Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1931, Page 7

CUBAN NEWSPAPER WORKERS CARRYON Employes of Suppressed Sheet Put Out Own Publica- tion to Take Its Place. 1l By the Associated Press. . HAVANA, January 20.—Cuba’s news- stands, comparatively bare since the government suspended nine dailies and magazines under charges of having printed matter offensive to the govern- ment, today had a new sheet to offer the reading public. It was the Ahora, edited and printed by employes of the newspaper EI Mundo, which was one of those sus- pended. It is to be published while the suspensions continue, the EI Mundo management having turned over its plant to the employes, who are to pro- Tate expenses and profits. The government holds its position that the other journals may not re- sume publication until the Legislature passes a new press law regulating peri- odicals. The law has been drafted, but there seemed to be little chance that it would reach the lower House hefore Thursday. Its provisions have not been dis- closed. It is understood to contain a clause providing against suspension of newspapers for publication of objection- able matter, but holding owners and directors of the publication liable to im- prisonment and fine if their journal . violates the standards of ‘common decenc; DEFENDS SUPPRESSION. Machado's Secretary Declares Step Necessary to Fight “Sedition.” NEW YORK, January 20 (#).—Sup- pression of Havana newspapers by the government of Cuba was declared today by Ricardo Herrera, secretary to Presi- dent Machado, to be a necessary step against “a seditious campaign” and in complete accord with Cuban laws. Senor Herrera made the response to & protest by the Press Congress of the World. His message was addressed to President Walter Williams of the Uni- wversity of Missouri, honorary president of the Press Congress, and it was made public by James Wright Brown, presi- ¢ dent of the Editor and Publisher and member of the Executive Committee of the Press Congress. The Press Congress had protested to President Machado and to Secretary Stimson of the State Department at ‘Washington that “censorship of news- papers in any form disturbing or re- straining dissemination of news or free- dom of comment on news, to say noth- ing of suppression of all such publica- tion, is inconceivable in this day of en- lightened education.” Nine Havana newspapers were ordered & suspended more than a week ago for “indirectly encouraging acts against the government by giving prominent space to anti-administration activities.” “The suppression of the various news- papers in Cuba will not tend to inter- Tupt nor restrain the dissemination of news, in that the news is and may con- tinue to be published,” Herrera said. “The suppression of these papers is in effect solely for the purpose of put- ting a stop to a seditious campaign which the papers have maintained and which has seriously menaced the peace and tranquillity of the country, as well as seriously affecting commerce.” BOMB CUTS OFF WATER. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, January 20.—Part of Ha- vana was without water service today, many homes were flooded and residents were terrorstricken because of a bomb explosion which wrecked a water main at Llinas and San Carlos streets early this morning. ‘The blast rattled the windows of the neighborhood and brought sleepers from their beds in fright. Water gushed from the broken main, quickly flooded the streets and poured into nomes in the neighborhood. Property damage was considerable and there was a near panic, but no one was reported injured. Police were without a clue to the perpetrator of this newest of a series of bombi and there was a belief that the bomb been planted by the same forces which have disturbed the city in anti-government manifestations for some time. RAILWAY LINES BOMBED. BUENOS AIRES, January 20 (#).— Three bombs exploding at strategic places on railway lines entering Buenos Aires before dawn this morning killed at least three persons and injured a dozen others. The first explosion was in the plaza once Western Railway terminal. It wrecked three coaches of an incoming electric train, killing three persons ane injuring several. ‘The second occurred in the Southern Rallway Station, in the Plaza Constitu- clon, several persons being injured. Both explosions occurred in congested districts of the city, the early hour alone preventing many more casualties. ‘The third bomb exploded in a coach of a train of the Central Argentine Rail- ‘way, partially wrecking a suburban pas- senger train. Ambulances rushed to the scene and took numerous victims to nearby hospitals. The coach was shat- tered and at least six persons injured. JOBLESS SEIZE FOOD IN OKLAHOMA CITY More Than 50 Men Arrested After Raid on Grocery Store. Women Participate. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, January 20.— Nearly a thousand unemployed men raided a grocery store within three blocks of the City Hall here today and seized food. ‘The disorder was quelled quickly, but not until more than 50 men had been arrested. Seven or eight women participated in the raid. ‘The riot occurred after a delegation of men visited City Manager E. M. Fry at the City Hall and demanded that_ he furnish food for the unemployed. Fry promised to aid the men. The raid occurred a few minutes later. A committee representing the “army of unemployed” recently visited Pry with demanas that the city furnish sleep- ing quarters for men out of work by Wr?rmz over vacant store bulldings for eir use. ‘They also demanded that jobs be furnished and declared that they were B ] THOMAS D. THACHER | wi - THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1931 LLIAM SPRAGUE FREDERIC PEAR! JUDGE WILLIAM CLARK When the decision of Federal Judge William Clark holding the eighteenth amendment invalid comes before the United States Supreme Court tomorrow, Frederic Pearse Is one of the counsel up ng 1 citor General Thomas D. Thacher will present argument for the Government. ecision, which was given in the case of Will m Sprague.—A. P, Photo. KNOXVILLE PAPER SUED FOR $1,000,000 Col. Luke Lea Files Ten Libel Ac- tions, Asking $100,000 in Each. ATHENS, Tenn., January 20.—Ten libel suits asking a total of $1,000,000 damages wers filed against the Knox- ville News Sentinel today by Col. Luke Lea, Nashville newspaper publisher. ‘The suits were filed in McMinn County Circuit Court, through Richard N. lvins, attorney. Each suit was for $100,000 and charged libel in articles published by the newspaper., Defendants named were the Knox-| ville News Sentinel Co., publisher of the News Sentin:l, and W. E. Neil, & carrier, who was sued both individually and .as an agent of the company. At the same time a libel sult for $100,000 damages was filled by Col. Lea in the Monroe County Circuit Court at Madisonville against the Time Printing Co., publisher of the Chattanooga Times; Gamon Mason, carrier and agent of the company, and Judge W. D. Swaney of Chattanooga. Ivins said a counterpart summons in the suit was issued to Hamilton County for Judge Swaney. “The suit against the Times and Judge Swaney,” Ivins said, “grows out of an alleged libelous interview with- Swaney published by the Times a few days ago.” Summonses were served and are re- turnable in March. No declarations were filed. R. A. CLAYTON EXPIRES | Former Pension Bureau Examiner Buried in Norfolk. Richard A. Clayton, former special examiner of the United States Pension | Bureau, and resident of this city for many years, died Priday in Norfolk, Va., ccording to word received here today. | Funeral services were held Sunday, fol- |lowed by interment in the Forest Lawn | Cemetery in Norfolk. | Mr. Clayton was 84 years old. His ‘ wife, formerly Miss Flora L. Morris, died | five days before her husband. Both had | been taken 1ll about the same time. PATIENT KILLS SELF WITH PIECE OF GLASS St. Elizabeth’s Inmate Stabs Lung ‘With Splinter From Window He Broke. Frank Suboda, 29 years old, a patient at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, died today as the result of a self-inflicted wound in the lung after doctors at the insti- tution had made a desperate effort to save his life. Policeman Hayes of the eleventh pre- cinct, who investigated the case, re- ported that Suboda broke a window pane in the P Building at the hospital Sunday and stabbed himself through the left lung with a piece of the broken glass. Shortly after doctors at the hos- pital operated on him and removed a piece of the glass. juboda was a native of Austria, and served in the American Army during the World War. He was admitted to the hospital by the Army for mental treatment. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt was noti- fled, and ordered an inquest at the morgue tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. —_— Hair dyed a light sapphire is a new vogue among women in Paris. 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Counsel supporting the decision of Judge Clark of New Jersey, the prohibition amendment invalid, to- day filed in the Supreme Court an ex- haustive brief to be used tcmorrow in presenting their oral argument. The brief contended Congress does not have discretion in submitting pro- posed constitutional amendments to either State Legislatures or conventions for ratification but is controlled in de- ciding whether Legislatures or conven- tions must ratify by the nature of the amendment. Insist Conventions Necessary. Insisting that the people alone could grant the power conferred upon the Federal Government by the eighteenth amendment, counsel asserted it should have been Submitted to State conven- tions for ratification, instead of to State Leg slatures. Interpreting the records of the con- vention adopting the Constitution, coun- sel reached the conclusion that it was never intended “to make Legislatures competent to grant to the United States enable Congress to choose the Legisla- tures as agents for that purpose.” Summing up, the brief said: “As the eighteenth amendment has never becn adopted by th: people, to whom alone was reserved the power to grant any such additional powers over themselves or their rights to th- Na- tional CGiovernment, Congress had no power to enact or enforce the statutory provisions under which this indictment (of William H. Sprague and William J. Howey for transporting and possessing beer) is framed. The provisions of the (Volstead) act on which the indictment is_predicated are therefore unconstitu- tional.” Government Filed Yesterday. Counsel for the Government yester- cay filed with the court its appeal from the decision of Judge Clark. A brief supporting Judge Clark’s rul- ing, based on the contention the amend- ment should have been ratified by State conventions rather than Legislatures, M. Evarts, an attorney, of Windsor, Vt. He is not associated with counsei for willam H. Sprague, whose truckload of beer began the controversy, but was permitted to intervene by the court. Solicitor General Thacher will pre- sent the Government's contentions. Two hours have been set aside for Thacher, but he has indicated he will not need that much time. The Gov- tain its position. Julius Henry Cohen and Selden Ba- |con, New York attorneys, will support | the Clark decision. They also have been allotted two hours of the court’s time. Science holding | new and direct powers of government | over the people or their rights, or w | was_submitted yesterday by Jeremiah | ernment is confident the court will sus- | | By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., January 20.— The attempts of a small dog to bury a bone on the ocean sands have led sci-n- tists of the O'Rourke Zoological Insti- tute here to uncover the fossilized Te- mains of & whale they say they believe swam in the Pacific 500,000 years ago. The scientists established a camp on the ocean front at Pacific Beach and today were completing excavation work | begun when the dog exposed part of | the skeleton. WHALE FOSSILS FOUND IN SAND | BELIEVED BURIED 500,000 YEARS | Dog Trying to Hide Bone on Beach Leads Scientists to| Uncover Remains on Coast. : Part of the head of the huge mam- | mal, several ribs, a hip bone, three | vertebras of the tail, two from the neck | and other bones already have been uncovered. * Dr. W. H. Raymenton, director of the O'Rourke Institute, is heading the search. The whale is believed to have been of the Balaenopera Borealis family and is estimated to have been about 60 feet | long, congidered large in its period. LUCAS EXONERATED OF LARCENY CHARGE nection With Mrs. Town- shend’s Complaint. T. Guy Lucas, choirmaster of St. John's Episcopal Church, was exon- erated today by the grand jury of a charge of larceny after trust, which had been preferred against him by Mrs. Edith L. Townsend, who claimed that he had refused to return to her $4.506 which she had entrusted to him. Lucas contended the money was part of a profit on a real estate sale which he was to divide with Mrs. Townsend and represented his share in the transac- tion, which had netted $9,000. Last Christmas eve Mrs. Townsend brought suit for the money in the Dis- trict Supreme Court and also sued out a writ of replevin in the Municipal C » .t under which the apartment of the choirmaster was stripped by deputy marshals. Two days later she preferred | the criminal charge and had Lucas | taken into Police Court where he bond for the action of the grand jury. —_ {W. C. T. U. HEAD TO SPEAK Mrs. Boole to Address Meeting at Calvary Methodist Church. Dr. Ella A. Boole of Brooklyn, N. Y., president . of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, will be the principal speaker at the annual | meeting of the Mount Pleasant W. C. T. U. in Calvary Methodist Epescopal Church _tomorrow night at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Boole will be introduced by Mrs. James M. Doran, president of the Mount | Pleasant union, following an introduc- | tory address by Rev. Mark Depp, pastor of Calvary M. E. Church. Takes a Hand And Financing Choirmaster Cleared in Con- | waived examination and was held under | FARM BODY WHEAT | RELEFBILISO.KD Senators Favor Authorizing, 20,030,000 Bushels to Be Given Hungry. By the Associated Press. The Senate Agriculture Committes today approved a bill to authorize. the Federal Farm Board to devote 20.000.000 bushels of wheat purchased by its sub- sidiaries for relief purposes. ‘The bill, a modification of a measure | introduced by Senator Capper. Repub- lican, Kansas, would authorize President Hoover to designate the agency which would distribut: the wheat. 1 ‘Would Credit Revolving Fund. ‘The Farm Board’s revolving fund for the wheat. | hunger. $15.000,000 for relief purposes. The original Capper bill provided for using 40,000,000 bushels of the Farm | Board's wheat, but the committee mod- ified it at the suggestion of Govern- ment agencies. The committee also acted favorably on a measure to reappropriate for | drought relief in Georgia, Florida and North and South Carolina money the Government has collected from sesd and feed loans of last year and on an- other to allow homesteaders stricken by drought to move without loss of rights. Senator Smith Explains Bill. Senator Smith, Democrat, 8. C., author of the first, said it was designed to provide relief for tMose States which would not benefit from the $45,000,000 already appropriated by Con would be credited with the amount paid ! ‘The bill provides '.hlt" - the agency to which the wheat is given | 85 soon as Pitts’ appeal can be per- ?hn]'l”(llgk" l‘,:lfl.‘ (': llrllflllflfl ’é h"lw ;lnur ; fected. or distributio: tl 8t ring from | tribution to those suffering fromm | qinct him be set aside and that a Seantor Caraway, Democrat, Arkanses, | | a member of the committee, de.«‘rihe‘d; |the bill as a direct appropriation of | A-7 FEARING O PTS. T0 BE TOMORROW Clark Griffith’s Niece, Juror Involved in Action, Says She Is Citizen. Argument on an effort by G. Bryan Pitts, former chairman of the P. H. Smith Co.'s Board of Directors, to se- cure his release from jail on & writ of hpbeas corpus will be heard by Justice Frederick L. Siddons at 1:30 o'clock to- morrow in District Supreme Court. Pitts is in the District Jail under sen- tence of 14 years in the penitentiary as a result of his recent conviction on charges that he conspired to embezzle funds and destroy records of the corpo- ration. Holds Juror Not Citizen. His application for the writ was based on the contention that Miss Mildred Jean Robertson, member of the jury which found him guilty, is not an Amer- ican citizen and his conviction, there- fore, was fllegal. Miss Robertson, niece and secretary of Clark Griffith, presi- dent of the Washington Base Ball Club, told Assistant United States Attorney Neil Burkinshaw yesterday that compe- tent lawyers had assured her that she is an American citizen. The validity of the jury was not attacked bv John H_Edwards. jr., and C. Elbert Anadale, former vice presi- dents of the company, who were con- victed with Pitts on the conspiracy charge. Asks New Trial. ‘This latest move on behalf of Pitts was_instituted by Attorney T. Morris Wampler. Pitts formerly was repre- sented by Prank G. Raichle, Wilton J. Lambert, Rudolph Yeatman, George D. Horning. jr, and Edmund Toland. It was understood all of these have with- drawn or will withdraw from the case Pitts also asked that the decision new trial be granted. ELLIOTT BILL PASSED House Takes Action to Expedite U. S. Building Program. ‘To expedite th> Federal building program. the House late yesterday passed the Elliott bill, which authorizes the Treasury Department to mak: pre- liminary surveys of properties without waiting for the final title to pass on properties upon which Pederal buildings are to be crected. P Payne P.-T. A. to Hear Coage. Jefferson S. Coage, recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, will ad- dress the Parert-Teacher Association of the Daniel A. Payne School, Fif- gress. ‘The homestead bill is offered by Sen- ator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana. At Community Planning Why do high-class residential districts rarely survive as such? ) . 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