Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, colder tonight: minimum tem- rature about 12 tomorrow i Remperatufes—Righest, o8, at 3 alr, ‘ratures—! est, , at p.m. yesterday; lowest, 24, at 8:30 a.m. today, Full report on page 9. Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 13, 14 & 15 ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 112,771 No. 31,279. vost office, Entered as second class matter ‘Washington, D. C WASHINGTQY, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1929—-SIXTY-TWO PAGES. FH¥ TWO CENTS. (A Means Associated Press. FIVE DIE IN C REPRESENTATIVE KAYNOR AMONG VICTIMS OF PLUNGE AFTER PLANE’S TAKE-OFF Craft Wrecked Leaving for Holiday. LEGISLATOR DIES ON FIRST FLIGHT His Secretary, Pilot, Friend and Me- chanic Killed. Five persons, including a mem- ber of Congress, his secretary and three others, were hurtled to death today in the worst air crash in the history of Bolling Field. The dead are: Representative William Kirk Kaynor of Springfield, Mass. Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary. Arthur A. McGill, a civilian ~friend of Representative Kaynor. Capt. Harry A. Dinger of Boll- ing Field, pilot of the plane. ' Pyt. Valadimir Kuzma of Bolling Field, mechanic. The plane, taking Representa- tive Kaynor and his secretary and friend to Springfield for the Christmas holidays, had just taken off from Bolling Field and gained about 350 feet altitude, when Capt. Dinger attempted to bank. The ship’s nose went down and did not come up again. The big plane fell in a crumpled heap on the southeast end of Bolling Field, a short distance from where Lieut. George Cuddihy met his death in a plane crash a few days ago. The three engines buried themselves in the earth. Enlisted Men Extricate Bodies. Enlisted men from Bolling Field rushed to the scene of the acci- dent, extricated the bodies and immediately started carting away pleces of th2 wreckage and throw- ing them upon a burning dump * heap. Tge first riews of the accident was received at the Capitol from a woman who drove hysterically from the field. Later the White House and War Department were informed. When newspaper men rushed to the field they found the gates closed and guarded by mili- tary police. An appeal to the White House brought orders to admit them. Later photographers who attempted to make pictures from =a railroad fill outside the reservation were taken into cus- tody. They were released later. Mr, Kaynor was taking his first flight in & plane, Priends of the Representa- tive in offices adjoining his at the Cap- itel sald today that he and Mr. Lowe had planned to surprise their families by arriving at Springfleld within three Thours of their departure from Washing- ton. Neither Mrs. Kaynor nor ‘Mrs. e knew of the plans for the flight. Plane Assigned to Davidson. The plane was the personal craft as- signed l:n F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation. He had loaned it to Mr. Kaynor, who wes a close friend, to make the trip home. Officials, at a loss to account for the erash, say the ship, a tri-motored Fol- ker, with three 400-horsepower Wasp es, is absolutely the last word in its type, and Dinger was regarded as a skillful pilot. Advices are that Dinger had just taken off and at an altitude of about 300 feet made a normal left turn, and the ship without warning plunged. Such an accident in the case of this sort of a craft is unknown, experts said. Dinger recently returned from a 20,- 000-mile Air Corps inspection trip with Representative James of Michigan, chairman of the House military affairs committee. . After the excitement had subsided at the field, observers said the cause of the accident probably never would be known. Observers say they saw the ship take off apparently in good shape Above: AN that remains of the plane that crashed at Bolling Field this morning, killing five passengers. Left center: Representative William K. Kaynor. A. Dinger, Lo righ COLD WAVE GAUSES HIGH DEATH LIST Twoscore Reported, One in South—Midwest Blizzard Worst Since 1918. By the Assoclated Press. America was knee-deep in Winter to- day, save only the sun-warmed shores of the Pacific aud the Gulf, which were knee-deep in June, Fog along the Atlantic Coast, sleet- slashed communication lines in Ontario, sub-zero cold in the Northwest and snow robing entire tiers of Middle Western States—these represented the weather’s vagaries. Even Dixie shivered and shook snow from her hair. The worst blizzard Middle America has experienced since 1918 had forged snow shackles which bound transporta- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BANK CLOSING DEPRIVES WOMAN OF TEETH FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER Seat Pleasant Gossip Has Many Others Inconvenienced, at Least Temporarily. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. SEAT PLEASANT, Md., December 20. —Many and varied are the stories of hardships and inconveniences circulat- ing in this town as a resuit of the clos- ing of the Southern Maryland Trust Co., which operates banks at Seat Pleasant and Marlboro, but pethaps the most unusual yarn that is being passed from who gave & check as down payment on an automobile. The bank closed before the check was presented for pay- ment or the car delivered. Another tells of & more fortunate citizen who ordered and received two tons of coal, only to find he could not pay for it as he had intended, and still another of a school teacher who reported she was without funds to carry her until Christmas, due to the closing of the mouth to mouth concerns a woman | bank. who declares the benk’s closing will prevent her from naving any teeth with which to eat her Christmas dinner. According to the gossip, this woman had all her teeth removed some time ago and was to receive her false ones this week. The teeth are ready, but ihe money she had in the bank to pay for them cannot at this time be withdrewn, so she faces the prospect of liguid meals for Christmas. There 1s another story about a man nk. Allen MacCullen, newly appointed secretary and gerwral manager of the bank, declared yesterday about $23,000 in Christmas savings checks were issued by the trust company, and all but $2,500 of them had been paid before the doors were closed. Most of the inconvenienced parties seem to accept the situation good na- turedly, confident that it is only a question of time before they can use their money, % Pl Lowe, secretary to Representative Kaynor. —=Star Staff Photo. Right center: Capt. Harry Lower RAIL UNIFICATION PLANS DISCLOSED 19 Major Systems Are Re- ported Provided For in I. C. C. Proposal. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 20.—Dow, Jones & Co., in a copyrighted dispatch from its Washington bureau, today states that the Interstate Commerce Commission’s railroad consolidation plan has been completed, allocating the country’s railway properties into 19 major systems, comprising five systems in the East, based upon the present four trunkline systems, and an addi- tional system, the nucleus of which would be the Wabash. Official publi- cation of the plan is expected within a few days. In addition to the five systems in the East, two are planned for New England, three for the South, and nine for the West. These are exclusive of the Canadian-controlled Soo Line, Grand Trunk Western and Vermont Central. The dispatch states that the plan is not viewed in responsible quarters as an iron-clad affair, but the general impression is that it is intended as a guide for the ultimate groupings and puts the burden of proof on the car- rlers. In the East, the New York Central and Pennsylvania systems would left substantially as they are. The Wabash is scheduled to receive the Le- high Valley, the Pittsburgh and West Virginia, the Western Maryland, the Wheeling and Lake Erie and an inter- est in the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway of Indiana. ‘The Baltimore & Ohio would receive the Reading, the Jersey Central, and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh. ‘The Baltimore & Ohlo and the Wabash (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) SRS O SENATE NEARS RECESS. The Senate adjourned today after disposing of some miscellaneous matters in an hour's session. Another brief session will be held tomorrow and then the Christmas »ecess will begin. PARK COMMISSION FAVORS PASSAGE OF CRAMTON MEASURE Holds Provisions Will Save Money and Park Values for D. C. and U. S. PLANNERS CITE VIEWS IN ANNUAL REPORT Point to Increased Real Estate Values Where Purchases Should Be Made. | Favoring passage of the Crnmwn' (park purchase measure, now before Congress, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, in its annual report made public today, asserts that “an advance from the Federal Treasury as proposed by the House resolution to be repaid without interest by annual payments from the combined revenues of the District of Columbia equal to the present annuhl appropriations for this purpose, would save both money and park values for the pepple of ‘Washington and of the United States.” Relative to real estate values in the city, the report says: ‘“Real estate values throughout the District have been increasing annually at an average rate of over 8.85 per cent during the last five years. While this rate is like- ly to slacken somewhat in the near future, it is precisely in the regions where many of the park acquirements ought to be made, that the advances have been and probably will continue to be in excess of the average.” Provides for $16,000,000. After a discussion of the provisions of the Cramton bill, providing for an advance of $16,000,000 from the Fed- eral Treasury for the purchase of parks, parkways and playgrounds, the report sets forth this summary: “In view of other urgent needs and practical difficulties in the way of speeding up purchases, even if ade- quate funds were to be made immedi- ately available, it seems reasonable to allow a period of five years for such an acquirement program. The experience of the commission to date seems to in- dicate that such land acquisitions, if distributed over a five-year period, are likely to cost on the average fully 75 per cent more than the assessed value of the properties at the beginning of the period. Therefore, a minimum al- lowance of $16,000,000 should be made for the above groups. To secure the needful lands within any such sum re- quires, of course, that the most urgent situations be dealt with first and that the rate of acquisition be rapid enough to forestall any considerable erection of buildings on the land to be acquired. Unless by some means the funds are forthcoming rapidly enough to do this, (Continued on Page 7, Column 1.) -— ARMY MEN STUDY CROWDER CHARGE Reported Cuban Sugar Disclosures May Bring Query, | By the Assoctated Press. Army heads plan before the week end to discuss testimony before the Senate lobby committee that general staff war plans were given to Cuban sugar inter- ests by Maj. Gen, Enock Crowder, re- tired. ‘Whether Crowder's reported dis- closures will be the subject of a formal Army investigation may be determined in conference, but it was indicated at the department that some study of the matter would be made. Secretary Hurley will take the mat- utzr“up with Gen. Summerall, chief of staff. H. C. Lakin, president of the Cuba Co., sald before the lobby committee he had been informed by Gen. Crowder that in the event of war the Army would not attempt to hold a traffic lane open to the Philippines. . This infor- mation, Lakin said, was to be used as an argument for the restriction of Philippine exportation of sugar to the United States. Chairman Caraway of the lobby com- mittee announced today that he would not_call the attention of Army officials to Crowder’s testimony. FIFTY ARE INJURED IN SUBWAY ACCIDENT Train Runs Into Grounded Third Rail in Tunnel Under East River. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 20.—Fifty persons, many of them women, were injured today when a six-car Brooklyn- Manhattan transit subway . train ran into a grounded third rail in the tun- nel under the East River connecting Manhattan with Queens. In their efforts to escape from the| train some of the most excited pas- sengers broke windows in some of the cars, cutting themselves with glass. Meanwhile the fumes of burning in- sulation seeped into the cars, with the result that many passengers became excited and began to fight their way out. Windows were broken and many passengers were cut and bruised. When the power was turned off, thel passengers rushed from the cars to the roadbed of the tunnel. Some walked to Queens Plaza Station, about half a mile away; many of them walked to an emergency exit and climbed out on Welfare Island, while others were taken aboard a train on the opposite track and taken out of the tunnel. Radio Progr;mTPage_ 54 LAKIN NOTE CLAIMS HOOVER INTERVIEW Letter Read Into Lobby Rec- ords to Give Shattuck Chance to Reply. By the Assoclated Press. A letter from H. C. Lakin, president of the Cuba Company, to Edwin P. Shat- tuck, employed by Lakin to advocate a low sugar duty, read today before the Senate lobby committee, said Shattuck had had an interview with President Hoover. Shattuck, who testified yesterday, de- nied he had ever discussed the sugar | tariff with Hoover. In placing the letter in the record, Chairman Caraway said he wanted the record to show that Shattuck would be given an opportunity to reply to it. ‘The letter, dated August 24, said: “Just before we last went to Cuba you had an interview with President Hoover. You understood him to approve of Cuban sugar newspaper criticam. Points to Editorials. “I inclose translations of two editorials. I think that they ought to be given some publicity, but are to be called especially to the attention of the White House.” After the letters were read into the record, W. L. Petriken of Denver, presi- dent of the Great Western Sugar Co., was cailed to the stand. He said he had called on Congressmen in regard to the duty on sugar in the pending tarift bill. The witness also sald he had had a number of conferences with a repre- sentative of the Department of Com- merce. He said the Great Western produced 45 or 50 per cent of the beet sugar in the United States, and that his com- pany paid his expenses here. Petriken testified his company was associated with the Domestic Sugar Proudcers’ Assoclation ‘Talked With Smoot. Questioned about dividends paid by the company, Petriken said the divi- dend had averaged 15 to 20 per cent during the 23 years the company has been in existence. “Besides paying 15 to 20 per cent you have laid by enough additional money so that now $30,000,000 placed in the company, has been increased to $65,000,000," Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, asked. “Yes,” Petriken replied. Petriken said he had discussed the sliding scale with Chairman Smoot of the Senate finance committee. “Did you discuss it with President Hoover,” Walsh_asked. “I called on Mr. Hoover in an in- formal way and he asked me what I thought of it. I told him I thought it was surrounded with a good deal of hazard. During Petrekin’s brief stay on the stand a letter to Col. T. G. Gallagher of Toledo, general manager of the Con- tinental Sugar Co., from H. A. Austin of the United States Beet Sugar Asso- ciation was read: “Two days before the Republican caucus Love and I were called to Speak- er Longworth's ru~m, where we met the ‘“four _horsemen’— Zongworth, Tilson, floor leader; Small, chairman of the rules committee, and Hawley, chairman of the ways and means—and told that unless we accepted a sliding scale we would get nothing at all.” The Love referred to is Stephen H. Love of Salt Lake City, president of the United States Beet Sugar Association. o ROVER TO SUBMIT DREYFUS EVIDENCE Grave Accusations by Sisters of Dead Woman Bring Decision, United States Attorney Leo A. Rover today definitely announced his inten- tion to submit to the January grand Jury testimony which has been submitted to him concerning the death of Mrs. Aurelia Fischer Dreyfus nt the Potomac_Boat Club following a dance, October 13. Because of the grave nature of the accusations made by Miss Frieda Fischer and Mrs. Elsa Knorr, sisters of the dead woman, who late yesterday afternoon amplified the contents of affidavits recently made by them, Mr.. Rover said he thought a grand jury should pass on the case. Pope Ends Nearly 60 Years of Voluntary Exileat Dawn Today First Time Since 1870 Pontiff Has Left Vatican. Says Mass at St. John’s. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, December 20.—Pope Pius XI, endin nearly 60 years of self-imprison- ment of the Popes in the Vatican, made his exit at dawn today from the pontifical quarters and entered Italian territory. It was the first time since 1870, when the Kingdom of United Italy was formed and the Papal State de- stroyed, that a Pope had left the Vatican. Notifying hardly any one, his holiness drove at 6:45 am. in an_ automobile from the Vatican to St. John Lateran, (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) BANK MERGER PLAN ENDS N FAILURE Directors of Commercial and Continental Are Unable to Agree on Terms. In an authoritative statement made Jjointly today by R. Golden Donaldson, | base president of the Commercial National Bank, and Col. Wade H. Cooper, presi- dent of the Continental Trust Co., it was announced that all negotiations for a merger between the Commercial National and the Continental Trust Co., were definitely ended because the boards of directors of the two institu- tions could not agree on terms. Conferences have been held between officials of the two institutions in the last few days. In the early sessions progress was made in a general way toward a merger. Working out of the details, however, brought about sharp differences in proposals which could not be bridged over. Had the consolidation gone through, the merged bank would have had over $198,000,000 in deposits, a combined cap- ital of $2,000,000, and surplus of ap- proximately $518,000. Cooper Slated for President. ‘The new bank was to have taken the name of the Commercial National and established in the Commercial’s build- g at Fourteenth and G streets northwest. The Continental would have moved from its present location at Fourteenth and H streets northwest. Mr. Cooper was to become president of the consolidated bank, according to plans previously made public. Mr. Donaldson has been at the head of the Commercial since 1921 and Mr, Cooper, in addition to being at the head of the trust company, is president of the United States Savings Bank. ‘There have been tremendously im- portant bank mergers this year in oth- er cities in the country, but so far Washington banks have failed to reach any definite consolidation agreements. Would Reduce Expenses. ‘The aim of all these proposed consoli- dations is to hold all the deposits of the uniting banks and to make sharp reductions in operating expenses. If these aims cannot be reached and sat- isfactory agreements regarding - the stock and the personnel worked out, the merger plans fail. ‘This appears to have been what hap- pened in the Commercial-Continental negotiations. The moment the negotia- tions were definitely dropped, the of- ficials of both banks were anxious to make' the news public, thereby ending further speculation in the financial dis- trict regarding terms. PLANES LEAVE MEXICO. Army Flyers Expected to Land at Kelly Field Today. MEXICO CITY, December 20 (#).— Four United States Army planes which came to Mexico City last week to par- ticipate in a Mexican aviation exhibit are expected to land at Kelly Field, San Antonio, this afternoon from San Luis Potosl, where they spent last night. ‘The airmen left Valbuena flying field yesterday and chose the San Luis route brcl:zse of bad weather along the Gulf coast. POLICE BREAK DOOR RASH AT BOLLING FIELD SHELBY ADMITTED BUNGLING TO JURY, - CHANCE TESTIFIES “Trial Board Has Stirring Scene With Return of Allen to Witness Stand. EX-POLICEMAN GIVES APOLOGY FOR ATTITUDE Remark About “Whitewashing” Intended for Others, Chair- man Is Told. Inspector William 8. Shelby, former chief of the Detective Bureau, told the July grand jury on two occasions that he thought the police had bungled the McPherson case, the Police Trial Board was informed today by Merritt O. Chance, forman of that grand jury, and star witness against Shelby and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, charged with inefi- clency. Chance quoted Shelby as saying he had “learned a lesson from the Mc- Pherson case,” and intended in the future to conduct police investigations “more thoroughly.” Later in the day Chance was char- acterized as a “mental misfit, drunk with authority of his temporary posi- tion a s foreman,” by Assistant District Attorney Walter Shea, who strongly de- fended Shelby and Kelly, hshnnoe threw h:nnother bombshell into TO SERVE HEAVRIN Park Lane Witness Resists Officers With Court Order. Opposed by the shouts of Roy Heavrin, witness in the McPherson case, police broke in the door of I!s apartment this morning and, despite his violent pro- tests and struggles, took him and his witness stand of former Robert J. Allen, who apologized to the trial board for his belligerent attitude wife into custody on a writ of attach- ment issued by Police Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt for their failure to appear yesterday at the trial of Inspector Wil- liam 8. Shelby and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly on charges of bungling the in- vestigation into Mrs, Virginia McPher- son's death. A detail of police from the third pre- cinct and a policewoman knocked on the door of the Heavrin apartment in the Park Lane, scene of the McPherson it was 25 minutes after 8 o'clock be- bullding. Asks for Star Reporter. The entire first floor of the apart- ment heuse was aroused by the knocks on the door of the officers and Heav- rin’s screams. Just befare Lieut. W. E. Holmes, commander of party, suc- ceeded in breaking a chain fastening of the door, Heavrin telephoned The Star to send a reporter as a witness of what was being done to him. While talking to The Star, Heavrin placed the telcphone on the floor at the of door. “Now listen to him kick,” he shouted into'the receiver. Over the wire came the voice of Lieut. Holmes calling on Heavrin to open in the name of the law. Then there was stll_lence ln; Hfi;vfln picked up the tele- phone and sal a disappointed voice, “He won't klc:k.”?l - ting to the court writ which will force (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) el THERMOMETER DROPS TO WINTER AVERAGE Springlike Weather of Week Past Ends as Bureau Forecasts Cold. After nearly a week of Springlike weather, the thermometer has tumbled. The temperature at noon today was 29, considered normal for this period of the year. ‘Weather Bureau officials forecast fair and colder weather tonight, with a minimum mercury reading of 12 above. The lowest temperature last night was 24, at 8:30. This was a customary De- cember mark. The peak of the high-temperature period was reached last Saturday, when the thermometer touched 70 and failed to go below 41. By the Assoclated Press. Santa Claus must be a very modern old gentleman to satisfy the taste of young America this Christmas, and at the place where he once slid down the chimney with one doll he must deposit a whole family of dolls now, not to mention toy airplanes, trains and yachts. ‘This more-demanding trend on the part of children was cited by the Department of Commerce in issuing statistics showing that the sale of American toys is mounting steadily both in this country and abroad. In 1927, the last year for which United States production figures are available, the national toy bill was esti- mated at $100,000,000 and exports at $4,000,000. In the two subsaquent years, the department said, those who have watched the manufactures in this in- dustry and the use by children of tragedy, at 6 o'clock this morning, but yesterday, and by the arrest and ap- p:nnnu ugder police guard n:ncha‘ u&l 3 o fore they could get the couple from the | pl of Mrs. Virginia McPherson when- Kelly visited the apartment the day the tragedy was discovered. grand jury it was impossible for any one standing at a certain mlnl om- site the Park Lane to see win (Continued on Page 2, Column 32.) BILL TO BUY D. C. BUILDING FAVORED Chairman Simmons of the House subcommittee on District appropria- tions, today introduced a bill authoriz- ing the Federal Government to take over the present District Building. The bill was referred to the House commit~ teé on public buildings and grounds, and Representative Simmons said that he has reason to expect a favorable re- port soon. The bill provides for the Federal o take the Heavrin's violent objection to submit- | Government Building at a fair valuation. a committee, com| tect of the Treasury, the architect of the Capitol and the District assessor, to determine what is a fair valuation and to report to Congress. ‘The Simmons bill instructs the Treas- ury Department then to place the money to the credit of the District, with the limitation that the funds are to be used for bulldings in the new municipal center. Under this legislation the District offices would occupy the municipal building without rent until a suitable bulhzlr;: ls";::ovwed, l'mtt th;' . must bear expense of uj an( maintenance while thus oncupfi SALES OF U. S. TOYS INCREASE AS DEMANDS ON SANTA GROW Commerce Department Statistics Reveal Steady Gains in America and Abroad. American toys anticipate a far larger consumption total for 1929, Changing customs and tastes and the development of construction, . tra - tation and other industries were said bv the department to have had their effecc on the toy industry and are reflected in the new kinds and dt of Some of the old fa their own, while oth re either losing in popularity or are being adapted to meet the present day. The modern doll is a person far superior to her sister of yesteryear. Her wardrobe is fashioned after that of the growing child and just as complete. child longer content with one doll, buf quires several, as well as fu transform the doll house into a Alrplanes, Zeppelins, electric trucks and other toys designed the child grow ment physical mand, constructed to simulate the real thing even to the most minute detail. v