Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. g (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Moetly fair and continued warm to- night; toemorrow scattered thunder- showers, Temperatures: Highest, 92 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 70, at Full report on page 9. “Frem Press to Home Within the Hour” The -Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 107,389 TWO CENTS., g WITH sm«g Mnnm;':nmoxg ¢h WASHINGTON, Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14.and 15 No. 31,095. T IDRY AGENTS. POSING AS CAMPERS, RUM- BUM AHAEK \GET PRISONERS. RUM AND STILLS| U.S. CUSTOMS BUAT?Experiment Proves Successful. Despite IN UHRU”“RWER} Gunfire of Alleged Violators in St. Marys County. Md. Fusilade of Pistol Shots Tears' 1aunching a new method of attack against prohibition law violators in St HO‘e ”‘ PI'OW 0' Ame[‘ { Marys County, Md.. in an effort to shut off the illicit liquor supply for Wash- (®) Means Associated Press GRAND ROW 1S SEEN INVIRGINAAS ANTI DRAW BATILE LINES Bolting Dem;crats Operate Swiftly and Smoothly R T e D. €, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1929_FORTY PAGES. BRITAIN AWAITING U. . MOVE IN PLAN FOR NAVAL CUTS | Simultaneous Speeches of Dawes and MacDonald | ington. a Federal camping expedition went into the woods for a week, set up camp ican Craft. LIQUOR RUNNERS FLEE INTO CANADIAN WATERS Intruders Opened Fire Without Warning, Official Declares—No Casualties Reported. Br the Associated Press | WINDSOR. Ontario, June 19.—After | & swift moving revolver battle in Detroit River today rum runners of the East Windsor sector retreated into Canadian | waters after shooting a hole in the prow of & United States customs patrol cutter, There were no known casual- tles, Shoot Without Warning. The rum runners deliberately opened fire without notice on the American boat, Walter S. Petty, acting collector | of customs at Detroit, said. His men returned the vollevs and chased the intruders back to the Canadian shore. ‘The battle started, Petty said, when the rum craft was about 100 feet off the {foot, of Joseph Campau avenue, Detroit. The border patrol was gliding down stream and was about 50 teet from the runner, when its crew of several men blazed away suddenly with revolvers, the bullets drumming against the Gov- | ernment boat and blasting a hole above ita water line. Fire From Canadian Waters. “Our men returned the fire prompt- ly,” Petty added. “The rum runners | swung about and retreated toward Canada, maintaining a heavy fire at our boat. Petty charges that the firing from the rum_ boat continued long after it had reached Canadian waters. The customs boat abandoned the chase at the in- ternational line. The police could not determine the number of men on_ the rum boat as they hid behind a high stack of liquor cases as they emptied their guns at the oncoming customs cruiser. REFUSES TO SEE JACQUES. Former Customs Patrolman at Detroit Is Ushered From Office. By the Associated Press. Louis .. Jacques, former customs border patrolman ‘at Detroit, who was queted in the House by Representative Clancy, Republican, of Michifin, as having said he was told to shut up in connection with the recent slaying there by enforcement officers, today was for a base, faced moonshiners' gunfire and came out with prisoners, whisky and Pave Way for Parley. enough confiscated stills to ha The “experiment” was pronounced to- day by both Dr. James M. Doran, pro- hibition commissioner, and Col. John F. J. Herbert of Baltimore, prohibition administrator for this district, as a dis- tinct success. The camping expedition which just ended was head by Willlam R. Bland- | ford of this city. acting deputy admin- ? istrator in_charge of the local agents. | Entering the woods south of Leonard- town, the expedition set up a camp sufficient, to supply its needs for a week | and forayed out into the country, which | officials declare has been one of the chief sources of supply of liquor for the National Capital. Complete details of the re: |not. as yet been tabulated, but Col Herbert at Baltimore, estimated foda. in a report over long distance telephone furnished this city with a total of abdut 40,000 gallons of whisky per day, it was disclos d today. | that the stills confiscated when run full capacity with six batches of mash each 24 hours, could have made about 40.000 | gallons every day of moonshine whisky. There were 16 stills taken. They varied in size from one still which could make |50 gallons at a batch, to one of 800 gallons capacity. As it usually iz possi ble to finish a single “cooking” of moon- | shine in four hours, Col. Herbert said the usual moonshine still turned out six lots every day. requiring attentior of the operators for about 20 minutes | tor_éach. The fact that each lot of mash cooked for about three hours and 40 | minutes without attention was account - | adle for the fact, Col. Herbert said, | that sn many stills were taken withou' |any operators being present, and few captures. As it was, the campalgn ex- (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) HODVER ASKS AID N LAW CAPAEN mission Nation’s Problem Is One of Morals. President Hoover told members of the National Loyalty Commission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, who called at the White House today, that he feels the need of the moral support of the country in his campaign for obedience to laws. The ministers and ruling elders com- posing the commission quoted the Chief Executive as having said that after all this was not a matter of polities or law, but of morals. They added that he sald the chief thing was obedience to law ment of law. The President responded to an ad- dress by the Rev. Dr. Cleland B. Mc- Afee of Chicago, moderator of the General Asssmbly, who expressed the visitors’ loyality to the President “as a national leader, who has put himself on the sise of this moral issu¢ in & be- wildering time.”. Meanwhile the Hoover administra- ushered out of the office of Assistant Secretary Lowman of the Treasury | after Lowman had declared he would | noteconsult with a “man of that type.” Jacques, who recently resigned, was | brought to Lowman's office by a| Detrolt newspaper man. The Secretary sald he knew the details of the case and there was no need of them being ex- | plained. Turning to the newspaper | man, he asked: “Is there anyt oS | | hing more T can do for ‘ “No, unless you wish to_consult with Mr. Jacques about the affair,” replied the correspondent. Refuses Consultation. “1 wouldn't consult with a man like that,” Lowman replied. | “He's resigned from the service lmli he should have told his story to his| superior officers, which I understand he | did not.” | With that Lowman shook hands with | the newspaper man and ushered him | and Jacques to the door. Jacques said | nothing. The Detroit controversy came to the fore again in the House yesterday with the insertion in the Congressional Rec- | ord by Representative Clancy, of a| statement replying to ‘a speech made | ‘Monday by Representative Hudson, ; ublican, of Michigan, criticizing Clancy. Clancy said Hudson formerly was as- | sociated with the Anti-Saloon League in | Michigan and had been his “political | enemy" ever since he had been in pub-‘ lie life. He charged that the Anti-Sa- loon League had tried to defeat him in | one of his campaigns for Congress. Makes Statement Public. Clancy also made public an affidavit by Jacques to the effect that he “could not remain connected with an organi- zation which countenanced promiscuous | &hooting.” The affidavit Oox, another agent. the lives of innocent miscuous firing on the night of June 12 when Archibald Eugster was killed. Aid of the customs forces in an in- vestigation of the killing of Arthur Gordon was askéd of Lowman by Dis- trict Attorney O'Connell of Clinton County, N. Y. Gordon was killed Sat- urday morning. Lowman telegraphed O'Connell that' the court should issue a subpoena for the men whose testimony it desired. The district attorney complained that the customs force had not co-operated in the investigation and had caused it to be postponed until June 24, charged that Jonah' had endangered | citizens by. pro- | . Herrick's Son Quits France. CHERBOURG, France, June 13 (). o-Mr. and Mrs. Parmeley Herrick, the | son and daughter-in-law of the late Ambassador, sailed for home aboard the Olympic. They were given an official farewell in behalf of the French gov- emnment. tion was condemned in the Senate to- day by Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, for “submerging” the prohibi- | tion problem in its proposed law en- ent inquiry. nces were made shortly d, Democrat, of foreem: Glass' utteras after Senator Copelan New York, had describe shootings by Federal officers enforeing the prohibition law as “outrageous kill- ings,” and urged the Senate to give serious consideration to finding a remedy. Glass Sponsared Probe Fund. The Virginia Senator was the au- thor of the $250,000 fund appropriated last session by Congress for the pur- pose of an inquiry, under the direction of the President, into prohibition. This is the fund now being used by the Hoover Law Enforcement Commis- sion, and Glass declared that “both the Pres:dent and the commission have gone | as far afield as it is possible to go when they talk about reorganizing the judicial procedure.” The Virginia Senator's attack came eoncurrently with a statement from the commission to the effect that it was not in a position to investigate specific instances of crime. The statement. voiced by Chairman George W. Wickersham, was in response to an inquiry whether the commission | contemplated making a special investi- gation of the recent shootings by bor- der patrolmen. “Flying Squadron” Planhed. President Hoover's commission is or- ganizing a “flying squadron” of crime analysts to delve bsneath the surface of the wave of lawlesshess and see what is at the bottom, it was made known today An effort will be made to enlist the services of some of America's leading experts on crime and the administra- | tion of justice for the impending ‘cru- | sade on law disobedience. The corps of experts will gonstitute a field force which will be assigned the task of studying special phases of the general problem of law enforcement and observance. The findings of the com- | mission’s experts will supplement data already submitted by various authori- ties and agencies. The members of the commission do not inténd. however, to wage their war from swivel chairs, far behind the lines. They will separate into groups and go to the front themselves. They will make first-hand studies of erime conditions in large urban centers and will conduct public hearings as occa- sion warrants Already they have obtained an idea of conditions prevailing in the under- | world from crime reports received | from New York City, Cleveland, Balti- | more, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis. | The commission may launch probes of |its own in each of these cities. It is doubtful, however, that = the commission at any time will feel justi- fied in deviating from the general lines of investigation now being mapped out in order to take up prohibition develop- Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) President’s Church Gets Certificate, In Junior Git President Hoover's church — the Priends Meeting House, at Thirteenth and Irving streets—has a neat lawn, but not the neatest one along Irving street and thus misses the prize of a rden troeel offered by fhe Junior anun!' Forum of Columbia Heigits. #n organization composed of boys and 1s of tl g‘n’n:en, ‘The church, however, has the gecond best lawn and will get a certifi- te. 4 pressed with lawn contests held by g elderz, thei unjor organization. the rinac citizanes hodr in the Dis- hat seetion. in & better lawns | izens' Lawn Contest | trict, decided to hold & lawn contest lof its own, confining the contest to | Trying street in the Columbia Heights section. The result. was reported on by John R. Small, secretary of the Junior Cit- | izens' Forum of Columbia Heights, at A meeting of the adult organization, the | Citizens' Forum of Columbia Heights, | in_Wilson Normal School last night. The trowel goes to Thomas Oriani. 1313 Irving street. who, with the third- place winner, Michael Healy, 1356 Trving_street. nlso gets a certificate. W. W. Coulllette, 1353 -Irving street, and W. E. Dickinson. 1321 Trving str were rated fourth and: fith, respectivelr 17 31 Tells National Loyalty Com- and not solely a question of enforce- | d recent fatal | INDICT 140PERSONS Distribution of Bogus Whisky Equipment. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 19.—One hundred and forty under Federal indictment today accused ization for the distributon of bogus whisky equipment. Special Treasury agents said the con- uncovered, with ramifications into a score of cities across the continent. Charge Conspiracy. The defendants are charged with con- spiracy to violate the prohibition aect and with violation of a Federal law forbidding’ the attachment of spurious revenue stamps to containers of spirit- ous liguors. Their stock in trade included every- needed to pack ‘::‘ label ordinary m.g ‘whiskey In“mmlt‘!‘on of the t -of foreign distilleries. This included shavings from the in- side of whiskey barrels, used to flaver synthetic liquor, bottles' blown in imii- tation of the containers of widely known distilleries, labels, wrappers, corl | and bogus internal revenue stamps. ‘The establishments accused in_ the indictments include distilleries from | which the barrels were obtained. glass works, printing shops and manufactur- | ers and dealers in other lines needed | for the business. The firm of Glickstein & Terner in | Brooklyn, one of those indicted, was | said by Pederal agents to have been the | headguarters of the ring. Overholt Concern Involved. Other citles where the organization | operated included Boston, Baltimore, | Philadelphia, Cleveland, 8t. Louis, Pitts- burgh, Atlantic City, Miami, Albany and Syracuse, N. Y.; Providence and Woon- i.mckfl. R. 1.; Hartford and New Haven, | Conn., and Los Angeles. The defendants include the Overholt | lery Corporation, Inc., of Bradford, | | Distil |Pa, and the Sherwood Distilling Co. These firms are accused of selling fresh ly ‘emptied whisky barrels withou | treating them to prevent extraction'of | liquor from the wood as required by ! Jaw, | | Prohibition Officials Flated Over In- i dictments, Plan Prosecution. Indictments returned against 140 in- | dividuals and. firms in New York, | charging conspiracy to violate the na- tional prohibition law was said today ;by Prohibition Commissioner Doran to | be the first large scale test case against | manufacturers of paraphernalia used to camouflage “sucker whiskey.” | Prohibition officials were elated over [the case and plan to carry on their prosecution against persons and firms ifurnlshln( containers, labels, coloring matter and other articles used in plac- ing synthetic liquor on the bootleg market. | _“The indictments are the result the biggest effort the Prohibiiton Bu- reau has yet made to prevent the sale | of the fake whisky,” Doran said. “The successful prosecution of the charges | will do much toward stopping the sale | of suech liquor. We have proceeded against every person and firm whose products enter into the manufacture and sale of sucker whisky and we §n- tend to carry on this campaign until we. put A stop to firms and individuals | manufacturing and selling those thinge. | There were eight separate informations | in the indictments and we will not | spare any firm, no matter how repu- table, that indulges in the sale of such paraphernalia.” The commissioner declared the sale of old whisky barrels, the lining of which are shaved off and sold to flavor synthetic liquor, was a distinct viola- | tion of the law. Prohibition agents, he | added, had found bales of “rye chips” TEST CASE, SAYS DORAN. | been shaved from the inside of such barrels and held for sale to the con- | spirators. 'QUAKES AGAIN ROCK NEW ZEALAND COUNTIES ! Fear for Fate of Town of Lyell, i With 2,000 Population, Re- ported Hard Hit. | By the Associated Press. ILLINGTON, New Zealand, June 19.——Severe earthquakes were fell today in Murchison and Takeka counties, | both of which were hard hit in the | tremors of earlier in the week. | _Considerable anxiety was felt as to the fate of the town of Lyell, contain- {ing 2.000 inhabitants, which was re- | ported greatly damaged and from which no news was available in any source. Airplanes tried in vain to sight the town, due to bad visibility. All roads leading to it were blocked. There were rumors it had been wiped out, ithese were di e i in a‘Brooklyn storage flat which had | INRUM CONGPIRAGY Q_verholt Distillery Involved in | individuals and firms were | of participating in a nation-wide organ- | spiracy was the largest that has been | of | but jand hearty and had party PREMIER SEES NO ISSUE BETWEEN TWO NATIONS | Advanced by Friendly Talks of Pair of Statesmen. By the Associated Press LONDON, June 19.-Great Britain today expectantly awaited the next move toward closer rapprochement with the United States after simultaneous speeches last night by Ambassador Dawes and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald stressing friendship of the two nations and paving‘the way for naval reductions. : The speeches of Ambassador Dawes before the Pilgrims’ Soclety and of the prime minister before the town council of his native village of Lossiemouth, Scotland, were clothed in generalities and presumably were purposely vague, but few doubted ‘more concrete pto- | posals, probably for a meeting on naval disarmament, would be forthcoming from some source soon. The premier and Ambassador them- selves, In _their announcement of the speeches Sunday at Forres, Seotland, said the simultaneous addresses might be considered as the beginning of the negotiations on disarmament. All Countries Involved. ‘The British premier, at Lossiemouth, spoke only briefly on the Anglo-Amer- ican situation, finally declaring that no negotiations would be entered into with- out possible participation of every coun- try concerned. Ambassador Dawes, after declaring that an agreement on naval reduction was the next logical follow to the Kel- l0gg anti-war treaty, set forth a highly reasoned argument for a conference of statesmen to reach such an agreement rather than of naval experts who, he said, were more interested in naval maintenance than naval reduction. The experts' task in the next negoti- ations, Gen: Dawes sald, would be to fix upon a ‘“‘naval yardstick” or stand- ard of equivalent naval values, recon- ciling such divergent factors as age. displacement, gun elevation, etc. With # k,” o Tom. dould work. ¢ S the tates The speech of Ambassador Dawes last night was as follows: “We are in a period when mankind, my from its greatest cataclysm— the World War—is iifting its.eyes from the darkness of the past toward the sunlight of international peace and tranquillity. Tt is'the era of effort for world construction—moral and material. “The ratification of the Kellogg peace treaty, which is the agreed-upon expres- sion of a world intention, has one of its first effects in & pronounced change in the form of international discussion of | the world's peace. The closing of the | discussion upon the form of the expres- | sfon of the principle and the ineeption of the discussion of the practical meth- ods by which to make it effective prove | the existence of the general determina- {tion to make the treaty not a mere gesture, but the foundation of an era of ‘peace on earth and good will toward men. “The matter of first importance at the present time is that the friends of the world's peace move unitedly toward that objective with a clear understand- ing among themselves that any effort which is not a united effort is llable 0 be ineffective and tending toward { disintegration. “To avold confusion and delay en- dangering their common objective, they now should not only unitedly consider what steps should be taken toward it. but the order in which those steps are to be taken, Of Outstanding Importance, “The importance of an early agree- { ment _on naval reduction by nations is | of outstanding importance at the pre ient time and it would seem to |next step to be taken toward world | peace. | " “As to any other controverted ques- tions between any nations, or bstween Great Britain and the United States, their future peaceful.settlement, either way, will not be endangered by the cessation of an enormously expensive | their discussion. “Congress has already by law com- diate naval program involving over $250,000,000, giving, however, to President the power to suspend it in the event of an international agreement for the limitation of naval armament “On May 31 last the Secretary of State of the United States said: ‘T have in' my possession a memorandum for cqst._of the program recommended by the Navy Department in case the policy of navai reduction which the President advocated is not adopted. That memo- randum shows that the authorized and contemplated naval program for the construction of new ships alone amounts to $1,170,000.000. When it is borne in mind that the foregoing figures involve the constric- tion program of only one nation, and that if it proceeds other nations will be impelled to follow suit, the burden be imposed upon the economic world during the next 15 years can to a cer- | tain extent be realized.’ “My address tonight concerns itself with suggestions as to a change in method for future negotiations for naval disarmament. “Agreement upon a method of nego- (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) REPORT HINDENBURG ILL. Berlin Alarmed by Advices Con- cerning President’s Health. BERLIN, June 19 (#).—Reports in Berlin today which gave an alarming account of the health of President Von T-indenburg caused great excitement. The president 15 in East Prussia, where he_went to visit. his family estates. President Von Hindenburg's office, the federal chancellory and the government | press department, declared there was no truth in the rumors. ROSENBERG, East Prussia, June 19 (#).—The district president of Rosen- berg, nsar which President Von Hinden- burg s sojourning, told thé Associated Press today that the president was hale attended previously. a luncheon only an hour Anglo-American Relations Held | be the | naval competition in progress during | mitted the United States to an imme- | the | the director of the budget showing the | MEXICAN CHURCH PACT BEFOREPOPE With Bringing About Agreement. By the Associated Press. ican government and emissaries of the Vatiean have agreed upon a basis o settlement of the Mexican religious con- troversy, Approval of the Pope today was all that was needed to make the agreement effective and permit an Mexican churches. The settlement, as arrived at and Bishop Pascual Diaz of Tabasco, with Ambassador Morrow as intermedi-~ ary, does not involve constitutional pretation of the religious laws and their constitutional hackground. ‘The agreement is similar, if not, in- deed, identical, to that reached last year in negotiations between President Calles and Archbishop Ruiz, which had their beginning in a secret meeting in the old fortress at San Juan de Ulua, Vatican approval at that time was de- layed, until in July the assassination of Gen.' Alvaro Obregon, President-elect, with ensuing charges of Roman Catholic participation, complicated the situation. The settlement was reached Mon- day afternoon in the course of confer- ences between Ambassador Morrow and President Portes Gil and Ambassador | Morrow and the two Mexican bishops Monday night a cablegram containing its terms was sent to Pope Plus at Vaticar City. The Ambassador's part in the nego- tiations emerged from the secret into the more or less open during its final stages, with long conferences with the bishops and with the President Satur- day and Monday, and finally yesterday, after the widespread popular belief in Mexico that he paved the way also for the Calles negotiations a year ago and the preliminary negotiations in the | present case. An authoritative source stated today that unless the Vatican ratified the present, settlement, and acts quickly on it, there is not much possibility that anything further will be accomplished toward settlement for some time to come. Papal sanction of the agreement would be followed immediately, it was be- lieved here today, by governmental an- nouncment of the accord. Archbishop Ruiz, as Mexican primate, would then instruct the bishops to order the Mex- from which they have been absent since August, 1926, when they were instructed by the’ episcopate to withdraw in pro- test at enforcement, of the unsatisfactory religions laws. 'HUNDREDS FEARED DROWNED IN AFRICA Floods Wr:k” H;;e. Leaving Thousands Homeless and Destroying Cattle. By the Associated P SILCHAR, ‘Assam, Cameroons, West episcopate order returning the priests to | by | 1 President Portes Gil and Archbishop |[inner-up to Felstein: Albert D. Parks, Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores of Micholclni changes, but merely a broader inter-| island in the ‘harbor of Vera Cruz. ican clergy to return to the churches, | ' | Will Receive His Diploma ! ;U. S. Ambassador Credited] Tonight From McKin- | Child Death Toll Brings Ap- MEXICO OITY, June 19.—The Mex- | termined Milton Felstein, 18, Chosen to Try for Edison Scholarship ley High School. Milton Pelstein, 18-year-old graduate of McKinley High School, who will re. ceive his diploma tonight. has been de. the District of Columbia's | candidate for the Edison scholarship to | ¢|a technical college, it was announced [ this morning by Harry O. Hine, secre- | ti¥y of the Board of Education and chairman of the scholarship committee | for the District. | | | | | { | | John Henry Williams, 16-vear-old-| member of the Central High School graduating class, which will receive its diplomas tonight, was adjudged 17-year-old St. John's College student, was third in the rating, and Willlam R. Anderson, 18, of Armstrong High School, was fourth. Young Felstein won first place, with four out of the five members of the committee adju him victor with- out consultation with their fellow com- mitteeman.. With a low point total of " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) WITNESS TESTIFIES OF LOAN 0 PHPER Coal Man Declares Money Used to Finance New Mobile Press. By the Associated Press. Abner Aldridge of Birmingham, Ala., president of two coal companies, testi- fied today before the Federal Trade Commission that he borrowed $50,000 from Logan Martin, general counsel of the Alabama Power Co., which in turn he lcaned to Joseph F. McGowin, Mobile | capitalist, to be used in the establish- ment of the Mobile Press. Since the commission’s inquiry into | the newspaper was started, he said, the loan had been paid back to him by Mc- Gowin, and he also had returned his borrowings to Martin. Aldridge explained he was president of the Southeastern Fuel Co. and the Union Coal Co., and said the stock of both concerns was controlled by the Southeastern Power & Light Co, & subsidiary of the Alabama Power Co. Asked by Robert, E. Healy, chief com- mission counsel, why he was interested (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) {DETROIT GIRL WINS WAYSIDE BEAUTY PRIZE ‘“This Is Your Country It," Slogan Brings Trip to Washington. B the Ascociated Press. NEW YORK, June 19.—Miss Marion Boyd of 6154 Sixteenth street, Detroit. | today was announced as winner of the national wayside beauty slogan contest | —Beautify | HARLAND STARTS * SAFETY CRUSADE peal to Parents to Aid in Campaign. | | ' Stirred by an unprecedented number | of traffic deaths among the children of‘ Washington this year, Traffic Director William H. Harland today appealed to motorists and parents to co-operate in a mutual crusade to keep the fatality and accident list from further mounting. Mr. Harland timed his plea with the | closing of the District public schools | for the Summer vacation, the period which in the past has taken the largest 'floll of traffic victims among the chil- ren. 15 Children Dead Since January 1. Pifteen children have been killed by motor vehicles stnce January 1, one less |than during the entire 12 months of | 1028, ? This s ut, the Tecard 5 months, and uous are made to prevent accidents di the Summer, with more than 70, school children at play most of the day, the traffic director fears the deaths among children may surpass all previ- ous records. Mr. Harland's records show that ]mmc deaths among children so far | this year constitute exactly sne-third of | the total of 45. And in not a single case, he explained, has it been possible for the authorities to prove the driver negligible or responsible. Thus the re- sponsibility has fallen on the little vietims and indireetly on their parents | for failure to keep the children off the | Brown. in Organizing. |DE PRIES?WIDENT TO BE PART OF FRAY Insurgents Draw Line Between “Social” and “Official” Relations as Regulars Raise Issue. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. 8taff Correspondent of The Star. RCANOKE, Va, June 19.—The gubernatorial race in Old Virginia, which usually ends with the Democratic primary nomination, is going to be grand row this year. The anti-Smith Democrats, who care ried the State for Hoover in conjunce tion with the Republicans, have nomie | nated William Moseley Brown for gove ernor. Brown is a spellbinder, up until his nomination late yesterday a proe fessor at Washington and Lee Univer- sity. Republican 0. K. Is Predicted. Uniless Republican leaders of the State are misinformed, the Republican State ' corivention in Richmond next week will indorse the nomination of This means another coalition between the Republicans, who have an appreciable vote in this State, and the anti-Smith Democrats, who have al- ready given evidence of what they can do for a Republican candidate for office and who are likely to make even greater offers for a candidate of therr own. z'The An“-?.un"&h Democratic conven- jion was attended by approximat 1,000 delegates from every emge-h"xlny- al district n’:“:‘he State. If enthusiasm means anything. they are in this stay. Their slogar is “Clean o\lm smash it. They certainly showed no signs of disintegration at their convention here yesterday. In- deed, their leadership was able to cope with every question that came up, from platform to candidates, m&;n evie 1l in control. Their ¥ s Th District for a ‘of less period than six | 4; not be brought to’life | the 1,000 delegates at the convention. yesterday know are talking about, the Their leaders have se! that John J. Raskob, the choice for national chairman, a wet and & Catholic, is still national ch and is to remain so by his own statement. They rang the changes on fact from the opening of the convention here until its close. Smith banked much in the last on | streets. All Under 14 Years of Age. | | All_of the 15 children killed this | year by motor vehicles were under 14 years of age. One of the victims was a_toddling youngster of 2l; ye ‘Three of them were just half a ye: older. 4 to 13, | The first trafe death this vear | among children occurred in February, | and every subsequent month has | recorded an increasing toll. There were 2 victims tn March, 3 in April and 5| in May. Four more have been added to the total thus far this month, d | now, with the schools closed, Mr. Har- | |land fears the list may increase. unleui the motorist is more cautious and par- ents impress on their children the dan- | gers of street play. Home Safety Lessons Urged. “In homes where there are children,” | said Mr. Harland, “a fiye-minute lesson | every morning on the hazards of traf- fic might prevent a needless loss of life. | Parents are neglecting their duty if they fail to forbid their children to play in the street. “The motorist, too, should be more cautious than ever, now that the schools are closed for the Summer. Children at play on the sidewalks frequently run into the street, oblivious, in their excite- | ment, to approaching vehicles. For that | reason the driver should always slow | down when passing treet where there are children at pl { |DE PRIEST IS REbUKED |BY SHAFFER FOR ACTIONS | { | P i Holds Tllinois Representative's Course Threatens Amicable Re- lations Between Races in South. By the Associated Press. In a letter declining an invitation | of Representative De Priest. Negro Re- | ‘The others ranged in age from | scuttling back from days n;e 1;&, Lhnlt Mdm g::ar De Priest, wife of the colore presentative from Illinois, was entertained at tea at the White House. They believe that this has raised the race issue to their ad- vantage in Virginia: that it will send thousands of anti-Smith Democrats the Republican party yalleglance of last year to the regular party fold. he anti-Smith Democrats not only do not believe this will be the case, but Hinttorm, adopted . venerdas. 1o offset platform, s , 10 offse the effect of the BO Priest affair in Virginia. They said in their platform: “We stand unqualifiedly for racial in- tegrity. While purely of relations must be maintained. we are adamant -*\nnn any social relations between the white and colored races and condemn y such practices as unnatural and as not only having the tendency to under- mine racial integrity, but as one of the most certain ways of stirring up racial prejudice, hatred and unrest and mak- ~ (Gontinued on Page 2, Column 1) SMITH AND SHOUSE CONFER IN NEW YORK Neither Will Divnlge Nature ‘of Discussions of Party Matters. By the Associated Precs NEW_YORK, June 19.—Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith and Jouett Shouse, re- cently named chairman of the execu- tive committee of the Democratic na- tional committee, met today at the Hotel Vanderbilt to discuss party problems. Neither Shouse nor the recent ean- didate for President would talk about conducted among high school students of unproductive expenditure which will | Equatorial” Africa, June 19.--Hundreds by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr. | "Miss Boyd won the contest with the of people are reported to have perished ogan_“This is vour o % | throughout this district as & result of | 0" "Tna prise “wae swardsd for. the unprecedented floods after heavy mon- | phrase which would “most stimulate in- s00n rains. | ferest in the beauty of the countryside Ninety per cent of the cattle in the |and enlist popular support in preserving district, have been destroyed and half |and beautifying it.” the houses washed away. This fown is| The 17-year-old winner will be given under water except for the canton- |a three-day trip from Detroit to Wash- ment, where 15,000 people have taken |ington, where she will be entertained publican, of Tilinois, to a musicale and | their discussion, although some politi~ Teception here June 21, Representative cal observers speculate whether the Shaffer, Republican, of Virginia, said former governor might be called upon, | today that De Priest was embarking on | for the sake of party harmony, to make a course which threatened amicable re- | another public announcement that he | lations between the races in the South. | would not Tun again for office. | " “Any movement or attempt by you| “Ridiculous,” said Shouse of reports | in the direetion of social equality 1s!that John J. Raskob would quit as na- not a true interpretation of the attitude | tional chairman. of both peoples,” Shaffer said. “It will| “The party’s position becomes strong- not be tolerated by the white people er every day as the result of the Re- refuge. RIVER IN OHIO TOO HOT FOR CITY’S SWIMMERS Waters of Mahoning Reach High- er Temperature Than Air. By the Associated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 19.— The Mahoning River, which is forced through the cooling systems in the Youngstown steel mills, passed through at a temperature of 100 degrees, four degrees warmer than the air. Swim- ming holes were abandoned. Employ- ment figures have fallen sharply because | many blast furnace and other workers are unable to endure the inferno of heat. 'Radio Programs—Page 27 the city during the present heat wave ( and where President Hoover will pre- sent her with the certificate of award. Nine Die in Train Crash. BRUSSELS. June 19 (#) —Nine per- sons were killed 'and many were in- from Ghent crashed into a deralled engine which was blocking the unes near Enghien. Bank Statements I | oashington clearing house, $4785,- | 930, Treasury balance, $347.288,004.63. New York clearing house exchange, $1,616,000.000. Mew York clearing house balance, $223,000,000. l State News, Pages 10 and 11 l * Ad jured. today when . passenger train of the country, nor is it desired by the Negro race. The white people have their ‘position and are respected in it. The colored race has its place and is | respected in it.” | publican bbles over the tariff bill.” the executi' declared. “ Smith s perfectly capabie of speaking [ec for hlnuefle . 3 A sudden_ thundershower. accom- panied by hall, hit the Northwest' sec- tion and suburbs early this afternoon, | | temporarily breaking the sweltering | | heat of the “Bermuda high.” which has | kept. the city hot for the past two or | three days. Except for the temporary cooling ef- | fect. of the shower, however, weather | forecasters the United States Weather Bureau' today held little hope for a decided break in the hot weather for the next 36 hours. Su_dclep Shower, Accompanied by Hail, Rakes Northwest Area and Suburbs The former governor said nothing. wer this afternoon came with The sho high winds. le above the general level of June weather, the Weather Bureau today stated that yesterday and today were m r'e:ord bre.kmlr‘l’, It wnmmt e thermometer does not above 90 in June, but that already n': occurred several times this vear. Temperatures in the entire Esstern ,':3"“} o'; _,che country were running m degrees higher than they were yesterday. Numerous deaths and prostrations have been reported in this section. ¢