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" THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1929, SINCLAIR'S SERVICE SORROW FILLS SINCLAIR BUILDING 1 SINCLARR STARTS " | U.S. SUPPORT SEEN WORK IN D. . JAL Magnate Assigned to Duty In Hospital After First Night of Confinement. (Continued From First Page.) beside his cot and dressed while the other awaited the regular rising hour, 5:45 o'clock. His soft felt hat lay on a shelf above his head, his overcoat hung beneath it and a brightly colored tie remained on a hook, In accordance with instructions previously given him, Sinclair straightened -his bed and smoothed out the sheet ® dexterously. His cot later was found to be among the neatest in the big room. Maj. Peake said that the dormitory ‘was overcrowded last hight, there being about ten more prisoners in the room than are ordinarily put there. The congestion was due to week end in- toxication cases, he explained. Sinclair ate breakfast at a plain table in the east wing, the meal consisting of 'cereal, ham and eggs, corn muffins and coffee. He ate sparingly. 1t was after breakfast that Maj. P visited him fo obtain the usual “pe: sopal,data” for entry on Sinclair's card in the office. This card bore the num- ber 10250, which meant simply that he ‘was the ten thousand two hundred and fiftieth prisoner entering the jail since July 1, last. Prisoners go by their names, not by numbers, at the District Jail, Maj. Peake pointed out. Seems Satisfied. *T asked him what he could do—if he had a profession,” Maj Peak said. “He told me he was a registered pharmacist, having graduated at Kansas University, 8o I assigned him at once to the dis- pensary. He seemed satisfled with the assignment. We never had a registered pharmacist here before, and we are glad to get him. Heretofore Dr. Hyman a:a had to compound his own prescrip- ns.” Maj. Peake said that Sinclair volun- teered the information that he would grant no interviews to the press today. ‘The superintendent gained the impres- sion, however, that the oil man might ‘have a statement to give out “later.” ‘This was only conjecture, however. He permitted no pictures to be taken Elde the jail, on orders from the Board ©f Public Welfare: ¢ Two_letters were awaiting Sinclair when he arrived at the jail by auto- mobile from New York last night and another letter was delivered to him this morning. The letters were not opened, &s is done with “regular” prisoners, be- cause “office men” are permitted to re- seive their mail intact, Maj. Peake said. . While the jail head was talking with reporters his telephone rang and an tmidentified woman asked if she might bring two baskeéts of “dainties” to Sin- clair. Peake told her this could not be tted. She then asked if she could ring him some books, but this request aléo was denied. The woman said mere- 1y that she was “a friend of Mr. Sin- elair.” * | 'l'Ll‘hy With Attorney. . Later in the morning Sinclair was €alled from ‘zhe gl’snpenury to the dor- mitory to talk with G. T. Stanford, New York attorney, who, with Sinclair’s rother, E. W. Sinclair, accompanied ofl croesus on the long motor ride & Motoring down from New York, Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil operation, entered the District Jail last night to begin serving his sentence of 90 days for contempt of the Senate. The photograph shows Sinclair as he stuck his head out of his limousine to face a salvo of 20 flashlights in the hands of newspaper photographers. —Wide World Photo. CARNET-PATTERSON SCHOOL DEDICATED Five-Day - Exercises Open With Addresses by Dr. Carusi and Dr. Wesley. ‘The five-day dedicatory exercises at the Garnet- Patterson Junior High School, Tenth and. U streets, which opened last night with speeches by Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board of Education, and Dr. Charles Wesley of Howard University, will con- tinue with a reception in honor of the parents at 6 o'clock this evening. : Tonight'’s program will include & demonstration of physical culture by the girls of the school. Tomorrow night. 1 rose festival and pageant will be given in the school and will be repeated at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. The exercises will be concluded at 1:30 Fri- of the ddy ‘afternoon, when. the boys S schopl present -a physical drill to the girls' tomorrow. Garnet ' Paid “Tribute. “Tribute to Henry Highland Garnet, who rose from slavery to the position of Minister to Liberia, and to former Senator James Willis Patterson, and to Washington last night. Major Peake sald he did not know the nature of the conference. -Stanford was curt to reporters who spoke to him as he en- tered the jail this morning to see his t. . Major Peake said that Stanford had RO comment -the quarters or assignment given Sinclair. W m talk with Mr. Sinclair last night; T “want-tousetd you all that he hfin‘ tosbe a m*el prisoper,” Ma)j. ml: 8t . “He *told m:’ h: want to cause us any trouble. I g’d ons, and he all about the .he wanted 5) rivileges.” € of thé 8 are posted card near Sinclair’s locker in the dormitory. Among the score or more of things :htzch he m znt do l:nlre: “Attemp " “garble,” “talk after.9 pm.” have “contra- band articles” in his , such knives, spoons, jewelry, dice, playing cayds and glass of any description, ex- small mi: rrors. ite the regulation about jewelry, it is said that Sinclair was permitted "keep his watch an cm None of money was takes ‘him last ht, either, although this is usually e with new prisoners. e card playing will be denied the man, he' may demonstrate his skill, any, -at checkers. There are three ker tables at one end of the dorm- here hile: away or doing other exciting things to checkers. Sinelair's favor- sport, of course, is horse racing, and e he will have no opportunity to llow the ponies” for three months, should find his bookmaker-neighbor leisure other fellow's king row or jumping men r al ready conversationalist on the .ngé“gcz of racing. Sinclair will have to a library containing books of adventure, mystery and romance. Visiting Only on Sunday. Every Sunday will be “visiting day’ for the jail's new dispensary factotum. y is visiting day for most of the te visitors, -but Sunday is the day aside_for “office men,” .in .whici: tegory Sinclair bas been placed. Al visiting, of course, is done through iron bars and network surrounding big rotunda. From the stairways leading to the tlers of cells on the upper fidors the prisoners may sit on the Sab- bath and listen “to religious services held in the rotunda by various church groups. A somewhat battered upright piano and a few benches around the walls are the only furniture in the rotunda. ‘Sinclair was neither photographed, er-printed nor bathed, as had been dicted. None of the prisoners is re- quired to wear penal uniforms, although each one is furnished with work clothes en necessary. Sinclair went to work 1 the dispensary in his regular business suit, but Maj. Peake said he might be provided with a white medical uniform, similar to that worn by intermes. ‘The dispensary embraces a suite of faur small rooms on the second floor, di- rectly over Maj. Peake's office. There is a small reception room, a drug room lined with shelves of bottles, an exami- nation room and am operating room. The operating table is used only in minor operations, Dr. Hyman explained. Patients with serfous disorders are sent o Gallinger Hospital, nearby. ‘There will be an execution at the Jsil while Sinclair is confined there. George H. Thompson, colored, con- victed of murdering his common-law wife, will be sent to the electric chair June 7. His appeal from the sentence was denied yesterday by the District Court of Appeals. The death chair is not where Sinclair can see it. Sinchair’s movements yesterday until he suddenly appeared at the front of the jail in an automobile in which he had motored from New York were cloaked in mystery. He did not appear to witness the final court action which sent him to jail, and throughout the day, particularly after Justice William Hitz had ordered the sentence en- forced, newspaper men in New York #nd Washington had sought vainly for information as to when he would com- mence serving his sentence. The first inkling came shortly before 8 o'clock, when Edgar C. Snyder, United States marshal, left his home carrying the ! ‘the Lohdon - Stock the hoj that more schools will be named ‘;:r men who have devoted thelr energies to educational service was vol by Dr. Carusi in his 'speech at the .exercises last night. Besides Dr. Carusi, the exercises were attendel by the full membership of the school board. ¥ 4 Mrs. Mary A. McNelll, member of the school. boasd, - the farmal dedicatory address, while Garnet C. Wilkinson, nn:h e hmpeflltl:ndengoml ;hlrge of schools of divisigns, 10-13, pre- S A S Fatiiacn s th of the Senator, was present. Music was provided at the ceremonies by the How- atd Universtty“Glee Club, urider the di- rection of R. W. Tibbs, Joseph H. Douglas, Walter L. Brown and F. H. Douglas. Dr. Wesley Reviews Progress. his address Dr. Carusi declared he believed “in the building of temples of freedom rather than institutiohs of mere ultilitarian and vocational value.” Dr. Wesley reviewed the advances in educational procedure and methods dur- ing the past 25'years, pointing out that the modern equipment . installed in the Garnet-Patterson Building affords means for more rapid educational ad- vancement. e GLASGOW DERBY' STAKES TICKET ISSUE SLAPPED Action Follows Intimation From Crown Authorities in Scotland Regarding Legality. By the ‘Associated, Press. GLASGOW, Scotland, May 7.—A sensation was created here today when the proprietors of the Glasgow ‘Stock Exchange Derby Sweepstakes ceased is- suing tickets on intimation from the crown au(.hpm;%; in Scotland that all sweepstakes weré illegal. - & . ‘There had usly been ‘some question in London,as to the legality of Exchange Tby Sweepstakes, which is the second largest in the world and amounts this year to nearly $5,000,000, but Sir William Joyn- son-Hicks; the home secretary, recently declared that there would be no inter- ference with bonafide private sweeps with tickets sold only to members. As far as Scotland is concerned, how- ever, the last word rests with Sir John Gilmotif, secretary for Scotland. i moved restlessly to vantage points, but \even-then he took them by surprise. Tb.r&lgh the murky rain three cars ap- proadhed at 8:45 and out of the middle .one stepped the oil man accompanied by his brether and Stanford. His only lug- gage was two handbags. Flashlights greeted him and news- paper men crowded about as the trio stepped from the machine. Sinclair, visibly .nervous snd affected, stumbled; slowly, -‘;:n apparently hesiiatingly, he walked the few feet separating the car from the steps leading into the jail, and was met at the door by the Federal marshal. “I am glad to see you, Mr. Sinclalr,” the marshal said. “How do you do, Mr. Snyder?” the oil man replied. Taken to Peak's Office. He was taken to the superintendent’s office, where, with his two companions, he was closeted for about 15 minutes while being acquainted with the jail regulations. 3 | I don't suppose you are used to get- | ting up as early gs we do here?” Maj. Peake inquired. } . ':v':l;& time?” Sinclair asked. “Oh, well, T guess I'll get acc 1o the routine in a couple of di clair answered. Maj. Peake then informed thé pris- oner he would be confined in the east wing with about 60 other short-term prisoners and the prisoner-clerks. The prisoners in that wing sleep in one long room, Army style. As they emerged from the superin- tendent's office, a jail official announced the 58-year-old prisoner had nothing to commitment papers and went for a con- ference at the jail with its superintend- ent, Maj. Willlam L. Peake. Crowd Gathers at Jail. Believing Sinclair's arrival near, the .erowd_gathered at the door of the jall, say to the press. Sinclair then followed the captain of the guard into the cen- ter of the hall which is to be his home for three months. His brother and his attorney walked out without further words either to the oll man or to those who thronged the entrance. J. D. PECK CELEBRATES NINETY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY | Former Contractor Nearing Cen- tury Mark in Age Is Honored by Relatives. J. D. Peck celebrated his ninety- eighth birthday anniversary at the home of his grandson, Frank E. Peck of Herndon, Va. 2 Mr. Peck was born in Greenfleld, Mass., April 26, 1831. The greater part of his life was spent at Packville, near Scranton, Pa. He was a building con- tractor and engaged in the lumber busi- ness for many years, being one of the founders of the Peck Lumber Manufac- turing Co. of Providence and Peckville. He was the first president of the Peckville National Bank, holding .that office for 16 years. ‘Those present at the birthday din- ner were Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Peck of Carbondale, Pa.; Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Fulton of New York, his grandchildren, Dr. and Mrs, G. S. Peck of Cory, Pa.; Mr,’and Mrs. Harry W. Ball and fam- ily, Mr. and Mrs. Howard O. Peck and family, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Thompson, jr., and family and Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Peck and family; two nephews, F. L. and E. 8. Peck of Scranton, Pa., and two nieces, Mrs. Everett Bush, and hus- band of East Orange, N. J., and Miss Emma Peck of Washington, D. C., and Miss Jean Van Kirk of New York. PRESS AFFIDAVITS ~ ASKED BY SENATE Last Newspaper Statements Called For in Power : 'Company_ Probe. By the Associated Press. 4 The last statements of ownérshij giv- en to the Postmaster General, ac- ‘cordance with the law, by the ‘news- papers in which officials of the Interna- tional Paper & Power Co. sald it had a financial interest, were called for yes- terday by the Senate. = Sharp debate preceded gdoptfon of the resolution of Senator Walsh, Demo- crat, Montana, lsklnsv;his florq‘ ition. Senator -Bingham, publigan, *Con- necticut, insisted the data could e tained without adoption of the resolu- tion, and in response tohis persistent question Senator Walsh-declared he be- lieved the reports of the papers in- {:‘llved were “not accurate in-all de- 5. Suporting the Walsh resolution, Sen- ator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, de- clared the reports were ‘required in the public’ inferest. He said if the reports did not disclose the interests of the power company in the papers, he would move to amend the law to require that newspapers be required to list al] their stockholders and the amount of stock held by each. Senator Walsh also sald he wanted the reports to determine if the 1912 law requiring names of owners was broad enough. ‘Two publishers in the Senate—Capper of Kansas and Vandenberg of Michi- gan, - both Republicans—joined in the demand for the resolution. Senator Vanderiberg said he wanted the reports because ‘of his faith in the integrity of the. press and in the integrity of “the very newspapers mentioned here.” Senator Capper said the public had @ right to know who the owners of the papers,_were. ‘The Walsh resolution read: “Whereas, it appears from testimony taken by the Federal Trade Commission under and by.virtue of Senate resolu- tion 83, Seventieth Congress, first ses- slon, that the Internationsl Paper & Power Co. and its affillated concerns is the owner of stock in the Boston Her- ald and Traveler, published at Boston, Mass.; the Chicago Daily News, pub- lished at Chicago, Il.; the Chicago Journal, published at Chicago, IIl.; the Tampa Tribune, published at Tampa, Fla.; the Greensboro Record, published at Greensboro, N. C.; the Knickerbock~ er Press, published at Albany, N. Y.; the Albany Evening News, published at Albany, N. Y.; the Brooklyn Eagle, published at Brooklyn, N. Y.; the Au- gusta Chronicle, published at Augusta, Ga.; the Columbia Record, published Columbia, S. C.; the Spartansburg He ald and the Spartanburg Journal, p h‘sb]}ed tal"tl Sp&l;anburg. 8. C, and pos- sibly other Tests in "“9;{2&9- ge oy other journals, “ ved, that the Posmaster Gen- eral is hereby directed to transmit to the Senate for its information a copy of the last statement filed by the editor, publisher, business manager or owner of each of the newspapers above enumeratéd, setting forth the names and managing editor, publisher, busi- ness manager and owners, and the stockholders if the publication be owned by a corporation, and also the names of the knowh bondholders, mortgagees or other* security holders, as'required by ;}‘w ]55; ”ol Congress approved August HEALTH PAGEANT GIVEN. 450 Children of Johnson School Present Demonstration. Pupils 6f Johnson School, at Hyatt place, between Irving street and Park road, staged a costume health pageant this morning on the school ground, be- fore a large gathering of fiuem.s and school officials. About 450 children par- ticipated. ‘The demonstration was put on under direction of Miss Valeria Marshall, sixth grade teacher. Magna Charta Inn, Wilford, England, has been converted into a church. 0b- | PO’ and post office addresses of the editor” CUBAN DELEGATE LAUDS 1. S. STAND Arms Parley Was Success Chiefly Because of Amer- ican Attitude, He Says. BY GUILERMO DE BLANCO Y MENOCAL, Cuban Minister and Permanent Delegate to the League of Nations. GENEVA, Switzerland, May 7 (#).— ‘To my mind, the session of the prepa~! ratory disarmament commission which adjourned - yesterday was a success chiefly because of the attitude of the United States. It may be remembered that at the clese of the last session President Loudon expressed the opinion that it would be difficult to achieve progress unless the great naval powers succeeded in reaching an understanding. The gesture of the American delegation at this meeting in calling for drastic re- ductions in naval armaments and in suggesting practical methods of solving the naval problem was most agreeable news for everybody. U. S. Puts Cards on Table. With great frankness the United States threw all its cards on the table and withdrew its opposition to the elimination of trained reserves from the treaty, believing that this was a question to be settled chiefly by Europe. ‘This American attitude of conciliation could not fail to meet a response by the other powers. = For example, France dropped her project for the interna- tional control of armaments and the budgetary limitation of war materials, realizing that these jideas could not receive the approval of all countries. If all the nations insisted on their original projects, it is evident that the commission never could compose a draft treaty., We are now getting down to a treaty of realities as the first practical step to disarmament. It may not be utopian, but it is a good start. Cuban Interest Explained. Cuba has a great moral interest in disarmament, but our forces are so modest that we deemed it wise to allow the delegates of the other countries more immediately affected to determine the directions which limitation or reduc- tion of armaments should take. We are all now looking forward hopetully to the conversations between the five naval wers. I think, like Chairman- Politis, that the commission is nearer than ever to its goal. The essential trait of the future treaty will be its generality and univer- sality, for the problem which has been national in character will become defi- nitely international. Practical man that he is, President Hoover, who knows the slowness with which one proceeds in handling inter- national questions, has believed it is better in the first treaty to get some- thing than nothing at all. The slight- est reduction as applied to the navies of the great powers means for them important economies in money, which can be employed to more useful ends and thus contribute to the general peace. BERLIN PAPERS SARCASTIC. Disarmament “Fiasco” Made Target of Sharp Thrusts by Press. BERLIN, May 7 (#).—The Berlin ess commented with much sarcasm is morning on the adjournment of the preliminary disarmament commission at Geneva, which most papers described as a “flasco.” ‘The Democratic Boersen Courier en- titles its account of the adjournmept “Last Act of the Geneva Disarmament Comedy.” The Conservative Cents Germania uses the word disarmament within quotation marks. Reports from Geneva cite an inter- view with Count von Bernstorff, in which the German delegate places “ex- clusive and sole responsibility” for de- cisions’ on land disarmament on the shoulders of the committee and states that the “surprising optimism of Chair- man’ Politis is in no way shared by the German delegation.” SOCIAL AGENCIES BODY WILL ELECT OFFICERS The Washington Council of Social Agencles will elect officers at its final meeting of the Spring season in the Young Women's - Christian Association Building, Seventeenth and K streets, next Monday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock. "~ The nominges to be submitted by the nominating committee ‘are: For president, Willard 'C. Smith; for vice president, Mrs. Whitman Cross: treasurer, Newbold Noyes; assistant treasurer, Merritt.O. Chance; executive secretary, Mrs. W, A. Roberts. The fol- lowing are to be ngmed to serve as members of the executive committee at large: Dr. Frederick: W. Perkins, Dr. lMuses R. Lovell, Edward D. Shaw and Miss Louise MeGuire. ‘The general topic,for discussion at the meeting will be “The Problem of the Homeless and How It Is Being Met,” with Miss Harriet E. Anderson, director of fleld work, National Association of ‘Travelers’ Ald Scieties, as the principal speaker. ¥ Concrete Delivered —in our TRANSIT MIXER TRUCKS—speeds up your work and saves you all your mixer troubles. A Better Concrete for Less M Maloney. Paving Co., Inc. Phone West 1330 3117 K 8t. N.| ENDS 2-YEAR FIGHT 0il Man Carried His Case to Three Courts, Failing to Win Acquittal. ‘When Harry F. Sinclair entered the District Jail last night, it marked the end of a two-year court fight on the contempt charge, which was based on | Sinclair's refusal to answer four ques- tions of the Senate Teapot Dome in- vestigating committee in 1924. The ofl operator had carried the case from the District of Columbia Supreme Court through two upper tribunals—the Dis- trict of Columbia Court of Appeals and the United States Supr¢me Court— without success. Sinclair was convicted by a District Supreme Court jury on March 16, 1927. The sentence of three months jail im- prisonment and a $500 fine was imposed two months later on May 20 by Justice Hitz. The ofl operator's counsel im- mediately appealed this decision to the District Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals late yast year asked the United States Supreme Court for instructions on points of law in- volved in the case to assist it in de- termining its verdict. But upon the request of Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special Government coun- sel, the Nation’s highest tribunal took the entire record of the case before it. Arguments were heard early this year and in April the United States Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's ruling by a unanimous decision, the latter be- ing delivered by Justice Pierce Butler, who also had rendered the opinion in the decision canceling the Teapot Dome lease made by Albert B. Fall as Secre- tary of the Interior, to Sinclair. The Supreme Court also denied a rehearing of this decision sought by Sinclair and after the usual 25-day period issued the mandate which became effective today. ‘The four questions upon which the contempt charge was based were pro- pounded by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, prosecutor of the Senate oil investigating committee, on March 22, 1924, upon Sinclair’s sixth appearance before the committee. Sinclair refused to answer them, although at previous agpemncu he had replied to ques- ns. ‘The questions all related to the leas- ing of the Teapot Dome reserve. They asked for information on the following subjects: Whether meetings took place between Sinclair and Fall in November and De- cember, 1923. Whether Sinclair or any of his com- panies “had loaned anything” to Fall. An alleged contract regarding Teapot Dome between Sinclair and F. G. Don- fils, Denver publisher. A reputed agreement between Sin- clair and Fall by which John C. Shaf- fer, Chicago publisher, was to be al- lotted a part of Teapot Dome. Six other questions asked by the com- mittee at this appearance were not in- cluded in the charges sent to the jury. Sinclair is the second man to serve a jail sentence here for contempt of the Senate. Elverton R. Chapman, a New ‘York broker, was given a one-month jail term and.a $100 fine in 1896 for re- fusing to answer questions about sugar speculations of certain Senators asked by a Senate committee. He served the sentence in May of the.following year. G. W. STUDENTS HONORED Herbert E. Angel, chairman of the board of ‘editors of the George Wash- ington University Hatchet, student weekly, was elected president of the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association of the Eastern Atlantic States, at the con- vention held in Allentown, Pa., Friday and Saturday. Frank Kreglow, business manager of publications at George BY MARTIN GREEN. Written exclusively for The Star and the North American Newspaper Allfance. NEW YORK, May 7.—The 32-story Sinclair Building in this city is a tower of sorrow. Nearly everybody in that building, which is almost exclusively devoted to the executive activities of the $500,000,- 000 Sinclair oll interests and some 18,- 000 employes besides, scattered all over the United States, Mexico and Euro- pean and Central American countries, is dependent for his or her living on Harry F. Sinclair. Sinclair began lltth(ree-hmox‘:h ‘:enln terday 8s a penalty for having treat- Zss ‘l’ cu¥nmlfl¢p¢ of the United States Senate with contempt. It is hard for the scores of executives in the Sinclair Building—drawing sala- ries from $10,000 to $100,000 & year— to realize that the “Big Boss,” as they call him, really is in prison. It is in- comprehensible to the great mass of minor employes that “H. F.” has, fig- uratively at least, donned the stripes of a felon. ‘ Took Aides From Ranks. All these people look upon “H. F.” as a man who could do no wrong. He picked most of his high-priced as- sistants out of obscurity in the South- west, trained them in the ofl develop- ment business and bound them to him by ties of regard, even affection, which, when revealed, constitute an astonish- ing display of the prevalence of human nature, “There isn't one of us, an executive told the writer, “who wouldn’t willingly g0 to jail to serve ‘H. F. 8.8’ term.” Not that any of these executives be- lieves that the material interests of the Sinclair Oil properties are going to suffer by the imprisonment of their creator and developer. All the respon- sible duties have been turned over to Harry F. Sinclair's elder brother, E. W. Sinclair, who is president of the Sin- clair interests. Nearly all the men who have_ gone into the millionaire class with Harry Sinclair have been working in his har- ness for many years. According to his associates, he seldom went outside his own organization for administrators, and few of his selections have left him voluntarily. Associates Say He’s Fit for Work. Sinclair is 53, a stocky, square-faced man who, in his prime, weighed about 200 pounds. He is not so robust today after six years of battling against charges of crookedness and bribery, but his associates say his health is good and that he is willing to take what is coming to him in the way of employ- ment in jail. “If they turn the institution over to him and let him run it for three months,” sald one of his associates. “he’ll take it out of the red ink. He'll accomplish the task of putting a Federal prison on a paying basis. And he’ll have most of the inmates feeling that their time there hasn’t been wasted.” If his associates are to be believed, the qualities of Sinclair next to fore- sight and courage, which have operated to the lccomrluhmenl of his financial success, are cl and hard work. They tell how he is at the office when in New York, with the earliest arrivals; how he cleans off many times a day the accumulations of matters on his desk and leaves the desk clean every night, sometimes as late as midnight; how he holds few conferences with groups of executives, and reaches each occasion- ally as an individual. Tells What He Wants Done. “He tells what he wants done and forgets it until the time arrives for a Washington University, became secre- tary-treasurer. The association includes in its mem- bership 27 colleges and universities, —_— report,” explained one of his active men. “Generally the report is satisfac- tory. If it isn’t, there is never a holler from ‘H. ' He just turns it back with _AS BIG BOSS "H. ean living, plenty of sleep | tion F.” GOES TO JAIL 0il Magnatc's “People;‘ Look Upon Him as One Who Could Do No Wrong—Willing to Serve Term for Him. a few explanations and he never has to turn one back more than once.” Aside from the horseback riding, which he has not fancied in the last few years, Sinclair never has taken any exercise. Work is his exercise, his fel- low laborers say. But he finds time for reading, is good company, can talk on almost any subject and owns quite an art_gallery. Nobody worth as much money as Sinclair ever has gone to a Federal prison for an offense against the Gov- ernment. His people insist he has been made a “goat” simply because some- bodjy“u(d, “You can't send $100,000,000 to jail” Sinclafr’s home life is happy. He was married 26 years ago in Independ- ence, Kans, to Elizabeth Farrell, an Irish’ girl who had grown up with Kim in the little town. The Sinclair chil- dren have been reared in a strictly re- ligious atmosphere. ‘The oil man for the last few days has spent all his time with his_wife and mother at the Sinclair home, No. 2 East Seventy-ninth street. (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) RASKOB WILL HELP WORKERS T0 SAVE Plans Instaliment Buying of Stocks for Investment in Near Future. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 7.—John J. Raskob, former chairman of the finance com- mittee of the General Motors Corpora- tion and chairman of the Democratic national committee, is working on a plan to help workers invest in securi- ties. He said that within three months he might announce the formation of an investment company in which investors of small means could participate by plurcbue of stock on the installment plan. ‘The company, he said, would be of the type of investment companies which have been operated successfully during the past two years. It would purchase and hold stock in diversified enter- prises carefully selected for their sound- ness to insure stability of yield. He said he proposes to make it pos- sible for a factory mechanic with $200 to purchase $500 worth of stock in the investment company by paying the $200 down and negotiating a loan with a local bank for the balance, putting up the $500 in stock to secure the loan. ‘The loan could be paid off at the rate of $25 a month while the worker was enjoying a $500 paid-in participa- in what Mr. Raskob described as an investment company of “unlimited capital,” in which the operations will be ogntroued by men of investing judg- ment, He said he had submitted his plan to bankers, leaders of industry and Seaknesses, adding. T have. net. becs , adding, “I have not bee: able to find any.” ” . It will require seven years’ work and an_expenditure of more than $7,000,- 000 to complete the freight yards of the Swiss Federal Railways now being constructed near Basel to care for the npidt: increase of freight traffic of the roads BEHIND DEBT PLAN President and Cabinet Held Fully Aware of Strain on Commission. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Although the United States Govern= ment is not yet called upon to express an official opinion about the -Young plan for the compromise of reparations claims, there is no doubt that the Amer can unofficial representatives at the Paris conference have the fullest mora! support in their efforts to reaeh a settlement. ‘What Mr. Young has done is solely on his own responsibility and without consultation with the American Gov- ernment, but it is known that in his tremendous task he has the sympathetic understanding of a President and cabi- net, fully aware of the strain under "whlch the American commission has been operating. Criticism Held Inevitable. ‘That there should be a measure of criticism from one side or the other is regarded as inevitable, for the conflict= ing claims are not alone .to be con- sidered as much as the effect on a public opinion in Europe which has not been prepared for great sacrifices. The scaling down of the original repara- tion figures, however, has not been a matter of sentiment but of economics. All the allied governments have appre- ciated the serious situation that would be created for themselves if it was insisted tha: full payments b> made or that the annuities go beyond capacity to_pay. The delicate mechanism of interna- tional credit is under a great strain, as it is with the tight money conditjons in the United States and with the rediscount rates in the central banks abroad, so that a reparation settlement which will carry with it a definite understanding about the exchange problem is expected to bring about a wave of optimism. ‘There are some observers here who feel that the removal of uncertaintly about European' financial relations. will have a direct reflex in increased Ameri- can trade and that this in turn will provide considerable expansion. for American industry. N ‘Wisdom of Original Plan Cited. The wisdom of the original Dawes~ Young plan is commented on here in connection with the developments in Paris, for only by a postponement. until 1929 was it possible to familiarize European peoples with the economic rather than the political side of the reparation problem, and, though there is much distance to go yet, it is felt that the reduction from the original extravagant claims is an achievement to be credited to American foresight and the common sense of the allied states< men who agreed to the proposal. Under Mr. Young's leadership shere is the greatest confidence here that the new plan will be found equally accept- able and that while it may not settle all points, it again will afford an op- portunity to say that the maximum a$ the moment has been obtained—and public opinion hardly can expect more, The awkwardness of American co-op- eration is fully appreciated here,but 1t is not a matter for the executive, but the legislative branch, and only by un- official commissioners of ouistanding ability could the effect of government acquiescence in the delicate negotia= tions have been achieved. (Copyright, 1929.) Wife Seeks Limited Divorce, Mrs. Ethel H. Miles, 5320 -Eightk street, has filed suit in the Dl&%l"lcl Supreme Court for a limited divorce from Joseph J. Miles, an employe of the Veterans’ Bureau. They were married July 31, 1920, and the wife says during the past three years her husband has drank to excess and has failed prop- erly to contribute to the support of his family. 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