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g » THE - EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY WHERE TORNADO TOOK TOLL OF LIFE IN NEARBY STATES POLIGE CONTROL WIFE” BARES LIE. NATINAL CHANBER FLETS OFFEERS Organization Will Seek to Re-|New Engine House Cause of | | [ | i move Obstacles to Contin- ued Business Prosperity. Toder the leadership of William But- terworth of Moline, and Julius H. Barnes of New York, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States wiil de- vote its efforts during the ensuing year toward removal of obstacles to con- tinued business prosperity and a broad plan of service incorporated in the rec- | ommendations approved at its annual | session here. Mr. Butterworth was re-elected presi- | dent of the organization, and Mr. Barnes, president from 1921 to 1923.] was elected chairman of the board of | directors, to succeed the late Joscph H. Defrees of Chicago. i Five Vice Presidents Chosen. | Five of the six vice presidents were | chosen by the directors after the con- | clusion of the convention yesterday | afternoon. The two new members of | this group are W. Rufus Abbott of Chi- | cago for the North Central States and Charles W. Lonsdale of Kansas City, | Mo.. for the Southwesiern States. A Posiponement was voted in the selec- | tion of & vice piesident for the North- | western States H Other vice presidents were re-clected | as follows: Alfred J. Brosseau of New | York for the Northeastern States, Rob- | ert R. Ellis of Memphis, Tenn., for the Southeastern States and Paul Shoup of | San Francisco for the Western division. | John Joy Edson of this city, who has | served the organization as treasurer for | many vears, was re-elected. New Directors Approved. | The concluding action of the conven- | {tion was the formal ratification of the 118 new directors nominated for office | {last Monday, which was followed by | }ihe induction into the office of the en- | tire_group. | | The 10 selected on a geographic basis {include: Leonard S. Horner of New ! Haven, Conn.; Lammot du Pont of Wil- | mington, Del.: E. Ashbury Davis of | Baltimore, Md.; William Candler of At- | ilanta, Ga.: P. W. Litchfield of Akron, 1 Ohio; John H. Camlin of Rockford, IlL; | Walter L. Cherry of Cedar Rapids, | Jowa; Harry A. Black of Galveston, Tex.; George W. Holmes of Lincoln, | Neb., and Everett G. Griggs of Tacoma, | Wash. The remaining eight, representing as ! many phases of the organization’s ac- tivities, include Charles W. Lonsdale of Kansas City, Mo., who also was elected | ;viee president; Edward P. Peck of | Omaha, Neb.: John G. Lonsdale of St. Iouis, Mo.. H. M. Gilbert of Yakima, Wash.; C. A. Ludlum of New York City, Francis E. Kamper of Atlanta, Ga.: ( Matthew §. Sloan of New York City | ‘and A. W. Robertson of East Pitts-; burgh, Pa. GEN. LORD TO RETIRE AS BUDGET DIRECTOR TO ENTER BUSINESS (Continued From First Page) . | tirement pay as a former brigadier gen- eral in the Army. The general's willingness to stay in ‘the pay of the Government, for which he has annually saved tens of millions of dollars, at less annual emolument than a successful bond salesman earns has been one of the wonders, and the | glorles, of modern Federal service at Washington. Lord confesses that he continued under those _conditions “through a fondness for public service and his desire to contribute the best i that was in him for his country’s bene- it Gen. Lord is a Maine Yankee and his first Government job in Washing- committee of the House of Representa- tives. In 1898 he became a paymaster officer in the United States Army, and | by 1919, after promotion through vari- ous grades of that- service, became & | brigadier general. He was retired with that rank in 1922, on the eve of suc- ceeding te the directorship of the bud- get. He was director of Army finance during the latter part of the World ‘War and received the Distinguished Service Medal “for exceptionally meri- torious and conspicuous service.” Under Gen. Dawes, first director of the budget. Lord speedily demonstrated = peculiar talent for the duties of the ‘Budget Bureau, and became Dawes’ logical successor. His speeches before the semi-annual business meetings of the Government soon became famous. ,They were distinguished by a note of humor and humanness uncommon in discussion of subjects as dry as bud- getary details. Gen. Lord achieved early !fame as founder of the “Woodpeckers' Club,” the organization of Government 'officials and subordinates, which he formed and fomented for the purpose 1of what Coolidge called “ruthless econ- ,omy” all along the long Federal line. Later Gen. Lord established the “Two | Per Cent Club,” which owed its name ‘1o the pledge imposed upon members to cut their expenditures in their respec- tive departments by at least 2 per cent over previous figures. Praised by Coolidge. In one of his last addresses to the business organization of the Govern- ment President Coolidge paid this tribute 10 Gen. Lord: “Gen. Lord has been a success as the head of the Budget Bureau because he has had hte judgment to say ‘Yes' when the facts warranted and the courage to say ‘No’ when the facts warranted. His only desire is to find out what each situation requires and recommend that it be met. Any worthy object, any need- , ed appropriation, could have no better friend. He has had great experience in Government financing. He is a clear thinker and plain speaker, a benefactor 10 those who administer the affairs of the United States Government. One of the chief reasons for holding these conferences is to listen to the counsel of Gen. Lord, who will now address you.” (Copyright, 1929) 1,000 FEARED KILLED IN PERSIAN QUAKES | cost approximately $89,000. HEALTH OF FIRE CHE SEEKS * 53950 INCREASE Largest Part of Raise in 1931 Budget. | An increase of $392,500 is called for {in the estimates of expenditures for the | Fire Department in the fiscal year of {1931 over the appropriations for the | fiscal year 1930. Chief Engineer George | S. Watson of the Fire Department asked for an appropriation of $2,564,- 290, as compared with an appropriation | for 1930 fiscal year of $2,171,790. The estimates were made public by Daniel J. Donovan, the District's budget officer, today. Most of the increase is taken up with a request for $301.750 for & new house to replace the present No. 16 engine house and No. 3 truck house. These houses, located at Twelfth and D streets and Fourteenth street and Ohlo ave- nue, respectively, will soon have to move to make way for the Federal building program in the Mall-Pensylvania ave- nue triangle. Chief Watson said in the estimates that he would be able to purchase & site on the north side of K street be- tween Twelfth and Thirteenth for| $146,500. The new house, which would have three doors to house the engine, ihe truck and the water tower, which is now located with No. 3 truck, is es- timated to cost $155,000. The estimates also call for a new truckhouse in the vicinity of Twelfth and Rhode Island avenue northeast, to A motor ambulance is asked for to take the place of the old touring car which is the department’s only means at pres- ent of taking firemen to the hospital. The estimates asked for $3,500 for this purpose. The fo’,fing equipment to repiace equipmer4 now in use, but ~onsidered in bad ofMdition, is also asked for: Two aerial lok and ladder trucks, $31.000; two pumping engines, $22,000, and six hose Wagons, $48,000. FiER ASKSFOR R385 Dr. Fowler Presents Plea for Big Extension of Work in Schools. Considerable extension of the work of the Health Department in hygiene and sanitation in the District school system is contemplated in the esti- mates of expenditures in the fiscal year of 1931, submitted by Health Officer William' C. Fowler and made public by | Daniel J. Donovan, the District budget officer, today. ‘The total appropriation asked for by the Health Department is $569,585.80, as compared with an appropriation of $432,190 for the 1930 fiscal year. In making a plea for the extension for health work in the schools, Dr. Fowler argued that this work is being carried on with the same number of employes which handled it in 1903. In the intervening 26 years, he said, the school population has practically dou- bled and the department is not doing the school work that it should. He asked for an increase from $78,600 to $142,625 for this work. This would en- able the department to employ 42 ad- ditional workers. Asks Dental Clinic Fund. Dr. Fowler further asked for $14,000 to establish and equip dental clinics at the Tyler, Curtis, Henry Schools and the Cardozo High School. Dr. Fowler, for the first time in many years, omitted a request for $500,000 for a contagious disease hospital. He called attention to this omission by say- ing he was tired of asking for what it seemed clear it was impossible to get. Asks $194,120 for Salaries. ‘The appropriation asked for salaries is $194,120, as compared with $181,690 dur- ing 1930. The increase is caused by a request for an assistant poundmaster at $1,440 per annum, four sanitary in- spectors with salaries aggregating $7,200 per annum and $3,790 for increases in salaries under the personnel classifica- tion act. For prevention of the spread of con- tagious diseases, Dr. Fowler asked an increase from $45,000 to $55,000. Other appropriations asked for under various heads are laboratories, $3,350; enforce- ment of pure food law, $8,325; crema- torium, $2,850; child hygiene service, $54,000; new heating at pest house, $15,000. BOX HITS WORKMAN. Augustus Warren, colored, 50 years old, 323 G street southwest, is thought to have a fractured skull and a broken neck as the result of being struck yes- terday afternoon by a falling box while working on a building under construc- tion at Nineteenth and E streets. Warren was removed to Emergency Hospital in a passing automobile. His condition was undetermined today. MONDAY, MAY 6. FIRST RACE—The Oriole. 2-year-old and geldings Purse, $1,300. § furlon; isan ... 115 'a'Upiown Lad.. 11112 Notus . op.... ..l 112 St Jim & Bag Smasher... 112 Gullder . aE. B. McLean entry. SECOND RACE—Maiden 3-year-olds us. Purse, $1.300. 1/ miles. Black_Diamond.. 110 Glen Wild. ove ... ..... 108 Buckrill a Mrs. J. W. Dayton-H. Rozier Dulany, ir., entry. THIRD and up. Sortie .. Banton . Bey...l. FOURTH RACE—The Pimlico Homebred; 2-yeer-olds: $2,500 added. RACF—The A Purse, $1,300. . 120 Pink Lily.. 109 Mowlee shburton: 4-year-olds 1. mile ..104 D120 | | i - i— RYE COVE STARTS BURYING ITS DEAD Graves Are Dug Almost in‘ Shadow of Virginia’s Famed | “Lonesome Pine.” ‘ By the Associated Press. RYE COVE, Va.. May 4—This Nola- | chuley Valley commonuity began bury- | ing its tornado dead today almost in the shadow of Virginia's famous “Lone- | some Pine,” which can look down from Stone Mountain Gap and see 13 graves, | dug for 12 pupils and 1 teacher who | died in Thursday's storm that demolish- | ed Rye Cove Schoolhouse. The Rev. J. F. Crait, Baptist circuit | rider, minister and adviser to Scott | County's mountaineers for many years, | began his funeral tour at “sunup.” He | was to visit each home that had lost a | child when the tornado demolished the consolidated school here. Although all the graves had been dug | on the side of hills or in the valley and | the coffins built or bought, the circuit rider will be kept busy today and m" morrow on his round of mercy. Many | of the bereaved parents wanted their dead buried on Sunday and the min- | ister was prepared to carry qut their wishes. Eight Others May Die. ‘While the circuit rider conducted the simple mountain funeral rites, he prayed for 8 other victims of the storm who lay seriously injured and for 48 more who were in hospitals and ! homes with broken bones, lacerations and bruises. Miss Jamie Taylor, teacher: Maurice Clendennen, Margaret Mitchell and Avis Runyon wer: in Bristol Hospital with fractured skulls. J. E. Fugate, jr., | was in_the same institution suffering “'Ilh what doctors feared was concus- sion. James Franklin and his 13-year-old sister, Avare, were at their home here, injured too dangerously to move to a | hospital. | Reconstruction plans of the Red Cross | were well under way, with national | workers on the scene. The damage was not widespread. The tornado roared up the valley to hit the school- | house on its mountain-top, with five | houses and a flour mill. J | Among the dwellings it demolished | was the Carter home. The Carters | settled this valley back when the Battle | of New Orleans was ‘“news.” They built a log cabin and added to it when | additions were needed. WOMAN IS BARRED FROM TIDAL BASIN' Permission to Swim It With Hands and Feet Tied Refused by Grant. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. director of the Office of Public Buildings and | Public Parks, today declined to lend | his aid the promotion of what | officials of his office termed a “publicity | stunt” in permitting Mrs. Lottie Moore | Schoemell to swim the Tidal Basin. | Mrs. Schoemell, noted swimmer, and | her trainer, George R. Nelson, appeared | today at Col. Grant's office, seeking a permit to swim, hands and feet tied, around the Tidal Basin. Col. Grant declined to issue an; permit for this purpose, however, con sidering that it would set an undesired | precedent. Mrs. Schoemell had planned | to enter the Tidal Basin from the foot | of Seventeenth street at 5 o'clock today | as Pm of her Washington program. | while she was stopping here on a jour- | ney from Florida to New York. | Capt. P. J. Carroll of the United' States Park Police, explained that even | when the bathing beach was established | at the Tidal Basin, persons were for- | bidden to jump from boats into the | water and were required to keep them- selves under the prolection of the guards at the beach. At no time, he said, are persons permitted to swim in the Tidal Basin for demonstration | Y| Twelve students and one teacher were killed when a tornado leveled the schoolhouse at Rye Cove, principal, who was hurled into the water in front of the building. 7, 7 7S A Eight students in this group and th Eye Cove, School, killing 13. Where wind blew in the wall of | who was asleep on the second floor bedroom. Va. More than two-score were injured, including the eir teacher, Ava Carter (back row, at right) were killed when a tornado struck the ' —Asscciated Press Photo. Charles F. Haight's home at Brookeville, Md,, killing Mrs. Ameilia Knapp, 89, ——Associated Press Photos. 13 ABOARD BARGE IN STORM SAVED Vessel Founders in Lake Huron, but Crew Rescued by Coast Guard. By the Assoclated Press. % SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., May 4. —The wreckage sighted yesterday off Thunder Bay in Lake Huron by the | steamer Renvoyle was that of the mo- | torized barge C. E. Parks of Sault Ste. | Marie. ‘This became known today when the | Archie Roosevelt rcbic Rooseslt | CANADATOSOUTH White House Tour | CUAY |C |JRGE] | Doorman Is Amazed When Son of Teddy Asks to See Tke Hoover. | | \ \ | Route Through U. S. to South | America Advocated at Road Builders’ Parley. Speakers at the annual dinner of the American Road Builders’ Association, at the Willard Hotel last night, urged con- struction of a pan-American highway from Canada through the United States, Mexico. Central America and | e { From out of the throng of sightseers | | milling about the entrance to the White | House a couple of days ago stepped a | ! tall, slim young man who inquired of | | John Mays, the doorkeeper, if he could | see Mr. Hoover. He was asked if he| had an appointment and he replied | ves, and as he was following the door- | { man across the hallway, instead of con- | tinuing on toward the room where vis- itors are received, he headed for a side South America, and characterized ac- complishment of this project as the Purposes. | wife of Capt. Sam Shields in charge | of the vessel received a radiogram from | him at Thunder Bay Island, saying the | vessel had foundered, but that the crew | | of 12 men and himself had been taken {off by the Coast Guard. ; Laden With Pulpwood. | “Parks foundered. All saved,” | the message to Mrs. Shields. The Parks left Richards Landing, Ontario, Thursday with a load of pulp- | wood. During the night it ran into a | heavy blow that sent most vessels into shelter. The Parks, originally a barge, had been converted to operate under its the installation of GERMANS ACCEPT YOUNG DEBT PLAN; MUST WIN ALLIES (Continued From First Page.) sald would be met by the International Bank | from its profits. | These probably would not run that high annually, but it is argued that the bank by accumulating the profits and | making them work at a_higher rate of | greater when the young man said: | live here, and Ike Hoover is an old | shown about the White rocm. ‘The doorman quickly pointed out the proper room to wait in, to which the young man replied it was not President | Hoover he wished to see, but Ike Hoover, head usher. The doorman’s amazement was still greatest. promoter of peace. The din- ner was held in connection with the formal induction into office of the newly elected president, Frederick | Reimer, of East Orange, N. J, and | members of the board of directors. { 3. M. Robsion, State higway official | from Kentucky, declared that the ex- nce of highways before 1861 would | have averted the Civil War. “If road building was made an inter- national proposition,” Mr. Robsion de- clared. “a road from Canada through to South America would do more to bring about peace and harmony than all the Ambassadors. Let these people know 'm Archie Roosevelt, who used to friend of mine.” Archie Recalls Old Days. After greeting each other, young Roosevelt informed Mr. Hoover that | Mrs. Roosevelt and their two sons were in the crowd out front and he would | . o like to bring them 1n and hece thewa | us and let us khow them and there ings,” the speaker ihave them |be no misunderstandings pe BERLIN RIOT AREA :21 Are Known Dead as Probe of Soviet Complicity Gets Under Way. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 4.—Berlin police were investigating today charges of a bor- ough newspaper that a Russian Com- munist leader, aided by three members of the Soviet army general staff, had led the German Communists in rioting of the last three days. The police were in complete charge of Neukoelln and Wedding districts, where 21 persons have been killed and more than 150 injured in fighting since May day. be maintained in the affected disiricts until Monday, although gisturbarices today seemed on the wane. Among the dead was an English newspaper man, Charles Erau Mackay, New Zealand. Police on Hermanstrasse shot him dead before dawn today when he refused to go back indoors in de- flance of their orders permitting no one outside. Uprising Planned, Paper Charges. Mackay spoke no German and his friends assumed he did not understand the commands, which were shouted at him three times before the shots which killed him were fired. The police point- ed out that they had ‘forbidden news- paper men to enter the disturbed area after 9 p.m. The charges made by the borough tenburg, were that the Soviet Com- munist organizer Manielski arrived in Berlin 14 days ago, accompanied by three widely known Tcheka organizers general staff. ‘The paper said the delegation im- mediately began work on detailed plans for uprisings. An_official police report said 19 per- sons had been killed in the rioting—the list of casualties not including two oth- ers known to be dead. There were 36 listed as serfously injured, with some expected to die. fered minor injuries. Of 1,200 arrested since May day about 200 have been held for infraction of the community's peace and probably will be committed for trial. More Workers Join Strike. Another 1450 workers today joined | the ranks of strikers who yesterday walked out in sympathy with the Com- munists in their battle with the police. Of these 800 were laborers on the Neukoelln subway construction gangs, 250 were employes of a street car rafls plant and 400 shoe factory workers. of strikers yesterday at 6,000. Fighting was renewed early last night, repelled the workers, and the hours just quiet. The police completely turned the | tables on the Commurists who Wed- nesday and Thursday night barricaded themselves in Hermanstrasse, Neugoelln, and defended their fortifications both from behind the barricades and with effective sniping from windows. ! Last night and today it was the.po- lice who held the barricades and manned the house fronts, their machine temporary bastions to serve if further emergency should arise. The witn- | drawal of the Communists during Thursday night gave the constabulary its chance and occupation was thorough and immediate. Barbed Wire Fences Area. Barbed wire fences were erected around the affected Hermanstrasse and side sireet areas so that police were | enableq to control the coming and go- ing of every person within the slege | area. Not 50 stringent precautions were | adopted in the Wedding district. | _ Police, realizing the bitterness of the | Population toward the measure adopted | to quiet the area, made an honest effort | to be courteous to those not suspected of implication in the uprising, and guided those arriving at Hermanstrasse | after dark to their homes. Police today continued thorough searching of houses on Hermannstrasse and its side streets, ferreting out the last nests of the rioters. Arrests were being made almost continually. The area was open to street cars and ordinary traffic within limits, the po- ilce dispersing groups and keeping pe- destrians moving. Tradesmen. Fowever, complained bitterly that chey had lost much business, since the residents of the district, made timid by the carnage of the last three days, preferred to shop outside the affected area. |ACTON IS SENTENCED | 1 ;Formcr Convict Is Held Guilty of Making False Affidavit About Age of Girl. Frank Acton, 29 years old, a former convict, was sentenced today by Chief Justice McCoy in Criminal Division 1 to serve seven years in the penitentiary. He had been convicted of making a false affidavit in obtaining a license to marry Ruth R. Kanode, 15 years old and blind, last August. Thwarted in an_effort to secure a license in Alexandria, Acton appeared trict license clerk, August 19, and by swearing that the girl was 18 years old, obtained the license. The mother of |the girl testified that Acton knew the right age of the girl, but he denied it and the clergyman who performed the jceremony declared that the girl had told him she was 18. Assistant United States Attorney Walter M. Shea con- ducted the prosecution. Mary Johnson, colored, will serve five years in the penitentiary on a robbery charge. She is said to have taken $55 from the pockets of a man who was A state of siege probabiy will | representing the Waitara Daily News of | newspaper, the Neue Zeit of Charlot- | and three members of the Red army | Several hundred suf- | The police estimated the total number | i but vigorous action by the constabulary | before dawn were spent in comparative guns poking ugly noses from dozens of | TO SEVEN-YEAR TERM | befor® the late William A. Kroll, Dis- | WITH“STRATFORD" Actress and Screen Writer Says Masquerader’s Les- ters Won Her. Py the Associated HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 4.—Mrs. | Elizabeth Rowland, actress and screen | writer and “wife” of “Peter Stratford,” |today revealed how the written word |of the masquerader had drawn her into I “his” life. | “I was working at Unity School in i Kansas City, in the healing depart- | ment,” Mrs. Rowland, explained, “when |1 found a letter asking prayer for & |man by the name of Peter Stratford who lived at Hillsdale, N. J. Letters Were Literars Gems. “The letter interested e to the ex- tent of causing me to break the rules of the institution, ana I replied per- sonally. His letters were literary gems. must have received over 600 air mail nd special delivery missives. | “My letters to ‘him’ also seemed to |be the very breath of life and often | became a very great burden to me, be- {cause if I neglected to write, ‘his' | health apparently was affected.” | Mrs. Rowland said she previously had | been married and once wrote “Strat- ford" that she would “never again enter {into a physical marriage. The very | thought of marrying again was utterly iabhorrent to me, but because of ‘his’ | pitiful condition 'and the idea of love that had been built up in the long correspondence I felt I had to go { through with it. | “Stratford remained in Kansas City two or three days after the marriage, then he left for San Francisco,” she caid. “The following year I wrote him {at intervals. Then he wrote me that he was 5o desperately ill that if I did not come to him he would die.” Nursed “Him"” Two Years. Mrs. Rowland said she jolned “him" at Niles. Calif.. and for two years' pre- ! pared “his" meals and nursed “him" | while he was alternately working or 11l {in bed. Despite their constant close | association, she declared, it was not until five months ago that she learned “he” was a woman. “I came to Hollywood intending to get an annulment from this strange contract,” she said, “but the reaction of my suffering with ‘him’ made me 11l and I was unable to seek employment. “I wrote ‘Peter Stratford’ twice after my arrival in this city, when I discov- ered he was corresponding with my friend. Finally disgust caused me to break off all communication.” Miss Alma Thompson, employed at a fil mstudio, whose letters were found among _“Stratford’s” eflects, said she knew “him” through Mrs. Rowland and wrote to “him” in sympathy because |of “his" iliness. |PROBE OF PAPERS’ STOCK OWNERSHIP SOUGHT BY WALSH Press. { I | | | |a __(Continued From First P | the International Paper & Power Co. his check on the Chemical National | Bank & Trust Co. for more than $2,700,000, retiring all of the Inter- national investments in the Brookiyn Daily Eagle, the Albany Knickerbocker Press, the Albany News and the Ita Journal News, which are among the 17 papers controlled by Gannett. Testimony of Archibald R. Graustein, president of the International, before the Federal Trade Commission in Washington last Tuesday was that the International held investments in cer~ tain newspapers totaling $10,000,000. O this, approximately $2,700,000 was in- | vested in securities of four of Gan- i nett’s newspapers. Editorial States Policy. | Under a heading “International Ous | of Gannett Newspapers,” the Brooklyn :Dnfly Eagle today publishes the follow- ing leading editorial: “When Frank E. Gannett, controlling | the Eagle and 16 other newspapers, ac- | cepted in perfectly good faith a loan | of “approximately $2.700,000 from the International Paper Co., which acted in | equally good faith, it was because the i loan could be had ‘at terms better than | were available in the open money | market. | “The International did not ask and did not receive any voice in the policies of the Eagle or any Gannett news- paper. International acquired good investment secured by collateral in_the form of notes, preferred stock, and, in the instances of the Eagle and the Albany Knickerbocker Press and Albany News, common stock equity of less than 30 per cent of the total. From the Ithaca Journal-News it received only notes. The stock control of every Gan- nett newspaper is in the hands of Frank E. Gannett and the editorial control is in the hands of the local edit i | Received Paper Contracts. “In return for the International’ loan-terms, that company received con- | tracts for the paper supply of the Eagle { and the Albany papers. More than one- { half of the Gannett newspaper supply is purchased from others than the In- | ternational. {.. "It was and is Mr. Gannett’s belief that this was a straightforward, legal | business transaction, which shouid not | be questioned by any one. Criticism by the majority of the press of the | Nation, however, is that this financial | association with a company which also | sells power may not affect the quality | of the newspaper involved, but could affect that paper's influence with its readers. Faith in Press. “The Eagle has faith in the integruy !of the American press. It has faith in sincerity of those publishers who ac- cepted international loans as they would any loan without thought of allowing an outside influence to affect the policy of their papers. “The Eagle has no quarrel with critics who condemn its judgment but it ree grets the unwillingness of some of == cotemporaries to recognize an honest motive. “Mr. Gannett is the head of Ameri- ca’s third largest group of newspapers, The absolute independence and integrity of a Gannett newspaper must never be in doubt. To that purpose, at a 4% furlongs. own power with b interest than would apply 1o the debts| OWn Power added he g sa could handle them eventually so that wasn't seeking special | being held up by a male companion of { very considerable cost to Mr. Gannett, privileges and only desired to be shown | Vast Stretches West of Samarkand | a Aziz_(J. Beishak).. the prisoner March 3 at New Jersey|the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Albany id. Gold Cord (P. Walls). R. Keith Compton, retiring president, Are Shaken—Heavy Property Damage Is Reported. By the Assoclated Press. ASKHABAD, Russian _ Turkestan May 4—Earthquakes which yesterda: shook the vast stretches west of Samar- kand, once the capital of Tamerlane's Oriental empire, were believed today o have taken a heavy toll of life and property. Unconfirmed reports said 1,000 per- | sons perished in three Persion towns alone, while 11 were killed and 40 in- jured hereabout as four successive | tremors brought down houses and buildings in many villages. One per- son was killed in this city and 26 in- Jjured. Ninety houses were demolished. The Russian Turkestan government. on_request of Persian officials, rushed aid across the border into Persia where damage and loss of life was believed greatest. Isolation of many of the affected areas accentuated the relief problem. ¢ Mint Olgo (no boy) Colossal (no boy)... b Partisan (no boy’ a Tewsenelda (Haines): . Guiliord (8. O'Donnell) ¢ Mint Airy (no boy) . they would take care of this part of the | war debts account. This would relieve Germany of that part of the burden the creditor nations have thought to place upon it—yet the | ey allied debts would be paid. If the bank's profits were inadequate, it was added, there was always the chance that the United States by that time would re- vise the last of the debt payments down- ward. A G. L. Striker entry. b George D. Widener entry. Willis Sharpe Kilmer entry. FIFTH RACE—3.vear-olds and upward; rse, $1.300; 1 mile and a furlong. Compromise Is Discussed. | 1t was explained that if one consider- 128 . 108 dale ..... 122 wing Board det 12 Carloman SIXTH RACF—3-year-olds and upward; claiming; purse, $1,300; 6 furlong: *Mac Maxim Estelle Marie *Lucky Drift of the last 21 years annuities) to a little over 38,000,000,000 marks then Mr. Young's compromise of 32,000.000.000 marks was almost exactly between the | gl;lllflnll German offer and the creditors’ In this connection it was commented that Dr. Schacht proposed originally that the International Bank have & capital of 5.000,000 gold marks, but that the conference trimmed this down oaster 0 “Black Pride. ... SEVENTH RACE_Tne Forest Park: filles Stores in Australia are glutted with locally made ladies’ handbags which are being held until tariff relief can be had from the imported articles dominating the market. and mares: elaiming; 3-years-old and up. ward; purse, $1,300; 1 mile and 70 yards. *Dear Lady...... 1 <Jane Rinehait!! I 117|to 100,000,000, as the capital was to 105 ; have been furnished out of the repara- 122 5 SPaulina L tions payment to the allics. The allies e path of a downbound vessel circling | the steamer Renvoyle of the Canada ed the allied claims as reduced by those | Steamship Lines sighted wreckage off three billlons (estimated present value | Thunder Bay yesterday noon. ‘Thunder Bay Island is in Lake Huron about 25 miles off the mainland and in North Point for Alpena. There is & lighthouse on the island, but little other facilities for the comfort of the crew or the wrecked vessel. A later report said the men had been taken to Alpena. All wires to Alpena were down and the re- port could not be verified. Steamer Sights Wreckage. First word of a mishap came when | The | Renvoyle reported sighting a number of doors, hatches and pulpwood strewn about the lake for miles. The bow of the boat had been smashed, obliterating the name. g Michig‘nrlflun Gets Féllowahip‘ NEW YORK, May 4 (#.—The Al- bert Kahn Foundation for Foreign ‘Travel of Teachers has awarded its fellowship for 1929 and 1930 to Ulric Bonnell Phillips, professor of American history at the University of Michigan. - 107 1 0bjected to having their money tied up imed. SIMPI%. to work in relieving Germany of parts of her payments. g “sas *Aunt Houey. “Apprentice allowance of & pounds claimed Weather clears track §00d. r The fellowship provides $5,000 to en- able the recipient to spend a year study. ing conditions in various nations. | the rooms and things of interest that are shown to tourists. Mr. Hoover soon met Mrs. Roosevelt and the two youngsters and he personally conducted Senator Phipps of Colorado and Capt. | Irving O'Hay also spoke. More than 300 representatives from the various State highway departments and road construction corporations at- avenue and E street. the family about the executive mansion. Archie recalled many incldents during | the days when he and his brothers frolicked about the corridors and the | rooms, and laughed heartily when Mr. | Hoover reminded him of some of the | pranks_they played upon the attaches | of the White House. Sees Four Other Friends. Before leaving, young Roosevelt ex- pressed a desire to see the men about | the White House today who were work- ing there when his father was Presi- ent. He was informed that there are not tended the d!nnflj. b e FARMERS’ LOAN MEASURE IS ADOPTED BY SENATE By the Associated Press. A resolution making $2,500,000 avail- able as loans for farmers in the storm- swept area of the South was adopted vesterday by the Senate. |” The measure which also will dene- fit farmers who suffered in the torna- more than a dozen left, including mem- | does last night, now goes to the House bers of the police force. It was pos- | for agreement to changes made by the sible to round up four of them and |Senate, before it can be sent to the Archie shook hands cordially and in- | White House. troduced them to his family. Of the sum made available, $1,500,- They were: Charles Thompson, mes- (000 was an unexpended sum appropri- senger; Ed Norris, engineer; William |ated last session for storm loans in Straus, fireman, and George Wilkins, | Virginia, North and South Carolina, butler. Georgia, Alabama and Florida. An- Archie and Mrs. Roosevelt said they |other $1,000,000 was added and the enjoyed their visit. They departed, | measure’s provisions were made to in- however, without meeting~ the Presi- | clude also Louisana, Mississippi and dent and Mrs. Hoover, Arkansas. All Released on $7.50 Bond to Ap- pear May 11 Before Rockville Court on Disorderly Charge. Sixty-nine men and three women, ar- rested last night in a raid by Mont- gomery police on the Club Mirador, near Bethesda, Md, will be arraigned before the Rockville Court May 11. All were charged with disorderly conduct and released on $7.50 bond each. ‘The police swooped down on the estab- lishment after they learned that a party was in progress. Nearly all of those arrested were Washingtonians, police said. It was evident, the police declared, that the place had been tipped off prior to the raid as nearly 200 members of the party escaped. A number of broken whisky bottles were found by the police but no liquor charges were lodged against those ar- rested. e an i b R Knickerbocker Press, the Albany News and the Ithaca Journal-News have to- day delivered Mr. Gannett’s personal check for botter than $2.700,000 upon the Chemical Bank & Trust Co. to Tetire every dollar of obligation owing the International Paper Co. or any of its subsidiaries and to return to Mr. Gannett’s possession every security held by the company in any Gannett news- paper. “In’ accomplishing this the cheeriui willingness_of International -40 part with desirable investments not yet call- able is acknowledged. HARPER TO BROADCAST. | Robert N. Harper past president of | the Washington Chamber of Commerce and chairman of citizens’ committee on permanent States’ buildings, will broad- | cast an address from Station WMAL at ! 8 o'clock tonight. Mr. Harper will out- line the movement for the erection of permanent States’ buildings in Wash- ington to maintain at the seat of Gov- ernment a comprehensive exhibit of the natural resources and the manu- facturing, agricultural and scientific developmentn of each of the States.