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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1932 SAYS ARMAMENTS MAY PREVENT WAR Princeton Professor Gives Divergent View at Con- ference on Peace. On the day of the departure of the American delegation for Geneva to at- tend the International Disarmament Conference, delegates attending the Beventh Annual Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, were told by a student of internmtional relations that “the maintenance of armaments may prove to be the surest way to pre- vent war and insure right.” The speech by Philip M. Brown, professor of International Relations at Princeton University, sounded strange- 1y out of harmony with those of pre- Vious speakers and delegates who have contended that armaments breed sus- picion and distrust. “I do not agree with the prevalent that war is caused by big arma- Prof. Brown declared. “This appears to be only a_ plausible asser- tion, an unsupported theory, not a fact that may be proved from a study of history. Fires do not come because of the existence of a fire department. Says Any Weapon Suffices. armaments 1s _not nough to prevent war,” he continue "An)gwenpgn will suffice, if only sticks and stones, when men's sense of justice is outraged. The maintenance of arma- ments may prove to be the surest way to prevent war and insure right. Weak- ness is an invitation to attack. The nation which wishes to be heard in the defense of right must do more than ake its finger.” et “Brown said. that, while the world agreed that wars were hideous and peaceful settlements of disputes were preferable to settlenrents by force, the differences of opinion as to right and wrong, the lack of harmony which arises when nations are aiming for dif- ferent goals, was the real root of Wars Declaring women had 8 “special mission to perform” in bringing about internationa] understanding which eventually would bring an end to wars, Prof. Brown said, “If the women throughout the world would fight for the spiritual interpretation of lfe in its highest form, in that attitude of regarding the interests of others, which makes for sympathy, understanding forbearance and love, there would be small excuse for the existence of hate and war.” Will Irwin Optimistic. n optimistic ndte relative to the prsgfls%pmid(' by civilization toward ghe ¢ future WArs Was soun BreWil Ire tionally known author who followed Prof. “Reduction of by Will Irwin, na and journalist, Brown. > Recalling that before 1914 a “peace meeting” was a small, freakish event, usually guyed by the newspapers,” Mr. Irwin pointed out that “today such con- ferences and societies as this are meet- ing hourly in every quarter of the world; and both press ?nd politicians re taking them serious! . 5 "Finlllyg in the League of Nations, the author said, “and in the Kellogg pact, the world has shown the will to experiment. _ Both these experiments may fail. Very wel; try something else. Political progress goes by sound experiment, by trial and error. That urge to experiment is what mostly dis- tinguishes man from ape; it accounts for our painful upward progress from rbarism.” M}utummg from a five-month visit to Europe, where she made a particular study of the Polish Corridor situation, Mrs. Rachel Conrad Nason of Hart- ford, Conn., warned her audience that adjustments must be made in Northern Furope if war is to be avoided between Germany and Poland. Sees Menace to Peace. “The Polish Corridor is one of the danger spots for world peace,” declared Mrs. Nason. “If adjustments are mnot made, war eventually will result between Germany and Poland. Its amelioration, however, is well within the capacity of intelligent statesmen and leaders in both countries today are eager to find means of reducing the present agita- tion.” James T. Bhotwell and Dr. D. F. Fleming, professor of political science of Vanderbilt University, were to speak this afterncon, discussing peace treaties &nd the best means of facilitating their ratification. This evening delegates divided into different groups will discuss objectives of the conference and the program for the coming year. Debate Oriental Crisis. Dr. T. Lyenaga, Japanese teacher and Jecturer of note, and Chih Meng, asso- clate director of the China Institute in America, last night presented the Japa- nese and Chinese sides of the Man- churian question. Each speaker, in fluent English, gave his nation’s side of the question, Chih Meng declaring Japan had taken to her- self rights that were not hers; that she had violated treaties and that “the Chi- nese people will not submit to foreign control and China will attempt to re- cover her land and her people.” The Japanese profressor accused China of having carried on a boycott more devastating than warfare and said, “If Japan decides on reprisals, I tremble st the thought of what international complications might follow.” Mrs. P. Louis Slade concluded the evening’s program with an address on why the international peace agencies were unable to effect immediate cessa- tion of hostilities in Asia, declaring the “peace machinery” had not been or- anized long enough to bring its powers to effective use. WOMEN PAY HONOR T0 MARY WOOLLEY 900 Attend Dinner in New York as She Prepares to Sail for Arms Conference. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 20.—Dr. Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke ge, who will go to the Geneva armament Conference as an accredited delegate of the United States, was honored last night by more than 900 omen at'a dinner at the Hotel Roose- velt. She told those who came to praise her that she appreciated deeply the honor of being the woman ever to attend e world diplomatic conference as an official spokesman for 8 major power, but that she felt, too, a serious respon- sibility. “I realize,” she said, “that what would mean most to you all is & real achieve- ment at Geneva, and no one longs for that more ardently than I “I have learned that there is a wide- spread desire in this country for the substitution of law for war or arbitra- tion for armed force ‘Whether the opproach of the con- ference has intensified has simply made it art! terial. The significant { exists and is a force that ca regarded.” Among_the prominent women who jauded Miss Woolley were Dr. Marion Edwards Park, president of Bryn Mawr College; Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn, presi- dent of the Panhellenic Soclety; Miss ,Anne Morgan, president of the Ameri- can Women's Associstion, and Dr. Lil- M. Gilbreth of the National Feder- %’o-( Business and Professio not be dis- 'HAWAIIANS PRO TO SOLVE John Phillips Marquand, maga- zine writer and author of numerous books, who is now in Honolulu, pre- sents here the last of three dis- patches on conditions in that city. BY JOHN PHILLIPS MARQUAND. HONOLULU, January'20 (NANA). —When the special session of the Legis- lature was convened here in the old throne room of Iolani Palace, once the abode of native kings and queens, the dusky faces of bygone potentates peered down from their heavy gold frames upon the faces of living legislators, brown, vellow and white. Despite & rumored request that flowers were not in order, baskets were on every desk, and the assembling of the law-makers seemed more like a California battle of the roses than one of the most crucial gatherings ever held in_this historic place. The scene was typical of an atti- tude toward affairs shared by politician and electorate. and anclent custom here. But one fus- pects that too many dublous political compromises have been covered up by them. Yet there was also an undercurrent of seriousness in_evidence. The Ad- vertiser of Honolulu said editorfally that of this assembly, and that the assembly will go down in history either blessed by the constituency or damned through the generations. Jockeying Begins Early. In view of this solemn pronounce- ment, it was disturbing to hear a rumor that a proposed bill making the post of sheriff of the Honolulu police force appointive rather than elective was already a subject for political jockeying. Indeed, numerous leading citizens of Honolulu whom this writer interviewed reluctantly entertained a doubt of the capacity of these politicians and even of the electorate to gain results under the present representative form of government, But few of these citizens or of the officials care to be quoted in the light of the administrative deficiencies made startlingly obvious by the police work in the Massie-Fortescue case, and of the glaring prison deficiencies revealed by the escape and depredations of two convicts, one of whom is still at large after 19 days. Older men who have lived under the rule of the monarchy, the republic and the territory, and have seen difficult problems solved are indignant at the tought that these islands cannot con- tinue to govern themselves as they have done successfully for a century. They discuss the exceptional vice problems of a seaport, a garrison town and a naval base. They speak of days when no one locked a door in Honolulu, Others, however, who have watched the slow assimilation of new and recent elements in a complex population, to- gether with the rapid changes of a growing industrial age bewildering to the minds of other races, have half- formed doubts. But on the whole, it is fair to say that most citizens main- tain a faith that Hawali can meet its problems. Dillingham Leads Protest. ‘Walter F. Dillingham is one of the strong men of these islands. His busi- ness interests are large and important. He is perhaps better known on the mainland and in Washington than any other islander. Owing very largely to Mr. Dilling- ham’s courageous leadership, a com- mittee of the Chamber of Commerce called on the Governor demanding leg- islation to change conditions in the police department and in the office of city and county attorney. The commit- tee said that if changes were not made the Chamber of Commerce would ap- peal to the National Chamber of Com- merce. Action taken by the Legislature in its present special session will demonstrate, says Mr. Dillingham, whether the con- fidence of the pubilc is well placed. “Should the Legislature fail to meet the issue squarely it will add a definite reason,” according to Mr. Dillingham, “why our local affairs should be handled by a different form of government. “From the history of this country I believe we are competent to run our own business and that a commission form of government would be most un- fortunate. I am satisfied, however, that citizens here and on the mainland will not stand for a government that does not give protection to its people.” The question of protection is much discussed here now. A citizen who has Flowers are a gracious | the—future of Hawaii lies in the hands | FESS ABILITY OWN PROBLEMS Leading Citizens, However, Doubt Ulti- mate Success Unless Form of Government Is Changcd. Ilived in Honolulu for 50 years says he sees no startling change in conditions. Riley H. Allen, editor of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, says that visitors from abroad are coming and going as freely as always. But these views are not shared by the wives of naval officers. “I do not think,” says one, “that Honolulu is a safe place for women Whether they are the wives of naval officers or of civilians. Two Wives of officers have recently been grossly in- sulted by gangs of hoodlums.” Police Chaos Seen. A member of the Legislature said to me today: “The Honolulu police force is almost non-existent. It is protected by a useless Civil Service Commission and it is impossible to eradicate unde- sirable members. The appointments of successive political administrations are mixed together in chaos, and the police force must be completely reorganized. So must the office of city and county attorney. We are going to clean up this mess The situation is largely due to complaisance and neglect by influential white men here. The better element is entirely responsible.” A. G. M. Robertson, formerly chief justice of the Supreme Court of Hono- | iulu, takes a more lenient view of the | police force. He says it has been known for inefficlency rather than for graft. He adds that so far as crimes of vio- lence are concerned statistics should show how Honolulu compazes with other cities of similar size and situation. My impression is that the comparison would be favorable to Honolulu. Mayor Wright of Honolulu and Le Roy Bush and George Dennison, both of the board of supervisors, agree that an elective chief of police has been the basis of difficulties and that an ap- pointive chief will make a great im- provement. Nearly all important offi- cials in this city are white. “I think it fair to state,” says Dr. Paul Withington, a leading physician who was brought up on these islands, “that our problem is similar to that of any American community of this size at this time.” Judd Called Weak. Mrs, Gertrude M. Damon, president of the League of Women Voters and of the Humane Society, says that official figures for sex crimes do not represent the true condition, and that there is a tendency to minimize and drop such cases. ‘There is a general feeling that Gov. Judd is a weak executive, prone to play politics. The Governor declined to be interviewed, saying that a press of busi- ness prevented. The following statement was made by Edward M. Irwin, editor and publisher of the Honolulu Times, who has long been a resident of Hono- lul “For a hundred years the native Ha- walians and the whites in Hawali lived together in peace and harmony. Crimes such as rape were almost unheard of. But we imported a population. There poured into our land a confusion of peoples, Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Portuguese, Spanish, Filipinos and Koreans. “Their sons and daughters are Amer- fcan citizens by reason of their place of birth, but in large part they have not only failed to absorb the ideals and traditions of America, but have cast aside those of their own ancestors. They call themselves Americans and insist on all privileges of American citizenship while refusing to assume its responsibilities, and they are rap- idly becoming the dominant factor politics. | Most Law-Abiding. “The more substantial element of the community, particularly the white, whose roots are in the soil of Hawall, and the Hawallans, to whose ancestors this land once belonged, are for the most part law-abiding and abhor such crimes as have recently shocked the Nation. “Now they are awake, but it is a question if they have not awakened too late. They can and will cure the present {llness, but can they build up a healthy body out of the material they have to work with? There is a limit to the capacity of the melting E. White Sutton, treasurer of the Honolulu Bar Association, says that the commission form of government has been in the back of the minds of many here. I belleve that the present situation will be cleared up for a year or so, but, with the growing Oriental population, the future is in doubt. (Copyright. 1932. by the North Americ Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) WRIT THREATENED BY DEFENSE COUNSEL IN FORTESCUE CASE (Continued From Pirst Page.) the suggestion that martial law be the Hawailan legislators petitioning President Hoover to declare martial law in Kentucky because of mine strikes in that State. “As a son of Kentucky,” he concluded, “I now ask them to let us mind our own business and we will let them mind theirs.” In pointing out that his grandfather came from Kentucky, Senator 'Rice said that five members of the Senate came from Kentucky families. Rev. Stephen L. Desha, sr., venerable Senator, added that his father, John Rollin Langhern Desha, once was governor of that State. Resolution Stirs Anger. The resolution of the Kentucky Legis- lature, which aroused the fire of Hawailan Senators, urged President Hoover to use his authority to obtain conviction of the remaining four men accused of assaulting Mrs. Thomas Massie, to try and obtain the release of Mrs. Massie’s mother, husband and two Navy men accused of slaying one of the young woman's suspected assailants, and failing this, to declare martial law in the territory. Senator Jarrett declared that rather than berate the Kentucky Legislature, the Hawalian Senators should sym- pathize with the Kentucky lawmakers. “We are to blame for the many | wrong impressions,” he said. “There (was a tragedy here that every decent citizen abhors, but our officers went out and did the best that they could to round up the culprits. “The Legislature of Kentucky is to be excused, for some of the most ignorant people in the country came from Ken- tucky and other States in the South. “That resolution was passed becaus the people of Kentucky don't know the situation in Hawail. We should say & prayer for the Kentucky legislators and not condemn them.” “People in Glass Houses.” Referring to conditions in Kentucky, the veteran Rice commented that “peo- ple who live in glass houses should not throw stones.” “This” he said, “is a little speech about keeping your shirt on. He that hath not sinned should throw the first stone, or people that live in glass houses should not throw stones or something like that.” He pictured Hawail’s loyalty to the United States during the World War as one reason why the territory should be given the same consideration as a State when things go wrong. During the war, he continued, “Fran- cis Brown, a member of this Senate, went to France. I was told X‘:u oo declared in Hawali was analagous to | STEWART IS NAMED AIDETORICHARDSON |Leaves Capital Tomorrow to | Assist in Probe of Hawaii Crime Conditions. Charles Edward Stewart, adminis- trative assistant to the Attorney Gen- eral, has been appointed to ald Seth W. Richardson, Assistant Attorney General. in the Department of Justice | investigation of law enforcement in Hawall Mr. Stewart will leave here tomorrow for the Pacific Coast, where he will sail January 29 for Honolulu. Attorney General Mitchell last week assigned Richardson to take charge of the inquiry, which was ordered by the Senate following the recent crime outbreak in the island ‘“paradise.” Richardson has been making & pre- liminary study of reports received by the Navy and Interior Departments, preparatory to leaving for the islands. His investigation will cover all phases of law administration in Hawaii, with special reference to the disturbances which were climaxed by the arrest on murder charges of a naval lieutenant, his mother-in-law and two enlisted men of the Navy. Stewart has been an administrative assistant at the Department of Justice since 1914. He is attached to the office | of Assistant Attorney General Sisson. History Repeats Itsélf, MONTREAL (/). —Speaking of his- tory repeating itself, police report a 1932 edition of Rip Van Winkle in Ernest Lemay of Springfield, Mass. Notified by alarmed hotel clerks that Lema; had been sleeping three days, they took him to a hospital where as far as is known he still is asleep. e to the United States and hav under the laws of the Federal (;m}g‘:ld ment. Now to have one State say we should have martial law is unressonsble.” e The grand jury in special sess | vesterday indicted James ]}mpafis}& mer policeman, for mansaughter as the esult of the fatal shooting of Miguel Bafims‘ot a n;.;]vnl transport guel was shot While posses wi searching for Daniel L)map?\, :sc:;er; murderer, January 2. Lyman is still at lll’l’;. e His escape from Oahu Priso to the tension resulting from the 9.‘32;.“ of major crimes in Honolulu and led to criticlsm of the administration of prison, culminating in the of the warden, FRENCH POLITICS | MAY HALT PARLEY Delay of Week or Months Ex- pected in Starting Repara- tions Study. __(Continued From First Page) it will be merely a meeting of experts, it is said, to arrange an extension of the German reparations moratorium from June 30 until December 15, the date on which the first war debt pay- ments to the United States fall due after the expiration of the Hoover moratorium. The French and German elections will be held this Spring and the Amer- ican next November. The real repara- tions conference will be summoned, ac- cording to the present Anglo-French plan, in November, immediately after the American elections. Vote Occupies Laval's Mind. Meanwhile the disarmament confer- ence will have taken place and the great American experiment of the emer- gency credit corporation to cure the world depression will be well under way. The essential factors in determining the foregoing decisions seem to have been the French refusal to grant Germany any extension of the repa ations moratorium unless this is ac- companied by & simultaneous war debts moratorium, and the disinclina- tion of the United States to consider an extension of the war debts mora- torium until after the American elec- tions. Premier Pierre Laval’s government in France, which soon will undergo the test of a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies, is preoccupied with the imminence of French elections and is doubtless relieved that it will be able to escape for the present the re- sponsibility of having to take any far- reaching reparations decision. France May Call in Gold. Meanwhile there are signs that France intends to bring home from New York and London its ear-marked gold and a considerable part of fits dollar and pound balances, taking care. however, not to upset the exchange markets by any brusque movements. The shipment from New York in 10 consignments of some $120 000,000 be- longing to the Bank of France seems already to have been arranged. Dol- lar balances totaling perhaps $450,00 000 more will doubtless be only very gradually withdrawn as market condi- tions permit.* The Bank of France and the Federal Reserve seem to be in com- plete agreement on this policy. 1t is recognized that the maintenance of these fairly heavy French balances in the United States now is apparently doing more harm than good to Franco- American relations, so that the sooner they are repatriated the better both countries will be pleased. The Laval government and the Bank of France have been under strong political pres- sure here for some weeks to take this step. French Feeling Depression. M. Laval is accused in some quarters of having played fast and loose with France's resources in the last few months by letting Germany off with $80,000,000, lending the Reichsbank $25,000,000, advancing Great Britain first $125,000,000 and then $200,000,000, lending Hungary $14,500,000 and leav- ing in the United States about $660,000,000. The French people are feeling the world depression more and more. They fear that a crisis is approaching in Franco-German relations. Well _ in- formed French financial ‘circles think that there is a good chance that the American $2,000,000,000 emergency credit plan may really mark the end of the depression, if its psychological effects are not nullified by some new European or Asiatic crisis. Plan Held Bold Move. They think, however, that it is a bold move. The dally New York dis- patches of the well known American economist, Henry Parker Willis, to one of the most read financial papers of France, have insisted on the inflation- ist character of this new American plan and caused a deep impression throughout Europe. Also Senator David A. Reed's recent | statement about large French balances were misinterpreted in general press dispatches from Washington to the ef- fect that the United States might re- duce all the European war debts except the French have created an unpleas- ant impression in Paris. In a more general way the French inclination to bring home foreign bal- ances seems to be in harmony with the present phase of the depression wherein not Prance alone, but every country seems to tend to shut itself in with all its available assets and let the storm | blow by. (Copyright, 1932.) POSTPONEMENT IMPOSSIBLE. Complete Delay in Settlement Held Improbable by Diplomats Here. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. A complete postponement of the Reparations Conference is, in the opin- fon of well-informed foreign diplomats in Washington, impossible. Germany Is compelled to oppose such a move. It is true that as far as France, Great Britain and Italy are concerned, there can be no disadvan- tage in postponing the Lausanne Con- ference, because these nations need not make any payments to the United States before next December. Ger- many must, however, make important payments on July 15, and unless some definite arrangements regarding the postponement of these payments are made before that date, Germany is running the risk of facing a situation as bad, if not worse, than the one she faced last Summer, when President Hoover thought it imperative to pro- duce his intergovernmental debt holi- day. éonsequently. if Germany’s creditor powers come fo an agreement to post- one the Lausanne conference because t does not suit their convenience, the German government expects them to make some new arrangements in the course of this month, whereby Ger- many can be reassured that she will not be called to pay her reparations indebtedness after the end of the Hoover moratorium. In accordance with the Young plan Germany would be called to pay in 12 monthly installments after July 1 the sum of $446,000,000, of which $226,000,- 000 represents unconditional payments and $220,000,000 represents conditional payments. This amount, the Germans maintain, cannot be found by their government_and in order to avoid a new catastrophe in Germany, some kind of assurance must be given them that they will not be called to begin making these payments. . Had Cause for Anger BRACO DE PRATA, Portugal (P)— Knocked down by a passenger train while superintending traffic, the station master let the train pass clean over him then jumped up and gave the engineer a verbal lacing for disregarding P - Subscribe Today ts only about 1% cents 11-t a°a°y‘ and 5 cents Sundays to ave Washington's best newspa- per delivered to you regularly every evening and Sunday morn- ing Telephone National 5000 and the d:flvery will start immediate- Route Agent will collect each TARIEFS DECLARED PAYMENT BARRIER League Economic Experts Hold Protective Levies of U. S. Should Be Cut. By the Assoclated Press. GENEVA, January 20.—The League[ of Nation's Economic Committee sug- | geSted last night that tariffs were an obstacle to the payment of international debts and if the United States wants to collect war debts it would be ad- visable to lower the protective tariff. Such nationalist measures as tariffs merely prolong and aggravate the pres- ent economic crisis, the committee said in a report to the League’s Council. “Either the creditor countries must lower their barriers against imports from the debtor countries’ the ex- perts added, “or the prospects for re covering their debts will be reduced. Situation Growing Worse. Reviewing the financial troubles that | rose to the surface last July, the com- | mittee’s report asserted that the “sit- uation has grown worse daily.” “One after another, nearly all the| European countries have taken drast.c measures to restrict their imports as far as possible and increase exports. They have been highly successful in the first part of this program, but falled to increase exports. “We are forced to the conclusion that the general result of national measures to cope with the effects of the crisis is almost inevitably to prolong and serl- | ously to aggravate the crisis.” The report recommended that the countries_which were soundest finan- | clally and were creditors should favor | increasing the exports of debtor coun- | tries so that the debtors would be | able to pay. | Debts Dominate Relations. “There is one essential conclusion which has particular weight in the present circumstances, namely that the | economic relations of the different | countries are dominated to an extent hitherto unknown by the problem of international debts of all kinds, the | burden of which has been increasing | conversely to a fall in prices. | “In_theory, a country can not pay its debts otherwise than by exporting gold, or obtaining fresh credits, or ex- porting goods. The first means is pre- cluded by the smallness of reserves held by most debtor countries. “A complete loss of confidence Is paralyzing the international operation of credit so that until confidence is restored the export of goods is the only means_whereby debtor countries can meet their engagements. These coun- tries must therefore have a favorable trade balance, and the greater the vol- ume of their debts the greater that favorable balance must be. “Such a position would not be in- compatible with the interests of the creditor _countries; on the contrary, it would give them a guarantee for the, payment of debts to them. But under the pressure of circumstances extra- European and European creditor coun- | tries are following a general tendency | to set up even higher barriers to im- ports from abroad.” GERMANY RAISES BARRIERS. Emergency Decree Aimed at Danish and Dutch Dairy Products. BERLIN, January 20 (#)—Ger- many’s tariff barriers were raised yes- | terday by an emergency decree designed | to obstruct dumping of goods by coun- tries with depreciated currencies or | or those discriminating against German | exports. The decree, signed by President von | Hindenburg, principally affects Danish and Dutch agricultural and dairy produce. Some quarters said the meas- | ure came a year too late, because it had long been clear that other nations would resist increased importations of German-made goods. The first step was to raise duties on butter from 50 marks to 100 marks per 100 kilograms for quantities exceeding | certain contingents provided for under existing treaties. The same duties were raised to 170 marks on butter from such countries as Canada, Australia and Poland, with which Germany has no commercial treaties. Deflated Nations Compensated. Butter from countrtes with depre- ciated currencies, like Great Britain and others who have departed from the gold standard, was subjected to & com- pensatory duty of 15 per cent ad va- lorem or 36 marks per 100 kilograms. The mark is now listed at about 24 cents. The decree reads as follows: “The government is authorized in case of urgent necessity to impose ad- ditional compensatory duties on mer- chandise imported from countries whose currency has sunk below the gold parity, or which have no commercial treaty’ with Germany, or which treat goods from Germany less favorably than from other countries. “The extra duties may remain in suspense about six months if with such countries commercial treaties have begun or are pending. The government may wholly or partly relinquish such extra duties on any one class of goods.” Has Arctic Bridge System. WINNIPEG (#).—Spare moments of Mgr. A. Turquetil, spiritual adviser to 7,000 Eskimos of the Arctic Circle, brought forth a new bridge system. “If| I have the first bid I go high. If some | one else wants it he will have to go| higher and then I double,” is the way | he explains it. e According to the ancient Peruvians there was not a beast or bird on earth whose shape or image did not shine in the sky as stars. VIGOR the answer is: Internal Cleanliness Intestinal stoppage, com- monly known as constipation, is the cause of 809 of all human ills, say many famous doctors. Thousands feel and look old before ““their time,” often because of personal neglect. I£ you are pot feeling up fo par, want to regain your old-time energy and really feel good again, follow this simple, pleasant method of banishing constipation. Take one little E-Z Tablet when- ever you feel sluggish, full of cold, “headachy,” constipated or bilious. It quickly settles upset stomach, banishes coated tongue and livens lazy liver, cleanses and sweetens the wels. E-Z Tablets gently but surely and P | both he and Herman could be charged | dynamite and question him regarding it. as an automobile mechanic. HOARD OF DYNAMITE MAY REVIVE BRADY BOMBING CHARGES (Continued From First Page.) cut and bruised about the head, (ace" and body. Both Leroy and Herman were charged with first-degree murder after an in- vestigation by Prince Georges County | authorities, assisted by Baltimore de- tectives. Leroy was tried at Rockville, | Md., but the jury was unable to agree | on a verdict. About a year later, he was tried at Annapolis, Md,, and was convicted of manslaughter. Judge Robert Moss sen- | tenced him to 10 years in the Maryland Penitentiary. The charges against Herman subsequently were nolle | prossed. | While the law does not permit a person to be tried twice for the same offense, two first-degree murder charges still stand against Leroy. He | stood trial only in the death of Naomi, | and two other indictments also charge him with murdering Dorothy and Sam- uel. Under the Maryland law, however, with the murder of Naomi's unborn child. Baltimore police were asked to con- | front Leroy with the discovery of the <nspector Frank S. W. Burze, chief of the Washington Detective Bureau, said that since the bombing did not occur in the District, his only action would be to notify Prince Georges County authorities of the discovery of the dynamite. If they wish to reopen the case, he said, e would send them the dyna- mite as evidence. Should they decide to let the case stand as it is, however, the dynamite would be turned over to the District for use in routine blast- ing work. GUNMEN |NVADE HOME AND KILL EX-CONVICT Victim Believed Slain for “Talk»[ ing"—Assailants Pose as Police Officers. By the Associated Press. ROCKFORD, Ill, January 20.—Jack De Marco, 38, reputed gangster, was| shot five times and killed in his home | here last night by three men who posed as police officers. | De Marco had just been released| from Leavenworth Penitentiary, where | he had been sentcnced last February, OLICEMAN E. C. HELMS, second precincf, is shown with the 17 sticks of dynamite found in the basement of the garage at which Leroy Brady, convicted of manglaughter in the death of one of the three persons killed in the Scat Pleasant bombing of January 1, 1930, formerly was employed —Star Staff Photo. RAIL WAGE SLASH PARLEY POSTPONED Action Taken to Enable Ex- ecutives to Collect More Data Supporting Plea. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, January 20.—The sixth session of the negotiations between rail- way presidents and their organized em- ployes was postponed this morning to enable the executives to collect more data in support of their plea for a 10 per cent wage reduction. The union leaders yesterday told the railroad presidents that if they wanted the employes to give “careful consider- | ation” to financial arguments for the wage reduction, it would be advisable for them to present “a written compila- tion of what they regarded as important statistics.” The presidents said they would have the data compiled and yesterday’s meeting broke up early to enable them to start on the work. This morning, their information was still incomplete and at the president’s request the con- ference was deferred. The new statistics backing up the argument for a voluntary wage cut for | one year were expected to deal mainly with the needs of the railroads to meet fixed charges and maintain credit. David B. Robertson, leader of the union delegation, made it clear yester- day that this was what labor would | like to know about. The claim of inadequate return and talk of the value of railroad properties was classed by Robertson as “useless argument,” and he added that labor “could not permit” the comparison of the standard of living of today with that of 1913. CZECH IMPORTS HIT New Curb on Foreign Exchange to Cut Shipments Sharply. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, January 20 (&).—Czechoslovakian imports will be very sharply restricted by a new government measure which provides that foreigners shipping goods into the country must show they are being paid with foreign exchange furnished by the along with about 20 other defendants, | Czechoslovakian National Bank, with in a liquor conspiracy case at Free- | the approval of a special commission port, Il was’ kilied because he had “talked” | while serving his prison term. | His wife, four children and four | friends attending a “homecoming” | party for him were forced into a bed | room by the three men before De Marco was slain. Mrs. De Marco | said she did not recognize the gunmen, but_believed her husband had. CLAFLIN | Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W. Established 1889 AT B safely drive out all accumulated food wastes that clog the intestinal tract, yet they never cramp, upset or Weaken you. Millions sold yearly by druggists everywhere, eep clean inside and you'll look well outside. Clear, sparkling eyes and youthful vigor come from wil Police said they believed he | of the finance minister. Practically no manufactured goods are exempt from the order. {Mfiwm () ¢ ] 3 4 + Public Executors’ IRON PRISON RULE REVEALED IN OHID | Guards Are Without Mercy, Convict Tells Probe. Bribery Claimed. | By the Assoctated Press. | COLUMBUS, Ohlo, January 20—A | system of alleged arbitrary justice meted out to Ohio Penitentiary con- }ncas by prison guards was described before a State Senate investigating committee yesterday by George Bently, | & convict who has served 11 years of a 15-year sentence for bank robber. “A “guard’s rights in treatment of | prisoners are anything that he thinks is right. If a guard says you have | done " something, “you have ~done ft, | that's all,” he summarized. | The committee, inquiring into charges | of penal cruelties also obtained a $4,000 | appropriation from the State to hire detectives to investigate charges that large sums of money were being ex- pended to release convicts. | Miss Leona M. Esch, secretary of the Cleveland Association for Criminal Jus- | tice, testified before the committee last week that she was offered $25,000 to | effect the release of a Cleveland mur- derer, Anis Coursey. | _ Bently was reluctant to testify, but | when his reserves were broken down he talked steadily for two hours. | Previous _investigations, he said, had never remedied conditions and that 19 | prisoners who testified in the 1916 in- | vestigation were sent to the Lima Hos- | pital for Criminal Insane. | “You can’t get away from more trou- ble here if conditions continue as they | are.” he declared passionately. He said | that Warden Preston C. Thomas “h |lost his usefulness and is costing the | State money every day he is kept.” Bently said the death of Bobby Hunt, who burned to death in his cell, could have been prevented. He said that Hunt had lost his mind because of close confinement and bad quarters and de- | liberately tore his mattress to shreds and fired it in hope of being sent to a hospital, where he would be allowed to_bathe. Bently said he called the guard's at- tention to Hunt's torn mattress and | told him of his intentions. The guard, he said, did nothing, saying, “Let him burn himself up if he wants to.” When Capt. John Hall finally un- locked the door tc the blazing cell, | Bently_testified, he kicked Hunt over | when” he collapsed. STEAL $40,000 GEMS IN WALDORF-ASTORIA Bold Thieves Invade Lobby—Jew- els Taken From Home of John D.’s Grandnephew. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 20.—Two jewel robberies, one involving $40,000 and the other $500, last night sent detec- | tives scurrying into the abodes of wealth. | _ The larger theft was some time be- | fore daybreak in luxurious *Peacock Alley” of the new Waldorf-Astoria, & daring thief smashing a showcase lock and escaping with all he could carry. ... The relatively small robbery was in the Park avenue home of William A. | Rockefeller, grandnephew of John D. "Rolfke!euer, It was disclosed by the Ppolice. Rockefeller reported a jade ring and a necklace, valued together at $500, missing from a bureau drawer. They ;}erefthe prn&er;ty 1\2‘ Mrswaockeleuer, e former. . Mary , & widow of Detroit. o The Waldorf-Astoria robbery was de- scribed by police as extremely daring. The gems, owned by Cecil Patridge of London, who has a shop several blocks north of the hotel, were in a large show case placed conspicuously in the lobby. 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