Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1929, Page 2

AT EA OLRUMER WA Back -on Peace-Time Basis, Fast Boats Watching * “Long Island Shores. Bpecial Dispateh to The Star. PATCHOGUE, Long Island, June 8.— ! The Coast Guard is back on a peace- time basis, it was stated here today, the 10 years’ war be(ween the dry navy and the rum runners along the south shore of Long Island having ended with a complete victory for the enforcement fleet. . A few fast Government boats are employed on the north shore for mopping-up work, but for the first time since 1919 the Coast Guard is employed on the south side exclusively—or nearly 80—in the work of assisting navigation. ‘The south short, which, for several years, was the greatest source of Jiquor in the country, is now suffering such 8 depression that recently eastbound liquor trucks have passed through Patchogue. This means that, instead of receiving millions of gallons of whisky and other liquors from abroad, Eastern Long Island now has to ob- tain its liquor from New York City. Blame Hi-Jackers for Change. While the credit for the victory goes in part to the increased efficiency of the Coast Guard, the Long Islanders who have been thrown out of employ- ment blame their plight mainly on the ferocious industry of the hi-jackers ana increasing extortion by local and Fed- eral men, together with the develop- ment of distilling in this country. Home- made alcohol from corn, wheat and other grains, mixed with “mapleine” and other flavorings, have been supplied in such quantities that imported liquor, with the vast overhead due to Coast Guard activities, hi-jacking and offi- clal extortions, could no longer hold its own. The populations of some of the towns which became smuggling centers have fallen away to some extent because of this new development. Fishermen, who made $150 to $200 & day during the flush times in Great South Bay, Jones Inlet and Fire Island Inlet, have either gone back to fishing or left the region. Grand pianos and costly _furniture, which were moved into fishermen's shacks in the big rum-running days, are selling at bargain rates. Many Stills in Operation. On the other hand, houses are being rvepainted and other signs of prosperity put forward in many places in the in- terior, where the hardware and plumb- ing shops are filled with tanks, vats, elbow-joint drips and other apparatus which can be used for only one pur- pose. One still recently seized at Farm- ingdale had a capacity of 750 gallons a day. There is a big traffic in Scotch, Bourbon and rye flavoring compounds. The liquor that came in ships was un- Joaded in great cargoes, which had to be rushed to New York by truck in order to avoid seizure on .the spot where it was landed. It was liable to be hi- jacked at every.cross-road, while any man with a metal shield or star was likely to exact toll at any point along the route. The homemade alcohol, how- ever, is not handled by motor trucks, but 1is transferred in smaller cars, so that the new traffic is regarded less hopefully by hi-jackers and officials, As far as Long Island is concerned, the home- made alcohol is not turned out in a hundredth part the quantity that flowed from the ships in the big days. The low price of potatoes had caused wide- spread experimenting in the mant - ture of potato whisky, which is the fa« vorite beverage ‘of a few Polish farmers, and some of it is sent to New York to be treated with extracts and condiments before being sold along the water front end in low-grade speakeasies. Ducks as Camoufiage. ‘Before rum-running ceased along the gouth shore, the transporters bad adopted the device of covering the cases of liquors with crates of live Long| Island ducklings. This camouflage was very effective for a time, because few people like to handle crates of Long Island ducklings. Hi-jackers and others interested would throw up their hands in disgust when they saw the top lay- ers of squawking young fowls. Boot- leggers would not only transport Long Island ducklings free, but would FI}' for the privilege. This was eventually dis- covered. however, and the pendulum £wung to the other extreme, any vehicle that contained a duck being immediate- 1y suspected by local authorities and cross-roads pirates. Conditions became such that a legitimate farmer, carrying «ducklings to market, would be held up time and time again for examination. The debacle to the rum-running in- custry finally lifted this burden from the Long Island duckling industry. None of the homemade alcohol is being carried with this kind of camouflage. DECISION ON BOOK LAW. Frankfort, Ky., Judge Rules Meas- ure Unconstitutional. FRANKFORT, Ky., June 8 (#).—The Kentucky free taxt book law, passed by the 1928 General Assembly, which pro- vided for the purchase by the State of | text books for all public schools, was ! declared unconstitutional here today by Circuit Judge Ben. G. Williams. His decision was in the suit of W. C. Bell, superintendent of public instruc- tion, and J. C. Kenney of the Bourbon ! County board of education. Judge Williams ruled that the law violated a section of the constitution that fixed the State's debt limit at $500.000 and vielated another section requiring a fixed appropriation for such ure of fun May Circulation Daily...106,902 ‘Sunday, 110,766 District of Columbia. ss: FLEMING NEWBOLD. Business Manager EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR. ear that the actnal number the paper named sold and dic- the month of May, A.D. Copies 109.429 06,4 109,336 R 1 1% L 110; se te. s Daily average net circulation...... SUNDAY. Copes 113.243 L 112834 2 Days. ] Less adjustments Total Sunday net clrcul Average met paid Sun 308 ... . ; Average nimber of copies for serv- 108 #eerrrraraacs . verage Sunday net eirculation 0.7 i FLEMING NEWBOLD, Business Manager Jaro Sa_ before me this - Cuhwlbfd' and of Carnegie Endowment | | . April 25, 1929, On Board S.°S. Taiyo Maru, Somewhere in the Pacific. Ocean. UST a few weeks ago a plan was conceived to send a group of American journalists to Japan, Korea, Manchuria and China on | a tour of observation. The Car-| negie Endowment for International Peace extended the invitation to the | newspapers selected for this purpose | and 11 of them accepted and desig-| nated their repre- sentatives, ‘These were notified of de- tails of assemblage at San Francisco and provided with the means of travel and in the cour: of & v brief time they met and | embarked and to- | day they are on | their way to Japan, | accompanied by a | representative o | the endowment. | The Star was hon- ored by inclusion in the list of | papers, and it was B my privilege and | pleasure to be assigned by it to this | duty. It is my purpose to keep The Star's readers informed of the progress of this “voyage of discovery,” sending my letters back by mail, trusting to the possibility of maintaining a sequence, | knowing that there will be nothing | “new” in the narrative, conscious that | all the discovering has been done long | ago, but hoping to present an account | of our travels that will be interesting. Explanation of the purpose of this ex- pedition is perhaps best afforded by quotation from the letter of invitation received by The Star from Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the Carne- gle Endowment for International Peace and director of the division of inter- course and education, as follows: “On_behalf of the Carnegie Endow- ment I have the honor to tender to you | the formal Invitation to join & group of | representative American” journalists a: a guest of the Endowment for the pur: pose of making a visit to Japan during | May, June, July and August of the pres- | ent year. This invitation is made pos- sible through the co-operation of the Japanese steamship and railway lines in & plan to permit representatives of the American press an opportunity to visit Japan, Korea, Manchuria and China for the purpose of studying the eco- nomic, political and social conditions of those countries. The guests of the en- dowment will incur no obligations what- ever, express or implied. It is the sole wish of the endowment that they shall use their time in the Orient to the best advantage, to the end that when there- after they discuss Asiatic questions or questions involving the Orient they will be able to make use of the results of their own independent observation and reflection.” Proposed Itinerary. Accompanying this invitation, which was promptly accepted, was an outline of the proposed itinerary of the party, as follows: “April 24, leave San Francisco on the S. S. Taiyo Maru, flagship of the Nip- ponh Yusen Kaisha, or Japan Mail Line, better known in these waters as the N. Y. K.; May 10, arrive at Yokohama and at Tokio on the same day; May 10-20, spent in Tokio, including trips to Nikko and Miyanoshita; May 21-28, in Kyoto, Nara and Osaka; May 29-30, spent in_traversing the Inland Sea; May 31-June 2, travel from Shimono- seki, Japan, to Seoul, Korea; June 3-5, in_Seoul; June $-6, in Antung; June 7-25, in Manchuria, including trips to Mukden, Changchun, Kirin, Harbin, Tsichihar, Taonan, Dalren, Port Arihur, Anshan, Fushun, etc.; June 26-27, from Mukden to Peking by train; June 28- July 3, in Peking; July 4-7, Peking- Chengchow-Hsuchowfu-Pukow-Nanking by train; July 8-10, in Nanking; July 11-14, in Shanghai; July 15-16, Tsing- tau by steamer; July 17-20, in Tsing- tau; July 21-25, Tsingtau-Kobe by | steamer; July 25-26, Kobe-Tokio by train; July 27-August 1, in Tokio; Au- gust 1, at noon, leave Yokohama for San Francisco by 8. S. Siberia Maru; August 16, arrive at San Francisco,” That would appear to be quite a full program. It may not be completely or exactly carried out. If it is it will afford our party 26 days in Japan, 5 days in Korea, 20 days in Manchuria and 25 days in China. In the letter of invitation the suggestion occurs that “conditions” may not permit the trip into China. The significance is obvious. “Conditions” in China have not been altogether favorable to travel by visitors for some time past. . So it may happen that our trip will be curtailed at one point, to be extended elsewhere. Indeed, it is indicated as possible that in any event, whatever may be the conditions in China, we may go to Formosa. The governor general of that island colony of Japan has issued an invitation to that effect, and of course it has the ap- Proval of the government of Japan, else it would not have been given. Just how this will be arranged, if at all, remains to be worked out. Indeed, it is indi- cated that many of the details of route will be settled after we get to Tokio, All Made Comfortable. I have thought it best thus to set | forth the reasons for the voyage and | the general outline of the proceedings | at the outset, so that The Star's read- ers may know just what it is all about. Whatever happens, we are certain to be in good hands. It is evident that pains- taking care is being observed to make the members of our party happy and comfortable. We have been given the best of accommodations on land and | sea. Originally we were assigned to staterooms two by two. Yesterday, after clearing from San Francisco, it was found that there was abundant space on | of us were shifted so that we are now established on the man-per-room basis, a much nicer arrangement, inasmuch as most of us are carrying and expect- ing to use typewriters and the steamer cabins are not quite large enough for two typists to work at the same time. | And furthermore, it is hard to adjust napping and typing on the basis of per- | fect co-ordination. As it now is, each | member of the party can do as he likes | about keeping up with his notes or im- pressions. So far as I can discover, every member of the outfit plans to send back his copy from mailing point to_mailing point. | Now as {0 the personnel of the ex- | pedition. Just for the present I will| merely give the names of the papers| and their representatives. Perhaps later | I may be emboldened to present a series | of character sketches, They are fraught | with peril, however, and I may not ven- ture, or if I do, it may be along lines of | anonymity. Was Born in Washington. While there are 11 newspapers rep- resented, the party actually consists of 12 men. The twelfth, or the first, cording as one looks at the mat George A. Finch, essistant secrets the Carnegie Endowment, who is travel- ing with us in the capacity of guide, | philosopher and friend. It is he who| has charge of the social plans, who con- | tacts with the railroad and steamship authorities, the hotel managers and, presumably, the government officials | if any official attentions are paid to | us. To him come the invitations to| luncheon and to dinner and to speech- ";: making functions, which, passed on to us, are of course accepted and so noted in prompt replies. This is a delicate role. Mr. Finch has had experience in diplomatic matters, having been long ago member of the State Department force and going to the Carnegie En- dowment upon its organization. He is constant in_his, endeavors to make everything pleasant for us. It was he who suggested the spreading out of the party into 12 rooms instead of. six. When conversation turns upon the question of “national origins” Mr. Member of American Journalists’ Party Now Touring Orient as Guests | soctate editor: the Minneapolis Journ for International Peace. Finch makes known the fact that he | was born in Washington, D. C., and that his parents were iikewise born there. So he is doubly a native Wash- ingtonian. Now for that enumeration. It has been the discreet course of the Carnegie Endowment in all references to the personnel of the party to list the newspapers in the order of alphabetic sequence, thus: Atlanta, Chicago, Hous- | ton, etc.” That is a perfectly safe way, so T wiil follow it. The Atlanta Con- stitution is represented by Francls W. Clark, managing editor: the Chicago Daily News by Paul Wright, staff cor- respodent; the Houston Post-Dispatch | by Judd Mortimer Lewis, editor; the Lus Angeles Times by Fred Hogue, as- 1 by Harry B. Wakefield, editorial writer the New York Herald-Tribune by Wil bur Forrest of the Washington Bureau; the New York Times by Herbert I Matthews: the St. Louls Post-Dispatch by George S. Johns, editor: the Scripps- Howard ‘Newspapers by Willlam Pilip Simms, forelgn editor; the Springfield (Mass) Republican by Francis E. Regal, and The Washington Star by myself When we gathered in San Francisco we were, in the main, strangers to one another. Some had met before, had met in strange places, in forelgn countries, and the first few hours of our assoclation were punctuated with reminiscences and queries about mutual friends, On Tuesday night we were entertained at the Nippon Club in San Prancisco by the officials of the N. Y. K. The Uinner was exclusively in Japanese style, chop sticks and all. Between courses, as it were, the con- versation, despite every polite inclina- tion to respect the rights of our hosts to a share in our thoughts, turned | largely upon comments upon previous | “foreign duty” assignments. It would | be unfair to tell of the poor fortune | of some of the guests at that dinner with the chop sticks, or to identify the | individual who, carried away by a bit of temporary achievement, undertook to pick up an uncooked egg with these slender wands of gastronomic mani- pulation, only to have it yleld to gravity and disperse itself promiscu- | ously upon the board. Thus far we have effected no “or- ganization.” We have hardly men- tloned the subject of our expedition ‘We have been chiefly concerned by ques- tion of luggage and dietarles. The only | | of developing BOOSTERS DISCUSS WELFARE OF D. . Talk Turns From Airport to Finances and Greater Ac- tivity for Trade Bodies. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ON BOARD THE S. S. SOUTH- LAND, LYING OFF SHORE FROM CHESAPEAKE BEACH, Md. June 8. ~The good-will ship bearing the 175 Washington business leaders on their twentieth annual booster outing paused off shore here late this afternoon long enough o take aboard complimentary copies of The Star, sent out in a motor launch, before continuing the trip to points lower in_the bay, where the boosters plan further to advertise Washington to Virginia communities. Members of the party are agreeing that this is one of the most beneficial and enjoyable voyages ever made, and the refreshingly cool weather and smoothly progressing entertainment program are heightening the enjoyment of the cruise. Songs now and then are heard as groups of boosters break out into some of the old favorites, following the lead of the special orchestra sboard the ship, and & good time is had by all, especially the singers. shortly after noon, the discussion of boosters who are given to discussion of public matters, even on an outing, turned from (T> question of an air. port for Washington to the matter of the city finances and revenues and plans were lald for increased activity on the part of Washington trade bodies for fair and_equitable fiscal relations between the District and Federal Gov- ernments, including a return to a defi- nite ratio between contributions of the Federal Government and District tax- payers. The Merchants and Manufacturers' Association. the Board of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce all are standing for abandonment of the lump sum plan and members of these bodies on this cruise have been pointing out the in- creasing tax burden being placed on District residents by reason of the lump sum appropriation and the rising cost nd maintalning the Na- tional Capital. Representative Zihlman, chairman of decision of moment that has been made | up to this writing has been that it is up to us, however distressing the e perience, to “dress for dinner” on board ship. It was impossible yesterday. be- | cause of disarrangements affecting our baggage. Now that they have been ad- justed there is no possible excuse, and | S0 this evening the dozen of us will | shine forth in glad attire, and the | honor of America will have been pre- served. (Note —Another of Mr. Lyon's letters will appesr in The Evening Star tomorrow.) PORTES GIL HOES FORCHURCHPEACE Amicable Conference With Archbishop Ruiz Tomor- row Expected. By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 8.—President Emllio Portes Gil tonight told news- paper men that he anticipated amicable discussions with Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz, who is expected to arrive here tonight from Washington, and hoped that & way could be found to end the | controversy with the Catholic Church that has been acute for three years. ‘The President declared that he did not know precisely what proposal the | archbishop would bring for solution of | the problem but stated emphatically | that there would be no change in the existing laws in Mexico governing reli- gious activities. He explained that the archbishop had sought an interview with him through (he embassy at Washington | and did so as a Mexican citizen and a prelate of the Mexican church, It was understood that he would be received | in this capacity rather than as an| apostolic delegate due to the fact that | Mexico does not maintain official rela- | tions with the Vatican. | The archbishop will be received by | the President probably on Monday. The | latter today denied that there had been | any preliminary communication be- | tween his government and the Vatican, | either directly or indirectly, and said | no such communication was in prospect The negotiations will be on the basis of discussion of internal affairs of Mexico with a Mexican citizen. Archbishop Ruiz and Bishop Diaz of Tobasco left the train at Lecheria, 25 | miles from the capital, and continued | their journey by automobile, presum- ably being taken to homes of friends | to avold any demonstration at the rail- | road station. A crowd of 500 persons walted for | them in valn at the station here, and others were thrown off the scent by two automobiles drawn up at the | suburban siation of ‘Tacuba, ostensibly | for the use of the bishops. Both had remained in strict seclusion in & train | drawing room since ¢ ng the border | and apparently were unwillng to| any demonstrations such as & public | appearance might cause. | - egene - i Three Children Perish in Fire. | ANTIGO. Wis, June 8 (#).—Three | children of Albert Hersant, a farmer living near here, were burned to death in_their home today. The dead are Arnold, 5; August, 3, and Richard, 1. The fire, which is believed to have been caused by an overheated kitchen range, broke out while the parenis of the children were milking in the ba afternoon that he belleves Congress will adopt a more liberal attitude toward the District and appropriate more gen- erously out of Federal revenues for the development of the District because of the dominance of Federal actlvities in Washington. Urges Adequate Armory, Gen. Anton Stephan, president of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, who is head of the District Na- tional Guard, also has been discussing the urgent need of an adequate home for the Washington Guardsmen and his petition that the old Pension Office be made available for the use of the organ- ization as an armory. Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary of the Board of Trade, was discovered today poring over & copy of the budget- ary estimates of the department heads of the District government, which the trade body now has under considera- tion. The officers and committee chair- men of the trade body Monday are to pass upon the estimates and make rec- ommendations to the District Commis- sloners. The United States Navy was called on At Annapolis at noon today to aid the Southland in warping out of dock and the boosters witnessed a neat bit of maneuvering. The ship, with a strong breeze aj nst its starboard, lay close onto the low wharf and the piles of the landing were too low for the steamer to work against them in get- ting away. Capt. W. A; Geoghegan of the steamer asked for a bit of help, and the trim, slender submarine chaser SC-229, tied up nearby, nonchalantly maneuvered into position at the bow of the steamer, took hold of a hawser and pulled the steamer out into the Severn. The steamer is 300 feet long and the subchaser is but 120 feet long, but the smaller craft experlenced no difficulfy in handling the larger vessel, ‘The boosters then steamed toward Baltimore and then into the Patapsco River before turning down toward the lower Chesapeake. A big program is | ahead of the boosters for tomorrow. | After & night cruise in the bay the steamer is scheduled to dock at Old Point Comfort at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow morning, and after breakfast aboard there will be time to attend church and others are planning golf at the Hamp- | ton Golf Club. Also there will be | fishing. At noon the party will proceed on the steamer to Norfolk, arriving there at 1 p.m. and side trips are planned to Ocean View and Virginia Beach for swimming. Then at 6 pm. the return trip to Washington will be started, the steamer being scheduled to arrive home at 6:45 o'clock Monday morning. A big entertainment program will be staged in the main salon of the steamer Sunday evening. Willlam Russell, gen- eral chairman of the outing: ark Lansburgh, chairman of the entertain- ment committee; Gen. Stephan, Henry C. Stein and Mr. Zihiman are to make addresses. Alvin Newmeyer will tell numerous stories and there will be orchestra_music .under the direction of | Norman Goldman and songs by Mannie King. This will be followed by the show- |ing of motion pictures and news reels and the awarding of 110 prizes donated by Washington business and profes- sional men, SLAYER GIVEN 12 YEARS. VIENNA, June 8 (#) —Capt. Felix board, so that during the afternoon six | jeopardize the delicate negotiations by | Guriner, Baron Romansbruck, & former officer fu the Austrian army, today was sentenced to imprisonment for 12 years for the murder of Djidji Mouheb, princess and daughter of & former Egyptian finance minister. During an intermission at & concert here last November persons strolling in | the foyer of the theater were startled | when four shots were fired in rapid suc- | cession and the princess dropped to the floor. Gartner, who had been twice | married before, was sald to have been rejected as a suitor by the princess. | At the trial he pleaded not gullty, say- ing he had acted while out of his mind. HOW REPARATIONS ARE DIVIDED By Radio to The Star PARIS, June 8. —The average Y oung annuity of 2,051,000,000 marks ($488,138,000), over a period of 37 years will be divided among the creditor powers as follows: Country Belgium Jugoslavia, Ruman Greece Portugal. Japan. .. Poland. United Stutes. S Service of the Dawes loan. v 1 the first 26,500,000 (56,307,000). on account of After the end of the 37-year p | | 15 additional payments of 40,800,000, Dollars $249,067,000 97,342,000 50.860,600 27.489.000 19,991,000 4.783.800 1,666,000 3,141,600 3,141,600 119,000 15.827.000 14,708,400 Marks 1,046,500,000 409,000,000 213,700,000 115.500.000 84,000,000 20,100,000 7,000,000 13,200,000 13,200,000 500,000 66,500,000 61,800,000 2,051,000,000 "$488,138,000 or 31 years is divided into two parts: 40,000,000 marks ($9,520,000), for mixed claims, and the second, army of occupation costs in arrears. *riod, the United States will receive 000 marks (£9,710,400) each. ‘While care Lios been taken in the report to make no definite division | | between the parts of the annuities war debts, and those which will go t the principal credilor powers plan year on the average during 37 year: the Unitcd States: Franee...... Great Britain, Ttaly Belglum., which will go to pay the interallied o reparation of the devastated areas, to employ the following sums each s to pay their war debts, chiefly to Dollars $149,107,000 84,656 600 40,698,000 10,501,000 Marks 626,500,000 355,700,000 171,000,000 44.500,000 Copyright, 1929 After the departure from Annapolis | the House District committee, said this | DOUBTS OF DAWES PLAN ELIMINATED Exact Reparations Figures Replace First Indefinite Debt Terms. (Continued From First Page.) texts signed yesterday were in French and English. The text of the report makes clear the changes in the Young plan with reference to the Dawes plan, part 2 of the text being as follows: “The Dawes plan, although drawn up at a time of intense crisis, has by a test lasting over nearly five years justified by facts the postulates on which it was based as regards both the restoration of the public finances of Germany and her economic recovery. “Ic may be well to summarize briefly the points of advantage—whether to Germany or her creditors —claimed for the new proposal which justify a de- parture from a Scheme that has in the past_rendered signal service. “The plan drawn up by the commit- tee to afford a definite solution of the reparation question accompanies a ye- duction in the existing obligation of Germany by an essential modification in their financial and political status. In so far as the creditors are relinquish- ing substantial advantages in the face value of payments due under the pres- ent scheme they are dolng so only by reascn of those improvements in in- trinsic and available values which arise from the practicability and certainty of commercialization and muobilization within a reasonable period and in its attendant financial and economic psy- chology. “Among the modifications which are considered specially important are the following: “(1) Fixation of the period and the debt: “The Dawes plan imposes in virtue of the index of prosperity increasing an- nuities, of which the number are not fixed. The new program indicates a definite number of fixed annuities. “(2) Disappearance of the index of prosperity: “Only estimates which vary very widely of the ultimate effect of the index of prosperity can at this date be made. But in no circumstances could Germans benefit therefrom and the dis- appearance of this element of uncer- tainty s wholly to her benefit. Removes External Control. Attainment of financial au- | | “(3) tonomy: “Under the Dawes plan Germany can only obtain the discharge of her oblig: tions in marks by the existence of a sy: tem of transfer protection which in- volves & measure of external control. This_brings attendant limiting effects on Geérman credit and financial inde- pendence which render difficult, it not impossible, any mobilization of the German debt. The new plan would be abandoning the fundamental purposes for which it was intended if it did not cancel this clause and leave to Ger- many the obligation of facing her en- gagements on her own untrammeled responsibility. “(4) Postponemen “Neverthel if an _exceptional emergency errupts the normal course of economic life to which the scheme is adapted Germany can on her own initiative resort to certain measures of temporary relief. “The annuity is divided into two parts. of which one is subject to postponement of transfer and payment. Germany will thus be enabled under certain circum- stances temporarily to relleve her balance of payments and will in fact enjoy the advantages of a form of transfer protection without its attend- ant limitations. “(5) Deliveries. “While the Dawes plan reluctantly ac- cepted the expedient of deliveries in kind, the new plan, in spite of the desire of the creditor powers to dispose freely of thelr shares of the annuitles, recog- nises the undesirability of a 'sudden cessation of the system at present in force. ‘The creditors are therefore to take deliveries in kind for 10 years, but | in decreasing amounts beginning with | 750,000,000. Accept Reductions. t safeguards: f “(6) Mobllization. “From the point of view of the | creditor powers an essential feature of | he new plan, which induces them to | ree to reductions on their claims that | leave them burdened with a consider- | able pari of their expenditure for the | damages caused by the war, is that fact | that the annuity is paid in a form | lending itself to mobilization, 1 “The organization and machinery of | the Dawes plan were based on the con- | viction that it must find its proper guar- | anty in the interest of all partles to carry it out in good faith. In aiming | as it did at the transference of the | reparation payments from the political to the economic and business sphere it presumed constant co-operation of | debtor and creditors alike. The new system goes further along the same road, | replacing the collaboration of separate administrative and governmental organ- | ization by common work in a purely financial institution in the management | of which Germany is to have an appro- | priate part. The present administrative | organizations cannot have all the elas- ticity necessary for banking transactions | of the magnitude of the payment and | transfer of the annuities. ~But the new ! bank, in close assoctation with the banks | of issue and with the banking facilities | at its command, will have all the neces- sary means of effecting these operations without disturbance to the German | economy or to the economy of other | countries. In addition it will be in & | position to open up to trade new possi- bilities of development. The operations which 1t is to undertake cannot be dis- turbed or hampered without irreparable damage to the credit of the countrles concerned. This assurance should make it possible to limit the guaranties estab- lished under the present system for the protection of the rights of the creditors to the minimum required for the prompt and faclle commercialization of the mobilizable part of the annuity. L43) Summary. “The proposed plan continues and | completes the work begun by the Dawes plan which the position alike of Ger- many and of the other countries made it impossible to do more than indicate in outline in 1924. By the final re- duction and fixation of the German debt, by the establishment of a progres- sive ‘scale of annuities and by the f. cilities which the new bank offers for lessening disturbance in the payment, of annuities, it sets the seal on the inclu- sion of the German debt in the list of international settlements. If it involves appreciable reduction of payments to the creditor on what might have been anticipated under the continued opera- tion of the Dawes plan, it at the same time eliminates the uncertainties which were inherent in that plan and were | equally inimical to the interest of the debtor and to the creditors, by substi- tuting a definite settlement under which the debtor knows the exact extent of his obligations.” e g b U. S. CADET WINS PRIZES. WEST POINT. N. Y., June 8 (#).— Cadet Bruce D. Rindlaub, first captain and highest ranking Cadet Corps of- ficer at the United States Military Academy, has been awarded the Persh- ing sabre and the trophy of the Sons of the American Revolution as the mem- ber of the 1929 graduating class excall- ing in military effciency. Rindlaub's home is in Rochester, N. Y. He formerly lived in Fargo, N. Dak., and was appointed to the United States Military Academy while a_member of the 16th Infantry, North Dakota Na- tional Guard. Previously he attended | tural College and LOS ANGELES MURDER Frank D. Patty (left), bank manager and husband of Mrs. Virginia Patty (center), whose body was found dangling from a clothes hook in an apartment closet. Bill Tallman (right), radio operator, sought by police for questioning | after charges were made by Mrs. Patty's husband. 4 FRENCH GROUPS FIGHT U, . TARIFF See Menace to Europe’s Commerce in New Duty Schedules. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, June 8.—For the second time | within & week representatives of French industry and trade have voiced vigorous | protest against the new tariff bill voted | by the United States Congress, and have addressed themseves to the French gov- ernment, pressing for an appeal and asking the government to start common action with other European nations to defend Europe’s commerce. Confirming the resolution passed three days ago by the French Chamber of Commerce, members of the four big- gest groups in French industry—the Assoclation Nationale — D'Expansion Economique, the Confederation Gen- erale de Ia Production Francaise, the Assoclation De Lndustrie Et De 1'Agriculture_and the Comite D'Action Economique Et Douaniere—in a meet- ing held in Paris late last night called the attention of the government to the “yery grave threat of the tariff bill now before the American Senate to the future commercial relations between France and the United States.” In a motion, adopted unanimously, they asked the French government to take immediate steps, with other Euro- pean nations, “to make the Washington government understand that its tariff policy is in contradiction to its position FINGERPRINTS LINK TALLMOAN N DEATH Radio Operator’s Classifica- tions Tally With Clues Found in Closet. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 8—William L. Tallman, 24, missing radio operator sought as the suspected murderer of Mrs. Virginia Patty, wealthy young ma- tron, who was slain with a brick in an apartment house a week ago, tonight was linked by fingerprints more closely with the crime. Lieut. F. Barlow, police identification expert, sald comparison of prints taken from the walls of the clothes closet in which Mrs. Patty’s body was found hanging Tuesday, and Tallman’s finger- print classifications received from the United States Marine Corps headquar- ters in Washington, D. C. indicated they were similar. 2 Tallman formerly was a radio oper- | ator in the Marine Corps. The man al- | ready has been identified by Mrs. W. | Wilson, apartment house owner, as “W. C. Johnson of San Francisco,” the name | given in renting the apartment. Tall- | man’s handwriting and that of “Johu- son” were identical, experts said. Search for Tallman, | through police nets here and disap- peared from the steamship Admiral Benson en route to San Francisco, con- tinued in the northern city and aboard | the vessel. % {13 HOMICIDES SEEK as creditor state. Acting also in accordance with the knowledge of the Chamber of Com- merce these four groups have decided further to hasten negotiations with other European industrial concerns to consider means of defense—and if nec- essary, reprisals—which Europe should ado) to safeguard her common inter- ests against “such a serious attack on | universal economic solidarity.” (Copyright, 1929.) ' PRESIDENT LANDS NUMBER OF TROUT Party Comfortably Settled in Tent Lodge After Disagree- able Drive. By the Associated Press. ! After a disagreeable drive over muddy | roads President Hoover was comfortably settled in a temporary tent lodge at his fishing preserve on the upper Rapidan River in the Blue Ridge Mountains last night. Leaving Washington at noon yester- | day the Executive arrived at his pre-| serve in time to do some fishing, and before dark had landed several trout. | He was accompanied by Mrs. Hoover, ! Secretary Hyde, Dr. Vernon Kellogg and Lieut. Comdr. Joel T. Boone. The party made good time en route to the lodge until they reached the int _where they changed from the arge White House cars to smaller auto- | mobiles. It was then they found that the heavy rains of Friday night and yesterday had made & quagmire of the little used roads. At places the mud reached the running boards of the cars. The President was housed in the tem porary tent last night because the per- manent lodge is only three-quarters completed. When finished it will pro- vide for the Executive most of the mod- ern conveniences including _ electrie lights, electric refrigeration and modern plumbing. Caretakers of the preserve made cer- tain yesterday that the President would not again receive a black eye from swinging underbrush, as he did several weeks ago. They had gone through the trees near the stream and removed the low-hanging limbs and under-| brush. Just when the President and his guests would start back to Washington has not been determined. ‘This is the third trip Mr, Hoover has made to the Virginia fishing grounds. He plans to visit them very frequently during the hot Summer months, having decided to forego any extended vacation period away from Washington to work at the White House even if Congress is in recess. Before leaving the executive offices | the President had his usual Saturday | conference with Secretary Stimson on foreign affairs. He also received sev- eral other visitors, although he had made no regular engagements for the forenoon. With this trip, Secretary Hyde now has joined the “fishing cabinet” with Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur and others. The Agriculture Secretary, like his chief, is an experienced angler both in moun- tain streams and coastal waters. Y. W. C. A. WORKERS TO ATTEND PARLEY Misses Hartman and Miller Will| Represent Washington at New Jersey Meeting. Saida Hartman, industrial srf-l of the Young Women's Christian | Association, and Miss Mignon Miller of the Women's Trade Union League, will represent Washington at the industrial | conference at Whelen, N. J., the océan | camp of the Philadelphia Young Wom- | en’s Christian _Association, from June 24 to July 6. Miss Hartman will be in charge of the bookroom where there will | be books produced by the Women's | Press as well as by other publishers. ‘The mornings at the conference will be | devoted to lectures and discussions, and the afternoons will be free for sports, | including swimming. | Week end partles, conferences and | other activities of special interest will | be held at Kamp Kahlert, the Y. W.1 C. A. camp on West River, Md, of which Miss Florence Dunlap is director. During the first two weeks of the camp, in the junior department, from Jun 24 to July 6, there will be a Girl Re. serve ference under direction of the three secretaries, Miss Mabel R. Cook,, Miss Dorothea McDowell and .Miss Katherine Morits, MARYLAND PARDONS | Clemency Is Sought for Grace Cothron, Sentenced, With Hus- band, in Slaying. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md.. June 8.—Thirteen homicides, 5 of whom were convicted of first-degree murder, 6 of second-degree murder and 2 of manslaughter, have | nled application for clemency with Ambrose J. Kennedy, State parole com- missioner. They are among 62 appli- cants seeking pardon, parole or re- duction of sentence, whose petitions will be heard Wednesday. A pardon is being sought by Grace C. Cothron, who with her husband. | Clarence Cothron, is serving a term of life imprisonment for the alleged mur- der of Homer Jones, a colored chauffeur. Mr. and Mrs. Corthron were convicted | at Rockville, Md., May 25, 1920, of first- degree murder. Mrs. Cothron, who is serving her term in the Maryland House of Correction, also was found gullty of having kidnaped Mamie Groscup, 9 vears old, from her home here. Her husband is serving two life terms for murder. Jones was said to have been mur- dered in connection with plans made by Cothron, his wife and another man to rob the savings bank at Highland, Howard County. The couple, the third person not having been arrested, were tried in the Circult Court of Montgom- ery County. Mrs. Cothron was 18 years old at the time and her husband 20. Douglas Shipley, convicted of first degree murder December 9, 1916, in | Montgomery County and sentenced to life imprisonment, has asked for a re- uction of sentence. Shipley was harged with killing his 9-month-old baby by throwing it out a bedroom window because the crying child dis- turbed his sleep. you're away. reports...world topics that's worth knowing— —all for a slight cost. If you change your addr. who _ slipped | DECLARES HE AW HALL-MILLS KILLING Prisoner Claims He Was Paiti $3,000 to Keep Silent About Crime. By the Associated Press, DETROIT, June 8—The Detroit Free Press tomorrow will say that the mysq tery of the murder of the Rev. Edwar W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, severi years ago near New Brunswick, N. J, was Teopened here Saturdsy a5 & re] sult of the declaration of a Peder-j prisoner here that he overheard th quarrel which led to the shooting of the minister and the choir singer. | The prisoner, Kenneth Gladeau, is in the county jail here, being held fof Federal authorities. He told the sheriff of Wayne County and a Free Press reporter that he witnessed the murder from a thicket. Gladeau's story is in the hands of Francis L. Bergen, prose- cutor, of Somerset County, N. J., wWho is expected to come here soon to ques- tion Gladeau. Paid for Silence. Gladeau said he received $3,000 from one of the murderers to keep silent about the affair. ; Gladeau was arrested May 2 af Plymouth, Mich., for Federal authorities. Remarks he made then to Chief of Police Springer at Plymouth and to Robert E. Moore, identification super~ intendent at the Wayne County jail, caused them to question him closely. He said that a knife which was found in his room had figured in the Hall- Mills killing. According to Gladeau’s statement which will appear in the Free Press, he was hiking near New Brunswick, and had stopped to sleep in a thicket ofi the night of the slaying. He was disturbed by the voices of a man and a woman who called each other “Edward” and “Eleanor.” He said that after the man and the woman had talked for a time, apparently of elopement plans and had discussed the future of some one the woman called “Charlotte,” another woman and two men came on the scene. Describes Scene. ‘The two women quarreled, Gladeau said, and the two men tried to lead the first one away. A third man then appeared. He fired a gun at Hall, Gladeau said, and the latter fell. The woman called Eleanor started to ruf away but the newcomer caught her by the arm and fired three shots. = Gladeau said he followed the- party and when it broke up followed the man who had done the shooting. He accosted the man, he said and told him he knew of the crime. The next day he met the man at a bank and was paid $3,000 to keep silent. Gladeau said he had a prison record and felt that if he revealed his presence at the scene of the crime, he might have been “railroaded” to jail to satisfy the demand for a conviction. BELIEVES STORY HOAX. i | | | 1 New Jersey Prosecutor Takes No Stock of Detroit Prisoner's Statement. SOMERVILLE, N. J., June 8 (#)— Prosecutor Francis L. Bergen said to- night that he placed no stock in the story of the Detroit Federal prisoner that he overheard the quarrel whien preceded the slaying of Rev. an Mrs. Mills. » He said he believed it ‘was ancffier hoax similaz to others that have octur- red since the world-famous trial ana that he planned to take no action at present, although the information from Detroit police had reached his hands. About a year ago a man was bmufilb:: East for questioning when he told pol in a Western city that he witnessed the shooting. His story was quickly dis- counted. MYSTERY 7 YEARS OLD Interest Is Renewed in Famous Case by Prisoner’s Declaration, NEW YORK, June 8 (#).—The re- ported declaration of a Federal prisoner in Detroit that he overheard the quare rel which led to the Hall-Mills slaying tonight caused renewed interest in the famous mystery, which cost the State of New Jersey thousands of dollars, and after nearly seven years still re= mains unsolved. The sensational trial, about which millions of words were pul came to a close on December 4, 1926, When Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, her two brothers, Willie and Henry Stevens, and her cousin, Henry De La wers Carpender, New York broker, cleared of all charges in connectioh with the slaying of Mrs. Hall's husband, Rev. 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