Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1929, Page 2

HURRCANE PASSES * NORTH OF NASSAL City Unalarmed by Lash of Storm Traveling Toward Florida. By the Associated Press. NASSAU, Bahamas, September 25 (by With the wind blowing 50 miles from | the Southwest the barometer at noon dropped to 29.3¢, Nassau was weather- ing without undue alarm the long lash of the tropical hurricane. which is be- leved to be pessing Northwest of New Providence, between here and' Abaco Island. & Hopetown, Abaco and . West End, Grand Bahama Island, reported north- easterly winds. Nassau is experiencing continuous rain squalls, but all ships are double anchored in the harbor, which is sheltered and are riding tne sea without difihulty. No property damage has been reported. Nassau’s official barometer at 9:30 am., remained at 29.54, but the wind. that coming out of the north-north- east, had diminished to 35 miles an hour. FLORIDA COAST NORMAL. SCIENTISTS FIND | 1imbs of an 8-months-old baby. | be obtained at any-country drug store. | “Do you know what a drug store is: despondently. “Lots of what?" tell what it was. | guests at Skyland had happened upon | some remedy which she had adminis- tered in large doses every time the baby cried, until 1* was all gone. The visiting doctor prescribed noth- ing further. He had grave doubts about sending the woman the medicine he | considered necessary. She _probably would be unable to follow directions,’ would be likely to pour the medicine into the child’s mouth with no con- sideration of dosage, and do more harm | than good. The diagnosis was obvious. The most essential THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTO D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1628, ENCOURAGING SIGNS AMONG MOUNTAIN FOLK .Mafiy Anxious to Get to. Valley, Where They Can Have Schools—Minds Good, but Untrainecl in Ways of World. BY THOMA® R. HENRY, . Staft Correspondent of The Star. SKYLAND, Va., September 25.—The child specialist leaned over a heap of | gy the Associated Press. rags in the tiny log cabin in the Blue Ridge Hollow and examined the distorted medicine was ‘such as could * ), 2" the doctor“asked the mother. “Yeah,” the woman who had ‘been awaiting a miracle rcplied scornfully and “Jt's had lots of that stuff.” “Lots of drug store—that white stuff in a bottle, and it don't do no good.” She had used up al the “white stuff in a bottle” and there was no way to Presumably, some charitable physician among the Summer the little cabin and given the woman lar islands of population exist is not known. ‘With the coming of the chilly nights in the high hollows, the people are making their simple preparations for Winter. Slabs of oak are being nailed over the outside of the cabins. Nearly every roof is covered with sliced apples, laid out to dry. This is the only which is preserved. This is the period of the annual trek to the valleys of men and older boys, who try to earn enough to carry them through the Win- ruit | ISTRIAL IS ASKED Motion Follows Court’s Re- fusal to Allow Defendant to Recite Song Words. | . WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. September 25.—A mistrial was asked today in the | trial of Earl Peacox, charged with the | “torch murder” of his wife, because Jus- | tice Arthur Tompkins would not permit the slick-haired young defendant to render the words of two sentimental songs from the witness stand. After being on the stand almost all of yesterday, Peacox climbed into the wit- ness box in this morning for com- pletion of his cross-examination by District Attorney Frank A. Boyne. S8id- ney A. Syme, his own lawyer, then be- gan redirect examination by referring to two songs Peacox had testified yes- terday that Ne sent his wife during the separation that greced0d her death, ad- mittedly at his ds. Sang Duets. ‘The songs were “Just a Memory” and “Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses” and Peacox testified that before they separated he and his wife used to sing them together. “Do you still remember the words of those songs?” Syme | WOMAN S CHARGED PEACOK COUNSEL NTH HAVINGDRUES Is Also Accused of Forging Prescriptions to Obtain Narcotics. Charged with forging 193 narcotic prescriptions since Januery 1 last and with unlawful possession of narcotics, Mrs. Carlton H. Waller of the 2500 block of Thirteenth street %as arrested after calling at & drug store on Ninth street this morning and later released on bend, after a hearing before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turn- e. ul. L. Rakusin, Federal narcotic in- spector, and Detective C. E. Mansfield, who made the arrest, sald that since January Mrs. Waller had received a total, of 7,920 half-grain tablets of a narcotic. She was charged with having forged the name of Dr. Stewart Mc- Bride of Manassas, Va., to prescriptions and was sald to have ohtained 40 half- grain tablets every day for the last three months. Mrs. Waller, 40 years old, whose hus- band is an auditor for a coal company, pleaded mot guiity to the charge of forgery. Defendant’s Story. She is said to contend that the nar- cotics were prescribed for her by Dr. INEW YORK RADIO SHOW REVEALS! LITTLE [GHANGES FROM 1929 SETS 1,000 NeW Models on ]jisplay. With Price Trend Downward—Tremelin Ex- hibit Rivals Television Display. BY JAMES E. CHINN, i Staft Correspondent of The Btar. NEW YORK, September 25.—The 193¢ radio receiving set, while boasting | a number of mechanical improvements and refinements, will not relegate its 1929 predecessor to obsolesence. Radio manufacturers, it seems, have taken a page from the history of the automotive industry and instead of developing something sénsationally new, are turning out a finer product mechanically and artistically—a machine degigned to improve the quality of reception and simplify operation while at the same time serving as an attractive addition to any living room whether it be done in period or modernistic vogue. At least 'this is the impression that prevails after a close survey of the i more than 1,000 different models of radio sets and accessories now on display at the sixth annual Radio World’s Falf at Madison Square Garden. The show | itself is a somewhat dazzling pageant of the progress in the radio industry. i 7 Differ But Little. In outward appearance; however, the 1930 sets differ but little from the 1929 receiver. The cabinets are a little i | HOOVER REGARDS REGULAR SESSION tendency toward m: | pensive models, but a close comparison In order to create a slight change {4 E ber: of ‘mode i Representative Wood and| o or e o the wew cant. more ornate, perhaps, and there is a | is necessary to determine the difference ’uvenl manufacturers have adopted most striking feature of the new cabi- assiveness in ex- between last year's and the 1930 models. | colored tapestry coverings for the sound | nets is the absolute lack of mechanical | bly of the League of Nations tod: | EAGUE ASSEMBLY - ADJOURNS SESSION Meeting Hailed by More Than 50 Nations as Best During 10 Years. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 25.—The Assem- a- journed its tenth annual session. Dele- j gates from more than 50 nations hafled the meeting as the most construetive and progressive during the 10 years' existence of the League. The assembly unanimously agreed that the spirit of conciliation and mu- tual concession, which reigned during this assembly marked a loag stride for- ward in the movement for international peace and seeurity. The assembly disposed of the few remaining subjects on its program by approving committee reports. The most important subject * discussed was the international bank to be established in connection with the Owen D. Young reparations plan. M. Motta of Switzer- land, president of the committee, ex- plained why no action was taken on d Skies Are Over-! Difficulty of Work N 0 1 Rarometer Drops an ulty of Work Is Shown. “I do,” replied Peacox, who already | McBride and that the prescr!pn;:l:' | appearance. No longer do radio re- | the p wfngitmivaalioncibormon cast—Some Cities Have Fair Weather. WEST PALM ‘BEACH, Fla., September 25 ().—Weather conditions along the Florida East Coast were reported as generally normal at 9 o'clock this morn- ing as Floridians paid close attention to skies and barometric pressures in viev of weather bureau warnings of a tropical disturbance in the vicinity of the Bahama Islands. Little change was indicated from Florida weather re- ports of last night. ‘The barometer stood at 29.89 here, with a stiff offshore wind bringing in- creasing cloudy conditions. At Fort Lauderdale the United States Coast Guard base barometer recorded a pres- sure of 29.79, a three-point rise from the 5 o'clock reading, but an 1l-point drop trom the report of yesterday. The sky was overcast, with no wind. Titusville had a barometric pressure of 20.90, with a 10-mile wind from the northeast, while Daytona Beach, listed as the approximate northern boundary of the disturbance in the Weather Bu- reau report in event the storm hits the Florida coast, had a cloudless sky and & 2992 barometer reading. New Smyrn: Beach, reported a dead calm early in the day. Jupiter Light, north of here, had normal barometric pressure at 9 o'clock. In the center of the State, conditions appeared normal in the face of cloudy . weather. Tampa early today saw clear warm weather, which later gave way to & drop in temperature from an east northeast wind, and overcast skies. At Okeechobee. in the section where in 1928 hurricane wreaked its heaviest damage, some residents today were leaving the shores of the lake as a precautionary measure, despite the fact that observers believed the present low level of the lake would care for an: =udden rise of level. The lake is proximately 4 feet lower than it was at the time of the 1928 storm. M’DONALD TO STAY HERE FOR SIX DAYS ‘ AS GUEST OF NATION; (Continued From First Page) love that sort of thing. and §rom what they have heard about the premier, he, too, would enjoy it. Already arrangements are being made at the White House for the stay of Mr. | MacDonald and kis daughter Ishbel, ! who it accompanying him on this trip as his official Hostess. At the present time it has been tentatively decided | to assign Mr. MacDonald to the Lin- ! coln suite at the north¥est end of the | #econd floor of the White House. Miss Ishbel will probably use what | ix known as the yellow suite which ad- | joins the Lincoln suite to the east. If | not, she will use the pink suite the | northeast corner, the one used by Alice | Longworth when she lived at the White House. It is doubtful if the Hoovers will| alter greatly their regular daily routine during the visit of the premier and | his daughter. The morning meal will | be in the small dining room on the north front of the first floor, and the other meals will be in what is known as the state dining room. Inasmuch ' as the Hoovers have no particular hour | for breakfast, at least the members of[ the family, and their guests present themselves at their own convenience, | it is thought this custom will be fol- | Jowed during the MacDonalds' stay. Th:' dinner will be at 1 and supper | at 7. According to the official itinerary, Mr. | MacDonald will land in New York nni the Berengaria, on the morning of Oc- tober 4. He will be met aboard ship | by Secretary of State Stimson as the representative of the President, and| Ambassador Sir Esme Howsrd. The party will leave New York aboard a | special train furnished by the United | States Government at 11 o'clock, arriv- | ing in Washington at 4 p.m. The party | will he met at Union Station by Under- | secretary of State Cotton. George Aker- son, secretary to the President; all of | the Assistant Secretaries of State and the personne) of the British Embassy. A squadron of Cavalry from Fort Myer will accompany the party to the | British embassy. 1300 Connecticut ave- nue. As soon as the premier and his daughter change to formal dress the ! aquadron will accompany them to the | ‘White House, where they will be for- | mally received by the President and Mrs. Hoover in ‘the biue room. This reception will not last more than 20| minutes. The premier and his daughter will| then return to the embassy. He will hold a conference with the correspond- ents at the embassy at 7 o'clock and at 8 o'clock he will dine informally at | the embassy and retire early. ‘The following morning at 11 o'clock he wil lcall on Vice President Curtis, Chief Justice Taft of the United States Supreme Court and the Speaker of the House. From the Capitol he will make his formal call upon Secretary of State Stimson at the State Department. They will return to the British embassy for an informal lunch and move into the ‘White House at 2:30 that afternoon. ‘The definite plans from then on until Monday night, when President and Mrs. Foover give a formal dinner in the| | premier's honor. have not been made known. On Monday morning at 11 o'clock the premier will visit Congress ‘while it is in session. The formal dinner party at the White | his House in honor of Premier MacDonald and his daughter, Ishbel, is expected to be one of the most magnificent affairs of its kind ever given in the White House. This occasion will serve as the first State dinner given by President and Mrs. Hoover since occupancy of the White Hou:e, and it is ;mdernaod they are planning to make it a mem- onzll affair. It is not thought likely, however, that the guest list on this oc- casion will number more than 130, and it will include the cabinet, the diplo- matic corps, high ranking officers of the Government and of the Army and Navy and some of the ultra prominent soclally of this city and a few personal friends. Early Thursday the premier and his | tary of State and the British Ambas- | { his party will arrive at the British Incidents such as this illustrated to ! a scientific party making a preliminary | | social “and psychological survey over | ! the week end of the Blue Ridge “Hol- | i low” people the difficulty of checking the disintegrating process so long as the | | environment remains unchanged. Med- ! icine was medicine to some of these | families—with little ability to differen- tiate as to kind and dose. face they saw encouraging signs. All | agreed that the standard of living in most of the cabins inspected was very | low, considering that they exist in the United States in a time of unparalleled | prosperity. A few years ago, according to Dr. Mandel Sherman, director of the Wash- ington Child Research Center, who has traveled extensively in Southeastern Eu- i rope, just as pitiable conditions were to be found in the huts of peasants around the Black Sea. where serfdom, legally | abolished, still remained in actual op- eration and may still exist in isolated corners of the Balkans. A comparison is difficult. however, because of the dif- ference in culture levels and institu- ‘The scientific party saw much that was discouraging, but under the sur-| a short distance from Daytona | tion s. | The psychologists and sociologists | | were impressed by the wide range o!i living conditions in different clusters of cabins. Some were spotlessly cle-n,“ | with wood fires, dishes, tables and chea, pictures on the walls, In one was found an old phonograph. sent in by some | Summer visitor, which was in constant | operation. Even in the past month| there have been some changes, due to| 1lhe interest which the outside I'orldi is taking in these people, so near to civilization yet so far removed, beside their cloudland springs. Doctors have been through the cabins, doing what | they could under the handicaps. A notable change is that every child has| shoes, some for the first time. Some charitable person sent a large assort- ment to be distributed ‘among them— old shoes, rubber boots and overshoes. Winter Clothing te Be Sent. ‘The children are very proud of their shoes. They present a comical picture as they trudge over the mountain trails. G. Preeman Pollock, proprietor of Sky- land. has another large box of shoes | which he intends to distribute in a few {days. Also he has heen approached by a church organization with offers of Winter clothing for the childre shivered with cold Sunday w! vaited for the psychological exami: tions, until a bonfire was built for them to huddle about. Conditions seem to vary largely with | the degree of contacts. In areas where church missions have been established for considerable periods, according to competent observers, conditions are | strikingly different. The area between | ©Old Rag #nd Skyland. of course. is only | ia tiny corner of the Appalachian Moun- ain situation, and to what extent simi- | By the Assoclated Press. Here is the full program of the visit in Washington of Premier Ramsay Mac- | Donald from October 4 to 10: Friday, October 4. The prime minister will arrive in New | York on the steamship Berengaria, ac- | companied by Miss Ishbel MacDonald, | Lord Arnold, Sir Robert Vansittart. | private secretary to the prime minister: R. L. Craigie, head of the American department of the forelgn office, and | Thomas Jones. deputy secretary of the | cabinet. He will be met by the Secre- sador, 11:00 a.m.—The prime minister and | party leave Pennsylvania Station for Washington. | 4:00 pm.—The prime minister and his party and the Secretary of State arrive at Union Station in Washington. | where they will be received by the Undersecretary of State, accompanied by George Akerson, secretary to the | President, and the President's military | and naval aldes: the Assistant Secre- | taries of State, Wilbur J. Carr, William | R. Castle, jr., Francis White and Nelson T. Johnson; J. Theodore Mariner. chief of the Western European Division, De- partment of State, and James Clement Dunn, chief of the Division of Inter- national Conferences and Protocol, De- partment of State, and by Ronald Ian | bassy, accompanied by the British em- bassy staff. ~Mr. MacDonald ‘will be received with the customary military honors. 4:30 p.m.—The prime minister and embassy, 1300 Connecticut avenue, 6:00 p.m.—The President and Mrs. Hoover will receive the prime minister | and Miss MacDonald, accompanied b; the British Ambassador and Lady Isa. bella Howard, at the White House. 7:00 pm.—The prime minister will receive representatives of the press at the British embassy. 8:00 p.m.—The prime minister will dine informally at the British embassy. Saturday, October 5. | | 11:00 am.—The prime minister, ac- | | companied by the Ambassador of Great | Britain. will call Upon the Vice Presi- dent. the Chief Justice and the Speaker ! at the Capitol. 11:30 a.m.—The prime minister. ac- | companied by the Ambassador, will call upon the Secretary of State at the De- partment of State. 12:45 p.m.—The prime minister and party will lunch at the British em- bassy. 2:30 p.m.—Mr, MacDonald. accom- panied by Miss MacDonald, will go to stay at the White House. Sunday, October 6. Mr. MacDonald and Miss MacDonald | will be the guests of the President and Mrs. Hoover. Monday, October 7. Mr. MacDonald and party, accom- panied by the Ambassador of Great Britain, will visit Congress, 1:00 p.m.—Mr. MacDonald and Miss MacDonald will lunch at ‘he White House. 8:00 p.m.—Mr. MacDonald and party s will leave Washington for ?h‘l‘l’:d: phia, where he will give a lunch 10 red for him_on the occaslon of his fl‘lnns l\rmu his visit in this ocuntry two years ago. After that luncheon the premier and his nanf will go to New York, where they will remain for Sour days before sailing for home. the distinguished physician, whnl will be grn& of honor at a dinner given hy the President and Mrs. Hoover, Tuesday, October 8. 1 10:00 a.m.—Mr. MacDonald and Miss ‘MacDonald will be the guests of the embassy, & 1:00 p.m.—Mr. MacDonald and Miss | MasDonald will be the guests of the PROGRAM OF MACDONALD VISIT | on_the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Campbell, counselor of the British em-| __ | that her husband had so badly beaten ter by picking apples and cutting corn on the farms, A visit to Nicholson Hollow, close to the foot of the moun- tain, showed some of the cabins de- whole families having gone out the harvest. Largely due to this, living conditions in Nicholson Hollow appear Hollow. Anxious to Get te Valleys. All the mountain people are aware of the project to turn the area into a national park, and most of them ai waiting eagerly the day when the Gov- ernment buys their few possessions and moves them out of the mountains. One woman was enthusiastic_over the pros- pect of being moved to Culpeper, where her children would have a chance to g0 to school and which seemed to sym- bolize for her all that was desirable in the civilization which has passed her by. But as she talked it became obvi- ous that she didn't mean the counly: seat town at all. That was a bit be. yond her scheme of things. meant Culpeper County and the lo lands. She is a rebel against the tyr- anny of the mountains which keeps her children cold and hungry, but a parently the thought of going to Cul- peper without being moved never has/| occurred to her. ‘The scientific party was not concerned with the immediate betterment of con-| ditions. but only with collecting data | which would clear the way for any up-| lift work undertaken in the future to be launched on a sane basis. All were | agreed that nothing should be started | without careful consideration. Distri- bution of money among the children already has had a bad effect. as any; sociologist could have foreseen. since| they have come to expect it of every one they meet, and the practice of beg-| ging has been encouraged. Some de-| manded and obtained their price before agreeing to “play a game” with the psvehologists. - At present there is no project under way for more extensive study, although all’ who went into she field over the| week end were impremcd with the need | of it and the value of the material| which might be obtained. This oppor- | tunity will be largely lost if the people are scattered when they are taken out | of the mountains to make room for the | national park. f According to the psychologists, u? field seems to provide especially intef- esting data on the cross effects of hered- ' ity and environment on mentality. On the whole, the showing on the intelii- | gence tests was poor. and some might jump at the conclusion that this was | due to degenerative effects of cross-| breeding. But the specific failures were largely such as could be traced to en- vironment rather than hereditary de-| ficiencles—not to effect of inability to bsorb stimull, but of lack of lhel timuli. | Canadian Minister and Mrs. Massey at luncheon. 8:00 p.m.—The Ambassador of Great | Britain will entertain Mr. MacDonald and his party at dinner followed by a | reception. Wednesday, October 9. | 1:00 p.m.—Mr. MacDonald will be the | guest of the Overseas Writers at lunch- | eon. d 2:00 p.m.—Mr. MacDonald and party. | accompanied by William R. Castle, jr., ' Assistant Secretary of State, and the Ambassador ‘of Great Britain will visit | Mount Verncn by motor and place a wreath on the tomb of George Wash- ington. Returning. a stop will be made at Arlington and a wreath will be placed | 8:00 p.m.—Mr. MacDonald will be the | guest of the Secretary of State at din- | ner at Woodley. Thursday, October 10. 1 9:30 a.m.—Mr. MacDonald and party will Jeave Washington for Philadeiphia. | SHELBY DECLARES PROBE DISPROVES M’PHERSON CLUE! _(Continued From First Page.) met her death, the policeman declared that he believed Lieut. Kelly and Assis- tant United States Attorney Willlam H. Collins were to receive “the shock of their lives.” . He belleved this, he said, because he was sure Botts would support him in his assertion that he had seen a man on the roof of the Park Lane that night. | He attempted to congratulate Collins on | his investigation and the questioning! which, Allen says, Collins conducted ! yesterday of his partner. Allen claimed that Collins questioned | Botts yesterday evening regarding the night of the death, but the assistant United States attorney did not appear to leee&t Allen’s congratulations or to admit that Botts had been questioned. | It was this clew that Shelby had at- | tacked. In view of the number of witnesses, | approximately 30 of whom are yet to| testify, Collins declared this morning that he did not belidbe the grand jury’ investigation could be completed toda The grand jury recessed at 12:30 but reconvened at 1:15 o'clock and sum- | moned Dr. Frank Hornaday, who listed Mrs, McPherson on his register as a nurse. The dead woman communicated with her family at China Grove, N. C., several weeks ago and ed them her that it was necessary for her to receive treatment from . Hornaday When the ician was questioned by police he is said to have denied ever giving Mrs. McPherson treatment, and added that she had never complained to him of domestic difficulties. Dr. Hornaday was followed to the stand by Maj. Walker, who employed the giml shortly befere her death. In her communications to her fam:ly Mrs. McPherson advised them that her em- ployer was retaining a certain portion of her salary for her in order that her husband could not get it. Maj. Walker much better than in Corbin | | when his wife taunted him with living { him. ! | fective throughout the Soviet Union | tioning on the new basis and seven had demonstrated on the courtroom floor how he had felled his wife with a pistol and choked her until she suddenly went/ {1imp and died in his & He appar- ently was ready to repeat or sing the | | words of the songs before the crowded | roomful of spectators, if his counsel re- quested. But the request, whether it was to be for saying or singing, never ac- tyally made. The district attorney ob- jected and the judge upheld him. Syme moved to withdraw & juror and | have a mistrial declared on the ground | that testimony had been excluded to the harm of the defendant’s case. The mo- tion was denied. During six hours yesterday the 21-, year-old-radio mechanic told the story | details of the tragedy which ended it in his Mount Vernon, N. Y., apartment | on the night of their first wedding an- niversary, last April 21, He denled in- tent to kill and avowed love for his| wife. At the opening of the cross-examina- tion. he demonstrated in pantomime how he had pulled his pistol from his pocket, seized the barrel and struck his wife down, Then he grabbed a court, attendant by the throat with one hand over his mouth to show how he stran- | gled her. In direct examination he testified that “everything went black™ before his mind | in “the same old dump,” but under| questioning_of Supreme Court Justice Arthur S. Tompkins he sald each of the | moves he had re-enacted was delib- erate. “Did you do all this deliberately?” | the court asked after District Attorney Frank H. Coyne had admissions from Peacox that he knew what was ‘nlng‘ on. | “It depends.” said Peacox. “upon what construction you place upon the word ‘deliberately.’ ~ Please define the legal | meaning of the word.” “Never mind that,” replied the court; ! “just use the common meaning.” | “Well, yes, then, I did.” | Panic Seized Him. He said it was not until after he had listened for heart-beats and had held a | mirror before his wife's lips to see it she was breathing t| In direct examination he had de- scribed himself as suddenly that he was sitting in & chair and that | his wife's body was lying crumpled on | the floor, Under the questioning of the prosecu- tor, he sald there had been no state of ‘penic when he carried the body downstairs, placed it in his car and! drove to the lonely thicket near Scars- | dale, N Y., where he hid it i He explained that his act in going | back five days later to burn the body, | which he had stripped of jewelry and | clothing, was not to escape punishment. | but to spare his wife's mother by | obliterating identity of the body. RUSSIANS ADOPT | SIX-WEEK MONTH| Revised Calendar Provides - for Continuous Conduct of All Business. BY CARROLL BINDER, By Cable Star and Chicago Daily Copyright. 1929. MOSCOW, September 25.—Saturday and Sunday will disappear from the Russian calendar, for all practical pur- poses, beginning October 1. The five- day week has been formally decreed by the Counclil of Peoples' Commissars, ef- to The News. October 1. Many institutions already are func- hours labor, four days weekly and a filth for repose, but the decree now ex- tends the poficy everywhere, except in rare industries necessitating a six-hour shift and ;wnsauently five days of labor and one of repose. ! The Supreme Council today publishes the revised calendar, which probably will be adopted by the government. It consists of 12 months of 30 days each, divided into six weeks of five days. The traditional names of Monday, Tuesday, etc., are retained, as are the names of the months. ‘The council, however, favors the revised designations, after the manner of the French revolution, of the bourgeois names. ONE KILLED, 2 HURT IN OHIO EXPLOSION Mysterious Blast Demolishes Mill Restaurant of Niles Steel Plant. By the Associated Press. NILES, Ohlo, September 25.—Wil- liam Barbank was killed and twe ofher persons were injured. one ecritically, when the mill restaurant of the Falcon plant of th: Empire Steel Corporation was blown 1o bits in a mysterious ex- plosion today. Barbank was blown through the wall of the hulldln’ d buried in debris more than 50 feut away. John Long, 29, of Youngstown, and william Gessman, De Forest, both em- ployes at the restauraut, were taken ‘o the Warren City Hospital in a serious condition. 3= JOWA TRAIN KILLS FIVE. Auto, Carrying Two Families, Is Struck at Grade Crossing. ‘WOODBINE, Iowa, September 25 (). —Five w:er-um were killed late last night when the Chicago and North- western limited, Columbine, struck a crossing east of town. The dead: informed police that there had been no such nmn":lmzm and he had paid the | woman weskly by check. His statement was col ted by McPherson, jr.. who declared that the checks had cashed each weekehy him througi local banle h a been ¢ Mr. and Mrs. Rollo Burress, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Burress, their Kenneth Burress, 16, 3 Mrs. Rollo Burress, all of near Wood; of his troubled married life and the | Wi l ‘The motorists are were sent her through 'he mails. kusin told Commiss;oner Turnage (hat Dr. McBride told his office over the telephone today that he had not pre- scribed for Mrs. Waller since last Spring. Mrs. Waller made $1,000 bond and the formal hearing was continued un- til Priday morning at 10 o'clock in or- der that Federal narcotic inspectors might have Dr. McBrid=.as & witn Mrs. Waller told officers, they 5 that she used all the narcotics her- self. The Federal inspector expressed amazement that the woman could use 40 half-grain tablets in a day and told Commissioner Turnag» that last Jan- uary, when Mrs. Waller was first put under arrest, she told police that she tting the prescciptions for her- self and her mother. Lived in Georgia. * Mrs. Waller is reported to have said that use of the drug had resulted from a tubercular conditon of the knee, and that Dr. McBride, whom she described as an “old friend” had prescribed for her for about 12 years, 5 years in Wash- ington and previous to that time in Savannah, Ga., where she sald they lived. Mrs. Waller was placed under arrest in January, when narcotic inspectors noticed the large number of preserip. tions in Dr. McBride's name. released at that time, Deteetive Mans field said. after an investigation, be- cause of an inability to locate D McBride. The officers talked to McBrid> over the telephone this morning, and when he told them he had not pre- scribed for Mrs. Waller in several months they posted themselves at the Ninth etreet drug store and then fol- lowed Mrs. Waller to her residence, When placed under arrest she had on her person the 40 half-grain tablets she had obtained this morning. She sald she had not purchased narcotics | from any other drug store since Jan- uary and that she had been told to go there by Dr. McBride, who, she sa explained that st tach to her, it sal Mrs. Waller's husbant id. d called at Com- Imtnloner Turnage's office this morning shortly after his wife was taken there from police headquarters and arranged for bond. His only comment other than to join with Mrs. Waller in deny- ing the charge or forgery, was, “This will ruin us both.d SEEKS NO CREDIT DECLARES LEGGE BEFORE CRITICS ) _(Continued From First Pa day why advisory committees had not been created as provided for in the farm rellef act in order to Stabilize wheat. The chairman replied that * jealousies” existed between the various organized wheat groups and that it was regarded as _difficult to name an advisory group. The Iowa Senator contended the board should have fermed a committee from the unorganized farmers, but Legge asserted this would have been contrary to law. Charges Neglect. “Well,” Brookhart said, “the most important section of this bill is that relating to stabilization of agriculture and that you have entirely neglected.” “If that was wrong.” Legge replied, “we have been derelict. It has ‘een our judgment that that would have made matters worse.” Pressed by committee members as to whether the board had any intention of creating a stabilization corporation for wheat, Chalrman Legge saild one might be set up in time. In response to questions from Sen- ator McNary, the chairman said noth- ing had been done to aid the exporta- tion of this year's surplus except as loans made to co-operatives could be construed to consist of aid in this di- rection. Rather than stabilize wheat, Legge said. the board had laid down pl for organization of the Farmers' Na: tional Grain Marketing Organizati which, when finally set up, was pected to handle the wheat problex: efficiently. Caraway Leads Attack. The attack on the board's loan policy was conducted by Senator Taraway, Democrat, Arkansas, who asserted the board had acted contrary to the intent of Congress by declining to make pri- mary financing loans direct to co-oper- atives and instead lending money only after the co-operatives’ own credit sources had been exhausted. Legge said the loan section had been construed that way because the board had not had the opportunity of per- fecting its financial organization where- by direct loans could be protected ade- quately. Pointing out the board had offered to advance 80 per cent of the cost of constructing facilities of the $20,000,~ 000 Farmers’ National Grain Associa- tion, under process of formation, Legge sald.” If you want to be more liberal, I don’t know how you are going to do it.” Slow in Qualitying. Already, he said, the board had au- thorized loans amounting to between $35,000,000 and $40,000,000, of which the co-operatives had taken less than $10,000,000 because they had been slow in qualifying for the funds. The rate of interest on (he board loans, he pointed out, has been set by the Treas- ury under the law at about three and two-fifths per cent. At ing of the hearing Legge d present value of his “International Harvester Co. stock, ac- cording to stock quotations, was about He added he thought it excessive be- cause earnings on International Har- vester stock amounted to but about ‘z per cent and the originai cost was ar less. Held Under Ancient Law. ST. BRIEUC, France (#).—Two Pari- sian motorists found here that rabbits attracted and dazzled by headlights at night, often ran into the wheels and were killed. The gendarmes, believing the motorists were deliberately filtlfl thrills, iched them under a law o 1844, which prohibits hunting out of season with' guns or vmlmbltfd engines. icion would not at- | President Discuss Appro- priations Work Ahead. Now, as the special session of Con- gress is on the wane, President Hoover is beginning to give thought to the { regular session which will commence jon_the first Monday in December. | "'This was indicated during the call lupon the President of Representative Will Wood of Indiana, chairman of the House committee on appropriations. The President discussed -w%ith the latter plans for the tremendous work ahead for the appropriations commit- tee incident to the various appropria- tion .bills which will probably come before the next regular session of Con- ess. The first regular business of the { House when it meets in December wilt be a discussion of appropriation meas- ures. The annual budget estimates. ac- cording to customary procedure, will be sent to Congress next month by the President and the appropriation com- mittee will at once tackle the huge task of writing the supply bills for the next fiscal vear along the lines pre- cribed in the budeet estimates. Following his talk with the President today, Representative Wood stated that the post office appropriation, as usual, would be the first to be given attention. President Hoover today was told by Representative Hamilton Fish of N York that the people generally through- out the country are * t and soul behind the common-sense efforts for better understanding and world peace. Representative Fish said after his audience with the President that he took especial exception to the speech of Representative Douglas of Massachu- setts 1n Boston last Sunday challenging { | dulged in by President Hoover and Premier MacDonald on further naval | reduction. 'SHOREY IS LEADING " AMATEUR TOURNEY ! Takes First Round in Local Meet, “Tarning in Score of One Over Par. John C. Shorey of Bannockburn took the 72-hole competition for the Dis- tering a 73 for the course of the Con- gressional Country Club, over which the championship is being played. Shorey's score equaled par for the lengthy lay. He was out in 36, one under pa: 5 par on the par 4 eighteenth hole. nly 1 stroke behind Shorey in a tie at 74 for second place were Miller {ing champion, and J. M. Hunter, jr. Indian Spring. Other scores follo Charles W. Cole, jr., Indian Spring, 7 W. R. McCallum, Washington, 77; Harry G. Pitt, Manor, 78; John R. Mil- ler, Beaver Dam, 78; Thomas P. Bones, Columbia, 78; Page Hufty Congres- sional, 77; Prank K. Roesch, Wash- ngton, 80; C. B. Murphy, Congression- al, 81; J. A. Cox, Argyle, 82; Everett Eynon, Columbia, 81; M. A. Shipley, C. 8. Runswick, Beaver J. W. Harvey, jr. Indian Dr. L. 8. Otell, Indian | Spring, 8! | Spring, 83. BINGHAM DENIES EYANSON CHARGE Says Industrial Official Assisted Him, but Did Not Help Frame Tariff Bill i | Senator Bingham, Republican, Con- necticut, denied today reports that Charles L. Eyanson, an offictal of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, had helped to frame certain pro- visions of the tariff bill while serving mmurlly as his secretary. Senator, however sald Eyanson had assited him in work on the tariff as it affected his State and as his secre- tary had attended some of the execu- tive sessions of the Senate finance com- mittee while it was considering the leg- islation. | “He merely answered my questions, however,” the Senator added, “and, of course, took no part in framing the bill.” Later Eyanson, together with other Senators' secretaries, was stopped from attending the committee sessions. Bing- ham said he at first paid Eyanson out of his own pocket, but later put him on the Government pay roll as his sec- retary. Eyanson since has returned to his position in Connecticut. Bingham /sald his employment of Eyanson grew out of his realization that “jt was the only way to make up for my lack of knowledge of the tariff.” He pointed out that his senatorial du- ties chiefly had been in connection with aviation and territorial affairs, and that since Connecticut produced thousands of commodities and Eyanson had at- tended all of the House hearings, he felt auh?mchl would be of great assistance im. Pulaski En Route Here. PARIS, September 25 (#).—Francois Pulaski, descendant of Gen. Casimir Pulaski, Polish leader who fought in the American Army during the Revolution- ary War, left Cherbourg on the Majestic to attend the 150th anniver- sary of the Battle of Savannah, to be observed in Savannah and Washington. Prayers Were Answered. KILIOS, Turkey, September 25 (#). It is uncertain whether Mustapha Kemal had the advantage of a weather forecast, but he is in strong with some | Moslem fundamentalists here. There was a long drought. Orders came by wire one night from the capital for everybody to go to the mosques and pray for rain. The next morning there was a deluge. | ceivers bear the stamp of machinery— | | they have passed into the realm of art | | and music. In fact. there is one set on display which resembles an expen- | | sive ‘walnut living-room table. tion between the reparations benk and the League, Scheme Withdrawn. This scheme was withdrawn by Nout the wisdom of the conversations in- | the lead today in the first round of | trict amateur golf championship, regis- | and back in 37, one over par, with a | B. Stevinson of Columbia, the defand- f| | the “pig.” Tubes Improved. Like the automobile its the mechan- ism under the hood that counts in the | radio set. The improvements and re- | | inements that have been made in the | new sets are found chiefly in the tubes and the speaker. Most of the models are employing the alternating current screen grid tube—a four element tube that was developed during the Summer and has increased rapidly in popularity mainly because of the greater sensitiv- ity than provided by the three element | tube, | _ The real merit of the screen grid tube. | however, lies in its ability to bring in | | distant stations on a short antenna. i Improvements that have been made, in the speaker also are noteworthy. The | >bnoxious base tone has been eliminated | almost completely from the popular | dynamic speakers. No longer does this | | speaker cut out the harmonics and con- | | sonants of speech and give off a bar-' | rel-like sound. The very latest in | speakers, however, is a condenser re-| producer which works on the principle | of electric static repulsion and attrac- | tioh. It Is, in effect, an evolution of | the dynamic type speaker. It gives, reception without hum, distortion or mechanical sound of any kind. One of | the newest wrinkles in radio receivers | is a remote control tuner and silencer. | which is the very essence of comfort | and convenience in radio reception. nly two models containing this fea- | re are on exhibit at the show and they are in the high-price class. New Control Apparatus. | The remote control apparatus con- | ists of switch box, which resembles a sf 1| toggle switch in appearance, and con- | Guerrero when he said: | tains a battery of eight buttons. These | | switches are located in various parts of | | the house and connected by wire to the | ‘ncrh'&ng set. The set, therefore, can ! be turned on or off from any point in ! the home. { A multiple condenser, connected to | an f{lluminated dial, is practically | standard in all the 1930 sets. Sockets | also have disappeared and the tube prongs make contacts with sleeves or springs that are riveted on: Block | | condensers, transformers and resistance | | units are neatly boxed in cans that | | clothe them in animosity. All wiring is done under the metal base. Connec- | dons are short and the amount of wire | reduced to a minimum. Shielding is : virty 4l Tuning units are , although screen grid | hiding even the tubes | from direct ze power. Power packs and amplifiers, with the built-in speak. er, which seems to be the common en gineering practice, show sturdiness of construction without bulk or clumsi- ness. It is, of course, necessary for these parts to be free from vibrations | and able to sustain the weight of con densers and transformers. No Boost in Prices. Despite the refinements and improve- ments, there is no increase in the price |of 1930 models. In fact, some of the sets have been reduced in price, and those on which reductions have not been made the radio buyer will get decidedly more for his money than he did in the 1929 receivers. Prices on the 1930 models range from 5100 to $300. Of course there are sev- eral models selling for less than $100 |and some which cost more than $300. | In the latter class is, for example, the set featuring the remote control tuner. ‘The higher prices on these models is | due primarily to the added mechanism, the chief unit being a small motor which automatically tunes the set. It | s snugly located under the cabinet. | Although advance notices gave the | | impression that television would be the | sensation of the radio show, there is an | unheralded instrument on display, which is attracting just as much atten- tion as the d>monstrations in television. | It is a strange looking device, that will | make its appearance on the market | within the next few weeks. The manufacturer calls it a tremelin. New Device Explained. | The tremelin is a musical instrument, | and not a radio set, although it employs a radio principle in its operation. Its mechanism consists of the regenerative circuit Jong ago discarded by radio en- gineers because of its squealing procliv- itles. Outside of the cabinet in which the tubes and mechanism are located is an elbow-shaped nickle rod, which pro- duces musical notes when approached by the human hand. By varying the | distance of the hands from the rod a tune can be played. ‘The notes are produced by what is ia: with howls produced by the old re- generative sets, when the hands neared the dials. Now the regenerative hook- up is staging a comeback, not to pro- | duce the blood-curdling squeals, but to make soothing music. ‘Thus, the radio engineers, like the meat packers, are utilizing the squeal of DISTRICT TA)EPAYERS GIVEN TIME WARNING Property owners were warned today by C. M. Towers, colléctor of taxes, that September 30 is the last day for payment of real and personal property taxes for 1930 without imposition of a penalty of 1 per cent per month for additional delay. Towers reported thousands of checks are being received by mail daily. He declined to estimate how many of the 200,000 or so accounts on his books had been paid. ‘The tax collector explained that numerous requests for bills are being sent to him instead of to William P. Richards, District assessor. He sug- gested that such communications be ad- dressed to Richards to avoid delay. Envoy Schurman Sail; BERLIN, September 25 (#).—United States Ambassador Jacob Gould Schur- man and Mrs, Schurman are sailing to- day on the liner Bremen for a several weeks' visif in the United States. Mrs. | Schurman Jgas recently been in il nzalth, | increase of $510,000 over estimates by way and Denmark when opposition was offered by France, Great Britain. Bel- gium, Italy and Japan, who urged this move would dangerously complicate an already complex situation. It was intimated the United States might be discouraged from co-operating in the organization if the proposal was pressed. The budget committee presented Teport recommending & budget of §: 600,000 for 1930. This represents the secretary general. Next yea budget provides for an increase of $50,000 over the current year's expenditures. After the budget report, the assembly heard the con- stitutional committee’s account of how it disposed of the Chinese proposal to deal with inapplicable treaties. Boldness Is Shown. “This assemb; declared President Guerrero of Salvador, summing up in & final address, “has displayed an ex- traordinary spirit of initiagive, indeed of boldness. "It has launched fresh ideas and prepared a far-reaching program of operation. Is has brought within the sphere of practical realities conceptions which a few years ago seemed but re- mote ideals.” The Assembly has witnessed a con- certed move to outlaw war and to adopt compulsory arbitration as mea of settiing international disputes, ing the session 3 great powers and 11 other states signed articles recognizing com- pulsory jurisdiction of the World Court o(_i.!,\:.stlce at The Hague. e prevailing wish for participation of the United States in Iphz !lg.l’u!'i activities was expressed by President 1 “In our com- mon conviction I find grounds for hop- ing that those sister nations who are as '):'5"' divided from us will come to join Tariff Agreement. Steps for organization of the nations i 1x;m;-_oncerteu‘ :cuun for solving the s _econcmic problems were also initiated this sfmfir\_ immediate at- tention being given to the proposal for reaching international agreement to prevent further raising of tariffs for a period of two years. One prominent feature of the Assem- bly's work was increased participation and influence by Latin American coun- tries in all the work of the League and their organization to act as units in dealing with questions of common in- terest to their countries. They are de- fl:l’:;‘l“ed to r!!tklu! bring other Latin ican countries actively into the Leagus work. 7 = The agressive program of the British Labor government made itself felt ihroughout the session in the pressing i | forward of the British proposal for hastening disarmament, improved eco- nomic relations between states and solv- { ing problems in the social a - |k mn nd humani: eld. 49 Countries Sign. The Assembly made definite steps to- ward forminge a connection between the League work and the United States when it unanimously adopted the proto- col for the adhesion of that country to the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Forty-nine coun- tries signed this agreement before the end of the session today. The adhesion of the United States is confidentially hoped for in League quarters and this eventually is viewed as a tremendous advance in consolidating the means for abolishing war and establishing world peace. Concluding his final remarks. Presi- dent Guerrero said, “It has been re- vealed to us by sanguinary experience that the most cruel of man's enemies is war; against that enemy alone the League of Nations has undertaken to fight. It nourishes no hatred but for war, it knows no devotion but to the general interest and happiness of all. You have a right to say that you have labored nobly in this great cause.” The final meeting of the League Council this session was set for this afternoon to consider a few questions referred to it by the Assembly. MARTIAL LAW LOOMS FOR TEXAS OIL TOWN Governor Sends Official to Deter- mine if Troops Are Needed at Borger. By the Associated Press, BORGER, Tex., September 25— Brig. Gen. Jacob F. Wolters of the Texas National Guard was en route here today under orders of Gov. Dan Moody to conduct an investigation to determine whether martial law would be necessary to curb lawlessness in this turbulent oil town, where District At- torney John A. Holmes was assassinated nearly two weeks ago. Gov. Moody said in Austin yesterday that he had been asked by citizens of Borger to declare martial Jaw in an ef- fort to “clean up” the town. He stated he would be guided ultimately by a re- port from Gen. Wolters. It was understood that before making a report to the governor Gen. Wolters would confer with Clem Calhoun, spe- clal prosecutor, also ordered here by Gov. Moody, and Capt. Frank Hamer of the Texas Rangers. APPROVE APPOINTMENTS. A favorable report on the nomina- tion of Brig. Gen. Lytle Brown as chief of Army engineers with the rank of major general was voted today by the Senate military committee. intment of Brig. Gen. Wi~ am Everson of the Indiana Natjonal Guard to be chief of the Militia Bureau with the rank of major neral also was favorably on y the committee. Detective Killed, One Wounded. CHICAGO, September 25 (#).—One detective was killed and another wounded today and a colored man, suspected as one of a band of kjdnapers, ‘was shot to death in a police raid on & -2 i1 th2 South Side Negro section.. ,