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WEATHER.
(U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Increasing cloudiness and wanner, fol
lowed by light rain today or tonight.
Tomorrow, rain and warmer.
Temperatures—Highest, 37, at 4 p.m.
yesterday; lowest, 14, at 6 am. yes
terday. Full report on page B-2.
No. 1,341 —No. 31,624.
PRECEDENCE GIVEN
EMERGENCY BILLS
: AT SNORT SESSION
► Leaders of Three Factions
Agree on Right of Way for
Relief Measures.
JMANY FEAR COURT WILL
DELAY IMPORTANT ISSUES
Whether New Congress Will Get
Extra Call in Spring Matter
of Speculation.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
After a five months' recess the
Seventy-first Congress meets at noon
tomorrow to begin again the legislative
grind.
Emergency measures designed to re
. Heve unemployment and meet the dis
tress that has overtaken many of the
farmers of the country because of the
drought, along with the annual appro
priation bills, are to be given the right
of way. Common consent for such a
program has been given by Republican,
Republican progressive and Democratic
leaders.
The Republican progressives have
made it clear, however, that they must
have action during the short session on
certain measures which they advocate
or they will find away to force a spe
cial session of the new Congress in the
6pring.
The “co-operation” which has been
promised by the leaders of the major
political parties will receive its baptism
of fire early in the session. It remains
to be seen whether the spirit of co
operation will stand the strain of politi
cal differences.
Court Agitates Leaders.
, President Hoover's determination to
■end to the Senate the protocol for
American adherence to the World Court
under the so-called Root formula has
agitated the leaders of his own party
within that body. Many of them yes
terday expressed fears that the inter
jection of the court proposal into the
Short session which ends March 4 will
“spill the beans’’ and bring about the
extra session of Congress, which the
President and leaders of his own party
and of the Democratic party have said
they hoped to avoid.
The Senate holds the key to the situ
ation. There is no doubt that the
House, strongly Republican still, under
whip and spur and the rules of that
body, which permit prompt action, can
dispose of the relief measures and the
appropriation bills within the allotted
time of the short session. In the Sen
ate. however, with its rule of unlimited
debate—except in cases where the two
thirds cloture rule is invoked—the leg
islative wheels turn slowly when there
Is controversy.
No one at this stage can predict with
certainty whether there will be or will
not be a special session of the new
Congress, made necessary by the fail
ure of one or more of the appropriation
bills. No one can foretell the extent
to which political debates will run in
the Senate. At the moment, however,
there is a seeming truce of the political
factions within the Senate. But, also,
no one doubts that the political fur
will fly, in view of the results of the
recent elections.
The sessions of both Senate and
House are expected to be more or less
perfunctory tomorrow, with adjourn
ments of both in memory of those
members who have died in the recess,
Immediately committees have been ap
pointed to wait upon the President to
Inform him that the Congress is in ses
sion and awaits his recommendations.
Message on Tuesday.
President Hoover's annual message,
containing the administrations legis
lative program, will be sent to Con
gress on Tuesday and read in both
houses. His budget message is expected
at the Capitol on Wednesday. The Sen
ate will take up the so-called bus bill
Tuesday afternoon, the unfinished
business of the Senate when Congress
adjourned last July 3. In the House
the first of the annual appropriation
bills will be laid before that body for
consideration Tuesday.
Until the President's program is
made public, it is impossible for the
Democrats and the progressives to an
nounce Just how far they propose to
go with the White House in enacting
the legislation required
Senator Norris of Nebraska, a leader
©f the progressive group in the Senate,
has declared flatly that he will insist
upon action on Muscle Shoals and his
resolution doing away with "lame-duck”
cessions of Congress. The Republican
leaders in both Senate and House have
Indicated they are willing to let these
measures come to a final vote. It is
this acquiescence that gives hope for
avoidance of a special session.
Speaker Longw orth yesterday declared
his strong opposition to an extra ses
sion of Congress in the Spilng, assert
ing that the country should have a pe
riod of rest, without the uncertainty
which the threat of congressional legis
lation usually produces. He indicated
that he was willing to have Muscle
Shoals and the “lame-duck'’ session
resolution disposed of. The Muscle
Shoals legislation is in conference be
tween the two houses, the Senate hav
ing passed the Norris bill for Govern
ment operation of the power project,
and the House a bill for private opera
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WASHINGTON WOMAN
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
Mrs. Eva B. Middleton Struck by
Automobile Truck at Ard
more, Pa.
Mr*. Eva B. Middleton. 63 years old,
of 1819 Oak street, was killed last night
•t Ardmore, Pa., when she was struck
bv an automobile truck. She was the
wife of Jefferson Middleton, economic
analyst oi the Bureau of Mines, and
had resided here for many years.
Mr. Middleton, accompanied by other
relatives, left Washington late last night
Sot Ardmore
Mrs. Middleton left here several days
ago to visit her daughter, Mrs. John
O. Herndon, wife of a Haverford Col
lege professor.
According to an Associated Press dis
patch, Mrs. Middleton and her daughter
were returning to the Herndon home
after a walk when the accident oc
curred.
The truck driver, Jack C. Hansberry,
of Ardmore, was given an immediate
hearing and held under SSOO bail to
await the outcome of the coroner's in
quest.
Funeral arrangements will be delayed
pending the coroner's investigation.
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Entered as second class matter
post office. Washington. D. C.
Sport Highlights.
Notre Dame’s 7-6 victory over
Army was the highlight yesterday
of the waning foot ball season
and, incidentally, it helped give
the West a clean sweep over the
East in intersectional play. Wash-
I ington State defeated Villanova,
13-0; Stanford defeated Dart
mouth, 14-7, and Detroit trimmed
| Georgetown, 12-0.
In an outstanding traditional
battle, Holy Cross defeated Bos
ton College, 7-0.
Three Washington elevens
played and all were beaten de
cisively. Detroit's victory left
Georgetown with an even break
on the season.
George Washington held the
Navy reserve-, scoreless in the
first half, but the Middy regulars
quickly rolled up a 20-0 advan
tage in the second.
Maryland lost to Vanderbilt,
• 7-22. Details of these and other
games will be found in the sports
section.
EXPLOSION KILLS 13
, IN OKLAHOMA MINE
. Four Others Injured Badly;
38 Workers Escape From
Shaft Unassisted.
1 By the Associated Prea*.
LUTIE, Okla., November 29. —Okla-
-1 homa’s nineteenth major mine disaster
' in the last 38 years today added 13 lives
! to the death roll, which now lists 506
names. Shortly after noon an explosion
in the Mailey-Ola Coal Co.’s No. 5 mine
wrecked the No. 10 *st east entry, killing
i 13 men and injuring four others. The
injured were burned so seriously that
reports three of them had died on the
’ way to the hospital at Hartshorne were
circulated widely. The reports later
were found to be erroneous.
11 Dead Married.
The four men. Burl Boyd, the most
1 dangerously injured of the four sur
vivors in the wrecked entry; Louis Pate,
brother of Roy, who was killed; Lon
1 Swindle and Louis McMahan, were in a
hospital at Hartshorne tonight.
All except two of the dead miners
were married and most of them had
large families.
A representative of the American Red
Cross, Mrs. C. V. Shuman of St. Louis,
was en route here tonight to conduct a
survey of relief measures.
Other Miners Escape.
Thirty-eight miners working in other
parts of the mine made their way to the
surface unassisted.
Only the fact that the mine was
heavily rock dusted as a precaution
against gas kept the death list from
mounting much higher, veteran miners
believed.
Rock dusting consists of spraying
rock dust in crevices and walls where
coal dust has settled. The thick coat
ing of heavier powder retards the ex
plosive power of the lighter substance.
RULING LIBERALIZES
VETERANS’ DISABILITY
; Court Allows Claim Where Person
Does Not Give Proof of Ab
solute Incapacity.
By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, November 29 —The term
i “total and permanent disability,” as
used in war risk insurance does not
require proof of absolute incapacity but
rather such impairment of capacity as
to render it impossible for the disabled
person to follow continuously any sub
stantial gainful occupation,” the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals held
here today.
The opinion affirmed a ruling made by
District Judge A. L. Reeves of Kansas
City, who allowed a claim of *4,082.50
by William O. Phillips, father and ad
ministrator of the estate of William H
Phillips, a World War veteran who died
of tuberculosis in 1923.
His father had filed the claim on the
ground that his son was totally dis
-1 ablcd when he left the service in 1919
and should have received $57.50 a
month until his death under the terms
of his war risk policy.
*As a result of the decision and its
definition of total disability, the United
States attorney's office said it would
recommend the dismissal of about 75
war risk insurance cases pending here
and suggest that the claims be paid.
FOOT BALL FANS HURT
AFTER CHICAGO GAME
Miss Margaret Daugherty of Wash
ington Listed Among Those
Injured.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 29.—Numerous
, injuries were caused when the crowd
jof more than 100,000 persons pushed
I and Jammed its way out of Soldier
j Field Stadium after the Notre Dame-
Army foot ball game today.
More than a dozen persons were
taken to St. Luke's Hospital, near the
stadium, to be treated for cuts, bruises
and other minor injuries. Two women,
i Miss Kolevha Smith of Chicago and
Miss Margaret Daugherty of Wash-
I ington, D. C., remained at the hos
! pital, as did Charles Michaelson of
Chicago, w'ho suffered a broken
ankle when trampled. Several women
fainted.
SCIENTISTS FIND LAND BRIDGE
CONNECTING AMERICA AND ASIA
; Carnegie Institution Representative Believes Redwood
Forest Stretched Between Continents.
i By the Associated Preu.
The long suspected bridge of land
that once connected North America and
Asia has been located by scientists of
the Carnegie Institution.
The Institution announced yesterday
„hat through co-operation of the Smith
sonian Institution and the Coast Guard
, cutter Northland, fossil specimens had
: been brought from St. Lawrence Island,
i near Behring Strait, definitely indicat
ing the bridge once existed. The island
is located south of Behring Strait about
40 miles from Asia and a Tittle over 100
miles from the Seward Peninsula,
WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30, 1930-128 PAGES. *
EUROPE WATCHING
FOR SIGN THAT U.S.
BACKSWARTREATY
Gibson Vote With France at
Geneva Thought Move to
Uphold Peace.
DEFEATED NATIONS SEEN
FORMING OPPOSING BLOC
Opinion Expressed War Is Unlikely
if America Exerts Pressure
for Status Quo.
BY PAi:L SCOTT MOWRER.
By Radio to The Star.
PARIS. France, November 29.—1 s
the alleged formation of a bloc of de
feated and malcontent countries—ltaly,
Germany, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria,
Turkey, Austria and Lithuania —tend-
ing to swing the support of Great
Britain and the United States to France
and the status quo group in the interest
of preserving world peace and the
balance of power? This Is the question
which is being widely asked in Europe.
That Premier Mussolini of Italy has
been actively engaged in trying to over
come Germany's hesitations and con
solidate the anti-French bloc is an open
secret. Italy has established close
diplomatic relations with Hungary,
Bulgaria, Turkey and certain factions
in Austria. She has recently cemented
her ties with Russia and has openly
offered her support to Germany.
Germany has manifested reluctance
to enter any combination with Italy,
but Germany has close ties with Russia
and Lithuania, and it has been noted
that the Hungarian premier, Count
Bethlen, has just visited Berlin, pre
sumably as a sort of intermediary be
tween Italy and Germany in questions
of general foreign policy.
Powers Vote Together.
At the meeting of the Preparatory
Disarmament Commission in Geneva.
Italy, Germany, Russia, Bulgaria and
Turkey recently have been voting con
stantly together. Maxim M. Litvinov
and Dlno Grandi, foreign ministers of
Russia and Italy, respectively, have had
a conspicuous private interview at
Milan. Tewfik Rushdi Bey, Turkish
foreign minister, is now vlsting Rome.
All the malcontetn states demand
certain changes of the frontiers in their
favor. They explain that they ardently
desire peace and that this is why they
want the changes, because u long as
the present frontiers are maintained
there cannot be permanent peace.
These explanations are unanimously
interpreted In France as meaning that
if the malcontents are not given cer
tain territories now belonging to the
status quo states, they will in the long
I run no longer favor peace.
Not Expecting War Now.
No immediate outbreak of hostilities
is expected because France and its
allies are still strong and the principal
malcontent states, Italy, Germany and
Russia, are all known to be prey to
grave economic difficulties involving an
acute shortage of capital which, it is
considered, would make the conduct of
a prolonged war almost impossible. But
a threat of war Is considered never
theless to be Implied.
In these circumstances France is
watching with intense interest the
movement of the governmental opinion
of three other countries—namely. Great
Britain, the United States and Spain,
for it is felt that if Great Britain and
the United States really show a dis
position to take an active part in pre-
I serving peace, no outbreak can occur.
The British Labor government no
sooner entered office 18 months ago
than it seized the first occasion to make
a conspicuous break with France and
has since been opposing France, it is
believed, on virtually every Issue. Fol
; lowing Adolf Hitler's Fascist success in
the German elections a slight change
w’as noticed, however, in the direction
of a Franco-British rapprochement.
Great Britain seemed to feel that
Germany was going too far. At the
Geneva Disarmament Commission ses
sions France and Great Britain have
been working together and on Thurs
day occurred an incident which at
i Continued on Page 4, Column 2.)
BELIEVE LAKE ERIE SHIPS
ARE SAFELY IN PORTS|
Coast Guards Hold Vessel in Dis-j
tress in Friday's Blizzard
Reached Canadian Shore.
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, November 29. —Marine
circles here tonight expressed belief
that all ships on Lake Erie which had
been beset by wind and snow had made
port safely.
An unidentified boat which had been
reported In distress off Ashtabula In a
Friday blizzard was believed by Coast
Guards to have gained refuge along
the Canadian shore. Capt. E. H. Ca
hour of the freighter E. M. Young re
ported standing by the boat for several
hours before it slowly headed toward
Canada. He said it had been listing,
apparently from unbalanced ballast.
Belief that the ship which had been
in difficulty w r as the Simcoe of the
Canadian Steamship Lines was dis
proved when she arrived in Cleveland
and reported having no trouble.
Dr Ralph W. Chaney, palaebotanlst
of the Carnegie Institution, has for
years been seeking evidence to support
the belief that millions of years ago
plants and animals crossed between
America and Asia over a land connec
tion in that region.
Slabs of heavy gray shale brought
from the Island are thickly covered with
impressions of leafy twigs of sequoia
or redwood.
Dr. Chaney had searched for an c
found redwood fossils in both Alaska
and China, Indicating, scientists said,
that the redwood forests once were con
tinuous from North America to Asia.
DO-X TO CONTINUE
TRIP IN JANUARY
DESPITE WING FIRE
Dornier Officials Say Damage
Will Not Prevent Atlantic
Hop.
NEEDED PARTS SENT
TO LISBON FOR REPAIRS
Six of Crew Battle Blaze and
Protect Ship's Gasoline
Tanks.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 29.—Officials of
the Dornier Works said tonight that
the fire which damaged the seaplane
Do-X at Lisbon today would not pre
vent the big ship from making its
transatlantic flight in January as
scheduled.
New parts already have been shipped
to Lisbon and it is estimated that the
repair work will require a fortnight.
Do-X Charred Wreck.
LISBON. November 29 ( A »).—The
proud seaplane Do-X, biggest of the
flying boats, lay a battered, charred
wreck in the harbor here tonight.
The skeleton of one wing tilted
crazily toward the sky, and the weight
of the other pulled the ship down into
; the water. But she was in better shape
than she might have been, for a sudden
fire which destroyed the left wing today
was checked just before it reached her
huge fuel tanks.
“It’s hard luck,” said her commander,
Friedirch Christiansen, as he looked
over the ruined ship, “but our ocean trip
will not be called off, it's only delayed.”
Crowds were admiring the handsome
plane from the shore when there was
an explosion and a tower of flames
burst from the wing, and it looked as
though the whole ship were going to be
destroyed. A short circuit in an elec
tric connection had shot a spark against
the inflammable wing lining.
Crew Protects Tanks.
Harbor craft scurried over as close
as they dared toward the scorching
heat, and fire brigades, reinforced by
volunteers from the Portuguese Naval Air
Station, put out in small boats.
But six men left aboard the plane
when her officers and the rest of the
crew went ashore turned fire ex
tinguishers on the blaze and stood by
to protect the gas tanks.
It was a brave thing that they did,
for less than an hour before hundreds
of gallons of fuel had been poured into
those tanks and one spark would have
touched oft a terrific explosion.
For five minutes they fought their
own battle. Then the fire was out,
almost as quickly as it had started.
The rest of the ship was saved, al
thought the gleaming hull was black
ened by smoke, and the passenger quar
ters were soaking.
A few minutes later Capt. Christian
sen, Clarence Schildhauer, the American
| pilot, the other officers and most of the
crew Were surveying the damage from
motor launches. The commander went
aboard and looked over the wreckage.
Flight Not Abandoned.
“I can’t say how long it will take to
fix this up,” he said, “but we’ll make as
quick a job of it as we can. W; are
not going to abandon the flight across
the Atlantic.”
The DO-X, which arrived here after
a series of misadventures from Alten
rhein, where she was built, was to have
left today or tomorrow for Cadiz, where
there was to have been a complete over
hauling in preparation for the ocean
flight.
It was said tonight that the fire evi
dently started in an auxiliary engine
room w'hich houses a small 10-horse
power motor for charging wireless bat
teries. A short circuit caused a blaze,
which quickly spread to the gasoline
tank in the wing and thereby caused
the explosion.
Capt. Christiansen said tonight that
beyond the loss of the engine and the
left wing the ship had suffered no
damage.
Tomorrow the DO-X will be towed to
the submarine docks for repairs. All
parts unavailable in Portugal will be
rushed from Friedrichshafen or the
Dornier works at Cadiz.
TODAY’S STAR
PART ONE—I 4 PAGES.
General News—Local, National and
Foreign.
Educational News—Page B-4.
News of the Clubs—Page C-8.
Spanish War Veterans —Page C-9.
W. C. T. U. Activities—Page 9.
Parent-Teacher Notes—Page C-10.
American Legion—Pagr C-11.
At Community Centers—Page C-13.
Army and Navy News —Page C-13.
PART TWO—B PAGES.
Editorials and Editorial Features.
Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 5.
PART THREE—I 2 PAGES.
Society Section.
PART FOUR—B PAGES.
Amusement Section—Theater, Screen
and Radio.
In the Motor World —Page 4.
Aviation—Page 5.
Radio —Page 7.
District of Columbia Naval Reserve —
Page 8.
PART FIVM PAGES.
Sports Section.
PART SIX—I 2 PAGES.
Financial News and Classified Ad
vertising.
District National Guard —Page 5.
Girl Scouts —Page 5.
Gold Star Mothers—Page 5.
Fraternities —Page 11.
D. A. R. Activities—Page 11.
Marine Corps Notes—Page 11.
Serial Story, “The Secret of Margaret
Yorke”—Page 12.
Organized Reserves—Page 12.
PART SEVEN—24 PAGES.
Magazine Section.
News of the Music World—Page 17.
Reviews of the New Books —Page 18.
Notes of Art and Artists—Page 19.
Cross-word Puzzle—Page 22.
GRAPHIC SECTION—B PAGES.
World Events in Pictures.
COLOR SECTION—B PAGES.
Mom Mullins; Mr. and Mrs.; Little
Orphan Annie; Brutus; the Smythes;
Somebody’s Stenog; Reg’lar Fellers;
Highlights of History.
l ®Br e
CORCORAN EXHIBIT
OPENED TO PUBLIC
i
Collection of Contemporary
Paintings to Be Shown
Through January 11.
The Twelfth Biennial Exhibition of
Contemporary American Oil Paintings
of the Corcoran Gallery of Art opened
formally last night before a brilliant
company of invited spectators, and to
day the exhibition will be thrown open
to the general public for a six-week
period ending January 11 next.
A striking array of works of leading
American artists, including four paint
ings recently singled out by a jury of
prominent artists for the biennial
W. A. Clark Prize Awards, greeted the
throng of distinguished guests at the
private showing last night.
A representative assemblage of official
and private society of the Capital
turned out for the opening, which is
an event of national importance from
a social as well as an art standpoint.
While the formality of a receiving
line was dispensed with, trustees and
other officials of the Corcoran Gallery
were on hand to meet the guests. The
committee on the exhibition was com
posed of James Parmelee, chairman:
C. Powell Minnigerode, director of the
gallery and secretary, and R. M. Kauff
mann, a trustee.
Interest gravitated toward the prize
pictures, which were chosen by a jury
composed of Daniel Garber, chairman;
Childe Hassam, Charles Hopklnson,
Leon Kroll and W. Elmer Schofield.
Prize Work Purchased.
It was disclosed for the first time
last night that the painting “After
Lunch,” by Maurice Sterne, interna
tionally known artist of New York,
which won first prize of $2,000 and the
Corcoran gold medal, has been pur
chased for the permanent collection of
the Corcoran Gallery by authority of
the trustees. A notice to this effect
was posted beside the picture, a “still
life” showing a table with a bowl of
pansies and dishes remaining from a
simple midday repast.
In acquiring the Sterne picture it
is apparent that trustees of the gallery
are rollowing a policy generally adhered
to in the past in connection with simi
lar contests. A study of the gallery's
permanent collection of American
paintings shows that the work of vir- ;
tually all first-prize winners of the
past is represented. This policy will
give the institution a group of pictures
passed upon by notable juries, showing
the chronological development of art
in America.
Two other paintings In the exhibition
also have been purchased for the gal
lery's permanent collection. They are
John Noble’s “Early Morning” and
John R. Grabach’s “River Barges.”
Other Prize Winners.
Other prize-wdnning pictures inspect
ed last night were Gifford Beal’s “Circus
Girl,” w'hich won second prize of $1,500
and the Corcoran silver medal: Edmund
Archer’s “Show Girl,” which received
third award of SI,OOO and the Corcoran
bronze medal, and Joseph M. Plavcan’s
“Mechanic Street. New Hope. Pa,” which
was awarded fourth prize of SSOO and
the Corcoran certificate of honorable
mention.
The population of America’s art world
was well represented among the guests
who passed in and out of the many
rooms devoted to the showing of the
395 paintings by 287 artists, composing
the colorful collection. Mr. Sterne, Mr.
Beal and Mr. Archer were observed
among the guests. Each received the
congratulations of his friends.
Permanent works of art in the Amer
ican section of the gallery’s collection
were removed temporarily to provide
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PATIENT AT GALLINGER
LEAPS TO HIS DEATH
Breaks Leather Straps Binding
Him to Bed to Jump From Sec
ond-Story Window.
Breaking leather straps which held
him to his bed, Benjamin Harris, 67
years old, of the 1200 block of C street
southwest, a mental patient at Gallinger
Hospital, leaped from a second-story
window of the institution to his death
early this morning.
Harris’ body was found on the pave
ment below by Mrs. Hermione Case, as
sistant night superintendent, several
minutes after he jumped from the win
dow.
Physicians at the hospital said Harris
was suffering from senile dementia and
was admitted to the hospital yesterday.
He was pronounced dead by Dr. A. J.
Speer of the hospital staff. No one
witnessed the leap.
Henry Allen Hill Dies.
CORAL GABLES, Fla., November 26
(yP).—Henry Allen Hill, sr., formerly
associated with the General Asbestos
Rubber Co. in Charleston, 8. C., died
here today after an illness of a year.
Pirates Lay Mine
Sinking 4 Vessels
i With 8 Lives Lost
' By the Associated Press.
HONGKONG. November 29.
Sea robbers of South China have
added mine laying to their Orien
tal pirate racket.
A steam launch towing three
trailers from Shuntch to Canton
today rtruck a mine raid to have
been laid by pirates and all four
vessels sank, with a lass of eight
lives and property damage of
$2,000.
The outrage was understood to
have been the outcome of a bandit
threat against launch companies,
which have refused to pay levies
for immunity from such attacks.
« SEEKS END
OF TEXTILE STRIKE
l
| Invites Danville Mill Owners
| to Washington for Con
ference Today.
By the Associated Press.
Secretary Davis yesterday telegraphed
owners of the textile mills at Danville,
Va., urging that they make a last-min
ute effort to settle the strike there that
he might retire from office with his desk
clean of major labor disputes.
In his telegram to the operators,
whose names he did not disclose, the
Secretary Invited them to send repre
sentatives to Washington to attend
church with him today "and then meet
in Christian fellowship around the con
ference table in the afternoon.”
He said he would like to be able to
I report to President Hoover Monday
when he retires from the cabinet to be
come junior Senator from Pennsylvania
that peace has been restored “to this
basic industry.”
Peace Greatest Achievement.
Davis said he considered the "preva
lence of industrial peace" as the great
| est achievement of his cabinet service.
! He explained that when he assumed
office under President Harding In 1921,
the country was undergoing a post-war
Industrial readjustment, of which re
sulted in “innumerable disagreements
between labor and capital."
"I am happy to announce,” he said,
“that with the exception of the textile
strike In Danville, there are no major
industrial disputes throughout the
country.”
One administrative problem the Sec
retary said needed patience and per
severance was created in the passage
of the immigration quota bill.
“It's opponents said It could not be
enforced,” he declared, “but it was, and
after the inhumanities were removed It
proved to be universally satisfactory."
Cites Accomplishments.
Other accomplishments the Secretary
regarded significant were the expansion
of the Federal Employment Service:
the standardization of statistical collec
tion and classification; the diffusion of
greater and more accurate information
on the cost of living; extension of the
department's library service; winning
the confidence of 10,000,000 women he
said were gainfully employed in indus
try, and appreciation on the part of
MOVIES MAY SOON BE BROADCAST
BY NEW TELEVISION INVENTION
Dr. C. Francis Jenkins Tells Latest Discoveries After
Extended Research Near Washington.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
TORONTO, Ontario, November 29.
Hollywood eventually may distribute
pictures by radio instead of films by
a new television Invention, Dr. C.
Francis Jenkins, who for 10 years has
been concentrating on the problem In
his laboratories near Washington, D. C.,
declared today.
The process should be just about one
hqjf as costly as films, Dr. Jenkins said,
and, of course, the time element would
be abolished. Dr. Jenkins tonight de
livered an open lecture, under auspices
of the Royal Canadian Institute, on
"Television in the Making.”
In his room at a local hotel, Dr.
Jenkins explained the present status
of television. "Frankly,” he confessed,
"I don’t think the present method of
television, as invented, has much chance,
although we have been regularly broad
casting from our laboratories a small
radio mo^e.
“The present radio movies from the
Jenkins laboratories an really very
good, but they are too small. Wfaat we
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FIVE CENTS
IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS
SAYS COMMUNISM
IN U. S. IS MENACE
Representative Fish Points
Out Industries Feeling
Evil Influence.
The revolutionary doctrines of Com
munists in the Unted States, though
they do not yet constititute a menace
to our republican form of government,
have become a real threat to certain
; industries and are becoming a source
of trouble in other industries, Rep
! resentative Hamilton Pish, jr., chair,
man of the special Congressional Com
mittee appointed to study “Red” activi
ties, delared last night In the National
, Radio Forum arranged by The Wash
ington Star and broadcast over the
! Coast-to-Coast network of the Colum.
«, bia Broadcasting System. It was heard
’ locally through Station WMAL.
To such industries as textiles, coal
mining, garment workers, marine trans
portation and fur workers, Mr. Pish
said. Communist activities have become
a serious threat. He said also they are
causing trouble in the automobile in
dustry. lumber industry and numerous
manufacturing centers.
United States Activities Investigated.
He estimated that there are in excess
of 300,000 Communist sympathizers of
voting age in the country and that the
total number, including women and
children, is about a half million.
Mr. Fish’s address was especially
timely, in view of the fact that his
committee now is engaged in drafting
its report to Congress after extensive
hearings and investigations and In view
of the fact that eight anti. Communist
engineers now are being tried in Mos
cow for conspiring to overthrow the
Soviet regime.
The Pish Committee has been In
vestigating Communist activities in sev
eral sections of the country* and has
held hearings in practically every im
portant center where Communist ac.
tivities have been reported. Mr. Fish
has been pushing investigations with
a vigor which has been characteristic
of his entire public career. In addi
tion to his chairmanship of the spe.
cial committee he is serving as a mem
ber of the Foreign Affairs Committee
of the House.
Says Legislation Is Needed.
While a student in Harvard Uni
versity, from which he was graduated
with a cum laude degree, Mr. Pish
gained national fame as a foot ball
star. He was captain of the team dur
ing his final year. He served with dis
tinction in the World War, as an ln
fantry captain in the Champagne and
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BABY’S CRIES SAVE EIGHT
Fire Breaks Out Before Daybreak in
Atlanta, 6a., Home.
ATLANTA, Ga„ November 29 (jP).—
Cries of an 8-month-old baby were
credited today with saving the lives of
eight persons, who fled from their
burning home.
The fire broke out in the home of
George W. Parker, before daybreak.
Mary Jordan, Mr. Parker's granddaugh
ter, awoke the household with her cries
as the flames gained headway.
She and four Parker children were
carried from the house. Mrs. Jordan
and Mr. and Mrs. Parker also escaped
uninjured. The house was destroyed.
want are movie pictures the same size
as the present Alms and as clear. There
is no chance of making a big motion
picture with the present method. Never
at any moment is there more than one
point of light on the screen. The vision
transmits the picture as it is built up
raphUv to the mind where the memory
retains it. But if you actually photo
graphed the screen, there would never
be more than one dot of the picture
on it.”
By the new method, almost completed
by Dr. Jenkins, the details of the pic
ture actually remain on the screen. Only
one little problem yet remains to make
radio moving pictures a success. That
‘‘one little thing,” which Dr. Jenkins is
now sure has been discovered, is the
power to make the pictures built up
on the stationary surface fade away
within from one-tenth to one-flfteenth
of a second, just as the present
movies do. '%
Dr. Jenkins Invented tl* present mo
tion picture projector that is used
i throughout the world.
Asm*
TEN CENTS
ELSEWHERE
MARYLAND LIQUOR
DRIVE ORDERED AS
ENFORCEMENTTEST
Woodcock Seeks Number of
Agents Required to Ferret
Out Stills in Square Mile.
METROPOLITAN POLICE
TO PATROL D. C. BORDERS
Prohibition Director Emphasize*
Campaign Should Not Be Re
garded as Spectacular.
Determined to stamp out liquor In
Southern Maryland, Col. Amos W. W.
Woodcock, director of prohibition, has
projected an experiment in four trou
blesome counties that may be extended
throughout the country to provide a
mosaic of enforcement.
Col, Woodcock yesterday descried
Southern Maryland as "one of the sore
spots of the United States." He has
ordered one of the largest forces of Fed
eral agents ever sent into the territory
to travel "every inch of the road” In an
extensive area. While they work, more .
than 30 Washington policemen, begin
ning tomorrow’, will patrol the Mary
land-Dlstrict of Columbia border to
intercept any rum runners driven out
by the Federal men.
Woodcock said yesterday the drlv* «
would be conducted with a thorough
ness that he expects will furnish valu
able information that may be applied
elsewhere. One of the things he wants
to know is the number of agents neces
sary to ferret out the number of pos
sible still sites in a square mile. The
success of the effort and the value of
the information collected will determine
whether similar drives are made ia
other sections, he said.
D. C. Interest Incidental.
The interest of District offlcials in
the drive is incidental to the main pur
pose, Southern Maryland being outside
the jurisdiction of the Washington
police. The question of co-operation
was suggested to Maj. Gen. Herbert B.
Crosby, District Commissioner in charge
of the police and fire departments, and
he directed that 36 policemen be as
signed to give assistance.
The Federal agents have been in the
field two days, equipped with highway
maps and other information about the
territory. The Washington policemen,
in crews of two men, will begin their
patrol work tomorrow morning along
six of the principal highways leading
to the Capital from Maryland. They
will work around the clock in eight
hour shifts.
A native of Maryland, and thorough
ly informed about conditions In the
State, Col. Woodcock has wanted to
concentrate enforcement agencies there
ever since he became prohibition direc
tor. He emphasized, however, that this
campaign should not be regarded as a
spectacular drive. ■ >
Against Spectacular Drives.
"I am not in favor of spectacular
drives and I have not issued any orders
for such drives during the Christmas
season,” he said. "My policy Is to keep
up a steady pressure against commer
cial violations, avoiding the spectacular
as much as possible. Liquor is being
made in Southern Maryland and
brought into Washington, and we are
determined to stop it. The agents will
be kept there as long as they are
needed."
Col. Woodcock thinks that no section
of the country presents difficulties in
enforcement comparable to those en
countered in the spersely populated
section* of Southern Maryland. The
worst part of the State, from the pro
hibition enforcement viewpoint, is cut
through with good roads that feed the
two cities, Baltimore and Washington.
Much of the area is in woods and hun
dreds of streams offer as many possible
still sites. Cheap labor and an inde
pendently minded element that has
kept to itself for many years, unwilling
ti respond to anything short of strong
arm methods, have made the section
one of the most troublesome to pro
hibition officers.
While it will be difficult to apply In
formation gained there to other sec
tions of the country. Col. Woodcock
hopes that the performance of the
agents, the period of time it takes
them to complete the task, and other
contributions will furnish him with a
yardstick that can be applied to other
areas.
ACCEPTSRESiGNATION
OF AUSTRIAN CABINET
President Invites Dr. Otto Ender,
Christian Socialist, to Name
New Organization.
By the Associated Press.
VIENNA, November 29.—President
Miklas today accepted the resignation
of the Austrian cabinet tendered by
Chancellor Vaugoin. It was reported
tonight the President invited Dr. Otto
Ender, the governor of the province of
Vorarlberg and a staunch Christian
Socialist, to come to Vienna and form
a new cabinet.
It was understood that Dr, Ender,
who refused the chancellorship once be
fore, had agreed to accept this invita
tion on condition that he be guaran
teed full support for his economic pro
gram.
Vaugoin, too, is a prominent mem
ber of the Christian Socialist party,
which decided last Thursday that he
should resign. Dr. Ramek. a former
chancellor, and Eduard Heinl also were
mentioned as Vaugoin‘s successor.
Chancellor Vaugoin had also been
war minister, unofficial head of the
Heimwehr and leader of the Christian
Social Parliamentary Club. Under him
the Fascists had become so obstrep
erous as to threaten a march on Vienna
to sweep the Socialists out of Parlia
ment.
Even if Ender came in, it would not
guarantee any change in the course of
the extreme right opposition, for his
province also has a strong Fascist
organization.
DR. GEORGE MILLER DIES
Brooklyn Pastor Was Known as
“Boy Orator of Maryland/'
NEW YORK. November 29 (JP).— Rev.
Dr. George Miller died today at Metho
dist Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn. He
was 86 years old and known in his
younger days as ‘‘the boy orator of
Maryland.” He occupied pulpits 60
years. 1