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v A WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers with mild temperature to- day: considerably colder tonight: to- morrow fair and colder; moderate south- west shifting to west and northwest winds. Temperatures—Highest, 74, at 3 ay: lowest, 53, at 8 am, Full report on page 5. No. 1,235—No. VESTRIS OFFICERS HOPEFUL TILL END IN'SPITE OF LEAKS, TWO TELL PROBERS Water Poured Into Ship, They Admit, Though Pumps and Buckets Were Believed to Be Keeping Liner Afloat. CAPTAIN SO INFORMED JUST BEFORE DISASTER 30,882. Chief Engineer Adams Tells of Struggle in Boiler Room—First Officer Grilled on Failure to In- spect Coal Port Holes—Resume Hearing Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 17.— Sea water poured into the steamer Vestris through leaky ports and hatches for a day and a half be- fore the ship sank, the two senior surviving officers testified today, ‘but almost until the very end they thought she could be saved. The only witnesses at today’s session of the Federal inquiry into the disaster, which cost more than 100 lives, were First Officer Frank Johnson, a wind-bitten little mar- iner, who was making his first trip as second in command, and the Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. chief engineer, James Adams. After this testimony adjourn- ment was taken until 2 p.m. Mon- day. Before the hearing resumes the staff of United States Attor- ney Tattle, who is conducting the investigation, will go over prelim- inary statements they have taken from prospective witnesses. Contradicts Radio Men. Johnson flatly contradicted the pre- vious testimony of two wireless men from the Vestris and even took excep- tign to the accuracy of the last wireless report about the sinking ship sent by t. William J. Carey, who went down with his ill-fated command. Adams told of shi) t time had been lying almost on its side for filing with water. Both testified about ports and doors side of the ship that let water that the combined efforts pumps and a bucket w members could not keep Ship Lurched Heavily. 1t was also told how the ship lurched in a heavy sea and a part of the cargo, crated automobiles, went splintering through a wooden bulkhead into the crew’s quarters. Johnson was produced at the Federal Building by officials of the Lamport & Holt Line on request of Mr. Tuttle, after Department, of Justice agents had sought for him in vain for two days to serve him with a subpoena. He sat with crossed legs, and as the questioning went on and on he showed i flashes of irritation that raised his voice momentarily from the raspy imonotone he used for the bulk of his €estimony. Appointed Before Sailing. He told of being appointed second in ‘eommand just before the Vestris sailed and acknowledged to Tuttle that part of such an officer’s duty was to see to the proper securing of coal and cargo ports before the ship left its dock. Je sald that Sunday evening when the ship lurched heavily, he in- ted and said he found that a “half " near the bulkhead, 2 hinged open- ing in the side of the ship slightly larger than the coal ports and about the same distance from the water, was leaking. On one side of the door, he said, about as much water was coming in as is car- ried in a 2-inch pipe. He had men try to tighten up the bolts, which on this «oor were on the inside, but the door seemed to be sprung and the leak could { mot be stopped. Johnson said that the cargo that went through the bulkhead weighed about 15 tons, but that the shifting of this weight could not make the ship list. He agreed with Tuttle that water entering the ship was responsible for the list, which increased during Sunday night to about 30 degrees. Cannot Explain Sinking. ““You were first officer of the ship,” "Tuttle said. “Have you no explanation s 'fi what made it sink?” “No* “What time was this you heard ‘water between decks?” “I'm vague about that.” h,” said Tuttle, “are you going to be_vague about time, t00?” Yesterday the two wireless operators were unable to say at what time the 05 message was dispatched. Asked when he began to think the Mnailing of the ship with buckets to sup- plement the pumps ‘was useless, he re- plied that he “thought there was a chance 2ll along.” He said that in his opinion the chance of sinking did not ecome greater than those of staying afloat until noon Monday, two hours before the ship went down. At 4 o'clock Monday morning. he continued, he decided there was serious danger and went to the captain on the bridge and told him things looked se- rious. He said he did not urge the mending of a distress call then or at pny other time, leaving such a decision entirely to the judgment of the captain. ‘The captain, he added, never discussed the matter of an SOS with him. Only Six Boats Lowered. Whether the captain sent any mes- Beges to the line offices or to other ships before or after the SOS he did not know, he said. When the time came to Jaunch the lifeboats the first officer assigned members of the crew 1o the work, but only 6 of the 14 boats, he said. were lowered away when the Vestris sank. Chief Engineer Adams—a big, pon- derous man. slow-moving and slow- tograph shows the film of the Vestris. Witnesses said the e collision, which may account for the sinking of the ship. PANIG OF FIREMEN Colored Stokers Refused: Keep Up Steam, Version Sent to Britain. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 17.—The New York correspondent of Reuters, Ltd., the British news agency, sent to his home office in London today a dispatch which said that the Vestris sank be- cause the negro firemen refused to keep up steam in the boilers and that Capt. Carey did not send his S O S sooner “because there was no need for it.” The dispatch was based on the story gleaned by the correspondent from three officers of the Vestris—Refrigerating Engineer Smith, Fourth Engineer Officer Prestwick and Sixth Engineer Officer Dixon. “It was on Sunday.” the dispatch related in giving the substance of the officers’ stories, “that a glass port in a coal door about five feet above the ‘water line was broken by a big sea and immediately a solid torrent of green water started to rush headlong into the ship. This is what started the trouble, but in itself it was never enough to sink the ship or even to cause serious danger, Pumps Were Started. “From the position of the door it was difficult to cover the gap with a make- shift bulkhead and therefore the pumps were started to get rid of the water. A list developed, but it did not exceed 30 degrees, which was not regarded es dangerous—as Smith re- lated, he had himself crossed all the way from Argentina to England in a ship with a list almost as great. A great deal of water did, however, flow in and the negro firemen, most of whom were from the Barbadoes, gradu- ally became more panicky. “All went smoothly, however, until Monday morning, and neither Carey nor the chief engineer saw any reason to send out an SOS. The pumps were working effectively, and although the mass of water was not decreasing, the situation was in hand. None of the engineers was worried, and right up to 9 a.m. Monday none of them had the slightest idea the ship was in any dan- ger of sinking. “About this time, however, the ne- groes became almost impossible to han- dle. Their nerves had been frayed by the ship’s list, which made firing the boilers a difficult task, while the water was swishing waist high on the star- board side of the engine room. Slipped Up to Deck. “They kept slipping away up to the deck when the engineer officers’ backs were turned., and although the mate several times drove them back, three or four at a time, at revolver point, nothing could keep them down or at work. he 5 WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1928 —114 PAGES. P Means Associated Press. ‘Witnesses in the Vestris investigation have testified that on November 9, the day before the ship started its last cruise, the Vestris was in collision with the steamship Santa Luisa in New York. This is a picture of the accident. The pho- Santa Luisa’s stern (left), as it smashed into the starboard f for 45 feet in ly blamed for the —P. & A. Photo. STUDENTS WANDER Vestris’ side was lenfied leaky coal port partial ‘BLAMED IN SINKING| BAREFOOT IN SNOW Californians, Reseued, Tell of Week’s Hardships in Mountains. By the Associated Press. LAKEPORT, Calif., November 17.— How four University of California stu- dents wandered with bare feet and in tattered clothing through the snowy wastes of California’s Lake County Mountains for nearly a week was told this afternoon by John Dempster, one of the quartet that had been missing since a week ago Friday. Dempster, with Miss Anna Rams- perger and her twin sister Minna, both of Logan, Utah, and Robert H. Keeler of Los Angeles this afternoon were taken to the ranch of Willis Durham, a ranger, where they were put to bed and fell immediately into a sound sleep. They had been without shelter since they disappeared and became the ob- ject of one of the most intensive search- es in the history of Northern California. Collapse at Ranch. Weakened by exposure, the four young students collapsed when they reached the Durham Ranch. They were taken there by a party that made a forced ride over 35 miles of enow- covered trail to a lonely ranger’s kiosk that housed the telephone used in making their plight known. The kiosk, a simple box, furnished no shelter. Previous reports said the four had found_ shelter in a cabin. The four were huddled near the telephone box when a party led by Claude Simon reached them early today with food and blankets. Dempster described their heartbreak when they saw searching airplanes disappear after flying over them. “We reached the summit of Hull Mountain last Saturday early,” Demp- ster sald. “At the top we encountered a blizzard, but kept on. It got so severe it drove us back. We started down the mountain that night and got into the Eel River canyon. It was wild and dark. We lost our way. By morning we had lost all sense of direction. We had rations for only two days and we saved them, but by Monday we were entirely out of food. From then on the trip was a nightmare. The thick shrub- bery tore our clothes almost off us. Shoes Wear Out On Rocks. “Our shoes wore out on the rocks and we had to go barefoot in the snow. “By Thursday we were hopelessly con- fused and our walking only seemed to make things worse. Besides, the pangs of hunger were making us light headed. Thursday and Friday we saw the air- planes fly overhead. We thought they might be looking for us, but we had no w. G way of signaling to them. “Finally the officers could do no " (Continued on Page 4, Column 8. “We were down in the thickets. " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Spectal Dispatch to The Ster. CUMBERLAND, Md., November 17.— Ovelton L. Maxey, Vestris survivor, who swam for two hours before being res- cued, arrested in New York this after- noon, is charged with embezzlement of $6,750 belonging to the Continental Fi- nance Corporation of New Jersey and secured by Maxey, ostensibly for the Industrial Loan Society, Inc., of this city, with which Maxey was connected for about two years. According to County Investigator Terrence J. Boyle. working out of the office of State's Attorney William A. Huster, the money was secured through fictitious loans. peaking. with a | even the Lm‘?m Column 2.) The warrant was obtained this morn- ing in People’s Court by Louis Hoff- nagle, Maxey's sn:cm!;‘u docal map Vestris Survivor Who Swam to Safety Is Arrested on Embezzlement Charge ager and the Chief of Hoboken who was wired, replied that Maxey's pass- age on the 8. 8. Southern Cross for South America had been canceled. ‘The chief of police of New York was then wired to arrest Maxey and word came late this afternoon that he had been taken into custody. He will be brought back here as soon as possible, local officers say. The money, accord- ing to the warrant, was secured Sep- temper 14. Maxey comes from Rich- mond, Va., He is a graduate of the University of Virginia. While in Cumberland, he, with his wife and child lived at the Boulevard Hotel in Winter and Wills Mountain Inn in Summer. He was prominently socially here and was a member of the Cumber- land Country Club, HOOVER 10 LEAVE HOME TONIGHT ON FIRST LEG OF TOUR President-Elect Is in High| Spirits as He Faces Sig- nificant Mission. WILL BOARD BATTLESHIP MARYLAND TOMORROW Thousands of Fans Cheer Him as He Sees Game at Stan- ford Stadium, - BY REX COLLIER. Staft Correspondent of The Star. PALO ALTO, November 17.—Sere- raded and cheered on his final public appearance in the United States this year, President-elect Herbert Hoover tonight looked forward in high sbirits to his departure tomorrow evening on the first leg of a significant mission of national good will. Out of his unprecedented tour in tropical waters to the south he hopes will come a new era of friendship and understanding among the peoples of the New World. Nothing short of that will satisfy him. His pleasurable duty performed, he will enter with lightened heart, a few months hence, upon his solemn trust at Washington. Bearing the passport of a plain citi- zen but rating the extraordinary honors of a prospective ruler, the President- elect will foresake his beloved home on San Juan Hill—scene of his latest triumph—and entrain at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night for San Pedro. There Monday morning he will board one of Uncle Sam’s proudest battleships, the Maryland, and embark on his 15,000~ mile tour of Central and South Amer- ica, Mexico and Cuba. He does not expect to be back in his own country until early in the new year. And he probably will not return to the National Capital until a few days before inauguration day. for he may succumb to the lure of Florida’s fishing g(round: upon the fulfillment of his mis- on. Cheered at Foot Ball Game. ‘Today he was sercnaded by a college band, cheered by thousands of foot ball fans when he appeared in the huge Stanford Stadium and extended the well ‘wishes of his Palo Alto neighbors at an informal reception in his home. At the stadium he rose and applauded like the other 35,000 grid fans when his alma mater administered a good licking to the powerful University of Washington team_ from Seattle. It was the second successive Saturday he had seen Stan- ford whip an invading eleven. Last week the Santa Clara team was vanquished. He was accompanied to the game Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, jr.; Col. William J. Donovan, a Secret Service squad and a group of newspaper men. Mrs. Hoover remained at home to gre- pare for the little party which she arranged for her neighbors on San Juan Hill and at other nearby places. A graduate of Stanford, too, she was deeply interested in the outcome of the game, however, as evidenced by a re- mark to members of the University of Washington Band when they marched to the hill to play in the Hoover garden, before the game. Taking note of Mr. Hoover's remark that he hoped the visitors had “good luck” Mrs. Hoover called from a balcony above: “But please don’t make it more than a tie. If your boys play foot ball as well as your band plays music, it might be better than a tie.” Mr. Hoover, leaving his study on the second floor to come out on the balcony and listen to the concert, stood smil- ingly as the neatly uniformed youths struck up, “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight” and “Stanford Forever.” “Thank you very much,” the Presi- dent-to-be said as the boys stopped to get their breaths. “I'm glad to see you all here. I hope you have some luck in the game today.” ‘The band replied by rendering an- other college song, and as it did so Mrs. Hoover noticed a nursemaid in the yard with her pretty little granddaugh- ter, Peggy Ann, all of 3 years old. “Come up here, Peggy,” she called. “You can hear the music better.” She descended an outside staircase and took the child from the arms of (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—40 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 12. Around the City—Page 32. 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Classified Advertising. PART SEVEN—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Humor. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers: Mr. and Mrs.; High Lights of History, GosA DURN 1T, iy Star. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION 1 ALWAYS SAID THEM WOMEN'D! “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by ‘The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone Main 5000 to start immediate delivery. SQL’ASH.‘CENTER COMMENTS ON RECENT CAMPAIGN. EIGHT KNOWN DEAD AS FLOODS SPREAD Damage in Missouri and Kansas Expected to Reach Millions. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, November 17.—An additional toll of five lives at Ottawa, Kans., this afternoon brought the list of known dead in the floods through- out Eastern Kansas and Western Mis- souri during the last two days to eight. The other lives were believed to have been lost in the raging waters following torrential rainfall throughout the area. Damage to farm property, live stock and crops in and Kansas was expected to run into millions of dollars. Let-Up in Rains Reported. Despite a general let-up of the rains, some points in the flooded territory were still in danger. At Winfleld, Kans., dikes protecting the city from the waters of the Walnut River were sub- merged early tonight and water began to pour into the north residential dis- trict. Residents were moving to higher ground, being reminded of the flood of 1923, when much of the city was inundated. The river, which had risen throughout the day at the rate of a foot an hour, rose more rapidly after 6 pm. Angry waters of the Marais Des Cygne River, near Ottawa, took the toll of five lives at Ottawa when a motor boat capsized, throwing into the vortex of death two doctors and a woman and her two small daughters. The physicians, Dr. Ralph Shiras and Dr. J. Ward Smith, had made several trips during the day rescuing marooned residents of the lowlands. While on their last trip, carrying Mrs, C. C. Jones and her two little daughters, the boat cap- sized when it was swept into a strong current. Three deaths in the flood area had been reported yesterday. To other per- sons were believed to have drowned to- day near Kansas City when they ven- tured into a dmger zone along a flooded stream and failed to return. Their motor car appeared above the crest of the re- ceding waters in Swope Park, but no bodies had been recovered tonight. ‘The flood waters at Ottawa were still rising tonight after inundating part of the business district and practically all the industrial section of the city, in- cluding the city power plant. leaving the city without light and shutting off the drinking water supply. Communi- cation with the outside was difficult with railroads and highways cut off and tele- p}lmne and telegraph lines down in many places. Guardsmen Aid Rescuers. National Guardsmen were called out this afternoon by the adjutant general's office and were patrolling the streets and assisting in rescue work. As the waters approached the com- munity hospital patients were removed to private homes. The last person to leave the building, the head nurse, was taken to safety in a boat. Churches were cooking meals for the refugees, and private homes were opened for those whose homes were un- der water. Two hundred refugees from the Wal- nut and Whitewater River floods were fed today at Augusta, Kans. Motor boat rescue crews were working to remove marooned citizens from danger points. The flood was worst in the south part of Augusta, where water stood 6 to 8 feet deep. At Emporia, Kans, both the Cot- tonwood and Neosho Rivers still were rising tonight. Rain ceased falling over most of the two States before noon today and the temperature dropped rapidly. The Gov- ernment Weather Bureau predicted freezing or near freezing weather be- fore morning. Western Kansas reported crops had been benefited by the rains. ‘The Weather Bureau at Arkansas City, Kans., issued a warning that the Arkansas River, which stood at 13 feet at 6 o'clock tonight, would reach the 20-foot mark before morning and go over the dikes protecting the city. Chillicothe Theatened. A flood which will equal, if not sur- pass, the flood of the Grand River at Chillicothe, Mo., in 1909, was predicted at that clty tonight. The Grand River rose 20 feet in the last eight hours. All lowlands in the vicinity of Chilli- cothe had been submerged tonight. Greek Women Outnumber Men. ATHENS, Greece, November 17 (#).— he recently completed Final of tl lauek census place the population of the country af 6,204.468. Thers are 52314 more women tban men, Notre Dame Eleven Beaten First Time on South Bend Field Carnegie Tech’s sweeping 27 to 7 victory over Notre Dame at South Bend was 'the high spot in the foot ball realm yesterday, but Georgetown’s 12 to 0 triumph over West Virginia here was not far behind. It was the first time that a Notre Dame eleven had met de- feat at South Bend and the game was regarded as a 50-50 affair in the doping, as was the George- town-West Virginia battle. Wisconsin jolted dopesters in the Midwest by beating Iowa, 13 to 0; Princeton ran true to form by conquering Yale, 14 to 2; Georgia Tech continued its im=- ressive record by trouncing Ala- a, 33 to 13, and Nebraska and Pitt figured in a scoreless tie. Maryland, favored over Vir- ginia, came through, 18 to 2: George Washington _defeated American University, 20 to 0, and Gallaudet and Catholic Uni- versity were on the end of ‘the- in games on foreign flelds. RUMANIA SEEKING RUSSIAN BUSINESS Maniu, New Premier, Anxious to Recognize Soviet, Friends Believe. By the Associated Press. BUGHAREST, November 17.—1If Juliu Maniu, new Rumanian premier, remains in power long enough, friends of his administration believe he will take steps toward Rumanian recognition of Soviet Russia. The new premier already has declared that “the cultivation of closer and friendlier relations with neighbors” is to be one of the foundation stones of his foreign policy. Heretofore, Rumania and the Soviets have been at odds over the question of Bessarabia, which Rumania seized after the disintegration of the Russian Em- pire. M. Maniu is anxious therefore to remove the menace of Bolshevik inva- sions along a 300-mile frontier facing the Dniester River, which keeps Ru- mania in a perpetual state of ferment and anxiety. Seeks to Reduce Army. If in return for Rumanian conces- sions Premier Maniu can reconcile the Soviets to the loss of Bessarabia, which the Rumanians long since have strip- ped of its Russian population, he be- lieves that with real peace prevailing between the two countries Rumania can reduce the present enormously ex- pensive army and civil administration of Bessarabia, which has been draining the state’s resources. Although Bessarabia in parts is ex- tremely fertile and_productive, it is chiefly valuable to Rumania for mili- tary and strategic purposes, and many Rumanians believe the province is costing their country far more than it is worth. The territory is about the size of Vermont and New Hampshire BRITISH FEAR RIFT WITH U. 5. 1S WIDER President’s Armistice Speech Felt by Many to Have Been Too Belligerent. BY A. G. GARDINER. By Radio to The Star. LONDON, November 17.—The air has been filled this week with repercussions of President Coolidge's Armistice day allocution, the tone of which has cre- ated considerable depression among the friends of Anglo-American understand- ing and an unusual outburst of resent- ment in many quarters. Even so impassioned a supporter of. cordial relations with America as Lord Cecil canfessed 'in 2 speech at Man- chester that he had read Mr. Coolidge’s address with a feeling of anxiety and disappointment. He felt that it was too largely devoted to justification of prepa- ration for war. The speech, he said, reminded him of Newman’s reply to Pusey, “You discharged your olive branch as if from a catapult.” British comment turns largely on the queer spectacle of the United States talking in terms of crude militarism, of which Europe is becoming a little ashamed, and at the same time, as the London Nation remarked, ‘“clothing himself so ostentatiously in the spot- less toga of American virtue.” Occasion of Speech Deplored. The occasion chosen for so unctuous a homily is regarded here as unfortu- nate and the extremely unconvincing reference to the comparative strain of the war on the United States and other belligerents would have been better un- spoken. Mr. Coolidge’s methods of calculation are not accepted in coun- tries desperately familiar with the facts and not unaware that the war which beggared Europe left the United States with a measure of wealth and pros- perity unprecedented in the history of the world. 5 ‘The writer would not be doing his duty if he failed to convey the general tenor of British comment on the un- fortunate tone of Mr. Coolidge’s ad- dress. That tone was the more un- fortunate because, as more friendly critics point out, its censorious self- righteousness of speech obscured its real and wise purport, which was to amake the peoples of Europe realize the dislike and suspicion with which the American people regard the t-war tendencies of European litics, and that until really substantial progress is made toward disarmament it will be useless for any country to talk to the United States about debt revision. Utterance Seen Neutralized. ‘This is admitted to be a salutary doctrine, but its helpfulness is serious- ly compromised by the equivocal terms of the utterance, which, while empha- sizing the desirability of disarmament in the abstract, used arguments on American lack of naval bases and convertible liners that seemed to jus- tify predominance rather than parity for the American fleet. Also Mr. Coolidge’s statement that if European countries had neglected their defenses it is probable that war would have come much sooner is criticized in the liberal press as putting a weapon (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Man With Clothing Down Street Is Saved by Spectators Racing down the street in terror, with lhis clothing aflame after it had be- come ignited by the explosion of the gas tank of an automobile he was servicing last night, Willis 8. Wright of No. 1 Eignceemh street southeast, a station attendant, was saved from ap- parently certain death when spectators his assistance, smothered es. While badly burned, it was said at Emergency Hospital that his condition is not thought fatal. Gasoline which spread after the ex- plosion endangered the large tanks in the station, which is at Fourteenth and D streets, and also periled another car, which, blazing, was driven to safety, but No. 3 Truck, coming from nearby, checked the spread of the flames. The explosion happened about 9:30 o’clock, when Wright started to run gasoline into a car occupied by John Davis, Eliza Davis and Laura Williams, all colored, of 24 O'Briens court. The cause ofgghe blast was not determined. vis jumped from the car and (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) Afire Racing threw her arms around him in an at- tempt to extinguish the fire, but he b{okel away and ran down Fourteenth street. James Cassidy, who conducts a serv- ice station at 311 Fourteenth street, and Robert L. Smith of 819 Fourth street northeast, who was driving past, seized an old overcoat and, overtaking him, rolled him in it on the ground until the flames were out. Then John and T Tigl ergency Hosj . Robert E. O'Brien of 1510 I;iwm avenue northeast drove his flaming car the street where the fire was ex- | o tinguished. New Phone Hook-Up Made. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN JAMIN CONGRESS SEEN AS SPELLING SPECIAL SESSION Returning Members Hold Heavy Slate Makes Such Action Unavoidable. FARM RELIEF MAY GO OVER UNTIL SPRING East, Seeking Tariff, May Join Agricultural West in Its Demands. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. A special session of Congress next Spring seems more and more likely. Many members of the Senate and House who have returned to Wash- ington take the view that such a session is not only desirable but is unavoidable. President-elect Herbert Hoover has pro: to call a special session to deal with the farm problem, provided adequate farm legisiation cannot be enacted in the coming short session of Congress. Senator McNary, chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture, is already at work on a farm bill in accordance with the ideas of President Coolidge and Mr. Hoover. He has de- clared that he hopes to put such a bill through Congress during the short session and to have it become law. Senator Fess of Ohio, who handled the amllnst t{}tltlonldflbg‘h'k in che Senate ags e ol [cNary-Hau, farm bill, also takes the view mefi'; mat- ter can be dealt with in the regular session, which begins December 3. Session Will Face Jam. But there is a growing belief that there will not be opportunity to deal adequately with the farm problem at the chort session, largely use of lack of time. The session closes auto- matically March 4. In the three months the Congress must handle all the an- nual appropriation bills. There also is other important legislation pressing for consideration, not to mention the Kel- logg treaty outlawing war. The Boulder Dam bill, over which the Senate has ht and filibustered for and weeks in the past, is the ed business of the Senate, and automati- cally comes up soon after the Congress meets. The Navy bill, providing for the construction of additional cruisers, which passed the House at the last ses- sion of Congress, has been reported to m Senate and awaits action in that ly. To_cram the farm legislation which Mr. Hoover and Senator Curtis, Vice- it-elect, promised the farmersin Sotms” st 8 PRsAIcal ‘mpseciiie; ost a pl y. Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman of Campigned. throughout e Wt 38 out the as well as in the East and South for the Republican national ticket, takes the view that a special session will be re- quired to deal adequately with the pro- posed farm legislation. Senator Brook- hart of Towa has the same view of the matter, as has Representative Dickin- son of Jowa. The latter, although he was a strong supporter of the old Mc- Nary-Haugen bill, with its equalization fee principle, and supported the candi- dacy of former Gov. Frank O. Lowden for the presidential nomination, worked hard for the election of the Republican national ticket during the campaign. Easteners Demand Action. The impetus for a special session is given greater strength now by a de- mand from Eastern members of Con- gress who wish a revision of the tariff. Representative Treadway of Massa- chusetts, ranking Republican member of the ways and means committee, who has just returned to Washington, believes firmly that such a session should be held to deal with the tariff schedules. His was one of the eight States which gave its electoral votes to Gov. Smith. “There is one outstanding reason,” said Mr. Treadway, “why Massachusetts cast its electoral votes for the Demo- cratic national ticket. Industry has been spotty for several years in Massachusetts. In some spots it has been increasingly poor. The four great industries of the State are woolen man- ufacture, cotton manufacture, paper manufacture and the manufacture of shoes. The Fordney-McCumber tariff act—the present law—does not give sufficient protection to the first three, and shoes are on the free list. “New England agriculture shares with the agriculture of the West the need of assistance. It meets much competition from Canada. Revision of the tariff schedules, which are par- ticularly important to New England, should be made without delay. I am confident that Mr. Hoover, whether or not a farm bill is passed at the open- ing short session, will call a special session of Congress after he has been inaugurated.” Would Give Added Weight. If the industrial East joins with the agricultural West in a demand for a based | special session the demand will bear a great deal of weight. Tariff revision has its bearing on the farm problem. There is a distinct demand for in- creased duties on some of the products of the American farms. There is ship- ped into this country from foreign countries hundreds of millions of dol- lars’ worth of agricultural products each year, which, it is believed, could be produced in the United States. In addition to the demand for rewi- sion of the duties on farm products, there is a demand for enactment of legislation to set up some governmental machinery to help the larmers deal with the problem of surplus crops and for the enactment of legislation to aid the farmers to co-ufnflve marketing. The whole subject is one that neces- sarily will lead to debate and require time, far more time, it is believed, than can be found in the short session of Congress. Of course, if there is to be a revision of the tariff schedules outside those relating to farm products, it is quite obvious that a special session will have to deal with it. Suppose in the closing hours of the coming ahmflsdegw? ofu(‘:eonneu & bill 1s passed providing for the appointment of a Federal farm board. o PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, November 17 (#).—Another coun was added to the Wmm u'i?: phone list when Czechoslovakia was President Masaryé Wi sxchange sreel sident Masary! excl t- ings with President Coplidge within s few days, e, A has would prefer to leave the appointment of the board to Mr. Hoover. One of the most important matters which are slated to come before the Senate in the near future is the Kel- logg_treaty outlawing war, which has Continued on Page & Columa &0 |