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WEATHER.
(TJ. S. Weather Bureau Forecast. V
Rain this morning, followed by clear
ing in afternoon; decidedly colder to
morrow afternoon and night. Monday
fair and continued cold. Temperature
—Highest, 56. at 10 p.m. yesterday;
lowest, 28, at 6 a m. yesterday.
Full report on page 4.
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ENDURANCE PLANE,
IN AIR 111 HOURS,
STILL GOES STRONG
Craft, With Motors Function
p ing Perfectly, Seeks to
V Smash All Records.
CREW IS NONCHALANT;
CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS
7,000 Miles Covered and 4.000 Gal
lons of Gas Taken Aboard in
25 Aerial Contacts.
By the Associated Press.
METROPOLITAN AIRPORT. Los
Angeles, Calif., January s.—Limp
ing with a number of missing en
gine cylinders, the Army monoplane
Question Mark tonight at 10:56
o'clock Pacific time equalled the last
Official record for sustained flight of
aircraft, that of the Graf Zeppelin.
METROPOLITAN AIRPORT, Los
Angeles. January s.—Like a great in
exhaustible bird, the Army’s endurance
plyie Question Mark today soared into
its 113th hour in the air at midnight,
apparently just warming up to Its task
of determining how long man can fly
* heavier-than-alr machine.
The big plane, her three motors func
tioning with a perfect roar, needs only a
lew more hours to go to equal the time
of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin on her
historic flight from Germany to the
United States last Autumn.
Several more hours beyond that would
bring the Question Mark abreast the all
time flight mark set by the ill-fated
French dirigible Dixmude. The plane
already had far surpassed the once sen
aational records of other heavier-than
alr craft.
On the ground, eyes following the t
tri-motored ship reflected more anxiety |
about her future apparently than did ;
those five men who have ridden in her |
cabin since the take-off the morning of I
January 1. Messages from Maj. Carl'
Spatz, commanding officer, rung al- i
most with nonchalance, and if worry
harassed the crew they kept it a secret.
Crew Is Nonchalant.
Typical of the messages was one
which floated dowarws the Question
Mark returned from *■ Jaunt to Rock
well Field, San Diego, this morning
and prepared to refuel in the air.
Written by Staff Sergt. Roy Hooe,
mechanic aboard the ship, it read:
-Everything is going good. I
both ears on the ground— that s a wise
crack—all the time listening to the
motors. They sound sweet. We al
realize that it was the work of you
(Lieut. Ray W. Harris, engineering
officer of the flight, who supervised
the installation of the Planes tirree
motors) and your men at the Middle
town depot that helped to b "ak the
records and now we are out to ma*e
one that will stand. , ~,
“We are out to make one that will
take a long time to break. How about
that? I told Maj. Spatz and the other
officers aboard about the ja bb ft foot
that was tied to the tail skid without
their knowledge and you should have
seen them laugh.”
As the Question Mark .sailed on
toward completion of its fifth day of
flight, this good luck symbol seemed to
be running true to form, for not once
has any major misfortune developed.,
The only near disaster occurred on the
third day when the ship ran low on
gasoline as it battled a heavy wind
in Imperial Vajley. but an emergency
refueling kept the ship aloft. Refuel
ing planes have made contact with the
ship nearly 25 times and approximately
4,000 gallons of gasoline have been
transferred in air via a four-inch hose.
Travels ",000 Miles.
At the average rat© of speed of
70 miles an hour which the plane has:
been making, it was estimated that it |
traveled 7,000 miles when its 100 hours
were up. If it continues to 118 hours
or better, it will have traveled approxi- j
matelv 8.260 miles or more than a third |
of the distance around the earth.
Maj. Spatz dropped a cheery message i
showing that the flyers were prepared j
to stay in the air indefinitely. His j
message read:
“We are pleased at all the mail we j
are getting. Lieut. Quesada is kept busy j
answering fan letters. We sometimes |
•wonder how the ground organization j
and refueling crew gets this stuff to us j
with such dispatch. Teamwork, I call j
it. We are proud to be associated with j
the gang doing it all.
“Send up a wash basin if one is j
convenient. We’ve gone four days j
■without washing and we’re dirty as!
blazes, but like it.
Goes Into Last Stretch.
As the monoplane purred into the last
12-hour stretch of her fifth day in the
air, having long since broken all records :
for endurance flying, completion of a
climatic chapter in aviation history
lacked only three hours of flying—the
recording of a longer sustained flight j
by an airplane than by an airship.
If the Question Mark is still in the
air at 10:27 and 32 seconds a,m. Sun
day, the flight time of the Graf Zep
pelin en route from Germany to Amer
ica will have been equaled. The Graf
made the trip in 111 hours and 46 min
utes.
Another seven hours in the air after
reaching the Graf mark would set a
record over all lighter-than-air craft.
The ill-fated Dixmude flew for 118
hours.
Man Falls 5 Floors, a Leg Is Broken;
2 “Wives" Show Up, an Evil Token
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, January 5.—A five-story!
plunge from a girder was only the.
beginning of Ralph S. Hedrick’s
troubles.
The 30-year-old steel worker took his
header Thursday from an office building
construction that may end in a trial
for bigamy.
Two “wives" appeared at a hospital
today and each claimed a properly
(authenticated marriage certificate.
NAMED “THE QUESTION MARK”
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MRS. IRA S. EAKER of Washington, wife of the chief pilot of the
Army plane Question Mark, is responsible for the name of the plane,
ahe disclosed last night.
“Every one who knew about the project had been casting about for
a name for days,” she said. “Suddenly I thought, at lunch, two days before
the plane left, that since it might prove anything—or nothing—the logical
name was Question Mark. So I suggested that and it was accepted.”
Mrs. Eaker said she was not motivated by concern for her husband’s
safety, although she had been anxious when Capt, Eaker was on the
Pan-American tour two years ago and when he flew to Greenley Island
after the Bremen was stranded there. “I was sure the Question Mark
would break the records.” she continued, “and now I’m thinking only
about the letter I’m going to get, telling just what it is like to be cooped
up with four other humans for—l’m sure it will be 10 or 15 days.”
The above photograph was made at Mrs. Eaker’s home here last
night, where she is carefully following editions of the newspapers for
news of the flight.
Associated Press Photo.
DEMOCRATS URGED
TO BAR SMITH WING
Box of Texas Says Party
Will Die Unless Change
Is Made.
By the Associated Prese.
The future success of the Democratic
party, in the opinion of Representative
Box of Texas, new minority whip in the
House, depends upon ridding the or
ganization of those forces which nomi
nated Gov. Smith and controlled his
campaign. Otherwise, he sees a disin
tegration of the party beyond salvation.
Box, who recently was selected Demo
cratic whip for the remainder of the
present Congress, succeeding the late
Representative Oldfield of Arkansas, j
expressed this view in a letter, made
public yesterday, to Franklin D. Roose
velt. new Governor of New York, and
political and personal friend of Smith.
Roosevelt had congratulated Box on his
re-election and suggested the party
must have a constructive program and
continue to maintain a strong national
organization. . .. .
Replying, the Texan declared the
situation which culminated in the nom
ination of Smith and Hoover, and the
election of the latter, was a “calamitous
mistake.”
Foresees Break in Party.
“If the situation and forces which
nominated Gov. Smith and controlled
the campaign continue to dominate the
partv,” he declared, “Texas and the
I South will cease to be Democratic, the
: East will not be controlled, the Wrest
will be permanently estranged, and the
I partv will break up. some of its voters
I going to the Republican party, others
j remaining with the organization, and
! others becoming independents.”
Box declared all organization and
' activity would be futile unless the party
j adopts a worth-while purpose and
i program, and added that while one goal
i should be to continue to oppose and
expose “corruption,” the people right
j fully expect a political party to do \
i more than “oppose and criticize.” ,
Constructive handling of such “live”
I political issues as prohibition, immigra
: tion and the tariff was required, he
| said. As for the first, he declared
i that while prohibition sentiment pre
| vailed, there were probably more than
j 100,000 saloons and several hundred
thousand bootleggers in existence “with
j out a bona fide effort by those re
| sponsible to enforce the law r .”
Congratulates Roosevelt.
! “What will be the position of the
| Democratic party on this issue?" he
! asked, continuing:
"Gov. Smith dealt frankly with it:
Secretary Hoover's campaign was made
to appeal to both sides. Gov. Smith’s
big minority came in part from Demo
crats who disagreed with him on this
issue, but preferred him to Secretary
Hoover on account of other considera
tions and because of party attachment,
but millions of good Democrats re
fused to support Gov. Smith. Their
permanent loss to the party would ruin
; it.”
Box congratulated Roosevelt on his
i election and expressed the hope that
his service would strengthen the party
I in New York State and elsewhere.
One wife, a 14-year-old girl, said she
] was Ruth Inez Hedricks of Tazewell,
: Tenn. The other woman, who refused
! to give her maiden name, said she was
: the “first” wife.
Tazewell police sent word that they
would come for Hedrick as soon as his
broken leg mends.
In the meantime, the “second" Mrs.
Hedrick is being held at the Juvenile
Detention Home until her mother sends
funds for her transportation home.
fftht iumtcM PM
WITH DAILY evening edition
WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6. 1929—NINETY-FOUR PAGES. *
TWO ARMY FLYERS
KILLED IN CRASH
Langley Field Plane Falls
and Bums Near Heaths
ville, Va.
By the Associated Press.
Two second lieutenants of the Army
Air Corps Reserve from Langley Field,
Va„ were killed yesterday when their
plane crashed and burned near Heaths
ville, Va.
They were Dean C. Johnson, a na
tive of Crete. Nebr., and Harry A.
Osterman, whose mother lives at j
Oglesby, 111.
The two lieutenants were serving a
year's active duty with the air corps
and had left Langley Field in a DH4
plane at 9 o'clock yesterday morning
for Washington. The War Department
was informed the machine was seen to
circle over Heathsville several times, go
into a tall spin, crash and Immediately i
j take fire.
Johnson was 26 years old and a
graduate - of the University of Nebraska
in 1926. He and Osterman became fly
ing cadets In 1927 and were assigned to
Brooks Field, Texas, in November of
that year. They graduated from the
advanced flying school at Kelly Field,
San Antonio, Texas. October 26 of last
year and had been assigned to a year’s
active service as reserve officers.
Osterman was born at McKeesport,
Pa., in 1903, had attended high school
at Corry, Pa., and the Los Angeles
Evening University, from which he
graduated in 1927.
BECK ELECTION FIGHT
DUE IN HOUSE TUESDAY
Pennsylvania Eepre sentative's
Contested “Term” to End
in Two Months,.
By the Associated Press,
j Less than two months before his j
j contested term of office expires, the
! election case of James N. Beck, a for
mer solicitor general of the United
States, will be brought to the floor of
the House Tuesday.
Beck, a Republican, came to the
House to claim the seat left vacant by
William S. Vare, as Representative from
the first Pennsylvania district at the
opening of the Seventieth Congress,
only to find his seat contested on the
| grounds that he had not been a resi
, dent of the State for the constitution
ally prescribed period of time before
his election.
A House elections committee voted
six to three to seat him last session,
but the House adjourned before the
matter was taken up on the floor. Be
tween the sessions, Beck was re-clected j
by a small majority.
GIDEONS HIT ATHEISTS.
| Campaign to Destroy Bibles in
Hotels Laid to Unbelievers.
CHICAGO. January 5 (/s>).—Charge
that there is a well-organized campaign
among atheists to destroy Bibles placed
in hotels and lodging houses by the
Gideons was made today by A. B. T.
Moore, international secretary.
For. every Bible thus destroyed, Mr.
Moore added, there are a hundred to
take its place.
' —.—
T. 0. Marvin Reappointed.
An executive order was issued by
, President Coolidge yesterday desig
nating Thomas O. Marvin as chairman
, of the Tariff Commission for another
! year. Chairman Marvin, a native of
’ Massachusetts, has served at the head
r of the commission for seven consecutive
. years.
Radio news and programs will
be found today on Pages 10 and
> II of Part Four.
BROOK* BILL
TO INCREASE PAV
GIVEN APPROVAL
Senators to Make Deter
mined Effort to Win House
Concurrence.
GEORGE AMENDMENT
ON FURLOUGHS FAVORED
!
i
Mcßeynolds and Steward Present
Data on Plan to Correct
Inequalities.
The Senate civil service committee
yesterday afternoon voted to report fa
. vorably the Brookhart bill to give Gov
j eminent employes the salary increases
i advocated by the Senate last year, but
| which were pared down in conference
I before the Welch law was finally
‘ enacted.
j Several members of the committee
| made it clear in the discussion which
! preceded the favorable vote that they
; intend to make a determined effort to
have the House agree to the measure j
i at this session, which would give all
j employes who come under the classifi- |
j cation act a raise of two salary steps i
j above what they received prior to the
! Welch law.
Mcßeynolds Testifies.
W. H. Mcßeynolds. assistant director
at the Bureau of Efficiency, told the
committee yesterday that under the in
terpretation placed on the Welch act
when It was being put into effect last
Summer, only those employes In the
first, second and third steps of their
grades were advanced two salary steps,
while those occupying the fourth, fiftn.
sixth and seventh steps were advanced
only one step. The Brookhart bill
would give the additional step to these j
latter groups.
In some cases the Welch law re- j
suited in a S6O increase for groups that!
would have received $l2O under the j
Brookhart bill, and a SIOO raise for
many who would get S2OO under this
bill.
Mcßeynolds told the committee yes
terday that it has been found since
the last session of Congress that the
Brookhart bill will not add as greatly
to the cost of the present law as it was j
then thought would be the case. He j
said the present estimate of $3,000,000
I as the additional expense of the Brook
hart bill is smaller than the estimate
given last year, because at that time
sufficient data was not available to de
termine exactly the effect of these in
creases.
George Amendment Wins.
Before reporting the bill the com
mittee agreed to an amendment to be
offered by Senator George, Democrat,
of Georgia, which would require certain
Government agencies, particularly the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, to
pay employes when they are required
to take Involuntary furloughs of one j
or two days a month. Senator George
told the committee he had learned
that in some cases these involuntary
furloughs absorbed the Increases ob
tained by some employes under the
Welch law.
Another important development yes
terday was the testimony of Mcßey
nolds that In the report which he will
soon submit to Congress of a survey he
is making of the classification system,
; he will recommend elimination of over
i lapping which now exists in the salary
steps of adjoining grades.
For illustration, in grade 4 of the
custodial service, the three highest
salary steps are the same as the three
lowest steps in grade 5. There are simi
lar cases of overlapping in other serv
i ices.
Another outstanding incident of the
meeting was the testimony of Mcßey
nolds that the classification board has
virtually been deprived of its authority
to reallocate positions from one grade
to another as a result of one of the
Interpretations placed on the Welch
law by the controller general’s office.
He told the committee the present situ
ation is such that the classification
board might as well be abolished, or its
authority defined.
Question May Be Revived.
The committee took no action on this
question, but members Indicated It
would be given further study before
the bill is taken up in the Senate. It
was explained that under the present
condition, if It is deemed necessary
to change the grade of a position, or
that a position was graded too high or
j too low in the first instance, it can
only be reallocated by the board upon
recommendation of the department.
At the outset of the meeting several
members called attention to reports that
Representative Lehlbach, chairman of
the House civil service committee, who
would not agree to the Senate bill last
year, was still of the same view.
Senator Brookhart said he did not
believe the Senate group would meet
with the same opposition in working out
the bill this year. Earlier he told his
colleagues he had had a telephone con
versation with Mr. Lehlbach regarding
the salary legislation.
Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten
nessee, a strong supporter of the Brook
hart measure, advised Senator Brook-
I hart to seek to have Mr. Lehlbach agree
if he hoped to get the bill through this
year.
Steward Gives Views.
In response to this, Senator Brookhart
indicated he intended to stand firmly
for the Senate bill this year and added
that he thought Mr. Lehlbach would be
"more reasonable” than some others.
Senator Dale asked Mcßeynolds what
form of legislation was being proposed
in the House to correct the inequalities
which have developed in the operation
of the Welch law. Mcßeynolds said he
had furnished Mr. Lehlbach with sta
tistics asked for and had recommended
the course followed by Senator Brook
hart. but explained that he could not
speak as to what form of bill would be
introduced in the House.
Luther C. Steward, president of the
National Federation of Federal Em
ployes, told the committee he had con
ferred with Senator Brookhart and was
In hearty accord with the purpose of
the bill.
Steward told the committee there
were some groups of employes, particu
larly in the field activities of the War
Department, who did not benefit from
the Welch law. because, he said, of in
terpretations of the law by adminis-.
trath r e officials. He presented an amend
ment to take care of such cases, and
the committee took It under considera
tion, S ii
J
_
20 REPUBLICS SIGN
PACTS TO BAR WAR
Three Documents Adopted as
i
Pan-American Conference
Concludes Labors.
By the Associated Press.
Sweeping treaties of conciliation and j
; arbitration for the pacific settlement of I
i future differences between American ;
! republics were signed here yesterday
| by represntatives of 20 states of the ;
Western Hemisphere.
Gathered in Washington since Decem
ber 10. the Pan-American Conference
on Arbitration and Conciliation con
cluded yesterday its labors for which it j
was called and also looked back upon !
j steps taken to reconcile the Bolivia and
| Paraguay boundary dispute.
Before adjourning the parley. Secre
tary Kellogg, its chairman, announced j
that Brig. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, super
visor of the Nicaraguan election, would
represent the United States on the in
ternational commission for the concilia
tion of the Paraguayan-Bolivian tangle,
which had been constituted under the
.good offices of the conference.
Agree to Three Documents.
Only Argentina of all American re
publics, was not represented at the
j conference. The delegates of all others
j agreed yesterday to three documents,
| namely, a general treaty of compulsory
I arbitration, an unlimited treaty of eon-
I cilia tion and a protocol of progressive
arbitration by adherence to which coun
tries could discard what reservations
| they might have made to the arbitration ,
I treaty at the time of signing,
i The objects achieved by the confer- ;
ence, both in the conclusion of its |
treaties and by its activities in the Bo- I
livlan - Paraguayan controversy, were
emphasized b'- Secretary Kellogg in his
closing remarks as chairman of the i
conference.
"May I refer to the fortunate circum
stance that this conference was in !
session when the differences arose be
tween two of our sister republics.” the I
Secretary said. "These difficulties made I
dramatically evident the fact that the
peace of the Americas is a matter {
that les close to the heart of all the j
nations of this hemisphere and is some- ,
thing for which all the governments,
members of the Pan-American Union,
feel a real responsibility.
"We may -well congratulate ourselves*
that through the efforts of this con
ference the questions involved have
been led into channels which promise
an early and satisfactory adjustment.
“This conference will go down in
history as having accomplished the
j greatest step forward in conciliation
andjtrbitration. You have adopted two
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TODAY’S STAR
PART ONE-—2B PAGES.
General News—Local, National t and j
Foreign.
Schools and Colleges—Page 12.
Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 25.
Woman's City Club—-Page 25.
At Community Centers—Page 25.
Y. W. C. A. Activities —Pages 25.
j Organized Reserves—Page 28.
PART TWO—IB PAGES.
Editorial Section and Classified Adver
tising.
Notes of Art and Artists — Page 4,
Review of Winter Books—Page 4.
W. C. T. U. Activities—Page 5.
Fraternal News—Page 6.
Spanish War Veterans—Page 6.
Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 7. j
News of the Clubs—Page 7.
Financial News—Pages 8, 9 and 10. 1
Around the City—Page 10.
District of Columbia Naval Reserves—
Page 10.
Army and Navy News—Page 15.
Veterans of Great War—Page 18.
PART THREE—I 2 PAGES.
Society.
PART FOUR-772 PAGES.
Amusement Section —Theater, Screen j
and Music. i
News of the Motor World —Pages 61
and 7.
Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. J
Radio News—Pages 10 and 11.
District National Guard—Page 12.
Marine Corps Notes—Page 12.
PART FIVE—4 PAGES.
Pink Sports Section.
PART SEVEN—B PAGES.
Magazine Section—Fiction and Humor.
GRAPHIC SECTION—B PAGES.
World Events in Pictures.
COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES.
Mutt and Jeff: Reg’lar Fellers; Mr. and
Mrs.; High Lights of History.
|
Lucey, “Shoemaker l
»'
Sage/* Leaves Today
To Visit Coolidge
i 0 ;
——-
Man Whose Advice Guid
ed President Was Re- |
luctant to Pav Call.
*
By the Associated Press.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass., January 5. |
—James Lucey, 73-year-old shoemaker, !
to whose homely philosophy Calvin
Coolidge has attributed much of his ■
' success in life, is about to fulfill his
! long-delayed promise to "drop in” on
his friend the President. He an
j nounced today that he would depart
for Washington tomorrow and that, so
far as he knew, the President had .not j
j been advised of his coming.
“Perhaps they won’t let me .into the
White House, but I’m going to try
anyway." he said.
_ President Coolidge. when Jie was
(Continued on Page 11, Column 5.) j
BYRD ORDERS PROBE
OF COLLEGE LIQUOR
Investigation Is Answer to
Charges of Drunkenness
Hurled by Hepburn.
By the Associated Press.
I i
! RICHMOND, Va., January 5. —Gov. |
, Harry F. Byrd today ordered an in
j vestigation of liquor drinking in all col
! leges in Virginia, both public and pri
| vate, to be conducted by Attorney Gen
eral John R. Saunders as prohibition
! commissioner of the State.
At the same time the governor wrote
college officials asking that efforts be |
j increased and every vigilance be used
jto decrease student drinking. The I
j action followed charges of excessive j
| drinking at the University of Virginia j
j reported to the governor by the Rev. j
David Hepburn, superintendent of the i
Virginia Anti-Saloon League. i
“The effort to enforce this law’ should
extend with equal energy to those who
dwell in the grounds of higher institu
tions of learning as well as to those j
who dwell without,” Gov. Byrd said j
in his letter to the attorney general.
“In view of recent charges that exces- j
sive drinking exists at our State uni- J
versity, I feel that it is in the public ;
interests that you should direct an in- I
vestigation in all the colleges and uni
versities in the State.
Does Not Accuse Students.
“In making this request I do not I
mean to Imply that the charges made !
I are well founded or otherwise, but I do i
feel that an investigation of these :
I charges is wise and in the interest of j
j the educational institutions in w’hose J
i management I have so much confidence 1
and for whose officials I cherish a high
lespect."
Coincident with his order to the j
attorney general Gov. Byrd isued a:
statement outlining the controversy ;
begun when Dr. Hepburn called the I
governor’s attention to the reports of I
excessive drinking at the University of ;
Virginia, declaring he believed it to!
constitute a "State-wide scandal.’’ He
summed up Dr. Hepburn’s charges as ;
follows:
First, that drinking at the State Uni- I
I versity is a State-w'ide scandal; second,;
j that President Edwin A. Alderman has j
i shown neither disposition nor ability i
to improve the alleged deplorable con- ■
ditions; third, that the attitude of the
president and faculty aggravates and
increases the conditions complained
of, and fourth, that the honor system :
Is "obsolete and false” and "protects the j
lawless liquor element.”
He said that he referred these j
charges to President Alderman, because j
~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) j
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FIVE CENTS I TEN CENTS
TN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE
i DEMOCRATS ASSIST
BORAH ON TREATY
Swanson Opens Counter-At
: tack Upon Republican Ques
tioners for Reservations.
By the Associated Press.
Democratic support for the Kellogg
anti-war treaty in the Senate yesterday
was countered by a Republican attack.
Senator Swanson of Virginia, ranking
Democrat on the foreign relations com
mittee, indorsed the pact as a “noble
gesture toward peace.” but Senator Mc
; Lean, Republican, Connecticut, con
demned it unless it were backed by an
: accompanying resolution reasserting
i America's rights under the Monroe
Doctrine.
While these two held the floor for
; three more hours of debate, negotia
tions were going on looking to a solu
' tion of the problem arising from a de
mand of those who would have Amer
; ica's position under the treaty renounc
! ing war clearly set forth,
i As a possible compromise between
■ the treaty supporters and these who
| demand an interpretative resolution
i there wks talk of having a report from
; the foreign relations committee stating
; the views of the Senate on the rights
of America to maintain its Monroe Doc
trine policy and to protect her terri
tories under the treaty.
Borah Opposes Resolution.
Chairman Borah of the committee,
who is sponsoring the treaty, is stand
ing firmly against any interpretative
resolution, which he contends is unnec
essary. and he declared last night he
had the votes to put the treaty through
the Senate without reservations of any
kind.
A report drafted by the chairman of
the committee interpreting America’s
position under the treaty would be con
sidered by some Senators .sufficient to
offset the interpretative note of Great
Britain in accepting the pact and to
eliminate the necessity for an inter
pretative resolution.
Meanwhile the leservationists, led by
Senators Moses. Republican. New Hamp- j
shire, and Reed. Democrat. Missouri,
were collecting their forces. Senator
| Robinson, Republican Indiana, an
; nounced his support of an interpreta
j tive resolution. Senator Watson of In
diana, prospective Republican leader. !
| joined in the conferences, but did
i not announce his position on the
’ question.
I Senator McLean is one of the reser
vationists, and in an address filled with
j caustic remarks about the pact he con
cluded that “the time has come for the
nations of the world to stop throwing
peace paper wads.”
i Thi Connecticut Senator argued that j
j if the treaty is ratified and no accom- i
| panying resolution is adopted, other
| countries will leap at the opportunity of
! saying that the United States has
i abandoned the Monroe doctrine.
•
Swanson States Opinion.
Senator Swanson, who generally:
i speaks for Democrats on foreign affairs, '
said he believed the treaty would be in
effective in abolishing war, but added
that it “legalizes no war.”
“It permits but does not approve war," i
he declared.
"It is a noble gesture or declaration
for world peace, and as such I shall
support it. It marks an advance for \
peace, not a retreat. It will be bene- j
fleial in crystallizing and in increasing
the sentiments of the people of the !
world for peace. We should permit our
Government to make to the world this
noble gesture of peace and friendliness.
“The treaty speaks the voice of peace,
but places feeble restraints on the I
strong arm of war..- I am unwilling to \
defeat this treaty and silence this voice
of peace, however feeble, crying out in
a world wilderness of threatened war
and woe. The voice may become louder
and more potential through the com
ing years.
“The treaty contains no sanctions for :
its enforcement. No obligation, moral I
or legal, is assumed by the signatories
TContinued on Page 4, Column 2.)
% No Savvy, Said tlie Carpenter,
And Shed a Bitter Tear —Later
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January s.—When two
negroes with pistols confronted John C.
Milnes, carpenter contractor, today and
told him to hold up his hands, he did
so instantly. *
But when they told him to open the
office safe, he decided to employ strate
gy and subterfuge.
“X can't,” he pleaded. "My son is
_ k.
“From Press to Home
Within the Hour ”
The Star Is delivered every evening and
Sunday morning to Washington homes by
The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone
Main 5000 to start immediate delivery.
i/P) Means Associated Press.
HOOVER APPROVAL
i NEEDED FOR ACTION
ON FARM AID BILL
President-Elect Arrives To«
day in Midst of Agitation on
Extra-Session Question.
JONES FAVORS DELAY
UNTIL AFTER MARCH 4
Smoot Also Believes in Spring
Convening of Congress to
Handle Big Problems.
!
-
Br the Associated Press.
NORFOLK. Va., January 6 i Sun
day).—A radio message from the
battleship Utah, which is bringing
President-elect Herbert Hoover and
his party home from their good-will
tour of Latin America, was received
at the Hampton Roads naval op
erating base shortly after midnight
saying the man o' war had run into
a storm and weather conditions
made the time of her arrival in
Hampton Roads this morning in
definite.
She was then off Hatteras and
was bucking a stiff southeast storm.
The message said the ship would
advise later the probable time of
her arrival. A stiff wind, steady
rain and thick weather prevailed
all along the coast last night and
this morning.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
President-elect Herbert Hoover ar-
I rives in Washington today in the midst
of agitation for a special session of the
new Congress to deal with farm legis*
lation and tariff revision.
Whether Mr. Hoover will undertake
j to forestall a special session of Congress
immediately after he enters the White
House by urging the passage now of the
McNary’ farm bill remains to be seen.
One thing, however, appears to be
certain. Unless Mr. Hoover publicly
declares for the pending bill, or some
| farm bill, and asks its passage at the
present session, none will be enacted
| now. and Mr. Hoover will be expected
to make good on his promise to call a
special session of Congress to deal with
I the farm problem, provided the present
Congress failed to care for it in the
session which ends March 4.
Jones Favors Extra Session.
1 The farm bill must bear the Hoover
i brand or it will not have a ghost or
show to pass the Senate. Even with
the Hoover brand, it may not be able
to pass the House at this session, in the
opinion of Senators -who are in close
touch with the situation at both ends
iof the Capitol. It seems almost, in
i evitable that a special session will be
! in order after March 4.
On the eve of Mr. Hoover's arrival in
the Capital. Senator Wesley L. Jones
I of Washington. Republican whip of the
Senate and a staunch supporter of Mr.
; Hoover, issued a statement placing him-
I self squarely in favor of a special ses
; sion of the new Congress to deal with
farm legislation and with tariff re
! vision.
Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of
the Senate fiance committee, which
| has charge of tariff legislation, said
frankly that he believed a special ses
sion should be held this Spring to take
up tariff revision.
“I do not know what Mr. Hoover has
in mind.” said Senator Smoot, “but I
believe that it would be wise to have
a special session to revise the tariff.’*
Mr. Hoover has been represented by
many of his friends here as desirous of
avoiding a special session of Congress
soon after he is inaugurated. Some
of them have frankly said he was com
; ing to Washington in an effort to
straighten out matters and get a farm
bill through at the present session,
I with the approval, of course, of Presi
»dent Coolidge. Dispatches from the
| U. S. S. Utah, however, have not indi
cated that Mr. Hoover intended to mix
!in this matter. It is expected he will
! confer with President Coolidge on the
situation, and that if he says anything
i it will be with the concurrence of the
President, and that whatever is said
: may come from President Coolidge
himself.
Senator Jones in his statement
urging a special session of Congress
ranges himself spuarely alongside of
Senator Borah of Idaho, who has in
sisted that the pledges made by the
Republicans during the campaign can
only be fulfilled by taking up the farm
problem and dealing with it compre
i hensively in a special session.
I
Agree*. With Borah.
Senator Jones said:
"I agree with Senator Borah that we
should have an extra session of Con
gress this Spring. It should be held as
: soon after the 4th of March as pos
sible.
! "We have promised two things espe
| daily in connection with farm relief—
| the proper handling of the surplus and
: a sufficient tariff on agricultural prod
ucts. Neither proposition can be sat
' isfactorily dealt with in this session of
f Congress. The country wants no half
matured. ill-considered, hit-or-miss
I farm legislation The farmers have
j confidence in the ability of Herbert
Hoover. They are ready to folow his
lead as of no other man. He can work
out this problem if any man can do
it. He will not shirk it and should
not be put in the attitude of shirking
it. He was looked to during the cam
paign to solve it and he should be left
i to do it.
“The tariff cannot possibly be con
sidered during this session, and yet
! it Is a part and a very important part
I of the farm problem.
| "It is said tariff revision should be
j put off until Fall because it will disturb
j business. Business knows we are going
jto have revision. The sooner it is done
' the better and the less disturbance will
tContinued on Page 3, Column 4.)
the only one that knows the combine-*
, tion.”
Soon thereafter, Mr. Milnes reported
to the police.
"I’ve been robbed." he said. "When
I told ’em I couldn’t open the safe, one
of them picked it up and carried it
off with him. It weighed 300 pounds
and contained $85.”
So the police are looking for some
one carrying a 300-pound safe with fU
. in it. s