Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1929, Page 2

o &% BANK HEAD PLEADS UILTY IN FAILURE James Rae Clarke Takes Full Responsibility for Shortage of $5,000,000. By the ated Press. NEW YORK, July 23.-—James Rae Clarke, senior partner of Clarke Bros., defunct private bank, pleaded guilty today to using the mails to defraud and ! the | of the United States Supreme Court now is generally credited with having in- | accepted full responsibility for bank’s $5.000,000 failure, “ The partners in Clarke Bros. were James Rae Clarke, who ow 70 per cent of the stock; his brothers Philip end Hudson, jr., and John Bouker. ce county grand jury for accepting de- | posits after knowing the bank was insolvess. James Rae Clarke pleaded guilty to the mail fraud charge before Federal Judge Harry B. Anderson. George Gor- don Battle, lawyer, announced that the senior partner and his wife were pre- pared to place all their property at the disposal of the court, Battle asked adjournment of sentence to permit his client to help in salvaging &5 much as possible from the financial wreck. Informed f James Rae Clarke's Fed- eral plea, Assistant County Prosecutor Ferdinand Pecora announced that both | the senjor partner and Philip Clarke would plead guilty today to the charge of accepting deposits after thes oo their bank was insolvent. Pecora said that Hudson Clarke and | Feuker had promised to “reveal every- thing” if granted a stay today, “LIFERS” BLAMED FOR PRISON RIOT AS QUIET RETURNS (Continued From First Page.) prison from other State penal institu-| tions for discipline. Clinton was def- initely set aside more than a score of | years ago as a “punishment prison” for “tough guys.” At the time the convicts swooped | down on their guards there were 113 serving life sentences, 400 serving 20 Years or mo and other with shorter | terms, bringing the total to 1.568. The trouble, said the warden, had been in the air for weeks. Like Hornets After Breakfast. The break came as 1.300 of these| men left the huge mess hall where | they had breakfasted. Suddenlv they began to mill about. like hornets com- ing cut of a disturbed nest The inside guards tried to beat their way | to the ringleaders, but they were over- | powered. ‘Ther all the pent-up passion of the r flamed forth. They fired the carpenter and the weave shops and shed the dynamo and left the in- ution without lights or power. he prison siren screamed and the whole town grasped weapons and start- ed for the walls. The convicts formed human pyramids, like circus acrobats, the topmost man to the edge on the wall above. The uar ins spat and the prisoners fell back, three dead. Seeing at last that the break was a lost cause, some of the men re- turned to their cells and some barri- caded themselves in a storehouse. “Arsenal” Bared b+ Prisoner. The riot lasted more than five hours. Prison authorities saw in the out- break ap enactment of what might have happened several months ago if the “peaching” of Harry Ross, an in- mate, had not revealed a prisoners' | nal of revolvers, rifles, knives and “encugh dynamite to blow up the whole place.” Ross got a pardon for his| Tevelation and brought down on his| head the threat of those he had re- - ported to “get him inside or out.” BAND CONCERTS. TONIGHT. the United States Soldiers' Home | + Band, at the bandstand at 5:30 ock. March, “Bon Ton". Zimmerman Overature, “Private eys”. . . Ansell Descriptive fantasia, “A Shepherd's Lafe in the AIps”. Kling | Synopsis: The break of day; awakening of nature; cows in the pasture: shepherds’ morning song: departure for the Alps; a love scene; the storm; a praver of thanksgiving; evening at the inn; finale, Excerpts from Irish romantic o] een” .. “Georgia Jade’ oupee Valsant”. Finale, “The Banner of ra, P Herbert | “The Star Spangled Banner.” Bv the United States Army Band, " Curtis D. Alwav, captain Infantry. com- e nding; William J. Stannard, leader, conducting; Thomas F. Darcey, second | leader: at the Walter Reed General Hoipital at 6:30 o'clock. S March, “1st Medical Regiment, Watfield and Natafalusy Overture, “William Tell” Rossini Solo for clarinet, “Air Concertante,” Ackermann Ernest L. Thompson, soloist. Belection from “The Vagabond King.” Friml a. Fox trot, “Weary River.” Clark and Silvers b. Popular waltz, “Sweet Suzanne,” Gilbert (Some. . -Ef Canto Cubano, “Algun Dia” Day) By the United States Merine Band, Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur S. Wit- comb, second leader: at Forty-fourth street, Foxhall and Conduit roads at %:30 o'clock. March, “Florentiner Overture, “Mignol . . ol for saxophone, “Norma"...Mayeur Excerpts from “The Wizard of the Nile” Herbert Duet for piccolo and bassoon, Elephant and the Fly” Three dances from “Nell Gwyn".German Country dance. Fastoral dance. Merrymakers' dance. Characteristic, “A Chinese Wed Procession” B Grand march, “Coronation,” Tschaikowsky “The Star Spangled Banner.” Sylvan Theater, Monument grounds, at 7:30 o'clock, by the United States Navy Band, Charles Benter, leader; Charles Wise, assistant leader. March, “Sturmmarsch”......Beethoven Overture, “The Lily of Killarney.” Benedict Solo for cornet (selected). Musician Ralph Ostrem. Rustic suite, “Pique Dame,’ Tschaikowsky a. “Sarabande.” b. “Chloe and Daphine.” €. “Minuet.” » d. “Chorus of Shepherds.” Marche Indienne,” from ‘L'Afri- caine” ... Meyerbeer. Excerpts from “The Show Boat”.Kearn Vaise, “Roses from the South”. .Strauss | 8. “In the Tavern”... b. “March of the Dwarf: ding .Hosmer | THE EVENING STAR, WASH ADVICE OF OLDER STATESMEN HELPED HOOVER PICK CABINET {Stimeon and Mitchell, Strangers to President, Were pointed Out by Root, Taft and Hughes. Pregident Hoover's selection of his cabinet brought many surprises and much conjecture as the appointments were made known. Many of his choices were regarded as politically unprecedented. The story of the men and ecvents behind the scenes in these engrossing moves now is told by James L. West, Associated Press staff writer, in a series of six articles, of which the following is the first. BY JAMES L. WEST, Associnted Press White House Correspondent. Advice of elder statesmen of the Republican party and of several justices fluenced the selection by President Hoover of two of the foremost members of his | \ { | | proximately 1281, hours. | {laws an able lawyer and one in whom | | this was simple: that the very man for [ST. LOUIS ROBIN : eabinet, Henry L. Stimson of New York, Secretary of State, and William D. Mitchell of Minnesota, Attorney General. Two Selections Dovetailed. The two selections dovetailed in a peculiar manner. Sargent. Admittedly, the selection of an Attcr- ney General was the most difficult task i ]lhnl, faced Mr. Hoover in his role of | cabinet maker. Prohibition had played | d a predominant part in his election, and | he had a natural desire to select as| the chief enforcing officer of the dry | OF 2 SPEEDBOATS 18 Either Swim Ashore or Are Rescued by Other Craft in Lake Michigan. friends of prohibition had confidence. | As the story goes, Mr. Hoover was ! concerning himself with this selection when Chief Justice Taft, a friend of long standing, dropped in at the Hoover | house on S street. The Chief Justice | added his own word on behalf of Stim- | son, who was the Secretary of War when | Taft was President and who had been | urged by both Elihu Root and Charles | Evans Hughes. ! A Man Right at Hand. | The President-elect is sald to have remarked his difficulty was not in find- ing a Secretary of State, but in getting an Attorney General. Whereupon the Chief Justice is reputed to have replied By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 23.—Two speedboats, carrying passengers, collided head-on in Lake Michigan 200 yards off Navy Pier last night. One was drowned, another is missing and the other 18 passengers swam ashore or floundered about in the water until rescued by nearby craft. ‘The passenger who drowned was Leo Suesskind of Yonkers, N. Y. David Cohen, Chicago, is missing and the lake was being dragged early today for his body. Several of the engers were injured in the collision. Both boats, each traveling 40 miles an hour over the smoth lake surface, sank almost at once. Joyce Hawley Aids in Rescue. Joyce Hawley, the “champagne bath" girl of Earl Carroll's after-theater party, was prominent in the rescue. She was the place then was in the Department of Justice in the person of the solicitor | general - | Mitchell, who called himself a Demo- crat. but who had supported Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, virtually was u known to Mr. Hoover. But the next day, the President-elect set in motion the machinery which would bring to him all the needed facts about the young lawyer from the Northwest. As a result of what he found, Mr Hoover offered the appointment to the solicitor general. who is said frankly to have advised the President-elect that traditionally, he was a Democrat and that it might be an unwise political move to give a Democrat such an im- portant post in the new administration But the argument made no impression and Mitchell took the job. Mitchell Strongly Favored. | Before that, however, a majority of the Supreme Court justices in their in- dividual capacities had indorsed Mitch- ell voluntarily, so deeply had they been impressed by his conduct of Govern- ment cases before the highest tribunal That of itself was an unusual tribute Elihu_Root, Secretary of State under Roosevelt. is understood to have pro- posed Stimson. His recommendation was supplemented by that of Mr Hughes, himself a former secretary, who could have headed the State De- partment again at this time had he desired the appointment. | Personally, Hoover and Stimson were strangers, but the President-elect knew of his services as war secretary and slso his “accomplishment in_ bringing about an agreement between the war- ring factions in Nicaragua, and so the IERses S winaMte/ Sl ore. office was tendered and accepted. | Three persons swam unaided to the | shore, got on a street car and sought | medical aid where they had boarded the Sea King. Two of those rescued, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar McColiey, were taken to a hospital, where it was sald Mrs. McColley had been seriously in- jured. ’ The two pilots were held for the coro- ner’'s inquest today. PLANE WILL RACE—— TO HELP BROMLEY GET OFF GROUND | __ (Continued From First Page) |near the scene of the collision and was credited with saving two persons. The two speedboats, known as the Sea King and the Chris Craft, were en- gaged in “taxi” service between the Oak street beach and the Michigan Boulevard link bridge over the Chicago River. ‘The Sea King, with eight passengers and piloted by Elmer Dudley, s Coast Guardsman on leave of absence, swung around the end of Navy Pier and start- ed northward as the Chris Craft, south- bound to the bridge. rapidly approached i The latter was carrying 10 pas sengers and the pilot, William Warne Witnesses saw the two boals zigzag crazily a and veer sharply as they drew together. They met head-on. The passengers were hurled into the water. IS WITHIN ONE HOUR | OF EQUALING MARK _(Continued From First Page.) onds. completed their 133d hour in the air at 2:49:54 am. LOUISTANIANS FORCED DOWN. Three Cylinders Blow Out, Causing Shreveport Fiyers to Fail. SHREVEPORT, La., July 23 (#)— Failing in their first attempt at an en- durance flight record, W. Currey Sanders and Van Lear Leary, Louisiana | aviators, held hopes of trying again. Their plane, the KWKH, which be- gan its flight at 10:30 am. last Wed- nesday, was forced down at 7:17 o'clock last night on Steere Field, 5 miles from Shreveport, due to motor trouble. Three of the nine cylinders blew out as the fiyers sought to gain altitude immedi- | ately after a refueling contact. The aviators had been in the air ap- stall special spark plugs and make any necessary final adjustments. A lot” of people are asking about the route the City of Tacoma will take when she poinis her nose toward Tokio. Harold Gatty, crack navigator, with Comdr. P. V. Weems, who in- vented the navigation Instruments to be used on the flight, has plotted three courses in case of bad weather. Signals Will Help. From Tacoma I will fly west and over Port Angeles. From course is along the west coast of Van- TWO UP AT ;fl Haughland Resumes Quest, With John- | son Ousted, After Dispute. MINNEAPOLIS, July 23 (P)—The| monoplane Minnesota, APOLIS. south tip_of Queen Charlotte Island. over to Dutch Harbor, Island, where they will have signals out at the radio station. If they signal bad weather to the north I'll switch south on the direct water course to Tokio along the steam- ship lane. Otherwise fhe course will be 60 miles north, parallel to the Aleutian visible with Owen | Haughland of Buffalo, Minn., as chief | pilot, was off today on another refuel- | m‘f\tfi‘%‘r’;‘;z:fv’d rb'sucr;?.-;; fl-:-'“g 'g‘?"“,'};m“ | Islands, then across to Attu Island and of Mineapolis. Haughland soared away | 5000° Lt‘: :.::q U Tokio from the Wold-Chamberlain Alrport at | 9°%n, 100, ©O%5E 0 TORC. course along 6:40 o'clock last night in an effort to | teamal n 4 e d | the steamship lanes between Vancouver e o woooncl. Thorwald | 151and and Dutch Harbor. in case of wSdpt, Crichton replaced Thorwald | bad weather on the mote northerly “?;;'";'::;o"r e L e e Northern route. however, o ral shorter, dispute with Haughland and backers of | wongser dermice o o0 - the flight just before the start. John- | *T axpeet to get & lot of weather o flea" W"h‘ Hflxl“}flad ,'ngf,mh a8 | information by radio. which will make when they stayed alo ours 33 | i possible to decide which g;u;:‘rig} ct?(’)‘l‘l‘l‘)]lge down June 29 because | u....i'!‘i( Lo take m;ror.- fx:;’uux;lermi any . : 1 also send out my posi- The Minnesota, formerly the Miss | fion by radls a8 Often a8 poseible. Minneapolis, was refueled last night for 1 (Copyrishit, 1920 by North American News- the first time on this flight. ‘Daver Allance.) PRISON THAT INMATES ATTEMPTED TO BRE: Recent_discolsures | All four were indicted by a Federal | have pretty well established that William Howard Taft, chief justice of the United | grand jury for mail fraud and con- | States, provided counsel in each case. One version pointed him out as the origi- | 1 ezrets in bankruptey and by a | nator of the suggestion that Mr. Mitchell be named to succeed John Garibaldi aboard a boat with a party of friends | they approached each other | there the | couver Island, within 60 miles of the | on Unalaska | Knril Islands, and on | | of the | WCKERSHAMPLAN | SUEEESTS BALANCE State Dry Enforcement Woul Broaden Federal Functiog, Is Belief. ~ / — 17 4 The debate widely current on Mr. Wickersham’s proposal abgfit prohibi- cturing the | tion can be clarified by situation as it would be if Mr. Wicker~ sham's suggestion were GArried out. As | respects the Federal Government, the {only change would be release of it | from the burden of prgventing and pun- ishing small local ylolations in _the shape of speakeasies and petty indi- vidual violations of/ihe sort known as Police Court cases./ This class of cases would be left wholly to the several | States. The Fedefal Government would | continue to caryy out all its other functions as at present. It would carry them out the more effectively because of release from/ the other burden. The Federal Goveriment would prevent and prosecute all smuggling from Canada | or from elsewhere. 1L would prevent | and prosecute all manufacturing on any considerable sca's, though_ under the posed arrange ment Lhe States would | probably be left to mandle petty manu- facturing. The Federal Government would prevent and prosecute all trans- portation frbm one State to another. Two Classes of States. So much for the Federal Govern- | ment. In considering what would hap- pen to the States, there are now ob- | viously two classes of States. There are 42 /Siates which now have local State ehforcement laws and which are | practicing _enforcement. These | would continue to do as they are now doing. There would be no change, except one of morale. At pres- ent these States, as a rule, tend to carry ‘on their enforcement with more | and ‘more laxity. The reason for their | laxness is that they know they are duplicating the work of the Féderal Government. They have & spirit of “let Uncle Sam do it | With the Federsl Government with- | drawn from handling small local cases | the States would know that such cases | are up to them and up to them solely. | Every citizen of such, States would | | know that suppression Of local speik- easies and prevention of local misde- meanors ngainst prohibition s the work of his State government and of no one else. He would look to his State gov- | ernment and not to disiant Washing- | | ton. The confused state of mind aris- | ing from duplication would disappear. There would be no alibi for the States. | There would be no possibility of “pass- | ing the buck” to Uncle Sam. i | We come now to the six States which | either never adopted local enforcement statutes or else, having adopted them, | later repealed them. As respects these | six States, the situation would be as it | is now, with one important modifica- | | tion. The citizens of these States would | know that the Federal Government | would not prosecute local violations in such States. The citizens would know that the only way of getting enforce- ment would be by electing a State | Legisiature . which would pass an en- forcement act. These States would | ve just two alternatives. and no more. | They” could remain without en(urre-‘ ment acty and endure the prescnce of | violalions with their eyes open or they | could pass enforcement acts. | Wholly Up to People. | The choice between these alternatives wouid be wholly up to the people of the | States. There would be no confusion of mind due to expectation that the | | Federal Government would come in and | | enforce. Neither would there be any | | middle ground. The alternatives would be confined to the two already named. | No State can pass & as the Su- preme Court has put it, “authorizing what_the eighteenth amendment_for- | bids.” No State could pass a local op- | tion law or any other kind of license or regulation of the sale of “intoxicating | liquors.” "These States would be obliged | to choose between enduring violations | with their eyes open or else passing an enforcement” law. What these States and the citizens of these States would | |do when actually faced by these alter- | | natives constitutes an interesting spec- ulation, What has been said here is apart | from the question raised by Gov. Ritchie of M nd. His assertion is that there is no_duty, moral or legal, |resting on any State to pass a local enforcement Jaw merely because the | eighteenth amendment is in the Fed-| eral Constitution. As to this constitu- | tional question, there is difference of | opinion. It has no bearing, however, on | what is said here. All that is discussed | here is how a State would feel if it had | no local enforcement act and if at the | | same time it knew the Federal Govern- {ment would not enforce within the | State. This is the wholly new condition | that ‘would be brought about by the| |adoption of Mr. Wickersham's sugges- | tion. What these States and the citi- zens of these States would do under this condition is, one repeats, a most interesting_speculation. : Mr. Wickersham in another portion of his letter suggests that ‘“national | and State laws might be modified.” Presumably this means that, as every- |body knows, the permitted alcoholic content can be raised from the present 0: -half of 1 per cent upward to some such limit as 3 or 4 per cent. This| portion of Mr. Wickersham's letter con | stitutes another question, separate from.‘ what is here considered. M. S Girl Plays 60 Bells. Said to be the youngest bell player in | the world, 20-year-old Violet Catrier | gave at Loughborough on a recent Sun- day the first public bell recital given in | England by a woman. She delighted a | large crowd gathered around the war | memorial fower in Queen’s Park with | | | [ | | | now States INGTON, D. C T{EQDAY JULY 23, 1929. (CEAN RACE SEEN AS RECORD RESULT Other Countries to Attempt to Lower Speed Mark of Bremen. By the Associated Press. { LONDON. July 23.—The challenge of the North German Lloyd liner Bremen | vesterday in its Atlantic crossing of 4 tdays, 17 hours and 32 minutes prob- {ably will be answered, | It is expected here that an interna- {tional scramble for speed honors will {follow almost immediately, with Great { Britain, America, France and Italy par- ticipating and Germany adding the Bu- ropa shortly which should do as well or i better than the Bremen | The Cunard Line, owners of the May etania, whose former record was beats strday, m no statement of - |iack on the German record, but it is | understood the line has a new race contemplation, and it is expected | the Mauretania will attempt to show she is capable of better than she has two new ships of the United | States Lines to be begun soon probably |should show as much speed or more |than the Bremen. Italy and France, [to meet the competition, will almost | have to enter the lists. " Londflr_] papers featured the Bremen's {record this morning. giving the story ‘prominence, notwithstanding it lowered Upper: fhe giant new German liner | the British-owned Mauretania‘s prized Bremen at anchor off quarantine, New York Harbor, after sctting a new trans- atlantic speed record. express mail. the plane, with Baron Gobst von Stud- nitz as pilot, arrived in New York sev- eral hours before the steamer. Lowe! Grover A. Whalen, commissioner of New York and chair- man of the mayor's welcoming commit- Ziegenbeln, master of the Bremen. -—Assoclated Press Photos. ONE SPEEDER QUITS WICKERSHAM HIT Y BISHOP GANNON Methodists Brand Recent Statement “Premature and Defeatist.” Bishop James Cannon, jr., chairman of the Board of Temperance and So- cial Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. and Dr. E. L. Crawford secretary of that body, in a statement | made public today, vigorougly assailed the recent suggestion of ' Chairman George W. Wickersham of the Presi- dent’s Law Enforcement Investigating Commission that if the States would Bive better co-operation in enforcement of the prohibition laws both “National and State laws might be modified so as_to become reasonably enforcéable.” Mr. Wickersham’s deciaration seemed “to be premature and defeatist,” the statement declares, expressing surprise well es chagrin that the chairman hould have given such views to Gov. Roosevelt of New York in advance of mature judgment of the question at issue so early in the investigation. Letter Held Hazy in Parts. Unlike the statement in approving vein recently issued by Dr. Clarence True Wilson and Deets Pickett on_be- half of the Board of Temperance, Pro- hibition and Public Morals of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, the attack by the representatives of the Southern wing of the church was bluntly critical of Mr. Wickersham'’s position. Certain- ly every State should co-operate in en- forcement of the prohibition laws, the Cannon-Crawford ~ statement warned, and it is the duty of the Federal Gov- ernment, regardless of cost, to main tain the Constitution inviolate. “If hundreds of millions are spen t for Army and Navy to protect from ex- ternal foes” it sald, “no sum is too great to protect from nullifiers and traitors at home.’ Mr. Wickersham's letter, “being hazy and puzzling” in parts, they added. required interpretation in order that there might be a clear understanding as to what the commission chairman had in_mind. The concession which has been most earnestly and clamorously demanded by the modificationists, today's state- ment said, “is the right to increase the alcoholie content and the definition of intoxicating liquors in the Volstead act, giving to the several States the right to permit the manufacture and the sale | of liquors of whatever alcoholic con- tent said State might determine, pro- vided such alcoholic content would not come under the condemnation of the United States Supreme Court as in- toxicating in fact.” It was indicated that the Southern churchmen would like for Mr. Wicker- sham to explain whether he has in mind such a modification of the Vol- stead act or indeed, what modification he belteved could be made so as to make her masterly manipulation of the 60 | bells, the largest of which weighs more | than four tons. Miss Carrier has had a year'’s tralning under the borough | coritloneur. the laws reasonably enforceable. Declared Premature. “Would it not have been better,” thi asked, “to have said mnothing about modification than to sound & note in- viting suspicion and declaring probable defeat?” “The statement, therefore, that Mr. not in any way abrogate the right or responsibiiity of either the State or the National Government to operate at any time to secure the proper enforcement of the eighteenth amendment as the RECORDRVERRACE Cruiser Martha Jane Forced supreme law of the land. Out as Bogie Goes On in Merit in Suggestion. ! “There is much merit in this sug- | Quest of Mark. gestion of division of enforcement work and it would seem that if any gov- | ernor was anxious to carry out his solemn undertaking to support and de- | fend " the Constitution, including the | eighteenth amendment, he would give | | By the Asso d Press. HELENA, Ark., July 23.—The speed- boat Bogle, trying to beat the 59-year- old record of the Robert E. Lee up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis, made a belated arrival at Rosedale, Miss., shortly before 10 o'clock this morning. Dr. Louis Le reported that about an hour out of Greenville, Miss., last night the boat struck a submerged log, damaging the propelier and bencing the drive shaft. very serious consideration to such a proposal. “But for some unexplained reason Mr. Wickersham did not stop at that point. He tied up this proposed division of enforcement sctivity wiih the further statement, ‘National and State laws might be modified o as to become rea- sonably enforceable.’ “Here we have haze and uncertainty and not only possible, but actual pre ent defeatism, flatly declared, for cer- tainly the natural interpretation of Mr. Wickersham's language is that national and State laws are not reasonably en- forceable and require modification be- fore they can be reasonably enforced.” The Cannon-Crawford statement ex- plained that they made no claim of perfection for either the Volstead act or the prohibition enforcement laws. The passage of the Jones-Stalker la they said, indicated the necessity for amendment of the Volstead act “and other modification of the prohibition | laws dsubtless will and should be made. | | " “Bpt just why this modification | shotfld be tied up to a proposal to! ’dh‘idr enforcement activity between By fhe Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, July 23.—The race to St. Louis between the speedboat Eo- gie and the express cruiser Martha Jane, which started from New Orleans an attempt by the Bogie to better the istoric record of the steamboat Robert . Lee. The record of 90 hours and 31 minutes between the two cities has stood since 1870. The Martha Jane, left far behind by the Bogle in the first jump of the race and missing for 17 hours, tied up at Natchez, Miss., at 11:50 o'clock last night, after a harrowing experience with ‘motor trouble, while the Bogie raced on against the Lee's time to Mem- phis, Martha Jane's Race Is Hopeless. Dr. Louis Leroy, Memphis sportsman. <aid when he leff Greenville, Miss.. at 8:50 last night that the Bogie's motor was performing well and he hoped to dock at Memphis for refueling by noon today. George M. Cox of New Orleans, owner >f the yacht, announced at Natchez that the Martha Jane's race was hopeless and abandoned. The cruiser was tied up to the bank in a sparsely settled tretch of the river 50 miles above Baton Rouge for seven hours yesterday while wide search was being made for the cht in the lower reaches of the river. Motors were tested and repaired and finally the craft cruised lustily into Natchez, The Martha Jane, with its owner and his party of seven, planned to resume the trip late today to St. Louis on a purely pleasure basis if tests showed the motors to be functioning satisfactorily. An element of danger entered the Mar- tha Jane's plight when her power went = —= |:md in midstream. and the boat, adrift, s | cautiously was steered ashore.’ Mem- Asks $25,000 for Injuries. | bers of the party admitted that there Dewitt Foulke, whose address is given | was some apprehension at the time, but as the Ambassador Theater, was named 8 safe landing was made. defendant today in a suit filed in the| Time Expires Thursday Morning. District Supreme Court by Blanche| Previous to arrival at Natchez, the Rasmussen of Ballston, Va, asking | last Word from the Martha Jane was | its passing at St. Francisville, La., about §25.000 damages for alleged dersonal| haif way botween Baton Reuge and injuries. She says she was riding in an | Natchez, at 6:30 am. yesterday. At automobile, December 23, at Fourteenth | that time one of the motors was dis- street and Pennsylvania avenue when | abled and the yacht was making poor an automobile collided with the vehicle | headway. in which she was a passenger.® She was| The race started from the foot of injured. She Is represented by Attor-|Canal street Sunday at 3:04 p.m. Ninety neys James A. O'Shea, John H. Buruett,| hours and 31 minutes would expire at Alired Goldstetn and A. L. Cook. 9:35 am. Thursday. the State and National governments.” they charged, “is not only not clear. hut it seems to intimate the necessity | for some kind of bargaining by means of which certain States would be per- suaded to perform their prohibition en- | | forcement duties shculd they be given | certain_concessions, which concessions. however, are not indicated and which may not have been in Mr. Wicker- sham’s mind.” The statement from the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals in commenting on the furore | aroused by the Wickersham pronounce- | ment had said that “it is not at once apparent why these suggestions should | be considered revolutionary,” and with regard nodification” phrase, | sham makes use of the unfortunate word ‘modification’ in a paragraph which seems to suggest an 1djustment of State and Federal statutes for the purpose of facilitating co-oper- ation in_enforcement. Interpretation of 'modification’ to imply that State Jaws may be enacted which in fact legalize alcohol content *in beverages prohibited by the Federal Constitution | is, we belicve, an entirely mistaken one.” IN MICHIGAN WITCHCRAFT Wickersham considers the present na. tional and State laws ‘not reasonably enforceable’ does seem to be prematu and defeatist, for surely it is too early in the investigation ordered to be made | by the Crime Commission for the cha [ man to express such a sweeping judg- | ment, which judgment might be modi | fied or changed entirely as the invesi | Ration proceeds, and as it might i come evident that the causes which at | present. operate to prevent efficient en- forcement might be removed. “While, however, until Mr. Wicker- sham amplifies and explains what ne means by the expression ‘national and | State laws might be modified so as to | ! become reasonably enforceable” that. ! statement must be regarded as prema- ture and defsatist, that statement shouid not prevent any governor, includin: | Govs. Rilchie and Roosevelt, who hns i honestly sworn .to support and defenc | the Constitution of the United States, including the eighteenth amendment. ' from hearkening to Mr. Wickersham's | | appeal to consider how he can best ca) ! 1y out his solemn undertaking and co- operate with the Federal Government ! in prohibition enforcement work.” | Open also to a charge of defeatism, | the statement said, was Mr. Wicker- | sham's suggestion proposing division of | enforcement activity. “If Mr. Wickersham had stopped at this point,” the statement went on, “he would have presented to the governors g Dozens of prison officials manned the walls of Clin‘on Frison, Dannemors, N. Y. onslaughts of 1,500 desperate inmates attempting to storn the eseape from \ general view is shown_ here. simply a suggestion as to a natural division of the enforcement activities lsed the' of the National and. State govern- ., yes ; which s ments, it being of necegsity fully under- A. Photo._atood . ch &g, egreement that . su cauld . ecast.a “spell”,oven their i s Eugene lur? (left) and his wife (right) are alleged to have confesse™ killing Etta L. Fairc at Kalamazoo, Mich,, claiz—~< that the aged Center: The seaplane New York after | its flight from the liner with a cargo of | Catapulted off the deck, police | , Memphis sportsman. | Sunday afternoon. settled down today to | 'y —esisociated Press Photo. in flag and, temporarily at least, wrested the ocean’s blue ribbon from the Brit- | ish mercantile marine, TR BREMEN RESTS IN BROOKLYN. i i German Liner ven Noisy Welcome When Record Run Is Ended. NEW YORK, July 23 (4’.—The new | queen of transatlantic travel, the North German Lloyd liner Bremen, lay at her tee (right) eongratulating Capt. Leopold | Brooklyn pier today after a record- | breaking maiden voyage from Cher- bourg of 4 days, 17 hours and 42 min- {u | The low-lying, stream-line pride of the new German merchant marine was | the first ship ever to make the trans- | atiantic voyage in less than five davs, | eclipsing the record made by the Cu- narder Mauretania in 1928 by 8 hours and 52 minutes. New York Harbor donned a maritimn festive garb as the huge liner moved majesticall to her pier. A'rplanes eir- cled overhead: harbor craff, includinz {the municipal tng Macon, shrieked, their welcome piercing sirens and crowds cheered along shore. | | New Bremen Record. The Mauretania's average daily speed jrecord of 2606 knots fell before the Bremen's 28.18-knot average. The Mauretania's record day's run of 676 miles was exceeded on four successive davs by the Bremen. which covered 715 Imiles_her greatest dstance, yesterdav. { The Mauretania's record speed of 29 knots for an hour was surpassed by the Bremen's 29.6 knots. Capt. Leopoid Ziegenbein, master of the expressed_satisfaction with ‘We did not extend eng at any time.” he hope to make better time on her performance. shin's dier thon the voyvage of however, was the trip of 2992 mail bags carried by scaplane. piloted by von Studnitz. was the chip while she Tcland. 55 miles from New York, and carried the mail sacks | to the North German Lloyd Line pier. The letters were ished to the pest office and were delivered to New York addressees more than two hours be- fore the liner docked. Three of the sacks were placed aboard transeonti- nental air mail planes, which are ex- pected to deliver them in Los Angele: and San Francisco some time tod: seven days after they left Germany. Reception Noisy. As the seaplane circled the Statue of Liberty, befcre coming to rest on the waters of the bay, whistles on tugs, ferries, yachts and excursion steamers began the noisy reception that econ- tinued until the 1,670 passengers, in- cluding 793 Americans, had disem- barked. The municipal tug Macon, bearing the mavor's welcoming committee, met the liner at quarantine, where members of the committee boarded the ship. The greeting of Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen, chairman of the committee, was followed by the con- gratulations of the German consul gen- eral, Dr. Karl von Lewinski. One of the first passengers to leave the ship was Mrs. Edward Adams, wife of & New York physician, who had undergone an abdominal operation Sat- urday night aboard the liner. While the Bremen was steaming along at more than 28 knots an hour the op- eration was performed by Dr. William | O'Neil Sherman, chief surgeon of the Carnegie Steel Corporation of Pitts- | burgh. assisted by Dr. Fred Albee of | New York and the ship's surgeons. Dr. Sherman said the Bremen was £0 steady that it was like operating in & hospital. o Features of Liner. Among the luxurious features of the <hip are the series of public rooms, & smoking room. a bar, a night club and a ballroom on the promenade deck and many little shops, selling all manner of feminine finery, aiong . .the upper decks. 2 The mauve and gold ballroom is con- verted into a film tneater outside of dancing hours. Other novelties are 2 bowling alley and a shooting gallery. Dr. G. Bauer, chief engineer of the German Ship Engines & Machinery Construction Co. of Bremen, who de- signed and supervised construction of the ship's engines, was a passenger. “The Bremen can average 27; knots steaming easily and when driven at full speed she will do 281, knots with an oil fuel consumption of 850 tons dally,” Dr. Bauer sald. “With a cur- rent in her favor, the Bremen may do 30 knots. GERMANY WELL PLEASED. | Joy and Pride Shown Throughout Na- tion at Liner's Performance. BERLIN, July 23 (#.—The liner Bremen's capture of the blue ribbon of the seas has caused intense joy and pride throughout Germany. The government radio last night broadeast the latest accomplishment of German skill and today all papers ap- peared with front page displays of the Bremen, its accomfplishment and in some cases pictures of the vanquished Mauretania. As the hour of arrival at New York drew nearer press associations and newspapers were kept busy answerini inquiries of those who wished to know what progress was being made. The utmost interest prevailed everywhere. German papers all praised the ship's feat, most contending it wold do even better when better broken in, Cocktail War at Oxford. Authorities at Oxford University, in England, are waging a war against ex- cessive cocktail drinking by the stu- dents. As the result of heavy drinking parties recently several of the under- graduates have been gated and fined. Beer is still the undergrads’ staple drink, however, one ‘“eight” recently putting down 2¢ pints at a sitting. In the English women's colleges prohibi- tion still rules, and cocoa and lemon- ade ra- U the favorite drinks. More than half the new automobiles Shanghai, China, are from Americs..