Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1929, Page 2

y AR OWNER OF PAPERS TESTIFIES AT QUIZ Piroprietor of Four Southern Dailies Admits Seeking International’s Aid. B the Assoclated Press. { William Lavarre, co-owner of the \ugusta, Ga., Chronicle; the Columbia, C., Record, and the Spartanburg, 8. C., Herald and Journal, testified to- day before the Federal Trade Commis- sion_that he sought financial aid of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1929 Forum Speakers the Internaticnal Paper Co. of his own accord in connection with loans for his | purchase of an interest in the four | papers. i 7w cnswer to & question by R. E.| Heais, acef commission counsel, as to how he came to seek aid from the ! International Paper Co., Lavarre re-| lied : » “I suggested it to myself after I had heard about their financing of the Chi- cago papers.” He added he thought it was “a logical tie-up between newspapers and & paper company.” Conferred With Officials. Tn November, 1928, he declared, he conferred with Graustein and Joe Sear- ing. vice president in charge of sales of the International Paper Co. and a Mr. Head, vice president and business manager of that company, before he made a second trip South, seeking to uy newspapers. o After ml\)kl;:lz with Graustein, Lavarre said, “My own reaction was that he was paternally interested in two young men going out to buy newspapers. He had the cash and we the idea.” Mr. Lavarre testified prior to the ne- gotiations with Graustein he had met Harold Hall, who was then business manager of the New York Telegram, and they had agreed on the idea to purchase Southern newspapers. Firm Held Notes of Two. Tt previously had been testified before the commission that the International Paper Co. held notes of Hall and La- varre totaling $855,000, secured by the stock of the four newspapers. Lavarre testified that in making the second Southern trip in November, 1928, he and Hall had an arrangement by which the International Paper Co. . He testified that the company did not pay Hall and him- s2if a salery, but they paid it to them- selves from funds advanced by the paper company. Lavarre sald before they took the/ trip they received a check of $5,000, ad- vanced by the attorneys for the paper company, about November 15. He added he received two other advances later, ] SECRETARY ADAMS. SECRETARY DAVIS. FORUM SPEAKERS TOMORROW NIGHT TWO MEMBERS OF CABINET (Continued From First Page.) place aeronautics ahcad of everything Ise in the Navy. As head of the Department of Labor, Mr. Davis not only directs the ma- | chinery of that department to compose {law and the influer | lems of Modern Youth,” Dr. Ernest R. | University of North Carolina, placed i leave children alone.” one a telegraphic deposit of $10,000 to his aecount in an Augusta, Ga., bank, and ancther $10,000 advance. Signed No Receipts. He added he did not sign any receipts differences between employes and em- ployers to prevent them reaching the | strike stage, but to keep close account of the employment situation in" the or these advances, but did acknowledge | country and to distribute labor in a ffiem n letters, and these funds were | manner to mect fluctuating demand charged to the open account of Hall|&8nd at the same time to prevent unem- and himself with the paper company. ployment. In his testimony, Lavarre related sev- | him in his home and provide secrvice for eral unsuccessful efforts to purchase Southern newspapers. On his first trip South in September, 1928, he said he Handles Tmmigration Law. Employment and labor statistics and labor conditions are by no means the and Hall and a Mr. Dewitt, a New York flfflfmg% :'"f‘ge &cf:rl:fi :ll:‘;?& Dubiihe of the Greenviie 8. G, News, | Spoiher one” of the Amportant dutes ase of office. ‘evention of - and the Fiedmont, but Pease Would n0% | eiigiple “afiens entering this country In Asheville, Lavarre testified, he con- and the deportation of undesirables and ferred with the owners of the Asheville | th¢ registration of immigrants who Times and the Asheville Citizen and |C2Me to this country prior to 1923 are 4 some of the problems in connection suggested purchase prices for the tWo |y tro immigration work of the de- i e AR partment. The latter is always kept Studied Two Other Papers. busy atf to check smuggling of In Charlotte, N. C., Mr. Lavarre said | aliens barred from entering this coun- he also talked with the publishers of the try under the law. Charlotte Observer and the Charlotte |, Other activities of this department News, but made no offer for these news- include the United States conciliatio: papers, & service, the ) . Favitre testified that ho negotiated X Children's Bureau, the Xgmlmn'sl Banren,: nndd t%a_ Bureau of the purchase of his first newspaper, the ustrial Housing an ‘ansportation Augusta, Ga., Chronicle, on January 18, | in this city, last. He added he had negotiated for the sale of this newspaper through T. J. Each of these two members of Presi- it Hoover's cabinet has selected for Hamilton, its former publisher, and now its editor, dent discussion in the national radio forum | subjects dealing with his department | Asked whether the International | that Will be of nationwide interest. Paper Cu “upplied all the money paid for this purchase, Lavarre replied affirmatively and said that the com- BROOKHART URGES Roten seourcd by uhe siock of the mewe: | SWEEPING INQUIRY INTO REALTY DEALS paper. Earned $30,000 Year. (Continued From First Page.) “The stock of the newspaper has been morally turned over to the Interna- tional Paper Co.”.Lavarre said, “but the stock is physically in a safety de- i 1¢ vault i the Ohase. National Bank | pyracoof i< fots,and finance cor- posi rations of Dist of New York.” - He added that the stock | with {ns resukt. that Tt“hg bC:el:mplg:-' certificates of the newspaper had not | sible for the said corporations to escape been assigned or delivered to the inter- | the paymerit of legitimate income and national company. property taxes upon the excessive and Commission Counsel Healy cited an | extortionate profits received from the item of $1,250 paid monthly to each of | sale of real estate and real estate notes the two men, which was mentioned in |and bonds in the District of Cclumbia correspondence between Hall and La- | by virtue of advertisements through the varre and the International Paper Co.| United States mail; and Lavarre said, “My earning capacity has | “Whereas, it has been alleged that been between $25,000 and $30,000 &| many thousands of persons in the year. United States, including men, women e s-::: lclxl\el:larrelg Lnx:;‘ dmm’ uzm., now nold GAS TANK EXPLODES Dotlds upon' vanious spocint s AS AIRSHIP PASSES; PEOPLE FEAR ATTACK in different parts of the country which (Continued From First Page.) L have been advertised and sold by the said real estate and finance corporations in the District of Columbia as first mortgage or first lien bonds when in 1fact there were outstanding at the time of such sales pre-existing liens on the sald properties in large amounts, the existence of which was unknown to the of some workers as they rushed into | purchasers of said first and refunding the open air to watch it. ‘The force of the blast tore the walls and roof of the wooden house in which the tank was placed and the deadly gas spread through the neighborhood. ‘Workers, wearing gas masks went into the wreckage and carried out Carlisle and Ney. A score of others were slightly af- fected, but were revived. ‘The fact the giant dirigible was cruising overhead added to the excite- ment in the District. Many thought the town was being subjected to some | sort of an aerial attack and it was considerable time before they could be reassured. 60 REPORTED BURNED. MEXICO CITY, May 10 (#).—Forty children and 20 aduits are reported to have perished in a forest fire which destroyed the village of Dochilapa, in the state of Gurrero, on Wednesday. ‘The fire engulfed the village shortly before dawn and most of the victims were burned in their beds. Hundreds of villagers were burned out of their homes. PROTEST GIVEN CHINA. SHANGHAL, China, May 10 (%) —The American legation is understood to have made formal representations at the Na- tionalist forelgn office regarding the kid- neping of Harry Schwendener, a mis- sionary of the Christian and Missionary | Alliance, | The missionary was reported to have | been kidnaped by bandits near Sungtao in the Province of Kweichow. Junior Brotherhood Reorganized. HYATTSVILLE, Md,, May 10 (Spe- cial) —Reorganization of the Junior Brotherhood of St. Andrew of Pinkney Memorial Eplscopal Church here has been completed, with Everett G. Mc- Mahon director, Willlam Orris vice di- rector, and Harwood Naylor secretary and treasurer. Walier Welsh and Ed- ward Duckett are other members so far. Meetings will be herlld the a:ll ;’lxld ird Thursdays of each month. T l'?cMnhon was named director of the Junior group by Maj. F. Granville Mun- #on, director of the Senior Brotherhood «3 Pinkney Meraorial Church. mortgage bonds; an “Whereas, it is essential in the inter- est of purchasers of the said bonds and of the public that the truth be made known with respect to the said transac- tions: Therefore, be it “Resolved, That the committee on the judiciary of the Senate or a duly au- thorized subcommittee thereof, is here- by authorized end directed to make a full and complete investigation of the activities of the real estate and finance corporations of the District of Columbia with respect to the sale of mortgage bonds, first and refunding mortgage bonds and general mortgage bonds upon properties in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and to report to the Senate as soon as practicable the result of its investigation, together with its recommendations, if any, for necessary legisiation.” Assails “Wild-Cat” Companies. When Senator Brookhart arose to in- troduce the resolution he declared in the Senate that it was for the putpose of having an investigation “of these wild-cat bond companics here in_ the District of Columbia that are selling their bonds throughout the United States and fraudulently using the mails for that purpose, especially the F. H. Smith Co. of this city.” The presiding officer at first an- nounced that the resolution would be sent to the District of Columbia com- mittee, but Senator Brookhart said he thought it should go to the judiclary committee, because “it relates to the whole country, not to the District of Columbia.” The chair then announced that in accordance with the desire of the au- thor, the resolution would be referred to the judiciary committee. PITTS POSTS $2,500 BOND. Declines to Make Statement Regarding Charges. G. Bryan Pitts, chalrman of the board of the F. H. Smith Co, Who was in- dicted yesterday in a special report of a false statement before a former ref- eree in bankruptcy during hearings on the bankruptcy matter of the old Ham- {lton Hotel Corporation, which for- merly operated the Hamilton Hotel, at .day before the clerk of Criminal Divi- the grand jury on a charge of making Fourteenth and K streets, appeared to- | Dr. E. R. Groves, Sociologist, Gives Modern Youth Clean Biil of Health. Modern youth was exonerated today and Teachers from responsibility for lawlessness in American life, indiscrim- | inate “petting,” abuse of the prohibition es that lead to marriage failures and divorce. | In a frank discussion of the “Prob- | Groves, professor of scciology at the blame for the existence of these na- tional problems upon the parents and | teachers themselves. | Whatever excesses Youth may indulge | in today, he declared, are done as a protest against the constant coercion to which he is subjected in home and | scool. “The most important organiza- tion needed to cope with modern youth,” he sald, “is an organization to Blames Adulis for Law Abuse. He placed the blame for most of the evils growing out of abuse of the pro- hibition law upon the adult. “Adults are the grafters who are disobeying thz laws,” he added. “They are the ones who are making profits from 1t—not the youth of the country.” Present-day lawlessness in America was traced back to colonial times, when a legal battie in court was a “‘country- side contest” in which the outcome of Jjustice was secondary. Responsiblity for success in mar- riage, he declared, rests solely upon the parent. “The tremendous amount of failures in married life, resulting in widespread and increasing divorces,” Dr. Groves said, “create problems for the youth which make him less confi- dent in the marriage institution and in his own parents as well. “As parents, we must gssume more responsibilities for happiness in mar- riage,” he warned in pointing out the fallacy of legislating upon the subject. Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the Chil- dren’s Bureau, United States Depart- ment of Labor, addressed the congress on the subject of “Public Respensibility for Promoting the Welfare of the Home.” “Unfortunately there are some chil-| dren whoze real misfortune is that they have parents,” Miss .Abbott declared in discussing the problem of taking the child from the home and puttirg it into other environments. Instead of taking the dependent child from his home environment, she ex- plained, the bureau is trying to help his educution. Through the mothars' aid pension, for cne thing, Miss Abbott +xplained, 200,000 children are being kept in homes they might otherwise osc. D. C. Organization Gets Award. This year's prize for the largest per- centage of parent-teacher organizations engeged in the Summer round-up of pre-school children. was awarded yes- terday to the District of Columbia, while the award for 1928 was given to Ala- bama, Texas won the award for the laxgest number of groups of children enrolled in 1929, Michigan receiving the award for last year. A publicity dinner, at which Mrs. J. . Baunders will preside, will be held tonight, while at the general meeting Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur will be the principal speaker. Paul Wooten, chairman of the board of directors of the National Press Club, will be toastmaster at the publicity dinner, at which Mrs. Laura derhill Kohn, manager of the publici ureau, will introduce her staff and e press chairmen. There will be talks By Rus- sell Kent, president of the National Press Club; Lewis Wood. cbairman of the overseas writers; G. Gould Lincoln, chairman of the stending cofamittee, press gallaries of Congress; Charles S. Groves, vice president of the Gridiron Club; Miss Ruth Jones, president of the Woman's National Press Club; Dr. Max Jordan, vice president of For- eign Correspondents’ Association; Ed- ward Markham, vice president, National Press Club; Harold Lane, vice president, busin per correspondents’ commit- es D. Preston, superintend- Mr. ress. Senat prss . make the Dflntfi‘l’: dd 13 VIRGINUA STUDENTS ASK KILLING PROBE Emory and Henry Committee Named—Officer Suspended in Freshman’s Death. By the Associated Press. BRISTOL, Va., May 10.—Emory and Henry College student body at a mass meeting yesterday afternoon unanimous- ly appointed a committee to draft a resolution to petition Gov. H. F. Byrd to order a special investigation of the death from gunshot wounds of J. W. Kendrick, 17, Emory and Henry fresh- man, whose death occurred from wounds sustained Monday night when the car in which he was riding was fired on by | James McReynolds, a policeman, and Deputy Sheriffs J. H. Worley and James Crowe of Washington County. The of- ficers sald they fired at the tires of the machine, Chief of Police Walden, at Abington, | announced the suspension of McRey- | nolds. The three officers waived pre- liminary hearing and were bound to the | xvui!hmgmn County grand jury underi ond. sion 1 and gave a bail bond of $2,500 to insure his apparance for trial. He ‘was accompanied by Attorney Wilton J. Lambert, but declined to make any statement for publication. The bond was signed by Philip J. Viehman, manager of the Hartford Ac- rcldrm. & Indemnity Co, of Hartford, onn, ADULTS INDIGTED | FOR ABUSE OF LAW before the National Congress of Parents | Mrs. Hoover ycsterday was made a life member of the Natienal Congress of Parent-Teachers. PARENT-TEACHERS HONOR MRS HOOVER Photo shows, left to right: Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president of the Washington association; Dr. William John Cooper, commissioner of edu- cation; Mrs. Hoover; Miss Florence E. Ward, Department of Agriculture; Mrs. A. H. Reeves, president, International Fed- eration cf Homes and Schools, and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde. —Underwood Photo. HUFTY AND SHOREY MATCHED INFINALS Congressional Club Champion | Meets Bannockburn Man in Golf Tilt. Page Hufty, champion of the Con- gressional Country Club, and John C. Shorey of Bannockburn, holder of the District junior title, are playing this afternoon in the final round of the Town and Country Club invitation golf tournament. Hufty defeated Harry G. Pitt of the Manor Club, by 5 and 3 in one semi-final match today, while Shorey defeated J. J. Lynch of Argyle, 3 and 2. Neither match in the somi-final round was marked by sensational golf, al- though Hufty played the first nine holes in exactly par to gain a small lead over Pitt. Shorey ran up an early lead on Lynch and retained it to t1.2 end. In the third flight, A. J. McCaffrey of Congressional defeated L. Scott of Beaver Dam, & and 7, and Is playing agalnst Jack Wessells of Beaver Dam in the final round. Wessells defeated Homer S. Pope of Indian Springs, 3 and 2. The fourth flight final finds Burke Edwards of the Manor Club pitted against Richard Westwood, who is also a member of the Manor Club. Edwards defeated George F. Foley of Indien Springs, 4 and 3, while Westwood de- read?eg L. C. Leigh of Bannockburn, 4 and 2. USE OF RADIO DENIED VOTE FOES, DILL TOLD Senator Says Complaint of “Ban” Is Made by Some D. C. En- franchisement Opponents. Senator Dill, Democrat of Washing- ton, today told the Senate interstate commerce committee that a complaint had been made to him to the effect that some of the opponents of sufirage for the Disirict of Columbia have not been able to broadcest their position on the question over the radio. The Senator referred to the com- laint while the committee was hold- ng a hearing on the Couz:ns bill to create a communication commission to regulate all forms of communication. Senator Dill said that under exist- ing law, a radio station must give an opportunity to be heard to opposing candidates for publiz office, and that his purpose in mentioning the com- plaints which have reached him was to have the committee consider an amendment that would extend the existing law to require equal oppor- tunity on the air in discussion of pub- lic questions as well as in elections. DR. DEVINE TO SPEAK AT SESSION OF COUNCIL Dr. Edward T. Devine, one of the founders of the Washington Council on International Relations and its first resident, will address the annual meet- ng of the council Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the Friends'’ Meeting House, 1811 I street. His subject will be_*Anglo-American Understanding.” Following Dr. Devine's address the executive committee will report to the meeting and officers will be elected for the coming year, it was announced by Charles L. Carhart, executive secretary. Dr. Devine, formerly dean of the Graduate School at American Uni- versity, recently left Washington to enter social welfare work in New York | invariably reflects the unity with which City. INA CLAIRE WEDS JOHN GILBERT Mr. Pitts has denied that he had made the false statements set out in | the indictment and asserted that the | charges were absurd. He made the following statement yes- terday afternoon: “I understand that an indictment for ' perjury was returned against me today | by the grand jury and I hear that the charges are based solely on claimed in- accuracies in testimony given in a_pro- ceeding before o referee over thre: years ago. There was no stenographic report of that testimony and the indict- ment must therefore b2 based upon the attempted present recollection of per- | sons who attended the session. | “I made no false statements in my | testimony and I want to assure the public that the charge is not true. “The financial institutions to which 1 way affecte: S. J. Henry, president of the F. H Smith Co, made this statement this afternoon: “While the financial position of the F. H. Smith Co. is in no way involved in the charges which have apparently bzen made egainst Mr. Pitts, the of- charges as being groundless, if not ab- surd, and that they feel ccrtain of his ultimate vindication.” dcers and direetors of the company wish | it _known that they have every con- fidence in Tim; (hat they regard the | and jormor musical comedy star, were married at Las Vegas, Nev, after a hurriod | | have 80 long devoied my time are in RO BYRDS NORTH POLE FHT CELEBRATED Third Anniversary Arrives With Explorer Planning New Trips. By Radio to The Star and the New York Times. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, May 9.—Today is the anniversary of Comdr. Byrd's flight over the North Pole in 1926. 1t was just past midnight the morning of May 9 when he took off down the snow-clad slope at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, with Floyd Bennett and turned the nose of his ship northward over the polar ice. Sixteen and a half hours later he was hovering aga‘n over the little settlement, with his crew waving ecstatically, while Capt. Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth and the Norwegians and Italians waiting for their flight tumbled out of the mess hall to grect h'm. That flight has never been duplicated. It siill remains the only flight of a heavier-than-air ship over the North Pole and the successful ploneer flight in the north polar regions. Even at that time Comdr. Byrd had in mind the plans for his transatlantic flight, which he carried out in the Amcrica, and the present Antarctic ex- pedition. Today he has an unusually successful scason of preliminary work behind him and is preparing for next year not only to reach the South Pole but also to exploree the more important virgin ter- ritory to the East. “Little Theater” Amuses, Our own liltle theater opened up here lost night. We have our little the- ater moving always upward and on- ward striving for expression. There are no cramping traditions to limit us. ‘We have originated what might be called the Polar School of Art in which we cast off stifling conventions and go back to the primitive. What could be more gayly realistic than dropping a handful of snow down some one's back? There is about it a sort of rollicking simplicity. Train Select Audience. Having a rather select audience, we are eble to train i, which is a great advantage. They are probably the most intelligent group of things on this whole continent, now that the penguins are gone. Their minds leap ahead to the the inevitable, so that when, in a fervor of emotion, one's lines end as it were in the air, from the audience epontaneously there bursts the ery of “raspberries,” which is their gentle way of showing pleasure. ‘The atmcsphere of our little family they react. Let some one forget to close the door (there being a slight difference of 100 degrees of temperature between in here and out there) and there comes the yell, “Close that door,” followed by words chosen carefully for emphasts, meticulous care in the use of language being something upon which we insist. | TAXONRADIO SETS - URGED ON SENATE 'Brookhart Suggests Levy to Help Pay Costs of Broadcasting. By the Associated Press. A suggestion that a small tax be levied on radio receiving sets to bear the broadcasting costs was made today by Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa, before the Senate interstate com- merce committee which is considering a biil to group radio, telegraph, tele- phone and cable communication under one governmental body. Brookhert also inquired of Louls G. Caldwell, former general counsel of the Radio Commission, who appeared as a witness, whether there was “any reason why the Government could not taks over the whole broadcasting business.” Ad Censorship Arises. . “No,” the witness answered, explain- ing there were no legal difficulties in the way. The question of censorship of adver- tising over the air also arose when Chairman Couzens, author of the bill, referred to “the propriety” of advertl: ing recently sent out by a cigarette manufacturer. “Should broadcasters be permitted to encourage the use of cigarettes in the home?” he asked. Dill Sces Long Road Ahead. Senator Dill, Democrat of Washing- ton, expressed the opinion that the taxing proposal would “have to travel a long road “before it could be enacted into law. “It would run into constant diffi- culties,” Caldwell agreed. Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, asked whether the radio commis- sion had “power to inquire into the kind of programs presented.” “I think it has,” Caldwell replied. TRAIN PHONES DISCUSSED. Schuette Declarés Radio Trust Pact Blocks Such Service. During recent hearings on the Couzens’ bili, attention was called to the fact that in this country no pro- vision had been made to provide for telephoning from moving trains to any part of the country. Oswald F. Schuette, executive sec- retary of the Radio Protective As- sociation, issued a statement charging that such installations on trains in the United States had been prevented by radio trust agreements. In answer to this assertion, the fol- lowing statement was issued today by, ‘Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.: “For some years the American Tele- phone & Telegraph Co. has been ready to install telephone service on moving irains and about two years ago had the matter up actively with two of the leading rallroad systems in the country. “Tots” With Beards. A school sccne was selected for the | e first performance bocause of its sug- | gestion of refreshing innocence in t.hh[ decadent_civilization of seals and pen- | guins. The little tots were dressed | daintily in canvas, which covered mosti of their figures, although an arm which | had avolded washing, as children'’s arms | sometimes do, here and there asCldei concealment. They are well-fed chil-| dren and quite muscular, and their pre- | coclous development was indicated by a | beard or two, or perhaps a specles of | horsehair, which adorned their pink | cheeks. (Covyright, 1929, by the New York Times %o, 'and 'the 8t. Louis Post-Dispatch. ~All righis for the publication reserved through- out the world.) | John Gilbert, beau idol of the films, and Ina Claire, another ¢inema artist trip from Hollywood in a speeial car, accompanied by scveral friends. Telephoto shows Gilbert and Miss Claire being married by Judge Rodger role of toastmaster. Foley, who is standing between couple. v | | | Both raironds decided against it, as it wA;l not considered commercialiy prac- “If any railroad wishes to give such service on its trains and bear the neces- sary cost, we shall be happy to install it and connect it with the lines of the Bell system.” BECK ASKS CELEBRATION ON CONSTITUTION IN 1937 $10,000 for Commission to Make Plans for Memorial Is Urged on House. Representative Beck of Pennsylvania |introduced & joint resolution in Congress yesterday providing for a commission of 14 members to arrange a fitting celebra- tion of the 150th anniversary of the formulation of the Constitution, during 1937. An appropriation of $10,000 was sought for the expenses of the commis- sion. The commission would consist of the President, the president of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, five persons to be appointed by the President, three Senators to be appointed by the presi- dent of the Senate and three Repre- sentatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House. In addition to advising the American people of its purpose and planning for the national observance, the commission would consider the erection in Wash- ington and also in Philadelphia, where the Constitution was formulated and adopted, of a permanent memorial to | the event. ———— LOS ANGELES TO LAND. Dirigible on Training Flight Has Generator Trouble. ERIE, Pa, May 10 (#).—The naval | dirigible Los Angeles, on a training | flight, passed over here at 9:05 a.m. to- | day. It was headed southward. A telegram addressed to Lieut. Comdr. | Wiley at Lakehurst, N. J,, was dropped | fro mthe craft at Harbor Creek, 8 miles | east of here. The message said the ship | was heading south and would anchor at sunset. The dirigible’s radio generator was out of order. STUDENTS HEAR WALSH. | Senator Addfesses Second-Year ; Class of Georgetown. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts was the principal speaker at a banguet given last night at the Harrington Hotel by ihe second year evening class of she Georgetown Law School. He stressed the need for concentration in the study | and practice of law. | Assistant Dean Hugh Fegan and Prof. Howard Boyd were the other guests and sprakers. Charles Drummey filled the About 50 persons were present. FARN BL PRSSING TUESDAY FORESEE Senate Agrees Unanimously to Limit Speeches to Ten Minutes. Passage of the farm bill by the Senate on Monday or Tuesday was predicted today following & unanimous consent agreement to limit debates be- ginning at 3 pm. Monday to 10-min- ute speeches. On the House side the Republican leaders were stili considering two courses | of procedure. One was to decline to | receive the bill from the Scnate on the ground that the Senate had exceeded its authority in placing the debenture clause in the bill. The other was to receive the bill and send it to confer- ence after first adopting a resolution declaring that the Senate had gone beyond its authority and that the pres- ent action of the House in receiving the bill was not to be considered a prece- dent for the future. Bitterness of feeling between Repub- lican members of the Senate because of the vote on the debenture clause ap- peared today to be on the increase. Furthermore, the likelthood of a bitter contest between the Senate and the House was growing stronger. House members are watching the debate in the Senate and were inclined today to re-! sent the statement made in that body yesterday by the Democratic leader, Senator Robinson. Interminable Debate Feared. Senate Republican leaders have urged the Republican leaders of the House to receive the farm bill with the debenture clause, arguing that if the House sends the bill back to the Senate charging that the Senate had gone beyond its jurisdiction would lead to interminable | debate of a constitutional question in the Senate. ‘There was no disposition to hurry the farm bill to a vote in the Senate today. Some of the Republican leaders are counting on a backfire from the coun- try because of the refusal of a majority of the Senate to support President Hoover on the farm-relief question. Also there was a disposition to give the House leaders additional time in which to determine how they shall meet the ' debenture issue. G. 0. P. Row Aired. The animosity existing among Re- publican Senators as a result of the debenture fight was brought out into the open yesterday afternoon by a letter written by Senator Fess of Ohio, the assistant Republican whip, to Mar- shall of assailin: ‘“pseudo-Republicans” for the ‘break’ in the party’s ranks over the deben- ture issue, and naming Senators Borah of Idaho, Nye of North Dakots and Brookhart of Iowa specifically in his complaint. Sharp retors were im- mediately made by all three of the Senators, who supported the Chief Executive during the presidential cam- paign, but voted against his announced position in giving their support to the debenture proposal. “Senator Borah, the one person re- sponsible for the special sessicn,” Fess wrote after mellt\anlng &;t he had opposed the calling of gress, ‘re- fused to go along with the President and supported the debenture, against which the President had written a letter to the chairman of the com- mittee. Senatcr Nye, another who had sought the President’s promise for a special session, went against the Presi- lent. Senator Brookhart, who had done such valiant service for the Pres! dent in the campaign, early broke away from the President and became his most bitter critic on the floor of the Senate.” Borah Makes Reply. Senator Borah, in a statement on the | Fess letter, sald he had “for three years been an advocate of a debenture as the most immediate and certain method of relieving the farmer engaged pro- ducing commodities of which we have & surplus from his present distres had voted Wednesday “according to my long-settled convictions” and “would not know how to vote otherwise.” “In the support which I sincerely gave Mr. Hoover I did not get the idea that I was to be deprived ever after- ward of voting upon public measures in accordance with my own views,” he sald. “I am sure that Mr. Hoover did not assume for a moment that by my support I was changing my views upon public questions or surrendering the right to form them. Only a base class of intellectual slaves would cntertain or promulgate such an idea.” Senator Nye sald that ‘“those who freely resort to the term ‘pseudo-Repub- lican’ would do well to compare their own Republicanism with that which gave birth, vitality and life to the rty,” and predicted: “Some day Ohio publicans will learn that North Da- | kota Republicans are striving to hev a little closer to the line laid down by Lincoln than is the case in Ohio, and with that realization will come rew life | for a party that has been growing &o | stale that it forgets that people can | make and break parties.” Brookhart Is Deflant. Senator Brookhart _ declared “no standpat like Senator Fess can be my example of ‘Republicanism.’” and. as- serting that he was “the first” to ask the President to call the special ses- sion, went on: “But_the farm bill T had in mind when I talked with Mr. Hoover last Summer and again when T campalgned | for him was different from the one we | are called upon here to pass.” Senator Fess predicted that the di. vision over the debenture “means ulti- mately a compiete coalition between the Democrats and insurgents, and con- sequent arresting of the administra- tion's policies.” Referring to the pro- | tective tariff as a benefit to manufac- | turing inlerests and contending that ) debentures were no closer to the Lounty idea, Senator Borah observed: “Mr. Fess hastens with impatient | pride to devote all kinds of bounty to manufecturing _interests, but recoils | with pseudo-pride from extending the same principle exactly to the producers. If the economic schism thus indicated must come which will break across par- ty lines, it will b because those who have béen reciplents of the favor of the Government so long are unwilling to extend the same favor to the pro- ducers.” )| Sheppy “Toledo, Soucek Reported Unofficially Making An Altitude Record Unofficlal reports that Lieut. Apollo Soucek has broken the world_altitude record of 38418 feet were current at the Navy Department today. The first calibration of Lieut. Soucek’s barograph, completed at the Bureau of Standards yester- day, it is understood. showed that he reached an altitude of 38,993 feet. Rechecking of both barographs is in progress at the Bureau of Standards today and it was stated there that no official an- nouncement will be made before tomorrow. Bureau of Standards officials refused to confirm the Navy rumors. Under the rules of the Federa- tlon Aeronautique Internationale, the world body which estabiishes the authenticity of all world rec- ords, & new altitude record to be recogniged as official must have surfnud the previous record by at least 100 meters. | trict committee on the recommendsti Central tRegency Zipwicl Rincon Lassa ! F. a Sunfire (P. CANT AR LINER TOBEBULTIN. Plans for Hangar in Califo nia Disclosed by Goodyea.g Zeppelin Co. Head. § By the Associated Press. - NEW YORK, May 10—Given tH¢ approval of Congress at its next sessio work will be begun in Californfa on hangar for the building of a giant cong} mercial airship, embodying helicopt features, for mail and passenger servi to Hawail ad later to the Orient, Paul W. Liichfield, president of tie Goodyear-Zeppelin Co. of Akron, Ohig, told in detail today plans he laid before President ~ovar in Washington yester- da; ‘he company is not asking Govern- ment subsidy such as was granted in England for building the R-100 and the R-101, but it does want the guaranteed income of mail contracis before entering upon a project that entails an estimated outlay of $10,000,000. 1f ihese contracts are forthcoming the program is as follows: A hangar will be built in Southern California or in one of two places now under consideration in the San Fran- cisco Bay district similar to the one now under construction at Akron: for the building of two airships for the Navy. each one twice as big as the dirigible Los Angeles and half again as big as the Graf Zeppelin. In the Akron shops construction of parts for the first Navy ship will be duplicated and one set shipped to Cali- fornia_for assembly in the proposed hangar there. The commercial ship will be identical with the Navy ships, except thai its interfor accommodations and fittings will be adapted to cargo and passenger needs. Departures to Be Radical, The Navy ships end the proposed commercial ship will have radical de= partures from accepted practice in_de- sign, in that the engines, of which there will ‘be eight instead of fiv2 as in th2 Los Angeles and the Graf, will b2 housed inside the frame rather 1 hung in “eggs” from the hull, and tha propellers will be on swiveis. This s the propelle drive the ship straight up or straight down, the helicopte i which for years had been cngaging th> interest of the heavicr-than-gir enginecrs. ‘The commercial chip will carry a crew of about 50, will have accome modations for about 100 passengers and cargo rcom for 10 tons of mail. It will have a speed of 90 miles. The airship will have ncnz of the protuberances of the present dirigibics, everything but the front of the control cabin being within the bag. The state- rooms will ‘b2 in two lines, with outsid: wnidows, and there will be a glasse premenade or sun deck. Gymnasium to Be Feature. Realizing from long dirigible flights of the past that passengers need more exercise than has been possible so far, there are even plans for a gymnasium cn board where games and physical training will be a part of the routine. As helium gas is to be used instead of hydrogen, smoking will be permitted, and this Is expected to give the Ameri- can liner a popularity advantage over foreign ships. mdr. J. C. Hunsacker, who was with Litchfield at today’s interview, said that with congressional approval of mail contracts the first commercial ship would be in service by 1931, and that if its business justified a second ship would be begun at once. HOOVER APPOINTS H. H. HARTMAN TO UTILITIES POSITION the time it reached the commission un- til it was modified by the Senate Dis- on of Dr. Milo R. Maltbie, New York ul ities engineer. He said he had very definite ideas concerning certain fea- tures of the plan, but that it would not be proper for him to cxpress an opinion before his appolntment s con- firmed. Better Car Service Seen. Should the merger agreement, which expires June 1, fail of ratification by Congress before that date, Mr. Hartr man expressed the belief that the col mission has authority to give the pub= lic some of the benefits that the merger plan promises—improved service and economies in operation. Mr. Hartman fecls confident that a rerouting of certein lines of the trac- tion companies would result in bettc ment of service and at the same time probably efTect economics in operation. Spanish Flyers Hop Off. MANAGUA, Nicaregua, May 10 (). —The Spanish fiyers, Capts. Franci Iglesias and Ignacio Jiminez, hopped off from Managua for Guatemala shortly after 8 o'clock this morning. 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