Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1929, Page 2

VAN SHOT N HASE DEAD N HOSHTAL Alexandria Police Say He Re- ' sisted Arrest—Five Seized Here in Auto. Death today again followed in the) wake of the intensified liquor warfare. when Ernest Johnson, colored, of Prince Georges County, Md, Alexandria ILiospital from wounds ceived in a battle with Alexandria po- lice Tuesday night. succumbed in | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. YOUTH DRINKING | CHARGE DISPUTED ! Heads of Four Church Groups | Reply to La Guardia House Speech. | Charges by Representative La Guardia | of New York that there is l‘hulmlcv’ American youth were | false” and insulting in a| | statement issued today by the heads of four organizations of “Protestant young people” in the District of Colum- | i bia_and vicini ! MOTOR EXECUTIVES CA PRESIDENT D. C, THURSDAY, MAY. 2, 1929, HOOVER SELF-RULED TRADE | PROMISED BY KLEIN iAssistant Commerce Head! i | | Assures Chamber Govern- ment Wants to Help. | __(Continued From Pirst Page) | {In the great majority of which retailing | {and wholesaiing make up the major part | | of business, Mr. Grimes told the con- | vention. “An indusiry making up such an im- | HOOVER DISMISSES ATTORNEY DE GROOT Prosecutor Who Refused to Resign Summarily Dis- charged by President. By the Assoclated Press William A. De Groot, who has re- peatedly refused to resign as United States attorney for the eastern New York district, has been summariiy dis- missed from office by President Hoover. He is the third district attorney portant part of the whole amount can- | forced out of office since Attorney Gen- not be pushed out of existence without | eral Mitchell undertook to comply with serlously deranging the entire business the President’s desire for increased eff- . : .| The statement was declared to be Johnson and a companion, GeOTR® | roprecentative “in a general way” of Boone, also colored. engaged in & run- |the feeling of organization members ning fight from an automobile with | throughout the eountry. The organiza- mechanism,” he warned. | Charles Quartermous and ¢ Snoots, according to the report of ! Baptist Young People’s Union and the | the officers, who aid that Quartermous | shot Johnson after the pursued car had | stopped. and Johnson, jumping out with a revolver, threatened to kil the po- licemen, who was advancing on him The car was reported to contain 131 pints: of liquor. Arrested After Chase. In a chase here early today, a liquor- faden automobile. three colored men and two colored women were seized by Motor Cycle Policemen Watson Salkeld | and E. C. Spalding of the twelfth pre- cinct on Rhode Island avenue northeast | he District line. The machine | 70 quarts of alleged rye| | | ‘Those arrested gave their names and | wddresses as Walter Gorman, years old, 1315 Third street southwest; Charles Coleman, 21, 1226 Third street southwest: William Harris, 30, 302 H strest southwest: Marguerite Campbell, 20, 23 O street soufhwest. and Verona Smith, 31, 1327 Carrollburg street southwest. They were all ¢harged with transporting and possession under the Jones act and held af the twelfth pre- cinct. The policemen were riding on Rhode Island avenue just this side of the Dis- trict line when their attention was at- tracted by a car coming toward them at what they said was a high rate of speed. When the machine had passed them the officers said they noticed that it had no rear light, They immediately gave chase and after overtaking the party a search of the machine is said tc have revealed the liquor hidden under the reer seat of the car. Citizens Tphold Rouse. A resolution defending the recent | Fleming killing as the outgrowth of a ° liquor chase was adopted by the Dahl- gren Terrace Citizens' Association, in executive session, Tuesday night, and mfdde public today. The resolution raid: “Whereas undue criticism, both in the press and public expression, has been given regarding the unfortunate killing of a felon or rum runner by goltxcemm Rouse while performing his uty; “Therefore be ie resolved, That this association go on record as upholding the action of the policeman and com- mending him for carrying out his duty, and calling upon the major of police to | vigorously enforce the law as laid down in the Police Manual.” Copies Sent to Officials. 1t -was signed by M. W. Pickering, as chairman of the committee on police and fire, and these members: D. D. James, J. G. Kingsbury, A. F._E. Scheer, gmudznt _of _the -association, and rances W. Barnes, secretary. 1 Copies were sent among others, to chairmen of th'e mmpnunem and the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. House Hears of Issue. The liquor situation in the Capital came in for extended discussion in the House yesterday afternoon, the way be- ing paved by a speech by Representa- | tive LaGuardia, Republican, New York, in which he set forth his views on con- ditions locally to bear out his conten- tion that the prohibition law is a fail-| ure, and also treated on conditions na- tionally and called on Congress to ap- propriate $150,000,000 to carry out the Hoover program for enforcement dur- lhglhe next fiscal year. uring the afternoon, oo, & spec! committee from the Board of Trade, at luncheon meeting at which Supt. of Police Pratt was a guest, decided to ask the board to issue a city-wide ap- peal, especially to garage and gasoline station workers, to report cases of smoke screens, or cars equipped for smioke screens, coming under their ob- servation, that the police might act.| ‘The committee also decided to seck re- | newed activity for the passage of laws to_curb firearms -traffic. Before launching into his speech La Guardia made an_unsuccessful attempt 10 have expunged from the Congres- sional Record the word “applause” afer a statement in defense of the killing last week of Ottmer Herman Flemming | hy-Policeman Clyde O. Rouse during a | Wm chase. H Blocked by O’Conner. { He was blocked by a “wel,” Repre- | spntative O'Connor, Democrat, of New | York, who objected to the expunging on the ground that the record should be | preserved for historical accuracy. Many | drys favored striking out the “appla: although making it clear that they | not condone the offense laid at Fles ing's door. | ]Pal{}[ Brindle, president, Luther League | | tions named were the Christian En- | deavor Union, the Epworth League, the | Luther League. “We desire to state, without qualifi cation,” the groups said, “that th members of our organizations are mot | drinkers. From the inception of the ! organizations which we represent they | have stood for temperance. Before pro- | hibition they worked earnestly for the| day when there would be no saloons, | and since the - eighteenth amendment was enacted they have obeyed the law | and have consistently expressed their| belief that it is a good one. | “We know Mr. LaGuardia's “state- | ment to be false and that he is unable to prove his assertions, which reflect upon the moral integrity and purity Motor Co., Detroit; merce. roit; . Willys, president Wi Overland C From left to right: Edsel Ford, president Ford Motor Co.; F. A. Seiberling, president Seiberling Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio; Alfred H. Swayne, vice president Gen- | 50 eral Motors Corporation, New York: Walter P. Chrysler, president Chrysler Corporation, Det; = Ind.;: Roy D. Chapin, Hudson Motor Co., Detroit; President Hoover; C. W. ) J. Haynes, president of Durant Motor Co., Detroit; John ) | Corporation, Detroit; A. J. Brosseau, president Macks Trucks, Inc., New York; Alfred Recves and Pyke Johnson of the National Automobile Chamber of Com- | A. R. Erskine, president Studebaker Corporation, South Bend, | ash, president Nash Motor Co, Kenosha, Wisc.: Alvan Macauley, president Packard | ‘0., Toledo; H. H. Rice, General Motors Associated Press Photo. of the boys and girls of our land: “We challenge this wholesale attack | made on American youth.” The statement was signed by D. Ro- | land Potter, president, District of Co- | lumbia, Christian Endeavor Union; D. Stewart Patterson, president, Baltimore | Conference, Epworth League; Elgin Smith, president, - Columbia_Federation of Baptist Young Peoples Union, and | BERLIN NOW CALM AFTERROTS KL 7 May Day Clash With Police Fatal to Communists. Other Outbreaks. Synod. the House is not the place to try any | one under indictment, ‘but that there | seems to be a misapprehension as to the law. Mr. La Guardia said he wished to refute a statement made very often on the floor of the House and in the press that the last election was a referendum on prohibition and decided in favor of prohibition and its continuance. “The majority of the people of the country are against prohibition and in favor of modification,” he asserted. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 2-—Clashes between police and Communists in yesterday's riotous May day celebration in Berlin This brought a denial from Repre- sentative Crist, Democrat, of Georgia. “The recent shooting.” he explained, ‘brings out the various points of law in regard to the seizing and searching of property of citizen: He said he would state the facts as stated the other day in thé House by Representative Holaday of Illinois. except that, he de- clared, the youth killed as a suspected rum-runner “was an hones hard- working young man employed every day by the Capital Traction Co.” He cited Supreme Court rulings in support of his Jentention that had there been no kill- ing and had the liquor been seized it could not have been used as evidence against the youth unless the police knew in advance of the seizure that it con- tained more than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol. dia emphasized that the Su- resulted in heavy casualties, seven Communists being killed, and 80 civi- lians and 30 policemen injured. The casualtics were probably greater as the figures given out by the police today did not include many Commu- nists who were taken to their homes by comrades after being injured in the fighting. In all there were 900 arrests of whom 725 were released affer an examina- tion and their names registered. After a fairly quiet day during which |last night in'the working class quarter in Northern Berlin, Barricades were erected by the Communists and the the police had kept the demonstrations | | well in hand, serious rioting took place | .| concerned, Mr. La Guardia said that La G preme Court has held that evidence un- | lawfully taken could not be admitted, to that now ;:d é:.::idl:‘m'uf,‘,{“nfi.' %fimnmon the | obstructions and enabled the authori- court held that it was unlawful to shoot | ties to clear out the surrounding t . thus endangering | houses. ‘&'}l.':];v;“gfi;ducc:;.n& Y . Of the 175 persons still held by the police today, most of them will be Attacks Goverhment Policy. charged with rioting and violating the S0 far as the problem nationally ls!publlp peace. In addition, many of those detained over night, wha were released this morning are labie 0 be rearrested if police investigation should warrant. Today the city was quiet' ang trafic was normal. There were no cléshes or casualties reported anywhere, % THREE HELD IN MEXICO. palice were held off with rifie and pistol fire until armored cars. forced the President Hoover in his speech before the Associated Press had made it clear that respect and obedience of law was a Federal question, and the New Yorker charged t the Government Wwas “making no attempt to enforce the pro- hibition law equally throughout the| United States.” “I charge,” he said, “that the Federal Government is doing exaotly what the | President says no individual has the| right to do, to wit, to say which law it shall obey and which law it shall| MEXICO CITY, May 2 UP.—Three not obey.” { As an example, La Guardia, who is| men, alleged Mexican Communists, were ;svet. said the Treasury has uislgnedl under arrest today for investigation. 8 agents to New York State With an| yster 4 May day demonstration:in front B e e Ating wnly | Of the American consulate yesterday 297_enforcement, officers in the States | which police broke up almost as soon of Virginia, North and South Carolina, | as it began. One of the men, Leopoldo Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, | Quiroga, was charged with shouting Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and | “death to Morrow.” Porto Rico with an area of 461436, Ambassador Morrow was attacked square miles and a population of 24,- vigorously in posters spread about the 818,600 | eity prior to the demonstrations. $150,000,000 Fund Urged. | Several Slain in Lithuania. “The Government should be the first| KOVNO, Lithuania, May 2 P).— to put into practice the policy and the | Several Communists were killed and principles declared by the President of | many wounded yesterday by police who the United States” he added, “and in | fired on demonstrators, who had defied order to do that, it will be necessary | an order forbidding May day assem- for Congress to immediately appropriate , blages. $150,000,000 in_addition to the appro priation aiready made for the next| fiscal year.” | PARIS, May 2 (P).—May day passed Discussing the President’s statement | off calmly in France. Paris and iis that of the total number of convictions | suburbs, where parades and manifesta- for felonies last year less than 8 per|tions had been forbidden, wlso were cent came from prohibition, La Guardia | calm. However, there were almost 3,500 declared that if Mr. Hoover meant that | arrests in the Metropolitan district, 8 per cent were for direct violation of | most of them not because of trouble- the dry law he was correct. making, but simply as a preventive The fact remained. however, he as- | measure. serted, that “over 50 per cent of pres- | Orderly in New York. ent crime is a direct result of prohi- | NEW YORK, May 2 (@) —New bition.” | After La Guardia declared that ail | York's celebration of May day centered in a parade and later a mass meeting Radical Qutbreak at U, §. Consulate Broken Up. Paris Has Calm Day. youths between the ages of 19 and 21 | ‘;Wide Mind Outlet | | Believed Open in | Uncertainty Theory | Principle of Young Ger- | man Samson of Brings Coveted Award. | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, May 2.—From the brain lof a courtly German professor, still | under 30, there has come the “principle | of uncertainty,” ranking in sclentific importance with Einstein’s theory of relativity, and changing the general ideas of physical laws. | Dr. Werner Heisenberg on May 10 in New York will receive the medal of the Research Corporation of New York for outstanding scientific achievement | during the year; it is his “principle of uncertainty” that has won for him this prize and the accompanying award of $2,500. retical physics at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and visiting_profes- | sor during the current and Summer | terms at the University of Chicago. Cannot Calculate Future. Briefly, his theory knocks down the notion that the future. in atomic physics, can be calculated with ac- curacy. And the reason, still in brief, is be- cause the present cannot be accurately | described. | He says: | "It is possible to measure the position of electrons with accuracy. It is also | possible to measure their velocity with | as nluch accuracy as would be wanted. But, to measure both the position and | velocity at the same time with per- fect accuracy is not possible.” | That means, Dr. Heisenberg goes on | to explain, that if one element is meas- ured with' certainty the other must re- main uncertain. Thus is shattered the (old boast of the physicist that, given | all the details of a present system, he jcan predict the future state of the | system. | " All this has nothing to do with the present state of experimental physics, says the youthful professor, who adds that for all practical purposes it prob- ably never will be possible to improve on the accuracy with which one can define nature. Boundary of Human Knowledge. Dr. Heisenberg shows by his theory that in measuring the electron a final boundary to human knowledge is met, and he asserts, paradoxical as it may seem, that without this boundary—i.e. the uncertain factor of either velocity or position—science would be faced with an unfathomable mystery in the atom. ‘The mystery, he explains, would be the contradiction in nature of light showing itsell as projectiles of matter in one case and as waves in another; and the further contradiction of the | same sort with electrons, | "His theory is described by him as an attempt to explain this phenomenon, “It 1s not a negative principle,” he says. “It allows us to understand the appearance of the contradictory wave and projectile motions. If we could measure both velocity and position with perfect accuracy. we would be at a loss :x‘) understand the apparent contradic- on.” Employing a microscope to measure the position and velocity of an electron | the light used alters the velocity and { causes the electron to recoil. This re- coil is great in a very good microscope |and small in a poor microscope, Dr. Heisenberg says. The poorer the micro- | scope and the slighter the recoll the | s+ Among the supporters were Repre- sentative Kvale of Minnesota, a min- | fgter and ardent prohibitfonist. who | succeeded Andrew J. Volstead in the House. Mr. Kvale rebuked his ecol- | leagues for their “return to the jungle At ¥ Mr. Kvale said he was discussing the | dase from “the standpoint of human- ity, from the standpoint of the unfor- | tunate family that has been stricken, and from the standpoint of the honor | 4nd good name and reputation of this | Rouse. i “I stand for law enforcement, and | 1 stand for law observance—law ob- | servance on the part of those who buy | Bquor as well as on the part of these | who sell it. But I am interested in this poor family.” Does Not Condone Crime. Mr. Kvale emphasized that he was| Rot attempting to condone the crime eommitted by the slain youth, and said 6f the volice officer “it may be he was | doing & s simple duty.” He declared he | s * opp_sed to the taking of human life under any and all circumstances and for any consideration.” He appealed 1o his colleagues to have portions of the | yecord expunged as somc little comfort | fo the suffering family, who he said “are being done an injustice by the ignominy that is being heaped upon them in’ this case.” Another angle developed when Repre- sentative Miller, Republican, of Wasii- ington, introduced a bill under which a killing in similar eircumstances would be considered “justifiable homicide.” In his speech Mr. La Guardia had prepared extensive statistics, which ghowed that for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1928, there were 13,982 arrests in Washington for intoxication. 115 for drinking in public places and 22 for driving while drunk A detailed list of sel prohibition law was also given, showing a total of 190,920 seizures of various kinds of liquor and other intoxicants tills, wagons, etc. For violations of the Nolstead act ‘there were 6144 arrests, Mr. La Guardia said. Refers to Last Election. izures under the “There cannot be any hofest differ-| ences of opinion on cold. palpable facts had tested strong liquor there were cries of “No, no.” from the Repub- that packed Madison Square Garden.|smaller the degree of uncertainty—but The entire celebration, carried on in a | then, the degree of uncertainty as to | suchas is sought by the Trade Board | | rectly affected by the ease with wh lican side. Applause from the galleries. ! greeted a later statement that even some of the prohibition leaders. in the Capitol were “unable to control their own children.” | Legislation to curb firearms tral drizzling rain, was quiet and orderly. 24 Wounded in Poland. 2 WARSAW, Poland, May 2 (P) fhic | TWenty-four persons, ‘including six p licemen, were wounded in May-day clashes 'in Vilna yesterday, the only place in Poland where serious disturb- ! ances were reported during the day. PROTEST STRIKE URGED, committee is pending in Congress, ’"di in addition to this the committee wants the board to request the annual con- ference of governors, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National | Crime Commission and the American | Bar Association to make every effort | 10 obtain the enactment of similar stat- | May Day. utes in every State in the country. Spe- | ; ®— cial stress 12 to be 1814 on the necesaity | | HAMBURG, Germany, May 2 () of such a law in Virginia and Maryland, | Communists here have been seeking to sinee the District of Columbia is di- | induce workmen at the dockyards to h | strike in protes' against yesterday's weapons can be procurcd in neighbor- | “police terror in Berlin” in connection ing localities. with the May day observances. Thus Plohpes ot iAM G ven. far, however, a majority of the workers 6 .| have ignored the agitation. State Senator Prank L. Ball of Vir- My RO o S Shis atternaon ginia. who was present at the meeting gonfiscated extra editions of a Com- Communists Talk of “Police Terror” | on vesterday, pledged himself to introduce in the Virginia Legislature a bill regard- vocated. These plans will be presented to the ing dangerous weapons such as is ad- | munist newspaper urging the workers to arm and establish a Soviet republic MRS. WILLEBRANDT EXPLAINS LETTER ON board of directors of the organization | Monday. and Odell 5. Smith, chairman | of the public order committee, who pre- | sided, declared that the action of the | special committee would undoubtedly be indorsed by the governing body of | position becomes greater. The path of an electron under a | microscope is traced by the steam it generates. Dr. Heisenberg's matrix mechanics fs | a mathematical explanation of his | theory. It also is called atomic me- chanics, | Dr. Heisenberg's study of atomic | physics was begun in 1921, when he be- | came interested in the Quantum theory, | which established light as matter, P. W. Bridgeman, Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, | Harvard University, said in a recent ar- | ticle: “The new theory of Quantum | mechanics has received implicit formu- | lation in the principle of uncertainty of Heisenberg—a_principle which, I be- lieve. is fraught with the possibility of | greater change in mental outlets than | was ever packed into an equal number | of words.” | CATHOLICS EXONERATED. Portes Gil Does Not Hold Church Responsible for Revolt. MEXICO CITY, May 2 (#).—Presi- {dent Portes Gil in a public statement | last night said that he did not con- | sider that the Roman Catholic Church, as an’ institution. was responsible in any wav for the military revolution that TRANSPORTATION BOARD IS URGED | elers and Shippers Pro- posed to Hoover. Creation of a national transportation board to be made of representatives from existing agencies of the Govern- !ment which are interested in the va- rious phases of transportation wes rec- ommended to President Hoover today | by a group of automobile manufacturers who are in Washington attending the mestings Chamber of Commerce. In advocating such a board it was pointed out to the President that the | transportation problem is becoming a | Dr. Heisenberg is professor of theo- vital one and that in view of the fact that virtually everybody is more or less | interested the solving of the problem should be approached from a detached viewpoint. It was suggested that such a board would be very helpful to the traveling and shipping public. Roy D. Chapin of the board ol ¢he Hudson Motor Co. of Detroit, who was spokesman for this group, in advocating this board, stated that with the expansion of highway use naturally comes the broad question of iis reiation to other forms ot trans- poriation. | "It is our belief,” Mr. Chapin told the President, “that there 1s a ptace for |all and that modern requirements of | trade and travel cannot be met except as the fullest use is made of airways, | railways, waterways and highways. For this reason we advocate the creation of a transportation board in order that studies of facts may be expedited in the interests of the public.” Also Discuss Expansion. ‘The group of automobile lcaders also discussed the means of expanding motor transportation facilittes both here and abroad, explaining that more than 1,- 000,000 motor vehicles will be shipped to 104 countries during the present year. The President was advised that the de- mand for better motor transportation and transportation facilities is world wire, as ‘recognized as & necessary agency in transportation, and that when it is realized that as yet but 20 per cent of the now in service are running out- side the United States some concep- tion can be formed as to what tae future may hold. In this connection Mr. Chapin told the President that the sole barriers which stand in the way of the further expansion of this comumerce and all that it means to employment here are the lack of adequate highways and artificial barriers to trade, such as motor vehicle tariffs and indirect dis- crimination in the form of unduly high Internal taxes. He added that in this country, as well as abroad, there is an urgent and a continuing need for | highway expansion. He said the funds |for Pederal aid in this connection | should be increased and more attention should be given to the development cf roads in public land areas, such as our | | forests and parks; “We believe,” Mr. Chapin continued, “that the United States would perform economic service of world importance if it will make available to other coun- Itries the services of Government engi- | neers not for building of highways, but | to consult with engineers of other coun- tries when requested. 1In the further- |ance of such progress as the Intern: | tional Road Congress to be held here in Congress at Rio de Janeiro next July the Government has already undertaken a wise policy of co-operation which can- not but be fruitful of great good to all | | concerned, and which should be en- couraged and expanded in the future.” Aside from their conference with the President today, this motor group had | meetings with the Secretary of Stat the Secretary of Agriculture, the See retary of Commerce, members of Con- | gress and Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads. In the group, besides Mr. Chapin, were A. J. Brosseau, president, Mack Truck Co. New York; Walter P. Chrysler, pres dent of the Chrysler Corporation, De- troit; A. R. Erskine, president of the | Studebaker Corporation, South Bend, {Ind.; Edsel Ford, president of the Ford | Motor Co., Detroit; F. J. Haynes, presi- | dent of the Durant Motor Co., Detroit | Alvin MacCauley, president Packard | Motor Car Co., Detroit; C. W. Nash, i president of the Nash Motor Co., Ke- i nosha, Wis.: H. H. Rice, assistant to the president of the General Motors Cor- poration, Detroit: F. A. Seiberling, pres- ident of the Seiberling Rubber Co., Ak- | ron, Ohio; Alfred H. Swayne, vice pre: | dent General Motors Corporation. New York: John Willys. president” Willys- Overland Co., Toledo, and Alfred Reeves, general manager, and Pike Johnson, National Automobile Chamber | of Commerce. of the Nutional Automobile | MCARTHY DEFEATS DR OTELL N GOLF cience | National Agency to Aid Trav- Intercollegiate Champion Goes 17 Holes to Win on Washington Course. | Maurice J. McCarthy, holder of the intercollegiate golf championship, was forced to go to the seventeenth hole today to defeat Dr. L. S. Otell of the Indian Spring Golf Club in the feature match of the first round of match play in the Washington Golf and Coun- try Club invitation golf tournament. McCarthy and Otell had a ding-dong match, with the lead swinging between the two until the fifteenth hole, where Otell missed & 4-foot putt for a half, town lad also won the sixteenth hole with a par 4 and ended the match on the seventeenth, which they halved in par. Frank K. Roesch, the Washington Club champion, won on the nineteenth | hole from C. T. Clancy of Georgetown University. Qther first-flight results follow: Harry G. Pitt, Man Kenzie, Columbia, 5 and 4; Mark Flana- |gan, Georgetown, defeated J. B. Mur- |phy, Columbia, 3 and 2; Miller B. Stevinson, Columbia, defeated T. D. Webb, jr., Washington, 5 and 3; Rich- ard Wilson. Pinehurst, defeated Charles W. Cole, jr, 4 and 3; H. D. Nicholson, | Washington, defeated H. J. Heinzman, | Lancaster, Pa., 5 and 4: Page Hufty, McCarthy becoming 1 up. The George- | or, defeated Albert R. Mc- | | There are approximately 1,300,000 re- | i tail outlets and about 35,000 wholesale ' | houses in the country, he pointed out.| “Invested in_these enterprises is ap- | proximately $15,000,000,000, and its an- sales approximate $60,000,000,000. | Engaged in these businesses are some several million people. These, with their | | families and dependents, provide income n;r approximately 30,000,000 of our pop- ulatio Chances for Young People. Grimes warned that nothing should ever be permitted to impair seri- ously the making of profits and keeping | opportunity open for young people to | engage in a business of their own. | Businesslike administration to check | the indiscriminate growth of taxation was advocated by John G. Lonsdale, president of the National Bank of Com- merce of St. Louis. ‘The farmer and the banker have | been singled out as victims of unjust | taxation, he said, and he directed at- tention to the tax on corporation in- comes and earned incomes. “The income tax on corporations is too high and I should like to go on record for adequate reduction,” said | Mr. Lonsdale. “Likewise the tax npon' capital gain should either be abolished | or materially reduced. Earned Income Tax Cuts. “Because the tax on earned incomes imposes a penalty on thrift, this also is deserving of attention by Congress. Fortunately, President Hoover has just recently gone on record as favoring legislation for earned income to head the list of relief laws. However, with vast public expenditures and other monetary drains facing the Treasu this reduction may prove to be oniy one of those will-o-the-wisp hopes, un- less pressure is brought to bear.” Business men have accepted the challenge, thrown off their coats and rolled up their sleeves, Mr. Lonsdale said. and definite results are certain. The annual dinner, one of the princi- pal functions of the convention, will be given tonight at 7 o'clock at the Wash- ington Auditorium. with nearly 3,000 | delegates in attendance. Paul Shoup of San Prancisco, president of the | Southern Pacific Co., will be toastmas- ter. Senator Henry J. Allen of Kansas will be the speaker. An aviation meeting in connection with the convention, sponsored by the | National Ascoclation of Commercial Or- | ganization Secretaries, was held this| noon at the Willard Hotel. One of the | six surviving aviators who were flying | before 1911, Gerrish Gassa’ , pre- sided. Gassaway is manager of the | Chamber of Commerce of Wilmington, | Del. Famous _aviators, includnig Amelia Earhart, Elinor Smith, holder of the | women’s endurance record; Shlrley' Short, winner of the Harmon trophy: 1 { | | | General wrote, ciency in the Government service and inftiated {he Nation-wide surv f prosecuiing attorneys’ offices, whi still in progress. The other two, however, submitted their resignations in compiiance with requests from the Attorney General. They were John Cook. United States attorney for the southern district of Mississippi, and William A. Gober of the southern district of Florida Refused Sargent Request. President Hoover's support of his Attorney General's procedure was dem- onstrated when Cook come to Washing- ton to see him, but without suctess, De Groot's resignation was first re- quested during administration of the Department of Justice by former At- torney General Sarg That_request was made January 1929, Mitchell informed the President, and was re- is 2 {fused. The new Attorney General re- peated it April 3. His letter, he told Mr. Hoover, was ignored, and the re- quest was renewed April 24, being re- | fused again by De Groot in a telegram sent five days later. Acting on Mitchell's recommenda- tion and his statement of the situation, President Hoover wrote yesterday to De Groot: “You are hereby removed from the office of United States attorney, eastern district of New York, effective imme- diately. Denied Further Hearing. He thus also rejected De Groot's re- quest for a public hearing, Mitchell having told him that a hearinz had been held under Sargent and that “it would be a waste of time to comply with Mr. De Groot's request for any further hearing.” “There seems to be no difference of opinion among judges, members of the bar or officials or attorneys in the De- partment of Justice,” the Attorney as to the existence of unsatisfactory conditions in Mr. De Groot's office and as to the necessity for supplanting him by a competent and reliable man who will thoroughly reorganize the office and make imme- diate and extensive changes in the personnel.” PARIS PESSIMIrsrTIC AS EXPERTS AWAIT NEW GERMAN MOVE (Continued From First Page.) now are working separately from the drafting committee in preparation of & minority report which they will have ready to present to the full committee if it is found expedient. the motor vehicle has been | Congressfonal, defeated J, ‘M. Hunter, Indian Springs. 5 and 4. In the second flight G. F. Crooke, San Antonio, defeated J. H. Hoffman, Wash- ington, 6 and 5. | Fourth flight results follow: E. P.| | Hair, Washington, defeated Bonn Gil- | bert, 7 and 6; W. W. Rapley., Columi defeated Dr. T. J. Rice, Washington, | 3 and 2; B. S. Taylor, Washington, de- | feated J. C. Johnson, Columbia, 5 and | 4 Ross Puette, Richmond, defeated J.! | T. Barnes, Washington, 4 and 3; J. G. Corcoran, Washington, defeated Hugh Saum, Columbia. 1 up: E. L. Bono, Co- | lumbfa, defeated Ralph S. Fowler, 2 and 1; I C. McKee, Annapolis, de- feated O. C. Murray. Washington, 4 and 2; A. C. Hale, Philadelphia, de- feated D. R. Elmore, Washington, 3| and 2. The second round was being played George Haldeman, Ambrose Banks, the first air mail pilot to come to Wash- ington. and others were among the in- vited guests. Convention Closes Tomerrow. nomination last Monday. At the conference yesterday on vocated increase of the Federal Reserve rediscount rate from*5 to 6 per cent or higher, as a means of restricting the amount of money used in speculation. policy of the Federal Reserve Board had this afternoon. | proved ineffective and urged that more 4 | drastic action be taken, so that the full McCarthy Again Is Favorite. benefit would result immediately, With all prominent golfers of the city | stead of following safely in the first flight as a result of an unprecedented low scoring spree in the qualifying round yesterday. the first | { been employed by the board. In that case, Owen D. Young, chair- {man of the committee, and J. P. Mor- gan, of the American delegation, prob= 2bly either will draw up a shott report of their own or have inserted a brief declaration in the report as prepared The convention will close tomorrow | by the drafting committee. with a final general session, at which | the assembly is expected to ratify the | election of 17 nmew directors, placed In ; went over that part of the report deal- Need for Economy Stressed. The drafting committee yesterday | ing with the German budget. Comment | on this subject, which is made with ap- proval of the German delegation, finance and credit supply Prof. O. M.|dwells on the necessity for economy and W. Sprague of Harvard University ad- | for a rigorously balanced budget. Another important chapter that re- ceived attention yesterday was that ealing with the method by which the | system of reparations payments would Prof. Sprague declared the present|be switched from the present Dawes' plan organization to new machinery in case it were finally set up. The old Revelostoke subcommittee, un- in-| der the presidency of Sir Charles Addis the policy of “slow.|of the British delegation in place of gradual pressure” which, he said, had | the deceased expert, will meet today to | consider what measures for the security By raising the rediscount rate, Prof.|of payments may be incorporated in a and second rounds of the Washington | Sprague said, the Reserve Board would, new plan. to take the place of those Golf and Country Club Spring golf | serve notice that unlimited demand for | provided by the Dawes' plan which a tourney today were expected to find | credit will encounter definite and ef- new system will abrogate. Maurice J. McCarthy, jr., intercollegiate | fective obstacles. golf champion, in the semi-finals. | McCarthy is installed as a favorite to | security prices are too high at present. annex the ‘ourney he won last year by | but declared the Reserve Board should reason of his par-shattering card of 70, | act before prices do become too high registered in the medal round yesterday, 'and possibly result in a collapse. to lead his nearest competitors by four | W. F. Gephart, vice president of the shots. Grouped behind him at 74 were | First National Bank of St. Louis, said Dr. L. S. Otell of Indian Spring. Rich- | those who expect the Reserve Board to ard Wilson of Pinehurst, N. C.‘and H.| work miracles expect the {mpossible. John Heimenz of Lancaster, Pa. | P . " The scores of 74 made by Otell and | ‘Canset Stabillse: Frices: Heimenz stood up most of the day, for | “The Reserve Board cannot, ought McCarthy did not start untii late, and | not and has no business trying to sta- finished his round at 6:30 last night. He | bilize prices.” he added. “This seems literally blazed his way around the |to me the poorest possible time to ex- course, picking up four birdies in his | pect it to be able to devise any particu- round to finish one shot under par. At |jar method to control the situation.” the fourteenth tee he had par for a| Declaring the Reserve Board has been 68, but he dropped strokes on the four- | attempting to control the credit situa- He explained that he did not contend | 1930 and the Pan-American Highway ' teenth, fifteenth and eighteenth to reg- ister a 70 and set a new competitive rec- ord for the Washington course. Scores of 79 were the last to qualify !in the first flight and several cards of 89 were drawn out of the fifth flight. Pairings in the first flight today follow: Frank K. Roesch. Washington (19). vs L Clancy.” Georgeiown U. (19): Pitt. Manor (79), vs. Albert R. MacKensie, mbia (78); J. B. k Flannagan. Georgetown (75); Miller bia (75), vs. T. D. Webb, hington (7 v &, 1nd! 7 itelmenz, Tancaster, Ba. (Ho. H. D. Nicholson. Washineton (75 S Otell. Indian Spring ( McCarthy, Washington (70} Cuneressional (78), vs. J. Mol dian Spring (78) 'CONTEST TICKETS READY ON TUESDAY | E 6,500 for Oratory Finals to Be 5.0 hard Wils s Page Hufty. nro Hunter, In- | { Murphy. Columbia (75). | tion by a policy based merely on opin- | fon, Waddill Catchings of New York said ithll business cannot be regulated in | this manner. | " He charged the Reserve Board with attempting to control the use of credit by a policy based on the opinion that | security prices are too high and that | specutation is harmful. | Proposals that the Chamber of Com- merce sponsor of a Nation-wide cam- paign to improve the health of the people and increase longevity were laid before the round-table conference of life and property conservation by lead- ing public health officlals and insur- ance_representatives. Taking as a basis the enormous strides made in the reduction of life and property loss by fire through the annual fire-waste contest sponsored by the chamber, Dr. Henry F. Vaughan. health commissioner of Detroit. urged that the organization take the lead in awakening community interest in the health of the people. Auto Law Held Failure. GERMAN ATTITUDE CHANG! Berlin Favors Continuation of Dawes Plan for Present. BERLIN, May 2 (#).—Dr. Hjalmar Schacht expressed the opinion, prior to his departure for Paris last night | that no offer he could make Germany's creditors could serve as a basis for permanent settlement of the repara- tions problem. Even a “provisional solution,” which official eircles favored for a long time, no longer seemed satisfactory and Ger- man officialdom was inclined to the view that it was better to have the Dawes plan continue than to accept a provisional settlement with its new un- certainties. It was said this change of attitude was due to the realization that any pro- visional solution to be acceptable to the allies must entail giving up the transfer protection guaranteed in the Dawes plan. PIMLICO ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. FIRST RACE-Th he Fair Gain: 2-year-old maidens; $1,300 _ furlons. 1{6 " Tsurusa 16 P 116 Uptown . E. Trueman entry. Equitable Handicap and up. $1.500; 1 L. Freeman SECOND RACE- Th 3-year-olds Sporting Grit Edisto 3 THIRD RACE - $ 1.300; 3-vear-olds; claim- Distributed—Now Being Compulsory automobile insurance in Printed. years' experience. has failed to prove a success, it was charged by E. C. Stone Massachusetis, on the basis of two | | the Board of Trade. It was pointed out that in appealing to the citizens to ad in the detection of smoke screens, the board would not be asking them to put themselves in the positlons of ordinary informers, but as ‘protectors of the lives of innocent persons who must necessarily be en- dangered by the use of the perilous de- vice and by the shooting in the streets which is likely to follow Ma). Pratt in urging that such in- formation be brought to police stations declared that the identity of the in= formant would not be divulged, and pledged himself to see that all such reports were immediately investigated. The first step in_the program of the board was to be the securing of in- dividual backing of every one of the 3,000 constituent members, who in turn in Washington in regard to prohibition entorcement,” sajd La Guardia in open: ing his apeech. -He sald he I » ) were to work for the propagation of the 1des, __(Continued From First Page) the- evidence- it is plain Congress in- | tended the prosecutor to. press for the higher penalties of the Jones law, w.ith the power of deportation of undesirable | aliens engaged in such violations to fol- low. “Evaluating evidence before trial has heen always a prosecutor's duty: but it | becomes ¢ | Jones amendment to the Vdlstead act shows that Congress intends those of- fenses which violate the Constitution itself o be felonies and leaves other Volstead violations as misdemeanors. A United States attorney must proceed under the law according to the intent of Congress, and to do that he must exercies a wise discretion in choosing his first steps of procedure.” / greater importance since the | has just collapsed. He added that | “some servants of the church” in : i i Jalisco, Michoacan and Guanajuato, Fire Fails to Delay Ship. forgetting their Christian morals, had LONDON, May 2 (P).—Fire last night committed acts of banditry under the | iy the No, 2 hold of the White Star pretex of jefending the doctrines of | ;o pegantic will not delay its sched- “But_contrasted with this attitude, | uled sailing for Montreal tomorrow. Fire are other worthy Catholicism who counsel respect for | PASSenger quarters on |law and authority,” he said. ! side, although not to any great extent The president declared the govern-| ment's attitude on the religious ques- A . tion remained unchanged. \d b : Justice Arrives En Route to France 'nl:e prrsldemmz)mughc that mlmm'y! NEW YORK, May 2 (#).—Dr. Antonlo revolutions would be less likely in the | s future because the celerity with which | Sanchez de Bustamente, dean of the this year's uprising had been crushed, | Cuban bar, arrived in New York today would discourage repetition of such |en route to The Hague, where he will abortive attempts. For this reason he|resume his duties as a justice of the considered that the cost of $7,500,000 | World Court. He will sail on the Ho- was worth while, meric tomorrow night. ’ | i representatives of | and water damaged the ship's holds and ; the starboard | Tickets for the finals of the Sixth National Oratorical Contest to be staged | in the Washington Auditorfum Saturday | night, May 25. will be ready for distri- | bution next Tuesday, it was announced today by Randolph Leigh, director gen- eral of the contest. The tickets are for reserved seats and nearly 6.500 of them will be distributed from contest headquarters, room 323, The Star Building. No charge is made for the tickets and sale of them at any price or in any number is not authorized either by the contest officials or by The Star. sponsoring newspaper of the con- test in this vicinity. The same rules which have governed the distribution of the passes in the ast will prevail this year. Because of he great and widespread demand. only two tickets can be given to an applicant. Requests for the tickets must be made at contest headquarters, in The Star Building. either in person or by mail. If the latter method is used, a self- addressed envelope should be included {in the application to insure correct lelivery of the tickets. of Boston. He added that the dissatis- faction of the people with the law is evidenced by the 40 bills now before the State Legislature for the repeal or material amendment of the law. Others stressed the point that the Massachu- setts experiment has failed to reduce accidents and pointed out that laws which promoted safety and prevented injuries were preferable to legislation seeking to compensate the injured after an accident had occurred. Despite every effort to reduce street and highway accidents, 27,000 persons were killed and probably 1,500,000 were injured last year, James T. Haviland of Philadelphia”deciared in discussing the {future work to be undertaken by the chamber looking to accident prevention. 1 There is, however, he added, an en- couraging diminution in the number of children involved in such accidents, al- | though the number of adults killed and | injured shows little reduction. | ‘The assessment committee of Ponty- pridd, Wales, has threatened to go on a strike unless allowed traveling and incidental expenses. — I iwnaton DoNy Lady Tryster on' Dolly ady Trys P Camp Fire Mai APay Well Drom| Jimmy Cliftons Roman 109 SKir d 109 Roval FEquity 108 Colinport Luscianda Cheng _Tu Sam Pass Al *Charlie Mont ~ Perrai: .l 10 a Soul of Honor. 106 ® Audiey Farm ent PIFTH RACE-The 3-year-olds and up: $1 Sun Chen 103 Charmarten White Holl aron Kin * aSamuel Ross’ entry. SINTH _RACE — C £1.300 le and_u fur 1o Cros San Kari 1 mile a Aversion ‘North_ B long diss cizimed track good. of nde {Weather clouds