Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1929, Page 2

MRS. WILLEBRANDT TELLS EXPERIENCE Reveals Problems of Dry Law! and Role in Last Presj- dential Race. (Continued From First Page.) It is worth a lot to have won that! comment from him. but it. does not stop | leading papers from harsh editorial comment. Personal criticism rarely oc- curred prior to last Summer's cam- paign. 1 suppose, though, that every heated campaign must have its “straw | man” to hang in effigy to appease a howling populace. In this campaign I seem to have been desiined for that doubtful honor. Of course, ‘he much | heralded Springfield, Ohio, “speech to the Methodists” wasn't an attack on | the rival candidate's religion, and it wasn't in a church. and I didn't go as & “free lance” to embarrass the Repub- lican committee! Truth About Campaign Speeches. ‘The simple truth is that over my own written protest I was urged by the Re- publican national committee in two telegrams (which now repose in my files) to make that speech. The week before it was delivered every word of it was carefully edited by James Francis | Burke, & Catholic, and counsel of the Republican national committee. He did this at committee headquarters, The Democratic candidate’s attack on me may have turned out to be doubtful wisdom politically, but it was just a part of political combat and not unfair. However, the anti-prohibitionists in my | own For Smith, when he was attacked, shouting eagerly in effect, “Atta boy, Al!” When wet, Eastern Republicans started bomb~ ing me as a “free lance” and an “em- barrassmen choose whether to disciose the tele~ grams and actually embarrass the com- rty were both unwise and unfair, t?l‘e_v made common cause with Gov. | to the party, I had to| hey have this fellow down at the District Pound, where he was (aken Saturday afternoon by police of the fAifth precinct following his dramatic | rescue from the Anacostia River by two boys who came upon him in midstream while they were swimming. Pyt. R. F. Langdon took this—it's & billy goai—to the pound in his car. L —Star Staff Photo. "lhe charge of religious intolerance found mine. bd I have said enough—perhaps too much ~—about myself. But if what I am to say about prohibition, the most contro- versial question in the public mind, is to reccive fair hearing, there must first be presented a basis for belief that my opinion and my actions are not those of a zealot, unguided by facts agd reason Why talk about prohibition at all? Certainly I have no overwhelming de- sire to force acceptance of my views. I have lived so much of prohibition for the past eight years that sometimes I might never hear of the sub- ject again. But it is no more possible to avold prohibition discussion than to avoid breathing. In every newspaper every day of the year, on every street corner where people stop to talk, at every afternoon tea party, in every social gathering of any kind ' involving any class of soclety, one subject recurs.time | Rfter time and is of universal intereSt. No political, economic or moral issue has so engrossed and divided all the people of America as the prohibition problem, except the issue of slavery. There were and are millions and mil- mittee, or keep still and take punish- ment. Tt seemed to me that good sports- manship dictated the latter course. The result is a general impression about the Nation that I am a person opsessed with but a single, dominant determination— namely, the complete annihilation of ! “Demon Rum” and all of his consorts; and that I am bent on the jailing or executing of every raise a voice in opposition to the eight- eenth amendment and the Volstead act! The fact is that before I took office | in 1921 I never had been actively con- | nected with the prohibition movement. | Iam now, but was not then, a teetotaler. | While it was legal to do so I had liquor | in my own home in California and | used it in_moderation, of course, Fur- | thermore, I have a very real aversion to | putting people in jail and in prison. I| know from actusl acquaintance with | the conditions inside of penal institu- | tions that they are much more often | the breeding places of erime than places for the protection of society and ! the reformation and redemption of men and women who have preyed upon and been & menace to society. Taught and Studied. My private law practice in California | before coming to Washington as A: sistant Attorney General did not in- | clude either criminal or divorce cases. I was still “professionally” young, but my practice was dignified and growing, and it was lucrative enough to make me pay more personal income tax than I have paid on a Government salary. While serving as principal of a graded school in South Pasadena, Calif., I had completed the law course of the Uni- versity of Southern California by at tending classes late in the afternoon and in the evening. Then for a year while I bullt up a practice of law in | the day I supplemented (I might truth- | fully say supported this infant practice) by teaching Americanization classes in the Macey street night school in the | foreign quarter of the cit: As & public defender, appointed with- | out salary by the mayor and city council of Los Angeles, I gained valuable court | experience trying hundreds of cases of | every character. So successful proved the city's experiment of a public de- | fender that the office was permanently established. When the war came I was named chairman of the legal advisory board, | with a large staff of lawyers, handling | cases under the draft law. ' Certainly | the whole period of my legal education and early practice was of a nature cal- rulated to lay a foundation of sympath: for what is termed the “under dog the man, woman or child with little mon While since 1921 I have been respon- sible for the direction of prosecutions | under the Volstead act, I have had| many other dutles in no way con-| nected with prohibition. Attorney General Mitchell. in accept- mg my resignation, with both truth| and generosity, said: | “I think your prohibition work hi anduly submerged your other accom- plishments in the public mind.” Sets Supreme Court Record. He was undoubtediy referring to the | rolume of work before the Supreme! Court of the United States, where, in | number of cases handled, my record is | fourth among the members of the American bar. These cases have not peen confined to prohibition, but have retty well run the gamut of Federal| aw. In point of service I have long been the “oldest” Assistant Attorney General, and at various times I have| long_been called upon to administer practically every position in the de- partment, except that of Solicitor Gen- rral. My division has grown from the smallest, with but three assistants, to the largest, with over a hundred in the (mmediate staff and several hundred in the fleld. Wpg have not only at all times supervised prohibit'on cases, but Tor various periods have carried the re- sponsibility for matters arising under Interstate commerce, all agricultural laws, Federal insurance, including war risk insurance, and the Veterans' Bu- ! reau, litigation growing out of inde- | pendent treaties, immigration, admiral ty and all Federal taxation cases and A singl® phase of my other w $hould furnish ample proof of the fact that all of my mental processes cannot have been submerged in the extermni- mation of the liquor traffic. During just the past year my office has handled nine tax cases before the United States Su- preme Court, eight of these having been decided in favor of the Government. We have also prtg‘;rzd and argued 175 rases in the 10 Circuit Courts of Ap- peals throughout,the United States and Court of Appeals of the District of Co- Jumbia and have directed or reviewed 413 other cases involving tax matters in which the Government s interested to the extent of hundreds of millions of aollars. To the charge that I am a bigot and Injected the religious issue in the Iast campaign, the unstinted faith and sun- ort of my many Catholic friends is the est, and perhaps the only, rer!y. for intolerance and bigotry are motives of the heart and lie deep. It so chances that the man most responsible for se- curing my appointment by President VHarding is Prank Doherty, an attorney pf Los Angeles, a Catholic. When the eartoons were picturing me as a sort of modern witch burner I could stand it no longer and called Frank one Sunday afternoon and said, “Surcly you and BSarah do not belleve these things of And with the friendly mlmur- 4 S d. 1 laughed later as I for my record long-dis tance and most ry.” Wi satisfaction my weak: lot of folks who thought I 1 do enjoy a real, lg2l or other- s a vu'nerable ', ond front” colla paid the bi ) “Jeather-necked”! clean fight, politi~r wige, buf moei, of spot where we ¢~ person who dares | | tution. The arguments for and against { forcement of the law against the man | |46-FOOT KETCH REACHES lions of people who have not the slight- est conception of or interest in the tariff, important as that subject really Is to every citizen. There are millions of people who take only small notice of the great problem of international dis- armament and the security of nations against war. There are millions of good citizens who are totally unaware of na- tional immigration policies. But ninet nine out of one hundred people, whether children in high school or graded school, or men and women in the vigorous or declining yea aggressive views on the wisdom or folly of prohibiting the manufactur> and sale | of intoxicating liquor and th» methods used to bring about enforcement of the law on that subfect. It seems proper to me, therefore, for one who has given eight of the * years of her life to an effort to enforce prohibition now to reveal the facts of the situation and give an opinion re- sulting from such facts and exper.ence. I hope they may help to a clearer, less emotional view problem, 1 shall endeavor to answer some of | ;h:lques;lorr;: in which the great ma- jority o e people of Amert: | vitally interested. e SRR Amendment Essential Fact. I shall not discuss the wisdom of adopting prohibition as a national po fcv.” Such an argument is not timely. | The essential fact is that imbedded in the Constitution of the United States is the eighteenth amendment: ! "Section 1. After one vear from the | ratification of this article the manu- facture, sale or transportation of in- toxicating liquors within, the importa- tion thereof in%, or the exportation thereof from, the United States and all | territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. “Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent ' power to enforce this article by appro- | priate legislation.” Congress has enacted certain laws to ! glve effect to that part of the Consti- | of the nationai | prohibition as a national policy can be | found elsewhere, I propose to leave | those arguments’to others and to de- vote myself to answering such ques- tions as these: Is the prohibition amendment or law unenforceable? Is there a legal substitute for prohi bition of all intoxicating liquors? Is prohibition enforcement effectiv or is it losing in effectiveness? Who is responsible for non-enforce- ment of the prohibition laws? Are the best methods being employed in the enforcement of prohibition? If | not. why not? Is it justifiable to take human life to | enforce prohibition? i Should there be more “rigid” enforce- | ment; additional thousands of prchibi- | tion agents; more severe penalties; en- | | { | who buys a half pint or quart of whisky | for personal consumption, as well as | against the man who sells it: searches of homes, either with or without war- rants; the use of the Army and Navy to aid in prohibition enforcement: de- nial of the right of jury trial in minor cases of Infraction of the prohibition laws? What about tne Jones amend- | ment? Are the enemies of the eight- eenth amendment and prohibition en- forcement winning their battle? What is the prospect for prohibition enforcement hereafter? “Can prohibi- | tion be made “popular? 1Is the effort | rightly termed a ‘“‘noble experiment” by President Hoover doomed to failure? + What are the “big leaks” under pro- hibition enforcement, as we now have it? Can our cities be “dried up"? Is there any cure for the defects of prohibition enforcement? On the answers of the great body of American citizens to these questions within the next few years depends the ultimate fate of the eighteenth amend- ment. When the people are sure wheth- er or not we can actually have prohibi- tion enforcement. then they will decide whether or not there shall continue to be a prohibition amendment and pro- hibition laws, We have the amendment and the laws now. We have not yet a!d effective “enforcement of prohibi- jon. (Copysight, 1929. by Current News Features Al rights reserved.) (Note—In the mext installment Mrs. Willebrandt will discuss the greatest obstacle to enforcement: Polities.) AZORES FROM AMERICA By thr Associated Press. HORTA, Azores, August 5.—The 46- foot ketch Carlsark dropped anchor in the harbor here last evening with its crew of four amateur sailors, all of whom were Cornell University men, after a remarkable crossing of the At- lantic in 12 days. The skipper, Carl L. Weagant of Douglaston, Long Island, Cornell foot ball manager last year, declared his thi companions had not suspected they were crossing the Atlantic until more than hatf of the distance had been covered. “We left New York secretly in June and sailed up the St. Lawrence. We, reached Nova Scotia and left there on July 22. My crew of D. N. Shoales, J. M Rumnier and H. M. Devereux did not suspect my intention of crossing the At- lantie until we were half way to the Azores, seven days out,” ARERAE BATILE of life, have definite and | ! would be on the 68.5 per cent use of | | company’s sixteenth exhibit, which was | general | revenues dropped from $4,994,043.99 to ITOKEN USE ENTERS 1 Cash Results of Increase Are Computed as Hearing Is Resumed. (Continued From Pirst Page.) ' Heberle, “and T have found that it is inickel or a quarter a dime | ifrom my pocket than it is to find | | the three or more coins that are neces- sary to make up the 40 cents required | submitted to customs and immigration | | for the purchase of tokens. Often, in' ! order to buy tokens now, ths passenger | has to break a bill. He does not like | to do that and so more frequently pays | the cash fare.” i Oft-Car Sales Cited. | sas City and several other cities. Con- sulting the questionnaircs which he had sent out to street car companies in other cities, Mr. Heberle explained that in somse cases they were sold both on the street cars or by agents on the street. “If tokens were sold at main loading points as well as on the street cars, would not the sale be increased and the cost of street car traffic to the pub- {lic correspondingly reduced?” asked Chairman Patrick. “It might have that effect at crowded | points,” replied Mr. Heberle, “because some passengers might prefer to buy {the tokens before they got on the ear, 150 they would not be delayed in getting | pest_the conductor.” ! “How do you account for the dimin ishing_token use In your company? Gen. Patrick asked the witness. Mr. Heberle replied that, first, & 40- cent investment is required for the pur- chase of tokens, which makes the use somewhat unpopular, and the second that the use of automobiles has in- creased materially recently. From his own observation, the witness said. many of the automobiles recently bought be- !long to Government clerks, who before | the purchase were regular riders on the | street cars and bought tokens. | Gen. Patrick then asked what the percentage token use would be if the |sale were at two tokens for 15 cents. ;nnd Mr. Heberle replied that it would be from 95 to 97 per cent. Clayton Enters Conflict. William McK. Clayton, counsel for| the Federation of Citizens' Association. | that the company had resisted the sale | { of three tokens for 20 cents. Mr. Heb- | |erle said that the company had ob- | jected on the ground that it would in- crease the burden on its conductors {and would make the service slower than | | at present. “Would this be any greater burden | { Clayton asked | 7“In my judgment, yes,” Mr. Heberle | replied. | The witness next introduced an ex- hibit showing the increse in the com- | | pany’s return on its fare value that | would result from various percentage | use of tokens. All of the figures were in comparison with the amount claimed to have been received during the 12 | months ended April 30, 1929, avallable | for return. { A 70 per cent use of tokens, after de- | ducting Increased local and Federal | taxes, would yield an increase in reve nue of $521,086.49, bringing the total revenue avaiiable for return up to $1 449.697.46, or 5.56 per cent. A 75 per cent use would make the percentage re- turn 533, an 80 per cent use would make the return 5.11, an 85 per cent use would make it 4.88, a 90 per cent use would make it 4.66, a 95 per cent use would make it 4.34 and a 96 pe: cent use would make it 4.39, | | Accounts Analyses Submitted. People's Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty | ked Mr. Heberle if it would take much ouble to calculate what the result tokens, which is the percentage of use now in effect on the ent cash fare, 6 | tokens for 40 cents ra Mr. Heberle : adjusted h for & few seconds and then said i That would result in an increase of | 38,679.06 in the amount available fnr‘ return, making the total $1467.310.03. | which is equivalent to a 5.63 per cent | return on fare value.” Mr. Hartman then asked if Mr. Heberle would submit the figures with- | out making the deduction for Federal | income tax and Mr. Heberle said that | would be done immediately after lunch. Mr. Heberle next introducted the 25 pages long. It contained analysis of six of the company's accounts asked Thursday by Mr. Hartman. The ac- counts submitted were: Shop equ.pment and maintenance, car advertising, sal- aries and expenses of general officers, miscellaneous expenses, bus chassis and bus advertising. Many Items Covered. After Mr. Heberle had given a gen- eral explanation of the 25 pages of de- tailed accounts, comprising the “break- down” of expense accounts requested by the commission, President Hanna said that the company would like to | have an opportunity later to explain in | detail any individual items whtcfl might be questioned. The items in this anal- ysis ranged all the way from a few | P! cents up to several thousand dollars. | “It may be that some of the items | in these accounts will be questioned,” | said Mr. Hanna. “We might admit that some of them are in error. Others might seem to be in error when they are | not, and we would like a chance to ex- | plain them.” Mr. Hanna called attention to a few | items of several hundred dollars each charged up to merger expenses, He said that the company had set up a separate merger account, and that these few items had been overlooked in the transfer of expenses to that account. The company next placed in evidence a tabulation showing a comparison of operating revenues, expenses and other items for 1922 and 1928, Revenue Decrease Is Listed. During that period the operating $4,344,147.99, a decrease of $649,896. The operating expenses, rentals and | taxes for the same perlod dropped from | $3,617,219.18 to $3,409,731.14, a de- crease ofe$207,488.14. As a result, as shown in the tabula- tion, the income available for return on fare value dropped from $1,376,824.81 to $934,016.55, a decrease of $442,408.26. ‘The number of revenue passengers in 1922 was 70,886,927 and in 1928 the number was 58,617,391, a.falling off of 12,269,636 In this total the operating expenses, rentals and taxes per revenue passenger are shown to have increased from 5.103 cents to 5.817 cents in the same period, or a little more than seven-tenths of one cent. The average wage per hour for trainmen increased from 55.62 cents t §7.70 cents-or appruximately 2 cents | an_hour. The last. e;fxmmc filed today was a comparison of operating éxpenses per car. pl:llle of the Capital Traction Co. with those of other large cities, with the exception of New York. Of the 20 cities for which figures were sub- mitted, the Capital Traction Co. stood eighth, with operating expenses of 29.26 cents per car mile. In apolis was at the head of the list with 22.58 cents and Boston at the bottom with 40.51 cents, Smaller Crew Held Responsible. Mr. Heberle expla‘ned that moct of the companies having operating ex- penses er than those of the Capital Traction Co. operated one-man cars on parts of their ‘systems and had lower wages in effect for motormen and con- ductoz. None of the systems except the Cfbital Traction Co; used the un= derground conduit method, he said. E. C. Riegel of the Washington | much simpler to get & quarter and a ! New York last year. L TEPELIN BERTHE SIFLY I NG Graf Returns to Germany Wednesday on First Lcg of Globe Girdle Trip. (Continued From Pirst Page.) to cover the course of 6,275 miles to The official time for the last westward flight was 111% hours. The passengers left the airship and examination and the mail was removed soon after the landing. Some of the freight, however, was still abooard when the craft was moored to .the stubmast shortly before 10 o'clock to remain there for the night. News of the Graf Ze| pelin's arrival in Chairman Patrick asked how tickets | America was given to the public through | or tokens were sold in Cincinnati, Kan- | two novel methods. Newspaper repoit-. g ers covered the event from an airplane, wle'rhomnx their stories by radio di- rectly from the plane to their offices. In much the same way A radio an- nouncer from the plane broadcast a description of the dirigible’s progress toward Lakehurst. The conversations between the newspaper men and their offices were also put on the air through arrangement between the Columbia Broadcasting System and the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., owners of the “flying telephone boot The ending of the journey provided a beautiful sight. More than 15,000 auto- mobiles jammed into the 2,500 acres of the reservation and irom each car poured a capacity load of passengers, 0 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, AUGUST 5 1929. | | | i who wandered about the field under a | | reinforced guard of New Jersey State troops, Marines and sailors. Heavy Wind Moderates. A heavy wind that had whipped the field throughout the day had moderated and great banks of white clouds became fleecy in the sunset as the silvery Graf came out of the east under an escort of 14 airplanes and silhouetted itself in the heavens before vanishing toward New York. On its return from the metropolis its lights blinked on the northern horizon, and the thrill of arrival gave way to the excitement of the landing. The crowd was orderly however, and acres of | roped-off areas were respected. Dr. Eckener, college professor, turned | Zeppelin pioneer in association with the late’ Count Zeppelin. after whom the airship is named, and the 18 passen- | asked Mr. Heberle if it was not a fact | gers whom he carried at $2,000 a ticket, | immediately on landing became the ob- ject of more than a score of nu‘apuperl men seeking interviews, customs and immigration agents. A special train was engaged to carry the passengers to New York. The stowaway who hid in the bag of the dirigible until it had left Friedrichshafen, received attention from than the sale of 1-cent transfers?” Mr. | the authorities, although it was believed | his case would be left in the hands of German officials for disposition after he is returned post haste—by steam- | ship—to Germany. Carried 15 Sacks of Mail. The Zeppelin carried 15 sacks of mail, considerable freight. 600 canaries, a baby chimpanzee, the birds and the animals being con- signed to a New York animal dealer. Col. Nelson Morris of Chicago, who arrived aboard the Graf Zeppelin, had | previously made more than 30 Atlantic | crossings. “And among all those other erossings, by steamship. there was only one A smooth as this.” he said. And Joachim Irchard of Boston and Herbert S. Siebel, Saginaw, Mich. jeweler, who was the Associated Press | special correspondent aboard the Graf, both of who had also made many prev- him. W y, it was %o smooth,” sald Mrs. George E. Crouse of Syracuse, N. Y. “that they didn't even have to have those little partitions in the berths that they have in steamship berths to keep you from falling out when the ship rolls. It just wasn't like flying at all While we were over the ocean with no slide rule and looked at it | jand marks to watch we couldn't tell that we were moving at all.” FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. IONE WALKER Wife of President of Takoma Park Citizens' Association Died in Asheville. Mrs. Tone Walker, 236 Walnut street.: Takoma Park, D. C. wife of John Wwalker, president of the Takoma Park Citizens' Association, died in Asheville, N. C.. Wednesday. She had gone to Asheville for treatment. after having been in failing health for some umeJ She was accompanied by Mr. Walke: Funeral services were conducted to: day at her former home, Fulton, Ky. Mrs. Walker was a_ teacher in_the junior department of the Takoma Park Baptist Church: was active in the Ladies’ Ald Society, the Woman's Mis- sfon Society, and conducted a_ White Cross Circle of the Mission Society. She also was a member of the Takoma Park Women's Club, taking an active art in the arts group of that organization. SHARE OF WOMEN IN 1931 BUDGET OF U. S. SMALL PART (Continued From First Page.) as to women in the home and through them their man folks. . The $5650,000 being spent annually by the home economics department of the Federal Vocational Board tralns women in their housewifely job of making men happy and comfortable. The $2,500,000 which the co-operative extension service | of the Department of Agriculture spends yearly on farm women extends into every phase of family betterment, even to augmenting the spending money by co-operative sale of farm flowers on the curb market. Both vocational board amd extension service will have | added funds«n 1931 to carry out recent legisiation. ‘The 1931 nation large enough for at least $7,159,572 com- pensation to World War widows and $100,000,000 pensions to Spanish War and Civil War widows. But these will not appear as distinct items. The ;&_lkflmnge of Gold Star Mothers to ‘ance must also be financed, but the survey on expense will not be to Congress until December 15. For the Federal woman's reforma. tory about $286,210 will be set aside. About $350,000 is annually allowed for housing woman Federal employes in Washington, but this particular hous- ing system pays back to the Treasury more than it tekes out, and in addi- tion provides for the laundering of | linen for 68 Government bureaus and lepartments. 8o there, too, from what appears to be a strictly feminine appro- priation, men share in the benefits' just as women share in the benefits 6f most of the a ntly . strictly masculine appropriations as well as those which might be classed -as having a strictly neuter gender. . penses of the company had decreased since 1922, while the number of miles operated had increased. Mr. Heberle said there were two answers, one that the company's operation in 1922 in- cluded no bus operations, which are substnnmally che:pe:m?m car "w'i,'fi ons, Second very possi that ‘could " be- made “in the operations had been affected. economy- company’s 1 budget must be | sumer’s Guild, asked why operating ex- | | i Upper. States. Inset: Dr. Hugo Echener, commander. over various points, daylight saving time being used. The Graf Zeppelin, photographed as it circled over the hangar at Lakehurst on its second visit to the United i Map showing course of the big dirigible and the time of passing | P. & A. Photo. Map N. Y. Herall Low: TONG WAR THREAT - BRINGS U. S. ACTION New York Attorney Orders Hip Sing and On Leong Leaders to Appear. (Continued From First Page.) i | | i 3 what police feared was a local outbreak of a threatened Tong war. While pelice were keeping cloze watch on activities in Chinatown. on | the lower East Side, a Chinese walked into a restaurant in Harlem early to- day and without warning opened fire, wounding 8ing On Jun, 42. the pro- rietor, and & woman who was sitting |in_the restaurant. | Police were undetermined as to whether the shooting was a Tong affair or a personal grudge. ONE SLAIN IN CHICAGO. ‘CHICAGO, August 5 ().—Tong guns | blazed in Chicago yesterday and the echo, heard in Chinese sections all over the United States, brought out appre- hensive police detafls attempting to stop spread of the dread feud. Chicago's Chinatown was thrown into confusion yesterday when a Hip Sing tongman, Yee Sun, was shot and killed in & crowded street and again last night when Kar Leong Won<t was shot and probably mortally wo nded. Police were informed Wong was & mem- oer of the On Leong tong and they were | woriing on the theory that his shooting was in retaliation for me slaying of FSan. Sightseers Are Kept Out. ‘The mysterious “grapevine telegraph™ through which tong members were in- formed of happenings in other cities evidently was functioning well, for po~ lice in other cities reported the streets in Chinatown were deserted and a tense and uneasy spirit prevailed. Two shots were fired at Chinese in i Boston yesterday and, although the | trouble was believed to have been the | result of a gambling quarrel, scores of | plainclothes men were stationed in the Chinese section and sightseers kept out. Police could find no cxplanation of the Chicago slaying, although Sun was shot in On Leong territory, falling with three bullet wounds almost at the door d Tribune. | 3FIREMEN KILLED * BYFALLING WALLS ;Ten Persons Also Injured in Kansas City Drug i Store Fire. | [ | By the Associated Press. | KANSAS CITY, August 5—Three | firemen were killed and ten persons in- | jured here today by falling walls of a { burning drug store. | The firemen were killed when an ex- | ious crossings by steamship, agreed Witi | piogion occurred as & hose was being | & dragged into the building. Phil Hahn, & nearby resident who discovered the | fire, said the floor of the store appeared isllurnua with oil. | | The dead firemen were Frank Lon- | ! car, Roy Rutherford and John Moore. | Capt. Emmett Pitzgerald. at the nozzle | of the hose, was dragged to safety by ! his comrades after he was caught and imprisoned by falling timbers. ‘Those injured, none belleved serious- 1y, were firemen and persons who were watching the blaze at Sixty-ninth street and Prospect avenue, in the South Side district. An explosion was believed to have | started the fire. Hahn said he first | noticed flaming papers in the rear of the storeroom. The building was de- | stroyed. MISS ESTHER MORRISON DIES AT PARENTS’ HOME i i Employe of National Geograpl | Bociety Had Been Il for | Several Months. Miss Esther Elizabeth Morrison. 31 years old, an employe of the National Geographic Society, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Morrison, 4416 Illinois avenue, early | yesterday morning. She had been ill for several months. | Miss Morrison, who was a lifelong resident of Washington, entered the employ ‘of the National Geographic Society in 1918, as a typist and clerk. remaining with it until compelled to retire due to ill health, about th middle of last April. In addition her parents, she is survived by two | sisters, Mrs. . H. Willlams of this city | and Mrs. Alfred Christie of Washington | | Grove, Md. Funeral services will be held at her home at 1 o'clock tomorrow. Inter- ment will follow at Monocacy Cemetery, Beallsville, Md. | | Retires From Screen | | | | I | COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 5 (#).— Lionel Barrymore, stage and screen star, last night announced his retire- ment from the silver screen. He sald he would devote his entire time to mo- | authority | affidavits, “implying that if I did or tion picture directing. Barrymore arrived here on the trans- continental -air line . ‘from ‘Waynoks, Okls,, en route to New York. CANNON ANSWERS ! CHARGES IN DETAIL, | BLAMING POLITICS (Continued From First Page) £nd, if necessary, to meet the onslaught of the enemy. Bishop Cannon not only defended himself against attacks which have been made upon him, but he declared that the control of the Democratic party by an organization conirolled by | former Gov. Smith of New York and John J. Raskob, chairman of the Demo- cratic national committee, was a mem- ace. The real issue of the day in the | Democretic _party, he said, was “Ras- | kobism vs. Southern Democracy. Political intimidation, Bishop Can- | non said, was the object of the attacks | upon him by “political assassins.” The | bishop reiterated his opposition to Al fred E. Smith, and declared he was lad he aided in defeating him. Me| charged Senator Carter Glass with failing to do justice to him after Glass had -made charges against him. al though Senator Glass was acquainted with the facts. Taking up the charge that he had profiteered and hoarded flour during the World War, Bishop Cannon said he had purchased flour for the use of Blackstone College. of which he wi then president. April 20, 1917, borrow- ing $4,000 from a Richmond bank for | the purpose. Flour went up in price | and he eventually sold the flour, after food conservation legisiation, designed to prohibit profiteering, had assured a supply to the college. The utmost profit, according to Bishop Cannon, could not have been more than $1.300, and that profit was used to pay certain obligations of the college and not for s personal benefit. He included in | the members of the executive commit- tee of Blackstone College, October 17, 1928, saying that they were fully ace | quainted with the facts regarding the by deed of trust for future purpose of hic ' dealing in flour for the college and that | selling the lot at & profit, and this is a the gain in the transaction had been used for the college. | Bishop Cannon referred to the guber- natorial campaign in Virginia in 1917, when three candidates for the Demo- cratic nomination were in the field— Westmoreland Davis, understood to be opposed to prohibition: John Garland Pollard, who is now seeking the nomi- nation for governor again, and Lieut. Gov. Ellyson. The last two candidates named were “drys.” Bishop Cannon said he became convinced at the time that only by the withdrawal of Pollard | could the drys hope to defeat Davis.|to the value of the stock or it may be Pollard, who was supported by Glass, declined to withdraw, although Bishop n issued a public appeal to him to do so. Dawes won the nomination and election. His vote in the primary 45,000, that of Ellyson was lfi.mi and Pollard was third with 22.000. In the following year, 1918, Bishop Cannon said, letters were written by | Pollard, Glass and others suggesting | Of his attitude on | that he, Bishop Cannon, had profit- eered in flour and Glass asked for & ruling from the Food Administration. | In his statement today Bishop Cannon sald: Whether the Dbitterness en- gendered by the zl;lmnry contest of 1917 was refiected in the letter of Mr. Pollard giving details of my alleged transaction and the request by Senator Glass that 1 be tried by the Ad- ministrator anonymously with no - portunity to represent myself it is dif- ficult to determine. But I cannot yet understand why such an action should have been taken and such secrecy maintained. Takes Up “Gambling” Charge. ‘The charges which have been made against Bishop Cannon that he has been a “stock gambler” are given much | atention in the bishop'si statement. “Infuriated by their failure to stem the rising tide of repudiation by the people of the Southern States of Smith's betrayal of the Democratic party, rumors were circulated (last Fall) that I had been_speculating in the stock market,” said Bishop Cannon. These charges were brought to Sen- ator Glass, Bishop Cannon continued, and Senator Glass wired him asking for to deny th> truthfulness of I would brand myself as a gambler in a bucket shop. 1 thank God that I have not yet become such a cur as to the coward at the threat of the did not, Bishop Cannon said that practically all his life he had engaged in buying and selling real estate and various com- modities; that he had that dealing in stocks for investment and profit was legitimate and for 20 attention to the fact that the reports of his stock dealing, of his profiteering in flour, of his len: ths anti-Smith ca; had all come this year after he had de clared for a separate anti-Smith Demo- cratic convention for the purpose of nominating & gubernatorial candidate. He added: “Is not this a concerted desperite ef- fort of Raskobism to destroy my influ- ence with the peoEle of Virginia in the approaching 2 WIIL the people of his rival tong’s headquarters. The killer in traditional tong fashion drop- ped the pistol baside the victim before he fired into a crowd. Joe Tuck, member of the On Leong, was arrested upon the identification of a Hip Singer. Ding Wing, who said he saw the shooting, but police doubted that he was the actual slayer. In the shooting of Wong, however, almost 12 bours later, police believed they had a real clue to the Sun killing. ‘Wong denied, however, that he belonged to the On Leong Tong or that he had anything to do with Sun’s slaying. Cbinese Closes Mouth. of Virginia approve or disapprove of ihese attacks upon my reputation and | influence by these poiitical assassins?” Defends Prosperity. Bishar Cannon insisted that a Methodist minister or bishop was not | barred from earning a living by in vesting his money or by conducting an: business in an honorable way. Indeed, he pointed out, many Methodist minis- ters are compelled to work or carry on business activities to maintain them- selves and their families, while at the V! tent their s minstess. He said he had | e i e become convinced that stocks represent | $hot defectives arrested his nephew, real values; that every great business | ""!“‘8 'h" M:V "0’ n Od a, ;s- has been capitalized and stocks and | Bital where Wong is expecte ie. bonds have been issued to represent | Before police could prevent him Toy Rt values | spoke to his uncle in Chinese and there- Aol e of fact.” he said, “the Aiter officers could not get either of become convinced | unwilling to assums church funds to | that all contracts charged committee, | closed except one for 200 shares of Hud- grotver part ot "the business of the |them to talk. Nine Chinese were being country is carried on today on the stock | and bond basis.” ‘The bishop also said: “ did give very full and thorough con- sideration to the question of the pro- priety and morality of the purchase of stocks and bonds, both for investment nd for resale at a profit. I hec:-m!1 convinced that there was very much ! latent hypocrisy in the attitude of very | many persons on this subject. Some, ersons seem to think that all trading in Wall Street stocks is gambling. Some | others think that part of it is gambling and part of it is honest. What are | the actual facts and implications there- | from?” | Trading in Real Values. | “The daily and weekly papers of all | deseriptions carry pages o 1nrormn-‘ tion concerning stocks and bonds. | When & man purchases or sells these | | stocks or bonds he is trading just as; much in real business values as when he buys and sells lots, houses, wheat, tobacco or merchandis2, either for in- | vestment or immediate resale at a profit. | his | his statement a declaration made by | A" man may buy a lot in a new section | of & city because he believes there will be an increase in value and pay one- fourth cash and give three notes secured legitimate business speculation. ~The ma1 may use poor judgment and buy a Je%, in the wrong location and may have 10 sell it at a loss, but he is using hls{ judgment and is taking his risk and he may make a profit or he may lose. *'Just 50 A man may buy 100 shares of | stock after a careful consideration of its | | value, he may pay one-tenth, one-nuh‘ or one-fourth of the value of the stock | | and put the stock in the hands of a| broker with the purpose of selling |a profit when he can advantageous! | do so. His judgment may be faulty as | correct. In either event, whether in the purchase of a lot or stock, the | principle is ex~ctly the same. A partial | payment is made and the man’s lot or | | stock is held as collateral for the bal- | ance due, and there may be a profit | |or a loss, in accordance with the cor- | | rectness of his judgment.” | Bishop Cannon saia in 1914, because rohibition, he was subjected to a similar attack as that made on him today. because he had been dealing in siocks and bonds. He said he was threatened at the time with publication of charges against him ; and that finally one or two newspapers | did print stories. Kable Dealings Covered. With regarde to the reports of his | dealings with Kable & Co. of New York, which has failed, Bishop Cannon said | that all his purchases had been made for investment and for profit, but on| so-called partial-payment plan. He! said he had no reason to suspect that this cnmpmg ‘was not doing business in | an entirely honest way. “It was clearly understood.” continued:| Bishop Cannon, “that while Mr. Gold- hurst (connected with Kable & Co.) had | discretfon as to what stocks he should | buy, vet“if he exceeded my order and charged me with more stock than could | be carried on the monthly installment plan on the basis of my credit, it would be at his own risk, until I approved his action and agreed to furnish the initial cash payment required. As a matter of fact during the eight months of the life | of the account I was in Mr. Goldhurst's | { office only five or six times, and on every | occasion 1 was obliged to state that I| could not. accept some heavy contracts | which had bcen made for my account, | and I gave instructions for immediate | resale. Sometimes it happened that on the same day on which large contracts were charged to my account and I was requested to accept them either in per- son or by telephone or by wire, I de- clined and ordered resale at once, as e such heavy obliga- ts for the fact that urchases tions. This accoun! on some days there are large charged to my account follo sales credited to my account on that same day. Finally in April I u:“““fi me {'son Motors on which I decided to con- escorts. | Both tong leaders admitted that the |at the Marine Barracks this evening held by police early today in connec- tion with the shooting. Soon after the disturbance started Frank Moy, president of the On Leong organization, and Lee M ting head of the Hip Sings, appeared at the de- tective bureau snd asked help in pre- venting further trouble. At their re- quests they both were given detective TtS, war was on and said they feared a repetition of the bitter warfare that claimed more than 70 lives in the Na- tion-wide tong war of 1925. ‘The recent troubles are believed to have started in New York when three members quit the On Leong Tong and Jjoined the Hip Sings, in violation of an agreement between the tongs. After the protest by the On Leongs the three men were dropped from membership in the Hip Sings. JERSEY CHINESE IS SLAIN, Newark Police Say That Tong War Has Claimed Vietim. NEWARK. N. J. August 5 (P).— Louis Ga Fung, died today from bullet wounds, the victim of what police say was a nation-wide outbreak of a Chinese Tong war. Loy Song of New York, & member of the Hip Sing Tong, was held on a charge of murder. Authorities here advanced the theory that the outbreak may have arisen as the result of an opium trade conflict. Opium valued at $50,000 was seized and 47 Chinese arrested in a raid on the city’s Chinatown Saturdey. s Sons of America to Convene. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md.. August 5.—The thirty-fourth annual session of the State Camp of Maryland. Patriotic Order Sons of Amer; will open at Junior Order Hall here tomorrow, with about 200 delegates from Maryland and the District of Columbia. The sessions will continue until Wednesday evening. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army Band, Curtis D. Alway, captain Infantry, com- manding; William J. Stannard, band leader, and Thomas F. Darcy, second leader, commanding, at Chevy Chase Circle this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Spanish march, “Pepe_ Cond . Vi Overture, “The Magic Flute Giocons Pasodoble Anduluz, Anduluz” Selection from the opera “Won der- .Herbert. .Dett Pascale Anduluz, “Boqueron de Plata.” Gambronero “The Star Spangled Banner." By the United States Marine Band, at 8 o'clock. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur 8. Witcomb, second leader. March, “Soldiers of Fortune”.... Overture, “Ruy Blas". Grand sel Favorites Arranged by Lake. Characteristic, QGarden"” _. Ketelbey Waltz de coficert, “The Beautiful Blue Danube” Stranss es from “Nell G"Yg' erma “Country Dance. ":{ulml kDaan. L Finale, “Tell It to the Marines" Branson The Marines hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma." “The Star Spangled Banner.” e e e n ‘Three Dane: ure, and he expected to hear nothing more about it, unless informed by & receiver that some cents on the dollar would be paid by the company. He said he was astonished, thérefore, to find the charges of his stock gambling played up in news reports later. He tinue to pay for investment or to ex- change my equity for a lower-priced stock.” Thought Failure Honest. Bishop Cannon said that when he learned of the failure of Kable & Co. he had it was an honest fall- denied flatly that any of.his transac- | tions with the company had been car- ried out by him on Sunday, saying: “Purthermore, there was no justifica- tion for the headlines or oriticisms that I had bought stock on Sunday, as the wi shows that the Sunday date Was & i .