Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1931, Page 2

LEWIS DENOUNCES | PARTISAN TAGTIGS, Believes a Higher Purposei Should Rule Actions of Legislators. (Continucd From First Page.) about the prospects of Democratic suc- | cess at the polls next.year said: | “The Democrats can only succeed by ! recoznizing that it is the democracy of | humanity we must appeal to and not, alone to the Democratic party as a political organization. The times are demanding democracy in the broad | sense. Republicanism's true meaning | h.: been omitted and ignored by the Ropublican leaders. “The .ouutry has grown impatient with the dickering obstruction of the Republican party leaders against their | own President. ‘The great heart of| democratic humanity reoels against the President of the United States being constantly assailed and held up before the worl as lacking in intelligence and wanting in integrity of conduct. “They are prepared to defeat the set of men, Republican or Democrat, who won't recognize that the office of Presi- dent is the people’s office and is to be treatcd as the great, high dignity of | the world.” | Prohibition Issue Seen. | The Illincis Senator, now installed in his offices here, asserted that nro- hibition c.uld not fall to be a domi- nand issue in the coming national cam- paign. In his own campaign against Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Repub- lican, Senator Lewis ran as an Oppo- nent of the cighteenth amendment Senatc: Lewis is the only Democratic Senator from Iilinois in years, He him- self served a term of six years in the Senate during the Wilson administra- tion, but was defeated at the end of that term by the late Senator Medill McCormick, whose Widow Senator Lewis recently defeated. But long ago the Democratic State organization came out strongly for the nomination of Senator Lewis for President next year. Friends ot Senator Lewis insist that the Demo- cr.tic delegation to the national con- vention in 1932 will be instructed for Lewis. “You ask me,” said Senator Lewis,| “what I feel is the prospeci- of the Democratic party in the approaching national election. I answer on the basis of & man who has made his fight fo. Dem.cratic success in a State that was 600,000 normally Republican and which in the Coolidge election was 800,000, and which has run from 660.- 000 to ~.000,000 Republican majority in Jate presidential elections. I impress mon you that we Democrats in making : f7ht can’t ignore that Illinois has never gone Democratic for United Btates Senator in a straight party fight since the election of Stephen A. Doug- las in the days of the Civil War. IIli- nc’s indicates very much the status of that Mississippi Valley, or what we call the doubtful States. It has elected such as Gen. Palmer, who left us, and David Davis, who left us, but both be- in~ elected to the Senate in the com- bination of Democrats and Farm-Labor. | FIELDING LEWIS MITCHELL, La Plata High School. DEVOE KEPLIN MEADE, Hyattsville High School. resources. He would thereby save the public mind from the misconception that it is in the power of the Federal Governme~t to grant anything that they ask #f they can get enough legisla- tive votes to adopt the demand. Our colleges have been content to teach literature, some prose, a bit of art, and let the student assume he has reached the highest pinnacle when he can make the Greek society, the foot ba' team or crew, on which he may elevate his position. - And this plight despite the every-day scene of the hero and social prom of the last year finding himself a zero, left to hisstruggle to be a bond salesman. * So we see that our great colleges are in a great degree responsi- ble for the failures of our multitude to understand the crisis in which they are now placed. It is this situation in America that may soon become Social- isn. and Communism and other forms of politics threatening the very basis 1K TWO MORE REACH EVIEN Fielding Mitchell of La Plata High, and Devoe Mead, Hyattsville, Win. ‘The roll of county finalists who will | tiods In The Evening Star area of the | national oratorical contest was in-| creased to 14 today with the addition of Flelding Lewis Mitchell of La Plata | High School, La ‘Plata, Md., and Devoe | Keplin Meade of Hyattsville High | School, Hyattsville, Md. These boys| are among the representatives chosen | from the ranks of the 16,889 high schuol students {ho participated in the con- | test work In The Star area, Contes ants from 52 other schools in the Dis- | trict of Columbia, Maryland and Vir- ginia divisions are to be selected be- fore the county finals meets begin next month, Nine Outdistanced. | Fielding Mitchell,‘a 17-year old senlor, | outdistanced the competition of nine schoolmates with his oration on “The | Constitution and the Citizens.” The | meeting was attended by the entire student body in assembly, with Milton M. Somers, principal of the La Plata School, presiding. The judges were R.| H. Lee Reich, Miss Eleanor G. J. Reich, | Miss Gertrude Ryan and Miss Laura Rees, all of the school faculty. Mitchell is an outstanding figure in | the school activities at La Plata, hav- | ing distinguished himself in athletics as a member of the track, base ball and soccer teams, and in other extra curric- ular interests as president of the Emer- son Literary Society, vice president of | his class, and assistant_editor-in-chief ©of the school annual, the Echo. | He is the son of J. Hanson Mitchell of La Plata, Md,, an engineer. Follow- | ing his graduation in June of this year young Mitchell will attend the Uni- | versity of Maryland to prepare himself to become an engineer, Three Years' Record. | La Plata High School has had the Charles County champion in its student | body for two of the last three years. | In addition to Mitchell, others who took part in the school elimination this year were Prank Wade, Lawrence Lynch and Miss Polly Grogan, seniors; Miss Vir- | ginia Cooksey, Miss Olga Swenn and | Edward Turner, juniors; Misses Kath- | erine Garner and Hazel Hancock, sopho- mores, and Miss Elizabeth Dulaney, | freshman. | Devoe K. Meade, the 15-year-old| sophomore winner at Hyattsville, used | as his subject, the “Constitution, the | Standard Form of Government.” In| the school finals he competed with five | other entries, one boy and four girls two erflisted from the sophomore class, two from the junior and one from the senfor class. Edith Brech- bill, a junior, was selécted as the alte! nate and Clyde Balch, a sophomore, was awarded third place W the meet. | Meade is the son of Dr. and Mrs Devoe Meade of College Park, Md., who is head of the dairy and animal hus- bandry departments,of the University compete in the quarter-final elimina- [ STAL SHINGTON LEOPOLD AND LOEB ' ORATORY FINALS MEET AGAIN FRIDAY Joliet’s Best Known Prison- ers Have Been Separated for Past Four Years. on_conditions in Tilinois, ¢ ‘apparent Nation-wide penal ave been thrust to the fore by riot and fire in the new at_Stateville, some al thought is being given once to the State’s two most widely~ nv Richard Loeb and Nathan Herewl| th is an_account of the ¥o_young men ex- Friday after four v have been housed BY ARTHUR WILD. Special Dispatch to The Star JOLIET, Iil, March 19 (NANA)— Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, slayers of little Bobby Franks, will face each other here again Friday after leading widely divergent convict lives for the last four years. The two “thrill killers,” whose arrest and trial were heralded over the world, | will be among the convicts summoned | to testify before the Illinois legislative | committee inquiring into yesterday's fire and riot at Stateville Penitentiary, near here, and the disorders that led up to_it. Leopold until today was among the 1,700 in the old prison within the Joliet City }mits locked up on a bread-and- water diet since the mutinous outbreak | there Saturday. Warden Henry C. Hill, | however, has asserted that investigation | has shown that Leopold did not actually | participate in the attack on the guards or in the wrecking of the mess halls and kitchens in the.old prison. Many Will Testify. Besides Leopold and Loeb a .dozen | other convicts, Warden Hill declared, | will testify at the inquiry to refute the | charges made by Rev. George Whit- meyer, former chaplain, that brutality, poor food and the trafficking in boozs and dope in the penitentiary were pri- marily responsible for the riot in which two of the prisoners lost their lives and two others were wounded. Leopold was slated several weeks ago to be sent over to the new building and Warden Hill was carrying out his plans when the fire broke out yesterday. “Leopold,” said Warden Hill, “has been on good behavior. He is among those locked up for the riot, but we | ve information that he took no active part in it. “There are 40 new prisoners coming down from Chicago and we must take 40 from the old penitentiary to the new one today to make room for the new shipment. Leopold is slated - to go with the group. There is no favorit- ism. He and Loeb have been apart for years, and it is just an accident that | they are put together now.” Secks Real Riot Cause. | Warden Hill is hoping to discover from | these prisoners the real cause of the | riot 0 as to present the case in full to | the legislative body. STERN HAND RULES JOLIET AFTER RIOT AND $300,000 BLAZE (Continued From First Page.) affair and the prisoners hastened to their cells to escape the fumes of tear bombs hurled by the guards. The prison | gates then were opened to admit mem- | bers of the Joliet Fire Department, who put down the flames. They had help from John L. Esser, former Aurora, Iil., banker, sentenced for embezzlement, who handled a line of hose until the flames -were extinguished. The rule of sternness invoked by the officials _included a bread-and-water diet at Stateville, which they planned to keep in effect for 10 days, in addi- tion to which all except trusted men will be kept in their cells until there is no further sign of trouble, Neither will any of them receive any new clothes for weeks, as the supply depot as well as the bakery were burned. Water had to be brought from Joliet, about five miles distant, as the supply was ex- hausted in fighting the fire. Thousands of loaves of bread had to be brought from Chicago because of the damage to the bakery. | Two Chicago convicts, Albert and George Reinheart, sentenced on rob- bery charges, were accused by Deputy Warden Frank Kness as the ringleaders of the uprising. They were involved a | year ago in an attempt to escape. Their | conduct records as well as those of the other prisoners were reduced to zero by Warden Hill. The latter won the praise of Ccl. Frank B. Tripp, State superintendent of prisons, for his han- dling of the situation. Warden Given Praise. “A good job—a very good job Warden Hili's part,” sald‘cCaLjaTfl;;)pn ! TI' bring in Leopold and Loeb, |oho hurrled here from Springfield | Elected by Legislature. “I was chosen in 1912 by’ a popular wvote, but it was contended that the provisions of the law had not been mpproved by our Legislature, and I had to be confirmed by an election of the Legislature. The Legislature was one- third Republican, one-third Democratic and one-third Progressive. I was finally elected by the combination of the Re- publicans and Democrats. Progressives did not vote for me. “For that reason 1 held myself dur- all the Wilson a tration a Democrat in the broad sense of owing a debt to the Republicans in & non- partisan sense. This situation enabled me to see where the Democracy could rofit by a course that was wise or lose one that was 8 blunder. “This time my election to the Senate wids by popular vote, the Republican ‘majority of.600,000 being reversed by a 450,000 Democratic majority.. This shows that the vote was Republican which elected me, and while I stand as a Democrat I decline to be a partisan with the limitations preventing me ex- tending equality and justice to Repub- licans as fellow citizens.” After declaring thaj the country is impatient because of queer partisan at- ?-lckadln Congress, Senator Lewis con- “Above all, that the President of the United States should be supported and sustained in the office when he is act- ing as the renresentative of his Nation and seeking to do the lhlgs! that he feels were committed to him by the popular vote i1 the ballot that put him in th pcsition. That is why he seeks to execute the commissions which the citizens ga e him, expressed in the plat- form of principles upon which the peo- Pple elected him. Drastic End Foreseen. “I, as an American, regret to say that my fellow statesmen of all parties have failed to understand that if they con- tinue the obstruction of the President of the United States, seeking to de- feat anything he inaugurates, for no other reason than that it is from one called Republican, or &s a Republican who oposed the other set of Republi- cans, the end will be that there never will be any measure passed as will mive the people the relief which they voted or which the President was authorized o cxecute. The end will be that the Democratic party, coming into power, will be met legitimately by Republi- cans with the same form of obstruction and destruction that the Republicans had to contend with, and which it in turn retaliates upon its successor. Prove Statesmanship. “I see the present day as the oppor- | tunily for America to prove in her statesmanship an ability and capacity above that thin, that is destroying the other free governments of the world. I see in America and her statesmen the chance to save us from the fate of Rus- sia, Turkey and China, but to which it seems our statesmen are rapidly driv- ing our own Nation. “I now come to the other feature I| feel has been overlooked. The World | ‘War brought new issues unknown to the | generations before that. Remember that the old ta-iff discussion, the old | States’ rights, of national sovereignty disputes and all the prejudices that went with them that kept up an issue between the parties in the past lifetime | are dead. The new generation that came back frc- - the World War brought with them new ideals, and now hold, with their sisters and their brothers, oie-third of all the votes of the United States. These are looking for a place to pledge to their political faith and for principles to follow that they feel are Americ: . and represent the things they profess to have fought for. Let it be seen that these alone by their consolidated vote can carry any presi- dential élection. Their numbers govern the several doubtful States that defeat or elect a President in America. If we do mot_show to these the spirit of a | real democracy under a constitutional republic, together #ith a character xorthy of beir followed, these young [nauonal prohibition law. of a constitutional republic of America. Co-Operation Urged. “What is needed in legislation is that our Representatives and Senators should know they have a right to oppose the President in any matters where his ac- tion is in vielation of what they feel the welfare of the citizens or the Con- stitutional Government of America, but to further obstruct, harass or annoy the | office of President merely to serve some form of political vengeance or the self- service of some organization which has political . objectives apart from the na- tional welfare is a course that is neither nor statesmanship. The tic party now has its oppor- funity to install itself on the basis of national manly statesmanship and dis- close to the public its obedience to those fundamentals of freedom that follow the admonition of George Washington when he instructed his Nation saying that the policy of our Government en- joins the citizen that he is to obey the majority. “I feel we live in & new day, when the peopl> demand that there shall never be obstruction and defeat of the President merely because he is of the ovposing side, and that every aid shall be given him from the party of the other side to carry out the principles which the President was elected to execute. This not because it is the President that is to be given the sup- port, but because it is the people who have_c-dered such. “¥8u ask if prohibition will be 2 na- tional issue. 3 “We can .ot escape prohibition being a most dominant issue in the national campaign. It cannoi subordinate the other issues of people’s needs. ‘The reason that prohibition will persist as an issue is that the belief is that the general period of various crime and general criminal and murderous con- duct is charged to have been the out- growth. of the administration of the It will be pointed out that before the national prohibition law no such orgy of uni- versal crime obtained in America. But the issue will not wholly rest upon the matter of dric* more or less, or tem- perance, more or less, but whether it is the power of the Nation by our theory of national government €o assume the administration over one’s tastes, food, drink, schools and religion. State Question. “Our people have begun to learn that as fast as ou: National Governm. t intrudes itself in the privileges of the home life on the matter of prohibition as to drink, its next step would be as to food, schools, churches, and then upon every measure of private conditions and business pursuit. The issue then will be that we get away from the eigh eenth cmendment as a National Gox ernment function and return the ques- tion of prohibition to each State, to be dealt with by that particular State through its own police force, as to the enforcement of prohibition and to the State license on control of liquor, com- mercial 0. as a beverage, and then the enactmen. Ly Congress of an amend- ment whict. protects each State in whatever course it adopts in its form of prohibition and makes criminal the | invasions of that State by any other State of different policy or the viol tion by any State of the policy and sy tem of the othe State. This would be the end where the Federal Government would exercise its authority. This will leave the question of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the Vol- stee 1 act to be voted on by the States in the election of their Senators and members of th> House. Then the ma- jority of there, elected in their homes, |is sure to represent the sentiment of jour States and become the expressed {will of the people. This issue will be jwith us—taken up by every political party.” Miss Lillie Improving. NEW YORK, March 19 () —Bea- trice Lillie, Engiish comedienne, was re- ported yesterday by her physician to be resting easy following an operation for yeople -l step aside and create & political organization apart from all the present political parties. “I answer you, then, when I say that the only thing that -can defeat the Democratic party is the Democratic party. It cannot be mysterious or doubtful in its position on public issues. Schools Fall to Help, “I am sorry to say there is not one ¢ llege in America that is teaching its students the lines of constitutional dis- tinction between the Government, city, State or Nation, through which many students, being educated, would be able to steach the community o which he Mrs. Gi goes those fundamental divisions and acute appendicitis performed Tuesday | afternoon. Miss Lillie returned Sunday from Florida. The actress, who has recently ap- of Maryland. At Hyattsville the ora- | ‘Marty’ Durkin, ‘Fur’ Sammons and torical winner has been active as a |‘Red’ Barker and any other prisoners member of the base ball team, associate | they want to hear Friday,” sald Warden editor of the school paper, president |Hill. o of the sophomore class and member of | “I want the public to know every- the Glee Club. Following his gradua- | thing about the penitentiary. tion in 1933 he plans to attend college | proved conditions a thousand per cent and to study for the law or ministry, | since I came here in August of 1929.” I've im-) shortly after news of the outbreak was | | recetved. |, The rioting prevented the transfer from the old to the Stateville prison of | Nathan Leopold, co-slayer of Bobby Franks. He was on his way to State- ‘Vllle in a bus with 29 other prisoners, | but was taken back when the cutbreak began. Richard Loeb, who was sent to prison with Leopold for the Franks | - An inquest was held Tuesday into DR. WOODWORTH HEADS | SOCIAL SCIENCE COUNCIL Professor of Psychology at Colum- | bia University Succeeds Dr. | Edwin B. Wilson. 1 By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 19.—Election of Dr. Robert 8. Woodworth, professor of psychology at Columbia University, as | president of the Social Seience Research | Council was announced yesterday. He succeeds Dr. Edwin B. Wilson, profes. sor of vital statistics, Harvard Univer- | sity. Dr. -James T. Shotwell, Columbia, | will join the staff of the council to di-| rect ‘an enlarged program of research | in international relations. | Other officers are: Prof. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Harvard University, chair- man; Prof. William F. Ogburn, Univer- | sity of Chicago, viee chairman; Prof.| Henry M. Bates, University of Michigan, secretary, and Prof, Wesley C. Mitchell, | Columbia_University, treasurer. | Prof. Wilson has been appointed chairman of a committee to plan the social science exhibits at ‘the Chicago | World's Falr in 1933. N SHIP BLAST KILLS ONE ABERDEEN Wash., March 19 (®).— Wireless messages received here today from the Norweglan motor ship George ‘Washington said a boller in the ship | had exploded, killing one man and in- | juring another. 3 | The ship was about 10 miles off | Grays Harbor. A physician was sent out on a pilot boat. Extent of the damage to the ship was not given in the messages and no names were men- tioned. Fire Caused by Cleaning Fluid. Explosion of a small quantity of cleaning fluld in the home of Charles Baltzell, 1314 Sixth street southwest, early last night resulted in a fire which necessitated calling upon firemen for assistance. Miss Stella Nagel, 24 years old, who was using the fluid which ignited, was slightly burned about her face and hands and hospital treat- ment was refused. The fire did $35 | the slaying of Albert Yearbeck and|mur o George Jakowanis, convicts, during che'pm:,:.r 2 ‘ilk‘: P o ”;;r??:ns%flfixx; riot. Irene Yearbeck, sister of the dead | estimate it is 40 per cent overcrowded man, leaped upon guard Frank Cutchin | A new building is under construction. as he was testifying. Warden Hill notified Cook County “You murderer,” she cried again and | authorities early today that he was un- again as she struck the guard and | able to receive the 40 convicts due from | knocked him to the floor. She was| Chicago. He said there was no room finally overpowered and carried strug- | in the old prison for them, since officials gling from the room. gesterday were unable to move the grolip of convicts from the old to the new All Guards Targets. penitentiaries because of the riot. The fact brought out at the inquest| Any further disturbance, which the for the first time that the two convicts | authorities belleved might have de- were killed and one wounded while| veloped at breakfast time at the old hurling missiles at Guard Charles Hill, | prison, was believed by them to have and not, as was previously announced, [-been averted by the show of arms of while attacking Capt. B. A. Davenport, | the guardsmen, two companies of whom will be presented to the Legislative In- [lined up at the prison gate to give vestigating Committee. newspaper photographers a chance to It was at first supposed that the con- | take their pl%turea. While they were victs were directing all their rage at|standing at aftention a group of State Capt. Davenport, who always presided | highway police marched by. All of this at mess, but it was disclosed at the | Was in plain sight of the prisoners from inquest that all the guards were the | their cell windows, target of plates and cups and not Dav- | _While breakfast, consisting of oatmeal enpott alane, and brand, was served, two companies e it ikt of militia ‘and 50 policemen remained | e concealed about the prison yard and | routine proceeded as usual. To all out. ward appearances 680 prisoners remain- ing comparatively at liberty in the old prison were marching and eating just | as they always have done. The march into the old prison dining hall, where | the officials had looked for trouble, was | orderly, BAKERY FIRE PUT OUT Shop's Luncheon Patrons Keep Eat- | ing as Blaze Is Subdued. Wearing gas masks to protect them from the dense smoke, members of rescue squad No. 1 helped extinguish a | blaze today at noon in a basement at | the rear of the Federal Bake Shop, 1008 of Tennessee, which failed last Fall, | F street. The fire originated near the was a subsidiary of Caldwell & Co. | heating plant and under the bakery Numerous witnesses, meanwhile, were | ovens. Several hundred dollars’ damag« North American News- Alitance.) BANKER CALDWELL’S CASE TO BE PROSECUTED Nashville Judge Authorizes Action on Charges of Receiving Deposits Illegally. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 19— Judge Chester K. Hart today authorized Attorney General Richard M. Atkinson to prosecute Rogers Caldwell, president of Caldwell & Co., investment banking house now in receivership on two, charges of receiving deposits in an in-| solvent_bank. ‘The bank was not named. The bank filing into the waiting room as grand jury” witnesses. ‘They_included former | officials of Caldwell & Co. and State | officials. ‘ Attorney General Atkinson explained that in cas 5 where the attorney general | was done by smoke and water, Patrons of the shop continued with their Juncheons while F street filled with fire apparatus. Traffic on the thoroughfare was held up for a short time. The alarm was turned in by wishes to prosecute, but finds no one | Sergt. Benjamin Suls, who from the willing to be listed as prosecutor the | back windown of an Army recruiting procedure is for the attorney general | office, where he to ask authority of the court to prose- damage. ared in vaudeville on Broadway, will one of the stars in “The Third Little Show,” which will be produced in the Spring. Card Party Postponed. CLARENDON, Wa., March 19 (Spe- clal) —Announcement is made that the card g:ny planned by Mary Washing- ton Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, for Friday evening at the horhe of Mr. and . Groome Eareckson in Lyon Village, bhas been indefinitely postponed. Bound on the first leg of his trf the presidential secretariat. v cute ex-officio. to the Carribean, President Hoover got away last night. taken at Union Station are, left to right: Secretary of War Hurley, Secretary of Interior Wilbur vas on duty, at 520 Tenth street, saw smoke pouring from the basement. President Says Adieu to Desk ‘With him in the picture Upper: Aerial view of the new Stateville Prison at Joliet, Ill, where 1,800 convicts set fire to the interfor of the, prison and ran riot for an hour before State | militia quelled the disturbance. ‘Warden Henry C. Hill, who has ‘increased guards and taken other precautionary measures since the recent outbreaks at the prison. Rev. George Whitmeyer, chaplain of the prison, who was accused of Lower left: right: Lower fomenting dissatisfaction among the prisoners and asked to resign. —Associated Press Photos. |HOOVER BANISHES CARES ON VACATION IN CARIBBEAN SEA (Continued Prom First Page.) _ to accompany the President on this trip, rode with him. In another launch following were Lawrence Richey, the President’s secre- tary; Capt. Joel T. Bocne, the Presi- dent’s physician; Col. Campbell B. Hodges and Capt. Russell Train, mili- tary and naval aides, respectively. Then followed a flock of launches, carrying the 18 newspaper correspondents and 10 cameramen, who will be in the party throughout the vacation trip. Receives Presidential Salute, As Mr. Hoover reached the Arizona, he received the presidential salute from guns of the vessel and was then “piped over the side” in true Navy fashion, this being followed by the playing of “Hall to the Chief” and “The Star Spangled ‘Banner,” by the ship's band. is formality, with all the officers and crew standing at attention on deck, pre- sented an impressive picture. Capt. Freeman after greeting the President when he stepped on deck ac- companied him to the quarters to be used by him. These consist of a state room with a brass bed, a bath room and a private reception and dining room. This suite was designed for a fleet divi- sion commander and is arranged and fitted in a way to afford the Executive every comfort and convenience. The suite is located on the starboard side of the forecastle deck. It will be upon this deck that the President will spend most of his time sitting or walking while he talks with his vacation companions. The President has brought along medicine and volley balls and inasmuch as all of his personal companions on the trip are members of his so-called medicine ball cabinet, his customary morning workout will be indulged in every day. It has not been decided yet on which deck the President and his fellow exercisers will play. Another form of exercise and deck recreation to be indulged in on the trip is deck tennis. For entertainment in the evening there will be sound pictures for the presi- dential party. H. D. Johnson, Navy electrician who has been operating mo- tion picture machines at the White House and all presidential trips for the past seven years, has been brought along to show the pictures. President Ready for Breakfast. ‘The President and his party lost little time after being shown to their living quarters before partaking of breakfast. He had slept well on the train ride from Washington, and this, along with his early arising and contact with the sea air, gave him a great appetite. He made no secret of the fact. His spirits were running high, and every incident of the beginning of his well earned, though brief, vacation indicated that fullest hopes and anticipations were to be realized. ‘The Arizona headed for the sea through the dredge channel, and when Capes Charles and Henry were passed, the big ship turned her nose to the south and headed for the Caribbean. Despite her 34,000 tons displacement, the Arizona has a speed of 21 knots, but according to the schedule for this voyage the average speed will probably be about 16 knots. The first port of call for the voyage is Ponce, the prin- cipal city and harbor on the south side of the island of Porto Rico. This famous Caribbean port which boasts of a history dating back to the fifteenth century will be Teached Sun- day night. The President and his party will await until early Monday morning before going ashore where they will be formally welcomed by Col. Theodore Roosevelt, governor of the island, who will be the President’s host during the remainder of his stay. Soon after land- ing the party will be motored across the island to San Juan, the capital, and where the night ‘and next day will be spent. There will be other motor rides to afford the President an opportunity to make inspections and to see every- thing of interest. Wants First-Hand Knowledge. Mr. Hoover wants to make a first- hand study of conditions and to de- termine just what can be done to help the people of the island and to improve economic conditions. Besides these inspection trips he will receive various individuals and ups at the memor's palace, wh picturesque ding was once occlipied by Ponce de Leon, for the purpose of learning all he can about the problems of the island. There will be a large dinner and reeegruon at the governor's palace in the President’s honor on the first night of his visit. The President will spend the greater part of Wednesday at St. Thomas, the capital of the Virgin Islands, about 40 miles distant from Ponce, where he will confer with Gov. Pearson, who took d Lawrence Richey of —-Associated Press Photo. + up his new duties as executive of this insular possession several days ago. 1 Peggy Ann Can Talk To Her Grandfather Despite Ocean Trip By the Associated Press. If Peggy Ann, at Asheville, N. C., wants to say hello to her Grandfather Hoover as he speeds South to the Caribbean, all she will have to do is say it. Her father, Herbert Hoover, jr., can supply the rest through radio, as two special receiving sets, adapted for either voice or code, were put aboard the battle- ship Arizona yesterday, and he has the sending apparatus. There will be a motor ride into the country for the purpose of inspection. Late that day the Arizona will start on her homeward journey, reaching Hampton Roads during the forenoon of Monday, March 30. The President's special train will be waiting on & siding at Old Point, and Washington will be reached that night. This voyage of the Arizona is pri- marily intended to serve as a “shake- down” cruise. It was placed in full commission only three weeks ago, after having completed a 21 months’ mod- ernization at a cost of $8,000,000. It now ranks with the most formidable fighting ships in the world. The Ari- zona, however, is in the veteran class of the American Navy, having been built 15 years ago. She is fitted as a divi- sion flagship and has quarters available for 90 officers and 1,244 enlisted men. It is 608 feet in length and has a beam of 97 feet. 11 JAPANESE INJURED IN POLITICAL CLASH Police Also Hurt in Curbing Tem- onstration Against Government Near Diet Building. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, March 19.—Eleven partic- ipants in an anti-government demon- stration were injured in a clash with police and several officers also were hurt when they attacked the demonstrators near the Parliament buildings today. ‘The demonstration was arranged by the Belyukai, or minority, party as a prelude to intrcduction in the Diet to- morrow of a motion of non-confidence in the Minseito (majority) cabinet of Premier Hamaguchi. ‘The demonstrators were attempting to reach the Diet after marching through the streets carrying banners reading “Dissolve the corrupted Diet” and “Overthrow the reactionary Hamaguchi cabinet.” About 140 demonstrators were arrested. Simultaneously, the Social-Democratic and Proletarian parties held mass meet- ings and parades and endeavored to march to the Dietdo present petitions, but like the Seiyukai sympathizers were unable to get within two blocks of the building, which was guarded by 6,000 policemen. ALUMNI WILL MEET Michigan U. Men to Hear Fries and Prof. Kinsman. Prof. Delos O. Kinsman of American University and Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, U. 8. A, retired, will speak at dan annual dinner of the University of Michigan Club of Washington at the Mayflower Hotel Saturday night. The feature of the dinner to be a symposium on Russia and Communism, according to Dr. James G. Cumming, president of the club. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Epintner, assistant. March, “Loyal Comrades”.Biankenburg Overture, “Promotheus’ . Beethoven Suite of serenades ......Victor Herbert “Spanish.” Cuban.” Y Irish selection, "TWe.Eme Waltz song, “Forever” ...4,. Fisale, “He's Not Worth Yol “The Star Spangled B ¥ WOMEN.T0 DRAFT OWN DRY REPORT Wickersham Statement Re- garded as Incomplete With- out Feminine Views. By the Associated Press. Criticlsm of the Wickersham Com- mission’s prohibition report as failing to represent the viewpoint of Amer- ican women was made today by Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, chalrman of _the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement. In announcing the formation of an unofficial National Law Enforcement Commission, composed of 20 women, Mrs. Peabody, who recently moved to Orlando, Fla., from Massachusetts be- cause of the vote against prohibition in the latter State, sald the new group would meet in Washington from April 10 to 12 and would submit a composite report to President Hoover. Women’s Stand Important. “While the decision of the Wicker- sham Commission was in the main gratifying,” Mrs. Peabody said, in & statement issued here, “there was a wide disagreement among members as to the remedy for improving enforce- ment in certain centers. “It did not present the woman's view- point, which is an important one. Women, through their homes and chil- dren, were the greatest sufferers under the old regime, and any study of pro- hibition is incomplete without certain definite facts, hitherto untouched, which these women will present to the Nation.” Announcement, that a Woman's Law Enforcement Convention would be held here from April 10 to 12, to be at- tended by women leaders from various 5 of the country, was made yester- day by Mrs, Peabody. Indorsed by Wickersham. She said the convention had been in- dorsed by Chairman Wickersham as “an excellent plan.” Among those named by Mrs. Peabody as having accepted appointment to the ‘Woman's Law Enforcement Commission were: Mrs. Willlam Pattangall, Maine; Mrs. Richard Cabot, Massachusetts; Mrs. Irving Fisher, Connecticut; Mrs. Percy Walden, Connecticut; Mrs. Richard Aldrich, New York; Mrs. Gifford Pin- Pennsylvania; Mrs. Willlam A. Montgomery, New York; Mrs. Clement Shaver, West Virginia; Mrs. Walter Brookings, Virginia; Mrs. Catharine ‘Waugh McCullough, Illinois; Mrs. Ar- Ross, Texas; Mrs. Smith, Missouri; Dr. Jennie Callfas, Nebraska, and Mrs. J, C. Urquhart, California, PLANERS CONSIDER NEW PARK SITES UNOFFICIALLY Tour of Inspection, Expected To- day, May Be Canceled Due to Bad Weather. Land purchases for prospective park and playground sites, on which Uncle Sam officially has nothing to say until the deal is closed, came up for con- sideration before the National Capital Park and Planning Commission today, before its members got down to the regular order of business. quired and those in prospect, schuled, for this afte oy Inaugurating its three-day March meeting this morning, the commission faced an agenda full of projects of interest to Washington in the immedi- ate future. DR. WILLIAM TINDALL, 87, CONTINUES AT D. C. POST; Civil War Veteran Has Served City Since 1868—Author of Several Books. Dr. William Tindall, chief of District’s Bureau of Information at g District Building, was reeeiving cone gratulations today on his eighty-seven birthday anniversary. Dr. tered the District service in 1868 and conuqv‘ uently in his sixty-third year service. After serving through the Civil Wi during which he was wounded M:: Dr. Tindall became secretary to the Mayor of Washington in 1868 and has served Washington under three forms of Government. Dr. Tindall remains on the job, ale though he is 17 years beyond the retire- ment age, by virtue of a special act of Congress. He is the author of several works on physics and local and takes long walks and indian club exercises daily. FLYER WHO RESCUED NOBILE IS KILLED IN PLUNGE INTO SEA (Continued From First Page.) water with such speed that he met death with the others, A score of boats rushed to the scene of the disaster. Col. Maddalena was piloting the Sa- vola-Marchetti 64 seaplane over the harbor of Pisa when it plunged. Col. Maddalena was 35 and Lieut. Cecconi was 26. The two and Second Lieut. Giuseppe Damonte all flew in ;henslame plane with Gen. Balbo to razil, Maj. Maddalena and Lieut. Cecconl set a non-refueling endurance record in She air of 67 hours and 15 minutes last une. Maj. Maddalena, who was 35, was al: ready famous in Italy for his great .!glar(‘ in the rescue of the Italia sur- vivors. The major had often visited the United States on sailing ships. He was a master mariner before he turned to aviation. He also was a former holder of the world record for a distance flight over a closed circuit. He had intended to fiy from Rome to New York this Summer by way of the Azores. Lieut. Cecconi was 26 years old. Noonday Lenten Service New York Avenue Presbyterian Church 12:20 to 1:00 O’Clock Speaker This Week Dr. Carl C. 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