Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1930, Page 8

DRY LEAGUE PROBE CALLED UNETHICAL McBride Scores Wets for Lobby Investigation Statements. By the Associated Press. GROVE CITY, Pa, June 14.—F. Scott McBride yesterday reviewed the Senate lobby committee’s investigation of the | Anti-Saloon League in an address here and said all charges made against the organization by the wets had been dis- proved. “Piguratively speaking, the wets have | turned the Anti-Saloon League inside | out, but have found the league methods | Pproper, economical, consistent, effective and in every way defensible,” McBride, who is general superintendent of the 7 t was shown that the common, every-day charges of the wets against the league are wet propaganda put forth to undo, if possible, the or- nization standing in the way of their uor pr ¥ the sun. this over to the Police Department for investigation. The department reported that, although the practice is unethical, it is not il THE ' SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 15 1930—PART ONE. discredit the league and its leadersh lc;l‘r:“ wets,” he lddlfl,.":& Lha':n‘t m of accepting 'ments from Y sources. sentative York, and wet leade defensible attempt to discredit the league by irresponsible statements to the press.” DEPOSIT OF HANDBILLS IN HOMES PROTESTED Commissioners Receive Numerous Complaints From Owners, Alleg- ing Promiscuous Advertising. Numerous complaints have come to the District Commissioners of late from | householders who come home from | work to find their vestibules littered | with handbills and other advertising matter describing the merits of various products. The complaints not only to the litter, but also to the content of some of the advertising. One sample in the Commissioners’ correspondence is & card put out by a licensed physician | and a licensed dentist. This promises a cure for practically everything under he Commissioners turned Fair Beatrice Lee, 17-year. girl of Salt Lake City, U and there is nothing charms gained her the title of Miss United States, is seen here on arrival In New York while en route to the inter- national contests in South Americ: LEGION DELEGATES 10 “FIDAG" NAMIED Eleventh Annual Congress to Be Held in Capital ‘in September. Delegates representing the American Legion to the eleventh annual congress of the Federation Interalliee des Anciens Combattants, otherwise known as Fidac, to be held in this city September 22, and 24, have been announced by tional Adjt. James F. Barton of the American Legion at Indianapolis. ‘Those selected by the national execu- tive committee of the American Legion include the following: Julius I. Peyser. American vice president of Fidac, this city, chairman ex-officio; Past National Comdr. Paul V. McNutt, Bloomington Ind.; Edward L. White, national vice commander, New Haven, Conn, chair- man of the Fidac committee on ar- rangements; Lemuel Bolles, New York past national adjutant and past Ameri- Richmond, Va.; National Executive Committeeman Paul J. McGahan, this city, and Sam W. Reynolds, Omaha Nebr. This will be the second visit of the Fidac to the United States, its third an- nual congress having been held in New Orleans at the same time the Ameri- can Legion held its convention in 1922 Fidac is composed of 89 ex-service or- ganizations of allied countries, the American Legion being the member so- clety in the United States. At the same time that the congress is in session in this city the members of the Fidac Auxillary will hold their sixth sannual convention in the Na- tional Capital. Maj. Peyser announces that whenever 1t is possible to do s0 in any of the cities that the delegates visit, every op- unity will be en them to be en- rtained in private homes. Every dele- gate will be interested in seeing some- thing of American home life, and on occasions of this kind, as a general rule, very little opportunity is afforded tc see home life of the country being visited. According to Maj. Peyser the itinerary includes New York, Philadel- phia, "Columbus, Detroit, Buffalo Niagara Falls, Culver, Albany, Newburgh, N. ¥.; West Point, Annapolir and & visit national headquarters of the American Legion at Indianapolis. Archduke Otto to Make Tour. BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 14 (). — BRITAIN MAKES PUBLIC VIEWS ON CHINESE ISSUE By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 14.—The government last night made public correspondence on the subject of extraterritoriality in China, revealing that the British are awaiting definite proposals from the Chinese before entering into negotia- tions which would com Bflu:go na- tionals to be tried in Chinese courts. A letter from C. T. Wang, Chinese foreign minister, reaffirmed the Chinese view that extraterritorality should be abolished, and declared the Chinese already were showing a markedly dif- ferent attitude toward the nationals of those countries which renounced extraterritorality and those which had not. Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister in Ohina, said in a letter that Great Britain was willing to discuss the question, but declared a definite state- ment of the Chinese methods to abol cxmrgn:nmy was essential for suc- ality, I Ghelr owm all cess of 3 Under the seintibie.of extraterritor. | o SMITHS TRANSFER & STORAGE COMPANY LONG DiSTANCE MOVERS & HAULERS AGENTS OF ALLIED VAN LINES,INC. FURS FUMIGATED RUGS DUSTED OR W omMuo-wn OZ>» OMIV> £ lons. can vice president of Fidac; Gen. L. R. Gignilliat, Culver, Ind., past American vice president of Fidac; Ben 8. Fisher past department commander of Oregon | now of this city; Representative Lamar Anni; , Al Tom A. Lee Wicker, jr. Royalist circles announced today that young Archduke Otto, who passed his | examinations at the University of Lou- | vain Cum Laude, is about to leave on a trip to France and Spain. Most | Hungarian Legitimatist circles regard Otto as heir to the throne. The Association Against the Prohibi- | n Amendment, Representative Tink- | police regul , Republican, Massachusetts, and| The Commissioners are considering | other wets, he said, helped Senator | the question of adopting a police regu- Blaine, Republican, Wisconsin, a mem-= | lation to forbid the practice complained ber of the committee, “gathering any in- | of and are anxious to discover the pub- | 459,213, a gain of 17.99 per cent in 10 formation they thought could be used to lic reaction to the proposed regulation. ! years. ULIUS LANSBURGH FURNITURE CO., INC | to _be done it under the present o i ob .OO;‘:ILDIN‘ STORAGE - MOVING - CRATING - SHIPPING - 1313 U St. N.W. 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