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WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Porecast.) Cloudy; occasional tomorrow; colder tomorrow. Temperatures—Highest, 54, at 5 p.m. yenwnry: lowest, 45, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Markets mild temperature tonight rain tonight and , Pages 14 and 15 @b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 31,304. post _office, Entered as second class matter Washington. <. D. ¢ Foening Star. Associated service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circultion, 114,102 WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1930—THIRTY-EIGH PAGES. FRF () Means Associated TWO CEN'TS. Press. LONDON PREPARES T0 WELCONE NAVY “PARLEY DELEGATES Japanese on Scene, French' and Italians Due Soon. Americans Arrive Friday. LITTLE SPECULATION ‘ OVER POSSIBLE FAILURE | Wakasuki Believes Basis for Com- | promise on Submarines Can Be Found. By the Associated Press, LONDON, January 14.—The foremost | statesmen of the world are fast gather- ing in London for what, convening one week from today, probably will be the most momentous meeting of its kind ever held in the British capital—the five-power naval limitation conference. Given success, the conclave may re- sult in additional guarantees of security | for the powers of the world and relief from much of its huge burden of mili- tary taxation. Given failure, observers envisage possible armament races and international suspicions wiich may | easily bring on threats of war. The delegation from Japan already is | here, the Italian and French delega- tions will arrive shortly, and the Ameri- can delegation, headed by Col. Henry L. | Stimson, American Secretary of State, reaches London Friday from Plymouth, { arriving on the George Washington, on which they have made the trip from New York. | Conversation; in Full Swing. Formal - opening_of the conference | takes place next Tuesday in the royal chamber of the House of Lords with an (address by King George. Meanwhile preliminary conversations, given their recedent in the Dawes-Macdonald and acdonald-Hoover meetings of last Summer and Fall, already have got into full swing and should reach even greater momentum before the formal | convening. Japanese-British conversations started in earnest last Thursday, with each in- tent on outlining before the conference *their g:ernmmt‘s attitude toward va- Tious fechnical details which are to be threshed out in the formal conference. Reijiro Wakatsuki, Admiral Takarabe and Ami bassador Matsudaira met Pre- | He mier Macdonald for two hours day in the first of these meetings. The conversations were resumed Fri- (d:ly morning and Saturday again at other confe: _was held k ‘eonversations and Franco and Italian-American conver- sations will be in order, with Col. Stim- | son striving to smooth out differences ¢y which have appeared between France and Italy. Details of the Anglo-Japanese con- versations have been guarded with the ‘utmost se , but it was understood a principal subject has been su.marines —which the British and Americans are willing to abandon. altogether, but which Japan and Prance insist are nec- essary for coast defenses, Submarine Plan Possible. hrase of M. Wakatsuki is that submarines form a ‘“necessary weapon of defense.” In an interview, however, the former premier said there might be some basis of compromise by which a formula would be evolyed permitting limitation of underseas craft. Some ob- servers believe it possible this limitation might take the form of confining sub- mersible types fo those capable only of | coast defense, not permitting such, transatiantic long-distance submarines a5 Germany used during the war. It 1s foreseen here that the matter of submarines will form one of the most important topics of discussions, which | may lengthen into many hours. It is| felt generally the Japanese and French will under no circumstances agree to &bolition of this type of war craft. Estimates on length of the confer- ence vary, ranging all the way from two to four months. President Hoover's suggestion that the conferees should not count time in their efforts to arrive at a suitable understanding has been received here most agreeably, since it iz felt that any attempt to rush the discussions must rebound unprofitably to_the cause of peace. There is little if any speculation over possible breaking up of the conference, | (Continued on Pai Column 2, Column 8) ONE IS KILLED AS BLAST WRECKS I0WA GAS PLANT Windows in Residences, Schools and Business Houses Are Shattered. | By the Associated Press. The | charge | United States Attorney Henry M. Boss, Chemical Frees Ice-Locked Boat In Canadian Port Professor Uses Powerful Pump to Spray New Compound. By the Associated Press. QUEBEC, January 14.—Science was credited with another victory over na- ture today after a chemical compound had liberated a steamship from an ice- locked drydock in three minutes. Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill Uni- versity, using a high-pressure pump and a hose, sprayed the thick ice about the Champlain dry dock™ at Lauzon, where the Italian freighter Concordia was frozen in and faced the prospect of being held prisoner until the Spring break-up. Under the action of the chemical the ice splintered with a thunderous noise and the ship floated free. LEAGUE CONSIDERS TRUCE ON TARFF 26 Countries Agree to Send| Delegates to Conference Next Month. | By the Associated Press. GENEVA, January 14—The Council of the League of Nations today voted to convene a diplomatic conference to contider proposals for a_tariff truce. The date was set for February 17. The Council also moved to execute the League Assembly's instructions almed at amending the League’s cove- nant to bring it into harmcny with the Kellogg pact outlawing war. A report recommending a committee to draft these changes was read by Dino Grandi, Ttalian foreign minister, and was adopted. This committee (League covenant) will be composed of 11 members and will meet to perform its duties Feb- ruary 20. Arthur Henderson of Great Britain commended the action of the Councll and recalled that Great Britain initiated the movement to harmonize the covenant with the pact. Aristide Briand, one of the authors of the pact of Paris as well as a pillar of the League, strongly supported the British foreign secretary's statements. declared authors 'of the ‘pact were inspired by the same passion for world peace that actuated founders of the League. Twenty-six states already have agreed to send delegates to the Tariff Truce Council, it' was announced, while Brazil and the Dominican Republic will send observers. South Africa, Australia, ritin) Inquities that they g mot ni r} not wish to participate. The report recommending a tariff truce council read partly: “A truce was roposed, not as an end in itself, but n order that concerted action may be pursued on a firm basis and in an at- mosphere of confidence.” This move is a step in the lel{I.le'l program for establishing a firm 818 of international economic peace. The council adopted a report made by Dr. Bethancourt, Cuban representa- tive, regarding measures for improve- ment in penal administration. Dr. Bethancourt suggested seeking the ad- vice and co-operation on this question of the International Prison Commission ;nd the Howard League for penal re- form. BLACK DUCK PROBE IS OPENED BY JURY Orew of Coast Guard Present to Tell of Shooting of Rum Runners. By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. I, January 14— A State grand jury t vestigation of the slaying of three men aboard the rum runner Black Duck in Lower Narrangansett Bay December 29. Members of the crew of the Coast Guard Patrol Boat 290 appeared to tell their story of the machine gunning which caused the triple killing and wounded a fourth man. Charles Travers, sole survivor of the Black Duck’s fatal trip, also was ready to_testify. Before appearing at the court house the Coast Guardsmen, headed by Boat- swain Alexander Cornell, who was in of the 290, conferred with jr.. at the Federal Building. Boss de- clined to state the nature of the con- ference, but it was understcod the men SHENANDORAH, Iowa, January 14.— | Virgil Bettis was killed and Hugh Shad- | duck was. injured seriously in an ex- | plosion at the city gas plant, which shattered windows in residences, schools and business houses at 9 a.m. today. ]Beuil’ body was found nearly an hour ater. The blast occured in the portion of | the plant in which the gas is manu- | factured. The east wall of the two- | story plant was blown out. The fire department quickly gained control of i written report filed with United States | the resulting fire. | A large storage tank outside the building was not damaged. The cause of the blast was not deter- mined and officials started an investi- gation. were advised as to their constitutional rights in their grand jury appearance. Mr. Boss is in the position of defense counsel for the Guardsmen. In instructing the jury Judge Antonio Capotosto said: “You shall investigate all matters truly. You shall investigate them im- partially without fear or favoritism. You sfand between orderly administra- tion of justice and chaos. You will not be carried away by hysteria, but will be_guided by judgment.” It became known this morning that A Attorney Boss by Special Agents Owen P. McKenna and Thomas F. Finnegan of Boston of the Treasury Department, is a complete exoneration of the Coast Guard crew in the killing of the Black Duck's crew. REPLACING IDAHO OFFICIALS HELD IN RUM CASES IS DIFFICULT « “Appointees” Shun City of Mullan Posts, but Nine Would Like to Be Sheriff. Br the Associated Press, MULLAN; Idaho, January i4.—The Federal Government, having removed virtuadly all municipal officers of Mul- lan by convicting them of violation of “-liquor laws, State officials are inclined to wish Federal Government could be given job of replacing them. The reorganization is proving & difficult Only one of four councilmen appoint- _ed by Gov. H. C. Balbridge has accepted post. Until the couneil is com- e can be no mayor and no a member of the council, and the mayor appoints the police chief. Charles K. Cartwright and E. Haug, named by the governor to serve as councilmen in place of members con- victed and given penitentiary sentences, refused to '“22 office. Bernard Mc- Hugh was “undecided.” Stalker Clubb was the only appointee who accepted. ‘There was no such reluctance on the part of candidates for sheriff of Sho- shone County, an office also made va- cant through conviction of its former tonant. Nine men have filed applica- tions with the county An appointment may be made 7 LOBBYSTS CALLED CRAFTERSBY HEAD OF INQURY CROLP Committee’s Report to Sen- ate Absolves Hoover of Any Impropriety. ‘REPREHENSIBLE’ EFFORT TO STIR UP LATINS Committee Charges Opponents of Higher Tariff With Propaganda Drive Against U, S. By the Associated Press. Activities of Washington lobbyists were described in the Senate today as “graft” by Chairman Caraway of the Senate lobby committee. Caraway made this assertion in pre- senting to the Senate & report of the committee's investigation into the a | | | i tivities of sugar interests on the pend- | " his ing tariff bill. “I hope that responsible business men will cease paying tribute to these lobbyists, these grafters in the District of Columbia who have nothing to sell,” Caraway said. “The whole matter is nothing but simple graft,” he continued. “It's worse than that because it plays upon the public and undermines the confidence of the American people in the integrity of their Government.” Report Absolves Hoover. ‘The report which Caraway presented said that advocates and opponents of a high tariff had spent more than $400,- 000 during consideration of the tariff bill, and it absolved President Hoover of any impropriety in connection with any efforts he might have made to bring the sugar interests together to work out a sliding scale plan for sugar duties. Referring to the activities of Wash- ington “lobbyists,” Caraway said, “peo- le must believe that legislation is ght and sold here in Washington and peddled like any commodity.” “People might just as well go to a palm reader or a crystal gazer,” he said, “as to give their money to lobby- ists.” “The sugar lobbyidts” he added, “were uncandid even to the extent of trying to explain their own letters.” He asserted it might safely be said mnmm-mtwflmuluuchu the half million sald the spent. The Arkansas Senator continued that it was “astenishing that men high in the business world would have paid a penny for the kind of activity that was carried on.” - o on.”. 5 The witnesses, he declared, tal about each other, pried into each other's secrets and reflected on one another’s morals. - Every bit of politieal scandal picked up by the office boy they mag- nified into confidential reports, he as- Described as Futile. Caraway said he was impressed with the “utter futility of the kind of cam- paign” waged by the lobbyists and their eagerness to employ somebody whomn they believed to be closely connected with the executive or legislative branc! Domestic sugar producers, the Sen: tor added, had spent nearly $500,000 trying to build up public opinion for an increased tariff and had spent $100,- 000 in the past year. After Caraway had finished, Sena- tor Norris, Republican, Nebraska, said he did not believe the American peo- ple were paying enough attention to the activities of the Senate lobby com- mittee. “The Senate and the country can well pause to ask the question: Whither are we drifting?” He asserted. “It ought to excite the interests of every patriotic citizen everywhere.” Norris read a decision of the Su- preme Court which, he said, held in substance that a contract employing a lobbyist could not be enforced. Antagonism Drive Charged. The committee asserted, in its report that a “reprehensible” effort had made to stir up Latin American an- | tagonism against the United States by sugar. | t listed the total expenditures of | at more than $400,000, with $175,000 to $200,000 spent by the fornfer and $200,- 000 to $225,000 disbursed by the latter. With reference to testimony that President Hoover had sought to bring about an agreement among the sugar interests on a sliding scale of sugar duties for incorporation in the pending tariff bill, the committee said that “in all this your committee finds no im- propriety nor anything open to censure or criticism.” Nothing Open to Censure. “It is quite likely,” the report said, “that representatives of both the con- | tending forces waited on the President |to incline him favorably toward their | views, respectively, and, the sliding | scale ‘solution having been proposed, he | suggested that they get together in an {effort to work out some plan, and in that connection informed them that he | would have inquiry made into the prac- | ticability of the idea by experts of the | departments. g “In any-event,” the report added, “it | appears from the testimony that he’ did cause such inquiry to be made. In all this your committee finds no impro- | priety nor anything open to censure or criticisnr.” Referring t8 the employment of Edwin P. Shattuck, New York attorney, by H. C. Lakin, president of the Cuba Co., to vocate & low sugar duty the report t is undeniable that those securing services labored under the belief that he was an intimate .friend of the President of the United States, with whom he came into contact while serv- ing with the Sugar Equalization Board. At least 'Lakin, in a voluminous cor- respondence, again and again asserted that he, Shattuck, sustained the closest relations to the President, had access to him at all times and was in frequent confflulbltlon with him on the sugar tariff, Denial Made by Shattuck. “Shattuck denied that he had ever talked with the President about the tariff or that he ever told any one he did,” the report ‘continued. “Anyway, that consideration led Lakin to advise his principals that Shattuck should be paid at least $75,000, though he estly stated that, t! been pal he was m}floyed solely as a lawyer, but the part of the work done by him fall- (Continusd on Page 2, Golumn 1.) Radio C4 Programs on Page those opposing an increased tariff on those for and against such an increase @ | \ \ ¢ NI SOME MEDICINE - BALL. | i REV.ABRAM SIVON. T0 REPLACE GANS Former President of School Board Returns as Member of Group. ‘The justices of the District Supremc Court announced this afternoon that they had prevailed on Rev. Abram Simon, rabbi of the Eighth Street Syna- gogue, to accept a position on the school | board to serve out the unexpired ternis of Isaac Gans, whose recent resignation for business reasons will be accepted by the justices. Dr. Simon formerly was president c! the school board and is well acquainted with the duties of: the position. A in 1923, He first was appointed a member of cnea” George’ B Mamiton, 1n. Ju . Hamilton. A 1920, he was elected it and again in July, 1921. In December, 1921, he resigned as president, but continued s a member of the board. In July, 1922, he was again elected president. His term expired in 1923 ard he did not choose to be reappointed. Dr. Simon, a lecturer of note, served with the Red Cross as a searcher with the 79th Division during the World War. He is the aufhor of the “History of Jewish Education” and essays on re- ligious education. . Dr. Simon is 57 years old. 'He holds degrees from Cincinnati University, Hebrew Union College and George ‘Washington * University. PARROT DISEASE KILLS TWO MORE WOMEN Victims of Strange Malady Re- ported in Baltimore and Toledo. BALTIMORE, January 14 (#).— The second death in Baltimore be- lieved to have been due to psitta- cosis was reported to city health authorities today. Mrs. Willlam Burns died today at the St. Joseph Hospital and the health department took postession of a sick parrot thought to have caused her illness. Dr. C. Hampson Jones, city health department head, in making the an- nouncement explained that it had not been definitely established that psitta- . Burns' death, but that the circumstances indicated it. Dd"m of Mrs. Louis Schaffle last isease’ by University Hospital phy- sicians and a bacteriological test in health department laboratories in her case is still- under way. Dr. Jones also announced in_con- nection with the death of Mrs. Burns that a second shipment of diseased parrots to this city had been found. Until today's discovery all the sick birds were thought to have been from one shipment from New York. SECOND TOLEDO VICTIM. Miss Catherine Tierney, 67, Dead of Strange Malady, ‘TOLEDO, Ohio, January 14 (#).—Miss Catherine Tierney, 67, housekeeper at the Good Shepherd Church pastoral residence, who died in a hospital here yesterday, is believed to be Toledo's second victim of psittacosis, the parrot disease. Miss Tierney is believed to have con- tracted the disease from a parrot which the Rev. George A. Branigan, pastor of the church, brought back with him | from South America in December. ‘The parrot died about 12 days llnl and shortly “afterwards Miss Tierney complained of pains. The pains were followed" by the general symptoms of pneumonia and on January 9 she was taken to a hospital. « Dr. Oscar Hasencamp, who treated the woman, said that while tests belnll made at the hospital have not been' completed 5o that he could state the cause of death, the symptoms of the indicated that the death was parrot disease. 3 G. Pamment, acting city health commissioner, is luvnt!gdtlnl three new suspected cases renol to him !flwdl# Percy W. Willlame, a fourth victim, who is in a lecal hospital, and whose wite recenty died of 8 diagnosed | as parrot fever, was o mqnh-l proving. ; X On School Board Again ARE DISCHARGED Appointee of Oscar be Priest Among Army Cadets Who Flunked Exams. By the Assoclated Py WEST POINT, N. Y., January 14— Sixty-four cadets, including Alonzo Par- ham, colored, of Chicago, were honor- ably discharged from the United States Military Academy today because of fail- ure to pass mid-term academic exami- nations, Maj. Gen. Willlam R. Smith, superintendent, announced. All of the cadets who were discharged also failed to pass the written general review held early in December, he said. They were then given another oppor- {unity to remain in the Military Acad- emy by taking a final examination which, if passed, would have put them in good standing. Seventy-three successfully passed the | test. Cadet Parham was appointed to the academy by Representative De Priest of Chicago. General Smith stated that grades of the plebe class this year show an im- provement over last year when 62 cadets or 15.7 per cent were discharged for failure to maintain the required academic standards. This year only 11.5 per cent were discharged. The figures, he said, reveal that men with college training prior to admission stand the best chance of completing the course. Forty-six of the cadets who fulled to pass this time.were deficient in oaly one subject, and will be extended the privilege ‘of re-examination in March. Parham failed in only one subject— mathematics—and, therefore, will be eligible to take an examination In March for re-entry to the academy. COLORED SUCCESSOR PROMISED. By the Associated Press. Representative Oscar De Priest, colored Republican, of Illinois, who appointed Alonzo Parham, colored, to West Point, said today that he would appoint an- other colored student to the Academy if Parham had been actually dropped for failing to pass his mid-term ex- aminations. “I understand that Parham has 60 days in which to make up his credits,” De Priest said. “But if my appointee is definitely discharged I shall appoint another colored boy, because of all members of Congress, I am the only one who would appoint a boy of the race with which I am identified.” De Priest sald he understood mathe- matics had been difficult for Parham. “The has wotked hard,” the Illinois Representative said, “but the course at West Point is very difficult. 1 wrote to him a month ago,” when I heard of his difficulty with mathe- matics, and asked him about his prog- ress. 1 presume he did not answer be- cause he was ashamed of not success- fully coping with his course.” De Priest added that Parham had “‘worked hard to earry on as representa- tive of his race at the academy and carried quite a responsibility.” TAFT PLANS TO LEAVE FOR ASHEVILLE TONIGHT|¥er® closed to framme. By the Assoclated Press. Chief Justice Taft, cuperating at & hosp of a slight recurrence of an old ail- ment, plans to leave Washington at 6:40 o'clock tonight for Asheville, N. C., for several weeks of resc. . Francis Dr. ysician, said Justice was resting comfortably and that nothing had developed that wovu'd who has | t + disheveled room has not { ] been re- ital as the result | TRENTO, e, RESTAURANT MAN AIRMAIL LINES'LOSS IS URGED BY BROWN U. S. Payment to Operators Would Be Put on Basis Similar to Railways’. DEFICITS THREATEN AVIATION, HE SAYS Fixed Rates Per Mile for Definite Weight Space Are Suggested to Supplant Pound System. | By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 14.—The | rate scale and airmail system of the Post Office Department would be changed by recommendations outlined here today by Postmaster General Brown. For the first time, the Postmaster General gave his “yardstick” of airmail compensation, which would supplant a system in which one carrier receives as | ‘low as 8 cents, and another as high as $3_a pound. Numerous conferences between postal authorities and airmail contractors have been held during the past few months in Washington with a view to working out a rate “yardstick.” U. S. Would Concentrate Aid. | | FOUND MURDERED Christos Haralampidis Be- lieved Victim of Robbers, Who Crushed Skull. Slain in what police believe was a fight during the night with robbers, the | body of Christos Haralampidis, 60-year- old proprietor of the Acropolis restau- rant, 511 Ninth street, was found this morning in his ransacked living quar- ters over the restaurant. His skull was smashed by a brick found lying beside the body. One arrest has been made. There was evidence of a desperate struggle in the room. One pocket of the man's clothing was turned out, but whether anything was missing in the been ascer- tained. The brick with which the man was murdered apparently had been used p] — |1o_cover a rat hole. wers, colored, an employe, man, as about. :30 o'clock this morning. Hearing no to her knock, she opened the door. When she saw the disarray in the room, she ran screaining ffom the place. At Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue she finally found a policeman, Louis Hale of No. 1 precinct, who went with her to the address and found the | body in & vacant room at the rear of the house. Numerous finger prints were found about the place. An investigation by Capt. Frank S. W. Burke, com der of No. 1 precinct, and Lieut. rd J. Kelly of the homicide squad failed to reveal any motive other than robbery for the killing. It was believed that the man had surprised the robbers at their work and was killed in a struggle that followed. His body probably was dragged into the vacant room. Little is known of the slain man’s habits. The restaurant he conducted had a clientele restricted almost entirely to Greeks. Police do not know whether Haralampidis was in the habit of keep- ing any considerable sum of money in his living quarters. Investigators have found a pair of pants and shoes, blood- stained, which'may furnish clues. The man arrested as a suspect is held at first precinct. DYNAMITERS TEAR BIG GAP IN LEVEE Bloodhounds Put on Trail of Plot-| ters Against Mississippi Levees. By the Associated Press. MARKS, Miss,, January 14.—A huge gap was torn in the Cassiday Bayou Levee two miles south of Helen, near here, by a charge of dynamite set off during the night by unidentified persons. Bloodhounds were ordered here this morning from Clarksdale to aid in a searcH for those who set off the blast In the event of further rains, it feared that the opening in the embank- ment, while relleving conditions in other sections, would permit water to spread over several hundred acres of land in the immediate vicinity of the break. If the rainfall ceases, however, drainage district officials expect little damage. ‘Workmen were sent to the levee today in an effort to close the gap, and an- would be placed on the levee. During the 1927 flood the Cassidy Bayou levee was patrolled by armed guards for several weeks after attmepts had been made to dynamite it. INDIANA FARMS FLOODED. VINCENNES, Ind., January 14 (#)—A break in the Wabash River levee, 2 miles west_of Emison, Ind. late last night, poured flood waters today over a farm area of more than 20,000 acres, damag- ing wheat and ungathered corn. Not more tha d families live in the district flooded, and none was reported in danger. - ; - Emison s 9 miles north of Vineennes., The!break relieved at least temporar- ily flood conditions here, where the low- «f parts of the city were inundated. The ‘river level dropped a foot after the levee gave way. Flood conditions prevailed today at several points along the Wabash and White Rivers and their tributaries. More than a dozen State highways TRAIN. . January 14 Italy, Jan ().— of liulnfln was at the train which is BORIS HANDLES B & b e r taking h when it reached here At Rovereto King to eer, asked n-"mm" as Ihr as ain personnel was -akill, ay. ris, who is a | | Under the system suggested today by | Brown, the Post Office Department would concentrate its exceptional aid jon essential routes, “those that have | been traveled by ox team, pony express, ; railroad and auto,” and would use planes !as it now uses trains, at fixed rates 1 per mile for definite weight spaces. | Declaring Cleveland “an appropriate | place to take an inventory of aviation | of today, and to hazard a guess for the | future,” the Postmaster General sketched the growth of the airmail to its present status: “Two hundred planes and 250 expert i pilots engaged; 25 contractors over the regular routes aggregating 14,368 miles, | flying approximately 40,500 miles each 24 hours, about 60 per cent of which is flown at night.” Life of Business in Balance. ‘The Postmaster General told of the ! accompanying acceleration in the com- mercial flying business and its apparent serious results. “The public poured its hundreds of millions of dollars into the aviation in- S 2t e W ted, in and al were inaugurated, some accord with the best practice, others less well considered. But the experience of all in 1929 was substantially the same. With o paying load of only 16 to 40 per cent of capacity, all closed the :‘lth U cen! year heopel'.fl.l" de&clu wl'mhld" llhe life pesasager, transpor ustry to- day is in the balance.” He declared this was because the air enthusiasts forgot that children must creep before they walk, and must toddle from chair to cl before they engage in marathons. The American publie, he sald, was provided with facilities for flying from coast to coast before any considerable number of people had made sight-seeing trips over their native towns. He added, however, that the situation is one that properly oceasions the deep- est public, concern, and set forth his opinion as to what the Pgst Office Department should do toward a solution. Pound Payment Is Held Unsound. “In our judgment, the method of determining the compensation of air- mail contractors must be revolutionized,” he said. ‘““The system of paying by the pound, regardless of distance traveled, is manifestly unsound. Such a system compels the contractor to gamble on the volume of mail he will carry and creates an inducement for him to swell his volume by unethical practices. He is obliged to make his flight whether the Post Office Department furnishes him with one pound or a thousand pounds of mail, and he should there- fore ‘be paid a just consideration - for his readiness to serve, as well as for service performed.” He then set forth a definite recom- mendation by the Post Office Depart- ment, amending the airmail act to authorize the Postmaster General to | contract for the transportation of mail at fixed rates per mile for definite weight spaces, the base rate not to exceed $1 per mile for 1,500 pounds of mail capacity. He suggested the establishmént of a schedule providing, perhaps, for the payment of 30 cents per mile for a weight space of 100 pounds, with in- creased compensation for increasing weight spaces, until the maximum of §1 per mile for 1500 pounds of .weight space is reached. He advocated adding a proper factor for night flying, flying over -mountains, and flying over ter- ritory frequently covered by fog. This system, he said, would greatly Iincrease airmail service to the public by permitting the dispatch of airmail on regularly scheduled passenger flights. It also ‘would enable the Post Office Department to give immediate assistance to the air passenger carriers on such | routes as were deemed essential, by | paying for carrying the mails a sub- | stantial sum, based on definite weight | space pre-empted, the Postmaster Gen- | eral added. | 30 PLANES IN SEARCH. NEW YORK, January 14 (F).—A fleet | of 30 planes was ordered out today 1o | search the north shore of Long Isiand | and in the vlc!nl‘t.y of Ashford, Conn., | for two missing airplane pilots. | Daniel Marra and William Kirk- | patrick, test pilots for the Fairchild | Airplane Manufacturing Corporation. have been missing since they took off from Farmi ., N. Y. last Friday to make an altitude test of a large hat Marra and cabin monopl s were expressed t| Kirkpatrick became lost in the fog and were blown out to_sea. HIGHER RATETOCUT DRY TRANSFERBILL 15 RGED ASHOLGE * INSHERS HODVER Committee on Expenditures | Gets Proposal Introduced by Its Chairman. TARIFF MAY BLOCK ACTION IN SENATE President's Message, Mellon and Mitchell Memoranda Referred to Judiciary Group. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The legislative wheels ‘were set in | motion on Captiol Hill today to carry into effect the program submitted yes- | terday by President Hoover for more | efficient prohibition enforeement. | The bill to transfer to the Depart- | ment of Justice the investigation and | preparation of " prohibition cases from | the Treasury Department was intro- duced in the House by Representative | Williamson of South Dakota, chairman of the committee on expenditures in the executive departments. It was referred promptly to his com- mittee, which is expected to give it early consideration. ~Other measures dealing with the various proposals of the President will be prepared by of committees of the House. Draft l\:g; gestions for.them were included in supplementary report of the Law En- forcement Commission, which was sent to Congress yesterday by the President. Prohibition Bureau is Set Up. The Williamson bill set up in the Department of Justice & bureau of pro- hibition, with a director and assistant director to be appointed by the Attor- ney General. All the attorneys, officers and agents of the present Prohibition Buteau in the Treasury Department are transferred without change to the Department of Justice. The director would be paid $9,000 yearly. The duties of the Attorney General in the enforcement of prohibition are incorporated in the bill, and the rights and powers in this connection now pos- sessed by the Secretary of the Treasury. ‘The Attorney General is with the_investigation of violations of the prohibition act and also with violations of the internal revenue laws, the appre- hension and seizure of offenders and the seizure and enforcement of all forfeitures under these laws. The At- torney General and the Secretary of the Treasury are jointly to prescribe all regulations under this act and the pro- hibition act. hereafter -as® and industrial alcohol. commissioner is given the title of com- missioner of narcotics and industrl alcohol. This makes a for Com- missioner Doran to conf on in the ‘Treasury Department. Provides for Quick Transfer. ‘The proposed transfer to the Deépart- ment of Justice of the hibition en- forcement is to become tive on the first day of the second menth following the approval of the bilh Mr. Williamson declared his bill be in line with the recommendations the President. He added: “The creation of a prohibition bureau in the Justice Department puts an end to divided res) ibility for enforce- ment and affords greater opportunity to develop a trained personnel, which will operate under the direction of the At- torney General. A more careful ad- herence to the law by enforcement agents and improvements in the gather- ing and submission of evidence by them may be expected.” Williamson said hearings would be arranged on the measure soon with & view to reparting out the bill in f%e near future. “The leaders in the House,” he said, “have given assurance that the decks will be cleared so that prompt consid- eration may be had when the bill reaches the calendar. The commission’s draft of I ation to define “casual or slight violations” of the prohibition laws, which might be handled on complaint or informs- tion instead of grand jury indictment, and which might be heard by United States commissioners, follows: “For the purposes of prosecution, the following shall be deemed casual or slight violations: (1) Unlawful pos- sesaion, (2) single sales of small quanti- ties by persons not engaged in habitual violation of the law, (3) unlawful mak- ing of small quantities where no other rson is_employed, (4) assisting in Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) DRY LAW REPEAL BILL INTRODUCED IN HOUSE o of | Representative Sabath of Illinois Offers Measure ‘“to’ Reduce " Crime and Discontent.” A bill “to reduce crime and general | discontent and resentment on the of law abiding American people against intolerable conditions” by re) the national prohibition act was intraduced lx;iv;mn‘:pmenhuve Sabath, Demoerat, 0is. “By the adoption of this hill,” Sabath . said, “beer and wines could be prescribed i and used for medicinal purposes under the Volstead act, thereby reduec- . ing crime and the general discontent and resentment against the present in- toler‘-dblo afindmnn: as duc:flw by President Hoover, Secretary Treas- ury Mellon and Attorney General Mitchell, in their reports and by the r:auo 1 Law Enforcement Commis- sion.” “MUTE” FORGETS HE'S VOICELESS, THEN HEARS JUDGE SAY 30 DAYS Wins Sympathy of Court by Penciled f)efenu, but Just Can’t Make By tHe Associated Press: SAN FRANCISCO, January 14.—Any him back from Rome to Sofia | deaf mute who appears in the Police | th Court of Judge George J. 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