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THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 1, 1930—PART ONE. ~ HOOVERTORETURN ¥ TOCARTAL TODAY resident Enjoys Fishing Trip In Pennsylvania, Despite “% © Cool Weather. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staft Correspondent of The Star. : WILLIAMSPORT, -Pa, May 31— After ‘a full day, the greater part of was spent out in the cold air Pennsylvania “mountains, “ in- in -his favorite sport of trout , Presidemt Hoover retired early at the fishing camp of Jay , -3d, ‘of Philadelphia, near here. the miles of trudging about the hours of casting he was not tired, but he wanted to get sleep and rest before start- orrow morning on the ride back to Washington. & real chill in the air and i “wind was blowing all day. If the sun had not been shining it would ve been uncomfortable. The ther- eter was -only slightly above 35 degrees when. the .President arose ihis morning and ‘only a few degrees higher than that tonight. The President, however, wore héavy tlothes besides a warm sweater and his face was a ruddy color “when he returped to the lodge with the other members of the fishing arty and made ready for a big eve- ‘Too Cool ‘for Trout Fishing. ‘The day was much too cold for really successful trout fishing and as the President caught fish. Eight of these were landed during the fore- - ‘moom. ¢ They all were of fair size and brook variety, The result of was eomparatively poor for artful angler. The fish were but just ldn’t be enticed artificial means, sus royal coach- men and cahill fiies. . seemed to prefer remaining fast in their nooks be bothered for recreation et beauty of this ;| delegates to L] e is attractively of the mountain, is known as White Deer Valley, part of the famous valley . The members of enjoyed the scenery , but because of the cold desire to stroll about in it upon the broad porch ség’? ! | i g2 Eu it 3 4 £ ; i r. Taftin Hi Few knew the humanm side of former President Taft better than Mr. Hoster, who, as a mewspaper correcpondent, was assigned to the White House, and who made many long trips with Mr. Taft. This is the fourth of siz weekly articles in which Mr. Hoster is giving many interesting close-ups of Taft and his admanistration. At 10 o'clock the morning of March 4, 1909, two hours before he took the oath as President to succeed Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Taft handed me the fol- lowing tribute to the man from whom he was taking over the responsibility of office: “It is difficult for one with the depth of affection which I feel for ‘Theodore Roosevelt to give a judi- clal estimate of the man, but I verily believe that when the historian 25 or 50 years hence shall describe his administration and the influence that he has exerted as Chief Magistrate of the country he will accord to him a place with Washington and Lincoln, nndmthewmtrmdwhmhml;wwan; prone now to regar 'as] n an Lincoln, as providentially raised up to meet an exigency in the country’s history that was only less important ‘t;,un the Revolution and the Civil ar.” v is typed is yellowing, but Mr. Taft's signature and the corrections made in his_hand still stand out boldly. So far as I am aware, Mr. Taft never withdrew the views here expressed. Following the disruption of their lifelong friend- ship he rarely made any reference in public to Col. Roosevelt. In private conversation his references to the for- mer President were kindly and, one might add, tinged with melancholy affection. Expected Reconcillation. Mr. Taft never regarded the break in their relations as permanent, but rather as an interlude—as lcme'.hln: which time and circumstance woul heal—and with a feeling that at some period In the future, which he looked forward to wistfully, they would be as good friends as ever. “I know Theodore so well,” he said back in the Spring of 1912. “He has been deceived, things have been mis- represented to him, and he has lost his perspective. But when we have both been retired to private life and he gets back the perspective we shall be as good friends as ever.” Not even when the bitter contest for the 1912 convention was at its height did Mr. Taft it him- self to be drawn into a personal con- troversy with his old friend. The clos- est he came to it was in his Boston h, when he ionately declared t he was figh “with my back against the wall.” And I think he even regretted that outburst, which was wrung from him more from a sense of hurt spirit than out of any deep resent- ment. His state of mind is {llustrated : sumptuous everiing meal, featured by the trout eaught by the President and members of the Tg-rty. all ed indoors. ey drew & wide -emlcut‘cle lbgll; stone fireplace’ and smoke: ed untfl u:ep time arrived for ly retirement. SIX IN FAMILY DIE WHEN FLAMES RAZE HOUSE AT GLEN ECHO ‘& ‘(Continued From Pirst Page.) " men assisted me to a machine and brought me to the hospital, “I have no idea how the blaze eould have started. All the fire seemed to be centered in the two rear bedrooms when I first awoke.” Several hundred persons had congregated at the scene and the was blocked with automobiles shortly after the fire companies arrived on the scene. Finds Child Dead. The fire was discovered by Mrs. Willlam T. Dennell, who lives in 2 house to the rear of the Moxley home. Mrs. Dennell awakened her husband after she heard Mox- ley yelling for help. Dennell ran to the house and found the rear end envelo in flames. He then ran around to the side and saw one of the children leaning out of the window. He managed to reach the window and found the child, one of the girls, dead. The smoke drove him back when he tried to enter the room. Car Goes Over Bank. ‘While the firemen were flfmlnc the fire a parked sutomobile slipped free and over the steep embank- ment 1 to the canal nearby. It landed on the top and the crowd sul down, but found no one in it. en concentrated their efforts on the Moxley home, mm% the other house at the mercy of the flames. They succeeded in checking the blaze in the second floor, and at 3 o'clock two fire- men were able to enter the house bx ladders to a second-story window. few minutes later the first of the bodies was removed. A second followed, and then the mother and her 3-year-old baby were taken from the ruins. The other bodies followed. All of the bodies were badly burned. As each body reached the ground fire- men covered it with sheets. A short time later all - wefe removed- to Pumphrey's funeral home, at Rockville. Conductor Saw Flames. H. Z. Seaton, s conductor on a Glen Echo street car, informed firemen that while on his last trip to the amuse- ment he discovered flames shooting from the house. He ordered the street car and he ran to the home. He sald the time was 1:37 o'clock, He said he pounded on the front door, but could not Ezl An ansyer from in- side. He sald broke a window and attempted to enter the house, but flames and smoke drove him back. Seaton left the house and called the District Fire Department for help. CAPT. SWANN FEARED IN DYING CONDITION Fire Engine Company Leader Was Injured Monday in Fall Down Shaft. Capt. Harry W. Swann of Fire En- gine %omnlny No. 12 was said to be in - condition at Emergency Hos- last night from injuries received Elt Monday morning, when he fell 20 feet down a smoke-filled elevator shaft while leading firemen against a stub- blaze in & miliwork plant at 120 Q@ street northeast. The veteran fireman has falled to % EEgE [ i ; 356§ in a remark he made to me about that time, “If Theodore had not made an issue of my so-called disloyalty,” he said, “and attacked me as he has, I am not sure that I would not have been willing to retire in his favor. At least I woul have been perfectly willing to abide by thnD;uu.ltu(;( a friendly w'l:‘m.:;'d ring the same period 2 “As President I have had to act ac- cording to my own judgment and con- victions—work with the tools and mate- rial I had at hand and accept the re. sponsibility. . But I have. never been conscious of back-sliding in any way on the egflrmcl}?m I shared in common with ore. Parted at Capitol. Mr. Taft and Col. Roosevelt parted in the marble room, just off the Benate chamber, in the National Capitol, about 15 minutes after noon on March 4, 1909. Mr. Taft had just taken the oath of office, and because of the blizzard which was raging was about to enter the chamber to deliver his inaugural address, of which Col. Roosevelt, half an hour before, had said to this writer: “It is perfectly splendid and com- pares with Lineoln’s second inaugural.” They didn't meet again until the Summer of 1910, following Col. Roose- velt’s return from Africa. This meet- ing took place at Beverly, Mass.,, where the President was spending his vaca- jon. “It used to be Will and Mr. President; now it s Mr. President and Theodore,” was the colonel’s characteristic greeting. But already the political atmosphere was surcharged with rumors of a grow- ing coldness between them. Friends of muvelt. including Gifford Pinchot, joined him on his emergence from the Dark Continent. And while Maj. Butt had met the colonel when he reached New York with a letter from the President, which was supposed to be a friendly gesture in the face of adverse reports carried by others, there were many surface indications of brew- ing trouble, which muiltiplied as time passed and were the cumulative re- sults ‘of the tariff bill, the President's efforts to thwart the growing Progres- sive movement, the Norton letter and the charges that Mr. Taft had betrayed the Roosevelt policies. ‘The - mysterious New Haven confer- ence in the Fall of 1910 definitely marked the parting of the ways. Law- rence Abbott mentions this conference as a contributing cause in the final severance of the relations between Taft and Roosevelt. In fact, this was their final meeting before Col. Roosevelt de- clared himself a candidate for the presidency in opposition to Mr. Taft. Taft Sent for Roosevelt. Mr. Abbott says of this conference that while in fact Mr. 't sent ful'l Col. Roosevelt to seek his “advice re- garding a seridus split in the national affairs of the Republican party,” it was made to appear in the newspapers the next day, “in an official dispatch from the presidential train on which Mr. Taft was traveling, that the meeting was sought by Mr. Roosevelt for the purpose of getting some help in his contest with the ‘old guard’ of the New York State Republican machine.” I was a member of Mr. Taft'’s party on that occasion. Leaving Beverly, we arrived in New Haven the following morning, and Mr. Taft attended & meet- Ing of the Yale Corporation. Shortly after our arrival Secretary Norton called the correspondents together. “1 have had the colonel on the tele- phone,” he said, “and he will be here sometime today for a conference with the President.’ A storm on Long Island Sound de- layed Col. Roosevelt’s arrival, and it was 2 o'clock before he and Mr. Taft came togziuer at a house in the en- virons of New Haven. The colonel re- mained two hours, departing without making any statement on the object of the conference or its results. Mr: Taft followed soon afterward, and within half an hour we were on our way to St. Paul, where the President was due to deliver an address at a conservation conference. With specific reference to Mr. Ab- bott's statement, there were no “offi- cial” dispatches sent from the Presi- dent’s train that night, unless the dis- patches from the newspaper correspond- ents in his party acquired an status by reason of the fact that they show the improvement hoped for fol- -the accident, and last night at- . -He is suffering al injuries and a fracture Bwann became blinded by the g and stumbled intp the was directing his men lay- into the burning building, fire xplained. - Aime he was commanding . He is 49 years , &ides at 1604 Otis street no were sent from the President's train. It was a time of high political excite- ent: ‘T. R. was enmeshed in a New York State fight and Mr. Taft was brofled with the Progressives. Break Inevitable. With Rmv'zlm 25 with Taft, thzdre Was & group of rewspaper 5 ents, each filled with the spirit and enthusiasm of the battles under way. The between the leaders was im BY WILLIAM HOSTER. The sheet upon which this sentiment | g, s Shirt Sleeves Informal Sidelights From a Reporter’s Notebook. Taft’s Break With Roosevelt | reporting fully the developments in the camps to which they were assigned; they were also very human. A spirit of rivalry had sprung up between the groups. - I know that the Taft group resented the fact that our man wasn't getting the same amount of front-page stuff and headiines as Roosevelt. A galling dispatch from the Roosevelt “gang” had quite recently reminded us of that. In that frame of mind we approached the New Haven conference. I have a distinct impression now that when we! sat down that night to write our dis- patches we had comparatively little in| the way of real news. I know that Mr. Taft made no statement, for when I} m*l;:. him in his car he said: “There is nothing at all that I can . say about the meeting.” No one else made any formal state- ment. But there was “something in the air.” Roosevelt had come to Taft, Something was awry between them. It is barely possible a hint was dropped by some one close to the President. But ere was rivalry between the groups of correspondents, and probably a bit of professional pride was involved. I don't recall the tone or substance of the dispatches published in the newspapers the next morning, but it was at about this time that the corre- spondents with Taft jointly dispatche message to the Roosevelt “gang,” which, in addition to fraternal greet- ings, contained a gloating note over the fact that the Taft correspondents were at last coming into their own on the front page. Met Again Casually. ‘The campaign of 1912 passed into his- | tory, and I was out of contact with Mr. Taft until the Spring of 1913, when we met accidentally. During the con- versation which ensued, however, he made & characteristic statement with regard to Col. Roosevelt—the man who had a few months before accomplished his defeai—which is illustrative of Mr. Taft’s whole life. 1 casually mentioned that I had seen Roosevelt the day before, ing that I had been asked if it would be con- Venient for me to testify in a suit for libel the colonel had instituted against & Michigan newspaper publisher who had publicly charged the colonel with being a-drunkard. Ineidentally, the suit ended in Roosevelt’s vindication. Mr, Taft’s face grew stern, and with sharp iphasis he exclaimed: “That thing is infamous! I have traveled, eaten and slept with Theodore Roosevelt for 20 years, and never in that time have I seen him under the influence of liquor, nor have I ever seen him drink enough to make any man drunk. I don't see how a news- paper dares make such charges.” In New York the next day I had an appointment with the colonel, at which I told him of my conversation with Mr. ‘Taft. and d: wThat was mighty generous of him.” "Colonel,” I ventured, “I am con- vinced that Mr. Taft would willingly r?elt that statement publicly and even offer to go to Ispheming and testify in your behalf if the suggestion were made to nim. I will do it with your permis- sion.” Rejected Suggestion. “No,” he replied, after a considerable pause, “I think you'd better not. It would be misunderstood. I don't feel I have any right to make such a request of Mr. Taft, to have any one else make ::tormorhn ggest, it to him in any ay.” ‘There are two other phases of this dramatic chapter of political history which are of inf s leading up to the men's own e tions of their break. I asked Col. Rdosevelt one day what the considerstions were that prompted him to sel’ , Mr. Taft as his ‘successor. “Taft and Root were both considered in connection with the nomination,” he sald. “I belleve it was Root himself who pointed out that the American peo- DR DORANBLANES TREATYDATASEN STATES FOR LAXITY Prohibition Commissioner Says U. S. Alone Can’t Stop Liquor Flow. (Conttnued From Pirst Page) nor can it consistently be laid at the doors of the Federal authorities. “It is becoming increasingly apparent to those observing the progress of the enforcement of the National prohibition act that a clearer conception must be had of the respective function of the Federal and State Governments under the concurrent clause of the eighteenth amendment,” the monograph sets forth. “In those States where State officials generally put into action what they tacitly agree is their duty under the concurrent clause, much better results will be achieved.” Asserting that the Federal Govern- ment must do what the States fail to do, the statement declares that “the fact that In thore States that have no enforcement act and in some .States that do have enforcement acts the duty is not performed does not alter the obligations of the State enforcement of- ficials in the least. “To an observer the eauses of this lack of co-operation are quite appar- ent. Unwholesome influences are at work to prevent enforcement.” ‘The monograph states that assum- ing peace officers were as active in en- foroing the law as they have the duty and obligation to be, “it becomes at once apparent that prohibition laws could be successfully enforced for the reason that upward of 200,000 lice- men, marshals, constables and sheriffs would be actively apprehending liquor law violators.” Compared with this estimate of 200,000 officers, the state- ment sets forth that only about 2,000 prohibition agents are scattered over the country. Crowded Courts Blamed. Another cause of lax enforcement, it states, is the crowded dockets of the Federal courts. “If State enforcemeht were under- taken as earnestly as it is in some of the States and with the large body of enforcement officers, as we have seen, bringing their cases into the State courts, as they may be legally, not only would the Federal courts be relleved of trying many police court cases, but jus- tice would be done swiftly and surely.” Pointing out that there are 166 Fed- eral judges in the country and about 3,100 State, county and municipal judges, the monogreph states that “it is obvious that with these courts func- tioning only at their present rate of :Reed they could easily keep abreast of e work done by the enforcement of- ficers if co-operation were fully ex- tended.” “It cannot be mentioned too often,” the statement says, “that national pro- hibition is but one step beyond what exu,t:d in lfllfll. ine “For several mon after Janua 16, 1820, there was no marked dflp;! sition to violate the law. And then a strange thing happened. Slowly some non-law-abiding citizens made “furtive attempts to violate it and found that it could be violated with apparent im- munity. Country Unprepared. “This was due in part to the lack of preparedness on the part of the United States Government to take over the huge task of enforcing such an im- portant law over such a vast territory and to ‘tll:u failure ol‘t State oiflflc\lll g grasp o) unity opened uj them under Mnmmn power. of the eighteenth amendment. It goes without saying that if the State forces had proceeded promptly to exert the power the eighteenth amendment gave them, the country would not today be facing the situation it does regarding prohibition law enforcement.” “It now remains to be shown how rough use | *pfter " the landing was viewed by hun- ple would never again elect as President | far the unfortunate events of the first & man whose name was not associated %:lr of national prohibition have a with some t national issue. Taft,|bearing on the conditions in 1930 and he observed, had made a tremendous| what is being done to combat the forces appeal to the public imagination through | of lawlessness let loose at that time. his administration of the Philippines, “It may be sald as & general state- and later, ag Secretary of War, had be- | ment, that enforcement varies in direct come mnuneg in the public miind with | proportion to— e Panama Canal. “l. The sentiment regarding the law “Moreover, it was agreed that Taft,|in any community. ¢ more than any other man, had been| “2 ‘The clear understanding by the identified intimately with the policles| pederal and State officials of their re- of my. istration. I felt the same | spective duties and obligations. way about it. Besides, Mr. Taft Was| 3, The close co-operation between splendidly equipped for the presidential | gtate and Federal enforcement agen- office by long and varied experience.| cies.” All things considered, I regarded him as the ideal mgn for the place.” ¥orced to Make Fight. And then, as regarding the colonel's "fis clection in statement the night of 1904, that he would never again be a States and U. S. Compared. Enforcement conditions in Pennsyl- vania, Massachusetts and New York are discussed in the monograph and a comparison of State prohibition laws with the national law are given in candidate for the office, he sald: “When 1 made that statement, of course, I meant just what I said. I would not have sought another nomina- tion had the fight not been forced upon me under such circumstances that I would have been false to lifelong prin- ciples and to the friends who had bat. tled with me for them had I refused to accept the challenge. “My intention was to retire perma- nently from office at the end of the term for which I had been elected. But I could not, and events proved it, com- mit myself to & course which would dis- regard all human possibilities. My atti- tude in 1912 was that while I preferred to remain in retirement, yet the people had a right to conscript me for service if they wanted me, which was precisely what they did. If I had wanted a third term.” he concluded, “I could have had it without any difficulty by simply nod- ding my head.” (Copyright, 1930, by North American News. paper Alliance.) (The next article, “Two Versiops of Taft-Roosevelt Rift,” will appear next Sundey.) s 0’HARA FUNERAL RITES ARE TO BE HELD-TODAY Former Cavalry Officer Succumbs to Pneumonia Attack in Walter Reed Hospital. Funeral services for Lieut. Col. Jo- seph J. O'Hara, United States Cavalry, who died of pneumonia in Walter Reed Hospital Priday night, will be con- ducted in Arlington Cemetery this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with full military honors. Officers on duty in the office of the chief of Cavalry, where Col. O'Hara was stationed as personnel officer, will be pallbearers. Col. O'Hara, who was 47 years old, was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1904. He also was a graduate of the Cavalry and the Command and General Staff School at Fort Lewvenworth, Kans. He was sta- tioned overseas a part of the time dur- ing the World War. Col. O'Hara re- sided at 3719 Reservoir road. FISHERMAN DROWNS Saven Are Rescued After Schogner Rams and Sinks Launch. NEW YORK, May 31 (#).—One man drowned and seven others, including three women, were fescued from the adian old and re- minedt. The newspaper correspondents rtheast. of were not only charged with the duty tail. Co-operation with the State and Fed- eral officials in New England varies “from fair to excellent,” the state- ment says, “with & very few cities in- clined oppose _enforcement, but these are not the largest or the most important cities by any means.” (n Pennsylvania, the monograph states, “the machinery for co-operation is there. Where that machinery is employed results are accomplished; where it is not employed, conditions are no better than can be brought about by Federal activity unaided, aund sometimes actively opposed.” Enforcement conditions in New York City are treated separately. “They are extraordinary,” the statement says. “In no other city are there so many forces opposed to law enforcement. Lack of enforcement is due to the following causes: “A strong sentiment against the pro- hibition law, not on the part of the majority, perhaps, but on the part of & large minority. P “Well Dl‘il-niud bands of law vio- lators of all sorts. It is not only the prohibition law that is not enforced. “Close connection between the law- breakers and the local police. Courts Inadequate. “Complete inability of the Federal courts to handle liquor cases when the disposition on the part of the city and county officials is to bring whatever cases they make into the Federal courts, and not to handle them under such penal laws as are on the statute books and available for such cases. “'A tendency on the part of the city officials to hamper enforcement officers in many obscure ways. “Occasionally there will be an out- burst of raiding by the New York police and several hundred cases 1 be thrown into the Federal courts, Awlmg- ing them beyond hope of accomplish- ment.” In conclusion the statement says that in the five States that have no enforce- ment code—New York, Maryland, Mon- tana, Wisconsin and Nevada—"it has been proven that the State officlals can back on the concurrent power given them by the eighteenth amendment to enforce the national prohibition law if they wish to do so.” Laise was re-elected president of the Layman's Association, J. L. Nuber sec- retary and Luther L. Derrick treasurer. Frank V. C , T. L. Mason, jr., and C. C. Duke, all of Baltimore; E. T. Dixon, Cumberland, and William E. 8) Che: Chase, Md., were ‘ted vice p! ts. and men's Brotherhood was referred to & commit- tee of five for consideration. SENATEIN SECRECY Action on Hoover-Macdonald Correspondence Is Held Move to Bar Use in Fight. ‘The State Department laid before the Senate committee on forelgn relations yesterday parsphrased copies of the Hoover-Macdonald cable correspondence leading to the London naval treaty, but virtually with an injunction of secrecy. The circumstances under which the coples were produced were taken to preclude their use by Senator Hiram Johnson, Republican, of Californis, leader of the treaty opposition, to show, it they do so show, that the United States and Great Britain were in full agreement as between themselves before the Naval Conference opened and the negotiations begun with Japan, France and Italy. Senator William E. Borah, chairman of the committee, said he considered the correspondence “executive busi- ness” which the committee had no right to make public. Although the com- mittee as 8 whole will not begin study of the documents before tomorrow Sen= ator Johnson indicated that he would Completing a trip of 4,544 miles from Pernambuco to Lakehurst, N. J, in 67 hours, the Graf Zeppelin hung up | not object. it another air record for speed in travel. although with good tall winds it at one ti Atlantic coast, but the great dirigible succeeded in getting into Lakehurst ahead of schedule. its mast and being pushed into the hangar, the mast being on caterpillar wheels. ‘With good weather most of the wa: ime made more than 100 miles an hour. PREPARE ZEPPELIN FOR RETURN TRIP Workmen Begin Repairs to Streets Broken at Per- ambuco Mooring. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J, May 31.—After riding out the most tempestuous squalls of its career, the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin, that great gray rambler of the | skies, arrived today at this scene of | its triumphal crossing of the Atlantic. | Its shimmering skin blanched by | tropic suns and washed by Aub-cqus-i torial torrents, the sky ship that has crossed the Pacific once and the At-| lantic seven times, to say nothing of ringing the world, nosed into sight at 6 o'clock, Eastern standard time, this morning as ghostly as the mists’ from which it came. Officers and passengers told of storms in the air and as soon as the ship berthed workmen began repairs on broken struts holding in place the aft rear engine gondola. Struts Broken at Pernambuco. W. F. Von Meister, American repre- sentative of the Luftshifbau, sald that the struts were broken while the ship was at its mast at Pernambuco. He said that the damage was found to be unim- rtant and to avoid delay the ship was rought on here with no more than jury repairs. He said that the gondolas had suffered no additional damage during the flight from Pernambuco, despite the ‘weather. dreds instead of the thousands who came to see her on the three other times she was here, the passengers began to scatter. The Infante Alfonso, first cousin of the King of Spain, was taken in a Navy plane to Washington at in- vitation of the Government. W. Leeds, wealthy New Yorker, took Mrs. Pierce to New York in a large plane he had waiting for him at the fleld. The nmlen went to New York in a special train. Before the passengers left, however, they were subjected to customs and health examinations and to interviews, sound reel talks and dozens of photo- graphs. ~ After Leeds had been photo- graphed repeatedly he walked away wng & parting shot that brought laughs even from the cameramen. “If this keeps on,” he said, “I'll be & Mary Pickford.” Securely Housed in Hangar. An hour and a quarter after the Graf ‘was first sighted, it was securely housed in the great hangar it had visited three times before and work was soon after begun to refuel it for the last stretch of its four-continent flight, which has already taken it 15,000 miles in 204 flying hours. The take-off on the re- turn to the home station at Friedrich- shafen, with a stop at Seville, is sched- uled for 9 o'clock, Eastern standard time, Monday night. ‘The journey so far has carried the Graf, with its crew of 50 and a shifting list of passengers which when it landed here numbered 3 women and 16 men, from Prigdrichshafen to Seville, across the tip of Africa and over the Atlantic to Perpambuco, down to Rio Janeiro and back, and then northward 3,800 miles to Lakehurst. ‘The arrival here was made dramatic by a ring of haze around the horizon from which the great ship suddenly peared quite close at hand like some &ln:e groping beast from another planet come to investigate the earth. On one side appeared the Navy dirigible Los Angeles, slenderer but almost as long as the Graf, and on the other the commercial blimp Vigilant, which seemed by contrast to make the other ships _even more gigantic than they actually are. Dr. Eckener Praises Ship. In an interview in the hangar press room Dr. Eckener spoke of the ship in high praise and told of drenching rains in South America and windstorms on the way from Pernambuco here. “At half past eight last night,” he said, speaking through an interpreter, “we ran into a squall which was the worst I have ever experienced. One minute the wind was blowing at 30 miles an hour in one direction and the next it was blowing 40 miles in the exactly opposite direction. “The ship dipped like this,” he ges- tured with a swoop of his hand. “But,” he added with a smile, “none of the passengers was seasick. It was a worse squall than the one in midocean on the first Atlantic flight of the Graf when fabric was torn from a fin.” GERMAN WAR FLYER FEARED DEAD IN CRASH Monoplane Plunges 2,000 Feet Into Ocean—Motor Falls Back Against Cabin. By the Associated Press. LONG BEACH, N. Y, May 31.— Kurt G. Stollwerck, former German war pilot, was believed drowned tonight when his monoplane dropped 2,000 feet into the ocean off Lido Beach. When the plane was about 200 feet from the surface, witnesses motor 3 ainst the broke loose, st ag! cabin where Stoliwerck sat and hurtled into the water just as the plane went into & nose dive. The wreckage quickly sank and Coast Guardsmen, who ar- rived in about half an hour, could not find the body. FLo ™ T i B8 i Moy Pl ; v 5 ot T g Pk To Aid HOWARD COLVIN, President of the Central Labor Union, who will preside at tomorrow night's meeting, when plans will be considered for launching the campaign to bring the $135000 already pledged for the District World War memorial up to the goal of $155,000. |FLEXIBLE TARIFF AGREEMENT 0. K. IS SEEN BY SmooOT (Oontinued From First Page.) erans an increase in pensions. It has been intimated that an effort will be made to put such a measure through the House in short order, thereby les- sening the strength of the movement in the Senate to override the presi- dential veto. It takes a two-thirds vote of both houses to override a veto. Senator Connally of Texas, Democrat, is one of those leading the fight to override the veto of the pension bill. A meeting of the Senate foreign re- lations committee has been called for tomorrow by Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman, to consider the documents which passed between the United States and the British governments, prior to the London Naval Conference, in con- nection with the committee’s study of the London naval treaty. The beliet was expressed yesterday that the treaty would be ordered favorably reported to the Senate before the close of the week by a large majority vote of the foreign relations committee, Hope to Postpone Action. The opposition to the treaty, how- ever, ltfl? clings to a hope that it will be possible to postpone action on the act until next December, notwithstand- ing the declaration of President Hoover that if the treaty is not acted on at the present session of Congress he will call a special session of the Senate to meet immediately following the ad- Jjournment of the Congress to deal with the treaty. There is talk now that some of the Senators will be unable to attend such a session, thereby forcing the treaty over. But the administra- tion does not take such talk too seri- ously. It expects to get action on the treaty either before the close of the present sesslon or at a special session. Senator Smoot is one of those who still hopes it will be possible to get the treaty up during the present session and thus avold the necessity of holding a spe- clal session of the Senate. If necessary, he says, the House can disband unof- ficialy and go through the motions of holding sessions every three days until the Senate can act on the treaty. Senator McKellar of Tennessee, Democrat, is the latest opponent of the treaty to issue a blast attacking it. In a staternent made public yesterday he said that the President and the British prime minister, Ramsay Macdonald, had outlined four great objectives to come out of the London Conference. None of these objectives, he said, had been obtained. “There has been no limitation of arms at all,” said Senator McKellar, “but on the contrary there will be a vast increase of naval arms after the pact has been approved.” Declares Saving Is Absent. Senator McKellar denied that there would be any reduction of armament. He insisted that there would be no saving in money as a result of the treaty but a large expenditure, and that the treaty does not bring country parity with Great Britain in naval strength. He sald, too, it was doubtful that the treaty would give America a navy sufficlent to protect this country's interests in the Pacific Ocean. Four members of the foreign rela- tions committee have been generally counted against the treaty out of a total of 20. They are Senators Hiram Johnson of California, Robinson of In- diana, La Follette of Wisconsin, Repub- licans, and Senator Shipstead of Min- | nesota, Farmer-Labor. Senator Moses of New Hampshire, who recently re- turned from Europe, has withheld com- ment on the treaty until he can study it further. If he should vote against it, as some of the opponents of the pact claim he will, the vote in com- © | mittee against the treaty may be five. While the opposition to the treaty in the Senate itself may be somewhat stronger than at first was belleved, the proponents of the agreement are confl- dent that it will be ratified by an over- whelming vote when the showdown comes. A . a, is to have a new Cornwall, Canad: bridge vas able to average about 67 m! cO!hnwn 2 %\mfil fles an hour. Rough weather was experienced off the Photo shows it moored at —Associated Press Photo. GRAF PASSENGER TELLS OF “REVOLT Protest When Ship’s Captain Informs Them of Change in Route to U. S. (Continued From First Page.) came worse when Capt. Flemming— always a bit too grouchy with the pas- sengers, closed up the bridge and gave no one access or explanation. Then al- most every one in the cabin was con- vinced ‘that the trip to Havana had never really been planned at all. But that was not true, for Dr. Eckener had been paying for a whole week for the landing preparations at Havana. Every one then remembered remarks of officers and crew; how they are long- ing for Friedrichshafen and home, this trip being much more strenuous than the world trip. Vainly Capt. Shoemaker endeavored to clear up all those mis- understandings and errors of judgment Mr. Zwicky, the Swiss, began to speak of suing for damages, the Spaniards were sentimentally hurt because the whole voyage was not leading to any Spanish-speaking country, and it seems that Don Alfonso was have de- livered some warm address from the old motherland to the Cuban brothers Dr. Eckener Makes Explanation. At last Dr. Eckener himself came to rescue his own affairs, and with a long and detailed meteorological and aero- nautical explanation succeeded mn smoothing out things a bit. Still the whole debate wound up with Dr, ener’'s promise not to decide about Havana before Friday. ‘When we reached Barbados the vary. ing light signals of the excited island Negroes, the exotic charm of the big stars above the Caribbean Sea brought back the longing for a new plece of tropical paradise, and only reawakened the nostalgia of us air wanderers. The In general, however, these two Sen- ators who stood together in the struge- gle to keep America out of the League of Nations, have little in common in the controversy over the pending naval limitations treaty. Opposition Is Organized. ‘While Senator Borah proceeded yes terday with plans to expedite ratifi- cation Senator Johnson and Senator ‘Their present plan is to propose no reservations, but to take the position that the treaty fundamentally is une fair to the United States and there= fore cannot be correctetd by amend- ments, In this contention they were supported by a statement by Senator Kenneth McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, declaring that the treaty failed to fulfill the four central objectives outlined by President Hoover and J. Ramsay Macdpnald, prime minister of Great Britain,’ after their conversation last Autumn in the presidential camp on_the Rapidan. Senator Johnson maintains that the naval general board’s “irreducible min- imum” . recommendation of 21 big cruisers dlready had been cut to the 18 which the treaty provides, when the Hoover-Macdonald joint statement calling among other things for parity was issued. Attack Centers on This Point. It is on this point that the opposie tion expects to center its attack on the treaty, it is said. So far, the opposition shows only a slight semblance of ore ganized effort and, according to Sen tor Watson, Republican leader of th Senate, it embraces no more than & dozen members, but in the week it has adopted a fighting spirit. Cere tain of the leaders who privately cone ceded defeat last Saturday, after Prese ident Hoover had forced the ratificae tion issue by serving notice that he would call & special session for treaty action 1if the present session poste poned & vote, now refuse to admit that there is no chance to defeat the pact. They contend that the movement to defeat ratification of the League .Cove- nant seemed almost hopeless in its early stages. One reason for the dis- the defeatist spimit, it is the return of Sénator H. Moses, Republican, of New Hampshire, from abroad. Treaty efitics, for reasons not stated, declare that BSenator Moses, leader of the so- called isolationist group, will line up against the treaty, although the. Sen- tor has yet to commit himself for or passengers started arguing again. Fri- day morning at 6 o'clock we passed the green mountains and the sleeping capi- tal of Ban Juan, Porto Rico, and were roaring with all five motors and strong tall winds directly toward New York There was no longer any thought of showing us at least Miami or the Bahamas, we were headed for the open sea, and for the passengers remained only the bleak outlook of three days of watery desert from Pernambuco to | Lakehurst and three more days of the | same watery desert still to come on the way from Lakehurst home to Seville, No Value for $6,000 Fare Then the storm broke loose. agreed that this was no value lormsl $6.000 fare, that some secret was hid- den from the passengers which was the real reason why Dr. Eckener was hastening home in such an inconsid- erate manner, and in spite of the new wonderful achievement and the of faultless ability of the Zeppelin for tropical as well as transcontinental and transoceanic voyages, I am afratd Dr, Eckener this time damaged somewhat severely his good cause as as prac- tical propaganda is concernéd. now have to thin] | k of some new kind Fiture Dassergers pin sateoe it engers somethin, :g‘l}‘sunténl than l; mere y. ;nror: and nerve-curi vaga- bo;mé\n. g celest! o not want to be misunderstood. Probably the real reason for the pas- sengers’ dlsappointment is the sad fact that a wonderful voyage has to end at all and that one has to return to the nerve-racking “methods of old- fashioned travel ori earth and water, with pedantic time tables, red cap tip- hunters and so on. But there is no doug( also that Zeppelin travel is already turning to this same “regularity” and is quickly losing the perfume of glori- ous adventure. Dr. Eckener must make up for it in some other way to satisfy the coming of the more normal type of Zeppelin passenger. Total Is 100 Per Cent Germanism. At the last luncheon aboard Dr. Eckener received from Mr. Crouse a champagne bowl and goblets. In his speech of thanks he reached a kind of final reconciliation with the passen- gers—primarily because nobody can re- sist the really immense personal charm of this great fanatic of a great idea. But even he will not succeed perma- nently to turn tourism into idealism, and that s the crisis the Zeppelin has How to face. On the Pan-American voyage the Zeppelin's five motors made altogether 660,000,000 revolutions, running day and night with the same rh; , grandiose lullaby of our safety. that summed up amounts to: Great thought, reliable engine, good manship and very r tactics and diplomacy, thus totaling 100 per cen He will | the against the pact. Cruiser “Defects” Are Corrected. In the controversy over the relativi merits of 8-inch and 6-inch gun eruis- ers it was brought out today that Navy designers have succeeded in correcting the “glaring’ cts in erulser designs without their speed or battery. Rear Admiral H. E. Yarnell, chief of the Bureau of Engineering, in a memo- randum filed with the foreign relations committee on Thursday, indicated that the lack of what is called “correspond- ing protection” in this type never could be wholly overcome without cuttin, down the speed from around 32 to 2 knots or the battery, or both. With “correspon n{ protection,” cruiser has armor thick enough to stop projectiles from guns like those in its own batterfes. It is not claimed that the changes in designs will provide cor- responding protectiol ‘Mm:;mr ‘bl!! hz“ - gun projectiles. Rear Aflmfil\ William V. Pratt, com- mander of the United States fleet, is authority for the statement that the “tin-plate” armor on the first eight of e American 8-inchers, only three of which are in commission, left them vulnerable to 6-inchers at all ranges. McKellar's Statement, Senator McKellar's statement follows: “When President Hoover and Pre- mier Macdonald were at Rapidan, they published to the world that the two countries had agreed: “1. That there would be a limit on naval arms. “2. That there would be a reduction of arms. “3. That there would be an enor- mous savings to the American taxpayers and to the taxpayers of other countries. “4, That re would be parity heaped up and flowing over. “The report of the conference has come and not one of these four great objectives has been accomplished. “There has been no limitation of arms at all, except the United States has been prohibited, if the agreement goes into effect, from building the kind of crulsers that her experts say are mecessary for her defense. “There- has been no reduction of naval arms, but, on the contrary, there will be & vast increase of naval arms ll!fl the pact is approved. ‘Instead of there being savings, the lowest estimate of additional cost to the American people is over a billion dollars. When we think of the Grundy tariff bill, taxing the Americaa people & billion dollars additional, and the London naval pact taxing them another billion dollars, we can understand what the Rapidan promises mean. “Instead of there being parity, to the layman it looks as if ti treaty will very greatly accentuate the disparity that now exists. It will be extremely doubtful whether we will have a Nav; sufficie) Pacific in cutting down it Germanism, the father also of the Zeppelin. (Copyright, 1930, in the United States and Canada by the New York Times Co.: else- where Ulistein A-G. All rights reserved.) BLANTON IS CERTIFIED Texas Election Board Approves Re- turns in 17th Distriet. AUSTIN, Tex., May 31 (P).—A certifi- cate of election was issued to Thomas L. Blanton of Abilene as Representa- tive from the seventeenth Texas district by the State canvassing board today after it had checked the returns from the special election to name a successor to the late R. Q. Lee. The official totals were 10,225 for Blanton mg‘:.om for Lee's widow. been refused his seat in y nt to - termta.” protect our SWEDISH MINISTRY LOSES IN VOTE OF CONFIDENCE ly!m- Associated Press. TOCKHOLM, May 31—S8weden's Conservative minisiry was defeated to- day jorities in both cham- bers of t on & measuré that had been made a question of confidence. The Conservatives are e: ted to re- sign on Monday, and will probably be succeeded by a left-wing government formed under the leadership of the P%ll party. e defeat rose from a proposal to increase tariff duties on imported wheat, which the cabinet insis on, threat- ening to resign if it were not accepted. ‘The ent, which took. office he presents a certificate October. 1, 1928, is headed by Rear Ad- oy miral Arvid Lindman, » A