Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Pair and slightly colder today; to- morrow increasing cloudiness with slowly faperatures.Highest, 37 at 2 pm. lowest, 15 at 6 a.m. yesterday. on pege 7. *From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star 'is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carrler service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. y : Sunay WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION he WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1930—140 PAGES. Entered as second class matte; post office. Washington. D. .C. NAVY CUT SHOULD BE AIM 'OF ALL, DECLARES MELLON War Prevention and Liquidalion Taking Two-Thirds of Year’s Expenditures in United States. No. 1,297—No. FRANCE AND TALY REMAIN AT ODDS ON PARITY QUESTION IN “FIVE CENTS |TEN CENTS ML WAISJINGTON AND slmunnsl IN ELSEWHERE IMPERATIVE NEED FOR MODERNIZED SCHOOLS 1S SHOWN BY CAPITAL SURVEY MAJ. PRATT URGES OVERHAULING FOR D. C. POLICE FORCE Recommends Mandatory Dis- | | Note—The Sunday Star presents herewith the first interview granted for mewspaper publication by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon reviewing world events of the decade following the World War. The Sunday Star x.l'prnlilled to present the following interview with missal for Drinking Liquor T Secretary Mellon, who {s a world figure and a commanding leader o0f Conversation Between Pre- On or Off Duty. ‘ ! :District’s Elementary System S ~ .| American business and finance. ' i mier Tardieu and Foreign, s ADVOCATES DRASTIC NN ¢ 1 Ofierf Study in Contrasts Minister Grandi Again Fails Ranging From Up-to-Date ECRETARY OF THE TREASURY ANDREW W. MELLON today gave 3 . | % powerful impetus to the w movement for reduction of naval arma- LAWS TO AID IN WORK D "} [ to Accomplish Agreement. 3 to Backwoods Features. ments when he declared in an authorized interview that “It is an augury full of hope that in the new decade which is just opening we should be concerned first of all with the efforts being made at London to make | peace more sure by coming to an agreement regarding naval armaments.” “War is still responsible for the major part of our expenditures” Mr. Mellon said, “and it is in the light of these facts that we must give our whole- hearted support to all intelligent and honest efforts on the part of the various S iations to bring about a reduction in the heavy ' y burden of armaments to the lowest point consistent : with the safety and peace of the world.” Mr, Mellon, who has served as Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, consented to review what he regards as the most important development of these years, Asks Warrants for Arrests Gamblers on Affidavit of Suspecting People. f MATTER NOW REGARDED b MAJOR ARMS PROBLEM| POOR SANITATION FOUND IN SEVERAL BUILDINGS A thorough overhauling of the Police | Department and the passage of drastic llaws to aid 1 in its work is recom- Neither Delegate Will Yield to é Others Have Antiquated Heating Other on Comparative Strength‘ Plants, With Congested Class of Fleets to Which Continental Nations Should Be Entitled for § Proper Security. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 25.— To- night'’s encounter between Foreign Secretary Dino Grandi and Pre-| mier Andre Tardieu once again failed to achieve the result sought by both delegations of healing the differences between the| French and Italian naval view- points. This problem was be- lieved to constitute one of the greatest dangers to the success of the five-power conference. Not even a semi-official state- | ment followed this conversation, but it was understood that M. Tardieu again enumerated the naval needs of France to defend her long coastline on three seas and to protect the next most vast colonial empire after that of Britain. | to the sea strength of 3 Italy, therefore, feels obliged to insist on parity with the continental European power. ha mfim nrunndfloet. m‘ emphasized demand was nof France as a nation, but because Fran that some progress may be made in the meetings to occur next week. There will be none tomorrow. The Franco-Italian h:l:uu.m dmn‘b; inated today’s proceed! among delegates, who are still struggling to find 8 suitable political background for stag- ing their naval disarmament programs. Others Look On. ‘While the Prench premier and the Italian f&l’:l‘;\ li' talked cl-!::! evening, apanese looked on cau- tiously from their London headquarters and Prime Minister Macdonald and Secretary of State Stimson rested in the quiet of their country retreats. regard the meeting as one of a long series of conversations that will prob- ably be necessary to clear away the causes for dispute. Premier Tardleu described the talk as extremely cordial and marked by good humor on both sides. Signor Grandi, emerging from the headquar- ters of the Prench delegation and warding off the advance of eager news- paper men, exclaimed: “The attack is on!” But he referred to.the newspaper men rather than to the Prench states- men. In any event he declined to sur- render and be questioned. ‘Though the first week of the con- ference has ended without signs of sen- sationally rapid progress, plans have been perfected for resuming the work on Monday morning, when the chiels of the five delegations will meet at 10 Downing Street to discuss the gen- eral agenda for the conference. After this meeting the order in which the categories of ships will be taken up will probably be known. It is believed that & general compromise between the methods of measuring naval strength by global tonnage by categories has been tenta reached. The Americans are standing strongly for grappling with cruisers at the beginning, but the British and the French are in favor of starting with the question of battleships. The Japanese have so0 far been in favor of the British view, but it has been ledrned authorita- as related to the problems of the new decade. when he Secretary Mellon tod: of the strain of conducting the financial affairs of the United States during three administrations and supervising the greatest series of post-war debt settlements in the history of the world. He is as vigorous, self-contained and unaffected as epoch-making tra since the World War and culminated in the con- ference at London. “It has been more than a decade since the war ended. Do you feel satisfied with the progress that | bas been made, both in this country and in the world at large?” “Satisfied is hardly the word to use i that Stands Strain Well. shows no visible sign first came to Washington to enter the cabinet nearly nine years ago. Quite naturally the intervie turned first to the ition that has taken place (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) INCREASED WATER RATE DECIDED UPON TOMEET ADDITIONS | Action of D. C. Commission- ers Requires Approval of Congress. i The 'llnstrkt :‘:mmhumend l:d . pecial meeting yesterda led t> recommend ’rw‘: the District. The cif are IID':‘{ with a five-year program of major im- provements which will ®ost $425,000 annually_in excess of the water rev- enues. problem they have been for somé months is whether to get this money by raising rates or by taking it out of the general tax funds. Yesterday they decided to raise the rates. Either course requires con- gressional sanction. u{': lo.( esflnfiadtm - that in ordern:: take ve-year program rates will have to be raised some 20 to 25 In addition to raising the rates for water use, an increase in :‘:: ml‘-?men;z(o;u hsy;"' of distributor rom T front foot is in contemplation. e Will Hold Up Money. The plan at present is to raise the rates, beginning July 1 of this year. The surplus money will be held untii E'n“;"n" 1931, when the first year of ive-year program of cons will be undertaken. e Some months ago the Commissioners turned the problem over to Assistant Engineer Commissioner Hugh Oram for study and report. He went into the matter at length and submitted a report recommending that the five-year program be undertaken, and that it be financed from the general funds of the District. Under tl present law, all expenses for the water distribution must be met from revenues from sales of water, which are kept in a separate fund. To follow Capt. Oram’s sugges- tion, which was concurred in by Maj. Brehon Somerville, United States En- required special legislation. Advised By Auditor. At the beard meeting yesterday, Dis- trict Auditor Donovan urged zKe in- crease in rates rather than attempt to secure the money for the improve- ments from the city’s general funds. He pointed out that if the police salary bill passes, the city will have a sur- plus at the end of the next fiscal year of but $500,000.in excess of the $3,000,- 000 cash surplus required by law. To Put $425.000 into a water program Wwould not be wise, he held. The city heads agreed with him. improvements in the system, which the Commissioners bellev{l im- perative, comprise laying of new mains, replacing a number of old mains with larger ones, construction of a storage Teservoir south of the Anacostia River, and other projects, The present basic flat rate for water consumption is. $6.36 per annum. ¥ | Although no definite figure has been | decided on for the proposed increase, | it is believed that it will be between | $8 and $9, and that ‘the other rates | will be adjusted accordingly. | The water program will be discussed with the House appropriations com- mittee when the Commissioners testify | In connection with the 1931 estimates (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) " | this week. gineer for this district, would have | CAPITAL BUSINESS PLANS-$14,000,000 EXPANSION IN1350 75 Leading D. C. Concerns Respond to Questionnaire of Board of Trade. More than $14,000,000 will be spent 75 of the kld‘m business concerns the Capital in 1930 to care for antici- pated increases in business ranging up to 80 per cent, it was revealed. yesterday. in a survey by the Washington Board of Trade. ‘The survey shows that the wldelipfud business expansion program instituted here last ¥all following the business conferences called by President Hoo- ver to counteract the stock' market crash will be carried on to new levels this year. The results of the survey, it is be- lieved, will definitely set at rest any fears that the program of business expansion fostered by the Hoover con- ference will be followed by a slump in the District of Columbiz. Instead, it is revealed, business is going ahead with unusual optimism on a program of growth based upon the expectation of one of the best business years in history. Survey Plan Adbpted. ‘While the opinion had been expressed generally in business circles that there would be no slump following the more or less forced expansion program, offi- clals of the Board of Trade felt that this expression was insufficient and that concrete information should be obtained of business plans for the year. ‘The results of the survey have been most _encouraging, it was pointed out. The 75 businesses which were surveyed are preparing to spend individually amounts ranging from $3,000 up to al- most $6,000,000 for expansion and im- provement of their husinesses during 1930, it is revealed in confidential re- ports to the Board of Trade. These figures do not include expenditures al- ready under way for projects begun during 1929, such as the erection of the new Garfinckel Building at Four- teenth and F streets, but relate solely 1o money to be spent during 1930. Pay Roll Is Expanded. “In addition to this,” Board of Trade officials said, “it is highly gratifying to note information- gathered from the Federal Government shows an in- crease in the Federal and District of Columbia pay roll within the National Capital for the fiscal year ending last June was $9,000,000; that the increase for the fiscal year ending Jume 30 of this year will be $3,500,000, and that the | increase for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, will be $5,000,000. This is an increase in the three-year period in the FPederal and District government pay rolls of $17,500,000, of which $8,500,000 will be received this year and " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) AMERICAN-MADE GUNS ARE ORDERED BY BRAZIL French Military Mission May Be Withdrawn With Award of FLOOD GUARDS T DOWN AIRPLANES OVER RIVER| Armed Men on Levees Fear Effort May Be Made to Free OLD TO SHOOT Stored Up Waters. Contract to U. 8. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, January 25— The Brazilian army will probably be { equipped with American-made anti-air- {craft batteries, with American fire con- | trol, In the near future. Army authori- ties' today decided to award a contract for four batteries to an American firm was Firm. for $1,800,000. A French bid which considerably higher was rejected. bservers here thought it possible ‘that as a result of the decision the | Prench military mission attached to the ! Brazilian army might be withdrawn, This was the first time that any except |mnch equipment had been acquired mended in & 79-page report to the Com- missioners made public by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, yesterday. Mandatory dismissal of policemen who drink liquor on or off duty is one of the reforms called for. Another is the passage of a law allowing warrants for the arrest of gamblers to be issued to any policeman who makes an affi- davit that he has reason to believe gambling Is going on in any premises. The reforms celled for should be effected in the next five years, the re- port urged, in an effort to bring the standard of Washington’s Police De- partment up to that of the best in any European city. They comprise a great- ly increased and higher paid personnel, extensive training for all policemen, ac- quisition of scientific criminological apparatus, harsher discipline for the members of the force, and more ade- quate housing for the - oo g e men and equip- Shelby Prepared Report, Although the report was transmitted as Maj. Pratt's document, the actual writing. was done by Assistant Super- intendent William S. Shelby, and it is the product of many months of labor. Work was begun on the manuscript in April, 1929, but the many upheavals :l"l’:‘loul!l;nncwlllll‘,:lt the department has e e date Iy L te have delayed its The report starts with a pessimis commentary of the ineffectiveness ‘(:'l: American police forces generally, pro- ceeds to a detailed and critical study of the logal situation and winds up with a }'lnr;: mr l“o‘rcnm'x'llml:"m“um for e force and t! it must enforce. slimglh L “It is !eneully conceded,” the states, “ in-all of our unhappy mu- niclpal history the general ineffective- Fu&w police systems has been one ‘.;;f‘u and, ‘alas, well ted criticisms. Municipal de- i enuome been thelloot ball of . ers are assigned to the delicate task of attempting to regulate the conduet of other human beings Without previous experience or training In work “of this type. They have in many cases an alarming misconception of their authority and power, and there is frequently an utter lack of knowl- of the rights guaranteed the citi- by the Constitution.” Strength of Force Inadequate. The strength of the force, the report says, is 1313 men, of which 51 are paid by street rallway companies, Ow- ing to the large number of special as- signments, there is never a time, ex- cept in cases of great emergency, when more than 214 patrolmen are actually on the sireets enforcing the laws. In addition to this, Washington police called upon about two days out of ev three to supply special detalls for many occasions, such as arrivals of distin- guished guests and the like, which fur- ther reduces the number of patrolmen on the street. The 50 headquarters detectives dealt with 13,741 cases in 1928, and the number of assignments is on the in- crease. The result of this is that only the most important cases receive care- ful attention and many of the smaller ones, which represent genuine griev- ances to the complainants, are slighted. There 15 no effective method f train- ing policemen. At present they are put on the street equipped “with a badge of authority and the lethal weapons of their calling,” in many cases without even the 30-day period of training which some of them receive at the po- lice school. - Even when they go to school, they are liable to be called upon (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) zen . but left with the money. DOPEHING” TAKEN BY RUSE OF AGENTS Officials Elude Gunmen to Capture and Jail Two Men. A half-year pursuit, covering four Soutfiern States and the District, for Oliver Black, colored, 52-year-old pa- rolled gunman, known as king of an East Coast dope ring, ended in his arrest Thursday afternoon when Fed- eral narcotic agents outwitted a cor- don of gunmen, battered through the heavily barricaded doors of his local headquarters in the 1700 block of Seventh sireet and seized many hun- dred dollars’ worth of drugs, Surrounded by heavily-armed guards, Black yesterday was taken before United States Commissioner Needham | C. Turnage, arraigned on charges of | violating the Harrison narcotic act for | sale, transportation and - possession of drugs and held under $10,000 bond. c-ptg of the “King"” is accred- ited to S. B . Barcolic agent, who, posing as a addict, trailed him through the majority of Black's territory, eventually gaining his confi- dence. Phillips, acting as his lieuten- ant, is said to have made purchases of alleged narcotics from Black ana | members of his gang until Black re- ceived money from the agent for drugs, Vanishes From Lynchburg. Black disappeared from Lynchburg, Va,, some weeks 0, closely followed by "Phillips, who finally located him in_Washington. Through mutual acquaintances Phil- lips informed Black that he, as a robbed addict, was “gunning” for the “king." Heavily armed and accompanied by Agent K. T. Orrison, Phillips went to the local headquarters, presumably to carry out his threat, but was met by | six ‘gunmen who threatened his life | until he convinced them that he was there on a peaceful mission and only intended to make a “buy.” “Everything s on the ‘0. K.'" Phillips argued, “T just want to see the chief and arrange for a big supply.” After some argument, Phillips and Orrison gained access to the “chief’s” hideout, where arrangements were made for a large “buy” the following day. Phillips and Narcotic Inspector S. L. Rakusin obtained & search warrant Thursday from Commissioner Turnage. “Scrappy” Owens Arrested, Unarmed, Phillips entered the head- qQuarters of Black and tricked James “Scrappy” Owens, colored leutenant, known to narcotic and police authorities as & prominent figure in the dope ring, into following him into the street. He was promptly arrested by Rakusin, who (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) TAKES TRAIL “Mr. Peter,” a French Canadian, who has hunted panthers in & mild sort of way all his life, having been raised In some of the finest panther woods of Canada, took to the fields back of Dis- trict Heights, Md., last night in search of the elusive but ferocious beast that has considerably harassed the farmers of that section (he past week, and, ac- cording to the general smell of things, “Mr. Peter” was dolng very well. “Mr. Peter,” who prefers to be known by that name and none other until he brings his panther home, took & night off from his night watchman job at Chevy Chase Lake last night and in some real, old-fashioned panther hunting. From his Chevy Chase Lake home “Mr. Peter” took street cars of various sorts until he got to Seventeenth street. and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, then “OLD-TIMEY" PANTHER HUNTER “Mr. Retcr“ Gets Farmer's Permission to| Kill Beast and Gets to Work With High | Smellin’ Bait. t | along he tethered his dog. OF MARAUDER| the fence line between the Fowler farm | and the farm adjoining. | Behind “Mr. Peter” on his patrol of | the fence line he trailed the high-| smelling meat, and on the fifth or sixth trip, he doesn't remember which, the | trail had been laid sufficiently. ‘Thereupon “Mr. Peter set out his bait, an even higher smelling plece of meat, to which he attached & plece of string about 20 feet long. The loose end of the siring he attached to a fence post. Midway of the string he tied a dinner bell, and s little farther ‘Then “Mr. Peter” dug a hole in the snow and got into it, there to rest from his long walk and the arduous labors of setting the panther trap, ANl Set for Action. Eielson’s Plane Reported Found, Badly Smashed By the Associated Press. - SEATTLE, Wash., January 25— The United States Army Signal Corps operator at Fairbanks, Alasks, | reported to headquarters here to- | night that the Elelson-Borland plane | had been reported found. No de- talls were given as to the location of the plane, but the message sald that the plane was smashed up, 5300000 BY NOON TOMORROW IS AIM Gifts Committee Enters Cru- | cial Period of Drive to Fill Chest. The - special gifts committee of the Community Chest today entered the crucial period of its final drive to reach its goal of half the Chest budget of $1,786,737.07 by tomorrow noon. Facing the necessity of raising ap- proximately $300,000 more in this short | time, committee members have sent cable and telegraph messages to absent Washingtonians in all parts of the| world, urging them to give again lib- | erally toward the increased needs of | this year. There was cause for anxiety on the part of the special gifts eom- mittee, after a rather disappointing | showing yesterday, for Chairman New- bold Noyes had warned that the per- centage of increase in contributions was stili too small to enable the com- mittee to reach its goal. Meanwhile, Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, has issued & ringing appeal to all clergy and Jaity to support the Chest cam- paign, which will be read in all Catho- lic_churches of Washington at masses today. From the rabbis of Washington Hebrew congregations a similar appeal also was lssued. ‘With its list of “prospects” only halt exhausted, the small band of deter- Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) TODAY'S STAR PART O General News Foreign, § Schools and Colleges—B-6 and B-T. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page B-10. Y. W.'C. A. Notes—Page B-10, —28 PAGES. -Local, National and PART TWO—12 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Review of New Books—Page 4. Praternities—Page 5. District of Columbia National Guard— Pages 6 and 7. News of the Clubs—Page 8. D. A. R. Activities—Page 9, Organized Reserves—Page 9. Veterans of Great War—Page 10, Barent-Teacher ‘Actlvities —Page 10, Army and Navy News— Page 11, PART THREE—12 PAGES. Society. H _PART FOUR—I2 PAGES. Amusément Section—Theater, and Music. Aviation Activities—Page 5. Radio News —Pages ‘6 and Financial News—Pages 8, PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX_8 PAGES. Classified Advertisjng. Serial’ Story, “Thé Romantic Prince"— Page 6, Spanish War Véterans—Page 7. Screen MRS, WILLEBRANDT DECLINES TOTALK Informs House Committee She Will Not Testify on Dry Transfer. Out of respect to those charged with enforcing the prohibition law, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, former As- sistant. Attorney General, declined yes- terday to testify before the House ex- penditures committee considering trans- fer of the dry enforcement unit from the Treasury to the Justice Depart- ment. Mrs. Willebrandt refused the invita- tion of the committee in a letter which said she had no more intimate contact with prohibition - questions now than ludl any %:xfir cmsm': ’,flu d‘v‘llsfll Chalrman -0f ! mitice, m%y. that she D *“'l" ANSWET 10 & subpoena. The commit- tee is nok empowered to summon in- voluntary wity . The invitation was extended throush adoption by the committee of & motion by Representative Schafer, Republican, Wisconsin, by a vote of 8 to 7. She was to have appeared Tuesday. This development: in the prohibition tangle on Capitol Hill came as com- mittees in both branches of Congress laid plans to resume hearings on legis- lation proposed to carry out President Hoover's recommendations to strengthen prohibition enforcement. On Monday the House expenditures committee is to hear Attorney General Mitchell and W. C. Deming, president (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) CHARGES DISMISSED AGAINST PALMER Proéeeding in Bosch Magneto Co. Sale Ordered Dropped by At- torney General. By the Assoclated Press. A proceeding brought by the Gov- ernment against A. Milchell Palmer, war-time alien property custodian and later Attorney General, and several of his associates, alleging they had com- mitted wrongful acts in the seizure and subsequent. sale of the Bosch Magneto Co.,, was ordered discontinued yester- day by Attorney General Mitchell, ‘The complaint to be dismissed-sought to Tecover $5,500,000 from Palmer, Francis P. Garvin, who succeeded him as allen property custodian; Martin E. Kern, Arthur T. Murray, the Chase Securities Co,, Henry Hornblower. and olher partners of the investiment house of Hornblower & Weeks. All were either officials of the Government with responsibility for portions of the trans- action or associated as purchasers of the enterprise after its seizure. “In January, 1919, during the in- cumbency of A. Mitchell Palmer as alien property custodian, the custo- dian sold the shares of the Bosch Mag- neto Co. to Martin E. Kern for $4,150,- 000,” the Attorney General's statement, explaining the action, said. “The action about to be dismissed was brought in 1926 on the theory that the defendants had conspired to cause these shares sold by the custodian for less thau their falr value, and recovery was sought for the difference between the selling price and the fair value of the shares, the amount demanded in the bill of complaint being approximatel; $5.,500,000." e 9 ind certain patents to be | Shoal! Rooms General Throughont City. Lack of Furniture Is Handicap to Students. Believing that Washington parents are interested in a description of the physical aspects of the school system as it is today, especially in view of the controversy over reasons for delay in the flve-year school build- g program, The Star begins today the publication of a series' of articles dealing with conditions in each of the school divisions and ‘in_each of the elementary schools.. While the cases of overcrowding and inadequate | or ancient equipment are emphasized. | it is not The Star's Jurpose to paint | the school system wholly black or to | megict its praiseworthy features, of | which there are many. The second article of this dealing with conditions in the first division of the school system, will appear tomorrow. A picture of Washington's much- discussed elementary public school system might be called a study in contrasts, for everywhere there are striking differences between buildings and equipment and sizes of classes in one portion of the city and those in another part of the city. The conirasts are not found be- tween such definite geographical portions of the city as the North- west and Soulhwest, the North- east or Southeast, nor between communities of fine -mansions and those of mpdest homes. s “They exist not only in the same eral communities, but in the neighborhoods that may :be two schools.- The Janney stance, a fine, new school ‘Wisconsin aveniie and Albemarle strest, shares duties with the antique School, just around the viding facilities for children of the same One represents the modern type of school construetion. The other is identified with the school days of another generation. Two Without Sewer Connections. ‘While new schools are bel ned and built that represent’the Mmm i sehool - construction, from . assembly | halls to playgroummds, | do not have sewerage, connections and | one where water is supplied by an cld | pump. While 150 classes above the kinder- gartens in the public schools are part- | Uime, the children being deprived of a full day of instruction every day of the school year, there are other classes n which there are twice as many seats as children, While in the case of the Johnsen School some of the pupils were found by Star reporters using bridge ta- bles—turnished by the parents—in lieu of desks, there is the case of the old Bradley School, for instance, where there are 332 seats available, but only 250 puplls enrolled. While some schools have been equij ped with new steam heating plln& there are other schools heated by an. cient Lot-air furnaces and one where the Janitor climbs to the ‘third floor with coal scuttles to fill the bellies of ' old- fashioned iron stoves, set up in the class rooms beside the children, and works to keep them booming during school hours, Some Have No Play Space. ‘While many buildings, such as the | Henry D, Cook School, have fine play- grounds equipped with recreational de- vices, other schools, such as the «Centinued on Page 3, Column e —— WILL TOW IN FREIGHTER. Cutter Expects to' Rescue Danish Off Cape Hatteras. NORFOLK, Va., January 25 (). Coast Guard headquarters here tonight said that the cutter Mendota would take the -Danish freighter Martin Carl in tow near Cape Hatteras ht about daylight tomorrow, with arrival here expected to be about midnight. The freighter floated herself this morning after running aground on Diamond Is, off the North Carolina coast, but was forced to anchor 12 miles south of Cape Hattes Light due to damage suffered in grounding. g The Martin Carl was_bound from Cuba to New York with a cargo of sugar. Her home port is Helsingfors, Copenhagen. U. S. POWER TO Constitutional Amendment, »"i0 ana 11.| DILL’S PROPOSAL WOULD GIVE DRAFT PROPERTY If Passed, Provides for War- I for the army since the World War. time Conscription Without Compensation, . Rivers, and the guards feared attempts | “You see,” explained ‘Mr. Peter;. in his French-Canadian English, . “when the panther comes for the meat the dinner bell will ring, the dog will bark and I will wake up to kill the beast.” “Mr, Peter” lay down in his- hole it the snow, and at last accounts was sleeping peacefully, ‘The panther hunt went on about “Mr. Peter” on & large scale. Throughout | the neighborhood were huntsmen, most- ly in small cars, well armed, at strategic points about the pigpen on the Fowler farm. The first time the panther, or Whatever it is, visited the Fowler farm it killed one pig and slashed nine others, The second time it took a 20-pound A 3 Lo gt plece of suet that was put out as bajt Moon. Mullins; Mutt and Jeff; of the Constitution would be required uf 'lar for the beast, but was really ‘megnt for Pellm:: Mr. and Mrs,; Olr‘:un to establish such a policy. His proposed Litt! L, > ; _Somebody’s Stenog; dment reads: (Continued on Page 2, Column 8,) High | ‘of History, “‘I'glontnl: shall have power in time | Constitution he walked a small matter of 6 miles to the scene of operations. to blast a levee to release further water | Obtains Hunt Permission, and lower the level. | Afriving at the ’.m\k of !hl;"yg P(;;- o . boro pike, about RESCUE BOATS WRECKED, | Trip Is Announced as Planned for gromnnmliu D“::::lc; T, viar, Petetr Yne introduced himself as an old-timey pan- Wexlyiip May. ther hunter and recelved permission of RIO DE JANEIRO, January 25 (#).|Fowler, whose pigsty has been the chief —Local representatives today announced | attraction during the past week for the that the dirigible Graf Zeppelin would | wily beast, to hunt on his farm. fly here during the first fortnight in| Thereupon “Mr. Peter” betook him- May on'a trip that may also include & |self, his dog, which he said highly re- visit to the United States. Seville, | sembled a panther, de»rlle his police Spain, will be its last European stop. | dog-airedale-] lish bull and whatnot It will fiy along the African coast ancestry, a bell, a piece of cord, some Angola, Portuguese East Africa, and | high smelling meat anda .45-caliber re- thence to Natal, Brazil, where the ship | volver afield, and for about two hours will probably refuel, “Mr. Peter” tram| the snow along District of Columbis Naval Reserve— P?e k At Commiunity Centers—Page 8. @Girl Scouts —Page 8. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. Magazine Sectjon. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 22. PART EIGHT-—24 PAGES. Automobile Show Section. GRAF MAY VISIT BRAZIL. By the Associated Press. GREENWOOD, Miss., January 25.— With_the Tallahatchie River flood in the Swan Lake section of Northwest Mississipp! cresting, levee guards today ‘were red to shoot down airplanes through fear of bombing attempts to release the stored-up wate) Bud Pepper, Greenwood aviator, to- day was warned by a friend on the levee to fiy 10,000 feet high if he passed over he Tallahatchie again during the flood. ;I! was told all that saved his plane yesterday from machine gun fire was the fact & friend on the levee recog- nized it. Lands were inundated in stretches _three to five miles wide by the floods “Fgrom she Tallahatchie If a constitutional .amendment pro- Posed in the Senate yesterduy by Sena- tor Dill,’ Democrat, of ‘ashington, should be adopted, the Government ould have sweeping power in time- of | property T to draft property for public use, even without compensation. Senator Dill, upon introducing the hl;omud amendment, remarked that at sty the Somseription’ of property. whs ly conscri of proj was offered by Semator David A. M{d of he t an it 200 Farm Dwellers Brought to Safely Despite Setback. MEMPHIS, TQI;IIL, J-nulrytzs M’)&; Carrying on despite & new setback, erippling of five of the six motor boats of the relief fleet, volunteer rescue crews operating under direction of the Ameri- can Red Cross tonight had ferried to safety more than 200 farm dwellers from the overflowed lowlands in the big (cenunmdl on Page 2, 8.) i World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—S$ PAGES. ge- i, = L and Coldwater e