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A-2 % LAW ENFORCEMENT HELD-IMPROVED #Ac3ride Convinced Com- piaint Against Hoover and Melion Is Wrong. (Continved Finst A) quite as active and aggressi predecessor, the late Wayne B. Wheeler. “Mr. Wheeler was a very able man, and 1 do not clalm to measure up to him,” McBride rejoined. “Is your inertia the cause of falling off of the league funds?” Blaine asked. McBride said- reports submitted showed the funds had not diminished. The Wisconsin Senator presented a ‘Wheeler report concerning the Volstead act, which read in part: » “When 1 presented the bill to Mr. | Volstead he made several suggestions and changes and after & conference with & number of our friends in Congress the bill was introduced.” : Appointments Satisfactory. 5 MecBride testified that the prohibition :onlnlllomrl appointed had been satis- to the league. Another report submitted by Wheeler in July, 1921, which was read, said he had the assurance of the administration that no one would be appointed as pri- - hibition commisisoner “who was objec- tionable to us.” ‘This Wheeler report read in part: “The activities of this department for the last quarter have been largely in securing additional law-enforcement legislation and in helping to bring about ive” us° his | hay THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, MALTA, POLITICAL VESUVIUS, . INVOLVES ITALY IN ERUPTION British Administration’s Quarrel With Papers on BY JOSEPH GRIGG. Speétal Dispatch to The Star and the New Xork Sun. Copyright, 1930. LONDON, May 33.—Recent political and _religlous developments in Malta ve s) what keen observers on the spot Have always said, that the island 18 a simmering Vesuvius, with all the latent possibilities of an explosion af- fecting. not only the colony itself, but Great Britain and Italy as well. Hence the watchful eye which both the colonial office in Whitehall and the Vdtican in Rome are keeping on the sittation. 1In no other country in the world, with the possible exception of Ireland, are religion and politics so closely inter- mixed, and where the church’s inter- ference in temporal affairs has the force of a medieval edict. Lord Strickland, the prime minister, and himself the head of a great English Catholic family, has endeavored to keep two things separate, but his efforts so far have merely resulted in a state of armed neu- trality between himself and the Pope. The present crisis in the island is & recurrence of the trouble which devel- oped more than & year ago, though its genesis goes back for generations. In March, 1929, a sensation was caused in religious circles in Malta by the action of Lord Strickland in interfering with disciplinary measures of a Franciscan monastery. £ Origin of the Dispute. the appointment of national law-en- forcement officers who would honesily attempt to enforce the national pro- hibif gop U= e together, pick out & man and insist upon his appointment. . As the contest it became ‘more manifest eflmmld not haye been & suc- prohibition - commissoner satis- to the middle-of-the-road tem- In 1928, he said, the leagu efforts toward election of a dry ent and dry members of Con- Thev were not named. $1,000 Sent to Montana. Dunford said $1,000 slso was: sent $o Montana in 1928 for use in a prohi- B s et 10 W, 1. Wade of Helena, 5 e Mont., he sdid. 130 ° ¢ 34 greas, int out an instance re did not for salaries of league employes in Wash- ington or Westerville, Ohio, national uarters. ‘;'M committee adjourned until Tues- e HANIHARA BREAKS LONG SILENCE AT - DINNER TO CASTLE (Continued Prom_ Pirst Page. of using a velled threat against that Secretary of State’ tegorical the, country was brushed the American people, who never have failed in the long run to be fair and Jyst, not only to themselves, but to others as weli.” ‘Well Informed Should Act. Hanihara said that if the exclusion matter were left in the hands of well informed government ents, “perhaps the questions would have been settled ere this to the muts satis- 'On the popular misconception as_to true nature of that regrettable inci- dent. It is not so much a question as to whether one nation should or should not exercise its sovereign rights in regu- lating matters relating to its domestic affairs, as it is often represented to be. Rather it is a question of whethet one people should ~treat another people sympathetically, fairly or unfairly. The dinner was held at the Peers Club, with Prince Tokugawa presiding. Guests included Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, three other members of the cabinet and other distinguished per- sons. Castle spoke after Hanihara, but the American envoy's former diplomi speech was a reitera- tion of Hanihara's confidence that “the American people, in the long run, will do the fair, square thing.” JAPAN IN ACCORD WITH U. 8. Exchange of Notes Will Be Made on Article 19 of Naval Pact. By the Asscciated Press. TOKIO, May 23.—Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara submitted to today's cabinet session the American inquiry received through Ambassador Willlam R. Castle, jr, concerning Japan's inter- grfll!ion of Article 19 of the London ent treaty. ‘The cabinet left the matter of & re- ply in Baron hara's hands.. It was that the foreign minis- ith the Amer- permit Great Britain to replace 6-inch gun cruisers with craft carrying 8-inch guns. Japan's domestic controversy over the treaty has been suspen: to the res, only reference to the | ,, Father Carta, the Italian superior, ordered Padre Guido Micallef, a prom- inent’ partisan of the Constitutional rty which Lord Strickland ‘leads, to eave Malta for a Sicilian province. ‘The padre appealed to Lord Strickland, who, &s prime minister, countermanded the order on the ground that an Italian subject had no right to deport a British Maltese subject. Father Carta reported the incident |1 to the Vatican and as a result Padre Micallef was excommunicated and de- prived of tion was then brought up in the Mal- tese Parliament and a resolution was g the governor of Malta to the Vatican h the o oftces 8 passed asking submit to British colonial and fore! request to send out an apostolic visitor to inquire into the matter. Lord Strick- land _announced that the government would not let any important witness Xn’:‘ the island pending the Pope’s de- cision. The next morning Father Carta re- newed his order for the padre's de- pertare; ‘and ‘once more the government tervened on the ground that sueh an order was a.challenge to the authority of the government. A is Aroused. . e o the Hisoa. Lord hly stirred . g‘t‘l!lck]lnd lllert‘:fl‘ that nothing would sidetrack - ministers from protecting British subjects from banishment from British territory and their own country under pratext of religious discipline. A counterblast soon came from the church. . The Archbis] of Maita in his Lenten ¥ 1 recalled that “dis- obedkneemfl.he Public church’s laws indirect reference to d in religious circles in Malta the question was raised whether the hme minister had excommunicated 1t ipso facto. Strickiand heatedly repudiated the report of his excommunicat'on which was featured,in: the whole of the Italian Fascist press, asserting that it would be a monstyous thing if the Vatican exeul::mnkaw & man ;lgn had two English ‘martyrs a ancestors, which he had. lzrwg‘mn being an- tagonistic toward the church, the Maltese government, he sa'd, wished to do all it could to protect its inter- ests, but it could not approve of priests who used their influence in political matters. As head of the government of & ulmvml:f colony Strickland was wit] his rights in refusing to allow the-deportation of a Maltese subject, but he reckoned without the strong Roman Catholic and -Italian ele- ment in the island which has often shown anti-British tendencies. Ttalians Have Grievance. mm“:tal:n e}:ment, amcl:hhn [y grievance e gov- ernment over the hn‘uu‘z ".-‘T:{ hoped manf pressure a Rome to take diplomatic action, Should this have ha ed the mattsr would have beep en_out of the hands of Strickland and placed in'the hands of the - Governor of Malta, for relations with foreign states are one of the re- served matters in the constitution nted the island in 1921, Great gr‘lhln; has s representstive at the Vatican through w! the matter could be nted. )}elnvhlle the Italian press took an active interest in Maltese affairs and Strickland was attacked dally. He was described by Tevere as “an imperial emissary to spread discord .monf the islanders, and to create an artificial rty in defense of British interests and m troy all which forms Malta’s spiritual patrimony, its lenguage and its T n.” Abuse was heaped on all British schemes directed toward the establishment of schools, the develop- ment of the Anglican Church and. adjustment of language anamolies. he crisis dragged on until July, when an alde-memoire denouncing Strickland's activities reached the Vat- joan and was the subject of a note from Cardinal Gasparri to the British Minister at the papal court. On. July 1126 Btrickland and six members of his cabinet issued a memorandum charging that the document was & travesty of the Maltese situation and was dictated by undiluted political bias and trans- m‘rent rsonal enmity against Strick- d. - It was greatly deplored that the Holy See should have -been uncon- ance of its great prestige and power to what was nothing less than a eon- spiracy against British rule in Malta. Vatican Repudiates Rejoinder. Vatican circles repudiated Strick- land’s rejoinder, considering it offensive in tone, inaccurate in substance and lmde%ulu in argument. However, in ugust Lord Strickland was able to announce that he was still persona grata with the Holy See. “My ancestor, Sir Willlam Strick- land,” sald Lord Strickland, “was the secretary of the Catholic committee that made the pledge to Pitt that Eng- lish Catholics would take their religion from Rome and their politics from themselves. It was only on this prin- ciple that acticing Catholics could continue to ministers of the King. “There 1s no question of discussing the infallibility of the Pope in spiritual matters, but now that his holiness has become & temporal soverelgn, it is all the more important that ministers of the King should remember their pledge and their duty to King and country. “All the parties concerned,” Strick- land added, “are at present anxious to put an end to the tension by establish- ing a hard and fast line between poli- tics and religion.” But the state of qulesence was not to last Jong. In December of last year the Archbishop of Malta alleged tha the Maltese government had made two.pro- tests to the Pope, but in neither case had they. been transmitted by the im- perial authorities to the also asserted that the Pope had refused to receive a certain Maltese Minister. ‘The allusion was to Strickland. Lord Strickland, l"gly‘nl in the Mal- tese lative assembly, set forth that ded owing "u‘:f—i:""”" of two outstanding figu m-nh,nmrofnehe navy, and Admiral Kal of the navy with & cold. L 4 he had never sought sudience with the Pope, hullndbeenlfl!dwdnuw the British foreign ice, ‘When _the postolic te_visited the island he on of terms with the Em s his priestly offices. The ques- |, sciously misled into lending the assist- | Vatican Draws Wrathful Fire of Fascist House C Strickland. Such was the situation at the end of last year between the state and church, which has again flamed into activity, at the approach of the Maltes elections. Strickland Native of Malta. Lord Strickland, who has been made the focal point for the attack of the Clerical party in Malta, was born on the island in 1861, where he bears the title of Count Della Catena. His Eng- lish seat is Sizergh Castle in Westmor- land, where 25 generations of Strick- lands have lived. He has extensive Dl‘gferty at Villa Bologna in Malta. e was educated at Oscott College, Birmingham, and Trinity College, Cam- bridge, where he took honors in law. He was appointed chief secretary of the government of Malta in 1889, where he or’lnl.nd the Royal Malta Militia and reformed the education system, elimi- nating the compulsory teaching of Italian, He also introduced English into the courts of law. In 1902 he began his career as & co- lonial governor, serving successively in the Leeward Islands, Tasmania, Western Australia, and New South Wales. When Malta was given its constitution in 1921, Sir Walter Strickland, as he then was, was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Island. He was also returned for the House of Commons in 1924 for Lancaster, and had the distinction of serving in two Parliaments within the British Empire. When his party came into office in Malta and he was elected prime minister he was raised to the peerage and resigned his seat in the ouse of Commons. He has written extensively, both on the ancient history of Malta and on its modern constitution. In 1928 his wife, Lady Strickland, announced that she would endow an English Roman Catho- lic College in Malta with $500,000. Cardinal Bourne, the head of the Ro- an Catholic Church in England, was appointed one of the trustees of the tol- lege. It was this college - that the Archbishop of Malta recently refused to less. X The late T. P. O'Connor described Lord Strickland as “handsome, debonair and beautifully groomed. He looks like a country squire who has come from his hounds s& his castle to dabble in politics.” T MALTESE PREMIER, FIRED ON, ESCAPES AS SHOT GOES WILD (Continued From First Page.) Archbishop of Malta made an airplane visit to Rome, presumably to confer regarding the matter. CENTER OF LONG DISPUTE. Concordat Defining Church and State Authority Has Been Drawn. LONDON, May 23 (#)—Lord Strick- land, prime minister of Malta, against whose life an attempt was made today, has been the central figure in an 18- month controversy between the Maltese government and the Vatican. “The controversy recently reached an acute stage when the Roman Catholic hierarchy forbade the Maltese Catholics to vote for the government y in the forthcoming Maltese _elections, which aave been postponed by Lord S L itly, however, & concordat be- tweéen the British government there and the Holy See defining .questions affect- ing relations between the church.ahd tate in the Maltese Islands had been, settle the long controversy. concorda Thf t draft defines the su- thority of state and church, FISHER APPOINTED TO MAP COMPLETE BICENTENNIAL PLAN (Continued From First Page.) Fisher even for a short time, for. he does not have to depend upon the com- paratively small remuneration which the local iseion will be able to about the ington tennial and will serve mainly from patriotic motives. “Mr, Fisher, who spent several days in Washington this week, meeting twice with the local commission, comes highly recommended, as having given much thought and study to a dignified cele- bration, such as it is desired this shall be. In interviews with members of the local commission Tuesday and Wednes- dayof this week we were convinced of his experience, ability and vision. “He is a Yale graduate and served with marked success in an executive capacity in_connection with the San Prancisco Exposition. He has also filled important places in connection with other large celebrations. At pres- ent he is emgloyed by the Stadium Cor- poration of Oklahoma, a State organiza- tion, which position come to Washington. “The commission hopes Mr. Fisher may be willing to give his services for the next two years as executive secre- tary of the District Bicentennial Com- mission.” Famliliar With Washington. Mr. Fisher is familiar with Wash- !ington, having visited here on maen: occasions, In_addition to his worl with the San Francisco Exposition he he will severe to POLICE PAY BILL AGREEMENT SEEN ommittees to Meet With District Officials This Afternoon. House Leader Tilson said this after- noon that groups representing the House District committee, the subcom- mittee on District appropriations and District officials are to hold another conference between 4 and 5 o'clock this afterncon on & new compromise prop~ osition which he believes will result in an agreement on the police and fire- men’s pay increase bill, thus preventing a fillbuster and insuring its passage in the House on Monday. ‘This compromise, Representative Til- son explained, is satisfactory to Senator Phipps, so that if agreed to, the bill need not be sent to conference, as Sen- ator Phipps would offer the motion to concur in the House amendment. While this optimistic opinion was expressed by the House leader after conferences with Chairman Simmons of the subcommittee on District appro- priations, who threatened to make the filibuster, and_with Representatives of the House District committee, who threatened to fight the question out on the floor of the House, regardless of Mr. Simmons’ opposition, there seemed to be auite a diversity of opinion among those who have been striving to effect the passage of the police and firemen’s pay increase bill. HOOVER AND HOUSE SCORE TRIUMPH IN TARIFF FIGHT (Continued From PFirst Page.) mission upon the request of the Presi- dent, upon the request of either or both of the Houses of Congress, upon the commission’s own initiative or upon the request of an interested party. It provides that the cost of production basis is to be used by the Tariff Com- mission in making a comparison be- tween American produced and foreign roduced goods for the purpose of such vestigation. After the Tariff Commission shall have conducted its investigation under "the flexible provision it must make a report to the President with its recommenda- tions regarding the rates in question or regarding & proposed change in classifi- cation. The President is given 60 days in which to approve or disapprove the recommendations of the Tariff Commis- slon, depending on whether he finds the recommendation of the commission is justified by the record. If the President does not approve the recommendation of the Tariff Commission the uutg:u back to the commission snd dies Te unless the commission should develop further facts and submit & new report to_the President. If the President approves a recom- mendation for a change in the duties under the flexible provision it becomes effective 10 days thereafter. As in the existing law, the limitation of change which the President may make in a tariff rate under the flexible provisions 50 per cent of that rate. He may lower it to that extent or increase it. “He may not remove an article from the free list and make it cutiable. The existing law is the same as the confer- ence agreement in that respect. House not long ago voted over- whelmingly in opposition to the Senate amendments for debenture and dgainst the flexible provislons of the law. Within the last few days the Benate by a vote of 43 to 41 gave its gon- ferees & free hand in dealing the debenture clause amendment and by a tie vote, broken in the affirmative by the Vice President. gave the conferees a free hand in dealing with the flexible amendment. In view of the agreement of the con- ferees on all the other items of the bill, ons of which now carries a dollar duty on lumber, it is expected that the-Sen- ate will adopt the conference report, though by a very narrow margin. Simi- lar action is expected in the House. How long the debate in the Senate will run is a matter of conjecture. Senator Stmmons, ranking Democrat on the finance committee, has estimated that four days would be sufficient. 1 — MAN CONVICTED BY JURY OF SLAYING TWO GIRLS Held Guilty of Double Crime at ‘Wedding Celebration in Lowell, Mass. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 23.— Joaquim Soaris of Paterson, N. J.. who shot two girls to death at a wedding celebration at Lowell, Mass, March 2, was convicted of first-degree murder on two counts yesterday by a jury. ‘The government charged that Soaris went from Paterson to Lowell with the intention of killing Angelina Rodriguez, 17, to whom he said he was enzlm After a wedding, in which she been the bridesmaid and the other vic- tim, Matilda Silva, 10, a flower ,girl, Soaris shot the pair as they were leav- ing in an automobile. has been connected in an executive capacity with the of merce of Los Angeles and other cities. { He 15 about 50 years of sge, and has | nce in p u\g and jects similar to the bicen: brations. He is also well known as a lecturer. Mr. Fisher will not come to the local commission without previous knowledge of the bicentennial plans, He has been in touch with certain members and offi- cers of the United States commission and is familiar with the tentative plans made thus far, After spending a few days in this city in conference with members of the local commission, Mr. Fisher has gone’back to Oklahoma to arrange to turn over his affairs there to an understudy. Chairman Rudolph said today that the District commission is making plans to raise funds to defray the expenses of the city's part in the great-series of celebrations in 1932. It is expected that local business men will agree to under- write the necessary incidental expenses. A campaign among residents of the | District, Mr. Rudolph explained, will b: inauguratéd to raise an adequate fund for the District’s part in the bicentennial as soon as a definite budget has been prepared. It has not yet been determined, he said, how large a fund will be needed. MOTHER OF 4 SHOT Chicago Man Is Held After Fatal Wounding of His Wife. CHICAGO, _Aay 23.—Mrs, Marie Pelletier, 49, mother of four children, was fatally shot near her home, in Ber- wyn, a suburb, last it as she was return from a shopp! trip, Police are holding her husband, Louis, for questioning. P — Bethesda Man Commissioned. P ol | | i | D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 11930, SENATORIAL PHONE YOUNG ORATORS ATORS ARRIVING FOR FINALS SCORN BURDENS 28 Capitol Switchboard Is Load- ed to Capacity, With No Room for Others. (Continued From First Page.) switchboard service cannot be expanded to take care of the extra work piled on the operators by the refusal of the Senators to do their own dialing. for the simple reason that there is no place to put extra operators. The board will seat 17 and no more. Mrs. Daley today explained that if the Representatives follow the lead of the Senators in banning the dial telephone: a great many more $13 tors d a much darg will be to take care of the work. Representative Abernethy of North Carolina yesterday introduced a resolu- tion’ to remove the system fram the House side. Bince the dial telephones were in- stalled, ‘most of the Senators have re- fused to touch the dials, and the opera- tors- have been forced to do it for the lawmake: Mrs. Daley said that the Senators made & few attempts at the dials and then gave up-the jcb. As a result of this dialing experience, Mrs. Daley declared she has a good idea of the amount of work entailed in doing the dialing for members of both houses. She explains that with the dialing: job on the operators’ hands, only one call at a time can be handled, whereas under the old system several calls cculd be handled at the same time by the operators. For the brief time the Senators did their own dialing, the operators’ work was not nearly so heavy as it is now, she sai Now, she said, Senators are waiting as long as 8 minutes on some calls, when the dialed calls have to be switched to the manual exchanges. Downtown calls 0 through faster, she sald, but about four minutes is the minimum wait on the dialed calls to manual exchanges. Some help come from the office forces of the Senators. They have not shown the same impatience with the dials that their chiefs have evinced, and are doing their best to lighten the operators' burdens. Mrs. Daley also explained that before the dial system was placed In the Capitol she had asked Congress for two addtional telephone operators to lighten the burden of her staff. “We'll make the best of the situation until Congress adjourns,” she declared. “This is our busiest time of the whole session, just before adjournment, and we'll keep all the facilities we have working—that’s all we can do. During recess Mrs. Daley hopes the switchboard will be enlarged and her staff so expanded that all the d can be done without delay for the Senate. Larger quarters for the operators are assured in the plans for the new House Office Bullding, where the operators will be housed when that bullding is completed. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia brought about the Senate's revolt against the dial telephone. His reso- lution calling for the return to the old system of operation was passed without a record vote yesterday. Shortly after the Senate took action on _the 'matter, Representative Aber- nethy introduced in the House & reso- lution fashioned along the lines of Sen- ator Glass’ to have to dials removed from the telephones in the House Office Building and from the House side of the Capitol. He sald he intended to press the resolution for early action in the - House, To the denunciation of the dials con- tained in the Glass resolution, Repre- sentative Abernethy added: “Tel e companies are putting in dials for the gxr&ou of doing away with operators, I ‘n‘ thereby to increase unemploy- ment.” Promptly after Representative Abers nethy introduced his resolution, tele- ghone company officials conferred with im to convince him that he should not the matter. He says, thoug! he still determined to 50, AD declares that even it he withdraws the resolution there are many of his col- leagues who would unite to get the legislation passed by the House. the face of the congressional out- dials, m'; telephone company officials are speechless. They had hoped, after the Senate outburst, that the tter was confined to the Senate, but after Representative Aber- nethy took action they declined to com- ment. President Hoover has refused to have dtm"m:;nec on the telephones at the Sl COLORED SLAYER IS SENTENCED TO DIE Cardoza Bell, colored, was sentenced today by Justice Peyton Gordon, in Criminal Division 1, to die in the elec- tric chair November 14 for the murder of Alice Metz, also colored, August 16 last. Bell killed the woman with a shotgun during & quarrel at 649 N street. His counsel noted an appeal to the Court of Apflelu. Assistant United States Attorney James F. Hughes conducted the prose- cution, The prisoner was represented b; Attorney E. Russel Kelley. i A SLIP HERE WOULD BE COSTLY | - IAbove. left to right: Mrs. Boyd Ozment, coach, and Miss Gloria Gulager Okla., who will speak in night in Constitution Hall. Lower, left to right: William J. T: 15-year-old southeastern-central sone Donald McWain, contest manager in Louisville, K the National Oratorical finals tomorrow ‘urner, jr., father of William C. Turner, champio! the young contestant and ‘Turner’s 's home, DORAN EXPLAINS CORK SALE' RULE! Subject to'Seizure Only When Intent to Use lllegally Is Proved, He Warns. (Continued From First Page.) tual manufacture of liquor in its strict- est and most exact sense, could be con- demned as property designed for the manufacture of liquor intended for use in violation of the statute. i “The contention of the Government | was afirmed that such property inci- | dental to the actual manufacture of | )tl l‘.:’;l intended for such use was for- eitable.” Search Warrant Is Sustained. Explaining further the Danovits case, Dr. Doran sald: “In the District Court and Court of Appeals the search war- rant issued for the seizure of the equip- mept and apparatus of the Feitler Bot- tle Co. was sustained. This search warrant was issued on affidavits that the afMants, who were standing about 75 feet away from the warehouse, detected a strong odor of moonshine whisky emanating from the premises; that on the day before they made a like detection; that during 10 days’ observation they saw motor cars with license plates of other States going to and from the place, saw in the building about 100 five-gallon cans of the kind bootleggers use for conveying moonshine whisky. On these affidavits the commissioner found in issuing the warrant that the affiants, as they stated, had good reason to believe, and did believe, that upon the premises of the respondent there were located and concealed intoxicating liquors and property for the mamfac- ture of intoxicating liquors which were held and for beverage pur- poses in violation of the act. On the search under this warrant the agents found liquors, cans of glyco, flavoring nuts, gylcerin, gin extract. 402 whisky barrels all containing w] chips, more than half of which contained a small quantity of whisky, and other paraphernalia and apparatus. The re- spondents contended that the incidental property, not usable in the actual man- vfacture of liquor, was not forfeitable. This contention the Supreme Court re- fused to affirm. Decision Is Summarized. “Summarized, the decision of the Su- preme Court in this case goes no farther than (1) to clarify the nition of the word ‘manufacture’ as related to the production of intoxicating liquors. In section 25 of the national prohibition act, by giving to it a liberal meaning 50 as to embrace all articles and ma- terials necessary, included in or inei- dental to such manufacture, and not merely the simple, isolated act of pro- ducing, without reference to the ma- terials, vessels and other articles necessary to complete fully the act of manufacturing: and (2) to hold, with certainty, that all such articles are seizable and forfeitable under section GRAF TO START FROM PERNAMBUCO FOR RIO TONIGHT (Continued From Pirst Page.) meters of hydrogen needed to replace that lost in expansion while crossing the Equator. Fresh provisions also were *5Ttval of the Grat compl Graf marked le- tion of a trip that skeptics had said the Zeppelin might not be able to make, the peculiar thermal .and climatic condi- tions involved in the equatorial zones presenting unusual problems for an apparatus of its delicacy. But it was apparent from comments of those aboard that the trip had been accom- plished with little or no difficulty. Aside from shifting of the trade winds, which delayed the first stage of the flight to the Canary Islands and just beyond, the weather was good and the thermal problems were taken care of by allowing expansion of the lifting gas, and dropping of water ballast. Short Stop at Rio. Only a short stop will be made at Rio de Janeiro, the Graf turning and cut- ting north again by way of Pernambuco toward Havana. A short stop will be tinue to Lakehurst, N. J, and thence back to Friedrichshafen, a distance altogether of about 18,000 miles. Nineteen passengers and 42 officers and crew were aboard upon arrival here. Among the passengers were four women, Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston of Syracuse, N. Y.; Mrs. Mary Plerce of New York City, Lady Grace Drummond Hay and Frau Hammer, wife of Fritz Hammer, !hemgcm-n pilot. included er Guufn(en clu the Don Infante Alfonso de Bourbon of Spain, cousin of King Alfonso; Dr. Megias, personal physician to the King of Spain, and Col. Emilio Herrera, who accompanied the Zeppelin on its first flight to America. BALMES’ PLANE LOST Troops Hunt Craft Carrying Gen- eral to Spain. MADRID, May 23 (#).—Dispatches from Vills Cisneros, Cape Juby, to:-u_ plane carrying Gen. 5 No news of the plane has been received for two days, and it is feared the ma- chine came down in the desert. Troagl and natives of Cape Juby are search- ing for the plane. Slayer Electrocuted. RALEIGH, N. C., May 23 (#).—James Spivey, 26, convicted in Lee County of the ax murder and assault of Betty Spivey, his. 18-year-old cousin, was elec- trocuted at State’s prison today. sesgor for such illegal use, is forfeitable, even though it be intended that the actual use be by other parties. “The Supreme Court, however, did not hold that the property was in fact designed (that is, intended) for the pur- pose of manufacturing liquor. The issue of design and the sufficlency of the proof to show that design were not be- fore the court. The District Court found 25, along with the unlawtul liquor when used in that connection or as neces- sarily connected therewith, “The decision :\Il llor u‘:‘el:h two rmvi\r- poses be of much value e service In that it makes certain that which was before more or less doubttul. “But it does not relieve the Govern- ment of the burden of sho that articles used in connection wit - manufacture of liquor are d-l'g: or intended for use in violation of the act.” Assistant Attorney General Young- | pro design acture of liquor intended for use in | E. quist declared that “it cannot be too clearly understood by the fleld service that the decision of the Supreme Court did only two things: "rlmy" he said, “it construed the ing of the word ‘manufacture’ as rt‘e:;pe.lr: in eme phrase ‘It shall be unlawful to have or possess any * * * property designed for the manufacture of liquor intended for use in Violating this title." Cites Necessity “'.!r"\;:g " dly, the court held - 7 unable in of e, the manutscture when designed or intended by the pos- the | of & fact that such design was proved, and because of the way the case reached the Supreme Court that court refused to review the sufficiency of the evidence showing illegal design. It must not be overlooked by the field service, however, that grool of to effect. manufacture of liquor, as tne word is now broadly interpreted, is still the Government. The mere presence of bottles, corks, crocks, caps and cap- ping machines not, in our opinion, to use them for the man- uft violating the prohibition act. Other eir- cumstances must be present. “The search warrant in the Danovitz READY FOR TEST Seven High School Students Meet in National Finals Tomorrow Night. ‘The seven high school students who will speak tomorrow night in the Na- tional Oratorical finals are in Wi ington today, the last two arriving early this morning. Each expi ie ness for the trial which will determine the championship of the United States. The first to reach Washington was 15-year-old Willlam Carlos Turner of Louisville, Ky., champion of the South- eastern-Central zone, who arrived at Union Station at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. He was followed by Miss Gloria Gulager, 18 years of Musko- gee, Okla., who became a natiomal final- ist by the disqualification of Pat Ahern, winner of the finals for the Midwestern zone in Kansas City. The four other contestants came in during the night and early morning. Gullion Inherits Gift. It was learned todsy that Edmund Gullion, The Star’s representative, not only is himself a gifted orator, but that he comes by his ability by right of in= heritance, since his ‘maternal great- great-grandfather was Gen. Joseph MacDowell, knewn as the “Boy Orator of the Continental Congress.” His father, Lieut. Col. Allen W. Gullion, is recognized as & leading pleader of the Judge Advocate General's Department and has tried a number of its most im- portant caces. Last Summer he was chief military advisor at the inter: tional Red Cross Conference at Genev: Switzerland. Edmund spent the Sum- mer with him there. Gullion, who is 17 years old, is & senior at Western High School, and Emldem of the Constitution Club. He considered a brilliant student the hool and icted eral of the contest. to have a better chance for wictory than any speaker Washington has ever produced. The Constitution Club of Western en- tertained the finalists at luncheon to- day. Mr. Leigh and members of the school faculty were present. Reception for Orators. Later in the afternoon, in their honor given by Mr. and Mrs. Leigh at their home, on Fairfax road, Va. The judges in the national finals and a number of other distinguished guests, including Speaker orth and Mrs. Longworth, have been invited to_attend. ‘Turner is the youngest and smallest of the seven orators. He was accom- panied by his father, Willlam J. Turner, jr., and Donald McWain, contest man- ville following his graduation, eventually to study law. His victory in the zone finals is the culmination of a three. the Kentucky championship. Two years ago, when he was but 13 years old, he placed second to James-Rayborn Moore of Somerset, Ky, who later won the P‘m;u Nauonn Oratorical Contest. thi itional Hon plans to attend Ward-Belmont College at Nashville, Tenn. and dramatic teacher. ington at this time she commencement, - being held in M She was accom] Boyd Ozment, her coach, chaperon. other girl contestant, Miss Lou- rene Mokstad, 16-year-old senior of the Morgan Park High School, Chicago, is an entirely different physical type from made there, and the trip then will con- | 5 accompanied ton by John Gihon, contest mani for the newspaper, and her coach, Irma Kimme el. Miss Mokstad expects to teacher of gnbnc 8 study the subject at the hool of Speech. ite her in this fleld, it is interesting to note that she never hubg:ne I.lh'ly ntgm: poraneous speaking before the presen a er 5] order for tomorrow night, with tg: Cll:l! cago girl speaking last. Studied 30 Decisions. Vernon Lawrence Withuhn, 18-year- old champion of the Pacific Coast zone, is a tall, slender young man with a deep, powerful voice, He is a senlor ;;.:l’i‘t Ballard High School of Seattle, concigionof i Y0 sld afthe n of & pre o contest, that he did nfim im- prepared of the mosé important decisions rend- ered by John Marshall, great Chief Justice. The subject of his prepared address is “John Marshall and the Fed- eral Constitution.” He plans to attend gfil Unlvergity of Washington in the An unusual feature of the national finals this year is the xmnh of the con- testants. Three of 15 years old. Besides Turner, they are Edmond D. Bernard of the Cathedral High School, 1d, Mass., who is champlon of few England zone, and Seymour M. Peyser, & senior at the Horace Mann School for Boys, New York City. Peyser, -mumwxumun Fours “netore. e "Heek 15 ‘Company of urs before the com| his uncle, Herman Katz. i He represents the New York Time r of the contest in the City of ew York, which will send a staff correspondent, Waldo Walker, to the finals. Harold G. Campbell, assistant i Socompany Mr. Walket 4nd. Bags 3 and the award of the trophy cup to tky o Tady e o Harvard Unive: 3 8 Benard is a sophomore at high school and is tall and well built a‘:-pm youth. He is reported to be a raj speaker with excellent diction and dramatic but well controlled gestures. He came to Wi n io company of ;‘ulxco;;:lh. Rev. .L:.t J. Power, and . K. Winans, contest manager for Springfield Union. s ——— CENTER BAND TO PLAY Concert - Will Be Given at 7:30 P.M. at Iowa Cirele. ‘The Community Oln'm Ji Miller, director, give a concert at 7:30 p.m. at Iowa Circle. The pre will be: March, “The Broadcaster” Waltz, “Navita” ...... Cuban dance, “Fontella' March, “Gloria” ...