Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1929, Page 2

2 = LAVARRE EXPLAIN PAPERS PURCHASE Denies Power Company At- tempted to Influence or Dic- tate Editorial Policies. THE EVENIN GG STAR. WASHINGTO Received by Queen By the Associated Press. The Federal Trade Commission, in-: vestigating the Internationel Paper & | Power Co's interests in newspapers, had before it today testimony and e: hibits introduced to show that the cor- poration made no attempt to influence | editorial policies of four Southern p: pers acquired through a loan of $870, 000 from its subsidiary, the Interna- tional Pen-r Co, | The tesiimony and exhibits were put | into the record yesterday by Wi Lavarre. who, with Harold Hall. 1 teined the loan after the conferences | with Archibald R. Graustein of Boston. president of the Intcrnational Paper & Power Co., and officers of the subsid- | jary, and used it in the purchase nI‘ the Augusta. Ga.. Chronicle; the Colum- bia, S. C.. Record and the Herald and | the Journal of Spartanburg, S. C. | Testifying that he regarded the loan | s "8 proper tie-up between newspapers | and a news print pap°r company.” La- varre said the company had made no effort to influence editorial policies. Ho and Hall both esserted that they planncd to plac® the newspapers oa a profitabl~ | basis, then “put them all tozsther and issue bonds and preferred stock and | pay off the International Paper Co.” To show the calib>r of men who are | editing the papers, Lavarre produced a telegram from Charles O. Hearon, edi- | tor of the Herald and the Journal at Spartenburg and supervising editor of | the other two, and a letter from Pitz- hugh McMaster, editor of the Colum- bia Record. Both were received. he said, after the present investigation began. Resignaticn Threatened, The Hearon telegram said that if | the papers “are owned or controlled by the International Co., I am hereby | tendering my resignation as editor-in- | chief of the Spartanburg Herald and | the Journal and supervising editor of the Columbia Record and the Augusta Chronicle.” The McMaster letter stated that he would not have accented the editorial poc’‘ion on.the Columbia Rec- ord ‘f he had und-rstood it was owned or controlled i 1 an:” way by power com- panies or puric u'ilities. Both editrrs, Lavarre testified, had been assurc:d that the International Co. | did not control the papers and had re- | mained in their positions. Lavarre and Hell testified that the $870,000 loan completely financed their purchase of the four papers. Sought Dozen Others. The 'loan was made on notes given by them to the International Paper &I Power Co.'s subsidiary, the International Paper Co., and the notes were secured by the newspapers’ stock. He said he and Hall had made one trip through the Southeast inquiring ut buying newspapers before they approached the international concern and that after the loan was negotiated, they made other trips through that sec- tion, with the expenses paid by te In- ternational. In addition to the purchased news- papers, Lavarre testified that he and Hall approached or made pro- posals concerning more than a dozen other newspapers in the South, but no deals were consummated. ‘He mentioned some papers for which unsuccessful ne- tiations were made ds the Greensboro, . C., Record; the Asheville, N; C, Citizen .and the Times; the Charlotte, N. C, News and the Observer; the Ra: leigh, N.h c"mmcoi -tha 1 ngm. gn.. e i the uza\m , Ga., En- qulrel:r;an, and the ‘A l!ltl Constitu- tion. He added that they had carried on negotiations in Charleston, 8. C.; Sa- | vannah, Ga.; Bristol, Va.-Tenn. d‘ Johnson City and Elizabethton, Tenn., but he did not name the newspapers in those cities. Lavarre testified that he and Hall had megotiated for several newspapers at the same time as the Bryan-Thomason Newspapers, Inc., which also had been financed by the International Co.’s in the buying of newspapers, were making offers for_the properties. After this was ascertained, he added, his firm with- drew frcm the negotiations. AD MEN HEAR KLEIN TALK ON INDUSTRY New World Industrialization Af tributed Largely to Loss of Men During War, Loss of lsrge numbers of men by the countries engaged in the ‘World War has been Jargely responsible for the new industrialization of the world, and par- | ticularly of the United States, since the | war, Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce, declared in a speech before the National Industrial Adver- tisers’ Association at the Mayflower Hotel last night. “This industrialization phenomenon | has been characteristic of evey post- war period in modern history,” Dr. | Klein told the advertisers. “Losses of large numbers of men necessitated wide- spread substitution of machinery,” he | j editor of newspapers owned and eon- Above: MRS. GEORGE BARNETT. _Below: MISS MARGARET TYNER. HOWELL DENIES SALE OF HS PAPER Owner of Atlanta Constitu- tion Refutes Statement of Pending Negotiations. ATLANTA, Ga, May 11.—Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitu- tion, yesterday denied that he had entered any negotiations with William §. LaVarre and Harold Hall for the | sale of his paper to them. LaVarre in testifying before the Fed- eral Trade Commission at Washing- ton mentioned the Constitution as among Southern papers he had sought to purchase. Mr. Howell’s statement follows: " “When Mr. LaVarre asked if the Con- stitution would make a sale price. he was very properly told that the Con- stitution was not for sale at any price | and it would be useless to ente: tiations. I was asked would buy the property and he was told that not double that amount would be considered. The conversation lasted not more than a minute. The C stitution will never pass from its pres. ent management as long as I live.” EDITOR HEARON RESIGNS. nego- Declines to Edit Newspaper Controlled by International Paper Co. SPARTANBURG, S. C., May 11 (®). —Charles O. Hearon, editor of the Spartanburg Herald and the Spartan- burg Journal, commenting here yester- day afternoon on the reading of his telegram of resignation as editor of these newspapers and as supervising editor of the Columbia Record and the Augusta Chronicle into the record of the trade commission's hearing in Washington upon the -:ltJvmu of the International Papey & Fower Co. in financing, said ti telegram was sent William LaVarre New York on the night of April 30, following the testi- mony of Archibald R. Graustein before the trade commission. Mr. Hearon said the telegram, full text of which he gave out, confirmed | what he had said to Mr. LaVarre over the long distance telephone during the afternoon. Text of Telegram. The text of the telegram follows: “I want to confirm by night letter what I said to you over the long dis- tance telephone this afternoon, to wit: “When 1 agreed to the sale of the Spartanburg Herald and the Spartan- burg Journal I was under the impres- sion that we were selling these news- papers to you individuaily. “I may have considered the sale of | the newspapers to the International | Paper & Power Co. under some cir- cumstances, but I would not have en- tered into any agreement to be the trolled by the International Paper & Power Co. or any other special interest. If the Spartanburg Herald and the Spartanburg Journal are owned or con- i $2,000,000 | on- | WGHER IDEALIS * FOR PRESS URGED ‘Ludlow Hits Commercialism | and Standardized Means of Writing in Talk. Advocating departure from stand- { ardization throuzh syndication of news- writings and urging abandonment of commercialization as the sole motive of publishing, Representative Louis Lud- low of Indiana, former president of the National Press Club, addressing a | round-table conference of journalistic students from local and nearby uni versities at George Washington Uni- versity this morning. pleaded for greater | idealism and individualism in news- | paper: The conference for the purpose of organizing £n association of college publications here is being attended by the representatives of American Uni- versity, Catholic University, Georgetown | University. Trinity College and George | Washington University. Herpert Ang=, { editor of the George Washingon Tni- sity Hatchet, is presiding. csides Representative Ludlow, Rish- lard V. Oulahan. Washingion ' corre- | spondent of the New York Times, spoke ! just before the morning session of the | conference was adjourned for luncheon. | Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of | George = Washington University, s host to the publications representatives at_the Cosmos Club. The conference will reconvene this afternoon. at which time actual organ- ization of the proposed association will be considered. ~If organization is voted | for, officers wiil be elected late today. The conference is being held at the invitation of the George Washington publications committee. Commenting upon the passing of the journalistic cge of such editors as Hal- ey, Dana. Reid and Bowl ed much to_the moldin; of public opinion, Mr. Ludlow, w] spent 37 years in newspaper work, de- clared that the editor who believes his paper should be nothing more than a “mirror of life” falls short of the re- sponsibility of his profession. Com- mercialism, he said, is overshadowing idealism in modern journalism. “Speaking by and iarge.” Ludlow con- tinued, “I believe that if the press of this Republic would devote itself g little more to idealistic conceptions and hu | manitarian efforts, and a little less to | the financial rule of thumb, it not only i would continue to thrive in a material i sense, but_the human race would be i immeasurably better off. The press is | infinitely more than a business. It is |a social service, an instrumentality of { spiritual potentialities that is vitally im- | portant in the life of the Nation itself. | The newspaper has outgrown the look- | ing-glass stage and must develop along | lines of public service if it is to perform | its heaven-sent mission.” ¥ | Commenting further upon editorial | | duties and_responsibilities, Mr. Ludlow | | commended The Star for its “experi- | ment” in withholding the details of | Hickman kidnaping-murder case of California. He expressed the hope that | “eventually every yellow paper in the country will become known and branded | as exotic” and that the conscience of newspaper people “will establish the | | prineiple that a publisher is not dmnx} his duty to his community if he sells | | papers at-the expense of common | decency.” In his plea for a return to journal- istic individualism Mr. Ludlow declared that “in our country, more than in any other, individuality has become sunk in an amazing growth of standardization.” | Continuing, he said: “We find the same features, the same | comics, the same thoughts on the same days in_newspapers from he. Atldntic to the Pacific. ‘This not only deptives newspaper readers of the charm of in- | dividuality and naturalness, but, in my judgment. puts a blight on the spiritual and uplifiing possibilities of the press.” ‘NURSERY OF RELIGION.’ Dr. Frederic W. Perkins, pastor of the | Universality National Church, which is eeting in the Ambassador Theater, Zighteenth street and Columbia road, on Sunday mornings, will preach to | morrow at 11 o'clock on “The Home; | the Nursery 6f Religion.” | The church school convenes imme- i diately after the morning service in | the lounge of.the theater. At 7 p.m. devotional meeting of the Young Peo- | ple’s Christian Union at 1317 New York avenue, the topic being “Mother’s Day," ‘Hed by Miss Theresa Rupp. | MOTHER’S DAY PROGRAM. ! i Mother's day services will be ob- served in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church South, Thirteenth and Critten- den streets. Rev. Willlam D. King, the pastor, will preach at 11 am. and & reception of members and christening of children will be held. Rev. Willlam B. Waters, Baltimore Conference evangelist, will begin a three- week revival at 8 p.m. There will be preaching each evening except Monday. “WHAT MAKES A HOME?” Mother's day will be observed to- morrow in the Gunton-Temple Memo- rial Presbyterian Church and Rev. Ber- nard Braskamp, the pastor, will speak on the subject “What Makes a Home?" The organ chimes, which have been recently presented to the church by Robert, Joseph, Calvin, Henry and Wil- lism Milans in memory of their par- ents, will be heard for the first time at the 11 o'clock morning service. | and schoo!l, incorporated in a platform PRESIDENT DRIVES INNEARBY SECTION ‘Outing Expected to Include Fishing—Secretary Wil- bur in Party. Prosident and Mrs. Hoover this after- noon are enjoying another of their out- ings in the nearby sections which will be concluded with a picnic in the woods | somewhere, | Accompanied only by Secretary of the | Interior Wilbur, & close friend of both the President and Mrs. Hoover, they eft the White House at 11:30 this morning with a well filled hamper in | the rear of the car to be used by the | Secret Service men who will trail them | !'on_their trip. | The President was unable to say just | where he was going, explaining that he | | did not know himself. He is merely | | looking for an afterncon of rest and | | quiet, but he indicated, however, that | | after driving around the country for | awhile that he will wind up at the ‘mhinf preserve of Lawrence Richey, one of his secretaries, on Hunting Creek, near Catoctin Furnace, which is about 12 miles north of Frederick, Md. In anticipation of a couple of hours | of fishing, the President and Dr. Wilbur took along their fishing paraphernaiia. The last time th> President fished in | Hunting Creck he succeeded in landing a good size rainbow trout. According to the word left behind the presidential party expect to return to the Whit> Hous> about dark tonight. | Tomorrow morning the President and | Mrs. Hoover will attend religious services s usual at the Quaker Meeting House | at Thirteenth and Irving streets. Sena- | {tor Borah of Idaho and Mrs. Borah will be among those who will be guests at dinner tomorrow. PLATFORM VOTED, P-T. A ADJOURNS Congress Reaffirms Stand on Dry Law and Praises Kellogg Treaty. With the adoption of resolutions ex- pressing faith in the American home that pledged the National Congress of Parents and Teachers to continue its constructive program of education train- ing, the thirty-third convention of the organization ended today. ‘While "delegates are dispersing to their homes in all sections of the coun- . the national board of managers and the national executive committee will continue in session throughout the day to select the next convention city and arrange the national budget for the coming year. Before bringing the general sessions | to a close, the convention adopted a broad platform, containing seven cardi- | | nal objectives of education. The plat- form stands for health, worthy home | membership, mastery of the tools and | technics and spirit of learning, voca- | tional and economic effectiveness, faith- ful citizenship. wise use of leisure and ethical ‘character. Praises Kellogg Pact. The congress reaffirmed its stand in favor of the eighteenth amendmen’ and of the Volstead act, urging their “vig- orous and impartial enforcement.' It also went on record in support of the Kellogg pact. The congress urged the control of | questionable night clubs, dance halls | | and road houses; reaffirmed its stand leaner and better moving pic- opposed the use of children in | stage entertainments, and appealed o the press to give less prominence to de- | | tails of crime and divorce. Home as Foundation. “We can only hold our democracy to- gether if we have a contributing, re- sponsible, educated, obedient, loyal and disinterested citizenship,” Secretary of the Interfor Ray Lyman Wilbur told the congress last night in placing responsi- bility for the Natlon's future squarely upon the home. “The home as we know it in ‘America |1s the base of such citizenship,” he said. “Such cjtizenship is basic to the perma- nence of the Government. The mother | is basic in such a home. In other words, |in ‘this great republic we must depend upon the American mother and the home which she maintains for her chil- | dren, If we are to have permanence and | | | Above: A shot along the rail at the sacialy horse show held today at the Preece Riding School. bold Noyes, jr., on Fleet, winner of group “C” in the best rider class. winner of the open saddle class. Davis, cn Jo; & Lower lef! Lower right, New- t, Miss Helen Davis, daughter of Dwight —Star Staff Photos. HEAD OF TRXTILE | CROUP HTS QUZ Group From North Carolina Disappointed at Not Being Heard. A group of fextile workers from North Carolina, headed by Carl Reeve, or- ganizer for the National Textile Work- ers’ Unicn, is in Washington, but has been much disappointed at not being heard by the Senate commiitee on manufacturers which is to hold hear- ings on the Wheeler resolution to in- vestigate the textile industries of the South According to Reeve, he telegraphed the committee that his delegaticn was coming and wished to be heard, but upon arrival found that the hearings had been put over. “We feel that this Senate investiga- tion won't amount to anything,” de- clared Reeve. “The fact that a group of Southern textile workers, the only group of textile workers to visit Wash- ington, was denied a chance to explain | their slave conditions before the Senate committee shows that the investigation will be a farce. “We came to Washington to expose before the workers of the North the ter- | rible conditions under which workers of North Carolina work and live angd to request from the Northern workers sup- port in our strike.” Reeve said his group, which included a child 14 years old, out on strike against conditions in the industry, pro- tested to Senator Overman of North Carolina concerning the Senator’s state- security.” Becretary Wilbur stressed that chil- dren who have responsibilities of their ments on wage conditions. The §enator own In early life, usually make the best | in & recent statement said wages were citizens. | about $18 a week, Reeve claimed. where- men spoke at the publicity dinner given | $8 and $9 a week. earlier in the evening, (which was pre- | : sided over by rs. . aunders, 0 { ehmirman of the pubiicity bureau of the| DT- Butler Home From Hospital. | congress. Paul Wooten, chairman of| NEW YORK, May 11 (.- Dr. | the board of the National Press Club, | Nicholas Murray Butler, president of | was the principal speaker. Columbia University, returned to his During. the afternoon the delegates | home on Morningside drive yesterday {made a pilgrimage to Washington Ca- from the Presbytcrian Hospital, where thedral. They were shown through the [ he had undergonc an operation for gall bishop's garden and the crypt chapels | stones. Dr. Butler was removed to the of the cathedral. In the Bethlehem | hospital from his home about four | Chapel they were addressed by Rev.|weeks ago. Tonight he was reported Arthur B. Rudd, canon of the cathedral. | fully recovered. A number of Washington newspaper | as the wages, he said, averaged between | Mother Nominates Son, 40, as Genius to Succeed Edison By the Associated Press. BOISE, Idaho, May 11.—There is no age limit on genius, in the cpinion of a mother living in Churchill, who yesterday recom- mended her son, aged 40, as a candidate for the Idaho entry in the competition to find a suc- cessor to Thomas. A. Edison. ‘The mother, whose name was withheld, . sald she had read about the State commissioners of education hunting a genius and | | she wafited to recommend her | | | | son, who she said, was “trust- | | worthy and was apt in a me- ! | chanical way” and was now run- | | ning a .sheep-shearing plant in Aberdeen, STIMSON'S REFORM - PROCEEDS SLOWLY State - Department Works to Reorganize and | . Co-ordinate Aides. | By the Associated Press. 3 | Secretary Stimson has begun cr tensive reorganization of the Statc Do | partment with a view to cn-ordin:\('u\!;‘ the increasing activities of its various | |divisions. But he is going slowly, he | | explains, because the State Department | | “is the busiest office I ever got into in | | my 1ife.” | The principal result of the reorgani- | zation thus far has been to make the | Undersecretary of State, J. Reuben | | Clark, jr., the nominal co-ordinating of- | ficer, corresponding, as Mr. Stimson de- | seribes it, to a second in command for | a chief of staff. Mr. Stimson explained | that in addition to bringing together the work of the various division chiefs. the Undersecretary would be in a_pos tion to take up the work of the Secr tary himself in an emergency or during | his absence from the city. | | Under the proposed system, the heads | of divisions will be free to consuit the | i and natio Head % WOULD AID FLDERS KEEP YOUTH'S PACE jAdult Education Problems Considered by Institute Conference Here. How best to help the older generation was a question today before the Insti- tute on the Library and Adult Educa- | ticn, meeting at the Public Library. The plight of parents who cannot meet their college-trained offspring on common cultural ground was a matter of some concern to the 100 delegat-s, who are readers’ advisers in various li- braries over the country. At-eniion at the round table discus- sions was directed to the vastly in- creased enrollment at schools and col- leges, derived from every class, creed ity. The parents, it was inted out, have no choice but to equip themseives mentally or fall behind the younger generation. The two-day ‘meeting, opening yes- terday, is a pre'ude to the fifty-first annual session of tihe American Library | Association, expected to assemble 2,500 v for a week's lers at the librarians here Mon conference, wilth h Washingion Auditori. The institute has nn set speaking program, but is occupieu with iaformai discussions of the bsst means of guiding adults in selecting reading roatter. Various phases of this general sub- ject have been discussed under leader- VICTORS IN HORSE SHOW ANNOUNCED Newbold Noyes, Jr., Winner of Cup in Riding Event for Children. | i | | | Newbold Noyes, jr., was an easy win- ner in the first class of the Children's Society Horse show, held at Preece Riding School this morning. He was presented with a silver loving cup and the first place ribbon by Miss Gladys Whiteway of Paris and New York. The class, which was to determine the best rider only, was limited to children. Second place went to Marcel Stokes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Holcombe. Syivia Szechenyi, daughter of Count and Countess Szechenyi, won third place, while Martha Bacon was | fourth. The judges were Dion Kerr fand Col. R. R. Wallach. Henry Huidekoper fell from his horse when his mount stumbled while round- ing one of the turns. The boy was un- injured, however, and continued to ride. Miss Helen Davis, daughter of former Secretary of War Dwight Davis, won the second event, an open saddle class for children nct exceeding 15 years of age. Second place was taken by Marageret‘a Rowland, third by Patricia Donovan and fourth by Gertrude Laughlin. The awards were given out by Mrs. George Hewitt Myers. The arrangements for the fete had | been worked out by Mrs. James F. Cur- | tis and members of her committee col- | laborating with Mrs. Ambrose Preece |and Miss Maud Preece. | Mrs. Davis, Countess Szechenyi, | Mrs. Curtis and scores of other persons | prominent in Washington society wers | present when the first event opened at 10 o'clock this morning. The six remaining classes for chil- dren are as follows: _Class 3—Best rider (Preece School), children not exceeding 10 years. Class 4—Best rider (Preece School), children not exceeding 15 years. Class 5—Open paie class. Little boy and girl to ride together, 10 years and under, perform- ance only to count. Class 6—Open saddlz class. Children 6 years and under, performance only to count. Class 7—Open jumping ciass. Chiliren 15 years and under, performance only to count, Class 8—Hunt teams. Appoint- ment 15 per cent. Conformation, 35 per eent. Performance 50 per cent. !'be a feature of the afternoon show, which gets under way at 2:30 o'clock. The nine classes to show this after- { noon are: Class 1— Thoroughbred hunters, to be shown in hand. Class 2— Ladles’ saddle class, performance only to count. Class 3—Four-yeax-olds | and under, to jump 31> feet; con: 8- | tion, 50 per cent: performance, $0 per i cent. Class 4—Hack and hunter$ four jumps, 317 feet; conformation, 25 per | cent; performance over jumps, 25 per cent; performance under saddle, 50 per cent. Class 5—Family class, parent and child to ride together: performance only to count. Class 6—Open saddle class: performance, 60 per cent; con- formation, 40 per cent. Class 7—Road hack. Class 8 —Open jumping, T~ formance only to count: jumps, 4 feet. Class 9—Hunt teams: appointments, 15 per cent: conformation, 35 per cent; porformance, 50 per cent. | ZMBEZZLEMENT CHARGED TO NEWSTAND EMPLOYE | Accused -of embezzling $1,618 from J“I\’. Union News Co., William E. Etchi- n of the 1300 block: of Maryland | avenue, was held under $2,000 bond for a preliminary hearing on May 18, by | keep ‘intellectual pace with the younger ' Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police todey. According to Assistant United States Attorney Hobart Newman, Etchison | was employed by the Union News Co. at | Union Station until yesterday, when he was apprehended. Etchison's wife |15 said to have confronted his employer | with the information the defendant | was spending large sums of money. and ! saic that she suspected “something was wrong.” Called to his employer's office Etchi- | son is said to have admitted the em- | bezzlement and stated that he was able | to secure money by the mathod over an | extended period. | ""He is accused of converting money | turned in to him as funds {rcm ca'es |and to have pretended after making { inventories that there was surplus stock on hand in order to balance the records. His employer. Newman sajd, offered to drop the matter if Etchison returned | the money. but he was unable to, and | was placed under arrest by Policeman ! J. C. Dalglish of the sixth precinct. |“GOD AND MOTHERHO00D.” | Street to Speak at Takoma Park ship of C. H. Compton of the St. Louls | Baptist Church at Night. continued. “Harassed government treas- | trolled by the International Paper & | Secretary, although normally they will day's session: Charles E. Rush, libra- rian of the Teachers College at Colum- | bia, and member of the board of the institute: M. S. Dudgeon of the Mil- waukee Tublic Library, end chairman of the board, and Jv ~on T. Jennings of the Seattle Pub’ : Library. The institute has prepared, after ex- tensive study, a comprehensive list of readable books on such subjects as psychology, history, music, mythology. together with treatises on scientific and commercial topics. The books were chosen with a view to their appeal to the layman. Speakers 1eported a marked revival of interest, especially since the World War, in the need for and possibilities of adult uries are eager for new sources of reve- nue and resort to every device to en- courage potential tax-paying industries. | Grave necessities during war time stim- | ulate new industrial activities, many of | which endeavor to perpetuate them- | selves, especially through the appeal of | “economic self-sufficiency.’ " i This condition has broughs about numerous synthetic products, and in ! many instances they have proved to | practicable than their natural arts, Dr. Klein declared. DR. TILLMAN TO PREACH. | John Wesley Zion Church Plans| Mother's Day Program. The pastor, Dr. Henry D. Tillman, | will preach a¢ 10:45 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. tomorrow at John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, Fourteenth and Corcoran etreets. A gpecial Mother's day pro- gram will be held at 3:30 p.m. under | the auspices of the Women's Home and | Foreign Missionary Society. | The Philadephia and Baltimore An- | nual Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Connection will convene May 15 at Gal- | braith A. M. E. Zion Church with Rev. | W. D. Battle as pastor-host. | SERMONS ANNOUNCED. | Mother's Day to Be Celebrated at Mount Zion M. E. Church. Mother's day will be celebrated to- at Mount Zion M. E. Church, ton avenue and O street. the pastor. Dr. Julius preaches upon the subject “Tender Power Co. I am hereby tendering my resignation as editor-in-chief of the Spartanburg Herald and the Spartan- burg Journal and supervising editor of the Columbia Record and the Augusta Chronicle.” e MERGER OF AIR FIRMS ANNOUNCED ON COAST Plane and Propeller Companies Combined With Guatemala Passenger Line. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif, May 11.— Merger of the Albatross Aircraft Cor- poration, the California Propeller Co., and the Guatemalan Air Service into a $3,500,000 organization was announced here today by Sidney W. Neighbors, offi- cizl of the Guatemalan firm. ‘The combine resulted from the necd of airplanes for 5000 miles of air mail and passenger lines now operated in Central America by the Guatemalan Air Service, Neighbors explained. The Albatross Corporation is a Santa Ana and Long Beach, Calif,, concern manu- 1?‘1;mnng tri-motored 20-passenger ships. | KANSAS CITIAN SPEAKER. D. B. Bulkley, superintendent of the City Union Mission, Kansas City, Mo. {will speak at the Gospel Mission, 214 John Marshall place, tomorrow night. Thoughts of Mother.” Prayer and praise service, 6 am.; chureh school, 9:30 am.: 3:30 pm., The subject will be, “The Wages of Sin Is Death.” Mr. and Mrs. Bulkley are touring the Eestern part of the | | Clinton N. Howard will speak on “The ! United States, and visiting the larger Rock of the American Republic’; 5:30 p.m., installation of officers of the Ep- worth League by District Epworth League officers; 7 p.m., brotherhood; 8 m., sermon by the pastor. subject, “What Mother Would Most Desire.” | rescue country. | The Sunday morning Bible breakfast l(!nfl, free to meless men and boys. will be given ¥t 9:30 am nounced by Supt. Harvey V. Prentice. it is an- mistions in this part of the | | A group of strikers from Gasto prove eonditions in the textile mills wl ers’ Union, is in dark suit in center of group. STRIKING TEXTILE WORKERS SEEK AID OF CONGRESS nia, N. C. who appearcd here yesterday o seek the ald of Congress to Im- here {hey are emplo yed. —P. & A. Photo. | work through the Undersecretary. The | education. That post-school education | system will provide a method of sifting | is gaining ascendancy in America is Carl Reeve, organizer for the National Textile Work- | |out for the attention of the Secretary |the more important matters passing through the department. During the last few days Mr. Stim- | son has set a precedent for Secretaries of Stats by personally spending some he major divisions of the de- partme-i., 41king to their chiefs and Staffs to Yearn their problems and the type of work being done. He believes some legisiation may be necessary in connection with the re- organization, but has not decided what line this should take, and it may be nothing more than a request for addi- tional funds. He also has indicated that he may establish another precedent for the State Department, saying he considered it the duty of a cabinet officer to go before Congress personally to present his department’s budget. In discussing the functions of the State Department Mr. Stimson says it is not so much a department that does things as one which is concerned pri- marily with ascertaining facts and representing American opinion all over the world. guiding and clarifying as far as possible the relations of America with other nation: SERVIE)ES FOR MOTHERS. Special Program Tomorrow at New York Avenue Church. At New York Avenue Presbyterlan Church tomorrow Dr. Joseph R. Sizo0 will preach at both services. In keep- ing with the day special Mother's day exercises will be observed by the Sun- day School and by the young people at their Sunday evening tea. Dr. Sizoo will preach at 11 o'clock on the subject “The Weapons of Life. In the evening he will continue his discussion of religious problems. His theme will be “Thinking.” The usual auestionnaire period will follow at the close of the evening service, Amérlean taxicabs are being intro- duced Into French Morocco, | demonstrated, it was pointed out, by ‘thr formation of many agencles for adult education, including university extensions, night schools, correspon- dence schools, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. classes, Americanization classes, labor colleges and Knights of Columbus classes. | Modern educational tendencies are | creating a greater demand for books | and a growing need for school libraries. It is the function of the library to sup- | ply books suited to the needs of its readers, whether these are vocational or cultural, recreational or educational, | speakers pointed out. A marked increase was reported i | the use of books on a great variety o subjects and by a great variety of read: ers, with the per capita circulation on a steady increase. | Since large numbers of Americans, the librarians said, never get beyond the eighth grade, reading is the chief thing they have®learned and if their education is to be continued it must | be largely through their reading. 'CHURCH TO HONOR BISHOP | | Special Dispateh to The Star. | _ CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 11.—Fisho) | William A. Leonard of Clevelan1 will have honors bestowed upon him ot the 112th annual convention of the Diocese of Cleveland which will meet here May 113 and 14. Nearly 40 years ago Bishop Leonard moved from Washington, D. C, to Cleveland to be consecrated Bishop of Ohio, since when he has been n"lr\ ely and intimately identified with Oh'o’s progress. He is now in his eighty-first year. Admits Jones Law Charge. Alfred Pryor, colored, today pleaded | * 7uilty before Chief Justice McCoy to & | charge of violating the Jones-Stalker iaw, He was arrested March 16 in an ry, who presided at yester- | EUBIS BT K At the Takoma Park Baptist Church, Piney Branch road and Aspen street, | the pastor, Rev. Wiliam E. La Rue, | will t~-ak tomorrow at 11 o'clock on “God and Moth-rhood,” | “Elwood Street. Girector of the Com- | munity Chest of Washington, D. C., will | speak at 8 p.m. on “The Church and Charity.” He wi'l llust:ate his address with stereopticon views. | DR BRIGGS TO PREACH. Dr. John E. Briggs will preach at Fifth Baptist Church tomorrow morn- ing on “The Love and the Loyalty of Mothers,” and at night on “Representa- tive Mothers of Bible Times and of To- ay.” Representative William Whittington of Mississippi will teach the Darlington Berea Bible Class. The Baraca Class | for Men will have its picture taken at | the close of the lesson. 3 April Circulation Daily...108,762 Sunday; 112,736 District of Columbia, ss.: FLEMING | of cobies of the paper nai tributed during fne mon 1629, was ‘a8 foltows. and dis- med_sold th of April, AD. Days. " astaag 58 Less adjustments... Total daily net_circulation. Aves aily net paid circuiat Daily average number of copies for service, ete. Daily average net circulation. 'NDAY. Coples. Day: 7 Iipem 31 14 D ndes 28 Less adjustments. Total Sunday net circulation. Average net paid Bunday tireui o ey verage ‘number 00, @10, 1 000. Average Sunday net circulation...... 112,736 FLEMING NEWBORD, | automobfle in which he was transport- ing 26 gallonggof liquor. Pryor was R%mn led for sentence, . \ ‘Business M.XI... Subseribed and sworn to before mé this V@t oM PR 2 o PR b