Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. § Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy, slightly colder tonight: minimum temperature about 34 degrees; tomorrow partly cloudy. Temperatures—Highest, 52, at 3:30 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news p.m. yesterday: Jowest, today. Full report on page 7. Closing N.Y.Markets, 41, at 8 am. Pages 17,18 & 19 b ¢ Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ing Star. service. T iageaar NG SR IRY. T et Entered as second class matt, Washington, er o WASHINGTON, B Q. SATURDAY, DE CEMBER 28, 1929—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. Yesterday’s Circulation, 109,140 (# Means Associated TWO CENTS. Pres: MITCHELL ORDERS NOLLE PROSSE 0.K. 'BYRD MEN FIND AMUNDSEN - CACHE ON MOUNT BETTY WITH NOTE LEFT IN 1911 HERH—W GASES:Gould Party Discovers Message Written U. S. Attorneys Reminded of Requirement to Apply for Permission. ACTION TAKEN TO AID ENFORCEMENT OF LAW| Interpreted as Practically Placing Authority in Hands of Prohi- bition Unit. The Government moved drastically today to tighten up law enforcement in general and prohibition in particular when the Department of Justice re- minded all United States district at-| torneys that they would be expected to | comply with a forgotten order of 1922 to ask the department for permission before the issuance of any nolle prosse. The reminder, sent out in the form of & circular_letter, furthermore pointed out that all applications for permission | to nolle prosse prohibition cases must | be accompanied with the views of the | representative of the prohibition de- partment attached to the office of the district attorney who makes the appli- cation. ‘The document had orizinated in the prohibition enforcement. section of the department, it was said at the depart- ment. Z G. A. Youngquist, Assistant Attorney General in charge of prohibition en- forcement, was said to have asked the Attorney General to take action on the subject, after looking over the records of recent and pending prosecutions. The order was interpreted as prac- tically taking authority for the handling of liquor cases from the hands of the district attorneys and placing it in the Prohibition Department. As it is known to be the aim of the administration event- ually to place prohibition enforcement under the Department of Justice, the special representative then would be a Department of Justice attorney. ‘Whether the drastic order was the result of alarm over reports on prohibi- tion ecases dropped by the prosecutors coula not be learned. It was said at the White House that President Hoover had no part in the new order and that it emanated en- tirely from the Department of Justice. Rover Gives His Views. District Attorney Leo A. Rover point- ed out that compliance with the order must_necessarily involve a great deal of additional clerical work and result in further congestion of an already cl court docket. “It has been the practice of most district attorneys to exercise their own judgment and discretion in nolle pross- ing liquor cases,” he said, “and to make a monthly report of such dismissals in connection with the usual monthly re- ort showing disposition in ‘detail @f all iquor cases for the previous manth. Under the new order, only in emer- gencies may the prosecutor drop a liquor case without first obtaining thfi consent of the Department of Justice.’ ‘The order, which has received scant attention since its issuance in 1922, reads as follows: | “No dismissal of any case shall be| made by you until after you transmit application for authority to this de- partment and have received from this department such authority. ~ In cases of exigency, where it is deemed neces- sary to dismiss immediately a prosecu- tion or any count of an indi t and there is not opportunity to obtain au- thority from the department, a proper report. should be made promptly to this department of the action taken and the reasons therefor.” Aides Use Own Judgment. The assistants in the district attor- 's office here who handle prohibition cases have always used their own judg- ment in the matter of nolle prosses, ‘and, so far as is known, there has never been any complaint that they have been too liberal in this respect. “There are always a certain num- ber of liquor cases brought io this office which do not merit prosecution,’ Mr. Rover said. ‘‘Sometimes there is so little evidence that it is obviously mpossible to sccure a conviction. At other times the evidence has been 11- legally obtained and the case would be thrown out if taken to court. It seems to me that when the prosecuting attorney is confronted with a case of this kind, it is his duty to nolle prosse yather than consume the time of the court in a hopeless prosecution. “If this office. is '{o beureqmred :g it each prospective nolle prosse Trll‘:,m&mrtmym of Justice the assist- ant district attorney in charge will be deprived of all discretionary power and his functions relegated to little more than a rubber-stamping process. Rover Confers With Assistants. Mr. Rover called into_conference to- day Assistant United States Attorney Harold W. Orcutt and David A. Hart, assistant District Attorney f the Police Court liquor cases. The ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) WICKERSHAM IS SILENT. NEW YORK, December 28 George W. Wickersham, chain President Hoover's Law EDo: Commission, last night decling comment on dispatches trom Washing- ton saying the commission was plan- ning to make a preliminary report ¢f its findings. in charge | | erals in the eastern mountains. BY RUSSELL OWEN. | By Wireless to The Star and New York Times. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, Amundsen’s cache on Mount*Betty at the foot of the Axel Heiberg Glacier has been found by Dr. Lawrence Gould, leader of the Byrd | geological party in the Queen Maud Mcuntains. A note written by the famous Norwegian explorer and discoverer of the South Pole was found in a can buried under a rock cairn, | where it had been placed 18 years ago on his return journey. The mountains to the east of Axel Heiberg have been found to be much different from those to the west. | Admiral Byrd today that the mountains in Marie Byrd Land east | of the 150th meridian were so low that they did nct form a massive | rock rampart holding the interior Polar Plateau and that the ice flooded down from above and forced the Barrier up into great pres- sure ridges 50 miles out from the range. His discoveries suggest that possibly the Barrier covers a vast area east of the hitherto known limits. He also found copper min- “(Continued on Page 3, Column 3) on Return From Pole in Can Buried Under Rock Cairn. December 27.—Capt. Roald Dr. Gould reported to HARRIS WOULD END CLOSED SESSIONS Georgian Wants Dry Hear- ings Held Open to Public in Future. By the Assoclated Press. The prospective prohibition report of the Hoover Law Enforcement Commis- sion only partially satisfies the demands of “dry” Senators who have been clam- oring for information on the progress of the commission’s survey. An effort will now be made, Senator Harris, Democrat, of Georgia, said to- day, to break down the policy of se- crecy under which the commission has been operating and bring about the substitution of open hearings. ‘The heated controversy over the en- forcement of liquor laws, which has been in progress for the past week, was precipitated by a demand from Harris that the law enforcement group make a report on prohibition and by his re- quest that no more funds be appro- priated for it until such a report iz forthcoming. ‘With this he coupled the demand that the commission abandon its policy of secret. He explained that he was particularly anxious that a re- port be received before the Senate takes up the Treasury Department bill, which will include appropriations for enf to the prospéctive report of the commission, Harris sald he was glad it was to be made, but hoped that in addition the commission is now ready to continue its survey through open hearings. He fs prcpared, he said, to follow up his demand (hat this be_done. Two Government departments, & sizeable group of “drv” seuators and the White House have been brought into _the controversy whick followed | 7 (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) PRISONERS OIESleNED IN JAIL LIQUOR PROBE |Capt. Barnard Plans to Go to Bottom of Charges of Smuggling. Endeavoring to learn whether more than one guard was involved in the smuggling of liquor into the District jail, Capt. M. M. Barnard, superintend- ent of the District penal institutions, visited the jail today and questioned numerous employes and prisoners. Capt. Barnard told reporters his in- vestigation still was in its preliminary stages. He added he would report his findings to Commissioner Taliaferro as soon as possible. He sald he planned to_“go to the bottom of the matter.” Walter 1. Malone, a guard, was dis- missed several days ago after a bot- | tle of whisky was found in his posses- | sion. Officials quoted him as having said he had no intention of giving or selling the liquor to prisoners. His dis- missal followed reports that several guards had been smuggling whisky and | narcotics into the jail. Wales Answers Call of the Hunt. MELTON MOWBRAY, England, De- cember 28 (#).—The Prince of Wales came into the hunting field today for the first time 'in several months and rode with the Belvoir hounds. He came over from Sandringham with his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, after a Christmas spent with King George and Queen Mary at a family reunion. ‘The “call of the hunt” apparently has proved too strong for the prince after his ql:lkt Christmas at Sandring- ham. It had been supposed that he had foresworn hunting to hounds as well as cross-country horse racing. SERGEANT FULL OF SKEPTICISM; PRISONER FLEES BY MESMERISM| Officer Hintz Was Sadly Hacked to Learn His Quarry’s| Vanishii B the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 28.—The long count for Gene Tunney at Soldier Field was nothing compared with the one Sergt. Tony Hintz of the Calumet city police station took last night The sergeant had-arrested a fellow who turned out to be a mesmerist. “A mesmerist?” said Sergt. Hintz. “I don’t believe it.” “You grieve me,” said the prisoner. “There is nothing so. provoking to a high-class mesmerist as to have people intimate that he trifles with truth. ver, I will gladly demonstrate.” hat's k.o. with me,” said the ser- igeant. “Do your stuff.” A ng Act. , The mesmerist's eyes flashed with a |strange light. His long fingers wiggled |through the air, as though weaving rosettes from imaginary spaghetti. He | intoned: “Abadaba! Oscaloosa! Eeny, meeny, miny mo! Bark!” The sergeant did so. “Pretty good,” said the ses |I felt a bark coming on anyway, so | that doesn't count. What else do you do?” | "“An" said the mesmerist, “I will |demonstrate my plece de resistance. | Close your eyes and count to 1,000.” | Sergt. Hintz laboriously climbed the numerical scale and finally, with a tri- {umphant shout, sounded *1,000.” | He opened his eyes. The mesmerist | was gone. L] “but | NORSE AIRMEN FIND ANTARCTICA LAND Larsen and Lutzow-Holm Flyi From Ship and Trek Over | Ice to New Claim. New land has been discovered Antarctica by Capt. R .~ Lutzow-Hol aviators Antaretie n d expedition. hi} BY CAPT. RISER LARSEN. OSLO, December 27.—Capt. Lutzow- Holm, my companion flyer with the Norvegia Antarctic Expedition, and I have discovered new land between Coates Land and Enderby Land in the King Haakon VII Sea. We have taken possession of the new land for Norway, according to the usual procedure recognized by international law. In one of our two seaplanes Capt. Lutzow-Holm and I took off from the Norvegia, which lay 100 nautical miles offshore. We landed in a stretch of open water near the new land. From this leadwe made our way on skiis over the ice to land. There we unfurled the Norwegian colors and took formal pos- session of the land in the name of Norway. The ceremony completed we flew back to our ship. ‘The Norvegia, the research ship from | which Capt. Riiser Larsen and his com- panion fiyer from the royal Norwegian Navy took off in their discovery flight reported above, is owned by Mr. Lars CI nsen, one of th: leading men in Norwegian whaling in Antarctic waters. Since 1926 the Norvegia has done exploration and research work in the unexplored waters of the South Polar region. Islands Are Rediscovered. Earlier in the year the Norvegia party rediscovered Bouvet Island and Peter I Island and claimed them for Norway. The new land nrorted today by Capt. Riiser Larsen lies between Coates Land, the eastern shore of the Weddell Sea and King Haakon VII Sea, which borders that part of the Antarctic continent which faces the tip of Africa and the Southwest Atlantic. Across the Weddell Sea lles Hearst Land, which was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins. Weddell Sea is on the opposite side of the Antarctic continent from Ross Sea, where Admiral Byrd and his party are quartered. The Norvegia was last reported off Enderby Land, the quadrant lying east- erly from the Weddell Sea. This por- tion of the Antartic continent is virtually unexplored, navigation being very dangerous because of ice and weather conditions. It was in this region that Shackleton came to grief. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) .. LOS ANGELES PRISONER PROVES AUBURN FUGITIVE Fingerprints Said by Police Cap- tain to Show “James Olivia” Is | One Who Escaped Last July. | By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 28— Police Capt. A. Slaten today said com- parison of fingerprint records had furnished conclusive proof that James Olivia, 23, under arrest here, is Joseph Capico, wanted in New York for escape from Auburn penitentiary during a riot last July 28. Olivia, however, when told of the fingerprint checkup, sullenly refused to expand on his story, which includes a denial that he was in New York in July. Slaten received a telegram from Dr. Frank L. Christian, acting warden at Auburn, stating a ant for the prisoner had been mailed to Los Angeles authorities. Olivia was arrested by detectives December 8, after he had escaped from a police patrol wagon a few days pre- viously. He was booked on suspicion of burglary, suspicion of stealing an auto- mobile and suspicion of being a fugi- tive. District attorney Buron Fitts said he would waive California’s claim to the prisoner if New York authorities |wanted to extradite him in connection with the riot and murders at Auburn. WILL END CABLE SERVICE. SHANGHAI, December 28 (#).—In connection with the Nationalist gov- ernment’s recently announced intention of seeking a readjustment of agreements with fore! cable interests opsrating in China before the end of ihe year, a government committee considering the g:blem today announced that “it has 'n decided that China's contract with the Commercial Pacific Cable Co., which expires in January, 1931, will not be renewed.” Radio Progr;ms—Page 26 GARNER ATTEMPTS 10 OBTAIN HOUSE TARIFF: COALITION Independent Republicans In- vited to Aid Plan of Insuring | Agricultural Rates. “TEST OF SINCERITY” OF “PARITY” TALK Democratic Leader Wants Senatel Coalition's Rate Sections Approved. By the Associated Press. Representative Garner of Texas, the Democraiic leader, today extended an invitation to the independent Repub- licans of the House to join in forming a coalition similar to that controlling the tariff bill in the Scnate. The object of his move, he said, was to insure the final enactment of the tariff rates written into the Smoot- Hawley bill by the Senate combination. This wouid be done, he explained, by the House approving the Scnate rate sections and sending only the adminis- trative sections of the measure to con- ference. The scheme has been discussed and | worked out by Democratic leaders and includes a demand for a record vote when the Senate bill comes back to the House, Test of Sincerity. “If the Progressive Republicans are consistent,” he said, “in their declara- tions that they favor rates which will assure parity between agriculture and industry, they should join with the Democrats in voting the Senate rates and s:nding to conference only the administrative sections of the measure. “The Senate coalition has pointed the way to secure for the American farmers the tariff rates essential to place agri- culture upon a prosperous basis and every Iriend of agriculture, regardless of party affillation, should co-operate in achieving this very desirable end.” Although Garner has yet to receive any replies to his invitation, the tariff bill passed by the Hsuse has bzen ad- versely criticized by a number of Mid- western House Republicans who had to be brought into line by the Republican leaders when it was before the House. The minority leader recently asked Representative Ramseyer, Republican, Iowa, a member of th: House ways and means committee and a critic of the Hawley bill, if he would agree “to con- cur in the Senate rates if they are pref- erable and more in the fnterest of the farmers than the House rates?” . Efforts to Retain Rates. ‘The fowan replied that if he regard- ed the Senate rates preferable through- out he would avail himself of “every parliamentary means to retain the rates that are preferable and get them enact- ed into law.” “The Senate has not completed its work,” Garner sald, “But the agricul- tural rates written into the bill by the Senate coalition make it obvious that while th: measure may be far from perfect it is the most pronounced step ever taken toward securing for agri- culture some measure of benefit thrcugh tariff legislation.” Describing the Hawley bill as the “most indefensible piece of tariff legis- lation ever submitted to Congress,” Garner said that in response to the farmers' pleas for equality the rates on practically every commodity the farmer is compelled to buy were increased. DRAGNET IS SPREAD FOR POLICE SLAYERS Western Pennsylvania Roads Guarded in Hunt for Members of Bandit Gang. By the Associated Press. NEW CASTLE, Pa., December 28.— Fresh guards today took up the vigil maintained all last night over highways winding through the hills of Westegn Pennsylvania in an unrelenting man- hunt for two men and a woman who yesterday shot to death Corpl. Brady Paul of the State highway patrol and wounded Pvt. Ernest Moore, also of the patrol. Farly today an automobile answer- ing the description of the bandit car was reported seen -n the vicinity of Mount Jackson, Ohio. Police there were | notified and a net spread throughout Toledo. Authorities, convinced the killers were experienced gunmen, were giving at- tention to a suggestion that one of the bandits might have been the killer Burke, object of a Nation-wide hunt, following the slaying of a policeman in St. Joseph, Mich. ‘After robbing a store in Butler yes- terday the bandits’ car was halted by Paul and Moore. Guns blazed the answer to the officers’ orders to sur- render, The Truth Germany’ Woma Who was the mysterious “1-14-A-G” on whose reports a German general declared “all move- ments of the army depend”? Read the true story of this amazing “Dame terror of the French, English and Blonde,” (ORTIZ RUBID GIVEN DEGREE OF 6. W. . | Distinguished Gathering Wit- nesses Tribute to Mexican President-Elect. ‘The George Washington Unh’rrsif)" this morning in extraordinary con- vocation conferred upon Pascual Ortiz | Rublo, President-elect of Mexico, the| degree of doctor of laws before a gathering of diplomats, high Govern- ment officiale and high ranking Army, Navy and Marine Corps officers at Memorial Continental Hall, Seven- teenth and D streets. President-elect Ortiz Rubio declared that the task of education on the part of the Mexican governments “will be al- ways urgent and imperative.” Senor Ortiz Rubio described the Mexican civilization and culture as founded upon “an Indian pedigree, | which has given character and sinew | to our nationality.” He cited this as the | reason for: the necessity of a distinct. educational policy. Immediately after the brief cere- | mony of presenting the degree the | President-elect and his suite left Wash- | ington in a large procession of auto- | mobiles for Annapolis, where Senor and | Senora Ortiz Rubio and their party are | inspecting the Naval Academy and i lunching with Rear Admiral Samuel S. Robison, superintendent of the Naval Academy, and Mrs. Robison. Members of the board of the univer- | sity and the entire faculty in cap and | gown occupied the rostrum as Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of the univer- sity, accompanied Senor Ortiz Rubio and Manuel Tellez, Ambassador of Mexico, to the rostrum to the strains of the Mexican national anthem played by the United States Army Band. The invocation was pronounced by | the Rev. Douglas Putnam Birnie. Welcome by Dr. Marvin. In a brief talk before the presenta- | tion of the citation, which accompanied the degree, Dr. Marvin said: “I am glad to welcome so distin- | guished a visitor as Senor Ortiz Rubio to Washington and to this gathering. Mexico has much to offer the world. | I am happy for the friendly gesture on Senor Ortiz Rubio's part in coming to this country that we might know him and his nation better.” Then Dr. Marvin read the citation, | as follows: “‘Pascual Ortiz Rubio—inheritor of the best traditions of your nation, you have chosen to interpret national ‘social life in a liberal way; believer in intelléctual and spiritual forces, you founded a uni- versity, and in a friendly, quiet way be- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) s g CALLES SOUGHT FOR POST Will Be Offered Presidency of Mil- lion-Dollar School. MEXICO CITY, December 28 (#).—El Universal Grafico today said Gen. Plu- tarco [Elias Calles, former Mexican President, would be offered the presi- dency of a million-dollar industrial school where beggars would be taught a trade. | ‘The paper quoted J. Elguero, official of La Beneficencia Privada, under whose auspices the school is being con- structed outside the city. The plan is to rid the city's streets of beggars and place them in school, teaching them useful occupations. ‘There was no indication whether Gen. Calles would accept the post, which would be largely honorary. t About s Famous n Spy Last American counter-espionage service during the World War. IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF Tomorrow’s Star GIVE RELIGION A FAIR CHANCE PROF.HART URGES SOCIOLOGISTS Most Investigators Believe Concepts of Supernatural Arose From Magic, HC Declares. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Give God a fair chance in the court of science. Such was the appeal of Prof. Hornell Hart of Bryn Mawr College, speaking before the American Sociological So- ciety here today. There are three schools of thought among psychologists and anthropolo- gists, he sald, as to how religlous con- cepts first arose among men. If two of these are true, he insisted, “the very essence of the highest modern religions 15 delusory.” The first, and now widely held, scien- tific belief, he said, is that the concept of the supernatural arose from magic— the efforts of the primitive medicine men to control events and the clements by various devices founded on the asso- clation of ideas. “Most_orthodox anthropologists,” he said, “follow Frazer in explaining magic as misapplication of the association of tion magic on association by contiguity. Sickness, death, healing and other psycho-physiological effects admittedly produced necessitate recognition that magic is a system of practical social psychology. But instances reported by various sclentists involving suggestion at a distance, activities of mysterious power etxernal to the individual, telep- athy and veridical crystal visions re- quire, if authentic, the hypothesis that genuine forces not accounted for by the present laws of physics, biology and (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 3 RAKETEERSDE. N CHGAGD BATILE Trapped by Police in Union Headquarters Attempting to Extort $10,000. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, December 28.— Three racketeers, hunting easy money with shotguns and revolvers, were trapped by police last night and died resisting arrest. ‘The racketeers had gone to the offices of President Michael Powers of the Tire Workers and Repair Vulcanizers’ Union, demanding $10,000 or Power's life. If Powers didn’t pay, they warned him, they would get him out of the way and take over control of the union them- sclves under the racketeer’s theory that might is right. Powers called upon police for protec- tion. Officers were concealed at the union headquarters when the racketeers arrived. Five minutes later a police ambulance drove up to take one police- man, slightly wounded, to the hospital, and three bodies to the morgue. All Known to Police. ‘The dead: . ‘William (Dinky) Quan, with a police record dating to 1920 and including an indictment for murder and arrests and convictions for burglary, larceny and disorderiy conduct. . Willlam Wilson, alias Walker, called “the silver-plated gangster,” the first victim of gangster machine guns in Chicago and with a police record dating to 1915. A silver plate in his skull, necessitated by a bullet wound, gave him his sobriquet. John Ryan, identified by detectives as a hijacker and beer runner and member of “Red” Bolton's West Side gang. The injured policeman was Detective Ray Doherty. He was shot in the hand. 1t was Doherty, concealed in a rear Toom, who precipitated the shooting. Quan Demands Money. The extortionists had entered Powers" office, Quan in the lead, stumping along with the aid of a cane. He had not recovered from a bullet wound in the leg suffered several weeks Powers " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BRITISH GIANT R-101 TO UNDERGO ‘OPERATION’ Dirigible Will Be Cut in Two to Have Gas Bag Sewed in Jfor Additional Lifting Power. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 28.—As a result of its recent trials Great Britian's new giant dirigible, the R-101, will undergo among otrer modifications a surgical operation. The big ship will be cut in two parts and a section 75 foot long and con- tainining & gas bag capacity of 500,000 cubic feet mserted before the halves are ‘“sewed” back together again. The length of the new ship will be feet, which will make it larger than itsision has just had the last word, or twin, the R-100, and hence the largest dirigible in the world. The new section will give the ship an additional 1ift of 15 tons. The gas wiring will also be enarged and fittings which the trials indicated were not par- ticularly useful will be removed. 4 RUM RUNNERS' WAR DS COAST GUARDS Smuggling Slumps as Rival Detroit and Buffalo Gangs Battle. By the Assoclated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., December 28.—Ri. val Detroit and Buffalo liquor-running gangs were deciared by Federal agents today to be engaged in a war to the death for control of ‘the Ontario lig- uor output. C. M. Gramer, special investigator of the Treasury Departmont, has been assigned here to look into the situation, which already has resulted in the mur- nt liquor smupgler 15 disappruene of three otacrs, The iguor war starte¢ with the dc- scent upun tae Ontario ports of Bridge- burg, Port Colborne and I'ari Erie of a gang of Detroit smugglers who promptly proceeded with offers of higher wages to lure away some of the Buffalo gang’s best liquor traffickers. Causes Smuggliny Slump. One result of tue war between the two gangs has been a decreass in the amount of smuggled liquor, as cross- ing the Niagara River has bcen made more hazardous with smugglers forced to evade their rivals in addition to the Coast Guard and the ice floes. Rum-running operations have been somewhat curbed also by the fatal shooting last Wednesdas night of Eu- gene F. Downey, i, by coast guards- men. One of the men wio disappeared in the war between the rival rum-run- ning gangs is Jeremizn Sullivan, who was last seen starting across the river from the Canadian shore. Smugglers say the river swallcwed him up, but the Government appar- ently thinks differently, for Gramer has™ been sifting all available facts and rumors. Then a forme: Detroit man, identified as_a_smuggler, was (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Ideas—mimitic magic found on associa- | d tion by similarity, and intimate connec- | FRANCE T0 BATILE 1. AND BRITAINAT NAVAL CONFERENCE Italy Aligns in Support of Latter, With Japan an Intermediary. VIEWS OF ALL 5 POWERS INDICATE BITTER FIGHT America and England in General Accord, While Rome Wants Parity With Frencit. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicage Dally News. Copyright, 1929, PARIS, December 28.—It is now pos- sible to forecast the physiognomy of the London Naval Confersr.ié to be held in January. 1% bids fair to be a long wrangle between France on the one han and Great Britain and the United | :aies, supported by Italy, on the other, with Japan strategically situated as an Jxrermediary. ‘The views of all five powers have now teen stated in one form or another. “he United States and Great Britain |are already practically in agreement. Italy merely demands parity with Franee, an¢, o get that or some cor- respording political compensation, it seems, after some hesitancy, to have cast its lot with Britain and America. Japan's demand for a higher cruiser ratio than the percentage granted her at the Washington Conference and for parity in submarine tonnage would be sufficiently em®arrassing if that country stood a‘one, but Japan's figures are so moderately augmented compared to those of Fran:e that Tokio can afford to sit relativey quiet and let France bear the brunt of th: discussion. France Wolds No Secret. The French memorandum concern- ing her position as to the approaching London Conference states that France will readily dec*re her nceds at Lon- on. These neecs are not secret, and have already been computed In what the French call their “naval statute” or building program up to 1942. Ac- cording to this program, ths French are abandoning capital ships alto- gether and will ask a crulser ratio of 8.75, or higher than Japan's, and just under that of the United Stwtes and England. At the same time, a3 regaroy ratios in both destroyers and submarives, the French memorandum stat's that France's claims will exceed those of the supposed Anglo-American agreement figures. The real problem of the conference, therefore, appears to be_the finding of & means of reducing French claims. g”lna suggestion t'llmtg“;’nlkeml three- er agreemen ing the United States, Britain and Japan, "l’fllflu France. But in this event it seems probable that France would go ht on with her building program, w! o in turn, would gradually either satisfy French claims automatically or oblige the other three nations to build, there- by defeating the whole purpose of any naval agreement at London. May Agree on Delay. Another suggestion is that in case the three principal naval powers agree to delay replacement of capital ships and ultimately reduce their size, France might be willing to make some corre~ :‘ponding form of reduction in her own leet, which consists almost entirely of so-called auxiliaries. This suggestion seems to contain possibilities, for the French have no modern_capital ships and are building none. They consider their high claims to auxiliaries 'as legitimate as an offset to the powerful fleets of capital ships maintained by the three leading naval powers. The third suggestion is that some form of political guarantee might be found, which by increasing the general security wouid enable France to consent; to_really considerable reductions. France itself has proposed this, and it is possible that this is almost the scle constructive possibility in the confer- ence. Taking the Locarno treaties as a precedent, it is seen that since those treaties have been ratified France has of her own volition, without any outside pressure whatever, reduced her army by nearly one-half. A similar reduction in the French claim for cruisers and submarines would probably easily insure the success of the conference. CRIME BOARD PLANNED. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.,, December 28 (#)—Fifty men ami women of Jack- sonville will be invited to help Sheriff W. B. Cahoon enforce laws in Duval County. They will be members of a crime com- mission now being appointed by the sheriff and will investigate crime con- ditions in the county and recommend methods of law enforcement. Spain Cuts Naval Budget. MADRID, December 28 (#).—The minister of the navy today said that naval exoerts have suggested the build- ing of submarines and armored. war- ships as suitable for Spain. The budget for naval building, however, has besny cut, as the government, wishes to curtaft - its ‘expenditures. The new plan calls for a yearly outlay of 61,000,000 pesetas llnsltld of 100,000,000 pesetas as hereto~ ore. MACHINE CURE OF 84 DISE:ASES HELD TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE | Trade Commission Suppresses Joseph P. Sereda’s Adver- tised Claims as to Violet Ray. By the Assoclated Press. One Joseph P. Sereda has a machine which he contends will cure 84 dis- eases which range the alphabeticai mut from asthma and birthmarks to writer's cramp. ‘The Federal Trade Commission and Mr. Sereda, however, are at odds over the alleged virtues of thc machine, and the upshot of it all is that the commis. rather words. They were, in brief, that Mr. Sereda should “cease and de- sist.” Nor was this all the commission sald. It said that Sereda, whose home is in Chicago, had advertised the regular price of the “so-caliea viclet-ray ma. chine” as $35, but had offered to selt it for $15 to all comers in order tha they might share with him the ben’ fits it would provide. It sald that the list of diseases, which included such maladies as dand- ruff, deafness, diphtheria and fallng halr, freckles and frost bites, had becn copled by Sereda “‘from a list appears ing upon a eircular which came into his possession.” Furthermore, the commission added, the machine might give forth a violet color, but it produced no rays which are in any “way similar to ultra violet- rays,” and its application “was found merely to furnish a mild superficial stimulation such as might be obtained by application of turpentine or an ointment containing red pepper.”