Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1929, Page 2

7 GAUNTLET BLOCKS HOOVERINTERVIEWS Aides Bar Office - Seekers. i Takes Twelve-Room Suite ' %, at Mayflower. President-ciect Hoover has established himself in 2 suite of rooms at the May- flower Hotel so far removed from the maddening crowd that office patronage seekers and other unwelcome visitors wiii finé themselves up against a stone wall in their quest for conferences. ‘The person intent on a personal in- terview with the next President musi run a veritable gauntlet of information clerks, aides. assistants and secretaries before he may be admitied into the luxuriously equipped private room which will be Mr. Hoover's office dur- ing the ensuing week or ten days. Entire Corridor Assigned. Virtually an_entire corridor of the third floor of the Mayflower have been | set, aside for the use of Mr. Hoover and | his staff. The suite. composed of 12 rooms, all interconnected, is so situated that no other guesis are in proximity in it. The only nearby rooms are oc- cupied by secret service operatives undg hotel attaches. | To get into the Hoover office one must first explain his business to a po- lite young man in an outer room. and | if he is fortunate he may then enter a room presided over by George Akerson. | secretary 1o the President-elect, lndl Lawrence Rifchie, a personal assistant to Mr. Hoover. Other rooms leading 1o the Hoover office are used bv 'he per- sonal secretarial staff, including stenog- raphers and typists | Dozens of Requests, Dozens of requests for personal con- ferences with Mr. Hoover poured into! the ears of the secretarial staff this morning, but few met with cordial re- sponses. Among the more fortunate in- quirers were Senators Moses, Edge, Kane and Burton and Representatives Tilson and Snell. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. in charge of inaugural plans, was fa- Vored with an appointment for tomor- THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. - (5 . €. MONDAY. TANUARY 1929. Tow, No appointment had been made ' with Senator Borah up until noon to-: day. although it was certain there would he a conference between the Tdaho Senator and the President-elect shortly. A private telephone exchange has been installed. Mr. Hoover will observe his old De- partment of Commerce office bours. 9 to 6 o'clock. All of his business activ- jties will be conducted at the hotel of-; fice. but there may be = few informal Juncheon and dinner conferences at his S street home HOOVER CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT ON GOOD-WILL TRIP | (Continued From First Page. ‘Brown, also of Ohio, as Secretary of Commerce, when he comes to make up his cabinet. Mr. Brown is at present | Assistant Secretary of Commerce. i ‘Senator Sackett is expected to present’ the name of Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, vice chairmen of the Republican national committee, for appointment to the cabi- net. . ator said after his talk with. | M?nfloovmz he and Senator-elect:| ‘Kean had recommended to Mr. Hoover | that Aml Morrow be appointed | Secretary of State. They told Mr.| Hoover that they had no desire of pos-| ing as cabinet-makers, but that thev | understood various sections of thel| eountry would be taken into considera-| tion in ing a cebinet, and thet ‘wished New Jersey to be given they said was well qual~ #pd i every way Zor the cfiee of Secre- tary of State, and they hoped that he would be appointed. e nis samistion fo walca Amoassatds MOIOW Qan ita- gereq. . Mr, Morrow was formeriy & partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. He has been 2 resident now for many years of New Jersey, and while Senator Edge 'wu’ governor of New Jersey. Mr. Mormw’ was appointed a member of several| boards by the governor. | Senator Edge said that he did not| teke up with Mr. Hoover the question of the legislative situation in Congress, | and that he had purposely confined his conference with the President-elect to the recommendation that Mr. Morrow | be appointed to the cabinet. | The New Jersey Senator said, how- ever, that ‘while he was one of those ! who had hoped that a farm bill might be put through now, and @& special session of Congress might be avoided in the Spring, he was now convinced that a | special session was inevitable and un- | avoidable. i Representative Tilson of Gonnecticut, | Republican floor leader of the House, has an appointment with Mr. Hoover for 3 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Tilson | had an active part in the Hoover cam- | paign. He is one of those members from New England who believed that | there should be prompt revision of the | tariff. Senators Sackett of Kentucky | and Fess of Ohio also will call on Mr. | Hoover this afternoon H At 4 o'clock Senator Burton of Ohio! is 10 see Mr. Hoover. The Ohio Senator led the fight for a Hoover delegation ' from the Buckeye State to the Repub- | lican national convention in the Ohio | primaries last Spring. H Among Mr. Hoover's earlv callers today was former Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, who also played a prominent, ! part in the Hoover campaign for nomi- nation and election. Pose for Photographers. At the White House following the conference between President Cooiidge ana Mr. Hoover, they posed together for the photographers. Mr. Hoover | referred all those who asked what had . transpired in the conference with Pres dent, Coolidge to “the fountain of new: the President Mr. Hoover then went immediately 10 | his headquarters in the Mayflower | Hotel, where he will meet ail his callers He and Mrs. Hoover, however, are liv- ing in their home on S street | The President-elect plans to remain | in Washington for a week or 10 days. No definite time has been set for leav- | ing the city. He has under considera- tion a visit to the West Indies after he pent about a week in Florida. If to Havana and other capitals | n the West Indles it will be with the | idea of returning to Florida and re- maining there until just before his in- | auguration on March 4 | So far no appointment has been made for Mr. Hoover to see Senator Boran of Tdaho. chairman of the foreign relations committee. or Senator McNarv of Or- egon, chairman of the commitiee on agriculture. It 1s expected, however, that Mr. Hoover will confer with bo'h | of these Senators during his stay here After Senator Moses of New Hamp- | r i"_shire and Representative Snell of New | “York had discussed with Mr. Hoover today the plans for the inaugural cere- monies at the Capitol, they talked over with the President-elect, the legislative situation in the present session of Con- gress. Senator Moses saic ter that the President-clect nad ncr indicated that sie would himself interfere in any way with the progress of legisiation Fenaiar Moses said that New Hamp- shire had a candidate for appointment 1o the cabinet. John R. Bartleti, now First Assistant Postmaster General Senator Moses said he would be glad to see him appointed Posimaster Generel in the Hoover cabinet, ' | was due to cerebro spinal ted the jaws to move and at the same | interested in the The President and Président-elect White House, where Mr. Hoover conferred with the F R A L MILLER TAKEN BY DEATH ental Surgeon, Famed for War Work., Was il Short Time. D Dr. den! Archibald Louis Miller, noted ta! surgeon of this city and nation- allv known for his work in plastic surgery. died in Emergency Hospital yesterday arter a short illness. Death meningitis He was 48 years old. Dr. Miller had been suffering from a cold and 2 pain in the side of his head for several days, his friends and phy- siclans stated, but had continned at work through Friday morning. making his rounds at Emergency Hospita). becama suddenly ill Frida; end & spinal puncture Eis fame for work in plastic wes frst ganad during the W when many veterans wao nad sustained ugly wounds to the face had ther aces restored nearly (o normal by his &L Eaierlng Amzy 2s a2 st the gistine “he vorinnE plestia aun 41y W O1gaNik & ~peiel iy @<y care of cases resulung froiu woulas w the face. Early in the war Col. Robert T. Oliver, chief of the dental service for the American Expeditionary Forces sought dentists skilled in plastic sur- gery. Dr. Miller, having gained recoj - nition among his fellow dentists -as well as his immediate superiors in mili- tary rank for his service, was recom- mended. He was sent o Bordesux, France, where he organized his awn bospital. Invented Specinl Headgear. After the operations were perforyied on the soldiers tnere came the prb- lem of getting the men back to the United States while their faces vere healing. due o sea sickness causing the wounds to pull open. This proslem, with many others, was met by Dr Miller through the invention by fhim of a special headgear, which perinit- e Deatal O a2t 222 ane nis time held the wounds and bone s¢ruc- ture in place. He is survived by his widow. Mrs. Elsie Miller; a daughter, Miss Evelyn Miller. and two brothers, one of yhom is George Miller of this city. Dr. Miller resided at 1400 Madison street. Funeral services will be held Wadnes day. Dr. Thomas C. Clark, pastor of the Takoma Park Presbyterian Ciiurch will officiate. Other details regarding the funeral are to be announced later Dr. Miller was a member of the Dis- trict of Columbia Dental Society and due to his fame in connection wilh his work was made a fellow of the #.meri- can Medical Association He was a thirty-second-degree Sc tish Rite Mason. & member of the Ta koma Lodge, F. A. A. M., and af the Mystic Shrine Dr. Miller, with other prominer tists and physicians of the city building of structures in the District 1o houf'e the offices of dentists ®nd surg was a member of the board of diiectors and a vice president of both the Wash- ington _Medical Building Corparation and the Columbia Building Corporation, | responsible for erecting struciutes at den- i ! Eighteenth and I and Nineteentirand I | sureets, | George Washington U. Graduate. | Following the war. Dr. Miiler ¢arried | on work in plastic surgery at 'Walter | Reed Hospital and since had done much | work of that order at Emeugency | Hospital Dr. Miller was a native of Himira, | N. Y. the son of the late Charlas and | Louise C. Miller. He was graduated | from George Washingion Univers ity in | 1904 end had practiced here since, ex- | cept for the period he was in the Army | during the World War. HOOVER TO TABOO ELABORATE PLANS _ FOR INAUGWRAL _(Continued From First Pagpe.) ) i | | view of Mr. Hoover’s announcement tha the ceremonies must be as sfmple as possible. s problematical tofiay, al- though the plans of Gen. Anton Ste- | phan, chairman of the parade com- | ! mittee, call for a parade of 20.000 per- | | sons, which will ‘require about three | hours to pass & given point. Gen | Stephan feels that this nifmber can | be cut in half or even more materially ‘redm:od, by cutting down the/numerical representation from each $tate and py reducing the number §f men in 18t { the services. | Name branc! photographed worning at ent. the Assoclaled Press Photo. ! Plastic Surgeon Dead CI'SALD MILLER. HOLY NAME SOGIETY ZONE MEETS HELD Uaice Apezces 3¢+ Apnnal Sarsinn Prowinent Sper Al X af Giavo. ‘The zones of the Holv Name So- cietfes of the District gathered in vari- ous churches last night at their an- nual meetings and listened to addresses by prominent speakers Rev. James M. Cotter delivered the Address before the men of zone No. 5 in St. Martin’s Church. The meeting was atlendeo by representatives of branches of St. Anthony’s, St. James' St. Francis de Sales, St. Jerome's and Holy Redeemer Churches. Rev. M. J. Riordon, pastor of the church. gave the solemn benediction ed by Rev. Patrick E. Convoy ector - of St._Anthony’s Church, as deacon. ana Rev. Joseph E. mMallo; rector- of St. Frances de Sales Church. as subdeacon. Rev. Frances X. Cavi naugh, assistant rector of St. Martin's, was master of ceremonies The men of zone 1 were addressed University at a meeting at St. Gabriel's Church. Right Rev. John McNamara, recior of the church, pontificated at solemn benediction and preached the sermon. He was assisted by Rev, Joseph Moran of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, as deacon, and Rev. Charles Hanneman of the Church of the Na- Uvity as subdeacon. The services were attended by Holy Name societies from 8t Gabrief's, the Nativity, St Jobn's Shrin» of the Sacred Heart. St. Paul's, Thomas' and the Soldiers’ Home chapel. Rev. Anspart Zawart of the Capuchin Monastery at Catholic University. de- livered the sermon at the Church of St. Mary, Mother of God. for the Holv Name men of zone 2. which included the branches from St Aloysius, Holy R Holy Redeemer, St. Patrick’s, te Conception, St. Peter, St. k's and the Church of the Good Sheplierd. Rev. James E. Connell, rec- tor of the Church of the Immaculate Cenception, assisted the pastor of Mary's At Si. Stephen’s Church the Holy of that parish was aug- mented bv the branches from Holy Trinity, Epiphany, St. Matthew's, Our Lady of Victory Al ine’s and the Church of (he Blessed Sacrament. Rev. Edward P. McAdams, rector of St Jaseph’s Church, delivered the sermon. Rev. Clarence E. Wheeler, rector of Holy Comforter Church. conducted the exercises in that church for the Holy Name men of his own parish and the churches of St. Joseph, St. Cyprian, Holy Name. St. Francis Xavier, St resa. Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Assumption. each military unit in the fitst division of the parade. His original apporion- ment of one marcher to each 10,000 persons in the State may be cut still further and may drop Lo one marcher to each 40,000 persons. Additionl subscriptions o the inaug- ural fund today, follow: J. T. Exnicios, $50 Max Fischer, W. Monigomery, $200; Irwin B.jof automobiles and other conveyances | accompained Sunday gales. while the Rev. Charles J. Trinkaus, in | ! | | ITH STREET STE [ Contempfated Location for| Engine House Held Part of ' Rock Creek Park. | | | | | i | | | | | 'The Dis Commissioners will have to look again for & site on which to build the proposed Sixteenth street fire engine house. | ‘Their plans to build the engine house at Sixteenth and Webster streets fore- { stalied by discovery of an old clause in the property deed. the Commissioners received & new setback today when the District Court of Appeals ruled that a new site selected at Sixteenth and Col- orado evenue was part of Rock Creek | | Park. which has been perpetually dedi- | cated ae a playground for all the people | of (he United States and in which adja- cent property owners have rights and | casements which must be protecied. | 'rne opinion. by Justice Van Orsdel, reversed (he action of the District Su- preme Court. which had dismissed & suit for injunction brought by Henry 1. | Quinn and other adjacent property owners, Attorneys Henry 1. Quinn and | George E. Sullivan, for the owners, ! polnied oui that the land it soped as | residential, from which areas fire engine | houses are excluded Congress'” Power Questioned Assistant Corporation Connsel Alex- ander H. Bell, jr.. insisied that Con- gress in establishing the engine house ar the point designeted was acting in | the exercise of its general police power. | The court. however. held that this power does not extend to the changing of the purpose for which a park has been dedicated. especially where the predecessors in_Litle owned portions of | the land forming the park and were supposed o have been compensated with | 'a view of the benefits accruing to the remainder of theit holdings by the establishing of the park. Justice Van Orsdel said the court | was not_impressed with the contentio of the District that the owners had adequale remeay sl law, because in such case the Disirict would have de- fended on the claim that it was ex- ercising a governmental function in providing an engine house Corporation Counsel Willism W Bride. shortly after being informed of the decision. sonounced his intention | of appealing it to the United States Supreme Court. “This is one of the class of cases which the Supreme Court may hear if it decides to do so.” Mr. Bride said “and 1 shall make every effort to get it before the court. 1 cannot agree with | | the opinion of the Appeals Court. I believe that Congress was perfectly within Its rights in setting aside fhis ! 1and for use as & site as a fire engine house even after it had been purchased as & park site. Congress has the right | | to undo what it has done. Holds Protection Is Needed. “If this decision and other decisions recently handed down by the courts Irestvlulnu the District's power to es- tablish municipal egencies in resi- | dential districts are to be followed to | their logical conclusion, obviously the | territories now growing up will be at| | least, without fire protection. We would be compelled to go out far into the | country, where there are mo neighbors | 1o protest, hefore we could find a place %o set up an engine house. This would | defeat our purpase. as the time taken | | bv the engines o reach the scenes of | | Arer would be so great asto nulllty the | protecticn they are supposed to afferd.” |DORAN OFFERS PLAN ‘ TO ENFORCE L!CUOR LAWS X DISTRICT nuec Prom Pust Mage “ oraviaes fay in tne naftonsi pronioion sc Commisicns: DOwh 2Cvigs 1wt f0s secuon i Sucppard wct win‘nl hh‘u to do vmh‘t:epln: records of car- | | riers there might be substituted a pro- | | vision that all records end reports re- | i quired by the national prohibition act | and regulations should be kept and; filed in accordance with the provisions | of that act and regulations made by the commissloner of prohibition. | He recommended that the section | | dealing with prescripions might be elim- | inated and & provision insefted similar | 1o the lanuage in the national prohibi- tion act subject to limitations of the | Willis-Campbell act. ' He advises (hat the nstional pro- hibition act makes provision for pro- curement of wine for sacramental and like religious rites and that by regula- tions the same system of procuring (and distributing such wine has been ! adopted throughout the United States. A different system he said, should not | by Dr. George Johnson of the Catholic | be adopted for the District of Columbia. i He advised that subsequent sections in the Sheppard act should be eliminated for this reason. | | He advised substituting sections of | the national prohibition act for the ! one in the Sheppard act dealing with advertisement of liquor, | In regard to the provision in the | Sheppard act for procuring seach war- | | rants from the corporation counsel or jany of his assistants, Commissioner | Doran advises substituting language | which would authorize the securing and | service of search warrants by members of the Metropolitan Police force, in- | cluding search warrants for private | | residences upon evidence of illicit menu- | facturing of liquor therein as well as {upon evidence of sale. He proposes that | | anthority might be conferred upon the corporation counsel or any of his assist- ! ants. the judges of the Police Court and | United States Commissioners in the | District. 0 issue search warrants and 2150 might vest the Police Courts with | | jurisdiction to forfeit property seized | under such search warrants, regardless | of value. | “The section of the Sheppard act deal- ' !ing with drinking in public might be | retained, he said 1 | He recommends a provision to the | {effect that no property rights shall | | exist i any intoxicating liquor illegally | manufactured. sold. kept or possessed | | ‘and that such contraband property | seized and forfeited shall be delivered | { L the District of Columbia or destroyed | under order of the court, making it | clear thal the Police Court has juris- | ! diction Lo make such orders. Sections giving a right of action to persons injured by intoxicated persons | and penalizing any person intoxicated | | while n “charge of streel cars, etc. ! | should be retained. he said. | | He also advises retaining the sec- | | tion which makes it the duty of the ! | Disirict Commissioners to enforce the {act and to detail qualified members | | of the police force (o detect violations | | and carryiug a penalty to be imposed | {n way officer who shall fail in this duty. Commissioner Doran recommends | | a section designed to cover the selzure | COURT RULES OUT | nounced 1n | that, it | cussion immediately sflerward, | uess, 1t remzins (o be seen what value | ! this case we shall have had simply one more ceremony at Paris, and everything | will go on as before.” U. 8. Policy Held “Muitilateral.” | HEAVY TOLL TAKEN | experiencing sub-zero temperature, gales | SENATE PACTVOTE | AATEDBYITALY i i Rome's Attitude Seen as Dare to U. S. to Reject Own Treaty. BY FREDERICK HOLLOWELL. ROME. January 7.—Discussion in the American Senate of the Kellogg pact for the renunciation of war is be- ! ing followed by the Ttalian press and ' the general public with exceptional in- terest——an interest somewhat suggesi- ing a dare to the United States io Te- ject for the second time a sysiem im-| posed upon Europe for the pacific set- ' tlement of its political squabbles. | The general attitude taken in re-, sponsible citcles here is that after America virtually forced the European countries 1o adopt (he league of Na- tions and then turned it own back o i, the -patience of Europe with American ideas will be sorely tried if the procedure is repeated with regard to the Kellogg pact Fears Cruiser Bill Passuge. Not that the Kellogg measute’s adop- tion or rejection would make any dif- ference (o Italv per se. because Pre- mier Mussolini already has officiallv an- the Chamber of Deputies was all very well to sign pacts of pacificism, but as far ac [talv was concerned she must be readv for any eventuality. Rut if America adopis the Keilogg pact and then goes ahead with the regularly scheduled cruiser program, that apparently will not be the same thing at all. Therefore, according io the authori- tative Tribuna, Europe will expect from America not only adoption of the Kel- | JERSEY CITY. N. J. January 7. logg pact-—because its mere adoption | The recent arrest of Mayor Frank without, its necessary corollary will | Hague Democretic leader, on a legis- | mean nothing —but also rejection of |jutive warrant, was declared illegal, in | the cruiser bill, which 1s due for dis- | an opinion handed down today by Vice | | Chancellor John J. Fallon. Hegue was the United States can prove to Europe | g rested November 22 as a restlt of his thai she really means to follow & Pacific ' refusal to testify before a legislative | Policy. invesligating committee a few days be- Txibuna says | fore the November election. The vice “Before the present spectacle of this ! 's declsion was given in &| state of the American mind, against Corpii abtion instilitedtiby which much criticism might be di- | gague. He declared the arresi, under rected besides that of lack of frank- | ghich'ii was proposed to bring Hague | to trial before & joint session of the | Legislature for contempt, was void. The vice chancellor’s decision was filed_with Chancellor Edwin R. Walker {in_Trenton today Russell E. Watson, representing the Legislature, announced that he would ask_immediate convocation of the Courl of Errors and Appeals to ruie on the decision. The 1928 Legislature ceases to exist tomorrow, but Republican leaders have announced that they will create a new investigating committee which will con- | tinue the effort to place Hegue on the {stand. PUBLICUTIITES ‘Che prize-winning chrysanthemum Hiblys Park, Tokio, Japan. ARRESTOF HAGUE * DECLARED ILLEGAL iJersey Legislature to Ask Court to Rule on Opinion of Vice Chanecellor. Br the Associaied Press may be attached o the Kellogg pact as regards the auns for which it was proposed by America and adopted by the European powers. “The treaty of Versailles was also imposed by America. accepted by Fu- rope and finally renounced by America itsell. We are now witnessing the tenth year of these American initia- tives which for good or ill Europe has been constrained to accept and which | ave virtually annulled by that same America. “In the present case either (he United States will make the Senate approve the pact and will then sus- pend the big naval armament program —in which case Secretary Kellogg's policy will have had authentic and working triumph-—or else the Senate will ratity the pact and afterward be- gin the armaments program: and in In any eveni, Tribuna asserts. “‘we - - shall have seen more clearly through i R ; P h the real American policy, which is not ! | igsln but multilateral. In u-mh'Pm - Ryan Issues Pamphlet the Americans want peace, but fhev 3 want, 1n eontrol 1 ana gusrenee | Referring to Proposed o it fundements! contradiction preve: MC."QG!‘ HE."E. America from being considered by Bu- :?peuu disinterestad n :n“ triumph | he: e propoged by he: ot wular interest to Washongion consigerable ..g ht on the coll e e Soit “The e . h Lsctive | tion,” ggchom‘. it n. 11 America 8! of industrial ethics at Cstiaolic LGAT COARICTONS D | gity, P heiwean wrofeed ids 3 Uiy W on Gs* Laznt Cn ne gpaliva- 0 Of e Lew ourv ruiang in lug valuation of its pmrvm Both of these projects are mentioned in connection ‘with the pamphlet in a statement issued | by the National Popular Government | Ryan refers to “hocus-pocus” ! | valuations of public utilities. His in- | quiry. he says, was suggested by a de- | cision of the Uniied States Supreme | Court two years ago in the Indianapo- | lis Water Co, casefi which. in effect, “compels the Public Service Commis- | ston of the State of Indiana to increase | the rates paid by the users of water | in the City of Indianapolis.” “Gamblers’ Argument.” ! theory of valuation, he says the only | Shipping and Property Suffer| ethical argument in ite favor s “a 2 sort of gamblers’ argument.” as List of Dead Con- “This discussion,” says the National | Popular Government league, “though tinues to Mount. L € corresponding opposite. Meanwhile the debates in the Senate are amply reported in Italian news columns-—and all opposition speeches are fully recorded. (Copyright, 1920.) not written in view of any particular | situation, is of special interest just now. when the so-called O'Fallon rafiroad | | case is before the country. This case, | [called -the greatest law suit in history." nas just been argued before the Unite NEW YORK. January 7.—A cold States Supreme Court. The Iataraiats | Nave pffected & large portion of the | Gommerce Commission on Pebruary 15. Y i | 1027, the reproduction’ cost While the Southwest was digging oul | {aescy Ratmeg by the FaNoads: of snowdrifts and the lake region was | ' Dy Ryan says that the issue is much broader than railroad valuation. declar- | ing that the principle of reproduction | cost, if established. will be universal. ap- | plying o street railways. gas and elec- | tric light and power companies, “all of which will doubtless apply the tule so | far_as practicably possible.” H The Court of Appeals of the District | Dr. Ryan points out. al- | ital Traction Co. Febru- jary 17 a valuation which is 80 | per cent above the value of the proprety in terms of 1914 prices and is probably | at least that much in excess of the actual investment.” | | “Apparently this court,” continues ! Dr. Ryan, “gave the company the full | benefit of the present reproduction cost {17 this valuation is sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States, it | will authorize the traction company to raise car fares from 8 to 9 cents. ver Lioing” Seen. ! | “The only bit of silver lining to the | clouds s the hope that if the rule of the Indianapolis case recelves general application I& the public utilities, llhe Varns storm | people will be compeiled to recognize o o | Hefinitely that the policy of regulation By the Associuied Press along the Atlantic seaboard cost at least three lives, sank small craft and drove | & steamer and & barge ashore. Three members of the crew of the fishing boat Henrietta were lost when their craft sank off Long Beach, long | Island, while & fourth saved himself by swimming in the icy waters four hours before he reached land. 11 Are Dead in Southwest. Off Newport. R. I.. the steamer Her- man Frasch, a freighter, bound from New York for Providence, was driven ashore, a small boat was sunk and a barge driven aground. The wind reached a maximum velecity of 60 miles on hour along the coast. ‘The blizzard in the Southwest cost 11 lives, delayed trains, interrupted com- munication and made highways im- passable in Kansas and Missouri In Nebraska and the Dakotas the temperature dropped to 10 below zero, | while Chicago and the adjacent region felt a drop of 18 degrees in 7 hours, which brought the mercury close to the | zero mark. The cold wave. which was moving northeast {rom Lake | Michigan. extended into the Suum.‘ bringing sub-freezing temperatures al- | only remedy is in public ownership and most o the Gulf of Mexico. Louis- | operation ¥ ville, Ky.. reported 14 degrees above | ~When that day comes it will wit- zero, the lowest temperature in the | Dess such deep and widespread re- Southern States. sentment that the people will not toler- The gale which swept across New |ate & proposal to buy out the utilities: York State cost one life in Buffalo and ' at the inflated value.” g caused heavy property demage in the| Dr. Ryan adds that public utility! western part of the State. A passenger | companies “will be well advised, if they in an automobile was killed when the | refrain from carrying their demands wind blew a large tree down onto the | for increased valuation so far as to car. The driver was severely injured. | provoke this measure of popular indig- In New York City a heavy rainfall |nation.” He points out that in this country $500: M. Goldenberg, $500; ! found transporting intoxicating liquor | temperature dropped from 60 to freez- | the opposition to capital and a fair rate Hammond. $20; Boss Phelps, A. Blair Thaw, $100; Adam A. Weschler & Son, $100; C. Gockeler. $100: L. A. Slaughter, $10 Chevy Chase Dairy B. McQueen, $25: Frank J. Colemal $100; Barber & Ross, Inc. $1,000 House & Herrmann, $200; Mann, $500; E. F. Droop & Sons <o $500: The Allies Inn. Inc. $50: Fakin, $250; Myer Cohen Irving Glover, $200: Burlington Hotel $300: Joseph P. Tumulty, $100: Ches. speake & Potomac ‘Telephone Co., $1,000; Maurice D. Roscpbers, 3500, & J. $50; H. L. and J. lsaac T. . R.| $200; W | for beverage purposes and forfeiture of | | such vehicles, to conform with the na- | tional prohibition act, but specifically | granting power to all officers of the police force o seize such vehicles and | I hquor. - . Parks Committee to Meet. The parks and reservations commit- tee of the Washington Board of Trade will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 | o'clock. in its offices. 504 Star Building, :’nmmsmns & number of congressional ills, . ! |of interest is “insignificant.” and that the average man is willing to concede to the owners of capital “that rate of nual return which he himself re- (#®).-—The | ceives or would like to obtain.” It is | only “special privilege” to certain “en- | | trenched forms of capital and invest- | ment” that the average man resents according to Dr. Ryan. = Gradually the number of nativ ing within a few hours. THREE BELOW IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, January 7 coldest day of the Winter was recorded here when the mercury stood at 3 be- low zero at 7 o'clock today. The pre- vious low mark was 3 above. Unofficial readings showed from 5 to 10 below. Despite the cold. few acci- | dents were reported and fire alarms |bord, rugge were below the average. About four [ declined until today their places have hundred .and fifty homeless men were ' been filled largely by Prench Cana- given sheiter in police stations. dians, who are born lumbermen. BEST “MUM” PLANT A On this one plant there wei | from Montana. there took off the blindfold, had no idea | where I was.” i | expenses, interest and dividends on the | agreement stand as It is, bui. whether ! to or greater than the amount remain- d Yankee lumberjacks hes | THE SHOW 1. TOASKTIATER CANADA RUM BAR Opposition Is Expected to Plea for More Aid in En- forcing Dry Law. By the Associaied Press OTTAWA, January 7.-—Increased as- sistance of Canada in enforcing the Volstead act will be asked by repre- sentatives of the United States at = conference opening tomorrow. The general purpose of the conference is | discussion of means of preventing smuggling. The situation along the border will be cunvassed. The Uniled Staies re- quests that Canada refuse clearance to at {he - recent chrysanthonmiom shew. ta boats. vehicles or other carriers having 523 blooms. on board liquor or any commodity iated Press Photo. which is prohibited entry under United AN THOUGHT DEAD .25 SHELDFORINQURY Claims to Be Rancher Be- fieved Burned With Home. Charges Kidnap Plot. —ASS Opposition Expected Anv proposal of this nature probably will bring forth strong opposition. It is generaily accepied fnai action ng those lines would require an amend- ment o the Canada-United States ani- smuggling treaiy of 1924, and the Do- minfon Parliament would not likely agree Lo such an amendment without prolonged debate. Again, there sre those who feel that aequiescence on the part. of the Dominion 1o a request of this character worild produce @ seri- ous detriment 1o Canada’s export. frade. Furthermore. ihe legal question arises as tn the right of the Dominfon gov- t to prohibit export s intimaied that 8 request may | 08 made o Canada for a provision in the anti-smuggling treaty for the ex- tradition fo the United States and Canesda of persons guilty of offenses against the customs laws of either country. The feeling in certain circles is thal such a step might meet with public disapprovai as being 0o arastic. Canada iikelv will have counter- requests o make al the conference. + Silks, cigarettes and a variety of other American commodities have been surreptitiously finding their way to this | country without payment of cusioms duties from time to time. The amounts 1of these smuggied goods are somewhat ! large, despite the watchful eye of Cana- dian customs officials and recent enact- | ment by Pariiament of heavy penalties | for such offenses. Bv the Associated Press. SALT LARE CITY. Januarv 7.—A strange story of abduction and confine- ment for 19 days was toid by a man who appeared 2t a service station here yesterday, blindfolded and gagged. and declared he was J. C. Price, 37, who was believed to have been burned to death in @ fire at his ranch near Big Timber, Moni., December 18. A charred body taken from the house ruins there identified oy a coroner’s jury ws that of Price, was buried at Bozeman, Mont. Big Timber authorities notified the police here by lelegram last night | S VSRR that $14.000 on an insurance policy heid | Sl s by Price had been paid to his father Dr. O. D. Skeiton, under-secretary of Securing of the Isurance money was State for exiernal affairs for Canada. given as the motive for his kidnaping Was slated to be chosen, at a prelimin- in the confused story Price told police. ' 8I¥ mefl(nzvlhxs afternoon. to preside He said Lwo men seized him at Big|at the formai sessions of the conference Timber nearly three weeks ago while Which will start tomorrow. to last two he was packing up household goods in | OF three davs. The meetings will be in his tanch house. After relating his Camera. " 3 story the map was placed in the loca] | ~Representativec of Canadian official- Jsil incommunicado pending arrival of | dom and of the United States legation investigating authorities from Montana. | rranged to meet the United Staies “T am Price,” he declared. "I was |Tépresentatives, headed by Rear Ad- kidnaped 19 days ago and carried away | miral F. O. Billard, head of the Coast from my homestead by (wo men. They | Guard. on their arrival from Washing- kept. me blindfolded and hendcuffed and | 'on. This evening the visitors will be 1 didn't see the light of day again until the guests of the Canadian delegates to | yesterdey. They left me alone then in | the conference POSSE PREPARED O BATTLE INDIANS Arizona Expedition Expscted to Capture or Kill' Maraud- ing Apashe Band, the automobile in which we traveled and T kicked out a; window and got away. I ran to the| service station. and until the attendant | Price has a wife and three children living in Big Timbe MALTBIE QUTLINES MERGER BENEFITS IN CAPPER LETTER (Continusd Prom Pirst Page ) oy Dr. John A. Ryan, profemor e 387 87 the Assciaies Precs. SOTEL Ariz January T—Segsés ndign wart daye sous A3 pr The pepraition whien lafc Agna, Preia ast Taur rang p » Qown and capisid o kil & kann ef Weoie 10 Lie SLCKNG: v £ ""-nzn‘m they have at present. Apaches was believed to be drawing co" uoleshm:wnthlllg;ay &ttle‘tétrlc near the Indian camp in the fastnesses 3 n a somewha erent situa- tion. Presumably it will hold all of the | °f the Sierra Madre Mountains. common stock of the new company,| A Ditched batile was expected some lgd consequently will b: dlrecltli\; [ time today, and several men here have affected by any consideration which | been picked to augment the punitive affects the earnings after payment of |, oo ir o vunner returns saying that ‘These in- i Traction ©of ol . snenia e agreemant ne av tn vitnons preferred stock. Obviously it is the | reinforcements are needed. | party that would gain primarily by the | clude Sam Hayhurst, an old-time In- “gci‘;‘i“’;‘gr":fl;!g“ e ‘fgf“:;“l‘;“ { dian trailer, who trailed the same band Hor mow before us s not whether it|Of Apaches when it raided the Dia- would be better for the Washington |mond A ranch in 1922. Raifiway & Electric Co. o have the! The expedition into the mountains is headed by Francisco Fimbres, whose the Washington Railway & Electric Co. | child was snatched from his dying can afford to withdraw from the mer-| mother’s arms when the Fimbres fam- ger unless the agreement contdins the {ly was ambushed by the Apaches in Pproposed rate base section. October. 1927, on & trail south of Noca “To answer this question. one must | Mrs, Fimbres was killed by the Indians first consider what the position of the pefore they snatched up the small bov Washington Railway system will be if | and fled. Fimbres and a small daugh- the present conditions continue. It | ter, who were several hundred yards be- has been pointed out repeatedly that | hind them when the attack occurred the Washington Railways have no rate escaped unhurt. base adjucated by the courts and that The expedition set out with the pur- the only thing which has been estab- pose of ridding the mountain region lished is the value of the property of the marauding band. Tt was believed found by the commission as of July that the Fimbres boy will be found alive 1, 1919, based upon an inventory as ' when the two forces meet. The pursuit of June 30, 1914. The compeny insists . party went ss far as Colonia Morales this valuation was unfair and unrea- by truck. From that point they planned songble as of 1919. It has also been to traverse the wild mountainous ragion pointed out that if the commission 'on horseback until they neared their would refuse to deiermine reasonable | objective, and then dismount and go fare for the unifled company without | the remainder of the distance on foot. a new valuation, it would of necessity | take the same position regarding the Washington Railways if the companies were not unified, and that fares on the GRANT SWORN IN OFFICE. two systems operated separately would = naturally await & new valuation of the ' Director of Mint Starts Seecond Washington_railways . “Hence the Washington Railway & | Term in Department. Robert J Flectric Co. could hope to gain by the G e O i continuance of separate operation onlv | o “ihe Treasury Department for his on the assumption that the net income ' o ond term as director of the Mint. which 1. would derive from the opera- | ““ViCEratt TS R %0ath in the pres- tion of its own system would be equal 'ence of a large group of Treasury of- : fictals, Including Assistant Secretary ing from the unified system aiter § H Bond The oath was adminis- operating expenses. interest and divi- | igred by H. W. Stutler. assistant of the dz?ds on the preferred stock had been | gppojntment division, Treasury Depart- ald.” | ment. Dr. Maltbie said that. assuming| Mr. Grant Saturday concluded the a $250,000 deficiency. which he said is | service of his first term of five vears aoont twice the deficiency of 1927, as director of the Mint and will be there would remain $500,000 as & gain | the director for the next five years. for the Washinglon Raflway & Electric | He formerly was superintendent ¢* the Co. as a resuit of the unification. Denver Mint, has falled. They will realize that the Jf 3 Extra Auto Mechanics are often needed in the Winter season. The shop foreman does not have time to go out in search of one, and it is not necessary. Send a Help Wanted adver- tisement to The Star, worded so as to indicate all the qualifications demanded, and have the right man the same afternoon or next morning. Help Wanted advertisements for the daily Star are received wp to 11 p.m. day before issue and for The Sunday shar up to 5:30 p.m. Saturday.