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A-4 GINGER PARALYSIS LAID TO LOW GRADE Eight Face Charges Involving Sale of Substandard Product. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. March It.—ln vestigation of the 30 or more cases of partial paralysis reported in Central and Eastern Kentucky, led Federal prohibition officials today to lay the blame on substandard Jamaica ginger, which they said has been widely dis tributed. Thousands of gallons of the product belonging to four large companies, three in Kentucky and one in Cincin nati, have been seized by Federal in vestigators from the Kentucky-Tennes see headquarters here since early in January, and eight men, officials of the companies, have been arrested. They are now under bonds totaling $25,000. The product seized was sent to Wash ington for analysis and. Federal offi cials said, chemists’ reports showed it was substandard and "highly intoxi cating with little medicinal value.” The investigation started here has since been extended to 17 States. Os the approxi mately 30 cases of the partial paralysis reported today to the State board of health, an examination of nine assured health officials that the cause was the consumption of adulterated Jamaica | * officials explained that j ra Jamaica ginger has legitimate uses cooking and other connections, but that its sale In adulterated form so that it can be used as a beverage makes Its distribution liable to a charge of oonspiracy to violate the Volstead act. Investigation of the illegal sale of the product first was begun early in Janu ary by Ernest Howe, prohibition admin istrator for Kentucky and Tennessee, and Joseph Phillips, assistant in charge of enforcement. The companies under seizure are the General Products 00. Louisville; the K. * K. Co., and the Kentucky Distribut ing Co., Newport, Ky., and the R. A. Rasche Brokerage Co.. Cincinnati. The eight men under bond all are officials of these concerns. “PARALYSIS” IS DIAGNOSED. Physicians Say Ginger Victims Softer From Peripheral Polyneuritis. The mysterious paralysis that has ■truck almost simultaneously about 180 victims in the South and in New Eng land has been given a preliminary diag nosis as peripheral polyneuritis by physicians of the Tennessee health de partment and professors at Vanderbilt University, according to a telegram re ceived by the Public Health Service teday. In all but • of the 72 Tennessee raws it was repented, the patients had been drinking alcohol, mostly in the form of Jamaica ginger extract. It was decided that two or more toxic agents were at work—the alcohol Itself and some heavy metal dye of a volatile na ture, making it difficult to detect. Prospects of recovery are good, the telegram said, but will be slow and the patients are likely to be disabled for months before the peripheral nerves can rid themselves of the poisons. Wife Oranted Divorce. RENO, New. March 19 UP).—Uhl Irene Van Buren Zinsser, New York so cial leader, was granted a divorce here Monday from August Zinsser, Mew York banker The complaint, which was ordered sealed, charged incompati bility. A inufraty settlement was made out of court. THE WEATHER Driblet of Columbia-—Fair and odder with lowest temperature about 32 de grees tonight; tomorrow fair with rising temperature; diminishing northwest barking to southwest winds. Maryland—Fair and colder tonight; tomorrow fair with rising temperature; diminishing northwest backing to south and southwest winds. Virginia—Fair and colder, much cold er in south portion tonight; tomorrow fair with rising temperature; strong northwest winds, diminishing by tonight and becoming southwest tomorrow. West Virginia—Fair tonight and to morrow, colder in extreme east portion tonight; warmer tomorrow. Record for 24 Hoars. Thermometer—4 p.m., 69; 8 p.m., 64; 12 midnight, 62; 4 am., 51; 6 am , 41; noon, 43. Barometer—4 p.m.. 29.43; 8 p.m., 39.35; 12 midnight, 29.33; 4 a.m., 29.40; • am.. 29.55; noon. 29.63. Highest temperature, 73. occurred at 1:30 pm. yesterday: lowest temperature, 41, occurred at 7:40 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 65; lowest, 37. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide. 5 53 am. and 6:27 pm.; high tide, 11:37 a.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 6:41 am. and 7:17 pm.; high tide, 12:06 a.m. and 12:24 pm. The Sea and Moon. m — Sun roec 6:15 a.m.; sun sets 0:18 pm. Tomorrow—Sun rises 6:13 am.; sun sets 6:19 p.m. ! Moon sets 8:50 a.m. • Weather In Various Cities. i BTemoerature.tcjo | If IS ?! Stations. 5 5.2 £ = We , t h«r. H 5 p. «D \:. r f Abllone. 30.08 48 30 ...Clear Albany. N_ T... 38 48 40 32 0.24 Cloudy atifS&T S? 23 64 88 58 0.98 Cloudy Ahantie City... 29,50 so 40 ... Rain I ■’&•£} 2 8 42 0.08 Pt.cloudy Birmingham w 29 80 78 46 1.18 Rain Bismarelr. K D. 29.44 44 30 .. Clear Boston. Uaaa... 39.30 40 34 0.32 Clear !*• V . 29 58 30 22 0.34 Cloudy rhf/itl tot> Tii 8 C ™ 62 0.56 Rain J Chicago, 111... 29 78 36 24 806 Clear Cincinnati. Ohio 39 78 58 32 0. is Clear rninm*w d ‘ 32 28 0.10 cloudy Columbii. 8. c 29.64 70 60 0.38 Cloudy ’ 34 28 002 Clear g*hylt. *fjch... 39 68 32 26 6.08 Cloudy El Pazo. Tea.. 30 no 58 36 T.TT Clear Galveston, Tea. 30 00 73 48 ....Cloudy Helena, rign^.. 29 60 48 38 ... . Sear « Huron, B. Dak.. 29 60 40 26 .... Clear lndianapplla.lnd 29 80 43 21 0.62 Clear Jackaonidlle.Fla 29 82 76 82 0.26 Rain Kansas City Mo 29 92 40 30 ... Clear t*? l 4 A RF ,I *V 30 10 84 30 0.02 Clear %i Kj -22 M 84 34 0.12 Pt.eloudy Miami. Fla 39 94 78 74 ... Cloudy £ rl t* n £. i. 29 82 82 82 ®OB Cloudy New York. N Y 29.44 52 34 O.IS Clear OKianoma City. 30 00 38 36 .... Clear Qm«ha. Nebr. .29 8* 36 38 .... Clear Philadelphia.Pa 29.52 70 38 0.62 Pt.cloudy Phoenix. Art* . 30 06 62 42 .... Clear Pittahureh. Pa . 29 68 44 28 0.28 Clondy i Portland. Mr.. 29.26 36 33 104 Clear Portland, Oras. 30 24 66 38 ...Clear ilUleifh. N. C 29.56 68 62 0.08 Rain alt Late City 30 oo 48 34 .... Clear 15 4SE&»KSi 8 8 “BSf f.V3ff3S':|a 8 8 -SSP gt.RiiL Minn 2972 32 20 ....Clear Seattle. Waah. 30 12 62 44 ....Pt.cloudy Spokane, Wash. 29.80 62 44 .... Cloudy A»®Sa. 39 *8 78 68 ....Cloudy WASH , D. C.. 29.54 73 41 0.02 Cloudy FOREIGN. . (Noon. Greenwich time, today > Stations. Temperature, weather. Horta (Fayal). Azores .. 60 Part cloudy „ ... (Current observation. 1 Hamilton. Bermuda 66 Part cloudy Senauan. Porto Rico... 76 Part cloudy Havana. Cuba 70 Clear Colon, Canal Zone 76 Part cloudy )*, r * French erttlr are being imported into (Belgium for fattening. SALVATION ARMY HEAD DEFENDS PROHIBITION LAW IN STATEMENT (Continued From First Page.) requires » great deal of time and patience. The habits of an important J section of a congested part of the coun try cannot be changed over night or in years. The reform and the adaptation of society to that at which the amend ment alms must be gradual. "The temptation of corruption will drag It out. While looking ahead at the amendment I despaired of any suc cess, I really think that it is possible, if we keep at it, to achieve a satis . factory result. The persistence with . which the people maintain in Congress r a two-thirds majority in both Houses 1 gives me much hope and I am inclined 1 to think that this will wear down the , moderate wets to a consciousness that the only solution is pressure in favor . of enforcement. “I see that the wets claim that the election was not a prohibition victory. Well, one cannot argue with that view. - and can only let those who believe it , continue to believe it. “As ever yours. “(Signed) WILLIAM H. TAFT." Taft is Slender and Angular. Taft, who wears a gray mustache 1 similar to that of his late distinguished brother, is quite slender and angular. 1 He Is 6 feet 4 inches in height, and is 68 years old. He was presented by Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, a member of the legislative committee of the National Association of Organizations Supporting the Eight eenth Amendment. Reading from a prepared statement, Taft said that according to the testi mony of those advocating repeal "our cocktail heroes are linked with the Christian martyrs, the men of ’76. and the leaders of the anti-siavery party, a connection that argues a lack of sense j of humor. "My brother was opposed to the adoption of prohibition. The reasons that he gave for it in one or two articles and speeches are much the same as those used by other men. When, however, the amendment was adopted and the law passed he became convinced that both of them were beyond repeal, that the policy was here to stay, and that all good citizens must observe the law and do all in their power to help in its enforcement. There is no excuse whatever for misunder standing this. ’ ’The only two public utterances which I can recall were one in regard to a proposal to allow beer and light wind, and the other a speech at New Haven at commencement on June 30, 1923. "Os the first, I only remember that he flatly opposed the proposition for beer and light wines, practically on the grounds I have mentioned above. "As for the second, I can simply offer in evidence a copy of the speech I have referred to. p “Let me repeat, I have no objection whatever to quoting my brother’s speeches on the subjects made at any time in his career, but if the mere au thority of his name is sought, no one on the wet ride ought to claim it. One lady, for Instance, in a newspaper con troversy with a dry remarked, ‘I prefer the wisdom of Chief Justice Taft.’ If that does not mean that he was on her side on the main question it does not mean anything at all.” Name Brought in on Wet Side. In presenting his late brother’s posi tion in a copy of a speech before the committee, Mr. Taft said that the name of William H. Taft “has been brought into this discussion and always, I think, on the wet side. “I have read numerous letters," Taft said, “in the press and have heard one or two speeches In which he is quoted on that ride. I am not particularly impressed by the use of the names of well known men for the mere weight of their authority, but when such au thority is claimed on exactly the op posite side from that takes by the man In question I feel resentment. We are slaves. An excited gentleman scolds poor President Hoover because he has had the assurance to exhort the peo ple to obey the law and insist on its enforcement Let us hope that the Presklent will watch his step. "Most at the wet witnesses agree that the people are drinking mare than ever, while at least one Representative of the great industry of agriculture proves that the farmers are being ruined because of the lack of demand for the grains from which the drink ables are made. "The wets have had the difficulty of facing the overwhelming testimony of economists and heads of great Indus trial concerns to the effect that prohibi -1 tion has been of immense benefit to their Industries and worth billions of dollars a year to the country, a sum so large as to make the cost of enforce ment and the lorn in taxes negligible. In answer to this they have put on the stand as one of their chief witnesses the head of a great organization which has had prohibition of an exceptionally strict kind for all of their employe* since long before the eighteenth amend ment was adopted. It is a sore tempta tion to linger over his testimony, but Mrs. Strawbrldge, the society leader of Philadelphia, has removed his scalp so neatly and completely that there Isn’t a tuft of hair left to pull. Teachers Testify to Conditions. “Witnesses, having in mind that small but prominent part of the people called society, say with great exaggeration that the young people are drinking more than ever, while at Atlantic City 10,000 school teachers from all over the coun try testify that everything is cleaner and better in this respect than in the old days. Incidentally, 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 young people have come to the voting age since prohibition was adopted and yet the dry majority in Congress grows larger.” The wets, he said, must tome down to earth and see what the facts are and what the job that faces them is. “The first big fact in the case is that at least 75 per cent of the members of the Lower House are dry and that the majority has been growing with every congressional election,” Taft asserted. “How do the wets explain it?” Graham Interrapts Testimony. Chairman Graham once interrupted Taft's testimony to ask what the wit ness meant when he referred to straw votes being conducted by wets in schools. “The straw votes always have been voluntary on the part of the schools concerned," Graham said. “Oh, no,” Taft rejoined. “Why. there is a group up in a small Connecticut town waiting to tomahawk me right now. However. I'll be glad to discuss straw votes with you later.” “No. that won’t be necessary,” Gra ham. a wet, said. “We are merely look ing for facts in this hearing and not for arguments and theory.” Taft said that while his brother had been opposed to prohibition, he became convinced that the eighteenth amend ment and supporting laws were beyond repeal. “The only two public utterances which I can recall,” he continued, “were on: In regard to a proposal to allow beer and light wines, and the other, a speech at New Haven, at commencement, on June 20. 1923. "Os the first, I only remember that he flatly opposed the proposition for beer and light wines. “As for the second. I can simply offer in evidence a copy of the speech I have referred to.” This speech after some discussion was placed in the committee record. In part, that address read: Not Patriotic to Disobey. “When a two-thirds majority of Con gress and three-fourths of the State Legislatures adopt a constitutional amendment, and a majority of each House of Congress passes a law to en force it, the rules of the game of pop ular government are that all living under that government must obey. It is not patriotic, it is not sportsmanlike to evade or disobey.” "I am appealing to such a man.” it said h -noth— n'r-- »•*-—~~ ►>*- attiiutis toward onio^ r :t») r n. oi ()♦•.., THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1930. law, because much as he may disagree with prohibition—l mean as a principle. I —he can’t afford to have his opposition ; to prohibition impair the influence of . the Constitution and laws of the coun -1 try or wreck the future of the society 1 whose basis must rest upon them.” Continuing his testimony. (Horace) Taft said, “Beer and light wines offer 1 no solution at all,” and added, “nulli : fleation cannot help.” He said the wets always carried the straw votes, , but when the regular elections came around “it was monotonous.” 1 1 Drys De Net Participate. | Drys. he added, did not vote in the | big straw votes, and as a consequence the straw ballots did not amount to ; anything. Taft said "we all know” that of every dollar spent, for a drink, 50 cents went for corruption and that the individual person, if asked as to his responsibil ity in the question of drinking, must give one of three answers: Os three—" First. ‘Let the country go to the devil. I am going to have my drink.’ "The second is, 'I regard the small •mount of personal liberty involved as so important that I would rather cor rupt all the officials and undermine our Government than give it up.’ "The third answer is, ‘I will quit drinking, obey the law, and help to enforce It.’ ” “Os course,” he went on, “the answer comes very promptly that my supposi tion is wrong and that the amendment will be repealed. That is something that must be settled by time. ’ We stand for the law and the Gov ernment.” Asked A boat Letter to Lincoln. Representative La Guardla, Repub lican, New York, asked about a letter the late Chief Justice had written to Allen Lincoln. "You said 50 cents of every dollar spent for liquor today went to cor ruption, didn’t you?” La Guardia in quired. “Yes,” the witness answered. “Then you should have no objection to the introduction of that letter to Lincoln In 1918, predicting the very things you say now exist.” “I have no objection.” Horace Taft explained. “I merely think we should give some emphasis to my brother’s views during the last 10 years of his life.” La Guardia then questioned the wit ness about articles in the Christian Science Monitor and the Congregation alism the latter written by the Rev. A. E. Cook of Denver, Colo., detailing dry propaganda methods. The New Yorker said he referred particularly to activities of the Law Enforcement League of Boston. Representative Stobbs, Republican, Mass., interrupted to ask how many of the Chief Justice’s predictions in the letter to Lincoln had been realised. “I talked the matter over with my brother, who always laughed at me as a reformer,” the witness answered, “and we agreed that there were many ad vantages as well as disadvantages. “I would say, though, that the advan tages and disadvantages of prohibition are about equal.” Relating the conversation with a Yale dean, Taft said that he had been told that "prohibition is a godsend to Yale,” and that youths now were dismissed for drunkenness when previously they had “to punch a policeman in the eye or something.” Experts Only Improvement. "If conditions become worse than they are now would you favor retaining prohibition?” La Guardia asked. "Ob, I think we can expect nothing but improvement,” Taft responded. La Guardia asked about “those who praise prohibition, talk about the evils of drinking and then go home and take a hip themselves.” “Oh,” Taft smilingly replied, “You can massacre the hypocrites all you please, but you must remember that all hyprerites aren’t all on one side.” Stobbs asked the witness why he held straw votes on prohibition were ‘ not trustworthy. “The drys don’t vote.” Taft replied. Taft discussed the straw vote taken at Yale recently. "I would estimate that there is more drinking there now then when I was in school, but I doubt that there is one twentieth of the drunkenness,” Taft said. "If some scenes I saw there when I was a student were repeated today, the newt of them would be cabled all over the world.” Representative Celler, Democrat, New York, a wet, got an answer of “yes” to a question of whether he thought he had failed in his attempt to get grad uate students of the Taft School to favor prohibition. When Celler asked about the straw vote taken by the Yale Review. Taft replied: "It doesn’t take m Ji to make the Review take a straw vote.” Credits Prohibition With Prosperity. Answering another question by Cel ler, Taft explained he would attribute a "large proportion” of present pros perity to prohibition. Following Mr. Taft. Jenkins present ed Evangeline Booth’s statement to the committee which declared that prohi bition had brought about improvement in the social order in the country, al though Its enforcement was lax. “Social loss and wreckage is im measurably easier with drink than without it, and restoration to paths of virtue is a much simpler problem now that drink is banished,” Comdr. Booth’s statement said. The statement said that the condition of Comdr. Booth’s health prevented her personal appearance, and added, “but you will find my representative, Col. Jenkins, competent to answer any reasonable question that has any bear ing upon this matter.” Comdr. Booth’s brief took issue with a statement, presented previously to the committee l>y a wet advocate, pur ported to have been made by Col. Wil liam S. Barker, formerly of the north ern division of the Salvation Army, to the effect that since prohibition the ages of the girls who had to be rescued by the Salvation Army were younger than in pre-prohibition days. The brief quoted a telegram from Col. Barker to Comdr. Booth, describing his statement as “grossly distorted, and a fair illustration of the dishonest practices to which the liquor interests will descend in their efforts to legalize the liquor traffic again in this country." "The assertion that I made a state ment that girls 13 and 14 years of age are in our rescue home through drink ing liquor is entirely false,” Barker’s telegram read. “I was asked what effect the great war had had upon young people and I answered that the young people seem ed to have more freedom, and the In creasing use of automobiles permitted familiarity in out-of-the-way places, and that we had noticed that girls were coming to our rescue homes at a young er age. This condition could in no way be traced to the use of liquor. "My experience at home, and observa tions abroad, is that prohibition has been an inestimable benefit to this country, and I pray that America shall never go back.” Comdr. Booth's statement said that in 1914 the average age of the girl under the care of the Salvation Army was 33. while the present average is 19 years. “Superficially viewed,” the statement added, “this might be spun into an argument that prohibition is bad and that license is good, but the reverse is the Inevitable conclusion to any who really look Into all the details. “Today we are called upon to receive children sometimes as low as 13 years, and so It was In the olden days. In this respect there is but little difference now than formerly. The recidivist is not nearly so numerous today as in past years, and in registerigfcp the cause of sh» misstep that makes domicile In * ' •• ’ ' h-m» a we prac , ... „ never have to record the wine i room or the saloon as a present factor, ► and seldom has drink anything to do with the breakdown.” 1 She added that since there were fewer subjects returning for second and third lapses, the age average of those received naturally was lower. “The , greater freedom and the wide use of the automobile,” the statement went on, "are. according to our record, a frult l ful source today of youthful mlscon [ duct, but the girls, having to be han ‘ died as a consequence, are a very long way from the unfortunate type whose persons were public, and whose mart . was very frequently the saloon or Its ; adjacent parlors. Holds Restoration Simpler. I “Every woman officer In charge of our numerous homes devoted to our mater nity and rescue work are unalterably committeed to the prohibition course as bringing a most Important contribu tion toward the solving of the girl ’ problem. Social loss and wreckage Is > immeasurably easier with drink than wlthout.it and restoration to paths of ' virtue is a much simpler problem now that drink is banished.” I The commander’s brief dealt with the work of the Salvation Army In many • cities, and asserted that notwithstand ing the “lax enforcement of the present ' law” even In New York a crowd of 1,000 drunken men, formerly common in pre prohibition daya, could not be found be cause “they are not there.” 1 “It Is freely acknowledged that there is much Illicit drinking, and I quite be lieve that some of the stuff Is vile be yond expression, but all the same ” Comdr. Booth’s statement said, “the 1 vast army of broken and debased men have emerged Into a cleaner and noblei type. Don’t let us deceive ourselves.” In Salvation army hotels In the pre ’ prohibition days, the statement said, between 25 and 33 per cent of the men in them were under the influence of Intoxicating liquor, but during a re cent smallpox scare in Chicago, it added, 500 men In a hotel were vac cinated and not one of them was found to be under the Influence of drink. "Almost overnight at the coming of prohibition,” the statement continued, "a change was noticed and conditions entirely reversed. The 10-cent flop is discarded for the 35-cent room and the guest had the wherewithal to pay his way.” Bowery Conditions Better. Bowery workers in New York, the statement said, “still declare without the slightest hesitation that conditions are fully 70 per cent better In every way than before the prohibition law was enacted.” Comdr. Booth’s statement said that three years ago she conducted an in quiry Into 55 social service institutions maintained by the Salvation Amy for men In the Eastern section and that replies from 51 were that “the men were much improved in their capacity to work, and only four failed to note such definite advancement.” A more recent canvass of their In stitutions in all sections of the country, she wrote, showed that “without excep tion, my officers maintain their warm support of the prohibition policy be cause of the indisputable benefits that this continues to confer upon the men wha were formerly the worst victims of the drink’s devastating blight.” MAN,REPORTED TRYING TO ESCAPE, IS SHOT BY OFFICER (Continued Prom First Page.) ing the charge, but that he had refused to sign It. Detective Burke later arrested George Louis Hunnel, 33, who gave his address as Plainfield, N. J.. who is said to have been in the apartment with the girls at the time. Miss Foster and Frances O’Breen, 21, who Hves In the apartment with her, were booked as witness**. Official Adlan Withheld. > All of the witnesses in the case were brought to Inspector Bean’s office this morning and questioned at length. They are being brought back this afternoon for further questioning. Pending the outcome of the second quiz, no official action has been taken as to suspending Swartzel. Inspector Bean said he would not recommend that Gravelly be sus pended, since the evidence seemed to indicate he had acted properly in all respects. Although Gravelly is assigned to the third precinct and the affair took place in the eight precinct. Inspector Wil liam 8. Shelby explained that Burke had asked Gravely to assist him in the case and that such a situation was not unusual. STUDIOUS STUDENTS FORESEEN BY EDUCATOR By th- Associated Prea*. SEATTLE, Wash., March 19.—Dr Max Mason, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former president of the University of Chicago, believes the time wt’l come when university students will be so intent upon acquiring knowledge that It will be necessary for physicians to watch them and prevent them from studying too hard. “Students of the future will attend college to obtain certain definite kinds of knowledge to fit them for a specific function of life,” Dr. Mason said. “They will come to learn, and nobody can stop them. They will have the opportunity of listening to a lecture every week or two, and the remainder of their time they will be allowed to study.” D. G. STUDENTS RANK HIGH Two Washington graduates of Swarth more College, Winona Von Ammon, 3849 Legation street, and Thomas M. Brown, 1622 Twenty-ninth street, have been awarded fellowships for graduate study In 1930-31. it was announced at the college today. The awards, known as the Joshua Lipplncott Fellowships, carry stipends of S6OO for a year’s study and are open to graduates of Swarthmore of at least a year's standing. Both Miss Von Am mon and Brown graduated In June, 1929. C. Lawrence Haines og Linton. Md., won the John Lockwood Fellowship of S6OO, and the Hannah A. Leedon Fel lowship of SSOO went to Elizabeth D. Hormann of Pottsville, Pa. FLYER FACES CHARGE Accused of Violating Neutrality Laws in Mexican Revolt. ALBUQUERQUE. N. Mex., March 19 (iT*). —Clark M. Carr, an aviator, charged with conspiracy to violate the neu trality laws by piloting a plane across the Mexican border to aid revolutionists about a year ago, was free today on SI,OOO bond, pending trial. Carr was arrested late yesterday and arraigned here before a United States commissioner. He declined to make any statement. The aviator is a son of the late Capt. Frank M. Carr, a member of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. .%-aSKS!. DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist EARL OF BALFOUR DIES AT AGE OF 82 British Statesman Is Unable to Ward Off Attacks of Long Illness. (Continued From First Page.) secretary for Ireland, first lord of the admiralty, foreign secretary, prime min ister and member of innumerable gov ernment missions and committees, the Earl of Balfour's political life spanned by a good margin the latter years of the reign of Queen Victoria down through the reign of King Edward VII and through more than 15 years of the reign of King George. He was mast famous perhaps for the sol-called Balfour note, in which Great Britain renounced all post-war debts in continental Europe, both from her allies and Germany, beyond what was needed to pay her own debts in America, and by the Balfour declaration of British policy in Pelestine, which set that country aside as a home for repatriated Jevs. Macdonald Fays Tribute. Prime Minister Masdonald, Informed almost at once of the earl’s death, de clared: “It is the end of a long, useful life and the whole nation will unite in expressing its regret and in paying its tribute.” The earl was 81 years old last July and he played tennis right up to that birthday. A most notable character istic was an almost unlimited capacity to remember. He frequently astonished friends with recollections of the most trivial incidents in his long career. Arthur James Balfour was created the first Earl of Balfour of 1922 and holds besides the title Viscount Tra praln of Whitttngehame. When the end came Lord Balfour was writing the finishing pages of his autobiography. In which will be re vealed the thoughts and opinions of the scholar all the world once knew as “A. J." The Earl of Balfour is succeeded by his brother Gerald, at whose house he died. Lord Balfour was created an Earl and Viscount Traprain after the Washington Conference in 1921 and 1922. He also was made a knight of the Garter, but seldom afterward ap peared in public roles. King Expresses Regret. He was president of the British Acad emy from 1921 to 1928, but his time was given largely to his autobiography. His last state duty was attendance as lord president of the council at the privy council held last May 10 at Craig well House, Bognor. King George then signed the document dissolving Parlia ment and bringing about the general election which threw Ramsay Mac donald Into power. King George sent the following mes sage to Gerald Balfour: “The death of Lord Balfour will evoke throughout the empire and in many parts of the world feelings of deep sorrow, which the Queen and I fully share. It Is a national loss of a great statesman, the last of Queen Vic toria's ministers. I shall treasure his memory as a lifelong friend, a great and charming personality, a wise and trusted counselor.” Called an Aristocrat. Balfour was once characterized as “an aristocrat who entered Parliament to protect the privileges of his caste and to 1 taste the joys of intellectual mastery.” Philosopher as well as statesman, it has 1 been said of him that “he was never so ! happy as when discussing some new ! guess at the nature of matter or the i nature of the soul.” As first lewd of the admiralty in the i coalition war cabinet (1915-16), foreign 1 secretary (1916-19), head of the British mission to America (1917), British dele gate to the Paris peace conference (1919) and to important post-bellum deliberations (1920-21) at San Remo, Hythe. Brussels, San Sebastian. Rome, London, Geneva and elsewhere, he took a notable part in the war and the ef forts at reconstruction, in settling repa ration. boundary, racial and similar problems. During Balfour's term as first lord of the admiralty the German air raiders were most active in their attacks on London and English coast towns, as a result of which he was severely criti cised. Interpellated in the House of Commons, he admitted that "mistakes” had been made in the British aerial de fenses. Soon after. Premier Asquith re signed, and within a fortnight David Lloyd George, at the head of a coalition ministry, had succeeded him and named Balfour as his secretary of state for for eign affairs. Helped Heal Anglo-U. S. Rift. As foreign secretary Balfour came to the United States at the head of the British high commission, almost at the hour America was declaring the exist ence of a state of war with Germany. The purpose of the envoys, as well as that of similar allied commissions sent here, was to assist the United States in determining the scope of her co-opera tion with men, money and munitions. Balfour visited President Wilson, ad dressed both houses of Congress end, by his picture of conditions abroad as well as by his eloquence, did much, It was said, “to help heal the breach of 141 years between the United States and England.” Balfour’s skill as an international diplomatist was shown at the peace table. China had helped the allies in the war and yet. when the peace treaty came to be drafted. Shantung, one of China’s richest provinces and the birthplace of Confucius, was awarded to Japan. The Chinese blamed Bal four and declared that it bore out what a critic had said of him: "Charm he THE FAVOR —one of the many Walk-Over models that use the MAIN SPRING ARCH A dressy street tie in Beige Calf. Comfortable, snug fitting and stylish. *lO Perfect foot balance, correct foot position, restful foot comfort. MAIN SPRING ARCH gives you all this and more. 1 Wolfs c lta£/(:@i / er Shop 1 I |, 929 F Street [ j[| » ■ 1 Desire for Winter Home Brings Man One Behind Bars By the Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla.. March 19. Anthony Charles, lately of Moline. 111., found himself in need of a Winter home about two weeks ago. He located one and moved in. For a brief time he lived the life of a millionaire, all except the diet, which in his case consisted for the whole two weeks of cheese and bread. He slept in a four teenth centruy bed. His windows gave him a good view of the ex clusive Winter colony. Now he has another Winter home. The beds are Iron ones. 80 are the bars he has to look through to get any view at all. Charles' Wlntet home belonged to Mrs. W. L. Koehne of Chicago. has in a high degree; but it is an il lusive charm. He smiles upon his friends and leaves them to the wolves.” At 26 Balfour entered the House of Commons. Everyone was surprised when a few years after his arrival at Westminster he joined forces with the conservative rebel element known as the Fourth Party. Meantime, Balfour was obtaining an insight into the trade government by acting as private secre tary to Lord Salisbury, secretary for foreign affairs. Took Stern Steps in Ireland. After the Liberals had had a long lease of power, Balfour was appointed in 1885 a member of the Salisbury Conservative government, but not of the cabinet as president of the local gov ernment board. It was only a few months until the Liberals under Glad stone again threw out the Conserva tives, who, however, turned the tables on their opponents once more in the same year. 1886, when Balfour became, firstly, secretary for Scotland and then chief secretary for Ireland. Ireland at this time, 1887, was In a state of chaos. The “reign of terror” was In full force. Balfour suppressed the disorders by abolishing trial by jury. The people of Ireland detested the new administrator and many were the threats against "bloody Balfour,” but he went on until he bagan to display the milder side of his character. He evolved the plan of compulsory land purchase for the tenant farmers, whose rebellion had been the outcome of many years of rack-renting and absentee landlordism, and he Introduced a sys tem of light railroads to assist them in disposing of their produce. Backed U. S. In 1898. An action which did much to strength en the friendly feeling of the United States for the British was attributed to Balfour during his next term of office. As first lord of the treasury he waa tem porarily taking the place of Lord Salis bury at the foreign office when the Cuban crisis arose in 1898. Certain Eu ropean powers proposed to intervene at Washington in behalf of the right of Spain to govern her colonies in her own way. Britain waa approached, but Bal four did not fall in with the plan and notified Washington that Britain would not adopt any policy which might be construed as unfriendly to the United States. After Salisbury's death Balfour suc ceeded to the position of premier in 1902. In 1905 the question of tariffs rang the death knell of the Tory ad ministration and brought about the temporary eclipse of Balfour, but the next year, 1906, he was elected a mem ber of Parliament from the city of London and served mainly in that ca pacity until the outbreak of the great war in 1914 again brought his abilities as an administrator into recognition. Visited U.’S. In 1921. Lord Balfour made his second notable visit-to the United States in October, j 1921, coming as head of the British i delegation to the Washington Arma ■ ment Conference. Her'took one of the ! moat prominent parts in this epochal assembly and created an excellent im pression both here and in England through his efforts to co-operate with the other delegations and bring the conference to a point where actual ac complishments of international benefit could be recorded. Alter accepting in principle the pro posal of Secretary Hughes for a re duction in naval armament, and cham pioning the French plan for a curtail ment of land forces and armament, he Used his good offices to bring the Jap anese and Chinese delegations together for a settlement of the tangled and delicate Shantung controversy, which had been used as a club in the United States Senate to keep this country out of the League of Nations. Upon his return to England he was proposed for the peerage, largely be cause of his services in Washington, but he declined at first to entertain the offer. Later, however, he was in vested with the Order of the Garter, and in March, 1922, at the request of King George, he entered the House of Lords, taking the title of Earl of Bal four and Viscount Traprain of Whlt tingehame. PIANOS TO RENT $5 Per Month DE MOLL'S SngrjjlgKaje iWMJWJWk ■•111 :i LTTf'vl RS[ WCTraTWraawErenßf FRANCE AND ITALY HOLD PARLEY KEY Americans Submit ideas in Hope to Break Present Stalemate. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 19. —The American delegation to the Naval Conference, sticking persistently to its slogan, "Never Say Die,” met today to dis cuss among themselves the Tran co- Italian parity stalemate. It was understood that Ambassador Moitow and Comdr. Harold Train, technical expert, who have been spe cially working on this situation, which threatens to cause at least partial wreckage of the conference, submitted ideas which they thought might afford the basis of discussion between the two ! European neighbors. It is possible that these schemes will . never see the light of day. The diffi culty is said to be that the Americans could not with propriety volunteer their services as mediators between Italy and Prance, although the American dele gation is understood to be hoping to be invited to intervene by one or the other of the two parties. Lunch With Americans. Observers say that the big problem i now is to get the French and Italians to face each other across the confer ence table. Neither has budged from its original stand, Italy for naval parity with Pranch. which Prance will not concede. What the other delegations now want is to get the French and Italians to discuss any one of numer ous schemes which have been figured out as a basis for possible compromise. Prime Minister Macdonald and A. V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty, had lunch at the American headquar ters today, and it was assumed the Franco-Italian situation came under survey. The Americans present were Secretary Stlmson, Ambassadors Dawes and Morrow and Senator Reed. During the day there was a flurry over a report printed by the Dally Ex press that there had been a breach of harmony over matters connected with the American-Japanese negotiations. The prime minister was represented as having taken Secretary Stlmson to task for allowing an alleged misleading Im pression to circulate that Tokio was ready to accept a settlement proposi tion. and that there was likelihood of a three-power agreement should the Franco-Italian problem prove unsolv able. An American spokesman character ized this as "simply foolish," while Prime Minister Macdonald specially di rected the British spokesman to deny the story. The spokesman told news paper men that the report was "abso lutely and gratuitously false.” Reed Met Ambassador. Another report, circulated by a Brit ish news agency, that Ambassador Mat sudaira had called on Secretary Stim son to warn him of an impending re jection by Tokio of the American terms and to give notice of Japanese counter proposals, also met with* emphatic American denial. As a matter of fact. It was authori tatively stated, it was Senator Reed and not Secretary Stlmson who met the Japanese Ambassador and they did not discuss the question of Tokio’s approval or disapproval of the Japanese-Amer ican delegations’ agreement They dis cussed the Franco-Italian situation, the Japanese being interested from an in formative viewpoint. Tokio’s reply, It was surmised In American quarters, will be In by the latter part of the week. No surprise will be caused if the Tokio government should ask its delegation to try for more 8-lnch-gun cruisers, which, It is fore cast, would be refused by the Amer icans. Tokio would then be informed, and the opinion is expressed in confer ence circles that the Japanese govern ment would not be Inclined to push the matter further. HEARING ON GAS MERGER ' Utilities Commissioner Calls Public Meeting on Bill. The bill to authorise a merger of the Washington & Georgetown Gaslight Cos. will be the subject of a public hearing | called by the Public Utilities Commis sion for Monday, March 31 at 10 o’clock in room 102. District Building. .V.V.'.V.WW.V.VWrtI//, Opeqal aJ Electrical 3Jjeadijuart&t* <£j\2l p/I CASH OR ONLY *1“ DOWN and sl monthly on Four Light Bills i This fine Hotpoint Toaster with new Turn- Knob control raises or lowers both sides at the same time and automatically turns the toast Browns evenly and quickly with just the degree of delicious “crunchiness” that you like Featured at Electrical Headquarters for a limited time. Get your Hotpoint Toaster to day. Use the convenient “Pay on Your Light Bills Plan.” WILKINS FINDS SEA IN PUCE OF LAND Water Covers Area in Which Antarctica Was Thought to Extend. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 19.—Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Arctic and Antarctic explorer, returned today from his fourth expedition to Antarctica with the in formation that he had found only seas where It had been supposed the Ant arctic continent extended. With him were his two pilots, Parker Cramer of Clarion, Pa., and A1 Cheeseman of Winnipeg, and his mechanic, Orville Porter of Detroit. Behind Charcot Land, he said, the Stefansson Straits, found by him last year, oontinue into sea water, "pushing back the Antarctic continent” about eight degrees. On his expedition last year. Sir George found that the land discovered between 60 and 70 west and 62 and 7g south, was an archipelago and not a di rect continuation of the Antarctic con tinent, and the expedition this year fur ther decreased the size of the South Polar continent, whose boundaries never have been definitely established. He charted about 1,200 miles of new coast line on this year’s aerial expedition, and discovered five islands. Leaving Deception Island, his south ern base, on January 25 aboard the William Scoresby. a ship owned by the British colonial office. Sir George cruised as far south as 70.10. There he took off in the seaplane he had lashed to the ship’s after deck, flying to 73 south and 101 west before turning hack. It was on this flight he discovered that open water of Stefansson Straits con tinues on to the west, where land pre viously had been thought to exist; CLARENCE DARROW BACK, READY FOR DRY DEBATES Noted Lawyer Says He Has Been ▲broad Long Enough to Learn U. S. Ia Friendless. By the Associated Prose. NEW YORK, March 19.—Clarence Darrow, Chicago criminal lawyer, is back in the United States today after nine months in Europe prepared for two debates on prohibition. Tonight he will have as his oppo nent United States Senator Smith W. Brookhart and on Friday night he will debate against Clarence True Wil son of the Methodist Board of Temper ance, Prohibition and Public Morals Mr. Darrow, upon his arrival aboard the liner Satumla, said he had been abroad long enough to learn the United States had not a friend in the world. This he held to be due to this country’s insistence on repayment of war loans and the high tariff. The debate with Senator Brookhart will be held tomorrow night at Mecca Temple. Friday night he will meet Mr Wilson In the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The topic of both debates will be ’Should the Eighteenth Amendment be Repealed?” g?FALO, N.Y.—59.50 sm & k m from 12th A Pa. Are. Phone Nat. *7ll -WRM Mt. 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