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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
DRIVE IS PLANNED
ON RACKETEERS
Presidents Message Seen
Behind Move of Justice
Department.

The Government is planning to
launch a new drive on criminal rings
or so-called racketeers in the large cities
through the Department Of Justice, II
was learned today.
Every possible factor in the situation
is being canvassed and it is the hope
Of the administration that Congress soon
will place large additional powers for
this purpose in the hands of the De-
partment of Justice through the bill to
transfer prohibition enforcement from
the Treasury to Justice Department
This bill has passed the House and is
now being considered by the Senate
judiciary committee.
Not only will prohibition violators be
included, but other phases of law viola
ton as well.
While the word racketeers does not
appear in administration circles, 1t was
understood today that this popular
name for the criminal ringleaderS in
the large cities will be among the tar
gets for the Governments drive.
Recent Attack Recalled.
In the Department of Justice it is
known that the field of possibility is
being carefully scanned with view to
developing every means of cooperation
among the forces of the Federal Gov
eminent for this purpose.
It was recalled today that recently
the Government has been attacking
from the angle of the income tax per-
sons who the Government charges have
been evading this law.
This indication of a drive on the
criminal rings of big cities from the
Federal powers followed closely on the
heels Of President Hoover's special mes
sage to Congress late yesterday. In
this message the President asked Con-
gress to uphold his hands in the en-
forcement of law. The Chief Execu-
tive mentioned several pending meas
ures, including the one for transfer of
prohibition from the Treasury to the
Department of Justice.
The administration is also hoping for
relief from congestion in the courts and
it was learned today the administration
Will not oppose any means which prom
iseS to give adequate relief from this
congestion. The administration feels,
however, that no one should be denied
the right Of trial by jury.
Taking further steps to handle the
criminal situation, the administration
has also, 1t was learned today, decided
to take over three more Army camps in
order to use them for relieving conges-
ton in the Federal prisons, which are
overcrowded The Federal Government
should set standard in the treatment
Of Federal prisoners instead Of allow
Ing overcrowding such as exists today,
according to the attitude of admins
Continued On PAGE D roIIIyoo ~
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u. S. c. Of c. SPLITS
ON INSURANCE LAW
Two Defend Compulsory Auto
Crash Liability Plan
in Discussion.

An insurgent outbreak against the
stand taken by the Chamber of Com
merce Of the United States in opposi-
ton to the principles Of compulsory
automobile insurance, developed in dis
cussions on the floor today following
the keynote speeches Of the opening
general session of the eighteenth an
nual meeting Of the chamber.
The controversy arose during con-
sideration of various public questions
which are to be submitted later to the
national chamber for action from the
resolutions committee. The principal
defense of compulsory insurance came
from w. A. Cloud, president OF the
National Association Of Taxicab Own
ers and a delegate to the convention,
and P. w. A. FitZsimmons of Detroit,
chairman of the chambers insurance
division. Mr.. Cloud said that the taxi
cab owners represented in his associa-
ton not only favor compulsory tnsur-
ance, but also approve the resolution,
which will be brought before the ma
tional chamber.
Recognizes Basic Principles.
This resolution, while it reiterates the
opposition of the national chamber to
the principles of compulsory automobile
insurance, nevertheless recognizes the
basic principles involved in so-called
financial responsibility laws as equitable
and conducive to improving safety con-
ditions on streets and highways.
Delegates who opposed any action OF
CONTINUED on Page 3, Column %
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HUSTON DENIES
EXPOSE THREAT
Holds Implied knowledge or Ap'
proval of Acts Injustice to
Hoover and Party.
Ry tbe Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Claudius H. Huston, chairman of the
Republican national committee, issued
a statement today saying he had not
threatened to expose conduct on the
part of Republican party leaders or
organizations leading either to the
nomination or election of President
Hoover which were in the slightest
degree reprehensible or violative Of any
law"
His complete statement said:
Recent publication to the effect that
I am aware Of and have threatened to
expose conduct on the part of Repub-
lican party leaders or organizations
leading either to the nomination or
election of President Hoover which were
in the slightest degree reprehensible or
Voative of any law are wholly without
foundation.
THE implied knowledge or approval
of any such acts is a gross injustice to
the President, to the Republican party
and to me, and it Is only because Of
the far-reaching importance of such
insinuations that feel called upon
alphabetically to repudiate them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
TRANSNEPTUN|AN
PLANET DISCOVERY
CALLED ACCIDENT
Brown of Yale Says Truth of
LoWeII'S Prediction Was
Coincidence.

The recent discovery at the Lowell
Observatory of a new planet beyond
Neptune was described as "a most re-
markable accident" and not the result
of mathematical prediction, the Nation
al Academy of Sciences was told today
by Prof. e. w. Brown of Yale Univer-
sity.
The late Percival Lowell has been
credited with predicting the existence
Of the planet from deviations in the
orbit of Uranus, which demanded the
gravitational attraction of some I'M
known body. Prof. Brown has repeated
his calculations.
The orbit of Uranus, calculated from
observations of the one and a half
revolutions around the sun since its
discovery, he said, actually does not
require such body. When the observa-
tionS are corrected the deviations fall
well within the range Of probable error.
1t will be impossible, he said, to make
any such predictions from Uranus for
another half century.
Says New Planet Is Small.
The new planet, he said, appears to
be of about the mass of the earth,
many times smaller than that predicted
by Lowell. Observations within the
last few days, Prof Brown explained
have shown that it has a very &C.
centric orbit and never has approached
close enough to Uranus or Neptune to
have had any observable effect on either
of them.
Prof. Lowell had predicted that a
large planet would be found IN Ger
tain place at a certain distance away.
The small planet was actually found
there, but, Prof. Brown said, this could
be nothing but chance coincidence
If the transneptunian planet had been
discovered in 1900 it would have been
40 degrees away, or in 1875 80 degrees
away from the position predicted by
Lowell. The apparent marvellous CO.
incidence, he said, was due to Lowells
accidental selection of data. II he had
made use of the apparent deviations
of Neptune for 80 years longer he
from where it actually was found.
Discusses Ottawa Discovery.
Within the last few weeks, it was re-
vealed, observers at Ottawa have found
what appears to be another planet on
some old Photographic plates which is
temporarily known as planet Y. This
was described by Prof. Harlow Shapley
of Harvard University as a most re-
markable body which might turn out to
be a planet, comet or an asteroid.
While denying Lowell the credit Of
discovering fundamentally the new
planet, Prof. Brown said that he de-
served a great deal of credit fors inspir-
ing the long search which finally ended
in discovery so far from what he had
predicted. 1.-THE value Of scientific
hypothesis" he concluded, "is not to be
judged by its truth, but by the impulse
which it gives to the search for truth"
Recent tests have established the
theory of general relatively more firmly
than ever, said DR.. Charles E. st. John
of the Mount Wilson Observatory.
He explained that the original Michel
son-Morley experiment, designed to de-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
NAVAL DELEGATION
LANDS IN NEW YORK
Stimson, Adams, Robinson
and Morrow Given Official
Welcome of City.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 29.-The United
States delegation to the London Naval
Conference, headed by Secretary OF
State Henry L. Stimson, was home to-
day.
Escorted by the Navy dirigible Los
Angeles and three destroyers, the
HUMPHREYS, Dallas and Barry. the liner
Leviathan, bearing the delegation, ar
rived of Ambrose Light at the entrance
to New York Harbor last night.
Then, followed by the battleship Texas,
the liner proceeded to Quarantine, where
Secretary Stimson and his associates
became the official guests at municipal
welcome today.
With Secretary StimSon are return
ing Secretary Of the Navy Charles Fran
els Adams, Senator Joseph T. Robinson
and Ambassador Dwight w. Morrow
The party includes the wives of some OF
the delegates, together with their official
stats and corps of secretaries. Mrs
Morrow preceded her husband home.
Received by City.
6O11CC NOIllulLSSlO1lcI NIOtCB "A
Whalen, chairman of the mayors COM
mittee for the reception of distinguished
visitors, arranged to have the municipal
boat Macon leave the Battery, at the
foot of Manhattan, at am. bearing
the reception committee.
Off1cial greeting of the delegates
aboard the Leviathan, according to the
program which had been approved by
Secretary Stimson by radio, was fixed at
8 am.
Secretary Stimson, responding to the
address of welcome given the delegates
at City Hall today, said:
I'VE are very grateful for this well
come.
Some of us are natives of New York
and have the peculiar happiness of be-
ing welcomed by old friends and neigh
bors. But whether native New Workers
or not, we all appreciate the warmth
of New York welcome.
1T Is very gratifying to us to be met
at the gateway Of home with the knowl-
edge that our efforts have met with
your approval. We do not take this
welcome as a personal tribute, but as
an indication of your sympathy with
the great cause of international good
will and peace for which we have
labored.
Good VIII Purpose.
1.-The American delegation went to
London with the primary purpose of
promoting good will between the ma
tons of the earth. We believe that
naval limitation Is one of the most
direct and potent steps toward achiev-
ing such good will. For just as naval
competition between nations leads to
rivalry, suspicion and ever-increasing
competition, so, on the other hand,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 29.-It was a horse
on Clark street, no less, and sitting
down.
A performance of this kind is most
unusual in Chicago, especially on Clark
street, and particularly in front Of the
County Building on busy Monday aft
ernoon.
The horses name probably was Maud.
but this is purely guesswork. She was
called many names. Experienced horse
men were heard to observe that she was
the sittingest nag they ever had seen.
Crowds gathered and gaped. Hustling
lawyers halted. Learned jurists ranged
themselves among the bystanders. Or
binary people stood on tiptoes, peer
ing through the crowds to see what
they couldsee. Street cars were blocked.
Automobiles honked MdthQNk ANYTHING
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
Two Wounded, One Probably
Fatally, as Mob Storming Guard
House Is Repulsed.
MILITIA COMMANDER is PLACED
In CHARGE WITHIN PRISON WALLS
Report on Fire Investigation Indicates
Incendiarism and Not Defective
Wiring Was Cause of Blaze.
BY the Associated Press.


COLUMBUS Ohio April 29-Open mutiny by of Ohio
Penentary National Guardmen
prisoners who stomed the guard house in mass
fell before the bullets the guards
being wounded seriously.
convct the fire when 800 prisoners were killed had
attempts control them but today they dropped
their passive attitude and mutnied.
convcts George Tonof and Jewell Joa
Tono is not expected to live
wounded in the leg.
Only Cooper had announced that order
al the prison must be restored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
ROGER PEACOCK WINS
In QUALIFYING ROUND
Districts Junior Golf Champion
Turns in Score of rs
to Head Field.

Roger Peacock of Indian Springs, the
Districts junior golf champion, led
large field today in the first half of the
qualifying round of the Washington
Golf and Country Club invitation golf
tournament with score of rs, five over
par. Peacock was out in 81 and back
in SO, including a 6 on the fifteenth
hole for his card of IS. In second place
was a clubmate of Peacock's, a youth
named l.. Hill, who played with Pea
cock. Hill registered rs. Other lead
ing scores follow:
v. G.. Burnett, Beaver Dam, 81; DR..
L. S. Otell, Indian Spring, 81; E. w.
Cushing, Washington, 80; Jack Clancy,
Georgetown University, 80; j. L. Nc
Carron, Congressional, SO; C. w. Stod-
dard, Manor, IS; M. Kraft, Argyle, 81;
G. C. Billiard, Bannockburn, 81; Robert
Dougan, Washington, 81; r. M. Brown,
Beaver Dam, SO; j. G. Putnam, Manor,
SO; L. e. Flaherty, Bannockburn. 80; G.
j. Richardson, Indian Spring, 80.
The other half of the qualifying field
will play tomorrow, with five flights
scheduled to qualify for the match play
rounds starting Thursday morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
Local Fans Reserve
Tickets for Coming
Fall World Series

Two weeks don't constitute q
base ball season and the pennent
race is decided in September, not
April, but so far as a goodly
number Of District residents are
concerned the American League
championship already is settled
and with the Nationals trium-
plant.
This is indicated, at least, by
the mail being received at head
quarters of the Washington Ball
Club. Following the Griffs' three
straight wins over the world
champion Athletics, letters re-
questing world series reservations
at Clark Griffith Stadium began
pouring in.
In the three mails yesterday
some 100 missives containing bids
for approximately 800 seats
reached the club officials and on
the first mail today 35 additional
communications were received, all
expressing confidence Walter
Johnson's team will retain its
league leadership ard meet the
National League winner in the
diamond classic next Fall. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29

When the n1utiny provoked nr1ng,
Col. r. S. Haubrich, in charge Of the
National Guard troops, was placed in
command of the situation within the
walls The governor issued orders that
martial law was not necessary, but
that the military would cooperate with
Warden P. E. Thomas In restoring
order.
Situation Quickly Quoted.
The situation quieted as quickly as
1t had fiared up, and within an hour
after the shooting started the two
wounded men had been sent to the
hospital and the revolters were in their
cells.
Many of the convicts took no part
In the rush for freedom.
Outside the walls the prison lawn
bristled with machine guns command
ing every exit. The convicts apparently
realized the utter futility Of resisting
further.
Protected by 1eveled machine guns,
Col. Haubrich ventured up to the en-
trance of the cell block and talked with
several of the prisoners for few min
utes. When he emerged he said he was
satisfied that the convicts had been
subdued.
Convicts to Be Disarmed.
given instructions to the military to dis
arm every convict in the idle house and
to use such means as were necessary to
obtain this end. Col. Haubr1ch indi-
Gated that he expected to do this with
out further resistance.
"The prisoners have promised me that
they will do anything ask them to-"
he said.
A report was made by the Ohio In
the Easter Monday fire was the result
of incendiarism and not defective wiz
ing.
Work Started on Stockade.
The break for liberty came shortly
after National Guardsmen started erec-
ton of a barbed-wire stockade In the
| prison yard, in which it was proposed
| to hold the revolterS until the hundreds
of cell locks had been repaired.
| Columbus police reserves, summoned
when the disorder started, were clear
| ing all the streets in the vicinity Of the
| penitentiary.
Glass in the guard room door and in
small windows of the cell block was
shattered by the convicts, who carried
such weapons as clubs and bars Of iron.
Ordered by the warden to go back to
their cells the convictS continued their
of firing, but a moment later had re-
massed and made second rush. Auto
matte rifles spat bullets into the mob
and this time they fell back and took
refuge in cells.
Four additional companies of Guards
men were ordered to the penitentiary:
Company A, Marietta Company B.
Marion; L Of Athens and a howitzer
platoon armed with one-pounderS from
| Ironton.
There are now 500 National Guards
men at the prison.
Troops Replace Guards.
All prison guards in the guard room
we're ordered removed and were re-
placed with National Guardsmen, who
were armed with machine guns, auto
matte rifles, side arms and tear gas
bombs.
The effective putting down of the re-
Continued on Page 2, Column ID
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OF MUT|NY
ALARMS ENGLAND
Observers See Menace in
Unsatisfactory Conduct"
of Sepoy Troops.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 29.-Behind O bare
announcement Of unsatisfactory conduct
by Garwahli native troops in the riot
ing at Peshawar last Wednesday, OBJ
servers today saw threat Of mutiny
with consequent danger to peace In
India.
Until now there has been no WORD
that loyalty of the native troops, OF
Sepoys, had ever been questioned, de-
spite their having been called upon al
various times to put down disturbance:
growing out of Mahatma Gandhi's civil
disobedience campaign.
An official India ofice communicate
published today, however, said:
I'm view Of the possibility of exag-
gerated and misleading rumorS the
government of India thinks it advisable
to make known that during the recent
disturbances at Peshawar, when troops
had to be employed, the conduct of 8
small element, namely, two platoons OF
the second battalion Of the Eighteenth
Royal Carnival Rifles, was found to be
unsatisfactory.
Details Are W1thheld.
1.-THE battalion has been sent tt
Abbottabad, where an inquiry will bt
conducted in due course"
No details of the unsatisfactory
conduct were to be obtained here, anc
it was believed the censorship which
has been imposed on news out of India
might prevent further information from
sources there.
Loyalty of native troops to the Brit
iSh in the present critical time Is OF
cardinal Importance. The Sepoy mutiny
Of 1857 is still too fresh in British
memories not to make people here wor-
ry at anything implying loss Of diSci-
pline among the native soldiery, par
ticularly since hitherto there has been
no suggestion of their loyalty failing
under the strain Of the general agita-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
FOUR OF BRITISH SHIPS
CREW ARE SENT TO JAIL
All Plead Guilty to Charge of Run
ming Liquor Into q. SIS
Sought as Leaders.
BY the Associated Press.


ST GEORGE, S. c., April 29.-Four
members of the crew of the British
schooner Dorothy and Aubrey, captured
when it entered Wnyah Bay, at George
town, March Is, loaded with 800 cases Of
fine liquors, today were under sentence
of six months each in the Dorchester
County Jail.
The men, A. H. zinck, Gilbert zinck,
william Jackson and Samuel j. Flood,
all pleaded guilty to violation of the
prohibition law, in Federal Court at
Florence yesterday.
AS the result of their appearance in
court, an indictment has been returned
against Andrew Kar, Henry G. and
Edgar Sanchez, all of Georgia; S. p.
Strife of Nova Scotia, and Cleve Hay
ward of Bermuda, by whom the Iour
whom authorities. say they believe to be
the principals in rum-running con-
Spiracy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
SENATE BODY TO WEIGH
TAXI RULES BILL TODAY
Public Utilities Commissioners to
Appear at Hearing on Proposed
Extension of Powers.

The bill to extend the powers of the
Public Utilities Commission in regulating
the taxicab business is being considered
by the Senate District committee this
afternoon. Representatives Of number
of taxicab operators are expected to be
heard, as we'll as officials of the Utili-
ties Commission.
The committee may also consider
some of the other pending measures
on which hearing have been held and
which ere ready for diGpoGttiops
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
FRENCH FLYER ANXIOUS
TO MAKE OCEAN FLIGHT
Coste Reported Warming Up Cues
ton Mark as Southern Cross
Trip Is Rumored.
BY the Associated Press,

PARIS, April 29.-Reports at the
Villacoublay Field today were that
Dieudonne Coste, noted French flyer,
tomorrow will begin trial flights in his
renovated plane Question Mark in prep
aration for a transatlantic trip to New
York. It was said CoSte hoped to take
of shortly after the full moon, May IL
Coste's test flights we're said to have
been spurred on by a report that the
airplane Southern Cross, commanded by
Capt. Charles Kingsford-Smith Of Aus
tralia, was expected in LIE Bourget from
Amsterdam in a few days and would be
/ ready to take of for New York at the
same time as Coste.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
NONCHALANT NAG STUBBORNLY
SITS, BLOCKING BUSY STREET
Name Is Lacking, but It's Called Plenty Sidewalk
Jockeys Give Sage CD Advice.

happening. The windows of office build
ings were hung with human heads.
All eyes conferred on the seated nag
It began to look as though Sitting Bull
was being challenged for a place in
history by Sitting Horse.
The express wagon driver to whom
the animal belonged did a lot of plain
and fancy walking around, trying TO
figure q way to get the horse into a
walking stance. From the gathering
crowd came frequent sage suggestions,
mostly from persons whose only pre-
vious acquaintance with horses had
been In dice games.
The crowd grew to such proportions
that it was quite a task for any one
to get into the Clark street door Of the
County Building, even If they had
wanted to.
Finally the Humane Society got busy.
and the horse was assisted UP.
No one ever did md out for what
thu cxeataxa EaA sitting down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
$1,000 SWISS THREATEN
U. S. TARIFF REPRISAL
Resolution Urges Action if an Gun
duly" High Levy Should
Be Adopted.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, April ga res
olution threatening reprisals against
American goods if an "unduly" high
tariff should be adopted by the United
States was voted by an assemblage of
$4,000 persons at Bienne, the center
of the watch industry in Switzerland.
Resolutions also were sent to the gov
eminent asking it to inform the Ameri-
can Government of the indignation
excited in Switzerland by proposed in
creases" in the American tariff.
The Geneva Chamber Of Commerce is
considering calling an assembly Of all
industries to consider action regarding
the American tariff, particularly that
affecting st. Gall, where the iron, man
ganese and lace industries are central
lied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-29
LEAGUE DISCUSSES MOVE TO OWN
PLANES FOR USE IN TIMES OF CRISIS
German Asserts 1t Should Use Commercial Craft
Poland Seeks Outright Possession.

saying that provisional arrangement for
the use Of commercial craft might be
made.
Lord Cecil Of Great Britain tried con-
Citation by suggesting there was really
no serious conflict between the two
views and then threw the committee
and spectators into hearty laughter by
adding:
"Of course, suppose Is or 20 yeras
hence everybody will own airplanes-we
shall all of us be using our own, but
sincerely trust that when that Is true,
] shAN be 10 another spherasS