Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1930, Page 2

MRS, NAIDU TAKEN | FOR SECOND TIME Woman Leader of Indian Na- tionalists Arrested With Gandhi’s Son. By the Associated Press. . DHARASANA, Ingiz, May 21.—For the second time since succeeding to| leadership of Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience campaign Mrs. Saorjin{ Naibu was arrested during a raid on the salt deposits here, in which 100 of | her vblunteers were injured and many others arrested. Today's raid was featured by a stra- tegic move on the part of the volunteers who divided into two bodies which converged from different directions upon the glistening piles of salt sym- bolizing British authority. Seeing the Indians separate their forces, the police concentrated upon the nearest group.” These, however, broke into & run and managed to outdistance the constables until they reached the wire defenses of the salt heaps. They surged about these until the police rushed up and scattered them with a hail of blows from their long bamboo sticks. Charge Second Group. Meanwhile the main body of about 2,000 Indians was making for another salt pile and the police accordingly wheeled and charged it in turn. With wild cheers and cries of “Hail our motherland!” the volunteers milled about the salt heaps trying to lasso the wooden posts of the projecting wire fence in order to pull them from the ground. ‘They were frustrated also in this attempt, the police charging the yell- ing, struggling mass and repeatedly hitting out with ther sticks right and left. volunteers did not fight back, carrying out the instructions previously given them by Mrs. Naidu. Mrs. Naidu Arrested. By this time all available stretchers had been used and improvised ones were needed to carry away the in- jured. It was then that Mrs. Naidu, ‘who had been looking on the struggle from a distance, approached the salt heaps and was immediately arrested, together wth Gandhi's son, Manilal, ‘who is the third of the mahatma'’s sons to_be arrested. Within & short time all the ralders had been driven off but about 200, who still clung to the fences, although com- pletely exhausted and bespattered with mud. Fresh volunteers nevertheless began pouring in, although the authorities were trying to hinder their arrival by 5, "sonding. trains past the Dungri train, g Station, which is the nearest point to Dharasans without stoppng. NATIONALS TRIM BOSTON RED SOX IN FIRST GAME (Continued From First Page.) to second. Regan fanned. 8o did Sweeney. Rhyne forced Scarritt, Bluege to Myer. No runs. (GTON—Cronin put ‘fl) a high fly to Scarritt. Bluege ipled over Oliver's head in deep center. Spen- cer fiied to Scarritt, and Bluege scored after the catch. Jones took & strike. One run. FIFTH INNING. BOSTON—Myer threw out Spencer. West board in right. that huggfi the foul u::c'en; by Reeves for a double, scoring e. Judge flied ':xollv!r in left center. Myer fifed to Oliver. One Tun. SIXTH INNING. BOSTON—Reeves took & third strike. Bluege made a good catch of Durst’s foul in front of the field boxes. Scar- ritt lined to West. No runs. ‘WASHINGTON—Cronin singled to left and made second safely when Rhyne dropped Scarritt’s return throw for an error. Rhyne threw out Bluege, Cro- nin going to third. Spencer’s liner that Rhyne slapped down was good for & single, but Cronin did not leave third until Rhyne threw wildly by Sweeney, then Cronin scored and Spencer reached second safely. Jones drove into a double play, Reeves to Regan to Sweeney. Orie Tun. SEVENTH INNING. BOSTON—Spencer got Regan’s foul. Sweeney singled to left center. Miller batted for Rhyne. West came in fast for Miller’s low looper.” Myer threw out Berry. No runs. ‘WASHINGTON--Narlesky now play- ing short for Boston. West singled to center. Rice singled to center, and Nar- lesky, who took Oliver’s return, pegged wildly past first to the Washington dug- out. West scored and Rice went to third. Loepp popped to Scarritt. Judge doubled to the right fleld corper, scor- ing Rice. -Myer hoisted to Oliver. Cronin flied to Durst. - Two runs. EIGHTH INNING. ‘BOSTON-Todt batted for Russell and walked, Oliver. 1o left, send- ing Todt to’ second. ves singled to center, Todt and sending Oliver to second. flied to West and Oliver togk third after the catch. Scar- ritt filed to Loepp. Oliver was held at third, but on the throw-in Reeves. took second. Spencer got Regan's foul d. One ru WASHINGTON—Shields, - left- hander, now pitching for - Boston. Bluege singled to center. Shields tossed gol ring and Rice threw to_the ‘plate. . Loepp. TWO runs. & NINTH INNING. BOSTC: (—Sweeney - flied to Loepp. Nearlsky was safe when Myer fumbled. Davis to Write .Annual Report Before Resigning Retuirning to_ Washington to- day Secretary Davis hailed the result of the senatorial primary in Pennsylvania as triumph for decency in politics. Asked when he would resign as Secretary of Labor to assume ac- tively his role as Republican sen- atorial nominee, he replied: “I shall write my annual re- port.” ‘The annual report of cabinet officers are written after the fis- cal year ends on June 30. USE OF INFLUENCE DENIED BY CURTIS $10,000 Received for Le- gitimate Research. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May Harry K. Curtis, Chicago attorney, and son of Vice President Charles Curtis, was call- ed to the State's attorney’s office today and questioned concerning complaints of local contracting firms that they had paid Curtis retainers for his aid in [obtaining Government contracts. Curtis fold Patrick Roche, chief in- vestigator for the State's attorney, that he had received approximately $10,000 in legitimate fees from contractors for legal work, including investigation and research on bullding contracts. He denfed, however, that any fees had been accepted on & promise to exert personal influence with Washington officials to win contracts for his clients, Mike Malloy, taken into custody as reputed “go-between” in the transac- tions of Curtis and the contractors, was interrogated with the Vice President’s son. DAVIS NOMINATION APPEARS CERTAIN AS PINCHOT GAINS (Continued From Pirst Page.) year he was opposed to Pinchot, dryest of the dry, and to Brown, who had de- clared for a State referendum on the prohibition question. ‘Vare Strength Demonstrated. ‘The primary yesterday demonstrated again the strength of the Vare organi- zation in Philadelphia. That organi tion swept the city for its cane tes, rolling up a lead of 241,000 for Davis and 214,000 for Brown. “Bill” Vare. who was rejected by the Senate several months ago, came back to put his choice for the Senate across in Philadelphia and his selection also for governor. De- spite the l’l&t l:lyl:h\!lre o St;l.l hl:’ldAh capped greatly e stroke of paraly: which he suffered in August, 1928, he in the present cam , making several speeches. The results w’ indicated his grip on ‘the ed.mlpm. situation has not weak- en Senator Grundy, who for many years was ident of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association and who is himself a millionaire wollen manufac- turer, had the aid of the manufacturing interests of Pennsylvania. He had the .| aid also of the Mellons, including the Secretary of the Treasury. His defeat will be regarded as a defeat for the Mellons, although they have been draw- more and more out of the political it is reported. ddition to being by organization in Philadelphia, had the support of organ- ized labor throughout the State and in Allegheny County, his home county, the organization _was supporting him strongly. He had with him, too, in this fight the Republican national commit- teeman, Gen. W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pinchot Makes Strong Bid. Gov. Pinchot has made a strong run against the organization candidate, Brown. While he had no open alliance with Grundy, 1t is known that Grundy was working in the interest of Pinchot and against Brown. It was through aid * that won nor ‘in 1922, when Grundy became con- vinced that his own candidate, Fisher, could not win in that year. Senator Grundy was appointed to fill the vacancy in the Senate last Winter, after the Senate had turned down the then Senator-elect William 8. Vare be- cause of alleged excessive expenditures and fraud in the campaign of 1926. Grundy will continue to serve as Sena- tor until after the election is held next November, when he steps out and the newly elected Senator comes in. A Republican nomination for the Senate in Pennsylvania is regarded as the equivalent of election. It is true that Senate slush fund committee, headed by Senator Nye of North Dakota, is to conduct an investigation into the Pennsylvania senatorial primary. Mr. vis, however, has expended only a few thousand dollars in his race for the Senate, although it ‘is likely that it' will be developed that many thou- sands were expended for the Davis- Brown ticket throughout the State. The opinion was expressed today, how- "V‘: that )lul(r. Davis is declared the ner, a8 it now. appears he will be, he will be seated if he is elected next November. - AIR FLEET IN HAVANA HAVANA, May 21 (#).—Twenty-eight airplanes ‘from they third attack group of the United Stats Army Air Corps Ty R pa e 'pendence day cele- bration today. 3 ‘The planes, under the command of Maj. Davenport Johnson, flew in forma- tion ‘over- Columbia Airport before landing. Cuban aviation officials and Ambassador Harry F. Berry drove into a dov'se play, .Myet to Cronin to Judge. No runs. Guggenheim greeted the fiyers, g MRS. DAVIS KEEPS LONG VIGIL WATCHING VOTING PROGRESS Gets Barely Three Hours’ Rest as She Listens to Reports of Husband’s Campaign Success. ‘With but & scant three-hour “catnaj through the long night, Mrs. James J. Davis, wife of the Secretary of Labor, Republican senatorial nominee of Penn- sylvania, last night kept a long Vigil as buzzing telephones and Associated Press telegraph reports unfolded to her the story of a mounting margin of vic- tory for her husbanc :z the Pennsyl- G @enia Republcan primary yesterday. Mrs. Davis arrived in Washington last night about 8 o'clock, after a long and tiresome journey from Pittsburgh, where she had been with her husband during the day. After l;‘nl:rnm( up and l?lnl to the Joan, Jane and James, t e, o e, s, riang S tled for a long perusal of the election velurns as they came to her by tele- Jobn, S i === phone and from the Associated Press. Until 3 o'clock this morni she stayed up, avidly reading every bit of news of her husband’s success at the Pennsylvania polls. Then, very weary, she went off to bed, but not for long. At 6 o'clock this morning she was up and discussing with her husband, in Pittsburgh, the detalls of the voting, which, by then, lho"%d Davis far in front of Senator rundy. Tke Davis children, though they a good night's sleep, were no less f-\’f terested in the outcome of “Daddy Jim's” fight for the blican nomina- tion, and were up bright and early this morning with their mother to con- gratulate their father. Secretary Davis returned to from Pi h shortly before dressed members the Advertising Federation of America, his talk going out over a Nation-wide radio network. | l Vice President’s Son Saysll B oy et peasioe MBRIDE INDORSES FORT'S CANDIDACY “Amen” to Action of Jersey Drys Is Given Before Sen-. ate Lobby Group. By the Associated Press. The “amen” of the Anti-Saloon League to an indorsement by its New Jersey branch of the senatorial can- didacy of Representative Fort was given to the Senate lobby committee today by F. Scott McBride. Chairman Caraway of the committee inquired and the league superintendent testified he would “say amen” to the State branch decision. use of home brew?” asked Senator ine of Wisconsin. “No,” McBride replied. “Neither did Fort in his speech in Congress.” He said he had read Fort's recent speech. twice, and added that it was a “good speech.” Fort Prohibition Candidate. Fert announced his candidacy for the six-year term on a prohibition platfora 'ter Dwight Morrow and Joseph 8. Frelinghuysen both had come out against the dry laws in seeking the Re- publican nomination. McBride testified that John D. Rocke- feller, sr., and John D. Rockefeller, jr., had contributed to the Anti-Saloon League in 1921. The younger Rockefeller gave $20,000 and the elder $10,000. In 1924 the younger gave $15, and the elder $10,000. In 1925 both gave $20,000 Jointly. ‘The lel‘f\le superintendent said Henry Ford had never contributed to league, but had supported other pro- hibition work. Opposed “Score. Card.” On taking the stand today Mr. Me- ‘Bride said he disapproved of the score card prepared by the South Dakota |m; Anti-Saloon League for judging candi- dates for office. He reiterated that he knew nothing of the South Dakota plan for grading the acceptability of office seekers. Senator Blaine read a league report by Ernest H. Cherrington, which said Se- bastian 8. Kresge of Detroit had prom- ised to give $500,000 to the educational department of the league and the World League Against Alcoholism. The report said the donation, which was to be equally divided between the two organizations, was to be paid over & period of five years. Denies Upshaw Employed. ‘The witness said William D. Upshaw, former Representative from Georgi and a dry, had not been employed by the national league to make speeches. A letter was read from Thomas W. Gales, superintendent ‘of the North Dakota League to McBride, dated last March 3. ‘The Gales letter sald Upshaw had “made a mess of our work in this State, sending Mr. Ridley to take his place when he had given me his word of honor that he would not come himself. “If anything elects 'A. C. Townley to Co‘nfill from the third district it will work of Ridley,” it continued. ‘Evidently Mr. Townley has hired him to come and help him during this campaign, * * * “Is there anything that could be done or any influence that could be used with Mr. Upshaw to have him call Mr, Ridley ofl. “According to the Bible, ‘A man’s} worst_enemies are those of his own household.” Ridley claims to be a Baptist preacher ‘Selah.’” Upshaw for Debates. - McBride sald Upshaw had advocated debates between wets and drys and he gxfl;ued the plan, saying he did not k “we should give ‘wets our audience.” Answering Chairman Carawa! witness sald he was not afrai HOOVER REVIEWS | U.3.BATILE FLEET | Chief Executive Watches Ma- neuvers From Navy’s New- est 10,000-Ton Cruiser. By the Associated Press. President Hoover was back in the Capital today after witnessing the first maneuvers of the United States ever staged in battle formation for a Chief Executive. For more than three hours yesterday the Commander-in-chief of the Nation's armed forces s on the communica- tions deck of the Navy's newest 10,000~ ton cruiser, the Salt Lake City, and watched a mighty sea parade of sub- marines, destroyers, cruisers and bat- tleships move past him. He saw air- planes rise from the decks of their mother ships to lay a protective smoke reen around the fleet below, while above the haze hovered the giant non- combatant Los Angeles. Hooks Plane {o Los Angeles. The climax of the all-day program came when Lieut. Comdr. C. A. Nichol- son flew a plane off the deck of the airplane carrier Saratoga and, after being driven down four times by the Stiff breeze, finally hooked his craft to : |the trapeze-like frame beneath the Los Angeles. Nicholson rode suspended from the dirigible for about 10 minutes and then cast off to return to the carrier. It was the first time a plane had been hooked to the Los Angeles at sea, al- though the feat had been performed over land. Prom the deck of the cruiser Salt Lake City, President Hoover watched a mock battle on the water and attacl by dozens of planes from aircraft car riers. The maneuvers took place about 15 miles off shore, which was out of sight in the haze. After it was over President Hoover sent his congratulations to Admiral William V. Pratt, commander of the United States fleet, in the following The Pr “The esident wishes to congratu- late the commander in chief ol;r‘the fleet on the smart and efficient man- ner in which the individual units per- formed their tasks.” Hoover Inspects Cruiser. Before leaving the Salt Lake City, Mr. Hoover climbed down the narrow ladders into the hold of the vessel to examine the huge oil-burning engines. On deck, he inspected the 8-inch guns of the craft, whose merits over 6-inch- gun cruisers now are being debated by & Senate committee. During the review the President stood at attention, hat over heart, while he watched through binoculars the ma- neuvers of the ships. The aircraft car- rier Lexington moved close alongside the Salt Lake City at one time, while plane after plane zoomed upward from its decks. The cruiser returned him to the piers trip to Washington. H hy 810 orclock Tase might. . T ooned here n:hlp on Time at Rendezvous. Salt Lake City was still vague in the haze and far off to l'.lrbc::’ld when the faint, distant drumming of the first salute guns of the advance guard came throbbing back to the ears of those aboard the Saratoga, as the Teview got under way yesterday morn- ing. Puffs of white powder smoke mingled in the gray haze and drifted off, and just as the guns rumbled into e 21-gun national salute that the President and the flag alone receive, six bells—11 a.m. in land-lubber time— sounded emn. t:net ships. They were on ot a - - e ’ L their sea-set ren. From the top of the carrier the swirling wakes of the mllnuw“::a destroyers, leaping from cruising speed to a swift 25-knot gait as they went by, was all that could be seen. Behind them, separated by a mile or two of blue sea, wrinkled by a soft and cool- he ing offshore breeze, trudged the three League's tions” had been misinterpreted. “It is both educational and political,” he said. “Were your activities in the Pennsyl- vania primary educational or political?” Caraway asked. “Both,” MecBride said. “It was qfite an educational campaign.” columns of bettleships, Admiral Pratt on the Texas leading the center column with the California, showing the flag of Admiral Nulton, commander of the battle fleet, just astern. From the truck of h battleship waved a monster na- tional flag, her battle colors three times the size of her normal flag. Flag at Every Masthead. From each cruiser, destroyer and Probe League’s Financing. Details of the league’s financing also McBride test! 2 by contributions of State leagues, by soliciting money from individuals and by meetings Where = collections were | Tadsed. ¢ Receipts for the last three years, he said, have ranged between $250,000 and $300,000 annually. Blaine asked McBride to furnish the committee with a financial statement of the World League Against Alcohol- ism, of which Dr. Cherrington is super- intendent. McBride sald he would be glad to furnish it but said there was no direct relation in the activities of the two organizations. Blaine read from a F. Cochran of Baltimore lwrp‘eduunnm-l work in Maryland. a letter to Albert Edgar Free of Phila- delphia, another contributor, Cochran said he had been “badly hoodwinked™ in connection with his contribution. The letter said Freeman's contribu- tion was $12,000 a year—$3,000 to go to the national organization and $9,000 to theNew Jersey organization. Coch- ran wrote he would not have made his pledge if he had known Freeman’s con- tribution was McBride said. McBride said the National League had raised $10,000 for a political cam- rli‘ll fund in 1928 and the State eagues had raised $75,000. Attended Republican Convention. “That prepared the soil for a prohi- bition educational campaign,” he said. McBride said he had attended the Republican national convention at Kansas City in 1928 and added the organization was interested in obtain- ing “the right kind of a declaration for enforcement of prohibition and a can- didate who would favor that program.” Blaine read a letter written last June by Foster Copeland of Columbus, Ohio, chairman of the business committee of the league, which sald officers of the Jeague wanted to increase the budget $200,000 a year for political activities for the next five years. “This will build a more powerful pub- lic sentiment, re-elect dry Congresses the next four years and a dry President in 1932, the letter said. It praised the prohibition views of President Hoover. McBride was directed to reappear tomorrow. WOMAN HELD IN MURDER CANTON, I, May 21 0P Mary Marshman, 25, arrested yester- day ‘on request of who seek to question her concerning the slaying and mutilation last month of Harry Anthony of Toledo, whose body, mangled by machine gun slugs, was found on & prairle. Police sought Mrs. Marshman after clerk at the Greenview Hotel in she had been Anthony came to his death because of attempts to “muscle in” on racketeers. be used in that|. plane carrier half a dozen flags showed. That is still battle orders lor“the Navy: A flag at every masthead as in the old days of wooden sea fighters. ‘The Texas blossomed to starboard then port with a burst of white smoke as the first guns of her salute shouted their formal greeting to the watching Chief of the Nation. From the sides of each of the 10 heavy fighting ships that followed leaped answering flares and the following bursts of smoke to swell like monster cotton blossoms against the gray background of the si ahead the light craft were slip- ing into the haze that clung to the ison, while the Los Angeles swung idling ahead to the wind far above, her silver sides radiant in the sunlight. As the battleships trudged by and "‘; swung eastward into battle line to meet the coming assauit.of the cruisers and destroyers, the two airplane carriers, with their nearly 200 fighting aircraft clustered on deck with motors already roaring in warm-up, sounded their salute to the President. Aboard the Saratoga her men, more than 1,000 strong, were drawn up in line along that wide empty foredeck, at salute tothe President. The Lexing- ton had similarly dressed ship in his honor. Roar of Motors Deafening. ‘The carriers swung inshore to head nto the light breeze to help their brood get into the air. The mighty ships, capable of 34 knots under tull drive, ‘were stepped up to 25 knots and their decks and all the air about were deaf- ened in the roar of motors. ‘The first little pursuit ship from the leading Saratoga went sweeping ahead down the deck in a frenzied clamor of sound. From the very forward tip it leaped into the air and went soaring up to await the ships that followed. With amazing speed 'the whole great brood were off into the air, one by one like seagulls frightened from a rocky roost. It was only a matter of minutes before they were gone and soon after them the Lexington's warrior flying crews took to the mir. Over the wide sweep of sea the endless thunder of the motors swept as the squadrons dove and twisted and turned in evolutions, some far up like specks against the clouds, others close down. ! Below them the Salt Lake City and ! the two carriers swung to race away into the east, where the line of bat- tleships had all but vanished. They drove ahead at high speed, wakes boil- ing, and moment by moment the big .ll“w grew larger and clearer to the view. ‘They were coming almost head on and in line. At a distance of two miles and on radio order from the fleet com- mander they swung sharp to port like soldiers on parade and & moment later were heading back eastward again in line of battle. Vanish in Smoke Screen. But the air fleets above were waiting . As it came three Eu ing down in close fly- formal to sweep & swift triple bank of white smoke cloud down one side of the battle fleet. Three more crossed this with another cottony mass of smoke screen and the big van- ished utterly from view. There was not wind enough to draw aside that white curtain. fieet, the Salt Lake City and the at Old Point Comfort late in the after- [ It engulfed the Lexington, the battle fi honor President Hoover reviewing the United States fleet off the V! of the Salt Lake City, America’s most modern cruiser of the 1 tary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Assistant Secretary of F. Hughes, chief of naval operations. ton class. Wi e Navy Ernest LOCAL PROHIBITION BILL DISCUSSED BY COMMITTEE Senate Body Continues Delibera- tions on Howell Measure; Amend- ments Are Suggested. The Senate District committee will meet in executive session at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon to continue its de- liberations on the Howell local prohibi- tion bill, which was taken up but not nnhkhed at an executive session last week. A number of amendments have been ested and indications are that there be lengthy consideration of them at the Friday meeting before a final decision is announced. As introduced the bill would extend prohibition authority to all local policemen and would give local authorities greéater power in obtaining search warrants. PITTS WITHHOLDS BOND LOSS FACTS Under Criminal Indictment, For- mer Smith Co. Official Does Not Testify. G. Bryan Pitts, former chairman of the board of directors of the F. H. Smith Co., appeared before the referee in bankruptcy today in answer to a subpoena served on him December 11. Mr. Pitts was called to testify con- cerning the disappearance of $200,000 of second mortgage bonds on the Law and Finance Bullding of Pittsburgh, which were to have been held in escrow for the Boyle-Robertson Construction Co., contractors. He told Pred J. Eden, the referee, that he did not have the records cover- ing this bullding and that he could not discuss the whereabouts or the dis- appearance of these records because he is under criminal indictment in con- nection with this same matter. He ex- plained it would not be fair to himself or his associates to go into that phase at this time. He was examined by George A. Sullivan, attorney for trustee in bankruptcy in Boyle-Robertson case. Pitts had been ordered to show cause why he should not be held in criminal contempt of court for failure to obey the subpoena. He went before Justice ‘Willlam Hitz of the District Supreme Court, yesterday, and after several witnesses had been heard, he was given an opportunity today to comply with the subpoena. He returns to court this afternoon for final disposition ‘of the matter. HOOVER TO SPEAK Address to Safety Convention Will Be Carried by Radio. NEW YORK, May 21 (#).—When President Hoover extends a greeting to the National Street and Highway Safe- ty Convention in Washington on Tues- day, May 27, it will be transmitted over a National Broadcasting System net- work, the chain announced today. The broadcast is to begin at 10:15 a.m. Robert P, Lamont, Secretary of Com- merce, also will be heard on the net- work. Authoress Dies in Alabama. SELMA, Ala, May 21 (#).—Mrs. Katherine Hopkins Chapman, authoress and historian of the National League of American Pen Women, died here today after an iliness of & few hours, follow- ing a cerebral hemorrhage during the night. She was 6‘0 years old. guard of eight destroyers surrounding her. From the Saratoga's top, nearly 200 feet above the water line, only the far specks of bombing planes, falling from the sky, with roaring motors to stimulate attack from the air upon the battle fleet were visible. They vanished below the high rim of the smoke screen before their dives wes completed. Torpedo planes went sweeping just over the screens to drop inside it and ma- neuver to lay their deadly barrage. Somewhere in that triangle of smoke ciloud that hung over the sea for a long time, doubtlessly was carried out, but no one saw it from the Saratoga. Only dis- tantly did they see Comdr. Nicholson make his daring and successful air ren- dezvous with the big dirigible. She came proudly back toward the Saratoga with the plane swinging beneath her wide bosom, and as she hauled away out toward where the Salt Lake was emerging from the smoke haze with her destroyer escort, en route back within the capes, the daring pilot cut loose again and went wafting down as easily as a man might step into a small boat m a calm sea and row away. ing brood, circling about her, waiti for their chance to drop lightly to her decks again, their mission finished. And when he landed there, to conclude his novel feat of transferring both him- self and his ship from the deck of a surface vessel to & hook suspended be. low & monster dirigible 2.000 feet in the air, then back to the ship below again, he brought a letter from the Los An- ‘And by that time, with the sun slowly dipping westward, President Hoover aboard the fast crulser was far. inshore toward the harbor and the bulk of the t reviewed tlvxz w. it fight ttg the destroyer attack on the fleet | if g | s much drinking but little drunkenness. PUPILS DISAGREE ON IMMORALTY Survey Reveals Boys and Girls at Odds Over Flam- ing Youth Charge. (Continued From First Page.) cock for the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, and J. W. Crabtree of the National Edica- tion Association, which is co-operating with the Federal commission in study- ing the effects of the prohibition amendment on_ high school children of the Nation. The data gathered in the ‘Washington schools through interviews with representative students has just been forwarded to Mr. Crabtree by Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent in charge of high schools, who has very carefully deleted all names which would identify either puplls or specific school A girl student at a high school at- tended by many children of the elite | sees the thing like thi: ‘There is, of course, a great deal of smoking among both boys md':flll. though that can hardly be cal an ‘undesirable actlvity.’ There is quite a bit of drinking done, but mostly by the boys. In fact, very few of the girls ever touch a drop of liquor. In the car, coming and going, there is usually one- arm driving and an exchange of kisses and so-called ‘lines,’ which are really & source of amusement. I know of no really u?’x;mnl conduct among the girls 1 go with.” “Most Dances Are Orderly.” Another girl at this school says “most of the dances are very orderly, but 1 have heard of some private parties that are very disorderly.” Commenting on drinking by pupils, she says: “They seem to think drinking a great sport and think it makes them old. Most of the boys at (the name of her schol) seem to be orderly, while many of the girls are not.” A third girl at this school declared she has always found the conduct of her fellow students “perfectly decorous.” She has heard tales of drinking, but she herself has seen none of it. ‘“Th2 high school students,” she adds, “are apt to be blamed because often other people are mistaken for high school students d their conduct judged accordingly. “I do not think,” asserts still another girl at this school, “that the news- paper articles apply to the High School pupils. At most dances there are a few boys who have had some- thing to drink, but they are not with If they make too much dis- ice they are easily disposed of.” the drinkln{w boys are “usually” the “real young boys who are trying to be smart.” ‘Three other girls interviewed in confi- dence by their principal at this same school defend the conduct of their assoclates by insisting that the little drinking done at school social functions is done by “outsiders.” One abhors smoking by girls, but admits “you can’t get away from it.” Another girl classi- fles drinking high school students as “about 5 per cent of the students who do attend many dances, which is about one-fourth of the student body.” A drunken student, she adds, is gen- eral object of ridicule.” Drinking en Special Oceasions, A boy student of the same school from which the -quoted girls hail has seen no drinking or immoral conduct at dances given by his school, but, says he, “this does not apply to other social functions.” He says he has attended parties and dances “where the drink- ing has been excessive.” The moral conduct at these latter places, he opines, “was fairly good, but nothing to write home about.” Very few high school students make a “habit” of drinking, but confine their liquor- taking to “special occasions, such as Christmas, New Year eve and frater- nity or sorority closed dances.” He believes, further, that. the “newspapers get their ideas” from the “class known to pupils as the rabble,” and, as in explanation, asserts that this “rabble” Joud-mouthed and when its mem- bers get the smell of liquor on their breath “they go around making believe they are drunk.” If by “immoral conduct” is meant “relations between the sexes,” a second boy at this school declares: “I would say there is no more than any other place or at any other time, but if gambling is meant, I would say it is a very popular sport.” He adds that “every dance, party, every con- gregation of friends witnesses some form of gambling, whether it be cards or dice. I find this true of all Wash- ington high schools and one is just as bad as the others. To summarize, there Gambling is a popular sport, however immoral.” Another boy has seen absolutely no nia capes in Hampton Roads yesterday from the deck ith President Hoover can be seen Secre- Lee Jahnke and Rear Admiral Charles —Harris-Ewing Photo. LIEUT. COMDR. C. A. NICHOLSON, Who performed thriliing feat for Presi- dent Hoover. He flew a plane off the deck of the airplane carrier Saratoga and, after being driven down four :imes by the stiff breeze, finally hooked his craft to the trapese-like frame beneath the Los Angeles. He rode suspended from the dirigible for about 10 minutes and then cast off to return to the car- rier, where he is shown beside his plane. —Associated Press Photo. the high schools, as men who say the younger generation is going to the dogs would like to believe. I believe that smoking is more of an issue than drink- ing. I am firmly convinced that the boys and girls would not care so much for either smoking or -drinking if the people who make both a sin would stop making so much fuss about it and the newspapers would stop grossly exaggerating.” These statements were forwarded by the principal, who was unable to reduce such ‘“contradictory” statements to a summary. A principal of one of the more centrally located high schools formed three definite observations: “(1) Drink- ing by —— High School (his) is practically negligible; () improper sex relations are rare, although there is greater freedom in the relations be- tween the sexes than existed 20 years 1go, and (3) “I do not see any great dif- ference between the human animal of 1890 and 1930.” Most of this principal's interviewed students insisted that drinking and immoral conduct was either non-existent in their school or examples of either were so infrequent as to discredit notice. One declared that the ‘“so-called immorality, wild- ness and drinking of the students in the high schools s & myth.” Becoming explicit, he says that during his three years in high school there have been, to his knowledge, only two cases of this sort of conduct. x Majority of Students Honest. “The cynic,” he says, “who sees on every side drinking, immoral dancing ‘l:d nthg Vlc‘;l he so0 loves to pog;t ol:: prov e younger generation going to Y!be dogs, is one of those per- sons who looks to the left. It is only natural that in an organization the size of the high school some undesirable stu- dents must creep in. The vast majority of students in any high school in the country are honest, industrious, clean- living young men and woman, who have never been to a wild party in their life, who have never touched a flask to their lips, and who will, in a short time, take up the duties of an American citizen, raise a family and be respected members of their community.” A fellow student of the young philos- opher just quoted wrote that *‘there are a certain amount of black sheep in every community. There is a certain amount of drinking and immoral conduct at &lrfltl and socials, but I belleve that it much in the minority and can be sup- pressed altogether by having the right kind of chaperons.” When questioned hether he meant parties given by or at own school, this chap replied: “Yes, among — High School puplls. Almost all parties are that way.” A principal of a high school in the eastern .part of the city is convinced that most student functions are abso- lutely dry when they are held at school, but admits that where they are staged drinking of immoral conduct at a “strietly school dance,” that is, he adds, at any dance given in the building it- self.” At popular dance floors, ho ever, he has observed a little drinking, “possibly three or four out of hundred.” . Drinking Is Going Out. A third boy admits that it has been & | Assoc gathered for the Law Enforcement | p; in hotels or other places where “control of guests was not so complete,” grad- uates or outsiders have brought liquor. ‘The data supplied Mr. Kramer for transmittal tc the National Education lation where similar facts are be- was given by the students in confidential interviews witli their rincipals. Each student was assured the style to boast of one’s ability to drink n’nd smoke, but insists the style is “pecause it is rather un- L ‘:u'éo back up thelr words with “The worst kind of liquor” thist it an! he told would not be used to punish offenders and to institute a drastic curb on school functions. The school authorities are convinced that, hav! accepted the promise of their pri chap says, “costs money, 80 there can- and gave a true picture of morality in not be so much of it floating around ‘Washington schools. BAKER SUSPECT UNABLE O READ Medical Men Deny Brewster Learned Crime Details From Papers. ‘While an Army Medical Board was putting Pvt. Harold L. Brewster through a grilling psychological examination today, designed to ascertain whether the man who “confessed” to the murder of Mary Baker, Navy Department clerk, is sane, another angle in the web of contradictions, admissions and denials of which Brewster is the center came to light today with the announcement that Brewster is incapable of reading, and therefore cannot have gleaned his detailed knowledge of the circumstances of the crime of April 11 from newspaper accounts. ‘The table hostler of the Headquarters Company has been declared incapable of making & connected story from any piece ot reading matter with which he is confronted, of pronouncing words correctly, and of being able to piece together the elements of a st8ry in such manner as to make sense of the article. ‘This development came y &8s Brewster was undergoing a questioning by Army doctors in a closely guarded room at the Munitions Building, re- quested by his commanding officer, in an effort to prove or disprove the ma: sanity. Authorities agree that the a sault and murder of Mary Baker prob- ably would have been committed by an insane person or a person of the crim- inal moron type. While he was being examined by Majs. Charles L. Maxwell, Patrick S. Madigan and Willlam C. Porter, the grey suit he said he wore on the night of “the .tragedy was undergoing & microscopic scrueiny at ehe laboratories of the Public Health Service to de- termine whether it contains human blood stains. Another new clew, which was minimized by headquarters detec- tives, cropped up today as investigators examined a red and biue striped necktie which belonged to Brewster, which is ained with a substance which might be blood. Investigation has developed that Brewster has not had the gray suit cleaned since April 11, altbough it has been pressed once since that time. Detectives claim that the substance on the necktie, i it is blood, would have soaked through the tie onto the man's shirt, but other investigators claim a few spots of blood would not soak through the fabric of a tie in sufficient quantity to stain the ‘Brewster's shirts have no stains. Officials today regarded the inability of the soldier to read print as one of the most significant developments in the chain of circumstances which have involved Brewster as the main figure in the tragedy since the ‘afternoon of May 14, when he broke down under a grilling by his superior officer on another matter and “confessed” to the Baker crime. In radical disparity to his previous willingness to talk, Brewster now has become sullen and obviously unwilling. to discuss his actions on the afternoon and evening of April 11, Where he was willing, & few days ago, to discuss all the details of the assault on Mary Baker, with the exception of the shoot~ ing, he now answers ns in a suhly fashion and appea: to talk. His newest angle of where he obtained the gun, which he admits he had when he said he stfuck Mary Baker, is that “I reached down in my pocket when I needed a gun and found one there.” Two nights agc, with des ltecuvu and Depal mt of Justice | agents, he was taken on a trip through | Georgetown in an attempt to locate the place where he had said he pur- chased the pistol, bt 1o success” at- tended this excursion. Identifies -Girl's Pieture. He wcs confronted early today with a ur: of Mary Baker and Olgs Skin- i I 5 close Iale:ld., and Wlfihol.l‘!ml&nl.l- { tation ho placey finger on - i ure wear.ng the coat which Mary Baker | wore cn the day she was slain. The menial examinal to which Brawster was being subjected today was due to last the entire day, and the find- ings may not be made lic for a week or 10 days. The man is to be kept un- der consiant observation after the ques- tioning he undergoes today. Brewsicr's knowledge of the detalls of the crime, coupled with the revela- tion that he could not'have obtained them from the newspapers, because of his inability to read, have convinced some who have examined him, including agenis of the Department of Justice, that if Brewster did not commit the crime, he knows something about it. To bolstersthese theories is his identifi- cation by at least two other persons, including & woman whom he accosted near Seventeenth and B streets, pre- vious to April 11. y Majs. Madigan and Porter are psycho- logists detalled at Walter Reed Hos- pital. Maj. Maxwell, head of the ex- amining board, is an Army physician. Search still is going on in nearby States for a veteran of the World War who lived for a time in a tent in near- by Virginia and who is said to have ad- mitted knowing Mary Baker. The man was said to have been traced to & town in Pennsylvania and later to have been seen at Harpers Ferry. Meanwhile authorities investigating the murder were call/d upon today by Representative 8. O. Bland of Virginia to issue a “joint, definite. positive and conclusive statement” ex-nerating Miss Baker from any reflections that have been made on her character. Bland wrote to offic’als of the three agencies working on the case—the Metropolitan Police Department, the Department of Justice and Arlington County authorities—pointing out that information had been given him to the effect that Miss Baker was of good moral character and criticizing news- paper reports to the contrary as “wholly unjustified and absolutely with- out any foundation.” “My understanding is that those in- vestigating the crime,” Bland said, “have in their possession evidence of the purity of Miss Baker’s character and that the circumstances of the trip to Baltimore, of which so much appears to have been made, were such as to absolutely nega- tive any improper relation. Those con- nected with the investigation owe it to the girl and her family to make » *, definite, positive and conclusive s: ment exonerating her from any reflec- tions that have been made on her char- acter. She cannot be brought back to life, but her character can be vindicated and preserved.” Superintendent of Police Pratt and Chief of Detectives Shelby both an- nounced they would reply to Bland's request with statements that the Wash- ington police had found nothing in their investigation of the murder case Which would reflect on the character of Miss Baker. FRENCH PRESS FOLLOWS MUSSOLINI'S SPEECHES By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 21.—Premier Mussolini’s 8 hes during his present tour of lmny are being clonlL!ollowed,hy the French press, which in some case: is showing concern at his remarks, par- ticularly as they are felt to refer to The said: “The tone Premier Mussolin{ ing speeche: incipals, the boys and girls opened up official circl