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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, not so cold tonight and tomor- minimum temperature row: about 27 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, today: lowest, 15, at 5 a.m. today. Fujl report on page 3. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 tonight 28, at moon b ¢ Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as sece post office, No. - 31,338, Washington. ond class matter c WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, ing Star, “From Pre tion is delivered to Sunday’s Saturday's Circulation, Circulation, to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. 111,943 119,048 CENTS. 1930—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. NAVY PARLEY DRIVE SEEKSTOGETU.S, IN SECURITY PACT Move, Led by Britain, Uses Appeal to Avoid Collapse as Argument. ILLNESS EJF TARDIEU CAUSING SPECULATION Conference Circles Wonder if French Premier Is Suffering From “Diplomatic Sickness.” BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Staft Correspondent of The Star. Bv Radio to The Star. LONDON, February 17.—On the pre- tended presumption that the Naval Conference is heading toward the rock there is a subtle, but unmistakable drive to wheedle the United States into some kind of security pact, which will econ- \ ciliate Prance. This drive is of British origin. It showed its head during the ! week end from such a variety of different sources that American observ- ! ers are compelled to suspect it is a con- | certed movement. ¥ The argument is couched in the form of a more or less frantic S O S to “statesmanship” to save the conference from shipwreck. Here and there one encounters a direct, unblushing appeal to President Hoover to give the world *another courageous example of Ameri- can _idealism.” ‘ The Liberal Daily News, taking its cue from the lamentation first raised up in conservative organs, declares that unless “there is simple, straightforward, decisive action cutting across all naval rivalries, this conference of high- minded statesmen will acquire, and de- setve a worse reputation than a hag- gling conference of shell-backed ad- mirals.” . Believes U. S. Would Respond. Yesterday’s conservative Sunday ‘Times asked in accents of despair, “Can America save the conference?” an wound up its dismal editorial as fol- lows: “The world is waiting to learn how much conviction lies behind the American bid for disarmament, whether LIGHTS JAM THO trians Must Lear The muddled motorist and the puz- zled pedestrian will continue to get lights, in increasing doses, until inocu- lated against the frenzied jams that have accompanied the operation of the lights at Thomas Circle since the rush- hour period Saturday afternoon, Traffic Director W. H. Harland decreed today. The lights, 13 of them around the circle, have assumed an “on again, off {again” existence as they have failed to meet the onslaughts of honking drivers and indignant foot travelers. and will continue to go off when the jams are at their worst, the traffic director declared, but he expects everything will be run- | ning smoothly about the circle within | a few days. i | There is nothing wrong with the | lights, and the jams that have forced { the Traffic Bureau to turn off the lights |8t every rush period since they were | inaugurated are simply the same sort jof thing. Harland says, that accom- MAS CIRCLE AGAIN, BUT HARLAND FIGHTS ON Director Declares Motorists and Pedes- n Signals Despite Few Days of Rush-Hour Tie-Ups. Panied every occasion of light inaugura- tion in the Capital. “The motorists and pedestrians will gu!! have to get into the habit of the ights and help instead of hinder the orderly flow of traffic about Thomas Circle,” he explained. “I know there have been bad jams there, and I expect more of them to- night and_again probably tomorrow morning. If the jams are bad enough we'll turn off the lights. T expect the lights will have to go off several times before the public gets used to them and the tangles of traffic are eliminated during the rush hours.” The lights went off again this morn- ing when the flow of traffic along the streets that feed into the circle became hopelessly tangled. Traffic was delayed as much as 10 minutes at times, while second precinct policemen struggled to clear the circle. The lights went on again when the morning rush hour had passed. When they went back on this morn- ing the timing had been slowed down considerably, giving the motorists an (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) BORLAND'S BODY 1S FOUND IN SNOW Hope That Eielson and Aide| Escaped Death in Crash on Tundra Is Blasted. By the Associated Press. POINT BARROW, Alaska, February 17.—The fate of Carl Ben Eielson, noted | Arctic fiyer, and Earl Borland, his com- panion, was definitely established today with the receipt of radio advices tell- | ing of the finding of Borland's body buried in the snow at the spot near North Cape, where their plane crashed November 9. Recovery of Borland's body removed any doubts that the men had perished, although death of the fiyers had been accepted as a certainty following the finding of the scattered wreckage of | the plane. : the people of the United States are ready to make some sacrifice, even to take some risks, to realize the faith that is in them and make their dream come true. A unique opportunity awaits. The lead must come from across the water. ~Will President Hoover make the momentous historic appeal to his countrymen? We believe they would respond.” Specifically what these prophets of the conference have in mind is a fa- miliar scheme for “putting the teet!; o men’s minds, although it has never been openly Now that France’s thrust at European submarine supremacy, as a supplement to her mil- itary supremacy, has sent chills of ter- ror and indignation ‘chasing down Jchn Bull's spine, the British views about the Kellogg pact teeth are no longer sup- It is, of course, plain that if an anti- ‘war pact were supplied with a full set of biting utensils it would not be neces- sary for the handful of Mediterranean powers by themselves to give France the she craves. A pact with | teeth would have the additional ad-| vantage of bringing, America into the | pool. to say nothing ‘of Japan and half ! a hundred other signatories. No shadow of doubt remains that French pretensions to naval tonnage in various categories, aggregating over 60 per cent of the 1200000 tons Britain and America each is satisfled to accept, ASave brought the conference bang up against a real crisis. All the delegates read this morning with undisguised chagrin a dispatch from the Paris cor- respondent of the Times: French Thesis Defended. “France (he declares) will not aban- don a single ton for the sake of accord- ing to America and Great Britain the hegemony of the seas, on the basis dictated by its own standard of secur- ity and prestige. Criticisms passed in London upon the naval program have had no effect on public opinion except to strengthen the conviction that France is on the right track and that | n;; French thesis is logically unassail- | able.” | Everybody is wondering how much | significance attaches to the sudden an- nouncement of Premier Tardleu's in- disposition. The French premier will delay his return to London until date not yet fixed. He intended to come back Wednesday of this week. | has taken| French delegation. | ‘Tardieu may be suffering from what | Briand, charge in the meantime, of the Europe calls diplomatic illness. Since time overtaken statesmen engaged in criti- cal negotiations. The astute French premier, incidentally, has his maiden ~ (Continued on Page 2. Column 8. | TARDIEU REGIME | the police the right to carry pistols | immemorial such attacks have | Advices relayed from Pilot Harold Gillam, who had been at the scene of the wreckage, said Borland's body was located last Thursday under 5 feet of snow. It lay near the engine, which | had been hurled 100 feet from the wrecked ship. { Indications were that Borland was | killed instantly when the struck the tundra, traveling at high speed, and | searchers said Eielson also must have been killed outright. Borland's body was removed to the | camp of tents and snow houses main- | tained by the 19 men conducting the search and will be sent tomorrow to the icebound motor ship Nanuk at North Cape. ‘The hunt for Eielson’s body was re- sumed today after an interruption of | three days due to storms. It was while flying to the Nanuk to transport ngers and furs to Nome that the p] crashed last November 9. DISARMAMENT MOVE LAUNCHED IN MEXICO| Ortiz Rubio Sets Out to Take| Away All Pistols From Civilian Population. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, February 17.—The job President Ortiz Rubio has set for himself in “depistolizing” Mexico bids well to develop into a problem quite as intricate as that faced by the Naval Conference at London. ‘The Mexican President’s program has much in common with that of the naval parley, contemplating not merely limi- tation of armament, but “actual reduc- tion.” He would limit to the army and and would reduce the present arma- ment by exactly the number of pistols now strapped to the belts of civilians. | Pistol toting has been common here for so long that it has come to be re- garded by the average citizen as his inalienable right. Efforts have been made in the past to relieve the coun- try’s civilian populace of its pistols, but they have been attended by little | success. Disarming of Congress, once consid- | ered as a preposterous impossibility, | is one of many reforms said to be in | prospect. Young Communists Attack Officer. HAMMOND, Ind., Pebruary 17 (#).— | WINS CLOSE BALLOT Majority of Only 20 Given by Chamber of Deputies in Test of Confidence. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 17.—The Tardieu government came closer to defeat in the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon than at any time since it assumed power, receiving a majority of only 20 on a question 0f confidence. R-100 SEA HOP PLANNED. LONDON, February 17 (#).—The glant British dirigible R-100 is now undergoing tests with the possibility thi may make a flight to Canada toward the end of April or the begin- Police reserves were called to the head- | | quarters of the Young People's Com- | munist League today after several | youths attacked Detective Sergt. Ed- | ward Warner and sought to eject him i from a hall in which they were hold- |Ing a meeting. Madge Kolin, 18; Erie Thompson, 21; Paul Bucha, 16, and Hoover Hospitality Requires Additions To Mansion Servants By the Assoclated Press. Hoover hospitality has made necessary addition of more serv- ants to the White House staff. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, di- rector of public buildings, asked appropriation on the basis of 77 employes this year, as compared with 62 last year, in hearings on the first deficiency bill. Col. Grant explained to the House appropriations committee that but seven new positions had been created, the additional em- ployes being employed as “extra waiters, or for checking hats, coats, etc.” HOOVER RETURNS INFINE CONDITION Plays Medicine Ball for Half Hour and Gets to Work Before 9 0’Clock. President Hoover today was back at his desk at the customary hour and resumed his work with a noticeable vigor after his return from an outing in _the Florida Keys. 2, Members of his party who chatted with him_ were given the impression that Mr, Hoover, while he enjoyed his short tion, was glad to get back to work. Mr. Hoover returned with a becoming tan and clear eyes as a result of his many hours out in the open. It was evident that is in fine physical condi- tion. He admits the outing was Just what he and Mrs, Hoover needed. All traces of the latter’s cold, which had been bothering her for the greater part of the Winter, had disappeared a day or so after arriving in the semi-tropical climate. Medicine Ball Cabinet Meets, One thing the President missed in Florida was his dally early morning workout with his medicine ball cabinet in the rear grounds of the White House. However, he found plenty of exercise in fishing. The first thing he did upon ar- riving back at the White House was to 30‘?}1111 {;lll’ an hour e Havana special of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, personally in charge of George James, general pas- senger agent, bringing the presidential of vigorous play. morning at 6:45 o'clock. The party shivered on leaving the station. ‘The President and Mrs. Hoover drove diregt- 1y to the White House, accompanied by members of the medicine ball squad— Associate Justice Stone of the United States Supreme Court, Mark Sullivan, newspaper and magazine writer: Law rence Richey, one of the President's sec. retaries, and Lieut. Comdr. Joel T. Boone, the President's physician. Mr. Hoover was at his desk before 9 o'clock and after talks with Secretaries Akerson and Newton, who gave him a resume of the more important official and political developments during the past nine days, he gave his attention to a pile of papers and other business. No set engagements were made for him today, He did have a long conference with Attorney General Mitchell, who had a number of matters to bring up, including the appointment of a suc- cessor 1o Charles E. Hughes, jr. as ;‘oucrlwr ,[‘e'.l;erll of the United States. epresentative Tilson, Republican House leader, also was a tlll(r.p Selection to Be Delayed. The information from the Depart- ment of Justice was that the President will not be in a position to make any selection of a successor to Chief Justice ‘Walter 1. McCoy. of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, who retired nearly two months ago, within the next two weeks. It is known that the White House prefers appointing a Washing- ton lawyer, The President received a brief, in- formal call from Alister Macdonald, Ernest Garner were held on a charge of rioting. youngest son of the British prime min- ister. By the Associated Press. EVANSTON, 1., FPebruary 17.— Peace, no less than war, has its weapons which in this case were scoops of ice cream, lettuce dripping with oozy mayonnaise and other edibles such as ning of M: » An official of the air ministry said today: “The condition of the R-100 is now investigated after her recent and when the inspection is completed she probably will undergo another test flight. Possibly toward the end of April or the beginning of May she will make 2 flight to Canada.” Radio Programs on Page B-12 decorate the diug store sideboard. Police think it was a matter of pro- fessional jealousy between four young men known in the vernacular as soda Jerkers. Officers arrested J. W. Liv- ingston, P. J. Hackman, James McBride and J. H. Sampson. Unerring accuracy of detail is not always obtainable in cases like this, for there are invariabl As nearly as the could ascertain, various versions. | k SUNDAE LAUNCHES SUNDAY FIGHT;, SEEMS IT WASN’T BUILT JUST RIGHT| “Shall We Joust?” Asks Soda Jerker—Lettuce, Answers Rival Worker—Former Pays in Mayonnaise. Hickman spoke sarcastically of the manner in which Sampson garnished a malted milk with whipped cream. Livingston entered the argument, de- fending Hickman's viewpoint, and Mc- Bride chimed in with a remark to Liv- ingston, teferring to a ham salad sandwich a customer had sent back the other day. It was at this point that the first caramel nut sundae flew through the air. A head of lettuce retaliated, and pretty soon the drug store soda section was a mess. A plate glass window also suffered serlously, This is one of the rare occasions in which lettuce and ice cream have been to become involved as accessories nown to charges of disorderly conduct. party, arrived at Union Station this| 518,750 PROVIDED FOR DISTRICT BY DEFICIENCY BILL Measure, Carrying Total of $48,151,854, Is Reported to House by Committee. ITEM FOR INCINERATORS IS PLACED AT $500,000 Veterans' Bureau Would Receive | $15,250,000 Appropriation, With | $5,740,000 for Census. The first deficiency appropriation bill, totaling $48,151,854, reported to | the House today, contains recommenda- tions for $618,750 for the municipal administration of the District of Colum- bia and several other important items for the Capital's development prograni. The most important item in the Dis- trict budget is $500,000 for acquisition of site and commencing construction of high temperature incinerators dur- ing the fiscal year beginning July 1 next. A laundry plant at the reformatory is provided for, with a recommended appropriation of $65,000. An appropriation of $1,500 is included for the Columbia Institution for the Deaf to pay expenses for instruction of the deaf and dumb. To provide two gates for a new road | into the National Zoological Park, | $2,000 is carried, with $400,000 for a | public warehouse site and building for the Federal Government. i It also carries $26,000 for snow re- moval. $200,000 for Memorial Bridge. For continuing construction of the Arlington Memorial Bridge $200,000 s included, with the director of public buildings and public parks authorized to _contract for building to that extent. ‘The personnel classification board is given $20,000 to complete the report of a survey of civillan positions in the various fleld services, while $12,500 is provided for screening greenhouses and installation of a soil sterilizer at the Betanic Gardens. ‘The bill carries a total of $910,641.38 on account of the legislative pay act, covering a salary schedule for all em- ployes of the legislative branch of the Government. ‘Toward the construction of the Su- preme Court Building $500.000 is ap- propriated, to remain available until expended. Although the committee did not act on all of the supplemental estimates, | amounting to approximately $90.000,000, submitted by President Hoover since Congress convened, it slashed the bud- get estimates in this bill by $3,246,281. H $15.250,000 for Veterans. | The largest outlay, aggregating $15,- | ,000, was allotted to the Veterans' ureau. Of this $8,000,000 was set ide for the initial outlay on the $15.950,000 hospitalization program re- cently authorized by Congress and $7,250,000 for military and naval insur- ance to cover lump-sum payments to beneficiaries of deceased veterans. ‘The sum of $206,000 was set aside for the executive office, of which $100,000 | is for reconstruction necessitated by the Christmas eve fire. The fire at the Capitol the week following Christmas cost only $3,000, which also was allowed. The bill provided $5,740,000 for ad- ditional expenses in taking the fifteenth {census and $125,000 for the Bureau of Reclamation for making surveys of the | Boulder Canyon Dam project and the All-American Canal which Congress | authorjzed last year. An initial appropriation of $500,000 is carried for commencing work on the projected $9,740,000 Supreme Court Building. The committee also recommended a $65,000 appropriation for restoration of | the home in which George Washington was born, at Wakefield, Provision was made to set aside $32,600 for ex- penses of arbitrating claims submitted by Canada following the sinking of the rum runner schooner I'm Alone by the Coast Guard. Provide for Coast Guard Academy. ‘The Treasury was allowed $2,877,711, including $1,342,000 for the Coast | Guard and $588.840 for public bullding. | The fund for the Coast Guard allows | $850,000 for the new academy at New London, Conn. The remainder is for strengthening the force on the Great Lakes and for the repairing and pur- chase of vessels. ‘The increased population of Federal penal institutions resulted in an emer- | gency outlay of $1,161,380, ‘The_Fed: | | February 17 (#).— las following his in- dictment by & Cleveland, Ohio, Federal grand jury, Miller Huillot, former sec. 1 retary-treasurer of the defunct Gulf Region Lumber Co. was in the Hous- ton County Jail here today in default of $15.000 bail. uillot and H. Sothorn, former vice president and manager of the Gigantic Lumber Co. of Headland, are specific- ally charged with using the mails to defraud the Cleveland Guardian & Trust Co. of approximately $300,000. Responsive Audience The readers of The Star are the greatest and most re- sponsive audience ever assem- bled in Washington. Over 100,000 families every eve- ning and Sunday morning are reached in their own homes. To this great audience 6,391 have been added in the past year. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) The Sunday Star. 831:{5‘;8 2d Newspaper. ....37,999 3d Newspaper.....21,990 Total. . ....... 59989 This is the usual result due to the response from readers who use The Star as their shopping guide, § HOME AGAIN! RUM CASE FRAMED, LANGDON CHARGES Testifies He Went to House at Reporter’s Request “to Get Story.” Robert F. Langdon, suspended fifth precinct detective, took the witness stand today in the District Supreme Court, where he is on trial for alleged violations of the prohibition law, denied any knowledge of the 10 gallons of whisky found in his automobile on the night of October 25, and indicated his belief that he was the victim of a “frame-up” by a newspaper reporter. Langdon was preceded on the stand by Daniel O'Connell, city editor, and Ralph Benton, managing editor, of the Washington Times. The two news- paper men testified concerning a tele- phone conversation, in which, they claimed, it was learned that Langdon would deliver whisky to a certain house in the 2800 block of Thirteenth street northeast. They said they turned this information over to subordinates of Prohibition Commissioner James M. Says He Was Called to House. Langdon denied knowing any one at the house whera he was arrested, explaining that he went there after receiving & telephone call from an unidentified newspaper reporter who nted to meet him at that address to | et & story concerning the escape a prisoner from the fifth precinct.’ Langdon said this telephone call defi- nitely fixed the hour at which he was to visit the address. “Before my arrest I had never seen the two kegs of whisky which, I under- stand, were found in my car. The trunk on the rear in which they were | found was always kept unlocked and I | had not opened it for more than a month prior to the time I was arrested. I did not know the identity of the | woman who came to the door at the house designated by the reporter, but I learned later that she was a former employe of the Washington Times. most certainly would not have gone there had it not beer for the telephone conversation I had with the newspaper man.” Langdon said that the half pint of whisky found in the rear pocket of his automobile probably was left there by a prisoner. He testified that when he went to the house on Thirteenth street he was | “jumped on" by five men, one of whom he identified as Gorman Hendricks, a ‘Washington Times reporter. Jury to Get Case Today. After cross-examination of Langdon by Assistant District Attorneys Walter M. Shea and James R. Kirkland, court recessed until this afternoon, when the policeman’s case will be presented to the jury. The first witness called today was Dr. F. R. Rhees, deputy commissioner of prohibition. Dr. Rhees testified that O'Connell and Benton came to his office on October 24 and told him of the tele- phone conversation they had overheard concerning Langdon. He quoted O'Con- nell as saying he or one of his reporters had overheard the conversation recited in_the fifth precinct station house. ‘The substance of this conversation, Dr. Rhees said, was that Langdon would _deliver whisky to the Thir- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) MANHATTAN .CLUB FIRE BURNS THREE FLOORS Damage to Building Frequented by Al Smith and Mayor Walker Not Estimated. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 17.—The three upper floors of the six-story build- ing at Madison avenue and Twenty- sixth street, occupied by the Manhattan Club, whose membership includes Alfred E. Smith, Mayor James J. Walker and other prominent men, were damaged by fire today. Firemen worked an hour before the blaze was extinguished. No estimate of the damage was given. “The Wrist Mark” A Gripping Story of a Crime That Left no Clue By J. S. Fletcher Master of Thrilling Fiction Begins in Today’s Star On Page A-10 Phone Girl Saves 2 From Death in Gas-Filled Room l l | By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, February 17.—Don de Clerico and his wife | were recovering today from in- | haling gas fumes from a water heater, thanks to Miss Mary Jones, telephone operator, who sent a police ambulance to their home when de Clerico, just be- | | fore losing consclousness, ma aged to knock the telephone receiver off its hook. i ' ALONE OWNER MAY BEAMERICAN Evidence Indicating Rum| Ship Belonged to New Yorker Cited. By the Associated Press. ‘That there 15" “considerable evidence” | the I'm Alone, sunk as & rum runner in the Gulf of Mexico several months | | ago by the Coast Guard, was “owned | |in the United States by a New York | bootlegger,” was asserted in testimony | before the House appropriations mm-“ | mittee on the first deficiency bill, re- | | ported today. | This testimony was given by Willlam | R. Vallance, assistant to the solicitor | of the State Department. { “As far as the testimony of witnesses is concerned,” he said, “of course, we | have an interest in sending before the tribunal the dummy stockholders of the Canadian corporation in whose name the I'm Alone is registered.” State Department officials asked the committee to include in the measure an |item to cover the cost of arbitrating the controversy. Hearings probably will be held in Washington, New Orleans and Ottawa. Vallance said the procedure would be “different from the ordinary arbitra- tion, in that it has been gropmd by | the two governments that the witnesses | actually be summoned.” | “There is & large question of fact | involved here,” he said. “The Cana- dians, for example do not believe our Coast Guard officers, and they want to have them personally in court so they can be cross-examined.” | George Wharton Pepper, former United States Senator from Pennsyl- vania, Vallance said. had been engaged | to represent this Government in the | arbitration. SAWYER SMITH APPROVED. Senate Committee Reserves Right to Reconsider Action. ‘The Senate judiciary committee to- day voted favorably on the nomination of Sawyer Smith for reappointment as | district attorney in BEastern Kentucky, but reserved the right to reconsider if additional information now on the way to the committee warrants it. The committee is awaiting a reply from Miss Mary Chenoweth, a reporter on the Louisivile Courier-Journal, to Smith's answer to charges made before the committee by her. Miss Chenoweth testified that Smith had been lax in enforcing the dry laws. ] | WARMER WEATHER TODAY IS FORECAST | | | Temperature Falls to 7 at 5 A.M. Sunday and 15 Last | Night; Woman Near Death. The Capital today was stirring out; of the grip of the second coldest spell | of the Winter, which sent the mercury | to 7 degrees above zero yesterday morning, to a low of 15 this morning, | and claimed one woman victim of ex-; posure. Today's forecast was for rapidly ris- ing temperatures under cloudy skies. For 24 hours, Mrs. Mary Clark, 52, of Staunton, Va. has been unconscious and in a critical condition at Emerg-| ency Hospital from the effects of ex- posure on Washington's streets yester- | day morning. She was found on the| sidewalk in the 1800 block of G street at about 7 o'clock yesterday morning by a man who gave his name to police as A. G. Davis, { Sought Job in Capital. | The woman was taken to Emergency | Hospital, unconscious and near death | from the biting cold. Doctors today re- ported her condition as unchanged. Mrs. Clark, it was learned from papers found on her, lived in a board- | ing house on L street, near Thirteenth, | having come to Washington about two | weeks ago to seek employment. ‘The cold snap arrived with a heavy | snowfall, which started shortly before | noon on Saturday. Rising winds, reach- | ing almost gale proportions about mi night Saturday, sent the mercury tum- bling to 7 at 5 o'clock yesterday morn- | ing. The sun sent the temperature back | to a top of 25 at about 4:30 o'clock {eswrdly afternoon. The mercury slow: y dropped last night, and this morn- ing's lgwtu, recorded at about 7 o'clock, | was 1. Taxi Driver Is Scalded. Tomorrow, the forecaster says, the mercury will rise still higher as the weather clears. Another casualty attributed to the weather was reported yesterday. Scald- | ing water and alcohol, shooting from | the radiator intake of his frozen taxi-| cab yesterday morning, seriously burned Milton Davis, 25, of 1233 Shepherd | street. Davis was taken to Emergency Hospital. TARIFF TRUC.E SOUGHT BY LEAGUE CONFERENCE Wilson, Minister to Switzerland, ‘Will Act as U. S. Observer at Geneva. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, February 17.—Representa- tives of 29 national governments, meet- ing here today to seek an agreement for a tariff truce, hoped for some measure of success in eliminating “ob- stacles to trade” between the nations of the world. ‘The United States, although invited, is not participating. The conference convened at 11 am. under the presidency of Carl Moltkz, former foreign minister of Denmark, appointed to the chair by the League of Nations. Edwin C. Wilson, Ameri- can Minister in Berne, will act as ob- server for the Washington Govern- ment. By the Associated Press. Two historic fighting units of the United States Army—the 3d and 5th Regiments of the Field Artillery—will be discontinued “at the earliest prac- ticable date” by Secretary of War Hurley. The order which makes them inactive will be a part of a general reorganiza- tion of the Field Artillery, announced today by the War Department as caused by “the desire to get the greatest value dollar." In consequence, the 3d Field Artil- lery, stationed at Fort Sheridan, Il must case regimental with battle honors dating back to the v:-r of 1812, while the 5th stationed a bearing streamers won at Man: Antletam, Chancellorsville, Gettysbury Lorraine, Pies Mondidler, Noyon, 3D AND 5TH FIELD ARTILLERY TO BE ORDERED TO CASE COLORS Historic Fighting Units Will Be Discontinued, With Others, in Reorganization Move. (& Tex., and Fort Bragg, and 14 batterles son, Wyo.; Presidio Fort Lewi: %mn(en nounced, the result of intensive studies by the F{eld Artillery, in which every effort was made to increase Alsne-Marne, St. Mihiel and Meuse- rgonne. | Other Field Artillery units which will be made inactive are the 1st, 2d and 13th Ammunition Trains, stationed at Fort Hoyle, Md.; Fort Sam Houston, at Fort Ethan Allen, Nebr.; Fort Francis Vt.; Fort Robin- E. Warren, of Monterey, Calif.,, and s, Wash. The decision to effect these sweeping the most drastic since the orld War, is, the department an- general staff and the chief of le PROPOSED INQUIRY INTO ENFORCEMENT ENCOUNTERS SNAG Wheeler Resolution and Nor- ris Substitute Fail to Get Committee Action. ROBINSON SEES MOVE AS AIDING WET GROUP Indiana Senator Says Effect of In- vestigation Would Be to Para- lyze Law Agencies. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The proposal of Senator Wheeler of Montana for an investigation of pro- hibition enforcement by the Senate judiciary committee struck a snag when his resolution came up for con- sideration in that committee today. Although Senator Norris of Nebraska, chairman of the committee, offered a substitute providing for the investiga- tion and will support the proposition, predictions were made by other mem- bers of the committee that favorable action would not be had. ‘The assault on the proposal was led to- day by Senator Robinson, Republican, of Indiana, who insisted that the proposed investigation if undertaken by the Sen- ate committee would merely be play- ing into the hands of the “wets.” He said if the Senate undertook such an investigation the result would be to paralyze prohibition enforcement agencies. Caraway Favors Inquiry, Senator Caraway of Arkansas, a Democratic member of the committee, taking a different view, said if prohi- bition enforcement officers are honest they have no reason to hesitate to ap- pear before the Senate committee, He said he thought an investigation of i prohibition enforcement would be far more effective and of greater value than hearings on the proposal to modify or_repeal prohibition enforcement. No action was taken today by the Senate judiciary committee on either the Wheeler resolution or the Norris substityte. The matter is expected to go over until next Monday, the regular meeting day of the committee. Several Democratic members expressed opposi- tion to the proposal and one predicted that the resolution would not be re- ported out. The Norris substitute, more specific in its terms, also eliminates the long list of “whereases” contained in the Wheeler resolution, one of which at- | tacked the Law Enforcement Commis- sion because it has not held public hearings on the prohibition enforcement question. Thorough Probe Proposed. The Norris substitute would authorize the judiciary committee to investigate the activities of the Bureau of Prohibie tion in the Department of the Treasury and all matters in any wise permnl.n: to enforcement of prohibition laws: an to ascertain whether Federal prohibi~ tion laws have been faithfully, fairly and honestly enforced. “If the committee finds the Federal prohibition laws have not been proper- ly enforced, the substitute authorizes 1t to ascertain whether such lack of en- forcement is due to inefficient or dis- honest officials, or whether it is due to lack of any legislation, and also to as- certain whether enforcement has been tetarded through partisan political in- fluence in the selection or appointment of unqualified or dishonest enforce- ment officials. “I also would have the committee ascertain to what extent, if any, the real intent of the dry laws has been perverted or nullified by the incom- petency or the prejudice of executive Government officials having to do with the enforcement of said laws or the appointment of subordinate officials, and to make any further investigation that in the judgment of the said com- mittez may be proper or necessary in order to enable the Senate to compre- hensively legislate upon the subject.” Authorizes $25,000 for Probe. The resolution authorizes the come mittee to subpeona witnesses, and re- quires production of books and papers and to employ counsel and experts. It also authorizes the committee to ask for a lu‘fommltt!? if necessary and arm'ld('s 5,000 to make the investiga= jon. The Norris substitute is likely to win the approval of Senator Borah, who has contended that the trouble with prohibition enforcement lies with the personnel intrusted with enforcing pro- hibition. ‘The Senate judiciary committee has before it the Williamson bill recently passed by the House to transfer to the Deparment of Justice the Prohibition Enforcement Bureau now in the Treas- ury Department. This is the first bill to be passed hy the House to carry out President Hoo- ver's program for the strengthening of prohibition enforcement. It was not taken up by the Senate committee to- day, which gave practically all of its time to a discussion of the Wheeler resolution and the Norris substitute, The fact that Congress is about to transfer prohibition enforcement to the Department of Justice will be used by opponents of the proposed investigation As an argument against the Wheeler resolution. On the other hand, support= ers of the investigation proposal will urge the need of the inquiry at this time because it is propesed to transfer practically the entire personnel engaged in prohibition enforcement from the Treasury Department to the Depart- ment of Justice. GRANFIELD TAKES OATH AS REPRESENTATIVE Wet Democrat From Coolidge Dis- trict Is Sworn in Without Credentials. By the Associated Press. William J. Granfield of Long Meadow, Mass., was sworn in today as Repre- sentative of the second Massachusetts congressional district, the home of Cal- vin Coolidge. He is the first wet Demo- crat to hold that seat. The new Massachusetts member suc- ceeds the late Willlam K. Kaynor, Re- publican, who was killed with four com- panions when taking off in an Army airplane from Bolling Fleld to spend effic The localities which will ority of detachments from the in- active units will be Fort Ethan Allen. Granfield was sworn ©., must furl colors | Vt, .; Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and Fort | Lewis, Wash., each of which will be-|though Representative T\ come the home station of a new hlt-! e pe ey talion of 155 howitzers. ney. receive the | ) the chml:lmu holidays at his home in pr L By unanimous consent of the House, in by Speaker Longworth without his credentials. Al- necticut, the Republican leader, said it was a precedent, he volced no objection. 1