Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forscast ) Fair fodey and tomorrow: slcwly ris- ing temperature this afternoon: warmer tomorrow. ‘Témperatures—Highest, 32 at 2 pm. I vesterday: Jowest, 15 at 10 p.m. vester- dny. Pull report on page 7. Sund A Sl “From Press 1o Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. (#) Means Associated Press. Che WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION No. 31,309, 1,296— No. ¥ntered as second elass matter post office, Washington, WASHINGTON, D. « SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1930 118 PAGKS. FIVE CEN'TS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN CENTS FLSEWHER¥® NO CUT T00 GREAT. FORU.S. AT LONDON Hoover's Armistice Day Text Seen as Expressing Dele- gates’ View. ROBINSON OPTIMISTIC ON REAL REDUCTION Failnre of Conference Might Cost Ameriea $1,000,000,000 Under Washington Treaty Program. RY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Ra Corraspandant af The &tar B> Cable to The Star LONDON, January 18- Having malle paid 1ts Tespactz tn Premier Ramsay Maetionald at Nn. 10 Downing atrart foday, the American delegation tn the Naval Conference dug in for the lang tug nf peace that eonfronts it in London, with st what awaits Seere- farv af State Stimson and his eolleagnes vet in the lap f the gods After Secretary Stimson haz Premier Tardieu of France, and Foregn Minister Grandi of Ttaly, tomorrow. his series of conferences and communica- tions with heads of ather delegations o the Conierence will he complete, as the Recretary econferred with Waketsuki leader of the Japanese delegation, i Washington in December. Secretary Stimson conferred with Premier Mac- donald at a protracted meeting vester- Ll Bv the time the Conference swinze into real action after the formal epen. ing by King George, President Hoover's apokesmen expect to be in possession of the hroad plans outlined for the pro- gram of each of the conferring powers In return for the confidences of the other delegations, Secretary = Stimson will have intimated the general purposes animating the United States. Hoover's Message i« Remembered. Apart from anvthing specially ns in which fleld the American delegation has certain more or less definite pro- posals. jte nutstanding plan is to seek » basis of agreement wherever concilin- tion is open. “No American colors will he nailed to the mast.” however. and with this warring, they have represented the United States’ last word. President Hoover's armistice day utterance that “no reduction in naval armaments will be too Jow to suit the American people.” however, comes close to being the dele- gation’s principle. The d!mn is not. going to sacri- fice anvthing vital to national defen. at sea, but no stone is to be left un- turned fo accomplish President Hoover's determination to “relieve the backs of those’ who toil from gigantie expendi- ture, and the world from hate and fear which flow from rivalry in the building of warshipe.” Rattleship Js Seen as Crox. Ax the mero hour approaches, the impression is erystallizing that the bat- tleship is destined to be the erux of the conference. It certainly will be cast for that role if Prench cruiser de. mands force Britain to ask a cruiser tonnage unacceptable to the United States, thus upsetting the whole ad- vanee understanding reached between Premier Macdonald and President Hoover. It should be understood at once that it Prance or Japan make :t impossible o effect an agreement for Jimitation of cruisers, submarines, or destroyers. about the only hope of suc- eess lies in restricting battleship con- atruetion in some form or another. The United States’ position on battle- GARET GARRETT SHOT BY NEW YORK GUNMEN Writer's Condition Declared Seri- ons After Attack by Masked for- seen | B¢ the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 18.—Garet Garrett, a writer, was shot in the neck and chest tonight by one of three men who wore handkerchiefs over their faces. He was taken from the place of the shooting. on West Fifteenth street. to 8t. Vincent's Hospital, where physicians #aid his condition was serious Police said Garrett was accompanied by Miss Magdalen Davis of New York when he was shot. Garrett's home is in Tuckahoe, N. J He is widely known as a writer of sconomic and political essays and has written several books. For many years he was connected with New York news- papers as a financial and editorial writer, He was born at Pana, I, in 1878. CAPITAL’S PRETTY PARLEY TYPISTS snuci: WOMEN IN TEARS AS MRS. OWEN PLEADS CASE FOR HOUSE SEAT 15 GUIDING POLICY commeamen ssson o Handkerchiefs as She Tells Life Story. Declares She Never Re- nounced Allegiance to Coun- try and Is Proud of Name. Representative Ruth Rrvan Owen Demoerat of Florida, told most of the story of her life 1o a House slections rommitiee vesterday to an sttack on her eligibility The recital. delivered in a stvle worthy of her father. the late William Jen- nings Bryan, brought spectators and members of the committee close 10 tears more than once. Unrepresentad by counsel. Mrs. Owen took the stand in her cwn. defense. Noah Bainum. attornev for William €. Lav<on. Republiean, had hic apper- tunity Friday when the hearing began The lawver eontended Mrs, Owen had no right te her seat in Conaress since at the time of her slection she had not heen a citizen of the United States for U 5. READY TO CUT BATTLESHIPS AND JOIN 3-YEAR HALT America Also Prepared to Recommend Size Be Re- duced to 25,000 Tons. in answer ta Congrest In advance of announcement of a formal policy by the American delega- tion at the London Naval Limifations Conference. it was learned officially ves- terday that the United States iz pre- pared not only fo declare a five-year battleship holiday, but to scrap per- manently the 11 capital ships which be- come obsolete at the end of the holi- dny. On the same high authority it can be announced that as an alternative 1o drastic reduction of battleship fleets the United States is prepared to recommend reduction of the authorized size of capi- tal ships from 35,000 tons to consider- ably less than 25000 tons. the lowest figure yet proposed by Great Britain for capital ships of the future. An agreement by the five powers rep- resented at the London Conference not to replace battleship tonnage authorized during the next five years by the Wash- ington treaty would mean that after 1936 the United States and Great Rrit- ain would each have seven battleshipe and Japan four. Should the Washing- ton treaty ratios be continued, Franre and Italy would have none. Agree on Battleship Curb. Such a program was discussed by President Hoover and Prime Minister J. Ramsay Macdonald during their fa- mous conference on a h)g| at the Pres- | ident’s fishing camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Both agreed that battle- ships, the most cost'y units in the Navy, should be drastically curbed. Neither American nor_British experts agreed among themselves as to the means of accomplishing it. The problem was left, therefore, for the London Conference. ‘As far as official quarters here have been informed, the British Admiralty at no time has been prepared to make as great reductions as the United States in any naval category. If there has been any change in that position Washington has not been officially notified. The offer made by the United States at Geneva last May—"to discuss naval reduction, however ‘drastic”—still stands, it was announced. In effect, this was the answer from official circles tonight to Prime Minister Macdonald’s intimations in a London statement earlier this week that Great Britain would like o see battleships Officials_here quite frankly MRS. PARKS GUILTY OF CHILD KILLINGS Second Degree Murder and Man- Verdicts Are Found. slaughter Br the Associated Press CAMDEN, N. J., Janusry 18.—Gladys | May Parks was convicted by a jury to- ¥ e murder in the killing of & child left in her care and of mansiaughter in the death of & sec- ond child. The verdict was for the death of Timothy Rogers. aged two, while in the death of the boy's sister. Dorothy, aged four, the jury returned a finding of manslaughier. Sentence will be pro- nounced Monday. STEAL THE SPOTLIGHT IN LONDO British Gasp in Wonder at Fur Coats, Silk Stockings, ¥, W. and Complexions. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Rtaff Correspondent of The Star. R Canie ta The Star LONDON. January 18.—Washington's great army of Government employes should be interested to know that their 17 fair representatives in London, namely. the bevy of State and Navy Department. stenographers attached to the American delegation, have positively stolen the naval conference show thus far. Their pictures, their impressions of london, their personal habits and sppearance have been featured in the newspapers with almost greater prom- ' fnence than Secretary of State Stimson "qvm his colleagues or other conference nrws. “Washineton's Prettiest” was the cap- tion adorning a four-column photo- Igraph of the typewriter nymphs from | the Potomac on the main news page of the Dally Mail. All newspapers have agreed that the chic appearance and beauty of the American girls outpoint the business girls of Britain, who, “in all their glory, are not arrayed like these." The Evening Standard in discussing “these startlingly smart and different girls” made the statement that “nearly all the American typists who have ar- rived in London were wearing fur coats In England only actresses look so smart and striking. One girl wore a black sealskin coat lined with clipped rabbit fur, Her stockings were of the sheer- est silk. Our working typists probably will stride through them in half a day and so far the English girls suffer by comparison. but we still ve our com- plexions. Bvery Americandypist 1 saw | (Continued on Page 4, umn 3.) | RUTH BRYAN OWEN. seven as the Constitution auires, Dressed in a modesi biack dress. and speaking in a voice indicating intense restrained emotion, often steadying herself with her hands resting on rhe back of a chair. Mrs, Owen related bits af her childhood. much of her married life during the war, paid fribute to her vears, British_officer husband. Mai. Reginald | «Continued on Page 2. Column 2.) CRUMBLING LEVEES ROUT RIVER FOLK IN"SUB-ZERD COLD St. Francis Breaks Dikes in Five Places in Missouri and Arkansas By the Associaied Press. MFEMPHIS, Ten January 18 —Pive hundred families evacuated their homes Iate today as iev waters from five breaka in the St. Francie River swept over 50.000 acres in Southeastern Missouri and Northeastern Arkansas. ‘Waters of the swollen river started destruction today by sweeping a 75- foot, gap In its barrier at Hitts Perry, which tonight had left Holcomb, Mo. virtually marooned. although protected by & new levee behind the shattered earthworks. Two additional crevasses soon ap- peared at Mill House place, just west of Kennett. Mo. and a fourth gap at Carters _Island, 6 miles below Ken- nett. The final crevasse was washed out at Nimmons Levee, a few miles downsteam. It was the only one to occur in Arkansas. The United States engineer's office at Memphis tonight estimated that 500 families had been driven from their (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) MERCURY TO SLUMP TO FIVE ABOVE ZER 15 Degrees Recorded at 10 P.M. Last Night—Relief Is in Sight. A rapidly tumbling thermometer last night was scheduled to drop to five de- grees above 7ero early today, the cold- est weather of the past three years. Slowly rising temperature was fore- cast for this afternoon, with warmer weather in view tomorrow. At 10 o'clock last night the tem- perature had dropped 17 degrees dur- ing_the preceding 8-hour period. A further drop of 10 degrees was expected during the night, making a total of 27 degrees in 18 hours. The thermometer stood at 32 degrees vesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. By 6 o'clock it was down to 24 degrees and by 10 o'clock had tumbled to 15. The last sub-zero weather recorded in Washington was on February 5, 1918 when the mercury dropped to 2 degrees below. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page B-4 D. A. R. Activities—Page B-6. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page B-9. PART TWO—12 PAGES, Editorial _Section—FEditorials and Edi- torial Features. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Review of New Books—Page 4 Spanish War Veterans—Page 5. Girl Scouts—Page 5. Marine Corps Notes—Page 5 Financial News—Pages 6. 7. 8 and 9. THREE—12 PA and FOUR—14 PAGE Section—Theater, Scresn In the Motor World-—Pages 5 and 6 | Aviation Activities—Page 8. | At Community Centers—Page 9 | Army and Navy News—Page 9 Veterans of Great War—Page 10, C. A.—Notes—Page 10, T. U. Notes—Page 10. News of the Clubs—Page 11. | Organized Reserves—Page 11 District_of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 11, Fraternities—Page 12 District_Natfonal Guard—Page 12, Radio News—Page 13. PART FIVE—{ PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 6 Serial Story, “The Romantic Prince"- | Page 6. PART SEVEN— Magazine Section. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 23, | _ GRAPHIC SECTION 8 PAGES. ‘World Events in Pictures, COLOR SECTION—8& PAGES, Moon Mullins; Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar PAGES. Annte: Brtty: Somebody's Stenoj High Lights ef History. re- still | Pellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Little Orphan | COMMERCIAL BANK (CONSOLIDATES WITH CONTINENTAL TRUST i 4 |Col. Wade H. Cooper to Be President of Merged Institutions. $21,000.000 RESOURCES ARE JOINED BY MOVE "First Step Toward Uniting of Other Washington Banks Is Hinted in Action, Merger of the Commercial National Bank and the Continental Trust Co was announced yesierday afternoon. “The concolidated bank will be known the Commercial National and Col. Wade H. Cooper. head of the Conti- nental Trust, will be the president. The new hank will oecupy the Commercial National Building at Fourteenth and G streets. The consolidated bank will have resources of $21,000,000 tn $22,000,000. Negotiations for the meyger nave been under way for several weeks. hut it had heen previously announced that they had failed. This announcement that the metger had heen agreed on was made jointlv by R. Golden Donaldson. president of the Commercial for several vears, and Mr. Cooper, who has been president of the Continental Trust Co. The consol- idation ix effective at once. The Continental Trust. Co.. at Four- teenth and H streets. will retire from the banking field, the officidls an- nounced. Other Consolidstions Rumored, ! ‘ | | Tt is understood that Col. Cooper and | a number of his associates in the Con- | | tinental Trust Co. purchased a | block of stock in the Commercial Ni | i ional’Bank, owned by R. Golden Don- aldson. Tt is hinted that this merger may be the first step toward the consolidation inr other local banks, The Commercial National's. deposits {on December 31, the date of the last | | Controller's call. were $16,144,547.12, while the Continenta)’s deposits on the same date were about $3,000,000. The Commercial National has $1.000.- 1000 capital. $400.000 surplus and undi- | vided profits of $386.949, while the Con- | tinental Trust's total capital is $1,000,- 000: - surplus. $117.835, and undivided profits of $138.700. The annual meeting of the directors of the Commercial National was held | vesterday afternoon following the stock- { holders' meeting earlier in the week | At this meeting Mr. Donaldson an- nounced that he had disposed of his stock and declined re-election, Mr. Cooper then being elected president in | bis place. | Most of Oficers Retained. The question of the official personnel {a problem that Mas broken up many | A proposed merger, was successfully worked out by the conferring commit- tees, most of the officers of both banks being retained. The merged bank's | oMclala are: . | _Wade H. Cooper, president: James B. | Reynolds, James H. Baden, Laurence A. | Slaughter, Walter J. Harrison, vice | presidents: Frederick H. Cox, cashier; Robert A. Cissell, controller; Herbert V. Hunt. T. Blackwell Smith, Alexander | | Varela, M. F. Showalter. R. Jesse Chi ney and Nathan B. Scott. 2d, assistant | cashiers: Ralph D. Quinter, trust officer, and Miss Mary J. Winfree of the Con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) RAGING SNOWS BLOCK 35 PLANES IN SEARCH Maurice Graham, Airmail Pilot, | 8till Missing in Rockies. By the Associated Press LAS VEGAS, Nev. January 18— Snow-laden clouds roaring down from { the ice-bound continental divide across the mountain ranges and desert valleys of Southern Utah and Nevada, today drove to cover a fleet of 35 airplanes earching for Maurice Graham, veteran airmail pilot. The white flakes laid a deep mantle of snow over the rough terrain be- | tween here and St. George, Utah. G . ham disappeared in a storm January 10 while fiying the mail from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City. Army and Navy planes have joined in the hunt Land parties today tramped over the wild desert areas on snowshoes or mounted horses, but without success 7. 1 bl 4 A A0 T HOW IT T1.OOKS FROM DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS! OFFICIALS HERE IN CONFLICT OVER TAXICAB REGULATIONS Police and Traffc Buresu Charge Utilities RULEF UR D.C.HEADS Commission Is Trying to Usurp Their Powers. Priction between the Public Utilities | Commission and the police and traffic departments appeared imminent ves- terday ss a result of a new set of ruies and regulationt promulgated by the commission to govern the operation and equipment of taxicabs and other public vehicles beginning February 1. The new regulations, by far the most drastic ever adopted in Washington for the control of public vehicles, are look- d upon by both police and traffic offi- clals as an attempt on the part of the commission to usurp certain powers and functions vested by Congress in their respective departments. In the new code, too, these officials see an overlap- | ping of authority and possible serious | conflict and confuston in the enforce- CHEST GIFTS DRIVE HAS STRONC START One Agency Taken Care of by $7,500, and Increased Liberality Is Seen. Incressed giving to the Community | Chest was manifested in preliminary | reports of the special gifts commitiee | which yesterday launched its campaign for gifts of $500 or more for the Chest budget for 1930, Before the sun had set on the first day's efforts of this advance guard of campaigners, at least one of the 75| agencies included in the Chest was as- sured of its entire quota. This was in the form of an anonymous gift of $7.500 | received by Elwood Street, director of the Chest, and specifically designated to take care of the entire budget of the National Cspital Civic Pund. | The high spirits of the special gifts | committee members over the increased generosity of s0 many previous con- tributors to the 1929 budget were re- flected in the optimistic statement is- sued by John Poole, general chairman of this year's campaign. With victory “around the corner.”’ the special gifts committee was looking forward confi- dently to its first reporl tomorrow fo Chairman Newbold Noyes. Its goal set | (Continued on Page 3, Column 1)) iGREAT NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER | - HERE TO BE ASKED BY BRITTEN '$3.200.000 Structure to Harmonize WIth‘ Will Be Proposed | in House Tomorrow. Erection of a new Navy medical cen- | ter to cost $3,200.000, on the site of the | present Naval Hospital, will be proposed |'in a bill to be introduced in the House tomorrow by Representative Fred Brit- ten of the House naval affairs com- mittee. The main building of the new center | would be erected on the old Naval Ob- servatory eminence and harmonise | architecturally with the Lincoln Memo- rial nearby. It would house a 500-bed | hospital and the naval post-graduate | schools of medicine and dentistry. | 'The plan also provides for the exten- sion of New York avenue through the lower part of the reservaiion, now occu- pied by temporary structures. in accoid- ance with the plans of the National apital Park and Planning Commission for the approach to the new Arlington Memorial Bridge. Insists on Harmony. Architectural pared by the Navy Dej insistence by Represen! that extreme care should be used to| make the building fit in harmoniously | with the Lincoln Memorial and the other developments of the Capital. Representative Britten called upon the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy fo prepare a statement of | needs in this proposed medical center. Then the Bureau of Yard and Docks {drew the architecturgl plans. These fwo bureaus have been\co-operating for | | structures | erected in 1845. | efciently coorliinated is one of several months on laying out 8 model development. Their reports were submitted late ves- terdsy to Representative Britten. His bill, to be introduced tomorrow, will au- | thorize the Secretary of the Navy replace. remodel and extend existing | nd (o construct additional | the United States Naval| & cost not to exceed bulldings at Hospital at $3.200,000. Two-Purpose Projec ‘This legisiation has two main pur- poses, Representative Britten explain- ed—to provide adequate, five.proof, modern hospital, and to coordinale with it the medical and dental schools 1 raduate instruction of young do tors and dentists who join the Navy The medical school is now in 'ne old Naval Observatory building which was ‘The dental school 1a at the foot of the hill in temporary war-time wooden bulldings. hos pital now has 410 patients, them in the war-time buildings, hospital is constantly crowded. y Concentration of the various activi- ties now scattered over the reservation inio one bullding where they ctn be the great advantages aimed at by Reprs sentative Britien. The main bullding now occupied by the Naval Hospital was erected 'about 25 st of the on Page 2, Column 4.) most ¢ and the ment of existing police and traffic regu- Tations. The Teguiations. it was charged. were drawn up and adopted without. the ad- vice and counsel of either the police or traffic departments, despite their vital concern with the operation _and equipment of all types of vehicles. pub- | lic as well as private. And since their adoption. the officials claim, the com- mission made no effort to confer with them. but instead sent them copies of the official order The commission, howevar. contends that its order was carefully drawn with due tegard for the trafic and police regulations, and no conflict or con. fusion should arise with proper co-oper- ation_from the police and irafc de- (Continued on Page 2, Colimn 7.) 2RY ACENTS SLAN N FLORIDA RAD R. K. Moncure, Former Capi- tal Policeman, Is Killed at West Palm Beach. Robert Knox Moncure, 34-vear-old prohibition agent, formerly a Washing- ton policeman, and F. R. Patterson, also & prohibition agent, described as a former resident of Fairfax County, Va, were shot lo death at’ West Palm Beach, Pi late yesterday afternoon by an alleged bootlegger when they at- tempted to search his house for liquor, according to Assoclated Press dis- patches, Moncure, who left here several years | ago for duty in Florida has relatives in Washington and Fredericksbuig, Va He was a personal friend of Prohibi- tion Commissioner James M. Doran. Mrs. Moncure is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Brananin of 1334 Ham- lin street northeast. Her parents were visiling them at their home in Lake Worth, Fla, when (he shooting oc- curred. The dispalches from Fiorida last night declared that George W. Moore alleged o have fired the shots that Killed the (wo. had been artested and lodged in the Paim Beach County Jail Chief 1s Held at Buy. Chief of Police Frauk Matthews, who was summoned Lo the place, was held at bay ‘for 20 minules by & shoigun n (he hands of Moore, bul persuaded the man to surrender. Bearing search warranis, issued yes- terday by United States Commissioner Robert L. Earnest, a party of four | agents went Lo the Moore home, which had been under- surveillance all day. Moncure and James Crugler went Lo the front door, while Patlerson and Willlam McNalty went (o the rear of the residence. Police sald they found Pallerson’s body in the kitchen of the residence, while Moncure lay on the front porch. Both men were hit by buckshot from Moore’s gun, Moncure was killed instantly when a single buckshot entered the center of his forehead after passing through a sereened door. but Patterson dled on the operating table at a hospital. When the shooting began, police aid, 0| the two agents who escaped the fire | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. PUBLIC TEST PLANNED FOR LARGEST LAND PLANE Ship Which Ca es 32 Passengers and Crew of 4 to Be Flown Next Thursday. DEBATE RESIDENCE | | Federation Discusses Jones | Move to Alter Commission- ers’ Eligibility. The Jones resolution to alter the resi- dence qualification of Distriet Commiz- | sioners came in for extended debate at the meeting of the Federation of Cifi- zens’ Associations last night n rhe board room of the District building. ‘The ' resolution, Introduced in the Senate yvesterday. provides that the | maintaining of a voting residence away | from Washington shall not disqualify a | candidate for Commissioner, who other- | wise has maintained his home or place {of business in the District for three | years. ~ | The resolution was called up by James G. Yaden, of Petworth, who asked that it _be referied to the appropriate coni- mittee for action. “This federation has held for vears, Mr. Yaden said, “that the residence qualification is a wise piece of restric- tive legislation Willlam A. Roberts of Conduit road | sought to have the matter discussed | and’ voted on forthwith by the federa- | tion, under a suspension of the rules. Clayton E. Emig of Dupont Circle ob- jected, stating that the federation had ,not yet sgen a copy of the resolution. Mr. Roberts’ motion won a majority of the votes, 24 to 16, but since a three- fourths majority was necessary under suspension of the rules the motion did | not prevail. President Gearge C. Havenner thereupon referred the bill to the commitiee on law and legislation for report. This will probably will be made at the next federation meeting. February 1. Elwood Street, director of the Com- | munity Chest, addressed the federation (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) RESIDENCE OF BANK PRESIDENT BOMBED Attack in Which Family Escapes Follows Closing of Oviedo, Fla., Institution. By (he Associsled Prase ORLANDO, Fia. January 18.--The home of Capt. B. G. Smith, president of the Bank of Oviedo. which suspended business earlier i the week. was dyna- mited early tonight Members of the Smith (amily were in the house al the time. bul escaped unhurt, Shenff Frauk Karel of Orange Coun- { deputies rushed W ck-growing community 15 miles northeast of here upon receiving word of (he explosion. The biast destroved a large portion of the residence. tear- Ing up part of the toundation and rip- ping out & portion of the walls Capt. Smith, a prominent celery grower of that section, his wife and (wo other relatives were in the house. |but were in thal part larthest awi | from the explosion. About two months ago dynamiters almost completelv wrecked the Oviedo Bank building. Absence of clues has kept the bank blast & mystery since it occurred. NEW HOUSE SETS ASIDE $13,000,000 FOR DRY LAW DESPITE WETS Series of Amendments 0f- fered to Measure Swept Away by Prohibitionists. LA GUARDIA OBJECTION OVER LEGALITY FAILS $2.000.000 Fund Also Given Ap- proval to Improve Coast Guard. RY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Rrushing aside a point af arder made by Representative La Guavdia of New the sffect that the sighteenth amandment iz inoperative heeausze It has not hean 1atified 2 cecond time by three- fourths of the States. the House terdav afternoon approved £13,000.000 for the enforcemant of prohibition dur- ing the coming fseal vear. The appra- priation in the Treasre- Poct Ofce appropriation hill Mr. 1a Guardia hesed his point order on the third sectian of the eight- conth amendment to the Constitution which reads: “This article shall be in- operative ynlese it shall have heen ra fled as an amendment to the Consti- tntion by the legisiatures of the several States. as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the snbmission hereof to the States by the Congr Tt was Mr. La Guardia’s contention that thi= section required the legisla- tures of the States to approve the amendment jtself within seven years He argued that the onlv thing which the States had iatified was the resolu- tion proposing ratification which was ibmitted by Congress. Representative Snell of New York everruled the point of order. He held that the New York Representative had asked fhe chaitman of the committas of the hole 10 rule on the law and the Constitution. which the rules. af the Houss forbid York to ves. iy carried ot Wete Offer Amendments, There was no appeal from the ruling of the chair, The “weis." however, ni- feved a 3 of amendments 1n the section of the bill earrying the appro- oriation for prohibition enfsrrement, a'l of which were voted dovn. The first was offered ny ‘he.new “wat” leader of the House, Reprasentative Linthicum. Democrst of Marviand. His proposal was that the Government should not place poisons in industrial denature it. The a by a vote of 107 to 27. Representarive La Guardia proposed to increase the appropriation ta $300.- 000,000 on the ground rher il probibi tion was to_be enforced that zmount would be needed. His amendment was voted down. Another “wet.” Rep: sentative Sabath, Democrat of Tilinois, proposed (o prevent the use of ant money appropriated by prohibition agents to buy liquor in any public or private place to be used as evidenee of law violation. This amendmen: went the same route as the others. Representative Black, Democrat of New York, sought to cut out an appro- priation of $50,000 for the collection and dissemination of information on law-enforcement. Black argued that it was highly unfair for the “drys” to use $50,000 of public funds “for dry propa- ganda purposes.” His amendment was rejected. An amendment offered by Represente ative Palmisano, Democrat of Mary- land, proposed that no one should be emploved as a prohibition agen: who was under indictment or who was a felon. He had no betier luck than the others. Coast Guard Funds. The House in committee of the whole also approved the appropriation for the Coast Guard, including an ad- ditional 000,000, recommended by the appropriations committee to in- crease the efficiency of that service. ‘The prohibition_issue failed to raise its head in the Senate yesterday, but tomorrow the Senate judiciary com- mittee is to hold its first meeting since the veceipt by Congress of President Hoover's message recommending legis- lation ta strengthen the enforcement of prohibition, accompanied by the reec- ommendations of the law-enforcement commission. Chairman Norris of the commitlee has indicated that he will ask the commitiee (o decide what shall be done wilh (he recommendations at omorrow’s meeting Up.w this time the Senate commil- Lee has postponed consideration of bills until after the tariff shall have been disposed of in the Senate. The_Senate committee has before it also Senator Blaine's joint resolution proposing to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment. While some of the lead- ing “drys” of the Senate have declared themselves entirely willing to allow this resolution (o come to & vote, it is likely they will wait for Senator Blaine to seek action on it. both in the commit- tee and in the Senate. Senator Blaine, while he says he will press the consid eration of his resolution, indicates that he wili not do so until the tari +Continued on Page 5, Colum TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATION TO SEEK MODIFIED DRY LAW | *“Crusaders” Perfect Program to Appeal to Big Class in Between Extremists. Br the Ascociated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 18.—A new Nation-wide organization dedicated to the hope of obtaining Governmeni- | controlled temperance as a substitute Special Dispatch to The Star NEW YORK. January ~The | world’s largest land plane. the latest | of the Fokker F-32 type, will be taken its first public test’ flight at_the | vark Metropolil Alrport nexli Thursday, it was announced vesterday | by Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, vice | president of the Pokker Aircraft Cor- | poration. Plans for an elaborate cere- mony to display the unusual charac- teristies of the plane, which c passengers and a crew of four, have been made. Police Commissioner Whalen and other officials of the air | police_divigion of the New York Po- liee Deps nt have been invited to the core | for prohibition, and appealing for sup port from that vast “in-between” class | of Americans who are neither radical wets nor radical drys took form here tonight. Under the name of “The Crusaders." | 50 prominent citizens from Northern and Eastern parts of the United State:. who comprise the executive board of the present organization, which was born in Cleveland nearly a year ago. made their plans for expansion from coast to coast, Organization of “battalions” of the Crusaacrs will be formed¥n every larpe City east of the Mississipplj River as th. starter of the expansion program. the board announced. Later the Crusaders hope to have “battalions” in every citv | over 25000 population from the A'- lantic to the Pacific. The plan of the Crusaders is to de- velop an organization of sufficient vo'- ing and other strength 1o wield an im- portant power on the prohibition ques- tion in national politics and to engage in a campaign of temperance education as opposed (o prohibition. Fred G. Clark, Cleveland oil man, who is commander in chief of the Crusaders, said the organization wiil work with the Association Against the Eighteenth Amendment in the cause of true temperance, and offers to co-op- erate with the W. C. T. U. or any simi- lar body in an educational program for | temperance. Maj. Gen. Clarence R, Edwards of Boston was the prineipal speaker at the meating. 1