Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) The only evening paper in Washington wit the news Mostly cloudy, probably occasional showers tonight and tomorrow: cooler tomorrow. Temperatures: Highest, 77. at 3:45 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 64, at 5 a.m. to- Associated Press service. 4 Foening Star, day. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 24 and 25 - A BT B L 3l ) Yesterday’s Circulation, 110,084 No: /S 3P0~ Daterel ahissconticiasy matar WASHINGTON, D. ., SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 19 ’—']'}Vl”l,R'J,'Y—VF(‘l'R PAGES. * () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS.. - - o4y o post office, ‘ashington, D. . rietnlt . SOUTHERN STORMS TAKE TOLL OF 1; 28 YOUTHS SWEPT INTO FLOOD WATER Safety of Entire Boy Scout Troop in Tennessee Feared For as Camp Bungalow Is Demolished. FATALITY LIST MOUNTS THROUGHOUT 8 STATES With Bridge Carried Away, Fam- ilies Stand By Powerless to Aid as Sons Struggle in Raging Cur- | rent—Other Buildings Washed | Away After Cloudburst. Br the Associzisd Prass | LENOIR CITY, Tenn., March 23. | =-Members of searching parties | seeking to aid a troop of 28 Scouts | swept from a bluff on White Creek, near Rockwood, early today, tele- phoned to officials here that sev- | eral of the boys were drowned, but that others could be seen clinging to trees and floating debris in thc" flooded stream. Notified that a cloudburst had | flooded the boys’ bungalow this morning, families and friends| hurried from Rockwood to the creek and arrived in time to see a wall of water sweep the bunga- low from its foundations and throw the Scouts into the water. | The bridge had swept away, a| member of the rescue party said, and fathers of the Scouts watched helplessly as their sons floundered ; in the creek. . A taxi driver, Floyd Miller, who happened to drive along the creek | this morning, saw the rise of the water and brought word of the| impending disaster to Rockwood. | He said three other bungalows and | two small churches in a Summer camp colony there were swept | away. TEN DEAD IN FOUR STATES. Mounting Fatality List Marks Pro[nn; of Southern Storms. ATLANTA, March 23 (#).—A mount- ing death list today marked the progress of storms that have swept eight South- ern States during the past 48 hours, | possible efficacy with sny-request for Sonora in Throes Of Revolt 3 Weeks, No Bleod Spited | (NS AS REBELS [ ———y - REACH CITY GATES | Rebels Reported Ready ‘Insurgents Repulsed in Two to Attack Clashes Yesterday—Little Blood Shed. Naco, | i | ] © the Ascociated Press NACO, Sonora, Mexico, March 23 The Mexican revolution was three weeks old today, but in Sonora, so-called stronghold of the movement in the | North, not a drop of military blood had | been spilled. Many battles have been | promised and there have been one or two inconsequential skirmishes, but ali the fighting thus far has been verbal 1 written. There are many problems which ap- parently must be surmounted. Gen. Lucas Gonzalez says one of his prin- cipal problems is to detect the presence of rebel armies which are said to e | about to attack his Naco federal strong- it P By the Associated Press. Horses, Sought for Saddles. Rebel troops in their counter offen- Likewjse, Gen. Gonzalez declares lic ' Sive against the government were "L is having trouble in collecting enough | the gates of Mazatlan, on the west | horses to match the available supply of coast today, and fighting for the pos- saddles in his possession. Absoluta- |session of that port was imminent. mente. there are horses in Sonora. bul | gome fighting between the 2,500 de- | all in his jurisdiction are running loose. | " | He has delegated an aide, Col. Jiminez, | fenders and the 5,000 rebels was re- fo 2o out and round up enough caballos | ported. but apparently little blood had | to utilize the 125 old United States sad- | paen shed. dles which he has purchased and which | * % /1" Lo e ESCOBAR MOVES SOUTH; - NOW AT BERMEJILLOL | Revolutionist Advance on Naco Developing—Reported 30 Miles ! From Town, QAN \\ are now scattered about on the floor of | ments was rushing to the relief of th (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) . city, but was not expected before Sun- day at the earliest. Rebels Driven Off. Two clashes took place yesterday, but in both cases the insurgents were driven off, and Gen. Carrillo, Matsat- | lan's defender, assured the govern- ment he would be able to hold out. Wireless advices from the steamer Margaret Johnson said that the rebels were 3 or 4 miles from the city and that, everything was quiet. The rebels, who recently evacuated ‘Torreon before the Calles advance, were again proceeding southward and were | reported at Bermejillo, about 30 miles | north of the city. i A rebel advance also was developing ! jon Naco, along the border, the insur- gents - being reported 30 miles from that town, where a Federal detach- | ment is strongly intrenched. Pointing to the three counter attacks being developed, rebel leaders ex- pressed optimism thkt they would con- trol the country by July. The rebels have imposed a war tax on Nogales, Sonora, for funds to run the revolution. The body of Gen. Jesus Aguirre, prominent Vera Cruz rebel leader, who Was court-martialed and executed after his capture by the government, arrived in Mexico City yesterday. REBELS ARE REPULSED. NEBELS DENAND 0L OF AVERGANS U. 8. Firms at Guaymas, Sonora. i ! [ Br the Associated Press. | The State Department made public today a notice served upon three oil companies, including two American con- cerns, at Guaymas, Sonora, by Manuel Izaguirre, commodore commanding the Mexican revolutionagy navy, ordering them to furnish combustibies and lubri- ‘cants to the rebel forces. “If you should refuse to deliver that which is requested,” the notice read, *“as soon as it is indicated what is re- quired this office will proceed in such energetic form as I may consider de- sirable.” The notice declared the naval office of the revolutionists, at Senora, ex- pected “the courtesy” of the oil com- | panies “in complying with the greatest | | | | MEXICO CITY, March 23 (#) —A | government announcement said today | that repeated rebel attacks on Mazatian, West Coast ‘port, had been repulsed and that the forces of Gen. Jaime Car- 5“10 were strongly entrenched there ‘awaiting any eventuality.” Two battles were fought there yes- terday and in both attacks the soldiers of the rebel general, Francisco Manzo, were beaten back. Today the rebels were said to be at Casa Blanca, five kilometers from the eity. combustibles and lubricants which may be made for ships under orders of this office.” It was served on the representatives at Guaymas of the Pierce Oil Co. the Standard Ofl Co. of California and the Aguila Co. ROOT LEAVES GENEVA fquarters of a length at the mile and DEBT SETTLEMENT - REACHES CRUCIAL STAGE OF BATILE Most Details of Plan Except Amount of Payments Are Accepted. | { i | I BYHECK, PALLUS STICK . To THE OL” . IRRITATION APPARENT \i\\\\\&x IN PrROLONGED FIGHT THE INGING IAlliu Accuse Germany, and Vice Versa, as Americans Act 7, (i - O . VoS S NS as Mediators. Z - o BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1929, PARIS, March 23.—The crucial struggle in the great effort of the al- | reparations settlement. is now at hand. Practically all the details of the in- genious new plan have been agreed { upon except the all-important question | of the figures. | Although negotiations have been car- CAMBRIDGE CREW DEFEATS OXFORD Score for Century of Rowing Evened—Winners Seven Lengths Ahead. By the Associaied Press. PUTNEY - ON - THAM England. March 23.—Cambridge, with a veteran aggregation of oarsmen, scored its sixth consecutive victory over Oxford in the eighty-first annual boat race between | the two famous English universities to- day. | The Cambridge crew, taking an early | lead, crossed the finish line seven full lengths ahead of their rivals from the Isis. | Cambridge’s veterans, pulling a strong | and steady stroke, jumped into a half- | length lead at the end of the first half | mile, increased this advantage to three- | then pulled away from their rivals dur- ing the rest of the struggle. Time Is 19:24, { ‘The winners covered the 4% miles | in 19 minutes and 24 seconds, well be- | hind the record of 18:29 set by Oxford | in 1911, | Although Cambridge won decisively, | the Oxford crew, outweighed 5 pounds | | ried on in secret,a certain number of facts have become known and the | writer is able to present what he has reason to believe is an accurate de- tailed account of the present dead- lock. After long weeks of extremely labor- ious efforts to fix the size of the fu- jture German annuities, the Germans ave painfully come up from an offer of $200,000,000 to $400,000,000; and the allies have equally as painfully come down fro ma demand of $625,000.000 to $525,000,000. The two sides are thus still separated by an apparently un- bridgesabls gap of $125,000,000. Americans Are Mediators. The American experts, particularly Owen D. Young. as chairman of the committee of experts, have been thrust into the unenviable but useful role of mediators. They seem now to be trying to effect a compromise on the basis of $460,000,000. but neither the Germans nor the allies have accepted it yet. For almost the first time signs of ir- | ritation and resentment are beginning to appear. The Germans accuse the al- lies of trying to crush them with an im- possible figure, and the allies intimate Pope’s First Visit Outside Vatican To Be on June 24 By the Associated Press. ROME, March 23.—The Catho- STONE RITES HELD: ~ HOOVER AT BURAL Final Tribute Paid to A.P. Founder at Bethlehem Chapel. lie newspaper Italia says that the Pope’s first visit outside the Vati- can will be made on June 24. On this day, the paper says. the Pontiff will go to the Lateran Basilica_to worship in the cele- brated Church of St. John La- teran, which is called the “Mater et Capul,” head of all churches, By the Associated Prass. | | | In the presence of & distinguished HOOVER PRUUWMS;::;'::t"',;:;.::::":;:“:,.fl:;:::“:".:; NATIONAL ORIGIN | Vice President of the United States, the iashu of Melville E. Stone, former gen- | eral manager and co-founder of the | Associated Press, were committed today | (hrough. The allies also accuse Dr. i'll the crvpt of Bethlehem Chapel in | Schacht, the chief German delegate, of Washington Cathedral, | playing German interlor politics and s | The final honors accorded the jour- | IN€ (hE Teparations question to further | his personal political ambitions. | nalist were in recognition of his service | Both sides tend to confound the |in the advancement of national and| American -experts with the American international journalism. The Episcopal | Government and people and both are | burial service. simple, but impressive, | asking impatiently why they should be was conducted by Right Rev. James E. | expected to make what appear to them Freeman, Bishop of Washington, | as tremendous sacrifices in the general l‘)’e‘:fim l;y Vv;ryhl?ev. G.C. {x;hsrlfenuhl‘ | interest white the Un!tedhstn;n l.vennellz i n of Washington. e actual | raises tariffs, invades the whole worl Bowing to his belief that the Chief | lowering of the ashes into the chapel | with its goods and gold and even re- Executive should be the first to obey ' vault was reserved for members of Mr. | fuses to discuss a corresponding read- the law, even though he does not like | StCne's immediate family and associates. | justment of war debts. | President and Mrs. Hoover sat on the | it, President Hoover has proclaimed the | right side of the chapel during the cere | | Sessions of the coramittee have been interrupted while Schacht goes to Ber- new national origins quotas of the re- mony. Blehlnd them were Justices Stone fon act effective July 1. | And Butler of the Supreme Court, Viee e O e e & | President. Curtls, the ~ Secretatiés of | lin fo discuss. the situation with the At the same time, As been made | Seate, Treasury, Interior and abor, the | German goverhment. President Cites Dislike for Immigration Quota Becom- ing Law July 1. By the Associated Press. Resume Sessions Monday. lies and the Germans to reach a final | i that the Germans are bluffing straight | WORLD 0L TRUS SHENE CAARCE: PARLEY SAEDULE Petroleum Leaders of Eu- rope and America to Con- i fer in New York. SLASH IN PRODUCTION IS GOAL OF MEETING | “Agreement” With Reds at Mos- ! | x cow, at Expense of Consumers, Is Laid to Group. By the Associated Pross. | LONDON. March 23.—The Dail- | Mail says today that the world's oil | “kings” at a forthcoming meeting in | New York expect to make arrangements | to enable them to control the outpur |and price of gasoline throughout the | world. i The Mail says: “The object of the conference is to sstablish in fact if not | in name a world ofl trust. This scheme 1 has been made possible by the recently | concluded agreement with the reds at Moscow which, at the expense of the consumer, has eliminated for the benefit of the petiol .combine competition of { cheaply marketed oil from the confis- ! cated oil fields of Russia.” The Mail says the affair really began with a mysterious meeting at Achna- j carry Castle in Scotland last year of the three oil men, Sir Henri Deterding, | Walter Teagle and Sir John Cadman. { “The oil emperors met to protect their empires from the inroads of the { Reds and they decided that in the first place settlement must be made with Moscow and then steps should be taken to perfect an organization which would permit control of the world supply,” the paper says. that Sir Henri | 1 “It was decided Deterding and Sir John Cadman should consolidate the European ofl interests, while Mr. Teagle should return to America and arrange for the forma- tion of an oil export association. The two organizations would agree upon a common plan of action as far as the world “ oil Tesources and supplies were concerned.” The Mail says the.success of this | Plan depended upon an agreement with | Moscow which was achieved at the end | of February. LEADERS MEET NEXT W i i | To Take Definite Action Toward. Cur- tailing Production, NEW. YORK, March 23 (#)--The petroleum leaders of the Western | Hemisphere are gathering in New Yerk | for the American Petroleum Institute | meeting next week to take definite | action on curtailing ofl production in | North and Soyth America to the 1928 levels. Production is now runm | approximately 200,000 barrels a day iahead of the 1928 output. | The meeting takes an a wo | with the announcement rld aspect that. Sir ngn';l clear that he is hopeful that Congress | Postmaster Geng They will be re-| Deterding, head of the Royal ‘Dutch The steamship Progresso, sent by the to the man, put up a gallant battle | government with a load of provisions eral and Attorney Gen- | sumed on Monday and continued to| throughout the first half of the race. | | Shell group of oil companies, will attend. will act at the special session beginning | eral and members of the Senate and | Thursday, and if by then no agreement | - accompanied by high winds and torren- the sessions. FOR REST IN FRANCE Walter C. Teagle. '3i- tial raine. Streams through East |2nd ammunition, arrived at Mazatlan, | CAmbridge had jumped into a two- | oot rionih to defer for another year | House. Ambassadors and Ministers and , has been reached, it is suggested that | dent of the Standard Oil Co. olm}:ev ‘Tennessee and Kentucky were rising A S U and it was believed the city was .mply'”ennh lead at the 2-mile mark when | : |other representatives of nearly a score ' ihe committee adjourn until April 8. ! jersev, who held conferences with Sir rapidly, and elsewhere in the South|Jurist Expects to Sail for United stocked against the possibility of a | the Oxford stroke boosted the beat. | Operation of the. national origins pro- of nations also were seated in this Such an adjournment, it is implied, | Henri and other foregin ol men abroad were scattered reports of tornadoes dipping at widely separated points. Eleven were known dead in four States and fears were entertained for the safety of 28 Boy Scouts, trapped in their camp hungalow, near Rockwood, Tenn., which was reported swept away by the raging waters of White Creek. Of the dead, seven were reported from three States yesterday and three colared persons were added to the list today from Harriston, Miss., where a| tornado struck this morning. Two ! white youths were injured, probably | fatally, at Milport, Ala., today by a tornado that destroyed their home. _Rains of cloudburst proportions were Yeported from East Tennessee, from where unconfirmed reports said the mountain village of Coal Creek, north of Knoxville, was wiped out by a cloud- | burst. X | Through the eastern sections of Ken- ‘ States on April 10 After Court Parley, By the Associated Press, GENEVA, March 23.—Elihu Root. i veteran American jurist, left here today by automobile for Paris, where he will rest for a tew days before sailing April 10 for the United States. Mr. Root, who while in Geneva may have paved the way for American ad- hesion to the World Court, intended ic make a leisurely trip, stopping one night, successively, at Leon, Vichy, Bourges and Tours, thus reaching Paris March 30. \ His activities at Geneva were a great strain on the aged jurist. He was forced to spend the last two days in his quarters, chiefly in bed, regaining his strength. He departed in fine phys- ical form, however. \ cky and Tennessee mountain. creeks, Jiftle more than rills normally, were turned into raging torrents sweeping | down narrow valleys. | Towns Are Isolated. |Oakdale and Harriman, Tenn.. were réported by the telephone and telegraph rémpanies as isolated, and calls sub- | et to several hours’ delay. if com- | pleted, making a check of the extent of the storm-swept area impossible for | some time. { Residents of Pineville. Ky.. pared for a flood that w: g awiftly down the narrow Cumberland with predictions that water would stand six feet deep in the post office there by nightfall. Middles- boro. Harlan and other mountain com- | niunities in the Cumberland Valley in Eastern Kentucky also were preparing for serious flood conditions. |A similar situation was reported in the Kentucky River Valley in East Kentucky. The Tennessee, Emery and Clinch Rjvers, the latter two tributaries of the former, were beyond their banks, marooning trains in some sections of ‘Ténnessee. Rain still was falling over partions of East Tennessee, adding to the gravity of the situation. ingston and Crossville, Tenn,, also ware isolated and serious flood condi- tiqns were reported prevailing. small tornado dipped at intervals South Georgia, wrecking buildings farmhouses. where one death was ried. Blakely and Brown's Cross- were the towns struck and a col- man was killed in a tornado near micus. ecords of nearly 50 years' standing rainfall in March ai Atlanta tum- | i were pre- movin; | In a re| ing ors Ar) for bléd today with the Weather Bureau hete Teporting at 7 am. that 12.33 inches of rain had fallen here this manth, exceeding by more than an inch shd mark set in 1880 of 11.76 inches. he Chattahoochee River was rising alohg its upper reaches in Georgia, hut no serious damage was expected, nor (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Japan Raises Lumber Tariff. TOKIO. March 23 (#).—Both houses of the Japanese Diet today passed a new and higher tariff schedule on lum- ber. The schedule will affect principally | ping. cedar, spruce and hemlock, most of which comes here from the Amer- ican Northwest 1t is expected to increase revenue in this country by about 6,500, yen 1about $2.860,000). It will affect an As he settled back comfortably in the seat of his car, he made just one laconic allusion (o the negotiations through which his countf a World Court member. He smiled a bit and s “Well, we've made prof TESTIFIES BLEASE GAVE $500 TO TOLBERT GROUP Charleston Man' Says Senator, as Governor. Also Pardoned Cousins of G. 0. P. Committeeman. By the Assoclated Press. Testimony that Senator Blease. Demo- crat, of South Carolina, had contributed $500 to the organization headed by Joseph W. Tolbert, Republican national committeeman for the State, and that while serving as governor Blease par- doned two of Tolbert’s cousins, was laid before the Senate patronage committee today by W. F. Brown, Charleston, 8. C., contractor. Brown told the committee that June, he “wanted Blease for Federal district attorney, that Blease had contributed liberally” to his campaign funds and “had given $500.” “Tolbert further said,” Brown de- clared, “that Blease while governor had in postmaster at North Charleston.” He did not zay what the convictions against _the men were. | Tagore En Route to U. S. TOKIO, March 23 (#).—Rabindra- nath Tagore, Hindu poet, arrived here from Moji en route to Canada and the United States. He will sail on the Em- press of Asia and debark at Vancouver. § may become | d to a friend: | 1921, Tolbert advised him that shortage growing out of the siege. Carrillo notified the central government also that he had plenty of water despite the rebels having cut supply Jines into the city from neighboring mountains. Expresses No Concern. Gen. Carrillo's message to Presi Portes Gil expressed no r:oncenra l:"'}n" the situation. He said that the federal garrison was entrenched on a narrow | strip of land con: the mainland an, to hold off easil; a “small rebel The first of necting the city with d that he would be able ly what he described as force.” vesterday's battles - fore Mazatlan was hlrgly m;;lr‘n?:n & skirmish. No one was hurt and the rebels fled. At 4:30 p.m. yesterday, however, a more serious encounter took place at Venadillo, just outside Mazat- lan. with an attacking force of 300 cavalry. The assault was repulsed, the rebels retreating to Casa Blanca. A rebel officer who surrendered yes- terday 'at Mazatlan gave the federals valuable information as to the status of the rebel West Coast army. He said 000 men under Gens. Manzo, Roberto Cruz, Fausto, Topete and Iturbe had proceeded down the West Coast repair- ing the railroad tracks as they came and were now massed about Mazatlan. Cardenas Going to Tepic. He declared the troops had been de- ceived as to the progress of the revolu- tion and knew nothing of the rebel defeats in Vera Cruz and at Torreon. The army of Gen. Lozaro Cardenas, containing 6,000 men detached from the forces of Gen. Calles, was said to be proceeding to Tepics state of Nayarit, for action against the rebels at Mazat. lan. Arrival at Tepic would intercept any movement against Guadalajara. El Universal received a report from Jalapa, Vera Cruz, that a band of rebels had seized a freight train be- tween the stations of Cruz Balanca and Las Vi and forced the " (Continued on Page 2, Col | i Fog Delays Jensen Flight. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y. March 23 (#).—Heavy fog this forenoon forced Martin Jensen to defer his third at- tempt to establish a new solo airplane endurance flight record with automo- bile gasoline. Jensen said he would take | off later in the day if remained aloft 35 hours and 33 minutes. Lindbergh Takes Passengers. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at the Oakland Airport at 2:55 p.m. yesterday, after a flight from Los Angeles in the tri-motored airplane Patrician. He left Los Angeles shortly after 10:30 a.m. He brought 20 passengers. | | 'hantvlidat:Shot D—cad Awaiting Initiation the weather | pardoned two of his cousins, one of | cleared. The solo endurance record is whom, a man named Henderson, was | held by the late Royal V. Thomas, who | the later stages of the meet, in which OAKLAND, Calif. March 23 (P — | e e o Into Chicago’s "Royal Order of Skulls™ By the Associaled Press, “Oh, no,” said Dolinsky. “I carry a CHICAGO, March 23—The “Royal |gun." i E Order of Skulls” was initiating Howard | He whipped a revolver from his pocket to show. The weapon slipped from his fingers. As it was falling he snatched for 1it. The trigger was pressed. The bullet struck Kaplan and Kaplan last night, but Kaplan was shot dead before he became a member. Dale Dolinsky, club member, was sent to bring Kaplan from a side room to American-Japanese lumber trade of about $40,000.000 ly. The bill was the “initiation chambegg Dolinsky car- ried a roll of hills, efub money, and Kaplan inquired if linsky weren ;Radm Pr killed him. afraid he would be rol 6gr;hs;Page 34 Slowly the dark_blue shell crept up, | cutting down Cambridge’s lead, but the spurt was short-lived. The struggle today was the eighty- | first between the rival universities in | the Iast century. and the victory of | the Light Blue ‘evened the score of a | century on the river at 40 victories cach. The race of 1877 resuited in a | dead heat. Oxford Crew Collapses. At the finish the Oxford crew. with | the single exception of the No. 5 man, collapsed. The victorious Cambridge | oarsmen, on the other hand, finished | in fine condition. The 1929 renewal of rowing’s oldest | rivalry was rowed in perfect weather. | The two crews were handicaped all through the training season by the rigors of Winter, but they had nothing | to complain of along that line today. | Long before the race was due to begin | every window and roof from which a glimpse of the important stretch of | water could be obtained was thronged. while tugs, launches and craft of every description clustered near the shore, their occupants waiting eagerly for the great race. On the towpaths were tens of thousands of other spectators. CAMBRIDGE WINS ON TRACK. STAMFORD BRIDGE, England, March 23 (#).—Cambridge swept all of | the first three events in the annual track meet with Oxford today. Foliow- ing up their earlier success in the an- | nual boat race, the Cantab athletes fin- | ished first in the 100-yard dash, mile run and high hurdles. | Oxford scored a partial comeback in! the shotput when a heave of 41 feet 3| inches by C. F. Gates was good enough | to give the Oxonians a first place. R. M. N. Tisdall of Cambridge was sec- ond, with 40 feet 6 inches. The honor of scoring first for Oxford went to an American, as Gates, who won the shotput, is a former Princeton star, The Cantabs scored another first and second in the running long jump. | The 440-yard run also went to Cam- bridge, and Oxford won the 3-mile run. Cambridge clinched the meet when R. M. N, Tisdall won the 220-yard low hurdles from Harper of Oxford, mark- ing the sixth first place for the Cantabs. | In this classic meet anly first places be made in the quotas of :Germany. | chapel this time accompanied by rela- | known as “the President-maker,” and count in the team scoring. Oxford scored another first place by virtue of a high jump’ victory. Despite a fine showing by Oxford in | the leading roles were played by for- mer American college athletes, - bridge managed to repeat on land the triumph which its oarsmen had achieved | on water a few hours before. | Honors for Oxford and America were | gained by Caleb Gates of Princeton, | former intercollegiate hammer-throwing | champion in the United States, who | won the shotput for his English uni-| versity, and by E. R. McGill of the University of Florida, who fook first place in the pole vault. B. M. Norton, formerly of Yale, was runner-up in the 100-yard dash. Maryland and Virginia News Pages & and 5. i vision, which he opposes, so that the whole question may be revicwed at the regular session in December. “The Attorney General has advised Stone, daughter of the journalist: a| governments to try to settle by direc- me that, in failure of Congress to sus- pend action, it is now mandatory upon | Stone was unable to leave her New York | That would mean for Germany, in ad- me under the immigration act to issue the proclamation establishing ‘national | Were Frank B. Noyes. president; Kent|maintenance of the Rhineland oceu origins’ as the basis of immigration | Cooper, general manager, and members | tion and continuation indefinitely of quotas,” the President said in reply to | Of the board of directors of the Asso-| Dawes annuities of $625 questions of the press yesterday. before the proclamation was issued. Effective July 1. “The proclamation must be issued prior to April 1 and will be issued at once. Tt will go into effect on July 1 unless action is taken by Congress in the meantime. While I am strongly in favor of restricted and selected im- migration, I have opposed the national origins basis. “I, therefore, naturally dislike duty of issuing the proclamation and installing the new basis, but. the Presi- dent of the United Stafes must be the first to obey the law.” Immediately after the proclamation was issued Representative Tilson of Connecticut, the Republican House leader, e2id that if a measure deferring operation of the national origins pro- vision should be adopted by the Senate it would be considered in the House be- fore July 1. Senate leaders were silent regarding the proposal, however. The President favors a continuance of the present quotas, which are based on the 1890 census. Cuts Entrants 10,000, The proclamation said that the new quotas fixed by it were available only for persons eligible to citizenship in the United States and admissible under the immigration law. The President added that the quotas had no political signifi- cance and did not involve the recog- nition of new governments or boun- daries, or of transfers of territory. “ex- cept as the United States Government has already made such recognition in a formal and official manner.” ‘The new basis would reduce by more than 10,000 annually the number of persons admissible. Under it 153,714 would be admitted yearly instead of 164,647 under the 1890 scale. The fight upon the proposal, however, has cen- tered around the changes that would Just Norway and Sweden. England and Northern Ireland and several of the Sonthern European countries. BLAST WRECKS BUILDING IN ABSENCE OF EIGHT Chicago Explosion and Fire Occur While Two Families Are at Theater, Dog Escaping. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, March 2: An explosion wrecked a two-flat butlding on Roscoe the | section, | 3 Wife Unable to Attend Rites. On the left side were Miss Elizabeth | niece, two grandchildren and Arthur | S. Thompson, Mr. Stone’s secretary, Mrs. | | home. - With members of the family ciated Press. ! As the strains of Chopin's “Funeral | | March” sounded. the funeral procession, | which had formed in the adjoining chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea, be- | gan it advance oromptly at 11 o'clock through the south corridor to Bethle- | hem Chapel. The procession passed in slow cadence the tombs of Woodrow Wilson and Admiral George Dewey and up the center alsle foward the altar. The | cathedral crucifer. robed in white | | vestments and carrying the cross, led | the procession. followed by the men and boys' choir, the cathedral verger and | clergy. Four Carry Catafalque. | The catafalque. draped in gold- ' ringed damask and containing the urn with the ashes of Mr. Stone, was car- | | ried by four bearers. As the procession | advanced, Bishop Freeman recited the | burial service, beginning: | “T am the resurrection and the life: | | he that believeth in Me shall never die With the last strains of the funeral | march, the catafalque was placed on a | pedestal at the chancel. The choir | |sang the 121st Psalm: “T Will Lift Up ! ! Mine Eyes Unto the Hills. i | Bishop Freeman then read the les son from the First Corinthians: “Now is Christ risen from the dead. After the anthem. “Souls of " the | | Righteous in the Hand of God." was | rendered by the choir, Dean Bratenahl | led in the recitation of the Apostles'| | Creed. Then. followed prayers by the | | bishop and the singing of the hymn, | | “Jesus. Lover of My Soul.” During the reading of the committal | service the damask canopy of the catafalque was liffed and earth cast upon the urn. The benediction then was pronounced, and as the recessional hymn. “The Strife Is O'er, the Battle Done,” was played. the funeral proces- cessional departed to the adjacent | | tives of Mr. Stone. | After the congregation had departed. | | the family returned to witness the rites | of committal. Immediate assoctates of | | Mr. Stone and the officiating clergy | |\were the only others present at this | ceremony. The ashes of Mr. Stone were brought to Washington last night by members of |his family from New York, where h died February 15. | Because of the mounting roll of | vered men whose last resting place®is | the crypt of Bethlehem Chapel.® the { Cathedral is coming to occupy a place |In America like that long held in Eng- | !land by Westminster Abbey. __The right of sepulture there, alnnx-[ will amount to temporary failure of the ; last Summer on conservation, also will experts to agree on the ngge;:nd th; i be present, issue would, it is understood, be turne The institute’s general commi over to the French. British and German ! world production '.nd consumpnmw'n '«’3 ippu'oleum and its products. headed by ons. { R. C. Holmes. i t 1l Final failure Is still inconcelvable. | Cor e SR B T i ‘poration. will meet first on March 27 i to head r¢ s T - dition {0 serious credit. disturbances. | (ee. members. on rorepr Al fromTa p2- | calities of the ecurtailment proposals. the | The general committee's report: recom- _annu 000.000 plus; mending the curtailment will then be (Confinued on Page 2, Column 8) | roferred to the institute's board of di- BROADCAST TONIGHT General Committee. The general committee is composed +of Kenneth R. Kingsbury. president of s . Tidal Osage Oil Co. of Tulsa and E. J. " | Sadler of the Creole Petroleum Corpor- jation of New York. i In addition to Mr. Teagle, who is a | director of the institute, other oil men ‘\Aho will attend the meeting include E. B. Reeser. president of Barnsdall Cor- poration and the American Petroleum f + Institute: J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil Representative-elect Bryan Co. of Philadelphia; Henry M. Dawes Owen. ‘of Pure Oil Co. of Chicago, a brother These two daughters of noted political of Charles G. Dawes: Axtell J, Byles of Adversaries of the past, the one a|Tidewater Assoclated Oil Co. of New stanch Republican and the oiher an|york, E. W. Clark of Union Oil Co. equally ardent Democrat, but who are | of Calfornia, W. S. Parish of Humble warm personal friends, are to speak in | oj] & Refining Co. of Houston, William the Washington Star’s National flad!n;c,_ Skelly of Tulsa. Herbert L. Pratt of Forum, broadcast over Nation-wide | Standard Ofl Co. of New York, D. J. hook-up sponsored by the Columbia!rjoran of Marland Oil Co. of Ponca Broadcasting Co.. at 10 o'clock tonight. | City, OKla.. and George P. W o Washington time. The local station i | vaeuum Ofl GCo. i Baley" o WMAL. These are two of the bBest known ! women in politics in the country., both re able and experienced speakers who lways attract a large audience, and ! GOVERNORS PLAN MEET both® think along the same line—that | TO STUDY OIL POLICY there should be no question of “women e in polities.” but thAL women SHOuld be | &y ine assaciaed Prace taken on the same basis as men in el o public life. They will speak on the| DENVER. March 23.—The Rocky work ahead of them in Congress as they ; Mountain News today said that plans see it—one as & Republican, the other | have been made for a meeting of the as a Democrat. 3 | Governors of Montana, Wyoming. Colo-~ Both Mrs. McCormick and MFs. | rado, New Mexico and Uta in Defver Owen have a lifelong political back- | within a few weeks to pratssi ground of intimate knowledge of the | i conservation policy of he Moy history of politics in_this_count 1y Tyakt 16 Mirs6 o G Cete Tax- | SO Aton: ey go S | The newspaper said that Gov. Wil- famed fathers. Mrs. McCormick is the | jjam " Admane of aoiarn, SOV e daughter of the late Mark Hanna oyt flatly against the new policy, which | provides that no more permits for pros- pecting for oil and gas on the public | domain be issued. He was quoted.as saying the new policy “comes at a time when we are just beginning to develop our oil lands in Colorado™ and that, it ;ould “work a hardship on the Western tates.” Daughters of Famous Adversarie to Speak Over National Forum Hook-up. Representative-slect Ruth Hanna Me- Cormick. Ruth is the widow of the late Senator Me- Cormick of Illinois. Mrs. Owen is the daughter of the late Willlam Jennings Bryan, thrice a candidate for the presidency. Secretary of State under President Wilson, and internationally nown as an orator. Reports from all over the country to- | day indicate that these two woman leaders will have an extraordinarily large radio audience. VIRGINIA MAN SLAIN. Special Dispatch to The Star. PURCELLVILLE, Va.. March 23.-- Arch Payne, 45-year-old tenant farmer CRITICIZES U. S PbLICY. | _TOKIO, March 23 (#).—Yusuke Tsuaumi. in the Diet today, assailed the government for its failure to at- tempt removal of the American ban on Japanese immigration. He expressed a belief that this was (Continued on Page 2, Column 6)) street late last night. Eight members of the two families living there had, by merest chance, arranged a joint theater party shortly before, and as a result | were not in' the building when it e rplaian atiiniied ot le explosion, attribute lo a fur- nace, rocked the neighborhood mnE Washington clearing house, started a fire. The brick walls fell so | 261.33. quickly that any one in the building| Treasury balance. $409.0 would have been unable to escape. New jYork clearing house exchange, on the Eudona estate near here, was found shot to death this morning near the springhouse on the estate. Author- itles are holding Mason, his brother, on a charge of murder. According to the wife of the slain man, the shooting occurred following an argument over pastures. She summon.d Dr. W. D. Sydor at Purcellville, but her husband dled shortly after the physi- 35, ,080.20, A Chow dog on a second-story window | $1,580.490.000. cian’s arrival, jumped wh!?*h' walls began wmring.| New *Yark clearing house balance, | Arch Payne is surv}ved by his widow $163,000,000, and 11 children, . and was unhurt, ey @ a most auspicious time to undertake such removal, since probably President Hoover, Secretary of State Stimson and others of the President’s official family from the West Coast might be inclined to view Japan's wishes favorably. Etcujiro Uyehara, parliamentary coun- selor for the foreign office, replied that the question could not be settled in a day or two because of its social and economic complications. He said, ho; ever, the government would seek adjustment whenever the presented itself.