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WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and tomorrow: tomorrow and tomorrow night. Temperatures: p.m. yesterday: lowest, 58, at 7:30 a.m. toda: Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ¥, Full report on page 9. colder Highest. at 4:15 5. ch ¢ Foening Slar. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press With The Star's tion is delivered to carrier every city block and the regular edi- to Home in the Hour” system covers Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 110,818 Entered as secy post office, No. 31,046. Washington, ond class matter D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 o % 1929 - FORTY-EIGHT PAGE (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. HAWLEY ANSWERS FOREIGN CRITICS OF PROTECTIVE TARIFF Says U. S. Has No Intention Tne senate today defeated by a vote of Throttling Industries or Imperiling Wages. ADDRESSES COMMERCE CHAMBER CONVENTION Cahan, Canadian Speaker, Hits I'm Alone Sinking, Intimating Bad Faith. Chairman Hawley of the House wars and means committee. paused today in the work of tariff revision to defend the American protective policy before the United States Chamber of Commerce and to serve notice on foreign nations critical of American tariff barriers “that we alone have a right to say what shall happen in this market and the condi- tions on which outsiders may enter in trade.” While not prepared primarily as such. the House leader's remarks were re- garded by delegates to the chamb: convention as a reply to the challenge issued earlier in the day by C. o Cahan, prominent member of the C: nadian Parliament, who scored i Fordney-McCumber act. and expressed the hope that Americans would fecl no resentment if Canada resorts to re- taliatory measures. While foreign interests were barred from the committee hearings on tariff revisions, Mr. Hawley said. his com- mittee in revising the existing law “has no intention of excluding foreign prod- ucts from the market of the United States, but 1t is the purpose to admit them under such conditions and in such quantities as mot to throttle our indusries, imperil our wage scales and development.” That, he the purvose of the pro- which has fully justified tective polic: its existence.” Hawley Answers. “My reason for tentative changes in world trade,” Mr. Hawley warned, “is that this country has fields of produc- tion and industry, in which forces of foreign competition are now making serious inroads. Repairing Defenses. “It is necessary,” he added, “that the arm that protects industries, now prop- erly provided for, be raised in their be- half. Notably among these is agricul- ture. “For this e & readj it of the act of 1822 to bring the benefieial effects of the pro- tective tariff abreast with modern times. | We are repairing the defenses where | the attacks are making inroads. All our people and all our industries are entitled to the same consideration. It is the purpose all producers and products upon the basis of equal opportunity against im- ports from abroad. Our remarkable growth from 8 le of some $16,000,- 000,000 of wealth in the 60s to approxi- mately $300,000,000,000 of wealth in 1929, is the outgrowth of the competi- tion at home rather than that from abroad.” For the present revision of the tariff, Hawley declared, the Republican mem- bers of the ways and means committee determine and assume all responsibility for the duties proposed. Defending the act of 1922, he declared that foreign trade has practicably | doubled under 1t “and is the largest in the peace time history of the country. | Points to New Factors. Pointing to new factors in compet- | jtive conditions, Hawley declared that | Ttaly and Czechoslovakia are becoming | significant factors in world trade. | “The use of new and improved ma- chinery abroad manned by foreigners | trained in our factories is increasing.” he said, “and foreign labor is materially | increasing in efficiency, with no cor- | responding increases in ‘standards of | living. Such labor also receives 40 per cent or less on the general average of | wages paid herg. This increased effi-| citney with lewer standards of living and low pay makes a distinctly new | factor in competitive conditions, and is | of especial importance to American | labor. Immense amounts of American | capital are invested abroad. presumably | to take advantage of the opportunities | conditions above indicated afford.” Mr. Hawley declared that no consid- eration will be given to foreign products Droduced by Americans who have in- | Vested their capital abroad, when im- ported into this country. “Since they buy their materials abroad, use lower paid foreign labor and enrich foreign communities, such products cannot be given any prefer~ ence,” he declared. “They are foreign competitors and can become the most dangerous of such competitors.” T'm Alone Sinking Hit. ason we have undertaken of protection to place | iFH(—'flin Resolution | Beaten in Senate By 69-to-14 Vote, Brockton Rebuke Refused After Alabaman Is Denied Floor. 10 WASHNGTON 10 LEAD N DISARMING of #9 to 14 the resolution of Senator | Heflin. Democrat. of Alabama seeking | to have the Senate express its disap- proval of the conduct of a group of | persons alleged to have interfered with Jhim on the occasion of a speech he |delivered at Brockton, Mass., on the | night of March 18. | 'The vote came shortly after the | Senate met today and followed several | debates on the question in the Scnate during the past week, in which Senator Heflin had_urged the Senate to con- demn the Brockton incident as an in- terference with the right of free speech and peaceful assembly. He told the | Senate_that a missile was thrown by | | 7 (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) | S750,000 DFBT CUT- STRS DEMOCRATS Geneva as Shifting Fu- ture Action to U. S. GROUNDWORK BELIEVED NOW BEING LAID HERE \British Envoy and Stimson Ex- pected to Smooth Way for Naval Conference. | Br the Associated Press | GENEVA, May 1.—Belief was growing | here today that the future of disarma- | ment lay in Washington. not in Geneva. | Tt was said American initiative, ex- emplified in proposals on naval arma- | ment reductions and limitation of land 'EUROPE NOW LODKS {American Initiative Seen in| tendency is to consider the naval | the ! USW to be | Hoover directly concerning the Anglo- Before leaving his headq confidently. The belief was that this would not come before another session : rangement of tables for classification of armed forces, manpower, ships, guns, ete. | Question of Parley Date. 1 British quarters today denied all| e S == iy — — — MAY MOVING DAY ORKER QUITS MILL STRIE ZONE. ~oreex Tenizbe TILTY JOBS SOON Wood Awaits “Collapse of Communism Before Resum- ing Mediation Efforts.” By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C., May 1.—Charles iG. Wood, Department of Labor con- ciliator, was en route to his home in Boston today to await what he termed {the collapse of Communism’ in North - | Carolina before resuming mediation ef- | forts in strike-torn textile centers. Mr. Wood, sent into the Carolinas by the Government to attempt the scttle- ment of labor disputes, abandoned the task yesterday, temporarily at Jeast. uarters ‘here 186t night,“he texued & statement “in {which he declared that “the Com- and Great Britain it was thought the | munistic effort to promote strikes in delegation hére could go forward more |the South is about over,” but that he | f0 show hundreds of visitors the rooms deemed it advisable to let the workers of the Preparatory Commission, hardly, | ‘discover their own mistakes.” “The Communist movement does not Meanwhile the commission was en- |fit the South any more than it does any gaged in the technical problem of ar-|other locality,” he sald. “Its leaders talk about helping the workers and promise much in the way of wag better conditions and hours of labor, but these promises are never fulfilled. “There is not one case in our records to show a strike won by Communists.” | woul { forces, would be emphasized as time {went on and that the United States Party Headquarters Will Be/|Capital had come to be regarded as, | Jeader in the world disarmament move- : | Set Up Here, With Jouett | ment. | The Shouse in Charge. | problem as essentially that of United States, and Great Britain rein- 5 > | forced this view. It was pointed out BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | that England and America had in mak- Democratic leaders here today are ' ing certain land force concessions placed | hailing with enthusiasm the announce- ' themselves in position to lead in a ment of Chairman John J. Raskob of | measure, too, in that phase of disarma- | the party’s national committee that the | ment. in which they are not so much | deficit coming over from the national | interested. campaign has been cut in two. It was| The White House, the Washington | | more than a million and a half dollars. | State Department and Downing Street, | | They like, too, his plan for an active | were all beiieved to be agreed that a | party organization, with headquarters | preliminary agreement between the | | here, working 365 days in the year. United States and Great Britain along | The Democratic chairman came to | general lines was wise before the pre- | Washington yesterday, and in a few paratory &nmmlnsion on_disarmament | short hours breathed new life and hope | engaged further public navai dis- into the Democrats, who have been | Cussions. | down in the depths since the election | Past Failure Recalled. last November. Mr. Raskob announced: i'flhe misundemlandlnmasmz from | he | failure of President ge's 1927 vn,-é}:;z,m:m’zfi'{,':f{;:’c :,:,'.;f,‘éuf‘: t‘;{(}enevl naval disarmament conference more than $1,550,000 at the close of the ; seemed, it was said, sufficient warning | national campaign last year, had al- | not to undertake another public con | ready been reduced to $800,000, and that | ference until the ground for it was | within the next two weeks it probably | Well laid. | would be reduced further to & point be- | _Geneva guessed, therefore, that Sir | low $500,000. Esme Howard, British Ambassador at - | Washingtop, has talked or will talk | Center of Activity Here. | with Col. Stimson, American Secretary That the center of activity of the ;of State. and perhaps with President | Democratic organization was shifted from New York City to Wash- | American naval problem.. - ington, where it proposed to bulld up a | Once substantial: accord hds been virile ‘organization, established between the United States | tioning the year round, in preparation for future cam That Jouett Shouse of Kansas City, former member of the House and for- mer Assistant. Secretary of the Treas- ury, will have charge of the Washing- | probably, before Autumn at least. ton headquarters, as chairman of the national executive committee of the party, a post which Mr. Raskob has hitherto held. Mr. Raskob said emphatically he had no present intention of resigning as| chairman of the national committee, in reply to questions put him. He indi- cated that he intended to remain on the job and do everything in his power to build up the national organization: There was no talk of presidential candidates of the future. Mr. Raskod said, however, that the Demoeratic or- genization here would seek, through re- search to aid in every way in the for- mation of policies of the party. There Id be the closest ‘kind of teamwork, Mr. Raskob . between the head- quarters here-and the Democratic mem- bers of the'Senate and House. _~Shouse From Middle West. ‘Mr. Shouse is from the Middle West. He supported actively the candidacy of William G. McAdoo for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1924. In the recent campaign he worked in- defatigably for the election of Alfred E. Smith, and served as a member of the Democratic advisory committee in New York. He has been picked partic- ularly for his ability and his thorough knowledge of the party’s affairs to take charge now of the Washington head- quarters. ! While it is planned to have Mr Shouse in full charge of the head- quarters maintained here. Mr. Raskob made it clear that he was not relin- quishing his interest in the develop- | ment of a strong, active party organ- ization. He said that monthly meet- knbwledge of reports that the British Future Trouble - Foreseen. HOPES TOFILLTHE 'Grand Ballroom Of Waldorf to En Rugs and Carpets on Which Royalty Trod to Go on Auction Block. |President Likely to Give | Name of One Appointee in Next Ten Days. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 1.—An auctioneer’s | hammer was poised today to toll the knell of the Waldorf-Astoria and knock down to the highest bidder rugs and carpets upon which royalty trod in the heyday of the famous hotel. The grand ballroom, whose walls have | looked down on many of the world's most famous men and most celebrated beauties, will be alight for the last time tonight, when 800 guests gather to give a farewell toast at the final dinner. The Waldorf-Astoria closes today. its | furnishings to be sold and the building | torn down to make way;.('m;r a skyscraper ]l:n been . given until tomorrow noon ! ys assumed the role of guides President Hoover is hopeful of ap- pointing the two civilian members of the Public Utilities Commission of the | District to succeed Col. J. Harrison Brand and John W. Childress by the time the latier's resignation becomes cffective May 31. It was said in behalf of the President at the White House today that if he is not fortunate enough to make selec- tions for both of these places by that time the President at least will be able ,to fill one of them. Mr. Hoover is understond fo have virtually made up “his. Mmind regarding one of these va- ‘cancis and should be in a position to make public the name of this appointee within' the next week or 10 days. Col. Brand's place on the commission has been vacant since April 1. Senate Failed to Act. He was nominated for reappointment by President Coolidge during the last session of Congress, bul t the Senate ad- journed without acting upon it. (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) CIANT EASTERN RAL Col. Brand has’ been sfrongly indorsed by the place from which he resigned. but friends for appointment to succeed to| 1 Wwere to a naval parley before ! 1931. It Was said that the whole work | could be képt within the framework of | the Preparatofy, Commission. which is | not called upon %o deal with or discuss the question of thiée second Washington conference scheduled for 1931, H The delegations of the big naval| powers are now concentrating on the | question of the procedure to be adopted | when naval matters are reached on the | } agenda of the commission. To this end they are telegraphing their home gov- | ernments for instructions and expect to reach a procedure agreement within | a few days. | The question of the date for an in-| ternational conference rests with the | Council of the League of Nations, but | the Preparatory Commission must de- | | cide whether to have a fresh discussion | of the naval question now or postpone | it until Autumn and whether it would | be desirable to appoint a naval subcom- | mittee to study the American proposal, | JAPAN AIDS GIBSON MOVE. Mr, Wood’s statement in full follow: “Pending the collapse of the Com- munistic strikes, I am going home to plant my garden. I shall stop off at | there will probably not be any of this sort of strike to interfere with our pro- gram to help deserving workers negoti- | ployers. “Aside from some possible sporadic outburst, the Communistic effort to pro- The Communists have contacts which they designate as nuclei in certain mills and in localities where mills are sit- uated, but they are rather widely scat- tered. “Certain of these nuclei are made up of persons who ess A considerable measure of influence with mill workers. Where this condition obtains, they will be troublesome, from time to time, i the communities where such mills are located. “No fair-minded person should hold any of these misled mill workers re- sponsible for thelr activities in striking or conducting a strike. They, in com- mon, with workers elsewhere, have been incensed by grievances. Swayed by plausible prom of Communist lead- ers, it is not unusual that these work- ers select this method as a means to | Delegate at Geneva to Propose Com- mittee to Study Plan. TOKIO. May 1 (#).—It was learned | here today that Count N. Sako, Japa- nese delegate to the preparatory com- mission on disarmament at Geneva, Washington, By the time I get back, | ate grievances with their respective em- | CONTROL WAR SEEN Pennsylvania Battle With B. & 0. and C. & 0. for Trunk Line Predicted. i —_— ! By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, May 1.—The New York | ions for control of strategic railroads ! in the East, comparable to that waged between the Pennsylvania and the | Gould interests In the early part of the century, had been started between the } Pennsylvania Railroad on the one side Chesapeake & Ohio on the other. Through the Wabash Railway, which it controls, the Pennsylvania is to apply to the Interstate Commerce Commission | for permission to acquire roads sought ' | by the B. & O. and the Van Swerin- ';;en.n and link them into a fifth trunk | line between Chicago and Baltimore there 1s no indication at the While General meetings of Communists were forbidden while the general secretary of the Communists workers’ organization as being held by police. Twenty-six were expelled | from France after # quiet round-up House that Mr. Hoover will name him. Among those who have urged Col. Brand's appointment were several mem- bers of the local Republican organiza- | tion, but they did so as individuals and ‘llmt in the name of the organization. L is ! itself has not yet recommended any one | for either Col. Brand's place! or the | cne to be made vacant by Mr. Childress, | _ President Hoover has turned over to Walter H. Newton, one of his secre- mote strikes in the South is about Over.| Times said today that a battle of mil- | taries, the task of investigating those that the President has been advised | that the selection of persons for these | two places has been made difficult be- | cause of the limitations placed bv the law creating the commission, which re- quires that appointees to the commi and the Baltimore & Ohio and the | sion must be legal residents of the Dis- | | trict of Columbia for a period of three | | | { years prior to their appointment. Suggested for Appointment. Among some of those who have bsen suggested for appointment to the com- mission are William McK. Clayton, who 15 understood to have the backing of a number of civic_oragnizations in this city, Willlam A. Roberts, who is a valu- |ation expert in the Interstate Com- understood that the organization | ings of the executive committee would be held at the headquarters here, which | had been instructed to agree to a pro- both he himseli and former Senator | posal whereby a subcommittee would be ‘Gerry of Rhode Island, chairman of | formed by delegates from the five lead- the advisory committee, would attend.|ing powers to consider proposals of the | ""Mr. Shouse's selection to head Demo- | United States delegate. Hugh S. Gibson, | cratic activities in the National Capital | for broad naval reduction. is regarded as a compromise between the two old warring factions in the | | party, one of which has been insistent LABOR ASKS NAVAL CUT. enforce their demands. Wanted to Express Themselves. “They felt the need of expressing themseives concertedly, and, in this ship appeared to hold out the greatest promise for success. It is quite natural beings to make mistakes, but | for human ! time of need, the Communistic leader- | and New York. g {merce Commission; James J. Noonan. Revives Loree Plan. | Pred 8. Walker, Mrs, Virginia White | Thus, the Pennsylvania will revive Speel, Republican national committee- | the plan sponsored by Leonor F. Loree | Woman from the District: Mrs. Lvman | and defeated early last year by the B. Swormstedt, E. B. Hege, Charles L.| united action of the Pennsylvania, New | Stengle, Mrs. Grace H. Riley. Ethelbert | | York Central, B. & O. and the C. & O. Stewart, Kenneth P. Armstrong, Horace | The Wabash plans to file with the |J. Phelps, Earl Pisher, who is at present | | commission a merger petition which an executive of the commission, and | would include the Western Maryland. Byers M. Bachman, also associated | MAY DAY RUFFLED BY FEW DISORDERS OF SERDUS NATURE Berlin Police Arrest 200 in Clash With Communists. One Person Slain. D. C. STUDENTS GIVEN RADICAL PAMPHLETS Many Observances Take on Holi- day Mood—Mexican Reds Hostile Toward U. S. By the Associaied Press. | Socialist and Communist organiza- tions in Europe and the two Americas today celebrated May day, the inter- national labor day, while police in most countries undertook extraordinary pre- cautions to prevent disturbances. Disorders occurred in Berlin. In Mexico City ant anti-American phase to the. celebration developed. Police, while prepared, expected nothing exceptional in London, Paris, Rome or the South | American capitals. | In Washington the day was featured by !'a drive against Communist propaganda | found circulating among students | through the expedient of placing radical pamphlets where the students could find them. Parades and outdoor and indoor meet- ings were arranged for New York and other cities of the United States, but no disorder was feared. The day was a holiday in most of Spanish Ameérica, | with. the newspapers suspended and such essentials as faxis and restaurants not operating. Berlin Gets Early Start. | Beriin reported its second clash in two days before the celebration today |even started. Two policemen were { wounded in the indusirial suburb of | Neukoelin when 1,000 Communists at- tempted to form a procession in viola- tion of special May day prohibitory orders. The constabulary used sticks to enforce its order to disperse. Sev- eral revolver shots were fired by mem- bers of the crowd, one policeman being 1 hit by a bullet and another receiving a knife thrust. ‘The Communist newspaper El Ma- chete of Mexico said a demonstration | would be staged in front of the Ameri- ! can emba. | _An editorial attacked Ambassador alforrow, saying that it was neither Gen, Calles nor the Provincial President | Emilio Portes Gil, who governed Mexico, | but the American Ambassador. “Down ; with Anerican imperfalism,” the article | concluded. | Police Put on Duty. | Hundreds of policemen were ordered {on duty along routes of parades with | a thousand others held in reserve. A labor meeting this evening in North London will be addressed by the for- ‘mer premier, Ramsay MacDonald. Com- | munists arranged to parade the Thames cmbankment to Hyde Park for a mass | meeting. Extra detachments of Republican | guards and soldiers were brought in from the provinces and stationed at | strategic points of Paris and its suburbs | as a precaution against disturbances. | “suspicious foreigners ! during the two days just past. Vienna's Big Observance. ‘The celebration had double signifi- icance in Vienna, where the day was E the tenth anniversary of the found- ing of a Socialist government in the | once monarchist stronghold. A huge | who have been suggested for the utili- | D3rAde of vouths was held last night ties commission. It has been intimated | also as a prelude to today’s demonstrations. | L ! all May day demonstrations | ground that Moscow had i the day to foment disturbances. | Juan and Mendosa. | " Additional police were assigned to duty in Rio de Janeiro during a huge ! demonstration. REDS ACTIVE IN D. C. | Pamphlets Attacking Training Camps r Schools. Members of Lincoln Post, American Legion, in Columbia launched an investigation of circum- stances surrounding the dissemination of Communistic literature among stu- dents of the Powell Junior High School. members of the post announced today. The inquiry was precipitated by the Found » Rigo dispatches said both Latvian and ithuanian authorities had forbidden on the instructed | local Communists to take advantage of President Yrigoven declared a holi- day in the Argentine. Workers, Com- | munists and_Socialists called meetings in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Cordoba, San Heights have | | That' Mr. Raskob be ousted from chair- Coming from a nelghbor cOUntry | manship of the national committee. which he declared “views sometimes British Member Gets Little Satisfaction by Queries. !it is very difficult to convince them | they are mistaken. | “It is much better to let them dis-| The B. & O. in a recent merger pe- tition asked for both the Wabash and with concern” the spirit in which the “Colossus of the Western Hemisphere” exercises the vast political forces at its command, Mr. Cahan discussed before the Chamber earlier today with frank- ness the controversial issues of tariff retaliation, prohibition enforcement and the sinking of the rum ship I'm Alone Canada recognizes no “morai or legal liability” to aid the United States in enforcing its sumptuary laws within its own jurisdiction, Mr. Cahan declared in the first discordant note sounded before the chamber convention. Nor would it ever occur to any Canadian official, he admonished, to call upon this Govern- ment to assist Canada in the exercise Enthusiastic Over Debt Cut. The reduction of the Democratic debt by $750,000 in less than six months was received here by Democratic leaders with much enthusiasm, as well as Mr. Raskob’s promise to reduce the debt to $500,000 within a short time and to wipe out the whole debt before the year | is out. It took the Democrats four years to pay off the deficit of about ! $300,000 which remained after the 1924 campaign. Senator David 1. Walsh of Massachusetts, one of those with whom Mr. Raskob conferred, said: 1 think the financial showing made in reducing the debt of the committee is remarkable. The plan of 3 perma- nent organization in Washington is an excellent idea.” LONDON, May 1 (#).—Comdr. J. M. | cover their own mistakes and then they | Kenworthy, Labor member of the House | of Commons and authority on naval af- fairs, got little information regarding | the immediate steps Great Britain will ‘u\ke toward disarmament out of a | series of questions he today to W. C. Bridgeman, first lord of ad- miralty. _ Mr. Bridgeman, when asked whether in view of negotiations at Geneva. England proposed to retard the present program of warship construction. re- plied that it was not proposed to I {down any ships under the 1929 pr gram until toward the end of the finan- |cial vear. “Won't you go a little further and de- | lay further expenditure on these ships are less likely to repeat them. | fiyer in Communism will pe | | | ~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 2) | REPORTER IN PLANE 2,000 FEET "IN AIR PHONES STORY TO A. P. Cline B Bhics B oo Pabbis Blonsiaits of its own sovereign rights within its Mr. Raskob said that the debt had |until we know where we stand in the ' | future,” insisted Comdr. Kenworthy. | the Western Maryland. The Pennsyl- | vania obtained control of the Wabash 1 do not think that a temporary | through purchase of the Loree holdings. anently | At _the same time, the Pennsylvania | (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) | with the commission. MISSING YOUTH FOl.JND DEAD IN COUNTRY LANE stration of Western Electric By the Associaled Press. PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, May 1.—Wil- | liam Sanford Wright, 18, sophomore | and star athlete in Wheelersburg High | School, was found shot to death in a country lane near Wheelersburg, a short | distance from here, today by searchers w'hn had spent the night looking for im ‘hey believe Wright had been shot else- where and his body carried to the spot | ““(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) |EX-DISTRICT ATTORNEY, IN JAIL, ‘ALARMINGLY” ILL Asa Keyes of Los Angeles, Held on Charge of Bribery, Awaits Action on Appeal. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 1.—The condi- tion of Asa Keyes, former district at- torney of Los Angeles County. who is ill in the county jail, where he is await- | as_“alarming.’ Dr. Benjamin Blank. jail physician. own territories. With equal bluntness. the Canadian ~(Continued on Page 2, Column, 3.) been reduced by “solicitation of con- tributions" “I think it would be rather prema- ture to take any such step before wa {know exactly what these proposals at Anne Morrow Prefers Auto or Train To Plane for Enjoying Scenic Beauties By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 1.—Anne Morrow, flancee of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. prefers to travel by auto- mobile or train rather than by alrplane but for asthetic reasons. Only on land, she says, can a journey reveal the scenic beauties of a landscape; the air travel- er sees A map. “T like to fily,” Miss Morrow said, “but 1 don't think airplanes ever can take the place of motoring or any means of travel close to the earth. Not for real beautv. 1_mean. Flying over water is Jovely. The different lights on the 4 water are wonderful, but while .over Geneva are,” Mr. Bridgeman replied. - . < Mr. Jinks Winner in Race. NEWMARKET, England, May 1 (®). —Mr. Jinks, owned by Maj. McCalmont, by Tetratema out of PFalse Piety, won the Two Thousand Guinea Stakes to- Gay. [land you get only a splendid map view. | Morrow, daughler of the Am- Bank Statements jor to Mexico, leaves for the East | tonight, accompanied by her mother Mis. Dwight W. Morrow, and her sister, Miss Elizabeth Morrow. They have been visiting for two days with Miss Morrow's grandmother, Mys. Charles Cutter. and friends of Cleveland. Elizabeth Morrow confided to a friend last night that her sister and the fa- mous flyer have not set their wedding Washington clearing house, Treasury balance, $226,301,274.25, New York clearing house exchange. $1,838,000.000. New York clearing house balance, $162,000,000. $5,345,- Invention. BY W. W. CHAPLIN, what as though he were wearing the Associated Press Staff Writer. t ¢ Alnddin, Merli b Ateh mantles o Ll 5 erlin, e wilcl ABOVE NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. | o mndor and Cinderella's fairy god- May 1 (#).—This story was telephoned 'mother.. to the Associated Press today by a re-| “City Desk” he heard. porter high above land in the first pub- 2,000 Feet in Air. lic demonstration of a Western Electric | “This is Bill” seid the soaring re- invention. which enables an aviator to | porter. “I got a story.” : chat from the clouds with any earth- | “Where are you?” asked bound telephone subscriber. | desk, 2,000 feet below. Taking off in the fiying telephone “I'm up in the air.” booth from Hadley Field, N. J, and | pv linked by wireless with the 1and lines of | o ot s scy whee v ¢ the commercial telephone system, the| “You furnish the " the re- reporter gave his number and presently flr::; x!:gt":'f:;i m:r'; lnéh;'m rm::‘ ! the city ing to be nonchalant, but feeling some- | where found. Wright was last seen about 10 o'clock last night at the conclusion of 2 moving School. ‘The youth’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Wright, and his friends were unable to advance any possible reason for the slaying. Washington-New York Ball Game Called Off On Account of Rain Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK. May 1.—Rain this morning forced the post- ponement of this afternoon’s base ball game betwean the Washing- ton and New York American League teams. Weather permitting. the sched- heard the Associated Press awitchboard | just“five ‘minutes to talk. Pass me & Radio 7Progr;1:m-;1;a_ge 36 ! date althengh it will be ssome time in June. She wears no m‘ operator in New Y rewrite man and get him quick.” ork City answer, “Glmme the m&n he ald, by- "~ (Condinued o Page 3, column &) | ¢ will be played between | ordered a nurse to attend Keyes in t | jail hospital. Dr. Bland said he w: | suffering from an acute attack of bron- pleture show at the Wheslersburg High | chitis and a kidney disease. Keves is 52 lar place with those of the Eyrd | pedition who exercise regularly. | years old. 1 | 3y the Associated Press RIPON, W May 1 (#).—Regard- dess of how many people participate in this city's celebration in June to observe its claim as the birthplace of the Re- publican party. there will at least be plenty of elephants. And despite the common belief that |all clephants are Republicans. the Democrats are likely to be represented at the head of the parade with one— and possibly two—baby pachyderms Organizers of the cglebration, affer Canvassng clrcuses z00s without — RUM WAR SHIFTS TONEARBY STATES: ONE MAN 15 SO Wild Chase Here of Liguor Runner Suspect Lost in Smoke Screen. 'MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA OFFICERS IN GUN FIGHTS Alexandria Police Wound Alleged Whisky Car Driver—Another Skirmish Near T B. The battleground of the speetacular rum war between bootleggers and pro- hibition enforcement officers shifted unexpectedly last night into nearby Maryland and Virginia, while the ‘Washington police on guard at the va- rious entrances into the Distriet spent A night of watchful waiting, broken only by one futile chase downtogn. Two thrilling skirmishes oteurred during the night between police and the rum runners, one south of Alexandria. | Va, on the Fort Hunt road, and the other on the road to Southern Mary- land in the vicinity of Tom Brook, more familiarly known as T B. In both of them the police and the boot- leggers exchanged fusillades of shots and but one casualty resulted. Escapes With Smoke Screen. The Washington police, however, en- gaged in one semsational pursuit of a suspected colored rum-runner through the downtown section, but with the se of smoke-throwing device he es- caped after nearly blinding Pvt. Henry of the second precinct. Rinke ruising” in a police car when he observed a machine traveling at a high speed 2long L street near PFirst street, and went in uprsuit. The chase followed a zigzag course to New Jersev avenue, to New York avenue, to Fifth street, through Congress court to M street, to Sixth-and-one-half street, to N street, to Ninth street, to O street, to Thir- teenth street, where Rinke lost the trail in a dense smoke screen. The officer did not use his gun. Ernest Johnson, colored. Prince Georges County, Md., was the only vie- tim of the gun battles between the police and alleged rum runners. He was wounded by the Alexandria police after a three-mile chase of a liquor laden ecar over the Fort Hunt read, which ended near the Belle Haven Couniry Club. Johnson js in & ous mn‘r?mb“;l the Afile‘nd;ll,l Iflfi- pital with a bullet lodges s lung. | and his companion, Luw also colored, is being held at Alexandria police headquarters. The machine occupied by Johnson and Boone, escorted by another car which escaped, was observed by Police- man Charles Quarfermous and Wesley Snoots near Washi and King streets and gave chase when they no- ticed the sagging rear springs of both automobiles, indicating they were heavily loaded. Autos Refuse to Hait. Pursuing the machines in their police | car to Hunting Creek Bridge, just be- yond the ciiy limits, the officers com- manded both cars to halt, The automobiles sped across the bridge and then took different routes, one con- tinuing toward Fredericksburg on the Richmond-Washington highway, while Johnson and Boone turned ofi toward | the Belle Haven Country Club. The police followed the latter pair. A tire was thrown out of the ton- nesu of the pursued machine in an ef- fort to throw the police car off the road. One of ihe occupants then firad at the police from the speeding car. the bullet missing both police and machine. Pulling his car to a halt. Johnson, the driver of the rum car, jumped out and is sald to have shoufed. “You come another ——— step and I'll blow your brains out. Quertermdus hopped from the nolice (Coniinued on Pags 2, Column 7. GYM MADE IN SNOW AT LITTLE AMERICA Byrd Expedition Members Shiver in Temperature of 49 Below Zero. RUSSELL OWEN. 1929, by the New York Times St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Al . publication reserved thronghout 58 to The Star and the New York Time: LITTLE AMERICA, Antartica, April 20.—It is 49 below zerv today. but it seems much colder and there has been some speculation as o the caus It seems colder outdoors than it was when it has been 50 below. There is also a feeling of dampness in the air and, apparently, this has the same ef~ fect as at home. although the actual humidity is, of course, much less be- | cause of the lower temperature. | But every one comes in rubbing his hands and raakes a dive for the stove to get warm again. A gymnasium has been made in the snow by digging down, making low Authorities, who began an immediate : ing the outcome of an appeal from a walls of blocks and then covering it investigation of the slaying, said that | bribery conviction, was reported today over with canvas Bern! Balchen. the athletic aviator, and Sverre Strom, giant Norse boatswain and polar vet- eran, box there a little every day. | Eventually, when the gymnasium is | completed, it will probably be a popu- ex- Democratic Owner Offers His Elephants TO Lcad RiPOn‘S chublican Celebration | success for an elephant. & few days ago | said that following newspaper stories of | their plight they had been deluged with offers of elephants for rent. | ‘Today, the owner of two baby ele- | phants offered them to represent the | Republican party. He sald he was a | Democrat. as were the elephants. but he had no objection to having them lead | | a Republican parade. | | State News, Pages 10 and 11