Evening star. [volume], March 20, 1928, Page 2, Image 2

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BASELESS BUGABOO
OE VICIOUS NEGRO
DOMINATION
Totally Undeserved Slurs on
Quality of District's
Population.
ARE DISTRICT WHITES
SPINELESS WEAKLINGS?
Can a Colorfd One-fourth Dominate
ftn Impotent White Three-fourths
of District Population?
E,!:io~.*l Cor-r*(Vn<teniw of The < t.vr,
THEODORE \V. NOYES.
If whispered persistently that the
Washingtonian should not be Ameri
canized because one-fourth (25 1 per
rent! of the District's population is
classed by the census as negro.
It ts argued that this percentage
nears negro political domination of the
District and renders unfit for participa
• lion in the National Government the
entire population, including the throe
fourths of whites.
Is there some peculiar unfitness In
the Districts white population and
some extraordinary taint in the Dis
trict's negro population which render
the District's \ plus combination
virulently poisonous, while the much
higher negro percentage in some of the
States .reaching sometimes a ’» plus
s, combination) becomes innocuous?
Quality of Capital'* Population.
Let us make specific comparisons be
tween the Capital and the communities;
neighboring the District in which con
ditions are approximately identical.
The District has the average negro
population percentage of neighboring
States and cities. Maryland, 16.9, and
Virginia. 29 9. average 23 4, as against 1
the District's 25.1.
If the District is forbidden national j
representation because of 25.1 per cent j
negro population, must not'also Vir
ginia and Maryland (averaging in com
bination 23.4 per cent) be deprived in
consistency of national representation? j
Will the whites of Virginia, who con
stitute 70.1 per cent of the State's
population and who would resent hotly j
the suggestion that they do not dom- 1
Irate the State, slur the 74 9 per cent
white population of the District by ;
suggesting that the greater white per
centage of the District is unable to |
control a race minority one-third its
size’ The white Virginian will hesitate j
thus to slur the white Washingtonian, j
when he remembers that, of all the
States in the Union. Virginia contributes i
far more of her sons to be permanent
residents of the District than any other
State (over 63.000 native Virginians are
numbered in D. C. population!. The
white Virginian in slurring the white
Washingtonian would be slurring his
brother and himself.
If Washington is unfit for American- j
lzaticn because of 25.1 negro percent- j
age. are not Baltimore. 14.8: Atlantic j
City, 21 6: Richmond, 31.5. and Norfolk, i
37.5 (averaging 26.3), also unfit?
Washington's negro percentage has j
for 50 years been decreasing. Between
2910 and 1920 its percentage dropped j
from 29.5 to 25.1. In the same period
Atlantic City a percentage increased to
21.6 per cent.
What negro percentage dominates
and contaminates? Does 25.1 per cent j
dominate the District, while not one of 1
the 14 police precincts into which it is ;
divided showed in the 1925 police census |
a majority of negro population?
The assumption that the quarter
population of negroes will politically
dominate the three-quarters of whites,
that one negro is politically stronger j
than three whites, inflicts an unde
served, humiliating slur upon the 406.- |
•66 whites of the District today.
The assumption that the negro is so
hopelessly and incurably unfit for
Americanization that as a quarter ele- '
merit of the population he infecta with
his unfitness the whole community un
deservedly and insultingly slurs the
negro of the District.
Threat of Bolshevistic Aliens.
Note the glaring inconsistency of
branding the negro az the conspicuous
element of dangerous unfitness in our j
population sxid of disregarding in tniz
connection the menace of the unas
aunilabie, un-American, bolshevistic
radical fraction of our foreign-born
population.
Every intelligent observer recognizes
that the car-geroa# un-American ele
ment in our population is not the
conservative, loyal negro, but that frac
tion of our foreign-bora immigration
cn tie main sound arid wholesome j
which ’amts with radnai communism
youthful American thought and which
a*>e:ia or undermines American J.a
troi.c loyalty and American principles,
Institutions and ideal?
No element of American population
ha* shown since 1676 greater progress
is radically redo<lng illiteracy and in
the industry and thrift whi«h honestly
accumulate property than the negroes
of the Distent In the it or Id War the
percentage of enlisted negro soldiers
was distinctly greater in the District
than the negro percentage of the Dis
lri<t i total population.
The people of Washington—white or
colored—are therefore not Justly subject
U slurring disc riminsUon I hey consti
tute a fine strong, American com
gnunity, *on-pnuou* for its high per
centage of native born Amerhatis, for
surpassing esrellerne in rornparative
filers*y and for sound, loyal, patriot!*
Americanism tainted by a minimum of
nnaeslrnila ted alien population and of
LoJsbev n4t« thought and In ft urme,
’ I'rogress tiln<e KSitl
Among the tab>r s ibm.'U-d »' the
inefii Hone# hr a- tig <• a rn« mot at,dun.
concern.? g *i,» progtees of U.e < olofer,
of Tr.e mstr.c. from JB7O to
,927 piepß;«< by tni*e able rep?eren'.a
--1 tr of tjur < bloied population George
H Mill*:. ArmcUoi.g Te/im'ai H gtt
t-/ nooi Prof Kelly Miller Howard Uni
»e.-r *j and Chari** E Hail, Unt'«-d
£l***l. On.i is Bureau
Their first table show* that In the
)a*t fifty year* the negro percentage of
the total population ha* d** teased ftoui
Z'i pec < ent to 25 I per r ent 'I he
memorandum add* "fir* negro will
< onUtrue to dr« line as a relative nil
gnec'teal far tor In the Dl*lcl< l of * u
tumble II beta use Washington I* rtol
u menu tar turlog <it y or an Industrial
erne attracting large numbers of un
at riled workmen but orrupaltori i*
largely controlled by tire lr*icil)#icfll
tjyg.fi 66 ff I *. and l?j bvcause it la tspt
I SYI.VAN ORATOKMIAI, CONTEST TRAINEES OF OXON HILL
Bi. ..n.
i .<? ■ * ' ' jnlfn ;
Fifth National Oratorical Contest competitors who are practicing thrlr orations in woodland settings. Left to right:
Ashley AdetholdL Clyde Taylor. Louise C'uslck. Mary Breen and Llewellyn lleigham.
!
so accessible to the black bolts of the
j South as Baltimore. Philadelphia and
New York, which can be reached bv
' land and water. '
' in respect to educational progress
the memorandum says: " The census of
i 1870 showed negro illiteracy to be 70 5
per cent, receding in 1020 to 8 6 pet
i cent, a net gain of 61 0 per cent in a
; half century. * * • Since 1870 many
thousands of graduates of the high and ]
elementary schools have been added to
the population. Howard University
; since its establishment, has contributed
■ 7.184 persons of collegiate and proses
! sional training.”
The memorandum concludes: ‘This
increase in the higher occupations in- j
dicates the progressive tendency and
1 spirit of the negro population. There
i has been a corresponding transforma- j
i tion in the home life and general social
; organization.
"The general progress and uplift of
the negro population during tire past
| 50 years together with their conserve
! live spirit anft\purpose clearly indicate
; that they should be regarded as a help
ful and participating factor • i
"Thus the negro population, while
steadily decreasing in percentage of
j total population, has been steadily in- ■
i creasing in wholesome development ir.
property ownership and literacy. The j
! World War indicated conclusively the
| negro's loyalty and conservatism against
i the insidious attacks both of German*
and red Russian sovietists. While the
; District's one-quarter, negro population
j does not pay one-quarter of the Dis
trict's taxes, it contributed as soldiers
! in the World War more than its quota
of the total District force.”
District Whites Not Weaklings.
Other tables submitted at the hear
ing before the House judiciary commit- j
I tee show such strength in the potential |
j voting constituency of the District that i
j all of the colored residents over 21 years
I of age <73,448) can be subtracted from
i the total of voting age <305.255) and
! leave District whites of voting age
j 1 231.807). exceeding in number the cor- I
I responding figure in seven States, Utah, j
! Vermont, Arizona. New Mexico, Dela- j
I ware, Wyoming and Nevada
Shall prejudice against the 73.443 j
operate to deny to the 231.807 the right j
and power of participation in their na- j
tional Government?
Does this prejudice justify the reten- j
tion in the class of political aliens of a j
greater number of white potential
voters than are collected :n the whole \
of Utah or Vermont or Delaware cr j
Wyoming?
Another column in the tables sub
mitted shows the number of native
tUnited States) born whites in the Dis
trict and comparable States. These
figures are obtained by subtracting
( from the total population of voting age j
J the colored and the foreign-born over
121 years of age. In native-born whiter.
| the District <205 431) exceeds eleven
! states. Rhode Island <205,217), Nor’h
Dakota <201,535). New Hampshire
: (198.559). Idaho (197.207). Utah <165,-
324), Vermont (178 468). Arizona. <125-
397), New Mexico «158.444*. Delaware
<IOO 163), Wyoming <91,617), and
Nevada <3B 046 r
Is St fair or wise to slur as impotent
j weaklings our population of xiative
| born whites, surpassing the correspond- j
i ing populations of such States as Rhode
i Island. North Dakota. New Hampshire.
! Idaho, Vermont and Utah?
Imagination vs. facts.
In view of these facts it is difficult to
conceive how any one can so pervert
! the modest proposals of our amendment
j as to cause a State, reeking with graft,
! dominated by the negro and threaten
j ing the stability of the republic, to be
i evolved through compliance with its
1 provisions. But with recklessness con
j cermng facts and a vivid and unbridled
imagination our opponents attempt
i something in this direction.
The immediate effect of our amend- •
: rnent is, of course, merely to add a new
; power to the list granted to Congress
!by the Constitution to wit. the powt r
j to admit residents of the District to the
status of citizens of a State solely for
the purpose of representation in ( «n
--grevs and the Electoral < ollege and of
»uing in the federal courts. Congress
, is granted the power, which ll may ex
i erciv- in it* discretion, to give acer
; tain voting representation in Itself to
residents of the District, but is forbid
den by implication to grant full state
hood It is not to lx* empowered to
make & State of the District, and thus
to destroy its constitutional power of
exclusive legislation, which the courts
have declared it may not even de|e
* gate. To make a nearer approtu h to
ntatehie/if another contlituttonal amend *
; went util he neee*»urp
How can any imagination even
1 though unr< strained l<y knowledge of
or regard for fact* convert lie < renewed
denial of statehood into a grant of ft?
'if. is conversion )• utte-mjped by
ignoring the fa'? of the mere grant of
a power to Congress and by omitting
: <i»(- limitation u|juii tia i >. giant of power
I Through »i)is juggling the amendment
Is made to grant directly to residents
j of the District ’’the status of citizens of
a prate ' arid fx-hold. there J* your Dls
’ trict-b'au or city-fltate, an Invitation
to New York or CMP ago or Philadel
phia to demand similar distinct slate
tneA and a dangerous menac* to tin*
, t Nation'
J he District becomes a Stale in spite
of itself and what a fit ate! All-powti
i, j,s vicious malignant ‘
Before the Imagin'dy .State < an. how
j ever become a mena« e to the lepub -
i ll' tie re i* seq died a furthei strain
.poo Ihc Imagination,
4 an Its tail Mag a !>•»*?
'! he on* pi two Senators from the
Irj <j',(i must be conceived a- dominat
ing in» 9<i lepic.-eriting tii* Ktatce and
*he 7 pepresentatjves of (he Distrx <
in <ne House- must be <omened s' dom
inating <l)e 435 Representatives of the
Ktat*> Slid tip- one-quarter colored pop-
I uiaip/it of the DiMibt must b<* con
-1 • I iVt d h* doililuit l ihg the llllri-qual
i j tele of impotent Whll'v (hough !hr for
- have out a maj'riity in any one of
I ! tire J 4 ir.ie e preclni :* into whiili tin
!<ity is divided
i l.eoi e naturally evolves In lin»Klna
llofl Hi tie ha IP r of Utr esiluive poWrl
Ij of I g. itettoh fol t lie Jfjfitl i( t Wiilii) will
j till leiottiil in Orlignae a coltupt
. | negro controlled so deign Htate which
wii. det.troy on hone!l and effiiienl mu
I MUdM gUVUwWfiil tied Uelt* l*U UiJ U)
THE EVEXTXO STAR. WASHTXfiTOX. T). C.. TEES PAT, TtfARCIT go. I«fr.
l I
i to the Nation, and wherein the con- !
; scienceless self-promoters who have i
sought to Americanize the Washlnglo- !
! iiians for selfish and corrupt ends may j
1 gratify their ambitions for office and
wallow in political spoils, municipal, j
State and national.
Could any pipe-dream work out more!
j fantastic and impossible results?
Os course, the President and Con- j
j gress in the exercise of five exclusive 1
legislative power of Congress could at i
any moment put a stop to the career
of crime of the District's conspiring
one or two Senators and two Repre
sentatives. Congress might not be In
a position to prevent the powerful and
I malignant one-fourth colored popula
tion from mastering politically the
i three-fourths population of weakling
1 whites, but without tiie corrupt con
nivance of Congress the conspirators
! would at this point be brought to an
abrupt halt, utterly powerless to carry
out their devilish schemes How t could
J they wallow in the spoils of office when
the President and Congress would con- ,
j trol every office? How could they
! threaten the stability of the repuolic |
when they would command neittvr
i Army soldiers nor militia nor police
force, and when at their first revolu- j
; lianary gesture they could be arrested
j and Jailed by the solitary policeman on
the block?
Participation In Congress by a few
Representatives of the District would
not affect the despotic control of the ,
District by Congress: and to picture a
grafting, corrupt, disloyal and nmllg
j aant government of the District is to
accuse a future Congress and a future
j President of this corruption and of tins
disloyalty.
The real danger to the republic Is
that by failure of the Nation to grant
representation in accordance with our
amendment, the District shall become,
with one or two millions of people, an
area iniiabited by incurable political
aliens, taught to belittle and despise
the vital principles upon which the
republic is founded: an area possibly
for the intensive and extensive cultiva- j
tion of colonies of mercenary voters, to
be bought, transported and used, in per
version of Stale laws, by the party or
the candidate with the largest purse—
a rotten spot of un-Americanism at the
heart of the body politic, threatening
blood poisoning.
NORRIS AGAIN ASKS
NEWSPAPER PROBE
Senator Urges Federal Trade
Body to Investigate Cop
ley Enterprises.
- »
Further discussion of the newspapers
owned by Ira C. Copley, former member i
■ of Congress from Jlinohs, in Illinois and
California took place in the Senate yes- j
terday. when Senator Norris, Repub- j
Ham. of Nebraska, again suggested a
Federal Trade Commission inquiry into
Uveir financing. In connection with the j
investigation of public utilities power,
companies.
'The Nebraskan called attention that j
Copley had said in an advertisement ;
published in one of his papers that a
$3,200,000 bond issue floated for the j
purchase of two flan Diego papers had
been subscribed to by banks and in
vestment houses, and he called for an
inquiry of this along with tile sugges
tion by Copley that he might soon seek
| $4 300.000 for purchase of additional pa
i per* He retailed charges lhat the |
; papers were to be used as a ‘’defense” !
I of public utility companies, which are I
i under investigation by the Federal |
j Trade Commission
j John Caban Ol.aughlln, vice prexl- I
dent of tiie Copley Press, Inc , in the ab
sence of Mr. Copley from the country,
Issued a statement describing die dec
larations of Senator Norris as “bunk,’
and late in (lie day Senator Norris had
read in the Senate a letter from Mr
O Laughiln
Previously, Mr Nutria denied that lie
or Willis Spaulding of Springfield. 11l . >
whose letter about the Copley papers
he had read last week, had said that !
| negotiations are now under way for pur- j
• chase of the D)* Angeles Express He j
j said Mr Spaulding had said negotlu- i
| lions had been under way and tie read j
i a telegram from tiie owners of tiie Ex- j
: press stating that Copley had sought
j oti( • lo buy stock in tiie paper, but that *
j he had not purchased any.
WATCHTOWER FINISHED.
Severn! Counties Can Jle Been From i
Shady Grove laiokout.
HjM-eiiiJ 'fur Star,
FREDERICKHBURO, Va March 20
The erection near Hhady Grove Church ’
in HfwUylvanla County, of the new steel!
60-fool file lookout towel has Just been j
completed and is believed lo Ik- I lie hi si j
of JU kind In Virginia ‘lhe lower is
! In u-e and lUlhour.h the reason for tile )
• *'al l I fire damn I 1 1 as not yet lii-guii
foot forest futv, have already been ie
pml (1 from llte IttWei ami suppressed
hiHiif lining •■ lino- damage
'1 he view Korn the top of the tower
iovers a huge area tin a clear day
six or seven counties and a large part
of tile Bine Nidge <an be seen 'I In
tower liaa an excellent stairway, safely
iailed in from botlnm hi top and the
house on lop la Inclosed with glass
making the lower both safe amt com
fortable The lower was erected by the
Hpoif-vivunla Fores! File Preventive
A- Delation In ■ onjuiu-tlon with the
eouiiiy lodhoij'le u( ,d u, e Htate and
ridclal Forest Mn vices,
•
Coulitlge t-x Tea< her Jiiei.
f-oN I illiolNJ Ida , Match ‘‘u <
<i)()igc Hheiiuan 74 foimci pilniipal
of IJho k Ni ei A ademi dieit today «•
I <i<llov Vt lie nurnbeied I'leaidcnt
t -evliOfe HU'Jtig lip. pqpUiii
GRAND JURY POLICE
QUIZ IS RESUMED
Officers Summoned in Probe
of Charges Resulting From
Transfer Orders.
E C Meredith, acting foreman of
the grand jury, today resumed before
that body the hearing of witnesses in
connection with the probe Into the
> barges that Policeman George Hell
nmlh of the fourth precinct and Pre
cinct Detective Arthur Fihelly of No.
1 precinct were transferred because of
their activity in gambling cases. The
inquiry was halted last week after Maj. •
Hesse and a number of other high po
lice officials had appeared before the
grand jurors. •
Among the witnesses summoned for
today's session were Capt. C. H Brem
etrnan, Lieut. W. E. Holmes and Sergt
Bailey of No. 4; Detectives Carlton Tal
ley. H, E Ogle. Thomas Naliy. F A
Varney and H. E, Brodie, from head
quarters, and the following policemen
from No. 4 John W. Wise. F. A. Trus
cott and S F. Gravely. W. A. Heddons
of the prohibition unit was also ex
pected to testify.
Mr. Meredith was not prepared to say
when the report of the grand jury
would be ready for submission to the
court. The hearing followed a request
from the Gibson Committee of the
House of Representatives, while Fore
man Martin D. McQuade of the grand
jury was before the committee to deny
charges made against him by Hellmuth
and Precinct Detective Cox that he had
asked them "to keep their eyes closed" j
in connection with certain gambling
places. Mr. McQuade has absented him
self from the grand jury room during
the hearings in the Hellmuth case and
Acting Foreman Meredith has conduct
ed the inquiry.
FIXING DOLLAR PRICE
OPPOSED AT HEARING
Use of Gold Standard to Govern
Purchase Power It Best, Strong
Tells Committee.
Gov. Rov A. Young of the Federal
Reserve Board and other board officials
vesterdav stated their opposition to the
bill designed to stabilize the purchasing
power of the dollar during a hearing
before the House banking committee.
Young will appear at a later meeting
and yesterday merely told the commit
tee that "the board was opposed to the
proposed legislation.”
Anv method of price fixing Is not
feasible. Beniamin F. Strong, governor
of the New York Reserve Bank, testl
fled He added, however, that the
scientific application of the gold stand
ard was the most feasible method for
stabilization of money.
Owen D Young, director of the New
York bank, presented his views In a
| letter to Chairman McFadden in which
! he expressed the belief that the meas
; ure would tend "to create a centra!
bank in Washington and fundamentally
i change the whole theory of the Reserve
system" bv weakening the Independence
| of the regional banks.
'traction firms oppose
i BUS LINE ESTABLISHMENT
Object to Piopogal of Banning,
Glendale and Orkland Citizens'
Associations.
Objections to a proposal of the
Henning, Glendale and Oakland Cltl*
| r.en*' Associations that the Capital
j fraction Co be authorized to establish
I a motor bus line operating from the
Henning Station to the District line,
i weie received by the Public Utilities
Commission from the two street railway
{ companies and the commission's engi
neer. Capt U a. Klutz
i Both the Capital Traction and Wash
| ington Railway Electric Coa.
said that the bus service Is not war-
I ranted Capt Klutz reported that It
i would be Inadvisable to establish such
| cl vice The commission, however, has
j not yet acted on the request of the
' association.
FLYER DIES IN CRASH.
i vIM mm Wlifts In
Texas Maneuvers.
HAN ANTONIO, Tex March JO
| First Lieut, William C Williams Alt
; Culps Reserve amt a Judge In Atlantic,
j lowa, wits Instantly killed tier a today
j when IPs plane crashed Into a tele
phone | sis I near Hie Jd Division Air
Field ul Fort Ham Houston
The fiver was engaged in a contact
mTstoii foi Hie uih Infantry, whnh la
now In maneuvers, when Hie accident
pccuncd ills observer Lieut Russell
H Cooper, wus nut critically Injured
•
Shrine Club Elects.
■*|R • »*l h In 7 )»• *t«r
HTAUNTON Va , March 'JO 'The
Htaunloii Hhrtne Club, which Is In Hie
j jurisdiction of An a 't emple, Richmond
I last night held Hs annual election, re
sulting as follows: Capt Mot it* T
Warner, president; Robert S’ Ptfer,
vie# president ; J Itubeil Wamsley jr .
secretary; it Flutey Hi amt, treasurer;
j F tee sergeant at arms The club
Iliad# Ini!lui |ilaps to allelid u banquet
to Rli hmoiid Hits Mpilog us guests of
Hie Hphlux Club of that city Mild will i
sponsor the appeaiance here m con-'
pert of Avua 'tempi* • baud.
ORATORS PRACTICE
SPEECHES IN WOODS
Maryland Contestants Found
in True Stump Fashion
Preparing for Test.
The victory of a Maryland boy,
■‘Aleck'’ IjOker of Leonardtown. last
: year has Riven contestants of the Mary- j
i land counties preparing for the Fifth i
I National Oratorical Contest no end of
'determination to repeat Ihe conquest
1 for their State again this year. They
! are doing real work toward that end,
! and when a photographer and a re
-1 porter visited their schools to record
I their efforts the students generally
were found rehearsing their orations.
It remained for Oxon Hill High
| Sehool. however, to show the newspaper
! men how It Is done. It was in the
i middle of the afternoon on one of their
' recent tours of the counties that the
! photographer and the reporter reached
| Oxon Hill School. J. Wesley Mumford,
the principal, was laconic when It was
j explained that the remaining contest
, ants In his school ought to be photo
' graphed.
“Orating" to Woods.
“Well, they’re not around here, so I
i guess they're out in the fields some
, where." he remarked, and he dispatched
one of Ills students to search for the
orators. The boy was gone some time
when the newspaper men decided they
might as well join the hunt.
Out across a wide open field they
hiked, through a barbed-wire fence and
; down into a fresh-scented pine woods,
where the fallen needles crackled ami
made slippery footing, and there, with
the evergreens as their audience and
the blue aky as their auditorium, the
; contestants were "orating." Voices that
i had been cramped in dose classrooms
I were booming In all-out-of-doors, and
: arms were flaying In oratorical gestl
j dilation. Too violent a gesture, or mis-
I placed emphasis brought corrections and
suggestions from Miss M. Waldron,
! teacher of English at the Oxon School
Other Schools Try It.
The group halted in a clearing to '
pose for their pictures. When the brief |
interruption was over they filed back
into the woods, and as the newsmen
took up their hike back through the
fields and that barbed-wire fence, the j
booming of oratorical voices was re- i
sumed in the woods, where Llewellyn j
Heigham. Mary Breen. Louise Cuslck.
Clyde Taylor and Ashkey Aderholdt.
the contestants, had disappeared among |
the pine boughs
This is not the only school that Is i
resorting to the idea born In the mind
of Demosthenes back in Athens cen- j
; turies ago. when he threw his voice '
above the roar of the rolling surf, with |
i pebbles in his mouth, to develop his ;
| oratorical powers Leonard Hall of
| Leonardtown, which sent "Aleck" Loker !
[ Into battle last year, staged just such |
training before Its spokesman was
j chosen this year. Singly and In groups
I the contestants in that school hied
I themselves to the woods, where, perched
| upon stumps, they told the story of the
l Constitution to the trees.
HOUSE MEMBERS
FLYJjTH LINDY
Two Woman Representatives
Are First to Hop Off With
Famous Aviator.
Col Lindbergh la taking his first par- j
ty of Congress members for an air trip
over the Capital this afternoon, start
ing at 230 o'clock The first batch In
cludes Representative Rogers of Mas
sachusetts. who has flown several times
j previously; Representative Langiey of
j Kentucky and Representatives Shreve.
Pennsylvania; Perkins. New York;
Stobbs. Massachusetts: Burdick. Rhode
Island; Kelly. Pennasvlvania. and Maas
Minnesota. Lindbergh arrived today
shortly after noon at Bolling Field from
Curtiss Field. N. Y.
More than 100 members of the House
already have put In their names as de- !
siring to make a trip with Lindbergh
and these requests are being sent by
Speaker Longworth to the Department
or Commerce every afternoon at the
rate of about 35 a day. Speaker Long
worth flew with Lindbergh on an earlier
visit to the Capital.
Berger First on List.
The first member of Congress to re
quest a place in the plane of Lind
bergh was Representative Berger. So
cialist. of Wisconsin, who for many
year* was a warm Irlend of Lindbergh's
father when the latter was serving In
Congress As soon as the Shaker last
Friday afternoon read Into the record
Col. Lindbergh's offer to take members
of Congress up with him, Mr. Berger
rushed to the Speaker's office to head
the list. Representative Thatcher of
Kentucky was the .second Representa
tive Berger expects to make his trip
tomorrow.
Many wives, daughters and sons of !
members of Congress and practically j
every secretary ts anxious to make a
trip with Lindbergh. It has not yet
been determined whether the members
will be allowed to take up any members
of their families with them Repre
sentative Ktobbs of Massachusetts ex
pect* to take his son with him this
afternoon.
Updike It Pilot.
Representative Updike of Indiana ts
himself a pilot and at one time made
a parachute descent over Wilmington
He was one of the earliest to ask for
a place In Lindbergh s plane, With him
on the trip will be Representative Wol
verlon of West Virginia
Members of Congress when they ap
ply at the Hpeaket's office Indicate the
day on which It will be most convenient
for them to flv with Lindbergh, and
then the Department of Commerce ar
langes the schedule to suit as tar as
possible the convenience of the mem
bers of the House.
WILL RESUME JOURNEY.
Davison and Fechet Replace Plane
Crashed in Panama Trip.
MEXICO CITY. March 30 <4»» Dis
patches from Baltna Crus today said
that two relief planes en mute to
Mluatltlan fiom Panama at rived at
Malms Cruz from Managua, Nicaragua
The planes will be used by F. Trubee
Davison, Altitu nan Secretary of War
for Aviation and Mai. lien .lames K
Fechet, rhh-f of the United Btales
Army atr forre, to complete thetr tour
ney bv all to Panama They will re
place s plane which crashed at Puerto
Mexico on Friday,
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Orphan*!;* Work ttart*.
Xlterisl tt In Th* Star.
RICHMOND Va March 30 Bishop
Andrew ,1 Htannan at * o'clock ves
lei day afternoon hiokc ground for its*
hist of ID building* to be elected bv
Ml Joseph's Academy and t upturn
Asylum al Molly brook some five miles
unit It of the city A great ctowd ot
memheis of the chilivh were on hand
The money fur the building, and foi the
i other* to he hum wa* the gift of the
•lata James A Dooley, who died two'
tsais ago.
U. S. MINE SLAYINGS
SCORED IN MOSCOW
64 Countries Represented
at Labor Congress of Red
Internationale.
BY JUNIUS B. WOOD.
I By Cable to The Star ami Ohi< ntu Daily .
New*. Copyright, He'S.
MOSCOW. March 20- Asserting that,
a concerted capitalistic offensive against ■
organized labor in all industrial coun
tries was the most significant charac- j
teristic of the past year and outlining
a platlorm upon which world labor
might unite, Solomon Lazovsky. serre- j
tary of the Red Internationale of Labor 1
Unions, in a speech opened the dls- j
cusslons of the International organlza- I
lion’s fourth congress.
Delegates from 64 countries were pres
ent., Including representatives from the
United States. Cuba. Mexico and Can- j
ada. The delegates profess to repre
sent 17.000,000 workers, of whom 10,-
441 000 are within Soviet Russia.
Will Dunn, well known American
radical, was selected as a member of
the secretariat. Messrs. Johnson and
Wintlos were made American members
of the presidium.
7-Hour Work Day Urged.
"Workers of all countries must unite
for a 7-hour work day, protection of
the unemployed against capitalistic ra
tionalization of Industry, against taxa
tion of wages and against class collabo
ration." Secretary Lazovsky said "We
must develop a more systematic or-!
gantzation of strikes, since In no coun
try is sufficient study given to the pre
liminary preparation of strikes.
' Surveying the world everywhere, we
see the accomplishments of the capital
istic offensive against labor. While its i
chief weapon is judicial procedure, the
whole apparatus of governments, eco
| nomic as well as political, is used for
j repelling and disorganizing workers'
j ranks. Laws against organized labor
I either have been passed or Introduced
|in nearly every country In the last
| year. Examples are the strike-breaker
j laws of England, the anti-labor laws of
I Poland. Norway, the United States and
; Japan. Capitalistic terrorism has been
i added to the methods under the cloak |
j of law in a long list of places, including ■
i Pennsylvania, where hired thugs re-;
! cently murdered several radical labor!
j leaders.
Naval Programs Cited.
“Two world movements doom the!
I capitalistic offensive. First is the grow
ing strength of the Soviet Union Sec- ’
| ond, the awakening class consciousness I
of colonies Added to this is the in
| creasingly sharp conflict between im
j perialistic America and England for oil
• and rubber markets and exploitation of
j their colonies Competitive naval pro
grams are a part of this commercial
conflict. England now is frantically de
| lending the colonies which she stole
from the natives, while America is
j preparing to dominate Great Britain's
looted lands ’’
Discussion of lazovsky’s report by the
delegates will occupy several days.
OHIO WESLEYAN DEBATE
WITH A. U. ENDS IN TIE
Judges Split on Merits of Discus
sion Between College
Teams.
j A tie vote of two to two among the
\ judges resulted last night In the inter
collegiate debate between Ohio Wesleyan
| University and American University, at
i Hurst Hall on the A U. campus.
American U. defended the afflrma- 1
tive of the question: "Resolved, that
1 American private investments in foreign
! countries should not be given military
protection by the United States Gov
ernment.” while the visitors took the
negative.
The Ohio debaters were Paul Ander
son. Bernard Mercer and Philip Ebe
iing while the local team consisted of
Hugh Speer. Blake Espey and Roland
Rice. The judges were Representative
John C Ketcham of Michigan. Dr. Joy
Elmer Morgan, editor of the National
: Education Association Journal: Dr
Arthur J. Klein, chief of the division
jof higher education. United States
i Bureau of Education, and J. Austin
i Stone, attorney.
Dr, Lucius C. Clark, chancellor of
American University, presided Arthur
S Flemming. A. U. debating coach
graduated last year from Ohio j
Wesleyan, where he had been a mem
ber of the debating team.
NAVY FLYER DROWNED:
STUDENT SAVES SELF
Break in Pontoon Sends Lieut. J. J
Lenhart, Florida Instructor,
j
Down Strapped in Plana.
By th# A«*t)i'UlFtl Pr*M
PENSACOLA. Fla . March 20 - Lieut
John J lenhart. Navy flying instructor.
| was drowned, and C. A White, student
j flyer, narrowly escaped the same fate
I here late yesterday, when a pontoon on
their seaplane cracked, plunging the
craft into several feet of water off the !
naval atr station. Just before the ship I
struck the surface landing
White was able to extricate himself
from his straps and struggle to the stir- *
face after the ship had submerged, but f
the Instructor was found strapped in!
| his seat. j
Lieut, lenhart was a native of Nyaek
N Y He had been at the station here j
j several months He ts survived by his J
widow, who lives in Pensacola.
DIES JN EIFFEL LEAP. ;
Parachute Jumper Killed in Fall
From Pari* Tower.
PARIS Match 20 iPI.- The Balloon j
Jumper Hotal tn testing, a new para- 1
chute Jumped 3HO feet to tils death to
day from the second platform of Die
Eiffel Tower.
Tests had been made successfully pre
viously with sandbags, but when Hotal
tumped, the parachute failed to open
Ho was the second person to dte tn at
tempting a parachute jump from ttie
tower.
ESTATE IS VALUED.
Alaskan Woman Leave* Monthly
Income to Sister,
Martha A U Gibson. who died Feb
ruary 23 left an e.ituto valued at
4.10000. according to the petition of
Hohvit lee O'Biten. executor, hu the
probate of her will included to the
estate Is the house at 1430 Twentieth
street Two sisters. Bertha F Farwetl
and Minute h King survive
Its the terms of the wilt ot Mrs, Man
t lies of VaUten, Alaska, who died
March 3 13 000 in cash and an Income
of 1100 per month is given her sLsicr
Krntore F Hatchet the remaining
estate goes to tier husband, Alfred li j
lies,
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Pope Uieeti Smith's Daughter
HOME Mnp II 2ft t 4“ tVwe Purs
granted «u audience lodes lo m*i
John A Warner and M>* Whom
' Mrs Warner is a daughter of Men
auulh of New York.
GARAGE ASSOCIATION
WILL BANQUET TONIGHT
Annual Function at Mayflower
Hotel to Mark Close of Two-
Day Convention.
E. O. Dom*f?e, president of the In
ternational Garage Association, will
preside at the annual banquet to be
held in the Mayflower Hotel tonight,
closing a two-day convention of the
association here, during which plans
for the establishment of an advisory |
j service for those planning to build pub
| lie garages and for the regulation of
j the public garage business were out- j
I lined by several speaker*.
Mr. bontge, who la manager of the
! Statler Hotel In Buffalo, predicted yes- :
J terday that within a few years every |
j first-class hotel, office building, theater j
i and depart,mgnt store will make ar- j
j rangemects for parking garage space, i
MRS. WILSON SEEN
SMITH ADHERENT
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Political Observers Believe
She Will Declare Shortly
for New Yorker.
BY DAVID LAWRENC E.
Word Is being passed around In po
-1 lltiral circle* that Mrs. Woodrow WS!-
j
! son will shortly announce herself In
favor of the nomination of Gov. Smith
! of New York.
j In several of the States where the
j battle for delegates has begun this In
i formation is being distributed. Mrs.
| Wilson has made no public statement
ion the subject. St« attended the Jack-
I son dav dinner and has been taking
j an interest in the various functions
held by the womens Democratic or
ganizations. Since the death of the
late President she has been living in
Washington, but is known to have
maintained many of the friendships of
! her husband with leaders of the Dem
ocratic party.
Would Cite Cleavage.
If Mrs. Wilson were to issue a pro
nouncement in favor of Gov. Smith, it ;
would certainlv emphasize the cleavage ,
which has developed in the ranks of the
Wilson group. William Giflb-s McAdoo.
son-in-law of President Wiison. is op
posed to Gov. Smith's nomination. A
number of Western drys who were ;
stanch Wilson supporters are equally
vigorous in their opposition.
! Some unpublished letters of President
] Wilson are said to indicate the high re-
I gard that the President had for th<*
j New York Governor, but the latter's,
j political star, so far as presidential as- ’
j pirations are concerned, was just de
j veloping when Mr. Wilson died in Feb
ruary. 1924
I Mr Wilson, it will be recalled, ve
| toed the Volstead act. the reasons given
at the time being considered technical,
| but among his advisers were men who i
j used to say he was of the opinion that,
generally speaking, the act did not con
form to the purposes of the eighteenth
! amendment.
i One Wilson man who is ardently for
| Gov. Smith is his former secretary.
Joseph P Tumulty. Newton D Baker
i of Cleveland. Secretary of War in the
Wilson cabinet, has announced himself
for Smith.
Opposed to Reed.
There is one thing sure, and is the
i opposition of most of the Wilson people
! to the candidacy of Senator Reed of Mis
souri. and if the fight became one be
tween the Missouri Senator and the New
1 York governor, it is believed many of
I the so-called drys would forget their
| prohibition grievances rather than sup
j port Reed The Wiison strength is for
j the moment distributed, however among
other candidates, some outstanding
leaders like B. M. Baruch of New York,
being said to favor the candidacy of [
i Oov. Ritchie of Maryland E T. Mere
dith. lowa. Secretary of Agriculture in i
; the Wilson cabinet, is opposed to Gov.
Smith because gs. prohibition and is be
ing mentioned ' himself for the presi-
I dency.
The chances of the Wilson group unit-
I ing on any one candidate are consid
i ered remote unless Senator Reed de
j velops a formidable candidacy. For the
I moment, the support given Gov Smith
j by the Wilson men about equals the
| support given the various favorite sons,
ICowrirtt. 19'fS.i
RABBI WISE BITS
“UNWRITTEN CODE"
Asks Repeal of Presidential
••Barrier" and Fair Trial
of Prohibition.
"Repeal of the “unwritten law”' that
none but Protestants can hold the office
of President, and a "fair trial ‘ of pro
j hibition was urged by Rabbi Stephen
S Wise of New York president of the
j Jewish Institute of Religion, at the
i weekly luncheon of the Woman's Na
i tional Democratic Club in the organ -
| (nation s headquarters yesterday
Speaking on the topic "U I Were
| Writing the Platform lor 19_’$ Rabbi
! Wise declared that "law enforcement
j is not an issue for a national election ‘
: The American people cio not consider
j the eighteenth amendment either op
pressive or unjust, he said, claiming
that prohibition "under two Republican
administrations has never had a fair
trial “
"Whispering against a non-Protestant
candidate for President vs a bootleg
ging violation of article tv section S
of the Constitution the speaker de
clared The so-called unwritten law
that no one shall be President unless
he is a Protestant must be abolished, -
j he asserted
Next week B. F Yoakum of New
York, an authority on fanning condi
tions of the country, will tell the club *
his ideas regarding a platform for 19.’S
Tomorrow the members of the club
will heai the work of the Womens Ke- ;
lattons Division of the War Depart
ment explained by Miss Anna Phipps
director of that division at a Lenten;
tea in the clubhouse as 4 50.
M. C. HAZEN REAPPOINTED.
i Woih of UUttict Surveyor Situ*
iiH*fi Bring* Piaise.
Keappolunncni ot Melvin s' Hasan
ax surveyor of vhe Dl*tnet tor auoihn
tour year tenu was announced today
hv the Distiict ComintsMoneis. Mr
Haeen s present teitu expires July 21
the reappointment was made on itv
onvmendatlon of Capt H C White
hurst Assistant Engineer Commission*
er. who pointed out that hta services
as suwevor since July 3T, lJv's, 'have
been characterised b.v the utmost ct
tWUwu.v and loyalty
*
Quake Keif m Jugoslavia.
RKIOKADK Jugoslavia March 30
t' tCarvh aim*is seta tell *<■ agvvc
and in the nelghUMmg WHUU-.y at i
’ ocUkk tins monuu* in the region ot
Pakrac filaroma chunnevs coliapaed .
1 and several house* were damaged, but *
no catuaiuv* ««it tvpsMUsW
POWERS PRESSING
FOR PEACE ACTION
Germany and Turkey Join ,
Russia in Move to Have Pro
posals Considered. * •
BY JOHN GTNTHF.R.
Bv Cable to The «t»r and f 't r*g'i
N<*w*. Copjright. *
GENEVA. March 20.-A demand by
j Germany, Russia and Turkey for !m-
J mediate public consideration of the *
| Soviet disarmament proposal* and o*r-»
; many’s request for a second reading of
j the preliminary commission’* report
| w'ere up before the disarmamer.* com
! mission today.
England, France, the United
| and other powers want to bury tlv
i Soviet scheme in committee ar.d war/.
Ito defer the second reading of th»
i preparatory commission’s report till
later, when there mav be some poasih.e
chance of an agreement. ,
Move to Force Action.
| The German-Russian-Turk .si mar- i
ver Is an at'empt to force the power*
into‘the open to give immediate eon
i siderafion to the generdl question of
disarmament instead of the
I postponements, delays and technical
wrangling*. But every one *hat
the Soviet proposals were designed pri
marily for domestic propaganda, and
the German request for a second r»ad
| ing of the commission’s report is en
tirely impracticable at the present,
moment.
Hence the attitude of *he other
powers that these questions must be
deferred until June is not likely to b*
i shaken In any event today's discus
sion calls the Russian bluff—in the
words of American observers—since a
decision to quash the Soviet proposals
is almost certain. t
Embarrassing to United Ftatea.
On the other hand. England. Frar,'*-
and the United States are ’sorr.ewha*
»mbarrassed because the present answ* - -
they must make deferring the R>uw4ar-
Turkish-German proposals puts Russia.*
Turkey and Germany in the light of
I being the only countries interested in
disarmament, with an actual, aggressive
; program to disarm.
The American delegation does r.-t
know whether to be amused or annoy»d
at the Russian overtures to the Ur./cd
States. Maxim Litvinoff’s only advance *
from his position at the last session of
| the Preparatory Disarmament Comrrts
: sion is his appeal for support from the
| United States, "that other great coun
try which by the outlawry of war has
; prepared the way for actual world
: peace.”
, Tewfik Bey. the Turkish delegate,
j also suggested that the American. Rus
sian and Turkish viewpoints wer» sim:-
i ’.ar The most active sympathy for the
j Kellogg proposals have been ctwtir.c
■ from former enemy states and from.
Russia.
SOVIET ASKS t*. S. AID.
Litvinoff Seeks American Help in Get
ting Action on Peace Pact.
GENEVA. Switzerland. March 2fi
o**'.—Russia yesterday appealed to the
United States to join it in forcing
immediate action on the Soviet proposal
for total disarmament within four years.
The appeal was made before the
preparatory committee for a disarma
ment conference by Maxim Litvinoff.
head of the Russian delegation.
M. Litvinoff. after attacking the
methods being followed by the League
and demanding immediate public ds
bate on the Russian plan, alluded tc j
the proposals of Secretary of State Kel
logg for the outlawry of war and then
added:
"The Soviet delegation feels author
ized to count upon the support of the
; delegation of the Government which t
i intervening at the present moment With
a proposal to prohibit all wars.
| "The sincerity of that proposition
could not be emphasized more per
suasively than by adherence to the
Soviet project for disarmament, not
only with a new to moral prohibition
but to destruction of the possibility e:
making war. •
• As armed forces exist for no oth*r
purpose than to make war and as the
would be perfectly useless were it pr -
hibited. it would appear consister/ arti
logical if the Government in question
supported our proposals.”
HUSBAND DENIES GOLF
INTERFERES WITH HOME
A. J. La Covey Answers Suit of
Wife—Says He Left Houso
With Her Consent.
August J. La Covey, employe of the
Interior Department, who was accused
by his w ife. Mrs. Florence D La Cheer
of spending all Ins leisure time on the
golf links to the neglect of herself and
j child, today filed his answer in ’he Pis
{ met Supreme Court, denying the
! charges.
La Covey states that he has never
permitted golf playing to inters- re with ,
his business or with the conduct of the
home, but that, as the result of months
of wrangling, he and his wife decided
to live apart, and February he left
the house in which they were living
with her consent. He avers that his
wtfe is of an extremely nervous disposi
tion The charges of mental cruelty ar?
denied by la Covev.
Justice Hit* signed an order in this
case awarding Mrs. la Covev for
the support of herself and child ivnd
sug her suit tor separation Attorney
Raymond Ncudecfcer appears or. kthi i
of the husband. 1
SIMMONS TO SPEAK.
, Nebraska Representative Listed for
School Dedication.
Representative Simmon* of Nebraska
will be the prine pal speaker at the
; dedication of the auditorium of live ’
K West School oil Farraguet street F
dav evening
There wtU be a musical program
given by an orchestra made up of me.-
beta of the Unites! Sts: - Mars:*? R« d
and conducted bv wuiiatn F H Skvi- *
j tehnann. \tv< F'ora MoO»M Kfe -
singer and Ms* Fdith B A* hey » '*•
Mrs Bruce R Campbell oia- - - V’-»
[Janet Cvn. whistler, wtU also etv.- -
tain,
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