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-PATERNALISM IDEA * CROWNG N U.§ .t Throwback to Medie- val Theory. “The true growth of the Nation 48 in, the character of its citizens. ‘The spread of government destroys initiative and thus destroys char- acter. Character is made in the community as well as in the indi- by assuming responsibili- ties, mot by escapi from them. Carried to its logical eztreme, all this shouldering of individual and community responsibility upon the Government can lead but to the superstate where every man be- comes the servant of the state and real liberty is lost.”” — President Hoover, in a Lincoln day vroad- cast, February 13, 1931. BY ASHMUN-BROWN. Hard times have revealed the Ameri- tan people to themselves as having drifted 1Psr from their historic mcor- in the principle of individualism end toward paternalism in government. L The medieval conception of gove: iment as being that entity from which flows every good and perfect thing, and ‘ypon which the subject must depend for his welfare, his job, his state of happiness and prosperity, has been re- vived in a fashion that amazes and alarms students of affairs. ©On the plea that the arrival of the machine age has rendered obsolete the established by the American Constitution, a cry arises for the cre- aticn of a government of the machine, for the machine, by the machine, cen- tering at Washington. “When the founding fathers floun- dered through the Constitution, the horse and the ox, the wind and wood, were the basis of civilization,” it is argued. Hence the Constitution should be made over, or ignored, and the sources of authority should be removed far from the people over which that authority s exercised. ~ Abandon “Jeffersonian Idealogy.” Morris Hillquit, chairman of the Bocialist party, proclaims that we must sbandon the “Jeffersonian idealogy,” which comprehends the principle of local self-government, and his preach- ment is echoed by the so-called Pro- gressives and meets approval in many other quarters. ‘The Progressives declare a purpose “to seek an increase in the consump- tive power of the general population by encouraging a stribution of the national ‘income,” which may wel mean that the shiftless, the Inwm&eunt. alike with and jous shall be gu 1y from the national revenues at expense of those who contribute to Teven Jues. “To seek a balance between produc- tion in each type of goods and the mpecflv& mu"’k:t for pt.;n v,yze g goods,” “to_stabilize employment,” “minimize the human stresses of tech- nological unemfll:ymgnt" and to “con- trol in the public interest financial en- terprises both in domestic and foreign are other items on the W" e le objectives, to sure e P'xwrenlve be attained only by svvemmm 1 edict, and through polif action. ~ Hard Times Aggravate Situation. Hard times, appearing coiricidentally win s breakdows In the ancient system government and party respon- , have contrived to breach the hich President Hoover—and before him—had - | craft, B MACMILLAN TO SEEK tion of for adventures into that are ted in bills that await action at the Seventy-second Congress, which will meet next December 7. Yet very much of this legislation promises to be approved by both houses of Congress. ‘How much of it will sur- vive expected vetoes by President Hoover cannot now be estimated. Sen- ators and Representatives, as a rule, no are moved by considerations of party loyalty. They are prons not their convictions, but what to be the demands of the . | miles The farmers’ vote, the veterans’ vote, various other group votes in home States, and the fear of group re- constitute the national legislation. ting motive $10,000,000,000 Congress. ‘The Seventy-first Congress, which died on March 4, goes down into his- tory as a $10,000,000,000 Congress, for the sum of its mpmpmfinns for the two years of its life refches that huge sum, heretofore unmatched save in time of war. Expenditures are not ac- tually at that rate, for they will aver- age more nearly $4,500,000,000 a year. It is not improbable that the Seventy- second Congress, unless checked by ti force of public opinion and presidential veto, will exceed that record, and, furthermore, will commit the Govern- ment to policles and payments that will entail extraordinary burdens on posterity. ‘These demands fall naturally into three classes. One embraces those pro- posals which would entail a further distributon of Federal revenues among the States on the plea of ersing the burdens of local taxation or aiding the States in the establishment of be- nevolent, social, educational or other- wise beneficlal services. These include increased and new subsidies to States. The second class includes legislation ostensibly for the benefit of war vet- erans and direct grants to_individuals, either as unemployment relief, old age pensions, or frank charity. In this class falls such legislation as the vet- erans’ certificate loan law, enacted over President Hoover's veto at the recent #ession, and the bills that would bave appropriated $100,000,000 to be dis- tributed among the unemployed of the country, which failed of passage. Effect on Taxpayers. ‘The third class includes such legis- lation as that which President Hoover vetoed when he had before him the bill putting the Government into the busi- ness of operating an_electric power plant at Muscle Shoals. It compre- hends the principle of Government ownership and operation of public utilities. Consideration of these several classes o'r‘ammou requires surveys from the standpoint of the effect on the public revenues and thus on the exicting systems of taxation, Federal, State and local, and likewise from the standpoint of what may be termed the newer and enlarged responsibilities of the Federal Government as to the general welfare of its citizens. These responsibilities appear as the complexities of modern American civilization and take less and jess account of the artificial barriers of State lines. In this series of articles it is proj d to deal first with the effect, actual and prospective, on taxpayers of the country of the rapidly increasing de- mands on the Federal Treasury. That, m:ed. is the matter of most immedi- ate importance. W the task, the first thing to noted that the demands for veterans’ legislation and other private grants, as measured by the proposed itures, are of far sequence to ths couniry than the de- wmands for increaced subsidies to States ter con- d | Planes and Shore Patrols in Search mind, to | ta They had attended a -, | yacht club Saturday night, and Hub- | Bard invited e | lan ! THE EVENING ST ~ Shoots for a Job Students of Affairs Alarmed A work. After firing five shots at George he tcok up his stand in the field and with the aid of tear gas bombs. police officers, with an officer ta’ render. ug to But the officer keeps lus distance as grip on his gun, which is tucked in his back poikmgto STEEL WORKER, REFUSED WORK, FIRES AT OFFICIALS. NDY SUSKO, 42, crippled, jobless steel worker, held Allegheny County detectives and police at bay in a fleld near the McClintic-Marshall Co. plant, at Ambridge, Pa., after threatening and shooting at officials of the plant who refused his demand for work. The man is thought to have been temporarliy insane through brooding over his inability to obtain Stewart, general manager of the plant, threatened to commit suicide or shoot any one who approached within 50 feet of his position. He was finally captured is shown here flanked on either side by him in an endeavor to get him to sur- keeps a and menacing —Wide World Photo. FIVE BELIEVED LOST IN CAPSIZED LAUNCH for Prominent Cali- fornians. By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif., April 27.—Search was pressed today for five prominent and wealthy Pledmont residents be- lieved to have drowned sizing of p!.l-l:;(li. Airplanes augmented shore The 16-foot outboard motor launch rday. discovered by John A. Johnson, man, who towed the craf to the land Yacht Club. ‘The missing, for whom hope was vir- tually abandoned, are Gilbert Loken, jr., San Francisco stock broker; Mrs. Mary Loken, his wife; Varl E. Jefferson, Oak- land insurance man; Mrs. Lydia Jeffer- son, his wife, and Sheridan Hubbard, 34, manager of an Oakland building and loan company. | dance at the them for a cruise. « Four airplanes and two Coast Gua cutters, besid Yg:lvlhly owned motor bay without results. NUNGESSER AND COLI ON ATLANTIC FLIGHT | (Continued FProm Pirst Page.) off from Paris May 7, 1927, for New | forced d propose: northern airmail and passenger route at the request of Great Nortl At- lantic Airways. Their Lockhccd Vega cabin monoplane, capable of flying 2,800 without landing, will be ready to fly East early next week. THey plan to take off from Boston | June 21 for Labrador. After the search and exploration in i S , a e fueling stop a Reykjavik, Iceland. ir flig] tuu':‘uslul they will return over the same route. MacMillan and Rocheville are mak- ing final tests here with their mono- | plane. A third man probably will ac- company them when they leave the ex- mfl’a base ship Bowdoin at Nain and | d eastward across the Atlantic over | the southern part of Greenland, for Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Scotland and London. If the proposed round trip is completed it will be the first made to England and return from this side of the Atlantic. “Besides information which has come to me in the Labrador district,” said MacMillan, referring to the Nungesser- Coli “I have talked with trans- | atlantic fiyers who have nearly lost their | lives on_ similar flights. They verified | the probability of the French flyers landing or crashing there. “Fitzmaurice (Col. James Fitzmau-| rice, who flew in the German Bremen | monoplane from Ireland in April, 1928) | told me that had the fog not lifted as | it did they would have gone into the interior of this part of Labrador.” and & recasting of taxation systems. ‘The demands for veterans’ legislation are expressed in terms of billions; those for State subsidies at present in terms of tens and hundreds of millions. The difference is tremendous. ‘Thus, the veterans' certificate loan law, as it now develops, promises to take fully $1,000,000,000 out of the Fed- | eral Treasury this year, when, for the first time since the World War, a defi- cit in the Treasury actually impends. Representative Royal C. Johnson, chairman cf the House Commitice on | World War veterans' legislation, de- clares that this new law is merely pre- liminary to one that will be enacted next Winter which will have the effect of raising the total cost to $5,066,000,- 000. Representative Johnson also sub- mits an analysis of a long list of pend- ing veterans’ legislation with his esti- mate that the minimum cost of 4it would be in excess of $12,000,000,000 or $2,000,000,000 more than the total appropriations for all purposes of the recent $10,000,000,000 Congress. On the other hand, Federal grants to States in the form of subsidies, which were only $8,000,000 in 1912 and rose to $42,000,000 in 1920, this year have grown to $200,000,000. If all the projects for additions and increases in this system now pending were granted they would not much more than double ‘That is to say, the Federal sub- sidy system, existing and now pro- posed, would entail an annual cost of not more than $500,000,000, erans’ relief, entirely aside 1 of $1,000,000,000, is costing the. ernment this year something more than $866,000,000 and is in the way of growing by hundreds of millions annually, according &) | truck the | Paul MYSTERY CLOAKS DIAMOND SHOOTING New York Gangster Wounded by Volley as He Leaves Mountain Road House. By the Associated Press. CATSKILL, N. Y., April 27.~Jack (Legs) Diamond, gangster, for the sec- ond known time, was cut down and seriously injured by the gunfire of un- known assailants in the early hours of today. ‘The gang chief, who six months ago was shot and almost fatally injured in a New York City hotel room, went down today under the pattering fire of buck- shot, sent into his back as he stepped from a Catskill Mountain road house west of this village. The shooting oc- curred three days after Diamond had been released in $25,000 bail, pending trial for a charge of assault. Like the New York City instance, mystery clothed the shooting. The gangster himself could give no in- formation, and the companion, who snatched his fallen chief back into the shelter of the road house, could only say that the gunfire came from a dis- :Anu of about 20 paces from the build- ng. Struck by One Shell Load. A hatful of empty shells, still reeking of the smell of freshly discharged po in | der and apparently fired from an auf matic shotgun, were picked up between the gl -in of the Arrotoga Inn and the highway. The viously fired in haste and an ob- . Of the d | nine shots fired, each carrying a dozen pellets, only one shell load struck Dia- mond, Witnesses who said they entered the ‘building a few minutes before the shoot- ing told police they saw no strange car near the inn nor any sign of the man or men who did the shooting. The fallen gangster, bleeding freely from wounds in the shoulder, back and arm, was hurried to an Albany ital by two men not immediately identified. While seriously injured, his condition ‘was not believed to be critical. ‘Two State troopers were assigned to watch Diamond. Two Witnesses Questioned. Police questioned two witnesses, Her- bert Chicheser and John Sutter, both of the village of Cairo, located near the scene of the shooting. They said they had been to a movie and had stopped for a few minutes at the Arrotoga Inn. ‘Two other men were present, according to police, James Wynne, identified as the proprietor of the Arrotoga, and Jerry Sacchio. It was Sacchio who grasped Diamond and dragged him out of the line of fire. Diamond’s history contains the official record of one previous shooting and the report that a still earlier incident had placed lead in his body. On October 12, 1930, the man who at one time was reputed to be the bodyguard of Arnold Rothstein was shot by two men who |be entered his New York City hotel room. For weeks his life apparently depended on chance. With his recovery, Diamond left the city and moved into a house near Acra, 18 miles west of this village. Accompanying him to this mountain stronghold were several of his gang. His name appeared in Greene County news from time to time until a week 2go, when he flashed into front page prominence with his indictment by a grand jury. The indictment was based on the alieged beating by Diamond and jon, Jim Dalton, of a Cairo ver who said he had been stopped by the men and tortured be- cause he refused to account satisfac- torily for a load of cider. WOUNDS NOT SERIOUS. Five Pellets of Shot Lodged in “Legs” Diamond’s Body. ALBANY, N. Y., April 27 (#).—The wounds of Jack (“Legs”) Diamond are painful, but not serious, it was said today at the Albany hospital to which the notorious gangster was brought this morning after being the target of shot- gun fire. Only five pellets of shat lodged in al:xknond‘l body, most of them in the ‘The Attorney General was ordered today by Gov. Roosevelt to supersede the district atto of Greene Coun- ty in the investiga of the Diamon; activities. General John J. Bennett, Jr., immediatel; a com The mond, his chauffeur, James Alton, and occhi, who was alleged to have assaulted & road house operator, Joseph _Coglianese, more than a year ago. ‘Two grand juries investigated the Coglianese case, but no indictment was returned. Authorities sald the attack was the outgrowth of a beer “war,” but a to Representatiye Johnso n. ight, 1931, by the North (Copyris LA ‘Afillnc:I American that persons who could tell of the affair were afraid to testify. d | service, was talk! Halloran, d & WASHING IOBSERVERS STUDY STELLAR CALAES| Savant Tells Academy Group Superclusters of Stars Dwarf Yniverse. _(Continued Prom First Page.) of the solar neighborhocd or stars only a few light years from the sun, whose distance can be determined by trigo- nometrical methods. They are included in the “system of lucid stars,” of which the sun is a member. Then comes the “local system”—a sort of celestial vil- lage within the great city of visible heavens. This is from 4,000 to 5,000 light years across. All “three of these systems are in- cluded in the major system of the “Milky Way” galaxy, including many millions of stars, of which the sun is one of the smaller units. Then comes a vast emptiness of space beyond which are Magellanic clouds, visible in the Southern Hemisphere, approximately 90,000 light years away. This is the closest of the neighbor universes. Much is being learned about it, Prof. Shapley said, by the study of the Cephid vari- ables which it contalns, stars which vary in brightness periodically and which enable astronomers to determine distances. The Harvard astronomers are taking a census of the giant stars in this neighbor galaxy, ranging from 30 to 150 times the brightness of the sun. They have put 750 new variables on the map, Prof. Shapley said, and are seeking for others. By intensive study of this nearest auu{de universe they have found some curious gs of the stars within the A reat numbers grouped about an axis, thick clusters in other parts and a great deal of open terri- tory, wi 80 far as instruments show, there are few stars. 2,700 Galaxies Found. Including such organized billions of stars as the Magellanic clouds and the “Milky Way” system are the super- galaxies, apparently organized groups of galaxies themseives. Some contain only a few star systems, while others presumably contain great numbers. Shapley and his aides have concentrated on the Coma Virgo u%gn of the heav- ens, where to date 2, gala; been found, all in the same neighbor- hood and seeming to form an enormous heavenly stream of luminous bodies. Approximately 50 of what are believed to be such supe¥-galaxies have been 1 ound. ‘The next step, Dr. Shapley said, prob- ably will be to determine the existence of a metagalaxy or supergalaxy of supergalaxies, so vast that it baffles the , for which already consid- erable evidence exists. This census of the akies is being car- ried on, he explained, partly in order to obtain a clear idea of the distribu- tion of m throughout the vast ex- tent of space. The boundaries of space occupied by heavenly bodies apparently still are far beyond the reach of man's largest telescopes, Dr. Shapley said. The greatest distance reached with the largest telescopes is only about 200,000,- 000 light years. 'Will Study Northern Skies, ‘The more distant galaxies, Dr. Shap- ley said, do not seem to be uniformly distributed in space and this may be of great significance in relation to mathe- matical theories concerning the uni- verse. Uniformity of matter, it was ex- plained, has been assumed by Albert Einstein and other mathematiclans to simplify working out their calculations on the extent and mechanism of the universe. Most of the survey to date has been carried on in the Southern Hemisphere. As soon as the southern skies have been covered, it is probable that the tele- scope will be moved north from South Africa and the same survey undertaken for the Northern Hemisphere. Discovery of 3,000 more double stars in the Southern sky by the University of Michigan astronomers working in the observatory financed by Secretary of Commerce Lamont at Bloemfontein, South Africa, was described by Dr. Heber D. Curtis. Describes Solar Spectrum. Prof. Henry Norris Russell of Prince- ton University told the National Acad- :1‘:1}; that chemical eompour:iu—ecgoe‘; ly , oxygen and carl compcum: been proved by spec- trum_ photographs to exist in the at- mosphere of the sun. This was long considered impossible, since tempera- tures in the sun's atmosphere run as high as 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and deeper in the body of the star they run possibly into the millions. It formerly was taught that at such temperatures chemical compounds were impossible, and that everything would be split up into atoms of distinct elements. Examination of the sun's light with the spectograph which splits up white daylight into its innumerable gradations of color, Dr. Russell said, has shown some of the elements to be united into molecules of substances similar to those to be found on earth. Yet thcy are not quite the same, for the enormous bom- bardment of energy which keeps beat- ing upon them all the time creates an entively different environment for them. They are partly-broken molecules. Thus one atom of oxygen will hold to one of hydrogen, instead of to two hydrogens, as in water. Or one carbon atom will hold to one hydrogen atom, instead of four, as in the marsh gas of swamps. Prof. Russell said that 14 compounds have been jdentified in the sun’s atmos- and four are oxygen. Six have been found above the brightest parts of the sun and eight above the sun spots, where the temperature is lower. Urges Broadcast By Phone. Maj. Gen. George O. Squier, former chief of the Signal Corps, urged that the vast network of telephone wires used to carry radio programs. Now, he said, they are idle much of the time and represent a considerable waste in investment. By using this network, he nldl."n would be p:&agglee '.;) bmdc‘al:b quality programs ut loading the ether and without making it necessary for listeners to hear constant inter- ruptions of advertising matter. The system, he sald, would not interfere with the use of the telephone and would do away with static and “fading.” 'Among the papers on the opening pro- gram was one by C. G. Darwin, grandson of Charles Darwin, on “Examples of the Uncertainty Principle.” Oliver R. Wulf of the fixed nitrogen laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, told of measurements to determine the amount of ozone in the upper atmosphere. NOTED A. E. F. SURGEON DIES OF HEART STROKE Col. Hallcran, Commander of Hos- pital at Denver, Served With 90th Division. By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., April 27.—Col. P. S. Halloran, 57 years old, commander of Fitzsimmons General Hospital here, died unexpectedly last night from a heart attack. Col. Halloran, veteran of foreign with his sister, Ann , an ther officer when he collapsed. 1iet ‘argeon 16 the WOHd War aad cl surgeon e Worl ar an was awarded the Distingu! Service Cross for his 17 months abroad. Col. Halloran was a graduate of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and of the Army Medical School in Washington. i I Eight major foundations alone in the United States are expending approxi- mately $49,000,000 annually for educa- tional purposes. ON, MOSES ASSURED OF RE-ELECTION New Hampshire G.0.P. Dele- gation for Hoover, White House Call Reveals. By the Associated Press. New Hampshire was described today as squarely behind Senator Moses for re-election and its Republican delega- tion to tie next convention “in the bag for Hoover.” Senator Moses and A. H. Hislop, the Republican National Committeeman for that State, visited the White House. Hislop made the Moses prediction and Moses made the Hoover statement. “I am here to say,” Hislop said, “that Senator Moses will be renominated and overwhelmingly re-elected. The talk of his retirement, which I understand he himself started, is complete bunk.” Moses sald’ both the delegation and the electoral vote of the State were “in the bag for Hoover.” ‘The New Hampshire Senator sald that he had not discussed the political situation to any great extent with him concerning the navy rd _at Portsmouth, N. H,, in an eflony‘m find out “why the New Hampshire Navy zus is not getting its fair share of vork.” “‘Certain ships of the Navy have what are known as home ports,” he said, “but recently two ships. whose home port is Portsmouth have been sent other places to have work done on them. I'm trying to find out if this home port business means that a ship merely maintains a voting residence.” LEMON JUICE WRITING REVEALS PRISON PLOT Dr. | Eight Letters Held by Salt Lake Warden Give Information on Dynamite Plan. By the Assoclated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 27.— Eight letters written in lemon juice were in the hands of Warden R. E. Davis of the Utah State Penitentiary today as he probed a plot to free 31 prisoners. The secret missives, addressed to a trusty, were inters and treated with heat after Warden Davis had been advised by Oregon prison officials that Wallace Crews, one of their ers, had been told of a plan to dynamite the walls t‘;l ulhletnr from Hoflyv‘:od‘.og:lm. Two prisoners were Ty confinement and 10 others were under surveillance. Warden Davis said the letters con- tained a general plan for the delivery, detalls of which he did not disclose. 'TRIAL OF 22 OPENS FAILED BANK PROBE Asheville* Court Begins Hearing on Charges of Violations Connected With $8,000,000 in Public Funds.. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C, Aprii 27— Twenty-two men faced the bar of Buncombe Superior Court today to an-~ swer charges of violating the State banking laws and unlawfully diverting public funds. ‘Twenty-seven were indicted as the re- sult of the failure of banks here last Fall with more than $8,000,000 in public funds on deposit. J. Ed Gibson, former city Y cl with 'y to_divert pub- lic funids to the use of the Central & Trust Co., one of the banks that failed, was out of town when indicted last week and has not been arrested. J. Charles Bradford, facing numerous charges as the result of alleged illegal acts while cashier of the Central Bank, sought to kill himself after his indict- ment and is confined to & ital. ‘Three Termesseeans—Col. Luke Lea, Nashville publisher; Luke Lea, jr., and E. P. Charlet of Nashville—were not aumkmoned to appear umtil later in the week. SLAIN WOMAN'S BODY FOUND AT SEMINARY Police Chief Believes Victim Was Killed Elsewhere and Body Moved. By the Associated Press. YONKERS, N. Y, A 27.~The body of & woman Wwho had been shot once in the stomach was found today pm'yed to be about 27 years old. The was found near @ wall that skirts a side road, on which there are few houses. It was remote from the seminary buildings. Police Chief Edward Quirk expressed the opinfon that the victim had been murdered elsewhere and the body brought to Yonkers. —e- MAN GETS 270 DAYS ON PAY PHONE FRAUD Charles H. Parker, alias Charles A. Kistner, 42 years old, of the 300 block of C street, today was sentenced in Police Court to serve 270 days on a charge of larceny. Parker admitted in court he had operated a pay telephone racket during the pasé several days. Parker, it was explained, would push wadded paper into the coin return chamber of pay telephones. A perSon would come into the booth, deposit a nickel for a call, and if the call was incomplete the operator would attempt to return the money. At the end of each day, Parker said, he would visit the telephone booths and insert a wire hook to remove the paper and pocket the nickels. Police sald he got $2 in nickels from one telephone, while two hooks and a quan- tity of paper were found on him yester- day where he was arrested. “When and where was the last time you were caught?” asked Judge Given. “In New York, nine years ago,” an- swered Parker. POLICE SEEK DE PALMA Former Member of Force Charged ‘With Non-Support of Family. Joseph De Palma, 31, a former po- is wanted by ‘the police to of fallure to suj his family. De Palma has been from his home, 5141 Conduit road, since April 1, about the time he left the po- lice force. De Palma had been a member of the vice squad and is said to have failed to report for duty when ordered trans- ferred to the tenth precinct. His name was dropped from the rolls several ago for alleged desertion. President Hoover, but had talked on the grounds of St. Joseph's Semi- | th, phere. - Seven are hydrogen compounds | nary. BAN ON LOTTERES OVER RADID ASKED Newspaper Publishers Seek Federal General Order to Curb Broadcasts. ‘The American Newspaper Publishers’ Association today requested the Federal Radio Commission to promulgate a gen- eral order forbidding the broadcasting of advertisting or other pro- grams which involve the advertising of lotteries or other schemes of chance in which the prizes depend, in whole or in part, upon chance. was filed by Hanson, attorney for the association, pursuant to action taken last week at the annual meeting of the publishers in New York. ‘The commission’s attention was called to the fact that lotteries are illegal in the United States, not only under the Federal laws, but under State laws in genc:flully all the 48 States, but that Hoover Honors EnglishSettlers o e at Cape Henry, —Wide World Photo. PRESIDENT BACK AT DESK, UNHARMED (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) terday resembled a cloudburst. It was accompanied by a windstorm, thunder and lightning and darkness. the drencing, members of the had been made more uncomfortable by CRIME STATISTICS METHODS ASSAILED ‘Winkersham Board Charges Some U. S. Bureaus Use Them for Good Showing. ‘The assertion that some Government bureaus use as a basis for criminality statistics things that will help them make the “most favorable showing pos- sible” when asking Congress for money was among the charges made by the Wickersham Law Enforcement Com- mission in its report assailing the pres- ;flitm system of compiling statistics on . ‘The report was the third submitted to President Hoover by the commission since it began its work nearly two years . The mo now used in eom- ;fi:n; statistics on criminality were condemned as inadequate, often non- existent and sometimes involving & “serious abuse.” All 11 commission members signed the 200-page document, prepared under th2 direction of Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School. It included lengthy studies by two commission ex- m. Sam B. Warner and Morris owe. Government Report Criticized. One Government report which drew ticism was that published y by the Justice Department's Investigation Bureau. “It requires no great study of these aotu." the commission said, * ive & number of weaknesses which should impose a more cautious promul- gating of them. The basic reports are ns and under conditions POLLARD of Virginia (left), President Hoover Re) A - M. Tarikiord of Virghuia axviving for. ceremonies at Gubs meary: cole. | e brating 324th anniversary of landing of first permanent English colonists ca. itistics; it is qu tant to see to it that misleading infor- mation is not sent out under official anngcct g “It takes but little experience of such 1 statistics as we have,” the re- ;.:::" whipping of the sand into their | question The stofm broke just as Rev. Arthur | cholce C. Thompson, Bishop of Southern Vir- ginia, was offe prayer at the com- mencement of the exercises. he sufficler ‘The request | walk the return of the . Hot ‘was served to the members of the party as they sat at wooden tables. President Hoover and Gov. use of the absence of any specific | chal provision of the radio law preventing the broadcasting last few months the practice of broad- grown to such illegal for a newspaper to print any lottery oy okr’ nlzh:me of r_h:‘n;e advertising of any or_description, and that, in view of the Federal sta- tutes, as well as the State laws, the commission, under the broad terms of the act which created it, not only has authority, but should exercise such au- thority to prevent the further broad- casting of lottery and scheme of chance advertising. Asks General Order. Mr. Hanson's letter to the commis- sion follows: “In behalf of the American Newspa- per Publishers’ Assoc , whose mem- mméhgudxo the publishers of 'E newspapers the United States, and for which I am attorney, I desire to request that the commission give serious consideration to the immediate promulgation of a general order for the purpose of pre- venting the broadcasting of prm i.lavclvln( lottery or schemes of ¢l v ertising. “During the last few years radio ‘broadcasting has been given over more and more to advertising programs, and, in a sense, a broadcasting station today is a competitor with all other forms of media for the dissemination of adver- | fyn tising. With the single exception of radio, all of these media are prevented by law from the publication or trans- mission through the mails of any scheme concerning any lottery, gift en- terprise or similar plan offering prizes dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance. Cites Criminal Code. “Section 213 of the Criminal Code of United States reads as follows: ‘No lettér, package, postal card or circular concernin; terprise, or jar scheme offering prizes dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance; and no lottery ticket or part thereof, or paper, certifi- cate, or instrument purporting to be or to represent a ticket, chance, share or interest in or dependent upon the event of a lottery, gift enterprise, or similar scheme offering prizes dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance; and no check, draft, bill, money, postal note, or money order, for the p of any ticket or part thereof, or of &ny share or chance in any such lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme; and no news- paper, circular, pamphlet, or publica- tion of any kind containing any adver- tisement of any lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme of any kind offering prizes dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance or containing any list of the prizes drawn or.awarded by means of hie, of lotteries, during the | military to get the -tiny station. s The c-mxmry Me! local commandeered to tial party to Little Creek miles distant, where the Sequois was waiting to start the journey back ‘Washington. DR. BLEDSOE T0 REPA GOVERNMENT $6,6 8= Offers No Defense to Charges. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 27—Dr. ledsoe, medical officer formerly arge of the United States Veterans’ tal here, entered a plea of molle Federal Court here today t0 reimburse the Gov- sum of $6,635.17. ‘The Government accepted this offer and Dr. Bledsoe was allowed two years in which to make the settlement. Dr. BI ., now superintendent of State Hospital at Sykes- ville, was charged with a sh of $15,205. He contended if there was a shortage, he knew nothing of it. fense headed E. P. B in any lottery, gift en- | knowl at the hospital, is serving a term at Federal penitentiary at Atlanta in con- nection with the shortage. ‘The indictment was returned against Bl after he had left here to md position. At the 3 of Maryland issued a statement. expressing confidence in Dr. Bledsoe's innocence. of the 48 States of the country have State Jaws banning such_schemes as have been banned Iq the ernment in section 213 of the Code. “The commission should take judicial notice_of the fact that, during 'the any such lottery, gift enterprise, or |broadcas scheme, whether said list contains any part or all of such prizes, shall be de- ted in or carried by the mails of the nited States, or be delivered by any tmaster or letter carrie: r T, pex! “Whoever shall knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited, or shall know- ingly send or cause to be sent, anything to be conveyed or delivered by malil in violation of the of this sec- shall mlnal{ deliver or cause mal] herein forbidden to be carried by shall be fined not more than $1,000, or im- Eothmoned not more than two years, or ; and for any subsequent offense shall be imprisoned not more than five Any person violating any pro- punished either in the district in which the unlawful matter or publication was mailed, or. to which it was carried by mail for delivery acc rection thereon, or in caused to be vered by mail person to whom it was addressed. (R. S. 3894; July 12, 1876, c. 186, 2, 19 Stat. 90; pter 19, 1890, c. 908, 1,°26 Stat. 465; March 2, 1805, c. 191, advertising programs in and gift 'engerprha lch&u predomi- nate. While I think it is unnecessary at this moment to give you e instances of such , neverthe- less, if the commission so desires, I can furnish instances not only as to pro- grams but as to stations. Could Halt Violations. “Under the general powers conferred upon commission by Congress to administer the law in the public inter- est, convenience and necessity, the commission has ample power to this situation now through the promul- gation of a general order forbidding through the broadcasting stations that those desirous of evading both the Fed- eral law, with respect to the transmis- sion of such information through the malls, and the State laws wohlbmn{ the cf of & lottery, can carry ou commission would 28 Stat. 963; March 4, 1909, c. 321, 213, | American 35 Stat. 1129). Holds Prize Schemes Increase. “Such is the Federal law prohibi the transmission through the mails of anything which has to do with lottery prise depend_in part oF in whole-upon pi epen or in whole upon chance, On top of this, mMp:fl 3 be: burea or m’h'. in a comprehensive crime. ‘More Specific Recommendations. 's more mmmmmmfia mmnm:ef follow: “As 800D &S Proper has gone far enough to make o1 the ana statistics should be whole to time, tled, and whatever further % should be done with reference to t plan. “A uniform State law with respect to gl and transmitting of State of criminal justice, so far as muinfl! general national purposes, or na $ho bodnmdmdemmrwhfl. conclusions partial data but aj determinations 1 -Hon! and ments of its limitations and defects ma~ tetia) likely to mislead.” ‘The public’s ess for statistics crime was pol to by commission members as an additional argument that steps should be taken to make more :ccun\e data available. followed by eight more reports on va- rious topics. These will be made at intervals of two or three weeks until the goes out of existence on - GLIDER RECORD BROKEN German Police Lieutenant Remains Aloft 11 Hours and 1 Minute. Eim S s n mfll glider