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FEAR RECOGNITION
OF WRUSSIA
G. 0. P. Preparing to Guard
Present Policy Against
Democrat Shift.
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Br tha Associated Press.
Some Republicans In Congress seek
to make certain that the incoming
Democratic administration will not
liberalize the present American atti
tude toward Soviet Russia
Such an effort today came to light
through announcement by Chairman
Collier that he would ask the House
Ways and Means Committee what it
wants to do about his bill barring im
portation of goods produced by forced
la bor.
The bill will be put before the com
mittee after it finish— its impending
study of the tax situation. The anti
recognitionist* in Congress already have
pushed their campaign so far that rep
resentatives of labor, veteran! and nu
merous other organizations have been
asking Collier to grant hearings on his
measuj-e.
Fears Roosevelt Action.
Among the leaders in the movement
is Representative Fish, Republican, of
New York chairman of the special;
House committee which two years ago
mane a study of communism in the
Vnited States. He makes no secret of
the fart that he is fearful President
elect Roosevelt will b» importuned to [
recognize Russia His even greater ,
fear, he savi, is that the importunings
will prevail.
Democrats, except for Majority leader
Rainey in the House, who continues
to advocate recognition and expresses,
hope that Mr Roosevelt will agree, for
the most part remain silent on what
they think the new Chief Executive
should or will do
Reports have been heard around Cap
itol Hill however, that the tariff study
the President-elect has suggested with
loreign countries might at least touch
on the question of the Czarlst debts re
pudiated first by the Bolshevists and
then by the Communists. That, say
Republican anti-Soviets, would remove
one of the barriers to recognition.
leniency Opposed.
Opponents to any sort of liberaliza
tion ,'jv they fear more leniency would
be particularly unfortunte in view of
I'tononilc roiiditioni. Thi Amrricm
Government, they say. never should
recognize another nation that seeks to
overthrow all capitalistic countries by
propaganda
If the Collier bill reaches the stage
ol hearings, they promise descriptions
of what they assert is happening to all |
the people in Russia. Their contention
is that the measure Collier proposes
would apply only to Russia because no
o'hcr nation in the world forbids land
ownership or operates all productive
enterprise* It is products from coun
tries that do those things that would be
barred under the Collier bill.
ROOSEVELT PLACES
OPINION IN WALKER
P
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wrong in principle out uwaeu
assumption too violent to afford it any
support."
It is unthinkable." he said, “that a
community may be compelled to accept
the consequences of the re-election of
an officer who had been guilty of groan
acts of malfeasance in a prior ter*”
where the electorate did .lot have lull
and detailed knowledge of the acts of
malfeasance at the time of re-election, j
The power of removal cannot be in
effectual by any auch affront to what is
right and decent In government.
The single clroumatance of re-elec
tion can not suffice to prevent inquiry
into acts committed during a prior
tf The Executive also discussed at
length the defense claim that Walker
was entitled to "confrontation ol wit
nesses." to have the witnesses them
selves appear instead of hating the tes
timony they gave before the Legislati e
Committee read into the record of tne
hearing before the Governor.
"In the Walker case." Gov. Roosevelt |
•aid. "the position of the mayor was;
p otected bv the readiness of the Got - j
finer to require witnesses to attend
when there was a conflict between the
testimony given before k^fl8i*f'Ye
Committee and that taken at the hear
ing before the Governor.
"It would certainly have been pro
ductive of nothing; except an utterly
unjustifiable waste of time to haveure
quired that the direct testimony which
filled six typewritten volumes and had
occupied a great many days should be
taken and the hearing prolonged while
such repetition was in progress.
Roosevelt returns to private life at
midnight tonight for two months. On
March 4 he will be inaugurated Presi
dent of the United States.
His desk cleared of official business. ,
some of which will go to the files of the
incoming Governor. Herbert H. Lehman.
Mr Rooeevelt visited the capitol to
bid good-bv to State workers who have i
been his aides during his term as Gov
ernor.
Tonight he will entertain the State ,
cabinet at dinner and afterward look
in on the inaugural ball at the 10th
Regiment Armory.
Mr. Roosevelt, Monday, rill return to
Albanv for the formal Inauguration of
Lehman. After that ceremony, the
"President-elect will return to Hyde
Park. The public reception, -whicn
usually follows the inauguration, and
which has been attended by the out-,
going as well as the incoming Governor, j
was railed off yesterday because of the
death of Lehman’s sister in New York
City.
Lehman will take the private oath of
office tonight in New York City. It will
be administered to him by his brother.
Judge Irving Lehman of th* Court of
Appeals. The public oath will be ad
ministered by Secretary of State Ed
ward J. Flynn at noon on Monday.
GARNER WILL BACK
NO CANDIDATE IN
SPEAKERSHIP FIGHT
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Roosevelt favored the Alabaman's can
didacy.
Representatives Byrn* of Tennessee. ;
McDuffie and Rainey are the leading !
candidates to succeed Garner. All
three said they doubted that Mr. Roose
velt would support any candidate.
Another contestant was entered yes- .
terdav when Representative Granfield.
Democrat, of Massachusetts, placed
Representative O'Connor of New York,
a Tammany Democrat, in the race.
O'Connor along with Representative
Bankhead of Alabama, and Representa
tive Warren of North Carolina, have |
been considered as "dark horses," al
though Bankhead has publicly an
nounced he was supporting McDuffie.
Other candidates are Rankin of Missis
sippi and Crosser of Ohio.
Four Schoolgirls Killed.
GUAYAQUIL. Ecuador. December SI
Mb.—Four schoolgirls were kiHed and
12 others injured yesterday by the
bursting of a large water Link adjoining
the grounds of the Fecen.'.ary School at
Babahoro. The girls were playing in
the grounds at the time.
T
Bingham Interviews Bingham
SENATOR’S SON GETS EXCLUSIVE STORY.
YOUNG Jack Bingham. Yale student and member of the staff of a college
publication, came to Washington during the Christmas holidays to do a
little work. Here he is—pencil-pushing an Inter.lew with his father.
Senator Hiram Bingham. Republican, of Connecticut. Jack also attended
Speaker Garner's press conference yesterday to t3ke a few notes
% —A. P. Photo.
Tlie Technocracy Question
Belief Drastic Changes Are Needed to Save Eco
nomic System Is Based on Rapid Increase
in Use of Energy.
I
Editor’s note: This is the second of
Six daily articles about technocracy,
whose predictions of possible eco
nomic collapse started a /arflung
controversy. The articles give a new
insight into technocracy and present
other statistics pertaining to the dis
placement of men by machines.
energy consumption, debts and other
points involved.
BY J. R, BRACKETT.
<Copyright. 1 !»:»•?. by the Associated Pies* •
NEW YORK —Energy is technoc
racy's fundamental word,
II is on the basis of the rap.d increase
in the use of energy that Howard Scott,
technocracy's director, has stated that
drastic changes must be made in this
economic system to save it from pos
sible collapse.
Technocracy is the name of a group
of engineers working at Columbia Uni
versity in an "Energy Survey of North
America." the purpose of which is sim
ply. according to public statements, to
make a technical analysis which, if
successful, the-technocrats believe would
indicate necessary corrections in the
economic system.
Scott's Three Reasons.
Here is why Scott believes energy is
so important
1. For all the years of man's history
up to about 1800. he used the energy
resources of the earth at about the rale
of 2.000 calories per capita <a measure
of energy i per day. He used litlle coal,
no electricity and scarcely any of the
devices which need energy. Then sud
denly the machines came, and today
man uses about 150.000 calories pel
capita per day—a gain of 75 times
2. But. in the meantime, man did not
change materially his methods of di
recting society. What change there was
probably occurred at a rale similar to
the rate at which it has changed in all
history. In other words energy flowed
Into the social mechanism at a rate en
tirely new in history, and society was
not prepared to cope with that change.
3 The result has been a disorderly
and fluctuating use of energy, resulting
in fluctuation in production of goods.
depressions and unemployment. The
Nation haa attempted to progress, figu
ratively speaking, in an oxcart equipped
with a 1.000-horsepower airplane en
gine. This, technocracy believes, will
become increasing difficult.
Other* Stress Power.
Other economists have stressed the
importance of power, but some of them
object to the greater stress which tech
nocracy has given it. They further con
sider that a comparison between 1800
and now is not particularly revealing,
pointing out that relatively speaking
the Nation made probably as astound
iimp gains in the last century as in this
one to date
F. G. Tryon of the Institute of Eco
nomics in Washington has written that
"the industrial production of a nation
may be gauged by its use of power."
He calculated an index of energy con
sumption between 1899 and 1926 and
found that, using 1899 as 100. con
sumption in the United States increased
tc 310- about three times.
Going back to 1849 and using actual
heat measurements, he calculated that
pi eduction in 1849. not including water
power, lor which there were no figures.
was 173 trillion B T. u.. a measure ot
energy; that by 1899. including water
power, it was 7.240 trillion B T. U
and in 1923 it was 24 434 trillion B
T. U.
Technocracy's statistics are that total
energy production in 1840 was 75 tril
lion B. T. U. and that It was 27.000
trillion B T. U. in 1929—a gain of
353 times.
Computation Methods Differ.
Technocracy said mast of this in
crease has occurred since 1900. when,
according to technocracy, production
was 2,640 trillion B T. U. The latter
figure compares to Tryon's 7.246 trillion
B T. U. for 1899 The two groups of
■ tatLstics may not be exactly comparable,
due to differences in methods of com
putation They are similar for the last
decade, however
Neither set of figures makes com
parable calculations relating tlie* growth
al energy to growth in population. Since
population increased, the per capita
gain of energy was not as great as the
total gain.
Tryon calculated that energy con
sumed increased at about the rate ol
5 to 7 per cent per year after 1899 as
compared to an increase in the physical
volume of production of 4 per tent per
year. Comparing 1899 to 1916. Tryon
found that population gamed a total of
36 per cent; physical volume of agricul
tut al. manufacturing and mining pro
duction and railroad transportation in
creased a total of 80 per cent and en
eigv production 150 per cent.
As to what machines used this en
ergy. Carrol Roop Daugherty, in a
United States Geological Survey bul
letin. has calculated that, using 1899 ax
100. capacity to use power increased
from 16 to i099 if automobiles are in
cluded. If autas are not included, the
change was from 16 to 399.
This indicates rliar much more than
half of the consumption of energy was
accounted for by the automobiles in
using oil and gas and that by excluding
autos from the general computations of
B T. U. the gains would not seem so
important as an influence on produc
tion.
(Tomorrow—Machines and Economics.)
DR. CLARK RESIGNS
AS A.U.CHANCELLOR
TO SERVE AS DEAN
■ Continued From First Page ■
since the college was organized, in 1925.
Dr. and Mrs. Clark will continue to
reside in the chancellor's house on the
campus.
Included on Committee.
The Reorganization Committee which
has been engaged in its duties b.v direc
tion of the board of trustees, for some
times, consists of Daniel C. Roper, for
mer commissioner of Internal Revenue.
as chairman: Dr. Benjamin W Meeks.
District superintendent Methodist Epis
copal Church, secretary of the commit
tee: Bishop Hughes, Bishop William
Fraser McDowell, retired resident bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal Church:
Dr. A. C. Christie, president of the
board of trustees of American Univer
sity; W. S. Corby, treasurer of Ameri
can University, and Dr. J. Phelps Hand,
all members of the hoard of trustees.
Dr. dark, who takes over his new
duties at once, has been chancellor of
American University for 10 years, hav
ing been appointed in June. 1922, to
succeed Bishop John W. Hamilton. He
came to the university post, from the
Washington Federation of Churches, of
which he had been secretary. Dr. Clark
formerly was pastor of Hamline Metho
dist Episcopal Church.
NIAGARA FALLS HOTEL
IS SWEPT BY FLAMES
Half-Million-Dollar Ontario Struc
ture Believed Doomed—Smoke
Bars Firemen.
By tha Associated Press.
NIAGARA FALLS. Ontario. December
31.—Fire early today was sweeping the
Clifton Hotel, overlooking the cataracts
and gorge, and it was leared the
structure was doomed. Smcke poured
from every exit, preventing firemen
from fighting the blaze.
Niagara Falls. N. Y.. sent firemen
and fire-fighting equipment across the
Falls View Bridge to aid the local de
partment. The Clifton, a large stone,
frame and stucco building, valued at
*500.000. has been clo *d for the Winter
season.
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ENGLAND SHIPS GOLD
LIVERPOOL, December 31 (A5).—
Gold bars worth £2.300.000, for ship
ment to America, were taken aboard
the liner Britannic under cover of dark
ness early this morning from heavily
guarded trucks.
The precious metal was in 233 steel
Dound wooden boxes weighing about 100
pounds each, representing another In
stallment in the series of transfers
arising from the British war debt pay
ment on December 15.
, Shifteil
Dr Lucius C. Clark (above), who re
; signed today as chancellor of American
> University to become director of the
, School of Political Science, and Bishop
i Edwin H. Hughes (below), who has
: been named acting chancellor of the
; university.
Forms Bulgarian Cabinet.
SOFIA. Bulgaria. December 31 0*).—
Nicholas Muschanoff, who resigned as
premier early this week and was com
missioned to form a new government,
succeeded in doing so today. He re
tained the ministry of foreign affairs
l for himself.
i
FROZEN HORMONES'
FIGHT OFF DEATH
I _
| Addison’s Disease Patients
May Now Be Kept in
Normal Health.
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. December
31.—A new “little giant" of medicine
that has the possibility of maintaining
In normal health sufferers from a dis
ease now usually fatal was reported to
day to the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. ••
The fatal illness Is "Addison's dis
| ease.” The remedy is the hormone or
* secretion of the suprarenal gland, al
ready known and proven, but now more j
highly purified by the novel method of
freezing In temperatures of 100 to 220
below zero.
Highly potent crystals of the hor
mone, prepared from cattle glands by
the freezing method, may supply the
lack of the hormone that causes Addi
son* disease in humans, it was reported
by Dr. Arthur Groliman and W. M.
Firor of Johns Hopkins University.
Keeps Animals Alive.
The new extract of the hormone has
shown its potency by keeping alive am
■ mats whose adrenal glands had been
i removed. Usually the loss of this gland
means quick death. A fraction of a
milligram of the new extract per day
serves to substitute for the loss of the
adrenal gland In rats.
Research that may lead to an im
proved and easier method of treating
diabetic patients with insulin was re
i ported by Dr. Hans Jensen of Johns
Hopkins University.
The new treatment would consist of
administering insulin like medicine by
the mouth instead of the present
method of injecting it under the skin.
This is necessary at present because the
anti-diabetic effect of insulin is de
stroyed in the stomach and intestines
when it is taken by the mouth.
Babiei “Shellshocked.”
The loss of weight by newborn babies
during the first week of life has been
glorified” into a physiological law. but
it really Is just a form of shellshock,
reported Dr. I. Newton Kugelmass of
New York City.
Tile average loss of weight is 7 per
cent. Nine-pound babies among those
! hr studied lost about 9 per cent of their
weight, and never less than 6 per cent.
He has found a wav to reduce the loss
to 1.7 per cent. It is through the in
jection of a solution of 6 per cent gel
atin. 3 per cent dextrose and one-half
of 1 per cent sodium chloride at two
hour intervals in the first 24 hours
after birth.
The solution generates blood and
body tissues and laises the body's heat.
Or. Wirt Be-elected.
Dr. Henry Norris Russell of Prince
ton was elected president of the as
sociation. Other officers elected were:
General secretary for four years end
ing 1936, Dr. Burton F Livingston,
biologist of Johns Hopkins University
i i re-elected i.
Treasurer for four years ending 1936
John L Wirt. Carntgie Institution of
Washington t re-elected (.
Permanent secretary for four years
ending 1936. Dr. Henry B Ward, zoolo
gist of the University of Illinois.
Members of the council for four years
ending 1936. Dr. George T. Hargitt.
zoologist of Duke University; Dr. Dugald
C. Jackson, electrical engineer of Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology
Members of the Executive Committee
for four years ending 1936 Dr. Edwin
B WTilson. statistician. Har\ard Uni
\ersity «re-elected». Dr A F Wood?,
director of scientific work. United States
Department of Agriculture: for term
ending 1934. Dr Philip Fox. Adler
planetarium. Chicago
Member board of trustees of Science
Service, for four years ending 1936, Dr
Burton E. Livingston > re-elected».
A
SALES TAX, HE SAYS
Holds Committee Will Consid-.
er Proposal With Other
Revenue Plans.
flv ihe Asfocuted Press.
Chairman Collier today issued a
forma! statement stressing his opposi
| tion to sales tax proposals pending
before the Ways ?nd Means Committee,
which is to meet Wednesday tj canvass
the fiscal condition of the Government.
The Mli'issippl Democrat said re
ports that he was urging consideration
of the sales tax were not correct, but
that the proposal wou'd be befcre the
committee for con- ideration along with
other revenue propositions.
"The meeting of the committee next
Wednesday," Collier said, "will be merely
a peliev meeting, snd. following the
usual custom, all pending matters will
be laid before the members for such
action as they deem proper.”
"I have repeatedly stated that when
1 the Ways and Means Committee meets
next week to consider a program or
| work for the remainder of the short
t session the question of whether or not
there would be any revenue revision
would naturally be discussed." be said
"After the committee considers the
situation from every angle It will then
be up to the members to decide on the
policy to be pursued. This is also true
of other matters that will be considered
by the committee, and, Obviously, it
would be presumptuous for me to an
ticipate the action of the committee
on the question of revenue legislation
I or any other matter.”
GREECE OFFERS PART
INTEREST PAYMENT
Asks U. S. to Agree to Submit to
Arbitration War Loan
Issue.
_
By the Associated Presi.
ATHENS. Greece, December 31.—The
government informed the Greek Min
ister at Washington today that it will
pay 30 per cent of the interest due on
the $12,167,000 American loan of 1929,
on condition that the United States!
1 agree to submit to arbitration the ques
> tion as to whether this was a war loan, :
! as Greece contends it was.
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VIKING GRAVES STUDIED
!
W1SKIAUTEN, East Prussia UP).—
Explorations are being conducted here
I among the viking graves surrounding an
ancient Swedish settlement.
Scales and weights in the ruins and
! graves indicate to the explorers, who
: are working under the supervision of
i the Prussian Museum of Keonigsburg,
the presence of merchants in this vil
lage in the ninth and tenth centuries.
There are 500 graves, of which 30
have been explored.
Rising Waters Reach New High at Rome, Ga.
RESIDENTIAL SECTION HARD HIT BY FLOOD.
IN the above Associated Press photo water from a river that overflowed its banks during recent heavy rainfall is seen
as it rose to a depth of several inches along one of Romes <Ga > residential streets. Many families who lived in
in lower-lying areas near the river were forced to evacuate their homes. This photo was made Thursday, when
the flood had readied its creat. —A P Photo.
REHEARING ASKED
IN FIRE HOUSE CASE
Property Owners Protest
Against Structure in Rock
Creek Park.
Henry I Quinn, George J. Mueller.
jr : Henry Orth. 1r and oth^r property
owner? protesting against the erection
of a fire engine house in Rock Creek
Paik at the corner of Sixteenth street
and Colorado avenue, today asked the
Supreme Court to reconsider its recent
decision holding the District Commis
sioners could erect the house.
Asserting the court hud decided the
case on grounds not advanced, the pro
testants declared thev were entitled to
have an opportunity to be heard on the
subject.
It must be conceded.'" the petition
for a rehearing stated, "that no pre
vious decision of this court has ever
maintained that the public authorities
may. without payment of compensation
to parties previously assessed for bet
terments. divert to a wholly difTeient
use land dedicated to the patticular
public improvement concerned
Pointing out that Congress had
dedicated the land tor park purposes
and had by an act entered into a con
tract with adjacent property owners
when it authorized them to be assessed
for benefits which would accrue to them
through the creation cf .the park, the
petition insisted there was an implied
and enforceable contract the adjacent
park would be perpetually maintained.
Admitting the authority of one Con
gress to amend the acts of a prior Con
gress the property owners insisted that
when the former acta had involved a
contract, it could be changed only by
compensating the land owners for
dampges they would suffer by canceling
the contract.
COURT WILL CLOSE
MARATHON DANCE
Justice Luhring to Issue Order
Tuesday. Stopping Enterprise
as a “Nuisance.'’
District Supreme Court Justice Oscar
R. Luhring today held the marathon
dance at the Washington Auditorium
constituted a "nuisance" and an
nounced his intention of signing an
order Tuesday directing it be stopped.
Because of the inability of counsel
io agree on the amount of a bond. Jus
tice Luhring agreed to withhold sign
ing the order until Tuesday.
Suit to enjoin further conduct of the
dance had been filed earlier in the
month by the All-States Hotel through
24 of its stockholders and 21 other per
sons residing at the hotel.
Justice Luhring held a hearing at
which Police Cap; Edward J. Kelly
and other officers of the third precinct
testified. A total of 45 arrests, it was
said, had been made in that vicinity
since the dance has been in progress,
mostly for drunkenness and disorderly
conduct.
In his memorandum opinion, the
court holds that the business con
ducted by the Marathon Exhibition Co.
is unreasonable and offensive and un
justly and materially interferes with the
All-States Hotel Co in its business and
unjustly and materially interferes with
the peace and quiet of the individual
plaintiffs. The plaintiffs are held to be
entitled to an injunction pendente lite.
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MRS. C. T. WILSON FINED
Wife of Temperance Leader Con
victed of Speeding.
Mrs. Clarence True Wilson, wife of
the temperance leader, was found
guilty on a charge of speeding by Traf
fic Judge John P. McMahon late yes
terday and fined S5.
Mrs. Wilson was arrested by Traffic
Bureau Policeman E. C. Darby, who
testified she was driving 38 miles an
hour. Mrs. Wilson, who posted col
lateral at the Traffic Bureau, pleaded
guilty and told the court: "Maybe I
was going a little too fast, judge."
PLUNGE INJURES WOMAN
WINCHESTER. Va„ December 31
i/P).—Mrs. Elizabeth Faulkner Kline,
wile of V. C. KUne. Pennsylvania Rail
road official, Harrisburgh, Pa., jumped
or fell from a fourth-story window of a
hotel here today, sustaining a probable
fracture of the hip and serious internal
injuries.
Her husband, who also Is here, said
he cculd offer no explanation. Mrs.
Kline is s daughter of Isaac H. Faulk
ner, of Winchester.
Warm Weather Sets Record.
NEW YORK, December 31 UP).—1The
temperature rose to a new high record
for December 31 today when the ther
mometer at the Weather Bureau regis
tered 81 degrees above at 9 a.m.
Mine Guard Ambushed.
WILDER. Tenn.. December 31 (/Pi.—
Pat Gibson, chief mine guard on the
night shift for the Fentress Coal &
Coke here, was shot from ambush a
mile from Wilder late yesterday and
his condition was j^prious.
HUNDREDS FLEEING
FLOODS SWEEPING
SOUTHERN STATES
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around North Montgomery. Ala , and
white residences were threatened. The
Alabama stood 15 feet above flood stage
at Millers Ferry, Ala. v.here thousands
of acres of farm land have been sub
merged and the river was at 49.3. or
3 feet above flood stage at Selma. Ala
ILLINOIS LOWLANDS FLOODED.
Wabash Swollen bv Melting Ice and
Heavy Rains.
MARION. Ill . December 31 >JPi.—
Threats of Spring-like flood conditions
marked the end of 1H32 in ac-veral sec
tions ol Southern Illinois today alter
heavy rains which set in Thursday
night had caused rivers and creeks to
overflow in the lowlands.
Melting ice in tne upirer reaches of
the Wabash Rivrr duiing the past lev.
days, adaed to the heavy rainfall,
caused that stream to rise above the
flood stage of 16 feet last night in the
vicinitv of Mount Carmel. Lowlands
were under water in tome sections of
the Wabash Valley and the river was
expected to rise higher after last night's
heavy ra n.
No damage to farm lands or loss of
live stock had be-n leported. however,
and highways suil were passable today.
Flooded creek bottoms held Marion
and parts of Williamson County vir
tually floodbound Highways east and
west of Marion were blocked yesterday
and no mail v.as recr-ived cr dispatched
over the routes to Harrisburg. Carbon
dale and Carteiville
A imboat ' ferry" service was estab
lished by one grocer in Marion when
the watei los- two feet a'oo.e the pave
ment in front of his store
i In the vicinity of Carmi the Little
Wabash was out of its banks in low
places, but highway travel continued.
FOR MORE FUNG
Plans Dawn-to-Dusk Trip as
Vacation in South
* Nears End.
By the Associated Pres*;
THE SAILFISH CLUB, PALM
EEACH. Fla. December 31.—President
Hoover turned toward the open sea in
a dawn-to-dusk fishing expedition to
day with hop#* of duplicating or bet
tering his catch of three sail fish yes
terday and planned a quiet New Year
eve aboard ship.
The Chief Executive set his sailing
time for half an hour before daybreak
and left word behind him that he
probably would bo out until near dusk,
except for a brief return for lunch.
Senator Austin of Vermont, who lost
his sail fish to a shark yesterday,
headed another .jarty composed of
Mark Sullivan, writer, and Dr. Joel T
Boone on a similar angling quest.
Justice Stone of the Supreme Court
and Lawrence Richey went along with
the President under the guidance of
Capt. Herman Gray, local fishing expert
Quiet Evening Plannrd.
Expecting to be tired after their dav
of fishing, the presidential party
planned a very quiet New Year eve
celebration tonight aboard the ti. S. S.
i Sequoia, now at anchor in Palm Beach
harbor
Mr. Hoover and his guests had local
game fishing circles talking today bv
pulling in a total of 10 sail fish, two
dolphins and an ambcrjack, in addition
to a sail fish head, which was all that
remained of Senator Austin's catch
after a shark rose in a smother of
foam near the boat to snip It cleanly
in two. yesterday.
As a token of his own three catches,
the President carried with him today
an honorary membership in the Sail
i Fish Club, presented to him last night
by Wiley R. Reynolds of Jackson. Mich.,
president of the club. In return, the
| Chief Executive presented the club with
the largest of his sail fish—a beauty 7
feet 8 inches long—which the members
decided to have mounted
Mr. Hoover had an exciting close-at
hand fight that stretched over half an
hour before he landed his quarry. At
the time he was fishing with unusually
light tackle and won his fight with the
aid of only a 6-ounce rod.
Dr. Boon Ties Mark.
Dr. Boone tied Mr. Hoover's mark
with a catch of three sail fish, while
Justice Stone landed two, and Richey
and Sullivan one apiece. In addition,
the President and Justice Stone landed
dolphins and Richey an amberjack.
Nearly a score of small motor boats
were engaged in similar quests during
part of the time the presidential party
was angling. But few displayed more
than one or two of the tiny white flags,
which signify the landing of a sail fish.
During part of the day the President
and Richey "fished double" on a kite.
By means of two small kites such as
young boys sail, they kept their bait
dancing over the surface of the water.
Both had strikes simultaneously. With
both fish leaping clear of the water in
taking the lures, both were landed.
The presidential party may end Its
fishing tomorrow, for angling will be
banned on Sunday and Mr. Hoover feels
that he should be returning shortly to
the National Capital.
Domestic Allotment Consid
ered-Hope for Bill by
Next Week.
By the Associated Pi^-s.
With th^ intention of laying a farm
relief bill before the House next w*ek.
\h‘- Agriculture Commuter hfId a .'pe
nal session today to work on the do
mestic allotment plan.
Only half of the committee's 24 mem
bets v ere present w hen Chairman Jones
called the meeting to order. The ab
sence of a quorum killed any hope of
formal action today, but Jones said he
expected to make some progress in pre
paring the bill.
Before the committee was a draft of
a domestic allotment bill recommended
bv organized farm leaders as well as a
measure prepared by Jones earlier this
aes. ion.
Both would pay producers of wheat,
cotton, hogs and tobacco a bounty on
their share of domestic consumption,
raising the necessary funds through a
processing tax The Jones bill would
fix the processing tax at the amount of
th? tariff The farm group bill would
levy a tax designed to lift the prices
of the four commodities to their pre
war purchasing power.
Would Abolish Stabilization.
Both plans also would abolish the
Form Board's stabilization powers.
Representative Rainey, the majority
leader, said the farm bill would be made
the business of the House as soon as
the committee concludes its work.
That probably will be late next
week,” Rainey said. 'I believe the
House will pass a farm bill, but I am
not advised of the altitude of the
Senate"
A-skrd whether he thought President
Hoover would sign such a bill, Rainey
said he was “doubtful.”
But we will put it up to him.” he
added.
Action "Soon as Possible.”
Yesterday Speaker Garner advised
the membership that legislation to aid
agriculture would be considered "as
soon as possible."
Garner's statement was made in reply
to questions of Representative Snell.
Republican leader, regarding next
week's program. The Speaker put the
first deficiency appropriation bill at the
head of the list, then said:
"It is hoped the Agriculture Com
mittee will report its bill for agricul
tural relief. If it does, it will be the
purpose to ask a rule and take it up as
soon as possible."
Meanwhile, a plea was made on the
floor yesterday by Representative Pat
man. Democrat, of Texas, in behalf or
currency expansion for the relief of
farm debtors.
"Thousands are facing inkruptey, a
i pputuauon oi inrii utu uiuc».> «c
expand the currency." Pr'-nan said.
"There are three ways to do *. Silver,
expansion on a gold basis, or revalu
ation of the dollar.
"Unless Congress does semething, in
stead of members worrying about not
being re-elected two years from now,
they had better start worrying about
serving out the two years for which
they were elected "
ROOSEVELT CALLS
PROGRAM PARLEY
TO MEET THURSDAY
(Continued From First Page.)_
be placed on the general deficiency ap
propriation bill in the House at the end
of the «esslon
Another economy proposal sanctioned
by the Democratic leaders and approved
yesterday by the Senate Economy Com
mittee calls for the repeal of all per
manent and indefinite appropriations
amounting to about $140,000,000, ex
clusive of the sinking fund requirements
on the public debt.
A special House Appropriations Com
mittee is investigating these annual
outlays which are made automatically
without action of Congress. They are,
however, itemised in the various ap
propriation measures.
The repeal proposal also, under the
plan, is to be applied to the Treasury
Post Office Department supply bill. It
would require that all these appropri
ations be considered along with the
annual appropriations by the budget
and the President.
House Passes Third Bill.
The House yesterday pas ed the third
of the annual supply bills and made
ready to act on the fourth.
The agriculture supply bill, after davs
of wrangling over amendments involv
ing only a few dollars, finally was
passed, carrying $100,000,000. Perma
nent appropriations of $10,000,000 are
allowed by law without congressional
action. Last year for the same depart
ment there was appropriated $306,671,
665. Most of the difference was in
highway funds, which were slashed from
$222,000,000 approved last session to
the $35,000,000 allowed yesterday.
So far, the House has set something
of a record. It has passed three appro
priation bills and received a fourth
which provide $1,130,000,000 for run
ning expenses of the Government. At
the same stage last session, the bills
called for outlays totalling $1,654,
000.000.
Only $56,000,000 of this reduction,
however, has been achieved by the
House. The remainder was recom
mended by the Budget Bureau, and
largely took into account non-recurring
expenditures, such as the millions ap
proved last sessfhn for public buildings.
AUTO SHOW PUZZLE
Series of 24 Will Be Published
Daily in The Star—Awards
for Winners.
The automobile show puzzle contest,
sponsored by the Washington Automo
tive Trade Association and presented
! through the co-operation ol The Eve
1 ning and Sunday Star, will commence
tomorrow, when the first of 24 puzzles
U published. Puzzle No. 1 will be found
in the automobile section In Monday's
Star and each succeeding day, except
Sundays, a puzzle will be found on the
woman's page.
The contest, one entirely of skill, re
quires the worker to find out the con
cealed name of an automobile which
will be exhibited at the ■ how at tne
Washington Auditorium January 28 to
February 5, inclusive. When ihe last
puzzle has appeared and been solved,
it will only be necessary to send the
correct list cf answers in. accomcanted
with a slogan of 20 words or ,r.s on
"Why the automobile show she;!! b#
held here every year." These should be
addressed to the Washington A t mo
tive Trade Association. Room lOOt .427
I street. Copies of The Star me.-, oe
examined in the files in the bum.'-si
office.
The awards for the winners will be
j $100 and 106 free tickets to the show.
I First prize will be $50 and four tickets
j fecond prize, $25 and four tickets, third
prize, $10 and four tickets, and fourth
prize. $5 and four ticket*. In addition
there will be 10 prizes of $1 each and
four tickets. For honorable mention 25
prizes will be awarded of two ticket*
each.
In case of a tie duplicate prizes will
be given
The puzzles are not difficult. It costs
nothing to compete. There is nothing
lo lose except a iiule time, and the fun
; will be worth that. These connected
; with the Washington Automotive Trade
Association and The Star are not eligi
, ble to enter. Members of the Washing
ton Automotive Trade Association will
I be the judges and their decision will be
final. It is their plan cf stimulating
interest in the coming show that this
contest has been arranged.
DEATH TAKES BABY
IN MARRIAGE CASE
Charlotte Gibson. Society Girl.
Mourns as Riding Master Awaits
Fate on Seduction Appeal.
By the Associated P.rs*.
TAPPAN. N. Y, December 31 —
Charlotte Gibson, society girl, mourned
today the death of her 12-day-old
: daughter. Mary Joan Gibson.
The child's death, which occurred
yesterday, was announced by her grand
father. Robert Gibson, lawyer. Beyond
the announcement of the death no de
tails were given.
The infant's father Sidney Home
wood. riding master, is in New City Jail
awaiting the outcome of his appeal
from conviction of seducing Miss Gib
son under promise of marriage
On the witness stand Miss Gibson
testified that he told her he had broken
his engagement to another girl and that
- he promised to marry her. Homewood
said he had been willing to marrv, but
refused when Miss Gibbon's father de
manded thev separate immediately
after the wedding
MLs* Gibson’s parents, it was learned,
had planned to adopt the infant, sell
their home and move to another part of
the country.
DRAMA CRITIC TO SPEAK
E. de S. Meicher Will Address
Pierce Hall Players.
Edward de Selding Meicher. dramatic
critic of The Star, will speak on “The
Theater, Yesterday and Totiav," at a
general meeting of the Pierce Hal!
i Players in Pierce Hall. Fifteenth and
Harvard streets, on Wednesday night,
January 11.
! Following Mr Melclier's discourse
Mrs. Norma Simonson will sing Mrs.
Dorothy Radde Emery will be the ac
companist.
COUZENS PROPOSES
ARMY CARE FOR
WANDERING BOYS
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not some way that the Federal Govern
ment could interest itself in him.
“I discussed with the President the
passage of a joint resolution authoriz
ing the War Department to throw open
its facilities for the proper care of the
transient boy.
“While some think it is a State prob
lem. it is entirely impossible for the
States separately to take care of the
situation. The mere announcement that
a State was prepared to look after the
welfare of these transient boys would
[ undoubtedly bring about a trek to that
State.
Recalls War Days.
“Therefore it seems to me it must
be solved through action of the Federal
Government. My suggestion is not
made from any charitable or philan
thropic motive, because I’m convinced
that many of these boys would not sub
ject themselves to any such treatment.
“When the many training campj
were in operation during the war, these
boys went in the interest of their coun
try. In my judgment it is just as much
in the interest of the country that the
faciliies should be provided now if the
future is to be approached intelligently.
“The problem should not be difficult
of solution by the War Department,
j With all the forts, tents and other fa
cilities they have, and with a staff of
Army officers with plenty of time and
trained in handling groups, they could
with moderate appropriations feed these
boys and keep them in training as long
as economic conditions make it nec
essary.”
GUNMAN KILLS TWO
Shoots Colored Men on Dallas
Street Without Warning.
DALLAS. Tex.. December 31 (4b —
An unidentified gunman halted two rol
! ored men in a residential district last
night, asked “Where are you going?”
and shot them before they could reply.
Arthur Walston. 37, was killed in the
first encounter. Later Lewis Dedman,
30, was shot in the chest and one hand.
The gunman, who police were informed
was white, escaped.
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BAND CONCERT.
By the United States Soldiers’ Home
Band, this evening, at Stanley Hall, at
5:30 o’clock. John S. M. Zimmerman,
bandmaster. Anton Pointner. assistant.
March, “The Invincible Eagle”. Sousa
Overture, “The Impressario"_Mozart
Suite romantic, “By the Lakes of
Oeneva” .Bendel
Sunday Morning; A Stroll at Cha
telard.
Scenes from opera. ‘'Doris”.Cellier
Fox trot novelty, "Is That Religion?"
Pinkhard
Waltz auite. “Eternelle Ivresse”.Ganne
Finale, "Pershing’* Crusaders”...Pauli
"The Star Spangled Banner.”