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DECISION RAISES SECURITY DOUBTS Railroad Pension Ruling May Set Precedent in Se- curity Program, BY DAVID LAWRENCE. After readipg the lengthy deeisions of the majority and the minarity of the Supreme Court of the United States on pensiops for rallrosd em- ployes, the conclusion is inescapable that Congress acted hastily, clumsily and unwisely in its manner of writ- ing the present pension statute. It also is regrettable that Govern- ment interference with the operation of railroads over a period of yeara has left the carriers in such bad finan- cial condition that they eannot pro- vide voluntary pension systems. And most regrettable of all is that the whole social security program of the administration may be subjected to the same careless disregard of con- stitutional principles, rajse hopes un- duly and may result in the same dis- illusionment for millions of persons of advanced age which now must be felt by railroad employes deprived of the benefits Congress intended for them. Justice Roberts, in rendering the majority opinion, which, of course, throws out the railroad pension act 8s a whole as unconstitutional, ap- plied the logic which has always pre- vailed with respect to the confiscation of private property, His words, how- ever, sound strange in these days of the New Deal, when social objectives supersede all questions of capacity to meet social obligations. Impracticality Cited. Tt should be noted that the railroad pension act was held invalid by the lower courts, too, and that it included some very impractical provisions, such as the right of thousands of persons no longer connected with railroads to collect back pensions, the right of persons re-employed to colleet pensions from new railroad employers Jjust as if there had been no inter- ruption, and the placing of a burden on all railroads, solvent and insolvent, to meet in a pool the expenses of the an. p!.yumee Raberts insisted that work- men's compensation laws were pre- viously upheld by the Supreme Court because injuries and aceldents were directly related to the operation of a railroad. He sald, in writing the ma- Jority opinion of the court: “The @ct with which we are con- cerned seeks to attach to the rela- tion of employer and employe a lia- bility, solely in the interest of the em- ploye, with no regard to the conduct of the business, or its safety or effi- ciency, but purely for social ends.” Huge Cost Cited, Justice Roberts drew attention also to the fact that the railroads’ total contribution to pensions “on account of prior service of employes in service | * at the date of the act may amount to $2,943,966,000,” and he said that this psyment was not contemplated in the original contract between the employers and employes nor in the rates that were charged on the in- come side. Chief Justice Hughes, who sided with the minority, took issu¢ on the question of social ends, declaring that, if Congress could legislate com- pensation with respect to sccidents, it eould do so with respect to morale of working men, who would look for- ward to security and hence would work better and more loyally if they could look forward to pensions. “Assurance of security it truly gives,” responds Justice Roberts, “but, quite as truly, if ‘morele’ is intended to eonnote efficiency, loyalty and can- tinuity of service, the surest way to destroy it in any privately owned business is to substitute legislative largesa for private bounty and thus transfer the drive for pensions to the halls of Congress and transmute loyalty to employer into gratitude to the Legislature.” Property Rights Upheld, Perhaps the most comforting state ment from the point of view of own- ers of property which was contained in the majority opinion was this declaration, which no doubt will be heard again and again with reference to pay roll taxes, and all pension legislation generally: “The carriers have not ceased to be privately operated and privately owned, however much subject to regu- lation in the interest of interstate commerce. There is no warrant for taking the property or money of one and transferring it to another without compensation, whether the object of the transfer be to build up the equip- ment of the transferee or to pension its employes.” If the Supreme Court of the United States feels this way about railroad emplayes, who are plainly engaged in work for an instrumentality of in-! terstate commerce, recognized clearly a3 under the commeree clause of the Federal Constitution, how much more likely, it may be asked, is the court to hold that husinesses not clearly under the commerce clsuse cannot be compelled to pay pensions into the Pederal Treasury and that this is the task of the several States? Precedent Seen. The meaning of the decision s ited States Teady apparently to Tegard the power | the of Federal regulation ovar business as extending beyond actual operations of businesses that are unquestionably .engaged in interstate commerce. If this interpretation is correct, the N. R. A’s effort to prescribe codes will be held uncanstitutionsl and so e By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. Debates tonus bill. House, Considers private bills. TOMORROW. Mm:dmmldmumdunmul Committee meets am. to consider rent control TOMORROW. Senata: at 10:30 billa. Subcommittee ex- ecutive on Navy bill. Finance Committee social security exacutive on | Garner method, he has tried friendly What’s What Behind News In Capital P. W. A. Probe by Sen- ate Seen as Move for “Normal Audit.” BY PAUL MALLON. OU may ghortly hear that the Senate has authorized & eom- mitiee investigation of the Public Warks Administration. A resolution authorizing it was drawn a week ago, but not intro- dueed. It is to be a compsnion piece to the Cousens resolution recently adopted by the Senate in a very quiet way. The Couzens resolution authorized an inquiry into relief ex: gendmxru by the Senate Appropria: ons Cammittee. There gre mo scandalous rumors behind these moves. Alse mo po- liticgl Ashing erpedition. Senators merely got their heads tagether and agreed the time had arrived for the New Dealers to “come down off Mount Olympus and subject themselves to some kind of normal audit,” The strongly independent Senator Couzens conceived the idea and sold it. His moves are ahways above political suspicions. In line with this ‘there is some cloak room talk about eventually es- tablishing a Federal bureau of audit. To Check Expenditures. Deeper down than that in the senatorial mind now is & desive to keep a hand on expenditures when Congress is not in session. A sig- nificant slant on the move is that the restraining hand will be exer- cised by the Appropriations Com- mittee. The forefinger there is the committee chairman, Carter Glass, who has never been an Olympian. The New Dealers have not objected. At least, one cabinet officer privately approved the Couzens resolution be- fore it was adopted. Tightening News Leaks. The New Deal move to tighten up | on news leaks seems to be spreading. Some free-talking officials have sud- denly become evasive. A few have frankly asked to be relieved of the re- sponsibility of answering questions hereafter. Not only officials, but the rank and file of personnel in some Government quarters have shown a sudden preference for silence. These tightening-up flurries Rave occurred on seversl previous oeca~ sions in this and in past adminis- trations. They never have been successful, and usually provoke & sharp, unfavorable reaction. This one appears to be more exten- | sive and earnest, but there is no rea- son to believe it will be any more suc- cessful than the others. Trying to channeliae the news of government is like trying to smooth the ocean waves. A Liberal Conservative. The family troubles of Republicans are fully explained by & remark dropped some time ago by House Re- publican Leader Snell. Said he: “I am a liberal conservative.” There is mno Question that the somewhat eonservative Mr. Snell Ras become somewRat mare liberal this year. However, some of his party snickerers have taken up the remark as an indication that Mr. Snell is trying to grasp the North Pole and South Pole at the same time, a_feat which is good if ever accomplished. These snickerers are calling him “a radical comserva- tive.” Similarly, some of the econgree- sional spooters within the party have been joshing the wise Kansas editor, Willism Allen White, who has spoken | well of men like Norris and La Fol- | lette as well as some of the Republic- an opposites. Friendly Speaker Byrma. Speaker Byrns lately has been try- ing a new kind of leadership quietly in the House. It has worked very well so far. Instead of using the strict historic consideration. He does not use his gavel on the skulls of his flock, but tries to shepherd them gently with his crook. on any bill since the first one (the relief bill). On all legislation lately, the sheep have been permitted to romp and play to an unprecedented extent. Some old-timers believe his system is working better than the Garner method would have with the peculiar temperament of the current House. ‘The herd includes many baby lambe pressed temporarily again without an open break, but you never can tell. Bygeser B THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1935 Winners of Pulitzer Prizes for 1934 SOUTHERN POVER NG.0.PFLAVED Midwest Move Launched to Strip Dixie of Votes in Convention. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, May 7.—A deter- mined movement to strip the Southern States of their present voting power in Republican National Qonventions, arose in the Midwest today as Young Republicans looked toward the re- glonal party conference at Spring- fleld, Ill, June 10-11. “This is the most important single item for consideration of Midwestern Republicans,” said George Olmsted of Des Moines, chairman of the National Young Republican Commit- tee, and it should have & praminent part in the program at Springfeld." Opposition to the plan came, how- ever, from Wisconsin, where Young Republicans argued nothing must be dape at this time to create sectional 1ll-feeling. Helds Many Alienated. “By giving the Southern States, as we do today, a dispropartionately large vote wty affairs we not only do not up the Republican party in those States, but, like the carpet baggers, we drive the good people in those states away from our cause,” said Olmsted. R. N. Ingelson, president af the Illinols Young Republicans, said the Young G. O. P. movement would make & specific demand at the Springfleld convention for & revamping of the party machinery. “On the Republican National Com-~ mittee and in the Republican National Convention, one-third of the total votes are cast by the so-called solid South States.” he declared. “This set-up permits & handtul of men who control the votes of their own State and who have money | enough to deliver the Southern vote when they need it, to maintain con- trol of the Republican party when, in fact, they do not represent the thinking of the majority of its mem- bers. “Young Republicans believe that if Henry Fletcher, chairman of the Na- ticnal Republican Committee, and the committee wish to liberalize the party they must favor the overthrow of group control and return to the true Republican principle of representa- tion according to voting strength.” Wiscensin Greup in Oppositien. However, leaders of the Young Re- publican movement in Wisconsin, in- cluding Stanley Jarz, chairman of the Milwaukee County Club; Harry G. Slater, tormer chairman, and Judson Staplecamp of Kenosha, took the view that “greater party unity” should be the aim and voiced opposition to stirring up “sectional fights.” Henry A. Bubb of Kansas, director of the Midwest region of the Young Republican National Committee, de- clared the Springfield convention is not the place to decide the issue, but added: “There is a feeling among Young Republicans in Kansas that perhaps the Southern States have too much voting strength in conventions in comparison with their number of Re- rublican voters.” At Lincoln, Nebr., Harry Spencer, a vice president and member of the Nebraska Young Republicans’ organ- ization, said he agreed with Olmsted that the South’s vote should be cut down. FISHER BODY PLANT MAY DEFY STRIKE Chevrolet Bodies May Also Be Made as Factory Reopens Doors. By the Assoelated Press. CLEVELAND, May 7—Linceln R. Scafe, manager of the Pisher Body Co.’s Cleveland plant, admitted todey a possibility that the factory may be reopened in all departments tomor- row regardless of the strike of union workmen there. The manager said he probably would announce his decision by 3 p.m. today. The plant, which normally employs 9,000 men, Scafe said, suspended sll manufacturing operations April 30, but put 600 men back to wark todsy making bodies for Buick, Pontiac and Oldsmobile cars. Rejected Writers in Finals. NEW YORK (#)—Nine aspiring writers using collections of rejection slips instead of published works have been chosen as finalists in a contest for a scholarship in short-story writing at New York University. The collec- tions were exhibited in a “hobby round-up.” Aided by Navy and in Chestertown, Md., at nearly the same time. Dr. Merritt was acheduled to speak at the Rotary Olub in Chestertown at 6:30 p.m. and at the dinner seasion of the International Society for Crippled Children here later in the evening. PULITZER PRIZE AWARD CRITICIZED 2o0e Akins’ Play Hit as Dramatized Novel—0Other Waomen Honored. Ry the Assaciated Press. NEW YORK, May 7.—A blast of criticlsm sounded today in the wake of the announeersent last night of the year's Puliger prize play, “The Old Maid,"” by Zoe Akins. The drama, adapled from a story by Bdith Wharton, was chosen by the of the Columbia last year after serving 16 years on the Pulitzer drama jury, sald the board had passed up the “finest play of this year and . an adaptation.” Miss Akins gave full credit to Mrs. v]lhnum for the inspiration for the play. “The character in her story was my inspiration for any exceptional quality the play possessed,” she said. A first novel, “Now in November,” by Josephine Winslow Johnson, 24- year-old Missourian, was given the $1,000 award for literature. ‘Twenty-three-year old Audrey Wur- demans of Seattle won the $1,000 poetry prize for ber volume “Bright Ambush.* Reporter Rewarded. ‘The prize for the best example of a reporter's work went to Willlam- H. Taylor, New York Herald Tribune sports writer, for his stories on the America’s Cup yaeht races last Sep- tember. This was also a $1,000 award, as were those in history arnd | blography. | The prize for the best American | blography went to Douglas 8. Free- | man, editor of the Richmend (Va.) | News Leader for his four-volume | work, “R. E. Lee.” David S. Muzzey | received honorable mention for his “James G. Blaine.” The history prize was awarded to | Prof. Charles MeLean Andrews of Yale University for “The Colenial Period in American History.” ! The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee was given a gold medal for a series of stories by Arthur B. Waugh, asso- ciate editor, on an appointment to| the Federal bench in Nevada, selected | | as the “most disinterested and meri- torious service by an Ameriean news- paper.” The Sheboygan (Wis.) Press re- | celved honorable mention for an in- vestigation of State hospitals. Capital Correspondent Homered. A prize of $500 went to Arthur Krock of the New York Times for his ‘Washington dispatches. The $500 award for the best exam- | ple of a eartoonist’s work was given | | to Ross A. Lewis of the Milwaukee | Journal for a cartoon published Sep- | | tember 1, 1934, entitled “Sure, I'll | Work for Both Sides.” No award was made for the best newspaper editorial of the year. In his eriticism of the drama award, | Hamilton said the will of the late | Joseph Pulitzer deereed that the prise | be awarded for the “original Amer- ican play” that best represents the egucntinml value and power of the stage. | Other plays “neglected” by the ad- | visory board, he said, were “Steve- | dare,” “Accent on Youth” and “The | First Legion.” | Miss Akins, who was born in Hu- mansville, Mo, is a veteran play- | wright, having written such sue-| cesses as “Declasse,” in which Ethel Barrymore starred, and “The Greeks | Had a Ward for It.” 'PRESS OF COUNTRY " PRAISED BY BAR Executive Committes Asserts Activity of News Aids in Gaining Justice. Lay and legal press of the country were praised today by the Executive Committee of the American Bar As- saciation for bringing to their readers regular, systematic and accurate news of the legal profession, particularly of the activities of the local, State and national bar associations. The committee, meeting at the Mayflower Hotel in a periodical ses- sion, preparatory to the annual con- vention at Los Angeles in July, pointed out that this co-operation serves to expedite and to make more effective dissemination of information on the activity of lawyers in improving the administration of justice. It also brings about better understanding I:edlaw;n lawyers and laymen, it was The committee opened its sessions yesterday under direction of Scott M. Loftin of Jacksanville, Fla., presi- dent of the Bar Association. 3 ‘The meeting will run into the s~ nual gathering here of the American Law Institute, which starts Thursday and winds up Saturday, and the open- ing session of which will be marked by an address by Chief Justice Hughes. The institute is headed by George W. Wickersham, former Attorney General and head of the famed ‘Wickersham Commission which stud- ied the prohibition law in the Hoover administration. DUKE OF RICHMOND DIES; FAMED AS LANDHOLDER English Peer Held Three Titles and Owned Famous Race Course. By the Ausociated Preas. GOQDWOOD, Chichester, England, A of Scotoh music will be (AR SR T noon Woman's Club, 614 E street, at Cel e i Upper, left to right: Josephine Winslow Johnson, for her first novel “Now in November”; William M. Taylor, yacht races in the New York Herald Tribune; Zoe Akins, for her play, “The Old Maid,” Wharton, and Douglas 8. Freeman, for his blegraphy “R. E. Lee.” Lower, left to right: Prof. Charles McLean Andrews, for his “The Colonial Period in American History”; Arthur Krock, for his Wash- ington dispatches in the New York Times; Ross A. Lewis, for his cartoon “Sure, I'll Work for Both Sides,” in the Milwaukee Journal, and Audrey Wurdemann, for her volume of verse, “Bright Ambush.” for his wrluon\heu:g based on a story by Edi FILIPINO TROOPS INTROUBLE AREA Constabulary Takes Over as Three Sakdalista Chiefs Deny Part in Disorders. By the Assoclated Press. MANILA, May 7—Platoans of | Philippine constabulary converged on | Sakdalista trouble centers today, while at least three leaders of the extremist group denied responsibility for last week’s sanguinary abortive uprising | in which 60 were killed. Constabulary officials ordered three platoons of the island police dis- patched here from quiet provinces to be within striking distance should new disorders break out as the May 14| plebiscite on the commonwealth eon- stitution neared. Patrols in nearby ‘Tayabas Province were increased de- spite an announcement by Ool. Guil- lermo PFranciseco, acting constabulary chief, that “danger of another out- break is remote.” At Cave Hill in Rizal Province, also near here, 27 constabularymen were reported besieging a group of barri- caded insurgents. Police with rifies patroled Manila streets. Mrs. Salud Algabre, acknowledged leader of the Sakdalistas in Cabuyao, scene of last Thursday's bloodiest bat- tle in which 52 were slain, disclaimed responsibility, pointing instead to Jose Ner Abueg, supreme Sakdalista com- mander in the absence of Benigno Ramos, who is in Japan. She also ac- cused two legisiators, Aurelio Almazan and Mariano Untivero of complicity. Abueg, one of the 250 arrested after the uprising, denied the out- break, insisting he aided authorities in suppressing it. Similar denials were made by Abueg's former chief, Ramos, who told interviewers in Japan he had not ardered the revolt. He also denied seeking funds from the Japanese. Sakdalist leaders assert the pur- pose of their movement—the name of the organization roughly transiated means “1 aceuse”—is to win immedi- ate independence for the islands in place of the 10-year transition pro- :.lfi-fd in the commonwealth constitu- SEEKS TO FORCE 16-T0-1 BILL VOTE White of Idaho Obtaining Signa- "3 tures to Take Bill From i Committee. By the Asscclated Press, House silver advocates, dissatisfied with progress of the administration’s silver purchase program, sought to force actian today on a bill to establish a bi-metallic eurrency, Representative White, Democrat, of Idaho, prepared to file a petition Wwhich, if signed by 217 members, would A Citizen’s Price §1 at_The Evening Star Business Office. or by mail, postpaid Lfl’l.-..-...-......-- POSITION OPEN Civil Service Receives Application for Anesthetist. Applications for ition of anes- thetist, Publie Health Service, will be received by the Civil Service Com- mission until June 3. Entrance sal- ary is $2,000, from which & deduction | of $780 is made when quarters, sub- | sistence and laundry are furnished. | Details may be obtained at the | commission, Seventh and P streets. LLINOIS I THRD BATILEON RELEF Threatened Hunger March Results From Delay of Sales Tax. By the Assoctated Press. SPRINGPIELD, I, May 7.—The | Nlinois House of Representatives | today confronted, for the third time, the problem of removing the seimitar lo! hunger and want which hovered over thousands of the State’s desti- ‘was on duty to preserve order. Additional guards, ordered for the | State House and the executive man- | sion, were called to duty last night, when reports of intentions of unem- ployed to march on the capital were heard. At a late hour, however, highway police reported they had seen no evidence of any groups en route to the city. Specifically, the question before the House was whether the State sales tax will be increased from 2 to 3 per cent snd expanded to include public utilities, the additional funds to go into the State relief fund. Twice on Verge of Actian. Twice before the House has been on the verge of action upon the pro- posal which is backed by Gov. Henry Horner as the only method to raise the relief funds which Harry L. Hop- kins, Federal relief administrator, in- siated Illinois must have before any further Pederal aid will be farth- coming. On the first occasion action was postponed when administration lead- ers decided they did not have enough votes tc put the bill acrass. Last night a decision was agein i pros- pect, but was delayed when leaders received reports, which were not veri- fled, that Hopkins was willing to renew Federal grants if the 3 per ml‘dummuwud.ll«mw come effective May 15. Hopkins Refuses Comment. In Washington, however, Hopkina merely sald he was adamant on his stand that Illinois supply its share. He had no camment on the rumer nor would he comment on the information that the Ilinois Democratic delegation day. ‘The bill, effective July 1, has been passed by the Senate. Handbook The Evening Star - Offers lts Readers A complete deseription of the Federal establish- ment—470 pages, illus- trated. . mogc'g. mpo&l:%l:nlg possess it.” ALBEN W. BARKLEY, Uelied i Spaser already tute, while & reinforeed police guard | °As} . | cepted at 1:30 am., Alden W. Smith, ‘| Coast Guard station —A. P. and Wide World Photos. HAUPTMANN HELD TENDERHEARTED Spiritual Adviser Says He Wonders Why People Think Him Cold. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J, May 7—Bruno | Richard Hauptmann doesn't want the | world to think of him as “hard boiled.” His spiritual adviser, Rev. D. G. Werner of New York City, telling of | some of the things Hauptmann thinks | about as he sits in the death house at State Prison. said today Haupt- mann ean't understand why many | think of him as “cold and callous.” “He has a tender heart,” Mr. Wer- ner sald. “He often asks about his boy. He said he always looked for- | ward to the time when his son could | walk and talk. He regrets that now | that the boy can do those things he can't see him.* Tells of Faith. When he goes to the prison. Mr. Werner usually reads to Hauptmann | from the Bible. He said Hauptmann told him yesterday, as on former oc- | lons : “If T had no faith in God I couldn't stand this." Mr. Werner said Hauptmann had no “fear” that his appeal before the Court of Brrors, set for June 20, would be unsuccessful. “If the truth had come out at Flem- | ington. T wouldn't be here,” the min- | ister quoted Hauptmann as saying. Comments on Suit. Mrs. Hauptmann, who accompanied Mr. Werner to Trenton, said she told | her husband of Edward J. Reilly's suit for $22,398 for services as chief de- fense counsel. She said Hauptmann | commented : ks ber. Annie, I told you at Flemington Mr. Reillv was not for me.” | Reilly, said Mrs. Hauptmann, sug- gested raising the defense fund which he accused her of “dissipating.” “We wanted me to go into vaude- | ville,” she said. “I wouldn't do it. Richard also sald ‘no’ Mr. Reilly suggested the trips to the West-and said I should have every dollar over $50,000 for myself and baby.” | $0S SENDS GUARD ON FUTILE SEARCH| Distress Call May Be Hoax.| Ships Asked to Watch for Vessel. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 7.—After more than nine hours of fruitless search | for a vessel which reported in distress 20 miles off New Jersey, Coast Guard headquarters today appealed to all shipping to wateh for the mys- | terious vessel. The position given by the ship, “20 miles off Sea Bright,” is the “grave- yard” of the Atlantic, near the scene of the Morro Castle and Mohawk dis- | asters. 1 The faint plea for help was inter- | 5-year-old law student and amateur wireleas operator, reported. He noti- fled police. Part of the message was also heard at the Bay Head, N. J. Although the message was signed “X X 6" a check showed no vessel listed under those call letters. A Coast Guard radio later picked up the name “Pal” on the same wave , but officials were unable to identify the supposedly stricken boat REPRIEVE GRANTED DOOMED KIDNAPER McGee Is Given Execution Stay Until May 31 by Gov. Park. By the Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Ma, May T— Gov. Quy B. Park today granted Wal- ter McGee, kidnaper of Miss Mary Mec- Elroy, scheduled to be hanged in Kansas City Friday, a stay of execu- tion until May 31. Earlier the Supreme Court, Division No. 2, ruled against McGee in two proceedings. ‘The court denied a motion for trans- fer of McGee's case to the Supreme Court en banc and refused a request for the appointment of a special com- missioner to take depositions. McGee is the first kidnaper to re- ceive the death penalty in the United States. Cemmutation Asked. Pleas for commutation of McGee's sentence have been made to Gov. Park by Miss McElroy, 26, who said that in pleading for the kidnaper's life she also was pleading for her own peace of mind; McGhee's sister, Mrs. Algerta Brewer of Kansas City, and his woman attorney, Miss Lillie Knight. The Governor has not indi- cated when he will make known his decision. Miss McElroy, daughter of H. F. MCcElroy, city manager of Kansas City, was held prisoner 29 hours and released unharmed upon payment of $30,000 ransom. McGee has said he regards Miss McElroy’s efforts in his behalf as his “only hope” of escaping the gallows. By unanimous decision the eourt affirmed the death sentence Mareh 30, finding that the “evidence sufficiently substantiates the verdict of guilty” and that the “record proper discloses no error.” More recently the court denied a motion for a rehearing. Appeal Is Planmed. Miss Knight, who told Gov. Park the sentence was “unusually harsh” and “due to passion and prejudice against the defendant,” has indicated she will carry the case to the United States Supreme Court. Miss McElroy has been under medi- cal care several times since the ab- duction, May 27, 1933, due to worry over the death penalty meted out to the leader of her abductors. Her testimony clinched the State's case against McGee and other de- fendants. McGee's brother, George MeGee, is serving a life sentence, and Clarence Click an eight-year sentence. A fourth defendant, Clarence Stevens, has not been apprehended, MACDONALD TALKS T0 COLONIAL CHIEFS Foreign Policies and Empire De- fenses Discussed at Lon- don Meeting. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 7.—Leaders of the British Empire turned today from the tiring formalities of the jubilee eele- pration to exhaustive discussion of Britain's foreign policy. Prime ministers of the dominions and Southern Rhodesia confirmed at length with Prime Minster Ramsay MacDonald and other leading mem- bers of the cabinet this morning, and it was understood they talked over specific responsibilities of the domin- ions and colonies with the mother country. Plans for strengthening empires' defenses also were discussed. Today's was the first meeting at- tended by Prime Minister G. W. Forbes of New Zealand. Other con- ferees were Prime Ministers R. B. Bennett of Canada, J. B. M. Hertzog of South Africa and G. M. Huggins of Southern Rhodesia. ROOSEVELT WILL SEE SON ROW AT ANNAPOLIS President Will Attend Races Be- tween Naval Academy and Harvard May 25. President Roosevelt will go to An- napolis the afternoon of May 25 to see the boat races between the Naval Academy and Harvard University. The President’s interest, naturally, is centered in the fact that his son, Pranklin Roosevelt, jr., a sophomore at Harvard, is a member of the Har- vard varsity crew. The President last Spring made a special trip to New London, Conn., to see his son row ;wfilh the Harvard freshman crew against the Yale freshmen. Mr. Roosevelt will motor to Annap- olis on this occasion and will be a luncheon guest at the home of Admiral Sellers, superintendent of the Naval Academy. Later he will go aboard a small boat to follow the races and will return to Washington immediately aft- erward. Father of Consul Dies. CHICAGO, May 7 (#).—Dr. Fran- cisco J. Rucavado, 76, father of Hare old E. Rucavado, Costa Rican con= sul general here, died yesterday in Mercy Hospital. The elder Rucavado, | who was Costa Rican commissioner to the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, came here recently to visit his son and to undergo an operation, The body will be sent to San Jose, Costa Off the Tee W. R. McCALLUM The favorite golf column of thousands of Washingtonians. See Section A, Page 13 -1 .