Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1929, Page 2

THE, EVENING 30 000 BALE ERROR /INCOTTON SCORED Georgidr’s Protest Sent to Senator—Mistake Made in Transcribing. The Census Bureau's 300,000 bale error In its cotton ginning report of | yesterday, which was corrected several hours later, was protested by cotton | interests In Georgia today. Benator George. Demccrat. of that State was requested to investigate the error. “Many formers and cotion merchants have lost big money if the department made this error,” Senator George Was informed in a telegram from B. T. Lowe. president of the At'zntic Gotton ! Assoclation, of Augusta, Ga. Senator | George said he hau nol o “m any action, but it was indicated he, would call on census officia.s ior ex-! planation. H. J. zZimmerman, chief of th> Con- sus Bureau's cotton division, explained today that the error occurried in tran- el bin, the Georgia figures. The gin- nings for the State were reported to have been 727,988 bales and four and a half hours after the report was issued fthe figure was corrected to read 427,- 988 _bales. | “It was & clerical mistake that should; not have occurred.” Zimmerman sald, “and we are very sorry.” He expressed the opinion that the effect of the error on the market was negligible, explain- ing that the cotton movement yester- day was “very narrow.” On the other hand, Senator George said the error undoubtedly had an effect on the market, which he described as “very sensitive.” Zimmerman said that everything pos- sible was done to correct the error im- mediately it was discovered and that the corrected figures were given to news associations and other media for dis- seminating cotton information. Complaints had not been made to Senator Harris of Georgia, one-time di- rector of the census, and the offices of other Southern Senators and of Repre- sentative Carl Vinson of the Augusta, | Ga., district said they had not been | asked to register complaint. Senator Harris said the error was “very re- grettable.” | ‘The mistake was the second made in | agricultural estimates and reports in | the last few years. and the first, which occurred with reference to cotton at a time the market was very active, re- sulted in a controversy taken to the Senate floor. Senator Blease of South Carolina, who figured prominently in | the discussion of the controversy. de- | clined to comment on the mistake in the Georgis ginning report. . i JOHN A. MOORE DIES , AFTER LONG ILLNESS Veteran Hardware and Feed Mer- | chant Expires at Home Here at Age of 79. 1 John A. Moore, 79 years old, who for more than 40 years conducted a hard- ware and feed business at 1913 Seventh street, died at his. home, 3543 Warder street, today after an iliness of seven mont! onths, A native of this city, Mr. Moore was the son of the late George E. and Elizabeth Moore. His father owned a farm which took in the section now Gléenwood Cemetery and the filtration plant. Mr. Moore was born in a house which still stands in the Glenwood Cemetery. He was widely known in this city and ! had given liberally to many charitable enterprises. He was twice married. His t wife was formerly Miss Kate Reinmuth, who died in 1902, In 1905 hé was married to Miss Mary C. Lip- pold, who survives him. He also leaves three sons, J. Alfred, William A. and George E. Moore; twd daughters, Mrs. Joseph A. Woodworth and Mrs. ‘Wallace Randolph; nine grand- childten and & sister, Mrs. Melita Spellhouse. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Rock Creék Cemetery. MARYLAND WOMAN BURNED CRITICALLY Hair Is Ignited After Handling! Gasoline—Is Brought to Hospital Here. Suffering from burns covering prac- tically her entire body, Mrs. Barbara Mauschauer, 45 years old, of 309 Rainier | avenue, Mount Rainier, Md., was brought | from her home to Casualty Hosplul] today by members of Prince Georges Rescue Squad No. 2. It was explained to hospital httend- | ants that Mrs. Mauschauer, who had | been cleaning clothes with gasoline, at- | tempted to start a fire in the kitchen | stove, when her hair ignited, the blaze quickly spreading to her clothing. Run- ning from the house she was seen by a colored man driving a motor truck, who immediately went to her assistance | and tore the burning clothing from her ‘body. Neighbors summoned the rescue squ from Hyattsville. Mrs. Mau- er was hurried to the hospital, members of the squad giving first aid. | ‘While her ‘condition s deemed cm,-l ical, physicians said there was hope for her recovery. WALTER REED CLOSED T0 EX-NURSE IN RULING BY McCARL| (Continued From First Pag2.) 18 & doctor eminent professionally as & au‘nuflflm of gastric disorders.” jut - the doors of the hospital are cloted to Mrs. Lochwitky by the de- cision of the controller general, sub- mittéd to Brg. Gen. Frank T. director of the Veterans' Bureau. Carl rules that the families of former emergency officers, who have been placed on the retiret list, should be de- nied medical care and treatment uhder the Véterans’ Bureau. He 2a “The members of the fami- lies of beneficiaries of the Veterans' Bureau are not found to be included among those for whom medical, sugi- cal and hospital treatment is provided under the World War Veterans' act as Amended. You are accordingly in- formed that the appropriation for the Veterans' Bureau is not available for the payment of medical care and treat- ment of the families of former emerg- ency officers, who have been placed on the retired iist by the act of May 24, “?me case first went to the War De- partment, where the Secretary of War Announced that the act establishing émergency officers’ retired list provided that the medical depatrtment of the “may not furnish medical treat- ment of hospitalization to any bene- ficiartes of the law in question except pon the ~request of the Veterans guntu.“ The War Department thus MOUNTAIN CHIL boards, chewing gum, pennies, stacks of They were drawn by the exceptior mountain “hollows,” barely 100 miles INTELLIGENCE TEST ATTEMPTS Psychologists Find Standard Methods Are Futile, Due to Isolated Environment’s Effect on BY THOMAS R. HENRY. SKYLAND, Va., September 24.—A small army of Ph, D.'s il riding boots invaded this cloud-washed mountain resort over the week end, armed with form paraphernalia of university psychological laboratories, DREN BALK " - CANTONESE TROOPS ROLT NATIONALSTS 'Bat.tered Steamer Reports Disastrous Blow Inflicted by Revolting “Ironsides.” Subjects. | By the Arsociated P h { intelligence tests, notebooks and other l»" ANKOW, Septembér 24— Badly battered, the. steamer Kiangehing ars rived here today bringing news of a disastrous blow sufféred by the Nation- nal opportunity to study in the nearby from Washington, communities of pre- Revolutionary American stock in the process of social disintegration and to The party included Dr. Mandel Sher- man, director of the Washington Child Research Center, and Dr. Cora Key, child psychologist of the center, who were especially. interested in the mental contacts with the outside world on the developing intelligence. They joined hands with a group from the Univer- sity of Virginia, headed by Dr. D. M. Mann, well known sociologist; R. C. Davis, psychologist, and Charles M. Kauffman, whose previous work has done much to call attention to the dis- integration process. At Skyland the party was joined by physicians and social “workers among the guests, so that a long cavalcade proceeded in single file from log cabin to log cabin along the edges of steep tain brooks. It looked like a body of mounted soldiers on the march, and soldiers in a campaign seldom worked harder than these erudite men and women in rounding up the chil- dren. apply batteries of tests under the pretense that they were “new games,’ and trying to draw out by skillful ques- tioning just what the subjects knew about things in general, Intended to Map Course. The intention was to lay out a fleld for further study, since few conclu- sions could be drawn from the hurried work of a single week end and with tests obviously inadequate for the pur- | | pose, since they were constructed for | with other hollows, populated by minds which have had normal con- |ferent families, bui in Corbin Hollow those responsible for the incident. tacts with the world. So far as many of the children were concerned, some | of the standard tests used were in what | amounted to a foreign langukge, so that the responses could not be judged by the same standards as would be used in_testing children in the lowlands. This was shown especially in the tests | of vocabulary. One of the words in the standard Stanford-Binet test, such as ised in the public schools of the Dis: trict of Columbia, is “soldier.” Those who defined this word at all said that & soldier was “a murderer.,” There was no conception of & member of a mili- tary organization. Another word is “post office. All defined & post office | as “a place with baskets of apples in front of it.” Some added other details, such as “two or three men sitting at the door.” But not one associa‘ed “post office” with “mail.” The concep- | tion was obviously due to the fact that| the specific post office with which these | children have had contact is & moun- {lain grocery store at Old Rag. ‘ Language Difficulties. ‘The language difficulty was shown especially in such tests as the following: | A circle or square is drawn on a sheet | of paper and the child told that it| represents an inclosed field, in which a ball has been lost. The child is asked | to indicate with a pencil how he would | proceed to find the ball, the correct procedure obviously being to circle | around in the field until the lost object | is found. In esch case this test re-| sulted in & complete failure, quately a “field” as a comparatively level, treeless, inclosed area. There are flelds in the mountains planted with| corn, but they are nearer vertical than horizontal. Ordinarily the child 1ndl-1 cated that he would look for the ball by | hunting around the trunks of trees.| He could not conceive of anything being lost any other way. ‘Then the idea of a lost ball, so fa-| miliar to most children, was hard for these to grasp, since playing with a ball, until very recently at least, has been | foreign to their experience. They | never have hunted for lost balls. and can't conceive why any one should at- | tach significance to such a situation. Dr. Sherman and Miss Key found that the children could not define ab- stractions. Many of them could not sense similarities and differences be- tween objects. A child would be shown a nickel and a penny, and instructed that both were similar, in that both were money. After the subject appar- ently had grasped the idea he would be asked how an apple and a peach were | similar, and answer in some way, such | as “Apple’s round and peach’s fuazy.” | An idea associated with one class of | objects could not readily be transferred | to another. Lack of Sense of Form. An outstanding showing made by | these tests was the almost complete lack of a sense of form. This was shown both_ by attempts to fit blocks | into a form board and efforls to copy simple drawings, such &s & square or triangle, in the Binet test. Asked to copy a drawing of & triangle, many of the children drew circles. Very simple form board tests, much used in institu- tions for the mentally defective, proved complete fallures on the first attempt. Yet, according to Mr. Davis, who worked with the form board and whose chief objective is to work out some form of test based on the experience of these children which will measure adequately their intelligence for use in whatever educational program is lnlururlted in the future, the results actually showed great promise. The learning curve was almost sensational. Children in their teens on the first trial with the form board would make almost as many errors as' it was possible to make, sim- ply because they had no conception of form or abllity to distinguish between, for instance, a triangular block and circular block. Then Davis would ex- plain and demonstrate patiently. The| second trial would show only two or three errors. Another demonstration, and the third trial would be a com- plete success. Training Need Is Apparent. ‘This result seems to indicate that the lack of sense of form is not funda- mental, but due to complete lack of training. The brain itself is good and able to master an unfamiliar situation quite rapidly. All the scientists were convinced that the children could be educated very well, although it might be a difficult process if the environment were unchanged. There must be more adequate stimulation of the senses. An adequate intelligence test, it was agreed, vill involve a laborious study of Ll actual experience of these children. The standard tests applied made possi- ble only & broad grouping of the bright, normal and backward. They did not make possible much differentiation of individuals. ‘The children ' showed complete igno- rance of their distinguished neighbor, Mr. Hoover, Mention of the President's name brought the response: “Ain’t never seen one of them things.” A 12-year- old boy who made a comparatively good rating in the intelligence tests had never heard of Calvin Coolidge, but thought his father had seen one once. George Washington evoked no re: but Dr. D. M. Mann, Uhiversity of Vir ginia sociologist, who was questioning the urchin. perched behind him on th saddle, saw a ray of hope when the boy brightened up at thé name of Abra- ham Lincoln. It seeméd likely that a Lincoln tradition might have been handed down in thé mountains, sirice | | | "}fi Capt. “Lochwitek: d_other of medn e - safne elna?, that it (gould not take care of ‘their wives: As & volunteer World War Army nurse, Mre. I.ocmu:ny us'e{ved_rn r&r‘t’ Sam o, Tex., @ the Mexican border, the ancestors of these people aré rée ted to havetgpen violent” opponents 3}' slavery and some of the communi- i e Republican. Us Wain hop obtain data of fundamental significance to apply to the study of humian intel- lectual processes and the evolution of social institutions. information from the boy concerning Lincoln he was told that “a man over alist goverment forces at the hands of Gen. Chang Fah Kwei's revolting “Iron- sides” 4th Catonese division. ‘Three ships transporting Nationalist | processes of the mountain children and | the effect of an extreme paucily of | cliffs and down the courses of moun- | have | the hill a plece has got one of them things.” e questioning showed that & name which does not pertain to A/ class of familiar objects has rio signifi- cance to the children. This would be a barrier to be surmounted in any, history teaching. Like Biblical Days. Probably the situation is due to the fact that the mountaineers are: falling back into the socia} conditions in which family names wére integrated, such as existed in biblical days. In Corbin Hollow, for example, ali the individuals in the cabins for miles around are named Corbin. The women and chil- dren seldom come in contact with other | family names. Consequently the name “Corbin” has no significance in differ- | | entiating a person and has become superfluous. | So the boy, Jim Corbin, would erdis narily be differentiated as “Sal's Jim," | meaning Sally Corbin’s son, James, ‘The | | name Abraham Lincoln 'would have | disappeared in such an_environment | |and the man known as “Nancy’s Abe.” | cidents with Japan and Russia in her 8o such a name as George Washington | northeastern provinces. Japanese dis- does not naturally suggest & person, as | Patches from Mukden described a seri- | would the name “Mary’s George.” The | 0us conflict between Chinese police and combined family and’ Christian names| Japanese railway guards of the South | | suggest some strange object rather than | person. troops from Hankow were nearing Ichang on Beptember 19, when they were heavily shelled, more than 50 men being killed and hundréds wounded. Altogether 5,000 Nationalist troops and considerable munition were captured by the “Ironside” troops. Two ships wer captured and the third permitted to return to Hankow. OFFICIALS TAKE ACTION. Piesident KXi-Shek Continues Efforts Te Suppress War Threats, SHANGHAI, September 24 Chiang Kai-Shek, president and com- mander-in-chief of the Chinese Nation- ist government, with other military leaders at Nanking today continued strenuous efforts to suppress the threat of Civil War in the Yangtse valley, where clashes already have been re- ported. China also is involved with new in- Mukden, in which three Japanese | ! bins. Ty still & t & had been aroused. e Dr. Mana. tied o get furiner This condition does not ‘exist in those hollows which have frequent contact the name disintegration 1is making rapid progress. The children know that they are Corbins. But before the recent | influx of strangers they probably have | had only & vague realization that there were human beings who were not Cor- This name disintegration seems to exist in various stages, dependent on the degree of contacts. But although Abraham Lincoln, Cal- vin Ccolidge and Herbert Hoover call forth no response from children in the deeper hollows, the persistence of & Re- publican political tradition from GCivil ‘War days is reported in the more ac- cessible communities, and & Republican candidate always can count on a hand- ful of votes from mountaineeys who pass the Virginia literacy tests. Al Cmith got most of the vote of one hol- low last year, and the story of how it happened still calls forth a chuckle grnm" the amateur politican responsibie or at. Log and Rail Bridge. ‘The men wanted the county te bulld a bridge ove mountain stream be- | tween their cabins and the schoolhouse. ! A “bridge.” of course, meant a couple of logs across the brook with a guard rail, which the men were willing to build themselves. But they wanted to be paid for their labor and figured that they should get about $24. They all intended to vote Republican. But the individual from the lowlands, who was an ardent Smith supporter, saw his opportunity to break the sqlid Republican vote. 2 He managed to convince them that the Democratie candidate was cerfain to be elected. £ “And just think what Mr. Smith would say if he knew that so much money as it will cost to build this bridge was going to be paid to men who voted for Hoover.” he argued. That clinched it. Mr, Smith ean thank him for four votes. Mr. Hoover apparently showed no such animosity to those who deserted his cause as Was attributed to the New York governor, for the bridge was built and the Smith men got the money for their labor. Another point brought out by the psychological examinations was the lack of ability to differentiate distances. The two distinctions are “just a plece” and “quite a piece,” Most of those whom the scientists talked with could not give directions in terms of miles. The sense of time 1s much better, and within an hour the children kept the appointment at the schoolhouse made for them by Miss Miriam Sizer, the district sehool teacher, last Summer, who served as gulde and interpreter for the scientific expedition. Interior of School Wrecked. ‘The children were told that Dr. Key wanted to play a game with them and that there was candy waiting for them at the schoolhouse. They were tested both in groups and individually and there was no lack of interest. in the individual tests they were taken into the schoolhouse one at a time to “play"” with Miss Key, and some of them left waiting cried because they could not get in the game, too. And Miss Sizer cried, oo, when she fcund that. the interior of her school- house had been wrecked during the two weeks she had been away from it. She found primers and charts torn to bits and attributed it to mountaineers op- posed to the school, which she had worked so hard to bulld up. She was cenvinced, however, that this was not the attitude of the Corbin Hollow peo- ple as a whole, since the mothers are anxious for the school to continue. ‘The scientists who made up the party were on guard against drawing many conclusions from the data obtained, but will analyze it carefully. But they feéit that they were in contact with & type of mentality which evaded accurate measurement. FRIARS HERE MAKE PLAN TO COMMEMORATE SAINT Public Novena Begins Tomorrow Night Preparatory to Death Anniversary of St. Teresa. In preparation for the observance of the feast of St. Teresa. “the Little Flower,” on October 3, and in com- memoration of the thirty-sécond &nni- versary of the saint's death, the Dis- calced Carmelite Friars will begin 4 tolemn public novena at 8 o'clock to- morrow night in the chapel in their monastety, 150 Rhode Island avenue northeast. Very Rev. Paschasius Heriz of the Carmelite community Will conduct the exercises atid deliver the sermons of the novéna. A novenia mass will be cele- brated eath morhing at 7 o'¢lock. At each evening service the relic of “the Little Flower,” who was & fiun of the sameé order as the local Discaleéd Carmelites, will be venerated. BAND CONCERT. \‘By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band, at the bandstand, this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton Poin! ner, assistant leader. March, 5!] Trumpeters™. Overture, “Die Frau Meisterin,’ h Dance Suite;" o ory o mee Suite.” acteristic, “A Sinetako Sambo's Hollday, Crssacks' Reve! Pekoe Dance, Valse Russe. 3 Grand, fantasia, “Reminisce of th Plantation” 4 bér) Fox trot novelty; Valse de coneert, “The Empe Pinale Thé Gridiron Club”. “The Star Spangled 1t dif- | guards were wounded. A battalion of | Japanese rushed to the scene and they | disarmed all policemen and nrrened‘ Russia Threatens Actlon. | Soviet Russip threatened to adopt a | policy of forceful action to settle the | | | | according a Japanese newspaper, | which stated that L. M. Karakhan, | Soviet vice-commiissar, who has been handling the Manchurian quarrel, had declared that unless the present im« | passe was successfully negotiated with- | |in two months, Russia would assume | control of the strategic rail force. G | ""'To the south, in the heart of Chi; | however, a more immediately serious sit- | | uation may develop, although only yes- | terday Nanking suthorities insistently | | denied reports of civ'l war. President Chiang Kai & cidered trusted di-| | vision of f ; into Nanking, while | other tio 3, artillery and airplanes | pressed on against the rebe] general,' | Chang Fah Kwel, commander of the | redoubtable “Ironsides” of the 4th Can- tonese Division. | Having refused to obey an order to move his command from Ichang into | Shantung Province, Gen. Chang is re- | ported to have crossed the Yangtse and to be marching toward Kwangsi to join | other disaffected National government troop units. Insure Safety of Canton. President Chidng Kai Shek's immedi- ate objective i8 to insure the safety of | Canton, where it is said the rich com- mercial center is in an uproar at the prospect of another phase of Chinese | civil strife. Chang Fah Kwel is cred- {ited with the desire to oust President | Chirng Kal Shek and place the left wing of the Kuomintang in power. Unverified reports of a clash with | Chang F Kwel's forces remained | vague today, but government troops are said to have won an encounter some- where between Ichang and Hankow, sending the rebels into retreat toward Hunan Province. Local Chinese papers | are without accounts of the fighting be- | | cause the government has instituted | vigorous censorship. Japanese news | agencies are the principal authority for he news. Another report was that a steamer taking Nationalist troops up the Yangtse from Hankow to replace the “Ironsides” division at Ichang was heavily shelled, the troops suffering 30 casualities be- fore the boat could turn around and head for Hankow again, American and British circles have au- thoritatively denied Chinese press dis- patches stating British and American consuls at Ichang had been ordered by | Nationalist authorities to evacuaté to Hankow bécause of the disorder. VOLLEYS EXCHANGED BY FOUR POLICEMEN Two Wounded as Officers Answer- ing Alarm Fail to Recognize Each Other. By the Assobiated Press. CHICAGO, Septembér 24.—Four sub- urban policemen, rushing to answér an alarm in North Riverside, met in the dim light of dawn today and, failing to fecognize each other, exchangéd volleys with shotguns and revolvers. Arthur Beltz chief of police of North Riverside, and Sergt. Fred Molkentine of Riverside fell, seriously, but not mortally wounded. Firing as they crawled, the wounded pair made their rom which the d peered from a flants. “Jisa and Cadi came the answer. | The chief recognized them as Joséph Jisa, village trustee and volunteer po- liceman, and Stanley Cada, former policeman. John Peddeérson, hearing & woman scream_for help in the rear of his home, first called Chief Beltz and then, remembering Jisa and Cada lived near- by, summoned them. Beltz and Mol- kentine arrived first, found nothing suspicious, but as they emerged from the shadows met a burst of shotgun fire from the other pair. THe two offi~ cers récelved heavy charges of Buck- | of eruisers, strength in this category of 70 per cent | U YLC ft RN nCeq 500,000 t0 | shot in the face. shoulder and back. Physicians sald they would recover. MISS ELEANO] Manchurian Railway, 40 miles north of | nyrge friend of Mrs. Virginia McPherson, who appeared before the gra today to relate the last conversation she h; FRANGE WILL GAIN HIGHER NAVY RATIO | | Italy and Japan Also to Be Accorded Increases in Some Categories. By the Associated Press. Any naval limitation agreement reached at the projected London con- ference of the five leading naval powers very probably will accord to Japan, Prance and Italy a greater ratio with, respect to the United States and Great Britain in at least some of the cate- | gories of auxiliary craft than now ex- ists, with respect to capital ships and | airplane carriers. ‘Whether this increase in ratio will | apply to the largest type of cruisers authorized iinder the Washington armis treaty is a question for the conference to decide, but Japan is expected to Ask | for an increase in its ratio of all types | ISINCLATR THAEKS - * BUSINESSFRENDS Tells Stockholders in Circular He Is Innocent of Any Wrongdoing. Reiteration of his innocence of any iwmnzfloin; in connection with his oil | transactions with the Government or with the jury surveillanee which led to |his conviction and sentence to im- | prisonment for contempt of the Senate i is contained in a statement made today by Harry F. Sinclair to the stockholders of the Sincizir Conwolidated Ofl Co. Sinclair's statement is in the form of personal message to the stockholders of his oil concern, thanking them for their support and confidence in him while he has been serving out his sentence in the District Jail. It is his first message of this nature to his busi- ness associates. |« The statement follows, in part: |~ *“To the stockholders: 1 “Thisis lelayed but no less grateful ! letter of thanks to those who have given { me so marked an expression of confl- dence in the management of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation. + “It will be my aim and that of my | associates to justify this confidence by | continued efforts for the success i your corporation. | Drove a Hard Bargain. | “s * * As to my own fortune: am confident that time will justify whatever I have done. My Government | drove a hard bargain with me over an | { 0il lease on public lands and them ac- | tused me of attempting to defraud the | Government. I was promptly acquitted | of this charge by a jury which had all | ! the facts. | { refused to answer what my lawyers | | told me were improper questions asked | by a Senate committee, and I was sen- | tenged for contempt. “Ietook steps to have the conduct of { members of a jury observed—something well R SHEPARD, d jury d.—Harris-Ewing Photo. Id!lfll h!rekll STOCKADE FOR CARS BREAKING PARKING LAWS IS SUGGESTED __(Continued From First Page) down town merchants because any re- striction downtown would drive people to the business streets outside the con- ! gested area. Cites Detroit’s System. When Maj. Pratt spoke of th: | municipal parking areas which alreadv | p | have been’ established in Detroit and | | suggested they might be considered here, Senator Hastings said that seemed to be an answer to the parking prob- | fem. The possibility of impounding cars— that is, having the police take them off the street and put them in garages when they park overtime, requiring the own- er to pay the cost—was suggested by Senator Kean after Maj. Pratt had told | of the difficulty of enforcing parking time limits. At the outset of the meeting. Maj Pratt told the subcommittee the depart- ! ment would have to have more men to | bring about better enforcement. He quoted the figures showing that thou- sands of motorists are arrested in the course of a year for overtime parking, even with the limited number of men now available. While referring to effort the police Pratt told the committee that Los An- that Government prosecutors, | as defendants, have done for years— and I was again convicted of dontempt, although no juror was approached d Tectly “or indircctly by any sgent of mine, 1 ! details of these matters—I shall do so later—but I do want to emphasize the | fact that, with all the resources back of my prosecution and with the public | mind systematically influenced against [fmen Jjury acquitted me of the only charge ‘of wrongdoing that has been laid at my door. I know that I com- mitted no fraud and engaged in nc | corruption. That is why I am confident that tme will bring out the truth. | “Meanwhile, my thought and efforts | will be devoted to the upbuilding of the corporation that bears my name, and n this I want you to know that I | deeply appreciate your confidence and “Sincerely voul TS, (Signed) F. SINCLAIR.” SINCLAIR BREAKS | LONG SILENCE TO PAY TRIBUTE TO HILDRETH __(Continued From_ | b t_Page.) | said, “and their inability to ru. against | the Whitney entries. “This grief, together with his own illness, undoubt- ledy quickened his death.” Grattan, one of the two horses upon ! which Hildréth had pinned his hopes, | was named after Grattan Sanford, one which would give .it a| make to protéct school children. Maj.| of Sinclair's attorneys. Zev, the great- est horse of his day, took his name from of the British and American totals, 88| bujld underground cross-walks beneath | the ofl magnate. compared to the 60 per cent now apply- ing to capital ships. Increased Ratios Seen. France and Italy are expected to ob- taln a considerable increase in the | ratio for destroyers and submarines, since these types are regarded as their greatest defense weapons, in view of the small size of the fleets of capital ships_which they agreed to accept at the Washington conference. While thére is no official in: on the subject, th in some quarfers formation | here that they also| will ask for higher cruiser ratios. France i now has & total cruiser tonnage of 139, 000 standard tons, including three ships | under construction, while Italy has| 127,000 standard tops, including six | under construction. All three of the French cruisers under | consttuction are of 10,000 tons with| eight 8-inch guns. France has two| cruisers of practically that tonnage and | mounting eight 8-inch guns now in| commission, together with three older | vessels_squipped with 7.5-inch rifies. | Italian Ships Building. Two of the Itallan™ cruiscrs under | construction are of 10,000 tons with| eight 8-inch guns, while the other four | are 5,000-ton craft, the main armament of which is not now known. Italy also | has appropriated for two additional | 10,000-ton, 8-inch gun ships, and of its 12 now in commission three carry four 10-inch rifies each. However, all are approaching the retirement | The question of parity between France | end Italy is expected to furnish one | of the hurdles for the proposed confer- ence at London, but since these nations accepted parity on capital ships and airplane carriérs at- the Washington conferénce someé observers here are in- clined to the view that they will even- tually reach an accord as to their rela- | tive “strength in the other types— | cruisers, destroyers and submarines. SOLDIER DIES IN CRASH. MANILA, September 24 (#).—Pvt. | . L. McKernan was killed in the | crash of an Army bombing plane at Nichols Field today, after the controls had jammed at an altitude of 800 feet. Lieut. Donald Phillips, pilot, and two others jumped free assthe machine started to fall and landed safely in| parachutes. McKernan also jumped, but fajled to clear the plane and was car- ried down with it. His nearest relative is Mrs. Mary McKernan of No. 1 Clark street, Rossiyn, Va. Tank Blast Victim Dies. CORINTH, Miss., September 24 (#). —Capt. Delong Rice, superintendent’ of Shiloh National Military Park and for- merly active in political affairs in Ten nessee, died today of injuries received when an acetylene tank exploded in the basement of his home last Friday night. the streét level in front of school build- ings. fo be used by children. He sug- -gested this for consideration here. Coficerned About Future. Maj. Pratt told the Senators he is more ccneerned about how traffic prob- lems are going to be met five years from now than today. because the st:acy in- | crease in the number of cars will inake the problem more acute than at the present time. Senator Hastings asked Maj. Pratt S view 18 entertained | to consider his suggestion that all-night | parking be prohibited on one side of the street for six months, and on the opposite side of the street for the en- suing six months, as an slternative to abolishing parking entirely at night. The police chief answered that one side of the street would not accommodate all of the cars. Senator Hastings re- plied that his idea was that this would leave some space for all-njght parking, but would induce a large number of peo- ple to get garages® by reducing the available street space. ‘The subcommittee adjourned without taking any definite action other than to suggest that Mr. Eno be invited to appear later. During the meeting, how- ever, Senator Kean expressed the belief that the District committee will certain recommendations for the ual reduction of parking on the street before it finishes studying the subject, LEGGE IS GRILLED ABOUT FARM BOARD RELIEF WORK TO DATE (Continued From First Page.) that this can be put into practice only by _request of the commodity itself. Pressed by Senator Wheeler, Dgmo. crat, Montana, for an e to why more aggressive effort had not sake, give us a little chance. We've had situation, Chairman Legge said: “Senator, you spent eight years up here getting a farm bill. For heaven's sake give us a little chance. We've had only two months, We are trying to do the best we can.” Questioned by Senator Brookhart whether the board expected 'o stabilize wheat, Legge sald there wou'd be no place to put the wheat if the hoard did buy up wheat. Refers to Elevator, “There is a million-bushel elevator in New York standing empty,” said Senator Brookhart. “The board would be glud to learn of that,” the chairman replied. Brookhart said the board had played |into the hands of the wheat gambiers by declining to engage in stabilization. “Your statement was full notice to the wheat gamblers that they could go ahead without interference “from the board,” the Senator added. LARGEST TRANSPORT PLANE DEMONSTRATED HERE | Mr. Sinclair was attending to his | duties in the jail pharmacy as usual to- | day. Except for the loss of some weight l and his usual color, there appears to be little difference In the ofl man’s appear- | ance since his first arrival at the jail. | Although naturally disappointed at the | action of Attorney General Mitchell in turning down his petition for com: | mutation, Sinclair had nothing further i to say on this or any other matters | affecting his case. {SAM HILDRETH DIES AT 68 IN NEW YORK; SINCLAIR’S TRAINER (Continued From First Puge.) Amerie turf year after year. But last season an epidemic that took its toll of the Rancocas Stable’s horses forced Hildreth down the list of lead- ing money winners among trainers for the first time in several years. developed by Hildreth. This star of six retrs Ago won $272,000, to become the eadifig money-winning horse of Amer- fcan turf. He also trained Mad Hat- ter, Priscillian, Stromboli. Bud Lerner, King James, Sublet, Nedana. Grey Lag. Uncle, Silver Fox, Sang, Mad Play, Nassauk, Ariel, Hourless and the famous McChesney, owned by E. E. Smathers, and that good mare Wilful. paif of juveniles, Grattan and Mokatam. A year ago Hildreth's friends said he would never saddle another horse, but he returned at the start of the current season apparently as well as ever and started off with phenomenal success at the opening of the metropolitan season. The Rancocas stable was as dear to this vetera Beart as an only child to his parents.! There was plenty of sentiment in the make-up of this griz- zled veteran. Like so many of his kind, no evidence of the sentiment was ever to be discerned from outward signs. He may have been on the point of high elation, but except for a merry twinkle in it§ flashing, shrewd brown eyes no one would have known it. In- timates kned, however, angry. He invariably gave the signal by loosening his collar by inserting his index finger between the starched linen and his neck. > Some say that Hildreth boasted of true American Indian blood flowing through his veins. Hildreth was one of the few trainers ot the old school who did not train the flesh off their charges. The thor- oughbreds of the Rancocas stable look high in flesh when they first go to the post and the more they race the better they appear. It was & rare occasion when a horse under Uncle Sam's tutelage broke down. Nor did he try to get the “last race” out of a thor- oughbred. Horses meant more to Hildreth than & means of accumulating money. They were his pets. | MRS. HOOVER PLANS TRIP TO NEW YORK EXHIBITION Will Attend Furniture Show Spon- sored by Girl Scouts —of America. BY the Associated Press. Mrs. Hoover will leave Washington late today of early tomorrow for New York City, where she will attend an ex- hibition of early American furniture | sponsofed by the Girl Scouts of America. The length of Mrs. Hoover's stay in New -York has not been determined. ‘While there she is to be the house uest of Mrs. Edgar Rickard, an old ?flend. who has visitéd her séverdl times | at_the White House. ‘The futni exhibition, together with An_exhibi of early American glassware and its, will inaugurate a campaign of the Gifl Scouts to raise $3,000,000. \ “It is impossible now to go into the | the late Col. Zevely, another attorney of | Zev probably was the best horse ever | This vear the stars of the stable are a | when he was| [ONE COMMISSION TARESUPDENANDS Three Petitions Remain Be- fore Group in Executive Session Today. Three urgent demands for c in zone classifications and proposals to amend the zoning regulations were tak- en under consideration today at an executive meeting of the District Zon- ing Commission. At another closed meeting last might {the body granted 10 applications for | changes in classification and disap- | proved 17 THe Commissioners were aided in reaching their decisions by testimony presented by interested -eifi- zens at recent building hearings. | Two of the applications iln be acted on have been j containing plots suitable as jfor the y@>osed new children's hame One of thése requests calls for the changirg from a restricted to a resi- dential area the section soythwest of the 5100 block of Sherrier place and the railroad tracks. The other re- quest would change from a residential to a restricted area a parcel of lots south of Bunker Hill road and west of Queens Chapel road northeast. * Other Application. The other application. on which ac- tion still is being held in abeyance, would change from residential and first commercial to secend commercial clas- sification the property at 1990 and 2000 Bladensburg road northeast. The commission was expected agas. to defer action on proposed amendments to the zoning regulations in order to comply with requirements that it ad- vertise its intention of considering such changes. The body is in a position to take final action on one such amend- ment, but is believed to favor a pro- posal sponsored by the Federation of Citizens' Associations which only came to_light at the recent hearings. Pederation approval has been given to proposed amendment whieh would permit erection of municipal recrea- tional centers, pumping stations and { fire-engine houses in any distriet, pro- | vided that in the case of the fire en- gine houses being located in residential districts. public hearings shall first be held by the Zoning Commission in- | stead of the District Commissioners, and that police stations shall be located only in commercial or industrial areas. Important Action. Perhaps the most imporiant action taken by the commission last night was its decision to turn down amn ap- plication of residents of Calvert. street for reclassification from residential to commercial. Calvert street residents had contended their street had become 100 noisy to be desirable for residential purposes. Residents of neighboring streets, however. objected to the pro- pesal. of ~the Calvert street property owners Sixteen apprals for raclassification were denied. 11 admitted, and three deferred. ‘Those denied follow: Change from residential to first com- m-rcial area of square 16, known as 917 Twenty-sixth street. Change from residential to commer- cizl area of the four corn-rs of Mas- achusetts avenue and Scventeenth Change from residential to commer- cial area of both sides of Rhode Island avenue, fiom Iowa C rcle to Fourteenth strect. Change from residential to first com- m-rcial area of 1303-1311 P street Change from residentia] first com= | mercial of 109 °Eleventh §fteet south- east. Change from residential to first com- | mercial of 730 Twelfth street north- ! east. | Change from residential to first com- mercial of the southwest corner of 3eventeenth and D streets southeast. Change from residential to first com= mercial of 1638-1650 Columbia rofd orthwest. Change from residential to semi- restricted area of 6211 and 6213 Fifth street. | Change from residential to restrictea area of 4345 Wisconsin avenue and 3908 Yuma street. | _Change from residential to first com- |mercial area of the intersections of | Yuma street, Wisconsin avenue and Fortieth and Alton streets. Change from residential to first com- { mercial of 4401 Wisconsin avenue. | Change from residential to first com= { mercial of the southeast corner of Con- | duit road and Norton street. | Change from first commercial to sec- | ond commercial of the square bounded | by Wisconsin and Western avenues and | Jenifer and Forth-fourth streets. | Change from residential to restricted residential of the south side of Monroe strect, 128 feet west of Eighteenth | street northeast. | These appeals for chang- were al- | lowed: | | _ Change from first commercial C to |first commercial D area of 300-302 | Pennsylvania avenue and 200-204 Third street southeast. Change from residential to semi-re- stricted area of a square bounded by Tuckerman, Underwood, Eighth and Ninth streetd, Change from residential to second commercial of a section on Blair road between Aspen #nd Butternut strcets. Change from first commercial to sec- | ond commercial of a section of Icts | parallel to Eastern avenue and 175 feet distant therefrom northwest. Change from residential to first com= mercial of a strip between first com- mercial zone and alley 150 foet east of Connecticut avenue, between Vcazey Terrace and Yuma street, east of Col- necticut avenue. Change from restricted residential to residential of two squares bounded by Wisconsin avenue, Tilden and Thirty- ninth streets, and the north line of the McLean Estate northwest. Change from restricted residential to first commercial of a square at the intersections of Fessenden street, Con- necticut avenue, Thirty-sixth’ and Everett streets. Change from restricted residential to semi-restricted residential of a section at the intersection of the proposed Nebraska and Utah avenues. Change from residential to first com- mercial of the northwest corner of I Rhode Island avenue and Tenth street 'northun. . ALLEN FACES JURY IN McPHERSON CASE AS FIRST WITNESS (Continued From First Page.) this morning had satisfactorily ac~ counted for the 15-minute perfod here- tofore unaccounted for by McPherson the night of his wife's death. The friend, Aiton D. Harris, told In- spector Shelby that McPherson met him on the corner .of Georgia avenue and Upshur street at 8:05 o'clock the Thursday evening Mrs. McPherson is supposed to have died, and was with him until 8:20 when they joined other friends. The young husband’s where- about had been satisfactorily traced since that time. Describes Their Meeting. “I was standing on the corner when McPherson gulled up 'in a taxicab,” Harris told Shelby. “He jumped out of the cab with a $10 bill in his hand and I asked him +If he was ‘trying to high hat' me. He smiled and went into a storé on the corner, got the bill changed d paid the taxi driver. He then joiped me .and we talked about plans for l.ni of the approaching foot ball AN nmngemenn for games for mir team. We were aloneé until 8:20 whén we joined others &bout whom you st . ;