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WEATHER.
IV. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair with light frost tonight; tomor
row increasing cloudiness and some
what wanner.
Temperatures: Highest, 54. at noon
today; lowest, 42, at 6 a.m. today.
Full report on page 2.
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15
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BRITISH ENVOY DIES
t DEBT PARLEY IS
FAONGBREAKDOWN
OVER BERLIN STAND
Lord Revelstoke Is Victim of
Heart Attack in Paris.
Conference Adjourns Until
Monday in His Respect.
SCHACHT BRINGS CRISIS
BY BARRING COMPROMISE
Germany Cannot Pay Allied De
mands, He Holds—Willingness
to Pay Own Figures Seen Linked
- to Restoration of Lost Territory.
: Some Hope Still Held.
*y the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 19.—With defi
nite breakdown of the repara
tions negotiations held off by
the sudden death of Lord Rev
elstoke, British expert, authori
tative quarters late today indi
cated that the conference,
which went aground yesterday,
may yet be refloated.
The Germans, it appeared,
• had indicated a desire to re
open discussions. Informal con
versations between Dr. Hjalmar
Schacht, chief of the German
delegation, and members of the
I allied representatives were re
ported to have taken place
since adjournment of this
morning’s plenary session.
By the Associated Press. .
PARIS, April 19.—The dramatic
death of Lord Revelstoke, leading
British financial expert on the
reparations committee, only a few
hours before a vital plenary ses
sion of the committee today,
staved off the imminent complete
breakdown of the reparations
negotiations.
The new turn in the reparations
situation came with startling sud
denness. Today’s plenary session,
called for 11 ajn., had been ex
pected to see the end of the 10
weeks of arduous effort by the ex
perts to solve the great post-war
problem, but the death of Lord
Revelstoke from heart disease at
7:30 o’clock this morning post
poned what had seemed an in
evitable announcement of com
plete failure.
When the experts, worn by their own
long exertions, gathered in gloom at
the Hotel George V for what many
thought the last act of the present
reparations drama, they already had
been Informed that their colleague, worn
and tired by his own unceasing efforts
to find some compromise, had died at
his hotel this morning.
Young Tells Conference.
Formal announcement of the noted
British financier’s death was made by
Owen D. Young, chairman, whereupon
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the chief Ger
man delegate, expressed the deep re
grets of the German delegation, while
all the other experts joined in expres
sions of sorrow and tribute.
Mr. Young then proposed that the
committee adjourn out of respect to
Lord Revelstoke’s memory, to meet at
II o'clock next Monday morning.
For the moment the utter deadlock
which the experts had reached because
of their inability to strike a compromise
between the demand of the allied cred
itor powers and the German offer for
reparations was forgotten, and yet un
derneath, by a curious irony of fate,
there was some feeling, however slight,
that Lord Revelstoke’s death, by giving
the experts several days to think over
the situation, might result in some
eleventh-hour salvation for the vital
negotiations.
Gloom Remains, However.
This hope, perhaps chiefly sentiment
al in its origin, could do little to dis
pel the deep gloom around the George
V. Hotel, caused by the sudden death
of the British banker and the lack of
real hope of again being able to pick
up the negotiations for a reparations
settlement with any chance of success.
There was a certain amount of activity
In the German delegation tending to
promote the theory that the German
proposal of 37. annuities of 1.650,000,000
marks (about $396,000,000) was not so
closely tied up with political considera
tions as had been deduced by the other
experts.
The allied and American delegates
refused to enter into any discussion of
the commission’s work during the ad
journment and, above all, to engage in
any controversy with the German dele
gation over their proposal.
WUI Draw Up Report.
There will be no activity of any sort
during the adjournment of the com
mittee, it was said, since nothing ap
parently remains except to take formal
- cognizance of the committee's failure,
and to draw up reports to the respective
governments explaining why. There
had been some doubt as to whether the
Germans would even attend today’
plenary session, but this was dispelled
by their arrival, and it was stated that
the Germans had decided to attend
Monday’s meeting and to participate
in drafting the committee’s report.
This report will review the work of
the commission, and in it will be in
corporated the scheme for an lnter
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Graf Zeppelin Tests Hew Compass.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, April
19 o»»)—The Graf Zeppelin this fore
noon started a short flight over the
Rhine cities to Southern Germany with
the object of testing a new gyroscope
compass. The ship was commanded by
Capt. Lehmann.
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LORD REVELSTOKE.
PERSHING QUARREL
DENIED BY “TIGER”
Reply Is Made on Story He
Sought to Oust A. E. F. j
Chief.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 19.—Georges Clemen
ceau, war-time premier of France,
declared to the Associated Press today
that "Gen. Pershing and I are friends”
and that he did not wish to be forced
into a "debate before a coffin” in con
nection with an interview between
himself and the late Marshal Foch
printed yesterday by a French writer,
in this article the French journalist,
Raymond Recouly, quoted Foch to the
effect that the “Tiger” had attempted
to persuade Marshal Foch to remove,
or have removed, Gen. Pershing from
his command of the American Army,
towards the end of the war.
"Pershing and I had the same aim,
which was to employ the American
Army to the best advantage/’ M. Clem
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probe! Mon
IS GIVEN SETBACK
Senate Committee Gets Let
ter From Secretary Explain
ing Business Relations.
An opinion by Attorney General
Mitchell to President Hoover, rul
ing that there is no question of the
right of Secretary Mellon to con
tinue in office, was placed before
the Senate judiciary committee to
day by Senator Reed, Republican,
of Pennsylvania.
By the Associated Press.
The Senate judiciary committee de
cided today not to call Secretary Mel
lon in connection with its inquiry into
his right to hold office after It had re
ceived a statement from him that he
had resigned all executive connections
before entering the cabinet and that
his only business interests today were
those of a stockholder.
The committee adjourned, however,
without taking nnal action on the reso
lution of Senator McKellar, Democrat,
Tennessee, which questioned the right
of Mr. Mellon to hold office because
of an old statute forbidding the Sec
retary of the Treasury to be interested
in trade or commerce.
Secretary Mellon volunteered his
statement on the extent of his busi
ness interests in a letter to Senator
Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania, a
close friend. Reed laid it before the
committee.
Inquiry Is Narrowed.
As a result Chairman Norris said the
inquiry had narrowed down to whether
a stockholder constituted an Interested
party in trade or commerce within the
extent of the statute under considera
tion.
Adjournment was taken after a two
hour discussion to permit members to
study the law on this point. Another
meeting will be held next week. '
Chairman Norris said the committee
accepted the letter of Secretary Mellon
to Senator Reed on his financial affairs
as final.
Letter Not Made Public.
The letter was not made public, but
it said that before entering the cabinet
Mr. Mellon resigned whatever director
ships he held In corporations and all
other executive positions in the business
world. His only business today, it added,
were those of a stockholder in various
enterprises.
Apparently the only questions now
before the committee, the chairman in
dicated, was determination whether a
stockholder constituted, a person inter
■ ested in trade or commerce within the
meaning of the old statute.
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15 RACE HORSES DIE
IN m BLAZE
AT HAVRE BE GRACE
Fourteen Are Burned to Death
as Stables Are Leveled
by Flames.
OTHER, CRAZED BY FIRE,
IS HIT BY AUTOMOBILE
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Harry Payne Whitney's String Is
Rescued, but Stalls Are
Destroyed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md„ April 19.
Fifteen race horses perished in the fire
which swept the Havre de Grace track
last night, a check-up revealed today.
The track took on the general ap
pearance of a rodeo as owners, trainers
and jockeys of the horses which were
saved rounded up their animals.
The fire was said to have been caused
by an exploding oil stove. It destroyed
two stables and a cottage, valued at
between $15,000 and $20,000. No esti
mate could be placed on value of the
; horses lost, but conservative figures
range from $50,000 to $75,000. The
I most valuable animal destroyed was
; Shasta Klan, owned by C. E. Applegate.
Murphy Loses Five.
The stable of Jerry Murphy was
hardest hit, five horses in his string
being destroyed. William H. Deham
and H.. C. Cox lost three horses each,
while Joseph D. Keith lost two.
Adriane G., owned by Keith, broke
from her stall and, crazed by the flames,
sped down the road, where she collided
with an automobile, breaking a leg. A
bullet dispatched her life.
James L. Ross, track superintendent,
said he had 14 guards patrolling the
property last night, and did not be
lieve the fire was of Incendiary origin.
While jockeys and stable employes
were searching the ashes this morning
for jewelry and personal belongings
they had left in the stables, the ruins
again burst into flames. The blaze was
easily extinguished.
A favorable wind was said today to
have been responsible for saving other
stables and possibly the entire track.
The fire broke out in stable No. 47.
where Shasta Klan was housed, and
spread rapidly. The smoke was noticed
by a track watchman, who summoned
the track force. Fire apparatus was
summoned from six neighboring towns.
Employes attempted to rescue the
horses from stable No. 47, but the blaze
spread so rapidly that they had to aban
don the attempt.
Whitney Hones Saved.
Sparks dropped on No. 46 stable,
housing the racing string of Harry P.
Whitney. New York sportsman. Prank
H. Kopel and William Mandum. aided
by Jockeys Harry Schlllick, “Sonny”
Workman, Edward Denham and Alfred
Robertson, who had Just returned from
Baltimore, released the horses.
Taken from the stables, the horses
were turned loose in the inclosure.
They Included Fly Across, Cady Hill,
Skldo, Dress Ship, Snoose, Moonstruck.
The Nut, Swatter. Murky Cloud, Coots,
Kim, Squabble, Flimsy and On the Air.
Flames jumped to a small cottage
occupied by stable employes of Woods
Garth, but which was untenanted last
night.
As track employes, town residents
and firemen mobilized to fight the
blaze. State Patrolman Charles B.
Krimm, who was riding a motor cycle
with State Patrolman Raymond Hol
land, struck an automobile and sus
tained a fractured left arm. Holland
was uninjured. Harry Meyers of Havre
de Grace, who, police said, was driving
the automobile, was summoned for fail
ure to give right of way.
Stable boys saved Watch the Time,
Runolathe and Heartache of H. C.
Cox’s string. Runolathe was lightly
scorched.
Employes of Mrs. D. L. Keefer saved
Blandris. Corral Boss, Best Spade. The
Diver and Sligo Branch by throwing
blankets over their heads and leading
them from the stables. Sligo Branch
was severely burned in a fire at the
Aurora, HI., track list year.
Earl Green, a rubber, brought/The
Major, Indian Guide and Meridian East,
owned by Victor Gallo, to safety.
A considerable amount of feed, sad
dles and other gear was lost in the de
stroyed buildings. Mr. Whitney’s loss
In tack and feed was estimated at;
$5,000.
McNally Slightly Burned.
James McNally of Richmond Hills,
N. Y„ who had borrowed $560 to place
on his only horse, Lass o’ Gowrie, was
sleeping beside the animal when the
fire broke out. Clad only in his under
clothing, he made a futile attempt to
save the horse, but was forced to flee.
He was slightly burned.
Lass O’Gowrie, Parchesl and Adriane
G. that died in the fire, were carded to
race today.
The 15 horses that perished were;
Adriane G. and Scipio, owned by
Joseph D. Keith.
Parchesi, Arno and Hljo, owned by
H. C. Cox.
Inlaid, Goulash and El Canoe, owned
by William H. Denham.
Shasta Klan, owned by C. E. Apple
gate.
Lass O’Gowrfc, owned by James Mc-
Nally.
Ladp Joan. New Guinea, My Chum,
Windfall and Edwin 8., owned by Jerry
Murphy.
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‘A IIV WORRY ABOUT *NI> KX-CAXOIOATKS?
TWO-EDGED STAND
SEEN ON TONES LAW
Government Not to Risk Ac
quittals on Weak Cases.
Fight on Traffic.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Instructions to the Federal district
attorneys to select for tests under the
Jones law only "strong cases involving
commercialism" has a double signifi
cance.
First, it means that the Federal Gov- :
emment is not going to risk a series' of
jury trials and acquittals on admitted!?
weak cases, and second, it is taking
note of an aroused public sentiment in
wet centers, which thus far has failed
to distinguish clearly *between the ef
forts of the Federal Government to get
the bootlegger and gangster guilty of
felonies and the prosecution of minor
offenders.
No Signs of Abandoning Law.
The Department of Justice in asking
Federal attorneys to use discretion does
not show any signs of abandoning the
Jones law but is using it for that whleh
it was originally intended—the com
mercial side of the liquor traffic. Boot
leggers heretofore have paid fines and
deducted them as a part of the ex
pense of doing business. Conspiracy
statutes were difficult to handle. And
the courts have been congested with
both major and minor offenses. The
new move is aimed to prevent conges
tion and to concentrate the attention
of juries on those who actually make
a business of violating the law.
The Federal Government is really
issuing a challenge to those lawyers in
New York and elsewhere who have an
nounced their intention of defending
persons charged with violation of the
Jones Law. Would those same lawyers
undertake to defend bootleggers and
gangsters against the severity of the
Jones law? That is the question for
the moment and when the full effect
of the Jones law is thoroughly under
stood there will be time enough in the
judgment of officials here to appeal to
public sentiment to handle persons
who encourage violation of the law by
patronizing those who make a business
of selling liquor.
Against Commercial Cases Now.
Offenses for possessing liquor, viola
tion of the terms of a permit and
probably individual cases of transporta
tion will not for the present be brought
under the Jones’ law to court so that
much of the discussion for the time be-
I ing of the far-flung effect of the new
statute has been brushed aside as pre
mature. Ultimately, however, if the
Jones’la wLssuccessfulin scaring the
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WOM/UUMND FIVE
CHILDREN SUFFOCATE
Perish as They Sleep When Defec
tive Kitchen Stove Sets
Fire to Home.
By the Associated Press.
SOUTH BEND, Ind., AprU 19.—An
old woman and five children were suf
focated as they slept when a defective
kitchen stove set fire to the home of
Harvey Purucker on the outskirts of
this city last night.
The old woman was Mrs. Mary
Cooley, 78. The children, all sons of
Mr. and Mrs. PurUcker, and Mrs.
Cooley’s grandsons, were Aloysius, 15; |
John 13; Edward, 10, and Louis, 8. A
girl, an orphan cousin, Katherine Guard,
12 years old, also perished.
Fred Gertmer, a neighbor, saw a red
glow in the windows of the house, a
two-story frame dwelling, shortly before
11 o’clock. He tried to enter by break
ing a window, but finding the smoke
too dense summoned the fire depart
ment.
With the bla» soon under control)
the firemen found the bodies in sleep
ing rooms on the upper floor. Their
features were composed, Indicating they’
had died in sleep.
The parents had left the place early
in the evening, taking their youngest
child, Rita, 3. The oldest Hiaughter.
Mary, who is I*. had been left to look
after the house, but left to meet a
friend after the others of the household
had retired. „
Mr. and Mrs. Purucker and , Mary
had returned to their home as the fire
men were carrying the bodies of Pur
ucker’s mother and children through
the crowd that witnessed the tragedy.
Coroner C. B. Crumpacher called an
inquest today. '* -• ’
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Mail Man Answers
“Kick” by Picture of
Snow-Covered Home
By the Associated Press.
The Post Office Department
recently forwarded a complaint
about mail deliveries on the route
from Paradise. N. D„ to Watagua,
8. D„ to Carrier C. E. McKean,
and has received in reply a pic
ture and a caption which are
considered an adequate answer
to the complaint.
The picture was of Mr. McKean
sitting on the roof of his house
trying to scrape the snow off the
chimney top. The caption read:
“Weather 42 below zero—arrow
points to where chimney ought
to be.”
CAPITAL AIR MAIL
SERVICE DOUBLED
Additional Plane to Operate
Between Washington and
New York.
Air mail service between New York
and Washington will be doubled, ef
fective May 5, and a stopover at Balti
more will be added If a suitable field is
provided in that city.
The increased service, according to
Assistant Postmaster General W. I.
Glover, in charge of air mail, is being
Inaugurated as a "shuttle,” due to the
doubling of the transcontinental service
between New York and San Francisco,
beginning May 1.
Capital Airport Is Urged. ..
“Washington is assuming an im
portant place In the air mail picture.”
Mr. Glover said, "and it behooves the
District of Columbia to establish an air
port as early as possible.”
The new schedule provides that an
additional plane leave New York at 5
am., arriving in Washington at 7 a.m.
The return trip will be from Washing
ton at 6:45 p.m., arriving in New York
at 9 p.m. in time to connect with the
transcontinental line.
Baltimore Prospects Bright
Mr. Glover said that the prospect of
a new municipal airport in Baltimore
seems bright. The department has asked
the city officials at Baltimore and the
Pitcairn Aviation Co., which operates
the mail line, to provide a temporary
landing place at Logan Field until Bal
timore can be made a permanent stop
over.
The inauguration of the doubled serv
ice from Washington means direct serv
ice to New York, since this city now is
used as a stop-over for planes coming
to and from Richmond. It will not in
terfere, however, with the through serv
ice to Atlanta and Miami, connecting
with the South American line.
BRAVES BEAT DODGERS.
Boston Puts Across Bun In Ninth
to Win.
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April 19.—The Boston
Braves defeated Brooklyn in a morning
game as part of a Patriots day double
bill by a score of 6-to-5, shoving across
the winning run in the last half of the
ninth inning.
2,000,000 CHINESE DIE IN YEAR
IN PLAGUE-RIDDEN PROVINCE
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| By the Associated Press,
j SHANGHAI, China, April 19.—With
1 drought, earthquake and flood added to
j the disasters of religious wars and
j famine, the population of Kansu
I Province has been reduced from 9,000,-
000 to 7,000,000 within a year. Straw,
dried leaves, bark, cotton seed and
thistles have become staple articles of
food in the famine districts and those
who have survived hunger have perished
in thousands by the sword wielded by
raiding, fanatical Mohammedans.
Eighty thousand troops, ineffectual in
’checking the uprisings, remain in the
province helping to devour 1 the small
supply of food which remains.
Even Earth as Food.
In one city the people, unable to find
even grass, ate the earth on a hill. Their
appetite was appeased and word spread
that the gods had answered the prayers
for help. Hundreds of others flocked to
the hill, ate of the earth and died.
The price of grain in the stricken
amts has gone up to $l6O a picul, or
153 pounds. Hie highest price reached
in any previous famine was S3O a picul.
It Is estimated that $38,000,000 will be
NATION WILL HEAR
WILBUR AND NYE
Problems of West Will Be
Discussed by Secretary
and Senator.
Problems of the West, which In recent
years have been increasing and demand
ing attention of Government officials,
will be discussed tomorrow night by Dr.
Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of In
terior. and Senator Gerald P. Nye of
North Dakota, chairman of the commit
tee on public lands, who will be heard in
I the National Radio Forum* program
sponsored by the Columbia Broadcast
ing System and arranged by The Star.
These speakers will be heard through
out the country on <a Nation-wide
hook-up.
Dr. Wilbur is one of President
Hoover’* moat , intimate friends and
trusted advisers. The two have been
closely associated since their college
days at Stanford University, of which
Dr. Wilbur later became president.
President Hoover regards the Interior
. post as one of the "key positions” of
the cabinet, and was gratified at secur
ing it for a man of Dr. Wilbur's caliber.
■ The new Secretary is a physician of in
; | ternatkmal repute and an executive of
demonstrated ability. His career as
president of Stanford University has
' been marked by many administrative
■ achievements, including the mastery of
! fiscal entanglements that threatened
; the financial stability of the university.
■ His executive capacities came to light
> further when he served under Mr.
Hoover as chief of the division of food
conservation in the Food Administra
tion.
Demands Oil Conservation.
His more recent efforts in conserving
the Nation’s oil supply have focused
, public attention upon him once more.
, One of his first acts as head of the De
partment of the Interior was the pro
. mulgation of a drastic policy of oil con
: servatkm, emphasized by cancellation
• of many permits for prospecting already
Issued. He has stood his ground in the
face of bitter criticism from affected
interests.
’ Among Secretary Wilbur’s other
i duties are supervision of the national
I park system, the Indian Bureau. Recla
i mation Service, Pension Bureau. Bu
i reau of Education and similar services.
Dr. Wilbur was honored by President
Coolidge in 1928 by appointment as
■ one of the delegates to represent this
country at the Pan-American Confer
■ ence to be held in Havana, Cubg. Dr.
• Wilbur is a brother of Curtis D. Wil
i bur. who was Secretary of the Navy i
; under President Coolidge.
For many years Dr. Wilbur has been
. interested in educational and welfare
; work, and it is understood that one of
President Hoover’s reasons for appoint
ing him to head the Interior Depart
ment was to bring about the organiza
tion of a bureau of welfare and educa
tion. It has been suggested that should
Congress create a new department to
1 take over public education and welfare
President Hoover would appoint Dr.
Wilbur to head such a department
Few young men in this country have
i gone as far as Senator Nye, who at 37
r years of age has been a member of the
. Senate for four years. Few young Sen
; ators have advanced to such important
e committee assignments in so brief a
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needed to provide food for Kansu until
t the next harvest time, which will be in
, June, but there will be no harvest un
, less seed grain is sent to the farmers.
and seed grain sent without food would
i be devoured.
Bond Issue Authorised.
| The central government has author
; ized the issue of famine relief bonds and
■ has called on the provincial and local
authorities to assist in raising expenses
> for relief work. The response has been
meager. Os the $50,000,000 required,
only $625,000 has been arranged for.
History shows that from the year 636,
when the Nestorian missionaries arrived
i in the country, until the present time,
; there have been 246 disasters of major
size in China. These do not include
food shortages or guerrilla warfare, for
the latter are. to the Chinese, part of
i normal life. Millions die, but the race
' continues to live, to multiply and out-
I grow the power of the land to support
i it.
i One of the first expedients of famine
sufferers is to sell the women and chil
i dren to those whom they hope can give
■ them food. At present the market
I price of marriageable girts in stricken
. provinces is from $3.50 to $7.50. There
! are few buyers,
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Within, the Hour”
The Star’s carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Yefterday’i Circulation, 114,386
(A 3 ) Means Associred Press.
Mexican Flyer Dies
Trying to Prevent
Insult to Morrow
Aviator Slain by Band
Putting Up Posters At
tacking Ambassador.
B r the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, April 19.—A Mexican
army aviator has lost his life In pre
vention of an Insult to his country's
President, Emilio Portes GU, and United
States Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow.
And, by a peculiar twist of Irony, the
Insult which he sought to avert mate
rla>rr-.; anyway just as his life ebbed
and became extinct. •
Wednesday night Lieut. Joaquin Gar
cia Bolanos saw a group of men pasting
some posters to walls on the outskirts
of Mexico City. He stopped to read one
and saw on it the statement that Presi
dent Portes Gil and Ambasador Morrow
were! conniving “to destroy Mexico,” a
subsequent sentence describing Mr.
Morrow a> the enemy of this country.
Lieut. Bolanos remonstrated with the
men and attempted to take the posters
from them. One then drew his pistol 1
and shot the young aviator, inflicting j
wounds from which he died early today. '
The entire group escaped.
Police, at about the time he was'
dying, discovered walls about, the city
had been covered with hundreds of the '
posters, and immediately set about re
moving them.
Ambassador Morrow said nothing of
the affair at his usual week-day press
conference Thursday evening, and it was
not until late last night that the refer
ence to him and to President Portes Gil
was revealed by the police.
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Feature.
The Senate committee on agriculture
will report the farm relief bill to the
. Senate Monday containing the de-!
benture plan of dealing with the ex- !
portable surplus crops, in the opinion 1
of members of the committee today.!
Even a recommendation from President j
Hoover aaginst the debenture plan would ;
not move the committee to strike the j
! proposal from the bill, it was intimated.;
j If th; debenture plan, which is be
: lieved to be opposed by the President,
, | is stricken from the bill, it will have
to be killed in the Senate Itself, in all
i probabilities. To accompish its death
i in the Senate, it is likely that the full
I j weight of the administration, will have
to be thrown against it.
1 j Reports from the Department of Ag
t riculture. the Treasury Department and
i possibly the Department of Commerce
on the feasibility and advisability of
adopting the debenture plan are ex
pected. Doubtless they will be used as
clubs against the adoption of the de
benture plan, which has shown signs
of becoming the bane of the present
administration, just as the equalization
; fee of the old McNary-Haugen farm
; bill was the bane of the Coolidge ad-'
ministration.
Bill Agreed Upon.
The Senate bill has already been
agreed upon in committee and unless
another meeting is considered neces
sary. it will be reported to the Senate
as it was introduced. If another meet
ing is demanded, it probably will be
held Monday morning. The plan now i
is to report the bill to the Senate Mon- j
day and have it made the unfinished
: business.
The administration might have pre
vented the inclusion of the debenture
plan in the Senate bill had it taken a
stand against the proposal when it
was first advanced. Promises to study
the bill at the White House, however,
encouraged some of the members ©f the
committee from the West and the South
to go ahead and place the proposition
■in the Senate bill. Even today, these
members insist they have yet to hear
from Mr. Hoover whether he is for or
against the debenture plan. Having
taken the step which placed the
debenture plan in the bill, it may now
be difficult for the Senators to throw
it out.
The debenture plan will have the sup- :
port of a considerable group of Repub- I
lican Senators from the West. Should :
the Democrats solidly support the plan
it might be kept in the bill. However,
some of thf Democrats will not support
it, among them Senator David I. Walsh
of Massachusetts. Southern Democrats
from cotton-growing States which will
benefit by an increased price of cotton
are likely to line up for the plan, it was
said.
< McNary CaUs With Bill.
Senator McNary called at the White
House today with a copy of the tenta
tive Senate bill containing the deben
ture proposal. He did not see the Pres
ident, but left the copy with Walter
Newton, administrative assistant to Mr.
Hoover.
With the new farm bill barely launch
ed upon its course through Congress,
some of its advocates are putting their
heads together to work out away of
providing the $500,000,000 it would au
thorize for the Federal Farm Board.
The measure. Itself, would simply au
thorize and not provide the appropria
tion. following the customary lines of
legislative procedure. The House ap
propriations committee which usually
passes upon all Government expendi
tures and prepares the bill 3 making
funds available, however, has not been
organized for the special session.
Two Ways to Get Fund.
While, in the ordinary course of
events, the matter could be brought
before the appropriations committee at
the opening of the regular session,
some of the farm leaders in the House
feel that because of the emergency na
ture of the legislation and the desire
of the President to l-ave the board able
to function for marketing thte year’s
crop, its fund s’tovM he provided before
that time.
_Two ways have been indicated in
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Bank Statements
Washington clearing house, $4,425,-
544.95.
Treasury balance, $290,699,892.55.
New York clearing house exchange,
$1,319,000,000.
New York clearing house balance,
$133,000,000.
Radio Programs—Page 38*
TWO CENTS
BIG NAVY IS URGED
BY DUE MEMBERS
IN DENSE STAND
U. S. Congress Called on by
Society to Fulfill Terms
of 5-5-3 Pact.
RECOGNITION OF SOVIET
EMPHATICALLY OPPOSED
Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart of Ohio Is
Elected President General
by 400 Majority.
Calling on the United States Congress
! to provide "as speedily as possible a
i Navy appropriate to American dignity
| and power,” the National Society,
i Daughters of the American Revolution.
1 today wrote into its record the most
militant stand yet taken for national
defense.
On the eve of a new administration
of their affairs, delegates to the Thirty
eighth Continental Congress adopted
resolutions urging the following:
1. Fulfillment by the United States
Government of the 5—5—3 ratio with
reference to capital ships agreed upon
at the Washington Conference on
Limitation of Armaments in 1921.
2. Calling on the Women’s Patriotic
I Conference on National Defense, in
i which the society participates, “to de
| clare Its emphatic opposition to the
i recognition of Soviet Russia” by this
! Government.
3. Urging the "enactment of an oath
j of allegiance to the United States as
| one of the qualifications requisite for
teachers in the schools and colleges of
our land.”
4. Reiterating its position favoring
the immigration act of 1924, including
the so-called national origins clause.
5. Calling on the Women’s Patriotic
| Conference on National Defense to re
| affirm its recommendation "for a strong
i support of the Chemical Warfare Service
| and commend that service for its per-
I sistent and effective resistance hereto
' sere to all attacks of radicals and others
; opposed to an efficient national defense
I by the United States.”
Reserve Forces Commended.
Resolutions indorsing the “splendid
i movements” of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps and the Civilian Mili
tary Training camps: a petition to the
United States Congress to officially
adopt "The Star Spangled Banner” as
the national anthem, and resolutions
appealing to Congress to appropriate
funds necessary to restore tne frigate
Constitution were adopted.
Participating in the Congress’ en
thusiastic reception of the resolution)
was Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart c!
Cincinnati. Ohio, who was elected yes
terday to succeed Mrs. Alfred J. Bros
seau as president general of the so
ciety.
Mrs. Hobart defeated Mrs. Julius
Young Talmadge of Athens, Ga., re
ceiving 1.321 votes of 2.249 cast, and
carrying into office with her 10 women
who will form her “cabinet” In ad
ministering the national society for the
next three years. Her margin of victory
was about 400 votes, in one of the
most spirited elections in the organiza
tion’s history.
Mrs. Hobart’s Ticket.
Elected with Mrs. Hobart were: Mrs.
| William Rick Painter. Missouri, ehap
; iain general. 1.365 votes: Mrs. Charles
! Humphrey Bissell. Connecticut, record
ing secretary, 1,318 votes; Miss Margaret
B Barnett, Pensylvania. corresponding
secretary. 1,339 votes; Mrs. William A.
Becker, New Jersey, organizing secre
tary, 1.386 votes: Mrs. Harriet Vaughn
Rigdon, Indiana, treasurer general. 1,340
votes: Mrs. Josiah A. Van Orsdel of
Washington. D. C.. registrar general,
1.388 votes; Mrs. Flora Myers Glllentlne.
Tennessee, historian general; Miss Anne
Lang. Oregon, reporter general to
Smithsonian Institution, 1.359 votes:
Mrs. Russell W. Magna, Massachusetts,
librarian general. 1.513 votes. and Mrs.
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14 KILLED, 20 INJURED
IN WRECK IN CHILE
Locomotive Loses Wheels in Unex
plained Manner and Cars Are
Filed in Disorder.
By the Associated Press.
SANTIAGO. Chile. April 19.—Four
teen persons were killed and twenty in
jured in a railroad wreck between
Iquique and Antofagasta late last night.
The locomotive of the train lost its
wheels In some unexplained fashion,
and the cars which it was drawing piled
Into it and overturned. A relief train
carrying physicians and Red Cross
equipment was dispatched from Baque
dano station to aid the Injured.
MARION TALLEY DECLINES
160-ACRE FARM OFFER
Parsons, Xans., Banker Proffered
Tract on Condition That
She Live on It.
By the Associated Press.
PARSONS. Kans.. April 19.—Marion
Talley has declined with thanks the
offer from Harry A. Btyant, Parsons
banker, of a 160-acre farm to which
the Kansas City soprano might retire
from the Metropolitan Opera tage.
The offer was made on condition that
Miss Talley live on the farm.
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