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o 2 TH . INAUGURAL PLANS ’ E EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. U, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1928. o] RV TPERNE_[NOTEDHPSNGER [S¥TEric casounee aen, STRESEMANN SES | ARE EXPECTED SOON Republican State Committee Awaits Word From the President-Elect. ‘Washington will learn in a few days definitely whether the inauguration scene March 4 next will be the old- fashioned gala day, with all its accom- panying glamour and color. It remains entircly with President- elect Hoover just what scope the plans for his inauguration shall take, but as vet he has not made known his wishes to those in Washington who are likely to be identified with the preparations. Samuel J. Prescott, chairman of the Republican State committee, discussed the subject with Mr. Hoover before the latter left Washington for Palo Alto - and has since been in communication with him, but it is understood that he has not teceived Mr. Hoover’s ideas re- garding inaugural plans. Prescott Returns Wednesday. Mr. Prescott, who has been out of the city for more than a week, Wil return to Washington Wednesday and shortly thereafter will call a meeting of the executive committee of the Re- publican State committee to informally discuss the inaugural subject and be prepared to act quickly when some defi- nite word is received from the Presi- dent-elect. It is felt not unlikely that this committee will informally discuss the matter of raising funds for the naugural celebration as well as discuss < possible availables for appointment as chairman of the inaugural committee * and other offices to be identified with the program. The appointment of the chairman, | however, will be made by the President- elect himself, but it is known that the local Republican committee will be in readiness to suggest names to Mr. Hoover if he should make such a re- quest. _ AMERICAN'S GIFT STIRS TURK TOWN Wealthy Emigrant Wills $1,000,- 000 for Hospital Back Home. By the Associated Press. MANISSA, Turkey, November 19.—In this Anatolian town excitement prevails again today, as it did back in 180 B.C., when Scipio here worsted King Antio- chus, and again in 1419, when the Arab Bedreddin raised an insurrection against the Turkish sultans with his doctrine of equality and community of goods. The quietude has been broken by a cable dispatch from America, stating that Morris Chinassi, who emigrated from Manissa to New York 35 years ago, there to become a wealthy cigar- ette manufacturer, has willed a million dollars for a hospital in his home town. The 25,000 inhabitants of Manissa say theirs is the first town in Turkey to produce an American millionaire end theirs will be the first to boast of & million-dollar hospital. Chinassi’s gift ranks in Turkish peas- ants’ eyes as a wonder, exceeding the ancient trhusurs M;n - )t.ls.i!d h‘e*l‘d throt the ages. Just outside the mwnu.‘l‘;\ a rock 70 feet above the road, ‘the ancients cut a colossal statue of Niobe, whose tears, supplied by a hidden * nexhaustible spring above the rock, fall ever the aged Stone face to this i day. This is r.h; )g:nble of Hnm:;’s lines: “Tj ipylus, “upon the rocks of’ tg;n sert mountzin—Niobe, though turned to stone, still broods over Ll;e sorrows the gods has sent upon Gone is the fabulous ball of gold | weighing more than 200 pounds which - for centuries topped the minaret of one * of Manissa's great mosques, but in the mosque library there is still to be found : & massive manuscript, collection of the Pentateuch dating from 630 A.D. No- body knows where this manuscript came from or how it reached Manissa. Th new million-dollar hospital will have only one competitor. That is the ancient tomb of the one-time Prince of Magnesia, Isaac Tchelebi, beneath the columns of which some ailing Magnesians believe they need make only three turns to be cured. ELEANOR BOLLING DOCKS AT DUNEDI Next Port Wellington — Byrd's Manager Congratulates Crew on Speed. BY JOE DE GANAHL. DUNEDIN, New Zealand, November 19.—The steamship Eleanor Bolling of the Byrd Antarctic expedition arrived at Dunedin at 8 o'clock yesterday morn- ing after anchoring during the night off Taiarva Light. Richard G. Brophy, the business manager of the expedition, who had sailed with Comdr. Byrd on the whaler C. A, Larsen, came aboard the Bolling and congratulated Capt. Gustav L. Brown and the crew on the speed of the ship's passage. Mr. Brophy will go on the Bolling to Wellington tomorrow. Hundreds of people thronged to the ship during the day, and crowds are visiting the sledge dogs at Quarantine Istand. ‘There was no official reception to the men of the Bolling, because yesterday was Sunday. But the public interest is great, inasmuch as this is the first Antarctic expedition to call here since that of Capt. Scott. By Cable to The Stor and New York Times. Copyright, 1928. by the New York Times Co. and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. All rights for | publication " reserved ~ throushout ~ the world.) CALENDAR PLAYS TRICK ON KANSAS LAWMAKERS | Legislature of 1929 Will 8it While Two Governors Share in Ad- ministration. ‘TOPEKA, Kans. (#).—A trick of the calendar will cause two governors to send messages to the Kansas Legisla- ture this Winter and two lieutenant governors to preside over the Senate. The State constitution requires the | Legislature to convene on the second Tuesday in January of every odd num- bered year, and provides for inaugura- < tion of the governor and other State officers on the second Monday of the same month. Ordinarily, a governor takes office a day before the lawmakers meet. But in 1929 the Legislature will begin its session January 8, six days before the new governor is inaugurated. Ben S. Paulen, the retiring governor, lans to send a message to the Legis- ature without attempting to outline a legislative prograi, leaving that to his successor, Clyde M. Reed. ‘The 1907 Legislature likewise met six days before the inaugural, but Gov. E. ‘W. Hoch held over in the executive of- fice for a second term, and therefore only one message to the lawmakers was heard. Men of Lithuania are just discarding suspenders and using bells P tion of the Vestris disaster urday, when officers of the los District Attorney Charles Tuttle. Photo shows, left to right: James Herbert Welland, third officer of Vestris Vestris, as | CHRISTMAS CARD | 5 MURDER CLUE Investigators Fail to Learn Identity of Woman Found in Field. By the Associated Press. NORRISTOWN, Pa.. November 19.— A Christmas card inscribed “Nancy from Elvira” and bits of photographs torn into small pieces were the only clues detectives had today In search for the slayer of an unidentified young woman. Apparently choked and then shot through the head, the girl's body, still warm, was found in a cornfield near here yesterday noon by Donenico Ro- menica, a farmer. Investigators said an automobile had started to enter the field from a lane about 200 yards away, and that the slayer had then dragged the body the rest of the way to the spot where Romenica found it. Girls Shown on Photo. Along the trail through the fleld detectives picked up a woman's pocket- book containing a Christmas card, a vanity case, gloves and a handkerchief. Near the body they found the scat- tered bits of photographs which, pieced together as far as the recovered frag- ments permitted, showed the faces of three young women. ‘The slain girl was about 25 years old, 5 feet 4 inches in height, and had chestnut hair and brown eyes. Her clothing included a blue felt hat, black broadcloth coat trimmed with black fur, blue satin dress, black pumps and flesh-colored silk stockings. The coroner’s physician said marks on her neck indicated she had been choked before the slayer fired a steel- {:Ckaeud bullet into the back of her ead. PROBERS QUERIES IMPROPER, SAYS STEWART, ON STAND (Continued From First Page.) Continental Trading Co. is purported to have dealt in?" Rover read Stewart’s reply from the record as: “Senator Nye, I did not personally receive any of these bonds or make a dollar out of them. I personally did not make a dollar out of this transaction.” Stewart said that substantially that question had been asked and that sub- stantially he had made the reply credited to him, Directed Verdict Denied. Earlier today Justice Jennings Bailey refused to direct a verdict of not guilty in the trial of Stewart, as requested by the defense. The decision required the defense to present its own side of the case, The motion was entered Friday by Prank J. Hogan, chief of counsel for Stewart. Hogan argued that the Sen- ate committee was not a “competent tribunal,” that no evidence to sup- port, allegations of perjury had been brought out by the Government and that Stewart could not be held legally liable for perjury since he corrected in April erroneous statements made in February at what was in effect a con- tinuation of the same hearing. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, “eplying for the government, upheld reg- ularity of the committee meetings and challenged the precedents cited %sy the defense in support of its contention that Stewart had absolved himself of the per- L\éry charges at his second appearance fore the committee. Law Committee Thwarted. Asked by Justice Bailey if any harm had been done by Stewart's alleged false answers, Rover declared that the Senate committee had been “thwarted and frustrated” for a period of two months in its efforts to disclose the distribu- tion of the Liberty Bond oil profits of the Continental Trading Co., Ltd., of Canada. A portion of the bonds found . their way from Harry F. Sinclair Lnl Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the | Interior. The indictment charged that Stewart committed perjury by denying that he knew anything of the distribution of these bonds and that he received any of the bonds himself. At his second appearance before the Senate committee, Stewart testified that he had received Liberty bonds from the president of the Continental Trading Co. to the value of $759,000. Loudoun Association Elects. PURCELLVILLE, Va., November 19. —The Loudoun County Community As- sociation held its annual meeting here and elected D. C. Sands of Middle- burg, president; Howard Hoge, vice president; J. D. Dillon, secietary-treas- urer; directors, C. L. Robey, W. T. Brown, Howard Rogers, F. H. James, R. J. McCray and Clifton Warner. .. Deputy’s Cousin Slashed. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 19. Edward Siegert, cousin of former Depu- ty Sheriff Alphonse Siegert, who was acquitted Saturday of the murder of a colored man. was attacked at Gales- ville early this morning and slashed 'y appeared at the inquiry. Important evidence and information in connection with the investiga- | s disclosed in Federal Court, New York City, Sat- | ing, prior to opening’ of the | ship testified under the examination of U. S. SR fd i ¥ Adams, chief engineer of the Vestris; and Frank W. Johnson, first officer of . and A. Photo. Vaudeville’s Lure At $65 Per Week Draws 3 Survivors By the Associated Press NEW YORK, November 19— Three of the rescued members of the Vestris ceow are to make a vaudeville tour to describe their experiences in the disaster. They will receive salaries of $65 per week. HOSPTALRULIG FAVORS APANESE California State Courts Are! Sustained by Supreme Tribunal. By the Assoclated Press. California’s attempt to prevent cor- porations composed of Japanese from leasing land in that State for hospital purposes failed in the Supreme Court today when the court ruled that the Japanese treaty granted that right. Ruling in a case from Los Angeles brought against K. Tashiro and other Japenese physicians, who wanted to open a Japanese hospital there, the court declared the treaty authorizing Japanese corporations to lease land for commercial purposes permitted leasing for hospital purposes but not for agri- cultural purposes. The Californja State courts had-held that the corporation which the” Japa- nese physicians had formed was en- titled under the treaty with Japan to incorporation for the purpose of leas- ing land for the hospital, but the State was unwilling to accept that view, in- sisting that in line with its alien land and other laws it had the right to pro- hibit Japanese from leasing land for hospital purposes. The State courts took the position that the proposed lease was in the na- ture of a commercial enterprise, dis- tinct from the right of the State to prohibit Japanese from acquiring land for farming purposes, and that it was provided for in the treaty which per- mitted Japanese to acquire land for commercial purposes. REPORT ON MERGER IS DUE TOMORROW | Findings Will Be Submitted to House for Guide in Legislation. The street railway merger report of the Bureau of Efficiency is due tomor- row. Chairman Gibson of the special subcommittee of the House District com- mittee, which is making a comprehen- sive study of the municipal administra- tion, expects to receive tomorrow a copy | of the report, which he will submit to the House as soon as it convenes, for its information on the pending legislation authorizing a merger of the street rail- way companies. Mr. Gibson said today that he expects the report will not be antagonistic to a merger, but will point out how deprecia~ tion should be distributed in such a way that a merger can be effected without increasing fares. He believes that Con- gress is ready to authorize a merger in the interests of economic and efficient o&ernlon of the public service corpora- ti , but that every possible safeguard will be taken to protect the car-riding public from being more heavily taxed. Chairman Gibson expects to confer at the District Building this afternoon with the District Commissioners, the corpor- ation counsel’s office, the Public Utilities Commission, District Auditor Donovan and other officials. COLDER WEATHER DUE TO FOLLOW RAIN TODAY Temperature of 78 Yesterday Came Near Reaching Pre- vious High Record Here. The unseasonable weather in Wash- ington yesterday came within 2 de- grees of reaching the high temperature record for November. Twice within 49 years, according to Weather Bu- Teau reports, the temperature on No- vember 18 reached 80. This high mark was first recorded in 1879, and was repeated on the same date seven years ago In 1921, The highest temperature yesterday was 78. Rain this afternoon ending early to- night will bring much colder weather, according to the bureau’s forecast, which predicts a low temperature of 42 degrees during the night. Fresh southwest winds will shift to northwest in the city, and storm warnings have been ordered displayed along the Atlan- tic Coast from Cape Hatteras to Bos- ton. Tuesday will be fair and colder. The following storm warning was issued: “Advisory southwest storm warning 10:30 am. Virginia capes to Boston. A disturbance now central over eastern Kentucky will move northeastward with increasing intensity and be attended by increasing south or southwest winds, becoming strong and shifting to north- with a razor. His condition is serious. + Joap Ruth, colored is in jail. west near Virginia capes early tonight Jand near Boston Tuesday 'morning.” - CHARGE IS DENIED U. S. Agents Accused in Forthcoming Trial of Offi- cers of Adair Firm. 1By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., November 19.— Charges that Department of Justice agents or agents of the United States district attorney’s office had tampered with prospective jurors in the forth- coming trial of members of the Adair Realty and Trust Co. were met today by United States District Attorney Hager with the statement that “some- body, presumably the defense,” was seeking to cause a mistrial. Attorneys for Forrest Adair, sr.; For- rest Adair, jr.; Frank Adair and E. A. | Erwin, who are to go to trial Wednes- day et Gainesville, Ga., charged with misuse of mails, filed a petition in Fed- cral District Court asking an investi- | gation of the alleged activities of the | prosecution, and United States District Judge Sibbey, set a hearing for Wednes- trial, ‘The petition asserted that a Govern- ment agent had gone to Jackson County and representing himself as an agent for the defense had induced the sheriff to go to one of the prospective ju- rors with him, and after offering a bribe to the venireman, had arrested both the sheriff and the man and brought them to Atlanta Saturday night. It also stated that Hager and six Government agents had gone to Jackson County to interview other men investigation of alleged interference who are in the jury list. It also asks with counsel for the defense, who it was asserted have had nothing to do with any alleged irregularities. Informed of the petition Mr. Hager said: “Somebody, presumably the defense, induced or employed the former sheriff of Jackson County, “Big Foot” Ben Collier, to bribe or fix enough of our jurors to cause a mistrial of the case. “We learned of their efforts and sent a Department of Justice agent there and the former sheriff, not knowing who he was, proceeded to offer a bribe to a juror in his presence and went to five other jurors. “If a proper investigation is made it will be found that the whole affair was hatched out in the State capitol in Atlanta. The former sheriff prob- ably is not the only one who will be arrested when our Investigation has been completed.” Mr. Hager declined to amplify the statement, or its reference to the State capitol. INJUNCTION HALTS BUILDING PROJECT Construction of Engine House Is Blocked Pending Decem- ber Hearing. The District Court of Appeals today issued an injunction against the District Commissioners, preventing them from proceeding with construction of a fire engine house at Sixteenth street and Colorado avenue, which has been opposéd by Attorney Henry I. Quinn, 1507 Gallatin street, and four other property owners in the vicinity. Justice Peyton Gordon of the District Supreme Court recently refused to in- terfere with location of the engine house because Congress had designated the site on which the Commissioners pro- posed to erect the building. Attorneys Quinn and George E. Sullivan for the objecting property owners filed an ap- plication with the Court of Appeals to stop the Commissioners from proceeding with the bullding and to preserve the present conditions until the appellate tribunal has an opportunity to pass on the appeal from the finding of Justice Gordon. ‘The property owners are required by the Court of Appeals to post a bond of $500 to indemnify the District Commis- sioners for any loss resulting from the granting of the stay. Attorney Quinn stated today a steam shovel was already on the site when the court's stay was signed. The appellate court advanced the case for hearing early in December. KLANSMAN LOSES FIGHT ON STATUTE REQUIRING RECORDS (Continued From First Page) controverted evidence—that the order,” the Justice said, “was a revival of the Ku Klux Klan of an earlier time with additional features borrowed from: the Know-nothing and the A. P. A. orders of other periods; that its membership was limited to native-born, Gentile, Protestant whites; that in part of its constitution and printed creed it pro- claimed the widest freedom for all and full adherence to the Con- stitution of the United States, in an- other exacted of its members an oath to shield and preserve ‘white supremacy’; and in still another declared any per- son actively opposing its principles to be ‘a dangerous . ingredient in the body politic of our country and an enemy to the weal of our national commonwealth’; that it was conduct- ing a crusade against Catholics, Jews and negroes and stimulating hurtful religious and race prejudices; that it was striving for political power and assuming a sort of guardianship over the administration of local, State and national affairs, and that at times it was taking into its own hands the punishment of what some of its mem- bers conceived to be crimes. “We think it plain that the action of the courts below in holding that there was a real and substantial basis for the distinction made between the two sets of associations or orders was right and should not be disturbed.” Continuing to quote from the de- cision of the lower court the justice sald the court in speaking of the other class of organizations had said that “these organizations and their purposes are well known, many of them having been in existence for many years.” He further quoted the lower court as having said that while many of these organizations were oathbound and secret that “we hear no complaint against them regarding violation of the peace or interfering with the rights of others.” He wound up the court's decision by saying that it was concluded that all the “objections urged against the stat- ut? are untenable as held by the courts below.” Rites for Mrs. Mary Baker. Special Dispatch to The Star. RIVERDALE, Md., November 19.— Puneral services were held today for Mrs. Mary J. Baker, 63 years old, who died Friday at the home of her son- |t in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 8. Westman. Mr. Westman is councilman of the fifth ward. He and Mrs, Westman accompanied the body ' to Philadelphia for burial. HELD IN SMUGGLING Steward of Berengaria Impli- cates New York Policeman in Gem Charges. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 19.—The singing steward of the Cunard liner Berengaria, who has been heard .n many concerts, church programs and over the radio, and a policeman, whose beat was along the Cunard docks, were under charges of diamond smuggling today. The steward, William Ballyn, chief of the Berengaria's force, was arrested when two packages of diamonds, valued @l several thousand dollars, were dis- covered in his stateroom. He implicated the policeman, Traffic Officer John T. McIntyre, who, he charged, was the go- between for the smugglers. McIntyre, who was free on bail, said he had known Ballyn for years, but denied any knowl- edge of the diamond smuggling. Customs officers apparently were work- ing on advance information in Ballyn's case, as they went immediately to his room on boarding the liner and found gems. Sixty officers searched all rooms Iin the Berengaria, including the cap- | tain’s, even the pockets of suits in his wardrobe. i For months in an effort to stop smuggling of gems all big liners, such as the Berengaria, Leviathan, the Olympic and others, have been searched from captain’s room to bosun’s locker. Sir Arthur Rostron, commander of the Cunarder, and other officers ex- pressed surprise at Ballyn's complicity in the smuggling. He was popular with officers, crew and passengers. He had organized a choir of 45 voices from among the crew members and spent much of his time in port singing at churches and on concert and radio pro- grams. He has appeared on concert programs with John McCormack, Tet- razzina and other noted singers. In his cabin were autographed photos of the Prince of Wales, Sir Harry Lauder and Mayor Walker. MclIntyre was known by thousands of | travelers and others who have had oc- casion to meet him or see him at work. He had been on the police force for 20 years. Four years ago he was given a trip to Europe at the expense of Wil- liam B. Leeds, son of the late tin plate millionaire. THREE MEN DROWN IN KENTUCKY FLOOD Families Driven From Homes as Rivers Go on Rampage After Rains. By the Associated Press. PINEVILLE, Ky., November 19.—The Cumberland River, swollen by 36 hours of rain, went on a rampage in this vicinity today, causing the deaths of three men, driving families living in the lowlands of four communities from their home, and inundating parts of the busi- ness district of Middlesboro, Ky. ‘The manager of the Virginia Harland Coal Corporation at Tejay, Ky., re- ported the deaths of three employes of the company today. The three men, Lawrence Wiles, Melvin Catron and C. S. Saylor, were killed about 16 miles from Pineville, according to the report received here. They had noticed a large mass of wreckage being swept down the Cumberland, and walked out on a bridge to view it. The wreckage was hurled against the bridge with force that tore the bridge out, precipitating the men into the torrent. Their bodies were not recovered. Residents of the low-lying parts of Pineville, Harlan, Barbourville and Middlesboro were driven from their homes by the high water. It was pre- dicted that the flood would equal that of 1918, in which water to a depth of 4 feet stood in the business houses. Practically all roads in the vicinity are under water, and this morning the flood still was rising. A steady rain which started at mid- night Saturday was a contributing cause to the high water. KENTUCKY OUT OF ITS BANKS. Grave Alarm Is Felt by Residents of Hazard. HAZARD, Ky., November 19 (#).— An all-night rain that continued with- out let-up this morning forced the Kentucky River out of its banks today, flooding the business part of Neon, near here, disrupting wire communica- tion and generally causing grave alarm. The highest river stage recorded in years was anticipated. At Neon the water stood in the streets and was beginning to seep into basements of homes and business houses. 700 FLEE FROM HOMES. Cumberland, Rising, Washes Houses and Outbuildings. HARLAN, Ky, November 19 (#).— Several houses and a number of out- buildings were washed away here to- day and approximately 700 residents of low-lying parts of the city were forced to flee to the highlands as the Cumberland River went on one of the worst floods of its history in this viein- ity. xx‘he main street of Harlan was under several inches of water, and the situa- tion steadily was growing worse. No ac- curate estimate of the damage was available. Away INOUYE FUNERAL RITES WILL BE HELD TODAY Widow of Japanese Attache Who Died in Vestris Wreck to Take His Ashes Home. Funeral services for Maj. Yoshkio Inouye, assistant military attache of the Japanese legation of the Argentine, who was one of the victims of the Vestris dis- aster, will be held in New York today. Col. Hisao Watari, military attache of the Japanese embassy in Washington, and Capt. Hirota, a student of English sent to Washington by his government, left this city yesterday to attend the services in New York. Mme. Inouye, who was ill in a hos- pital in Norfolk for several days, is also in New York to attend the cere- mony. The remains of Maj. Inouye will be cremated and as soon as Mme. Inouye is well enough to travel she will return with the ashes to Japan. Mme. Inouye was met upon her arrival in Norfolk by Capt. Nobuichi Kuscinoki, assistant attache of the Japanese e! bassy here, who made the necessary a: rangements for her entrance into hospital there and atte the details of her reception in New York for the funeral services to be held oday. Maj. Inouye, who was en route to his new station at Buenos Aires when he lost his life, had been stationed in Washington five years ago as assistant military attache, |on the desolate rock. Germany's Success in By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, November 19.—Ger- many’s commercfal success in making synthetic gasoline from soft. coal, and incidentally also making soap from coal, to which the Standard Oil Co. has ac- quired the American rights, was de- scribed today to the second Internation- al Conference on bituminous coal at Carnegle Institute of Technology. ‘The story was told by the man who is marketing this synthetic gasoline in German filling stations, Dr. Carl Krauch, director of the German Dye Trust. He was introduced by Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Process Is Elastic. Krauch raid that coal gasoline may be changed in the making at will into “the most diverse marketable products, fl;l‘h as kerosene, gas, oil and lubricating ofls. 'We are thus enabled,” he said, “to adapt the process to the fluctuations of the market.” If anti-knock gasoline is wanted, Ger- man chemists can control their method of transforming molecules of coal so that certain aromatic basic substances affecting_knocks are properly synthe- sized. The result is to put into gaso- line a molecular structure that slightly affects the rapidity of explosion. “At present,” said Dr. Krauch, “we have reached at our Leuna plant an annual production of 70,000 tons of gasoline, of which 40,000 tons are ob- tained from coal. At the.end of next year we hope to be able to raise the production to 250,000 tons. The gaso- Manufacture of Soa]: line produced by us has found a ready market for the reason that in all es- sential properties it equals a good gaso- line obtained from crude oil in the ordinary way.” Soap is produced because the dye trust found quantities of paraffin from liquid coal on its hands, with a paraffin market relatively small. Dr. Krauch learned how to overcome the difficul- tles of extracting from paraffin fatty acids that make soap. One of these steps enabled the chemists to do in a few hours processes which formerly re- quired several days. Dr. Krauch said he believes the Ger- man synthetic gasoline process is an- alogous to that used by nature deep in the earth to transform peat and coal under heat and hydrogen pressure into natural petroleum’ deposits. Predicts Better Situation. Dr. Thomas S. Baker, president of Carnegie Institute of Technology, who sponsored the conference, forecast & better and happier economic and social situation_for those who live in mining fields, when the industries that arise from liquefying coal are established “It is conceivable,” he said, “that some of the labor questions connected with the mining industry will be helped tion an opportunity to change from one form of labor to another.” Dr. Baker thought the first steps in this country are likely to be establish- ment of chemical industries at coal fields, piping of gas remaining after liquefaction direct from mines to great cities, extension of coke production, making fertilizers, and liquefied fuel for internal combustion engines. He said it is possible that liquefied coal itself may be piped, doing away with transporta- tion in coal cars. “Stagnation” Victim Who Staggered Is Fined as a Drunk Refusing to accept the de- fendant’s -explanation that the staggering which caused his arrest for intoxication was the result _of an operation, Judge Isaac R. Hitt today fined Thomas Simms, colored, $15 or fifteen days. The man was arrested by Officer Newell Evans of the second precinct, who testified that Simms was staggering on the street. “Certainly I was staggering,” Simms said when called to the stand in his own behalf. “But I had an operation at the Army hospital -last month and it left me with stagnation.” STORM DEATHTOLL INEUROPE MOUNTS Eight More Drowned, With 11 Others Believed Lost With Ship. By the Associated Press. SWANSEA, Wales, November 19.— Fear that the gale which swept the British Isles last week had added 11 more victims to its toll were enter- tained here when it was learned that the steamer Eltham had been wrecked. The vessel was washed ashore, broken in two, off Chapel Point, Cornwall, Sunday. Part of one of the Eltham's lifeboats was found on the shore at Perranporth, six miles east of Chapel Point. The Eltham left Swansea for Rouen, France, on Thursday with a crew of | 11 men and a cargo of coal. LONDON, November 19 (#).—Eng- land yesterday saw no sign of the storm recurrence which had been fore- cast, but learned of five additional deaths, bringing the total to 41. Five members of the crew of the smail Liv- erpool schooner Mary Ann were drowned when the gale drove the vessel on the | Dulas rocks. John Woodier, a boy of 17, was the only member of the crew who succed- ed in clambering up on the few square yards of rock which stood above the raging seas. The dog that the schoon- er carried also made its way to safety and was Woodier's sole companion for 36 hours while they remained foodless | ANOTHER STORM FORECAST. Heavy Damage Already Done Along North Sea Coast. HAMBURG, Germany, November 19 (#)—With delayed advices today tell- ing of the havoc wrought by Saturday’s hurricane in Northwestern Germany, the Hamburg meteorological station forecast the approach of another storm center. A number of vessels were sunk in the gale. These included a motor ship. the fate of whose crew was not deter- mined and whose home port was not learned. The lightship Weser was torn from its moorings and stranded on the Jsland of Wangeroong. A number of fishing cutters were carried hundreds of yards inland. The gale attained a velocity of 178 miles an hour and caused a three-foot rise in the tide along the North Sea coast. Great stretches of coastal dis- tricts were flooded. Cattle were drown- ed, houses damaged, trees uprooted and electric light wires torn down. 1 Advices from Muenster said that in ‘Westphalia the wind was strong enough to demolish stone walls, roofs were carried away and electric light wires brought down. Roads in the Saar district were strewn with uprooled trees. houses were unroofed and telephone service badly crippled. AMSTERDAM, Holland, November 19 (#).—Three members of the crew of 14 carried by the Swedish vessel Mal- moe were drowned today when the ship went aground near Ameland Island. [T Has Two Horns, The African rhinoceros has two horns, while the Indian variety has only one, says the Nature Magazine. There are goknly of them still free and ramping about in the wild. but it is not easy to catch them allve. They have been often seen from the railway which runs from Dar es Salaam to Lake Tanganyika, and occasionally a rhinoceros has charged an engine. AREKNOIN DEA 1S FLODIS ABAT Snow and Cold Bring Added Suffering to Thousands Made Homeless. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, November 19.—Two more drownings recorded today brought the known dead from floods in this sec- tion to 14. At Augusta, Kans., the body of Charles Waterman, a Santa Fe Railway em- ploye, was recovered near a pumphouse where he was working when the flood wave struck several days ago. The death in Winfield, Kans., of A. C. Smith, Missouri Pacific section foreman, was verified by railroad officials. Smith was swept from a levee and drowned. Flood conditions were rapidly improv- ing in most sections of the three States affected—Missouri, Kansas and Okla- homa—but snow and cold weather caused suffering among the hundreds of families rendered homeless by the overflow of streams due to heavy rains last week. Railroad officials here said the dis- ruption of train schedules was one of the greatest in history. Restoration of regular service, however, was expected by tomorrow. Three schools at Joplin, Mo.. Were closed because teachers who attended a convention of the State Teachers' As- sociation here had been unable to re- turn home by rail or highway. Crops Are Hard Hit. National and local relief Kagencies throughout the flooded section have joined to combat the new menace and to aid in rehabilitation of the victims. ‘The property damage runs into the millions, the principal loss being to crops, e stock and flooded homes and business buildings in widely scattered sections. Railroad companies suffered heavily. ‘The biggest toll of life at a single point came at Ottawa, Kans., Saturday night, when swirling waters capsized a motor boat in which Dr. Ralph Shiras and Dr. J. Ward Smith had heroically carried on rescue operations. The other victims were Mrs. C. C. Jones and her two small daughters, whom the physi- cians had removed from their flooded home in the Marais des Cygne lowlands. Mr. and Mrs. J. Payne and their 3-year-old child were drowned near Hartshorne, Okla., last night while ford- ing Bushy Creek in‘a wagon. Mrs. Payne’s body was the only one recovered. Mrs. Grace Tucker stepped from the porch of her inundated home at Well- ington, Mo., Saturday and was drowned. ‘Three other persons, one here and two in Southeastern Kansas, had previously lost their lives. Relief Well Organized. Relief operations here were well or- ganized yesterday as the swollen Blue River, which drove 300 families from their homes and caused big industrial property damage, returned to its banks. At Clinton, Mo., paved highways were under 12 to 14 feet of water. Northwest Missouri was mudbound with 24 hours of intermittent wet sno: following 36 hours of rainfall that began Thursday night. Snow fell at Arkansas City, where upward of 100 homes are inundated. One hundred and fifty families are homeless at Augusta, Kans, where $500,000 damage was caused. Unverified reports of two deaths came from Winfield, Kans., where flood dikes failed and the worst flood in history swept into the city. Ottawa, one of the hardest hit towns, remains without water or electric light service or fire protection today. Water shipped in tank cars has partially re- lieved the suffering. Paved highw; between Kansas City and St. Louis have been reopened, and rail service to Sedalia, stopped Friday night, has been restored. SNOW BLANKETS ROCKIES. Severe Drop in Temperature Follows Storm In West. DENVER, Colo., November 19 (#) With many mountain passes and high. ways already snow-blocked and temper- atures sliding downward, the Rocky Mountain region today experienced a cold wave that was expected to be the most severe of the season. ‘Temperature readings of 10 above zero were expected to be recorded. The temperature drop followed snow Saturday night that swept the entire district and left a white blanket and shivery temperatures as far South as the Texas Panhandle. State highways between Denver and artecies for Sunday moforists as the snow had turned u‘ sleet along the route. Season for Tornadoes. Tornadoes come in season. But that season is not July and August. 1t 1= not even June, the sultry month At a conference of Canadian Boy Scout commissioners it was decided to send representatives to the next Sum- mer jamboree at Birkenhead, England to celebrate the twenty-first birthd: of the movement, of Summer, but is limited, says Nature Magazine, to March, April and May. April is the month of bumper tornado crops. A later' variety flourishes in May and, rarely, a few spring up in late August and September. days of Summer the funnel gloud. il > are not producers of by a condition that offers the popula- | Colorado Springs provided precarious | « The hot | For - BRITISH SUPPORT and Petrol From Coal Is Told to 'Says London Backs Him in Conference at Pittsburgh. Separation of Evacuation and Other Issues. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, November 19.— Gustav Stresemann, foreign minister, told the Reichstag today that “authoritative British opinion” supported the German view that the questions of evacuation of the Rhineland and revision of the total reparations that Germany is to pay because of the war are distinct ssues. It was the first appearance of | the foreign minister in the national legislature in five months. The address reviewed disarmament as well as evacuation and reparations and emphasized that these subjects cons tuted the chief problems in Germany's | foreign policy today. Sees Tssues Separate. In taking up the impending nego- tiations for a reparations agreement as provided by the understanding reached by the conference of six powers at Geneva, Herr Stresemann said: “I affirm with satisfaction—and in this I am supported by authoritative British _opinion—that the question of evacuation of the occupied zones and the settlement of the reparations prob- lem are two wholly separate issues.” The foreign minister reiterated Ger- many’s attitude on disarmament as stated by Chancellor Herman Mueller and Count von Bernstorff at the League session in September. “We shall continue to adhere to this standpoint,” he said. “The Anglo- French naval compromise and i's sub- sidiary agreements are, according to all present appearances, considered as dis- posed of. Outlines Arms Views. “I desire, however, to dwell briefly on one obvious point in connection with the general problem of disarmament. Admitting the expediency of confining general discussion of disarmament prob- lems to special conversations betwren the respective governments at Geneva. it is equally obvious on the other hand that all single conventions between g ernments must be completely subordi- nated to general world aims and as- pirations on this subject.” He emphasized that the most urgent problem with which German foreign politics and the country’s economic wel- fare is concerned is the reparations question. He referred to the impending appointment of a commission of ex- { perts to fix a new total for Germany's debt and added: “The conclusions of the creditor pow- ers respecting the final settlement of reparations mustsrest upon foundations which are wholly divorced from politi- i cal considerations. They must take due cognizance of the decisive economic is- sues involved for all powers. “Until the experts’ report is made I must refrain from any discussion of the question as to how the German government views the possibility of car- rying out the proposed program.” Answers Policy Critics. ‘The foreign minister answered_critics who have deplored the action of Ger- many in raising the Rhineland ques- tion by saying: “The time has come to take the evacuation issue out of the sphere of unofficial and confidential conversations and duly and formally assert our claims before the occupying powers. Many influential circles abroad agree with us in regarding the presence of foreign :‘rg‘t;m on Gertrg;n soil, which con- es even ay, as a rilous obstacle to the development Drpe inter- national relations.” He concluded with a eulogy of the Kellogg pact, asserting that history would recognize that it “marked =n important turning point in the shap- ing of international relations.” ‘The Kellogg pact means just what | the governments and the peoples of the various nations will make of it,” he said. “It would be cheap to make effective internationally at this time any skepticism that may have been expressed concerning it. “Germany, in any event, has the greatest interest in this treaty and | will do all in her power to make a living reality out of the great basic idea expressed in it. 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