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WEATHER. “From Press to Home (U 8. Weather Bureasu Porecast.) Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 11,12&13 No. 31,319. NEW SEA WAR CODE ON' HUMANITARIAN BASIS MAY BECOME NAVY PARLEY TASK Abolition or Restricted Use of Submarine Is Suggested by Secretary Stimson in Radio Address on Conference. DELEGATIONS PREPARE FOR SESSION TOMORROW France and Italy Temporarily Sus- pend Their Dispute Over Italian Claim for Parity With Most Powerful Navy of Continental Europe. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 29.—Draft- ing of a humanitarian code for the conduct of sea warfare, with particular reference to subma- rines, was under consideration to- day as one of the possible tasks of the Naval Conference. As conversations between the national delegations proceed in preparation for tomorrow’s ple- nary session it was disclosed there was a strong disposition in some quarters to include discussion of humanizing naval warfare in the conference agenda. Reference of Col. Henry L. Stimson, American Secretary of Btate and delegation head, in his radio address last night to the United States to this subject at- Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Zhe b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1930—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. ening Star, FHP () Means Associated as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,151 Press. TWO CENTS. TFIVE-YEAR ARMS TREATY BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. B e T S g e Dot LONDON, England, January 29.— The Naval Conference bureau of the Chicago Daily News is able to reveal to- day a plan which, judging from the difficulties and possibilities encountered in numerous private conversations be- tween the five powers’ delegates, seems most likely to insure the final success of th's conference. It is not the only plan under dis- cussion. ‘There is the French plan for limitation by global tonnage, the Italian plan for limitation by strict ratios and the British plan for limitation by cate- gories, but all these offer obstacles of such dimensions as to render their final rejection almost certain. The conference will then, it is be- SEEN PARLEY’S SOLUTION Projected Plan, Still General in Form, Would Cover All Auxiliaries and Avoid Rating Powers. lieved, adopt something like the fol- plan: lo g A treaty will be made, including all classes of auxiliaries, for a period of only five years. The new treaty will thus be synchronized with the Wash- Ir;gt:n treaty, which will also expire in In the new treaty there will be no mention of ratios. No nation will be rated as a second, third or fourth class power and questions of prest'ge will thus be entirely eliminated. Each na- tion will recognize the other’s right to as large a navy as it thinks it needs, but will recognize also the common interest in eliminating armament competition by limitation through agreement. Each nation will then detail its building vro- gram up to 1936 and will undertake not e, programs tiu staried will programs thus s cover all categories of ships, and for capital ships the understanding will be that none shall be replaced until 1936. In (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) ADRUSHEDBY AR TOFLODDED ARES Ninety Families Reported in Distress—Planes Drop Food to Victims. By the Assoclated Press. EVANSVILLE, Ind, January 29.— Ninety 1 reported in distress from lack of food and fuel in the flood-bound territory south of Crawleyville, Ind., were the immediate goal today of four National Guard airplanes. One hundred and twenty bags of food and clothing were ready for the aviators to drop at the homes of these families and others marooned more than a week ago when the waters of the Wabash today made for tomorrow's important session at St. James' Palace. Out of all these scattered meetings there came continuing assurances of progress, although all df!muou 'ze extremely cautious about disclosing de- A concensus of statements from headquarters _é » g 1 gl T i i DRY AGENT BEATEN seemed | Federal Worker, Found Wandering Iy ha ng*x‘:uml i ly \ve over the Italian claim to a tomorrow to ex- of parity. in Daze in Seattle, Tells i him. Dunning his revolver in their faces times, but it missed fire. 8B 38 Man Slain in Hold-up. CHICAGO, January 29 (#).—Felix , 50 years old, resisted three men were holding early PISTOL SHOT STARTLES CHAMBER AS MEXICAN DEPUTIES EMBRACE ‘Affectionate Hug Causes Weapon in Legislator’s Belt|Bartiey, epu to Be Discharged Into Floor. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, January 29.—There was & near panic in the Chamber of After considerable excitement and in- vestigation, it was found that one of the Affectionate Deputies had left the Which 1 had SiFaDped. b his belt, open: wl open, and that the other, his arms Smenaments BY RUM RACKETEERS FAREISSUE T HOLDS LP MERGE Commission and Companies at Odds Over Rates and Pro- posed Law Changes. The street railway companies ond the | Public Utilities Commission have agreed on 24 minor changes in the legislation pending in Congress to bring about merger, but are still at odds on the im- portant points of difference, namely, on the continuation of existing rates of fare for two years and proposed changes in the law establishing court DYESTUFF MAGNATE CLAIMS HE AV NG’ CLER 510 Campaign of Utah Senator Aided by That Sum in 1922, Witness Says. REPORTED CONTRIBUTIONS DENIED BY LEGISLATOR Donation Offered Accepted, Herman A. Metz Tells Lobby Group. By the Associated Press. Testimony that he gave a campaign contribution of $1,000 for Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, in 1922 to Samuel Russell, King's secretary, was given be- fore the Senate Lobby committee today by Herman A. Metz, president of the General Dyestuffs Corporation of New York. Metr was recalled today to relate details of two campaign contribulions of $1,000 each, reported to have been made to King, and agreed with state- ments by the Utah Senator that the donation made during the presidential campaign in 1928 was not used. He said, however, he gave $1,000 in 1922, after Russell had visited him and had said that things looked “pretty bad” for his employer. Senator Denies Report. Russell, who quit King’s employ in 1928 after a quarrel, had testified at a previous hearing that Metz had made two contributions of $1,000 each, but the Utah Senator denied he had accepted either. King asserted the check given him in 1928 was not used and that he knew nothing about the 1922 donation. Relating details of the 1922 contri~ bution, Metz, a former Democratic mem- ber of the House from New York, said Russell came to his office in New York to see Edward R. Pickrell, one of Metz's employes, about another matter and in conversation the question of King’s cam- paign was discussed. Metz said he asked how King's cam- and Russell re- paign was progressing . | plied thqt things “looked pretty bad.” The witness added that he told Russell ' | Was “no reason why you can’t.” Against Substitute Plan. ‘The commission advised Senator Cap- per today that the substitute plan of court he , in effect, told Senator Capper today that the pro- The fare argument comes up in Dis- trict Supreme Court tomorrow. STEDMAN WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION The | intended Announcement Made as House Pays Tribute to Him as Oldest Member. By the Almlalt:a Press. Congress is soon to lose its last Civil War veteran, ntative Charles Manly Stedman, who was a Confed- erate soldier and Representative from 5 cel hty-ninth birthday annis announcement that he woul seek re-election was made today Rf%; resentative Doughton, Democrat, Noi Carolina, as the House was paying trib- ute to its oldest member. “Maj. Stedman feels, and those near- est and dearest to him feel,” Doughton said, is entitled to a much- needed rest.” Slightly stooped and gray of beard, the veteran nevertheless rose to his promptly ' as Doughton ended. thanked his colleagues briefly an given more applause in a few moments . heard in the ngum dur- days of wran, over prohibition. lni_u day at the 1 began for Maj. Stedman with the booming of flash- lights that must have reminded him of the surly roaring of Federal he led a Carolina regiment of Chatham Countians under Robert E. Lee. He ly and with Representative k , New Jersey, who comparison with the North Caro- lian, 1s a mere infant, being only 27. STORM IN ARGENTINA. = Cash Is Requested. “I told Pickrell to fix it up,” he added, and explained that Russell asked for cash instead of a check. he sald, was 928 contribution, ing in , and nine formed him T B the testimony Metz men- t he had once contributed to Before going into the cam) con- tributions, Metz denied that mm to American valuation in the pend- was prompted by man dye interests. He said the Ger- man interests did not care which valu- e T e com! recessed after Metz's explanation of his campaign contribu- tions without mdluwhemer it to inquire into opposed to American Yvaluation because he thought it was not g’t: 'ge best interests of the United Once Member of Congress. He testified he was a Democratié¢ member of Congress from New York from 1913 to 1915 and was defeated for re-election by dersecretary of “I hope to enjoyed it.” by Robinson, Republican, of Indiana, Metz of tne” Ceneral” Dyesrls. orporetion of the eral estuffs and imported a large amount of dyes from the German I G. Corporation. He added that he was vice president and treasurer of the American I. G. Corporation and had about $100,000 in- vested in concern. Sen.;wa Robinson m the Ger- man I. G. Corporation organized the American corporation “wml:ueeu out l::dzpendzn‘ dye companies in this country.” “Nonsense,” answered Metz, adding that American company was formed to “take over what the this country and to keep it here.” Cause and Effect The wise merchants of Washington are getting the greatest results from adver- tising in The Star by reach- ing practically everybody in Washington through one newspaper. o :.l?: Yesterday's Circulation 114,151. Year Ago Yesterday.. 108,640 Increase, 5511 Yesterday Washington merchants used more space in The Star to sell their goods than in all the other Washington papers combined. Local Display Lines .... 30,398 Fourth Newspaper. . Fifth Newspaper.... 2,734 ;gw."zafi in 1928 Not! 1 ENFORCING PRowpimi LAWS AS Tie DRys'| CHEST CANPAGH CVENNOVENTUM Entry of 2,000 Workers Into Drive Greeted by En- thusiasm. Launched on the crest of high en- thusiasm, Washington's second Com- munity Chest drive moved forward to- day in crusading spirit toward its ob- Jective of a million dollars to complete before another week passes the $1,786,- 737.07 goal of the 1930 Chest budget. Reinforced by some 2,000 volunteer men and women of the Metropolitan Unit under command of Merritt O. Chance and five divisional leaders, the army of 4,500 campaigners will carry its appeal, “Give once for all” into every home, office and industrial estab- lishment of Washington in behalf of the 75 agencles afliated with the -old there was ,,,’?"m"""":;""""‘"' $45,939 More Reported. At today's meeting of the special gifts committes, which is undertaking to clean up the remaining deficit' in its %:‘zfl gifts for o were reported. mittee, Newbold Noyes an- nounced, to $762,547, representing 1,011 contributions. Owing to the difficulties that confront the special gifts its full quota has been fixed at approximately $875,000, its original amount before being increased. With tional contributions, Mr. Noyes warned the committee it is still $113,000 short of reaching its goal. “T'll do anything any one wants me to do to help put this across,” the chair- man declared in calling a conference of his vice chairmen for this afternoon to devise ways and means of cleaning up the job. The committee will continue to the wo&k daily with the Metropolitan Unit. hile the outlook was not all to be desired, the prospects wers declared good for collecting many additional contributions of $500 or more. There are still several hundred cards outstand- ing, including those of a number of large givers in the previous campaign, who are absent from the city. Among the contributors of $1,000 or more reported to the committee today were Ogden Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury, $2,500; Georgetown Uni- versity, $1,000; Edward Yonkers, $1,000; Mrs. Beale R. Howard, $1,000; National Electrical Supply Co., $1,250; Sanitary Grocery Co.. $6,000; Washington Times- Herald, $1,500; Saks & Co., $1,000; Peoples Drug Stores, $3,000, and the ‘Washington Gas Light Co., $3,000. Reports were received from the various vice chairmen as follows: Mohun, $5,250; Mrs. Charles C. Glover, jr., $775: Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, $5,487; Willlam Knowles Cooper, $3,115; William J. Eyon, $17,550; Arthur Hel- len, $3,925; Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro, $5,006; Thomas B. Sweeney, $2,450; in|at the last on that his team had gone “over the top.” | Mag 3,043 | surt Robert V. Fleming, $1,537.22, and the executive 3 chairman, A meeting the committee Units Have Own Goals. Each unit in th lJeuefl is out to raise $260,000 toward completion of the budget. From prelim- inary reports filtering into Community Chest headquarters at, the Mayflower | Hotel, the business district of Wash- | :nmn is responding generously to the " spirit in which the clty-wide is being undertaken was fested to & marked at_the (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) SUB TESTS PLANNED. Safety Bell to Be Tried Out in Gulf Oft Key West. ABOARD U. 8. 8. KEY WEST, hy Divers of the salvage ready today to enter the O'Rourke bell MiXico for tests i the. escus of sock lexico for - "lgr“e of sunken submarines. ace. Smiths ‘West, Radio Programs on Pa today’s addi- | death Barry | United States Al ,800. One vice t reported | soc A Unwilling Toreador Files Suit Against City of Louisville By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, January 29.— Joseph J. Kelly, Louisville, is no bull fighter, and he wants the world to know it. Accordingly, he has filed suit against the City of Louisville and E. W. Basey, whom he charges were the indi- rect cause of his becoming un- willing_toreador. On October 20, 1929, according to Mr. Kelly, he was pursuing his duties as switch u’ll;der when won the first fall and might have won the match if it hadn't been for & bullet from a patrolman's m, which dispatched the ani- Kelly is suing Basey, as the owner of the herd from which the bull escaped, and the city on the allegation that “servants or agents” of the city penned the bull up in such a manner that 1t later escaped. DREYFUS INQUIRY - | WITNESSES CALLED King Principal Included in Burkinshaw’s List. In preparation the grand jury investigation into the of Mrs. Aurelia Fischer Dreyfus at the Potomac Boat Club last October, which is scheduled to start next Mon- day, Assistant United States Attorney Neil Burkinshaw today made public a list of witnesses to whom summonses have been set for Monday's hearing. Among the witnesses are two sisters of the dead woman, Freda Fischer, 1504 Oliver street northeast, and Mrs. Elsie Knorr, Eighteenth and Biltmore streets; Mrs. Carl Fischer and Helmuth Pischer, also of the Olive street ad- dress. The name of All Guimares of New York, said to havé been under police suspicion seven years ago in the inquiry into the death of Dot King, a Broadway “butterfly,” does not ap- pear on the list. Edmund J. McBrian, who was Mrs. Dreyfus’ companion on the it she met dnth'lnp: plunge from ll”fih:ony News Report Denied. at the boat house. A New York paper recently rej Ywmey Leo A, m saying that Guimares would be a wit- ness, but Rover he had ever talked to a re) tative of that paper on the subject lven out contains 31 ‘The list as including ~ William Estes, Nor does that of | ntel W, | of liquor in the * | watomie HEARINGS ARE SET BYHOUSE GROUP ON 18TH AMENDMENT REPEAL PROPOSALS Judiciary Body to Begin Taking Testimony on Seven Pending Measures Februs ary 12, Graham Announces. ACTION IS FIRST OF KIND - . SINCE LAW WAS PASSED 400 ARE INDICTED INRUM REBELLION Several Public Officials Are Facing Charges of Aiding Gigantic Conspiracies. Alleged lquor rings in Idaho, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Texas were objects of the governmental drive. Trial of 102 persons accused of con- Wet Bloc Has Made Many Ef- forts in the Past to Get Matter Before Committee, but All of Them Heretofore Have Ended in Failure, By the Associated Press. Chairman Graham of the House judiciary committee an- nounced today that hearings would begin before his group Feb- ruary 12 on seven measures for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. This will be the first time sincé the enactment of the eighteenth amendment that such a course has been taken by the judiciary committee. Many efforts have been made by the wet bloc in the House to have hearings opened on measures to repeal the amend- ment, but heretofore they have failed. All persons and organizations that desire to be heard on the measures to repeal the eighteenth amendment will me an opportunity to testify, Graham spiracy started today in Federal Dis- | 2 trict Court in Oklahoma City, with while for the beginning of | o Meanwhile, the move by some con- gressional wets looking to a concentrated drive for 2.75 beer was met today by notice from the drys that they were J |not interested in that as an issue and Mullan conspirators, and 65 who pleaded guilty, were given fines totaling $18,800 and prison sentences aggregating 29 years. SIX ADMIT GUILT. Oklahoma Officials Face Conspiracy Charges in Rum Plot. _g‘ELAHOMA CITY, January 29 (). urt A Edgar S. Vaught announced sentences ‘would be imposed February 15. With Randall Pitman, Pottawatomie County attorney, and several lesser county and city officials among the defendants, and with Henry S. John- ston, former Oklahoma Governor, and W. O. Gordon, “evidence m::“ for 't’);e attorney general, summoned as - neau(l.fluunhumuudwldoln— terest. ‘The trial, in which 102 defendants are charged with participation in a : | vast liquor monopoly formed to control distri) the manufacture, sale and ibution oil fields of Potta~ countk“wu scheduled to open Monday, has been delayed twice since by another Federsl case on trial before the court. Detectt OFFICIALS AMONG 120 INDICTED. ‘les | Existence of Liquor Importing Ring Is harged. man, 1938 Biggs, 1419 N street; , Va.; Edward H street; Anna Leonard, street; Willlam Fischer, 1504 Olive street 1504 Olive ¢ Reinl T, - Youngstown, Ohio; Elsie Knorr, 1 block Biltmore street; Jeanette Mezgar, 2219 First_street; Dorils Myers Va.; Helmuth Fischer, 1504 Slive trset ; Fischer 1803 Davis, 1803 Biltmore street. BOMB PLOT IS SEEN. Alleged Attempt on Prosecutor’s Life Is Frustrated. Cl GALVESTON, Tex., January 20 (#).— Indicting 120 South Texas men on vari- before us. It would merely add a little aroma to your drinks.” ae%rumc::{nunyu ’ol Missourl, & Republican one of Mmfim- ing a bill for beer of 2.75 al con- tent. He already has asked the Hoover Law Enfc t Commission to y pear before un;e House judiciary tee and testify on his measure. Meanwhile, interest in the prohibition situation locally was centered around the bill introduced late yesterday by Senator Howell, Republican, of Ne- braska, to tighten up enforcement here, principally by extending the power search warrants and clothing all metro- politan police with dry law enf powers. Recommendation Is Criticized. Criticism of the recommendation of no State prohibition law, it would not work_well in sparsely settled sections (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) SMOOT BILL WOULD ESTABLISH ARCHIVES COLLECTION SYSTEM of the Public Building Commission, to- day introduced in Congress a bill to establish a comprehensive system for