WEATHER.
(O. a Weather Bureau Poreeeet.)
Snow and much colder, probably fol
lowed by clearing tonight; tomorrow fair
and colder; lowest temperature about 14
degrees. Temperatures—Highest. 34, at
noon today; lowest. 32, at 4 am. today.
Full report on page 9.
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15
No. 31,312.
NAVAL DISCUSSION
IS GROUNDED UPON
PRE-PARLEY NOTES
OF BRITAIN-FRANCE
Groundwork Is Laid for Five-
Power Conference by De
cision by London Leaders
in Armament Talk.
JAPAN AND ITALY SHOW
SIGNS OF IMPATIENCE
t ______
* Tokio’t Rigid Demands and Rome’s
Vagueness First Problems to Be
Met—Dinner of Delegates Helps
to Iron Out Wrinkles, but Talk
Held Secret.
Br the Associsted Press. *
LONDON. January 22.—Pre
mier Tardieu of France today
requested the Associated Press
to issue a denial of a report
published in the United States
that in an interview he had
said Great Britain and the
United States were far apart
on a naval treaty and that he
was acting as mediator on sev
eral outstanding points.
“This report is absurd,” said
the French premier, who added
that he had given no such in
terview and asked that a cate
gorical denial be made of it.
(This reported interview was
not carried by the Associated
Press.)
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago DaUy
stews. Copyright, 1930.
LONDON, England, January 22.
.—The French and British have
* just agreed to take as a basis of
the negotiations the Franco-Brit
ish memoranda exchanged before
the London Naval Conference.
Some points of agreement have
already been found in the ar
rangement, but others still require
elucidation.
In view of the importance of
the questions involved, it has been
decided to bring the United
States, Japan and Italy into these
conversations, which, it is esti
mated, will continue at least until
Friday. This Will, tfcuJrefore, be
the essential work of the confer
ence for the present. -
Tomorrow the full session, although
' private, will, it is said, be largely for
mal, each delegation limiting itself to
only the most general expression of its
national views.
Vagueness of Program.
Up to the time of the foregoing de
cision the chief task of the delegates
had been that of reconciling the French
to the vagueness of the program. Every
body knows in a general way that the
aim of the conference is to limit, and,
if possible, reduce the number of auxil
iary ships, but nobody seemed ready to
offer any definite proposals.
This vagueness, which still exists, has
’ certain advantages, for it prevents any
one from taking too rapidly positive po
sitions from which retirement afterward
would be difficult. This is what the
Japanese have done by announcing their
demands before they left Tokio and re
peating them with great firmness ever
since. It is also what the Italians have
. done, to some extent, by demanding
' parity with France.
But the»British and the Americans
both have avoided this step. They feel
that it is better to go slow and work
things out gradually.
The French, however, have been im
patient. They have complained that
the British never sent them the detailed
proposals promised last October. They
have protested that since their arrival
Saturday, they have been unable to
learn anything definite about anything.
They had supposed that the British and
the Americans had made an agreement
and were ready with concrete proposals.
But both the British and the Americans
have assured them that this is not so;
that no concrete proposals are ready;
that the figures employed in the Anglo-
American conversations were merely
1 tentative, and that no program for
making the conference a success has
been drawn in advance.
Surmises Not Correct.
Thus the French, who feared that
they were going to be confronted with a
solid Anglo-American line-up, found no
line-up at all, and Instead of having to
listen to definite proposals from the
others, they were asked to make definite
proposals themselves.
But this they were not prepared to
do, until they could find out something
, about what the British and th. Amerl
(Continued on Page 4, Column 3.)
BURR BUYS SHARE
IN WESTERN RAILWAY
Deal Involving Denver and Salt
Lake Line Considered Im
portant Skirmish.
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Br the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 22.—George
H. Burr, New York banker, last night
announced he had purchased for $3,-
000,000 a 40 per cent Interest in the
Denver and Balt Lake Railroad Co.
Mr. Burr said the stock, purchased
from the voting trustees of the road,
consists of 20.000 shares out of a total
common stock capitalization of 50,000.
“Others are interested in the deal,”
•aid Mr. Burr, “and possibly an an
nouncement will be made about it with
in the next few days.”
The New York Times’ story of the
’•ale says:
“There were many guesses in railroad
eircls in the financial district as to the
v • Identity of the principals, particularly
' since the deal was regarded ae an im
portant skirmish in the railroad battle
I in the Far West for control of important
transcontinental routes. One of the
I guesses by those who knew of the deal
; was that it had been purchased for
[ the account of Arthur Curtiss James.
Entered as second class matter
post office, Washington, D. C.
Police Efficiency
Rises to Heights
In Chicago—-Once
By the Associated Prase.
CHICAGO, January 22 —The
Police Department last night
scaled the heights of service and
Mrs. Mary Tiller was delighted.
One of four men grabbed her
purse and fled with his compan
ions in an automobile. Mrs. Tiller
boarded a street car and went di
rectly to a police station.
“My purse,” she began, “was
"Yes, yes, of course,” said the
sergeant. “Here it is. And here
are the men who took it.”
A police squad had arrested the
men on suspicion, found the
purse and a pistol, and had taken
them to the station to await ar
rival of the victim.
GRATEFUL RELIEF
FOLLOWS ANXIETY
| London Sees Opening of Par
i ley Amid Friendly
Spirits.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM""WILE.
By Cable to The Star.
LONDON, January 22.—From one
end of London to the other the opinion
is that the Naval Conference got off
to a most auspicious start. In all the
delegations grateful sighs of relief are
audible over the fact that yesterday’s
formal opening passed into history
without a single disturbing suggestion
from any quarter. The good temper
and good will essential to Ironing out
the conference’s innumerable difficulties
were manifest in the speeches of every
chief delegate.
If there was any other thing resem
bling a bombshell it was Secretary
Stimson’s declaration that the Amer
ican delegation has come to London for
business and is ready to stay here until
the business is done. His ensuing
assertion, “our peoples demand of us
a success,” meaning all the peoples rep
resented at the conference, makes a
deep impression. It is echoed with
particular fervency In the British
press, even in “blue water” of the big
navy school, hiterto more or less
lukewarm toward the conference.
Secretary Stlmson has now practically
assumed the responsibility for such
driving force as may be necessary to
produce results.
His conference colleagues seem to have
no doubt but that he will supply it.
American zeal for “success” was
promptly exemplified In last night’s
private meeting between Secretary
Stlmson and Ambassador Morrow with
Prime Minister Macdonald, Foreign
Minister Henderson, Premier Tardieu
and M. Briand. The meeting was held
on premises whereof much is likely to
be heard during the next few weeks.
Unbeknown to conference officials
generally, Keith Merrill, diplomatic of
ficer of the State Department at Wash
ington, in charge of the building pro
gram for foreign embassies, legations
and consulates, quietly arrived at Lon
don ahead of the American delegation.
Accompanied by Mrs. Merrill he took
possession of a private mansion on
Stratton street, just off Piccadilly, only
a stone’s throw from the delegation’s
official headquarters at the Rltz Hotel.
The house is fully staffed with English
servants, prepared for entertaining on
short notice and on an extensive scale.
In the Merrill home it is planned to
hold a continuous series of heart-to
heart meetings between the American
delegates and those of other powers for
duscussion which can be conducted bet
(Continued on Page 4, Column 6.)
LAND OWNERSHIP
CLAIM IS DISPUTED
Hyde Aiks Dismissal of Sait In
volving Section of Proposed
Memorial Highway.
Asserting that construction of the
memorial highway to connect Mount
Vemon with the Arlington Memorial
Bridge for the celebration of the 200th
anniversary of the birth of George
Washington in 1932 Is In aid of navi
gation and disputing the claim of own
ership of the Washington Airport to
the land along which the road is being
built, Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of
Agriculture, today asked the District
Supreme Court to dismiss the suit for
injunction recently filed against him to
prevent further dredging of the Po
tomac River 1 in front of the property
of the airport concern at the south
end of the Highway Bridge in Virginia.
Through United States Attorney Leo
A. Rover and Assistant United States
Attorney Neil Burkinshaw, the Secre
tary of Agriculture cited the Joint reso
lution of Congress for the construction
of the roadway.
Secretary Hyde denies that any ri
parian rights of the company are being
violated by the Government work, and
asserts that the United States owns all
the land to the high water mark on the
Virginia shore under patents to Lord
Baltimore from the crown which de
scended to the State of Maryland before
the cession to the District of Columbia,
and which has been upheld in the case
of U. 8. vs. Morris in the United States
Supreme Court.
The company had claimed that it
bought the land because of its long
frontage on the Potomac River with the
Idea of establishing bathing and boating
privileges in addition to its airport facil
ities, and asserted that its approach to
the river was being Interfered with by
the dredging.
I 1
11 HOURS IN CASKET CONVINCES
SLEUTH HE’S FAILURE AS CORPSE
Detective Hides in Undertaker’s Garage to Detect
Bootlegger, but Mission Fails.
Eleven hours in a casket amid the
funeral surroundings of an undertaker’s
garage in the 900 block of H street con
vinced Detective James A. Mostyn that
he was a failure as a corpse, although
he felt he could do .pretty well as a
mourner.
The detective arranged himself within
the coffin yesterday to watch for the
return of a bootlegger who had left 386
quarts of whisky concealed in the ga
rage.
With only a pocket cigarette lighter
for warmth, ana only a small crack in
the lid of the coffin for light and air,
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J
W\z Wbmim ifef.
V J V ' V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
1 WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1930—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ***
CRITICAL SITUATION
MENACES CHICAGO
AS DEBTS INCREASE
Citizens’ Committee Fails to
Obtain Emergency Funds
to Meet Pay Rolls.
GOVERNMENT COLLAPSE
FORESEEN BY STRAWN
Financial Finch Is Felt by Insti
tutions—Workers Wait foj
Salary Checks. s'
Br th* Associated Pres^."
CHICAGO, January 22.—The finan
cial crisis of city, county and school
board wan-described today by Silas H.
Straw*.'chairman of the citizens’ com
mittee, as “critically desperate.”
The local governments, he said, fol
lowing a three-day search by his com
mittee for “away out,” are “flat
broke,” with no prospect of any aid
from the banks. Efforts to induce sub
stantial property owners to buy tax an
ticipation warrants which they could
use later as payment of their 1928 tax
bills, also have been unsuccessful.
“Complete collapse of the local gov
ernments” is only “a matter of days”
unless some means of producing cash Is
found, Btrawn warned. Even a special
session of the Legislature, he said,
could not get under way quickly enough
to forestall the crisis. Such a pro
cedure has been suggested as a possible
remedy.
Hospitals Feel Pineh.
The local governments, Strawn said,
are $290,000,000 in debt, and this is
costing an estimated $50,000 a day in
interest.
“I do not believe the public grasps
as yet what a really serious situation
this is,” Strawn declared. “I hope that
before the poor people who are In our
institutions either starve or freeze to
death our citizens will come to a reali
zation of the existing conditions and
do what they can to help.”
The pinch already has been felt, he
pointed out. In the Cook County Hos
pital, the Municipal Tuberculosis Sani
tarium, the Blind Relief Fund, the
Mothers’ Pension Fund, the Public
Library and other philanthropic insti
tutions.
Pay Soils Due Tomorrow.
In the county no pay rolls have been
met for a month. Another pay roll, due
tomorrow, will not be met, officials said.
In the city, the last pay day of police
men and firemen found the treasury un
able to tesue checks Since January 1
no citypay roll has been paid, or bills
met. The school board is behind one
pay roll and has announced it will be
unahU to meet the next pay roll, due
Friday, when 13,000 had hoped to get
salaries totaling $1,750,000.
The county controller has informed
the Strawn committee that by March 1
the county will owe $2,250,000 in
salaries and $3,215,000 In other
liabilities.
THREE MEN ARRESTED
IN INSURANCE FRAUD
IT. S. Inspectors Hold Attempt Is
Being Made to Collect for
Fictitious Character.
Br th* Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla., January 22.—Arrest of
three men yesterday on charges of using
the mails to defraud In connection with
an attempt to col’jct $50,000 life insur
ance for the death of an allegedly fic
titious man was reported last night by
Federal agents.
The men, the agents said, are John
B. Nichols, Miami attorney; his brother,
J. W. Nichols, Houston, Tex., and Wil
liam Elbert Smith, Lakeland, Fla.
William Edward Smith, who United
States postal inspectors said was a fic
titious character, was said to have been
drowned in Biseayne Bay while fishing
June 13 with the Nichols brothers.
The life of the allegedly fictitious
Smith, the Inspectors said, had been
Insured in November, 1926, under a
$25,000 double Indemnity policy. The
body was never recovered and a civil
suit is pending in United States District
Court against the insurance company
for SIOO,OOO.
Inspector A. Ward of Tampa, who,
with Inspector Frank Sanford of Lake
land, made the arrest, said that month
ly payments had been made on the in
surance policy regularly from November,
1928, until May, 1929, and that the al
leged drowning in the bay occurred
June 13, a few days before the usual
period of grace had expired.
, Their investigations, they said, showed
that a man named Smith married a
Georgia woman in Waycross June 9.
The records In the Georgia city were
2ned W. E. Smith. The Inspectors
d that tiie couple cauie to Jackson
ville that day and that the next morn
ing the man abruptly ended the honey
moon trip, telling his wife that he was
going to Miami on a fishing trip. His
death in Norris Cut, in Biseayne Bay,
they said was supposed to have occurred
three days later. •>
he addled away the hours and wondered
when his quarry would show up, if at
Mostyn had been detailed by Sergt.
O. J. Letterman, head of the police
vice squad, to make the arrest, and
Sergt. Letterman locked him inside the
garage at 7 o'clock yesterday morning.
At 6 o’clock last night Letterman re
turned, let himself in and retrieved his'
mournful assistant from his hiding
place. s
"Brrrr,” muttered the detective as
he clattered out "Say, but.it was cold
in there. Maybe I’ve pneu
monia; • • • anyhow. It seems 1 can
h?ar my casket ‘coffin.’ ”
The still at large.
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10 DEAD, 3 INJURED
AS TRAIN WRECKS
: OHIO SCHOOL BUS
i Nine Children and Driver Are
Victims of Grade Cross
ing Tragedy.
VEHICLE IS DRTVEN
INJO ENGINE'S PATH
Mother Sees Two of Family Hurled
to Death by Force of
Impact.
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, January 22.—The
worst railroad crossing accident In Ohio
In a year today killed nine small chil
dren and the driver of the bus in which
they were riding, at Sheldron road, near
Berea, Ohio, 15 miles from Cleveland.
One other child was seriously injured.
Rushing toward Chicago 45 miles an
hour, a New York Central mail train
struck the bus squarely in the middle.
Wreckage and bodies were strewn along
the tracks for 500 feet before the train
could be stopped.
The bus driver had halted at the edge
of the crossing and waited for a freight
train to pass. A moment later he drove
Into the path of the mall train. There
was a crash, a grinding of ripping metal
and wood, and then the screams of
dying and Injured children.
The Identified dead —Don Taylor,
driver; William Davidson. 10; Rita Ze
llnski, 9; Dorothy Zelinskl, 11; Vincent
Zelinski, 6, brother and sister of Rita;
William Pastorlk, 10; Vernon Davidson,
7; Evelyn Kaltenback, 7: Jacob Walters,
12, and his sister, Juanita Walters, 9.
Ethel Davidson, 10, who was injured,
has a chance to live.
Train Crew Aids Sufferers.
As quickly as the train could be
stopped the crew and others aboard
iumped off and rendered to the surviv
ing children all possible aid.
Trucks and automobiles were com
mandeered and took the injured to
Boca Hospital and the dead to two
morgues.
The crossing was considered danger
ous because there were four tracks, but
the weather was bright and visibility
was good.
The scene of the accident was in a
sparsely settled section, however, which,
with a long, straight, level right of way,
gives the trains a chance to make high
speed.
J. H. Beck, a section foreman work
ing on the tracks 1,000 feet west of
the crossing, said he saw the bus stop
Just before it was driven In the path
of the rushing locomotive.
A moment later, he said, he saw
wreckage and bodies hurled Into the
air.
Mother Sees Children Killed.
"According to Rudolph Ursprung, a
conductor, of Berea, who was one of
the first to arrive at the scene, there
was a freight train passing east over
the crossing as the bus approached. It
was believed Taylor waited for the
freight train to pass and then drove his
bus In front cf the fast mall, which the
might train probably had hidden.
Mrs. Rosie Davidson of Brook Park
Village was a witness of the accident
in which two of the children killed
were her own. She was about a quarter
of a mile away when the crash oc
curred. Rushing to the crossing she
found the bodies of her children in the
wreckage. Screaming In grief, she was
taken home in a state of collapse.
Hand, the engineer, said, “I didn't
see the bus until we hit it."
Trainmaster A. H. Hancock of Elyria,
who questioned Hand when the train
later arrived at Elyria, said Hand told
him the fireman was putting in coal
Just before the crash, which prevented
the fireman from seeing the bus.
Hand said the train was traveling
45 miles an hour. It consisted of one
passenger coach and several mail and
express cars.
Pathos was added to tragedy when
mothers and fathers of the dead and
Injured children commenced to arrive.
Cries of anguish were heard as parents
found their loved ones dead or learned
they had been taken to hospitals seri
ously injured.
20 KILLED IN MONTH.
Bus Accident Toll Mounts With Fourth
Ohio Crash.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 22 (IP). —
The school bus-train accident at Berea
today in which 10 persons were killed
brought the death toll from bus acci
dents in Ohio to 20 and the injured to
nearly 30, in less than a month.
Seven persons were killed and 11
Injured January 3 when a Pennsylvania
train demolished a school bus at Shreve,
Ohio. On the same day 10 persons
were injured, two seriously, in a collision
between a bus and a truck at Bellevue.
Two persons were killed and several in
jured on January 2 when a bus skidded
from the highway at West Alexandria.
January 21, 1929, a Lake Shore elec
tric train struck and demolished a bus
at a crossing near Bellevue, killing 21
persons.
SENATORS DECLINE
TO TAKE HAITI LEAD
President Is Offered Appropriation,
but Knit Appoint Hit Own
Commission.
By the Associated Press.
Declining to authorize the appoint
ment of a commission to study Haitian
conditions, as requested by President
Hoover, the Senate foreign relations
committee today approved a substitute
proposal merely authorizing tp* ex
penditure of $50,000 for
ston If the President wishes to name
one. S
It was the unanimous view of the
committee that Jthc President had the
power to appoint any commission he
desired and* that there was no neces
sity for congressional action.
TWs'decislon was reached after some
opposition was expressed to the execu
tive branch calling upon the legisla
‘ tive branch to take the initiative in
such matters.
Congress some time ago made an in
quiry into Haitian conditions. The
House already has approved appoint
ment of a Haitian commission, and If
the Senate upholds its foreign rela
tions committee, a conference between
the two chambers will be necessary.
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D.C. DEVELOPMENT
DEBATED IN HOUSE
Cramton Bill Authorizes $23,-
000,000 Advance for Park
Acquisitions.
The House rules committee today
granted two hours for debate on the
Cramton bill to develop the George
Washington Memorial parkway from
Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to
Great Falls and to extend Rock Creek
and Anacostia parks. This bill has al
ready been favorably reported by the
House committee on public 'buildings
and grounds.
It authorizes an immediate appro
priation of $23,000,000 from the Fed
eral Treasury. $16,000,000 of which is to
be advanced for acquisition of park and
playground sites in Washington, to be
paid back at the rate of $1,000,000 an
nually from District revenues.
• Seven million dollars is authorized as
the Federal contribution for acquisition
of sites for parkway development in
Maryland and Virginia. The parcels to
to* acquired for the memorial parkway
would be bought on a 50-50 basis be
tween the Federal Government and the
States, local communities, or private
contributions. The land to be acquired
for the Anacostia and Rock Creek park
way extensions would be acquired two
thirds by the State and one-third by
the Federal Government.
MORE SNOW HERE
WEATHER FORECAST
Temperature Decline and Clearing
Skies Tonight Is Prediction
for Capital.
With the streets barely free of icy
deposits left by a previous storm, ,a
three-inch snowfall was forecast for
Washington this afternoon and early
tonight, followed by a sharp decline in
temperatures and clearing skies.
The Weather Bureau expects the snow
flurries which developed early today to
continue through the forepart of the
night. A minimum of 14 degrees, or
an 18-point drop in 24 hours, is fore
cast for tomorrow morning.
The mercury stood at the 32 degrees
early today and slightly lower levels
are anticipated in the afternoon.
Fair and continued cold is seen for
tomorrow, with scant prospect of a
thaw. The high extreme yesterday was
33 degrees and the low extreme, re
corded at midnight during a brief snow
flurry, was 27 degrees.
The Middle West and East are ex
periencing temperatures generally lower
than normal for this time of year, al
though there has been little precipita
tion.
The extreme cold wave, which reached
deep into the Golf Coast country, and
sent the mercury tumbling 14‘ degrees
at Galveston yesterday, had abated
somewhat today, although Galveston
had a minimum of 22 degrees.
The coldest spot in the United States
early today was Charles City, lowa,
where a local disturbance 6ent the
temperature down to 30 degrees below
zero.
COLD GRIPS NATION. •
Associated Press dispatches today tell
of increasing cold and blizzard weather
in many wide areas of the country.
Little or no relief is in sight.
The Taxas Panhandle reported 1 veto
temperature, frigid conditions extending
south to the Gulf. It was zerd In Okla
homa City. Ice reigned over, the Pa
cific Northwest. The town bf Cathla
met, on the Washington • shore of the
frozen Columbia Rlyspv'was isolated.
Chicago is prqinued 10 below tonight.
Milwaukee recorded 10 below last night.
Nebraska bfd an extreme of 22 below.
Two persons froze to death in Chicago.
In the South, It was below freezing
in Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.
There was snow In Arkansas.
TOTS START TRAIN TRIP.
"
Girls, 8 and 4, on Beeond Trans- 1
continental Journey Alone.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., January 22
UP). —Lillian, 8, and Margaret Tourgee,
4, started their sfco transcontinental
journey today, unaccompanied, but un
der the watchful eyes of a relay of rail
road conductors who have been charged
with the duty of seeing that the chil
dren eat well, but inexpensively, get to
bed on time and generally keep out of
The girls are the daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Rodney Tourgee of Hayward,
Calif. They have been visiting their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Tourgee. The grandfather is chief
boatswain’s mate at the headquarters
here of the first Coast Guard district.
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Man Electrocuted
As Electric Heater
Falls Into Bath Tub
Br the Associated Press.
FLEMINGTON. N. J., January
22.—Simeon Swift, 20 years old,
was electrocuted last night when
a small electric heater fell into
the . water as he was taking a
bath.
The heater had been placed
on a towel rack, directly above
the tub. It fell into the water,
and Swift took hold of It, appar
ently not realizing that water was
an excellent conductor of elec
tricity. His screams attracted
members of the family, but he
was dead when they reached the
bath room.
BEAST SLAUGHTERS
PIG ON NEW RAID
Police Increase Activity as
Alarmed Residents Report
Seeing-Prowler.
The panther, or whatever it is, that
for the past fortnight has been terror
izing Northeast Washington, transferred
its activities to Southern Maryland last
night, visiting the farm of Harry Fow
ler on the Marlborough pike about a
mile and a half from the District line,
killing one hog and slashing nine others.
Meanwhile police of the eleventh pre
cinct have been patting in a busy day
today answering calls of frightened
residents of Dean wood and Bennlng sec
tions who have seen “panthers” resem
bling everything from "rabbits to lions.”
Dog Only Casualty.
One dog was the only casualty. It
was first seen in the vicinity of Fifty
eighth and Dix streets, streaking along
the middle of Fifty-eighth toward the
W., B. Sc A. tracks nearby, leaving
a blood trail. E. L. ’ Lewis, colored,
5516 Jay street northeast, took up the
trail after notifying police. Meanwhile
Police Lieut. S. J. Marks and a squad
hurried to the scene.
At Fifty-eighth street the police
found Lewis had trailed the animal
more than a mile to the home of its
owner, Thomas Horton, 100 Division
avenue northeast. There Lieut. Marks
found Horton’s dog, a shaggy dun
colored animal suffering from a slight
gunshot wound In its left forepaw, but
otherwise none the worse. It is not
known when the dog was shot.
Trap Is Planned.
Fowler this morning announced his
intention of leaving the hog which was
slain by the marauder near the pig sty
tonight while he and his farm hands
stand watch with guns in hopes the.
animal will return to its kill.
Dr. C. Jabel Robinson, second and C
streets, a veterinarian who attended the
Injured pigs on the Fowler farm, ex
pressed the belief that th# pitfs’ worth da
could not have been made-by any other
than a large cat aniipef, some of the
wounds showing the-' distinct imprints
of the deep claws. Deep flashes in the
hind quarters of-the pigs also indicated
long and sharp' claws.
MRS.IFELTON sinking.
—
Physicians Hold No Hope for For
' S mer Member of Senate.
ATLANTA, Ga., January 22 (*>).—
Hope for the recovery of Mrs. Rebecca
Latimer Felton, only woman who ever
sat as a member of the United States
Senate, was diminishing here today as
doctors worked with little success to
arrest an attack of bronchial pneu
monia.
She was said to be much weaker, al
though conscious this morning. A slight
rally yesterday was followed by a re
lapse today.
Mrs. Felton, who Is 94 yean old, con
tracted pneumonia several days ago
while en route from her home In Car
ters ville, Ga., to Atlanta.
WAX CANDLE FIRED FROM GUN
PIERCES BOARD AT 100 YARDS
British Army Tacticians Are Seeking Weapon for Defense
Against **Land Battleships." .
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By the Associated Pres*.
I LONDON, January 23:— Like other
: tacticians, British Army authorities are
t searching unceasingly for a weapon
! that can successfully light the tank,
i the land battleship that has developed
as rapid# in peacetime as in war.
"From Prett to Homo
Within the Hour **
The Star'* carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi*
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Yesterday's Circulation, 113,289
UP) Means Aaaoeiatad Praaa.
ENERGIZED CHEST
ACTIVITY URGED
Chairman Newbold Noyes!
Says Slump in Special
Gifts Creates Threat.
Members of the special gifts com
mittee of the Community Chest cam
paign were called upon by Chairman
Newbold Noyes to redouble their efforts
in securing gifts of SSOO or more aa a
result of a decided slump in the 'con
tributions to the 1930 Chest reported
at today's meeting.
Eighty-eight new pledges accounted
for only $95,036.14 as the day’s total,
as compared with $106,091.69 reported
yesterday. This brings the grand total
to $361,028.81, with only four more
week days remaining before the city
wide campaign opens next week.
Big Deficit Threatens.
Unless individual contributions are 20
per cent larger this year than last, ow
ing to the increased needs of the 1930
budget, the campaign of the special
gifts committee will show a deficit of
$90,000 on the basis of today’s returns,
Chairman Noyes declared. The per
centage of gain in pledges dropped to
11 per cent, compared with a little less
than 18 per cent yesterday, affording
additional reasons why the campaign
efforts must be redoubled if the full
amount of the committee's quota is to
be raised.
Three gifts of $5,000 each were the
largest reported today. These were from
S. Kann Sons Co., Edmund 1. Kauf
mann and Christian Heurich. Robert
V. Fleming, one of the vice chairmen,
reported that the Washington banks
would be 100 per cent in the Chest list
of contributors before the special gifts
committee ends its work.
Reports of Vice Chairmen.
Reports of vice chairmen today were
as follows: Barry Mohun. $15,950;
Mrs. Charles C. Glover, Jr., $7,100; Mrs.
Charles A. Goldsmith, $16,300; William
Knowles Cooper, $5,875; Arthur Hellen,
$3,550; W. W. Everett, $2,950; Mrs.
Sidney F. Taliaferro, $18,385; Thomas
B. Sweeney, $3,205; Robert V. Flem
ing, $7,461.14; executive committee,
$14,250.
Other Units Prepare.
Meanwhile, the metropolitan unit,
which constitutes the army of solicitors
who start combing the city for gifts
next week and the ggoup solicitation
unit are making last-moment prepara
tions for the opening of the campaign.
The latter grpup jvlll solicit gifts at
approximately 500 firms in the city
which emptOifUKore than 20 workers.
Yesterday’s Donations.
Vice' chairmen of the special gifts
committee and the.amount of pledges
-'reported by their teams yesterday were
as.-follows: Barry Mohun, $8,885; Mrs.
C. C. Glover, jr„ $10,452; Mrs. Charles
A. Goldsmith, $8,550; William Knowles
Cooper, $4,550; Arthur Hellen. $13,210;
W. W. Everett, $2,350; Mrs. Sidney F.
Taliaferro, $21,775; Thomas B. Sweeney,
$5,570; Robert V. Fleming, $11,249.69,
and the executive committee, $19,500.
Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of
George Washington University, in a vig
orous appeal for support of the Chest
campaign at yesterday’s meeting, said
the first requisite is to get before the
public the fact that the care of depend
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DR. HENRY F. HOYT DIES.
LONG BEACH, Calif., January 22
(/P). —Word was received here today of
the death In Japan of Dr. Henry F.
Hoyt, frontier adventurer of a genera
tion ago, former chief surgeon of the
United States Army in the Philippines,
and once health commissioner of St.
Paul.
Dr. Hoyt, who left here early in
December, with a sister, Mrs. George
Wilson of Minneapolis, died in Yoko
hama en route home from Manila, where
he and Mrs. Wilson had visited another
sister, Mrs. George Harvey. He was 76
years old.
A remarkable experiment In high
velocity vu described at the Royal
Artillery Institution last night An
ordinary wax candle, fired from a 13-
bore shotgun at a range of 130 yards,
pierced a three-quarter-inch deal
board and traveled another 100 yards
without sustaining any damage.
TWO CENTS.
SHIFT OF DRY UNIT
WINS APPROVAL OF
MELLON AND DORAN
Secretary Flatly Refuses to
Be Drawn Into Discussion
of Prohibition.
ENFORCEMENT CHIEF
AND SCHAFER CLASH
lack of Co-operation Between
Treasury and Justice Depart
ments Is Denied.
By the Associated Press.
Andrew W. Mellon, who took over
the Treasury portfolio about the time
the dry law was placed upon the stat
ute books, recommended to a congres
sional committee today the transfer of
the Prohibition Bureau from the Treas
ury to the Justice Department, but flat
ly refused to be drawn into a discus
sion of the prohibition question.
The man who has had more than
eight years’ experience under three
Presidents as head of the department
which has jurisdiction over the major
dry law enforcement units was pressed
again and again by members of the
House expenditures committee with
questions on the controversial prohibi
tion subject.
Evades Questions on Law.
"I am sure we have made every ef
fort to carry out our responsibility,"
i was his answer to Representative Igoe.
Republican of Illinois, who had asked
if Mellon believed the Prohibition Bu
reau had done everything feasible to
enforce the law.
"Then you think prohibition can be
enforced?” pursed the Illinois member.
“This is a matter of legislation be
fore us.” responded the veteran Treas
ury Secretary. “Prohibition is a very
controversial subject and I don’t see
any place now to express personal
Meilon testified on the Williamson bill
to carry out the phase of the Hoover
prohibition enforcement organization
program to transfer the Prohibition
Bureau to the Justice Department.
He was accompanied to the commit
tee room by James M. Doran, commis
sioner of prohibition, who, a current
report says, expects to retire from Gov
ernment service as soon as the transfer
is effected. Seymour Lowman, the As
sistant Treasury Secretary, specifically
charged with dry law enforcement, also
was at the hearing.
Representatfve Schafer, Republican,
of Wisconsin, asked Mellon why he had
been unable to obtain data from the
Treasury on the amount of industrial
i alcohol used. The Secretary said if
members of Congress had any reason
for obtaining the information it would
be given to them.
Denies "Covering-Up.”
Schafer then asked if it were not
a fact that when prohibition agents
became Involved in a case reports on
the incident were sent to the bureau
for "covering-up.”
“I know nothing of anything like
that,” Mellon said. “If such a condi
tion exists, it has never been brought
to my attention.”
Schafer said he believed such a con- -
dition did exist among officers in Qk
State of Washington and that he was
going to move that the committee ask
the prohibition commissioner for a
report.
“I understand the situation in Wash
ington is serious,” Schafer declared.
Doran then took the stand and rec
ommended the transfer. He said he
thought enforcement could be made
more effective by the Justice Depart
ment, as it'would make detection and
prosecution more efficient
During the session Schafer urged
amendment of the Williamson bill to
require'a report to Congress on any vio
lation by prohibition agents of search
and seizure laws.
•Later, Doran, in discussing Schafer’s
remarks about agents getting into diffi
culties, said the Treasury never had
failed to "discipline officers guilty of
derelictions.”
Representative Swing. Republican of
California, asked why, if the personnel
of the Prohibition Bureau is transferred,
the regulations under the existing bu
reau should not be transferred.
Doran said the same regulations
would not be applicable to another de
partment.
Mellon had said earlier all permits
for medicinal liquors and industrial
alcohol would be issued under joint
regulations drawn up by the Attorney
General and the Secretary of the Treas
ury.
Replying to Representative Goodwin
Republican of Minnesota, Doran said he
was not aware of any lack of co-opera
tion between the Treasury and Justice
departments.
Denies Knowledge of Friction.
Schafer then asked if there was not
friction between the bureau and the
Justice Department over liquor situation
in the State of Washington.
"I want to make it plain,” Doran said,
“that I am not conscious of any diffi
culty between the bureau and the
Justice Department."
Schafer inquired why he had not
been furnished information as to how
much Industrial alcohol had been with
drawn by the W. T. Rawleith Co. at
Freeport, 111.
Doran said Schafer had not charged
a violation of law by the company and
added he believed it would be harmful
to divulge information on the business
of a company.
Schafer said he would insist upon his
motion to compel the Prohibition Bu
reau to furnish the committee with
information on the amount of with
drawal of industrial alcohol.
The committee became embroiled
over the Schafer proposal. The Wis
consin member modified it to have the
prohibition commissioner give lnforma
tlon on the withdrawals within the last
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FIVE DIE IN PLANE.
Crash Thought to Haw# Occurr ’
During Freak Storm.
DIEPPE, France, January 23 UP)
Five persons were killed when a taxi
airplane crashed against a cliff near
Dieppe, probably on Monday. Pour of
the dead were passengers and the fifth
was the pilot. The plane bad been
missing for two days and it was an
nounced the smashup came in the storm
Monday.
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