Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1930, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather .II-I Porecast.) not much chlnn in temperature; m- est m'ht about_ 34 ratures—] , at noon to- -Highest, 44, la'el'-. 35. lC‘lb!.l.n today. ] report on page 4. Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 13, 14 & 15 ¢ Foening Star. Wlfl{ SUNDAY MORNING. EDITION b WASHINGTON, D. C, Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,740 TWO CENTS () Means Associated Press. No. THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1930—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. 31,376. post _office, SIMMONS CHARGES EXTRAVAGANCE IN DISTRICT SCHOOLS Urges Popular Election or Abolition of Board of Education. SUGGESTS DEPARTMENT UNDER SUPERVISORS Representative, Defending Fiscal Relations, Scores “Faulty Admin- istration” in Assignments, Charging public school authorities with “wanton extravagance,” in the expenditure of school funds, Chairman Simmons of the House subconimittee on appropriations advocated on the floor of the House today that the Board of Education either be elected by the people “ of the District or abolished and the schools operated as a department of the city government with the superin- tendent and school employes answer- able to the Commissioners. Simmons’ attack was a climax to the Entered as second class matter Washington, C. D. BILL ASKS PERMANENT GROUP TOFIX U. S. ALLOTMENT TO CITY Fiscal Relations Committee Proposed by Representative Moore Would Report Every Four Years. Creation of a permanent commission to advise Congress at regular periods as to the proper division of financial re- sponsibility between the District gov- ernment and the United States is pro- vided for in a bill introduced in the House today by Representative R. Wal- ton Moore of Virginia. The commission would be specifically empowered to determine the amoudt| of the Federal contribution to th€ ex- penses of the District of Coluffibia gov- ernment and would investigate and re- port the whole subject of fiscal relations every four years, beginning next De- cember. The commission would be composed of the chairmen of the Serate and House District committees and of the Senate and House appropriation com- mittees, a member of v.he Board of Com- missioners of the District desig- nated by that board, the director of the “The bili was. Teferred to. the. Héuse District committee for consideration. HOLADAY HITS LOW reading of the 1931 District appropriation roper expansion of the water system 534 “m—u-m-:o policy.” Charges Faulty Administration. In his criticism of school authorities Simmons declared that school buildings are constructed on a cost basis, “far more elaborate, ornate and luxurious” any heretofore buil building wm: the plans of approved buildings g’ constructed. Inm-d of at- meet. ll.l Teason- needs in an effort mue effort “seems e largest amount poulble per un! t of school tions being built, In support of the charge that the #chools are ovemxpplled and that the apparent shortage in some branches is due to “faulty administration and as- signment,” Mr. Simmons referred to a table which he said showed that Wash- ington has more teachers per pupil load in‘every branch of the schools than the | unicipalt try. the average of the count “Taxpayer and Children Ignored.” Elaborate and extravagant eq'ulpment has been requisitioned for the Junior and senior high schools, llr Simmons said, “comparable with the show rooms of a city store.” “The rights of the taxpayer and the rights of the child in the schools have alike been ignored,” he declared, “while educational luxuries and needless ac- cessories have been purchased for the use of a favored few and to please the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ety T ity WOMAN IS KIDNAPED AND TAPED IN AUTO Tells Filling Station Employes She | ¢ Escaped When Abductor’s Car Stalled. By the Associated Press. BAD AXE, Mich., March 27.—Bound with adhesive tape, a dog collar and rope to the driver's position in her sautomobile, Mrs. Elsie Mills, 25, of De- troit, drove into a filling station three miles south of here last night and told of having been kidnaped. She and her husband, she said, had received notes thoreatening them if they appeared in @& civil suit filed against them by a Jormer landlord. ‘Two of the three men in anoths lar, she said, jumped into her mhm ‘They lutened her left hand to teering W] to_move. “I took a chante and drove away the | js handicapped hy low qualifications for TEST FOR POLIGE Criticizes Dearth of Educa- tional Requirements for Re- oruits in House Speech. While the Washington Police Depart- ment is not “the worst in the world,” it Under the wording of the measufe, the proposed commission is directed ‘_‘u soon as possible and from time to time thereafter to inquire jmto the fiscal re- lations of the United States and the District of Cofumbia with a view to ascertainisf and recommending to the amount of the annual con- tribution of the Government of the United States toward the expenses of the District of Columbia.” The commission would be instructed to make “a thorough investigation of all the conditions and circumstances which uhuuld be considered in deter- mining w] in justice and fairness, should be the division of the :vproprh- tions between the Government and the District.” The proposed law would make it compulsory on officers and employes of all administrative agencies of the Dis- trict government to supply the commis- sion any information it may require regarding powers, duties, Vit organization and mumu of business. The commissions would be given the right to examine any books, documents, papers or records gf the municipal 8OV- (Continued on 2, Column 3.) DEFEAT OF STEEL MERGER PREDICTED & Cyrus Eaton Says Proxies Will Prevent Sale of Youngstown Firm. By the Assoclated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March 27— ‘The proposed sale of Youngstown Sheet WET AND DRY QuiZ TOBE OPENED NEXT BY LOBBY PROBERS Inquiry Into Actions of Or- ganizations Is Due to Start Within Week. HUSTON’S PART IN SHOALS CASE TO BE REPORTED ON W. B. Bell, President of Cyanamid Company, Is Scheduled to Be Heard on Tuesday. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Inquiry into the lobbying activities of wet and dry organizations and a re- port on Muscle Shoals and Claudius H. Huston's connection with the Tennessee River Improvement Association will oc- cupy the attention of the Senate lobby committee next week. ‘The investigation of the wet and dry lobbies, Senator Caraway of Arkansas, dlllnnl'lizno( the lobby committee, said immediately will turn its attention to drafting a report on therMuscle Shoals lobby llld Mr. Huston, who is chairman of the Republican national committee and for years was head of the Tennes- see River Improvement Association. Tinkham Urged Probe. The inquiry into the activities of the wet and dry lol personnel, lack of proper organization, |4 Tube Co. 1o the Bethlehem Steel | ‘Whitehurst, P C. !bwler. heal son, dlremr of ;‘e s. YAI‘! ll.\l“lfllu omcer George 8. wn- public welfare, and Watson of the Fire Hits School System. In almost the next breath, Mr. Hq hud that the publm :g:m ‘Washnigton is “the t m]ur uurv.mt of the more for his dollar (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) —_— SMOOT TO DISCUSS TARIFF IN FORUM |t Senator Will Explain Changes in Measure as Passed This Week on Radio Tonight. Speaking in the National Forum tonight, Senator Reed Bmoot et Utah, chairman of flw Senate flmnm wmmithe will discuss t.h‘nG tarift bill, mparing the measure Il M Senate vmh the House bill and explain- }nl“remm made for changes in it. As the chairman in charge of the long tariff fight on the floor of the Senate, Mr. Smoot’s analysis of the bill will be of Vurpulent egislation. He wii speak over urbulent on. station WMAL from 10”'011 oclock System over 8 “nf” rticular interest to those | the i fhijes § EEDOM OF PRESS FIGHT WINS PRAISE mented by Head of American Newspaper Association. Fy the Assocfated Press. NEW YORK, March 27.—Col. Robert RL McCormick, president of the Chicago Tribune, and chairman of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association'’s iplished b Col. McCormick in his active dg(m&y of un fundamental principles of a free occasion of Col. McCormick’s duvon has been a fight fort being made in Minne- nle the press through ] in umb L Hlnm roviding jud; district em'l)rt may sup) : ‘eso! nuisance any p\lhllclunn declared u) be us, scandalous and defama- a ‘mnudo Hodlul wspaper, e or other Col McCormick retained counsel in a case which has recently arisen under this law, brought the case in the lower | wi courts and is now conducting an ap- pel.lnw the United States Supreme P T DON MAY ASK MORE TIME ‘Weather at Daytona Beach Con- tinues Unfavorable for Speed Try. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, March 27 (#).—Unless he is able to make an as- sault upon the world speed record within four Kaye Don, British rac- ing driver, ask the American Au- tomobile Association for an extension of original period of h’oln March 15 0 30 ll!otted him for his trials. o Ve ¢ walk. man to do except “LIFELESS” BODY YELLS LUSTILY AS STUDENTS START DISSECTING | tis Wound in Chest of Man Picked Up *“Dead” on Streets |2 May Result Fatally. parently lifeless body of Fidel Juarez Clinic for dissection as During the night it was mvflmflmm"fl, stretched out on a table. The students MEXICO CITY, March 37.—The ap- | gathered around and a knife was jabbed into the chest. 222 | EF QUESTIONED IN COUNTY PROBE Montgomery Grand Jury Told 1928 Silver Spring Assess- ments Were Fair. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 27.—Maj. E. Brooke Lee, speaker of the Maryland 10 | House of Delegates and Democratic or- ganization leader in Montgomery Coun- ty, spent half an hour before the grand jury here today. He appeared in Te- sponse to a summons in connection with the investigation that has been under way since Monday of charges by & Rockville indeperident newspaper re- flecting on the management of county affairs. Upon leaving the grand jury room, he issued this statement: “I testified before the grand jury to- day as to the manner in which the 1928 general property assessment was conducted in the Silver Spring section and throughout Montgomery County, and also, I testified about the location and public justification of the extension of Sixteenth street Baltimore via “I testified that the 1928 eul erty assessments in the Siiver spring 40 ci 3 Spring neighborhood inspected this 1928 new assessment map, and they were so assessment that affected his '.homuhly satisfied with the fairness of figures '.,noucu Col. Worthington, the executive ead of the river association. Position Is Under Fire. A number of Republican Senators (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) st i WEALTHY DEAF WOMAN WILLS EARS TO SCIENCE Doctor Praises Bequest as Great Aid in Search for Causes of Affliction. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 27.—Science will let the ears n‘; Miss Abby Hosmer—T70, ealthy and At her death, by the provisions of the odd she signed ymd;{ Miss Hosmer’s ears wfllnwthec Mu[c La d Otological So- ety. Dr, Austin A. Hayden, & prominent member of the soclety, praised the be- uest ot Miss Hosmer, who has been af since she was 7 years old. “Until medical sclence can have the ogpo‘hr:unlty wf zank’a microscopic ltme eaf persons after death ;:r:ho.“ in the dark as to why one out at every ten Tsons todny suffers from this mala he LosT mmmsu $2,000 REGISTERED MAIL Glover Spikes Reports Ship Missing Since January 10 Had $300,000 Cargo. Assistant Postmaster General Glover, in ehnn of air mail, announced phney. Western Alr Express 'hlch wn.h its pilot, Maurice Graham, en route from Los Angeles & Lake City on January 10, carried red letters, which contained in c\u-rency and $1,700 in No trace of the ey egas, Nev. the ight of Jnnuary 1o Radio Programs on Page C-4 ty ot that section that only one t appeared before the county in response to the usual malled every property owner that thewr new 1928 assessment would stand peared before the Board of County oners and that this particular uxpnyet afterward wrote the Board of County Commis- sloners that she would not have ap- gured but for misinformation given before her appearance before the Business District Methods. “I further testified that the assess- ments in the Silver Spring business dis- trict were graded by city squares and ‘were the same throughout each lot and were the same on opposite sides of Geo! avenue extended, and that no tax ation existed in the Silver Spring business district or in any other section of the county as far as the county commissioners, assessor or other county officials knew. “This equitable level of tax assess- ments throughout the county is sub- stantiated by the fact that East Mont- gomery County borders on Georges County, on the northeast on Howard County and on the north and northwest on Frederick County and that $1,000 worth of rcperty is mmfl at equlvllendy the tax pur- poses in Montgomery 00“!1!! that it is assessed in the adjacent sections of (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) In the Evening Evening time is ad-time. People read ads in the eve- ning—the time for reflection and planning. Read the ads in tonight's Star. They will stimulate your thoughts and quicken your ideas for new posses- sions and new pleasures, Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) The Evening Star. .29,268 2d Newspaper. . ...13,258 3d Newspaper..... 6988 4th Newspaper..... 4,126 5th Newspapet.. ... 3,788 28,160 The Star’s circulation has increased over 10,000 daily in the past two years, _ Prince | & Huckins Is Jailed When Gas Station Is Declared Stolen By the Associated Press. SEMINOLE, Okla., March 27.— K. C. Huckins, who by his own admission nursed an ambition to go into business for himself but lacked the necessary funds, is held in a Seminole jan chnrled with theft of equipment for an entire gasoline filling station. A week ago Huc installed his station here and did a thriv- ing said the prisoner admitted theft of two pumps, two storage tanks, four oll barrels and other modern equipment, at Shawnee, Okla. MISSOURI PRISON TROUBLE GROWS 500 Convicts Refuse to Work, Curtailing Opera- tions in Plants. By the Assoclated Press. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, March 27.— Approximately 500 convicts in five fac- tories inside the Missouri Penitentiary walls went on strike todsy after 750 had mutinied yesterday against prison food. The new outbreak resulted in curtail- ment of operations in the plants and lbvut 900 prisoners were sent back to Demmuu better food and better working conditions, prisoners quit work ir two overall plants, one pants fac- gry, a chair factory and a broom fac- Ty ‘The rebellion started after breakfast and spread during the forenoon. Situation Is Tense. Prison officials said there had been no_violence. Shortly before 11 o'clock the first line of 400 convicts was started to the dining hall, where yesterday’s demon- stration occurred. They were orderly, but the situation was DR. ECKENER HERE T0 RECEVE MEDAL Graf Zeppelin Commander Will Inspect Sites for Diri- gible Terminal. During his present visit here, made so that he may receive a special gold medal from the National Geographic Society tonight in the Washington Auditorium and to arrange for a flight of the Graf Zeppelin to this country in May, Dr. Hugo Eckener will inspect at least one site in the immediate vicinity of Washington as a possible terminal fleld for a projected German-American dirigible line, it was learned today. Dr. Eckener arrived here at 7:35 o'clock last night by ‘rail from New York and will remain in the Capital and vicinity for about eight days. To- day he is devofinc to courtesy calls to Federal President Hoover tnd several memben of his cab- inet. Presentation of the Nluonll Geo- graphic Society medal tonight will be made in the presence of diplomatic rep- resentatives of 22 nations, cabinet offi- cers, Senators, Representatives and aviation officials of the Government and civil aviation organizations. Considers Coastal Region. hl.nuelthnny definite site for the ter- mln&ldlr‘llibleflfld nxdhelsmuehln- terested in Hanldhzumldefl:umemflrt coastal region between Baltimore and Richmond, Va., because of generally fa- vonble weather conditions and because g:xlmtty to t.he center of population hu turned ovér most of !.hg urpon work to Comdr. Jerome Hunsacker, former United States with the Goodyear lin Corporation Zeppel at Akron, Ohlo, and agent for Dr. Eck- ener’s interests in this country. nwumepunmfeeddlpnwm tor sider locating the terminal at the Na- | tative working and not participating in the strike in the dining hall on customary schedule and to serve the others in | Washington their cells where they are to be kept until prison officials single out the ring- leaders in the strike. The instigators were being solitary confinement in a new cell build- ing set apart for rebellious conviets, there to remain until the rebellion is quelled. “We are still trying to deal with them as friends,” Warden Rudolph said, “but 'we hal\;e quit ml.ng Wde b, use force necessary en trouble.” Governor . Confers With Board. Gov. Henry S. Caulfield conferred with prison board members, but no statement was issued after the meet- ing. Warden Rudolph said, however, that all that could be done to avert trouble had been done and that “if there must be trouble, the prison or- ganization is ready to meet the emer- ncy. As fast as the prisoners struck they were taken to their cells and locked up. Prison officials said there had been no violence, but as a precaution the local National Guard company was mobilized and machine gun companies at the nearby towns were ordered to be rudlnus ‘There are 4,000 convicts ln the prison. Long Beach Hotel Burns. LONG BEACH, N. Y., March 27 ). early_today delt.royed $1,- 000000 Hnflel Lafayette, in Park ave- nue here. The hotel was to have been opened for the Summer within a lew days and was unoccupied. Origin of the fire was not determined. CRAPS-SHOOTING TO EXPLAIN CROWBAR, IS JAILED will | vice tional Capital and an offer from the s Mrbu'rermxnsll corponflon of a free dirigible hangar sif free use of a 1,300-acre Alrport at Hybla Valley, just south of Alexandria The Board of Trade was represented by Lawrence Williams, chairman of the aviation committee, and Robert J. Cot- trell, secretary. The air terminals cor- poration, owners of the Hybla Valley tract, was represented by Howard Ober, put in | Va. president. Comdr. Hunsacker said that he and Dr, Eckener will inspect this area Mon- day_morning while on their way by (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) e EX-JUDGE, REPRIMANDED, SHOOTS TRAFFIC OFFICER Alabaman Probably Fatally Wounds Policeman After Driv- ing Past Stop Sign. By the Assoclated Press. DECATUR, Ala, March 27—T. E. Skeggs, former probate judge, drove across a boule ht, according to probably faf l:A'imE ‘Wright. when Wfl‘hl reprimanded Skeggs, who served as probate judge of Madison County for 18 years, was held without bail today, and volunteers were asked at a hospital for a blood transfusion in the hope of saving the life of the officer, wounded in the abdo- men. ARTIST, UNABLE Admittedly Successful Gambler, With 98 Pennies, Sen- tenced on Slot Machine Jimmying Charge. & the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, March 27.—Miles Demmit, colored, fessed readily to Judge John Lupe rday that he was a craps shooter. He almost boasted of his abil- | ju ity with the dice, but the judge didn’t i believe him. It was not craps that was against Demmit, but theft. Policemen had testified to finding him, It was Demmit’s turn: “‘Judge, mmucanulnlw craj nm off enurely m m%""m"m‘g mwmmwapowm penniu } % !olhnummennm nucxwh‘r"' the judge, dice lf) you 8 _crowbar. PLENARY SESSION IS CALLED 10 ACT ON SECURITY PLAN Chief Delegates to Parley Decide on Full Meeting Next Week. IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS REPORTED IN PROGRESS Tokio Cabinet Delays Decision, Due Today, on Tentative Tonnage Formula. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, March 27.—The chief dele- gates to the Naval Conference, meeting at St. James’ Palace, this afternoon decided to hold a plenary session a week from tomorrow. It was expected that the question of some ssort of a security pact for the benefit of the French would come up at that time. In the meantime important negotia- tions are understood to be proceeding among the British and French and British and Italians regarding a se- curity pact. The plenary session will be to dis- cuss the progress made thus far, the idea being that all angles be brought out into the open. As one authorita- tive conference source put it, “Some- body will have to do some talking.” French Ready to Bargain. Aristide Briand, French foreign min- ister, was reported unofficially today to have told Arthur Henderson, British foreign minister, that Prance would be able to cut her naval tonnage program if the conference would produce & pact of mutual guarantees for the Mediter- ranean. M. Briand indicated that he thought such a pact should be on the lines of the League of Nations model treaties for mutual guaranty, which, to his mind, would not mean that Great Britain would undertake obligations other than those which she already has accepted under article XV of the cove- nant of the League of Nations. The Daily Telegraph, discussing the possibility of Britain’s becoming guar- antor of French security in the Medi- terranean, declared: “No such pledge can be given by our government.” Secretary Stimson and Prime Minis- ter Macdonald in a meeting yesterday wmnldtohnmueholl-' untthemmml of neither wowd could involve itself in a polldul Mlmp!mmymmlmary wmummmmmdm JAPANESE DELAY ACTION. Cabinet Session to Pass on U. S. Pro- posal Is Called Off. ‘TOKIO, March 27 | tions patched before next week. FRENCH BUDGET APPROVED. War Minister Points to Reduction in Land Forces. PARIS, March 27 (#).—i that the 1930 budget for the land forces of France was the Proot o8 G coune . “We have reduced the number of our Mvmmutromaamluzmmmlm' “The term for military service has been from three years to one. We have cut down the number of our effectives in officers mwo—nmunndlnthennhlflon‘- “Wedulutnhfluuuuu\wub the attention of other nations. (oonunuedonrma.columl) NICHOLAS F. BRADY DIES AT AGE OF 51 Chairman of Board of New York Edison Co. Expires Today. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 27.—Nichoias ¥. Brady, chairman of the hfll’l of the New York Edison Co, died today. He was 51 years old. Brady been suffe g il i R £ il it It