Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair, continued, warm, fol- lowed by local thundershowers tomorrow afternoon, cooler by Tuesday. Temperatures: Highest, 92, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 72, at 5 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 7. s No.. 1971=No.; ‘31134 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, D. C, BRIAND IS CALLED BY FRANCE T0PLCK NEW PARS CABINET an “Maker of Ministries” to | Form His Twelfth. Doumergue Summons Veter-! | | STATESMAN TAKES POST KNOWING DIFFICULTIES Hopes for Peaceful Europe Bright- en as Conciliator Takes Control. | . Br Radio (0 The Star. | PARIS, July 27.—Aristide Briand. foreign minister of France, at 7 o'clock | tonight accepted the commission ten- dered him by President Gaston Dou- | mergue to form his twelfth govern- ment At noon the Poincare cabinet in body had submitted its resignation to the President of the republic after Premier Raymond Poincare himself had made it clear that his decision of last night to | withdraw from office because of his serious illness was irrevocable. President Doumergue summoned M. Briand, veteran maker of cabinets, to the Elysee Palace tonight, after con- versations he had held throughout the day with political leaders of every shade of opinion indicated their almost unanimous demand that the man who | 10 times before had directed the affairs | of the French nation should again take | the helm. | Despite this unanimity as to who should be premier. the political situa- tion tonight is seen in A more serious light than was the case when M. Poin- care first made it clear last night that his illness would force him to resign. Briand May Look to Left. It was at first believed that M. Briand, recognized immediately as the only logical man to succeed his stricken chief, would form a government as nearly as possible like that which end-~ ed its term this morning. But it now appears that the premier-to-be will look for support in the Chamber of Deputies farther to the Left, with a view to hav- ing backing which he cannot otherwise obtain for his far-reaching program of foreign policy. including acceptance of the Young plan, evacuation of the Rhineland and a Franco-German en- tente as a first step toward a “United States of Europe.” In fact, almost the sole care of M. Briand in choosing his associates will be to build a governmental machine | which will back him as a unit through- out the forthcoming intergovernmental conference at the Hague, which, in M. Briand's own words, is to have as ite purpose the “liquidation of war." To secure this backing M. Briand is | virtually under the necessity of bringing | Radicals and Radical Socialists into the | government, a move which almost eer- tainly will ‘mean the alienation of a considerable chare of the members of | the Republican-Democratic Union, or Marin group, the bulwark of the gov- | ernment that ratified the debt accords. | Radicals Favor Evacuation. Th> great majority of the Marin R|roup oppose evacuation of the Rhine- land. ‘The Radical Socialists are solid for evacuation. Thus M. Briand per- haps will be under the hard necessity of turning his back on the Deputies who, against their will, supported the most recent government in its battle for debt ratification, in order to find in the ranks of those who voted against rati- fication adherents for his liberal inter- national program—a program calculated to wipe out the stains of the last war | and make a new one impossible. It is not unlikely, however, that M. | Briand will find some of the Marin group willing to go with him in foreign | policy. and if such proves to be the case. it is possible that one or two of itz members may work in the cabinet with members drawn from the ranks of the Radical Socialists. In any case it is generally conceded that M. Briand is faced with a difficult situation, and it is probable that he will not. complete the selection of his asso- | ciates hefore Monday or Tuesday. Queried as he left the Ely: ghortly after 7 o'clock tonig £ald: “The President of the Republic | has asked me to form a government, | and although the situation is difficult, | T could not see my way clear to refuse. 1 accepted the task.” - Briand Calls On Poincare. When the cabinet, last night, re-| ceived M. Poincare’s letter announcing his decision to resign. it named M. Briend and Louis Barthou, minister of justice. as a committee of two to wait upon the premier with a view to trying to persuade him to continue as nommal head of the government, while his aides took upon themselves the actual charge of the country's affairs. M. Briand and Barthou called at the sick nian’s home before 10 o'clock this morning and conversed with their chief more than 20 minutes. They called his attention to other cases where heads of governments and foreign ministers had taken long periods of repose, while | holding their_position, but all in vain. | M. Poincare had decided, and declined to change his decision. M. Briand made it clear tonight that when he goes before the Chamber of | Deputies next week to present his pros- | pective government, he will demand a | big majority vote, giving full authority | to the French delegation to The Hague | conference to represent the interests of country. M. Briand himself will head | the delegation. At 10:30 o‘clock this | morning the cabinet, with President | Doumergue in the chair, convened and heard the report of Foreign Minister | Briand and Minister of Justice Bar- thou. They made it clear that there was no chance whatever that M. Poin- care would change his decision. The cabinet then drew up the following let- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) | Crane Creek Lumber ‘Co. burned. | blazing sun, cloudless skies and furnace- 120-Foot Dive Made From Key Bridge for Bantering $3 Wager Charles E. Fenwood, 32 years old, who claims to be something of a high diver, did a 120-foot dive from the center arch of Key Bridge last night and collected at the rate of 21, cents per foot. After Capt. Willlam T. Rey- nolds of 3400 K street, a veteran river man, pulled Fenwood out of water, gave him first aid and took him to Georgetown Hospital, policemen of the Seventh Pre- cinct learned that Fenwood had climaxed an argument by taking the leap. It seemed that some body doubted his ability to make the dive and when a skeptic put up the $3, Fenwood was willing to bet, he left-the rail. Several persons testified that he left the rail head first, but there was no one to say how he landed. Reynolds turned Fenwood over to Dr. W. H. Beattie at the hospital and after an examination he was permitted to leave for home ap- parently unhurt. | FLAMES THREATEN U. 3. TIMBERLANDS Reports to Forest Service Describe Worst Fire Menace of Year. By the Associated Press. | Telegrams arriving vesterday at. the | United States Forest Service told of the worst forest fire situation of the | year. From California. from the Northwest, from Minnesota, came reports of low | humidity, hot winds, high tempera- tures—fire weather. | Other reports to Agriculture and; Weather Bureau officials have indicated unusual drought conditions and hot weather in portions of continental Eu- rope, England, Southern China, Aus- tralia, Argentina, Western Canada and also in parts of the Northwestern, Central and New England States. Fires Now Being Fought. Twenty-five miles from Alturas, Calif., 300 men were reported fighting a fire which started July 23 in the Modoc Forest. Already it has swept over 5,000 acres of timberland and 3,000 acres of brush land, destroying approximately 50,000,000 board feet of lumber. Ail buildings except the main mill of the | The San Bernardino National Forest | n Southern California also has suf- | fered severely. Fires that started July ! 13, and which still flare fitfully in | canyon pockets, burned two huge areas. Centering in Santa Ana Canyon, one fire burned over 4,000 acres of brush land, destroying important water shed | protection. The second fire, in Cherry | | Canyon, burned 3,000 acres of brush. | and destroyed the barn and tool house of the Barker Bench Ranger Statfen., | High Winds Spread Flames, | District Forester E. W. Tinker of Milwaukee is in personal command of the firefighting campaign in Superior National Forest, near Brule Lake. A breath winds aided the leaping flames. A weather report “continued hot and cloudless” promised little Sunday respite. Twenty forest fires have flamed in ‘Washington, Idaho and Montana tim- ber lands. Sped onward by high winds, they crossed fire lines, destroying tim- ber and brush on large acreages. Most widespread damage in this section was near Hartford, Wash, where 11,000 acres were burned. Forest Service statistics show that approximately 90 per cent of the forest fires are man caused, and that carcless- ness is the chief fire factor. Once started, however, the damage bears a direct relationship to wind, temperature, humidity, inflammability | of forest materials, amount of mnlsw ture in the duff or litter on the forest floor. With a “duff hydrometer” this | moisture is /measured. Given these | factors, forecasts of fire danger can be | made at least 24 hours in advance, per- mitting the Forest Service to strengthen its guard at danger points. Pire-weather stations already are functioning in, New England, New York, | Portland, Oreg.. and Berkeley, Calif. St. | Paul, Minn., has an experimental sta- | tion, and on its findings a future serv- | ice will be based. Experimental sta- | tions are also being established in other sections of the country as fast as funds will permit, with a view toward an eventual Nation-wide service. BLAZE 1S UNDER CONTROL. in Superior National Forest Is Checked by 350 Fighters. GRAND MARAIS, Minn., July 27 (). —Forest fires burning in the Superior National forest in the vicinity of Brule Lake since last Monday, today were reported under control. Three hun-' dred and fifty men were holding the fires from spreading. It was reported the fire, which had burned over about 1,000 acres, was not running and was burn- ing slowly. Pumps are being used by fire fighters, while an airplane piloted by J. Davidson, Ely. Minn,, is being used to locate new outbreaks. MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO RETURN CHURCHES| States Are Ordered to Turn Over All Buildings and Property, to Federal Department. By ‘the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 27.—The de- partment of interior today instructad governors of all states to return to the federal government such church prop- erty, buildings and the like now in state use so that it may be returned to the church. Many municipal and state governments converted various church buildings into schools during their pe- riod of disuse by the clergy. Fire WILLIAM HAMILTON BONES, TIRED OF IMMIGRATION BAN, SAILS AWAY Pet Goat of Secretary Stimson Departs for Unnamed Port in By the Associated Press. william Hamilton Bones is lost. The pet goat, in which Secretary Stimson shares # paicrnal Capt. Eugene A. Reclgner, his military | aide while he was governor general of the Philippines, was last aboard a ship bound out of San Fran- cizco, leaving behind the country which refused him admission as an 'v undesirable alien goat. | Pacific. ‘Those close to the Secretary said yesterday that Willlam Hamilton Bones apparently lost patience with authori- 1 interest with | ties at San Francisco in charge of goat | July 27 immigration, who denied him admis- slon because of a quarantine on his roported | kind. and is returhing to his native 18-foot walrus skin boat. Hawalian or Philippine haunts. Who is responsible for his trip or exactly where he is known, however, | over having conquered | plane | 1orced down this morning, but this ap- | is expected to be a record crowd to- “ROBIN” STARTING THIRD WEEK, WANTS RECORD TO STAND Flyers “Apologize” to St. Louis Crowds and Say They Intend to Stay Up a While. ENGINE CONTINUES TO WORK SMOOTHLY| Texans, Forced Down After 233 Hours, Plan to Try for En- durance Mark Again. By the Associated Press. « H ST. LOUIS, July 27.—Still resolved | to fiy their monoplane St. Louis Robin until the motor quits, Dale (Red) Jack- son and Forest O'Brine tonight were nearing the close of their fifteenth day in the air, and the motor was showing no signs of “giving In.” At 10:17 p.m. (Central standard time) they been up 351 hours. The flyers were somewhat jubilant their nearest the Houston (Tex.) endu Billion-Dollar City, which rival, oo peared to spur them on rather than to tempt them to land. Great Crowd at Airport. One of the largest crowds that has gathered at Lambert-St. Louis Field since the fiyers broke the record of the Angeleno last Tuesday, watched the plane circle gracefully above the air- port tonight. ~ Special traffic and poli ing arrangements were made for what mortow. If they are still up tomorrow, it will be the third Sunday for Jackson and O'Brine in the air above the field. In a note addressed to newspaper reporters, dropped from the plane to- day, the flyers said: “We are sorry we are keeping the people of St. Louis waiting so long, but we are trying to put the record where’ the people of St. Louis will be proud | of it for some time—same as the Spirit | of St. Louis, which will always stand. | May your patience be fully rewarded.” | Wish Better Luck to Texans. Earlier in the day they had dropped a telegram for forwarding to Glenn [ | Loomis and Joe Glass, pilots of the Houston, Tex., plane, in which they sald: “Sorry you were forced down,” and wished the Texans “better luck next time.” Jackson and O'Brine declared that the . air-cooled motor in the St. Louis Robin s “running just as good as the day we took off.” and were confident they would be able to complete the third week In the air which they started today The flight. sponsored by the Curtiss- Robertson Afrplane Manufacturing Co. of St. Louis, started two weeks ago this morning as a test for the engine, No goal was set by the company. The earnings of the fiyers was rap- idly mounting toward the $15,000 mark tonight. Their compensation, which started after they broke the record, is piling up at the rate of $116 between them for each hour they remain aloft. This is in addition to hundreds of presents donated by St. Louisans. Yet Have “Competition.” Swooping low over the fleld late to- day, indicating their high spirits, the fiyers dropped a note to the refueling crew which made it plain Jackson and O'Brine are aware there is still compe- tition in the air, “Shorty, send up some gas—about 100 gallons and some oil Too bad about Houston, but we still have one left—old Minnesota. Those Swedes will sure stick. We need some more paper, t00,” sald the note. Three other notes were dropped, but WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION HE EXPECTS SURVEY 10 SAVE MILLIONS | i Lamont Predicts Distribution‘1 Census’ Results in Radio : Forum Address. ‘ A saving of millions of dollars was predicted iast night by Secretary of | Commerce Robert P. Lamont as the | result of the nation-wide census of distribution which will be taken next | year with the decennial census of | population. Secretary Lamont and Frederick M. | Peiker of New York, whom the Secre- {tary appointed as chairman of an ad- { visory committes to assist in preparing | 4or the distribution census. presented | lluminating discussions of t| impor- !tant work in radio addresses in the | National Radio Forum; afranged by | The Star and broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting 8ystem's coast- to-coast network through station WMAL, | Vivid Picture to Be Obtained. i Describing the survey as a “pioneer- ing venture in the determination of economic truth,” the Commerce Sec- retary explained that it will be the first ! time such a study has ever been at- i tempted. “We shall obtain a vivid picture of the ways in which merchandise moves in our American business system,” he sald. “The eventual result promises to be the elimination of countless wasteful practices in distribution— crude, inept, prodigal practices lhntl now levy a toll of millions of dollars | annually on_ the purses of our people.” | | | | “One of the reasons why we have i not made more progress in increasing | SUNDAY MORNING, CAPITOL HILL INDURANCE JULY 28, 1929-124¢ PAGES. Sunday Star, » FLIGHT. Boy Tries to Take Pound of Flesh as Payment of Debt By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 27. Hanby Boyd, 13, had been rea ing “The Merchant of Venice, and when Charles May, 16, re- fused to pay back a 35-cent loan, he remembered Shylock's con- tract. Young May said the Boyd boy declared if he did not receive the money, he would take a pound of flesh. The debtor did not have the cash. Nelghbors said young Boyd whipped out a pocket knife and commenced cutting May. The boys were separated. the debtor going to the receiving hospital, and Shakespeare's young reader to the police station, where a charge of suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon was filed against him. NEW PAN-AMERICAN AIR ROUTE FORMED Chief Southern Cities Linked With U. S. Pickwick Organization. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, July 27.—Establishment of a system of air transport lines by the Pickwick Airways, Inc., of Los Angeles, Calif., connecting every large city in Mexico and Central America with the United States, was announced today by the Ryan Aircraft Corporation, follow= ing receipt of an order for six Ryan broughem planes for use on the lines. The new service js to be inaugurated | their contents were not made public. | the efficiency of distribution,” Mr, La- | August 1. according to the annouhce- | One went to Mrs. “Ma” Jackson, Red’s | mont sald, “is the fact that we possess | ment. The transport lines are to carry mother, another to his wife, and the third to “the red headed bus driver for the Universal,” a pal of Jackson's. Experts at the fleld who listened to the “pop-pop-pop” of the motor as the plane swung almost within speaking distance of the several thousand gath- ered to cheer the flyers on, said the motor sounded ‘“‘perfectly.” TEXANS TO TRY AGAIN. Loomis and Glass, Forced Out by Motor, to Make Third Attempt. HOUSTON, Tex., July 27 (#).—Two Houston flyers, untired by nearly 10 days in the air, ended their attempt to better the refueling endurance flight record of the St. Louis Robin today when motor_trouble forced down their monoplane, Billion Dollar City. The motor went dead as the result of a connecting rod wrist pin working loose and damaging a cylinder. Black smoke belched from the plane when the motor stopped, leading observers on the ground to fear for a moment that the ship had caught fire. Joe Glass, who was at the controls, brough® the plane down in a faltering glide to an easy landing. ‘The Billion Dollar City had been aloft 233 hcurs and 12 seconds, this time having b2en exceeded only by the St. Louis Robin and the California en- durance plane Angeleno. Glenn L. Loomis, co-pllot, was tak- ing a nap when the motor stopped. The sudden silence brought him to his feet. The twice downed endurance fiyers | will make a third try for a world record | within two weeks. They plan to use thelr same _ Stinson-Detroiter plane, the Billion Dollar City, but & new motor will be installed. “The third time,” they agreed, “must be a_charm.” A few hours after being forced down foday they were in conference with their backer, Harry Stewart, talking over plans for the third attempt. MINNESOTANS START 6TH DAY. Haughland and Crichton Have Com- pleted 120 Hours, LIS, Minn., July 27 (#).— MINNEAPO] The sixth day of their endurance refuel- | Organ! ing flight was begn tonight by Owen H:u :&lnd and pt. P. L. Crichton in the monoplane the Minnesote. They went up at 6:40 p.m. last Monday and at that time tonight had completed 120 hours of fiying. e TRAVELS IN 16-FOOT BOAT. Californian Is Trying to Reach New York in Craft. PRINCE RUPERT, Britith Columbia, P)—A. L. Voight of Los Angeles arrived here today traveling from Juneau, Alaska, to New York in a He expects the voyage will occupy a year. Voight left Juneau on June 26, and 8 was not: with good luck feels he will reach Vancouver withla two weeks. mono- | relatively little comprehensive informa- { tion about the movement of commodi- | thes.” | Secretary Lamont called attention to | | the interest business has displayed in | the distribution census, and pointed out that the idea did not proceed solely | from the officials of the Department of Commerce. “The need for it has long been realized by many prominent manu- " (Continued on Page 4, Col | JOHN F. A. STRONG DIES. Governor ol‘;Alnka From 1913 to 1918 Expires at 69. SEATTLE, Wash., July 27 (#).—John F. A. Strong, governor of Alaska from 1913 to 1918, died here suddenly to- night from a heart attack. He was 60 years of age. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—30 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. PART TWO--8 PAGES. Editorial_Section—Editorials and FEdi- torial Features. | Review of New Books—Page 4. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Soclety. PART FOUR—16 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Music. | In the Motor World—Page 4. i Aviation Activities—Page 8. | Model Aircraft—Page 9. Fraternities—Page 10, Veterans of the Great War—Page 12. Marine Corps News—Page 12, Y. W. C. A, News—Page 13, News of the Clubs—Page 13. At Community Centers—Page 13. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 13. Serial Story, “For the Love of a Lady"— ml:h‘:v Veterans—]I ) ar_ Ve District Page and Screen -Page 14. 2( Columbia Naval Reserve— 14. ized Reserves—I 14. m:gd“_mvg.:x‘ 1 i e 2 District National Guard Notes—Page 16. PART FIVE—10 PAGES. Sports and Financial. ‘. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Club Women of the Nation—Page 8. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. zine Section. Mm—ward Puzzle—Page 20. GRAVURE SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Mullins; Mutt and_Jeff: Reg'lar M‘;':l‘lar-; Mr. and Mrs.; Orphan Annie: Betty: Somebody's Stenog; Lights of History. t | i temple in his studio today. mail, passengers and express. It is planned to purchase 10 more planes within the next few weeks. ‘The mail line will run from Los An- geles to Guatemala City, a distance of approximately 2,700 miles, with exten- sion later to Salvador and Panama. It will be the longest air line on the Amer- ican continent. A connecting line also is to be established from Nogales, Ariz., to Salt Lake City, to connect with other transpgrt lines. | Operating contract has been made | with the Guatemalan and Mexican gov- ernments. It is planned to make the extensions to Panama and Salvador within a month. ‘The schedule drawn calls for planes to leave Los Angeles on Mondays, Wed- nesdays and Fridays, stopping at Tia Juana, Mexicali, Nogales, Hermosillo, Guaymas, Mazatlan, Tepic, Guadala- Jjara, Morelia, and Mexico City. The trip to Guatemala will be resumed the next day. Planes leaving Los Angeles carly in the morning will arrive in Mex- ico City the next afternoon. Pickwick Airways, a holding company, has a subscribed capital of $3,000,000. It is a subsidiary of the Pickwick Co., Which operates bus lines in the West. | WOES OF MARRIED LIFE | DETAILED BY SUICIDE| — | I Chicago Art Photographer Drinks Poison and Shoots Self After Writing Letter. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 27.—Despondent over two shattered romances, James | Wallace Pondelicek, prominent art photographer, detailed his unhappiness in a seven-page letter, drank a quantity of poison and shot himself in the right In_ his letter he bitterly excoriated his first wife and lamented the failure of his second marriage. He said he was unable to silence his love for his sec- ond wife. Both of his wives had been his models. an;e mflrsz wife, Mrs. Beulemngl‘u nderlicek, whose figure, e ghqlotrlnhlc art studios, ght her usband fame, won a divorce in Au- 50 the’ day it decros ‘wai granted y was Pondelicek married Miss. Mabel Ellis granted a divorce on a of cruelty, April 24, 1929. ot BUCHAREST MAY BE PORT. Bill to Connect City With Sea by Danube Is Urged. BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 27 (®). —A bill was presented to Parliament today to transform Bucharest into an inland sea at a cost of about $10,- 000,000. 'ork would begin shortly on construction of a navigable canal to connect the capital ‘with the Danube River, 40 miles away, HOOVER, AT CANP, * WEEHS ARMY CUT {War Department Officials | | Confer on Appointment of | ! Special Board. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Va.. July 27.—The moun- | tain fastness of President Hoover's fish- ing preserve was the scene today of a series of conferences which may have | a far-reaching effect upon America’s ex- = Lz {aver the attitude of the grain men to- penditures for national defense. Determined to reduce the mounting cost of Army maintenance, with a re- | sulting saving in Federal disbursements | that can be applied to tax reductions, { the Chief Executive went into a de- | tailed study of the situation with Sec- | retary Good and other high War De- | partment officials who were his week end guests. The group included Assistant Secre- | taries P. Trubee Davison, and Patrick J. Hurley, Gen. Charles P. Summerall. chief of staff, and Col. Campbell Hodges, the President’'s military aide. Others in the party were Secretary Wilbur of the Interior Department, George Akerson, the President's sec- retary. and Lieut. Comdr. Joel T. Boone, the White House physician. Take Time to Play. Although some time was devoted to diversion, horseback riding and horse- shoe pitching, more time was spent in work than in play. The occasion offered Mr. Hoover his first opportunity for a oconcentrated attack upon the problem. The first step was consideration of | the personnel of the commission of Y, T leading general staff officers, which ( the President early in the week said | would inquire into the possibility of cutting down military expenses. The names discussed were not dis-| closed. However, Mr. Hoover is anxious | that the committee begin functioning | at an early date and it was thought that as a result of the week end con- | ferences Secretary Good might an- nounce the commission next week. McCoy Mentioned. Brig. Gen. Frank R. McCoy has been prominently mentioned for chairman- ship of the commission and it was in- dicated that he may be given, if not this assignment, at least a place on ! |BRITISH LIQUOR CARGO the board. McCoy. who has had a distinguished Army career, is to be- come major general early in September. He supervised the Nicaraguan elections last Fall and at one time President Hoover had him under consideration to be governor general of the Philippines. At present McCoy is serving as chair- man of the commission arbitrating the Bolivia-Paraguay dispute. He is not a member of the general staff but is eligible for appointment to it, and such an appointment is expected in some quarters after conclusion of the arbitral work in the near future. The military survey will be made with a view to determining what serv- ices have been made obsolete by sclentific advancement and can be abandoned, and whether some Army programs can be extended over a longer period than originally intended, with the entire inquiry pointed toward main- :{‘:‘f‘l‘:{: a completely adequate national ST. LOUIS Z00 AWAITS MONKEY ON ZEPPELIN; Trained Chimpanzee, Passenger on Last Flight of Dirigible to Be Brought Over. By the Associated Prers. ST. LOUIS, July 27.—When the Graf Zeppelin, glant German dirigible, leaves Germany for the United States next Thursday or Friday it will carry a trained chimpanzee, boufid for the St. Louis Zoo. Park Commissioner Pape today received a telegram advising St. Louis Zoo officials the animal, pur- chased in Europe for $700, would be on board. The chimpanzee was a passen- ger on the last flight the Graf Zeppelin undertook when the dirigible was forced to turn back.: oiiicilie, MACHADO COMMENDED. Cuban Sugar Men Praise Presi- dent’s Sales Measure. HAVANA, July 27 (#)—Representa- tives of all Cuban ‘sugar associations today met and drafted a note of com- mendation on President Machado’s signing yesterday of a decree establish- ing a_co-operative exports agency to control foreign sales of sugar. The note assured that Cuban sugar interests will co-operate. Request was “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every a Sunday morning to Wi ”mhzl:t:nb! ‘The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone Main 5000 to start immediate delivery. | board ) Mea FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS RAIN MARKETING GROUP 1S NAMED BY FARM BOARD 16 Representatives of Indus- try to Form $10,000,000 National Corporation. G MARKS FIRST BIG STEP IN TACKLING PROBLEMS Central Distribution Facilities to Be Built for Co-operatives and Farmer-Owned Channels. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 27.—Under the zuiding hand of the F gral Farm Board, the nucleus of wh ¥ is antci- pated to become a $20,000,000 gram marketing corporation was formed h W today. The nucleus is & committee of 16 representative grain men, selected from among more than 50 who have attended the sessions of the Farm Board here during the last two days, at the board's invitation. Will Meet August 26. ‘This committee will hold its first meeting in Chicago, August 26, and Corporation, with an authorized capital stock of $10,000,000, which will be in- creased ultimately to $20,000,000 through the instrumentality of stock dividends. Stockholders in the new corporation will be co-operative marketing associa- tions, elevator companies or farmer- owned sales agencies at central markets, on the basis of one share of stock for each member. Individual farmers also will be permitted to purchase one share of stock each, Par value of the shares will be $20. Organization by the grain interests of the Farmers National Grain Cor- poration will mark the first actual step taken by the newly created Farm Board to solve the farmers’ marketing problems. Other similar corporations are ex- pected to be organized later to deal with other commodities. Held Best Way to Stabilization. Plan for the new grain corporation | was submitted te the grain men by the as the most feasible means of stabllizing prices. Members of the board expressed themselves as gratified ward the suggestion, and over its ready adoption. dent of the Indiana Farm Bureau Fed- eration, 1s chairman of the committee representing the Central States wheat pools. _The other members include George Duis, Grand Forks, N. Dak., represent- ing the Northwest podils; Ernest Downie, Wichita. Kans., and John Manley, Enid, Okla.. representing the Southwest, pools: M. W. Thatcher, St. Paul, Minn., and H. G. Keeney, Omaha, Nebr., rep- resenting the Formers’ Union commis- slon agencies; S. J. Cottington, Stan- hope, lowa. representing the National Farmers’ Elevator Grain Co.; L. . Webb, Jetmore, Kans., representing the Farmers’ Co-operative Commission Cc. of. Hutchinson and Witchita, Kans.; E. M. McCollum, Indianapolis, Ind., repre- senting Ohio, Indiana and Michigan farmers’ elevator associations; Lawrence Farlow, Bloomington, Ill., representing Illinois and Iowa farmers’ elevator as- sociations; F. H. Sloan, Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and P. A. Lee, Grand Forks, N. Dak., representing Montana, North Da- kota, Minnesota and South Dakota farmers’ elevator associations; S. H. Thompson, Chicago, representing the American Farm Bureau Federation: . J. Tabor, Columbus, Ohlo, representing the Grange: C. E. Huff, Salina, Kans, Tepresenting the National Farmers Union, and J. J. Knight, Kansas City, gfli' representing the Farmers' Equity nion. Settle Is Jubilant. Chairman Settle of the committee { was jubilant_over the great step for- | ward which he considers the proj | organization of the marketing cor; | tion to_represent for agriculture. (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) CAPTURED OFF FLORIDA 76-Foot Boat, Carrying 2,500 Cases, Taken by Coast Guard at Fernandina. By the Associated Press. FERNANDINA, Fla., July 27.—Coast Guard officials here tonight announced the capture of the 76-foot British boat Betty and Billy, laden with approxi- mately 2,500 cases of liquor, inside Hetzell Buoy, situated just at the 12- mile limit, about 80 miles south of Fernandina Bar. The British craft was brought here and is being held under guard. Coast Guard officials said, pend- ing decision of special investigating agents of the Treasury Department as to its disposition. The liquor was not molested, Coast Guard officials said, and none of the three men aboard was arrested. The British boat, whose home port was given as Nassau, Bahamas, was captured inside Hetzell Buoy late yes- terday by Coast Guard boat 117, in icharge of Chief Boatswain's Mate M Anderson, Coast Guard base officiais here said. organize the Farmers National Grain | William Settle of Indianapolis, presi- of s_Associated Press. |TE CENTS ELSEWHERE PRESENT NOVES TOBPEDTECAL OFARMS MEETIG Hoover Confident Congress Will Not Interfere in Reduction Plans. | | PARTY LINES DROPPED IN CRUISER ALIGNMENT Gibson Goes to London to Aid | Dawes in Negotiations With MacDonald. | Confident that Congress will not hamper his naval reduction negotia- tions, despite dispute over his post- ponement of cruiser construction, Presi- dent Hoover is trving to expedite steps for the disarmament conference, not only to maintain the momentum of the world peace movement, but alto to simplify his problem at home. Several Democrats and insurgent Re- | publicans were among Senators rallying to his support vesterday against the big Navy group, as Hugh S. Gibson, Ameri- can Ambassador to Belgium and chief American delegate at. recent disarma- ment conferences, was authorized to |return to London to rejoin Charles G. Dawes, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James. in preparations for | & further conference. It was learned also that the Presi- dent personally is applying his enginecr mind to the task of trying to evolve the all-important vardstick of equivalent values by which it is hoped to establish parity between the American and Brit- ish navies and proceed to reduce pro- portionately all the principal navies cf | the world. Studies vy Facts. Navy officers said the President has | called for all available technical data (on the naval strength of all nations and, with great charts and diagrams before him. is devoting hours at a time | to the problem of working out his own theory. The theory was broached to the re- cent Geneva conference of the League of Nations' preparatory commission by Ambassador Gibson. Since previous at- tempts to agree on reduction or limita- tion with tonnage displacement as tie principal basis have failed, the Presi- | dent is firmly convinced that the ability the next conference to break the deadlock lies largely in the development of a satisfactory formuls for taking into account the age, speed. cruising radius and gun caliber and elevation and vari- ous other factors of warships, in addi- tion to tonnage. With the big Navy group shallenging the President’s right to hold up three of | the five cruisers in the 15-cruiser pro- | gram that were to have been laid down |this Fall, Senator Willlam H. King, Democrat of Utah, Senator Smith W. | Brookhart of Towa and Senator William | E. Borah of Idaho, Republicans; issued E. | statements upholding the President’s | hand. | McNuit Criticized. Senator Brookhart also sharply criti- cized the opposition to the plan voiced by Paul V. McNutt, commander of the American Legion. Senator King reiterated his proposal to introduce a resolution sustaining Mr. Hoover's course, if necessary, declared that the importance of parity in British-American naval discussions was being very much over-emphasized, that Britain's special needs considering her far-flung possessions, should be recog- nized, and that the United States now has the most powerful navy in the | world, despite the crulser disparity be- tween our Navy and Britain's. “This republic, which should be the moral leader of the world. and the | apostle of peace. is spending more for | military preparations than any country in the world,” Senator King said. “Its miltary appropriation for the current year was more than $800,000.000, and if the plans of the Army and Navy de- partments are carried into effect. there will be annual increases for an indefi- nite period of time. U. S. Most Powerful. “The statement of Ramsav Mac- | Donald indicates that Great Britain is | anxious to join with the United States, as well as with all other nations. for | the purpose of relieving the people of tie heavy burdens resulting from pres- ent military policies. That the Labor government of Great Britain is acting in good faith. no one can deny; the United States should earnestly co- operate with it in reducing naval arma- ments. The demands recently made by the Navy Department of the United States for 71 additional naval vessels are not in consonance with the vocifer- ous claims so often heard, that this republic is not militaristic, or desirous of world hegemony. We now have the most powerful Navy in the world. Our capital ships are superior to those of Great Britain, and in every other form of fighting craft save one our Navy is superior to that of Great Britain. In | cruiser strength we are inferior to Great | Britain, but many of her cruisers are old and soon will be obsolete.” | _Senator David 1. Walsh of Massa- chusetts and Senator Pat Harrison, | other leading Democratic Senators, | have already lined up behind the | President. All of this group were | aligned ed against the President in his (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ° IN CAM BY RUSSELL OWEN. Wireless to The Star and the New York ‘Times. LMTLE AMERICA, Antarctia, July 26.—This is the worst day we have so far as temperature and wind are con- cerned. Severe celd on a calm day can be withst for & long time, but when the wind blows and the thermometer stays down, which is unusual, one can- not stay outdoors for any length of ‘!‘l.rl;et ;mouz danger of getting badly n. ‘The thermometer registers nearly 67 below zero today and the wind has been strong enough to whip up the drift snow. The wind is also from the south- west, which is & cold quarter. Usually when the wind blows hard made that small sugar cane growers be | the temperature rises; but there are ex- given répresentation in the sugar ex- |ceptions to this rule and today is one ports agency as well as a voice in the’of the Cuban Sugar Exporting Commission. It ¥ exceptions. is hkfi clear and when the light THERMOMETER HITS 67 BELOW P ON ANTARCTIC WASTE Byrd Expedition Feels Wrath of Polar Winter—Puppies Play Oblivious of Cold. was strongest during the day, it illumi- nated a grim landscape. To the south the sky was gray and red and clouds hung low in the northeast;, the had | barrier was a dull and forbidding gray the surface. was a thin n was a with snow w] J But in the north the sky green color and on the m?{:r smudge of fidhughh o pupples, which seem tougher than any other animals in the world as they have known no other existence than this cold life, were playing about as happily as ever. ‘They roiled and jumped about more, perhaps to keep warm, but they could still curl up in a sheitered spot and go to sleep. Their resistance to cold is | astonishing for they never sleep in the | tunnels if they can avoid it. (Copyright. 1929. by the New York Times Co. 30d the S¢. Louis Poat-Dispaich. ~All rights for publication reserved " throushout the