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2 COAST CUARD S BRTIH SCHOONE Member of English Crew Is Killed—Craft Thought Laden With Rum. {First Met “the Chief” About | | | [ Two Years Ago, During | Br the Associated Press. | h NEW ORLEANS, March 23— Coast | Flood Relief Survey. Guard cutters Dexter and Walcott plowed up the swollen Mississippl m; SRR BY REX COLLIER. New Orleans today bringing in irons Th B N | The quiet. businesslike engi v the crew of the British achoODer |y e undertaicen to fll the Shocs of et Imalone, including one dead member. ' bert Hoover at the Department of Cnm-‘ the victim of a gun battie at sea off | merce reaiizes he has a large task to the Loulsiana coast, after a 24-hour | Perform. but he has determined to try | =5y | and fustity the confidence placed in him | | by the President. The Imalone was shelled by the | President Hoover picked for the Com: | Dexter yesterday when her unidentified ::;;‘;“9 s?fllif‘ ulma’n "pnssvssed of attri- 538 s strikingly similar to his own. master ','msedl to submit to search on| Ropert Patterson Lamont has the being overhauled by the Coast G‘""’; Hoover capacity for getting things done boat and sent to the bottom with l"‘";:“"fl Inl:';; of ballyhoo. iEhootell ar t: & was quality which first direct. S et led Mr. Hoover's attention to the Ci elusive eraft which Coast| cago industrialist. In an interview to. Guardsmen say carried on surfl-.«f\n‘dur Secretary Lamont disclosed the | liquor smuggling operations for three eircumstances of his first meeting with “the Chief.” vears off the coast of New England was| 7 \mmy it was about a year and a | | aa | | Quiet Enginee[, Who Took ' | Hoover’s Post, Realizes Scope of Task. 1s land miral F. C. Billard. commandant of the | 'ary sald. Coast Guard in Washington, said re- | Working in Disaster Probe. ports at hand indicated that the guns| “He was directing the relief and re- {”’fi;g’;&?"m“ the jurisdiction of the | construction work n‘nd I was serving as Uni es. Warned Before Shooting. vice chairman of a special committee | | appointed by the United States Cham- | ber of Commerce to investigate phases THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €., SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1929. 'LAMONT GETS THINGS DONE WITHOUT GALE OF BALLYHOO ' ' ROBERT PATTERSON LAMO! zed here that He plans Worked on Old Bridge. The new Secretary of Commerce is| 4, “carrying on” the Hoover policies at! the Commerce Department, no drastic shake-ups of personnel. “I have found things so well organ- I don't think many | rh;lnges ure1 reql:lmd." he remarked. e occuples the same small, - sunk near “Sixty Deep,” off Marsh Is- | half ago—at any rate it was toward the rrnuouscr:l:rmr rmn,mon 't"t:e” s:\"lcp;!’h | end of the Mississippi flood emergency— | floor of the department building of Government officials here and Ad- that I first met Mr. Hoover," the Secre- | which Mr. Hoover grew so fond. From |its western window. he can see the | |Key Bridge, in Georgetown, and through |the arches he can glimpse a portion {of the framework of the old Aqueduct | Bridge, now condemned. Radio reports from Coast Guard patrol boats concentrating on rum ships in the Atchafalaya section to Lieut. A. H. Bixby. dryv squadron com- mander at Pascagoula, Miss, stated | committee was unable to make the trip, | the old bridge. We were strengthening | 50 I acted as head of the party. In that |the pie that everything possible was done to avoid fireing on the Imalone. Orders were issued to the cutters’ masters to arrest all craft within the limits suspected of engaging in smug- gling operations. The guardships Dallas, Forward and Dexter were ordered to converge on_ the section as soon as Warrant Officer Frank Paul, com- mander of the Walcott. first radioed | :hn the Imalone was sighted Thurs- ay. These reports said the master of the rum schooner defied an ultimatum of the commander of the Dexter to heave to and submit to search. Thereupon | the Dexter issued final warning of “Ill have to sink you then. Get your men into the boats before we fire.” The schooner still resisted and the raiding Government boat fired. | The suspected rum crew auickly took | o boats and all were picked up by the Dexter and Walcott, the latter of which | had sped to the scene. Seaman’s Body Recovered. The body of a colored seaman who | drowned in the flight to the boats was| recovered and placed upon the Walcott. A gunner on the Walcott suffered a broken arm in the recoil of his gun| when the Walcott encountered the Imalone the day before and fired a shot into the rigging of the craft when re-| sistence was offered. | The hunted ship escaped beyond shallow shoal water and headed out- ward in the course toward Puerto, Mexico. Pending arrival of the Coast Guard cutters in New Orleans today, Govern- ment officers declined to forecast what action might be taken against members of the crew in the alleged attempt at smuggling and the firing on a British ship. CLASHED “ONCE TOO OFTEN.” Billard Declares Schooner Was No- torious Smuggler. ‘The British schooner Imalone, which was sunk vesterday in a battle with Coast Guard vessels off the Louisiana coast, ‘wu one &i u‘: ‘most mn.m;‘rqlnu: emugglers engaj Tunni JuO! into the United States, Admiral F. C.| Billard, commandant of the Coast Guard, declared last night. . “She ran up against the Coast Guard one too often,” he said. Admiral Billard said he had received only fragmentary reports of the sinking of the Imalone. These reports, he said, showed that the coast patrol boats Wa cott artd Dexter had. sighted the v:rufll near the Louisiana coast and within agr legal jurisdiction of the United States. It refused to stop when ordered to do 80 and fled toward Mexico, he continued; and as the Coast Guard boats over- hauled it, resistance was put up. Then they sent it to the bottom. Admiral Bil- lard had not been informed as to just ;hnt form the final resistance had ken. Craft Had Unusual Speed. ‘The Imalone operated for three years off the New England coast smuggling rum into the United States, the admiral said, and during the last few years had operated off the Southern coast of the United States. Many times, he said, the Coast Guard boats had clashed with it but becauss of its unusual speed it had succeeded in escaping. | All the Ooast Guard boats along the | thern coast have been on the look- out for the Imalone, he said, and when ; it ran into the two patrol boats, they proved its equal in speed. The Imalone operated out of Belize, Honduras, from which port she would | clear for Bermuda, said Admiral Bil- | lard, who added that he expected to, have complete reports on the sinking of | the craft today. “ The State Department had received no advice last night regarding the sink- ing of the British vessel, and the Brit- 1sh government was not expected to make any representations if the sinking took place within the 12-mile limit.| Should the matter be called to the at. tention of the department, it was as- sumed that a complete Teport would be | asked of the Coast Guard before any diplomatic steps were taken. SONORA IN THROE ! OF REVOLT 3 WEEKS, | of the disaster. The committee made a tour of the flooded area, going down one side of the river and coming back | on the other. The chairman of the vay 1 had the pleasure of meeting Mr. | Hoover and reporting to him our| findings.” | Mr. Lamont did not know that he was making an impression on Mr. Hoover that would stick. Once tracted to a man's abilities, howe | Mr. Hoover does not lose sight of that |* man. He kept Mr. Lamont and his | abilities in mind long after the flood came the problem, not long ago, of Commerce, the name of Lamont stood available for the important post. Lamont Surprised by Selection. Secretary Lamont was just as sur- prised at his selection as was the gen- eral g;:bnc. So was Mrs. Lamont. She was Paris when she first heard the news, and Mr. Lamont thinks she read about it in the newspapers before che received his own cablegram telling of the appointment. Mrs. Lamont cur- | tailed her travels abroad and returned | at once to this country, landing at New | York just a few days | “I'm leaving to Mrs. Lamont the job | of house-hunting in Washington,” the | Secretary explained. “For the present | I'm staying at the Hay-Adams House. One of the Chicago newspapers carried | a dispatch to the effect that I had| ‘taken over’ this ‘house’ but I would have to have a pretty large family to | do that, wouldn't I?" | Family Is Small. The Lamont family is quite small, as a pmatter of fact. There are two daughters and one of these is married. They are Mrs. Charles Belknap of New York and Miss Gertrude Lamont, a student at the Westover Finishing School for Girls, in New York. emergency had passed, and when there | selecting a head for the Department of | out prominently in the list of men | “That old Aqueduct span reminds me of my first stay in Washington," | Mr. Lamont said. “Many vears ago I was engaged in engineering work on | . _That was one of the coldest | Winters T have ever experienced.” ! Secretary Lamont declared that one of the hottest Summers he ever spent | was in Washington, also. It was during |the World War, when he was colonel in the National Army and on duty at the Ordnance Department as chief of he procurement division. | Like Mr. Hoover, Secretary Lamont is taking a deep interest in the construc- | tion of the new building for his depart- {ment on Fifteenth street. He is a con- tracting engineer by calling, although | ' he forsook his profession in later life ! |to engage in manufacturing. He has | examined the foundation work and pre- dicts that the base of the great edifice {will be ready by May. Resigned Other Connections. Mr. Lamont said he resigned from | all his manufacturing connections on, entering the cabinet, because he thought it “the proper thing to do.” The new Secretary is addicted to long office hours, just as Mr. Hoover was. He is among the first at the depart- ment in the morning and among the last to leave. His only hobbies are art and golf. He iz well known as a collector of rare etchings and his fine collection is an attractive feature of his home in Lake Forest, Tll. He is a director of the American Federation of Arts. Score Is “Around” 90. As for golf, he regrets that business | prevents him' from swinging a_club as often as he would like to. He is a member of the Burning Tree Club here. “What kind of a game do you shoot, Mr. Secretary?” he was asked. “Oh, I play what you might call an elderly man's game. My score more often is above 90 than below it,” he re- plied, with a laugh. MAZATLAN BATTLE LOOMS AS REBELS REACH CITY GATES (Continued Prom PFirst Page.) cut loose its engine an |‘xlnder full steam in the about 4 kilometers’ travel In the state of Guanjuato armed leadership of Gov. Agustin Arroyo, act: ing against the so-called religious surgents. Minor successes were Tre- ported. | PLANE ATTACKS TRAIN, Rebel Leader Predicts Naco Battie in | Two or Three Days. NOGALES, Ariz, March 23 (#).—The fate of Mezatlan, strategic west coast city of Mexico, remained undetermined along the border today, although there were unverified reports that hand-to- hand fighting between rebel attackers and federal defenders had broken out Rebel headquarters at Nogales, So- nora, discounted the reports, but a nounced that a message had been re- ceived over Mexican National Telegraph wires saying the revolutionists had drawn up at the Rallroad.“Y,” three miles from the heart of the city, and that several shots had been fired, but no heavy fighting had taken place. The Nogales revolutionists insisted that the rebels under Gens. Francisco bered 5,000 at Mazatlan, against the 2,500 strongly intrenched troops of Gen. Jaime Carrillo defending the city. Rebel headquarters also disclosed that a federal airplane had attacked the revolutionary troops of Gen. Fausto Topete, near Santa Cruz, Sonora, yes- terday, spraying an insurrecto troop train with machine gun fire, but that no casualties resulted. Advices \last night indicated the rebels, advancing on Naco, had ad- vanced farther toward the border town, encamping at Cananea and Del Rio, 30 miles distant. Gen. Francisco Borquez, rebel leader at Nogales, said it might be “two or three days” before Topete attacks Naco. NO BLOOD SPILLED | A0 ax hus been tmposed tpon (Continued From First Page) a schoolhouse which has been con- verted into barracks. As soon as Col. Jiminez comes back with 125 horses, Gen. Gonzalez wiil have 125 cavalrymen, that is. if other | equipment can be supplied. The bridles are here already. A shipment of car- Nogales, Sonora, by rebel leaders, and funds derived in this manner will help | defray the cost of the rebellion. | ESCOBAR MOVES SOUTH. | S | Rebels to Wait at Bermejillo for Attack of Federals. | JUAREZ, Chihuahua, Mexico, March 23 (#).—The revolutionary army, under bine scabbards arrived at Naco, Ariz, last night for transfer to the general The artillery situation also has im- rmvzd An aged one-pounder arrived 2st night. ‘The failure of Gen. Gonzalez's air force to locate any rebel armies in the | Gen. Jose Gonzalo Escobar, commander- | in-chief, which abandoned Torreon last | Monday and retreated north along the | Mexican National Railroad to Jiminez, itod-y ‘was moving back south to Berme- jillo, 30 miles north of Torreon. release it wild | lirection of Las | as. Due to the engineer’s craft in fixing | the fuel so it would be cut off auto- matically, the engine stopped lfl,fl’l arians were in the field under the | in the streets. | R. Manzo and Ramon F. Iturbe num- | vieinity is perturbing the defender of | Naco. Train Sprayed by Bullets. Announcements at revolutionary | headquarters at Nogales yesterday said that 2,000 men under Rebel Gen. Fausto | Topete had drawn up at Cananea and | % of the Teb:] army are stationed along Del Rio. 30 miles from Naco, and that!ihe rauroad line toward Torreon and f | bands of guerillas have been sent south |'to harass the federals should they start |an advance, A section of the army was said to have started a drive toward the south- The rebels will wait at Bermejillo for the attack of federals under P. Elias | Calles, according to Escobar. In the event the federals do not attack, Esco- bar said his army would make a drive on Torreon The 2,800 Yaqui Indian cavalrymen one rebel troop train had been spraye by mach'ne gun bullets from one of Gen. Gonzalez' airplanes, no damage resulting. Gonzalez declared that his planes had | found but 200 rebels at Cananea and that only scattered groups had been detected at other points, Topete an- nounced that he would attack Gon- zalez and his 1,200 men at Naco last ‘Wednesday, but failed to show up. of Mazatlan, and proceed to friendly states east of Mexico City. Such a move might isolate the Calles troops. The ent absence of the enemy Avidiers would not interfere with any |south is expected momentarily, but he prospective battles unless they boil over on United States soil have lessened the tension here. Soldiers and civilians alike take their midday siestas, parture, as a precautionary measure. Escobar laughed at the possibility of another hattle in Juarez, west 1o join rebel troops in the vicinity ' Tuesday. has refused to réveal the time of his de- TAMMANY SEEKS AL SMITHS HeL District Leaders Turn to Him | in Failing to Pick Chief From Ranks. * By the Associated Press. 4 NEW YORK, March 23—Having failed to pick a man “from the ranks,” Tammany today was looking to former Gov. Alfred E. Smith and other party leaders to help choose a new chieftain. After accepting the resignation of George W. Olvany yesterday, the execu- tive committee of Tammany found it~ self deadlocked on the choice of a suc- cessor. A committee was appointed to consult Mr. Smith, Mayor Walker, Sur- rogate James A. Foley and United States | Senator Wagner. | ,The decision to invite the titular head |of the Democratic party into the coun- cils of the wigwam was an about-face on the part of the district leaders. Dur- ing a week of intensive campaigning among themselves they had ignored Mr. | Smith in their determination that no “outsider” should have a voice in the picking of the new leader. Olvany to Stay Longer. Until the committee of emissaries has | had time to act and a new leader is named Olvany will continue to dis- charge the duties of the position from | which his sudden resignation a week |ago threw Tammany into a turmoll of internal strife. Although the week's campaign under the slogan “A man from the ranks” had brought forward John F. Curry and Martin G. McCue, district leaders, as {outstanding candidates, no vote was !Olaken at the executive committee meet- {ing. | Curry and McCue sunromrs both de- | clared they were ready for a showdown, )Neuher man, it was understood, had sufficient, votes pledged to win, but was | counting on the moral effect of an im- | |pressive show of strength to rally | enough additional votes. | Stand of Surrogate Foley. After the meeting Surrogate Foley, | one of the “older statesmen” of whom the special committee was instructed to seek advice, announced he would have “nothing further to do with them under , the circumstances.” The “circum-| stances” were interpreted as the at- | | tempted ignoring of Mr. Smith and | other party leaders and the mad scram- | ble among the district leaders for the vacated position. | While Mayor Walker held numerous conferences with district leaders on the | selection of Olvany's successor, he sald several times during the week that he | “hud no candidate. 1 | The special committee consisted of three men and three women, with Peter J. Dooling, chairman of the executive | committee, acting as ex-officio chair- | man. | NEW POLE HEAD TOBE NANED SON ;Hesse Successor May Be ; Selected by Commissioners ! at Tuesday Meeting. Selection of a successor to Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, retiring superintendent of | police, may be made by the Commi: sloners Tuesday at their semi-weekly board meeting, it was indicated today ! at the District Bullding. There is & ' possibility, however, that the appoint- ment may be deferred until Friday. Maj. Hesse's ngpl)ranon for retire- nent. which has been approved by the ‘etiring and relief board of the Police nd Fire Department, becomes effective farch 31 If the naming of his suc+ cssor is delayed until Friday, it was pointed out, the Police Department | would not be without a head when Maj. ~__*! Hesse goes out of office. ‘There is every indication now that e selection will be made from the ranks of the Police Department, al- though the Commissioners, it was said, are giving serious consideration to the | applications of several men outside the department. Maj. Hesse made public today a letter he received from Senator Capper of Kansas, lauding his administration of the Police Department. “I have always had faith in you," sald Senator Capper. “I believe you gave the city of Washington a clean and honest administration. I wish you success in all your future efforts.” SARRAIL, VERDUN DEFENDE, IS DEAD Former French Commissioner in Syria Known as Bomber of Damascus. Br the Associated Press. PARIS, March 23.—Gen. Maurice Emmanuel Sarrail, one-time “defender of Verdun" and former high commis- sloner in Syria, died today at the age of 72. Gen. Sarrail perhaps was best known as “the man who bombarded Damas- cus” and for his share in the Druse rebellion. His record before Verdun at the head of the 3d Prench Army during the Battle of the Marne and in 1917 as commander-in-chief of the allied troops in the Balkans was overshadowed be- fore the world at large by his activities in_1925. He acquired a liking for the political life while military commander of the Chamber of Deputies from 1902 to 1904. Since then he was prominent in the councils of the Radical party. He was placed on the retired list as a general of division in 1918. When the Radical party came into power with Herriot in 1924, Barrail was appointed high commissioner to Syria, replacing Gen. Weygand. The new high commissioner, a free thinker, re- fused to attend the religlous ceremony given in his honor at Catholic clergy of Syrla incurred the enmity of that party. Catholics ealled to high posts and decorated with the eravat of the Legion of Honor by Weygand were flung into jail by his successor and in some in- stances the cravat of the Legion of Honor around their necks was replaced by a rope of hemp as they swung from the scaffolds. Syria soon was in tur- moil, which developed into rebellion, the boambardment of Damascus, and Sar- rail's retirement. TWO0 WOMEN GET VERDICT IN CONTEST FOR ESTATE Mrs, Elizabeth Ferris Frisbie of Ta- koma Park, D. C., and her sister, Mrs. ‘Adlyn Ferris Towne of Long Island, N. Y., would share equally about $72,000 worth of stock of the Johnson Service Corporation under a verdict returned in the! vor by a jury in Circuit Court. ‘They had filed a caveat attacking the last will of their sister, Mrs, Alice Ferris Calaway, who died December 17, 1927, and the case was on trial before Justice ‘William Hitg"for more than two weeks. The sisters had charged that undue in- fluence had been brought to bear upon the testatrix to cause her to change her will. Under a previous will dated Au- gust 17, 1927, the two sisters were named as the sole heirs of the estate so far as the stock was concerned. The Chil- dren’s Hospital and the Young Women's Christlan Association shared in the residuary estate, which totaled about $5,000. ‘The second will, subject of attack by the caveators, bequeathed the stock of the Johnson Service Corporation to the two sisters and two friends of the testa- trix, Julia Bird and Mary Prior. The fight on the validity of the last will was made chiefly upon the new disposition of the stock. The caveat was filed through Attor- neys John W. Guider and Arthur W. Phelan. A Perilous Perch P E—— g STIMSON DUE MONDAY. Will Take Over Duties of State | Secretary Early in Week. By the Associated Press. Henry L. Stimson will take over his post as Secretary of State Mond: He will arrive in New York tomorrow from San Francisco and come to Washington Monday afternoon to be a guest at the White House for a week Meanwhile, Gen. Escobar maintained | or more. I his headquarters in his private railroad | Mr. Stimson will confer with Secretary | and the announcement that American |car here today. His departure for the |Kellogg during tne first days of the| | week %0 as to obtain full knawledge of current affairs in the State Defalrtment Mr. Kellogg will sail next Europe, where he will spend several weeks on vacabien. or ! Friday for . i | Steeplejack Rudolph Bino climbing a ! flag pole at the District Building to re- pair a rope pulley. —Star Staff Photo. as French high commissioner to Syria | efrut by the | and thereby | BYRD BRINGS 2NEN N PLANE TO BASE Gould and Hanson Return to! | Camp After Isolation | in Storm. | BY RUSSELL OWEN. | { Wireless to The Star and New York Times. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, March :22.—Cflmdrv Byrd flew back from the | mountains today. After two d2ys of waiting for the wind to go down and the clouds to | open, the sky cleared this morning with {@ cold sun shining ond the thermome- Iter down to 22 below zero. The plane jtook off and in less than three hours was back again at the base. | _Every one was overjoyed to see Comdr. Byrd step out of the cabin in which he and his companions, Lawrence Gould, | Harold June and Malcolm Hanson, had been packed so tightly that they were {almost spilling over the neck of Dean | Smith, the pilot. | It was a happy end to an episadc which might have had diaststrous con- isequem:es but which was overcome !the efficient wosk#ng of the entire or- | ganization. Comdr. Byrd and Gould and Hanson | were surrounded by every one in camp when they arrived. All wanted to know | more about the place where the wind | blows 150 miles an hour and for a long | time the arrivals were busy answering questions. All of them were well despite the; seyere cold of the nights spent in sleep- ing baj under 25 below zero in the mountains. ir. Byrd, with Dean Smith as | pilot and Malcolm Hanson as radio | operator, {ew on Monday to the three men who had been isolated for days by a storm in the Rockefeller Moun- | talns. He and Hanson remained with | Lawrenca Gould. the leader of the sur- | | vev party, whil> Smith took the two others, Harold June and Bernt Balchen, | back to the base. Since then Smith had been waiting for favorable weather to | bring the commander and his two com- | panions from the mountain camp. June ! out with Smith on this trip. | (Copyrignt. 1923, by the New York Times Co. and t he St. Louls P spaich. All 5 Dis rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) ELEVEN KNOWN DEAD "IN SOUTHERN STORMS; | 28 YOUTHS MISSING | (Continued From First Page.) i e | was it believed the record sfages of last | week would be duplicated. The Oc- mulgee River was rising at Macon, but the Flint was falling along its lower reaches. | TORNADO HITS VILLAGE. Residences Wrecked in Georgla—No Loss of Life Reported. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (#.—A tornado struck Brown's Cross- | ing, small village eight miles west of | here, this morning, demolishing several residences, { buildings. but no loss of life or injuries i had been reported here. | . The tornado dipped into the town at | 9 o'clock, lasting several minutes. The roof of Chandler's Store, principal trading place of the town. was blown | FLOOD MENACE CREATED. Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee Visit- ed by Heavy Rains. LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 23 (& .— Heavy rain in Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee today created a flood menace in a new area, with mountain streams out of their banks and torrents raging down into* the valleys. Pineville, Middlesboro, Whitesburg, Jackson, Beattyville and other centers of population in the Cumberland and Kentucky River Valleys in Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky were the scenes of alarmed activity as residents moved to higher ground and business houses prepared for six feet or more of water. The crest is expected tonight. Oakdale, Harriman, Kingston and Crossville in East Tennessee could not be reached by telephone and meager rrpc&rfs were that serious floods threat- ened. These mountain floods always cause heavy Froperty losses, since they come suddenly and leave behind in the | valleys deposits of unfertile earth from the mountain sides. ILLINOIS DIKES HOLD. Patrolmen Pace Banks of Rising Mississippl With Sand Bags. QUINCY, I, March 23 (#).—The eyes of the lowiands cast their first waking glances at the Mississippi to- |day and the sight they saw brought gratitude. The dikes still held. i Some of those eyes had not closed {in sleep, for worried patrolmen still | paced the river front, ready with sand bags to close any breach that threat- ened to flood the 50,000 acres in the South Quincy and Lima Lake district. | The river had risen half a foot during {the day—reaching 20 feet on the { Quincy gauge—and was still rising. | Up to the north about 10 miles, in |the Indian Grave region, refugees | looked from second story windows and | from tents on high places out over the | vasg lake that two days ago was 20,000 |acres of rich farm land. Two breaks |in the levees Thursday night loosed the |waters over this section and brought | & drop in the river stage at Quincy. !" The decline—which cost thousands of dollars to farmers in the inundated area |and drove 90 per cent of them from | their homes—was only temporary, how- ever, for the river started rising again at Quincy shortly after noon. Militia on Duty. National Guardsmen of Company G, 130th Illinois Infantry, went on duty today to relleve the weary volunteers, who are worn by days of vigilance, without sleep and with little food. | ~No other dikes have broken since |the two of Thursday night, but seep- | age is becoming serlous around South | Quincy. there and in the Lima Lake tract. Bridges are covered with water in many !ylaces, dozens of factories along the | river in Iowa, Missouri and Illinois have been forced to suspend, farmers ve moved out their cattle and grain land tons of wheat lie ruined under | water. ! The nature of the levees has pre- | vented more extensive flooding. For fnancing reasons, the drainage districts | are units surrounded by the dikes, so that when a levee breaks that section ' alone becomes a huge reservoir. | HRE Baker Made Ill by Coal Gas. | Charles B. McCooksey, 24 years old, for the temperature was well | March 23| lifted the roofs of other | There are about 800 homes | | President and Mrs. Hoover leaving Washington Cathedral today after attend- ing funeral services for Melville E. Stone, former general manager of the Associated Press, whose ashes were deposited beside those of Woodrow Wilson and Admiral Dewey. —Associated Press Photo. HOOVER AT BURIAL ‘ side the tombs of Woodrow Wilson, Ad-] | miral Dewey, another journalist. Her-| o5 Bodies Recovered at Par- { man Henry Kohlsaat, and others, was nassus as Further Work Is Curtailed. |offered to the family of Mr. Stone by the trustees in recognition of his part | in the advancement of American and International journalism. | The diplomats present included the | Ambassadors and Ministers of Japan. Panama, Bolivia, Uruguay, Bulgaria, LSS | Hungary, Finland. China, Greece, Lith- {uania and the Dominican Republic. British Envoy Attends. Sv the Associated Press PARNASSUS, Pa, March 23.—Fire | which broke out early today in the 8ir Esme Howard, the British Am_‘K\rm:*h mine, scene of an explosion Thursday that took a known toll of | bassador, had, planned to aitend. DU | 45 lives. created a new menace to work- ound he could not do so, and designat- | -5 o honed. to. And the. bodh 1 ed A. R. Dew, &h embassy secretary, to | €75 ¥ho, noped to find the — | represent him. The Guatemalan, Irish | g e | Although rescue work was not com- Free State, German, Spanish and Ca-| otely curtalled, the workers were | forced to center their attention on the fire rapidly spreading from a point a quarter of a mile within the workings. | nadian missions also named formal rep- | resentatives to bestow their tribute. | _The board members of the Associated | |Press present were Benjamin H.| v v Anihony of the New Bedford Srandard, | e s i Stuart, H. Perry of the Adrian Telegram | a1 the miners had been accounted for. and Robért MeLean of the Philadelphia | * waiter . Glasgow, State secretary of The foundation of the great Gothic | Iincs, DAmed & Broup of e of in. '?"‘;‘" “gflch is wd -*r‘:fl"' the r‘emh’“ quiry, but the investigation was not of Mr. S'one an is companions in!aexneet Vi thelr everlasting sleep was Wi 10 1907 | S oy e D Caay Oo | with the aid of President Roosevelt, and | ymer of the mine, believed the bodies T:‘:o“;}pl’:&? years must pass before it "’Jw% ,m.g,leg in the ,::]‘:eb:?r“'tls P and that a third body wor ocal | Associated with the Bishop of Wash- |at the base of the conveyor at the away. Brown's Crossing is in Baldwin | ington and the Cathedral Chapter in mine entry. County. | forwarding _this project are Gen.| Local Red Cross officers today pre- Pershing, Secretary Mellon, former | pared to confer with mine company { Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania, and | representatives in an effort to learn more than a hundred other prominent | what co-operation might be extended men and women of the Nation. w‘ r;]lg&'g any distress m.gng !urervors of the disaster victims. The conference Doy, e el was expected to take place as soon as Under an act passed by Congress, rescue work had been concluded. | authorities of the cathedral are author- | Charles L. Greenlee of Washington, field |iz2d to have four burials a year in |representative in Pennsylvania of the the structure. Henry White, ~former | National Red Cross. was at Kinloch in | Ambassador to France and a trustee of an advisory capacity. | tion, was the last | State policemen "and local officers [ O oAt | were kept busy last night handling The ushers at today's ceremonies crowds of cruious persons who stormed were: Russell Kent, Birmingham News, | undertaking rooms at New Kensington president of the National Press Club; |0 wheih bodies of miners had been C. 8. Groves, Boston Globe, acting removed. ?resldent of the Gridiron Club; Richard | | V. Oulahan, New York Times; Leroy | T. Vernon, Chicago Daily News; J. Fred Essary, Baltimore Sun: R. B. Arm- | strong, Los Angeles Times: Henry L. | Sweinhart, Havas News Agencv, and Rirke L. Simpson and Byron Price of | the Assoclated Press. s A, {GOVERNOR OF HAWAII | © WILL RETIRE JUNE Dy the Associated Press Sccretary Wilbur sald today that | Gov. Farrington of Hawaili would re- | tire from office on June 1. Gov. Farrington's term expires at that time, and he has told the Secretary | that he does not wish to continue in |office. Secretary Wilbur said ‘that he | was considering a number of men quali- | fled to succeed the retiring governor. COL. JULES H. URI DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Col. Jules H. Uri, Army Veterinary Corps, died at the Walter Reed Gen- eral Hospital last evening following a short illness. Arrangements for his | funeral are being made by his widow, 1! Mrs. Elmo Ellio Uri, now in this city. | Burial probably will be in the Arlington | National Cemetery. Col. Url was born in San Francisco March 11, 1876, and was graduated from the San Prancisco Veterinary Col- lege in 1901. He entered the Federal | service in June, 1902, and served as a major in the Veterinary Corps, N tional Army, during the World War. In June, 1920, he was commissioned a major in the Veterinary Corps of the Regular Army and reached the grade | of colonel in October, 1927. He was | the Interfor Department, will return | Riley, Kans, when iil health required | to the management of his large business | his transfer to Walter Reed General enterprises in Hawali. | Hospital. ADER GREETS HOOVER BELGIAN f | IN BETHLEHEM CRYPT| M'NE RESBU RS (Continusd From Fist Page | E ‘ | Gov. Farrington, it is understood at|stationed at the Cavalry station at Fort | {laed 1015 Massachusetts a: e northeast, a | baker at 225 Fifth strect northeas! |overcome by coal gas from the oven carly this morning and removed in an | bulance to Casualty Hospital. His | condition was not thought to be serious. Prof. David Eccles to Lecture. | | ‘1 “The Evolution of Society” is the i subject of a° lect by Prof. David Eecles tomerrow, at 3 pm., at the See-) | ular League, 1006 E street, The public is invited, The Roval Belgian Guards Band serenaded Presid In the photo, left to right. Capt. Arthur Prevost, the Capt. Prevost presented Mrs. ' Final the White use yesterday band leades President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover with some Belgian lace and a large crystal, nt and Mrs. Hoover at Hoov tar Stafl Photo, FOCH WISH MAKES BOYS DEATH GUARD Scouts Given Honor Place in | Funeral Plan—Doumergue to Attend. [ | ( k | By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, March 23.—The youth ol | France, as well as veteran soldiers and statesmen, today paid tribute to the | memory of Marshal Foch, and at ths | marshal's own request four Boy Scouts i between the ages of 12 and 14 will stand | guard over the body during the impos- ing funeral ceremony now being pre- pared. As the peopie of France, of all ages and conditions of life, continued to file past the bier, the government completed its preparations for the great state fu< neral of Tuesday. | Marking a precedent in state funerals, ! at least as far as European custom has been, Gaston Doumergue, as President {of the French Republic, will attend the | funeral service in Notre Dame on Tues- i day and will ride in the cortege behind the body. Insists on Tribute. | It 1s understood that those in chargs | of the etiquette of state wanted the | usual forms observed, but President Doumergue himself insisted that he be permitted to pay this last signal honor to the memory of the departed gener- alissimo. So far as known, this is the first time in the history of the | republic that the protocol has been | changed to permit the head of the | state to pay such an official honor to a | | | | citizen. The transfer of the body from the Foch residence to the Arc de Triomphe tomorrow will be a little more impo: ing than was first planned. The body, in the traditional black hearse. will leave the rue Grenell at-8:30 o'clock in fhe morning. accompanied by Min- ister of War Painleve and other mem- | bers of the government. A squadron of | cavalry will escort it. Then Boy Scouts. with frequent re- | liefs, will stand guard all Sunday, Sun- | day night and Monday until the body | is taken to the Cathedral of Notre Dame | Monday evening. | ‘The marshal. it was said, felt that |the young generation should have the | honor of watching qver the old. He trequently mentioned this wish to Maj. L'Hopital, his aide. who is a moving | spirit in_the Boy Scout movement in Prance. Today there was a strong pro- portion of the younger generation which sought to do the marshal honor at his home and there were thousands of boys and girls in the throng that gathered in the streets around the Foch home. Public View at Are. ‘The public will be permitted to pass | through the Are de Triomphe tomorrow and walk before the body at all hours of the day and night. Monday night, with the same ceremony that marks the removal from the residence, the body will be taken to the Cathedral of Notre Dame, where it will rest in a small chapel until the funeral services begin at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. The sérvices will commence with the formal entry of President Doumergue into the have of the cathedral and will consist of a brief solemn high mass. Places will be reserved for the personal representa- tives of the heads of foreign states, Ame bassadors, members of the government, rliamentarians, members of the dip- omatic corps. representatives of the French and foreign armies and navies and delegations of former combatants. | MASS HERE FOR FOCH TO BE SUNG TUESDAY Diplomats, Members of Congress and Government Officials to Attend Service. Diplomats, members of Congress and | Government officials will attend the requiem high mass to be sung at St. Paul's Catholic Church, Fifteenth and V streets, at 11 o'clock Tuesday morn- ing in memory of Marshal Foch. Very J J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, will be present. Rev. Cornelius J. Dacey, pastor of St. Paul's, will be celebrant and will be assisted by Rev. Edward Fontaine, as« sistant pastor, as deacon and Rev. E. | Chauvat, in charge of French relations, at St. Matthew’s Church, Rhode Island | and Connecticut avenues, subdeacon. {DEBT SETTLEMENT REACHES CRUCIAL STAGE OF BATTLE' (Continued From First Page.) additional sums in accordance with the | Dawes prosperity index. It would mean for France the necessity of ratifying, without any real reparations, the un- | popular American debt agreement and | the impossibility of getting ready cash by the sale of German bonds. The governments concerned may | therefore be expected to exhaust every possibility, even to asking the United States to readjust its war debts, before finally ting fatlure. ‘Without doubt the experts have ale ready accomplished brilliant results. They have agreed to scrap the repara- ments bank, which, if it develops as foreseen, will become one of the great- est_insitutions of the world. The committee has, secondly, agreed to commercialize as much as possible of the German reparations debt by the sale of bonds to the public. Thirdly, they have agreed that future German annuities shall be divided into two parts—one to P‘y interest on the Ger- man bonds sold to the public and the other to be protected by the possibility of a two-year moratorium. Fourthly, the experts have decided that the annuities will include payments in kinds and also to keep them as small as possible over the fewest possible number of years, at the discretion of the inter- tional bank. Fifthly, the experts have agreed to drop from the discussions all consideration of the pensions, on which the treaty estimates of reparations were g:.mnny based, and adopt as a new is the total of the allled war debts to the United States plus a certain su for the actual repair to material damages. Parliament Ex-Member Sentenced. OTTAWA, Ontario, March 23 (#) — Louis M. Auger, the youngest member of the Canadian Parliament until he re- signed Thursday, was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment yesterday for as- saulting a young girl who went to his office in the Parliament Building to seek his advice. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldlers’ Hom= Band Orchestra at Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock this evening. March, “Wisconsin Forward For- re, ' “Hungarian ruenwald Morceau, “Nightingale Serenade,” Zimmerman Grand selection, “Romeo and Jull:!?‘. Gounod i Fox trot, “Sweet Dreams”......... Ager | Spanish waltz, “Estellita.” Victor Herbert “Skadatin’ Dee"...... Siras i “The Star Spangled Banner,