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2 #% NORRIS DEMANDS NEWSPAPER PROBE Wants to Know Who Paid for “Advertising” Tariff Bill in Minnesota. By the Associated Press. Senator Norris, Republican independ- ent of Nebraska, demanded in the Sen- ate today that the lobby investigating committee call for questioning moie than a hundred editors and publishers of rural newspapers in Minnesota to de- termine who paid for a page advertis ment appearing in papers today urging Congress to pass the tariff bill without slashing existing industrial rates. The advertisement appeared simul- taneously with an appeal addressed fo | Congress by the Minnesota editors urg- | ing the Senate particulaily to pass the tariff measure with its “splendid new farm rate schedule” and not to hold it up indefinitely with attempts to cut in- dustrial rates below the present law. Norris Charges “Propaganda.” After Senator Allen, Republican, Kansas, had read into the Record a | newspaper advertisement, Senator Nor- | ris demanded that the lobby committee examine “this propaganda.” “I want the farmers of Minnesota to known what their papers, which are pretending to be friends of the farmer are spending their money for,” he said. ‘The appeal by the editors asserted the Hoover plan of farm relief was a two-part program, one relating to the establishment of a farm marketing sys- tem'and the other to a stabilization of the home market through a tariff, and it asked particularly that the Senate hurry the passage of the tariff measure 80 the farm relief program could be completed. The statement asserted they wanted industrial labor to be prosperous because the workers of the industrial centers were the farmers' best customers. “We know,” the appeal continued, “that the business structure of the country is based largely on tatriff pro- tection; that the structure has been in process of building for many years; and that business is adjusted to it. Norris said it would be appropriate to put the names of ‘“these so-called country editors” into the record im- mediately folowing the report submitted by the lobby committee today criticising | Joseph R. Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Associa- Tion, for is activities against lowering of tariff rates. Allen Criticises Norris. Benator Allen, Republican, Kansas, said he resented the terming of the signers of the advertisement as “so- called country editors.” He added he had been informed that the editors and publishers of the papers in question had by common agreement paid for the advertisement themselves. He sald the Minnesota editors and publishers mentioned were identified “with a very large section of the country.” Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, observed that the editors' declaration came from one of those “backward States” which Grundy had said were “not entitled to representation in the Senate.” FRENCH DEBT PLAN IS SENT TO HOUSE Hawley Resolution Reported After Mills Testifies to Treasury Approval. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The_ Hawley resolution to authorize congressional approval of the settlement negotiated for funding the $4,025,000,- 000 French war debt was reported to the House today by its ways and means committee, after Undersecretary Mills had testified the Treasury approved of the measure, ‘The committee authorized its chair- man, Representative Hawley of Oregon, to seek to expedite House consideration of the repolution. Under questioning by Representa- tive Crisp of Georgia, a Democrat on the committee and a member of the now extinct American Debt Fundimg Commission, Mr. Mills said the settle- ment represented about 50 cents on a dollar, in effect cancelling the war- time advances and requiring payment of only the post-armistice advances. “On a 5 per cent basis,” he said, “all Prance will be doing would be to pay back the money borrowed since the war.” Except for the Russian war debt, which the Soviet has refused to recog- nize because it was contracted before the overthrow of the Czarist govern- ment, this French obligation is the last awaiting final settlement. Once before the House approved the French settlement plan, but the Senate held up action waiting formal ratifica- tion by Prance, which now has been ven. Mills explained the French obligation ‘would be funded over a 62-year period, with_an increase in payments during the latter years of the period. Asked by Chairman Hawley about the | present financial situation of the French government, Mills said it was “infinitely better” than in 1926, when lt:le Mellon-Bergenger plan was formu- ted. “This improvement was foreseen and taken into consideration when the debt commission acted,” he said, adding the only unexpected feature was that no one in 1926 “foresaw the rapidity” with which the debtor nation’s currency and | budget would be stabilized. “But France now is carrying an over- whelming burden in the way on an internal and external debt,” he said. CASTLE TO GET TOKIO POST TEMPORARILY Appointed to Serve a: Ambassador During London Naval Arms Conference. william R. Castle, jr. who has been Assistant Secretary of State for several years, was today appointed by President Hoover to be special Ambassador to| Japan to serve in that capacity only throughout the period of the London naval disarmament conference. Mr. Castle’s nomination was sent to the Senate and it is expected at the White House that it will be immedi- ately confirmed. It has not been deter- mined yet when Mr. Castle will leave for_his new post. Charles MacVeagh, American Am- bassador to Tokio in the Coolidge ad- ministration, resigned some time ago. The post has been vacant since then. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall this afternoon, 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zim- mermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointer, assistant leader: March, “The Palm Limited”....Lincoln Overture, “Hungarian Lustspiel,” Keler-Bela Entr 'acte— “Summer” “Murmuring Breez 8cenes from musical comedy Golden Girl” Chaminade .Jensen My Herbert Santa Claus Facing Poser on Liner That Will Have No Dec. 25 S. S. President Polk to Sail Over 180th Meridian on Night of December 24. By the Assoclated Press. SAN PEDRO, Calif., December 10.— Well, what is Santa Claus going to do , about this? Capt. W. A. Ross, his crew, and all the passengers aboard the President Polk, round-the-world liner, will have no_Christmas this year. Old St. Nicholas, who usually finds some way of overcoming such obstacles as narrow chimneys and great dis- tances, apparently faces a poser. Capt. Ross said before he sailed from here yesterday that his ship would reach the 180th, meridian, in mid-Pacific, on Decembef 24, and on crossing it, would sail right info December 26th, with no place left for Christmas at all. The 180th meridian is the international date PSS PUBLISHERS FIGHT NEWSPRINT BOCST Seeking Federal Action and Tell Paper Makers of Stand. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 10.—Re- sistance of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association to a proposed increase of $5 a ton in the price of newsprimt paper moved in two direc- tions today. One was a decision to inform paper manufacturers that no justification was seen for the increase. The other was a resolution requesting the paper com- mittee and the board of directors to take up with Federal authorities the question of possible redress through Federal Government action. Plaps to combat the increase from $55 to $60 a ton, proposed by Canadian paper manufacturers who are members of the newly formed Newsprint Insti- tute, took form yesterday at a special convention attended by more than 100 newspaper publishers from various parts of the United States and Canada. Newbold Resolution Adopted. Speakers were unanimous in their denunciation of the increase and vari- ous lines of action were proposed, in- cluding action under the Clayton act and the Sherman anti-trust act. None of these proposals was formally acted upon. Edward H. Butler, publisher of the Buffalo News, president of the association, ruled that adoption of any resolutions would merely represent the consensus of the meeting, as several non-members were present. The resolution of Fleming Newbold, business manager of The Washington Star, directing the paper committee and directors to appeal to the Government was adopted. A statement issued at the close of the meeting said: “The board of directors of the Amer- ican Newspaper Publishers’ Association and its paper committee, representing the sentiment of over 300 daily news- papers in this country and Canada, who met in convention today, believe that the proposed contract for riewsprint r at an advance in price is not Justified. 4 “The publishers are in possession of no facts that lead them to belleve that an increase is warranted on an economic basis, We are naming a subcommittee of this joint committee to inform the paper manufacturers forthwith that we -e:&m Jjustification for any in ra Mu_h Available Paper. “In view of the large amounts of available paper now hanging over the market, it seems evident that there is no immediate danger of any one being embarrassed for the lack of white paper and therefore there is no necessity of precipitate action on the part of any publisher in the matter of signing con- tracts at an advanced price.” Several speakers referred to the fact that the higher price had the sanction of the governments of Ontario and bec, in which provinces most of the paper mills are located. The positions of Premier Ferguson of Ontario and Premier Taschereau of Quebec with regard to the paper manu- facturing industry in Canada were de- fended by F. I. Ker, publisher of the Hamilton, Ontario, Spectator. He de- nied that Premier Ferguson had any- thing to do with the reported agree- ment of the paper manufacturers re- garding an increased price. Premier Ferguson, who is in Atlantic City, N. J., when told of the publishers’ plan to appeal to the American Govern- ment, said he did not see what basis there was for such action, DOUBTS IF U. 8. CAN ACT. Premier Ferguson Sees No Necessity for Publishers’ Action. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., December 10 (#).—When Informed yesterday that the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, in special session in New York yesterday, had passed a resolu- tion to have its officers take up the newsprint price situation with the United States Government, Premier Ferguson of Ontario, who is here, said that he did not see the necessity tfor such_action, or any basis on which lh: United States Government could act, ‘While reluctant to discuss this phase of the situation until he had a clearer idea as to just what action the pub- lishers had taken at yesterday’s meei- ing, the premier remarked that Lue question of the price of newsprint, as far as Canada was concerned, was gurely a domestic one. He said they had no quarrel with the publishers as provinces, The provinces were col- cerned only about placing the produc- tion of paper on & pro rata basis, so lhfilt it would be equitable for all the mills. * He said that the present price of newsprint was lower than it had been for years. Only a few years ago, he sald, it was $70 and $75, and that the manufacturers were insisting that an increase now was necessary. He sala that the settlers who cut’ the timber in northern Ontario received only $4.50 and $5 a cord for delivering it at the railtoad. They had (0 supply their own teams and it didn't pay them. Get Jail Experience. ICHTERSHAUSEN, Germany, Decem- ber 10 (#).—Fifty judges and prosecut-|n ing attorneys in the Thuringian depart- ment of justice have spent a night in solitary confinement in the cells of the state prison. The object was to give them personal experience in looking out from the inside. 12 Shoppi:tp' Days s Waltz Finale, “Sweetness “The Star Spangled Banner.” THE EVENING OUSTER OF CHIANG BY FOES REPORTED Rebel Troops Reach Doors of Canton After Over- night Advance. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 10.— The Chinese Nationalist Daily, Chinese !1anguage newspaper here, told the As- {sociated Press today it had been in- |formed reliably that President Chiang | Kai-Shek of China had not only been ousted, but that the left wing of the | Kuomintang had demanded that his | entire organization be removed, and the widely known revolutionary, Wang Chao-Ming, be made chief executive as the price of peace in the Far East- er. Republic. The information, the newspaper said, came in semi-official press dispatches from Kuomintang (people’s party) lead- ers in Canton and Nanking. The Nationalist Daily, the chief organ in America of the Radical section of the Kuomintang, sald the resiznation of Chiang Kai-Shek, who led thes Nation- alist armies to victory and virtually united China for the first time since the Manchu dynasty abdicated, has been demanded by the majority of the Kuo- ! mintang political organization in Nan- king and that he had complied. Report Lacks Verification. Although the reported resignation of Chiang lacked verification through for- eign ness channels, S. Jung, speak- inz on behalf of the Chinese newspaper, said Chinese advices agreed on it and stated that the only thing delaying his replacement by Wang Chao-Ming, othervise known as Wang Chiang-Wei, was the problem of eliminating all of Chiang Kai-Shek’s organization. The local newspaper sald the Kuo- mintang representative in this country were explaining to the 100,000 or so Chinese in America what the present revolution meant. According to that explanation Chiang Kai-Shek is alleged to have betrayed the original princi- ples of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, founder of the Nationalist government. “When Chiang was elevated to the chairmanship of the executive Yuan,” said the paper’s spokesman, “we ex- pected him to carry out the revolution- ary principles, which the party advo- cated. This, we feel, he has not done, Instead, he has veered to the right, with the result that his government was as conservative and autocratic as it was before China became united under the Nationalist flag. “The Left wing of the Kuomintang, which is behind the present revolution and admittedly in the vast majority in the Kuomintang, intends to restore the party and the government to the truly republican principles of Dr. Sun Yat~ 8en. To do this, it has been decided to make Wang Ching«Wei President and under him carry out > party’s original ideals.” The party’s plans, said Jung, quoting dispatches, include making peace with Russia and working in co-operation with that country, as China did in the days before Chiang became President and when M. Bogodin and his Russlan colleagues asted as advisers to the gov- erning committees in Hankow. The plan includes restoration of the status quo ante in Manchuria, with renewal of joint Russian and Chinese management of the Chinese Eastern Railway as pro- vided by treaty. ‘Wang Ching-Wel lives in Canton and is engaged in organizing the revolus tionary forces in Kwantung Provinces, according to dispatches to Chinese newspapers here, He is a graduate of the Tokio Law School. He attracted considerable attention in 1909 by at- tempting to assassinate the Prince Re- gent of China. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but released in 1911 after the revolution which overthrew the Manchu rulers. In 1918 he became minister of finance and director general of the salt administration, an impor- tant source of revenue. He was chair- man of the Kuomintang central exec- utive committee in 1925-26. Kuomintang representatives here say that among the things the new revolu- tion will do. if successful, is to retire to private life Sun Fo, son of the late Sun Yat-Sen, because he is regarded as having been too closely allied with the g«;'mkernmn surrounding Chiang Kai- ek, IMMUNITY ABUSE CURB IS ADVOCATED IN HOUSE BY FORT (Continued From First Page.) has been sald in this Congress by any | member of the House.” Mr. Fort pointed out that the lan- guage of the Constitution denies to any citizen recourse to a suit for libel or slander against any Senator or Repre- sentative for accusations made in de- bate. The Constitution, he said, also had been construed to justify punish- ment by the legislative body of a citizen who has taken exception in public to attacks made upon him in debate. The consequence of this, he added, was that there was no forum before which a citi- zen or even another member of the Senate or House might demand proof of charges made against him in debate. “I feel strongly that a similar com- mittee should be created in every legis- lative body whose members enjoy con- stitutional immunity,” Mr. Fort added. “Freedom of speech is, of course, highly necessary, but assassination of reputa- tions behind the cowardly cloak of con- stitutional immunity cannot be toler- ated in any body which hopes for the confidence and respect of the people.” ‘The text of Fort's resolution follows: “Whereas, by reason of constitutional privilege, a member may not be held to enswer in any other place for any speech or debate in the House of Rep- resentatives; “Whereas, members may abuse such | privilege by making of utterances the truth or falsity of which would be sub- ject to determination in court of law except for such privilege; “Whereas, such abuses of privilege may result in injury to the reputations of persons and in bringing the House of Representatives into disrepute; “Whereas it is believed the House of Representatives should be in a position to take appropriate action in cases of abuse of such privilege, therefore be it, “‘Resolved, that the rules of the House of Representatives are amended in the following manner: “Rule X, after clause 40-A, add a new clause to read as follows: “40-B. On the abuse of privilege in dispute and debate, a committee to con- sist of five members. ‘The committee on abuse of privilege on speech or debate may hold hearings for the purpose of de- termining whether a member, in any speech or debate for which under the Constitution he may not be questioned in any other place, has made any un- true charge, accusation, or statement with respect to any persons. If com- plaint is made to such committee by such person or by & member, and upon reaching its determination, the com- mittee shall report its findings to the House with such recommendation with regard to discipline, if any, as it may deem advisable, Toscanini Arrives in Naples. NAPLES, December 10 ((#)).—Arturo Toscanini, noted Italian conductor, ar- TON, D. C., TUESDAY, . DEAD POLICEMAN AND MOTOR CYCLE The wreck of the motor cycle ridden by Traffic Policeman Ross H. Kaylor today when he collided with a sireet car at Stanton Park and w: fatally injured. Kaylor (inset) is believed to have been chasing a liquor-laden automobile. OFFICER FATALLY HURT IN' CHASE Ross H. Kaylar Dies Follow- ing Collision While Pur- suing Rum Runner. (Continued From First Page.) May 1, 1926, and on July 31, 1927, he was transferred from the first precinct and assigned to duty at the Traffic Bu- reau. On December 16, 1927, he was promoted to third class private. Kaylor's efficient work led to his se- lection for special detail assignments with the parties of many notables visit- ing Washington, including Premier Ramsay Macdonald's recent trip to the Capital, Inspector Lewis J. Stoll has started an investigation of the accident in an effort to fix the responsibility for the crash, while Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt has ordered an inquest for 11:30 o'clock tomorrow _morning at the District morgue. No arrangements for the fu- neral services have been made as yet, but it is expected that the rites will be conducted by the Front Line Post, No. 1401, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of which Kaylor was & member. Lieut. L. I H. Edwards, personnel officer of the Police Department, this’ morning ordered that the flags of all precincts be lowered to half-staff out of respect for the deceased. Injured in Other Mishaps. _Kaylor's fatal collision was only or.: of a number in which the policeman has figured since being placed on motor cycle duty. On one occasion he was injured while riding as a member of an escort accompanying President Cool- idge from Union Station to the White House on October 19, 1928, jumping from his machine to avold being struck by a street car and spraining nkle. He also sustained minor hurts in four other mishaps. The policeman was born in Missouri on February 8, 1900. He came to the Metropolitan Police Department with an excellent record in the United States Marine Corps, in which he served as a sergeant in the Flying Corps during and immediately after the World War. He was stationed on the Island of Guam. Kaylor was gunnery sergeant of the 401st Company, Volunteer Marine Corps Reserves, an organization com- posed of members of the metropolitan police force, which won many awards for marksmanship during its encamp. ment at Quantico the past Summer, TRUSTEES NAMED TOR REALTY FIRM Chevy Chase Garden Development Placed in Hands of Two D. C. Attorneys. Entire management of the business of the Chevy Chase Gardens real estate development concern has been placed in the hands of two trustees, James A. Pur- cell and Frederick B. Warder, Washing- ton attorneys, at a‘meeting of creditors. The development concern is headed by Henry J. Hunt, 34, & judge of the Orphans’ Court at Rockville. Title to properties owned by the con- cern will be conveyed to the trustees, who will have absolute management of the business, payment of creditors and completion of work now under way, it was announced. The move was taken, it was said, be- cause of & more or less “frozen” condl- tion of the assets of the company, which were declared to be more than sufficient to cover liabilities. Difficulties of the concern were said to be “not serious,” and that bankruptcy proceedings were not necessary. Liabilities were reported to amount to between $30,000 and $35.000, and assets Between $50,000 and $60,000, rep- resented by completed and uncompleted houses and balance on contracts, ‘The development lies to the west of Wisconsin avenue between Chevy Chase and Kenwood, as was started about two years ago. Creditors were represented by Mr. Purcell and Judge Hunt by Mr. ‘Warder. . 1 MORE WEEK | 2 B HEmes AN AD FOR A MEDICINE Christmas_ Seals rived here today from the United States. He will spend a few days at Sorrento. f Hea&gfi c’fi}uths HARRSON TWTS 602 INAVGETY Declares Coolidge Is Doomed to Back Seat if He Seeks Place in Senate. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Reports that Republican leaders were seeking to prevail upon former Presi- dent Coolidge to become a candidate for the Senate in Massachusetts next year caused Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippl to declare during the Senate debate today that if the former Presi- dent came to the Senate he might as well lay aside any ideas he may have of entering again the White House. Senator Harrison twitted the Republi- cans close to President Hoover upon their alleged anxiety to rémove Dwight Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, and Mr. Coolidge from the list of presi- dential possibilities in 1932 by having them sent to the Senate. Refers to Morrow. “Of course, we read and hear much of the anxiety in the mind of the President touching upon the opposition within his own party to renomination and re-election two years from now,” said Senator Harrison. “We hear it | said that Dwight Morrow was sent to Mexico in order. to destroy his candi- dacy, and then we see certain leaders high in the Republican party put, their heads together and plan to send him here to bury his hopes and aspirations in this august body. The other who looms up to worry the President is Calvin Coolidge. “We see the eminent Senator from Massachusetts, Senator Gillett, who has rendered such distinguished serv- ice in this body and in the House, step aside and out to open up the way for the ex-President to come to the Senate, and those close to Mr. Hoover are be- hind the move to get the ex-Governor of Massachusetts, Fuller, out of the way so that Coolidge can come down to the Senate and bury his hopes and aspira- tions here. Offers His Suggestion. “I want to make a suggestion to the ex-President, because I like Cool- idge. He better not take that nomina- tion up there for the Senate. He won't shine here with that same degree of brilliancy as he did in the White House. ‘We remember him here, and when his- tory is written, little will be said about his fine qualifications as the presiding officer of this body. He will have to take a back seat if he comes here. He will after play into Hoover's hand, and the press will talk of his taking little part in the debate, and the way will be cleared for Hoover's renomination with- out_opposition. “I have too much respect for Coolidge to belleve he will agree to this subtle plan inaugurated by the very adroit politicians in the Republican party close to Hoover, to think that he is going to accept a place in the Senate.” Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, a Democrat, immediately begg>d Senator Harrison to cease worrying about the Massachusetts senatorship. “The democracy of Massachusetts,” sald "enator Walsh, “will take care of any e igency which may arise. I assure him tio"t T will have a Democratic col- league nere in two years.” 163 LIVES, 69 SHIPS ARE STORM’S TOLL OFF GREAT BRITAIN (Continued From First Page.) been carried away and that she was steering with a swing rudder. The weather was fine, though with a rough swell, and she expected to arrive at B:ll‘)’(hlm on Thursday if the rudder British Steamer C: Another was an 8 O 8 from the British steamer Hallmoor from Marseilles. Many square miles of agricultural land and an ever-increasing number of towns and villages suffered damage from inundation. A great chain of lakes was formed along the Thames Valley and regular service boat lines organized in some places as the only means of communication. Flooding of other big river valleys threatened on a large scale. The Brit- isk. Automobile Association issued a lon, list of impassable roads and isolatec places in the west and south where fleod waters varied from a depth of 1 to 6 feet. There was no immediate prospect of improvement. Among the ships reporting trouble were the Spanish Mar Rojo, which pro- ceeded safely after being in danger off Hastings; the 8,000-ton West African assenger and freight steamer Aba, last reported in distress Saturday near Br-st and unreported since. Others in Trouble. Others were the Greek steamer Zach- ariosa, the steamer Valacia and the Italian steamer Leonardo da Vinci, which was “holding its own” off Cape Finisterre, The French steam trawler La Gascogne made port with six sur- vivors of the Italian steamer Chieri, which was overwhelmed by a big wave at 10:30 p.m. Sunday 20 miles off Ush- ant Light. The City of Hamburg, Germany, suf- fered considerably in the gale. There was much dai e along the water front and two persons were killed. The coast of France suffered heavily also. At Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne much property was damaged and lower parts ot Calals were flooded. DECEMBER 10, 1929, HURLEY QUTLINES | IPICTURES PORTRAY WATERWAYS NEED Benefits of Low Shipping Costs Should Be Extend- ed to Farmer, He Says. In his first formal address as Sec- | retary of War Col. Patrick J. Hurley | told the National Rivers and Harbors Congress today that the Government [now demands “that the benefits of low- | cost transportation by water, which for years has been available to the miner and manufacturer, be extended to the use of the farmer.” Quoting liberally from expressions of President Hoover, Secretary Hurley said that five projects in wute;w-ya develop- ment dre “dedicated to the reduction of transportation costs between the farm and seaboard.” “The improvement of the Missourl River, the deepening of the upper Mis- sissippi, the completion of the Illinois} | River, the amplification of the Great Lakes Channel and the canalization of the St. Lawrence River need but to be | named,” he said, “to indicate their po- tentlal effects on increasing the farm- er's surplus by reducing the transpor- tation tax on his products. Assume Greater Importance. “There is every indication,” he added, “that inland waterways are steadily as- suming greater and greater importance in the country's transportation struc- ture. This is shown not only by the traffic figures but also by the continu- ance on a larger scale then ever before of the aid rendered to the cause of river improvement by the Federal Govern- ment, as well as by the plans announced for the extension of private and com- mon carrier service, by the many sub- stantial contracts awarded for new equipment, and by the building of municipal terminals.” = The time limit of 10 years set by Congress was described as a “mistake” by Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of United States Army Engineers, another speaker before the congress, which meeting in twenty-fifth annual conven- tion at the Willard Hotel. Asserting that the work appeared to be “an emergency and a fight,” Gen. Brown said “a doling out of money year by year” was a mistake “that can be justified in this case only by the supposition that our income prevents a faster spending of the money.” Tells of Work Accomplished. He told the convention that since July 1, 1928, $33,000,000 of the $325,- 1000,000 authorized for Mississippi flood control has been spent or committed, “with the result that there have been placed 38,000,000 cubic yards of levees, 6,000,000 square feet of revetments, 8,000,000 cubic yards of dredging and 17,000 linear feet of dikes.” Senator Brookhart of Iowa, discuss- ing the Missouri and Upper Mississippi Rivers, said that opposition of the rail- roads was responsible for the delay in developing the Missouri, and that it ap- peared “our Canadian friends” were not going to co-operate in the Great Lakes- to-the-Atlantic canalization project. Favors All-American Canal. Senator Brookhart said that if Can- ada did not wish to co-operate in the canalization project, he favored an “all-American canal clear across New York State.” The Great Lakes canalization and a similar project to connect the Gulf and Gulf Coastal States with the Atlantic were termed necessities by Representa- tive S. Wallace Dempsey of New York, ©of the House committee on members of Congress, including fors Walsh of Montana and Con- of Texas, were scheduled to ad- dress the congress this afternoon on varlous phases of waterways develop- ment evening the congress will cele- brmj"the annual banquet at the Wil- lard Hotel. Representative James M. Beck of Pennsylvania will be toastmas- ter, and addresses will be delivered by Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, Nobile Giacomo de Martino, the Italian Ambassador, and Strickland Gillilan of Washington. iNINE PERSONS LOSE LIVES WHEN BLAZE DESTROYS STUDIO (Centinued From First Page.) Prances Walsh, when he heard the cry of fire. Opening the door he saw car- penters, scene shifters, cameramen, mu- siclans, actors and actresses rushing toward the exits as the studio filled with flame and smoke. He said he closed the door and escorted Miss Walsh to a balcony on the Park avenue side, where they remained until the arrival of the firemen, who took them down a ladder. Drop Catches Fire. Mr, Flinn said that the picture being filmed was the “Black and White Re- view.” He said this was the second day of the filming of the picture and that everything was in readiness for the cast to begin work when there was a burst of flamé from a black velvet drop in the rear of the stage. He said there was no_explosion. Mr. Flinn said that his company did not develop film in the studio, that they had only a film loading room. ‘The bodies of those. who lost their lives were found, according to the fire- men, at an exit on the 134th stroet side ot the studio. When the bodies were carried to the street, several of them burned al- mcst beyond recognition, the casting director was called on to make such identifications as he could. He made the identifications of four of the bodies. One of the bodies _was that of a female impersonator. His body was little burned and he apparently had died of suffocation. The flowing dresses and vividly col- ored cheeks and lips made an incongru- ous picture as firemen carried the body to a walting ambulance. It was not identified. An hour and a half after the fire started it was brought under control and an incomplete search of the ruins revealed no more bodies, leading to the belief that all except 10 had escaped. Harry Ford of the Bronx, master elec- trician of the studio, denied to Assistant Fire Marshal Sam Willis that the fire was caused by an electrical flash. He explained that the curtaln was seen to flare as it was lowered, but that no cur- | rent, beyond that of the regular light- ing, was on at the time and the cameras were not yet working. SOCIETY GIVING D;NCE. Dr. William McDougall, head of the department of plfltholol'y at Duke Uni- versity, will be honor guest tomorrow night at a reception and dance to be given at the National Press Club by the North Carolina Soclety of Washington. Other guests will include the congres- sional delegation from that State. Dr. McDougall is expected to address the soclety prior to the reception. The profflm has been arranged by the Duke University alumni here, and all former students of that school have been in- vited to the entertalnment. . ‘Twenty thousand agricultural work- ers, nearly one-fourth of the populu- tion of the Torreon district of Mexico, are reported to be out of work, wig ( no possibility of employment, (381 Above: REPRESENTATIVE FRED- ERICK I. ZIHLMAN. Below: DANIEL R. CRISSINGER. ZIHLMAN-CRISSINGER INDICTED IN PROBE OF THE F. H. SMITH CO. (Continued From First Page.) and fraudulent arcticles and repre- sentations concerning the value of the Hamilton Hotel and value of the capi- tal stock of the Properties Investment Corporation, and fraudulently recom- mended the purchase of the sald bonds of the Properties Investment Corpora- tion and other bonds of like nature as secure investments to persons to be defrauded.” ‘The report then goes into great de- tail to cover the foundations of the charges against the company in con- nection with its financing of various other enterprises in Washington, and in other cities. Attached to the report are nearly, a_hundred letters and advertis- ing circulars of the F. H. Smith Co. offering its securities for sale. Statement on Donaldson. ‘The grand jury’s recommendation re- garding R. Golden Donaldson follows: “The grand jurors, at said term and inquiring for said District of Columbia, inform this honorable court that in the course of an investigation lately con- ducted by said grand jury into the affairs of the F. H. Smith Co., a corpo- ration of Washingion, D. C, it has come to the attention of the grand jury that one R. Golden Donaldson of the bar of this court, while acting as & retained attorney of the F. H. Smith Investment Co., the name of which said corporation was later changed to the F. H. Smith Co,, solicited, obtained and accepted sums of money aggregating approximately $100,000 from tne sSoyle- Robartson Construction Co. of said city of Washington, in consideration for said Donalason innuencing his client, said F. H. Smith investment Co., to award divers contracts for the construction of buildings to said Boyle-Robertson Con- struction Co.; and this, when afore- said, said Donaldson, was the retained attorney of said F. H. Smith Investment Co., and when he was also president of the Commercial National Bank of Washington, from which bank said Boyle-Robertson Construction Co. bor- rowed large sums of money from time to time auring the period when they were 50 paying said Donaldson to in- fluence his sad client, the F. H. Smith Investment Co. “Therefore, this grand jury recom- mends to this court that the facts in connection with this matter be investi- gated and proper charges filed to the end that this court may know the exact facts in connection herewith, and that appropriate action be thereupon takel History of Case. The first major step toward prose- cution of officials of the F. H. Smith Co. on various charges relating to its method of operation was taken May 9, last, when G. Bryan Pitts, chairman of the board of the investment concern, was indicted in a special report by the District grand jury, charging him with making a false oath before Ralph D. Quinter, former referee in bankruptcy of the Hamilton Hotel Corporation, which formerly conducted the hoflulg ai Fourteenth and K streets, whi went into bankruptcy early in 1926. Pitts was accused of having commit- ted perjury in statements to Referee Quinter and declaring that the Smith Co. had no connection with the pur- chase of the property and that it made no profit out of the transaction. The alleged false statements were sald to have been made May 10, 1926, and would have been outlawed the day after the grand jury returned its indictment by operation of the statute of limita- jons. ‘The indictment alleged the facts to be that the Hamilton Hotel Co. was a subsidiary of the F. H. Smith Co. and that In floating a loan on the property the F. H. Smith Co. was paid a bonus of $144,000. The indictment was in four counts, the first charging that the ! hotel company was a part of the F. H. Smith Co., and that the latter company took active part in the purchase of the land and the building of the hotel and that Pitts denied this in his testimony. ‘The second count dealt with the hotel company as a separate corpora- tion, but asserted that the Smith Co. was interested in the building and the floating of loans on which it was pald the bonus. ‘The third count dealt with the al- leged declaration by Pitts that the company made no profits out of the hotel transaction, and the fourth count refers back to the first question pro- pounded to the witness regarding the ltlrfln‘l of the hotel project and to which he is said to have answered that n::hsrl::uh Co. was in no way connected Wi z Start of Investigation. The perjury indictments, however, proved but a start in the investigation of the operations of the company. The Department of Justice continued its investigation of the concern and in the Fall moved to gain access to records of the Smith Co. John Doe subpoenas were sought to force officials of the concern to produce their books showing details of their operation, but these were resisted by the Smith concern. In order to force the operations of the concern into the spotlight of the | grand jury and the Department of Justice, Dodds was forced to seek new subpoenas from the District Sspreme Court, in which he brought into the matter the names of Representative Zihiman and Crissinger. ‘The subpoenas set forth that the grand jury was investigating charges of con- spiracy to to defraud, em- BYRD POLAR FLIGHT Perilous Trip Through Great Peaks to Plateau Is Caught by Camera. BY RUSSELL OWEN, By Radio to The Star and to the New York Times. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, De- cember 9.—The surveying photographs taken on the eastern flight when the new range of mountains was discovered running north and south along the edge of Marie Byrd Land have been de- veloped. Men worked ou them all night and the last long roll of film is now on the reel being dried. The work has been done under diffi- culties, but it had to be finished before the film was taken back through the tropics for fear that some of the un- developed film might be spoiled by heat. While the apparatus was being made ready for developing these rolls and the film taken in mapping the bay, the rough prints of the photographs made on the polar flight were being exam- ined with interest by Comdr. Byrd and other members of the expedition. Trace Flight Up Gorge. They are fascinating. They trace the flight through the mountains, up the deep gorge of the glacier where the walls at times seem only a few feet away from the plane, show the rising surface of the Barrier beneath coming closer and closer, which necessitated throwing overbomrd food to lighten the plane, and then the final hump over which the plane staggered to the long iln’;){' of the plateau. e ,scenery is magnificent, ‘great peaks rising above the plane, c]os:ked in snow except where their black, pre- cipitous sides are too steep to hold it; rivers of ice pouring down; between them a jumbled mass of mountains as impressive as any in the world running along the edge of the interior plateau. the plane went southward from them at the point where it entered the plateau the photographs taken at in- tervals, so that they overlapped, show the mountain stretched to the east and gradually curving south until the plane reached the interior of the polar pla- teau. Even the mightiest of them dis- appeared below the horizon and there was only a limitless plain beneath, without landmarks or guides, except the sun and the magnetic compass. New Range Appears. On the way south the plane picked up the range of mountains between Amundsen’s trail and Scott's and then the new range on the interior edge of the plateau to the west, which had never been seen before. Then came the Axel Heiberg glacier, with its steep sides and broken crevassed surface, the tops of mountsins easily recogniza~ ble, like those of Ruth Mountain and the dominant mass of Don Pedro Chris- torsen. Along the foot of the mountains, on the way back, the pictures of the moun- tains and glaclers were made all the more impressive from this point as they rose out of the low level of the Barrier like an almost impenetrable bulwark. Difficulties of Flight Shown. Nothing could so well make clear the difficulty of this flight as these photo= graphs. The whole trip to the Pole now | can be brought home to any one when these strips are combined with the ones from Little America to the mountains taken on the base-laying flight. And they are such astounding mountain scenery that every one has been poring over them with exclama- tions of delight. ghey were not de= veloped without ity. The warm weather of the last two weeks has made the roof of the photo laboratory leak like a sieve, 18 Hours of Hard Work. 1= It is a long, tiresome task at the best and the polar pictures took 18 continu- ous hours of hard work. When they were taken from the tanks and placed on the drying reel the water began to Tun from the roof in the drying room. A call for help was sent out and oil- cloth was tacked over the reel under the ceiling. That stopped the worst of the down- pour. But the men, splashing around in water on the floor, tired and hot in the close quarters in which they worked, had to watch the film every moment to prevent its being spoiled. When it came out with only & few water marks, which do not impair its value, there was a sigh of relief from McKinley and his helpers. Drying Room Is Changed. ‘The drying room was changed after that, however. The reel was put in the little wooden house used for living quarters and called “The Biltmore.” ‘Two of the men who slept there were helping in the developing and the other two moved out. The reel was rigged be- tween bunks and an electric motor hooked up to turn it. An electric fan was placed on top of the stove so as to blow warm air over the reel. The de- ‘veloping began yesterday afternoon and the last roll of film was out on the reel Just before noon today. Faster Work Is Possible. The improved drying room enabled the men to work faster and all six rolls of the long film, including the mapping pictures of the bay taken only the day before, were developed. Now every one is waiting to see the prints of the new llmthe northeast. mountains are particularly in- teresting because they pue upn’-uud from. any known land heretofore placed on the charts. Comdr. Byrd, on the eastern flight, flew north and east and south of the Alexandria Mountains, which run in a different direction than shown on the charts, and there is & considerable distance between their eastern end and the new mountains, at least 50 miles and probably more. (Copyrisht, 1929, by the New York Times Co. and t. ' Louis Post-Dispatch. Al the 8t rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) BYRD SENDS THANKS. Replies to Congratulations From New Zealand. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, De- cember 10 (#)—In a message replying to the congratulatory message of Pre- mier 8ir Joseph Ward, Comdr. Byrd today said the assistance of the govern- ment and people of New Zealand was a most important contribution to the suc- cess of Antarctic expedition. Mme. Curie to Be Commander. PARIS, December 10 (#).—Excelsior sald today that Mme. Curie, discoverer of radium, would be raised to the dig- nity of Commander of Legion of Honor. She will be the first woman upon whom this high rank of the order had been conferred. bezzlement and conspiracy to embezzle funds of divers persons and individuals. Books of the Smith company later, in answer to these subpoenas, were sent to the Department of Justice in prepa- ration for submission of “evidence” to the grand jury. Shortly thereafter the Smith company removed its general headquarters from ‘Washington to New York. ‘The Smith company has been denfed by “blue sky” commissions in a number of States the right to sell or offer its bond issues in their jurisdictions. A number of years ago, ater criticism had been voiced in Congress over methods of the Smith company in connection with a bond issue, the concern was dropped from membership in the Wash- ington Real Estate Board. \