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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
DOCTORS FEEL TAFT
HAS LOST GROUND
Condition Is Held No Cause
for Immediate Alarm,
However.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Less than "a hours after successor
had mounted to his place in the SUI
preme Court, former Chief Justice Taft
was reported today by his physicians to
have lost ground" in the battle against
his illness.
DR.. Thomas A. Clayton and DR.. Fran
els r. Hagner, his physicians, said they
felt there was no immediate danger,
but that the former President had failed
to continue to gain strength.
In a bulletin issued through the
White House shortly before noon, Taft'S
physicians said:
Other Bulletins Recalled.
"The former Chief Justice has shown
no improvement for several days. While
there is no immediate alarm, 1t Is felt
that he has lost ground"
In the brief bulletins issued for sew
eral days the attending physicians al
most uniformly had reported that Mr..
Taft's condition was unchanged" and
that he was resting comfortably"
The former President is suffering
from a complication of ailments, IN
GLIDING an impairment of his circula-
tory system, heart trouble and a re-
currence of bladder complaint.
Before his resignation from the SUI
preme Court bench early in February,
he went to North Carolina in search
of health, but his condition failed to
improve and during the weeks since
his return he has been described as
"a very sick man."
Correspondence Made Public.
Correspondence made public yester-
day showed that the associate justices
of the Supreme Court, under date OF
February 10, Joined in letter to VIII
liam Howard Taft expressing regret
over his retirement.
The letter read:
I'VE call you Chief Justice still for
we cannot quickly give up the title by
which we have known you for all these
years and which you have made so
dear to us. We cannot let you leave us
without trying to tell you how dear you
have made 1t. You came to us from
achievements in other fields and with
the prestige of the illustriouS place that
you lately had held, and you showed
in a new form your voluminous capacity
for work and for getting work done,
your humor that smoothed the rough
places, your golden heart that has
brought you love from every side, and,
most of all, from your brethren whose
tasks you have made happy and light.
We grieve at your illness, but your
spirit had given life an impulse that
will abide whether you are with us or
are away"
Under date of February IL, letter
signed by Mr. Taft and addressed to
My dear brethren" was delivered to
the justices. 1t read:
st cannot adequately say how deeply
I am touched by your affectionate let
ter. regretted for many reasons the
necessity of rendering my resignation,
but none so strong as the ending OF
those pleasant associations with each
and all of you which during the past
nine years have been so dear to me.
Only the advice of my doctors and my
own conviction that / would be unable
to continue adequately the great work
of the court forced me to leave you.
That work, In your hands, will go on
as well without me. but am grateful,
nevertheless, for your words of appre-
ctation."
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
"DAM" BUILT AROUND DIVER
TO LIFT HIM FROM CURRENT
Crib Is Constructed After Six Men Fail to Pull Him From
Depths of Icy Water of Ottawa River.

on a strong line about his body failed
to dislodge him. three fellow divers
went down and built triangular crib
bling about him. The cribbing detected
the current sufficiently to relieve the
pressure SO the imprisoned diver could
be drawn up. He suffered chiefly from
the extreme GOODNESS of the water.
month ago Peter Trans, a Danish
diver, lost his life when he was caught
beneath the waters of the RiViere Aux
Outardes on the north Shore of the st.
Lawrence River while engaged in SINH
lar work. His body was recovered after
hours,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
LONDON WAITS ON FRANCE.


By the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 25.-A spokesman
for the American delegation to the
Five-Power Naval Conference TODAY
said that If the French cabinet does
not ge a vote of confidence tonight
the conference probably would have to
continue in recess until such time as
France has government and is able
to send a delegation to London.
Rene MasSigli, alternate delegate and
technical adviser to the French dele
cation, arrived IN London from Paris
last night and paid a courtesy visit to
Prime Minister Macdonald this morn
ing. He expressed the hope in behalf
Continued on Page 2, Column u
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
LIQUORS WORTH $1,000
FOUND BENEATH PIER

By the ASsoclated PreSs.
NEW YORK. February 25.-Cordials.
champagnes and quantity of stout,
valued at around $500, we're found to-
day by customs agents concealed under
pier "a in the Hudson River at West
Fifty-fourth street.
The liquors were stored on a platform
suspended under the pier. The bottles
were wrapped in pillowcases, sheets
and napkins bearing the names of
steamships.
The customs agents were patrolling
the river in a motor boat when they
heard exhaust of another boat under
the pier. Investigating, they found the
platform and the liquor. The other
boat escaped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
Rs the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press
FITzROY HARBOR, Ontario. Febru-
AIRY 25.-Hector Roy, diver, was re-
covering today from the effects of five
hours Imprisonment beneath the icy
waters of the Ottawa River.
He was drawn into deep hole in the
river bottom yesterday and held there
by strong current when he went down
20 work on a cofferdam being con-
structed in connection with hydro
power development at Chats Falls.
When the efforts Of six men pulling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
Force of Tumble
From Moving Car
Saves Boys Life
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
; CADILLAC, Mich, February
25.-Merle Todd, who was Is
years old yesterday, fell from the
top of a freight train and the
force of his fall saved his life.
The youth was on top of a box
car, slipped, and went down be-
tween two cars. He struck an
air hose. which disconnected and
stopped the train before the on
coming wheels reached his body.
Although seriously injured, with
broken vertebra and two pelvic
fractures, Todd is expected to
recover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
WHEAT AT 81 CENTS.
Kansas City Prices Collapse Under
Heavy Offerings of Grain.

KANSAS CITY, February IS GP.-
Wheat futures broke under 81 a bushel
here today as values collapsed on the
Nations grain exchanges. May wheat
sold down to 81 cents bushel after
closing yesterday at $1.01. July touched
80 cents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
Reaching Nearly
Everybody

There are few homes in
Washington and nearby sub
urbs where The Star is not
read. The Star circulation
yesterday was over 10000.
That is lot of homes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
DOMINICAN REBELS.
THREATEN VASQUEZ
President Flees Capital for Fortress
as Wife Takes Refuge in
American Legation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Re-
public, February 25.-A revolutionary
movement in the north of the republic
today offered serious danger to the adj
mlnistration of President Horacio Vas
queZ.
DR.. Jose D. Alfonseca, vice president,
resigned his Office in the face of the
opposition. Sonora de VaSquez, wife of
the President, took refuge in the Amer
lean legation. The President himself
fled for a time to the fortress COM
handing this capital
The newspaper La Opinion said that
calm was restored late Monday after
noon with the promise of free elections
May Is. The entire trouble is believed
to have arisen from President Vasquez's
expressed intention of seeking re-elec-
ton at that time
Leon .Lejeans, Haitian Minister at
Santo Domingo, reported to his govern
ment that North Central Santo Do
mingo was "afiame" with the counter
government movement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
U. S. Intervention Unlikely.

BY the Associated Press.
While the American Government is
keenly interested in developments In
Santo Domingo, there was no indication
today that it was preparing to dispatch
Marines What position might be taken
later in the event the disturbances
should grow in magnitude was not in
dicated.
DR.. Angel Morales, Minister of the
Dominican Republic in Washington,
said today he believed the revolutionary
movement reported in his country was
serious, but that he had the utmost
faith" that President Horacio Vasquez
would be able to handle the situation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
Yesterdays Advertising
Oocal Display

Local business is picking
up. Advertising in The Star
brings direct results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
Husband of Washington
Debutante Had Suffered
Nervous Breakdown.
WIFE FOUGHT IN VAIN
TO STOP FATAL LEAP
Woman Felled by Former Naval
Officer During Souffle in
New York Home.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 25.-While
apparently still suffering from the
effects of recent physical and nervous
breakdown, Richard Rowland Jones,
former naval lieutenant and widely
known foot ball player, committed
suicide today by jumping from a win:
dow of his eighth-floor Park avenue
apartment.
A quarrel with his 20-year-old wife
in which police said he knocked her
down with an electric lamp preceded
the fatal leap.
Mrs. Jones is the former Louise Hall
Conkey of Kansas City. Mo.
A woman in neighboring apart
ment told police she heard a woman's
scream and a few minutes later thud.
Then everything was quiet.
Wife HystericaI.
A mailman in the building 10 which
the Joneses lived heard the body fall
in the court yard and called police.
An ambulance surgeon pronounced
Jones dead. They found Mrs. Jones in
the apartment, historical, with severe
cut on her head. She was unable to
give an account of what had happened.
Mr.. Jones had given up his position
with the Tidewater Oil Corporation on
January /, due, it was said, to nervous
condition. He and his wife took
short sea trip to Mexico in the hope
of regaining his health and the couple
returned to New York only about a
month ago. They were married last
April.
Made Debut Here.
Mrs. Jones is the daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. George LiSSant
Conkey of Kansas City. When her
parents died five years ago she made
her home with her uncle and guardian,
Ralph w. Snowden Hill, a former OBJ
server on the Preparations Commission
in Paris and later connected with the
State Department. She made her debut
in Washington, d. c., in 1928. She was
educated in Paris and Italy.
Mr.. JONES' a son OF Mrs. Josephine NJ.
Jones and the late Richard Howard
Jones of Maryland, was graduated from
the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis in 1916 and served as lieu
tenant in the World War. He had been
with the Tidewater Oil Corporation for
five years before his resignation, and
previously had been connected with the
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. He
was a member of the Army and Navy
Club Washington; the. Engineers Club
and the Nassau Country Club.
Wife Is FelIed.
Before jumping, Jones felled his wife,
Louise, with the pedestal of a statuette
when she tried to restrain him in his
rush for window.
Mrs. Jones said that half hour
earlier she had called in an employe
of the building to aid her in quieting her
husband. with whom, she said, she had
been struggling for half an hour. She
said the employe, an elevator operator,
left the apartment after remaining only
a few minutes, as Mr.. Jones apparently
had quoted down and gone to sleep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
introduced Here.

Mrs. Jones, then Louise Hill Conkey,
made her debut in the Capital two
years ago, being presented to small
circle of State Department officials and
foreign diplomats by her uncle and
guardian, Ralph w. Snowden Hill. of
1927 N street, who holds position in
the State Department.
Several parties had been given in her
honor by her uncle and another was
planned last Spring, when Miss Hill be-
came the bride of Mr.. Jones.
Mrs. Jones was well known to the
resident, official and diplomatic social
sets. She had spent several years in
Italy before coming to Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25

Radio Programs on Page ALL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
"FrOm Press to Home

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
WEATHER.

Cloudy tonight; tomorrow showers and
colder in the afternoon or at night.
Temperatures. Highest. 76 at noon to-
day; lowest, 81, at Z am. today. Full
report on page IL.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-21
POSTAL UNION
In Support of Bill to Reduce
Hours

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Post
office employees will get the 44-houl
week throughout the country if the
bill sponsored by Congressman Ken
dali, of Pennsylvania, becomes law
But they will not get it if the post
master general can have his way. He
says he can get plenty of post office
workers on the old schedule of hours
The postmaster general told con-
gressonal committee he wanted tc
run the department on business lines
and pointed to the deficit as a reason
for not giving employees the modern
work-week.
Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary
treasurer of the National Federation
of Post Office Clerks, tore apart the
old age argument of the department
and made it clear that under the
present policy the departments work
ers are being made to help pay the
cost of subsidies and other charges
including free mailings.
F'laherty declared production has
grown tremendously in recent years
as shown by a 55 per cent gain in
postal receipts compared with a gain
of only II per cent in personnel.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-21
Alabama Workers Flock to
Union Organization Meetings

began operation here during the
street car strike last year.
In an opinion by Judge N. P. Bry-
an, as the oracle of the court, the
appellate tribunal upheld the right of
the New York Trust Company, trus-
tee under company bond issues, and
Individual bondholders, to obtain the
injunction and it also affirmed Judge
Borah's ruling that the "jurisdiction-
al amount" was tested by the total
amount sought to be gained. Appeal
was taken from Judge Borah's ruling
by former Judge Richard Dowling
representing a group of SO jitney op-
orators, who argued that in so far as
his clients were concerned the amount
involved was less than the $4,000 fig
ure required to obtain federal court
jurisdiction and that a remedy at law
was provided in the provisions of the
city ordinance fixing penalties for
failure to comply with its terms. The
appeal was taken in the name of
Michael Adam, one of the jitney oper-
ators.
After reviewing the terms of the
ordinance requiring bond and other
provisions for licensed jitneys, and
the apparent admission of the legal
ity of the ordinance, Judge Bryan de-
clared that "the appellant was not
legally entitled to enter into competi-
ton with the Public Service corpora
ton.
'That corporation" he continued,
chad standing in court to prevent
the unlawful invasion of its franchise
rights even though those rights were
not exclusive. The ordinance in ques-
ton, while it provides penalty for
violations, also prescribes the condi-
tions upon which the city of New Or
leans will permit use of its streets
for jitneys. The penalty provisions
do not take away or affect the right
to protect against damage to private
property and that right to protect
extends to anyone who can show a
special damage differing in kind or
degree from the general damages
suffered by the community of in
terest.
1--WE therefore find the trustee and
bondholders competent to bring this
suit"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-21
Higher Status Sought

eve seek, too, higher status for
men and women in their occupations.
We wish to see their worthiness as
human beings and workers recognized
in industry so that they will no longer
be considered mere hands, We wish
to see them share through their rep
resentatives, in the decisions of the
concerns of which they are a part.
We wish to see them share in the
increased productivity of our country
and of the concerns in which they
work
1--WE urge all this" continues the
report, mot solely because of love for
abstract justice, abstract equity and
abstract charity, but because we want
justice, equity and charity to be the
rule of every day life. We can then
better use material things as a ladder
to the kingdom of God on earth and
in heaven"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-21
By C. S. GARRISON


Birmingham, Ala. (ILNS)-Labor
! in the South is anxious for organiza-
| ton. Workers are losing their tipid-
ity and coming out boldly to mass
meetings held by craft organizers uh-
| der the direction of the American
| Federation of Labor. Cards are be-
| ing laid face up on the table
H. H. Emmons, of the Boot and
Shoe Workers, and James L. Hurst,
president of the Alabama Federation
| of Labor, held meetings at Huntsville
and Admission, Ala. Representatives
of ten or twelve crafts gathered at
Huntsville. AS a result of the meet
ing charters are expected to be grant
ed to the bricklayers, carpenters,
plasterers, plumbers and printers,
and perhaps some others From this
nucleus a central body will be
formed to function in Huntsville.
At the Huntsville meeting work
er arose and said the time had come
for organizing. He pointed out that
he had worked in textile mill for
two years. His last pay day-for a
two weeks period-he received $3.50,
or about $3.50 a week.
Merchants to Fight Chains
About the same time that the
Huntsville labor preliminaries were
in action some 200 merchants of that
city met and organized union to
fight the chain stores. Some time
ago organized labor of Huntsville ap-
preached the merchants and asked
them to get behind trade unonism
and help the workers get more pay
that they might spend more with the
merchants, but they were turned
down. Now that the shoe is on the
other foot the merchants are asking
labor to get behind the move to oust
the chain stores. In fact, labor lead
ers interested in the Southern cam
paign have been asked to address the
merchants organization along this
line. An opportunity for little CO.
operation on both sides has been
pointed out by President Hurst, of
the Alabama Federation of Labor.
President Hurst was optimistic
concerning organization in Alabama.
"Well have charters for several local
unions before the week is out" he
said in discussing meetings in vari-
Gus localities contiguous to Birming
ham.
Meetings in Other Towns
A meeting at Admission was attend
ed by some $50 craftsmen and pre-
liminary steps taken to form a num-
Der of local unions. At Decatur, Ala,
mass meeting was held by groups
of textile workers and others prelim-
mary to local union organization
work
At Bessemer, Ala, mass meeting
was held at the county building and
all the crafts of the town were repre-
sented. Frank Hull, an organizer for
the potters, had charge of the meet
ing. "There is a strong desire among
the workers for organization" Mr.
Hull said. "a building program for
the town has been planned and the
building trades workers are anxious
to be organized. Conditions are bad
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-21
Trainmen's S Head Sees Shorter
Work Day AS Only Salvation
In Great Unemployment Crisis

New Orleans (ILNS)-Only sur
gical operation can save the United
States from the disease of unemploy-
ment which is sapping its strength,
according to A. P. Whitney, grand
president of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen, who came here for a
brief visit The surgical operation
which must save the country, Mr.
Whitney declares, is the adoption of
a shorter working day. Unless this is
done, and quickly, he believes the
country faces one of the greatest
crises in its history.
Mr. Whitney was one of the rep
resentatives who conferred with
President Hoover last December, and
he pledged the 100 per cent co-opera-
tion of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen in the presidents program
for cessation of wage disputes. At
the same time he informed the presi-
dent of his views upon the urgent
need for shortened working hours, in
order that there may be jobs enough
to go around.
There is widespread unemploy-
ment in every walk of life," Mr.
Whitney declared. "It exists not only
in the ranks of labor but among busi-
ness and professional men as we'll
The cause is easily seen in the de
velopment of the machine age. Ma
chinery is replacing workers every
where, for the greater efficiency
which machines make possible elm
mates jobs available now to train
men and enginemen than there were
five years ago. The same is true in
nearly every other line. The actual
number of jobs is fewer now than be-
fore, while our population continues
to increase.
ut is useless to hope and pray for
return of better business to elm
mate unemployment. 1t is not bad
business that is creating unemploy-
ment. 1t is unemployment that is
creating bad business.
Business cannot improve until un-
employment is eliminated, for the un-
employment destroys the purchasing
power of the people. The one solu-
ton therefore, is to shorten the work
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-21
TRICKY BONUS PLAN
REPLACES WAGE CUT

Manchester, n. H.-The Amoskeag
Manufacturing Company, operator of
the largest cotton mill in the world,
will pay a per cent bonus to un-
organized workers in this non-union
plant. Wages have been reduced and
the bonus is a partial restoration of
these rates.
The bonus will average less than 81
a week, as the mills are running on
half time on the 54-hour basis. The
management notified its company
union" that it is impossible to grant
the 50-hour week.
Stockholders will also be paid a 81
dividend, the first since 1924. In
creased profits, it is stated, has been
due to economy, plant modernization
and not capacity production"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-21
UNEMPLOYED IN
N. ]. EAGER FOR
JOBS ON JURIES

Jersey City, N. J. (ILNS)-A 50
increase to So a day in the pay of
jurors, which recently went into
effect in New Jersey, brought out
more than 800 applicants recently for
jobs as jurors in Hudson county. It
is the first time on record the sheriff
has not had to hunt men to serve.
There were 225 men waiting to sit
on juries one morning and more than
800 the next day. The applicants
consisted principally of men out of
work who hoped, with the usual ten
days service, to earn $50 during the
term.