EDITORS RE-ELECT SOCIETYOFFICERS Annual Convention Ends With Banquet “Not for Publication.” With re-election of incumbent officers, the American Society of Newspaper Editors yesterday concluded its tenth annual .convention, after a three-day ■ession at the National Press Club. Last night the editors held their ban quet at the Willard, but it was a "not for-publication” event. Those officers again chosen by the board of directors were: Fred Fuller Shedd. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, president; Paul Bellamy, Cleveland Plain Dealer, first vice president; Grove Patterson, Toledo Blade, second vice president; E. S. Beck, Chicago Tribune, treasurer, and A. H. Kirchhofer, Buffalo Evening News, secretary. Earlier Mr. Beck, Mr. Bellamy and Casper S. Yost of the St. Louis Globe Democrat and Walter M. Harrison of the Oklahoma City Oklahoman, whose .terms as directors were expiring, also were re-elected. Discount Relief Problems. In their concluding business sessions the editors surveyed a wide field, the principal place on their program being given to discussion of relief problems. This round table was led by Louis Brownlow. former District Commis sioner. and now director of the Public Administration Clearing House in Chi cago. who hit at the theory that the Government must cut down on its ex penses because private industry was do ing so. He insisted the Government must continue to care for citizens forced out of jobs by business. The economic situation also was touched on by William Allen White, editor of the Emporia iKans.) Gazette, who said current conditions were brought about "because we have made a mess of the distributive system.” Mr. White voiced fears that under present circumstances "some rabble rousing. iron-jawed, loose - mouthed demagogue will get in charge of the situation.” and expressed a hope for better distribution of the common wealth. A resolution pertinent to the present situation adopted by the society, in which it “recognizes the foment of Hie popular mind in this period of eco nomic disturbance:?, with its accom panying problems of governmental, corporate and individual management." expresses the belief “that as the result of this disturbance there will be an urge for change and for experiment in the American program, in political, in commercial, industrial and social pro cedure." then adds: "This society declares it to be the consensus of opinion that: “The newspapers of the United States sxe the natural forum for the discus sion of such problems .beiore the people and by the people. Nothing to Be Feared. “That it is a part of newspaper serv ice to furnish opportunity and means for such discussion. “That there is nothing to be feared from such discussion and that, to the contrary, there is greater danger in the promotion of fallacies by other means available for propaganda than if such proposals were given their place in the open forum of the press, where there would be Immediate opportunity for their discussion and their illumination and their testing by the truths and principles of the American form of government and the experience and tra ditions in the development of that plan. "That the American newspapers, through their editorial pages, supple menting the use of their news columns, have an opportunity and a responsibil itv in the present situation to encourage and develop right thinking on the part of the newspaper-reading public and to do their full part in the clarification of ideas and consequent actions. “That the people look to the press as never before for leadership and that the press solemnly and confidently ac cepts the challenge.” As the meeting was winding up, H. 3. Haskell of the Kansas City Star, who has just been in Europe, appeared, and in response to an invitation said that all Europe fears currency Inflation, and I that in France there is -a feeling that if the United States should go off the gold standard the franc also would go. He also expressed the opinion that there is little chance for reduction of arma ments or for agreement between Ger many and France on reparations. “ ALUMNI TO BANQUET Phillips Exeter Academy Meeting Thursday—Moses to Speak. The Southern Alumni Association ot the Phillips Exeter Academy will hold its annuai meeting and dinner Thurs day evening at 7 o'clock at the Wash ington Hotel. Guests of honor and principal speak ers will include Dr. Lewis Perry. Prof. Emeritus James Arthur Tufts and Sen ator George Moses. All former students of the New Hampshire preparatory school in Washington, nearby Maryland and Virginia are invited. Officers of the alumni association are Howe Totten, president; former Jus tice Walter X. McCoy, Henry P. Blair, R. Ross Perry, jr.. and Constant South W’orth. vice presidents; James A DeForce. treasurer; G. Adams Howard, secretary, and Heyliger Church, J. Curtis Walker, H. A. Axtel, E. E. Col laday, Clinton Hester and J. J. 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Most homes. *25 ASP CO ROOF PAINTERS Call Lin 10322 • DT TC Q DOMESTIC- 9x12. $3 00 IVUVJO SHAMPOO 8x10. 12 5ft LUWINCO. "WVMV WANTED—LOADS TO PITTSBURGH. APRIL 1, TO CLEVELAND . APRIL IB FROM BOSTON AND VICINITY MAY 5 And Al! points North »nd West AGENT ALLIED VAN LINES We tlso p»ek *nd «hlp b- STEEL LOT VANS sny»here. Gambling Equipment Seized in Raids ! - 300 ARE ARRESTED IN 3 DOWNTOWN GAMBLING RAIDS _(Continued From First Page.) did the police surround each of the three places and strike that it was es timated only four men escaped. Sledges Are I'sed. Several spectacular features marked the raids, drawing large crowds in the vicinity and almost closing the side walks to pedestrians. Sledgehammers, pickaxes and crow bars were freely used. The sound of broken glass and crash of heavy ham mers against the barriers set up against police marked entrance of the raiding parties. Personally participating in the raid at 713 I street. Inspector Beckett re ceived a cut hand when a door was broken. The biggest haul was made at 915 Ninth street, where a long low-ceilingsd room was found crowded with cus tomers. It required several trips of the police patrol to haul them to head Qu-v'ters. This raid was Headed by Capt J. E. Bobo of the Bureau of In vestigation. with 1C men. This place was labeled on the front window "Th» Fruit Shop." but there was no fruit for sale. Sledgehammers and pickaxes were used, to gain entrance through two doors to the gaming room, which was found fullv equipped, not only for bet ting on the races, but also for other games. There was a black-iack table in the main room, but farther back, behind still another heavy wall, was a large dice table. The back doors were double and heavily barred. The place at 713 I street was pro tected also by twro heavily reinforced doors, through which Sergt. G. M. Little and his squadron of 12 men w-ere forced to break their w-ay. Much equip ment was confiscated. The store in front of the back room was a small tobacco shop, where -there was a con siderable stock. Three Doors Reinforced. The raid at 1402 I street took police to the third floor, where they stationed men at all doors and even opposite windows on adjoining roofs, so that none escaped The entrance to this place was through three reinforced doors, the outer one of which had a steel grating over the door, and was equipped with a mirror to show who might be coming around the corner when the door was opened. In addi tion to the regular blackboard for race returns, pay-off booth and other equipment, this place also had a billiard table. There was a large heavy steel safe with combination lock. This raid was headed by Sergts N. O. Holmes and R. A. Johnson. -• CAPT. WELLS CLEARED BY FIRE TRIAL BOARD Charge of Sending Engine Home Too Early After Rizik Bros. Fire Not Sustained. The Fire Department trial board yes terday returned a verdict exonerating Capt. Charles A Wells of No. 10 truck company on a charge of sending No. 16 engine home too early at the recent fire at the establishment of Rizik Bros, on Connecticut avenue. Wells, as acting battalion chief, was accused of having sent the engine home in the midst of what afterwards turned out to be a three-alarm fire. At the trial a dispute arose as to whether it was actually Wells or Acting Battalion j Chief G. A. Mahew who was in charge ! of all apparatus at the fire when No. 16 j was sent back to quarters prematurely. The verdict apparently settled the dis i pute in favor of Wells. Mahew was not I brought to trial. I 23 MUSIC CLUBS ENROLL _____________ j Fox Theater to Give Trophies to Four Best on Program. Twenty-three amateur choral and in strumental clubs have enrolled in the ' Fox Theater's second annual music week festival to be held at the theater starting Friday and continuing through May 5. Each of the participating clubs will fill a 10 minute program, the four best to receive trophies donated by the theater. Judges will be Capt William J. stan nard, leader of the U. S Army Band: Miss Jessie MacBride. music critic and executive secretary of the National Symphony Orchestra, and Leor. Brusi lolT. former Fox conductor and now head of the Brusiloff Concert Bureau. THESE blackboards for listing race track returns and gambling tables were confiscated by police yesterday when they raided an alleged gambling den at 915 Ninth street. Below, standing by the table, left to right, are Officer R. H. Johnson of administration headquarters and Capt. J. E. Bobo, who participated in the raids. —Star Staff Photos. IDEA 3 YEARS OLD Plans for Observance May 1 in District Are Well Un der Way. BY J. A. MURPHY, M. D„ Chairman May Day Committee and Chief Medical and Sanitary Inspector ol Schools, Washington, D. C. The old-time May day with its may pole dances and May queen pageants and in foreign countries its labor demonstrations has been replaced by a new idea, which, if not as artistic as the old one, is undoubtedly fnore practical. This new' idea is the cele bration of May day as National Child Health day. This movement started in 1923. when the American Child Health Association suggested that May day be set aside as a day on which to stress child health. The first question that arose was. Why is this necessary? Has the health of American children been so neglected that it needs special attention? The Need of May Day. The answers can b?st be given by quoting from a letter which Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce! and also president of the American Child Health Association, written to ; President Coolidge early in 1924. Mr. Hoover wrote: •'Out of the mounting disasters that : have overtaken the peoples of the world in recent years has come a deeper j study of the fundamental factors upon which our civilization stands. Scien i tific investigations and studies of voiun 1 tary organizations, by the Children's Bureau, studies of the war draft, in cluding systematic surveys by the American Child Health Association, of which I am president, nave demon strated that we in America today are lar behind what a national conscience , should demand for the public protec tion of the well-being of our children. “We have in America upward of , 35.000,000 children, the great majority of whom are the object of the utmost j solicitude upon the part of their parents, but no amount ol individual solicitude can correct the dangers to which they are subject in many com munities by failure of community safe guards. With all the enlightenment and all the prosperity of our great peo ple. we find that in five other nations there is a lower death rate among in fants; we find in 16 other nations a lower rate of fatality among mothers at childbirth: the great national draft indicated that something like 80 per cent of the men examined were de ficient in some particular or another.” Coolidge to Hoover. Mr. Coolidge wras very much inter ested In the matter and in reply wrote to Mr. Hoover as follows: "I am glad to receive from you the plans of the American Child Health Association with other co-operating as sociations concern e UNCLE SAM FLATLY TURNS DOWN CAPONE S OFFER TO FIND BABY "Tremendous Pressure on Higk G overn ment Officials Without Success—No Deals Made With Criminals. BY REX COLLIER. A1 capone has made extraordinary efforts through intermediaries vto get out of jail and "assist" in the search for the Lindbergh baby, but the Feder al Government will not bargain with him. The Government informally but posi tively has turned thumbs down on in direct proposals for the temporary re lease of the Chicago gangster to per mit him to hunt for the kidnaped child. Capone has been advised of these re pulses by his emissaries, who are said to have attempted to bring tremendous pressure to bear on high Government officials in behalf of the Federal pris oner. Although officials in the past have ridiculed the rumor, a report persists that agents of Capone haw carried their plea to the door of the White House, only to receive a blunt rebuff. The Government’s attitude toward the representations is that there can be no "deals" with crime or criminals. lTucle Sam Stands Firm. Capone has been given to understand that Uncle Sam is determined to put him behincf the bars of Leavenworth penitentiary, and that nothing save a contrary order of the United States Supreme Court can prevent his incar ceration there. A review of Capone’s conviction. by Federal Judge Wilkerson on income tax charges was asked of the high court Friday by attorneys for the gang lord. He faces a 10-year term in Federal prison. Capone made a public offer to aid in the kidnaping search some weeks ago, during an interview. At that time he said 'he would turn his son over to the Government as a hostage, pending his voluntary return to jail when the hunt was completed. At no time has Capone or his friends claimed he knows anything definite about the Lindbergh kidnaping. His representatives have given out the impression, however, that the Ca pone syndicate, which reputedly ex tends into the East, is fairly certain the baby can* be found, providing A1 is freed long enough to take personal charge of the undertaking. Senator Bingham yesterday called at tention in the Senate to a belief that the Lindbergh kidnaping was a well conceived plot to secure Capones re lease. This theory has been discussed to some extent since Capone first broached the proposition of his release Under this theory, the kidnaping is seen as a scheme to make Capone into a public hero. By returning the baby, it is pointed out. the gangster would receive public acclaim and would be in a position to ask for suspension of his sentence or other concessions. Hoping For •‘Break.” Another suggestion is that Capone merely is hoping to get a “break'' in solving the case through his under world connections, and thereby gain public favor and governmental Indul gence. In support of the Capone plot theory it has been declared the kidnaping was not a "money job.’’ If money were the sole consideration, it is argued, a ransom of more than $50,000 would have been demanded. Moreover, it has been contended by students of the case that if ransom were the object, the kidnapers would not have chosen the son of Col. Lindbergh as their vic tim. Their prey would have been the child of some wealthy, but much less prominent citizen, whose plight would not have attracted the attention of the whole world nor precipitated so wide spread a manhunt. Early* belief that the abduction was the work of amateurs long since has been discarded by investigators. This belief at first was predicated on the meagerness of the ransom demand and on the fact that a ladder and other clues were left behind. The clues proved worthless, however, and subse quent developments virtually have dis pelled the opinion that amateurs stole the baby. Referred to in New York. It k reported that when Washington turned a deaf ear to suggestions from Capone sources that, the gang chief be “furloughed” to aid in the kidnaping quest, Capone's proposal was brought tc the attention of certain influential per sons in New York, in the hope the latter could induce the Government tc be a little lenient toward Capone. Sc far as can be learned, the New York efforts also failed. President Hoover several weais age indicated in a public statemaest that he would tolerate no cc---:promuse with gangdom under any circumstances, anc it is understood he conveyed definite in structions to that effect to Government agencies when Capone's offer to aid in the kidnaping case was published. BABY NEGOTIATORS AFTER 3 MISSIONS CALL CLIMAX NEAR _i Continued From First Page.)_ to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh stating they might be able to tell where the kidnaped Lindbergh baby is being held, were being held at police headquarters here today for further questioning. The man. about 30, gave his name as Albert Lacher and said he was em ployed in a Philadelphia butcher shop. The woman, about 28, gave her name as Miss Edith Crebbe and said she also used the name, Edith Jordan. Police said they had been living at a road house east of Downington since two days after the Lindbergh kidnap ing. At Philadelphia a butcher in the Germantown section said he had em ployed Lacher as a driver and had known him for many years. He said he knew Miss Crebbe for about a year and that neither could have had any connection with the kidnaping. UNAWARE OF YACHT USE. Norfolk Hotel Man Says It's at Disposal of Negotiators. BALTIMORE, April 23 (/Pi.—Col Charles H Consolvo. Baltimore and Norfolk hotel man, arrived here today from New York and said that he was without information concerning a pas sible new use of his yacht, the Macon, in the negotiations for the return of Charles A. Lindbergh, jr.. but that the Norfolk intermediaries "have authority to do whatever they want to with the yacht.” •-• C. OF C. WILL STUDY U. S. EXPENSE CUTS National Chamber Convention to Seek United Front for Reduction. Business is preparing for an on slaught on wasteful public spending. Facing an annual tax bill estimated at $14,000,000,000 annually, delegates to the twentieth annual Convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at San Francisco May 17-20, will study plans whereby busi ness oragnizatioris throughout the"coun try may unite for reduced public ex penditures. The chamber will have before it a report from a special committee urging a slash of at least half a billion dollars in governmental costs and a program, supported be vote of the membership, for balancing the Federal budget by reduced expenditures, limited borrow ing and moderate additional taxation. The convention will also treat State and municipal expenses. Covering this general situation. Silas H. Strawn. president of the chamber, in a statement given out for publica tion today, says: "There is general agreement that present tax levels seriously impede economic recovery and menace national welfare. Taxes, already oppressive, are becoming confiscatory in many parts of the country. 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A special service for the delegates wae held last night in the chapel of the Review and Herald Publishing Associa tion, and at 11 o’clock this mornins the delegates joined with members ol the Takoma Park Church in regulai Sabbath service. Rev I. H. Evans, firsi I vice president of the conference, wa: the speaker. The conference has brought to Ta koma Park the presidents of all th< union conferences in the United States Propositions concerning the advance ment of the denomination both in thi: ' country and abroad are to be consid ered. Guild Chapter Elects. Miss Elizabeth C. Smith was elected president of Gamma Chapter, Univer sity Guild, at its organization meeting and banquet Thursday night. Other officers included Arlene Craig, vice president: Helen Carroll, secretary, and Lulu D Withers, treasurer. _ Bigger and letter Funerals At Half the Usual Co*t Are Done fcy CHAMBERS • A Whole Funeral for as low as. / O Phone or write ycur Address. 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