Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1930, Page 2

" A2 ' we ¥ NEXT PARLEY MOVE |_ e svemwe o TAMARNLISSHOW -~ ISUPTO FRENCH U. S. and Britain Offer Good- Will Pledge in Lieu of Security Pact. i BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Staff Correspondent of The Star. By Radio to The Star. LONDON, England, March 11. America and Great Britain have laid their cards on the table as far as France is concerned. They have told her that she must abandon hopes of echieving any sort of military alliance at London. They have uffered her instead “a pledge of good will and 1a- cific determination” which shall become “an essential part” of a five-power naval agreement. Notice of the English-speaking pow- ers' viewpoint, which is universally re- garded as an frreducible minimum, was given in Prime Minister Macdonald's broadcast to the United States Sunday afternoon. On the sides his statement is considered as the most momentous pro- nouncement yet made at th: confer- ence on the grave political issue raised by France. Macdonald's language dc- rives special significance from ‘the cir- cumstances in which it was uttered. tar correspondent bad :eached C);re)ql:eg the pru;le'o minister’s country at sundown for the purpose of introducing Mr. Macdonald to the ‘American radio audience. Briand and the other members of the French dele- gation had left Chequers an hour or two previous after a protracted con- ference with the British premier. It cannot be doubted that the Anglo- American attitude toward France's guarantee ls—now the leading estion before the conference—was 8“)" subject of their discussions. Had Fresh Impressions. Mr. Macdonald faced the for talk microphone the United States with | During th coniec ith hardly have taken Briand by sur- in could During the past week British public sentiment has steadily crystallized against any such arrangements. If the Labor government were to enter into them its death knell would be sounded the moment it sought ratification in the e o %o "that nd. of ‘con- a i “ulgn-v:, k!"fl'r‘ungc as the United States One Out of Crew of Six Escapes in Storm on Gulf. VERA CRUZ, l(exflco. March (1,} (flx —One man, out of a crew 3 escaped death when the fishing smack, Dinamita, foundered in a storm & few miles off this port. Carlos Avila, the survivor, said that a glant wave overturned the craft, throwing the crew into the water in which sharks and barracuda were playing. Avila said he personally saw two of his stmg{lms companions de- voured by the fish. ‘He managed to reach a rock and clung there 50 hours until he was picked up ALERED WLLIAMS DIES SUBDENLY Prominent Author and Editor Stricken While Working at Home. Alfred Brockenbrough Williams, prominent Washington author and editor, died suddenly at his home, at 1309 Irving street, at 11:30 o'clock this morning of a heart attack. The fire rescue squad was called, but he had died before its arrival. Mr. Williams was working at his desk when stricken and fell to the floor before Mrs. Williams could reach him. He had just recently finished writing gtl:tl-":ut book, entitled “The Prostrate Born in Hanover County, Va., Jan- uary 10, 1856, Mr. Willlams had a varied career as a newspaper man, editor and author. He began his news- paper work in 1876 and in that year accompanied Gen. Wade Hampton in his famous campaign through South Carolina. Two years later he went to Liberia on a sailing ship full ef Negro emigrants as correspondent for the Charleston, S. C., News and Courier. is trip he exposed the horrors of mismanagement and ineffciency, which resulted in abolition of the en- terprise. While working for the same paper he ‘himself as a tramp and wrote up. ct camp inequities, which was credited with aiding materially in de- (l:zruclt!l:n of the leasing system in South ‘arolina. Mr. Williams was editor of the Green- ville (8. C.) News from 1890 to 1896 and worked for the New York Adver- tiser and the New York Times from 1896 to 1900. The following year he became editor of the Richmond News and in 1903 he was editor-in-chief of the Richmond News-Leader. Later he went to Roanoke and bought part inter- est in the Times Publishing Co. there and served as the editor-in-chief of its publication from 1910 to 1915. He also was chief editorlal writer on the Roanoke Warld News. Mr. Willlams' first wife, Mamie Young Bryce Williams, died in 1899, and in 1925 he married Josephine Tighe, prominent newspaper writer. Besides her, he is survived by two P. G. Brown and Alfred brough Williams. Mr. Williams was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Praternity of William College, the Virginia State and. Mary t | Soclety, of which he was president in seems ‘The Star corresponden ‘I;y‘ v.h:nuuwm of an informant well informed regarding the French policy. d to accept some eral staf “to hutmbodledlnm.:npre-mblewanm treaty.” nhcmtlymuundot“shqu" :.hlehllr.lludonflddhfll-l Sun- éh the whole, today's news from Paris | Arti)l strong] suc g\mt itee problem as has been the determination whereat the United States and Great Britain seem to have arrived with reference to the French. Mr. Macdonald’s words were bracketed with those in which he and Hoover, five months previous to the exact day, joint~ proclaimed the results of their con- versations. Mr. Macdonald now laid uj those ‘words causes a certain celebrated Ameri- can pl , now in London, to observe that the Rapidan had overflown in the direction of Enflmd. with sign that the water will eventually Prance before many . There are the strongest indications that the eighth week of the conference is des- tined to be a decisive week. VARE, OUT OF RACE, URGES J. J. DAVIS Withdrawal as Candidate for Sen- ate Is Announced Before Going South. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, March 11.—Wil- Uam 8. Vare today announced his withdrawal as a candidate for the United States Senate and asked his friends to support Secretary of Labor James J. Davis for the nomination. ‘The Philadelphia Republican or- nization leader also asked his friends l’?rn Francis Shunk Brown of Philadelphia, former attorney general of Pennsylvania, as a candidate for governor. Mr. Vare announced his withdrawal shortly before noon, as he was board- ing a train for Florida. Mr. Vare announced last December, when the Senate refused him s seat on account bf alleged excessive cam- paign expenses in the senatorial cam- paign of 1926, that he would be a can- didate “to the finish,” and later he made a second statement that he was not “bluffing.” In his statement today Mr. Vi said that he was withdrawing beci of the state of his health. Davis to Announce Saturdpy. James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, said today that he would make formal announcement of his candidacy for the Republican senatorial nomination in Pennsylvania Saturdsy in Pittsburgh. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, this evening at Stanley Hall, John 8. M. Zimmermann, band- master; Anton Pointner, assistant leader. March, “On Parade” .. Overture, “American Fes Entr'ac (a) “Melodie of Peace”.......Martin Ix;:?u from musical comedy “The Fox trot, “Dance of the Wooden ‘Waltz suite, “Wine, Woman and :fl!ll." JHegner trauss ' in Wisconsin “with a 1905, and was known in_political cir- cles as a “sound-money Democrat.” N ARMY OFFICERS LISTED FOR CHANGE IN STATIONS War Department Orders Many Reassignments, Including Trans- glh to Posts in Hawalii. Col las - McCaskey, 10th Cay- alry, tWHmhuu. iz., has been ordered. to - Philadelphia for duty with Organized Reserves; Lieut. Col. Jay L. Benedict, Infantry, from the War De- partment. guenl staff to Hawall; Lieut. Col. Willlam 8. Browning, Field ery, from Sheridan, Ill, to Fort McPherson, Ga.; Maj. John W. Hyatt, Infantry, from Bos! to Fort Slocum, N. Y.; Lieut. Col. J. Alfred Moss, Field Artillery, from the Army War College, this city, to Fort Bragg, N. C.; Maj. Charles B. Thomas, Field , from Fort Sill, Okla., to Cin- cinnati; Maj. B. A. Brackenbury, Chem- ical Warfare Service, from the War De- The unmistakable emphasis | 2 O. , from Boston' to Fort Benning, Ga.; Capt. Lois C. Dill, Infantry, fro Fresno, Calif,, to Nogales, Ariz.; Capt. Oness H. mxan.t;l‘eurlnlry Corps, Ames, Iowa, to ter, this city; Capt. Irvin E. fantry, Fort Wayne, Mich, Boston; Capt. John B, termaster Corps, from Chicago to Fort Leaven: , Kan.; Capt. Wesley W. Price, Quartermaster Corps, from’ Chi- cago to Baltimore; Capt. Henry W. Ed- monds, Infantry, from Charlotte, N. C., to Vancouver Barracks, Wash.; Capt. Harry J, Collins, Infantry, from Fort Benning, Ga., to Fort Sam Houston, Tex., and Maj, John J. Jenkins, Infan- try, at San Prancisco; Capt. F. H. Wil- son, at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and Capt. J. P. Gammon, at Fort Benjamin Har- rison, Ind., to Fort Benning, Ga. OPERAS SUBSTITUTED FOR PRESENTATION HERE ‘The Washington Opera Association, through Mrs. Wilson-Greene, has an- nounced a change in the operas to be esented at the Fox Theater April 23, g: and 25. The opening opera will be, as originally announced, “La Boheme," With Beniamino Cigli, Lucrezia Bori and Lawrence Tibbett, the changes being “Andre Chenier.” with a Ponselle, _Giovanni Martinelli and Guiseppe De Luca replacing “La Juive™ for Thursday and “Traviata” for Prl- day matinee with Lucrezia Bori, Tokat- yan and Lawrence Tibbett, being substi- tuted for “Louise.” | Thiexes Ply OPENS TOMORROW |Greenhouses at 14th and B Streets Will Receive Public for One Week. The seventeenth annual free amaryllis show of the United States Department of Agriculture will be open to the public tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock in the greenhouses at Fourteenth and B streets and will remain open for one week | closing Wednesday, March 19, at 9 p.m. Owing to the death of former Presi- dent and Chief Justice Taft, there will b: no preliminary soclety reception held by Mrs. Ar M. Hyde, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, in the green- houses as has been customary for many years. During the show, however, Mrs. Hyde will be in the exhibition house almost daily and will invite many of the l!ld:;l in Washington soclety to be her In the show this year there are more than 1,200 plants bearing nearly 7,000 blooms. The specialists say that there is a wider range of colors and more variations in flower formation than have been produced at any previous amaryllis show. This is the largest col- lection of amaryllis blooms, or “Knight's Star Lillies,” ever exhibited outside of their native habitat in South America, Leading florists from the entire Eastern part of the United States have been invited to attend the “show,” and garden club members from a wide radius have notified the Federal department officials that they intend to visit the greenhouses, ARMY AIR MANEUVERS SCHEDULED IN WES Command and Staff Officers Leav- ing for California for Test in Coast Defense. ‘The movement of Army Alr Co: command and staff officers to Californ! for the Air Corps maneuvers, which will test out the fighting strength of the Army squadrons next month and -their ability to protect the American coast against enemy naval attack, will begin here tomorrow. Maj. Willis Hale, who will be in charge of operations activities of the Provisional Wing to be organized at Mather Fleld, Sacramento, on April 1, is to take off from Bolling Field tomor- row in an Army LB-7 bombardment plane. With him will be Hans J. Adam- son, secretary to F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aero- nautics, The bomber will be accom- panied by a new O-1E Falcon observa- tion plane, flown by Lieut. Guy Kirksey, who will be one of the intelligence offi- cers on the staff of the 3 Capt. Harold McClellan, who is to be on the wing staff as an operations officer, will leave the National Capital by rail for Dayton, Ohio, where an Army plane is walting for ‘him at Wright Pield. The Provisional Wing will be commanded by Brig. Gen. Wil- liam E. Gillmore, assistant chief of the Army Air Corps, who is expected to leave from Bolling Field some time next week. He will have approximately 150 planes under his command on the West Coast. SHOTS FIRED INTO CROWD AT PARTY KILL WOMAN Four or Five Others, Including Boy, Are Wounded—Farmer Held as Suspect. By the Assoclated Press. ‘YAZOO CITY, Miss,, March 11.—One woman was killed, another shot in the stomach and seriously wounded and a youth was hit in the back by shots fired last night into a crowd on a plantation near here where a drinking party was being held. Officers here are holding Arthur Bur- roughs, 40, a farmer, as the man who did the shooting. Mrs, Benoit Harbin, 19, was killed instantly. Mrs, Bessie Pippin received a wound in the abdomen. A boy named Horton was shot in the back and two or three others were wounded slightly. Cause of the shooting had not been determined today. BLAME FOR DEATHS FIXED. to Nine Children. I C. C. Verdict on Accident Fatal ‘The death of nine school children and the driver of & bus at Berea, Ohio, January 22 in a collision with a New York Central Railway train was held today by the Interstate Commerce Com- Taised byt bup being.driven on the caused by the bus vi tracks in front of the train after wait- ing for another to pass. SECOND BID SUBMITTED. DANVILLE, Va., March 11 (Special). —The city council today had under consideration another offer for the mu- nmgnl gas and electric plants, a bid of $3,850,000 and a bonus of $100,000, made by A. B. Leach & Co. of Chicago, investment bankers. ‘The bidders failed to state who they represented and the matter was passed by for a week. The Utilities Corpora- tion of New York has made a bid of $3,750,000, which is still pending. it =g Locusts Blocks Train. TETUAN, Morocco, March 11 (P).— They have real bugs here—and how! A swarm of locusts blocked a railroad for two hours at Tizza, The wheels of the locomotive spun in vain. Not until the losucts decided to move on could the train proceed. GANGSTERS BOAST OF WEALTH IN INTERVIEWS WITH POLICE Saltis, Moran and Kaufman Describe “Big Business” Ventures to Chicago’s Detective Head. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 11.—Three gan leaders boasted of their “big business” ventures to Chief of Detectives John Stege yesterday. First there was Joe Saltis, known for years as the beer baron of the South Side, who came down from his Wis- consin country place to attend the funeral today of his friend and hench- man, John (Dingbat) Oberta, slain on & gang ride last week. Between his tearful pleas to the de- tective chief to “call off the cops” while he attended the last rites of his friend, Saltis found time to tell the chief and reporters of his $100,000 country place golf course and & club house to accommodate 26 people.” Stege promised Saltis he would not be molested if he returned to in immediately sfter the funeral, and “Big Joe” went out tosthe Oberta home to sit around his pal’s $15,000 cofin at the wake. ‘Then there was George (Bugs) Moran, North Side successor to Dion O'Banion, whose ranks were so sorely depleted by the St. Valentine's massacre of last ay h police, added to the dl"l financial news with the tale that he had invested $125,000 in a North Side cleaning establishment. These two, of course, only mentioned casual amounts, but George (Potatoes) Kaufman, who recently slapped a man the $600,000 - Trade In Church, Hospital And Police Court By the Associated Pre: MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 11.— L. W. Ringer went to church Sunday. During the service, some one stole his coat, with valuables in the kets, his hat and scarf. “Catch that thief,” police Capt. Boyles ordered. “Our churches must be kept safe from thieves.” 'W. L. Hadaway went to a hos- pital yesterday. Some one stole his suit case filled with clothes. “Catch that thief,” police Capt. Boyles ordered. “A Citizen must have safety in a hospital.” Mrs. J. T. Bradley went to police headquarters yesterday. Some one stole her purse as she sat near the sergeant's desk. FARMFUND ADDED T0 DEFICIENCY BILL $100,000,000 Asked by Pres- ident Attached to Measure Given Committee 0. K. By the Associated Press. The $100,000,000 additional fund re- quested by President Hoover for the Farm Board was added to the first deficiency appropriation bill today by the Senate appropriations committee. The Senate committee ordered the deficiericy measure, carrying a total of $171,869,377 to meet emergency ex- penses of the Government, reported to the Senate immediately and Chairman Jonc:cannnunz:ld :fn‘::uld attempt to on on the MOITOW. ."tl'hc committee included the $7,000,- 000 authorized for seed loans to farm- ers in the storm-stricken States of the Northwest, Midwest and Southeast. Other funds added to the bill were: $150,000 to continue the American delegation at the London Naval Confer- ence, $3,000,000 for loans to planters in Porto Rico, $60,000 for the investigation of Haitlan oonditions, $12,000,000 for river and harbor work and $50,000 for a conference on inter-American highways. ‘The additional $100,000,000 for the Farm Board was recommended by President Hoover Saturday and is in addition to $150,000,000 already au- thorized. While the Senate has refused to consider any of the annual appropria- tion bills pending disposition of the tariff, Senate leaders were hopeful to- day that this emergency appropriation bill could be rushed through tomorrow. funds - would become immediately available upon enactment of the measure, o $113,000 SUM ADDED TO DEFICIENCY BILL FOR D. C. SCHOOLS (Continued From First Page.) Board for the improvement of agricul- tural conditions. Under the heading of the State De- partment, the Senate committee added $260,600, of which $150,000 is for the Naval Conference at London. As reported out by the Senate com- mittee, the bill carried a grand total of $171,860,377.46, as compared with a total as passed by the House of $48, 241,562.73. This made the total of the | increases added by the Senate commit- tee $123,627,814.73. The Sepate committee approved & deficiency item of $60,000 for main- tenance of the Senate Office Building during the remainder of this fiscal year, and $2,378 for the installation of new traffic lights in the Capitol grounds. Additional Maintenance. During the hearings on the deficiency bill, Senator Moses, Republican of New Hampshire, chairman of the committee which has charge of the Senate Office Building, explained to the appropria- tions committee the necessity for the additional amount of $60,f for the care and upkeep of the office building for the rest of the fiscal year. Senator Moses told the committee that an ad- ditional amount of cleaning and main- tenance work is being carried on in the office building this year, in the course of which 85 additional employes have been taken on. told: the committee that this number probably would be re- duced by 30 or after some of the present cleaning m has been comlgleud. He said the washing of all of the rugs in the building was one of the extra activities being performed this year. Other increases made in the bill by the Senate committee included the following: Porto Rican hurricane relief mis- sion, for loans to planters and the re- building and repairing of school houses, $3,000,000; Department of Agriculture, seed grain loan for crop of 1930, §7,-~ 000,000. The Senate committee made certain reallocations in the fund of $1,- 100,000 allowed by the House for the aupJ)or'- and education of Indian puptls, under the Bureau of Indian Affairs, STRANGE MALADY QUARANTINE MADE Three Tennessee Counties Strick- en by Mysterious Para- lytic Disease. By the Associated Press. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., March 11.— A quarantine of 105 persons suffering from a mysterious paralytic malady was in force today in Washington, Carter and Unicol Counties. Announcement of the quarantine was made last night by Dr. 8. 8. Moody, Washington County health officer, who advised “the same precautions as are taken whenever there is a suspiclon of contagion through the respiratory or- gans.” Children Kept at Home, He said all school children in families affected had been instructed to remain at home, but adult members not suffer- ing from the malady would be permitted to go to their businesses provided they exercised rigid precaution at home. “Probably 98 per cent of the Wash- ington County cases history which shows drinking,” said Dr. M “About 50 per cent of the pa they had recently been dflnr T and many others di leg. This se: to increase our suspicion that liquor may be the cause, but does not co: it symptom of the paralysis, a thgnn l.nfectlon?‘numhwl of the feet similar to the sensation usually called “sleepy legs” and finally inability to flex a muscles. Nearly All Men, All of those affiicted thus far, except two women and a 14-year-old girl, have bog:r -n;;n m-lu.M " oody sal some IX”!‘C in, but many others did not and a lew were unable to control their hands. t reports showed that Washing- ton County had 75 cases, Carter 26 and Unicol.4. The paralysis first made appearance last wHE BVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1930. TALIAFERRO NAMED RIGGS BANK OFFICER Commissioner Abandons Plan to Resume Practice of Law. Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro, who asked President Hoover last week to relieve him of his post-retirement service by March 31 so he could resume | the practice of law, announced today that he had abandoned these plans to become a vice president of Riggs Na- tional Bank. The announcement followed the ac- tion of the board of directors of the bank yesterday in electing Mr. Taliaferro { to the vice presidency, to assist Robert V. Fleming and Frank J. Hogan in the conduct of the affairs of the trust de- partment. The position is a new one, created, according to Mr. Fleming, be- cause of the steady expansion of the bank’s trust service. Mr. Taliaferro will :nk: 1t upon his retirement as Commis- ioner, Term Expired in February. Mr. Tallaferro's term as Commis- sioner expired early in February, and he continued in service at the request of the President pending the appoint- ment of a successor. He explal'ied his decision to take the position with the bank instead of reopening his law office as he announced he would do in his letter to the President in the fol- lowing statement: “My plans to reopen offices for pri- vate practice of law have been aban- doned to become a vice presid-nt of the Riggs National Bank, where I will de- vote myself principally to the work of the trust departr-ent, “It is with a great deal of satisfaction that I will become identified with this splendid institution which is constantly increasing its scope of usefulness in Washington and its international con- nections.” Succeeded Cuno Rudolph. Mr. Tallaferro was appointed Com- missioner December 4, ?;20, by former President Coolidge. He succeeded Cuno H. Rudolph who resigned. A native of Salem, Roanoke County, Va., Mr. Taliaferro came to Washing- ton in 1899 and went to work in a hardware store. Later he took a course at rgetown University Law School, !rldultlnl in 1913 with the degrees of L. B. and M. P, L. He began“his law practice immediately. From 1919 to 1923 he served as an assistant pro- fessor of law at his alma mater, Mr. Taliaferro is identified with a number of: socleties and clubs and also is a member of the board of directors of Columbia Hospital. He belongs to the Cosmos, Congressional, Manor and Lawyers’ Clubs, the American and Dis- trict Bar Associations, the International Soclety of Law and the Italy-American, m&h“nm and Columbia Historical So- EDGEWO0OD CITIZENS TO SEEK MEMBERS Miss Effie M. Lyles to Direct Cam- paign Aimed at 100 Per Cent Representation. A membership drive will be launched next week by the Edgewood Citizens’ Association, under the direction of Miss Effie M. Lyles, chairman of the mems, bership committee. It is the aim to make the association as near 100 per cent representative of the community as possible. J. E. Oliver, president, presided at the meeting last night and appointed the following chairmen of committees, in addition to Miss Lyles: Entertainment and social, Mrs. J. P. Lester; public_utilities, Earl 8. Brown; public safety, William T. Ryan; streets, alleys and sidewalks, J. P. Lester; law legislation, William H. Swain; trees and lawns, Hugh 8. Torbert, and publicity, its of & united economic wor] Frank A. Murphy. Only routine business was transacted. COMMUNIST LEADER AND AIDE REARRESTED Wililam Z. Foster and Lieutenant Now Facing Charges of Felonious Assault. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 11.—William 2. Foster, Communist leader in America, and Robert Minor, one of his lieu- tenants and editor of the Daily Worker, were arrested on charges of felonious assault yesterday, just after they had been freed on bail on a charge of unlawful assembly. Both charges grew out of last Thurs- day’s Communist unemplogment dem- onstration, which ended in a riot in Union Square. Three others of Foster's followers, arrested following the riot, have been rearrested on assault charges after gaining their release on bail. ASSAULT ON GOD PLAN OF ATHEISTS IN SOVIET RUSSIA (Continued From First Page.) in Historic Light,” today’s Pravda, ofi- cial organ of the Communist party, prints a cartoon showing a figure repre- enting the Pope being encircled by flames from the hanging bodies of re- ligious martyrs burned at the stake for heretical bellefs. Wri under the heading, “A Blow to Capitalistic Civilization,” today’s Izvestia, which is the official organ of the government, characterizes present assaults abroad on the government for its attitude toward religion as a prelude to a renewal against the Soviet Union of the economic blockade of 1919 and the armed intervention of that time. ‘The present agitation uniting Eu- rope against the Soviet Union, says Izvestia, is based only upon the jealousy and fear of the imperialistic powers that the Bolshevists will succeed in ful- filling their five-year industrialization plan and thus become a menace to the capitalistic world. Fear Soviet Economic Success. Quoting a recent statement credited to Leslie Unquhart in the New York Engineering and Journal that 160 B yeh piab wil Gesiroy, oF. uf amy ve-year , OF, at any rate, deal a terrific blow to entire civ- ilization,” Izvestia says it is clear the foreign powers are in deadly fear of the Soviet's economic successes and those PRON OPENED f‘OR DR. COOK HANS Tu GREH DR. FREDERICK A. COOK, Whose claims to discovery of the North Pole were released from Leavenworth on sentence of 14 years and 9 months imposed upon him fake oil stock. This photo, telepi Cook displaying smile on leaving Lea: NEW YORK MONE HELD BACK OF WETS Henry Ford Accuses Big In- terests of Supporting Boot- leggers of Country. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 11.—The New Yopk World today quotes Henry Ford as saying that the big money interests of New York are back of the bootlegging in this country, and that liquor inter- ests are concentrating near his factoriss in Dearborn, Mich., because they know he is a dry. ‘The World sent a staff representa- tive to Dearborn to establish, it explains, how much comfort and prosperity the eighteenth amendment has brought to Dearborn. * The mission was inspired by Fords telegram last week to the 1 House judiciary committee describing the amendment as the greatest force g:br‘ ::'mrcn and prosperity of the United “Do you think I don't know who is back of the boo ing in this coun- try?” Ford is q ,"It is the big money interests in New York. You don’t think that the boot- leggers could finance these big liquor deals ‘themselves, do Lohid “Do you think I don't know that ITW is sold in Dearborn? Of course I know it. It is sold here because the liquor interests are concentrating this neighborhood because they know am a dry. “Prohibition can be enforced, because we enforce it here at the factory. I :di;n‘gll‘y won't let men work here if they “Why are the New York newspapers %0 interested in prohibition? Il tell you why. It is because they are eon- trolled and they do what they are told. Everybody wants Ford's town. bbb SHEPHERD FUNERAL SET FOR TOMORROW § \ ] Services for Widow of Former Dis- trict Governor to Be Held at Home of Daughter. n 1 , Chevy Chase, yesterday, will be conducted guv to- morrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, tor of New York Avenue Presb an Church, of which Mrs, rd was a life mem- Mrs. Shepherd was born in 1842. Before her marriage ?l’n‘: 33 Miss Mary Grice Young, v, herd dled in Mexico in 1903 while en- gaged in mining operations. gr::;hurl; death of her husband Mrs. e] fines _Teturned to Washington to POLICE WHISTLE SHAKES COLORED BANDIT’S NERVE Blast Sounded Blocks Away Scares Man Who Was Planning to Rob Service Station. The blast of a lice whistle, although several blocl away, was enough to shake the nerve of a colored bandit who attempled to flling station at 2622 Pennsylvania avenue last night. The man fled when he heard the whistle, leaving the day's receipts in the cash ter untouched. Elijah B. Willlams, the manager, was accosted by the man about 7 o'clock and forced to raise his hands. At that moment & customer drove up, took in the scene at a glance and hurriedly ‘d’r}?:eel off again, Lndln( low over his honed from Chicago ivenworth. 6.0.P.CLUBVOTES FOR DRY REPEAL Bitter Clash Marks Balloting by National Organization on Prohibition. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 11.—The Na- tional Republican Club today was on record in favor of repeal of the eight- eenth amendment. After a four-hour session marked by spirited clashes between wets and drys in the membership, the club by a vote of 461 to 335 adopted a resolution which held the eighteenth amendment “is dis- ruptive of our Federal system, in that it is destructive of the rights of the States,” and urged representatives of the Republican party in both houses of Congress to advocate and vote for its repeal “in order to restore the American form of government.” ‘The club has & membership of about 2,000, about half of whom live in New York and vicinity, and the rest scat- tered throughout the country. . Many leaders of the party are members. Both the wet and factions had an intensive blldu?tnr proxies. e Move to Table Action Loses. Motion to table the resolution was defeated when Richard W. Lawrence, president of the club, reversed an earlier ruling and admitted the wet proxy votes under protest. The motion was then «Le:m,l‘ by a vote of 479 to 360. the leade! lusion :l(“gha wet proxies would break up the Held Vietory for Wadsworth, The adoption of the resolution was generally agreed by both wets and to give prestige to James W. Wadswort! whose defeat for re-election to the Senate in 1026 was attributed to his wm-mon to prohibition. . Wadsworth, who was active in the fight for adoption of the resolution, expressed pleasure over the result. Alfred G. one of the leaders of the dry forces, chi that the adoption of the resolu was the work of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendmen YOUNG REDS TO GO Sentence Rather Than Pay $10 Fines. Y'!‘wo c&,llmv ym'u. m!l!lb;l;lu of '.h; oung Communist League, spen 10 days in the District Jail in prefer- ence to paying $10 fines imposed on them in what they term as a “framed” Police Court session yesterday for dis- tributing literature at an open meeting at Constitution Hall S8unday. ‘This decision was reached at a meet- ing of the Young Communist League and the International Labor Defense at 1337 Seventh street last night. ‘The two boys, George Reed, 10 years old, of the 400 block of Irving street, and Thomas Holmes, 18 years old, of Baltimore, will serve their sentence as & protest to police and court officials that the testimony given at yesterday's Police Court hearing was “faked” and z. sentences and fines were “unjustly At the seventh street meetin Solomon Harper, colored luder‘o‘twm International Labor Defense for this city, told an audience of 30 persons that “the police saild we scattered litera- ture on the streets—it is & lle, and il e e -up man and telephone : Policeman E. P, Hlfl.ml:!w'll 'Jp: his way to the scene from No. 3 Wwhen his automobile got invol traffic. He blew ‘whistle to his way through the vehicle co: inct ved in mak ers are attempting now to paralyze ms«wm export. '-l’.l!!, ‘The paper cites alleged efforts in New York to undermine Amtorg, the Soviet trading corporation, which, it says, is charged with importing the holy scrip- tures from Russia for sale in the United States and with acting as the inter- mediary of the Communist Internation- ale for the spread of the revolutionary PriPRo e I need | Sweden, Bel other count rgo on Soviet matches, oll, timber, flax and other lucts, all of which Izvestia in- terprets as the ny of restoration la powers against. the Sovict Union, ¥ ERROR CORRECTED. Star Quotation Regarding Xey Mansion Is Held Inaccurate. The Star, on February 19, in quoting a speaker at a meeting of the Col istorical these two young men will willingl, their 10 days in jail to Dl’oge:tlmdt action.” lice could find no Harper said the law under which they could make an at Constitution Hail unday: Ho sald thay junday. He sal “‘got together and delved into law bo‘:k)z to find a statute under which members could be ished.” finally ided “make & case” under the statute that it is un- uwtulwmro'plmon'.hamnt.‘m Suit Attacks @arnishment, Willlam H. Jones, 13 TR es, 1352 P street, has to suffer in and credit. . He denies that he is in- debfed to the company as charged and , -mvmuuun. literally overturned the The | us, and one must be careful BYRD T0 BE LAID Great Reception Is Expected to Be Given Explorer and Capital Aides. —_— Word of the arrival of the Antarctic expedition at Dunedin, Zealand, en route home after two absence, » whom are residents of the National Capital, when they arrive here early in the Summer. Neither the Navy Department nor the National Geographic Soclety has had direct word from the expedition since the party left Little America, their Antarctic base, but it is understood here that the expedition will return home early in June. The only definite plans which have been made so far for public demonstra- tion in honor of the expedition or its members, so far as could be learned here today, have been made in Brook- lyn, N. Y., the home of Bernt Balchen, famous pilot, who was at the controls during the flight over the South Pole last November. The Brooklyn Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association is planning a celebration there in Balchen’s honor, according to word re- celved here at the national headquar- ters of the association. In addition to the eight members of the expedition who give the National Capital as their home, there is a ninth member who was born here, but who now makes his permanent home in Massachusetts. Bo far as could be fiven ot ‘those in” the "exmedition’ has e e as heard definitely when Washingtonians in the rny will return home. Residents of this city wha now are :l:rthelr way home with Admiral Byrd Malcolm P. Hanson, radi engine and lleutenant in the Nnv:l R—rtvear Wwho assisted in the radio preparation for the Byrd-McMillan trip of 1925, Wilkins tion of 1926 and the ida the expedi Byrd transatlantic flight of 1927, L. V. Berkner, radio operator, ensign in the Naval Reserve, who lived at 6301 Flori street, Chevy Chase, Md., be- fore leaving for the Antaretic, Epominondas J. Demas, chanic, whose father, Dr. Demas, lives at 1906 street northeast. Demas’' mother sald today that she has received no direct word from her son since the expedition left Little America, when she received a radio message announcing the de- parture. Kennard Francis -Bubier, aviation mechanic, William G. Haines, meteorol the United States Weather Bureau. Victor H. ks, machinist, U. 8. M. C, who was on duty in this ecity when the expedition was organized, Charles Eric Lofgren, personnel of- ficer and paymaster of the expedition. Charles Leroy Kessler, fireman. addition is in the expedition a5 a weather observer Henry J. Harri- son, who was born here, but lives in Worcester, Mass, b b DUNEDIN ENTHUSIASTIC. New Zealand City Opens Heart to Adventurers. BY RUSSELL OWEN. DUNEDIN, New Zealand, March 11. ~—The men of the Byrd expedition are scattered all over Dunedin today, revel- ing in the shops, walking the hard pave- ments with joy in the unaccustomed sensation of not sinking every step, eating enormous meals and generally having the:time of their lives. It seems too good o ‘be trie to be ashore ‘again and dodging automobiles. Hospitality Unexceeded. Nothing could exceed the hospitality of the New Zealan nrup B e wish for som o it 3 e B I - need til you get settled, clothes, money, an at all, it is wadting for you,” he sai up of men. That is Dunedin New. Zealand. ‘The sincerity and warmth of their wel- come is unmistakably real and deeply touching for men who had been so long without the pleasanter things of iife. For two days the men are on lcave while Admiral Byrd makes his plans for to the United States. Just when and how the ref be yet, , 88 the need some overha , parti i Ser hard Sodthers of New York trip. Reception Is Held, A large reception last night at Cit, Hall, at which Mayor Black, P. A, de I: Parrelle, minister of internal affairs, and Comdr. Hotham of the British Navy spoke in welcoming Admiral Byrd and his companions home from the ice. Admiral Byrd, in repl; that he merely followed who had been the real pioneers, at he had greater admiration for than ever before when he realized in the Antarctic what they had done without dogs and planes. What he had lished been due to his men sitting_behind him. Dr, Laurence Gould, logist of the expedition, said no e: ition had visit- ed New Zealand without falling in love with the place. A (Copyright, 1930, by the New York Gt B R 300 REDS FACE LOSS OF JOBS IN NEW YORK Whalen Submits List of Names of Communist Employes to Co-: panies’ Executives. 3 PSR, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 11.—A list-of 300 persons among the employes of712 industrial corporations, accused of being Communist sgitators by Police Com- missioner Grover A. Whalen, faced loss of their jobs today. ‘The names were given to the execu- tives of the concerns by the police com- missioner yesterday. All of the em- ployers said the persons listed as ey | organizers, propagandists and agitators for the Communists would be dis- charged. ‘Commissioner Whalen said he ed to call other employers to his and them with similar lists. He -Hht‘:n information had been their fellow workmen ousands. similar campaign was