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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today; tomorrow increasing cloud- iness and warmer, probably followed by showers tomorrow_afternoon or night. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 79 at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 60 at 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page B-10. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. sy St . h WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, (#) Means Associated Press. FIVE CENTS . TEN .CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND .SUBURBS ELSEWHERE No. .1,311—=No. /31,414, ‘Eotered as becond class matter D.. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1930—134 PAGES. * PIC, GEBENTURE DEFEAT INHOUSE REGARDED AS HOOVER VICTORY Retention of Flexible Clause in Tariff Also Is Held Score for President. MANY OTHER PROVISIONS GO BACK TO CONFERENCE Fight in Senate Is Expected to Keep Amendments in Measure. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Hoover scored twice in the‘ House yesterday when that body by sub- | stantial votes turned down the deben- ture and flexible tariff amendments to the tariff bill adopted by the Senate coalition. ‘The House voted 231 to 161 against the debenture clause. This decisive vote is regarded as making it certain that the debenture proposal will in the end be stricken from the bill. By an even more decisive vote the House went on record in favor of the yetention of the flexible provisions of the tariff law, which the Senate coall- tion sought to kill with an amendment to the pending tariff bill. The vote stood 236 to 154 against the Senate smendment. Party lines were more closely drawn on the flexible provision than on the debenture, The Senate coalition sought to take from the Presi- dent the power to raise or reduce tariff rates by 50 per cent of the rate estab- Jished by law after inquiry and report by_the tariff commission. President Hoover had registered his strong opposition to both these Senate amendments. They are, indeed, the only items in the tariff bill on which he has made any direct statements since the consideration of the tariff revision bill ‘was begun. The Senate coalition, com- of insurgent Republicans and ocrats, who early in the tariff mak- ing took control of the situation in the Benate, was responsible for both these mou to which Mr. Hoover ob- Senate Fight Expected. ‘While the House has indicated its support of the position tsken by the President in regard to debenture and the flexible provision, the Serate is still to be reckoned with. The opinion has prevailed in the past that if the House rejected the ture. by & vote in the end yleld on that to | event, would delay a change in existing rovision of present N gemu amendment provides for action by Congress on individual items in_the tariff law, after the Tariff Commission shall have made investigation and "& ported to . Congress on propose ‘changes. It is possible that some com- promise may be worked out dealing with mtehe mmgmam-. ;h::thu'g;nd e power n- gflfldnfl.umm The voté 4 the House yesterday, however, may the whole Senate amendment. In some qus irly among Benate coalition was declared Jast night that if the House persisted in its opposition to these two Senate amendments, the bill might yet be de- in the Senate, with the result that the tariff revision would fail ut- terly. However, it was pointed out the bill passed the Senate by 53 to 31 on March 24; that there has been a eral demand from many interests in the country, including agriculture, that the tariff bill be and” become a law, and that so many of the senators have thousands of constituents in their States anxious to have the bill become & law that in the end a sufficient num- ber will be found to'agree to the con- ference bill. How Parties Voted. ‘The vote on the debenture clause in the House showed 37 Democrats vot- ing against that Senate amendment and 48 Republicans voting for it. Against the debenture were recorded 194 Republicans, and for it, 113 Demo- crats. The Democrats who voted against debenture included many from New York and the New England States. For example, the four Demo- cratic members of the Massachusetts delegation all were recorded against debenture, Representatives Connery, Douglass, Granfield and McCormack. ‘The support of debenture on the Re- publican side of the aisle came from the States of ,the West and Middle ‘West, with & few votes, a very few, from the East. While 12 Republicans voted for the Senate amendment to the flexible pro- vision, including several from Wiscon- sin and Minnesota, the great mass of Republicans voted with the President on this matter. Eight Democrats, in- cluding those from Massachusetts, op- posed the Senate amendment. Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Senate finance committee, said last night that the conference report would be laid before the Senate as soon as ible. 1t will be necessary first or the conference .committee to meet again and take cognizance of the action of the House on the separate items in bill, including in_addition to the post office, Washington, DIFFICULT PROBLEMS OF TAKING ANTARCTIC PHOTOS ARE BARED Great Value of Phot ography in Scientific| Study of Unknown Areals Described by McKinley. The pictorial record of the Byrd Ant- arctic Expedition is the most complete ever made in Antarctica. All phases of Photography are represented—silll pic; ures, moving pictures and a series of panoramic views taken by air-mapping cameras. ~ Capt. McKinley, aerial pho- tographer of the expedition. tells in the following article how the work was done and the difficulties of photography under the extraordinary climatic conditions of the polar continent. BY ASHLEY C. McKINLEY. ‘The Byrd Antarctic Expedition sailed South in 1928 with two primary objec- tives—exploration and a scientific study of the greatest unknown land in the world. Realizing that his work was only half completed until the records were re- turned to civilization, Admiral Byrd in- | cluded in his organization the most | complete photographic unit that has ever been taken with an expedition to the polar regions. Equipment for aerfal photography and moving pictures was included as well as a very complete equipment for taking still ground pic- tures. ‘The long trip through the tropics to and from the Antarctic made it neces- sary to have a complete laboratory, the damp heat of the tropics being detri- mental to all undeveloped sensitized photographic material. Not only were ground pictures developed in the Ant- arctic, but also aerial film, making it necessary to include elaborate apparatus for this work. Almost two tons of chemicals were taken for photography. ‘When the expedition reached the base in the Antarctic the first duty of the photograph department was to construct he laboratory. What & unique place this " (Continued on Page 6, Column 1.) REVALUATION PLEA PLANNED BY KEECH People’s Counsel Hopes to Forestall Car Fare In- crease by Move. Richmond B. Keech, people’s counsel before the Public Utilities Commission, will make his first legal move tomorrow to forestall an increase in street car fares by asking the District Supreme Court to order a revaluation of the properties of the Washington Rallway & Electric and Capital Traction Com- panies. Keech's motion will be contained in a brief answering the bills of complaint of the traction companies over refusal of the commission to grant a higher fare. It will serve as a prelude to the impending court battle over the car fare case which has been set for hearing May 12. Keech will leave to the discretion of | the court to determine whether it should | make the new valuation or whether it should be done by the commission. The granting of his motion, in any car fares pending its completion. ‘Will File Separate Briefs. Separate briefs will be filed by Keech in answer to the bill of complaint of each of the two companies. In many respects the arguments will be identical. According to present indications, the car fare case, which has been pending several months on an appeal by the companies from the order of the com- mission denying an increase fare, will be heard by Justice Bailey. Justice Wheat has heard and ruled on the| various preliminary motions, and was/| scheduled to sit when the case is argued on its merits. However, he is now de- voting his time to condemnation cases, and as a result, the car fare case, it is understood, to be shifted to calendar of Justice Bailey's court. Keech will contend in his answers that both he and the commission are without knowledge as to whether the car companies find it impossible to earn a reasonable return upon their fair value through existing rates of fare; that the evidence before the commission fails to show the fair value of the prop- erties and what amount it is possible for them to earn through existing rates, and what return is reasonable under the circumstances, or what return is actually earned; that the Washington Railway & Electric Co. is not a neces- sary party to the proceedings, and that neither that company nor the Capital ;Il'r;c!lon Co. is entitled to uniform re- ef. | Will Claim Lack of Data. ‘With respect to the present valuation of the companies, Keech will point out | that no evidence was produced before | the commission upon which it could | base a finding as to the present value of the properties, or the value thereof as of any date subsequent to January | 1, 1925, and that since that date costs | of construction, cost of obtaining money, duration of construction and in- terest during construction, overhead | charges, and other elements entering into 2 valuation, have decreased, while | the efficiency of construction methods | have at the same time increased. Keech also will point out that the com- panies offered no evidence before the commission upon which it could base a finding as to the estimated income to be earned upon the proposed rate of fare of 10 cents cash with four tokens for 30 cents. The evidence as to the ratio of token to cash fare riders and as to decreases in the total number of pas- sengers under the suggested rates which was submitted, he believes, is so conflict- ing and conjectural that the statements in the bills of complaint of the com- panies cannot be determined. In his brief Keech will admit that the car companies are being operated as economically as “can be reasonably effected” under existing conditions, but at the same time will express the opin- Continued on Page 4, Column 8. (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) _ POLICE RADIO PERMIT IS SOUGHT OF COMMISSION BY CAPITAL FORCE Authority to Establish Station Is Asked, but Department Lacks The Metropolitan Police Department, following the lead of police depart- ments in other large cities, sought from the Federal Radio Commission yester- day authority to institute a radio crime service. The application was filed by Pvt. J. 1. Kelley, acting for Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police. Per- mission was asked to erect a trans- 4 mitting station in the tenth precinct station which would have an output of 300 watts. The station would be used in communicating with police cars SR (he pprehenson of criminals. e apprehension of inals. Tre station would- transmit on the 2,410-kilocycle short-wave channel re- | served exclusively for all police serv- ices. The police dmnrtmmt. however, Ihu no mgg; available for the pro- posed service. A transmitter of the type contem- Funds. plated would cost about $10,000. The short-wave receiving sets with which the police cars would be equipped are priced at approximately $250 each. ‘The park police, it is understood, are contemplating a similar service. Inas- than a District government agency, it is believed at the commission that a w:’;e lchumel ’u!ther than the one set aside for municipal police departments would have to be uagg In Detroit and other citles using radio in crime service, the transmitting station is in constant communication with automobile squads cruising in signed territories. As soon as the re- port of a crime is received at the sta- tion, it is broadcast to the cars and they proceed immediately ih rch of the criminal. Aside from a radio recelving set, the police fmachines in tite | Rept much as this force is a Federal, rather | inj LOBBY PROBE TURNS T0 CANNON FUNDS Committee Votes to Question Jameson, Who Gave to Anti-Smith Campaign. By the Associated Press. An investigation of funds contributed by E. C. Jameson, New York capitalist, to Bishop James Cannon, jr., of the Southern Methodist Church for the 1928 anti-Smith campaign in Virginia was determined upon yesterday by the Senate lobby committee. ‘The committee directed Jameson to appear Tuesday for questioning con- cerning the contributions. It took this actioh after Representative Tinkham, Republican, of Massachusetts had charged that $65,300 was contributed, but only $17,000 accounted for. Cannon to Be Called. Cannon, who was chairman of the Virginia anti-Smith committee during the 1928 presidential campaign, will be called later. He said he had no com- ment to #t present. Jameson was described by Tinkham in his testimony before the lobby com- mittee as the largest single confributor to the Hoover campaign. ham said rephoatl showed $172,000 had been do- nated. ‘The Massachusetts Representative, who is an outspoken wet, added that Cannon had explained that he acted as banker for the Virginia committee, advancing it his personal funds when necessary and being repaid when funds were available. McBride to Testify. After questioning Jameson the com- mittee will adjourn until Thursday when F. Scott McBride, general super- intendent of the Anti-Saloon League, will testify The adjournment will be taken at the request of Senator Blaine, ublican, of Wisconsin, the only wet member of the committee, who will be unable to be present Wednesday. Chairman Caraway said the commit- tee had been given access to the league’s records at its Washington office and that if the desired information was not obtained there it would be secured from the national headquarters, at Westers ville, Ohio. Other dry organizations will be in- vestigated later, including the Methodist Board of Temperance, prohibition and Public Morals, the Federal Council of Churches and the Southern Methodist Board of Temperance and Social Serv- ice, of which Bishop Cannon is chair- man. POLICE SCHOOL HEAD FACES DRUNK CHARGE Sergt. 0. S. Hunt Suspended After Complaint Is Received From Apartment. Police Sergt. Odessa S. Hunt, 42 years old, attached to the second precinct, instructor in charge of the District Police Training School, was arrested early this morning on a charge of being drunk and locked up at the third pre- cinct. Hunt was suspended from duty by Inspector Albert J. Headley. A complaint from an apartment house on Eighteenth street, near I street, that 2 man was disorderly in the hall was answered by Police Inspector Hugh H. Grove, who made the arrest. Inspector Grove accused Hunt of using language that was not “parliamentary.” Inspector Headley said Hunt would be released today under $10 collateral for his appearance in Police Court to- morrow. At the time of his arrest the officer was in the possession of his gun and badge. MAN DRIVES AUTO ON CAR PLATFORM Motorist Arrested After Score of Persons Are Driven From Safety Zone. More than a score of persons were sent scurrying from a street-car plat- form at Thirteenth and F streets last night when an_ automobile driven by George Henry Jones, 38 years old, of Bellevue, Pa., leaped on the platform. Bhouts and screams of women stand- on the drudorm brought Sergt. Eslie ‘Willlams the Traffic Bureau to the scene. He placed Jones under arrest on charges of driving an automobile while under the influence of I eq. neatly to.the opposits form and rol nearly e oppos end belr';‘rlohl:rchw to a stop when the " gerat, Williams also was told that two men were with Jones in the car, but leaped machine and disap- Detroit are equipped with hine 3 tear gas bu:flu and small B peared in the crowd before the police- man arrived. FEDERATON URGES SEMATE 10 ADD 10 LUNPSUMFORL. Citizens Ask Approval of Rec- ommendations of Appro- priation Group. ITAX INCREASE WARNING SOUNDED BY DONOVAN Prospective Improvements in Near Future Total $40,000,000, Auditor Points Out. The Senate was urged by the Federa- tion of Citizens' Associations last night to stand by the recommendation of its appropriation committee and increase the Federal Government’s lump-sum share of the expenses of operating the city government from $9,000,000 to $12,000,000. It took this action after listening to an exhaustive discussion of the Na- tional ~Capital's balance sheet, pre- sented by Maj. Daniel ¥. Donovan, au- ditor of the District. The federation adopted this resolu- tion, offered by Harry N. Stull: “Re- solved, That the federation earnestly requests the Senate to adhere to its appropriation committee's recommen- dation that the lump sum of Federal contribution be increased.” Financial problems of the municipal government were described graphically by Maj. Donovan in the course of his address, in which he indorsed the pro- posal of Representative Moofe, Demo- crat, of Virginia, to set up a fiscal commission to study the problem of the District’s financing and its relation to Federal contributions, gave warning that an increase in the tax rate is threatened, which may go in time to $2 from the present $1.70, and pointed out that prospective improvements in the immediate future will entail the expenditure of some $40,000,000. Cites Other Projects. Maj. Donovan called the federation's attention to the point that current rev- enues and the present annual $9,000,000 lump sum contributed by the Federal Government are insufficient to pay the running expenses and provide normal annual improvements, and unless the United States raises its shqre an in- crease in the tax rate will be inevitable. ‘The mounting totals of the appropria- tions, he said, also may result in an crease in the $3,000,000 cash operating fund. Aside from normal annual improve- ments, Maj. Donovan cited a number of proposed municipal projects, including the buildings in the Municipal Center, a municipal airport, a new jail building and others, which he declared would cost between $35,000,000 and $40,000,000. “Where is all this money coming from?” he asked. “The delegates to this federation can give as good an answer to this question as I can,” he said. “The action of the Senate subcommittee on appropriations in charge of the District bill for 1931 in increasing the Federal contribution from $9,000,000 to $12,000,000 is one answer, but it should not be overlooked that this answer has not yet been approved by the House.” Answers Questions From Floor. Following the presentation of his a dress Maj. Donovan submitted to qu tioning by delegates from the floor. In answer to these, he sald that the Cram- ton park-purchase bill does not in- crease of the obligations of the District of Columbia, as $1,000,000 is being set aside annually now for the purchase of park lands. The George Washing- ton Memorial Building, he said he un- derstands, is not to become a charge upon the District of Columbia, but is to be constructed as a national memorial. Asked if there is any attempt at economy in the municipal government, Maj. Donovan told his inquirer that | he could answer that better than he { could, explaining that he did not wish to appear in the light of criticizing. Maj. Donovan's address follows, in part: “The prospective total of appropri- ations, therefore, for the fiscal year 1931, payable from the general revenues of the District of Columbia, which in- cludes the contribution by the United States, appears to be somewhere around $44,000,000. This is an increase over « the appropriations for 1925 of over $12,- 500,000.. Should the present $9,000,000 payment by the United States be con- tinued by Congress in the next fiscal year, it means that $35,000,000 of the probable total appropriations of $44,000- 000 will have to be pald from revenues of the District. As the United States’ contribution in 1925 was $9,000,000, and if that is the amount paid in 1931, it will be seen that the entire increase in appropriations between the two years named must be pald from local rev- enues, “For the fiscal year 1931 the current revenues of the District are estimated to amount to $40,000,000 on the theory that the $1.70 tax rate will continue in_that year, made up of real estate (Continued on Page 4, Column 5) FOUR ARE KILLED IN OXYGEN BLAST Six Are Injured in Premature Ex- plosion of Liquid Charge in Rock Quarry. By the Associated Press. UPTON, Ky., May 3.—Premature ex- plosion of liquid oxygen used in blast- ing a rock quarry killed four men here late today and injured a half dozen others. Reginald D. Lanier, 28, Te intendent of the Oxygen Products Gor- poration plant at Ilsley, Ky., was among those who lost their lives. The names of the others killed were given as Robert and Charles Horn- back, brothers, and George McDougal, hine. | colored. The injured are Jess Gonter- man and his son Earl; Ed Steuben, foreman; Otto Avery, O. O. Parker, su- perintendent of the quarry, and a man named Petty. ‘The crew of men had drilled 24 holes and had fiyed ug 23 of them with the liquid oxygen when the explosion oc- curred, hurling the bodies of the men several yards from the quarry. Rescue work was dangerous, it was belleved eome charges loded, CANADA PROPOSES RETALATORY DY ‘Hawley - Smoot Schedule Raises Bitter Feeling in Dominion. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Before Congress has finally enacted the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill, the Do- nitely discriminatory rates on Canadian exports to the United States. It takes the form of a system of countervailing duties against American goods. The Mackenzie-King Liberal government at Ottaws disclaims any intention of e gaging_in a tariff war with this co try. But the plans just offically an- nounged by the Capadian minister of finance, Charles A. Dunning, foreshadow a scheme for reprisals which bear all the earmarks of tariff hostilities. They are interpreted ‘Washin event, as Cana answer to H ley-Smoot legislation and one that may make itself very disagreeably felt as time goes on. The Canadians claim that the impending American tariff law is designed to slash at least $75,000.000 from their present volume of $400,000,- 000 export trade with the United States. Countervailing Duties Proposed. Canada, Finance Minister Dunning told the Ottawa House of Commons on May 1, proposes meeting the American I:ountervnmnz duties on a large num- i ber of American products imported into the Dominion. The Canadians have never before resorted to this system of tariff reprisals. The United States Gov- ernment, at least so far as the present administration is concerned, opposes the countervailing duty as a tariff prin- ciple. In l‘ebru"l‘y of this year Acting Secretary of State Cotton addressed a letter to Senator Smoot, Republican of Utah, chairman of the Senate finance committee, urgently advising against the inclusion of countervailing duties in the new tariff bill. The Senate ig- nored the State Department’s advice With the exception of bread and c: cium acitate, the countervailing ra in the Hawley-Smoot law are made to apply to practically all Canadian prod- ucts exported to this country. The “reprisal” duties now proposed by Canada can be obviated by the United States, the Dominion finance minister explains. by the simple ex- pedient of our failing to impose cer- tain proposed duties on Canadian products. The provisions in question will apply to butter, potatoes, soups, livestock. fresh meats, cured and pickled meats, shell eggs, frozen eggs, frozen yolk or albumen of eggs, oats, oatmeal, ‘wheat flour, rye, cut flowers and cast- iron pipe. Protests Are Bitter. Ever since the Hawley-Smoot bill was first projected, Canada has bitterly pro- tested against the damage it threatens to do to her trade with this country. While the Dominion buys from _the (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) tariff challenge by imposing a series of | REICHELDERFER The deft fingers and cheery “number, please” and “thank you" of the tele- phone operators handling all calls in |the business section of Washington gave way to the mechanical genie shortly before midnight last night with the transfer of the National, District and Metropolitan exchanges from the | manual switchboards to the new dial | system. ‘The “‘cut over” was a simple appear- ing process, taking only a few seconds, but in that brief time 58,000 telephones underwent an epoch-making transfor- mation. From now on, calling a num- ber over these lines will be a cold me- chanical process which involves the spinning of a fascinating little dial and | listening for the sq-called “dial tone” in lieu of a warm feminine voice. The introduction of the new service HOPE STILL SEEN FOR RETIREMENT DESPITE INACTION Month Has Elapsed Since Conferees Last Met, With No Date Set. LEADERS PROTEST THEY INAUGURATES DIAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM HERE E58.000 Sets Are Transferred to Open New Service, Which Is Started in Three Exchanges. was marked ceremoniously. Telephone company officials of varying rank and a large group of invited guests viewed the “cut over.” Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, presi- dent of the Board of District Commis- sioners, had the distinction of making the first call over the new system. It was precisely 11:54 o'clock when the “cut over” was made. Commission- er Reichelderfer had been seated for nearly five minutes at a special tele- phone in the office of the company, watching for a flash of a red and a blue light overhead—the signal indicating that the manual switchboards had been ut out, of operation and the dial sys- em was for e. Dr. Reichelderfer dialed Adams 9610, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) FIDING FALL FATAL Young Horsewoman Expires From Injuries Sustained on Thursday. Things seemed easier for Miss Frances Saul yesterday afternoon at Emergency Hospital when she learned that her horse Blue Step took a blue ribbon in the Wardman Park Saddle Club show. The dappled gray thoroughbred justi- fled the faith of her mistress by a vic- tory in the open saddle class, but Miss Saul heard of it none too soon for few hours after the news arrived the hospital she died of injuries re- ceived Thursay afternoon when Blue Step fell on her. It was the first time Miss Saul had mounted the mare. She had admirec the animal for months and three weeks ago bought her from Lodge Bowles ot Berryville, Va. Enthusiastic Horsewoman. An enthusiastic horsewoman for most of her 25 years, Miss Saul felt that Blue Step was the best horse she ever owned a conviction which she was determined to_test at the show. But Blue Step reared while Miss Saul was guiding her about the show ring at the Saddle Club, toppled backwards and fell upon the rider. Miss Saul was picked up and taken to the hospital by a riding instructor, TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—36 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Forelgn. Schools and Colleges—Pages B—4, B—5. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial_Section—Editorial and Edi- torial Features. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 5. Army and Navy News—Page 5. Marine Corps News—Page 5. PART THREE—14 PAGES. Society. PART FOUR—16 PAGES. - o Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Music. 1In the Motor World—Pages 5, 6 and 7. Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. District National Guard—Page 11. Organized Reserves—Page 11. News of the Clubs—Page 12. Girl Scouts—Page 12. Fraternities—Page 13. Veterans of Great War—Page 1§. Radio News—Pages 14 and 15. Serial Story, “Jim the Conqueror’— 16. District of Columbia Reserves—Page 16. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Pinancial and Classified Ad D. A. R. Activities—Page 12. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 132. W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 13. PART SMIVEN—“ PAGES. [agazine Section. ‘R‘evlev eo! New moh——?-%e 18. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 19. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 22. GRAPHIC SECTION—12 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR Sl?"l'l&l!{—: SAflG!g;) llins; Mutt and Jeff; me- o S ; Mr. and Mrs.; Littl (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) BREMEN LIQUOR SEARCHING PROBED Officials Deny “Hip Slapping” Charges Published in New York. By the Associateq Press. NEW YORK, May 3.—Reported hip slapping of visitors on the North Ger- man Lloyd liner Bremen by customs men in search of liquor, a practice for- bidden by Treasury Department order, was under investigation both here and in Washington today, despite denials from customs officials there was no such search. Reports of the hip slapping which was ordered stopped some time ago by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour J. Lowman, were published in morning newspapers and inquiries were begun at once. ‘The surveyor and the assistant col- lector of the port of New York said that 80 far as they knew the Lowman order was still in effect and that they would question customs men on duty when the Bremen sailed last night. In Washing- ton arother investigation was begun by the Treasury Department. ‘The first customs man questioned was John Cronin, roundsman at the Brooklyn pier, from which the Bremen salled. He said he and his two as- sistants had confined all their efforts to seeing that thag: Was no sale or trans- fer of liquor aboard and trat no pas- sengers or visitors had been searched. ‘This statement was corroborated by H. Schuengel, resident director of the line, who present at the -tunf. No co ts were made to the line by any ‘ho had been on the ship. 10 FRANCES SAUL STODK PRGES FALL - INSELLING ORGY Drastic Declines Registered . as Record Is Made for ‘ Saturday Sales. | Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, May 3.—Wall Street took cognizance of international eco- nomic uncertainty today when prices of leading issues on the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges broke dras- tically under a volume of trading that set a new record for a two-hour Sat- urday session. Stock Exchange sales 3,749,800 shares on December 8, 1928, the previous record Saturday. Curb sales totaled 1,537,100 shares. Losses in pivotal issues were extreme, bringing the average price of key stocks down to a point approximating the low prices established early in Jan- uary. Rails were the only stocks which as a group showed resistance to the liquidation. Selling by frightened small traders and impaired accounts wi swollen by bearish professional oper: tions, which netted profits on a scale analagous to the bear profits of last October and November. Tickers Run Far Behind. ‘There was little short covering evi- dent. Tickers were left far behind deal ings on the floor. Traders, made ne; vous by absence of prompt reports, sold blindly, adding to the mass of business. Prices in out-of-town markets de- clined under constant pressure of liqui- dation provoked by news from Wall Street. Wheat made a new low for the year at Chicago and cotton was weak. Added to manifestations of irregu- larity in the financial structure were continued depressed commodity prices. Sugar prices during the week set new lows, while prices for other important commodities, such as copper, steel and wheat, have been shaky on their low levels of this year. Steel Falls to 169. Steel, under constant pressure, fell to 169, within 3 points of its low for this i;;;' compared with its low of 150 for Among the most severe losses of th day were Auburn Auto, off 177% Brooklyn Union Gas, off 13; A. M. Byers, off 10.58; American Machin Foundry, off 12; Westinghouse, off 1 Worthington Pump, off 133; Vanadium, off 16%; United Aircraft, off 14; Ray- bestos, off 113, and International Com- bustion preferred, off 9l totaled 4,867,530 shares, compared with |;rec ARE STUDYING BILLS Lehlbach Declares Matter Rests Entirely in Hands of Senator Dale. There is still hope for some legisla- tion at the present session of Congress for liberalization of the civil service re- tirement law, although a month has elapsed since a meeting of the Senate and House conferees and no definite date has been set for another meeting. Meanwhile the thousands of Govern- ment employes, not only in Washington but throughout the States, have grown fearful that history is repeating itself, remembering that retirement legislation has advanced in previous sessions only to meet some obstacle in the final stages in the closing days of a session. Many friends of the employes are speculating as to whether or not there is a delib- erate attempt to delay action until it h. too late for enactment at this ses- sion. Leaders of the Senate and House conferees protest that they are studying the two measures in conference—the Dale bill as passed by the Senate and the Lehlbach bill as passed by the House, which is understood to have the approval of President Hoover—endeay- oring to find a way to an agreement upon some measure of relief for the Federal employes. ‘The only joint meeting of the con- ferees representing both branches ef Congress, held early in April, ended without any headway having ma toward an agreement. Since that time the Senate managers have conferred many times among themselves for the purpose of fflm into the details of the new plan of retirement incorporated in the bill passed by the House. Must Agree to Modification. Senator Dale, Republican of Ver- mont, chairman of the conference, said yesterday that “unless the House oon- ferees will agree to some modifications of their.bill the delay caused by con- sideration of the bill will endanger its this session. “the public ought not to assume that there is no " merely because the conferees have been studying the situa- tion since the joint meeting. Chairman Lehlbach of the House civil service committee, who is authoer of the new scheme of retirement legis- lation, sald: “The situation is_entirely beyond my control. The legislation is now in conference. We had one session and adjourned subject to the eall of Senator Dale. Unless he calls us to- gether again nothing can be dene. The House conferees have held themselves in readiness for a month waiting for another conference. I am nat | formed_why no further conference is ! held. I can take no steps in the sit- | uation ‘and have no knowledge when any step will be taken. The matter is entirely in the hands of ‘Senator Dale.” The conferees on liberalization of the . civil service retirement law are Sen- ators Dale of Vermont, Couzens of Michigan, McKellar of Tennessee, and for the House Representatives Lehl- bach of New Jersey, Smith of Idaho |and Jeffers of Alabama. Seeks Senate Compromise. Representative Dallinger, Republican, of Massachusetts, who has borne the brunt of retirement legislation espe- cially in efforts to iron out differences | and to bring together opposing groups, and who went on the civil service committee “for the sole purpose of cor- ting injustices and to see that em- ployes get full justice and that the Gov- ernment lives up to its promises,” has been endeavoring to persuade the Sen- ate conferees to yleld. “If they don't agree and the liberalization legislaticn fails at this session it will be the fauit of the Senate,” he said, “for if the Sen- ate conferees insist on the Dale bill Lhex;; will be no bill at all enacted this Representative Dallinger made the fight in the House committee to get the Dale bill reported. The Government employes were opposed to the Lehlbach bill in its original form. Then it was modified and the representatives of the employes’ organizations, both the Joint Conference on Civil Service Retirement and the National Federation of Federal Employes, said they would be glad to have it reported. Representative Dal- linger was the one who offered the mo- tion in the committee to report it. He says that all the great national organ- izations of Government employes are in favor of the Senate ylelding and accept- ing the Lehlbach bill. Dale Bill or Nothing. “I have talked to Senator Dale,” he said, “and as I understand it, certain Government employes are sen in letters to the conferences to the effect that if they can't have the Dale bill they want nothing. “All the organizations of Government employes were finally willing to accept the Lehl ‘h bill, which contains every- thing that was in the Dale bill and more. It is a better proposition for the employes than the Dale bill, be- cause while the Dale bill provides for a maximum of $1,200 annuity, the Lehl- bach bill fixes a minimum of $1,200 for full service and makes possible a much higher maximum.” Representative Dallinger has the in- terests of the employes much at heart and went before the House committee (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) GIRL IN LOCAL SCHOOL TO GET $1,263,708 LEGACY FROM ESTATE Gertrude Ann Spreckles, 14, to Inherit Sum From Famous Grandfather. Geraldine Ann Spreckels, 14 years old, a first year pupil in the pre] tory Park school at National - nary, receive $1,263,708 as her share in the estate of her gradfather, the late John D. Spreckels, Calife capitalist, who died June 6, 1926. ‘The value of the estate was fixed by inheritance tax appraisers at $13.792,- 043, and yesterday, in Callfornia, a superior court judge ordergd the estate distributed on_that Associated Press lsted Miss Spreckels as one of seven bene- ficlaries. The girl's mother, the for- mer 8idi Wirt Spreckels, was married several months ago to Lieut. Gardner, who is fornia | Field, Va. News of the amount of her inheri- tance had not reached Miss slguehh last night. Authorities at National Park Bflnln:z said she had expressed 8 wish to finish the junior college course there which would be in three more