Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain this morning, followed by clear- ing in afternoon; decidedly colder to- morrow afternoon and night. Monday fair and continued cold. Temperature —Highest, 56, at 10 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 28, at 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 4. he WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Sundhy St “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone Main 5000 to start immediate delivery. (#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,242—No. 30,931. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ENDURANCE PLANE, INAIR 111 HOURS, STILL GOES STRONG Craft, With Motors Function-; ing Perfectly, Seeks to Smash All Records. CREW IS NONCHALANT; CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS 7,000 Miles Covered and 4,000 Gal-\‘ lons of Gas Taken Aboard in 25 Aerial Contacts. By the Assoclated Press. METROPOLITAN AIRPORT. Los ED “THE Q | | | Angeles, Calif,, January 5.—Limp- ing with a number of missing en- gine cylinders, the Army monoplane Question Mark tonight at 10:56 o'clock Pacific time equalled the last efficial record for sustained flight of aircraft, that of the Graf Zeppelin. METROPOLITAN AIRPORT, Los Angeles, January 5—Like a great in- exhaustible bird, the Army’s endurance plgne Question Mark today soared into its 113th hour in the air at midnight, apparently just warming up to its task of determining how long man can fly & heavier-than-air machine. ‘The big plane, her three motors func- tioning with a perfect roar, needs only & few more hours to go to equal the time of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin on her historic flight from Germany to the United States last Autumn. Several more hours beyond that would tring the Question Mark abreast the all- time flight mark set by the ill-fated Prench dirigible Dixmude. The plane slready had far surpassed the once sen- satlonal records of other heavier-than- MRS. IRA S. EAKER of Washington, wife of the chief pilot of the Army plane Question Mark, is responsible for the name of the piane, she disclosed last night. “Every one who knew about the a name for days,” she said. “Suddenly I thought, at lunch, two days before the plane left, that since it might prove anything—or nothing—the logical name was Question Mark. So I suggested that and it was accepted.” Mrs. Eaker said she was not motivated by concern for her husband's safety, although she had been anxious when Capt. Eaker was on the Pan-American tour two yvears ago and when he flew to Greenley Island after the Bremen was stranded there. “I was sure the Question Mark would break the records,” she conti about the letter I'm going to get, telling just what it is like to be cooped up with four other humans for—I'm The above photograph was made at Mrs. Eaker’s home here last night, where she is carefully following editions of the newspapers for news of the flight. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1929 —N INETY-FOUR PAGES. FIVE CENTS )N AND SUBURBS| E———— |{TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE UESTION MARK” project had been casting about for nued, “and now I'm thinking only sure it will be 10 or 15 days.” | committee yesterday that under the in- | latter groups. BROOKHART BILL T0 INCREASE PAY GIVEN APPROVAL Senators to Make Deter- mined Effort to Win House Concurrence. GEORGE AMENDMENT ON FURLOUGHS FAVORED | | McReynolds and Steward Present | Data on Plan to Correct Inequalities. The Senate civil service committee | yesterday afternoon voted to report fa- vorably the Brookhart bill to give Gov- crnment employes the salary increases advocated by the Senate last year, but which were pared down in conference before the Welch law was finally ! enacted. Several members of the committee made it clear in the discussion which preceded the favorable vote that they {intend to make a determined effort to | have the House agree to the measure {at this session, which would give all | employes who come under the classifi- cation act a raise of two salary steps | above what they received prior to the Welch law. i McReynolds Testifies. W. H. McReynolds, assistant director | of the Bureau of Efficiency, told the | terpretation placed on the Welch act | when it was being put into effect last | Summer, only those employes in the | first, second and third steps of their grades were advanced two salary steps, while those occupying the fourth, fiftha, sixth and seventh steps were advanced | only one step. The Brookhart bill would give the additional step to these | . Vi) R . -y A@% NS I 7 | 2 REPUBLIS SN PACTS T0 BAR WA Three Documents Adopted as Pan-American Conference Concludes Labors. By the Associated Press. Sweeping treaties of conciliation and | arbitration for the pacific settlement of | |Lucey, “Shoemaker Ry Seoemober ENOGRATSASST BORAH ON TREATY ed President Was Re- |Swanson Opens Counter-At-| 'To Visit Coolidge | i Man Whose Advice Guid- luctant to Pay Call. | | | | | | | | | | By the Associated Press. 1 i NORTHAMPTON, Mass., January 5. | —James Lucey, 73-vear-old shoemakes, | to whose homely philosophy Calvin | Coolidge has attributed much of his success in life, is about to fulfill his tack Upon Republican Ques- tioners for Reservations. By the Associated Press. | Democratic support for the Kellogg | anti-war treaty in the Senate yesterday | was countered by a Republican attack. ON FARM AID BILL President-Elect Arrives Toe day in Midst of Agitation on Extra-Session Question. JONES FAVORS DELAY UNTIL AFTER MARCH 4 Smoot Also Believes in Spring Convening of Congress to Handle Big Problems. By the Assoclated Press. NORFOLK, Va., January 6 (Sun~ day).—A radio message from the battleship Utah, which is bringing President-elect Herbert Hoover and his party home from their good-will tour of Latin America, was received at the Hampton Roads naval op- erating base shortly after midnight saying the man o' war had run into a storm and weather conditions made the time of her arrival in Hampton Roads this morning in- definite. She was then off Hatteras and | was bucking a stiff southeast storm. The message said the ship would advise later the probable time of her arrival. A stiff wind, steady rain and thick weather prevailed all along the coast last night and this morning. | | | | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | President-elect Herbert Hoover are | rives in Washington today in the midst of agitation for a special session of the | new Congress to deal with farm legis= | lation and tariff_revision. | Whether Mr. Hoover will undertake | to forestall a special session of Congress | immediately after he enters the White | House by urging the passage now of the | McNary farm bill remains to be seen. One thing, however, appears to be certain. Unless Mr. Hoover publicly air craft, Assoclated Press Photo. future differences between American ) TS L Sh B S rop tn on declares for the pending bill, or some ) On the ground, eyes following the | tri-motored ship reflected more anxiety | about her future apparently than did| those five men who have ridden in her | cabin since the take-off the morning of January 1. Messages from Maj. Carl Spatz, commanding officer, rung al- | most with nonchalance, and it worry harassed the crew they kept it a secret. Crew Is Nonchalant. Typical of the messages was One which floated -as the Question mnmunm-am&wmx- well Field, San Diego, this morning and prepared to refuel in the air. Written by Staff Sergt. Roy Hooe, echanic aboard the ship, it read: i I keep sound sweet. the work of you , engineering who supervised ‘motors. realize that tbw was (Lient. Ray W. officer of the flight, the lrmulhfion of the plane’s three motors) and your men at the Middle- town depot that helped to break the records and now :e are out to make at will stand. onfw‘: are out to make one that will take a long time to break. How about that? I told Maj. Spatz and the other officers aboard about the rabbit foot| that was tied to the tail skid ‘without their knowledge and you should have them laugh.” mA‘;tthe Qulstlon Mark sailed on | toward completion of its fifth day of fiight, this good luck symbol seemed to be running true to form, for not once has any major misfortune developed. | The only near disaster occurred on the third day when the ship ran low on gasoline as it battled a heavy Wmd; in Imperial Valley, but an emergency refueling ‘kept the ship aloft. Refuel- ing planes have made contact with the ship nearly 25 times and approximately 4,000 gallons of gasoline have been transferred in air via a four-inch hose. | Travels 7,000 Miles. At the average rate of speed of | %0 miles an hour which the plane has| been making. it was estimated that it| traveled 7,000 miles when its 100 hours | 0 118 hours | od approxi- | mately 8,260 miles or more than a third of the distance around the earth. Maj. Spatz dropped a cheery messsgei showing that the fiyers were prepared to stay in the air indefinitely. His message read: | “We are pleased at all the mail we are getting. Lieut. Quesada is kept busy | answering fan leiters. We sometimes | wonder how the ground organization and refueling crew gets this stuff to us with such dispatch. Teamwork, I call| it. We are proud to be associated with the gang doing it all. “Send up a wash basin if one isj convenient. We've gone four days| without washing and we're dirty as blazes, but like it. Goes Into Last Stretch. As the monoplane purred into the last 12-hour stretch of her fifth day in the | air, having long since broken all records | for endurance flying, completion of a climatic chapter in aviation history | Jacked only three hours of flying—the | said. | that while prohibition sentiment pre- DEMOCRATS URGED TO BAR SMITH WING Box of Texas Says Party Will Die Unless Change Is Made. By the Associated Press. The future success of the Democratic party, in the opinion of Representative Box of Texas, new minority whip in the House, depends upon ridding the or- ganization of those forces which nomi- | nated Gov. Smith and controlled his campaign. Otherwise, he sees a disin- tegration of the party beyond salvation. Box, who recently was selected Demo- cratic whip for the remeinder of the present Congress, succeeding the late Representative Oldfield of Arkansas, expressed this view in a letter, made | public yesterday. to Franklin D. Roose- | velt, new Governor of New York, and | political and personal friend of Smith. | Roosevelt had congratulated Box on his re-election and suggested the party must have a constructive program and continue to maintain a strong national organization. r%.eplymg, the Texan declared the situation which culminated in the nom-| ination of Smith and Hoover, and the election of the latter, was a “calamitous mistake.” Foresees Break in Party. “If the situation and forces which nominated Gov. Smith and controlled the campaign continue to dominate the party,” he declared, “Texas and the South will cease to be Democratic, the East will not be controlled, the West will be permanently estranged, and the party will break up. some of its voters going to the Republican party. others remaining with the orgammu‘gn. and others becoming independents. | Box declared all organization and | activity would be futile unless the party adopts a worth-while purpose and program, and added that while one goal should be to continue to oppose and expose “corruption,” the people right- fully expect a political party fo do} more than “oppose and criticize.” 4 Constructive handling of such “live” political issues as prohibition, immigra- tion and the tariff was required, he As for the first, he declared vailed, there were probebly more than 100,000 saloons and several hundred thousand bootleggers in existence “with- out a bona fide effort by those re- sponsible to enforce the law.” Congratulates Roosevelt. “What will be the position of the Democratic party on this issue?” he asked, continuing: “Goy. Smith dealt frankly with it: Secretary Hoover's campaign was made | grounds that he had not been a resi- recording of a longer sustained flight | to appzal to both sides. Gov. Smith's by an airplane than by an airship. | big minority came in part from Demo- If the Question Mark is still in the |crats who disagreed with him on this &ir at 10:27 and 32 seconds a.m. Sun- | day, the flight time of the Graf Zep- pelin en route from Germany to Amer- | ica will have been equaled. The Graf | made the trip in 111 hours and 46 min- | uges. Another seven hours in the air after | reaching the Graf mark would set a record over all_lighter-than-air craft. | ghe ill-fated Dixmude flew for 118 ou issue, but preferred him to Secretary Hoover on account of other considera- tions and because of party attachment, | but millions of good Democrats re- | fused to support Gov. Smith. Their permanent loss to the party would ruin T3 Box_congratulated Roosevelt on_his| election and expressed the hope that! his service would strengthen the party in New York State and elsewhere. MRS Plooss o 2 “Wives” Show Up, an Evil Token By the Assoclated Press ATLANTA, Jatmary 5.—A fl\'e-sbfiry} plunge from a girder was only the beginning of Ralph 8. Hedrick’s troubles. The 30-year-old steel worker took his | header Thursday from an office building | construction that may end in a trial for bigamy Two “wives” appeared at a hospital today and each claimed a properly @uibenticated marriage certificate. Leg is Broken: One wife, a 14-year-old girl, said she was Ruth Inez Hedricks of Tazewell, ‘Tenn. The other woman, who refused w give her maiden name, said she was he “first” wife. ‘Tazewell police sent word that they would come for Hedrick as soon as his broken leg mends. In the meantime, the “second” Mrs. | President Coolidge yesterday desig- TWO ARMY FLYERS KILLED IN CRASH Langley Field Plane Falls and Burns Near Heaths- ville, Va. By the Assoclated Press. ‘Two second lieutenants of the Army Air Corps Reserve from Langley Field, Va., were killed yesterday when their plane crashed and burned near Heaths- ville, Va. ‘They were Dean C. Johnson, a na- tive of Crete, Nebr, and Harry A. Osterman, whose mother lives at| Oglesby, Ill, The two lieutenants were serving a year's active duty with the air corps and had left Langley Field in a DH4 plane at 9 o'clock yesterday morning for Washington. The War Department was informed the machine was seen to circle over Heathsville several times, go into a tall spin, crash and immediately take fire. Johnson was 26 years old and a graduate of the University of Nebraska in 1926. He and Osterman became fly- ing cadets in 1927 and were assigned to Brooks Field, Texas, in November of that year. They graduated from the advanced flying school at Kelly meld,; Ban Antonio, Texas, October 26 of last year and had been assigned to a year's active service as reserve officers. Osterman was born at McKeesport, Pa., in 1903, had attended high school at Corry, Pa, and the Los Angeles Evening University, from which he graduated in 1927. il BECK ELECTION FIGHT DUE IN HOUSE TUESDAY Pennsylvania Repr esentative's Contested “Term” to End in Two Months, By the Assoclated Press. Less than two months before his| contested term of office expires, the election case of James N. Beck, a for- mer solicitor general of the United States, will be brought to the floor of the House Tuesday. Beck, a Republican, came to the; House to claim the seat I.ft vacant by ‘William S. Vare, as Representative from the first Pennsylvania district at the opening of the Seventieth Congress, only to find his seat contested on the dent, of the State for the constitution- ally prescribed period of time before his election. A House elections committee voted six to three to seat him last session, but the House adjourned before the matter was taken up on the floor. Be- | tween the sessions, Beck was re-clected by a small majority. GIDEONS HIT ATHEISTS. Campaign to Destroy Bibles Hotels Laid to Unbelievers. CHICAGO, January 5 (#).—Charge | that there is a well-organized campaign among atheists to destroy Bibles placed in hotels and lodging houses by the Gideons was made today by A. B. T. Moore, international secretary. For every Bible thus destroyed, Mr. Moore added, there are a hundred to take its place. 1 | in T. 0. Marvin Reappointed. An executive order was issued by nating Thomas O. Marvin as chairman of the Tariff Commission for another year. Chairman Marvin, a native of Massachusetts, has served at the head of the commission for seven consecutive vears, Radlo news and programs will Hedrick is being held at the Juvenile Detention Home until her mother sends funds for her tri home, be found today on Pages 10 and In some cases the Welch law re- sulted in a $60 increase for groups that would have received $120 under the Brookhart bill, and a $100 raise for many who would get $200 under this bill. McReynolds told the committee yes- | terday that it has been found since the last session of Congress that the Brookhart bill will not add as greatly to the cost of the present law as it was then thought would be the case. He said the present estimate of $3,000,000 as the additional expense of the Brook- hart bill is smaller than the estimate given last year, because at that time sufficient data was not available to de- termine exactly the effect of these In- creases. George Amendment Wins. Before reporting the bill the com- mittee agreed to an amendment to be offered by Senator George, Democrat, of Georgia. which would require certain | Government agencies, particularly the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, to pay employes when they are required to take involuntary furloughs of one or two days a month. Senator George told the committee he had learned that in some cases these involuntary | furloughs absorbed the increases ob- tained by some employes under the Welch law. Another important development yes- terday was the testimony of McRey- nolds that in the report which he will soon submit to Congress of a survey he is making of the classification system, he will recommend elimination of over- lapping which now exists in the salary steps of adjoining grades, For illustration, in grade 4 of the custodial service, the three highest salary steps are the same as the three lowest steps in grade 5. There are simi- ljnr cases of overlapping in other serv ces. Another outstanding incident of the meeting was the testimony of McRey- nolds that the classification board has virtually been del.)rh-ed of its authority to reallocate positions from one grade to another as a result of one of the interpretations placed on the Welch law by the controller general's office. He told the committee the present situ- atlon is such that the classification board might as well be aholished, or its authority defined. Question May Be Revived. ‘The committee took no action on this question, but members indicated it would be given further study before the bill is taken up in the Senate. It was explained that under the present condition, if it is deemed necessary to change the grade of a position, or} that a position was graded too high or too low in the first instance, it can only be reallocated by the board upon recommendation of the department. At the outset of the meeting several members called attention to reports that Representative Lehlbach, chairman of the House civil service committee, who would not agree to the Senate bill last year, was still of the same view. Senator Brookhart said he did not | believe the Senate group would meet with the same opposition in working out | the bill this year. Earlier he told his colleagues he had had a telephone con- versation with Mr. Lehlbach regarding the salary legislation, Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, a strong supporter of the Brook- hart measure, advised Senator Brook- hart to seek to have Mr. Lehlbach agree ;l :Ire hoped to get the bill through this year. Steward Gives Views. In response to this, Senator Brookhart indicated he intended to stand firmly for the Senate bill this year and added that he thought Mr. Lehlbach would be “more reasonable” than some others. Senator Dale asked McReynolds what form of legislation was being proposed in the House to correct the inequalities which have developed in the operation of the Welch law. McReynolds said he had furnished Mr. Lehlbach with sta- tistics asked for and had recommended the course followed by Senator Brook- hart, but explained that he could not speak as to what form of bill would be introduced in the House. Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, told the committee he had con- ferred with Senator Brookhart and was in hearty accord with the purpose of the bill. Steward told the committee there ‘were some groups of employes, particu- larly in the fleld activities of the War Dcpartment, who did not benefit from the Welch law. because, he said, of in- terpretations of the law by adminis-, trative officials. He presented an amend- ment to take care of such cases, and 11 of Part Four. the committee took it under comidera-l tion, 3 F | republics were signed here yesterday | by represntatives of 20 states of the | Western Hemisphere. Gathered in Washington since Decem- ber 10, the Pan-American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation con- cluded yesterday its labors for which it was called and also looked back upon | steps taken to reconcile the Bolivia and | Paraguay boundary dispute. Before adjourning the parley, Secre- tary Kellogg, its chairman, announced that Brig. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, super- | visor of the Nicaraguan election, would | represent the United States on the in- ternational commission for the concilia- tion of the Paraguayan-Bolivian tangle, which had been constituted under the -good offices of the conference. Agree to Three Documents. Only Argentina of all American re- publics, was not represented at the | conference. The delegates of all others | agreed yesterday to three documents, namely, a general treaty of compulsory | arbitration, an unlimited treaty of con- ciliation and a protocol of progressive | arbitration by adherence to which coun- tries could discard what reservations they might have made to the arbitration | treaty at the time of signing. ence, both in the conclusion of its treaties and by its activities in the Bo- livian - Paraguayan controversy, were emphasized bv Secretary Kellogg in his closing remarks as chairman of the conference. “May I refer to the fortunate circum- stance that this conference was in | session when the differences arose be- tween two of our sister republics,” the Secretary said. “These difficulties made dramatically evident the fact that the peace of the Americas is a matter | The objects achieved by the confer- | | his friend the President. He an- | nounced today that he would depart | for Washington tomorrow and that, so | far as he knew, the President had not | been advised of his coming. | “Perhaps they won't let me into the | White House, but I'm going to try | anyway.” he said. President Coolidge, when he was " (Continued on Page 11, Column 5) BYRDORDERSPROBE OF COLLEGEIQUR | Investigation Is Answer to Charges of Drunkenness Hurled by Hepburn. JBy the Associated Press. | RICHMOND, Va, January 5.—Gov. | Harry F. Byrd today ordered an in- | vestigation of liquor drinking in all col- | leges in Virginia, both public and pri- | vate, to be conducted by Attorney Gen- erzl John R. Saunders as prohibition commissioner of the State. | At the same time the governor wrote college officlals asking that efforts be increased and every vigilance be used | to decrease student drinking. The | action followed charges of excessive Senator Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat on the foreign relations com- mittee, indorsed the pact as a “noble gesture toward peace,” but Senator Mc- | Lean, Republican, Connecticut, con- | | demned it unless it were backed by an accompanying resolution reasserting | | America’s rights under the Monroz | Doctrine. | While these two held the floor for | | three more hours of debate, negotia- | tions were going on looking to a solu- | tion of the problem arising from & de- mand of those who -would have Amer- | | ica’s position under the treaty renounc- | ing war clearly set forth. | | As a possible compromise between | | the treaty supporters and thcse who | demand an interpretative resolution there whs talk of having a report from | the foreign relations committee stating | the views of the Senate on the rights | | of America to maintain its Monroe Doc- | “rlne policy and to protect her terri- tories under the treaty. 1 i Borah Opposes Resolution. Chairman Borah of the committee, | who is sponsoring the treaty, is stand- | {ing firmly against any interpretative ! resolution, which he contends is unnec- | | essary, and he declared last night he | | had ihe votes to put the treaty througn | the Senate without reservations of any | kind. | A report drafted by the chairman of | the committee interpreting America’s | position under the treaty would be con- sidered by some Senators sufficient to | | offset the interpretative note of Great Britain in accepting the pact and to | eliminate the necessity for an inter- pretative resolution. | Meanwhile the reservationists, led by that les close to the heart of all the | drinking at the University of Virginia| Senators Moses. Republican, New Hamp- | members of the Pan-American Union, feel a real responsibility. “We may ‘well congratulate ourselves, that through the efforts of this con- ference the questions involved have | been led into channels which promise an early and satisfactory adjustment. | history as having accomplished the {grenest step forward in concillation {and arbitration. You have adopted two (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National ,and Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 12. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 25. Woman's City Club—Page 25. At Community Centers—Page 25. Y. W. C. A. Activities—Pages 25. Organized Reserves—Page 28. PART TWO—18 PAGES. Editorial Section and Classified Adver- tising. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Review of Winter Books—Page 4. W. C. T. U. Activities—Page 5. Fraternal News—Page 6. Spanish War Veterans—Page 6. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 7. News of the Clubs—Page 7. Financial News—Pages 8, 9 and 10. Around the City—Page 10. District of Columbia Naval Reserves— Page 10. Army and Navy News—Page 15. Veterans of Great War—Page 18. PART THREE—12 PAGES, Soclety. PART FOUR—I12 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Music. Screen News of the Motor World—Pages 6! and 7. Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. Radio News—Pages 10 and 11. District National Guard—Page 12. Marine Corps Notes—Page 12. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART SEVEN—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Humor. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers: Mr. and Mrs.; High Lights of History. “This conference will go down in | | Virginia Anti-Saloon League. | “The effort to enforce this law should | extend with cqual cnergy to those who dwell in the grounds of higher institu- tions of learndng as well as to_those who dwell without,” Gov. Byrd said |in his letter to the attorney general. “In view of recent charges that exces- | sive drinking exists at our State uni- | versity, I feel that it is in the public | interests that you should direct an in- vestigation in all the colleges and uni- | versities in the State. Does Not Accuse Students, “In making this request I 'do mnot mean to imply that the charges made are well founded or otherwise, but I do fcel that an investigation of these | charges is wise and in the interest of | the educational institutions in whose | management I have so much confidence and for whose officials I cherish a high 1espect.” Coincident with his order to the attorney general Gov. Byrd isued & statement outlining the controversy begun when Dr. Hepburn called the | { governor’s attention to the reports of | excessive drinking at the University of | virginia, declaring he believed it to| constitute a “State-wide scandal.” He ' summed up Dr. Hepburn's charges as follows: | First, that drinking at the State Uni- | versity is & State-wide scandal; second, | | that President Edwin A. Alderman has | shown neither disposition nor ability to improve the alleged deplorable con- | ditions; third, that the attitude of the | president and faculty aggravates and | increases the conditions complained of, and fourth, that the honor system 1s' “obsolete and false” and “protects the lawless liquor element.” He said that he referred these charges to President Alderman, because ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) Are You Looking for Thrills? Read “The Vicarion” By Gardner Hunting Beginning Monday in | nations of this hemisphere and is some- | reported to the governor by the Rev. | shire, and Reed, Democrat, Missouri, | thing for which all the governments, | David Hepburn, superintendent of the | were collecting their forces. Senator | Robinson, Republican Indiana, an- nounced his support of an interpreta- | tive resolution. Senator Watson of In- diana, prospective Republican leader, | Joined in the conferences, but did |not announce his position on the | question. | Senator McLean is one of the reser- { vationists, and in an address filled with | caustic remarks about the pact he con- | cluded that “the time has come for the | nations of the world to stop throwing peace paper wads.” Th: Connecticut Senator argued that | if the treaty is ratified and no accom- panying resolution is adopted, other countries will leap at the opportunity of saying that the United States has {abandoned the Monroe doctrine. | Swanson States Opinion. Senator _Swanson, Who generally speaks for Democrats on foreign affairs, said he belicved the treaty would be in- | | effective in abolishing war, but added that it “legalizes no war.” “It permits but does not approve war, he declared. “It is & noble gesture or declaration for world peace, and as such I shall support it. It marks an advance for peace, not a retreat. It will be bene- ficial in crystallizing and in increasing the sentiments of the people of the world for peace. We should permit our Government to make to the world this noble gesture of peace and friendlin “The treaty speaks the voice of peace, ibut places feeble restraints on the strong arm of war. I am unwilling to defeat this treaty and silence this voice of peace, however feeble, crying out in ;& world wilderness of threatened war {and woe. The voice may become louder | and more potential through the com- | ing years. | “The treaty.contains no sanctions for | | its enforcement. No obligation, moral | | or legal, is assumed by the signatories “{Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) | | toueh with the situation at both ends farm bill, and asks its passage at the present sesslon, none will be enacted now. and Mr. Hoover will be expected to make good on his promise to call & special session of Congress to deal with the farm problem, provided the present Congress failed to care for it in the session which ends March 4. Jones Favors Extra Session. | 'The farm bill must bear the Hoover | brand or it will not have s ghost of show to pass the Senate. Even with the Hoover brand, it may not be able to pass the House at this session, in the opinion of Senators who are in close of the Capitol. It seems almost in< evitable that a special session will be in order after March 4. On the eve of Mr. Hoover's arrival in the Capital, Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, Republican whip of the Senate and a staunch supporter of Mr. Hoover, issued a statement placing him. self squarely in favor of a spec sion of the new Congress to deal with farm legislation and with tariff ree vision. Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Senate flance committee, which has charge of tariff legislation, said | frankly that he believed a special ses- sion should be held this Spring to take up tariff revision. “I do not know what Mr. Hoover has in mind.” said Senator Smoot, “but I believe that it would be wise to have a special session to revise the tariff.” Mr. Hoover has been represented by many of his friends here as desirous of avoiding a special session of Congress soon after he is inaugurated. Some of them have frankly said he was com- ing to Washingion in an effort to straighten out matters and get a farm bill through at the present session, with the approval, of course, of Presi« dent Coolidge. Dispatches from the | U. 8. 8. Utah, however, have not indi= cated that Mr. Hoover intended to mix in this matter. It is expected he will confer with President Coolidge on the situation, and that if he says anything it will be with the concurrence of the President. and that whatever is said may come from President Coolidge himself. Senator Jones in his statement urging a special session of Congress ranges himself spuarely alongside of Senator Borah of Idaho, who has in- sisted that the pledges made by the Republicans during the campaign can only be fulfilled by taking up the farm problem and dealing with it compre~ hensively in a special session. Agrees With Borah. Senator Jones said: “I agree with Senator Borah that we should have an extra session of Con= gress this Spring. It should b held as soon after the 4th of March as pos- sible. “We have promised two things espe= clally in connection with farm relief— the proper handling of the surplus and |a sufficient tariff on agricultural prod- ucts. Neither proposition can be sat- isfactorily dealt with in this session of Congress. The country wants no half- matured, ill-considered, hit-or-miss farm legislation. The farmers have confidence in the ability of Herbert Hoover. They are ready to folow his | lead as of no other man. He can work out this problem if any man can do it. He will not shirk it and should not be put in the attitude of shirking it. He was looked to during the cam- paign to solve it and he should be left |0 do it “The tariff cannot possibly be con- sidered during this session, and yet it Is a part and a very important part of the farm probiem. “It is said tariff revision should be put off until Fall because it wil! disturb business. Business knows we are going to have revision. The sooner it is done the better and the less disturbance will “(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) And Shed a | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 5.—When two negroes with pistols confronted John C.’ Milnes, carpenter contractor, today lnd! told him to hold up his hands, he did | so instantly. . ‘? But when they told him to open the | office safe, he decided to employ strate- l gy and subterfu in i [*No Savvy." Said the Carpenter, Bitter Tear—Later :‘he only one that knows the combina« jon.” Soon thereafter, Mr. Milnes reported to the police. “I've been robbed,” he said. “When I told 'em I couldn't open the safe, one of them picked it up and carried it off with him. It weighed 300 pounds and contained $85." So the police are looking for somee one carrying a 300-pound safe with §85 1