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TO GOTHAM READY Pennsylvania Train Wil Open Service Officially Tomorrow. Hailed as an outstanding example of the possibilities of Government aided public works projects, the elec trification of the Pennsylvania Rail road from New York to Washington, for which Initial plans were formu lated seven years ago, tomorrow be comes an accomplished fact when the first passenger train out of the Capi tal moves over the line to Philadelphia under electric power. For about a year the electrified section between New York and Wil mington has been in operation, but test cars only have been run from Wilmington south. The trip tomor row. consequently, is being made a special occasion, with Federal and District officials, Gov. Nice of Mary land, Mayor Jackson of Baltimore and others taking part as the guests of the railroad. President Roosevelt has been invited. The train leaves the Union Station at 10 a.m., ‘reaches Baltimore at 10:42 and Philadelphia at 12:15. The return trip will be made almost im mediately. Cost 200 Million. The electrification project, de scribed as the largest private construc tion job in the world, is entailing an expenditure of more than $200,000,000, In addition to the line layout, it in cludes terminal Improvements at Philadelphia. Newark and Baltimore The actual work got under way in 1929. Both the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and the Public Works Admin istration aided in financing this trans portation development. The R. F. C. furnished a loan ol $27,500,000 which has been paid ofl and the P. W. A. $80,650,000. It is estimated that the under taking provided work directly anc indirectly for 25,000 men in the pas! year alone, as more than half of th< P. W. A. advance went for equipment purchases. Lauded by Ickes. In a statement released for publi cation today. Secretary of Interim Ickes, as public works administrator said: “Departure of this train establish ing electrified railroad service be tween the Nation's Capital and tht Nation’s largest metropolis is an achievement. “It not only shows what can and should be done under the President’s recovery program, but demonstrates what actually has been accomplished under P. W. A. when private initia tive aids the administration in carry ing out re-employment plans. "The railroad co-operated with the President and the P. W. A. to the fullest extent and in every possible way in the drive to take men off the relief rolls and put them back on honest work pay rolls through appli cation of the public works theory of national industrial recovery.” J. G. Nettleton, local representative of the Pennsylvania, said that it is hoped to have the electrified service ready for the public February 10. GOV. MOODIE’S CASE UNDER ADVISEMENT North Dakota Executive to Re tire “Gracefully” if Dis qualified, He Says. By the Associated Press. BISMARCK, N. Dak., January 26.— The future political life of North Da kota's Governor. Thomas H. Moodie, was placed in the hands of five Su preme Court justices late today. Claim and counter-claim of the eligibility of Moodie were finally sub mitted to the court with a declaration by Attorney General P. O, Sathre that "whatever the decision will be, it will be a decision that will square itself with eternal justice.” As the five justices—four veteran Jurists and a newcomer to the bench, James Morris—took the case under advisement, Moodie, relaxed, sat in his office a floor below. “Whatever their decision may be vnlll V.__i.Ll. . _.. .. ... " *** ^ \AJ A1AC, XVMJUUie UC" dared. “The facts are In now. The truth has been presented to them. “If I am disqualified I shall leave this office willingly, quietly and grace fully. I shall wish to my successor all the success the position deserves." Dynamite and Powder Stolen. LINCOLN. Nebr., January 26 (/¥>)._ Theft of 600 pounds of dynamite and two kegs of powder from a hardware warehouse was reported tonight to State Sheriff Fred Benton. Hollywood Lures Swedish Ex-Prince To Films Career Will Sail Soon to Study Production Methods. Wife Is Actress. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, January 26. —Mr. Slgvard Bemadotte will sail for Hollywood early next month to study the American manner of making movies. As plain Mr. Bemadotte. he prob ably wouldn't be much news. As the son df King Gustaf of Swe den, the former Prince Slgvard, who willingly foreswore his royal title and privileges for the love of that petite commoner, Erika Patzek of Berlin, he should get more attention. The dapper young ex-prince, who will be 28 years old In June, married ,thp blonde German movie actress last March despite all efforts of his family to dissuade him. The King’s second son, no stranger to America, revealed his Intention to visit Hollywood w’hen he visited Stock holm recently, admitting that he was negotiating with an American com pany. Today Raoul Lemat, M-G-M man ager here, announced that he would sail from Berlin February 2, accom panied by Mrs. Bemadotte, reaching Hollywood probably about March 15. The two will spend a year or more In the film capital, Lemat said, re turning to Work with M-G-M's Scan dinavian distributors in an advisory capacity. A vigorous denial that his marriage is nearing the rocks was Issued by the former prince when he was here. P [MISSISSIPPI FLOOD 1 TOLL INCREASING — Heroic Rescuers Push Through Icy Waters for. Refugees. _(Continued From First Page.) an appeal to the State Health De partment at Jackson, reported that “things are about aa satisfactory as can be expected under the circum stances.” In the court house, refugees are making temporary homes out of of fices and the court room on the second floor. Churches and theaters are crowded with rufugees. Menace Moves South. With the flood danger shifting, farmers living in the bottomlands near Lambert, Miss., 4 miles south, and Crowder, are evacuating. Lambert, a town of 900, was not flooded, but the water was rising. Sledge was drying out today, and unless the town gets too much back water from the Tallahatchie, the town will be clear by Monday. About 600 refugees are quartered there. At Darling, where 600 homeless are being cared for, the water was reced ing. Most of the families are tenant farmers. Their only hope is for a merciful recession of the water that will leave them a few belongings with which to make another start. Mr. Ralph Wheatley, Associated Press staff writer, inspected the area between Marks and Crenshaw today from a motor railroad car. Wait (or Relief. On the tracks, running as a line of life and hope to thousands of natives driven from their homes, were humans, white and colored, old and young, living with their dogs, mules, hogs and cows battling with cold and hunger and paitently awaiting relief. The right of way was strewn with animals frozen to death, and with box cars In which families huddled. On any spot above the water humans were congregated. The thud of motor boats flowing through the backwater could be heard as the courageous boatmen brought out stranded fam ilies or took in food to those who re fused to leave their shanties. Find Bodies in Houses. Boatmen left the bodies they found in houses. “We were after live folks,” they said. "We couldn’t take time to bring out bodies.” Each town reported some deaths, but an accurate count of the dead may never be made. One boatman saw bodies of three colored persons in a house on a float ing bed where they had frozen; an other say the body of a dead colored man on the porch of a shack; an other told of a colored man and woman drowning from the upset of a stable feed trough In which they were try ing to float out. A few deaths of white persons were reported, but the heaviest toll was j among the colored. Today the Red Cross, under the direction of George E. Myer, assistant director of disaster, from Washington, had arranged to feed, clothe and house thousands of families driven to concentration cen ters. Plans were being made to feed the live stock found on railroad embank ments, but Myer estimated that 75 per cent of the live stock in the area had perished. Cold Frightens Natives, Before help came, the rescuers told harrowing tales of suffering and fright of the natives. These basin dwellers had been accustomed to high water, but they had not been accustomed to snow, ice and freezing weather. They had all of these combined and fdr this reason this flood produced more hardships than any other. The water caught the natives un prepared. It rose up around their homes within a few hours and without warning. It caught them without boats and without sufficient food and fuel. Boatmen told of women and little children standing on their porches in a foot of water begging to be taken aboard. The boatmen worked rapidly and courageously and did heroic work in the dead of night and in Ice-cov ered water. After they had been brought to high ground, the refugees took their situ ation phllosophicallv. Colored Man Is Hero. John Little, colored, probably was the hero of the flood. He may lose some fingers from frostbite, but he would do the same thing again. When the water hit Crenshaw, there were no boats and many fami lies faced drowning. John heard there was a big boat three miles away. He took the little pirogue and in the dead of night and at freezing tem perature rowed through the icy waters, dug the cars out ot the ice with his Angers and rowed the boat back to Crenshaw, where white men used It to bring out 100 people. But Little's hands were frozen and his clothes had to be cut from his body, the flesh of his arms cracked and his finger tips may drop off. He is being given the best of care and is looked upon as a hero by Crenshaw people. At Sledge, Thomas Allison, a store keeper, threw the doors of his store open and Invited any hungry person to come in and help himself, a thousand families of refugees were re ported In this area. The water was falling today, but it was still 1 to 2 feet deep in the streets. water missed Crenshaw proper. but the thickly settled rural section to the west was drowned out. Hog Rides Log. Rescuers told stories of animals saving themselves in most peculiar ™ys- A bl8 fat hog rode a log for Julies before it struck high ground. Two little dogs were seen floating on a raft. Chickens perched on house tops and on top of automobiles. Horses, mules and cows swam to safety, but many of them, exhausted and starved, died of cold after they had reached high ground. Woman nurses, full of pluck and daring, moved through the zone of handcars and boats with their kits, fighting against the spread of disease and caring for the sick and exposed. The most pathetic cases were those of children. Many a little boy and girl was brought in nearly frozen to death. They literally had to be thawed out. In two more weeks, It Is estimated, about all of the families will be re stored to their homes and they wlU go forward with Spring planting with the full expectation that the water will come again next year. They are lured to this country by the fertility of the soil, comparable to the Nile, and they are willing to take chances with the high water. Each time the high water comes and recedes the land becomes richer for cotton and corn. The residents hope some day the Government will run the water • 4 into the Mississippi River from the Coldwater Basin, but they will stay here anyhow. RESERVOIRS URGED. The immediate construction of seven reservoirs, to prevent future flood ravages like those bringing “tragic deaths” and "extreme suffer ing” in Northwestern Mississippi was urged yesterday by Representative Whittington, Democrat, of Mississippi. This work, he said, would cost about $50,000,000. He recommended that it be included in the $4,880,000, 000 public works relief program. Whittington's suggestion came after a statement by Chairman Wilson, Democrat, of Louisiana of the House Flood Control Committee that hear ings would be called promptly on his measure to authorize $200,000,000 ap propriation for flood control work and for use in emergencies for flood protection wherever human lives and property are endangered. Wilson said in many parts of the country cities could be protected per manently from the menace of floods by expenditure of only a few thousand dollars in each locahty. BARKERDECLARES AGENTS BEAT HIM Karpis Aide Denies Bremer Kid naping and Claims He Can Prove Alibi. _ » (Copyright, 1035. by the Associated Press.) ST. PAUL, Minn., January 26.—A denial that he participated in the $200,000 kidnaping of Edward G. Bremer was made tonight by Arthur (Doc) Barker in an interview from his solitary confinement cell, as he dis played body bruises he claimed were caused by Federal agents. “I was in Chicago with my mother and brother the day of the kidnaping, and I can prove it,” said Barker, member of the Karpis-Barker gang. "And it’s lie. too, that I double crossed my mother and brother by tipping off the Feds that they were in Florida." Fred Barker and “Ma" Barker were slain by Federal officers at Oklawaha, Fla., January 16. Harold Nathan, assistant director of the Justice Department Investiga tion Division, informed of Barker’s charges that he was beaten, branded the allegations "absurd." "I was coming out of a Chicago apartment about 6 o’clock the night of January 8,” Barker said, “when the Feds nabbed me. "I was in Florida with my brother and mother about 10 days before I was picked up in Chicago. And I didn’t know that my mother and brother were killed until I got to St. Paul.” ROBINSON LISTED FOR FORUM TALK World Court to Be Subjecl of Radio Address by Senate Leader. The World Court and American entry into that tribunal will be dis cussed by Senator Joseph T. Robin son of Arkansas, Democratic leader oi the Senate, in the National Radic Forum tomorrow at 10:30 p.m. The National Radio Forum is arranged bj The Washington Star and broadcast over the network of the National Broadcasting Co. Senator Robinson has charge of the resolution ratifying the protocols oi adherence by this country to the World Court. President Roosevelt has strongly recommended ratification in a special message to the Senate. For a decade and more, American adherence to the court has been sought by Presidents of the United States. In 1926 the Senate ratified with reservations. Some of the mem ber nations of the court objected to one of these reservations. This matter now has been smoothed out and it is expected that ratification by the Senate and American entry into the court will be accomplished. LUNVIU FUUK 11Mt.d ACCUSED AS KIDNAPER State Bests in Case Against Mc> Donald—Defense to Ques tion Abduction. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, January 26.—The State completed today its kidnaping case against Felix McDonald, a convict, after Dr. Isaac D. Kelley, prominent physician, four times had picked out the defendant as a participant in his 1931 abduction. McDonald’s counsel intimated the authenticity of the abduction might be questioned next week. McDonald was the second of six defendants to stand trial. Angelo Rosegrant was sentenced to 30 years last October. Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, wife of a St. Louis doctor, and Bart Davit are awaiting trial. John C. Johnson, a colored defendant, was slain after he had turned State's evidence. One defendant is a fugi tive. Forum Speaker SENATOR JOSEPH T. ROBINSON. GOLD CASES BELIEVED READY FOR DECISION Impression Strengthened by Fail ure of Supreme Justices to Confer Testerday. By the Associated Press. The impression among Capital ob servers that the Supreme Court has reached an agreement on the gold clause cases was strengthened yester day by the failure of the justices to hold their customary Saturday con ference. By long practice, Saturdays have been set aside by the justices to dis cuss cases ready for decision in an attempt to reach an agreement on them. The court Is In recess now to allow it to prepare opinions on the cases already argued. Ordinarily, the fail ure of the justices to confer on Satur day during a recess means they have reached an understanding on pend ing cases and that only preparation of the written opinion remains. If an agreement has been reached in the gold cases, the result probably will be announced February 4. Aviation Is Stimulated. Stimulation of Interest In aviation caused by the London-Melbourne air race has been felt in the Netherlands. Gen. Johnson May Direct' 18,000-Mile Prize Event for Flyers. j (Continued From First Page ! with a cross-continent hop from San tiago, Chile, to Buenos Aires, or the | reverse, depending upon which coast i Is chosen for the first lap. The course j then would lead back to the Pacific Coast of the United States and across the country to the starting point. San Francisco probably would be the northern limit of flight along the West Coast. Elliott Roosevelt, snowbound at his home near Leesburg, Va., reported by i telephone to N. A. A. headquarters I that any statement at this time con cerning plans for the race would be i premature. It is understood negotla ! tions still are in progress with the governments of some of the nations over which the racing planes would fly. Arrangements also must be com pleted for financing the event, it is understood. Roosevelt now is acting as an as- 1 sistant to the president of the Na tional Aeronautic Association. Sena tor William G. McAdpo of California, during the latter’s absence from Wash ington. Roosevelt also is vice presi dent of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America. Although no statement has been made on the point, it is understood that William K. Wrigley, Henry Ford and one or more prominent American newspaper publishers have been ap proached as sponsors of the race. The London-Melbourne race was, I sponsored by MacPherson Robertson, ; wealthy British candy manufacturer, who put up £15,000, or approxi- ! mately $75,000 at the then current1 exchange rate, as prize money. It is because of the great success of that race and the valuable lessons already resulting from experience with the special planes built for the purpose, that the proposed New World raca is being considered, it is understood. Relief Imposter Sentenced. CHICAGO, January 26 (^.—Con victed of defrauding the Illinois Emergency ReUef Commission of $895, William Schumacher was sen tenced today to serve one year in the Bridewell and fined $1,000. It was testified that Schumacher, his son and a step-son were working during the time they were receiving relief and had earned a total of $3,065. Wirephoto—Long Guardsmen March on Capital Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ».- .— National Guardsmen of Louisiana are shown marching on the capltol building at Baton Rouge yesterday in Huey Long’s latest military coup. A group of armed citizens seized the court house and threatened to overthrow 4 * the Long dictatorship. Long immediately ordered out the National Guard and the “rebels" surrendered. This photo was flown in an Associated Press chartered plane to Atlanta and from there wlrephotoed to The Sunday Star, . 3 Scenes From Flood-Devastated Southern Area I < No. 1—Convicts from the Mississippi State Prison trying to stop a break in the levee along the Coldwater River as flood waters poured through. Photo taken yesterday at Marks, Miss. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. No. 2—Rescued from the flood by a railroad motor car, this family of refugees was able to salvage only the pet lamb which the boy is holding. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. No. 3—Refugees placed their calf in a small boat wnen Darung, Miss., was submerged. More than a score of people are dead and about 25,000 homeless in the area. Below-freezing temperatures add to the suffering. —Wide World Photo. No. 4—Map of the area through which the rain-swollen Coldwater River Is raging. Arrows show the directions in which the high waters are moving. —Copyright, A. P. Wlrephoto. I I Party Maps Campaign to Repeal Marital Status Clause. The National Woman's party last night mapped a campaign for repeal of section 213 of the economy act and reinstatement of all married women in the Government positions taken away from them by passage of the act. Some 200 women, representing every major woman's organization in the East, met at the regional confer ence, in the Dodge Hotel, to discuss the matter. The conference, which began early yesterday, will adjourn with the luncheon meeting at the hotel this afternoon. Yesterday morning's ses sions were devoted to the equal rights amendment, while eight speakers last night advocated repeal of the clause which forces dismissal of either hus band or wife in reduction of the forces of Government agencies. The sessions this morning will be devoted to the interests of business and professional women, and the luncheon meeting will be given over to international feminism, with several leading feminists addressing the group. Speakers last night included Mrs. Edna Knight Gasch, Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley. Miss Gail Laughlin, a member of the Maine Legislature; Mrs. Ber nita Shelton, representing the Na tional Association of Woman Lawyers: Dr. Mildred Dickerson, a delegate of the Zonta Clubs of the United States: Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Friedman of the League of Woman Voters, Mrs. Hazel Moore of the Federal Commis sion on Birth Control and E. Claude Babcock, representing the American Federation of Government Employes. The speakers today will be Mrs. Helena Hill Weed of the International Committee on Ratification and Ad herence to the Equality Treaty of Montevideo, speaking on the work of the Inter-American Commission in South America; Miss Ella Riegel, Bryn Mawr, Pa., who has just re turned from Geneva and will speak on the international equality treaties, and Miss Margaret Windsor of Over brook. Pa., also of the Geneva Com mission. WORKERS’ BALLOT PROTESTED BY A. F. L. Organizer Tells Secretary Perkins Auto Board Dominates Union Men. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, January 26.—A protest against further elections among au tomotive workers to establish a col lective bargaining agency, made to Secretary of Labor Perkins by F. J. Dillon, American Federation of Labor organizer In the industry, today fol lowed the announcement of election results by the Automobile Labor Board. The board's announcement, which Included figures showing that 34.273 workers of the 38,336 who had voted so far in plant elections had no affil iation with a labor organization, was almost simultaneous with that of Wil liam. Green. president of the federa tion, in Washington that the A. F. of L. was withdrawing from the board. Dillon’s letter to Secretary Perkins charged that "this board is today re sponsible for and. If not actually en couraging. certainly not opposing, the development by the automobile in dustry of this country of a national company dominated, controlled and financed union, designed to destroy American Federation of Labor inde pendent organizations." The board had announced that "the numbers voting in the primary elec tions so far held constitute 90 per cent of those eligible to vote and 93 per cent of those working on the day of the election.” The board’s report said that 1,847 workers, or "slightly more than 5 per cent,” recorded themselves as affili ated with the American Federation of Labor. This brought from Dillon a statement that “the fact 34,273 voters refused to reveal their affiliation” was significant "because the A. F. of L. advised them not to reveal their affil iation.” NAVAL INSTRUCTOR DIES KANSAS CITY. January 26 OP).— Comdr. Holloway H. Frost, 45, author of a "History of the United States Navy” and a naval instructor at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., died tonight of meningitis resulting from an ear In fection. Born In Brooklyn, N. Y., he was graduated from Annapolis in 1910 and later was an instructor In the Army War College. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery. f i Reports Reveal America Blocked Efforts to Get Chinese Eastern. * (Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press.) Japan's undercover effort* to obtain control of the Chinese Eastern Rail way 16 years ago and America’s suc cessful opposition to them were re vealed yesterday In hitherto unpub lished State Department correspond ence. A series of confidential cablegrams, notes and memoranda, covering the period between January 9 and De cember 4, 1919, showed that Japan tried to acquire the railroad through diplomatic, technical and financial maneuvers. The United States made representa tions which apparently checkmated the Japanese moves in Tokio and Peking. Deal Now Near Success. The railway, which runs through Manchoukuo and is a strategic link between Asia and Europe, was being operated by an interallied commis sion during the period covered by the 1919 communications. Japan’s persistent attempts to se cure control of the road now apparent ly are approaching success, news dis patches from Tokio reporting an agreement for sale of Soviet Russia’s share to Manchoukuo for approxi mately $50,000,000. Manchoukuo has seized China’s interest. John F. Stevens, American chair man of the interallied commission, reported Japanese plans in 1919 in a series of cablegrams to Roland S. j Morris, Ambassador to Japan. The j reports were forwarded to the State j Department. They were revealed 1 through the department's publication of foreign affairs papers. Seizure Once Feared. Stevens on April 17 cabled his con cern that Japanese troops might take forcible possession of the line, change the gauge over part of it and dis credit allied and American efforts to operate and maintain the railway pending organization of a stable Rus sian government. He reported on September 25 that he was positive that Atamen Semenov of the Far Eastern Cossacks and I Atamen Kalmykov of the Ussuri Cos > sacks had plans to seize the railway : and had the secret support of the Japanese. j “I am positive,” Stevens cabled, j ‘‘Semenov and Kalmykov Intend to ; take possession Chinese Eastern by force and with Japanese soldiers now on ground could do so, as improbable Chinese would fight. This action will | be fatal blow to our good offices, j There is some reason to believe that j Chinese government may be asked to i appoint Semenov director of Chinese 1 Eastern, which ought not be per i mitted.” Envoys Told to Intercede. The State Department instructed the American envoys in Tokio and Peking to take up the question with the Japanese and Chinese govern ments. As a result, the interallied com mission retained control of the ! Chinese Eastern until it was turned | over to joint control of Soviet Rus sia and China. Stevens’ plan for operation of the Chinese Eastern lines as a unified system met with opposition from the Japanese almost from the begin ning, the correspondence reveals, and culminated in a demand that the latter be given sole control of the Chinese Eastern lines. This was rejected and then came a charge there was a plot to juggle the railroad’s financial condition and make it necessary to secure loans from Japanese banks. TUGWELL VISIONS GREATER CHANGES Tells Students Accomplishments of New Deal Up to Now Comparatively Small. By the Associated Press. SCHENECTADY. N. Y., January 26. —Rexford G. Tugwell, President Roosevelt's "No. 1 brain truster,” told Union College students in chapel to day that "you will begin your working lives in a changed atmosphere.” "No one knows better perhaps than I how small actual accomplishments of this administration have been up to now." Tugwell said. "But I do think there has been a complete re versal of attitude toward the dignity of public life." Tugwell said that before 1932, ‘‘Gov ernment was entrusted to people who, basically, did not believe in govern ment except as a buttress of priv ilege. • * •” "We lost the art of translating thought into social action, and finally, constructive social thought very nearly disappeared.” he said.* Swift’s Widow Dies. CHICAGO. January 26 (IP).—Mrs. Edward F. Swift, widow of the Chi cago packing house magnate, died in her apartment home today at the age of 70. Her three children, T. Philip Swift. Edward F. Swift. Jr„ and Mrs. Annie May Henry were at the bedside. After the death of her husband Mrs. Swift devoted much of her tune to charities. Lost City Found In Canyon May Be 25,000 Years Old Ethnologist Obtains Entrance Through Waterfall. By the Associated Press. NOGALES, Ariz., January 26.—Dis covery of a lost city of an ancient race in the mountain wilderness of the Yaqui Indian country of Sonora was reported here today by Paxton C. Hayes, ethnologist of Santa Bar bara, Calif. Hayfs, well known In archeological circles, said he gained entrance to the city through a waterfall. It was in a blind canyon, he said, and was In- J habited between 12,000 and 25,000 years ago. Hayes, accompanied by Mrs. Hayes, entered Sonora two months ago to search for the city after he had found mummies of ancient giants on pre vious expeditions. He said he believed the discovery would shed much light on the ancient civilization of North America. ' I