Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) P lm!l'tllll‘l‘t mmclgy\lflmm and u:’nrmer ‘:h ay, fol showers and possibly thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow: cooler tomorrow. Temperatures: High- est. 72, at 5 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 46. At 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 7. he > iy Shar. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION *“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. 1,258—No. 31,043. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D, C. WASHINGTO N, D..C, SUNDAY BRITAIN APPLAUDS BIBSON PROPOSAL FOR LIMITING ARNS Sir Austen Chamberlain Says England Is in Accord | With Plan, t | ATTITUDE ON RESERVES | CLARIFIES SITUATION| London Press Is Enthusiastic Over Events at Geneva Confer- ence of Experts. Br the Associated Prece. NOSTEL PRIORY. Yorkshire, England April 27.—Approval of the American disarmament proposals made at Ge- neva during the week was voiced here | today by Sir Austen Chamberiain, the British foreign secreiary. | Speaking at an open air meeting. Sir Austen announced that Great Britain was in full accord with the American | pronouncement, it favor of the reduc- tion of armaments end expressed satis- faction in the new position taken by the United States on the question of trained reserves. | The declaration by Hugh S. Gibeon, | American representative at the pre- | paratory disarmament conference, in | behalf of naval reductions, sa'd Sir Austen, has paved the way for the de- sire for a real advance in tiae move. | ment tovard disarmament which al | the world needs. | No real differe; o£2 or principle. distinguines the paveior of | the’ governments of the two English- | speaking powers, he avowed. “Difficulties Are Not Over.” “He said that the American posifion on the question of trained Army re- serves was parallel to that taken by the British government a year ago and called Mr. Gibson's statement of yester- day. announcing that the United States, | in the interest of progress, would not | insist upon trained reserves figuring in | the draft dissrmament treaty. a con- | tribution toward solution of the problem | :: 1:‘:Isd aml‘i:m““ eq! ‘lu’y re;::k.hlei carlier proposal for ming | down' naval strengtl ® Having spoken with optimism of the whole problem because of the develop- | ments of this week, the Secretary added L pretend that all the ties a ;" he ‘sald. We have | still & long way o go. We have many | obstacles to overcome; but I hail the | American action at Geneva during these last days as a hopeful sign of ultimate success ahd as ha made a most valuable contribution the cause of | disarmament and peace.” | | PATIENCE MARKS SPECULATION. | Fear of Sveed Causing Rupture Per- vafles Geneva. GENEVA, April 27 (#).—Patience and yet more patiebce is the tone of specu- lation at _@Geneva on_ the reduction of | naval apshaments. The delegations of all the great naval powers plainly are preoccupied with fears that their hopes for lessening the burden of naval arma- | ments may be dashed by too much ! | OCEANIC AIRPLANE | United States Lines Will Use |Hoover Catches | Trout on Visit to l Maryland Stream | S President Makes Une pected Trip to Preserve At Cotockin Furnace. President Hoover declared a half holiday for himself yesterday afternoon and motored to the fishing preserve at Catoctin Furnace, near Frederick, Md., recently acquired by Lawrence Richey, one of his secretaries, and while looking over the place did a little seri- ous casting, with a nice pound-and-a- half trout as the result. The party re- turned at 8:30 o'clock last night. Mrs. Hoover and Secretary Richey and Mrs. Richey accompanied the President on this brief fishing expedi- tion. although. while casting about the banks of Hunting Creek, the party wi joined by Henry O'Malley and other of- | ficials of the Bureau of Fisheries. The President is said to have been well pleased with the general layout of this nearby “fiishing hole,” and was represented afterward as expressing a desire to pay frequent visits during the coming Summer. Evidently inspired by the warm.| Springlike weather yesterday, the Presi- | dent quickly decided, after completing, his morning's schedule of business, to! visit the Catoctin Furnace preserve.| Virtually no advance preparations for the trip were made, so sudden was his decision. The President made no ad- vance announcement of his intentions (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) SERVICE PLANNED Flying Craft to Meet Steamers. By the Associated Prass. NEW YORK. April 27.—Paul W. Chapman, head of the United States Lines, announced today that the com- pany would shortly inaugurate a trans- atlantic air line service in connection with its shipping business. HREE AMERICAN MISSIONARIES DIE 1 Roman Catholic Priests Are Slain by Bandits in Chenki Provinge. FEW DETAILS ARE GIVEN One of Victims, Rev. Godfrey Hol- bein, 30, Was Native of Baltimore. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 27.—Three Amer- ican missionaries in China have fallen victims of bandits. P Rev. Linus Monohan, rector of the N. received a cablegram today from Hankow, stating that Rev. Father { Clement Seybold, Dunkirk, N. Y.; Rev. Godfrey Holbein, Baltimore, and Rev. Walter Covelyou of Petos had been killed. All belonged to the Roman Catholic Passionist order. They were Kkilled April 24 in Chenki, in the provinee of Hunan, near Chansgsha. No other de- tails were received. burned recently The cablegram was received from the order's headquarters n Hankow. 1t was signed by Father Arthur Benson, another missionary. Associated Press dispatches the past weck have told of fighting in this sec- tion between Nationalists and the Wu- han opposition. IN CHINESE RAIDS IN MEAGER CABLEGRAM| St. Michael's Monastery of Union City. | Mich., Chenki is next to the province of | | Kiangsi, where a Catholic chapel was MORNING,* APRIL 28, 1929—-110 PAGES. b TFIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS | I TEN 'CENTS FLSEWHERE MISTER. PRESIDENT I'M YOUR (T =4 SIMMONS ATTACKS B SCHOOL FND Says $3,000,000 Annual Ap- | propriation Would Mean American missionaries were advised | to flee from southern Kiangsi and | nortnern Kwangtung and Kwang:i | Heavy Tax Increase. provinces on April 17. Bisnop O'Shea had_telegraphed at that wme that the Roman Catholic chapes at Ngaoyuan, Kiangsi. had been burneu and that bandits had plundered the village. “Within a reasonably short time pas- sengers to Europe by the United States Lines will have a choice of going by steamship or aifplane,” Chapman said. ' “If they are in no special rush, they| can take the Leviathan or one of the| The Nationalists were driving the Wuhan troops south of the Yangtze River. Many women and children of this section took refuge aboard warships in the river. BALTIMORE PRIEST IS VICTIM. | Predicting that a policy of appropri- {ating $3,000,000 annually for purchase | of school bulidings and sites in addi- | tion to the amounts already carried in the District bill would make the District tax rate jump 25 cents per $100, Repre- | sentative Stmmons of Nebraska, chair- | man of the District subcommittee of the House appropriations committee, last #lower boats, but ff they are in a hurry. | c g Wl i Ohina in | DIght criticised the Washington Cham- we'll put them across in 24 hours or 0 in an airliner.” t Land Service Planned First, ; Before the transatlantie flying serv-| ice is started, Chapman said, the com- pany will establish an air service on land. will be done within a year, he said. Twenty passenger planes will be used. “Suppose. a passenger on the Levia- | than or the President Roosevelt gets a radio that his mother js dangerously ill | in Chicago,” Chapman said. “We shall | be ready to take care of him. When! the ship docks, one of our big passenger | planes of the United States Lines will| be waiting .to land him in Chicago in seven or eight hours. i “Eventually we shall extend this land plane ‘service to the Pacific Coast if nect s | P 1925. BALTIMORE, April 27 (#).—A cable- gram received at 8. Joseph's Monastery of the Passionist Order here today an- nounced that Rev. Godfrey Holbein. a member of the order, and two other riests had been killed in China, Father Holbein, a native of Baltimore, about 30 years old. had spent virtually { all his life in this city up to the time | he went to China in 1925 as one of a group of 13 priests sent from the United States. He had studied in the St. Jo- seph’s Monastery School and later en- tered the monastery here, remaining until he went to China. Father William Harding of the mon- astery went to the Holbein home to notify Father Godfrey’s mother, Mrs. Mary Holbein. Rev. Godfrey Holbein is survived by his mother and three sisters, two of Chapman said the company had for whom are Sisters of Mercy at Mercy ber of Commerce for advocating such an appropriation. % | Representative Simmons referred to a | report. adopted: by the chamber's school 1 | committee April 18, in which it was | voted to answer “ves” to a questionaire | | sent out by the Board of Education in- |ington desire such an appropriation to | be made, provided the total school ap- | propriations do not exceed one-third of | the revenues of the District. His re- | marks were made at the annual ban- | quet of the District Education Associa- tion. Replies to Statement. Mr. Simmons replied particularly to a atatement in the report of the Cham- # | some time been experimenting with and | This explains the series of careful | testing a passenger plane built for him consultations inaugurated by Hugh 8. |by Vincent Burnelli. It has a 90-foot Gibson, American delegate, with Lord | wing span, carries 1,000 gallons of fuel, | Cushendun of Great Britain and M.| weighs 8,700 pounds and has accommo- | Salto of Japan, and continued today dations for 20 passengers, with 45 with Count Massigli of Prance. On pounds of baggage each. Monday there probably will be another with Signor de Marinis of Italy. | ‘Their object is to 6~"ermine the next concrete step towaru naval disarma- ment. The appointment of a naval subcommittee to meet after the a journment of the Prepartory Disarma. ment Commission is one possibility. although the Americans are inclined to doubt its usefulness. No meeting of naval experts has taken piace here, 50 the delegates are concentrating their efforts on reach- ing a political understanding concern- ing procedure. Americans desire to hold a pro- naval conference simultaneously with the second Washington Confer- ence, when the treaty dealing with capital ships is to be re-examined. Exclude Trained Reserves. The recond week of the present con- | ference closed with marked accelera- tion of efforts to settle other outstand- ing problems of disarmament. Decision today to exclude irained reserves from limitation of armies may disappoint those who deem reseryes a vital part of military establishments, but has un- doubtedly removed apprehensions of countries where conscription is in force and therefore has increased chances of an agreement for reduction of troops under colors. It is also believed to have render>d nations utilizing conscription more iriendly to reduction of naval forces. Mr. Gibson's appeal for conc by other countries was met toda: ) Crechoslovakia in such manner as to interest the militia of every State in the American Union. ‘The draft of the treaty provides for Jimitation of land forces belonging to formations organized on a miligary basis and stationed in the home country. The ‘Washington Government has no juris- diction over state militia and last year Mr. Gibson filed a reservation on this clause. Wonld Exempt U. S. Militia. The delegate of Czechoslovakia today | proposed insertion of something in the treaty which should rend>r the Amer- fean militia exempt from the foregoing general provision. Mr. Gibson voiced America’s appreciation of the Crecho- slovakian gesture As 1o the naval question, the Amer- {Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) Ripon’s Vain Search Plan Two New Liners. He also announced that the United | States Lines are going to build at least | | two new ocean liners, but said he could not tell yet how fast or large they | would be. ol | Chapman announced on March | before his company had taken over | Leviathan and 10 other vessels of the | United States and American Merchant Lines, that a boat-plane service, to speed passengers to inland citles after Ilhey had landed, would b started. At | that time he said the aerial branch of | | the company would be known as Sky | | Lines, Inc. | i With some secrecy for Sky Lines, | Inc., the airplane he mentioned today was bullt at Keyport, N. J. It was tested at Anacostis nd sent to the | Newark Alrport. | 'STEAMER DRIFTING | | HELPLESSLY AT SEA. Coast Guard to, | British Ship Asks 1 Broadeast Distress Call. Crew Without Food. | = | By the Associated Press NORFOLK. Va. April 2 ‘Without coal _ana without food for the crew, the British steamship Inchdairnie was | today reported drifting helplessly in the Atlantic, 500 miles east of Bermuda and approximately 1,000 miles southeast of Hampton Roads The position of the steamer is far outside the Coast Guard fleld of the Norfolk division and no Coast Guard vessel will be sent from this port to her aid, Capt. Phillip Scott, commandant of the division. said The message telling of the vessel's plight asked the Coast Guard to. broad- cast a message of distress, Position of the steamer was given as latitude 32:54 north and longtitude 56:10 west, late last night. She is said to be drifting slowly to the southwest. The Inchdairnie left Antwerp March 7 and Plymouth on March 22 for Pen- sacola and New Zealand {0!‘ Tame Elepha nt Mazde Success by Appcal to Newspapers By the Associated Press RIPON. Wis, April 27 phants. after all, are not Tame ele- and needs such a pachyderm so difficult to obtain, provided one is persistent | and .z00s without results, no one hav- ing tame elep! ts for hire. Finally they appealed to the nows- papers. Today it was announced thal several elephants ha been offered |and it was just a question of picking | late last night the biggest and tamest one. Just where the elephant wifl he in the parade has not been decidca, bt the committee was agreed that it would be one of the Republican species and would be led by a Republiean. although sn far no applicants for the job of jeader have been received Those ir. charge of the celebration to be Meld here in June to observe Ri- pon's claim as the birthplace of the | Republican pariy. decided an elephant. party embirm an essential part of A the perade. They canvaseed circuses Hospital here. His father died several years ago. WAS IN CHINA 7 MONTHS. Michigan Clergyman Has Sister in Grand Rapids. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 27| () —Rev. Walter Covelyou, reported killed by bandits in China, leaves a sister, Mrs. Joe Lyons of Grand Rapids. | Father Covelyou was born in Petoskey, | Mich., 34 years ago and went to China | only ast September. He was educated the in Petoskey and the Passionist Monas- ! tery at Norwood Park, Chicago. TWO WOMEN SHOT FOLLOWING PARTY Divorcee Wounded Her During Struggle, Then Shot Self, Other Victim Says. By the Associated Press EVANSVILLE, Ind.. April 27.—Police here today were endeavoring to de- termine the circumstances in the shoot- ing early today of Mrs. Owen Conrad. a divorcee, and Miss Margaret Maley, | who shared an apartment here. Mrs. Conrad is not expected to recover. Both women are prominent socially and entertained a party of friends until Included in the party were F. Harold Van Orman, former lieutenant governor of Mdiana; his wife, | Susle Van Orman, candidate for mayor of Evansville, State Senator John H. Hewitt, and several other men and women. Mrs. Van Orman. in a statemeni today, sald the party broke up about 2 o'clock this morning. Miss Maley told the police that about | 4 oclock she entered Mrs. Conrad's | apartment and that the latter wa. { brandishing a revolver. In attempting to wrest the weapon from Mrs. Conrac a bullet struck Miss Maley in the leg She said Mrs. Conrad then shot hersell |'in the abdomen. Mrs. Conrad 2-year-old child is said to be in England. HOMELESS RANKS GAIN. is the mother of a | Men Seeking Lodgings Last Winter Show Increase. NEW YORK, April 27.(#)—The num- ber of homeiess men housed in the Municipal Lodging House during last Winter was the highest in 15 years, said a report of the research bureau of the welfare council today. The daily - average registration in March was 681. Ten years ago it was 39. Among the contributory factors the | report listed the fact that Bowery “saloons” no longer provide free “flops” for their customers. The report alsn stated that cheap commercial lodging houses are decreasing and that aufo- motive travel has made it easier for men to reach New York | Her former husband bers public school committee to the offect that the approporiation act of 1930 contains “nothing of any conse- quence for buildings and grounds to continue the (five-year) building pro- gram. | * Mr. Simmons said that in the 1930 quiring whether the citizens of Wash- 1 of Senator Norris had been read. The | Government. —— Entire Population Aids in Successful Hunt for Bank Funds By the Associated Press. GATES, N. C, April 27.—Busi- ness completely ceased in this town of 100 persons late yes- terday and all of the inhabit- ants joined in a search for $1,000 in currency which was lost along the road while being taken from the local bank to a Suffolk de- All_of the money was recovered, though more than 50 cars were estimated to have passed the spot PUTS OFF DECISION GOODURGESINLAND WATERWAY SYSTEN i Adequate Air Service Asked by Bingham in Radio Forum. pository. 1 Completion of the inland waterway | ystem connecting with the Gulf of | Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean as a! freight rates, and a military aviation service which will be adequate as a first | line of national defense, were urged last night by Secretary of War Good and' Senator Bingham of Connectitcut, mem- ! = | ber of the Senate military affairs com- | § mittee, in addresses in the National Rn-’ 4 o _ . dio. Forum arranged by The Star and ' Senate Committee Adjourns sponsored by B0 COlGtabl Hroatieaité i 2 ing System. Delivered through Station Until Monday—Norris Ar- | WMAL, the speeches were broadeast ’ 5 |over a Nation-wide hook-up. gues Right to Office. | Pointing out that in recent years ap- | proximately $50,000,000 has been appro- priated annually by Congress to develop | and maintain waterways, Secretary Good | Decision on the report of Chairman | eaiq the use of rivers and likes, with Norris holding that Secretary Mellon | connected artificial waterways, holds out | is illegally holding office was deferred | the only hope of cutting the enormous mittee until Monday after more than of waterways, he said,'ls the construc-| two hours of warm discussion. |tion of a 9-foot chanmel in the Illi- | A close division was apparent, how- | nois River from.Chicago to Cairo. He| | announced that there will be no delay | ever, after the sharply worded report|;"the prosecution of that work by the | By the Associated Press. e 10 FILL PANELS OF Same Men Are Named to Groups in Many Instances, Records Reveal. ICITIZENS WON'T ACT, DR. NEVITT DECLARES Movement to Reform System Is Launched by Washington Chamber of Commerce. Service on a coroner’s jury in the District is largely a matter of personal preference, and the lack of interest or unwillingness on the part of Washing- tonians so to serve has forced Coroner Nevitt on many occasions to impanel volunteer “repeaters” for jury service in order that the inquest may be held. This situation, readily admitted by Dr. Nevitt, becomes apparent through a study of the records of the last 22 juries impaneled for inquests in the last two months. In several instances the same jury of- i the names of men serving on more than | ing to Senator McNary. | one jury during the period covered ap-| that covered. “Repeaters” Are Substitutes. Dr. Nevitt explained yesterday that the “repeaters” in many cases are men he ime set for the inquest. No penalty is attached for failure to appear. “REPEATERS USED MPNARY FORESEES CENATE FARM-AID * CORDVER' URE: - BALLOT THS WEEK Expects Debentures to Be Killed by Narrow Margin -of Votes. HOOVER TO GET BILL BY MAY 10. HE BELIEVES [ Sees Little Diffienlty Agreeing Upon Its Final Form in Conference. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Senate should vote on the farm relief by Friday or Saturday of this week, in the opinion of Senator McNary, chairman of the committee on agrieul- ture. The so-called export debenture feature of the bill will be stricken out of the measure, though probably by a narrow margin of votes, and the measure gent to conference with the House, Senator | McNary said. The conferees of the Senate and | House will have little difficulty agreeing { ficlated in more than one inquest, and | upon the final form of the bill, accord~ He believes ‘he measure should reach the | peared regularly throughout the period | President for his approval by May 10. I ‘While the Senate is putting the finish- lln' touches upon the farm bill, one of | the two major pieces of legislation for | which the Congress was called into | calls to substitute for regularly sum- | special session by President Hoover, |g moned jurors who fail to appear at the | the House probably may receive the | th second, the tariff bill. If possible the | bili will be completed by the wayvs and The first jury among those examined | means committee and submitted to the sat in two cases on March 18. On this| House by the end of this week. It jury were two “repeaters,” one of them |, . yoo egtimated it will take the House | has virtually nullified this effect. report held that Mr. Mellon, as a stock- | holder in various business enterprises, | bill there is carried $2,352,000 for build- | ings and sites, in addition to uncxpend- ed balances from former years of $100,000 for improvement of grounds. $20,000 for the Morgan School, $15,000 for the Murch School, $194,000 for pur- chase of buildings and playgrounds, making a total of $2,681,500. In 1926, the first year of the five- vear building program. Mr. said, the bill carried $2,336,500; in 192 1$2,206.000: 1928, 891,000, {1929, $2,612,000. “So that the 1930 ap- propriation bill,” he said, “carries ap- | proximately the same amount for build- | ings and grounds as has been carried since 1926; but in the Chamber of Com- merce of Washington that $2,681,500 is ‘nothing of any consequence | Mr, Simmons explained that the large | appropriation in 1926 arose as a result | (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) ' TODAY’S STAR | PART ONE—24 PAGES. General News—Local, Nation Foreign. 2 Schools and Colleges PART TWO—12 Editorial_Section—Editorials torial Peatures. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4 Review of Spring Books—Page 4. | Financial News—Pages 7, 8 and 9. i PART THREE—12 PAG! | Soctety. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 11. PART FOUR—24 PAGES Amusement Section—Theater, znd Music. In the Motor World—Pages and 8. Aviation Activities—Pages 9 and 10, Fraternal News—Pages 12 and_13, District National Guard—Page 13 Veterans of Great War—Page 14. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 14 | District of Columbia Naval Reserve— | Page 16. Organized Reserves—Page 16, {Y. W. C. A Activities—Page Around the City—Page 16. Parent-Teacher Activities —Page 18, | At Community Centers—Page 13, Serial Story, “The Wolves of the Water- front”—Page 19. Spanish War Veterans—Page 19 Army and Navy News—Page 19. | News of the Clubs—Pages 20 and 21. |W. C. T. U. Activities—Page 21. Radio News—Pages 22 and 23. PART FIVE—i PAGES. ! Pink Sports Section. ! PART SIX—10 PAGES. ! Classified Advertising. PART SEVEN—S PAG Magazine Section—Fiction an GRAVURE SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—S PAGES. ! Moon ulling: utt and Jeff; Reg'lar Pellers; Mr. and Mrs.: Beity: Or- phan Anpie; Somehody’s Stenog: | High Lights of History. - and PAGES. and Edi- screen 5 &Y 16. umor, | report before the Senate as a minorily i | | was serving in violation of a 100-year- old statute forbidding the Secretary of the Treasury to be interested in trade or commerce. Senator Norris did not go into the merits of the old law, but he argued that a stockholder was Interested in{ trade and commerce. He contended the law should be enforced unless it is | modified or repealed. In that connec- | Way to Help Farmer. He pictured the inland waterway sys- tem as one of the best ways of solving the farm problem by bringing about lower transportation rates both on the | serving again on April 4 and the other on April 15. Three men who served at other times during the two-month pe- riod sat on a jury which met March 21. On April 13 a jury was convened and among the jurors was a “repeater” who means of lifting the burden of increased | served in four cases with that particu- | lar jury and whose name also appeared on the roll of a jury which met April 4. Custom Nullifies Law. On April 19 a jury was called to- gether which sat in five cases before it was discharged on April 20. There were three “repeaters” on this jury. Although service on a coroner’s jury is compulsory under a strict interpre- tation of the law, custom in WuhhmnThn e last three coroners have simply moved on down the list of prospective jurymen to another name when one man says he is unable to serve. The code provides that the United States marshal shall serve a process on a citizen selected for jury service, and in his failure so to act, the coroner shall serve the process. ‘The practice of having a marshal serve a process has long since fallen into disuse, as has the formality which orig- inally attached to summoning citizens for duty on the coroner’s jury. Dr. Nevitt Gives Views. Dr. Nevitt does not feel that the present method of selecting jurymen to sit in’ his inquests is entirely above reproach. “There are two explanations for the so-called repeaters on the juries,” he sald. “Sometimes I feel it is desirable to hold an entire jury for two and some- times more cases. I believe I am jus- tified in this. “Suppose, for instance, that & man |articles purchased by the farmer and|is killed on the street by an automobile. |on the farm produce which is shipped | His body is taken to the morgue, where to world markets. a system suggested two years ago by quired by law can be held. He outlined briefly | it is detained until the inquest re- If there President Hoover, extending from Pitts- | happens to be & jury already together burgh to Kapsas City and from Chicago | for another case, I can swear them the new one, thereby saving consid- to New Orleans. o Not only is the Nation greatly inter-' g the development of ested in | erable time. inland in It is also true that men serve on | the Norris contention. tion he referred to ihe recent appeal of | Waterways in the great Mississippi President. Hoover for law enforcemens | 1€y, Mr. Good explained, but it is “pro- and suggested that this ot y the St. Lawrence as a connecting link should v guiding star.” i e B R between the Great Lakes and the At- Others Cite Mitchell Opinion. lantic.” He sald nature has prepared Other Republican members of the | that :l:thfly and l'oluu it is “Lh‘e co- committee countered with reference to |OPErative concern of two great nations.” the opinion given by Attorney General | Secretary Good emphatically denied Mitchell to "President Hoover, which | that greater use of waterways will work held that there was no doubt of the to the disadvantage of the railroads. legal qualification of Mr. Melion to serve | It will only provide cheaper transpor- as Secretary of the Treasury—a post he |tation for raw materials, he said, has held for eight years. while the railroads will transport fin- The report was submitted by Senatol estimated that Norris in response to the resolution of 0 Senator McKellar, Democrat, Tennessee, | the country’s annual freight bill by im- directing the judiciary committee to in- | provements of rivers and harbors. quire into the right of Mr. Mellon o Fixed Plane Type Urged. serve. Two other points raised by that : resolition were dismissed unanimously | Blame for inadequate appropriations to carry out the five-year military by the committee. Y senator Norris intends to place his aviation program should rest on the taxpayers who insist that Department keep small military posts scattered over the country, in opinion of Senator Bingham. He de- clared that the mioney expended in this manner, if put to better use, would make it possible to keep up the avia- tion program as plahned. “If the people of the United States v |ished products. He report by the committee if a majority ! refuses to indorse it. This will put the ! issue up to the Senate. There is some doubt as to what can be done even should the Senate uphold Some believe, however, that if such an eventuality occurred it would be mandatory upon ¢ the district attorney to institute l:,:'(,)-‘rully want to have adequate military ceedings. The old statute carries a |aviation, without greatly increasing penalty for violation. {the burden of taxation for national The committee held that President | defense, they can secure it by insis (Continued on Page 4, Column 4, | ing that most of the small Army posts OFFIC‘ERS coNvIcTED In order that manufacturers may be ON DRY LAW CHARGES | assured of a steady stream of orders for a_machine of standard type, Sen- Sheriffi and Police Chief Found Guilty of Conspiracy by | ator Bingham urged the adoption of a fixed type of plane for use in the mili- tary air service for two or three years at a time. It must be remembered, he Alabama Jury. our first line of national defense. “Preparedness Never Hurts.” “Preparedness never hurt a republic,” he continued. “Preparedness may have proved tempting to the rulers of an oligarchy or a monarchy. There is, however, far morc danger of a republic inviting war by failure to provide for ' By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 27— | Sheriff Curtis J. Falkner and Chief of | the national defense than by adequate Police James M. Long of Calera were | provision. among nine residents of Shelby County * Secretary Good described the work convxhcud hflr; mmgl:z by .m PP?elr:ble“(.l? of improving the Nation's waterways as on charges of conspiring viol _ X e PALional pronibition. ach. Piye < oRAE |-y coarmued ob page 19, cohimn 1) persons were acquitted. ” | = " Several score men and one woman i e for the. enramment s, thartriat | ¢ Mexiowst Navy Officers Ousted. that they had paid Shelby County of-| MEXICO CITY, April 27 (#)—E: ficers from a few dollars to several pulsion from the Navy of six com- thousands over a serles of years for pro- | modores, = three captains and _three tection from official interference in|lieutenants because of their reputed making and selling liquor. favorable attitude toward the rebellion Falkner and Long were accused of | When it broke out on March 3, at Vera having plotted with C. H. Russell, a gov- | Cruz, was announced officially tonight. | “sentiment | foundly interested in the utilization of f | already $600,000,000 has been cut from | the War the said, that due to the advance in the | art of fiying the air service has become more than one jury in a relatively short period of time. This is made necessary by the fact that many citizens are un- | willing to co-operate with the coroner by serving on his juries. Says Citizens Pledged Aid. “Some time ago a group of men rep- résenting citizens' associations _called on me for an explanation of the ap- pearance of these ‘repeaters.’ I told them of the difficulty I experience in getting the men I want to serve. They promised to draw up a list from among their own members of men who would | willingly help in this respect. That was the last 1 heard from them, the list | failing to materialize. “When I have set a time for an in- quest it is necessary that it be held at | that time. If one or more of the jurors | is not present it means simply that I| must go out and get somebody to sub- stitute for them. Naturally, I go to Some one whom I know is willing to serve and can do so on short notice. It means ‘repeaters,’ but it is the best I can_do. “During the 29 years I have served | as coroner 1 have tried faithfully to | perform the dutles of my office_in au efficient manner, and I believe I have | been reasonably successful. However, it there is any way in which the method of ssembling and handling coroner’s juries | can be improved I am open to sugges- | | tions.” C. of C. Backed Reform Move. A movement for reform in the present system of obtaining jurors was initiated | by the Washington Chamber, of Com- { merce some time ago, following criti- | cism of verdicts rendered in several | cases. The support of United States At- |~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) two weeks to pass this measure, this schedule should be held to, .the tarift oill may pass the House and reach | the Senate by May 20. Certainly it | should pass the House before June 1. Plan for Adjournment. Senate leaders yesterday were laying plans for an adjournment of the Sen- | ate and the House for three weeks or a month, after the House has put through' the tariff bill and it shall have been referred. to the Senate finance committee. In a month's time, the leaders estimated, it would be ible for the Senate finance comm o hold hearings and amend the bill and have it ready for action by the Senate. Then the Senate would return to Wash- ington and remain on the job until the measure was put through, to in conference and.sent to the i- dent. ‘Whether consent can be obtained fér | such a long adjournment remains to be | seen. ‘There is disposition on the part of some of the members of both houses to get through the legislative program as soon as possible and adjourn sine die. The probable early date of the passage of the farm bill has encouraged them in the hope of winding up their work here in July. ‘The only real fight in the Senate on the farm bill is expected to be over the debenture plan, although Senator Cope- land of New York has offered as a sub- | stitute the old equalization fee of the | McNary-Haugen bill of the last Congress, | Senator Norris of Nebraska has pendinz before the Senate amendments to the debenture section, seeking to meet the problem of overproduction which may grow out of the proposed Gvernment subsidy. It is expected these amend- ments will be a The vote on them will be no test of the real strengta of the opposition to the debenture, for Senator McNary and others who will vote against the debenture plan, are to support these Norris amendments to perfect the debenture plan. They will support the amendments on the theory thal If the debenture should be adopted, it should be adopted in the best possible form. Seek Early Vote on Watson Motion. As soon as the debenture plan has been perfected, the ndment _of Senator Watson of Indiana, the Re- publican leader, to strike out the de- benture plan, will be in order. The Re- publican leaders are planning to obtain as early a vote on this motion as pos- sible. Once the debenture fight has been settled, the remainder of the bill is expected to go through in short order. Senator Copeland expresses a hope that his equalization fee substitute will be adopted, but it is not believed that it will command as many votes as the de- benture plan. The Democrats are seeking desperate- ly to line up all Senators of their party in support of the debenture plan. They wish to show a united front if possible. Already one conference has been held to discuss the matter and another is likely to be held early this week. It does not appear now that this drive will be successful, for some of the Democrats are unalterably opposed to the debenture plan. on the ground that it is a Gov- ernment subsidy and also that it is un- sound and uneconomic. Jt now appears that at least six or seven Democrats will not support the debenture plan, but will vote against it. While the supporters of the debenture plan are seeking to augment their ranks, the administration is exerting itself to defeat the proposal. Once the debenture plan is out of the bill, the differences between the House and the Senate are likely to be iromed out in conference with little delay. The Sen- “(Continued on Page 3, Column | By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, April 27.—The bark of a dog was broadcast 11,000 miles to- night from radio station KDKA here to Comdr. Byrd's expedition in the Ant- arctic as a greeting to the huskies tak- | en into the icy world by the explorers. | ‘The commander, informed of KDKA's | plan to send the dog greeting, said he | would arrange to have his huskies near | a receiving set in the mess tent at Little America, so that they could hear the bark of their canine kin from | Pittsburgh. A police dog of known barking accomplishments sent 'pittsbu1:gh Dog Barks Greetings to Byrd Pack at South Pole Over Radio Station from her home in Washington, in to send the message. Finn Ronne, a Norwegian engineer working here, sent a message to hiz father, who is with the expedition. ‘' He read several messages, in his native tongue, sent by Lieu Harry Adams, ydney Greason and John Jacobson, three members of the expedition who have returned to the United States. order Bandits Rob Bank. LAUREL, Miss., April 27 (#).—Two the | young, unmasked bandits held up the ernment undercover agent,*who had been appointed special deputy after gaining PFalkner's confidence, to “do away with” D. C. Trexler. special pro- hibition investigator, and A. L. Kim- brough, State law enforcement officer. Commodore Hiram Hernandez, who commanded the fleet in Vera Cruz harhor, heads the list. The government refused to accept the explanation that the officcrs had appeared to side with the reba only to save their vessels. greeting. In a special broadcast to the expedi- tion, KDKA presented Mrs. Kennard F. Bubler, who, in person, sent a messags to a*r husband who is an aviati-n me-hrnie with Byrd. Mrs. Bubier, who slgns her radio mes!agns“ Honey,” came | | Gashier and a customer in the Union | and Farmers' Bank at Sandersville, | Miss., today and escaped with all avail- able_cash. between 3400 and 8390, The cashier and an nt wera lacgs in the vault. Thew vr e released in a {cw minutes by a cusiomer. F