Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1930, Page 2

A2 = PRESIDENT PLANS TRIPT0 ROCKIES) Practically All of August to Be Spent at National Parks and Canyon. President Hoover is planning a tour this Summer of the National Parks In the Rocky Mountain section of the ‘West and the Grand Canyon of Arizona, a§ well as & visit to his home at Palo Alto, Galif. This trip of more than 6,000 miles, will consume about the whole month of ugust. A lftulnnounclng his Intention Mr. Hoo- wer said this would serve as his vaca- tfon. This will be the first real vacation away from Washington he has had since Pecoming President. He remained at the Capitol throughout the last Summer #nd was content with his week end vis- jts to his fishing camp at the head- waters of the Rapidan River in Vir- ginia. Last February the President went 10 Florida for a week of deep sea fish- ing, but it could hardly be classed as a vacation. During the early part of the Summer “Mr. Hoover will remain close to the | White House and very likely will spend his week ends as he did last Summer at his retreat in the Blue Ridge Moun- tains. Trip Long in Mind. Mr. Hoover is known to have had this Western trip and tour of the parks in mind ever since he has been President. - Considerable details have not been worked out, but will be in a very short while. Park authorities have been in chnference with the President, and as- surance has been given him that ac- commodations will be available for his party in all the parks and every other pnvenience and comfort made pos- le, sIt is the President’s intention to sfart his park tour at the northern end the park group, which will be in Glacler Park, Montana. The Yellow- stone, which is in Montana and Wyom- , will be next, then Estes Park in lorado. It will follow a short visit at Palo Alto. The tour of Yosemite rk, in California, and the Grand yon, in Arizona, will be made on the way to return to Washington. ZThe park traveling will be done in tomobile, and it is said the President tends to travel slowly and make fre- ent stops along the way. He will be equipped with his fishing parapher- lia, and as the opportunities present themselves will visit the streams as he goes along. It is understood also that the President has in mind some camp- ing out. : Invitations Are Extended. The tentative itinerary calls for a special train for the President and his rty from Washington to Glacier Park, Emt.. which will go through Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul. A number of invitations have been extended to the President to stop off at various places along the way, among those be- ing one of the State of North Dakota to visit the Black Hills if only for a da; It was in the Black Hills that Pres) dent Coolidge spent the entire Sum- mier of 1927. ~It is doughtful though if the Presi- dent will accept any of these. “During the early part of the Summer Mr. Hoover has several short trips in mind. He is scheduled to make the ofation on Memorial day at Gettysburg and has under consideration a visit to the Virginia Capes to review the great fleet. He has conditionally accepted af invitation to visit Boston in October, ia connection with the American Le- convention, and the aaniversary | spo! of the founding of Boston day. 3 . LYNCHERS QUELLED : BY TEXAS TROOPS; 12 LEADERS SEIZED was set afire. ‘The militla on guard glnuuqun'm— had been sent to er:lnnnmlyln afternoon—stood “Missles were thrown at the soldiers. q:;v prsr'n'? wuuhl;:ver ;hz head with a7 two our timber and dangerously m ‘Then the soldiers, in relf-defense, . List of the Injured. i} The injured in this clash and an- Sherman, shot in the hest and seriously wounded. Tom Dixon, high school boy, struck ®n the head several times with a pistol. © Capt. James E. Dunlap of the Dallas, “Tex., troops, cut in the face by a missle. ‘! Walter Balley, hit over the head and in the back of the neck with a rifle. I, Dan Shero, shot with buckshot in the igourt house before the burning. i Lynn Scott, 17, cut by a bottle over ‘he eyes. ‘i Weldon O'Neal, Van Alstyne, hit in ghe back of the head with a bottle, .. Balked in their attempt to get into the jail, the mob returned to the harred court house, determined defin- iftely to ascertain whether Hughes was {in the vault, Blast after blast was set ‘off. An acetylene torch was used. i ally, just before midnight, a hole One observer expressed belief that jughes had lived through the heat of ithe fire and was still alive when the nal blast was shot, Hughes' head was {battered in, he apparently having been “truck by the falling door. Body Paraded by Mob. i1 A great cry went up when the first ifnen in the vault dumped the body. ill limp as if recently dead, down ‘fhe ladder from the second story hole the wall. The body rolled over and ‘pver down the ladder, striking the und with a thump. Men seized upon ‘the body, tied & chain about it, fastened it to the rear of an automobile and started a parade. ‘Through the streets they dragged | their load and the journey ended at a Jarge store in the colored section which housed a drug store, beauty shop, un- «dertaking parlor, tailor shop and other enterprises. 7 The body was strung up to the tree ‘and boxes piled beneath. A fire was ighted. Then the drug store was set ‘fire. After virtually destroying the drug store the mob surged drwn a three- block section of the ored district, 2 stampcde of humanity run amuck. Clubs, bricks, bottles and fists were wielded against windows and doors. Virtually every store was entered and 4ts interior wrecked. PROBE OF MOB INDICATED, Austin Gets Reports Sherman Situation F{ is Well in Hand. .. AUSTIN, Tex., May 10 (#).—Reports o the adjutant general this morning Jndicated authorities had the riot situ- istion at Sherman well in hand. It was E: idered unlikely that additional 3 would be sent to the area. % Probability was exrretned by State ‘officials that a court of inquiry would be .eonvened in Sherman to investigate the B on Government troops by mem- Milwaukee Citizen Neglects Own Home For That of Robin By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, May 10.—W. P. Schellin has stopped repair work on his house. That is Robin Redbreast’s doing. Bricklayers had completed a veneer on the house as high as the second floor when Schellin called a halt. There's a robin's nest on a second floor window sill, and there are three eggs in it. One of these days there will be three baby robins. Mr. Schellin would like to get the repair work done. He does not, however, intend to permit & wall of brick to interfere with an event to which a certain mother robin has been looking forward for quite some time, ROBERTS’ APPROVAL AS JUSTICE IS SEEN" BY ADMINISTRATION (Continued From First Page.) nounced that the organization had not yet determined what its attitude toward Roberts would be. William Green, president of the federation, said that “certain inquiries” had been or- dered, and if at the termination of these it was considered advisable to take a definite position the organization would do_so publicly. It was believed that the “inquiries” included a study of Roberts' connegtion with a case recently settled by the Su- preme Court, reversing a decision of the Pennsylvania courts, which had granted a marine worker a judgment for injuries under the Pennsylvania workmen's compensation law. In this case Roberts was counsel for the John Baizley Iron Works and the Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corpora- THE EVENING IROBERTS PICTURED | TARIFF CONFEREES “BEAR FOR WORK" Appointee to Supreme Court Wanted to Be School Teach- er, Not Lawyer. BY THOMAS E. LEWIS, PHILADELPHIA, May 10 (N.AN.A).— A bear for work. A man o punctual and regular that employes tell time by his arrivals and departures. At home “a_jolly, fun-loving companion.” That, in the words of his employes and his wife, is Owen Josephus Roberts, who “didn't want to be a Jawyer be- cause lawyers aren’t honest,” but who finds himself today, at 55, namod by President Hoover for a place in the highest tribynal in the land. Owen J. Roberts, the boy, wanted to be a school teacher. His father, Josephus Roberts, former Councilman, believed he was “good at arguments and ought to be a lawyer.” But Owen was also “good at arguments” with his father, and he stood pat on being a school teacher. So Owen's father said they'd ask Owen's schoolmaster, Dr. William Ker- shaw, head master of tha Germantown Academy, if a man could be both a lawyer and honest. Owen himself put the question. And here it wus that the wise old schoolmaster uttered a 1eply that gave America one of its finest lawyers, Follows Teacher's Advice. “Owen,” the schoolmaster replled, “you can be honest about anything,” and the die was cast. Mr. Roberts’ reply when asked if he would accept the place offered by the President, is typical of the man. With- tion, Ltd., and argued that since the worker's injuries occurred while he was repairing a completed ship lying in navigable waters, his claim was sub- ject to the Federal admiralty laws Tather than the State compensation act. This view was upheld by the court. CHANGING RELIGION SEEN BY SCIENTIST IN CONCLAVE TALK d_From Pirst Page.) The second is “eonstitutional feriority and inadequacy.” The third and least serious he de- scribed as “idocyncracy with odd be- havior.” These diagnoses, he believes, can be made also with adult criminals and sentences determined on the probabili- ties of cure. ‘This discovery will mean, Dr. Ilealey said. that many more youthful uffenders must be considered practically hopeless and isolated from society. Dr. David M. Levy, chief of stafl of the New York Institute for Child Guidance, described a certain 4-year- old, a “tough kid,” as a type specimen to_psychiatric society. He bullt a house of blocks under the sink where his mother was washing dishes. She kicked it over accidentally. The child called her a vile name. “Darling mustn’t say dirty words,” she reproved . She tried to put him to bed for rn afterncon nap. He gave her a healthy wallop in the eye. He ruled the house by his screaming. He would never play with ciher chil- dren—but he was bright and healthy. ‘This boy was one of 20 “pure cases of maternal over-protection” which Dr. Levy has studied intensely to discover the psychological mechanism of the wed child. The study indicated, Dr. Levy said. that the entire family situation must be studied in the case of the spoiled child. It does no good merely to advise mother without understanding the emotional situation responsible for her behavior. The remedy, declared Dr. A A. Brill, famous psycho-analyst, may be to give the mother more. to do to keep her uway from the child. ‘The world now is in the process of shaking off the shackles of & moral and social order based upon landed prop- erty, with the patriarchal family as one of its chief mechanisms, said Floyd Dell, famous American novelist. ‘This, he said, explains some of the apparently changing morality. It means, he explained, that there is no actual increase of immorality, but less secrecy dbout it. Behavior Analysis Systematized. A system for analysis of the behavior in- of infants was presented by Dr. W. E. Blatz, director of St. George's School for Child Study, Toronto. “In the first 18 months to 2 years of a child’s life,” he said, “all the factors tend toward the development of self- assertive behavior. The household en- viroment is arranged so that the sen- sory experiences call for the attitude of approach.” “But as he grows older he experi- ences restrictions in his mode of living, and these tend to develop the self-nega- tion tendencies. Thus the equilibrium between these tendencies is established in the first years of life. Anything which tends to exaggerate self-negation, such as teasing, corporal punishment and undue suppression, leaves a perma- nent influence on the child’s develop- ment. But if the child is given no op- portunity to develop self-negative tend- encies, he is bound to have serious dif- ficulties in making his social adjust- ments later. Prisons of the future with staffs made up of college graduates “trained in the science of understanding human nature, instead of men picked at random on the basis of size, strength and inabil- ity to get a job anywhere else,” were pictured before a mass mesting of the congress last night by Sanford Bates, United States superintendent of prisons. Already, he said, the Federal Prison Bureau has applications from 200 col- lege men for training. ‘The future prison, he said, will be designed to rehabilitate rather than punish inmates, ‘The delegates yesterday were guests at a reception by Dr. and Mrs. William A. White at St. Elizabeth’'s Hospital. Dr. White is president of the congress, A party also inspected the District of Columbia workhouse, which had been described to them as one of the most advanced of all penal institutions. NOTED SEAGE)ING MAN WEDS MEMPHIS GIRL Capt. Miles, Who Made Many Voy- ages Alone, Wanted “Mate” for His New Boat. By the Associated Press. out an instant’s hesitation, although he himself had recommended Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a life-long friend, for the post, he replied: “I consider it both a duty and a pleasure to accept. It is a tremendous surprise.” ‘That is Owen Roberts, always driving straight to the point. The fact that he will sacrifice a lucrative income, which it is understood runs into hun- dred of thousands of dollars annually, meant nothing to him—the fact that auty had called was the only considera- on. Mr. Roberts was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1898, with highest honors. Soon afterwards he was admitted to the Bar, and devoted much of his attention to corporation law, at the same time reach- ing out into criminal and other branches of the legal profession. Taught Law at U. of P. In 1901 Mr. Roberts saw his ambl- tion to become a teacher fulfilled. In that year he was appointed an assist- ant professor in the University Law School, and, as his father often re- marks in retelling the story, “both Owen and myself were satisfied.” Later he was named to a full professorship. In 1903, when John C. Bell, later attorney general of Pennsylvania, was district attorney, Mr. Roberts was made his assistant. Many of the men who served in the same office as col- leagues of Mr. Roberts have since achieved places of distinction in public life, including Chief Justice von Mo- schzisker, William A. Gray, noted criminal lawyer, and Judge Joseph H. Taulane of the Common Pleas Court Te. As an assistant district attorney Mr. Roberts picked up & world of experience as a prosecutor which was invaluable when the Government selected him as special prosecutor in the Teapot Dome case. Meanwhile his private practice was expanding. and he came to be known as a “Jawyer's lawyer,” or coun- sellor for other lawyers who had steered their cases into troubled waters. Public Life Open Book. has been an open ‘book. in Philadelphia thinks of the ‘legal profession at its best they think of Owen J. Roberts. An approachable, likeable man, who can converse on & Wide range of sub- jects, he can n!wlgl find time to be courteous, however busy. Widespread acclaim for President Hoover's choice came from scores of prominent lawyers and jurists here, re- gardless of politics. The justices of the State Supreme and Superior Court who could be reached were unanimous in approving the selection. Judge Wil- liam B. Linn of the Superior Court said: “No better appointment from the American bar could have been made.” Although Mr. Roberts would not dis- cuss his views on the wet and dry question, a prominent lawyer, who is a close friend of the nominee, said: “Nobody ever thinks of Owen J. Rob- erts as either a wet or a dry. They think of him only as a great lawyer.” Six feet tall, with bluish-gray eyes and hair which is graying at the tem- ples, Mr. Roberts has a finely chiseled countenance, Severe when he is driv- ing home a point of law, he has an infectious smile. Orator as well as law- yer, he has never lost a case before the United States Supreme Court, although he has appeared before that tribunal more than 200 times. This is believed to be a record. If he has a hobby besides his work, it is nature study. His spare time is spent at his 800-acre farm near Kimberton, Chester County, where he takes personal charge and supervises the raising of his poultry and lve stock. He does not play golf. Office Reflects Traditions. Mr. Roberts' private office reflects the most cherished traditions of the law. Inside one seems to live with the greats of past and present as one gazes at the bronze and steel engravings on the wall. Daniel Webster, former Chief Justice Taft, former Chief Justice Rice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Calvin Coolidge, the late Chief Justice White of the United States Supreme Court, Abraham Lincoln—these and other great men have looked down from the walls at Owen J. Roberts as he was hewing that brilliant career which in all probability will lead to the highest court in the land. At home there is another picture— Owen J. Roberts coming home to a smiling woman, with curly, dark hair and a reserved manner, which seems almost shy, and reading a detective story. “Yes,” said Mrs. Roberts, “he grabs a lurid detective story the minute he comes into the house.” And then the person who knows him best told what Owen J. Roberts is like around the house. “He’s the best companion in the world,” she said. “So jolly and fun- loving. This news is like a bolt from the blue. We really didn't think Owen would be asked to serve.” (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 10.—The Commercial Appeal says that Capt. Ed- ward Miles, 51, adventurer of many long lone voyage, and Miss Louise Totty, 27, Memphis manicurist, were married yes- terday morning at Hernando, Miss. Returning here after the one-man crew schooner Sturdy burned last Sep- tember in the Red Sea, and so ended an attempted circuit of the world, Capt. Miles announced that he was building a new boat and wanted a mate, Forty-seven letters came from various sections of the Midsouth. Capt. Miles said that he had burned them all. ‘The second Sturdy is nearing comple~ tion here on the banks of the Missis- llpm River, Capt. Miles plans to_ship it Port Said, Egypt, in June. From ‘bers of the mob. Whether the Federal :g‘ovggamgxt wfllb:-a asked to w':;u; uisitorial body was expec ,debemlned today. e gt 8 of public improvements in cities expendi Plans f Poland call for a total $33,000,000. ture there, with only his bride for company, he hopes to resume the interrupted voy- MRS. MERITT RENAMED FEDERATION PRESIDENT District Clubwomen Close Annual Bessions at Roosevelt Hotel ‘With Elections. Mrs. Edgar B. Meritt was re-elected president of the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs yesterday at the closing meeting of a two-day annual session in the Roosevelt Hotel. Other officers elected were Mrs. Wil- liam La Varre, first vice president; Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, second vice pre ident; Mrs. Ernest Daniel, recording sec- If the contemplated route is followed |retary: Mrs. E. C. Criswell, correspond- the honeymoon voyage will take India, the Mala; Pe}:}l;x.mh. L wal Ly ines, China, Ji geu!n.l Amerle:l::é New i, Orleans, Saitornia, them to | ing secretary; Mrs. F. C. Brinley, treas- urer; Mrs. Tamar S, Rorke, auditor, and ‘White Speel, general fed- ctor. f A UNABLE T0 AGREE Senate Members Refuse to | Yield to Demand They Ask Pledge Release. By the Assoclated Press. The congressional tariff conferees locked horns today over the disputed export debenture and flexible provi- sions—and found no way out of their differences. Members from the Senate refuséd to yield to a demand from the House group that they ask the Senate to re- lieve them of the pledge they made not to recede on the two propositions. ‘With that, the conference—which has settled practically all the hundreds of other differences between the Senate and House bills—adjourned subject to ceall by Chairman Smoot of the Senate finance committee. Smoot said he would call another meeting Tuesday or Wednesday. Conferees of the House, which has turned down the Senate’s debenture plan and the flexible clause withdrawing presidential authority to change rates, insisted that the Senate conferees ask the Senate for a free hand. The Senate conferees agreed to take the bill back, but declined to agree to ask to be released from their promise not to recede without giving the Sen- ate another opportunity to .express itself. Several compromise flexible proposi- tions were discussed today and the im- pression prevailed at the Capitol that the Senate group would not meet the House conferees' request until a satis- factory compromise was agreed upon. None of the few rates remaining in disagreement was taken up by the con- ferees todmy, the entire session being devoted to the debenture and flexible amendments. Senator Smoot sald it was the con- sensus that the Senate's proposal for retention of the existing six-member bi-partisan fact-finding body of seven members. Democrats came out of the session saying the Republicans were “in a row among themselves” over the flexible provision. Representative Garner of Texas, the minority House leader, urged Senator Harrison, Democrat, ~Mississippl, to carry the issue to the Senate floor. —_— 100 TROOPERS SEARCH WO0O0DS IN ARLINGTON FOR BAKER SUSPECT (Continued From First Page.) to know something about the murder. Authorities of the Pennsylvania city are sald to have been requested to be on the lookout for the suspect. He dis- appeared from Washington several days ago. Murder Referred To. Reference to the murder of Miss Baker came up during a hearing before the Wainwright subcommittee of the House military affairs committee yes- terday on the Moore bill to extend the Jurisdiction of the United States park police force into nearby Virginiu. Representative McSwain of South Carolina remarked that if this cemetery road through a Government reservation had been properly policed that crime might neyer have been committed, or have gone unsolved. ‘The Moore bill represents ‘he col- laborative work of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer ‘of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and in charge of the United States park police force, with the War Department. The bill was drafted in the office of the judge ad- vocate general and carried the recom- mendation of Secretary Hurley of the War Department. In the last Congress a similar bill was passed by the Senate, but provided that_the expense should be borne by the District of Columbia, and when it was called up for passage under unanimous consent in the House, ob- jection was made on that ground. The present bill provides that the cost, which will be small, shall be paid from the Federal Treasury. At the hearing yesterday Representa- tive Moore of Virginia and other wit- nesses, including William G. Gloth, commonwealth attorney for Arlington County; Col. Grant and Col. R. Smith of the judge advocate general's office, emphasized that the two Federal roads leading from the Highway and Key Bridges, and the one skirting the ceme- tery are virtually unpoliced. There are no Federal policemen on them and the Virginia authorities have no rights or duties there. The committee also included in its record a_letter from Secretary Hurley of the War Department, which sald that “necking parties” on the roads have brought about a disgraceful con- dition, and he urged passage of the Moore bill. BALDWIN FUNERAL HELD NEW YORK, May 10 (#)—Funeral services were held today at_Trinity Church for William Henry Baldwin, wholesale cotton goods merchant, who died suddenly on Thursday. Mr, Baldwin, a leading figure in the development of Southern textile indus- tries, was senlor partner in Woodward, Baldwin & Co. He was a brother of Lewis W. Bald- win of St. Louls, president of the Mis- sour] Pacific Raiiroad, who reached New York last night to accompany _the funeral train to Waterbury, Md., where interment will take place. GREAT STAR, WASHINGTON, D, SATURDAY, . The tornado, which took 66 lives, left the town of Frost, razed and most of the inhabitanis made homeless. This photo is an aerial view of sector where 23 were killed. MAY 10, 1930. TEXAS TOWN WIPED OUT BY TORNADO. @k 2o Tex., looking like this. Almost the entire town was illed. —P. & A. Photo. EDUCATION COUNCIL. SELECTS OFFICERS lDr. C. H. Judd Re-Elected as Chairman at Final Conven- tion Session. Dr. C. H. Judd of the University of Chicago, representing the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, was re-elected chairman of the American Council on Education at the final session of the thirteenth annual meeting of the organization in the Na- tional Research Council Building, ‘Twenty-first and B streets, today. Dr. Judd is the first chairman of the coun- cil ever to have been re-elected. Other officers elected were: Rufus A. Lyman of the University of Nebraska, representing the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, first vice chairman; H, H. B. Meyers of the Library of Congress, representing the American Library Association, sec- ond vice chairman; Prof. Henry Grat- tan Doyle of George Washington Uni- versity, representing the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Middle States and Maryland, secretary, re-elected; Corcoran Thom of the Amer- jcan Security & Trust Co., treasurer, re- elected; Chancellor 8. B, Capen of the University of Buffalo, representing the Assoclation of American Colleges, and Rev. P. J. McCormick of the Catholic University of America, Tepresenting the National Catholic Educational Associa- tion, elected as .additional members of the executive committee. Addresses were made by Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie In- stitution of Washington, and Dr. David A. Robertson, assistant director, Amer- ican Council on Educsation. . The council, yesterday afternoon, on motion of its chairman, Dr. Charles H. Judd, voted to mccept the gift of the Julius Rosenwold Fund; & grant of $35,- 000 to defray tHe expenses of the newly formed committee on problems and plans for educational research over a period of three years. This committee, of which Dr. S. P. Capen, chancellor of the University of Buffalo is chairman, in turn will report back to the founda- tion on problems involving further gifts of subsidies. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, discussed “Education and Health, a Community Problem.” He de- clared there must be & co-ordination of education, health or preventive medi- cine, and so-called welfare work in the | schools to meet present-day needs in | making the school a central point for | the training of the country's future ¢iti- 2ens, AIR STUDENTS START | FLIGHT TO BALTIMOREi | Group From Western Universities Will Be Joined by Johns Hopkins Representatives. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, ~May 10.—Seven planes carrying students from several universities left here today for Balti- more on the Curtiss-Wright College air tour. The group is made up of two stu. dents from each institution. Rep: sented are Carnegle Institute of Tech- nology, Michigan, Ohio State, Kansas University, the University of Illinois, Detroit University and Minnesota. The group will be joined at Baltimore by students at Johns Hopkins. The planes will be met at New York by representa- tives of Cornell, Harvard and New York University. AIR MADA VISITS squadrons of the First Man Convicted Under Radio Act Faces Jail Sentence By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, May 10.—George W. Fellowes, 33, first man to be convicted under the Federal radio act of operating an unlicensed short-wave broadcasting station, today faced sentencing with a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment or a $5,000 fine, or both, possible. He was convicted by a jury in United States Dis- trict Court yesterday in what is planned as a test case. Fellowes, private detective and & washing machine salesman, ad- mitted he operated a short-wave length station at his home here, but contended the radio act is unconstitutional. HOTOR S BLANED FORFATAL CRSH Hartford Airplane Victim Was Visitor Here Several Months Ago. By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., May 10.—Motor fallure was held today by Chief In- spector George Pranaitis of the State Department of Aeronautics to have caused an airplane crash at Brainard Field which brought two deaths. Lewis H. Taylor, 55, who had told friends here that he had been a cap- tain in the Air Service during the World War and that his home was in Washington, D. C., was burned to death when the plane crashed last night. Milton H. Moore, 30, g:neral manager of the Interstate Airways, be- lieved to have been the pilot, died sev- eral hours later. ‘Taylor had been taking flying instruc- tions for about two weeks from Moore, who was a native of Dublin, Tex., and an experienced pilot. Mrs. Moore, a licensed pilot, saw the crash and fainted. Victim Visited Here. ‘The War Department has no record of Lewis H. Taylor, it was learned here today, following receipt of the news of his death in Connecticut, nor could relatives or friends be located here. ‘The only trace of him found in Washington was at the John Marshall Apartments, 1910 K street, where he is | said to have visited several months ago. His host has moved since and left no forwarding address. ARMY TRAINING SOUGHT | R Nanking Government Will Employ Japanese Officers. ‘TOKIO, May 10 (#).—The Associated Press learned here today that an im- portant agreement has been concluded between the Nanking government and the Japanese war office whereby at least 30 Japanese army officers would be employed as instructors and organ- izers by the Chinese National army. !‘lllin’_g Missile Hits Man. Felled by a missile falling from & new building at North Capitol and G streets last night, Harry Holland, 52 years old, of Towson, Md., was taken to the Emergency Hospital with a frac- tured skull and lacerations of the head and hands. CAPITAL battle fleet stopped here. —Star Staff Photo. | ing CHINESE AR RAID KILLS 47 CLIANS Government Forces Bomb Northern Troops—Bandits Massacre 15,000. By the Associated Press, PEIPING, China, May 10.—Forty- WETS ORGANIZING TOATTACK DRY LAW hibition Outline Program for Mass Assault. Massing for an attack on_prohibi- tion, representatives of various or- ganizations opposed to the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act held & rally last night at the Mayflower Hotel and prepared to draw up a legislative program and elect delegates from each organization to present a united front. A closed executive committee meeting Wwas arranged for this morning. A former United States Senator, Rep~ resentatives, writers, educators and spokesmen from the modificationist groups, in a series of addresses, called attention to what they termed the growing alarm with which prohibition is being viewed by the American people and the rising demand that steps be taken to remedy the situation. Former Senator Bruce Presides. Last night's meeting, which until shortly before mlgnixhl. wlnll[!)tree? sided over by former Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland. Representa- tive Linthicum, Democrat, of Maryland, leader of the “wet bloc” in the House, gknd'ndk lhd! me:oun& but was unable speak, due e orders phl_';:lcl.ln. il a spirited address Charles A, :v"i;l:elg o‘{_‘cxgcnxa. edlwtr g( the Liberal, e drys against destro a- triotism by destroying liberty. s Representative Maas of Minnesota, who described himself as a total ab- stainer, said’ the thing that converted him to the ranks of anti-prohibition- ists was his experience as a manager of one of the great bonding companies in the Northwest. When prohibition be came written into the law, he asserted, surety rates began to climb and the companies began to ‘“gamble in crime,” and it was found that the age of criminals, which had remained con: stant for 100 years around 45 years, dropped in five years of prohibition to 20 and 21 years. Andrew Volstead, whose name is given to the enablin; prohibition act, Mr. Maas said, cam. paigned against him on behalf of his opponent. Prohibition, he d is “making us a Nation of hypocri He urged a constitutional conventf with delegates elected on this issue, as “there is virtually no other issue in America today.” Author Tietsort Submits Views. PFrancis J. Tietsort, author, asserted that a trip through the prisons had convinced him that two-thirds of the seven civillans have been killed in Chengchow, and many others injured during an aerial bombardment of the Northern troops by Government forces. Several buildings were destroyed. Hostllities are continuing along & 70- mile front near the Lunghai Railway. ‘The Northern forces are using a large number of tanks improvised from ar- mored cars and lorries, with anti-air- craft guns mounted in them. Fight Nanking President. For the last few weeks Northern gen- erals, headed by Yen Hsi-Shan, known as the modern governor of the Province of Shansl, and including Feng Yu- Hsiang, have been conducting an active campaign against the Nanking Nation- alist government, of which Chiang Kai-Shek is President. The Northerners already have claimed important victorles over the Nationalists, with heavy casualties, but President Chiang has taken the field himself in an effort to'halt the advance of the opposition. Under the banners of the Northern alliance and the Nationalist govern- ment some of the best trained armies in China now are engaged in a strug- gle for the possession of stategic points along the railroad near Suchow, Dis- patches yesterday told of heavy fight- ing near Suchow, 20.000 wounded Na- tionalist soldiers coming from the bat- tle front to Nanking. The rebels were reported menacing Suchow from three sectors, BANDITS SLAUGHTER 15,000. Outrages Against Residents of Pillaged Towns Are Reported. SHANGHAI, May 10 (#).—Details of alleged massacres by bandits in Honan Province, asserting that brigands have devastated a broad area south of Kai- containing 500 villages, were published today by the Vernacular Press. The reports followed closely uncon- firmed advices received here yesterday from Chinese sources, saying 15,000 persons had been slaughtered by 4,000 bandits at Yungyang, also in Honan, and that 50C residents were carried off after the slaughter had been completed and the town sacked and burned. Today’s vernacular reports said the inhabitants of villages in the Kaifeng and Chengchow areas had been “mur- dered, kidnaped and outraged to un- known numbers while the countryside was reduced to a scene of desolation.” Honan military forces were reported to be opposing the bandits, who, now=- ever, eluded all pursuers. A party of 200 brigands under leader- ship of a woman bandit was reported to be operating north of Wuhu. The female bandit was belleved to be the notorious “Widow Chang.” whose recent daring depredations in Honan Province caused provincial military authorities to offer her a military command, which she spurned, 35 CHORAL GROUPS ON MASS PROGRAM Urganizations Join as Part of Na- tional Musie Week Observance. More than 35 choral organizations will be represented in a special National Music week program at 5 o'clock this afternoon in the Epiphany Episcopal Church. The chorus will be composed of approximately 150 voices. The singers will be directed by Dr. Frederick Alexander, head of the music department of Michigan State Normal College and director of the Ypsilanti Normal Choir. The inner choir, com- zs?d of 17 Washington soloists, will heard as an answering chorus in three of the numbers, including Pales- trina's “Gloria Patrl” Gretchaninoff’s “Only Begotten Son" and Tschesno- koff's “Thief on the Cross. $1,755 JEWELRY THEFT IS REPORTED BY WOMAN b Apartment Ransacked in Absence of Mrs. Anna Lindemere—Money and Clothing Stolen. Ransacking the apartment of Mrs. Anna Lindemere at the Wardman Park Hotel in her absence yesterday after- noon, some one stole jewelry valued at $1,755. No -‘:n of a forced entrance could be found and it is believed that either & door had been left unlocked or & duplicate key was employed. ‘The stolen articles included three rings, valued at $800, $500 and $200; two bracelets and & necklace, Mrs. Lindemere reported, An unlocked rear door afforded a thief entrance to the home of Mrs. Mary Dutch, 924 First street south: ‘where $110 in money and $150 worth of cloth- ‘was reported stolen last night. feng and another west of Chengchow, long-term prisoners are young men, who are victims of prohibition, and some- thing must be done about it. He sug- gested that this might be accomplished through a national referendum. A survey of liquor control in other countries was presented by Mrs, Rheta Child Dorr, who told the gathering that the three ways of regulating liquor were by the saloon, which, she expressed the hope, has been discarded; by prohibi- tion, which everywhere but in the United States and tiny Pinland, has been discarded, and by State control, through which liquor must be taken out of politics and not sold for private profit. The hours of sale should be reg- ulated; different rules should govern different beverages and education must be carried on for temperance, Mrs. Dorr asserted. Edward A. Alexander of New York urged the wet groups to sponsor the na- tional convention plan for modifying the Constitution by eliminating the eighteenth emendment. Ratification by three-fourths of the States would ac- complish this, he explained. Sees Charter of Liberties Voided. Representative Schafer, Republican, of Wiscossin asserted that the eigh- teenth amendment. has ed the Constitution from a charter of liber- ties into a criminal law book. The farmer, he insisted, finds prohibition prosperity is a myth and & boomerang. A. J. Kummer declared that the American people must rid themselves of this menace to society, referring to prihibition, and Dr. J. T. Griffin, New mrk ednmul)lr.d ugd rhemit:"ux: wer; ing imperiled by pro . an urged immediate - reform. M. Louise Gross was introduced as a pi- oneer worker for modification. The meeting was arranged by Dr. F. W. Buck of Denver, Colo, of the Federal Dispensary ax Reduction League. e TWO FIREMEN HURT PERFORMING DUTY Boy Is Injured When Blow Torch Explodes in Bath Room. Two firemen and a 14-year-old boy were injured in three fires early last night. Private William Benthal, 34 years old, of 1424 K street, was thrown from No. 3 truck at Fourteenth and O streets while responding to an alarm at Fif- teenth and O streets and was removed to the Emergency Hospital with a dis- located right shoulder. Private Harold F. Harding, 31 years old, of 3014 Park place, attached to No. 2 engine company, was burned on the left hand by hot grease while fighting a fire in the kitchen of the Madrillon Restaurant, at Fifteenth and G streets, l{id‘wts also taken to Emergency Hos- pital. The fire in the restaurant was con- fined to the kitchen after a pot of grease was upset by one of the employes, A small quantity of smoke seaped into the dining room proper, but officials an- nounced there was no danger and patrons continued to dine and dance without interruption. Edward Gibbon, 14, of 1325 Cam- bridge place, received severe burns of the face and hands when a blow torch he was using to remove paint from his bathroom wall exploded. He was given treatment at Georgetown University Hospital. ACTORS ENTER FINALS Four Groups to Repeat Plays in Tournament, NEW YORK, May 10 (#).—The Morss Players of St. Louls were among ta’ four finalists today at the National Little Theater tournament. ‘The Your groups were chosen last o night, at the end of five evenings of competition, to re-enact their one-act plays today in contest for the tqurna- ment' award. KOEHLER TO MARRY Wealthy Kansas City Man to Wed ‘Widow of Brother Here. A marriage licel was issued here today to Hugo A. nl(’;ehm. ‘wealthy re- tired brewer of St. Louis,” Mrs. Cornelia Smith Koehler, widow of his brother. The ceremony will be per- formed in a few days by Dr. Z. B. Phillips, rector of Ej Church, 5 Mbl"-l dK:cbhfllel' is 51 years old. Her ushang several years ago. Mr. Koehier is 60. QTR SR Lightning recently struck the church at ‘Mugiliac, Prance, destroying three of