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WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather tonight & | Fair trost tonight: morrow. Temperatures: Higl noon today: lowest, 42, at 5 a.m. today. Pull report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as second class matt 31,027, post office, Wai minimum temperature about 38 degrees; somewhat warmer to- Bureau Forecast.) nd tomorrow; light chest, 55, at or shington, D, U.. ARTILLERYMEN ON WAY T0 NACO 0 DEFEND BORDER Attack by Rebels Possible Today, Say Advices From Nogales. GUERILLA WAR BEGUN BY CARAVEO TROOPS War Council Held by Insurgent Leaders at Cananea—U. S. Rushes 500 to Hachita, N. Mex. Br the Associaled Press. NACO, Ariz, April 12.—American ar- tillery was” on its way to Naco today to defend the American border against the menace of Mexican rebel field pieces trained upon the loyal garrison of Naco, Sonora. A Dbattery of field artillery was en route from Fort Bliss, El Paso. Tex. . ani two 3-inch field pieces were on the way from Camp Jones, Douglas, Ariz. Reports that American soil might again be subjected to Mexican rebel fire were heard this morning as advices came from the rebel stronghold at No- gales. Sonora. that revolutionary forcexi\unphm clinging to the side of the possibly would attack Naco, Sonora, today. War Council at Cananea. The affairs of the revolution were be- lieved to be approaching a crisis in So- nora. A war council was held at Cananea, south of here, yesterday. by Gen. J. Gonzalo Escobar, revolutionary commander-in-chief and five of his| from the. plane, climbed into his auto- | ing at Atlanta about noon and hopping | aides. Whether they would make a supreme effort to take the Naco garrison by storm or whether they would attempt | to make a southward drive, leaving the | border garrison in the hands of the | enemy. remained undetermined on this side of the international line. The| Nogales report that the rebels would again attack Naco gained wide circu- lation. From Agua Prieta, Sonora, east of here, came a report that a Mexican federal troop train was en route from El Paso, Tex.. to Naco, to reinforce the Joyal garrison of 1.000 men which has been holding thé garrison against the | menace of -overwhelming numbers of crl!bds camped just to the south of the ty. | Guns Trained on Garrison. Military authorities believe that it would be difficult for the rebel forces to attack Naco without running the risk of sending bullets across into Naco, | Ariz. Four 77-millimeter rebel guns have heen tra on the fed- eral garrison the nm}%fifi%flnm Naco looked for one of two things, either a major battle for the possession | of the Mexican gerrison or the with- ! drawal of the rebel forces to Guaymas, | Sonora, to meet the federal army, forc- ing its way up the west coast. Two more carloads of barbed wire crossed from the United States into, Naco, Sonora, to extend and improve | the wire entanglements in front of the {ederal trenches, H GUERILLA WARFARE BEGUN. | A ST | Caraveo Troops jn Series of Forays and | Mibor Assaults. Br the Assostated Press. JUAREZ. Mexico. April 12.—Unsuc- eessful in modern warfare against bet- | ter equipped federals in Central Chi- | huahua, Mexican rebel soldiers today | had begun guerilla warfare in the high | mountains in the western part of the ntate. 1l Gen. Marcelo Caraveo, civil governor of Chihuahua and second in the insurg- ent comand. has divided his army of | 2,900 men into five groups. Using Pear- | son. near Pulpito Pass in the rugged | Sierra_Madre reglon as a base, the | Tebels have begun a series of forays and | minor assaults which they plan to con- tinue as the federals advance. Almazan in Chihuahua City. - Gen. Juan A. Almazan, leading a major loyal army said to number about 7.000 men, still was in-Chihuahua City last night, but government sympathiz- ers hoped destroyed rails could be re- paired in time for him to reach Juarez by tomorrow night. Once Almazan has reached - Juarez and given his troops a short rest, fedexal officers here say, he will set out for ‘Western Chimuahua, hoping to overtake the rebels and force his way through Bulpito_Pass_into_Sonora, where the (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) LONDON PRESS SEES U. S. ARMS CURB AIM British Papers Attribute Desire for Naval Agreement to Hoover Administsation. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 12.—Londen news- papers today played preminently on their front pages special dispatches from Washington purporting to tell of the desire of the Hoover administration for a naval disarmament agreement. The dispatches coupled rumors of an impending announcement of importance by Hugh S. Gibson, American_delegate to the Geneva Preparatory Disarma ment Commission Conference, with the attitude of t administration. Such big headlines ‘Ready to Meet Britain Half Way” and “Washington Waits for ‘Whitehall” were used. ‘There was a disposition in some quar- ters to connect the appointment of Gen. Dawes as Ambass at St. James’ with the revival of the.naval The Daily News, commenting on this angle, said the situation ired the very attributes vhh:hggt Wes DOs- sessed. “Need it be- L wper askad, “that this epportunity s! not be neglected.”* Slight Frost Due Tonight. Washington will be visited by a slight frost. tonight, the Weather Bureau said redicting that the will | plane and took off | special plane crdered by the inventor | ILINDY BLOWS MUD ON CROWD HERE AND SPEEDS TO GOTHAM Field This | Displaying his dislike for crowds | water every time they attempted to get i his plane, took off for New York. A crowd of more than 100 persons, of Bolling Field at 1:30 p.m. | Lindbergh taxied through mud pud- | dles to a point near the field operations office, where the crowd was walting. As the crowd surged out onto the field | Lindbergh turned his plane and speeded over dozens of people who were leading the rush. . Asks For Lamphier. He taxied out into the field about a hundred feet and stopped, while. Prvt. Harry Rochenbach of Bolling Field ran out to the plane. Lindbergh asked ! Rochenbach to get Maj, Thomas G. | Lanphier, former commander of the Army first pursuit group, who now is associated with Col. Lindbergh on the | advisory board of Transcontinental Air | Transports Inc. Maj. Lanphier drove his car out into | the field and climbed up on the side of the plane to talk to l.lndberfil. | Again the crowd surged toward tl plane and Lindbergh treated them to | another shower. He taxied across the fleld to a point near the Potomac River | and throttled down his motor. He stood | there for nearly five minutes with | ship. | A group of newspaper photographers splashed through the mud and water across the field to attempt to make & | picture, Lindbergh waited until they were within 25 feet and then | turned* his plane and showered them | with mud before taxiing back to | Lanphier's car. Maj. Lanphier jumped mobile and drove directly away from the field. while Lindbergh turned his at 2:03 o'clock, heading for New York. Onrushing Admirers Apparently Annoy Flyer* In Brief Landing at Bolliflg bergh paid a 12-minute visit to Washington today, and, without getting out of when Lindbergh flew in from Greensboro, N. C., and landed at the south end [up the motor, blowing mud and water | The WITH SUNDAY MORNING nmflou ening “From Pre Within the Hour” The Star’s carrie every city block T system covers and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 110,145 WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1929-FIFTY PAGES Afternoon. by showering spectators with mud and close to his plane, Col. Charles’ A. Lind- among them many women, was on hand After Lindbergh's first exhibition of | mud showering, the crowd began to leave the field and by the time he took off most of the spectators had gone. | Scores ‘of the spectators were splashed | and mud.stained, among them women | and girls in new Spring finery. When the crowd first began to gather | on the sidewalk near his plane he lifted his_goggles and scowled before turning his' plane. Then he turned on his pow- erful motor full blast and as the wheels | began to splash through the water and mud the air blasi caught the particles of grit and spray and whipped them | back with machine gun velocity scores of feet behind the plane. Women gasped as the yellow clay and water struck them and there was a wild scramble to get out of the way. A large part of the gathering began to move toward waiting automobiles, but | some of the more hardy continued to | walk toward the piane and were treated | | to another shower. { ‘This second shower bath turned back | every one but a few newspaper pho- | tographers, who attempted to make | pictures through the spray. Numbers | | of spectators immediately began to drive away from the field without wait- | ing to see whether Lindbergh intended to leave, and when he finally taxied down the field to take off there was a mere handful left to see him away. | Lindbergh is on. his way from Bronwsville, Tex.. to New York to meet | the French cruiser bringing the body of | Ambassador Myron Herrick to this country. * | Lindbergh left Meridian, Miss., at| | 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning. refuel- | | off again at 1 o'clock yesterday after- {noon. He was forced to land at | Greensboro by fog. Greensboro is on | the New York-Atlanta air mail line. AERIAL TELEVISION “EYE IS DESIGNED Plane Views Would Be Sent to Ground Receiving Sta- tion by Apparatus. to transmit airplane views of ecities or countryside to’a ground receiving sta- tion, is being constructed by C. Francis Jenkins of this city, noted television in- ventor. The apparatus, a sensational develop- ment of the Jenkins process of broad- | casting visual scenes by radio, is to bo[ tested for the first time shortly in a | from the Curtiss factory. The plane lsl to be delivered within a few days. { The experiment undoubtedly will be | watched with keen interest by Army and | Navy officials, as the device concededly | would have great military value in time of war. With the aid of the apparatus, | general headquarters of an army would | be put within sight range of actual | operations at the front. | Refines Visual Detail, The apparatus will be of special type, | built -to 1nsure ‘“refinement of visual | detall,” Mr, Jenkins said. The pano- | rama below will be recorded in the usual | way, by means of a “scanning disc,” light-sensitive cell and broadcasting paraphernalia. The scenes will be re- | ceived on regular television machines | set. up in the Jenkins laboratory. The Jenkins laboratory at present is | at. 1519 Connecticut avenue, but & new laboratory and television broadcasting { station now is under construction in Maryland, on the Brookville Pike. Formal tests may be deferred until the | new station is completed. i Mr. Jenkins was reluctant to discuss | | his plans ‘in detail in advance of the { tests, as he sald “something might go 1 wrong and spoil the first tests.” . He de- clared, however, that he had “a lot of | confidence in the outcome.” Prelimi- ,nary experiments. simulating airplane conditions have been conducted success- fully, he stated. In order to assume personal charge of the operations in the air the inventor has been taking pilot lessons at an air fleld near Rockville preparatory to sc- |curing a Federal pilot's license. Mr. {Jenkins is° an e fiyer and | piloted a seaplane of his own prior to enactment of regulations governing pri- vate flying. He was not famillar’ with | (land planes until recently, however. Plane a Laboratory. | The plane which Mr. Jenkins has or- dered is termed by him a “fiying labor- | |atory.” It is a Curtiss Robin plane of | | the cabin type, with a special Challen- iger engine. A complete television jbmldcamnl outfit will be installed in ithe cabin. The scanning “eye” will | focus on the ground through an aper- !ture in the bottom of the plane. Mr. | Jenkins will pilot the plane while two !tul.sums operate the television ma- MISSING AVIATORS Food Dropped to I(ustra_lians1 An “aerial television eye,” designed | BY the Associated Press. e ROOME, Western AtiSEHII ABFirt SEARCHERS LOCATE and Ship Will Go to Their Rescue. 12.—A steamer will leAve here this ! atternoon for the mouth of the Glenelg | River to pick up the stranded Southern | Cross fiyers, sighted there by. the air- | | plane Canberra today. It is | miles distant by sea. DRAMATIC RESCUE STORY. about 250 | Plane Sights Stranded Fiyers and Drops | Them Food. By the Associated Press. SYDNEY. N. 8. W, April 12.—After | being lost 12 days in one of the wildest | and most inhospitable regions of the world, Capt. Charles Kingsford Smith and his three companions of the air- plane Southern Cross were located to- day by the plane Canberra, the largest | of several machines searching for them. Brief messages from the Canberra to a radio receiving station at Darwin, Northern Territory, related the sighting of the missing plane, which once flew from California to Australia. The Can-|®d t berrs said the four fiyers appeared safe | and well. Food was dropped to -them, sufficient to satisfy a want which, it | was feared, had become acute. * H Found on Mud Flat. Capt. Holden, plloting the Canberra, gave the plane’s location as on & mud | flat about 30 miles south from Port | George Mission station, which 1s Jocated | on the Prince Regent River about 130 | miles east’ of Derby. This location | would indicate that when Capt. Kings- | ford Smith sent the message just before | he made his forced landing nearly two weeks ago that he was “about 100 miles ast of Wyndham” he was, instead, ndreds of miles off the path from | ydney to Wyndham, a lap which was | 1o be the first of an atiempt to break the flight récord between Australia and Erigland. ‘While the Canberra did not say.so, it | was assumed no landing was possible in the ‘area in which the - Southern | Cross was down. A | There was in ' the sighting .of the | jnen a reminder of the death of Capt. | Roald Amundsen on a mission of rescue | for - his former enemy, Gen. Umbesto | Nobile. Lieut. Keith Anderson, bitter | rival of Kingsford Smith, himself has ' been missing for more than 48 hours after flying into the wilds of North- western Australia in search of the Southern Cross. Search May Be Problem. ‘The search for him may present a problem every bit as difficult as has | been ‘that of the plane just found.' Anderson had a companion with him, Robert Hitchcock. They have not been * heard from since they left Newcastle waters, northern territory, about 400 | miles from Wyndham. They left here (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) i chinery. . essbnsnis | ‘Who Won the These questions are now, and will be, asked more than any | | I They will be answi oughly each afternoqn . “SPORTS FINAL” EDITION OF The Ebening Htar | KEEP RIGHT UP TO THE MINUTE AND READ ‘“Who Won the Ball Game? H during this, the season for outdoo_r sports. Feature Race? other in° Washington ered quickly and thor- in the ¥ [LINER RUM [SSUE | owners of the United States Lines in | |5 ibly Chesapeake Bay may River and possibly sapeal 2§ fhir ey 3 THE "SPORTS FINAL. MAY GET HEARING AT SPECIAL TERM Question Brought to Fore by Leviathan’s Owners Is Slated for Discussion. L) v MYSTERY SURROUNDS SHIP’S PRESENT VOYAGE New York Hears That Liquor Is, Being Sold on Eastward Voyage. By the Associated Press. The question of the right of Ameri- can vessels to serve liquor as a beverage at sea is regarded by officials and ob- servers here as almost certain to be brought vigorously to the attention of the new Congress when it meets in spe- clal session next week, at least in the form of discussion. The promptness with which wet and dry organizations and spokesmen for the prohibitionist viewpoint expressed themselves on the decision of the Levia- than’s new owners to abandon the dry | policy which: governed the liner under the Shipping Board, made such an out- come practically a foregone conclusion. Supply Is Restricted. Prohibition enforcement authorities meanwhile have shown considerable in- terest in the statement of the public relations department of the United States Lines, which operates the liner, that it would be fair to assume that, | while the ship would be dry on dts | present east-bound voyage and wet only | on the return trip, liquor would be served going both ways hereafter. ‘The ship, they said, can possess liquor legally within the American three-mile limit only as medicinal stock under a Federal permit. Such liquor can be sold, they held, only to fill prescrip-| tions issued by physicians, as in the United States, and must be accounted | for with such prescriptions. That ap-| plies, it was declared, whether the liquor is issued on the outgoing or home- | coming voyage, or in in a foreign port. | No liquor can be brought within the | three-mile limit by an American ship, it was emphasized, unless it is provided for by the medicinal permit. Thus, Commissioner Doran of the Prohibition | Bureau explains, the Leviathan cannot | lgflly possess liquor to serve on such | ps: . t ’ S ‘The motive which actuated the new | their decision is regarded by many here as having been put. into words in an opinion on the incident e: by Vice Oh:rt;manu!'lummer of the - ping . Under mmu% m allowed to keep bever- age liquor stocks under seal in American waters, but this is denled to American ships by law and under the Suj Court_decision of 1923 which hel it they were at liberty to serve liquor outside the three-mile limit. Plummer Favors Legal Sale. “I do not believe,” Mr. Plummer de- clared, “that United States vessels should be forced to operate under con- ditions that would make competition with foreign ships harder than it now is. 1In my opinion, they should be al- lowed to sell liquor, if they think it necessary, provided, of course, that this sale of liquor is jegal.” Some prohibitionists profess to see in the 1923 Supreme Court decision on which the new owners of the Leviathan are relying in their new policy the suggestion which will defeat it. Although the court referred to the convention that a merchant ship was part of the | territory of the Nation whose flag she | flies as merely “a figure of speech, a | metaphor.” they recall that it also stat- hat “we do not mean to imply that Congress is without power to regu- late .the conduct. of domestic merchant ships when on the high seas.” SALE ON TRIP IS CHARGED. | Mystery Veils Liquor Law Attitude on Voyage to Europe. NEW YORK. April 12 (®).—There was some mystery today as to whether liquor, was being sold aboard the liner Leviathan on her present trip to Europe. Some statements attributed to Joseph E. Sheedy, éxecutive vice president of the United States Lines, Inc., the new owners of ‘the vessel, said his orders were that sale of liquor was not to be- gin until the return trip. Some news- papers insisted that when Sheedy first announced that liquor would be sold aboard the Leviathan he said the order probably was being carried out at that moment. York &t 10 o'clock Wednesday morn- ing. TFhe New York Times today sdld that | " (Continued on Compston Wins Golf Tourney. LONDON, April 12 (®).—Archie Compston won the Roehampton profes- sional golf tournament, defeating Charles. Whitcombe in the 18-hole final, 1 up. ¢ e 2, Column 3.) Gunmen Get $18,000 in Gold. IRVINGTON, N. J., April 12 (@ — e gunmen held up a messenger of he Irvington Smelting & Refining Co. near the plant today and escaped with $16,000 in gold bullion. The ship cleared from New | MY Woro! 1 JUST CAWNT ; JOL LY SEE 1T DRAWS T How g | HOOVER T0 RECEIVE FARM BILL TODAY Subcommittee Named to Pre- | sent Draft to President for Study. By the Associated Press. President Hoover will receive from the House agriculture committee late today a copy of the farm relief measure which | that body has just drafted for submis- sion to the House soon after the begin- | ning of the special session next Monday. | A subcommittee was appointed by the | entire committee to present the draft to the Chief Executive so that he might | study. it and make any suggestions that might occur to him. Mr. Hoover will deal somewhat extensively with the farm relief problem in the first message to | Congress, which will be transmitted | separately to the House and Senate Tuesday. v Many House members are coming to look upon the enactment of a general farm relief bill as only the first step toward the formulation of an icul- tural program which would deal with the multitude of problems that besiege the farmer. Several members of the ' agriculture committee take the view that when it has finished with the bill now in hand it should turn to a study of various other legisiative proposals before it. Among those that probably will be re- called to the attention of the committee is the Summers bill to provide for the licensing of persons dealing in perish- | | able commodities. | Wood Lots Measure. | A new measure probably will be | brought betore the committee to pro- mote the conversion of low-grade farm lands into wood lots. Representative Fort, Republican, of New Jersey, is| considering such a p: 1. The details of the Fort proposal still are to be worked out, but it probably would" seek to induce farmers by the | payment of a smail amount for each | acre taken out of cultivation to convert their poor farm lands into forested lots. This is the same general principle that was followed in legislation enacted dur- ing the last Congress to cope with the | pink bollworm in Texas cotton lands. Fort believes that such a measure wauld aid in reducing the surplus of | certain farm crops by curtailing the | acreage under production. In addition. | it would give the farmer wood lots to | produce his fuel and meet his needs | for_timber. This proposal would differ widely from the general reforestation plan that is being followed. Under it, lands alon the watersheds of the Great Lakes an various other streams are being pur- chased bg- the Federal Government and reforestes A Senate agriculture subcommittee requested President Hoover yesterday to express himself on the export debenture | plan_of the National Grange as a part of the new farm relief bill. but the "~ (Continued on min | HOOVER IS GIVEN PASS. | | | | | Clark Griffith, president of the Wash- ington Base 1l Club, presented to | President Hoover today an annual pass for all American League base ball games and & similar one for Mrs. Hoover. The passes were in separate morocco cases, handsomely trimmed with silver. The president will attend the opening game of the American League here Tuesday and will toss out the first ball. )Ha enjoys. base ball and has indicated that he intends to go to the Griffith | Stacium frequently during the season. President May Take Fishing Trips Along Potomac and in Chesapeake Bay TIndications are that the Potomac be the scenes of some. of Hoover's fishing expeditions during the co;llu President Hoover's acquired a lai ng for two shore of the Potomac mont, there is an ‘White House thdt devote all rod and reel at the ‘Shenandoah Naf im the President may i ¥ i il :.E‘zgi g Summer. M jow that Lawrenceé Richey, one of Gly- of his activities with the | morrow. It was announced at the White House today that President Hoover not cation tomorrow and go to Hunting Creek near Cactoctin Furnace for a few hours of trout fishing as was tentatively planned by him- earlier in the week. The | necessary to remain at-his. desk. number of Senators and. Representa- sion of cangus on Monday and he has planned confer with several to- | House - Chaplain Upholds} | ing, steel plants, textile mills, tanneries, | 1,000 Chinese Slain In Canton to Stop Alleged Radicalism By the Associated Py CANTON, China, April 12.—More than a thousand alleged radical agitators are estimated to have been | executed by machine guns' during the past week in a eampaign by the Canton authorities to stamp out radicalism here. Accused of instigating Communist agitation, 30 students of the Na- tionalist Sun Yat Sen University were arrested, court-martialed and shot. The Sun Yat Sen University, a co-educational institution, has long been declared a hotbed of radi- calism by the local authorities. In back of the current tenseness is the “Declaration of Independ- ence” jssued early this month by Canton in which the city’s inde- pendence of the Kwangsi military clique was openly declared. The local authorities have expressed fear | that the Kwangs! group might use | the radicals as a means of stirring up disorder in Kwangtung. So great was this fear that the local authorities declared martial law and troops sre néw patrolling the BACKS CAMALIER Prosecutor’s Stand on | Paid Dry “Spies.” | The recent stand taken by Assistant | U. 8. Attorney R. F. Camaliér pertain- ing to the use of paid police informers | was upheld today by Dr. James Shera | Montgomery, chaplain of the -House of Representatives, in a letter which he addressed to the prosecutor today. | Dr. Montgomery, who also, is pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal | Church, declared that ministers of the | sospel were sufficiently occupled with | their religious teachings. It is not their | duty to enter into the affairs of State, | he said. ‘The letter follows recent complaint of local ministers, who resented the decla- ration made by Camalier recently before | the Citizens' Service Association, “a | dry organization.” Urged Dismissal of Informers. In his speech, Mr, @amalier advo- | cated dismissing informers, and term- ed the agents, who posed as ministers, | when in reality they were actuated by pecuniary motives, as the “most lawless type of individual.” Discussing the position taken by Camalier, Dr. Montgomery said: “T have just read with the deepest inter- est and appreciation your utterance relative to law enforcement. I regard what you have sald as very timely and needful. “The hour has come when it is ab- solutely necessary for the church and the preacher to do the work for which they have been set apart. It is peculiar and distinctive and the sooner that we Jearn that the high business of our calling is to lead men to realize that the great process of character building is the power of God, is not working with- out in restraint, but working and in- 3piring from within, Camalier Refuses Comment, “Long since have I grown weary of the pulpit trying to run the affairs of the state: to'use an old term, vet pregnant with truth, let tihe preacher HAWLEY, GARNER, | :Representatives to Speak to! | committee, and Garner of Texas, the | ranking minority member, are to dis- | cuss the tariff question tomorrow night | by The Washington Star and broadcast | over a coast-to-coast hook-up, | opinion of labor also has been ex- | Porum is of the utmost timely interest. ' | from_the South. they will reflect not stick to_his last preach TODISCUSS TARIF Nation Tomorrow in Radio Forum. Representatives Hawley of Oregon, ! chairman of the House ways and means | in the National Radio Forum arranged up, spon- sored by the Columbia Broadcasting Co, With the Seventy-first Congress meeting in extraordinary session on! Monday at the call of President Hoover | to consider two urgent legislative needs, | tariff revision and farm relief, which are to be stressed in the President’s! first message to Congress, to be read | probably on Tuesday, there is keen gen- eral interest in these two speakers, who 3 parties on “the ; . All of U. 8. Industries Represented. Since January 7 the ways and means committee, to which is intrusted the most sacredly guarded right of a self-| governing e—the power to initiate | taxing legislation—has been holding | hearings and making intensive studies of the tariff problem. All of the great industries of the country have been | represented at these hearings—indus- tries that furnish bread-and-butter em- | ployment for all of the people of the | country, whether in agriculture, min- ! machinery, jewelry or what not. The pressed. The trends of trade and com- merce and inventive genius have been studied. Every State in the Union has had its interests represented. Out of the deliberations of this com- mittee is coming a legislative proposal, not only of pressing importance as em- phasized by the President, but one that will affect each individual citizen—man, woman and child—in daily life. Timely Subject for Discussion. ‘With the popular interest thus whet- | ted regarding the proposed tariff re-: vision, from the laborer to the captains of industry and statesmen, this subject | for discussion in the National Radio Just on the eve of the extraordinary session the two outstanding leaders will give the people the first direct, author- itative, comprehensive explanation just what the tariff bill means. 1 Chairman Hawley being a Republican and from the Far West., and Repre-| sentative Garner being a Democrat and | (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) “SLAIN” DENVER GIRL | REAPPEARS N PROBE Mystery Surrounding Discovery of Torso in Los Angeles River Is Deepened by Appearance. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 12.— Mystery veiling the identity of a girl's torso found in the Los Angeles River last week deepened today after the last major theory of the police had been dissipated by the reappearance of Miss | Laura Belle Davis of Denver. i Police believed the torso to be that of Miss Davis after they had learned she cisappeared from a rooming house here. ‘Articles of clothing from Miss Davis’ wardrobe had been examined by scien- tists and they “positively identified” the torso as that of the Denver girl. Shortly afterward Miss Davis was lo- cated here. In the Magazine of Next Sunday’s Star “Seconds Between Life and Death”—A truc and thrilling recital of incidents in'the life of a parachute jumper. “White Ships That Never Go Down to the Sea"—And the Wash- ingtonians-who sail their model vessels on the Mirror Basin. “Preparing for the Potomac Shad”—Local fishernten are expecting a’big catch this-year. _“The District Corner Stone”—An' article on old Washing John Clagett Prqcmi‘._ “Wonderful Virginia Gardens”—A fully illustrated and intensely interesting article on the fine ald‘ flower gardens of Virginia -estates. Together with comg"e;c shorkistories by Fannie Kilbourne and Dana = Burnet: “An lorers’ Part: « articles and a Page for !hc B In Next Sunday’s Star ton by ‘by Will Rogers; other timely ys and Girls. 2 TWO CENTS. GIBSON DESIRES 10 BE RELIEVED OF DISTRICT DUTIES Chairman of Special House Subcommittee to Ask Transfer. CHANGE TO BE SOUGHT FOR REGULAR SESSION Wants Work to Be More Closely Related to Interests of Ver- mont Constituents. Representative Gibson of Vermont, chairman of the special subcommittee of the House District committee that has been making an eXtensive survey of the municipal administration of the National Capital in co-operation with the United States Bureau of Efficiency. desires to be relieved from further duty as & member of the House District committee. ‘When the Republican committee on committees meets to make a siate of committee appointments for the frst regular session of the incoming Con- gress, Mr. Gibson will ask to be trans- ferrd to some other committes where his work will be more closely related to the interests of his constituents in Vermont. Under special permission granted by the House District committee in the ¢l ays Gibson will e on or efore Juiy 3 with the House a report on his special in- vestigation of the District Police De- partment. Report to Be Short. Now that Capt. Burlingame has re- signed, Mr. Gibson sees no public serv- ice to be achieved through reviewing the Burlingame-Blalock case in his re- port. He said today that “muddy waters” in the Police Department had been so far cleared as to make his re- port considerably easier to write and less voluminous than had been antici- pated. s it is the present plan of the House ers to appoint in the incoming ex- tra session only the four House com- mittees required for the consideration of farm relief and tariff legislation, the House District committee probably will not be organized during the incoming session. Mr. Gibson, however, intends to call conferences with the new police officials and others with a view to ling a Police Department reorg; which will bring about d for the public welfare and- to the police system. Salary Inerease Included. He does not expect. however, to get any l:cuun n?: m‘: bill before the first regular session of the new Congress. which meets next December. phase of the police reorganization bill will consider salary increases for the mew superintendent and other officials. to place .them on a parity with those hold- ing similar positions in other large cities and balance with the salaries received by the heads of other District departments. When this legislation has been put through, Mr. Gibson feels that he will have rounded out a record for constrtic~ tive legisiation of the District of Co- | lumbia, including the passage of such measures as the diploma mill bill, the | new children’s tuberculosis sanitarium the condemnation bill, the organization of the park and' planning eomlun?nor:\. the five-year school building program, the organic act for the free public Ji- brary, and a series of measures which effected savings in District revenues. mfl:fl;flu mdit:m feels that the Re- n committee on e should let him go free. W GERMANY REFUSES VISA FOR TROTSKY Cabinet Declines to Admit Soviet Exile Into Country. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 12—The German cabinet, after a brief meeting, officially announced today that it had declined the request of Leon Trotsky, Soviet ex- ile, for & visa to his passport which | would permit him to enter Germany. The decision was made yesterday, but making it public was not decided upon until today. The following brief communique was issued: “The cabinet has considered the ques- tion of Leon Trotsky's entering Ger- many. After an exhaustive investigation of all the circumstances the cabinet has decided not to grant his request. He has been notified dccordingly.” Russian Plans te Write Biography. Unpacks Effects. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 12 (#). Leon Trotsky, bitterly disa) ted Germahy's refusal to admit him, | luctantly today began to unpack boxes and trunks to settle down in the tiny white house in the outskirts of | the city he longed to quit. He has engaged a stenographer, and it was said he would concentrate his energies in the writing of his auto- .| b hy. p] e embittered exil> refused foday to talk with representatives of'the press, | but it was reported he considered Ger- many’s refusal to accord him medical treatment tantamount to a death blow, the climate at Constantinople being in- jurfous to his shattered health. Bank Statements sovashinglon clearing house, 85,013, m\zm palence. $338.662.810.68. Irk\‘ e $1,425,000,000. SR P New York clearing heuse balance, $172,009,000, Radio -Progr:'lms'—-'-Pue 34, i 3