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TEMPERATURE HITS
NEW 10WF0R DATE
15. Degrees Makes Today
■ Coldest December 16 in
•,* 13 Years.
Wllh the thermometer at the United
States Weather Bureau registering 15
degrees at 8:15 o’clock today, the Na
tional Capital was experiencing the
cdldest December 15 within the past 13
Fmrs.
Not since that date in December,
when the mercury plunged down
to 10, has the weather been as cold
on a similar date.
Only In live out of the past 19 years
has the temperature approached the
low level of today on December 16, rec
ords show. Out of these years, Decem
,ber 15 and 16, 1914, stand out. On
those days the temperature was down
to 11.
Colder Last Month.
While the present weather may be
considered unseasonably cold, colder
weather has been recorded on a num
ber of occasions earlier in the season
in past years. Going back to Novem- !
her 29 of this year there was recorded
a temperature of 14 degrees.
The official forecast predicts a mini- j
mum of 16 degrees for tonight, with j
•lowly rising temperature and increas
ing cloudiness tomorrow.
The outlook is for rain tonight in
the south portion of the South At
lantic States. Elsewhere the weather
will be mostly fair tonight with in
creasing cloudiness on Wednesday in 1
the Washington forecast district. It
will not be quite so cold tonight in the
lower lake region, the north portion
of the Middle Atlantic States, and
portions of New England and tem
peratures will rise quite generally on
Wednesday over Middle and Northern
districts, the Weather Bureau forecast
predicts.
15 BELOW IN VERMONT.
Extreme CoM Recorded at Several
Points in New England.
BOSTON, December 16 (/P). —A pene
trating cold that threatened to break
long-standing temperature records set
tled down over New England today for
what the Weather Bureau believes will
be a two-day stopover.
The lowest early morning tempera
tures were reported from Vermont and
?ew Hampshire. White River Junction,
L, reported 15 below zero: Northfleld,
▼t., and at Berlin. N. H„ thermometer
readings stood at 10 below.
Several other New England cities and
towns recorded aero and below-zero
temperatures. In Boston early this
morning thermometers stood at 4 above
ten,
SNOW FALLS IN SOUTH.
Frees Ing Temperatures Beach as Far
as Northwestern Florida.
ATLANTA. Ga.. December 15 UP). —
Biting winds from the North tonight
brought chilling rains and some snow
to most of Dixie, extending as far
(south as the Northern sections of
Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
Freezing temperatures were predicted
by Government forecasters in North
western Florida.
Atlanta was. prepared for the first
snowfall of the Winter. A low of 82
has been predicted here tomorrow.
day of »lPs ir^S e |
but only a, trace of snow was in evi
dence. ,
A light now fell during the day at
Louisville, Ky.
Charlotte, N. C., spent the day under
overcast skies with a chilly rain mixed
with snow. Snow was also predicted
for North Carolina tomorrow.
A light snow fell throughout the day
at Nashville. Tenn , with a high of 39
and a low of 84. Colder weather with
snow was forecast.
Memphis reported sleet changing into
snow as forecast for tonight.
It was cloudy today in Little Rock,
Ark., with one to three inches of snow
In the northern sections of the State.
New Orleans weather forecasters said
■now or rain would fall during the night
in Northern Louisiana and Mississippi,
with a cold wave striking that section,
forcing down the temperature to freez
ing in the central part.
STIMSON APPOINTS
SPECIAL ASSISTANT
Allen T. Xlots of Hew York Added
to Personal Staff of Secretary
of Btate.
Secretary Stimson has enlarged his
personal staff by the appointment of
Allen T. Klots of New York as “special
assistant to the Secretary of State,” an
office recently created by the Personnel
Classification Board with a salary at
tachment of SB,OOO a year.
Mr. Klots is a graduate of Yale Uni
versity and has been attached to Mr.
Stimson* law firm in New York for
the past nine years during which
period he prepared the data for most of
the cases Mr. Stimson tried in the
courts. The two also were closely asso
ciated during the World War. Mr.
Klots having served a* adjutant of the
305th Regiment of Field Artillery, com
manded by Mr. Stimson, who then held
the rank of lieutenant colonel in the
National Army.
In announcing Mr. Klots' appoint
ment. the Secretary explained that his
duties at the State Department would
be similar to those of the Junior mem
ber of a law firm, in that he would
do the necessary “research” work and
prepare cases for the final action of the
Secretary. In that work he would have
the assistance of William H. Beck, also
special assistant to the Secretary. Earl
R. Mosburg and G. H. Keatley. private
secretaries, and Capt. Eugene Regnier,
United States Cavalry, aide de camp.
AUTOIST WOUNDED
BY STRIKE TROOPS;
TWO HOMES BOMBED
(Continued From First Page.)
partly wrecked and all windows of the
house shattered.
Fuse Mistaken for Cigarette.
A. W. Rake, who lives a mile down
the road, heard the explosion and got
out of bed. He procured his shotgun
And wai seated at a window when he
•aw an automobile drive up in front of
bis house and stop. He saw two men,
4 he says, one of whom got out and ap
proached his house. He told Ruffing
officers that ne probably would have
fired had not the man cried out “Hello,”
Rake thinking perhaps he was a neigh
bor, did not shoot. He said he saw
something glowing in the man’s hand,
but was unable to tell whether it was
a cigarette or the fuse of a bomb. The
man. Rake said, tipped onto the porch,
then went back to the car and drove
off.
In a short time an explosion occur
red, badly damaging the porch and
breaking all windows to the house. Rake
reported -he has a son working in vhe
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MASTER SERGT. APRIANO CAMPAGNA.
| Stationed at Fort Myer, who will retire on December 31 at the age of 69 years,
j Campagna has seen «iervice in the Navy, Marine Corps and Army. He is assist
ant leader of the 3d Cavalry Band. —star Staff Photo.
LAMONT DECLARES
US AT WORK
Morgan Partner Says People
Doing Best to Improve
Business Conditions.
Bf th« Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 16.—Thomas
W, Lamont, partner in J. P. Morgan A
Co., has with respect to business one
point to urge: "The American people,
with their characteristic energy, have
set to work to do all within their power
to improve the situation.”
In an address to members of the
New York Stock Exchange yesterday,
be continued:
"Our fellow-citizens all over the land
have risen to the emergency with
splendid seal and unselfishness. On
every side you see our business men
hard at work, trying to help correct the
ills of overproduction, overbuying, over
borrowing and overspeculating which
prior to October, 1920, marked the last
year or two of the country's economic
and business life—the same sort of
overstimulation that has invariably
marked similar periods in the business
cycles of this country.
"This last week has been one of es
pecial concern for the New York com
munity, because of a bank suspension
of considerable proportions. Even
though the Institution in question had
long been regarded with uneasiness,
nevertheless many people have asked
themselves whether its ills are at all
sympathetic of the New York banking
community.
"You know as well as I that they are
not. You know as well as I that the
leading banking institutions of this
city are sound, strong and a bulwark to
the community. You know that they
are prudently managed. You know
that the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York is a tower of strength. You know
that the Association of Clearing House
Banks is a powerful safeguard against
trouble. You know that, despite surface
weaknesses which may still show them
selves here and there, our New York
banking community Is founded on a
rock and will not be shaken.”
His remarks were occasioned by the
closing of the Bank of United States.
If. S. SHOULD BEAR
EXCESS D. C. COST,
GOTWALS THINKS
(Continued Prom First Page.)
of any reason why the people in Wash -
ington should pay more or leas in taxes
than those in other cities.
“None,” answered Maj. Ootwals.
“The taxes in Washington should ap
proximate those paid outside,” he added.
Questioned by Frear.
“Do you think that because people
live in the Capital City and do not
have the privilege of voting, whether
this should have any influence on the
situation?" asked Chairman Mapes.
"None,” responded the Commissioner.
Representative Frear of Wisconsin
then asked MaJ. Cotwals why it would
not be fair to the City of Washington
to pay a tax rate equivalent to other
cities that have a bonded indebtedness,
due to the fact that the Federal Gov
ernment pays to the District what could
be considered as a sinking fund in
those cities that have a bonded in
debtedness.
Maj. Gotwals pointed out in reply
that if Washington was standing here
alone without the aid of the Federal
Government it would be forced to get
along on its current revenue.
“Give us your idea of a practical
formula for a relative contribution of
the Federal Government,” asked Chair
man Mapes.
"I can go no further,” replied Maj
Gotwals, "than to repeat that there
should be a separation of operating
costs and capital expenditures and the
city should bear the ordinary expenses
and the Federal Government bearing
the others.”
gays Some Conditions Remedied.
The only other witness heard by the
committee was Herbert J. Brown of 1122
Thirteenth street who said he made an
examination in 1912 for the House Dis
trict Committee to determine whether
the tax assessments in Washington were
sound.
Some of the conditions which pre
vailed in 1912, Brown said, have been
remedied in whole or in part, and some
are still current. The faethods largely
improved since then can be further lm
j proved.
Brown contended that leases and not
I real estate transfers would be a better
gauge of values of property in the busl
• ness section of Washington.
The selling price is a rule on which
values of residence properties are as
sessed, he pointed out, and selling prices
r are 40 to 50 per cent higher than cost.
, Exploitation methods, he declared, are
\ absorbed in some of this selling price,
. part of which is due to high-pressure
salesmanship.
“Ground is a mirror which reflects
the values above it,” Brown declared.
“As a rule the improvements are as
i sessed higher than the ground.”
The improvements on a property,
i Brown explained, are subject to certain
element* of Increased cost. Materials,
bs declared, fava been taxd before they
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. ; Tl. L.-.UAV. bU 16, 1930.
DRINKING ALLEGED
IN SLANDER CASE
Two Witnesses Say Liquor
Was Served at Party in
Woman’s Apartment.
Testimony that Rev. William Thomas
Reynolds, former rector of Grace Epis
copal Church, In Georgetown, was
drunk on two occasions in the apart
ment of Mrs. Maude Bell Ford, 2222 N
streets who is suing Mrs. Marguerite
du Pont Lee, related to the du Pont
family of Delaware, for $50,000 dam
ages for alleged slander, was given this
afternoon to Justice Frederick L. Sid
dons and a jury in Circuit Division 1
in Mrs. Lee's defense of the suit.
Two witnesses testified to the condi
tion of the clergyman and also bald
that Mrs. Ford on one of the occasions
was also intoxicated and had to be put
to bed and the minister assisted from
her apartment by one of the witnesses,
who also declared that Rev. Mr. Rey
nolds was intoxicated February 5, 1928,
when holding healing services at a fash
ionable church near Washington Circle.
It was on the latter occasion that
Mrs. Lee is said to have uttered the
alleged slanderous statements against
Mrs. Ford.
Telephone Operator Testifies.
Mrs. Marie Gorsuch, who had been
employed by Mrs. Ford as a telephone
operator at Corcoran Courts, where Mrs.
Ford was manager, declared that she
attended a party at the apartment of
Mrs. Ford, September 1, 1927, at 2222
N street, when Rev. Mr. Reynolds was
present, and that all of them had
drinks. Both the clergyman and Mrs.
Ford became Intoxicated, the witness
said, and she put the plaintiff to bed.
She testified that her husband, Thomas
M. Gorsuch, assisted the pastor to his
car. The witness said she knew Rev.
Mr. Reynolds was drunk because he
insisted on telling fortunes.
Thomas M. Gorsuch corroborated
the testimony of his wife and told of
assisting Rev. Mr. Reynolds from Mrs.
Ford’s apartment on that night and
again on the following night. He also
said the minister appeared to be drunk
when conducting the healing services,
February 5. 1928. He said he heard
Mrs. Lee talking to Reynolds’ chauffeur
and to his nephew concerning his con
dition, but denied that any loud tone
was used. He said the minister came
down the aisle of the church and going
up to Mrs. Lee repeated the inquiry,
‘Am I drunk.” in a manner indicating
that he had been drinking.
Mrs. Lee Pat an Stand.
Mrs. Lee was called to the witness
stand to testify on behalf of Mrs. Ford.
Mrs. Ford testified concerning her
acquaintance with Rev. Mr. Reynolds.
She admitted that on the minister’s
visits to her apartment when other per
sons were present cocktails might have
been handed out, but she denied that
she had ever seen the rector drunk. She
also denied giving him anything to drink
on February 5, 1928, when Mrs. Lee is
alleged to have made statements that
the rector was drunk on that occasion
and that Mrs. Ford was responsible for
his condition. Claim is also made that
Mrs. Lee used language reflecting on the
morality of the plaintiff.
Letters Are Identified.
Attorney W. Gwynn Gardiner for
Mrs. Ford called Mrs. Lee to identify
a. number of letters said to have been
written by her to Mr. Reynolds, which
the lawyer asserted were admissible for
the purpose of showing "malice” on the
part of Mrs. Lee in making the state
ment at a healing service being con
ducted at a fashionable Episcopal
Church near Washington Circle.
The letters, several In number, ad
mitted by the elderly widow to have
been written to Mr. Reynolds, then
about 40 years old. are replete with
words of love and affection.
Mrs. Lee admitted the authorship,
but when Attorneys Mackall and Bur
roughs, her counsel, sought on cross
examination to show the age of the
rector, and that Mrs. Lee had sons
older than him, and that the missives
were written in a "motherly” vein, Mrs.
Ford's lawyers. Gardiner, Edward L.
MarthUl and South Trimble, Jr., ob
jected and Justice Slddons ruled that
they would have to wait until the case
for the defense had started.
reach the building, wheras the machin
ery which made the materials has been
taxed and that the homes in which the
workmen lived who operated the ma
chinery had been taxed. “Therefore,”
he declared, "you have got a ball of
yarn of taxation to which there Is no
ehd.”
Suggests Important Aid.
In concluding his testimoney. Brown
said, there is one way in which the
Federal Government might aid the
District which is more Important than
the appropriation of funds. This, he
said, would be a reduction in the taxes
on the small homes and the stores
where the Government employes trade.
To recover this loss in revenue, he de
clared, the tax rates on ground values
should be increased to $2.50 and the
tax on improvements reduced.
The committee adjourned after hear
ing Mr. Brown and will resume Its
hearing tomorrow morning at 9:45
o’clock. At that time. MM. Daniel J.
Donovan, District auditor grid budget
officer, win bs called to U* stand,
ASK INVESTIGATORS
FOR GRAIN MARKET
Department of Agriculture
Advocates Expansion of
Control Powers.
By the Associated Press.
An enlarged flying squadron of con
fidential inquirers to track down and
prepare to prosecute those responsible
for Irregular transactions on the coun
try’s grain markets is desired by the
Department of Agriculture.
This was revealed today when the
Agriculture Departments supply bill
was reported to the House, accompanied
by the transcript of hitherto secret
hearings of the House Appropriations
Committee.
It was one of the myriad activities of
the department's branches upon which
experts testified. Dr. W. T. Duvel, chief
of the Grain Futures Administration,
advocated authority for the Secretary of
Agriculture to control short selling of
grain by foreign governments—a con
sequence of the recently disclosed Rus
sian transactions in the Chicago pit.
He said it was essential to keep tab
more closely on exchange brokers’ and
commission merchants' activities to pre
vent irregularities in handling cus- i
tomers’ accounts.
Prosecutions Are Mentioned.
The department’s program declared
it “most Important” that studies of
grain prices, including stock market in
fluences, other commodity markets, vis
ible supply, grain movements and other
factors, both domestic and foreign, be
extended far beyond the capacity of the
present organization.
“Numerous cases of irregularities have
already been uncovered,” said Duvel,
“which require further action by the
department. The very nature of this
work makes it essential that the de
partment continue to take Immediate
action on all complaints that appear
justified, and to follow through with the
most Important cases."
The official specifically asked funds
for “special investigations, mainly in
Chicago, and the prosecutions which
will result.”
Other activities reported by the de
partment's workers ranged from studies
on the use of turpentine in making
shatter-proof glass to road building.
Synthetic Camphor Possible.
Dr. W. W. Skinner, chemical tech
nologist, said the right type of turpen
tine is sought, to be turned into syn
thetic camphor, which in turn becomes
celluloid. Placed between two panes
it gives the shatter-proof glass for auto
mobiles. •
“If the turpentine research succeeds,”
he added, “I see no reason why a syn
thetic camphor Industry should not
develop in the South.”
The stretching network of airways
on the continent and in the territories
has put the burden of furnishing round
the clock information on flying condi
tions up to the Weather Bureau.
So that speeding pilots may take their
cargoes of humans and mail safely
through stormy nights and befogged
days, the bureau, its official told Con
gress. is planning hourly information
service over airways aggregating 25,000
miles. The work will cost a maximum
of SBO a mile.
Fertilizer Study Under Way.
Investigations designed to cut the
farmer’s annual fertilizer bill by $60.-
000.000 were outlined by Dr. Henry G.
Knight, chief of the Chemistry and
Soils Bureau. Raw fertilizer materials
, cost $116,000,000 a year, he said, adding
that by a new blast-furnace smelting
process, the department forecasts a sav
ing of $17,000,000 on potash, plus $43,-
000,000 on phosphoric acid.
Substantial progress was reported in
curbing tuberculosis among cattle,
swine and poultry*
Dr. John R. Mohler, chief of the Ani
mal Industry Bureau, said the disease
had been eradicated to the point of less
than one-half of 1 per cent in many
parts of the United States. However,
he added, it exists to some extent among
poultry in the Middle Western and
North Central States.
Thd department's Bureau of Dairy
Industry has found a new sweet sugar
can be produced from cow’s milk.
Sugar Found in Skimmed Milk.
Millions of pounds of skimmed milk,
going to waste, contain sugar that can
be extracted, said O. E. Reed, chief of
the Dairy Industry Bureau. Experi
ments are being carried on to learn
what effect the milk sugar will have on
diet of humans.
A visitor from the Argentine, which
has struck up a friendship with a long
time resident of the United States, will
cost the Federal Government plenty
next year.
The mealy bug is the resident and it
has been playing “milk cow” for the
Argentine ant, which Dr. C. L. Marlatt,
chief of the Bureau of Entomology, said
has “become such an increasingly seri
ous menace in the South that it now
presents a very acute problem.”
Referring to the tobacco moth, he
said an experimental vacuum store
house may have to be constructed be
fore a satisfactory way of getting rid of
it can be found.
Farmers are to get many thousands
of dollars worth of Federal protection
from cotton Insects during the next
fiscal year, Mr. Marlatt testified.
Seek Boil Worm Parasites.
Plowing and irrigation were the best
methods for controlling the pink boll
worm, he said, with the plowing best
done in the late Fall or Winter.
While saying parasites to the pink
bollworm had not been developed suc
cessfully, he added, the hope that suc
cessful propagation in American soil
will yet be secured.
Most of the Mediterranean fruit fly
research work in Florida has ceased, but
the Agriculture Department intends to
increase its efforts to learn more about!
the Oriental fruit moth, he said.
A 193,201-mile ribbon of roads was in- <
eluded in the approved Federal-aid- j
highway system on the first day of this
month.
Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the
Bureau of Public Roads, said that of
the complete system, 87,540 miles had
been improved by December 1 More
than 10.000 ipiles were under way, and
1,548 miles had been approved for con
struction.
Chinese Aviation Improves.
Commercial aviation in China has
taken another big step forward with
the establishment of a new government
controlled company.
7Shoppingdaus
HEADY FOR CHRISTMAS PLAY PRESENTATION
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Members of the Junior department of Gunston Hall appearing in Dicken's “Christmas Carol” this afternoon at S
i o clock at the hall. The affair will be under direction of Mrs. Jennie F. Kunst. Front row, left to right- Ann Kiess, Jane
Dwainne Littlefield, Jean Benton and Muriel Salmond. Back row, left to right: Nancy Fleming, Betty F.mmerson
Lucille Sheppard, Helen Patton. Catherine Fordney and Med ora Shores. g ta[ staff Photo
BAN ON WITNESS'
HALTS RED PROBE
Secretary Stimson Refuses'
to Allow Visa Chief to Give
Public Testimony.
Br the Associated Press.
A surprised House Committee found
its investigation of Communist activities
halted today after Secretary Stimson's
refusal to let a State Department offi
cial testify at a public session.
“The Secretary has Instructed me to
say that I am not at liberty to testify
in open session, since such testimony
if published would be contrary to pub
lic interest,” was the objection relayed
to the committee by A. Dana Hodgdon,
chief of the department’s visa office,
when he was called to the witness
stand. He was willing to go cm in se
cret session, but the committee refused
and asked its chairman, Representative
Fish, Republican, New York, to ask
Stimson to indicate what in particular
he objected to having presented pub
licly.
Soviet A rent Testifies.
In an earlier executive session the
committee had obtained data on the
operation of the visa system from a for
mer official of the office. It sought
amplification of this from Hodgdon.
Just before Hodgdon was called the
investigators had heard Boris E. Skvir
sky of the Soviet information office
here assert that Russian monarchists
“are permitted easy entry (into the
United States) for some reason” and
are carrying on anti-Soviet propaganda
activities.
Witness Subpoenaed.
By contrast, he asserted, his govern
ment did not encourage emigration of
Soviet citizens and estimated there were
lees than 1,000 of them in this coun
try. He said all labor was needed at
home to put over the* five-year indus
trialization program.
Hodgdon had come before the com
mittee under subpoena, because, Fish
explained, Stimson had previously re
fused to permit that publicity be given
the testimony of John F. Simmons, for
mer visa chief, and Robert F. Kelley,
head of the Eastern European division
of the State Department.
PITTS QUESTIONED
BY PROSECUTOR ON
EARNINGS SINCE ’l7
(Continued From First Page.)
of these subsidiaries and from dividends
on his stock holdings. He explained
that subsidiary corporations had a
standing account with the Smith Co. •
and that he was entitled to draw on
these accounts to meet the legitimate
expenses of the minor corporations.
In each instance he submitted a
requisition and a receipt covering each
particular transaction.
In this manner he covered all of
the 95 occasions on which the Gov
ernment charged money had been em
bezzled.
"Did Anadale or Edwards ever re
ceive for their own personal use any
of the money in question?” Defense
Attorney Wilton J. Lambert asked.
“They did not.”
“Did you ever receive any improper
ly for your own personal use?”
“I certainly did not.”
“When moneys were paid to you on
these authorizations, was the indebted
ness of the Bmlth Co. to the subsidiary
corporations correspondingly reduced?”
“It was.”
Pitts then explained the transaction
in which Anadale paid $12,500 for an
automobile purchased for Mrs. Gladys
T. Pitts.
“This was paid by Anadale with a
check on his special account in the
Merchants’ Bank & Trust Co,” Pitts
said. "I was in Europe at the time.
There was a proper authorization for
this money from the Montclair Corpora
-1 tion, and charged to the Insurance Ex
; change Building in Pittsburgh. Mr.
I Anadale did not get a cent of the
I money. I used it to purchase the auto
mobile for my wife.”
At one point in his testimony Pitts
engaged in a heated controversy with
counsel for the prosecution. He had
been referring frequently to a letter
and one of the Government counsel de
manded it be Introduced in evidence.
“You can read it if you want to,"
Pitts said to the attorney.
“I don’t want to,” the lawyer an
swered, “but it ought to go in evi
dence."
Pitts turned to Lambert and shouted:
“Give me that letter. If he won’t show
me the courtesy of reading it I won’t
put it in evidence.”
Club to Have Turkey Shoot.
Members of the An sc ostia Gun Club
have accepted the invitation to partici
pate in a turkey shoot at the residence
of Clarence B. Jett, Lorton, Va.. next
Saturday morning. There will be 25
contests staged for as many turkeys,
and numerous residents of this city
who plan to participate in the event
will motor from here early in the morn
ing.
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BAND CONCERT.
By the United States Boldlers’ Home
Band this evening, at Stanley Hall, at
5:30 o’clock; John S. M. Zimmerman,
bandmaster; Anton Polntner, assistant.
March, “For the Freedom of the
World” Zamecnlk
Overture, "Frolic of the Fairies,” Bigge
Intermezzo, "On the Riviera”...Baron
Scenes from comic opera “The Mi
kado” Sullivan ■
Fox trot, “Wasting My Love on ]
You” .~, Warren
Waltz, "Forget-Me-Not” McKee i
Finale, "The Fighting Yanks”. .Crosby
“The star gpangbirt Ttonr~~ ”
Illness Is Grave
RAYMOND POINCARE.
POINCARE BETTER,
DOCTOR DECLARES
American Among Distinguish
ed Callers Upon Stricken
Statesman.
Br the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 16. —Noticeable im
provement was found this afternoon in
the condition of former President Ray
mond Poincare, who is ill at his home
here, Dr. Georges Marion announced
after a visit at the bedside.
The physician added that he had
found M. Poincare's state “more satis
factory.”
Police Gaard Home.
Police in front of the Poincare home
kept watchers at a distance, so as not
to disturb the former President.
Norman Armour, American charge
d’affaires, was among those who called
this afternoon to inquire for M. Poin
care.
In describing his illness, the Paris
press uses the expression hemiplegia,
that is, a paralysis which affects one
lateral half of the body.
The Havas News Agency, however,
today denied reports that paralysis and
.uremia were factors in the former
President’s illness.
When M. Poincare was first attacked
Saturday there were evidences that a
small vein connecting the brain was
rupturing, but Dr. Boidon relieved his
patient by bleeding him.
Distinguished Persons Call.
Among the distinguished personages
calling on him today were M. Tardleu,
the Prince of Monaco, former President
Mlllerand, former ministers and other
officials.
Mme. Poincare never leaves her hus
band’s bedside. During the night she
fell into slumber from sheer exhaustion,
but awoke fitfully to watch anew over
her patient.
RIGHT TO REGULATE
D. C. SIGNS DESIRED
FOR DISTRICT HEADS
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ciations and the Civic Federations of
Montgomery and Arlington Counties.
At Hysttsville the Chamber of Com
merce pledged support to the campaign
and adopted resolutions urging that
State Senator Lansdale S. Sasscer and
members of the House of Delegates take
up the matter of billboard regulation
with the Maryland Assembly when it
convenes.
Mrs. W. L. Lawton, chairman of the
National Council for Protection of
Roadside Beauty, addressed the lunch
eon meeting of the Women's National
Press Club at the Willard Hotel today.
She gave the newspaper women many
illuminating facts about conditions on
the roadsides surrounding Washington,
a survey of which Mr. and Mrs. Lawton
have just completed for the American
Civic Association.
Letters are being mailed out by the
American Civic Association to all cit
izens’ associations in the District and
representative civic groups in nearby
Maryland and Virginia urging co-opera
tion in this campaign.
Letters also are being sent to the
leaders of the various county federations
of women's clubs, including Mrs. B. Pey
ton Whalen of Bethesda, president of
the Montgomery County Federation of
Women’s Clubs; Mrs. R. F. Allen of
College Park, president of the Prince
Georges County Federation of Women’s
Clubs; Mrs. Eli Swavely of Manassas,
Va„ president of the fourth district,
which includes Fairfax and Arlington
Counties in Virginia; Mrs. John L.
Whitehurst of Baltimore, president of
the Maryland State Federation of Wom
en’s Clubs, and Mrs. J. L. B. Buck of
Hampton, Va„ president of the Virginia
State Federation.
Proben to Go to Memphii.
The special House committee consid
ering the official conduct of Federal
Judge Harry Anderson leaves tonight for
Memphis to begin hearing* Thursday.
Chairman Hickey of the committee
said he expected the hearings there to
end by Saturday. The entire commit
mm fttta&d tbs Mfeas,
WOOD FIRM IN FIGHT
ON SALARY RAISES
New Department Bills
Changed So That Stay of In
creases Will Be Automatic.
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authority Is restored for making admin
istrative promotions to the extent of
; whatever leeway there may be In the
appropriations for the particular de
: partment or bureau from funds avail
, able for salaries.
It does mean, however, that since no
I specific appropriation Is made as rec
ommended in the budget for 30 per cent
of the $14,440,000 estimated to be re
quired to bring all under-average sal
aries up to the average through a three
year program, the operation of the
three-year program for bringing all
under-average salaries up to average
will be automatically deferred until 1933
at least.
The action on the Interior Depart
ment appropriation bill by the House
in striking out the Wood amendment
and by the Appropriations Committee
today in omitting it from the agriculture
appropriation bill restores the authority
to make administrative promotions
which the Wood amendment would have
prevented, where funds are adequate for
this purpose
Increase Is Possible.
The next step to secure the promised
increases to Government employes is for
the House to amend the agriculture ap
propriation bill as reported so as to In
clude the $323,820 required in the De
partment qf Agriculture for the promo
tions during the first year of the three
year program.
If the House falls to do that, there is
still another chance to defeat Chairman
Wood’s campaign when the Treasury-
Post Office bill, in which the Senate has
included necessary funds for increases
under the three-year program, reaches
conference between the House and Sen
ate. A definite policy to cover all ap
propriation bills must be thrashed out.
This emphasises to members of the
House that what many of them thought
they were accomplishing by the Vote
last Friday in knocking out the Wood
amendment was not automatically ac
complished and did not mean that salary
increases under the three-year program
would follow. They appreciate today
that positive action must be taken to in
clude the necessary appropriations be
fore the three-year program can go into
effect.
Benate Backs Increases.
In the Senate the Treasury-Post Of
fice appropriation bill is ready to go to
conference today, having passed the
Senate late yesterday.
The Senate not only put back in the
bill the amounts heeded to take care of
30 per cent of the total cost of adjust
ing underaverage positions, but also
struck from the bill the Wood amend
ment, which would have prevented any
increases within grades of the classifi
cation law during the next fiscal year.
The final determination both on the
Wood amendment and on the salary
money inserted by the Senate will rest
with the conferees of both houses, who
probably will be appointed today.
Under the Wood amendment depart
ment officials would have been barred
from using appropriations left over as
the result of deaths or resignations to
increase other employes whose pay is
below the average.
The Senate approved the action of its
Appropriations Committee in eliminat
ing the Wood amendment without a roll
call after Senator Phipps, Republican,
of Colorado, explained that the Increases
recommended in the budget for the next
fiscal year are intended to make a start
toward carrying out the intent of the
classification law by adjusting upward
the under-average salaries. He explained
that, in accordance with the budget pro
posal, it is planned to take care of 30
per cent of the increases next year
and the remainder in the succeeding
two years.
Phipps Informs as to Bill.
When the salary question came up.
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, asked
a number of questions about the opera
tion of the classification law and the
aggregate amount of Government
salaries. Senator Phipps supplied the
information requested.
Senators McKellar, Democrat, of Ten
nessee, and Copeland, Democrat, of New
York, spoke briefly in support of allow
ing the salary increases recommended
by the committee. The Senate then
approved the increases and passage of
the bill was quickly completed.
FLOODS TAKE HEAVY TOLL
30 Reported Dead and 1,000 Home
less in Adana, Turkey.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, December 16
(A*). —Floods in southern Turkey were
receding today, but telegraph lines were
down and the fate of 25 villages in the
vicinity of Adana was not known.
Thirty were reported dead and at least
a thousand homeless in Adana itself.
At Mersine the property damage was
estimated at $250,000.
SEEK MISSING LAUNCH
GALVESTON, Tex., December 16
WP). —Braving the rough waters of the
Gulf of Maxieo. the Coast Guard
patrol boat, CG-lIS, put to sea yester-'
day in an effort to flna the launch.
Olivette, 36 hours overduPwith her
crew of three men.
The boat left Saturday mopping for
a fishing trip on Heald Bank. 96 miles
in the gulfpand was due badfc early
TEN BANKS CLOSED
TO PROTECT FUNDS
Eight Are in North Carolina,
One in South Carolina and
One in West Virginia.
Sr the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE. N. C, December 16.
Eight North Carolina banks, four in
the western part of the State and four
in Gaston County either failed to open
or closed their doors today.
Directors of the institutions explain*
ed the action was taken as a precau
tionary measure for the protection of
depositors. "Heavy was
given as the reason in practically every
case.
The First National Bank of Gastonia,
the largest of the eight, had deposits of
$3,066,072.11. Resources were given at
$4,656,067.66.
The other three Gaston banks, the
Gaston Loan A Trust Co. of Gastonia,
the Bank of Dallas and the People's
Bank of West Gastonia, were com
paratively small institutions. The com
bined deposits totaled $270,052.84.
Town Is Bankless.
Closing of the Bank of Franklin in
Macon County left that town without
a financial Institution. The bank's
deposits were listed at $416,600. The
Citizens' Bank, which merged with the
ranfcMn month, had deposits of
The Bank of Bwannanoa. with de
posit* of $162,000, and the Bank of
Clyde, with deposits of $105,000, failed to
open auter withstanding runs yesterday.
The Bank of Fletcher, in Hender
son County, closed in the face of heavy
withdrawals after remaining open an
Itß de P°* lts were listed
at $103,500.
One Fails In South Carolina.
YORK, 8. C.. December 16 (g>).—The
bank of Clover, York County, closed its
doors today.
J . Lee Robinson, president of the
Pint National Bank of Gastonia, which
failed to open this morning, la also
president of the Clover Institution.
One Closed in Hillsboro.
~ c * IARL -!!-'® TON - W. Va., December
16 (/P).—The State Department of
Bunking today announced the closing
of the Bank of Hillsboro, In Pocahontas
County. The announcement said the
bank was closed on Friday “to con
serve assets” and that negotiations for
taking over the institution were being
» m “i? bank of Marllngton,
. „ The Bank of Hillsboro on September
. 24 had capital stock of $25,000. Its
, resources were $205,748.72 and its de
. posits totaled $127,746.
| MARKET APPEAL HEARD
I District Commissioners Listen to
Argument for Dealers.
The District Commissioners at a spe
; dal meeting yesterday listened to ar
; guments by Sefton Darr, representing *
' number of dealers at Center Market
urging them to support a move to de
lay the rasing of the market, now set
! J® begin January 1. The market is to
be tom down to make way for the new
Federal building program. The argu
was to have been made by Charles
, w. Darr. but on account of a throat
1 ailment, he turned the task over to his
■ son.
The Commissioners took the matter
under consideration.
SENATE PRESENTED
CONFEREES’ REPORT
ON JOBLESS RELIEF
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' Foss, Free, Freeman. French, Gibson.
■ Gifford, Goadwln, Goss, Graham, Guyer
. HWfcL Hale of New Hamp
« n e ’ ?\ u * Hall of Indiana, ’
; North Dakota, Halsey, Hardy.
• Harttey Haugen, Hawley, Hess, Hickey.
i?, oc^, Ho g. of Indiana, Hogg of West
; Virginia, Holiday, • Hooper, Hope, Hop-
Houston, Hudson, Morton D. Hull,
| William E. Hull, Irwin, James of Michi
gan, Jenkins, Johnson of Illinois, John
son of Indiana, Johnson of Nebraska.
Johnson of South Dakota, Johnson of
Washington. Johnston of Missouri Jonas
of North Carolina. Kelly, Kendall of
Kentucky. Kendall of Pennsylvania,
Ketcham. Ktefner, Klnzer, Kopp, Ko
rell La Guardis, Langley. Laech. Letts,
Ix>ufbourow, Luce, McClintofck of Ohio.
McCormick of Illinois. McFadden, Maas,
Magrady, Manlove, Mapes, Martin.
Menges, Merritt, Miehener, Miller,
Moore of Ohio, Mouser. Murphy, Nelson
of Maine, New hall. Nledrlnghaus, Nolan,
Palmer, Parker, Pittenger, Harcourt J
Pratt Ruth Pratt. Prichard, Purnell,
wank M. Ramey. Ramseyer, Reece,
Reed of New York, Rich, Robinson,
H o **”- Rowbottom. Sanders of New
York, Schafer of Wisconsin, Sears, Sei
ffi v l*’ l 8 o? U ' Simmons,
fbnmi». Sinclair, Sloan, smith of Idaho.
nHniu Sn o Wv Speaks. Sproul of
Illinois, Sprul of Kansas, Stafford,
Stobbs, Strong of Kansas, Strong of
PeMsyivaniCvSummers of Washington.
Swanson, Swlck, Swing, Taber, Taylor
of Tennessee, Temple, Thompson
Thurston, TUson, Tlmberlakc, Tlnkham,'
rpln ’ VefitaI ’ Vincent of
Michigan, Wason, Watres, Watson
Welch of California, White, Whitley
Williamson, Wolverton of New Jersey
Woodmff 1 of Vlrglnla - Wood!
"Joi. *• Black ot New YBrk '
thC rU,M: 169 ‘
• Brown of Wisconsin. Campbell of
Cradd^k r^*T U ’ of Wisconsin!
Craddock, Finley, Garber of Oklahoma
Garber of Virginia, Hull of Wisconsin'
Kacting, Lambertson, Lankford of Vlr-
Ichneid^ aVi f t ’ w ebon t of WlscOßSta.
Vl?g"nta f Wisconsin, Shaffer of
Democrats: 142.
A.^u rn * thy ' A i , ®° od - Almon, Arnold.
11, Auf Der Heide, Bank-
Bl i nd ' J Bla r ton ' Bloom, Box,
Rmimi'n* Br and of Georgia, Briggs,
Buchana, Busby.
Byrns, Canfield, Cannon, Cartwright.
Cochran of Missouri, Collier, Collins,
Condon, Connery, Cooper of Tennessee,
Cox, Crisp qro SB of Texas. Crosser of
Ohio, Davis, Derquen. Dicksteln. Dom
inick, Dorsey, Dough ton, Douglas of
Arizona, Doxey, Drane, Drewry, Driver,
*** a f <u ' J? 811 '*' * v »ns of Montana,
Fitzpatrick, Fuller, Fulmer,
Gambrill, Garner of Texas, Garrett,
ok>v * r - Ooldsborough, Gran
win 2’ Greenwood. Gregory, Griffin,
Hall of Mississippi, Hancock of North
Carolina. Hare, Hastings, Hill of Ala
bama. Hill of Washington Ho-
Huddleston. Hull of Tennemee ”
Johnson of Oklahoma, John so.
Texas, Jones of Texas, Kemp, ken
nedy, Herr, Una, Lanham. Lankford of
Georgia, Larsen, Lea of California,
Lindsay, Linthicum, Lozier, Ludlow,
McCllntlc of Oklahoma, McCormack
McDuffie, McKeown, *
McMillan. Mcßeynolds, McSwaln. Mans
field, Mead. Montague of Virginia,
Moniet of Louisiana, Moore of Ken
tucky, Moore of Virginia, Morehead.
Nelson of Missouri, Norton, O’Connell
of New York, O’Connor of New York.
Oldfield, Oliver of Alabama, Owen,
Palmisano, Parks, Parsons, Patman,
Patterson, Pou, Prall, Ragon. Rainey,
Ramspeck, Rankin, Rayburn. Reilly,
Rutherford, Sanders of Texas, Sandlin,
Smith of West Virginia, Somers of Ntw \
York, Steagall, Sullivan of New York.
Sumners of Texas, Tarver, Taylor or
Colorado. Tucker, Underwood, Vinson
of Georgia, Warren. Whittington. Wil
liams of Texas. Wilson, Wingo, Woods,
rum of Virginia, Wright, YonT A
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