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2 ¥ THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €., DECEMBER 1, 1929—PART ONE. PARIS REORGANIZES ARMY FOR DEFENSE, France Acts to Stay Fears' Over Reported Inferiority to German Forces. SCOTT MO WVRER. Chicago Daily 929. BY PAUL By Cable to The Star and the News. Copsright, 1 PARIS, November 30.—The alleged inferfority of the French army to the; German army, as outlined exclusively | in these dispatches on October 12, has aroused such concern here that th government is taking immediate’ meas ures to remedy the situation. | The. whole truth never has been (old‘ to the French public because the popu- lar fears engendered by the sufferings of the World War are considered to be still too acute, and the authorities de- | sire to avoid provoking sentiments that | might result in panic. Moreover. France's policy now is based on friendly rapprochement and collabora- tion which Germany and _another | Franco-German war certainly is not ex- | pected. i Therefore the French press, at the| government’s suggestion, has consistent- Iy worked toward a minimization of | both France's decline and Germany's | rise in military power. But in spite of | the assuring statements by French statesmen, those fully conversant with the French military situation are far from satisfied. Maginot Decides on Course. 1 Gen. Maginot, the new minister of | war, therefore has decided to take three | immediate steps—first, the recrganiza-| tion of French covering forces, which | now are considered theoretically un- equal to meet any possible German at- | tack: second, an improvement of| methods of training recruit—and, third. | the organization of a new scheme of mobile fortifications on the Franco- German frontier at & cost of nearly $1.500.000. It is quite certain that neither the goves ent nor the nation would ap- prov these steps and this expense unless considered necessary for reasons of prudence. These fortifications will in no way resemble old-fashioned for but wiil represent the latest and mos| scientific ideas in mobile defense. Belgians Leave Rhine. The last Belgian troops left the Rhineland, according to schedule, to- day. The British will be gone soon, and if, as now expected, the Young plan is | acce) in January by al the govern- | ments interested, even the French | troops will have been withdrawn com- pletely by next June. There is considerable confidence here in the League of Nations, in the Kel- | logg peace treaty and in the Locarno pact. There is even more confidence ir | the fact that France and Germany ! gradually will evolve an economic and | even a political partnership so close that hostilities will be out of the ques- tion. Meanwhile, France has had such ter- rible experiences that the army will be reorganized and the setting up of de- fenses at once. Revelations made October 12, briefly, ‘were as follows: First, the French Army had been cut to half the pre-war size. Second, the material was antiquated and the training and morale of the covering force behind which mobiliza- tion could be effected were imperfect. Third, Germany, despite the fact of piheoreticghdisarmament, possesses swift. [fobile, well trained, well equipped :’%{moml ready for immediate offensive ac- Europe Is Aroused. ‘These revelations aroused consider- able interest in European military | circles. The German ministry of de-| fense on November 6 made an informal | denial of all these aforesaid revelations. TFhe Germans said that the French army was still superior, and the Ger- man conclusions were that Germany | is disarmed. Hence Germany feels that France and other countries should also thoroughly disarm. After renewed in- quirfes in authoritative quarters, both French and non-French, the writer is enabled to renew his previous asser- tions. The PFrench army now con- sists of 450,000 men instead of 900,000 as before the war. Of these 150,000 are on colonial service. Most of them could not be brought to France in casc of war because they would be needed in the colonies for police duty and because they would take considerable time to transport, even those that could be spared. There are, therefore, only 300,000 troops in France. Of these,” only 150,000 would be available for immediate defense of the | frontiers. The other 150,000 either | would need additional training, or | would have to be utilized with recruits requiring additional training, so that they would not be available for several weeks, The Prench army has much equipment, but it now is antiquated, even as far as the aviation service is concerned. In short, the equipment with which France ended the war still | is in use. The policy of the ministry of war, however, seems to be ratlier to ex- periment and so to pian the latest models of new weapons so that they | could be manufactured at once in case of war, rather than to buy the whole equipment now considered modern, but which might be superseded in a few years hence. German Strength Put at 500,000, This being the French situation, what is the German situation? Of course it is difficult to say exactly what it is, but the writer has reason to believe that the information available here is fairly accurate. The Reichswehr is nominally 100,000, but probably really 125,000. The Schutzwehr, although | called police, is a military organization, living in barracks and receiving mili- tary training and it is sald to be most exactly like the Reichswehr. It is also said that about 200,000 men who have been released from the Reich- swehr and the Schutzwehr after four or five years of training could imme- diately reabsorbed into the ranks fully equipped, so that the force im- | mediately available to Germany in case of war is estimated to be between 400,- 000 and 500,000 men. i But even if these calculations are wrong_and the German covering force s only 200,000 men, it is doubtful whether the French covering force of only 150,000 is sufficient to withstand | the shock of an assault. The new Ger- man Army lacks heavy artillery it is! true, but it is organized entirely for | epeed. | | Plans Are Kept in Factories. If tactics having speed are success- ful, no heavy artillery would be needed because it could not keep up anyway. The German infantry regiments have more machine guns than have the regiments of other armies and even have their own trench mortars and field bat- teries, which move right with the regi- ment. - Training for the Tank and Anti-air- eraft Gun Corps is done with wooden models, while plans for the immediate manufacture of the latest weapons of war are kept in readiness for factories. The auto-mail service throughout Ger- many can provide sufficient motor . Above all, the troops are carefully trained for night attacks and advances. Every German soldier who had several years of training knows business thoroughly. Franco-Rumanian Bank Fails. BUDAPEST, Hungary, November 30 | | the foot of the stairs, and the Three Die in Blaze Caused by Kerosene Thrown on Stove ! By the Associated Press. WYOMING, Il November 30. —Three persons were burned to death toaay in & rooming house fire that resulted from explosion of kerosene thrown on a kitchen stove. The dead were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jones of Bloomington and Miss Martha Johnson, a domestic. Nine persons were in the 10- room house when the flames broke out, spreading rapidly through the frame structure. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were trapped at msid, becoming frightened, ran back to the bath room and was overcome. The others escaped. ELDER’S BRILLIANT RUN WHIPS ARMY BEFORE 83,000 FANS | ___(Continued From First Page) | Yet it was the Army who was always threatening to score. Early in the first period Cagle fell back from his 32-yard | line, and after swinging over threw a| long pass to Notre Dame’s 8-yard line, | ff to the right side. There were two o | Army men uncovered near the spot with & certain touchdown in sight, but as the nearest receiver turned to make the catch his feet skidded and skedad- dled over the frozen turf and he barely missed the try. : In the second period the Army at- tack had the ball deep in Notre Dame territory and it was upon the second | shot, after a blocked Kkick, that Cagle tried a flat pass with the ball 11 yards way before the Army knew what had was an Army receiver at Elder’s side, | but the quick, alert Notre Dame back was too fast for the enemy. He was after the ball with a jump and on his way before the Amry knew what had { happened. Elder could not have been more than & vard or so from the Army end or back when he took the ball, but the sprinter was fast enough to break | or tie the world indoor record for 70 yards and was too swift to be caught. As he took the ball on his own 5-yard line there was nothing between him and the Army goal but turf and air. All that he had to do was run. And if Elder can't run, neither could Paddock or Percy Williams. He started at top speed down the side line and he was vay with a safe lead of 10 yards before any pursuit could be launched. ‘When the flying Elder had passed mid- field there was no one even close and as he crossed the goal line Notre Dame had finished a spectacular season of nine victories over strong teams from ocean to ocean in one of the most re- markable campeigns ever played. Elder’s long journey had completed a victorious campaign that must stand out as one of the best any team has ever know: This campaign included victories over Indiana, Northwestern and Drake in the West: over Southern California from the Far West: over { Army, Navy and Carnegie Tech in the East; over Georgia Tech in the South. | It was a campaign that covered several thousand miles and it finally ended when Elder swung loose and ran almost the length of the field to clean up on the final game, where Notre Dame never threatened again. Outside of that one killing thrust, the fast, strong Western attack was blocked and broken most of the afternoon by the finest and | stoutest Armys charging and tackling the cadets have shown all year. In this game the Army played far above any foot ball it has shown. The line charged with greater speed and fierce- ness. The ends handled their work superbly. Murrel’s kicking; was spec- | tacular most of the day and his line smashing reached a high standard. Many of his.kicks traveled more than 40 yards against a stiff, cold wind and his big right toe made no mistakes. Cagle had few chances to break away from the well-trained Notre Dame de- fense. Yet, on one occasion he swung around end for 30 yards before he was thrown by Carrideo, playing deep, and on another occasion he ran back Car- rideo's punt for 40 yards before he was thrown by a diving tackle just as he had broken Joose with a touchdown in sight. In addition to his offensive work, Cagle played one of the great defensive games of the day. He was tackling all over the lot, always alert and where he should be. He finished his Eastern career as the star of the field, the bright luminary of the afternoon. HAVENNER DENIES CONGRESS REMARK President Explains Reference to Avpropriations for Schools. Federation Denial of a statement attributed to him in The Star yesterday in which he was quoted as critizing Congress for lack of appropriations to meet the| school needs of Anacostia, was issued by Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens' Asso- ciations. The news article in question was based on a meeting of the Anacostia Citizens’ Association, of which Dr. Havenner also is president, and the| Anacostia Parent-Teacher Association, Friday night, when school matters were under discussion, Dr. Havenner said he made the fol- lowing statement at the meeting: “From my knowledge of the members of the subcommittee of the House handling District of Columbia appropriations, I selieve they would recommend and Con- gress would appropriate all the money that was needed for our schools that | could be economically spent in a year ‘We need a junior high school to serve other communities south of Anacostia River and a new elementary school in Anacostia in place of the present Van! Buren Annex.” LITTLE THEATER CLOSES FOR INDEFINITE PERIOD Management Announcing “Tempo- rary” Suspension, Does Not Give Date for Reopening. ‘The Little Theater. on Ninth street above F, which usually starts its new | show on Saturday, and which an- nounces in the dramatic section of the Sunday Star, “The Soul of France,” as the show for this week, was closed ye: terday. From the management it was learned that the house is closed “temg®rarily,” but there was no announcemcnt as to how soon it would reopen. WEATHER LOCKS PORT. Craft Dare Not Leave Harbor in Face of Gale. OWEN SOUND, Ontario, November 30. (#)—Weather conditions on Georgian Bay today were such that no craft dared to leave port. A terrific gale, accom- panied by heavy snow, has been in pregress for 36 hours and there was nu indication of a let-up. Two Gwen Sound steamers are out, the Caribou, of the Dominion Trane- portatfon Company, which is at Wiar- ton, having failed twice on Friday to get cut of that port and the steamcr Manitoulin of the Owen Sound Trans- portation Company, last reported Ontario's . —A ‘”‘:fi“ch from Bucharest today reported the failure of the Franco- Rumanian Bank. It was stated that Gorbay on Manitoulin Island. ‘The steam Laketon, of the Mat- thews /Steamfhip Company, was due here with & cargo but no word | death three years ago of Detective |he would have been moved to suicide SCAIVENER PROBE |Rover to Delve Into Possibil- ity Detective Was Slain in Plot. Prepared to swing tomorrow into a | sweeping inquiry into the mysterious Sergt. Arthur B. Scrivener, United States Attorney Leo A. Rover announced last night that at the outset the probe would be directed to the possibility that Scriv- ener, found shot through the heart in a Georgetown alley. was killed because he was on the trail of a liquor ring involving *higer-ups.” Coincidentally it, became known that one of the more than 50 witnesses sum- moned before the inquisitorial body would give testimony that would defi- nitely upset one of the reasons associ- ates of Scrivener advanced as to why on the eve of his wedding—a theory that police maintained, but which the coroner's jury at the time rejected, holding he was murdered. ‘Woman Accuses Husband. ‘These two developments yesterday followed close on the heels of announce- ment Friday by Rover that a woman had charged that her husband, from whom she is seeking a divorce, killed the detective. Rover said one of the first witnesses tomorrow would be this woman. The woman said she first became suspicious of her husband when he stayed away from home all night October 13. 1926, the date of the detective’s death, and returned without his tie. Scrivener was clutching & torn cravat in his right hand when his body was found in an alley alongside of 3128 N street. ‘The man named by his wife has been an employe of the District Government for the past 32 years. He denled the charge when questioned by police and Rover. While the man has not been arrested, authorities at police headquar- ters saild yesterday that “he won't get away.” Witness List Expands. In stressing his intention to make a thorough investigation in order to defi- nitely determine whether Scrivener was murdered or took his own life, Rover announced the list of witnesses included numerous persons not asked to appear before the coroner’s inquest. Rover revealed the grand jury would | be told of the reports that Scrivener was checking up on the alleged partici- pation of “higher-ups” in the activities % a liquor ring, causing a plot against im. Included in the long list of witnesses summoned are the members of the old “flying_squadron” formerly headed by Capt. Guy E. Burlingame, now retired. Countless spectacular ralds were made by this group in enforcing the prohi- bition law. Also among the witnesses will be Ellis Duke, owner of & soft drink | bottling establishment at 1125 D street. Sergt. Thomas McGrath of the prop- erty room of police headquarters, it was expected, would be questioned con- cerning the reported di arance of liquor said to have been placed in his care. Sergt. McGrath plans, it is un- derstood. to testify no seized whisky ever has been stored in the property room. though a ?utnflty was kept in the basement of the District Building for a time several years before Schrivener's death. Kelly to Be Called. The United States attorney said Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, former chief of the homicide squad, would be given an | opportunity to divulge the information he gathered in a lengthy investigation immediately after the pullet-pierced body was discovered. Lieut Kelly ad- vanced a suicide theory as a witness at the coroner’s inquest. ‘The grand jury probably will spend ONLIQUSR ANGLE PAYS DIME TO DIE. Chicagoan in Shooting Gallery Fires at Target, Then at Head. CHICAGO, November 30 ().—A man identified as Howard Ratikin, 40, walked into a shooting gallery today, tossed down a dime, picked up a smali-caliber rifle, fired at a target, and then in the presence of the owner and two cus- tomers, one a 13-year-old boy, he sent the second bullet through his brain. Identification was made by a_letter from his sister, Mrs. Doris Johnson, Towa City, Iowa, found in his pocket. His pockets also concained 70 cents in change and & bank book on the Mid City Trust and Savings Bank with a | $1 balance. | AN | SECOND RHINELAND JONE EVACUATED French Tri-Color Is Struck! Amid Impressive German Ceremonies. By Radio to The Star. BERLIN, November 30.—The cere- mony of hauling down the French tri- color from the famed fortress of Ehren- breitstein, which crowds the heights of the Rhine opposite Coblenz, shortly be- fore noon today marked the complete evacuation of the second zone of the Rhineland by allied troops, eleven years after American troops first marched into that city. ‘Tonight at midnight the flag of the German Republic will be hoisted cver Ehrenbreitstein and the church bells of | Coblenz will peal joyfully at the reunion of the 2,000 German citizens living in the second zone with the Reich. While the French evacuation was under way at Coblenz this morning, similar ceremonies took place at Aix la Chapelle (Aachen), where Belglan troops retired over the frontier into their own country. Officials Participate. Paul Tirard, president of the inter- allied Rhineland high commission, and Gen. Noel arrived from Paris this morning to participate in the formali- | ties. Hundreds of Germans congre- gated on “German corner, s the spot where the Moselle flows into the Rhine at Coblenz is called, as the French flag was lowered from Ehrenbreitstein. Shortly before 11 o'clock a company of the 151st French Infantry marched over the bridge leading from Coblenz to Ehrenbreitstein, with band playing, followed by a naval detachment from the French patrdl boat Poche. ‘The rolling of drums greeted the en- trance of High Commissioner Tirard, wearing a high hat and black coat, in the courtyard of the historic fortress, followed by & group of French generals. After inspecting the guard of honor, M. Tirard, at 11:30 a.m., gave the sig- nal for the tri-color to'be hauled down. Slowly the French flag descended to the strains of “The Marseillaise,” while across the. river at “German corner” | and in the streets of Coblenz, hundreds of German burghers joyfully cried “hoch” at the spectacle for which they had been waiting #0 many years. Troops Begin March. After listening to wyerds of farewell addressed by M. Tifard, the French troops marched slowly out of the city. The last to leave wi M. Leullier, French military commander in the city. On the occasion of the restoration of the second zone of the Rhineland to the fatherland, the German civil gov- ernor, Dr. Fuchs, addressed a manifesto | to the population of the liberated area, expressing gratitude to the German government, “whose far-sighted polic 1':;4 the foundations for early evacua- B ‘more than a day on the pistol angle of the case alone. The weapon found be- tween Scrivener's feet bore only a blurred fingerprint. George Darnell, a detective. sergeant, is expected to testify the gun bears marked resem- blance to a pistol he found in a desk at police headquarters and gave to Scrivener. Efforts also are being made by Rover to have Henry Miller Moore brought here from the Federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., as a witness. Moore is said to haye identified the weapon as one he threw into a trash can before Scrivener’s death. In this event, the pistol might have fallen into the hands of Scrivener or a possible enemy in the Police Department had it been found and placed in the property room at headquarters. In this connection, Kelly is expected to testify he found bullets in Scrivener's locker at headquarters of the type used in the pistol found at the death scene. Death has sealed the lips of one of the most important witnesses at the coroner’s inquest, Mrs. Annie Stauff, who lived near the spot where Scrive- ner’s body, was found. Mrs. Stauff told of seeing 'Scrivener drive his automo- bile into a garage. She sald he was followed by two men. She later heard loud voices and a shot in the alley. Among the witnesses before the grand jury will Miss Catharine Louise Doering, another Georgetown resident. Miss Doering testified originally that she heard the death shot and the pat- ter of feet as though someone were running away. Another witness, Miss Catherine Markey, gave testimony at the inquest to the effect that Scrivener proposed to her only two days before his death, though he was engaged to another girl at the time. In the original investiga- tion Miss Markey declared Scrivener told her on that occasion: “Well, Catherine, I'm not married yet—God knows what will happen—" Witnesses in Chicago. whether Mr. and Mrs. John F. Mara- gon intend to answer his request that they come here from Chicago to give the grand jury information in their possession, ~ Mrs, Maragon, formerly Helen Barnes Parker of Washington, was Scrivener's flancee when he died, the marriage having been set for the following night. Maragon also was a friend of Scrivener. Other witnesses will include more than a score of policemen and de- tectives, several physicians who knew Scrivener, several girls with whom the colorful detective had been friendly and firearms experts. The witnesses already summoned are intended to testify during the first three days of the investigation. Rover said others might be called in later. He added that while no subpoena has been served on John L. Gibson, a former po- liceman, he undoubtedly would be a witness before the conclusion of the investigation. In a speech recently at a meeting of the Washington Open Forum Gibson charged Kelly “either killed Scrivener or knows who did.” As a result, Kelly demanded that Gibson be summoned by Rover and required to place before the grand jury any facts he might possess. Kelly considered the charge absurd. CRASH OF NEW YORK TROLLEY INJURES THREE Split Rail Caused by Temperature Blamed for Accident. ' By the Associated Pres NEW YORK, November 30.—Twenty- one persons were injured today when & Webster avenue trolley car jumped the track near Two Hundredth street and crashed into an “L” pillar. A split rail, affected by the freezing Rovef was unable to say yesterday The thoughts of the people of the Rhineland, it was stated, went out at this hour of their freedom to the in- habitants of the third zone and the Te. “We feel that our fate is closely tied up with theirs. We confidently hope that soon the hour of liberty will strike for them.” (Copy:ight, 1920.) TREATY CREATES ZONES. All But Third Area in Germany Now Evacuated. ‘The treaty of Versailles fixed three | zones and bridgeheads on the left bank | of the Rhine to be occupied by allied | troops, as guarantees of the fulfillment of other clauses of the treaty. As the result of agreements reached at the Hague conference on reparations and at earlier meetings, two of these zones now have been evacuated or are in process. The third zone, centering around Mainz, is still occupied, chiefly by the French. The French also hold the Saar Basin, although the ultimate status of that territory is subject to negotiation or plebiscite. Conversations were recently begun in Paris looking toward the re- turn of the Saar to Germany with proper settlement of the French inter- ests in the industries and mines. ‘These are apart from several areas of the German Empire which were de: initely transferred to other flags, Pol- ish, Danish and Belgian, by the peace treaty and on a basis of the ethnic or- igin of the population. THREE CHICAGO CABARETS CLOSED BY COURT ORDER By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 30. — Observa- tion evidence, consisting of the drink- ing by patrons with the knowledge of the managements, today resulted in temporary injunctions closing three fashionable cabarets. The injunctions were issued by Fed- eral Judge James H. Wilkerson. The cabarets were the Club Royale, the Beaumonde Club and Kelly’s Stables. Texas Guinan, who was at the Club Royale at the time it was raided, may be ecalled to testify before the grand jury, it was said unofficially. Although the cabarets are mot charged with selling liquor, the district attorney sald he would seek to close them for one year under permanent injunction: 1. Children’s Clinic. 2. Children’s Health Ca temperature, was given as the cause of the_accident. Three of the 50 car were taken to ‘apparently suffering 3. Occupational Teaching. Association for the Prevention of}T Telephone District 6883 |Six Steamers Will Try to | freighter Quedo, went aground on Round All Are Invited Dr. Kendall Emerson Managing Director, National Tuberculosis Association, speak on “New Trends in Tuberculosis Work” at the Twenty-First Anniversary Meeting of the D. C. Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Monday Evening, December 2, 1929, at 8 O’Clock In Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A, 17th and K Streets N.W. 4,000,000 Seals are on sale this month to support the Health Building w !wor_k of this Association, namely: SHIPS PLAN DRIVE THROUGH LAKE IGE Force Channel, Closed to Ninety Boats. By the Associated Press. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Novem- bar 30.—Six ice-incrusted steamers were fueled tonight for an attempt to uncork | the bottle-neck channel to Lake Huron, closed by Winter to some 90 boats in! Lake Superior. On their success, and that of two Coast Guard cutters, was staked mil- | lions of dollars in valuable cargoes—, grain, ore and merchandise. Fearing a Tepetition of the 1927 tie-up, the marine authorities sent cutters to the Lower St. Marys River this afternoon in the hope they could smash a channel through the rapidly forming ice and hard-packed slush. On the lee side of points and islands all the way from Duluth to the Soo boats were still huddled tonight await- ing respite from a lashing gale and a blizzard that made cruising impossible A prediction of “colder weather” made | it certain that unless the eight boats at the Soo could crash through tomor- row or the cutters open the channel all craft on Lake Superior would have to Temain here or at other ports through- | out the Winter. Boats Waiting in Huron, A number of boats were believed to be waiting in Lake Huron for the Su- perior Channel to be reopened. One which started upstream, the packer Island. The crew was taken off the tug Dyment, which was adrift in the upper river. A blizzard which has raged over Up- per Michigan for two days tonight con- cealed the fate of nine deer hunters, be- lieved lost, and trapped several score in the woods without provisions. All high- ways are impassable. As a blinding snow and subzero tem- perature continue, reports of frozen hands and feet, shortage of food and missing parties trickled in from the eastern end of the peninsula. Extereme concern was expressed for the safety of Joe Beach and eight or nine hunters in the launch Betty B., which is lost somewhere in the Taque- menaw River. 33 Automobiles Marooned. ‘Thirty-three automobiles containing hunting parties were marooned in huge snowdrifts 12 miles north of Eckerman. The hunters made an attempt to get out of the woods after the storm started, but the cars stalled and the wind piled up the snow to block them. An appeal has been made to State highway offi- cials to rush a snowplow before the men starve or freeze. Fear is felt for the safety of two brothers named Arndt from Greenville, Mich., and S. N. Preston and Floyd Mendenhall of Detroit, who were snow- bound without food in a hunting shack at Little Plke Lake. A relief expedi- tion was being formed at Newberry to 80 _to them with horses and snowshoes. Slush ice, swept downstream by the swift current, packed tightly the lower end of * Out,” which down- bound boats pass. Six inches of ice covered Lakes Munosoong and Nicolet, widenings of the St. Marys River. ! ! WEATHER KEEPS A. A. A. STAFF BUSY So many calls for assistance came iii!7 the American Automobile Association | by reason of the cold yesterday that the »ffice staff could nat leave desks or switchboard long enough to eat, and were forced {0 quick lunches while remain- ing right on the job. BUREAU PROMISES WARMER WEATHER FOR D. C. RESIDENTS (Continued From First Page Winter clothing to distribute among the needy. Local division officials of the Ameri- can Automobile Association said their repairmen answered more than 800 calls yesterday for service to motor cars damaged by the intense cold. Some 20 additional telephone operators handled the calls for aid at headquarters. 150 repairmen were on the job throughout the day, officials said. ‘The District Fire Department was particularly busy yesterday, responding to 43 alarms occasioned by minor blazes. At one time yesterday the central| switchboard of the department was re- ceiving an alarm every two minutes. ‘This period, however, was brief in du- ration. Devotees of ice skating will have no opportunity of enjoying their sport on the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Mem- orfal in the near future, even should the continued cold raise their hopes. The pool was drained some time ago to permit workmen to waterproof the bot- tom with tar. The United States park police have been forced to infomm inquirers that, due to the wind, there is no ice skating in sight, and that, as far as the reflect- ing pool is concerned, there is none pos- sible for at least two weeks. PRESIDENT ACTS TO SOUND POWERS IN CHINESE CRISIS (Continued From First Page.) MYSTERY IN DEATH OF BALTIMORE BOY Carnegie Tech Student, Found Near Dormitory Entrance, Soon Expires. ! By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, November 30.—The aid of a chemist was obtained tonight in an effort to reveal the circumstances surrounding the death of Paul Ott, 19 years old. of Baltimore, Carnegie Tech student, who was found dying at a dormitory entrance early today as the temperature neared zero. He died in an hour without regaining consciousness while fellow students and a doctor tried to revive him. A coroner’s post-mortem examination was said to have revealed the cause of death as “acute gastro-enteritis,” which might have resulted from ptomaine or other poisoning. The nature of the poisoning will not be known until com- pletion of the stomach analysis in three or four days. Detectives conducted a futile search of the youth's room and examined pots and in the dormitory kitchen i the of finding something that| might aid in solving the case. A metal pot in which Ott was believed to have prepared coffee a few hours before he | was found dying was among the utensils scrutinized. Dr. Willlam L. Marks, Tech medical director, said he thought Ott, suffering from an acute stomach ailment, had staggered from his first-floor room in an attempt to reach a telephone on the second floor, and that he collapsed and tumbled against the outside door, which was forced open to allow the student to fall to the concrete steps at the en- trance Ott was clad in pajamas. Sevc-al students were questioned by detecti' °s, who were told Ott spent the night alone except for a brief visit about midnight to the room of John C. French. The students also said Ott had suffered spells of dizziness. Dr. Marks said the youth had asked and was granted per- mission November 23 to skip compulsory gymnastic classes. Engineer Dies in Collision. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., November 30 (#)—One trainman was killed and five persons were injured late today when the Sycamore, a Cincinnati-to-Chicago Big Four passenger train, plowed into a “light” engine which had stopped on the track between Beech Grove and Acton, southeast of here. George Kean of Indianapolis, the engineer of the pas- senger train, the dead man. te Hear 4. Lunches for Open-Window Classes. 5. Health Literature. 6. Educational Publicity. uberculosis 1022 11th Street N.W. take after some joint agreement has been reached. Stimson denied that negative repl been received from any capital hat any indication of disinclination to take joint action with other powers in China had come from any of the five governments being con- suited. Ambassador Debuchi of Japan, who had conferred at length with Secretary Stimson between two of the latter’s conferences with the President, declared he came to exchange information with Mr. Stimson and that he had no spe- cific instructions from his government. He stated categorically that Japan had not declined, as reported, to confer with the United States regarding a peace move in China and that Japan was watching developments to ascertain what the situation in China might re- uire. X Dr. Wu, after a conference with Mr. Johnson stated he could not envisage Marshal Chang Haueh Liang at Muk- den taking action for negotiations with Russia independently of Nanking, and that if parleys had been opened there must have been some agreement, though he thought it probable that Mukden and Nanking might disagree as to the rocedure. 7 Charge d'Affaires Campbell of the British embassy declined to discuss the subject lol a long interview with Secre- tary Stimson. ‘!’{ is recalled here that a similar sit- uation arose last July when China and Russia came to odds over the Chinese seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Secretary of State Stimson commul cated not only with the five powers at present involved, but with China and through France with Russia to remind Moscow of obligations under the Kel- logg pact. With the United States again taking the initiative to preserve the peace in the Far East, it was be- lieved here last night that any action will go far beyond reminding the Rus- sian end Chinese that they are signa- torles to the Kellogg instrument. The present situation is faced not only with the difficulties between Russia and China, but an internal situation in China’ which has all the menace of the former and can only iead to greater chaos than already exists in this war- torn country. The Japanese are keenly alive to any fluctuations of peace or war in China with a tremendous market for their products and vast wealth invested in railways, mines and raw materials in Manchuria. Aside from other consid- erations peace in China would disrupt a growing market for virtu all the powers now engaged in negotiating a joint policy to maintain peace in the Far East. NEWS FROM FRONT LACKING. Tension Lightened by Failure of Man- churian Fighting Reports. By the Assoclated Press. Absence of reports of fresh conflict in wintry Northwest Manchuria yester- day further lightened the tension be- tween Russia and China which had oc- cupled world attention since the open- ing of the week, when the Soviet army was in full drive. However, the course of peaceful nego- tiation for settlement of the longstand- ing dispute over the Chinese Eastern Railway was still obscure. Moscow had reported the acceptance by the Mukden provincial government of its demands preliminary to & conference and also made known its rejection of preconfer- ence stipulations by Nanking. On the other hand, Foreign Secre- tary C. T. Wang was emphatic in say- ing there had been no break between Mukden and Nanking. :Whatever ne- gotiations had been conducted with the Russians, he said, had been with the authorization qf the Nanking govern- ment as preliminaries to formal nego- tiations. . ‘The Chinese armies, lp?ll’tn!.ly driven 100 miles or more back from the west- ern frontier, seemed to have main- tained their positions, and Chinese sources said that Mongolian tribal chiefs had agreed to send 30,000 sol- diers to Manchuria to bolster the de- fense. Suggestions of international inter- vention in the dispute which had been freely made early in the week were held in abeyance pending developments and the opinion in Washington was that the two nations involved might be expected to find their own solution. =Slar SaEnotoy 1., AGENTS SEEK FORGERY SUSPECT | Young Bookkeeper Charged With_ Defrauding Two New York Banks. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 30.—Federal gents here and in California tonight ought trace of a young man charged with defrauding two New York banks with the aid of an accomplice in Ger- many. ‘The object of their search, C. P. Solem Westergaard, was employed for several months recently as a book- keeper in the foreign department of the Chatham Phenix Natlonal Bank here. Reports that Westergaard had gone to California were being checked by Federal authorities. Alvin McK. Sylvester, assistant United States attorney, who obtained a war- rant for his arrest, said Westergaard is charged with defrauding the bank that employed him and the Chase Na- tional Bank by means of forgery and counterfeiting letterheads of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin. On October 12 the Chatham Phenix National Bank received from Germany a transfer order apparently signed by Deutsche Bank officials, which directed that $23,800 be transferred to the ac- count of “J. H. Stone” in the Park Ave- nue branch of the Chase National Bank and charged against the Deutsche Bank's account with the Chatham Phenix National Bank. A similar order | for $36,200 was received on October 16. Both crders were honored and subse- quently “J. H. Stone” appeared at the Chase National Bank and withdrew the transferred money. Later, word was received from Berlin that both tran: fer orders were forgeries. A few da after. Westergaard resigned his position | and disappeared. His handwriting, soon | afterward was compared with that of “J. H. Stone” and they were declared to be identical. |{ARNOLD QuITS JOB WITH TARIFF BODY FOLLOWING LOBBY QuIZ (Continued From First Page.) the organization, had submitted his resignation, Mr. Kirby acoused Repre- sentative John N. Garner, House min- ority leader, of having “instigated” the recent Senate lobby investigation “to get rid of the official.” At the same time the tariff assoclation head indi- cated that Arnold’s resignation may be accepted. The association’s executive committee meets Thursday at New Orleans and is expected to act at that time in the Arnold matter. “The association won't let any man | stand in the way of progress,” Mr. Kirby said. “If those who contribute to the support of the association think Mr. Arnold’s usefulness has been impaired, he’ll have to go. A man who make & blunder has to take the consequences.” During the six years Arnold has held the post he twice before had handed in his resignation, but it was not accepted, Kirby revealed. He commented at length on the in- vestigation of lobbying activities of the Southern Tariff Association. “The whole investigation,” declared Mr. Kirby, “was an attack on Arnold, because John Garner hates him and wants to kill him off. Garner insti- gated the investigation to get rid of Arnold.” In his review of the lobby inquiry, Mr. Kirby dealt particularly with that phase concerning a letter read before the committee and said to have been written by Mr. Arnold to Vance Muse of Florida, in answer to a plan calling for Democrats, in the last election, “to nominate Negroes in great numbers for Congress,” as a vote-getting meas- ure. “Mr. Arnold didn't sit upon Mr. Muse as he should have,” observed Kirby. In his telegram of resignation Arnold declared he regarded the investigation as an attack upon him, rather than the association, and said he did not want to stand in the way of advancement of the association. “My resignation is at your command,” he added, “I am ready to do as vou direct. Mr. Kirby sald he had not directed Mr. Arnold to quit the post, but would submit the resignation to the executive committee. He lauded Mr. Arnold for “efficlent service." MRS. BYFIELD TO WED. Chicago Social Leader to Marry European in December. CHICAGO, November 30 (#).—Chica- go society today heard of the engage- ment of Mrs. Gladys R. Byfield, former wife of Ernest Byfield, president of the Hotel Sherman, and Raymond Tartiere of London and Paris, + The announcement was made by Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Rosenthal, parents of Mrs. Byfield. No date for the wed- in Chicago during the Christmas holi- day season. | Meager wireless dispatches toda: BRITISH SHIP HITS REEF IN PAGIFIC Meager Radio Messages Tell of Efforts to Save Crew of 34. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 30.— told of the wreck and preparations by its crew of 34 to abandon the British steamship Norwich City, ashore on Gardner Island, one of the Phoenix group, about 1,800 miles southwest of Honolulu. First word of the disaster of the freighter, traveling in ballast from Mel- bourne, Australia, to Honolulu, came in A wireless appeal from the freighter as it was driven on the reefs. The mes- sage said: “S O Ashore on Gardner Island. S. Going fast.” Communication Cut Off. Then electrical disturbances became 50 intense, Mackay radio messages from Honolulu stated, that all further efforts to communicate were balked. Later the powerful Navy radio reached Apia and received this report: “We are unable to ascertain the exact condition, but vessel cannot last much longer. Think all on boar able to make shore.” YANLIERS The Reardon Smith Line, Ltd., owner of the vessel, and James C. Moore & Co,, agents for the Norwich City, said they had received only such radio mes- sages as were picked up by remote and scattered South Sea stations and re- layed to San Francisco. Crew Believed Saved. The Honolulu representative for the Moore company cabled he feared the vessel would be a total loss, and that he believed the crew had gained shore. Gardner Island is described as a bare, desert reef. It is close to the Hawaiian~ H‘i‘.hIS]]:nd lsl';:pc]‘lfle. e Norwicl ty, a tramp freighter, ?::‘Lbzevx;rylyllul the Pule’lflf coast et S since was built at West Hartlepool, England, in 1911, by W. Gray & Co. for the Reardon Smith in- terests. It was first christened the Nor- mandy. The vessel is an oil burner of 5587 tons, with a length of 397 feet, ?"t:enm%f‘ 53 feet and a depth of 23 A e crew was England. e DWIGHT MORROW TO BE NAMED AS JERSEY’S SENATOR (Continued From Pirst Page.) the man best fitted to aid Presi Hoover, and has been ready at all M::: to efface himself from the picture. Mr. Baird will go to Washington within the next fortnight to take the oath of office. He will serve in the Sen- ate until such time as Mr. Morrow's work at the London conference is fin- ished. He then will resign, and Mr. Morrow will be appointed for the un- r. Morrow is expected to reach Washington from Mexico City about December 10 and will leave for London with Secretary of State Henry L. Stim- son shortly thereafter. It is regarded as likely that he will be back in Amer- ica some time in February, when he will at once take his seat in the Senate. Mr. Baird and his organization, with which the friends of Gov. Larson, United States Senator Hamilton F Kean, Ambassador Edge and National Committeeman Daniel F. Pomeroy are all afliated, will line up solidly behind Mr. Morrow at the primary next Spring, when a candidate for Senator is to be nominated. In a series of conversa- :::sme over 'gehtlfleplrllfi:. Mr. Morrow Xpresse Wi ess to make the primary fight. - Frelinghuysen in Ring. Former United States Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen already has announced his candidacy for the p: nomina- tion. Some of the party chieftains here for the Edge dinner expressed the opin- ion that, with Mr. Morrow ready to take the senatorship, Mr. Frelinghuysen might retire. Before returning to Mexico several weeks ago Mr, Morrow told his friends that upon the completion of the tasks that President Hoover had confided to him he planned to devote his time to public affairs in his home State of New Jersey. He let it be known that he wuld not resume his partnership in the Morgan banking house, nor would he accept any of the offers that had come to head law firms in New York. For years he has taken a lively in- terest in New Jersey matters. When Mr. Edge was governor, Mr, Morrow was chairman of the commission that re-formed the penal and correctional institutions of the State. Before goin; overseas in the war time he served as chairman of numerous State bodies dealing with war activities. CAPITAL IS INTERESTED. Career of Ambassador Is Reviewed in Comment in Washington, By the Associated Press. Considerable interest was manifest in Washington tonight over the announce- ment that Dwight W. Morrow, Ambas- sador to Mexico, would come to Wash- ington as a Senator from New Jersey. The position would be Morrow's sec- ond public office. A close friend of Calvin Coolidge, Morrow left the firm of J. Perpont Morgan to go 1o Mexico at the request of Mr. Coolidge three years ago. Friendly With Hoover, Mr. Morrow is expected to be a can- didate to succeed himself and thus will be forced to enter the primaries in New Jersey next Spring about the time he enters office. While intimateiy iden fied with Mr. Coolidge and his admin- istration, the Ambassador also is re- garded as on friendly terms with the Hoover administration. He was prom- inently mentioned for Secretary of State at the time Mr. Hoover was form- ing his cabinet last Spring. Although in the financial world most of his life, Mr. Morrow is regarded in Washington as a distinct success in the diplomatic corps. He went to Mexico st a time when the relations between the two countries were considered delicate, Wins Mexicans’ Confidence. The new Ambassador, succeeding ames R. Sheffield, won the confidence f the Mexicans and became popular. When he toured the republic subse- gently, he was acclaimed with great enthusiasm. Mr. Morrow is a native of Hunting- ton, W. Va., and will be 57 years old in January. After being graduated from Amherst, he received honorary degrees from Columbia. Yale, Prince- ton, Willlams, University of Pennsyl- Ji of ding was set, but it is expected to be |he became a banker. vania and the University of Rochester, He was a lawyer in New York before During World War, he was adviser to the Al- lied Marine Transport Council and was chuirman of the President's aircraft 1925. In 1919 he was Distinguished Service Medal by Gen. John J. Pershing for “‘exceptionally meritorious dis- tinguished services” in connection with his work for the Allied Marine Council, Mr. Morrow has long been identified with the Republican party. He has made his home in Englewood, N. J, for many years, and his daughter, Anne, was married there to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Mr. Morrow was married to Eliza- beth Reeve Cutter of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1903, His other children, besides lm Lindbergh, are Elizabeth and Con- stance.