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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1932. fUA-—2 wEw ‘PHONE CALL GIVES “BAR” INSPECTED ECONOMY PROGRAM MRS. WORRELL HITS Women Demand Better Prohibition Enforcement KIDNAPING HOPE| LEAVE FORFEITURE Mysterious Speaker Says Baby Will Be Returned This Week. (Continued Prom First Page.) and several flares had been reported off Gayhead, a promontory on its west- ern coast. Another item’ that aroused 4nterest was the finding of a leather bag at Chilmark containing men's, clothing. Falmouth residents reported sighting a plane: also three vessels in the sound | off Gayhead, and the shooting off of flares from the vessels. Not Coast Guard Boats. Falmouth is on the mainland proximately 15 miles from Gayhead nobody at Gayhead or at point along the western col tha's Vineyard could be saw either the piane, the bo ap- s or the flares. | The boats were believed Coast Guard | vessels by thase who saw them, but th Coast Guard denied having craft in that vicinity. If ‘were private craft, no K they came. The Gay ; made no report of ahy strange vessels being within its view last night. nor did it report any plane or any flares Sources familiar with pras every point on this island failed to dis- | close any such activity as was reported by several persons in Falmouth Revives Contact Rumors. The report, however, led to instan- taneous and continuous rumors that Col. Lindbergh or his intermediaries were trying to make further contact with tle dnapers. The plane, reported from Falmouth flew south about a half hour before the flares appeared. On Martha's Vineyard, however, the only plane seen passed over the island at 9:30 last night, four hours before the flares were reported Those familiar with conditions on all #ides of Marthas Vineyard pointed out that the position given for the boats and flares was the least auspicious for | making a contact from the air A strong wind was blowing and the sea was rough. If a contact were to| be made between an airplane and a vessel, these sources said the southern | side of the island would have furnished a better place. The landing of a plane | in the waters off Gayhead would have been hazardous, they said All identifying marks had been cut| or torn from the various pleces of | sspperel. A ticket stub of the Pare- { mount Theater, New York, and a ticks# {of the Hudson Steamship Co. furnished sthe only clues. GANG BREAK TOLD IN TIP. { TOLEDO, Ohio. April ). -In- i formation purporting to come from one fof the kidnsvers of the Lindbergh baby that the child is now in Detroit and swill be released safely within a week ! was investigated by authorities today. { ‘The new clue was given last night iin a mysterious telephone call to the ‘Toledo Times from a man who police {tried unsuccessfully to trace. { The m said the kidnapers had feome to a disagreement and that he iwanted Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind- ‘bergh, the parents, to be notified not ! ‘to pay any more ransom. {_ Oiving his name as “Patterson” and | this home New York, the mysterious icaller informed the Times that a mes-| {mge would be sent within two days to is probate judge in Toledo telling’ how | fsnd where to find the child, tafe and | § well, | ! 18 CURTIS LEAVES NORFOLK. Hughes Curtis left Norfolk today on an- § other trip believed to be in the inter- NORFOLK, Va., April 18 (#).—John | Declares Proposal Would Wipe Out Morale of Em- ployes in Federal Service. Proposal that bivil Service employes forfelt their customary vacation in ad- dition to an enforced furlough was at- | tacked today in a statement issued by Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, presi- dent of the League of the American Civil Service. A {on all salaries except those in the ex- ‘eme bottom of the list would be pref- jerable as a means of cutting Govern- ment pay roll expenditures, Mrs. Wor- rell safd ing effected on furlough the double basis would operate to lower the morale of Federal workers, Statement Quoted. Worrel follows The plan tion m ay compels the employ 1d get noth! His salary is low st pay taxes, doctors and dentist high and he m ne on account of the non- filing of vacancies through death and retirement, and to deprive him of his granted leave would cause great dis- content and discouragement through- { out the service. Provided there was to be mo for- e of annual or other leave to ch employes are now entitled. a that a strajghtforward bill without limitation, or technicalities, or possi- bility of favoritism, could be enacted such as the following “‘Each and every Federal employe fei and no less, at some time during the fiscal year 1933. Said furlough shall be the employe and the work of his office.” Would Ruin Morale. “Government employes would have accepted it with good feeling in their hearts and would have redoubled their efforts to keep up the work, but to force them to give up all leave with pay and take a month without pay is undoubt- edly the surest way to wipe out what re- { mains of the morale in the service. “Rather than forfeit the leave with pay now granted employes they would much prefer an 11 per cent cut in their salaries for one year, as proposed by the Economy Committee of the House, but we hope that neither will be required. “The following table shows that the average sick leave taken by employes is only 7.05 days per annum, while the average annual Jeave taken is only 24.7 days: State Deoartment War Department Justice Department . . 1 Post Office Department Navs Department...... 29 Interior Departmeni Agriculiure Department Commerce Department Labor_Department Civil Service Shipping Board General Acct. Office .. 35 davs Veterans' Bureau 128 days ‘The Government employes look to Congress for justice and it is up to them to see that it is done.” Sicx TAKE STRIKERS’ PLACES Substitute Workers at New York Unloading Vessels. NEW YORK, April 18 (#).—Substitute 2 strike of longshoremen was called | Friday in protest against a wage cut. bout 150 substitute workers were at 143 pler when the Algonquin of the r<2‘l1,vfle ‘Line arrived’ from Jacksonville, 2. unloading the Eldia, which docked Saturday at a Southern Pacific Steam- straight pay slash of 11 per cent | She declared that the sav- | shall be furloughed for 30 days, no more | without pay, and may be taken in days. | weeks or entire time as best suited to| | Andrews and Downs ® | taxes since 1920, repre | mistake | record and that, while the shorta Bubstitute workers also started | not be less, it is possible it may be | more. ship Line pler. A few strikers booed | the workers when they arrived in mov- | ing vans, escorted by motor cycle police- men. | | TWO MAINE FLYERS DIE | Small sest of his negotiations for the returs fof the kidnaped son of Col. and Mrs. ! Charles A. Lindbergh Mrs. Curtis, several hours after the ;absence of Mr. Curtis was noted, ad- mitted that her husband had left the city, but declined to say where he had :gone or whr-t;\]er his trip la\;i‘: con- | nection with the negotiations g car- v vied on by him and his associstes, Rear | Rlane. Cokebun 08 Wiver iral Guy H. ‘Burrage retired, and| Bank and Catches Fire. | the Vi . H, Dobson-Peacock. ! S ki LIVERMORE, Maine, April 18 (P)— Two men were killed today when their | small airplane cracked up on the bank of the Androsccggin River and Burst into flames, | The dead are James Malloy of Ber- lin, N. H., the pflot and ownér of the plene, and Fred Maxwell of Livermore. | MASSIE SHIELDING SLAYER OF NATIVE, SAYS PROSECUTOR| Pilsudski Suffers From Cold. KISHINEV, Rumanla, April 18 (#).— | Marshal Pilsudski, the Polish statesman, who stopped here on the way home from Egypt where he went for his health, stayed at his hotel today because of & heavy cold. His doctors said the iliness was not serious, but festivities arranged in his honor were called off Continued From First Page.) after Kahahawei, saying, we done 1t,” admitted that he and four others sttacked Mrs. Massie | Kelley said Massie “has not put forth any insanity case vet, not from his| story. The lapse of memory he tells about is not insanity, he asssrted. “He says he is convinced Kahahawail attacked his wife. According to the| testimony, the only thing Kahahawai told him was, ‘Yes, we done it.” Massie already knew that “It 18 not like you got kicked on the | head and had an immediate response. ‘There was nothing that occurred in the Fortescue house to make Massie insane.” Plea to Be Fought. Kelley disclosed that he would use both local and mainiand allenist wit- nesses to atiack the insanity plea. The local alienists he named as Drs. Robert Faus, city and county physician, and Stanley Porteus. professor of psychology &t the University of Hawali. They have been in court each day observing Mas- sie. Kelley declined to disclose the names of the mainland alienists Besides ettacking the insanity plea and the lieutenant’s assumption of re- sponsibility, Kelley also assailed the| contention that the slaying was not pre- meditated. “If the defendants did not plan to| | Kahahawai when they took him to e Fortescue home, they made all preparations to do it." he asserted. Defendants with Massie are his mother-in-law, Mrs. Granville Fortescue, and Jones .nd E. J. Lord, Navy en- listed men. The second-degree murder with which they are charged carries a minimum penaity of 20 years and a maximum of life imprisonment. Today was Darrow's 75th birthday anniversary, but the skill and vigor with which he has fought for his clients belie his years. “I still think" he said, “the most welcome present”will be acquittal. But I guess it won't be so soon. I suppose it will have to be sort of a post- birthday present.” Mrs. Fortescue to Testify. Mrs. Fortescue probably will be the next witness. Massie implied that she ‘was the only other person in the room with the lieutenant and Kahahawal when the fatal shot was fired Jones, he said, was outside in a car. watching to see that no unexpected visitor intruded. Lord had gone to call “the boys,” presumably sailors, with whom Massie threatened Kahahawal. It was Mrs. Fortescue who, according to Massie, grew -impatient of the na- tive's protestations of innocence and demanded “Let’s do what we planned | to do,” a plan which, Massie testified. | Wwas no more than an empty threat The trial, now two weeks old. is be- ginning to leave its mark on the patrician-featured woman and her youthful son-in-law. A month ago she was vivacious and high-spirited. Now her face is drawn and her eyes are seldom still. Massle, 27 years old, is haggard mnln{hlweuoldm and & bit of gray streaks his hair. h ' I A view of the Capitol steps today enforcement Resclutions to this efl $76,755 SHORTAGE FOUND IN ARLINGTON BOOKS BY AUDITORS ___ (Continued From First Page) _ Duncan from coming in his office at any time and checking out funds which are on deposit in his name. Judge McCarthy stated that he could see no reason for delay and asked for testimony showing the amount of the alleged shortage and the average an- nual receipts of the office in order that he might be in a position to set the in- crease in the bond At the opening of court Judge Mc- Carthy stated that Lyman M. Kelly, a member of the grand jury. had asked to be excused Kelly told the court that it was because he was a memt of the county governing board, but Judge McCarthy stated that this did not disqualify him from serving on the grand jury Ball Present in Court. Former Treasurer Ball w t room throughout the morn- ing. Hallock was not teen in the c room, but it was he available when his presence was ir In their testimony with respect the audit of Dunca: books, An and Dewns stated that the $6 which they claim is due the 3 represents elections and delinguent the year in which Duncan became county clerk. This was figured after deducting the 5 per cent commission which is allowed the clerk for collecting. ere are no funds due the State ented in the figures given today, they eald, because a monthly settle- ment with the State has always been required Under questioning by Duncan's at- torneys, who attempted to bring out the fact that the figures given could workers were on hand today to load and | not be accurate because the audit had umoad coastwise vessels at piers where | not been cumpleted, Andrews and Downs stated that there could be no in the alleged shortage de- veloped up to this time, since the fig- ures were taken from Duncan's own will POLICE CHIEF SLAIN Oklahoma Officer Fired Upon by Man Who Escapes. TECUMBSEH, Okla, April 18 (#).— Qrover Butler, chief of police, was shot and killed while patrolling a Tecumseh street early todsy, His assailant, hidden behind a platform at the rear of the post office, was <aid to have opened fire without warning. Officers were secking Joe Smith who was seen later at Shawnee, Okla., but eluded arrest. - MARINES GUARD TOWNS MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 18 () —The newspaper La Noticia sald yester day that passenger trains on the v ernment-owned railw; would can a United . States Marine guard. armed with hand grenades and machine guns in view of the possibility that rebels around Leon and Chinandega might at- tack the line. Memorial to Noted Patriot RODNEY STATUE TO BE PLACED I HALL OF FAME. HEROIC statue of Gen. Caesar Rodney of Delaware, designed by Bryant Baker, sculptor, of New York, and to be placed in Statuary Hall here. Gen. Rodney was an officer in Washington's army and was one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. —Wide 'Wsrld Photo. This was given by hundreds of women demanded rigid enforcement of prohibition and ample appropriations by Congress to carry out ~ were carried to Congress by the Wome ASKS .S CONTROL * OF NOTOR LNES Commerce Commisison Rec- ommends Regulation of Bus and Truck Lines. (Continued From First Page) ence of unrestrained competition by rival tre ation agencies re is today, and probably would be under normal conditions, an excess of carrying capacity of existing transportation factlities “That unrestrained competition is an impossible solution of the present trans- portation problem and is incomparable with the aims of co-ordination under regulation “That Federal legislation relating to the regulation of motor vehicles oper- ating upon the public highways and engaged in interstate commerce is de- sirable in the public interest.” Investigated Five Years The commission’s decision brings to a close an investigation which has been under way for five years. Leo J. Flynn, an examiner, who, with Commissioner Brainerd, conducted the investigation, several months ago sub- mitted a proposed Teport recommend- ing regulation of trucks and busses. The commissions’ decision carries out his recommendations to a large extent. Asserting “the Federal Government is wholly inexperienced in this field of regulation.” the commission sald it deemed “it wise to make haste slowly.” | “Our recommendation is, therefore, ‘ sald the report, “that Congress provide | at once to put Federal regulation to the test so far as transportation of passen- gers by motor busses is concerned. This would provide an organization which would serve as a nucleus for such fur- ther steps in motor vehicle regulation as experfence and added information may show to be desirable and prac- ticable.” Authority Recommended. ommend that immediate e exercised over motor trucks the common carrier and con- type to the extent necessary to ose are operating in interstate commerce and obtain from them such information in regard to their operations as the commission may cnably reguire. In this way data will be secured which, as the legal situation clarifies, will be of great aid in pointing the way to further regulation in the public st Our recommendaticns, therefore, must be regarded in the light of & Progress repor They do not cover the utmost which we believe will ultimately prove necessary and desirable in the way of Federal regulation of motor ve- hicles. They represent merely the first step which we believe is wise and prac- (u‘:‘l:’: to take under existing condi- House Group Awaits Report. Chairman Rayburn of the House In- terstate Commerce Committee sald bis group had been waiting for the commission report before giving fur- ther consideration to regulation of busses and trucks. “I made a request for a bill affect- ing both bus and truck regulation based on the commission's findings.” | the Texas Democrat said. “Meanwhile the House Interstate Commerce Com- | mittee has reported out the bill repeal- ing the recapture clause of the trans- portation act of 1920 and this week we expect to report to the House a bill to place railroad holding companies un- der the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission “Bus and truck regulation wi next order cof business. Th:-“ ‘;:n?x\:: Interstate Commerce Committee in lhe‘ last Congress reported a blil to regulate busses, but in this Congress it has waited to see what action the Senate would take. Now we will consider both busses and trucks.” Rayburn said his committee had realized the necessity for regulation of | bus and truck transportation operating in interstate commerce for some ume.‘ but had preferred to obtain the report | from the Interstate Commerce Commis- | slon before going ahead, in order to | have detailed information before it. | “Personally,” the Texan said, “I think | legislation to put out of business a competitor is never justified, but the | ccmee itor should be placed under the same reasonable regulation as the car- | rier with which it competes.” st g 1 | PEACEMAKER SLAIN | \ 1 Farmer Killed While Interceding | in Plantation Fight. | marTSVILLE, 8. C. April 18 (#)— | A Sunday night fight on a plantation | near here ended in the shooting to| | death of Lige Biddle, a farmer, who had | essaved the role of peacemaker. | Biddle was shot and killed by Clyde | Lowrey, a farmer, after Biddle had in- | terceded in a fight between Lowrey and | | Dewey Grantham. a nelghbor. = The | | fight occurred on the plantation of Miss Rosa Lee, near Hartsville. |WITHDRAWN AT SHANGHAI Italian Warships Called | Home by Mussolini Order. | ROME, April 18 () —Premier Musso- | lini today ordered the cruiser Trentc and the destroyer Espero home from Shanghai. This would leave only the normal Italian garrison in the Inter | Two national Settlement, n's National Committee for Law Enfo: BONUS FOES READY AS ADVOCATES END PLEAS AT HEARING ntinued From Pirst Page.) cut Senator had purchased his return fare to New York City. “I am going back.” McConnell tes- tified. “I won't have any more home there than I have here. I must apply again to the Department of Charities for_help.” Representative Glover, De: Arkansas, also urged the p: Urged by Representatives. Representatives Christgau, Rej an, of Minnesota; Alman, Democrat, of Alabama, and Botleau, Republican, of WiscoBsin, testified the legislation was needed to expand the currenc J. H. Hoeppel, editor of the Men's News, Arcadia, Calif., said “the attitude of the can Legion di vorced of the highbrows is 99 per ce in favor of the bonus payment.” “The Legion said, * official publication i date the membership action on the bonus. ce I came Washington the national judge a general of the n has tried timidate me because I am for bonus,” Patman closed for the proponents, summarizing the chief bills for paying the bonus and teiling the committee he regretted the impression of disorders at the hearings that has gone out to the country. “I have never known a more courte- ous, quiet, orderly proceeding than dur- ing this hearing in my 17 years on the committee,” Acting Chairman Crisp said He explained he called police because two spokesmen for the Workers' Ex- Service Men's League, one a Commun- ist, had threatened “to raise hell in here.” Retired —_— AUTOMOBILE MEN PROTEST SALES TAX AS DISCRIMINATORY ___(Continued From First Page) _ publican, Michigan, Graham said his own company has been forced to cut salaries, making the biggest reductions in the upper brackets. “If this continues is there not likely to be a still further curtaiiment of business?” asked Senator Couzens. “Yes, sir, led Graham, re ing that cars are sold manufacturer’s own employes. Replying to other questions, Graham said that as soon as the Federal budge. is balanced—provided the motor vehi- cle tax is not imposed—the industry lb)vlm\cs a general business upturn will egin. Harvey L. Cobb of Washington, gen- eral counsel of the American Motor- 1sts’ Association. opposed the tax from the standpoint of the automobilist, say- ing it would be “felt in every home throughout the natlon.” Ernest N. 8mith of Washington, executive vice president of the Amer- ican Automobile Assoclation, emphasized the amount of taXes already imposed on the motorist by Federal State, county or municipal authorities, inclu ing the gasoline impost He £aid the t>ndency to impose high taxes on motorists is especially notice- able in the South. He mentioned Mo- bile, Ala, as a place where the tax burden is particularly heavy When Smith finished—concluding the case against the motor vehicle tax— Senator George, Democrat, Georgia, asked that there be inserted in the record for the committee's consideration the industry’s estimate of the amount of revenue that would be derived from | it by comparison with the 21, per cent general sales levy rejected by the House. Senator Reed., Republican, Pennsyl- vania, asked the return to be de- rived from a 1'. per cent sales tax as suggested by the Treasury Department, also be inserted. Archduke Otto Operated On. BRUSSELS, April 18 (#)—The con- dition of Archduke Otto of Hapsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne, who was operated on at Steenockerzeel Cas- tle yesterday for appendicitis, was said to be “most satisfactory” today. Auto Manufacturers | tiquor | druggists was exoressed. -Star Stafl Photo. 1,000 WOMEN FIGHT REFERENDLM MOVE Law Enforcement Commit- tee Presents Resolutions to Garner and Curtis. (Continued From First Page) tion, since they would not be binding,” it was stated. In'her annual report to the Executive Committee of the organization, Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of Beverly, Mass., president of the Woman's Law Enforce- nt Committee, sald that “we do not r in the least the result of an honest public vote in & referendum.” Sha proceeded to assert, however, that such a resubmission of prohibition was with- out precedent and unnecessary, and that the group did fear the “methods and money of the men and women who are now shouting snd scheming for the repeal or nullification of the Federal | | the eighteenth amendment was elected law." One of the resolutions submitted to the congressional leaders asserted that States refusing to act in conformity with the Constitution in the enforce- ment of the e'ghte>nth amendment are tranegressing article VI of the Consti- fution and such States should be de- prived of Federal enforcement and the control of Federal institutions until they are prepared to accept ihe Dro- 1 of the constitutional law provid- for concurrent or co-operative ac- Opporition to increase of medic'a! rescriptions to phylstcuns and t privilege has b ebused in “certa’n wet cente resolution stated thst more than 100 physicians in New York sre now un- der indictment for “violation of the liquor law. “Neither do we -approve.” the reso- lution continued, “the large supplv of liquor eallowed to physic'ans for their P nal use, nor do we approve the action of the Secretary of the Treas- ury in recommending the importation of foreign bardy in view of the state- ment of certein Congessmen that enor- mous fuvplies of liquor are already available.” Congress was requested to make “full appropr s forcement of prohibition throughout the United States and for educational vork in temperance. Without men- tionirg any name, the dry group sug- gested that Ambassadors to foreign countries be instructed to respect the constitutional law of the United States while abroad The first open meeting of the Law Enforcement Committee will be held at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon, when Bishop James Cannon, jr., Southern Methodist dry leader, will be asked to explain his announced approval of the basic prin- ciple of former Qov. Byrd's plan for a vote of changes Representative Sparks of Kansas will speak on the Cepper-Sparks “stop alien that this representation bill" of which he is a | Joint author. Monologues will be given by Mrs. Halnes Lippincott of New Jerse: are entitled, “Fables in Alcol Brown Derby Chooses to Run of the Cocktail Club" and the “Literary Digest Poll.” Senator Arthur H. Robinson of In- diana will be the principal speaker to- night. His subject is “The Constitu- tion of the United States.” The meeting of the dry group is to continue through Wednesday. e ses- sions tomorrow open at 11 o'clock with a breakfast at the Washington Audi- torium. be an open forum. | | Graf Over France on Brazil Trip. | LOUDUN, France, April 18 ) — T Graf Zeppelin, German dirigible which took off early this morning from Friederichshafen, Germany, on another norstop flight to Pernambuco, Brazil was sighted here at 7:39 this morning, fiying in the direction of Nantes. | bed room suite carried his can be bought for the price of | for a more rigld en-4 2501 Masscchusetts avenue. the people on constitutional | | tee for Law Enfo |liam L. Darby, ) the Washington Federation of Churches, BYBHOPCANNON | Prohibition Fair Visited and Law Observance Effects Viewed. Following a private showing yester- day, the Prohibition Fair depicting the | eighteenth amendment in its ramifica- tions and effects, was opened to the | public at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The exhibit is being held at the Washington Auditorium under auspices of the Women’s National Committee for Law Enforcement, show the benefits of prohibition and the evils of liquor. All the paraphernalia of the liquor traffic both before and after prohibition is arranged on one side of the basement hall of the auditorium and on the other are shown the effects of law observance on the home and in everyday life Entering the hall, on- first hears the invitation of an old-time barkeeper standing behind a replica of one of Washington's famous liquor establish- ments of pre-prohibition d: Step right up, folks, and have & soft drink Despite a collection of alcoholic labels which would have done credit to any saloon of 20 years ago. only soft drinks are ditpensed the bar. Across the room is & equipped and decorated soda from which soft drinks also are di pensed. Yesterday p James Cannon, Jr dry leader, surveying with 1 Lottles in front of the s with his foot on the bra: flashlights disturbed the cle he sauntered on to the next With him was Rev. William director of the Lord's Day Al At one end of the room Home Beer Furnished,” decrepit chairs, a mirror and a clock. was and is designed to The | he boasting two|theé War and Navy -Department in- PLANS: ADVANCED ‘Committee Overrides Chair- man to Adopt Proposal of President. (Continued Froni-Firsi Page. or Department supply bill. reduce £50,000,000 to $45.000.000 . said. “No one can go too far for economy to suit me.* Navy Bill Prospect. Speaker Garner and Representative Snell of New York Republican leader. who met with the economy group | behind closed doors, announced that | al supply bill would be brought b e House tomorrow. 1 be considered instead of the ply measure, to which the s to be attached. omy Committee y pre whether to an amnibus retrenchment bill, ed by President Hoover. was considered certain‘that any proposal to cut Government costs could not be brought before the House by the y Committee until probably next the eclared nt X c naval bill Representative Snell urged the com- ttee to bring out an omnibus bill in- those items on which it fmous agreement in order, to secure passage of at least .| some curtaflment legislation. l However, Representative Byrns said wanted his proposal to consolidate .| cluded. This is opposed by the admini- while at the other end was “The Home |stration and was approved by the gom-= Purnished,” filled with furniture. the Prohibition modern, comfortable legend five beers a day for four months | the other furniture of the house also was priced in terms of beers Among other exhibits was a wrecked automobile bearing & quotation from Henry Ford, “The place for alcohol is in the engine, not in the engineer.” Next to the saloon was a tiger, days, and in a room near the two was a player-piano emitting tunes that sug- gested inebriation. A retail show window, on the prohi- bition side of the hall, contained a large variety of clothing and household goods Above it was a sign stating that “three beers & day for a year will buy every thing in this show case.” A concealed voice gives a continuous dramatic presentation of a mother ex- plaining to her son whoshas just come home from the war why prohibition was not “put over” on the soldiers while they were in France. She tells him that the Congress which submitted five months before the declaration of war. Attracting considerable attentien was a ‘motion picture presentation of 87, prohibitions in the Constitution of the United States other than the one in the eighteenth amendment. Eight of the first 10 amendments to the Consti- tut nof On the walls were paintings showing the activities of rum runners and boot- leggers. "Ther= also is a youth exhibit ip which the advice of famous athletic coache: concerning the use of alcohol is fe- peated by means of a moving picture projector. There will be presentations of the film “Ten Nights in a Barroom” t a day, #nd every evening this there will b2 given a one-act play with a moral pointing .o the evils of liquor and law violation. Play to Be Presented. This evening Kathleen Norris' play. “Killing the Dragon,” will be presented and tomorrow evening’s production i entitled “The Long. Long Trall wes wrtiten by Mrs. Rushmore Patter- zon, prominently identified with the dry movement among women, who lives at Mrs. Pat terson is the author of several play One of them, “Syracuse,’™ was prezento in the Wardman Park Theeter for charity about five years ago, with Sir Willmott Lewis taking the chief rcle “The Long, Long Trail” is the story of illicit liquor from the time it is or- dered until it reaches the dinner table. It is in 12 scenes, but instead of shift- ing the scenery, two rooms are used a=d aiternate rooms blotted out by lighting effects, Later the play is to be made into & motion picture. The presenta- tion for Wednesday evening is “The Challenge.” All three productions are put on under the direction of Mrs. Blanche Morgan Foote. Prior to the opening of the fair yes- terday, the Woman's National Commit- t nducted a service at the Auditorium dedicated to ‘They | Benjamin Franklin, whose call to pra; " “The |at the first constitutional convention, “Ladles | 1787, was read by Mrs. A. Haines Lip- n pincott of New Jersey. At the conclusion of the service Rev. Allen A. Stockdale asked that a silent turn of the Lindbergh baby. Rev. Wil- executive secre! of gave the invocation, Bishop Cannon occupied a box during the service, as did Mrs. Ruth Bryan In the afterncon there will|Owen of Florida, membet of the House of Representatives Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, chairman of the Weman's National Committee, pre- sided. First Freighter Docks. MONTREAL, Quebec, April 18 (). The frefghter Beaverburn arrived today from London, the first vessel from over- seas to dock here this season, Oppose New Taxes OME of the leading figures in the American automobile industry who appeared at a Senate hearing today to protest discrimination against automobiles in new taxes. Left o right: Roy D. Chapin, chairman of the Hudson‘zrbaex board; George M. Graham, vice president of the Rockne Co.; Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer; Walter Chrys- ler of Chrysler Motors; Alfred P. Sloan, president General Willys-Knight; Edsel Ford, vice president Ford Syeyne, vice: pregidens General Motor Co.; C. hy Motors; Senator 8moot, A. B. Qualey, vice president chatrman ©of board, Hupp Co., and Alfred --=——Star Stafl Photo. & The | blind | " the speakeasy of pre-prohibition | n are shown as being “thou shall | 4to3 SHORT SALES ARE BEARISH FACTORS mittee, | (Continued From First Page.) with inv of the world To take away one part of specula- tion or investment leaves the remainder e the man with but ene leg. He has lost his equilibrium. Gray asked Whitney if heé® thought ort selling a part of the investment market. No, I didn't say that" sald Whit- ney. “I do say it is an integral part of the entire market Why is short selling. an sid to the market when the market is dépressed?” “I don't say short selling will pre- vent the market going down or put the ket up, but without speculation and investment the market cannot exist. Therefcre, you can't take away any part of it.” Whitne; ments make up the mar- ) rt selling pro- ts oply com- pulsory buyer. The short seller, be s2id, must eventually™Quy to cover his tronsacticn. \ Gray asked if {t we e not true t + selling did not take p! ore is 2n indicati”y thet rpoing down. Whitnzy said, “Not neze: Senstor Backley, . Demos: tucky, wiat added that & st € r N | tohie?, Democtat, of Floridp. | agked if short eelling did ol | liquidation at Iorse and Whil r L ) § don't think §3 'There is much more | forcing of liquidation by those wi) are liquidating.” Whitney asserted “it is the liquida- tion of securities that has forced prices down.” Might Force Liguidation. | Qray asked if members of the ex- | change had not expressed me.ow& | that short selling has forced liquidat and was told “Perhaps.” At “Don’'t you know &s a matter of fagt | that members of the exchange cgainst the practice of short selling?” | " “No,” Whitney said, “not that I know of. It may be true there has been dig- cussion whether this or that should be | done in times of emergency, such as | when Great Britain went.off the goid | standard.” Whitney insisted under persistent questioning by Gray that hé knew aof | no_exchange members who beliéved it wise to do away with the short selling. Gray recalled October, 1939, just be: fore the collapse of prices, and asked: “Wasn't it true that at the peak short orders were pratically e “I am perfectly con! the rise of the market from 1924 to 1929 there were large short interests/’ said Whitney. Guesses Always Wrong. | 1d not know specifically-about the 3110“1'(;. dtmerrst in tober, 1929. He caid it never had been possible to esti- N the short interest before the | “crash of '29." | “Whitney said he and others experi- | ope-minue prayer be offered for the re- [enced in market operation had often ed at the short interest and had s been wrong Senator Gore, Democrat, of Okla- | homa, expressed the view that the short seilers are the “professionals.” | “Tom, Dick and Harry don%t know ut short selling,” he asserted. ‘I think the janitor, the Wwaitress, the school teacher and all went into he market in 1929 without kmowledge of values and it all drove out the short interests. I think it is toa bad there t more shorts in that sky rocket Whitney agreed “The last time there was a complla- ort selling,” he went on, “there were 3 short accounts in every State except two and 13 foreign nations. 709 Shorts in California. } “Ther re 709 short accounts in California,” Whitney added. _“I can’t | believe there are 709 professional oper- | ators in Californ | Senator Fietcher asked if the “big | beare” ever got into a rising market. “I do not know,” smiled Whitney. “If T knew as much about all this as I am supposed to, I would be glad to tell you." Gray repeated this question several times and each time Whitney insisted more emphatically, “T don't know.” He | reminded the committee also that “I | am a bond broker—not a stotk broker.” “I do know that pecple selliog short have done 50 in a rising market—they | may have been wrong” added the | Stock Exchange president. Has Sold Short. “Do you ever sell shert?” Senator Couzens, Republican, Michigan, asked. “I have in the past,” Whitney said. “When?" “I don't remember—not in the last nine months or year, I believe.” | “Does your name appear on the list of short sellers furnished the commit- tee?” “I don’t think so. I did some short -efling in the Spring of 1929, thinking the market was,entirely too " The committee laughed as Whitney added “I was wrong." “1 don't operate on & short side,” he added. “A bear may also be & bull?” asked Senator Couzens. p “1 presume s0." Gray and Couzens chided Whitiey about his answers, and the Senator remarked, “Much 15 left to imagination of the ‘committee.” " ° *