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- FOR CRIME SURVEY . time, B e L tiensers srrescrrsen . of uniformity in crime chas-just been’ issued by ti YEARS ARE NEEDED Preliminary Report Indicates | Long Period Ahead of Ultimate Findings. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Any idea that the National Commis- sion on Law Observance and Enforce- ' ment will have its final report ready in ® hurry has been dispelled by the far- reaching program just announced. The commission has undertaken such an extensive survey that to do it justice the probabilities are that the work will take at least two years, if not more. Heeding the demand in Congress for some glimpse into the commission’s ac- tivities, Chairman Wickersham has out- lined the way in which the proposed study is divided. Judging by the time it takes to make researches of this character, it's really a five-year job that has been mapped out. Whether the commission will have one year, two /! years, three years or more in which to make a thorough investigation, depends upon the temper of Congress and the skill of President Hoover in holding eritics at bay. Free Hand Demanded. ‘The Senators from wet States, as. for Instance, Senator La Follette of Wis- consin, are insisting that the commis- sion have a free hand and plenty of The theory is that the longer the commission investigates the more difficult it will be for the drys. The | reliminary report, which calls the en- orcerfent machinery inadequate, is al- | ready ammunition for the wets, who have been ralsing the cry that it would | take hundreds of millions of dollars and an army and navy to enforce the law anyway. | ‘The drys, on the other hand, are not | altogether a unit as to what ought to | be done to strengthen the law, and some of them would prefer to hear from the national commission beforc | taking any action. From a political point of view, the most disturbing issue at present is prohibition, for it cuts into both parties, and if agitated dur- ing the remainder of 1930 as vshe- mently as it was recently there is a danger that other issues in which the administration is interested will not re- ceive due attention. ) | Soft Pedal Advisable. | It is therefore to the interest of the | administration to soft pedal the prohi- | bition controversy as much as possible, keep the drys happy by reorganizing ‘within existing law the personnel of enforcement and insisting upon await- full report of the Wickersham commission. It would not be surprising, however, if by 1932 the national commission’s HIGH SUGAR TARIFF FOES HOLD FLOOR But Proponents Find Outlook for Vote on Tuesday Is Encouraging. By the Associated Press. Opponents of a higher sugar tariff held full sway in the third day of de- bate in the Senate yesterday on the pending provision to raise the levy on Cuban raws from 1.76 to 2.20 cents & pound. The Democrats warned of the probable effect in the next elections it & higher duty is granted. Advocates of an increased tariff, however, began counting prospective votes on the issue and found the out- look encouraging. A vote is not ex- pected before Tuesday. Senator Harrison, Democrat, Missig- sippl, ‘whose substitute proposal to re- tain the present rate is the pending| question, ripped into those favoring higher duties. He cautioned that op- ponents in the coming primaries of | every Senator seeking re-election would scan the votes of these Senators on the | sugar question. i # Characterizing the pending bill as| an “outrageous invasion of the homes d happiness of the American peo- ," Senator Copeland, Democrat, New ‘ork, said it would cost the consumers “millions of dollars less to pay a bounty large enough to maintain beet-sugar rewn would be the principal basis of a bition. The systematic way in which | the com has tackled the prob-' lem of Jaw enforcement as a whole is bound to offset the criticlsms that were made of individual members. ‘Chairman Wiokersham's suggsstion, for instance, that the Stat lend greater co-operation in enforcement was con- sidered a assel last Summer, but by the time the commission gets with its intensive study there are likely to be further suggestions im- A greater activity on the part of the States, which really possess the police’ machinery of the country. Police Given Attention. * One 3‘5 the first items in the Wicker- ‘ma not recruited to gather infor- e only in America, but in for- cities, as to the most modern de- “vel in the method of detecting crime. As indicative of the importance there committee on uniform ¢rime records a complete manuel for police. This is a committee of International Association of Chiefs of Police. It is the most com prehensive work of its kind ever issued | and is part of a program of education of police chiefs in cities, towns and villages. with the hope that some effec- tive method of gathering national crime statistics will be made available. The work was financed by the Laura Spell- man-Rockefeller Foundation. One of the principal difficulties of the ‘Wickersham mmission is in getting accurate data as to what has been the effect on the country of the prohibition Jaw—what is the truth about the num- ber of arrests and crimes that might be gelated to prohibition laws. It is inevitable that co-ordination be- tween the Federal and State govern- ments shall be brought about, and. though the Wickersham Commission at this time gives no hint of its final! recommendation, it is quite likely that the administrative side of enforcement will turn largely on what can be done to make the States the principal lg!ncy i for the enforcement of the prohibitior. | laws of the country. (Copyright. 1930.) . THEATRICAL AGENT * Il Health Blamed for Fatal Shoot- . mer, Kenneth Fitzpatrick, whom he re- | HELD A SUICIDE| ing of Blair McElroy in Chicago. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 11.—The fatal lhoo!ln‘ of Blair McElroy, partner in the tzpatrick-McElroy Theatrical Booking Agency, who is reputed to have been worth $6,000,000, was called a sui- | cide by a coroner’s jury today. He was | found shot to death at the home of his | nlle\g'lm:unt. Iil health was blamed. | urance reported to aggregate $300,000. Mr. McElroy left a note to his part- | ferred to as “Fitz,” saying: “‘Take the insurance and pay Blue Is- 1and and Pebby. They have both been too good to us to pass them by Good-dye.” Police said it was indicated tha “Blue Island” meant the Bjue Island Trust & Savings Bank, in which Mc- Elroy was a director, and that “Pebby"” was F. Wa Pebby, president of the Union Banking Co. of St. Joseph. Mich firm of Fitzpatrick & MeElroy | last Bummer sold 50 per cent of its| ihester holdings. representing score | of theaters in Indiana and Michigan, to Balaban & Katz for a reported $3.000,- 000 in cash and a like amount in Para- | mount-Lasky stock. The firm had | started as a small booking agency and made its first large profits from the | booking of the Henry Ford industrial | pleture. | McElroy was 51, the father of two sons and a daughter. He had been separsted from his wife for about 10! years, police were told. She is reported | %o be living in California. LACE MAKING TAUGHT. Bpanish School Is Founded to Teach Art. MADRID, January .11 (#).—Spanish lace, quite feshionable in the middle ages and at the beginning of the pres- ent century, may come into vogue through the establishment here school where pupils will learn how to make lace comparable to that pro- ck on the whole problem of proni- | in A | was made by /three Univer: sented on the dustry than to continue a tariff rate which is out of reason.” Senator Borah of Idaho, a leader of the Republican independents, has ad- vanced the bounty idea tentatively, and has said he would advocate it unless it could be shown beyond doubt that & higher tariff would benefit domestie sugar interests. La Follette Assails Smoot. ‘The only other participant in the day's debate was Senator La Follette of ‘Wisconsin, another Republican inde- pendent leader and an o) ent of a raise duty. He assailed Senator Smoot, ublican, Utah, for making what he sald was an “erroneous” state- ment. con a report on agricul- tural tariffs, including ll:f!l'. ‘which ity of Wis- professors of economy. Smoot had sald that W. T. Raw- leigh, a Freeport, Ill, manufacturer, and described as a “multi-millionaire” opent.l‘% a tariff investigating bureau in Washington, had “purchased the services” of the three professors—John R. Commons, Selif Perlman and Be: jamin H. Hibbard. Smoot had their tariff report being “foisted’ e as an “unbiased analy- sis” and said inquiry had shown some of the conclusions of the professors on sugar were “idiotic errors.” Follette said these remarks came with “ill grace” from Smoot, because the three professors had received no money for their study and reports and were “entirely free from outside pres- sure.” “These three professors are economists of note in their res) ive fields of en- deavor,” he said, adding that thelr in- vestigations had been made impartially and with a desire to get the facts and report them. Prof. Rawleigh Unselfish. He said Rawleigh had supported the rogressive movement for years and g‘d supported the senior La Follette in his independent campaign for the presi- dency in 1924, despite that the La Fol- lette-Wheeler platform favored high in- come and inheritance taxes which would have affected Rawleigh's interests. Harrison 'said the domestic sugar in- terests were the most “selfish” of industries which have asked Congress for higher tariffs. “If certain_captains of sugar com- pantes in the United States would spend one one-hundredth part of the time back home trying to run their organiza- tions efficienfly and economically and ve them some good business advice stead of remaining here in Washing- ton appealing constantly for increased tariff rates, then business would be in better shape probably than it is today.” | Consumers Pay Billions. The Mississippian sald the sugar tariff in the last 20 years had cost the American consumers nearly $3,000,000,- | 000, or more than twice as much as Federal appropriations in that time for | all kinds of agricultural relief, including | building. | If I had my way,” said Copeland, | “the sugar schedule would be recom- mitted to the finance committee with | instructions to work out a plan which | would reduce by at least $100.000,000 ( the anticipated . upon sugar under he present la’ nd to make up in bounty to the sum sufficient to maintain existing i terests. but not sufficient to encourage | extension of an uneconomic and unduly expensive industry.” The New Yorker added there would be “greater resentment against this tax upon sugar than any one item in this | outrageous bill."” “It is unthinkable that we shall meet the wishes of the majority of the finance commlittee,” he continued. “It| cimply cannot be' done. Already our | of the taxation.’ To place tens of mil- | lions of dollars more upon their break- | ing backs is a thing we must not con- | cede for a momen AL SMITH KEEPS DATE. MIAMI, Fla. January 11 (#)—When former Gov. Alfred E. Smith s his friends “I'll see you at the Firemen's Ball,” he means it. | He suggested the ball as a meetin place as he separated from other mem bers of his party upon arriving here yesterday. His friends forgot the engagement, but the former governor did not. He and Mrs. Smith were guests of honor at the Miami Firemen's Ball last night L and spent some time dancing. 98 Out of 100 Are Dependents. TORONTO, January eight people out of every 100 are finan- cially incompetent, as Dr. 8. S. Huebner, ?roxmr of insurance and commerce at he University of Pennsylvania, figures auced by the old masters of the 3 00l will be founded with a three million left by an’ old it. Only one out of ten men at the age of 65 enough money to assure him an income or even $50 & month. Dr. Huebner spok#to Toronto underwriters. people are groaning under the burden | e, 11.—Ninety- 4 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 12, 1930—PART ONE. | Three of the foreign delegates to the | Conference on the Cawse and Cure of War here this week. Upper: Miss Kath- | leen D. Courtney, England; Mme. Marie Louise Puech, France. Lower: Frau Dorothee von Velsen, Germany. HOUSE WILL SPEED ENFORCEMENT BILL, TILSON DECLARES (Continued From First Page.) that reason I have provided in my biil that it shall not take effect until 90 days after the date of its approval by the President. That would give the Attorney General time enough to build up the necessary organization. He al- ready has under him the United States marshals and United States attorneys and their assistants.” Senator King's proposaf would eliminate Prohibition Commissioner Doran and all of his assistants, includ- ing the prohibition fleld agents. “I do not believe that the prohibi- tion enforcemgnt unit is much more efficient now than it has been in the past,”, sald Senator King. “My bill wut\illd do away with the whole organi- zation.” Sharp Fight Is Seen. If serious effort is made, however, to do away with the nt prohibition enforcement o ition, & sharp fight will follow in the House and Senate. Senator Jones of Washington, one of the “dry” leaders of the Senate, said last night that he would strongly re- sist any such effort. It is his belief that the present enforcement - 2ation should be transferred to the Department of Justice. - “Any other course” said Senator Jones, “would be a great mistake, What would be the use of tearing down an organization which has been bullt up over & E'rllod of many years and then undertaking to build up a new or- ganization? I think it would be folly | to attempt such a thing. I do not be- lieve that any legislation can be put through which contemplates the elim- ination of the prohibjtion organization and all its agents as now constituted.” | ‘There have been indications, how- ever, that the “drys” themselves might split over this question. Senator Borah of Idaho, one of the outstanding proponents of more adequate prohibi- tion enforcement, In a recent public statement startled the country by de- claring that prohibition could never be enforced under the present officers whose duty it is to enforce it. His statement brought a sharp retort from | Attorney General Mitchell. Hoover Studies Recommendations. President Hoover yesterday went over | the recommendations made by the Law | Enforcement Commission and prepared his own message, which will accompany the commission’s report when it is sent | to Congress tomorrow. His message will set forth his own views on these recom- mendations. He also conferred with At- torney General Mitchell. It is supposed that the conference had to do with the Law Enforcement Commission’s report, although no statement regarding it was made at the White House or the De- partment of Justice. The determination of the House lead- | lution to create Jjoint congressional committee to deal ~with the recom- mendations of the President’s Law En- | forcement Commission, in the opinion of Senator Jones, may Tesult in slowing up action on the legislation which may be recommended. The Senator from Washington pointed out that several bills to cover the legislation have been introduced. “The House,” he sald, “under its rules | can dispose of bills promptly. In the Senate, however, with its rule of un- limited debate, it is a different matter. Each of the bills dealing with prohibi- tion enforcement would lead to a fight in the Senate with protracted debate. 1f the President’s recommendations were handled by a single joint congressional . he said. “they could all be embodied in one bill, which would ex- pedite their handling in the Senate. Capitol Awaits Report. ‘The report of the Law Enforcement Commission, which has been under fire of some of the Democratic “drys” from the South as well as of Senator Borah, is awaited at the Capitol with much interest. The critical attitude assumed by some of ‘the Senators has not been abandoned. Senator Glass of Virginia | last night ridiculed the statement issued Priday night Chairman Wicker- sham of the Law Enforcement Com- mission, in which Mr. Wickersham had :'l‘ld that the commission had found | e were inadequate. The Virginia Benator “You know, Will Rogers recently told the country that when the White House fire occurred the President di- rected the District authorities to ap- point a commission of inquiry, which | was done. The commission thus desig- nated made an investigation and | promptly reported that a fire had ac- cident which apparently appealed most to the satisfaction of Will Rogers was he fact that of all the commissions appointed by the President, this was the omly one that had ever ventured | to make a report. The Wickersham commission, appointed to make a searching Inquiry into the problems of prohibition enforcement, seems to have firmly resolved not to be outdone in courage by the District fire chiefs, al- beit too late to match their celerity. Hence, the Wickersham commissi made & report comparable in impor- tance to that of the commission which confirmed the rumor of a fire at the ‘White House offices.” o o ers not to go ahead with the Jones reso- | 3 cles for the enforcement of law | b tually occurred. The aspect of the in- | ¢ WOMEN T0 SEEK 'WAR CURE HERE Carrie Chapman Catt Will| Preside at Conference to Open Tuesday. Promising a concrete program look- ing to world peace, the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War will open at the Washington Hotel Tuesday, with the international viewpoint, represented by five women from Europe, appearing for the first time., Opening on the eve of the London conference on the limitation of naval armament, the meeting of women here, reflecting 10 American fonal women's organiza- tions, hopes, after five years of study, to present a definite program aimed at ascertaining a cure for war. i Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt is chair- man of the conference. English Delegate Noted Worker. Miss Kathleen D. Courtney, the Eng- lish delegate, one of the best-known women in public life in Great Britain, for years been a student of inter- national affairs. She is honorary secre- tary of the British Women's Peace Crusade, an association of nearly all the great national woman movements, A rellef worker in the war, Frau Dorothee von Velsen of Germany, other of the group of foreign visitors, also is keen for world peace. She is president of the German League for Equal Citizenship of Women. The French representative, Mme. Marie-Louise Puech, is a graduate of the Sorbonne, & former lecturer and assistant professor at MacGill Univer- sity in Montreal, a vice president of the Prench Assoclation of University Women, editor of a peace magazine and an active worker for peace. ‘The delegate from the farthest dis- tance is Mme. Tsune Gauntlett, the Japanese wife of a British professor at Tokio University of Commerce, one of the organizers and a director of the Japanese Woman's Peace Association. Ruth Morgan Represents U. 8. ‘With Miss Ruth Morgan represent- ing the United States, the foreign guests will take part in an open forum discussion of what women can do to build international peace-making ma- chinery. Another high light of the convention will be the banquet at the Hotel Washington Tuesday evening, at which Gen. Jan Christiaan Smuts of South Africa and Bishop Francis John Mc- Connell will speak. Mrs. Catt will preside over the con- ference. Speakers will include Mrs. Catt, who will point out the gaps in existing peace machinery; James G. MacDonald of the Foreign Policy As- sociation, Prof. John Howard Latane of Johns Hopkins University, United States Senator Gerald B. Nye, Edward P, Warner, Parker T. Moon of Colum- bia University, Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary, Julius H. Klein, Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Com- merce, and Ernest M. Patterson of the University of Pennsylvania. Miss Josephine Schain of New York is secretary of the committee. Other officers are Miss Ruth Morgan, Miss Henrietta Roelofs and Mrs. Edgerton Parsons of New York, vice chairmen, and Mrs. Ben Hooper of Oshkosh, Wis., secretary. Mrs. Willlam E. Darby is general chairman of the committee of Wash- ington women, which has charge of local arrangements, including Mrs. Clara Wright 8mith, Mrs. T. E. Brown, Mrs. W. E. Chamberlin, Mrs. John W. Prizzell, Mrs. J. Claude Kelper, Mrs. W. E. Boulter. The following are chairmen of subcommittees: Mrs. H. P. Cameron, information; Miss Ethel Ketchum, registration; Mrs. T. J. Howerton, ushers; Mrs. E. C. Dinwiddie, utility; "Mrs. Harry Hull, house; Mrs. F. E. Edgington, banquet; Mrs. Ray- mond B. Morgan, hostesses. Organizations under whose sponsor- ship the conference will be held include the American Association of University ‘Women, the Council of Women for Home Missions, General Federation of ‘Women's Clubs, Federation of Women's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America, National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations, Na- tional Council of Jewish Women, Na- tional Federation of Business and Pro- fessional Worhen's Clubs, National League of Women Voters, National Women's Christian Temperance Union and National Women's Trade Union League. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Occasional rain and warmer today and tomorrow. Maryland — Occasional rain warmer today and tomorrow. Virginia—Cloudy and warmer today and tomorrow, probably occasional rain. ‘West Virginia—Occasional rain today and tomorrow, warmer today. Record for Twenty-four Hours. ‘Temperature—Midnight, 26; 2 am. ;48 24; 6 am, 23; 8 am, 24; 12 noon, 27; 2 p.m. 28: 3 ; 6 pm, 29; 8 pm, 29; 10 m., 29. Highest temperature, 29; lowest, 23. ‘Temperature same date last yes Highest, 39; lowest, 23, Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 12:02 am. and 11356 pm.; high tide, 5:27 am.- and 6 Tomorrow—Low tide, 1 am. and 12:58 pm.; high tide, 6:25 am. and 6:55 p.m. and The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 7:27 a.m.; sun sets 5:06 pm. ‘Tomorrow—S8un rises 7:27 a.m.; sets 5:07 p.m. St Moon rises 2:30 p.m.; sets 5:12 a.m. Automobile lamps 't < nalf Tour after stmser, " Enied one Weather in Various Citles. Precipi- tation. 8 ay.night.8p.m. 8p.m. tianta, ] - a2 Atlantic alf s N. Boston, Mass. Buftaic. N, v hicago, Cincinnati, Omaha. N Philadelphia, ' P Ehoenix, Ariz. HENINNTRLINSVNS! st et e S R R R Britain has perfected a plece of aerial mechanism which leaves the rest of the world far behind. It is pilot, which fiies the plane accuracy, and needs no h control. pest. b Old Fort Atkinson, Iowa, is the only Government, for ‘Winnebagoes. YOUNG GUARD RULE GLAIMED BY NYE North Dakotan Sees New Majority in Senate Re- publican Party. By the Assoclated Press. Control of the Senate Republican or- ganization by the “Young Guard” and Western independents as %gainst the Old Guard regulars was claimed yester- day #s the reorganized party machine was formally approved. Senator Nye of North Dakota, who was & member of the committee on committees which fought out the issue of recognition of various factions in the new set-up, claimed the majority against the Old Guard. “There is a new majority in the Sen- ate Republican party,” he said off the floor. The party conference and the Senate had unanimously approved the new organization which gives places on the finance committee to Senator La Follette of Wisconsin and Thomas of Idaho. La Follette Naming Drew Protest. Senator La Follette is one of the Western independents who have re- written the publican tariff bill in combination with the Democrats in the interests of agriculture alone. He was placed on the committee ove~ the sition of four of the Old Guard—] of Pennsylvania, Moses of New Hamp- shire, Bingham of Connecticut and De- neen of Illinois. Senator Smoot of Utah, the veteran chairman of the finance committee, of- fered no explanation of his vote in placing La Follette on this committee when Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana asked in the Senate if Smoot had not threatened to quit if the Wis- consin independent were chosen. Decries McMaster’s leat, Senator Norbeck of South Dakota de- cried McMaster's fallure to get on this committee after Senator Bingham had pointed out that the committee on com- mittees was composed of & majority of Western Senators. Norbeck said that McMaster should have been given the interstate commerce commission as- signment, rather than Thomas the finance post. At the party conference, Senator Glenn of Illinois brought up the ques- tion of party regularity and advocated that Republicans give closer attention | to administration. This drew a retort from Senator Norrls of Nebraska of the | Republican independents, who insisted the independents in fighting the Repub- lican tariff bill were actually carrying out the wishes of President Hoover. TAFT’S SOUTHERN TRIP SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY Chief Justice’s Condition Shows De- cided Improvement After Treat- ment for Bladder Trouble. By the Assoclated Press. Encouraging reports were made yes- terday concerning the condition of Chief Justice Taft, who is under treat- ment in Garflield Hospital for bladder trouble. So marked has been his jm- provement that it was predicted by at- tending physicians that he would be able Tuesday to go South for several weeks' rest. Railroad accommodations have been obtained and all details for his depart- ure on that day have been arranged. It is now planned for him to make the trip alone. To be sure that his rest will be complete, nis physician has recom- mended that none of his clerks accom- pany him, and has requested that all correspondence and matter relating to the court be withheld from e ‘The Chief Justice is being permitted to leave his bed and sit in his room at the hospital. Mrs. Taft visits him each d.’&smd when she is not with him he reads. U. S. AGAINST NAVY PACT BASED UPON LEAGUE APPROVAL (Continued Prom First Page) for pushing the liner George Washing- ton to the limit of its speed was Mr. Stimson's anxiety to give as much tim as possible to this preliminary confer ence. Secretary Stimson will meet with Dino Grandi, premier of Italy, the fol- lowing day, Janua . As M. Tar- dieu and Premier Grandi are also the heads of their respective delegations, Mr. Stimson will be in a position to enter the conference with a personal understanding of the aspirations of France and Italy, even though his hopes for conciliation of their problems are not achieved immediately. The engagement with Premier Gran- di was announced from Rome, but an- nouncement of the engagement with Premier Tardleu was withheld for fear official acknowledgment that a for- mal meeting would be held with the head of the American delegation might have an undesirable political effect in France, where public opinion demangs & strong navy. BRITISH REPLY RECEIVED. Nature of Response to French Poliey Awaited With Interest. PARIS, January 11.—The reply of the British government to the French naval memorandum of 10 days ago was received at the ministry of foreign af- fairs today through Aime de Fleuriau, French Ambassador in London. The exact nature of the response to the Quai D'Orsay’s outline of what French policy is to be at the forthcoming five- wer conference is not known, but it stated that the text of the Briish note will probably bu published to- morrow. It is expected that in this document the foreign office will ex- press itself in sympathy in general with the French thesis of linking disarma- ment to the League covenant, but that it will carefully refrain from describing that as the sole doorway to limitation. As to the French proposal for a Medi- terranean pact of non-aggression it is % | believed that London will welcome the idea in principle without committing Britain in any way to the role of armed guarantor of peace in those waters. Just what the British will say about the French charge that the Kellogg pact offers no security remains to be seen, in fact the text and tenor of the note’ will be awaited with great interest. Answer Italy's Note, Simultaneously word comes from Rome to theeffect that the French re- Rome to the effect that the French re- Italian efforts to reach a naval under- standing was handed to Count Manzoni, Italian Ambassador here, on January 3, and that in the said reply the French fealty refused to accept the idea of naval parity between the two countries. Thus it is confirmed from Rome that the Paris nej have largely failed, and that the labor of reaching a Pranco-Italian accord will have to be undertaken after tl opening of the five-power conference in London. Aristide Briand, foreign Minister, who arrived in Paris last night from The Hague on his way to Geneva, received Arthur Henderson, British foreign sec- retary, and Lord Tyrrell, British Am- bassador, this morning at the Qual d'Orsay. He will depart for. Geneva tomorrow morning for the opening ses- sion of the eouneil' of the League of Nations, and will take the opportunls 0 G 3 of confy ‘with Din S AL : Above, left to open saddle class for’ and under, and Elizabeth Bunting, first Below: Lawrence Baker, jr., being event, for ponies, 14.3 and under. entation. Mrs. Lawrence Baker CHILDREN’S HORSE SHOW WINNERS ht: Dorothy Randolph, winner of second place in the rses over 14.3 hands, to be ridden by children 15 years winner in this class. presented with the prize in the second is making the pres- —Star Staff Photos. STIMSON T0 GET DIGEST OF VIEWS ;Attaches From European Em- | bassies Will Compile Data Daily During Parley. IPORTERS CALLED IN LOBBY INQUIRY Senate Probers Conclude In- vestigation of Sugar Group’s Tariff Activities. By the Associated Press. 7% Finished with its investigation of the | tariff activities of sugar interests, the | Senate lobby committes plans to begin on Tuesday an inquiry into the activ- ities of & number of New York im- rters. porters. Nine witnesses were summoned yes- terday to appear next week for ques- tioning in regard to any efforts they might have made in connection with the pending tariff bill. They are sched- uled to appear on Tuesday and Wednes- day, but their examination may oc- cupy the entire week. witnesses, all New York import- ers, are Peter Fletcher, Harvey O. Lloyd, Fix, C. T. Riotte, E. R. Pickrell, Frank J. Nolan, David Walker, J. W. Bevans and Philip le Boutillier. Prepare Sugar Report. Previously the committee had an- nounced it would begin an investiga- tion next week into the tariff activities of the American Tariff League, but the plans were changed because of the "‘,f“"‘ annual convention at that time. oseph R. Grundy, now Senator from Pennsylvania, formerly was president of the organization and before he be- came a member of the Senate was ques- tioned at length by the lobby commit- teee. Witnesses expected to be ex- amined have not been announced. ‘While the investigation of the im- porters is being conducted, the com- mittee will be occupled in preparing & report on the sugar interests for sub- mission to the Senate. Chairman Caraway sald yesterday the would be ready some time next week. Harrison Opposes Increase. Activities of the lobby committee were mentioned briefly yesterday on the floor of the Senate. Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, while making A speech against a raise in the sugar duty, referred the efforts of Cuban s interests #gainst a high duty. Caraway immediately interrupted to ob- serye that ‘“the record shows the ‘domestic sugar interests spent five times as much as the Cuban interests.” HONEYMOON ENDED. | Helen Wills Moody and Husband Return to San Francisco. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 11—Fred- erick 8. Moody. jr., and his bride, the | former Helen Wiils, queen of the tenng | courts, announced here that they would return to San Francisco by automabile | yesterday to, take up residence in an | apartment which has been furnished since they began their honeymoon De- cember 23. | The young couple have been staying | at a hotel here since they completed a | honeymoon trip down the coast to En- | senada, Mexico, aboard a yacht. Survives Two Shipwrecks. NEW YORK, January 11.—The Laird | of the Island of Pula, a professor of { Greek art at Carleton Coliege, North- fleld, Minn., is here after his second | shipwreck. Ian B. Stoughton Holburn survived the torpedoing of the Lusi- tania and was 45 minutes in the water. | His second wreck was near the island Teport | By the Associated Press, the progress of the London Na‘:ufifln&nference Secretary Stimson plans to keep a close watch on public opinion. ‘The State Department has instructed attaches of several American embas- sies in Europe to attend a conference in London, at which a system of trans- mitting editorial comment and other significant information from various countries will be formulated. ‘This matter is to be assembled daily in London, together with a digest of American news and editorial expres- sions on the conference, which will be cabled to Mr. Stimson by the State Department. condensed presentation of reac- tion to the deliberations of the naval powers will thus be available constant- Iy to members of the delegation, plementing the representations of officials they will meet at the confer- ence table. The attaches who will gather the European information have been drawn from the embassies in Ber- lin, Berne, Brussels, Paris and Reme. Comment of the Japanese press also is expected to be furnished the delegates. Suggestions that a separate Medi- terranean pact London to bring about an accord tween France and Italy brought no action here yesterday, beyond a sta ment from the White House that di cussion of enlarging the scope of the conference must await the American delegation's arrival in London. No communications have been received by President Hoover from Mr. Stimson ;mu the delegation sailed last Thurs- ay. | STRICKEN ARCHBISHOP REPORTED IMPROVING Dean of Catholic Church Episco- pacy in U. S. SBuffered Severe Bronchial Attack. | By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La., Januery 11.— bastian G. Messmer of Milwaukee, Wis., stricken with a bronchial affection while visiting in Louisiana, reported his con- dition as improved yesterday. The aged prelate, dean in years of the Catholic Church Eplscopacy in the United States and for 26 years head of the Milwaukee diocese, entered a sani- tarium operated by Franciscan Sisters here two weeks ago. when a chronic malady recurred, while he was resting on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain in Southeast Louisiana. Late Wednesday hemwu reported to have contracted & cold. he inherited and he was in the water | three ho:lr:. One leg is still blnd!'ed“ oV — TIN ROOFS PORCHES BUILT WE BUILD, REBUILD, REMODEL. REFAIR ANYTHING ONEBR mw :.u"“:'fi‘:mm S may used to cencel the note when due. Deposits mey be on - monthly or monthly basis as CONSTRUECTION VICE Physicians _attending Archbishop Se- | TWO YOUNG RIDERS WIN SILVER CUPS Lawrence Baker and Louise Myers Adjudged Best in Junior Show. Lawrence Baker, jr., son of Lawrence Baker of the Capital, was adjudged the best boy rider in a large field at the Riding and Hunt Club's annual junior horse show yesterday on the tanbark arena at Twenty-second and P streets, and received a handsome silver cup. Miss Louise Myers, also of Washing- ton, drew the judges’ decision and identical material award in the girl riders’ class at the show. Both young- sters lent their mounts their fine rid- ing abilities to capture other prizes in the largest junior show ever held the club. . Merrylegs, owned by Ogden L. Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury, on the basis of events won and placed was by far the best horse shown yesterday. Horses and mounts from Virginia and Maryland as well as the District competed in the nine classes, 200 entries in all showing. The results were as follows: Class 1—For the best rider, 8 years and under, won by Miss Laura Blair, Basy McCormick, on Agate, second: and Julia Foraker, on Grey Bunny, third. Class 2—For ponies, 14.3 hands and under, performance and manners 75 per cent, conformation 25 per cent: Liability, ridden by Lawrence Baker, jr., first; Merrylegs, ridden by Philip Fell, second; Taurus, ridden by Louise Myers, third. Class 3—Open saddle class for horses to be ridden by children 15 years and under: Merrylegs, ridden by Elizabeth Bunting, first; Happy Time, ridden by Virginia Randolph, second; Notaris, ridden by Lawrence Baker, jr., third. Class 4—For children between the ages of 8 and 12, riding the chief judg- ing consideration: Margaret Cotter, on Smiles, first; Polly Foraker, on ‘Whis- thw.lr‘ second; Louise Myers, on Redeem, d. Class 5—For pairs of saddle horses to be ridden by children 15 years end under, the uniformity of pairs to b2 judged: So Black and Brown Joy, rid- den by Virginia Rogers and Polly For- aker, first; Liabllity and Taurus, ridden by Lawrence Baker, jr, and Louise Myers, second: Agate and Winnle, rid- den by Medill McCormick and Mary M e §Open jumping class: Ciifton lass n jump! ass: Chief, ridden by l‘edl{l ‘McCormick, first; Smiles, ridden by Margaret Cot- ter, second; unnhamed mount, ridden by Ruth Patton, third. Class 7—Run_in two sections to choose the best boy and girl riders of the show: Boys’' seetion won by Law- rence Baker, jr.; John McCormick, sec- ond; Lionel Massey, third: best girl rider, Louise Myers; Virginia Rogers, second; Dorothy *Randolph, third. Class 8—For saddle horses, the prop- erty of a club or riding school, first consideration, their suitability for such work: Whispers, ridden by Polly Fora- ker, first; Brown Joy, ridden by Margo Wyeth, second; Pastime, ridden by Frances White, third. Class 9—Jumping class, touch-and- out: Crow, ridden by Elizabeth Bunt- ing, first; Smiles, ridden by Margaret Cotter, second: Hottentot, ridden by William Tarbell, third. CANDY EXECUTIVE SEEKS - OUSTER OF 3 OFFICIALS Vice Pruiden't Would Remove President and Two:Directors of Lott, Inc. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 11.—A wrangle the officers of Loft, Inc. candy manufacturers, who a year lgo brought about the removal of the old dire g heads, came to light today with the re- ceipt by stockholders of a letter from Charles G. Guth, executive vice presi- asking their ald in ousting other officers. In his letter Guth charged that Al- fred R. Miller, president, and William L. Wemple and Charles R. Stevenson, ‘ectors, had dissipated assets by hav- paid themselves and their efficiency experts_ exorbitant salaries, had shown poor judgment in having sacrificed a valuable mid-Manhattan leasehold, had egneal.led commission payments of $300,000 in sale of stock to stockholders and made a disadvantageous con- tract with the Allison Drug Store chain. Mr. Guth asks the stockholders to t might be negotiated at | & holder of 100,000 res of the stock of the company. says Mr. Miller owns only 400 shares and the other men nine. Mr. Miller has learned of Mr. Guth's plan, it was said at the company’s of- fices today, and has sent a letter to stockholders warning them against Mr. Guth. w YOUNG ROYAL COUPLE ENDS ENTERTAINMENTS Prince and Princess of Piedmont Believed to Have Postponed Honeymoon Trip. By the Associated Press. ROME, Jdnuary 11.—The Prince and Princess of Piedmont after a week of festivities in honor of their marriage I,{;)‘dly fln-llty benefited from: ‘th““ of silence, as far as newspapers, the pub- lic and visiting pomht‘:- were '&m. cerned. Tired by the continuous round of en- tertaining and formal functions, they apparently postponed departure on their long-delayed honeymoon because they granted an audience for Monday after- noon here in Rome. ‘The Quirinal officials were most reti- cent today on the future plans of the couple, but it was believed they wouid spend the week end quietly in the Quirinal and not leave before Tuesday. MOvln{al'lIS PLAN BANK U..S. Treasury 1408 H Street N, W.