Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1929, Page 19

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, ;s DECEMBER 15, 1929—PART ONE. - REPORT T0 COVER ONE LOBBY PHASE Activities of Arnold to Be! Made Subject of Statement by Committee. By the Assoclated Press An early report on the activities of J. A. Arnold, n Tariff Association, is forthcoming from the Senate lobby committee Chairman Caraway of the committee had planned to submit the report to the Senate tomorrow, but he said yesterday it had not been completed and would be presented soon thereafter. Arnold was questioned by the com mittee for nine d ager of the Southern | activities in connection with the pend- ing tariff bill and in advocating repeal of the inheritance tax. Have Joint Offices. In addition to being manager of the | Tariff Association, he holds the same | position with the American Taxpayers' League and has co-operated with the National Council of State Legislatures. | The three organizations have joint of- | fices in Washington. The committee also questioned John | Henry Kirby of Houston, Tex., president |of the tariff association, and Thomas | A. Hill of Pine Bluff, Ark., treasurer of | the legislature’s organization. The re- port is expected to, discuss their activi- ties. | Will Question Barnes. The committee plans to question Jul- | fus Barnes, head of President Hoover's advisory council, Tuesday, in regard to reports that he has opposed formation {of grain co-operative organizations by the Federal Farm Board. The reports have been denied at the White House |and by Alexander Legge, chairman of the farm board. Available. Whether this phase of the committee’s | investigation will end with the ques: tioning of Barnes, a former grain op- erator on the Chicago Exchange, had not been determined yesterday. The committee announced that any further plans would depend on the testimony of Barnes. \ H. C. Lakin, president of the Cuba Co., who was the witness all this week, has been directed to reappear Tuesday. Caraway plans to question him in re- gard to newspaper articles appearing in Latin American countries which op- posed a high duty on sugar in the pend- ing tariff bill. CREDITOR POWERS SEEK DEBT ACCORD Finance Ministers to Meet in Paris Tomorrow to Try to Pastor Acceptl‘l.ynchbiu_rg Call. Avert Hague Clash. LYNCHBURG, Va., December 14 (Special)—Dr, R. W. Wallace, pastor of the Christian Church at Valdosta, Ga,, for 17 years, who was called Sun- day to the pastorate of First Christian Church, has advise® officials of the rgurcl;l that he has decided to accept the call. By_Radio to The Star. PA tives of the ministers of finance of France, Japan, Great Britain, Italy and Belgium will convene in Paris Monday in an attempt to liquidate all repara- tion questions still at issue between the various powers creditor as a preliminary to the second Hague conference, it Was learned here tonight This Paris conference has been ar- During the celebration of his 100th | birthday on board his ship, lying in | Port Chalmers, New Zealand, recently, Capt. C. H. Welsh ate heartily of the cake decorated with 100 candles and RIS, December 14.—Representa-| forthcoming Hague sessions another series of allied clashes such as marked the sittings there last Summer. If the preliminary conversations now to begin can be brought to a success- ful issue, the second Hague parley will convene on January 3 with the princi- pal creditors agreed among theniselves on all details of the Young plan and its principal corollaries, including the charter, statutes and trust agreement of the international bank of settlements decisions with Germany. Anglo-French Accord Nears. A beginning toward a solution of the questions at issue between France and Great Britain has been made as a result of the recent mission to Lon- don headed by Pierre Quesnay. In conversation with British exchequer | officials, the French delegation is under- | stood to have reached a preliminary | Pranco-British accord. One of the questions discussed was that relative to the guarantee fund France is scheduled, under the Young plan, to provide in compensation for being allotted the lion's share of the unconditional category of German an- nuities. Similar Franco-Italian and Franco- and thus be in a position to make final | Belgian conversations have been in progress as a result of the visits of Emile Prancqui and Camille Gutt, Bel- glum's representatives at the Paris conference of reprarations experts last Spring, to Paris, of Dr. Alberto Pirelli, chief Italian delegate at that confer- ence, to Paris, and of Emile Moreau, governor of the Bank of France, and Edmond Moret, deputy governor, Rome. A Brussels dispatch states that the | committee of jurists charged with put- ting into judicial form the various pro- tocols to be signed at The Hague has | gone as far as it is possible to go at present and has adjourned to meet again immediately before the initial session at The Hague, (Copyright, 1929.) Wildcat Cuts Power Flow. MARTINSBURG, W. Va. December 14 flow of power to this city from Dam No. 5 here last night. found the cat dead on the arm of a pole near the plant. They believe it sought refuge on the pole from dogs chasing it. Small wildcats in the sec- tion of the dam along the Potomac River are not unusual. (Special).—An electrocuted wildeat | the size of a dog, caused a break in the | Power officials | sang a number of sea chanties. ranged with a view to avoiding at the HAITI COMMISSION MEASURE FAVORED House Foreign Affairs Com- mittee Unanimous for | Resolution.! | | By the Associated Press. The House foreign affairs committee vesterday approved the Porter resolution to authorize President Hoover to ap- point a commission to inquire into the Haitian_situation. The resolution was approved unan- | imously. Chairman Porter of the com- | mittee” ‘announced that he hoped to | bring it before the House for action Monday. | The measure was infroduced after the | | special message from President Hoover ® 19 e e requesting authority for such a commis« sion with the hope of d-umln% the United States Government’s ture policy toward the island government. Undersecretary of State Cotton ap- | peared before the committee today and | urged approval of the resolution. He | said it now was timely to consider the future policy of the American Govern=- ment toward the islands, as “if we end our activities there in 1936 we want to be prepared.” American Marines were sent to Haiti in 1915 to help stabilize conditions and the agreement entered into expires in 1936. Cotton -said the President had not indicated what course should- be taken; whether to remain there aiter 1936 or withdraw, Pipe-Size Worms Found. Worms as big as water pipes. That |is the report of the discovery made by a recent naturalists’ expedition in Southeastern Austrelia. The wigglers are from four to six feet long and one inch in diameter and when they retreat into their burrows they gurgle like a choaked gutter. Furthermore, the re- port says, the worms lay green eggs from two to three inches long with tough, horny shells. 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