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HYDE BODY MEETS
TO ORGANIZE TODAY
Moderate to Heavy Rains
Reported Ove Much of
Draught Area.
For the purpose of perfecting an or
ganlaatkm to carry out the general pro
gram of drought relief es agreed upon
•t the governors' conference held at the
White ilouse last Thursday. President
Hoover will confer this afternoon with
the members of the newly created Na
tional Drought Relief Committee.
This win be the initial meeting of this
Important committee, of which Arthur
M. Hyde. Secretary of Agriculture, has
been named chairman. Committeemen
p-ill devote their attention principally to
Working out a definite plan of action to
bring about co-ordination between Fed
|Pal and state activities in the drought
gtricken regions. They will also decide
Just how these activities will be divided
Bp and assigned to the supervision of
the respective members of the com
mittee.
: The Department of Agriculture re
ported todav that while rains this week
had brought material relief to many lo
calities. numerous sections were “large
ly unrelieved."
Corn Crop Losses Checked.
Deterioration of the corn crop was
said to have been checked in mast sec
tions by frequent, showers and cool
weather, “but material improvement in
the development will apparently be lim
ited”
Harvest of small grains Is now largely
completed.
Temperatures were moderate In the
Xastem cotton belt, but continued ab
normally high in the West, while local
showers were rather general east of tha
Mississippi River. In the Western belt
the drought has been mostly intensified
by continued high temperatures and
lack of rain.
"Moderate to heavy showers occurred
during the week over large areas of the
more droughty sections of the country,”
the report said. "These have brought
material relief to many localities, es
pecially in reviving pasture lands and
improving late truck crops and gardens
where they were not too far gone. In
replenishing stock water and in some
areas benefiting corn. The soil in many
plaoea has become sufficiently moist for
the resumption of plowing, especially In
the Western wheat belt.
“The week brought the best ra/ns in
a long time to large droughty areas,
the most substantial being in Kentucky,
parts of West Virginia, Southwestern
Indiana. Southeastern and much of
Northern Illinois, extreme eastern and
Southwestern lowa, much of South Da
kota, Nebraska and Kansas: rather gen
erally in Missouri, North, Central and
parts of Western Tennessee: much of
Arkansas, extreme Northeastern Okla
homa, Eastern Mississippi and mare
generally in Alabama.
Extensive Areas Unrelieved.
“Extensive areas are, however, largely
unrelieved. These Include most of
Ohio. New York, Michigan, Minnesota,
much of Montana, extreme Western
Tennessee, Southern Arkansas and
Northern Louisiana and most of Ok
lahoma and Texas. In these sections
crops continued to deteriorate, but in
the Middle Atlantic area there was
seme relief by light local showers and
much cooler weather.'*
In the southern portion of the corn
belt the crop was so far gone before
the rains came that only a limited
amount of the late-planted corn on
bottom lands can receive actual bene
fit. the report continued, while in other
considerable areas only a checking of
deterioration is Apparent.
In Ohio the crop has received little
or no relief and much is being tut for
silage. Some Improvement is imported
In Indiana, and eorn has beeft helped
in parts of Illinois, while in the Great
Plains States, from the northern third
of Kansas northward to South Dakota,
much corn has been materially bene
fited. Deterioration continued in North
Dakota and Minnesota, while about
three-fourths of the acreage In lowa is
still suffering for rain, and much of
that where the drought was relieved
cannot mature marketable ears. In
Wisconsin fairly good growth continued,
but in Michigan the situation is un
relieved.
Plains Showers Forecast.
In addition to the rains which fell
over considerable portions of the plains
States during the past 24 hours, show
ers were forecast for that area tonight
and tomorrow.
Rain was expected in Southern Kan
sas, the Dakotas, Western Minnesota,
Western and Central Arkansas, Eastern
and Central Oklahoma and Northeast
Texas.
During the past 24 hours, showers also
were reported from Oklahoma and
Northern Texas, with Oklahoma City re
porting the heaviest fill with 1.3®
inches; Omaha, Nebr., .$8 inch, and
Wichita, Kans., .84 inch. Showers also
fell in Southern Louisiana, Southern
Mississippi, parts of Alabama and in the
South Atlantic Btates.
In addition to Secretary Hyde, other
members of the National Drought Relief ■
Committee as announced yesterday by j
Mr. Hoover are; Chairman Legge of the j
Federal Farm Board, Chairman Beston
of the Federal Farm Loan Board, Gov.
Young of the Federal Reserve Board.
Chairman Payne of the American Red
Cross. Chairman Alshton of the Ameri
can Railway Association, Ogden Mills,
Undersecretary of the Treasury, and
Henry M. Robinson, chairman of the
First National Bank of Los Angeles,
Calif. With the exception of the latter
all of these members of the committee
will be In attendance at this afternoon’s
meeting.
Holloway Commends Hoover.
A communication received at the
White House today from W. J. Hollo
way, Governor of Oklahoma, in which
he commended the President for the
steps he has taken to aid the drought -
stricken areas, expressed the thought
that it is unjust and unwise tpr any
State to expect the Federal Government
to furnish all the aid necessary In this
crisis. Gov. Holloway intimated that
the States should do their full part in
•olving their own problems.
This communication was made public
»t the White House today, without com
ment from the President.
It follows in full:
* ’As the Oovernor of Oklahoma. I
%ish to express my full approval for the
steps you are taking to aid the drought
stricken areas of the country. I thank
vou for your telegram of today, advising
that Oklahoma will receive your full co
operation and assistance in your plans
Today we perfected the organlcatic i of
a State-wide Drought Committee, which
I appointed last Saturday. In a few
days we will have perfected the full or
ganization down to the counties, as
•uggested by you in press reports,
"The Oklahoma committee will co
operate 100 per cent with the Federal
Government in bringing about necessary
assistant* to those States which need
It. At our meeting trday I stated to
the State-wide committee that, while I
fullv appreciated the wise and timely
steps being taken by the Federal Gov
ernment, I thought It was a mistake for
Oklahoma to expect the Federal Gov
ernment to do anything for Oklahoma
which Oklahoma could do for herself
“Our State is rich in resources, end
our citizens expect to do everything pos
lible themselves to rell-ve the situation
think it unjust and unwi'** for am
Urate to expect the Federal Govern
ment t*. fynish ail the aid necessary
Mo this crisis. While we are anxious foi
any and all benefits that the Federal
Government may furnish Oklahoma
yet you may expect Oklahoma to do hei
IttU part In solving her own problems.’ 1
HUSBAND TO SPEAK!
1 IN RADIO FORUM
i Assistant Secretary of Labor
Will Discuss Immigration
Work of Government.
William Walter Husband, Assistant
• Secretary of Labor, recognised as one :
> | of the greatest authorities on the aub- i
> ject of immigration associated with the i
t, Federal Government, will address the
National Radio Forum, arranged by the
1 Washington Star and broadcast over
■ the coast-to-coast network of the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System. Thursday
night at 9:30 o'clock. *nie forum will be
heard locally through Station WMAL
Mr. Husband, who has been identified
\ with immigration work for the Govern
, ment for a quarter of a century, will
discuss this subject on this occasion.
1 What he has to say at this time will
i be looked upon as especially significant
inasmuch as the immigration laws of
this country arc scheduled for revision
at the next regular aession of Congress.
> This assistant Labor head is a native
i of Vermont, and in early life was a
r newspaper man in that State. He was
appointed to his present position three
years ago by President Coolidge. At that
time he was United States immigration
commissioner, which position he had
held since 1921.
It was while clerk to the United I
States Senate Committee on Immigra
:fn from 1903 to 1907 that Mr. Hus
band first became identified with the
subject of immigration. In 1!»7 he was
appointed executive secretary to the j
United States Immigration Commission, I
which place he held two years, when ■
he was appointed to the contract labor :
division of the United States Bureau of
Immigration. In 1913 he was appointed :
special representative of the Depart- !
ment of Labor in Europe, and from i
1916 to 1917 he was editor of the Im- ’
migration Journal.
During the World War Secretasy
Husband was associated with the Amer
ican Red Cross in Europe, and his long
experience in immigration matters was
extremely helpful. He was later made
commissioner of repatriation of sick and
wounded prisoners of the Interallied
Repatriation Commission. Later he was
American delegate to the International
Conference on Immigration and Emi
gration in Rome.
GOVERNMENT WINS
CAMPBELL VENUE;
DEFENSE APPEALS
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in a culvert outside the Sheridan gate
of Arlington Cemetery on the morning
of April 13. laat, and concerning the
nature of the wounds found on the
corpse.
Culvert In Virginia.
Attorney Smith gained from the cor
oner a statement that the culvert is
located across the Potomsc from the
District of Columbia, in Arlington
County. It was apparent tl»e defense
was planning to contest the attitude of
the Government that Miss Baker was
murdered in the District of Columbia.
A long delay in the proceedings en
sued when the hearing was called, when
Herbert S. Ward, special advocate
designated bv the Veterans of Foreign
Wars to assist the defense, entered an
objection to the existing fugitive war
rant under which the hearing was ar
ranged,
The original warrant, it was pointed
out, had no connection with the in
dictment later returned in Washing
ton by a grand Jury. Government
counsel agreed to swear out a new war
rant, based on the indictment and tha
hearing was temporarily adjourned
until these preliminaries could be con
summated.
The new warrant, sworn to by Spe
cial Agent Samuel W. Hardy of the
Department of Justice, repeated almost
verbstum the charges contained in the
grand jury presentment, namely that
Campbell “wilfully, feloniously and
with premeditated malice,” choked
Mary Baker to death with his hands
1 and then shot her three times with a
| pistol.
Court Room Crowded.
The hearing took place In the drab
court room of the Alexandria Corpora
tion Court, into which was cluttered a
large throng of curious men and women.
There were no seats provided for spec
tators and they stood patiently through
out the proceedings, now and then
breaking Into a murmur of surprise at
tilts which ensued between counsel or
at statements from the witnesses.
Campbell's testimony was heard by
his wife. Mrs. Ruth Callahan Campbell;
his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.
Loudoun Campbell; his step-son. Edwin '
Campbell; his sister, Mrs. Alice Haw- j
kins, and his brother, Frank G. Camp- |
bell, who has taken a leading part in
the defense.
Mrs. Campbell Attentive.
Mrs. Campbell sat in a front row In
side the rail and listened attentaUvely
to every word spoken by her husband
and attorney. She was fashionably at
tired In a dark blue chiffon figured
dress, with small hat to match, and
| wore a pointed fox fur and tan hose
and pumps.
! Campbell was dressed in a plain dark
blue suit, with a blue shirt and blue
polka dot tie. He carried with him a
tan fedora. Attorney Smith pointed
out that Campbell was dressed In simi
lar clothing on the afternoon of April
11. whereas witnesses to the attack on |
Miss Baker have said the assailant
wore a gray cap and a gray suit.
Among the other witnesses sum
moned by the defease are Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh R. Wood, who saw the
struggle between Miss Baker and her
assailant, near Seventeenth and B
streets; Mrs. Gwendolyn Parsons, with !
whom Campbell was riding early in
' the afternobn of the fatal day. and
1 with whom he admitted having parked
near the culvert where the Baker girl's
j corpse was found the next morning;
! Miss Agnes Ayres, friend of Miss Baker.
; who last saw her alive at Fifteenth
i and G streets. Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Grten, who visited the Campbells at 8
o'clock on the evening of April 11,
and several others.
The wife and stepson and several
other friends of the accused also were
on hand to testify if called upon.
Talk* on Immigration
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• WILLIAM WALTER HUSBAND.
THE EVENING STAB, WASHINGTON. D. C-, WEDNESDAY, AffifST 20. 1930
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the first full load trip was made from Now York to Washington yesterday. On M iss Earhart's left is Miss Adelaide Kerr of the Associated Press and on her right
Miss Dorothy Roe of the International News Service. Others in th# party were: Trdri Wright, Investment News; Robb Gilrey, Newark News; Barrow Lyons,
i Christian Science Monitor; Gene Vidal, pilot; John Wright, New Yerk Daily New a and Henry Buggeln, New Yerk Sun. Miss Earhart is vice president es the new
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D.C JEN ADVANCE
IN TENNIS TOURNEY
Considine and Mitchell ffeach
Public p arks Quarter-
Final Round.
Two Washington players, the only
District representatives who survived,
advanced to the quarter-final round in
the National Public Parks Tennis i
Championship Tournament in the men’s
singles matches, today, on the Rock
Creek courts. Bob Considine, seeded
No. 4, District singles champion, de
feated Edward B. Nowak of Buffalo,
6—3, 4—3, 7 —5, and Dooly Mitchell,
Washington public parks singles title
holder, brushed aside Monte Tiller of
Louisville, seeded No. 7, the scores being
6—3, 4—2, 4—4. Both Considine and
Mitchell were given stubborn battling
at times, but the superiority of each 1
was marked.
Markey Eliminates Hall.
In another quarter final match George
J. Jennings, jr., of Chicago, defending
champion, took the measure of J. C.
Miller. Jr., of Birmingham, 6 —2, 4 —3,
6—o. Against Jennings’ southpaw' strok
ing the Southerner did not have a
chance. Others to reach the quarter
finals in early matches included Ted
Drewes of St. Louis, four times national
champion, and seeded No. 4, who took
the measure of Leo J. Kronman of Buf
falo, «—3, 4—2, 4 —3, and Thomas S
"Bud” Markey. Jr., of this city, who is |
representing Indianapolis, and who
eliminated Robert Hall of Louisville,
seeded No. I. The scores in this match
were 6—l, 6 —l, 4—o. Markey is co
holder of the District park doubles
championship with Eddie Yeomans.
Mitchell and Considine will meet to
morrow in a match of much interest
locally. These old rivals always put
on a great show. Another big match !
tomorrow will be between Jennings and i
Drewes.
Score* Upset.
Alex Keiles, Baltimore public parks
: singles champion, scored an upset when
he conquered Charles J. Lejeck of Chi
cago, seeded No 6. The scores were
2—6, 3—6, 6—3, 11—6. 4—3. The vic
tory put Keiles in the quarter finals.
In anothej- third-round match Arnold
P. Simons of Louisville scored over
Robert P. Norton of St. Louis. 3—6, i
6—3, 6 —l. 6 —6. Simons and Keiles
will meet tomorrow.
Coming back in strong style, Jack
de Lara of Los Angeles, seeded No. 2, j
; defeated Leo F. Lejeck of Chicago, to
j complete play in the third round. The
! scores were 4 —6, 3 —6. 4—4, 6—2. 4 —l.
As was the case yesterday in his first
match, de Lara, after a mediocre start,
gained strength and finished at the
top of his game De Lara will meet 1
Markey tomorrow in the quarter final
round.
DRY AGENT AUTOS
TO CARRY INSIGNIA,
WOODCOCK ORDERS
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to agreeing on some means of identi
! fication.
H. N. Abercrombie, president of the
Automobile Club of Maryland, and H.
M. Lucius, secretary, called on the pro
hibition administrator this morning and
! worked out the details. It is expected
| that the detachable shields may be of •
i use in making raids, but it is antici
; pattd that the articles will be most es- j
fective in enforcement work along the
I highways.
i Col. Woodcock said that each shield
would be numbered and a careful reeord ;
made of the number Issued and the I
: agents to whom issued, as a means of
j further protection to the public,
i The shields are to bear the inscrip
-1 t.ion, "Stop—United States Official, j
j Bureau of Prohibition." Each will bear
the seal of the Department of Justice.
A suggestion that prohibition agents
be put in uniform was turned down as
being impracticable. In announcing
this. Col. woodcock expressed the hope
that it would put a stop to the bother
some aspect of enforcement, add to the
effectiveness of the enforcement unit
and operate to the convenience and
protection of the automobile-riding
public. *
Specifications for the shields are now
being drawn and several manufacturers
are prepared to bid for furnishing them
to the bureau. The American Automo
bile Association is co-operating in mak
ing the arrangements.
DAVID BURNET GIVEN
REVENUE COMMISSION
David Burnet was given his commis
sion as commissioner of Internal reve
nue by Secretary Mellon of the Treas
ury, at noon today, in Mr. Mellon’s
office in the presence of the chiefs
! of all the bureaus in the Treasury.
! Mr. Burnet, who for the last year
1 has bpen deputy commissioner, sue-
I ceeds Robert H. Lucas, recently ap
' pointed executive director of the Re
publican National Committee,
j The oath was administered to Mr.
Burnet by Frank A. Birgfeld, chief
' clerk of the Treasury. Mr. Burnet was
appointed from Ohio about 16 years ago
and has served aa agdkt ip ehargt at
Cincinnati and Boston.
ILL EVANGELIST AND HER MOTHER
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Aimee Semple MePhersen (right) and her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy
(left). Mrs. Kennedy Hin a sanitarium receiving treatment for an injured nose
she elaims resulted from o fist fight with her daughter. Mrs. McPherson, HI,
denies the charge. .
“JUST A SICK GIRL,
BUT WILL BE WELL
SOON,” SAYS AIMEE
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doors of her cottage, Mrs. McPherson ;
denied herself to all but a few, while
from numerous purported official sources
emanated statements about her con
dition.
Mrs. Kennedy, undergoing treatment
for a broken nose which she .ays her
I daughter gave her, issued a demand
that Mrs. McPherson return to her
pulpit at Angelus Temple and show her ,
congregation "the effects of the face
lifting operation” she says the noted
pastor underwent recently.
late last night an official at the
temple announced Mrs. McPherson "was
resting easily.” Earlier she had been
reported in a serious condition from a
nervous breakdown and the board of
directors of Angelus Temple asserted,
"It is true physicians are greatly con
cerned for her recovery.”
Mrs. Harriet A. Jordan, chairman of
the temple board of directors, posted a
bulletin in the church yard which read:
"Sister McPherson is still blind. No
marked Improvement. Suffering greatly.
Please continue earnest prayer." A few
hdUrs previously Mrs. Jordan had pasted
a bulletin stating her leader had suf
fered "a sinking spell and is near
death.”
Mrs. Kennedy told her story of her
alleged fist fight with her daughter to
newspaper men while she rested in a
sanitarium. The trouble started, ac
cording to Mrs. Kennedy, when her
daughter accused her of talking about
her and her secretary, Mae Waldron.
"Almee was wild,” Mrs. Kennedy said,
i “We had a few words and then she
came right out and accused me of
talking about her. I said, ‘Honey, I
haven't been talking about you, but I
have said some things about some of
: your associates.’
"Things happened so quick I can’t
, remember. Anyway, when I came to
my senses I was on the floor and my
I nose was almost killing me. They
picked me up and dashed water on my
1 wrists, and although I was in terrible
pain, I decided not to disappoint my
friends up in Olympia, Wash., and I
left for the North next day to dedicate
a church.
"But my poor nose kept getting
worse. It turned blue and green and
i I rushed back here, reallalng I was
badly hurt. I had received a face lift,
and so had Almee. Sure. I had my
face lifted. What of it? So did Aimee
; —she won't deny it if you ask her.”
LADY HEATH IS SUED
1 PLYMOUTH. England, August 20
Lady Mary Heath, celebrated British
aviatrlx. who was divorced from her hus
band. Sir James Heath at Reno, Nev.,
I last Spring, was served with bankruptcy
! proceedings aboard the liner on which
; she traveled to Europe, when it called
I here on Sunday. . _
The action concerns the purchase or
; dresses in London, about which there
; had been already a dispute between the
i aviatrlx and Sir James. Lady Heath
did not land here, but continued on
to Boulogne, planning to go to Paris.
As the service of the papers was made
on Sunday, it may be illegal in the
British courts, and the dress company
is considering a fresh service at Paris.
Son of Millionaire Diet in Auto.
PASADENA, Calif., August 20 (JP)
, Piank E. Chaffee, 38, son of Hugh O
Chaffee, millionaire and former Los An-
Seles chain store operator, was found
ead in his automobile, parked in a
i tightly closed garage, early today. Death
i apparently was due to carbon monoxide
fume*.
PARDONED BY KING
Man Who Tried to Kill Alfonso 17
Tears Ago Freed by His Decree.
BARCELONA, Spain, August 20 (A*)
i —After serving 17 years at hard labor
for Attempting the life of King Alfonso,
Sancho Alegre yesterday left the prison
a free man by virtue of a pardon from
the monarch he tried to assassinate.
King Alfonso was attending a mili
tary ceremony in Alcala street when
several shots were flred at him. Alegre
was sentenced to death in the garrote
! chair, but the sentence waa commuted
to life imprisonment.
' Alegre professes himself still opposed
! to monarchy, but said he would refrain
i from all political activities and devote
i his time to his trade as carpenter In
Tarragona. He Is 42 years old. He :
wag * model prisoner.
1 MURDER TRIALS UPHELD
North Carolina Supreme Court Sus
tains Seven Strijce Convictions,
RALEIGH, N. C.. August 20 (IP).—
; The North Carolina Supreme Court to
-1 day upheld the second-degree murder
convictions of seven textile union lead
ers implicated In the slaying of O. P.
Aderholt, Gastonia chief of police, dur
ing strike disorders there last year.
The court also found no error in the
conviction of Alfred Hoffman, organiser
for the United Textile Workers of
America, a branch of the American
Federation of Labor, of inciting a riot
at Marlon, N. C., during textile strikes
there.
YACHT FROM WHICH VAN LEAR BLACK IS MISSING j
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The yacht Sabalo. owned by Van Lear Black. Baltimore publieher, from
which he disappeared Vonriay night while en route to Chesapeake Bay from
New York. Below: Mr. Black. —A. P. Photos.
AIRPLANES GIVE UP
SEARCH FOR BLACK
• OFF JERSEY COAST
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1 flown to Newport to see his twin grand
children. Just born to his daughter, wife
' of Lieut. Albert J. Bolton. He had
, boarded the yacht at the wharf of the i
New York Yacht Club, foot of Twenty
sixth street, about 6 o’clock, apparently
I delighted.
Shoitly after 10 o’clock his valet went
on deck to consult him. Mr. Black
could not be found. Alarmed, the valet
. Informed the eaptain. John W. Kelley.
I -We ordered the yacht, whleh was
t then about eight miles south by west
i of Shrewsbury gas buoy,-, off the Jersey
i coast, stopped and we played search*
lights on the water.” said Capt. Kelley.
AMELIA EARHART
FLIES PUNE HERE
Newspaper Representatives
Taken Over Route of Pro
posed Air Line.
Amelia Earhart, first woman trans
atlantic flight passenger, yesterday
afternoon took the first planeload of
passengers, made up of representatives
of New York newspapers, over the
route .of the proposed New York,
Philadelphia & Washington Airway,
which, according to present plans, will
open hourly service between the Capi
tal and New York September 1.
Taking the trip easily, with a stop
in Philadelphia, the trl-motored trans
port plane, which will be one of the
six ships on the New York-Washington
service made the trip in a little less
than two hours, with a stop at the
Camden Airport.
Miss Earhart, vice president of the
line in charge of public relations, this
afternoon said the trip was the first
full-load trip one of her concern s pas
senger planes has made over the route,
and was given the New York news’-
paper representatives to show them the
advantages of the route as worked out
in surveys that have been conducted
this Summer.
Nine persons made the trip, includ
ing Miss Earhart. Others in the plane
were Gene Vidal, pilot; Adelaide Kerr
of the Associated Prea. c . Dorothy Roe
of the International News Service, Todd
Wright of the Investment News. Robb
Gilroy of the Newark News, Barrow
Lyons of the Christian Science Mon
itor, John Wright of the New York
Daily News and Henry Buggeln of the
New York Sun.
On the trip down Miss Earhart took
the controls of the plane from Vidal
and brought the ship down at Camden.
The party was served luncheon at
Washington Airport and the trip baek
to New York was started shortly after
lunch.
LEGISLATOR INDICTED
ON ROBBERY CHARGE
1 J. H. Kirby of Georgia Accused of
of Holding Up Finance
Company Officer*.
By th« Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga., August 20.—J. H.
Kirby, Forsyth County Representative
in the Georgia Legislature, was indicted
by the Fulton County grand jury yes
terday on a charge of robbery in con
! nection with a hold-up in a downtown
finance company July 18.
Kirby, the indictment charges, robbed
S. P. Warnock in the offices of the
American Finance Co. here, taking SIOB.
Solicitor General John A. Boykin
said the grand jury returned the in
dictment after the solicitor had pre
sented information charging Kirby
with being the man who came here
from Cummings, Ga. Kirby’s home
town, and registered at a hotel under
a fictitious name. The hotel guest, the
1 solocitor general said, donned a pair of
overalls, went to the finance company
offices and held up Warnock with a
toy pistol.
Kirby, arrested shortly after the
robbery, denied the charges. He was
released from oustody and has not been
[ rearrested. A bench warrant will be
issued, the solicitor general said.
‘‘Seeing nothing, we started her again
and put about. For hours we cruised.
But we oould find no trace. There
was nothing to do but give up and
put back again Into Gravesend Bay.
The only thing we found was Mr.
Black's handkerchief near the rail of
the aft deck. That told me what prob
ably happened.”
Had Warned Black.
The captain said he had warned Mr.
Black many times that his habit of
sitting on the rail was dangerous and
that he was apt to be thrown over
board if the yacht gave a sudden lurch
in a swell.
i There were Id persons aboard the
yacht at the time and none saw Mr.
Black fall. He had eaten dinner on
the yacht with Mrs. J. Walter Lord of
Baltimore, his cousin. The yaeht was
bound for Chesapeake Bay.
Mr. Patterson was Informed of tig
aemdant by telephone and came from
I Baltimore to direct the search.
PEPCO VALUATION I
PROBLEM TAKEN UP
Fourteenth and B Property
Considered at Conference
With Utilities Body.
While the Public Utilities Commission
and representatives of the Potomac
Electric Power Co. were threshing out
the sum to be taken out of the com
pany's value for retirement of their
property at Fourteenth and B streets
yesterday, the commission also asked
the company to consider several other
matters relating to valuation. Since
the company representatives had no no
tice of the subjects to be discussed, they
were not pressed for final answers and
further conferences will probably be
held alter the company has had time
to study the commission's questions.
The property in question has been
bought by the Federal Government, and
the question under discussion b whether
it is to be taken out of the valuation at
its “book cost” or at the book coat plus
the increment allowed by the District
Supreme Court when the compromise
was effected in 1>24 setting the com
pany’s valuation at >32,500,000.
Difference of J6M.OM.
There is a difference of $600,000 In
the figures, which would play an impor
tant part on future rate fixing if the
smaller amount, contended for by the
company, is deducted. According to the
consent decree the company is allowed
to earn IV2 per cent on Its consent valu
ation. Any excess over this is supposed
to be split, one half going to the com-/
pany in cash and one half to the eon.
sumers In the way of lower rates the
following year.
Although the consumers have received
the lower rates each year, the effect has
always been to boost the company’s
earnings. Each year since the rate re
ductions started the company has earned
more than in the preceding years.
The commission pointed out to the
company that when consumers who live
far from the established power llnea
wish to have their houses connected for
electricity they must pay the entire cost
of putting up the extra poles and wires.
This Is later returned to them ss other
consumers hook on to the same ex
ten tions. But in the meanwhile the
value of such poles and wires is added
to valuation. Since they have been
paid for by the consumers, and not the
customers, the commission wanted to
know whether it would not be fairer to
wait until the company had paid for the
extension before adding the value to
i /.luation.
Another Cost Problem.
Another problem is that of adding to
value the eost of items of property be
fore they are actually in service. It
was stated that there was no case on
record at this time where the power
company had done that, but apparently
the discussion was based on the pos
sibility that this course might be fol
lowed with respect to the power com
pany's, new offices being built to replace
the location from which the Federal
Government’s building plans are forc
ing the company.
Lastly there was the question of
whether the company would be willing
to deduct accrued depreciation from its
valuation figures. In the consent de
cree no allowance is made for this.
Since the commission feels itself bound
by this decree, If the company does not
volunteer to deduct this accrued de
preciation. it appears that nothing will
be done about it.
S. Russell Bowen, vice president and
counsel of the company, and A. R. Neal,
vice president and controller, repre
sented the company at the conference.
ADVISES WIDE SURVEY
OF FARMERS’ PROBLEMS
College Professor Addresses Agri
cultural Economists, Discussing
Effects of Mortgages.
By the Associated Press.
ITHACA, N. Y., August 20.—The In
ternational Conference of Agricultural
Economists was told here yesterday by
Prof. A. G. Black of lowa State College
there should be a sweeping survey of
credit problems of the fanner, with spe
cial consideration of second mortgages.
Agricultural economists from all parts
of the world were told by Dr. Black that
first mortgage credit probably was fairly
well supplied, but he said little was
known concerning the availability of
money for second mortgages, nor about
, the real needs In this connection. He
1 said loans on good farms would continue
to be a good investment.
This was one of a number of subjects
, discussed at yesterday’s sessions. Prof.
W. I. Myers of Cornell University, where
I the eonference is meeting, said the best
, yardstick to measure financial success
on a farm was to consider the returns
| in dollars per worker.
The economists gathered here Mon
day. They will be here until August 2».
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German Leader Coming.
BERLIN, August 20 (fl*).—Baron Hil
-1 mar von Dembussche-Hsddenshausen,
’ former German Minister to Buenos
’ Aires, today left for Southampton to
1 sail on the Tuscania Saturday for the
International Law Congress at Wash
! ington.
As president of the society for Ger
man interests abroad, the baron will go
to Mexico and Central and South Amer
ica on a tour of German colonies.
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touch, pain or temperature sensation#,
even in the effected parts, showing that
the effects of the poison did not extend
to neurons involved in sensation. All
the superficial reflexes remained normal
and there were no visual disturbances,
such as are customary from the effect
of alcohol on the nervous system.
Further testa showed that there was no
effect on the brain, or central nervous
system above the spinal cord, or on the
nerve tracts leading from the cranial
ganglia, or nerve centers in the skull.
The only exception to these findings
was in the tase of the well known "knee
jerk” which was nearly normal In the
milder cases, could not be obtained at
all in some very severe esses, and wqg
greatly exaggerated in some lightly
effected persons.
- Nearly as remarkable is the perma
nence of the lower motor neuron in
volvement. Replies to a recent ques
tionnaire sent to State health officers by
the Public Health Service show that
among the thousands of cases to date
there have been no recoveries and
practically no Improvement except such
as would be expected in paralysis as the
victim became more familiar with his
condition and learned to do such things
as feed himself without the aid of the
I paralyzed muscles. Health officers also
reported that In severe cases the con
dition is growing worse through tha
atropy of the involved muscles, a con
dition that naturally would follow lack
of nerve control and long disuse. In
Louisiana, the State health officer re
ported. considerable hope was aroused
by reported durea from mud baths, but
this treatment has not fulfilled the
early promise. The only deaths report
ed are four from Kansas.
Mast Victims White Men.
The returns show that almost all the
victims are white men and women, al
though the greatest number of cases
were from Southern States with large
colored populations. Mississippi led tha
list with 2,000. Public Health officials,
however, are not inclined to believe that
the poison is so specific as to attack
only white men and not colored men,
although tests with mammals at the
National Institute of Health showed a
remarkable difference of specificity be
tween groups, the availability of the
poison taken by mouth to strike the
lower motor neurons evidently depend
ing on a very fine balance of conditions
in the inner organism. Between races
of men, it is pointed out, the apparent
difference probably is due to the fact
that "jake” in the South is a white
man’s drink, the Negro consuming
mostly synthetic gin and com whisky.
The first cases were reported last
March, when approximately 200 per
sons were stricken In a small Southern
city, Johnson City, Tenn., with what
seemed to be a mysterious epidemic
which local physicians could not diag
nose. Almost lmmedistely afterward
reports of similar “epidemics" began to
come from other Southern States, Ohio
and New England. Men. women and a
few children were stricken. Public
health officers sent to investigate and
local physicians soon learned that a
great many of the victims—too many
for a pure chance coincidence—were
known “jake” addicts. But the dif
ficulty of diagnosis was complicated by
the fact that some were leading citizens
and supposed total abstainers, who
would deny vigorously that they ever
took a sip of ’’jake’’ In secret until fear
of the persistent paralysis drove them
to confess. Besides, it was hardly likely
that the children were “Jake” drinkers,
but most of these cases proved upon in
vestigation to be spinal meningitis or in
fantile paralysis, which had happened to
occur in close proximity to the poison
cases. A public health officer related
yesterday how he finally wrung a con
fession from one man, a respected
citizen, that he had consumed half a
bottle of “jake.” But further conversa
tion revealed that his wife had drunk
the other half. He was very seriously
affected. She showed no effects at all.
Such cases increased the mystery of the
poison.
The Chemical Detection.
The final isolation of the suspected
poison, believed to be the end result
chemically of some adulterant placed in
the “jake,”' comes from a fine case of
chemical detective work in the labors
torie* of the National Health Institute,
which ran into seemingly insurmount
able obstacles at every corner.
First the “jake" was administered to
rabbits with a stomach tube. All the
suspected samples produced a general
ized flaccid paralysis, general muscular
weakness and hyperexcitability, which
showed a rather general nervous in
volvement, rather than the specific on#
noted in men. The poisoned animals
died. Those given uncontaminated
jake’ ’extract showed no ill effects
Then the suspected extract was ad
ministered by mouth to monkeys. There
was no effect at all. The same was
true of dogs. The ginger extract ap
parently was broken down in the diges
tive processes of men and rabbits so
as to release the poison for its attack
on the motor neurons, but was not
broken down in the digestive processes
of dogs and monkeys. This curious
specific effect remains unexplained.
The next step was fractional distilla
tion. First the water and alcohol were
taken out of the extract and the re
maining substance broken up step by
step into its component parts, in an
effort to find the guilty agent by a
process of elimination. Finally the dis
tillation yielded a tiny amount of a sub
stance showing a close relationship with
the phenol group, widely used as dis
infectants and with highly poisonous
effects on the nervous system. This
was then injected into the muscles and
under the skin of monkeys. The results
were roughly similar to those of the
whole “jake” extract In man. Thera
was flaccid motor paralysis of the upper
and lower extremities. The monkeyi
at first went into comas from which
they soon recovered. But the condi
tion resulted in death in four or flvt
days.
• The experiments seem to show, says
Dr. Maurice I. Smith, senior phar
macologist of the National Health In
stitute, who was in charge as the work,
“that the phenolic compound must be
an extremely stable substance resisting
decomposition in the body of the
monkey or the dog and therefore
harmless.”
It is noteworthy that in rabbits the
poison finally attacked the breathing
center in the medulla of the brain, so
that death was caused by respiratory
failure. It did not do this with men
or other animals. The undistilled ex
tract. which, has caused such serious
results In men, only made the monkeys
harmlessly drunk.
The chemists still are far from know
ing exactly what the poison is, although
they have obtained some of the sub
stance which apparently does the dam
age. The whole group to which it is
believed to belong is rather 1U defined.
The Isolation of the material dees no#
suggest any drug which will tend to
have a counter effect, so that it could
bo used as a remedy. Physicians still
am helpless in the face of the paralysis,
hoping that eventually nature will
create its own counter aetien in the
body. Meanwhile, the only relief sug
gested is through re-education to do
without the affected muscles as far as
possible and through keeping the vic
tims In as good a physical condition
as possible to allow nature to concen
trate its forces.
1 Associated with Dr. Smith in the
work was Dr. E. Elvove. National Health
Institute chemist, and P. J. Vainer,
William H. Frasier and O S. Msltery,
chemists of the Prohibition Bureau.