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BICENTENNIALEA
CLEARLY OUTLINED
Capper Broadcasts Purposes
in Honoring Washington
During 1932.
Calling upon every American to aid in
making the bicentennial celebration of
the birth of George Washington a suc
cess. Sir.r.tor Arthur Capper of Kansas,
chairman of the Senate District Com
mittee. in a radio address delivered to
day. described the program for the cele
bration now taking shape under the di
rection of the commission in charge.
The Kansas Senator is a member of
the commission. He described the great
etrides which have been made in Amer
ica since the birth of the first President,
and said, in part:
“In recent years the approach of the
200th anniversary of Washington's
birth became the subject of earnest
discussion among many of our citizens.
“The idea of a great Nation-wide
celebration spread widely and rapidly.
Congress became informed of the neces
sity for providing an agency to work
out the details of a proper bicentennial
program.
'‘Accordingly, in 1924. Congress cre
ated the United States Commission for
the Celebration of the 200th Anni
versary- of the Birth of George Wash
ington.
President Is Chairman.
‘‘This commission has IP members.
The President of the United States
Is the chairman. The Vice President
and the Speaker of the House are ex
officio members. Then there are four
Senators and four members of the
House of Representatives. Nine other
members, all prominent Americans, are
on the commission as presidential ap
pointees. "
“No doubt there will be pageants, pa
rades and pyrotechnics. Probably the
celebration will Include no little oratory.
But the commission is keeping in mind
the concept of the celebration as ex
pressed by the late Dr. Charles W.
Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard
university. He was greatly interested
In the plans for the bicentennial, and
he suggested, not long before his death,
that the celebration should be spiritual
In character, rather than materialistic.
He felt that it should be directed to the
vounger generation. It should appeal
to the thoughtful persons of our popu
lation. It should planned so as to
add to the number of Washington’s ad
mirers and followers as a guide to the
1U “One of the most important items con
sidered by the commission is an inten
sive Nation-wide campaign to draw- the
attention of Americans more closely to
the life of Washington. Many phases in
this great leader s life are not so well
known as the fable of the cherry tree.
Too many Americans are content to
agree that Washington was worthy of
our highest esteem, without stopping to
Inquire into the qualities that made him
pre-eminent.
Essay Prises Planned.
"Coincidentally, the commission is
Btudving arrangements to offer national
' prizes for the best essays on the life and
deeds of Washington.
“And now let me detail some of the
other ways by which -the commission
will endeavor to win the attention, of
#very one for the celebration.
“On the recommendation of the com
mission Congress has authorised the
printing of an approved portrait of
George Washington for distribution
throughout the country by Senators and '
Representatives. There -are also to be
issued a George Washington map. to
show all of the places where Washing
ton lived and visited, and a George
Washington atlas, which will include all
the plans in the map and show the
roads and streams which were traveled
by Washington.
“Congress also has approved a plan
for the publication of a definitive edi
tion of the writings of Washington.
This will include about 5,000 original
unpublished manuscripts written by the
Father of Our Country. There will also
be published a series of books, each
treating of Washington in some phase
of his life —as a boy, as an engineer, as
A soldier, etc.
“Aside from all these there are a
number of very fine suggestions for
permanent memorials to Washington in
and near the Natioaal Capital which he
founded and near which he made his
home.
“One. of these suggestions Is rapidly
approaching reality. Under authorization
from Congress a beautiful memorial
boulevard is being constructed in Vir
ginia along the shores of the Potomac,
from Washington to Mount Vernon, the
beautiful estate where Washington lived
. for many years. It is expected that this
boulevard, about 14 miles long, will be
completed in time for the celebration in
1§32.
Wakefield Being Restored.
"Congress also is assisting in the res
toration of Wakefield, where Washing
ton was born. The old Washington
homestead is owned by the United
States, but has been sadly neglected for
many years. A monument has been
ejected there and a small amount has
been 4-ontributed annually by the Fed
eral Government for the upkeep of the
property. But Wakefield long ago
should have been restored in a befitting
manner and preserved as a national
ahrlne.
I want to call your attention briefly to
another great project which is not di
rectly related to the commission's work,
but nevertheless constitutes a beautiful
aad enduring memorial to Washington.
“This is the George Washington Me
mprial Parkway, which Congress recent
ly established by law, along the shores
of the Potomac, from Mount Vernon,
where Washington ltvea, to Alexandria,
where he visited, to the National Cap
ital. which he founded, and so up to
Cheat Palls, where relics of his engineer
ing works still remain. This action by
Congress will preserve the beautiful
banks and palisades of the Potomac
febm unsightly desecration and misuse.
"Let us remember, too. that the great
Federal building program is going
forward in Washington, bringing the
Capital nearer to the ideal of the First
President. It is hoped that a great
many of the improvements in the Na
tional Capital will have been com
£leted by 1932, which the comml*sion
as designated as the Anniversary year.
Conventions Encouraged.
"The commission feels that great or
ganizations of all kinds should hold
conventions in Washington during 1932.
Each trade, profession, art and busi
ness should be represented in these
meetings. Conferences of legislators
jurists, educators, religious leaders and
scientists should similarly be held in
the Capital.
“The year'a program would be for
mally opened with a Nation-wide cele
bration of Washington's Birthday.
Throughout the year, on every holiday
of patriotic significance, the Nation
would join in suitable
Thanksgiving day. according to the
plans, would close the year's program.
“Congress had invited the various
State and Territorial governments to
work with the national commission by
establishing their own commissions.
Up to this time 13 States, together with
Hawaii and the District of Colombia,
have responded by creating stich com
missions. . , ,
“The Steles which have so responded
are California. Delaware. Idaho. Maine.
Man-land, Nevada. New York, North
Carolina, North Dakota. Oregon. Penn
sylvania. Virginia and Washington and
Hawaii and the District of Columbia.
‘‘lf you live in a State which ao far
has not appointed a commission, and if
you really want to help, write to your
Representative in the State Legislature
and urge him to work for the appoint
ment of a State commission.”
More than 300 bus and truck lines
un operated in Oklahoma^
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To Confront Barrere
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CAMPBELL SHAKES
BARRERE’S HAND AS
SHOWDOWN OPENS
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sentment over the fact (hat Barrere
had the case transferred from Judge
Bittenbendcr's court to the Arlington
County Circuit Court? I got the com
mission I was sueing for without the
necessity of pressing the case, and
that ended the matter."
Aubrey Wyatt, the man who was
painting the interior of Campbell's
house at the time Barrere was charged
with stealing some women's clothing,
an alarm clock and a bag of gum drops
from the home of his employer, was
the first person questioned today by
the county prosecutor and the Wash
ington detectives.
Wyatt was questioned concerning
Barrere’s statement that the two
painters an da couple of women, "who
casually dropped by.” staged an im
promptu drinking party at Campbell’s
house on April 14. three days after
the murder, when the rpbbery is al
leged to have occurred. Wyatt denied j
that there had been a party in the
j house, but admitted he and Barrere
I had taken a couple of drinks after
i the women arrived at the house. He
. said the women did not drink and left
I after a brief stay.
Want Doubt Cleared Up.
Barrere, in denying that he took the
goods from Campbell's house, pointed
out that the theft might have been
committed by the others who were in
the party. The authorities are desirous
of clearing up the doubt surrounding
this incident, as it would materially
strengthen the case against Barrere if
it could be proved he entered Camp
bell's house and committed a robbery
at that time.
While the theft of a gun from Camp
bell's house naturally must have oc
curred prior to the murder, the investi
gators point out that if Barrere had
means of entering the house after the
murder he could have employed the
same means before.
Barrere admits he went to Campbell’s
house on the day prior to the killing,
intending to ihake an estimate on
painting the exterior of Campbell’s resi
dence. Campbell has implied that
Barrere could have entered his house
and stolen the gun from its place in a*
chiffonier on that occasion.
The. chiffonier -is the same one from
which the articles allegedly were stolen
after the murder. The opportunity to
have Campbell and Barrere brought
face to face is one which the author
ities long have waited for. There
are a number of discrepancies in the
stories told by the two men, and it is
believed that they can be cleared up
by this dramatic method.
Disagree on Hour.
One point that is considered most
important is determining the exact
hour that Barrere visited Campbell at
Oakcrest on the afternoon of the fatal
day and signed a contract to paint
Campbell’s house.
The real estate man has said that
Barrere signed the contract about 5:30
o'clock that day, while Barrere, ap
parently uncertain about the time, has
said variously that he signed it in the
morning, and, under later questioning,
about 2:30 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
The officials consider it vitally im
portant that Barrere’s movements
throughout that afternoon and evening
be definitely established. In order to
check on the priconer's “alibi,” doth
j has summoned a number of Barrere’s
acquaintahces, in whose presence he
; claims he moved on the fatal evening.
After Wyatt had been questioned
alone, Barrere was brought across the
i court house lawn to the prosecutor's
; office and closeted with doth. Kelly,
] Sheriff Fields and Wyatt. Among the
j points upon which Wyatt and BarrerP
i j were questioned was the disappearance
of the tent which Wyatf loaned Barrere
, | and which the latter erected in the
I! yard of Clifford Herold on * rllngton
I Ridge. Police are anxious to locate this
! tent, under the theory that Barrere
| might have left some bit of evidence
t! in it.
,' Barrere claims that he gave the tent
to a man whom he knew only as
"Dan” and who is employed In the
i quartermaster's stables at Fort Myer.
■ I ‘Dan,” according to Barrere, was to
' ! have returned the tent to Wyatt, but
1 i Wyatt said today he did not get it
:, and has no idea where it is. An in
. | vestigation will be madp in an effort to
locate the mysterious Dan.’’
Campbell reiterated today that he
never knew Mary Baker and had never
heard of her until the murder.
Doesn't Remember Girls.
Asked if it were not possible that the
Baker girl and her two companions
Miss Skinner and Miss Sperry, might
have visited his office in Oakcrest while
searching for houses in Arlington
I County, Campbell said that while this
was a possibility he has no recollection
of any one answering their description
having applied to him for a house. It
is understood that Miss Skinner and
I Miss Sperry have said they never
i visited Oakcrest while hunting for a
place to live In nearby Virginia.
Campbell said that Barrere's descrip
■ tion of “an old man with gray hair
and a facial blemish,” whom Barrere
' ejected from hts tent some time after
i the murder, tallied somewhat with that
of the "man with the wart on hts nose,”
t whose inquiries concerning Barrere and
concerning Campbell’s gun first aroused
s the real estate man's suspicions and led
to Uie latter's discovery that the gun
v had changed its location from his resl
* j deuce to his office in some unexplain
> able manner.*
"The roan with a wart on his nose.”
* Campbell explained, "did have grayish
white hair and was well advanced in
1 age. Whether Barrere really saw such
'• a man and whether the two were the
1 same person Is Just a matter of con
■ Jecture. Regardless of how fantastic
1 it may sound, I know I saw and talked
with such a man.”
r Barrere said that the old man with a
* facial disfigurement had been “lying
r around drunk In the vicinity of Cliff
* Herold'a place for several days” and
* that when he found him in the tent
he "chucked him out and told him
never to come back.” The man with a
s wart on his nose remained a complete
mystery to the autborittaa.
THE EVENING sci AK. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JULY 21, 1930.
CRAZED MAN SLAYS
II AND HIMSELF
Caretaker Wounds 2 Others
After Killing Owner of Es
tate Near Wilkes-Barre.
My the Associated Pres*.
WILKES-BARRE. Pa., July 21.—An
enraged caretaker of a Lehman Helghtt
estate near here shot hi* employer and
a deputy sheriff to death, wounded two
other persons and then took his own
life when cornered by a posse yester
day.
Those killed by Paul Skopka were
Harry D. Sordoni of Kingston, owner
of the estate, and John T. Ruth, chief
of police of Harveys Lake and deputy
sheriff of Luzerne County. Sordonis
17-year-old daughter Frieda was shot
in both arms, ants his son Francis.
25, was wounded In the right hip and
legs.
The shooting began when Mr. and
Mrs. Sordoni. their daughters. Frieda
and Florence, and their son Francis
arrived at the Sordoni estate Saturday
night to spend the week end. They
were unloading packages from their
motor car when Skopka opened fire
with a double-barreled shotgun. The
elder Sordoni fell mortally wounded.
Francis was struck down by another
volley as he went, to his father’s as
sistance. and Frieda was shot when she
leaped Into an automobile and started
for aid
Despite the wound, the girl sped to
the home of a physician, w-ho notified
the police. Miss Sordoni then returned
to the scene of the shooting and 'ook
her mother, w r ho had fainted, and her
father to a hospital at Kingston. An
other motorist took her brother to the
same hospital.
When police arrived at the secluded
estate, there was no trace of Skopka.
A posse searched the woods in vain
throughout the night. As dawn broke
a shot from ambush brought Ruth
down, mortally wounded. Skopka put
his last shot into his own head.
PARADOXES SEEN
IN REAPPORTIONING
! “Major Fractions” Method
Used to Fix House Dele
gation Sizes.
The “method of major fractions,”
which i* the mathematical formula ap
plied to State populations in the re
apportionment of members of the House
of Representatives, Is going to bring
about many seeming Inconsistencies.
For example, California, with an in
crease of 3,264,733 in population since
the last reapportionment of the House
was made, likely will receive an addi
tion of nine members to her delega
tion, while Illinois, with a gain of
1.991.692 people in the same time, will
not receive any additional members.
Likewise. Michigan, with an increase
of 2.008,198, may gain four additional
members, while Pennsylvania, with an
increase of 2,387,899, is down to lose
one member.
New York, on an increase of 3.495,941
people, will probably be given two ad
ditional members, and New Jersey, with
a probable gain of 1,401,833, is slated
to gain two new members also, while
Texas, with an increase of 1.914,141,
probably will be given three additional
congressmen.
Georgia May Lose Two.
With the populations of 37 States
already announced, experts have begun
figuiing or, the makeup of the House
under ihe new apportionment law.
Some of their calculations made a year
ago already have been overturned, the
latest developments being an indica
tion Georgia will lose two congressmen
instead of none, as had previously been
figured. New York likely will gam two
instead of losing one. Texas might
gain three instead of two, and Cali
fornia nine Instead of six. Minnesota
probably will lose one instead of main
taining her delegation of 10 as at pres
ent, and Ohio may gain only one in
stead of three, as had been forecast.
The actual changes in a number of
instances cannot be determined until
the remaining 11 States have reported
their population and “the method of
major tractions” put to work.
A tabulation of the actual and esti
mated increases indicated that in the
recasting of the House the seats musk
be shifted about among the Slates to
provide equal representation to 31,420,-
948 persons.
Change May Be Automatic.
These seats will automatically be
changed by the Census Bureau if Con
gress fails to act in the coming session.
The present delegations of the various
States, the probable delegations a« a
rpsult of reapportionment, with the
gain or loss, and the increase in popu
lation of the States from 1910, on which
'he last reapportionment was made, and
1930 follow:
W ? r 3?s
2l = s !*
State, eg. : • g
-2 2* • •
*■
•Al«tsm* io 9 .. i 473.907
•Arizona i j i .. • 394.446
Arkanaaa 77 279 5*52
California 11 20 9 ” siftlS!
Colorado 4 4 .. .. 334.132
Connecticut S 6 1 .. 688,057
Delaware .11 .. .. 34.538
District of Columbia 154.847
Florida 4 5 1 .. 734.026
Georgia 12 TW .. 2 294.801
i?*hO 2 2 .. .. 241.406
Illinois 27 27 .. .. 1.991.892
Indn n« IS 11 .. 2 528.648
Jo** 11 9 .. 3 243.976
Kansas A 7 .. 1 191,569
Kentucky 11 9 .. 2 313.126
•Uiulaiana A 7 .. 1 320.812
Maine 4 3 .. 1 .47.291
Maryland 6 A .. .. 329.933
Massachusetts 18 15 .. 1 99A.556
Michigan 13 17 4 .. 2.008.198
MiniuMU* 10 9 .. 1 482.557
•Mississippi g 6.. 2 t
Missouri lfi 13 .. 3 325.841
Montana 2 2 .. .. 157.4*0
Nebraska A 5 .. 1 194.405
Nevada 1 I .. .. 8.884
New Hampshire.... 2 2 33.174
♦New Jersey 12 14 2 .. 1.401.833
New Mexico 11 . . .. 91,831
New York 43 45 2 3.495.941
North Carolina... 10 11 1 958.859
North Dakota 3 2 1 104.217
Ohio 22 23 1 .. 1.A82.252
•Oklahoma 8 9 1 .. 838.A45
•Oregon 3 3 .. .. 250 235
•Pennsylvania .... 38 35 .. 1 2.387.899
Rhode Island 3 2 .. 1 144.410
•South Carolina.... 77 .. .. 380 800
‘South Dakota 3 3 132.112
Terrhesaee 10 9 1 424.848
Texas 18 21 3 .. 1.914.141
Utah 2 2 .. .. 129.289
Vermont 2 1 .. 1 3.227
Virginia 10 9 .. 1 358.483
Washington 5 5 .. 415.550
West Virginia 6 8 .. .. 507.391
Wisconsin 11 11 .. .. 688 528
Wyoming 11 .. ~ 78.728
Totals 435 435 26 26 31.420.948
•Piohahlr delegations, gains and losses in
these Slates are those estimated by Ihe
House Committee, and ihe population in
crease nt these States la based ein the esti
mated population as of January 1. 1930.
populations for these Plate* not having been
announced *0 date.
♦ Mississippi, no estimate as nf January 1.
1930. population decreased 6,496 from iflO
to 1920.
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Youth'i Body Found.
SUDBURY. Ontario, July 31 , </P).
' The body of Carlisle Me Hai g. 32. son of
I the president of the Rome Manu
. facturing Co., of Chicago, was recovered
1 yesterday from l-he water of Mountain
Lake. McHarg was drowned three days
1 ago. but new* of the tragedy did not
reach her* until yeatardap,
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GIRL PILOT, 8 HOURS SOLO,
COOLLY LANDS MISSING SHIP
Field Officials Praise Her for
Courage When Motor Weak
ens at 300 Feet.
“Momentarily Uneasy,” She
Says, After Being Forced
Down by Trouble.
A forced landing from a 300-foot al
titude is not a pleasant prospect for!
the experienced aviator, and to Miss
Mary Craig, a Veterans’ Bureau em
ploye. with only eight hours' solo flying .
to her credit, the descent she made yes
terday over the Hybla Valley. Va., Fly- \
ing Field is one she had just as soon
not repeat.
Miss Craig, who began taking flying
instructions in the Spring, took a plane
up yesterday afternoon and had just
left the field and banked for a turn
when she noticed a marked decrease in
the revolutions per minute of the motor. 1
"The plane lost its balance suddenly,”
Miss Craig explained today, “and the
vibration was pretty bad. I wasn’t at j
all sure I'd be able to bring the ship
back around to the field. I cut the j
motor out. so i( I cracked up there
wouldn't be any fire, but I made the
landing all right.”
Asked what her sensation was. Miss |
Craig said that she was "momentarily
uneasy.” Officials at. the flying field
attested to her coolness and nerve. ,
pointing out that at such a iow altitude
she had few seconds to think and even
fewer in which to act.
Miss Craig, who resides at 1410 M
street, works in the Awards Division of
the Veterans’ Bureau and is an avia
tion enthusiast. Once before, while a
pupil, she had a similar experience, but
she said the landing yesterday presented
the graver problem.
Theft of Hammer
From Pile Driver
Beats Anvil Record
By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, July 21—In
the wake of the others comes the
burglary endurance contest.
Forming hastly judgment, po
lice gave the championship to
Hooker Carter and Robert High,
ley, found straining under the
weight of a 200-pound anvil.
They had already loaded a 14-
' inch bellows into a motor car.
The officers a few moments
later admitted the award pre
mature. They are willing to con
cede the title to W’hoever stole a
600-pound hammer from a con
tractor’s pile driver.
ROOSEVELT ASKS
PROOF FOR PROBE
Evidence Beyond Scope of
Courts Will Be Required for
Legislature Action.
By the Associated Pres*.
WATKINS N. Y.. July 21. '
Definite evidence* of misconduct in
New York City governmental affairs
beyqnd the scope of an inquiry by the
appellate division of the courts and
the attorney general will be required
by Gov. Roosevelt before he calls an
extra session of the Legislature to pro
vide for a general investigation, he
has indicated in a letter to legislative
majority leaders.
The governor, on a tour of inspec
tion of canals, spent the night aboard
his yacht here.
The governor informed the leaders,
in answer to their recent letter, that
any matters pertaining to irregularities
In the office of city magistrates wa*
within the jurisdiction of the appel
late division.
Gov. Roosevelt emphasized that hi*
reply should not be construed as a re
fusal to call a special session of the
Legislature, but rather as a plea for
an exhaustion of all other procedure
prescribed by law before legislative
pressure Was brought to bear.
The State convention of Socialists,
meeting yesterday, demanded that the
Governor call a special session to ap
point a multi-partisan commission to
investigate the government of New
York City, which it said was honey
combed with graft and corruption
The convention also demanded that j
the office of Mayor James J. Walkpr
be investigated.
james h. mcdowell
SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS
Grain and Elevator Operator for
Many Years Dies at Hock
ville at Age of 76.
James H. McDowell, 76 years old, of
2421 First street died yesterday morn
ing at Chestnut Lodge Sanitarium,
Rockville, after an illness of several
months. Mr. McDowell for many years
was associated with his father, Samuel
C. McDowell, in the grain and elevator
business at Eckington place and Q
street northeast.
He is survived by his wife. Mrs. Lou
anna‘McDowell; two sons. William P.
and J. Harold McDowell, and a daugh
ter. Mrs. H. H. Hill. Funeral services
will be conducted at 2 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon at the chapel of A. R. Speare
Co., 1623 Connecticut avenue, by Rev.
J. Phelps Hand, pastor of the Wesley
Methodist Church, of which Mr. Mc-
Dowell was a member for 50 years. In
terment will take place in Rock Creek
Cemetery.
Roll Call Is Answered by 62 Senators
At Today ? h London Navy Pact Se^nion
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Sixty-two Senator* answered the
quorum rail at the opening of today *
session of the Senate on the Ijondon
naval treaty.
Those Senators present were:
Republicans—Alien, Kansas; Bing
ham. Connecticut Borah. Idaho;
Brookhart. Iowa: Capi>er. Kansas; Cou
rens, Michigan: Dale, Vermont; Deneen,
Illinois; FVss, Ohio; Olllett, Massachu
setts; Cllenn. Illinois; Ooldaborough,
Maryland' Gould, Maine; Green, Ver
mont; Hale, Maine; Hatfield, West Vir
ginia; Hebert. Rhode Island: Howell,
Nebraska: Johnson, California: Jones,
Washington; Kean. New Jersey: Keyes,
New Hampshire: La Follet.te, Wiscon
sin; McCulloch. Ohio; McMaster. South
Dakota: McNary. Oregon: Metcalf,
Rhode Island; Moses. New Hampshire;
Norri*, Nebraska; Oddie, Nevada; Pat
terson, Missouri; Phippa. Colorado;
Reed, Pennsylvania: Robinson. Indiana;
Robsion, Kentucky; Shortridge. Cali
fornia; Smoot, Utah: Steiwer. Oregon;
Sullivan, Wyoming: Thomas, Idaho;
Vandenberg, Michigan; Walcott, Con
necticut. and Watson, Indiana—43.
Democrats— Black, Alabama; Cara
way, Arkansas; Copeland. New York;
Fletcher, Florida; George, Georgia; Har
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MARY CRAIG
GEORGE ATTACKS
G. 0. P. FARM AID
Defends Democratic Votes
for Tariff in Statement
Scoring Relief.
Senator George of Georgia yesterday
took up the Democratic attack on the
administration farm-relief program, de
fending at the same time the Demo
cratic votes for high tariffs. Senator
George’s pronouncements were con
tained in a statemept issued through his
party’s national committee.
George said the operations of the Fed
. eral Farm Board thus f»r have not
! benefited the general farmer, and “now
tte board is out of the market. Obvious
ly! it will work only when its services
are not needed.”
“The Secretary of Agriculture, who at
first advised the farmer to eat his sur
plus, but who now joins the Farm Board
\ in advising the farmer to curtail his
j production by reducing his acreage,"
the Democrat said, “has figured out
that the tariff act will cost each farmer
the additional sum of S4B per year upon
the protected merchandise he must buy.
This actual additional outlay of cash
i * * • is to be offset by the imaginary
gains from fictitious duties upon farm
products which must be sold in the for
eign market.”
George said the majority of the
Democratic votes for high tariffs were
on Imported farm products, while a few
were on manufactured articles.
“On their behalf.” he added, “a meri
torious case was presented, and the
Democratic party Ls not for free trade
but stands for a fair tariff.”
SHIPPING BOARD
TO DROP WORKERS
Personnel Reduction, Date
Indefinite, Due to “Lump
Sum Agreement.”
Reduction of personnel in the United
States Shipping Board will take place
some time in the indefinite future fol
lowing the adoption of a new plan of
operation under what is known as the
“lump *um agreement,” It was learned
today. How many employes will be
dismissed has not yet been determined
and It will depend upon developments
In placing the new agreements into
effect, according to officials of the or
ganization.
The Shipping Board and the Mer
- chant Fleet Corporation have a total
of about 2.000 employes, including,
roughly, 700 in Washington.
Under the new lump sum agreements,
which are now being placed In effect,
the Government still maintains owner
ship of the ships, but the supervisory
control of their operation, it was ex
plained, is shifted from the Govern
ment agency to the operator to such an
extent that a smaller force of Govern
ment personnel is needed. .
The nearest prediction as to when
the reduction will come was from one
source which explained that the matter
had not been worked out yet but prob
ably would be In the next month or *o.
Snow Causes Four Deaths.
SANTIAGO, Chile, July 21 (/P).—' The
heavy Winter snow near San Gabriel,
about 44 miles from here, caused the
death of four persons In the wreck of
an excursion party. Another was grave
ly Injured.
ris. Georgia; Harrison, Mississippi: Ken
drick, Wyoming: King. Utah; Overman.
North Carolina: Robinson. Arkansas;
Sheppard. Texas; Swanson, Virginia:
Thomas, Oklahoma: Trammell, Florida:
Wagner. New York; Walsh, Massachu
setts; Walsh. Montana—lß.
Farmer-Labor Shipstcad, Minne
sota—l.
Total present, 62.
Those Senators absent were:
Republicans— Baird, New Jersey;
Blaine, Wisconsin; Cutting, New Mex
ico; Frasier, North Dakota: Brock. West
Virginia; Grundy. Pennsylvania; Hast
ing. Delaware: Norbeck. South Dakota;
Nye, North Dakota; Pine, Oklahoma:
Schall, Minn.; Townsend, Delaware;
Waterman. Colorado—l 3.
Democrats— Ashurat,. Arizona; Bark
ley. Kentucky; Bleaee. South Carolina;
Bratton, New Mexico; Brock, Tennessee;
Broussard. Louisiana; Connally, Texas;
Dill, Washington; Glass. Virginia:
Hawes, Missouri; Hayden. Arizona;
Heflin, Alabama; McKellar, Tennessee;
Pittman, Nevada: Ransdell, I-oulsians;
Simmons, North Carolina; Smith, South
Carolina: Sleek, Iowa; Stephens, Missis
sippi; Tydings, Maryland; Wheeler,
Montana -21.
• Total absenf^34.
PACT RESERVATION
VOTED BY SENATE
Norris Measure Makes Se
cret Agreements Invalid
in Naval Treaty.
<Continued Prom First Page.)
resolution which he sought to have
adopted earlier In the day. His reserva
tion proposes that the treaty shall be
ratified with the full understanding of
the Senate that all the naval vessels to
which the United States is entitled
under the treaty shall be constructed,
with the exception of 6-inch gun
cruisers.
The desire of President Hoover to
get action on his nomination to the
United States Power Commission, it
was suggested, might force the final ad
journment of the Senate over until to
morrow. The nominations are to come
before the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee at a meeting this afternoon.
If any serious opposition develops
however, to the nominations, members
of the committee said, it meant they
would not be acted upon at the pres
ent session of the Senate. The Sena
tors are determined to adjourn as soon
las they have ratified the treaty. The
l nomination of Gen. Hines to be di
rector of the Veterans' Bureau under
the new law was reported favorably and
promptly confirmed at today's session.
Speeches were made In support of the
treaty ratification by Senators Wag
ner of New York. Thomas of Oklahoma
and Robslon of Kentucky.
Senator Thomas, while declaring his
intention to vote for ratification, criti
cized severely President Hoover because
he had refused' to send to the Senate
all of the confidential correspondence
relating to the negotiation of the treaty.
Wagner Leads Debate.
Senator Wagner of New York, Demo
crat. led off the debate on the treaty
today, announcing his intention of
voting for the treaty. The New. York
Senator said that he regretted the Lon
don conference had not been
go further in the matter of naval re
duction, but that, it would be a calamity
to have the treaty rejected by the
Senate.
“One of the by-products,” said Sena
tor Wagner, "of the present controversy
over ratification or rejection Is the
emergence of an issue which transcends
the treaty itself in its importance to
our welfare. It raises a question W’hich
calls for an answer not only in connec
tion with the present treaty but in con
nection with our every act and attitude
toward foreign nations and national
defense. That issue is:
“Shall our foreign policy and our
program of national defense proceed
from the assumption that war is an
ever-present probability?
“Many of the opponents of ratifica
tion have squarely accepted the af
firmative of that issue. The keel of
their debate is the hypothesis of war.
From the premise of war, probable and
imminent, the Inference was quite logi
cally drawn that we needed a navy
sufficiently powerful to search out the
enemy and defeat him. A navy merely
competent to defend us from aggres
sion was, of course, on such hypothesis
entirely inadequate. The ambiguous
phrase, ‘the needs of national defense,’
was thus made to fit naval supremacy
and the power of aggression.
"I do hope that the Senate will not,
by rejecting this treaty, arouse the fear
both at home and abroad that it sub
scribes to such a philosophy.
Gives Alternative “War” Course.
“If that is to be the basis of our
policy, it is not this treaty alone that
we should reject. If we act on the
supposition of war, then we ought to j
censor every thought of limitation, re
gard as treasonable every hope for re
duction, dismiss every effort for agree
ment; for, no matter how clever our
representatives, they w-ill never succeed
in persuading any nation voluntarily to
subscribe to an instrument which would j
so curtail its own power of defense and
so expand our power of aggression that i
we would with certainty be able to de- i
feat it in its own territory.
“If our policy is to be dictated by |
such an ambition, then we should throw
restraint to the winds, pile on tax upon
tax, and use every last coin w f e can i
wring from our people for the con- j
struction of a navy so powerful that I
it will be ready and certain to defeat
every opposing force.
“If we pursue such a policy, there
will be a temporary vindication for
those who counseled it, for the premise
of war will surely be realized.
“The distinguished chairman of the
Naval Affairs Committee cautions us
I that ‘we have no right to gamble that
there will be no future wars.’
“And the learned Senator front In
diana reminds us that we have engaged
In six wars In the past 154 years and
that 'history repeats Itself.’
"I wonder, Mr. President, if the dis
tinguished Senator when he uttered
this doleful prophecy stopped to con
sider the organs of destruction we have
been developing sufficient to obliterate
our entire civilization. Six wars! After
all. how many wars like the last one. so i
recent that it haunts our memories, can |
this civilization survive? Does the dis
tinguished Senator really believe that
our present civilization is immortal?
“Nations have in the past always
gambled on war and they have had it.
I believe the people of these United
States, In common with every free peo
ple on earth, are ready to gamble on
peace, and having a stake in peace they
will do more than they have in the past
to see to it that peace rather than war
shall win the race.
Security Ik Held Assured.
“What should be our final conclu
sion? I believe that we should ratify
this treaty. The question of security
has been raised, but I cannot under
stand how we can possibly be less
secure with the larger treaty fleet when
the fleets of the other nations are
limited than we are at present with
a smaller fleet and other nations un
limited in their construction.
“This treaty leaves the world with |
a burden of too many guns and too
many ships rather than too few. The I
tremendous $2,000,000,000 armadus j
which the treaty sets up somehow do |
not click with the professed objectives '
of the disarmament conference. It is
a feeble treaty, a weak and insufficient
instrument, but it is better than com
petitive building. If it does not carry
us forward far toward the goal of dis
armament, at least it applies the brakes
against the rapid backsliding which had
already begun.
"If I could chose the world I would
live In. I would rather have a world
of small navies than a world of big
navies. If the big navies had to be. I
would rather that relative sizes were
the subject of agreement rather than
established by competition. If limita
tion, too. were to be abandoned, I would
rather that each nation gave to the
others notice of its prospective con
struction rather than that it built its
ships secretly and surreptitiously. The
treaty does at least that, and it also
provides for limitation. Its rejection
will multiply the ill will, the suspicions
and fears, those seeds of war of which
there is ever a surplus. Ratification
will facilitate future agreements of
actual reduction. The balance of ad
vantage is on the side of the treaty,
and is, therefore, entitled to the con
sent of the Senate.
“America, leader in the pursuit of
peace, ehould not refuse to join In an
effort toward Ita realization.”
Two Die in Anto Crash.
ELIZABETH CITY. N. C„ July 91
(JP). —Elliott C. Woodward of Maple and
faster Hicks of Great Bridge, Va„ died I
in a hospital here yesterday from In
juries they received in a head-on col
lision of two automobiles near Gregory
Wound It Fatal
■. . \
F Jills. \
HARRY S BLACK,
MELANCHOLY HELD
CAUSE OL SUICIDE
Friends Say *‘Lack of Inter
est” Reason Why Harry
Black Took His Life.
»v the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 21.—'The suicide
of Harry Black, known as "the world’s
greatest landlord” because of his ex
tensive hotel interests, was ascribed by
friends today to “lack of interest.”
Eminently successful in business at 67,
happily marrieef, he still had no hobby
of real Interest to hold hia attention or,
apparently, to make prospect of further
life pleasant. He did not play cards or
golf or indulge in any other sport. He
spent five days a week at his office, but
his gift for organization and manage
ment had made unnecessary very much
attention to his business affairs.
Overcome With Melancholy.
Mrs. Black was In Europe on her first
separation from him since their mar
riage in 1922. and friends said he ap
parently was overcome with melancholy.
Lack of powder marks on the temple,
where (entered the bullet which took
his life Saturday at his Long Island
estate, led to an extended investigation
of his death by authorities, but the in
quiry was dropped today and the death
was officially listed as "suicide; reason,
melancholy.”
Widow Sails for Home.
His body was removed today to a
vault in a Brooklyn cemetery to await
Mrs. Black's arrival from Ireland. She
left for home yesterday.
Mr. Black was head of the United
States Realty & Improvement Co., which
owned and operated a chain of hotels;
a director of the National City Bank,
the George A. Fuller Co., the M., K. &
T. Railroad and other enterprise*.
BISHOP CANNON, JR.,
MARRIED TO WIDOW
QUIETLY IN LONDON
(Continued From First Page.)
.
I bury the special license required for the
wedding.
Mrs. McCallum was reported to have
been Bishop Cannon's secretary for
about a year. She came.over with him
recently and stayed at the home of
Sir Henry and Lady Lumm.
i Mrs. McCallum. who had not been
i well, had planned to rest in England
, until the bishop’s return from South
America, when the couple expected to
! be married.
It was decided after reaching Lon
don that the sea trip to South America
i would do her good and hurried plans
| were made for their marriage.
I The bride was said to be between 40
and 45 years old.
Ardent Prohibition Worker.
Long and ardent worker in the cause ,
of prohibition. Bishop Cannon's ener- I
getic opposition io Alfred E. Smith as .
Democratic presidential nominee in 1928
made him the center of an attack by J
fellow churchmen at the recent South- .
ern Methodist General Conference at i
Dallas. He was exonerated of undue
political activity. He also faced charges
at the conference that he had dealt in
stocks with a New York "bucket shop,” j
but was not brought to trial by the con- ;
ference and was continued as chair- 1
man of the denomination’s Board of j
Social Service. *
Vigorous attacks failed to swerve the
bishop from his opposition, however,
j and he continued his campaign until
i the election, Virginia voting in the Re
publican column for the first time since
reconstruction. In the gubernatorial
campaign of the following year the
bishop gave his support to an anti-
Smith-Republican coalition ticket in
opposition to the Democratic party on j
the grounds that he wanted "Raskob
ism” driven from the party's ranks. He
had frequently urged the resignation of
John J. Raskob as chairman of the
Democratic National Committee.
Bishop Cannon is 65 years old and
was born at Salisbury, Md„ November
13. 1864. He entered the ministry in
1888 and was married that same year
to Lura Virginia Bennett of Louisa. Va.
The first Mrs. Cannon died about two
years ago. lie lives in Washington.
ASSOCIATES ARE SURPRISED.
Cannon Coworker Against Al Smith
Ignorant of Marriage.
RICHMOND. Va., July 21 t/Tj.—Re
ports from London that. Bishop James
Cannon, Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal
| Church South, was married there last
I Tuesday to a Mrs. McCallum. came as
a surprise to his associates and friends
here today.
Rev. J. Sydney Peters, a close asso
ciate of the veteran churchman and
prohibition worker during the anti- '
Smith campaign of 1928, said he had
not heard of the marriage.
HEAT AIDS BANDITS
Armed Men Walk In When Doctor
Leaves Door Open.
CHICAGO, July 21 (A>). —The night
was so hot that Dr. Christopher S.
O'Neil left the door of his apartment
open.
That was Just right for two armed
men. who walked in with pointed pistols
and robbed Dr. O'Neil and his guests of
jewelry valued at more than $15,000.
BAND CONCERT.
Concert bv United Stales Army
Band, Sherrier place and Macomb
street, this evening at 7:30 o’clock.
Capt. Curtis D. Alway, commanding;
William J. Stannard, leader; conducted
by Thomas F. Darcy.
March, "The Man of the Hour,”
Fillmore
“Virginia Rhapsody” Wood
"Whispering Mowers" Von Blon
Popular, “Song of the Dawn.”
Yellen and Ager
“Narcissus" Nevin
I Selection, "Show Boat" Kern
Habanera. "Miramc Asi" Fuentes
March. "'Second Connecticut".. .Reeves
tThe Stax Spangled Banner.”
FAMILY OF THREE .
KILLED WITH All
Attempt to Hide Murders
by Firing Illinois Farm ]
Home Fails.
i
By the Associated Press. | e
GENEVA, HI, July 21.- The Charle*
A. Anderson family—man, wife and IS
year-old son—were hacked to death
with an ax in their farm home early to
day.
An attempt to erase the crime by set.
ting fire to the house failed.
The body of Charles Andersqp, 5|
years old, was found across his bed,
the deep gashes of the ax blade upon
his head and body.
In another room lay the non. Willi*,
who had been cut and beaten with th|
weapon, but who was still alive. Hi .
died without regaining consciousness. '
Ax by Wife’s Body.
The body of Mrs. Anderson. 48 yesr*
old, was found on the living room floor.
Beside her lay the blood-covered hand t
ax. Her wrists and throat had been
cut, apparently by the blade of
same weapon that had dispatched bkt
husband and son.
Her brother. Charles lersen. 40 year*
old. was smashing In a window, at
tempting to enter the burning house,
when neighbors, attracted by the sight
of flames, reached the farm yard. With
neighbors, he forced an entrance and
the bodies were discovered. Wfth
neighbors he extinguished the fire.
The mattress of the son's bed, as well
as the bed of Anderson, had been iet
afire. The smoke had awakened Larsdh.
he told sheriff’s officers. He was being
detained early today for questioning.; f
There was no indication of robbery,
officers said, and those who knew tjie.
family said they did not- believe the
Andersons hsd any enemies. The
family had lived on the farm about 10
years.
Lsrsen had been ssleep on the second
floor, the others on the first floor.
Larsen said he was awakened by
smelling smoke. He dressed hastily and
descended to the ground byway of an
outside stairway.
Financial Trouble Is Theory.
When neighbors entered the house,
they found the beds of Anderson and
his son had been set afire. The flames
were put out before any great damage t
had been done.
Beside Anderson's bed was found ■'a
long handled ax. wet with blood. Both
the ax and hatchet had been, used in
the murders, police said.
Sheriff Urch a hurried first in
vestigation indicated the Anderson# <
may have had financial troubles. From
the position of the bodies and the
weapons, and the manner in which the
three were killed, the sheriff, as well
as the chief of police of Geneva, be
lieved the two men were killed by the
woman, who then took her own lift,
using the sharpened edge of the hatchet
as a knife.
FATHER ATTACKS CHILDREN.
Attempts to Hang Self Afterward—
Doctors Blame Intense Heat ,
DETROIT. July 21 (/P>.—A 40-year
old man attacked his wife and thren;
children with a hammer and An ice
pick today and then hanged himself in
the hall of his home.
He was cut down by police and placed
in the psychopathic ward of a receiv
ing hospital, where physicians expressed
the opinion that his mind had been
affected by the intense heat. The
prisoner, Fred Brandel, had been out
ot work. The only one of his victims
injured seriously was a son. Otto, 12.
who was stabbed near the heart. His
condition is critical.
JOHN M’DONALD, ILL,
BACK IN CALIFORNIA
Mooney Case Witness Prepared so
Brand Self Perjurer Before
Supreme Court. J
1 By the Associated Pres*,
j SAN FRANCISCO. .July 21.—11 l ani
silent, John MacDonald, recanting wile
| ness, whose, testimony helped send
i Thomas J. Mooney snd Warren K»
j Billings to prison for alleged particlpae
tion in the 1916 Preparedness day
bombing here, was back in San Fran
| cisco today ready to brand himself a
perjurer In an effort to setithe two men
free.
i Accompanied by his attorneys and
Edwin N. Nockels, secretary of the Chfc- ,
cago Federation of Labor, MacDonald
ended his Journey from Baltimore last
night.
MacDonald's attorneys, with Frank
P. Walsh, New York lawyer, represent
ing the Mooney Defense Committee, and
Edwin V. McKenzie, representing Bill
ings. prepared to bring MacDonald’s
story before Gov. C. C. Young and the
: California Supreme Court.
It was planned to have MacDonald
personally appear before the Governor
and Justices and repeat the assertions
made in the Baltimore affidavit that
he had been “coached” to identify
Mooney and Billings as the men he had
seen plant the bomb which killed 10
persons.
3 MEN ARE HELD
ON GIRL’S CHARGE
Trio of Alexandrians Bound Over
to Orand Jury After Hearing
in Police Court.
Sp*c:*t Diapsteh to The BUr.
ALEXANDRIA. Va.. July 21.—Fol
lowing a hearing in Police Court today
1 the three local men charged with crim
! inal assault on Regina Poole, 17. of 429
North St. Asaph street, were held for
the action of the grand jury, and their
bonds set at SIO,OOO each.
The girl was not called to the stand,
but. the testimony of Sergt. Hebcr
Thompson and Patrolmen Pierce and ■
Lipscomb of the local police, and that
of Dr. E. A. Gorman, family physician,
who examined the girt, was heard. Yh*
case was before Judge William 8 Snsw.
and the city was represented by Com
monwealth's Attorney Albert V. Bryan,
assisted by Attorney Charles Henry
Smith. Judge Robinson Moncure ap
peared for the defense
The three men, who are charged with ;
the attack in a warrant sworn out by
the girl, are George Ford. 22. of 1401
Princess street; Thomas Thorpe. 25, of
506 South Alfred street., snd J. W.
AUtsson. 33, of 214 South Alfred street.
REFUEL EX-CHAMPS HOP
OBrine and Jackson Flying in At-^
tempt to Recapture Honor.
ST. LOUIS, July 21 (JP). —Forest
OBrine and Dale Jackson, former
holders of the worlds endurance refuel-, J
ing championship, took to the air at
7:11 a.in. Central standard time today
in an attempt to regain the title, now
held by the Hunter brothers, who re
mained in the air 554 hours at Chicane,