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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 54 at 4 pm. yesterday; lowest, 40 at 4 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 12. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. he Swndiay Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION ) Means Associated Press. No. PROGRESS WRITTEN IN LONDON DESPITE PESSIMISM HERE Writer, Returned From Con- ference, Struck by “Unjusti- fied” Contrast. 1,306—No. 31,379. TANGIBLE BENEFITS SEEN FROM PARLEY Three-Power Pact Achievement Alone Would Be Accomplishment. Other Prospects Described. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. If the American delegation to the london Naval Conference were to re- turn to the United States today, its members would be astonished at the all-encircling gloom prevailing in this country. ‘They would brand such pessimism as unjustified and short-sighted, because they contend it leaves wholly out of acoount the concrete, substantial and far-reaching results already certain to be achieved. A five-power treaty may turn out to be impossible. That is & distinct failure and disappointment from the American standpoint. But a three-power agreement—among Great Britain, the United States and Japan— is & foregone conclusion. That will be a distinct success and gratification, from the American standpoint. In the :Enkm of Secretary Stimson and his colleagues, such an outcome will have made the London Conference worthwhile 10 times over. They are prepared to defend that thesis, if and when it becomes necessary. Their con- tention will be that incomplete success is a long way from total failure. This writer left London on March 20. At that date the conference was wal- Jowing in the mire of despair, as far as ary five-power arrangements were in | Week of the London naval negotiations | pressed upon the delegations. gation insisted, to plunge the “folks back home” into the depths of discon- tent. Our spokesmen at London ask— or were asking a week and a half ago —if the following list of accomplish- ments (already recorded or about to be) does not tell a story of real achieve- ment: 1. Naval parity arrangements with . Stoppage of new building pan, and eventual fixation of & 10-6 cruiser ratio. 2 3. Humanization of submarine war- are. 4. Postponement _of battleship re- placement until 1936. Always assuming that a Three-Power, yather than a Pive-Power, treaty is all we are going to get out of the London Conference, the benefits which lie hid- den in the above tabulation, are mani- festly extensive. The overshadowing, general fact which it discloses is that there will result from an Anglo-Ameri- can-Japanese limitation agreement an aggregate, actual reduction of roundly -'500,000 tons of warships of various classes. The United States, under the contemplated arrangements, will ndfi its navy by 200,000 tons; the Brif will slash some 225,000 tons or more ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 4. 28 GIVE SELVES UP FOR USURY TRIAL Mayer, Film Executive, Among 36 Named in 0il Stock Is- sue Fraud. — the Associated Press. B 08 ANGELES, March 29.—Charged with conspiracy it in to commit usury connection with the $100,000,000 Julian tock overissue eum_Corporation s 5[“?9121. 28 bankers, brokers, business men and real estate men today sur‘; rendered and were released on $5,00 bail each. Eight others of the 36 in- dicted by the county grand jury have hended. no been b, Los Angeles banker, one . H. Flint, thhm indicted, now in London; Joe reputed millionaire real u:fi- mols, ther defendant, ::cnllred they will surrender. Those who surrendered included Louls B. Mayer, motion picture executive; Adolph Ramish, former theatrical man; . W. Chotiner, also a theatrical fig- ure: Alvin H. Frank, broker; J. Forb- stein, broker; W. I. Hollingsworth, real estate man; M. Weinstein and E. Bas- theim, jewelers; Abe Prall, David Gor- don, 8. Goodman, R. E. Moody, Henry ue%-y and Herman Gutterman, brok- ers; Phillip Grossman, merchant; L L. Levy, insurance broker, and F. Harris, financier. aid| Henderson and Briand, With Entered_as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. | This is the | of Detention will appear tomorrow. rst the STENSIBLY the House of the place where women pri O There are no cells. There is a and upholstered furniture. place hasn’t the custody. comforts of life? tiously question certain A New Idea Mys. Van Winkle Finds Golden Promise in Women W ho Slip on Ethical Ice to Err and Believes in Their Protection as Humans of Value to Society. Woman’s Bureau of the Metropolitan Police De, There are white There are no iron bars in evidence. characteristic prison “smell.” It seems more like a decent board: place for the detention of law breakers. This is what the District of Columbia | provides for the temporary safe keeping of all women who happen to be in police|. An unobservant woman might | § remain here for days without realizing that she had been in “jail”—a most undesirable | condition in the eyes of these who feel that the fact of being caught violating the law automatically should cut a person off for a time from the rest of humanity. Why should such an individual be entitled to any} Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, lieutenant in charge of the Women’s Bureau, who is|. responsible for the lay-out of the House of Dentention, is somewhat of a heretic in criminology, and she -is inclined to cau- ygg, fundamental axioms upon which detention procedure has been established. WASHINGTON, n ((Jails” of a series of three articles on Washington’s House work of the Woman's Bureau. The second article | BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Detention, the quarters of the tment and isoners are kept pending their ap- pearence in court, is a different sort of “jail.” parlor with pictures on the walls spreads on the beds. £ o ) MINA VAN WINKLE. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) NAVAL PROBLEMS PROVE POLITICAL, NOT TECHNICAL Their Experts, Bearing Burden of Conference. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 29.—As the tenth closes, the fact that disarmament is fundamentally a political, rather than & technical problem, is increasingly im- Arthur Henderson and Aristide Briand, British and Frenth foreign, ministers, and their experts, are bear- ing the burden of work while Prime Minister Macdonald, Secretary Stimson and the other” chief delegates enjoy a brief week end holiday. Henderson and Briand conferred three hours today and, in an effort to report progress by Monday, will continue to- morrow in searching for & formula giv- interpretation to the League of 1an'flnnl rgvmlnt which France can as bolstering her national security in the Mediterranean and at the same time does not increase Great Britain's military commitments. Little Progress Made. at_once. Inability to settle international it- ical issues, aff principally Great Britain, France and Italy, brings the conference face to face with the specter of failure to accomplish, in any large degree, the objectives for which the Five-Power Conference was convened. But all the spokesmen join in saying that never could the long weeks of work here be written down @s a total A for while some technical work done here might have to await political agreement, the advances would not be scrapped. Instead, they wouid be ap- | plied where the political aspects of dis- armament have been settled—as, for in- | stance, between the United States and | Great Britain and also Japan, assum- ing that the Tokio government finally approves the tentative three-power agreement which has been reached ‘here. Three-Power Reliance. There is some discouragement re- ported from the French-British nego- tiations, but the three-power treaty always remains as a safe and sure escape for the United States, Great Britain and Japan—whose delegates, after all, consider that a tri-partite agreement would be a great achieve- ment. Shouid the French-British parleys take a more hopeful turn, with France recelving sufficient Mediterranean se- curity guarantees to reduce her naval strength figures, then the American delegation would be able to join an- other political arrangément as an aid to disarmament—a fivespower consulta- tive pact which would have the full backing of President Hoover. The confusion which existed in the British press, as to whether the London delegation of the United States and the Government at Washington were in | agreement on the proposed consultative treaty, was dissipated today with the | authoritative mul’tlrl"m! fl;‘lt Pg?ident Hoover approves the policy Stimson and his colleagues have adopted in the . | event European political barriers can be lowered. CHAGRINED U. S. TYPIST LEARNS 16 TRAPPED IN MINE GAS POCKET BLAST: FEAR ALL WILL DIE Foul Air Blocks Rescue Squad at Mouth of Kettle Is- land Tunnel. By the Associated Press. Sixteen men were trapped a mile and a half back under the rugged hills in a coal mine here late today with little hope for their survival. The explosion that tore out the brattice work was be- lieved to have been caused by a gas pocket igniting. Kettle Island is about 8 miles from Pineville, and roads were said to be zo difficult that the only means of travel were trains and walking. An employe at the mine commissary sald it was impossible to penetrate far into the workings and that it probably would be late tonight before any effort could be made to reach the entombed. | Slight Hope Is Held. ‘The slight chance that the entombed miners might be able to work their way back out into some unused shaft, build up a brattice and protect them- selves from gas- air, was the only hope held out today by officials of the Piloneer Coal Co. Four bundred miners ht have been affected had the expl on any time but Saturday afternoon. As it was, only a score of men were in the mine, and four escaped. Albert 1 | Whitely, & miner who was among those who escaped, was working near the ex- plosion but was unable to ascertain the cause, or tell of the extent 'of the dam- Mine rescue squads were ordered here at once from Harlan and Ky., and Norton. Va, and a ‘-flm:ul train was prepared at Pineville to hasten their arrival. Many of the en- tombed miners were married, and their wives, children and other relatives clus- tered around the mine mouth crying for word of their fate for hours after the explosion. Foul Air Bars Rescue. Foul air from the explosion prevented local rescue squads from entering the mine which was believed to be jammed with debris near the scene of the ex- eplosion, but work was started at once to brace the entrance shaft walls in D. C, SUNDAY M ORNING, MARCH 30, 1930 —126 PAGES. FIVE CENTS WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS | TEN “CENTS ELSEWHERE SOMERVELL URGES DEVELOPMENT OF POTOMAC POWER Holds Cramton Park Bill Would Mean Waste of $100,000,000. U. S. ENGINEER DECLARES 2 PROJECTS POSSIBLE Suitable Park Practical Without Interference With Other Im- provements, He says. Park and power development can go forward harmoniously at Great Falls on the Potomac River without disturb- ing any of the scenic value of the place, Maj. Brehon Somervell, District engi- neer for the War Department for the Washington area, told the Senate Dis- trict committee during its recent hear- ing on the Capper-Cramton park de- velopment measure. The transcript of the hearing, now ready for printing, shows that Maj. Somervell, whose office made a_study of power development in the Great Falls area, has reached these conclusions: “1. A satisfactory reconciliation of any conflict between developments for navigation, power, flood control and recreation is possible at the sacrifice of substantial, but not prohibitive eco- nomic advantages to power development and of certain minor debatable scenic features in the lower valley. “2. The full development of the watershed is applicable to a large sec- tion of the country. The park develop- ment is restricted largely to local needs. Parks are to be provided on a scale many times larger than is the case with any other American city of com- parable size for which I have figures. Question of Particular Park. “3. The question is not one of & park—not a decision between parks on the one hand and power, nlet'lnf- preparation for the arrival of the State rescue squads. At the office of the Pioneer Coal Co. here, the names of those entombed were announced as follows: — TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—30 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page B—4. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 5. D. A. R. Activities—Page 6. PART THREE—16 PAGES. Soclety. At Community Centers—Page 10. PART FOUR—14 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Music. In the Motor World—Pages 5 and 6. District National Guard—Page 7. Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. Fraternities—Page 10. News of the Clubs—Page 11. Veterans of Great War—Page 11. Marine Corps Notes—Page 11. Serial Story, “The Emperor of Amer- ica"—Page 12. Spanish War Veterans—Page 12. Army and Navy News—P: 12. District of Columbia Naval Reserves— . T. U. Notes—Page 12. SHE “KIDDED” BRITISH MINISTER | orafiued neserves—rage 12 Admiralty Lord, Introducing Self, Is Told “I'm Mrs. ik Stimson—Aren’t We Important People?” Associated Press. .lg.NDON, *March 20.—One of the girl stenographers accompanying the American delegation to the Naval Con- ference recently proved herself to be so much “from Missour” that she refused to believe in A. V. Alexander, first lord of the British admiralty, any more than in Santa Claus. Mr. Alexander at a formal party, it :i:A‘:nhnh:'u T an a conver- “sation, during which he mentjoned hed one of | learn casually “T am the first lord of the ty. “‘Oh, yes?” she lmflln{ replied,” and I'm lM;n Stimson, aren’ 1"w\e important people?” All Mr. Alexander's efforts to con- vince the girl that he was himself met with the response, “You'll have to show me. I'm. from Missouri, SRS e e of St o e & apher was cl o’ hgg h‘:r envious friends that she been “kidding” & cabinet minister, Radio News—Pages 12 and 13. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Section. PART SIX—14 PAGES. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 13. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. Magazine Bection. Review of New Books—] 18. Notes of Art and Artists—] 3 Cross-word Puzzle—Page 22. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Moon Mullins; Mutt and Jeff; ’lar Pellers; ;ru M‘u“ Mrs.; - : ;_Somehody'’s Stenog: High Lights of History, tion and flood control on the other, but the question of a particular park, the debatable features of which are largely inaccessible, can hardly be made less so, and which, moreover, are subject to periodic and destructive “4. The adoption of such a park in- volves the waste of over uoop..ooo.o'go of the public's resources. more Uaetul PATK cam e sccured. - can secured, to- gether with the development of the river for other purposes. . The Federal revenue to be derived from a comprehensive power ment, Ahnenwfl! finance the whole the navigation, and afford an ap relief from taxation in the District and in the M:flhbortxu counties of Maryland and Virginia. Three applications for the development of power are now before the Federal Power Commission. “7. I have been unable to justify a policy of a particular park at any price on any sound esthetic or economic grounds. Favors Senate Park Body Plan. “8. There seems every reason for carrying out Geor ‘Washington's policy and the plan of the Senate Park Commission under the chairmanship of | Senator McMillan for the full develop- | ment of the Potomac at Great Falls for navigation, parks and 80 far as they are economically justified.” With reference to the Capper-Cram- ton bill, Maj. Somervell said: “I am not appearing in opposition to any measure providing for ad and proper de- velopment of Was! and its envi- | rons. This bill provides for extensive park development in the valley of the Potomac and has an important bearing on other resources in that same valley. These are navigation, power develop- ment, water supply, flood control, high- way connections and recreational facil- ities. I am not appearing as the advo- cate of any one of these special inter- ests, but merely to give you the results of the investigations made by my office during the past two years to find out the maximum possible benefits to be derived from the enormous resources of the river.” Recalling that Col. Max Tyler, now (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) HOOVER OFFICES RUSHED Workmen Granted Extension on Repairing of White House Damages. The White House executive office building, which was gutted by fire on Christmas Eve, will be completely re- modelled and ready for President Hoover again within two weeks, the workmen promised yesterday. Under the 90 contract, the office building was to have been ready by April 6, but the contratt- ors have been granted an additional week and are working day and night to complete their work within the extend- ed ere. President Hoover and his sec- wer, in ) whether there shall be a park or notl | shadows of Potomac Park. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS?Sg | BULLETIN | IN PROHIBITION ENFORCE- | MENT POLLS, KANSAS LEADS ALL AS THE R MOST 'BoNE DRY! WHITE HOUSE W GIFT LIBRARY Selection the Associated Press BINEW YORK, March 29.—Don Quix- ote, Sherlock Holmes, Tom Sawyer and | Uncle Remus are about to occupy the; ‘White House permanently for the men- tal diversion of America’s presidential | families. The Nation's booksellers are collect- ing a home library of 500 volumes as & gift to the Executive Mansion. | The arbiters of the first family’s read- | ing_include Alice Roosevelt Longworth | of Washington and Douglas S. Watson of San Francisco. | ‘The idea originated with Mr. Watson. | ILL RECEIVE OF 500 VOLUMES Alice Longworth. Douglas S. Watson and Gilbert Grosvenor Aid in Of BOO](S. father-in-law of Herbert Hoover, jr. The evening after President Hoover's inauguration and before the Hoover private library was installed, Mr. Wat- son noticed that members of the family wished to turn to books for relaxation and that none was available. Although the Library of Congress contains a million volumes and the Executive Office has a reference library, there was nothing for the President to read merely for diversion. _Informed of this, t (Continued on Page 2= OAR THIEF WOUNDS TACKLING PURSUER Victim Leaves Auto to Chase Man Trying to Get An- other’s Machine. A long chase and a perfect foot ball tackle failed to stop a prospective auto- mobile thief last night' when the thief shot his way out of the embrace of the tackler and disappeared into the It was while the crowds were as-| sembling to see the show at Poli’s| Theater that Dennis Hartman, an at- | torney, with offices in the Earle Build- | ing, discovered the suspect trying to | drive away the Hartman car, which was parked in the rear of the Traffic Bureau, near the stage entrance to Poll’s on E street. “Stop that thief,” shouted Hartman. The fugitive broke into a fast run, west | on E street. At the moment cunonl A. Wright, 20 years old, of 1259 Sixth | street southwest, was idling along look- | ing for a parking place. His wife was in the car beside him. Without hesi- | tating a second, he jammed on his emergency brake, leaped out and catch- | ing up with his quarry in the rear of | the White House brought him down | with a perfect tackle. | “Let go or I'll plug you,” sald the thief. Wright held on, hoping for as- sistance from the crowd of pursuers that had started running madly at| Hartman’s cry. The thief whipped out his gun. There was a struggle. The gun was fired and the bullet entered Wright's right leg below the knee, in- flicting a flesh wound. Momentarily stunned, Wright let go his hold and his quarry ran across the Ellipse into Potomac Park and disap- peared. He has not yet been arrested. A passing motorist took Wright o police headquarters. Detectives sprang into waiting cars and sped to Potomac Park. They arrested one suspect, but he was a student taking a walk. Wright said he was not the man and the police let him go. ‘Wright was taken to Emergency Hos- pital and given treatment for his retarial staff are now installed in the State, War and Navy Building, across West Executive avenue. 350 CHILDREN ARE MARCHED TO SAFETY WHILE FILMS BURN — Firemen Praise Youthful Audience for Orderly Behavior. Two Men Injured as Fire Rages in Theater Operator’s Booth. ‘Three hundred and fifty children at- wound. It was not serious, attending physicians reported. MAX ROSENBERG. injured on the arms when he seized a xtinguisher. fl';):m (uw the building was eonfined "(Continued on Page 3, Column 8.) | |u.,. | 4 SLEMP 1S NAMED IN CONGRESS RACE Ninth District of Virginia [Nominates Him as Candidate 2! for Eleventh Time. By the Associated Press. BRISTOL, Va., March 290.—C. Bascom Slemp, Republican national committee- man from Virginia and one-time secre- tary to President Coolidge, was nomi- nated for Congress by ninth district | Republicans for the eleventh time this afternoon. Slemp's nomination places him in opposition to John W. Flannagan, Dem- ocrat, who was nominated here in con- vention March 20. The incumbent is Joseph C. Shaffer, Republican, who an- nounced last week that he would not seek renomination, and today on the convention floor again declined to run. The Virginia national committeeman served the ninth district in Congress nine terms, beginning in 1902, after the death of his father, Campbell Siemp, who had served two terms. In 1922 Slemp was again nominated despite his efforts to avold being named. Three | days after the convention he declined | the nomination. Today Slemp’s nomination came after Shaffer had risen to reiterate his re- fusal of the nomination and the de- feat of a resolution for the convention to recess for 30 days and then select a nominee. Slemp is now on his way to Los An- geles on a business trip. EXPRESSES INDECISION. Slemp Will Make Known Plans on Return to Washington. ATLANTA, Ga., March 29 (#).—In- decision on whether to accept the nomi- nation as Republican candidate for Congress from the ninth Virginia dis- trict was expressed here tonight by C. Bascom Slemp. Mr. Slemp was on his way to the Pacific Coast on a business trip and will reach a decision on the nomination upon his return to Washing- ton, he said. Mr. Slemp said he had talked with friends in Virginia last night and told them he could not accept the nomina- tion and understood they had agreed upon another c: late. Law practice in Washington and busi- ness interests at his home in Big Stone Gap, Va, may prevent his accepting the nomination, he said. INJURIES FATAL T0 U. OF P. BOXER Team Captain Dies From Hurts Received in Bout With Penn State Foe. By the Assoclated Press. . PHILADELPHIA, March 29.—Oliver the University of Pennsylvania boxing team, died late to- night of injuries received in a boxing bout here last Saturday night with Wil- Struble of Penn State. His home was in New York. Horne, ceptain of AGENT WAIVES HEARING Dry Official Posts $15,000 Bond in Murder Charge. CLARKSDALE, Miss., March 29 (®). —E. S. Chapman, assistant prohibition administrator for Northern ippi. charged with murder in connection with ihe fatal wm;ndi.:z Iu: ‘Tuesday of J. . Doggett, planter, waived preliminary gsaflu y and was released on $15,~ /4 KEYSTONE STATES POLITICS TANGLED Grundy Holds Only “Licking” Would Have Been to Tie Up to Foes. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, March 20.—One more week remains of the period for maneuvering, or, as some politicians call it, “blufing,” in Pennsylvania's tangled political situation. Next Monday is the last day for filing petitions for the placing of candidates’ names on the primary ballot, but the candidates have one more week, or until April 7, to dicker for position in the complicated situation or to decide to stick or drop out. | of other offices caught in the whirl- pool of factional differences. principal candidates are Senator Joseph R. Grundy, who is a candidate for the seat which was refused to Willlam 8. | vare, and to which Grundy was ap- | pointed by the governor, and James J. | Davis, Secretary of Labor. Grundy Will Not Quit. Grundy passed through a critical stage this week when his running mate, Samuel S. Lewls, withdrew as a candi- date for governor. Presumably on the opposite side of the political fence, Secretary of the | Treasury Mellon has not publicly an- | nounced his position in the present litical situation, but he had hereto- fore been lined up with the State or- | ganization, which is back of Grundy. Any rumors that Senator Grundy | would compromise with the Republican | organization of Philadelphia were ap- parently set at rest tonight by the character of the reply the Senator made to Thomas W. Cunningham, sherifft of Philadelphia, and a Vare leader. Grundy Answers Cunningham. “When Sheriff Cunningham says that I am due to get the ‘greatest licking of my career’ in the approaching primary, he has his facts badly mixed. “I would remind Mr. Cunningham that the only ‘licking’ I could have re- ceived would have been that which would have come of my accepting an alliance with himself, Charlie Hall, Sam Salus et al, and with all the political mismanagement and corruption they represent, which alliance they urged upon me with every argument and per- suasion they could bring to bear.” IN JAIL CELL FALL Arrested on Drunk Charge, He Tumbled From Bunk, Police Believe. A man identified as Daniel Boudren, 50 years old, of 15 Seventh street south- east, died from injuries received when he is said to have fallen from a bunk in the cell house at No. 9 police precinct | station early today. Coroner Nevitt or- | dered an inquest. | Boudren was arrested at Thirteenth and B streets between 10 and 11 o'clock last night by Policeman J. J. Collinane on a drunk charge. On his arrival at the station house he was assigned to a cell. The cell room officer said that the prisoner climbed into a bunk and ap- | rently went to sleep. A short time | ater he was found on the floor, who answered an ambulance call, pro- The big fight is for United States | lobbying Senator and governor, with a long line | organiza Dr. J. C. Krick of Casualty Hospital, agains SHARP DISCUSSION FACES SHOALS BILL NEXTUPIN SENATE Lobby Committee Report, Dealing With Huston Ac- tivities, Involved.’ MIDDLE OF WEEK MAY FINISH PROBE Raskob May Be Called to Tell of Reported Warfare on Prohibition. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Muscle Shoals bill is the next major legislative problem which the Senate will tackle. It's likely to lead to a vivid political discussion. Involved in the debate of this meas- ure will be a report of the Senate lobby committee on Muscle ;Shoals, which promises to deal extensively with the activities of Claudius H. Huston, chair- man of the Republican national com- mittee, when he was president of. the ‘Tennessee River Improvement Associa- tion. ‘The lobby committee expects to wind up its inquiry into the Muscle Shoals lobby by the middle of the week and to submit its report thereon immedi- ately to the Senate. It resumes its hearings Tuesday with W. B. Bell, president of the American Cynamid Co., & bidder for Muscle Shoals as the last witness. ‘While the Democratic and Republi- can progressive members of the lobby committee were preparing to submit a report criticising Mr. Houston, the national chairman of the G. O. P, it developed that Senator Robinson of Indiana, lar blican member of the committee, had in mind causing the Democrats as much grief as possible by calling John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic national committee, to appear before the committee and tell what he had done’ . way, arowu out of & Vet Republican: 1 wet Repul activitfes of For the United States Senate the | A a dry, referring to into the wet and dry activities here in Wi Just committee, Josephus Daniels, former mu:‘x;zy at the ;{-vy in the adm ration an blisher of the Raleigh News and omrm was pub- lishing an article in his newspaper de- manding that Mr. Raskob pay the debts lo;;‘he De:!ocrltw incurred in the campaign and resign. Mr. Daniels insisted that Mr. Raskob had been more interested in destroying prohibi- tion than in the Democratic party. He money to Eighteenth Amendment and vances to the Democratic party.” Chairman Caraway of the lobby committee said last any member of the co: right to have witnesses summoned fore the committee if they thought the witnesses could throw light on the sub- ject under investigation. This was in- terpreted as meaning that Mr. Raskob (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) FRENCH DEPUTIES 0. K. YOUNG PLAN Aprroval, 530 to 55, Indicates Easy Victory in Senate for Tardieu Ministry. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 29.—After three days of discussion the French Chamber of Deputies tonight approved the Young plan elaborated by the experts of the United States and the great European powers in Paris last Spring and finally approved by The Hn{:e conference. The deputies approved the plan by the overwhelming vote of 530 to 55. This practically means the acceptance of the plan, already approved by the German Reichstag, by France. Little opposition is expected in the Senate. An agreement with Germany - ing the occupation of the Rhineland | also was voted. The final outcome of the voting on both measures was never in doubt during the debate, which was directed for the government by Premier Andre Tardieu. Several hundred royalists of the fac- tion Francaise made a hostile’ mani- festation in front of the Chamber of Deputies in the evening, shouting t the Young plan. They were quickly dispersed nounced the prisoner dead. Inspector Stoll is investigating the case. Kimono_spelled defeat for - sentative mb(er! !i\l.ee %l l'x(“n&uhuntu and victory for Ray T. er, News correspondent, in an old-fashion: catch-as-catch-can showdown spelling bee participated in by a score of Sena- tors, Representatives and newspaper mer‘;t at the National Press Club last | night. I Hooking an “a” instead of an “o” on | the end of the tricky garment, the Massachusetts Representative, known as the “scholar of Capitol Hill,” was rung down by the official Teserves. ;l'hlrty were -mwd?’bum later re- e/ NEWSWRITER WINS BY A KIMONO { OVER LUCE IN CLOSE SPELLING BEE Representative Says “a” Instead of “‘o” to Lose—Contest Is Broadcast by Two Chains. } represen! ed who set-to_was Mm&m;y l’fl” antonnl and Columbia A number of the meml of Con- and many of the writers stumbled (Continued on Page 32, Column 7.)

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