Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. & Weather Bureau Forec: Fair t t and tomorrow; slightly cooler toni . Temperatures: Highest. 72. at 5:30 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 56, at 4:50 a.m. tod Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 WITH SUNDAY MORN ING EDITION “From Press 1 Withi carrie The Star’s o Home n the Hour” r system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Vashington homes as fast as the papers are printed. * Yesterday’s Circul lation, 111,316 Entered_as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. 31,041 WASHINGTON, D. FRIDAY, - APRIL 26, 1929 » —FIFTY PAGES. (#) Means Associated Press. TWO €ENTS. President Waits 30 Years to Say “I Told You So” 71 DEAD, HUNDREDS HURT ASTORNADOES SWEEP SIX TOWNS, IN SOUTH GEORGIA Neighboring Carolina Reports 5 . B i his e, Four Deaths in Series 0f | some 36 sears ago youns Bert Hoover g 4 | joined with his engineering classmates “Twisters” Which Take in condemning a bridge erected over Big Toll in Property. Bridge He Condemned While Student at Stan- ford Finally Falls. RY REX COLLIER. An engineering judgment rendered by President Hoover while a student at Stanford University has been vindicated At last, and as a result he is going around these days with a broad smile San PFrancisquito Creek, at. the edge of the Stanford campus. Bert and his colleagues. bursting with new-found engineering wisdom, declared the bridge to be structurally unsound and a grave menace to public safety. Nobody paid much attention to the findings of the college lads from the new university at Palo Alto. What did the bespectacled Quaker boy and his associates know about engineering? The bridge was a new one and it was going to stay there. It bridged the line WRECKAGE OF BUILDINGS | SPREAD OVER WIDE AREA Several Members of Families Are’ . : A |between Santa Clara and San Mateo Killed When Storms 2igzag Counties, and peither county was in- . " & | clined to worry about the structure. Over Six Counties, Causing Crop Convincsd. Bridge Weald Fal. ion i i But young Hoover knew his stresses Destrnetion in Peach Growing R o o Section i problem out from a mathematical 5 | standpoint and he was convinced that | the bridge over San Francisquito Creek | would fall in most any day. It just (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga. April 26—/ Fatalities from the tornado-swept districts of South Georgia and South Carolina had mounted to-| day to 71, with hundreds of other | persons reported injured by last| night's disaster. ( South Georgia bore the brunt of | DROP DEBENTURES, that section. The other four were Republicans Who Abandoned from South Carolina. Three mem- | 5 bers of one family named Pat(er-l Farm Fee Assailed by Robinson. | | son were killed in Pelzer and an | unidentified death was reported from Anderson. | "ng the Associated Prest, | Cochran Struck First, Coincident with the transmission of | The twisters, bounding in a 2ig- | the administration farm relief bill from | zag course, struck first at Coch- | the House, A move was made in the ran, Ga., 60 miles south of Macon. | Senste foday by Senator Watson of | There five persons were killed and | Indiana. Republican leader, o eliminate i more than 100 injured. Later tor- | the export debenture plan from the nadoes ' were reported several Senate measure to make it conform hours apart at uemr, in Capdier | More nearly to the vieys ‘of President County, and Statesboro, in Bulloch | 20" T tion, 1 long hours of County. near Savannah. The depsts, ‘mas piaced hefore the Senaie | death list in both pl aces was shortly ‘after it convened. Just when | a vote might be obtained was uncertain, | Aeavy. | ag a number of members immediately | Paths of over 200 yards in width were | ingicated they wished to discuss the cut by the tormadoes, which leveled | nropogq). hotsgc ant spread wreckage Shrough- | " The debenture plan. stremiously ob- out countryside. : jected to by the Chief Executive. was writen into the Senate measure by its nd, in ed to 3 inf Dead and Injured. agriculture committee. On the o { param Sp—ITE S et S 9 | tee Tef Oochiran, 5 #ead, more than 100 mmnmw"‘% - |iater sustained this action. Dexter, 2 dead. over 50 injured. Shortly after Watson's motion today, Metter, 25 dead, over 100 injured. - | Senator Robinson of Arkansas. Demo- Rentz, 1 dead, 12 injured. cratic leader. took the floor and de- Statesboro, 30 dead, more than 100 livered an attack upon Republican Sen- | ators who have abandoned the equaliza- tion fee as a part of the farm relief program. ! Robinson directed his address particu- | | Jarly to Senator Watson and Senator | and tele- sl;l:‘.lllrynlml , the chr‘h'ma(ee nbofg‘tht' hone wires made accurate check diffi- | te agriculture committee, of Eult and ifi some instances adjoining whom, he declared, “‘eloquently” nkedi communifies duplicated the reports of | the Senate early last year to adopt the damage. fee ns‘ "heemd g}ullwx:a nn'de Ju‘u,;i" y = after it ha n vel a Republi- Town Still Counts Dead. | San Bresident 3 The first disturbance approached = Robinson contended that these Sena- | Cochran, Ga., about 3-0'clock yesterday | tors were willing now to abandon the afternoon and the town's inhabitants principles they once stood for on ""i had anxious moments as the blackened | plea. that they must remain loyal to | directly toward | the administration. | them. The twister . however, | The House completed the major phase | and sped through the outskirts, twist- | Of its werk on the subject yesterday by ing houses in its path. The north | Passing its bill and ordering it forward- suburban section was heavily hit. Met- | ed to the other chamber. ter, Ga., Was l%e“ Dl;\;fi&l\l 3!‘?‘":&” The vote in the House—officially re- Hoon. A Teember . o corded at 367 to 34—was regarded as | oo oy gt estimated the death © , . indication that President Hoo- | . Ga. reported ! there | ver's n to the export debenture ! w'r?‘:??or:m in’the hospi h:;n that | plan, wil be heeded in the final action searching parties were still’ bringing in | of Congress on the subject. | fxft:du and injured fropr the rural dis- po TR | " Doctors and nurses were hurried to| Conceding that the vote on the de-| the stricken seetions from nearby towns. | Im\uz-. . nr:vmnn ';lnv:: eo:h:'lu r'h:‘ st Senal leaders are Eencies o e e e in reseu. | check of the membership that, it will be | county and town authorities in rescu- | i ) ccoring the in- | defeated. Their latest estimate is that Eg-at,h. aitbaninn . . | seven ‘or eight Democrats will vote! { against ihe plan and that 10 to 14 Re- Colored Settiement Hard Hit. publicans wil vote for it Pr‘-c:'s’usgy nol The approximately half a hundred ition to other sections of the Senale persons t?uured at Cochran were being | bill has been indicated. 4 Pared for foday in private homes and _Defeat of the debenture provision, ad- | T The Taylor Building. which was con- | ministration supporters believe. will elim- | verted into a temporary hospital di- | inate the principal obstacle in sight to| rected by trained nurses. It was be.|bringing about an agreement between | lieved several of these were fatally hurt, | the Senate and House on the phrase- | Residents who watched the twister | 0l0gY and provisions of the measure, al- | come out of the northwest there late ld';?l‘:;?mfll present they are somewhat vesterday said it resembled a red, whirl- ‘The bill sent to the Senate by the| ing funne) in its advance up the main | street. They saw it swerve some five | :’,‘::‘k;“{{g'_",:;’;,:':;“;e;'{,m inwar | the"approval of President Hoover. Like force on a colored settlement known as | the Senate bill its principal clauses | Happy Hill. This little community, Provide for the establishment of & Ped- | DDy o of the five deaths oceur. | eral farm board with a $500,000,000 re- | Ted. virtually was wiped out volving fund at its disposal to be em- | The tornado followed @ path approxi- | Ploved largely through = co-operative mately 100 yards wige in that vicinity,| Agencies and commodity stabilization | eiowing Js a list of the Known dead| cOrpoTations in an efort. to ensble the | farmer to help himsell toward pros- | | in Georgia: id ; perity and economic equality with work- Cochran—Alvin McDanel. 15 infant | S0 ROG oG 6 fELt ‘ ! | (s 1ed on Page 2, Column 1.) s iy House Accepts Three Changes. More than two score of amendment MENINGITIS KILLS TWO. |, he bill were proposed during the two & | days the House devoted to consideration | 202 Filipinos Held for Observation Of changes in the draft received from | its agriculture committee. but only Under | three were accepted and these were all HONOLULU. | proposed by members of the committee April 26 (#).—Three with the intention of clarifying the Pilipinos died of meningitis on the janguage, steamship President Lincoln. which ar-| The debenture provision and the rived here vesterday from Manila and | equalization fee which caused two Me- other eastern ports. Sixteen others, be- | Nary-Haugen bills to be vetoed, both leved ill of the disease, were transfer-| were propcsed as amendments in the Ted 10 a hospital here. Al victims were | House. but did not come to & vote, be- steerage passengers. | ing ruled out on points of order as rep- For observation 302 Filipinos were | resenting plans of farm relief different taken to the quarantine station, The | from that under consideration, ship's officers expressed the opinion that | Only two Republican Representatives the disease was contraefed at some|voted against the bill on the fina) roll Oriental port after leaving Manila. call, and many Democrats joined the —_— e — majority of chorus of “noes” in the ADRUPLETS AR rapld -rejection of amendments. The OU s E BOR". process of considering the bill in the One Dies Shortly After Birth Others Doing Well. (Continued on Page 2, Column §,) SAN FRANCISCO, April 26 () — Quadruplets, three boys and a girl, sere born here yesterday to Mrs. Veto Mauro, 37 years old. One of the boys died shortly after birth, but the other babies and the mother were reported to be doing well The Mauroz h three other ehil- ootblack, House is regarded by administration | leaders in both chambers as having Quarantine, Bank Statements Washingion clearing house, $4,033,- 211.86. Treasury balance, $236.953,535.58. New York clearing house excharge. $1.283.000.000 New York ciearing house balance | ozen. The father is a 1.5, YIELDS GROUND IN 175 POSITION ON TRAINED RESERVES Gibson Tells Geneva Parley Concession Is Made to. Promote Harmony. {FRANCE AND JAPAN GIVE ACTION WARM WELCOME | Spain Proposes Creation of Inter- national Force of Peace Aviators for League. By the Associated Press GENEVA, April 26—Two important announcements were made at today's | session of the preparatory disarmament | commission. one being that the United | | States was willing to withdraw its reser- vation to the exclusion of trained re- serves from any. limitation of armies and 1 | the second being a Spanish proposal for | the crsation of an international lorf?l of peace aviators. | ‘The American position on trained re- | serves hitherto had been that they | should be subjected to limitation just as | standing armies should be. Hugh 8. Gibson, the American delegate to the | commission, today made it clear that | the United States still believed this, but was willing to withdraw its reserva- tion on the matter as a gesture of con- ciliation. France and Japan, both of which | countries are most affected, welcomed Mr. Gibson’s announcement warmly and said they were convinced it would hasten an accord on a reduction in armaments. Peace Aviators Proposed. The Spanish suggestion for an inter- national force of peace aviators to be stationed at Geneva and placed at the disposition of the Council of the l.llal;e of Nations was advanced by Senor Co- bian, who said that his suggestion was based on the initiative of Clifford B. Harmon, president of the International League of Aviators, who recently pre- sented such a plan to the conference. President Loudon sent the proposal to the council of the League of Nations, holding that the commission had no mandate to consider it. During today’s session the United States joined Germany in contending that the lintitation of military airplanes should not’ be based on the number of | civil airplaniés which may be possesed by neighboring countries. With Germany, like other countries, extending her commerelal aviation, this ! question-of the relation ivil aviation | " (Gontinued on Page 2, Golumn 2) | MISSISSIPP! HURLS I1GELF ON LEVEES Break Through Below Keo- | kuk, lowa, Would Make 5,000 Homeless. 4y the Associated Press. QUINCY, NIl April 26.—Hurling its tremendous bulk southward in the big- gest rise since 1851, the Mississippi to- day was waging a new assaulf that may | break through every levee for 75 miles below Keokuk, Jowa, leave 5,000 people homeless and cause damage that might | reach $5,000,000. Acting on the Government observer's prediction that the stage would reach 22 feet at Quincy today and might go to 224 feet, Sheriff Kenneth A. El- more ordered officials of the 14,000-acre | Lima Lake district, 10 miles north of | here, to have all families ready to move | promptly in case of emergency. This| district was causing the greatest worry today, with levees capable of standing only about six inches more rise, and with a foot and one-half increase expected. At least 1,000 people live in this section. | The 400 people in the Gregory dis-| trict, across the river from the Lima | Lake-Hunt section, were also preparing | to evacuate almost any time. This district consists of about 9,000 acres. Huge District Menaced. Confidence that the huge Sni dis- | trict of more than 110,000 acres would | be safe is fading following reports of three bad places in the one dike protect- ing it. The Sni district, said to be the largest in the world behind one levee, | stretches from just below the flooded | South Quincy district down into Cal- | houn County, a distance of 65 miles. It is the home of nearly 4,000 people. The Sni area was assumed to have a chanee of remaining dry if levees of the northern districts break, thus re- | lieving the pressure below. 'But there was no guarantee with the chance. The South Quincy levee broke Wednesday | efter the river stage here had dropped nearly a foot, No one, as a matter of fact, seems | to know ‘which levees are most likely {10 go. “They have no means of knowing |as these dikes have a way of breaking | | when and where they are least expected | | 10 do s0, | | Levees Are Uncertain. | It is the condition of the levees which { causes the uncertainty. Ever since last | Pall the river has been high and since | March it has been above flood stage. | | The continued high water has soaked | soft, Muskrats have bored holes and ! ! “sand bolls.” resulting from sand strata moving under the levees, have made matders still worse. Levee guards, standing on what they consider sound | piaces, do not know when the embank- | ment will crumble beneath them. The Red Cross is preparing for emer- gencies. Maj. A. D. Mudd is here from St. Louis to take charge of housing and teeding refugees from the South Quincy district and to co-operate with Sheriff Elmore in planning the evacuation of families from tracts still facing floods. | Preparations have been so sysiematie I ALONE ISSUE. T0 BE ARBITRATED British-American Treaty of 1924, By the Asscciated Press. The dispute between the United States and Canada over the sinking of the rum runner I'm Alone by the Coast Guard patrol boat Dexter, 200 miles off the Louisiana coast, is to be submitted to arbitration. iSim:lair to Keep | Job While Serving ' 90-Day Jail Term | Officials of Oil Corpora- Action Will Be Taken Under tion Unanimously Decide Colored G. He Will Hold Reins. ' Special Dispatch to The Star, | NEW YORK, April 26.—Convinced | that Harry F. Sinclair’s integrity is in- | | tact, even though within a fortnight— | uniess a presidential pardon or a sus- pension of sentence intervenes—he must | enter a “common jail” to serve 90 days | for contempt. of the Senate in the Tea- pot Dome Ofl case, officials of the Sin- | clair_Consolidated Ofl Corporation, of | which he is chairman, have decided | unanimously that he must remain at | This action, suggested by Secretary | Stimson 1n hie exchange of notes with | o 0 s the Canadian government through its Minister, Vincent Massey, will-be taken under a clause of the 1924 rum-smug- gling treaty between the United States and Great Britain. This clause provides that a dispute under the treaty shall be submitted first to two arbitrators, one nominated by each government, and. that i they . to agrée it shall be referred, under the claims commiasion agreement of 1910, to three arbitrators, including one neu- tral, ‘The correspondence on the I'm Alone case, published this morning, disciosed that the Canadian government con- ceded that the schooner, which was of Canadian registry, “had unguestionably been engaged for a number of years, under various owners, in endeavoring to smuggle liguor into the United States,” but raised three points under the 1924 treaty. Canadian Contention. The I'm Alone, it held, was not within the search and seizure limit of “one hour's sailing distance” from the Amer- fcan coast when hailed nor at any time during the pursult which ‘ended with her sinking; that essential elements of the international doctrine of “hot pur- suit” were lacking in the case, and that the sinking of the vessel was too severe a measure to effect American rights under the treaty. The American position set forth by Secretary Stimson was that the I'm Alone was within one hour’s sailing dis- tance of the shore when hailed; that continuous and hot pursuit took place, and that the sinking was justified. Re- plying to the Canadian contention that pursuit under the treaty should be con- fined to the one-hour safling limit un- less’ begun within the three-mile terri- torial waters of the United States, Mr. Stimson said: Stimson Statement. “Should the right of the United States authorities be denied to continue the pursuit of vessels on the high seas when they have been hailed within the treaty limit, it would seem that the ad- vantages proposed to be granted by the treaty are illusory, since it would al- ways be open to offending vessels to refuse to stop when signalled and flee to the high seas.” ‘This announcement, given authorita- | tively yesterday, disposes not only of | reports that Mr. Sinclair is about to | sever connections with the great or- | ganization which hears his name as | founder, but settles other and more in- | | sidious rumors that have gaine (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) AND BINGHAM | Problems:of War Department and Aviation Are Themes Tomorrow. ‘Two related subjects—current. prob- | lems confronting .the War Department and the role of aviation in national defense—will Dbe discussed tomorrow night by Secretary of War James W. Good and Senator Bingham of Connec- ticut in the National Radio Forum, |arranged by The Washington Star and | broadcast over a coagt-to-coast hook-up sponsored by the Columbia Broadeast- ing Co. Secretary Good, s native of Illinois, is expected to touch upon problems of national defense, but he will emphasize | the multitude of other duties which | come through devious channels to the ,desk of the Secretary for his considera- (tion. Secretary Good is especially in- |terested in the development of the Nation’s inland waterways, for which the War Department is directly respon- sible. He hopes to see the waterways program expanded to meet the ever- | growing needs of domestic commerce. | As chairman of the powerful appro- | priations committee of the House of Representatives when he was repre- senting his home State in that body | Secretary Good gained a thorough and | diversified knowledge of the activities |of all Government departments, which |is invaluable to him in his present post. 0 TALK IN*FORUM' To an American contention that the captain of the I'm Alone was responsible | Has Charge of Canal for loss of the life of Leon Maingul,| Ay secretary of the War Department Prench member of his crew, which Mr. | p A3 UeCTaY QL the L g the dikes cleer through and left them !, Stimson deplored, the Canadian gov- ernment rep “It would hardly appear possible to absolve from responsibility the cap- tain and crew of the revenue cutter, who, 200 miles from the United States coast, riddled the schooner with shells and plunged its crew into a rough sea, and to transfer the responsibility for the loss or life to the captain of the schooner for failing to provide life belts for such a contingency.” ‘The arbitration clause of the liquor treaty by which the attempt will be made to settle the case provides that in the event that the two persons nomi- nated fail to agree upon (Continued on Page 2, ei» CLAUDEL TO REMAIN HERE Tysnch Embassy Denies Ambas- sador Is to Be Recalled. The French embassy today formally nled published reports that Ambas- 4or Claudel would be recalled. The the announcement added, was 121y without, foundation.” Eoth the Belglan and Itallan em- bssies sald they had no information on the reports that the Belgian Ambas- sador, the Prince de Ligne, and the Italisn Ambassacor. Nobile Giacomo de Martino, would be recalled by their governmenits. Ask Austrian to Form Cabinet. VIENNA. April 26 (#).—Dr. Erns - reeruwitz, Chrisiian Socialist memb: ‘hat it is believed no delay will resuit n earing for the many who face aban- | donment of thelr homes, Radio Progr ;ms;l;nge 34 of Parliament, representing industrial orests, was asked by the political ieaders this morning to attempt to form a cabinet after the fallure of Johann Mittelberger, financial expert of Vorarl- berg province, to. & ministry, |out of the Philippines and other insu- lar possessions. He is in charge of river and harbor improvements, a large portion of the Federal engineering projects and the fortification and ad- ministration of the Panama Canal. Other activities of this busy cabinet officer include memberships on the Pederal Power Commission and ihe commission in charge of Industrial mobilization, the building of a system of land communications through the medium of radio, the advancement of military aviation and the establishment of landing fields, and the supervision of the National Guard and the train- ing of Reserve officers. . Senator Bingham, known among his colleagues as the “Flying Senator.” is recognized as one of the country’s fore- most authorities®on aviation. He was born in Honolulu, Hawafi, | (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) FATHER. Prince Flies From Hendon to Bog- | WALES VISITS | nor to See Parents. LONDON, April 26 (#).—The Prince of Wales motored to Hendon and took off in an airplane this morning for Craigweil House, at Bognor, to visit his | father and mother. The prince arrived safely at the air- | ¢rome near Bognor at noon. and Wes | criven to Craigweil House. British Surgeon Found Dead. CAIRO, Egypt, April 26 (#).—Dr “rank Cole Madden, one of the mos | widely known surgeons of the British | empire and dean of the faculty of medi- cipe at the Egyptian University, was today at his home here his band, “on Se HOWARD ACQUITTED N PATRONAGE CASE 0. P. Leader in Mississippi Freed in Second Trial. By the Associated Press. MERIDIAN, Miss., April 26.—Perry W. Howard, Negro; James G. Buchanan and George F. McClelland were ac- quitted of violating the Federal pat- ronage act by a jury in Federal Court here today. At the same time a verdict of ac- quittal was brought in for Ed L. Pat- ton, Jackson Negro, who yésterday was ordered exonerated by Judge Edwin R. Holmes: because of insufficient evidence ineiminating him in the alleged con- spiracy to violate the patronage act. “H‘ownd is Mpu;‘lluu uuonl‘ ecf:u- eeman an - as e MR tice 'has o convict Howard on charges of canspi . He was tried at Jackson. vflmb‘!eur er defendants last N&th, special agent of of Justice and Assistant prosecution. ~McGichrist “declared to- day that the verdict the patron- age investigation would continue, The jury . reached its ' decision night after approximately six hours’ de- | liberation, but because of inability to assembly the defendants it was not re- turned to the court until.this morning. SENATORS TO PASS ON MELLON STATUS | Judiciary Com‘minee Meets Tomor- row to Vote on Treasury Secretary. By the Associated Press. A division of opinion has developed in the, Senate judiciary committee on the right of Secretary Mellon to hold office in the face of an old statute for- bidding the Secretary of the Treasury to be interested in trade or commerce, and a special session of the committee has been called for tomorrow for a vote on the question, Chairman Norris of the committee has joined those contending that Mr. Mellon is illegally holding office. He is ready to submit a report to this effect to the committee tomorrow and there is every indication that the question will be .placed ultimately before the Senate for a final decision. The resolution of Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, adopted by the Senate, 1uesuon¢d whether the Secre- tary coul President Hoover without, renomination and whether he was not serving in vi- olation of the law. The committee has generally agreed that renomination was not necessary. Mr, Mellon informed the committee last week that he was a stockholder in several business concerns but that he had resigned all executive positions in | the business world. The question at issue is whether a stockholder consti- tutes one interested in trade or com- merce within the meaning of the old law. B Senator Reed, Republican, of Penn- sylvania, contends that if a stockholder cannot serve as Secretary of the Treas- ury, it will be difficult to find a man for that office. FLY: FUND IS VOTED. House Passes Resolution Authoriz- ing $4,250,000. The House today passed the Wood resolution to make immediately avaii- able §4,250,000 to combat the Mediter- ranean fruit fy in Florida. Acting Chairman Wood, in presenting the resolution to the House, explained that' the sum would not be restricted to use in Florida, but would be used in other States. Stressing the need for the fund to combat the pest, Wood said that the irult fly threatened the fruit growing industry throughout the country. Leaps From Window to Death. NEW YORK, April 26 (P .—\us. Uabella Frank, 59 years old, wife of a ratired ‘Baltimore insurance broker, committed suicide today, police say. by leaping from & window of her eighth- foor aj t in the Hotel Berkley street, d_be continued in office by | | | | SLAYING N AUTO CHASE USTFID, HOUSE 1 T0LD 'Holoday Assures Officers Congress Willing to Aid Enforcement. |STATEMENT FOLLOWED BY VIGOROUS APPLAUSE | “If Killing Was Proper, Navy Should Order the Leviathan Sunk,” La Guardia Says. The slaying of Ottmer Herman Flem- | ing, 21-year-old driver of a smoke | | screen liquor car, by Policeman Clyde O. Rouse: of the eleventh precinct was both {legally and morally justified, Repre- sentative Holaday, Republican, of Ii- linols, a member of the subcommittee ! that handles the District budget, de-' clared in the House today. The state- | ment in defense of the officer. who was held to the grand jury yesterday by a | coroner's jury, provoked the first prohi- | bition debate of the new session. | Holaday was supported by Chairman Simmons of his subcommitiee, and his | statement was vigorously applauded | when he announced that he wished to | give assurance to the law enforcing of- ficers of Washington that members of | Congress would stand behind them in their performance of duty. Representa- | tive Summers, Republican, of Washing- | | ton, called attention to the applause o | the House, which. he said, showed that |at least four-fifths of the members were ready to support the District police force in the proper enforcement of the law. | | | | La Guardia Cites Leviathan. Representative La Guardia quickly gained the floor to declare that “if this act was proper the Navy should be ordered to sink the Leviathan. The Leviathan, La Guardia said, was vio- lating the prohibition laws in con- nivance with the Federal Government. “Prohibition is not worth throwing the |muntry into civil war,” he declared. ! Representative Cramton of Michi- {gan called attention to an editorial in | The Evening Star which he commended | | as beiug in line with this feeling among | the House members. i Representative Black reminded the | House members that Mr. Sinclair “was | not shot when he tried io steal the oil | wells, and that the man in the auen, | hat was not shot when ‘he was deliver- imm‘ bootleg liguor in the House Office i "~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) { | Hagen and’ Golden Take! Point Lead on Final Hole I in Hard Battle. By the Associated Press. MOORTOWN, England, April 26.— American professional - golfers took one-point advantage in the foursomes of the Ryder Cup play today, winning two matches, halving one and losing one. The advantage was not decided until the final foursome returned a two-up victory for Walter Hagen and John Golden over Ernest Whitcombe and Henry Cotton. The Americans will enter the singles | imluhu tomorrow leading 2': points | {to 1%, Leo Diegel and Al Espinosa | | placed the Americans ahead by winning | their matches to score the first point, | only to have the British level it when | Abe Mitchell and Pred Robson defeat- ed Gene Sarazen and Ed Dudley. Johnny Farrell and Joe Turnesa fin- ished all square with Charles Whit- combe and Archie Compston. and the first day’s advantage then rested cn the ! closely contested match: between Hagen | and Golden on one side and Eraest| Whitcombe and Henry Cotton on the | other. Eight singles matches will be played | tomorrow, with one point to be gained | by a victory or half a point in a halved match, Diegel and Espinosa won the first| point for the United States by defeating | Aubrey Boomer and George Duncan, 7 | up and 5 to play, in the 36-hole four- | some. Diegel and Espinosa played brilliantly over the first 18 holes and piled up an | advantage of 7 holes before luncheon. In the afternoon, the lead soon was in- | creased to 8, but a late rally by the Brit- ish captain and the former French champion cut the advantage to 6 with 9 to play. The Americans, however, were | 100 far ahead to be overhauled and the first point of the international matches went on the score card for the visitors. Mitchell and Robson Win. Abe Mitchell and Fred Robson evened | | the point, score at 1-to-1 by defeating | { Gene Sarazen and Ed Dudley, 2 up and 1 to play. This match was all square at | the halfway mark and was hard fought | throughout the afternoon play. H Johnny Farrell and Joe Turnesa fin- | ished all square with Charles Whit- combe and_Archie Compston and the | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3 FLYER TO TRY TAKE-OFF | i 1 AGAIN FOR BERING STRAIT| By the Associsted Press. NOME, Alaska, April 26.—Parker Cramer. Chicago aviator, planned to take off today in another attempt to cross Bering Strait to Siberia. Balked by dense fogs in his first at- tempt, Cramer returned here yesterday as another fiyer was making prepara- tions to search for him. The aviator | i iding. | Representative Brand. Democrat, of TEAN W EDE HOOVER HAILS PLAN T0 MAKE CAPITAL FIEST N WORLD Favors Linking Traditions of Past and Future Great- ness in Architecture. SPONSORING MEETING. MELLON ACTS AS HOST Smoot Sketches Triangle Projeet. President’s Interest Praised by Treasury Head. President Hoover joined with lead- of his administration last night to hrow their united strength behind the great reconstructive program designed to make Washington the finest Capitsl in the worid. At a distinguished gathering of off- cials from the legisiative, executive and judicial branches of this Government, held at the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, President Hoover de- clared himself not only for adequate Federal housing, but also for a rebuilded architecture, to remove present mis- takes and combine in new structures the great traditions of the past and the greatness of the future, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. who is charged with responsibility for carry- ing out the aiready authorized public building program here, sponsored the meeting and presided as host and chair- man of the evening. Other speakers, all of whom envisioned the great Capital of the future. included Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Public Buildings ion; Representative Richard N. Elliott of Indiana, chairman of the House committee on public build- ings and grounds, ' and Milton B. Medary, architect, of Philadelphia. who is a member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and also of the Board of Architectural Con- sultants of the Treasury Departmen The addresses were broadcast over Na- tion-wide chains of the Columbia and National Broadcasting systems. Model Is Exhibited. Supporting the addresses of this rep- resentative group was the first exhi- bition the “toy city” model of the monumental . development proposed for the so-called Federal triangle, numer ous charts, other models and oceasion Secretary Mellon, depicting “The City of Washington,” past, present and future. A second and of this great X of the National Capital. . .-mnm tonight will be: Charles Moore, chair- man of the Pine Arts Commission: Representative Louis C. Cramiton of Michigan, Representative A. J. Mon- tague of Virginia, H. A chairman of the Treasury board of architectural consultants, and Maj. L. Atkins of the District of Columbia government. It is an invitational gath- e‘n:. and admission will ‘be only by wicket. Stresses Spiritual Significance. President Hoover laid em) upon the economic necessity of the Government in its own bui it he stressed firmly the spiritual signifi- cance of architecture. “Washington is not only the Nation's Capital.” he said, “it is the symbol of America,” and in erecting more he said, the rebuilding program should cling to the “great tradition in arehi- tecture” given by the founders of the Reupblic. The Chief Executive deplored as an “architectural orgy,” the State, War and Navy Building, which he sald was a fine xample of how later generations had allen away from the ideals set by the “forefathers.” He recommended re- modeling of this building to be a dupli- cate of the Treasury' Building, which Congress originally intended. The text of President Hoover's speech follows: “1 am glad that the opportunity has come to me as President to contribute to impulse and leadership in the im- provement _of _the onal _Canital (Continued on Paj TWO BRITISH FLYERS TRAVEL 4,131 MILES | Attempted Flight From England to Caleutta Ends at Karachi After 50 Hours, 48 Minutes. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 26.—Two Royal Air Force aviators, seeking to break long distance fiight records in a fiight from England to Calcutta, landed at Karachi, India, at 1:15 p.m. British Summer time, it was announced here this after- noon by the air ministry. The distance flown from England was about 4,131 miles, and the time elapsed. 50 hours and 48 minutes. The aviators are Squadron Leader A. G. Jones-Wil- liams and Flight Lieut. N. M. Jenkins. WAGNER’S WIDOW FAILS. of 92-Year-Old Woman Is Held Grave. BAYREUTH. Germany, April 26 (#). —The condition of Frau Cosima Wag- ner, widow of the famous composer, Condition | was considered grave last night as a result of weakness brought on by old age. Decline of her faculties has been very rapid, and she now is completely apathetic, unable to quit her bed and no_longer even speaks. Frau Wagner is 92 years old. l‘urmer-U. S. Ambassador Dies. LOGANSPORT, Ind., April 26 (#).— Rufus Magee, 83. Ambassador to Nor- aid he encountered such heavy fogs that he was unable to fly above or be- low them. He landed at Cape Wal 100 miles northwest of here, Wednes: day and spent the night in a miner’s cabin. He made two attempts to break through the fogs vesterday before re- turning to Nomer B way and Sweden under President e 4 3 Cleveland, died ‘at his home State News, Pages 10 and 11 night. "