Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1929, Page 5

11 PERSONS KILLED INWESTERN STORM Middle and Southern Re- gions Lashed—Property Damage Mounts. Br the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, January 5.—Frigid temperatures descended on the Middle West and Southwest tonight on the heels of the worst storm of the season, which lashed the regions last night and today and brought death to at least 11 _persons. { The season’s heaviest snow in many | sections, piled high in drifts by a blus- tering north wind, made trains late, hampered wire communication and tied up street and highway traffic over a wide area, while temperatures hovered at the lowest mark of the Winter. Air mail service both morth and south on the Chicago-Dallas route Wwas sus- pended. The snowfall in Kansas and Western Missouri ranged up to 10 inches and some Kansas live stock men expressed fear of cattle losses with the lowering of temperatures. More than 5 inches of snow fell in parts of Nebraska and Iowa. Temperatures, which ranged down- wvard to one degree below zero in Kansas and Western Missouri this morning, slid still further late today and tonight with the prospect of being 5 below zero in| both States before morning. Storm Toll Mounts. hile cold and snow took five lives in | Jowa, Kansas and Wyoming, a Winter tornado near Bay City, Tex., killed five | persons and injured nearly a dozen others. Three Iowa deaths were in ac- cidents due to the storm; a man was frozen to death in Kansas and a rancher was reported killed when & snowslide buried a hcuse in ‘Wyoming. “The frozen body of an Indian was found in Oklahoma. Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Towa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wis- consin bore the brunt of the storm #s it moved Northwestward with a low pressure area from the Southwest. Temperatures had moderated in the Rocky Mountain region except in North- ern Montana, where the mercury dipped to 22 below at Chinook. FIVE DIE IN TORNADO. Fourteen Others Hurt Near Bay City, Tex.; Toll Mounting. BAY CITY, Tex, January 5 () .— Five persons were known to have been ¥illed and 14 injured, several severely, in a_tornado which struck seven miles south of here last night. Officials said they feared the life and property toll might increase with the re-estab- lishment of communications, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, JANUARY 6 1929—PART 1. ————ee— — — ——————— ——x S Left to right: Secretary Mellon, S. Mr. Gilbert arrived here yesterday for GILBERT REPORTS TO CHIEFS e - Parker Gilbert and Secretary Kellogg. | conferences on the reparations problem. —Underwood Photo. William M. Wright Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 5.—~The main dining room of the Sherry-Netherland, Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street, floor covered with tanbark, its ceiling most bizarre parties society and | Broadway have attended together. In a setting of penny slot machines, oyster bars and pony and dog acts, Willlam May Wright, the whip of the ringmaster cracking in his nand, and Mrs. Cobina Wright, his wife, the con- cert and opera singer, entertained their friends at their annual circus party. The party, given this year in honor of Arthur Honegger, guest conductor of the Boston and Chicago symphony or- chestras, and Mrs. Honegger, his wife, the pianist, was attended by royalty as well as persons prominent on the stage and in society, Prince Serge Obolensky, Prince Di- mitri, the Grand Duke Alexander, Lord Amberst, members of the Vanderbilt family and many others socially promi- nent attended the “Bill and Cobina Wright” Circus, like the one of last year, the “world's greatest.” Tent Bulks in Dining Room. ‘The great circus tent bulked through the large dining room, its interior re- vealing fantasies of, the scenic artist, Cleon Throckmorton, who added enough realism to his creations to represent convincing bits of circus and sideshow life. There were cubicles that housed gypsy_fortune tellers and bump-read- ing phrenologists. If one tired of the oyster bar and knew how to roll spaghetti around one’s fork in true ‘Three members of one family were killed and three others injured when the storm demolished their home. ‘Townsend Wiley, 45; Berdine Wiley, 12, and Claude Wiley, 17, were killed, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wiley were severely injured. Townsend Wiley was & brother to Charles. In the same community, D. J. Mayer, 40, was injured fatally by a flying tim- ber as he made his way to his home. He dledton the way to Bay City for treat- ent. The fifth victim was a colored girl. Mr, and Mrs, Bill Fondren suffered severe injuries. Fondren's back and arm were broken and a heavy timber shattered Mrs. Fondren's leg. The storm hit about 10 pm. It ewept & 150-yard swath through the community, tearing houses from their foundations and in some instances rip- ping out the heavy foundations. COLD WEATHER DUE HERE. Clear Skies Also Forecast Today— & ‘Warmer Tuesday. Clear and much colder weather is in prospect this afternoon. The rain, which started yesterday and continued into the night, will be accompanied by severe winds which the Weather Bureau says will constitute a “regular Winter storm.” Snow is not expected here. The temperature last night was in the $0s. It will start dropping before noon today and pass the freezing point to- night. It will be considerably colder to- ymorrow morning and night, no warmer weather being in store until Tuesday. ‘The serious disturbance in a wide- spread district over Lake Michigan eaused the Weather Bureau to order storm warnings posted all along the Atlantic Coast yesterday. Heavy snow Ja expected in the Middle West. ATLANTA, Ga., January 5 (P).r— Winter’s second severe onslaught of the new year bore down upon the South to- ‘night, bringing a threat of the season’s coldest weather, with snow in some fm\es and generally freezing tempera- ures. That the frigid spell would be of brief @uration, however—possibly not longer than two days—was the prediction of fthe local weather bureau. CHICOUTIMI, Quebec, January 5 #)—Chicoutimi and vicinity were in the grip of Winter today. The temper- ature last night fell to 20 below zero. 'The snow in this district has been par- ticularly heavy this season. The fall to date exceeds five feet. S THOUSANDS APPLAUD AS “MUMMERS” PARADE Philadelphians Cheer Annual March of Merrymakers in Fan- tastic Costumes. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 5.—King Momus let loose his human rainbow of mimics, monarchs and merrymakers n the annual Mummers' parade, postponed from New Year day because of rain, marched up Broad street to- day to the tunes of 50 bands and the plaudits of thousands of spectators. Broad street, was a spectrum of danc- dhg figures in golden spangles, stately monarchs in vast, many-hued capes carried by companies of pages, string bands in garbs of medieval courtiers, and an array of comic floats and marchers taking off some of the foibles The “grand jury,” the “racketeers,” Zindbergh's trip to Mexico, Mussolini's policies, the hunting mishaps of the of Wales and President-elect s trip to South America were mmong the caricatures presented. A brigade of “Chicago bandits” turned their mock machine guns on the crowds. FUND RETURN ASKED. Pestitution for Shortage of Pugh Demanded of Bond Firm, SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, January §_(#).—Formal demand for restitution of $104541.14, established by State checkers as the amount of the shortage of David J. Pugh, defaulting chief dep- uty State treasurer, was made by the State Board of Examiners today upon the Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland, writers of a $350,000 bond covering the Btate treasurer's office. Pugh pleaded guilty in District Court bere to four charges of misappropria- ! tion of State funds and was sentenced to a term of 4 1o 20 yegrs in the Stgte ¥ B~ Ttalian fashion, there were special booths for that. Vendors of popcorn and plain pop. men with megaphones who beckoned the guests to enter their sideshows, sellers of confetti and balloons whirled in a riot of sound and color under the big top, while an orchestra played and couples danced. Clowns Cavort, Guests Cheer. ‘While the sideshow business pros- and clowns cavorted, a procession of equestrians, bareback riders and ladies in tights on white horses moved arching over a great circus tent, be- | came the scene tonight of one of the| |SOCIETY AND BROADWAY CHEER' AT “WORLD'S GREATEST" CIRCUS and Wife Entertain Friends at Huge Tent in Dining Room of Sherry-Netherland at New York. within the ring. Guests in the bleacher and ringside seats cheered with special enthusiasm. | Next came the dog act and bicycle | show, punctuated by the crack of rifles that were being aimed and shot af ducks, clay pigeons and bull's-eyes by guests who prided themselves on their | marksmanship and by guests who were not such good shots. Costumes were colorful and varied, those of Indians, clowns, country hicks, | rube musicians, sailors, Columbines and | Pierrots. Mrs. Wright wore a costume of white fox designed by Allan Kramer, Mr. Wright the conventional outfit of the ringmaster. Billposters painted by Eleanor Schorer added to design and color. Many of the guests gave private din- ners to their friends before they pre- sented their pasteboards to the ticket man in the Sherry Netherland fent. Among these were Mrs. Jay Gould, Mrs. Harrison Williams, Mrs. Joyce Shonnard, Mrs. Edwin Main Post, Mrs. Walter Rosen and Mr. and Mrs. Willis H. Booth. Notables Present. Among those who attended the cir- cus were Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Gloria Vanderbilt, W. K. Vanderbilt, jr, Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt, Prince Obolensky, Prince Dimitri, Grand Duke Alexander, Count and Countess Mercati, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Cameron Church, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Paige, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hadley, Mr. and Mrs. George Gould, Mr. and Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, Ralph Bloomer, J. Cheever Cowdin, Larry Doyle, Paul Leyssac, James H. R. Crow- ell, Monroe Robinson, Ralph Barton, Miss Ina_Claire, Gertrude Lawrence, Beatrice Lillle, Ethel Barrymore, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Amory, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Benkard, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Drexel Biddle, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bodansky, Mr. and Mrs. Willis H. Booth, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Carring- ton, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ali Haggin and Mr. and Mrs. William Woodward. Mrs, Wright will leave in a month on a concert tour on the Coast with Mr. and Mrs. Honegger, to interpret Mr. ‘Honegger's sonE4 WHALEN RENEWS SPEAKEASY DRIVE 132 Resorts Are Raided in New York as Police In- tensify Attack. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 5—With 705 raids to their credit when they ceased activities early today, police resumed their drive against speakeasies early last evening, storming into 14 more places, most of them in lower Man- hattan. The raids apparently were made in conjunction with the usual week-end round-up of suspects, as the police, in raiding a speakeasy at 87 South street, arrested 43 men on disorderly con- duct charges, as well as taking the proprietor for possessing liquor. Gratified by raids on 132 speakeasies in the 2¢ hours ended at midnight Friday, Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen repeated his general order to- day to eradicate speakeasies and to stage another general round-up of criminals. A new order designed to keep thugs permanently suppressed was issued to- day by the commissioner, directing borough commanders to forward to headquarters complete information about all resorts of known criminals in their territory. ‘This information will be classified and made the basis of police activity against the places and their frequenters. A notable case made public today was the arrest of two jewelry partners, accused by police of acting in concert with a third man in staging bogus hold- ups. The partners were named as Max Hoffman and Jack Edlin, while Abner Blumfield ‘'was accused of being the alleged gangster who acted as the robber. Hoffman and Edlin reported to the police last November that they had been robbed of $50,000 worth of gems in a hold-up. They are said to have confessed that the hold-up was by agreement. Their revelations led to the arrest of Blumfield, who is said to have confessed in addition that he did a sim- ilar job in the *Bronx amounting to $17,000. Twelve other prisoners in the line-up confessed to hold-ups. ‘The Alabama cotton crop of 1,000,000 bales should have brought farmers more than $100,000,000, but the price has been lower than it should have been much of the season. Senate Troubles To Inform Nation Who Won Election Passes Joint Session Reso- lution Just Because of Constitution. By the Assoclated Press. Just as if the country was still in complete ignorance as to whom had been chosen to be the next President, the ‘Senate set about yesterday to create machinery to disclose, under stipulations iaid down by the Constitu- tion, the result of the electoral college vate which was cast this week. Of course, even in the old days, when there were neither fast mail trains nor telephonic communications, the country had a good idea who was to succeed to the presidency somewhat in advance of the date set for the inauguration, but the governmental machinery supplied in the Constitution to make it all legal and official must now, as then, be scrupulosuly observed. So, in conformance with constitu- tional requirements, the Senate yes- terady passed a resolution and sent it over to the House of Representatives providing for a joint session of Con- gress to officially proclaim to the country the tidings that Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis received the most votes in the electoral college and were therefore elected President and Vice President. The resolution reads as if the country still is in complete doubt as to the out- come of the election and that only the joint session will be able to determine the question. OIL STUDY PLANNED. Committee Is Authorized to Recom- mend Needed Legislation. TULSA, Okla.,, January 5 (#).—The oil situation from a national standpoint is to be studied by a committee named today by E. B. Reeser, president of the American Petroleum Institute. This committee, authorized at the Chicago convention, will ascertain the amount of crude required in 1929, learn how oil is shut in, estimate the potential output of the States, consider recom- mendations for retarding drilling of wildcat wells, learn how much oil is refined in the States, how much oil refined in the States is sold here, find out what voluntary co-operative recommendations to the several States of legislation for the further conserva- tion of oil. Boy Unworried by Transposed Viscera, But He Does Insist on Food and Toys By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., January 5—The strange case of Nile Russell Root, 3- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Root, today was called by Denver physicians “complete transposition of the viscera,” for lack of a monosyllabic definition. 1t’s quite an ailment for such a small boy, but in spite of a transposed heart, lungs, appendix and liver, the young- ster appears normal in his actions. If Nile is ever operated on for ap- pendicitis the incision will be on the left side, the doctors said. ‘The liver is out of place on the left side. There are three lobes on the left lung igstead R A e cardiac end of the stomach, under the heart, also is on the right side. Nevertheless, Nile is about as husky as they come, and he wields a deft right hand on knives and spoons and an equally agile left on forks. The strange case is not withopt par- allel, but, doctors nointed out, of 347,000 patients handled during a 12- year period at a large hospital, only 110 such transpositions were known. Nile's state of affairs has its draw- backs. HIs tecth are decaying too fast. The fact that his heart is on the right side may give him distress after violent physical exertion, physicians said. ight now, however, the lad's sole concern appears to be lots of food R NS | movements are now in effect and make | OFFGALS SLENT ON LBERT VST !Agent General Said to Op-t ‘ pose Public Discussion Now | { on Reparations Questions. | S. Parker Gilbert, agent general for reparations under the Dawes plan, late yesterday conferred with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Secretary of State Kellogg jointly at the State De- | partment following earlier conferences during the day with Mr. Mellon and Assistant Secretary of State William | R. Castle, jr. Mr. Gilbert let it be known that he will see President Coolidge and very | likely President-elect Herbert Hoover | before ne leaves Washington, probably | three days hence, for New York, whence | he again sails for Europe. | No information was forthcoming from | cither Mr. Gilbert or others last night regarding the exact purport of these conferences, but with the approach of the meeting of experts under auspices of the ieague to revise the Dawes plan | schedule and to determine what Ger- | many shall pay, the activity of Mr Gil- | bert here is certain to be interpreted in Europe as significant of greater in- | terest in Washington than previously indicated. | It already is known that Owen D. Young of New York and Jeremiah | Smith, jr., of Boston are to be formally | invited to act as American experts on the league committee by the allies and | Germany and will accept. | s Accompanied By Morrow. During a meeting of more than two | hours yesterday morning with Assistant Secretary of State Castle, Mr. Gilbert was accompanied by Ambassador | Dwight W. Morrow, an old friend and, like Mr. Gilbert, a recognized expert on world financial matters. In addition to his conferences with | Government officials here, Mr. Gilbert | s the house guest of Secretary Mellon during his stay in Washington. Any attempt to interpret into his | presence here or his meetings yesterday | and scheduled conference with the President and President-elect an indi- cation that the United States Govern- ment is preparing to accept the Euro- pean thesis that a general revision of German reparations must go hand in nand with a revision of interallied war debt agreements would run counter to | repeated public utterances of both | President Coolidge and Secretary Kel- 1o glgath of these administration chiefs are on record that the United States is only incidentally interested in repara- tions—a European problem which the Europeans should themselves work out —and that reparations has not the lightest connection with European bligations to this country. Seeks American Attitude. Eliminating therefore the administra- tion interest in any effort to revise debts and reparations jointly at Geneva, ob- servers were obliged last night to assume that Mr. Gilbert is merely explaining the general situation as it concerns| reparations to Government officials pos- | sibly in view of a decision at Geney to attempt flotation of German rail- way and industrial bonds in this coun- try, permitting Germany to make large cash payments to her debtors. As an official responsible to the Repa- rations Commission only, it also was conjectured that he sought informa- tion from the Government here as to the attitude which the American ex- perts might follow in their joint labors with European experts at Geneva. In his unofficial capacity, it was surmised, Mr. Gilbert might well confer with the equally unofficial experts once this Gov- ernment’s views are defined. In the opinion of Mr. Gilbert, ex- pressed at the State Department yes-| terday, he expects the League com- | mittee of experts to meet in Europe not later than the first week in Febru- ary. He stated that he expected to appear before the committee as an ex- pert witness but nothing more and was not interested in the selection of the American members of this committee | Opposed on Treaty Above: Senator McLean, Republican, of Connecticut, who yesterday attacked the Kellogg anti-war treaty and Sen-| ator Swanson (below), Democrat, of Virginia, who announced his support of the treaty. by the allied governments and Ger- many. In Mr. Gilbert's opinion no useful purpose would be served by a public discussion of the committee’s work at present, although he believed that one of the first duties of the committee would be to determine the amount of reparations Germany is able to pay. Once a settlement of this difficult point is arrived at, he believes, progress along other lines can be made. In his annual report submitted to the Reparations Commission, Mr. Gilb®rt expressed the opinion that Germany is now able to accumulate enough gold an- nually without borrowing to acquit her- | self of her obligation under the Dawes plan schedule. Here yesterday he de- clared this report was entirely nonpar- tisan opinion and German criticism of it as being too optimistic regarding Ger- man ability to pay was based upon mis- interpretation. The report was not de- signed to favor any one, he insisted. BABY IS STRANGLED. Swallowing a rubber nipple, which he loosened from a nursing bottle, 3- month-old Sylvester Smith, colored, of 25 Shepherd road was pronounced dead by Dr. Raymond Davis last night. Dr. Davis was called to the house by the mother, who found the baby strangling in its crib, but arrived too late to save the infant's life. . Bxing stories Knockouts Graphic/ 3 J PARKWAY QUSTER Municipal Judge Rules Apart- ment Owner May Va- cate Tenants. Ouster proceedings directed against occupants of 12 apartment units in the | Parkway, Connecticut avenue and Ma- | comb street, whose equity in the build- | ing was wiped out July 2 last when the property was sold at auction, following |its failure as a co-operative project, were upheld yesterday in Municipal | Court by Judge George O. Aukam. After a legal battle that has been waged in the court for two months for | possession of the 12 apartments, the presiding judge ruled in favor of Azreal | Furr, who purchased the building, fol- | lowing its sale on the auction block and who early in November instituted action to oust the resisting tenants. Breach of Contract Alleged. In his decision, Judge Aukam up- held counsel for the plaintiff, Roger J. Whiteford and Karl Kindleberger, who, ata hearing of the case December 21, introduced evidence alleging de- fendant tenants failed to carry out a | contract with trustees of the building, agreeing peaceably to vacate the apart- ments October 28, after having been given four months’ rent free. Judge Aukam ruled that this agree- | ment created a landlord-and-tenant relationship, that it constituted a lease, which had been repudiated by the ten- ans by their act of refusal to vacate the apartments at the agreed time. The tenants thus are placed in | jeopardy of early eviction from the {apartment house. Several days must elapse, it was explained, before final| action can be taken to oust the ten- |ants. In the meantime, Gerald M. Johnson, attorney for the defendants, plans to file a motion shortly, further contesting the ouster proceedings, he announced yesterday. An appeal might also be taken to the District Court of | Appeals, he said. | Lawyer Says “No Lease” At the December trial before Judge | Aukam, Mr. Johnson for the tenants, | contended that the agreement to vacate | Ocobter 28, which it was admited had been signed by the tenants, did not con- | stitute a “Jease” and that there was no relationship of landlord and tenant and therefore Municipal Court had no | jurisdiction. At the first hearing of the case in October, Judge Mary O'Tobig, before whom it was tried, indicated she would rule that Municipal Court had no josis- diction and Mr. Whiteford elected take a “non-suit,” which enabled him to bring the case before another judge. The Parkway, which contains 83 apartment units, 30 of which had been sold on the co-operative plan, was sold at auction after foreclosure under a second deed of trust held by Sol. Lans- burgh and Roy L. Neuhauser. Title was acquired by Walter B. Williams. _Later, | the property was acquired by Eugene A. 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