Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1930, Page 2

s * FUND BILL FAILURE | (22 memeiar e | DOLLAR GLUBGIVES VIRGINIANS THRONG | [mxxo menscurrs | BYRD FINDS RAISE - > DANGERINCREASES Major Loss to Capital Would Be $14,410,000 for Per Diem Pay Raise May Fail One of the outgrowths of the study R. A. DICKSON. —Star =2 POLIGE PAY RAIS crease promised to nearly 3,000 per diem workers, effective July 1. architect'’s of. Since the fice is financed on revenues aj mwum for construction work, the of appropriations for new building projects will reduce its income and * probably result, it was said, In the fu lough of about 40 of its employes, 1 cluding the highly trained and special ized ng force. ~Three per cent of a riations up to $2,000,000 for new is collected by the munic- ipal architect’s office as a fee for prepa- Tation of the plans. Appropriations in excess of $2,000,000 produce a fee of 3% per eent. A continuing resolution, it was pointed out, would provide but $65,000 for nhflufuthepu!onnelnfmthemumc- s office, permitting only & skeleton force. Blocks School Building Plans. Tying up of the 1931 public school '.E ’s of $46500 in fees. Ten new are provided in the 1931 of which would amount to $1, 550,000. Of this the municipal archi. tect’s office would collect INPASSE BROKE Conferees Are Expected to|ig Agree as House Members End Dispute. The deadlock which has held up the | G EM"‘"“"“- ‘Typographical Uni Staft Photo. | wint TOWAR MEMORIAL Ex-Service Men’s Group to Conduct Campaign, Says Labor Leader, As a feature of the campaign of or- labor in Washington to raise $20,000 to complete financing of the District of Columbia World War Memo- rial, R. A Dickson, new club. = Through it, Mr. Dickson said last night, he ex- pects to realize at lcist $1,000 for the memorial fund. “This particular branch of the com- mittee, I sincerely believe,” said Mr. Dickson, “will prove one of the most active branches of our camj . It be the object to enlist finan- cial support of 1,000 who have not had the apggnmnlty to make a financial contribu to the general fund.” Committee Named. ‘The committee members were a nounced last night by Mr. Dickson, as follows: James §. Judge, Costello Post, American Legion; Frank Fabrizio, jr. Costello Post; Prancis Miller, Bureau of Engraving and Printing Post; Thomas Franklin, Bureau of Engrav- and Printing Post; _ Thomas . McDonough, Bureau of - Engraving and Printing Post; Cornellus Rya Veterans of Foreign Wars and president of Web Pressman’s Union, No. 6; J Neumeyer, Press Assistan Union; John Botts, business representative of the Steamfitters and Helpers Unio Rothgeb, Teamsters’ Union; bill increasing the pay of policemen |gamuel Terry, business representative -and firemen finally was broken late yes- |of Electricians’ Union, and Wilbur terday when House leaders, summoned ) Sartwell, Post Office clerks. Additional to a parley with Speaker Longworth, agreed to send the bill to conference. The pariey was held in Longworth's Representative G. Sim- lons- It Tespective as House vy and that it will get-to houses action members will be put on the committee later on. “The members already selected,” Mr. Dickson explained, “are very active in their respective local unions, and I look for very encouraging results from this club within the immediate future. meet separately from the t will regular executive committee, but shall report to the latter at its regular meet- select their own They shall Monday | officers of the ciub who will work in unison with the executive committee. It is our intention to keep this com- mittee intact and not assign any of its members to any other work until after the committee has accomplished the Pennsylvania and Whitehead of Vir- | PUrPose for which it has-been formed. . Prank A. Vi and Milton ady to accept it now It is understood that the Sen- ate conferees also are ready to accept Simmons amend- Green Certificates. A green certificate is belna"pruenud who joins “Dollar . certifies that the domor has “contributed $1” to the fund that or- ganized la in the District of Co- lumbia is r: to erect a war memo- rial in commemoration of the 535 Dis- trict heroub“who 3::1 on me.;:rtl‘:: European battlefields, during World War. says the cd. “goes By BQ0rsCICR: of b “‘goes my erving cause. Washington owes fi war dead, and I have contributed share, thereby re| a moral obH vahuhllgl:"?'omm already obtained from other unions in the Bureau of En- . Dickson surpassing expectations. ile an individual canvass of many f the unions has been started, the itions themselves have begun to "a: out of their union treasuries by Mr. Dick- war memorial lddr-edwmvrmnis& son, in the interest of campaign. Jor HOPE OF BREAKING :| QUESTIONS OVER DEEP Will | of a vast deep in the e bridge over Klingle Valley, &hel i children’s tuberculosis sanitarium, the | 4 mew health school for colored children, | ; the farmers' market and other smaller | projects. | , The Trafic Bureau would lose the ! $53,000 carried in the bill for the ex- : tension of electric traffic signals, and | the police department the 25 additional men provided in the bill, as well as 18 new automobiles for the patrol force in outlyin . The police de- | would be unable to carry | : out the plans a"lnj. I:anrlys G. Pnt‘t“ H :w ‘whidh would lead {0 the "ge of 32-other officers of lower X i buflding: projects, street pa % and water service con- H it is “estimated, will -throw | more 2,000 persons out of work, those alpeady on furlough agencies. Nearly one-half of these, it was said, will be i laborers in the employed om new Another large group will idle because $1,000,000 worth of new sewers carried in the budget will not| be constructed. 150 New Places Would Be Empty. i Homr.:un possible with el. UNANSWERED BY BYRD Explorer Reveals Ocean Fissure of 21,000 Feet Below Surface. By the Associated Press. D. C. BILL DEADLOCK GROWS IN SENATE (Continued Prom First Page.) Fleming, John Poole, Charlgs C. Glover, jr.; Joshua Evans, jr.; Sidney F. Talia- ferro, Thomas P. Littlepage, Robert J. Discovery of | Cottrell, Dorsey Hyde and Prank Cole- While these developments were tak- ing place at the Capitol the Merchants & Manufacturers’ Association sent a letter to President Hoover Questions af scientists on the detalls | to do whatever possible to help bring discoy about a resumption of conferences on ered hers with Rear Ad- |the appropriation bill to determine the miral Richard E. Byrd were left un- | equitable appropriations that should be answered by the departure of | horne by the National Government and yesterday t.h;explom {:r l!ll:)‘lll'mml.M c e special gold medal of the National Geographic Soclet; President it_Hoover, he announ a fis- local taxpayers. If Senator Bingham’'s motion for the from | reappointment of conferees can be act- ed on tomorrow it is probable a con- sure of 25,000 feet had been found be- | ference will be arranged for promptly. low the waves between Little America and New Zealand. He did not identify the site closely and scientists were unable to learn by means device, known as finder, by means the ocean the ship to the bottom and back The greatest ocean depth known the Mindinao Deep, between the Phil- ippines and Japan, which is 35,410 feet below the surface. The most recently discovered fissure was Fleming Deep, sounded by sclentists last year. It was 28,000 feet below the surface and ranks :; the sixth greatest submarine depth own. each street will meet the particu lar strains of traffic. The appropria. tion bill carries an item for the appoint- ment of such an engineer. . Richards Would Lése Deputy. ~Tay -Assessor. William P. Richards would lose a deputy, who would mx assessor in his absence, and direct a1l the work of the office. The engineer of sewers will fose an assistant engineer, | and the Traffic nt two en- the loss of a chief psyc) it on full- time salary. The workhouse and re- gvfnz Industry who | formatory will lost 14 mew guards, and | the public school system 11 new teach- and 14 gardeners and laborers. The Fire ent's greatest loss will be a new engine and truck com- pany fire house, which, it was planned to erect near Thirteenth and K streets to replace the fire houses in the sylvania avenue-Mall triangle. These nrahounuwiubalorudoutnm e Government's huge 8 program, Trafic Bureau in Dilemma. Mmroumotmvewwmw the officials is what to do with 'the Traffic Bureau and the Employment ordered Bureau, which have have been made to re- activities temporarily in :“lc!p‘.l Genter ar o) area, the slw‘&m of the | Penn- | 1% | termine the ers, 8 professors for the normal colleges, | that should be borne by The conferences terminated more than & week ago, when the Senate members despaired of persuading the House managers to meet them on any figure above $9,000,000. The Senate conferees feel strongly that the House should be willing to meet the Senate on some basis of compromise. The Senate group have indicated a willingness to go half way or even more toward the House figure. ‘There are other amendments in the bill not yet agreed upon, but if the Fed- eral contribution can be settled there is little doubt thaj the other items on which the two houses took different ac- tion could be adjusted. The letter the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association sent to President Hoover, signed by its president, Mark Lansburgh, follows: . “My dear Mr. President: “At a meeting of the board of gov- ernors of the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association yesterday, great concern was expressed over the failure Flying fr-\ Jacksonville, Fla., to San Diego, Calif., and return, Edward F. Schiee (above, left) and William S. Brock (right) set a new transcontinental round-trip flight vecord. Their plane (below) broke a wheel in landing. —Assoclated Press Photo. GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS AMERICAN AUDIENCE F Dr. Julius Curtius Aims Radio Talk From Berlin to This Country. Speaker Was Captain = of Artillery During the World War. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 21.—A fighting man's plea for peace, aimed at America, across 3,000 miles of ocean, by the former Ger- man captain of artillery, who is now his country’s foreign minister, was sent out of a Berlin broadcasting studio tonight ‘The man behind this long-range at- tack on war and international misun- Jerstanding was Dr. Julius Curtius, mas- ter of the Reich’s foreign policy. The occasion for his radio appeal was a movement to found an academy of peace in memory of the late Gustav Strese- mann, peacemaker of post-war Ger- many and predecessor of Dr. Curtius at the foreign office. “Germany needs and desires peace,” Dr. Curtius told his transatlantic audi- ence, “a peace honorable for everybody, a peace secured not by military arma- ‘ments, but by justice and good will and reciprocal sincere understanding. “We desire such a peace not as a nation unfit or loath to bear arms. ‘We desire it as men who know how to fight—I myself served at the front for more than four years—but who have come to. understand that there are other ways of settling international con- troversies than by letting an inferno loose over humanity. Says Treaty Most Unjust. “And we have given ample proof of that spirit. The world knows how the German people, although hit incredibly hard by the most unjust of peace treaties, renounced from the beginning any idea of revenge. “It knows the great work of con- ciliation of my much-lamented friend Gustav Stresemann, embodied in the treaties of Locarno. It knows of our active collaboration in all the labors of the League of Nations. Like the United States, Germany is striving to ‘make the world safe from a recurrence of the cataclysm that would without fail put an end to our civilization. “We stand unreservedly for peace ful settiement of every kind of conflict between States, and, having ourselves, in spite of all rumors to the contrary, compl disarmed following treaty of Versailles, we strongly insist unpon an all-around reduction to a minimum of all military establishments and preparations for war.” Dr. Curtius buttressed his appeal for universal disarmament by declaring that such military establishments “a1% always a potential danger to the peace of the world, for the more guns there are, the more readily one will acci- dentally go off at the critical hour.” He remarked that it was easy for him to speak freely with Americans. It Stresemann’s death had not put him at the helm of the foreign ministry, he sald he would now have been carrying out an old plan for spending a Summer in the United States, speaking face to face with Americans instead of by to pass thus far the pending District | radio of Columbia appropriation bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1930. “The expressed their apprecia- tion of the interest that you have shown in the District of Columbia and the consideration that you have already given to this pending appropriation il “The Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association strongly urge that you do everything in your power to bring about & resumption of the conferences be- tween the Senate and the House to de- equitable appropriation National Government and by the taxpayers of the District of Columbia, in order that this important appropriation bill for the c-‘pmu City may be enacted into before Congress adjourns. “The failure of the passage of this bill would be -disastrous in, its effect, for much needed improyements streets, schools and other public bulld- ings would have to be deferred at least ve several ing trades of employment at a time when there is a need for provi work for men now out of employmen! the bicentennial of the birth of is to be convene here di that will result in many thousands of Ameri- can citizens visiting their National Capital during that year, many needed improvements should be made dul Sees Friendly Relations. Commenting on German American relations, he noted that it is an out- standing feature of these relations that among our erstwhile enemies your country was the first after the expira- tion of the economic clauses of the treaty of Versailles to offer Germany a treaty of friendship and commerce. “It is another outstanding feature that the United States was one of a few countries that restored German property seized dlfiln[ the war to its rightful owners. loreover, it was due to the active co-operation of prom- inent leaders in the American busi- ness world that the .horny problem of repara Was put to an appre- ciable extent on a business basis. “But, above all, American capital, though well aware of the enormous difficulties facing Germany . her work of reconstruction, has come to our as- sistance and given new blood to our anemic business life, reciprocating in & way tor';l,hl‘;()ermm ca‘pit‘l di your coun pre-war times.” Remarking that close financial ard economic links “the real mutual une between two nations can never rest on-anything merely ma- terial. It can only be created by a common purpose, pointing to a nigher goal beyond the national aims of ejther. “Fortunately that community of pur- exists between Germany and the nited States.” Referring to outstanding . moves toward world peace since the end of the Dr. Curtius, or small, to ng rammed into by another with det~ the | both houses of the Legislature, DR. JULIUS CURTIUS, German foreign _minister, addresses American _audience by _radie. rimental effect for himself and the whole traffic.” Turning to the peace academy pro- Ject, he continued, “and now a new attempt is to be made in Germany under the motto If you want peace, organize for peace.’ Its purpose will be to study all possibilities of promoting international understanding and ex- tending peaceful intercourse. “The end in view is to educate the world, 5o to speak, to the traffic rules of international relations.” Dr. Curtius was introduced to his radio audience by Ambassador Fred- erick M. Sackett, who characterized as & German particularly well qualified to speak to Americans on the subject of peace. “During the war he commanded a German fleld battery with such dis- tinction as to win an iron cross of the first class. But once the war was over he was among the first to set about repairing its ravages,” said Mr. Sackett, “For the past 10 years his entire energy has been devoted to restoring the country’s economic prosperity through \a::.s’rul understanding and co-opera- STEEL GETS EXEMPTION Newfoundland Makes Agreement With Two Companies. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, ;!une 21 (A).—By the terms of an agreement between the government, and the Dominion Iron & Steel Co. and the Nova Scolia Steel Co., approved by the companies will be exempt for a period royalty on all ore shipped in excess of 500,000 tons. e royalty on the first million tons of 40 years from payment of export | will be 10 cents per ton and on the | next half million 3 cents. Senator Arthur Capper Senator Royal S. Copeland Dr. Hugh S. Cumming Surgeon General, U. S. P. H. S. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock Dr. Kendall Emerson Director, National losis Assn. Dr. Robert H. H. Goheen B. A, M. D, South India Dr. George M. Kober Tubercu- On June 25, 1 On “Conditions Illustrated with pictures TOWELCOWEBYRD; Thousands Line Richmond Streets to Honor Explorers on Return Home. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, June 21.—“Dick" Byrd came back to old Virginia today to receive the welcome of a conquering B ousands of Virgitians, thelr pulses usands of ,\uckened with the peculiar pride of fellow citizens, cheered and shouted themselves hoarse as the man who con- quered the icy coldness of the polar stepped upon the soil of his na- tive State. Through solid walls of eager friends and citizens Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd rode in triumph and acknowledged the tumultuous greeting with salutes and modest bows. Guns of the Richmond Howitzers boomed an admiral’s salute. “It was wonderful, and it's great to be back in Virginia,” Admiral Byrd said, x-.l ?e mv“m‘l:l the executive mans or an official reception b; Gov. Poll v e . Pollard. The entrance of the admiral into the concourse at the Broad Street Station 'was the signal for an outburst of cheer- ing that continued in unbroken din until he passed out to a waiting auto- mobfle, where other thousands, unable to enter the station, took up the cheer- ing. Through the tumult could be heard the cry “Hello, Dick!” as some personal friend sought to break through the cheering with a personal greeting, Richmond Blues Lead. The solid phalanx started as the ad- miral, bronzed and smiling, waved a greeting to the crowd. Along streety gay with fligs, streamers and bunting the admiral's automobile wound its way to Capitol Square and the executive mansion. Here he passed jnto the his- toric building to pay his compliments to the governor and receive an official welcome from the State and eity. With the Richmond Light Infantry Biues, a famous ent and his escort in New York, leading the way, Admiral Byrd once more rode through the mill- ing thousands to lay a wreath on the monument of another t Vi ian explorer, Matthew Fontane ‘pathfinder of the seas.” viewed his escort—Virginians all—while thousands of admirers joined in the greatest ovation ever given a son of the Old Dominion. Tired but happy, the admiral retired after the cefemony to Laburnum, home of John Stewart Bryan, who was also his host after his North Pole flight, for a dinner with his immediate family before accepting a sword of honor, wrought in gold and silver, as the gift of his native State. Sun Shines on Scene, ‘The man who thrilled the world with his daring, courage and resource, was lled by the welcome he re- . Richard Evelyn Byrd; his wife, . Marle Byrd; Mrs. Harry Flood Byrd and his brothers, Harry and Tom, ‘Warm sunshine flooded the broad stretches of Monument avenue, hedged by green trees, as the conqueror of polar wastes and the North Atlantic rode down the street dotted with bronze ngzru of other famous Virginians on his way to the Maury Monument. Admitting fatigue and inconvenience from the sultry weather, Admiral Byrd discussed his great flight over the pole briefly after the ceremony. The flag of Virginia aboard the “Floyd Bennett" | on the epochal flight will take its place | beside the State fll{.meu on the North Pole flight in the State itol, he said. Admiral Byrd said heat of the tropics and the warm June days in the United States were samewhat 3 He will be rejoined by his Anf companions after visiting his home in ‘Winchester tomorrow, and after a brief tour he will go to the New Hampshire mnTms for a rest and then more work. Asked if his statement in 1926 that he | would devote the next 10 years to ex- ploration represented his intentions to- ‘d-y. he sald: “You've got me there. I | must finish up with this expedition be- | fore another is planned. There are four | sclentific books and one narrative vol- ume that will keep me busy. . DURANT THINKS TARIFF NO BUSINESS MENACE | Auto Manufacturer Defends Act on Return From Nine-Week Trip in Europe. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 21.—Willlam C. Durant, financier and automobile | manufacturer, returning tonight on the Berengaria after nine weeks France, Germany and Austria, said he saw no Jjustification for criticism of the new tariff. Despite “some antagonism here and in Europe,” he said, “I don't think we are prepared to change our standards of living to meet standards in other countries.” He said the tariff did not menace American business generally, nor the motors industry in particular. Faces Embezzling Charge. DENVER, June 21 (#).—Isaac H. Mer- ritt, former secretary to Mayor Ben F. | Stapleton, was indicted by the county grand jury today on a charge of em- bezzling $26,802 of the city’s funds. The India-Foreign Committee Tuberculosis Association of Bengal His Excellercy, the Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir Ronald Lindsay The Honorable Ray Lyman Wilbur, the Secretary of the Interior Rev. James S. Montgomery Chaplain, House of Repre- sentatives " Mrs. Winifred Holt Mather New York Mrs. Richard T. Merrick New York Rabbi Abram Simon Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman Mrs. Ernest R. Grant Mrs. George F. Becker Mr. Howard S. Reeside Announces a Public Meeting at the United States Chamber of Commerce, 1615 H Street N.W. 930, at 8 P.M. By the Associated Press. he thought regular transatian .(uhu'e reality, he smiled and 'd be ress an opin- to cateh knowledge of flying. Governor of Vir- Ha Byrd, former ini "ry\u’:r?jo ed his famous brother's -com! Lun-nnly. He was at New York and Washington to welcome “Dick.” “I haven't had anything to do, no speeches to make and no high hats to wear,” he explained. a near up on my ‘When Byrd, who has been in the DUIG eve himaelt quice & bit, Intro- duced newspaper men to the rear ad- miral here today, he the ex- B DI Vand theyl be. hking that ok, *‘an both you and I have lhumrmy Although young Harry Byrd's father has been a t%vu’ller. he e a de- TITL£ QUESTION Antarctic Discoveries May Unsettle National Pos- session Matter, BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. When the movie audiences of ths Nation are presently thrilled by the epoch-making pictures of Admiral Byrd's expedition to the South. Pole, they will be eyewitnesses of ineidents that contain the seeds of interesting in- ternational controversies. The gallant sallor-explorer declareg that his outstanding achievement in Antarctica was the claim! of mor than 125,000 miles of nll:'llnd ln; He | mountain ranges for the United States, Military Institute, the rear alma mater, before taking up flying. ‘Tom Byrd, of the trio of “Tom, Dick and Harry," who elaims the distinction of B family, en o poaiel, AT a8l £ al 3 . don't know a Nnmd“‘thlnl about this show,” he declared. Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd, sr., found thé trip from Washington to Richmond with her three famous sons very pleas- ant, but not an uninterry opportu- nity-to talk with them. Fredericksburg citizens gathered at the station ‘to give the admiral a rousing cheer, interrupt- ing & Juncheon of the family group. BYRD BOY SC0U TELLS ABOUT TRIP Paul Siple Addresses Hun- dreds of Boys and Girls at Community Center, ques- Paul Siple of Erie, Pa., the Boy Scout who accompanied Admiral Byrd on his trip to the Antarctic, thrilled several hundred boys and girls with an acoount of the trip and animal life he had observed in the Antarctic regions in an address at the Central Commun- ity Center yesterd: - At the beginning of his address young Siple declared that having jumped from temperatures of from 50 to 72 degrees His pictures W the Stars and flying proudly over a portion of the territory in question. Adjacent to the Som ake"the o sectors clsimed dy m are polar sec Great Britain, known as mmmn- pendency. .Yohll: ol‘lllll;; right to that enormous stretel k i mountains has never bcen“:'e 42 ‘cogn! 1| Dby this country, though we have ne formally disputed it. Nor has the United States ever acknowledged British sovereignty over that other South Polar expanse known as the Falkland Islands Dependency, which Hes off the tip ef South America acroes from Argenuna. It happens that both of these de- pendencies claimed by the British fall within what is conventionally known as the Western Hemisphere, though they range directly around the South Pole, Therefore, the territorial pretensions which Britain makes with respect to them fall within the of the Mon- roe Doctrine. Technically, the British have made no specific effort to colonise the dependencies, because of their prac- tical uselecmd ':n e;s t 1!:; scientifio purroul an e W] ustry. But geologists that beneath the frozen surfaces of these remote and bleak lands may lie priceless treasury in coal and ofl, and, what would be the most valuable deposits of all, in radium, If genuinely substantial radium should be located in Antarcties, the country that could establish the right to possess them would be rich, almost literally, beyond the dreams of avaries Potential Wealth Raises Question, It is for these and other reasons that the United States Government has been claims regions over which Byrd and his m trekked, tledded and flew. below zero in the Antarctic region to | W temperatures of 80 and more above, he felt “like an egg that has just come out of cold storage.” The Boy Scout gave an interesting account of seals and penguins en- countered on the expedition, illustrat- ing his speech with sketches of them on a blackboard. Penguins Name Spokesman. Young Siple said that when penguins wmudmmembeno!mflyfipmy they would eongregate together for some little time in an excited fashion and then se y choose a spokes- Addresses Will Be Made by MRS. GEORGE F. BECKER in India Today” photographed by herself DR. KENDALL EMERSON Managing Director of the National Tuberculosis Association of New York On “Tuberculosis—a World Problem” On “Tuberculosis—One of ROBERT H. H. GOHEEN, B. A, M. D. Director of Union Mission Sanitorium, South India India’s Greatest Problems” Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1022 1ith Street NW, 5 Telephone District 6883 4. gul kesman, he ex- wufinluva e group of pen- guins and approach members of Ad- miral Byrd's m; ‘When few feet of ! the n make a graceful bow, pm down on his chest and at the same time issue a low trus L\,lr)s sound, When members of Admiral Byrd's party, not knowing the in language, falled to respond, ‘would stand still, seemingly dered at not receiving a reply. Shortly another penguin. would proceed from the group and push the first spokesman out of 'thenw-ylndu'yhhhlndlfil-lu- ation. Young Siple told of many clever tricks used by these peculiar birds in getting out of pens they were put in. He saif "’3 would line up against the wall, making a ladder out of themselves for other penguins to climb up and escape. Poses for Talkies. Prior to the meeting in the Central Community Center auditorium, young s‘l&le posed outside the bullding for ing motion pictures, during which he said that now that he is near his home he ‘feels a pang of homesickness for Little America and expressed the hope that he may some time go back ere. Approximately two years ago, young Siple was selected from among thou- sands of Boy Scouts in this couny';? to make the trip with Admiral B; to the Antarctic and represent the Boy Scouts of America on that notable ex- pedition. When chosen, Siple was 18 years old. Now, at the age of 20, he is a large, well developed and highly in- telligent looking youn‘mmnn. In his address this morn! confined his remarks to a general ription of what was encountered in the vicinity of Lit- tle America and refrained from men- tioning, save briefly, any of his personal exploits. On June 28, when young e returns to his home at Erie, Pa., he will be given a thunderous welcome there, the day having been set aside as a holiday at that place. Siple’s address this morning was un- der the auspices of the Community In- stitute. He was introduced by Linn C. Drake, Scout executive of the District of Columbia Councll, Boy Scouts of America. Seated in the audience listening to young Siple was Alden Snell, 21 years old, of 1731 H street, one of the six Box Scouts chosen in the finals in the competition to select the Scout to ac- company Admiral Byrd. Young Snell, while of course disappointed at not having been selected to make the trip, listened intently to Siple today. RSN PROHIBITION ALONE TO OCCUPY ATTENTION OF WICKERSHAM BODY (Continued From First Page.) expected to precipitate discussion on the floor if it is retained. Senator Jones said l}e would continue to oppose the proposal. “It seems to me,” he sald, “that now that the commission has begun a gen- eral investigation of crime we should let it coni even though it does cost something. If they can recom- mend means of simplifying procedure for better enforcement of laws gener- ally, they should be allowed to do it.” Jones said he believed the appropria- tion would not be subjected to a poin of order in the Senate. Objecto. raised a point of order in the s declaring that body could not legislate in an appropriation measure. Senator Glass said he would insist that the unexpended balance of $80,000 now available for the commission should 1k be devoted to prohibition in- “My amendment would not require them to pass upon the merits of pro- hibition as a policy,” he explained, “but it would require them to investi- gate the enforceability of statutes which have been acted upon to cairy out the i In (Australia and New Zealand) were fol- lowing the Byrd enterprise with special interest. This was due, the British note perial Conference held in Londen in 1926, }; was agreed that to certain areas e . _Our answer left the issuc for fyrther discussion. In 19: writing ‘L“‘“’*mi‘m.: an ul can citizen, sald: “It the s;m Department that ery o even when couj Rl of covery is followed ment of the discovered country. absence of an act of tive in a domestic over Wilkes Land United States exploring der Lieut. Charles Wilkes in 1840), department would be reluctant to de- clare that America possessed a right of sovereignty over t territory.” ‘The question of United States rights in the Antarctic is now definitely rlrlr by B, last’ week, that his princi) ment at the South nfi'm to advance the American flag to 1* had never flown befare. Byrd discovered a stretch of outside the British Ross 'y from which Marie Byrd Land can be reached without crossing for- eign umwr{'.nhn strengthened the American claim. B, deliberately set foot on areas beynmrM he Ross Depend- ency, ) , because the validity of an Amer~ ican claim might have been questio: ed, it it were on access from ‘fore eign” territory alone. Byrd Stand Not National. 2 Joseph P. Cotton, Acting Secretary of State, was called upon, on March 1 1930, to indicate the State Depa ment's present attitude toward Ant- arctic territorial questions. Mr. Cot~ ton seemed to disclose that the dej ment’s position differs somewhat I the viewpoint set forth by Secretary Hughes in 1924. The Acting Secretary's attention was called to & dAllm from New Zealand stating that Byrd had sald publicly there that all of his discoveries were for the benefit of the world and that he would not claim them for the United States, Mr. Cotton was asked whether any American citizen could commit the United States Gov- ernment as to territorial claims or could relinquish them. The Acting Secretary replied that he took it that Admiral Byrd's statement was not one which would in anywise affect the national claims in regard to the Antarctic ritory which he had discovered. One country besides the United States and Great Britain would have s finger in the Antarctic pie, if there should ever be an international attempt to carve it up for ity pul That is Argentina. The Argen have never renounced their the Falkland Islands (scene great Anslo-o-mun cruiser in the World War), contending the ”kxlfi"“m !‘l‘x’d‘ taken from foreibly after one year's’pose session. The Argentine republic & Orkneys, Falkland group, and claims the u on that account. (Copyright, 1930.) vl L SENATOR BAIRD MARRIED TO MRS. FRANCES SMITH By the Assoclated Press. States Sestor Devid Baid, 5 o8 v/ r., and Mrs, » H. Jnlih me New