only gave a different story as to who owned the $50, but each gave a different description of the way Schency was supposed to be dressed. In his argument at the conclusion of the hearing, which lasted over an hour, Attorney Burneté endeavored to show that the motive of the complainants was to “get back” at Schenck because they missed their liquor. Allen, Logan and Watson claimed that while delivering five cases of liquor in a rented car yes- terday morning they were purswed by Schenck and two companions for sev- eral blocks. During the pursuit a number of shots were fired, it was tes- tified, but the witnesses differed widely on this point also, one claiming thers were only 4 or 5 while another said there were 15 or 20. CHILD VAGRANCY GROWS.| MOSCOW ().—Child vagrancy is again on the Increase in Moscow, Almost 6,000 of the wandering youngsters were picked up on the streets of the Red | capital the past 12 months, the figures being compiled by Jukoff, head of the local commission for the protection of children. Most of the waifs were from 12 to 14 years old. When possible they are re- turned to their home provinces, for there is no more room for them in! Moscow, all children’s homes .in the | capital being overcrowded already. The runaways come here seeking shelter, food and easier living conditions than the country, where money is harder to earn, find, or beg or steal than in Moscow. P. H. Sugrue, 76, Casts His First Vote in Nearby Maryland. Gave Up.Lifelong Residence‘ Here to Back Demo- cratic Candidate. P. H. Sugrue, a lifelong resident of | Washington, at the age of 76 years is | today casting his first vote for Presi- | dent, but he had to move a couple of miles over the line into Maryland to do it. He voted for Gov. Smith. Mr. Sugrue was born at Front Royal, | Va., October 9, 1852, and came to Wash- | ington with his parents at the age of 9 years, In 1896, during the Bryan campaign and the pre-convention cam- paign of William Randolph Hearst, Mr. Sugrue was president of the Bryan and Hearst Clubs. He has always been a |stanch advocate of Jeffersonian and | Jacksonian democracy. To be eligible to vote for Gov. Smith, Mr. Sugrue moved to 160 Quincy street, Chevy Chase, Md. His son, P. A. Sugrue, {s organizer of | the Al Smith Democratic Club of the ‘District, and has acted as its secretary | vember 6 VOTELESS CITIZEN GETS BALLOT BY LEAVING D. C. TO AID SMITH P. H. SUGRUE. —Star Staff Photo. | Zeppelin Back Home. H FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, No- (). —The Graf Zeppelin, | which took off from the Staaken l\l’-l drome, in the suburbs of Berlin, at 7:06 | in charge of the club headquarters am, landed at its home port at 3:30 DENIAL OF BALLOT T00.C.DEPLORED E. F. Colladay Hopeful Sit- uation Will Be Corrected by 1932 Election. The humiliation felt by the people of Washington today at being denied the right to vote in the national elec- tion was called to the attention of the League of Republican Women by Ed- ward F. Colladay, Republican national committceman for the District, when members of the league were entertair. at the Washington Club, Sevente and K streets, yesterday by Mrs. E. Harriman, league president. Expressing confidence that Herbert Hoover will be elected, Mr. Colladay voiced a hope that as President Mr. Hoover would take a sympathetic view toward the voteless National Capital. Hoover Knows City's Needs. “Mr. Hoover's election is not only i portant to the country at large, but al- most_unmeasurably important to us of the District of Columbia,” Mr. Colladay declared. “He has lived among us for more thag 10 years and is our fricnd and neighbor. He knows our problems, our aspirations and our needs. He has favored and-supported the project in which our greatest Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, is so deeply interested—planning and erection of the great public buildings in the tri- angle between the Mall and Pennsyl- | vania avenue, the greatest building of | the group being the one to house the | departnent which Mr. Hoover built to its present proportior our people will make what should not fail to b2 a most impressive dem- onstration of their feelings of humilia- tion when they stand here at the heart of the Nation, one-half million citizens of the United States intensely interested in the election and restrained from casting their votes. Hopes for Amendment. “Let us hope that Mr. Hoover, our next President, will sympathize with us in this deplorable condition and that his influence may be cast in the balance to turn it in our favor to bring about the enactment of the twentieth amend- "ment to the Constitution of the United | States to give. us the right to vote for | presidential electors and for Seraztors and Representatives in Congress. “Then, indeed, will the League of Republican Women of the District of Columbia have full and unrestricted opportunity in the national electicn of 1932 to surpass the hitherto unequaled record which they have made in 1928.” In radio talk over Station WRHF last night, Frank J. Coleman, one of the District Hoover minute men, as- serted that advantages would come to labor from the election of Hoover. Mr. Coleman, who is secretary of the Mary- land State and Districi of Columbia Federation of Labor, declared Mr, Hoover is for high wages, short hours and every protection that can be built around the American standard of liv- ing. GEMS AND NEW MAID LEAVE AT SAME TIME Servant Stays One Hour on Job, Then Disaypears—Jewelry Missing. One hour after he employed a new maid this morning, Maj. William H. Simpeon, apartment 1, 1725 H street, discovered she had left. A subsequent search revealed that a pocket-book con- taining approximately $4,000 in jewelry, $40 in cash and other articles were missing also. | Maj. Simpson said the girl had | answered an advertisement inserted in | a Sunday newspaper and had gone to | work at 10:15 this morning. In her haste she left a housedress. Police are of the opinion that the woman went there specificially to com- mit the robbery and that an accom- plice in an automobile was waiting for her. She had given no address. The stolen jewelry consisted of a dia- mond ring valued at $3,000, a platinum 1flnd diamond wedding ring valued at $600 and two sapphire guard rings of undetermined value. SUSPECT BOUND OVER IN WALLET THEFTS William Leroy McGee Tried in Po- lice Court on Larceny Charge. ‘William. Leroy McGee, colored, 40 years old, of the 2100 block of H street, who police believe is the man who has stolen pocketoooks from several offices in the Senate Building during the past few months, today was held for action of the grand jury following a hearing in Police Court on a charge of sécond offense petty larceny. His bond was set by Judge Isaac R. Hitt at $1,500. McGee was arrested early last week, when Sergt. Lawrence Fleischman of the Capitol police claimed to have caught him in the act of taking a pocketbook that had been “planted” in the office of Senator Moses of New Hampshire. Arcordmf to the policeman, McGee started to leave the building after tak- ing the pocketbook and refused to stop until the officer drew his revolver. Special Officer M. I. McInerney of the Department of Justice identified McGee as the man who had been sentenced to 360 days in jail in 1926, following con- viction in the larceny of a pocketboc from an office in that department. L 5 R CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT {AMONG VOTELESS THRONG I jHead of Supreme Court Says He Gave Up Connecticut Resi- dence to Live Here. By the Associated Press. The Chief Justice of the Un States, William Howard Taft, today ws éne of thousands of citizens of 1! Nation in Washington who could nc cast & ballot in the presidential elec- tion. The Chiéf Justice explained at his home he had given up his voting privi- lege in Connecticut. He said that when appointed to head the Supremc Court he felt that he was coming i0 Washingten to make it his permanen’ home. Because of this he gave up h.s residence in Connecticut and toda neither the Chief Justice nor Mrs. Taf who is visiting in New Haven, coull vote. The last census figures, 192, showed that there were more than one-half ge, Md. \n‘ million divorced persons in this coun- front of the National Press. Bullding, | sections have joined guards in the huny, " begn made . Sat upder $2,000 bond. RS W Buldips slnce Jaguary, . Lils aflernoon. o oo L lbT 2