Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1930, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1930. N - [ RACY BOOKS KEPT BY SENATORS ME”-BN‘ ANSWERS AFTER PASSING OBSCENITY LAW .V !1 BHARGES BY BYRNS Customs Bureau Fails to —Get ‘Loaned Volumes Back—New Importations E Cause Court Contests. 58 rise at “Igno- nce” of Democrat on Fi- nances “Before Elections.” book controversy that stirred the Sen- ate during the tariff debate. The advice which a fairly well known author had, one of his characters, Polonius, give his son, Laertes, to the effect that he should neither a borrower nor a lender Replying vigorously to criticism of the Treasury Department by Repre- sentative Byrns, Democrat, Tennessee, Secretey’y of the Treasury Mellon has apparently are following an endless chain of borrowers and lenders. In addition to its difficulties in trail- ing the books, the Customs Bureau is having its hands full administering the The Customs Bureau is having its tariff discussion have disappeared. | troubles as an outgrowth of the obscene | Some have been returned to the Cus- | toms Bureau and some still repose in | Senators’ offices, but a majority of them | declared that the charges were due to be, apparently is not being followed by new law's provision barring obscene and eign purchases. Two of these will be’ fought out in Chicago. Under the old law the Customs Bu- reau was virtually a censor, having final authority to. seize and confiscate books it regarded as unfit for the American reader, but the new law rmits an importer to contest seizures in the Fed-/| eral courts. It also gives the Secretary of the Treasury discretionary power to allow importation of classics or books of literary or scientific merit for non- commercial purposes. ‘The Customs Bureau here will handle all ceses involving so-called classics. Bureau officials say a few books of this type already have been sent here and are being read preparatory for a ruling by Secretary Mellon. Burdens Added to Courts. The seizures by customs - collectors are adding an additional burden to already crowded Federal court dockets, and rather than wait a year or two for a decision the bureau is endeavoring to speed up the procedure by having had assented to confiscation, but at least six, including the two in Chicago, have determined to test the new law, which was a compromise between the ooposing views of Senators Cutting of New Mexico and Smoot of Utah. As in the prohibition enforcement act, the obscene book statute has a *“five-and-ten"” provision. Any Govern- ment officer found guilty of connivance in the importation of such literature is subject to & fine of not more than 85,000 and imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both. GETS MAXIMUM TERM Federal Judge Gives Ten-Year Sen- tence for Liquor Sale. MINNEAPOLIS, October 10 ().—One of the heaviest penaltics on record for dry law violation in Minnesota was im- posed yesterday when Federal Judge SYRACUSE MAN SPEAKS TO LOCAL KIWANIANS E. M. Johnston Delivers Address on “Creative Salesmanship” at Luncheon Meeting of Club. An address on “Creative Salesman- ship” by E. M. Johnston of Syracuse featured a luncheon meeting of the Washington Kiwanis Club in the Hotel ‘Washington yesterday. Mr. Johnston was introduced by William S. Quinter, past president of ths club, who was chairman of yesterday’s program. ‘Wailes Hank of Norfolk extended an invitation to Washington Kiwanians to attend the Twelfth Annual Convention of the Capital District at Norfolk- Virginia Beach October 23, 24 and 25. Bynum E. Hinton, chairman of the Inter-club Relations . Committee, | nounced that 25 or 30 members of the an- | phone - Co., has gln been named -a member of the Kiwanis Interntional Publicity Committee by President Ray- mond M. Crossman, it is announced. CONVENT IS MENACED BY INCENDIARY FIRE |Careful Wateh Maintained After Two Blazes and Unsuccessful Attempts at Robbery. BY the Assoclated Press. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, October 10.—The sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Con- vent kept a lookout last night for “fire- | bugs.” "Wednesday night fire broke out in the convent. Yesterday a blaze was | discovered in the adjacent parochial |school. A sister saw the smoke seap- ing through a floor and marched 150 pupils to safety. 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Sanborn sentenced Nate (Kid Omaha) Siporin to 10 years in the ’Ifuvenworlh Penitentiary for selling quor. a “complete misunderstanding of the situation.” Byrns, ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, charged that the administration was “attempting to create a fictitious sur- &I‘l’n.;' in the Treasury “by withdrawing quired lebt.” collectors ask imparters to agree to con- fiscation without contest. Rather than go to the expense of a court. trial, several importers already immoral books and articles. Seizures are being made almost daily and at least half a dozen imporfers have be- gun court contests to recover their for- Last May several unsuccessful tempts were made to burglarize convent. One of the aisters was tacked and FURNITY rs Any 8!55 Free Delivery in Mearyland or Virginia Our trucks make regular deliveries to all parts of these States. We prepay the freight charges on shipments going to farther places. at- the at- some of the literateurs in the Senate. 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The Route Agent will col- lect at the cnd of each month. the sinking fund sums legally re- for the reduction of public Declares Accusation “Surprising.” Mellon said the accusation was er surprising in so experienced and in- telligent a member of the House of Representatives, who would hardly at any time other than the month pre- ceding elections display such a con- veni.gnt ignorance of Treasury financ- Explaining the charge apparently ‘was based on the fact that only $65,- 000,000 was applied to debt retirement from the sinking fund during the first quarter of the present fiscal year, as compared with $236,846,000 for the same period last year, Mellon said the e nation was “simple enough.” ring the first quarter last year, he sald, Government bonds and Treasury notes were selling at a discount and it was “good business” to retire them at that time. 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