Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1929, Page 10

AMERICAN EDIFORS OPEN CONVENTION Routine Business Matters Occupy First Session of Society. : Routine business largely occupied the opening session of the seventh annual convention of the American Soclety of Newspaper Editors in the auditorium of the National Press Club this afternoon. The three-day gathering, which is bri g together newspaper men from all sections of the country, was opened at 2 o'clock, when Walter M. Harrison of the Daily Oklahoman and the Okla- homa City Times, president of the so- ciety, delivered his annual report and heard the reports of the officers and standing committees. William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette and a nationally known newspaper man, who was to have delivered the principal address at this afternoon’s session, on “The Newspaper and Its Influence in National Cam- paigns,” will not arrive in the Capital until tomorrow, it was announced by the program committee, and his talk will be made later in the convention. Butler Unable to Be Present. E. H. Butler, publisher of the Buffalo News and president of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, who was to have extended the greetings of the publishers to the editors this aft- ernoon, also was unable to be on hand for the opening session of the conven- tion, it was announced. ‘The report of W. P. Beazell of the New York World, chairman of the com- mittee on sports, was followed by a discussion of the general sports news policies of various newspapers led by E. K. Hall, national chairman of the foot ball rules committee, and George B. Armstead of the Hartford Courant. R. G. Dunlap of the St. Paul Dis- tch, chairman of the committee on P:guhnon and freedom of the press, filed his report, which was followed by a discussion on this subject led by A. L. Cummins, editor of the Wilmington, Del., Morning News and Louis B. Seitzer of the Cleveland Press. Discipline to be Brought Up. H. T. Claus of the Boston Transcript, chairman of the committee on schools | jn, of journalism, entered a reporc which was followed by a discussion led Ly R. E. Stevenson of the Waterbury American and Republican. ¢ Foremost among the subjects coming before the convention during its threc- day session will be the question of the society taking action on whether it should place itself in such a position | as to discipline members for violations of the society’s rulee. Since the last meeting the directors of the society have secured all the legal data needed for the discussion of this matter and the question of changing the constitu- By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 18 —Chief No Flesh, 88, and Chief Eagie Thundet, somewhat younger, have developed a weakness for baths and silk underwear, and the Izaak Walton League is much con- cerned. Bert F. Bell of Rapid City, S. Dak., ‘going on. THE ‘EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1929, Two Indian Chiefs Bathe Thrice. Daily In Joy Over Tile Tubs and Silken Undies tom-toms for the leagus's show, now They didn’t wear si'ken gaiments on the reservation. “Since coming here, they bathe two and three times daily,” Bell said. “They would rather recline in shiny white tubs than eat. We don’t mind that so much. The trouble is that they want new suits of underwear after every who is looking after the Indians, also [‘bath. is lexed. The chiefs were brought here the Sioux reservation, to beat “Something.” Bell said, “has got to L3> done about it.” FARM RELIEF BILL POLITICS INTRICATE Hoover and Western Repub- lican Senators Cast in Leading Roles. BY MARK SULLIVAN. The politics of the farm relief bill is intricate yet easy to understand. The dramatis personae of it are chiefly| President Hoover on one side and a| number of Western Republican Scnators on the other hand. As between these, most of the Democrats are naturally disposed to line up with the Western Republican Senators. As to the issue involved, a simple statement would begin by saying that the Lower House, which mainly friendly to Mr. Hoover, has written a farm relief bill. Mr. Hoover's views are conformed to in this bill. It is a bill which excludes Government buying and selling. It excludes Government subsidy and any form of direct Government tax. It puts the operation of farm relief strictly in the hands and on the respon- sibility of specifically “farmer-owned” co-operative associations. So much for the Lower House bill. The group of Western Senators think this plan won't work. They think no glan will work unless it includes some orm_of direct Government operation and Government responsibility, Govern- ment subsidy or Government price-fix- g or Government taxation. In think- ing this way, and wanting this kind of bill, the Western Senators are complete- | iy sincere. Position of Senators. Since the Western Senators think the Lower House plan will fail in operation they want right now, at the beginning, | to fix the blame for failure on Presi- dent Hoover. They don't put it that| way, They say “if the plan succeeds, Mr. Hoover should have the credit; if it falls, he should have the blame.” ' In order to insure that the President shall have the blame for the failure which they expect, they want the bill to be called the “Hoover bill” and are trying, among other things, to bring that ter- minology about. To pass to another phase of the poli- tics of the situation, these Western Sen- | ators want to have credit for making an effort to bring about their own plan. Also, they want to fix on the President responsibility for preventing them from doing this. They have written a proviso which would give the wheat farmer, for example, a direct Government subsidy of 21 cents a bushel on all wheat sold abroad and a similar subsidy on other crops sold abroad. Theyscall this the “debenture plan.” -They prrose to make a fight to attach their debenture proviso to the Lower House bill. They do not insist on making their. deben=- tion of the society probably will be brought up at one of the sessions to- morrow. _ ROADS WOULD FIGHT MOTOR COMPETITION Revenue Losses Heavy in Passen- ger and Freight, Says President Hill of N, C. & St. L. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, April 18.—Motor trans- portation has taken a large toll of rev- enue from the railroads in the local passenger and freight field, J. B. Hill, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad, declared here yes- terday in an address before the protec- tive section of the American Railway Association in annual convention. Because of this fact and that laws now governing railroads were passed when the carriers were monopolies, Mr. Hill declared, the railways should be free to fight their competitors in their own field. In spite of their losses in passenger and local freight, Mr. Hill said, the railroads have given the best. service in their history during the past three or four years. fronting the American people in the administration of justice were discussed by John Bell Keeble, dean of the law school of Vanderbilt University. . RADIO PHONE SPEECH FROM BERLIN TO U. S. Talk Made to Trade Conventionl Problems wn.!nnd when your plan fails.” Dinner at Baltimore From Hotel in Germany. By the Assoclated Press. g BERLIN, April 18—The first radio telephone speech from Germany to America was delivered here early this morning by E. dent of the Royal Baking his talk to a trade convention dinner at Baltimore, speaking from a hotel room here at 3:30 am. 'd toasts to the Mr. Pillsinger Presidents of t] Germany. To make this more realistic he popped a champagne cork before the Tlc’rophnnm i “Wireless telephony is aying @ great part in the extensi p‘yln - can foreign trade,” he said. “The most vivid haprefssikgl T have gained in Europe of rapidly growing pros- perity. American fc investments are contributing migh! to interna. tional friendship and lasting STRIKERS AND COMPANIES ' AT DEADLOCK IN FIGHT Corporations Refuse Union Demand to Submit Labor Dispute for Arbitration. to meet that all labor- disputes be. ?;', &rthur . Mothwurf, president two tions, awaited the reaction -of bethton | business men and , as well as the strikers, to fi“mf my the plants would “There has been fio. business sources, but the #‘wumvmbmfimm “'their followers in hhaa of pay t from ' lead- | by moral | ture plan a mandatory part of the bill; they would make it alternative. They would, in effect. write into the bill something like this: “If the plan that Mr. Hoover approves should fail in op- eration, then the proposed Farm Board shall have power, if it so chooses, to put the debenture into operation.” Since the Farm Board will be appointed by Mr. Hoover, it is, in effect, Mr. Hoover who would have the option of invok- ing or not invoking the debenture plan. If they were addressing President Hoo- ver directly, they would say something like this: | “You say your olan will work, and it it does work we will be perfectly happy: but we think it will fail, and we only ask you to use our plan after, and if, Hostility Is Hinted. All this is the politics of the farm relief situation. As things g‘ it is per- fectly legitimate politics. e Western Senators quite reasonably want to keep their records straight with certain rougl of their constituents by having lought and maneuvered for their plan. It does not necessarily imply any un- reasonable hostility to the President. There is some hostility. One of the Mhmmmot}n( Senators, Norbeck.’ = c . Hoover’s message on farm relief, was quoted as saying: “I have never doubted that Mr. | Hoover has as much sympathy for the farmer as Calvin Coolidge had.” In that there was a subtle barb, as one familiar with Washington knows. the outcome, the Western Sena- to fail. Even if they pl into the Sena g would still fail. The House as a whole does not believe in the debentute ‘The House committee on agricul- has rejected the debenture plan from its draft of a farm relief lan by a majority of 19 to 4. gu—o!—mr between a Senate bill cluding the debenture plan, and a House bill excluding it, the House would probably win. Among other reasons, the House has an important technical advantage. The debenture plan affects revenue, because the debentures are to be paid out of customs receipts. Under the Constitution all bills having to do with ms or revenue must originate in the House. (Copyright, 1929.) o Mt b FLORIDA TRAINS TO BEGIN. Summer Passenger Service on Sea- board Air Line to Start. ‘The new Summer passenger service of Inaupurated Batarday, the company ans inaugurated y, the company an- nounced today, with the withdrawal of its two Florida-bound Winter trains. The New York-Florida Limited, o erating between New York and Jack- sonville, will resume its Summer trips Saturday night at 6:40 o'clock from Pennsylvania Station‘and the Southern Stat pecial tes 5] will continue its year- lrgru'.niflom:e. running all year from New York City through points mmm«flummmmm éw‘ Marie A. Tegler, 1, h Herri- Silver Spring, Md.:. Revs es. ‘hicago, Iil. and B0, Thts iv; Rev. Eraest Simon, h B P : opd ‘hur;n M. Grigs- ¢ and Thetma J. Lee, 22; Wheat Sale Shows How Farmer Gains By Debenture Plan By the Assoclated Press. Here is what an export farmer would do to get the benefit of the debenture plan that has been under consideration by the the Treasury officials at the port an export - debenture certificate. ‘The value of this would be com- puted by multiplying the num- ber of bushels to be exported by the debenture rate. The rate in the case of wheat would be one-half the tariff on wheat, or 21 cents per bushel. The farmer would take his cer- tificate to any importing individu- al or firm and receive currency for it. The importer would be able to use the certificate in place of currency in the payment of import duties to the Government. The net result is that the far- mer would receive the world price for his product, plus the rate of debenture. BRITISH DRYS SEE AID IN HOOVER ELECTION Temperance Alliance Official Out- lines Fight for Local Option Bill. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 18—H. C. Heath, general secretary of the United King- dom Temperance Alliance, issued a statement today on the status and hopes of the prohibiiton movement in the coming British general elections. Heath is one of the leading figures of an alliance of 20 national and semi-national temperance organizations throughout England and Wales. The organizations for the first time in Brit- ish history are fighting side by side in an electoral campaign in an effort to place as many persons as possible in Parliament pledged to support a na- tional local option bill. Heath said that, in his opinion, the election of Herbert Hoover to the presidency of the United States had done more anything since the local option election of 1908 E help the cause of prohibition in Eng- nd. He declared Mr. Hoover's “election on a platform of strict enforcement of the American prohibition laws had created a tremendous impression.” “We are pursuing ally the same tactics here the Anti-Saloon League followed - in America years ago.”. he said. “The temperance question undoubtedly will play a greater part in the coming elec- tion than at any time since 1908, he said. Mr. Heath said no help had been solicited or accepted from American sources. e T Births Reported. William J. and Claire G. Kane, jr., girl. Clyde V., and Bertha L. Crutchfield, sirl. Clarence d Leo: 8l ang na D. e: William H. and Emma L. Wood., ir.. girl. Sydnor C.'and Lelia 8. Orndoft. gi John E._and Plorence A. Boswell, James J. and Lorraine Gall nd Fleda L. Anderson. boy. sa F. Valentine, boy. e Mi wirl. nd Palmer L. and Loret! Mike and Sophie Katsowros. gir} William W. and Margaret C. Roberts, girl. Samuel A.'and Lucinda E. Moorman, boy. Lewis and Marie Di George, boy. Robert and Amy O. Phillips, boy. Robert A. and BALDWIN OUTLINES | POLICY OF PARTY British ~ Prime Minister Speaks at “Family Party” of Conservatives. Br the Assoclated Press. LONDON, April 18.—Prime Minister Sianley Baldwin, speeking before a big “family party” of Conservatives at the Drury Lane Theater today, outlined the policies on which the Conservative party will seek renewal in office at the general election May 30. In the long expected pronouncement he defended his own administration and belittled the attacks of <David Lloyd George and Ramsay MacDonald. mz:mamlnhfcrvudnnmen- paid, thusias tion as he began his speech with. crack at the Liberal y, which Mr. Lloyd George, its leader, had characterized as “a party of promise.” “7 accept that and am not a com- petitor,” Mr. Baldwin said. “We are a party of performers.” He added that it was no new thing for a y of per- formers to be charged with an inade- quate program. Mr. Baldwin dwelt on the merits of a credit policy toward ebtterment, which | he said Conservatives had béen pur- suing. He noted the creation of “a new industrial atmosphere” through closer co-operation of British trade, manufac- turing and financial leaders, He asserted thé nation was recover- ing its competitive power and that its "safeguarding”— which is the British counterpart of the American tariff system—as “a most valuable agency in producing permanent employment, so valuable that we are going to continue it.” Prime Minister's Statement. “Ours is a policy of sobriety which you can see through,” he said, “of nursing our trade into better condi- tions of looking after the education and health of our people, and particularly of our women and children—a policy which goes into every home and every cottage throughout the country. “From end to end it is a policy which you know will be carried out to the aking a mistake. Our people think. They want to learn, llfia tbove all they want to do the right ing. “I cannot stand up, and I will not stand ur. before a people like that and 80 one iota beyond what I know I can &eflofln if I have the opportunity. It | that deep sense of responsibility of | our people which will make them deaf to appeals of cupidity on the one hand, or appeals of credulity which will reach them on the other.” The prime minister declared that the conservative party had been pursuing for some years a consistent policy aimed at the development of the country’s in- dustries and the placing in them of men in permanent employment. Cheered by Assemblage. “We have not neglected any of those services that make for the happiness and welfare of our own people,” said the prime minister, while the assem- blage stamped and cheered him. “You may judge us by what we have done. You may judge us by this—that we do not promise more than we can per- vote of thanks which firm conviction that the party under his leadership achieve victory, Mr. Bald- “The battle has now begun. Noise and posters eount for a lot in elections, but the two things that count for most bn:hgnlty and faith, and we have form.” Replying to a expressed the conservative would pARS AR HUNTS WITH BOW. ‘WICHITA, Kans. (#).—Dr. Milton O. Nyberg hunts jack rabbits with a bow and arrow. He claims an arrow will shoot 30 yards almost as accurately as a gun. His da- tance record is 370 yards. Frequently he has bagged jack rabbits on the run. In a contest with a group of g:fienne Ruby E. Couze. boy nd Lillian G. DeNeal, and Prances continue to be “Seeing All summer long, our gen- uine Watersnake *shoes “will be favored above all others, by t Indians Dr. Nyberg found he out- shoot them. Fashion will Snakes!” he fashionable woman. More New arrivals at §6.%1 15 GIVEN BY DISTRICT D. A. R Fund Used During Past Year for Constitutional Hall Chairs., During the past year the District of Columbia D. A. R. contributed $6,967.49 to chairs in Constitution Hall and in all has subscribed $24,254.54, according to the annual reports by Mrs. David D.| Caldwell, State regent for the District at_the Continental Congress today. The Constitution Hall finance com- mittee, under the leadership of Mrs. Alfred Garges, has made great strides, the report stated. “We have 102 audi- torium chairs, four platform chairs, two beok units paid in full, a third pn“llfl , one potential donor paid in fi 000 pledged in memory of Mary Lockwood paid in full,” the report said. All demands of the national society have been met by the local chapter, Mrs. Caldwell declared, and the State work has shown an appreciable change through loyal and onious co- operation. = Both in conection with e legislative and national defense work, the District chapter has been particularly active. Under the leader- ship of Miss May Helm, chairman of the committee on legislation, District forces were rallied at the Capital in support of the cruiser and national origin bills. To the national defense committee the District chapter has contributed $531 to carry.on its work. The largest individual sum given by the local D. A. R. for the work of the organization was $2,589.69 toward the patriotic education. The D. A. R. stu- dent loan committee has accounted for $500 used in assisting two students to complete their courses at George Wash- ington University. ‘The Americanism work has gone for- ward under the leadership of Mrs. Grattan Kerans. “In our efforts to Americanize the mother,” Mrs, Cald- well said, “we have classes in cooking, sewing and care of children, and in one of our foreign communities a special feature is aurported." The District chapter also has con- tributed $1,333 toward the D. A. R. ;emonnl, which was dedicated yester- y. po e R Deaths Reported. B 8 Edds, 42, 3300 10th ot . Mann, '70.’ 633 8th st. n.e. ker, 68, Gallinger Hospital. A ne, 54, 16: Grayson L. Thornton, 54, ara K. Wick. 53, 2114 Eye st. Nellie L. Stokes. §2. 310 C st. s.e. e ” John F.'D. Pyles, ir.. 51, 509 E at. Fred 49, ‘United States Soldiers’ Home Hospital arian Jolly, 47, Chevy Chase Sanitarium. Ruth Atkins,' 19, Providence Hospital. Lodge M. Wright, 24, Emergency Hospital Naney Contee. 85. Gallinger Hospital. Mary West, 85, 414 R st. lyn Wood! 55. 2029 13th B 50, 1904 9th st. Essle Ayers, 46. inger Hospital. Charles Ray. reulosis Hospital Dixon. 332, Gallingtr Hospital. Edward Delaney.’ 28, st sw. o Mortimer G. Weaver, 23, 3519 14th st. e h M. Grayde SAVE MONEY ON STORAGE. CALL SIS LOCAL 8 LONG DISTANCE MOVING AGENTS ALLIED VAN LINES Emma 8t Garfleld Hos- Secrecy Will Mark Coast Air Defense Study in Congress By the Associated Press. Discussion of aircraft problems in connection with coastal de- fense, which have been taken up by a joint congressional commit- tee authorized at the last session, will be held in strictest confidence to prevent the revelation of de- fense secrets. Meetings are rh‘&td through- out the special session with a view to legislation looking toward the aerial defense of seacoasts, RADIUM FUND URGED. British Government Approves Plan to Buy Twenty Grams. LONDON, April 18 (#).—The govern- | ment Tuesday accepted in principle the | recommendations of a committee for es- tablishment of a board of “national radium trustees,” a radium commission to be appointed by the trustees, and | urchase of 20 grams of radium be- gore the end of 1930, at a cost of $1,000,000. . “While playing foot ball at Newport, land, recently, Leonard Baggott, a %‘-‘yw-old steel worker, dropped dead on the fleld. Here is the one world tour on which U. 5. GRANT SCHOOL FOUND RANSACKED Teachers Believe Small Boys Responsible for Broken Locks. Small boys are believed to have been responsible for the wreckage found by the teachers this morning when they arrived at the U. 8. Grant School on ‘Twenty-second. | Every teacher’s desk, three in the of- | fice of Miss Alexandra L. Gillespie, and | cabinets and doors all over the school | had been jimmied open and the school | presented an aspect of general disor-| er. ‘The broken look of a window overlook- | ing a court from the first floor center hall told how the prowlers had gained entrance. Questioning of the children of the school brought out that lights had been seen in the school at abont 9 o'clock last night, a short time after & number of small boys had been seen loitering about the basement entrance. Miss Gillespie sald this morning that, nothing of ‘any great value could have. been taken from ihe school, for the school supplies of paper, pencils, eras- while disordered, were not taken away. Nothing of value was kept 5121 dtht teachers’ desks, Miss Gillespie A small boy’s sweater, found on one of the desks on the first floor, and nu- merous fingerprints are the only clues police have to work on to determine the identity of the vandals. Police questioned several of the boys of the school, but all denied any knowl- edge of the marauding. G. F. MITCHELL RESIGNS. George F. Mitchell, supervising toa. cxpert for the Department of Agricule ture, has tendered his resignation, ef- fective early in May, and will go to | G street between Twenty-first and | Ncw York to take charge of the tea dee partment of a leading packing house. Mr. Mitchell entered the department in 1903, to assist with experimental work in the cultivation and manufac- ture of tea. 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