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- 14 DEBT SETTLEMENT | CRISIS AWAITED Return of Conferees After Easter Recess M2y Decide Entire Issue. * i BY LELAND STOWE. Bs Radio to The Star. PARIS, March 30.—Easter, still far frbm having brought the reperations experts to the tranquillity and paeons of u?:ntmous joy usually associated with this season, has brought them to & parting of the ways. To express mat- ters with restraint, the delegates of the Yeung commission adjourned for an Egster recess with their deliberations in a ‘very critical state. The Easter weck end could come at ng more opportune moment. It gives such tired mediators as Young, Morgan andl Stamp a much needed breathing spell. Likewise, it affords the exeperts a few ddys of happy relaxation after a week wherein it has appeared the delegates were in a virtual deadlock over what Gérmany shall pay. The gap between the allied and German figures is still ely large, both as to amount of annuities and to duration. As yet the Germans have shown no signs of ac- ceding to the raising by over several hundred million marks per year and by 10 or 20 more years to where it might even remotely be possible the French and Belgians would accept. ©On the other side, the allies, par- ticularly the French and Belgians, have revealed a sharp disappointment and strong disinclination to cut their figures further. Thus the experts’ conference enters its eighth week with its fate hanging very delicately in the balance. If a deadlock does not actually exist— and things may even be as bad as that, although it is carefully screened by the few leaders in the know—it i¢ certainly just around the corner with unpleasant menaces all realize only too well. Crisis Expected Momentarily. 1f the crisis has not yet been reached, nevertheless it may come any day. This was the situation when Good Friday pit a temporary end to the negotiations, | and this situation the experts will face a few days hence, when they reconvene. It hardly seems possible such a state of affairs can run on without a decision, one way or the other, for more than another week or two. First. it may be regarded as certain that Herr Schacht will have to increase his offer of what Germany will pay. Second, it is highly probable that the French and the Belgians will have to make a further reduction ‘o( whu'; th_lz_y will accept for reconstruction costs. To the ne\:lx;al observer it seems almost|amount of additional labor. Lieut. Col. cértain that both these steps will have | U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the office, is to be taken eventually if the conference | planning to send a letter on the sub- 1t0 succeed. But it must be recorded | Ject to Col. W. B. Ladue, Army Engineer tHat ‘as yet there is no indication that|and District Commissioner. r the other is happening. So important are these marks that ei!her g gore e Congress has passed a law on the sub- Young Is Arbiter. ject and under the act of March 4, 1n other words, the allies and German | 1909, one who removes such markseis experts, like two giant stags, have their | liable to a $250 fine and six months’ herns locked fast, and both are push-|imprisonment. The act reads: “Who- ing with every ounce without appearing | soever * * * shall willfully deface, to gain any perceptible ground. Young| change or remove any monument or stands aside as the arbiter—in fact, the | bench mark of any Government sur- whole American delegation is in the|vey shall be fined not more than $250 e role—trying to persuade first one, | or imprisoned more than six months, or then the other, to yield a few inches of‘bo',h." g terrain. Under the immediate direction of G. The last week, however, has only|E. Clark, in charge of the surveying and served to demonstrate the tremendous drafting section of the engineer divi- difficulty of the task. One delegate re- shown with the test cars. TRIANGULATION Director Plans to Send Letter on Subject to Commis- sioner Ladue. Guilty Persons Are Liable to $250 Fine and Six Months in Prison. Complaints have reached the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks that persons, believed to be connected with street construction work, have been removing the circular bronze triangula- tion marks, used in survey work, causing a loss of time and money and a great Scientists of the Bureau of Standards who are studying the cause for automobile skidding when brakes are applied on wet streets. Tiny model cars | are used on an incline covered with sheets of carbon paper, upon which the models with their brakes set in various manners trace a record of the descent. H. K. Cummings, chief of the automotive section, and Dr. H. C. Dickinson COMPLAINTS TO GRANT ASSERT THE SU'fiDAY‘ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 31, -i929——PABT'1. IMRS. DE KING GIVE -~ SOLEMN BURIAL Inquiry Into Shooting Opens. Father Opposes Boy as Witness. By the Associated Press. AURORA, IIl, March 30.—A sol- emn procession of townspeople and friends of Mrs. Lillian De King, who was killed during a prohibition raid In her home Monday, today filed from the tiny yellow house two miles north of here to St. Joseph’s Church and thence to the cemetery. Hours before the body of the wife and mother who was shot and killed by a deputy sheriff was removed from the home, crowds of sympathetic townsmen gathered about the lawn. While services for her were held, Charles W. Hadley, assistant attorney general of Illinois, and State's Attor- ney George D. Carbary were in con- | ference, considering varlous_angles of | the raid that resulted in her death. Hadley was assigned to the case after Carbary had apealed to Oscar Carl~ strom, attorney general, for co-opera- tion in the investigation because of the feeling against him in Aurora. Hadley was to attend the coroner’s in- quest Tuesday and he received a back- ground of the affair today from Car- ary. ‘. —Underwood Photo. MARKS MOVED, Gun Figures in Case. Coroner Herman J. Vierke announced he would subpoena Eugene Boyd Fair- child, investigator for the State's at- torney's office. who sald he bought gin of Mrs. De King. It was on his word the warrant was issued and the raid made, resulting in the death, a frac- tured skull for Joseph De King, & la- borer, and the shooting of Roy Smith, leader of the deputies, by the 12-year- oid son of the De Kings, after Smith had killed the mother. Fairchild, who also worked as an automobile salesman here, was said to be in Elgin and to have been ques- tioned by Attorneys Hadley and Car- bary. He disappeared from Aurora after the shooting and was located yes- terday at Odell, Il ‘The young man insisted he bought gin from Mrs. De King, although the only liquor found by the raiders was a gallon of wine. He, like the deputy sheriff, left town for fear of violence. No mass was sald at the church, for this is holv week. It will be held for Mrs, De King Monday. The church was filled with friends and relatives of the family, which has lived in this vi- cinity many years, Opposes Boy Witness. An frate father visited the office of the State’s attorney today and.objected to his 7-year-old son being called as a witness against a neighbor, Rosle Kirsch, accused of dry law violation. Chris Miller said two strangers found the boy playing in a vacant lot and gave him $1 with which to buy a pint of “moon” for them. The boy did as they asked him, the father said. Reveals Liquor Purchase. After Fairchild had been closeted most of the afternoon with State's At- torney Carbary, Hadley and other offi- cials, it was announced that Fairchild admitted he had not personally pur- chased liquor at the De King home. 08 g Public Parks, surveyors are continuously placing these marks, as the work of the plotting of the entire park system of the District proceeds. These marks are considered invaluable for city planning purposes. There are now some 200 of these surveyors' marks in vari- ous parts of Washington in the vicinity of the parks, along Massachusetts ave- nue, Connecticut avenue, Columbia road, First street, Rhode Island avenue and out Sixteenth street. Surveyors are represented as having a wholesome respect for the triangula- tion marks and for bench marks. as other elevation marks above sea level are called. When one is carelessly re- moved in the laying of a new sidewalk or the placing of a new street, it is ex- plained, the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks is put to a great amount of additional trouble. To as- certain the exact spot where the mark was necessitates an amount of exact and difficult measuring, so that another mark can be placed in the exact spot. sion of the Office of Public Buildings and marked the other day that the chances of: success seemed to be only about 1 to 3 or even 4. It is hard to see that|{f 1 these odds have lessened to any nota- ble degree, and for this reason the Baster recess assumes a genuine im- pertance. Either Schacht and some others will réturn a few days from now ready to miake real concessions, or they will re- t to refuse stubbornly to make any atsoever, Everything hinges on which of these two attitudes is adopted. ! ¢ Press Accuses Schacht. 7Meanwhile there is apparent a grow- impatience in the French press ich so long has been remarkably reet. ‘Now the Paris newspapers y charge Schacht with trying to ve a wedge between the allies and th scheming to deprive the war vic- of all restitution for their devas- tated regions. ~Why, demands the press, referring to international settlement bank, uld the experts continue to build a when no one knows what will be lgdged therein? Or, in the words of Pertinax, “All this garniture empha- sizes the absence of roast beef.” There cfeeps in also an occasional note of ticism of Americans for allowing the ference to go so far without im- pressing on Schacht that he is the man gon whom it devolves to make an T. following the rains that caused disas- el ZThus the exterior atmosphere of the | trous floods in East Tennessee. T experts’ conference has changed to one| it had passed the third crest e af uneasiness and anxiety and some|ganq still was rising slowly to a point recrimination; no one knows what|jj feet above flood stage. The police tfumps the calm, smiling Chairman|gang real estate firms had made avail- Young has up his lengthy sleeves. It|gple their facilities to the hundreds may be well presumed that he still has| ghose homes were temporarily unin- sbme. What is apparent to all is that | habitable, but factories and other com- the time has now come, when they must | mercial institutions had no relief from very soon be played. The negotiations | the water which has covered valuable crisis will come swiftly—possibly within | machinery and stocks of goods, and g;e le:;z‘ s\_\;en days—but its outcome | has depesited heavy layers of mud mains far from certain. throughout the city’s river section. (Copyright, 1820.) b4 PRSP Sy Traffic Not Impeded. $ Sections of railway and trolley track- HEADMEN HARMLESS age were flooded but no serious incon- y venience to traffic had resulted. The Government Weather Bureau, DECLARES EXPLORER |bemmea by unprecedented conditions, was 5 —_— of rains which fell here and along the » 2 Cumberland Valley yesterday, but found Including Washington | some consolation in today's clear skies. Forecasters were inclined to believe the crest would be reached tonight or early tomorrow. Other sections of the South, previ- ously flood stricken, were busy repairing the damage today. By the Associated Press. s M.\.l"uw pm;m property flh:é" 1; SEATTLE, Wash, March 30.—Ma-! five labama wns _amoun laria-bearing insects, the climate and | $4,395,421, the State Tax_ Commission Teptiles are feared more than the head | S2id in a report to Gov. Bibb Graves. hunters of the Dyak tribes, among|The towns were Elba, Geneva, Brewton, 'hmMTlemEu of d'thle A'g;lm,flun Flomaton and River Falls. Lyric aysian expedition seek the world most_primitive people, Theodore R Seelmann of Chicago, head of the party, | ., THe §overnor is awaiting reports from declared here today. The. expedition | State highway engineers on the dam- spend a year in the interior of | 8¢ toToads and d‘m‘l‘f: e e - | source: arm lan ”:::‘y_mmm' AE Il eape Ik AL equipment, and to the public school John H. Provinse, University of Chi- |System _before I tomorrow _for cago anthropologist, and Mrs. Provinse, | Washington where he a conference are other members of the sxpedition | With President Hoover on possible Fed- i eral aid for the flood sufferers. He will | i er;,‘r?lk%nhl’yfln;lurrebgu ?3:25 be accompanied by Dr. Bradford Kmptr. y by Harry W, Wells, Washing- | President of Alabama Polytechnic Ins! ton, D. C., radio engineer, who is tute. San Francisco collecting and testing | _Southern Kentucky is rapidly recover- gadio equipment. ing from the effects of the flood of = A base will be established in Poeroek- | Cumberland River and other str . h The refugee camp maintained at Bar- bourville will be broken up tomorrow, EAn et e ost completed. Rllg‘oldl are rushing repairs on branch lines to Abnormally Swollen Flow of Cumberland Is Taken as ¢ Jre Sign, By the Associated Press. Lights from Nshville's flood beleaguered homes and factories played tonight upon as strange a sight as a river may afford. The Cumberland was “humping”— its abnormally swollen flow rolling up in _midstream a great bump of water, believed a sure sign that the stage of nearly 51 feet would continue for hours to flood streets, residences and industrial sections. The river began its rise last week Expedition, ¢ Radio Expert, to Study Dyak Tribes. coal centers and full NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 30— TOPEKA, March 30.—Captured with | unable to forecast the probable effect | “I had tried two or three times to make a buy at the De King home,” Carbary quoted Fairchild as saying, “but was unsuccessful. Then one night TWO HELD IN THEFT OF $400,000 GEMS Men Caught With Diamonds Reported Stolen in San Francisco. he sald he could buy liquor there. “I gave him $5 and parked the car by the filling station in front of the De King home and my friend went inside the house. He returned in a few minutes with a pint of colored moon- shine and $3 in change. “We drank about half the liquor and I saved the rest.” Officials refused to reveal the, friend's name as he will be wanted to appear at the inquest, they said. After Fairchild’s statement, Hadley, representing the attorney general, said that after a cursory examination of the search warrant for the De King home he believed it was legal. He made it plain, however, that his examination had been merely superficial. G0OD TO TESTIFY IN ELECTION SUIT War Secretary Summoned, With Others, for Monday by John «Phillip Hill By the Associated Press. | diamonds in their possession believed to be worth $400,000 and reported stolen from a New York jewel salesman in San Francisco, two men who gave sev- eral aliases were in custody here to- night. The prisoners were preparing to fight extradition to” California to face robbery charges. Police also were holding two women, arrested as they apparently waited in an automobile for the men, said to be their husbands. The men were arrested as they left an eastbound passenger train here and were about to enter the motor car. Perry Brush, chief of police, was ad- vised late today by San Francisco au- thorities that warrants had been issued for the two men, charging them with robbery in connection with the jewel theft. Their names were given as John Schopen and Frank Peterson. Both claimed Kansas City, Mo., as their ad- dress, although Schopen was registered at the county jail as John Schultz, St. Louis. Their ages were given as 31 and 40, respectively. Press dispatches: from San Francisco said the diamond robbery occurred there last Tuesday. Harry Amols, New was helt U and Topbed in the lovby ot an office building, the robbers es‘:-gmg e R 1 s before other persons passing e of law, Mr. Hill being allowed 10 days I pacrg Aware anything unusual| yfier yir. Paimisano's brief is in to sub- Most of the seized diamonds were in | Mit & summary of rebuftal. Mr. Hill a §,,°' e the case would be ready for presenta- zen jewels were found sewed in the vais ' .| tion to the House of Representatives waistband of one of the men’s trousers. about May 25. MAJ. EDGERTON RELIEVED. Lieut. Col. Tyler to Succeed Fed- eral Power Officer. Maj. Glen E. Edgerton, Corps of En- gineers, has been relieved from duty as chief engineer of the Federal Power Commission, in the Interior Department Building, and ordered to West Point, N. Y, for duty as assistant professor of civil and military engineering at the uun%y Academy, effective about Au- gust 74, He will be succeeded by Lieut. Col. Max C. Tyler, Corps of Engineers, for- merly in charge of the District water supply system and of construction work Rowcompleting a tour of engincering W com] g a tour o eering duty in the Philippines. He will assume Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., March 30.—The Secretary of War, James W. Good, heads the list of those summoned by John Philip Hill to testify at Monday's he: ing of the Hill-Palmisano election case, which will open at 10:30 a.m. in Mr. Hill's office in the Calvert Building. Daily hearings will continue through Wednesday, when the taking of testi- mony will end. These final sessions will be devoted to rebuttal of testimony of- fered by Representative Vincent L. Palmisano, whose election November 6 in the third district Mr. Hill charges was fraudulent. The case has been in progress 87 days. Mr. Hill, who was the unsuccess- ful Republican candidate in the elec- tion, expects to have the entire testi- mony, amounting at present to about 2,500 pages, printed in a few days. Store to Select Plane Model for Sale in District Goldenberg Second Entry Among Department Establishments Here. Another Washington department store has fallen in line with the re- cently inaugurated policy of retailing airplanes along with other commodities a friend and I were out together and |’ DUNN NAMED RADIO AIDE TO ARMY SIGNAL CHIEF Function to: Assist Training of Amateurs in United States. By the Associated Press. . Dr. Lawrence J.. Dunn of Brooklyn, N. Y., was appointed yesterday as chief amateur radio aide.to the chief signal officer of the Army. His function will be to assist in the organization and training of the transmitting radio amateurs of the United States. Under a plan of affiliation between the amateyrs and the Army Signal Corps, with the co-operation of the American Radio Relay League, is or- ganizing the amateurs for national or community emergency service. Dr. Dunn, until recently, was director of the Hudson division of the American Radlo Relay League and is one of the foremost amateurs of the country. Gen. Parker Sent to Chicago. Maj. Gen. Frank Parker of the War Deé)nt.ment general staff has been ordered to Chicago to assume command of the 6th Corps Area on the departure of Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone, now hold- ing that command, who has been grant- ed leave of absence. BINGHAM T0 SPEED AGTION ON AIRPORT Senator’s'Retum to- Capital Will Mark Fresh Activ- ity on Project. With the return to Washington Wed- nesday of Senator Bingham, Republi- can of Connecticut developments dre expected in the work of the joint air- port commission created by the last Congress to study the landing fleld re- quirements of the National Capital, both for the Federal Government and to_meet municipal needs. Senator Bingham, as chairman of the commission, plans to hold hearings shortly after his arrival. He probably will consult with his colleagues the ]d“(':r part of this week as to the exact a He also will consider reports from several Federal departments outlining Wwhat their respective airport needs are likely to be in the future. Such re- ports were requested from the Wi Navy, Commerce and Post Office De- partments. nts. Each of these departments and the District Government will have a repre- sentative at the hearings to assist the commission in developing information as to the size, location and proper b 2 P S n's position ‘as the National Capital. GETS SECRET SOCIETY AID Leader of South Carolina Repub- lican Faction Seeks Clean Sweep. CHARLESTON, 8. C., March 30 (#). —Existence of a_ secret society whose suglpon, he said, had helped him in his fight for the anti-Tolbert faction of the Republican organization of South Caro- lina was revealed today by W. F. Brown of Charleston, head of the inde- pendent Republican greup, who is seek- ing the overthrow of Tolbert as con- tsr'?.l::t of Federal patronage in the Beyond giving the name of the so- ciety as “A. M. O. 1776,” Mr. Brown would say nothing as to its nature or the membership. A _declaration that “a clean sweep” of Federal officeholders in the State would be made by a committee of which he is chairman was made by the fac- tion leader today. A meeting of' the committee will be held in Columbia Monday, he added, while on Thursday of next week he will go to Washington. Mr. Brown told newspapermen that he is a cousin of the new Postmaster General. BURNS .DENIES SHARE IN SHADOWING OIL JURY Files Brief in Supreme Court in Appeal From Decision on Sinclair Case. By the Assoclated Press. Contending he had nothing to do with the shadowing of the Pall-Sinclair oil conspiracy jury, William J. Burns yesterday filed in Supreme Court a brief that will be used when the court, on April 22, hears arguments on appeals from the conviction of Burns, Harry F. Sinclair and their associates for con- tempt of court for espionage on the jurors. g In the brief Burns cotended that he had withdrawn from the Burns detec- tive agency and was not consulted about employment of detectives by Sin- clair. He was sentenced to serve 15 days in jail. ‘W. Sherman Burns, son of the founder of the agency, in a separate brief filed at the same time, maintained that he in no way obstructed the trial of the oil conspiracy case and contended that mere shadowing a jury was not con- tempt of court and was a practice fol- lowed frequently by the Department of Justice. Sister M. Cecilia, 95, who entered the Community of the Sisters of Mercy, Atlanta, 72 years ago, died recently. 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