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.. POLICE PROBE WAITS ON TARIFF Further Developments Un- likely Before Early Next Month, Sackett Says. No further developments in the sena- torial investigation of local police affairs are likely to te:e place until after the | Senate completes passage of the tariff | bill, Chairman Sackett said today. This | probably will be early next month. Senator Sackett pointed out that with | the tariff debate beginning at 10 o'clock | in the morning, and with night sessions Jasting until 10:30 o'clock, Senators | cannot devote time to the police inquiiy. | He said that no harm is being done by walting until the work of the Senate | reaches & point where members of the | subcommittee will have more time to | devote to local problems. H The subcommittee held an executive | * gession one evening last week before | the Senate began holding night sessions and discussed all phases of the police | situation, The subcommittee ~already | has written reports from local officials | on the specific questions raised in the | resolution of Senator Blcase, but is not | making public these reports for the! time being. NEW EFFORT TO FIX ADJOURNMENT AT END OF WEEK IS RUMORED | (Continued From First Page) one of the “young guard” who pro- posed that Moses be instructed not to g0 into any State unless requested by the Republican senatorial committee. Neither Senator Moses mnor Senator Metcalf’s office would make public this letter. Harrison Chides “Young Turks.” Referring to the Republican regular bolters as the “Young Turks" and Junior Leaguers,” Senator Harris said “it was only after we drove this group of war- riors who style themselves ‘Turks' back into their seats, so that you had a mil- , that you deserted the Sen- | of their aniversary laughingly said “the first 78 years are the hardest” when nocity hers i asked for comment of marriage, manners,and life of today. They look with dis- ashington, Mr. Jones, favor on companionate marriage, petting parties, short skirts, bobbed hair and and you said, ‘Let us get out from | prohibition, but observed, “These things will wear themselves out.” ator from Utah, Mr. Smoot, and the Senator from under. “You thought you could sec in the country the disfavor of this bill, the recommendations that have been pro- posed; you know you would receive the castigation of the constituents who had 80 recently sent you here, and then you put up this stool pigeon, so to speak, and sald, ‘Oh, we are against the old guard, we will form a new group and we will run this body.’ How? Adverting to the objections to Sena- tor Moses as chairman of the Repub- lican senatorial campaign committee, Senator Harrison sald that Senator Metcalf, who asked the committee to curb Moses, “has a sore toe.” Harrison said that Metcalf “is a little angry because his Republican colleagues set him aside as chairman of the Re- publican senatoridl campaign committee and elevated the distinguished Senator from New Hampshire to that place, and now he forms a group to put out the Senator from New Hampshire.” Acknowledging that he had réplied to Benator Metcalf, Senator Moses said: “I do not conduct my correspondence ‘with Senators through the newspapers.” Say No Revolt Is Intended. Moses sald the Rhode Island Sena- tor had made public his letter to him in Rhode Island newspapers before he had received it. Members of the “young guard” move- ment again reiterated yesterday thatno revolt against the titular heads of the Republican party in the Senate was in- tended. Senator Allen, who breakfasted at the White House, insisted the move- ment was “entirely devoid of personali- ties and without the personal equa- tion.” He had invited Senator Jones of Washington, the acting Republican leader, sgainst whom the “young guard” voted on adjournment, to the dinner last night and Jones had ac- ug!fid. e Republicans sat silent during the Harrison attack. Once Senator Allen spoke up as the Mississippian said the group had d themselves “Junior Leaguers” or the “Grundy group.” p. “The first designation of ’young Turk,’” said Senator Allen, “I heard from the eminent Senator from Mis- sissippl, who now entertains us. ‘The real designation, as I stand it, is ‘Boy Scouts.”” “I think that is a very apt appella- tion. ‘Boy Scouts,’” replied Senator Harrison. “I have thought all along that instead of being called ‘Junior Leaguers’ they ought to be called ‘bush leaguers.' And here is what the dic- tionary says about Turks: ‘A person ex- hibiting cruelty, duplicity, rudeness or the like, such as is attributed to ‘under- Wants Chests Measured. Senator George, Democrat, Georgia, observed that if the newer Republican regulars were responsible for the night sessions they could not be altogether exonerated from the charge that “they are disposed to be very cruel to some of us here in the Senate.” Declaring that the chests of some of the members had swelled about four inches by the publicity they were re- celving, Senator Harrison said the table of tariff exhibits in the rear of the chamber should contain a tape measure, “so that we might measure the en- Jarging chest expansions of certain Sen- atcrs of the new group as they come in in the morning.” Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, then picked up a tape measure from the table and said, “I hope the Senator will not misrepresent this store in any re- spect.” PROSECUTOR IS SEIZED. MAUSTON, Wisconsin, November 19 () —Clinton 'G. Price, district attorney of Juneau County, was arrested today by the deputy United States marshal | following a grand jury indictment | charging in two counis conspiracy to yiolate the Federal prohibition law. Thurston Pulls A Fast One on Dentist in Office| Magician Draws Pencil From Sore Tooth Before Doctor Relieves Him. Dentists and magicians have extract- ing habits, but it took the m:.\gh.‘lafl Thurston, now appearing here, to “pull” the best joke of its kind yet, according 10 friends who are relating the yarn today. Thurston had some real trouble with his teeth. He was recommended to Dr H. D. Mast, with offices in the Colum- bia Medical Building. When he ar- rived at the office yesterday afternoon, according to the story, later verified by the dentist, the magician complained of ain. P With his hand Thurston began feellna of the apparently sore tooth, saying was glving him considerable trouble. Suddenly, to the surprise of both the dentist and his sceretary who was stand- has been established is not well founded. them too recent, with the greatest num- e . AR MR. AND MRS. A. 0. BLACKMAR Of Columbus, Ga., are claimed by friends to be the oldest living married eouple in the United States. Mr. Blackmar is 1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, | ; : CELEBRATE 78th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY: 00 years old, his wife 99, and on the eve CURATOR DOUBTS BONES FOUND SHOW MAN KIN TO APES (Continued From_ First Page.) fossil remains of mammals long ago extinct, since there is no living animal known which possesses the required peculiarities, Investigators know this and they have long been diligently searching in rocks and caves, in gravel pits and stream beds. As a result of 70 years of effort these tireless workers have made exactly two ‘finds’ which are of such a nature that they can be seriously regarded as furnishing the looked-for evidence ofs man’'s blood relationship with animals resembling in some general manner the present-day gorilla and chimpanzee. These are the Java ape man (Pithecanthropus erectus) and the Piltdown dawn man. The former was discovered in 1891-92 near Trinil, Central Java, and the latter about 20 years afterward in Piltdown, Sussex, Englan Agree Skull Cap Different. The Java apé-man find, Miller says, consisted of a skull cap, a femur bone and two lower molar teeth. All au- thorities agree, he points out, that the skull cap is strangely different from that of all other known mammals, both recent and fossil, but beyond this there has been no agreement, so the public assumption that the relationship be- tween Pithecanthropus erectus and man It is not agreed, he says, whether the bones were found in deposits of the tertiary geological age, which would make them old enough to be those of a creature ancestral to man, or to the quaternary age, which - would make ber of authorities favoring the latter conclusion. He cites equally distin- ished scientific authorities as hold- that the. bones came from one animal and from two or more animals; that the femur is that of an ordinary man, a peculair maj d a gibbon; that the femur could and could not have belonged to the same individual as the strange skull cap; and that the creature was definitely human, definite- ly a gibbon-like ape, and a transition form. No less than 10 sclentists, he points out, have Yresenled different opinions on the skull cap alone—that it is pre- dominantly human, that of a micro- cephalous idiot, that of a Neander- thal man, of an intermediate type be- tween Neanderthal man and the higher apes, of an intermediate type between modern man and the higher apes, that of a gibbon and that of a chimpanzee. Scientists, he shows, have declared that the curious creature was an im- becile, an idiot, an animal with some possible power of speech, an animal who probably spoke as man but with & Limited vocabulary, and one who had actually learned to speak. Equally wide differences in scientific opinion, Miller points out, exist regarding the origin of the teeth and the possibility of connecting them with the skull and the femur. Regarding the “dawn man” found in England, Miller points out that the “find" consisted of four pleces, recon- structed from nine fragments, of & cranjum and an imperfect lower jaw bearing two molar teeth, while afier- ward a pair of nasal bones and & canine tooth were found. Still later two more fragments of a skull and a third molar tooth made their appear- ance. The announcement of this find, he says, “gave rise to a contest of opin- fon probably unequaled in the history of paleontolog earlier work as showing that some of the characters relied upon to prove the jaw human are possessed in common by men and apes and cannot be relied upon to prove that the skull and jaw belonged to one individual. Lack Important Areas of Contact. “Deliberate malice,” he continued, “could hardly have been more successful than the hazards of deposition and re- covery in so breaking down the Piit- down fossils and losing the most essen- tial parts of the original skull as to al- low free scope to individual judgment in fitting the pleces together. The four pieces of the original cranium lack some of the most important areas of contact with each other. Hence it has been possible for each student to widen or narrow the intervening areas according to his personal interpretation of the probabilities, and so to produce brain cases of narrower or broader form and of greater or less capacity. According to the different recon- structions the form of the cranium may be completely human in striking con- trast to the ape-like jaw, or it may have partially simian features, which cause this contrast to become less. Its height may vary more than an inch and the capacity of its brain cavity He quotes his own | them the last secrets which they can have held. Two facts stand out from the maze of opinion—these fossils have furnished an unparalleled stimulus to investigation and that the things most nceded now are more fossils and many of them. While awaiting further dis- coveries we should not hesitate to con- fess that in place of demonstrable Jinks between man and other mammals we have nothing more than some fos- sils so fragmentary that they are sus- ceptible of being interpreted either as such links or as something else. Super- ficlal or prejudiced readers might re- gard this confession as having an im- portant bearing on the subject of or- ganic evolution in general and of man's origin in particular. But no conclusion would be more unjustified.” Should Be Found Together. In the search for a missing link, Miller says, it is essential that more than one 't of an animal shall be found together and that they must un- ?uesunmbly belong to the same crea- ure. “One part of an animal,” he con- tinues, “not infrequently resembles the corresponding part of another to which it is not nearly reélated. is so common throughout nature that every one who is occupled with the classifi- cation of animals must constantly be ready to take it into account. The similarities in general form between a snake and an eel are well known ex- amples. In their ‘fundamental struc- tuves the animals sre profoundly dif- ferent, but in their external form they are remarkably alike. “The crowns of the molar teeth in one of the extinct North American peccaries deceptively resemble the crowns of human molars. The shape of the skull and teeth in a marsupial from Australia and & lemur from Mada- gascar is rodentlike, while in the rest of the body both animals are very different from rodents. “A single tooth, bone or fragment of & fossil bone, which resembles the cor- responding part of a human skeleton does not necessarily pertain to a crea- ture nearly related to man, and even if such a single fragment were exactly intermediate in structure between the corresponding part of man and some particular kind of great ape it would not furnish evidence of the existence of an’ animal whose total structure was | similarly intermediate, Tllustration Is Given. “The specimen illustrates a stage of structural _intermediateness, but this stage might have been arrived at as readily without direct blood relationship as with it. A good example is furnished by the molar teeth of man, chimpanzee and gorilla. In their structure the molars of chimpanzees are intermediate between those of the gorilla and man, but every one knows that the chim- panzee is not a link, either missing or living. Yet the characters of the teeth are such that if the chimpanzee were extinct and some of its molars were the only known fragments of any fossil ape, the unearthing of these teeth might easily be halled as the discovery of a missing Jink. “It should be clear, I think, in order to bring the genuine scientific world into fairly unanimous agreement, it would be necessary to lay before it two or more parts of a missing link, and | that these parts should not onlv give trustworthy information about the structures most charactaristic of man, but that they should also have been found under circumstances showin, that they pertained to one individual.” GOLDENBERG EMPLOYES TO GIVE DANCE TONIGHT Annual Benefit Affair of Relief As- sociation Will Be Held at Hotel Raleigh. An annual benefit dance is to be given tonight at the Hotel Raleigh by the Goldenberg’s Relief Association. Music will be furnished by the Liao Dance Orchestra and prizes will be awarded to winners in a dance contest. Organized 15 years ago by the em- ployes of the Goldenberg firm, the as- sociation provides sick and death bene- fits for its members. A large attendance is expected at tonight's affair. The following committees charge of the dance: Floor—Grover Martin, Elmer Wooa- bury, Elmer Mayberry, Earl Schneider, Sol. Greenberg, Harold Kleinman, Mrs, Louise MeDonnell, Miss Laura Mohler. Music and entertainment—Henry Lei- bel, Miss Sarah Rosen and Walter Gentner. MAN IlmRED IN LEAP FROM THIRD STORY Injuries which are not expected to are m may range from 1,070 to 1,500 cubic centimeters.” All agree, he says, that the fragments of the brain case and the nasal bones pertain to man, but he lists 20 points of disagreement among scientists as to other features of the remains. One says the jaw is that of a man, another of a half-man, another of a chim- nearby, the magician apparently Dlled out 6f the sore tooth a long lead pencil. ‘When all had recovered from a hearty laugh, the magician stepped into the Gentist ehair, and Dr. Mast relied ©f the real trouble. P hich him. fragments have heen subjected,” M 1insists, have wrung from found. panzee, and still another of an oran- outan. “The intense scrutiny to wi these iller , “seems to prove serious were suffered early today by Kenneth J. Conlin, 21-{:!’—0” street car conductor, when he from a third-floor window at 1406 M street and landed on 8 concrete areaway 50 feet below. He was treated by Emergency Hospital physicians. Poli¢e reported they went to the place where Conlin rooms to investigate re- rts of a noisy y. He is reported E’ have befome htened as they ap- proached and jumped in effort to evade was w whfn PRODUCTION TIMING SEEN BUSINESS AIM Held Essential Element in Present Readjustment of Industries of Country. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. “Timing” may become as important a word in the vocabulary of the present readjustment in business as “co-ordina- tion” was in war days. For, expressed in a single word, President Hoover and the leaders of industry and finance whom he has summoned, will endeavor to develop a “timing” between the influences of pru- duction and distribution which ~will make it possible for the coutry to go forward uninterruptedly on its course of prosperity. F?ecug;lzinz that the business sit- uation cannot be disturbed except by psychological influences, and that hesi- tation would result if steps were not taken In time, the President is plan- ning to apply the theory of voluntary co-operation between the major forces in American industrial life. The Federal Government has several steps of its own in mind. Already the Treasury is requesting authority to ex- pand the public building program by §175.000,000, This means employment for some of the labor which the motor industry may release. The railways are being urged to go shead with their expansion plans. Construction of ships hitherto held in abeyance through the disputes over mail contracts will go forward, using up steel and also add- ing to employment. Utilities to Expand. Public utllity companies have ex- jon programs, too. They also have m ‘wondering whether industry, the greatest consumer of electric powe:, would hesitate. For many years the President has held the theory that the cycles of economic depression could be corrected by concerted action and by “tming industry just as the various parts of the motor in an automobile are timea. The committee on recent economic changes, over which Mr. Hoover pre- sided as m”“’{; of Commerce, made & Teport strengthening that idea or synchronization. It has its first tesc now in the recession facing business. And the very men who helped to get up the report are participating in the ‘White House conferences. Analyzing the hesitation which some business men feel over the future, the Government here has come to the con- clusion that it can be overcome by evidences of action on the part of Washington. To implant confidence that business is going to be good, it will be necessary for the leaders of busi- ness to receive assurances from each other. Thus, if the motor industry needs greater markets to absorb its product, the Federal Government will put forth even greater efforts than ever before to stimulate exports. Commercial attaches throughout the world are be- ing instructed to be keenly on the alert in getting information as to forthcom- ing business opportunities. Cheap Money Ahead. Construction is the Hnfle major in- fluence in business which is relied upon to give momentum to a business revival. It lagged behind because of high money rates. Cheap money will be forthcoming within a relatively short time, By January it is believed first mortgage money on good risks may again be on a 5 per cent basis, as it was for a little while about two years ago. This may mean the reappearance of second mortgage money at fair levels. The building of homes throughout the D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1929, PRESIDENT MEETS RAIL EXECUTIVES IN CONFERENCE HERE (Continued From First Page.) New York Central Lines; Agnew T. Dice, president of the Philadelphia & Reading Co.: Fairfax Harrison, presi- dent of the Southern Railway Co.; L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Co.; Jeremiah Milbank of the Southern Railway Co., J. J. Pelley, president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rairoad Co.; Fred W. Sargent, president of the Chi- cago, Northwestern Railroad Co.; Ju- lius Barnes, chairman of the board of the United States Chamber of Com- merce; Hale Holden, chairman of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co., and Willlam But- terworth, president of the United States Chamber of Commrece. Daniel Willard, president of the Bal- timore & Ohio Railroad Co., had ac- cepted an invitation to be present, but Was unable to attend the conference be- cause of an attack of bronchitis. ‘The President this afternoon is hold- gxlz :dso“r‘;ference v‘lllt.h the members of council of th - “;‘ve ;Y the Federal Re: 'he railroad executives, speaking pri- vately and not for quotltk)pne fongv?lnt the White House conference, took op- timistic views of the situation. They pointed out that the- condition of the country was basicly sound. In line with the announced determination of the railroads to go ahead with programs of construction it was learned that the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. plans to spend about $20,000,000 on electrification of its line leading out of Philadelphia and also to spend a con- siderable sum on the elimination of grade crossings. Many important factors, it was said today, are working in the interests of the continued prosperity and business progress of the country. One among them is the fact that the United States is a creditor nation. Another is the fact that the credit system of he coun- try is sound and operating well. The principal problem today is to see that employment is continued fully in all parts of the country. The announced determination of the raflroad execu- tives to go ahead with large programs of construction is regarded as extreme- 1y helpful. Death Changes Plans. ‘The program of the conferences ar- ranged by the President with repre- sentatives of industry, agriculture and labor has necessarily been revised be- cause of the death of Secretary Good of the War Department, for whom fu- neral services are to be-held in the East Room of the White House tomor- row. The conference with representa- tives of industry has been postponed until 11 a.m. Thursday. The repre- sentatives of agriculture, who are to meet with the President, the Secretary of Agriculture and Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board, will assemble at the White House Friday at 11 am. The meeting of representatives of labor with the President has yet to be anged. Secretary Davis of the De- partment of Labor, as he left the White House today, following the brief cabinet meeting, declared that labor would co- operate to the fullest with the Presi- dent in his plan for co-ordinating ef- forts, looking to the progress of Buon. ness in this country. The Secretary expressed the opinion that if the people generally, would at this time undertake necessary repair work on their homes, that alone would put to work every man who now happens to be idle be- cause of the seasonal slack in building work. 2 ‘The members of the advisory council are Frank A. Wetmore, Chicago, presi- dent; B. A. McKinney, Dallas, vice president; Arthur M. Heard, Boston; ‘William C. Potter, New York; L. L. Rue, Philadelphia; Harris Creech, Cleveland; John Poole, Richmond; J. P. Butler, jr., Atlanta; W. W. Smith, St. Louis; Theo- dore Wold, Minneapolis; P. W. Goebel, Kansas City, and F. L. Lipman, San country will undoubtedly be stimulated | Frang if cheap money is available, and this should mean an active real estate market. Judging by the way the governmental group here is tackling the business sit- uation, there is no longer any doubt that the stock market decline is felt to have been a greater influence psy- chologically toward pessimism than any one believed possible. Accordingly, to swing the country's thinking into channels of confidence and real ex- pansion the entire governmental ma- chinery is being geared up. The pur- pose is unrelated to stock market val- ues. These will rise only when earn- ings have been fully developed. The mmlmd! is not the immediate future, for the momentum of the last quarter of 1920 is considered excellent: it is for January and February and the first six months of 1930 that the planning now is being intensified. (Copyright. 1929.) DENISON, ILLINOIS, NAMED IN LIQUOR INDICTMENT HERE (Continued From First Page.) tion, said he would come to Washing- ton probably in a day or two, although he had not planned to return to the Capital until next week. According to the report made by pro- hibition agents, the leaking suit case was found bearing a tag addressed to Layne, care of E. E. Denison, 411 House Office Building, and had been sent by express from New York. The shipping tags showed that a trunk had also been in the shipment and had been delivered. The agents went to the House Office Bulilding, where they found Denison and the trunk. The Representative is reported as saying that he did not have the key to the trunk, but would have it on the feturn of the agents, Later the agents called again and were again informed by Denison, they reported, that he had not found the key, but had reached the decision that the trunk did not belong to him. He gave authority to the agents to break open the receptacle and the agents reported that it contained whisky and gin. The indictment charges only whisky to have been in the trunk. Indictment Is Brief. The indictment is brief and charges “that one Edward E. Denison, and l’(l'l'lt John Layne, each late of the District of Columbla aforesaid, on to-wit Janu- ary 19, 1929, and at the District of Columbia aforesaid, unlawfully did pos- sess & certain intoxicating _liquor, to-wit, whisky, containing one-half of one per centum and more of alcohol by volume, the said liquor so possessed as aforesaid being then and there fit for use for beverage purposes; against the form of the statute in such cese made and provided and against the peace and Government of the United States.” Rover, it is expected, will notify the accuscd Representative and bis secre- tary of the indictment und have them arrange to give bail for trial. “100 Per Cent Dry.” Mr. Denison’s legislative record was gt‘scrlbed as “practically 100 per cent Ty During a long record of service in the House, he has voted for all major prohibition legislation and has support- ed all appropriations for enforcement, His latest vote was in favor of the dras- tic Jones act, which imposed a maxi- mum penalty of five years' imprison- ment and $10,000 fine for violations of the prohibition law. During the fight for the prohibition amendment, Denison voted for passage of the bill in the House, and later for its passage over the President’s veto. He likewise supported the Volstead enforce- ment act. On the rohibition amendment, how- he gld voted firsi it préhibition was pro District of Columbia, for passage of the bl clsco. The advisory council of the Federal Reserve Board is meeting in Washing- ton to determine whether the redis- count rates of the 11 reserve banks out- side of New York City shall be de- creased. Its members come from the 12 Federal Reserve distrigts, and it was regarded as a singularly fortuitous cir- cumstance that they should be meeting in Washington coincidentally with the inauguration of Mr. Hoover's program. The conference arranged by Presi- dent Hoover with Secretary Lamont, manufacturers and officials of the United States Chamber of Commerce, which was to have been held Wednes- day, was postponed until Thursday night because funeral services will be held Wednesday for Secretary Good in the east room of the White House. A close_study is being made of the Treasury Department’s anouncement of plans for expanding the Federal build- ing program. Congress will be asked next month, according to Secretary Mellon, to approve an increased appro- priation of $175,000,000 for govern- mental building, bringing the total of authorization for this pus to $423,- 000,000. This may be a substantial con- tribution by the Federal Government to the plan to stabilize conditions in the business world through a large program of construction work. AUTO INJURES MAN; DRIVER IS SOUGHT Police today are searching for the driver of the machine which last night ran down and seriously injured Robert Noman, 74-year-old colored man, of 1230 U street while the latter was at- tempting to cross the street at Fifth and R streets. The injured man was taken to Freed- men's Hospital and treated for severe lacerations to the face and right leg and . Police of the second precinct obtained the license number of the hit. and-run car and broadcast a general lookout. Alfred Prinkert, 63 years old, colored, living at 4644 Hunt place northeast, suffered lacerations to the scalp and legs when struck, at Twenty-first and O streets, last night by an automobile operated by James E. Nolan, 25 years orde. of 922 Spring road. The injured man was treated at Emergency Hospital, where he was ad- mitted for further observation. Lafom Wilson, a fireman, escaped in- jury last night, when the fire truck of No. 3 Engine Company, which he was driving while responding to a fire, col- lided with the parked automobile of Mrs. Effie A. Shea, 219 Third street northeast, at Second and B streets northeast. Neither the fire truck nor the machine was badly damaged. 0il the squeaks of your heating troubles with Silent Like pouring oil on troubled waters, Automatic. for the storm of ashes and coal shovels will imme- diately vanish. Silent Automatic is the SILENT HOOVER'S PRESTIGE SAVED IN CRISIS President’s Foes Concede Master Strokes, Though Just in Nick of Time. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Herbert- Hoover is by way of estab- lishing his qualities as a political leader in contradistinction to his already ac- knowledged talents as an executive and and organizer. The manner in which he has taken the bull by the horns in the business crisis and the formation of the “Young Guard” in the Senate are conceded even by the President’s foes to be a master stroke. They are so de- scribed, even though each was made in the nick of time. The net result is an unquestionable enhancement of admin- istration prestige at the moment it had ‘reached about the lowest point touched since March 4. Mr, Hoover in neither case had & day to lose. All over the country there were rumblings that, -however detached the Federal Government might be from the causes of the Wall Street crash, it could not continue to ;flnfl &c}ennmly with folded arms and see ngs go com- pletely to smash. The President, whether moved by these arguments and complaints or not. determined to act. Conference Is Result. The consequence is this week's mo- mentous and impressive gathering of the Nation's foremost business captains at the White House for consultation and conference on the economic situation. The psychological effect of their pres- ence in Washington can hardly be over- estimated. The “mess” (Senator “Jim” Watson's epitome of affairs in the Senate) into which Hoover’s purely political for- tunes had degenerated was as chaotic as conditions in Wall Street. November, 1929, marks only the first anniversary of the President's landslide victory, which etrrk? ?Oii‘l;l ‘him ll;d therx- ublican party into power by unp - genttd majorities. Yet at that early stage of Hoover's executive career he found himself as powerless to impose his will on a “mafority” of his own organization as if he were a Democratic President asking & Republican Congress licfes. Ducks and drakes were D programs right and left. ‘The Senate Republican finance com- mittee reported a tariff bill which went even further than the Hawley House bill in g the President’s recom- mendations for “limited” changes in in- dustrial rates. Things came to a pass whereby & coalition of minority Demo- crats and Republican Progressive in- surgents was comporting itself more in consonance with Hoover tariff views than his own so-called regular sup- porters. It is true that the coalition de- fled the President’s wishes on the flex- ible tariff and on farm debenture. But in the determination to keep industrial rates within “limited” bounds, while giving the cream of tariff revision to agriculture, the Democratic-Republican ive alliance was miles nearer the Hoover position than the G. O. P. stalwarts in the Senate could bring themselves to be. Young Guard Enters. At this stage the “young guard” entered—the phalanx of 25 or 30 mem- bers of the Senate serving their first terms in that body. Ostensibly acting entirely off their own bat, the “young guard” is operating along strict Hoover lines. It is carrying out the presi- dential injunction of a fortnight to leave no stone unturned to action” on the tariff bill, at the specia: session, if possible, or, if impossible, as early in the regular session as con- ditions permit. The “young guard” is proceeding on the principle that the Republican party, following the tre- mendous vote of confidence it received from the electorate in 1928, cannoc afford to be discredited by the failure of Congress to function as recornmena- ed by the titular leader of the party, the President of the United States. ‘That Herbert Hoover's hand has been the directing force behind the ‘“young guard” move to retrieve the G. O. P.’s prestige in the tariff controversy is rec- ognized in_all well informed quarters. That the President is prepared to let this new group of administration spokesmen in the Senate make certain compromises in the interest of an agreement on the Hawley-Smoot bill is widely belleved, though not definitely known. Hardly any one thinks Hoover will countenance a compromise which would include acceptance of the farm de- benture, though concessions concerning the technical operation of the flexible system are considered possible. A powerful force working in the ad- ministration’s favor, and to which the “young guard” is not blind, is that the Western Republican progressive mem- bers, with re-election campaigns in 1930 confronting many of them, are not anxious for agricultural tariff revision to fail. Their acknowledged desire for legislation opens up various avenues of hope. (Copyright, 1929.) BOY STILL IS MISSING. Despite a three-day police search, no word has been received of 15-year-old Frank Wollner, jr., of 1013 Webster street, who disappeared Saturday night. 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WOMAN REPORTS ATTACK. to p -n? last night after grab- bing her around the waist while walk- ing along the street at Thirteenth and Duncan streets northeast. Miss Guyther told police the man was frightened away and made good his escape before assistance reached ber, and beyond the fact that her assailant w.3 & colored man about 22 years old and was dressed in dark clothes, she could not further identify him. LUNCHEON PLANNED FOR BRITISH VISITOR District Civic and Official Leaders to Attend Board of Trade Event. Representatives of the British em- bassy, the three District Commissioners and more than two score of the busi- ness and civic leaders of the city have accepted invitations to attend & lunch- eon to be given by the directors of the ‘Washington Board of Trade in honor of Matthew Anderson, official represent- ative of the City of Liverpool, who will visit the District December 2. Mr. Anderson is to visit this country on business in the interest of Liverpool, the second largest city of the British Commonwealth. Officials of the Board of Trade say that he will speak at the luncheon, and the speech probably will be broadcast. His subject will be con- ditions in England and the trade rela- tions between his country and America. The luncheon will be in the Willard Hotel. Many persons to be invited to the function have not yet been communi- cated with and replies have not been received from a number of those already invited. Among the former are - tor Arthur Capper, chairman of the Senate District committee, and Repre- sentatives Robert G. Simmons of Ne- braska and Frederick N. Zihiman of Maryland, the chairman of the House District committee. Acceptances have been received from Leander McCormick- and A.J. Pack, commercial secretaries of British _embassy; Commissioners Proc- tor L. Dougherty, Sidney F._Taliaferro and Col. William B. Ladue and the fol- lowing business men and civic leaders: E. J. Murphy, president, Washington Board of Trade; George Plitt, first vice president; John Joy Edson, president, Equitable Building Association; E. C. Graham, president, National Electric Supply Co.; E. F. Colladay, Republican national committeeman for the District of Columbia; Dr. Charles F. Carusi. president, Board of Education; George ‘W Offutt, second vice president, Wash- ington Board of Trade; Maj. Gen. - ton Stephan, president, Merchants & Manufacturers’ Assoclation; Cuno H. Rudolph, former Commissioner of the District of Columbia; E. C. Branden- burg, meral counsel, Washington Board of Trade: D. J. Callahan, Prank S. Hight, president, New Willard Hotel; Samuel J. Prescott, chairman of the executive committee, District Repub- lican organization; E, D. Merrill, pres| dent, Washington Rapid Transit Co. Joshua_Evans, jr., execytive vice presi- dent, District National’ Bank; H. H. McKee, president, National Capital Bank; Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superin- tendent public schools; H. L. Rust, pres- ident, H. L. Rust Co.; C. Phillips Hill, president, Doubleday-Hill Co.: J. Harry Cunningham, treasurer, Washington Board of Trade; Frank P. Leetch, Paul P.|by vice president, George W. Linkins C Thomas E. Jarrell, president, Washing- ton Savings Bank; Claude W. Owen, president, E. G. Schaefer Co.; David M. Iea, manager, Insurance Co. of North America; M. A. Leese, president, M. A, Leese Optical Co.; A. K. Shipe, lawyer; Alexander Wolf, lawyer; JDMPh A. Burkart, lawyer; Dr. D. Percy Hickling, District alienist; Capt. Chester Wells, John Saul, secretary, B. F. Saul Co.; Ben T. Webster, secretary, Washington Board of Trade; Rufus S. Lusk, execu- tive secretary, Operative Builders’ As- sociation; George B. Farquhar, Robert F. Beresford. Odell S. Smith, secretary, Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co. Jesse C. Adkins, lawyer; Charles Consaul, lawyer; George C. Shinn, lawyer; Charles W. Morris,' Arthur Carr, John T. Bardroff and George V. Graham. Y. W. C. A. COUNCIL MEETS ‘The Chapter Council of the Young ‘Women’s Christian Association, repre- senting nine sections of the city, held a meet!.n#‘yuterd-y at the Y. W. C. A. headquarters, Seventeenth and K streets. Mrs. George Winchester Stone, chair- man of the Chapter Council, presided. Be; ln, in December, the monthly meetings of the Chapter Council will include a lecture by Mrs. Georgette Howard, who will talk on current events. All meetings will assemble —about FEDERAL BUILDING - AID T0 BUSINESS Immediate Benefits Through Country Seen in Proposed Fund Increase. Proposed increase in annual expendi- tures for the Government’s public build- ing program to be laid fore Con- gress next December was seen in of« ficial circles today as tending to have an immediate bearing on the business situation, as 4t would throw more money into and speed up Government cou=- struction each year, beginning at once. The restriction on expenditure now stands at $25,000,000 a year for the country outside 'of this city, and $10,000,000 a year ‘for construction in the District of Columbia. The pro- gram_which Congress will consider would rajse the annual restriction to $35,000,000 for the field and $15,000,000 in the Capital, thus placing an addi- tional $15,000,000 from Federal funas directly into the channels of construc- tion, in addition to the present pro- gram. Executive Support. Secretary Mellon’s statement at the Treasury yesterday in support of the program was accepted as important, reflecting the support of the executive branch of the administration for speed- ing up of construction. President Hoo- ver himself has frequently mentioned public construction as a factor of eco- nomic effectiveness which the Govern- ment could throw on the market as a relief in times when the business struc- ture needed support. Secretary Mellon's statement that the ‘Treasury is behind the increased build- ing ‘m:xrun. not only for faster ex- penditure per year, but for the increase of $175,000,000 in_ total authorization, %‘mn“fim Hl:llle wlll‘?‘n the E:l‘“ Execu- ve is launching gene: rogram for an increase in industrial lc{lmy of the country. . Figures Are Announced. ‘The figures concerning the adminis- tration’s gro:nm had been glevlmmy made public by Chairman jott of the House public buildings and grounds Lgom:lullu‘ene'. mzhn nlnnoun&e’d lIl.ue month e uce legislation in Congress to increase the $248,000,000 present ublic building program to $433,000,000, ncluding increases of $100,000,000 in the field and $75,000,000 in this eity. Senator Keyes, chairman of the Senate committee on public buildings and grounds, also has come out in favor of the increased appropriations. Senator Smoot, chairman of the Pub- lic Buildings Commission, also has in- dicated that it will take many millions more to complete the public construc- tion, nect only ‘Washington, but throughout _the field. Should Congress decide to increase the total amount of money available, it eventually would have a substantial ef- fect, especially on the building indus- try, but the annual increase in actual expenditures would be felt much sooner, perhaps next year. Maximum Never Reached. Here in Washington millions have been eppropriated, and the maximum of $10,000,000 a year has never been re“l‘;:‘hed, soi ther:h hflulmumlfladnmm piling up since the fiscal. year en July 1, 1928. Several big construction jobs here, however, including the De- partment of Agriculture, Internal Reve- nue Building and Department of Com- merce, will more than use up this year's $10,000,000 maximum and dip some into the accumulated surplus. ‘The details of the increased public buildings program were disclosed first. Representative Elliott Jate in .Oc ber following conferences with admin- istration leaders at both ends of Penn- sylvania avenue. The larger authorization of $75,000,~ 000 more for the District of Columbia is especially needed, it was pointed out, as the $50,000,000 already authorized here for construction has almost all been ab- sorbed in the buildings specifically ap- propriated for. Big Sums Appropriated. In fact, $48,000,000 or more has been allocated out of the $50,00,000 for con- struction here, and this does not in- clude such structures as be needed in the triangle, for the Department of Labor, Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, Department of Justice and inde- pendent offices. It is considered likely that the Treas- ury Department will not recommend specifically to Congress a figures for additional aj the authority rests entirely gress. 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