Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER., (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Snow this mostly cloudy and slightly colder, with lowest tempera- degrees :nn about 16 Late N. Y. Markets, n; tonight: tomorrow 27, at 2:30 Pages 13,14 & 15 @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 31,320. Entered as second class ma post office, Washington, tter D. C. WASHINGTON, D0, ¢ Foening Star. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1930 —-FIFTY PAGES. L L] Associated service. (# Means Associated COMMITTEE 10 FIX TONNAGE BASIS ON WHICH SUCCESS OF PARLEY 1S HINGED Conference Accepts Stim- son’s Motion to Refer Glo- bal or Categorical Question to Smaller Group. ITALY ALONE DISSENTS, BUT FINALLY GIVES WAY Tardieu Offers French Compromise, | but No Exact Figures Are Given Gibson Outlines Policy of '!Inite(li States and Recognizes Stand of Frapce. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 30.—The en- tire question of how to measure naval power—whether by total tons or by tons in separate cate- gories—a problem which has vexed naval limitation negotia- tions for years, was put today in the hands of a special committee by the London Naval Conference. This plan of treatment was adopted on the motion of Secre- tary Stimson, American delega- tion head, at a full session of the conference permeated by a gen- eral willingness to compromise, but marked, nevertheless, by plain reiterations of diverse na- tional viewpoints. The Secretary of State’s pro- posal was accepted unanimously, although Italy gave notice that she felt her claim for parity with France should have had preced- ence and that she would accept the decisions regarding limitation methods only on condition that she have a day in court later. The Italian dissent was presented in pungent phrases by Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister, known by every one to speak the full determination of Premier Mussolini. He declared that while the whole parity question might be left aside, Italy was willing that the physi- cal terms of limiting navies be con- sidered. ernment. next seven years. solved when the fac AGREEMENT SEEN NEAR ON CLASSES OF NAVAL VESSELS Five Types Probably Will Range From Battleships to Below 7,000 Tons. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. - R o o B 4 s 20 NDON, England, In the end, therefore, Secretary Stim- | son's motion had a unanimous vote. Tardieu Offers Plan. The French compromise plan was - presented by Andre Tardieu, the ar-|to another rangement he proposed permitting shift- ing to a limited extent of tonnage from one class to to satisfy national another needs within the total tonnage allowed. | greq Neither he nor any other of this morn- ing’s speakers mentioned any exact res. n‘;xlu(h S. Gibson. 4merican Ambassa- dor to Brussels and veteran of the abor- tive Geneva conference, d to the conferees how the United States had always stood for definite limits in each category, but now, mot to stand in the way of negotiations nor to impose its vulonmmmlt‘hn&mnmwm- sider nch com| e. Under Secretary sm;'s propasal the plan of a steering commit- tee of two delegates from each country was scrapped. In private discussions the preponderance of British repre- gentation on such a committee had been raised sharply, in view of the presence (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) SNOW FORCED HOOVER TO TAKE CAR ONE BLOCK President and Six Members of| Medicine Ball Cabinet Enjoy Outdoor Workout. The depth of the snow between the ‘White House and the State, War and Navy Building, where the executive office is temporarily located, caused President Hoover today to make the trip in an automobile, despite the fact that the distance was barely one block. ‘The snow did not prevent the Presi- dent and six members of his medicine | ball cabinet from enjoying their cus- | tomary morning workout. They played | on the rear grounds for about 10 min- | utes and then went inside to the cloak | room on the basement floor of the! ‘White House, where the medicine ball court has been marked out, and played for about 20 minutes. Those who played with the President today were Assoclate | Justice Stone of the United States Su- | preme Court, Alexander Legge, chair- man of the Federal Farm Board; | Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ! Hope, Assistant Secretary of the Navy | Jahncke, Walter H. Newton, one of the | President’s secretaries, and Lieut. lower, has entailed by each delegation every other delegation on every point, or 10 distinct meetings per point. The classification which will prob- is as follows: ‘b{y l'g pital ships. . Caj o 2. Alrcraft carriers. Tonnage transfers will probably be allowed only within class four or r- sibly between classes four and five. The purpose of the transfers is to make it easier for the small naval powers not represented here to enter an agree- ment when the general Disarmament Conference is held at Geneva. There is now reason to believe that the plan for a naval settlement, which was revealed yesterday, is of American , has the approval of the Ameri- ean delegates and was fully discussed in Washington some weeks ago. ‘This plan has not yet been laid for- mally before the other delegates, but in private conversations it is now the all-engrossing topic. The plan can be summarized as follows: 1. It provides for one five-year, five- power treaty covering all categories of ships. ps. 2. It contains no ratios, but merely a statement of building programs in all categories. These programs would naturally be carefully adjusted with one another and would be based on considerations of tonnage built, building or appropri- ated in each category at the present moment. For example, this plan would seemingly, and barring give the United States 18 big cruisers, 9, and Italy, 6. in the American consider it sympathetically. Japan Comdr. Joel T. Boone, the President's personal physician. marily_reject_it, bul pplication_of So far as can be learned today France, while preferring its own plan of limita- | tion by global tonnage with transfers between categories, is much interested lan and is ready to/ possible readjustments or compromises, | Great Britain, 15; Japan, 12; Prance, | (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) SQUIRRELS AND BIRDS IN PARKS FACE STARV Failure of Acorn Crop Prevents Hoarding of Food ATION, DUE TO SNOW Supply for Bad Weather. Lovers of wild life in Washington were quick to respond today when it was .learned that hundreds of birds and squirrels were facing starvation as a | result of the snowstorm. T. 8. Palmer, president of the Dis- trict Audubon Society, sent $25 to Maj. - | peanuts, sunflo be placed where the birds can find teenth precin with b’w to m'cd h.lum food to be distributed mounted policemen, Sawn ofces passd long. coough in e ! town of g enoug e parks to h‘g‘n food for tluogulflell, are facing a critical food situa- Dr. Paul Reddington, chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey of the De- Agriculture, issued the fol- rtment of wing appeal “The snow has cut off the food sup- ply of hundreds of woodpeckers, car- dinals and juncos, not to starlin starval Cracker crumbs, wer seed and suet them. The condition of the squiels in is made much worse this Winter, according to Vernon Bailey of the Biological Survey, because of the the parks. failure of the acorn in ‘They have no horde of food m weather, as is the case 4 laid by fo it Win. mention Many of them are len: groun should T | Ere-; Washington, and when he I fers not to discuss it until it is officially | | proposed. Great Brifain does not sum-| Community Chest campaign he at- is not_favorably HOOVER COMMISSION IDEA COMES TO FORE AS ISSUE {Fact-Finding Plan Destined to Become Major Political Development of Next Few Years. This is the first of a series of articles on President Hoover's use of fact-finding commissioners to aid the administrative arm of the Gov- 7Y ALVA JOHNSTON. “Hoover commissicns” and “Hoover facts” are destined to be a major political development of the next three and probably of the President Hoover is a fact-worshiper. that both administrative and legislative problems are nine-tenths are known; he faces an accumulation of neglected problems and of new problems which call, in his opinion, for commissions composed of men and women specially equipped to search out the facts. The Constitution of the United States, under the heading of “Duties of the Presi- dent,” says: “He shall, from time to time, give to the Congress information on the state of the Union.” He believes Desires All Information. ‘The Hoover administration differs from all its predecessors in the interpretation of those words. The President considers it his duty to get all the information he can on matters of national concern. Be- cause of the increasing complexity of na- tional life, he feels that extra-governmental agencies must be used in a greater and greater degree, especially when the subject is technical or when it has aroused many = N conflicting points of view. In pursuance of his enlarged conception of the fact-getting duty of the presidential office, Mr. Hoover now has more than 1,000 spe- cially trained men and women—sociologists, educators, physicians, specialists of many kinds—working in every part of the country on a multitude of subjects connected with child welfare. Committee on Social Trends, initiated the greatest program of scien- tific study of social problems ever undertaken by any country. through the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforce- ment, seeking to discover the basic reasons why the United States is the most lawless of all civilized countries; why the homicide rate is (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) He has, in his He is, AL CHEST NS T0 REPORT TODAY ON FRST EFFORTS Heaviest Snow of Winter Spurs Canvassers to Make Good Showing. s All campaign units engaged in Wagh- ington’s million dollar charity dtive will meet at the Mayflower Hotel today va) | fo Tender a report of the first day of united effort for the Community Chest. Thermometers stationed at stragetic corners in the downtown section will record for the public the progress of the campaign toward the completion of the $1,786,737.07 budget for the year, the largest sum ever asked for charity and ‘welfare work in the District. Undismayed by the handicap of the P | heaviest snowfall this Winter in their eetings | City-wide canvassing, Lh':n 2,000 volun- teers of the Metropolif gn'mu forth extra efforts this mom- .10 -swell the amount of the first day’s financial report. This Metro- politan Unit, representing the rank and file of the army of 4,500 workers, are counted upon by the campaign - gists to pull the Community Chest out of the hole. Gifts Committee to Continue. The lfechl gifts committee is still short $113,000 in its efforts to raise its newly fixed quota of $875,000, reduced from approximately $950,000. Newbold Noyes, its chairman, has warned that the committee will keep at its job until the last cent of the quota has been raised. The group solicitation unit, facing a bigger job than it tackled last year, is counted on to raise a minimum ' of $260,000 from business and industrial establishments in the city employing 25 or more persons. This leaves the goal of the Metropolitan Unit at approxi- mately $660,000. Realizing that the Community Chest campaign has reached its crucial stage, John Poole, general chairman, pressed the belief today that the en- tire budget can be raised by February 6, when the c-.mfi.l.n closes, if Wash- ington displays the needed team-work. ington is responding heartily to the cause of the Community Chest was in- dicated by the partial report rendered last night at the meenn{’ of region five of the Metropolitan Unit at the Whitelaw Hotel. been obtained in gifts of $100 or more from colored citizens, and the first full report of the al teams is expected to make a splendid showing. Dr. Moton Is Guest. Dr. Robert R. Moton, head of Tus- keegee Institute and one of the most widely known colored leaders in the United States, was an unexpected guest at last night's meeting. He was stopping at the hotel, en route through ned that the colored citizens were engaged in a tended the meeting. Dr. Moton heartily indorsed the Chest movement and what it means to the welfare of the less fortunate of all races and creeds and appealed for its support. John R. Hawkins, president of the Prudential Bank, was the chief speaker at the meeting. He stressed the neces- sity of giving every colored resident nf ‘Washington an opportunity to give to the Community Chest. He declared there could be only two classes of peo- ple in Washington—those who give ‘o the Chest and those who need aid and receive it from Chest organizations. “Unless a citizen could show that ne was recelving aid from a Chest organi- :’t:m he should be able to give,” he Dr. Kelly Miller is_chairman of (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) ‘That the colored population of Wash- | More than $3,000 has | DEEPEST SNOWFALL HERE SINCE 1922 CRIPPLES TRAFFIC Afternoon Shows 11 Inches on Ground, Exceeding 1928 Record. STREET CARS TIED UP AS RAILS SHORT-CIRCUIT Exhaustion of Maintenance Fund Feared as District Puts 600 Men to Work Clearing Streets. Buried under the heaviest fall of snow since the memorable January of 1922, when the Knickerbocker disaster oc- curred, the District marshalled its forces today to keep streets and high- | ways open. By 1:30 pm. the snowfall, which started just before midnight, stood at 11 inches, exceeding the 10.5 inches recorded in 1928, the heaviest up to that tlrmle’ zszlnc!hlhl:hon Jln(lillr: ‘17 hlnd 28 of , When the record 28 inches was established. The Weather Bureau's forecast is for continued snowfall this afternoon with clearing weather tonight and fair and warmer weather tomorrow. The tem- perature probably will drop to 16 de- grees above zero tonight. The District’s financially crippled Street Cleaning Department sent out & hurry call for extra workmen as it commenced the colossal task of clear- ing the main traffic arteries. The usual work of the Highway, Sewer and Water Departments was forsaken as all avail- able men and equipment were pressed into ice to clear away the snow. 550 Men Begin Work. An initial crew of 550 men com- menced work at 4 o'clock this morning. By 10 o'clock 100 extra men had been hired. The condition of some of the main streets had been -improved at this hour, but it was obvious that the task had only been started. As the work of clearing the snow got under way District authorities an- nounced that the streets during the last few months of the fiscal year would have to go virtually uncleaned unless additional money is appropriated for this purpose. As a precautionary measure, Col. Johm W. Oehmann, District building in- spector, warned all householders to re- move the snow from their roofs as as possible. “The snow at pres- he said, “is light and not danger- ous, but it is deemed advisable to re- move the snow-to forestall any pos- sibility of a disaster such as occurred at_the Knickerbocker Theater.” The two traction companies were ex- considerable difficulty main- schedules, but no serious soon ent,” links and snow lodging in slots, causing short circuits. ‘The Wi n Railway & Electric Co. called out 24 snow plows, 21 scrap- ers, 19 trucks, 2 tractors, 5 passenger cars with scrapers and 2 street cars shortly after last midnight to keep its lines open. Long Morning Delays. A grounded krlow‘ resulting from snow, and a_skid chain link in the plow slot on F street resulted in a 26- minute tie-up this morning. Other delays of shorter duration were reported from widely scattered districts. All bus lines were running on sched- ule, it was sald. One driver of & bus running into Maryland reported that he was stopped on a downtown trip this morning by a crowd of men who stood in front of his bus on Massa- chusetts avenue, refusing to let him g;u. ‘They wanted to board the bus, it the driver finally persuaded them he could not permit them to do so as it would be a violation of public utility regulations. “Motorists can hardly be blamed for driving on the car tracks in bad weather such as this,” one traction official sald, “but the result is disastrous for us when the cl on their autos break and lodge in the plow slot.” ‘The Clrlltll Traction Co. reported a serious delay on F street west of Nine- eenth, where a broken skid chain caused a second short circuit. Otherwise, it was sald, schedule service was main- tained except for some delays in the downtown district caused by stalled ve- hicular trafic. This company was also obliged to press all of its snow removing | equipment into service to keep its tracks 1cl=6nd. RN me serious delay was experienced | the Washington & Vlrgml:plehllwny c\;y | at Fourteenth street and Ohio avenue, where another short circuit held up its {cars for a considerable period. At Union Station street cars were de- |layed until many of the passengers de- cided to make use of taxicabs there. |Other passengers declded to walk. Plan for Emergency. Although their glown swung into ac- tion long before daylight and had the highways around Washington open for |traffic this morning, officials of the (Maryland State Roads Commission | feared drifts would prove a serious menace late this afternoon or tonight | and made plans to meet them. E. G. can, district engineer, in | charge of operations in.Prince Georges | and Montgomery Counties, declared the ‘Wmmlulo'n had 200 men in dine to shovel out the drifts. It was hoped, however, that the drift fences and rotary plows would not make it neces- sary to resort to man power. A fleet of 17 plows was in operation ldn the two counties throughout the to enjoy the snow this afternoon. An order from Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- intendent of schools, released the ele- mentary school pupiis at 1 o'clock and those in senlor and junior high schools at 2 o'clock. ‘The first workers to swing into action were the crews of 28 snow plows of the street cleaning department, which plowed lanes through all the heavily traveled traffic arteries, getting them into passable condition before the morn- ing rush hour traffic started. Next came ::rttruck: l:eclboancin”ln o, the Highvay de- ment, mpanied by gangs of men who loaded them with snow from cross- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6. SPORT SKIRTS CURB FALLS | GLIDER DELAYED. LAKEHURST, N. J., January 30 (#). —Unfavorable weather conditions to- day caused postponement of the sched- uled test lay ing of a glider from the naval dirigible Los Angeles, ‘The airship was to have floated at about 3,000 feet while the glider, ~ its underside, was released. TEST Radio Programs on Page C-8 Injuries to Women Boarding Street Cars Drops From 1,323 to 328. CHICAGO, January 30 (P).—With- out seeking in any way whatsoever to express his personal views on the merits of longtlnd short skirts, Frederick Rex, city librarian and statisticlan, revealed mi’ny that in 1913, when skirts were long, 1,323 women were injured board- street cars, and that in 1928, when h:re:e short, only 328 were simi sk 5 larly P ) ay. School children were given a chance | °3! BISHOP ANDERSON DIES N CHICAGD, | Death Necessitates Special Election to Name Protestant Episcopal Church Head. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 30.—Most Rev. Charles Palmeston Anderson, Presid- ing Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of Amer- ica, died today. Death came at 8:42 am. today, the result of a heart attack nine days ago. from which the bishop never rallied. He was 64 ?em old. Hishop of the Chicago diocese for a quarter of a century, he had been raised to the primacy of his church only two months ago. His health had been apparently fiod. despite o weak heart, until the fatal attack January 21, a few days after Bishop Anderson had returned from an Eastern trip. Mrs. Anderson and their four daugh- vfir’: were called to the bedside ear! tl morning. The g of the Episcopal primate leaves church without & head and his diocese without bishop or coadjutor bishop. An election of coadjutor bishop who would succeed Bishop Anderson was called yesterday, scheduled for the diocesan convention here next Tues- day. Career Is Colorful. A born organizer, an able executive and a powerful preacher, Buhog Ander- son showed his gift for leadership from the time he took charge of a little mission in the Canadian North woods until he was elected presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The son of a wealthy Canadian lum- ber man, Bishop Anderson had for his first assignment the mission for lumber- jacks at Beachburg, Ontario. His work there e51'"1 so rapidly that he soon required the aid of three clergymen. He was “discovered” in 1891 by the congregation of Grace Church at Oak Park, Ill, a suburb of Chicago, nad called to be their rector. At 35 he was made Bishop Coadju- tor of Chicago, and five years later became bishop of the diocese. In November, when he was 64 years old, he was elected presiding bishop, the highest office of the Pro- testant Episcopal Church. Bisho) Anderson was interested keenly ?n church unity, and in 1919 as head of the commission on the ‘World Conference on Faith and Order led a group of Episcopal clergymen through Europe and the Near East in the interests of the conference. He conferred with' officlals of the other Christian bodies and on his return filed an encouraging and exhaustive repoit. Known as a Builder. Known as a builder, Bishop Ander: saw the number of communicants his diocese of Chicago more than double during the 30 years he was in charge. Fifty new churches were built, and the total contributions increased fourfold. He was principally concerned with keeping pace with modern develop- ments, and had little patience with theological controversy. Bishop Anderson read widely, study- ing the great writers of all time. He wrote well, possessing & clear and fluent | style. His “Letters to Laymen,” “The Religion of Our Lord” and “Religion and Morality” were quoted widely. His friends regretted that his many duties prevented him devoting more time to writing. sermons, well preached. were equally forceful in print. One sermont which brought him Ni tion-wide attention was made in Wash. ington in October, 1928, at the opening of the triennial general convention of the church. It was on the eve of the presidential election, during a heated m) B “Keep politics out of religion,” was the burden of his address. He reaf- firmed the separation of church and state In America, a subject of vital interest at the time because of the po- litical activities of some churchmen. He pleaded for a free and courageous pulpit. Instead of perpetuating the con- troversies of the sixteentn century, he asked for devotion to the pressing prob. lems of the twentieth century. Declared His Liberalism. He declared his liberalism in the statement that the great aim of the church should be & maximum of faith and service without be! too meticu- lous as to rigid conformity to narrow customs, On_ another occasion, Bishop Ander- son declared there was no rift between (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) pakineCons 2 Woman Poet Is Suicide. FRANCISCO, January 30 (#).— three gas jets open. A letter to her hus- band said she was in great pain and feared m-nlz. A search for her started when disappeared from her e Monday. Mrs. Byrnes' latest poem was “just off the press.” 5 SHEA IS ARDUSED Bishop Anderson. BY DRY ACQUITTAL Balks at Other Liquor céses Before Same Jury—Charges Perjury to Defendant. Because & jury in Criminal Division 1 this afternoon before Justice Peyton Gordon acquitted Irving Rosenberg of & charge of violating the Jones-Stalker law by transporting liquor July 1 last, Assistant United States Attorney Walter M. Shea refused to try another liquor case before the same jurors and pre- ferred a charge .of perjury against Rosenherg for his testimony. Justice Gordon committed the ac- cused to await a hearing.before United States Commissioner Turnage, from whom Shea will seek a warrant. A policeman and a prohibition agent testified they had followed an automo- bile into a garage at 1627 U street, from which the defendant alighted and ran. A quantity of liquor was found in the automobile. The defendant was appre- hended, they said, before he got out of the garage. No one else was in the car, they testified. Rosenberg on the stand de- clared he was only a passenger and had accompanied the driver to the garage on the promise of a bottle of whisky. This statement to the jurors, Shea said, was the basis of the warrant for perjury, Attorney Myron Ehrlich appeared for Rosenberg, who also is under indict- ment on a conspiracy cha with Herbert Glassman and 10 others for violating the national prohibition act. b e, TRAIN CRASH KILLS ONE. Freight Train Conductor Dies in Arkansas Collision. PARAGOULD, Ark. January 30 (#). —C. H. Heiligman, 55, of Dupo, Il freight conductor, was killed when a Cotton Belt passenger train crashed into the rear end of a Missouri Pacific freight near Dexter Junction, Mo., early today. The same tracks are used by both roads at the place where the col- lision occurred. CHURCH BELLS SILENCED. Soviet Acts as < Workers Claim Sleep Disturbed. MOSCOW, January 30 (#).—Moscow's “40 times 40" churches, which for a thousand years have ir bells, no longer bill be heard. The gov- ernment today ordered them silenced forever. An official statement explained the action as taken in response to “the mass demands” from workers that the bells be hushed because they disturbed their peace and sleep and created other nuisances. URGED FOR NOBEL PRIZE. Premier Macdonald Choice of Nor- wegian Socialists. STOCKHOLM, - January 30 ().—It was stated here today that the Socialist leaders, Peralbin, Hansson and wegian Sbordiag. eive the Nobel posee an ive o ce prize to Ramsay Macdonald, n%hh prime minister. ‘The Socialist or Labor sizabl> plurality in the torting. rty. has a - P Norwegian == NS ST e The only evening in Washington wi BLEASE T0 BACK HOWELL DRY BILL Senator Says He Will Support Measure in Hope of Re- ducing Crime Here. ‘While the Howell bill to tighten pro- hibition enforcement in Washington was awaiting consideration by the Senate Senator Cole Llease, Democrat, of South Ecuollm. declared on the floor of the |Senate that he would vote for the | measure if it offers any hope of reduc- :lnl the crime which he belleves exists here. Senator Blease, a member of the Dis- trict committee, arose to take mwflm newspaper reports "‘"“fi as m the “wets” on the District com- “I Hotice in e of the as a wet he would in resigning from Recalls Recent Speech. ‘The South Carolina Senator recalled the speech he made recently, in which he e; the hope that the drys would get whatever amount of money they deemed necessary and any legisla- tion regarded as essential to enforce- ment. He said at that time he did not expect to vote for an that would classed “take great pleasure the committee.” y_jury. Senator Blease said that no matter ‘what his individual opinion might be toward prohibition, the people of his State were in favor of it and he re- garded it as his duty to carry out the wil: of his people. “When a man does not tnow where | his_State stands it is his duty to do (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) {OKLAHOMAN KILLS SLAYER OF FATHER Youth Shoots Man in Barber Chair, Then Surrenders Himself to Authorities. By the Associated Press. TEMPLE, Okla., January 30.—Hav- ing avenged the slaying of his father with a gesture reminiscent of old-time mountain feuds, Jim Graham is in the Cotton County jail at Walters, held connection with the killing of Harry Adalr, convicted killer of young Gra- ham’s father, The elder Graham was slain last April in a pool hall after he had or- dered Adair to leave the place. Convicted of manslaughter and sen- :::ehdrywA‘: hy_un mtc“ebesme peni- , Adalr was af Tty on ap- peal bond. Y " Yesterday he was in a barber shop here, his face covered with a towel, Wwhen Jim Graham, the son, stalked into the shop, waited until the towel was removed, and then, without a word, pulled a pistol, fired five times and strode from the room. Graham later surrendered. 3”,“" & person of the right of trial | the without bond pending arraignment in | 88! the Prcu_ news Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,192 TWO CENTS. BORAH DEMANDS DORAN EXONERATE OR MOVE HERBERT States Position in Letter to Commissioner After Talk With Informant. Press. FLYNN OF PROHIBITION BUREAU GAVE REPORT House Gets Bill to Transfer Dry Enforcement to Department of Justice. After another conference with his informant in the Government depart- ment, Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, today wrote a letter to Prohibition Com- misisoner Doran and demanded that John F. J. Herbert, dry administrator for Montana and Idaho, either be pub- licly exonerated of the reported charges ::u“uut him or removed from that dis- Flynn is in the legal department of the Prohibition Bureau, saild he was under the impression Flynn was an agent of the Department of Justice, but when he made this statement, Attorney General Mitchell challenged it. forcement, fended and l.uoml:y by tana il Another devol tion” situation came. soamr charges Senator District committee at an early date, |una ite He and John J. Quinn, prohibition R the eterant o e 9 S N o e s reco; pt. disclose, 1t was said, that he served as a eugdn of ordnance during the war. He is listed in_the Veterans’ Bureau as ha: 14 different physical com; ts for rgml;nn%w recelving as & veteran $187.50 Flynn's service as em] Veterans’ Bureau, t:: M’w" o‘lbv"h; was terminated when his resignation talk, today, vro'llalbm?‘:: nnl{x. He later entered the lynn is now employed 1a in the office of ?.h-ppny:hml.t‘o; Jmm trator at Baltimore, but was said today to be on annual leave, probably in this No Charge Against Herbert. clals. These ofl‘!nccl’l‘lll’ insist that now no of ch‘[.u fl‘n‘ inst Herbert. oo Sentor Wheeler said believes the matter he laid b“?!'t:: Department of Justice, which he re- ceived from a newspaper man, is iden- tical with the material which Ca; White Hoise ‘some ‘montia i, some mon 5 - ator Wheeler onally b knows nothin was-brought 3 that either he or Senator have been consulted mlnm.’r‘-‘mn before Col. one else was sent to take charge the work in his State. He said that his only interest in the matter is to ex be assured that prohibition adminis- (Continued on Page 2. Column 8.) WASHINGTON NOTE TO CONGRESS, DATED 1789, FOUND IN LIBRARY Rare Book Expert Discovers Letter Acknowledging Notification By the Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Calif, January 30.—E. A. Connoughton, rare book and document expert, today announced he had discovered in & library here the letter George Washington wrote to Congress acknowledging notification of his election as the first President of the United States. April 14, 1789, and was addressed to John an officer of the Con- tinental Washington was President pro tem when the votes of the first electoral college son, gress, was dispatched from New York, where Congress was mfl.7, to inform of Election. ‘Washington of his election. He arrived at Mount Vernon shortly after noon, April ‘14, . The letter follows: “Mount_ Vernon, “8Sir: I had the call The letter was dated Mount Vernon, | im) tomorrow. “I have the honor to be with senti- ments of esteem, “Your most obedient servant, “The Honorable Jno. Langdon, Esq.”