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WANTS U. 5. DRAWN CLOSER TO FRANCE Premier Steeg Sees Peace of World Aided if Nations Co-operate. BY JOSEPH E. SHARKEY. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 12.—Theodore Steeg, premier of France, in an interview with the Associated Press today, urged eco- nomic and intellectual co-operation be- tween France and the United States as & means of establishing and maintain- ing the peace and happiness of the ‘world. Tomorrow he goes before Parliament, perhaps to begin a battle which will de- termine just how long he will remain at the helm of the French ship of state, but in this first interview since he as- sumed office, this statesman, whom Lord Balfour, during the World War, regarded as the most lucid mind in France, was apparently as calm and carefree as though, as in his earlier days, he were a professor expounding philosophy in a school room. Physically and mentally this man evokes the memory of Willlam James, the American philosopher, whose works, like those of Emerson and the French philosopher, Auguste Comte, the premier profoundly admired. Has Affection for U. S. “I have a deep affection for the Re- public of the United States,” the premier said. “We have striven together 5o long for independence and liberty. In 1017, when I was minister of public instruction, I had many contacts wit | | | AppointmenttoCommand Came as a Surprise to Junior of Six Holding Major General’s Rank. PLACES HOSTILITY BLAME ON BERLIN Declares ‘“False Notion™ of Neutrality in U. S. ProlongedFightingand Added to Casualties. (Continued From First Page.) background of uge-old racial and re- ligious prejudices, the attitude of united Germany amid the maze of shifting alignments, diplomatic entanglements and conflictng national ambitions had become more and more aggressive and dominating. The action of Germany following the Sarajevo incident suddenly forced the conclusion upon other peoples that its leaders intended to avail themselves of this opportunity to establish Germany, { possible, as the dominant power of representatives of American universi- ties, and I always have thought that the intellectual relaticns between our two nations should be closer. Having culture and sensibilities, we unite our efforts to advance our sclentifie achievements and our artistic Premier Steeg for a long time was eral of Algeria and resident general in Moroceo, 50 it was only nat- ural that he should choose to head the ministry of colonies in the present cabi- net, with jurisdiction over the welfare of 60,000,000 colonials. His aim for the French colonies is high, he said. “France is determined to attract, to win over and to give the populations under her protection conditions of life which will be more settled, more ele- vated and more dignified. Creative Aims Stated. “For us colonization is less & matter of conquest than of creation. Every- where we are trying to organise -asso- ciations of natives and French in the flields of economics and politics. are doing this in Algeria, where repre- sentatives of the natives are members of the municipal councils of an equal footing with their French colléagues in Morocco and in all our other colonies. “I rejoice,” he said, “at the decision of Pruldem‘;!:over ln‘: ?l: Ame:lun ss to take part great co- Wlflnhlex‘pfl!ua! at Paris this year, but what ! as most deeply moved the le of France is America’s preservation of Mount Vernon, the home of Gen. W ington, whose memory is revered Prance as in the United States. “So many_ memories bind o‘u{n in laboration i3 haps, than in the past, but ly productive, our two republics will te for a solution of the practical of economics and finance.’ (Copyright, 1931, by the Assoclated Press.) 20 RESCUED MINERS FOUND UNHARMED Tunnel Cave-in Victims Owe Lives to Man Who Dragged in Pipe. By the Associated Press. AKLAND, () . Calif,, Jllndu:‘rymn.—; Crawl through a tunnel oug) debruunn‘( toek‘?‘e-rth. steel and timber their comrades, 20 men entombed in 3 Metch-Hetchy Coast Range tunnel came to the surface early yesterday, showing little evidence of their 30-hour ordeal. hAl[l,;m dmhm spirits lnd'u although ti an ungry, none known to have suffered. ‘Trapped last Friday night when supporting timbers wve way 800 feet underground, allow- g‘ debris to clog the tunnel, the men probably owed their lives to the action of Welby Morgan, 28-year-old nozzle- man. When the cave-in started, Morgan dragged a 20-foot length of 4-inch pipe beneath the falling rocks, although he was twice knocked down before reach- safety. Alr was supplied the im- prisoned men through the pipe, as well | as small quantities of food. MEXICAN IS ARRESTED TRYING TO SELL CAMERA Tracing of Ownership = Reveals Property Was Stolen by Bandit Group at Volcano. By the Assoctated Press MEXICO CITY, January 12.—An at-| tempt by Pedro Castro Morales, 24, to | sell an expensive camera in Mexico | City resulted in his arrest as one of the bandits who have been holding up | tourists ascending the Volcano Popo- catepetl and Ixtaccihuatl. The police investigated his ownership | of such an instrument, since he said he | ‘was a charcoal burner at the foot of the | two mountains, and identified the cam- era as belonging to Ricardo F. Miranda Miranda said it had been taken from December 7 by a gang of three men equipped with rifies and shotguns that waylaid his party on' Ixtaccthuatl and took all their valuables. Bandit gangs robbing tourists about ' the snow line of the two volcanos have been giving officers considerable trouble. SN ACROéAT FALLS 20 FEET Drops While Performing in Thea- ter, Is Slightly Injured. Falling more than 20 feet from a trapeze on the Earle Theater stage last might, Harry Angstadt, 21 years old, an acrobat, escaped serious injury: While a spell-bound audience looked | on, Angstadt swung through midair from one trapeze to another. He lost his ~rip at the second flying trapeze and fell to the floor. He suffered slight head injuries end ‘was released from Emergency Hospital after treatment. Justice Lubring to Address Ber. Judge Oscar R. Luhri; of the District E\:nfime Court 1 be ihe speaker at meeting of the Washing- ton Bar Association, to be held - we | U “| ror in not immediately entering a strong | choice for us but to sever diplomatic Europe. As we know, the German militarists held up to their people the fear of the Slav as one reason for going to war, and frightened the financial interests by pointing out the danger of losing national prestige and commercial ad- vantage unless Slav ambitions were checked. ‘The German people were led to be- lieve that the army was invincible, and were flattered by the thought of the glory and the national prestige that would follow success. ‘War Blame Is Placed Upon Germany. The German military machine itself was without doubt more nearly perfect and powérful than any that had ever before existed. The great general staff had fully considered every condition ne to military success, and even solemn treaty obligations were not to stand in the way. The hour for Ger- many to take advantage of her oppor- tunity had arrived. The details of what ned in the beginning are _well known and the world has long since fixed the blame where it properly be- logs—on the shoulders of the then Ger- man government. ‘The violation of Belgian sovereignty afforded Germany the advantage of in- vading France from the most favorable quarter, yet it was no jusiification for her to claim that strategical considera- impelled her to disregard treaty. If at the time of signing the treaty Germany harbored the secret reservation that under certain circum- ces she might ignore it, the decep- presents the strongest kind of evi- ce of her war guilt. Moreover, this ove rved to give notice to all nations, including neutrals, that Ger- many intended to brook no opposition in her purpose to conquer her ancient enemy once for all. 1 cannot escape the conviction that in view of this deflance of neutral rights the United States made a vous er- protest. ‘The argument might be made that as our Government was not & signatory to the treaty its violation was none of our business. But, broadly speaking, we all belong to the family of civilized na- tions and one of the strongest members had committed an offense against a ful neutral neighbor whose only ault was that she stood in the way. The plea was advanced by the Germans that Belgium’could have avolded trou- ble it she had not opposed the passage of their forces through her territory, but if she failed to resist she would have forfeited the respect of the world, and by opposing she gained universal| admiration. Provocation to Act Earlier. ‘The invasion of Belgium was in fact an open declaration of Germany's atti- tudelwvu;ld lm)trll fllh‘!i I u‘:ur people had gri its meaning they would have at least insisted upon prep- aration to_meet more vigorously the | later cumulative offenses of Germany against the law of nations, the most inhumane of which was the sinking of the Lusitania. Here was provocation enough for very positive action by any government alive to its obligations to protect its cltizens. ‘The fact is that the world knew only too well that we had for years neglected to make adequate preparations for de- fense, and Germany therefore dared to © considerably further than she would ave gone if we had been even partially ready to support our demands by force After some diplomatic correspondence the question of the use of submarines as it affected us rested until the sin ing, without warning, of the Sussex, a Channel steamer carrying American | passengers, on March 24, 1916. It will be recalled that we then warned Ge many that unless she should imm diately declare and effect an abandon- ment of such methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight- carrying vessels there would be no relations with her. In reply, Germany made a definite promise to sink no | more vessels without warning, although she made reservations as to the future. Few Preparedness Steps Taken. Germany was informed that her reply was unsatisfactory, and there the mat- ter was dropped, apparently without our seriously considering the action { that we necessarily would be forced to | take in the event of her resumption of i ruthless methods. Little more than a | gesture was made to get ready for such an emergency and practically nothing was done in the way of increasing our | military forces or of providing material | for their equipment. | | 1t is true that Congress appropriated over $300,000,000 in August, 1916, for | | naval construction, and some progress | | was made in beginning the construction | of small craft and the establishment of ! a better administrative organization for {the Navy. This same Congress also | passed a compromise act for the re- organization of our military forces, but | scarcely a move was made to carry it | out prior to our actual entrance in the | | war | | Thus we presented the spectacle of | | the most powerful people in the world | sitting on the sidelines almost idly watching the enactment of the great- est tragedy of all time, in which we might be compelled at any minute to take an important part. It is almost inconceivable that there could be such an apparent lack of fore- sight in administration circles regard- ing the probable necessity for the ex- slon of our military forces and so ttle appreciation of the time and effort that would be required to pre- pare for effective service. The inaction on our part played into the hands of Germany, as she knew dad at the Mu-So-Lit Club, 1327 R tstreet, 1t has been announced by Ambrose Shief, jr., secretary. it would take us to put an rmy into the ficld, and governed her- elf accordingly. In other words, the date of resuming indiscriminate sub- —By-= ‘Gen. John J. Pershing Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces Right: Gen. Pershing as he Is today, pausing for the camera while putting the finishing touches to “My Experi- ences in the World War.” Left: As a captain of Cavalry. Inset: As a cadet at AY, JANUARY 12; 19%Y. My Experiences in the World War West Point. ready, should we by any chance enter the war. ‘What Might Have Been. Let us suppose that instead of adher- ing to the erroneous theory that neu- trality forbade any move toward prep- aration we had taken the precaution in the Spring of 1916 to organize and equip an army of half a million com- batant troops, together with the requi- site number of supply troops for such a force. This could have been done merely by increasing the Regular Army and National Guard to war strength. It would have given us the equivalent of 40 French, German or average British divisions ready to sail at once for France upon the declaration -of war. With such a force to aid the allies early in 1917, the advantage would have been entirely on their side. Prep- aration to this extent could have been concentration of the Regular Army and National Guard on the Mexican border afforded in 1916. The actual situation at that time on the Western Front was more favorable for the allies than at any previous time. The strength of the German. forces there had been freauy reduced because of the necessity for supporting the Rus- sian front. Although reports were filtering in regarding the beginning of the revolution there was little to_indi- cate that Russia was not still a factor to be reckoned with. Actually the allles had an advantage of something over 20 per cent in numbers. French morale was high, due to their successful defense of Verdun, and the British armies had reached their maximum power, Under these conditions it is not ex- travagant to assert that the addition of 500,000 American combat troops at that time would have given the allies such a preponderance of force that the war could have been brought to a vic- torious conclusion before the end of that year. Even without such aid, the confidence of the allies led them to undertake a general offensive in April. Although it ended in defeat, especially for the French, who were under the command of Gen. Nivelle, the failure can be attributed to a large extent to lack of secrecy in its preparation. A well planned campaign with the assist- ance of half a million Americans would have told quite another story. Delay Added Year: to War. Thus through a false notion of neu- trality, which had prevented practically all previous preparation, a favorable opportunity to assist the allies was lost, the war was prolonged another year and the losses in human life tremendously increased. But, from another viewpoint, it is not improbable that if we had been thus prepared our rights would have been respected and we would not have been | forced into the war. We shall see as we proceed how great were the difficul- ties to be overcome because of our inexcusable failure to do what common reason long before our entry into the dwul' plainly indicated should have been one. The only training any of our forces received, except the ordinary routine, during the year prior to 1917, was given to the troops then in Mexico and to those stationed along the border. Wilson Favored Draft. President Wilson recommended the draft as the best method of raising an Army. In discussions. in Copgress on the subject, many members were in | favor of the volunteer system. Even | the Speaker of the House, Champ Clark | of Missouri, in a speech on the floor | opposing the draft act, compared the conscript to the convict. With such strong opposition it looked as though the conscription law would fail to pass. Its opponents forgot that during the Civil War the volunteer system had given President Lincoln and his commanders no end of trouble and that to provide manpower the North was finally forced to adopt con- scription. Large numbers of shirkers were thus cdmpelled to serve, hence the opprobrium that clung to the word conscript. It was very important that a repeti- tion of the experience in the Civil War | should be avoided. The advocates of a volunteer army also ignored the experi- ence in the World War of the British, who after a year and a half of effort to recruit their armies under that system, had been‘ obliged to resort to the draft. . No “Political” Army. In my opinion it was so vital to our success that while in San Antonio, con- trary to my lifelong rule against med- dling with legislation, I persuaded the then Goverfior of Texas that conscrip- tion was sound in principle, and got him to exert his influence with the Texas delegation in Congress in favor of it. In writing at the time to a friend of mine with reference to this subject, 1 said: “We must avold creating the impres- sion that we are sending a political army to Europe—the day of political armies is past. It would be a Whole lot wiser for us to stay at home until we are thoroughly prepared. Universal service is the only principle to follow that will lead to success in this war, and that should be well understood. ~We are in this thing for keeps and it is going to demand the utmost ex-riin and the best of preparation to win. We shall have to select the flower of the young manhood country and marine warfare, February 1, 1917, was Mflmmmmcmnum could be destroyed we were of give them thorough training before we start. The only way we can hope to succeed is by perseverance. meas- ‘s!ud ‘determination and ® %'+ No half-wey ures are going to solve this problem. I am with the President in this matter, heart and soul. I am sincerely and| deeply impressed with the necessity of | clinging to rational lines in carrying out his policies. The President feels the importance of this situation and every honest American should stand right behind him and help to the ut- most.” On the afternoon of April 29, while busy at my desk at Fort Sam Houston, word came through the Associated Press that both Houses of Congress had passed the draft act, although, as it turned out, amendments adopted by the | two Houses necessitated a conference, which delayed the passage of the act in its final form nearly three weeks. A number of newspaper reporters | called at once and wanted to know what I thought about it. I sald that of course everybody had realized for some time that our actual participa- tion with armed forces could hardly be avoided; that the responsibility that now rested upon the country was tre- mendous, and added: “The echo of that vote for conscription will be heard around the globe. It is a triumph of democratic government; a willipg, step taken by a free people under wise lead- ership. * * * It means that every man will have his role to play.” * * v * K x ¥ (Tomorrow: Pershing goes to Wash- ington and is made commander-fn- chief. He finds lack of war preparation appailing.) (Copyright, in all countries by the North American Newspaper Alliance— World _rights reserved, including the Scandinavian. Reproduction in whole or i part prohibited.) 1931, PENNILESS MAN TAKES OATH AS OKLAHOMA EXECUTIVE TODAY "Alfalfa Bill“ Murray‘s Only P‘roperty Is Suit on His Back—Pledged to ‘Clean Up “Hifalu Specidl Dispatch to The Star. OKLAHOMA CITY, January 12 (N.AN.A.) —Without a dime of his own, without & home or stick of furniture, and with no property but the clothes on his back and a wagonload of books. William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray wil stand upon the steps of the capitol here at noon today and will be sworn in as Governor of Oklahoma. At the precise moment when he takes the oath and says “I do” hé will auto- matically become sole heir for four years to a salary of $7500 a year, a mansion of 17 rooms, all furnished; $500 a month from the State to keep the house going and pay servants’ wages and grocery bills, a large motor car and a chauffeur. In his campaign for the governorship, speaking to the “hill billies” out in the sticks, Murray used to poke fun at the mansion in which the Governor of Okla- homa lived in splendor, and he used to say: Would Live in Garage. “When I get to be Governor I'll leave out the Governor's mansion and live in the garage. I never owned a car and won't need one. I'll walk then, same as I've always done. I'll pasture my cow on the state house lawn and let her drink out of the lily ponds, and Tl plant potatoes in rose gardens.” That won applause and votes, but Murray says now he was only “funning.” “Of course, we will live in the execu- tive mansion. That's what it's for,” he said. ‘This city is filled with persons who have come in from all parts of the State to see “Bill” inaugurated. The hotels and boarding houses are crammed with four-gallon hats and cowboy boots. Murray borrowed $250 from a bank in Tishomingo with which to come up here and stay until the inauguration and to outfit himself and his wife with some new clothes. A suit generally lasts Bill a year. Expects to Spruce Up. he said to a friend the other day, “I'll have to spruce up and put cn some dog now and the wife will have to look the part, too.” Oklahoma’s Governor-elect in his campaign last Summer “hitch-hiked” around the State. That is, he wouid get one of his supporters whe owned a car to drive him to the next town. He actually started out from Tishomingo upon his campaign with only $37. That was every dollar he had in the world and when he left he gave his wife £1 of it and arranged credit. for her at the grocery. It is a fact, also, that a friend gave him a big cheese and a box of crackers and Murray carried them for weeks in his old glazed imitation-leather suit case. To save money, he ate crackers and gnawed at that cheese for maay a meal. Murray has always had to economize. He was born in a poor cotton patch in Texas, and his mother died when he was & baby. He had only six months schooling until he was 20 years old. When he was 12, he was working in the cotton patch one day when a boy of his own age rode in on a pony and said: Did Not Know of President. “President Garfield is assassinated.” “Who is President Garfield?” asked Murray, who really didn't know. He made up his mind right there in the cotton patch to get an education. How Murray worked his way through school, aft:r he became full grown is often told. A group of Murray's old schoolmates years ago in College Hill, in Springtown, Tex., went to Norman, Okla., Saturday especially to have a rcunion with him. Murray had bcen summoned to appear and testify in court here, but he said he would rather b sent to jafl for contempt of court than miss , 80 he went to | Depression tin” Ways. to the State university when he be- comes Governor. He is going to cut the teaching staff nearly in half, and will have professors teach eight hours a day, “same as the plumber and the carpenter.” He will knock out foot ball and athletics largely. “Physical training alone makes brutes,” he said. He heard the university wanted $120,000 for a new building. “Think of that,” he declared. “And people starving in Oklahoma.” Extent of His Library., At the reunion in Norman one boy- hood friend said: “When Murray pulled up stakes in Texas and started for Okla- homa to practice law, I saw him on the way to the train in Fort Worth and he was carrying a paper-bound copy of the Constitution of the United Statcs. That was his entire law library.” In Tishomingo Murray hung out his shingle. In his first case he was de- fending a small man for assaulting a big man with a fence stake. “God made fence stakes for little men to grab, to give them even chances with big men,” argued Murray, and the story is that he won. Murray married the part-Indian daughter of the Governor of the Chick- asaw tribe and she is his wife now. Murray is part-Indian himself. He has written a book to prove he is a direct descendant of Pocahontas. All Oklahoma waited to see what he would say in his inaugural address, his constitu:nts hoping that he would “pour it on ’em good and plenty.” (Copyright, 1931, by North American Newe- * Alltance.) CUT IN ALLIED DEBTS FAVORED BY BANKER Relief Advised by Chase National Chairman, Albert H. Wiggin. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 12.—The reduction of interallied debts to stimu- lat the recovery of business is advocated by Albert H. Wiggin, chairman of the Chase National Bank, the world’s largest. In his annual report to stockholders today he writes: “The most serious of the adverse factors affecting business is the inability of foreign countries to obtain dollars in amount sufficient both to make interest and amortization payments on, their debts to us and to buy our exports in adequate volume.” ¥ “He advises a moderate decrease in wages, “It is not true that high wages make prosperity,” he says, “instead, prosperity makes high wages. When wages are higher than the market situation justifies. employment and the .buying power of labor fall off.” Conditions at the end of 1931 will be a great deal better than they were at the end of 1920 in the opinion of Mr. Wiggin. ——————— MAN SHOT TO DEATH Police Hold Suspect Following Fa- tal Altercation. ‘William Coates, colored, 19 years old, of 209 M street southeast, is alleged to have been shot to death in an alterca- tion with Jesse Chester Lanier, calored, 26 years old, of 202 M street u;;n.heut. IPRISONERS FEAR ISLAND WILL SINK |0uékes Open Crevices in Mexican Area—Volcanic Evidences Alarm. By the Assoclated Press. XTEPIC, Mayarit, Mexico, January 12.—In the breasts of hundreds of Mex~ fcan felons, imprisoned on Las Tres Marias Islands prison colony, today was a desperate fear of a natural cataclysm which will sink their island home into the sea and drown them all. For three days the islands have been shaken by some powerful subterranean force which has cracked buildings, opened crevices in the earth, and washed in huge waves from the ocean. ‘Twenty-seven such quakes occurred in one period of three hours. Islet cones near the water's edge have smoked and emitted rumbling noises. Some believe, 1t is said, that a super- natural vengeance is about to be visited upon the penal colonies in retaliation for the imprisonment of Madre Con- cepcion, who {is serving 20 years as “moral author” of the assassination cf Gen. Obregon in 1928. ‘There is general fear that a volcano will open directly under the prisoners’ feet, or that one of the nearby small cones will emit a flood of lava which will engulf them; that continuing quakes will reduce the buildings, or that an immense seismic wave will in- undate the islands and wipe them barc of human life. The entire west coast of Nayarit also is alarmed. Here the quakes are as- cribed to the Volcano Cerobruco, south of Tepie, which, after a century of si- lence, is rumbling and smoking. Steps may taken soon to evacuate the mountainside and Jala, the village at its_foot. It was in the mountain crater that bandits held J. B. Bristow, San Angelo old man, for a time last Spring. Later ransom negotiations for his release were completed within the crater. e FOUR-DAY AIR MEET AT MIAMI WINDS UP Two Slightly Injured in Accident Marring Last Plane Maneuvers. By the Assoclated Press. | .MIAMI, Fla., January 12—The third all-American air races wound up_yes terday after four days of thrills offered by service and civilian airplane stunters and racers. The afternoon's was _cli- maxed a minor accident. Pilot Horace E. Prench, jr., Birmingham, Ala., was slightly injured and H. O. Rinehart, Montgomery, Ala., and shaken when their plane pancaked that of Art a(g.\llgpl of Lyons, Ill, in landing on the Lowell R. Bayles, Springfield, Mass.,, in a Bee Bee Sportster, won a feature 15-mile pogr’ express race, in which he and Earl wland, Kansas City, in a Cessna, were required to land their planes and eat a ham sandwich at con- clusion of each lap of the 5-mile course. Bayles’ time was 24:28.84. Betty Lund, Troy, Ohio, sped around the course at 96.442 miles per hour to win a special 15-mile event for women. Helen Cox Clohecy, Miami, the other entrant, had an average of 92.099 miles per hour. hedn{ Lund, Troy, Ohio, and Lowell R. Bayles of Springfield, Mass., en- tertained the crowd with a series of stunts and maneuvers. Mrs. Lund fol- lowed them into the air for similar 8. The meet was marred by tragedy Friday when a cabin plane, occupied by four non-contestants, crashed into soft muck land near a race-course pylon. Three men were killed and a fourth was critically injured. PRESIDENT O.F AUSTRIA RADIOS GOOD WILL TO U. S. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 12.—A greeting from the Old World to the New in a good-will radio address by Dr. Wilhelm over the Columbia network yesterday. Dr. Miklas spoke from the executive cvhambers of the Ballhaus Palace, the same room in which the map of Europe was remade after the downfall of Na- poleon at Waterloo. The speaker said the world-wide eco- nomic depression had blocked speedy recovery of Austria after the World War, but that on the threshold of 1931 the nation stands as one of the most important of Europe through gecgraphic situation and its age-old culture. Dr. Milkas prgised American efforts to aid his country and stressed the ne- cessity of continued efforts for inter- national peace. He urged other nations to follow United States leadership to- ward world unity. ‘The address, by telephone to London, was relayed to Rugby for transmission on '::on-w-ve length to the United Stal EIGHT STATES TO SEND MEN TO OIL CONFERENCE By the Assoclated Press. TULSA, Okla., January 12.—Eight of ten States asked to send delegates to a conference in Washington to consider relief for the petroleum industry last night had signified their intention to participate. The conference, to begin Thursday, was arranged upon the suggestion of Gov. W. J. Holloway of Oklahoma and Gov. Clyde Reed of Kansas. The Governors of Arkansas and Louisiana have not announced any action. States expected to participate Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Cali- Kansas, ' Oklahoras ilbur will participate in the meeting. - Saturday night E. B. Howard, former ‘Tul Representative, who was named on the Oklahoma delegation, announced he would not attend the conference because Secretary Wilbur would be present. WHAT DOES 1931 tion. Prior selling experience while helpful is not essential, since it is the policy of the corporation to train its men to sell according with its own high standards of dealing with the public. College men, 35 years of age, or under, will be preferred. Your reply should state briefly earning power, education and genera Miklas, President of Austria, was given | 882 ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR., Contest manager for The Evening Star’s district of the National Oraterical Con- test. —Star Staff Photo. ALLEY HOMES BILL SENT BUDGET BODY $3,000,000 Appropriation Is Authorized for Purchases in Measure. (Continued From First Page.) housing program for the District by John Ihlder, housing expert retained by the commission, and at the same time, it became known that the new bill will contain authority for the Dis- trict Co foners, instead of the President, to choose the alleys to be eloud’pto‘rensl‘v:]y and t'l.z:e proposed sum of money to acquire ‘propert; is eliminated. < . In the commissicn’s supplemental re- port, Mr. Thider asserts that “there are in Washington today more than 250 inhabited alleys, in which there are ap- proximately 2,400 dwellings, containing a population estimated at from 11.000 to 13,000 persons.” The commission has made maps of 126 alleys that con- tain 10 or more dwellings each. “Some of these alleys are communities of such size that they would sidered vill vircnment,” ~ Mr. place, for example, O'Brien’s court, 40; Snows court, 41 Cooksey place, 53; Dixons court, 44.” Progress is Shown. Poor people flocking to Washinj as a result of the Civil War and fact that under the L'Enfant plan, the city has very large squares between boundary streets, are set down as the major con- tributing factors to the alley dwelling population. Mr. Ihider says that con- siderable progress has been “the alley population has been reduced from an estimated 25,000 to an esti- mated 11,000 to 13,000,” because the worst of the old frame lhldl'hl';: been demolished mains have been ex- eosnuin.l 10 houses and d street lights that disease, crime and immorality flourish more in the alleys than they do outside; the children born and reared in alley dwellings are more demoralizing environment the elimination of alley dwellings.” ‘These two points must be in mind, the housing expert asserts—re- housing the alley population and the future use of alley property ncw used for dwelling pi . He makes it clear that “all alley dwellers are not undesirable neighbors” and “the - tion must be handled with consideration and tact.” Mr. Ihlder appends to his report the history of previous legislation on this subject. The Commissioners’ alley bill was presented in 1914 and later a much- condensed version was enacted and ap- proved September 25, 1914. After two postponements, its effective date was finally made July 1, 1923. Two cases, District of Columbia vs. Franklin P. Nash et al. and District cf Columbia vs. Charlotte E. Lockwood et al.,, were car- ried to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and ‘were ided inst the Government on May 26, 1927. Since then there has been no attempt at enforcement. ——e Hospital Guild to Meet. Woman’s Guild of Sibley Memorial Hospital will meet Thursday at Rust Hall. Dr. D. C. Kinsman of American University will speak on his recent trip to Russia. Re) will be heard from various committees. 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' A prima facie title to assured by the certificate of election. There is therefore no way to exclude any one bearing such certificate of elec- tion from nwmncch:mmaolme session prior to the el of the Speaker and other House officers. e House has always maintained a great deal of respect for credentials. Where there is no question of validity of cre- dentials the candidate declared elected by State authority is seated until the case has been tried before a House elec- tions ittee. House comittee is allowed six months after the contest has been referred to it to consider the the seat Albert H. Vestal, the Repub- lican whip, has occ: for um: as Representative of the eighth Indiana district. Kunz Protests Defeat. Claud C. Ball, the Democratic candi- date, was given 44,194 votes and Vestal 44,203 e jncumbent was declared The lone lected— Stanley H. Kunz of the eighth Illinoi district, 18 contesting the election of Peter C. Granata, Republican. 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