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- RADIO COMPETITION| “HIT BY PUBLISHERS Report to Association Cites Mistake in Early Attitude of Press. By the Associated Pre: NEW YORK, April 22.—Radio was| labeled a “formidible competitor” of | newspapers by a committee of the Amer- | ican Newspaper Publishers’ Association today. A report was submitted by the Radio Committee for action by the asso- ciation. Citing statistics to show the ratio of radio advertising to newspaper adver- tising had increased from nothing in 1926 to 59.2 per cent in the first quar- ter of 1931 and that 107 leading radio advertisers had cut their newspaper | lineage from 200,000,000 lines in 1929 to | 175,000,000 lines in 1930, the report said: “The conclusion is inescapable that a | large part of the 25,000,000 lineage loss of newspapers is the price paid by them | for the privilege of over-exploiting radio.” Competes in Main Branches. “Radlo competes with newspapers to- day in news, editorials, features and ad- vertising and when you have namcd those four you have about encompassed the whole newspaper,” said the report. “Where was the great mistake of newspaper men' and the early broad- casters who figured that radio would never be a direct advertising medium? They were mot wrong in their analysis ot human nature. The American mind does resent Laving anything forced onit. * * * The mistake must have been in not recognizing the power of the press to popularize radio even to the extent that it would carry direct advertising. “In considering future radio com- tion we must look at it in two wa: t, radio continuing to develop un: regulated, unrestrained, nurtured by the press, assisted with free publicity, receiving free news for which we pay vast sums of money and erwise aided in its growth in every conceivable manner by newspapers. “Second, radio properly regulated, subject to the same laws of lottery and other Federal restrictions as newspapers, subject to the same restrictions in plain- 1y labeling advertising as such, radio bearing its own burden of the news- gathering expense, and radio recognized by the newspapers for what it is, name- 1y, a formidable competitor in news, en- tertainment, editorials, features and ad- vertising. . Similar to Rail-Bus Situation. *1f radio of the future is to develop under the first plan, then it will prob- ably compete with newspapers in about the way that busses and trucks are now competing with railroads. The railroads ridiculed this new competition in its early stages, and today it presents their greatest problem. “During the ly years when radio was & novel thing it was perhaps right to exploit it and tell about it in every ! detail. Today, however, radio has taken its place as & major industry, and there 1s no more reason for newspapers to ex- ploit it than for radio to exploit news- “There are at least two other indus- tries which are, or should be, watching with bated breath to see if newspapers act to protect themselves,” the report concluded. “They are the newsprint industry, many of whose leading units are now operating at 40 to 50 per cent capacity, and the railroads, which would hardly welcome a drop of another million or so tons of newsprint freight on top of their present difficulties.” vention in the absence of Presi- arry Chandler, who could not attend the meeting because of illness, Other reports submitted were on the freedom of the press, measurement of ad linage, radio-telegraph jportance to publishers. ‘Two Middle Western editors and one Southern man led discussions of prob- lems peculiar to newspapers in cities ‘with less than 100,000 population at a special session of the convention. Sports News Less Popular. A. M. Clapp of the Clinton (Iowa) Herald detailed a survey on reader interest which he had taken of nine Metropolitan and four smaller papess in his State. He sald sport news was not so popular as commonly believed, while emphasis on radio news dependea on the paper and how it reproduced it. Five per cent of women and 29 per cent of men were interested in sport news, his survey showed. Editorial pages were read by 18 per cent of women and 25 per cent of men readers of metropolitan papers and 33 per cent of women and 16 per cent of men Teaders of smaller papers. Stock tables held interest of 7 per cent women and 18 per cent men in larger papers and 3 per cent and 25 per cent in the smaller papers. Comic strips were popular and half of the women were interested in department store advertising, he said. Decries Overexpansion. John S. Parks of the Fort Smith, Ark.. Times-Record attacked efforts of small papers to expand_circulation to large territories. He sald they should gonfine activities to a limited trading E. H. Harris of the Richmond, Ind., Palladium went into problems of the business side of publishing. It was dis- closed that a minority of publishers had cut wages during the year, but that many had reduced the width of news- | Paper columns to save on newsprint. Six leading publishers from as many sections of the country predict that| the worst of the economic depression is over. | The publishers believe that from now | on the trend will be upwartl, even! though progress may be slow. | Sees Gain in Employment. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas| said unemployment in the Southwest- ern States had been materially reduced in the past 60 days. “It s true” he said, “that prices for farm products are very low, with the wheat growers suffering especially, but there is some indication of an up- ward trend. I am very hopeful for the future.” Unemployment in New England is “gradually adjusting itself,” said Charles H. Taylor of the Boston Globe Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta | Constitution, said the Southern textile industry “led the way out of the 1922 depression and it is doing the same thing now.” Georgia and neighboring States have prospects of the “best farm crop in 20 years.” he said undoubtedly are improving.” i Noyes Sees Improvement. Frank B. Noyes, publisher of The | ‘Washington Etar and president of Asso- cated Press. said: “We are on the u grade, but the improvement will be all but imperceptible for some time to come.” Unemployment in the lowgr Missis- sippi Valley, particularly in Loulsiana, is “rapidly 'disappearing” and things generally are “in pretty good shape,” sald Robert Ewing, publisher of the New Orleans y States and the| Shreveport Times, Good ciope In’ Loulsians this year “make the future seem bright,” he added, while New Orleans expects to reap the benefits of increased trade down the Mississippl, John Cowles of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, predicted a slow but sure recovery. lowa was not 5o hard hit by unemployment as the in- dustrial States, he sald. | i { Capt. Ian Fraser, blind, former member of British Parliament and head of St. Dunstan’s Hostel, organization ‘Tomb of Unknown Soldier. Zealand. for blind, London, placing wreath on With him, Cuth A. MacKenzie of Auckland, New HOOVER STUDYING NEEDS OF BUREAUS Politics Adjourned, He Probes Administrative Affairs for Improvement. By the Associated Press. President Hoover i= making a_ thor- ough study of administrative machinery of the Federal Government. ‘With Congress out of session several months for the first time in his two years of office, the Chief Executive has turned his attention to administrative affairs, ‘The inspection is being conducted mostly for his own information, but there is a possibility he may discover the need of legislation to bring several bureaus up to date. If so, he will make his recommendations to Congress in December. ‘The President is not conducting his inquiry primarily through cabinet mem- bers, but is calling in bureau and com- | mission heads from all over the city. Cabinet members are consulted at times, but most of the work is being done through the “little cabinet,” as Assistant Secretaries and bureau chiefs are called. One of the reasons Mr. Hoover de- cided he could not make a trip through the national parks and to his home at Palo Alto, Callf., was that he needed the time for this survey. On week ends at the Rapidan Camp he takes with him various Government officials, and after the day's fishing is over they sit around the fire and talk over problems the guests happen to have in their bureaus or commissions. Senate Majority Leader Watson's statement several weeks ago that “poli- ties is adjourned,” has been taken liter- ally at the White House. Except for a few scattered conferences with Senators or Representatives concerning local pa- tronage, the President has not held a political conference since the breakfast gather: Senator’s assertion. The few Republic- an committeemen and committee em- ployes, who have visited the White House during the past several weeks have conferred almost always with Wal- ter Newton, one of the President’s sec- ref 9 In addition to his study of the de- partments, Mr. Hoover is devoting con- | siderable time {0 preparation of speeches he will deliver between now and the middle of June. The first will be before the International Chamber of Commerce here May 4. Work on it is almost com- pleted. EMBREY CAPTURED BELOW ALEXANDRIA AFTER PRISON BREAK (Continued From First Page) where guards shot at him as he dis- appeared in the woods behind the en- campment. It was believed at that time that the shots had found their mark. The quartet destroyed all telephone communication to ashington before they escaped from the institution yes- | terday. Officials of the jail were forced to journey half a mile to a neighboring hoise to flash a lookout for the escaped prisoners to Washington police. Robbed Bank of $4,000. Officials were mcre alarmed over the escape of Embrey than any of the others. Embrey was known to be dan. gerous, and had proved his daring ey eral months ago when with two othe youths he held a Mount Vernon Sav ings Bank messenger at pistol point and escaped with $4,000 in cash. At that time he slipped through the hands of the law and was at large for more than a week, during which time he spent the better part of the loot. He was captured after the hold-up by Detective Dennis Murphy of police headquarters, who had a “tip” that Embrey was to meet his girl at Ten- nessee avenue and C street northeast. Caught With Girl. Murphy waited at the intersection un- til Embrey drove up to the curb_and then leaped on the side of the machine. The youthful bandit leader reached for his gun, but the detective had the draw and took him to custody. He was later sentenced to serve 14 years in jail on several counts of robbery, including the hold-up of the bank messenger. At the time the 14-year sentence was read to him Embrey shouted to Detec- tive Murphy, “If I ever get out, I'll kill you” That remark was sufficient to warrant hope for his early capture. In the woods near Accotink. Va., bloodhounds located William Wright and Robert Wells, two of the escaped fugitives. That was about half an hour after the “escape sirens” first sounded their warning of the quartet’s escape. Wright was serving 18 months on a “Conditions | charge of grand larceny and Wells was | sentenced to 5 years for robbery. Literary Thief Loose. Lawrence Sullivan, fourth man who fled, gained notoriety here several months ago as the “literary burglar.” | He was convicted of robbing books from the libraries of several prominent per- sons here. ullivan, officlals of the fail sald to- , haz not been seen since the escape was made. It is believed, however, that he is still in the woods near Accotink and a seeond search of the woods in that vicinity will be made late today. he fout prisoners were at work in the garage at the Lorton Reformatory when the escape was planned. They leaped into Bischoff’s automobile, raced to the Richmond-Washington Highway and had proceeded about half a mile before a tire blew out. Forty guards worked vesterday and today in search of Embrey and a crew of 46 men will take their places tonight a3 the search for Sullivan is’ continued. formly . which resulted in the Indiana | BLIND DELEGATES VISITWHITE HOUSE [Helen Keller Takes First Air ‘Ride to Attend—Alex- andria on Program. A reception at the White House by | President and Mrs. Hoover today at | 12:45 o'clock was a highlight of today’s | program for delegates to the World Conference on Work for the Blind, which met in New York, now visiting this_city. Following the reception at the White | House, the delegates went to Alexan- dria, Va., where they were the lunch- eon guests of the Alexandria Chamber | of Commerce at Gadsby's Tavern. Sub- sequently they left for a tour of Mount ‘Vernon. Members of the diplomatic corps from | the various embassies and legations here | were in attendance at the lunchcon in | Alexandria. The group here is headed by Helen Keller, whose accomplishments, in spite of impediments, are known throughout the world. Miss Keller, with her teach- ler, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, and her secretary, Miss Polly Thomson, remained |at the White House for luncheon with | President and Mrs, Hoover and were to join the delegation again this after- noon. Miss Keller has just added to her | many cther experiences by the thrill | of her first airplane ride. “At home in {the clouds,” in her own words, Miss | Keller soared among them for the first time when she flew from Newark to Washington for her luncheon at the | White House. | Sensitive to Vibration, | Sensitive nerves painted the picture of the flight for her, she said, as va- riations in speed were transmitted by vibrations in the craft. She informed friends with her they were landing when the motor died down and the en- gines idled. Miss Keller's friends de- scribed scenes below to her by tapping ;!tlhm messages on her hand as they | flew. | “I felt free and unafraid,” Miss Kel- ler said, adding that she was “perfectly at home in the clouds” and that she | got a “great kick” out of the trip. There are some 110 persons from 37 nations in the delegation here. Of these somewhat less than 50 per cent |are blind. The remainder, with the blind member, have long been promi- nent in work for the blind in various organizations and groups throughout the world. Prior to the reception at the White House today, the itinerary of the dele- gates included a trip to the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind on | H street, to the National Library for |the Blind and to the Pan-American | Union Building, where they were re- |celved by a special committee, headed {by Dr. L. S. Rowe, director of the | union. Spend Busy Day. | . Arrangements for the visit to the | latter building, the trip to Mount Ver- | non and Alexandria were made through | Representative Sol Bloom of the George | Washington Bicentennial Commission | and Dorothea E. Jennings of the Braille | department of the organization. | This morning Capt. Iran Fraser, for- | mer member of the British Parliament and now head of the St. Dunstan's Hos- tel for the Blind, a leading organization for the work for the bling in England, visited Arlington Cemetery and placed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The delegation will leave Washington tonight for Pittsburgh, from where after | & visit there they are to go to Cleveland, | later to Buffalo, and Niagara Falls. | All delegates seemed in a happy frame |of mind as they journeyed about the | National Capital and nearby Virginia, the totally blind members of the party seemingly enjoying the trip equally with | those who have perfect sight. Given Official Welcom The dclegates were met Union | Station upon their arrival yesterday | afternoon by a_ group headed by Dr. | Luther H. Reichelderfer, chairman of | the Board of District Commissioners, who officially welcomed them in behalf of the District. | Others in the group included Dr. L. S. Rowe, director of the Pan-American { Union, and representatives of various groups and organizations. These per- sons included Miss Etta Josselyn Grif- | fin, Miss Mary S. Lawrence, Miss Adelia | Hoyt, Mrs. M. Nichols, Miss Henrietta Metz>rott, H. W. R. Miles, Mrs, George | Morris, Mrs. A. Kaufman, M. D. Rosen- berg, Willlam Flather, B, L. Frisble, Representative Sol Bloom, H. C. Cor- | pening and Col. E. L. Mattice. || Those who volunteered as interpre- ters for the delegates were: Dr. Ste- phanie Hertz of the National Catholic School of Social Workers, Miss Tinto of the Italian embassy, A, C. Carter of the Pan-American Union, Prancoise Lemon- nier of the French legation and Dr. B, Angelinovitch of the Jugoslav legation, |COSTELLO POST TO AID | POLICE GROUP’S BALL ‘Leginn Marde Gras Here June 6 | Will Get Full Co-operation | on Ticket Sale. | Full co-operation in promotion of | the sale of tickets to the Mardi Gras | ball to be staged here, June 6, under | auspices of the Washington Police Post, American Legion, was pledged last night by the Vincent B. Costello Post, At & meeting at the District Building. Sale of tickets by members of the police post is prohibited by a police rule. The Costello Post protested that the restriction is not being applied uni- to all members of the farce, NEW SPANISHENVOY Internationalist and Writer Chosen by New Government for U. S. Post. By the Associated Press. MADRID, April 22.—The Spanish Re- publics Ambassador to the United States will be Salvador de Madariaga, scholar, internationalist, writer of note, former League of Nations official and at present the Alfenso XIII professor of Spanish studies at Oxford University, England. Don Salvador de Madariaga’s name heads a long list of diplomatic appoint- ments published today by Alejandro Lerroux, minister of state in the new republican government. Most of those appointed are jcurnalists and intellec- tuals prominent in the republican movement. Lecturing in Mexico. De Madariaga, who at present is in Mexico City delivering a series of lec- tures, will replace Alejandro Padilla y Bell, representative of the monarchist government. De Madariaga s of an aristocratic Spanish_family of Corunna and is 44 years old. He married an English- woman, the former Constance Archi- bald, and is the father of two daugh- ters. He is tri-lingual, speaking and writing French, Spanish and English with equal fluency. Among his works known in America are “Disarmament,” “The Sacred Giraffe” “Englishmen, Frenchmen and Spaniards” and nu- merous magazine articles. His hobby is “change of work.” Resigns Geneva Post. From 1922 to 1927 De Madarlaga was head of the disarmament section of the League of Nations secretariat, resign- ing shortly after Spain withdrew from League activity. He is known as a pronounced internationalist in political thought and has acquired a wide repu- tation for the erudition and Wit of his writings, Among the other appointments an- nounced are: Ambassadors — Paris, Dr. Gregorio Maranon; London, Ramon Perez Ayala; Berlin, Jcse Ortega y Gasset: Buenos Alres, Jose Martinez Ruls (writes under | pseudonym Azorin); Chile, Luis Jim- |enez Asua; Havana, America Castro; Lisbon, Dr. Miguel Unamuno, and Rome, Luis Zulueta. Ministers plenipotentiary—Bern, Leo- |poldo Palacios; Athens, Luis Araquis- tain: Prague, Rafael de Altamira: The | Hague, Julian Besteiro: Oslo, Julio Al- varez del Vayo; Stockholm, Diego Hi- | dalgo; Mexico ' City, Gordon Ordaz: | Montevidio, Antonio Jaen; Lima, Andres Overjero; Rio de Janeiro, Lorenzo Lu- | zurriaga; Caracas, Juan Mantecon, and Toklo, Federico Gracia Sanchez. ALFONSO'S FUNDS SHORT. | Deposed Monarch, in London, Has Wealth Tied Up in Spain. By the Assoclated Press. | people gathered outside the Hotel Cla- ridge at dawn today, gazing at the win- dows of the apartment of the deposed Spanish King, Alfonso, in the hope of catching & glimpse of him. He arrived here yesterday from Paris for a week’s business visit. At the hotel he was said to be early estir, taking breakfast m his room with the Duke of Miranda, his chamberlain and faithful companion, and sending out for the London papers and such from Spain as were available. Early callers left their cards, but were not admitted to his suite. ‘The London Daily Mall in a story which is said was inspired by Alfonso himself stated that the deposed monarch was far from well off financially, and that he had invested the surplus of his income as King in Spanish utility con- cerns, a practice which was now prov- ing of considerable disadvantage. By noon the crowd outside the hotel had grown to large proportions and po- lice had to shove a way through for Al- fonso when, accompanied by the Duke of Miranda, he left for an unannounced destination in an automobile loaned by Lord Londonderry. Considerable police protection was accorded the dethroned monarch and officers scrutinized and questioned all who sought admission to the fashion- sble West End Hotel where he had lo- cated himself in London. Son Reaches Paris. ‘Two Labor members of the House of Commons today gave notice of their intention to ask the home secretary, J. R. Clynes, whether Alfonso had asked or would be given the right of sanctuary. The Infante Don Juan, third son of Alfonso, and regarded by many as heir presumptive of the Spanish throne, ar- rived in Paris from Naples today. He was accompanied by a Spanish naval officer in civilian clothes. At the time of his father's difficul- ties last week the Infante was in the nav 1school at Cadiz. He was taken to Gibraltar, where he caught the Roma {to Italy, proceeding by rail to rejoin | his family in France. ROYAL TITLES BANNED, Eliminates Rank of King, Queen and Princes. MADRID, April 22 (#).—Spanish royal titles hereafter are taboo in Spain. | A government decree forbids referring to Alfonso as Rey, or King; Victoria | Eugenta as Reina, or Queen, and the princes and princesses as infantes and infantas. Provincial governors have been in- |structed to prevent use of the tltles |in_newspapers of their districts. Nearly all the exiled royal family | have other titles which are permissible, | however. For instance, Alfonso is trav- | eling under the pame Duke of Toledo. | Republic {DIAMOND IS JAILED ON TORTURE CHARGE Truckman With Cider Says “Legs” and Gang Beat Him on Back Road in Catskills. | By the Associated Press | CATSKILL, N. Y, April 22—Jack Diamond, who has been marked by the pistol bullets of gang gunfire and | whose activities have intrigued the in- terest of police of two continents, sat in a county jail today awaiting release from a charge of assault. Behind this charge stood an allega- tion of beating and torture in the dead of night on a lonely mountain back road. The charge, made by a Greene County grand jury, constituted the first definite complaint against the gangster since he moved into his Acra road house st year. Supreme Court Justice F. Walter Bliss issued a bench warrant yester- day which brought the gang leader before him to answer for the story of Grover Parks, truckman, that Diamond, his lleutenant, Jim Dalton, and others, beat -and tortured him because he re- fused to give information concerning a load of cider which he was carrying on_his truck. Diamond asked that he be freed on bail, and was told that the amount of ball depended on his record. He was held pending receipt of information as to his record. ted in the “British Who's Who" as a LONDON, April 22.—Small groups of | Above: right not park. 315000 I NOTES | Attorney for Rheem Fails to Bar Statement at Cred- itors’ Meeting. (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) Notes aggregating $815,000, obtained by & released first deed of trust on the Shoreham Office Building, are still out- standing, it was brought out at a meet- ing of creditors of Swartzell, Rhzem & Hensey Co. this afternoon. This Information was given by E. Hil- ton Jackson, an attorney representing some of the note holders. He said his information was obtained from the books of the bankrupt firm. Leon Tobriner, attorney for Edmund D. Rheem, executive vice president of the concern, objected to Jackson's state- ment on the ground it was irregular. His motion to strike was overruled, however, by Referee Fred J. Eden. It was also brought out that a $1.350.000 first trust, covering two build- ings of the Westchester Apartment, had been released. It was indicated, how- ever, that a relatively smalier number of these notes are now outstanding. Admits Equities Traded. Attorney George E. Sullivan received an affirmative answer from Rheem when he asked if a trade in equities had fig- ured in the sale of the Shoreham Build- ing by Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co. to the Shoreham Investment Corpora- tion. Rheem said his company’s equity in the Shoreham Building was traded for that owned by the Shoreham Invest- ment Corporation in the Hurley-Wright Building. It was brought out last week that Secretary of War Patrick J. Hur- ley is a stockholder in the Shoreham Investment Corporation. “Do you recall that Hurley was re- quired to pay the difference in cash between $2,000,000 in new trusts on the Shoreham 'Building and the original $2,250,000 first trust?” Sullivan asked. Rheem replied that Hurley paid $150,- 000 in cash. He said this money went through a title company into a special account in the Riggs Bank. Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co., he testified, agreed to relieve Hurley of paying the other $100.000. Rheem explained this amounted to paying a discouny for closing the deal at that time. Otherwise, he said, the later when real estate market conditions might have been even more prejudicial to the interests of the note holders. a practice of requiring a completion bond from builders who came to them for loans. These are cash bonds to be forfeited if the bullding is not com- pleted by the specified time. The attorney was attempting to show that the interest of the note holders on the Shoreham Building might have been better protected had Rheem brought about a foreclosure sale at that time, looking to the builders, Harry Wardman and Thomas Bones, for any deficiency that might result. Holds Outright Sale Wiser. “Could you have bought the building in_ yourself at a foreclosure sale and held your father-in-law, Harry Ward- man, and Bones liable for the $1,000,- 000 'deficlency?” Sullivan_demanded. “That might have been done,” Rheem replied, “but we believed it in the best interest of the note holders to adhere to the plan we had decided upon sell the property outright to Rheem denied he had been motivated by any undue friendliness for Ward- man. J. Newton Brewer, second vice president of Swartzell, Rheem & Hen- sey, was then called to the stand. He testified the failure of the com- pany was a “big surprise” to him. He attributed the failure in a general way to two unsuccessful real cstate ven- tures and to the generally unfavorable business conditions. He said he knew little of the detailed affairs of the com- pany. While the Westchester Apartments refinancing was under discussion, Rheem twice refused to say whether any of the notes covered by the orig- inal first trust were paid out of the money turned over for that purpose by the Metropolitan Life Insurance C which made a loan aggregating $1,124, Counsel _advised the a incriminating. sume at 1:30 o'clock Thursday. Miss Loretta Turnbul of Monrovia, Calif., who has been competing in mo- tor boat races for three years, has won enough cups and other trophies to 8l a fairesized truss, OUTON SHOREHAM sum would have come due two years | Sullivan also brought out that Swart- | zell, Rheem & Hensey Co. did not make | east from Thirteenth street. Lower HE congested business area of Washington from 8 to 9:30 this morning tcok on the appearance of an early Sun- day morning when the new police regulations forbidding parking during this period went into effec Pennsylvania_avenue, Trafic Policeman E. C. Spaulding warns Mrs. George D. McIlhenny, 3022 Rodman street, that she can- left: F street west from Ninth. Lower —Star Staff Photos. RIGHT REV. KARL J. ALTER. REV.K | ALTER IS NAMED BiSHO? Head of Social Service School Here to Become Prelate of Toledo. | Rev. Rarl J. Alter, for two years | director of the National Catholic School | Service, 2400 Nineteenth street, has | been named Bishop of Toledo, accord- |ing to an Assoclated Press dispatch |today from Vatican City. The new bishop was born in Toledo |46 years ago and his return to the Ohio | city—which, it was said at his office, | will take place as soon as he can wind | up his affairs here—will be in the nature | of a home-coming. | Educated at St. John's University, | Toledo, Bishop Alter was ordained in | 1910, 'For 15 years he was director of | the Toledo Catholic Charities in addi- tion to serving as an_instructor of | sociology at Teachers’ College and Mary |Manse School, both divisions of St. John's. | Bishop Alter came to Washington in | June, 1929, to become director of the | Social Service School. He has been | director of the speakers’ program of the | Catholic radio hour, broadcast by the National Broadcasting Co., since it was | started more than a year ago. When the bishop assumes his new duties he will make his headquarters | at the Toledo Cathedral. The diocese |of Toledo is a part of the Cleveland archdiocese. The Assoclated Press dispatch also | stated that Mgr. Urban J. Vehr of Cin- {cinnati had been named bishop of Denver, The bishopric to which Dr. Alter was named was left vacant by the promo- tion of Right Rev. Samuel A. Stritch, who has been named Archbishop of Milwaukee. MRS. EMILY J. CASTLE TO BE BURIED SATURDAY Body of Civil War Veteran Will Be Brought From Laurel for Double Interment in Arlington. Funeral services for Mrs. Emily Jane Castle, widow of Philip P. Castle, Civil War veteran, will be held at 11 o’clock Saturday morning from the Hines fu- neral home, Fourteenth and Harvard streets. Mrs. Castle died Monday at the home of her daughter, Miss Leota | Castle, Argonne apartments. | “'Mrs. Castle had requested that she {be buried in Arlington Cemetery beside | the body of her husband. Mr, Castle, who died in 1917, was buried in Ivy Hill Cemetery at Laurel, Md. His body will be disinterred and brought here for a double burial in Arlington Saturday. Mrs. Castle was a former chaplain of the Daughters of the Eastern Star chapter at Laurel. In addition to her daughter, she 18 survived by a son, Philip P. Castle of Washington, and & of Laurel. Mexico will »old a special session of Oongress to consider the new labor bill. | step-daughter, Mrs. Myrtle V. Curley |yong VAN DUZER PLANS UNIFORM TRAFFIC |Rules Like Those of States ould Save Police Time, He Declares. Making of Washington's traffic regu- lations uniform with those of the States and other municipalities will be the keyncte of the administration of Wil- |liam A. Van Duzer when he bécomes | Washington’s Traffic Director July 1, next. The goal will not be possible of complete achievement, since the regu- lations are not now uniform in all States. But 42 of the 48 States adhere to a set of model traffic ordinances, and Mr. Van Duzer will endeavor to put the regulations of the 42 States into effect here, in so far as they are applicable to Washington’s conditions. “Every day in the year,” Mr. Van | Duzer said yesterday, “we have visitors | coming to Washingtcn from the various | States on business or fcr pleasure. It is only fair that they should not be ex- pected to encounter any strange regula- iions here which would make their driving difficult and cause the traffic | cfficers to lose time explaining the local wrinkles to our guests. Routes to Be Indicated. | “I plan also to have signs placed | throughout the city indicating the va- rious routes to be followed by visitors who intend to pass throuzh Washington on their way to other cities. There is a uniform type of sign for this purpose, black lettering on a white background, which is used in the States to mark the various national and other highways. “I must say that my first impression | of Washington traffic, after receiving news of my appointment, was very un- fortunate, I happened to come into town last Sunday, when the cherry blossom traffic was at its peak. It took me one hour to drive Mrs. van Duzer on Fourteenth street from B street to Water street. But I realize that that 1s | only secasonal.” Mir “Van Duzer believes traffic lights, a5 | a general proposition, are overdone, and | would prefer a system of having lights every four blocks to having a string of them at every intersection. This, he said, would break up the traffic into longer waves, making travel both along the main traveled streets and also for the cross streets possible, with fewer halts for changing lights. He is in favor of flashing amber signals to warn motorists of an approach to a busy intersection, even where there is no traffic light of the usual red-green type. Traffic lights should be turned off at | night sooner after the evening rush- | hour traffic is over, he believes. Leav- ing them burning until midnight, as is the practice here, does no particular good and slows down traffic unneces- sarily by making automobiles wait for a green light when there is no cross- street trafic. Against All-Night Parking Ban. He is not in favor of a ban on all- night parking at this time in Washing- ton. The time to have put such a ban into effect was 10 or 15 years ago, he said. Now we have many cars and little garage space and an all-night ban would mean too great & hardship on the automobile owner of small means. One of his first tasks on taking of- fice here will be to organize the work of registration of title to automobjles in the District, work with which he is familiar from his experience in Penn- sylvania. It is possible to obtain ac- curate statistics as to the number of cars in operation from the regstration of titles, he said, something not possible with the system of simply registering the car for tax-paying purposes, as is done now. These statistics will be sup- plemented by those obtained by traffic checks at the entrances to the Dis- trict on out-of-town automobiles using Washington's streets, and it will be possible to plan control for the ex- pected density of traffic in advance, Rapid Printing. Reading matter for the blind has not been generally available for the reason that under the older system of Braille printing it was necessary to make every dot by hand, so that reading matter for the blind was not only scarce but often prohibitory in price. A great advance in this matter is in a recently invented rotary press for the printing of Braille type which has been installed at the National Institute for the Blind in xteen thousand pages of material are being speed five times before been AUTOGIRO LANDS ONHOOVER'S LAWN Experiment Writes New Avia- tion History—President a Spectator. ___(Continued From First Page.) tinguished guests for his eool merve and the excellent performance of the machine. The ability of the autogiro to land under unfavorable circumstances, such as those encountered at the White Hous today, was one of the factors which won for Mr. Pitcairn the Collier Trophy, regarded as one of the hiches: aeronautical awards in the United States. In presenting the trophy, Presiden: Hoover classed the autogiro as “one of the outstanding improvements in heavier-than-air craft.” “Its ability to arise and de with safet s almost vertically,” the Pres “makes it a practical and decided step forward.” Circles Downtown Washington. Ray took off from Washington-Hoover Airport at 11 o'clock and circled over downtown Washington while photo- graphic planes circled overhead and photographed various stages of his flight and Janding. Shortly after 11:30, as the President and members of his cabinet appeared on the south lawn, Ray dropped in at a sharp angle from the north over the White House roof. A shift of the wind drove him to the west of the cleared lawn and he opened the motor and pulled around for an- other attempt. On the second trial he apparently was afraid of running down the slope of the lawn into motion pic- ture trucks, and agaln pulled up. On the third attempt he dropped directly in over a corer of the White House Toof, striking the ground for a perfect three-point landing, less than 100 feet in front of the President. He turned the ship around and taxied up in front of the crowd. President Hoover was the first man to reach the plane, He roadly and cony a heartily. R The award was made “for their de- velopment and application of the auto- giro and the demonstration of its possi- bilities with a view to its use for safe aerial transport,” it was announced by Senator Bingham. Mr. Pitcairn brought the first auto- giro to the United States in 1928. He has been interested in this revolu- tionary type of aircraft since its inven- Kot wiincssed an sutogivo Akt 1 rst wi an auf it in Madrid in 1925 and became mnfiufl it could be made of real value to American civilization. During the last three years Mr. Pit- cairn and his co-workers have made .n;lny improvements in the “windmill plane.” The autogiro, in the opinion of the committee on the award, is the most revolutionary development in ,heavier- than-air craft since the first flights of the Wright brothers in 1903. The President seemed deeply inter- ested in the autogiro and asked the pilot a number of questions as to the method of operation and possible uses of the craft. Following the presentation ceremony, Ray climbed back into the machine, warmed up the motor, and taxied down the slope from the south portico of the White House for his take-off. He held the plane on the ground until within 100 yards of the photographic trucks grouped near the fountain, and then pulled it up abruptly into a sharp, climbing turn to the west, which car~ ried him out of the President’s sight behind the trees in the White House grounds. When he reappeared a min- ute later, he was nearly 1,000 feet high, and still climbing rapidly. Sees Great Future. “It is our firm conviction,” Mr. Pit- calrn said, “that the continued de- velopment of the autogiro will lead to the general adoption by the public of flying for both utility and pleasure.” enca by Senator Hiram Binghum open: y Senator president of the National Amm% Association, which has charge of the awarding of the trophy. Among those witnessing the ceremony were chiefs of Army, Navy and Department of Com= merce aeronautical activities, aeronau- tical attaches of foreign rnments, former holders of the Col ‘Trophy and leaders of American civil aero- nautics. From the White House, Mr. Pitcairn went to the Willard Hotel as the guest of the Aero Club of Washingten, sociation of the National Aeronautic Ase sociation, at a luncheon in his honor. Ray was expected to attend after land- ing at Washington-Hoover Airport. FUTURE WAR KITCHENS TO KEEP WITH TANKS By the Associated Press. ‘Tanks in future warfare will wriggle over battlefields at more than 30 miles an hour, but the Army does not pro- pose to let their crews go hungry. A high-speed kitchen—the speed re- ferring not to culinary production, but to locomotion—has been designed in the Office of the Quartermaster Gen- eral and the plans referred to the Tank Board at Fort Meade for study. It will be carried on a two-ton truck chassis. In addition to a gasoline burner stove, which can be com' into a wood burner if need be, it will have a large ice box. EMBASSY ‘MOURNS The Italian Embassy is observing a 30-day period of mourning following the death of the Duke of Genoa, uncle of King Victor Emanuel. ‘The duke died April 16, and the pe- riod of mou: continue until May 16. It is observed in King Victor Emanuel’s court and in Italian embas~ sies throughout the world. The Em- bassy here has abandoned all social activities. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band this evening, 8 o'clock, at the audito- rium, Marine Barracks. Taylor Bran- son, leader; Arthur S. Whitcomb, sec~ ond leade: Overture, “Carnevs “March of the Dwarf: Song, “The Old Road" Solo fer violincello, ‘Tarantelle” . «o. . GOl (Musician John Auer) Selections from “N! ‘Waltz, “Secretos” Selectlon, “La Gloconda”. “Liebesfruhling” .... Marines’ hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma™ “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the U. S. Soldiers’ Home Band, this evening at Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, band- master; Anton Pointer, assistant. March, “The George Washington Bi- centennial . B Sousa India™.. . Bopy “By the Ganges,” soenc,The Almas» <The 'l;ntrol.") nes from Opera, “Norma,” Bellini Fox Trot, “In a Window, In a House, ing” . Motzan In Caroll Waltz Suit, (“Autumn Thoughts’ Finale, “The Emperors Bodyguard,” Moinocke “The Star Spangled Banner, a