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* WEATHER.
(V. 0. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair and warmer today; tomorrow
cloudy with mild temperature, probably
occasional showers.
Temperatures—Highest, 49 at 5 p.m.
yesterday; lowest, 29 at 7 am. yesterday.
Full report on page 7.
No. 1,304—N0. 31,365.
NAVAL CONFERENCE
RESTS ON M’DCNALD
TALK WITH TAM
French Premier Reaches Lon
don for Parley Today With
British Leader.
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
PROVIDE PROBLEM
Question of Limitation of Craft
Under 10,000 Tons Creates
Sharp Divisions.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 15.—'The fate of
the London Naval Conference Is con
sidered to be hanging on the conversa
tion of Prime Minister Macdonald and
Premier Tardieu at Chequers tomorrow.
The French premier arrived from
Paris tonight and spent the evening
With M. Briand, French foreign min
feter, and the other French delegates.
Early tomorrow he and Briand will
go to the country retreat of the British
prime minister for one of the moat
Important meetings of European states
men since the World War. When they
come back to London tomorrow night
Tardieu and Briand will carry the
knowledge whether the London Con
ference has completed its work or
whether there is any use in the five
power delegations staying in London
to the hope that France and Italy
can liquidate their naval stalemate.
AccompUshments to Date.
Briefly, conference accomplishments
Can be listed under four broad headings:
1. Complete American, British and
Japanese agreement regarding naval
ratios and limitation.
2. A five-power battleship holiday
for five years, or until a general dis
armament conference is called at
Geneva in 1935-36.
3. Humanization of submarine war
fare.
4. Settlement of a permanent basis
of important technical problems such
as the compromise between global and
category tonnage theories.
Tomorrow will tell what hope there
b of adding Franco-Itallan naval rap
prochement to the list.
Tonight, Italy stands firm for parity
With France. France stand equally
firm against it and against every other
move to reduce her “absolute” fleet
needs unless her desires for political
guarantees of national security are
satisfied.
United States Delegation Is Silent.
Pending reply from Japan on the
American-Japanese naval agreement
which was reported to have been
reached yesterday, American head
quarters declined to discuss the situa
tion today. . . .
Figures and details have not been
made available, but one leading Lon
don paper stated this morning that
there was reason to believe they were
Along the following lines:
Japanese eight-inch gun cruisers will
be limited to 106,400 tons as against
180,000 for the United States, but that
notably larger relative strength will be
accorded to Japan in destroyers and
submarines, amounting to between 75
and 80 per cent of America’s strength
in these classes.
This compensates for the smaller per
centage to the cruiser class, It is held,
and forms a satisfactory arrangement
for both countries.
Air Carriers Form Question.
One of the most puzzling questions
at the conference, and one that until
this week has been held In abeyance, is
that of the limitation of aircraft car
riers under 10,000 tons.
It was learned tonight that a sharp
division exists among the delegations
on this subject, with members of each
aligned in three different groups.
The first group desires limitation of
aircraft carriers with a tonnage of less
than 10,000, with those built and build
ing taken from the aircraft carrier al
lotments of the Washington treaty.
The second wants a special class for
this type of vessel with a total tonnage
assigned to each nation under it in
addition to the Washington treaty al
lotments.
The third wants built and building
aircraft carriers taken from the cruiser
tonnage, so that the full Washington
allotment would be available for further
aircraft carrier construction.
Two Take United States Tonnage.
If the smaller types of carriers were
taken from the Washington allotments,
some American experts contend that
the United States would be placed in
a disadvantageous position, since much
of her carrier tonnage is taken up by
the Saratoga and Lexington, and lit
tle would be left under the Washing
ton allotments for the latest type of
17,000 and 18,000 ton craft.
The experts found a wide divergence
of opinion among the technical ad
visers.
Another point that must be settled
at the same time relates to seaplane
carriers, for which the Washington
treaty did not provide.
GIRL REPORTER SENT TO JAIL FOR
WITHHOLDING SOURCE OF STORY
Author of Serial on Irene Schroeder, Tried for Murder,
Held in Contempt of Court.
Jfar the Associated Press.
NEW CASTLE, Pa.. March 15.—A
girl reporter questioned concerning a
•Life of Irene Schroeder” that is run
ning serially in newspapers, today was
©ommitted to jail in contempt of court
when she refused to reveal the source
fcf information in the story after being
•ailed to the stand in the murder trial
•f the woman about whom she wrote
Mrs. Schroeder is charged with slay
ing a highway patrolman after a store
holdup last December.
, The girl is Mrs. Ella Kerber Reach
W Youngstown, Ohio, across the Ohio
State line from here. She appeared
unconcerned as she was escorted to a
cell in the county Jail.
After her refusal to answer. Judge
It. L. Hildebrand, presiding at the trial,
•aid the only thing the court could do
was send her to Jail until she was
! ready to answer. Attorneys said it
would s>e impossible for her to obtain
hall under the law and her only re
course was to the State Supreme Court.
m Some time alter the girl reporter had
Entered as second class matter
post office, Washington. D. C.
: HAYMOND MAXWELL OF WEST VA.
■ OFFERED D. C. CHIEF JUSTICESHIP
I Dispatches Indicate He Will
I Accept Post Left by
McCoy.
. Senators Goff and Hatfield
and Attorney General Back
Candidate.
Haymond Maxwell, associate justic
of the West Virginia Supreme Com.
has been offered the post of chie.
| justice of the District Supreme Court.
1 | to succeed Justice Walter I. McCoy, i,
| was indicated last night, following the
! disclosure that he had conferred with
; the President at the White House Fri
day afternoon.
A dispatch to The Star last night
from Charleston declared that Judge
Maxwell was considering the appoint
ment and that it was regarded as fairly
certain he would accept.
Maxwell Declines to Comment.
First intimation that Presidenl
Hoover had considered Judge Maxwell
for the post, which has been vacant
since Justice McCoy resigned last Fall,
was obtained yesterday from a dispatch ;
to The Star. The dispatch, also from
1 Charleston, said that Judge Maxwell!
: (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) I
U. S. SERVICE WAGE
RAISE HELD LIKELY
BYPARTYLEADERS
New Act or Revision of Old
One Will Be Pushed Next
December.
This is the last of a series of ar
ticles on the proposal, now pending
before President Hoover and Con
gress to revise and increase th-e pay
schedules of the Army, Navy, Marine
Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health
Service and Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey.
BY DONALD A. CBAIG.
A new Joint service pay act for the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast
Guard, Public Health Service and Coast
and Geodetic Survey, or a measure sub
stantially amending the present act, will
probably be placed on the program of
the House and Senate leaders for enact
ment before the end of the present
Congress.
If there Is not time to consider and
pass It at this session the plan of the
leaders is to have a bill all ready
when the short session begins next De
cember and to push It through before
the expiration of the Seventy-first Con
gress on March 4 next.
The leaders are agreed that some “re
adjustments” and “probably some in
creases” in the pay schedules for offi
cers and enlisted men should be made.
Leaving Details to Committee.
They are leaving the details to be
worked out by the special joint con
gressional pay committee, recently
created by a joint resolution adopted
by both branches of Congress and in
structed to make an investigation and
report recommendations "by bill or
otherwise.”
Members of the joint pay committee
say they want to complete their task
as soon as possible and some of them
hope they may be able to do so before
the present session ends. Others believe
the committee cannot complete its
hearings and investigations and draft
a new pay bill for presentation to both
Houses, before the beginning of the
short and final session of the present
Congress.
“We know there are inequalities in
the present pay act,” said Majority
Leader Tilson to the representative of
The Star, “and that the subject will
need close study. Whatever the Joint
committee decides on we expect to
pass.”
“If we are not paying these men
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MAGAZINE MAN SLAIN.
Youth Held in Murder of W. A.
Lorenzen in New York.
NEW YORK. March 15 (/P).—Wil
liam Albert Lorenzen, 43, manager of
the Home Reading Group, magazine
publishers and distributors, was stabbed
to death today In his Broadway office.
Police arrested Francis Otto Schottman,
19, employed by the firm as a sub
scription canvasser, on a charge of
. killing Lorenzen.
Employes said the stabbing occurred
. in the course of an argument between
Schottman and his employer.
been looked up, another opportunity
was given her to answer, but she again
declined. Attorneys for the defense
went to the jail to put the question
after an informal conference with
Judge Hildebrand and prosecution
counsel.
Following Miss Resch on the stand
was Sheriff Charles Wright of Mari
copa County, Arlz., where Mrs. Shroeder
and W. Glenn Dague. indicted with
her in the slaying of the officer, were
captured a couple of weeks after the
shooting.
A St. Louis, Mo., policeman, Wil
liam Kiessling, was another witness
during the day. He identified Mrs.
Schroeder and Dague who was brought
into court for identification, as the
persons who had engaged in a gun
battie with him in St. Louis last Janu
ary.
The sheriff charges Mrs. Schroeder
and Dague were fleeing westward from
New Castle at the time of the en
counter with Kiessling, who said he
was fired on when he halted their car.
The pair escaped, he said, after the
man had “clipped” him on the Jaw.
The trial will be resumed Monday.
It was started last Monday^
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JUDGE HAYMOND MAXWELL.
—Harris-Ewing Photo.
SENATORS TO HEAR
WICKERSHAM TALK
!N CLOSED SESSION
Norris Indicates Enforcement
Corruption Data Will Be
Given Committee.
Senator George W. Norris, Repub
lican of Nebraska, chairman of the
Senate Judiciary committee, announced
yesterday that the meeting of his com
mittee tomorrow to hear George W.
Wickersham, chairman of the Law En
forcement Commission, and William D.
Mitchell, Attorney General, will be be
hind closed doors because of the char
acter of information expected relating
to enforcement officials and conditions.
It is known that the Wickersham
commission has for some time been
investigating prohibition enforcement
and has found evidences of a break
down in certain sections of the Nation,
especially in larger cities. Whether
the former Attorney General will be in
a position to give the Senate commit
tee definite information of corruption
in the enforcement unit is not known,
but this is indicated by Senator Norris.
Senator Norris, with Senator William
E. Borah. Republican of Idaho, and
Senator Smith W. Brookhart, Repub
lican of lowa have threatened to make
public evidences of alleged dereliction
of duty in the enforcement unit. This
development is held in abeyance pend
ing the action of the judiciary com
mittee on a resolution by Senator Norris
for a sweeping investigation of en
forcement.
Much Depends on Testimony.
Much, it is believed, will depend upon
the testimony of Mr. Wickersham and
Attorney General Mitchell tomorrow as
to whether the committee supports the
resolution for a general investigation.
It is held probable that Mr. Wicker
sham may be able to convince the ultra
dry Senators that more is to be gained
from the quiet probe now under way
by his commission than in an open
investigation attended by large pub
licity.
Senator Borah has given notice that
he will insist upon a stenographic record
of the Wickersham-Mitchell testimony,
and some of this, he holds, should be
made public. A majority of the judici
ary committee is known to oppose the
public Investigation demanded by Sen
ators Norris. Borah and Brookhart. If.
after the appearance of the two dis
tinguished witnesses, the committee still
opposes the probe, it is likely that the
dry Senators will carry their fight to
the floor of the Senate, disclosing all
their evidence and opening up a debate
which many believe cannot be re
strained to one phase of prohibition, but
must run the whole gamut of the con
troversial issue.
Senator Borah opened his battle
against the enforcement unit, under the
(Continued on Page 3, Column 4.)
TODAY’S STAR
PART ONE—36 PAGES.
Generai News—Local, National and
Foreign.
Schools and Colleges—Page B—4.
PART TWO—I 2 PAGES.
Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi
torial Features.
At Community Centers—Page 5.
Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 5.
Girl Scouts —Page 7.
W. C. T. U. Activities—Page 6.
Army and Navy News—Page 8.
Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 10.
District National Guard—Page io.
PART THREE—I 6 PAGES.
Society.
PART FOGR~I4 PAGES.
Amusement Section—Theater, Screen
and Music.
In the Motor World—Pages 5 and 6.
Fraternities—Page 7.
Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9.
News of the Clubs—Page 10.
Veterans of Great War —Page 11.
Serial Story, “The Wrist Mark-
Page 12.
Radio News —Pages 12 and 13.
PART FIVE—4 PAGES.
Sports Section.
PART SIX—I 2 PAGES.
Financial and Classified Advertising.
Organised Reserves—Page 6.
District of Columbia Naval Reserve-
Page 5.
D. A. R. Activities—Page 12.
PART SEVEN—24 PAGES.
Magazine Section.
Review of New Books—Page 18.
Notes of Art and Artists —Page 19.
Cross-word Puzzle —Page 22.
GRAPHIC SECTION—B PAGES.
World Events in Pictures.
Color Section —8 PAGES.
Moon Mullins; Mutt and Jeff; Reg’lar
Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Little Orphan
Annie; Betty; Somebody’s Stenog;
High Lights of History.
WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1930-134 PAGES. *
SOVIET MODERATES
DRASTIC FARM AND
CHURCH PROGRAMS
Ire of Peasants Forces Mos
cow to Be More Lenient in
Religious Policy.
SEVERE PUNISHMENT
FOR OFFICIALS DECREED
Less Zeal in Agricultural Collectiv
isation Crusade Is Ordered
by Leaders.
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, March 15.—Sweeping new
orders against an excess of zeal in the
collectivization of farms, extermination
of the - rich peasants and the closing of
churches have led foreign observers in
Moscow to believe that a new and more
moderate era in Soviet Russia is at
hand.
The Soviet government now appears
definitely to have turned toward a less
drastic campaign in bringing about its
ultimate goal of Socialism and observ
ers look upon this as almost as Import
ant and decisive in its consequences as
the economic, political and social pol
icies instituted last year.
Particularly they attribute the gov
ernment’s more lenient attitude toward
the churches to resistance on the part
of the peasants.
Leas Severity Is Ordered.
A peremptory order issued last night
by the central committee of the Com
munist party, which is the organ of
supreme power in the Soviet Union,
decrees severe punishment for over
zealous village officials who close
churches without overwhelming sup
port or ban the markets which handle
products of peasants.
Already the tension among the non
proletarian elements has eased. In ad
dition, peasants, street vendors and
small traders who vanished after the
government's previous drive against
private trade, are back in the streets
with their slender wares.
Many officials nave been dismissed or
are being tried for too stern measures
in collectivizing the farms, warring on
religion and exterminating the Kulaks
(rich peasants), but some are protest
ing strenuously.
In the Vyazemsky district, Soviet of
ficials say that Joseph Stalin's recent
order prohibits force in recruiting
peasants for the collective farms could
not be carried out because the peasants,
if they found that membership in such
farms was based only on voluntary con
sent, would Immediately abandon the
projects.
Some of the newspapers also say that
the Kulaks themselves helped in mak
ing it hard for poor and middle class
peasants in order to discredit the col
lective farm movement, even going so
far as to bribe officials to take violent
measures.
Many Abandoned Farms.
It Is no secret that many peasants
did abandon the collective farms after
finding their was no compulsion to
remain.
In some districts, it is revealed, the
peasants were told by authorities that
“he who refuses to Join the collective
farm Is an enemy of the Soviet state,
while he who does join it Is a friend.”
That, it is said, caused whole villages
to join the movement, but when the
new members saw their cows, chickens
and other property confiscated for a
common fund, they abandoned the
project.
Newspapers are aiding in the search
for cases where too much zeal was
(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.)
GERMANS OPPOSE ORDER
TO DESTROY AIRPORT
Treaty Violation Regarding Ar
maments Understood to Have
Been Charged by France,
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 15.—The German
foreign office today protested to France
an order by the French military com
mander in the Palatinete for the de
struction by April 15 of all buildings
on the Lachen Speyerdorf aviation
grounds, near Neustadt.
It is understood French military men
held that the existence of this airport
violated the treaty provisions regarding
German armaments.
The place has 20 hangars, a big re
pair shop and many other facilities.
The foreign office pointed out in its
note that the port tvas ideal for further
development of Franco-German com
mercial air traffic and it expressed the
hope that the French order for de
struction would be withdrawn.
FRANCIS EIGHTH FEVER VICTIM;
PARROT MALADY PROBE HALTED
Famous Research Worker
Recently Recovered From
Other Illness.
Surgeon General Cumming
Closes Laboratory and
Orders Fumigation.
Discovery yesterday of the eighth case
of parrot fever among workers of the
Hygienic Laboratory of ' the United
States Public Health Service caused
Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming to
order the institution closed for fumi
gation over .the week end and further
research on the mysterious disease in
definitely suspended. . ...
Dr. Edward Francis, public health
surgeon, famous as the discoverer of
tularaemia, or rabbit fever, who only
recently recovered from an attack of
Malta, or undulant fever, on which he
was working, was the victim of parrot
fever added to the laboratory’s list
yesterday.
His was the fourth case reported in
several days among workers not engaged
in the parrot fever research, which was
undertaken several weeks ago when a
number of cases appeared at Annapolis
and in other parts of the United States, j
Dr. Cumming promptly ruled that, even 1
when the members of the staff now ill
have recovered sufficiently to return to
work, further research op parrot fever
a>*
THE PRESIDENCY IS JUST ONE PROBLEM AFTER ANOTHER.
LUMBER AND OIL
FACED BY SENATE
Watson Predicts Tariff Bill
Will Go to Conference by
Thursday.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
With votes on lumber and oil knock
ing at the door, the Senate this week
swings into the final round of its long
fight over the tariff bill. Prediction
was made last night by Senator Wat- !
son. Republican leader, that the bill
would be passed and sent to conference
by Thursday night.
The effort to place a duty on hides,
with compensatory and protective
duties on leather and boots and shoes,
appears to have lost so far as the
Senate is concerned. The House lifted
these Items from the free list, how
ever, and placed duties on them. If
the Senate keeps them all on the free
list as it now appears probable, the
matter will have to be ironed out in
conference.
During the last week, the old Senate
coalition, composed of Republican pro- ;
gxesslves and Democrats which con
trolled the fate of the tariff bill for so
many months, was hit hard, failing to
prevent increases in the sugar duty
and to prevent levying a duty on ce
ment. It will struggle to defeat duties
proposed on lumber and oil and In
creases advanced for a number of items
in the bill. The lumber duty may pre
vail, its friends insist, but the duty on
oil seems to have less support. If both ,
lumber and oil duties should be writ- |
ten into the bill, the charge of a “trade” j
of votes involving supporters of duties ;
on sugar, cement, oil and lumber will \
be raised more loudly than ever.
Debenture.
The reverses suffered by the coalition
have given rise to the prediction that i
when the tariff bill comes out of con- j
ference it will be minus the debenture
clause and that It will carry the flexible
provisions of the existing tariff law,
with perhaps some slight modification
giving Congress a check on the Presi
dent in the matter of changing the
tariff duties. The President, it has
been said, is unalterably opposed to
the Senate amendments doing away
with the flexible provisions of the law
and setting up the debenture plan for
aid of the farmers.
Efforts made yesterday by Senator
Walsh of Massachusetts to modify the
Oddie amendment levying duties on
hides, boots and shoes and leather
failed. The supporters of a duty on
hides and supporters of the duties on
boots, shoes and leather have found
it impossible to get together, and the
indications are that In the end all of
these commodities will remain on the
free list In the bill as it passes the
Senate.
Nevertheless, efforts to adjust these
differences are still under way over
the week end, and some Senators are
(Continued on Page 4, Column 4.)
DR. EDWARD FRANCIS.
I
,
I
would be postponed until a separate
aulldlng can be provided.
Those reported ill yesterday were:
Dr. H. E. Hasseltine, public health
surgeon and expert on Malta, or un
dulant fever, who was not working
with the parrots.
Ernest L. Millar, laboratory worker.
Fred Blackwell, colored, Janitor of the
| Hygienic Laboratory.
New Cases Not Serions.
None of the new victims is danger
! ougjy ill, it Is believed at the Naval
| Hospital, where they are confined. Mrs
I (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)
Boy Barricaded
In Attic Is Seized
After Police Call
By the Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., March
15.—Angered because his mother
reprimanded him. Jack Cautley,
12, armed himself with a shot
gun and barricaded himself in
the attic of his home here today.
Police with shotguns and tear
bombs were rushed to the house.
The boy was finally captured
without bloodshed and placed in
the detention home.
TOBACCONIST SHOT;
j BY YOUNG BANDITS
Pair Wait Hours in Car Near
Capitol to Stage
Hold-Up.
Two youthful bandits, after patiently
waiting for hours in a stolen automobile
parked within 50 feet of the scene of
a contemplated holdup, last night
robbed Max Reikes, tobacconist and
confectioner, at his shop in the base
ment of the Congressional Apartments,
First and East Capitol streets, shot
and seriously wounded the man and
I escaped on foot before an alarm could
be sounded.
j Reikes was taken to Casualty Hospi
| tal, where staff physicians found he
J was suffering from a bullet wound in
! the left arm and chest, the bullet lodg
j ing within 4 inches of the heart
His condition was reported as unde
termined late last night.
Man Beaten and Robbed.
Meanwhile. John Byroads, 42, of 2451
Eighteenth street, found lying in the
roadway of Georgia avenue, near the
District line, seriously injured, told
police he had been beaten and robbed
by four men with whom he was go
ing to a Maryland roadhouse.
The two youths who staged the hold
up at the Congressional Apartments
had parked at the curb near the Reikes
shop about 5 o’clock yesterday after
noon and had remained at or near the
scene until near the closing time of the
place, at 10:30, police w’ere told.
Several residents of the section, who
had noticed the pair during the evening,
were able to give headquarters and
ninth precinct police a description of
the bandits.
The crime was committed just a block
from the Capitol and as the two fled
after Reikes had been shot, one raced
through the Capitol grounds as the
(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.)
THUGS KILL OFFICER:
ESCAPE POLICE NET
New York Policeman Gives life
in Foiling Pay Roll Robbery
Attempt.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 15.—Six thugs
escaped through a police net today
after they had shot and killed a police
man in an unsuccessful effort to seize
a $7,200 pay roll of a Brooklyn shoe
factory.
The policeman, Walter de Castillia,
had accompanied David Weinstein,
president of the shoe company, to the
bank to obtain the firm’s pay roll and
after returning to the factory retired
behind a partition while Weinstein and
two girl clerks counted out the money.
Four men entered, leveled guns at
Weinstein and demanded that he turn
over the pay roll.
Castillia stepped from behind the
partition, gun in hand. But he never
got a chance to use the weapon. Three
of the bandits immediately opened fire
and Castillia dropped to the floor, four
slugs in his body.
The men turned and fled, leaving the
money behind. They forced an ele
vator operator to take them down from
the sixth floor of the Loft Building.
The operator became confused and let
them out on the second floor.
Meanwhile clerks had shouted from
the windows to pedestrians to sound an
alarm and police reserves were called.
No one had seen the bandits leave the
building and 30 patrolmen, armed with
riot guns, guarded all exits while de
tectives made a systematic search of
the nine-story building.
> No trace of the men could be found.
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FIVE CENTS
IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS
CITIZENS TO FIGHT
“REDS” IN SCHOOLS
Federation Asks Board Probe
Conditions —Protests
Airport Bill. •
The Board of Education was called
I upon to make a painstaking tnvestigat
! tion of reported Communist activities
in the public schools of the District by
the Federation of Citizens’ Associations
at its meeting in the District Building
last night.
, The federation also, after voicing
strong protest to the establishment of
the airport, as proposed in Senator
Hiram Bingham's bill, authorized Dele
-1 gate Charles I. Stengle to oppose the
bill before the legislative committees
having it under consideration.
The federation would have the Board
of Education, if it finds that it has the
authority, “take the necessary action to
stamp out the dissemination of Com
munist propaganda among the school
children of the District of Columbia; or,
if it finds that it does not have the au
thority, that the board make suitable
recommendations to the proper author
ities for the effectual elimination of the
teachings and disseminations of Com
munist propaganda and literature in the
public schools of the District.’*
Much Comment Elicited.
The raising of the Communist ques
tion brought forth considerable com
ment from various delegates to the
federation, all of whom were vigorous
in their condemnation of the movement.
Delegate Stengle announced that he
wanted the teachers included in the
investigation. “If any of them are black
at heart,” he declared, “it is a public
duty to get rid of them.”
Delegate Harry N. Stull told the fed
eration that the Communist movement
here is a serious threat to the Govern
ment of the United States and one
which cannot be cast aside lightly.
“I think it is a matter of grave lm -
(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.)
DAVIS TO ANNOUNCE
SENATE CANDIDACY
Secretary Says Statement Will Be
Given Before Departure From
Pittsburgh Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, March 15 —Secre- ,
tary of Labor James J. Davis made
known tonight that he would announce i
his candidacy for the United States 1
Senate before leaving Pittsburgh Mon- j
day. The announcement was expected
to be made Sunday afternoon.
The Secretary arrived here this
morning from the eastern part of the
State and went to offices he maintains
here to draft his announcement. There
was such a steady stream of callers,
however, that he made little headway.
During the afternoon and evening
the Secretary conferred with a num
ber of Allegheny County Republican
leaders.
RESURRECTED OLD IRONSIDES
RIDES SEA IN BOSTON HARBOR
Excited Children Comprise Greater Part of Crowd at
Simple Refloating Ceremony.
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, March 15.—Resurrected
like the Phoenix of old, the 132-year-old
frigate Constitution, three years ago a
pathetic, decaying hulk, tonight rode
the sea again, her sleek black hull
stanch and true.
Much of her refitting still is to be
done. Many a day will pass before her
towering masts raise their heads against
the sky, and many another day before
her gleaming sails billow in the salty
breeze.
But this glorious fact stands out—Old
Ironsides is afloat again.
The ceremony of refloating after three
years of rebuilding was the simplest. At
the head of the great concrete box that
forms the dry dock stood Lieut. John
A. Lrd, grizzled master builder of such
steel giants as the superdreadnaughts
New York and Arizona, to whose crafts
manship the renewed Constitution is a
monument. With him were Rear Ad
miral Philip Andrews and Capt. C. M.
Simmers of the naval department of re
construction.
Tie excited forms of children com
prised the greater part of the crowd of
2,000 about the dry dock—and properly
so, for they represented America,
A
(A*) Means Aesoeieted Prase.
HAITIAN PROBLEM
BELIEVED SOLVED
BY HOOVER GROUP
Borno and Foes Agree to Se
lection of Eugene Roy as
Temporary President.
COMMISSION ARRANGES
FOR HOMEWARD JOURNEY
Chief Executive Advises He Will
Becopiize Government and
Approve Elections.
Br the Associated Press.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, litrch 15.
—After only two weeks of work In Haiti,
but armed with wide administrative
powers conferred upon them by radio
from Washington, the Hoover investi
gation commission tonight believed they
had settled the long-standing Haitian
political problem, and ultimately the
question of American occupation.
President Louis Borno, who has been
recalcitrant toward the commission’s
plan for holding legislative elections
and setting up a provisional govern
ment, suddenly agreed to the plans to
day.
The commissioners immediately cap
ped his acceptance by announcing in a
formal statement that all sides had
agreed on the selection of Eugene Roy
to be temporary president until legisla
tive elections can be held later this yeai
They now believe that their work Is
fever and are arranging to leave Haiti
tomorrow for home aboard the U. S. 8.
Rochester, which brought them to Haiti
on February 28.
Borno Approves Roy.
The choice of M. Roy has been ap
proved by President Borno, by Brig.
Gen. John H. Russell, American high
commissioner, and, of course, by the op
position groups who proposed hioß
President Hoover also gave his approval
to him.
M. Roy will be formally nominated by
the convention of electors on March 20,
and the appointment will be ratified by
the council on April 14. He will not
take office, however, until May 15, when
President Borno's term expires.
President Hoover Informed the com
missioners that he would recognize the
government elected this year and ap
proved the holding of legislative elec
tions as soon as Mr. Roy desired to call
them. This will probably take place in
August.
Mr. Roy, about 85 years old, Is a broker
who has never taken part actively In
politics. He was formerly president of
the government clearing house and Is
well versed in the management of
finances. All sides are apparently read;
to co-operate with him.
It is hoped that the regularly electee
President can be Inducted Into office by
September, if all goes well. President
Bomo’s written signature to the com
mission’s plan greatly pleased the op
position. The officers of the confed
erated opposition groups also put their
signatures to It.
Statement of Commission.
The commission’s statement announc
ing the Important achievements today
said:
“The commission is glad to announce
| that its plan made public March 8 Is
now In a fairway to become effective,
i “The federated groups have formu
i lated and sent In a signed statement of
their program satisfactory to the com
mission and to President Borno. They
nave also suggested five names of candi
dates for temporary President who would
be acceptable to them.
I “President Borno has Informed the
commission through Brig. Gen. Rustel)
that of these names that of Eugene Roy
was satisfactory to him. thus making
Roy the coalition candidate.
“The plan provides, briefly, that the
convention of electors representhg the
different patriotic groups and organiza
tions be assembled and vote March 20
for the candidate for the presidency,
whose name will then be submitted to
the council of state, which will vote
on April 14.
“Aoproved by both sides in due course
he win then succeed to the presidency
at the expiration of President Bomo’s
term, having pledged himself to call
elections for the legislative chambers
at the earliest possible date.
“He will present his resignation to
the chambers when they convene. The
latter will then proceed to elect a Presi
dent for the regular term.
Hoover Sanctions Program.
“The program also has the sanction
I and the approval of President Hoover
and of the State Department in Wash
’ ington.
“The commission feels that this is a
happy solution of the problem and
wishes to express its thanks to Presi
dent Borno and the officers of the
government on one side, and to the
representatives and delegates of the
federated groups on the other, for their
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which has poured so many millions oi
its pennies into the $400,000 that al
ready has been spent in renewing the
veteran warship.
Martial music that has often stirred
the blood of American sailors came
from the head of pier 2 west, where e
Navy band played. There was a fluttei
among the crowd. The sluice gates wen
opened and water rushed against the
old ship’s sides.
Swaying gently, the black hull with
its white trimmings and its temporary
masts flying flags and bunting, rose
upon the inrushlng tide.
Old Ironside again embraced the see
to which she was pledged October 21
1797. Drawn by the Navy tug Iwana.
she slipped gracefully from the gate*
of the dry dock into the open harbor
and then moored at the end of pier 2.
Freighted with the treasured memo
ries of more than a century she rode the
gentle harbor swells tonight. And who
knows but that in the darkness a ghost
ly crew once more trod her decks—
heroes of Old Ironside’s 42 victorious
battles.
The brave old ship was built only a
mile away from the scene of her re
floating. Her keel was laid down in
1794 after President Washington had
signed the bill authorizing construction.
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