Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature tomorrow; lowest tonight about 32 degrees. Temperature—Highest, 40, at 4 pm. yesterday: lowest, 30. at 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. { Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 ch ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ng Shar. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers Sunday's Saturday's Circulation, Circulation, are printed. 102,630 113,150 —— Entered as second class ma; vost office, Washington, SIXBODIESINHULL - OF S4AREVIEWED BY INQUIRY BOARD Ail Men Died in Their Bunks, | Leaders Out to Eliminate Probers Report—Lieut. | ldleness—Ban Individual Fitch Identified. Wealth. No. 30,638. tter C. Soviet Form of Government| Is Likely to Endure, Dreiser Says. 5 . famous novelist and American _ Tragedy.’ h he ‘sets forth what appear to m the good and bad features of Soviet rule 1n Russia. He returned recently 11 ‘weeks_of obscrvation in that The Star presents this eeries n the conviction that there is deep pub- lic interest in_the Russian _situation, without in any way identifying iteelf With the opions expressed by the BY THEODORE DREISER. It is known that I am an incorrigible individualist, therefore opposed to com- ;munwlsxdn. yet lhsi- Soviet government | wanted me to visit Russia as an inves- | March 19.—The bodies of | tigator; and I accepted the invitation | the six members of the crew of the g}f;er my terms had been agreed upon. | e G h By impris I ese terms were: | B ine B b e e o | 1. ‘Tiehould fhettree sto ichocee iny the torpedo compartment when the ves- | jtinerary and make my inquiry as it €=l was sunk by the Coast Guard de- isui(edxm;. Wite stroyer Paulding December 17 were | 2. 1 shou provided with a sec- | iy . it retary-interpreter wherever I k2 ¥iewed by a.naval boara of tovestigation | ™57 woiRd it e considerod rude to this afternoon after the submarine had | my government host if my study of been placed in the dry dock at the | Russia resulted in unfavorable conclu- yard. In the first three-quarters ' Sions. o Yook of fs examination the board | 4. I was under no obigation to pub- | NO WRITTEN MESSAGE DISCOVERED IN CRAFT| n Submarine Placed in Dry Dock ter Being Towed In From Sea. Telephone Taken Into Hulk. WRITER SEES RUSSIA ON WAY TO POWER IN WORLD ECONOMICS | that anybody could prepare a sound WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1928 ~THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. * THEODORE DREISER. Photo by Maurice Beck. ;)ctober 19. I returned only recently. spent altogether 11 weeks in Russia. My conclusions are deliberately ar- rived at, but it would be unfair to me and to the Soviet regime to assume and complete analysis of the most tre- mendous experiment ever conducted with a people after so brief a survey. But from what I saw and heard and sensed, I have been definite and cer- tain enough in my conclusions to agree to write a series of articles outlining my lound no message or other written rec- ©rd on board the craft. The board entered the submarine Kfly after 1 o'clock and three-quar- | of an hour later, one of its mem- ers stationed at a telephone inside the wessel sent up word of its progress. “He said the position of the six bodies dndicated that all the men had died in their bunks and that later their bodies bad been washed out. The body of Lieut. Graham Newell Fitch was lying under a work bench on the starboard side, just abaft of the torpedo tubes. It was identifed by his Naval Academy ring and Naval Academy sweater. ‘Three bodies were at the foot of a ladder and two in the after part of the torpedo room under bunks. All the bodies were covered with mud. No Shoes on Bodies. There were no shoes on any of the! < the tube doors were indicating that the men had made no attempt to escape through them. The torpedo-room door into the | room was tightly closed and » down and further wedged down with a ledd maul and a large door evidently ered over ‘wooden Navy Probers Scan Instruments for ! lish any report of wy trip, favorable | Study for the North American Newspa- { or unfavorable, I did not feel so in- | Per Alliance. This is the first article i clined. in the series. Thy *Z.s were graciously accepted I feel the Soviet form of government lis; (~"ac, and I sailed from New York (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) GERMANY FAVORS WIFE SAVES AGENT ANTFWARTREATY. FROM CONVICTS Berlin Waits on French Ap-/Shoots Prisoner After Attack proval of Secretary Kel- in Auto Caravan on Way logg’s Proposals. to Penitentiary. | | | { | i BY JOHN GUNTHER. | By the Associsted Press. | By Cable to The Star and Chicaxo Day| DEL RIO, Tex, March 19.—Effec- News. Copsright. 1928. | tive use of a six-shooter has enabled GENEVA, March 19.—Germany will | Mrs. R. 8. Cloud to rescue her husband | |sign any war outlawry agreement as| for the second time this Winter after | suggested by the United States the mo- | be had been overpowered by convicts { ment that France does, and hopes that | he Was escorting to the State peni- |the Prench reply to Secretary Kellogg | tentiary. due in Washington this week will form| How Mrs. Cloud, wife of a State {the basis of definite negotiations, ac- | penitentiary agent, probably saved her cording to information received by the | husband’s life Friday, was revealed correspondent today from official Ger-| When they arrived here yesterday en man quarters. route to the prison at Huntsville with { The Kellogg proposals are the real| 20 of 21 prisoners they were trans- | issue of the present disarmament con- | porting. | ference here, No one is paying much| Mrs. Cloud was driving one of the attention to the technical committee | Machines used to carry the {squabblings. Every one is awaiting| %hen the four men in her husband's { | car attacked him. The prisoners wih ko Sslerest the owoume of $he | ooty hud planned the sitadt acd Evidence of How Craft Sank. | pronco american exchange of notes. ‘ BY BEN McKELWAY. | $t28 Correspondent of Thbe Star, { German Viewpoint. BOSTON, Mass, March 19.—As the ! g waters of drydock No. 2 at the E:m: and is anxious for the rest of the world | XNziy Yard gradusly subsided {to disarm 8s soon as possible. Ehe | afiernoon and left unmm:zknn‘:;,mh m“mg‘“, mmfl\'a it ul B-4 standing sta | shadows disarmament must fim keel, supported by huge | precede it. If the United States and | Yirbers znd biocks, 2 Navy board of | Great Britain and the oth: eY POwers | sns | 5ig0 8 mutual outlawry , it snquzry, its members dressed In olskins| .y pe the most important step toward | and wearing gas masks, prepared 10yorid peace since America inspired the | enter the hull and search for the 5WrY | League of Nations. As far as Ger- | that may bave been left by some of the many is concerned, it would remove 45 men who met death when sea craft went Gown. % national relations. The story may Dot have been STIMED | G oy T Goes not see that the| The German viewpoint is as follows: | Germany already is a disarm {is the only real German fear in inter-| - | Cloud’s pistol and attempted to “he under- | forever the danger of blockade, Which | One waiied until the cars reached the arid| country near Marfa, when they seized | shoot | him. Finding he had removed the | ?e;‘t;i:nzes ;he }Tenhmxo;xxm with the. and when he produced a knife | they took it from him. % Leaps to Assistance. Her attention attracted by the shouts | of her husband, Mrs. Cloud leaped from her machine, spraining her ankle, As| she aproached Cloud’s car she opened | fire with a pistol on two of the men| %ho started to run. She wounded one | and he s;;r;ndered as did two others. esca The 14 men in the lead machine, a specially constructed truck, and the t | ferred to, that they have found cre-| | ‘n American life, yet to be mentioned 3 in Mrs. Cloud’s car, made no effort to on peper, with pencl or pen, DUl 2| American proposals are - incompatible | can be found in the readings of gauges. | with the League covenant. That is be- | the position of vaives, the bearing of | cause Germany has never accepted Ar- | the periscopes—the instruments which | ticle XVI as & political actuality. Ger- | were recording the details of the shiD’S | many feels that sanctions against an | progress across Massachusetts Bay OO | aggressor power, as provided in this| The zfternoon of December 17, when| article, can never actually be exerted. ! Comst Guaré destroyer Bpaulding Thus Germany does not agree with came om her, passed over her forward | Prance that League commitments make | tore a hole in her side and sent! the Kellogg scheme difficult to accept. the bottom. Germany feels xhla!hs‘:xr‘;amr Borah's i . compromise proposal si make nego- | Serk Written Evidence. 3 Tl Oroposal sy~ y of ber crew must have died e coming into play of the old nees if any power in the outlawry agreement breaks that sgreement, Germany applauds Secretary Kel- | Jogg's speech in which be advocated extending the scheme to small nations. Attitude of Powers. Germany feels that no formal con- ference would be necessary o make war outiawry a fact. It could be man- uged in an exchanged of notes, and as won 28 Germany s invited W vu.-de} enlisted men lived the crash, sending ps 1 the last proposals she will accept. » of the other powers represented here is guite s emphatic as Germany in favoring the Kellogg plan. Careful sounding shows that the Japanese are pernaps favorable, the Russians are in- | | terested, Italy is skeptical and that| Great Britain is hesitant, -gx:mvmg the plan in theory, but feeling that the time is not yet ripe for it. | Meanwhile, today's meeting of the | disarmament conference is what Ameri- | cans 1] a “showdown” 80 far the pregaraiory Gsarmament COmMmissYN window dressing and little Rustia and Germany are aris- | ¢ afternoon Vo demand action. | y wants v force a second read- | the last commission’s report, id be tantamount ¥ cailing | s general world disarmament confer- RUSSIAN URGES PEACE MOVE. Litvinoft Serks Support for Total | Disarmament. | GENEVA, March 19 '), —Maxim | noft, head of the Bovier delegation | © preparatory commitiee on dis- | rent, made 8 direct appeal v the wtion for support of the | sian proposals for immediate total | Tinament Yoay i uning v the propovals of Becretary | v Valigg for the outlawry of s Roussiun delegate declared that lebe Gisarmament was no more | Leult Vo Oobaln and was mote prace Ucal than efforts Y prohibit war # wust and e 30 tech- ion by experts. e searchers will oon will be mes- the psition of the e 19 Water has oronanly changed them . Forwere of s oonning ower tiw $4nch gun of the submsr twistet srount & les, snd the ralle e gun Geck WTn & of Lk G wetion whien e ing pesed over her. When tie Yowered still fertier \here cume it e gay prow of the Fireman Dies in Dersilment, JEBUP, Gu., March 19 worthound Kansas City Special was 3 e of & Bouthern Rallway switch ing turned end locked v as o wend rain onw w spur track, No pas- were hurt, but Fireman Aycure killed and Frank M. Parr. engl- neer, wat wcglded snd s [ mail clerk shightly hurt, & Low bouss, wie left by the ing when the s the -4 come Keel the suppor Brebes. oue by ol Seoniliiass v boss b Colikiis 49, ’ V) rest on her own 1 | out incident, ) ~The | led hiere todey ss 8 result, officials | The tiack wis cleared m‘ escape, As there were no guards with the caravan except the driver of the truck and the Clouds, they were unable to | start an immediate hunt for the pris- | oner who escaped. Fing her hus- | band only slightly injured, Mrs. Cloud | returmed 1o her car and they continued | rip Saved His Life Before. rs. Cloud was first credited ..th saving her husband’s life about two months ago, when they were transport- ing th: prisoners from a jail to the penitenitary at Huntsville. On this oc- casf the prisoners also selected the sparsely settled district near Marfa to | attark the Clouds. Cioud was overpowered, chained to a tree and was being beaten by the men when Mrs. Cloud entered the fray and | routed the trio, although the three es- | caped across the border into Mexico. They wiere later captured. ENGLISH WOMAN FLYER REACHES AUSTRALIA| Completes Longest Flight Ever Un- dertaken by One of Her Sex. { gested to the Republicans in 1923 that Left Croydon October 14. By the Assciated Prese PORT DARWIN, Australia, March 16.~The longest fiight ever undertaken | by & woman was completed here tday. | Mrs. Keith Miller and Capt. W. N.| Lancaster, flying a two-seater light plane, the Red Jose, arrived here from | Croydon, England, a fiight of 13,000 miles. The couple started from Eng- land October 14 and carried their lug- gage in two sufteases, . En route, they met with several mis- hans, the worst of which was at Mun- Wk, Banka Island, Dutch East Indies, | January 10, when the plane crashed. | Mrs. Miller's nos: was broken and Capt, | Lancaster's ip cut and it was doubtful fo. & time whether they could complete the flight | The plane was repaired, nowever, and | they covered the succeeding stages with- The fiyers intend to conunue to Byd- | ney, New Bouth Wales DELAYS HOP FROM SHIP. | Mildred Johnson 8till When Liner Docks. BREMERHAVEN, Germany, March | 19 (&)~ Mise Mildred Johnson of Phila- delphia, who ned planned to take off from the steamship Columbus when the Bner was several hundred miles out seq, arrived shoard the Columbus today, having been forced tw postpone the venture. Heavy seas and oflmflwn o her use of u Junkers airplane by Lufthanss Ahboard SIDDONS DENESALL CONNECTION WITH “MYSTERY" PARGEL Justice’s Statement Refutes Published Reports Involv- ing His Name. PACKAGE IS HELD SENT BY SINCLAIR INTERESTS Stories Follow Appearance of F. L. Siddons of Illinois Before Teapot Committee. By the Associated Press. Published reports revolving about a mysterious package said to have been addressed by Sinclair oil interests to “F. L. Siddons,” impelled Justice Fred- erick L. Siddons of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, formally to deny today that any attempt had been made to deliver any such package to him. Several of the proceedings growing out of the oil scandal have been heard before Justice Siddons, and it was he who sentenced Harry F. Sinclair to jail for contempt. The published stories grew out of the summoning of an F. L. Siddons of Washington, Ill, before the Senate Teapot Dome committee. This witness was said to have told the com- mittee behind closed doors on one occa- | slon that a package from a Sinclair company was addressed to him, but that he later was informed that it should be forwarded to Washington, D. C. He was supposed to go before the commit- tee publicly Saturday, but did not appear. Issues Statement. Asked today whether he had any comment to make, Justice Siddons is- sued this statement: “In reply to the request or suggestion of the Associated Press as to whether I desire to make a statement, I can only say that my attention was called yesterday to some publications appear- ing in the Baltimore Sun and the New York World of yesterday, in addition to the Associated Press article which appeared in yesterday's Star and the | Washington Post, and as well the state- ment that appeared in yesterday's Washington Herald. “These stories, if true, carry an im- plication or inference, it seems to me, reflecting upon me, and I can only say that I have never received any com- munication of any kind whatsoever from any source on such a subject, nor have I received nor has there been tendered at either my house or my office or any- where else a package of any kind, by | nrresl or otherwise, from the Sinclair Ol Co, or from any other source. “I have the most abiding confidence that the Senate committee engaged in the very important work of investigat- ing the so-called oil leases will make their investigation as thorough and complete as humanly possibly and that they will see to it that no injurious im- plications, presumptions, deductions or inferences injurious to the court or a member of it will receive their saction | without convincing evidence of their, truth. Nor can I, nor do I believe from | he published stories that I have re-| dence in the minds of the committee.” To Meet Wednesday. The Senate investigating committee will not meet until Wednesday. Mean- while it is expected to make far-reach- ing inquiry into reports it has received intimating that a high official or leader in the five years of investigation, was connected with the ofl cases in some questjonable manner. This new tack by the committee | probably will determine whether it will call the Illinois Siddons. Senator Nye, Republican, North Dakota, chairman of the Senate Teapot Dome committee, who, with Senator Norbeck, Republican, South Dakota, conducted the Chicago investigation, indicated in that city that Siddons was expected to tell a rather startling story. Last night in Baltimore, where Senator Nye stopped off en route to Washington to make & speech, the committee chair- man said: “If reports given to our committee are true, a name is involved that would be criminal to mention until further investigation of the basis of the charges is made.” The Teapot Dome committee has summoned to appear before it, Wednes- | day, Wilbur W. Marsh of Waterloo, | Iowa, who, it has been testified, sug- nefther they nor the Democrats which he represented make a report on con- | tributions for that year, since none was | required under the law. Marsh has denled this. | Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas, in a blanket attack on the entire Tea- pot Dome affair last night, asserted: tenness, 1 doubt pot 0LDS WILL RESIGN AS UNDERSECRETARY Diplomatic Official Denies He Will Accept Morgan Position, By the Associated Press, Robert E. Olds of Bt. Paul, Under- secretary of Btate, said today that he | intended to resign his post. At the same time he said reports that he was 1o take the place in the or- ganization of J. P. Morgan & Co. left vacant by the appointment of Dwight W. Morrow as Anibassador to Mexico were incorrect, Mr. Olds raid his resignation would be presented during the present year. He would not reveal his future plans, Becretary Kellogg authorized the fol- lowing statement: “Mr. Robert E. Olds, Undersecretary of Btate, expects to resign some time during the present year, but the date has not been fixed and it will not be immediately, Mr. Olds came to the department at my very earnest request. He came and has stayed at very great sacrifice, He has direct charge of many matters which are of very great im- portance and is of tremendous assist- ance to me. I want him to stay just as long us he can, but he is anxious to get away.” were given ab the reason for postponing the venture, Miss Johnuson plans o fiy Radio Program—Page 23 { rally. NORA BAYES DIES; LONG STAGE STAR Musical Comedy Actress,| Thought Recovering After | Operation, Had Relapse. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. March 19.—Nora Bayes, | musical comedy actress, died today in | a Brooklyn hospital. She was taken to the hospital last ' Monday for an abdominal operation. | She was thought to be on the road to| recovery when she suffered a relapse | last night, from which she did not| She wa: born in 1880. She was a/| star on the stage for more than 20| years, makinz her first appearance in vaudeville in New York. | The last appearance of Miss Bayes, | whose real name was Dora Goldberg, | only the day before she entered tl hospital, was to sing at two benefits, one for old friends among the poor | and one for crippled children. Her voice seemed as strong as evet! when her program at the Doyer Street | Mission, in Chinatown, sung for her | old friend, “Tom” Noonan, who car- lr’lyu on the Tre;cue ;:.lrlk' !Ila broadcast radio. ese an! l‘?)ell’lnm were typical of her disregard for failing health during the past two years. Leaves Brother and Sister. A statement given out by her family | gave the birthplace of Miss Bayes as | Los Angeles, Calif. A brother, who is | a jeweler, is a resident of that city, | while a sister lives in Chicago. ! Jennie Jacobs, business representative | of Miss Bayes for 14 years, revealed | that the actress had assisted many per- | sons quietly during her life and partic- ularly liked to aid children who lacked funds for their education. She said | that Miss Bayes had planned to appear | in Berlin in May, with a later appear- | ance in London. She is survived also by her husband, Benjamin L. Friedland, whom she ma ried three years ago on the steamship Leviathan, and by three adopted chil- dren. Four Other Divorees. Four earlier marriages of Miss Bayes had been dissolved by divorce. These husbands were Otto Gressing, Jack Nor- :‘ar:h, Harry Clarke and Arthur Gor- joni. After attaining vaudeville success in New York Miss Bayes made her London debut_at the Palace Theater in 1905. (Continu: y Page 4, Column 7.) | DEATH TOLL IN DAM | BREAK SET AT 449 Tractors Still Comb Silt for More| Bodies—Much of Debris Will Be Burned. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 19.—The total loss of life in the St. Francis Dam d! aster was computed today at 449 per- sons—272 known dead and 177 missing and belleved to have perished. While the search for the dead con- tinued, with an army of more than 100 motor tractors being used to tear through the big piles of debris, authori- ties in the stricken zone decided to con- fine their efforts only to reclaimable land. Debris on the unreclaimable area occupled by the old bed of the Santa Clara River will be burned. ‘The huge fires will serve as funeral pyres for an unknown number of the dead. Authoritles said it would be im- possible to put a large enough force at work to recover the bodies on the un- reclaimable land within a reasonable length of time and that with the avail- able organization the process would re- quire so much time that lhrdpurpose of secking them will be defeated. The State’s inquiry into the cause of the dam break was to open today. Many funerals, both }mhllc and private, also were arranged for the victims, EASTER FLOWERS BAN ASKED IN LABOR WAR Lender Would Have Chuiches Dis-| pense With Blooms as Result of Strike. By the Associated Press | CHICAGO, March 19.--"Please omit flowers” has become, for the nonce, a n of organized labor. John Fite- , president of the Chicago Labor ‘ederation, pronunced it at a union meeting yesterday. ‘There has been a difference of opinlon at one of the large hurserles, resulting in & strike of the Gardeners and Florists' Unfon, As a resuit Fitzpatrick asked union workers to demand that money they contribute to churches be not used to buy Easter fic wers, He requested also thst churches dispense with flowers for Kaster, | Man Keeps Friend Alive as Cave-in Buries Them Both By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 19.—The story of “the bravest deed of the year” was told at the annual meeting of the Royal Humane Society, when a gold medal was awarded to Ernest T. Johnson of Manchester. Johnson and David Inglis were working in a trench at Manchester. It was 16 feet deep and the subsoil was quicksands. Without warning the trench collapsed, burying and partially burying Johnson. Instead of trying to save himself, Johnson remained where he was and it constantly scraping the crum- earth away from Inglis' head so0 he could breathe and at the same time carrying the weight of earth that was pressing on his own body to prevent further collapse. Both ;err: rescued after eight hours’ ef- o - URGESUL.S. TOJOIN SOFT COAL PARLEY | gests General Conference () Means Associated Pr FOURUNGARIANS | White House Arrests, Led by Maj. Hesse, Include That of Woman. The police, under personal command |of Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, today arrest- ed four Hungarian pickets bearing | placards outside of the west gate of | the White House while members of the | Hungarian party, who recently arrived |in New York to participate in the un- veiling of a statue to their national hero, Kossuth, were about to be re- {ceived by President Coolidge. Benjamin Marsh, who, police said. |was with the picketers, was informed that he was unaer arrest also, and the | prisoners were taken to No. 3 precinct. The names of the picketers were given ? Hugo Geliert, Emery Balint, Camilla | Cinquegrana was. o only woman the lateral for their appearance in Police Court tomorrow. They are charged with violaton of article 11, section 3, SHIED ASPOETS Cinquegrana and Paul Telcs. Miss | The accused later posted $10 col- | TWO CENTS. 20000.S. WORKERS STORMHEARING ON SALARY RAISE BILL 20 Representatives Speak for Measure After Seeing Large Delegation. | FEDERAL EMPLOYES MARCH TO CAPITOL Woman Heads Procession to Urge Enactment of Welch Proposal to Increase Their Pay. Abandoning peaceful methods and House hearing on the Welch bill this morning and cheered for the measure that would raise their salaries an aver- age of $300 a year. It was the biggest delegation a com- mittee hearing has seen for years and it had its effect. Representatives whaq had no connection with the Lehlbach civil service committee stopped and lis- tened and then went in and spoke for the bill In fact, more than 20 of them announced emphatic support of the bill to establish a minimum salary of $1,500 and increases of $300 and $400 in the lower grades. The rooters were in two sections. There were those who came early and g |seats. There were a few hundred of those. But the real delegation was the disorganized, disheveled, disorderly army that Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell le2 in a march from the Peace Monunicn: | up to Capitol Hill Little Woman at Head. At its head was a little woman with a flushed face who didn't care a rap whether the Federation of Pederal Em- E.:t}'es thought she was | Pennsylvania Governor Sug- | of the United States park regulations, | around the north side of the Capitol | which prohibits the exhibition of signs | ¥inding up the hill in an unorganizec or posters. Mr. Marsh was technically | line, four abreast. The leaders wer: |charged and held for investigation, but | cTowded together, those behind sprea. released almost immediately. |out. Here and there were little groups The placards carried by the picketers, who were represented as being members | of the anti-Horthy League of America, read: “Hejjas a mass murderer,” “They dishonored Kossuth.” “Perenyi a Haps. burg lackey” and “They jailed Hatvan! to End Strike. By the Associated Pres HARRISBURG, Pa. March 19.—A' It was explained that these were aimed | conference of representatives from all | at members of the Hungarian delegation the bituminous producing States, labor, | ‘eceived today by President Coolidge. operators, public authority, both| Horthy Government Hit. branches of Congress and the executive | Shortly before the placard ‘ncident, a department of the Federal Government, | statement scoring the Horthy govern- to work out a means of settling the :fi‘;fllfl‘?‘?m&r; oulu';m‘ !\‘&&l‘iens “glen:; ;’:", ::lhe:'m“‘ was urged today bY| [iouce by Mr. Marsh, who ts known in | Washington as a representative of | Amplifying remarks made in rpeedmf various organizations ;:nd Irequent?y | in Easton and Scranton last week. the | appears before the committees of Con- | | walked alone, pushing a baby carriage All ages, classes and colarsb{m there The men and women seemed to b bout equally divided. and there wer Formation Disbanded. The head of the line crossed in fror of the Capito! while its end was st far down the hill, and when the lead | complaints governor sald that he did not believe it to be impossible to arrive at some plan covering the factors entering into the problem. Governor Cites Problems. “I understand.” he said, “that prior to the agreement on the Jacksonville scale (which the union miners are striking to maintain), there was a tacit understanding between the union lead- ers and many important operators that in the event of a disagreement, it would be submitted to a conciliation or me- diation board to be named by the President. “This plan had a precedent in the settlement of the wage dispute in the anthracite region during Roosevelt's administration.” The governor said there were three basic problems: Wages, the rate structure and the regulation of produc- tion. These problems, he said, attach to the entire Industry in its totality and constitute a problem for both the State and Nation’s consideration. “In production,” the governor said, “the national authority does not at- tach until the coal enters interstate traffic. But because the Interstate Commerce Commission can now regu- late all freight rates, whether inter or intrastate, the regulatory power neces- sarily attaches to all coal that goes on board. Jurisdiction of State. “The coal in the ground and all the processes of production fall within the Jjurisdiction of the State. It necessarily follows that to find a cure for the ills of the industry there must be co-opera- tive action between the States and the Federal Government. “It is not easy to discover a way for doing this. However, there ought to be some sort of a conference, repre- sentative of all States in the bituminous producing fields. including labor, pro- duction and public authority, as well as representation from the Congress and the executive department of the Fed- eral Government.” The freight rate question is purely a Pederal matter, the governor said. He added that so long as there are loud of discriminatory rates sanctioned by the Interstate Commerce ~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) gress in the interest of legislation. ers reached the entrance of the Hous | _ As the visiting delegates made_their | way to the executive offices at the! | White House, the pickets were observed | on the sidewalk immediately west of | executive mansion and the State De- partment. Photographers marshaled them for a photograph and had them walk south displaying their placards in deployed formation. Maj. Hesse, who had been sitting in one of the rooms of the executive offices awaiting the | arrival of the delegation, made his way out through the crowd that had gath- | ered at the gate and went in front of | the pickets and photographers, clapping his ds and motioning to a group of policemen to advance. ‘The pickets continued to walk sout! il who made numerous “shots™ of them and advanced without showing sign: of alarm as the police waiked up to | meet them. They were taken into cus-| tody and their placards confiscated b; the officers. = A paliceman: informed ) (Continued on Page 6, Column 3.) — 'HALF-HOLIDAY BILL | FAVORED IN SENATE A bill to give a half-holiday cn Satur- days throughout the year to laborers, | helpers, skilled and semi-skilled workers and mechanics in the Government service was reported favorably by the! Senate civil service committee today. Senator Brookhart, Republican, of |Towa, in making the report, asked | unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of the bill, but Majority Leader Curtis requested that it be placed on the calendar for considera- | tion in its regular turn. | The bill would apply to all of the| Government service except the Postal! Service and the Government Printing! Office. It contains. & provision that whenever ‘he public service prevents | granting the half-holiday these em-| ployes would be entitled to a portion of some other day. The bill was intro- | ducted by Senator Jones, Republican, of | Washington. i G;ges Use of. War-Ti Students in Practical Navigation‘ By the Assaclated Press A proposal that the idle Govern- ment war-time sl apu be turned over to high schools and colleges for voca- tional training in seamanship was made today by Representative Wood, Repub- lican, Indiana, in a statement present- ed to the House merchant marine com- mittee. Declaring that he would incorporate the plan as an amendment to his shi ping bill nox under consideration be- fore the jittee, he sald he could ot o of & better form of sal- /age of these old hulks.” me Ships to Train | | ‘The am“unx Board, under his pro- | posal, would be authorized to transfer | the vessels to “any State, county, munie- fpality or well recognized educational institution.” The graduates of the pro- posed training schools would be given service ratings for the merchant marine the White House grounds between the | " at the suggestion of the photographers, | § 'ADIRONDAC Office Building the stragglers had ju: gotten up the hill. Officers ordered th formation disbanded and the crowc rushed the doors, pushing in four at ¢ e. All was quiet and orderly in the com mittee room when the army stormed in. After that there was no order. Half a dozen officers were overrun and the crowd rushed in. In a few minutes thers Was no more room, not even to stand up. The corridors were still jammed The crowd was noisy but good humored Nevertheless it was determined. At 10:30, Chairman Lehlbach fought his way to a side door of the Hous: caucus room where the hearing was held, and velled to Luther C. Steward, president of the federation: “Mr. Stew- ard, will you tell these people that ess they clear a path so the comm tee can get into the room there wont be any hearing?" Mr. Stewart delivered the message and the committee squeezed in. Ofi cers of the federation entered, he crowd sent up a roar. Thereas: ter jthe crowd manifested its approval or disapproval of everything that was said and did it vociferously. There wers nearly as many people outside in the jcorridors_as were in_the room. and (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) K SECTION SHAKEN BY QUAKE Saranac Lake and Plattsburg Feel Tremor—Houses Are Rocked Violently. By the Associatad Press. ALBANY, N. Y, March 19.—Resi dents of northeastern New York to- day were recounting detatls of the earth shocks which yesterday jolted points as widely separated as Malone, Platts- burg and Lake George. The tremors were felt in Saranac Lake shortly after 10 o'clock Sunda; morning: Malone, 10:20: Lake r-und‘: 10:25; Plattsburg, 10:40, and Lake George and Warrensburg, 10:35, They were reported also as having been felt on the Canadian side the St Lawrence River, The tremor lasted soveral seconds tn maost of the towns, but Malone reported the disturbance continued for half a minute. It shook dishes from shelves and rocked houses so viclently at sev- eral points that residents fled into the streets. The disturbance was described as the most severe felt in the northeastern Adirondack section I several years Qeologists, at the time of Vious by the Shipping Board, he satd. Wood also proposed that in order to| determine & method of equalizing the | difference of ship construction costs be- | tween American and foreign shipyards | the Shl]btllnl Board should conduct an | investigation of the labor and materials ' Costs n foreign ahipyards, tremors, credited the quakes land slips underneath the mountains. The las* ng«\fl«l disturbance occured Feb- ruary 28. BRAWLEY, Calif, March 19 . — A th shoek which rattled dishes wasMlt here here at 3.30 o'clock this