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(U. 8. Weather Bureau Poreca: Fair tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness; probably rain at night or ‘Thursday; not much change in tempera- ture. jperatures: Highest, , at 4:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 53, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 11. Clgsing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 <, © Entered as second class matter No. 31,192, (5 oice "Washington, D. C. 3% WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Sta el “From Press to Home Wit hin the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the pap * ers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,366 ¥ () Mezns Associated Press. TWO CENTS. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1929 _FORTY-FOUR PAGES. Nobody Saw Drunk Driver, So He’s Free Despite Admission SUBSTANTIAL TAX REDUCTION IS SEEN FOR COMING YEAR Experts Will Begin Study Next Week to Determine How Much Cut Will Be. By the Associated Pi AMARILLO, Tex., September 24.—Haled into court here for driving a motor car while intoxi- cated, Johnny Brown admitted he was so drunk he did not whether he was driving or ing, but he went free because no one appeared to testify against him. Under the Texas law evi- dence must be presented to cor- roborate a plea of guilty. The State couldn’t find a witness who saw Brown driving and the jury was obliged to acquit him. ALLEN FACES JURY INMPHERSON CASE Suspended Policeman Feels | Reception of Murder Theory Is Unfriendly. COLLECTIONS DURING 1929 EXCEED THOSE OF 1928 Recommendation to Be Made When Regular Session Meets in December. By the Associated Press. A substantial reduction in taxes, fa- vored by President Hoover, will be rec- ommiended to the regular sessions of | Congress next December by the Treas- | ury, to become effective next March 15, but just what form the reduction will take has not been determined. = L A it Vi v v een conducting a lone investigation It was l!lrl:l?d today at the Tr?uull) ;mm the death of Mrs. Virghia that the Government financial condi-{ycpherson, said that he was surround- tion in prospect for the coming yvear ed “by a circle of unfriendly faces” is regarded as warranting a slash in|and does pot believe that he has'much Questioned for three hours before the !grand jury today Policeman R. J. Allen, suspended yesterday, who has taxes, and with this in view, experts will start work within a week to de- termine how much of a cut can be made and how it will be distributed. Basis for Reduction. The financial officials who have watched the Government revenue this which at the close of business mber 20, exceeded the collections for the first two and a half months of the last fiscal year by $118.936 480, pointed to continued prosperity and large income tax collections as the pase upon which the tax reduction would be made. Since July 1. the total Government fncome has’ amounted to $921,237,506, while the income tax collections for the calendar year 1928 have totaled. up to September 20, approximately $1.800,- 000.000, an increase over the same period of the previous year of approximately £271,000.000. In addition, the Treasury expects to collect approximately $500,- 000.000 income tax when the December payments are made. With continued business prosperity experts feel that income taxes will keep on mounting and equal, if not pass, those of the last year. It has been the experience of the Government that each time taxes have been reduced, collec- tions have been substantially increased through withdrawal of funds from tax- exempt securities and their investment in other lines. Cut to Be Large. ‘While not predicting that the pro- spective tax cut to be proposed in De cem would be of the $300,000,000 variety, officials said it would be large 2= present, indications are that the Go\ ernment will end the fiscal year June 30 with a surplus of more than $200,- 000,000, as compared with $184,000,000 last year. The income payments, which changed 8 predicted Government deficit intc a surplus last year, are counted on to continue high when the returns for this calendar year are received next March. Last March the income tax receipts amounted to $601,363,804. The June payments totaled $555,256,508 and the September payments up to Septcm- ber 20 have aggregated $491628,627, with 10 days yet to be reported. Treasury officials in proposing tax | reductions for many years figured that the Government must have a margin of at least $100,000,000 between income and expenditures. This opinion has been changed in recent years, however. and officials have expressed the belief that a smaller margin was safe. Doubt Serious Effect. The tax reduction proposal will be influenced to some extent by appro- priations to be made by Congress, but officials deem it unlikely that these ap- propriations will e a serious effect. A reduction in the tax on earned incomes is regarded as likely to be one of the principal proposals of the pro- gram. The Treasury has not yet com- mitted itself upon that phase, but Sec- retary Mellon in the past Has said he was in sympathy with lowered rates on earned income. The extent of the proposed tax re- duction cannot be definitely determined by the Treasury until experts have studied the corporation returns for the third quarter of 1928, which will be received in October. Only after these retyrns are in can a fair prediction be made of tax receipts next year on the assumption that the present business prosperity will continue. Tax reductions since 1921 have al- ready cut approximately $1,826,000,000 off the tax bill of the Nation. These reductions were made in the revenue act of 1921, $663,000,000; 1924, $519.- 000,000; 1926, $442,000,000; 1928, $222,- 000,000, i PLANE ALOFT 105 HOURS. Indianapolis Flamingo Must Stay Up Until Oct. 7 for New Record. INDIANAPOLIS, September 24 (). — The endurance flight of Lieuts. Walter Peck and Lawrence Genaro in the In- dianapolis Fiamingo continued today, and at 9 am. the aviators had been aloft 105 hours. The fiyers took off ‘at 12:04 am. Fri- day, September 20. To break the rec- crd established by Forest O'Brine and Dale Jackson in the St. Louis Robin the Flamingo must continue its air cruse until 1:25:30 p.m. Monday, Oc- tober 7. hope of convincing the tribunal that his murder theory is correct. | After this morning's investigation Al- | len said. “I believe that I am through | and there is not much hope.” Allen came out of the jury room at 2 o'clock_and Wilmer C. Ruff. manager | !of the Park Lane Apartment, where | Mrs. McPherson died, was called. Unit- jed States Attorney Rover announced | that Allen would be permitted to remain | in the jury room and suggest questions to Assistant United States Attorney Col- | lins, ~vho is conducting the examination. | " Allen was the only one questioned by | the grand jury this morning, although | approximately 50 other witnesses are to | be heard. In view of the number of witnesses who are to appear the cpinion | was expressed at the ccurt house that | the investigation might last for day: Alien, who was suspended yesterday, ! conferred with Assistant United States Attorney William H. Collins and re- quested that additional witnesses be subponenaed. He admitted before the investiga- tion began that he knew his contention | that the young woman was murdered | would not be borne out and established | by the investigation. “I am ready to give up,” Allen de-; | clared. i Allen First Witness. | The policeman is prepared to request | the appearance of seven witnesses other | than those ordered by the Government ; to appear. Among them are Policeman Lawrence Botts of the third precinct, | who, Allen claims, assisted him in pa- trolling the beat near the Park Lane GENEVA OBSERVER | IDEA"SOLD" 0 SHIP FIRMS BY SHEARER Palen Tells Senate Probers He First Sought Employ- ment to Do Publicity. CAMPAIGN IN INTEREST OF MERCHANT MARINE Entered Into Later Contract After Other Agreement Had About Expired. BY G. GOULD 'LINCOLN. The employment of Wiliam B. Shearer by the shipbuilding companies to do publicity work and to represent them later at the Geneva naval confer- ence was first sought by Shearer him- self, Frederick P. Palen, vice president of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation, told the Senate; investigating committee todgy. Palen ! followed to the stand Homer L. Fer- guson, president®of the company. Shearer went to Mr. Palen's office, in | New York, in Oetober, 1926, the wit- ness told the committee, to discuss his employment to aid in a campaign of publicity and education in_the interest of the merchant marine. “Shearer came to my office,” said Mr. Palen, “and told me his experience. I had heard him make one speech prior to that time. He asked me to arrange for his employment. Originally Shear- er had urged an advertising campaign. propesing to take a page in the New York Commercial and have published in that page comments on a speaking tour which he proposed to make in the in- terest of the merchant marine. We were asked t® subscribe $2,600 to this| campaign.” Entered Into Agreement. Mr. Palen said that eventually he and | the representatives of the New York Shipbutlding Corporation and the Beth- lehem Shipbuilding Corporation en- tered into an agreement to pay Shearer $2,500 each for this publicity work and the advertising scheme was abandoned. The witness also told the committee that Shearer had taken up with him first the question of his-going to the Geneva conference on naval limitation in 1927. The contract for publicity on | merchant marine was ending at the | ime that the contract for Shearer to | 80 to Geneva was taken up. Mr. Palen | said that Shearer had suggested he be | paid $25,000 to go to | | on the night Mrs. McPherson died: Wil- | ! liam "Mills, Leonard Scott and Thomas Jackson, colored employes of the Lom- | | bardy apartment, next door to the Park | |Lane apartment, and who heard ! screams and cries coming from the | | Park Lane on the night the young wom- an met her death. Those summoned by the Government | | are Robert A. McPherson, jr., the hus- moth operato at the Park Lane: Miss Martha Berty, a nurse and friend of Mrs, McPherson, jr.. Miss Sue Thompson, also an operator at the Park Lane: Wilmer C. Ruff. manager of the Park Lane; Howard Templeton, drug clerk; William S. Shelby, inspector of detec- tives: Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad:; Capt. William G. Stott of No. 3 precinct: Warren Embrey, detective sergeant: Joseph F. Waldron, Dennis J. Cullinane and Willlam F. Burke, detectives; J. J. Ramsey, E. P. Hartman and F. O. Brass, policemen; Dr. F. A, Hornaday; Maj. Albert Walker, {who employed the girl as a nurse fore her death: Samuel Riggs and J. T. Howard, fellow employes of young McPherson: Mrs. Aileen B. Saville, | manager of the High View Apartments; S. M. Perkins, janitor of the High View; Policeman Allen; Victor P. Gau- they; Wilbur Kingren, taxicab driver: Clive S. Wilson: Adrian Smith; Martin D. McQuade, Washington Gas Light Co. employe; W. J. Armstrong; D. G. Lockett; Virginia Monk: James White; Harold Connor; Roy Heavrin and his |wife of the Park Lane; Mrs. Mabel | Chenault and her husband, Louis Che- nault, of the Park Lane; Patrick Lynch, William Brown, Robert Lyons and Mrs. Donald McPherson, aunt of young McPherson, Herbert F. Corn, John Snure and Rex Collier of The Star staff. Headquarters Detective Joseph F. ‘Waldron returned this morning from New York City, where he had been sent by Inspector Shelby to question Dr. Thomas Ballard, former clinical director at Gallinger Hospital, and with whom Mrs. McPherson is said to have broken off an engagement to marry her husband. = Inspector Shelby also declared that a talk with a companion of McPherson's (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) ARABS ATTACK Vl|\.LAGE. JERSUALEM, September 24 (#)— | Arabs attacked the children’s village ir the Valley of Esdratelon last night while te children were asleep, killed a Jew- ish guard and stole cattle. The chii- dren’s village was founded with the assistance of South African Jews to give orphans from the Ukraine a rural education. T | | i Herwig, Opera Baritone, a Suicide. PASADENA, Calif, September 24 (®)—Wilber Herwig, former grand opera baritone, hanged himself last :lghb in a garage at the rear of his home ere. BRITISH DIRIGIBLES FAILUR;ES ‘BEFORE TRIALS, LONDON HEARS R-101 Is Said to Be Underpowered and R-100 Not Speedy k. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, September 24.—The Malil | pa: today says that Britain's great new dirigibles, the R-100 and the R-101, are faflures and, from the point of view of Jearning from them the commercial Jessons originally intended, are prac- tically obsolete before they have left the construction-sheds. The newspaper, in support of these tehen otes details given in a :u mlq:umber of the technical T, ¢ Enough. the Graf Zeppelin, will disappoint tax- yers called upon to a pay a bill of about $10,000,000 for their construction. Their completion is greatly overdue, but they are now expected to be launched next month. The Engineer is quoted as sa. that the R-101 will be underpowered, de- ficient in speed and unable to carry the 100 passengers for whom accommoda- tions have been provided. The R-100 should be faster than her sister ship, but it was contended will still not be fast enough or powerful h for reg- ular year-round flying North At- lantic_routes to C:i it was intanded to employ her | Geneva. I told him I could not pay $25,000," | said Mr. Palen, “but if the few other | shipbuilding companies came in on the proposition it might be worked out.” | Mr. Palen said that he and Shearer | had taken the matter up with tite other companies and that ~eventually, on March 17, 1927, the contract with | Shearer to go to Geneva was made. Threw Reports Away. The witness startled the committee by | saying that he had never received any reports from Shearer at Geneva. 1t developed, however, that he had re- celved 12 documents from Shearer which he, Palen, did not consider re- ports and threw in the waste basket. He sald he doubted if there were any Teperts from Shearer on file with his company now After Shearer returned from Geneva, Mr. Palen said, he met him at lunch, hoping to get something from him about the conference. “About all I got from him” said | Palen, “was that he had a good time.” Mr. Palen in answer to question by Chairman Shortridge of the Senate committee said that his company had been greatly interefted in what hap- pened _at the naval conference in (Continued on Page 10, Column 1.) 130 REPORTED DEAD | IN ELECTION FIGHTS Outbreak in Vera Cruz Is Result | of Municipal Poll Taken Sunday. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, September 24.—Dis- patches to La Prensa from Jalapa, cap- ital of the state of Vera Cruz, today reported that 130 persons had been killed and several hundred wounded in fighting connected with municipal elec- tlons throughout the state on Sunday. The nephew of the presidentiai candi- date, Ortiz Rublo, was said to have died in a riot in Vera Cruz city. La Prensa's report said that the worst disturbances were in Orizaba and Cordob: | Orizaba is an important manufactur- ing_center with a population of 50,000 and is nationally renowned for its progress and development. Cordoba is a smaller place of 7,000 inhabitants. It is a quiet and picturesque town. By his firm-handed action in dealing with the situation arising out of the attack on a Vasconcelista meeting here Friday night, in which four were killed, President Portes Gil has won the ap: lause of the press, which almost unan- 'mdously expresses approval of his atti- ude. The Vasconcelistas, who have repeat- edly attacked the government in cam- paign speeches, charged that persons affiliated with the National Revolution- party were responsible for the at- k and even asserted that it was in- the attack and instruct- the %ollce to arrest whoever was found to blame, rmu of what ':Eu they held. A few. after the h, he issued a statement to the press tak- ing cognizance of the “public :umm: that “persons holding official posts’ were mixed up in the affair and an- nouncing that the case would be turned over to the courts for appropriate action. Although the National Revolutionary party is generally regarded as cham- ploning the cause of the government, the President placed the blame for Priday night’s attack on “ ents of he Vasconcelistas” and declared. that the government would take ene ic measures to grant the Vasconcelistas assurance against er such oc- currences. t electoral fight is almost The finen wholly between the Vasconcelistas and the Revolutionary party. Rodin programs— investigation of ed | naming David Schwartzberg and Carl News Note: of being soothed. A local band gave a concert at the Zoo, but the animals showed no evidence | | | MAILMANRECOVERS $162.000 BOND LOOT New York Police Seeking Man | Who Engineered $512,000 Wall Street Theft. | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 24 —With | $462,000 of the stolen securities re- | | covered from a mail box, police today | sought a man described as the arch- conspirator in a $512,000 Wall Street | theft, engineered through an 18-year- old messenger. i All but $50,000 worth of the bonds) were found in a loosely wrapped pack- | age in an East Side mail box. A sub- stitute post office collector, who found the package, said he thought it to be a bundle of waste paper and was about | to discard it, then decided to take it to the post office. | A clerk opened the bundle and| found it contained a messenger's brief case lettered with the name R. V. His- coe & Co. and with the name Milton Alter scratched on it. The securities were inside. Messenger Arrested. Milton Alter has been under arrest since Jast Priday when he reported to his employers, Hiscoe & Co., that he had been kidnaped and robbed of $512.- 000 in securities which he was sent to bring from the Guaranty Trust Co. After frequent changes in his story Alter finally told of the conspiracy, Forman. Schwartzberg was arrested. He confessed his part in the bond | theft plot and joined with Alter in | naming Forman as the leader. Police Commissioner Whalen said he | believed Forman had dropped the se- curities into the mail box when he learned that pc” were seeking him, | Both Forman and Schwartzberg | have police records. Forman is under | a suspended sentence for attempting to rob a jewelry store and Schwartzberz is on federal probation after a convic- tion for rcbbing the mails. He and Al- ter are charged with grand larceny in the securities theft case. RUM RUNNER SEIZED. British Schooner Vinces Again in | Possession of Coast Guard. NEW YORK, September 24 (#).—The three-masted British schooner Vinces was again in the possession of the Coast Guard today after seizure with 10,800 bottles of liquor aboard, disguised as hams. The ship surrendered to a Coast Guard cutter off Montauk Point, where it had almost grounded in a bad wind. It was brought to New York, where its skipper, Michael Gillon, was held in $10,000 bail and seven of his crew in $7,500 bail on charges of conspiracy to violate the Jones and tariff acts. ‘The Vinces had been seized once be- fore by the Coast Guard and sold at public auction at Wilmington, Del. Gilion also had previously run afoul of the prohibitio law, having been in- dicted last March in a $1,000,000 liquor conspiracy case. 1 Pint of Moonshine ‘ To Clean Engine, Declare Runaways By the Astociated Press. CHICAGO, September 24.— Two 15-year-old runaways in a $50 automobile were arrested to- day. That was not of much moment. They had, howev: a | pint of moonshine. That w “You don’t think we were go- ing to drink it, do you?” asked Harry Morris and Walter Schultz, shocked. “We got that to clean the engine.” It was reported, on not very good authority, that several persons who overheard the statement broke down and wept. SAM HILDRETH DIES AT 68 IN NEW YORK Trainer for Sinclair’s Ran- cocas Stable Had Notable Career on Turf. | ! 1 1 | By the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 24.—Sam | Hildreth, trainer for Harry F. Sinclair’s | Rancocas stable, died this morning in | Fifth Avenue Hospital. He was 68 years | old. | Hildreth had been ill for nearly a year, but his condition did not become | serious until last week. On Priday hef was taken to the hospital from his home near Jobstown, N. J. Yesterday | he underwent an abdominal operation, | but he failed to rally. The end came | at 7:55 o'clock this morning. 1 Although in none too robust health for months, Mr. Hildreth would not take | a rest from his duties as trainer for | the Rancocas stable until mid-August. | ‘Then he became so i1l that he left Sara- | | toga Springs for his home, Stromboli | Farm, named after one of the greatest horses he ever trained. Relapse Came Friday. He showed considerable improvement, | but suffered a relapse on Friday and was taken to the hospital, where he died. Mrs. Hildreth and the trainer's physi- cian, Dr. Benjamin T. Tilton, were at the bedside when the end came, “Uncle Sam," as the 68-year-old turf veteran was familiarly known about the track, was connected with condi- tioning race horses since his childhood days. First it was broncho horses out West that attracted the riding skill of young Hildreth. Then he took up rid- ing on the half-mile tracks of the Far West, developing into a sensational jockey. Following the natural trend, “Uncle Sam” became an owner and trainer with more than the ordinary amount of success. Before going with the Ran- cocas stable he trained for the Iate August Belmont. But it was during the past decade that his greatest success came. With the money of Harry F. Sinclair he built up a_stable that swept through the "~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. SINCLAIR BREAKS LONG SILENCE TO PAY TRIBUTE TO HILDRETH In First Interview Since Entering Jail, Oil Magnate Speaks Glowingly of Horse Trainer Who In the first newspaper interview given during five months at the District Jjall, Harry F. Sinclair today paid tribute trainer and friend, Sam: Hildreth, who died today. the news of his trainer’s death at Saratoga Springs. Unable to leave the District jail to attend the bedside of his stricken friend, Sinclair had hoped to the last that Hildreth would recover from the attack that carried him off so suddenly. “News of Mr. Hildreth’s death comes as & grevious shock to me,” sald Mr, Sinel “He was one of the best friends I ever had, one of the most lognl As a trainer he had no equal any- where. As I said, Hildreth always sent his horses out to win, That is one of :mmb:& things that can be sald of any rainer. Although kept from the of his friend, Sinclair had been k in constant with his trainer’ ‘During years the seven or llfin e 3‘. early as famous Sinclair stable to many & Wl victory, .the two Died Today. to the memory of his famous race horse He was visibly affected by men had been almost' inseparable friends. Mr. Sinclair revealed for the first time mfly that Hildreth had personally risen at daybreak to train the Saratoga entries, up to the time he was stricken. Each mornln‘ found him b on the half-mile track of the famous cas stables, at Jobtown, N. J. ‘Then two of the stables bi'ggest ho) Mokatan and Grattan, became {ll it was impossible for them to enter sickness of these two horses, over the ‘Sinclair | “{Continued on Pge 2, Colmp 7 “|able to the board. ENGLAND T SIGN PACT REGULATING TRAFFC N ARMS Condition That Other Nations Making Munitions Follow Suit Is Expected. LEAGUE’57W0RK TO CURB WAR MAKES PROGRESS China Wins Partial Victory in Move Against Treaties on Extraterritoriality. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 24 —The British government is ready to ratify the inter- national convention for the regulation of traffic in arms, Lord Robert Cecil an- nounced today to the Assembly of the League of Nations. 7 Ratification, he added, probably would be accompanied by a condition that Great Britain's adhesion to the agree- | ment would become effective only when | other arms - manufacturing countries subscribed to the same treaty. Pressing of the Labor government's program for expediting the convening of a general disarmament conference, Lord Cecil of Great Britain again em- phasized his conviction before the As- sembly today that limitation of land LEGEE IS GRLLED ON FARM RELIF Chairman, Under Inquiry as to Fitness, Defends Prog- | ress by Board. | By the Associated Press. Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board today related his past connec- tions with the farming industry and with the International Harvester Co.| before the Senate agricultural commit- | tee, which began consideration of the nominations of board members who have been serving under recess appoint- ments since the board was organized early in the Summer. The entire membership of the board was present At the committee session, and 15 of the 17 members of the com: mittee were at hand. The two ab- sentee Senators were Norris, Repub- lican, Nebraska, and Shipstead, Farmer- Labor, Minnesota, the former having notjfied Chairman McNary of the in- ability to be present and the latter be- ing 1ill. In addition to the committee | members, Senator Brookhart, Repub- | lican, Iowa, was present and was per- ‘mitted to participate in the questioning of the board members. | McNary Explains Inquiry. In opening the hearing, Chairman McNary explained that it was customary | to call appointees for important offices to examine their qualifications. Chairman Legge then was called'to testify, taking a seat at the end of a long table surrounded by the 16 Sena- tors. In response to questioning from | McNary, he said that he had served as head of the International vester Co., and that prior to his work with that concern he had long been conn-cted | with agricultural pursuits, principally live stock. He said he held a small frac- | tion of 1 per cent of stock in the Har- vester Co., adding that he had no con- | nection whatever with any grain ex-| change, but that he had a few shares! in railroad companies. Legge also testi- fied he had no connection with import- ing houses or foodstuffs concerns. Under further questioning by Chair- man McNary the witness outlined the general program of the board. Asked if the board had been set up to take care of this year's crop, Legge replied: | Have Operated 60 Days. | “To some extent. We cannot do| everything in 60 days. Some folks think we ought to build a lot of elevators and 5o on, but our time has not been long.” | McNary inquired whether the board required co-operatives to exhaust their own sources of credit before the $500,- 000,000 farm relief fund would be used. Legge sald no such rule had been definitely laid down, but at the present time all the board felt it could do w to make supplemental loans, except in a few cases. Senator Ci vay, Democrat, Arkan- sas, took issue with this view, saying he thought that was not the intent of Congiess, while Legge said he under- stood the farm bill intended the fund | to be used as supplemental financing | and not primary. Might Need Larger Fund. ‘If you want us to finance all agri- culture you will have to give us $10, 0004.00,000, instead of $500,000,000, Legge said. He added that many parts of the farm act were not understand- | | | | Caraway then asked the witness 1f | the board expected to establish stabil- ization corporations. “We hope to in time' Legge said, adding that the board’s first effort was to organize a strong commodity body on | which to build its stabilization efforts. | He said this was already under way for wheat. ‘The Senate committee then was told by Legge that no effort had yet been made by the board to set up advisory councils for wheat so that the stabili- zation of that commodity could be initi- ated. He added the machinery under the farm act did not permit stabiliza- tion to be accomplished faster than is now being attempted. The chairman explained that efforts ‘were ‘now under way o re the in_industry for stabilization, but (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) 47 NATIONS FAVOR U. S. Sign Protocol for American Ad- hesion to World Court. GENEVA, September 24 (#).—The number of si tories to the protocol for the adhesion of the United States to the permanent World Court at. The Hague reached 47 taday with the an- rouncement of the signatures of rep- rmnu:: of Salvador, Paraguay and South Africa. These {three countries also signed the materials for war was the heart of the problem. Stresses Land Armament. “Unless you limit land materia accomplish nothing for the cause of disarmament.” he said The Assembly’s session today centered on measures 1or the extirpation of war, and the Britisn delegation took occasion io commend the three measures to this end presented by the disarmament committee. One concerned the progress of the preparatory disarmament commission’s work toward a general conference, the second embodied proposals for giving financial aid to nations victims of ag- gression and the third related to secur- ing the adoption of a model treaty to prevent war. Explains His Resolution. Referring to his own disarmament resolution, which has aroused fervid de- bate in the committee because it brought up again the Qquestion of trained reserves, Lord Cecil asserted that his sole purpose had been to ex- pedite the movement toward general disarmament. Those who said he had wished to delay disarmament or to in- jure “certain military powers” were talking “hysterical nonsense.” Edouardo Cobian, Spanish delegate. presented a report on the financial as- sistance scheme. The final committee draft_included the conflicting French and British views regarding procedure on the outbreak of hostilitics and leaves settlement of these divergent ideas to a special committee for study and a report to the next Assembly. China Wins Treaty Move. A Chinese proposal regarding the possibility of revising worn-out treaties was disposed of amicably in a committee meeting of the tenth Assembly of the League of Nations this afternoon. A compromise resolution, which was adopted unanimously. permits any nation to apply to the Assembly for advice regarding the reconsideration of | treaties deemed “inapplicable. With other things, the Chinese pro- | posal had been envisaged at Geneva as a new attempt to rid China of the extra- territoriality rights which the powers have maintained in the face of requests for revision made by the Nanking gov- ernment, GERMANY TO FIGHT TO KEEP SAAR BASIN Prepares to Wage Strong Battle to Retain Mining Properties at Paris Meeting. By the Associated Press. | HEIDELBERG, Germany, September | 24 —Germany is preparing a strong fight for retention of the Saar mining properties at the coming Paris nego- tiations on the fate of that territory. Preliminary conversations here among delegations of the Reich, Prussia, Ba- varia and representatives of Saar busi- ness interests resulted in unanimity that no proposition for an earlier set- tlement should be entertained unless it insured complete reunion with Germany. It was decided that it would be better to await the plebiscite, which is ex- pected would overwhelmingly decide for | Germany. It was agreed, however, that a long transitional period should intervene to prevent economic hardships. mittedly developed exceptional business relations with France. MAN SLAIN IN RUM RACE. SEATTLE, September 24 (#).—An unidentified man, an alleged rum-run- ner, was shot to death in a running gun battle with Deputy Sheriffs James Moore and Walter A. Reinder here to- day. His companion, C. Cast, 31, who was captured, said he did not know the dead man's name. The officers said they found 16 sacks of liguor in the men's motor car. as the | Saar during the past.10 years has ad- | STOCKADE FOR ARS BREAKING PARKING LAWSIS SUGBESTED Municipal Lots for Autos in i Congested Area Also Urged { as Traffic Aids. 'MAL PRATT AND BROWN BEFORE SENATE BOARD | | ‘ \ ‘ Senator Kean Seeks Plans for Gradual Elimination of Park- ing Problems. Impounding of cars for overtime parking and establishment of municipal parking lots to accommodate machines in the congested area were among pos- sible solutions of the automobiie park- ing problem discussed at today's meet- | ing of the Senate sub-ommittee on lo- cal traffic conditions. After Supt. of Police Pratt and In- spector Brown of the Traffic Bureau had spent an hour explaining to the | Senators the difficulties of undertaking | to abolish parking either day or night. in view of the limited garage accommoda- tions now available, Senator ¥ecan, Re- | publican, of New Jersey, asked the po- lice officials to submit a report setting forth scme plan for the gradual eiim- ination of parking. This report would be considered at a later meeting. To Invite Expert. The subcommittee also indicated it would invite William Phelps Eno, who has devoted many years to the study of tiaffic regulation. to_attend a future meeting and to give his views on how parking conditions could be improved. Another important development was the statement of Inspector Brown that | apparently no provision is being madey in connection with the Federal build- ing program to take care of the thou- sands of automobiles that will be drawn into the triangle south of Pennsyl- vania avenue by these new buildings. Inspector Brown also told the Senators there is need for closer co-operation be- tween the Federal and District authori- ties in rearranging the street layout in | connection with the building program, |in order to faciiltate movement of traf- fic. The inspector pointed out that the District government has just spent large sums of money widening certain streets north_of Pennsylvania avenue. while the Federal Government is making plans to have other streets as main thoroughfares in the triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue. He said the Dis- trict widened Thirteenth street on the north side of the Avenue, whereas the Fedéral Government proposes to make Twelfth street the main artery south of the Aevnue. Favor All Night Parking Ban. While the sub-committe was discuss- ing the gradual abolition of parking. Inspsétor Brown expressed the belief that if there was a rule against all night parking it would improve condi- tions downtown considerably bscause he thought that if more persons had garages for their cars at night many of them would not bother to drive downtown to work in the morning. He said those who park their cars on the ! street at night are inclined to feel that they might as well drive downtown and leave their cars standing there during the day. Maj. Pratt recalled that when it was | suggested several vears ago that all night parking be prohibited there was. city-wide opposition. Members of the subcommittee said there would be oppo- sition to any restriction. At this ponit Senator Kean asked the police officials to indicate in their report those streets where parking could be prohibited to start with, emphasizing that he did not want to have all park- ng stopped at once. Maj. Pratt replied that if parking is to be prohibited in the downtown busi- ness section the same restriction should be put into effect at the same time on | business streets in other parts of the city. He said this was only fair to (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) 'HUGGINS UNDERGOES THIRD TRANSFUSION ¥ " |Barrow Announces Dr. King Is More Hopeful After Manager’s Comfortable Night. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept:mber 24.—Another | blood transfusion, the third since his | illness, was given today to Miller Hug- | , manager of the New York Yankees, who is critically il at St. Vincent's Hospital. 2 Dr. Edward A. King, reported that the little base bill veteran passed “a comfortable night” and that his tem- perature had dropped one degree, to 104. Afier a conversation with Dr. King, Edward Barrow, business manager of the Yankees, appeared somewhat more optimistic than yesterday, when it was feared that Huggins would not survive the day. “We are hopeful,” said Barrow shortly after noon, “and so is Dr. King.” “Mr. Huggins’ brother and cister re- mained at the hospital all night. We shall hear from Dr. King this afternoon as to just how the third blood trans- fusion acted on Mr. Huggins. Some times a transfusion acts as a shock and at other times favorably.” WALTER REED CLOSED TO EX-NURSE, WIFE OF WAR OFFICER, BY McCARL Controller General Holds S| he Cannot Receive ‘“‘Desper- ately Needed”” Treatment. In “desperate” need of the treatment which she believés only a doctor at Walter Reed Hospital can administer, Mrs. Alexander M. Lochwitzky, wko served as a volunteer nurse with the Army Red Cross during the war and whose husband is a retired emergency tocolgfér the revision of the World %l:\m tute, which now has been tn by 48 nations, | officer of the Army, goday finds the doors of the Army eral hospital mentunlly rlncad to by & deciston from Controller General J. R. McCarl applying to families of former emer- gency officers. In his appeal for Walter Reed treat- ment of his wife, Lochwitzky, a former captain, declared: “This is a desperal | te emergency case and her treatment at civilian hospitals in recent months has not materially benefited her condition. I have learned that attached-to the medical staff of Walter Reed Hospit. (s