Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. . Weather Burean Forecast.) Partly cloudy and much colder to- night, minimum temperature about degrees; tomorrow fair and colder. “Temperature—Highest, 48, at 4 p.m. vesterday: lowest, 44, at § a.m. today. TPull report on page 9, H Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 s second class matter Washington, D. C. Closing Entered post office, No. 30,177. @h WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDXTIONg 1926—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. D. C, TUESDAY, U. S. Workers Get Assurance of Half NEW MNARY BILL OPENS SENATE WAR OVER FARM RELIEF Feder: will receive mas eve. President Coolidge let it he known today that he intends to follow the custom of permitting the employes (o be excused from their work that afternoon. There will i be no Executive order issued, but the President will instruct depart- ment and bureau heads to excuse all those employes whose sBrvices will not be needed. The same instruction will go to the District Commissioners and it is understood at the White House that the employes of the District zovernment will be granted this holiday also. President Coolidge indic the employes will not be given a half holid: ew Year's eve. The Pr not look upon the day 2 Year in the xame,_ spirit in which he dves Christmas _eve and he is repre- sented as feeling that there seems no_oc n for granting this ad- ditional holiday. The President last vear declined to sanction a half holiday on New Year ev 3 ITALIAN MORTGAGE ON ALBANIA SEEN 1 employes in the District ive a-half holiday Christ Equalization Fee Principle Embodied in Measure In- troduced Today. AIMS AT STABLE PRICES BY SURPLUS CONTROL | ed that Attitude of Administration Ex-| pected to Hhve Much to Do With Fate of Plan. The revised McNary farm relief bill, embodying the equalization fee prin-| ciple, was introduced in the Senate to- | day by Senator McNary of Oregon, chairman of the committee on agri culture. The fight for farm relief legislation, demanded by the West, is expected o | revolve around this measure at the present session. Much will depend upon the ultimate attitude of the ad- | ministration toward the Owing to the fact that the se: Congress ends March 4, there is grave doubt that any farm legislation can be put through nocw. “The measure is essentially plus control bill,” Senator said, “the sole aim being to stabili: prices through contrel of the surplus.” Five Basic Commoditie: Five basic commodities are named | in the bill—cotton, wheat, corn, rice 4 . and hogs. An important difference in | News. Copyright, 1 the new bill from the measure which | GENEVA, December 14.—That was offered by Senator McNary at the | Ttaly holds a virtual and entirely legal last session s (hat, under the new . portgage on all the tangible assets of bill, the equalization fee wWill run iy "l o ment, is the start- against cotton, as against the other .. ° i & 5 2 ey basic crops, without postponement. - | ling conclusion drawn from a carefu {analysis here of Albania’s economic ‘The will be referred to the Sen- ate agriculture committee, and Sena- iand financial situation in view of the { Italo-Jugoslav crisis. tor McNary hopes to have it reported favorably to the Senate with little de-| The instruments of this predomi- lay. Its provisions have been con- sidered carefully by members of the farm bloc and by representatives of farm organizations interested in-ag) cultural relief legislation. In a statement issued by Senator a sur- in Position Soon to Admin- ister Nation’s Finances. MODERWELL.. By Cable fo The Star and Chicaxo Daily 26. {the Albanian government—virtually parts of the same financial operation : | negotiated by an Italian group, In McNary, accompanying the bill, he !which the Italian Credit Bank was a said that the new measure does Mol |predominant element, on the specific put the Government into the business | ;. vy 000410, : e . Bos fts | aul n of the economic com- of buying or selling anvthing on WS |,/ 100 o¢ the League of Nations. own account, and that all reference to | price levels and price standards are | The agreement for both measures omitted. | was signed by Albania in July, 1923, “While the new hill,” said Senator | by Finance Minister Mufid Meyluba- McNary, “retains many of the essen- | hova—the same Mufid, who later A of the old bill, the changes, omis- | eloped with the national treasury and a5 and additions are sufficiently | was.accused by & committee of the nd important to make it {Albanian Parliament with gross cor- i ¥ AN G e 1 Biil, the sole aim being 1oy Bauk Pays Ttself, stabilize prices through control of the | Notable fealures of the loan ‘are: surplus, For that purpose a weparate | 1A loan nominally of 71,000,000 etabilization fund: is provided for | Eold francs, leaving 50,000,000, francs each of the five basic commodities—. Net and 21,000,000 for the expenses of cotton, wheat, corn, rice and hogs. | the commission on flotation. “These stabilization funds are to be | 2. Proceeds of the loan to be paid drawn from the ‘marketed units' of |to the Albanian government in in- ! each commodity and are to he em..definite installments. but the govern- ployed in ‘removing or withhelding disposing” of the surphis by co-oper: tives, or if there are no co-operatives ’(‘ent~berinnl“¢ last month. capable of doing the job, by persons 3. Actually the Albanian govern- engaged in processing such commodi- | ment never will receive a penny of ties. this loan. It will be expended for forts ‘and ports and road construction, but { the contracts are given to the “Society | for the®Economic Development of Al- @ {bania,” which is a subsidiary of th rectly in effecting such control, but Ty e ot | Ttalian Credit Bank. Hence the bank loans may be made from a revolving 3 e banl fund of $250.000.000 to. the sc\'erul!g:'e“ virtually the entire amount to commodity stabilization funds in an- | J Sicipation of the collection of the equa.|, 4 Although under the original . el a {league provisions, only minority S h be re- ;. B ot trerest The Fheaersl Farm | blocks of stock are allotted to Ttalians The Federal Farm | " !and Albanians, with the voting bal- ‘B"‘h“;“o:"}:n";":,““;fi‘;‘:'xg’ or sell an¥- | ,nce in Jugosiay hands, Italy has - { acquired “control of most of the “All reference to price levels and 2 | Albanian stock, giving the Credit Bank vrice standards are omitted. The sole | o niiete control authority granted by the bill is to sta- | = bilize markets against undue and ex Huge Yearly Interest. » cessive fluctuation and to preserve ad-| 5. Annual interest payable by.fhe vantageous domestic markets by ‘with- ; Albanian government (the first install- Public Funds Barred. 0 public funds may be used di- | By the Associated Press. DIGNE, DEPARTMENT e holding or removing or disposing’ of | ment is due next April) amoimts to the surplus. No standard of stabiliza- | five and & third million gold francs, tion and no price level are mentioned | and is secured by customs receipts in the new bill. The aim is to provide | and returns from govérnment monop- funds drawn from, each commodity to | olies, The total of Albanian customs be employed in sthbilizing the market | receipts and monopoly revenues last for that commodity by sound com-|vear was 14,000,000 francs. Total ex- mercial methods. penditures were 18,000,000 francs. “The Federal Farm Board is ret: Hence Albania’s early default seenis ed, but important changes are made | inevitable. s in the advisory council section. The| 6. According to Dr. Mario Alberti old bill provided for a national ad- |~ (Continued on P’age 4, Column 7.) vigory council, selected by farmers’ or: » gahizations, which should make nomi- | nations to the President and actdn an | 19 K“_LED 70 HURT advisory capacity to the I arm ’ ’ Board. { Tn the new bill nominations will be | 'N cHEM'cAl BLAST made to the President. D) at- | jng committee chosen by farm organi zations, and provision is made for non salaried commodity cils i i for each basic commodity, to be :.p»'s“ddm Rise in Temperature pointed by the board from lists sub i 4 mitted by representative producers’ | Oagises Chiorine Tank te Kx organizations, which will consult and | in Fra: advise with the board with respect to phae an e tters under its jurisdiction, and - ally “to co-operate with the hoard In_ aavising producers in the adjust | ment of production in érder to secure b maximum benefits under this act.” | ”"“'i“v‘:""‘““‘("“‘; l""- ! 4 | teen men are dead, most of them hav- Rice Included in List. {ing been asphyxiated, in consequence “Rice has been included in the bill | of the explosion of 20,000 kilograms of by urgent_request of Southern rice [liquid chlorine in a factory at St. Showers. * Mexker conditiens for Sicé{giipan. . Sevénty otiier mentwere k- are comparable with those for wheat. | § 3 e s x 4 .| jured, 30 of them seriously. Sens 1n & R o Tios, DLt I8 of- | “innioge: who! metidbathi inciudea aix fective MY in veurs of small crope | renchmen. * The remainder were Al surplus. I reia e et “An equalization fee is provided for |, SR 0G5 51" spell is given all basic commodities, which must be [ 4" 2 alse of the explosion of the pplied when operations begin with re- | ip NI8 YR BT e er w ot to such commodity. e nuiliclors SHAE AEiwras Bieto The new dralt 5 the provision | patite “This nowever, is said to in the old bill which deferred the col- | T e nomul sty Aiksivetedt by Jection of an equalization fee on cot- preliminary investigation, which ton for threc y ! showed that the explosion was due whould authoriz ntirely to natural causes. provision for stabilizing cotton {71t is vonsidered marvelous that more three years with Government funds i8 | en were not asphyxiated, as 500 of also omitted. This removes all ground | (he 1,500 workers employed were in for eriticism on (he score of granting | the immediate vicinity of the tank & subsidy to cotton. 1 when it burst. “In the old bill the equalization fee oo 2 was imposed upon ‘all producers’ of the basic commodities numed in the | 17 DIE IN MEXICAN FIGHT. bill. In the new draft the fee is im- oF posed upon h marketed unit' of 3 such commoditics. This carries out | MEXICO CITY, December 14 (). — the dea that we are dealing with the {phe war department announced last commodity rather than with individi|pjgnt that 15 Yaqui Indians were ual farmers. The fee will be coliected | yjjjed and 22 wounded and 2 Federal at the most convenient point along the ! g1qjers were killed and 3 wounded in route of the commodity to market. |, “pattie with the Yaquis near Orez, “The board is given afithority to coll state of Sonora, when 400 of the In- it on transpartation. or on the first|gigng abandoned their mountain salex, or at the processing o willing | rrongholds and descended o the point. Y : valley for’ foodstuffs. e mew @rilt ‘cartle Gen. Manzo, military commandant the section authori (Continued on Page 2, Column 2 over un- ol pursuit of the fleeing Indians, ) Py Day Christmas Eve . Mussolini Government Seems | nance are the Albanian national bank | and the 50,000,000 gold franc loan to | highwa; | - {ment to pay interest—nominally 73 | {per cent, but actually nearly 10 per | held | ng 10ans | or Sonora, is personally directing the ' HOGAN OPENS PLEA FOR DOHENY WTH BLOW AT ROBERTS [“Vicious Villification™ of De- fendant and Fall Charged | 1$100,000 LOAN UPHELD | AS ONLY FRIENDLY ACT} Prosecution Uses Part of Day in Finishing Argument of Con- piracy Allegation. ik 1. Hogan. chief counsel for | | EEdward L. Doheny, today opened final argument for the defense in the Gov ernment oil conspiracy case with a fiery denunciation of Owen J. Roberts, | Government counsel, for his attempt “to besmirch _the reputation” and to { challenge the veracity of the two de- . | fendants. ; | Describing the Government attorney | “a desparate man,” Mr. Hogan declared that his argument to the| | jury was “as wholesale and as vicious | a vilification as ever polluted the at- mosphere of a court of justice.” | The defense attorney bitterly de-| | nounced Roberts, as taking advan-| { tage of the protection afforded by the | i court, for which he declared the at- torney could not even be held gespon- {sible in a suit for slander. “The law {leaves you without a remedy,” he said. | He added that it did not provide; even the remedy suggested in the ear- 1y days of the pioncer West. 1 ) Compared With Diogenes. { Mr. Hogan epened his argument by comparing Roberts with Diogenes— | | searching the Government service for an honest man. “He can find, but one man,” Hogan sald, “and! that's a Philadelphia lawyer. | | Further denouncing Roberts’ attac upon the defendants, Mr. Hogan d clared: “The man who did this wil- | fully, who forgot his earlier plea for | i even-handed justice, was a desperate {man: s man made desperate by the| fact that for the last week he has | {seen the filmsy fabric of his case! torn to pieces. He sought to build | it up again upon the fragment {the reputations .which he wilful i land deliberately sought to besmirch. | “While he assails he is surrounded | hy the protection of the, court,” Mr. | Hogan declared. Tle stated that the { Government counsel had deliberately “branded as felons two men long | rominent and near the end of the | of life” The Government | otmgel @id-not - seek-to appeal for a verdict on the grounds of justice, he declared, but sought to bulld his case | {up in an atmosphere of “ridicule, sneering and viclousness.” i Political Persecution Seen. “It was a reason of desperation, he added, “If it succeeds it will be so | {for the first time in the history of trial by jury. 5 Mr. Hogan appealed to the jury on |the ground that none who under- stands the “terrible political persecu | tion" through which the defendants | { have passed would ever raise his voice |against a verdict exonerating the de- {fendants, “You, and you alone,” he told thé {jury, “have the sole and exclusive { power to find a verdict of guilty or not guilty, and no one, either in a court or in a legislative body, can call {you to account. It was the duty of the jury, he | pointed out, to consider the case in the light of justice and to return as speedy a- verdict as it could. Sees Evidence Distorted. e reminded the jury to take un-| der consideration the fact that the! evidence in the case had been “di torted in every form by the Ingeni of an able, if not a fair, counsel.” He then told the jury of Fall’s obses sion for the Harris ranch, of his need | for ‘water rights, and then of the! offer of Doheny to loan him the $100 000 which has been the basis of the Government’s _contention of bribery. Mr. Hogan ridiculed the idea that the loan was to be characterized as a bribe, “A'bribe is a corrupt, contemptible thing by which the briber expects to gain _some improper, undue advan ge.” he said. He then told briefly of Doheny's early struggle and h success, “Would he stoop so low to bribe a cabinet officer in order that he might cheat and swindle the man | who was his friend?” he asked. ! Declaring that Doheny had been | “pilloried by a Philadelphia lawyer,” | Mr. Hogan appealed: “In the name of | ! God, use vour ideas of decency honesty, give us as quick as the law allows the only answer that can be! made to this charge.” i Mr. Hogan with much feeling then | told how Doheny had taken the note | ! and asked his wife, “the partner of | | his life,” to protect his friend in event | {of his death and to v out what | was “a’friendly loan to this friend.” ! on Denied. | ¥le ridiculed the contention of Goy- | ernment counsel that Doheny had de- liberately used his son as a shield to! throw off suspicion from himself in | the loan transaction. | * Dramatically he declared that a few vears before ithis transaction took | place “the old man had offered his { i son's life to his country on the altar | | of patriotism.” 3 | ‘Can you conceive that Doheny | would use his own son to aid him { corruption?” he asked the jury | At one point during his speech M. | | Hogan moved slowly back and forth | | before the jury box, pointing at the | jurymen. Do you believe Mr. Doheny is he thundered. “Do you? And you?" 2oberts, special cer i who began his opening argument vesterday afternoon, con- cluded at 10350 o'clock today, after talk- ing altogether for about 4 hours and 50 minutes. His closing hours were devoted to a bitter attack against Mr. Doheny, whose testimony he charged was “contradictory” and “colored” as compared with that given before the Senate committee. Must Pass on Big Issue “You are asked to wrap the United | States flag’ around Doheny and call him a patriot and the savior of his country,” Roberts declared, “and you are asked to put vour stamp of ap-| proval on the $100,000 transaction and | (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) i | | A ! Wrong Use of ! { | | | Mr. prosecutor, to U. S: Counsei. | ! means committee, which i benefit, |and the Secretary admitted vester. DECEMBER 14, Star. * Associated service. ) Means Associated Pr The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,514 TWO CENTS. MADISON Gtoee 0BLITERATED ! | 1 | | | i ping, cast the city DEBT RETIREMENT T0 BEGIN AT ONCE Billion May Be Cut Off This Year Due to Failure of Tax Credit Plans. While Democrats were seeking ength today to drag their tabled tax- cut bill out-of the House ways and buried it saturday, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon planned at once to begin re- tiring some of the $19,000,000,000 pub- lic debt, with the accumulating Fed- eral surplus, which started all the tax-reduction argument. A billion dollars may be cut from the debt this year. Secretary Mellon not only believes that retiring part of the public deht will be a “very good thing to do now™ with the surplus, but he is committed o the -prineiple of, “early retirement of the natoinal debt” for business rea- 8008 of sheer economy to the taxpay- ers. In taking this stand he i= blunt- 1y opposed by the Democrats, who con- tend that present taxpayers should Depends on 0ld Rule. The Democrats are hoping to get their bill out of committee by resur- recting an old House rule, which pro- vides that & petition of the majority— 218 members—can bring out a meas- ure for consideration on the floor, The first dollars out of the sur plus may flow into public debt retire- ment tomorrow. On that date, De- cember 15, final tax payment. of the calendar vear is due. It is antici- pated that without prospect of tax reduction there will be surplus re enues, which may be used for auto- matically retiring the public debt. A total of about $450,000,000 in Cov- ernment secwrities will mature to- morrow, which the Treasury plans to meet with bhalances already ' on hand, tax receipts from the Decem- ber 15 payment, and the $229,000,000 of the latest Treasury offering dated tomorrow. What surplus may be left after that, it was explained at the Treasur will “automatically” be applied to reduction of the principal of the public debt. Pleased by Committee Action. Although Secretary Mellon joined with President Coolidge in recom- mending the tax credit as a possible megns of leaving the potential sur- plus in the pockets of the taxpayer, day it still might be possible to allow the tax credit, he seemed pleased with action of the House ways and means committee, which would throw the surplus into the public debt. The total debt reduction possible this fiscal year may be nearly a bil- lion dollars, tary Mellon said, explaining that $556,000.000 would be available from the regular sinking fund and from war debt payments, while the surplus, now under dis- pute by the Democrats, is estimated to he at least $383,000,000, with pros- pects of mounting. TWO D]E IN AUTO WRECK. Third Seriously Hurt When Car Turns Over in Florida. MIAMI, T December 138 (). | Two men w killed and another suffered serious injuries when the au tomobile in which they were riding | in Coral Gables today turned over threc times. Charles Stewart, driver, and an un-; iaMtified companion died at a hos- pital shortly afterward, while W, J. Hard le, another occupant of the machine, was in a eritical condition. All were arpenter in middle age, on their way to wor ALL ABOARD SHIP DROWN. Norwegian Steamer Reported Sunk Off Iceland. TONDON, December 14 (#).—A d's dispatch from Reykjavik, Ice- s the Norwegian steamer Bal- has been totally wrecked at “axe Bay, and the crew and hoim Akrar, engers 8 0 details are given. e Huge Forest Fires Rage. NOVOROSSISK, Russia, December 14 (#).—The Soviet government at Sochi, Georgia, has issued a decree calling out _the entire population to fight huge, forest fires which are rag: ing along %he Black Sea coast in the Sochi at Tuapse regions. U. S.1S SHOWN MORE RELIGIOUS | THAN BRITAIN BY NATIONAL QUIZ| Replies in This Country List 89 Per Cent' Believers in God—Cities Less Inter- ested Than Rural Areas. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Decembe ica possibly is morve re England, first returns in wide religious census indi *14.—Amer- gious than a Nation- than has New_ York City that there is a God. Zighty-nine per cent of 50000 read- | ers of newspapers in 40 States have replied in a questionnaire that they believe in God, while in a similar campaign only 73 per cent of the readers of, the London Daily News ex- pressed belief in a “personal God.” Commentators, however, call attention | to the more limited definition of the London questionnaire, The American_guestionnaires were sent out in’ egmmection with® a' cam- paign on religion by the church adver- tising department of the International Advertising = Association and were drafted by 100 clergymen. Answers are to be received for another week. Replies on Immortality. The auestion Do vou believe in im- mortality?” brought a response of 85 per cent in the affirmative, while the same question In the London Daily News brought 10,161 affirmative swers and 3,178 nogative answers The ratio of belief to disbelief was almost the same to all questions pub- lished in the questionnaire in this country and in nearly cvery case was and the | rest of the country has greater faith | an- | in_England. In comparison to $9 per cent in the ountry as a whole. only 68 per cent of the residents of New York City be- lieve in God. In like manner, while re | turns show 77 per cent of the res dents of the entire country believe in the div only cent of New that belief, and while 70 per cent of the country at large are uctive church members, this is true of only 42 per cent of New Yorkers, Cities Less Religiow “The figures indicate that interest n veligion differs greatly in various parts of the country,” said Rev. tionnaire. “In the South the peopl> are extremely orthodox in their views, yery generally accepting such” doc: trine:: as immortality and the divinity of Christ, and much the same is true of the smaller cities of the Middle West. But_ in the lurger cities the re- turns sho® a greater indifference toward religion." Answers to other questions in the questionnalre showed 80 per cent be- lieve the Bible as inspired wo 0 per cent regularly attend church services: 79 per cent would not want their families to grow up in church- less communities: 17 per cent their children to schools for religious instruction, and 90 per cent believe r ligion in some form a necessary ele- ment of life for the individual and the community’ SIX DOCTORS FIGHT T0 SAVE YOSHHITO Life of Emperor of Japan Hangs in Balance, With Fever High. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. (Capyright. 1 ‘HAYAMA, Japan., December 14.— Six physicians are now working hero - with oxygen and by other arti- ficia]l means to sustain the spark of life within the hody of Emperor Yoshi- hito, who.is eriti ill of pneumonia at the Summer palace here, The morning offiecial bulletin gave the p: tient's temperature as 1023 dégree renheit, pulse 118 and respir: tion 26. Prince Regent Hirohito eanceled en- gagemer a in ‘Tokio and will ma indefinitely. It previously heen announced that the regent expected to attend cere- monies at Tokio today and return to Hayama Wed The changed plans, coupled with observation of preparations under way, lead to one conclusion—that the end is at hand. 'TRAVELER IN FRANCE IMPERSONATES PRINCE Poses as British Heir in Pyrenees Towns, Ignoring Denials of English. By the Associated Pre RPIGNAN, Fr —Just who the personable young man |is who has been traveling about the | Pyrenees as the Prince of Waules is a question puzzling the authoritics here. The pseudo-prince went _through Perpignan Sunday to the bows and les of all concerned, and later his in Barcelona was heralded. however, denied that as the heir to the throne. Then, vesterday, the “prince” aga appeared en route to Paris, and ' dinner at the British embassy” which, it developed, the embassy knew noth- ing about. In the face of urgent denials that the Prince of Wales had even left England, newspaper men asked the “prince” to clear up matters. “Very amiable people, the F was his only reply as he sped away in the “royal” automobile. Ten Buildings Burned. McARTHUR, Ohio, December 14 (), —Fire of unknown origin in the busi- ness district of McArthur at midnight last night destroyed 10 buildings, with an estimated loss of $200,000, BY YOUNG REFUSED { By the Associated Press. | The Cu {ed with Christmas mail and passen | gers, i { somewhat higher than the same ratio | | i Charles Stelzle, director of the ques- | SURRENDER TERMS Cold Snap Is Due In Capital Tonight; Drop to 24 Likely There will he a sudden ch in Washington weather about sun sef, which will send the temper: ture below fre tonight—to a minimum of about 4. It may even go lower is coming broadside on the Atantic States from the Wes came nge The cold Siddle Middle . It N vest northern and immedia 3 The mercury stood at 48 at noon During the afternoon it will go down a trifle even under the warm sun. Early this evening the de cline will be rapid. FOGWRECKS TRAINS INDHOLDSPSHPS Cold Wave Reported Moving Eastward as Wind Clears Air Again. December 14.—Fog. has crippled ship- into semi-darkness ind resulted in several transportation idents. was blown high today o strong west wind. By noon the harbor, gl der a brilllant sun, was churned b 25 incoming ships, carry 00 pas- sengers, and ships whose sailing time had been held up by the dangerous murkiness tooted their whistles for departur v YORK which for two day by stening U d liner Berengaria, load ht, and the Cu Aurgnia/ at off Ambrose Li narders’ Andania and Sandy Hook. 1 ed in for quarantine. Others also in- hound included the American and the White Star liner Megantic. ré again back nearly to normal. Fog Wrecks Two Trains. Before it departed the fog | blamed for two railroad wrecks, I Wi collision of river craft and the deten- tion off New York Harbor of 25 in- {coming ships. k Nine persons were injures ilroad accidents in New Jerse one a rearend collision New atlroad near and the oth on. to New York, ran into the second sec ition of the Atlantic City Express, ailing Louis locomotive of the last car of the Atlantic City train. Mrs. Barbara Steinmetz of St. Lou a passenger on the Commercial e press, {her daughter, | Madison. N. 'J. Middlesex Hospital, Mrs. was taken to th | found to have several body bruises. por- t. Peter’s Hospital | evidence of being keenly interested in { Nathan Willlams, negro pulima {ter, was taken to S | for lacerations of the arms. 1 {injured trains. Five Hurt in Other Wreck. Five person: | two of them women. when a Washing | ton-New & Ohie Rall well Junction, of the nine road men s oad was derailed at Hope- near Trenton. Eigh rs left the rails. into derailment switch. heavy log that hung over the bay. Fifteen hundred persons aboard the municipal ferryboat came excited when the boeat, between Staten Island and New Y s U. S. Attorney Given Declines ! Proposal to Reduce Bond ! of Missing Clerk. i surrender Damon Young, former clerk of the quarter- master general's office in the War De- partment, who has been missing more | than a week, gud for whom a war-| rant was issued char after trust for alleged appropriation | to his own use of a portion of more ! than $10,000 collected from emy as Christmas savings fund ments was refused by A United States Attorney Ralph € | today, because such an offer was pred. | | feated on a reduction of the stipulated | amount of bond from $10,000 to $5,000. | R. I Quig local attorney, ap- peared before Mr. Given, stating he | epresented Young. He said he be- ! lieved it possible to arrange a surren- der of Young to answer the warrant if the bond were not too hi i vert stated bond required in e would not be reduced | An offer to yes install ven | Surrender Is Doubtful. | | oo ! the Quigley professed ignorance of | whereabouts of his ciient, but | ted tqat he would see that the in-| | formation was conveyed to him that { the bond would not be reduced upon | surrender. He did not state whether | 1 would follow. | v 'k, because of ! | the receipt of a letter by Arthur B. | "Mm'sland. a clerk in the quarterma i ter's offi signed B | marked New York City. referring to {an accounting of funds placed in Young's care as treasurer of an ath. letic fund of that office. Moreland said today the amount w scarcely more than $100. The letter failed to irefer in any ‘way to the Christmas |savings fund. . Conference Arranged. Sarly today, however, word reach- ed the police that Attorney Quigley had arranged a conference with Mr. Given. Detectives Springmann and Tram- mell of headquarters, assigned to the case, were present during the inter- view in Mr. Given's office. The warrant was sworn Stanley Burrows, a Government clerk, ‘and one of the depositors. While the warrant charges conver- sion of less than $300, the scattered estimates, obtained by police from ks h money in the fund in- é2 that the fund exceeds §10,000, out by tant | 4 collided off the Statue of Liberty with the lighter gamore. feet smashed and the guard rail w: ped away, but the boat docked and no one was injured. The fog covered the entire metr: poiitan area and the Jersey Coast and drizzling rain added to the murkiness. WINTER SWEEPS EASTWARD. West Suffering From Blizzaxds and Cold. CHICAGO, December 13 (#).—Bit ter Winter swept into the Bastern half of the country today from West- ern States gtruggling in the grip of y weather and decp-drifted snows wirling winds hore the coid wave across the * Mi ppi Valley and flung it in a broad fan that brushed the Atlantic seaboard and reached to thy Gulf Coast. Normal life still in the the Central me to a virtnal stand Northwest ind down into tes trains were ning behind schedule, schools closed - and erippled c old of a mounting death toll. rds and winds of nea played havoe with the Extreme temperatures handicapped efforts to loose the hold of the g snows, and the Weather promised little relief for at least two more days. In Montana, Wyoming and Colorado the mereury dropped to 30 below. the Southwest shivered in | below-freezing weather and tempera- tures hovered about zero on Midwest California Is Cold. California reported cold, but not evere weather. Smudge pots were nounted about the fruit groves and motor cycle riders watched thether- mometer, ready to ride with a warn- the mercury approached the Only 11 More Days Christmas Will Be Here Shipper Ferry boats. delayed in schedules. was | P alings and grounds committee in re- d in two Public B ‘s A y last | adequate provision for the Govern- be- wo express trains on the Penn- Bruns- v a derailment of a | the Capitol. altimore and Ohio train near Tren- ¥ relal Express, St. Louis | New York, g -1 000 to complete the purchase of the de- | triangle, but the appropriation will the front truck of the St.|not be sought until negotiations have and the rear truck ' been started to buy the land. -y who was on her way to visit | before Elsie Beffa at'grounds committee tomorrow. were slightly injured, ork train of the Baltimore Rail- id the dense fog caused | the engineer to miss a signal and run | Richmond be-| ving | D Twenty-five of the ferryboat's part side was run- | BILL TO PURCHASE TRIANGLE PUT ON " SENATE CALENDAR Smoot Plan, Providing for $25,000,000 Project, Favorably” Reported. VARIOUS SENATORS APPROVE OF MEASURE | Delay in Acquisition Would Be Uneconomic, Backers of Program Believe. I The bill authorizing purchase of all | the remaining private land in the tri langle between Pennsylvania avenue nd B street in connection with the { Federal building prcgram in Wash- ington was placed on the Senate cal- { endar today, having been favorably {reported late yesterday by the comw ihittee on public buildings and grounds. Senator Smoot, chairman of the Pub. { lic Buildings Commission. plans to ask i for action on the measure at the fi | opportunity. and indications are tha the Senate will approve the bill. Sen- ator Smeot has talked with a number of Senators and thus far has found no opposition to the plan of the building { commission to take in all of the tri Jangle in the interest of economy. | Delay Feared as Costl | The Public Buildings Commission {and the Treagury Department, in ree- { ommending this additional legislation acted on the theory that it will be t the Government's interest to acquire | all of the triangle at this time instead lifted anchors and start- | of carrying out the building program {in piecemeal fashfon. It has been { vointed out that to delay acquirinz | the remaining private property in the ! triangle until the first group of Fed- | eral buildings have been erected would ! serve only to increase the cost of the |land to the Government. 3 The promptness of the public build- i porting the bill to the Senate indi- | cates the interest members of Con {gress have taken in the plans of the ings Commission to make iment establishments in Washington iand at the same time clean up the larea lying between the Treasury and Would Authorize $25,000,000. The pending bill authorizes $25,000.- ‘Thes« egotiations will not begin until’ Con gress enacts this authorization. A similar bill has been introduced in |the House and is expected to come the public. buildings and Members of the Senate had the en- where she was/tire plan of<he Public Buildings Com- mission clearly outlined to them by Senator Smoot last week and gave ithe project. The Smoot bill was re- Several other persons were slightly | ported to the Senate by Senator Leu. and after receiving treatment | root, chairman of the public building« send | continued their journey on _otherjand grounds committee. s L PANAMI CONFISCATES PAPERS WITH TREATY {Cuban and Costa Rican Publica- | tions Said to Contain Text of Pending Pact. | "pitbts last night refused to risk an| pe e Associated Press. attempt to guide ships through the| PANAMA, December 14.—Several { coples of il Heraldo de Cuba of Hav jana and of the December issue of Re- ortorio Americano, a Costa Rican | publication, have been confiscated by {the police while being distributed by | news vendors. It is alleged that they jcontained the complete text of th United States-Panama treaty, which both the Fanaman and United States iovernments agreed not to publish until congressional action had been | taken upon it ! The treaty is expected to go before {the Panaman Congress early in Janu ary. It is said to definitely determine | the sovereignty of the Panama Canal {Zone. Another provision is that the i United States shall not set up com | mercial establishments in the Canal | Zone to compete with the commerce of Panam |CRISIS IN EGYPT FEARED DUE TO SLUMP IN COTTON Ministerial Body in Heated Debate Over Proposal for Government to Enter Market. | B the Associated P LONDON, Decemper 14.—A dispateh to Mail from Cairo, Egypt, i in cotton threatens a | min ial crisis, The correspondent says there was a { four-hour heated débate in the cham ber Monday regarding the suggestion | that the government enter the cotton market. He adds he understands that the cabinet is against the suggestion. but that a majority of the members of the chamber favor it. The session was adjourned until Wednesday. and meantime the cabinet is to make a final decision. ERUPTE)E P;EDICTED. Tons of Water in Vesuvius Crater Lead to Dire Forecasts. NAPL December 14 (P).—-An- other serious eruption of Mount Vesuvius is predicted, in consequence of the recent rains. Tons of water have gathered in the crater within the last few days. R —— | | | 1 i i | uakes Shake Java. BATAVIA, Java, December 14 (). — A number of native dwellings were destroyed and 17 homes of Europeans at Proepoel were damaged when 19 temblors last night shook the neigh- borhood of Tegel, on the northern coast of Java. Only one person is re- ported to have been injured. Radio Programs—Page 38