Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1929, Page 1

WEA (U. 8. Weather Mostly cloudy and somewhat warmer tonight and tomorrow, probably occa- sional showers, Temperatures: Highest, 61, at 11 am. today; lowest, 43, at 5 a.m. today. 11’ report ‘on pay Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 26 and 27 THER. Bureau Forecast.) ge 7. @b ¢ Foening Sfar. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 111,545 Entered as secor post office, Wa No. 31,049. nd class matter shington, D, C. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1929—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ¥* (#) Meang Associated Press. TWO CENTS. MELLON UPHELD BY SENATE CROUP PROBING HOLDINGS, Judiciary Committee Votes 8 to 5 That Secretary Is Not Disqualified. NORRIS MOVE CHARGING HELD UP IN VIOLATION IS DEFEATED Borah and King Announce They Will Submit Reports to Upper House. By the Associated Press. The Scnate judiciary committse voted elght to five today to report to the Senate that Secretary Mellon was not disqualified to hold office becnusel of his stock holdings. ‘The committee by a similar vote re- fused to call Mr. Mellon for an open investigation of his relation with the companies in which he is a stock- holder. The report of Chairman Norris de- claring that Mr. Mellon as a stock- holder violated a statute forbidding the Secretary of the Treasury to be inter- ested in carrying on trade or commerce was defeated by a vote of 10 to 3. ‘Walsh and Blaine Favor Report. Senators Blaine, Republicen, of Wis- | consin, Walsh, Democrat, of Montana | and Norris voted for the Norris report. Senator Steiwer, Republican, of Ore-‘ gon presented thesreport which recetved i the committee’s approval. | Senators Borah, Republican, of ldahfl: and King, Democrat, of Utah, however, | announced they would submit individ- | ual reports to the Senate. | Chairman Norris also will place his report before the Senate. ‘The eight Senators who suppofledl the report of Senator Steiwer included Burton, Ohio; Hastings, Delaware; | ‘Waterman, Colorado; Deneen, Illinois; | Gillett, Massachusetts, and Robinson, Indiana, Republicans, and Overman, | North Carolina, Democrat. Senator Walsh put the motion to call | Mr. Mellon for an investigation. He was supported by Senators Norris, Blaine_and Borah, Republicans, and King, Democrat. Report Cites Intei.tions. ‘The report of Senator Steiwer de- clared: “It is clear to the signers of this re-| port that the statute condemns only an interest or concern, direct or indirect, ‘in carrying on_the business of trade commerce.” With respect to a cor-| Six bandits, believed to have come BANK ROBBERY fromf Washington, held up the Bank of | Del Ray, Va., near Alexandria, this morning and escaped with $2,000. Above: Charles E. Jones, the cashier, kneeling before the safe which the bandits looted. Lower left: Miss Mary Ford, stenographer, who was forced into | the vault by the bandits. Lower right: Roy Thomas, 12 years old, who was about | to make a deposit of $20 when the hold. money. The bandits returned his —Star Staff Photos. | -up occurred. HIGHWAYS BLOKED EXPERTS APPROVE AS DAM CRUMBLES or poation this means that the Secretary | of the Treasury shall not hold office as| a director or as an officer and that he shall not, by any means, either direct or indirect, participate in any activity in carrying on the business of a corpora- tion if the corporation is engaged in trade or commerce. “The interpretation by the under- signed members of the committee is Virginia Tornado Death List| Drops to 22 as Relief Workers Check Up. supported by the fact that numerous Secretaries of the Treasury have owned stock in corporations engaged in trade. | By the Associated Press. | COLEBROOK, N. H., May 4.—The | Mohawk River Valley, stretching from | It is inconceivable that all these Sec- | the Connecticut River eastward toward | retaries wilfully violated the law, and | Dixville Notch, presented a scene of equally inconceivable that the Presi- i ;i dents under whom they served would | lood-wrought havoc today. —Houses have appointed men of known ineligi- | and bridges were swept away and high- hllhg‘ ord thatut])‘\fi Senate ‘:Olfldohba‘;hways washed out when waters rushed confirmed ineligible appointees. Vi- | Jast night from Balsam Dam, 13 miles e 5 Sy A s e gt I Y evred | above here. The dam burst from pres- PLAN OF PUBLICITY Soviet Russia and China Op- | pose Proposal—Germany Refrains From Voting. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, May 4.—After France had announced thai in the spirit of zon-! cession it withdrew its proposal to limit | war material by the budgetary system, the preliminary disarmament confer- ence today approved the idea of pubp- licity for land armaments as the best | available solution of this problem. | Soviet Russia and China voted against the resolution for publicity and Germany abstained from voting. | described as being “foreigners,” parked front of the bank. cial quarters that the section re(en‘ed' to did not apply to mere ownership of | corporate stock. Jurisdiction Ts Questioned. “Some of those signing the report| question the jurisdiction of the com-| mittee to proceed in this inquiry be- | yond an interpretation of the statute in question, on the ground thav it would | be a judicial inquiry and is not in aid of any legislative funciion of the Sen- nate, and that there is no legislation pending or proposed which would bring the investigation within the lawful power of the Senate or of the commit- | tee on the judiciary. They believe that | it is improper for the Senate to prose- cute this investigation because by the | Constitution the initiative has been | vested in another body.” | The report further suggested that if | there had been violation of the law | by Mr. Mellon he might be reached by | indictment by a grand jury or by | initiation of articles of impeachment | in the House. | Four absent Democratic members, | Ashurst, Arizona; Caraway, Arkans Dill, Washington, and Stephens, Mis- | sissippi, are yet to be polled. While | their votes may be cast against the | Steiwer report. it is certain that their support for the report of Chairman | Norris could not change the result. | Senators Borah and King concurred | in a third report declaring that while Mr. Mellon as a stockholder did not | violate the law, that any participation, | directly or indirectly, in business by the | Sectetary of the Treasury would con- | stitute a violation of the statute. Borah Explains Position. Explaining his position later, Senator Borah said: “My view is that the owner- i hip of stock does not of itself render & person ineligible to this office. | “But while the ownership of stock | does not of itself render the person | ineligible, certain activity or concern in | carrying 'on the business in which he is | r. sfockholder would be a violation of | the law. The Secretary of the Treasury | under the statute is compelied to di- | vorce himself completely from advising, counseling or directing the business. “I take the view also that the statute ougit ‘0 be amended and made more specific and more adapted to modern | business. The statute was adopted 140 vears ago and it is indefinite in the light of present business methods.” HOOVERS ON PICNIC. Fishing Is Not on Schedule of | see two, and Kentucky, Alabama and sure due to heavy rain. Estimates of property damage ranged as high as $100,000. Ample warnings reached the half- dozen or more families comprising the hamlet of Kidderville, nine miles east of this place. ‘The river, ordinarily a comparatively shallow stream, rose 20 feet in a few minutes and maintained that gauge nearly half an hour. In addition to nu- merous wooden bridges which wen' ouc in the valley, one 40-foot steel bridge was swept down the stream. while the trestle of the Maine Central Railroad which spans the Mohawk close to its confluence with the ‘Connecticut River, just below here, was carried into the larger stream: = Damage here was heavy. - Eight or nine kouses disappeared in the river. The dam which gave way hemmed in two small artificial lakes at the Balsams, a Summer hotel near Dixville Notch. TORNADO LOSS IS HEAVY. More Than 100 Hurt, Property Hit Hard, in Southern States. ATLANTA, Ga., May 4 (#).—The death list from the tornadoes that struck seven Southern States Wednes- day and Thursday stood today at 38, with the greatest toll in Virginia, where 22 persons lost their lives. Relief workers, penetrating the jsolat- ed sections yesterday, saw the death list mount above 40 and then drop again, due to conflicting and over- lapping reports. In addition to the dead, more thnnl 100 persons were injured, many of them seriously, and an enormous crop and property’ toll was taken. The greatest loss of life was at Rye | Cove, Va. ‘where 12 children and a teacher were killed in the collapse of a schoolhouse. Nine other persons were | killed in widely ‘scattered sections of | the State. Six fatalities were reported in Mary- land, Arkansas had five dead, Tennes- 1 Florida one each. . presid Will Be Sold, Navy | [ dential yacht, is to be sold, but the re- quest for bids is not to be made for | some time. This an: Navy The U. S. S. Mayflower, famous presi- | e S | pouncement today at the President and Mrs. Hoover this after- | Departmefit came as a surprise, inas- noon are motoring in the nearby coun- | much as previous information was that try, but it is not the former's intention | the noted yacht would be placed in a to do any fishing or to visit the fishing | decommissioned status at the Phila- grounds sclected for him at Catoctin delphia Navy Yard and left to repose Furnace. | until President Hoover or some other They are accompanied by several per- | occupant of the White House should #onal friends and it was their intention | z;terraine lei;‘l,:c:he be summoned back when they left the White House to| to active s 3 have a picnic supper at some pic- | The vessel left Washington for Phila- turesque spot before returning to the ; deiphia for decommissioning April 2, ar- White House tonight. riving in the Quaker City the following would be placed in reserve, but Secre- tary Adams and the adminisiration since have decided to put the May- flower on the auction block. . . day. Official sources said that she ‘ State News, Pages 4 and 5 | » Rt Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet _delegate, characterized it as a step backward. | declaring it showed that the Prepa: | tory. Commission had renounced the | principle of limitation or reduction of | war material. He insisted that pub- lcity put restraint on no one and that all the governments could publish any figures they wanted. The resolution says that the commis- sion rejected systems of direct limita- tion of material in service and in stock | and, having noted that: the system of indirect limitation through limitation with general assent, decided that umi tation and reduction of materiag m! be sought by means of publicity of cx- penditure. Bernstorfl Charges Failure. Count, von Bernstorfl, the German delegate, created a stir by announcing that Germany now washed its hands of the work of the commission and would leave to the majority full and complete responsibility of preparing for the projected international conference. He accused the delegates of having eliminated the essentials of reduction of at least land armaments and declared that the commission had entirely lost sight of its real task. He considered the situation grave. As the Gernian aelegate, however, did not leave the room, the delegates were under the impression that Germany had no intention of going so far as to bolt the commission. During the discussion, Hugh S. Gib- son, the American representative, voiced great satisfaction at France's conces- sion on the budgetary system. It was on Mr. Gibson's request that the com- mission resorted to a roll call on the publicity resolution. Naval Armaments Topic Monday. The commission adjourned until Monday morning with an agreemnt that it would then naval armaments. At that time the Japanese, British and Americans will recommend adjournment of detailed discussion to’ permit conversations be- tween the governments of the five big naval powers. ential Yacht, Retired by Hoover, ‘Department Reveals The Mayflower now is being placed lout of commission at Philadelphia. | She first served as a presidential yacht in 1902, after she was purchased by | the Navy from Ogden Goelet in | 1898. The vessel was built in March, Clyde- bank, Scotland, in 1896, and she was | | placed in commission as a naval vessel at the New York Navy Yard in March, 1898, and was part of the Havana | blockading squadron that took part in | e blockade of Santiago and Porto | Rico Used by five Presidents of the United States, the Mayflower came to a | famillar sght on the Potomac and achieved further fame during the Cool- idge adminisiration for her week end | trips down the river. |Radio Programs—Page 36 of expenditurs on material did not mect | resume discussion of ! SIX BANDITS LOOT - BANK AT DEL RAY OF S2000 N CASH Robbers, in Car Bearing D. C. Tags, Flee Virginia Town Toward Washington. BOY IS TIED AND CASHIER AND GIRL PUT IN VAULT Both Ordered to Face Wall and Hold Hands in Air as One Stands Guard by Them. Walking into the Bank of Del Ray at Del Ray, Va, shortly after it had opened this morning, six armed bandits | | forced the cashier and stenographer into the bank vault, tied a 12-year-old boy to a stool with telephone wire rip- ped from the wall, scooped up $2,000 in | currency and fled toward Washington in a large sedan bearing District of Co- lumbia license tags. The six men, all of whom are their automobile across the street from the bank, pointed toward Washington. At about five minutes after 10 o'clock they walked into the bank. Two Confront Cashier. Two of them, with drawn guns, con- fronted the cashier, Charles E. Jones, who was in his cage. Another forced Miss Mary Ford of Alexandria, the stenographer, to go into the bank vault, where she was ordered to face the wall and hold her hands in the air. A moment Icter, she was joined by Jones, who was given the same instruc- tions.” One of the bandits stood behind them while the other five went to the The doors were locked and one man left on guard. Two others grabbed 12- year-old Roy Thomas of Mount Ida, wrapped a handkerchief around his mouth and tied him to a stool with the telephone wire cut from phones which they had ripped from the walls and ables. Boy Told to Keep Savings. One of the men found $20 in small | bills in the boy's pockets. *“What is thi he asked. The boy told him it was fnoney which he had saved and come to the bank to deposit. “Keep it then,” the bandit replied; ‘W'e don't want your savings.” Three of the men removed $2,000 in bills from the vault, stuffing the money | into a_small satchel one of them car-| ried. They hesitated over $500 in silver and then left without it, apparently de- iding it was too heavy to carry. Two of the men walked up behind Miss Ford and Jones, who had been standing against the wall. A revolver was pressed against each of them and they were told not to leave the bank for five minutes. Bidding good-bye to the boy they had tied to the chair, the men put their weapons back in their pockets and walked leisurely from the bank, lock- ing the front door behind them. A moment later the three in the bank heard the roar of a motor as the bandits sped In the direction of Washington. Roads Are Guarded. Jones ran from the bank and called Mayor W. B. Fulton of Del Ray, and found Sergt. A. F. Driscoll. The two officials immediately called police in Washington, Alexandria and neighbor- ing_small towns. All roads leading out of Del Ray were blockaded, and Arling- ton County police stationed at various strategic points throughout the county. but the cordon was unsuccessful. One county policeman pursued a large sedan into Alexandria, where he lost the trail in a traffic-filled street. He sald he first sighted the machine travel- | ing toward Washington at a high rate | of speed. | Gang May Have Separated. Taking it to be a “speeder” or a drunken driver, the officer started in | pursuit. As soon as the two occupants | of the car saw they were being fol- | lowed, they turned to the right and | headed back toward Alexandria along | the main highway. | Maj. Fulton belicved the bandits may | have separated after leaving Del Ray and that the two men chased by the officers were, in all probability, members of the gang trying to escape into Washington. | The six bandits wore gray gloves, blue | { suits and gray caps. None was masked. | \DR. KLEIN AND FESS 1 T0 SPEAK IN FORUM| | Radio Addresses on Railroad, Trade and Industry, to Start | Hour Earlier. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and | Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of | Commerce, will speak tonight over the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over | the Nation-wide network of the Colum- bia Broadcasting Co. | Senator Fess, who is ranking major- ity member of the Interstate Commérce | Commission, next to Chairman Couzens, will discuss the vital problem of rail- road consolidation and its connection with the commerce of the United State.. Dr. Klein, who was advanced by President Hoover from the post of di- rector of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to Assistant Secre- | tary of the department, will discuss questions of trade and industry. He recently returned from a trip abroad. The program presenting Senator Fess and Dr. Klein will go on the air at 9 o'clock, an_hour earlier than the pre- | vious regular 10 o'clock hour of the | forum, The change was made in line with the earlier hours of the Nation- wide radio hook-ups because of daylight saving time. Three Die as Car Goes Off Bridge. MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 4 (#).—An automébile plunged 20 feet off the Harahan Viaduct after a crash with another car today and carried a man, his wife and their small daughter to their deaths in the high waters of the Mississippl River. Th- viaduct crosses the Jowlands on th: Arkansas side of % | ternational Paper & Power Co. claimed | lution went over under the rules. | ment. | Southern newspapers, would testify May Tsthat date. ! $1.455,000,000. Will Enterprise of Interna- tional Scope. Retired Officer Has Served Federal Government More Than 30 Years. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, director of the Budget since July 1, 1922, is retiring from that post on July 1 next to enter private business life. He has accepted a flattering offer from Arthur S. Klee- man & Co., investment hankers of New York, to become chairman of the board of one of that firm's new industrial un- dertakings which will have important international ramifications. The exact character of Gen. Lord's future activi- ties will not be disclosed until he actual- ly_has quit the Government's service, Following as farm loan commissioner, Gen. Lord is the second “financial best mind” to quit the Government service within a week. Gen. Lord indicated soon after Presi- dent Hoover came into office that he expected to continue as director of the budget. Several weeks later, however, he announced that he desired to retire, GEN. LORD TO QUIT BUDGET POS’f JULY 1 TO ENGAGE IN BUSINESS Become Chairman of | GERMANS ACCEPT YOUNG DEBT PLAN; MUST WIN ALLIES [Full Settlement of Repara- | tions Possible if France and Belgium Agree. | By the Associated Press. | PARIS, May 4—The German and American reparations delegations have | reached a full agreement on a complete | settlement of the reparations problem. | | It remains, however, for the Americans | | to win the French and Belgian dele- | tions to their plan. | It was far from certain the French | | and Belgians will accept the American | proposals. The French point of view GEN. HERBERT M. LORD. |is that they presented an irreductble | | minimum claims total, based on what | they must. pay to America plus only a but had consented to remain as director for an indefinite peri period. During the seven years of his budget sérvice Lord has achleved national rep- utation. He has turned down repeated offers to accept private employment at many times his Government salary of $10,000 & year. As a matter of fact only $5,500 of that sum is budget director’s salary. The other $4.500 is Lord’s re- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) PROBEOF PAPERS SOUEHT BY WALSH ‘Montanan Wants Data on| International Power Firm’s Holdings. By the Associated Press. A resolution directing the Postmaster General to inform the Senate of the names and addresses of all editors, pub- lishers, managing editors and stock and bond holders of papers in which the In- an interest, was introduced today by Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Montana. Senator Walsh asked immediate con- sideration, but Senator Watson of In- diana, the Republican leader, said he wished to “lock it over,” and the reso- Asked by Senator Watson what the purpose of the resolution was, Senator Walsh replied that it “desired to find out if some change is necessary” in the law which requires newspapers ‘to file a list of their owners with the Govern- Plan Not Defined Now. “Does the Senator have in mind any kind of investigation?” Senator Watson asked. “I have no idea of that at this time,” | Walsh replied, ‘The resolution would require the Post- master General to submit the names of all persons connected with the manage- ment of the papers concerned as well as the names of all holders of bond or stock or any other type of security. The Federal Trade Commission an- nounced today that Willlam Lavarre and Harold Hall, publishers of three 10 at a resumption of its investigation into the financing of public power utili- ties. Previously it was announced that Samuel S. Wyer of Columbus, Ohio, also would be a witness at the hearing on GANNETT TAKES ACTION. Retires Investment in His Papers by International. NEW YORK, May 4 (#).—The Brook- lyn Eagle announced today that the In- ternational Paper & Power Co, no longer had any financial interest in the Brook- lyn Eagle or in any of the Gannett newspapers. e Frank E. Gannett, president of the | Gannett Newspapers, today delivered to | ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Bank Statements ‘Washington clearing house, $5,547,~ 004.03. ‘Treasury balance, $221,394,514.59. New York clear:ng houss exchange, | the Harahan Bridge that spans the river here, reparations. | Premier Poincare has decldred pub- licly that France cannot make further sacrifices, and it was commented that | even if the French experts approved the American's plan in order to dispose of the vexing problem it was most prob- lrrncnon of what they have spent for | | | able Parliament and the government { would reject the settlement. TORNADO RELIE WORK 1S PLSHED Trouble Seen Ahead. | Observers close to the delegations | themselves said there was only a slim | hope the settlement agreed upon by the‘ | Americans and Germans would prove | | acceptable to the French or Belgians. | Mr. Young, however, they said, was de- |CHINA SENDS U. S. PLEA | { termined to do his utmost to achieve | the settlement which the committee al- ready has spent three months vainly| | seeking. | The proposed settlement just about | splits the difference between the origi- | |nal German offer of annuities of 1.-| | 650.000,000 marks and the Allied de- | |mand ‘of annuities of 2,200,000,000 = e German offer, calculated at five With the launching today of a drive ,or "cent interest plus nine-tenths per | for a fund for the relief of sufferers cent for amortization. had a present from the twisters which ravaged a long | value of about 26,000,000,000 gold marks swath of Montgomery County Thursday | (b0ut $6.240.000,000). The Allied de- mand amounted roughly to-39,000,000.- night, killing four persons in that area, | 000 marks, totaling, when costs of the ' came reports also of relief measures army of Rhine occupation and redem- | Red Cross Directs Task of Aiding Sufferers in Nearby Areas. DEBENTURE DEFEAT IN SENATE BY ONE VOTE IS INDICATED Poll, Excluding Broussard and Shipstead, Lists 47 Against Pla®. BALLOT LIKELY MONDAY, WEEK END DRIVE SEEN Not Likely to Reach White House, However, Even if Upper House Adopts It. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The Hoover administration, in its first clash with the Senate over the de- benture plan in the farm bill, has & shade the better of the situation, but only a shade, as the time for voting ap~ proaches. Today it is almost a 50-50 proposition, with the possibility that Vice President Curtis may be called upon to decide the matter in favor of the President. = For more than a week it has been generally believed that the debenture clause would be stricken from the farm bill, following the broadside which President Hoover fired against it. Only a day or two ago Senator Watson, Re- publican leader, was predicting that the debenture clause would lose by & mar- gin of five votes. But the Democrats have succeeded in weaning several of their number away i from the administration—Senators who had been counted upon to vote against debenture. Among them are Senater Hendrick of Wyoming, a member of the committee who stood with the Pres- ident when the bill was reported out, and Senator Copeland of New York, who at first declared he could not stom- ach the debenture plan, but now says he will “hold his nose and vote for it.” Some Republican Backsliding. Purthermore, there have been some backslicing on the Republican side the chamber. Senator Pine of Ol 1 oma is now counted for the debenture, So is Senator Borah of Idaho and Sen- ator Nye of North Dakota, in a speech in the Senate today, said he would vote for the debenture, although he quali- fied it somewhat by saying that if President Hoover announced he would veto the bill if it came to him with the debenture plan in it, he would vote against the debenture. A poll carefully made by adm! - tion leaders today showed a probable line-up of 47 Senators against the de- ben‘ure and 46 Senators for it. This poll, however, does not include Senator Broussard of Louisiana, a Democrat, or Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, Farm. er-Labor. Broussard has not finally in- dicated how he will vote, the Repuh- lican leaders safd. He may vote mln’t the debenture, sticking with his cal- league Senator Ransdell. Senator Ship- stead is in a hmgltll and will be unable to be present when the. vote is taken. Indeed. he has not yet been able to appear in the Senate to take the oath of office. He is for the debenture plan. Senator Norris of Nebraska, Repub- lican Progressive, who supported Al Smith for President last Fall, a leader in the effort to foist the debenture clause upon the President, prevailed upon the Senate to adopt a resolution authorizing Senator Shipstead to take the oath of office in the hospital. John Crockett, an employe of the Senate, was designated to go to the hospital and administer the oath. The administra- tion leaders. however, flatly refused to agree to arrange any “pair” for Senator Shipstead by which his vote for the debenture clause would be counted on the roll call. This is the first time in the memory of old employes of the Sen- ate that a Senator has been permitted to take the oath of office outside of the Senate chamber. The rule has been that the oath must be taken in the Senate chamber while the Senate is in session. Count on Four Democrats. The administration leaders are count- ing on the votes of four Democrats, Walsh of Massachusetts, Ransdell of Louisiana, Wagner of New York and King of Utah. If Broussard votes with them also, they will have at least five Democratic votes. They count as lost to the administration ~cause in this being carrled on in other tornado-|ton of Belglan currency was added | o the administration cause i Chs s stricken areas in nearby Maryland and % 00,000,000). Virginia, and the inoculation of all in-| jured survivors of the storms with te- | Provision for Annuities. ;‘;“’s‘:;ln’;"::é"’l‘g_‘”:‘: prevent blood| mpe settlement agreed upon by- the o ok i and Rappa. | Americans and the Germans provides hannock Countles in Virginia, where |{OF anuities to run only 37 years. The the injured list is heaviest and the in- | BAYments of 1750,000.000 marks needed jurles are more serious, relief work is | [OF the succeeding 21 years to meet the P e rragre, serious, Teliel wotk i< | gebts of the allied countries to America organizations of the towns n the vicin- | (Continued on Page 2, ity of Woodville and Catlett, where Thursday night the twisters took vm:f"zx_m left a dozen or more ba%‘g}GIBSdNi’s OFFER PROVES PUZZLING| ‘The Montgomery County tornado | sufferers’ relief drive will be carried on under the auspices of the Montgomery County Red Cross Chapter, of which Mrs. J. Somervell Dawson of Rockville | is chairman. Funds may be sent either | Clarification of Proposal on Arma- | to ‘Mrs. Dawson or to the chapter's | treasurer, Lorraine Garrett of Rock- | ments Is Sought by Offi- cials Here. ville, The funds, it is pointed out, are | needed for the immediate relief of the | storm_sufferers. | At Frederick, Md., where two per- | sons were killed andsix tnjured, it was repor a) at all the jures A were r:coverh{g and that none wis in i Indications of confusion of the Amer- a serious condition. ican viewpoint on questions of land and In the Warrenton, Va. area quick naval armaments as outiined by Am- By the Associated Press. | measures have been taken to attend to | the needs of those left homeless and | bassador Hugh Gibson to the Prepar- injured by the storm, and the situation |atory ~Disarmament Commission at is reported well in hand. iGcneva have brought a new attempt | in Government circles here to make the meaning clear. The explanation of Gibson's state- | ON EXTRATERRITORIALITY | ment that the United States was willing |to withdraw, Its reservations to the ex- | clusion of trained reserves from any Note Asks That American Minister | formula for evaluation of land strength i 5 | is that, since the United States already Be Authorized to Consider |p,q reduced its land forces to the min- Question of ‘Abolition. | imum, it is not concerned in the ques- By the Associated Press. | it does not | tion of land armaments. Secretary _Stimson has _received | Wish to be in a position of obstructing ‘Taking that position, about 41.000,000,000 marks (about Slfi,-l through the Chinese Minister, C. C. Wu, a note from the Nationalist government of China, asking that the American Minister there be authorized to take up the question of the abolition of the extraterritoriality privileges now held by the United States under treaty. No indication was given by Mr. Stim- son as to what reply would be made to him, but the announced policy of the American Government is that the United States would be willing to nego- tiate the release of those rights as soon as China is prepared to provide protec- | an agreement among the European na- | tions that are concerned. Naturally, |it could not become a party to an | agreement with which it had no con- cern. That is one of the points which has | aroused discussion, particularly among Senators, with considerable conjecture | as to the meaning of Gibson's statement. | Another point on which confusion seems to persist is attacked with & veiteration of the explanation that the Geneva meeting is not a disarmament | | conference, but an effort to pave the tion, by law and through their courts, | way for such a conference by working New York clearing house balance, $171,000,000. iy to American citizens, their rights and | out formulas on which hope of success- property, ! ful negotiations might be based. in, Borah of Idaho, Brookhart of Towa, | Frazier of North Dakota, Howell of | Nebraska, Johnson of California, La | Follette of Wisconsin, McMaster South | Dakota, Norbeck of South Dakota, Nor- | ris of Nebraska, Nye of North Dakota ! and Pine of Okiahoma No vote is expected in the Senata | on the debenture clause until Monday. | Over the week end it is likely that both sides will exert as much influence as they can to win additional votes. The lines are closely drawn, however. If there should be a tie vote, Vice Presi= dnt Curtis will decide the issue in favor of the administration. The Democrats are playing a despers ate game in an effort to embarrass the | administration and also to be able to say to the farmers, if the Hoover plan | does not work out well that the Demo= crats supported a plan which would | have given them relief. Not Likely to Reach .oover. It is not believed that the House will stand for the debenture plan, even if i it should be placed in the biil by the Senate. In the end, it is not likely to reach the President. Therefore, a nums~ ber of the Republican Senators from the farm States appa-ently are willing to vote for the debenture plan, bellev- ing it will strengthen them with some of their constituents, and then let the ! House pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the administration. The threat is made in the Senate to | renew the fight for the debenture plan | when the tariff bill comes to the Senate for consideration. if the debenture plan is defeated now in the Senate. Indeed, | it is said tkat several Republicans now | standing_with the President may flop over to the debenture if it is offered as an amendment to the tariff bill. Rival Afghan Forces Clash. | PESHAWAR, India, May 4 (#.—Re- ports here today confirmed news of heavy fighting near Lohgarh, Afghanis- | tan, between 3,000 troops of the de- posed Emir Amanullah and twice as many followers of Bacha Eakao, usurper of Amanullah’s throne. College Burns, Students Saved. DES MOINES, Iowa, May 4 (#).—Be- Lween 75 and 100 young people marched to safety when fire destroyed Grand View College, a Danish institution hergy last night. The college, housed in one building, quartered the girls in one wing and 5 thes, the boys in anot 5