Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1929, Page 2

2 % FORD HOLDS WAGE | INCREASES NEEDEI]IE Announces General Increase for All Workers Employed by Manufacturer. Higher wages will bring prosperity, in the opinion of Henry Ford. The manu- ' facturer voiced this view at the White | House yesterday in announcing an im- mediate general increase in the wages | of his many thousands of employes. I Visitipg Washington at the invita- tion of President Hoover, he sat in on & three-hour conference of industrial | leaders at the White House and then | issued a previously prepared statement ' of what he thought ought to be done to_counteract tl:e stock market fall. Then rushing uptown for a hasty lunch. he returned to the White House for a brief talk with the President, and as he was getting into his light over- coat before starting back home he smilingly made his wage increase an- nouncement to a couple of inquiring | White Hcuse newspaper reporters. Raise Basic Scale. { “We are going to increase the basic ' wage scale of our employes,” the au- tomobile manufacturer ‘blandly an-' nounced. | “When?" he was asked. “Immediate] “How much?” 1 “Oh. it will be general.” i “Will it be as much as 10 per cent?" “We know the amount, bmpe" has to | be worked out in detail; but we are increasing wages. That's plain enough, isn't 1t2” Mr. Ford had given wage increases as one remedy in the prepared state- ment which he and his secretary dis- tributed at the White House after the general business conference. He also had some other remedies for the situation. One was that business brains get back on the job and let the stock ticker alone. Another was lower prices for commodities. Everything Too High. “Nearly everything in this country 1s too highly priced,” Mr. Ford observed. ‘The only thing that should be high priced in this country is the man who! works,” he added. “Wages must not come down, they must not even stay on their present level; they must go up. “And even that is not sufficient of itself—we must see ®o it that the in- creased wages are not taken away from our people by increased prices that do not represent increased values. The country gains no benefit by letting the working man earn an extra hundred | dollars and then taking it away from | him again in increased rents and a rise in prices generally. To make wages better, and to keep prices down requires that business men come back into busi- ness—as many are doing since the stocks c;ame aowr;." ~year-old manufacturer was in fine fettle and greeted the other business men here for the White House conference in jovial mood. The outlook for business appeared the least of his worries. “They” Close Plants. Asked about reports that his Kansas ::.l‘tdy plant had been closed Mr. Ford | “Oh, I thought it was the Denver plant they were closing up,” he said, making it clear that the “they” referred to the originators of the reports. “You know we closed the Washing- ton plant for two or three days a couple of weeks ago, but we didn't hear much about that,” he added, as he smilingly dismissed the reports of general curtail- ment of activities in his factories. Mr. Ford issued the following state- e first thing to do is to correct the impression that the present condi- tion of affairs is due to the stock mar- ket. Collapse of speculation may have been the occasion of a business hesita- tion, but it certainly was not the cause. ‘The stock market does not make pros- perity, but prosperity is absolutely es- sential to such an inflation of values as we bave seen during the past year. ‘When an inflated stock market breaks, it does not necessarily carry general business down with it, but when gen- eral business declines, it invariably de- flates the artificial values of the stock market. That is what happened. It was only the temporary diversion of business men’s attention that prevented them from seeing what was happening. It is now clear to all that the real ex- planation of the present situation is not 1o be found in recent stock market his- tory, but in recent business history. But let the public understand that the stock market cannot permanently affect us, either good or bad, and the way is P for constructive views. usiness showed some decline even while speculative values were at their height, and the reasons are plain. First, there was a serfous withdrawal of brains from business. Men who would otherwise have been working out better designs for commodities and better methods of manufacture and planning to put more value into their produc's were drawn off from the work they were best fitted to do by the promise of guick profits in speculation. This was more serious for business than most people are likely to realize. I have often said that we need the experience and | judgment of men in middle-age or older. and when this is withdrawn for & term business feels it. Pass Purchase Power. ) “Another reason is the American pro- duction had come to equal and even surpass, not our people’s power to con- sume, but their power to purchase. Th:: is not the same thing as overproduce tion of goods; it is undersupply of pur- chasing power. Overproduction can never occur until every need is sup- plied, if the first need is the need of money. Money in the people’s hands represents purchasing power. In this country the purchasing power of the people has been practically used up, and still they have not been able to buy all that they must have. I, therefore, gest the need of increasing the pur- chasing power of our principal cu: tomers—the American people. “This may be done in two ways—first, by putting additional value into goods or reducing prices to the level of actual values, and, second, starting a move- ment to inorease the general wage level. Nearly evetything in this country is too high priced. The only thing that should be high priced in this country is the man who works. Wages must not come down: they must not even stay on their present level; they must go up. And even that is not sufficient of itself, We must see to it that the increased wages are not taken away from our people by increased prices that do not represent increased values. The country gains no benefit by letting the workingman earn an extra hundred dollars and then tak- g it away from him again in increased vent and a rise in prices generally. To make wages better and to keep prices down requires (hat business men come back into business, as many are doing since the stocks came down. “There is no startling, miraculous plan of recovery and advance; it is all as plain and familiar as a copybook. The situation promises much better than it did a year ago. We were on the threshold of a necessary change, any- how, and if some men stumbled when they crossed it, it was only because A year ago ! their eyes were elsewhere. the country was expecting something to happen; now that that is over and past, the road ahead is clear. “President Hoover’s call for a confer- Bigger Pay HENRY FORD. ~—TUnderwood Photo. Text of Statement On Business Parley The text of the White House state- ment on the President's conference with Industrial and business leaders yesterday is as follows: “The conference this morning of 22 industrial and business leaders warmly indorsed the President's statement of last Saturday as to steps to be taken in the progress of business and the | maintenance of employment. “The general situation was thorough- ly canvassed and it was the unanimous opinion of the conference that there | was no reason why business should not be carried on as usual; that construc- tion work should be expanded in every prudent direction, both public and pri- | vate, 5o as to cover any slack of em- ! ployment. It was found that & pre- liminary examination of a number of industries indicated that construction | activities can in 1930 be expanded even over 1929. “It was stated, for instance, that the telephone company was proposing | to assist by a considerable expansion in their construction and betterment program over the year 1929, during which year this company expended something in the neighborhood of $600,- 000,000 for this purpose. It appeared that the power, gas and other public utilities could undertake a pre m in excess of 1929, the detalls of which ‘would be developed at a special meeting of the leaders in the industry to be called, after which the program would be announced.” ‘The leaders in the automobile in- dustry expressed the opinion that whereas in 1929 production was un- usually large, due to the carry-over of a great deal of unfinished business from the year previous, they confidently ex- pected that except for this excessive margin the industry should quickly re- turn to its normal production. In the steel industry it was stated that large construction programs would bé under- taken for replacement of antiquated and obsolete plants. “It was considered that the absorp- tion of capital in loans in the stock market had postponed much construc- tion and. that the flow of ‘this capital back to industry and commerce would now ascist renewed construction. “It was the opinion that an indirect, but very substantial, contribution could be made to the extension of credit for local building purposes and for con- q lem of today. | take it up as the first business of the THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1929. 'TRADE CONFERENCE FORU.S. PLANNED iU. S. Chamber of Commerce to Get Direct Facts on |, Business Conditions. On behalf of the industrial leaders yesterday, Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the board of the Chamber of Com- { merce of the United States, today is [ resentatives of trade associations to i meet here, “possibly within two weeks,” to learn the “exact situation in busi- ness” and make suggestions looking to- ward stabilization of business condi- tion: “This may grow into a continuing study,” Mr. Barnes said in & statement after leaving the White House confer- {ence. “The usual conference resolutes and goes home, but this may grow into |an_established’ machinery to preserve | the balance of American business. | ““The original anxiety of American | business has never been overproduction, |but only the maintenance of buying | power, which provides markets for the products of industry. That is the prob- Productio nis_adequate. | We want no interruption as these prod- | ucts go into consumption, | " Announcing that the meeting would | bring together & group that will be “broadly representative of the major of business activity, Barnes tives would be asked to make recom- mendations respecting the personnel of | the _exccutive committee ~which the chamber has been asked to create. He | made it clear that men will be called | “from within and without” the mem- ! beiship of the Chamber of (.‘umlm‘rr(‘ll of the United State: ‘The meeting will study the course of action which both business and gov. ernment may take to sustain business, he said, adding that it is hoped “we may devise some continuing process of de- veloping and disseminating informa- tion as to the important factors in the business situation as they develop from SENATE STALEMATE LEADS TO RECESS (Continued From First Page.) far into the regular session, on the ground that such prolonged discussion constituted an unsettling influence upon business conditions. Because of this understanding the leaders are looking forward particularly to a perusal of his message to the regular session. The new session will convene on De- cember 2, with the three-year-old ques- tion of seating William S. Vare as| Senator from Pennsylvania as the offi- clal order of business. An effort by | Senator Norris of Nebraska, one of the Republican independents, to obtain ac- tion on the Vare case during the spe- cial session brought an agreement to regular session, It is estimated that three days will be required for, the disposition of the Vare case, after which the tariff will again be brought before the Senate. | Opinion as to how much longer the Senate must wrestle with the measure before reaching a final vote is variable, with the most conservative estimate being that the Christmas recess may see final action on the bill. Senators Keep at Work. Having voted, 44 to 26, late yesterday to increase the raw clothing wool duty from 31 fo 34 cents a pound of clean content, the tired tariff warriors in the Senate today faced only a few more hours’ work on proposed woolen goods rates before retiring to their homes for a welcomed rest. Contrasted with the measure passed by the House on May 28 last, the bill in the form presented today by the Sen- ate could hardly be called a Ifkeness in any particular but one. While both ac- ceded to the cries of farm groups for higher agricultural tariffs, the two measures are far apart respecting in- dustrial rates, and much rate cutting is still anticipated by the coalition in power. The House bill carried hundreds of industrial rate increases despite the fact that President Hoover recommended to the special session a limited revision, with primary attention given to farm duct of smaller business if the banks would freely avail themselves of the rediscount privilege offered by the Fed- eral Reserve Banks. “It was considered that the develop- ment of co-operative spirit and re- sponsibility in the business world was such that the business of the country itself could and should assume the re- sponsibility for the mobilization of the industrial and commercial agencies to these ends and to co-operate with the governmental agencies. “The meeting considered it was de- sirable that some definite organization should be established under committee representing different industries and sections of the business community, which would undertake to follow up the President’'s program in the different Industries. “The members of the group agreed to act as a temporary advisory come mittee with the Secretary of Commerce, who was authorized to add to the com- mittee. Julius Barnes, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, was asked to create an executive committee from members of this group and the various trade organizations who could assist in expansion of construction and main- tenance of employment. A definite s will be made of the different d 1 fields to develop the amount of such construction.” FORDS WANT LINCOLN Industrialist and Son Pay Quiet Visit to Oldroyd Collection Here. Henry Ford wants to see the famous Oldroyd Lincoln collection better housed. ‘The eminent industrialist and his son Edsel, in Washington for President Hoover's business conference, visited the quietly the night before last, learned today. Lieut. Col. U, 8. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and pub- lic parks, confirmed this in saying that the Fords expressed their continued in- terest in the collection and its devel- opment as a shrine for American vis- itors in Washington. ‘The auto magnate expressed the hope to the custodian, Lewis G. Reynolds, that provisions will be made for safer housing of the collection and for more space, so that the various items might be better displayed and seen by the vis- iting public. Col. Grant recalled the famous De- troit automobile manufacturer was one of those who considered purchasing the Oldroyd collection of Lincoln relics, | housed in the residence in which Presi- | dent Lincoln died, before the collection was purchased by the Government and established as the Lincoln Museum. Mr Ford's interest in things historical is now proverbial, ‘Woman, 101, Runs Shop. Too busy in her little shop to cele- ence has had the beneficent effect of focusing our eyes on the main question. The President will be able to show the country that there is nothing to fear £nd that if every one will a!t-n‘ to nis . wwn work their future is secure,’ | MUSEUM IMPROVED| levies and a stepping-up of a few of the duties on products of lagging manufac- turing industries. Tackling the task of rewriting the bil in Midsummer, the Senate finance committee Republicans slashed scores of industrial rates, but left many as proposed by the House, and the coali- | tion of Democrats and Republican in- dependents was far from satisfled. Worried by Debenture. Republican leaders are not so wor- ried over the.rate reductions accom- plished by the coalition as they are over the ‘incorporation in the bill by the group of the export debenture plan granting a Federal bounty to exporters of farm commodities and the repeal of the 7-year-old policy permitting the President to raise or lower duties in emergencies. Only in a few instances have duties been lowered below exisi- ing law. President Hoover is opposed to the debenture plan and also wishes to re- tain executive power over rates be- tween general revisions by Congress. The Simmons-Norris substitute for the flexible clause which was adopted would return to Congress all rate- changing powers now delegated to the President. Whereas the President is now empowered to increase or lower rates by 50 per cent after investiga- tion by the Tariff Commission. the suo- stitute plan would authorize the com- mission to recommend to Congress transfer to or from the free list and provide a safeguard against general revision by limiting Congress to the individual rate changes dealt with commisson reports. ‘The House is believed to be over- whelmingly for retention of the present flexible provision and already has votea against the debenture. Unless some compromise on these propositions 1s reached between the two bodies, many observers see a hopeless deadlock in conference. ‘While Senate Democratic and Repub- lican independent leaders insist they will never compromise on these major provisions, House minority chiefs hold that if the House recedes on the flex- ible issue, everything could be settled nicely in conference—meaning, of course, abandonment of the debenture. Other important Senate revisions of administrative sections include a pro- vision for retention of the Tariff Com- mission as a bi-partisan instead of a non-partisan body, as proposed by the House. The Senate bill also calls for a complete reorganization of the com- mission within 90 days after enactment of the bill Botk: bills failed to disturb the cus- tom of basing ad valorem rates en for- eign valuations, although the pending measure would direct the Tariff Com- missi 1 to survey and report to Con- gress by January 1, 1932, the feasibility of adopting the United States value or some other domestic formula. Y ‘The Senate bill contains also a new provision setting up an office in the Tariff Commission, to be known as the “consumers’ counsel.” with a $10,000 four-year-term attorney at its head, | with “power to argue all petitions for changes in tariff levies. ‘The Senate still must act on commit- tee amendments to the sugar, silk, rayon, papers and books and sundries | schedules and the free list. Then in- brate, Miss Jean Rose spent her 101st birthday recently at Portgordon, Scot- land, waiting on customers who came | to buy and to extend congratulations. She says her Scotch independence com- pels her to refuse the old-age pension. dividual amendments to all schedules i will have to be disposed of, as well as | who conferrea with President Hoover | preparing to ask from 100 to 200 rep- | |COALITION CHARGES REPEATED BY KENT (Continued From First Page.) BEFORE LOBBY GROUP 6. W. U MAY GET | s ] PARKER BEQUEST Mitchell in making funds available to the stock matrket during a financial !stringency several months ago, for which Mitchell has been assailed by Glass. had anything to do with “the unprece dented volume of brokers’ loans.” “That was only one feature of this development,” Kent replied, adding, | “The brokers' loans were good and were peid _without a single default and no one lost a dollar.” | He asserted brokers' loans was a ! good Investment for banks. Glass Explains Interest. Glass sald his interest in the matter was that of “preserving the integrity of the Federal Reserve System.” addini that the law had been violated in New York. “Don’'t you know that stock after stock was advanced away beyond th earning power of industries?” Glass de- | manded “Ye: Kent replied, explaining that his bank would not accept the stock as collateral at those high values. aggravating it," Glass asserted, and then inquired how a “Senate not yet assembled” could have run brokers’ loans up a year ago. “You assigned as a cause a so-called coalition in the Senate which had not met a year ago,” he asserted. The witness said the “interests of Iindustry” were affected adversely by {,Tnfluu of the Senate to pass a tariff Says Industry Grew Restless. “Industry became restless when it became apparent the Senate would not he added. cssed Kent to ching his opinjon that the Senate was in & measure responsible for stock breaks. “It would be unfair to name one man because I talked with hundreds,” Kent replied. “I know the reason" Caraway in- terrupted. “You're afraid we'll call him down here and he will leave you up in the air.” ues were not fictitious, two billion and a half dollars In paper profits could have been wiped out recently. ‘They are paper profits until they are taken,” Kent replied. “Or until you find a sucker,” Caraway interjected. “The vice of this whole transaction,” Glass asserted, “is outside Federal Re- serve banks dumping money into Wall Street for betting purposes. Banks from all over the country were sending money into the gambling maelstrom.” Can't Say It Was Done. “You're not simple enough to say that was not done, are .you?" Glass asked. “I can't say it was done,” the witness said, “because I have no official infor- mation.” Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, a committee member, then took up the questioning. “As a matter of fact, the intention of the Senate coalition was not to touch the industrial schedules at all,” he re- minded the witness. “Do you know of any industrial rate the coalition has at- tempted to reduce?” “I have made no study of the tariff,” Kent answered, “because I am not a tariff student. I have been studying the psychology of the people.” “When the Senate is working an the tariff bill,” he continued, “and reaches a point where it cannot function, the persons interested in the tariff become disturbe He had not read the tariff bill, he added, but had read of the proceedings in the newspapers. He did not know how many items the Senate had passed on. Borah Holds Words Unfalir. “Do you think it is fair for a man in your position to denounce the Sen- when you haven't undertaken to advise yourself as to what it has done?” Borah demanded. “The details may not bave anything to do with the situation as a whole,” Kent replied. “Unless I am mistaken there was a time when the majority of the Senate had a bill which could have becn passed it a majority had stood or it.” Borah wanted to know If Kent was any relation to Joseph R. Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania Manu- facturers’ Association, 0, he said. “You ought to be,” Caraway asserted, you're a kindred spirit.” The witness said the people of the nited ~ States elected a President hose views are well known.” “What are they?” Glass shot back. Kent then sald he did not know President Hoover's position on the “whole bill.” Caraway inquired what tariff revision the President wanted and Kent said he understood he wanted ag- ricultural rates revised, Rising and leaning across the table, Borah, a leader of the Republican in- dependents, shot question after ques- tion at the banker. “Are vou in a position to pass judg- ment on the rates as acted upon by the coalition in the Senate?” asked Borah, “No, T wouldn't attempt to pass on that.” Kent Cites Time Used. Kent reasserted that the time re quired by the Senate and other develop- ments “led to the conclusion that the Senate couldn't function.” “Well, when you consider there are 21,000 rates, how did you come to the conclusion that the Senate couldn't function?” “It can’t, can it?” asked Kent. “It adjourned, hasn't it?” “Yes. it has adjourned, but that is since you made your famous speech.” Borah continued that the the Senate had been working on the bill only two months and asked if Kent knew of “any rates that would hurt business.” The witness answered that business people did not “know what to expect.” saying he understood “that the coali- tion did not intend to change industrial rates.” “How would you pass a tariff bill quickly with 21,000 items?” Borah acked, adding the Senate had been working on the bill “only two months.” “Do you know of any rates that would hurt_business,” Borah asked. “The business people didn't know what to expect,” Kent said, adding that he did not believe the people under- stood that the coalition did not intend to change industrial rates. Clashes With Glass Again, “I offered the reason to confine the action of the Senate to agricultural rates alone,” Borah sald. “Don't you think that's rather significant of the intention of the coalition?” He sald the public did not believe the bill would be acted on. “They did more buying in (he market than ever before in the history of the country,” reminded Glass, “Don’t you think you should have made some re- search before you indicted the Senate?” Glass asked 1 did ” “What you are complaining of is that the sucker list gave out hefore the stock market unlonded.” Caraway put in. During the examination Senators Glass, Virginia, and Chairman Caraway frequently interposed observations, “Big business ought to have a guard- ian.” remarked Caraway once. “You are an eminent statisticlan™ sald Glass, “what proportion of trans- actions on the Stock Exchange are gambling or speculative and what pro- portion is investments?” culation is a better word replied Kent. “Gam- than the scores of House increases left un- Itouched by the finance committee, be- fore the measure will be in shaps for final passage. & ¢ - throwing dice and the like.” ,” retorted Glass, “we have like that from a bishop of my church.” bling The Virginian asked how the tariff | “Obedience to the law might have | averted the present condition instead of | President Marvin Declines to Comment, but Friends Cite Development. The most notable development to date in the progress of George Washington University from an inconspicuous urban college to a great national center of learning, especially equipped for train- ling and research in problems of Gov- |ernment and international relations, is °n by persons close to the university in the bequest of approximately $2,- 000,000 in the will of the late Judge, Edwin B. Parker for the creation of a graduate school of international affairs affiliated with some local university. mentioned in the bequest and Presi- dent Cloyd H. Marvin today declined any confirmation of the report that the death was a trustee of the university, that he‘.yas deeply interested in the development, of the School of Govern- ment there provided for by the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite Masons of the Southern Jurisdiction, and that he had for many years been prominent in Masonry. George Washington, it was pointed out by friends of the university, is the only logical institution in Washington with which the proposed graduate school could be affiliated, especially when the previous assoctations of Judge Parker { aré considered. Masonic Gift Is Cited. The first step in the pres:nt progress of George Washington toward becoming a national center for training in the political sciences came three years ago when the local university received an outright gift of $1,000,000 from the Scottish Rite Masons as & memorial to “George Washington, the Mason," to fulfill in part the intent expressed in the will of the first President to estab- lish at the seat of Government a national institution to aid in completing the education of young men in “all the branches of polite literature, in arts and sclences, and in acquiring knowl- edge in the principles of politics and good government.” For this purpose Washington left some securities, which so dwindled in Value after his death that they became in- adequate for the purpose. It was the idea of the Supreme Council, in which Judge Parker was known to be deeply interested, that George Washington University, already in operation and with an excellent scholastic standing despite its many years of financial struggle, during which it graduated many of the most prominent figures in national life, logically could be made the realization of the intent of the first President. During the presidency of Dr. Marvin special interest ha: en taken in suit. ing the curriculum of the various col- leges constituting the university to the actual needs of the Government service. For this purpose, in co-operation with the American Council of Education, job specifications and records of usage are being_worked out for the positions in the Government service which would ordinarily be filled by college graduates. Information Is Obtained. ‘The first step is to find out just what the Government official does or may be called upon to do. Then it is proposed to adapt the college training to produce a man capable of fitting into the posi- tion. It is significant in the present situation that this work has been coms# pleted for the State Department. Records for usage for the foreign service officer have been drawn up from information obtained in the department, checked over and corrected by Amer- ican Ambassadors, Ministers and other diplomatic officers abroad, and attracted such favorable attention that they have been published by the State Depart- ment itself. George Washington long has been a training school for men expecting to enter the diplomatic and consular serv- ices. Now, for the first time, it is in a position to graduate men fitted to step into active work as foreign repre- sentatives of the United States without a long process of preliminary adjusting. Dr. Marvin himself reported on this work at the last meeting of the Amer- ican council and it is known to be close to his heart. The effects of the job specification work, it was lgarned at the American Council on Education office, resulted in a marked improvement in the qualifica- tions of the last group who took the State Department examinations, many of whom had received their 'college training at George Washington and were able to proceed towards their goal with little wasted effort. Work Would Proceed at Once. So if the graduate school provided for by Judge Parker is affliated with George Washington, which is believed to have been the late jurist’s intention, it will be possible to proceed at once on entirely practical lines. With the prog- ress of the jobs specification work in other Government departments, the po- sition of George Washington as the rec- ognized training school for those who | are to fill high executive and profes- sional positions in the Government serv- ice will become more and more recog- nized. Simultaneously with its progress in the social and political sciences, George Washington has made rapld progress | in medical education in the last few vears until its standards now are recog- nized as among the highest in the Usit- ed States, with a negligible percentage of failures among its graduates to pass State board examinations. This is rap- idly making it far more than a local center of medical education, and great development in this line also ls ex- pected In the near future. SHELL-SHOCK COMES BACK TO VETERAN, HERO OF EXPLOSION| ____(Continued From First Page.) customers, through a veritable shower of splintered rock and glass and falling timber. It was as if he was a fighting man again. Down in the gaping hole caused by the explosion he saw the partially buried body of a Salvation Army lass. He clambered down through the debris and lifted heavy rocks from her ‘body. He carried her out and hailed a passing automobile and she was taken to Emergency Hospital. Tha Salvation Army lass was later identified as Mrs. Ida Decker of 528 Roxboro place. Her condition is serious. Thayer ran back into the store and assisted others in quieting the crowd milling thiough the store. Then he dis- appeared. Employes who knew him in- stigated a search. More than a half-hour after the explosion he was found huddled at the bottom of an elevator shaft in the rear { of the store by Sergt. J. E. Thompson {of the sixth precirct. The searchers questioned him about his injuries. Re buried his face in his hands, murmux- | ing something incoherently about beiny “run_down by a wagon” and that “Dr. Kline will know me.” Thayer is in no condition to talk and 50 it is presumed his shell-shocked mind returned to the battlefields of | France. Dr. Kline must have been an Army surgeon. The wagon which he George Washington is not specifically | {CLERK IN VETERANS’ { bequest will go to that institution. It} | was recalied, however, that Judge Parker for several years before his ' ! Revolution. RICHARD PARKER CRENSHAW. PRSI S BUREAU IS SUICIDE Death Is Laid to Il Health. Presumably depressed over ill health, Richard Parker Crenshaw, 67 years old, of 1748 Church street, committed sui- cide in his office at the Veterans' Bu- reau, last night, stabbing himself in the heart several times with a pair of long body was found slumped over in r in Crenshaw's office with the scissors lying on & table nearby. A certificate of suicide was signed by Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, District coroner. Crenshaw's act was discovered about 7:30 by John Alexander, 65-year-old night watchman of 308 C street south- west, after a colored charwoman, Irene Garland, 35 years old, found the door locked. The man was pronounced dead by Dr. L. Lewis of Emergency Hospital. Crenshaw had gone about his regular duties as a telegraph clerk at the bu- reau from noon vesterday until 7 o'clock last night, police stated. Members of the family said he had been {ll for a long time. He is sur- vived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Cren shaw; a son, Parker Crenshaw of New York, and a daughter, Mrs. John Gates, who is in Paris with her husband and son. Mr. Crenshaw was born in Winches- ter, Va., and was educated at the Uni- versity of Virginia and the Columbia School of Mines, later practicing his profession of mining engineer in Mexi- co, South America and Cuba. He en- tered the employment of the Veterans' Bureau shortly after the World War. He was a member of the Society of C cinnati and the Sons of the American TIDAL WAVE TOLL MAY MOUNT TO 36 Reports From Isolated Section of Peninsula List Big Prop- erty Losses. By the Associated Press. ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, November 22.—Toll of a tidal wave which lashed an isolated section of the south coast of Burin Peninsula, after an earthquake last Monday, was variously estimated here today at 26 to 36 lives and prop- erty loss of great extent in small fishing villages. With land communication severed for three days by a severe storm preceding the earthquake and tidal wave, first word of the destruction wrought was wirelessed from steamers which had put into the port of Burin. A message from the Burin telegraph station listed the names of 26 men, women and children as dead. The list conflicted with a statement by Premier Richard A. Squires that 36 or more had perished. ‘The premier reported the wall of water had tilled 18 at Lords Cove and Lamaline, 9 at Burin, mostly women and children; 7 at Kellys Cove and 2 at Stepaside. Property damage was reported great, with many families homeless and in need of aid. A reliet steamer left for the stricken | area with provisions, medical supplies, doctors and nurses. The minister of marine and fisheries was in charge of relief operations. The Burin Peninsula, fringed with high cliffs, sticks, finger-like, to the southwest from the mainland of New- foundland and s located 350 miles from | where scientists estimate the submarine disturbance centered in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The tidal wave, 15 feet or more high, struck along the coast for a distance of 30 miles. Burin, the largest town affected, has a population of 1,230 and is located on | a narrow inlet. Reports said the wave reached a height of 40 feet there and swpet away all property on the water front. Lamaline has a population of | 426, and Port Aux Bras 295. Numerous small fisheries dot the coast, but re- ports from them have not been received. Lay Death to Hit-Run Driver. TOLEDO, Ohio, November 22 (#).— Although believing that Helen 8. Chuster, 16, whose body was found 10 miles west of here last night, was the victim of a hit-run driver, Coroner Frank G. Kreft planned to hold an inquest today. Two men, whose names | he did not announce, were to be called by the coroner to repeat their stories of finding the hody. Mrs. Hoover Wires Red Cross Chapter Six Enrollments Mrs. Herbert Hoover yesterday wired to Dr. Harry M. Reynolds, roll call chairman of the Palo Alto, Calif., chapter of the Amer- ican Red Cross, enroliment of her family and servants in the an- nual drive of the organization. President Hoover was enrolled early in the campaign by Judge John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, at the ‘White House. Mrs. Hoover's telegram to Dr. Reynolds follows: “Am sending you check for the six memberships for family and servants and wish you all success in your drive. (Signed). “LOU HENRY HOOVER.” Receipts of the local chapter continued to flow in at average late yesterday, with returns for the day totaling $1,016. Mrs. Harry C. Barnes, director of the local chapter, stated today, how- ever, that she “would like to im- press upon Washingtonians the necflm{ for responding to the roll call immediately and with more enthusiastic -co-operation in order that the quota of 40,000 allotted to the District of Co- referred to was the ammunition car- rier which hit him during the war. ‘Thayer, who is 29 years old. lives at 722 Thirty-second street northeast, of Richard P. Crenshaw| -/ become of the gas we didn't know, but HODVER HOLDS UP [BRIEF RTESHELD | GOOD'S SUCCESSOR 30-Day Period of Mourning to Be Observed by President. day as having no intentien of even | thinking about a successor to the late James W. Good as Secretary of War until the 30-day period of official mourn- ing has and. It is thought unlikely that even after that period has elapsed that President | Hoover is going to be in any great hurry to fill this vacancy in his cabinet. He is going to give the matter con- Fld‘ernble thought before reaching a de- cision, Important Matters Pending. Because of his tremendous program for inland waterways development and | the other huge engineering tasks con- fronting the War Department in the immediate future, the President is ex- pected to cast about for the services of a man who will be in complete sympathy with his expansion program and who will have the capacity to take charge of a department faced with such important undertakings. Intimates of the President feel that he will not want the man who is only military-minded. Another reason for the President's decision to not rush matters is that he is known to feel that with Patrick J. Hurley, Assistant Secretary of War, acting in Mr. Good's place, the military establishment is in safe hands. Mr. Hurley, more than any one else, has been mentioned in connection with the speculation regarding the appointment of & new Secretary of War, Veteran and Lawyer. He hails from Oklahoma and is an overseas veteran, and has a splendid record as a lawyer and more important is a very close personal friend of the President. Others who have been mentioned in this connection are Representative New- ton of Missouri, who is referred to as “the father of the waterways system"; Walter H. Newton of Minnesota, one of President Hoover's secretaries, who for- merly was a member of Congress; Henry M. Robinson, a successful banker of California and an intimate friend of the President; Postmaster General Brown of Ohio and William J. Donovan of New York, former assistant attorney general, BYRD PLANTS FLAG IN SHADOW OF POLE ON FLIGHT OVER ICE (Continued From First Page.) cold to make the engines right for us. And I couldn’t help but send thoughts of thanks to those chaps. Unfortunately, the mechanics who contribute so greatly to successful flights are generally forgotten. I don't see how it would have been possible to find three better men than Bubier, Roth and Demas. The Marine Corps, Army and the Wright Co. each has every rea- son to be proud of its representative. Not long after passing the crevassed area we sighted great mountains on the starboard bow. Later, on the re- turn, from 5,000 feet, we thought we could follow them for 150 miles. We Judge that we saw all the way to Beard- more Glacier, where Scott and Shackle- ton ascended to the plateau on their polar effort. Mac photographed this range and a new one running near it in the same | direction. We can definitely join up Azel Heiberg Glacler with Beardmore Glacier. This is a magnificent range. As we approached the mountains peak after peak came into view until finally the whole horizon, from the southeast to the southwest, was filied with mountains. It looked as if Na- ture had built these impassable ram- parts to keep forever the secret of the South Pole. But as we drew nearer we saw huge glaciers debouching ice into the Bar- rier through great ragged gashes in the mountains. These are the outlets for the two-mile-high plateau of ice. in the center of which lies the South Pole. Majestic Succession of Peaks. Never have I seen such rugged moun- tains or such magnificent scenery— great mount.in masses rising from sea level precipitously to thousands of feet, peak after peak towering heights of 10,000, 12,000 and 15,000 feet. s Capt. McKinley photographed with his mapping camera dozens of moun- tain peaks never before seen. He will develop his films so that the world can see what we saw and science can study at its leisure and with a micro- scope these extraordinary glacial phe- nomena. Describe these mountains we cannot, but the aerial survey camera will do it for us. Perhaps one of the biggest moments of the whole expedition was the landing at the foot of the mountairs, for land- ing awa fleld is always uncertain, and even more S0 in the polar regions with a heavy load aboard. So far as our aviation mission is con- cerned, and so far as a very great many other vital things were concerned, our eggs were in the plane when the landing was made. All was staked on that landing. was an unknown quantity. What a colossal mess it would have been had we failed! It was one of those risks one must sometimes take in the polar egions to win. To Dean Smith was given this big responsibility of landing on unknown ground, the character of which is not easy to judge from the air. But Dean id it. He did his stuff. He carried the mail to the mountains! Perilous Landing on the Barrier, Soon after passing the crevasses on our return, we reached the area be- tween 75 and 100 miles from Little America which the dog teams had re- rted as being dangerous for airplane anding, and some parts of it they said were impossible. About this time the motors began to miss. Harold June reported that we were running low of gas. What had we had plenty aboard when we left the mountains. S Suddenly all three engines stopped. Things looked black, for we were in that dangerous area. Dean Smith had President Hoover was represented to- | from base on an unknown | FOR GOOD I 0V i Military Honors Are Paid at Cemetery After Informal Services at Church. By the Associated Press. | CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, November 22. | —The community which gave James i W. Good to the Nation for a life of | public service joined today with Repre- senative of the Government and the Army in laying to rest the Secretary of War. In comtrast with the State funeral accorded Mr. Good at the White House in Washington Wednesday, relatives and friends here had planned a brief in- formal service at the First Presbyterian Church at 11 am. At the last rites at the cemetery military honors were added to the church ritual. Today’s service called for the coffin, draped in the Stars and Stripes, to be | borne to the church on a crepe-hung calsson escorted by a squadron from the 14th Cavalry of Fort Des Moines, Dr. Harry Morehouse Gage, president of Coe College, of which Mr. Good was & graduate and trustee, and Dr. Robert, Little, Presbyterian pastor, were in charge of the services. Mrs. Good, her sons James and Rob- ert, her father and other relatives, had seats in the center of the church. Be- hind them were reserved places for the official delegation of Congressmen and representatives of the military depart- ment. A delegation of 50 associates of Mr, G‘uud afler he became an attorney in Chicago was expected for the funeral. The remainder of the church was open for old friends and acquaintances, A prayer and a commital service at the grave by Dr. Gage and Dr. Little formed the last religious ceremony. - BLAMES SNOWFALL FOR DEATH OF 12 By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, November 23— Nine persons were dead today as the result of accidents attributed to blind- ing snowstorms and other inclement weather conditions in Missouri and Texas. Five women were killed near Dallas yesterday when their automobile struck an interurban car. The colored chauffeur, critically injured, sald snow on the windshield impeded his vision Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Davis of n Diego, Calif., were killed near Cisco by a train which struck their car in a fog. Two men, Reese Maxwell and Ben Crabtree, both of Commerce, Okla. were killed when their truck was de- molished by a Frisco train near Sen- eca, Mo, in a snowstorm. Snow Covers East. NEW YORK, November 22 (#).—A white blanket covered much of New England, New York and Pennsylvania today as a result of the first general snowstorm of the season in the East. The storm, which swept in from the Great Lakes yesterday, brought with it a sharp drop in temperature and in some cases assumed blizzard propor- tions. The heaviest fall occurred along the south shore of Lake Erie, 19 inches having fallen at Dunkirk, N. Y. A fall of several inches occurred in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Western and Northern Pennsylvania and Western New York. Numerous automobile accidents were reported, the wet and heavy snow clinging to windshields, and obscuring the vision of drivers. * At Erie, Pa., four persons were killed when two automobiles were struck by a Pittsburgh-Buffalo passenger train of the New York Central, traveling 45 minutes late. The accident occurred during a heavy snowstorm and the :‘l?th.mln failed to see the approaching rain. An air mail plane bound for Cleve- land was forced to land near Collins Center, Erie County, N. Y. Ernest Basham, the pilot., said he ascended 13,000 feet to get above the snowstorm, but was driven down because of the in- tense cold at that height. He said the temperature was 13 degrees below zero. Will Rogers Says: BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—While Mr. Hoover had all the prominent male financiers of the East “restor- ing confidence,” I rode herd on all the female industrial giantesses of the West and restored the following “confidence”: ‘Texas Guinan (the General Mo- tors of night clubs) said, “I will put branches of my industry in every town that Sears, Roebuck are.” Clara Bow, “I will be glad to help out President Coolidge and Secretary McAdoo in this financial jam that the talkies have got us into.” Elinor Glynn, “The trouble with this country its got confidence, but it hasn't got ‘it,’ and confidence, without ‘it’ and some money, is lost. anny Brice, “I'll buy stocks, but not at the top.” Aimee McPherson, “Have just fired two lawyers and one of my deacons for buying on margins. If the worst comes to the worst with ‘Wall Street I will take up a collec- tion.” and Carl Petersen to have found us to give us gasoline. We had perfect weather the whole way. It is remarkable that Bill Haines anA Henry Harrison could have predict- ed with accuracy good weather for 500 Irlllles in this unusually changeable re- gion. It reminded me of the North Pole glkht ‘x‘hehn Bill said to me suddenly one da flig! loose, so you'd bettter go.” We went and the wheel, Again it was up to him. The terrain looked rough from the air, As we glided down for a landing there was plenty of time to wonder just which sastrugi would smash the landing gear. When we bumped hard and rocked along crazily and finally came to rest without smashing ug. we were greatly surprised. This is the third time that Eeln has landed successfully away from ase. Fighting Spirit of the Men. During the next 36 hours out there on the barrier, 100 miles from camp, working in the cold, June, Mac and Dean showed the stuff they are made of. I know few things better than fighting the elements and bucking difficulties alongside fellows like these. Harold June was a great help from the time we left. He is an expert radio operator, mechanic and pllot. He is re- sourceful and undaunted. Mac had the most strenuous task of us all as he rmapped every inch of the flight with 4 50-pound camera. After we got on the ground Mac work- ed like a Trojan. I couldn't make him rest. Our big plane is a handful for four men to handle. Mac is preparing to spend tonight developing some of his photographs, lumbia may be fille Thanksglving day is the last day of the drf It was, of course, good that we could follow the trail, because 1f we had land- ed §p an unknown region it would have post @iMcult for Bernt Balchen - Bill was right, as he was this time. It must not be forgotten that every man in camp contributes to any oper- ation down here. It is their toil in preparation that wins. No leader has ever been helped more enthusiastically than these fellows have helped me. They work so harmoniously ether that a leader is no more use than a sore thumb. Now to come to scientific aspects of the flight from a geographical stand- point. We naturally do not want to draw conclusions until we have studied Mac's photographic maps. But we can say, in addition to what we have told about the mountain range to the westward, that we seem to have extended the eastern limit of the bar- rier about 100 miles, that there appear to be no mountains at latitude 82 to the eastward, as reported by Cap!. Amundsen, and that it is doubtful if land exists at his appearance of land. This is no reflection whatever on Capt. Amundsen, as he was himself doubtful about this land and did not ¢l the mountains. In fact. all of us have the highest respect and admira- tion for the job this great explorer did. (Copyright. 1929, by the New York Times . and ‘the 5i. Louis Post-Dispateh. = All rights for publicalion reserved throngho it the world ) The Star of England, historic sa'mon fishing boat, has been purchased by the Swedish navy for a training shij A