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198 POPULATION SEEN AS 150000 District Natives, at Banquet, Hear Impressive Tribute Paid T. W. Noyes. Prediction by Chairman Elliott of the House committee on public buildings and grounds that in 50 years the Na- tional Capital would have a population of 1,500,000 and an impressive tribute to ‘Theodore W. Noyes as “foremost native ‘Washingtonian” ‘marked the tenth an- niversary banquet last night at the Raleigh Hotel of the Society of Natives of the District of Célumbia. Representative Elliott, Republican, of Indiana traced the development of legislation to authorize the stupeaglous public building program now under way, both in this city and throughout the Nation, for which Congress has author- ized, he explained, the gigantic total of $590,890,000, to be expended at the rate of $50,000,000 annually. Mr. Noyes, editor of The Evening Star and president of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants, responded to the tributes of the evening, which were led by Fred A. Emery, president of the so- clety and toastmaster. Mr. Noyes painted a colorful word picture of the magnificent new “City Beautiful” here, but in describing its voteless plight de- clared that “until now no one has ever heard of a nation which wears its po- litical heart outside of its political Praised by Civic Leaders. A distinguished array of civic leaders joined in the testimonial to Mr. Noyes and praised the development of the city in what was described as a “new era. Among those introduced to the society and those who spoke were: Maj. Gen. Herbert H. Crosby, new District Com- missioner; Col. Willlam B. Ladue, En- gineer Commissioner of the District; George C. Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens' Associations; George Plitt, president of the Board of Trade; Mark Lansburgh, president of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ As- sociation; Leo Rover, United States dis- trict attorney; Jesse C. Suter, John Claggett Proctor and Lee D. Latimer, former presidents of the society, and others. Emery Introduces Elliott. Representative Elliott was introduced by Toastmaster Emery as “the author and sponsor” of the great public build- ing program for the Capital, “a man with courage and vision afar, whose record of constructive achievement in Congress has never been surpassed in results in all the apnals of Cohgress.” It was Representative Elliott’s fifty- seventh birthday, upon which he was felicitated. Mr. Elliott characterized Mr. Noyes as “that splendid native son of the Dis- trict who has devoted and dedicated his life to upbi of this National Capital, that we all love, regardless of what part of the country we come from. It must be an inspiration to him,” said the speaker, “to notice the wonderful progress that has been made in this Capital in the last few years.” Representative Elliott declared that on the occasion of his first visit to the Capital in 1906, when he walked down Pennsylvania avenue, “I was grievously disappointed in what I thought ought to be the greatest street in the greatest | Capital in the world,” Press Support Hailed. Relating ' the ‘history of the legisia- tion authorizing the new building pro- gram, Mr. Elliott praised Secretary Mellon, former Presidert Coolidge, Presi- dent Hoover and the press. Especially in the early days of the original El- liott bill, he said, “had it not been' for the masterly support of the public we would not have this pre passage of that act, approved May 25, 1926, the speaker Ccharacterized as “marking a most important epoch in the remaking of the National Capital.” it act has been amended, he explained, gress now has “authorized for buildings in the District of Columbia the sum of $227,890,000 and throughout the coun- try $363,000,000, making a total of $590,890,000, which will be expended at the rate of $50,000,000 annually.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930. milsioner. Standing: George Plitt, president Board of Trad C. Havenner, president Federation of Citizens’ Associations. tem now used by the street railways of Washington. He investigated abroad and at home the whole question of ailroad terminals, and had an active part in the plans that led to the great Union Station we have today. Aided in Beautifying City. “He has a record of almost a lifetime in the development and protection of ‘Washington’s parks. He has co-oper- ated actively in support of govern- mental efforts to make Washington the world's most beautiful city. He brought about the Washington Public Library, of which he is still the presiding trustee. He has fought at the front lines for national representation for Washington, and has participated in the leadership of every great movement of his time with respect to Washington affairs.” In response, Mr. Noyes expressed ap- preciation for the tribute, and linked the Society of Natives and the Associa- tion of Oldest Inhabitants as both be- ing rooted in “Washingtonism.” Both, he declared, “are interested primarily in the men and women, the home peo- ple of the community rather than in the material city of stone and brick, of wood and steel.” Representative Elliott was character- ired by Mr. Noyes as “a_censpicuous figure among the Capital-building en- thusiasts of the Nation, who are labor- ing so vi&(:rously and successfully to make of: National Capital the city beautiful, and who has just vividly pic- tured for us the fine progress already made in this inspiring task under his able and effective leadership.” Referring to the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Soclety of Na- tives, Mr. Noyes said the membership now numbered 750, and he held up the bilities in a large eligible list which, e .said, showed 113,486 native-born o just-finished 1930 census.promising more. Referring to the celebration 10 days ago of the birthday of the District of Columbia, whose corner stone was laid April 15, 1791, 139 years ago, Mr. Noyes sald it was the founding of “our home terrlzflry, the national seat of govern- ment.” Now Outside of District. “We celebrate,” he said, “the laying of the District’s corner stone in 1791 at Jones Point, near Alexandria, and we are confronted at the outset with the disturbing fact that the District’s cor- ner stone inscribed ‘the beginning -of the Territory of Columbia’ is now out- side of the District. Nine years after the retrocession of the Virginia section of the District this corner stone was in- corporated in the retaining wall of the Jones Point diminutive light house. Our corner stone was thus buried, and later In describing the development of the Mall Triangle, Mr. Elliott said the Department of Commerce, now well under way, would be “the lrrgest office building in the world,” at an estimated cost, exclusive of the land it occuples, $17,500,000, a sum greater than m:,u Jefferson paid for the Louisiana ry. ““The .‘rlington Memorial Bridge he ured as a “memorial to & reunited ation,” and predicted when completed t would be the “most beautiful bridge in the world.” Declared Constructive. “This is not a wild orgy of money spending on behalf of Congress” de- clared Mr. Elliott, “but is an honest and con.t-uctive attempt to supply the Federal Government in the National Capital and all of the cities of the Nation with much-needed buildings in which to house the Federal activities. Under the many safeguards that are thrown about this authorization by the terms of the public building act, the money will all be well spent and no building c:n be constructed until it has the approval of the Treasury and Post Office Departments, the director of the budget, the President of the United States and appropriation by Congress o the funds for each individual build- ing.” When completed, the triangle group, Mr. Elliott predicted, would be “perhaps the most wonderful group of governmental buildings in the world.” “I am not a prophet, nor the son of # prophet,” he said, “yet at times I look ln& the future and visualize the National Capital as it will be 50 years hence as ‘a city having 1,500,000 in- habitants, noted throughout the world for its magnificent public buildings, bridges and monuments, and its beau- tiful pa avenues and streets; a great center of culture and learning; the home of the great art treasures of the world; and the mecca of the tourists who will come here in great throngs from everywhere to see the beautiful Capital of the greatest Nation in the world.” Most of the great program here, he predicted, would be completed within 10 years, Mr. 7, in characterizing Mr. Noyes as thé “foremost native Wash- ingtonian,” introduced him as presi- dent of ‘the Association of Oldest In- habitants and a charter member of the Society of Natives. ) Faithful to City’s Interesfs. “It is given to few men,” said Mr. Emery, “to wield ‘the influence of his conscientious fealty to: the ideals of sound government so long, so strongly, 50 consistently and with such stability being resurrected it was startled to find itself in Virginia instead of the District of Columbia. “As the District's corner stone is out- side of the District, so also the corner stone principle upon which the great representative republic is built is out- side of the District. The unrepresented District is politically outside of the Union of States. The National Capital, the soul of the Nation, is politically out- side of the Nation. We have heard of the man who wears his heart on his sleeve. But until now no one has ever heard of a Nation which wears its politi- cal heart outside of its political body. “Since the Washingtonian is & na- tional American, and, owing no divided can only—national jn & peculiar and unique sense—he is surely entitjed, bear- ing all the national burdens, to the vital rights &nd powers which on American tional can. “Upon the pastures and marshes and scrub oak woodland of the permanent seat of Government of 1791 has arisen the new and Yuur ‘Was) city beautiful, in many municipal con- ditions already approaching the ideal. Prophecy Near Fulfiliment. “Upon the foundation of the weak, disorganized and discordant series of communities which made up thé nom- inal Union of 1791 has arisen the real Union of today, homogeneous, pros- perous and powerful, beneficently domi- nating a hemisphere and influencing for good the world. “Surely the prophecy of the orator at the District's corner stone laying is about to be realized both as to Nation and Capital, and from the District’s corner stone a superstructure is arising as predicted, ‘whose glory, whose mag- nificence, whose stability unequaled hitherto shall astonish the world.’ “We are sometimes told that the forefathers contemplated no eat, American city here, but only a national Government workshop for the quiet and safe performance of the executive, legis- lative and judicial functions, with only a small population of transients minis- tering to the needs of the National Government, whose rights as Americans would always be negligible. The great man who founded the Capital and whose name it bears saw in prolgl;euc vision no contemptible city peop! by political aliens. He mn!emyluted a city as much larger than Philadelphia in area as the United States was then larger than = Pennsylvania; a great American city, to be exceeded in popu- lation a century thence perhaps only by London. “We sometimes patronizingly or slur- and constructive results as the Wash- ingtonian to whom we pay special hom- age tonight. With an unbroken record of unwavering ‘fidelity to the best in- terests of Washington, unswayed by stormy winds that blow wherever lead- ership goes, undaunted by stupendous® ness of project or intensity of opposition, he has kept the faith ‘throughout as Washington has emerged from its near village days to a great metropolis in this Greater Washington era. “He is the editor son of a great editof father. He s & lawyer as well as & journalist, and holds the degrees of master of arts and doctor of literature. In journalism he began from the ind up, from reporter to editor-in-chief. He was largely instrumental in eliminating the gr-de crossings in Washington an in the removal of the railroad tracks from the Mall. He was in the fore- front of the movement to bring about elimination of overhead trolle; and minimize overh=ad wires in the District of Columbia. His studies abroad led . lim to advocate the underground sys- 2k ringly comment on the narrowness of the forefathers and the broad-minded- ness and far-sightedness of us moderns, ‘Try as we may we cannot in respeet to the Capital rise to the height of George Washington's hopes, prophesies and anticipations. 7 % “What I said on this point 39 years ago on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the laying of the Dis. trict’s corner stone is pertinent toda: “‘One hundred - years ago & great mind conceived the idea of a statue of rfect symmetry and beauty. This idea was impressed upon the sno whiteness of the heart of a huge blocl of marble and the statue’s outlines lay hid beneath the stone’s rough and dis- colored surface. For a century at Ion‘ intervals men have worked with drill allegiance to a State, a national Ameri- | 5Peak. 2 Engineer Commissioner Ladue sald | ™qpg:this iy a movement of self | gulges. principles belong inalienably to the na- | 8% Ameri Copyright by the Associated Press, 1030 NAVSARI, India, April 26.—India’s Nationalist leader, Mohandas Kara- chand Gandhi, yesumi gave to the Associated Press from his temporary headquarters, where he is leading the civil disobedience campaign against the Indian’ government, a definitive state- ment embodying the plesent aims and grievances of Nationalist India. The statement follows: The National demand is not for the immediate establishment of independ- ence, but as a preliminary step to a con- ference that must take !Ehce if inde- pendence is to be established peacefully and to remove certain prime grievances, chiefly economic and moral. These are set forth in the clearest possible terms in my letter, miscalled an ultimatum, to the viceroy. ‘Those grievances include the salt tax, which in its incidence falls with equal pressure upon the rich as well as poor, and is over 1,000 per cent of the cost price, having been made a monopoly. It has deprived tens of thousands of people of their supplementary occu- pations, and the artificially heavy cost of salt has made it very difficult, if not impossible, for poor people to give enough salt to their cattle and to their land. This unnatural monopoly is sus- tained by laws which are only so called, but which are a denial of law. They give arbitrary powers to police known to be corrupt to lay their hands without warrant on innocent people, to confis- cate their wa"y and otherwise mo- lest them & hundred ways. Caught Public Imagination. Civil resistance against the salt laws has caught the popular imagination as nothing else has within my expeflelfi:. Hundreds of thousands of le, . cluding women and children many villages, have participated in the open manufacture and sale of contraband salt. This resistance has been answered by barbarous and unmanly repression. Instead of arresting people, the authori- earth of fts surroundings, as the goddess of beauty rose in days of old from the rough gray surface of the ocean. The century-old ideal of Washington is fast becoming regl, tangible, visible. It is for us of the Republic's second century to give the ing touches to the work designed 100 years ago. Let no blundering chisel mar the delicate out- lines of the developing statue, whose beauty, half concealed, half disclosed, promises to America and the world a m!‘e‘gt embodiment of the ideal Cap- Short Talks Are Heard. During & symposium of three-minute talks which followed Mr. Noyes' address, the new District Commissioner, Gen. cros:y, was first introduced, but did not the description by Mr, Noyes of up- building the Capital “has touched ,us all’ “We are making eat progress,” sald the Commissioner, “and the noble, worth-while and inspir- ing cause of upbuilding this city de- pends on the co-operation of all the people of the District.” Pr. George C. Havenner welcomed the two delegates from the soclety to the citizens' federation, and described Miss Etta L. Taggart, one of these delegates, now a member of the Citizens' Advisory Council, as “one of the smobth- est little politicians it has ever been my ’ood fortune to meet.” Dr. Havenner jcoked forward to the time when Mr. Noyes as & new delegate from the Asso- ciation of Oldest Inhabitants would at- tend the federation as “he will guide us ‘wisely.” e Plitt, president of the Board of Trade, said he had been associated with Mr. Noyes for a quarter of a cen- tury, and in_his opinion there was no man in the District who deserved more credit for the progress of the city. Mr. Plitt appealed to the Soclety of Natives to help the Board of Trade obtain na- tional representation for the District. Mr. Proctor declared My. Noyes as presiding officer of the Oldest Inhabit- ants org: tion was rarely heard to use the pronoun “I” and that he had enreader himself to us. We believe,” said Mr. Proctor, “that he is true and sincere in everything he does.” Mr. Lansburgh, president of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Association, expressed his pleasure at being able to gly tribute to Mr. Noyes, and spoke riefly on the “foremost Washingtoni- an's” services to the city. ‘Historical Tour Announced. James F. Duhamel, historian of the soclety, . announced another historical tour of parts of the city would start next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Court House. Jesse C. Suter related the history of the Socity of Natives from its or- ganization 10 years ago. The first meeting, which led to a call for organi- zation, was attended, he ‘said, by Mrs. Anne E, Hendley, Mrs. Johan C. Kon- drup and himself. The first recorded action of .the first meeting after or- ' ganization, Mr. Suter said, was adoption of a resolution asking for representation and the electoral college. A program of entertainment included an act from the Palace Theater b Serge Flash, plano duet, Mrs. Ella Robinson and Raymond mr? readings a Mrs. Alice W. Newhard, solos by arles Moore and singing by the as- sembly. Mr. Emery was chairman of the dinner committee, Miss May Hun- and blast, with pick and chisel, to reach the heart of the rocky mass and to ex- to sunlight and the eyes of man he perfect statue. Stroke by stroke the statue is uncovered. Inch by inch it rises in loveliness from all that is coarse and rude and ugly in the stone and chaj flower committee .and printing, and Mrs. Ella C. Robinson, chairman of the entertainment eommittee. Miss C. Emery was in personal charge of the dinner arrangements, un- der direction of the general chairman of the dinner cemmittee. o Sitting (left to right): Mark Lansburgh, president Merc hants and Manufacturers’ Association; Representative Eiliott of Indiana, chairman of the House committee on public buildings and grounds, and Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, District Com- Fred Emery, president Soclety of N.“':,!“. Dr. George tar Staff Photo. _ Gandhi’s Views on India Leader of Civil Disobedience Campaign Says Purpose of Movement Is to Force Conference, Lending to Independence. ties have violated the persons of people who have refused to part with salt held generally in thelr fists. To open their fists, their knuckles have been broken, their necks have been pressed, they have been even incendently assaulted until they have been rendered senseless. Some of these assaults have taken place in the presence of hundreds and thousands of people who, although well able to pro- tect the victims and retaliate, being un- der a pledge of non-violence, have done so. It is true that violence has broken out in Calcutta, Karachi, Chittagong and now Peshawar. The Calcutta and Karachl events should be isolated from Chittagong and Peshawar. The Cal- cutta and Karachi incidents were an impulsive outburst on the arrest of popular leaders. The Chittagong and Peshawar incidents, though also caused for some reason, seemed to haye been serious and well planned affairs, though wholly unconnected with each other, Chittagong being in the extreme east and Peshawar being on the northwest border of India. These disturbances have so far not affected other parts of India where civil disobedience has been going on in organized fashion and on a mass scale since the 6th inst. The people in other parts have remained non-violent in spite of great provocation. At the same time I admit that there is need for caution, but I can say without the least hesitation that consistently with the plan of civil disobedience every precaution conceivable is being taken to prevent civil disobedience from being used as an occasion for doing violence. Volunteers for Peace. It should .be noted that in Karachi seven wounded persons, of whom two have died of their wounds, were vol- unteers engaged ‘in keeping peace and restraining mob furies. It is the opin- jon of eyewitnesses that the firing in Karachi was wholly unjustified and that there was no firing in the air or at legs in the first instance. In fact the government have lost no opportunity of incensing the people. Many of the best, the purest and the most self-sac- rificing leaders have been-arrested and imprisoned, in many instances with mock trials. Sentences, _though for the same offense, have vafled with the idiosyncrasies of the magistrate. In several instances they have been for more than 12 months with hard labor on_well known citizens. ‘The enthulasm of the people has up to now increased with every convic- tion. Thousands of people regard the manufacture of contraband salt as part of their daily routine. In any other part of the world, with a government at all responsible to public opinion, the salt tax would have been repealed long since, but whether now or later, re- pealed it will be if the present existing atmosphere of resistance abides as it romises to do. purification is abundantly proved by the fact that women have come into it in l;!l;ieeun of liquor shops. Thousands have en vows to_abstain from in- toxicating liquor. In Armadabad, a strong labor center, the receipts of the canteens have dropped to 19 per cent and are still dropping. Boycott Is Spreading. A similar manifestation is taken up in the question of the boycott of foreign cloth. It is spreading all over India. People are making bonfires of the {oreign cloth in their possession. Khadi, namely Landspun cloth, is so much in demand that the existing stock is well- nigh exhausted. Each spinning wheel is much in demand and people are be- ginning to realize more and more the necessity of reviving hand spinning in §h:1eotu.u of the 700,000 villages of ndia. In my humble opinion a struggle so free from violence has a message far beyond the borders of India. I have no manner of doubt that after all tne sacrifice that has already boen msde since April 6, the spirit of the people will be sustained throughout until India has become independent and fiee to make her contribution t5 the progress of humanity. INDIAN MOB TAUNTS BRITISH TROOPS IN | CENSUS DERELICTS |ORATORS PREPARE ‘FACING PENALTIES Form Letter Sent but by Su- pervisor Requires Answers Within Two Days. Have You Been Enumerated? [ Name ....cocecnnnnncinnninnn, Mail to J. Sterling Moran, Room 630, Census Bldg. Responding to requests from J. Ster- ling Moram, census supervisor of the District, Leo A. Rover, United States attorney, today took steps to bring legal ressure to bear on Washington fami- ies that have not, for one reason or another, answered the census queries. In a form letter sent out to certain heads of families and hotel and apart- ment house owners, the United States attorney’s office served final notice that unless census schedules are returned within two days from receipt of the letter it would “feel obliged to proceed with the enforcement of the penalties provided in the census act.” Offenders Well-to-Do. Director Willlam M. Steuart e plained that the chief trouble in com- pleting the census task, now more than three-fourths accomplished, lfes not with the illiterate who refuse to answer questions, but with the well-to-do hotel and apartment house dwellers who are never at home and who neglect to fill out the forms left for them. “Sometimes an enumerator makes as many as 20 trips to one apartment,” Director Steuart said. “The family are all working in the daytime and all at the movies at night.” He added that changes in this mode of life in 1930 over 1920 has greatly complicated the census-taker's task. $100 Fine or 60 Days. ‘The letters prepared by Mr. Rover point out that the census act provides a penalty of $100 fine or 60 days in jail or both, at the discretion of the court, for any person who shall refuse or wilfully neglect to answer the census queries. Except in few instances, the census is progressing satisfactorily in the Dis- trict, Mr. Moran said. Director Stevart said the general work is far in advance not [ of the 1920 census. Each of the 575 supervisors in the country has been asked to report the districts completed and those incom- plete, and on the basis of replies the first Nation-wide report on the 1930 census will be compjled. Mr. Moran requested any person who has been missed by the enumerators to fill in the blank and mail to his office. CABINS FOR THREE OF CABINET TO BE BUILT ON RAPIDAN (Continued From FPirst Page.) pose will not be nearly as extensive as the Hoover holdings. The President bought 150 or 160 acres of the Virginia countryside along the Rapidan, and took a lease for another 1,000 acres in | the immediate neighborhood. More Time at Camp. The decision of the cabinet men to stake out places for themselves near the President came about as the result of Mr. Hoover's desire to spend more and more time on the Rapidan. He has not been able to carry out his wishes thus far principally because it was not al- ways convenient ‘to lose contact fre- quently with the departmental heads at Washington. Many of them and their respective wives have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover at recurring inter- vals. But the accommodations of the presidential camp are limited, and not many of his associates can foregather here at the same time. When the cabinet cabins are habitable it will be possible for their owners, or colleagues of the owners, to be on the Rapidan more or less regularly and in numbers. Sonre day cabinet meetings will be held there instead of at the White House. That is an innovation which the President has definitely in mind. It would enable him, he thinks, often to prolong his sojourns in Vir- ginia beyond the hurried week end trips he has been making during the past year, without any danger of interference with executive business. Mr. Hoover considers his Rapidan camp about the noblest experiment he has yet undertaken in the realm of recreation. The fishing, the hiking and the seclusion he enjoys there are virtually the only play in which he in- friends say he does his “best thinking” at the Virginia White House. They find the President more numbers and are organizing the | inciined there to “let himself go,” in conversation and discussion, than when he 1s within the walls of the White House. He relaxes on the Rapidan. mentally and physically, because of the complete lack of restraint its isolation permits. Comments on Hospitality. ‘The President loses no opportunity to speak of the fine hospitality the offi- cials and people of the Old Dominion extend him. The State and county au- thorities have co-operated enthusiasti- cally, since it became the week end White House, in road building and in every other direction conducive to Mr. and Mrs. Hoover’s comfort, The camp, while easily accessible by road, is far enough from the beaten motor track to preserve the President and his guests from undue intrusion by curious tourists. Altogether he feels that the Rapidan investment, which was made entirely from his own purse, has been a huge success. When he has as nextdoor neighbors on the river bank the men who are helping him to man the shij of state President Hoover feels that hi little patch of Dixie will be about as near an earthly Endlu as can be found—possibly outside of California. (Copyright, 1930.) WINS ORATORY HONORS FRONTIER PROVINCE Michigan School Student First in (Continued From First Page.) rested today on a charge of breach of the salt law. From Oo; from the burned a meat vend shop and resi- A general exodus of the | was “Our Racial mine coolies to thelr native villages started, CASUALTY FIGURES DISAGREE. Nationalists Claim 65 Slain; Govern- ment Puts Number Over 50. LAHORE, India, April 26 (#).—Two members of the All-India National Con- gress committee of Peshawar said that easualties in Wednesday's rioting totaled 65, with 150 persons wounded. An official government statement put the total casualties at a little over 50, and said that military forces had the situation under control. 19 Hurt in Political Fight. HALLE, Germany, April 26 (#).—A Pacist meeting near here last night ended in a clash between Facists and Communists. Nineteen Facists were h&{efl. four being taken to the hos. i Association’s Contest Finals. CHICAGO, April 26 (#)—Frederick Fuller of Michigan State Normal Col- lege, Ypsilanti, Mich., won first place um it was reported strikers ! in the Interstate Oratorical Associa- laghat gold mine today!tion’s contest finals, held at Northwest- ern University last night. His topic Myopia.” There were six finalists, chosen by elimination contests from the colleges of 15 Midwestern States. Second place went _to William Young of Park Col- lege, Parksville, Mo., and third to Frank Corbett of Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind. Their topics were “Soclety and the Pay Roll” and “A Weighted Scele.”, ——e POET’S BODY CREMATED Secrecy Attends Last Rites for Robert Bridges in London. LONDON, April 26 (#).—The body of Robert B: s, poet laureate of lnfhna, was cremated yesterday at Golder’s Green with such secrecy that even the closest friends of the family were unaware of it. among the Tew Who Were Drecent, There ong ew W) esent. were no flowers, dlfixx Monday, 4 FOR ZONE FINALS Star Area Contest Will Be Held May 8—National Meeting May 24. ‘The Star area finals of the National Oratorical Contest to be held here May 8 will be followed by final competitions in. five otfler zones within little more than a week, it was announced toda; contest head in' The Building. ‘Three of the finalists in the contest for this zone remain to be chosen. They will represent the private and parochiai, the Maryland and the Virginia,districts, in which eliminations will be held early next week. Others competing in the local finals will be representatives of each -of the- eight Washington high schools. Winners in the finals for the seven zones into which the United States is; divided will compose the contestants in the national contest to be held here May 24 and will be rewarded with a two-and-a-half-month tour of rope this Summer, which will include a visit to Oberammergau while the “Passion Play” is being staged. 3 witness competitions to determine representatives of the New England and Pacific Coast zones,.the former to be held at Utlca, N. Y., and the latter at Seattle, Wash. New England Contest. The New England contest covers all of New England, plus New York State outside of New York City. Seven ora- tors will speak. Judges include Dr. Al- bert Bushnell Hart, prominent his- torian, author, editor and professor of g}vernment at Harvard University: nited States Judge Hugh M. Morris of Delaware and Dr. Edward Prank Hum- phrey, professor of history and political Ec(ienc" at Trinity College, Hartford, nn. The following board of judges will select the champion of the 'eP'clflc Coast zone: Chief Justice Oliver P. Coshow of the Supreme Court of Ore- gon, Associate Justice Willlam H. Fol- land of the Supreme Court of Utah, Judge James Franklin Aflshie, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho, and Dr. Alfred Atkinson, presi- dent of the Montana State College. The zone includes, besides the actus rtions of the Rocl uthwestern areas. As In Plane Crash EIGHT BYRD MEN REACH NEW YORK Antarctic Explorers Casual on Experience—Dog’s Sui- cide Affirmed by Walden. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, April 26.—Six more men of the Byrd Expedition arrived here yesterday from the Antarctic Con- tinent on the whaler C. A. Larsen, together with two others who helped maintain the sea connection between Little America and New Zealand. The 8 brought the sleds and the 75 dogs that hauled the food and supplies of the explorers during their 14 months on_the ice. They reported that seven of the nine penguins which various public zoos had asked the Byrd Expedition by radio to bring back had died shortly after leav- ing the Ice Barrier, and that the re- maining two were dropped overboard while they were still in good condition at Stewart Island, but with very ’ittle hope that they could swim sack tu a climate where they would survive. It was not until they came ashore yesterday at Staten Island that the Antarctic expedition really came to an end for the returning group. The six who had previously spent 14 months in isolation together, including a long polar night of inactivity, had spent 40 days more_together on the whaler. Their MRS. FAHY. in the New England finals, seven orators will compete. The three other contests, on May 16, are for the Central, New York-New Jersey and Southeastern-Central zones. In_addition to the trip to Washing- ton for the national contest, the win- ner of the Central zone finals, to be held at Chicago, will receive a cash award of $500 donated by the Chicago Daily News, sponsor of the contest in that region, ‘The New York-New Jersey finals will be held at the Town Hall, New York City, under auspices of the New York Times, and is representative of the region comprsing Greater New York, ‘Westchester, Long Island, and North- ern New Jersey. John W. Davis to Preside. John W. Davis, former Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and former Democratic candidate for President, will preside and the following college presi- dents will serve as judges: Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, dean ot Byrn Mawr College; Dr. Clar- Dr. George B. Cutten of Colgate Univer- | sity, Dr. Frederick C. Perry of Hamilton ) College and Dr. James L. McConaughey of Wesleyan University, Middleton, The Southeastern-Central finals will be held in Carnegle Hall, Pittsburgh, Pa., with seven young orators compet- ing. 2 The board of judges which will select the champion for the region is composed of Dr. Frank B. Trotter of Morgantown, w. president of the University of West, inia; Dr. Charles Henry Am- bler, professor of history .at the Uni- versity of West Virginia, and Judge gn‘l}( 'W. Nesbitt, attorney, of Wheeling, . Va. NEW BAKER MURDER CLUES RAISE HOPES cting _president and} FARY BADLY HURT N ARPLANE CRAS Wife Escapes Injury—Opera- tion May Be Performed to Save Flyer’s Life. By the Associated Pre: GRAYLING, Mich,, April 26.—Her- bert J. Fahy, holder of the solo endur- ance flight record, was critically in- jured late yesterday when the airplane he was piloting turned over on the estate of Cliff Durant near Roscommon, ence A, Barbour of Brown University, | Mich- His wife, a prominent West Coast aviatrix, was riding in the cabin, sep- arated by a compartment from her husband, and escaped injury. Fahy suffered a fractured skull and other injuries and an operation may ‘be per- formed in an effort to save his life. Fahy, who established a record of 36 hours and 52 minutes solo flying near Los Angeles last May, is a salesman for the Detroit Aircraft Corporation. He left Detroit with his wife two days ago to attempt to sell Durant a plane. FARY IS NATIVE WASHINGTONIAN. Injured Fiyer's Mother Resides Here. Son Was D. C. Pupil. Herbert Fahy, who was injured eriti- cally when his plane crashed yesterday afternoon in Micl n, is a native of the Natfonal Capital. He established the commercial aviation service OF ENDING MYSTERY (Continued From Pirst Page.) of several of the suspects who were re- leased after questioning. Lean Toward Thief Theory. ‘While virtually all of the investigators were at first inclined to believe that Miss Baker was murderer by a close acquaintance, some of them are now leaning strongly toward the theory that she was killed by a thief. It is their opinion that the woman surprised the thief while he was in the act of ransack- ing her car at Seventeenth and B streets in the afternoon of April 11: that he choked her into unconsclousness and carrie her into Arlington County, where criminally assaulted and shot her, disposing of the body in the culvert along Military road. Working on this theory, the bullets removed from the leg of a man shot recently by an automobile thief who was caught attempting to steal his car will be compared with the two bullets removed -from the body of Miss Baker. Detectives claim . that an analysis by experts at the Bureau of Standards will determine whether the bullets were fired from the same gun. ‘The investigators, who still cling to the theory that Miss Baker was killed by a person known to her, point out that if a thief had committed the crime he would not have overlooked the coin purse in the woman's pocketbook, which really was the only thing of ma- terial value left in the car when it was abandoned. One of the two colored men in the Arlington County jall con- fessed to removing the coin purse. ‘The motive for the crime, according to these officials, was to seal Miss Baker's lips forever from involving him in a scandal. TRAINER’S LIFE SAVED BY HUGE CIRCUS LION Monarch Hurls Bulk Against Tiger When Man Is Attacked and Gnawed at Rehearsal. By the Associated Press. KOKOMO, Ind., April 26.—Prince, giant lion and veteran circus trouper, saved the life of his trainer, who was attacked by a tiger here yesterday. Clyde Beatty, 25, of Chillicothe, Ohio, said to be the youngest animal trainer in the prof n, was conducting a dress rehearsal, R:w“m' for the open- ing show of ti season here today, when Trudy, a new tiger, knocked him down, ripped open his side and bit his arm. ‘The giant Prince, 1 of 32 lions and uflen in the cage with Beatty, hurled his huge bulk against the tiger, ing Trudy across the arena, where he beat and chewed the cat's side. cage before collapsing. Other trainers intervened to save Trudy's life and Beatty was taken to a local hospital. Orange Scent Features Wedding. NEW YORK, April 26 (#).—Scen! oran| blossoms and orange-scented candles are regarded as an artistic achievement by those who attended the in the Church of the Heavenly Rest of Miss Carolyn Storrs and Daniel Edgar Stanton Sicl Union general. ited | combated from the air ay 1, Quebec liquor commission announced | Ma here. Fahy's mother, Mrs. Bertha A. Fahy, 4601 Ninth street, ulerhoned last night to the Michigan hospital to which her son and his wife, Mrs. Claire Adams Fahy, also well known as a pilot, were taken after the crash. was a student at the Grant School and other Washington public schools. His interest in aviation dates back to a visit he made with his par- ents to Fort Myer, Va., during the early demonstration flights of the Wright brothers. ‘When the War Department purchased its first military plane from the Wright brothers and established the first Army flying field at College Park, Md., young Fahy obtained employment in a nearby machine shop owned by an uncle. When the World War began, he en- listed in the Army Aviation section of the Signal Corps and flew at practically every Army fleld in this country. After the war he cleared the site of the present Hoover Field at the south end of Highway Bridge and be: fan the first “passenger hopping” serv- e in this part of the country. Fahy first came into national promi- nence when he circled over the Lincoln emorial while President Harding was dedicating the structure on Memorial day, 1923. Fahy's commission in the Army Reserve was canceled as a result of this flight. International fame came to Fahy when on May 30, 1929, he established a new world solo endurance record of 36 hours 56 minutes and 36 seconds over Los Angeles. 's wife, the former Mrs. Claire M. Adams, was a congressional secre- tary when he met her as an aviation student at Washington Airport. Fahy and his wife were visitors in the National Capital this week, making the flight here from Detroit, Mich., last Sunday in three hours so that y might attend the. wedd of his sister, Miss Margaret Fahy, last Sunda: ning. Fahy also has a brother, L. hy, living in this city. NEWSPRINT INQUIRY . NEARING COMPLETION nooga. Report Expected to Be Made to Congress Before Adjournment by Trade Commission. By the Associated Press. ‘The year-old Federal Trade Commis- sion investigation of the newsprint paper situation is so nearly complete demobilization yesterday seemed to leave them, like men retumlnf from a war, | with little to say immediately. The only personal comment on the Antarctic was made by Arthur T, Wal- den, chief dog driver. ‘There was nothing but snow and ice,” he said. “No mountains like Alaska—never again for me.” To clear up the matter for his wife, Walden told again about the end of Chinook, the leader of the pack of Eski- mo huskies which he had organized for the Bryd expedition, half out of his own kennel breed at Wonalancet, N. H., and half out of Labrador dogs. Mrs. ‘Walden said she had always refused to believed the story sent by radio by Rus- sell Owen that Chinook had walked off deliberately to die, and that she believed he merely fell into an ice hole, the way the members of the party were always doing. Tells of Chinook’s Death. “Chinook,” Walden sald, “was downed by three of the other dogs the day before, and that means in a pack of husky dogs that he has lost his leadership. He was never off his feet in a dog fight before. As I told Russell, he figured it all out. He was all through. And he came to bid me good- by, but I didn’t realize what he doing until later. Then he walked off alone to find a place to die with his boots on. The moment he went the other dogs began a fight for the leader- ship. Ballarat won, but he was so bad- 1y hurt we had to shoot him. Alpin is the leader now, but I think Chinook’s son, Kunokwin, will take it‘away from him. I dream of that dog yet. I can't get him out of my mind.” ‘Half of the dogs will go back to Wano- lancet with Walden, who, at the age of 59, will undertake the breeding of more . The others will be kenneled temporarily by Norman D. Vaughan, one of the young dog drivers just. out of Harvard, who will take them to his home at Hamilton, Mass. The other dog driver who returned yesterday lassmate, Edward Goodale of wu' his cl Boston. Goodale was welcomed quietly by his father, Dr. Joseph M. Goodale, a phy- sician. i His classmate and fellow dog driver, Vaughn, was met by his mother. who clung to him in a long, tearful embrace. George H. Black, a seaman and auto mechanic, who had gevimml! with Byrd's Narth le _expedition, greeted his wife with a,call o “Hello, Kate,” and a resound . 'Then they retired behind the tugboat smoke- stack to talk. A similar conference - occurred - he- tween Miss Eleanor McDonald and Clair D. Alexander, who was engaged to_her when he went away to be supply officer of the Byrd base at Little America. The outcome was the announcement that the marriage would take place within a few days. Martin Ronne, the sixth of the men back from the ice ledge, stayed on the whaler, waiting for his son, who was to arrive later in the day. This is his fourth return from a polar expedition, Twice he was in the North with Amund- sen. Once he went South with Amund- sen on the Fram. The two other returning men who had gone back and forth through the ice pack that incloses the Antarctic continent were Walter Leuthner and Dr. Vacloo Vojtech, a young Czecho- slovak geol t, who went to Dunedin on his own initiative to beg a post do- ing any kind of work for the Bryd ex- pedition. He was put in charge of the penguins on the homeward trip. All in Good Condition. All eight were tanned and apparently in sound physical condition, with the self-possessed look of men who have i grown used to danger. They all agreed the isolation and the silence of the polar night were harder to bear than the cold or physical hardship. The radio, which took the old-fash- foned triumph out of their home- coming, served, on the other hand, according to Goodale, to defeat the s:;:e of isolation and supply conversa- tion. ‘Walden looked at it differently. “I nate the radio,” he said, “but there was a library of 1,500, gdod books and that was what made the time pass.” To the discussion of the mental hardship of inclosing a small body of men on the ice 14 months Vaughn con~ tributed an enthusiastic, praise of ti leadership of Rear Admiral Byrd, to whom he attributed the emergence of the expedition from the Antarctic night without mental distortion, (Copyright. 1930.) ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY | Wealthy Farmland Owner to Seek Tennessee Senate Seat. NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 26 (#).— Andrew L. Todd of Murfreesboro, wealthy farmland owner, last night an- pounced his candidacy for the junior United States Senate seat, now held by Senator Willlam E. Brock of Chatta« Mr. Todd will oppose Representative Cordell Hull of the fourth Tennessee congressional district in the August primary. R PR BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, this evening, at Stan- that the commission now expects to make a report to Congress prior to ad- journment this Summer. Complilation of the investigators’ data has advanced so that drafting of the report is to be begun shortly. The in- quiry was ordered in a resolution b Senator Schall, Republican of Minne- sota, which asked for determination of whether manufacturers and distributors of newsprint engaged in practices creat- "x.'fn. ‘monopoly in the supply of news- print paper to publishers of small news- papers. Use Plane in Liquor War. MONTREAL, Quebec, April 26 (#).— Liquor smuggling alon, lower St. Lawrence River and will be 1 yes y. An air base for the liquor commission police will be established at Rimousk) and a seaplane with a cruising range of miles has been leased by the com- grandson of the 500 Rl ley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Point- ner, assistant leader. March, “L'Amour’ .. Christine Overture, “Opere Bouffe”........Finck !DlnAllh 'ut:u'i;ms‘d.{:c“:"u‘“mi“m castle L errymal 3 Dulcinea dt!lm!.p"rlle of the trouba- dours. Scotch fantasia, “Songs of Swfil{l‘d." m Fox trot, “Love Made & Gypsy Out of o +..+....Zimmermann Me”.. Banner.” This concert will conclude the series of indoor orchestral concerts for the The outdoor military band concerts will be resumed on esday enllt:g. 13, at the usual hour, 5:39 o'clock. wuldhe ven mh‘:uld'u‘. n o { morn! i | Pinale, “Bothered With ‘The Star S Wednesday a o'clock at the hosp on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening 30 o'clock on fhe upper