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THE - EVENING STAR,/ WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1929. \ L L3 ca MBRIDE SCORES MRS. WILLEBRANDT Her Attack on Wayne B. Wheeler Is “Grave and Unfair,” He Asserts. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, August 19.—Referenccs made to the late Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, by Mabel Walker Willebrandt, former Assistant Attorney General in charge of prohibition enforcement, in a recent newspaper article, were de- nounced vesterday by F. Scott McBride, general superintendent of the Anti-Sa- loon League. “It seems,” Mr. McBride said, in an eddress at the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, “to have become a popular in- door sport by a few drys who are zell- ing articles to the newspapers, wet and dry, and as_well to wet magazines, to pan Wayne B. Wheeler, who carried the ‘burden of the battle in the hicat of the contest, and who, having passed on to his reward, cannot speak in reply. May Improve With Age. “The most recent of these 1s Mabel ‘Walker Willebrandt,” he continued. “If she lives long enough to contribute one- tenth of the time and render a tithe of the service which Wayne B. Wheeler gave to this cause during his 35 years of active, conscientious and loyal serv- ice, she will be cured of her disposition to criticize the motives, purposes end services of Mr. Wheeler. Without his work, the name, Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, would be unknown.” In a copyrighted article written for Current News Features, Inc., Mrs. Wille- brandt declared that she believed Mr. ‘Wheeler guided the Anti-Saloon League “into dangerous shoals by too much po- litical activity.” “Early in my tenure,” she wrote, “he offered to help me if I wanted to se- cure appointments and if for the ‘good of the cause’ I would let him know of matters officially under consideration. ‘The latter, of course, I would never do —consequently my relations with the Washington office of the Anti-Saloon League remained distant, but were al- ways cordial.” A “Fair Fighter.” “The grave and unfair Insinuations made that Mr. Wheeler sought betrayal of official confidences in order to se- cure information as to appointments cannot go unchallenged,” Mr. McBride asserted. “Those who knew Mr. Wheeler best know that this is a gross misrep- resentation and that he never resorted to any such unfair or underhand dis- loyal methods. Wets and drys alike agree that Wheeler was an open, above board fair fighter, and in any suggestion he may have made to aid the Assistant Attorney General’s office in its duty for the ‘good of the cause’ he never asked any misuse of those trusts belonging to the officials in charge. “There seems to be a marked con- trast between the words of approval given Mrs. Willebrandt in our latest national convention and this word of criticism of the league in the article written for the press. Addressing this convention, she said: ‘I belleve in this organization (referring to the Anti-Sa- loon League) far more firmly than I did six years ago, when I took public office. T believe in it because you are; .serving in this vast country as one of the most vital organizations to make government efficient and clean.” CANTON TO BUY PLANES. 100 to Be Ordered, 75 From Amer- ica, by Chinese Province. 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Phone Lin. 3549. 280 WIRE-TAPPING POLICY OPPOSED BUT RESULTS ARE HELPFUL Mrs. Willebrandt Reviews Case That Went to Supreme Court in Breaking Up Huge Seattle Rum Ring. (The “whispering wires” case in Seattle stirred up and went right up to the Supreme Court, which decided tapping” was justifiadble. Mrs. Willcbrandl does not agree with sion, but she admits its importance to prohibition and relates story behind the case. . BY MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT. Z In one case of widespread interest a prohibition victory was achieved in which I not only had no part, but which I actually opposed. I refer to the so-called “whispering wires” case at Seattle, Wash. Tnat involved the prosecu- tion of a bootlegger named Olmst . I certainly approved of apprehending of Olmstead—he was head of a big ring of liquor runners from Canada—but I idn’t approve of the way the prohibition agents obtained their e . Prac- tically all their testimony consisted of things they overheard on tapped tele- phone wires. Now, I thomuxhlfi disapprove of the practice of tapping meghone ‘wires. TIrrespective of its legality, I belleve it a dangerous and unwarrantable policy to follow in enforcing law. Many of the States of the Union have State laws against it. The point involved in the Olmstead case was whether, in ice ofa State 1av, the Federal Constitution alone prevented obtaining evidence by pping wires. 5 When_the point was sustained in lower Federal courts and reached the Supreme Court of the United States I indicated to the solicitor general my unwillingness to argue_the case and try to justify the prohibition agents' wire- wide comment that the “wire the deci- the inside tappin Miwhzgll firm in Minnesota. ‘The facts and points of law involved are so interesting to the average citi- zen that I shall outline them briefly. ‘Wires Tapped. Roy Olmstead was formerly a lieu- tenant of police in Seattle, Wash. He embarked in the liquor business and his trial became nationally famous as the “whispering wires” case. In one of the cases in which he was involved 91 peo- ple were indicted, charged with con- spiracy to violate the national prohi- bition act by importing, transporting and selling intoxicating liquor. ~Of thes¢ many lived in Canada and 58 were not apprehended, but of the re- maining 33, 4 pleaded guilty and 21 were con\;g:’d by the jury. Only 8 were acquitted. It ch\‘l1 be seen from this how exten- sive were Olmstead’s operation and how important it was to secure convictions in order to end the operations of a gang that was flooding the Pacific Northwest with liquor. The gathering of evidence in the case continued for many months. Most of it was secured by intercepting mes- sages on telephones of the conspirators. The wires of the main violators were tapped just outside of their homes. The organization had an office and the telephone line from the office was also tapped. The “tapping” was done with- out tre%v:.sslgz on any of the property of_the defendants. For many months Federal prohibition agents listened on these lines. Steno- graphic notes were made of conversa- tions heard and knowledge was thus ob- tained of enormous transactions in liquor. Plenty of “News” for the Tappers. In this manner prohibition agents heard orders given for liquor by cus- tomers, conversations between the mem- bers of the bootlegging gang, instruc- tions as to delivery of liquor, and also many highly interesting i not edifying bits of conversation about Government officers in general and in particular. The agents also heard through this tap- ping operation much “news” that was no news to them, such as word passed between members of the gang as to cap- ture of the organization's vessels, the arrest of their men and the seizure of their liquor in garages and other places. Over the whispering wire came to the rohibition - agents messages showing gaw arrested members of the gang had been released, and detalls of attempted bribery of officers. The operations of Olmstead were as unique in character as they were ex- tensive in volume. He made connec- tions with & man having some radio knowledge and talent and together they purchased and operated a radio broad- casting station. This station was used for the purpose of getting news to in- coming boats employed by Olmstead to bring in cargoes of liquor. Mrs. Olm- stead frequently broadcasted on this station and her programs consisted largely of bedtime stories. It was the belief of the agents and investigators that the stories constituted code sig- nals to the boats at sea, advising them when the coast was clear and where the Coast Guard boats were likely to be. Olmstead’s radio partner, a man named Hubbard, was arrested and joined as a conspirator in one of the cases. He was not tried, however, but assisted the prohibition officials “at Seattle as a confidential informer. Later an effort was made to indict Hub- bard on evidence gathered by the in- telligence unit of the Treasury Depart- ment intended to show that Hubbard 1 | had “worked both sides of the street,” using his_knowledge as a prohibition agent to help Olmstead in his opera- tions and using his knowledge of Olm- stead’s plans to hold his position with the Government as informer. There was evidence that Hubbard had entered the prohibition service as a poor man, and yet allegedly had lived “like a king” on $175 a month. Bitterness in Treasury Department. The effort to indict Hubbard failed, however, and there were charges that the intelligence unit was trying to dis- credit the prohibition unit. Many of the people of the State of Washington who were strong advocates of prohibi- tion enforcement felt that Hubbard’s indictment was sought in order to pre- vent honest prohibition agents from pursuing their work, .An. intense bit- terness developed between the __ Return load rates & o1 any distant city on 10 days’ notice. ATES STORAGE CO. INO, 418 10th St. N Metropolitan 1845. “Certil u}; Heating™ Steam, Vapor and Water REMODELING REPAIRS K. PACE 1240 9th St. N.W. Met. 5834, WHEN ROOFS LEAK —you'll find us foll We make & specialty of i work is done meatly, roughly. promptly. Send for us and feel safe. Roofing KOONS 118 Sed 5 &W. Company ain C hard, pick hes. e nb2th Kensington on Viers M rosd: mile from Wheaton. Kensington Qrcha'rds.w ELBERTA PEACHES Now at QUAINT ACRES Large yellow Freestones for canning, prices n utill 9 L Drive. e fter-dinner drive. turn right at Sligo. Lo Silver_Spring, 37 E. CAPITOL dohe resonable. " Pans and- € e L e T IR A Printing Service —offering exceptional fa 1e8 discriminating clientele. for #/The National Capital Press £ 2210-1212 D St _N.W. Phone National 0650 W SHADES & SCREENS m xing . -e':‘n:"m‘-":nr Screens. Finest workman- ST. S : : 7 . | und and it was not an uncommon thing for agents of the intelligence unit and for the special assistants to the Attorney who had been sent to Seattle the Hubbard case, to be ” by agents of the prohibition unis and their friends. The, evidence obtained over the “whispering wires” and otherwise dis- closed an illegal liquor business of amazing magnitude. It involved the employment of not less than 50 per- sons, of two seagoing vessels for carry- ing liquor from Scotland to British Columbia, the employment of smaller vessels: for coastwise rtation, the purchase and use of a ranch for an d for storage of liquor, the operation of a central office in the heart' of Seattle, the employ- ment of executives, salesmen, delivery men, tchers, scouts, even.an attorney. Monthly d filling of these orders by corps of men. stationed in another room called “the bull pen.” At times d‘ummud to 200 cases of r & day. statement of the case I have used the of the tactics when I so thoroughly disapproved of them. employed. distinguished counsel, a man formerly associated with his two | fi '3 | branches of the Treasury Department, | || Consequently Mr. amendments of the United States Con- stitution. On the question of constitutionality the remerks of United States District Judge Neterer are interesting and worth repetition: “The fourth and fifth amendments cannot be emasculated so as to give criminals carte blanche in the use of the public ulefhone utility, whether the conspiracy is to violate the eight- eenth amendment and Volstead act or for the destruction of life or property or, perchance, the overthrow of the Government. A man’s house is his castle, the four walis of his habitation, invasion of which was the evil pro- hibited without a search warrant based on probable cause. These amendments do not make the walls of this house or castle coextensive with the limits of the city, State or Nation and give im- munity to criminals in carrying for- ward their unlawful schemes tele- phonic activities. ‘Such a situation would be deplorable and intolerable, to say the least’ in the language of the dissenting opinion; and in the light of the evil to be guarded inst, which must be taken into consideration, such license cannot be given, and the law- abiding people of the community, the State or the Nation placed at the mercy of criminals seated in their homes, giv- ing command and direction to co-con- spirators throughout the city, State or Nation and carry forward the criminal activities. The people have some rights under these amendments as well as the criminals.” Although personally I would still use my influence to prevent the policy of wire tapping being adopted as a prohi- bition enforcement measure, I never- theless recognize that the interpreta- tion of the United States Constitution against the law breaker and in favor of the Government'’s right to catch him | is a prohibition victory of no small proportions. Copyright, 1929, by Current News < ‘Features, Inc. (In_her next installment Mrs. Wille- brandt tells how the law has been put to work, how statutes nppl{ntnu to pro- hibition were clarified and interpreted.) Around the World Log Of the Graf Zeppelin By the Assoclated Press. (All Time Is Eastern Standard.) ‘Wednesday, August 7. 10:40 p.m.— Left Lakehurst, N.J. Saturday, August 10. 7:30 a.m.— Landed at Fried- richshafen, completing first lap of round-the-world flight, 4,20 miles, in 55 hours 24 minutes. ‘Wednesday, August 14. 10:3¢ p.m. — Left Friedrichs- hafen. Thursday, August 15. 4:30 a.m.—Passed over Berlin. 2:30 p.m.—Crossed the Soviet frontier near Dwinsk (Duena- burg, Latvia). Friday, August 16. 3:30 a.m.—Passed over Vyatka, 600 miles east of Moscow. 10:30 a.m. — Dropped postcards at Kizel, in the Urals, on the Siberian border. Saturday, August 17. 7:40 a.m.—First direct message to Tokio gave position as 750 miles west of Yakutski. Sunday, August 18. 1 am. (approximate)—Reached eastern coast of Asia at port of Ajan on the Sea of Okhotsk. 11 a.m.—Crossed Russo-Japa- nese frontier at Saghalien. fol- lowing Gulf of Tartary south. 6 p.m.— Passed over Mororan, Hokkaido, Japan. 11:30 p.m.—Passed over Shio- gama, Rikuzen prefecture. Monday, August 19. 1:50 a.m.—Sighted over Kasu- migaura, naval airdrome. 2:35 a.m.—Flew over Tokio. 4:27 am.—Landed at Kasumi- gaura airport, completing trip of 6,500 mil in 101 hours 53 minutes. @he Foening * B ot Rec 18 DISPLAYED BY AUTHORIZED STAR - BRANCH - OFFICES OVERTISENENS ‘Krick’s Pharmacy—1742 Pa. Ave. Is a Star Branch Office You needn’t have a want very “long if you will make use of The Star Classified Section. Through it you will reach practically every one in and around Wash- ington. Copy for The Star Classified Section may be left at any Branch ' Office—there’s one in neighborhood’— renderi that you have any ready 4l ” e cath—Completely recon e its agrvices without fees; only tion your Il:omn durin'g A,“ gust and the payments wil ABOVE SIGN regular rates are charged. Bot start till after October 1. whelmingly greater volume of Classified Advertising, _every : day than any other. Washing- . ton paper that there can be no question as. to which will give you the best results. "“Around the Corner” is a Star Branch ' Office GRAF COMPLETES | FLIGHT T0 TOKI0 Trip From Friedrichshafen _ to Japan Takes Approxi- mately 102 Hours. (Continued From First Page.) time, just 1 minute more than 100 hours from the time it left Friedrichs- hafen, Germany, Thursday, 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Eastern standard time. The appearance over Tokio marked unofficially, at least, end of the second lap of the Zeppelin's round-the-world tour, which began at Lakehurst, N. J., 10:40 p.m., Eastern standard time, Wed- nesday, August 7, with the first lap completed Saturday, August 10, at 7:03 am, with landing at Friedrichshafen. ‘The 4,200 miles was covered in 55 hours and 24 minutes. Ahead of the Graf Zeppelin lie two more laps before completion of.its world | field sports also on the amusement card. tour from Tokio to Los Angeles—which | jr.; Elmon_ Shelton, Andrew J. Darga; as the Graf flies should be about 5470 | Standing: Pierce C. McEarth, Thomas miles—and from Los Angeles to uke-‘ T. Thrift. ! Business Men’s RRANGE FO R BUSINESS OUTING . Members of the committee in charge of the annual outing of the Southeast ociation, to be held at Morgantown, Md., Augu ing beauty contest will be one of the features of the outing, with games and with st 21. A bath- Left to right, sitting: George J. Cross, les Jenkins. Grover —Capital Photo. Averages Over 60 Miles. ‘The average speed of the Zeppelin from Priedrichshafen to Tokio was just in excess of 64 miles an hour. This, when it is considered that but three of the dirigible’s five motors were kept running during most of the trip, was exceptionally good, and about 15 miles mated it would make. } Sixty Persons Aboard. Former Anti-Saloon League Aboard the Zeppelin were 60 per- Songers, of whom Tacy cence ‘S| Official to Face Church Body. sengers, of whom Lady Grace Drum- mond Hay was the only woman, With the exception of a knick-knack or two, including a bust of Baron Ehrenfeld, there was no freight other than 50,000 glzces of mail, the revenue from which rought the Zeppelin nearly as many dollars, The Zeppelin's sighting over Tokio occurred just 45 minutes after it circled the giant Japanese hangar at Kasumi- | gaura, the Japanese naval air station. The dirigible remained but a few mo- ments over Kasumigaura and then headed for Tokio, capital of the Land of | the Rising Sun, to while away the hours until evening, when the expected drop in_temperature would permit landing. Rain and fog on the last 600 miles of her journey brought a slight altera- tion in the Zeppelin's course, and de= layed its arrival several hours behond | sanguine early estimates. After leaving : the Siberian mainland she flew well| down the west coast of Hokkaldo, | northernmost of the main islands of the Japanese group. At a point about 550 miles from her goal and slightly east of Cape Kamui, | Dr. Eckener requested permission of the communications ministry to alter his course because of bad weather condi- tions in the direction of Saido Islands, We,sit of i{onshu. i e asked to cross the.southwestern | arm of Hokkaido in the direction of | | | By the Assoclated Pr | FONTANA, Calif, August 19.—Dr. James Empringham, former national | vice president of the Anti-Saloon | League, today was en route to New | York avowedly to face a charge of | practicing midicine without a license while connected with the now defunct | Health Educational Society. The charge | was filed with the State’s attorney gen- | eral by the State Board of Medical | Examiners. | Simultaneously with the announce- | ment_here that he had departed (or‘ New York came the news that Empring- ham had been married at Ensenada, | Mexico, last June 15, two weeks after | he had obtained a divorce in Reno from his first wife. His second wife, for- | merly Mrs. Vasiloff Saffron of New York, 3 the mother of an 18-year-old daugh- T, “Probably I will be accused by the doctor’s first wife,” Mrs. Empringham said, “of breaking up her home, but | the fact is he had not lived with his first wife for 15 years.” | Mrs. Vasiloff Saffron Empringham, ! in announcing that her husband had | left for the East, said that he de- parted by train Saturday night. He decided to “return and clear the mat- Shirlya en the main island. He then foliowed the eastern coast of Honshu | t‘lmztllfgncaprl;n:flu‘uolng ov‘er‘iht!g-, m]- up,” she said, after he had con- :30 pm. (11:40 p.m.), e | sul lawye Tangar awalting the ship, 40 ‘miles| G, © o S Bemardino, ;;;:’r;m'ly'he permission was given Im-| “The charges against my husband are 2 | absurd,” she declared. “They are the Communication Maintained, { cutgrowth of trouble he had with doc- Throughout the Graf's fiight from ' 'O WhO tried to exploit the poor, while m;:m:le.xl\ c?mmunlcltlnn Was | g, most _constant] elther European stations, Mh‘{(c :rl.:}-‘l h The fihmm o e, tlons, or finally Japanese ‘stations, 50 | qurig s edm i nect (2 plS, Part that hardly for an Tour was any ‘one | QUTINE his administration of the affairs unaware of the Zeppelins jocatioe |Of the Health Educational Society. T of the messages from aboard the | B T T T signed “All's well aboard.” . i o ROughly Epeaking the rip oy g_de' Scotch “Ghost” Only Rabbit. point north of Moscow to the| Pupils of tl approximate position of Yakutsk, on | Seatiusd, “-ué‘%efiifi?fi’ t(;:rmv!vsx‘f"f}fcsgné the Lena River, along the approximate | panic by the sudden appearance at the Jocation of the 62d pmllel‘? . st of | side of the blackboard of what they Yakutsk the dirigible turned south|took to be a fluttering apparition in nearly along the 140th meridian to | white. They ran home and told of th reach Nippon, Tokio and Kasumigaura. | appearance of either a ghost or an angel At Kasumigaura a light Summer haze | Parents investigated and found that a | ade visibility poor, but full-throated | Very large white hare had gotten into | lanzais” arose from the waiting |the schoolhouse and had been seen to | crowds when finally the giant dirigible | jump from behind the blackboard. was sighted in the distance with the| —— sun ginting on its side. &l As soon as the ship was seen four | liant success. Descriptions of the flight naval planes and the the Europa in |2Nd the welcome to the dirigible were | which Von Huenefeld flew to Japan | Printed in full . from Germany, soared up and went out | EfOrs to establish direct radio_con- to meet it and the three other aireraft | nction with Tokio for the benefit of already accompanied i, Berlin radio fans were without avail As it passed over the field for the Y e n CRu first time the cheering and waving of | ™ s Iroans e handkerchiefs was almost frantic. = Strains of the German national anthem, | begun by a band, were hardly audible. ‘The Graf Zeppelin probably will start on the third lap of its round-the-world tour Thursday, taking approximately four day for the trip to Los Angeles. The trip completed today, while repre- senting its longest traversed distance, did not represent the Graf's greatest flying time. 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At the request of President Hoover, Secretary Stimson _ instructed the | American charge d’affaires at Paris to inform the French government that. the President desired to appoint Senator Edge to_the French post. | The French acceptance of Benlwr‘ Edge was forwarded to the State De- | partment by Mr. Armour, charge d'affaires. | A new test for drunkenness in Lon- don is for a man to lace up his shoes, a doctor having declared that drunken | | men never can accomplish the feat. NDONALD RENEWS TALK WITH DAWES Ambassador Confers With Premier on Arms Cuts on Scottish Tour. By the Associated Press. | LOSSIEMOUTH, Scotland, August 19.—Premier MacDonald and Ambas- sador Dawes renewed their conversa- tions on naval disarmament today at the premier's Summer residence here. | The American Ambassador, Wwho | made an overnight trip from London | to see Mr. MacDonald, planned to leave | this afternoon to visit friends in other parts of Scotland. Mr. Dawes also ex- pects to go to Elgin on Friday, when Premier MacDonald is presented with the freedom of that city, and then to return to London on Saturday. | How much further the conversation | between Ambassador Dawes and Prime Minister MacDonald carried the naval discussions, which have continued ever since Gen. Dawes’ arrival in England, was a question which remained with- out an answer, in view of the reticence | of both officials. In some quarters it was suggested | that Mr. MacDonald insisted that the | question of naval disarmament, viewed from the widest aspect of world affairs, transcends in importance even the | reparations question, which at present is so much to the forefront. It is taken for granted that any | meeting between the two statesmen | could hardly pass without discussion of | naval affairs, particularly in view of the prime minister's diligence in threshing out with the Ambassador the prelimin- | ary problems leading to a possible five- | power conference. | PLANS BRIEF VISIT. LONDON, August 19 (#).—Ambas- sador Dawes is on his second visit to | talk naval reduction and disarmament with Ramsay MacDonald, British premier. The Herald today said also' that when he had concluded his con-, versations with the premier he would | make a tour of the Scottish hlghllnds,‘ spending in all only a few hours with Mr. MacDonald. 1 ‘The Ambassador left here with no ad- vance notice last night, for Lossiemouth, where Mr. MacDonald expected to mect- him at the train and escort him to the Hillocks, the little square stone house where the prime minister seeks relaxa- tion whenever opportunity occurs. The Daily Mail said the visit' was arranged during a telephone conversation be- tween London and Lossiemouth last ere was no indication as to the phase of disarmament and naval res duction into which the two men (. pected to enter. Duiing the last twe months, since the Ambassador's last visit to Losslemouth lttle has heen said over the disarmament conversation be- tween the American and British offi- | clals beyond statements that there was satisfactory . progress. FILES DAMAGE SUIT. LOS ANGELES, August 19 (#).—Mrs. Grace Meade Biltz, granddaughter of Gen. Meade, Civil War leader, Satur- day filed suit for damages of $100,000 againist Mrs. Betty G. Beall, 27-year- old niece of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, and daughter of Mrs. A. H. Oxtahy of Wheeling, W. Va. Mrs. Biltz alleged the affections of her husband were alienated by Mrs. Beall. Normal H. Biltz is a real estate operator of Los Angeles and San Fran- cisco. 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