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A—2 xx» PROSPERITY GIVES FRANCE ADVANTAGE Dole Required by Only 60,000 Against ' 4,500,000 in Germany. | recond of four artic! Pk’ Simones on Burope ARd the "ortd 31, MeGlure Newspaper yndicate. crists. *ccopyrisnt. ) BY FRANK STMONDS. 11—Economic Conditions. 1f, in present-day Europe, economics are dominated by politics to the ruin of |, both, what shall one say of At.:; ;ca- nomic conditions themselves?. And here, perhaps, the most satisfactory method of answer is to look briefly at the situation in the several countri®s which are most considerable both in themselves and in their relation to the generau European problem. In any such survey the British fact must come first, for in all my conti- nental contacts no statement was more frequently to be hard than that which ascribed to the present state of Britain the explanation of much of Europe's contemporary misfortune. As to '.he‘ detalls of the English situxtion, '-hesel are far too well known to need emphasis here. As a result of a tombination of'| circumstances, some transient, sone en- during, as a consequence of economic changes which were already taking place before the war, because of the effects of the war and of the upheavals in the Far East, because of imperial difficulttes ahd domestic misfortune, Britain is passing through the most acute crisis in her long m;wn; :;él tgu; is no present strain. fl:;‘ T dmo uence, Britain for the time being cannot Frtor!n her two great and traditional services in the world. She is too weak internationally to excrcise a moderating influence in European councils and she is incapable of maintaining that free money market to which all nations could resort to ob- tain necessary credits without having to make political surrenders. And this second circumstance is at least as great & disaster for Europe as for Britain. Sitoation’s Peculiar Aspect. i Acute as is the island crisis, 3 however, essential to perceive that in two respects at least the British situa- tion differs radically from that of every other considerable European statz with the exception of France. First, the vast pre-war accumulations of capital have provided Britain with resources which have so far enabled hecr to én- dure a strain of world-wide proportions successfully; second, the economic crisis has not yet brought the smallest domes- tic political disturbance. Financlally and politically Britain remains as sound as a rock, even if economically and com- mercially she is the hardest hit of all nations which participated in the war. ‘With Germany the situation is just the opposite. As a result of the war she lost all her liquid capital. in, the strain of war and post-war years has produced a domestic political unrest and crisis which can still lead to events of utmost gravity. Yet by contrast, both before and since the war, Germany has built up her economic life where Britain has permitted hers. to stagnate. Toda! the German industrial ~“machine 1 tuned up to a pitch of efficiency equal to the American, and German methods rival. if at points they do not surpass ours. But, if Germany has a superb ma- chine and a magnificent technique she has no money, no working capital, no liquid reserves. And thus she hsa within herself no resources which would enable her to surmount the staggering consequences of the world- wide crisis. In a word, while there remains to Germany sufficient strength to pull herself out of the appalling mess incident to a lost war and a poste war disaster, she is helpless in the face of the third trial, whieh is the present depression. In Germany, too, the effects of the economic depression are measurabl centuated by the necessity to pay 000,000 in reparations annually. Since these yrments can no longer be 1‘\naneea”I by foreign borrowing, in- tensive production is compelled, with inevitable reduction of domestic stand- ards of living and a forced exportation closely approximating dumpjng and tending to dislocate foreign markets. Capital and Labor at Odds. Again, the crisis which has brought the total of unemployed almost to ‘the 5,000,000 mark has accentuated all the old antagonism between eapital and labor. But what is most significant is that it has induced a psychological erisis almost more dangerous than the economic. The great mass of the Ger: man people ses national and personal suffering, not as the result of a world- wide catastrophe, but as the direct consequence of the treaty of Versailles. There is the settled conviction that Germany has been sentenced to death by her conquerors, by France chiefly, and is, in fact, sinking into irredeem-" able ruin. The two factors, domestic unrest caused by economic depression and pas- |- sionate resentment of imagined foreign persecution, have led to the great in- crease in numbers i both extremist parties, the Communists and the Na- ticnal Socialists. One seeks to preeipi~ tate a revolution on the Russian style, the other demands of its government a foreign policy which can only lead to disaster under existing circumstances. Thus, while Germany today is by natural advantage the strongest state in Europe, and industrially the best of- | fegyation’ in ganized and equipped unit, it is finan- cially and socially the weak and al- though it is true that conditions have visibly and materially improved since the first of this year, I found general agreement all over Central Europe as late as May that it was impossible to |exclude the possibility of civil war if the world-wide economic depression were prolonged unduly. Such strife ‘would certainly not end in the trilumph of Bolshevism, but it could easily post- yone German recovery disastrously. As for Italy, here the situation is more | obscure. Financially, economically and | industrially Italy is not a great power, despite her considerable population and her political importance. - She has no native raw materials, no profitable ~colonies, no accumulation of capital. Like Germany now, she has always bsen a borrowing eountry. Her single at Tesource has been a large supply of cheap labor, which she exported to North and South America before the war, profiting largely by remittances {rom this source to redress her unfavor- able trade balance. Since the war, however, this resource has lost importance. The American im- migration law has closed the American market to Italian labor, and either be- cause of governmental or natural causes the same thing has oecurred generally. Only France has remained a considerable market for the Italian emigrant, but there the Italians have rapidly become denationalized and so Iost to their native land. Condition Hurts Mussolini. Thus, while the Mussolini regime has unmistakably accomplished much in the way of economic reorganization and carried out huge programs of natiohal development and bettérment, it has been unable to perform miracles and ' to transform & poor country into a self- sufficient unit like Prance. As a consequence the “economic bliz- pard” has fallen heavily upon the Fas- cist regime. Mussolini, like Mr. Hogver, having been proclaimed as the agent of national prosperity, as the man .of ldfi?hfl suffered similarly for vea- L i ly sign | nomic and financial difficulties have ‘Has Audience of Hour at Vatican Forum Speaker - POSTMASTER GENERAL BROWN.. sons totally beyond his responsibility and outside his control. But Mr. Hoover, after all, was the Tesult of an election, not of a revolu- tion, and the question involved can be Settled in an orderly manner a little more than a year hence. By contrast, the Fascist dictatorship originally pro- ceeded from a revolution. If today it has dispersed the opposition it has not destroyed it, and inevitably the eco- momic depression has. involved a crisis of regime in Italy as in Germany, far Jess immediately acute, perhaps, but none the less real. Like Germany, Italy must get money abroad. Like German, Italian policy hes come in sharp collision = with French, and the result is that the sin- gle available lending power in Europe is not accessible to either except on political terms which would be dis- astrous alike for foreign and domestic prestige. Above all, Italy and Germany are the conspicuous examples of the fundamental fact in Europe that eco- imposed political consequences. Over against the more considerable states one must set the smaller, and especially the agrarian states of Central Europe, particularly Hungary, Rumania, Jugoslavia and Poland.. All have been hard hit by the overproduction of ‘wheat and grain$ generally, and meas- urably by Soviet “dumping.” All are suffering as a consequence of their inability to sell abroad and are neither buying abroad nor making many pur- chases at home. But all are primarily peasant countries, and overproduction, while it brings poverty, does not involve famine. Thus, three of the countries, Hungary, Jugoslavia and Poland. seem likely to weather the storm with no grave political consequences. Rumanian Trouble Forecast. It is quite different in Rumania, where the economic crisis falls in with @ political and indeed a social pros- tration. If there is onz point in Europe today where a Bolshevist upheaval is| conceivable it is Rumania, and all over the continent I heard speculations as to whether the Soviet army might not cross ‘the Dneister before snow flies. The present Jorga government is plainly not alone the last card of par- lamentary government, but also the ‘probable prelude to a dictatorship. Carol in Rumania seems to be plan- n to follow the example of Alexander in_Jugoslavia. Looking to the West, the revolution in ‘Spain and the disturbance in Por- tugal “have certainly -added fresh ob- stacles to the restoration of normalcy in Burope, and while it is far too early to_Toreckst thé eventual . i i cléar that nothing has been contributed BROWN T0 SPEAK OVER RADIO FORUM Postmaster General to Talk on Department: Problems in Cabinet Serigs." Carrying on the “cabined series” of addresses, Postmaster General Walter F. Brown will speak Saturday night in the National Radio Forum, arranged by ‘The Washington Star and broad- cast over a ccast-to-coast network of the Columbia Broadeasting System. Following the program under which each member of Pres t. Hoover's cabinet is outlining to the American people " through the National Radio Forum scme of the problems faced by his particular derment. n;tnnlm 'General Brown will tal and Alr Mail.” g This Government is attem) o encourage both the American it Marine and commercial aviation by a contracts to carry mail, and the Postmaster General is expected to tell what has deen accomplished in this | Of W' is hoped for. respect and what 5 Mr. Brown i5 not & newcomer to the National Radio Forum. On'a previous occasion he discussed the subject of post office leases, another important prflc!:lrem in the administration of postal affairs. The Postmaster General will be on the air for a half hour, beginning at 8:30 o'clock, Eastern Standard Time. The address will be broadiast here through station WMAL. HAYS AND HOOVER CONFER FOR HOUR Politics Discussion Is Denied, but Harding Memorial Is Reported Topic. Picture Producers’ Association, confer- red for more than an hour with Presi- dent Hoover at the White House today. He was a guest at breakfast, when their conference was started. After this meal they adjourned to the President’s study on the second floor to conclude their talk. Tt was said in behalf of the President afterward that politics were not men- tioned. Mr. Hays was chalrman of the Republican National Committee when Warren G. Harding was elected Presi- dent in 1920, and although his time has been occupled almost entirely in the interests of the industry since he left Mr. Harding's cabinet, h2 has never failed to take a keen interest in polities. ‘There have been reports recently to the effect that he was being considered by President Hoover to manage his 1932 campaign. The White House has ignored these rumors and Mr. Hays has denied them. His denial has been to the cffect that he would not again become active in politics. Friends of Hays and the President in Washington would not consider it strange if Mr. Hoover drafted this former political leader. It is understood also that Mr. Hoover sought Mr. Hayes' views regarding the cpeech he is now preparing to be de- livered in Marion, Ohio, on June 16, incident to the formal dedication of the 'memorial to the late President to the recovery of trade and commerce in Europe. As to Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries, and to Czechoslovakia as well, while they are patiently feeling the strain, there 1y nothing in their condition to suggest any important events. -In the case of Russia, it is plain that the economic policy of the Soviet—their recent dumping operations and their @eneral program—have combined to creats general apprehension, although it ‘i5 tertain that the actual effects of the policy have been grossly overesti- mated. To A certalp extent sales of Tumber and graln have disturbed the Europtan markets and alarmed the agrarfan tes, but Europe generally is more disturbed as to the future than injured by the recent past. It is rather the progressive political and economic disintegration in Central Europe than the dumping policy of Russia which excites alarm. Nevertheless appre- hension of Soviet economic purposes remains one of the major disturbing factors in Burope. When one turns to_France, it is to be _struck at once by ‘the fundamental difference bétween the French situa- ‘tion wnd that of all other European statés. It is true that France has tardily begun to feel the universal de- pression. But the erisis has come late nd relatively slightly. There afe fewer people unemployed in France than in the last crisis, several years ago. Only 60,000 are receiving a dole in France, against 2,500,000 in Britain and 4,500, 000 in Germany, and France can re- patriate more than 1,500,000 alien labor- ers before she feels the strain. More- over, while Germany and Britain have suffered almost; continuously since the outbreak of the World War, France has recently known & wave of prosperity of huge proportions. Nation in Key Position. Frahce, then, is feeling the economic depression only relatively slightly. ile last Winter one talked about revelution in Berlin and economic dis- aster in London, Paris still discussed the Oustrie gcandal. Rich, relatively pros- rous, become the lending power of he contifient, military supreme. France still sees-no rial reason for modi- fying her forelgn policy. The unmis- takable expansion of economic disin- in all of Central Eufope has | not moved her to withdraw her veto to all proposals of economic co-operation which l';,I:Y involve political m dis- advantageously to her own security and | infiuence, You have then the fatal paradox in contempory - Eul : France sses the power to block everything. She has natural and logical reasons for for~ Mdfll&[ pm‘zcn based upon Central EuropeAn combination under German leadership, and she has no domestic economjic crisis driving her to subordi- nate politics to economics. In refusing Briand the presidency recently, France unhesitatingly administered punish- ment to the greatest champion of Euro- an co-operation and the most distin- gul i ed advocate of Franco-German conclliation, simply Bécause in French eyes he had permitted a daszling Uto- pian conception to replace in h's mind the solid realism on which French policy centinues 1 be based. As to the far- reaching Pru'nm roposed after his , Briand’s public read that in the light of recent events and interpreted it in _terms of election vote. 1A sum, Europe is economically going down hill, all countries in varyl de- fi” share in the deringolade; only ‘ance stands outside the new devas- tated area. But if France has escaped the economic catastrophe she still re- members the military agony of the last war. Thus now, as at every moment since the armistice, her policy is based upon her assuring her security, ant hind the. surface of every Oentral ropéan proposal she distrusts fact of Gerrhan design. QUEEN MARIE SEES POPE With Daughter Ileana. IMACHINE AGE Harding. Mr. Hays was one of Mr. Harding's closest friends. CRIME WAR RESULT SHOWN AT CHICAGO Crusade on 28 Public Enemies Leaves Only Six Cleared of Charges, Commission Reports. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 5.—The Chicago Crime Commission summarized its cru- sade against the 28 “public enemies” today on the first anniversary of its battle to drive them out of town. In & letter to all public officials the ccmmission listed the atatus of the underworld leaders, headed by “Scar- face Al” Capone, as follows: Three in penitentiary or jail; four under sentence; one awaiting séntéenee; one ordered extradited; one orderpd deported; iwo killed; ohe awaiting judgme: four awaiting _tr five fugitives; six cleared of charges. The commission restated its purpcse to “eontinue the campaign until all It gave special credit sl Capone himself is appealing from a conviction of holding the Federal Court in ecntempt. BRULETTE VICTORIOUS IN EPSOM DOWNS RACE Favorite Leads Four Course and Linktor Home in Histerie Oaks Stakes. | By the Associated Press. EPSOM DOWNS, England, June 5.— Brulette, the filly owned by Cel. C. W. Birkin, today won the 149th running of the historic oak staies. Lord _ Ellesmere’s brilliant Four Course, finished second, a length behind Brule! w. G. Singer's Linktor finished third, other thrée-quarters of a lelft‘l Dback. fulette elosed the favorite, paying 17 10 2 in the betting. Four Coutse was quoted at 6 to 1, and Linktor, 10 to 1. VICTIMS ARE AWARDED DAMAGES Mexican Decision Backs Indemnity for Workers Made Jobless by New Equipment. By the Associated Press. Y JALAPA, Vera Cruz, Mexico, June 5.—A decision in effect that when ma- chines take the place of human labor and cause dischargé of workmen the latter are entitled to indemnification was returned today by the State Board Arbitration. of 5 ._The ruling wag handed down in:the case of two workers who wete -dis- char, by the Rincon Grande ¢leo- trical plant when installation of chinery made their sérvices unnécessary. ‘The board ordered the company to Pay the men substantial damages. 100 BURMESE SLAIN Punjab Troops Kill Rebels—Indian Houses Razed. Te) VATICAN CITY, June 5 (4)—Pope Pit received Queen Marie of “Princess na at a g”l:‘z';“we'r: mnmugyut;:dnuilm minister to the Holy See, 1s wére or A ed in & between & small force of Punjabi and 300 rebels at from other places. Will Hays, president of the Motion | ;, CI GOON, Burma, June 8 (#).—The d t | ha Least Serious | CAPITAL GIRL NAMED.IN: ALISON O'BRIEN , who was voted the least serious girl in the graduating class at Smith lege by her fellow seniors. Helen Ward of Newton Highlands was voted the most serious. —Harris-Ewing Photo. JURY IN SESSION - ON BOWLES' GASE Testimony in $20,000 Dam- age Action Against Banker Is Completed. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE, Va. June 5.—Trial of the $20,000 damege suit brought against B. Agee Bowles, vice president of the Potomac Savings Bank, Georgetown, by Mrs. Mae B. May of Falls Church went to a Circuit Court jury here for decision this mfternoon after five days of testimon: Mrs. May claims dameges allegedly incurred when she suffered paralytic stroke after two visits the banker made to her home in February, 1930, when he is sald to have accused her of spread- ing stories about him and to threatened to “put her In jall.” Before beginning their final argu- ments, attorneys for Bowles entered a motion for dismissal of the case on the ground of insufficient evidence. Judge Walter T. McCarthy overruled the mo- tion. The defense previously had entered a Aimllar motion upon eonclu- sion of the plaintiff’s case last Satur. d and this too was overruled. Girl Placed on Stand. Defense and prosecution rested late yesterday after counsel for Mrs. May had called several witnesses to the stand to rebut testimony of Bowles that he had never been with Mrs. Ray P. Mills of Fails Church, “except in public places.” Gladys Burroughs, 16-vear-old daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Bur- roughs of Falls Church. princival re- buttal witness, contradicted Bowles' testimony when he declared Bawles and {Mrs. Mills drove alone in the latter's car when the banker was teaching Mrs. Mills to drive. She said Bowle; and Mrs. Mills late one afternoon droye by. the Burroughs’ home .and left Helen, Mrs. Mills' 13-yearl-old daughter, while the pair drove off alone. They did not return until after dark, Gladys testified. Bowles previously had testified that Helen had been left at the Burroughs house “because she was nervous When her mother was learning to drive.” but he insisted Mrs. Mills' son Ned had bean slong. Gladys denied this and efforts of Defense Attorney Wilson M. Farr, Fairfax County commonwealth attorney, to “shake” her testimony failed. Denies Social Calls. Bowles, on the stand yesterday, con- tluded testimony in which he denied ever having bought Mrs. Mills an auto- his visits to the Miils home were purely scclal. He reiterated that he called on the Mills to discuss business with Mills, whom he was finaneing In the dairy business. e GERMAN LEADERS ARRIVE IN ENGLAND FOR CONFERENCES __(Continued Prom - First Page.) conference as involving the gravest issues regarding Germany's financial and_economic position. “The possibilities of American co- operation in a joint revision of repara- tions and war debts must be sounded,” the paper says. ‘The German chancellor and foreign minister will tell the British ministers that within a very few months it will be impossible for Germany to continue her reparations payments, the Herald continues, and that unless the situation is eased by a drastic revision of the Ycung plan Germany may be compelled to suspend the payment of interest on all foreign money invested there. Others Are Involved. “It I8 essential that this dangerous :uunt:m;\ ::x flc:? ‘x;l’:snklyt "xmn:m;r geous, ore out of han the paper declares, .contending that other ereditor countries must be brought into eomsultation and that an effort must be made to ascertain whether the United States would co-operate in a revision of reparations and war debts. “Dare the United States face even the possibility of German all payments?” the paper ., American banks and the Government {face the wrath of hundreds of thou- nds of small investors who were per- suaded to take up German securities? ‘Wouldn't the United States, rather than face: this, co-operate in an attempt to eave the situation?” GERMANY TO PAY INTEREST. Report to Contrary OfMitlally Described As “Pure Inventi BERLIN, June § (#).—Reports pub- lished in & London newspaper that Ger- many is seriously considering the possi- bility of having to suspend interest pay- ments on foreign loans, as well as repa- r;mm psyrmnh.{ utll‘;lul she t: nll;ved of & large part of the rej ons bur- den, were officially deocrrber; today as “pure invention.” t caused a considerable stir here and prompted heavy withdrawals of foreign currency from the Reichs- bank. The stock market, which had Mma- | opened comparatively firm, became weak as the report persisted. FRENCH FEEL NO FEARS. Right Wing Papers, However, Question Propriety_of Invitation to Germans. PARIS, June 5 ().—The Frénch gov- ernrment admits no uneasiness over the Anglo-German. conversations at gld authoritatively to- gland and Germany mnp'}'pe , however, are in this view, and some LINDY UNDECIDED ON TIME OF FLIGHT Colonel Says Details as to Date of Departure Yet Undetermined. By the Assoclated Press. s NEW YORK, June 5.-—Col. Charles A Linbergh told .the Associsted Press to- day that he “would' have to give the matter considerablé ‘study before he |’ decided on the exact time &nd route of his flight with ‘Mrs. Lindbergh to" the Orient this Summer. p “We are planning to go and have ap- plied to the Btate Department for pass: ports,” he said, “but I can't say any- thing, a8 to_just when, because I don't know. T “As ta routes, there are séveral pos- sible ones. ‘There are séveral questions lo be considered, ncluding Tuel supply: ore T §0 T expect to 1a “Before e my ol friend, Dr. James H. Kimball of the reau.” New York Weather Bu Want to See Orient. The primary purpose of the trip, which will carry the Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh over the Pacific, ‘is to see the Orient, he said. - “We have been looking forward to the visit for scme time,” he declared. Plans for the return journey are still uncompleted, he said. No information as to whether it would be by air or by _steamship was available. If a schi up, departures from it may be made before the journey is over, he indicated. Preparations for the flight are being rushed. At eg:.“}lorth Beach Airpoft, Queens, m¢ fcs are fitting the colonel’s Lockheed ‘plane with pontoons for use in the journey. Mrs. Lind- bfrrgh is getting more experience in the al The Lindbergh's flew from Hasbruck Helghts, N. J., yesterday to Hicksville, where they lunched at the Long Is- land Country Aviation Club. Flew Back Alone, Mrs. Lindbergh went up for a sold flight soon after luncheon—she ob. tained her pilot's license last week— and later the couple flew in two planes to North Beach, where Col. Lindbergh left in the Lockheed for the pontoons to_be attached. Mrs. Lindbergh flew back to Hicks- ville alone and Col. Lindbérgh called {for her in his automobile. She was still fiving when he got there. They then motored to Senator Morrow's home. While details are unsettled, the Pa. cific flight probably will be made from the Alaskan Coast over the Aleutian Islands, across the 600-mile stretch of ocean and over the tip of Kamchatka and along the Kurile Islands to Japan. This is the same. route the Army round-the-world fyers took. Another possibility is a more northern route, which would only necessitate flying over a 58-mile stretch of water at Bering Strait. Will Relieve Each Other. Mrs. Lindbergh, the former Ann Morrow, would be at the controls with her husband, relieving him of the full strain of such a flight. The plane they will use is the same one she helped pilot in the 14.hour flight from California to New York last yeer. The colonel will have different prob- lems than _on his Paris flight four years ego. For that he had a tail wind and other excellent conditions. On the Pacific he may expect wind, fog and storms. Flying to Paris he needed no exact determination of his position. If such determination is necessary cver the Pacifie, he is equipped for it, having learned navigation, how to teli by sun or stars where he is. since he became famous. Mrs. Lindbergh's ability to pilot the plane will give the colonel ample oppsrtunity to make ob- servations. She, Yoo, has studied nav- igation. Possibly the Lindberghs will greet another fiver while over the Pacific. Seiji Yoshihara, known in his ow land as_“the Japanese Lindbergh plans to fly to the United States along the same routs the colonel may take. { Naturally wings would dip in salute if | they sighted each other. Erik Nelson and Jack Harding Approve Projected Lindbergh Flight. ST. PAUL, Minn, June 5 (#)—The projected flight over the North Pacific of Col. and . Charles A. Lindbergh was described today by two flyers who helped blaze the aerial trail over that route, as a “sound uhdertaking.” Harding of Seattle, Wash., members of the 1924 Army round-the-world ex- pedition, sald rapid mechanicel pro- ress in aviation in the past seven yeers ad greatly reduced flying harards. ‘They added that uncertain weather rather than any technical failure would constitute the chief risk of the Lin berghs proposed fiight. Point to Advancement. “Look at the progress in engine build- ing alone,” said Nelsor red motors which are obsolete no “Look at plane constructios rupted Harding. “Now lighter, stronger, more durable and more efficient aircraft is available, the result of intensive ex- perimentation. We know pretty well what all materials and typss of con- struction will do. That increases the safety factor. A great deal has been lzarned about flying, and Col. Lindbergh is one of the best." “The Pacific was tough,” Nelson said, "but the Atlantie was tougher. I think Mrou'.e farther north in the Pacific than we took would bs even safer, for the length of the water jumps can be reduced. Safety Demonstrated. “"There is no saying that there are not risks, but the maneuvers which we have just witnessed in the East by the Army indicate how careful planning and improved equipment can reduce hazards to a minimum,” Nelson declared. “Cer- tainly the risks Col. Lindbergh will face do not compare with those he chanced ih his flight over the Atlantic.” Nelson and Harding stopped here en route westward with a group of Army fiyers returning to their base in Cali- fornia from the Eastern maneuvers. They said they planned to return to Beattle during the next week. ‘C ! ANNED CREAM’ SHIPPING CASE WILL BE PRESSED Health Officer Reports Cleveland Corporation Refused to Get ‘Washington Permit. Corporation Counsel William W. Bride decided today to prosecute the SMA Cot tion of Cleveland, on a cl of violating the District milk law mlppu&o ‘canned c¢ream” into ashington without a permit. ‘The ution has been récom- mended by Dr. Willlam C. Fowler, Dis- trict health officer. HMe teported that the Cleveland firm fot only refused to obtain & m{mu for its product into the' District, but had as- serted that ‘“canned cream,” bel neither evaporated nor condensed, not come within the requirements of the milk law, Mr. Bride's decision to on the in an ht wing question Britieh invitation to the ment of f for . the fore going into cburt. e fiyers, Erlk Nelson and Juck( t) 1d | caused by lack of Harry V. Haynes, former president of the Farmers & Mechanics’ Bank, he fiig) wn | convicted today of 14 charges of irtegularities, and Mrs. Louise o fram it ey oo made | About whose account af the bAnk somé of the . Chambers, charges revolved. Mrs. Cl TS did not appear as a witness at the trial, but has sued Haynes.—Star Staff Photos. HAYNES CONVICTED OF FRAUD CHARGES AT FARMERS’ BANK ___ (Continued From First Page) prosecution charged that the false en- tries grew out of Haynes’ efforts to hide his financial dealings from the directors | of the Parmers & Mechanics, and that | { the misapplication of the funds charged was simply use of the bank’s money in stock transactions. His contention on the abstraction ccunts also was disputed. Finally the prosecution obtained the admission that Haynes had charged off on his income tax Josses he had testified were sustained | in transactions that were purely for | Mrs. Chambers' benefit. | Hundreds of records of banks and /| brokerage houses were brought into the | case by the Government and pleced | into the evidence by E. J. Armbruster, | an expert accountant of the Bureau of | Investigation, Department of Justice, and the principal witness of the procecution, which was conducted by United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, assisted by Assistant United States At- torney John J. Wilson. Mr. Wheatley, the defense counsel, was eided by his son, H. Winship Wheatley, jr. | While the present case was pending | Mrs. Chambers filed suit for $280.000 against Haynes, charging he had “dissi- | pated her entire fortune” by allegedly unauthorized stock transactions. This | {case still is pending. Mrs. Chambers | was not called as & witness. In July, 1929, George Willard Ben- nett, a youthful teller at Farmers & Mechanics, was arrested for & shortage of $104,000 and, pleading guilty to em- ‘bezlluner.t, got & nine-year sentence at : Lorton. Bennett said his peculations had extended over four years He was brought in as a witness in the present ease, but only to identify | records. ! When Haynee' troubles broke, they | {eame with a shock to the banklngi world, where for so many years he had been a prominent figure. ow 55 years | the train to Riggs Bank, where he was | employed as a stenographer, and stead- | ily advanced. | He was elected to the presidency of | | the Farmers & Mechaniecs’ in 1919, and | under his guidance the bank had steady | growth, | Meantime, he had been president of | the District Bankers' Association, chair- | mobile, fur ccat or underwear, or that | HOP HELD SOUND UNDERTAKING. man of the Clearing House Association | and w also ac in the American Bankers' Association and the American Institute of Banking. FLORIDA RACE LAW PASSED OVER VETO | Horse and Dog Tracks With Pari- Mutuel Betting Now Op- tional in Counties. | By the Assoclated Prets. TALLAHABSEE. Fla., June 5.—When the thotoughbreds come back to Florida for the Winter racing season it will be to the clicking accompaniment of pari- mutuel wagering machines. The State Legislature, by overriding Gov. Doyle E. Carlton's veto, has legaiized county optional horse and dog racing and mutuel betting. Horse and dog races have been held at a number of Florida tracks during the past several years, first with oral gambling, which was halted by law, and later with stock certificate wagering. Under the new law counties desiring racing and pari-mutuel wagering must approve it by referendum. The State will take a tax of 3 per cent of the fmfl! passing through the machines and 5 per cent of the admission charges. The law provides fof a racing com- mission. The State Senate first passed the law, 20 to 15, and the House concutted, 55 to 38. The Senate overrode the veto, 26 to 12; the House, 55 to 26. e RELATIVE OF DIPLOMAT ARRESTED AT MARLBORO !Joaquin Eflva Accused of Reckless Driving Following Crash Into Pole. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., June 5.— Joaquin Silva, who identified himself as & nephew of George Quitierres, mil- itary attache of the Cuban embassy, was arrested on reckless driving charges this morning, when an automobile said to have been driven by him m}rudafl h of the Rome or Eomtabie & ©. Thompern. 41 m's"m' told police he graduated from Charlotte Hall Hulmm in 8t. left & purse at Charlotte was returning there when occurred, ¢ Eheri W. Curtls Hopkins expressed fllr the accident was a1 been up all night. car turned tw%‘.I neither Silva nzr young man and young were with him were _inj He de to tell police the names of his companions. lva _wis Marlboro by cofllm" d i scheduled ible ‘Thom) tried this RADIO COMPANIES SEEK INJUNCTION Want to Bar Revocation of 1,409 Licenses by Federal Radio Commission. ‘The Natioral Broadcasting Co. and three other subsidiaries of the Radio Corporation of America today asked the District of Columbia Supreme Court for injunction to prevent revovation of their 1409 licenses by the Federal Radio Commission. The court action, orought by the N. B. C, R. C. A.-Victor Co, Inc.; R. C. A. signed to prevent a commirsion hearing June 15 on renewal of the licences. The hearing was ordered by the com- | mission after the recent refusal by the | Supreme Court to review a lower Fed- | eral Court decision holding the Radio Corporation of America was violating the anti-trust laws in its tube contracts with other manufacturers. Claims Present Injury. Under the radio act the commission is prevented from granting or renewing licenses to env companies “finally ad- judged guilty by a Federal court of un- Jawfully monopolizing or attempting to monopelize” radio communication. “The injunctions are requested be- cause the presen tainty is doing mu plaintiff’s busine: ch damage to the . sald a statement dé public by the National Broadcast- ing Co. The original case against the Radio Corporation was brought by the De Forest Radio Co. of New Jersey. The | corporation subsidiaries, in their peti-| tion to the court, today argued the old, he has been in Washington 31 case before the Supreme Court was one ! years, going, as he said, directly from |petween private litigants, and therefore | no one could be guilty” of anything. They also contended the sale of tubes for io recelving sets did not con- cern “radio communication” within the meaning of the radio act. Other rea- “finally adjudged | =ens citcd in the National Broadcasting Co were statement for the court action Two Laws Cited. The radio act was passed and the licenses in question were issued to reg- ulate “radio communication,” not the purchase and sale of commodities. ‘The Dé Forest case was decided under the Clayton act, whereas the radio act in its s=ction dealing with revocation of licenses, employs the language and pro- visions of the Sherman law, which the plaintiffs eontended Rad bcen held by the courts to be different. “The plaintiff corporations,” the statement added, “further contend that to defly them licenses would strike down 4 netlonal, int>rnational, marine, broad- casting and radio experimental system ¢f incomparablz public usefulhess and of a valie amrtunting to manv millions of dollars; that the penalties such a de- nial. would impose upon them would be so0 disproportionate to the offense, if any, as to be grotesque, and so great that they necessarily render th~ statute un: constitutional. The petitions emph: size the property Joss that would be im- posed as a penalty upon the plaintiff companies.” e oy LOWELL FESS PAYS BAD-CONDUCT FINE AS “SENATOR’S SON” (Continued From First Page.) spent the night, Fess many times threatened to have all police cornected with his inearceration dismissed from the force. He refterated his connéction with “the Senator from Ohio.” Fess apologized for his conduct to both the court and Patrolman erick and explained that he had been celebrating the arrival of a new child in his family and had gotten “too en- thusiastic.” Descriptions of the conduct of the Lowell &u arrested in New York, as given in dispatehes from that city, ‘don’t sounid like” the man is Senator Simeon D. Féss’ son, it was sald at the | Ohio Senator’s office here today. While.Senator Fess has a son named Lowell, it was said, the ycun!‘ man, when last heard from, was in Ohio. “if he 18 in New York,” members of the Sena- tor's office force pointed out, “We don’t know about it.” Senator Fess’ son, it was said, is “be- tween 30 and 40 years of age,” and is sales manager for a drug manufactur- ing concern. R A i CANDY AIDS DIGESTION nege o hossessors ot Tect wee WS r . Dr. Donald A. director of Col- gate University's phychological labora- fories, in lm-lng the Natlonal Con fectioners’ Association convention yes- terday, said that a couple of pieves candy—or anything hour after meals aids digestion. “Bweets,” he sald, “have besn found to ; the greatest 'stimulators of the gestion. . Juices, which are needed in di- Rutgers Gives Degrees. BRUNSWICK, N. J. June § Rutgers University today cor .—Rul y n- mnd hon of doctor of laws on 8. rker Gilbert, former ?m general of repirdtions, and Jan erman van Roj Minister ffom the jident of the Washington club, an situation of uncer- | of | the South Atlantic by ONLY B0 MARINES NOW IN NCARAGUA 1931 Program of Withdrawal of Troops. Completed, Stimson Says, By the Assnciated Press. 2 i Completion of the 1931 progfam of withdrawing * United States Marines from Nicaragua was snncunced today by Secretary Stimson. A skeleton force of less than 800 men, Stimson said, now remains in the Latin American public. ~ Under present plans, he sald, they will remain until efter the 1932 elections there. A cable from American Minister Mat- thew Hanna today informed the State Department the sailing of a small con- tingent, numbering 178 men and of- ficers, fram Corinto vesterday, complet-. ed the final embarkation of Marines until next year “Those - remainihg, Secretary Stimson said, include a force of 540 men and officers, forming an instruction bat- talion, 175 officers a8 leaders in the' Nicaragua Guardia and 255 men and officers, comprising the recently augmented aviation. forces. ‘The Secretary said it-was contem- plated the 175 United States officers in the Guardia would be gradually with- drawn as Nicaraguan native soldiers became able to lead their cwn forces. BUCKY HARRIS DENIES | REPORT THAT HE’S DEAD Detroit Base Ball Manager Sue- cessfully Discredits Rumor of Demise. Bucky Harris, manager of the De- troit base ball team, today denied em- phatically widely circulated reports that he had d: dead. Harris, formerly pilot of the Wash- ington club, spent the better part of the morning discussing base ball AfTairs with Walter Johnson, present manager of the Nationals: Clark Grifith, pres- joe Engel, president of the Chattanooga club of the Southern Association. The base ball park was besieged with telephone inquiries after some . one started the false rus CUSTOMS AND PATENT APPEALS SET RECORD Court Adjourns for Summer With Total of 394 Cases Disposed of in Last Bession. The United BStates Court of OCus- i | Communications, Inc., zrd the Radh-i toms and Patent Appeals adjourned | marine Corporation of America, was de- | for its Summer récess today, to meét |again in October. During thé' year the court disposed of more cases than in any other year since its creation in 1909. In all, 280 patent cases and 104 customs cases were disposed of, while opinions were written and handed I down in 325 cases, or an average of 65 opinions for each judge. This is thought to be a record in work of the apél- late courts of the United States. e reat congestion of work in this coutt as been due to the transfer of juris- diction to it from the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbla, of appeals { from the Patent Office. The court i is composed of Presiding Judge Graham and associate judges Bland, Hatfleld, Garrett -and . HEADS HIGHWAY GROUP Col. Les Goodwin of Emporia, VA. Elected at Coastal Parley. NORFOLK, Va.. June 5 (#).—Col. Lee oodwin of Emporia, Va.. yesterday was elected president of the Atiantic Coastal | Highway Association at the concluding ! cessicn of the eleventh annual conven- | tion. He succeeds Col. Joseph C. Stehlin of Jack:onville Beach, Fla., who declined re-election after a service of | several years. Col. Stehlin in declining referred to suggested criticisms of his inistration, growing to considerable tent over the rivalry of routes that should be designated officially by ‘the ascociation. - Other officials elected were D. D. Saunders of Elizab2th City, N. C., sec~ retery, and Albert Sidney Jehnson of Smithfield, Va., treasurer. e e GAS FOUND IN VIRGINIA Undetermined Brought In Near Bristol. BRISTOL, Va, June 5 (P).—The | olume of the gas well brought in late | yesterday on the Earl Ridgeway farm {in Scott County, 8 miles from heve, j was still undetermined today. . Telé phone communication was lacking and visitors were not permitted near the tract because of the danger of igniting the gas. Donald T. Stant., attorney for Davia Elkins and assoclates. said the gas whs encountered at 2850 féet with foree sufficlent to break the cable and der- tick and hurl equipment several hun- dred feet. Davis Elkins and associates bave been at work over two vears in an Iemm o find gas in this section. 'SEA FLIGHT ENDS AS GERMAN PLANE ALIGHTS AT NATAL (Continued From First Page.) Volume in Well ]nml that she was following tbe ship anes. - Nearing her destination, she wire- lessed that she had increased her to 150 miles an hour and that might land off the island and complete her trip at dawn. A few hours later she swooped t) a graceful landing i the bay and the passengers clamberéd into motor boats—tired but jubilant. Averaged 113 Miles an Hour. Admiral Gago Couthino of the Por- tuguese navy, sald the journey was ,made without untoward incidents of ;Any kind. He sald the fuel consump- tion was about 1,700 liters an hcur. He was -one of 13 people aboard, four other Portuguese officers having been left at Porto Praia. Capt. Christiansen sent the manager of tne Dornier works, in Berlin, the' following message: “Arrived here excellent condition. Ate tained an average speed of 113 miles per hour. All's well.” GERMANY HAILS FLIGHT. Great Satisfaction Expressed Over DO-X South Atlantic Hop. BERLIN, June 5 (#).—Orest satis- faction at the successful crossi of in Ge: pressed TmAan I‘:fn o y Y, T Claude Dornier, designer of tie ship, | received the following telegram from Capt. Friedrich Christiansen, her com- mander: “Ocean succéssfully crossed. The commander and crew of the DO.X send congratulations and greetings o the constructor of the flying boat.” Mrs. Meyer Wins Title. Mrs. Jerome Meyer today won the ‘women’s _handicap club golf cham»ion- Al:l& at Woodmont Club, defeating Mrs. Jack Shulman, 4 and 3. Play was at 18