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THE "SUNDAY _STAR, 'HOOVER EXPECTED HOME TOMORROW ! i Party En Route After Florida! Trip Ends Without a Climax. BY RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Correspondent of The Star. ON BOARD PRESIDENT HOOVER'S TRAIN EN ROUTE TO WASHING- ‘TON, February 15.—After a highly en- Jjoyable, although not entirely success- ful, fishing expedition in the waters of the Florida Keys, President and Mrs. Hoover and their party of fishing com- panions are tonight on their way back to Washington. ‘The President’s train will reach the Capital Monday morning in time to put him at his desk at his customary hour, and it is his intention to at once enter upon an exceedingly busy day. As the party pulled out of Long Key, ‘which has been its operating base dur- ing this outing, the air was mild, and the reports received of cold weather in ‘Washington when they reach there, naturally made them hate to leave this climate. Mr. Hoover caught very few fish on this trip and only one sailfish, but he had a good time and a complete rest from the arduous and trying dutles of his high office. There is not the slight- est doubt about the benefits of this outing. Both he and Mrs. Hoover left the Keys saying that they never felt better. Both have been tanned by the sun and brisk salt air and both are in splendid physical condition to resume their respective White House burdens. Lieut. Comdr. Joel T. Boone, the Presi- dent’s physician, said tonight that this one week's play in the open had done both the President and Mrs. Hoover a world of good. On Boat Six Days. ‘The first time either had set foot on shore since arriving at Long Key early last Monday morning was tonight when they went aboard the train to carry them to the North. Throughout their stay in Florida they lived aboard the cruiser houseboat Saunterer. a luxuri- ous 90-footer. Virtually all of the sportsmen and other members of the fishing colony as well as the handful of natives were on hand to greet the dis- tinguished party as it came ashore to- night, and to wave a fare-well. The President and his party spent the morn- ing out on the guif stream in search of sailfish, but despite the many hooks of the party that trolled the sea, no one was successful. Not even a bite was re- ported. A strong southeast wind was blowing, the strongest encountered by the party during their outing, and the sea was well whipped into a state of real roughness. The little fishing boats in the flotilla bounced and tossed about and there is reason to believe that nearly every one was glad to get back to the calm waters of the Key where their house boats were anchored. Shew of Superstition. Like most good fishermen, President Hoover is superstitious. He showed this very clearly on this trip. One of his superstitions is his constant chang- ing of boats. Each day he would select the fishing boat in which the best catches were made the day before, but this did not change his luck. ‘Today the President turned over his motor sloope, the Orca, to the news- | !0 paper correspondents and news pho- tographers for the purpose of accom- panying him. These presidential escorts were far more concerned with holding wn to the side of the bouncing craft than they were hool fish. However, this trip afforded the pho- tographers their first 2ponumty to get any pictures of the President angling on this trip. They were not especially fortunate because the roughness made photographic views of the President in_action extremely difficult. Mrs. Lawrence Richey, wife of the President’s secretary, received congratu- lations today from all hands in the fishing camp for her success yesterday in landing two dolphins and three large kingfish. Mr. Hoover has been told by sports- men who fish all along the lower Florida coast that the best sailfish grounds are in the vicinity of Palm Beach and Miami, and although the President made no commitments, it is thought that the next time he comes to Florida to indulge in his favorite sport, he to those grounds for his sail- Blimp Bears Message. Just as the President returned to the Saunterer about lunch time this afternoon a large gray blimp came out of the northeast, circled around the palatial yacht a couple of times and then descended to within 70 feet of the houseboat, dropped a bag contain ing a message from the mayor of Miami. ‘This message to the President thanked him for selecting Florida for his out- ing, and expressing the hope that he enjoyed himself and that he would again honor this section With his presence. During his brief vacation Mr: Hoover has done very little work and has de- voted most of his time to play and rest. Of course he has closely followed the course of events back in Wash- ington and in London, and will be fully informed of developments in both capitals when he gets back to his desk Monday morning. He has been kept advised of the developments of the al conference and for the purpose of more enlightenment and explanation of reports he has had the services of Capt. Allan Buchanan, his chief naval aide, who was brought along on this outing for just that purpose. Associates of the President have em earlier than his original plan was not in the slightest influenced by any news he has received from London. ORTIZ RUBIO SILENT. Physician Orders Quiet to Aid Jaw Wound Healing. MEXICO CITY, February 15 (#).— After obliging President Ortiz Rubio to suspend all business conferences yes- terday, the doctors attending him today forbade him to talk at all. They ex- plained that this would hasten his re- covery, because talking disturbs the wound in his jaw. The medical bulletin tonight says that the president’s condition is satis- factory. Resorts, Tours and Steamships Advertising Will be ‘found in the Editorial Section of today's and future editions of The Sunday Star These classifications con- tain varied and interesting information for those who plan to travel at this season of the year. f|the Macdonald government is SENATE SEAT Senator Henry J. Allen of Kansas (left) will be opposed for the Republican senatorial nomination in the August primarv by Representative W. H. Sprould (upper right) and Ralph Snyder, president of Kansas State Farm Bureau. —Associated Press Photo. STIMSON INSISTS AUXILIARY CRAFT (Continued From First Page.) United States indicated it was ready to build, has abated. ‘The view in the American delegation® is that submis- sion of the proj 1 has accomplished its purpose. en the outburst of populas opposition at home isn't un- palatable to Stimson’s colleagues. The episode has had two very definite re- sults. It has shown—at least as far as is observable here—that the coun- try is opposed to any excessive Amer- ican big navy program at London. On | the other hand, the delegation will be able to point to its gesture in be- half of utmost battleship parity with Great Britain if the eventual London treaty comes under fire in the Senate on the ground that the delegation did not ask for and get more at the con- ference. Threat Proves Effective. Of even deeper importance, however, is the undoubted effect which the so- called “Battleship Henry L. Stimson” has exercised on conference strategy and psychology. It has revealed Amer- ica's readiness in certain emergencies to spend money on a new opattleship program if there is no other wav out. Prmb‘y this state of affairs carries more weight with the Japanese than any one else. Their anxiety to go home with a treaty which will impose no ‘more $40,000,00 battleships on the bend- ing backs of Japanese taxpayers is notorious. Our delegates in London aren't ad- verse to letting their European and Asiatic colleagues bear constantly in mind a Yankee paraphrase of a bit of ancient British doggerel, dsting back the Crimean War. The present hour version runs: “We don’t want to build, but by jingo if we do we have the way, we've got the will and we've got the money, too!” CONFERENCE SUCCESS FORESEEN. Acting Secretary of State and Senator Borah Optimistic. Joseph P. Cotton, Acting Secretary of State, voiced optimism yesterday for & successful conclusion of the five-power Naval Conference, dispelling somewhat the pessimistic comment which has fol- lowed recent reports from London. He discounted the difficulties con- fronting the conference which have brought the comment from some quar- ters that the American delegation has resigned itself to a program not of re- duction, but of limitation, and from others that the critical attitude struck by some Senators indicated they might not ratify any treaty which is achieved in London. Any conference must seriously face knotty problems, the Acting Secretary 1 ted, but he could see no liar difficulties which would threa the present parley. “There is nothing to be discouraged about as yet.” he said. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, although he maintained that the con- ference “does look discouraging” at the moment, agreed that certainly some re- duction would be achieved. “I feel that the conference will a complish something definite in the way of reduction,” he said. “It is difficult to say whether anything can be done in the auxiliary classes, but the administra- tion is for reduction, the delegation is for reduction, and I feel that the con- ference will accomplish some reduc- tion.” Britten Sees Expansion. Representative Pred A. Britten of Illi- nois, chairman of the House naval af- fairs committee, however, saw in the London reports of the last week evi- dence that the conference was leadin; to “expansion, not reduction” of naval strength, and its purpose being pervert- ed by the British admiralty. “Frankly, I don’'t expect a treaty even. I am quite surprised to find that com- pletely in the grasp of the British Ad- miralty, which looks on the United States as a potential enemy. We had hoped that civillans would put their feet together under the conference table and increase cordial relations, but I'm afraid the British Admiralty will keep us from even coming to a definite treaty. “The British Admiralty thinks we're Just childish enough to build 7,000-ton ships, of a type for which we have ab- solutely no use. We suggested building a Rodney type just as a matter of paper tonnage and a sop to the naval en- thusiasts. The failure of the confer- ence will rest with the British Admir- alty and not with the Macdonald gov- ernment. “It has become an expansion confer- ence, not a limitation conference at all, and it no longer pretends to be any- thing else. Why, the tonnage estimate of 329,000 for the United States is the highest of any conference yet, Ours at the Geneva conference was 250,000 tons. We're thinking now of building 77,000 tons, or $130,000,000 worth of British type ships for which we have no use. It is absurd. Evidently our statesmen, in the in- terest of some sort of an agreement, are inclined to sign such a treaty but it won’t be ratified. The people won't stand for it.” Walsh in Radio Attack. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon- tana, in a radio address here tonight over the National Broadcasting Co.s system, attacked the American delega- stand on the propossd Mediter- pact. In concluding his sub- ct, “Peace,” he devoted much of his address to that problem. He said in storm of protest has been raised against lng such agreement on eur part, in which I cannot join. Alto- gether aside from humanitarian con- siderations, it is my jue nt that we have everything to gain and nothing to lose such an agreement, stilling the apprehensions of those troubled with {1ears of involvement by & seservation like that attached to the Pacific pact. " 1 have no fllusions that any siuch agree- BE ACTED ON FIRST| MACDONALD HOST TONAVAL WRITERS Shows Newspaper Men Art Treasures in Country Home of Prime Ministers. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 15.—Laying aside all formalities, Prime Minister Mac- donald this afternoon received about 30 American, French, English, Japanese and Italian newspapermen, who are in London covering the Naval Conference. They were his guests as Checquers, the historic Elizabethan country home of British Prime Ministers. Mr. Macdonald, dressed in a gray jacket and plus fours, showed them the art treasures in the house, which vas donated to the nation by Lord Lee of Fareham, husband of the former Ruth Moore of New York. He was assisted by his daughter Ishbel and his son Malcolm. After tea, scorning to wear his over- coat despite a bitterly cold wind, hi showed the newspapermen over a large part of the estate, leading them to a hilltop to point out the spires of dis- tant Oxford. Returning to the manor house, he discussed books and history with his guests in front of an immense open fire. Ishbel, wearing a red and black “Macdonald” plaid = skirt, flat heel shoes and a tight-fitting black jacket, sat in one corner of a large settle listen- ing attentively and occasionally making & comment on the discussion. ‘The Prime Minister expressed his ad- miration for “John Brown's Body.” a poem by the American writer, Stephen Vincent Benet, and also for Henderson's life of .Stonewall Jackson. . Some one suggested that he was fond of Southern history. “Ah,” he said, “the history of the South has never been written,” indicat- ing that he spoke in a figurative rather than in a literary sense. Parley Highlights By the Associated Press. At the end of the fourth week of the Naval Conference three definite achieve- ments were listed by the delegates. ‘They were: (1) A prospective five-year battleship holiday; (2) & program for “humanizing” submarine warfare; (3) llettlement of the global tonnage ques- tion. ‘The American delegation today took up in earnest the problem of Franco- Itglian naval parity. Ambassador Mor- row, who has taken part in all the Franco-American conversations, had a conference with Foreign Minister Grandi of Italy. As the chief French delegates left London for Paris over the week end, Great Britain and the United States postponed their attempt to persuade France to lower her fleet tonnage de- mand. France asks for a total of 724,000 tons, mostly replacements, by the end of 1936. Premier Tardieu will face an important debate in the French Parliament next week. ‘Tokio dispatches said that Japan had maintained her demand for a 70 per cent ratio in heavy cruisers in the tonnage figures she is discussing with the United States. ‘The best inforomed London Sunday newspapers issued editorial warnings that grave difficulties were lying ahead of the conference. ment will command the requisite sup- ron in this country, but what more ikely than that when any of these nations get fighting mad at each other, and yet cannot fail to reflecc upon the awful sacrifice involved in war, they would welcome the good offices of the United States as a perfectly disinter- ested party and delight to see it it at table in an effort to avert the ci trophe they must all dread. It o to be realized now that we are more than likely to be invoived in any gen- eral war in Eumre, In their frenzy some one or all of the belligerents are likely to violatc . ur rights and to bring us into the conflict to maintain them or to redress wrongs from which we have suffered. To my mind we take less chances by helping o avert such a conflict than we do by keeping out of it with honor once the conflagra- tion is lit. “The same increasing dread of any kind of association with European powers lest thereby we should he again drawn into a war among them ac- counts for no little of the opposition to our participation in the maintenance of the Permanent Court of Interna- tional Justic, generally referred to as the World Court. By no stretch of the imagination can the United States be held either legally or morally bound to Join in coercing observance of any de- cision that tribunal may render, whether there is an American among its judges, as there has been since its organization eight years ago, or is not; whether the United States adheres or does not adhere to the protocol by virtue of which it exists. The prestige of the court, constantly growing, would, should become one of its supporters, but that the risk of involvement in European controversies would be heightened is a wild dream without any reason to support it. On the con- trary, the risk would be measurably diminished by the added respect that would be accorded to the decisions of the court and the consequent reluctance of any nation to resort to arms in dise regard of its judgment.” - BEST AIRPORT DEAL | tablishment of the airport at Gravelly quite likely, be enhanced if our country | WASHINGTON, POSSIBLE ASSURED Bingham Says Commission Will Not Be Swayed by Propaganda. ‘The Joint Congressional Airport Com- misslon wiil do what it thinks best for | the District in providing the city with | alr teyminal facilities, Chairman Bing- ham declared last nght. “We are going. to do the very best | we can for the District without regard | to the wishes of any person, or of any | propaganda,” was Senator Bingham's comment when he learned of the stéte- ment issued yesterday by Lieut. Walter Hinton, chairman of the aviation com- mittee of the Chamber of Commerce, in which Lieut. Hinton reiterated his com- mittee’s approval of the Gravelly Point site -.rllti weoi?zd with thet:urd of Trade commi n opposing the plan to ap- propriate funds that might be used to purchase land outside the District for an_airport. Senator Bingham said the commissior held open hearings at which it gathered all the information that could be ob- tained in that way. May Meet This Week. ‘The commission may meet again some time this week to give further con- sideration to the problem, but it is not certain at this time whether action will be taken at the next meeting. The commission held an executive session vesterday, at which it considered as one possibility the establishment of the air- port of one or both of the existing fly- ing fields near the south end of High- way Bridge. Officials of the Washington Airport and of Hoover Field, which are on op- posite sides of a Government highway on the Virginia side of the river, were in conference with the commission yes- terday, but no action was take ‘The two fields together would make available a 250-acre airport. The Chamber of Commerce aviation committee also will meet this week, at 4:30 o'clock, Thursday afternoon, to give further impetus to the fight for es- Point. Gravelly Point Testimony. After yesterday's meeting of the com- mission Senator Bingham said thought the people generally have not had in mind all of the testimony re- garding Gravelly Point that developed at the hearings last year, and which had caused the commission to hesitate with regard to that site. He sald in order to fill in the made lai at Gravelly Point quickly would run the cost to approximately $5,000,000, and that five years would be required for the proper settlement of the fill. The only proposed legislation relating to the airport pending in Congress is the resolution "recommended by the commission last year, for an appropria- tion of $500,000 to be used for the pur- chase of options on a site or sites, In recommending the resolution the com- mission did not specify any site. The meeting yesterday was the first the commission has held at this session. Congress has taken no action on the commission’s resolution. In the statement he issued yesterday Lieut. Hinton of the Chamber of Com- merce, who is a noted flyer, took the ition that the Gravelly Point site as been approved by flyers and Gov- ernment experts, as well as by local or- ganizations, and that some attention is due' ":he wishes of the District in the matter, DANIEL SMILEY DIES AT MOHONK LAKE HOME Member of Board of Indian Com-| missioners Was Appointed by Taft in 1919, Daniel Smiley, head of the Lake Mohonk Confercnces on International Arbitration and member of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners, died suddenly Priday night at his home in Mohonk Lake, N. Y., at the age of 75_years. He was appointed by President Taft in 1912 to the United States Board of Indian Commissioners, which office he held until his death. He was for 20 years a trustee of Vassar College, as well as a trustee of Haverford College and of the University of Redlands, and was & member of the American Society of International Law, the American Peace Soclety, the American Civic As- sociation, National Audubon Societies, Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks and numerous outdoor recreation and park commissions. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Effie Newell Smiley; three sons, Albert K., Francis G. and Hugh Smiley, and a daughter, Ruth Smiley Sanborn. Funeral services will held tomor- row afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Friends’ Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Italian Beauty at Conference. LONDON, February 15 (#).—The most beautiful woman here for the naval conference, in the opinion of Ellen Wilkinson, M. P., is the Baroness Acton, wife of an Italian delegate. Miss Wilkinson writes in the evening news that the deep eyes of the baroness look at the world with something of D. C, he | gaming law were booked as Leo Cohen, | Democratic executive committee. the question in them of Mo WHEN WILL WASHINGTON HAVE A Children’s Sanatorium? On March 1, 1929, President Coolidge, as one of his last administrative acts, signed the authorization bill H. R. 13752 to provide for the construction of a Children’s Sanatorium for the District of Columbia. In April, 1929, a special cl under the joint administration of the Health Department and the Washington Tuberculosis Association, for two half days each week. Between April found. care for them, especially the pital care? On February 4, 1930, an 1929, and February 1. 1930, 1,381 children have been X-rayed and thoroughly examined by specialists, and 159 new cases of tuberculosis have been How many new cases will be found when our 107,000 child population are examined, and where will we FEBRUARY 16, GAMING CHARGED AFTER HOTEL RAID Police Report Paraphernalial Guarded by Steel Doors at the Commercial. The Commercial Hotel, 920 P street, where many theatrical people stop, was raided yesterday by the police vice squad, which reported the discovery of an elaborate gambling establishment, occupying” almost an entire floor of | the hotel and guarded by steel doors. Thirty men were arrested and & large | quantity of alleged gaming parapher- nalia was seized. ‘Two patrol wagons backed up to the | building to convey the prisoners to the first preeinct quickly attracted a crowd of hundreds of p:dutrhns. Gaming Charges. Five of the captives were charged with setting up a gaming table and 10 were booked as witnesses. The names of the others were not recorded on the police blotter. ‘The establishment, allegedly equipped with roulette wheels, card and dice ta- bles, and telephone booths for horse- race betting, was on the fourth floor of the bullding, and was accessible only by means of the elevator. Heavy metal doors Elocked the stairways leading from the third and fifth floors. The ralding party, composed of Sergt. Oscar J. Letterman and Detectives Richard J. Cox and-James A. Mostyn, quietly entered the hotel and went to the elevator, which they found loaded with baggage. At first the operator re- fused to take them to the fourth floor with the baggage, saying it was against the rules of the house. The raiders finally forced the man to remove the! luggage and proceed upward. Occupants in Flight. When they emerged on the fourth floor, the occupants of the alleged gam- ing chambers were fleeing to adjoining rooms. Obtaini a master key, the officers followed them, and in half an hour all the men were under arrest. According to Letterman, information which led to the raid had been ned by a policeman working as an under- cover agent, who had patronized the place for a week. ‘Those charged with violation of the 34, of the 1200 block of Holbrook street northeast; Louis Lehrfeld, 38; Harry Wilson, 52; Joseph P. Mack, 46, and Charles A. Jones, 40; all of the Com- mercial Hotel. MOVE FAILS TO BAR ALABAMA PRIMARY Anti-Smith mderr Test County Falls Down in Court. in| By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., February 15.— Judge R. V. Evans of Jefferson County Circut Court today denied a petition of Horace Wilkinson, anti-Smith leader in 1928, seeking an injunction to re- strain the county from proceeding with the Democratic primary August 12. Crampton Harris, attorney for Wil- kinson, announced that the case will be carried to the State Supreme Cour'. Judge Evans in handing down the de- cision said he questioned whether his court had the right to declare ‘“‘capri- cious and unwarranted” a decision reached by 2 majority of the State The remarks referred to charges made by Wilkinson in attacking the right of the State committee to prescribe polit- ical qualifications of candidates for county offices different from qualifica- tions of candidates for State, district, Federal and circuit offices, which he said had been done. ‘The State committee welcomed “Hoo. ver Democrats” as voters in this year’ primary, but held them ineligible t run for State, district and Federal offices on the Democratic ticket. It left to county committees decision on the qualification of candidates for county office. It was on that point that Wilkinson brought his suit. ‘The litigation was construed in polit- ical circles as the first test of the val- idity of the State committee’s ruling the status of Democrats who did not auprol’l the party's presidential ticket in 1928. MONEY THEFT CHARGED. E. B. Dean, Ju, Taken by Detective in Connection With Case. Edward Beecher Dean, jr, 28-year- old son of the real estate broker, was arrested last night by Headquarters De- tective Arthur T. Fihelly, in connection with the alleged theft of $61 from the home of Mrs. Sylvia Lewis, 2000 Six- teenth street, Priday night. American Ship 6flcer Drowns. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Febru- ary 15 (A)—Waldon A. MacIntire, first officer of the lulmzhlgllumrlun Le- glon. drowned today n he into while going rd. inic for children was opened, large number who need hos- appropriation bill of $625,- 000.00 for this sanatorium, recommended by the District Commissioners and approved by the Director of the Budget, was introduced in the Senate by Arthur Capper, Chairman of the Senate District Committee, It is hoped that this bill for the people of the District “to construct a sanatorium will be acted on promptly, are united in the belief that for children suffering from Tuberculosis is the most reasonable, the most economical and the wisest health protection to the greatest number of children.” Association for the Prevention of Tuberculo Telephone Main 6883 1022 11th Street N.W. ONE. 1930—PART DIRECTING WASHINGTON BICENTENNIAL GRANT AND BLOOM NAMED DIRECTORS OF BICENTENNIAL (Continued Prom First Page.) out the country and each individual ctiizen co-operate. House Leader Tilson, a member of the Bicentennial Commission, will pre- side and will introduce William Tyler Page, clerk of the House, as the first aker, who as executive secretary of the commission will explain the bicen- tennial plans. He will be followed by eight members of the House, who are being selected to make brief speeches on various ghnues of Washington's life —Aas a youth, as a soldier, in the Con- :lml:uoml Convention and as Presi- lent. The Bicentennial headed by President Hoover as chair- man. lere are two other ex-officio members, Speaker Longworth and Vice President Curtis. There are four Sena- tors, Fess, Ohio; Glass, Vi ia, Cap- T, Kansas, and Overman, North Caro- ina, succeding Bayard of Delaware, The four House members are Tilson, Connecticut; Hawley, Oregon; Byrns, Tennessee, and Moore, Virginia, suc- ceeding Minority Leader Garner. 'Eight members at large were appointed b; former President Coolid enry mrl. Bernard M. Baruch, Judge Wallace Mc- Camant, Hanford MacNider, C. Bascom Slemp, Dr. Albert Bushnel Hart, Mrs, Anthony Wayne Cook, former president neral of the D. A. herman, former pi League of Women's Clubs. DRY AGENT FREED <IN'LIQUOR DEATH Federal Court Jury Acquits White, Tried for Slaying Suspected Rum Runner: Commission is By the Associated Press. DULUTH, Minn, February 15.— Emmet J. White, United States customs patrolman, tonight was acquitted by a Federal Court jury of a charge of murdering Gust Henry Wirkkula of Big Falls, Minn., while attempting to stop his car to search it for liquor last June 8. When the verdict was read the 24- year-old customs officer smiled for the first time during the trial, which started Wednesday morning. He shook nands with the chief of defense counsel and listened as Judge Cant discharged the Jurors. Then he rose stifly and walked fo the jury box and thanked each mem- ber of the panel, stopping to chat for & moment with the only woman mem- ber, Mrs. J. M. Hardy, Mahnomen, Minn.,, who was selected foreman of the panel. Later White turned to receive the congratulations of his 20-year-old wife, whom he married last May when he joined the customs service, iess than six weeks before the tragedy in which Wirkkula lost his life. Since Wirkkula's death, White was transferred from his first_station at International Falls to the Duluth customs office. He intends to_continue in the customs service. ‘The case was given to the jury of 11 men and a woman at 4:50 p.m. Three Courses Open. Three decisions were possible under instructions frofh Judge William A. Cant, who eliminated on the ground of in- sufficient evidence the charge of second- degree murder on which White was in- dicted by a State court. Conviction on this charge would have carried a sen- tence of life imprisonment. Either the jury could acquit White or find him guiity of third degree murder or second degree manslaughter under the court’s instructions. Long arguments by counsel, the State of Minnesota in the position of the prosecutor and the United States dis- trict attorney’s office as the defender, marked the session. Says Shooting Was Accident. George A. Heisey, assistant United States district attorney directing he de- fense, declared that the shooting of Wirkkula was an accident. White dis- charged a riot-gun four times when ‘Wirkkula failed to halt in answer to a signal held by E. V. Servine, another customs officer with whom White was working, stopping automobiles to search them for liquor. O. J. Larson, former Representative, reained as special counsel for State, declared that White shot reck- lessly without regard for life. Court_records at International Falls, Minn., Wirkkula’s former home, showed that about six months before his death he pleaded guilty to a charge of vio- lating the prohibition law and was fined $100 and costs. No reference to this was made dur! the trial. Coste Speed Record Ratified. PARIS, February 15 (#).—The Aero Club of France yesterday ratified the Dieudonne Coste record for speed and distance over a closed circuit set Janu- ary 18. Coste's plane, carrying 1,100 inds of useful ioad, made 2,725 miles in 23 hours and 22 minutes and 29 seconds—an average of 116.5789 miles an hour. left: Representative Sol Bloom. per right: Licut. Col. U. S, Grant, Lower left: William Tyler Page. |EDUCATOR REPORTS LIQUOR DRINKING IN SCHOOLS DECREASING (Continued From First Page.) marked by addresses by Dr. H. Bar- rett Learned, member of the Board of Education; Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- intendent of schools, and Joy E. Mor=- gan, editor of the N. E. A. Bulletin. Dr. Ballou also read a letter from Secretary Wilbur of the Interior De- partment on the work of the Federal Bureau of Education. Commenting upon the work of the teacher today, Mr. Morgan declared that because of the increasing efficiency of machines in labor, educators must prepare to train people for more leisure. Train People for Leisure. “We have in the United States a chronic state of unemployment,” Mr. Morgan said in referring to the teach- ers’ problems. “It is an unemployment which must come of the effects of the mechanical age in which we are living, and we all must come to realize that sooner or later we must have fewer working days in our weeks. Our duty then—the teachers’ duty—is to train people for more leisure than they ever have had before.” In the statement which Dr. Ballou read for him in his absence, Secretary ‘Wilbur declared that the next 20 years will witness more rapid adyances in education and genera]l progress than the past two decades presented, The newer inventions, including radio and talking motion pictures, he said, natu- rally will contribute largely to the ac- celeration of education. He declared that the Federal Bureau of Education is anxious to receive ideas for educa- tional radio broadcasts, and he asserted in his statement that close surveillance is being maintained: over the develop- ment of sound pictures in an effort to guide them into channels which will make them most valuable educational instruments. - Urges Teachers’ College Here. Dr. Learned advocated stronger ap- preciation of teaching as a profession and declared that the establishment in Washington of the two teachers’ col- leges should go far toward placing the fleld of education in Washington on a hlfher plane. “old” and the Commenting uj ‘“new” education, Dr. Learned declared “the new education takes account of human and ps) chological factors in connection wil pupils and teachers and everybody con- cerned with education, while the old education was essentially scholastic and often regarded as entirely inhuman. Miss Pyrtle spoke briefly to present to the District Association the greetings from the national body. She declared that school people in the States look to Washington for many things. “Because of your opportunities,” she sald, “the people in the States believe you ought to have better schools than they, but since I've been here, I've heard that you do not always get the best, nor what you ask for.” ‘The dinner was presided over by Miss Edith Grosvenor, Business High School teacher and president of the I Education Association. Among those present were: Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent in charge of ‘high schools, and Robert L. Haycock, assistant superintendent in charge of white elementary schools. CHICAGO HOODLUM NET GETS 100 MORE Five Armed Men and 21 With Crime Records Taken—Killers of Lombardo Sought. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, February 15.—One hun- dred more suspects, including five who were armed and 21 men with criminal records, were corrraled in the police round-up of hoodlums today, while in- vestigators sought a clue to the assas- sins of Tony Lombardo, & thief, who was “given the rod” last night appar- ently for poaching on racketeers. The killers of Lombardo ran away so quickly they left a sawed-off shotgun on the scene. . Since last Sunday police have ar- rested more than 3,000 suspects in a campaign against crime. Most of the known gang leaders have been in hid- ing and have evaded arrest, although Myles O'Donnell, reputed West Side gang chief, was caught in a surprise raid on a West Side cafe. He obtained his freedom on a $1,400 bond for dis- orderly conduct. Police records show a 50 per cent re- duction in crime last week, attributed to the concerted drive. Commissioner of Police Willlam F. Russell today reit- erated his orders for hi underworld until undesirables have been driven out of town. ‘The killing of Lombardo was the only gang slaying of consequence during the week. He was shot down in a Northwest side alley, where he evidently had been “put on’the spot.” The only motive police could evolve for his slay- ing was that he had tried to “muscle” in on the racket game. He was not related to Tony Lombardo, the Italian leader and ally of Al Capone, who was shot down in the h of the Loop 18 months ago at midda; —_— Marines Are Stimson’s Guests, LONDON, February 15 (#).—Another victory for the Marines. They are to get acquainted with the beautiful stenographers attached to the Ameri- can naval delegation. Secretary Stim- son is inviting all to week ends at his country home. Something or other has been keeping them apart. Woman Dies After Auto Accident. WALTERBORO, 8. C., February 15 (A)—Mrs. M. Granitz of Atlantic City, N. J.,, died last night from injuries re- ceived yesterday when her automobile sideswiped another gutomobile near here. Her husband was slightly in- Jjured. . i Forty-eight-hour railway service has been established bteween Nogales, Ariz.; Sonora and Mexico City. IFREE GREAT FALLS BRIDGE FORESEEN Leaders in Congress Working Out Plan to Greatly Facil- itate Travel. Assurance that there will be a free bridge across the Potomac River near Great Falls is given by leaders in Con- rreu ‘who are now working out a w in which this greatly needed new av nue for tourist travel between the North and South can be most promtiy added to the other developments now underway which are to be completed as far as possible before the bicentennial :olebr:tlon in 1932 of Washington's ‘The Great Falls Bridge Co., already authorized to erect a toll bridge to be later taken over by the Federal Gov- ernment and thrown open to tra®c a free bridge, may be allowed to pro- ceed with the structure until such times as the National Capital Park and Planning Commission takes over the land on which the approaches are erected, under authority in the Cram- ton bill providing for the George Wash- ington Memorial Parkway, or Congress will act directly in authorizing the erection of the bridge with Federal funds. Despite the threat by the Schafer- La Guardia amendments in the Cram- ton park-purchase bill to end its life, the Great Falls Bridge Co. is proceed- ing with construction of the proposed toll bridge. Compliance With Law. By starting work last week, Harry A. Seay, the company's president ex- plained ' yesterday, the company complying with the terms of the I directing that construction be started by March 4. Two years are given for completion of the bridge and under the enabling act, this period will expire on March 4, 1932. Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia, co-author with Senator Swan- son of the legislation authorizing the bridge company to build a toll bridge, explained last night that the toll bri legislation was enacted because of great need of a crossing at or near Great Falls, It was enacted, Mr. Moore points out, in accordance with the gen- eral policy of Congress to allow the construction of toll bridges where there is no reasonable prospect of other bridges being built. “Any bridge at that point” Mr. Moore emphasizes, “will be of distinct advantage, not only to the States of Maryland and Virginia, but to trav- g“t:‘!‘es public beyond the limits those “No suggestion of a free bri WaS made until, during the discu of the Cramton bill, of which I was & supporter, an amendment was offered roviding in a few words for such & ridge, but not specifying where or under what conditions or under whose supervision it should ‘be built. After the adoption of that amendment an- pro- other amendment was approved hibiting a toll bridge. “I am exactly in accord,” sald Rep- resentative Moore, “with Senator Glass’ view that the bill should be modified in one of two ways—either by making sure of a free bridge at the expense of the Government, or, in default of that, eliminating all references to bridges so that the Great Falls Bridge Co. can go ahead in its work without any em- barrassment. “If a free bridge can be secured, that is of course what I would prefer; but in case that is not possible, I do not wish to have the toll bridge project yed. I have no doubt the mat- ter in all its aspects will be carefully studied by the District committee of e orsata b e, di Bed rook ha get down to bl ve started and work is under way on the abutment which will support_ th bridgehead and on the first pier lead- ing to the gorge, on the Virginia side of the river. Dynamite is being utilized :geblu{.hm;mn of trees thadn are in path of construction and digging has started to clear the preliminary way for getting down to solid rock. This work is going on alongside the historic canal constructed by George Wash- ington and the first arch on the Vir- ginia side will arch over this notable piece of eighteenth century engineering, which the American Engineering | Council proposes to preserve as a monu- ment to the genius of the Pather of His_Country. The firm of Merritt, Chapman & Beott of New York has been awarded the construction contract, Mr. Seay ex- plained yesterday, and the associated engineers are the Strauss Engineering Corporation of Chicago and Meigs, Long a.felle of Philadelphia and Washing- Historic Houses Near. R. J. Cranston is the contractor's foreman on the job, and he is being as- sisted by A. J. Milstead, V. Trammell and ' H. Trammell, who live nearby. Houses that George Washin, is credited with bullding are in the vi- cinity and the historic canal con- structed by the master of Mount Vernon through some 60 feet of solid rock and the venerable Virginia jail are a few minutes’ walk distant. Features the bridge will embody, Mr. Seay said, include indirect lighting, through placing lights in the curbing; the bridge proper will be 43 feet wide, while a 30-foot roadway will be avail- able for motorists; an ‘8-foot walk on the Great Falls side will enable pedes- trians to get a good view of the scenery, and a 5-foot walk will be placed on. the lower side and total estimated cost of the structure will be $1,800,000, and it will !:“-l.DZl!hu;l" ;on(. lzlxv:lu ap- P e ige will be con- T commeciing roid irgin: connecting road on the Vi a side will'link up with the LIQ‘“ [, Va., pike. - On the Maryland side 'hdn approach will be at the Lock Tavern Inn, at the end of Conduit road.- When the company started its work on the bridge, Mr. Seay said yesterday, there was no thought of the George ‘Washington Memorial Parkway, which is contemplated in the Cramtom park purchase bill. His company has spent an appreciable amount of money, the president said, and it has certain rights under its charter, which was granted by Congress, and’ those it pr to protect. Likewise, he added, mm- pany has a permit, signed by the Sec- retary of War, authorizing the bridge the | to be constructed. The Legislatures of Maryland and Virginia will have to determine if those States are to contribute their propor- tionate share toward making the George Washington Memorial Parkway a real- ity, Mr. Seay asserted, and if they fail to fl‘, 50 the parkway will not come into Explaining the delay in the starting of work on the bridge, Mr. Seay pointed out that Congress authorized the char- ter to the Great Falls Bridge Co. in 1928, but the chief of Army Engineers held that the company would occupy Government land if it carried out its e]l‘:ir::nfi ;:'d thladx;,eedég another bill, passed by Congress, permit- lllnb:‘ :m“s to be‘.“vlcme.kfll‘hll"r eonnlz; with nancial markef . t, has contributed “Notes of Art and Artists” By Leila Mechlin and “Reviews of the New Books” By Ida Gilbert Myers Beginning With Toda Issue of The Star Are Features of 1| The Star’s Sunday Magazine