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INDIAN WOMEN USE . NEW WAR METHOD Followers of Gandhi Block i . Passageway Leading to Foot Ball Field. e, By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, May 24.—The news from! India today showed that & new form ot civil resistance was taking place in Calcutta. While the women in other parts of India are supporting raids on the gov- ernment’ salt works or are picketing liquor and foreign cloth shops, the women of Calcutta decided to stop foot | ball play. ‘Woman pickets gathered on the mine grounds where league foot ball matches were to be played and, by obstructing the main entrances to pavilions, pre- vented the &Jlflyers from entering or emerging and thus effectively stopped ail play. Melee Follows Raid. Karachi was another news ‘center. ‘The .police .there raided a shap which had n selling contraband salt and seized a large quantity of the con- diment. A melee developed in which everal persons were injured and the lice charged with their sticks to re- store order. Later a procession marched through the Indian quarter singing Tevolutionary songs, but quiet was soon established. At Karachi also there developed Mos- lem sentiment for the campaign of the Hindu nationalists. Eighty Moslems at a political meeting last night adopted a resolution which urged Moslems of Karachi and Sind to join in Mahatma Gandhi’s campaign for Indian inde~ pendence. ‘The Moslems were asked to carry out the nationalist program, including the icketing of liquor shops, the boycot- ing of foreign goods, the use of Indian- made cloth and the publication of pro- scribed literature. Bombay Is Silent. Nothing was heard from Bombay this afternoon and the silence from that quarter was considered strange, since another procession to celebrate “Dhara- sana day” had been scheduled. The Bombay nationalists started to observe “Dharasana day” this morning by declaring a partial stoppage of work. On one hand they were celebrating their “victories” in the recent salt raids at Dharasana and on the other were mourning for their fellows who were arrested or were battered by the sticks of the police. These activities today followed & huge demonstration yesterday in protest against the imprisoriment of the woman leader, Mrs. Sarojini Naidu. No dis- turbances followed the demonstration, but it was estimated that 200,000 In- dians joined in it, with the backing of native business men. GROUPS RIOT IN INDIA. Mohammedans and Hindus Clash in Dacca Disorders. DACCA, India, May 24 (®).—Gen- eral rioting between Mohammedans and Hindus- broke out here today and a number of both groups were taken to the hospital suffering from serious in- juries. The exact casualty figures were not known. The disorders started when the body of a slain Mohammedan was found lying in the streets this morning. The Mo- hammedans ;ccuud the Hindus of hav- murdered him, mgA{wr parading through the Hindu quarter with the corpse, the Moham- medans attacked and burned a Hindu's house and the fighting began. At sun- get the Mohammedans burned & Hindu e. url"‘&lce and armored cars were called out to suppress the rioting and re- mained on guard in the city. . HOOVER FROWNS . ON TARIFF CHANGE MADE BY CONFEREES ‘(Continued From First Page.) ‘Tuesday, the confereces on the measure finished their report by agreeing on a final draft of the new flexible provision. The text of the compromise, about 2,000 words long, made onc important and several minor changes in the draft agreed upon Friday. ‘The major change provides that whenever the President fails to approve or disapprove a Tariff Commission rec- ommendation for an increase or de- crease in a statutory rate within the 60-day period laid down, the commis- sion rate would take effect 10 days after expiration of the time given the President. Fear Conference Threats. ‘While Republican leaders were prais- ing the measure finally approved in con- ference they were fearful of threats to return the bill to conference. Demo- crats are prepared to make points of or- der against rates on cherries, cheese, rayon and watches on the ground that the conferees exceeded their authority in determining these duties. Parliamentarians differ as to the ef- fect of the rustaining of any of the points of order. Some say it would n the entire bill to change in con- | g:ence. Others contend it would limit he further negotiations to the item or items involved in the motion. Friends of the bill are afraid a re- opening would permit of another vote in the House on the lumber duty and are for that reason endeavoring to prevent any of the points of order being sus- tained. They are caught between & rec- | ord vote in the House for free lumber and an insistent demand by Northwest Senators for the lumber levy. They | must hold the Northwest group in line, it is argued, to save the bill.- If the points of order are not sus-| tained, the vote in the House will come | on adoption or rejection of the con- ference report embracing the lumber duty and a separate vote will be avoided. House Republican leaders are confident | of the outcome on this if the Senate | spproves the report without returning 1t to conference. Plans Vote on Lumber. Representative Garner of Texas, the Democratic leader, and a conferee on the bill, said he would move a separate vote on lumber if the parlimentary situation permitted it in the House. Hawley believes the new flexible clause “meets the problem” by enabling the Tariff Commission to speed up its work. Under it, he said, the President would not be required to go over the entire work of the commission to determine a rate within the 50 per cent limitation because the commission would fix the | rate. The new clause would make the com- mission a sort of quasi-judicial body somewhat along the lines of the Inter- state Commerce Comniission, Hawley added. Senator Borah, of Idaho, a leader of the Republican independents and a champion of the coalition flexible plan restoring rate changing power to Con- gress, expressed the opinion that the conferees had exceeded their authority on the new flexible plan. He sald, however, he would not make a point of order against it. Floods Hit Rumania. ‘BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 24 (®). =An unconfirmed report from Moldhau Mr. Taftin His Shirt Sleev Informal Sidelights From a Reporter’s Notebook “Mistakes Which Split A Party” BY WILLIAM HOSTER. Few knew the human side of former President Taft better than Mr. Hoster, who, as a newspaper cor- respondent, was assigned to the White House, and who made many long trips with Mr. Taft. This is the third of siz weekly articles, in which Mr. Hoster is giving many interest- ing close-ups of Taft and his ad- ministration. ‘T Sagamore Hill one afternoon, when the historic break in the {riendship between Mr. Taft and Col Roosevelt had become definite, an indiscreet caller asked bluntly: “Col. Roosevelt, after all, just what was the real trouble between you and Taft?” Roosévelt'’s eyes narrowed and his i‘lll snapped. The matter was one that e rarely discussed, even with his inti- mate friends. I looked for a sharp re Luff for the imprudent visitor. Inste T. R. flashed a sardonic smile and re- . ——, the real trouble between Mr. Taft and myself was fundamental. My g ine is tennis. Mr. Taft is addicted to golf. The shrill emphasis which he laid upon the “addicted” was irresistibly funny. But who that ever saw the vi- brant and dynamic Roosevelt in action on the tennis court and then marked the contrast of Mr. Taft’s slow, leisurely progress over the links cannot find in the Rooseveltian irony a possible key- note to the carcers of both? Politics Reflected Games. ‘Mr. Taft played golf, as Col. Roosevelt played tennis, through his career. The pugnacious and aggressive spirit which characterized the turbulent seven and one-half years of Roosevelt in the White House was a carrying over into politics of his style of play on the tennis court, as Mr. Taft’s leisurely, urbane mef in the game of politics were surely a re- flex of his play on the links. Again, Col. Roosevelt hadn't the patlence to engage in card games, while Mr. Taft was also “addicted” to bridge. Mr. Taft's devotion to golf led to & di- verting incident in the Fall of 1809, while he was in Seattle on his first “swing around the circle” as President. He had entered & foursome with some local friends, and had just finished the seventh hole when Maj. Archie Butt, his ‘military aide, intervened. “You have only enough time for one more hole,” said the major. “The com- mittee at Tacoma are anxious to have you arrive before dark that the people may see you in daylight.” Mr. Taft finished the eighth hole, whereupon Maj. Butt-again approached him. “Pardon me, Mr. President, but we barely have time now to reach Tacoma.” Continued His Golf. The President turned a cold stare upon the military aide and went on with his game. He played the ninth and the tenth holes, and was on his way to the eleventh when Maj. Butt, in despera- tion, once more intervened. “N . President——" he began. “Butt,” interrupted the President , but with a lively twinkle in his eye, “I am_President of the United States and I don’t propose to take or- ders from a mere major in my army. Please don't bother me.” He finished the eighteen holes, and when we reached Tacoma night fallen and the populace were obliged to “see” the President through the glare of the Bengal lights they burned in his honor. Such an incident would have been im- possible in the routine of Col. Roosevelt while he was on the road. One imagines, t00, that if Roosevelt had ever permitted himself to get tangled up in the tariff problem he would have adopted tennis court tactics in dealing with Aldrich and Cannon, instead of the golf pro- cedure of Mr., Taft. ‘The sagacious Roosevelt warned Mr. Taft against the tariff. “If you will look over my record,” he said one day on & westbound train, “you will find that I let the tariff severely alone during my administration. I warned Mr. Taft that it was full of pit- falls, because it 18 & thing in which it ;glcflcflly impossible to please any- Accepled by President. Nevertheless, the tariff was the first thing Mr. Taft tackled. Dictated largely by Senator Aldrich and Speaker Can- non, amid the violent protests of the men who dater organized the Progres- sive movement, the bill was accepted by the President, who cheerfully as- sured me that “Aldrich and Cannon are not the villains you would have me be- lieve they are.” Mr. Taft signed the bill and early the ensuing September, 1909, departed on a long Bpelklnr tour which carried him into practically every State in the Union. And it was in the early stages of that journey that he delivered, in ‘Winona, Minn., the address in which he said the Payne-Aldrich act was “the best tariff bill the Republican party passed” —a statement which, ‘thou, he had been in office only six monfiu. put_his administration under & handicap from which it never recov- ered. It was the entering wedge under which the Republican party three years Iater split in two. I am striving to record facts here, with no purpose to draw contrasts or pass judgment. But I cannot resist the conviction that his particular phrase, unnecessary and in & manner jerked ever litical chivalry on Mr. Taft's part, com- bined with a certain dilatoriness—a tendency he showed at times to put things off until the last minute. If he had had time to consider and reflect, I do not belleve he would have phrased his speech in flat terms from which there was no retreat or escape. ‘There was this additional fact also in counection . with the Winona speech: Mr. Taft had been traveling all that day and had made half a dozen ad- dresses at as many stops before reach- ing Winona that evening at the dinner hour. On other occasians the corre- spondents on the train recelved ad- vance copies of his addresses several hours, sometimes a full day, in advance of thelr delivery, This night address was not ready upon our arrival in Winone, and when, at 7 o'clock, T went into Mr, Taft's car looking for it Maj. Butt informed me that the President jhad halted the preparation of his ad- dress while he had dinner. Finished at 8:15. It was not until 15 minutes past 8— the meeting which he was to address was scheduled for the hour—that the address was finished and copies handed to the correspondents as the President was leaving for the opera house. 1t is a reasonable inference, therefore. that the address was hastily prepared and did not receive the thoughtful con- sideration Mr. Taft usually gave to his public utterances. It is a fact, too, that Winona was the home town of James A ‘Tawney, & Representative, who had had an active part in the preparation of the Payne-Aldrichi bill, and Mr. Tawney was then fighting for his political life because of that circumstance, He was defeated for re-election a year later. When it is.considered, then, that Mr. Taft and Mr. Tawney were close per- sonal friends, those who knew Mr. Taft can readily understand that he was dis- to go to extreme lengths to help the Representative with his constituents. Anyhow, the unfortunate phrase echoed over the country the next day, a theme for the derision and scorn of the Presi- dent’s political enemies, and hlghly inflammable material which helped to feed the flames of revolt in the ranks of the Republican party. “'How you like the speech?” the today states that 60 persons had died in floods in the Moinesti district, in which 50 villages were cut from communication with the outer world. —— ‘Young people of Guatemala Wdopting European styjes in dress, President asked, when he came aboard the special train that night. “All but one line,” I replied. He hurried into the train. I never heard him make any reference to it af- There was a certain element are terward. of fatalism in Mr. Taft's make-up, and had | ¥ into @ set speech, was & bit of pure po- | not a little impulsiveness. He never look- ed mournfully into the past. ‘That element of fatality obtruded it- self once more, about & year later, when the famous Norton letter was made public. In the interim Gifford Pinchot, chief forester, had been dismissed b Mr. Taft. Mr. Pinchot was one of Roosevelt's close personal friends, an the Norton letter and the = Pinchot dismissal have equal rank ~with the | Winona speech as important factors in the emeute of 1912. Mr. Taft descrbed the Pinchot dismissal to me as “wholly & matter of discipline,” but it was re- garded by the Roosevelt elcment as the culminating act in a serles of petty be- trayals of the “Roosevelt policies.’ The Norton letter is described by Lawrence Abbott in his “Impressiops of | Theodore Roosevelt” as one of the con- tributing causes to the final severance of relations between Col. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft. It was a letter supposed to have been written by Mr. Taft to & kunns Progressive, in which the President sai he would no longer make use of Federal patronage to combat the growing power of the progressive element in the Repub- lican party, the plain implication N:I‘lx that Federal patronage had been 80 u! by the President for that purpose. The letter took its name from the fact that it was issued for publication by Charles Dyer Norton, secretary to the President. And thereby hangs an in- teresting story of the large political con- sequences which may follow inconse- quential incidents. The anclent game of golf again figures in the narrative. Given as News “Break.” News was scarce at Beverly, President Taft's Summer home, that year, 1910, and the correspondents of the evening newspapers registered a protest one day with Secretary Norton against the “conspiracy” to favor the morning news- paper correspondents in the release of thods | such news as came to hand. Mr, Nor- ton denled the existence of & iracy, but promised the evening men t he would “break” the next bit of news in their favor. The mext bit of news was the Norton letter. = Hurrying into the executive office that morning, the secretary hastily handed out typewritten sheets to the evening men and, with “Here's a break for you,” seized his golf kit, leaped into a motor and was off. Within an hour the Norton letter was in every evening newspaper in the United States and in- dignant protests were pouring into Bev- erly against the President’s admitted use of Federal patronage for factional purposes. At 1 o'clock I went to the executive office to request a few minutes with the President on the subject of the letter. Mr. Norton, in high excitement, was fumbling at his desk with a sheaf of the protests. “I'm going up to the house at once,” he said. “Come along.” Mr. Taft was in his library when we arrived. Mr, Norton frankly laid the whole story before him as he nervously paced the floor. Takes Responsibility. “T have made a bad break, Mr. Presi- dent,” he sald, handing the messages to Mr. Taft. “I should have called off that golf date with you this morning and prepared & paraphrase of the letter instead of giving it in full to the press. Maybe I shouldn't have given it out at all. It's & serious mistake and has laid you °fi'“ to severe criticism. The re- sponsibility is squarely up to me.” Mr, Taft had no flair for politics. But even the merest tyro in the game must have seen the inevitable consequences of what had happened. The letter never should have been written; but written, it never should have been given out in its raw state. Without looking at the sheaf of protests the President tossed them on the table, while he surveyed Mr. Norton with calm, grave face. Then, after a minute’s silence, he shrugged his shoulder resignedly. “Well, Norton,” he said, “don’t worry about it. If they hadn't this to criti- cize me about, they would find some- thing else.” (The next article, “Taft's Break With Roosevelt,” will appear next Sunday.) (Copyright, 1930, by North Ameriean News- aper Alliance.) - . D. C. HEADS RECEIVE ESTIMATES FOR 1932; TOTAL $54,177,302 _(Continuéd From First Page) pay its own way without periodic bor- rowing from the Treasury. Maj. Donovan made the following es- timates of tax collections in 1932: Intangible tax, $2,875,000. Street railway tax, etc. 390,000, Miscellaneous receipts, $3,500,000. Unexpended balances of appropria- tions, $350,000. United States contribution, $9,000,000. Total, $18,115,000. Any difference between this sum and the amount of the appropriation must come out of the tax rate for an in- crease in the lump sum. It is estis mated that in 1932 there will be a total of $1,349,000,000 worth of real and per- sonal property on which taxes may be levied. A rate of $1.70 on this assess- ment in 1932 would yield $22,933,000 in general funds. Adding this to the other estimated receipts, the total ‘s |$41,048,000. To this must be added the gas tax, water revenues, trust and mis- | cellaneous funds mentioned above which | would bring it up to $47,622540. If | this is what a $1.70 rate would produce, & matter of simple subtraction will show that the estimates just made by the department heads ‘must be slashed roughly $7,000,000 if the $1.70 rate is to be maintained in 1932, Estimates Rate at $2.35. Maj. Donovan pointed out that under | his 1932 estimated total tax assessment, {each 5 cents of the tax rate repre- | sents $674,500, so that another simple calculation will show that the tax rate required to take care of the depart- mental estimates plus the other annual expenses not covered in the estimates | would be $2.35. The computations are (all based on the Federal lump sum re- | maining at $9,000,000. ‘These estimates will be placed before the Commissioners at their board meet- ing tomorrow and they will start their annual consideration of them before sending them up to the Budget Bureau. After the Budget Bureau's views on the estimates are obtained they will be transmitted to the next session of Con- gress. TAX RATE UNCERTAIN. Indications Are That $1.70 Figure Will Be Maintained. The tax rate of $1.70, which the District now pays on its real and per- sonal. property will be enough to e care of the needs of the District during the fiscal year 1931, assuming that either the House or Senate form of the 1931 appropriation bill is passed, Maj. Donovan said yesterday. The $1.70 rate assuming that the House bill is passed, will leave either no surplus or such a small surplus that it may as well be disregarded. Maj. Donovan would not venture to predict whether the Com- missioners would order this rate for 1931, but since he is their adviser on fiscal matters, his statement was taken as a rather strong indication that the $1.70 rate would be maintained in 1931, assuming that the appropriation bill follows substantially the outlines of the present House bill. The rate will not be announced by the Commissioners until after the appropriation bill is enacted. th‘n‘l; ':xhltfin of the !_;rn:‘ud States at e rnational e cover 5, y, squarp feet, BYRD SHIP LEAVES | TOGIVE BARK FUEL Eleanor Bolling ‘Sails to Aid, City of New York Get Into Port. By (he Associated Press. PANAMA, May 24.—The Steamer Eleanor Bolling of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's _Antarctic expedi- tion steamed out of Balboa tonight with A coal n_iglply for the bark Oity of New York. e ship will probably reach the bark Iate Monday night or early Tuesday. Rear Admiral Byrd announced this afternoon that the steamer would sail tomorrow, but refueling was completed early, Both ships may be in port by next Friday. “We are sailing with a handicapped crew and a handlcapped ship to rescue the Oity of New York,” said Capt. Brown. The bark today was approximately 700 miles out from Balboa, proceeding under sall. A gentle wind pushed her along. ‘The steamship cast off the towlines from her earlier in the week and hur- ried ahead to Balbos. Admiral Byrd still hopes to arrive in New York by June 19, but said his lans depended “on the luck the Boll- ing has.” The steamship, with fuel sup- ply repienished, will take the bark in tow again, ‘The_United States Navy's refusal to lend Rear Admiral Byrd & Navy tug to tow the bark into Balboa drew only “I have nothing to say” from the Ant- | arctic explorer today. Several days ago the City of New York was cut loose while the other Byrd ship, the steamer Eleanor Bolling, which was towing it, put in for port to refuel. The City of New York was left to drift almost helplessly, with its crew suffering from the heat. ‘The Eleanor. Bolling intended to pick up the bark after refueling, but Ad- miral Byrd believed that the use of the naval tug Sciota would afford a faster me Now the explorer has returned to the original plan, NAVY STAND EXPLAINED. Federal Service Against Policy of Aiding Privately Owned Ships. By the Associated Press. Request of Rear Admiral Byrd for & Navy tug to tow his bark, the City of New York, into the Canal Zone, was refused because the Navy's policy re- quired that it never aid privately owned vessels unless they be in distress, it was announced yesterday by the office of naval operations. The office explained that should an emergency develop which would threat- en the safety of the bark or its passen- gers & tug would be sent to Byrd's aid. Operations officers said there were commercial tugs in the Canal Zone which could tow Byrd's ship into port and that to send & naval vessel would be to compete with private business. ‘They added that there was no discrim- ination in this case since the Navy did not make a practice of providing tug service for private Vessels unless they were endangered. A request of the United States Shipping Board, Govern- ment operated, for Navy tug service,was declined on this ground, the officers sald. — BROMLEY’S THIRD AIRPLANE CRASHES By the Associated Press. MUROC, Calif., May 2¢.—The third alrplane constructed for Harold Bromley for a proposed Tacoma-to-Tokio flight crashed here today like its two prede- cessors and H. W. Catlin, test pilot of a Burbank Aircraft company, was pos. sibly fatally burned in the fire that fol- lowed the smash-up. The jinx apparently has been on Bromley ever since he came here last year with the support of Tacoma busi- ness men to arrange for a transpacific fiight. ‘?n the monoplane City of Tacoma Bromley got as far as Tacoma, the starting place. But on the take-off for ‘Tokio the plane fell and was wrecked. Bromley was unhurt. Another similar monoplane lost its tailplece when taken into the air at Burbank and in the crack-up the iate Herbert Fahy, chlef -test pilot of the construction company, was seriously in- Jured. Bromley was on the ound today when Catlin took the third City of Ta- coma aloft with 900 gallons of gasoline and crashed. Bromley's plans were undetermined. AMERICAN BRAVES FIRE IN CHEMICALS INTENDED FOR GRAF SR ) (Continued From First Page.) for private enterprises he decided not to come to Rio Janeiro. Officials here pointed out that the field 18 public property and that the Zeppelin officers were not allowed to charge admission at Lakehurst, N. J., or other Government flelds. PLAN PRINCE'S RECEPTION. Cuba to Pay Honor to Cousin of King of Spain. HAVANA, Cuba, May 24 (#)—Dr. Mendez de Vigo, Spanish Ambassador to Cuba, today conferred with govern- ment officials in connection with a re- ception for the Prince of Orleans, cousin and personal representative of King Alfonso, coming on the Graf Zeppelin next Tuesday. Plans are being made to pay high honor to the ce, who, as special ambassador of the King of Spain, is making the long alr voyage as a good- will trip from the mother country to her former colonies of the New World. © NAVY’S AlR ARMADA VISITS WASHINGTON . PRESIDENT FISHES DESPITE DOWNPOUR Hoover and Party Quit Stream Early as Rain Mars Outing. By the Astociated Press. CULPEPER, Va., May 24.—President Hoover braved a mountain rainstorm today to wade in the Rapidan and cast for_trout. Clad in an oilskin slicker that reached below the tops of high fishing boots, the President and several other members of his party were well re- warded for their venture into the chill waters. Many of the guests, however, lost their enthusiasm for fishing in the face of the cold rain that swept down upon the mountain camp almost at the time the presidential party arrived, and only the most venturesome joined Mr. Hoover in his plunge. Quit Fishing Early, As the storm settled down, however, they gave up their fishing and re- turned earlier than usual to the head- quarters camp to a cheerful log fire. Seventeen guests, the largest party that had yet gone to the camp, made up the group that gathered about the fire. Among them were four Senators, three Representatives and two Repub- lican national committeemen. They left Washington after an early break- fast at the White House and the driv- ing thunderstorm settled down upon the mountains almost with their ar- rival. Through most of the afternoon the high mountain upon which the camp rests was obscured by low-flylng gray clouds. WIill Visit School Today. After the informal devotionals, which have become a regular part of the week end excursions of the presidential party, the Chief Executive is consider- ing a trip tomorrow to the school for mountain children which he established near his own camp. No decision has yet been reached whether the school shall continue the Summer, and the teacher, Miss Chris- tine Vest, desires to confer with Mr. Hoover upon the question. She also is | anxious that he see the progress made in the few months since the school opened. PILOT WINS ARGUMENT AND PAYS LIFE FOR IT Glider Enthusiast Killed in Crash Trying Higher Flight Than Companion Had Made. By the Associated Press. MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, May 24. —Joseph A. Petro, 22, of Roseville, Mich., was killed in a glider accident today & short time after he had won an argument with a fellow worker over which was to take up the motorless plane. His death was the first recorded in » glider mishap east of the Misais- sippl River and was the third glider fatality in the country. After he and Kenneth Bond of Rose- ville, another glider pilot, had alter- nated in taking up the craft during the day at low altitudes, they decided to fly at higher altitude, and each wanted the job. Petro won the argument. The Summer Round-up of the Children A class of children 100% free from remediable physical-defects is the aim of: the-annual campaign of the Parent-Teacher As sociation. Examination of Children Now in Progress If you know a little boy or girl expecting to enter school for the first time in September next, be sure that this child shall be physically fit before having to meet the requirements of school life. Where to Get Needed Information For further information apply to the office of the D. C. Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations, in the Burlington Hotel, Telephone Decatur 2753. 1132 Vermont Avenue. Early Detection Means Protection Association for the Prevention of Tubgrfi_nlonis 1022 11th Street N.W, Telephdide District 6883 Anacostia. The race was postponed. | | white Lowe ! its arrival. Center: Spectators grouped around one of {I landing in the high wind. The plane suff 3 The air fleet soaring over the dome of the Capitol Building on Upper: The mighty fleet of Navy planes here yesterday for the Curtiss Marine Trophy race lined up for inspection at the Naval Air Station at he planes, which came to ot ered s Gcomaton wing, o T \“DOWN WITH FRANCE,” SHOUT FASCISTS, WHEN PREMIER GETS OVATION ___(Continued From First Page.) 8,870 UNEMPLOYED IS CENSUS REPORT FOR WASHINGTON (Continued From First Page.) | barkation of Italian troops in Albania were “absurd.” “Before these proofs of evident and perfect bad faith we cannot let our- selves be deceived by illusions, and above all we must not allow our people to come under their spell.” Commemorating Italy’s entrance into the war 15 years ago and recalling her 652,000 dead, he declared: “We do not commemorate this date to revive old hatreds, because we are reconciled fully and loyally with our enemies of yester- day, and even linked in sincere friend- ship with some of them. “We recall the date, escepcially, be- cause in May, 1915, began the revolu- tion in which the Itallan people ceased to be spectators and finally became a unique protagonist on the stage of his- tory. })lc rned the Blackshirts not to let the people “go to sieep before the baa- ing of lambs that are really wolves, so that they may not tomorrow wake up before one of the more or less tragic surprises of history.” Denles Poor Conditions. He hotly denied that Italy’s economic situation was bad, and sald it was not worse than that of any other country. “Some people would like to see me make a ministry of the old style. But they forget that a regime was formed, not of paliamentary groups, but by the bloody efforts of the Blackshirts. It is a revolution that had a long period of struggle. I am the chief and the creator of this regime and must be its efender. “ “I make no vague affirmation. We are sufficiently well informed of what is being prepared elsewhere and of the dominant epirit among certain of our neighbors.” . PHILADELPHIAN GETS LESLIE DANA MEDAL Dr. de Schweinitz's Efforts for Prevention of Blindness Recognized. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, May 24—The Leslie Dana Medal, awarded annually in recog- nition of the ost outstanding work in behalf of prevention of blindness,” was formally presented to Dr. George E. de Schweinitz of Philadelphia here tonight. The presentation address was made for the St. Louis Soclety for the Blind, through which the medal is awarded, by Dr. B, Franklin Royer of New York, medical director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Dr. de Schweinitz is & former presi- dent of the American Medical Associa- tion, the College of Physicians of Phila- delphia_and the American Ophthaimo- logical Society. In 927 Dd. de Schwei- nits received the Howe Price medal ophthalmology. West North Central States and Moun- tain and Pacific States. “Decreases in expenditures for resi- dential building were shown in the East North Central States, the South gtlnntlc States and the South Central tates. “Increases for non-residential build- ings were shown for every district ex- cept the New England States and the Mountain and Pacific States, and in- creases in families provided for were shown in all districts except the South Central and the Mountain and Pacific States. cities prermits were lawued in many -publie for large public and se buildings. “Contracts were let for Government buildings in the City of Washington to cost over $3,000,000 and & permit was issued in Baltimore for a Scottish Rite Temple to cost $1,250,000.” ENUMERATION NEARLY ENDED, By the Associated Press. Enumeration has been virtually com- pleted in the cities of the United States and the 1930, census is entering a phase which might be termed “the chamber of commerce check.” The Census Bureau here ruled that dissatisfaction of a chamber of com- merce or other such civic organization with census results in its city should not be considered sufficient cause for a complete recount. However, the bureau held that every city should have ample opportunity to make as good & showing as pounafm Orders, therefore, went out from head- quarters here that where chambers of commerce or civic clubs could furnish lists of names of persons claiming that the census enumerators had not called at their homes, supervisors must check with those listed. This check is now in progress in many places. While it is revealing that some were skipped in the first enumera- | 3 tion, it is also establishing the fact that many complaints were mistakenly GALE POSTPONES CURTISSAIRRACES Dirigible Takes Air to Ride Out Storm as 15 Planes Flee to Baltimore. (Continued Prom First Page.) B deed by Lieut. C. F. leader of the third section, first sion, of the’ squadron. Lieut. Piane can be repatred in.fime off with its squadron today. 15 Planes Go to Baltimore. ‘The last squadron in the air, VB-1B, light bombardment squadron, known as the “Red Rippers,” from the U. 8. 8. s ahek take his 15 remaining pl the storm to Balti ot down safely at ore the storm broke t! housed in there until about 4 p.m., when the wind died down and they flew back through & pouring rain to Anacostia, where they rejolned the other squadrons. As fast as the squadrons landed the planes were taxied to the line staked down to weather Tarpaulins were tied and cockpits. ‘The barge which went be: storm was used to carry' the use as a seaplane, storm at a mooring close to the sea ;lnllldneu the upstream end of Bolling leld. Pollowing the landing of the planes from thnnh'ltfit fleet the biggest thrills of the ntm:wn for the crowd of and down sometimes several hundr?& feet in the ascending and d air currents and pitching and rolling a8 it was buffeted by the gusts. Part of the time it rode directly over the air station and finally, as the storm headed down the Potomac River Langley Field, Hampton, Va., to overnight in hangar the winds follow. storm. Spectators Brave Gale, Owing to the fact that the stotm struck just as the spectators began ar= riving at the Anacostia station, officers there were unable to make a count of the number of visitors. It is belieted that more than 6,000 were on when the storm broke, however. Most of them took nm.f Y‘l the airplane hangars and several thousand waited throush the afternoon until the races were finally called off after 4:30 o'elock. Hundreéds of automobiles which - ried thousands of spectators to the fi'fa were held up by the bottleneck on \’ha 11th Street Bridge, where repalr work forced the traffic into one lane. Police- men were stationed at frequent inter- vals from Pennsylvania avenue to the turn-off to the fiying fleld and thére was a steady line of cars moving at & snail's pace from 12 o'clock until about 4, when it was definitely decided to eall off the race. At this time all trafic to the field was helted and the single road from the field made one way for. & double line of cars out. None of the special events which were have been held in eonnection with the races were flown with the exception of the arrival of the squadrons from the battle fleet. The combat es, num-= made, PO MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS TO KEEP STILL ON RUM Convention Votes Silence Pending Primaries, Despite Wet De- mand for Open Fight. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Mich., May 24—A con- vention of Michigan Democrats today voted to defer until after the primary elections taking a party stand on the prohibition question. The decision was a compromise after “wets” in the convention had carried | by & vote of 120 to 77 their contention conl in| that the party sheuld “come out in-the open” on the issue, Sy lanes, bering more than 130 in -tY, left Ham) ton ds, Va., where the three . plane carriers to which they are as- signed now are based, at 10 6'clock yes- terday morning. They met over In Head, Md., at 12:15 and appeared aver ;l;mC;n;‘tll promptly on schedule, gt They passed over the Capitol in a8~ cordance with the program and fle; west to the Washington Monument. There it became apparent that they would have to land immediately to es- cape the storm and the plan to fly out to Chevy Chase and back down the line of Connecticut avenue before m In review at Anacostia was Aban “,‘f" squadron leaders led the way t0 safety. Los Angeles Visit Canceled. ‘The visit of the Navy dirigible Los Angeles, which was to have n one of the features of the races, was cans celed yesterday morning because of thunderstorms ~ between the National Capital and Lakehurst, N. J, and the big llrshlgenmllnfll within her h: at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. Many of the special features which were to have made yesterday's evenmt one of the greatest aeronautical dem- onstrations of the year and the greatest the National Capital ever has seén can- not be held next Baturday, owing %o the departure of two of the airplane carriers and their planes from Hampton Roads tomorrow for the Pacific Coast. Four of the squadrons and ope b the catriers are to remain on the Coast during June and the planes will proceed on Mondx to Long Bound to join with the Scouting Fleet 8 joint Army-Navy exercise to test seacoast defenses of New England. Plans had not been completed last night for next Saturday's events in connection with the races. The rate itself will be run as had been planned for myuurdny. probably starting at pm. The Battle Fleet squadrons remained at Anacostia last night and are to leave today for Ham| , Where six of them Will be taken aboard their mother ships in_preparation for the trip to the Pa- =ific Coast. THREE ARE DROWNED Coast Guards Fail to Find Men After Raising Sunken Sloop. CHICAGO, May 24 .(#)—Two artists and a third man were bel to have been drowned when Ihaw foot sloop sank tonight in Lake gan, about two miles off shore. Coast Guards raised the boat with » derrick, but could find no sign of the three reported to have left in it earlier in the evening. are Earl ShutGs, 35; compmsrcial Artih: , 3, his partner, and’ unidentified man. 7