Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Falr and continued cool tonight; tomor- row fair with Ilflw rising ::mpanwrc. Temperatures—Highest, 78, at 2:30 ,B.m. yesterday; lowest, 59, at 6 a.m, day. Full report on page \ 16, Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 11,12& 13 o. 31,798, Entered seeond class matter Dost_offi C: Washington, D. e WASHINGT( ECONONIC WORLD 1S “DICTATORSHIP" POPE PIUS HOLDS Encyclical, Issued Today, II' Duce Thrown SUFFERS SCRATCHES ON FACL WHEN HORSE STUMBLES. Calls Modern Business Life “Hard and Cruel.” SOCIALISM AND REDS CONDEMNED BY PONTIFF | Power of Wealth “Has Led to Deg- radation of Majesty of State,” He Says in “Quadragesimo Anno.” By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, May 23.—Pope N MU DL Pius XI in his encyclical on labor, made | BY the Associated Press. public today, characterizes the modern | ROME, May 23—Premier Mussolini economic world as a “dictatorship,” de- | Was-thrown from his horse tcday while | scribes the modern business life as | taking his usual morning constitutional | “hard and cruel in ghastly measure” | on the grounds of his home, the Villa | and calls for a return to the justice of | Torlonia, but suffered only slight in- God in laying dewn the rules of con- ! jury. principally scratckes on his face. | duct for capital and labor in their mu- | After brief treatment duce went tual relations. and afterward to the palace, but canceled a revicw of sev- { eral hundred Bulgarian gymnasts visit- alng Reme, which he had scheduled for today. He did receive the Bulgarian Minister, however, as well as his own assistant. The injury he suffered was said to be quite superficial and confined to his face. It was reported that bis horse stumbled, throwing the premier to #he soft earth. . GAS CONTROL HERE HELD BY CHICAGOAN Bride Submits Opinion to Utilities Body Confirming Peirce Rumors. God and His goodness, he wrote, too often are lost sight of in the struggle for wealth, and riches often become & great evil. The encylical condemns all forms of Socialism and Communism. Premier Mussolini's corporative state, with which the Pope has clashed more than once, although it is not mentioned in the encyclical by name, is described as possibly risking “the serving of par- ticular political aims rather than con- tributing to the initation of a better social order.” Many fear, said the Pope, “that the new syndical and corporative institution ossesses excessive buresucratic and po- r".lcll character,” and that “the state Is substituting itself in the place of pri- vate initiative.” The 20,000-word document, entitled “Qu imo Anno,” is in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the en- cyclical Rerum Novarum issued by Pope Leo XIIL ‘Whéle Scene Held Changed. Since Pope Leo wrote, the Pontiff said, the entire economic scene has changed tremendously. “Immense pow- er and despotic domination’ are concentrated in the hands of & few who frequently dre mnot owners but merely trustees and . directors of in- vested funds. The encyclical upholds the rights of private property, but asserts that these rights depend upon the obligations of ownership, which it is & function of the lu’l":wm?gaufl'l suggesting a solution , in a for unem) t, said: “Investment of superfluous income in providing fa- vorable. for L, ns- it the labor is to be considered liberality acullfly appropriate to the needs of our ime.” State Held Degraded. ‘Economic dictatorship, the ent asserts, has led to the degrada e ating and scangalons contus- “int an: confus- ing of the duties and offices of civil au- thority and of economic.” Concentration of power, the Pontiff said, leads to a fierce battle for con- trol of the state, “so that its resources and authority may be abused in eco- nomic stru The rel for the present economic evils, thedl;onufl'wrotemhu a return tdo the priociples of * t, Teason ant Christian _social pl hy” regarding ;n&unl co-operation capital and 2bor. Relations between capital and labor.” he wrote, “must be determined accord- ing to the laws of strictest justice, sup- port-d by Christian charity.” The encyelical demands that free ition and domination be I-pt within just and definite limits snd be brought under the effective con- trol of public authority. cyclical tion Urges Ample Wages. Those who work, the Pontiff said, “should have an ample sufficiency in the form of wages which will enable the worker's family to live decently and to accumulate a certain moderate ownership.” ‘Wage contracts, said the Pope, are not essentially unjust, but under pres- ent conditions he advocated some form of partnership such as already has been id. must be based , the general pros- perity of the world and the condition of business. He adds a “word of praise” | for wage systems which increase the I worker’s pay as his family burdens in- crease. Unemployment, he said, is a “dread- ful scourge,” and referring to the pres- ent depression, “it causes misery and temptation to the laborer, ruins the prosperity of the nations and endangers (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) POSSE SEIZES THREE MEN SOUGHT IN BANK ROBBERY Two Caught in Oklahoma Woods and Third Wounded and Cap- tured in Filling Station. Br the Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY, May 23.—Three men, captured by possemen, were under arrest today on a charge of robbing the PFirst National Bank of Luther, Okla. of more than $1500 yesterday. Officers and farmers, some of the latter armed only with clubs and pitch- forks, ran down two of the men in a wooded section southeast of Luther last night and a short time later the third was wounded and captured in a filling station east of Luther. Officers sald the loot was recovered. The prisoners described themselves as Claude Pugate, 24, of Coleman, Tex.; M. W. Bayne, 28, of Sapulpa, Okla. and C. C, Gregory, 40, of Bristow, OKI One of Gregory’s legs was fracturs by a bullet in the encounter at the filling station. Mrs. Mabel Ashley, telephone opera- tor at Luther, organized the posse that cornered Gregory, calling up citizens of Luther upon recelving word that he had been sighted. il CZAR COBBLER DIVORCED Chicagoan Granted Decree Grounds of Cruelty and Desertion. CHICAGO, May 23 (P).—Charles PBrod, 75, a cobbler, who said he once fashioned shoes for Czar Nicholas and cther members of the Russian roysl 1amily, was.granted a divorce from his wife Bessie, 68. He charged cruelty and desextion. on par- l | to his office An opinion submitted to the Public Utllities Commission yesterday by Cor- poration Counsel Willlam W. Bride con- firmed the often printed rumors that ecntrol of Washington's two gas com- panies is lodged firmly in the hand of A. E. Peirce, Chicago public utilitics magnate. Although the Bride report has not been made public, Chairman Mason M. Patrick of the commission said today that it shows that control of the Wash- ington Gas Light and Georgetown Gas BOY SEES MOTHER FALL FIVE STORKS TOHER DEATH HERE Mrs. Angie Ridgway Thought to Have Become Dizzy at Window. Is | |LANDS ON CONCRETE; SKULL IS FRACTURED | Recently Ill, She Had Been Cau- tioned by Husband Not to Open Screen. Mrs. Angle Ridgway, for the Federal Farm Board, was fatal- | 1y injured today, when she fell from a window of her apartment on the fifth | floor of an apartment house at 4707 Connecticut avenue. Mrs. Ridgway, who had gone to thc | window to call her 8-year-olg son. believed to have become dizzy She had been ing, is and lost her balance. |11l for several days, according to her| | husband, who said he had frequently| _ warned both her and the boy not to | raise the screen while looking from |§ the window. Husband Had Gone. «Mrs. Ridgway arose and ate break- | fast with her husband this morning for | the first time in several days, he said. | Shortly after he left for his office Charles went out to play. A few min- utes later Mrs. Ridgway went to the window, raised the screen and called ‘The boy looked up in time to see his mother hurtle from the window and land on a concrete driveway five stories below. A colored maid was in the apartment at the time, but she said she did not know Mrs, Ridgway had fallen until Charles informed ber. Died at Hospital. The boy telephoned his father, who hastened to the apartment house, only to find his wife already had been taken to Emergency Hospital. After con- ferring with Sergt. Carlton Talley of the homicide squad and other detectives investigating the case, Ridgway went to the hospital, where he jound his wife had died a short time after her arrival. Mrs. Ridgway, who died without regaining consciousness, had a fractured skull and her body was crushed. Ridgway was joined at the hospital a few minutes later by son, Wl was taken there by a policeman ai & friend of the family. Arrived Two Years Ago. Ridgway came here about two years Light Co. is in the Westfield Trust, of which Mr., Peirce owns 100 per cent of | of | the stock, and the Central Public Serv- | ice Corporation, of which Mr. Peirce | is president. | Other Connection Seen. There seems to be some connection | glso between the local companies and | the Central Public Service Co. cf Chi- | cago, of which Mr. Peirce is also the president. The facts forwarded by Mr. Bride were found by the Department of Jus- tice in an investigation into the rami- fications of the ownership of the local | companies made at his request. The commission was seeking the facts upon which to base a suit on the La Follette enti-merger pact, seeking to set aside the sale of the stock of the local com- pany for foreign holding corporations 'or utility corporations and bring it back into local hands. Whether the suit will be filed is not iyet known. The question will be dis- tussed by the commission probably at | its next Tegular mecting Monday after- noon, but pending the meeting neither | Gen.' Patrick, nor Mr. Bride, would | make any statement. The text of the | | Justice Departments’ report was mot | made public, nor was the text of Bride’s | | opinion. | Start of Investigation. The commission’s investigation started | cago announced that vestment Trust, which had heretofore |owned a controlling stock in the two| local companies, had changed its name | tp the Washington & Suburban Cos.| and that the Central Public Scrrvice tion had a management inter- | est in the newly named trust. At the| time the Seaboard Investment Trust first got control of the local company stock the commission went to court in | an effort to set the sale aside under the | La Follette anti-merger act. This ef- 2go to accept his present post with the ! Farm Board, after having served for| 10 years on'the editorial staff of the | Chicago Tribune. He also had worked on_several other Chicago newspapers. s. Ridgway's body, according to her husband, will be sent to her home town, Paris, Mo. Beyond that Ridg- way has made no plans, he said. An inquest will be held at the morgue at 11 o'clock, Monday. “FEMININE BLUEBEARD” SUSPECT ARRESTED Hitch-Hiker Held in Montana as Woman Convict Who Slew Three Husbands. By the Assoclated Press. FORSYTH, Mont., May 23.—A wom- an believed by Sheriff C. F. Pat- terson to be Mrs, Lydia Southard, “feminine bluebeard,” who escaped 10 days ago from the Idaho Penitentiary, was arrested late yesterday as she was| riding on a truck east of Vanada, Mont. The prisoner, a hitch-hiker, denied she was Mrs. Southard. ] The sheriff deciined to divulge the | name the woman in custody gave. He| said she declared her home was in| Peoria, 1ll, and that she was on her; way to Roundup | Mrs. Southard, serving a sentence for the murder of one husband, was alleged | to have killed two other mates. LEGAL COUNSEL-DIES 37, wite of| ’ Frank Ridgway, director of information | | restrictions, signed November 8, 1927. , MAY 23, 1931—THIR" [ L | Charles, at play in the rear of the build- | CONVT INPORTS - NEAR 00000 | Tariff Commission Survey| Shows British Rubber Among Articles Involved. i A survey made by the Tariff Com- mission at the request of the State De- pariment indicates that nearly $700,- {000,000 of United States imports may be | affected by the exclusion of products of | forced or indenturcd labor under pro- | visions of the Smoot-Hawley tariff act, | which becomes operative January 1.| This would be In addition to imports of | about $16,000,000 which, it is estimated, would be excluded by rigid application of the restrictions against convict-made goods, already in effect. The observations of the Tariff Com- mission are made in an exhaustive memorandum, which has become avall- | able to a few members of Congress. With the United States Government on the point of its first attempt to shut out the products of involuntary labor, the memorandum is sald to represent the first comprehensive investigation of the kind on record. The commis- sion studied labor conditions in virtu- ally all parts of the world in its effort to list every possible commodity which might come under the sweeping ban which Congress wrote into the tariff bill largely at the insistence of organe ized labor, $138, 000 Rubber Products. Rubber imports from British Malaya. which reached a total of $138,000,000 in 1928, are among the principal com- modities which might be excluded by the United States, depending upon the interprétation of the law by the Treas- ury Department in making its regula- tlons. - This is because British Malaya is reported employing contract labor with penal sanctions. Similar imports from Java, Madura and other East In- dies Islands and from certain colonies of the United Kingdom also are listed as possibly aflected by the new pro- hibitions. It is further announced by the Tariff Commission that the American experi- ment with this system of restrictions in protection of the American labor market almost certainly will involve serious administrative difficulties in de- termining where to draw the line, and possibly some international exchanges if it should be charged, as is held pos- sible, that the United States would be violating the international convention on export and import prohibitions and No Prejudice Involved. While all possible complications are | peinted out in the memorandum, it is | EVANSTON. 1l May 22 (/). —Henry | Russell Platt, 65, legal counsel for many large corporations and estates, died to- | night from pneumonia, | He was counsel for the Lelter estate | and headed the legal staff for the Armour-Morris packing merger in 1923. | He was counsel and a director of the! | apparently done without prejudice by | { fort failed because the terms of the act | National Life Insurance Co, of Ver- embrace only acquisition of stock by |mont; a director of the American Water corporations, and the Seaboard Invest- | Works & Electric Co., New York; di- | ment Trust, being & common law trust, |rector and counsel for the West Penn was held to be outside of its scope. Railways of Pittsburgh and the John Whether the present situation shows |R. Thompson Co. of Chicago. | any change is not known. | ""His widow and three children survive. ' |ONE-FOOT STRIP OF LAND BARS | | HOME OWNER FROM PUBLIC ROAD | Court Rules in Favor of Realty Firm Which Reserved | Plot When Buyer Refused to Pay for Improvements. SpecialDispatch to The Star. in, 1 BALTIMORE, May 23.— Stepping | build the highway. Instead of making Jcross u strip Of 180 ome 100t agi| !t the full 50-foot width as intended, en though the ground itself is not h touched, constitutes trespass and is pre- | the roadway was narrowed to 49 feet, ventable by law, the Maryland Court oh‘)cnvlng & one-foot margin between the Apru:hudecldfld. i i paved road and Slayman's property. curious contest for the right to walk | Tne completed road was then turned t 17 over & narrow strip separating a | over to the county. men, in Baltimore County, and later|ing it. The realty concern, however, "‘-}’fl‘" using n.A e “for pu 0t wt:lch the mm house owner’s property from the public high- | way arose in a lawsult brought by 8|road, was obliged to step across the one- tried at Annapolis. warned him that 1 As a result of the decision, Slayman, 1 o | ground canslnu&‘dut?:spunov“ll:x‘d %}’e‘g n prevented from using| The judge in the count; 1 'sten | that, the Strip had been “recerses. fos tive purposes” fused to Court of Apbeals, hos the opposite vj Bven " though it 1 fegal Tight 1o Trespacs : prevent it. ‘The appellate court, | S8%%n” mjunct el Tealty company against Alonzo Slay- | foot strip, which he did without touch- who owns the property facing on an im- the county court to prevent him. P realty company the right to preven though the com| d the - o t pany one-foot, strip pay, claiming he did not want the improvement sufficiently to pay that amount. against Slayman, The realty company proceeded to| Slayman, in order to use the new ! the Tarifl Commission, which appears to have been acting in response to a direct inquiry by the State Depart- ment. The survey was made while the new provisions were still pending in Congress, and the estimates of effect on trade were based on the 1928 official figures on foreign trade. In that year United States imports reached a total of $3,951,181,000, or almost seven times the maximum value of trade which, 1t is estimated, might be affected, directly or indirectly, by the injunctions to go into operation on January 1, 1932. The legisiation upon which the sur- vey was based subsequently became law, but the memorandum was not made public. This dispatch probably is the first public mention of it, al- though there was announcement in the New York Herald Tribune several months ago that the State Department head queried consuls throughout the | world to report what involuntary labor was employed in the territory to which they were assigned. The State Department was moyed to make its request of the Tariff Commis- sion largely by a dispatch from the American consul at Batavia concerning the effect on American trade with the Dutch East Indies of the exclusion from the United States of goods pro- duced by indentured labor, or, more accurately, indentured labor under pe- nal sanctions. What difficulties may be stirred over the shutting out of imports of the| ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) STATEHOOD IS BACKED ] e i | Resolution Adopted in Hawaii ‘Will Be Sent to Congress. HONOLULU, May 23 (#)—The Sen- | ate and House of Representatives has The resolution will go to Con- at Washington. Radio Programs on Page B-15! bill. gress THE “ECQNOMY” FISHING TRIPS. Jailed in Refusing To Raise Alimony On Veterans’ Bonus By the Asgociated Pre. CHICAGO, May 23.—Rather, his wife charged, than borrow money on his veterans’ benus to pay her alimony, Elmer Pickle, jr., a salesman, took a six-month .fieflknce to “alimony row” in ja The sentence was imposed by Judgg John J. Sullivan in Supe- rior Court yesterday. HODVER RADCS CORNELL EULOGY War Memorial Dedication Speech at Rapidan Re- calls Aisne Valor. B the Associated Press ORANGE, Va, May 23.—President Hoover today conyerted his cabin at the Rapidan camp into a broadcasting studio to deliver a radié eulogy of American war dead as part’ of the dedication of the Cornell University War Memcrial. In erecting such memorials, he said, the country does not seek to glorify war or perpetuate hatreds, but secks instead to commemorate the courage, devotion and sacrifice of who gave their lives for their fellows and their country. “We do not: mn our own action or belittle the high motives and ideals which our efforts when we ac- knowledge that the war was a catas- trophe.” There is no way of adding to the glory of thcse who died, the President said, but the people of the country and their descendants “will be the better for remembering them.” Deed of 14 Years Ago. The speech follows: “Fourteen years agp this morning a group of American boys carried an American flag into the fighting on the Alsne front, and theréeby made a splen- did gesture symbolical of the might of the New World mustering for the deci- sive issue. “This unit was composed of under- graduates of Cornell University, and was under the leadership of Capt. Ed- ward Tinkham, a Comell student in the class of 1916. It was a vanguard of a mighty army of American youth that flowed across the Atlantic in the months that followed. In this army were 9,000 other Cornellians who fol- lowed Tingham's unit in the Nation's service. “Two hundred and y-four of them did not return. I -am happy today to take part in the dedication of a per- manent memorial to thase men of Cor- nell University who lost their lives in the World War. Significant in itself, this memorial takes on a broader aspect. While we pay tribute specifically to the service of the 264 Cornell men whose names are carved in this beautiful The only evening in Washington wi Associated Press service. per the news Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,627 TWO CENTS. (#) Means Associated Press. | WORK HERE BANNED FOR 2 HELD TO JURY INCRASH AT SCHOOL Stuart Addition Contractors SEVEN T0 COMPETE HERE TONIGHT FOR ORATORY HONORS {One Girl and Six Boys Meet SHITH ANSWERS SENATE PETITION Defends Right to Office by | Presidential Appointment and Senate Confirmation. | | George Otis Smith, chairman of the | Federal Power Commission, today filed | answer in the District of Columbia Su- | preme Court to the proceedings in quo | warranto | Senate in the name of Leo A. Rover, | United States attorney, calling on Mr. | Smith te show by what right he is |holding a position as member and | ehairman of the commission. ‘The suit was instituted following the refusal of President Hoover to return to the Senate the nomination of Smith aftep.dt been reported favorably by | that and Mr. Smith had entered | upon his duties. Defends Right to Post. Through Attorney George Wharton | Pepper, former Senator from Pennsyl- | | vania, Mr. Smith defends his right to | the office by virtue of the appointment by the President and the confirmation by the Senate. He declares he is law- fully in possession of the office and is rightfully exercising the powers and discharging the duties imposed upon the members of the commission by the act mon:ress which provided for its crea- The answer takes up paragraph by ate’s petition and admits many of them, | but denies others. He denies the aver- ments of the eighteenth paragraph of the petition, and alleges the fact to be that on December 20, 1930, the Senate advised and consented to his appoint- ment to the office in question, that the Senate In due course notified the Pres- | ident of its consent, and that the Pres- | ident by and with the advice and con- sent of the Senate appointed him to be a member of the Federal Power Com- | mission and its chairman for the term | expiring June 22, 1935. Denies Pending Nomination. | Mr. Smith also denies that there was | pending in the Senate at any time after | December 22, 1930, any nomination to | the office to which on that date he had been appointed. He asks the court. to decide that he Jawfully holds the office | 'of member and chairman of the Federal Power Commission, and “that he be | permitted to go hence without day.’ TWO IN U. S. PARTY ILL Mayor Key of Atlanta Taken to Hospital in Paris. ROUEN, France, May 23 (F).—Maj James L. Key of Atlanta, Ga., mem- | ber of the American mayors' party, which is now on a visit to France, was | unable to stop off at Rouen with the | rest of the mayoral party today becausc in National Finals at Con- stitution Hall. Will Be Told to Replace Rouse and Bordeaux, 'REPORTS ON NEW MEN | DEMANDED BY D. C. HEADS | i Letter to Rose Company Will Call| Six-Minute Prepared Addresses Attention to Recent Construc- Will Be Followed by Shorter tion Accidents. Extemporaneous Talks. SPEAK ON CONSTITUTION | | | The W. P. Rose Construction Co. of | The champion high school orator of Goldsboro, N. C., contractors erecting|the United Statcs will be selected in an addition to the Stuart Junior High | Constitution Hall at 8 oclock tonight School, will be notified Monday that| when the one girl and the six boys they must remove from all District work | Who have survived months of climina- a superintendent of construction and|tion competitions between 3,000,000 assistant foreman who were held to the | high school students meet their su- | action of the grand jury this week in| preme test in the final mecting of the connection with the collapse of a scaf-| Eighth National Oratorical Contest fold at the school which resulted in thl‘: Each of the seven orators will seek victory with a st brought against him a few | | weeks ago on behalf of the United States | shrine, the occasion recalls the great | of jliness. He continued on for treat- death of a workman. The Commissioners will inform the company that the two men must be re- placed with employes who mect with the approval of the District Commis- | sioners. | The nctification will be sent to | Daniel E. Garges, secretary of the ‘Bolrd of Commissioners, at the direc- tion of Engineer Commissioner John | C._Gotwals. | 'Raymond N. Rouse. the superinten- ‘ldem, and Orbia Lee Bordeaux. the as- ‘Smllnt foreman, were held by a cor- | roner's jury as a result of the collapse | of a wooden runway on the Stuart job. |One man_was killed and two others |injured. It was brought out at the | Inquest that Bordeaux had resigned | tollowing the accident, but the order | Monday will forbid his return to any | work done by the Rose Co. in the Dis- | trict. Building inspectors at the in- | quest testified that they had warned the contractors to strengthen the run- | way before it collapsed and that after the accident repairs were made before the inspectors could examine the broken material. New Workers Must Be Approved. ‘The letter Monday will say that these | two men must be replaced by cthers and that a statement of the experience and other qualifications of the new men for the work shall be submitted to the Mu- nicipal Architects Office for spproval | before the men are placed in charge of | the work. Mr. Rouse was superin- | tendent of the jcb and Bordeaux a fore- man. ) At the same time, a form letter -will be sent to every contractor ergaged in building & municipal structure in the District. This letter will call attention to the fact that several accidents re- cently have occurred during construc- tion of buildings for the District and will call attention to several of the par- egraphs in the general stipulations governing all building contracts entered into by the District. The first of these |is section 1, which provides that the | contractors will be responsible for all claims to injury to persons or damage |to property or premises arising from | the contractor’s operations prior to ac- | ceptance of the finished work. | Losses Up to Contractor. Section 5 provides that all loss or 1 paragraph the allegations of the Sen-| damage due to negligence or arising | | out of the nature of the work to be [ done or from any unforesezn or unusual | obstruction or difficulties which may | be encountered during the work or | from the action of the elements will be | sustained by the contractor. Section 11, relating to the duties of the inspectors employed by the munie- | ipal architect, state that it is their | duty to see that the terms of the con- tract are strictly and properly carried | out by the contractor and that they | have authority to condemn work not up | to the requirements of the specifications and to pass work which does meet the ) specifications. “ | FOR AUTOS CONDEMRED Eastern Conference of Motor Ve- | hicle Administrators Acts | on Resolution. By the Associated Press TRENTON, N. J.,, May 23.—The East- | ern Conference of Motor Vehicle Admin- istrators yesterday adopted a resolution condemning certain attachments on au- tomobiles. The resolution rcad: “No free wheeling device shall be al- Jowed in the States of the Eastern Con- | ference of Motor Vehicle Administrators | | unlegs the operator of the automobile part in our war effort played by the men of all our universities and colleges. “The towers and cloisters in which | ment at the American Hospital in| nas full coutrol of all gears in all ra- | ti | Paris. Mrs. A. P. Gray, wife of the mayor tios as he drives.” | " Delegates hastened to explain that the the memory of Cornell’s heroic dead is | of Pasco, Wash., was taken ill during | .solution would not affect free wheeling enshrined—distinctive, autiful and useful though they are—are not mere bulldings. They are bols, fitting and lasting symbols, of the ideals for which the men of Co , of all our universities and colleges, §f our whole country, fought and died. They com- memorate the contribution of youth to the cause of America, a frée gift of de- voted young lives to an ideal they deemed worth cherishing and defending. *(caxuntalr;r.fwmn’z,f MELLON TO DISGUSS TAX IN RADIO FORUM Address Tonight of Spedial Inter- est Due to Mounting Deficit Faced by Government. Questions of large importance to eyery taxpayer will be discussed by Secrotary of the Treasury Meilen at 8:30 p'clock tonight in the National Radio Firum arranged The Evening Star and broa k of Forum. Secretary of War cpeak next Saturday night, May the reception on arrival of the group |at the City Hall here and was taken | to & hotel. It was believed her illness | was not serious. . Quake Causes Panic. | PAMPILHOSA DA SERRA Portugal, | May 23 (#).—The populace was thrown into a panic and fled from their homes | into the open when a sharp earth shock | was felt here at 2 am. today. The | house of Jose Antas Nunes, wealthy |land owner, collapsed, but there were | no casualties. | devices built in automobiles at the fac- | tory, but would apply to certain attach- | ments sold to owners of automobiles not | originally equipped for free wheeling. Thirteen States and the Province of Ontaria were represented at the second | day’s conference, which also considered a uniform type of insurance policy for liability and property damages for mo- | torists. |~ The | Prazier, Virginia commissioner, who an- | nounced it would be discussed again at | the conference's meeting in Richmond | next October. [STIMSON WILL ACT AS REFEREE ‘ IN DAVIS CUP MATCHES HERE | Arrangemen | By the Associated Press e | Secretary of State Stimson has agreed to act as official and honorary referce of the Davis Cup tennis matches here next week between Argentina and the T of the United States-Canada match which is to be concluded at Mon- treal toda: y. Simultaneously, arrangements were umm:ud for a re: on_of the Ar- gen stars at the te House before the start ition Thursday to shall carry the the American Davis Cup zone ver has invited the Latin- play on the White Housc ts Completed for Reception of Argentine Tennis Stars at White House. after which ceurt Wednesday noon, the | be received formally by | tended practice sessions yesterday o the courts of the Cheyy Chase Club, where the final American tie is to be contested. and Ad- riano Zaj small match, won b Edwin tice would, rival last &n ranking tained by toammales. topic was brought up by McCall minute prepares !speech and a four-minute tx&m%:rn? neous spexch designed to increase ro- spect for and interest in the Constitu- tion. The victor in tonight’s competi- tion will represent the United States in the international finals here next Fall. ! Final Order Given. i The finalists, in the order in which (they will deliver their orations, and | Sheir prepared oration topics, re: Robert Rayburn, 16 years old, of New- ton, Kans., spokesman for tne Kansas S‘l’cg“_sw. ‘The Tests of the Constitu- w.n::'m Alfred Moore estesn High School, spokesman foc | The Washington Star, “Hen: y, & Great Unionist”; it ack Emmett, 17 years old, of New %erk City, lDokellI‘Il’ln for the New Yo!rk imes, “Personalities of th - tional Convention”; . Miss Ever Louise Conner, 16 years (7clgi of g:}‘lmg;" Smfiemln for the icago ly News, Constitution, a Living Document”; William J. Codd, 16 years old, of Spohn!-.n Wuhi‘u:polk:;m!n for the Seattle Times, “Lincoln and - stitution”; s Pongr i William J. Donohue, 16 years old. of g‘e’r‘:l?,:r. N.u\'n., llpo'kh:ms:n for the ess, “'Lincoln, the Savior of th C?'nn.lmulg:lh and . ames am, 18 years old, of Bir- mingham, Ala., spokesman for the Bir- ham News, “The Copstitution: A Challenge to Citizenship.” Allowed 6 Minutes. Each contestant will be allowed 6 minutes in which to deliver his initial oration. When he finishes it, ne will be handed a slip of paper bearing a mew topic relating to his prepared ; He munnnmmm”e" !.:‘mf-dln- rivate ante room, where he 15 years old. of & 4-minute extemporaneous speech. During his retiremeni from the stags, each orator will be forbidden to consult any person or to use any reference books or material. ‘When the seventh orator has deliver~ ed his prepared oration and has retired, the first speaker will be summoned again for the delivery of his extemporaneous address. Both orations L be con- sidered by the judges in their dctermi- nation of the winner. ‘The board of judges who will pick the United States champion from the array of speakers is composed of Sena- J. Walsh of Montana, Dr. Leo 8. Rowe, director general of the Pan American Union; Dr. Lucius Charles Clark, chancellor of American Universit W. Nevils, 8. J., presiden town University, and Dr. Cloye arvin, president of George Wi University. Judges to Be Separated. ‘These judges will be seated apart in the auditorium and will write their ballots—rating testant in the order of his me! It consul- tation. To win the ship, & contender must recei’ he first place rating from a majority of the judges, as well as victory under the low-point total system. If the first ballot fails to produce a winner under their re- | quirements, the judges, still without consulting, will write new individual ballots on the three contestants rated highest in the initial vote. Then, if & victor is not clearly ascertained—that is, if there is an unbreakable tie—the board of judges will retire to a closed chamber to pick the champion through consultation. But the rating of the official judges will not be the only test which the young orators must mect tomight. Dr. William Allen Wilbur, provost of Georgetown University, will preside as scrutator, and he may disqualify any contestant who fails to observe the con- test rule of accrediting the source or author of any quoted material of more than four words in length in both his prepared and his extemporancous ora- ons. And if quality of oratory will be im- portant in the contest, so will be pre- . The six minutes allowed each finalist for the delivery of the pre- pared speech and the four minutes for the extemporaneous address will be |~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) HUGE HIDDEN STILLS FOUND IN ELITE AREA | :One of Largest Distilleries Ever | Seized in Nation Taken in Ne™ York's Sutton Place. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 23.—In Sution place, the home of social elite, prohfii- tion agents were today dismantling what they say are the two largest whisky stills ever seized in the country. A dozen agents entered the old Con- sumers' Brewery, at 42 Sutton place, yesterday and uncovered the cleverly hidden stills, each, they said, capable of turning out 45,000, gallons of alcohol. They are valued, agents estimated, at $750,000. & the rear the brick wall 'flu‘ found 15,000 , private lig e nts went ad. discov X