Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1931, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C., WET LEADER HITS HOOVER IN REPORT President\ Tore Wickersham - Findings to Pieces, Says H. H. Curran. By the Associated Press. President ‘Hoover, the Wickersham Commission and the Senate Lobby Committee drew some sharp criticism in the annual report of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, but the American people were found to be all right. A clear majority of them, claimed Henry H. Curran, president of the as- sociation, now favor repeal of the eighteenth amendment. His review of last year’s prohibition events was issued yesterday. He set out in the report the mem- bership tcl of the association, 360,000. Diserepancy Is Seen. He accused the Wickersham Com- mission, of a “bald discrepancy” in issuing & summary of ccaclusions that read er a “dry bflef " together with a text painting the ‘“‘noble experiment as a dismal failure.” The President, he said, with his mes- s.ge of transmittal to Congress, “vir- tually tore to pieces the painstaking findings and recommendations of his commission.” “Whether the commission's report, which is exhaustive and profound,” added, “can be capriciously thrown out the window because it presents a damning indictment of prohibition re- mains to be seen.” Curran stood stanch against the An- derson modification plan, holding for outright repeal. Lobby Committee Hit. He took the Senate's Lobby Commit- tee to task for what he called “witch- hunting tactics.” ‘That committee grilled him last year when it was searching for evidences of heavy po- litical contributions. “Nowhere did the prohibition cause advance an inch,” he said of the year's political occurrences. On the basis of public declarations he counted an in- crease in House from 76 to 160 in the anti-prohibition fepresentation and in the Senate from 15 to 22. The number ineluded those willing to have the prohibition amendment resubmit- ted to the people as wejy as avowed ‘wets. There are others, he maintai) equally willing to have the people on the question, who have not yet spoken. He saw the American people accel- erating in the march toward repeal, with nine Stateés on record for return of liquor and the people of many others | ready to vote on the question whenever Congress gives them'a chance. RICHARD LAWTON GIVEN TRIBUTE ON RETIREMENT Bervice of More Than 40 Years in Government Ends—Will Visit Ireland. Richard Lawton of Minnesota, a vet- eran clerk in the adjutant general's office, War Department, will be trans- ferred to the civil service retired list pril 1 on account of age after more than 40 years’ service for the Govern- ment and has been granted leave of ab- s>nce to that date. For many years he has been employed in the compilation of the Army Register and other official pubuutflm.s of the War Department mdk"" regarded as an expert in such work. On taking leave of his official asso- clates he was presented with a fine traveling bag for use on his coming visit to his birthplace in Ireland nearly 70 years ago, and also with a personal letter of commendation from Maj. Gen. . H. Bridges, adjutant general of the 317 71 mbmnn nws. By RS AUTO AU G hireet ww Teedny, Mareh 1o g00, mencing 10 im By order E C. SNYDER, TS shal in and for the District of AUTOMOBILES Jlolation of ublic au at TON. azm oBeY than thase M. by maranil g HERBERT L. TINSLEYS Walier Reed Tigs- 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR ANY gents, bm- agreements or contracts cnteed one other than myself. J. YOU ARE_GOING -ro MOVE TO OR Hom Phtiar New York. Bostar Eittsurgn: Nerfolk, or’any other point, phone us and we will' tell you how much it will cost and Povpguickly welll do it NATIONAL DE- LIVERY ASSN. INC.. Ni 460, IL FURNER SERVICE. ne | without an “Horace” Jailed as Thief MARAUDING POSSUM FOUND IN LUNCH ROOM AT ALEXANDRIA, VA: By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.' LEXANDRIA, Va. March 2.—No one, “Horace” found out last night, can invade a lunch room and not be called on to pay for* what he eats. In such cases the long arm of the law usually steps in, as it happened with * “Horace,” you see, is a ’possum, one | of those funny looking lidtle a als i tail, the loss of which w r described many | year ago in the celebrated E€o-thern | poem, “Christmas Night in the Quar- ! \ st night “Horace” decided to see the world and started out his tour on | King street here. The bright lights consumed his attention for a time, but finally “Horace” became hungry. | ters, fc Clarefice Doyle found him a9 the Temple lunch room, 2108 King street, grubbing around for something to eat. Doyle evidently concluded that such ac- tion was not _eccording to “Hoyle,” so he grabbed “Horace™ by his rat-like tail and brcught him to police headquar- ters. When asked concerning himself by the station keeper, “Horace” replied that he was 2 years old and weighed 7 pounds. He was a little hazy concer ing_ his addr however. _“Horac evidently did not like police headquar- he bared his needie-like tecth at the sergeant and was promptly locked in a cell for the night. He will prob- bly end up by furnishing a meal for ome one, all because he got a little hungry himself. IMMIGRATION BILL PASSED BY HOUSE Jenkins Measure Restricts Admissions to U. S. for Two ‘ Years to Aid Labor. 1 By the Associated Press. ‘The Jenkins bill to restrict immigra- tion for two years as an aid to em- ployment was passed today by the House. The opinion that the majority of the people want suspension of immigration | had been expressed a while before by Chairman Johnson of the Immigration | Committee. At the outset of the session, there were several flare-ups reminiscent of the tumultuous Saturday night session, when several members zlmost came to physical contact. Speaker Draws Applause. Speaker Longworth, who was charged | Saf ul’da)’ night by opponents of the im- | ation bill as being unfair’in per- | mitting the measure to come up Ior\ consideration under suspension of House | rules, answered the charges and drew applause from both Republicans lnd‘ Democrats. | “The chair is very jealous of the reputaticn he may have for fairness, he said. “The chzir n2ver has and neve: will consciously do something unfair. Longworth explained he had chcsen | this course when it became obvious that opponents were. exhausting every par- liamentary recourse to delay the bill. Charges Neglect of Some. Representative Cooke, Republican, | New York, said the Jenkins bill failed | to care for .the foreign born wives and | children of Americ2ns. He added that | $300,000,000 annually was sent abroad | to relatives by people legally here. ThE money would be spent here, he said, if the wives and children were per-\ mitted to enter. 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This lead- including the Hoover adminis- tration, was as unconscious of the awful panic 24 hours before it broke in Oc- tober, 1929 as the inhabitants of the southeast corner of the moon. “Miilions of people are hungry, while American farmers are burning their Wheat for fuel. The processes of pro-| duction, distribution and consumption | are hopelessly out of equilibrium, with | the result that 20,000,000 able-bodied | | persons in the civiiized world are un- | | employed and seeking soup houses and | | bread lines, while vast surpluses in most | lines are everywhere piled up behind | impregnable tariff walls, which hope- | lessly prevent even the most profitable exchmzes of barter between nations. FALLS CHURCH HEADS | ASK RAIL HEARING Council Petitions District Utility | Board to Appear in Railway Abandonment. Special Dispatch to The Sta FALLS CHURCH, ya., March 2—The Falls Church Town' Council, throulh Mayor L. P, Daniels, has fo to the Dhu!ct ‘of Columbia Public Uullfles‘ Commission a request for a hearing before that body, either alone or-with the Arlington County Board of Super- visors, in order to present-reasons why rail transportation between Washington and Pairfax County via the Arlington- Fairfax Raflway should e continued. ‘The request accompanied a resolution drawn up by the Committee on Civic | Betterment and adopted by the Councfl.. GIb the priotiog, =3, Sroduce— The National Capital Press #4213 D 86 N.W. Phons National 0650 l’."‘"'"' out that Falls Church is the t incorporated town served by the -Fairfax line and !-hll the portation furnished by this rail- road is of vlul importance to the development of this community. largest im- chtnmhnu portes of coal-tar | s12:340. RED FLAG APPEAL SET FOR APRIL 13 'Supreme Court Will Rule on! Conviction of Woman Camp Official. By the Associated Press. The Supreme Court today announced | it probably had jurisdiction over the appeal of Yetta Stromberg, challenging validity of the California law prohibit- ing display of a red flag in any meet- ing place as an aid to propaganda of a seditious character. The case was set for oral argument | April 13. She was convicted in connection with the Pioneer Summer Camp Conference organized at Los Angeles in July. 1929. | It “was charged those engaged in or- | ganizing the camp were Communists {and that the display of the Red flag was a stimulus to anarchistic action to | nid seditious propaganda. Rights Denial Charged. She claimed that the statuté denied her equal protection of law. The lower courts sustained validity of the law. Frank Dial failed today in an effort to have the Supreme Court pass on his claim to a seat in Congress as Repre- sentative from the -sixth district of klahoma. Dial, in 1928. sought to register his | name 'as ‘candidate for Congress on | five tickets, as a Democrat, Republican, | Farmer-Labor, Socialist and independ- | ent. He was designated an independent. | He contended all other candidates were disqualified and that he was the only proper candidate before the electors and | had won by default. U. S. Loses Tax Appeals. ‘The Government lost in the Supreme ‘Court today in -three cases involving Federal estate taxes collected on prop- erty placed in trust prior to death. The estates and amounts involved were l;s'dtle Powler McCormick, Chicago, | 81 Edgar M. Morsman, Omaha, Nebr,, Ellen L. Van Schaick, Chicago, | $34,000. At the same time, the Government won in an effort to $800,000 in | inheritance taxes on t} tate of Seth M. Milliken of New York City, The taxes were collected on property Milli- ken transferred to his children before his death. et Tt ok FENTON GETS D. S. C. Capt. Roland T. Fenton, Army Quar- termaster Corps, now stationed at Fort Eustis, Va., has been awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Cross by the War Department for extraordinary heroism in action duri the attack on the town of Belleal! France, July 18, 1918, while serving as a second lieutenant_in the 103d Machine Gun Battalion, 26th Division, A. E. F. Capt. Fenton is a native of Melrose, Mass. Will' Rogers [ SANTA MONICA, Calif.—The sol- diers that are lined up getting tQeir mopey sure look like they needed it. The big financial boys say that “its bad economy to pay the money now.” When was there any- thing connected with the war good economy? Even entering it wasn't. a stroke of financial genius. Hog Islanid cost as much as this bonus. And the enemy couldn’t find it. And neither could we. A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No deot ever come due at a good time. 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Mc- Lean, had reported there had been no ircome from the McLean estate since he issuance of the January order of the court to pay Mrs. McLean $7,500 | monthly, the court intimated his inten- tion to dismiss the rule. Counsel for Mrs, McLean then withdrew the appli- cation for contempt aganst McLean and for his arrest. ‘Through Attorneys Julius I. Peyser and George E. Edelin the publisher asked the dismissal of the petition for injunction, sequestration of his propert; and the rule for contempt. He pointed | cut that he is not in default of the order {of the protsstee, and asserted that the prosecution of the Mexican divorce ac- tion would not affect the.consent de- cree under which the trustees of the {McLean estate ere to make the pay- | ments to the wife. He asserts that there is no showing that he has been in anywise in contempt of the court, as he was never personally served with the rule to show cause. McLean tells the court that his wife knew of the financial condition of the McLean estate, the income from which had been overdrawn, and knew she could not expect to be paid up to this time. He explains that his statement in the application for the Mexican divorce that there would be “no controversy regarding pensions for support” meant that he expected the consent decree of January 17 to be carried out. Attorneys Nelson Hartson and Albert ‘W. Fox appeared for Mrs. McLean, and Justice Adkins for signature. iOOMMITTEE FAVORS EMBARGO INQUIRY Representatives Also . Place Ap- proval on Garber Reso- lution. By the Assoclated Press. Investigation of the economic condi- | tions on products for which embargoes have been urged at this session of Con- Ways and Means Committee. ‘The committee also unanimously adopted the Garber resolution directing crude oil and refined products. Chairman Hawley said immediate ap- proval by the House will be asked. The latter resolution extends the in- vestigation made by the commission on costs of.Venezuelan oil to all countries that have shipped more than 2,000,000 barrels of oil to the United States with- in the last two years. ‘This would inchude Mexico, Vrnezuell. Peru and the Dutch West Indies. sion would not recommend any tariff rates. The products named for the inquiry under the first resolution by a subcom- mitee of the House Ways and Means Committee are oil, coal, lumber, man- ganese, asbestos and agricultural prod- ucts. Reading Anthracite in your better hard coal! 811 E St. NW. Dependable Coal A. KAHN INC.-. 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The fity, some of 1% newspapers and business men sued- the census: director in an effort to force him to show a population of 360,691 instead of 270,366, The Court of Appeals in its decision today held that the national census is exclusively within the authority of the | Congress of the United States, and that the directcr of the census has been | designated as the administrative agency th:ough which that authority shall be exercised, and that his decisions may not be controlled@by mandamus, unless arbitrary or capricious. The opinion | was rendered by Chief Justice George E. Martin, Intended Adding Footnote, | Mr. Steuart had expressed his inten- tion cf adding a footnote calling at- | tention to the act of the Georgia Legis- Iature for the establishment of the mu- nicipality of Atlanta, and giving the figures for the component boroughs with | but the Atlantans | a total of 360,691, wanted the larger figure so as to give a better standing to their city in the list | ot cities of the United States to be pub- 1 lished by Steuast and sought the aid of the courts. “It is true as claimed by the appel- lants,” says Chief Justice Martin, “that cities are municipal corporations created by the authority of the State Legisla- ture and that municipalities may be consolidated or portions set off from one and annexed to ancther at the will of the Legislature, and that the area of a city and the density of its population are exclusively within the discretion of the Legislature, yet it must be remembered that the national census is exclusively within the authority of the Congress of the United States, and the director of the census has been designated as the administrAttve agency through which that authority shall be exercised. The director is necessarily invested with discretion in matters of form and procedure when these are not | specifically provided for by law, and the exercise of this authority cannot be controlled by State legislation. Discretion of Director. | _“In this instance the director, in the exercise of his discretion, has de- cided that the legislative respecting the census will subserved and the public mbre fully and more correctly enlightened by set- | ting out a detailed statement of the cirmumstagces when reporting the population fof Atlanta. CLUBMAN IN HOSPITAL Erie Brother Has Courtland Dines Com- mitted as Psychopathic Patient. (#).—Courtland Dines, Denver clubman, was a patient in a psychopathic hospital here today. A commitment ordered signed in County Court last week on application of Eugene Dines, a brother, alleged the patient was “incapable of taking care of his property.” Dines, son of the late Tyson S. 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A’ Bournemouth _theater manager sent the noted Irish playwright an American_clipping, calling the talking picture of “How He Lied to Her Hus- band” the world’s biggest flop. “There’s not a word of truth in it,” Mr. Shaw wrote in reply. merican experts insist on frequent changes of scene and long intervals of silence dur- ing which the film is a movie and not a talkie. “I have repeatedly challenged them to produce my plays on the screen just as they are produced on the stage. They declared it impossible, they could work only on condition of being lowed to ada c[;t the play to their tech- nique instead of adapting their tech- ioue to the play. ritish Inlernatlonal Pictures ac- cepted the challenge and achieved the feat that Hollywood found impossible. ‘How He Lied to Her Husband’ was se- lected because it pushed the test to the utmcst. But Americans will do it very well when they've got over the first shock. They always do when shown the way.” In making public this letter Mr serious dramatic work, conditions are essentially the same for the screen as for the stage. “Hollywood dcesn’t think so,” he sald, $8,000.00 in Prizes APPRECIATION CONTEST. Your Boy or Girl Capital Prize of $1,000.00. Call at our Flower Shop 1407 H St. N.W. Shaw said he was satisfied that in | Beautiful Columbia Roses, AND ‘Choice Carnations—all shades Yo $3.00 FRESH CUT SWEET PEAS’ GIVEN AWAY during the NATIONAL FLOWER der the auspices of S. A, F. & O. H. may win the ISAYS ENGLISH TALKIES LEAD U. S. | Irish Playwright Replies That America Does Very Well After British Show How. “but we have proved it. Real dramatic entertainment in the talkies must con- form to the same rules as on the stage. Some technical conditions are different. ‘You can ‘spend money on the screen, you can't on the stage. 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