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HEALTH OFFICERS
OPEN GANG FIGHT
1
New York Health Affected by
Gouging—Will Issue Fair
Price List.
•peelfti Dispatch to Th* Star.
NYW YORK, September 11.—For the
first time since the beginning of the
unbroken serial story of graft, extortion,
violence and plunder in large cities, the
health administration of a great city
has vigorously asserted Its right to move
again't racketeers in combating Inroads
on public health due to the system of
criminal extortion which, roughly esti
mated. takes a toll of about $1,000,000
a week from New York food consumers
alone.
Will Educate Public.
Dr. Shirlev W. Wynne, health com
missioner of New York City, has mobi
lised his staff of 250 food inspectors.
Utilized the radio to wake up the town
and begun the issue of a dally "fair
price" bulletin to keep 'he public in
formed on what food ought to cost and
make it possible for burghers and house
wives to' estimate how much the "food
mobs" are stealing. This is being done
without usurpation of police authority,
the method being to turn over to the
district attorney and the police evidence
of racketeering as it is obtained.
While the police in no city have ever
made notable headway against either
racketeers or gougers in the more legit i
matcarade channels, they will, in this
Instance, find themselves supplied with
abundant evidence, on which they can
go as far as they like.
Dr. Wynne's main reliance, however.
Is tn the'hope cf spreading information
and Stiffening the backbone of food
dealers snd housewives so thst they
Will no longer pay tribute.
Victims Held Responsible.
•‘That seems to me to be the only
Way to end racketeering,” said Dr.
Wvnne todav, "and now is a good time
to’do it. If business men would stop
yielding to extortion, it would end In
14 hours. Particularly in times of pros
perity, a retailer, for instance, submits
to graft, fearing trouble and thinking
that he can pass the excess charge on
to the consumer. When times are hard
housewives first feel the pinch, and they
can be stirred up to demand fair prices.
With his business sagging, the retailer
may be in a leas amiable mood when
the extortionist comes around, and it is
possible to stir up a fighting mood In
a community which will put the crooks
out of business.
"That’s what we are trying to do.
We are, of course, not a law-enforcing
body, but when we find the health and
vitality of the city lowered by the In
ability of vast numbers to get sufficient
nourishing food we are entitled to find
out why. report to the police and tell
the public about It.
"Pood racketeering marks the discov
ary by the gougers of a sound business
® triple which Is commonly used In
timate business. Instead of taking
large amounts of money from a few
people, take a little money from a great
many people. That naturally brings
them Into the field of commodities of
the most universal daily use milk,
eggs, fruits, vegetables and other food
products.
Began With MUk Racket.
"They began first on milk. Up to
last year, they were taking about SBOO.-
000 a year In tribute from New York
milk dealers, chiefly through a fake
organisation which had nothing to give
Its members. In the past, trade organi
sations employed honest and conscien
tious lawyers In conducting their busi
ness on a basis of Honest competition.
As shady practices crepe in, respectable
lawyers dropped out and ‘strong-arm’
types came in—useful in conniving at
such business as slipping a few drops
of ink into a milk can, or a few tablets
which turn the milk sour. There was
always the menace of violence in the
background and their organization was;
built up by force and extortion.
"Foodstuffs are of course perishable
and easily damaged and It is the con
stant threat of violence of the racketeers
which is their most effective weapon. I
We have been Informed that food
trucks, carrying fruit, eggs snd vege
tables, are being held up, with tribute
levied, at they approach the city.
Whether this is true or not. we have
found appalling evidence of widespread
extortion, with 1.600 retails shops
rounded up in one organization, end
•11 paying tribute.
Food Price Effects Health.
‘‘The effect is dangerous. New York
City drinks 3,500,000 gallons of milk s
day. It ought to drink 7,000,000 gallons.
The whole problem of the prevention
of disease is scientifically related to
adequate food supplies, and diseases of
undernourishment and malnutrition
thus have a direct relationship to the
price of food.
"We have set up a fair price board,
having the co-operaticn of the Bureau
of Agricultural Econlmics of the United
State* Department of Agriculture.
From this bureau and from our own
sources we get up-to-date information
of what food ought to cost. We then
uae the municipal broadcasting station,
the newspapers and widely distributed
bulletins to let the public know what
it ought to pay. I repeat that racketeer
ing will end only when consumers and
business men refuse to be gouged.”
(Oop?rt*ht, I*SO.)
TRUCKS HAUL WATER
FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN
Annapolis Reservoirs Dry—New!
Well to Be Dug—Water
Pumped Prom Stream.
8r the Aworlutea Pre*t.
ANNAPOLIS. Md„ September 11.—
With all water in the city's three reser
voirs gone snd only a supply in the set
tling basin remaining, two motor
trucks were engaged today in hauling
drinking water from wells for the use
Os public school children.
The step was decided on by school
officials because of complaints of the
taste of the water remaining in the
municipal system. Residents have been
resorting to use of water from the
Naval Academy and private well* for
drinking.
City officials said connections with
the pipe lines in the Naval Academy,
providing for a 200.000-gallon a day
flow would be made in a few days. A
new well is to be dug, but will not be
ready for 80 days it was said.
A fire engine, which ha* been pump
ing water tnto the reservoir from a
stream, has not faltered in more than
a month.
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City Council’s Ban
On Women Cigaret
Advertising Upheld
Br the Associated Press.
LINCOLN, Nebr., September 11.
City Attorney Frank A. Peterson
has informed the city commis
sion that the council has the
power to prohibit the use of wom
en's pictures in cigarette adver
tising.
Peterson stated that court de
cision* have upheld the right of
municipalities to prohibit the
saJe of cigarettes and that he
inferred that regulations of the
% salea would also be legal: - -
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LOSE BATTLE WITH DEATH
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Above: Firemen carrying oxygen tank
into the home of Shirley Carlton, 708
Erie street, Takoma Park, Md.. in a
desperate effort to save the child's life
when her lungs failed to function fol- ;
lowing a long Illness from whooping
cough.
Below: Shirley, who died at 8 o'clock
this morning. —Star Staff Photos.
FIREMEN LOSE FIGHT
TO SAVE CHILD ILL
OF WHOOPING COUGH
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hung back, their eyes big with sppre- 1
hension.
Shirley Died at €.
Five-year-old Shirley's father, Joseph
C. Carlton, came to the door. He told
the children the long fight was over— ;
Shirley had died at 6 o'clock this
morning.
At 6:30 o’clock the firemen who had
given Shirley artificial respiration con- |
ttnuously for 16 hours packed up their
inhalator and departed.
Dr. Arthur B. Little, who sent for S
the firemen ye terday afternoon, when
the congestion in Shirley's lungs became
acute, pronounced her dead.
Shirley’s Illness was further com
plicated by what specialists diagnosed
aa sleeping sickness. For 10 days past
she had suffered violent headaches and
at times she seemed on the verge of
suffocation.
The combination of maladies vir
tually had paralyzed the spontaneous
action of the lungs. The three firemen
were relieved at 6 o'clock la t night
by three others, who carried on until
the doctor pronounced Shirley dead.
Was Only Child.
Throughout yesterday afternoon and
j last night one fireman attended to the
j Inhalator while another forced the air
I into and out of Shirley's lungs by press
| ing downward upon her back. The lat
: ter work is exhausting and the firemen
I took It in spells of about 20 minutes
each.
Shirley was an only child. She was
popular In the neighborhood, and her
young friend* had hung about the yard
anxiously waiting news of the life-and
death battle that went on inside the
cottage.
Bhlrley will be buried in Sparta, Va ,
the home of her mother's parents,
probably tomorrow afternoon.
DR. CfIOSS IS NAMED
Kx-Dean of Yale School Nominated
Candidate for Governor.
EASTERN POINT, Conn., Septem
ber 11 (A*). —Dr. Wilbur L. Cross, re
tired dean of the Yale Graduate
School, was nominated today as the
Democratic candidate for Governor at
the State Convention. He was se
lected by acclamation. There were no
other nominations.
The preamble of the platform pre- |
sented to the convention held the Re
publican party responsible for the pres
ent industrial depression. The out
standing planks in it called for the re- i
peal of the eighteenth amendment and
the Volstead act and a declaration that
the State should be ruled by its people
and "not by and for the benefit of an
Invisible machine." Most of the other j
; planks dealt with State problems.
FRENCH SCIENTIST LAUNCHES HYDRO-TUBE IN THIRD TRY
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Pr#f. Of#fi* Claude, French sciential, who li experimentlnjj with « plan to make the warm and cold ocean currents
produce cheap electrical energy, »■* successful In launchln* hi* freat hydro-tube at Matanxas, Cuba, Sunday. Two pre
vious tubes, routine more than It.Md.bM each, wero lest duriar the launchinx process. The tube shown shore wss low
ered: to the bottom of Mantansa* Boy, «0d meters dew*. Clauds will know within a fortnlfht whether his theory is a
sound one. —Associated Press Photo.
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THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 3930.
STATE COUNCILOR"
OF 0. OF A. NAMED
Daughters of America Close
Annual Meeting With Choos
ing of Officers.
Mrs. Ethel Burroughs was elected and
installed as State councilor of the State
Council of the District of Columbia. •
Daughters of America, at the closing
sessions of the thirty-fourth annual
meeting of the organization In the
Raleigh Hotel yesterday.
Other elected and Installed
were: *
Associate State councilor, Mrs. Mar
garet Halfpap: State vice councilor,
Mrs. Mabel Downing; associate State
vice councilor, Mrs. Emma Brooks;
State conductor,' Mrs. Belle Gibson;
State warden, Mrs. Helen Luckett;
State inside sentinel, Mrs. Ella Slone;
State outside sentinel, Mrs. Ollie Mont
gomery; State trustee, Mrs. Raymond;
national representatives, Mrs. Louise
A. Grubbs, Mrs. Margaret Seymour and
Mrs. Julia Pennlfield.
Addresses were made by National
Councilor Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Max C.
Roth, national secretary; Albert S. Bos
song, secretary of the funeral benefit i
department; Junior Past State Coun
cilor Mrs. L. A. Grubbs, State Councilor |
Mra. Ethel Burroughs, Past National I
Councilor Mrs. Elizabeth Sewell, Past I
State Councilor Mra. Elizabeth Primrose
of Baltimore, Md., and others. Olfts
were presented to the new state officers
by their councils and friends.
A patriotic and welcoming address
was made by Charles I. Stengle, former
member of Congress, at the opening
session Tuesday. Response was made
by Past State Councilor Mrs. Mary
Ferguson. A solo was rendered by the
Rev. T. J. Turklngton. assisted by Past
State Councilor Mrs. Floda Reagan at
the piano.
The ritualistic ceremony of draping
the charter in memory of the death of
Past State Councilor Mr. L. E. Thomp
son, was conducted by the Virginia
Dare Council, and was cpncluded bv a
song by Mra. Lucille O'Bryhin. Th?
afternoon session of the first day was
closed to all except members of the
order. State Councilor Mrs. Louise A.
Grubbs, presided over this session, when
the national officers and visiting mem
bers from other States were welcomed
Tuesday night a class initiation was
held, with the Initiatory officers of
Loyalty Council and the drill team of
Anacostla Council In charge.
MRS. PHILANDER KNOX
DIES IN ATLANTIC CITY
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., September
11.—Mrs. Lily Knox, widow of Sen
ator Philander Knox of Pennsyl
vania, died in the City Hospital this
morning. She was 75. Death was
ascribed to arterio sclerosis.
Mrs. Knox came here from her home
in Valley Forge early in the Summer
in the hope that the climate would
improve her health.
At her bedside when she died were
her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. J. R Tyndel of Berwyn, Pa.; a
son and daughter-in-law. Mr. and Mrs.
Reed Knox of Cape May, N. J., and
Florida; another son, Philander Knox,
Jr., of Waahlngton, and two grand
children, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Reed
Knox.
The body will be taken to Valley
Forge later today.
COLORED LAWYER
IS SENT TO JAIL
Cited for Contempt of Court
for Failure to Pay
Client $6,400.
Sylvester L. McLaurin, colored law- ;
yer, with offices at 217 I street, was
committed to Jail this afternoon by
Justice Frederick L. Siddons of the
District Supreme Court for contempt
of court in failing to meet the terms of
an order of the court to pay to William
Ware, administrator of the estate of
Malachai Lee, colored. $6,400, which he
had received from the United Staffs
Veterans’ Bureau. McLaurin paid over
SI,OOO in cash and assigned his interest
in certain real estate, estimated at
about S4OO more. He then claimed he
was unable further to obey the court
order. He will remain in custody until
the order is complied with in full, it is
stated.
Attorney H. Winship Wheatley had
I been appointed by the court as adminis
trator in the place of Ware, but later
Ware was reinstated as administrator,
and Attorney Wheatley prosecuted for
him in connection with Attorney Bynum
Hinton the claim against McLaurin,
the case on hearing before Justice
Siddons as to the ability of the lawyer
to comply further with the court order.
Testimony shown to the court develop’d
that McLaurin had funds in three bank
accounts under his name as trustee,
which he claimed belonged, to certain
clients, of which the court found was
his mon?y and ruled that he is able
to meet the requirements of the court’s
decree and shoula be held in contempt
for his failure.
McLaurin pleaded that he had the
i money in qirstion with other funds In
a bag In his automobile when his car
was ransacked and the money stolen.
THIRD SKULL BARED
BY ANDREE PICTURE
MAY BE FRANKEL CLUE
_ (Continued From First Page )
the returning Horn party aboard the
Bratvaag. proceeded to White Island
after they had mi'sed the Norwegian
j scientist. Cables September 7 told of
the finding of additional relics of the
, balloon party, including a skull.
In Dr. Horn’s own story he described
in detail the place where the skull and
I bones believed to be those of Andree
were found. He said It was under the
wall of a mountain. Between two
mounds of earth a short distance away
from Andre's remains were found the
remains of a second member of the
party.
The picture In which the apparently
overlooked skull Is shown does not fit
Into either of these descriptions. It is
a flat waste space at the edge of the
ocean which was photographed only to
show the difficult landing made bv the
| expedition. The melting snows 'have
j left patches of earth and in the fore
ground, blended Into the rounded knobs
! of rocks, Ls the grim relic of this long
I lost expedition.
While It ls not possible to ascertain If
there are additional relics hidden among
; the rocks. It is pointed out that bears
I might easily have moved the skull at
any previous period during the long
silence which shrouded the expedition's
fate.
All of the descriptions of the finding
of the original relics tell of their being
burled in the snow and ice. The skull
in the picture of the landing place lies
among the rocks in a melted patch.
It ls quite possible the relic may have
been overlooked because of the excite
ment of the expedition members who
made the find and the fact that the
picture was brought out with such speed
and with so many others that editors
overlooked it. The fact that it carried
the matter-of-fact label "place where
Horn expedition landed at White Is
land” doubtless lessened the interest of
European editors who handled these
pictures and who were eager to get those
labeled “relics.”
Attempt* are being made to get Dr.
Horn to identify the picture, and if he
verifies the surmises it probably will;
clear up the fate of the missing member
of the party, probably Knut Frankel. i
[ The two skeletons brought back by Dr. j
Horn tentatively were identified as
those of Andree and Nils Strindberg. |
This brave trio set out in July, 1897,
in a balloon from Spitsbergen in an at-!
tempt to fly over the North Pole. They I
sailed away into the mLsts, and it was 1
only a month ago that their fate was
disclosed.
A Swedish-Norwegian Committee con
sisting of four legal authorities has been j
instituted by the government of Sweden 1
and Norway to investigate all questions
of property right,* in connection with j
the diary and other objects belonging
to the Andree Expedition.
The Swedish press today urged that
no further delay be permitted in publi- <
cation of the diary, which was recovered
when the bodies of Andree and his j
two companions were found on White
Island. There was a feeling in some
quarters that the government might
alter its previous plans and permit
publication of the diary before the
Sovernment ship Svenskund returns
ere.
Because his father drowned his dog
in Betsey Pool, 11-year-old Albert
Donovan of Port Talbot, Ireland, ran
away, and his body was found two days ■
later In the watery grave of his pet.
TWO VETERAN CAPITOL EMPLOYES RETIHE|
: :.Ka -afwPjr £ \
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|i jyf wmi am | 44 I
B i,
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Above: Arthur E. Cook, supervising engineer, Is shown presenting clock to
J. Dell Mapes, retiring employe of Capitol substation.
Below: Robert L. Harrison, chief engineer of Capitol power plant, is pre
senting gold pieces to William Torreyson, another retiring veteran at the power
plant. —Star Staff Photos.
LEAGUE ASSEMBLY SPELLBOUND
AS BRIAND PLEADS FOR UNION
Hints Naval Accord With Rome Near in
Address Launching Campaign for
European Federation.
BY JOHN GUNTHER.
By Radio to The Star.
GENEVA, Switzerland. September 11.
—With that marvelous voice of his |
hippling like organ music over a jammed
assembly, Aristide Brland, man of
peace, launched his project for a
European federation to the nations of
the world today.
M. Briand stood slouching over the
white, unpainted tribune, talking with
out a single note as the golden purr of
his eloquence came steadily for an
hour. Crowds lining the newly car
! pentered balconies and halls Interrupted
I him with frequent cheers.
M. Brland said he hoped the nego-
I tiations begun at the naval parley at
London between France and Italy will
' be continued and added a hint that an
| agreement might soon be reached. It
' is thought that Dino Grandi, Italian
foreign minister, perhaps went to Rome
to report to Mussolini this development.
Pacing behind the tribune, shaking
his fist vigorously, laughing with a
harsh chuckle and then letting loose
the major tones of his organ voice, M.
Briand appealed for peace. Security,
j disarmament economics, naval rivalry
! were among the subjects touched on, al- |
ways in their relation to world peace.
1 Seldom has Geneva heard a more pas- j
sionate appeal to forget the miseries and
dangers of war and turn to permanent
efforts to make peace perpetual.
"The possibility of a European union,
despite all the difficulties, might be
easly realized," M. Brland said. He
lauded the peace work of the League of
Nations.
M. Briand spoke after a curtain
raiser by Sir Robert Borden of Canada,
who took the tribune in order to fill the
hall and give M. Briand the solid audi
ence he likes. Sir Robert gave Briand a
good text when he used the phrase that
1 League members were "children in the
kindergarten of peace.”
Arthur Henderson, British foreign
minister, is following M. Briand with a
speech which, it is understood, will
avoid direct mention of a United States
of Europe and will largely be confined
to the question of disarmament.
The French thesis of peace by secur
ity and international arrangements
thus Is again contrasted with the rival
COL. EDWARD HARTMANN
TO BE RETIRED SEPT. 30
Maj. John W. Cotton Is Transfer
red to La Crosse—Other Officers
Are Reassigned.
Col. Edward T. Hartman, Infantry, at
Fort Mason, Calif., will be placed on
the retiied list. September 30 on account
of age; Maj. John W. Cotton, Infantry,
has been transferred from Fort Sheri
dan, 111., to La Crosse. WLs., for duty
with Organized Reserves; Capt. James
A Ramsay, Medical Corps, from St.
Louis to Fort Sam Houston, Tex., and
the following named officers are relieved
from duty with the pilgrimage of
mothers and -Widows to French ceme
teries and assigned to duty at other
stations; Maj. Leroy T. Howard, Medi
cal Corps, to Fort Sam Houston, Tex.;
i Capt, John M. Reynolds. Field Artillery,
to Denver, Colo.; Capt. Morrill Ross,
Field Artillery, to Fort Lewis. Wash.,
and Capt. T. E. T. Haley, Field Artillery,
to Monterey, Calif.
BAND CONCERT.
By the United States Soldiers’ Home
Military Band, this evening, at 5:30
o’clock. John S. M. Zimmermann,
bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant:
March, “The Heart of America’’. .Pryor
Overture, “Sicilian Vespers” Verdi
Entr'acte,
• Forget-Me-Not” Macbeth
“The Flower Girl Intermezzo.”
Wenrich
Excerpts fjom musical comedy. “Good
I News” Henderson
Fox trdt characteristic, "Siam ”.Fischer
Walts suite, “Wine, Woman and
Song” Strauss
Finale, “Blue Danube Blues'* Kern
“The Star Spangled Banner.” i
thesis that disarmament should come
first.
Mr. Henderson listened to M. Brland
with a queer-looking phone attachment
! stuck to his ears, by which M. Briand's
I speech was brought to him from a
translator speaking in English. Many
similar phones are seen. They have
been introduced by the International
Labor Bureau through the efforts of
the American philanthropist, Edward
A. Filene of Boston.
Others among the listeners were in
teresting to watch, among them most
of the big guns of Europe. M. Venizelos
sat arched forward, his white beard
wagging. Lord Cecil, as usual, was
bent half into a hoop as he listened
with one hand cupping his ear. Young
Benes of Czechoslovakia sat far back,
intently listening and watching his
fingernails. Count Apponyi of Hungary,
whose wife has Just become the first
woman to be chairman of one of the
Assembly’s commissions, sat stiff as a
poker, his face in profile looking like
a hatchet.
In the president’s chair sat N.
Titulescu. His yellow, masklike face
had almost a Chinese appearance of
interested imperturbability. Next to
him Sir Eric Drummond, who is the
real boas of the League, listened atten
| tively. Schober, Austria's policeman
! chancellor, never budged during the
speech, nor did Count Bernstorff, next
to him, who was Germany's Ambassador
to the United States before the war.
When the glow- of the great French
man's rhetoric had paled a bit. some
disappointment was expressed in the
galleries that he had not been more
specific in his appeals. It was a throb
bing haze of words, emotionally almost
overpowering, but In the cold light of
later scrutiny somewhat vague.
“It Is time now to speak of Europe,”
M. Briand said. "How can we coun
tenance war in this great ’country’ we
call Europe?” brought appreciative
cheers.
Most of the members of the League
thought that his speech did mark an
epoch, and that if any unified Europe
does ever arise out of the present rival
ries, confusions and apprehensions, then
M. Briand certainly more than any
other single man will be responsible,
and today’s session was a great step
forward to this historic end.
(Copyrlaht, 1930.)
CUT IN IMMIGRATION
PRAISED BY GREEN
i
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ September ,
11.—William Green, president of the .
American Federation of Labor, has sent
a telegram to President Hoover prats- !
ing the action of the State Department (
to curtail immigration while unemploy- <
ment is acute. !
He said the decision of the State De- {
partment was heartily indorsed by the <
executive council of the federation at 1
a conference yesterday.
Mr. Green said he had conferred with
Secretary of Labor Davis about the ;
need of shutting out immigration dur- j
ing the unemployment period by refus- ]
ing to issue visas, and believed the ac
tion of the State Department would !
relieve the problem. ,
Another clause in the Immigration j
law, he said, which is giving trouble to <
American mechanics, is the special
privilege granted employers to bring s
ropean mechanics here to do w’ork which •
they claim cannot be done by men in j
this country. He said, however, that ]
after it has been found that their places
can be filled by American workmen (
these men are deported. t
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY. ,
Card party, St. John’s Parish House.
Thirty-fourth street and Rainier ave- 1
nue, Mount Rainier. Md.. 8:30 p.m. *
card Party, Woman’s Benefit Aaeo- i
elation club houea, 1750 Massachusetts 1
avenue, «:M pm ,
HONOR RETIRED
CAPITOL EMPLOYES
William Torreyson Is Given
Gold Pieces —Dell i. Mapes
Awarded Clock.
Two veteran employe* at the Capitol
who recently went on the retired list
were honored today by their fellow
workers.
William Torreyson, 71 years old, a
maintenance man at the Capitol power
plant, New Jersey avenue and E street
southeast, was j. esented with a box of
gold pieces from the employes of the
plant, and a short while later J. Dell
Mapes, 73 years old, an operator in one
of the Capitol substations, received an
electric clock as a token of esteem by
his associates.
The presentation to Mr. Torreyson was
made by Robert I*. Harrison, chief en
gineer of the power plant. The clock
was presented to Mr. Mapes by Arthur
E. Cook, supervising engineer of the
Capitol.
Mr. Torreyson, who lives at 1712
Wisconsin avenue, has been In the Gov
ernment service for 23 years. In addi
tion to 18 years at the Capitol power
plant, he formerly was employed at St.
Elizabeth's Hoepltal and at the filtra
tion plant.
Mr. Mapes has completed 24 years
of service at the Capitol, having been
appointed in 1906. He has held various
positions under the architect of the
Capitol.
HENDERSON *CALLS
FOR GENERAL ARMS
AGREEMENT IN 1931
(Continued From First Page.)
await the day when there will be no
more war.”
His hearers gave him the closest at
tention as he turned then to what he
considers his greatest work for peace,
the projected federation of European
states.
He recalled that when he first laid
the idea before the world that he had
insisted his proposed federation must
be within the framework of the League
of Nations. He repeated today that it
must rest there.
‘‘We have the unhappiness to ‘nhabit
a continent that has suffered a great
disaster,” he said. ‘‘ls there something
that can be done for peace? Can these
people organize to prevent war?”
He said he knew and realized it would
be difficult always to found a union
among people so different, but that real
goodwill would find a solution.
Subordinate to League.
“The conference of European na
tions accepted the principle three years
ago,” he said. ‘‘lt is now before the
world. A year’s study by the nations
of Europe has brought to light, it is
true, certain difficulties which were not
foreseen at first, but I am satisfied to
know from the replies to my memoran
dum that the response was firm in ad
herence to tha principle of European
collaboration.”
One objection, M. Briand averred,
has been that the proposed union might
run counter to the best interests of the
League of Nations. This he found
false, contending that there was not
the least possibility of anything but the
closest co-operation between the two
organizations, this being particularly
true since the League of Nations nec
essarily would remain above and su
perior to the European union.
He denied again that the union
would run counter to or be in any way
inimical to the United States. Statesmen
had told him, on the other hand, he
declared, that relations between Europe
and America could more easily be
strengthened by existence of a Eu
ropean organization.
Cites Reply of *7 Nations.
“Twenty-seven nations have studied
this question,” he concluded. ‘‘Twenty
seven nations have said ‘Yes, it can be
done.’ There it is before you. Go!
March on! Accomplish peace!”
There was a burst of applause as M.
Briand with these words quitted the
tribune.
It was regarded as likely that the
plan as outlined in M. Brland’s memo
randum of May 17 to the various na
tions and the responses of the powers
will be submitted to a committee for
study and action.
Foreign Minister Briand’s conception
of his "United States of Europe,” or
European federal union, plan is the
most ambitious international project
brought forward in Europe since the
establishment of the League of Nations.
As outlined in his memorandum of
May 17 to the 26 nations concerned
with France in the plan, the union
specially envislage close economic co
operation among the subscribing na
tions, lowering and regulating of cus
toms duties and co-operation for pre
serving peace.
The economic aspect of the plan has
been emphasized in discussion hitherto.
New Problems Pointed Out.
M. Briand pointed out that new eco
nomic problems had arisen since the
World War from the addition of about
12,000 miles of international frontiers
to the map of Europe. For this reason,
he foresaw “necessity lor a pact of
general order, however elementary, for
the affirmation of the principle of a
moral union of Europe and solemn, con
secration of the pact of solidarity be
tween European nations.”
The federation, in which it was speci
fied that none of the nations should
yield its sovereignty, is far looser in its
ties than is the United States of Amer
ica. (o which it is sometimes compared.
The most concrete form of union sug
gested by M. Briand is a species of reg
ular conferences, meeting without char
ter or constitution.
To carry on the union's work two or
ganizations would be created, ‘‘a Euro
pean Conference” and a “European
Committee.” The first would be a
deliberative body, to study problems ris
ing among European states, and the
second an executive instrument..
Naval disarmament negotiations be
tween Italy and France are still in th*
"expert” stage in the margin of the
Geneva conference. The chiefs of the
delegations of the two countries, Foreign
Minister Briand for France and Minister
Scialoja for Italy, since Minister Dino
Grandi has departed, have not been in
contact on this phase of the negotia
tions, according to well Informed circles.
Talks Expected to Continue.
The French and Italian expert*. Rene
Massigle and August© Rosao. have had
some counsel from R. L. Cragie, British
navav adviser, and their talks are ex
pected to continue daily for some time.
The fact that delicate political consid
erations must be handled concurrently
with naval problems; has made it ap
pear probable that the day for a deflnl.e
announcement of an agreement is some
time off.
"Haste is dangerous,” one authority
said today for Italy, adding that the
"effort to get everything done in a
hurry caused the failure of the Franco-
Italian negotiations at London.”
In both French and Italian quartan
the belief is expressed that an agree
ment can be reached, but the proviso
appears that perhaps only "definite
progress” may be reported when the
Preparatory Disarmament Commission
meets in November.
Should an accord be initialed before
the end of the year, however, it was
said today, there would be nothing to
prevent the commission from calling for i
1931 ahe long-heralded and much-de
layed general conference to limit tea,
air and land armament*.
CRATER WITNESS
1 REPORTED HERE
i Detective Sent to Capital to
Interview Woman About
Missing Judge.
I By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 11.—Inves
tigation into the disappearance of Su
preme Court Justice Joseph Crater a
month ago shifted today to Washington.
t D. C., whither a detective was sent to
. interview a woman as a result of clues
gathered in Atlantic City.
Police Commissioner Mulrooney r«-
; fused to divulge the woman's identity
, or occupation.
Chief Magistrate Joseph Corrigan de
-1 tided today that he had no authority
i to investigate the disappearance of
Crater.
1 In a letter to the district attorney,
' who had requested that he begin a. John
Doe inquiry, he said there had been
several court rulings that a magistrate
could proceed only on Information
■ against a known defendant charged with
: a known offense.
#• - *
AMERICAN VESSELS
! FIRED ON IN CHINA
By the Associated Press.
Repeated attacks, accompanied by
heavy firing from trench mortars, ma
; chine guns and rifles, against American
> naval and merchant vessels, passing up
1 the Yangtse River in China, were re
■ ported today to the State Department.
Frank P. Lockhart, American consul
general at Hankow, cabled similar heavy
firing was taking place upon "practically
all vessels passing a point on the right
bank of the Yangtse, 45 miles this side
of Kiukiang.”
He said no casualties had been Pa
ported. Notwithstanding that “foreign
gunboats” have repeatedly returned the
fire, attacks were still being made. He
added that similar attacks "have taken
' place at three different points on the
> river between Chenglingki and Ichang.”
; IRIGOYEN, EXILEdT
> QUITS NATIVE LAND
> ABOARD BATTLESHIP
t
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t “
younger man, he helped to bring to pre
t eminence in the New World,
t Provisional President Uriburu yes
f terday commissioned Drs. Castex and
* Lavalle to make a thorough examina
tion of the ousted leader.
1 To them he made known his wishes,
l expressing a willingness to leave for
-1 ever the pampas and streets he has
known all his life for an old man’s
exile in Paris or Spain. He told them
that he understood very well his prea
- ence in the Argentine might henee
-5 forth be undesirable to the elements In
i power.
Secrecy Shrouds Plans,
t Much secrecy surrounded the depar
, ture of the overthrown President. Every
. preparation had been made for the
. moment.. Streets along the short die
i tsnce from barracks to pier were cleared
of all traffic. Not even newspaper men
i. were allowed to watch the last scenes
t of the once illustrious executive’s leave
» taking.
1 The few onlookers reported that
t Irigo.ven, his daughter: Dr. Meabe and
t military officers in civilian clothes.
3 traveled from the armory to the warship
y in a taxicab.
Reports were current here that Iri
. goyen had said in a final statement
before leaving the barracks that he had
i found his stay there not unpleasant
y and the atmosphere friendly.
i With the ousted President to the
e last was his one devoted friend. Dr.
e Meabe. the physician whose adherence
e to his fall-n chief was an outstanding
. feature of the revolution. It is nar
rated that when the Irigoyen party
reached La Plata last Saturday at a
moment when the nature of Its recep-
I tlon was In doubt. Dr. Meabe drew a
- i revolver and threatened to kill any
e body who laid a hand on Irigoyen.
BOLIVIAN REVOLT FOILED.
[. j
e Threatened Uprising In Aviation School
e la Suppreaaed.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, September 11
■ A threatened revolution, which had Its
* j beginning in the Aviation School, waa
j put down here Tuesday In a vigorous
i! manner by the military junta now rul
r ing Bolivia.
e The government states the manifests-
II tion was not of a major nature and that
e the incident at the Aviation School was
. one of a disciplinary character only.
f | Criminal proceedings were begun
I ■ against officers Implicated In the attempt
\ to start a revolt.
. | It was announced that complete tran
.! quilllty reigns. At Llallagua the de
. j mands of miners for certain rights caus
■ ed an incident there, and the Junta
dealt with this also very effectively.
I I Peace now reigns in the mining area.
IMPORTED DISEASES
* THREATEN FORESTS
OF UNITED STATES
f
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' other crop may not exist seems unim
' portant when weighed against the cur
rent revenues obtainable. The effect
j which the ill-advised removal of forest
* cover may have on the productive ca
-5 pacity of other permanent agricultural
areas is rarely considered.”
; The increasing demand of northern
markets for tropical timber, he said,
\ may bring an unprecedented temporary
prosperity to some Latin American
, countries. "But,” he warned, "if auch
. a boom gets under way the present or
, even the two succeeding generations
, will be unable to stop it and the per
. manent loss in productive capacity to
. the countries involved and to the world
as a whole will be beyond calculation.”
Cattle Tick Eliminated.
The cattle tick has been largely
eliminated In the United States, said
W. M. MacKellar of the Bureau of
Animal Husbandry. Approximately 80
, per cent of the originally quarantined
area of 577,367 square miles has been
freed from ticks and released from
quarantine, he explained, and the same
can be done in other countries by strict
quarantine and treatment of the cattle
by such methods as the arsenical dip.
Breeding a dairy cattle still presents
many difficulties, the delegates were told
by M. H. Fohrman of the Bureau es
Animal Industry. High and low milk
production, he explained, are not trans
mitted as wholes by heredity, but ate
made up of many hereditary unite.
Most animals, he said, transmit to
their descendants factors for both high
and low production which have not yet
been untangled. Thus it will be a alow
procedure to produce a breed of cattle
transmitting only the high production
units. With each breeding, he said, the
genetic factors are rearranged in the
offspring with the result that extremes
of high and low tend toward a level.
Daughters of high milk producers sel
dom are as good as their mothers, while
the offspring of poor producers tend to
be better.
Development of research institutions
in animal husbandry in all the coun
tries of the western hemisphere was
urged by Dr. John R. Mohler. chief of
i the Bureau of Animal industry. He
also urged a better international under
standing of live stock sanitary regula
tions.