Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1929, Page 2

FRANCE TO FORTFY AP D RHN Five-Year Program Designed ‘by War Minister to Cost About $100,000,000. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 14.—France will spend 2,500,000,000 francs (about $100,- 000,000) during the next five years on “defensive fortications of her post-war frontiers—north, east and the Alps.” This was brought out during the course of a recent meeting of the bud. get finance committee of the Chamber a! that meeting. Incidentally, Paul Pain- leve, minister of war, was scored by Nationalist members as a pacifist be- cause the work of fortifications along | the frontiers, they claimed, was lag- ng. It also developed that, for the first time in its history. France is devoting nearly as much time and money to strengthening the Alps, where to the south Mes Italy, her former ally, as the line of the Rhine, across which thrives Germany, regarded here as FPrance's traditional enemy. : War Budget Increased. ‘The war budget of France for 1930 will amount to 4,305992,000 francs (about $172,000,000), an increase of $9,- 000,000 over the expenditures ‘or 1929. These figures cover the expenses in Prance only, and another appropriation of 1,762,954,070 francs (or, roughly, $72,000,000) is provided for mainte- nance of troops in Algeria, Tunisia, Syria and China, bringing the total ex- penditures for the French army in 1930 %o, $242,000,000. Impatience with what they termed the dilatoriness of the ministry of war inj getting Prench frontiers secure against aggression marked the inter- ruptions of the Nationalists. “Parliament voted you 363,000,000 francs as the 1929 slice of expenditures in fortifying the frontiers” said Dep- uly Georges Mandel, former chief of the cabinet of Georges Clemence: “Why have you only spent 69,000,000?" Encounters Labor Difficulties. Painleve, somewhat taken aback, per- haps because of the unprecedented re- proach addressed to a French minister of not spending enough money, ex- plained - that 1929 had been employed in drawing up the entireiplans for the five-year job. They had also found difficulties” in obtaining labor—stone- masons, drillers, laborers. Now, how- ever, the plans had been completed and the work from mow on will proceed on schedule. “‘How about the frontier of the Alps?” another deputy queried. adding that, in his opinion, that line of defense needed just now as much attention as the Rhine. “We are looking after that,” replied the minister of war. “When our plans :.r; completely finished the Alps will be The deepest secrecy is maintained eoncerning this work, which is one of national defense, but it was learned from military engineers that the late war has completely changed the old- time methods of erecting defensive for- tifications. As a matter of fact, “erect- ing” is the wrong word to describe the present-day forts. “Digging” would be more appropriate. & 0ld Forts Found Obsolete. It appears that the famous forts at :z;ehlem defending litted Glsappear upacE the ground when' the ippear “ When enemy has found- the range or planes are dropping 200 to 500 torpedoes. Especial attention i§ bel paid to ma- chine gun defense. Along the range of the Alps over- looking Piedmont, drillers, and dyna- miters are anostiy needed. -Cut_into the mountains frém Modane to Vinti- mille, holes drilled in the solid rock will command vai and not too nu- merous passes. No work of any account is being done along the northern frontier separating Belgium from France. The feeling is now deeply engraved in the Prench military mind that should Germany ever attack again it will not be through Belgium. Utmost Speed Urged. There {5 a very strong party within the finance committee urging the ut- most speed in the laying out of protec- tive lines of defense, both to_the east and southeast, Meanwhile, Aristide Briand, premier ' of Prance, whose following may be said to outnumber the military-minded ad- vocates of security 2 to 1, is busy working on thé outline of a plan to present to the Assembly of the League of Nations, leflumber. 1930, and which he believes will prove a safer defensive weapon against aggression than rows of guns and bayonets: The Confedera- tion of the United States of Europe. TO DECIDE ON RENT CASE Tenant Would Not Surrender His Apartment Unless Given 30-Day Notice. The Supreme Court today refused to decide whether under the District code a tenant who has failed to pay back rent can be ousted without receiving 30 days’' notice in writing. The controversy arose when Harold M. Smith refused to surrender an apart- ment in the Portland Hotel unless given 30 days' notice in writing. Pauline V. Beyer brought suit in January, 1928, to oust Smith, explaining that his lease had expired in Septem- ber, 1927, and claiming that Smita had failed 1o pay rent since the expiration of the lease and was four months in arrears. owing $242. She insisted that as Smith had falled to pay rent, she could recover possession of the apart- ment without giving him written notice to vacate. The lower courts held, how- ever, that under the District code writ- ten notice was necessary. REV. JOHN J. BRADY' DIES SUDDENLY AT 63| Priest Won Fame at Mt. Hope Retreat at Baltimore by Work With 1lnsane. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 14.—The Rev. John J. Niagara Uni- N. Y., died sud- Brady entered the Vincentian Order y ¢ and was ordained a priest in 1895. early work was in connection with social activities at the Mount Hope Retreat for the Insane at Baltimore, ‘where he remained for seven years. H was credited with having been the Arst 10 _introduce games, plays and enter- tainments, in which the patients them- selves participated, in institutions for the insane. He was widely known as a missionary and for 20 years had conducted mis- sions in Baltimore, Chieago, Cleveland and other cities, i 3 The funeral will be held orning at 10 o'clock at Hir Wednes- Niagara I | | | Dies From Gas | { C. R, HUGINS. [ SCIENTIST KILLS HIMSELF BY GAS; HEALTH IS BLAMED (Continued From First Page) Though reluctant to discuss the matter, { Mrs. Wells sald Hugins had been her | closest friend for several years. She | said they never had been engaged. | Mrs. "Wells stayed ‘at the Hugins | apartment until all hopes of reviving him were abandoned, She was obvious- Iy distressed, but retained her com- posure. Tells of His “Last” Words, “It is all so terrible,” Mrs. Wells said. “Only last night 1 had a long talk with Jimmy Howell, an engineer at the Western Union, who was a close friend of Mr. Hugins. We made plans at that time to get a nurse for him today and to send him to a hospital if necessary. I was with him thres hours last night. {He said at that time that there was nothing left for him to do but to com- mit_suicide. “1 pleaded with him to give up all thought of such a thing and finally went home, when he promised me he would go to bed and go to sleep. Be- fore leaving the building, I visited the manager as a precaution and told her of the state of Mr. Hugins’ mind. She promised to do all she could and to notify me if. anything happened.” Hugins left another note for Stull Holt of 26 Jackson place, & close friend, in which he directed that his property be divided between Mrs. Wells and his mother, a patient in St. Elizabeth's Hospital. He specified that his mother be well provided with clothes and the other necessities of life. Despondent for a Week. In a note addressed to Howell, Hugins told cf his plans to take his life be- cause of his despondency over ill health. He left his automobile to Howell and ($200 in cash. Hugins addressed another brief com- munication to a friend of his mother | requesting that she visit his mother. Hugins had been particularly des- pondent for about a week. He had been’ In good spirits until he suffered a nervous breakdown last Spring. His condftion had been so aggravated since early in September that he had visited his office infrequently. Born in Ithiea, N. Y. Hugins was graduated from Cornell University when about 25 years old. ‘He' won a Ph! Beta Kappa key. He was an instruc- tor in economics at ell for sev- : after his graduation. He of a-#m ‘Washington in ‘bureau ., juently became editor of the: tions of the 1 of econom- ics abd was a regular contributor to the American Mercury. FALL TRIAL ENTERS SECOND WEEK; SHOUP AND ATWELL QUIZZED (Continued From First Page) Oil Co. and a director of the Associated | Oll Co., was called as the first witness today. He sald his company had com- plied with the request of the depart- ment to shut down on production and had entered into a non-drilling agree- ment with the Government subject to a six months' notice. 4 Mr. Roberts obtained an “admission from 8houp that he had learned nothing of the Pan-American leases until some time after its execution.” Although he said the Assoclated Co. would have been interested in a lease of the Elk Hills reserve, he testified he had no oppor- tunity to bid. | _J. M. Atwell, general manager of the Standard Oil Co. of California, another. | witness, also testified he had no knowl- | edge of the negotiations conducted with | the Doheny Co. His company also | would have been interested in a lease, he added. Hogan scored for defense when he brought admissions from both oil men that their companies were not prepared nor were they interested in constructing |8 ge tanks and pipe lines for the | Navy as provided for in the Doheny contract. Both witnesses testified 2s to ! overproduction of oil in California fields in_the Spring and Summer of 1922, Hogan laid the foundation for one of the principal arguments of the defense when he questioned Shoup about 29 offset wells which the Association Co. had drilled along the border of the naval reserve and a strip leased by the | Standard Oil. It is the contention of i the defense that drilling. was necessary in’ the naval reserve to prevent complete )drllnlle { this oil by offset wells of 1 rival companies. |ZONE REGULATIONS TO BE LINKED WITH TAX ASSESSMENTS (Continued Prom First Page.) street, the Government itself should recognize such restrictions when it places a value on his property for taxa tion pus 5. Co-ordination of assessments with zoning is to be left in the hands of Tax Assessor Richards, in whom the have placed confidence. ic value of zoning, it has been pointed out, lies in its permanence, despite the fact that changes in zoning | of individual parcels of land are chang- i ed trom time to time, due to changing conditions in the city's growth. One reason why assessors here and in other cities have hesitated to give weighty consideration to existing zon- ing. aside from the possibility that zoning restrictions might be changed, is that a develop.r may acquire a num- of residential riies, for ex- use, would have & an as individual home sites. On the other hand, it is pointed out to The Star, the assessor then can revise upward his nts on the | nssembled site for the tax levied dur- ing the ensuing year. | e situation, however, admittedly | presents_a difficult problem to the as- | sessors #ince -‘z e in a section, the primary gul € ASSessOr, may definitely ln:lult the possible future use of a property in question, which, they . feel, should not be overlooked. e. possible Aassessments ted in Washington n strikingly the situati it was He | Miing " minoriy e gerious conflict between, and 13 | another former M:nd of o BROOKHART MAKES TARIFF CHARGES ' Asserts Effort Is Being Made to Reinsert Flexible Provisions in Bill. By the Associated Press. Asserting an industrial lobby and the press were striving to have the flexible provisions reinserted in the bill, Senator Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, sald in the Senate today he would offer 100 amendments to the agriculture schedule and follow this up with & demand for adoption of the export debenture plan for handling farm crop surpluses. Brookhart sald some farm leaders | elther “thoughtlessly or designedly” Joined the industrialists in & demand for the flexible tariff, which the Senate eliminated over the protest of President Hoover. “This they did,” he added, “in the | face of the fact that In seven years | the Tariff Commission had given only | these ineffective; also in spite of the fact that the commission s new and will in the future be entirely con- trolled by the industrial crowd and the arch enemies of agricultural prosperity.” Borah Offers Plan. Senate leaders, gathering to work out some means of ending the apparently interminable tariff debate, were con- fronted today with a ready-made solu- tion for their problem, which its author, Borah of Idaho, claimed would brini the measure to & final vote within the short space of 10 days. His plan, however, was one to which Chalrman Smoot of the finance com- mittee and other Republican sponsors of the bill could hardly agree. For as the method and price of such an early disposition of the much-argued legis- lation Borah called for unconditional capitulation to the group of independ- ent Western Republicans and its firm intenton of rewriting the measure “in accordance with thepurpose for which the special session was called.” Regardiess of the time that it takes, he said, the independents, who in com. bination with the Democratic member- | in tariff matters, are détermined to stick dog ly to their task of producing a tariff bill that they consider fair to the agricultural industry. Desire Speedy Agreement. Contending that the House bill was a serious violation of the purpose of the special session and that the measure now before the Senate is but “slightly less s0,” the Idahoan asserted that those who are “seeking to change the bill are not any more desirous of remaining in prolonged session than those who charge that we are employing delay tactics.” Amid gloomy predictions that the tariff debate will encroach upon the regular session beginning early in De- cember, Senator Smoot today called a conference of Republican and Demo- cratic leaders in the hope of evolving some scheme whereby a final vote may be hastened. Tm‘e to join in the ‘E‘hnl, mna w&d of “the Carolina, bers of finance committee. ‘The fact that the Democratic lead- ers were called into the conference was regarded as an indication of the con- cern now felt by ‘the sponsors of the measure as to the outlook for its dis- position. Forty Working Days Left. As the situation now stands, the Sen- ate has less than 40 working days left before the regular session is convened. the the one of the multitude of rate changes incot highly controversial. In addition. some two dozen amendments to the adminis- main to be acted upon before the spe- cific schedules can be reached. In addition to Borah's pronounce- ment, which came last night, the week end saw its usual accumulation of tariff statements. One, by Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, isrued through the Demo- cratic national committee, asserted that Senator Watson could not have been in earnest in redicting to President Hoover that the tariff bill would fail. ‘The measure, he said, will not be writ- iten in the Senste or the House, but by the conference comm! senting both branches of Congress, is will be done regardless of the wishes of a ma- jority of the Senate, he continued, un- less the Democrats and independent Republicans insist upon naming the Senate conferees. “Menace to Producers.” A statement from the American Tariff League asserted that the leadership of the Democratic independent Republican coalition by Senator Harrison, Demo- crat, ippl, “constitutes the great- est menace to domestic producers— labor, industry and agriculture—and strikes at the welfare and well-being of every American citize MRS. McPHERSON'S BODY IS EXHUMED; PLANS KEPT SECRET __(Continued Prom First P nature of the trip or to say to what city he had been. It was belleved, how- ever, that he prob.bl{ had been at Chester, 8. C., to consult with A. Hurley, Mrs, McPherson's father. Although the exhumation has aroused the interest of the populace and resi- dents of the surrounding country are anxiously awaiting the result of the autopsy, few persons visited the grave yesterday. Lacal ph{xlt'llnl apparently have not been' consuited in regard to assisting in the examination of the body. It is be- lleved that skilled medical assistance will come from an outside source, pre- sumably Washington. PROBE CONTINUES HERE. |Nurse and New York Doctor Question- ed at Length. The Department of Justice contiggued today its examination of witnesses - nected with the preliminary investiga- tion of the McPherson case. Among these was Miss Martha Berry, nurse, who was a close friend of Mi McPherson. Miss Berry previously had been questioned by justice agents on | several occasions. She declined to dis- cuss with reporters the reason for her latest visit to the department. Miss Berry was one of the princiy witnesses before the grand jury which indicted Robert A. McPherson, jr. for the murder of his wife. She is said to have given information concerning sev- eral alleged attempts of Mrs. McPher- son to end her life. The grand jury apparently was not impressed by the reports of Mrs, McPherson's previous sul tendencies, for it discarded the suicide theory and held she had been strangled to death by her husba Miss Berry and Dr. Ballard, on lower Sixteenth street, e sy e 5 11 agricultural advances, and most of ship have already shown their strength | As yet, it has not acted upon a single | in the b'll, many of them ' trative provisions of the measure re-| 1| (#).—John H. HE EVENING N1TAK, "WASHISGTUN, 1. 'FOX URGES TALKIES | ' TOHELP EDUCATION | |Plans to Put Sound Fi'ms ini | All Schools, Churches and | Homes in 25 Years. l NEW YORK, Octoby .s.—A program | { for the expendituro of $9,000,000 during | the next 25 vears to put talking ple- | i tures inio every schoolroom, church and | | home in the country was announced to- | |day by Willlam Fox, motion picture !producor and theater owner. { The announcement was made by Mr. | Fox in connection with the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his entrance into the motion plcture | business. . . Another feature of his plan is the recording on_talking .picture films of major operations accompanied by & lec- ture by a specialist for the use of medi- | cal students, doctors and surgeons. Mr. Fox said that a system of visual- | oral education made possible by films ! would cut the present six-hour school | day in half. “We shall try to install a talking pic- ture projection machine in every class- room in the country. We shall get the | best available persons to record a series of lectures on cellulold and distribute them widespread. On the theory that one picture is the equivalent of eight words and that each word uttered by & proved educator is greater in effect than that, it is easlly understandable how valuable a lesson in geography or- arithmetic would be to the student. This is easlly appreciated when such | men as President Butler of Columbia, | President Lowell of Harvard or Dr. Hibben of Princeton or any other great equcator lectures on. a subject in which he is well versed, “On the * theory that every man, woman and child will be a finer citizen if & God-fearing one, we shall-make | talking pictures of the great religious leaders to be shown on screens in every | church.” | Fox predicted that his plan would cause the 15,000,000 church seats in the | country to be filled each Sunday where now 15 per cent of them are vacant. | He sald his plan for films in xnool” would permit 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 | school children to spend more 'Ime} out-of-doors when the sun was at its| height. HEFLIN DEMANDS SCRIVENER PROBE ON_SENATE FLOOR| P 1 and it is virtually certain that nothing | will be done until he arrives. All indications are that the immedite work of the subcommittee will be to get | the official information requested by | Senator Blease regarding the death of | Lee King, a Chinese, who was found shot on the street several months ago. | Senator Blease also wants immediate action to find out how permits to carry weapons in Washington are issued. These are thé matters Senator Blease' will take up>with Chairman.Sackett as soon as the ‘latter returns. What the subcommittee will do with regard to the proper time for beginning an investiga- tion into police handling of the Mc- Pherson case Is not likely to be de- cided until Senator Sackett has a meet- ing of the “Terrible Condition in Capital.” After having expressed his views on ' the management of the Fall case, Sen- ator Heflin said: “My God, if these things continue at the Capital, if criminals can go free as they have been going and murder con- tinues rampant in the Capital, it will | not be a safe place in which to live very long. We hgve got a terrible con- | dition in’ this Cagital. The President | owes it to the Nation to have a_house- cleaning; he ought to go through these courts, ransack them and clean them out. The Police Department needs in- | vestigation. “Now -ve are coming this morning with & suggestion from an old man, w son, a bright, fine policeman, Scrivener, was murdered in this city and this same bunch that covers up | crime so0 rapidly, said he committed | suicide, His old father comes and asks them to investigate the death of his boy and he is told by the same group | s they told this fine Policeman Allen and the others who wanted to in- vestigate the McPherson murder, to forget it.” When Senator Heflin told Senator | Blease that he hoped the Scrivener case | would be gone into, Senator Blease replied: | “I wish to say to the ator from anybody | Alabama that I do not thi | doubts that Scrivener was murdered | except the man who murdered him, and I think there are certain people connected with the Police Department ‘I"‘hnuknovl absolutely who did murder im, Walsh and Heflin Clash. When Senator Heflin began talking | about the Fall trial now in progress, at | the opening of his speech, Senator | Walsh, Democrat, of Massachusetts, asked Senator Heflin if he had con- sidered the possibility “of anything that might be sald upon the floor of the Senate being a ground for the grant- ing of a new trial.” Senator Heflin replied he did not think so. “If this case follows the course that others have followed, it will not make any difference what occurs here or any- where else,” Senator Heflin added. Allen Calls on Senaters. Policeman Robert J. Allen, who con- ducted a single-handed investigation of the death of Virginia McPherson and charged that she was murdered, called | on Senators Blease and Copeland, mem- bers of the District committee, which will investigate the Police Department, this morning. He said he went there to urge the committee to proceed with the investigation so far as it concerns the McPherson case. Allen declared that he did not think the investigation in 50 far as his charges were concerned would influence the trial of Robert A. McPherson, jr., on a charge of murder. Scrivener’s mother, confined to her home in Winchester, Va., by iliness, de- clared today that she was approached by two newspapermen from ‘Washing- ton who suggested that she and her husband seek to have the inquiry re- opened in view of the recent police de- velopments here. She id she con- | sented to the use of her name. |AIR PILOI DIES IN CRASH. Sport Model Plane Drops From Al titude of Only 50 Feet. HUNTINGTON, W. Va. October 14 . “Ike” Stewart, 38, Cin- ;I‘:n;::npllo! was killed yesterday when e crashed on the Huntington A"B"‘,:u r‘t" Ohu‘l 'ake, Ohio, 'wart'’s small sport model fell from an altitude of only a Dhl:f mately 50 feet while he was mmr- ing to perform a barrel roll in connec- x'on with a stunting program at the Stewart, who was to have performed the same stunt at Cincinnati tomorrow in connection with the arrival there of the national air tour, was married and the father of four children. Tepre- He was loyed as emp! Jor | 8an _Francisco. T KILL FOR These brothers, John Mulligan, 8, confessed with blase unconcern to the tieut marsh on July 27 last. simply. Photo shy “He fascinated us,” the younger brother explained ws the two Mulligan boys. MONDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1578 A THKILL and James Mulligan, 7, on October 11 ling of Albert Mikenas, 3, in a Connee- SOVIET FLYERS REACH SEATILE Exhausted After’ "Battling Headwinds From Waterfall, ’ Alaska, to Seattle. By the Assoclated Press, \ SEATTLE, Wash., October 14.—Safe in Seattle after a hazardous flight from Moscow, four Russian aviators today disclosed that they were considering a transatlantic flight as a sequel to their present undertaking, which will be com- pleted when they reach New York. Worn out by a 1,000-mile flight from Waterfall, Alaska, during which their ne, Land of the Soviets, battled a -mile-an-hour head wind, the four tors reached here at dusk yesterday. As_ they rested from the trip, 8. A. Shestakov, chief pilot of the vealed that a hop across the Atlantic was under consideration. Expect to Fly to Moscow. If the Russians cross the Atlantic they expect to continue on to Moscow irom the west by air, thus making a complete round-the-world flight. ‘The hop from Waterfall took 10 hours and 7 minutes. Navigator Boris V. Sterlingov_said the plane glided into the air at Waterfall at 7:20 a.m., Pacific standard time, and reached here at 5:30 pm. Most of the way the ship cleared the waves at an elevation of only 15 feet because of the fog and head winds. The maximum elevation was less than 1,000 feet. The plane followed the irregular shore line all the way, thereby flying almost twice the airiine distance , ifrom Waterfall to Seattle. Invitation From Fe Work will begin immediately on the removal of the pontoons and. the sub- stitution of land gear on the plane. Inspection of the motors will determine | whether the swop here will be more | than three days before the flight to From San Francisco the fiyers plan to fly to Cheyenne, Wyo.; Chicago, Dearborn and New York. ‘The aviators have received a special invitation 2o visit Henry Ford at Dearborn, they disclosed. Since their departure from Moscow the fliers have been in the air about 100 hours for the 10,000-odd miles. The Russians made known that they | were. anxious to talk with President Hoover and Mr. Ford. “We hear a great deal in Russia about two famous American engineers —Ford and Hoover,” said one of the . “We hope to be fortunate enough to meet both.” If the Atlantic flight is undertaken it will be a non-stop attempt from Ncw York to Paris, Shestakov said. From Paris the Russians would complete their air journey around the world by the regular European routes. The Atlantic hop would be the most ambitious of their flights, as the greatest distance covered heretofore in a single hop was about 1,700 miles from Moscow to Omsk, which was negotiated in 13 hours. Land of the Soviets Log. August 23—Left Moscow. ‘August 24—Arrived Kurgan, Siberia. August 26—Arrived in Novo-Sibirsk, Siberia. August 27—Arrived In Irkutsk, Siberia. September 1—Arrived in Chita, Si- beria. September 2—Arrived in Blagove- schensk, Siberia. September 3—Arrived in Khabarovsk, Siberia (delayed nine days, while wheels were replaced with pontoons). September 12—Arrived in Nikolayevsk, Siberia. September 18—Arrived in Petropav- lovsk, Kamchatka, Siberia. September 21—Arrived at Attu, Aleu- tian Islands. September 24—Arrived in Dutch Har- bor, Unalaska Island, Alaska. September 27—Arrived in Seward, first stop on Alaskan mainland. September 29—Arrived _in Sitka, capital of Alaska during Russian oc: 3—Arrived at Waterfall, | Alaska, being forced down by motor trouble. Delayed nine days while new motor installe October 12—Arrived at Seattle, POLO TROPHY AS GIFT. Argentinian Attache’s Donation for U. 8. Army Competition. By the Associated Press. Lieut. Col. Angel Maria Zuloga, mili- tary attache from Argentina to the United States, has donated a polo trophy to the Army to be known as the “Argentine Army hy,” to be con- tested for annually by military polo teams in the vicinity of Wash! ngton. The handsome silver Summerall, ne, ré- 1" s B erlindl it of Col Zuloga. gfivmufifi'o-fi.mm { ‘chiet of staff, Wednesdsy GIRL STRANGLED Man Companion Held on| ! Charges of Slain Wom- an’s Friend. ily the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 14.—The price | John Preston was paying today for a Saturday night party with two young | woman companions was jall and a mur- }der charge against him. One of the young. women, Miss Agnes Johnston, 26 | years old, was dead: She had been at- | | tacked, thien strangled. oo Preston, who is married, .denled knowledge of how Miss Johnston was | killed. Two men held thump' of bushes not far from the spot | where Preston's rented automobile had been abandoned. It was on a little-used roadway near West Chicago. The young | woman had been severely beaten. There were finger marks on her neck. | Cousin Tells Events. | Miss Mathilda Murphy, cousin of Miss | | Johnston and her companion on the | Saturday night party, told of events h said, only after much insistence, they became alarmed at his behavior after he had several drinks at a road- house. Upon their demand that he take them home, all three got into the car. Preston, | Miss Murphy said, continued his ob- | jectionable manner, and both women | leaped from the machine and ran. Miss Murphy aped, although Preston | struck her in the face, she said. t Girl Carried to Car. When she picked herself up Preston | was carrying the struggling Johnston girl to the car, and shortly afterward | he_drove away. Preston was arrested several hours later, long before the body of Miss Johnston was found, because of suspi- clon aroused by his bruised and scratched face. Police were questioning him when Miss Murphy reported the Johnston girl missing. A search led to the abandoned automobile and then | to the girl's body. 'BOARD DESIGNATES | FARM COMMODITIES Ten Products and Groups,Listed. Data Awaited for More. | By the Associated Press. Ten products and groups of prod- ucts have been designated as agricul- tural commodities by the Federal Farm Board under the provisions of the ag- ricultural marketing act. The designations were madé to as- sist the board in.dealing with co-oper- atives and other marketing organiza- tions handling the various crops. The board later will designate additional agricultural commodities when suf- ficient information is available upon which to act. Those designated are: Cotton, dairy products, including fluid milk, cream, cheese, condensed milk, butter, ice cream, evaporated milk, whole and skim milk powder; grains, including wheat, rye, corn, oats, bar- ley, flax, grain sorghums and buck- wheat; rice, live stock, wood and mohair, tobacco, poultry and eggs, seeds, includ- ing alfalfa, clover, timothy, red top and grass and other fleld seeds, and potatoes. it i DYNAMITE BLAST KILLS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT by Explosion, Which, as Yet, Is Unexplained. By the Associated Press. WASHBURN, Wis, October 14.— Tragedy marked the climax of a high school hiking party yesterday afternoon when a stick of dynamite exploded, kill- ing one student and injuring three other persons. Walker McManus, 16, high school | sophomore, who carried the dynamite, | was killed. injured were Mrs. Leora Watson, local high school teacher, who had chaperoned the ty: Doll; Holman, 16, and Gertrude Peterson, 17, ’“%"i':i used the dvnamite to explode ea exp) has not been. determined, but it is be- lieved it set when McManus ON NIGHT PARTY Several of ‘Hiking Party Injured|Sd ON TRIP TO GANADA British Premier Leaves New York for Conference With Dominion Leader. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 14.—Premier J. Ramsay Macdonald of Great Britain bade New York adieu today and de- | parted on a special train over the New York Central Rallroad, en route to Canada, where he will confer personally with Premier Mackenzie King. Refreshed somewhat from his two days of comparative rest, following his iarduous official visits in Washington and New York, the British premier and his daughter, Miss Ishbel, were driven to the Grand Central Terminal from their hotel, to bé greeted by a large crowd. ‘A squad of motor cycle police, sirens screeching, formed an escort, Pose for Cameramen. They faced the inevitable battery of cameramen and smilingly posed for pictures while spectators ~applauded. Soon afterward the premier and his party boxrded their train, which pulled out of the terminal at 8:30 o'clock. The train is due at Buffalo shortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon. After viewing Niagara Falls, tomorrow the premier will cross the International Bridge and then go by special train to Toronto, where he will greet Can- ada’s premier. A statement bearing on the recent negotiations for a better understanding between Great Britain and the United States s expected later in the weex, but the nature of §# has been carefuliy guarded. When the premier and his daughter arrived at the station they were greeted by Sir Harry Armstrong, British con- sul gerieral, and Lady Armstrong, who presented th. members of the British consulate and their wiyes to the prime minister and his daughter. Mr. Macdonald wore a suit of brown tweed, while Miss Ishbel was costumed in a traveling suit of black kasha topped by a red velvet hat. Leaves New York With Regrets. \ Just before the train pulled out of the station Sir Harry Armstrong led the crowd In a vociferous demonstration for the prime minister. The train, which was decorated with British and American' flags and chry- santhemums, was made up chiefly of | private cars belonging to the railroad officials. A double file of 200 policemen formed a line from the Vanderbilt avenue en- trance of the terminal to the train through which the premier and his rty passed. p."l leave New York with regrets— | great regrets,” the premier told report- ers just before boarding the train. He said that he expected to give his fare- to America after his ar- rival in Buffalo. Mr. Macdonald and Mr. King wil talk Thursday at Mr. King's country property at Kingsmore in a rustic atmosphere, reminiscent of that sur- rounding those with President Hoover in the Virginia mountains just a weex ago yesterday. 'Ml!e Macdonald regards it as fortu- nate that he will have the opportunity | of talking directly with Prime Minister King, thus avoiding long-distance nego- tiations through the usual channel The British statesman is a strong be- liever in' personal contact and he em- phasizéd this in some of his New York addresses after he had taken. leave of the President at Washington. Does More in Less Time. prime ng:hm»w)d one of his audiences that .he. and Mr. Hoover had accomplished as much in four days of rsonal conversations as could have g:en ccomplished in as many months through the medium of *formal diplo- matic exchanges. Some of his friends think he might have gone even further and said that more was accomplished than could have been' attained through the usual chan nels, because the personal meetings ad- mitted of a frankness of spéech that otherwise would have been well nigh impossible. Mr. Macdonald will spend most of tomorrow in inspecting the American side of the falls and visiting Goat Island and other points of interest. Four Brief Stops Planned. Traveling northward on a special train over the New York Central, the prime minister arranged for brief stops at Albany, Utica, Syracuse and Rocehs- ter before the train reaches Buffalo. The party will motor from Buffalo to Black Rock and then to Niagara Falls guests of the State Reservation Com- mission. Crossing the International Bridge | late tomorrow afternoon the prime minister and his party will board a special train over the Canadian Na- tional Railways at 3:30 pm. for the three-hour run to Toronto. The special will leave that city Wednesday evening and arrive at Ottawa the next morning at 9:30 am., with Prime Minister King to_greet Mr. Macdonald at the train. Besides Mr. Macdonald and Miss Ish- bel, those going to Canada are Lord! Arnold, paymaster general of Great Britain and a personal friend of the prime minister; Sir Robert Vansittart, principal secreary to the premier and undersecretary of state for foreign af- fairs; R. L. Craigle, counsellor of the foreign office; omas Jones, deputy secretary to the cabinet, and Miss Rosenberg, secretary to the prime minister. CAMPBELL TRANSFERRED. Quartermaster Corps Captain Ts Sent to Fort Meade. Capt. Stuart D. Campbell, Quarter- master Corps, a member of the Ameri- can Graves Registration Service in Paris, who is accompanying the bodies of American soldiers from Russia to the United States for reburial at Detroit, Mich., has been ordered to take station at Fort George G. Meade, Md., on the completion of that duty: Capt. Clarence U. Snider, Medical Corps, at Fort George G. Meade, has been ordered to Fort McIntosh, Tex.: Maj. Francis P. Hardaway, Coast Artillery Corps, from New York City to St. Louis; Capt. Ray S. Perrin, Field Artillery, from Boise, Idaho, to San Francisco: Capt. Sumner H. Needham, Field Artillery, g&m Fort Sam Houston, Tex., to Fort Okla. PLANES IN MANEUVER 25,000 FEET IN AIR Using supercharged motors and oxygen equipment, pilots of the 91st Pursuit uadron, Army Air Corps, at Rockwell Field, Calif,, have carried on military pursuit maneuvers at an altitude of 25,000 feet, or nearly 5 miles above sea level, according to a report received here by Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, chief of '.h_!rhAerOorDl. i & et e planes were put through com! maneuvers by Lieut. Kirtley J. Gregg and Lieut. Irving A, Woodring as a test of the capabilities of the standard Army pursuit planes at the extreme altitudes ‘which would prevall in the case of an- other war. Machine gun fire and fuel consumption were tested under service conditions. . Twenty-five thousand feet is above the normal range of the P-1 type of The Vit of Bapercharyed. motors. the use 0 Je 20 the service ceil- P of ittle from eet o & INVDONALD STARTS |ORDERS CHANGE INTRAGTION BOOKS Utilities Body’s Decision De- ;igned to Obtain Uni- formity. in Accounting. The Public Utilitles Commission to- day ordered the Capital Traction and i Washington Railway & Electric Co.s to make substantial changes in their methods of accounting, principally with reference to the capital account of each concern. The changes are in matters of substance and in matters of detall. In the former the Washington Raflway & Electric Co. will be required to make the more radical’ changes in its pres- ent methods, as the Capital Traction Co.’s methods are closc w0 the stand- ards set up by the commission. In the latter both companies are equally af- fected. The order takes effect Janu- ary 1, 1929. The chief object sought by the order is uniformity of account- ing among the two companies; and in that respect the order is one of the first fruits of the recent car fare hear- ings, at which it was next to impossible adequately to compare figures submit- ted by the accountants of the respec- tive companies, owing to varying inter- pretations given by the companies to accounts of the same name. Most Substantial Changes. The most substantial changes ordered were: i 1. Expenditures for buying property must be accounted for on the. basis of actual cost. 2. In the case of the retirement of any piece of property other than land and its replacement with a new piece of property, the new property shall be considered & betterment, and capital account shall be charged with the en- tire cost of the mew property. 3. The cost of the property replaced, less salvage value, if any, but includ- ing cost of overheads, shall then be retired from the account. The commission ordered that any re- placement of all or substantially all of underground conduit single track 250 {fest or more in length; or an overhead | trolley tracic 500 feet or more in length shall_constitute a renewal of property as provided for above. Salvage re- maining in old property replaced is to be considered either as the net amount received by the company for selling it as scrap, or its value to the company based on & “fair market price.” Allowed Extra Labor Charge. ‘The companies are allowed to charge an extra'amount for labor on track re- newal work done in daytime under traffic, which is normally considerably | more costly than work done otherwise ‘This amount is to be credited to the, cost of the job and charged to the ap- propriate operating cost account. The companies are allowed to set up & uniform percentage to be added to the cost of work under non-traffic con- i ditions to represent the cost under traf- fic conditions, but if they elect to use this method, theyp must inform the commission of the manner in which they reachied their percentage figure. ‘The companies are required o keep separate the cost of retiring tte old property and the cost of installing the * new. Where in the nature of the case this cannot be done, they are required * to assign the costs by estimate under certain restrictions. “The amount to be retired from cdpital ascount for any retirement is the actual § ledger value of the property to be re- . tired. here the it. cannot. be determined exactly from the books, then the figure used shall correspond with that in the inventory of property made by the commission’s engineers when the companies were valued. If this figure is not available, a careful estimate must be made, In all cases of retirements; the figure at which the property is retired must include overheads. The retirement of overheads in retirement ccsts has not been prac- ticed by the companies heretofore, and according to Commissioner Harleigh H. Hartman there are doubtless numerous unidentifiable cases of amounts left in capital account that should have been taken out in the way of overheads on retired property. . Mr. Hartman explained that the chief difference in accounting method be- tween the two companies was that the Capital Traction Co. cleared practically everything through capital aceount and the Washington Railway & Electric Co. through operating expenses. The new system, he will lean more to the Capital Trac 's method. The require- ment that all additions must be made through capital account at actual cost, will also tend to maké the campanies’ capital accounts more nearly approach a reproduction estimate of the value of their physical property. | AUSTRALIA LABOR VICTORY CONFIRMED Party Apparently Has Won 44 of 75 Seats, Although Figures Are Intomplete. | By the Associated Press. MELBOURNE, Australia, October 14. —Continued tabulations of returns from the general elections of yesterday con- firmed the Labor victory, but the final figures still were unavailable late last night. It appeared that Labor had won 44 ?‘I thfiszf zs;l:;l mc;ne new House, Na- ional . the Count; ty 10, In- dependent Nationalists !r.y'?t‘l: {'uoolll';r seats held by other independents. Some ministers of the late mnum gOV~ ernment were defeated, and it was not even certain whether former Premier S. M. Bruce would be elected. Although' it appeared that James Henry Scullin, the Labor leader, who will be the next prime minister, would have a workable majority in the House, the Labor government is not likely to be able to indulge in extremist legis- lation, because there still is a stron, Natlonalist majority Senate. w The chief issue of the election was the attempt of the Nationalist gover ment to modify the present arbitration system’ for labor disputes in a way which the Labor party contended re- vealed an aim to reduce wages. Two former Labor state premiers were elected, and probably will be con- sidered in the formation of the cabi- net. They are former Premier E. G. ‘Theodore of Queensland and former Premier J. A. Lyons of Tasmania. Observers today were speculating as to ‘the attitude in the coming of three former Nationalists who helped to defeat the last government. These were Willlam M. Hughes, war-time prime minister; Lieut. Walter Marks and George A. Maxwell. ‘Three of the ministers in the last cabinet were believed to have lost their seats. They were Postmaster General W. G. Gibson, Minister of Health Sir Nevile Howse and Minister for Home Territories C. W. Marr. . TOWBOAT STRIKE OFF. NEW YORK, October 14 (#)—Union towboat workers at a meeting last night voted down a strike and agreed to accept a new agreement offered by the New York Towboat Exchange, Inc. ‘The agreement ‘pmm for monthly increase for ¢ $10 poredas nd 4