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PEACE PAGT SEEN OF GREAT WORTH Briand-Kellogg Treaty Held | of Immense Importance at Naval Parley. BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. By Radie to The Ster a News. Capyright, LONDON, England, February 1.— Immensely important by general and | ungrudging admission has been the | effect of the Briand-Kellogg pact upon the favorable course of ths five-power Naval Conference from the day of its . The pact outlaws aggressive It makes, in consequence, any preparation for such a war an implied intention possibly to trample upon the terms of the pact. Absolutely nothing thus far has developed at the confer- | ence suggesting that in back of the | mind of any government r!preunkd" lies the idea of aggression o its part in any contingency. This is & conference, that is to say, | strictly in the spirit of tne Briand- Kellogg pact. The nations manifestly are preparing not for offense, but for defense. That is the greatest and infi- nitely the most encouraging fact about the conference. How much store the American Government, as a sample, set | by the spirit rather than the technics | of naval discussions, <ame to light | when Washington sgreed to accept as | & basis of negotiation the French pro- posal for compromise fusion of the | rival theses of naval limitation known | as the global and the categorical. Concession Did Geood. ‘That American concession did a vast deal of good. It tended to disarm the suspicion of the smaller naval powers. Great Britain, which, like America and Japan, had held tenaciousiy to cat as opposed to the global proposal for limitation of navies, also ‘went over partially to the Fiench view, and Japan, ever prone to agree to rational suggestion, offered no 3&!— tion. These developments enhant the good feeling and confidence character- izing the conference and paved the way | for_definite eas. ‘When the Latin nations came to London, they came asking themselves this question: “Is the Briand-Kellogg pact what it purports to be—an im- partial world peace treaty—or is it & legal framework designed to perpetuate the Anglo-American_ world dominsnce inherent in sea supremacy?” Apprehensions latent in that question have gone by the board. Every act of the greatest naval powers since the Tnln( of the conference has shown their desire to eliminate any sort of rudeness or bullying from_ international relations and to grant all the powers that same assurance of adequate de- fense which they themselves are seeking. Prevalling Assumption. attempt. to extend or reinforce it would be_superfluous. The prevailing assumption is that threats against the pact are unlikely and that a treaty or convention pro- iding for means of meeting such threats . therefore, at least not ly event, the conference is closely occu with the specific prob- jem for which it was called—naval Hmitation and reduction—and nothing T X T em X way. “Alllanceés -f:u op’:ned to our poiicy; conferences the Interests of peace . ' Charles Evans nt. In fully and tutions of peace,” the former Secretary of State continued. “That lack is due to America’s non-participation in an ef- fort to maintain the peace of the world boro. in case it is threatened by acts of eg- gression on the part‘of any state which is party to the anti-war treaty.” Statement of Poliey. Mr. Hughes went on, his expert lis- teners showing clear' indications of ap- proval: “If we were i0 suj the Permanent Court of Interna 1 Jus- tice and if we were to supplement the Kellogg pact by a treaty for conference and consultation similar to the pacific treaty should we not be taking entirely praetical steps for the building of the institutions of peace without violence to any of our cherished traditions?” Let that happen which may happen at the London Conference—treaty or no treaty reinforcing the Briand-Kellogg pact—no threat to the sffectuainess of that pact ever will pass unnoticed by the President of the United States so long as that high office is held by Her- bert Hoover. The warranty for this| categoric statement is. first, in the well known character of the President and, second, in the fact that on two occa- sions already he has directed his Secre- tary of State to remind the foreign powers of their obligations under that agreement. T FIGURE PROPOSALS EXPECTED SOON AS PARLEY CONTINUES _(Continued From First Page.) Americans hac been considering 12 per cent ent. Perusal of the text of the French compremise proposal, made public last night by the French, left the saercher for information in as much & quandary as ever. The text was an involved technical treatise with every space where figures belonged left blank. If any one of the conference was wor- ried today about the trials in store he dié his best to conceal it in the general round of English week end relaxation and recreation, which brought the wheels of conference activities almost to & complete hait. Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald invited all seven members of the Amer- | ican delegation and their ladies to Chequers to Juncheon and volunteered 10 be their guide in the afterncon on sightseeing trip through the countryside, which is rich with such historic spots as Milton’s Cottage, Beaconsfield, where Edmund Burke nu:_ and the great Hampton Churchyard. Dino Grandi, Teatian foreign minis- ter, gave over the day to a visit to Windsor, and Reijiro Wakatsuki, Jap- anese delegation chief, took & motor trip to several noted spots near Lon- don. Andre Tardieu packed his bag for & week end in Paris. Perhaps the best holiday of all fell to the hard-working staff of secretaries and advisers of the American delega- tion. During the day's absence at Chequers Col. Stimson turned over to them his temporary country place at Stanmore, with its fine old fixtures and private golf course. PLAY AUTHOR JAILED. LOS ANGELES, February 1 (#).— George Scarborough, suthor of the play “Bad Babies” yesterday was sentenced to serve 90 days in jail on conviction of participating in the production of an indecent show. Jobyna Ralston, mo- tion picture actress, and four other members of the cast, convicted with Scarborough. were fined $300 each, with the alternative of spending 30 days in . Kone of the i has been paid and all gave not! appeal ‘The arrests occurrefi in: & raid on th lay ll'_fi«' -August by distriet attorney’s Chicego Daily | 1930. {M. ] (“Pete”).Demas Honor- | ed by New York U. College | of Engineering. Young Airplane Mechanic With Antarctic Party Long | Associated With Leader. Through recommendation of Rear | Admiral Richard E. Byrd, a scholar- | |ship at New York University College of Engineering has been awarded to| M. J. “Pete” Demas, youthful Wash- ingtonian whose skill as an airplane | mechanic prompted Byrd to enl’s: him with his expedition to the Antarctic. Demas is now with ths Byrd party in Little Americs, and if the expedi- tion returns in time he wili enter the engineering school, next Fall. Although only 23 years old, Demas has accompanied Byrd on three expedi- tions, one of which took him over the North Pole. Demas was born In Greece, coming to this_country at the age of 10, aad since has made his home with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Demas, 1906 Irving street northeast. The mother died when Demas was a child, but iis father is still living in Greece, | Demas completed his grammar schocl education at Thomson School and later ' YOUTH AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP, ON BYRD'S RECOMMENDATION CENTRAL ANARDS DPLOMAS T0 17 Graduates Urged by House Chaplain to Observe Spirit of Fair Play. Before 2,000 relatives and friends 127 graduates of Central High School re- ceived diplomas at the annual midyear graduation exercises in the school auditorium last night. “A leading statesman of the House once told me that his ambition when young_was to be wealthy and great,” i M. J. DEMAS. graduated from McKinley High School. In his youth Demas became intensely interested in airplanes and took a cor- respondence course in flying and build- ing airplanes. Later he .ok & course | -L’Hoover Field and soon besame pro- ficlent. LIQUOR MONOPOLY | REVEALED BY GIRL Extent of Oil Field Ring Is Bared by Young Witness for Prosecution. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., February 1.—A comely, black-haired young wom- an, one-time sweetheart of an oil field deputy sheriff, today was ready to resume her account of the alleged liquor monopoly of the rich Pottaw: tomie County oil fields—a recital of oorrupt conditions that kept a crowded ‘court molm lf;.sy yuurg‘l 3 The , Ruth Morgan May, was ex- M'filor remain on the stand testify- for the Ooven"\?:ent in m;.m-dl for conspiracy of persons . charge with participating in the ring which is said to have controlled with official in the Pottawa- Miss May, one of 102 persons origi- indicted nal in the case, had glu led ’:um" and told her story with utter reedom. Says She Kept Books. She said she lived with Oscar Motley, her deputy sheriff sweetheart, in Earls- boro, where Motley was in charge of collections for liquor “joints.” Miss May said she kept records showing collec- tions #nd payments of ‘“protection money.” - These books and accounts she has turned over to the Governmnet. The Government charges that Rar.call Pitman, Pottawatomie County atlorney, and Prank Fox. former sheriff, were leaders of the “liquor line” that dom- inated the manufacture, distribution and sale of whisky and beer through- out the mushroom oil towns of -the Pottawatomie County fields. Miss May said Motley and she worked under | them. Tells of Ring’s Origin. !Il": May ll;dhud mlhuenflo: o vast liquor monopoly, whic! cxited, was i & drug store st Barer exi was in & store & - ‘There in 1926, she testified, she, Motley, J. A. “Deuce” Ba snother man discussed the tuni- ties for money making in the Pottawa- tomie fields. Motley, Barren and she then went to Tecumseh, county seat, for & conference with Sheriff Fox, who, she said, was Motley's uncl She was not present at that interview, At":r“‘ ization of the “ligy | of e “liquor o an said, she and “cut” the line,” young wom: hmflbd‘:h‘ oolllcthnlm ol e money to three parts. ne- , she said. went to the “county,” or Fox nndfi Hmumnmrd‘e to the "clty,; or Herman eI, MAYOr, an( Marion Fuller, chief of police of Earis boro, and the remaining third to Mo ley. She received a ion of Motley's money, she said. REV. DR. JOHN W. FERNER, RETIRED PASTOR, DIES Funeral Services Will Be Meld| Monday, With Burial in Port Lincoln Cemetery. Rev. Dr. John W. Perner, 83 years old, retired minister of the Congrega- tional Church and for & number of years & resident of this city, died in the Homeopathic Hospital today after an iliness of 10 days. Dr. Ferner retired from the active ministry about 10 years ago after a service of more than 40 years, during which he held pastorates at churches in & number of the Middle Western States. His last assignment in the ac- tive ministry was at Aurora, Nebr. He also had held pastor: at Hampton, Iowa; Beatrice; Nebr., and Tabor, Iow: In recent years he had filled in for time as pastor at a church at River- dale, Md. A native of Ohio, Dr. Perner, was educated at the Chicago Theological Seminary. He came to this eity shortly after retiring from the active ministry. He s survived by a son, Roy Y. Ferner of this city, and s daughter, Mrs. Henry Tompkin of Phoenix, Aris. Funeral services will be conducted in the es funeral home, 2901 Four- teenth street, Monday afterncon at 3 o'clock. Interment will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Dark Secret Qut— Congressmen Read Letters From Home The question of what becomes of all the letters, telegrams, peti- tions and resolutions by which members of Ci are de- luged was answered yesterday. epresentative John C. Box of Texas was quoted as having said, “:‘Iflhfl of Congress read read them.” Urging thé Woman's Peace Conference and members of its 40 affiliated organizations to write their Congressmen and Senators and tell them what they think about blic matters, Mrs. Thomas W. Spence of Milwaukee, former president of the American War Mothers, sald Box had re- assured her on that point today. “I've been told and you have been told that the telegrams and letters we send go into the waste baskets and are never seen by em| “I asked Mr, write to Sena your Repre- sentatives and orsn o the State attorney's office. | the “in” of vice and gambling in Chi- ‘SQUAWKER” SLAIN ON CHCARD STREET Former Investigator Crime Commission Is Shot to Death. for By the Assoclated Pr CHICAGO, February 1.—Julius Ros- | enheim, 45, formerly an investigator for the Chicago Crime Commission, was shot to death today by two men who stepped from an automobile to the sidewalk and fired six shots into his body. They escaped in the automobile, | driven by a third man. Police sald the shooting apparently was gangland’s revenge upon the “squawker.” Six weeks ago Rosenhelm walked into He was on | cago, he said. He offered to tell what he_kne . The State’s atiorneys listened, but were skeptical. They ordered him to go out and bring in some of the principals. Rosenheim did not return. His death today was the penalty for his “double-crossing” of underworld foes and his undercover work as tips- ter for the Chicago Crime Commission and police raids on gambling houses, authorities said. Through his work as under-cover agent, Rosenheim had gained a wide lCTlllnhnce with the shady side of Chicago and was reputed to be one of the best informed men on the “who's who" of the racketeering, gami hauling world. For a time h information for Frank J. the latter was a special prosecutor, He had left his home only a few mo- ments before he was shot down. At the corner of Ballou and McLean streets a dark blue touring car, side curtains concealing its occupants, drew up beside him. Two men emerged while a third sat at the wheel. There was a burst of gunnre. Rosenheim fell and, before the andful of pedestrians nearby realized what had occurred, the executioners ‘were speeding awa; NAVAL AGREEMENT SEEN AS CERTAINTY AFTER TWO WEEKS (Continued From Pirst Page.) le system of fixed ratios ndoned by the other four Powers, they were taken aback. In vain they tried to win first American, then British and then Japanese support for their maximum tonnage and ratio pro- posal. Verginio Gayda, It: officlal urnalist, here, lornale ‘Italia yesterday that the Italo-Amer: ican-British entente which Italy had| triumphantly announced now appears to be “in the course of dissolution.” “We will not speak of isolation,” aid, “but Italy stands out in a posi tion which is increasingly individual” It is felt, however, that Italy’s ob- Jections to a treaty drafted on a fiv year replacement program are due to & failure to grasp the full import of the plan. True, it does not give Italy its cherished parity with FPrance, but neither does it dcni’ this parity. It way with such questions as parity together, admits the right of every country to have the kind of navy it thinks it needs and gets down to ships over a brief and foreseeable riod of years. The persuasions of taly's Britlsh and American friends will, it is felt, ultimately be convineing. With respect to figures it is still too early to make definite forecast Re- garding battleships the United States seems willing to delay all replacements until 1936, and even to scrap immedi- ately three old battleships if Great Britain will do the same. Regarding 8-inch-gun crulsers the United States seems to feel that the most fitting solution would be 18 Ameri- can, 15 British, 12 Japanese, 9 French and 6 Italian, but this involves scrap- ping the four Hawkins-type British cruisers, reduction of the French de- mand from 12 to 9 and the willingness of Italy to have only six. The question of ch-gun cruisers and destroyers is immensely compli cated owing to the calculas of re- placement and other technical con- siderations, bui !t seems probable even at best that we siall be obliged to bulld some 50,000 tons of the new type of 6-inch-gun cruisers it we are to keep the proper equilibrium with Great Brit- ain and Japan. 's leading | changed since that time t sald Rev., James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the House of Representa- tives, in addressing the clas “He has n ambi- tlon to serve his country and to con- form his will to the will of God. This| latter should be the ambition of all of you,” he continued, “Years of experi- ence among men has taught me that if & man is not on the square he might as well quit and go home.” Four Receive Class Honors. Receiving class honors for exeellency in class room work were Mary Chase Leake, valedictorian; Elnyr Doris New- come, Alberta Lee Sheets and Marian Rosendorf. Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, pro- nounced the invocation, while Robert L. Haycock, assistant superintendent of schools, and Dr. Harvey A. Smith, principal, presented the diplomas and lnn]munced scholarship honors, respect- vely. Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, member of the Board of Education, presided and introduced the speaker. Recelving diplomas we Ruth Helena Alexander, Sadie Aron, Dorothy Elizabeth Bailey, Emily Mar- garet Bailey, Mary Louise Ballard, Marguerite "Edna Brittania Barnes. Irma Carlton Beall, Lucia Acheson Booth, Pauline Priscilla_Bourdon, Mar- guerite Teresa Bracey, Mary Catherine Breen, Isabel Rosalind Brown, Ruth Evans Brown, Margaret Caroline Buy- nitzky, Elizabeth Iris Cain, Sally Evelyn Chesser, Mary Alice Clore, Dorothy Steele Davidson, Katherine Agnes Delaney, Maxine Duvel, Therese Gun- [I?orh Gisted, Margaret Louise Goetsinger, uc! Hammack, Olive Ruth Hathaway, Florence Cora Hodge, Dorothy yvis 4 Holober, Sophle Hornstein, Elizabeth Carolyn Kaufman, Helen Keefe, Iise Hilde Kotz, Margaret Kushelevsky. Mary Chase Leake, Dorothy Elizabeth Leese, Rita Marie Lents, Doris Irene Livingston, Carleen Elizabeth Loeffier, Maxine Mirlam Loketch, Annie Pollock MacCallum, Phyllis Allan McConnell, Helen Sophie Elizabeth Miller, Elnyr Doris Newcome, Emily Winslow Nicklas, | da; Mary Ella Norris, Elsie Vi ia Oberlin, Helen Opyster, Frances elyn Penn, Helen Juanita Phillips, Rose Phillips, Dorothy May Porter, Mary Elizabeth Rose, Marian Rosendorf, Jo Eileen Rudnick, Nettie Sadle, Selma Shirley Salus, Helen Marie Schlegel, Oma Battaille Scott, Grace Deahl Shannon, Kathryne Odell S Sheets, Helen Virginia Sherwood, Eliza- beth Sigourney Smith, Mary Louise Stevens, Helen Louise Sudduth, Virginia Faxon Tastet, Jane Louise Toepper, Esther Troshinsky, Olive Virginia Turley, Grace Lols Wagner, ‘Wells, Elisabeth Budra-Wolter. List of Boy Graduates. George Stanley Baxter, Walter Henry Beal, jr.; Erwin Petty Beardsley, Jacob Edward Bindeman, James Henry Car- penter, Henry George Coon, Alvin LeRoy Corbin, Paul Clinton Crouch, Thomas Eugene Davis, Reuben Deck~ - baum, Ralph Barbour Deemer, jr.; Rov- ert Eicholtz, George Harrington Ellis, Herbert Willlam Farmer, Edward Fred Flanagan, Vincent Cabell Flanagan, James Denny Franklin, Ashby Waller Gallahan, Edward Jerome Geraci, Ar- thur Selig Goozh, Charles William Haas, Israel Hofberg, Willlam Doward Hoover, Louis Hyatt. George Marcel Joray, Moses Pml'l‘lg Katz, Max Lasky, Charles Love, Frai Joseph Luchs, August Willlam Ludwig, Charles Herbert Magill, Louis Basil Marchi, James Madison Mason, Edward Alec Miller, Robert Prancis Miine, Loren Leroy Murray, Leon Irving Nath- anson, Maynard Arthur Natanson, Louis Park, Charles Herbert Pendleton, John Willoughby Kennedy Randolph, Norris Cummins Reed., jr.; Morris Henry Root, Jacob Rosenberg, Thomas Henry Schaffert, Allan Cabel Schieck, Peter Smyrnas, Robert Wilcox Sonen, Carlos Vivien Spence, Albert Gordon Swain, John McFarland Swayze, Samuel Mason ‘Wagner, Somerset Rawlings Waters, 3d; David Whitfield Williams, Arthur Stan- ley Wolfe, Prederick Willlam Woodley and Dale Wright. CLOUDY AND WARMER FOR 2 DAYS, FORECAST 26 Above Zero Lowest Temperature Tonight and. No More Snow or Rain Foreseen. With cloudy but warmer weather in prospect for the next two days, the foot of snow which blanketed the city Thurs- day is expected to melt rapidly. De- spite the cloudiness the Weather Bu- renu does not anticipate any more snow or ralm. The lowest temperature forecast for tonight is 26 degrees above, zero, It will be somewhat warmer Sunday. The bulk of the snow from the down- town streets was removed yesterday and the District's workmen were concentrat- ing their efforts on streets in the outly- ing_districts today. ‘Three youths were injured last night When their sleds collided with automo- biles. A boy was slightly hurt falling on the slippery pavements and year-old man fell down icy cellar fracturing his foot. Charles Overhall, 17, of 134 W str Reginald Ramsey, 18, of 2110 gler street and Andrew Simpson, 21, of 3 L street were sled victim: of 3520 Rod- Clark, colored, Francis Netherwood, man street, and Edwas 62, of 600 Freeman Court were hurt in falls, The question of submarines is being momentarily reserved. We apparently favor their abolition, but fear that this 18 impractical and would be satisfled if the larger type could be limited in some y. It is just possible that in the end some form of political pact may be found the best method of solv- ing the submarine problem. We hope that we shall not obliged to con- sider such a pact, but are willing to study one if it seems really useful and constructive. W The only real criticism against the rrelrnt trend of this conference is that it promises to result in a considerable amount of bullding. To this it is an- swered: 1. There may be some actual scrap- ping of big ships. 2. By delaying certain replacements immense sums will be saved. 3. The proposed agreement, even if it only limits without reducing arma- ments, at least does away with dan- gerous competition. 4. There will probably be less bufld- ing under the agreement than there would have been otherwise. llll' n‘!;l" lluecm l:;‘. this . conferenc: wi only open a gen. eral disarmament confe but will l FORMAL PROTEST MADE - AGAINST SMOKING ROOM 8ociety of Friends Objects to Re- quest of Woman Students at Swarthmore. By the Associated P NEW YORK,. uary 1.—The re- quest by woman studenis of Swarth- more College for a smoking room has resulted in widespread discussion among members of the Society of Friends, which supports the school. A formal protest against granting the request, unanimously adopted the New York annual meeting of the Friends, has been forwarded to the board of managers. The matter will be taken up by the board at a meeting called for March 14. The Friends Intelligencer, official weekly of the Hicksite Branch of the Soclety of Priends, says In its current issue that although the yearly meeting went on record as opposed to m.{m- posal, the question was raised whether which slways has gtressed theuiuu hts of women it was incon- sistent to allow the men to have a smok- _room And refuse to.provide one for le Ruby Gunther, Ernestine Amanda | Carolyn | Photo shows the new Navy glider a TOBE QUOTED NOW Statement Directed Against Hoover Is Read at Lobby Hearing. Senator Joseph R. Grundy of Penn- sylvania, whom the Senate 10bby com- mittee assailed as a tariff lobbyist| shortly before he took the seat which | was denied Willlam 8. Vare, does not | care to be quoted now on whether he has changed his estimate of President Hoover as a man who “dosen't know | anything at all from experience what legislation means.” A speech made by Grundy at a meet- | ing of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, in December of 1928, about six weeks after the election of President Hoover, was read into the irecord of the lobby committee yester- y. Grundy was expressing concern over | the future of the tariff bill, which was just getting started in Congress. My concern is not lessened at all by | the knowledge that the President-elect, while he is a very fine fellow and the State that I have the honor of coming from gave him almost a million ma- Jority to show its confidence in him, has never had any legislative experi- ence,” he said. Questioned about the remarks, Grundy said yesterday: “If it's in the | record, I said it. At that time it was | my appraisal of things.” LEHLBACH ATTACKS HOMEBREW IDEA OF HOUSE COLLEAGUE | ___ (Continued From First Page.) of there would be no subsidiary viola- tors supplying them with the means. “S80 when we discuss law observance and law deflance in connection with prohibition, let's be honest enough to disregard the incidentals of the ques- | tion, not discuss the abbetors of the violators, the still operators, rum | runners, bootléggers and their ilk, but | let’s talk about the essential violator of prohibition, the person Wwho uses alcoholic beverages. | ““There are in the country millions of men and women who habitually or oe- | casionally are such prohibition vio- lators. Everybody knows this, and whoever seeks to deny it, the truth is not in him. These violators are in every station of society, in every waik of life. My experience differs in no respect from that of the average man who gets around and I have seen laborers, mechanics, merchants, manufacturers, professional men, bank- ers, judges, both State and Federal; clergymen, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, blandly and unconcernedly ignore prohibition. It iy idle to re- iterate that the act of drinking is not forbidden. On 99 and 98-hundredths of such occasions the very presence of the beverage necessarily ontails the commission of one or more acts made felony by the Jones act, and its posses- sion at the time of its use is declared a crime. These people and the millions like them throughout the country are decent, respected and self-respecting citizens. What's the answer?” Prohibitionists Indorse Course. “The answer to this situation is ob- vious. The prohibition statutes—and the eighteenth amendment is simply & statute—do not square with the moral ense of an appreciable proportion of our population. Hence they disregard then.. Prohibitionists themselves un- | consd iously indorse this course. When ted in thelr presence y deprecate it, but they don't inform the authorities. Yet they, like all good citizens, would in- voke justice for a person killed, a burglary committed. Thus, even in the consciousness of a prohibitionist, the disregard of prohibition is not a crime, the violation of an accepted rule of conduct. “In this state of affairs, what about enforcement? How are you going to coerce millions of American citizens to conform to a standard they repudiate?” Republica; in a statement sald “high soci had hampered Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler in his efforts to dry up Philadelphia when the stormy Marine officer was safety director of that city. He proposed that Butler be selected as prohibition com- missioner. In the House, the expenditure com- mittee revised one section of the Wil- liamson bill to give the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney Gen- eral joint suthority in issuing regula- tions governing industrial alcohol. Otherwise the measure, which would transfer the prohibition enforcement unit from the Treasury to the Justice Department, was unchanged as ap- proved earlier in the week. In the Senate, Morris Sheppard of Texas, & Democrat, co-author of the eighteenth amendment, sald that “love for all humanity is one of the principal forces behind the prohibition move- ment. “The statement that I hate any one, whether in connection with liquor or asserted. “I hate nobody.” Senator Copeland, Democrat, New York, sald he approved of what the Texan said. “While we are in opposition on many matters with reference to the efforts ! made to enforce prohibition,” Cope- land added, “I know of no man who is 80 genuine in his character and in his attitude toward men in general, and the statements the Senator from Texas has just made I thoroughly indorse.” WOULD ELEVATE DEBATE. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. 'hA‘lnl!'ou h White H':\:‘IO denial a p:a Representative Fort's speech on s ly ac- eepled, the fact remains s | tached against her keel and anything else, is entirely in error,” he |, ttached to the dirj ble Los Angeles, i1 of 3,000 feet. Lieut. Ralph S. Barnaby (seated in glider), piloted the powerless craft when it was thrown clear of t GLIDER LAUNCHED AT 3000 FEET MAKES PERFECT LANDING | { which it was released from an altitude —Assoclated Press Photo. Los Angeles Test Supports Theory This Type Craft Can Be Used as Dirigible Auxiliary. Special Dispatch to The Star. LAKEHURST NAVAL AIR STATION, N. J, February 1.—A German-made glider, weighing about 200 pounds, and the only craft of the kind owned by the United States Navy, was launched from the keel of the dirigible Los Angeles while she was flying at an altitude of 3,000 feet over this fleld yesterday. ‘The glider, after belnr released from the dirigible, while traveling at 39 knots, by means of a standard bomb release device on the underside of the Los Angeles, was piloted to a perfect landing on the snow-covered airfield here by Lieut. Ralph 8. Barnaby, U. 8. N,, the Nagy's only licensed glider pilot. Glider Lands Safely on Snow. The glider, with Lieut. Barnaby, slid across the fleld in a graceful landing, the first ever made by a glider launched from a dirigible in flight. The Los Angeles, which was sent aloft especially for this test, was berthed 2 hours and 55 minutes later after the full strength of the ground crew had struggled for more than 45 minutes with a strong cross-hangar wind to land the dirigible. Just before the Los Angeles dipped down into reach of her landing crew she narrowly missed collision with a commercial plane which had gone aloft to take pictures of the glider launchin The photographers’ plane was cau; in a back-wash of air from the dh’l{! e and dropped 500 feet, almost striking the pride of the Navy's fleet of lighter- than-air ships. The test with the dirigible was made while the Los Angeles was flying in formation with the Lakehurst station’s entire fleet of lighter-than-air craft. The demonstration today was declared entirely successful and supports a theory of the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy that gliders can be as suxiliary craft to dirigibles, much after the manner of lifeboats on & ship st sea. Three Other Ships in Formation. The Los Angeles, with the glider at- ith Lieut. Barnaby riding in the cabin with the other officers of the igible, took off t 10:45 a.m. She was accompanied by he Navy blimps J-3 and J-4 and the Navy's all-metal dirigible ZMC-2. Fly- ing in formation, this fleet remained in | the vicinity of the air station during the duration of the test. ‘While the Los Angeles was climbing an altitude of 3,000 feet Lieut. Barnaby, who has been testing gliders 09, talked with Comdr. H. V. in the control cabin of the ‘When the altitude agreed on for the test been reached, he walked across the keel of the shij dropped down throu ) which has been used for the l\lnchln! of planes from the airship. He loweres himself about five feet into the control seat of the glider. When ready, he signaled and a mem- ber of the Los Angeles crew operating the bomb release dropped the glider clear of the keel at 11:25 am. It was launched at a rate of approximately 50_miles an hou Free and without power. in his craft to rely upon, Lieut. Barnaby began to rflot his glider toward its home port rom the 3,000-foot altitude. Lands in Thirteen Minutes. Lieut. Barnaby ded his slad" in a series of wide circles over fleld, crossing the station 12 times before making a perfect landing on the snow near the center of the fleld at 11:38, 13 minutes after leaving the dirigible. ‘The Los Angeles nosed down for a landing soon after 12 o'clock, but in the meantime a bad cross-hangar wind had developed. It was not until 1:35 that the ship was safely locked to the | mooring mast. It ‘ws while preparing |to _come down that the Los Angeles almost met the photographers’ plane. Lisut, Barnaby said that his glider fight today was the moat pleasant in 21 years of piloting gliders, “The purpose of this flight,” he said, “was to determine air currents under airships. With the coming of more ships of this type, it is definitely un- derstood at this time that they will be equipped with gliders to be used in making landings. At this time the Navy has two dirigibles under construc- tion at Akron and this test proves that it will be feasible to equip these dirigibles with gliders.” Arrangements for the glider test today were begun when the dirigible's suc- cessful experiment with & power-driven plane was made last September. The glider, g about 200 pounds ing & wing span of 33 ade in Germany and is classified as & secondary training type. bér of Congress, intimately identified with the pre-convention campaign of Herbert Hoover, thought.the subject of sufficient importance to address th House of Representatives in an at- tempt to lift the whole discussion to & higher plane. Mr. Fort would not embarrass Mr. Hoover. He resigned a few days ago his connection with the Republican national committee in order at he might not embarrass his party. Com. ing from New Jersey, a wet State, Mr. Fort’s remarks were received with ra) attention by the entire House. While there was much” criticism from both wets and drys as to Mr. Fort's con- clusion the applause he received showed that the House approved his conscienti. ous effort to find some way out of the present prohibition mix-up. Speech Significant. The New Jersey Representative thinks the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law were intended to suppress the liquor traffic, but the making of intoxicants in one’s home is a private matter not Erohlhfl.ed by law. Mr. Fort is a prohibitionist and his speech takes on the greatest sigmificant be- cause of his exhortation to the extreme drys to avold doing thi which he belleves will cause the prohibition move- ment to lose ground and perhaps im- pair the economic advantages which he thinks have been derived from the pro- hibition laws. ‘There were drys, of course, who com- mented on Mr. Fort's speech as an ef- fort to produce by definition something which the law itself in spirit prohibits. ‘The Volstead act legalizes home brew, but at the same time makes it unlawful for any one to sell utensils or to dis- tribute a recipe telling people how to manufacture intoxicating liquor. If Representative Fort's 'h had come at any other time and under other circumstances, it would have gone into the Congressional Record as “just an- other profibition speech. But, even though Mr. Hoover was not consulted in advance and is in no way respon- sible for Mr. Fort's views, it is known he regards highly the Representa- tive from New Jersey. In fact, Rep- resentative Fort is one of the outstand- ing men in the House of Representatives today, and he is being boomed for Gov- ernor of New Jersey, a position which his father held more than 20 years ago. Mr. Fort's speech may be an indica- tion of how seriously the drys are tak- i the prohibition discussion. There is a tendency to divide into two camps— those who uncompromisingly insist that the issue is the repeal or the retention of the eighteenth amendment and that word manufacture does cover the home as well as the liquor traffic out- side the home. THe other rmu%:t drys are nearer to the middle of the road, Ing anxious to avold any material modification of either the eighteenth amendment or the Volstead law, but reco{nlunl that the constant bombard- ment of the prohibition statutes is hav- effect on public sentiment and making it more and more difficult to secure observance of the law. Mr. Fort's suggestion was that if the law were directed al the liquor traffic public sentiment would rally behind it, whereas the consumption at home of intoxica beve! was such a per- rages sonal ln‘:‘:flvfll matter that when the | has done law seeks to invade this precinct public sentiment rebels. The fact of the matter is, however, that if the distinction made by Repre- sentative Fort were to be formally sanc- tioned it would lead to agitation for the Tepeal of those sections of the Volstead SHORE IS SENTENCED ON CONTEMPT CHARGE | Tire Shop Proprietor Said to Have Violated Preliminary “Pad- lock” Injunction, Prank ™ Shore, proprietor of a tire shop in the 1200 block of New York | avenue, was sentenced today by Justice Stafford to serve one year in jail for contempt of court in violating the terms of & preliminary “padiock” injunction granted last May. No fine was imposed in addition to the jail sentence. Through Attorneys William E. Leahy and .Yl‘:u Rellly, Shore noted an ap- 1 to the Court of Appeals and re- on bail pending the decision of the appellate tribunal. A supersedeas bond to stay the execution of the sen- tence was set at $1,600. Attorney Leo A. Rover and Assistant United States Attorney Harold W. Orcutt complaingd to the court that When the shop of Shore was raided last November, several months after the ?rtllldnlnlry injunction, & quantity was ound. Justice Stafford also granted a motion of the prosecutors for a permanent injunction and the padlocking of the premises: for one year. The appeal will stay the padiocking. NEW WAVE AND INCREASE IN POWER DENIED WOL ‘The Federal Radio Commiséion today denied the application of Station WOL for a new wave channel and increased power on the ground that the power distribution of stations in Washington already exceeds the allocated quota by 860 watts. OLpetitioned the commission for a rity to use the 1,370-kilocycle chinnel wigh 250 watts power. It transmits now with 100 watts on a fre- quency of 1,310 kilocycles. ‘The 1370 kilocycle channel was ‘WOL's original assignment in the general reallocations of November 11, 1928, when the station was restricted to daytime broadcasting. In order to broadcast night programs the station subsequently accepted its present wave band and redu its power from 150 to 100 watts, act which indirectly interfere with home mdnufacture, Then there is the ever recurrent problem of what constitutes tras tion. Under existing law even that is home-brewed cannot be carried from one house to another without a permit. The moment the restrictions are removed in order to take care of home manufacture the extreme jor | L. MERGER IS URGED ON SENATE GROUP Behn Presents Case of Com- munications System as Rate-Reduction Plan. By the Associated Press. Sostehenes Behn, chairman of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, testified today before the Senate interstate commerce committee . that consolidation of wire, cable and radio telegraph facilities of the United States would result in a saving of about $15,000,000 annually to the American people. Behn said his statement was based upon & preliminary economic study ot the possible results of such a consolida- tion, and asserted that the lower rates and better service would need await only a short period of readjustment fol- lowing the fusion. Companies Designated. He mentioned specifically in this re- gard the Western Union tem, the Postal Telegraph & Commercial Cable systems and the Radio Corporation's network, adding: “It would enable them to be on a par- ity with the other communication sys- tems of the world.” ‘This would resuit, he added, in lower rates and better service. “I am convinced,” he said, “that it is economically sound and in the interest of the American people that the merger of the wire, cable and radio telegraph service in this country and those reach- ing out to the other countries of the world should be legally sanctioned. “A preliminary study of the economic results indicates that the fusion of the Western Union system, the Postal ‘Telegraph & Commercial Cable systems and the Radio Corporation’s system would result, after a short period of readjustment, in economies of some $15,000,000 annually, which would be reflected in the prompt reduction of telegraph rates and the extension and improvement of the services rendered. Great Benefit Foreseen. “And the authority to merge com- munications systems, other than tele- phone, would permit the creation of a unification of wire, cable and wireless | communications to the great benefit jof the American people. .It would give | them the very best service at the lowest | possible rates. | ""The 1. T. & T. has a tentative con- tract to purchase the communications facilities of the Radio Corporation of America, and Behn urged that the ac- quisition be permitted. Discussing what he termed the ad- sald: “We are confident that with a uni- fication of the overseas communications of Radio Corporation of America and International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, the amount of traffic which will be handled by radio and the num- ber of new circuits which will be estab- lished and extended will be far greater than can be achieved by any radio com- iny operating alone in competition tead of co-ordinated with another. system of communication.” SLIP ON ICY PORCH HURLS BOY 3 FLOORS | Ralph Dreifus, 8, Sent to Hospital Unconscious” From Home in Southeast Section. hflwlfl u:f ice which mvuflmm‘: An m) ent 309 m mutmmt today, Ralph Dreifus, six years old, was per- h]np- fatally injured in a three-story Pplunge. The boy's head struck wooden steps on the ground floor of the building, knocking him unconscious. He was re- moved to Casualty Hospital in an am- bulance. . Louls Jimal treated the patient for a concussion of the brain, severe lacerations and shock. The phy- sician sald the boy had only slight chances of recovery. Ralph is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Dreifus. His parents live on the ground floor of the Fourth street apartment house. His mother had gone to market, and he went up the back stairs to visit an aunt. It was while h.mmm,mmmammzu slipped and fell. boy pi have escaped unhurt had he fallen in _ln:.no' drift at the edge of the steps. difference was a matter of inches, . VATICAN AT 0DDS WITH JUGOSLAVIA Pope’s Encyclical on Education Stirs Row in Country of Orthodox Church. ‘would BY WILLIAM H. STONEMAN, By Radio to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright. 1930. ROME, ,February 1.—As a result of the Pope's. recent encyclical, in which he expressed himself on the subject of education of youth, the Vatican today finds itself in its first international controversy since the signing of the lateran treaties. Jugoslavia, which has been negotiating for a concordat with the Holy See despife its character as a stronghold of the orthodox church, is the second party to the disagreement. The trouble started when the papal nuncio at Belgrade protested to the government against the new jug v educational laws, which he considered detrimental to the Catholic Church and contrary to the principles stated by ihe Pope. The Pontiff firmly stated that all Catholics should be educated in parochial schools. The Archbishop of Zagreb is quoted as saying that an article in the official Jugoslav newspaper Novosti, answering his protests and charging the Vatican with an attempt to create a Catholtc opposition to t. present government, constituted a grave breach of interna- tional law, The Novosti article, among other things, serves warning on the Pope that Jugoslav schools are controlled by the state. VDY 31 ON TRIAL IN INDIA. Conspiracy to Deprive King of Sov- ereignty Charged. MEERUT, United Provinces of India, February 1 ().~ trial of 31 per- sons_accused of col to deprive the King of his sovereignty in British India ornod yesterday before Judge R. Yorke. The accused not drys | t] insist it will be twice as difficult as it is today to suppress liquor traffic. ‘What Representative Fort, however, is to put the discussion of prohibition on such a plane that other speeches In the House are likely to br made, actually ITIM many of the vital pointé that have hitherto been re sides have A — use extremists on both | Peasa: be proved. ac- tion continued, were the Communist Interna- Which had established connee- tions with all the big rallways, arsenals and dock workers and blished connections with the All-India Workers’ ints' par) vith branches In Ben- 1, Bom jthe United- Provinces and unjab, 4