Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1929, Page 2

BOARD SEEKS RAISE "IN COTTON PRICES Farm Group Prepares to Ad- just Market and Advance Loans to Growers. By the Associnted Press. As the first major step of its career, the Federal Farm Board has worked out » plan for improving the present price of cotton and is prepared to take similar action on wheat under a scheme to be announced later. The board is of the opinion that pre- vailing cotlon prices are too low, and believes the solution lies in more order- 1y marketing of this year's crop. It is prepared to lend an unlimited amouat of money to the cotton growers, that they may hold their product off the market, Too Rapid Marketing. Analyzing the present cotton market, the board is of the opinion that open Fall weather in the Southern States has led to too rapid marketing, with world consumption meanwhile on a level equal to that of last year and the total supply of American cotton at a lesser stage than a year ago. More cotton, it be- leves, has been rushed into the market than it can temporarily absorb, with resulting depressed prices and lack of confidence in cotton values. To assist the growers to hold back their crop and meanwhile meet their financial obligations, the board proposcs to lend to cotton co-operatives, qualified as borrowers under the Capper-Volstead act, “sums sufficient to bring the total amount borrowed from all sources by such associations to 16 cents per pound on graded and classed cotton, basis mid- dling seven-eights inch staple, less proper deductions to cover freight” eharges. To Draw Advances. Tn a statement announcing its plan, the board pointed out that there is a cotton co-operative in every cotton growing State open to membership of every cotton farmer. The grower may Join the co-operative, the statement continued, ship his cotton to its con- centration point, and draw his advance after it has been graded and classified. The co-operative will market the cot- ton in orderly fashion through the year, said the board, and will finally settle with the farmer “on the basis of the final price obtained.” ‘The statement went on to express the board’s confidence in the soundness of the scheme, asserting it to be a “com- x.lewly safe basis for making loans” ‘om the revolving fund established by the farm relief law. “The board places no limit on the amount of Government money to be so Joaned.” the statement said. “Nearly $100,000,000 is available for the purpose, and, if necessary, the board will ask Congress to appropriate more.” Spot Market Designated. ‘The board said 10 designated South- ern spot markets would be used for elassification of the loans. The loan per pound will be approxi- mately as follows at the different mar- kets: Norfolk, Va., 16.54 cents; Augusta, Ga., 16.35 cents; Savannah, 16.28 cents; Montgomery, Ala.. 15.64 cents; New O leans, 16.59 cents; Memphis, 15.39 cents Little Rock, Ark., 15.41 cents; Dallas, Tex., 15.34 cents; Houston, Tex., 16.19 cents, and Galveston, Tex., 16.39. At all other concentration points Joans will be made on the same basis with proper adjustments on account of freight and other expenses. FOURTEEN WITNESSES ARE QUESTIONED IN MRS. DREYFUS’ DEATH ) __(Continued_from_First P ly the last person to see her be- ore she fell, was represented at the hearing by Attorneys Wilbert McIrney and L. Henry Vandoren. The witnesses were questioned to a considerable ex- tent by H. H. Newman, assistant United States district attorney. “Open-Minded Attitude.” Although the circumstances indicated accidental death, the homicide squad bas been diligent in bringing to light all information with a bearing on the case and was expected to insist all wit- nesses be heard. ‘An “open-minded” attitude has been maintained, it was pointed out at head- quarters yesterday, so the six-man jury could get the entire result of the police inquiry. No one saw Mrs, Dreyfus go over the balcony rail. A young couple nearby, Anna Leonard and Edward Wilson, heard the woman’s body strike the latform below. Neither could recall aving seen or heard Mrs. Dreyfus and her companion previous to the time | they heard a thud, looked over the! guard rail and spread the alarm among | the dancers. McBrien, who has been held by po- lice for the inquest, had gone to the dance with Mrs. Dreyfus and her brother and sister, William and Freda Fischer of 1504 Olive street, Kenilworth. McBrien Goes After Wraps. While William and Freda were dancing together McBrien said he re- mained on the balcony with Mrs. Drey- fus, going inside to the cloakroom to get the wraps of the party when the orchestra struck up “Home, Sweet Home,” the final number. Returning across_the floor with the eoats and hats, McBrien said he heard some one shout that a woman had itched from the balcony. He hastened gelow with the crowd and found his companion lying unconscious upon the platform at a point where it sloped to- ward the Potomac River. McBrien admitted to police that there | had been some drinking in the party of | four. They left the Fischer home in Kenilworth some time before 11 o'clock Saturday night. The time Mrs. Dreyfus pitched from the balcony was about 1:30 am. Sunday. Members of the family informed po- lee that Mrs. Dreyfus and McBrien had been friends sinee the woman's divorce, in 1924, from Herbert Dreyfus, New York broker and former “dollar- a-year” man with the United States Shipping Board during the war. Mris. Dreyfus met her husband while em- ployed in his office here. Funeral Services Today. Police were told Mrs, Dreyfus was receiving $500 & month alimony irom | Dreyfus. She diviged her time since her divorce between the residence of her family in Washington and her New York home, at 128 West Fifty-ninth #treet, next door to McBrien's residence. Funeral services for M Dreyfus were to be held at 2 o'clock this after- noon at the Fischer residence, with burizl in Prospect Hill Cemetery. The police investigation has been in charge of Lieut. Joseph Morgan, new chief of the homicide squad, assisted by Detectives Joseph F. Waldron and George Darnall, Police of No. 7 pre- éinct, in which the fatal injury oc- curred issued some 20 summonses in the case to the inquest. SEES U. S. AS AIR LEADER. Fokker Predicts American Domi- nation in Transportation. PLYMOUTH. Englend, October 22 (®)—The_prediction that the United States within a year will lead in air passenger transportation was made by { Anthony Fokker, noted airplane de- ! signer, on his arrival here today from New York, Fokker said his trip was being unde taken to arrange & combination of Eu~ ropean and American interests with a world-wide ofganization of factories, “ Scorned Youth Wins School’s Hero Crown By Catching Mad Dog By the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex., October 22— Scorned by his playmates and nicknamed “Doggle” because his father was the municipal dog- catcher, Herbert Baird, 15, has become a hero among his friends by catching a mad dog. The dog ran amuck, biting 11 puplls at Herbert's school. He dived at the animal, catching it just back of its ears and holding it until it could be tled. City health officials sald the dog was suffering from rabies. FALL'S ATTORNEY COALITION FIGHTS CHEMIGAL DUTIES Senators King and La Fol- lette Launch Attack on Rate Increases. By the Associated Press, A sharp attack from both wings of | the Democratic-Republican independent Senate coalition was directed today at proposed increases in chemical dutles the moment the rate schedules of the tariff bill were reached. Rumblings of discontent over these Holds “National " for Oil Contract. Declaring that ‘“national REFERS T0 MENACE Security” Runs Through Negotiations security runs like a thread of gold” through the Government's negotiations for the Pearl Harbor oil storage contract, as a re- sult of which former Secretary of the | Interior Albert F. Fall is being tried on a bribery charge, the defense today 1 coalition, resorted again to the reputed menace of a Japanese war scare in 1921 to bring its final arguments to a climax. Frank J. Hogan, chief of defense counsel, was in the midst of a fliery at- tack on the Government's case when court recessed for the luncheon period, as a result of which the case will not have been heard for weeks as the Sen- ate plodded through one controversy after another on administrative fea< tures. At the outset of debate today the dispute promised to rival the heated discussions precipitated by revision of the flexible provision and incorporation of the export debenture proposition over the protest of the President. Starting off, Senator King, Democrat, Utah, de- scribed the chemical Industry as & “powerful glant,” in no position to seek increases in duties. Decreases in rates were more justifiable, he thundered. Senator La Follette, Republican, fol- lowed him, In the face of renewed declcrations of the steadfast purpose of the Senate’s Democratic - independent - Republican administration leaders today began a vigilant and hopefui watch for indieations of any break in the ranks of the alliance which might result from the rate schedules of the bill. After seven weeks devoted to the ad- ministrative provisions of the measure, the schedules today were at last the official and unfinished business of the Senate, with but six weeks of the spe- clal session left for their consideration. ‘The coalition is determined that the tomorrow. effectively Rear Admiral John K. Robison, then chief of naval_engineers, vince Edward L. Doheny, Fall $100,000, in Hawaii. be turned over to the jury before noon After placing responsibility for the Pearl Harbor contract upon the Navy Department, the defense attorney uscd the pursuasive appeal of the to con- who gave that a threatened war with Japan made necessary thé con- struction of oil facilities for the fleet Private Funds Served U. S. Turning toward the jurors, Hogan | declared that the $14,000,000 taken from the coffers of a private corpora- tion to serve the purposes of the Gov- ernment afforded their protection against & war in the Pacific now and in_the future. Despite the downpour of rain, the de- fendant appeared in the courtroom shortly before the session convened at 10 o'clock, thereby dispelling rumors that he would be compelled to remain in his apartment on account of the in- clement weather and the ailment that has affected him since coming to Wash- ington. The courtroom again was crowded with spectators, including many promi- nent officials and atotrneys. Attacks Government’s Claim. Mr. Hogan, who began the opening argument for the defense shortly before court adjourned yesterday, resumed this morning by explainnig the indictment which charges the former cabinet officer with accepting as a bribe the $100,000 from Doheny to influence his action in leasing to the California oil man the Navy's reserve in that State. . “There never was and I am not so optimistic as to belleve there over will be so completely a disproved document,” Hogan said with reference to the in- dictment. He entered upon a sharp attack on the Government’s claim of secret nego- tiations between Fall and Doheny prior to- November 30, 1921, the date of the alleged bribe taking. These so-called secret negctations he termed the “crum- bling foundation” of the Government’s case. The defense attorney argued that the only way to pay for the expensive storage facilities at Pearl Harbor was in the exchange of crude oil for fuel oil. On the date Fall is said to have accepted the bribe, he told the jury, the Bureau of Mines, at the direction of the Secre- tary of the Interior, had been instructed to send all certificates of crude oil to the Navy Department. He charged the Government with unfairness in not producing this documentary evidence. The order was revoked some days later, not by Fall, but by Acting Secretary of the Interior E. C. Finney, he told the jury, during Fall's absence in New Mexico He also scored the Government for not mentioning in its opening argument the fact that Admiral Robison had ob- tained from the judge advocate gen- Democratic-insurgent-Republican group that they can hold their lines together through the impending controversies yesterday, under which the tariff bill would have been given back 0 the committee with instructions that rate section, FISHERIES OFFICER fish industry and took the view of the Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co. of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ As- sociation. said that he wished to deny flatly re- ports of the testimony given by Mr. Coo- ley yesterda: of & telephone conversation with Cooley. rates shall be so revised as to accord to agriculture the extent of protection which it believés is necessary. Borah of Idaho, a leader of the independents, is. in fact, on record with a statement that this will be done, if not at the special session, then certainly at the regular session, regardless of the attitude of President Hoover toward prolonging the tariff debate. The Republican regulars foresee, however, a disintegration of the coa- lition with the controversies of the rate schedules and their highly disputed features. They look forward to the sugar schedule as one of the certain rocks upon which they believe the al- liance must split. The confidence of the leaders of the was the basis of their refusal to sup- port a motion, brought to a vote latc changes be restricted to the agricultural The proposal was defeated, 64 QUIZZED ON LOBBY F. W. Bryce Denies Cooley’s Statement He Threatened “Free List” Drive. (Continued from First Page.) dent of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association, who told him that “they” had heard all the testimony about the The At- lantic Coast Fisheries Co. is a member Bryce Denles Testimony. Mr. Bryce, when he took the stand, He said that his firm was not a Connecticut firm, although the newspapers so reported it, but a New York concern. He also denied the report Senator Walsh drew from Mr. Bryce the fact that the great part of the haddock and cod taken by the Atlantic the oil base. Secrecy Was Ordered. were keeping “ ney declared, were based on the crecy” order involving the Navy' Navy Theodore Roosevelt, jr. serve their Government?” manded. eral of the Navy a legal opinion uphold- ing the Pearl Harbor contract policy. | That legal opinion, Hogan said, was the seed” from which grew all plans for ‘The matters which Fall and Doheny unfidential,” as charged by the Government, the defense attor- ‘se- y's war plans issued by Asst. Secretary of the “Why don’t you indict Roosevelt and line him up, too, in this never-ending line of men who didn’t know how to Hogan de- Reference to the share of Edwin Den- by in the oil matters brought from the defense attorney an eulogy of the late Secretary of the Navy. He also referred to Edward L. Doheny, Jr., the dead son of the oil man Picturing the perils of a “yellow war” and what it would mean to the Pacific Coast, the defense attorney declared that Robison had appealed to the oil man “as the father of & man who had served on his ship in war” to bid on the Pear] Harbor work “Doheny, snecred at and vilified, was just the sort of man to respond to such an appeal.” he declared. The defense attorney referred to Gov- ernment_officlals who previously were willing to let go of the Navy's ofl re- serves without regard to national se- curity as “dumbbells in public office.” BROKER IS FREED OF LARCENY CHARGE! | District Attorney Holds James Gor-| don Yates Did Not Commit Criminal Act. A charge of larceny after trust| against John Gordon Yates, investment | broker, with offices in the Wilkins Building, was nolle prossed today by Asst, United States Attorney Charles Murray, who held that the man had committed no criminal act. Yates was arrested in his office late gnterduy afternoon by police from the etective Bureau after Mrs. Alda M. Bird, 2623 Garfield street, had sworn out a warrant against him. She re- ported that she gave the broker $2,100 in stock to be converted into stock in another company. She said that she had never got the latter stock or her money yates says that he is willing to give Mrs. Bird the stock which she claims. He said that he offered it to her on another octasion and that she refused it. Murray sald that the stock in ques- tln_:_jhi: practically worthless. says the case, it is not one for & criminal court to handle, Coast Fisherles Co. are landed at Groton, Conn. The witness also said that his company owned two Canadian plants. He said, however, that these Canadian plants represent less than 10 per cent of the interests of the com- pany. He said that about 75 to 80 per cent of the company's business in haddock and cod was handled in Groton, although only about one-third of the company’s entire business was done there. Fish, he said, are landed in New York and in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In reply to Senator Walsh, he said that the Atlantic Coast PFisheries Co. had established itself in Groton, Conn., about two years ago and had become a member of the Connecticut Manufac- turers’ Association about that time. He said that the corporation was a ten or eleven million dollar concern; that it had been reorganized in 1922 and that he had gone with the concern in 1926, 1t deals in fish products, but not eanned fish. The concern employs from 1,500 to 2,000 men. “We regard ourselves as manufactur- ers on a mass production basis,” said | Mr. Bryce. Walsh Pins Him Down. Senator Walsh pinned the witness | down regarding his stand on the tariff on fish, He admitted that he and Cooley had not been in accord on the tariff duties. Mr. Bryce said that his company had requested a further reduction because conditions had changed in the cost of production in the United States and Canada. “What did the House do regarding these fish duties?” asked Senator Walsh. The witness said that the House had retained the duty as It was in the present law. What did the Senate do?” asked Senator Walsh. The witness said that the Senate committee had made seasonal reduc- tions. committee Names Supporters. ‘Walsh asked the witness what other American fish producers had supported his contention that the duty on fish should be lowered. The witness named a long list, but Senator Walsh pointed out that while these companies dealt in fish they did not produce them, but_bought them. “Who did you see about this matter of the duty in Washington?" asked Sena< tor Walsh. Mr. Bryce sald that he called on Sen- ator Bingham three ot four months ago. “Do you want the committee to un- derstand,” said Senator Robinzon of In- diana, “that you came down here and worked against your own interests?” The witness said that his company | belleved in mass produciton with a low unit of profit. “Wasn't the real reason you favored a lo tariff,” said Senator Robinson, “the fact that you import the largest part of your Canadian production into this country?” Mr. Bryce flatly denied this. Senator Blaine brought out that Bryce's corporation acquired two Cana- dian companies between the simes - Senator * - WOULD ABOLISH Above: What is left of the automobile in which Mrs. Douglas Lemmons and her 6-year-old son Milan were killed when the machine was hit by a train at Landover, Md., last night. car off the tracks when the crash came; Mrs. Lemmons and Milan, REPORT ON ALLEN | AWAITS SACKETT Suspension Data Won't Be Given Out Until Sub- committee Meets. ‘The report submitted by Supt. of Po- lice Pratt to Chairman Sackett of the Senate subgommittee investigating po- lice affairs, setting forlh the reasons for the suspension of Policeman Robert J. Allen several weeks ago, will not be made public at the Capitol until the next meeting of the subcommittee. Senator Sackett wiil be out of the city for the next few days, announcing before his departure that the reports called for on several different matters would be laid before the subcommittee before they are given out. ‘The chalrman of the subcommittee is expected back Friday, and if all of the reports have been received, he probably will call & meeting soon after his arrival. Suspension of Policeman Allen fol- lowed his action in launching an in- dependent investigation into the Mc- Pherson case. ‘The policeman was restored to duty later, but the sub- committee decided this did not remove the necessity for inquiring into his suspension. Senator Blease of Sputh Carolina, author of the resolution under which the subcommittee is working, said today he turned over to Senator Sackett all information that came to him relating to the investigation. The subcommit- tee started out by calling for a writte report on the various different question raised in the resolutions, and will wait for these reporls before holding any hearing. Senator Blease said that At the proper time he would have scme witnesses to call before the subcommit- tee in regard to the matter referted to in the resolution. GRID GAME POSTPONED. Because of the heavy rain, which turned the gridiron in” Central High Stadium into a veritable quagmire, the public high school championship foot ball game scheduled this afternoon be- tween Business and Western was called off. It probably will bs played at the end of the series schedule. Falls-Nine Floors to Death. CHICAGO, October 22 (#)—Quincy V. Young, manager of the Container Corporation of America, either leaped or fell to his death today from the ninth floor of the Conway Building, across from the city hall. He fell in an alley and was killed instantly. Young's offices were in the Conway Building. He was married and the father of three children. : appeared before the House ways and means committee seeking a lower tariff and the times the Senate finance com- mittee was asked to adopt a so-called seasonal tariff which would provide a higher tariff cn ceriain varieties at sea- sons of the year when the supply is least In a voluntary statement later Bryce said he wished to point out that his corporation had no negotiations with the Canadian companies at the time of the House committee hearings. “You didn't have to take advantage of the tariff on your American fish did you?” Senator Caraway asked. “You could sell the fish at any price in this market regardless of the tariff.”” Bryce agreed. “Then the only reason you wanted a lower tariff was so you could get fish in from Canada at lower prices?” After a pause, Bryce said: “Yes.” Caraway developed that it was Bryce's attitude that while a higher tariff would give his company greater immediate profits as long as the supply obtained, # lower tatiff would enable the compang to develop its Canadian business. Senator Blaine, in interrogating the witness at length with regard to the effect of supply and demand, as be- tween the company’s Canadlan and American interests, caused Brycs to agree that if fish products were en the iree list, the company’s Canadian out- put could be diverted to American con- sumers at a profit. The empk‘azment by Bryce's corpora- tion of F. Meineset, formerly fish ex- pert on the Tariff Commission, about June 1 last, was asked about by Se Walsh, who was told this no relas gislation, he tion to tariff le BIBLE GROUPENDS BUSINESS SESSIONS Wcemen'’s Mission Association Convenes—Ministers Hold Conference. Group conferences of the General Sunday School Associatien-in the Hotel Mayflower this morning concluded the business sessions of the first three large conventions under the auspices of the Universalist Church being held here this week Dr. Ji Columbia Public School Department stressed the need of the early training of children along proper lines at the children’s group conference meeting. Young peoples and adult group meet- ings also were held. The first was pre- sided over by Rev. Dr. A. Gertrude Earle and the second by Carl A. Hempel. The second convention, that of the Women's National Missionary Associa- tion, held its first session in the Hotel Mayflower this afternoon, while a min- isters’ conference of the Universalist Church general convention marked a preliminary feature of that organiza- tion’s general sessions, which begin to- morrow evening with a session at All Souls’ Unitarlan Church, Sixteenth and Harvard streets. There are approxi- mately 700 delegates to the Universal- ist general convention, representing Unlversalist Churches throughout the United States and Canada. Round table discussions on “Ways That Win in Building Up a Church” featured the ministers' conference of | the general convention this afterncoi The Woman's National Missionar Association will have a banquet in the Mayflower tonight. The General Sunday School Associa- tion elected officers for the coming year at a session late yesterday. Rev. John M. Rateliff, professor of religious edu- cation at Tufts College, Massachusetts, was elected president and Rev. W. A. Cate of New Hampshire was elected first vice president. The other officers were re-elected. They are Rev. Laura Bowman of Iowa, second vice president; Carl A. Hempel of Massachusetts, secretary, and Al- bert H. Homans of Ohlo, treasurer Rev. George E. Huntley retired from the ‘presidency of the General Sunday School _Assoclation after continuous service for 16 years. He was presented with more than $1.200 and a number of presents late yesterday, in token of the esteem in which he is held by the assoclation members. TCHITCHERIN T0O ILL TO RESUME SOVIET POST Foreign Affairs Commissar May Remain in Germany for Medical Treatment. By the Associnted Press. MOSCOW, October 22, — GPOI‘K!‘ Tehitcherin, commissar for foreign af- | fairs, who has been ill in Germany for | more than a year, is still unable, with- out risk, to resume his duties at Mos- cow, s letin published i tod: he bulletin 1s signed by four professors who are treat- ing him at Wiesbaden. The bulletin discloses that Tchitch- erin for the past four years has been suffering from diabetes, inflammation of the nerves and a rheumatic infec- tion which requires constant special- ized treatment, unavoidable in Russia. Attending physicians say that only if the treatment ?rogres«u satisfactorily will it be possible to raise the question of the veteran statesman's return to Moscow. KING GOES HUNTING. SANDRINGHAM, England, October 22 (#).—King George went hunting in Sandringham preserves today with a number of his friends. His majesty, who is acknowledged to be one of the best shots in the king- dom, found his eye undimmed and his hand as steady as ever after his long illness, and many birds fell before his gun. It was understood the royal house- hold will return to London sometime in November for & stay at Buckingham - Below: Lemmons, who was attempting to je LaSalle of the District of | | M. Jett, who arrested Milburn. i defense when threatened with a razor Jllh the —Star Staff Photos, BOY’S DESIRE TO SEE TRAINS GO BY IS HELD CAUSE OF 2 DEATHS treated for shock. He desires only to be released from the hospital in order that he may go to the empty home at 321 Sixth street southeast and prepare for the burial of his family. Other than that, he has no interest in the future. Last night, it Is believed that the family, as was customary, parked at the crossing. Lemmons is sald to have gone to a nearby.store to purchase ice cream, - but returned when the New York-Washington express approached. Seated in his car, he is believed to have accidentally placed his foot on the starter, causing the car to roll forward on the tracks. Frantic efforts to start the machine were futile. Lemmons, aided by Wil- liam Garrison, colored watchman at | the crossing, and several citizens, at- tempted to shove the automobile from the pdth of the oncoming train, but were forced to abandon their task and leap to safety. ‘The impact shattered the automobile and dragged the bodies of the victims fully an eighth of a mile. Five electric switches along the tracks were torn out, train service was delayed nearly | half an hour and repairmen labored all night getting the electric signal appar- atus in service. * . H. Sansbury, engineer of the train, is reported to have applied the brakes so rapidly as to pull the draft timbers out of the ninth car, a sleeper. It was necessary for four cars to be left on the tracks, and many passen- gers desiring to reach their destina- | tions were transferred to other trains. | Many, however, preferred to remain in | their cars until they could be taken into ; Washington. | Tried to Save Boy. | Lemmons is said to have attempted to grasp the hands of his boy ahd drag him to safety. That is all he remem- bered. Arriving at the scene, Chief H. L. Leonard of the Prince Georges County Rescue Squad, attempted to gain some knowledge of the affair from the hus- band. He was told: “My wife and boy had been driving out to Landover almost every evening for the past few weeks to park by the side of the railroad tracks so that the child could see the trains go by. We had been parked at the crossing a little while and planned to stay there | long enough to see just one more train pass. “I went over to A nearby store and bought some ice cream and when I returned I sat in the car. I happened | to put my foot on the starter and the | car rolled ont to the middle of the | tracks and stalled. I did not know that it had been in gear. I could not seem to get it started and jumped out so that I could try to push it off the track, as I knew the train was coming. Some other people tried to help me. “When the train started bearing down I reached out and grasped the hands of my boy to try and pull him out. Then everything went black.” A coroner's jury was sworn in at the scene by Justice of the Peace Herbert J. Moffat of Hyattsville, who will con-~ duct an inquest Friday night. Chief Leonard i8 foreman of the jury. The bodies were removed to the undertaking establishment of F. Gasch & Sons, Bladensburg. There has been only one other fatal accident at the crossing in recent years, The victim was a deaf woman who failed to hear the warning signal of an on- coming train. MAN DIES FROM BLOW ON HEAD; ANOTHER HELD Earl Mitchell, colored, 27 years old, who was struck on the head with piece of wood Sunday while engaged in an altercation at Thirteenth and D treeets with Theodore C. Milburn, also colored, 37 years old, of 2424 N stréet, died at Gallinger Hospital shortly after 10 o'clock last night. Miss Mabel Pettingill, of Addison Heights, Va., witne the affair and furnished her name to Detective Henry She declared Milburn had acted ih self and expressed a willingness to appear as a witness for him. Milburn was released on $500 cash collateral on a charge of assauit. This morning he was rearrested in order to DISTRICT BOARD Research Body Recommends Substitution of City Man- ager and Council. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Abolition of the present system of a Board of Commissioners in charge of | the municipal administration of the Na- tional Capital and substitution of a sin- gle executive, or manager, with a legis- lative council of seven members, is urged in a report on a comprehensive survey of the government and admini tration of the District of Columbia by the Institute for Government Research of the Brookings Institute, which is an association of public-spirited men for scientific study of governmental affairs. “Congress has complete legislative power over the District of Columbia and its government, and it exercises that au- thority to a degree of detail that tends to distort its vision and to hamper the work of the -’encles charged with the enforcement of its measures,” sayvs this report in introducing its recommenda- tion for a legislative council. Act a8 Executives. “Under the present form of govern- ment, the Commissioners make muni- B'J).l regulations, determine poliey and administer their policies and regulations through their own membership, the subordinate units being divided among | the three Commissioners,” explains the institute’s report in recommending the creation of a new office of general manager. “The objections to this pro- cedure are manifest,” continues the re- port. “Sitting as a board. the Comm! sioners perform the duties of a muni- cipal couneil; acting severally they have the duties of executive officers. One member ‘may take action on a matter in the fleld assigned him, and later when the same matter is reviewed by the Board of Commissioners, will vote on the review of his own action. There is & tendency for the board to approve perfunctorily the recommendations of a particular Commissioner relating to work under his direction, and there is a natural disinclination on the part of each Commissionet to make any sug- guestions regarding the work under the direction of the others. “Under the present practice of com- bining policy-making and executive functions in the same body, the expe- ditious and orderly conduct of public business leads inevitably to this situa- tion. This has been the universal his- tory of all commission governments where the members also have had ex- ecutive power.” The report points out that many members of Congress would welcome relief from the butden of minor munici- pal legislation if assured that it could be eftected without jeopardizing ade- quate congressional contfol. 1t cites as another “great difficulty” that the Dis- trict authorities are not given enough leeway in the minor details of the gov- ernment of a great city of half a mil- lion people, such as closing a street or change in an alley. “it would appear,” says the report, “that the obvious remedy for this sit- uation is the delegation of the power of ordinance-making to a subordinate legislative body or council.” Council of Seven Proposed. ‘The proposal is for a council of seven members, five of whom would be resi- dents of the District of Columbia, to be appointéd by the President, by and with the consent and approval of the Senate, for overlapping terms of five years, at a “moderate” annual salary (rr about $2,500). This coun- cil would have no administrative duties or responsibilities. ‘The two members of the council not residents of the District, it is suggested, should be the chairman of the Senate and House District committees, which now consider and make recommenda- tions on all matters of legislation affect- ing the municipal administration of the National Capital. “This would seem to provide an effective means by which Congress could keep in close relations with the chosen representatives of the people of the District and share in the formula- tion of policies that will be likely to receive the approval of Congress,” the institute's report argues. The valld objections to congressional representa- M.on on theldpresent l?onrd'g: Commis- sioners would not apply to proposed olinell; Wies. dutize would b purely legislativé and not largely administra- jtive, as are those of the present board. It is proposed in the institute's ree- ommendations that this council be vested with the ordinance-making powers eommonly possessed by the log- islative bodies of representative Amer- i cities and with such powers of territorial législatures as are applicable to the District of Columbia Tfim. the institiite feels, “would provide for the unique needs of the District, which combines the characteristics of a city 1 with certain features that arise fiom its_analogy to a teérritory or State.” It is to be expected, according to the report, that Congress will reserve pow- | er to annul lni{l ordinance made by the council, and that it might go further and provide that certain classes of leg- islation should take effect only after a sufficient interval to permit of congres- sional approval or veto. In insistihg that there is ample prec- edent for such a restriction, the re- port calls atention to the act of Feb-! ruary 21, 1871, creating a territorial | government and a legislative assembly, which was upheld by the Supreme Cou! of the United States, ruling that it not open to reasonable doubt that Con- gréss had power to invest, nad did in- vest, the District government (created by that act) with legisiative authority.” | Should Name Head. ‘This council, it is proposed, ghould appoint the executive head of the municipal administration, and also such members of boards as are now ap- pointed by the District Commissioners —namely, the Board of Public Welfare and the several examining boards for issuing licenses for professional or | mechanical pursuits; also members of the Education and Library Council, which is also proposed by the institute. From its membership it should elect a member of the Public Utilities Com- mission. & member of the Zoning Com- mission and a member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion. One of the tmost important functions of the proposed council would be the | determination of the financial and work | program that shall be submitted to Congress, and the allotment of appro- priations made by that body to specific objects or purposes. Responsibility for the formulation, in the first instance, of the budget will rest with a proposed department of finance acting as the chief ald in respect to financial mat- ters of the general manager. It would become the duty of the council to examine the budget as thus formulated, to modify its provisions in such respects as it deems advisable, and to submit it in its revised form to Con- gress as its %renmnl of the provisions that should made for meeting the expenditureé needs of the District gov- ernment and the manner in which tgoeee needs should be financed. Under existing conditions Congress in its appropriation act for the Di | trict specifies in great detail the man- ‘ner in which funds voted for the sup- {port of the local government shall be £pent. “With a body such as the pro- posed council in existence,” the insti- tute's report argues, “it will be pos. sible and probably desirable that Con- insure his attendance at a coroner’s in- | quest at the morgue tomorrow morning. Kitty Quill; who used to supply xml Edward with flowers and was permi to use the royal Arms on her baskel died reeently at Bastbourne, aged 68, gress shall make its grants under more comprehensive heads, leaving it to the RUSSIAN PLANE OFF FOR CHEYENNE Arrange to Change Motors in Event It Is Necessary at Next Stop. By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif., October 22.—The Russian monoplane Land of the Soviets took off here at 5:50 o'clock this morn- ing for Cheyenne, the next scheduled stop on its flight from Moscow to New York. The Land of the Soviets, with its crew of four, arrived here Saturday from Vancouver, Wash. A. V. Petrofx of New York was aboard the plane, The airmen, Shestakov, commander of the flight; Phil E. Bolotov, second pilot; Broris E. Sterligov, navigator, and Dmitri V. Fufaev, spent the night at the airport here. Another plane, piloted by L. G. Ger- shevich, a representative of the Amtorg Corporation, took off with the Land of the Soviets and accompanied the monoplane eastward a short distance. ‘The flyers announced prior to the take-off that while they did not expect any motor trouble, they had arranged to change motors at Cheyenne in event it becomes necessary. The motors had besn shipped ahead. STAR EMPLOYES ATTEND DINNER G. A. Lyon. Associate Editor, Tells of Trip Through Orient in Summer. L:{lnc’ aside the cares of producing a dally newspaper, 280 employes of The Evening Star attended a beefsieak dine ner given by The Evening Star Club last night in the ballroom of the New ‘Willard Hotel. An informal account of his experi- ences during a tour of China, Japan and Korea duriug the past Summer was given by G. A. Lyon, associate editor, as the climax of the evening's program. His talk was illustrated by motion pictures taken during the visit to Japan by the Japanese government and business organizations. ‘The trip was sponsored. by the Car- negie Endowment for Internatiunal Peace and was participated in by rep- resentatives of a group of American newspapers. ‘The Japanese, Mr. Lyon said, in con= cluding & “travelogue” description of the journey, are “eagerly friendly” to- ward the United States aud welcome every opportunity to build up interna- tional understanding and good will be= tween the countries. A musical pr im was given by George O’Connor, Matthew Horne, Fred East, William Raymond, Robert Thomas, p‘l.‘nntlst. and the Meyer Goldman Or- chestra. GAS FIRM BUYERS ADMIT PURCHASE IS EVASION OF LAW __(Continued from First_Page.) tion and International Paper & Power Corporation. “Byllesby & Co. of New York and icago are considered one of argest. public utility controlling com- panies and are said to control the Sea= board Gas & Electric Co. of Pittsburg', their activitles extending over 19 dif- ferent States. “The American Founders Corporation of New York was organized October 1, 1928, under the laws of Maryland, and took over the American Founders Co., a voluntary trust, organized in January, 1922, under the laws of Massachusetts. It is an investment corporation and controls various securities and corpora- tions in the United States and has many general security holdlnm purchases securities for affiliated com- panies. They deal in bonds, stock, in- dustrials, insurance and large holders of public utilities. “Schoelkopf, Hutton & Pom of New York City and Buffalo are a gen- eral investment house interested in wer development at Niagara Falls. t is & holding company and -handles | many industrials and deals in public utilities, having wide experience o ticularly in Western New l;(eork." W Awaits Assistant. Mr. Bride's report to the commission withholds any recommendation as to what form of action should be brought pending the return to his desk of his principal assistant, Vernon E. West, Who is at present on sick leave. Mr. West is expected back about Novem- ber 1. Mr. Bride states that he is confi~ dent that the action can be brought within a week of Mr. West's return. Mr. Bride states that the Depart- ment of Justice is still expecting to interview Dana Pearson of New York City, who actually did the negotiations m Wgfihlnxlunmleifldlnl to the purchase. r. Pearson is in Europe, but - pected back soon. e . Rains Ground Mail Planes. For the first time in many days the airmail planes on the Pitcairn Atlantie Coastal Line remained on the ground last night in the face of heavy rains, fogs and low clouds over a large part of the line. There was no flying on any part of the New York-Richmond sec- tion passing through this city, accord- ing to reports received at Field omc% b Planes in Searchlight Drill. ‘Two Army observation planes from Bolling Fleld last night participated in an anti-aircraft searchlight drill to test a new type of light installed at the Army War College. respect to the total that may be ex- pended.” In order to centralize executive re- sponsibility, it is recommended that all the executive power now conferred on the District Commissioners be lodged in a single executive head, to be known as the city manager. It is explained that he should devote his time to the actual rinning of the municipal government and should not be called upon to per- form the ceremonial duties such as ordi- narily fall to the lot of a governor or mayor. The presiding officer of the council, as the titular fwld of the Dis- trict government, would be available for the duty of representing the District of Coll;m‘lsmn on rodrmal 'occasions. e proposed that the ’ be appointed by the council VIMM ~def- nite term, and should be only by a vote of five members of. council, and that he should receive an adequate salary in order to the services of a man of outstan ability. In order to widen the from which the manager may be lected, the institute recommends that there should be no requirement tha: a candidate must be a resident of the Distriet, The manager would be req decide all matters of executive an ministrative character not lodged - any of the existing boards or commis counell, which is more closely in touch with the governmental needs of the District, to suballot this mi cific objects. By so states, “should be placed fed. civil services © sions which may be continued. should make appointments and remov- oney to spe- | als, under the institute doing flexibility in | administral funids will be se- He plan, of the tive personnel of the District ent, which, however, the report in the classi- &