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1. WILL CONTINU ' GRUISER BUILDING 15 Ships Made Mandatory Under Program Until Agree- ment Is Reached. B the Associated Press. i The American cruiser building pro- gram will be carried forward by Presi-| dent Hoover as laid down by Congress | end provision for new ships will be made in the next Federal budget | The administration recognizes that| work toward construction of 15 addi-| tional 10,000-ton fighting ships is made | mandatory under the program until an | agreement for reduction of sea arma- snents is reached by the leading n tiorss =i vatified by the Senate, and | the President has no intention of at- tempting to modify or abandon that policy. Contrary Interpretations drawn from | the President's Memorial day address and the statement issued afterward by Secretary Stimson, emphasizing the tre- mendous economic burden placed upon | the powers by present naval require- | ments, are described in high adminis- tration circles as erroneous. No Agreement in Sight. Although the administration is hearti- | 1y in favor of a reduction of naval| armaments and has moved toward that nd Dby sugkesting, through Ambassa- | dor Hugh §. Gibson at the Geneva Pre- | paratory Disarmament Conference, a new basis for evaluating relative naval strength, it regards an actual agree- ment as unlikely in the near future.} Without such an agreement, ratified by the Senate, no modification or abandon- ment of the American building program can be_considered. As the disarmament situation now stands, the Preparatory Commission is | marking time, while the principal pcvr-i ers are studying and undertaking to make practical application to their own navies of the “yardstick” formula pre- sented by Ambassador Gibson. This formula is that in evaluating relative naval strength there be taken into account, besides tonnage, arma- ment, speed and age as well as some Jess important factors. The delegates o the Geneva conference received the proposal with a show of enthusiasm. Slow Progress Expected. Officials here say that, since highly technical questions are involved, slow progress is to be expected. First, the naval experts of the ‘lher powers must determine how the “yardstick” can be applied to their own navies, taking into account their individual needs for cer- tain types and classes of ships. Having made this determination, they, like the American experts, must then settle upon the ratio in the whole equation that is to be given to tonnage, to armament and to the other factors. The opinion here is that the experts of no two nations will arrive at precisely the same figures of percentage. After the experts of the five leading sea_powers have cumfluud their per- centage scale they will report to the reparatory commission, which ad- journed subject to call. Reassembling in Switzerland, the ex- erts of the various nations then will faced with the problem of composing their differences in the effort to reach a common “yardstick” applicable to all the navies. Agreements Essential. These computations. and agreements are essential to a future disarmament conference, unless some other formula can be worked out -in -the meantime, and there is no suggestion that any other will be forthcoming until every effort has been made to apply the American plan. ‘While officials here say they do not care to make any prediction as to the time for holding the next disarmament meeting, from the nature of the task ahead of the naval experts, such a con- ference during the present year is re- garded generally in Washington as highly improbable. Some naval opinion seems to be that there is little likelihood of a meeting of the great powers in advance of that provided for in the Washington Arms Conference treaties, which is in 1931. The date, however, may be advanced from Midsummer of that year to the early Spring. EXECUTION POSTPONED. Counsel for George H. Thompson Will Apply for Commutation. To afford counsel an opportunity to apply to President Hoover for a com- mutation of sentence, Justice Siddons in Criminal Division 2 today post- poned the execution of George H. Thompson, colored, whose conviction and death sentence were recently af- firmed by the District Court of Appeals. Thompson killed Elsie Bowen. He was to have been electrocuted Friday, June 7, but the court deferred the execution . August 12, on_applica- tion of Attorney Frank J. Kelly. As- sistant United States Attorney Fihelly consented to the change. DAVIS TAKES OATH. Dwight P. Davis, Secretary of War in the Coolidbe cabinet, today took the oath of office as Governor General of the Philippine Islands. It was administered by Associate Jus- tice Stone of the Supreme Court in the office of the Secretary of War. Among the witnesses of the ceremony were members of the Philippine mission, ‘headed by Rafael Aluman, insular sec- retary of agriculture; Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the insular House of Rep- resentatives, and Maj. Gen. Frank Parker, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs. Mr. Davis expects to sail for the Philippines from Seattle about June 15. Body Found in Apartment. LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 4 (#).— The body of a young woman, her bat- tered head swathed in a blood-soaked cloth, which was tied to a clothes hook, was found hanging in the closet of an abandoned apartment here today. Black Diamonds Lost In Mail Plane Crash Recovered for Owner By the Assocated Press NEW YORK, June 4—The Sun says today that black diamonds worth $25,000, lost in the crash of a mail plane near Moline, Ill, in March, are now back in pos- session of their owner here. ‘The package of diamonds, 132, valued at $30,000, was shipped b; registered air mail to New Yorl from El Paso, where they had been sent for inspection b{ a prospective purchaser, The piane crashed and burned in a swamp. Postal authorities and insur- ance adjusters had tons of wet Joam scooped up and shipped to Dixon, Ill, and New York for sifting. Forty-three stones were found in the dirt sent here, and 60 in the muck sent to Dixon. Laborers at the scene of the crash are still sifting for the rest |the way mature people act in regard Parents Set Torch To ‘Flaming Youth,’ Church Quiz Holds| Episcopalian Survey Lays Blame to Elders for Wild Pranks. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, June 4—Wayward parent- hood was blamed for the capricious- ness of “flaming youth” in most of the responses to a questionnaire distributed by the Diocese of Chicago, official Chicago publication of the Episcopal | Church, the magazine announced today. Not that youth was not rebuked for its “flaming”; it was, but its parents were accused of applying the torch. Characteristic answers included: “The present age is slightly more insane in many respects, especially il to voung people. Parents of today flatter thelr children, slobber over them. and think they are endowed to lead their elders.”—Dr. Bernard Idding Bell, warden of St. Stephen's College, Columbia University. “I cannot see that present-day youth is any more frivolous or irre- sponsible than the youth of my own | day. A lot of criticism of youth is unjustified.”—Rev. F. H. Sill, head-| master of the Kent School, Kent, Conn. | “The young people I have contact with have clear standards and high ideals. 1 have more fears for parents | than for the childrer Dr. Charles | H. Young, headmaster of the Howe| School, Howe, Ind. | “There is bound to be some recoil | from the child’s observation of adults’| violation of prohibition laws and motor | speed and from adults’ lack of interest | in religion."—Miss Florence Wells, of | Grafton, Fond du Lac, Wisc, “I don't find any more frivolity or frresponsibility or shallowness or law Jessness among _young people tha among their fathers and mothers."— Dr. Prederick C. Grant, president of | the Western Theological Seminary, | PRSONER TRES 10 SHOOT OFFICER Fires Point-Blank at Him in| Taxi, but Misses—Gun Jams | in Second Attempt. n | .. | Policeman Leo Murray of the liquor squad escaped death or injury shortly after noon today when a colored man fired point-black at him in a taxicab while resisting arrest. The bullet went | wild and when the prisoner tried to fire a second time the gun jammed. Murray, eating lunch near Sixth and D streets, heard two shots fired in quick succession, and ran to the scene. He found two colored men struggling with a third in & cab at the curb. Goes Into Cab. ‘The officer pushed inside the door and reached for the man with the gun. As he did so the gun was discharged. | ‘The accused man, Ernest Womack, | 31 years old, who described himself as steamboat fireman of 962 Wacourt street, Baltimore, Md., was booked at the sixth precinct station on two charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and a third charge of robbery. According to David Sims. colored, of the 1900 block of Sixth street, Wo- mack had been shooting dice with him in the rear of a lunchroom, near the Union Station. Sims said Womack be- came disgruntled because he was losing, whipped out a gun and robbed him of $23, and then hastened to the side- walk and hailed a taxicab. Sims said he called for his brother, Richard, of the 200 block of Fifty-fifth street northeast, to follow him and they rushed to the sidewalk in pursuit of Womack. Just as they emerged from the door, ‘Womack jumped into a cab, and the two | brothers entered the cab also. Womack | sald the men were beating him, and| when they were in the vicinity of 8ixth and D the shots were fired. The two colored men were struggling with Womack when Officer Murray came running up. . A sum approximating $23 was taken from Womack's pockets at the sixth precinet. Says Loaded Dice Used. ‘Womack * told “officers he came to ‘Washington_this morning from Balti- more and had entered a dice with five or six strangers. ‘Womack said they switched a pair of loaded dice into the game and when he learned this, he pulled his gur and de- cided to recoup his Josses, which he described as about $60. The case will be heard in Police Court tomorrow. The driver of the taxicab gave his name as D. Sullivan of the 1100 bleok of Four-and-a-hall street southwest. So suddenly had the quarrel come about in his automobile that he did not have time to interfere, but was sitting at the driver's seat when Murray arrived. REDUCTION IN HAWLEY TARIFF BILL TO FACE VIGOROUS OPPOSITION| (Continued from First P many newspapers. _According to in- formation obtained from official sources, the sentiment in regard to the tariff bill, contained in editorial expressions of opinion, is overwhelmingly against the bill as a whole The measure has been criticized vig- orously in the forelgn press and by| foreigners interested in American trade. | There eriticisms have been brought to the attgntion of the State Department and through it to the attention of the President. Furthermore, these criticisms will be laid before the Senate finance committee, if present plans are carried out, by the Secretary of State. ‘What the Senate finance committee will do with the bill when it comes to rewriting it for report to the Senate is still & matter of conjecture. The high tariff group is strongly represented in the committee. But whatever the com- mittee does, the bill will have to run the E:mm of Senate consideration, and there is good reason to belicve that body will force some of the rates lower than they are at present. The tariff revision, when undertaken, was expected to be primarily in the interest of the American farmcr and of some of the industries which,acve ad- mittedly been suffering in recent years. like the textile industry. ‘The bill s now revised goes far be- yond such limits. Mass production and the changes in industrial centers in this country have been responsible in part for the heavy demands from many producers for increased duties on their products. These have been the prin- cipal reasons, indeed, for the demand for increased duties, in some industries, rather than mere foreign competition. The manufacturers who have been un- able to keep pace In the domestic com- petition hope by raising the tariff to bring about increases in prices and so to keep themselves alive. @. C. Bryant, Crop Expert, Dies. CHICAGO, June 4 () —George C. of the stones, valued at $5,000, and will receive 25 per cent of all they find. | Bank of Chicago: the family of Frances ! here. Dutton was the second State wit- | tinued, and turned the wounded boy game | (07 | called 10 witnesses and the defense QUESTION VETERAN IN MAIL THREATS Former Orderly Suspected in Ransom Demand Upon Morrow. By the Associated Press. | BOSTON, June 4—The solution of the mystery of a long series of threaten- | ing letters received by prominent per- sons appeared nearer today through | the introduction onto the scene of George E. Long, a customs guard. ! The latest in the series was a demand of $50,000 from Dwight W. Morrow un- | der threat of violence to his daughter Constance, sister-in-law of Col. Charles A Lindbergh. Long, 50-year-old father of three | children., was said by newspapers to | have told postal inspectors, “If I ever wrote them, I don’t know why.” City police, however, who released him | early today after questioning him for | two hours at headquarters, said that it | was “all a mistake” to take the man into | custody. They declared he had con- vinced them he had no knowledge of the | letters. On the other hand, postal inspectors declared Long had admitted having sent similar letters more than seven vears g0 to a number of prominent persons in_Washington. Letters like those received by Miss Morrow at the Milton Academy, where she is a student, have been mailed in | the past few vears to Freedrick H. Raw~ son, president of the First National | Bank of Chicago, the family of Frances ' St. John Smith, Smith College student, whose body was found recently in the Connecticut River; Mrs. Larz Anderson, | socially prominent, and Mrs. Curtis Guild, widow of a former Governor of Massachusetts. Long was once a valet for Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, wartime commander overseas of the 26th (New England) Division. Long is a Spanish War veteran with a good record. He was once stationed in | Washington as an orderly in the War | Department. PO ABINGDON WITNESS DENES HALT RDER Slain Student’s Companion| Says No Officers Appeared to Wave Them Down. By the Associated Press. ABINGDON. Va. June 4—Sterling Dutton, 26, testified today that he saw no officers waving in the road and heard no commands to halt on the night of May 6, when J. W. Kendrick, Emory and Henry College student was shot to death, while riding with Dutton and Paul Phelps on the highway near ness in the trail of James W. Crowe, Washington County deputy sheriff, who with W. H. Worley, another deputy sheriff, and James McReynolds, a po- liceman, was indicted for murder for the killing. Dutton said that neither he, Phelps nor Kendrick had had any whisky be- tween 6 o'clock and the time of the shooting. about 11:30 at night. He said that while no officers appeared-in the road to wave them down an automobile drew up from behind. ran alongside as if to pass and then dropped back. He said he had heard no command to halt while the car was alongside. Drove to Hospital. A few minutes later Dutton said, sev- eral shots were fired and Phelps speed- ed up their automobile, continuing at a fast pace for a mile or more. He said they noticed that Kendrick had slumped in his seat and was wounded. They drove to an Abington hospital. he con- over to hospital attendants while he sought to notify E. M. Kendrick, an uncle. On cross examination Dutton said that he made no attempt to get in touch with officers after the shoting but that Dr. Harry M. Hayer, at the hospital, said he would notify police. After bringing E. M. Kendrick to the hospital, he added, he went to bed Asked why he had not given police the facts so that an investigation might be starter, he said E. M. Kendrick had told him to “keep quiet and say noth- Phelps Cross-Examined. Dutton came to the stand after de- fense counsel concluded @& lengthy cross examination of Paul Phelps. who was on the stand when court adjourned late yesterday. Phelps admitted today that he had been convicted on other occa- sions of possessing and transporting Whisky but denied that he had had any whisky on the afternoon or the night of the killing. He said he knew Crowe and McReynolds well and also Knew that they were officers of the law. Phelps was on the stand approxi- mately an hour today. The State has witnesses summoned number about 30. The threngs that attended the opening of the trial were back today and the halls and corridors as well as the courtroom itself were packed to ca- pacity. IOWA ASKS BIG TEN FOR REINSTATEMENT Suspended Conference Member. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 4.—A mittee of the Big Ten Athletic Con- ference went into secret session at 11 a.m. today to hear the plea of the Uni- | 1866, RAMSAY MACDONALD STARTED CAREER IN ABJECT POVERTY First Job of Laborite Leader| Was Addressing Envelopes. Read in His Spare Time and; Took Correspondence Courses. | | By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 4.—James Ramsay MacDonald, who presumably will be asked by King George tomorrow to head the next British government, has had one of the most remarkable careers in_British_politics. Rising from abject poverty, such as no other British prime minister has ever known, he fought with his part Labor, from practical obscurity a qua: ter century ago to head a British gov- ernment once and, now, to be asked to head it again. Mr. MacDonald was born October 12, | in & two-room thatched-roof house in the little Scotch fishing village SUMMONED BY KING A T s et the field, although his brightness ol ! mind had impressed his teacher and|___(Contin lessons were kept up after work hours. | might be asked to take this post. Lord Read in Free Libraries. Cecil nominally is a conservative, but As an adolescent his first job was |recently unhitched himself from the | addressing envelopes, and his next that | party harness. His world-wide reputa- | of & warehouse laborer at 12 shillings a | tion as an internationalist might make week. At lunchtime he read in free | him a valuable addition to a Labor cab- libraries and at night delved into bor- | inet. rowed books, later taking correspon ence courses and sometimes attending | lectures in Birbeck College. | His first plunge into politics was | made in 1888, when he took a job as, private secretary to Thomas Lough, a Radical candidate for Parliament. For four years he stayed with gnjuh. mean- while_turnin an: journalism, | hd Anally joined the new Independent | Minister of labor or of acalth. : Labor party, helping to conduct its | a e e national executive oaTipince. the Socialis, | committee of the yabor party was piece, 3 | meeting today with “he parliamentary Stranger Contributes. | Labor party exccutije committee, with t | Mr. MacDonald slted to discuss the in " Se0p. in hgf)uerxf:r:;gnx.flb\i"rlgmfd | situation with thneg bodies, taking their only 897 votes. A stranger contributing | counsel for the futare, These two bod- Ly B N oking fund - signed an ac. | ies are composed of 39 men and women companying letter “M. E. Gladstone. | representing every phase of British It developed that E." stood for | labor life. f a well, The Daily News, one of the chief lr::f\or\srl:rc:cfim?.li.theslg’.“ngxl\‘éflfi’x, 'Mac- | Liberal organs. delivered editorially to- RAMSAY MACDONALD. RAMSAY MACDONALD from First Page) ‘Woman May Be Named. One woman was regarded as almost | certain of a cabinet pest, the first Brit- ish woman to gain such a distinction She is Margaret Bondfield, undersecre- | tary of labor in the first MacDonald | ministry. It was beligsed here today |that she had been picked cither for | and were subject to a restrictive clause | “rented. Donald were married in November, 1896, His second stand for Parliament was made in 1900, after active opposition to day to the Labor party a ‘“warning | given in all seriousness with knowledge | of the facts.” After recounting the main items of Committee Meets to Hear Plea of | ecial com- | Cors. ut he was | Liberal policy and mentioning the Lib- &‘:wio\;;}élyl\:rg‘:&nn::r;mn:a another | eral position as holding the balance of travel tour. It took him 11 years to | power, it sald: 3 g get into Parliament, the constituency of | 1f the Labor government, putting | 7906, | aside the more extreme proposals of its Leicester finally electing him in 1906 | G 6,0, program, will concentrate on Tragedy in Family. these great national issues, we are con- In 1911 he was made leader of the vinced the Liberals will give Labor its twoscore men who made up the par- fair chance to prove its rzp:(‘ily for tary arty inside the House statesmanship. But there will be a ‘o“(‘%‘r‘)’r‘n:’gnlsAb% Rhe same time he was | lamentable breakdown unless Mr. Mac- Ohaioman of the Independent Labor |Donald changes in two important par- list, | ticulars which characterized his last party. the more advanced Soclalist | foats LT vorl te le of | U . e e S | ““Pirst, he must remember he is the m. | servant not of his party’s executive d | committee, but of Parliament and the d | nation, and secondly, his attitude to- f | ward Liberal members must undergo a complete spiritual transformation. Tragedy failed to dishearten hii Wwithin a few months death deprive: him of his son David, his mother an his wife. He was left with the care of ve en, boys and three girls. r(\)‘r:ecg?d:;l: g:'n hy:nlco]m. ]usl'lut: “The Liberals will never again sub- 3 ed to Parliament on | mit to the cheap, mean-spirited indig- zir:mlig;gr“af‘kx;?n;umsf‘ll. | nities to which Labor in 1924 thought tterly opposed the World War | fit to subject them, and unless the ordi- .n’?r'.’hm'ei Tgadershlp of the Lahur{nar.v human decencies are preserved party in the House to Arthur Hender- | practical co-operation will be impos- Son when the group decided to support | sible it. After the Russian revolution he -— tried to go to Russia to discuss with | delegates from other countries a basis | of peace agreeable to workers, but the | crew of the steamer refused to man the | ship if he came aboard. He had more money then and they | and study other lands and other peo- EUNF[DERAIE VETS ples. ‘They visited India and various dominions, and, of course, the conti- nent. He has been said to be Lh;emt»t; widely traveled man ever to become e British premier. {15,000 Visitors Present for The rising tide of resentment Jeainst . : him caused his ousting from Parliamen by 14,000 votes in the election follow- Opening of Reunion ing the armistice. He tried to get bac i Tonight. electors of Aberavon sent him to Par- | S liament in the election which followed the crash of the Lloyd George coalition. Elected Labor Leader. In that election Labor sent 142 mem- | Ders ;gc:’?]%cgfl'&‘"?‘; and they became | faces from rekindled memorles, gray-| alesty's official’ opposttion. He was | haired men who followed the flag of | elected their leader and spokesman. A | the South in the 60s assembled here to- | Vear later the Conservative majority day for the opening tonight of the S e | " Reunton officials estimated no_less | ,u:,‘ne:“d,';,e,',“d'{,‘,""“}'or‘fl)_;'“}i’}‘:“f‘p,’,‘; than 15,000 visitors had reached Char- | Liberal’ support, with Mr. MacDonald |Iotte early today, while each arriving holding, besides the premiership, the | train added to the numbers, They came portfolios of foreign minister and first | ”‘lrmd”{"?gl every State of the Union Jord of the treasury. Peace was the first | Today the Stars and Bars waved side tfem ‘on his program, and he quickly | bY side with the Stars and Stripes from secured recognition of the Soviet gov- | business buildings and from almost ernment | every residence as Charlotte welcomed i the visitors. Tv the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C, June 4—With the fire of youth in their eyes and the glory of the warrior shining in their traveled—sometimes to Socialist con-| ventions, but more often merely to see into Parliament in a by-election, but again was badly beaten. In 1922 the was wiped out, and the King sent for | thirt; { y-ninth reunion of United Confed- Mr. MacDonald and asked him to form erite Vetersns, i | Late in 1924 an alleged letter from | "5y " ion will be formally opened Gregory Zinovieff, commissar for for- bt B T Com- | tonight with an address of welcome by e Tt North Carolina’s governor, O. Max munists sought formation of Communist cells in British military forces. In the | Gardner. and by the address of Gen. A. popular tumult which followed David | T. Goodwin of Elmore, Ala. com- Lloyd George withdrew his support and mander-in-chief, to his command. Preliminary to the opening of the re- the MacDonald government fell, the . 4. on Octo. | union the birthday anniversary of Jef- ferson Davis, first and only President of new elections which were held, | ber 29 resulting in & huge Cohservative | the Confederacy, was observed last | night. majority. based on more than 400 mem- bers in the House. Mr. MacDonald resigned as premier on November 24, 1924, and Stanley Baldwin took his place, forming the Conservative government, which lasted | until now. Austrian Official Kills Family. VIENNA, June 4 (#)—Dr. Hugo Sy- mann, 52, & high official of the Govern- ment Savings Bank, last night gave sleeping draughts to his young wife, his son, 11, and his baby boy, 6 months, and then shot them and himself dead. Unsuccessful speculations were said to have motivated his act. WILL RATIFY BY DECREE. French Premier Indicates Method | to Approve Debt Settlement. PARIS, June 4 (#).—Premier Poin-| care indicated to the Chamber of Depu- | ties the intention of the French govern- ment, to ratify the debt agreement by decree, but only after giving the Cham- [ was opened yesterday. Battalion Chief ber full explanations as to why a decree | Thomas O'Connor is in charge. The would give more authority to the action. school was opened last November. Fourth Fireman Class Opens. ‘The fourth class of the District Fire Department to enter training at the echool on South Carolina avenue south- east, between Sixth and Seventh streets, WORLD AUTO TOURISTS REACH CAPITAL versity of Towa for reinstatement. court in the ca: by Prof. George A. Goodenough, Uni- versity of Illinois. Assisting him were Profs. Thomas E. French, Ohio State nesota. Tows was represented by E. H. Lauer, director of athletics, and Dr. Pelzer, lowa’s representative faculty committee, which fowa 10 days sgo on charges of oroselyting and_subsidizing_athletes. As the committee met, one of three decisions was to be made: Reinstate Towa immediately; reaffirm the faculty committee’s indefinite suspension be- ginning next January 1, or placing Towa on probation for several months start- ing at once. WOMAN FOUND SLAIN. | covered Near Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, June 4 (#).— The bullet-riddled body of a woman par- ily identified as Pauline Wilson, Bryant, 9, veteran crop reporting ex- pert, formerly connected with the Crop Reporting Board of the United States Depertment, of Agriculture, died today. triend of George Murphy, 40, Hamilton gangster, shot to death two weeks ago. was found on the banks of the Big Miami River near here today. - The committee, acting as a supreme | , was presided over! University, and James Paige, Min-¢ | Louls ) on thel suspended | | Body, Riddled With Bullets, Dis- Clarenore Stinnes, daughter of the late German C. A. Soderstrom, her companion en a journey to the ‘l:‘r'e.:'::l:‘o{. n':“(rlllm At the left is Ernest N. Smith, general manager of the American Automobi Asseciatien, ~Stan Stall Phol | ner meetings with Mr. 4, 1929, REALTY COLOR BAN| UPHELD BY COLRT Supreme Tribunal Refuses to Review Decision of Lower Branch. (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) ‘The Supreme Court yesterday refused to review the action of the lower courts of the District of Columbia sustaining covenants n deeds to property prohibit- | ing its sale to colored persons. | The property in question is a dwelling | house at 2328 First street. This and | | the adjoining properties were originally sold in 1904 by Middaugh & Shannon that the property should never be leased, sold, transferred or conveyed unto any colored person.” This house was sold to Henry A. Cornish, a colored person. Patrick O'Donohue | and 11 other owners of the adjoining | lots brought suit to enjoin Cornish from | holding title or possession of the prem- | ises in violation of the restriction. | Validity of Covenants Upheld. The second case concerned property on Randolph place. Here 101 residents | in the vicinity entered into an agree- ment that for 21 years none of the properties “shall be used or occupied by, or sold, conveyed, leased, rented or given to any colored person.” The Supreme Court of the District of | Columbia in both cases upheld the | validity of the restrictive covenants, and | this was affirmed by the Court of Ap- | peals of the District of Columbia. The colored purchasers, represented by Louis Marshall of New York and| William E. Leahy of the District of Co- lumbia, petitioned the Supreme Court to review the decisions of the Court of Ap- peals of the District of Columbia, main- taining that the agreements constituted an unlawful restraint of alienation of property and an unlawful restraint of trade, contrary to public policy. They further argued that the covenants were s0 contrary to public policy and to the spirit of the Constitution, and so un- reasonable and discriminatory that the court of equity cannot enforce them without doing violence to the funda- { mental conception of justice. With ref- |erence to the deed given by Middaugh & Shannon, they argued that the right to an injunction’ restraining the colored | persons from acquiring the property is negatived by the fact that the deed con- | tained a provision that if the property is rented, leased, sold, transferred or con- | veyed 'to any colored person, then the | seiler must pay a penalty of $2,000 and | that this penalty was intended to be a substitute for any injunctive right which | the other purchasers of the property might have against the offending seller. | Earlier Case Dismissed. ! The complaining neighbors, repre- | sented by Jesse C. Atkins, maintained in opposition that the case did not in- | volve a subsequental constitutional question, nor question of general im- | portance, that these restrictive cove- | nanis were not against public policy in | the District of Columbia, but that on | the contrary the public policy of the District of Columbia permits and recog- nizes as necessary the segregation of colored persons and white persons under certain conditions. These questions were once before | brought to the Supreme Court in the | | case of Corrigan vs. Buckley. But that case was dismissed for lack of jurisdic- tion. The court did not pass on the | merits of the contentions, because the | appellant there sought to bring the| case before the Supreme Court on ap- | peal, instead of by a preliminary appli- | cation to review the decision of the | Court of Appeals of the District of | Columbia. | NEWSPAPER GROUP * ENDS CONFERENCE Business Paper Editors Dis- cuss Trade Interests With President and Officials. | | | After consultation with Secretary of | War Good, Attorney General Mitchell, | Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and | Undersecretary of State Clark and | dinner with "Secretary of Commerce | Lamont, the National Conference of | Business Paper Editors adjourned its | sessions here last night. For the past eight years the business paper editors have held frequent din. Hoover while he was Secretary of Commerce, at which | matters relating to the publishing busi ness were discussed. This year the association continued its contact with | his successor, Secretary Lamont. Editorial Awards Announced. At the luncheon meeting yesterday held at the National Press Club the 1928-20 Associated Business Papers' editorial awards were presented by Vic- | tor H. Power, chairman of the jury on | awards. Douglas G. Wolf, president of | the conference, presided. The medal for outstanding editorial service by a business paper to its in- | dustry was awarded to Textile World for its contribution to the expansion and success of the rayon industry. First | prize for “the best article, series of articles, or news report,” was awarded to Flint Garrison, editor of the Dry- goodsman, for a series of 10 articles on the subject, “An Opportunity for a New | Wholesale Service.” Honorable Mention List. Honorable mention for editorial serv- ice to industry was awarded to Elec- | trical Merchandising, the Foundry, and | Motor World Wholesale. = Second and third prizes in the “best article” class went to N. A. Bowers of Engineering News Record, and J. O. Dahl of| Restaurant Management, respectively. The jury on awards comprised Victor H. Power, vice president of the Manu- facturers’ Record. chairman; Dr. Frank M. Surface, assistant director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; Nelson S. Greensfelder, president of the Naitonal Industrial Advertisers’ As- sociation; W. L. Richard of Richard & Co. Inc, advertising agency, and Everett B. Terhune, president of the | Boot and Shoe Recorder Publishing Co. probably will take place Friday at either the Venezia or the Chigi Palace. | Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, and Benito Mussolini, premier and foreign minister of the Italian state, will be the principals in the ceremony which will end formally the sixty-year- old Roman question. formalities, with perhaps brief speeches by the two principals. the exchange of ratifications will occur h.|at the Venezia Palace and will be pre- |Finale. ceded by publication of the accords in, the Italian Official Gazette. | (From the 5:30 Ed | effective Fox trot, The newspaper Piccolo learned that|Popular waltz s Boiling Water Fills Dry Honduran Lake, Alarming Residents By the Associated Press. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June 4.—A large lagoon, Laguna Brava, near the city of Yoro, after being dry for many years, has suddenly started to fill with boiling water. The heat on the lake bed, not vet inundated, is so intense that logs thrown in have been consumed, and a cloud of smoke hovers over the lagoon. Residents in the city have been alarmed and the government is sending a technical commission to investigate the disturbance. OATH OF OFFIGE TAKEN BY WHEAT Chief Justice McCoy Presides at Special Meeting of Dis- trict Supreme Court. Alfred A. Wheat, former acting so- licitor general of the United States, to- day took the oath of office as an asso- ciate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Chief Jus- tice McCoy presided at a special meet- ing of the court in general term, at which all the justices of the court attended. The oath of office was read to the new jurist by Chief Justice Mc- Coy, and Justice Wheat repeated it, phrase by phrase. At the conclusion of the brief cere- mony Justice Wheat received congratu- lations of members of the court and then held a reception for the felicita- tions of the lawyers and others as- sembled for the ceremony. Justice Wheat will be assigned to the hearing of condemnation cases if the corporation counsel has any such pro- ceedings ready. In the event no such cases are ready for hearing it is ex- pected he will take up the hearing of equity motions which usually crowd the last month before the beginning of the Summer recess. He has been assigned one of the “vacation terms,” when he will preside in all branches of the court. The assignment of justices for the Summer recess has been announced by Chief Justice McCoy. The Chief Justice will preside in all the courts from July 1 to 12, when he will be succeeded by Justice Bailey, who will serve until July 26. Justice Gordon will hold court from July 27 to August 8, to be followed by Justice Hitz until August 22. Jus- tice Wheat takes over the entire court August 23 and serves until September 4. Justice Siddons will return Septem- ber 5 and will preside until September 17, when he will be succeeded by Jus- tice Stafford, who will serve until Sep- tember 30. The Fall term of the court will open October 1, with all the jus- tices in attendance, NEWSPAPER REPORT SENT T0 MTCHEL Senate Transmits Ownership | Statements on Interests of Power Company. Py the Associated Press. The Senate trensmitted to Attorney General Mitchell today for “appropri- ate action” the report of the Postmaster General showing the last statements of ownership filed by the publishers of the newspapers in which the Interna- tional Paper & Power Co. owns stock. The resolution of Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Montana, proposing that the Postmaster Generai's report be sent to the Justice Department. was adopted without_debate or roll call. The Post Office Department report disclosed some of the newspapers in statements of ownership failed to show interests of the International Paper & Power Co. Officials of the power com- pany told of their interests in 13 papers at the recent Federal Trade Commis- sion hearings. The resolution adopted today by the Senate also requested the Attorney General to advise what legislation, if any. was necessary to make “completely to show their ownership. SCHENCK IS REMOVED FROM SOLITARY CELL | Ex-Policeman, Under Prison Sen-| tence, Was Closely Confined Fol- lowing Attempt at Suicide. Former Policeman Frederick A, Schenck, under & sentence of 20 years' imprisonment for two holdups, was re- moved from solitary confinement a¢ the District Jail today, wher2 he had been kept for three days as a penaity for violation of prison rules. Schenck is being kept under :pecial | guard, however, to prevent a repetition of his attempts to commit suicide. After his sentence last week he tried to hang himself and last Saturday he was caught ramming his head against the wall of a cell. Dry Law Test Tabled. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. June 4 (#).— Senate and House joint resolutions di- recting the attorney general to institute proceedings in the United States Su- preme Court to test certain sections of the Federal prohibition laws were both tabled b, Senate today. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Navy Band, at the Sylvan Theater, this evening, 7:15 o'clock Program. March, “The 18th Hussars. Overture, “Don Juan”. Solo [pr cornet, “Soun ....Clarke om. Musician ey | Symphonic poem, “Vitava”....Smetena Valse, “Tales from the Orient”. .Strauss FORMAL END OF ROMAN Excerpts from the operetta “The Vaga- bond King" _Friml QUES'”ON DUE FRIDAY “Prelude to Act 3". . Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. TR Suite— By the Assoclated Press. |"(a) “Impromptu, Op. 29, .Chopin ROME, June 4—Formal exchange of | _(b) “Praeludium” ..........Jarnefelt ratifications of the Lateran treaty be- | Rhapsodie, “Hungarian, No. 3, Db tween the Quirinal and the Vatican —Major” .. Lisat “Anchors Aweigh. “Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Soldiers' Home | Band, at the bandstand this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. man, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, as sistant leader. Witnesses will be the same as those March, “The Captivator”. who were present at the signing of the Overture. “Bohemia” . treaties. There probably will be also an ' Suite de ballet, from “Coppe! exchange of souvenir pens and other Excerpts from Irish romantic o John S. M. Zimmer- .William Dvoral Delib pera Herbe: Happy Go Lucky’ .. Meye. ng, “I Can’t Do .. Berli: “Elleen”, Without You" . “The Sidewalk: York"... “The Star Spangled Banner. s of New the law requiring newspapers | | street yesterday. U.5. LABOR PARTY SCOUTED BY CHIEFS Discount Socialist Leaders’ Views in Comment on British Election. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. With the Labor party's victory in the British parliamentary ~ elections indis- putabiy established, American _labor leaders of all hues and Washington poli- ticians of various parties are seriously pondering the possible effect on United States politics. Soclalist Labor leaders like Morris Hillquit of New York sre about the only ones who believe tha Ramsay MacDonald’s triumph points the way to the formation of an Ameri- can labor party. Norman Thomas of New “ork, Socialist candidate for President in 1928, asserts that “Sociallst parties and organized labor in other countries will take great encouragement from the British elections and benefit from them to a very considerable ex- tent.” Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, believes “the victory of British labor will help stimulate independent political action by the workers of Amer- ica. They will see for themselves what it means to have a party of their owr instead of depending upon the alms and charities of other parties.” Avart from these radical spokesmen organized American labor's voice i virtually @ unanimous chorus of be- lief that the working classes in thic country will not be induced to aban- don their traditional non-partisan po- litical policy. They tried it in 182, when practically as a unit they rallied around the La Follette and Wheeler third-party presidential ticket. Despite the impressive showiog then made— a popular vote of 4.822.856—no on- during the intervening five years ha- ever seriously suggested that the ex- periment was Wworth repeating. Raule Practiced Regularly. The responsible leaders of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, the Railroad Brotherhoods, the big machinists’ unions and others are now wedded to the idea that labor's best bet is to stay within the existing two big parti and work out the workers' salvation there. Their program, put in a nu'- shell, is to reward their friends and punish their enemies, whether they be Republicans or Democrats. That rule is regularly practiced in congressional elections. It applies to a much lesser extent in the case of presidential can- didates. Neither Hoover nor Smith last year had labor's official backing. Trades unionists voted as, and for whom, they pleased. The thoughts inspired by current events in British politics are indicated by the following excerpts from state- ments by recognized representatives of organized labor: Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor: “Amer- ican labor cannot help but feel greatly interested in the victory won by Brit- l!sh labor. The resuits of the election show again how strongly the masses everywhere demand a progressive ap- proach to and solution of the economic and social problems of humanity and how increasingly opposed they are to standpatism. Our interest in the vic- itory of British labor rests particularly on what it is likely to mean to the premotion of friendly relations between the United States and England, notably the solutionn of the naval problem. British labor, like labor in this country, is a great force for peace.” Scouts Labor Party. John Sullivan, president of the New York State Federation of Labor: “I do not believe a labor party is possible in the United States at the present time, but the election triumph of British la- bor will have the effect of increasing the morale of the labor interests in this State and throughout this country and - will help New York laber elect an Assembly favorable to the legislative program of the State Federation of La- bor. It will also have the same effect with regard to representation in Con- gress favorable to labor.” Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon- tana: “The victory of the British Labor party should be most heartening to all liberal-minded persons in this country, particularly when big business interests and their sycophantic camp followers and agents are completely dominating our business, social and political life. The people of Great Britain have struck a blow not only at ignorant reactionism in their own country, but the blow will besfelt‘ln l)l’l parts of the world.” enator Norris, Republican progres- sive, of Nebraska, thinks fill’l! the British Labor victory “is a repudiation of the Versailles treaty, of millionaire coal kings who refuse to give coal miners a living wage, of unjust and in- defensible treatment of Russia and of the militarists, who are trying to use all the energies of the people to build up a huge army and navy.” Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, sees the chief importance of the British election result in the impulse it will give to the cause of disarmament, (Copyright, 1929.) PAIR ASSERT INNOCENCE IN DEATH OF WOMAN Inquest Witnesses Tell of Seeing Miss Soutar Enter Mrs. Cass- ler's Apartment. i | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO June 4—What happenel in the Dorchester aveune flat of Mrs. Catherine Cassler a week ago Monday and where she went in her automoblie either that day or the next with Miss Camerola Soutar were the gquestions Chicago and Indiana officials were trying to solve today in their in- vestigation into the slaying of Miss Soutar, whose body was found in a SwamprieacHebron, Ind, last Thurs- ay. s Witnesses at & coroner's inquest vesterday, at Valparaiso, Ind.. told of seeing Miss Soutar enter the Cassler apartment on Monday. May 27, and seeing her leave, either that day or the next, in an automobile with Mrs. Cassler and the latter's foster son, Edward, 19. ‘Throughout the session both Mrs. Cassler and the youth maintained their calm and insisted they were innocent. It is no new experience for Mrs. Cass- ler. who two years ago was convicted and sentenced to death for murder, later to be freed when granted a new trial and the State was unable to produce its witnesses. Mrs. Cassler convicted of the murder of Willlam Lindstrom, whose body was found on a rainy night in an alley near the Cassler home. A detective noticed that despite the rain, the soles of Lindstrom’s shoes were dr excluding the possibility that Lindstrom had been injured in a fall JOHN F. SHREVE DIES. Resided in D. C. Over 30 Years I1l More Than Year. John Franklin Shreve, salesman and resident of Washington for over 30 vears, died at his home at 1810 G He had been 1l for wore than a year. Mr. Shreve was born in Fairfax County. Va., in 1858, and is survived by his widow. Mrs. Annie Febrev Shreve A son, Ralph F. Shreve of Detroit, and a daughter, Mrs. Fannie Shrcve Heart- sill of this city. Funeral services will be held at his late home at 2:30 tomorrow. Intsrment lor ‘&H’ follow in the Falls Church Ceme-