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WEATHER. ¥ (U. 8. Weather ll‘lll\l.m ‘ Increasing cloudiness somewha warmer tonight, probably followed showers Forecast.) by 'rempentuu:'w 71, at 11 am. Mnl.h: lowest, 45, at report on 30 a.m. today. page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 24 and 25 No. 31,035 FAINT HOPES HELD FOR REVIVING WAR DEBTS DISCUSSIONS German Delegate Confers In- formally With American and Other Experts. WASHINGTON DISTURBED BY PROSPECT OF FAILURE Plenary Session in Paris Monday Must Get New Berlin Offer or Adjourn. Clemenceau Views Schacht’s Move as Tendency to War By the Associated Pres: PARIS, April 20.—Marcel Hu- tin, writing in the Echo de Paris today, says that Georges Clemen- ceau, France's war-time premier, tfakes an exceedingly grave view of the attitude of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht in the present repara- tions deadlock. The journalist quotes Clemen- ceau as follows: “His (Schacht's) refusal and his designs tend toward nothing less than a new war.” He further quotes “the Tiger” as saying: "le\e g‘vermans have only to re- fuse now to pay the Dawes an- nuities to justify maintenance of our occupation of the Rhineland zones after the period provided in the peace treaty.” By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 20—Efforts to revive the almost dead reparations conference went on steadily today, but the prospect looked exceedingly dark. The Germans. were understood to be willing to increase their reparations offer slightly, but they were frank to intimate that they saw no real hope of the present conference reaching an accord. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, leader of the German delegation, has been talking with Owen D. Young and the allied delegates at informal conferences on the situation. At the same time explor- ing the possibility of a 10-year agree- ment, He appearcd at the Hotel George’ V this morning and went into .confer- ence with Mr. Young, Thomas W. Lamont and two other reparations ex- perts. He looked very grave and tired. Blame Put on Germans. The world-wide blame upon. the Ger- mons for wrecking the conference, as re- ported in the press, or the Berlin cabi- Tet’s reported disapproval today seemed 1o have softened the German firmness. The delegation, however, still asserted that it was composed of “independent experts.” They were neither taking nor asking the cabinet’s instructions, they said, and were seeking only solutions which they, as experts and as Germans, could approve. & Any compromise much above their figures of 37 annunities of 1,650,000,000 marks (about $396,000,000), the Ger- mans asserted, could be made only for political reasons and would have to be made by the home politicians and not by them, for, they repeated, they are financial experts and are determined to promise only what can be done. After his conference with the experts at the Hotel George V this morning, Dr. Schacht left looking pale and worried. He had spent an hour and a half at the hotel. The American experts would say nothing of what took place and the others dismissed questions with the uni- form answer, “Nothing new.” The Havas News Agency says that Dr. Schacht left for Berlin this after- noon, but will return for the plenary session of the deadlocked commission on Monday. Must Draw Up Report. ‘While the hope that the conferences might result in a reopening of the ne- gotiations existed, it was felt that it was more likely the discussions would turn toward consideration of how the repara- tions committee shall announce termi- nation of its work. It was stated that at the outset the conversations of the allied and American experts showed a disposition to make it as easy as pos- sible for Dr. Schacht. It was necessary, however, to find some way to report to the governments the failure of the committee to execute its mission fully and it seems likely this afternoon that the committee would simply refer the whole question back to the various governments involved. The allied experts say that they will in no circumstances pay the cost of a compromise to make an agreement pos- sible. They declare that their demands were scaled down to the lowest limits and amounted to less than one-third of the original reparations debt fixed by the reparations commission, and that the German offer was less than a quar- ter of that l(;eht. Theblm‘l‘hn? betwe‘z the proposals was so_big that one si or the other must make a big change in its attitude. OFFICIALS HERE DISTURBED. Desired Settlement of Reparations Is- sue at Paris Session. The threatened breakdown of nego- tiations' now occupying the reparations commission in_Paris was viewed with considerable péssimism in Government circles today. ‘While the United States is not offi- cially represented, since its interest in Teparations concerns only & small frac- tion of the total involved, the Gov- ernment’s attitude is one of complete sympathy with all efforts to redach a settlement of the problem and the progress of the negotiations has been closely followed by officials in view of economic consequences likely to An official report ‘on the e ment of the subcommittee of experts was received yesterday by Secretary of State Stimson, American diplomats re- rting that this probably meant the g:eak-np of the conference, The Secre- tary declined, however, to forecast what the Government's Fntered as second class matter post ‘office, Washington, D. WASHINGTON, LEVIATHAN CLEARS FOR AMERICA WITH SUPPLY OF LIQUOR ABOARD Loading Is Guarded With Secrecy—Left- over Stock to Be Thrown Into Sea at 12-Mile Limit.‘ By the Associated Press. ) CHERBOURG, April 20.—Seventy cases of various fluids for which France is famous, were put aboard the liner Leviathan when she called here today on her first trip back to New York under her new house flag. Among .the = refreshments were Cognac Two-stars, and Cognac Three-stars, champagne marked “Sec” and champagne marked “Extra Dry.” Quite a few quarts of beer went on boarll as well as the celebrated wine sisters “Rouge” and “Blanc.” By the Assoclated Press. SOUTHAMPTON, . England, April 20.—The giant liner Leviathan left for New York this morning with a stock of liquor aboard for sale to passengers. Ship’s officers refused to discuss the quantity of liquor put aboard. The load- ing was done with the utmost secrecy, officials at the pler refusing to give any information. I , however, the supply It was learned, howe! Ry had been estimated so as to have left over when the liner reached the 12- mile limit, where what is left will be thrown overboard. The Leviathan carried 247 first-class passengers and expected to pick up an equal number at Cherbourg. Line officials said the booking was normal and about the same as last year, part of a small increase being due to a number of ngers of the French liner Paris being aboard. The Paris grounded Thursday in the English Channel and was forced to put back to Havre for repairs. Tt was the first time since prohibition the glant vessel, one of the two largest liners afloat, had carried liquor other than its medicinal stores. The action marked inauguration of the ship's new policy, proclaimed under the ownershi) of the United States Lines, Inc., whicl recently secured it from the United States Shipping Board. 1t was understood there was to be no bar aboard the Leviathan, but that wines and other liquors once bought might be served when and where pas- sengers chose. LITVINOFF CURBED AT ARMS PARLEY Soviet Delegate Denied Op- portunity to Talk on Ir- relevant Subject. By the Assoclated Press. GENEVA, April 20.—Maxim Litvin- off, Soviet vice commissar for foreign af- fairs, received another setback in the preparatory disarmament conference to- day and it made him very angry. How- ever, he did not immediately fulfill ex- pectations of some that he would leave the conference. Early in today's meeting the question of publicity for armaments, representing the German project, was disposed of by the Disarmament Commission by tabling it for reference to a subcom- | mittee or later discussion in conneztion with limitation of effectives. i Shortly after the action was taken | M. Litvinoff arose and demanded the right of speech. Asked His Subject. “On what subject?” Jonkheer Loudon, the president of the conference, who had | been criticized privately-for allowing the Russians to monopolize the conference and for general lack of firmness, asked. “I want to speak on procedure and on the question of publicity,” Litvin- off replied. M. Loudon announced they had al- ready be the discussion of chemi- cal v{uh:eu,n and that it would be neces- sary to get the permission of the com- mission. “Well,” rejoined the Russian, very stifly, “if I must get the permission of the commission every time I want to speak, then I won't speak.” He sat down amid embarrassing silence. “I am very sorry,” remarked M. Lou- don coldly, “but we absolutely must get on with our work.” Soviet Criticism Issued. Shortly after the incident the Soviet delegation distributed a five-page type- written statement in which they said that while the commission’s attitude justified their withdrawal from the con- ference they had decided to remain since they never wanted it to be said a disarmament_conference had failed be- cause the Soviet had not participated. They aske dthat the world be in- formed of the efforts of the Soviet rep- resentatives go secure mum;u%?:lct?cxii armament a sure an means. Theyyslld they had decided to go ahead with the work of the confer- énce although they thought it futile so lm:%d as the Soviet proposals were ig- nored. The statement closed with a charge that the majority of the governments represented on the Preparatory Com-~ mission were against any arms reduc- tions whatsoever. Sees Smoke Screen. “The commission is a sort of screen for the reluctance of the governments to reduce armaments, thus relieving the governments’ responsibility in the mat- ter of disarmament,” it ended. Count von Bernstorfl, German dele- gate, introduced an amendment to the commission’s draff treaty on chemical warfare which prohibits the use of “air wea, ,” including dropping of ex- plosives or gas bombs from airplanes. It would also prohibit employment of bombing planes which are, guided by wireless. MR JAPANESE OFFICER SLAIN BY CHINESE Army Takes Precautionary Meas- ures After Assassination by ' Civilians in Shantung. By the Assoclated Press. TIENTSIN, China, -April 20.—Jap- anese army headquarters at Tsinan, Shantung, adopted extreme precluun'n— measures there today after Lieut Itoh of their army had bsen assassi- nated by two Chinese in civilian clothes officer was proceeding night. The Japanese 1 commercial district through the to the revolvers and shot him, escaping in the subsequent confusion. ead ,| their way to Knowltons Landing to Ty | Rart timism nese not. attitude would be in case the conference adjourns without Teaching an agreement. Chairm Bu-hdmeWIMIm airman relations committee said he the offer of Germany Just.’ “1 feel,” he explained, “that their offer and fair. wes reasonable sum which ‘When the T ind and ne log ant ind an | territory and . considered, » 1 fecl her offer.was. . ¥ e ¥ State News, Pages 6 and 7 | ‘the ;mfinflcy Plane Flying East Is Seen 300 Miles West of Scotland Its Identity Is Mystery. London Has No News of Atlantic Flight. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 20.—A British trawler fishing about 250 miles west of the outer Hebrides or 300 miles west of the western Scotch coast reported an air- plane passed over it early today fiying eastward. The identity of the plane was a mystery here. The radio messege was received by the Malin Head station in Ireland from the trawler Shackleford at 8:23 am. (3:34 Eastern standard time). It said: “Airplane bound east passed here this morning at 5 o'clock. Position is 58.10 north and 14.30 west.” There was no knowledge here of any transatlantic flight in progress and the public was left guessing what the plane might be doing so far out in the Atlan- tic_as to be beyond the limit of any ordinary trial flight. At the air ministry it was stated: “We have no knowledge of any flight over the Atlantic. Neither have we re- ON EARTH DEPICTED Abrupt Debut “Several Hun-| dred Thousand Years Ago” Told by Scientist. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE. Associated Press Science Editor. PHILADELPHIA, April 20—The abruptness of man's first geologicaily recorded appearance on earth was brought out at the meeting of the Amer- ican Philosophical Society today by Dr. James H. Breasted, director of the Ori- netal Institute, University of Chicago. Though the recorded time of man's advent has been regarded generally as around 100,000 years ago, Dr. Breasted said that recent Egyptian records show it was “at least several hundred thou- sand years ago, or very much earlier if we follow the geologists who estimate the length of the pleistocene era at nearly or quite a million years ago.” ‘These prehistoric men, whose records were found in Egypt, were the same sort of men as have been identified else- where, especially in Europe, as first ap- pearing at later dates. They had about the same culture, used the same kinds of stone tools. and are designated by ‘the same names, Chellean and Acheulean. In Egypt, as in other places where these earliest records have been uncov- Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) HUNDRED MEN JOIN FIGHT TO SAVE LEVEE Labor Recruits on Way to Knowl- tons Landing,. on Arkansas Banks of Mississippi. By the Associated Press. (4108 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, STREET REPAIR BIDS COVERING §1,030,000 ASKED BY DISTRICT Al Highway Projects Are Co-ordinated With Dates Set for Jobs. PUBLIC UTILITY GROUPS AID IN NEW PROGRAM City Expects to Save Large Sums by Regulating Opening of Thoroughfares. ' Bids were asked today by the District Commissioners for street paving, re- placement and repair jobs estimated to cost $1,550,000. This, together with work already under contract amounting to $400,000, will be the District's high- way program for the fiscal year 1929-30. For the first time this year the an- nouncement of the streets to ‘be paved, replaced or otherwise treated contains the dates at which each individual job Is expected to start. This sequence was arranged by Capt. Herbert C. White- hurst, the District’s co-ordinator and chief engineer, after consulting the pro- grams for the working season of all District departments-and public utility concerns whose duties involve cutting up street surfaces. This is e to save large sums by eliminating heed- less cutting up of streets, as has oc- curred hitherto by the execution of several unrelated programs by the sewer, water and highway departments and the telephone, gas, electric and tele- graph companies. I ‘The work now under contract is a holdover from contracts awarded dur- ing the current fiscal year, but not completed in the last working season. Dates for Opening Bids. ‘The bids will be opened ‘on the fol- lowing dates and contracts awarded shortly after each date: First concrete pavement contract, May 2; resurfacing replacements, May 3; first curb and gutter contract, May 6; sidewalks and alleys, May 7; second curb and gutter contract, May 8; repair contract for asphalt roadways, May 13; repair con- tract for concrete roadways, May 14; concrete sidewalk repairs, May 15; sec- ond concrete pavement contract, June 3; concrete strip roadway and covering granite blocks with asphalt, June 4; resurfacing by heater method, June 5, and surface treatment for macadam roads, June 6. ‘The work to be undertaken this year involves about the same expenditure as that last year, but more paving will be done. Last year $250,000 of the appro- priation was expended in street o ing projects. This year there are no street widening projects listed, and the money accordingly will g0 in paving work. ‘The work called for in.the contracts and the dat¢ each job will start follow: Contract roadways, first contract: Southeast Section. U, 16th to Fendall place, May 15; Fifteenth, Good Hope road to U, May 18; V, Fourteenth to Sixteenth, May 21; Fourteenth, V to W, May 25; Thir- teenth, Good Hope road to Pleasant, May 27; Chester, 7, southward, June £; Mount View place, Valley place to Ma- ple View place, June 7; Twenty-third, Minnesota avenue to Q, June 10; Nich- olson, Prout to Minnesota avenue, June 13; Twenty-fifth, Minnesoia avenue to Naylor ‘road, June 17; Valley place, Mount View place to High, June 24; Pleasant, Nichols avenue to Thirteenth, June 27; Massachusetts avenue, Eigh- teenth to Nineteenth, July 1; Eigh- teenth, Massachusetts avenue to D, July 5; C, Seventeenth to Massachu- setis avenue, July 8; C, Fifteenth to Sixteenth, July 10, and D, Fourteenth to Seventeenth, July 12. Northeast Section. Seventeenth, A to B streets, July 18; Neal, Bladensburg road_to Holbrook, July 22; Orren Oates to Levis, July 25; Levis, Trinidad avenue to Orren, July 29; Queen, Trindidad avenue eastward, July 31; Owen place, Montello avenue to Trinidad avenue, August 5; Belair place, Hamlin place to Girard place, August 10; Twenty-fifth, Girard place to Hamlin place, August 12; Girard place, Twenty-fifth to Mills avenue, Au- gust_15; Douglas, Queens Chapel road to Twenty-fourth, August 20; Evarts, Twentieth to Twenty-second, August 25; Randolph, Twelfth to Thirteenth, Au- gust 28; Shepherd, Twelfth to Michigan avenue, August 31; Thirteenth place, Michigan avenue to Varnum, Septem- ber 4; Upshur, Sargeant road to Mic gan avenue, September 7: Twenty-sec- ond, Quincy to Bunker Hill road, Sep- tember 9; Newton, Twentieth to Twen- ty-second, September 13; Lawrence, ‘Twenty-second to South Dakota avenue, September 18; Newton, Rhode Island avenue to Eastern avenue, September 23; Myrtle avenue, Central avenue to ‘Walnut, September 27; Central avenue, Brentwood road to Myrtle avenue, Octo- ber 1; Fourteenth, Kearney to Lawrence, October 9; Seventeenth, October 11; Twelfth place, Upshur to Varnum, October 16; Seven- teenth, Newton to_ Otis, October 18; Otis, Sixteenth to Eighteenth, October 21; Perry, Twentieth to Twenty-second, October 24, and Otis, South Dakota avenue to Twenty-fourth, October 28. - KAISER'S BROTHER, Lawrence, Fourteefith to |1 4 o SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1929—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. #* The only evening in Washington witx the Associated Press news service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 113,592 Associated Press. DiDYA EVER SE A MORE BEAVTIFU. SWEET APPLE BLOSSOM SEASON. PRINCE HENRY, DIES | German Nobleman Succumbs to Pneumonia at Age of 66. By the Assoclated Press. HEMMELMARK, Germany, April 20. —Prince Henry of Prussia, only brother of the former Kaiser, died here today | of pneumonia. Prince Henry, who was widely known in the United States for his visit there in 1902, was 66 years old and had been in poor health for several years. Active in Naval Service. Prince Henry of Prussia, only brother of former Emperor William II of Ger- many, devoted his active life to the| fatherland in the naval service. He enlisted in the navy upon com- pleting his education in 1877. Advanc- ing rapidly through the various com- d grades, he attained the rank of in 1906 and wds made chief of the active high seas fleet. Three years later, in September, he retired from that command and became inspec- | tor general of the navy with the rank of grand admiral. During the World War Prince Henry confined himself to the role of observer on various battle fronts. After the revo- lution in Germany he retired to his estate at Hemmelsmark, near Kiel, from which he emerged only oecasionally. ‘The prince never played much of a role politically. However, he was dis- patched at various times on important missions of a political nature, but al- ways was bound closely by instructions from his brother so that he had no opinion of his own to register. His first assignment of this sort was in 1896, when he represented his brother at the coronation at Moscow of Nicholas II of Russia. Six rs later, in February, 1902, the pfi‘tr';’ee visited the United States on what has been regarded as the most important diplomatic mission of his career. Delegated by his brother to attend the launching and christening of “the Kaiser's yacht, Meteor, at Jersey City, Prince Henry sailed from Germany on the new liner Crown Prince Wilhelm of the North German Lloyd. Theodore Roosevelt was then President, and as a sign of German-American {riendship, delegated his daughter Alice, now Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, to christen the Meteor. Prince Henry made an ex- tended tour of American cities and everywhere was accorded enthusiastic rec;g;lnns. ee and one-half years younger than the former Kaiser, Prince} Hegry was born August 14, 1862, in the new palace at Potsdam. He was the second of five children of the late Emperor Frederick IIV, his mother being Princess Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria of England. ‘Wedded in 1887. In 1887 Prince Henry married Prin- cess Irene of Hessen, a daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hessen and Princess Alice of Great Britain. They had two sons, Prince Waldemar, born in lggg. and Prince Sigismund, born in One of the features of Prince Henry's visit to the United States in 1902 was a banquet in his honor at New York, ar- ranged jointly by the American press and industrial and commercial circles. In the course of his remarks at that event, the prince related that before he (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) e SNOWLAKE, Ark, April 20.—One hundred additional laborers, recruited in Helena, Ark, this morning were on join a small army of workers fighting to prevent the breaking of the Missis- sippi River levee. 4 The reinforcements were at Old Town Landing, south of Helena, awaiting a Government boat to take them to the scene of the threaténed break. Government en; rs in charge of efforts to strength e levee at the spot where it went out during the high water of 1927 with the loss of 27 lives continued wds{hm reinforce a bulk- head back of the danger point with timbers and sandbags and planned to sink a willow revetment in the water where the caving of the levee occurred earlier this week, These operations were expected to relieve the greater of the immdiat danger, and op- that a break would be averted was generally expressed. Continud high water caused a break Eaving of the hanaueite, bub prompt ca e que! prompt repairs by Government ited a major crevasse. A :‘ruk ‘would area of the State. Radio Programs—Page 34 ve meant the Exclusive ‘features—photographs Thursday order your newsdealer of Tomorrow’s Star The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival Opening Day Ceremonies at American League Park | TWO FULL PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE ROTOGRAVURE SECTION OF The Sunday Stav As these two intensely interesting and timely of this week—do not appear in any other Washington Rotogravure Section this m of tomorrow’s Star from your Y. Features Wednesday and unday, Mrs. Brown Returns Pencils Her Husband Takes From Office By the Associated Press. Postmaster General and Mrs. Brown are in complete agreement on economy in the Post Office Department. The Postmaster General has a habit of pocketing every pencil he gets his hands on. Mrs. Brown does them up in neat bundles and every few days personally brings them back to the department and leaves them with her husband’s secretary, who puts them back into use. The Postmaster General is never told anything about it. RATE CUT ORDERED IN WIDE TERRITORY Mississippi and Warrior Shipping Affected—Slashes - Range to 20 Per Cent. | By the Assoclated Press. Railroads connecting with the In- land Waterways Corporation Barge Line on the Mississippi and Warrior Rivers were ordered today by the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish a sweeping system of combination barge- rail and rail-barge rates and routes for the utilization of shippers desiring to combine both water and railroad fa- cility. By the terms of the order, which is made effective August 27, a series of rates are required to be established which will range down to 20 per cent less than existing all-rail rates between the points eifective. The routes over which the contemplated reduction will apply include a large part of the entire jcountry. In general, the commission granted almost completely a petition of the Government-owned Inland Waterways Corporation, which operates on an ex- tensive scale along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The barge line con- tended that unless railroads combined with it for the making of through rates to and from principal traffic centers, the water route could not be fully useful. Rate System Announced. “In nearly all instances, it is pro- posed to construct the joint barge-rail and rail-barge-rail rates by deducting from the all-rail rates between the same points differentials equivalent to 20 per cent of the all-rail rates,” the commission said. _“Manifestly, how- ever, the purpose of the proposed rates would be to attract traffic o petition- er's lines as against the lowest rate all rail routes. “In order to illustrate the broad ter- ritorial application of the proposed joint rates and the multiplicity of routes in- volved, it may be said that the first of 69 instances referred to involve rates between practically all points in the State of Washington, Northern Oregon, Northern Idaho, Montana, North Da- kota, Northern South Dakota, Minne- sota, Wisconsin, on the one hand, and ports of call on the lower Mississippi division and Mobile, on the other hand. “The twenty-seventh proposal seeks rates between practically all points in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and ports of Maryland and Ohio on one hand and points in South- ern Texas, Southern Louisiana, douth- ern Mississippi and a small portion of Southern Alabama on the other in connection with rail lines. “It is both undesirable and unneces- sary to set forth in greater detail the through routes and joint rates sought.” No Effort to Limit Area. In consequence, the commission said it did not attempt to limit the territory or describe rates by destination. It or- dered the routes to make the joint rates (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) TWO DIE, 3 HURT IN CRASH Brother of Donie Bush Instantly Killed in Richmond, Ind. RICHMOND, Ind. A 20 (P)— Michael J. Bush, 38, of Indianapolis, brother of Donie Bush, manager Pittsburgh Nationals, was killed instant- ly, m(th.tE‘. H hesyot Poland, Ohloe account for ‘oungstown Sheet & Tube Co. was fatally injured in an automobile ~accident near here last her brother, and bruised , 35, of Indian- was Bush and Sulifvan were en route to Cincinnati to attend the opening of the Reds ball DA R PLANSFUND. FORDEFENSEFEAT | Society Installs New Officers. | Banquet Tonight Will End Congress. Aroused by a “strongly fortified” op- | position to national defense, the Na- | | tional Society, Daughters of the Ameri- | can Revolution, at the closing meeting | of its Thirty-eighth Continental Con- | gress, today voted to increase by 50 per cent assessment of individual mem- bers for support of its national defense | committee. The society voted to.subscribe at least 15 cents per capita, which means the give into its treasury $25,050 for de- fense work in the next year. Chief interest in the closing meeting of the new president genral, Mrs. Fletcher Hobart of Ohio, to suc- ceed Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau. ‘The induction was the order of busi- | ness for this afternoon and at cere- | monies, over which Mrs. Brosseau pre- | sided, Mrs. Hobart, Ohio’s first direct- ing head of the sbciety, formally took over the directorship. Inducted into office with her were | 10 women whom the membership placed in office on her ticket. Mrs. Hobart had prepared a brief ex- pression for the Congress. “Thank you,” she said, “most sin- “Column 1.) (Continued on P \WEST TO BE SUBJECT OF WILBUR AND NYE Seéretary and Senator Will Discuss Outstanding Problems in Forum. Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur and Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota. will discuss the out- standing problems of the West tonight in the weekly series of National Radio Forums arranged by The Star and broadcast by WMAL and a coast-to- coast network of Columbia Broadcasting System stations. The period between 10 and 10:30 o'clock has been reserved by WMAL and its associates for the addresses of these two prominent political figures, both of whom are intimate with the West and its problems, which have been increasing in recent years and demanding more and more attention of Government _officials. Secretary Wilbur is one of President Hoover’s closest friends and trusted ad- visers. Their association has been inti- mate since college days at Leland Stanford University, of which Dr. Wil- bur later became president. As Secre- tary of Interior he has supervision of the National Park System. the Indian Bureau, Reclamation Service, Pension Bureau, Bureau of Education and simi- lar_services. Senator Nye is chairman of the com- mittee on public lands of the Senate, which has been in charge of the im- portant hearings on oil leases, some of which have been canceled by the Gov- ernment. He also is a member of the immigration committee, the committee on appropriations, the claims commit- tee and the committee on territories and insular possessions. He has been iden- tified with the progressive wing of the Republican party in the Northwest. PP BURNS TO DEATH IN CAR. Canadian Dies as Auto Crashes Into Trolley. TORONTO, Ontario, April 20 (#).— J. W. Barnes, president of the Eze Manufacturing Co., was burned to death here early today after the car he was driving crashed head-on into a street car. With the crash the automobile sw=. the front portion of the street car caught fire. Barnes was im| ed | the | his automobile, but the crew of the i | series when their | $1 oc- street car and 12 passengers escaped b Climbing through windows. . tem: Bank Stai ents wkb-hnee. $277,117,667.06. ork clearing house 318000000 . s lew ‘orl house ‘balan $126,000,000. y o 167,000 members of the organization will | today centered on the induction into | j TWO CENTS. SENATE FARM AID BILL T0 CONTAIN DEBENTURE PLAN Definite Decision Irrespestiva of Hoover View Announced by McNary. HOUSE AGAIN TAKES UP DISCUSSION OF MEASURE Under Change in Plans, Considera- tion of Amendments Deferred Until Tuesday. By the Associated Press. Chairman McNary of the Senate agriculture committee announced to- day the committee definitely had de- cided to incorporate the export deben- ture plan in the farm bill, to be intro- duced Monday, irrespective of whether President Hoover or other administra~ tion officials definitely declared against the proposal. While these developments were taking place at the White House and the Sen- ate, the House again took up discussion of the farm bill immediately after con- vening at ncon. The House measure does not contain thz debenture pro- posal, its agriculture committee having rejected the plan a week ago vote of 19 to 4. i Agreement Reached. Shortly after the House resumed de- bate an agreement was reached to ex- tend the time for discussion for an- other day. It had been scheduled to terminate with adjournment tonight. This change in plans will defer until Tuesday, at the earliest, a start on con- sidering the farm bill with amendments in order. Meanwhile, administration officials had ‘their ears attuned today for a re- action to the appeal of President Hoover to the farm organizations to compose their differences over measures of farm relief and present a solid front during congressional consideration of such legislation. | Since the debenture plan of the Na- | tional Grange now is the chief point at issue between the agricultural or- ganizations, there was a general opil ion here that Mr. Hoover had the di ferences over that question in mind, though he did not mention this or any other suggestion except that in the Re- publican platform adopted at Kansas | City last June. No Public Statement. ‘There appears to be a feeling among { administration leaders on Capitol Hill that the President does not look with faver on the debenture plan, but he has | made no public statement on the sub- ject. After the Grange proposal ‘was pre- sented to the Senate agriculture com- mittee a subcommittee was appointed to obtain Mr. Hoover's views on if. He declined to give an offhand opinios but called atiention that the debentui plan had not been included in the party platform and that it had not been dis- cussed in the last campaign. In his appeal to the farm organiza- tions, issued late yesterday in response to inquiries from newspapermen, the President emphasized his previous declarations that a definite plan of principles was adopted by the Kansas City convention and that it was the plan of the party and not of one indi- vidual or group. He said it was neccssarily the result of compromise; that it represented an effort to get together and establish fundamental beginnings and necessitated the yielding of views “by all of us”; that it was supported by all elements of the party in the campaign, and hat “upon it we have a clear mandate.” Reference to a mandate on the Kansas City plan also was made by Mr. Hoover in his message at the opening of the special session of Congress, and it is known that with suggestions for minor changes he approved the House bill without a debenture proposal. Behind the present situation is an interesting* bit of legislative-political history. The first chapter was the effort of some Senators to have the President himself write a farm bill. He declined, taking the position that the party had | a well defined plan of principles and that it was the function of congres= sional committees and not the Chief Executive to prepare legislation embody- ing these principles. The second chapter was the quiet opposition of some Senators as well as representatives of several farm or- ganizations to the creation of a Federal farm board with a strength and im- portance equal to those of the Inter state Commerce Commission and the Federal Reserve Board. It is now an open secret that the argument was laid before the President that he was embarking upon a rather dubious experiment, the failure of which might entail political misfortunes of serious proportions for himself and his party. Tabor Calls at White House. Mr. Hoover's statement resulted in calls at the White House today by Louis J. Tabor of Ohio master of the Na- on Page 2, Column 7.) BABY IN ARMS KILLED BY TORNADO IN TEXAS Father Injured Protecting Infant as Three Towns in North Part of State Are Swept. By the Assoclated Press. DALLAS, April 20.—Spring tornadoes struck in three North Texas towns late yesterday and last night, killing a baby girl and injuring her father, who had clasped her in a tight embrace to pro- , tect her from the unheralded and fu- rious assault of the wind. There were no other injuries and relatively small property damage, ex- cept in Paris, where the Texas & Pa- cific Raflway warehouse, a one-story brick structure a block long, was cut in two. At Sand Flatts, a little community between Cleburne and Grandview, the 7-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McGee died in the destruction of their home. One of McGee's arms, en- circling the infant, was broken. Sev- eral small were blown down at Bowie. Mary Garden Sails for Riviera. NEW ?CR&. :im'fl izlnd ({fi_\.—,\nrv Garden, operatic star, sailed for on the Majestic today to recumEm' villa on meflwh& dg;’ completing a season icago Civie Opera Co,