Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1929, Page 3

VENING STAR. MERCHANT DENIES "DUAL MURDER PLOT Bronx Man, Accused of Hir- ing Gunmen, Brands Police Charges “Lies.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 28.—Named | by police as instigator of two gang slayings, Ciro Terranova, Bronx arti- choke merchant, today declared he was | being made the goat in a political row. He said two factions are seeking con- trol of the Democratic party in the Bronx, with one group accepting the leadership of former Gov. Alfred E. Smith and Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn, and the other that of Mayor James J. Walker and former Mayor John F. Hylan. Calls Charges Lies. He denounced as “lies” the charges | of Police Inspector Joseph J. Donovan that he had arranged the “hold-up” of 8 dinner in honor of Magistrate Albert itale December 7 in order to regain a ontract” he had made with a Chicago gunman whereby he had agreed to pay | $20.000 for the murder of Frankie Yale | and Frank Marlow. “I am a peace-loving man,” he said. | “Yale was my dear friend. Marlow was | & casual acquaintance, but no enemy.” When Mayor Walker's attention was called to Terranova's statement that he | ¢ was being made the goat in a political | row. he said: | “Terranova is right in his idea of an | animal, but he has his animals mixed. | He's not a goat. He's a jackass.” Two Brothers Slain. | Meanwhile, with Commissioner Grover Whalen in Chicago, studying traffic, no effort was made by the police to ques- tion Terranova. District Attorney John E. McGeehan of the Bronx also said he 3aw no reason for interviewing Terra- nova, declaring so far as he knew the police allegations were unsupported by legal evidence. ! Records made public by the police thow that two of Terranova’s brothers met violent deaths. Nicholas Terranova | was shot and killed in 1916 in what po- tice said was a gangster feud. and Vin- lent Terranova was shot and killed in L 12 ESCAPE MINE BLAST. West Virginia Company Officials| Think Two Missing Men Safe. BECKLEY, W. Va, December 28 .—Twelve miners escaped safely from | the Stotesbury mine of the C. C. B. Smokeless Coal Co., 8 miles from here, two hours after a “local” explosion in one entry of the mine. Two engineers were unaccounted for, but officials be- lieved they were in another section at the time of the blast. Rescue crews were on their way to the explosion zone when they met the 12 men who were working there when the blast occurred. They reported that it affected only the entry and that they | started for the surface immediately| afterward. The cause of the blast was ‘undetermined. BLAST COSTS 4 LIVES. ‘TAFT, Calif., December 28 (#).—Four ©il workers lost their lives in an ex- plosion at the Standard Oil Co.’s No. 61 well on the 7-D lease near here yesterday. The dead are Edward Wa- then, tool dresser; Arthur Nance, fire- man; Pat Harmcn, driller, and C. S. Grady, driller. Wathen and Nance were burned to ,death almost instantly. The four were trapped in the derrick by flames from escaping gas which was believed to have been ignited by friction. The crew was pulling a casing from the well when the explosion came. Har- mon and Grady were so severely burned that they died last night. Sam Bow- man. who was working outside the derrick, escaped with minor burns. e=- Bible of Veteran Slain in World War Is Returned to U. S. VolumeWasFoundAmong Effects of German Sol- dier Who Fell in Battle. By the Assoclated Press. A New Testament which was carried into battle by an American soldier, who fell on the Argonne, is back in this country after spending the years since the World War among the effects of a German officer who followed him in death a scant month later. The War Department wants to give it to the next of kin of Private Edward C. Nordin. This is believed to be his widow, Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Burnes of 5008 Vincent street, South Minneapolis, BNMX;;L Nordin enlisted from Williston, In returning the Bible Baron Hans- George von Studnitz of Berlin, whose | father had taken it on the battlefield, recalled the recent return to its owner of a copy of a German Bible which had laen taken similarly by an American, | and expressed the desire to return the thoughtful courtesy. The elder von Studnitz, he said, was killed by American troops in the Ar- gonne in October. The son requested that the Bible be returned to its owner or_his family. Nordin died on September 28, 1918. ORY CASES BARRED N ARZONA COUR Controversy With U. S. Over Feeding Prisoners Brings Order From County Judge. By the Associated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz, December 28 —The Federal Government was barred from | prosecuting liquor law cases in the courts of Maricopa County by a deci- slon of Superior Judge M. T. Phelps yesterday. It all started Monday when the county board of supervisors refused any longer to house and feed Federal pris- oners at the existing rate of 75 cents daily per man. The board demanded $1 a day. Then John H. Udall, Federal prohi- bition administrator for Arizona, an- nounced he would file all Federal liquor law violation cases in the county instead of in Federal Court. By this transfer, it was explained, the county would be forced to care for Federal prisoners if convicted in county courts. This move prompted Superior Judge Phelps to order the county attorney to refuse prosecution of such Federal cases. United States Marshal George Mauk declared that the Federal Government would go to “the extra expense of trans- ferring prisoners to other county jails of the State rather than be sandbagged into accepting_conditions which it feels are unjust. In Tucson and Prescott Jails, where the food is considered satis- factory, the Government has been pay- ing $1 a day rate for some time.” Marshal Mauk said he notified Mari- copa County officials last June that they could obtain the increased rate “pro- vided they put in their own kitchens and served suitable food to the pris- oners.” Chile's Submarines on Way Home. PLYMOUTH, England, December 28 .—Three new Chilean submarines left Plymouth yesterday on the first stage of their voyage to Chile. weather permits,” Maderia will be the first port of call. were built in Great Britain, are the Al- mirante Simpson, the Capitan Thomp- son and the Capitan O'Brien. If the The vessels, which SPECIAL NOTICE. SPECIAL NOTICE. 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The “annual meeting of the Stockholders of sald. company for the. elec tion of directors for the ensuing year, ihe 1 ion of the annual report of the 1B " the transaction of such’ other bulsness s muy properiy come before them will be held at the office of the company in the city of Washington, D, . on Tutsday. January 31,1830, &t 12 o'clock. hoon, ahd the Dolls_ will bs open until 12:30 o'clock B "The "transfer books 'of the company Sl be per District 0933. 119 3rd Bt. 5.W., KOON A Company, il be closed from January 12th to the 21st, e. oth days inclusive: oo AN FHow, resident FREDERICK P. H. SIDDONS, Becretary, FOR BILLS CON-, R BYRD PARTY FINDS AMUNDSEN CACHE Gould Discovers Note Left Under Mount Betty Rock | Cairn in 1911. i (Continued From First Page.) The finding of Capt. Amundsen's message was described in the following report to the admiral, received last night: “Greatly appreciated your good Christmas wishes and certainly in- tended to reciprocate, but we have been traveling at night and got all balled up on the lime. However, we did have a glorious Christmas thrill, the memory of which we shall all cherish as long as we live. . “We camped near Mount Betty and before leaving for Camp Strom decided as a last hope to look at a curious pile of rock far down on a low ridge from the main mountain. It was agreed that Mike Thorne and I would ski over and take a look and thus save bringing the teams, but this time we were not dis- appointed. “‘So we signaled with our flags for the rest to come and it didn't take them long to get there. Even the dogs felt the excitement in the air and hur- ried, for we had found Amundsen's cache. Bare Heads in Silent Tribute. “We stood about the cairn uncovered for a moment of silence in respect for the memory of the remarkable man whose hands had built it before we even touched a stone, and then, as though it were a sacred relic, we removed just enough to sec what was inside the cache. “It contained a S5-gallon can of kerosene in excellent condition, two small packages of matches and a tin can. The tin can contained a note by Amundsen, a copy of which Freddy Crockett will try to send to you, and another bit of paper with the names and addresses of Hansen and Wisting. Byrd Note Put Into Cache, “T put a note in the can telling briefly about the Byrd expedition and the geo- logical party. We took the liberty of tearing open onc package of matches and then carefully replaced each rock and left the cairn just as we found it and just as Amundsen left it 18 years 0. ag"Yr)u may be sure this gave us all a great kick to bring to a close our Eastern trip in this way, and we would not if we could have had any different Christmas. Must spend just a few days here before we start home.” Capt. Amundsen’s Message. Capt. Amundsen’s message, written in Norwegian, was translated as fol- lows: Jan. 6. 1912.—Arrived and .encircled the South Pole Dec. 14-16, 1911. Have confirmed Victoria Land, so it is most likely that King Edward VII Land has no connection at 86 degrees South latitude with Victoria Land. Also shows this land continues in a colossal mountain range toward the southeast. Could see this enormous mountain range to 88 degrees South latitude and most likely, from appear- ances, they continue further in the same direction over the Antarctic Con- tinent. Passed this cache on our return from the South Pole with provision for 60 days, two sleds and 11 dogs. All well. ROALD AMUNDSEN. ‘The importance of Dr. Gould’s dis- coveries to the east was emphasized today by Admiral Byrd. Byrd Flight Data Confirmed. “I believe that geographers have thought of the area east of Capt. Amundsen’s trail south to the Queen Maud Mountains as being land forming part of a great continent,” he said. “From an altitude of 3,000 feet on days of good visibility we scanned the eastern barrier, but saw no land. Be- tween Little America and 85 degrees south latitude our photographs taken of the so-called ‘Carmen Land’ indicated that. “The mountains ran very little north of 85 degrees. There were some huge pressure_ridges that gave the appear- | ance of land and fooled us at first. | “In other words, there was no evi- dence that the great Ice Barrier does not run hundreds of miles to the east- ward. Now Dr. Gould verifies this indi- cation by traveling on foot well be- yond the mountain range, as indicated on the map, and saw no range running north of latitude 85 degrees 25 minutes. “This means that a hundred miles of the ‘Carman Land’ mountains will have to be taken off the maps. The barrier curves around the Charles Bob Moun- tains sofith of east beyond 147 degrees west_longitude, but it is impossible to say how far. “I wish to state emphatically again that this is no reflection on Capt. Amundsen’s findings. as a foot travelcs would naturally mistake the enormous pressure ridges for snow-capped moun- trains.” Ronne Fetches Amundsen Book. The Amundsen message greatly in- terested us all, particularly the Nor- wegians in the expedition. Martin Ronne, who was with Capt. Amund- sen on the South Pole expedition and who made their windproof clothes and other articles, and who also made the northeast passage of the Arctic Ocean with Capt. Amundsen, came running into the library with his autographed copy of Capt. Amundsen's book of the south polar journey, which the explor- er had given him. “See, it tells here!” he sh8uted, and began to read in Norwegian. ‘The book relates reaching the bar- rier cache at latitude 85 degrees 5 min- utes S. after the trip down the Axel Heiberg Glacier and making prepara- tions for the last stage of their jour- ney homeward. It continues: “When we had completed all this repacking and had everything ready, two of us went over to Mount Betty and collected as many different speci- mens of rock as we could lay our hands on. “At the same time we built a great cairn and left there a can of 17 liters of paraffin, 2 packets of matches, con- taining 20 boxes, and an account of our expedition. Possibly some one may {md use for these things in the fu- ure.” Wisting of Note Still Alive. There is a slight discrepancy in the book on the amount of food taken with the party, for he says that when they left their depot they had provisions for 35 days instead of 60, although he adds: “Besides this, of course, we had a dcp:(; at every degree of latitude up to 80.” This may explain the difference in the_estimate of his food. The two men whose names were found on pieces of paper are Helmer Hansen and Oskar Wisting. Wisting and Hansen were with Amundsen on the northeast passage and Wisting stood at one of the controls of the Norge on the flight which Capt. Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth made from Spitzbergen to Alaska. Of the five men who went to the South Pole and built the cairn found by Dr. Gould, only Wisting, Hensen and Bjaaland are alive. Hassel died in Amundsen’s home in Norway and the great explorer himself perished in an attempt to fly to the rescue of the crew of the ill-fated Italia of the later Nobile expedition. To those who in this desolate region can more deeply appreciate Amund- sen’s achievements the finding of his cairn brought back all the memory of his remarkable carecer. It was like stumbling on a milestone in an un- broken series of some of the most dar- ing and perfectly executed feats in polar exploration, is morning another message was Coast Guardsmen leaving the district attorney's office at Buffalo, N. Y., after being questioned about the fatal shooting of Eugene F. Downey, son of A Buffalo police lieutenant, who was killed in a speedboat which was suspected of running liquor from Canada. The Guardsmen were turned over to the county prosecutor after the latter made complaint to Washington of a lack of co-opera- tion on the part of Federal authorities in Buffalo. Left to right: Capt. Paul H. Forner, Asa Ennis, Orville La Grant and Rudolph Thompson. Forner was not in firing, but accompanied the other three Lower: Eugene F. Downey. the Coast Guard boat at the time of the as their superior officer. —Associated Press Photo. received from Dr. Gould telling of his trip westward from Marie Byrd Land. It read: “Our trip was pretty strenuous and we must give dogs a few days’ rest be- fore we start the long trek northward. Had to cross and recross 40 miles of glacial ice, crevassed in places. It was impossible to control the dogs and sledges on the glare ice. It was in again, out again, gone again. “Wrecked one Strom-Balchen sledge and had to abandon it, smashed one runner on another and cracked runner on third sledge. But no one was hurt, nothing was lost and no real harm done, for we have plenty of good sledges to take us back. “We climbed mountain 1 mile south- east of Camp Comar as our furthest point. Here we bullt cairn and left note in tin can giving brief account of expedition and of geological and sup- porting party, along with our own as having been partners in this extensive sledging trip. It is this mountain that we want to call Supporting Party Mountain. “At Camp McKinley we were again visited by a skua gull, and were amazed shortly after having estab- lishoad camp to hear the sound of running water. Shortly we discovered a small stream feeding an ice-bound lake, many acres in extent. ‘We have not been able to wash since leaving Little America and would have been glad to do so then, but no one thought to bring any soap, so we all show evidences of ‘the Antarctic disease in well advanced stages.” (The Antarctic disease is our way of referring to dirt, as baths are not as frequent as they might be.) Some Copper, Found in Mountains. “Found copper minerals in mountains behind Camp McKinley, but tell Chips not to get excited_on commercial de- posit,” continues Dr. Gould. ‘“Moun- tains in Marie Byrd Land lower than here. There are no mountains like Nansen to hold ice back again and it fairly floods down from plateau and pushes barrier ,up into great crevassed outlet—glaclers which form the ice apron that gave us so much difficulty in crossing. There were also countless smaller glaciers such as we have seen all Summer and one just east of Axel Heiberg that you photographed. “Hot weather has been hard on dogs. Several have been sick. Pemmican diet may have been too rich, but believe good rest here will put them in shape for Jhomeward journey. Busy now re- pairing our gear and throwing away all that we possibly can. My special personal thanks for your fine appreciative messages.” RETURN TRIP DESCRIBED. The return of Roald Amundsen to his depot near Mount Betty on his return trip from the South Pole is described at length in his book, “The South Pole,” which was translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater and E:Abli’s{led in New York by Lee Keedick 1913, “Our progress down the Helberg Glacier,” Amundsen wrote, “did not en- counter any obstructions; only at the transition fromi the glacier to the Bar- rier were there a few crevasses that had to be circumvented. At 7 a.m. on January 6 we halted at the angle of land that forms the entrance to the Heiberg Glacier, and thence extends northward. We had not yet recognized any of the land we lay under, but that was quite natural as we now saw it from the opposite side. We knew, though, that we were not far away from our main depot, 85 degrees 5 minutes S, “On the afternoon of the same day we were off again. From a little ridge we crossed immediately after starting Bjaaland thought he’ could see the depot down on the Barrier, and it was not very long before we came in sight of Mount Betty and our way up. And now we could make sure with the glasses that it really was our depot that we saw—the same that Bjaaland thought he had seen before. We, there- fore, set our course straight for it and in a few minutes we were once more on the Barrier—January 6, 11 p.m.— after a stay of 51 days on the land. It was on November 17 that we had begun the ascent. “We reached the depot and found everything in order. The heat here must have been very powerful;: our lofty, solid depot was melted by the sun into a rather low mound of snow. The pemmican rations that had been ex- posed to the direct action of the sun's rays had assumed the strangest forms and, of course, they had become rancid. We got the sledges ready at once, taking all the provisions out of the depot and loading them. ©Old Clothes Left Behind. “We left behind some of the old clothes we had been wearing all the way from here to the Pole and back. When we had completed all this re- packing and had everything ready, two of us went over to Mount Betty, and collected as many different specimens of rock as we could lay our hands on. At the same time we built a great cairn, and left there a can of 17 litres of paraffin, two packets of matches—con- taining 20 boxes—and an account of our expedition. Possibly some one may find a use for these things in the future, “We had to kill Frithjof, one of Bjaaland’s dogs, at this camp. He had latterly been showing marked signs of shortness of breath, and finally this be- came so painful to the animal that we decided to put an end to him. Thus brave Frithjof ended his career. On cutting him open it appeared that his lungs were quite shriveled up: never- theless, the remains disappeared pretty quickly into his companions’ stomachs. What they had lost in quantity did not apparently affect their quality. “Nigger, one of Hassel's dogs, had been destroyed on the way down from the plateau. We thus reached this point again with 12 do{s. as we had reckoned on doing, and left it with 11. 1 see in my diary the follnwln? remark: *“ “The dogs look just as well as when we left Framheim.” “On leaving the place a few hours later we had provisions for 35 days on the sledges. Besides this, of course, we had a depot at every degree of latitude up to 80. (Copyright, 1920, by the N k Times PR s R the world.) S h. throughout M MORAL FORCE PLAN FOR PEACE OLTED France Will Insist on Definite Guarantees to Assure Future Security. The Utopian dream of a world guided by amoral force as outlined in the Hoover-Macdonald statement last Oc- tober has been shattered for the time being by France. ‘The practical mind of French diplo- macy has said in the latest memoran- dum that if Great Britain and the United States wished to rely on moral force as between themselves, that is all right, but France must have definite | guarantees and is going to rely on the coercive clauses of the covenant of the League of Nations or on future treaties which restrain aggressor nations. At first glance the French memoran- dum is a monkey wrench in the ma- chinery, but actually it is the fore- runner of an independent position by the Paris government which will cause it to adhere only to such parts of the forthcoming London Naval Conference agreement as fit in with her policy, while at the same time expressing not the slightest objection to any agree- ments which the other naval powers might wish to make as between them- selves. ‘This means that Great Britain, the United States and Japan can have a naval treaty all their own, but that France will not be bound by it. The French position has not materially changed from what it was in the Wash- ington conference of 1922, when the question of auxiliary craft was dis- cussed. The French are not so much interested in battleships and cruisers as they are in submarines and lighter war vessels and in aerial defense as well as land armament. They regard the whole problem of armament as more or less inseparable. Stimson Docirine Rejected. The announcement of the French memerandum at this time is consid- ered a graceful act of friendship in order that the whole world may not regard France as obstructing progress at the London conference in January. Having set forth her position clearly and having announced that the obsta- cles are not insuperable, France in effect asks the diplomats of the world to put their minds together on a possi- ble solution. Perhaps the most dis- appointing thing about the French pro- nouncement is that Paris declines to accept Secretary Stimson’s doctrine of moral force. Indeed, the French gov- ernment proclaims_its great sympathy with the Kellogg-Briand pact, but at the same time warns the world that the “rational application” of moral force has not yet been organized and that the treaty “is undoubtedly a real step toward the preservation of peace, but it cannot be looked upon as sufficient in its present state to guarantee the security of nations.” If, therefore, the doctrine of moral force were for the moment set aside, the London conference then would turn to the practical problem of physi- cal force and the measurement of naval strength so that each nation wil! have sufficient naval power to ward off attack. The principle of parity having been ldrni"&g as between the United States and Great Britain, the question arises as to what is sufficient strength to withstand attack by any third power or group of powers. Mr. Stimson has publicly rejected the idea that Great Britain and the United States have any understanding with respect to combin- ing their navies, as was done in 1917. The French point to the Mediterranean as a source of difficulty and plead for a new treaty of peace there. Diplomacy Is Challenged. The frank statement on the part of France, coming as it does several weeks in advance of the London conference, challenges the diplomacy of the whole world and particularly " the ingenuity of the American delegation, which must on the one hand defend the premise that the United States is not interested in the internal affairs of Europe, and also maintain on the other hand stead- fastly the principle that the Kellogg treaty and moral force is of prime im- portance so that naval strength can z:hgut fear be correspondingly dimin- o ‘The task of the American negotiators is made all the more difficult by the viewpoint of France that the League of Nations must be considered as the true basis of European security and that all agreements made must har- monize with the spirit and the letter of the covenant. The American dele- gation has before it a monumental task in trying to find a middle ground as between the viewpoints of continental Europe and the United States and while there is no such sanguine feeling about the outcome of the London conference as characterized the comments last Oc- tober, it is too early to say that the London parley will end in a deadlock. What probably will happen is that the forthcoming conference will reduce the area of controversy as much as possible and postpone until the next conference the discussion of the points on which an agreement was not reached. Con- tinuing international conferences have been the rule for the last 10 years, but the progress has been constant because after each meeting the forces of public opinion have been at work to reconcile differences. D. L. (Copyright, 1920.) Peak Named Mount Ishbel. OTTOWA, December 28 (#).—Mount Ishbel is the new name of a peak, 10,000 feet high, in the Lake Louise region of the Canadian Rockles. It is named for the daughter of Britain's rime minister, JAPANESE PARLEY “HOPES ARE RAISED Delegation Greeted on Ar- rival in Southampton of Liner Olympic. By the Associated Press. SOUTHAMPTON, England, December 28.—The liner Olympic, flying the Jap- anese flag, brought the Japanese dele- | gation to the London Naval ment Conference into port yesterday, ending the long journey from Tokio by way of Washington and New York to England. ‘The mayor of Southampton and offi- cials from the Japanese embassy in London accorded the delegation an of- ficial welcome. Reijiro Wakatsuki, chief of the dele- gation. said in an interview: “I am glad that by passing through the United States we have been afforded an oppor- tunity to meet and confer informally with the American authorities. = The ‘cnrln,\lremunns have proved very prof- table. ‘ “As some time remains before the conference is convened, we will have similar opportunities for a frank ex- change of views with the British au- thorities. “Much has already been accomplish- ed in preliminary negotiations, through our Ambassadors in England and Amer- ica, to clarify our position and the na- ture of the problems we are to face. “We desire to do all in our power to smooth the path of progress in coming to the conference. Our people and our government are united in an ardent de- sire for a successful conference and wish that not only limitation, but actual re- duction in naval armaments, shall be effected. “Japan will be satisfled with an in- ferior naval strength as compared with Great Britain and the United States. All she asks is the security of the em- p1lxe‘ She has never thought of aggres- slon, “I am confident that her pacific policy will enable her to co-operate freely and effectively with the other powers in the attainment of the noble objectives of the conference. “We sincerely believe that by inspir- ing all nations with fresh confidence and good will toward one another the meetings will surely reinforce the pact of Paris in its exhortation for the establishment of an enduring peace. It is with great hopes that we have come to Londo; MOTHER OF CONSUL DIES. Mrs. Agnes E. Schulz Suceumbs at Daughter’s Berlin Home. Mrs, Agnes E. Schulz, 72 years old, mother of Walter E. Sholes, United States consul at Trieste, Italy, and Mrs. Gertrude 8. Goodman of Washington, died suddenly a week ago yesterday at Berlin, Germany, where she was resid- ing with her other daughter, Mrs. Agnes John. A native of Germany, Mrs. Schulz came to this country in 1879, where she traveled extensively until her return to the continent in 1913. During her resi- dence in this country she maintained a home in Washington for 30 years. Since 1913 she had been living periodically in Italy and Germany with Mr. Sholes and Mrs. John. ‘The children are the only survivors. -Will Rogers Says: BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—When we honor Mr. Byrd and all his heroes on their return, don’t muff this baby. He didn't pilot an aeroplane, he made no scientific research, but he did the finest job of newspaper reporting done dyring our genera- tion. Two years with one little bunch of men doing the same thing practically every day. Yet he made it interesting. Some of our finest writers- couldn’t even make the war interesting. This Russell Owen took an old Malamute dog having pups, and we thought it was a birth in our own family. He wrote about a seagull down there, and we were more in- terested in it than we were a Senate investigation. Don't just give the little boy a great, big hand, but, this to Mr. Ochs of the New York Times, “give the kid a great big raise.” That fellow could write on the tariff and make you read it. AUTOS CALLED KEY ININDUSTRIAL JAM Economist Blames Regular Annual Shutdown for Unemployment. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLEVELAND, December 28 (N.AN.A.). —"The automobile industry is the key log in the unemployment jam and a long step toward stabilizing employ- ment would be taken if automobile manufacturers would produce one- twelfth their annual output in each of the 12 months and abolish annual style changes,” said Col. Leonard P. Ayres, nationally known economist and vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co., today He was commenting on Senator Couzens’ address to the Michigan Manu- facturars’ Assoclation in which the Senator stated unless industry stabilized employment, Government interference is inevitable. Packard Company in Accord. ‘The colonel's suggestion that the au- tomotive industry spread its produc- tion evenly over the 12 months of the year is in accord with the policy of the Packard Motor Car Co., as announced by Alvan Macauley, president of the Na- tional Automobile Chamber of Com- merce and president and general man- ager of the Packard Co. Mr. Macauley, in commenting on Senator Couzens’ speech, expressed the belief that such a spread of production would go far toward stabilizing wages. P Col. Ayres, in agreeing with MF. Macauley in this respect, emphasized the importance of the' awtomotive in- dustry to the welfare of other leading national industries. “The annual slowing down of the automobile industry in the early Winter months is probably the greatest single cause of seasonal unemployment in American industry,” he sald, and then went on to explain his position in de- Seen as “Huge Business.” “The making of automobiles is a huge business, and a most volatile one. Its rate of output during the Spring months is frequently twice as great as that of December or January, and the swing from high to low in this year of 1929 has not been far from four to one. “The industry employs hundreds of thousands of workers, and in addition, it is the most important customer of a long list of other industries. It uses more iron and steel than any other in- dustry, more plate glass, more rubber, more lead, more hard wood and more copper than any other except the elec- trical industry. It is claimed that there are in this country some 2,000 factories and plants outside of the automobile industry that are primarily dependent on it for the sale of their products. “When the automobile industry slows down, all these other plants and indus- tries slow down also. The production of iron and steel is at once sharply re- duced. Coal output falls off. traffic on the railroads declines, indys- trial profits in many lines are reduced, and unemployment results in many parts of the country and in occupations that do not, at first though, appear to have any essentlal connection with the automobile. One Way to Stabilize. “The stabilization of unemployment in industry is fundamentally dependent on leveling off the peaks and filling in the valleys of industrial production. A long step toward doin; taken if methods coul persuade automobile makers to produce something like one-twelfth of their an- nual output in each one of the 12 months, and then to persuade the pur- chasers to buy cars in December as they do in May. Two great obstacles stand in the way. The one is the seasons of the year, and the other our interest in annual model changes. “The typical American citizen likes to buy his new car when the sap is run- ning in the trees and not when the streets are covered with ice and snow. The Winter season is normally a slow ane for new car sales, and so the auto- mobile maker naturally takes advantage of the slack season to shut down his plant, take inventory and get everv- thing set up for the production of the new models. Difficulty Intensified. “This greatly intensifies a difficulty that would loom large in any event. The combined effort of the slowing down for seasons and the slowing down for styles has become so important to our whole business life and procedure that it is worth while to consider what can be done to improve these condi- tions, “Probably 50 automobile executives could do more to reduce industrial un- employment and to smooth out the business cycle thar could all the other business leaders President Hoover re- cently called into conference. More- over, it is likely that if these automo- bile executives should all individually attempt to reduce the swings of pro- duction in their own plants they would find that increased profits would result. ‘This is not one of the situations where there is' need for a Czar to rule the industry or even of one where closer co-operation is essential. It is one where the desired results can be ob- tained only by the combined effects of individual efforts. “The General Motors Corporation began in 1922 to publish figures show- ing_each month the sales of cars to dealers, and the sales of dealers to customers. The differences between the two sets of data show changes in the inventory carried by the dealers. These figures have proved to be of great value to the industry, and they serve as a guide to policy, and a warning against the danger of production going ahead of consumers’ demand. All the other companies compile similar figures, but the rest do not make them public. Suggestion to Other Companies. “The first and easiest step toward sutting down dangerous fluctuations in automobile production would be for the sther companies to follow the lead of General Motors and make available their figures also as_a contribution to the general welfare. This could be done without revealing to the public the data for each individual company, if that seemed the wise course. What is needed | Is the use of the data for the industry | as a whole. “The problem of model changes is more difficult. If cars were produced at about the same rate of output through- dut the year the costs of manufacturing LAW STUDY MABE BY COTTON GROUP Corporation’s Legal Struce ture Before Representatives Making Market Plan. By the Assoclated Press. Development of an airtight legal structure for the $30,000,000 cotton tion was the chief task of the ral Farm Board and cotton repre- sentatives as they went forward today with the final draft of a charter and by-laws. Frank Burford of Oklahoma City, counsel for the national organization committee, and Stanley Reed, general counsel of tt’;n:tmle'em tlo confer on a program ‘WOl comply with - visions of the Capper-Volstead lctplr:d report to the subcommittee preparing the draft. Members said tge board was substantially in accord on the alms of the corporation, but that a number of highly technical questions of organization and operation were yet to be settled. A summary of the more intricate fea~ tures was outlined by Carl Willlams, board member, representing cotton. Can Buy Outright. Heretofore, he said, co-operatives have been authorized to pay their mem- bers only a certain per cent of the alue of their crop when delivered, the 'mainder being paid when the com- medity moved into market channels, Now, it has been proposed that a na- tional marketing agency be set up to buy the product outright if so desired. Such procedure was authorized by the agricultural marketing act and it now has become important to work out a program that will not conflict with State laws, Another question, he said, is whether the national agency is to be a sales co{ronuon and a stabilization corpo- ration in one, or whether they are to be separate entities. Little mention has been made of a stabilization corpora- tion. It is that body, financed entirely by the Government, which would take over whatever part of a commodity the market branch could not sell. The sales corporation, for which the Gov- . ernment would guarantee a captital of $30,000,000, would be financed by mem- ber co-operatives through purchases of stock. The agricultural marketing act prescribed that the stabilization cor- poration be kept in the background and inactive unless the assistance was ne- cessitated by an emergency. Stock at $1 a Bale. It has been proposed, Willlams said, that all cotton co-operatives become members of the National Marketing Corporation, each subscribing for stock on the basis of $1 for each bale handled this year. Co-operatives handled ap- proximately $1,250,000 bales, or about 10 per cent of the 1929 crop. At that rate, he pointed out, the corporation could start operation with a paid-in capital of $1,250,000. Unlike the co- operatives as they now exist, the cor- poration would be permitted to-handle the product of non-members in a quan- tity equal tc the amount handled for members, theoretically giving the car~ poration 20 per cent of the total cotton crop in its first year of operation. S. L. Morley of Oklahoma City, chair- man of the subcommittee, said that while the conference with the board may last from a week to 10 days, he believed the path fairly clear of ob- stacles other than those which might temporarily rise in connection with legllltk%'ublenll;. beHe I-!sa;ted the cor- T ‘woul operat in time to K‘:ndle the 1930 crop. i % — would be reduced, unemplolyment largely done away with and labor forces would become more efficient. Such a policy, however, would resuit in the building up of inventory of finished cars and parts, and there is where the real difficulty comes in. It is not primarily a question of the 20st of carrying the inventory, for that could probably be met through the economies of production at a steady pace. The difficulty lies in the impor~ tance of style changes. “:;r’he u;:wmobfle executive abhors and a large new car inventory, and rightly so, }or he dreads the "bt.lay that his competitor may suddenly in- troduce a new feature or a in design that might render his line out of style, forcing him to cut prices to sell the accumulated cars. Probably the most effective single change that might be helpful in dealing 3 problem would be the general aban- donment of the trade custom of intro- ducing new models once a year. Some companies already follow this practice, ol;glnrplrent]y they have x’ouns it sue- ul. “If all the others should follow their lead, the industry would be benefited in some very important respects, but it is entirely possible that the annual automobile shows would become impos- sible. This would take out of Amer- ican life a most interesting and pie- turesque feature, and it would take {rom the industry some valuable ad- vertising. “Nevertheless, it is probable that the abolition of annual style changes in automobiles, and consequently the abo- lition of automobile shows, would be steps toward the stabilization of auto mobile productfon, and that is about the most important need of American industry at this time.” (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) OFENSTEIN RESIGNS. Relinquishes Executive Positions in Two Airways Corporations. Resignation of C. L. Ofenstein as president of the Atlantic Seaboard Air- ways, Inc, and as vice president or the International Airways, Inc., op- erators of Hoover Field, was announced today. Mr. Oftenstein, a consulting aeronautical engineer, it was_stated, resigned from the executive offices to ve his time to his private business. beautiful Truly you will ing out some evening? Cathes Avenue Incidentally, if you don't know it, he was the best writer on aviation in the world before he ever heard of the South Pole. W. C. and A. Have you taken an evening drive throug}l WESLEY HEIGHTS the Garden Spot of Washington, and seen the Fairyland effect of the Christmas the effort and time required The pride of home ownership and the splendid com- munity spirit in Wesley Heights are again evidenced by the manner in which the residents have decorated their homes for the Christmas holidays. Why not enjoy this magnificent spectacle by motor- Drop in at the Exhibit Hous Drive out Massachusetts A sin A turn im decorations? be repaid for 4331 Garfield St. el bloel N. MILLER