Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy and colder tonight; minimum temperature hbout eighteen tomorrow partly cloudy and colder. (U, ‘Temperatures—] yesterday; lowest, Full report on Closing N.Y. Mark degrees; Highest, 47, at 2 pm. 36, at 8 a.m. today. page 2. ets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 30,608. post office, HAVANA DELEGATES READY T0 CONFIRM ARBITRATION - PACT Hughes Expresses Pleasure at Action for Friendly Ending of Disputes. LAST-MINUTE PROPOSALS RUSHED TO COMPLETION Congress Prepares to Finish Its Labors Before Next Monday. 3 aciated Press. February 18—One of the happiest days in the life of Cbarles Evans Hughes was followed today by the summoning of a plenary session of the Pan-American Congress to put into effect a plan for the pacific settlement of inter-American disputes. Suggestions of Mr. Hughes and others were speedily put into the form of a report flatly indorsing compulsory ar-| bitration by the committee on public international law. The report was in- dorsed unanimously and delegates said today they were sure of its ratification by the plenary session. Entered as second class matter Washington, ANTI-U. S. MOVES SMOTHERED IN HAVANA DELEGATES' DEBATE D. C. Attacks on “Colossus BY WILLIAM HARD. Bv Cable to The Star and Chicaco Daily ews. Copyright. 1028, HAVANA, February 18.—This Sixth International Conference of American States today could look back and ob- serve that it had come to one of the | most amazing and almost one of the most laughable cnds in the history of international gatherings. Beginning with a world looking on to see the United States fought to its face by an aroused and indignant Latin America, it ended its serious labors last night, hot, wearied and indifferent, without one single ounce of fight ap- parently left i even one Latin Amer- ican delegate. The “Coiossus of the North” had not been in the siightest way tamed. The “Colossus of the North" had not been | even rebuked. It had not been checked |in any way at all. Subcommittee Report. Yet not one Latin delegate rose to say one word more and many Latin American delegates rose to say publicly and privately that it all was & very happy ending. How to explain such an extraordinary | outcome? The explanation is said to be the accepted report of the subcommittee on arbitration which in its preamble (which has no legal binding value at all) declares against war in general terms, and then “resolves” (again without any legal hinding value) in favor of the | | @h WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ FLoening Shar. in Washington service. The only evening paper with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,385 -THI RTY-TWO PAGES. of North" Lose Force Under Clever Defense of Hughes and His Associates. disputes, and calls for a new quick conference at Washington to fralx'ne a treaty to embody “this principle. But our so-called Root arbitration treaties, which we have been signing for “this principle” of the obligatory arbi- tration of “juridical” disputes, that is, of disputes of a legal nature. There is 1o advance up to this peint. The advance, if it ever comes, will come later. It will come possibly through the one novelty in the accepted report—a novelty devised by the deeply learned and highly ingenious jurist of Brazil, Dr. Raoul Fernandes, head of the Brazilian delegation. To the new arbitration treaty to be formulated and adopted at Washington there is to be attached a so-called “protocol,” to be entitled a “protocol of progressive arbitration.” Into this protocol, from time to tim when the spirit moves and if & moves, |each State will depoc't the names of the additional topics on which it has accept arbitration. Remote Prospect Offered. For this remote prospect. our Latin- American critics in the conference sur- rendered in silence all their immediate plans for a Pan-American Court of In- diate plans for obligatory arbitration— 20 years, are already an embodiment of | made up its mind that it is willing to ternational Justice, and all their imme- | EIGHT ARE MISSING FROM FERRYBOAT; 15 DIE IN DISASTER Rush-Hour Commuters on Crowded Vessel Plunged Into San Francisco Bay. \WOMEN IN PANIC AS WATER COVERS DECK Sccres Rescued in Series of Ma- rine Mishaps—Leviathan Runs Aground at Southampton. I By the Associated Press. At least eight persons are missing to- day of 30 to 100 commuters plunged from the deck of the ferryboat Peralta into San Francisco Bay. The death toll from an unlucky Friday at sea in which five ships figured emed to have been confined to 15 men. After 26 hours on the open sea in life | boats, 21 members of the crew of the (#) Means Associated Press. 0 TWO CENTS. ONGRESS COURSE 5 HELD OPPLSED AT WHTE HOLSE | Policy at Capitol on Taxes, | Farm Aid and Flood Con- trol Assailed. PRESIDENT OBJECTS TO EQUALIZATION FEE Bear Part of Cost of Mis- sissippi Program. t Coolidze is out of sympathy relief the chances for ta: ically endangered. He feels that the two houses have been too liberal in appro eral funds and that as a res duction is correspondingly remote. has noted that in addition to the H and not merely of legal questions, but of | American tank steamer Chuky were all questions. For this remote prospect | landed on the Japanese coast by fisher- g‘:hyo :ccepfld,dw}thout !deh:let.h and men. Their captain and 14 comrades ut one word of resentment, the re- | pers| i Bew i pactjof the subcommittee on thterven- | PThc ot Leviatnan. entering South- tion. which said that no agreement on | ampton, stuck on a sandbank and dock- WHAT A DIFFERENCE JUST FOUR YEARS MAKE! |Borah to Drop The report calls for the summoning | lega of an ~arbitration conciliation confer- |obligatory _arbitration of _“juridical” (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) ence” in Washington within the next | can arbitration convention. Botivia Wins Contention. Delegates to the conference will be furists with plenipotentiary powers, au- BUAI- INuU'RERS i thorized 10 sign whatever pact the con- Couzens Declines to Serve on ference may evolve. Mr. Hughes, telling his Latin Ameri- “Hippodrome” Which Will Visit Field. can colleagues of his satisfaction in witnessing the happy culmination of efforts to advance the cause of peace, said, ~I count this one of the happiest days of my life.” The Bolivian delegation yesterday won its pleas for approval of the prin- ciple that arms be allowed transit into that country through neutral territory in time of war. This conference, he pngfid oul& % agreed upon definite principles an reached a unanimous accord on the Recessity for arbitration of disputes be- tween the nations of the world. The mflmnoemwdafly Was = N i ot sl pending repo! recomme e ns through as many plenary xl]:-:lflbh to finish on schedule Mon- - o Chairman Watson of the interstate llectual co-operation. | private m.fin:nu'f,w law and public | commerce committee announced to- mwmnflmflhwmmdy(orwy'sldly that the other members would be pienary session. | Senatars Couzens of Michigan and Sunday morning and afternoon ple- ; Metcalf of Rhode Island, Republicans, m:‘:;rmmuwa ;mawhoelero(llmunlmdm of New York, Democrats. purely formal nature. { dfiwo?mumwcscat’udeu-m' mucflmem made pians to leave ‘Tues- e u‘:H Dr. Leo S. By the Associated Press. Senator Gooding of Idaho is to head | the Senate subcommittee which will go into the Pennsylvania coal strike dis- | trict for a first-hand picture before the imvesugntmn of the situation in the central bituminous field is put under way. ! lea will not leave un' going to New York by boa! Dr. Honorio Pueyrredon turn to Buenos Argentine April. passador to Wi :flm Argentine delegation at Havana, Dr. Pueyrredon plans 1 lzave for Y;:“x!:\; winding up his March 24, when he Wi home. Women Given Recognition. Some measure of success has been acrieved at the Pan-American Confer- e by the feminist lobby, headed by ders of the United States National Woman's Party, who are rejoicing over ceruainty of internatiional recogni- tion of their cause. In a report delivered yesterday, 2 subcommitte on the status of women communicated to the conference com- mittee on private international law the 1ext of a resolution advocating the con- stitution of an inter-American commit- 1e¢ of women. This group, 0 be com- poted of seven members, which number i v be increased until each of the 21 republics is represented by one member, 341 be charged with the preparation of information deemed desirable. w‘emble the Beventh Pan-American Conference 1 take up the study of civil and polit- ical equality of women Wwith men in the American countries. he recommen catd will go for approval before Sat urday’s plenary session. MEDINA CONGEATULATED. uld embark for Bolivian Minister's Arms Stand Ap- proved at Havana. By the Associsted Press The Bolivian Minister in Wash wn, Dr. Diez de Medina, has rec & cablegram from the Bolivian de tion w the Pan-American Cong ng him upo eclaration embody 1 e ume ning- ved ted W reok eulral Verritory TWO GIRLS KILLED AS PLANE CRASHES Mother of One Sees Accident. | Craft Bursts Into Flames. Pilot Escapes. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, S. C., February 18.— Alma Hope and Mildred Rogers, 17- year-old Columbia school girls, were bumed to death today when the air- plane in which they were making their first flight burst into flames after crash- | ing into a railroad floodlight tower at the edge of the city. Don Diegel, pilot. escaped from the | burning plane and was taken to a hos- pital here, where it was said he was badly injured, though not necessarily in danger of his life. Advised Against Flight. The two girls were said to have been | advised by Diegel and also by Dr. C. A.| Bunch of Cheraw, one of the owners of | the plane, not to go up this morning, | because of unfavorable weather con- the | ditions. They had all motored out to " L jon the committee.” Chairman Watson moved around the | Couzens sat and undertook to change i the mind of the Michigan member. “I'm not going to serve,” Couzens said flatly. “I'm not going out on any circus performance. If the others want |to do so and have their pictures taken, {all right, but I'm not going to.” | Watson told Couzens he would use | further persuasion on him later, but | the Michigan member assured him it | would be a wasted effort. | ' The committee then went ahead with | its public hearings on the renomination jof John J. Esch of Wisconsin to be a ,member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 'THREE MORE ENTER | OHIO PRIMARY FIGHT | Lowden, Curtis and Watson Au- thorize Use of Names as Second Choice to Willis. | | By the Associated Press, | COLUMBUS, Ohio, Pebruary 18— | Three more presidential candidates | were brought into the Ohio fight be- {tween Senator Prank B. Willls and Beeretary Herbert Hoover for control |of the Btate's delegation today. Former Gov. Prank O. Lowden of | Dlingis, Benator Charles Curtis of Kan- sar and Benator James E. Watson of Indiana have authorized Willis candi- dates for delegates to name them as | their second cholce, Willls headquarters | ounced. ‘These written consents al- y have been received, it 1s stated. peaking on behalf of Senator Willls in announcing entrance of Curtls, Low- den and Watson into the Ohlo fight, | |Ch 5 A Jones, the Benator's private retary, said this was “absolutely” in with the Senator’s stand from the " beginning o permit his delegates o pledge their second cholce to sny other “ | candidate they wish, among ditions in the dor Pueyrredon for U bis aevern tarift var- riers ut in Havens would g peign argum restriction: sy VAT stand 5 prowes i sment through Congress | © w wirong cam- | Lok Americas Hnpor | g, we Assodated Press, U Argentine mest snd | e grievance | He declared that Secretary Hoover's | managers had demanded that all Willls deleyates pledge thelr second cholce ! Becretary Hoover, but that “no power where the plane was kept, accompanied by the motner of Miss Rogers and sev- eral friends. ‘Yielding to the pleading of the girls, Diegel agreed to take them up for a short trip. They flew over a part of Columbia, and in making a circle back toward the starting point they came over the Southern Rallway freight yards at Andrews, a suburb. A sudden gust of wind swept the plane against a 100-foot flooalight tower and, according to eyewlitnesses, a wing crumpled, the plane fell nose first to the ground and immediately burst into flames. ‘The bodies of the girls were burned beyond recognition. Diegel was bleeding | from the nose and mouth as he crawled from the wreckage an instant after the lene struck. From the landing ficld a If-mile away. the party, including Mrs. Rogers, saw the erash and imme- diately started by automobile to go to the scene. She was stopped on the way, however, and was sent to the hospital. Pilot Disclaims Blame. Mrs. Rogers is a widow. She has one child surviving, a son named Robert “It wasn't my fault; I begged them not to go up this morning” Diegel cried repeatedly from his bed in the hospital. EDITH CAVELL MOVIE NEW YORK, February 18.—The Brit- ieh motion picture “Dawn,” deplcting the career of Edith Cavell, executed by the Germans in Belglum. is threatened with trouble in this country. Announce- ment has been made by Arch Selwyn that he has bought the American rights W the picture. The Berlin foreign office made an official protest against the showing of the picture in England and James W erard, former Ambussador o Ger- many, threatens court action If an at- tempt is made to show it here. It has been barred in England. Mr. Gerard said he would do every- thing i his power o prevent its p entation, “applying il necessary to courts for an injunction on the ground that such exhibitions would be con- trary to public policy.” - . Baroness Von Maltzan Killed. BERLIN, February 18 (#) — Baroness Anna von Maltzan, a kinswoman of the o esrth eould have compelled some of | late German Ambassador at Washing- th ielr second cnoice.” Willis delegates Lo make Hoover | ton, was killed by an automobile in Ber- | lin yesterduy. Ehe was 17 years old Arm;Aviat;:'Mjakrcs Map From Air BAN ANTONIO, Tex., Pebrusry 18— Provgrephs for one of the largest € the Argentine gov- | werial maps sttempted In this country “imn- | have been completed by Master Sergl | ¢ cleimed Cal Dahlgren of the Army Alr Corps ) justified et g more than 8006 square miles of |0t % doks wcoept U spection of some the bigi 1w st iop (Contwued ou Page 2, Colums 64 e devoted five months W photograph- territory along the Mexican border for the Iubernstional Water Commission Wihen assembled the map will by el ws Uhe basis for drawing Lresties thiough which It is hoped o speed | vork on severa) lurge Wrrigation and 1| power projects ) The All-Ameridua cansl, Arizona o Caliturnia, the Lagunas Dus L Arious, In 145 Months Less Than by Old Method the Boulder Canyon project and the Imperial Valley, Californla, irrigation project are among the important de- | velopments that will hinge upon the | mup. Dahlgren made 1,700 exposures with camera, which gives the impression of depth Lo pictures s obtained with the sLereoscop Each film contalns @ series of picty showing n strip of Lerntory six mil long by one and one-h miles wide. With the old il neras, Dahl- gren suid, 15 months might have been required to make the survey und 160 monthis would have been needed to oh- tain the same data by the old ground surveys, A | grounded near Liverpool. the State fair grounds landing field.| FACES TROUBLE IN U. S.| fd' apparently undamaged, four hours ate. The British tank steamer Varand The' captain and crew of 40 were rescued, but the ship remained a fire hazard. Thirty-eight members of the crew of the British freighter Shonga were res- cued today after clinging throughout the night to the fore part of the ship, which broke in two near Ymuiden, Holland. After a series of mishaps in which three men were injured the British tanker Lucigen made Glascow in tow. 30 TO 100 SWEPT FROM FERRY. Police and Rescuers Seck Missing San Francisco Commuters. SAN FRANCISCO, February 18 (#). At least 8 persons were missing today when police and rescuers checked their reports in an effort to ascertain the { number of casualties in the accident to the ferryboat Peralta, from whose decks an unknown number of pas- sengers were swept into San Francisco Bay. Revised figures showed-that 8 per- sons believed to have been on the boat last night when her passenger-laden prow dipped into the bay, today had failed to return to their homes. The number of passengers swept into the water was undetermined and investi- gators were without any means of checking. Estimates of passenyers were that from 30 to 100 persons were plunged overboard. The official list showed 17 had been rescued. Search of the bay up to daybreak failed to reveal any bodies. What caused submerging of the for- ward part of the boat as she sped toward Oakland with a heavy load of commuters during the evening rush | hour likewise remained undetermined. Persons Reported Missing. A revised list of persons believed miss- ing was compiled by the police today as follows: J. W. Collins of Oakland, Hugh Find- lay, trade journal editor of Berkeley; Tyrell, Lewis Kean of Oakland, W. Sayre of Oakland, Bert Langrer of Oak- land, Walter Foley of Oakland and an unidentified negro woman. The mate of the Hayward, whose lifeboats figured in the rescue work, de- clared he saw a small boy washed over- board and that the lad disappeared quickly beneath the waves. Loaded With Commuters. ‘The all-steel boat, almost a city block in length, equipped with all the modern safety appliances and capable of carry- ing 4.000 persons, was headed for Oak- Jand with a heavy load of East Bay commuters during the rush hour last night when the accident occurred. Homeward bound after a day's work, a large number of the passengers had gathered in the forward section, anx- jous to be the first ashore and aboard interurban trains waiting at the Oak- land mole Island. THIRTEENTH STREET WIDENING PLANNED Work, Postponed by Protests, Will Get Under Way Next Month. The work of widening Thirteenth street from 1 street to Massachusetts | avenue, which was postponed last year {85 a result of vigorous protests against | the accompanying destruction of the | beautiful shade trees which line the | thoroughfare, will be undertaken next , it was announced today at the District Bullding. ‘This seetion of Thirteenth street will be widened to 70 feet o e width between 1 street vania avenue, Fifteen feet will be re- moved from each side, us the street 15 now 40-feet wide. It 15 estimated that the work will cost $70,000. Seventy-two beautiful Norway maples, soms of them more than 40 4 old, will be cut down 1e widening of the section between 1 street and Massachuselts avenue, ac- cording to officlals of the Highway De- purtment, will eliminate the bottle-neck which was created when the lower section of Thirteenth street was widen- ©d several years ago MAY CALL ELECTION. Jugoslavia Makes Five Futile Ef- forts to Form Cabinet, BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, February 18 (A" After five fullle efforts within the past fortnight to form a eabinet, Jugo- slavis sl 1s without & government to succeed the Voukitcheviteh mintstry, In political circles 1t generally 18 feit that the only solution appears to be dissolution of Parllament and new gen- eral elections, Radio Vl'ruur:lml;l’ule 2 HOME OF CHIGAGO JUDGE S BOMBED iSecond Blast Damages Ga- rage—Defiance and Gang Warfare Are Blamed. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 18.—Dynamite bombs, silent for three weeks, ripped their way through two buildings in sep- arate parts of the city last night. ‘The home and undertaking establish- ment of Municipal Judge John A. Sbar- baro on North Wells street was bombed almost at the same time that a blast tore away a portion of the Century Garage on West Harrison street—a place frowned upon by police and Fed- eral agents as a gangster hangout. Coming less than a month after bomb attacks against the homes of City Controller Charles Pitzmorris and Dr. Willlam Reld, both of whom are close allfes of Mayor Thompson, the bombing of Judge Sbarbaro’s home and business place was looked upon by police as an- other deflance of the administration for its war upon organised crime. ‘The Century Garage bombing puzzled police, although they were agreed the motive undoubtedly was rooted in gang rivalry. It was in front of this garage last Tuesday that Isadore (Nigger) Goldberg, known as a strong-arm man for a vice and gambling syndicate, was shot down and fatally wounded. None Hurt in Bombing. No one was hurt at either place, al- though Judge and Mrs. Sbarbaro, oc- cupying the third floor of the Wells street building, were thrown from bed by the force of the explosion. Windows two blocks away were shattered. ‘The bomb had been placed near the front entrance. When it exploded it wrecked the richly furnished funeral chapel, which takes up much of the first floor. It was from this chapel sev- eral years ago that the gun-guarded casket of Dion O'Banion, florist-gang- strangest funerals Chicago ever had seen. The same chapel served for the funeral of Vincent (Schemer) Drucci, who, like O'Banion, fell before the bul- lets of gang vengeance. Judge Sbarbaro, who estimated his bomb dat at $10,000, was unable to offer a motive. He doubted that poli- tics had any connection. He suggested that stiff penalties imposed recently in his court In an effort to break up gam- bling may have been responsible, Anonymous Threat Phoned. ‘The police learned that Judge Sbar- baro received an anonymous telephone threat Wednesday against his life. Threats also had been'made to Frank Lauer, owner of the Century (hmfv. Lauer said that he had received a tele- phone call in which the voice at the other end of the wire had said: “If ‘Nigger’ Goldberg dles, your joint will be blown up.” Goldberg died early yesterday. ‘The warning was relayed to police, who stationed four officers at the ga- rage. The policemen were on duty near the front of the building when the ex- plosion knocked over the rear wall, de- molished ong section and damaged su rounding places. One patrolman w | knocked down by the force of the ex- | plosion, but uninjured. THREE NAME HOOVER AS PARTY'S CHOICE White House Callers Declare Sec- retary's Popularity Is Growing. ‘There was no doubt In the minds of three of President Coolidge's callers at the White House today about Herbert Hoovér landing the Republican nomina- tion for President. Representative Fort of New Jersey is convinced that Mr. Hoover will have the solid vote of the 31 delegates from New Jersey to the Republican national convention, and according to him the sentiment in that State s so strong that the head of the Commerce Depart- ment will carry it by an overwhelming vote in November, Former Senator OCalder of Brooklyn, N, Y., sald that there Is conslderable Hoover sentiment in Greater New York as well as upstate, and that while the New York delegation to the convention will be uninstructed, & majority of them will be for Mr. Hoover. Mark Requa, oll _engineer of Oalifornia, sald that California 18 absolutely sate for Hoover and that the latter's popularity s wide- apread through tha Westy ster, was taken in one of the costliest, | Resolution for I Nicaragua Probe By the Associated P; Chairman Borah of the Senate foreign relations committee has de- cided against pressing his resolution for an investigation as to the use of American naval and marine forces in Nicaragua. His decision was made known to- day after Maj. Gen. Lejeune, com- mandant of the Marine Corps, had spent more than an hour with the committee, detailing conditions in Nicaragua as he found them during a recent trip of inspection of the 3.500 Marines now in that country. “I thifk we have more informa- tion as to the use of the American forces than we could have obtained by a public inquiry,” the Idaho Sen- ator saif d. ———— FLEHARTY 10 FIGHT CAR MERGER PLAN People’s Counsel Will Join With Committee of Citi- zens’ Federation. Ralph B. Fleharty, people's counsel before the Public Utilities Commission, announced today that he would join the public utilities committee of the Fed- eration of Citizens’ Associations in its proposed fight against the adoption of the street car merger agreement in its present form. Mr. Fleharty’s announcement followed a prolonged conference with William A. Roberts, vice chairman of the federa- tion's utilities committee, at which the agreement were discussed in detail The people’s counsel said he would “go along with the committee.” in its objections on all of the points with the exception of two. These two are the proposals by the committee that pro- ment for the establishment of a labor policy, and a half fare for school chil- dren. Mr. Fleharty sald that he has not definitely made up his mind. however, on the proposal to grant school chil- dren the half fare. While he approves qof a lower fare for school children, he said that a half-fare probably would cut too deep- iy into earnings of the consolidated company. The committee's proposed pian of yaerger, which was reported to the fed- eration at its last meeting by Mr. Rob- erts, and referred to the constituent bodies for consideration, will be dis- cussed at the federation's regular meet- ing tonight, as well as the committee’s objections to the company's plan. ARMY AIRMAN KILLED. Adjutant of Kelly Field Dies as His Plane Crashes. GORMAN, Tex., February 18 (9.~ | Capt. W. M. Randolph, 35, adjutant of Kelly Fleld, San Antonio, was instantly 'killed near here last night when his !plane nose-dived and crashed to the \51'[‘:!;1\6 after a take-off in a high north | wind, | Randolph served as a second lleuten- | ant of Infantry during the war and en- |tered the air service in 1920, {turned from a tour of duty in Panama |SIX months ago to becomo adjutant of the Advanced Flying Schoal at Kelly PFleld. He is survived by a widow and { three children. Warden Says. By the Assoclated Pross. Five hundred convicts in the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentlary at Pittsburgh shoot marbles for exercise because there is no prison industry, Warden Oscar R. Lee of the Wisconsin State Prison testified today before the House labor committee, “In the Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennaylvania at Philadelphia the idle ecanviets shoot oraps and play foot ball for exercise.” he asserted, “and there are actually holdups i the prison ™ In opposing the Cooper bill, which would ban prison-made goods unless labeled as such from interstate come merce, he charged that there was idles Ness AMONg convicts of the State pents tentiaries of New York, Ohto and Fenns aylvania, which have industries that only manufacture goods for State in- sttutions’ use. { visions be written into the merger agree- | He re- ! Convicts Sho;)t Marbles for | LETTERS 10 JUDGE SHOW DISCREPANCY Senate Bydy Holds Hearing| on Disniissal of Baking i Firm Complaint. By the Associated Press. | The inadvertent filing of an unsent | letter is given by Abram F. Myers of | the Federal Trade Commission. as the | reason the copy of a letter, which he | | gave a Senate judiciary committee dif- | fers widely from one sent to Federal | Judge Morris A. Soper of Baltimore, in | connection with the judge's dismissal | of a Clayton act complaint against the | Continental Baking Co. At a previous hearing of the sub- committee in its inquiry into entry of a | consent dissolution decree against the ‘Ward Food Products Co., Myers filed a copy of a letter to support his conten- | tian that he had advised Judge Soper | that upon entry of the decree, the com- | mission would dismiss its own complaint | Wum the munennx. The copy was | q unlike original present - ! ferday by Judge Soper. ho appearcd | a: mo;nmm:xest to answer criticism lee’s majority his handling of the mns"zcm 'dm"mrc‘asi{ i Carbon Copy Shown. | The carbon copy given the committee by Myers declared that in his presenta- tion of the case to Judge Soper in court, he had informed him that w! ! the decree was entered and the Clay- | ton act complaint against the Conti-! nental, filed in District Court at Balti- | more, was dismissed, the commission -hen would dismiss its complaint against the company. The letter presented yes-{ terday by Soper did not contain this, statement. The consent decree merely the complaint filed in court in view of | the similar complaint before the com- mission. but makes no mention of the i contemplated by the commission. The discrepancy between the two {letters brought from Chairman Borah |of the committee the statement that: “not only lying, but forgery" appeared | involved. He said Myers would be called |before the committee next week an that if his explanation was not satis- factory. the committee would act fur- | ther but he did not go into details. Rewrote His Letter. Inastatement last night Myers explai | ed thas he had thought b hed sovtnd Judge Soper in argument on the case that the Continental complaint was to be dismissed. and had so written but later thought it prodable th he had not reached that pointo in his ar- gument when the judge took the case jout of counsel’s hands. |, Myers said he then rewrote his to Judge Soper and in his | before the Senate committee. b | he filed a copy of the first and letter, instead of the rewritten let This was done, he said. v sheer ac- | cident and not by design” He added that he would be glad to appear fore the committee next week, p | ing not to “mince words in deal its treatment of men in conne this matter.” ion with Commercial "Spyi‘r‘VScmemed. | DUSSELLDORF. QGermany. February {18 (M. —Guido Meisel, Americ {15t of Portsmouth, N. H., today was sen- {tenced to one year's imprisa A fine of 5,000 marks on changes of ¢ mercial esplonage in seeking to ob | German chemical and dye secrets Labor Lockout Threatened. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN. jruary 18 (P —The [ has notified its emplo | will become effective | Agrecment 18 reached in 1 The order affects $200 emploves | v that & heko february Exercise. in Prison Labor Plea He declared that in the Ohio prison 300 convicts march around A cirele | every day for several hours' esercis- | ing and that they have worn & sunken path several fnches deep in this evel clse. Far much of the day the pris. oners in this penitentiary st adout i fdleness, he asserted “In the Sing Siwy [York there ate 1600 convicls aitting fabout idie he said “On one vist {there T tound the conviets afing i the vard While free labarers were building ja wall about the peattentiary ” In prison indusivies, where the goods lare placed on the public warket the convicts are taught to do & full days wark, he sald But i the prisans where only State goods are made the Prisoners are not instructed o do woerk | and are handicapped when they seek | freed, omployment after they are Prisan i New 000,000 increase in the proposed tax curtailment voted by the House, C¢ gress has added $8,000,000 to the thought necessary, and has doubled Shipping Board appropriation. Tax Bill Dormant. The tax bill is now lying dormar the Senate, where TS have it away to await additional rev formation with the March n: There have been administration warn- | ings that too great reduction would be | worse than none at all, and only recent- ly Representative Garner of Texas, ranking Democrat on the House ways and means committee, predicted that there would be no reduction this year. he flood control bill given to the House by its flood committee does not meet the President's desires because it provides that the Government bear entire expense of protecting the Missis. Sippi Valley. Mr. Coolidge clings to his belief that communities concerned should pay a part, and he is considering designation of a special committee to’ determine just how much those could contribute toward the s Congress cannot obtain that informa- tion itself. Bill “Too Ambitious.” In the meantime, he thinks initial appropriations should be made so that the work can be begun, bu: he believes that the area to be controlled clude o%lbye that affected by flood. resent House bil ‘s%"mm&m bill, he feels, e farm relief bill recently approved by the Senate lznm.‘nxnlw‘ with _its equhnxmu fee, draws from same ob; prompled. him 1o “vedd Sactsear tos McNary-Haugen bill. In his ve sage he selecied the fee as the oakum farm relief discussion here and OFFICIALS BEWILDERED BY MAN'S “CONFESSION" Trace Second Mur Prisoner Admits on Way to Death Chair, Unable to murder of an nsy committee’s 10 objections to the merger |dismissal action which Myers said was | 2ich informatio Was confessed yes lin, ne as he wer the elec for . [ farce: ex m covered ords, sue BODIES OF 3 CHILDREN. Girls Sent to Store Had Stopped to Play in Cave. Excava- tions Reveal. By e Assoct o and polve FLYER FORCED DOWN. v Pilot Adandoms Trip for Time During Snowstorm WASHINGTON. Pa. Fedruary 18 (& Mnited States Army POOE Liewt. Rars Dayton, Oh o Rirs ade A forved andmg e Vesteniy duiing & He had atiempied M al Unibaiowa, A op feN mingham, Al near Beat heavy o wach the fy but W when the storm The plane was not damagedt Haruett it the plane and contiwed his 4 W Unionown He said he would awitinue the Aght whea e weather taproves,