Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1929, Page 1

WEA' (U. 8. Weather THER. Bureau Porecast.) Falr, continued cold tonight; minimum temperature about 20 degrees; tomorrow increasing cloudiness. ‘Temperatures: Highest, 32, at 3:45 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 18, at 6 a.m. to- day. “Full report o Closing N. Y. Mark n page 9. ets, Pages 14 and 15 —gr Fn WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION - e gy en -~ ~ i * n b aadmaia o Sl CA ] The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Saturday’s Circulation, 106,538 Sunday’s Circulation, 112,356 1 Entered as secol post office, Wa No. 30,960. nd class matter shington, D. C. ‘WASHINGTON, D « 'MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1929—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. TWO CENTS. (#) Means Associated Press. " HOOVER MAY CALL EXTRA SESSIONAS | -~ EARLY AS APRIL 1 Avoiding of Hot Weather Fa-. + vored in Conference With Senator Smoot. | | . ADJOURNMENT BY JULY 4 IS IN VIEW UNDER PLAN | | Generous Farm Relief and Higher Tariff Rates Are Discussed by Utah Legislator. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. BELLE ISLE, Miami Beach, February | 4—There is some little likelihood of | Congress assembling in extra session April 1, instead of later in the month as has been generally accepted as the time President-elect Hoover had in| mind, as a result of Senator Reed | Smoot’s present visit to Belle Isle. | According to the Utah Senator one | of the first things he took up with Mr. | Hoover when they sat down for to-! day for the first of a series of con- ferences they will hold during the form- | er’s stay of four or five days, was the | necessity for calling the extra session as soon as possible. Senator Smoot sug- gested April 1, with the explanation that by getting to work that early Con- gress will be able to complete the tasks for which it is to be called in extra | session, before real hot weatl:er sets | Sees Early Adjournment. 1In his advocacy of April 1 as the time to start the extra session, Senator Smoot. stated with much positiveness that Congress will be able to adjourn before July 4. He declined to commit Mr. Hoover, but he indicated that he felt quite hopeful of the President-elect ‘coming around to his way of thinking: Senator Smoot contends that if Con- gress doesn’t assemble before the mid- dle or latter part of April, hot weather will force an adjournment before the important business for which it was | called 1{“ extra session has been dis- sed of. Senator Smoot, while discussing farm relief and tariff revision, the two rea- sons for an extra session, made the declaration that he personally would agree to giving the farmers of the \country anything they wanted in the way of assistance and relief with the sole exception of price fixing. He said that he would cheerfully vote for a re- volving fund of $500,000,000 if that is thought necessary to the needs. Believes In Higher Tariff. As for tariff revision, the chairman of the Senate fihance committee who will pilot the ‘when it reaches that ibody after g the House, feels con- I fident that thete will be & very liberal 'boost in_ the scoedules and that t.hel boost will be quite general. He added that this genersl inerease is needed if the prosperity of this country is to be ‘continued. Among some of the legislative sub- jects Senator Smoot will discuss with iMr. Hoover before he leaves Belle Isle, will be reorganization of the executive kiepartments of the Federal Government. He said today that he personally is just a5 interested in this subject as ever /before and that he is happy to know that Mr. Hoover believes as he does, that there is an urgent need for reorgani- zation if the Government is to function with higher efficlency and effectiveness. No Tax Cut Likely. There is not the slightest possibility ©of even considering another tax cut for the present, according to Senator Smoot. “The huge appropriations to be made for mew activities suck: as flood control and the revolving fund for farm relief, will imake it impossible for any one to think about, cumnfg taxes until some time in the distant future. . Senator Smott is of the opinion that ‘Congress will attempt to'confine itself to tariff revision and farm relief dur- ing the coming extra session, although he looks for the Senate to attempt to 'do some other legislating, but none of it will be of any great importance. Cates for Secretary of Interior. During his visit Senator Smoot will wrge the appointment of Louis S. Cates of Utah, nationally prominent engineer, #s Secretary of Interior. He said today that Mr, Hoover would be extremely fortunate to obtain the services of ai snan of Mr. Cates’ ability and experi- | ence, Senator Smoot arrived at the Penney estate on Belle Isle, where Mr. and Mrs. Hoover are spending their pre-inaugural | wacation ,in time for breakfast this| morning. After this meal the Presi-| 'dent.elect and the Utah Senator sat in the sun parlor and talked for more than an hour. At the conclusion of {this first conference with his guest Mr. Hoover went to the executive office on | another part of the picturesque little island, where he was busily engaged until noon. To Inspect Flood District. ‘Mr. Hoover accepted an invitation ex- tended today by Glenn Skipper, Repub- flican national committeeman for Florida. to personally visit and inspect the Okee- chobee Lake district, which was dev- |astated by the hurricane and flood of 1as tyear. The time for making this in- |spection trip, to give Mr. Hooyer an opportunity to determine what ‘can be ldone by the Federal Government in af- fording protection to that district from 'future floods, has not been determined. Others received at Belle Isle today ‘were Samnuel Koenig, chairman of the city committee of New rk; Mrs, Ballard Dunn of Omaha, INebr., and. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Hatrick of New York. Entertain Many Friends. | Mr, and Mrs. Hoover vesterday enter- ftained at dinner and later in the after- foon quite a company of friends, which included John Hays Hammond, Mrs. T. Hert, vice chairman of the Re- ublican national _committee; Col. |Charles A. Lindbergh, T. C. Gregory of California, one of Mr. Hoover's most Hntimate friends, who will be a house uest for several days; Col. Henry W. lAnderson, prominent lawyer and Re- ublican leader, of Richmond, Va., and [Charles S. Barrett, retiring head of the armers’ Union. According to Col. Anderson, who took s conspicuous part in the last campaign, Virginia and all of that section which Inas come to be known as the “New y|South” are looking to the liberalisfy of President-elect Hoover to develop the lhold the party got in the last campaign. Radio Programs—Page 22 MILLIONAIRE IND 1 Tells Senate Committee His| Wife Asked Him to Marry Her. Woman Stares Fixedly at: Jackson Barnett as He | Relates His Story. ; SR | By the Assoclated Press. Testifying in the presence of his wife, ‘ Jackson Barnett, aged millionaire Creek | Indian, bashfully told the Senate Indian ‘ affairs committee today that he had | not wanted to be married and that he | had not asked the woman to marry him. | Barnett appeared in response to a | subpoena issued by the committee, which | questioned him about charges that he | was kidnaped at the time of his mar- | riage. Committee members also sought information as to the disposition of | funds Barnett received from royalties | on oil lands in the old Indian Territory. | Answering the pointed question of Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon- tana, about his marriage a few years | in Oklahoma, Barnett grinned con- | stantly, replying usually in monosyl- | lables or with a nod of his head. | “Did you want to get married?” | Wheeler asked. e | The Indian shifted his gaze to his| wife sitting behind the Montanan, his: grin_growing a little broader. | “Never mind looking at your wife. Look at me.” shouted Wheeler. “No,” said Barnett with a giggle. “She asked you to marry?” “Yes,” and with this Ba shifted his position. “This wasn’t leap year was it? rnett again | con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) | IAN DECLARES HE NEVER WANTED TO BE WED| Above: JACKSON BARNETT. Below: MRS. JACKSON BARNETT. —rAssociated Press Photos. DEBT ANNUITIES CUT OF 20PER CENT SEEN Reparations Payments Under’ Dawes Pian Likely to Be Slashed. BY LELAND STOWE. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, February 4.—With the first ‘business session of the second Dawes _committee now only seven days away, the general lines of the“experts’ coming battle to fix the amount of reparations Germany must pay become increasingly clear. First of all, it may be stated that although no one here would be so rash s togamble on, the definite amount. to which the experts are likely to slice Germany’s obligations, nevertheless, these figures, within & reasonable mar- gin, are envisaged by many of Europe's soundest financial minds. After numerous 'discussions with cer- tain well qualified leaders, some Amer- ican and some European, who may be described as independent financial observers, the consensus of their ex- pectations of the e; ’ results offers figures which desire—and are already receiving—serious attention. Considerable Reduction Expected. ‘There is a wide belief in this qualified circle of opinion that the Dawes stan- dard annuities will be reduced by the experts from the present- 2,500,000,000 marks ($595,500,000) to an approximate figure probably between a flat 2,000,- 000,000 marks and 2,250,000,000. That is to say, Germany will prob- ably receive a reduction in the neigh- borhood of 20 per cent—in any case & reduction of between 250,000,000 and 500,000,000 marks annually. As to the number of years over which the payments will run, these same ob- servers are much more reserved. They know that the French, and perhaps the other allies, will demand annuities con- tinuing over the whole period of the United States war debt settlements, and also that the Germans will contest Be Figured. Beyond that, the question of mobili- zation of reparations bonds is likely to be a determining factor relative to the number of annuities which the experts will recommend. Therefore, cautious business men relegate the period of the annuities to the limbo of out-and-out speculation. The French and Belgians are vir- tually certain at the beginning to de- mand continuation of the full present annuity of 2,500,000,000 marks. Cer- tain French officials in recent days have made it clear that France regards the Dawes plan’s “index of prosperity” provision as of the highest importance. From this it may be deduced that the French experts will argue that the extra amounts which Germany might be forced to pay & few years hence, if the plan were unchanged, should be taken into full consideration and th:} waiving by the allies of the index clause in itself should be considered m‘ Berlin as a great concession. \ Haggling Expected at Sessiou. Opposed to this thesis, many observ- | ers are prepared Yo see the German delegates demand a sweeping slash in} the annuities to such an alrost impos- | | sible figure as 1,000,000,000 ox 1.500.000.-[ 000 marks. The early sessions devoted } to the amount of the annuities, there- fore, will assume the proportions of old- fashioned barter, and one quite as shrewdly drawn as between the pro- verbial Yankee and Scot. i With these widely separated general figures laid down the haggling will commence. The experts, as well as all European financiers, wil know that the task of reaching any acceptable com- promise will be exceedingly painful and will often approach the point of despair. It is here that observers declare the really great role of the American ex- perts will be influential. - As the only neutrals it will be the trump card c{l Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan to demand concessions first from one side | and then from the other. It has been shrewdly pointed out that whereas neither the Germans nor the French will want to accept the re- sponsibility for agreeing to a figure be- low what their nationalists regard as essential, they may agree to such a figure in the end if they can say, for home consumption; that it was the Americans who demanded’ it. Another reason for observance favor- ing some middle amount for the an- nuity, or approximately 2,100,000,000 marks ($500,220,000), is that it has been estimated that that sum would give England a share sufficient for what she needs to meet her debts to the United States. g % ! SHIP BILL CHANGES BEFORE SENATORS Harrison Amendment Would Strike Out Time Limita- tion Clause. By the Associated Press. A batch of amendments to the cruherl construction bill was placed before the Senate today as the time for a vote! drew near. Last-minute debate again revolved | about the main controversy whether the | 15 crulsers and airplane carrier shall | be laid down before July 1, 1931, as| tion. Senator . Harrison, Democrat, Missis- sippi, prog -an amendmeént strikis? out the time limitation clause and pro- viding instead that the President “shall be authorized to undertake prior to January 1, 1932” the construction of the 15 cruisers and airplane carrier, Would Permit Program Delay. The Harrison amendment would per- mit the President to withhold the en- tire program until after the 1931 naval arms conference which was provided for under the argreement reached at the 1921 Washington parley. ‘While foes of the bill were preparing other amendments, including some to cut down the cruiser authorization from 15 to 10, or even to give cruisers, Sena- tor Tyson, Democrat, Tennessee, took up the debate and demanded passage of the bill in its present form. “The United States has isolated itself from the rest of the world,” said Sena- tor Tyson. “It stands largely alone. “Therefore it must defend itself alone and for that reason I feel that it should have a Navy second to none in the world for the protection of its own great interests and for those doctrines which it has undertaken to defend.” The Senate approached a vote today on the bill. Passage of the measure, either late today or tomorrow, was predicted by friend and foe. Debate Is Curtailed. Debate today was curtailed under the agreement entered into last week at| the request of Senator Curtis of Kansas, Republican leader, and after 4 p.m. no Senator could speak more than 10 minutes on the measure. Voting on the stack of amendments is expected to get under way soon after 4 o'clock. Chairman Hale of the naval com- ‘mittee, supported by Senator Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat of the committee, is confident of passage of the bill in virtually the same form ap- proved a year ago by the House. These two Senators maintain that the request of President Coolidge would give the Navy only “paper ships.” Supporters of the Coolidge proposal, led by Senators Borah of Idaho and Burton of Ohio, contend that the Presi- dent should be given a free hand on the construction .program, so that if another arms conference is called the shipbuilding could be deferred. Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, has an amendment to halt the construc- tion in the event negotiati are en- tered into between Great Britain and this country for a limitations con- ference. However, Mr. Coolidge has let it be known that he would ask for an imme- diate start on some of the cruisers if he is given control over the naval pro- gram and that he wants this control because of budget considerations, Say Ships Are Vital. Senators Hale, Fess and Watson con- tend that the 15 cruisers are vital for replacements, and even if another arms conference were held thése ships would be necessary and would not be touched by any limitation. Therefore, they want it mandatory that building be com- menced within two years. ‘The entire program involves $274,000,- 000, to be spread over two and a half years. 'If the authorization is finally approved it is expected an attempt will voted by the House or shall be con- | structed as: the President sees fit. Mr. | 1 44 DEAD IN PATH OF GALEAND COLD SWEEPING EUROPE 126 of German Crew Lose| Their Lives in Unprece- dented Storm. |CONSTANTINOPLE CUT OFF | FROM WORLD BY BLIZZARD Eleven Crushed in Landslide—Tem- peratures Reaching 40 Below Bring Extreme Suffering. By the Associated Press. | LONDON, February 4.—At least 44 | | persons met death in Europe over a week end of unprecedented storm and cold conditions, the Balkan states and | Turkey being particularly heavy suf- | ferers, Shipping was everywhere deranged, | especially in the Black Sea, where nu- | merous minor wrecks were reported. ‘The most serious disaster was off the | | coast of Portugal, where the German | freighter Deister foundered yesterday | | after being driven on the rocks during a violent gale. The crew of 26 assembled on the topmost deck, but a huge wave hurled 20 of them into the sea. The | remaining 6 went down with their vessel. i Landslide Kills Eleven. The second largest disaster was in | | the Russian Turkestan town of Alma Aata, where a landslide on Saturday swept 11 persons to their deaths. It Iwas in this town that Leon Trotsky, former leader of the Red Army, was in exile for many months. Four workmen sent to clear the tracks of the Simplan express in Thracean, Turkey were frozen to death and the work of digging out the train, which has been blocked by snow for three days, was called off. Three persons were frozen to death in Budapest and many others were suf- | fering from exposure. est day in 50 dropping to 20 in vsiah';lle places of e London groped through a choking fog, which was the wm-us‘t one of the Winter, a belt of bitter cold | wrapped itself around urope and Asia, | Shipping along the China coast was bucking an ice barrier 30 miles out to sea, and clear dcross Europe and Asia | there was a cold wave which has not | been surpassed for a generation. | | { Constantinople Cut Off. The third day of the worst blizzard | in Ezr-ymm cut Constantinople com- pletely off from the world by land and: Sea. The Soviet steamer Krasny Flott, which _Leon Trotsky, former ledd. of the Red army, but now am. , is believed to be a passenger, had N refuge near the entrance of the s and" was unable to reach Con- stantinople, Sea. The Soviet cattle steamer Omsk, sank near the Irva Islands, i It was the cold- years, the temperature | below zero centigrade | Hungary. Shile ‘T while ee other ships, the T, the Russian p'srolp m’l}zrk&l} French Rhone were all aground.. Conditions in Constantinople itself were tragic. There was a serfous bread shortage because flour could not be transported. The temperature was 8 below zero cen le. Two-thirds of the shops, all the schools apd various 3:;':“;9;/9 closedb;s ::lchers and at- ere unable to r truAm the biulmrrb.';. Ty number of houses collapsed heavy snowdrifts, and there 3:?:‘ il; separate fires in the last 24 hours. Wolves were reported to have made their appearance in the suburbs. Suffering in Bulgaria. Dispatches from Siberia said that Bulgaria also was suffering from an un- precedented cold wave, the temperature in some sections dropping to 20 degrees below" zero centigrade. The city of { Varna was plunged into pitch darkness last night when electrical transformers were damaged. All railway traffic was suspended between Varna and Sofia and various continental trains were subject to long delays. A fierce gale was blow- | ing over the Black Sea and huge waves were sweeping the coast. Messages from Cluj in Transylvania sald that hunger-crazed wolves driven from their haunts in the snow-buried | woods and hills, had invaded towns and villages. Entire populations formed | vigilance committees to drive off the marauders. In the suburb of Cluj a wealthy farmer named Petro Severianu was re- ported to have been attacked by 50 wolves while driving to town in & horse- drawn sleigh. The two horses were dragged down and devoured while Severianu took refuge up a telegraph pole. The man's hysterical cries brought a group of villagers, who drove the at- tackers off. Severianu was rescued, but doctors found him almost frozen to i‘“h and apparently insane from TTOT. Germany Hard Hit. Germany also was suffering from un- precedented cold, the thermometer drop- ping to 24 degrees below zero Centi- grade, the lowest within many decades, in Berlin. Oddly enough warnmer temperature was reported from the usually cold regions of East and West Prussia, where barely freezing weather was reported. During the past 24 hours there was some abatement of the extreme severity around Berlin, but = temperatures far below freezing still were reported from | Munich, Breslau, Hanover and Stettin. ‘The cold, dry weather, however, is being haled as of great importance in reducing an influenza epidemic which for the past few weeks has been steadily declining. Dispatches from Hamburg state that the North-Baltic Sea Canal was ice blocked and that traffic had been sus- pended completely. Thirty steamers were icebound at the entrance of the canal. Holland was experiencing the coldest weather for a February in many years, Because of drift ice on the Rhine. Waal most boat bridges had been -re-: moved and February service was sus- pended, thus virtually isolating North Holulland from the south for all vehicular traffic. be made at this session to appropriate some money for a start. ‘There are rumors that foes of the bill will seek to block the appropriations, even if the authorization i§ voted, but leaders do not take this seriously, point- ing out that if there are votes en for passage of the authorization there will be votes enough to appropriate funds to carry it out. Maryland and Virginia News Today on Pages 10 and 11. | the first air mail flight to Panama, FHonduras. Wl hoped to reach Belize by mid- { Taciturnity of Chief Executive Pomp Omitted in Landing in Cuba on His 27th Birthday. Inaugurating Service, He Makes Hop From Miami on Schedule Time. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, February 4.—Col. Charles A. Linbergh, completing the first lap of landed at Columbia Field at 8:21 o'clock this morning, 2 hours and 13 minutes | after taking off from Miami. | The American airman, inaugurating an air mail service between the. United States and Panama by the Pan-Ameri- can Airways, made the hop on sched- uled time, and just one hour and four | minutes after his arrival here from Miami. hopped off for. Belize, Spanish | ~The weather Was' fa¥orable and- the Tnoon. It was the colonel's twenty-seventh birthday. but his arrival here was com- pletely business-like and there was no pomp or ceremony. 4 U. S. Envoy at Field. It was in compliance with the colonel’s wishes that he was received at the air fleld just as a commercial pilot, and Cuban gpvernment officials who greeted him were there purely in an expert of- ficial u;fll! Noble Brandon Judah, United. tes- Ambassador, was one’ those.’at the field to congratulate him and him-many returns of the day. The flight opens a new era, for Cen- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) PRESIDENT GIVES THANKS 10 FRIED Impresses Hero of Sea Rescues. Capt. George Fried, master of the liner America and hero of two sea res- cues, which have gained for him inter- national recognition and the adulation of America, today received official con- gratulations for his part in.the latest of these rescues, the saving of the 25 members of the crew of the sinking Italian freighter Florida, from Presi- dent Coolidge. Capt. Fried went to the White House shortly after noon today and met the President and received congratulations from the Nation's Chief Executive. Later he posed for news photographers with the President on the south lawn of the White House grounds. Capt. Fried, a man of few words him- self, was impressed with taciturnity of the President. “My meeting with Mr. Coolidge reminded me,” he said, “of the saying of the old Chinese philosopher, which is to the effect that we have two eyes to see with, two ears to hear with | and only one mouth to speak with. | ‘Therefore we nhnul:ksee and hear twice as much as we speak.” Capt. Fried was accompanied on his visit to the White House by Mrs. Fried, Representative George R. Stobbs, who | hails from Capt. Fried’s home town of Worchester, Mass.; George S. Mabee, | assistant director of the United' States | Lines, and Mrs. Mabee, S. D. Redfern, general agent in Washington of the United States Lines; Martin L. Petrey of the United States Lines and Darmus | Benham. Following a luncheon at the Carlion | Hotel this afternoon, Capt. Fried and his party left for New York to continue the sea hero’s tour. From New York Capt. Fried plans to go to Boston,} where he will be on. Wednesday, thence to Worcester, Providence and Philadel- phia. It has not been definitely set- tled when Capt. Fried will return to his ship, as his present plans also in- clude & trip to Cincinnati, the home of Mrs. Pried, before going to sea again. Men Held Greatest Need. The greatest need of the American merchant marine is men, enough of them and the right kind, Capt. Fried told guests at a dinner given in his honer last night by Clem Gerson, man- ager of the Carleton Hotel. To- what he termed . the failure of .the Govern- ment marchant marine, Capt. Fried attributed the inability: to secure suffi- :}l‘z‘m men of the proper type for the s, zpsubushment of recruiting offices in the Middle West was advocated by the sea hero as a measure of relief. “Re- cruits from the Midwest,” he said, “are yoyng fellows from the farms, ambi- tious young men who have, never been to sea and are enthusiastic and . The Navy gets them. with its recruit- ing stations in the Middle West, but we are forced to take men from the Eastern States, who are not always suf- ficlent or of the type we need.” A plea for government care for the (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) ELK HILLS PROBE SOUGHT BY WALSH Asks Coolidge for Action on Status of Section Held by Standard. By the Assaciated Press. Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Mon- tana, conferred with President Coolidge today over the reinstitution, under a recent Supreme Court ruling, of an in- vestitgation to determine the mineral or gon-mineral character of section 36 of the Elk Hills Oil Reserve, now controlled by the Standard Oil Co. of. California. The decision of the Supreme Court reversed a ruling by the District of Co- lumbia Court of Appeals, which en- joined the Interior ‘Department from changing the classification of the sec- tion from non-minerals to mineral and thus, under the law, invalidating the Standard Oil's title. Oil Firm Gets “Tract. ‘Under a survey made in 1903, Section 36 was declared to be non-mineral and pursuant to this, the Standard Gil Co. acquired the tract from the State of California and the Southerm Pacific | railroad. The law permitted non-min- Ieul or agricultural land to be opened homesteaders. A short while later, character of the land was questioned and the Interior Department ruled it to be non-mineral, ‘Walsh said, declaring this was done in spite of the fact that the tract was classed as mineral by the Elk Hills plat on file in the department. Re-survey Ordered in 1920. Nothing further was done about the case, the Senator said, until 1920, when Congress ordered Secretary Payne of the Interior Department to make a re- survey. When Secretary Fall came into office, Walsh. continued, he, “by a sweep of the pen,” declared the section non- mineral, thereby validating the claim of the Standard Oil Co. Senator Walsh interpreted the recent Supreme Court ruling as necessitating & re-opening of the case by the ary of the Interior, and it was this, he said, that formed.the basis of his con- versation with the President. BANDIT SUSPECT SEIZED. Wood-Holt: Probe at Detroit Is Tangled by Two One-Armed Meni DETROIT, February 4 (P)—The ‘Wood-Holt case was given twisted apgle Wd:;.w",h announcement by Detroit lice t they had arrested Osborn Holloway, 32, as a suspect in the $75,000 robbery of the Sturgis, Mich., National Bgnk. Holloway, minus . his left arm, is said to resemble Ralph A. ‘Wood, already identified in the robbc:y, although Wood is minus his right arm and is about 30 pounds lighter than Holloway. Y Some witnesses of the Sturgis robbery have declared the left sleeve of the rob- ber who stood guard at the bank door was empty, to CHEST FUND GROWS 10 §374164 AS NEW GIFTS ARE AUDITED |Sum of $140,988 Added by | Today’s Reports—Bishop Freeman Speaks. WORKERS ARE SPURRED Larger Donations Are Declared Necessary to Reach Goal on Schedule Time. The Washington Community Chest fund was swelled to $074,164.99 follow- ing reports this afternoon on additional contributions received. ‘The total reported raised today from all sources was $140,998.38, which added to the revised audited sum of $833,166.61, reported raised prior to the meetings to- day, gives the total. The addiiional sum reported this aft- ernoon includes $63,894, reported by the special gifts committee meeting in the ‘Willard Hotel; $60,671.76, reported raised by the metropolitan unit, and $11,240.29, reported through the up solicitation unit in the Hotel Mayflower today, to- gether with $3,900, reported given by Government employes, and other mis- cellaneous contributions. Bishop Freeman Speaks. Bishop James E. Freeman, the prin- i cipal speaker at today’s luncheon, de- | clared that the work of the Community | Chest in bringing together all creeds for one “great pui " is of more im- portance to the City of Washington t:-n' the actual money raised by the chest. Pointing out the worthiness of the Community Chest cause, Bishop Free- man said it ought to be “child’s play” to raise the full budget sought by the organization for its 57 member agencies. In line with this thought, Bishop Freeman emphasized that the citizens u:x!hlmm"lleel ):hllt it ‘i’s‘ (h‘:‘h‘ d;::y : cops | give e chest, indicating that Cf"“""’ ";13‘: k;"“"t"“"‘::‘ Gan 'l;‘i:" Ishould be stressed by the campaign | Co., over which there has been such in- | yorkers when soliciting that unless the tense interest for several months because | people give there will be * on | of heavy accumulation of the stock by | the streets as in Southern Italy, in- out-of-town_financiers, will remain in | valids and paupers.” the National' Capital, as a result of the [GAS LIGHT CONTROL TO REMAININD.C. Company Stockholders Seat Three Representatives of New York Interests. | Although progress has been made, the annual-meeting o: the stockholders, held | cAmpaign workers went forward early this noon at the ¢<ompany’s headquarters | this morning, advised by chest officials on Tenth street. that the goal will not be reached in the Generous representation, however, was | allotted time if contributions are not Secre- | | given to the New York interests, which have been purchasing the stock, three | | received “ faster during the T of the campaign than they have been new members beirg elected to the board of directors. D. A. Pearson, the New York financier who engineered the umrl‘n | sulted in the purchase of large blocks of stock, including 7,000 shares from the Leiter estate, was added to th: board; H. Prescott Gatley also was named, and ) ‘who has been assisting Mr, rson in obtaining stock, also was to serve on the board. Preston Makes Report. The other directors elected today in- cluded Ord grestom for several years | president of the gas company; Robe: | D. Weaver, James M. Green and Wil- liam King. Joseph Leiter retired from the board, while Edward J. Stellwagen, president of the Union Trust Co. and C. C. Glover, jr, member of the in- vestment bai firm of Glover & Flather, withdrew to make room for the Pearson representatives, the board membership being limited by law to seven. President Preston presented his an- nual report to the stockholders, this showing an unusually successful finan- cial year. The gas light company had a total net income of $658,768.89, in comparison with .a net return in the prfevious year of 583,088.33, an increase in earnings in 1928 of $75,780.56. Mr. Preston reported that during the year the Public Utilities Commission had drawn $62,000 in cash for expenses |in connection with the present revalua- | tion proceedings and that the company had expended $101,000 for the same purpose. Had it been possible to have added these sums to the net income for the year, the company would have had a tZil:xex'mmennl year, the figures indi- cated. The president’s report also showed that $190,768.89 had been transferred to surplus during 1928 and that the usual dividends had been distributed, amount- ing to $468,000. During the year a reduction of 2 per cent was made in the loss of gas from the time the product leaves the works This figure was cut from 6 to 4 per cent, which is held to be a record. The Washington Gas Light Co.’s total | assets now stand at $24,103,245. Total The company had 103,889 meter users | in 1928 and the average price for 1,000 cubic feet of gas was 98 cents. Improvements Cost $721,000. The financial statement also showed that $721,000 was expended during the year on extensions, equipment. -con- struction and betterments, while the ! amount paid for labor totaled $1,385,304. | ‘Today’s annual meeting drew an un- usually large number of shareholders on account of the many reports regard- ing the possibility in a complete change in control. Much of the stock pur- chased recently carried the provision at once to the new owner—that is, soon enough to be used at this meeting. Recent demand for the stock caused an advance in the price to $125 per share, a new high mark for all time. {So far as Washington is concerned, there has been much more interest in the gas company situation than in the spirited row between John D. Rockefel- ler, jr, and Col. Robert Stewart over voting control in the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. 1 Washington gas stock Mr. Pearson stated he was acting for a group of {New York investors, who believed it a good investment and also felt that earn- ings later might be greatly increased. It was feared by some stockholde: however, that some outside utility com- pany might obtain sufficient stock to substitute “foreign management.” The proceedings were enlivened by the presentation of three resolutions by Julian Plerce, librarian in the American Federation of Labor library, the first of ‘which related to valuation for rate g, the second to propaganda for or against public ownership and the third to the five-day week. President Preston referred to the resolution relating to public ownership, stlun.haut ntlhl:e:”:m and officers never e any propaganda for or against public ownership of any utilitles, or- in -connection -with any other public policy. Mr. Preston said he saw no reason why the company which re- | until it should reach the consumer. | surplus was reported as $6,883,433.55. | | that proxy rights should be transferred ! While purchasing his holdings of | up to the present. Says Greater Efforts Necessary. While emphasizing that the chest appreciates any contributions made to |it and that the amount any person is | to give is a matter of that person’s own i . John Poole, chairman of the 1 tee, declared I 2 In nection he urged the workers to impress ‘nwcme contributors that the o takes the place of 57 sepa- rate campaigns which would have been conducted by the chest's agencies under the old scheme before the chest was organized. g “Indications are that many Q‘ the givers are contributing what they’ 4 narily would give to one campaign. They must think in terms of 57 and. for a whole year if the campaign is t0 be a success,” Mr. Poole said. Audited figures prior to today’s lunch- eons showed $833,166.61 in pledges re- ceived at chest headquarters, This did not. include the gift of $12,000 from Senator Couzens, which brought the i total up fo $845,166.61. The totals based on figures prior to today’s meetings were *specia i ts committee, 757 pledges, totaling $604,011; group solicitations unit, 2,438 pledges, totaling $24,240.38; governmental unit, 1,182 pledges for $12,656.08: metropolitan unit, 9,920 ]vlm for $187,553.28; committee on colared co-ordination, 364 pledges for $4,705.87. U. S. Workers' Gifts Pour In. Contributions from workers in the various Government departments, who | have been appealed to through letters, | continue to pour into chest headquar- | ters. Additional reports from firms, in | which all of the employes have con- tributed also were being received. Spe- cial posters are being sent from chest headquarters to firms who have a “100 | per cent” record as represented through |all employes making contributions. Among gifts received today was a contribution from little Annette Rosett, 4605 Ninth street, who gave 25 cents, her entire bank account, to the Com- munity Chest. Elwood Street, director of the Chest, again emphasized today that the cam- paign workers are not only giving “their time and efforts” free in raising funds for the Chest, but that they are | paying for their luncheons. There are | absolutely no commissions paid the | solieitors. | “The Community Chest is organized by Washingtonians; its officers are Washingtonians; its workers are Wash- ingtonians who are giving, not only their time and work, but large contri- butions as well, in order to forward the work. No outside organization gets at penny of the money collected. All our work is done in Washington: the agencies supported by the Chest are all in Washington. The 6 per cent de- ducted for expenses, which is less than balf of what these collections former- ly cost, is used to pay modest salaries to the small administrative group at Chest headquarters and to finance the printing, clerks’ pay, etc., necessary to carry on the campaign.” {CHICAGO BOMB PLOT IS NIPPED BY POLICE | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 4.—A bomb that never reached its destination was dis- covered by police last night in a parked automobile. Looking in the tonneau, the officers found a S-inch length of pipe packed with dynamite. The explosive, they said later, was intended for the bungalow of Kurt Krober, a real estate dealer. Anthony di Giodanni and Tony Vit- tulo, who were in the automoblile, were arrested. Neither would talk, but police learned that Krober recently had a dis- pute with another business man, and officers were to question him today. e g e POPE MAY DISCLOSE PACT. ROME, February 4 (P).—If was re- liably reported today that solution of the historic Roman int g | should change its former attitude. Aftel the motion of Mr. resolutions was seconded and the resolutions were held for future consideration. » e the relations of the church and state in Italy, will be announced by Pope Pius on February 13, the of his coronation.