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WEAT HER. Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 13, 14 & 15 31,382. post office. Wa: No. i Entered as second class matter shington, D. he Foening Star. WASHINGTON, ‘WITH SUNDPAY MORNING EDITION D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1930—-FORTY-TWO PAGES. YANCEY REACHES BERMUDA AFTER NIGHT UPON SEA Plane Rests Within 60 Miles | of Goal Rather Than Pass Islands in Dark. HAMILTON THRONGS CHEER ARRIVING SHIP Craft Is Flown Over City After| <t Having Docked Safely in Harbor. By the Assoclated Press. 7 HAMILTON, Bermuda, April 2.—The American monoplane Pilot, carrying | Capt. Lewis A. Yancey and two com- panions, arrived safely at Hamilton to- d‘goon after being anchored off the dockyard the plane took the air and fmade a tflumphmt flight over the city, ‘completing her flight .lmost 24 hours piter the start. ‘The ship, for the flrst. time in the history of ocean fi had descended at sea, spent the nlgm there and then was able to continue her voyage under her own power. She remltned off St. Georges an hour or more preparing for the final stage of her flight. The airplane anchored first today off North Rock, about 5 miles from St. Gregorys, following its flight from the night's resting place. A launch loaded with local news- paper men met the plane. The water front was crowded with a mt number of spectators, who had been gathering since daybreak, when the plane arrived. Sea Is Calm Over Night. Forced to alight at sunset 60 miles nonh of Bermuda after about 8% hours f flying, the three aviators rode ou: t.he night on a sea described as like a lake, with almost no wind and a clear sky. No difficulty was experienced in taking off this morning to the ht. Yancey and his two companions, W. complete Yancey Flight Log Clear but Bumpy Sailing Over Gulf Stream, Flyer Says. By Radio to The Star and the New York Times. BY LEWIS YANCEY, Leader and Navigator of the Flight to ‘muda. ON BOARD THE AIRPLANE PI- LOT, April 1.—We got off after much trouble on account of no wind to help. W. H Alexander proved a master pilot. With a big load, we climbed fast, and had a thousand feet passing over Brooklyn Bridge. Our engine was throttled to cruising speed before arriving at the Narrows. George Post, in a Travelair, was keeping close. We took our departure from Scotland Lightship 14:59 (9:59 am. E. 8. T.), course 133 degrees true. ost waved good-by and turned back. Twenty-five miles out we sighted three Coast Guard patrol boats on our course, speeding toward Bermuda. They were present at our request (Continued on Pase 3, Column 3.) SECURITY FORMULA FOR FRANCE BEING WEIGHED IN PARLEY Agreement Will Remove Sec- ond of Major Problems Be- fore Naval Conference. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 2.—It was author- itatively stated this afternoon that the plenary session of the Naval Conference, which was to have been held Friday, has been postponed until next week. The reason was not stated. LONDON, April 2 (#).—Secretary Stimson, Prime Minister Macdonald H. Alexander, pilot, and Zeh (Jack) Bouck, wireless operator, chose the mid- Atlantic descent rather than risk over- or missing their destination in k. The: Bermudas, some 360 is- let.s a space about 18 miles by 6, have always been considered as t most difficult goa.ls and Reijiro Wakatsuki met this afternoon, and it was understood that the chief Japanese delegate de- livered the Japanese reply to the American and British proposals. By the Associated Press. .—A formula open- ment on French demands for additional wucumysndnmuhbapuntndnm wmmm.nuuom Capt. Yancey um his panio vuml lll ot thelx 230 t for 104y 31"—‘ five fruitless attempts t the water at New York yes- 'nu e twn’ln.x‘x&u‘fi?d-xsmn- prove {fe: y of regular :nfl passenger transportation serv- ice between New York and Bermuda. GUN BATTLE FATAL T0 ONE; 2 WOUNDED Youths Stagger Three Blocks From | Hold-up Scene and Are Picked Up by Motorist. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, April 2.—John Vitale, 35, was killed \n a gun fight with two youths who, aceording to police, at- temnted “to mlke down an alleged speakeasy early One of the youths. Huwnm Abbott, 20, shot twice in the chest and cannot Qive, hmp!hl authorities said. Abbott, pollce said, confessed that he and Frank Peskar, 21, shot Vitale for alleged speal Cilcdo -nd ordered him m face the Vn.ule emerged from the Litchen | firing, Ciaccio told police, and dropped | Peskar with a bullet wound in the back | Abbott emptied his gun at Vitale, who | fell fatally wounded. Th> two gunmen then staggered out into the street and walked three blocks before they col-| lapsed and were picked.u} bva motorist. | At a hospital Abbott discovered he | was in the next bed to Peter Bukovec, 50, and announced that he had shot and robbed Bukovec last Sunday night Bukovec identified Abbott. FEAR ILLINOIS SENATE CANDIDATE IS KIDNAPED Witness Tells Police Healy Was Forced Into Another Car by Two Armed Men. Bv the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, April 2.—William J, Healy, | candidate for the Fepublican nomina- tion for State Senator, who was report- ed seized by two men last night. had not returned to his home early today and Hyde Park police expressed the fear that he had been kidnaped. Amos Broad, who said he was with FHealy in the latter’s car last night, re- ice that Healy’s car was e curb by another automo- bile and that two men, armed with pistols, got out, ordered l-leuy into their car and drove off wi Healy was on his way w mlka a political address on the University of Chicago campus. — ECKENER TO RETURN Graf Zeppelin Commander to Leave Richmond Tonight. RICHMOND, Va., April 2 (/).—Dr. Hugo Eckener, skipper of the Graf Zeppelin, and his party will leave Rich- mond tonight for Washington following inspection trips to Petersburg and Hopewell today as eoncludln; activities of his three days’ tour in Virginia to view vmpecuve sites for the American of the proposed transatlantic air lines. Dr. Eckener has mmmm nornml Virginia. French naval tonnage was under consid- eration todly by the Five-Power Naval should eventuate, thé second of the three principal barriers to a five-power limitation treaty will have been removed, leaving onl. one. the Italian dmund to u.vnl psncy with Prance. Ji of Reed-Matsudaira eompmmhe schedule covering the Japanese-American rela- regarded favor- ns umuh!p nmom Lhe first. ubly by by i deientlom themselves, there | & int Bfll- 1 Ntr.lons covenant. United States to Consider Pact. Conference observers believe that the American delegation would be uued upen, in line with its recent offer, to “consider with an open mind” p: roposals | Z to enter a pact to consult with tlu other signatory nations in the event ot a threat of war. Discussion of this p! revived perceptibly today after 1m¢umx- ing during the week end pessimism. As understood here the Franco-British accord is being approached through defi- nition of article 16 of the covenant of the League of Nations in the light of | “annex F" of the Locarno treaties. This annex, a_letter to Germany by Great | Britain, ' France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Belgium, interpreting the article, said “The German delegation has request- ed certain explanations with regard to article 16 of the covenant of League of Nations. We are not in a position to speak the name of l.he League, but in view of the discussion which already has taken place in the assembly and in the commission of the League of Nations and after explana- tions which have been exchanged be- tween ourselves we do not hesitate to inform you of the interpretation which as far as we are concerned we place on article 16. Britain to Retain Veto. “In accordance with that interpre- tation obligations resulting from the said article on members of the League must be understood to mean that each | state member of the League is bound | to co-operate loyally and o effeeuvely in support of the covenant and in resist- | ance to any act of aggressmn to an extent that is compatible with its mili- tary situation and takes its geographical position into account.” In addition there is involved recog- nition by Great Britain of obligation to participate in any League action in which the decision of the council is unanimous. Great Britain, always sitting on the council, apparently would retain veto power. Mixed Appeal Cases Transferred. NANKING, China, April 2 (#).—The toreign ministry toaay nouried the : American, Dutch, Norwegian and Brazilian ministers that, the various provincial bureaus of foreign affairs having been abolished, all mixed appeal cases in which foreigners entitled to extraterritorial rights are plaintiffs will henceforth be heard in the provincial high courts concerned. WOMAN FAGES QUIZ IN DEATH OF MILES IN HOSPITAL IN 1228 Body May Be Exhumed, but Value of Action in Probe Is Doubted. WIFE WITH DIPLOMAT AT TIME HE EXPIRED Pulmonary Embolism Blamed Then as Cause—Doctor Had Be- lieved Him Safe. The death of Basil Miles, American diplomat and economist, who died in Emergency Hospital on June 14, 1928, presumably of a pulmonary embolism, has been under investigation by the district attorney's office and the De- partment of Justice for several weeks, it was learned today. Assistant District Attorney Neil Burkinshaw, who has been conducting the investigation, is expected to inter- rogate a Washington woman of high social standing believed to have been with Miles in his room shortly before he died. With Mr. Miles at the time of his death was his wife, who subsequently married Col. Henry H. Rogers, Standard Oil magnate. Burkinshaw also may order the body exhumed, but it is considered doubtful that an examination would disclose any- thing material to the investigation at this late date. Doctor Thought Him Safe. Miles, former American diplomat and delegate at large for the United States Chamber of Commerce, underwent an operation on June 4, 1928, by Dr. James Mitchell, prominent surgeon. Ten days later he had so far recovered that Dr. Mitchell left the city on a trip. Dr. Edward J. Grass, at that time resident physician in the hospital, was attending another patient late on the afternoon of June 14, when he heard & woman scream. He ran into the cor- ridor and met Mrs. Miles, who told mm her husband was dying. When he reuhed the room Miles was dead, with it evidences of pulmonary em- bolism, otherwise known as a blood clot on the lung. 4 death certificate giving an embol- mumumol leath was signed Burkinshaw and an partment of Justice, lined the physical fs death. York State Eumme Coun lut The action was brought, the Associated Press, by Edward Kern, a former secretary of Col. Kern charged that Mrs. Margit Bor) rs and Andrew -nd Tequest, Mrs. antecedents and life before Ler mar- riage to the oil man last year. Emperor Is Involved, One of the questions contained in Kern's petition, which he said he vlould |ask in open court, was whether the present Mrs. Rogers had told the colone) that she was -n megmmm daughter of the late Josef, Emperor of Auauu-Hunnry Atwmey for the de- fense cl this question was put merely to give publicity to Kern's suit and made an unsu ul effort to have the papers sealed. Reports that a settlement out of oeurt, for a large sum had been effected were published in February of this year, but attorneys for the parties to the action declined to comment on them. Mr. Miles’ marriage Peabody Savell, nee Von Braun, took place in Europe in 1925, when he was on : mission there for this Govern- ment. Headed Russian Division. Born in Philadelphia June 20, 1877, ;Mr. Miles started his career in the Government in 1905, when he was as- signed as secretary to the Ambassador | to_ Russia, later becoming third secre- tary of the embassy. Later he became associated with the lchunber of Commerce, and in 1917 accompanied the Root mission to Rus- a. In 1917, he was named head of the Department of Russian Affairs in the State Department. Little is known in Washington of his wife, prior to her appearance in Paris in 1924, following her separation from her first husband. 100 BELIEVED DROWNED WHEN FERRY CAPSIZES By the Associated Press. TOKIO, April 2.—More than 100 pey- sons were believed drowned today when | the ferry boat Wakatomaru, carrying 1306 Japanese from Wakamatsu to To- bata. capsized. The ferry boat was overcrowded and a high sea was running. OTTO, DUMB LIKE FOX, TRACKS QUACKS TO LAIR BY BEING VICTIM Detroit Pays Him to Wander Guilelessly Over Town to: Trap Medicinal Fakers. By the Arsociated Press. DETROIT, April 2.—Otto Finchl is paid a salary by the city of Detroit to “look dumb.” For years he has gone about the city armed with a worker’s badge, an un- sophisticated manner and a slight ac- cent. He has been valuable to clty health department because quacks and tu.ken ml.suke him for “fish.” been "cupped" bled, z.ycholnl.lyloll. , advised to * given ieiod e so live unicss ho takes & “our treatments.” He has survived, naive as ever. He went into the office of Franc Kejna yesterday. Kejna displayed a demoniacal array of forceps, tweezers pincers, drills, pliers and picka and al- lowed he w: dentist. He poked at Pinchl's ronounced it a Rd case, which be cured fo Pinch! submitted to $5 worth and afterward said Kejna's work was pain- Chazgs of practicing dentisty without 2" licenss. to Mrs. Margaret | by | GOSLIN SIGNS Special Dispatch to The Star. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April 2.— * | Following & salary controversy of many weeks, Outfielder Goose Goslin today signed for service with the Washington club this season and made preparations for intensive conditioning work to fit himself for the opening of the Ameri- can League championship campaign a week from next Monday. Arriving by a combination train and motor from his home at Salem. N. J., at 8:30 this morning, Goslin took a short nap and then went into con- ference with President Clark Griffith, which resulted in an agreement being | Mike reached shortly before noon. GHICAGO T0 GET GAS FROM TEXAS Insull and Associate Com- panies Plan 950-Mile Pipe Line From Panhandle. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, April 2.—Preliminary ne- gotiations have been completed for the projected delivery of natural gas from the Texas Panhandle to the Chicago area. The project was announced today by Insull, Son & Co. Associated with the Insull firm are the Cities Service Co., the Texas Co., the Phillips Petroleum Co., the Skelly Oil Co., the Columbian Carbon Co. and the Standard Oil Co. or New Jersey. ‘The People’s Gas Light & Coke Co., an Insull company, will distribute the natural gas in the City of Chicago, prob- ably as a part of its general supply. The Northern Indiana Public Service Co. also may participate in the project. ‘To bring into the Chicago district the tremendous amount of gas required to make the project economical a pipe line 950 miles long and probably not less than 22 inches in diameter will be built Henry L. Doherty & Co. The initial 1naulhtlon will consist of a single main and 1‘pumpme stations, so constructed to facilitate laying parallel mains as the consumption is increased. A lll‘{fle pipe line of 22-inch diameter { can deliver upward of 100,000,000 cubic | teet of natural gas duly YEN TAKES COMMAND Pledges Support in Move to Over- throw Chiang Government. PEIPING, China, April 2 (#).—Yen Hsi-Shan, governor of Shansi, today assumed office at Talyuanfu as com- mander-in-chief of the National land, naval and air forces. At the same time he issued a circular telegram to the peopla pledzmn his support to move for erthrow of Chiang Kai-Shek, Pfeuldent of the Nationalist government whom Yen denounced as a dictator. Yen asserted that the Kuomintang, the Nationalist political organization, had developed into the personal irstru- ment of Chiang who does with it what- ever pleases his fancy. NOVICE SUES LODGE Asks $101,800, Claiming Injuries in K. of P. Initiation. SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 (#).—Al- leging he was permanently cnppled as a result of an mmmon into Oakland Lodge, No. 103, Kn!l , last October, George De Oakland barber, has filed l\ll'. for sm.soo in Superior Court here. He asks $800 for time lost, $1,000 for modum attention and $100,000 for alleged juries. ‘The barber alleged he suffered two aroken knees and other bone disloca- jons. Indiana Stiike Is Averted. l TERRE HAUTE, Ind.,, April 2 (#).— Agreement upon a wage and working l contract to be in effect for one year in Indiana coal mines was reached early by re&nununm of the Operat lation and of District No. 11, United Mine Workers of America, averting possibility of a strike. | thu morn! Indiana Radio Programs on Page C-3 WITH CHANCE FOR BONUS Nat Outfielder Will Train AT $10,000, at Own Ex pense Until Declared Fit to Start Play in 1930 Campaign. | Goslin emerged from the confab with the assertion he was. entirely satisfied with the outcome and would train at his own expense until such time as he was adjudged to have reached playing condition. President Griffith announced that the contract Goslin basic salary of $10,000 with a sliding scaie of bonuses which would make ible Goslin's earning as much as e received last year—$16,000. lin be in fine nflphmmmmm HIGH COURT ASKED |U. S. 0il Counsel Acts to Ex- pedite Final Action on Conviction. By_the Associated To expedite nn-l action on the con- viction of Albert B. Fall, former Secre- tary of the Interior, on the cl of having accepted a bribe of $100, from Edward L. Doheny in making oil leases, the Government today petitioned the Supreme Court to take jurisdiction of the case without awaiting action by the District of Columbia Court of Appe’:‘k ‘where Fall now has an appeal pend should the Supreme Court agree to pass on the case without waiting for the District Court of Appeals to act, attorneys estimated that approximately one year would be saved' in getting action by the highest court. Attorneys Outline Case. Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, counsel for the Government, filing their petition in Sureme Court today, staged that only law questions were involved. ‘They said Fall was l"&cklnl his con- viction on the und that he lacked authority to Doheny; had been acquitted of the cl of conspiring to defraud the United States: that the trial court had im- g:perly excused Juror Beatrice P. ke; that it had myropefly excluded evidence offered in def of Fall, and that the trial judge had improperly instructed the jury. The petition pointed out that Fall had been ill for several years. Since his conviction and return to El Paso, Tex., it said, his condition had continued se- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) WELCOME GUESTS Old advertisers in The Star have entrée into over 110,000 Washington and suburban homes, where their announcements are welcomed. Only desirable new ad- vertisers are introduced into this great family circle, Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) The Evening Star. . 53.476 2nd Newspaper. . ..22,166 3rd Newspaper. 9,101 4th Newspaper. 6,318 5th Newspaper.... 4,386 41,971 Star Excess. . 11,505 Lines Spring has come with all its new life. Washington will put on a new dress. Will you? ed called for a | W TOTAKE FALL CAGE 25 WORTHINGTON SEES | SHOALS BILL VETO Claims Legislative Efforts for Government Operation Will Prove Futile. By the Assoclated Press. A prediction that President Hoover would veto a Muscle Shoals bill provid- ing for Government operation was made in a memorandum prepared by J. W. rorthington, chairman of the executive committee of the Tennessee River Im- provement Association, which was pl-ced today in t.he Tecord of the Sen- Wlth this eMme- bef us,” the lore dum added, “is it thlhlflh lnglnaclrelem of ‘Tennessee association. M mnned ill in & Defivlt Caraway. o:o fl:e committee o( iliness avoid questioning nbuufiha affairs of the Tennessee River iation. The memorandum also said Claudius ' he Huston, former president of the Ten- associat had just been elected chmo(:h%vnbmmm ittee, "th the President to op- of the Gmm gg- chairman of the % Associated service. (#) Means Associated Pre: The only evening paper in Washington with the Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,911 TWO CENTS. LIQUOR HEARINGS END TO MAKE WAY FORTARIFF DEBATE Graham’s Decision Prevents Cross-Examination of Dry Representatives. REBUTTAL TESTIMONY OF WETS IN TWO WEEKS Anti-Saloon League Head Denied Opportunity to Testify, but Presents Statement. By the Associated Press. The extended hearings by the House judiciary committee on measures propos- ing repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment were terminated unexpectdly to- day as representatives of organizations supporting prohibition were about to take the stand and present closing ents in behalf of the statute. "my witnesses, including college pro- fesors, athletic coaches, clubwomen, s0- clal workers, manufacturers and indus- trials, have been heard by the commit- tee in behalf of prohibition and today, the last session alloted to the drys, had been set aside for the workers of dry organizations to round out the picture. The anti-prohibitionists had given their testimony designed to show that rohibition had failed before the drys genn telling their side of the story. The two sides have required more than a month to submit their respective u‘umony. Two weeks from today the anti-pro- hibitionists will be Ylven an opportunity to submit rebuttal testimony. After that the hearings will be over and the committee at a nm date will take up consideration behind closed doors of the maze of testimony received from the two groups. Graham Ends Hearings. Chairman Graham -mwunced his de- cision to close session me- diately after J. WHlon Allen of Boston, a former attorney eral of Massa- chusetts, had tetsified on the legal aspects of “solution of this vexing problem.” F. Scott McBride, super- tntendu;t of the Anfl-Sllxofn I}‘B‘;l“dee‘ was waiting to appear ne: ] and a number omther dry leaders were permitted to submit statements which were incorporated in the com- mittee’s record. Gnhlm uld the chief reason for dry testimony was because | e S e ives o - 2 ) Su—— A ed, the eomm!tm members would not be present for the House pt.he alcoholic liguor Holds Law Can Be Enforced. “Prohibition can be enforced and is better enforced as time goes on,” adding that to surrender to the demands of wet forces for re- petl of the eighteenth amendment would display a “cowardly sentiment.” The anti-prohibitionists, he said, had upon them the burden of proof to ‘show three things: “Pirst, that the eighteenth amend- ment fails to contribute most effective- be tion | ly toward a solution of the alcoholic After imtroduction of the Worthing- ton memarandum and brief qu uuomni of Waldo, the committee :djomed unti when John J. Raskob, c! ' Democratic national wmmmn. 'Ill be heard. The committee today also heard W. B. Bell, pranhm of the American mid , Co., which has it to lease llu‘ch sho-ls test u-m is or- had spent $1 mostly hul services, in eonnecflm with its bid. Company Seeks Lease. The Cyanamid Co. has an offer now pending in conne- to lease the power and mm d um Charles Evans ll\uhu now Chief Justice of the United States, had been employed to pass upon the eonsmufimnl!ty of the contract by which the Co. preposed to lease Muscle ho-ll, Hughes, the wit- ness sald, advised that the contract be embodied in an act of Congress instead of belng ne,ouaud through » Govern- 1al ment 3 “In consulting Judge Hughes,” the witness said, “we thought we were getting the best advice we could obtain.” ‘The contract is now contained in the ‘Wright Muscle Elwlll bill which would lease the project to the Cynamid Co. Chairman Caraway read a letter writ- ten by Bell to Representative Dempsey, of New York, on May 17, 1929, \vhich said President Hoover was the first Republican President to break into the th and addea: “If the Republican ptrty repeat its success in the South tn the next presidential election it cannot do better than to solve the fertilizer prob- | tack Bell asserted in the letter that “no surer aj to the great South can be " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Rl “Only Has Pneumonia” at 92. MADRID, April 2 (#).—Capt. Gen- Valeriano Weyler, who has recovered from iliness at 92, expects to live to be 100. “My family had no cause for alarm,” he said. “I had only pneumonia.” liquor problem. “Second, that the people are clamor- ing to reverse their decision as to pro- hibition and are now asking for repeal. “‘Third, that they are ready to pro- pose a constructive program that will better solve this problem and upon which they can unite.” Concerning the first point, he said the liquor problem had existed for years (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) — $50,000 JEWEL ROBBERY BELIEVED “INSIDE JOB” | Mrs. Von Buelow and Estranged | P Husband Brought Back by Po- lice for Questioning. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 2.—The theory that the Von Buelow jewelry robbery Monday night “inside job,” brought Mrs. Lottie Bren- ner von Buelow, her estranged husband, Enrique Dechow von Buelow, and others to deucuva headquarters last night to retell their version of the affair. Detective chiefs announced after the conference that they had gained little additional information about the rob- bery, but that they had definitely dis- counted the story that Von Buelow is a German count. . AMERICAN DIES IN ITALY Lavinia Hopkinson Smith of Balti- ‘more Expires at Age of 72 Years. FLORENCE, Italy, April 2 (P).—La- vinia Hopkinson Smith of Baltimore, Md., died here today from a heart at- at the age of 72. She had lived here for the past ten years. Red Pupils’ Bflolt Ended. BERLIN, April 2 (#).—In the Com- munistic Neukoeln district today school -uuumuu and police had to co-operate ?‘: down a minority revolt of pupfla rotesting against alleged 1 of wo teachers. The Reus mnon:d pickets near the school houses and pre- vented the majority of the chfldnn of the two institutions from entering. TIDAL BASIN CHERRY BLOSSOMS ATTRACT COUNTLESS VISITORS e Blooms Today Regarded at Their Best—Japanese Ambassador Goes to Park. A thousand single-blossom cherry | trees. grouped around the Tidal Basin | in Potomac Park, today attracted countless visitors, and cameras—movie and still—recorded the picturesque scene. Today the cherry blossoms were eomldered at their very best. afternoon Ambassador and Mnu Debucbl of the Ji embassy { their leln phmlnphl o for u:d This staged by girl mmb&-fifin the blossoms | cultural cherry blossoms and songs were sung for another photographic recording for |- a newsreel. In addition to the thousand trees at the Tidal Basin. there are some 800 of the single-blossom variety scattered ;l-vuknn field house in East Potomac Il Charles Henlock, chief of the horti- tural division of t.he office of -“publlc covered COL. GRANT SCORES SOMERVELL STAND ONPOWER AT FALLS Engineer Is Mistaken in $100,000,000 “Savings,” He Declares. VARIED FLOW OF RIVER HELD OBSTACLE TO PLAN First Cost of Installing Plant Would Be Too High for Ef- ficiency, Park Chief Says. Vigorous criticism of the position taken by Maj. Brehon Somervell, Dis- mct Engineer for the War Department for the Washingtor: area, in his testi- mony recently before the Senate Dis- trict committee, in hearings on the Capper-Cramton park-purc] bill, was made today in a statement issued to the press by Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, vice chairman and executive officer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, with reference to hydro-electric development at Great Falls, on the Potomac River. Col. Grant enters into & “critical ex- amination” of the estimated $100,000,- 000, which Maj. Somervell told the committee would be saved t! h hydro-electric development at Great Fiver, 1h o6 with & Pian Dreparet b5 ver, a prepared the Potomac River Corporation of Wilmington, Del. The colonel asserts that “Maj. Somer- vell is mistaken in his estimate of the value of the power development, even though he is as sincere and as con- vinced himself as a prospector with a newly-discovered gold mine; but what- ever weuht mlfl':n given hy individual estimates on vtluu. hz 1s certainly not an authority on parks and on this subject the Gov- ernment has the matured ovinion of the Nation’s most experienced minds, backed up and indorsed by an array of educated opinion and public spirited ggminuonn that have‘n-,\'er before n unanimously back of any measure relating to the National Capital.” Gives Commission Position. ‘The position of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission is that the Great Falls area should be nbtained now for the George Wuhlnlwn Memo- rial Parkway, leaving the question of power development for the qur- de- termination of Congress, Maj. So; vell heueve: that the mrnl Power Commission the Potomac text, dum follows: “In his mm%wufl the request of the has lppued xw a Potomac alley above Bridge, lr.lmd that ‘the adoption of such a park involves s waste of over t blic’s resources.” do with the bill committee for consider- ation (H. R. 26) he was not able to make clear, as the bill explicitly re- serves the right of Congress at any um to adopt Any pow.r. navigation, flood control or fio}efl it m-y at any time nnd to be the public terest. Indeed, he and the Iflflm company could once the Upper alley have been acquired by the Government and made accessible to the public, its well known scenic value and its possibil- ities as a phymdund for the public would be recogn! and create such a strong public demand for its continu- ance as a park as to vent power de- velopment from ever bemg permitted. “However, $100,000,000 is a m—g: sum, large enough to appeal to the ation, and the fact that his lhmment ni‘Llrd to this sum has been prom- inently featured mn some of rhe im- rtant local papers seems to demand a denul of the conclusion, or at least itical examination of it, lest there appear to be in this case an example of one of the most harsh criticisms made of us by a British traveler many years ago—'In America nothing suc- ceeds like excess.” “Basis Is Hard to Find.” “The basis for the $100,000,000 is difficult to find. I have added together 1gS Maj. Somervell's report of December 20, 1928, enumerated just after he mentions this sum, and find they total $77,000,000, although some- where else in the of the report he mentions an item of taxes which he works by recourse to compound interest | up into the sum of $150,000,000! the other hand, the amount was first given to the National Capital Park and Planning _Commission _as _$61,000,000; (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) PeAi Sy RESCUERS HOPE TO REACH TRAPPED MINERS TODAY Prospect of Finding 10 Remaining Victims Alive Fades as Six Bodies Are Found. By the Assoclated Press. KETTLE ISLAND, Ky., April 2.—The hope that their long and nulrdoul toll would be ended today with the finding of the remaining 10 of the ¢ wen trapped Saturday by an explosion two miles back in a coal mine here spurred the efforts of volunteer rescue workers. Pioneer Coal Co.’s mine Fresh -qmdl resumed work TNOOR, mmmWMdm 2ML lound the bodies of the others were ASKS $107,500 FOR SONG Oregon Woman Claims Columbia Co. Infringed on Copyright. SEATTLE, April 2 (#).—. fringement ot covyruh! on “Lonesome for You,” Mrs. viance Wilson of Portland, Oreg., 'ho compuad it, hld l suit for $107,500 in- lonx Caused % to e Droadcast over »