Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Westher Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder, with lowest tempera- ;are ltm‘uc 32 r, with rising tu ghest, New York Markets, ture. res—! 73, at 1:30 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 41, at 7:40 un? today. Full report on page 4. tonight; tomorrow ‘Tempera- Pages 13,14 & 15 No. . 31,368. post office, Entered as second class matter ‘Washington, D. C YOUNG DISCLAINS INTENT TOREFLECT ONANY SERATORS Citizens’ Association Speaker Declares He Is “Sincerely Sorry” for Statement. AIRPORT INVESTIGATION ENDED BY EXPLANATION Witness Allowed to Keep Secret Name of Man He Says Was Informant. The senatorial airport investigation came to an end today when Harold E. Young of the Iowa-Thomas Circle Cit-| {zens’ Association disclaimed any inten- tion of reflecting upon any present or former member of the Senate in his speech at the Federation of Citizens’ Associations Saturday night and said he was “sincerely sorry” if anything he was quoted as saying had reflected on any member of Congress. In a prepared statement which he gead to the subcommittee Mr. Young declared that he may have misunder- stood the statement made to him by friends, upon which he based the re- g:rk he made at the federation meet- Explains Statement. “It may be” Mr. Young testified, “that my informant really referred to “two ex-Senators’ rather than Senators, @s I am informed that ex-Senator Dial of South Carolina, and ex-Senator Southerland of West Virginia, have or may have had some financial interest in these properties or the corporation or corporations owning them at some stage of the development of the Wash- ington or Hoover Pield. If such interests were or are held by these gen- tlemen, I do not wish to-be understood as intimating that they are improper, or that they are subject to criticism asked the committee to excuse him from disclosing the name of the friend who had discussed the it- ter with him. Chairman Vandenberg ted his request, but in doing so from Michigan Ster- “a fine example r“rea.:tl‘leln; utterly m%e;emms practice o , and I think m are entirely wi t defense upon Vandenberg Tells Senate. had made a complete ghu.usmnte.sm-m “In_the t of this vocal “In the light wwm pursuit of the sources gossip. I desire, however, to m: concluding observations. ‘Pirst, the airport commission mem- m:?ukm at least for myself and Ben: Jones, who conducted this ‘hearings—never ;:‘:k week u:; cvel;n any n;?exuwn we: tockholders any these fvale and no remote criti- they such it is & fact, and we do not care. Has Prepared Statement. “Second, this episode is & ex- ple of the ugly ease with % and groundless gossip can assassinate (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) DEBATE IS LIMITED ON TARIFF RATES Lumber, Silver and Anti- Monopoly Proposals Are Excepted. oil, By the Assoclated Press. Determined to get the tariff bill out of the way as soon as possible, the Senate today agreed upon a program of limiting debate on all remal amendments except those involving ofl, lumber, silver and an anti-monopoly 1 by Senator Norris, Republican, ebraska. .. " ‘Senator Jones, Republican, Washing- ton, plans to propose & compromise sofewood lumber tariff of $1.50 & thou- sand board feet, ‘while Senator ‘Thomas Democrat, Oklahoma, was ready to offer another compromise on oil which would apply moneys collected from such a tariff to road building pending deter- mination of a proper levy by the Tariff fon. co’:nn;‘t!t:er attempt to gain a silver duty s to be made by Senator Pittman, PDemocrat, Nevada, while Senator Nor- yis’ amendment would provide for sus- pension of duties on any commodity in which a monopoly in restraint of trade ‘was found to exist. today wil limit each Senator to 10 min- Utes debate on amendments, except those enumerated. knew until | jj¢ agreement reached at the outset | ) WASHINGTO: 3 LORD BALFOUR, ONE OF GREATEST BRITISH STATESMEN, DIES AT 82 Noted Diplomat Began Ca- rear in 1874 in Par- liament. King George Regrets Loss of Stanch Patriot and Wise Counselor. By the Associated Press. WOKING, Surrey, England, March | 19.—The Earl of Balfour, veteran Brit- ish statesman, died here at 8:45 am. today in a room at the home of his brother, Hon. Gerald Balfour. A win- dow at his bedside overlooked one of the most beautiful scenes in Surrey. The end came peacefully to the statesman, who was in his eighty-sec- | |ond year. He had been distressingly ill !for a long time with laryngitis and came here after an improvement in his | condition to convalesce. He had sev- | eral setbacks, however, and was never |able to return to his home at Whit- tingehame, Prestonkirk, East Lothian. ‘The House of Commons sat for two minutes today and then adjourned out of respect for the memory of Lard Bal- four. The adjournment was moved by Prime Minister Macdonald. DESCRIBES TAXICAB Efficiency Bureau Urges Dis- trict Heads to Enforce So- Called “Loitering Act.” Describing as “chaotic” conditions enforcement of the so-called “loitering “A great amount of chaos and traffic congestion has resulted at times near Loitering Act Cited. inted out that an sct of July 11, 1919, forbi front otoihnv;u, u‘m‘.’or pub- . vests in the Commission- to prevent “loitering act” is recommen lorcement of the . dations report, which study of the parking sit- uation by Donald P. Evans of the in- vestigation staff of the bureau. The ey was made at the direction of tative Simmons of Nebraska, chairman of the House subcommittee riations. °°u'o'§§§” , the declared, should be prevented from parking in the congested section except at places desig- nated for that pum:e, and then not longer than a pe! of 10 minutes. Sightseeing busses, it said, should not be permitted to use the busy streets. Report Discusses Cab Stands. A large section of the report is de- to a discussion of the situation around the hotels created by the park- ing of taxicabs which have private con- cessions at these places to exclusion of all other passenger vehicles for hire. Although such vehicles are required to be either owned or leased by the hotel, to carry L tags, to be used exclusively for the accommodation of guests of the hotels and kept only “in a reasonable number and a reasonable manner,” the report declared “it is known that these oandm‘on':mue %gt ulnwl ‘:: !“l?)el presen e. ese Vel owned or leased by the hotels,” it added. “They are not used exclusively for the accommodation of the guests of the hotel and they are not always kept l't_ these locations in a reasonable number. ‘The report, however, said that there appears to be no adequate remedy for these conditions “which are admittedly unsatisfactory,” under existing legisla- | tion, and recommended that the license |law of 1902 be amended to provide regulation to meet the - situation. “Paragraphs 11 and 13 of section 7 of “(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) PLANE CHARTERED TO DELIVER RANSOM FOR OIL MAN’S RELEASE Son of 60-Year-Old American Prepares to Rescue Father From Bandits. By the Associated Press. SAN ANGELO, Tex., March 19.—An afrplane to carry 3,000 pesos ransom for J. E. Bristow, 60, American ofl operator reported held by bandits at Mazatian, on the West Coast of Mexico, was under charter here today to fly immediately to the oil man's rescue. . Gordon Oble Bristow, son of the pris- oner, expected to make an early depar- ture for Mazatlan with the money. He planned to stop at El Paso, Tex., en Toute. A Wichita Falls, Tex., merchant, Uin, also has started rescue plans wired his cousin, Willlam Blocker, Sam | to make every effort to free Three Mexicans in Juarez, Mexico, guar- nsom. several months ago by fanatics, l‘.‘ considered the most hazardous of all According to advices last night from Mexico City the American embassy there has requested the Mexican m.lr:.:nmv tow. i | of $526 had been made. o Second Newspaper. EARL OF BALFOUR. life_he figured as an important factor in British politics. He visited America as head of the British commission in 1917 and was a member of the British delegatio the Washington Arms lerence in 1922. Secretary for Scotland in 1886, chief (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) HUSTON RECALLED TRAFFICASCHAOTICI N LOBBY INQUIRY Committee Told Association Fund Was Deposited With Brokers. By the Associated Press, Recalled to the stand again today by the Senate lobby com.nittee after testi- mony had been given concerning $36,100 deposited to his account with Blyth & Bonner, New York brokers, Claudius H. Huston, chairman of the Republican national committee, said he had turned over that sum to the Tennessee River Improvement Associa- tion, The $36,100 was given Huston by, the Union Carbide Co. for the improvement Association and it was deposited by Huston to his personal account. Charles A. Krickl, member of the brokerage firm, said that two checks had been de- posited, one for $22,000 and one for $14,100, and that funds in the lattet deposiy had been used by Huston to buy ‘The Republican chairman lained mnmmtum-duum.wa"émw the improvement association and added that he did not disti between de- Pposits after He had out the money. Money Used as Margin, Houston is a former president of the Tennessee River Improvement Associa~ tion, which had advocated Shoals inquiry. testified that the $14,100 used 25 margin for the purchase of 300 shares of Loose-Wiles Biscuit, 200 shares of National Cash r and 200 shares of Kelvinator and that a profit He presented a number of checks to the committee which he said was all that been issued- except one for $30, which he added, he had overlooked. Krickl sald he did not know definite- ly that the money deposited had come from the Union Carbide Co. Senator Blaine, Republican, Wiscon- sin, read a list of several of the checks, most of which were payable to W. Moore, Huston’s personal representative. One, for $500, was payable to Catherine Huston, described by Krickl as Hus- ton's daughter. Some of them were payable to Huston. Had Separate Accounts. Krickl testified that he could not tell what the checks were for, explaining that the account was in Moore's name and checks were paid out on his di- rection. Krickl sald the two checks were de- posited in separate accounts, “Mr. Moore has a number of ac- counts with us,” he said, adding this was a common practice. Huston, who had been in the com- mittee room all morning, was recalled and asked by Senator Walsh, Demo- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Russia Gets New Plane, BUCHAREST, Rumania, March 19 (A).—The first of 300 bombin lanes ordered by Soviet Russia in Italy ar- nived at Constanza yesterday for de- livery to Russia. It was flown by an Italian military expert. Following the Trends Washington merchants send “their buyers to the fashion centers of the world for all that is new for men and women and the household. There is fascination in the shops and all that is newest and best is described in the advertising in The Star, Yesterday’s Advertising, ; (Local Display) Lines 38,264 14,144 8,785 The Evening Star. . Third Newspaper. . Fourth Newspaper. Fifth Newspaper.... 4,978 Star Excess . . 5252 The Star is read in over with Bristow ' also were reported ' 110,000 homes in Washing- ton and suburbs. ulhdun 5,051 33,012 WITH SUNPAY MORNING EDITION NATIONS ONLY HOPE OF NAVAL PARLEY Concessions by Italy, France, Britain and Japan Seen as Necessary. OUTLOOK NOW DECLARED AS DISTINCTLY NEGATIVE Conference Described as Merely a Series of Private Talks Among Delegates. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Radlo to The Star and Chi News. Copyright, 1930, LONDON, England, March 19.—The | fate of the London Naval Conference appears today to- hang by three ex- tremely tenuous threads: 1. The hope that Italy may abandon parity with France and that France in consequence will make reductions satis- factory to Great Britain. 2. The hope that Japan will finally accept something less than its fuli de- mands. 3. The hope that Great Britain will change its mind and make a Mediter- ranean pact acceptable to France. Outlook Negative. The present outlook is distinctly negative, though, of course, there can always be happy surprises at the last moment. Italy today shows no signs of dropping parity with France, either directly or indirectly. The Italians, moreover, are angry at the threat of a | Jjoint demarche to Rome by the other powers. This demarche, as a matter of fact, will probably never be made. Yesterday the British representatives seem to have tried to explain to the Italians as well as to the British press that the idea of a joint demarche was suggested by M. Tardieu to Mr. Mac- donald and that the latter refused. It is not the first time around misunderstandings have arisen at this conference, probably owing to the fact that this is not really a con- ference at all, but a series of private talks between the delegates sitting apart in twos and telling slightly different -wfle: afterward regarding what hap- Ppen: cago Datls ‘What Mr. Macdonald seems to have It has been learned that the French demand ten 8-inch-gun cruisers to Ttaly's six, or nine to Italy’s five, and a minimum of 85,000 tons of subma- rines even under the most favorable ircumstances. “For the. pres 400,000. For the present there seems be not the htest chance, as al- has been , that Italy will ac- any such combination. ‘Tardieu will return the end of this week. it is s, nor The the lerence. French t of view is that of the five wers here resented, France alone clearly and frankly stated its case. ‘The French building program has been a matter of public knowledge since 1924. The Prench memorandum prior to the conference declared that | France w:lmd mil‘ke ngl;&;wm in L:anis program ly sec! were in- creased. Since the conference began PFrance is the only power which has fully explained, in great detail and in the presence of the British and Ameri- E. | can _delegates, all of its figures and pre- it is bullding what it is build in all categories. Pr::‘ce does nnue‘ demand that the United States, Great Britain and Japan cisely wi care at present what size of navies those three powers have, but France does insist that Italy shall put down and explain its figures just as France has done. . Japan’s Explanation. Meanwhile, it is explained, France will simply sit tight. Pr:'lz.te Lgtphmtlom given by the Japanese of why they are unable to ac- cept the latest American compromise o&n can be summarized thus: Jaj thinks that capital ships may be abolished at the next Naval Confer- ence, in 1935. In this case the largest ships would be 8-inch-gun cruisers. Hence Japan is not willing here to ac- cept less than a 70 per .ent ratio with the United States in these ships. Sev- enty per cent rather than 60 per cent has been the fixed J:g:nue policy, it is said, ever since the Washington Naval %"{wfi'z and there is no reason to modify it here, The head of the Japanese naval staft is Admiral Kanjikato, who at the Wash- ington Conference, as Admiral Kato's chief adviser, wanted them to hold out for 70 per cent instead of 60 per cent. In any case, it is not the Japanese gov- ernment, but the Emperor himself, it is | explained, who will finally decide. The Emperor's lord chamberlain and chief | political adviser is Admiral Suzuki, for- merly commander-in-chief of the na: to London at | this France, give similar explanations, for it does not | and he is believed to be favorable D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH ' 19, 1930—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. IYIELDING OF FOUR CALCUTTA MAYOR'S TRIAL BRINGS RIOT More Than 100 Persons In- jured in Disturbance Out- side Court in Rangoon. By the Associated Press. RANGOON, Burma, March 19.—More than 100 persons were injured today at a disturbance outside the court room wherein J. N. Sengupta, mayor of Cal- cutta, was being tried for sedition growing out of utterances made in sup- port of Mahatma Gandhi's campaign of civil disobedience. Thirty police were among those in- jured. The crowd outside the court room threw stones at the police and the militia was requisitioned: to dis- se them. One prominent Indian who went out- side the court to try to pacify the crowd also was injured. It was understood thé trouble arose when an Indian leading a procession struck a policeman. GANDHI ARRIVES AT RAAS. Footsore Party Will Conitnue to Jalal- pur to Make Salt. et i R e —1 a Gan a- tionalist leader, and his of de- votees arrived at the of Raas forenoon three ing here. Borsad to Raas, but the footsore party traveled slowly. 5 Tonight Gandhi and his party will cross the river at Kankapur by boat, continuing on their way to Jalalpur, where they will manufacture salt in violation of the British monopoly, thus beginning in earnest their campaign ot civil disobedience of the British gov- ernment. EUROPA STARTS MAIDEN VOYAGE Liner Is Expected to Attempt to Take Record Held by the Bremen. | By the Associated Press. BREMERHAVEN, Germany, March 19.—The North German Lioyd liner Europa, twin sister ship of the Bremen, blue ribbon liner of the Atlantic, left here at 1 p.m. today for the Channel ports and New York. The Europa started on her maiden voyage to New York amid howling fac- tory whistles along the Weser estuary and the salutes of other ships while thousands of spectators lining the shore cheered. ‘The new ship outwardly is similar to the record-holding Bremen except that she draws two feet more and has oval funnels instead of streamlined. regarded on Fair weather on lenvln? was ast_voyage 's _state- as a good omen for a which, du&’:e the company’ ments to contrary, it is generally believed she will try to establish a new world record for the crossing of the At- lantic. The Bremen on her maiden voy- age established a record for the west- ward crossing of four days and 17 hours. ‘The Europa is a 49,746-ton vessel driven by turbines and has four pro- pellers. She was christened in 1928 by Jacob Gould Schurmann, then Ameri- | can Ambassador to Germany. B S S S S ) “The Emperor of America” BY SAX ROHMER (Author of Fu Manchu) The Gripping Story of a Criminal Gang That Operated in Peepest Secrecy, Striking Terror in Its Victims and Defying Authority. Begins Tomorrow in The Evening Star crashed J | sewer pipe that had ¢ Foening Stat. ¥ Associated service. * The only evening paper in Washington with Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,740 TWO CENTS. SPRING SPROUTING. SALVATION ARMY LEADER DEFENDS PROMIBITION LAW 'Evangeline Booth Declares . Lives of Tenement Dwell- ers Have Been Improved. BROTHER TESTIFIES TAFT HELD DRY ACT SUCCESS i Head of Taft School Tells House Committee Straw Vote Means Nothing. Those who live in the tenement dis- Hoover Improves In Health, Asserts Senator Copeland - By the Assoclated Press. P President Hoever's health has. been improving during his first year in the te House, in the - opinion of Senator. Copeland of New York, a physician: Alter a call at the executive offices today Mr. Copeland said Mr. Hoover apparently had' lost some weight and looked better. A year ago the New Yorker ex- pressed apprehension that the President’s medicine ball exercises might be too strenuous. DIPLOMAT TRAFFIC IMMUNITY 1S HIT McKellar Bill Would Subject Envoys to Common Rules of Road. Expressing the belief that members of the diplomatic corps in Washington a of should be subject to the same traffic regulations applied to American citi- zens, Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee introduced a bill in the Sen- ate this afternoon which would deprive diplomats of immunity in trafic cases. Senator McKellar introduced the bill following an accident Monday night in which Juan Polich, Chilean naval at- [0 e€arl tache, was involved. It was referred to the Senate District committee for | there, report. Includes All Laws. “I do not think they ought to be al- lowed to disregard the traffic or any other laws,” the Senator said, referring to foreign representatives on duty here. He added that he did not believed those connected with the embassies should be treated any differently from other citi- zens in the enforcement of laws. Meanwhile, Maj. Henry G. Pratt superintendent of police, today sent to the State Department the police report on the accident Mon: night. An auto driven by Polich, collided with another driven by Paul Edward Hammond, a Southern Railway clerk. Hammond is in Emergency Hospital suffering from a fractured skull, ruptured kidney, d other injuries, and is in a serious condi- | tion. Report Is “Incidental.” The report is simply a copy of the police “incidental” sent to headquarters on all accidents. It states that the col- lision occurred at Connecticut avenue and N street and that both cars were damaged and that the officers making the report did not witness the collision. The names of witnesses are included, | from but no_statements were taken them. The witnesses listed are Spurvey and Lonnie Beal of 2019 street, W. S. secon i 145 West Eighteenth street, New York y. A further report will be sent to the State Demfi.mmt. Maj. Pratt said, when another witness to the accident is interviewed. Polich has defended his part in the accident. g ENGINEER IS CRUSHED IN HEAD-ON COLLISION 8y the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 19.—An engineer others were in a head-on collision of the Badger State Limited and a suburban train on the Chicago & Northwestern Rallroad last night near Arlington Heights, a suburb. - Carl Kutsner, englfieer on the-sub- ghrblnh'.mn. was crushed to desth in ‘The limited, southbound from Min- neapolis, into a' section of slipped from its sled as it was being towed across the tracks. ‘The locomotive was derailed and six Dewas | Shay of 1511 Twenty- |- AN, SHOT BY DRY *OFFICER, MAY DIF Reported Attempt-to Escape Is Blamed for Wounding by Policeman. James G. Grotts, 28, of Lexington. N. ©, is in a critical condition at Casualty Hospital with a bullet hole through the lung as the result.of an alleged attempt early today to escape from Spottswood Gravelly, prohibition enforcement officer at the third pre- cinct. Gravelly said that he shot Grotts when the latter made a move- Sunday morning, two men came into the place and heid up eight men and four women who were , robbing all the women cf their Jjewelry and men of their wallets. Car Is Found Abandoned. ‘The men are thought to have used ¢ stolen roadster belonging to Miss Helen Robinson of 2029 F street, daughter of ;‘he former Assistant Secretary of the avy. ‘This was reported stolen to police by Gordon E. Barter, her chauffeur, who found the garage door jimmied Sunday morning. The car later was found abandoned near the corner of Eight- eenth and F streets. Headquarters detectives believed that the hold-up was st by a gang of rs from other cities and gave that as the reason for the careful watch on the house at the time the shooting occurred. According to Miss Great- house’s complaint, after the hold-up money available they robbed the men of their trousers and shoes, and locksd all of those in the house in a room and escaped in the large roadster. ‘Were Guarding House. According to stories gathered from various police sources, Burke had asked Gravelly to help him keep a watch on the house as they were expecting the r:ewm of a man alleged to be a gang- ster. Marie Foster, 22, a resident of the apartment house, who knew the police- men were hovering near, went to them and complained that man exhibiting a lice badge had tried w extort $30 rom her. Burke and Gravelly, who had been in he rear, went to the front where a coupe was Jdrawn up at the curb in which three men were sitting. One of them, Grotts, jumped out and ran and eventually him, while Burke placed the other two under arrest and took them to the third precinct. One of these was Policeman Swartzel and the other ru his name as John C. Elgin, 24, of the 1200 block of K street. Swartzel | the third precinct on a charge of in- | vestigation. In: md?u Bean |said that Miss Foster had identified Swartzel as the man who had attempted | to extort money from her. He said that Swartzel had dictated a statement deny- | _(Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) men had taken all the jewelry and ' tricts of big cities or make their homes in the little Salvation Army Hotels nestling under towering skyscrapers have had their lives improved as a re- sult of prohibition in the opinion of Comdr. Evangeline Booth, who today was recorded before the House judiciary committee as a staunch defender of the eighteenth amendment. Her view was presented by H. W. Jen- kins, a colonel in the Salvation Army, who read her prepared statement. She denied that under the dry law more young girls were being led astray and asserted that the automobile rather than ' prohibition was responsible for most of the cases coming to the army’s attention. A recent survey, her statement said, showed an improved condition amol working men in industry, and she cif a case wnere a smallpox examination in & Salvation Army hotel in Chicago had failed to disclose a single intoxicant out of 500 roomers. «<Taft Held Prohibition Success. Jenkins offered the statement after Horace Taft, brother of the late Wil- liam Howard Taft, had submitted a let- ten by the one-time President brother, Horace Taft, who is the Taft School for Boys ecticu n t. Mr. Taft's letter read: “My Dear Irving: “Thank you for send! book, I shall read it wi of pleasure. “In the late cam I in a very awk tuation. not issue any gxbuuuon cause of my being on the yet the New York Wafl:r?\l anti-prohibition letters coln (a dry of New Haven) before the adoption of the amendment, and then nol seemed to take the trouble publ my speech at Yale, given after the amendment was adoj L “But the result is glo: and points the only way that we have to work out the problem presented. The solution (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) TILSON, SENT TO HOSPITAL WITH FEVER, IMPROVES 'Numn of Malady Not Yet Deter- mined Definitely by House Leader’s Doctor. Representative John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, Republican leader of the House, who was sent to the Naval Hos- pital last night, following an attack of gi}:&e. was reported today to be slightly According to Lieut. Comdr. Joel T. Boone, President Hoover's personal rhysichn. who is attending the House leader, the latter's temperature at 11 o'clock today was Q’:u:m and pulse i 8 i HEEY £ s E g toward U street. Gravelly followed him | s 11 tter's advice, went his home at the Mayflower Hotel. Later 1 and Elgin now are held at|had Hospital, where he will be kept for a few days as a precautionary measure. It was said at the hospital today that was described Mr. Tilson what was as a “good night” and appeared stronger and othe: improved today. 'MUSICAL ENGINE SNORTS BY, 'Southern Railway Division Crossings and Save By the Assoclated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 19.—1f sleepers in some of the towns along the the | Southern Rallway awake some night and hear a calliope playing “Casey Jones,” it simply means Mike Brady, hve:qnnmnneqr.hbhmror:m. ks Southern Radl com- umwm and Ala,, that the B o Mg ey 4 4 “CALLIOPING CASEY” AT WHISTLE to Use Calliope to Clear Residents’ Slumber. dec to give them music. So calliope_whistle was installed on mwnndymm. idents of towns on the were amazéd last night when engine snorted by, sna