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April 29.—Limitation and not reduction of armed forces existing on land, sea and air will be the guid- ing principle of the forthcoming dis armament conference under decisions taken today by the preparatory com- mission, After a brilliant discussion, led by the Chilean Minister, J. Valdes-Mendeville. the preparatory commission rejected an amendment by Soviet Russia to sub- stitute the word “reduction” for the word “limitation” and likewise threw out another amendment which Maxim Litvinoff. Soviet vice foreign commissar, quickly introduced calling for “limita- tion and reduction.” The Chilean delegate unequivocally | opposed the Soviet amendments. He emphasized that the covenant of the League of Nations subordinated reduc- | tion in armed forces to national se- curity and the geographical and other &pecial circumstances of the countries and approved mere limitation for states already too feebly armed. Treaty Being Prepared. ‘ He declared that the commission was | perparing a treaty which would be | applicable to all nations under all! contingencies. Chile and other Latin American countries had not preferred | this system, as they favored instead regional agreements, remarked M.| Valdes-Mendeville. Nevertheless, Chile | ‘was ready o co-operate under the pres- ent plan. But it must be remembered that the | Latin American states were in a situ- | ation differing from other world regions, | as the delegations of Brazil and Argen- | tint. already had pointed out. He feared that if the larger Latin Ameri- | can nations fafled to participate in | the future conference it would prove | a great blow, but, if the Latin Ameri- | cans were to be induced to come their geographical situ- | ation must be taken.into, mt... | Count Von Bernstorfl, delegate, dwelt on the fact that the great naval powers have announced their readiness to reduce the tonnage of their navies, adding, “Germany now | demands a reduction in land forces. It | i& quite impossible for Germany to ac- | cept a conference which will degenerate into mutual protection against dis- | armament.” Gibson Remark Quoted. = M. Litvinoff then quoted the remark | on the naval question by Hugh S. Gib- son, the American representative, made last week, that the time had come to serap the word “limitation.” | Lord Cushendun tried to clarify the | situation by recalling. as the Chilean | delegate had done, that the League | covenant ealls merely for reduction down to a level compatible with secur- ity. He emphasized that some of the | powers may already have reached that level and that hence it would be better not to change the word “limitation.” | The British delegate explained that | Great Britain had constantly reduced ! ite army from its prewar strength of August. 1914, by eliminating nine cav- | alry regiments, 21 infantry battalions | and 61 artillery batteries and had re- | duced its army budget from £36,250,000 | in 1925 to £32,333,333 in 1929. There- | fore, he stated, it was possible that at | the international conference Great Brit- | ain may have to say it is already down | to the level required in the covenant. ‘The commission later approved a | Czechoslovakian proposal to exclude from limitation those national guards which are not under control of the central government. | | Chinese Hit Consecription. i Natjonalist China painted a picture of | 50.000.000 Chinese soldiers under arms at one time. Certain that its proposal for abolition of conscription would be rejected. the youthful Nanking govern. ment conjured up the specter of con- gcription applied to China Count von Bernstorfl, German dele- gate. remembering Saturday's decision to maek no limitation of trained re- serves, seized the opportunity to make an ironical allusion to the fact that the treaties of peace abolished conscription for Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, but not for the victor nations. Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) | i OLD SHELLS EXPLODE. Forest Fire Touches Off Projectiles Buried on Battlefield. MULHOUSE, France, April 20 (#).— The noise of bursting shells buried dur- ing the war in the old battlefield of Hartmans-Willerkopf has marked the progress of a great forest fire which has already destroyed vegetation over nearly 1.000 acres. Despite the efforts of the village fire departments, it is still reading today. S0 far no casualties have been reported Wife's Last Request uation too late to avoid a crash. | Those killed were J. Cullen, motor- | to reach the By the Associated Prese and a wooden one, jammed with be- tween 2,000 and 3.000 office workers. collided on the elevated structure just | above the Yankee Stadium today, kill- [ing four persons and injuring two score, half of them seriously. Fire and panic followed the crash, and for more than an hour police and firemen fought with frenzied men and UR DEAD, 40 INJURED IN “L” TRAIN COLLISION 'Thousands of New York Office Worker Battle Way From Cars as Fire Breaks Out. NEW YORK. April 20.—A steel train ger. McLean, 32, and an unidentified passen- The fire broke out in car of the elevated train About half the injured were hurt in the scramble to get out of the wrecked trains and were allowed to go home after being treated by ambulance sur- geons and at hospitals. Twenty persons, however, suffered fractures, ranging from arms and legs to spines and skulls, and were taken o hospitals for emer- gency treatment. For hours after after the wreckage the collision, even had been cleared women trampling each other In a wild | away and traffic resumed. hundreds of scramble for safety. persons stormed the Highbridge police | The accident, a rear-end collision, | Station seeking news of relatives or occurred at the 167th street station, where the subway trains emerge from friends they believed might have been | on one of the trains. When police and firemen dug their their underground tunnels and run on way into the motorman's compartment the same overhead tracks as the ele- vated rajlroad trains. The wooden train was an “L" of the subway train, using acetylene | torches to burn away the twisted steel, train | they found Cullen with his hand on the and the steel one a subway train. Both ' emergency brake and the motor set in were southbound, with every seat taken and the aisles filled with straphangers. ‘The wooden train had halted on signal ment to permit a subway train ahead of it to clear the station. came around a curve and coasted down a grade, the motorman realizing the sit- reverse. Passengers told after the thrown into the of the wildest excite- crash. Scores were aisles by the terrific The steel train impact to become a fighting. screaming, struggling mass. Police and firemen had to fight their | way through a mad tide of humanity injured, many of them man of the subway train; William J. | unconscious, who were being trampled Schultz, a 17-year-old student FIBSON'S RESERVES | | Michael ' on the floors of the cars. MELLON'S STATUS STANDISATTACKED - STILL UNDECIDED Played Into Hands of British Senate J and French Diplomacy, Britten Charges. Ambassador Hugh Gibson is charged by Chairman Britten of the House naval affairs committee with playing into the hands of British and French diplomacy for the second time within 10 | days in suggesting to the League of | Nation's disarmament preparatory com- mission that trained army reserves be not included in computing the military strength of a nation. Chairman Britten says this statement is equivalent to agreeing that battle- ships, cruisers and submarines in re- serve, but ready to fight, should not be included in establishing the naval strength of a nation. The first step of Ambassador Gibson, censured by Mr. Britten, was the pro- posal to accept the British category theory for measuring the naval strength of the five leading powers, instead of by global tonnage as was the case in the Washington conference. Scouts Chance of Acceptance. “Both of Gibson's proposals should be very effective in the coming Brit- ish elections, although neither has the slightest chance of acceptance by the League commission for many years to come, if at all.” said Mr. Britten today. | “It, must -not be forgotten that the | secret Anglo-French treaty of which created a storm of throughout America and England be- cause it was inimical to the best in- | terests of the United States, contained the very clause now being sponsored by | | be initiated in the House. udiciary Committee, Unable to Agree, Adjourns Until Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. The Senate judiciary committee fail- ed again today to reach a decision on | the report of Chairman Norris declar- ing Secretary Mellon ineligible to hold | office, and adjournment, was taken un- til tomorrow. There is every indication of a close | division in the committee, but regard- less of the outcome there, it is certain that the Norris report will be laid be- fore the Senate for its consideration, as a minority report if not as the ma- Jjority one of the committee, Action Is Unknown, In view of the recent opinion given by Attorney General Mitchell to Presi- dent Hoover declaring that Mr. Mellon is holding his office within the law, there is some doubt regarding what ef- fect, if any, a Senate vote on the Mel- | lon status will have. It is agreed that the Senate can do no more than express its opinion, If impeachment is resorted to, that must In view of the Attorney General's opinion there is some doubt that the district attorney | would institute action against the Secre- tary for violation of the 100-year-old statute even if the Senate held it had | been violated. The question of the rignt of Mellon 1928, | to serve has been talked about. the Cap- disapproval | ital during the eight years of his ad- istration, but it was brought to a showdown when Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, introduced a | resolution’ asking the judiciary com- the rear | | vowed their allegiance to the central | 1 | | mittee to investigate his relation to the the American Ambassador. |old statute. Friends of Mellon in the “Two years ago the War Department bjected to the | Senate voiced no objection to the i ::.r\:ngl "2“ e;gflf('i‘fvclzlfnejd Army re- vestigation and the resolution was scrvl‘e‘;s from military calculations be- cause it made a farce of an otherwise serious subject. “I have been unable to learn that the complete surrender of American prin- ciples of the past. Ambassador Gibson, proved by either the board or the general staff of the Army. | “It will be interesting to lea what authority Gibson is proposing to negotiate Erropean treaties. “American world position must no be used to deceive the weaker nations into accepting a make-believe disarm- ament agreement which will never be ratified by the United States. | “Usual Fiasco” Predicted. | “The present meeging in Geneva is | the sixth session of 'the disarmament | preparatory commission extending: over a period years. Nothing has come of | the past meetings and the present one | will end in the usual fiasco. As an ex- | haust chamber for the smaller nations, it has been a great success. “As a justification for the mainte- nance by England and France of large military and naval establishments it is | a howling sucess. | “It is quite evident that our repre- | sentative is playing with those in power | in Europe, but the less we have to do | | with diplomatic log-rolling and secret agreements over there the better. We are too credulous and too young at this | game of deception and intrigue. | |~ “England desires no naval limitations and Prance insists upon being the pre- ponderant military power. Any proposal {to the contrary, will always be gra- | clously received but politely evaded. “When the balance of the world ob- | jects or seeks equality limitations, they are cordially invited into the exhaust chamber at Geneva and fhere the mat- "ter may repose indefinitely. | ior Funeral Pyre | In Honeymoon Hills Granted by Husband the A Pr NASHVILLE. Tenn. April 29.—The story of a promise fulfilled was told here yesterday by John H. Nicholas, jr.. Nashville fire insurance adjuster, verify reports that he cremated the body of his wife at the woodland scene of their honeymoon. Twenty-five years ago, Nicholas mar- ried Martha McDougal of Mississippi. He took her to the fopthills of the Cum- berlands for a honeymoon. Near a waterfall in Putname County, they spent the first weeks of their married life Several months agn she became ill, and believing zhe would die asked ncr * husband to take her body back to the foothill and burn it. She died April 8. ‘She asked me to do it.” the husband sald,”—and 1 did. “I let it be known that I was taking her to Cincinnati to a crematory be- to | cause members of her family preferred | | that the rites in the woodland spot be | kept quiet,’ he said. “They did not | disapprove.” He took the body to a point, near Boma, built a pyre of logs, saturated the wood with kerosene, placed the body on the pyre and lighted it. One other person was with him during the strange rn by | * adopted. Admits Owning Stoek. Mr. Mellon, in a letter to Senator Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania, eq by | Which was laid before the committee, now advanced oY |said he owned stock in the Gulf Ofl Navy « general | Corporation, - the r | America and other businesses, but not Aluminum Co. of controlling interest in any. He said he had sold all of his national bank |stock and had resigned any executive + | connections with the business world. 'ONE KILLED, 14 HURT IN SECOND TORNADO High Winds in Camden, S. C., Area Cause Woman's Death—All In- jured in Demolished House. By the Associated Press. CAMDEN, 8. C, April 29.—The sec- ond tornado to swoop down upon South Carolina in the past four days took one life and injured 14 persons near here yesterday afternoon. The destructive wind was of only a minute’s duration, Nora Murphy, Negress of about 70 years of age, was killed and 14 white persons were injured, none seriously. All the injured were brought to a hos- pital here, The tornado, coming from the north- | east, first struck at the West Waterce section, where all the damage was done. Pour houses in the vicinity were wreck- ed. An automobile standing nearby was hurled through the air for more than 200 yards. Jumping from the West Wateree sec- | tion, the tornado next struck Camden. but with much less violence. Trees were uprooted there. At Antoch, 10 miles east of here, the high school building and the Woodmen’ Hall were damaged. All the injured were in the home of Booker Branham when the storm broke, The building was reduced to a mass of wreckage. An airplane flying from Greenville to Camden was blown off its course more than 100 miles. The pilot, George M. Keightler of Greenville; J. F. McDowell, Camden newspaper man, and L. A. Kirk- land were none the worse for their ex- perience, and later Janded at Camden. Diamond Sold for £2,660. KIMBERLEY, Cape of Good Hope April 29 (#).—A magnificent diamcnd ceremony. | ceattered wild flowers about” he weighting 33', carats, which was found said. “Because she loved them. at Barkly West, brought £2.660 today, or “There is nothing unusual about it.” | he continued. “The Greeks and Romans burned the bodies of their loved ones The Vikings did the same. 1 eould not give her a Viking’s funeral, but I could | fulfill her wish.” £80 (approximately $400) per caraf. This is believed to constitute a record price, reckoned per carat. Radio Progra..ms—l’age 25 - | has terminated and failed so rapidly REVOLT IN SONORA " CRUSHED, CALLES TELLS PORTES L Surrender of 1,000 Rebels, Retreat Cut Off, Described by Generalissimo. | i | DEBENTUR DELIGHTS'\ FEDERAL GUNBOATS SHELL TROOP TRAINS [ . / Many May Escape Into U. S. Be- fore Almazan Can Block Flight, Officials Believe. By the Associated Press. i MEXICO CITY, April 20.—Gen. Plu- Itarco Elias Calles, Mexican minister of | war, today considered the revolt in | Sonora at an end, and the last Mexican | I state cleared of organized resistance to | | the central government. | In a message to President Portes Gi, | he said: “It is my honor to report with satisfaction that in my opinion the re- bellion in Sonora has terminated as the principal traitors continue their flight | northward unaccompanied by material | support.” i His message detailed unconditional | surrender of two groups of rebel| soldiers, totaling: 1,000 men, yesterday. and described disintegration of the rebel troops as they found retreat at almost [ every point blocked by federal soldiers. Guerilla Warfare Is Forecast. Continued desultory guerilla warfare seems the prospect in Sonora for some little while as federal contingents pur- sue remnants of the rebel army into mountain districts. Aiding in this pur- suit, Gen. Calles said, were to be large Yaqui Indian contingents, who had | | ANGRY IS9P * THRUSTS AT CARD { | | » i iStrain Transferred From Illi-| nois Dikes to Levees Below St. Louis. | government and had always remained passive to the rebel cause. | But one other military problem seems | to face the administration of President Portes Gil, that being the suppression of the “Cristero,” or so-called religious rebellion, in the States of Guanajuato | By the Associated Press. and Jalisco, where Gen. Saturnino| ST. LOUIS. Mo, April 29.—Troubled Cedillo already is campaigning vigor- | waters have moved down the Missis- ourly against them. It is not believed {sjppi, transferring the strain from {Gen. Cxlles will find, it mecessary to | PE2 N RE B8 SEEEL R undertake personal direction of this |1eVees in the Quincy, Iil, territory campaign. |the stretch from St. Louis to Cairo In its muddy movement toward the Gen. Calles, in his report, said the GUIf it has lost some of its menace. last of the retel armies had been driven | The river's level was 2 feet below the north of the Rio Yaqui and that Gen. |iop of the lowest dike between Chester | " ! et T, one ol whe commanding | g Gairo, engincers for the Missouri | Pacific reported. A break in the south had fled to the mountains. Marines had been landed at Guaymas from |Grand Tower levee system Saturday has | covered 24 square miles with water. | threé federal gunboats there ind were holding the city while reinforcements | b were rushed up the railroad from Cor- | The gauge reading at Grand Tower was 1339 feet, a rise of 4 foot in 24 hours. | | “Bulge” in River Noted. Cruz Has Fled, Calles Says. ral, on the north bank of the Rio Yaqui. The federal gunboais in the harbor of Guaymas were said to have shelled rebel troop trains passing the junction Outside the city on thelr way mortn.| Jackson County, T, officials have ward toward Hermosillo and the United | noted the “unusual bulge" of water { moving past the levees, but engincers believe the river can rise 2 feet more without further overflow. Encouraging reports were issued by {the Weather Bureau here, where the water reached the 34.8-foot stage ves- | terday. ‘The bureau predicted the river ‘would begin falling rapidly by tomor- row. | Many thousands of acres are inun- {dated in St. Louis and St. Charles | Counties, Mo., the terrain where the States border. Many, it_was believed, would escape into the United States | before Gen. Almazan, moving through Pulpito Pass, could cut them off. Delayed messages from Gen. Aimazan said he had sent flanking columns against a small rebel army which was | delaying his passage of Pulpito Canyon. Portes Gil Congratulates Calles. President Portes Gil replied to Gen. | Calles'’ message with a congratulatory i | telegram reading as follows: Missouri flows into the Mississippi be- “1 acknowledge receipt of your mes- ing the worst sufferer. The Missouri. sage in which vou advise me com- | however, has begun falling and flood | plete termination of the r in cap o I din | waters are receding. ONOTa ane o 'our | Guaymas, the xurn‘x{d" of the rebels Quincy Is Relieved. with their subchiefs. and the protesta-| It was the opinion of Government | tions of Yaqui loyalty. jobservers that slow rises would be | “The manner in which the rebellion | noted below St. Louls to Cairo. but that this was not necessarily or even | probably alarming. S | At Quincy, the gauge reading of 20.5 | vesterday was still 61. feet above flood | stage, but it was a recession from the high waters of last week. Danger there as not considered over, but the situa- tion was much relieved. 'BANDITS GET $50,000 " WORTH OF AUTO CAPS “Grense Fittings Taken Away in Two Trucks While Factory Is Held Up. is the best proof of the lack of sup- | port it found in public opinion over the country and of the unpatriotic and un- (Continued on Page 4. Column 5.) 'BARNES IS APPOINTED ASSISTANT TREASURER | Nominated to Post to Succeed Thiel. Resigned—Starbuck Named to Federal Radio Commission. President Hoover today sent to the Senate the nomination of George O.| | Barnes of Pennsylvania to the assistant | treasurer of the United States, to suc- | ceed Frank J. F. Thiel, who recently re- | | signed. | aTh' l"r»rs;"denr's1 appointment of Mr. | By the Associated Press. | arnes to this position is an evidence of 50 his desire to recognize efficiency in the | CHICAGO. April HoiSe e | Government. service. Mr, Barnes is at | émployes as prisoners and taking full present. superintendent of the national | possession of the plant of the Alemite | “t::’nrlgg rgg;cr:p:rnw::xcefiwy ,;{‘ thrhfrm- | Manufacturing Co. early today, a bnnd; 2 ; sition he was | OBt A EIe e he Feakr T | of 12 burglars hauled avay two truck- | the Treasury Department. He entered | loads of Alemite grease caps for auto- | | the department as a clerk in 1902. | mobiles valued at between $50,000 and | | _The President also sent to the Senate | ! | the nomination of Willlam D. L. Star- | $60.000. ! buck of Connecticut to be a member of | The fittings taken by the robbers were the Federal Radio Commission for a ' made of brass and could be sold easily “urm expiring February 23, 1930. | and quickly to filling stations and auto | A s ity i | accessory dealers, officials of the Alemite | TRUCKER HELD IN SLAYING' Co. sald. They discounted the theory the robbers intended fo melt the loot down and sell the brass because they left a large quan- | tity of brass in the raw untouched. i 'LINDBERGH DUE HERE | Young Hungarian Said to Resent Competition With Horses, ! pEUDAPEST, Hungary, April 20 (P)— ranz auer, young truckman's as- | sistant, who 'resented replacement of TODAY FROM NEW YORK | horses and okxen by automobiles, was | =) {today declared responsible for the | ey death of Dr. Emil Schreiner. formerly | Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is expected in the consular service, and for gravely o arrive at Bolling Field from New | wounding Mrs. Schreiner Saturday ' York at about 4 o'clock this afternoon night | with Maj. Thomas G. Lanphier, his as- ' When Dr. Schreiner and his wffe 'sociate on the advisory board of Trans- assed in their aufomobile near the |continental Air Transport, Inc., as a dllage of Erdenberg Hauer fired sev- ' passenger. eral shots at the tires. He said that aj, Lanphier went to New York last ! he had only intended to disable the car, | week to see Lindbergh and other offi- | but his shots were, unfortunately. more | cials of the transport line. Their con- | | deadly. Mrs. Schreiner, whose leg was | ference was arranged during Lind- amputated, continues in a critical con- [ bergh's last visit to this city, during dition. which Lanphier clung to the’ side of Lindbergh’s plane while the colonel | taxied around Bolling Ficld to escap. spectators and photographers, taking off | {again without stopping his motor or climbing out of his plane. It is notgknown how long Lindbergh iy $3.793.- | will remain here nor what his plans are 7 | Treasury balance, $228,857012.88, | VNile In this city. New York clearing house exchange $569,000,000. New York clearing house balance, | £109,000,000. Bank Statements ‘Washington clearing house, I Pope Receives Mgr. Biondi. VATICAN CITY. April 29 (#) Pope granted an audience today The | Mgr. Biondi re- gate at Washington. . tical situation in ! ported on the eccle: ) the United St cent visit to Palestine. State News, Pages 6 and 7 {of “and also on his re- | skippe SOMETHINS HAPPENED. § {E. MYSTIFIED MESMERIST Living Is Cheaper In Coolidge’s Town, Report Indicates By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, April 20.—Calvin Coolidge, who made economy the slogan of his presidential admin- istration, has obtained econemic advantages in settling down in his old home town of Northamp- ton since his retirement from public life. The State commis- sion on the necessaries of life re- ported today that necessaries costing an average of $100 in the rest of the State could be pur- chased in Northampton for $98.17. The commission found tha 00d, shelter, heat and light wer: cheaper in Northampton than in the average Massachusetts com- munity. A slightly higher co: of clothing there was attribute: to the fact that Smith Collex Girls wear expensive clothes, fo: which they pay about twice a< much as the prices prevailing in other college cities. SCHACHT-MAY ACT ON HIGHER OFFER E-pected to Seek Cabinet'> Views Before Returning to Debt Parley. By the Associated Pr BERLIN, April 29It was under stood here today Dr. Hialmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank and Gor- man reparations spokesman, would con- fer at some length with cabinet officials before he returned to Paris Wednesday 1ight. The conference, which will be purely informal, probably would include Dr. Rudolpin Hilferding, minister of finance: Foreign Minister Stresemann and Julius Curtius, minister of economic affairs ‘The purpose would be to ascertain the attitude of the government regarding possibility of a raise in the German offer for reparations’ annuities and erms of payments. No consuitations were planned, it was understood, with industrialists. whose advice was said to have been tenderrd Dr. Schacht on the occaslon of his last visit here, Gilbert May Resign. The Paris correspondent of Der Mon- tag declares that although Dr. Schacht's visit to Berlini ostensibly was only to attend the meeting of the Reichsbank diractorate, “conversations unquestion- ably will be held in all interested quar- ters regarding the latest Paris develop- ments.” 3 Paris correspondeiits of the German papers today said S. Parker Gilbert, agent general for reparations, soon would resign that position to accept a post in the banking firm of J. P Morgan. It was commented here that the resignation was to be expectsd whatever the outcome of the Paris conference. since if it succeeded his position would no longer be necessary and if it failed | the blame would, according to Der Mo; tag, he ascribed to “his false presenta- | tion of the situation and his unskiliful handling.” Reichsbank Statement Expected. An official statement is expected here termination of tomorrow’s-and: Wednes- | day’s meetings concerning the stability | the mark and making clear the ' attitude on what have been call- “French machinations against the ed German mark.” This statement, German circles ox- pect, will voice indignation felt here at reports which were spread over all the world last_week just before and after (Contintied on Page 3. Column 4.) S | MANILA, April 29 (#).—Seventeen | members of the crew of the inter-| sland steamer Viking were missing to- | day and apparently had perished in an | explosion of the vessel's cargo of gaso- | line after it had caught fire in the Visayan Sea midway between the Islands of Masbate and Cebu. | The ship was a total loss. The | Swedish steamer Delhi rescued 12 sur- vivors. The British freighter City of Newcastle and the interisland steamer to | Macta Alio also came to the rescue, but | might | Mgr. Pumasoni Biondi. apostolic dele- |failed to find other members of the |to show sound pictures special engi- crew, Charles Olzen, veteran Interisland among fhose missing. Some of those usd were badly burned. N General of the Philippines. ¢S 7" Fe HOUSE FARM GROUP IDOPT FOUR BLLS Measures Relating to Agri- culture Proposed by Haugen, Mapes and Ketcham. Sv the Associaied Press Proceeding toward the passage of legis ation expected to augment and aid the farm relief bill, the House agricul- ure committee today approved four measures relating to agriculture. The bills included the Haugen meas- ure to change the definition of oleo- margerine; another Haugen bill to make various changes in the Federal warehouse act; the Mapes bill to re- establish minimum standards for can- ned farm products, and the Ketcham bill to provide for the assignment of representatives of the Department of Agrienlture to foreign service. The committee plans to ask the House rules committee to give the measures legislative right of way in the hope that they may be considered on the floor either tomorrow or Wednes- All four of the bills were intro- at the last session Trading Bill Considered. At the same time the agricuiture com- a uced | miitee referred to s subcommiitee for consideration the Vinson bill to regu- late trading on coiton exchanges, and the Fulmer bill ta provide for the nuse ~[ net weights and the standardization vote in prospect, the 3enate will reach a decision this wees on the disputed export debenture plan and possibly will pass some form of farm relief legislation, Administration leaders are confident that they have enough support to de- {eat the debenture plan objected to by President Hoover and that they will be 2hle to pass a measure similar to tha: already approved by the House. If their plans are carried out the farm bill will be in the hands of a Senate and House conference by the en dof the week with the expectation that another fortnight will see the legis- lation to 've As a groundwork for solving the agricultural problem enacted into law. Debenture Plan Is Blocked. ‘The calculations of Republican lead- however, hinge entirely on the suc- of administration Senators in s vess blocking the adoption of the debenture plan. Should this provision, in spite of their careful checking of the Senate . be written into the farm them would hazard a guess as to the outcome of agricultural legis- lation. The check made of the Senate mem- bership by Republican leaders professes to show that at least four Democrats will decline to support the debenture plan. This would mean that the friends (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) HOOVER TO D.ELAY NAMING PHILIPPINES GOVERNOR Brig. Gen. McCoy Is Reported to Be Favorably Considered for Post by President. By the Associated Press. President Hoover is believed to be leaning _strongly toward Brig. Gen. Frank McCoy. U. S. A. as Governor General of the Philippines, but his pres- ent intention is to defer a final selec- tion for several months, as Acting Gov. { from the Reichsbank directorate at the | Eugene A. Gilmore is administering the post at Manila to his satisfaction. Gen. McCoy now is serving as chair- man of the Paraguay-Bolivia Investig tion and Conciliation Commission, and it_probably will be many weeks before | this commission concludés its work. The general was a member of the Wood-Forbes special mission to the Philippines in 1921 and was assistant to the late Leonard Wood as Governor White House to B e Wireci so "T‘alkines" INQUIRY ON WHISKY CHASE ACCIDENTS - ORDERED BY PRATT | Information Also Sought by Representatives Simmons and Underhill. SMOKE SCREEN BAFFLES ANOTHER POLICE PURSUIT ianz! Belched From Exhaust of Car Aid Suspect Early Today to Elude Officer. | I il | A few hours after an automobile | smoke screen saved another suspected bootlegger from capture by pursuing police. Maj. Henry G. Pratt. superin- | tendent of police, today isued a special verbal order for a comprehensive sur- | vev to determine the number of casuai- ties and accidenis resulting from the kr‘hnsf of rum runners in the last three | vears. _The order directed the various pre- cinct and bureau commanders to com- pile all statistics available on the police pursuit of bootleggers and forwarded to police headquarters as soon as is practicabl The statistics are to cover the three-yvear period, beginning with May 1, 1926. Requests From Legislators, While Maj. Pratt did not state in the order, which was transmitted to the precinct commanders via. telephone, the reason for the survey. it was learned that Chairman Simmons. of the sub- committee on District app: tions ‘lnfl Representative Underhill, Repub- ifcan of Massachusetts. a member of the House District committee, have | made separate requests of the Poliee | Department for detailed. information re- garding the number of policemen and of citizens who have been killed or in- jured as the result of police efforts to enforce the prohibition law. Both Representative Simmons and Representative Underhill declined today to divuige the use to which they in- tend to put this information. Representative Simmons asked for the report on the number of policemen killed or wounded in the performance of duty the last five years and for a raport on the use of smoke screens by law vin- lators, both prior to and -subsequent to the recent killing of a bootlegger by 2 policeman which caused a discussion irf the House last Frid: Representative Simmons’ request in- | dicates a desire to be informed on the | necessity for . policemen -being. eq d with firearms and authority to uu‘ug’:fl in self-defense during the performance | of “their duties. Represeniative Underhills ' request was for & repoft on the number of po- !licemén And other citizens who have been killed or infured by bootleggers. Smoke Screen Aides Escape. The latest rum-chasiny ughn« was reported by Policeman 5 . Ripper- berger of the eleventh precinet. who. while on duty early this morning gave chase to a suspected whisky-laden car and was forced to abandon the when it belched murky fumes from its exhaust. forcing a number of motoriste along the route to halt when the smoke screen obscured their vision. Ripperberger said he was riding in a police machine near Benning road and Minnesota avenue when he sighted A car containing three white men. “The car was riding light when it went east in the direction of Maryland,” he said. “and when it returned 30 minutes later the body was sagging on the springs, suggesting it was laden with liquor. As soon as the suspected rum ear passed Benning road and Minnesota avenue Ripperberger said he started in pursuit, but the opening of the smoke sereen made it impossible for him to get close to the machine and he was forced to abandon the chase at Twenty-sixth street and Benning road. Would Omit Record of Applause. An_attempt to have expunged from th> Congressional Record all references o applause in connection with last week's debate over the killing by Policeman_Clyde R. Rouse of Ottomer Herman Fleming. liquor car driver, feiled today in the Hou (Continued on Page 2, Column HARRIS IS SENT BACK TO MINNEAPOLIS CLUB -% Outfielder May Be Replaced by Sam West, Leaving Only Barnes in Reserve, The return of Spencer Harris. out- fielder, to the Minneapolis Club of the American Association, from which he was provisionally purchased last year, was announced today by the Washing- ton base ball club. Harris was made the regular center fielder of the club at the start of the series with the Red Sox in Boston last | Friday, succeeding Sam West, who was | withdrawn because of batting weakness. The rew outfielder. however, failed to do any more at bat than West had done, making 13 trips to the plate for 2 hits. ‘The return of Harris to the Minne- apolis Club leaves the Nationals with only four outfielders. West is expected to resume the center field berth, while ‘Red” Barnes will be held in reserve. President Griffith of the Washington Club ststed this morning that if the club gets another outflelder it will be one who bats right-handed. Harris. as well az all other Washington outfislders, are léft-handed batters When Harris was hought from Min- neapolis last Fall the Washington Club oaid but $2,000 for his contract, bu® agreed to give the Millers an additional $18.000 if he was retained. May Be Shown With “Silent™” Movies ‘The White House is to be specially wired so that sound pictures may be shown with the “silent” pictures. The President and Mrs. Hoover are greatly interested in this form of motion pic- | ture and in order that the White House have the necessary apparatus | neers of the sound picture industry larrived at the Whits House today ‘o Iplan for the installatiop and making necesary changes. Selecting the type of sound picture apparatus has been lleft to Will H. Hays, head of the | motion pictures industry. | While the President and Mrs. Hoo- ver are fond of motion, pictures, ihey rarely seen any but the news reels. They have sei aside two ave- nings a week for the showing of this type of picture. During the residence of former President and Mrs. Caolidge | In the White House motion pistupes iwere shown several nights sach week. H