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DAWES PROPOSAL GAINING INTEREST Substitution for Curtis Seen Help to Hoover in Cam- paign. BY THEODORE C. WALLEN. York President Hoover's refusal to talk politics with callers while pushing his economic program was regarded yester- day as banning approach by leaders on a proposal to substitute Ambassador Charles G. Dawes for Vice President Charles Curtis as his running mate this yesr. ‘Whether or not the President is aware of it, certain members of the Republi- can National Committee, one of whom was in the President's headquarters organization four years ego, have been sounding out colleagues quietly to see what support such a plan might com- mand in the National convention in June. The proponents of the plan point out that Vice President Curtis will be 72 ears old in a few days and that Gen. wes is nearly five years younger. It is contended that Mr. Curtis can bring nothing to the ticket which the President himself cannot command whils Gen. Dawes would infuse new blood, add a touch of color and moisture and perhaps increase business confi- dence in the ticket. Persistence of Suggestion. The suggestion persists in the face | of vigorous objection in party councils on the ground that such action not only would offend the personal Jowing of the Vice President. but might be capitalized by administration op- ponents in the cal ign. It is recalled that Senator Willlam E. Borah, Re- ublican insurgent, of Idaho, was Mr. Birtis nominator in the Kansas City eenvention four years ago and praised him as the “best liked” man at either end of the Capitol. Senator Borah, at that time a leader in the Hoover eamp, is among the insurgents who now are critically watching the movement for the President’s renomination and some of whom are regarded as likély to bolt in any event. Those who object to the plan to deny yenomination to the Vice President take the view that the movement may become formidable unless headed off, since it originates in a source which, though not in the President's official family, is high in the party councils. Their opposition includes the argu- ment that public resentment outside the Vice President's personal following might be aroused in view of the fact that he was permitted to anmounce his decision not to seek renomination and re-election to the Senate Irom his home State of Kansas. Opportunity Seen Wasted. It is felt that those "}u; 'l“:n n';- ring to suggest & new deal e e p'rwdency should have talked with Mr. Curtis before his public announce- ment, which would have given him a chance to take the alternative of run- ning for the Senate. There is nothing to indieate that President Hoover took a hand, one way or the other, when the Vice President made his choice to stand with the national ticket, although not a few Republican leaders held the view that the opposition would have bailed a decision to quit the national ticket as indicating the Vice President sonsidered Republican prospects better in Kansas than in the Nation at large. While the suggestion of nominating Mr. Dawes for the position he held in the Coolidge administration has been going the rounds quietly, it is still re- garded as only in the formative stage, and it is not known whether its pro- ponents had planned to consult Presi- dent Hoover about it for the present, if st all. At any rate the President’s an- nmouncement through spokesmen that he will not discuss personal politics with callers while seeking bipartisan support for his economic reconstruc- ton plans is believed to foreclose any eonversation with him on the subject for some time to come. | Dawes Sees President. Mr. Dawes conferred yesterday with President Hoover, presumably on mat- ters touching the Geneva World Dis- armament_Conference, in Wwhich the general will head the American delega- tion. The general, after announcing last week his decision to resign as Am- bassader to the Court of St. James after the arms conference gets under way, found it necessary later to scotch a yeport that he was permitting himself o be groomed as a candidate against President Hoover. He made no mention of the vice presidency and is believed te have had no thought of it, but friends think he would not decline to run with Mr. Hoover for re-election to that office. A further development yesterday in the presidential politics was the dis- elosure here that the Washington State Democratic Convention, scheduled for February 6, is slated not only to indorse the candidacy of Gov. Franklin D Roosevelt of New York for President, which has been expected, but further to adopt a platform proposal calling upon the party’s national eonvention to adopt a prohibition referendum plank In view of the fact that Scott Bul- 1itt, ana other Democratic leaders of that State were “original Roosevelt men” in the Far West and have been in conference with Roosevelt leaders here and in New Yark, it was quite gen- erally believed that the plank to be adopted by the Washington Democrats | might foreshadow the plank on which it is proposed to have Gov. Roosevell campaign for the presidency | PEACE HOPE BARED FOR ARMS PARLEY/ French Reserve Officers and Prot- estant Federation Urge Effort to Form Lasting Organization Py the Associated Press. PARIS, January 16.—A concentrated effort by the coming world disarma- | ment conference to build a durable or- ganization for peace was demanded to- day by two outstanding French organi- zaijons, the Protestant Pederation of France and the National Union of Re- serve Officers | The latter organization includes 86,000 officers who would be called to the colors in the event of a new war The Protestant Federation message to the world requesting all Christians to pray “as never before” for the success of the Geneva Conference, declaring it is convinced that “to avoid the worst of catastrophies there must be loyal co-operation of all peoples.” The statement emphasized in the name of the Protestant ehurehes of the French nation that it considers “organization for peace and consequent limitation or reduction of armaments inseparably B EREC A PARK BILL PASSED Senate Sends Measure Fixing Shenandoah Area to House. The Senate passed and sent to the House yesterday a bill fixing at 160,000 acres the area of Shenandoah National fol- | Va.; issued a | Open New Radio Forum Series THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO left to right: Lower, left to right of Illinois. Senator Robinson SECRETARY HURLEY AND CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS ON PROGRAM. OUR speakers who will take part in the debut of the National Radio Forum over a coast-to-coast network of the National Broadcasting Co. stations tomorrew night at 10 o'clock. The forum, arranged by The Washington Star, will be carried each week by a chain of 54 N. B. C. stations. Secretary of War Hurley and SBenator Watson of Indiana. Upper, of Arkansas and Representative Rainey | DRY LAW SUCCESS, LEAGUE HEAD SAYS Bishop Nicholson, Retiring, Hits Wets at Convention. Board to Back Cannon. The ides. that prohibition is econom- ically a failure “is simply a pipe dream,” Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Detroit, retiring president of the Anti- Salpon League, declared last night, at the league's twenty-fifth blennial con- vention, being held in the Mayflower Hotel. “Modern industry would be destroyed by the return of liq ;' Bishop Nicholy son asserted. “Alcohol makes a few millionaires, but only at the expense of the vast majority of the peeple.” Says Wets Back Program. ‘The speaker said the “weakness of the wets” is in their lack of a definite program. “They don't want the return of the saloon, but they refuse to say what they do want” the bishop continued. “If you would have modification. to what extent would you modify? Where are you going to quit?” Urging the league to renewed activ- ity, Bishop Nicholson scouted the idea of liquor and said sentiment in favor in the last 18 months convention, the Board of Directors held an executive meeting and is under- defense of Bishop James Cannon, ir., who was indicted recently on a charge of violation of the Federal corrupt practices act. O. 5. Poland, secretary pro tempore, said the text of the reso- lution would not be made public until tomorrow. It is understood no opposi- tion to it developed. A declaration of | policy also was formulated by the board last evening, but will not be released until the annual banguet Tuesday. Named Vice Presidents. Six new vice presidents were elected by the board. They are: Bishop Nichol- son, Bishop Arthur Moore, 8an Fran- cisco; S. M. Jackson, Jackson, Miss.; C. A. Norwood, Boston; Bishop Howell, Omaha, Neb, and Dr. John R. Sampey, Louisville. ‘The following new members of the Executive Committee also were elected Frank A. Thomas, Charlestown, W. Bishop William N. Ainsworth, Birmingham, Ala.; Oscar Maurer, Bos- ton: Pred A. Victor, New York; R. A. Hutchinson, Pittsburgh: 8. P Naught, Columbus, Ohio, L. E. York, Indainapolis, and G. H. Wilson, Quincy, m After the regular convention session last night, the Executive Committee met and re-clected Dr. A. J. Barton, ilmington, N. C. chairman of the committee, and Ernest H. Cherrington of Washington, secretary Attempts to secure legalization of beer by opponents of prohibition were assailed by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, presi- dent of the Woman's Christian Tem- perance Union. “Jobs, not beer, are what men need and want, and bread, not beer, is what women want and must have for their children,” Mrs. Boole said Warns Wet Candidates. She predicted the W. C. T. U. not nly would oppose any presidential candidate who is politically wet, but also any man who takes a drink “We will agitate, educate and con- tinue to legislate until enforcement will increase in efficiency and willing obed- ience be the rule.” she asserted. “To | this end we must elect a dry presi- dent on a dry platform. We must sup- port dry United States Representatives and Senators. We need dry governors and legislatures. We-need judges who obey the law themselves, and deal out adequate penalties to convict the vio- lators of the prohibition law, as of every other law. Thus will we give prohibition its chance.” Rev. Dr. Howard Hyde Russell, Wes- terville, Ohio, founder of the Anti- Saloon League, reviewed the campaign of the dry forces which resulted in enactment of the eighteenth amend- ment { Speak in Churehes Today. | “We are now in a second campaign to secure obedience and enforcement to | of the law,” he said. “We the mandate “The saloon must go.' To- used to say there was any possibility of the return | of prohibition “has grown amazingly” | Preceding the general session of the stood to have adopted a resolution in | Me- | HOVES FRLQUC EFERENDUM AN | | |Both Parties See Probable Elimination of Dry Issue in Campaign. (Continued From First Page.) the party. With anti-prohibition senti- ment strong among Democrats in many | States of the Union, the drys may be satisfied if they can keep the' conven- tion proposal down merely to a refer- endum plank. Democrats Would Follow. If the Republican National Conven- tion should by any ghance come around to a plank favoring or reeommending in any way a referendum on' the pro- hibition issue, the Democrats would jump at the chance to get a referen- dum plank in their party platform, thus taking the liquor issue out of the na- | tional campaign to a very considerable degree, if not entirely. The fly in the ointment is the atti- tude of the dry organizations of the country, like the Anti-Saloon League and the W. O. T. U,, to the referendum proj 1. hese organizations have declined to “listen to reason,” They are not going to have the national political parties pledge themselves to support a referendum, which in the end would mean a resubmission of the eighteenth amendment to the people of the States, ejther through pans(.\-[ tutional conventions or through the State Legisintures. Not if they oan| prevent it. | On the twelfth anniversary of the| eighteenth amendment there was staged | in the Senate a typical debate on the | prohibition question yesterday after- noon, with Senator Morris Sheppard, | co-author of the eighteenth amend- ment, singing the praises of prohibi- tion and Senator Tydings of Maryland attacking the dry law. During the debate Senator Sheppard | took a crack at the referendum sug- | gestion of Chairman John J. Raskob. although he did not devote much of his time to this particular phase of the | matter He said: “It is now proposed to submit an!| amendment to the Federal Constitution | reviving State option, providing that each State may say as to whether it shall be wet or dry. This proposal is a mere retracement of old and futile | ground. Such is the aggressive and | sinister nature of the liquor traffic that | the State option system would fail | again, as it has aiready so signally | failed in the past.” | Senator Tydings, on the other hand, | predicted the downfall of any political | party which “would deny to the people | the right to vote on this question.” He |said that those drys who opposed a reference of the prohibition issue to the voters were saying in effect: “‘You are going to have prohibition because we want you to have it.” Drys May Shift Stand. Some Senators and Representatives who have voted dry in the past are likely to raise their voices soon in sup- port of a referendum, holding that with an appreciable proportion of the people demanding the right to vote on this liquor issue it is only just to per- mit them to do so. The American peo- ple, they say, have a right to determine what shall be in their Constitution. | These drys offer consolation to the dry | party by declaring that in their opin- |lon the wets would be overwhelmingly | beaten in a test of this kind. Indeed, they say they think the dry organiza- tion rather stupid not to accept the challenge of the wets, have a referen- dum or resubmission of the cighteenth amendment in one form or another, as any referendum would have to be, and snow the wets under Leaders of the Anti-Saloon League, in Washington to attend the biennial convention of the league, occupied seats in the gallery while Senator Sheppard and Senator Tydings debated the pro- | hibition_issue. The Texas Senator said that bene- |ficial as prohibition had been in this | country, “it would have been fare more | helpful but for the fact that it has had to contend with large minority sections | where it has been constantly ~ridiculed and resisted. “They are seeking” he continued. “what they call a referendum by Con- gress on questions of changing the Constitution so as to legalize intoxi- cants in States desiring them as well as endeavoring to nullify the Constitution as related to prohibition by a congres- slonal statute restoring the alcoholic drug in the form of beer “Let them exereise the referendum RADIO FORUM DUE ONAR TOMORROW Hurley and Watson on Initial Program in New Series on N. B. C. The National Radio Forum, & long established radio educational feature arranged by The Washington Star, makes its debut tomorrow night at 10 o'clock over WRC and an extensive coast-to-coast network of other Na- tional Broadcasting Co. stations. Fifty-four N. B. C. stations, stra-| tegically located so as to blanket the | entire country, will carry the forum series from Washington every Monday | night at 10 o'clock. Hoover to Send Message. | A gala program, featuring messages | from President Hoover, Vice President | Curtis and Speaker Garner of - the House and addresses by Secretary of War Hurley and congressional leaders, will mark the initial broadcast over an | N. B. C. chain The congresslonal leaders who will speak are Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Republfcan leader of the | Senate; Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate, and_Representative Henry T. Ratney of Illinois, Democratic leader of the House. Musical Setting Is Feature. A distinctive feature of the forum broadcasts on N will be a mu- sical sctting provided by a studo or- chestra. Each program also will open and close with the playing of the “Weshington §tar March,” composed by Capt. William J. Stannard of the | United States Army Band and dedi- cated to The Star. Cabinet officers, members of Congress and prominent Government officials in Washington are to take part in subse- quent forum programs. Current issues of national and . international impor- tance will be discussed. . ‘HOSPITAL FUND ASKED Appropriation for Casualty Pro- vided in Bill Given House. A bill providing for an appropriation of $50,000 toward the alteration and re- pair of the buildings of the Eastern Dispensary at Casualty Hospital, which has already been introduced in the Senate by Senator Capper, was intro- duced in the House yesterday by Rep- resentative Clarence” J. McLeod, Re- publican, of Michigan | Not more than $20,000 of the pro- | posed appropriation would be used for the alteration and repairs. The re- mainder would be used for retiring the existing indebtedness on the hospital buildings. Federal Constitution’ on the subject of prohibition “No convention declaration can bind any Representative or Senator in oppo- sition to the desire of the people who | gave them their political being Warns “No Compromise.” Senator Sheppard declared that the wets should be placed on notice that these is to be “no compromise” on the prohibition question and no resubmis- sion of the eighteenth amendment or any proposal to modify it unless it come in the same way that the| eighteenth amendment was adopted, by | the adoption of a resolution by & two- thirds vote in each house of Cangress proposing such an amendment. | Senator Sheppard eulogized prohibi- tion, declaring that its benefits to the | American people had been great, and | deriding the wets who said that drink- | ing could compare in volume today to the drinking in the United States before the days of national prohibition. | Senator Tydings, declaring himself for temperance, insisted the drys had I'gone the wrong way about getting it. He wanted to know why Al Capone, the Chicago gang leader and bootlegger on a major scale, had never been tried and | convicted of violating the prohibition Jaws when he was known to have vio- lated them every day for years, and why the Federal Government had | finally resorted to trying him for | violation of the income tax law. “Can & man be stronger than the Government?” demanded Senator Tyd- ings, referring to Capone, “Capone was. Can’a man be stronger than the Police Department? He was. The best you could do was to fine and imprison Ca- pone for violation of the income tax law.” Tydings insisted that there is neither prohibition nor temperance in this country today. He added that such mat- ters as prohibition can be dealt only by the local communities; “you can't send a man from Washington D C. to Seattle, Wash. and have it done,” he said. He said that the recent victories of wet Democratic candidates for Congress in New Hampshire and Michigan showed the way sentiment was veering against the drys. To this Senator Sheppard replied: “The Sena- tor from Maryland has mistaken a Democratic landslide for a wet land- | | the Republican Governor of Pennsyl- | with speculation as to what it was all D. C., JANUARY 17, Washington’s Beer Recipe Is Read by Tydings in Senate Hawes’ Letter to Bingham Also Tells of Wine and Whisky Making. By the Associated Press. In the Senate yesterday Senator Tydings, Democrat, Maryland, read the following letter written by Senator Hawes, Democrat, Missouri, to Senator Bingham, Republican, Connecticut, who is the author of a bill to legalize r cent beer: R ot course, are familiar with George Washington making each year large quantities of wine and distilling whisky which he not only used but sold, and undoubtedly on Visits to Mount Vernon have viewed with some envy his silver pocket flask, the larger flask which he used on his saddle when horseback riding, and the third flask which he carried in his coach “Possibly you do not possess a copy of his famous recipe for making beer, Wwritten in his own handwriting, as fol- lows “'Take a large sifter full of bran hops to your taste. Boil these three hours, then strain out 30 gallons into & cooler. Put in three gallons molasses while the beer is scalding hot, or, rather, draw the molasses into the cooler and strain the beer on it while boiling hot. Let this stand til it is little more than blood warm, then put in a quart of yeast. If the weather is very cold cover it over with a blanket and let it work In the cooler 24 hours, then put it into the cask. Leave the bung open until it is almost done working, Bottle it that day week it was brewed.” “You may derive some personal benefit and satisfaction in experiment- ing with this recipe in addition to calling it to public attention.” RELIEF PROBLENS FOUND SIMLAR Pinchot and Roosevelt Agree During Long Talk in Philadelphia. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 16.—The Democratic Governor of New York and vania, both possibilities as presidential candidates, met here today and agreed on one thing—their unemployment re- lief problems are similar. Gov. Roosevelt, here to attend the wedding of his son Elliott to Miss Elizabeth Browning Donner at Bryn Mawr today, and Gov. Pinchot talked the better part of an hour in the New York Governor's hotel suite. While they were together on the sev- enth floor the lobby of the hotel, filled with New York political leaders with a sprinkling from Pennsylvania, buzzed about. “Merely Swapped Views.” “We merely swapped views on unem- ployment relief legislation,” said Gov. Roosevelt after the meeting. “That’s right,” said Gov. Pinchot. All efforts to draw out the New York Governor on the question of his candi- dacy for the Demofrllk‘, presi}?:(\;ltl;l nomingtion were futile; He laugl o a1} A questions He asserted he was not talking poli- tics and he was on a three-day vaca- tion. After attending tHe wedding and the reception at the home of the bride's parents Gov. Roosevelt returned by au- tomobile to New York On the unemployment problem, Gov. Roosevelt said: Find Common Problem. “We have found & common problem in the two_ States, especially concern- ing unemployment relief. New York City is_in much the same position as Philadelphia. They are having difficulty in borrowing and are cutting their bud- get. The up-State cities have cut their budgets heavily and are now in pretty good shape.” Gov. Pinchot expressed satisfaction over his talk with Gov. Roosevelt. “We are in accord on most every- thing,” he said. “Conditions are simi- lar in the two States in some respects, but they are very different on the sub- ject of taxation.” Among those who saw Gov. Roosevelt here today were Norman E. Mack, Democratic national committeeman from New York, and Joseph F. Guffey of Pittsburgh, former Democratic national committeeman from Pennsylvania. Guf- fey is on record as stating that Gov. Roosevelt will have at least 66 of Penn- | sylvania's 76 delegates in the national convention. Jugoslavia plans to spend $409,000,000 | on public projects. 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If we can be of service, to you as a savings depositor or as a borrower, our facilities are at your disposal INDIVIDUAL ery profession and in ears made a study of —taking care of his available to him the , we believe, evidences e fact that we have nd banking loans to Marris Plan Bank Under Supervision U. S, Treasury 932—PART ONE. ROOSEVELT GROUP REPORTS PROGRESS Holds Analostan Island Most| Picturesque Area in Dis- trict Undeveloped. Terming Analostan Island “the most picturesque area in the District which | has remained undeveloped,” the an-| nual report of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, made public here today, said that the past year has witnessed progress “toward the realization of the association’s primary aim, the estab- lishment of an appropriate monumental memorial to Theodore Roosevelt in the | Netional Capital.” The asseciation re- | cently purchased Analostan Island from | the Washington Gas Light Co. for $364,000. Details Withheld. Without disclosing details of the shape the memorial to Theodore Roose- velt will take, the association’s report says: “In the plans for the develop- ment of Washington, the island is re- garded In & sense as & gateway to the wild territory along the river which was the scene of President Roosevelt's favorite tramping trips. It lles, in fact, directly opposite the mouth of Rock Creek. The island is largely solid rock and provides, therefore, excellent foot- ing for any structure which might be | designed for it.” | The report recalled that the Roose- velt Medals for 1931 have been awarded to Judge Benjamin N. Cardogo, for “the development of public law"; Hamlin Garland, for his contributions to Amer- ican literature in the field of social his- tory, and Dr, C. Hart Merriam, for “they ]lpmmotion of the study of natural his- ory.” Assets Set at $2,596,859. The net worth of the association’s assets, as shown in the report, was $2.,59C,859. The report asserts that the trustees have now fulfilled wholly or in sub- stantial part the three aims for which the association was organized. It says: | “The site purchased for the monu mental memorial constitutes in itself a unique memorial; the park at Oyster Bay is established and in use; the ma- chinery to ald in the perpetuation of Ccl. Roosevelt's ideals has been set up and is functioning. The fund, even in these troubled times, is bringing an ade- quate income. Nevertheless, the di- rector earnestly hopes that a dynamic discontent may find expression among the members of the board and bring to light wa{s and means to make the work of the association more effective and far-reaching.” The report was submitted by Her- man Hagedorn, the association's sec- fitnry, who lives at 4767 Indian lane, ere. COCHRAN WILL SPEAK Will Address Catholic Charities| Next Thursday Night. Representative John J. Cochran of Missouri, chairman of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Ex- cutive Department, will be the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the Catholic = Charities in the small ball room of the Willard Hotel next Thurs- day night. Mrs. Mary T. Norton, chairman of the House District Committee, will speak briefly. Plans for the meeting are in charge of Reyv. John O'Grady, director of the Catholic Charities. Eastern Star Plans Dance. Chevy Chase Chapter, 39, of O. E. 8. will hold its annual dance at Almas | a mass meeting Tuesday night at Met- | Thirteenth and K streets, | ropolitan A. M. E. Church, Fifteenth | Temple, January 23 from 9 o'clock to midnight. | The Mayfair Orchestra has been en- | gaged for the occasion. CONTINUATION Holds Midshipmen Punished for Taking Girls to Mess Hall Walsh Introduces Bill Asking Reinstatement ed Pair. By the Associated Press. Two Annapolis midshipmen, dismissed in July, 1930, for taking two Washing- ton girls into the Naval Academy mess hall, would be reinstated under a bill | introduced yesterday by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massachusetts. An identical measure passed the Sen- ate last year, but was not acted upon by the House. The young men are Lawrence L. My- att, Quicy, Mass., now at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Miller S. Burgin, appaointed to the academy | from Texas and now & senior at Geor- gla Tech: ‘Walsh said he thought they had been punished enough and contended naval authorities had chosen to “make an ex- ample of them." The Washington girls were the Misses Lorette Taylor and Mary Hayden, They donned midshipmen’s uniforms to gain entrance to the mess hall. HISTORY TO FIGURE IN LOUISIANA VOTE Foes Accuse Long’s Candi- | date of Descent From Briton Who Ousted Acadians. By the Associated Presa, NEW. ORLEANS, January 16.—The political campaign that started mildly will close Monday night after weeks of hot attacks and counter attacks on the stump over the election of State of- ficers. y: Two columns of voters will go to the polls Tuesday in the Democratic primary election, the pro-Huey Longs and the anti-Huey Longs, as the com- bination Governor-Senator has become the prime issue in the campaign. Huey Long launched a State ticket headed by O. K. Allen for Governor and has actively supported him. Long has made at least a hundred speeches, in which he assailed opposition candi- dates and urged voters to elect the Allen ticket to complete the Long program. The opposition ticket is split among four candidates, the most_ active of whom are Dudley J. Le Blanc and George Seth Guion. Le Blanc, who is of French extrac- tion and comes from the Evangeline country, addresses his followers in the | French dialect of the parishes and has accused O. K. Allen with being a de- scendant of the British General Allen, who drove the Acadians out of Nova Scotia and into Louisiana. Allen de- nies any such ancestry. Le Blanc also advocates an old age pension. Guion promises the voters a cure for “Long-ism” and to bring dignity back to the office of Governor. Each of the candidates has a full | State ticket of his own, ranging from Governor to constable. B I TWO WILL GIVE TALKS Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard University, and Miss Mary ‘White Ovington of the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People will be the principal speakers at and M streets. The meeting will be under auspices of the Lend a Hand Club. ORY LW AUTHOR SCORES BERBIL Declares Measure Would Open “Saloon Doors, Brass Rails and AlL.” By the Associated Press, ST. PAUL, Minn, January 18.—An- drew J. Volstead, author of the prohi~ bition enforcement act, today wrote to Senator Bingham of Connectfout that his bill legalizing 4 per cent beer “as drawn opens wide the old saloon doors, brass rails and all.” The 12th anniversary of national prohibition brought from Volstead, now | legal adviser to the district dry law enforcement administrator here, the declaration that “I am still for prohi- bition.” He branded the proposed law as one which “would tend to depress business and not afford relief.” On January 5 Volstead was invited by the Connecticut Republicans to pear before the Senate Manufactures El(l;lmmmn during hearings on the beer Volstead Refuses Bid. Volstead refused, saying he would go to Washington only in response to s subpoena. Bingham announced no subpoena would be issued. In his letter Volstead said: “Your appeal to me for help is misdirected. I never did say that a beverage such as beer containing 2 or 8 per cent of alcohol is not intoxicating. The dis- cussion referred to by you was in re- | gard to the fruit juices authorized un« | der section 20 of the prohibition act. “Whatever statement was made was in view of the fact that fruit juices usually contain too much sugar or solids to be drunk in any large quan= titles. The Government has repeat« edly authorized the sale of wine with & much larger alcoholic content than 3 per cent that contained sugar of other equally harmless ingredients to prevent its consumption in intoxcating quantities.” Trick to Decelve Public. He concluded with “why not unmask | and tell us plainly that from & political | standpoint the wets think beer more | important than the Constitution and | that the pretenses of the wets that they are opposed to the saloon Is but & | shifty trick to decelve the public.” Volstead said: “Your appeal for beer on the ground that it will ‘provide a | tremendous source of the revenue that | is greatly needed’ is, as I view ii, lased | on a delusion.” | " Before the World War the Govern- ment received from taxes on malt liquors less than seventy million dol- lars annually, he asserted, aud con- tinued: “Is it reasonable to believe that with millions of people out of work the Ped- eral Government could collect even half of that sum now, especialiy since a large majority of the beer drinkers have long1 since given up the beer- drinking habit?” He then asked, “Who are the ones who paid this tax?” and answerad, “Not the rich; not the aristocrat. Com- ratively few of them care for | beer. They drink wines and highballs, | Still they appear to be the prin | advocates of the beer bill and they | frankly confess that one of the chief reasons for pleading for beer is to r lieve them from paying income taxes, WILL CHOOSE OFFICERS Officer of the Phyllls Wheately: Y. W. O: A. will be elected at the an«+ nual meeting of the organisation to- morrow night at 8 o'clock. ~ Anmual reports also will be submitted. | Lucy Slowe, dean-of women &t | Howard University, will be the principal speaker. Joseph D. Kaufman, chair- man of the speakers, burean of the Community Chest, will discuss the Chest campaign, which opens Jan< uary 24. OF AUCTION SALE OF $35,000 STOCK OF Maxwell Furniture Co 415 Seventh St. N.W. Due to the vast quantity of merchandise, we were unable to complete the sale at the Store, 415 Seventh St. N.W., on Satur- day, and we are compelled to hold the concluding auction At the Store—4I15 Seventh St. N.W, On MONDAY, Jan. 18th Commencing at 10 AM. The auction sale scheduled to take place on Monday at the Warehouse, 1123 Seventh St. N.W.,, is postponed to Tuesday, January 19th GUS EICHBERG CO. AUCTIONEERS Park to be taken over by the Govern-|day the slogan is ‘the bootlegger must ment. g0 now at their command and at the com- “Fhe measure, which was approved on | Addresses by delegates will be heard | nand of all citizens—the right of peti- meotion of Benator Bwanson of Virginia, today in npwoximluly 40 churches |tion and appeal to the district and defines this as the minimum area for throughout ashington and nearby | State constituencies on the question of sdministration, pretection and general' Maryland and Virginia. Among those | instructing their Representatives and development by the National Park who are to speak are Dr. F. Scott Mc-‘ummrs in any manner they see fit as The 3 park was for Bride, general superintendent of the|to whether or not these officials shall exiginally by sn act of 1 league, and Bishop Nicholson. vote to submit an amendment te the 1408 H Styeet Nosthwest Phone: NAtional 3866 514 Tenth St. N.W.