Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Buresu Forecast.) Snow and much colder, probably fol- ; tomorrow fair Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 31,312 NAVAL DISCUSSION IS GROUNDED UPON PRE-PARLEY NOTES OF BRITAIN-FRANCE Groundwork Is Laid for Five- Power Conference by De- cision by London Leaders in Armament Talk. JAPAN AND ITALY SHOW SIGNS OF IMPATIENCE Tokio’s Rigid Demands and Rome’s Vagueness First Problems to Be Met—Dinner of Delegates Helps to Iron Out Wrinkles, but Talk Held Secret. Br the Associated Press. LONDON, January 22. —Pre- mier Tardieu of France today requested the Associated Press to issue a denial of a report published in the United States thdat in an interview he had said Great Britain and the United States were far apart on a naval treaty and that he was acting as mediator on sev- eral outstanding points. “This report is absurd,” said the French premier, who added that he had given no such in- terview and asked that a cate- gorical denial be made of it. (This reported interview was not carried by the Associated Press.) BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. and Chicago Daily By Cable to The Star and Chic LONDON, England, January 22. ~The French and British have just agreed to take as a basis of the negotiations the Franco-Brit- ish memoranda exchanged before the London Naval Conference. Some points of agreement have already been found in the ar- rangement, but others still require elucidation. In view of the importance of the questions involved, it has been decided to bring the United States, Japan and Italy mto these conversations, which, is esti- mated, will coxmnue at lea.st until | an¢ Friday. t%fiore. ‘be the e%.en'v:lhael work of confer- ence for re.sen 3 ‘Tomorrow p although ull session, private, will, it \.s sald, be largely for- mal, each delegation limiting itself to only the most general expression of its national views. Vagueness of Program. to the time of the lurelolnc de- dslnn lhe chief task of the del h:dbeenthnotreenntmecmn‘f.heggnch to the vagueness of program. ery= ‘body knows in a way that the aim of the conference is to limit, and, if possible, reduce the number of auxil- iary ships, but nobody seemed ready to offer any deflnne proposals. This vagueness, which still exists, has certain advantages, for it prevents any one from taking too rapidly positive po- sitions from which retirement afterward would be difficult. This is what the Japanese have done by announcing their «demands before they left Tokio and re- peating them with great firmness ever since. It is also what the Italians have done, to some extent, by demanding parity with France. But thewBritish and the Americans both have avoided this step. They feel that it is better to go slow lnd work things out gradually. 1;‘he French, hflevfl. have be;n '.I‘.:; patient. They have complaine Droposals bromised Jast Octoner. They roposals T, ey ve protested that since their arrival Saturday, they have been unable to learn anything definite about anything. They had supposed that the British and the Americans had made an agreement and were ready with concrete proposals. But both the British and the Americans have assured them that this is not so; that no concrete proposals are ready; that the figures employed in the Anglo- Am::léan w:ve{::flnm were mero‘_ly tentative, an t no program for the conference a success has been wn in advance. Surmises Not Correct. Thus the French, who feared that they were going to be confronted with a solid Anglo-American line-up, found no line-up at all, and instead of having to listen to definite from the prepared to until they could find out something do,m‘ what the British and th: Ameri- (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) BURR BUYS SHARE IN WESTERN RAILWAY [z Deal Involving Denver .and Salt|: Iake Line Considered Im- portant Skirmish. By the Associated Press. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Police Efficiency Rises to Heights In Chicago—Once By the Associated Press. cchoo January 22, —The nt last " night wugd the hts of ls:l“I:t and Mrs. Mary Tiller was hted. One of four men her urse and fled with lons in an automobile. Mrs. boarded a street car and went di- rectly to a police station. y purse,” she benn f course,” “Here it is. And hgre ho 1 'Yes, yes, sergeant. men on_suspicion, purse and a pistol, and had taken them to the station to await ar- rival of the victim. GRATEFUL RELIEF FOLLOWS ANXIETY London Sees Opening of Par- ley Amid Friendly Spirits. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. By Oable to The Star. - * LONDON, Jln!ll‘y 22.—From one end of Xnndon to the other the opinion is that the Naval Conference got off to a most auspicious start. In all the delegations grateful sighs of relief are le over the fact that yesterday's formal opening passed into history without a single disturbing lunanlan from r. The good tem and good . will essential to ironing OII'. the conference’s innumerable difficulties ‘were manifest in the speeches of every chief delegate. If there was an S ican delenucn has come to London for business and is ready to lf-l! here until the business is done, assertion, “our peoples denunu of us & success,” meaning all the peoples rep- resented at the conference, makes a desp impression. p-mculn fervency in British press, even in “blue w-cer" o( the bil navy school, hiterto more or lukewarm toward the conference. Secretary Stimson has now practicall; assumed the usponnbmty for mch driving force as may be necessary to produee results. His conference colleagues no doubt but that he wul supply 1t. American zeal for ‘“success” promptly exe.mplm:d in last night's private meeting between Secretary Stimson and Ambassador Morrow with Prime Minister Mudnnflu. Fore! Minister Henderson, Premier Tardieu and M. Briand. The meenn( was held on premises whereof much is likely to have generally, Keith Merrill, dl ficer of ge State Dej ington, gram for foreign embassies, legal d consulal l‘;‘uler.ly nrrlved at nm- 2 _stone’s throw from the del xcuechuawm:“‘ he Ty D; CRITICAL SITUATION MENACES CHIGAGD AS DEBTS INCREASE Citizens’ Qommlttee Fanls to Obtain Emergency Funds to Meet Pay Rolls. GOVERNMENT COLLAPSE FORESEEN BY STRAWN Financial Pinch Is Felt by Insti- tutions—Workers Wait fop ~~ Salary Checks. .~ ~ By the Associated = CHICAGO, Ji 22.—The finan- clal crisis of 44 city, county and school board was-described today by Silas H. Strawsr, chairman of the citizens’ com- mittee, as “critically desperate.” ‘The local governments, he said, fol- lowing & three-day search by his com- mittee for “a way out,” are “flat broke,” with no prospect of any aid from the banks. Efforts to induce sub- stantial property owners to buy tax an- ticipation warrants which they could! coy use later as payment of their 1928 tax bills, also have been unsuccessful. “Complete colla) of the local gov- ernments” is only “a matter of days”|w unless some means of producing cash is, found, Strawn warned. Even a spednl session of the Legisiature, he could numt under v-y q\llck\y enou.h to_fores! Such a pro- 34 eeduuhnbm:mnmedu.pomnle medy. rel !mltlh Feel Pinch. ‘The local governments, Strawn said, are ‘290000000 in debt, and this is costing an estimated $50,000 a day in rest. “I do mot believe the public grasps as yet what a really ses situation this is,” Strawn declared. “I that before the who are in our Pension ubnry and other phnmthmplc insti- hy Rolls Due Tomorrow. In the county no rolls have been met for a month. pay roll, due w, will not be met, officials said. WITH SUNDPAY MORNING EDITION c, 10DEAD, 3 INJURED AS TRAIN WRECKS OHIO SCHOOL BUS Nine Children and Drlver Are Victims of Grade Cross- ing Tragedy. .- VEHICLE IS DRIVEN INFO ‘ENGINE’S PATH Xfi.her Sees Two of Family Hurled to Death by Force of Impact. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, January 22.—~The worst railroad crossing accident in Ohio in a year today killed nine small chil- dren and the driver of the bus in which they were riding, at Sheldron road, near Berea, Ohio, 15 miles from Cleveland. One other child was seriously injured. Rushing toward Chicago 45 miles an hour, a New York Central mai} train struck the bus squarely in the middle. ‘Wreckage and bodies were strewn along the !I’lcn !ol' 500 feet before the train '!‘hz blla drlver had halted at, the edge of the crossing and waited for a freight train to pass. A moment later he drove I.nwuupl!holthemll'nln mu nnd wnod, mfl then the lcrums ol dying and injured children. The identified dead—Don _Taylor, driver; Wfllll.m Davidson, ll) R-\tl Ze- 9; Zelinskl, 11; Vincent zeluu.kL 6, bmher and umr cl Rita; lfam’ Pastorik, 10; Vernon Davidson, 1 lvelyn Kllullblck ; Jacob Wnllzn 12, and his sister, Juanita Walters, Ethel Davidson, 10, whn was I.n)md has a chance to live. Train Crew Aldl Sufferers. l As quickly as the train could be stopped the crew and others aboard jumped off and rendered to the surviv- ing_children all possible aid. Trucks and nuwmobuu were com- mandeered and took injured to Boca Hospital and Lhe dead to two fhe crosstn sid e crossing was considered da: ous because there wers four tracks, n‘;lt 3’:! :;dthe'r was bright and visibility The scene of the accident was in a sparsely settled section, however, which, with a lolw. straight, level right of way, mvel t.nlm chance to make high tomorro In the otiy, the last pay day of police- | %, men and nrgmen found th un- issue checks, official headquarters at the R.lu thl. the servants, prepared for en on short notice and on an extensive scale. In the Merrill home it is hold a continuous urlu of heart meetings between the Ame: delegates and those of other powers for duscussion which can be conducted bet- (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) LAND OWNERSHIP CLAIM IS DISPUTED Hyde Asks Dismissal of Suit In- volving Section of Proposed Memorial Highway. Asserting that construction of the memorial highway to connect Mount Vernon with the Arlington Memorial Bridge for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George ‘Washington in 1932 is in aid of navi- gation and disputing the claim of own- ership of the Washington Airport to the land along which the road is be!n:‘ of injunction recently filed against him to prevent_further dredging of the Po- tomac River'in front of the property of the airport concern at the south end of the Highway Bridge irginia. ‘Through United States Attorney roposals others, they were asl :dtomfledzflnne themselve - blishing bathing an Inl‘dlfimloifllfl'ml umunr&e that its h Lhe ‘river was being dredging. THREE MEN ARRESTED ; IN INSURANCE FRAUD|2s’ U. 8. Inspectors Hold Attempt Is Being Made to Collect for Fictitious Character. By the Assoclated Preis, MIAMI, Fla, January 22—Arrest of three men yesterday on charges of using the mails to defraud in connection with an attempt to col’sct $50,000 life insur- ance for the death of an allegedly fic- titious man was reported last night by Federal agents. The men, the agents said, are John B. Nichols, Miami attorney; his brother, J. W. Nichols, Houston, Tex., and Wil- liam Elbert Smith, Lakeland, Fla. William Edward Smith, who United States postal inspectors sald was a fic- titlous character, was said to have been drowned in Biscayne Bay while fishing Jupe 13 with the Nichols brothers, 'rhe of the m inspectors said, had mmred in November, ngi. under a $25.000 double Jnamn.l:gd pnucy 'n:e y Leo | body was mzum‘mumuflsmunm Court against the insurance o5 "WMA ‘Ward of Tamj hn W = Frank Sanford ”’ 10 Tictitious | |rought the death e company | &8 A moment later, llothzrlulchl.lflmm to ‘Rudolph- Ursprung, a of Berea, who was one of thnnv.mnrlunm-wene.thm the crossing as the bus approached. It beueud lelor waited for the tnln & witness olmmid!nt vl h two of the children killed herown.shewummlmmr mile away when the crash oc- Rushing to the she !ound ‘the bodies of her children wreckage. Screaming in 1, she was taken home maauugu Hlnd. the engineer, said, ep}hue,w't see the bus until we hit it.” Trainmaster A. H. Hancock of Elyria, who questioned Hand when the train later arrived at Elyria, saild Hand told him the fireman was putting in coal Just before the crash, wh!cn puvmtod the nr‘elzum‘!mnl.‘n;e seeing the Han train was tnv:mu 45 miles an hour, It consisted of one passenger coach and several mail and WEDNESDAY, JANUARY [wreckale and bodies hlu-led into the | the Fed 'Illmllhlmplflln(-ltwfls ening %iaf 22, 1930—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. D.C. DEVELOPMENT DEBATED IN HOUSE Cramton BI" Authorizes $23,- 000,000 Advance for Park - Acquisitions. The House rules committee today granted two hours for debate on the Cramton bill to develop the George ‘Washington Memorial parkway from Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to Great Falls and to extend Rock Creek and Anacostia parks. This bill has al- ready been favorably reported by the House committee on public “buildings md grounds. authorizes an immediate lp&rg vfll'-hn of snmnoo from eral Treasury, $16,000,000 of which is m leral contribution for acquisition of sites for W“;L development in the memorial wt's on & 50-50 basis be- Government and the Jocal communities, or private tions. The land to be acquired for the Anacostia and Ror.k Creek park- way extensions would be acquired two- thirds by the State lnd one-third by the Federal Govamm IMORE SNOW HERE WEATHER FORECAST Temperature Decline and Clearing Skies Tonight Is Prediction for Capital. - With the streets barely free of icy deposits left by a previous storm, ,a three-inch snowfall was forecast for unblmdtnu E. exgl'.hfll was added to tragedy when | tem moflwn and fathers of the dead and injured children commenced to arrive. Cries of anguish were heard as :iwound their loved ones dead or nts had been taken to hospitals seri- ly injured. 20 KILLED IN MONTH. Bus Accident Toll Mounts With Fourth Ohio Crash. COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 22 ().— The school bus-train aceident at fi‘zm today in which 1 rsons were- killed ll from bus acci- dents in Ohio to 20 and the injured to nearly 30, in less than a month, infoned YEmaaan’s Whc & eniicurt | anuary 3 when a van: train demulhhed a school bus at Shreve, same day 10 persons were lnluud twn seriously, in a collision | sen between a bus and a truck at Bellevue. ‘Two persons were killed and several ln de on January 2 when a bus skidde rom the highway at West Aunndl'h. Jmuuy 21, 1929, a Lake Shore elec- tric train struck and demolished a bus at a cmflnx near Bellevue, killing 21 persons. £/ SENATORS DECLINE L T0 TAKE HAITI LEAD tem) President Is Offered Appropriation, X 11 HOURS IN CASKET CONVINCES SLEUTH Detective Hides in Undertaker’s Garage to Detect Bootlegger, but Miuion Fails. put Must Appoint His Own Commission, By the Associated Press. ed | night. 14 degrees, an 18-point drop in ac hours, is tm- cast for tomorrow morning. ‘The merc\lry stood at the 32 degrees early today htly lower levels %e anticipated in afternoon. Fair and continued wld is seen for scan of a degrees ai low extreme, re- neorded at m;gnmuflna & brief snow urTy, was ‘The Middle West and East are ex- For mncln' temperatures generally lower | glain normal for this time of year, al- flwu'h there has been little precipita- The extreme cold wave, which rmhed mercury tuml ! at Galveston had somewhat wdny -m:ou‘h deman had a minimum of 22 degrees. ‘The coldest spot in the Uhlted States early wu Charles City, Iowa, where disturbance sent the tzmpenuu'e aflm to 30 degrees below COLD GRIPS NATION, ..’ HE’S FAILURE AS CORPSE| Deinine to auttriss the sppotat- m.::.... ment of a commission to study Haitian } in conditions, as requested by President | Hoover, the Senate foreign relations TOTS START TRAIN TRIP. Man Electrocuted As Electric Heater Falls Into Bath Tub By the Assoclated Press. FLEMINGTON, 22—Simeon Swift, 20 yzm“:lz was electrocuted last night when & small electric heater fell into the .water as h g a e e was takin The heater had been placed on a towel rack, directly -buve the tub. It fell into the water, and Swift took hold of it, lnpu'- ently not realizing that water was an excellent conductor of tricity. His screams attracted members of the family, but he was dead when they remhed the bath room. BEAST SLAUGHTERS PIG ON NEW RAID e Police Increase Activity as Alarmed Residents Report Seeing-Prowler. ‘The panther, or whatever it is, that for the past fortnight has been terror- izing Northeast Washington, transferred its activities to Southern Maryland last night, visiting the farm of Harry Fow- ler on the Marlborough pike about a Meanwhile police of the eleventh pre- cinet have been putting in a busy day today answering calls of frightened residents of Deanwood and Benning sec- tions who have seen “panthers” resem- bling everything from “rabbits to lions.” Dog Only Casualty. One dog was the only casualty. It was first seen in the vicinity of Fifty- eighth and Dix streets, streaking along l.he midd.le ot Hlty—el;hm toward the nel-fl'!. leaving L.’ Lewis, colored, 5516 Jay street northeast, took up the trail after nomylnt ice. Meanwhile ks and a squad wound in i:‘ left f¢ gunshot e otherwise none the worse. known when the dog was shot. Trap Is Planned. ]fl&hu Hold No Hope for For- " mer Member of Senate. Ga., Jmum 22 (P)— recovery of “From Press every ut block tion is de ivered (P Means Associated Press. ENERGIZED CHEST AGTIVITY URGED Chairman Newbold Noyes! Says Slump in Special Gifts Creates Threat. Members of the special gifts com- to_ Home Within the Hour” The Star’s . m:ln; u:ynm h?':i-. e regular e on homes as fast as the papers are prinled. Yesterday’s Circulation, 113,289 TWO CENTS. SHIFT OF DRY UNIT | WINS APPROVAL OF MEllllN AND DORAN Secretary Flatly Refuses to Be Drawn Into Discussion of Prohibition. ENFORCEMENT CHIEF AND SCHAFER CLASH Lack of Co-operation Between Treasury and Justice Depart- ments Is Denied. By the Associated Press. Andrew W. Mellon, who took over the Treasury portfolio about the time the dry law was placed upon the stat- ute books, recommended to a congres- sional committee today the transfer of the Prohibition Bureau from the Treas- ury to the Justice Department, but flat~ ly refused to be drawn into a discus- sion of the prohibition question. The man who has had more than eight years' experience under threc Presidents as head of the department which has jurisdiction over the major dry law enforcement units was pressed again and again by members of the House expenditures committee with Questions on the controversial prohibi- tion subject. Evades Questions, on Law. “I am sure we have made every ef- fort to carry out our responsibility,” | was his answer to Representative. Igoe, Republican of Illinols, who had asked if Mellon believed the Prohibition Bu- reau had done everything feasible to enfom the law. you think prohibition can be enfamd?" the Illinois member. “This is a matter of I mittee of the Community Chest cam- paign were called upon by Chairman Newbold Noyes to redouble their efforts in securing gifts of $500 or more as a result of a decided slump in the ‘con- tributions to the 1930 Chest reported at todsy’s meeting. Eighty-eight new pledges accounted for only $95,026.14 as the day’s total, as compared with $106,091.69 reported yesterday. This brings the grand total to $361,028.81, with only four more week days remaining before the city- wide campaign opens next week. Big Deficit Threatens, Unless individual contributions are 20 per cent larger this year than last, ow- g to the increased needs of the 1930 budget, the campaign of the special gifts committee will show a deficit of $00,000 on the basis of today's returns, Chairman Noyes declared. The per- centage of gain in pledges dropped to 11 per cent, compared with a little less reasons why the’ campa efforts must be redoubled if the full :l.noum( the committee’s quota is to 'rhmmo(uooouchwmm largest reported today. ‘These were aif S. Kann Sons Co., Edmund I KMI!- mann and V. Fleming, reported that the Washington banks would be 100 per cent in the Chest list of contributors before the special gifts Robert as follows: Barry Mohun, m.m Mrs. Charles C. Glover, jr., $7,100; Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, $16,300; Willlam Knowles Cooper, $5,875; Arthur Hellen, $3,550; W. W. Everett, $2,950; Mrs. sldney F. Taliaferro, $18,385; )5; Robert V. Flem- B. Sweeney, $3,20 g}l. $7461.14; executive committee, Other Units Prepare. M hile, the metropolitan unit, whlc‘hm e:nmmtu th;n nrmy of solieitors who start wmblnl city for gifts next week and the gpoup solicitation | Cal unit. are making h;bmomm it prepara- than 18 per cent yesterday, affording for * . | mile and a half from the District line, | additional killing one hog and slashing nine others. ¢ renu fore us,” responded the ve Treas- ury Secretary. “Prohibition is a very controversial subject and I don't see ‘-’Ey ylwe now to express personal Meilon testified on the Williamson bill to carry out the phase of the Hoover prohibition enforcement ition gr to transfer the Prohibition ureau to the Justice Deplflmenv.. He was lmmpnnud the commit- tee room by James M. Doran, commis- sioner of proh(bmon, vho a current says, expects to retire from Gove ernment service as soon as thetnnn!er ected. Seymour Lowman, the As- sistant Becretary, specifically law enforcement, also the incident were sent to the b\uuu “covering: “I_know nof of anything like that,” Mellon said. “If such a condi- tion exists, it has never been brought to_my attention.” Schafer said he believed such a con- going the ask ma prohmuan commissioner for a "I \mdenhnd the situatfon in Wuh- is serious,” tydnsfer. He said were | thought_enforcetent could be made more effective by the Justice Depart- ment, as §"would make detection and prosecutigh more efficient. Duripg the session Schafer urged it of the Willilamson bill to n'pon to Congress on any vio- lation by prohibition agents of search l'and seizure llwl. Later, Doran, discussing Schafer's remarks about uenu getting into dim- culties, said the Treasury never had liscipline officers guilty of Renraun tive Swing, Republican of asked why, if the personnel of l.he Prohibition Bureau is transferred, lations under the existing bu- uld not be transferred. Doran said the same regulations would not be applicable to another de- partment. Mellnn had sald id “earlier all gifts | for medicinal liquors and indus as-follows: 'Barry Mohun, $8,885; Mrs. . C. Glover, jr., llfl‘fifl Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, ; Willlam Knowles 50; Arthur Hellen, $13,210; Y"u it the first requisite is to Eblu: the fact flutm£ of depend- (Continued on Page 3, Column 32.) DR. HENRY F. HOYT DIES. - Girls, 8 and 4, on second Traor-| WAX CANDLE FIRED FROM : PIERCES BOARD AT 100 YARDS continental Journey Alone. alcohol would be issued lying to Representative Goodwin Rewu%uun of Minnesota, Doran said he . | Was not aware of any lack of c0-0] tion belween the Treasury and Jmo partments. Denies lnowbd.a of Friction. Schafer then asked if there was not Fuics Depariment. over iator Sosatin mt over liquor situaf in the State of Washin, “I want to make it plain,” Doran said, “that I am not conscious of of any aun- culty between the bureau and Justice Department.” had not heg:mw ation as to how much industrial alcohol had been with- drawn by the W. T. Rawleith Co. at Freeport, n Doran said Schafer had not ch-rged a violation of law h{ the company and added he believed it would be harmful di information on the business would insist n_his the thlblgg: Bu- (Continued ofz Sge 2, Column 3.) AT Wy FIVE DIE IN PLANE.