Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1929, Page 1

WEATHE! (U. 8. Weather Bureau R. Forecast.) Fair and somewhat warmer today; to- morrow increasing cloudiness; scattered showers. Temperatures: Highest, yesterday: lowest, day. Pull on page 78, at 4 p.m. 66, at 10 p.m. yester- = The iy WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION St g “From Press to Home ‘The Star is Sunday Within the Hour” deliversd every evening and homes by morning to ‘The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone Main 5000 to start immediate delivery. (#) Means Associated Press. No: -1,267—No. 31,106. Entered as second class matter post office, Wasnington, D. C. SPAIN GOES WILD WITH 10 AS NEWS OF PLANE'S RESCUE REACHES COUNTRY! Crowds Parade Streets and;{ Storm British Embassy in| Huge Demonstration After| News of Ship’s Safety. EXTRAS ARE PUBLISHED FIRST TIME SINCE WAR; British Admiralty and Maj. Franco | Radio Brief Accounts of How Aviators Are Located and Craft/ Is Taken on Board Big English Carrier Off Azores. By the Associated Press. : MADRID, June 29.—All Spain poured into the streets of cities and villages today in one vast, roaring demonstration of national i joy for the discovery this morning of the four Spanish ‘aviators who had been lost and glespaired of since they. failed to arrive in the Azores Islands last Saturday. Afloat at sea through storms, hunger and fatigue in their Dor- nier- Wahl seaplane, Maj. Ramon Franco and his three comrades, on a round-trip flight from Spain to New York, were picked up by two British airplanes from the air- craft carrier Eagle about 100 miles southeast of Santa Maria Island, the Azores. Pive nations sent in vain ships and Mysterious Message. | A mysterious and untraced message, ng to be from Maj. Franco, then said the flyers were landing on San Island, nearest of the Azores group o umfla.'l)‘:nm they were found by British es o m@hapemton-‘h;%am wit them. 3 - a day-1ong chilly’ and P Lot - tedly ts ‘or ' cafes ex- ‘considered of embassy. The the fiyers also sent messages of gnu- to the representatives of Great The two captains led the crowd in *Vivas” for England, eumna the embraced both to the accol of further frenzied cheers. Makes Brief Address. Sir George 'addressed the crowd briefly, his_great happiness at the rescue of Maj. Pranco and add- ing that the joy would be shared with Spain by all the world. He hoped that “have many years of health and pros- perity in which to serve their glorious nation™ Friends of the Franco family related that yesterday when almost every one believed that the’flyers would never be found Senora Franco was asked by one of the aviation chums of her husband why she was so little worried. She replied: “My husband is my husband. Upon leaving he told me he would gee me | in Madrid in 10 or 12 days and I expect | ‘him to do_it.™ Nicolas Franco, & brother of the avi- ato? and himself a naval engineer of wide repute, is credited with having worked out the spot in the Atlantic where his brother’s plane was most likely to be found. It was said that this calculation had been forwarded to the- British aircraft carrier Eagle and that scouting planes from that vessel located the missing machine just about where Nicolas Franco had figured it would be. All the evening newspapers in Madrid published extras today for the first time since the Moroccan War. A powerful siren on the Yoof of the Daily A. B. C,, which is blown only when enormous news is available, attracted huge crowds $o_the bulletin boards, which displayed tdings of the rescue. British Announeement. pveishs @ispateh from London, says m on _says m of the mo’:c thrilling rescues in the history of ocean flying was laconically snnounced by the British admiralty there today as follows: “The Dornier-Wahl Spanish aircraft has been found. Latitude 36.28 north; Jongitude 26.14 west. The aircraft has been hoisted aboard H. M. S, Eagle with very little damage. The crew all are 1l “Their names are Maj. Ranfon Pranco, Eduardo Gallarzo, Julio Ruiz de Alda and Modesto l&flln ‘The -3 ungry f n! mflymrfl.:r."w of the * adventure was related furthér in the following admiralty comfuniques which were yelayed from the le: . “The following by Maj. Franco: ‘The ‘Numancia left Alcazars at 7 on June 321, mowe St. Vincent at'7:20. From braltar we were forced to gain height owing to excessive air disturbances and from Cape St. Vincent to the Azores ‘wés an uninterrupted’ layer of clouds sbove which we had to fly, and later another layer formed above us. ““The intended time of arrival at the Azores was 9 o'clock G. M. T. on June 22, but a strong northeast wind, Jhich we were unable to foresee, 'ineekfll our flight and caused us to fiy over the Azores in darkness. Land te Save Fuel. “‘At dawn we took the longitude by the sun which showed that we were to the southwest of the Azores. We, there- fore, flew through the clouds and landed to economize on fuel and examine the situation more closely. -““We checked our position and took but owing to strong n out of petrol about 40 miles from that point. A north easterly wind drifted us = \ 8 i FARM BOARD POST Californian Indicates He Will “Refuse Job on Business Reasons. Charlgs'C. Teague of the California Citrus L:ague, who was offered a place on the new Federal Farm Board by President Hoover yesterday, indicated | at Los Angeles last night that he couid not mccept the position because of pressing business responsibilities, ac- cording to an Associated Press dispatch. Mr. Teague is president of the Cali- fornia Walnut Growers’ Association and the California Fruit Growers’ Associa- tion. President Hoover in extending the of- fer to Mr. Teague and W. 8. Moscrip of the Twin City Milk Producers’ Asso- clation of St. Paul, Minn,’ recognized WASHINGTON, JONES AND ESPINOSA LEFT) IN TIE AS PLAYERS WILT; PLAYOFF FOR TITLE TODAY 'Bobby Cracks on Two i Holes, Taking Seven | Strokes on Edch. SHUTE BLOWS CHANCE | Ohioan and Sarazen All Even for Third Place in Tourney BY WALTER R. McCALLUM, Staft Correspondent of The Star. MAMARONECK, N. Y., June 20— Tied for the national open golf cham- pionship at the conclusion of a fourth | round, which sdw the inevitable crack- | ing of tautendd nerves and conse- | quent missed putts, Bobby Jones, At- | lanta’s famed amateur, and Al Espinosa, swarthy Californian of Spanish descent, will play 36 holes over the Winged Foot course tomorrow for the title. They tied today for the champion- ship at 204 in a mad whirl of lost op- portunities and blown chances. The first round of the 36-hole play-off will start at 10 a.m. with the second round to follow. four hours later. This tie will mark the fourth appear- ance of Jones in a play-off for the open and Is the first appearance of Espin in a chance for the title Jones has won twice before. Jones Blew Putt. Jones lost. the champlonship by blow- ing a 3-foot putt on the sixteenth green of the final round. He fought his way back into a tie by holing a 12- footer on the final green. Espinosa threw the championship away on the twelfth hole of the final round by a wild hook that found one of the innumerable traps that infest the trieved his chance at the seventeenth, trieved his chanceq at the seventeenth, where he knecked in a 15-footer for a birdie 3. Densmore Shute, slim young Ohioan, from the Brookville Club of Columbus, blew his chance for the title by finish- ing with three 5's and a 4, Where a quartet of 4s would have won the dia- dem. Tommy Armour tossed away his chance for the championship by a ghastly 7 on the par 4 fourth hole-of the final round and a 6 on the twelfth. He finished in a tie with George Von Elm of Detroit, for the fifth place, with a score of 297. “Lost on Eighth.” “I lost the championship on the eighth hole,” Jones said late this after- noon as he sat disconsolately in the Winged Foot clubhouse. For here Bobby had put his second shot in one of the numerous traps which infest the bat- tlefield, knocked it across the green into another trap, and finally ended with a 7. - traps. T tightencd up, and aps. up, the ball away from the ! Bobby todk another 7, this time at the fifteenth, where he had the cham- lonship tucked away as safe as gold 8‘. the vault, had he proceeded on the normal tenor of his way. He followed this by taking three " (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) | | two more branches of agriculture—fruit growing and dairying. Three Appointments Accepted. As the situation now stands, three of the eight appointments have been def- initely made and accepted, three other laces offered and two are yet to be slled. James C: Stone of Kentucky. representing tobacco; C. B. Denman of , tepresenting live stock, and Carl Willlams of Oklahoma, who is pre- sumed to represent cotton, have ac- cepted membership. “In addition to the two offers made known yesterday, the President has tendered a place on the board to Alexander H. Legge of Chi- cago, president of the International Harvester Co., as the representative of general business interests. Two appointments thus remain to be filled. The wheat-growing industry has yet to be given repfesentation, and following his announced intention it is expected that the Chief Executive will select a man experienced in the field of finance and banking for the eighth appointment. % Although there have been no definite suggestions from the White House as to who the two other selections would be, there have been reports at the Capitol that a place ‘is to be offered to Arthur P. Knapp of Lake Charles, La., a banker who extensive deal- ings in rice. There also have been re- ports that H. L. Hartshorn of Ford, Kans.. connected with ,a large wheat- growing co-operative ascociation, would be Mr. Hoover's choice as the repre- sentative of that crop. Interest Centered on Two. With all but two of the places on the board accounted for, farm leaders at the Capitol are expressing an un- usual amount of interest in the last two to be named. Some representatives of the cotton States expressed disap- pointment that their industry would not be represented by two members, and among those from the wheat area there were also some expressions of regret that that commodity would not have a larger representation. Amorfg those who commented yes- terday were Senators Smith of South Oarolina, the ranking Democrat on the Senate agricultural committee, and George of Georgla, another Democrat, both of whom said they had “the great- est concern” that there would not be an “out-and-out cotton man” on the board. CHARGE POLICEMAN RAN DOWN CHLD J. W. Connor Recommended for Dismissal by Trial Dismissal of Policeman J. W. Connor of the fourth precinct was recommended to the Commissioners yesterday by the Police Trial Board. Connor was found guilty by the board | at a special session earlier in the day | on charges of conduct prejudicial to | | the good order, reputation and discipline of the police force. ‘The charges against Connor resulted from an accident on June 15. when an automobile he was said to have been driving ran down and injured Mary Balsey, 4-year-old colored girl of 1229 Union street southwest. According to testimony at the trial, Connor " struck the girl while riding around in his own car while on duty, but off his beat. He was later arrested and charged with leaving after col- liding. At the time of his arrest, it was testified, he was intoxicated and his machine then was being driven by a friend. After the accideht, according to the testimony, the officer called at the Baisey home and offered the child’s parents & sum of money if they would not relate the incident. ‘The child’s injuries were not serious. She was treated at Emergency Hospital ‘nddremovcd to her home shortly after- ward. The charge of leaving after a col- lision, it was said by Police Inspector Louis' J. Stoll, is still pending against Connor in Police Court. {Rumors Are Revived as Attorney Genera IMRS. WILLEBRANDT PROMISES STATEMENT AS SHE QUITS JOB to Reason Why Assistant 1 Residned From Prohibition Position. By the Associated Press. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, who has been prohibition law violators Mrs. ch in the public eye for two years because of her aggressive prosecution of pro B viclate and herymmunt political activities in the last presi- dential campaign, went quietly out of office yesterday to engage in private law tice. i pract 8 statement “to all the ne the cause of her sudden wit when she was to ‘well as prohibition prosecution. Mrs, Willebrandt has never said any- thing of the cause of her resignation assume the other than that she had received an at- tractive offer to resume private ct.h;: was denied at the time both at the White House and at the department that, any other factor entered into her which she felt she could not departure. lumors prevailed, ho'e'l:a fi'\,l"li‘ll';l e M KL A X % e on Page 5, Column 2) .program for her act after the pro- ~ (Continued e@ Page 32,-Oolumn 3., ‘Willebrandt was not S u . Willebrandt made known her intention to issue g e s within a short time,” and revived gossip as to wal from the De) t of Justice at a time direction of- prohibition enforcement as posed transfer of the Prohibition Bureau to the department from the Treasury. The former woman Assistant Attor- ney General did not look kindly upon having added responsibilities without having complete freedom of action and ‘were various reports that this had been denied her. that Mrs. Dus the eight years wme%dt has geen’hud of the di- - s ; D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 19: TRAFF OFFGALS WL REQUESTBAN - ONCRUSING TAXS Practice Blamed for 50 Per Cent of Congestion on Busy Thoroughfares of City. 100,000 PERMITS MUST BE RENEWED WITHIN YEAR Police Continue Crusade Against Traffic Violators, Arresting 263 Yesterday. As the Police Department unre- | lentingly sontinued its crusade against traffic violators yesterday, officials at the traffic department virtually com- pleted plans to alleviate congestion on F street with a drastic prohibition against “crulsing” taxicabs and to re- issue the more than 100,000 automo- bile drivers’ permits which expire in the next 12 months. Traffic Director William H. Harland also announced his traffic light exten- slon program for the 1931 fiscal year, which will have to be revised, it was | sald at the District Building, as the Commissioners in their final budgwt | making meeting yesterday, cut the esti- mates for traffic signals from $150,000 | to about $75,000. Round Up 263 Violators. A total of 263 motorists were rounded | up in the police dragnet for traffic vio- lators yesterday, according to reports tabulated by the various precincts and the Traffic Bureau, raising the arrest figure since the beginning of the cam- paign three days ago to 791. The Traffic Bureau's iflying squadron,” augmented { temporarily for the irafic enforcement drive, made 74 of yesterday's arrests. The precinct officers arrested the others. The offences included speeding, reck- less driving, failure to obey signals, failure to give proper signal, and such minor infractjons of the regulations as parking overtime and parking abreast. | The campaign apparently is having the desired effect of reducing accidents, for only four involving injuries were re- ported by the police up to a late hour last night. One of the victims was a 5-year-old boy, Samuel Kersey, jr., 804 Tenth street. Another was Minnie Hinker, 44 years old, 520 Ninth street soul , who was run down by a truck in_Odd Fellows court southeast. The woman was treated at Providence ‘Hospital for lacerations to'the right eye, legs and hands and removed to her home.’ Kersey suffered contusions to the head and arms when he was thrown from the running board of his father’s ‘machine, which collided with another car while backing Into a curb at Thir- teenth and C streets southeast. After treatment at Casualty Hospital he also was removed to his home. Three Are Injured. Three persons, all colored, were in- | jured in two different automobile ac- cidents last night, when the machines in both instances overturned after col- | listons at the same corner. both within an hour of each other. KNone was in- jured seriously. Mary Maynard, 25 years old. 26 Myrtle street northeast, was treated for injurles to the face and body when he machine in which she was riding nd driven by her brother, Wesley | Maynard of the same address, was in collision with an_automobile which failed to stop at Fifth and M streets northeast. In less than an hour Dora Todd, 1155 Sixteenth _street northeast, and Mar- garet Contee, same address, were treat- ed for minor body injuries when the machine in which they were riding and operated by Dora Todd was in collision with another car driven by John M. Smith, colored. 21 Ross street, Cottage City, 'Md. The injured women also were treated at Casualty Hospital. The machines in both instances were overturned bv the impact. Inspector E. W. Brown, in charge of the Trafic Bureau, is the leading spirit behind the move to prohibit “cruising” taxicabs on F street, which he blames for_at least 50 per cent of the present raffic congestion on that busy thorough- fare. He drafted and sent to -he cor- poration counsel's office a proposed amendment to the traffic code designed to prevent unoccupled taxicabs to enter F street from Ninth to Pifteenth | streets between 8 am. and midnight | except in response to a call. The pro- | posed regulation is n to apply to " Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) PART ONE—24 PAGES. General News—Loc National Foreign. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorial and torial Features. Review of New Books—Page 4. PART THREE—16 PAGES. Soclety. Army and Navy News—Page 11. Organized Reserves—Page 14. PART FOUR—16 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Music. In the Motor World—Pages 5, 6 and 7. Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. District National Guard—Page 10. Spanish War Veterans—Page 10. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 10. Praternal News—Page 11. Serial Story, ‘he Treasure House of Martin Hews"—Page 12. w. T. U. Activities—Page 12. ans of Great War—Page 13, Marine Corps Notes—Page 13. Radio News—Pages 14, 15 and 16. PART FIVE—10 PAGES. Sports and Financial. PART SIX— Classified Advertisin, News of the Clubs—] 8. Clubwomen of the N: —Page 9. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 9. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. Magazine Section. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 20. GRAVURE. SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Moon Mullins;' Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar gamu Mr. and mt-‘ ornalm'hl\nnl:e: y; Somebody's nog; its of History, ‘5 A Screen PAGES. " ! > 29 —124 PAGES. ot FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS N i ), . ,//(L\{’(’}// VIR T 18 SPEAKING OF SLIPPING OVER . STOWAWAYS! BIG DOIN’S HERE, ;HARK. YE’ HORSESHOE PITCHERS; AND PRIZES, TOO Residents of District and Nearby Mary- land and Virginia Have Chance to Show Skill in Evening Star Tournament. OTHER ARRESTED * BY LIUOR SOUAD ‘Two Children Left With | Father After Seizure of | Evidence in Home. Who is the best horseshoe pitcher in Washington and nearby Maryland | and Virginia? Who are the other top-notchers, men and women, in the game of throwing a horseshoe at a peg and making it “ring” and stay there? The Washington Star is going to find out. Every person in the District of Columbia and its environs, whether he or she ever played the game or nct. is invited to take part.in a grand old carnival of sport and fun to be conducted by closing July 20. The Star starting July 29, with entries Separate tournaments are being arranged for approximately 200 cities, vil- lages and communities in the District tates. There will be ' 51 tournaments in ‘Washington alone. Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, superintendent of playgrounds, and her staff have joined forces with The Star in the management of them. ‘The city has been laid out in com- ‘munities, divisions and sections, follow- ing out the playground department's scheme of organization, with horseshoe- pitching courts arranged for each play- ground. ‘Winners of community tournaments will meet in divisional contests. The | division champions will play for sec- tional honors and the sectional victors will clash for the eity title. and nearby counties of the neighboring ¥ X { In Maryland and Virginia, count; | championship tournaments will be held for the town and community winners and the county victors will have it out for State honors. A grand finale in Washington will bring together the survivors of play in the two States and Washington for the champlonship of the metropolitan dis- eny other cost to participants. All prizes, and there will be plenty of them, town_and community winner will re- (Continued on First Sports Page.) CUTIN ARMAMENT Moral Suasion or World’s Largest Navy, Suggested by Senator Walsh. “A vigorous, persistent and de- termined campaign of moral suasion among the great nations” was ad- vanced by Senator David I. Walsh, of Massachusetts last evening as the “first and foremost” undertaking of the United States in the effort to bring about world disarmament. Such a moral campaign ending in failure after a reasonable trial, he de- clared, “there is left for America what is conceded on all sides that we can do, namely, establish the greatest arma- ment in the world.” Senator Walsh, an outstanding mem- ber of the Senate committee on naval affairs, discussed disarmament and p:lre education from the moral point o National Radio Forum, arranged by the Star and sponsored by the Columbia | Broadcasting System. The speech was broadcast locally by WMAL. “Personally,” Senator Walsh asserted, “I think America alone can effect dis- armament. America can induce it upon the world. And it can-be done without the slightest interference with the in- dependence of any other nation or by offending other nations. Should Prove Sincerity. “Pirst and foremost our Government must undertake a vigorons, persistent and determined campaign of moral suasion among the great nations lead- ing to disarmament. It should be of |such a character as to make evident to the world our absolute sincerity of purpose to show the present unsettled nothing undone to attain the goal of |- world disarmament. “Much of disarmament talk in the last 10 years I fear has been largely for political consumption and advan- tage,” “he commented. “I think few people in the world believe that the disarmament talk of statesmen has been sincere. Frankly, and candidly, what real effective efforts have been made toword disarmament?” Purposes ‘of Education. The campaign he outlined envisioned the setting in motion throughout the world of education forces to two-fold purposes to show the present unsettled peace conditions of the world, and to appeal to the enlightened self-interests of mankind, “Peace can be made a powerful senti- ment i the average man,” he as- serted, “once he is properly informed as to its importance to civilization and to him. Let him fully understand the new role which he must play in future rs; that the burdens of war rest chiefly upon him; that the wars of the future are to be not between armies an:m navies, but by the airplane, the sul to wipe out and destroy le, will be directly against the indfvidual.” If such a campaign failed, he said, America then could force disarmament upon the world by bullding the great- est possible military and naval strength. Way to Gain Disarmament. “I do not argue the doing of this as preparation for war,” he said, “but as (Continued on Page 15, Column 1.), view in a radio address in the | HIEH SPEED TANK AMACES EXPERTS Military Combat Machine Travels Cross Country at 42 Miles an Hour. A three-man armored combat tank, | rough plowed fields and sand dunes at | Fort George E. Meade, yesterday after- | noon furnished a demonstratfon of high | speed possibilities in actual warfare | that amazed a large group of, K Army | officers and armament experts. | Able to operate on the cpen roads as | an armored car without the caterpillar band, the tank made the official time of 69.23 miles per hour a few minutes later on the Crane highway. Mary- land State police and enlisted men of the Army policed the road during the test to protect crowds lining both sides of the highway. ‘The machine, which in 14 minutes can be converted into a fast crawling tank for ecross-country travel, is the result of eight years of experimenting on a military combat machine to meet | the needs of modern warfare by J. Walter Christle, automotive inventor. Timed by Electrical Device. Yesterday's successful tests, which were as difficult as Army experts could make them, were under direction of Capt. L. C. Prizzell and Capt. C. H. Unger. of (he contest board of the American Automobile Association to officially time the new machine, and Charles P. Clark, assistant general manager of that organization, acted as judge. Capt. R. A. Leavell of Detroit timed the ma- chine for speed over two courses, each half mile in length, with ghe elec- _ (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.), trict. There will be no entry fee, nor | will be supplied by The Star. Every | traveling 42.55 miles per hour over Mr. Christie enlisted the aid | b | A young woman giving the name of Mrs. Anna Knott was taken from her | two small children yesterday when po- | licoemen found what they believed was whisky and aleohol in her apartment, but not until one of the children was | permitted to go for the father. In a raid on her apartment in the 200 block of Pennsylvania avenue po- licemen of Sergt. Letterman’s lquor | squad found Mrs. Knott, her children, | Billy, 8, and Bobby, 4, and her brother and another man. A search of the | premises disclosed 16 one-half pints of |'alleged whisky and 5 gallons of alleged alcohol. Patrol Auto Summoned. Mrs. Knott, apparently ill, was re- clining when the raid occurred. When | the search had been made the police- | men, with some show of reluctance, called for the patrol automobile. Rather than leave the children unattended, members of the ralding party permitted little Billy to go for his father and shortly before the patrol arrived the two returned. Mrs. Knott, who gave her age as 28, was taken to the Sixth precinct on a charge of illegal possession along with a colored woman, Cecelia Tucker, who was arrested in the apartment at the same time and charged with sale and | possession. . Later in the day Mrs. | Knott was released under $500 bond | and returned to her children. | Knott Former Policeman. Detecti® R. J. Cox, a member of the raiding party, said Mrs. Knott’s hus- band was a policeman at one time and served as his partner. Two other raids resulted In arrests, | On information that liquors were to | be delivered at a garage in rear of the | 1100 block of Seventeenth street, the | same policemen arrested two men at the address after finding 184 quarts of alleged whisky in an automoblle, Charges of illegal possession were placed against men giving. their names as Arthur Long, said to be owner of the garage, and George White of Prince Georges County, Md. A rald in the 400 block of Eighth ‘Wright, colored, on charges of sale and possession, |MACDONALD MAY CALL | ON HOOVER IN AUGUST London Paper Says Talk Will Be Confined to Peace Between Britain and America. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 30.—The Sunday Ex- press “understands” that Premier Mac- ald's trip to Washington for his eart. to heart talk with President Hoover, probably will be made in Au- gust. ‘There had been reports that it might be delayed until early next year. MacKenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, will participate in the con- ference’ which, the paper says, will be confined to discussion of “terms for a peace pact” between Great Britain and | America. It Under C liquor runners is under consideration in said yesterday. a total cost of about $10,000,000. e Extending the whole length of the boundary, with interruptions where the line runs into lakes and rivers, it would be the first artificial barrier ever erect- ed between the United States and Can- ada. Both countries have hitherto left thein frontiers unprotected. The plan springs from a determina-~ tion of dry forces to “close the loop~ holes” in ° the international blockade now maintained by a force of 1,000 men Department, at of drys in Congress, Seymour C. Lowman, Assistant Secretary of the at a cogt of $4,000,000 a year. It pro- M%fllmuflnmtm 2,000 MILES OF BARBED WIRE PROPOSED AS RUM BARRIER Drys in Congress Suggest Plan for Canadian Bordcr protcctiun and Lowman TakeS onsideration. A seven-foot, barbed-wire fence along the Canadian border to shut ou t the Treasury t, the request ‘Treasury, With the view to seeking authorization in the December session of Con- gress, the drys have asked the Treasury to investigate the feasibility of the project, according to Mr. Lowman. The Treasury study has point where he is satisfied of its pn_rf‘uq-hmty and received progressed to a estimates indicating actual figure is $1 & foot. hibition can be brought nearer to reali- zation if the illicit Canadian supply can be cut off. ‘The dry members of Congress behind the present move were not identified by Mr. Lowman, but he intimated the ‘Treasury Department would scarcely be taking the proposition seriously if not satf of their relgoulblllty. ‘While obviously impressed by the plan, Mr. Lowman emphasized that it did not originate in the Treasury Department, street resulted in the arrest of Ruth | l TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE U. 3. REPLY DENIES FRANGE'S REQUEST THAT MATURITY OF DEBT BE DEFERRED Chamber’s Emotional Action on War Stocks Followed by Calm Acceptance of Wash- ington View. PARIS LEAdERS ASHAMED OF “USELESS GESTURE” Strong French Delegation to Be Sent as Participants in Confer- ence for Consideration of Young Plan and Related Problems of European Nations. Special Cable to The Star. PARIS, June 29.--The French { sovernment received a message {from Ambassador Claudel in | Washington, just before noon to- day, containing the information that the State Department had | declined the French request for a | postponement of the maturity { date of the war stocks debt from | August 1 fo December 31. This | negative reply had been expected, ;and in the saner political circles it had been accepted without { much hint of indignation. { In fact, it is safe to say that, 12 | hours after the emotional demand of | the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday night, that the government renew ne- gotiations with Washington on the sub- Ject, 95 per cent of the deputies who had voted for the resolution realized that the move was a usel gesture, and were a little ashimed of themselves for having participated therein, Premier Poincare, Fore! Minister Briand ant the other chief members of the cabinet had actually the step from the first, but in view .of the sudden outburst of enthusiasm in the chamber, in which all but the Social- ists and Communists " participated, the government was forced either to make the useless effort or to resign. Method of Ratification. Meanwhile plans for ratifying the debt accords and for the inter, - mental conference for the consi of the Yo plan, the evacuation of the Rhineland and felated questions have gone forward without inter< mission. Despite M. Poincare’s contin. ued preference for ratification of the | debt accords by decree, he maintains | the view that Parliament should have | its way, and it is Parliament's way that the ratification should be by the more customary method of legislatitve mease ures voted he two chambers. It was the impression in governmental circles here tonight that with Great | Britain, Germany, Italy and Belgium all’ strongly or mildly favorable to London as the seat of the forthcoming confer- | ence Prance, despite her hesitancy, will be forced to abide by the wish of the majority and go to the British capital. There is a general feeling, too, that per- | haps, after all, it will be as well or bet- ter to deal with Prime Minister Mac- Donald_in London rather than with Philip Snowden, the British chancellor :; the exchequer, in some neutral Swiss wn. The French are still laboring under & certain fear of Mr. Snowden, en- gendered by his pre-election speech to the effect that the Caillaux-Churchill debt accord was too favorable to France. Names Strong Delegation. A powerful French delegation will proceed to this important parley. Pre- mier Poincare will attend in person and will have with him M. Briand and Henri Cheron, minister of finance. It is the impression here in informed circles that the conference will probably con- vens in the last week of July or the first week of August and that the nego- tiations will last about a month. The premier d his two cabinet ministers will remain probably only for the first few days, planning to return to London for the signing of the ac- cords at the final sessions. In the in- termediate stages the French delega- tion will consist of lesser officlals and technicians. Premiere . Poincare and the com- mittees of finance and foreign affairs of the chamber have now agreed ten- tatively upon July 9 as the date on which the chamber debate on the debt accords should begin. The premier will insist that the chamber work night and day with a view to having the ratification votes taken about July 14, Bastille day. The Senate will Ernhlbly complete consid- eration of the accords three or four days later, so that these questions will be out of the way in time for the gov= cenment to give the last week of July to the intergovernmental conference should it be found possible to convene the parley by that time, Meetings Follow Message. Immediately upon receipt of Ambas- sador: Claudel’s message, during the cabinet meeting this morning, the com- mittees of finance and foreign affairs of the Chamber of Deputies were con- vened for 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. respec- tively. M. Poincare, M. Briand and M. Cheron appeared at each of the two meetings, and at each of them M. Claudel's message from Washington was read in full. The two committees took cognizance of the receipt of the document containing the refusal of the State Department to entertain the re- quest for time in the matter of war stocks debt payment, but in neither case was there any discussion. A resume of Ambassador Claudel's dispatch from the Prench embassy in ‘Washington to the Quai d'Orsay was issued tonight by Andre Tardieu, min- ister of the interior. The Ami dor stated that he called yesterday upon Secretary of State Stimson and that he developed with all the force at his command the arguments for the post- ponement of the date of maturity of the war stocks debt. The message con- tinued as follows: . “The Secretary of State recalled with visible emotion that as an old friend of France and with French blood in his veins, he had worked for three years to have his country enter the war and that he himself had entered service at 50 years of age. that the questions posed “He added by the French government had been debated by the American cabinet og the basis of press ng:m of the session in the French mber of Deputies. Finally he stated that the Constitution does not give the President power to postpone the maturity date of a debt and that, in addition, the eon.rnuo_n_! ~(Continued on Page;3, columa 6., - ued on Page 5, Column §,