Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Porscast.) Rain tonight, clearing and colder to- morrow: lowest wnuxght‘ .gouz_’ “(r:ezlnl Temperatures—Highest, 37, p.m. yesterday; lowest, 34, at 7:35 a.m. today. The only evening paper in Washington wi e Associated Press news Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 b ¢ FPoening ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 113,416 Entered as seco post office, Was No. 31,318. nd class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930 -THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. FRENCH PROPOSALS ON TONNAGE BASS GIVEN. FIRST PLAGE AT LONDON PARLEY Counter-Proposals by Italy| Also to Be Heard at Next| Full Session of All Delega- tions, to Be Held Thursday. PRESS TO BE ADMITTED DURING NEGOTIATIONS A Man Is Cuckoo To Steal a Cuckoo About to Cuck-oo By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 28—At exactly 4 p.m. January 27, 1930, something inside Godfrey Smith went cuckoo. Smith had no actual need for a cuckoo clock, for he gets up when he feels like it. He could not, however, resist the time- keeper he saw in the Common- wealth Edison Co. store, so he stuck it under his coat. As he strolled languidly toward the exit it was just 4 pm. The clock beneath the coat went “Cuck-00, Cuck-co, Cuck-o00, Cuck-00."” A policeman arrested him, for it is against the law to take cuckoo clocks. CARAWAY REBUKES Subject of Parity and British Plan| of Limitaticn by Categories Also | Given Places on Calendar of| Business—U. S. and Japan Are| Silent. High Lights of the Conference The “Big Five” today decided to call a plenary session of all delegates to be held Thursday. The next meeting will be open i to the press, the first such public | session. The business to be taken up | ‘will be in the following order: | 1. The French global tonnage proposal. 2. French-Italian naval parity. 3. The British plan of limita- tion by categories. ‘The Italians made reservations to the decisions reached today, but their nature was not dis- closed. BY BYRON PRICE. Associated Press Staff Writer. LONDON, January 28.—French global tonnage proposals were put at the head of the Naval Conference agenda today, but Italian counter-proposals also will be given their day in court at the next open session of the full conference, called for Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Again invoking the alphabet, the big five at a meeting in St. James’ Palace today decided to call the roll of nations at Thurs- day’s session, thus giving France the right of way-over her Italian neighbor. France will g:eeunt her pro- e e i f}':gnnsmnm‘:-iu reiterate ’:flat- ly lea that the actual fleets should be de- The United States and Japan have nothing to e in this general phase of the discussion. A committee of two from each delegation will be appointed when the three addresses are finished Thursday to study the situation, but it is fully expected the ar- rangement made by the big five wiil be approved eventually. ‘The decision for an open session on Thursday was reached on a motion introduced by Henry L. Stimson, the American Secretary of State. Some op- position had been expressed, but Sec- Tetary Stimson insisted that as many newspaper men as possible be admitted. Delegations Satisfied. All the delegations expressed satis- faction after the Big Five had ad- journed. Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister, who has been urging Italian erity with France, said he felt Italy Fmd received recognition, even if her claim was in secondary place on the sgenda. Immediately after the Big Five ad- Journed individual conferences were re- sumed, Prime Minister Macdonald call- ing at the American headquarters and Hugh 8. Gibson, American delegate, having lunched with Foreign Minister Grandl. Afternoon meetings were arranged between the British.and Japanese and Eritish and French delegations. The Blg Pive will not meet again until after Thursday’s session. ‘The conference formally entered its second week today, with delegations still_debating matters of agenda and, as Secretary of State Stimson said, “whether the hen shall come before the egg or the egg before the hen.” The agenda still is in tentative form. but it appeared virtually certain ~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 8. GEN. GOMEZ IS ILL. Former Venezuelan President Is Expected to Die in 2 Months. COLON, Panama, January 28 (#).— ‘A prominent traveler arriving here from Caracas yesterday said that Juan Vi- cente Gomez, former President of Vene- zuela, was seriously ill and was not | expected to live more than two months. Gen. Gomez is 70 years old. He served as President almost uninter- Is TARIFF WITNESS Receiving $500 for Speech to Importers. By the Associated Press. A sharp exchange took place today between Chairman Caraway of the Sen- ate lobby committee and Arthur L. Fau- bel, secretary of the American Tariff League, after the witness informed the committee that he understood Caraway had received $500 for a speech before an importers’ organization. As Faubel finished his statement, Caraway leaped to his feet, leaned over the committee table and shouted an- | grily: “That's just another one of your statements that has no basis of fact.” The Tariff League secretary answered just as warmly that he had been given that information. Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Montan: interposed at this point. He told Fa bel the “rebuke given you by the chair- man was richly deserved.” “You have no business to retail a story like that” he said to Faubel sharply, “unless you are ready to sup- port it under oath.” Caraway Not Mollified. But Caraway was not mollified. Pac- ing the floor, he demanded that Faubel tell him who gave the information. “I know nobody told you,” he assert. “I know you manufactured it.” “Oh, no,” Faubel said. “I know you did.” Caraway shot back. Denying this, Faubel said he would attempt to find out who gave him the ubel at his last appearance before a ppea; o sal e ith statements of Joseph R. Grundy, now Senator from lvania, before the eomm&tee that "b.ck't:rt?" l?lt‘!? ere given more representation e Senate than'they deserved. The Tarit Senate to the House of Representa- tives, instead of having both equal, as at_present. committee members showed indignation at this testimony' and at the outset of today's hearing Senator Walsh remarked on what he termed Faubel's “faulty memory,” after the witness had said he could not remem- ber whether any farm organizations were asked to join the league. Greeted With Sarcasm, Walsh also told Faubel sarcastically, “You're a wonderful man to run a The exchange with Senator Caraway began during questioning of Faubel con- cerning the employment of Edward N. Dingley, tariff expert of the Senate finance committee, and Clayton Moore, clerk of the House ways and means committee. Both committees handle tariff legislation. * Faubel said their employment to write tariff articles for the league's mflzgmne was terminated September 13, 1928. He read a letter written to the two men which said that since tariff revi- sion was coming up in Congress it nli.‘lght be well to terminate the relation- ship. Faubel said, however, that Moore later wrote an article explaining the procedure through Congress of a tariff bill, and added that he could see no harm in that, since Caraway “had re- ceived $500 for an address before an importers’ organization.” HOWELL’S DRY BILL READY FOR SENATE Nebraskan Expects to Introduce His Measure Tomorrow. After several weeks of careful study of the need for a local enforcement act to supplement the Volstead law in Washington, Senator Howell, Republi- can, of Nebraska, expected to be ready this afternoon or tomorrow to intro- duce the proposed legislation in the Senate. . ‘The main feature of the bill will be to empower all members of the local Police Department to take part in the enforcement of prohibition by having a local law on the subject. It also will extend the search warrant authority of Police Court judges local policemen, but the exact naturs of these additional powers will not be rupgedly from 1910 until 1930. known until Senator Howell introduces the bill. enate Chairman Accused of | FATE OF HUNDREDS UNKNDHN ASFLOUD INVADES NDIAN Flyers Report No Signs of Life Apparent in Homes in Affected Area. WOMEN WITHOUT FOOD MAROONED ON HOUSETOP Ice Jam Throws Water Back in Little Wabash River, Submerg- ing Many Homes. By the Associated Press. EVANSVILLE, Ind., January 28—Un- certainty as to the fatk of hundreds of | residents isolated by Southwestern In- | diana flood waters held the attention of relief workers today. National Guard aviatcrs, flying low over many houses, found no evidence of life where just a day or two before they had been greeted by hand waving. They cxpressed belief that recession of the swollen streams may reveal bodies in the homes. Chimneys from where smoke had been seen rising were report- | ed not operating. Others More Optimistic. Other persons, however, were more optimistic. They believed that the circling planes offered no more thrill 1o the imprisoned residents, and that they did not bother to greet them. The aviators flew over the territory between Evansville and Vincennes and Evansville and Shawneetown, Ill. A report by Lieut. D. D. Watson that he had seen from 10 to 15 women in the upper story of a house about 15 miles below Mount Verncn, where it would have been impossible. to obtain food and fuel supplies, was being investi- gated. Relief workers hoped to reach the place, Fears for Two Families. Word from Mount Vernon expressed fear for the safety of two families re- ported to have sought refuge in a home near there. The house. according to the report, has been submerged since the families entered the place. The ice jam at the mouth of the Lit- tle Wabash River showed little signs of improving. In many places the water in the territory behind the jam was said to be at its highest point. Evansville authorities planned an at- tempt to rescue approximately 20 people marooned on Cut-off Island, opposite New Harmony. Seven children and two women are among those on the island. — NORRIS ATTACKS WILBUR OVER DAM Secretary Is Accused of Move to Turn Boulder Power Over to “Trust.” By the Associated Press. . Secretary Wilbur of the Interior De- partment was chazged in the Senate to- day by Fenator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, with nullifying the provisions of the Boulder Dam bill and moving to turn the power from the proposed proj- ect over to the “water power trust.” The Nebraskan read an opinion given by the solicitor of the Interior Depart- ment which held power could be sold to private interests. He called attention to the provision in the Swing-Johnson Boulder Dam act stipulating that pref- erence should be given to municipall- ties and States in the leasing of power. “That means that the Secretary of “to nullify the most important pro- vision in that law and give every kilo- watt of power to the water power trust.” Senator Johnson, Republican, Cali- fornia, the author of the Boulder Dam bill, agreed with Norris and warned that “we will not be slow when the time comes to express our views on this matter, no matter what the so- licitor has advised.” While Norris took the position that Secretary Wilbur already had nullified and repealed the Boulder Dam act, Johnson said that “out of fairness to the Secretary let it be said that this is a decitlon by the solicitor of the depart< ment.” SEVEN PERSONS BURN TO DEATH IN SHACK Family of Six and Would-Be Res- cuer Victims of Fire in Colorado. By the Associated Press. FREDERICK, Colo., January 28— Seven persons were burned to death in a fire today in a two-room shack near the Slopeline mine. Mrs, Paul Mar- tinez, her five children, ranging in age from 13 months to 15 years, and a miner named Newlon lost their lives. Newlon discovered the fire, broke into the shack through a window and was burned to death trying to rescue the family. PILGRIMAGE OF WAR MOTHERS TO TOMB OF UNKNOWN OFFERED Heflin Amendment Provides for Those Who Do Not Wish European Tour. Mothers and widows of men who died in the World War who are en- titled under existing law, to visit mili- tary cemeteries in Europe would be [given the option of making a pilgrimage to Washington to visit the grave of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Na- fional Cemetery under an amendment troduced in the Senate by Senator eflin, Democrat, of Alabama. Under the Heflin measure, the pil- Erimages to Arlmwn would be made during the 5; from April 15 to b\me 15 of ‘ year. ’nanmugn. -/ meals and other arrangements would be made by the Secretary of War at Gov- ernment expense. The amendment suggests the holding of appropriate exercises at the Arling- ton Memorial Amphitheater during the time of the pilgrimages. Another provision sets forth that if any mother or widow is unable to make a trip either to Europe or to Washington because of illness or other cause, she could be paid by the War Department the amount her pilgrimage to Washington would have cost. The Seccretary of War would determine | whether Such payments should FIGHTS WELCH BILL. Hawaiian Governor Asks Delegate to Oppose Filipino Curb Move. HONOLULU, January 28 (#).—Gov. Judd of Hawaii has requested Dele- gate Houston at Washington to oppose the bill of Representative Welch of California, which would prohibit the immigration into the United States of Filipinos by placing them in the same class with Japanese and Chinese, ‘The governor said the bill would be detrimental to Hawall. Filipinos con- stitute the bulk of the unskilled labor upon Hawali’s sugar plantations. ——— Minister Reaches Shanghai. SHANGHAL January 28 (#).—Nelson T, Johnson, new American Minister to China, arrived here t.odnfi United States. He said he had not formulated any plans, but likely would g0 to Nanking, the Nationalist capital, to present his credentials, and then Journey to Peiping, the Interior is able,” shouted Norris, |Libbe from the | peas (CHEST VOLUNTEERS 0 OPEN §1.000000 CAMPAIGN TONIGHT Special Gifts Committee Has Raised Almost $750,000 of $1,786,737 Goal. POOLE-REMINDS PUBLIC Key Men in Group Solicitation Re- ceive Final Instructions From Chairman Frank Jelleff. ito raise before the 1930 Community | Chest is filled, every available volunteer worker - laid plans to begin tonight Washington's second Chest campaign. Working shoulder to shoulder with other special groups, fresh reinforce- ments of 2,000 men and women consti- tuting the Metropolitan Unit, will swing into action at the zero hour of the gen- eral campaign, 6:15 o'clock, from the Mayflower Hotel. Their work has been lightened by the activities of the special gifts committee, which has succeeded in raising nearly $750,000 of the Chest | budget of $1,786,737.07. With the launching of the general city-wide campaign tonight, John Poole, the campaign chairman, who led the 1929 forces to victory and intends to repeat his job this year, impressed on the public the need of a 20 per cent in- crease in gifts if the objective is to be reached. 7 Group Unit Functions. ‘While the Metropolitan Unit was as- sembling its forces, another battalion of shock troops comprising the Group Solicitation Unit began its job today of combing the business and industrial districts of the city for subscriptions to make up its quota of $260,000. The first business establishment to meet its quota 100 per cent was D. J. Kaufman, Inc. With 26 employes in this firm, Willlam H. Cross, the “key” man, reported everybody from the jani- tor up, contributed one day’s pay or more toward putting across the in- creased needs of the Chest budget. Key men in various divisions were given iheir final instructions by Chair- man Frank R. Jelleff at a meeting last night at the Mayflower Hotzl, from now on the headquarters of the Chest cam- paign. More than 300 “key” men, rep- Tesenting business and commercial es- tablishments employing over 25 persons, gave their enthusiastic support to the task in hand. 300 More “Prospects” Listed. etter organized than at this time last year, the group solicitation D, however, has twice the job to le this r. More than 300 additional establishments were on its list. Another group, just as determined, also got into action last night. This was division five of the metropolitan unit, which will canvass the colored population of the city. A colorful pageant will usher in to- night’s meeting of the metropolitan unit, nted by the various organ- izations affiliated with the Chest, the pageant will depict in faithful detail some of the work of family welfare, health and character building done by the member organizations. The cast, all of whom are volunteers and most of whom are connected with some organization of the Chest, have been rehearsing several days a week for the past month, under the direction of Mrs. Marle Moore Forrest, assisted by Miss Donna Taggart. Co-operating with the Chest volunteers, the Com- munity Center Department of the pub- lc_schools has been helpful. The pageant was written especially for the Chest by Frank Baer, and Orme 'y, former star of the St. Patrick's Players, will preside as master of cere- monies. Marine Band to Play. ‘There will be 10 blg scenes, with music furnished by the United States Marine Band Orchestra, Arthur 8. ‘Whitcomb, leader. “We Need More,” the final title of the eighth scene, the keynote of the 1930 campaign of the Chest, calls for a chorus of workers. Organizations represented in the per- sonnel of the pageant cast of 300 young people are as follows: Young Women'’s Christian Associa- tion, Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, Juvenile Protective Association, National Capital Civic Fund, Social Hygiene Soclety, Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, Children’s Hos- pital, Georgetown University Hospital, Florence Crittenton Home, Friendship House, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Asso- clated Charities, Episcopal Eye, Ear and ‘Throat Hospital, Salvation Army, Co- lumbia Hospital for Women, Episcopal Home for Children, Girls' Friendly So- ciety, Boys’ Club, Jewish Community Center, Council of Social Agencies, As- sociation for the Prevention of Tuber- culosis, George Washington University Hospital, American Legion, Neighbor- hood House, Juanita K. Nye Council, Christ Child Society, Instructive Visit- ing Nurse Society. The special gifts committee, which along with the work of other groups, will make a report tomorrow. Meanwhile the committee on infor- mation and supplies opened its head- quarters yesterday at the Mayflower with a battery of 6 telephones and 20 workers. Junior Leaguers Assist. During the period of ths intensive drive this committee, under the direc- tlon of Mrs. John Jay O’Connor, will maintain an information service for the benefit of workers coming to the daily meetings. A committee of Junior Leaguers, under the direction of Miss Marion Jardine, is assisting. It comprises Miss Helen Stone, Miss Catherine Lowman, Miss Mildred Huston and Misses Catherine and Alice Huston. Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard is in charge of a group of the information commit- tee that will work in shifts of a few hours: Mrs. James J. Davis, wife of (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) Pear] Necklace Lost. LOS ANGELES, January 28 Mrs, Beulah !Ilzlelbel'l. New York, lat night reported to police that she had lost & $31,000 necklace of 202 matched irls and a square diamond somewhere on the streets of Los Angeles or Holly- wood. Radio Programs on Page C3 ' f OF 20 PER CENT INCF(EASEl With approximately $1,000,000 morc! is continuing a “clean-up” campaign | t Y omer Goveenoy Sy, 0. GREWSTER or MANE, THIRD DIVISION NEW AND OLD TYPE SCHOOLS Five Buildings Are Ultra-Modern, but 4 Are Antiquated, With 1 Group of Port- ables—111 Classes on Fart Time. This is the third of a series of articles descriding the physical aspects of Wash- ington’s pudlic schools. As in the pre- vious argicles, there is no attempt here to portray the school sustem’s faults in an ezaggerated licht. The two reporters who visited each school buflding are merely presenting the conditions as they saw them. The fourth article dealing with another school system division will appear to- morrow. ‘The lay observer who has just visited the schools of the first division is pretty apt to decide that “this is more like it” when he views the 18 building units which make up the third” division of Washington’s public school system. Headed by the striking new Adams School, which is without doubt the last word in elementary schoolhouse con- struction and equipment, the third di- vision includes at least five completed CONTRASTS schools which are absolutely modern. These would be, with the new Adams, the Whittier, Truesdell, Barnard and the Raymond Schools. Then, in the background, there is the new W. B. Powell School, which now is approach- ing completion. This division also is favored with eight auditoriums. They are at the Adams, Cooke, West, Takoma, Bright- wood, Barnard, Raymond and Petworth Schools. There persists the strong contrast which marks the entire school system, and the third division lists four old- fashioned structures. These are the old Adams, which will be abandoned next week; the Force, Keene and Hubbard Schools. To complete the contrast there is the Kalmia road portable group. ‘The nine z:lldlnp which separate “PANTHER” TRAILS ARE HOT—ON PHONE Eleventh Precinct Police Are Busy as Northeast Wash- ington Sets Traps. That elusive beast believed to be a panther was being sought over a wide area today, huntsmen of the Forrest- ville and La Plata sections of Southern Maryland combing the fields and wood- lands for the beast and nimrods of Northeast ~Washington, aided by eleventh precinct police, doing extensive tracking throughout that neighborhood in search of the animal. This afternoon, however, the various hunts had scared up nothing more fearsome than a few ‘stray dogs, some rabbits and a raccoon. The only definite evidence of the presence of a predatory beast came from La Plata, where the night before last some large animal clawed a dog to death and ate its head, and the same night killed two hogs on the farm of William Hunt, at Mattawoman Creek, a few miles from La Plata. Lots of Calls—No Trails. Eleventh precinct police, however, were putting in a busy day, with calls coming in every few minutes from peo- ple who claimed to have seen the “panther.” None of these calls has been productive of a hot trail of the beast. Meanwhile, Capt. Charles T. Peck of the eleventh precinct today was answer- ing with “contents noted and being given every consideration” a 16-page letter from a Washington resident in which 1t was pointed out that the pan- ther, or whatever it is, is a divinely created creature, and entitled to life without molestation. And the people of Northeast Wash- ington were preparing all sorts of lures for the beast. Over the pigsty of Ber- nard Chapman, Fiftieth street and Fitch place, where the “panther” first feasted on pork about two weeks ago, have been placed floodlights, which will be lighted by huntsmen if and when the beast re- appears at the scene of its kill. ! Noisy Goose Stirs Up Area. A hurry call last night about mid- night took eleventh precinct police to Suburban Gardens, an amusement park in the Northeast section, to rescue a goose from a tree, where it had been tied by an overzealous panther hunter. The_goose, set out as a lure for the " {Continued on Page 2, Column 8,) FRENCH ARMY ACCUSED OF COMMUNIST ACTIVITY Police Raids Said to Have Revealed Organization Answering to Moscow Leaders. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 28.—Reports in some quarters that Communists’ cells had been established in the French army have aroused considerable discussion A Nancy dispatch to Le Matin said that “documents giving a clear impres- sion of inization and solid establish- ment of Communist cells answering to Moscow in about 40 regiments” of the French army had be m Talds, en discovered by of these two_distinct howeve: Ccnfi;ued on Page 4, Column 1.) LABOR INCREASE Gain of 3.3 Pct. for Week of January 14 Is Encouraging, -President Says. President Hoover said today that re- ports to the Department of Labor showed an increase in employment. for the weck ending January 14 of 3.3 per cent, over the preceding week. This increase, which the Chief Executive said was “at least encourag- ing,” extended to almost every indus- try. The Department of Labor was advised last week that the trend upward had befin January 6 and the additional re- ports indicate a continued climb. “The upward trend of employment,” President Hoover sald, “is current in practically every industry. There are some, however, which did not show in- crease, but they generally are classified as small industries. “The reports show,” he said, “that the increase of the week was distributed over the whole industrial world. This I regard as an encouraging sign.” PLOT TO KILL RUBIO IS BALKED BY POLICE Portes Gil Also Marked for Death by 17, Who Have Confessed, Chief Claims. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, January 28.—Mexico City police claimed today to have frus- trated a plot to assassinate President Emilio Portes Gil and the President- elect, Pascual Ortiz Rubio; blow up sev- eral public buildings, and seize admin- {Lstnum\ of the government. ©Of 19 persons arrested several days ago, Valente Quintana, chief of police, 1said, 17 have confessed connection with i the plot and are being held. The two released were women, who proved their innocence. iy The chief of police said the plotters were adherents of Jose Vasconcelos, de- feated candidate for the Mexican presi- dency, who charged after his loss at the IPO“I last November 17 that the Ortiz Rubistas had taken advantage of cer- tain peculiarities of the Mexican elec- tion laws to win from him. ‘The plot, he said, was to massacre the guard at the government power plant here, capture the plant, seize arms at a factory in the center of the city, and DSy b S, s by rockets a Jarge dyna- mite content into the air. In the con- fusion the President and President-elect were to be shot and the government sel Some of the arrested persons were students. Valente termed the plot the roduct of “demented persons,” He said e would hold the prisoners over for investigation and punishment by the new administration, which takes office Pbb‘r'l:;ry 5. ? ers, was charged as CHEERS HOOVER|:2 Roman Fillap, lawyer, one | coppers. har uukl BYRD T0 HONT TWO NORWEGIANFLYERS Ice Guards Island on Which Explorers Are Believed to Be Lost. BY BJORN BUNKHOLDT. By Radlo to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 193 OSLO, Norway, January 28.—Rear Armiral Richard E. Byrd will search Balleny Island by airplane for the missing Norwegian fiyers, Leif Lier and Dr. Ingvald Schreiner, when he starts on his homeward journey, probably in February, he has informed the authori- ties here by wireless. Dr. Schreiner and Lier disappeared during a flight from the Norwegian exploration ship, Kosmos, shortly be- fore Christmas. Lier had left a diary with the entry that he intended to ex- plore Balleny Island, but the Kosmos ‘has been unable to approach the island, which is surrounded by heavy pack ice one mile wide. Plane Is Only Way Open. There is only one way of reaching Balleny—by plane—and Admiral Byrd ive a machine at his disposal to hunt the two aviators when his South Polar expedition has returned aboard the shi ‘There is little hope, how- ever, that the flyers are alive, as their equipment and food supplies were scant. Admiral Byrd in his message to Oslo generously declares that the search will be undertaken without any cost to the Kosmos. This is considered here as a generous gesture of thanks for the Norwegian offer to fetch the Byrd expedition ship in case it was unable to cut through the pack ice to Little America, SHIPS NEAR IN ICE PACK. Skippers Plan Council With Whalers on Forcing Passage to Byrd's Camp. BY RUSSELL OWEN. By Radio to The Star and the New York Times. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, Jan- uary 27.—Just a year ago today the steamship Eleanor Bolling reached. the Bay of Whales, and this year she is not quite to the outer edge of the ice pack fringing the Ross Sea, Which shows the great difference in conditions better than man words. Last year she came through the broken pack without difficulty, and day before yesterday the last whaler to be in pack managed to extricate her- self from the ice on the northern side. When the Eleanor Bolling joins the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) FORMER PRE;\CHER HELD FOR MISUSE OF FUNDS By the Associated Press. MUNCIE, Ind, January 28—W. P. Noffsinger, a former preacher and sec- retary of the Tri-County Mutual Pro- tective Association, is held in jail here today pending a grand jury investiga- tion of charges that he spent more than $50,000 of the association’s funds on lavish gifts to Mrs. Margaret Shaffer, formerly a waitress in a restaurant at Indianapolis. Noffsinger was arrested Sunday at his home in North Manchester and was brought to jail here. He is guarded carefully, officers said, to prevent him from carrying out a threat to end his life. He has a wife and five children. Noffsinger's arrest was ordered fol- 1o an investigation made by Milton K.. Alexander, chief inspector of the State insurance department. According to Alexander’s report Noff- singer has spent $52,525.52 of the com- BORAH THREATENS DRY FORCE PROBE IN HERBERT SSUE Idahodn Reveals His Office Is Under Observation by Justice Officers. WICKERSHAM LETTER ON BEER DISCLOSED Draft of Bill Providing Transfer of Enforcement Begun in House. for By the Associated Press, The prospect of Senate investigation of prohibition enforcement agencies thrust itsclf forward at the Capitol to- day as wets and drys in Congress weni after each other with renewed fury. The prohibition discussion also spread to other parts of the city, with organi- zations supporting and opposing the eighteenth amendment issuing state- ments and Chairman Wickersham of the Hoover Law Enforcement Commis~ sion disclosing he would place the Dyer proposal to amend the law to permit 275 per cent beer before the commis- sion for consideration. ) Further it became known &hat Sen- ator Borah, Republican, Idaho, a leader 9f the drys, had been advised that the Justice Department was watching his office. Borah laughingly said he was . not interested, as there was nothing there of interest. ‘Will Ask Investigation, The Idahoan, however, indicated he would ask’ the Senate judiciary com- mittee to investigate the enforcement agencies as a result of the disagree- ment between himself and Assistant Secretary Lowman of the Treasury over the qualifications of John F. C. Herbert as dry administrator for Montana and Idaho. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, has taken a position similar to_Borah regarding Herbert. Borah Has said if what he has been told about Herbert is true, the man should be in the penitentiary instead of holding a Federal office. In the House Representative Celler, Democrat, New York, described as “silly” a statement by Aftorney General Mitchell that he was dBposed to those in the prohibition service who drank or did not believe in prohibition. The New Yorker said such a view would have prevented Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding from serving and now would bar such men as Newton D. Baker and Alfred E. Smith, Require Competitive Examination. _The House expenditures committes amended the Willlamson bill to re- quire all prohibition agents except the director and the assistant director to. stand a competitive civil service exami- nation. This measure would provide for the transfer of the Prohibition Bureau from the Treasury to the Justice Department. The Board of Temperance, Prohibi- tion and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church issued @ statement indorsing Mr. Mitchell's view on pro- hibition officérs. “An attitude of hostility to the pro- hibition law,” it said, “is a fatal handi- cap to an official charged with duties connected with enforcement.” During the day, Henry H. Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, wrote Chair- man Christopherson of the House ju- diciary subcommittee, protesting against the Christopherson bills to carry out the Law Enforcement Commission recom- mendation that United States commis- sioners be given authority to try minor dry law cases. Curran also suggested that $300,000,- 000 be provided as a minimum sum for prohibition enforcement. The Wickersham communication to (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) U. S. AIR OFFICIALS JOIN PLANE HUNT Search for Pilot Who Fled Field at Richmond Ahead of Vir- ginia Warrant. Federal aviation authorities today joned in the search for Milton E. O’Connor, Washington pilot, and the airplane which he is alleged to have taken from the Mount Vernon Airways Flying Field, near Alexandria, Va., Sunday afternoon. O'Connor landed at Richmond for fuel and took off. just as Virginia police, armed with a warrant issued by Harry Shepherd, justice of the peace at Accotink, Va. on the com- plaint of Jesse Duke of this city, attor- ney and trustee for the United States Aviation Club, Inc., owner of the plane, arrived at the field. O'Connor waved to the officers as he circled over the fleld and headed south. Department of Commerce officlals stepped into the picture today when it was learned that the plane’s license had expired. Jesse Lankford, chief of the licensing and inspection service of the Department of Commerce aero- nautics branch, has issued orders to Leo Wilson, Department of Commerce aircraft inspector at the municipal air- port, Atlanta, Ga., where it is thou?m O'Connor will stop, to ground and in- y's funds. The report charges that peculations extended from 1927 through a part of 1929, spect the plane. Other Federal in- spectors also have been asked to ‘watch for it. PASTOR USES PENNY COLLECTION AS BOND TO AVOID PRISON CELL Rev. Funds, Puts Up The Sunday collection of the Forest- ville, Md,, Methodist Church came in handy for Rev. Edgar Beckett, the pas- tor, when he was arrested for speeding yesterday afternoon. Rev. Mr. Beckett was asked to put up $10 as collateral at the Fifth precinct b:::dhzg o :.helutlbnrehm:hbi inging in & bag of pennies. The cler] summoned help, four policemen re- sponding. They finally doled out 1,000 Judge Isaac R. Hitt fined the minister 1 Trafic Gourt todsy, 0 il | Edgar Beckett, En Route to Bank With Church 1,000 Coppers. Clerk Sanford, very angry, took time out to count 500 pennies and gave them back to the minister. Beckett said that he was rushing to a bank in this city to deposit last Sun- day’s contribution when Policeman Z. R. Wright of the Traffic Bureau halted him. According to Wright, he paced the preacher for several blocks on Pennsylvania avenue southeast at 35 miles per hour, The clergyman reported that the cop- | pers were the only money which he had with him and he knew his congregation did not want bim to be locked up. |