Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1929, Page 2

CRAMTON FORESEES MILLION FOR PARKS 1929 Appropriation to Top Budget Bureau Figure, He Believes. Prediction that Congress would ap- propriate $1,000,000 for park land pur- chases this year in spite of the fact that the Budget Bureau has recom- mended but $600,000 for this purpose, | was made by Representative Cram- ton of Michigan, who appared before the Federation of Citlzens' Associations at its meeting last night in the Dis- trict Building board room Representative Cramton addressed the members of the federation in sup- | port of the bill ho has introduced into | Congress, which calls for a loan of $16,- 000,000 from the Federal Treasury to the District government to purchase park land within and in the vicinity of the District. The money would be spent on a five-year park land buying | program and be repaid to the Treasury in 16 annual $1,000,000 instalments. ington Memorial parkway from Alex- | andria to Great Falis on both sides of / ihe Potomac River, including boule- | vards on each side, the acquisition of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and ! Analostan Island and the extension of | Rock Creek and Anacostia Parks into Maryland along the valleys of Rock | Creek and Northwest and Sligo branches, | Other sections of the bill call for | the development of the George Wash- | President Reviews Qualifica- tions Before Filling District Supreme Court Bench. With the appointment yesterday of Leo A. Rover as United States Attorney | for the District of Columbia, President Coolidge now has only to fill the ad- ditional place on the bench of the Su- preme Court of the District created by | a recent act of Congress and he will }have disposed of all pending local ap- | potntments. | Althoug! | tentfon of acting hastily in making this | bench appointment, there is every rea- | son to feel that there will be no great delay in reaching a decision. Already he has a sizeable list of availables to consider. ‘When he sent Mr. Rover’s nomination | to the Senate yesterday he caused no | great surprise. Mr. Rover, who was first assistant in the United States at- torney’s office at the time Maj. Peyton | Gordon was elevated to the bench of the Supreme Court to succeed Justice A. A. Hochling, has been serving as United States attorney ever since, by reason of a temporary appointment by the local Supreme Court. It has been explained at the White House that the reason for the Presi- dent’s long delay in appointing Mr. Rover was due to the fact that he did not care to make a recess appointment and therefore postponed action until Mr. Coolidge has no in- respectively. He Outlines Advantages. The advantages of his bill, Mr. Cram- { tom said, were that land could be! Yought cheaper now than later, as the | value of park lands increased approxi- | gnately 9 per cent per year. Many of | the lands desirable for parks will be | bulit upon and become unava! not purchased now. The passage of his | bill would give the use of the land 10 the people 15 to 25 years sooner than | if the present system of piecemeal | purchases is followed, he said. i H. K. Bush-Brown told Mr. Cramton he would favor the bill if the Federal ‘Government would pay half the price of the land to be acquired in the Dis- trict. Mr. Cramton said that by vir- tue of its lump-sum appropriations and the fact that no interest would be charged on the $16,000,000 loan, the Tederal Government would make a sub- stantial contribution to the purchase and that he believed the bill with such a clause would never be passed by Congress, whereas the bill as written stands a good chance to be passed at this session. ‘William McK. Clayton said that the $7,000,000 for purchasing the proposed George Washington Memorial site along the Potomac in Maryland and Vir- ginia was underestimated, as he had it on good authority that the Potomac Electric Power Co. values the land it owns on either side of Great Falls at $10,000,000, including riparian rights. Applause Greets Remarks. “I don't think that valuation could have been made with regard to our mandate to the Federal Power Com- mission not to allow power develop- ments at Great Falls until we have acted on the question,” Mr. Cramton replied. “You will have to have a new generation of Congressmen on the Hill, gentlemen, before we allow power de- velopment at Great .” The re- ‘marks were greeted with loud applause. A passage at arms between President .George C. Havenner of the federation and Mr. Clayton broke out shortly aft- erward when Dr. Havenner rose to & point of high personal privilege to an- swer attacks against his choice of mem- bers of the federation’s committee on public_utilities. " It had been tnat the Washington Society of Engi- neers withdrew from the federation December 3 because Dr. Havenner, in sppointing his new committee after his selection, had not reappointed any of the engineer members ot the committee. Dr. Havenner read a letter from Charles B. Hawley, president of the engineer solety, stating that the withdrawal had been recommended in the report of a ial committee to the society on tember 27, 1928, before Dr. Haven- mer was elected. Proposed Changes Read. B. A. Bowles, chairman of a special committee o report on the work of the federation, read a report calling for several changes involving amendments 1o the federation’s constitution. The yeport was ordered to wait until the next meeting. Among the recommenda- tions were creation of an executive committee to have full power to act for the federation, appointment of a cor- responding secretary by the president, establishing & new committee on audic of expenditures, and keeping commit- %ee reports confidential until they are ‘presented to the federation. A commit- e was appointed to consider the nec- essary constitutional changes, consist- ing of Robert Bailey, Dr. W. P. Ke- neally, W. M. McLean, Lewis Gelbman L. 8. Trumbl = adopted committee e. ‘The federation e geports recommending an increase in the pay of Assistent xngineer Commis- sioners to $6,000 per annum, extension of New York avenue from Florida ave- nue to West Virgjnia avenue northeast, condemning theWuse of glaring head- 1ights on augmobiles and indorsing the prders of Capt. W. G. Stott of the third precinct to his men to keep out of gambling establishments while off duty. | Trafic Director <Willlam H. Harland | and Assistant Traffic Director M. o.i Eldridge, urged the federation to ap- prove the lert-turn rule now in effect | for vehicles at intersections controlled | by trafiic lights or officers in opposition | 7o the left-turn system proposed by the JHoover safety conference. The federa- Plon voted its opposition to any change #t this time. 166 NEW “ fwo Deaths Reported Here—Total for Month Is Six. One hundred and sixty-six cases of dnfluenza—the largest reported this 'Winter, were listed with the District Fealth Department yesterday. Two deaths from the disease were ; reported, bringing the total deaths rted thus far in January to six. HOLD-UP MAN SLAIN. etective Hiding in Bread Wagon Kills Bandit. YONKERS, N. Y., January 5 (@) — ‘A hold-up man was shot and killed to- | night by & detective who lay in hiding | in a bakery truck to frustrate an ex- | ted hold-up. The truck had been | Je5a sip twice within the past six weeks, | The victim was identified by police as | Joseph Scalice of Yonkers. He was ddentified also by a milk company col- Jector as the man who robbed him of #$100 in a daylight hold-up three weeks 2o, .DROPS DEAD ®an Suddenly Collapses Body of Only Child. WAUKEGAN, Ill, January 5 (@) — Standing by the casket containing the | body of his only child, Mrs. Mildred | Gosswiller, 30, Herman L. Krueger, 59, | real estate dealer of Long Grove, sud- | denly collapsed and died. Mrs, Gosswiller, wife of Walter Goss- willer, a contractor, died Thursday of influenza . A double funeral will probably be Jeld. BY CASKET. Beside FLU” CASES. | the Senate was again in session. In- asmuch as the office was being filled by Mr. Rover he saw no need for hurry- ing matters. The President’s final selection of Mr. Rover, a native of this city. is known to have met with the general approba- tion of the bench end bar. Before \lable it | making the appointment, Mr. Coolidge | is known to have received desidedly favorable reports regarding the manner | in which Mr. Rover has conducted the | United States attorney’s office since he was placed in charge last April. Aside from the many friends he has made in an official way, Mr. Rover is well known in Washington. He is past State deputy of the Knights of of the Republican national ticket dur- ing the recent campaign. ‘When first appointed an assistant | United States attorney in 1924, Rover | took charge of narcotic violations and | was instrumental in sending at least two offenders to the penitentiary for | ceived lighter sentences. Rover also | prosecuted Hellmuth P. Holler, charged with operating a “diploma mill” known as the Oriental University. Promoted by Maj. Gordon to be first assistant, July 1, 1925, he took over the charge of civil work of the office, where he handled a number of cases brought against various members of the cabinet in their official positions, except those against the Secretary of the Interior. He won a private suit against Secretary Mellon for $300,000 damages brought by Walter Holland, and & private suit against Secretary Kellogg for $500,000 brought by H. Ely Goldsmith. Rover also successfully defended a suit brought against Secretary Mellon and the Direc- tor of the Mint to compel the purchase by the United States of 14,000,000 ounces of silver, which, if lost, would have eost the Goyernment $6,500,000. Mr. Rover's closest rival for appoint- ment was United States Attorney James M. Proctor, who had the unanimgus backing of the Republican State com- mittee in and for the District, as well as many of influential citizens, includ- btr;g a number of members of the local T. Status of Proctor. It is understood, however, that Mr. Coolidge was impressed sufficiently by what he learned about Mr. Proctor from those who were urging his ap- pointment to this post to include him in the list of those whom he will con- sider in connection with the newly created Supreme Court judgeship. The Republican State committee of this city has recommended John Lewis Smith, former president of the local bar association and past national com- mander of the Spanish American War Veterans. Edward F. Colladay, Repub- lican national committeeman for the District, and William T. Galliher, rep- resenting the State committee, and a committee representing the local bar association called at the White House yesterday to speak in advocacy of Mr. Smith for this bench appointment. The President was represented after- | ward as having listened attentively to all that was sald in Mr. Smith's behalf and to have asked a number of ques- tions regerding his capacity for the judiciary, but he in no wise committed himself. He gave the impression, how- ever, that he intends to look the field of availables over before making a | selection. He indicated that he hopes to land a lawyer of high standards. Besides Mr. Smith and Mr. Proctor other local lawyers known to be under consideration for this bench appoint- | ment are George P. Barse, general counsel for the controller of the cur- rency; Dale Drain, William W. Bride, corporation counsel for the District; Henry H. Glassie, former member of the United States Tariff Commission, and Paul E. Lesh. Georgs C. Butte of | Texas, formerly attorney general of | Porto Rico and now a special assistant | to the Attorney General of the United States, also is being considered. | FURNACE GIVES CLUE IN DISAPPEARANCE | | Ashes Contain What Appears to Be| Particles of Bone—Boy Miss- | ing Nine Days. | By the Associated Press. ORRVILLE, Ohlo, January 5—Ef- forts to learn what became of 4-year- old Melvin Horst, who disappeared while | playing near his home here nine days 2go, tonight were turned to an exami- nation of ashes taken from th furnace | of the home of a neighbor. Elias “Nul” | Arnold. | Prosecutor Walter J. Mougey said | | they contained what appeared to be | particles of bone and part of a button. | A physician, Dr. A. C. Smith, concurred. | The prosecutor will eend the ashes | | to a chemical laboratory for examina- | tion. Arnold is one of five persons held at | the Wayne County Jail at Wooster on a charge of child stealing in connection with Melvin's disappearance. The others are his two sons,- Arthur and Wwilliam Arnold; his daughter, Mrs. CODLDGE STUDY | NAMINGOF JDCE Columbus and was active in the interest | appeared last night to have reached an Record of Rover. 1 terms of 15 years and in obtaining | convictions of smaller dealers who re- | 'SENATE TO ADOPT PACT | God will protect their interests, and | to take steps so that if Great Britain | will not return to the 5—5—3 ratio we | ‘TH]?.] SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 6, 1929—PART 1. - hoto shows general view of the Pai | the ‘meeting, was signed. In the center of the picture, Secretary Kellogg is se e _——_—_———— SIGNING OF ARBITRATION TREATY CLOSES PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE JNES AND EDGE TOASK DAY PRUBE Wet and Dry Senators Agree to Request Hoover to | Name Commission. | By the Associated Press. | Two Senators, Jones of Washington, a dry, and Edge of New Jersey, a wet, agreement on a resolution to invite Her- bert Hoover, after he becomes President, | to appoint a commission of citizens to investigate prohibition. | Both have offered resolutions asking investigation of conditions under the | eighteenth amendment. Jones' resolution requests the inquiry by & Senate committee, while that by Edge suggests a civilian commission of | nine, to be named by Mr. Hoover after March 4. After a conference between the two yesterday, Senator Jones declared he was willing to have the investigation by a civilian commission, and Senator Edge is expected to act upon the Wash- ington Senator's suggestion and re-in- | troduce his proposal, which originally was offered as a substitute for the Jones resolution. Should Edge do so, his new measure would require joint approval of House and Senate and signature by President Coolidge. In the opinion of Senator Jones, he as a dry and Edge as a wet, are in close harmony as to the results to be obtained from a prohibition investigation, name- ly, to determine what abuses, if any, exist, and how the prohibitory laws may be _more effectively enforced. | The resolutioh as it was framed by Senator Edge would authorize Mr. Hoover as President to appoint a com- mittee to make “a searching investiga- tion” of prohibition conditions, choos- ing for membership on the commission any citizens he sees fit. Senator Jones has been anxious ‘o have the investigation carried out by “friends™ of prohibition if it were con- ducted by members of the Senate, but he said today that he was willing to let the matter of membership rest with Mr. Hoover. ‘The opinion was expressed by Sena- tor Edge that he and Senator Jones would have no difficulty in composing their views. He said his purpose in de- siring a civilian commission was to take the proposed investigation wholly out of politics. Senator Jones believes the Edge proposal should find favor with Mr. Hoover, who during the recent cam- paign suggested an investigation of pro- hibition, ~although, Jones sald, the President-elect never signified whether | he favored the investigation by the| Senate or by a civilian body. | IN WEEK, FESS PREDICTS Equal Support to Treaty and Cruiser Bill Promised by Ohioan in Address. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 5.—Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio speaking at the National Republican Club today pre- dicted that the Senate would ratify the Kellogg peace pact “within a week.” Senator Fess said he would give equal support to the pact and the cruiser bill, asserting that such a stand was not' incompatible. “It is time.” he said, | “for Americans to stop thinking they | are living in a fool's paradise where can go up to their level. H Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. S. N, | retired, - another speaker, aserted thai | the two bills should be passed as nearly | together as possible. The ratio, he said, | of naval armaments established at the Washington conference, was no longer adhered to and that within a short time the ratio would be 1.8 for America, 2.5 for Japan and 5 for Great Britain. BOOTH TARKINGTON PATIENT AT HOSPITAL Famous Novelist, Suffering From Failing Eyesight, at Johns Hopkins. By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, January 5.—Booth Tarkington, noted novelist, is a patient at the Wilmer Eye Institute of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he has been under observation since Thursday. Hospital authorities refused to st whether an operation was being con- templated, but said that none had been performed so far. The 59-year-old author of “Penrod,” “Seventeen” and other novels has been Bascom McHenry, and her husband suffering for several years from failing eycsight. 8-i'lour Workday for Private Business. Employes in District Urged by Brookhart An eight-hour workday for men em- ployed in private establishments in the | District of Columbia was proposed in a | | or transportation company in Washing- | ton for more than eight hours in any one day for six days a week. | RESPITE SAVESTWO IN LEBOURF CASE Louisiana Governor Spares Paramour and Widow From Hangman’s Noose for Week. By the Associated Press. FRANKLIN, La., January 5.—At the end of what the law had decreed should be their last day to live, Mrs. Ada Dreher tonight bsgan another week of uncertainty after 24 hours, during which the thumb of fate turned first up, then down and then up again with in- termittent periods of doubt. The final decision of Gov. Huey P. Lovg to grant the couple, convicted of murdering the woman's husband, James Lebouef, a stay of execution until next Saturday came four hours before the final time set for the hanging at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Even when word of the governor's decision reached here, Sheriff Charles Pecot, passive recipient of the numerous orders and counter- orders of courts and executives, did not dismiss the New Orleans executioner nor disturb the new rope which hung taut above a 700-pound test weight. It was not until the governor had actual- ly signed the reprieve order that local officials and the 5,000 residents of Franklin felt certain there would be no hanging. Citizens Anxious. The day's developments, which started out with a disagreement be- tween the chief justice and four other members of the State Supreme Court, so stirred the citizens of Franklin that business. was at a standstill. Shops, homes and offices were deserted while the townspeople, most of them de- scendants of the Acadians immortalized in Longfellow's Evangeline, stood around the little red-towered jail and awaited the latest news. The occurrences of the day on which. they were sentenced to die were as spectacular as the circumstances of the crime for which the rouple were con- victed. The jury which convicted them had believed that they, along with James Beadle, a trapper, had conspired to kill Lebouef because the latter ob- jected to Dr. Dreher’s attention to Mrs. Lebouef and that they had lured the husband out in a rowboat on a lake at night, killing him from another boat and sinking the body in the lake. Judge James D. Simon, 30-year-old jurist, who sentenced the couple on this testimony, stuck to his opinion that they should die until the last, refusing to hold them Insane yesterday after- noon, but other agencies of the law intervened. Chief Justice O'Neil of the Supreme Court granted a stay of execution in the face of a refusal of the other justices to act, and at 2 o'clock this morning, 11 hours before the time for the hanging, the sheriff was the sole judge of which portion of the court he should obey. The governor joined the majority of the justices when the sheriff appealed to him for advice. An hour later, however, came a long- distance call from Baton Rouge. The governor had granted a reprieve. The word was carried to the prisoners, sleep- less in jail because of wosrry and be- cause a flerce storm was raging. Lightning flashed as the sheriff told them what had happened, and thunder drowned out his voice at intervals. A few hours later came another telephone call, and the sheriff was told that the governor had withdrawn his reprieve. ‘The county official locked himself in his office and used his telephone for hours, asking advice from every one he thought could help him. The advice was conflicting, and only the second reprieve saved him from choosing be- iween defying the governor and the chief justice, on the one hand, and a majority of the members of his State’s highest court on the other, with the possibility of becoming a murderer if he took the former course. Governor Gives Reasons. In sending this final word, the gov- ernor said that he acted as he did be- cause it was the first time the ques- tion of whether a chief justice could grant a stay over the opposition of the rest of the court had been raised and that he had been informed that a ma- jority of the members of the court had come to the conclusion that the prison- ers’ lives should be spared until the law could be interpreted. Today's two re- prieves came after weeks of insistence on the part of the governor that the couple hang. He ignored the recom- mendation of the parole board that the sentence be commuted to life im- prisonment, the punishment imposed on their alleged accomplice, who, accord- ing to testimony in the case, fired the fatal shot. Lieut. Gov. Paul N. Cyr took a hand in the case Thursday with a charge that the governor hsd “dou- ble-crossed” him in refusing clemency, to which the governor made a vigorous dental. The two persons around whom all of this activity and controversy revolved had gone through so many emotional crises that one of them—Dr. Dreher— seemed to have lost interest in his fate or anything else, it was said at the jail tonight. Before the last message was taken to him, he was in such condition that he merely “stared, muttered, and stared” each time he received news, those who saw him reported. Mrs. Lebouef, was far enough from collapse to rise from her cot and moan The bill would permit not more than | or smile, according to the nature of the bill introduced in the Senate yesterday | foiir hours a day overtime, on condition | message, 1t was sald at the jail. She afterncon by Senator Brookhart, Repub- lican, of Towa, and referred to the Sen- ate District committee. The bill provides that no male person could be employed in any manufactur- ing, mechanical or mercantile establis] ment, or in any laundry, hotel, resta: rant, telephone or telegraph establish- ament, or in any office or by any express < that payment for the overtime would be | at tne Tate of one and one-half time | the regular rate. | Certatn portions of the law, enacted in 1914, establishing an eight-hour day for women, would be applied to this measure, and the commissioners would be directed to appoint three itional eight-hour inspectors at $1, year, was almost_constantly attended by her confessor, Father J." J. Rosseau, and repeated over and over again, “I'm in God's hands.” Dr. Dreher, who had been visited frequently by a Methodist clergyman, showed as little interest in spiritual as mfieml matters tonight, jail officials sa n-American conference at the closing session yesterday, Bonner Lebouef and Dr. Thomas E.| en addressing the delegates. | = 120 REPUBLICS SIGN TREATIES TO AVERT ’ PAN-AMERICAN WARS “ x‘m;l’tlla(era! treatit (Continued From First Page.) | and complete ever adopted by the | | nations of the world. This demon- | strates that the nations of the Pan- | I-Arierican Union are determined to | ectablish tribunals and machinery for | the prevention of war by the pacific scttlement of all disputes between them.” Dr. Adrian Recinos of Guatemala delivered the final speech on behalf of the other delegates to the confevence, | in which he thanked the United States | for its hospitality during the conference and praised the co-operation received | during the parley. ‘The final ceremony yesterday took | place in the large hall of the Americas in the Pan American Union Building. Secretary Kellogg lost no time upon convening the plenary session in having the texts of the treaties circulated round the horseshoe table at which the delegates were seated. Only the United Stdtes, Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Brazil and Peru | signed the arbitration treaty. with no reservations other than the two which are included in the text of the treaty itself. These waive the obligation to resort to arbitration in cases where the disputes involve the ‘“domestic juris- diction” of states or affect third parties. Only One Reservation. ‘The conciliation treaty was signed with only one reservation. This was | introduced by Chile, and exempts from | this method of procedure disputes aris- ing from causes existing before the con- | clusion of the treaty itself. The reservations which ware made by single governments to the arbitration treaty fall mostly into two categories, those excepting disputes arising from factors antedating the convention itseif and those involving matters which, in accordance with national legislation, na- tional courts should be competent to solve, Other reservations excluded from com- pulsory arbitration boundary questions unless a special protocol were negoti- ated in advance. A few more went on record to the effect that the new treaty in no way affected or invalidated ex- isting pacts and agreements. After adjournment, delegates declared the conference to have been the most successful pan-American gathering ever . the most advanced | i | TAX REFUND PROBE Texan Likewise Launches Verbal Attack on Secre- tary Mellon. | | By the Assoclated Press. Consideration by the House yesterday |of a deficiency supply bill carrying an appropriation of $75,000,000 for the re- fund of illegally collected taxes was in- | terrupted by Representative Garner of Texas, a Democratic spokesman in Con- gress on financial affairs, who de- manded an investigation of the meth- ods used by the Treasury Department in making all tax refunds. Specifically, the Texan directed his attack at a proposal to refund $15,000,- 000 in taxes collected from the United States Steel Corporation. Gongres§ has been advised that a payment of this sum plus a payment of $11,000,000 for interest would be accepted by the cor- poration in settlement of a claim of more than $160,000,000 which it has lodged against ‘the Government. Mr. at Secretary Mellon and Chairman Hawley of the joint congressional com- mittee on internal revenue legislation. He charged that secrecy had shrouded the actions of the committee and that this should be put to an end. Defending the refund appropriation carried in the bill as well as the work of the Treasury and joint congressional committee, Chairman Hawley of the committee said the Steel Corporation refund had been paid by the Treasury Department yesterday. Hawley defended the United States Steel settlement and declared the de- feat of the $75,000,000 item carried in the deficiency bill would not forestall 1 its payment. Instead, he said, it would affect only the refunds of smaller tax- payers. Hawley was joined in his defense by Chairman Anthony of the appropria- tions committee and Representative Wood of Indiana, the ranking Repub- lican of that group. BURGLAR TRAP WORKS:; PISTOL SLAYS INTRUDER Cord, Doorknob and Trigger Prove Effective Combination Against Robber. By the Associated Press. 1 CHICAGO, January 5.— Four rob- berfes of his home within two weeks were too many for Robert Graves, col- ored, and he determined to put a stop to them. So Graves attached a pistol to a! frame near the rear door of his home, ! pointed it so that it would hit an in- i truder, and fastened a cord to the trig- ger and the doorknob. This afternoon an unidentified col- ored man, about 30 years old, shot | through the head, was found inside the door, a victim of the trap. Both locks q{ the door had been jimmied by the victim. CONFERENCE PURS MERGER SOLUTION Insurmountable Barrier to Agreement Is Seen by Vandenberg. No Possibility of reaching an agreement GALAPAGOS PARTY 0 HUNT RHINODON Archipelago From Which Darwin Drew His Theory to Be Explored. BY LOUIS M. LYONS. when the arbitration treaty, outstanding achievement of Garner also directed a verbal attack | [ —P. & A. Photo. SEVEN ARE HURT IN AUTO MISHAPS Five Are Seriously Hurt in Accidents Caused by Dense Fog. Five men and two women were in- jured, five of them seriously, in Wash- ington and nearby Maryland and Vir- ginia last night in five automobile ac- cidents resulting from the rain and fog, which clouded windshields and made driving hazardous on the slip- pery streets. Two young men were badly injured when the delivery truck in which they were riding crashed head-on into a Washington-bound bus of the Washing- ton, Virginia and Maryland Coach at Leeway, Va., on the Lee Highw 1 mile west of Hall's Hill. Harry Tucker Champlain, 20, of Ballston, Va., driver of the truck, re- ceived a possible fracture of the skull and lacerations. He was treated at Emergency Hospital, where he was taken by a passing motorist. Lewis Clifton Mills, 21, also of Ballston, the other occupant of the truck, received injuries to both legs, which George- town University physicians said last night may prove to be fractures, and lacerations on the head and body. Dr. John T. Hazel treated Mills at Georgetown. Frank Hall, 34, of Alexandria, driver of the bus, was uninjured. There were ho passengers on the bus, which was returning to the Capital from Falls Church. Drivers Deny Negligence. Drivers of both vehicles denied negligence in operation of their cars. The truck was the property of the Bergmann Laundry, and its two occu- pants, employes of the concern, were returning to their homes in Ballston. George Robinson, 25, and Mrs. Libertta Colella, 44, were seriously in- jured, the woman having her nose nearly severed and losing the sight of one eye, and the man sustaining a pos- sible fracture of the skull when the au- tomebile in which they were riding col- lided with a telegraph pole while rounding a turn in the road near Reds Corners, Md. Both live in Waldorf, Md. They were brought to Providence Hospital in a passing automobile, Crushed between a parked car and a moving automobile driven by an 18- yerr-old girl shortly before 6 o'clock, Erick Hintze, 23, of 245 Twelfth street Southeast was carried 15 feet between the two machines. Both hips were crushed. Miss Rhoda K. Hatton of 1227 B | street southeast, driver of the colliding | car, was arrested by police of the fifth | | precinet and charged with reckless driv- |ing. She later was released on $100 | collateral. | _Max Fischer, 28, who lives with Hintze and was beside him at the time of the accident, told police Hintze was | standing between his car, which he had been cranking, and a light truck, also owned by him. He stepped out from | between the two machines just as Miss Hatton approached, Fischer declared. | ~ The girl's car struck him and pinned | him against the rear of the truck, | which was pushed along the curb for | 15 feet before coming to a halt. Her father was in the machine with her. The girl left and went home, her com- panion remaining to report the acci- dent and summon aid. ‘The fifth precinct patrol arrived within a few minutes and took the in- jured man to Casualty Hospital, where he was treated by Dr. J. A. Radzievich of the hospital staff. His condition is seri_us. Man, 76, Felled by Cab. ‘While crossing Fourteenth street in | the 1100 block John F. Manney, 76, of | 630 O street, was knocked down by & taxicab driven by Frederick Bower, 25, of 211 Thirteenth ‘street southwest. He was removed to Emergency Hospital in the taxi and treated for lacerations to his forehead. Mrs. Dorothy Sulls, 22, of 1353 Tay- | lor street, sustained lacerations and bruises when a taxicab # which she was a passenger was in collision at Fourteenth and N streets with another machine driven by Samuel Saunders, colored, of 938 L street. The taxi was driven by Carlton D. Col}‘ev 35é 1{’;1345 P‘flur&a‘;mh street. rs. Sulis was trea at Emergenc; Hospital. i Minister Smith Sails January 11. ‘ MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, January 5 ().—United States Mm{swr vl;ysses Grant Smith is sailing for home on January 11 on the liner Western World. He is not expected to resume his post. Foreign Minister Rufino Dominguez is to give him a farewell banquet next Wednesday and the diplomatic corps | mittee Senator Vandenberg presented a | memorandum to the subcommittee out- | lining his also is planning a complimentary din- ner. on a plan for merger of the street rail- | way lines at the present session of Con- | gress appeared to be brighter last night | as a result of a conference which Har- | ley P. Wilson, sponsor of the pending | unification agreement, had late yester- | day with Senator Vandenberg of Michi- | gan, a member of the Senate subcom- | | mittee handling the problem. 1 At the last meeting of the subcom- | | individual views on the merger problem. The subcommittee | submitted this memorandum to the/ traction officials along with the other reports it had received and on which the comment of the companies was re- quested. Details Not Divulged. Mr. Wilson called on Senator Van- denberg yesterday for the purpose of discussing the contents of the mem- orandum and, while the details dis- cussed during the hour and a half they were together were not divulged, Sen- ator Vandenberg later made the follow- ing_comment on the present situation “In my opinion, there is no insur- mountable reason why in the near fu- ture there cannot be an agreement upon | an amended merger basis, which, while fair to the corporations, will protect | every public equity in behalf of which | we have been contending.” ! The particular phases of the merger dealt with in Senator Vandenberg's memorandum have not been made known. Valuation Held Uncertain. Shortly after Congress assembled in December, however, Senator Vanden- berg indicated that he was considering whether it would be fair to authorize a merger on a status quo basis, leav- ing for determination as soon as prac- ticable after merger factors which he regarded as uncertain at the present time. At that time, the Senator in- dicated, he regarded the $50,000,000 valuation provided for by the pending i plan as one of the uncertain factors which should be left for definite de-| termination by a revaluation immedi- ately after the merger, with unified operation in actual effect. In discus- sing the problem on that occasion he also referred to the economies or sav- ings to be expected from unified oper- ation as another element that could only be determined accurately after the plan is in operation. Mr. Wilson made no comment upon leaving the conference with Senator Vandenberg yesterday. ‘Two other developments in the mer- ger situation yesterday were: Receipt by Senator Capper of a letter from People's Counsel Ralph B. Fle- harty advising him that the existing franchises of the separate companies are not limited as to time, but have attached to them the provision that Congress has the right to alter, amend or repeal them. Mr. Fleharty told the Senator that the pending merger legis- lation would transfer these franchise rights to the new company but would not enlarge or extend them. Comments to Be Filed. Receipt of definite word from Dr. Milo R. Maltbie, the subcommittee's expert, and from Herbert Brown, chief of the Bureau of Efficiency, that both would be ready to file tomorrow their comments an the reply which the com- panies made a week ago to the original reports of Dr. Maltbie and the Efficiency Bureau on the pending plan of merger. Senator Capper had asked Mr. Fle- harty whether the provisions authoriz- ing the new company to Incorporate under the District code would give the company an indeterminate or perpetual franchise. ‘The people’s counsel drew a distinc- tion between the powers of a corpora= tlon as expressed in its charter, and the right to enjoy a franchise, which, in the District, can only be conferred by Con- gress or some delegated authority. Mr. Fleharty explained that while the new company might under the District code obtain a charter which would be | perpetual, “its perpetual existence as' a corporation would be entirely inde- | pendent of any separate franchise rights | that might be transferred to the new corporation by virtue of the agreement and would not make the franchise rights any more perpetual than they now are.” | Effect Is Explained. The effect of the pending merger legislation, he said, would be merely | to express the consent of Congress to the transfer of the existing franchise rights to the new company. With the statements due tomorrow from Dr. Maltbie and the bureau of efficiency, Senator Capper will be pre- pared to call the subcommittee to- gether within a day or two, and at the next meeting it is expes* " the Sena- tors in direct charge ... . “oblem will have reached th stage whe.. they | can begin detailed consideration. The situation probably will begin to take on more definite shape by developments during the coming week. The companies’ letter agreed to some of the changes in the agreement recommended in the original reports of Dr. Maltbie and Mr. Brown, but upheld the fairness of the $50,000,000 valua- tion, and contended the companies are entitled to have an established rate base fixed until a revaluation is made. In the agreement the fixed valuation would have a duration of 10 years, and the letter from the companies stated that the most they should be asked to do would be to shorten the time if it is found a revaluation could be put into effect in less time. . Haiti Receives Chnrsxmen. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, January 5 (#).—President Louis Borno this aft- ernoon formally received at the na- tional palace the dignitaries of the Episcopal Church, who tomorrow will consecrate the new cathedral in the first ceremony of the sort by the pre- siding bishop outside the United States. His visitors included the Right Rev. John Gardner Murray, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America; Bishop Paul Matthews of New Jersey and Bishop Charles Col- more of Porto Rico. Woman Fails to Catch Man in Chase After Purse Is Grabbed on Street at Night Her purse snatched last night by a young colored man as she was walking along R street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, Mrs. Claes D. Hal- lencreutz of the Chastleton Apartments pursued the robber for several blocks until he turned into an alley and out- distanced her. Mrs. Hallencreutz told Headquarters Detective Frank A. Varney, who in- vestigated the case, that the purse was a bag of French tapestry and valuable. It contained $10 in bills, a ring bear- ing her family crest and personal papers, She reported that the colored man Jjerked the bag from her arm as he was passing and took to his heels. She ran alter him and continued to pursue him for four blocks, she de- clared, before she was forced to give up the chase, Carlton B. Minor of 25 K street northeast reported to police of the sixth precinct that he was held up by a colored man last night about 8 o'clock and robbed of $49. He said he was at First and I streets northeast when he was approached by the bandit, who drew a revolver and cocmmanded him to throw up his hands. The man then demanded his money, and Minor handed over the bills. A police look-out for both the rse snatcher and the hold-up man s been sent to all precincts. A second hold-up was reported last night when Alex Grovett, colored, of ‘Twenty-second street, came to the third precinct station house and said he had been robbed of $35 at the gglm of a pistol by two colored men.! makers as Malpelo Written exclusively for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. BOSTON, Mass., January 5.—Ad- venture and science join hands in an expedition to the Galapagos Archipelago | which Huntington R. Hardwick is out- | fitting with the co-operation of the | Harvard Museum. Down under the Equator, in the South Pacific, Harvard's old foot ball star goes to hunt the monster rhinodon or whale- shark. For the thrill of harpooning this greatest and rarest of sharks, Hard- wick has spent almost a year fitting out a modern whaling expedition with such gear as has perhaps not been shipped from an American port in a half century. With him goes Winthrop S. Brooks of the Harvard Museum staff, to explore a group of the most mysterious and fascinating islands in the world. Naturalists at Harvard will await Hardwick’s return with some degree of the thrilled anticipation that foot ball fans of 15 years ago felt when they went to see “Tack” Hardwick play. The capture of a rhinodon will be a scien- tific as well as a sporting achievement, for science has had slight chance to study the occasional specimens cast up | on remote tropical beaches. But whether or not Hardwick har- poons his whale-shark, Harvard hopes that its experienced tropical explorer, Brooks, will bring back specimens that may help answer some of the questions that have puzzled science ever since Charles Darwin in the Beagle first vis- ited the Galapagos Archipelago. From his observations of the unique forms of life in these volcanic islands Darwin evolved his theory that upset the calm of theology and revolutionized the world of scholarship. Hardwick will sail about March 15 in his steam yacht, Arcadia, for a two months’ cruise. Mrs. Hardwick and their 12-year-old daughter, Peggy, are going. Hardwick's two Harvard room- Malcolm complete the party. They will take Brooks on at Panama. Harvard's chance to engage in this exploration lfi'rows directly out of & flsh story brought home to “Tack” Hard- wick last Winter. Fishing has been one of Hardwick's favorite sports since he stopped play- ing foot ball. Each Winter he has got sway from his bond business to go after the fighting fish in West Indian waters. Big Fish Captures Gear. His trips are made in the big Arcadia, built for his late father-in-law, Galen L. Stone. After Hardwick had finiishea fishing last Winter he lent the boat to his brother-in-law, Richard Hoyt, who took his friend, Lester Watson, and sailed off to the Galapagos after tuna. While fishing in a small boat they came alongside one of the whale-sharks so seldom seen and almost never caught. quipped with swordfish darts, they let drive. The first hai bent on the eat fish's tough as though it ad struck a steel vault. The next found a softer spot and went in. The big fish paid no attention to the barb for five minutes. Then it slowly rolled over and went down. It went down and down until it had their whole 2,000 feet of line. They tled on life preservers as a drag, to mark the shark’s position if it came up again. In half an hour their life preservers re- appeared, flattened out by the pressure of many fathoms. They bent on 2,000 feet more line .and tugged. Six put their backs to the line, but they might as well have pulled on the ocean bot- tom. Their tugs roused the whale-shark, and he went down 2,000 feet farther, taking the rest of their line. So they lost him, and, though they waited about the rest of the day and returned the next day to the spot that marked the loss of so much gear, the shark never came up again. Ever since hearing about this, Hard- wick has been getting organized to hunt rhinodon. He found in New Bedford Capt. George Fred Tilton, an authority on whaling. Capt. Tilton knew about the whale-shark. It does not spout like a whale. Its form is readily distinguish- able—a shark form. By its great size, even 60 feet or more, it is readily dis- tinguished from the smaller tiger and leopard sharks around the Galapagos. “Boby Dick Boat” Fashioned. Capt. Tilton told Hardwick ‘what he needed for a whaling outfit and put him in the way to get his gear. Charles Beetle made Hardwick his whaleboat. He made it of oak timbers and cedar rlanking, an exact duplicate of the tighi boats that followed Moby Dick in t};; l’;;y?ng otdwl;l?nng. ardwick an¢ is skipper got every- thing that whalemen use, thgoltou(gt, | longest harpoons, the darting lance that discharges a bomb to explode seven sec- onds after it strikes the whale, the long lance to deliver the coup de grace when the whale can be reached from the small boat, the bomb gun of solid bronze that has to be tied into the boat with a lanyard, it kicks so thunderously when it discharges the feather bomb at 25 yards point blank into the body of the whale. And, to prevent his whale-shark get- ting y by deep-sea diving, Hard- wick has a whaleman's drag of heav, planking to make fast to the lirie an tire any whale-shark that tries to haul it d%:ni o “Tack” feels sure of spotting whale, whether he sees a whnlel-,:h,-rk' or not. So he set about building a whaling crew. His men are in traj now off Florida with the whaleboat. Hard- wlfik means to handle the harpoon - self. Hold Competitive Drills, 71"2! cdl‘ew of the Arcadia, which has 27 hands, are engaged in com drills to make the six places g;til'l;: whaling team. In recognition of the real danger, even with a speed boat standing by for rescue is led, Hara- “ik has dtlelfl m!‘o wllx;unl lore to work out a system o wl;;kbo.; ‘i"kw- prize money for his Hardwick gets a rhinodon, will measure it and take num: 1:’;::: bone. He will investigate its interior, examine its organs, photograph it and | make a thorough postmortem that may :;Lge’m%e‘ p::du‘kno\'ledze of the n scl;nceh yet in the books of ut Brooks' main inte) ashore on the islands of the curfism. i The Harvard Museum is eager to get something from the Galapagos soon, because the giant tortolses that so fas- cinated have long been facing extermination. It is possible that these. not like anything else in creation, may hold the key to unlock the riddle of thf origin of life on this volcanic archi~ pelago. - The first exploration will - cipitous rock within 309 1:5: :‘p‘rgg coast of Colombia. It is known to map- Island, about all that any one dound mhw" thn.mt h: it. Harvard Museum sees a good pros- pect that Hardwick’s cruise may give Brooks a chance to make the fi'm thorough examination ever attempted 'he alleged hold-up took place on ‘Twenty-first - street between Pennsyl- vania avenue and K street. of this neclected speck on the Pacifie. (Copyright, 1929, by the North' ican Newspaper ufim?jh Ana