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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Slightly cooler today; tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness. Temperatures—Highest, 84, at 2 p.m. yesterday; iowest, 61, at 6 a.m. yes- terday. Full report on page 5. The 3 v WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION . “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. No. 1,331—No. - Do) Entered as second elass matter post office. Washington, D. . 31,554. WASHINGTON, O B D. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1930 —122 21, PAGES. ELSEWHERE FIVE CENTS * IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS | - e CHICAGO EXCHANG BLAMED BY HYDE FOR MANIPULATION OF SOVIET WHEAT i - 1 Holds Russia Is Physically! and Economically Unable to Make Delivery and Never Intended to Do It. ‘» : ermes execurion or six_| CANNON ACCUSED FOR FORGING BREAD CARDS House Cnmmifie: VWiI] Call Offi-| IN NEW BHARGES cials of Russian Syndicate to RS Testify in New York and Will| Four in Chicago |Cardinals Increase Lead Over Rivals To 3 Full Games Although the best they could do was to break even with the Phillies, the St. Louis Cardinals yesterday gained a half game in the hectic Na- tional League race to go three games to the good. They beat the Phils, 9-3, before losing, 3-4. However, the Brooklyn Robins and Chicago Cubs each lost, bowing to Pittsburgh, 6 to 2, and Boston, 3 to 2, respectively, and lost a grand chance to make up some ground. The Athletics, American League champions, lost, as did the Nationals, each dropping a 4-to-1 game, with the Browns and Tigers being the winners. | | Continue Hearing Against Bishop With Head Elders File Papers| Later. responsibility for short| gelling of wheat in the Chicago pit by the Russian government was placed on the Chicago Board of Trade yesterday by Secretary Hyde as Representative Hamilton ! Fish, chairman of the House Com- munist Investigating Committee, prepared to delve into the rami- fications of the charges. Following a conference between the Secretary and Chairman Fish Mr. Hyde made public a telegram to John A. Bunnell, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, in| which the Government made plain its intention of placing squarely | up to the board the burden for | “prevention of manipulation of; prices.” | In response to a telegram from Bun- | nell asking for complete facts in sup- port of the secretary'’s charges, Hyde | offered “to afford” the business conduct | committee of the board full facts, but | reminded the board that “every bushel of short sales by the Soviet government | was sold by your members from whom no doubt you can get information.” | “These transactions by the Russian | government,” the secretary wired, “are not based upon even a remote possibility | of delivery upon your market or in the United States and have the effect of | manipulating the price downward against every farmer who has sold | his wheat sigce these short sales were | executed. Direct Question for Board. “A mew question of broad public | policy lies before your board to eon- of Methodist Church. By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, September 20.—The Baltimore Sun says the charges which have been filed against Bishop James Cannon, ir., of the Methodist Episcopal Church South include *new ones as well as others which already have been heard against the churchman. The charges, the paper says, divide themselves into three classes, as follows: Charges based on personal conduct. Charges based on Bishop Cannon's participation in buying and selling of stocks for speculative purposes through a brokerage house in New York, later held to have been a bucketshop. Charges based on Bishop Cannon's political activities and his participation | in the handling of money for political campaign purposes. Accused Last May. Complaint was made against the bishop at the general conference of the church last May at Dallas on_ his stock market activity, and the Episcopacy Committee voted not to bring him to| trial. He expressed contrition before the entire conference and later was re- elected chajrman of the church’s board of temperance, prohibition and public morals. His political activity was brought be- fore the Senate Lobby Investigating| Committee, before which he refused to answer_questions on the disposal made of $48,500 which he had received from Edwin C. Jameson of New York. The committee dropped the inquiry with- out Tequiring him to answer the ques- ons. In neither of these investigations was any question taised concerning the churchman’s morals. In the new com- | thefts, sider, and it is thus primarily a question | plaint filed with Bishop Willlam N. for the Chicago Board of Tyade to eon- | Ainsworth of Birmingham, however, sider its position as providing a free|several counts are set forth based on market for the American farmer and | the consumers of the world. ““The law provides the Board of Trade shall make such regulation as ‘provide for the prevention of manipulation of prices’ “I should be glad to hear your action in respect to these transactions.” | In making the telegram public to the | press yesterday afternoon Secretary | Hyde siressed that the short sales were | made “by a government that could not | possibly ‘deliver the wheat contracted for, and whose people now are being rationed on bread. butter and meat.” He disclosed that the transactions ecomplained of took place September 8, 9, 10 and 11 and were accompanied by 8 marked depression of prices on the Chicago wheat market. The sales were made in the name of the All- Russian Textile Syndicate, which Sec- retary Hyde claims is a subsidiary of the Amtorg Corporation, whose activi- ties already have been investigated by the House Committec. Secretary Hyde informed President Hoover that the sales totaled at least 5,000.000 bushels to be delivered, theoretically, in De- cember. Impossible to Make Delivery. “But it is physically and economi- eally impossible for the Rucsian gov- ernment to deliver that much wheat in America in December, and it has no in- tention of so doing,” the Secretary de- clared yesterday to the press. “Does it seem reasonable that Rus- sfa would contract to sell us 5,000,000 bushels of wheat when there are bread lines in her own country? The De- partment of Commerce advises me that the people of Russia are being rationed. Only last week six men were executed for forging bread cards. White bread is allowed only children under 10, and one-eighth of a pound of butter goes with it. One-half to three-quarters of a pound of rye bread is allowed in- dustrial workers daily and only one- fourth of a pound of beef is allotted inconceivable (Continued on Page RUMANIAN TAKES POISON War Minister Forced to Resign that a govern- 2, Column 6.) Because of Missing Papers. nber 20 (A).- today _ reported former Rumanian compelled dispateh: u War, who was commission becauss of loss portant military docu- ments, had taken poison and probably would die The documents were Jost in 1927, but the fact was revealed only last week They are said to have been abstracted from the general's pocket by a Russian woman who was his traveling compan- jon on a train from Bucharest to a atering place allegations published during July in| newspapers in New York, Philadelphia | and Washington, the paper says. ! Made Personal Inquiries. The Sun says the complaint filed with | Bishop Ainsworth is made up of all; charges reflecting on his worthiness | published or broadeast during the last two years, and adds the four elders who signed their names to the document | personally inquired into a number of these accusations and held they have sufficient_substance to call for a trial by the general conference of the church Some weeks ago the four notified | Bishop Cannon, then in Brazil, they had undertaken an inquiry into various | charges against him made in newspa- | pers and_before the Episcopacy and Senate Lobby Committees, the Sun says. | This action, it was held by the elders, | fulfilled the requirement of the church | code that the accused be notified that his actions were under scrutiny. | As far as can be learned, the paper declares, Bishop Cannon has ignored | this notice. | The four elders who forwarded the | charges against Bishop Cannon were | Rev. Costen J. Harrell and Dr. J. T.! Marston of Richmond, Rev. Forrest J.| Prettyman of Baltimore and Dr. L P.| Martin of Abingdon, Va No Personal Feelings. Dr. Prettyman, the Baltimore member | of the quartet which filed the charges, tonight issued a statement in which he #nid he had no personal feeling against | Bishop Cannon, and took this action because he believed “it to be for the: best good of the Methodist Church South. | “For the last two years charges of the | most serious nature have been made against Bishop Cannon in certain place: and in the press, and allegations have been published from which m(rn:ncrsl have been made. “I do not think these charges should | be permitted to go unexplained and without, investigation solely because of the effect it will have on our church In joining with three other elders in presenting these charges for investiga- tion under the procedure of our church, I did what I regarded as the proper thing to do. and may I say that should all these charges and inferences after thorough investigation be satisfactorily explained none would be more delighted than I nor would any rejoice more,” he said. Dr. Prettyman said_tonight it had been agreed to let Dr. Harrell make the announcement for the group. He de- clared that it would be “unfair both to the church and to Bishop Cannon” to make public the text of the charges filed with Bishop Ainsworth. COMPLAINT 1S SECOND ONE. By the Assoclated Press RICHMOND. Va.. September 20.—A new complaint_against Bishop James (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) HOOVER TO GET LETTERS WRITTEN| BY PUPILS OF MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS| Tenncssee Group, Ages Ranging From 16 to 84, Will Present Epistles Themselves Tomorrow. |fast the men and women will care- fully pen thelr letters to the President. They will write: “Dear Mr. President: I go to school in Hamilton County, Tenn. I want By the Associated Press. A sheaf of letters written by adult pupils, ranging in age from 16 to 84, Bf the moonlight schools of Hamilton County, Tenn., will be pr;&;r{l}f:p‘ljn over tomorrow - The delegation of 100 mountainecrs, | ter citizen.” Prizes will be awarde many of whom never have ridden on |the best wrilten letters. =~ n train before, will arrive in the Capl. i mTh;'Fups::c;n:mngl the trip, - e e ’ .y\cmum of Chattanooga are paying the o : “;'%’.3;:2‘,'15“, morning over their braak- | ~xpenses of their trip to Washington. made f 60 TRIALS SET OCT. 8 FORTFOUR OFFIGERS OF F. . SMITH C0. | Pitts, Henry, Anadale and Edwards to Face Court on Embezzlement Charge. NEW RECEIVERSHIP SUIT FILED IN WILMINGTON Made Action in Delaware on Be- half of Stockholders. Senatorial Accusations ix Four officials of the F. H. Smith Co. will be placed on trial in the District Supreme Court October 8 on an indict- !ment charging them with embezzling 5,000,000 from the Smith Co. and with | concealing and burning records of the | company in an endeavor to cover up the mark the opening of of Justice’s criminal Smith Co. officials, has secured three in- The trial will the Department prosecution of against whom 1t dictments. The defendants in the trial next month will be G. Bryan Pitts. Samuel J. Henry, C. Elbert Anadale and John H. Edwards, jr. New Suit Is Filed. It was also learned vesterday that a new suit for receivership, containing sensational charges, has been filed against the Smith Co. in Wilmington, Del. The receivership suit was filed on be- half of the stockholders by Representa- tive Alan Goldshorough of Maryland and J. J. Morris of the firm of Hastings, Stockley and Morris of Wilmington. In asking for the appointment of a receiver, the petition alleges that the Smith Co. paid the firm of Donovan & Raichle $250,000 and shat this fee was “clear out of proportion to the services rendered the Smith Co. by the firm” Donovan,, former Assistant At- torney General, and Raichle have rep- resented Pitts, and the plaintiffs con- tend that Pitts’ interests are diamet- rically opposed to those of the Smith Co., as he is accused of embezzling money from the company. The petition alleges that the money was paid_the law firm in January, shortly after Pitts and several other officials of the com- pany had been indicted in Washington on mall-fraud charges. Charges Stock Trade. The petition also alleges that the Smith Co. exchanged about $4,000,000 (par value) of its own securities, worth intrinsically more than $2,000.000, for stock of the Maddux Hotel Corporation, which, it is alleged, is worthless. Henry C. Maddux, president of the hotel cor- poration, was among those named in the mail-fraud indictment. In another section of the petition it is pointed out that the Smith Co. was indemnified to the extent of $250,- 000 against loss by embezziement. It is alleged that a former official of the company approached Thomas Weed, now the Smith Co.'s president, with this bond and suggested that it be used in taking action against Pitts. It is al- leged that Weed refused to accept the bond for this purpose, and that the | corporation has refused to take any action against Pitts. It was also_alleged that the annual election of officers has not been held this year and that no meeting of stock- holders has been called. There are pending against the in-| dictment upon which the Smith Co. of- ficials are to be tried here several pleas in abatement, which will be argued and decided next week. Assistant United States Attorney Neil Burkinshaw said arrangements would be made for secur- ing a special court room to facilitate the disposition of the pleas. Trial Date Surprise. Announcement of the early trial date yesterday came as a surprise, since it had been undersiood that it would be some time before the defendants would be brought into court. It was learned, | however, that the Department of Jus- | tice is ready to proceed at this time | and that atiaches of the United States marshal's office have already started | serving subpoenas on the varlous wit- nes | ent Dodds, special assistant to the Attorney General, who has been instru- mental in securing the three indic ments again officials of the Smith Co., " (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) 12 POLICEMEN HELD Three Indianapolis Citizens Also Taken by Marshals—Other Arrests Seen. | | i | By the Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS, September 20.— IN RUM CONSPIRACY |, SCHALL, R, HORT | WITH GRL N CAR Senator’s Son and Young‘ Woman in Serious Condi- | tion After Wreck. Thomas D. Schall, ir., 20-year-old son of Senator Schall of Minnesota, and Miss Alice Kreps, about 20 years old, of | Baltimore, were seriously injured late | yesterday® afternoon when an automo- | bile driven by the youth collided with a | gasoline truck on the Baltimore Boule- vard at East Riverdale, Md. They were brought to Sibley Hospital, where Schall is said to be suffering from a fractured right leg, concussion of the | brain, a fracture of the left arm and sossible internal injurles. The girl re- | Seived possible internal injuries, brain concussion and & fracture of the right The accident occurred about 5 o'clock | at Edmonston road and Jefferson ave- nue when the automobile mn which | . a midshipman at the United States' Naval Academy, and his com- panion struck a Standard Oil Co. truck, dperated by James Sampson, 24 years old, of Riverdale, Brought to Washington. The automobile was proceeding to- ward Washington when the mishap oecurred, while the truck, en route to West, Riverdale, was making a left turn at the intersection. Frank Babcock of Riverdale pla the boy in his machine and brought him { to Washington, while the girl was| brought here in the car of Albert L.| Rogers of 3422 Eighteenth street north- | east | Sampson escaped Injury, but followed | the injured couple to Sibley Hospital to | inquire regarding their condition. He then returned to the scene of the wreck and drove off in his truck after making known his identity, it was said. Miss Kreps is the daughter of a Bal- | timore & Ohio Rallroad detective and lives at 3236 Sequoia avenue in the Maryland city. Senator Schall, who resides at Berwyn, Md., left recently on a trip for Minne- sota. Mrs. Schall was at the hospital last night with her son. Five Others Injured. The light car in which the couple was riding was badly damaged, although the impact left little impression on the truck. Five other persons were Injured, three seriously, when their automdbile skid- ded in a second accident on the boule- | vard at Beltsville, Md. The machine | overturned and crashed into a telephone | ole yesterday. POy three most seriously injured were | Mrs. Anna McCauley, 46 years old, of | East Keansburg, N. J.: Michael Oft,| 50 years old, also of East Keansburg, | and Charles Perry, 52, of Newark, N. J. | The two others hurt were Mrs. Mc-| Cauley's husband, John McCauley, and | the wife of Charles Perry, Elsie. A Mrs. McCauley, who 15 ‘said to be in rious_condition by physicians at | Casualty Hospital, where the five were brought following the accident, received | numerous bruises about the body, pos- Sible fracture of several ribs and shock Ott received deep facial lacerations, | fracture of several ribs, sevére hem-| orrhage and possible skull fracture. His condition 1s said to be serlous. Perry received a possible skull frac- ture, deep lacerations to the forehead and lacerations to the body. | | ced | { Twelve city policemen and three civil- | | fans, who are alleged 0 have conspired | | with them to violate the prohibition | | laws, were arrested by United States | marshals here late today. They were | | nidicted by the Federal grand jury.' Two of the policemen were sergeants | | an4 the others were patrolmen. Additional_arrests of policemen be made within the next few days Federal operatives said. All of the | officers arrested today were suspended immediately and released under $3.500 bond. Those arrested will | today included Noel Stark, brother of Judson L. Stark, Marion_ County _prosecutor; _Sergt. James O'Brien and Sergt. Joseph Ever- son Federal officers said five policemen were indicted jointly with Cecll Mc- Daniels, alleged large-scale bootleg operator, who is charged with having bribed them to provide him and his es- tablishment with police protection. All of the others were indicted jointly with_Chris Schishcoff and Cris” Vola- schoff, pool room operator. The offi- cers are alleged to have accepted bribes and liquor from operators of the estab- lishment for protection. ther officers who, Federal operatives say, were indicted, are_Lieut. Marion ansickle, Sergt. John Volderauer and Patrolman Martin O'Brien. George R. Jeffrey, United States district_attorney. said Federal agents had gathered evidence that the police- men had been accepting bribes from rum runners, and that in some cases actual transfer of money had been wit- nessed. Mrs, Perry, who is 49 years old, is | suffering from shock and John McCau- | Jey received contusions to his chest and | a possible fracture of several ribs. The injured were rushed to the hospital in & passing automobile. Two Children Hurt. Two 3-year-old children were slightly | injured last night, one when struck by | a hit-and-run_automobile at_Prospect | avenue and Potomac street. The other | Was felled by a bicycle in the 1300 block | of B street northeast. | John E. Catar, of 3318 Prospect ave- | nue. vietim of the hit-and-run machine, Which continued on before any on could obtain its license number or d Scription, was treated at Georgetown Hospital for minor bruises. | Betty Hixson, of 1360 North Caro- | lina avenue, was treated at home for slight cuts after she had been struck | down by a bicycle ridden by Joseph Taylor, colored, 18 years old, of 251 Fourteenth street southeast, while walk- ing with her mother. MARRIAGE RUMORED TOWSON, Md., September 20 (#).— | Rumors of & marriage between members |of the Japanese nobllity were current here today as the result of a wedding ceremony performed by Rev. Richard | W. Wecks for two young Japanese stu- dents who arrived from Philadelphia. The bride, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, gave the name of Chiyo Asaha and said she lived in Los Angeles. The bridegroom gave the In addition to the 12 arrested today 6 others are said to have been in- dieted, The arrests followed a quiet inve='‘gation ba Federal officers. name of Hideom! Tuge, also & student. The members of the party sald they came here to avoid publi~iiy. * | PERTAINING TO LILIPUTIAN GOLF EPIDEMICS! Wisconsin Farmer Has Whole Field Of Baked Potatoes By the Associated Press WAUPACA, Wis.. September 20 —Like baked potatoes? Henry Habersaat has a whole «fleld of them, and they are there for the digging. A fire burning in peat beds near his farm crept underneath the spuds and did them to a turn. FASCISTS' ATTITUDE ALARMS GERMANY Plot to Overthrow the Gov-| ernment Discounted, But Threats Continue. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, September 20.—Rumors to- day that the Fascist party, strongest in | |the Relchstag since its extraordinary gains in Sunday's elections, was con- spiring to seize power in the state have rendered pressing the problem of the party’s future role in German politics. The rumors were officially declared | to be without foundation by the minis- | try of the interior and by the Prussian government, which accused the Com- munists of attempting to launch a Fascist “putsch” scare. But the recent utterances of Fascist spokesmen have hardly been calcu- lated to sooth such public nervousness as_exists In the local Fascist organ Der Angriff (The Attack), Paul Goebels, the leading Fascist member of the Reichs- tag, today declared that “what the so- called republic regards as inviolable is not sacred for us.” Socialist Move Effect. “The national Socialist movement,” he said, “seeks to upset things as they are, and has not come to bolster up what is falling but to give it*another shove.” Prussian police say they have found no evidence supporting reports in one section of the German press that the Fascists were holding secret military drills and buying weapons on a large scale. They apparently do not look for | anything like a recurrence of Adolph | | Hitler's notorious Munich beer cellar | “putsch™ of 1923. The Associated Press learned from an authoritative source today that the (Continued on Page 9, Column 1.) POLICEMAN SLAIN BY FLEEING BANDITS Companion Officer Is Critically Wounded Following Hold-Up of Furniture Store. the Assoclated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., September 20.—Ed- ward D. Fitzgerald, 27-year-old motor cycle officer, was shot and killed and his companion officer, W. B. Phares, was [eritically wounded here tonight fn a gun fight with bandits. The shooting followed soon after a hold-up of a furniture store. The robbers obtained $300 from the furniture store, kidnaped T. T. Clarke, employe, and fled. Fitzgerald and W. B. Phares, another member of the motor cycle squad, pursued the robbers and engaged in a pistol fight with them. Fitzgerald was killed and Phares shot in the abdomen. He was near death late tonight. The robbers put Clarke from the car a few blocks from the store. TARIFF ACT UNRATIFIED Canadian House to Reconvene To- morrow Momning. OTTAWA, Ontario, September 20 (. —The House of Commons adjourned at midnight without having ratified the increased tariff schedule. It will re- convene at 11 o'clock Monday to con- sider the remainder of the 130 tariff By | changes which came into effect through | out Canada last Wednesday. Premier R. B. Bennett, replying to a question by Mackenzie King, Opposition leader, assured the House that before the next session, which will be held early in January, public hearings of the new tariffs wouid be held at which pro- | tests against the increases in customs might be submitted. Supplies Reach Santo Domingo. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Re- public, September 20 (#).—The steamer Margaret Lykes will arrive tomorrow with over 2,500 packages of supplies and clothing contributed by the ecities of Galveston, Beaumont and Houston, Tex., for hurricane relief. FIDAG IS PLEDGED AS ENEMYOF WAR | Sir 1an Hamilton’s Resolution Is Adopted at Closing Meeting Here. Allied veterans of 10 nations joined late vesterday in declaring themselves “irreconciliable enemies of war,” and at the closing session of the Fidac Con- gress adopted resolutions presented by Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton, famous com- mander of the British forces at Gal- | lipoli, inviting governments henceforth “to base their policy on all of the three | tundamental principles of peace—arbi- | tration, security and disarmament.” In that spirit the affliated veterans' associations pledged themselves further “to combat in their countries any prov- ocation harmful to the maintenance of peace, and to opj | dissension among the peoples with the | sentiment of international solidarity.” Duty to Work for Peace. The resolutions were presented by Sir Ian on behalf of the Peace Com- mittee of Fidac and stressed it as the duty of ex-service men to work for the development of the spirit of peace and Jfor the improvement of institutions destined to serve peace. They reaf- firmed the fact that Fidac has for its principal aim the maintenance of good will among nations, and that “ex-serv- ice men with their experiences of the realities of war ought to take an ever- increasing part in the education of public opinion in order to request the settlement of international disputes in & peaceful manner.” Shortly before the adoption of the resolutions platform, which dealt also with the problems of disabled veterans and their rehabilitation, the congress went on record denouncing the action of certain persons and pacifist groups in the United States which have sought to create the impression that’they are affiliated with the forces® of Fidac. Lieut. Col. Fred W. Abbot, retiring i:l'elldent of Fidac, put the motion in he form of a resolution after calling attention that the American Legion is the only group affiliated with Fidac and that no other person or organization can claim membership with Pidac ex- cept through the Legion or its auxiliary. ‘White Presides at Dinner. Activities in behalf of international peace found an echo in the speeches 1mnde last night at the State Depart- ment dinner in honor of the distin- guished delegates. Secretary of State Stimson, the host, had been called away unexpectedly to New York, so in his absence the Assistant Secretary of State, Prancis White, presided at the dinner, which was heid at the Willard. Col. Paul V. McNutt, past departmentai commander of the American Legion, and Signor Amilcare Rossi, delegate of TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News, Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Pages 5-B, 6-B and 7-B. Home Garden—C-3. PART TWO—8 PAGES. 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DRYS T0 CONTROL MAY BE MADE AT CONGRESS, THOUGH ALEXANDRIAPLANT - WETS MAKE GAIS NO LOSS OF STRENGTH SEEN IN UPPER BODY Realization of Plans Nearer by Purchase of Virginia City's Equipment. Brought Battle Centers in Massachusetts, Illinois, Delaware, Ohio, Mon- tana and Nebraska. A possibility that ‘Washington's BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. future gas supply may come snurolyi National prohibition, now that all from a huge plant at Alexandria, Va. |the nominations for the congressional supplemented by natural gas to belelections have been made except in & piped from West Virginia and Ken- | state or two, looms as an issue in the tucky, was forecast last night by an|coming elections scarcely less impore official of the Washington Gas Light|tant than the clash between the Ree se any gestures of Co. The foundation for these develop- | ments already has been laid by recent activities of the gas company. Several days ago the company purchased the municipal gaseplant of Alexandria, and yesterday it was learned that a col tract has been awarded to the Stand- ard Automotive Supply Co. of Wash- ington for delivery of equipment for | laying mains at various nearby points| to connect with the pipe lines from the natural gas fields of West Virginia and Kentucky. - The Alexandria gas plant, it is lieved, would be used as a basis manufacturing by-product gas to pumped to Washington, mixed with natural gas, and then distributed to consumers. Plans Are Guarded. | Gas company officials are_carefully guarding their plans, but Frank A.| Woodhead, operating vice president, ad- | mitted that if a large by-product gas | plant is built in Alexandria, it could supply gas to all of the cumpany's} consumers. “The acquisition of the Alexandria Mr. Waodhead said. “opens y for a by-product plant near | Alexandria at some future date. While there are mo plans at this time, still it is a possibility that we have under consideration. “Such a plant, if it were constructed, would be in a position to supply gas | to all of our properties and would also | manufacture by-products. “Being on deep tidewater, this might | mean a good deal to the prosperity of Alexandria and incidentally to Greater | Washington.” Economies Are Seen. Gas now sold in Washington is car- buretted water gas, which is somewhat expensive to manufacture. The by- product gas of the type that would be manufactured at the Alexandria plant can be made for a smaller net cost be- cause of the valuable products that can be recovered from the distillate and sold. The importance of having such a plant on deep tidewater is that lower freight rates can be secured than to | rail points, both for the gas coal and | for the various by-products. | The law in Washington requires that | all gas sold in the city must have a | heating value of 600 British thermal | units—an extremely high standard to be in excess of that required in any other city in the country for manu- factured gas. At present, the manu- | factured gas is stepped up to the re- | quired heating power by being sprayed | with crude oil. This can also be ac- complished, however, by mixing the gas with natural gas, which, in its pure state, has a far higher heating value | than' the 600 British thermal units. | Presumably the final result of the present maneuvers will be the set-up | of a by-product plant in Alexandria | from which gas will be taken to the | various holders of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies and there mixed with the natural gas which will soon be tapped in. | | i be-| for | be | the | the | | { i Natural Gas Soon Here. The award of the contract to the Standard Automotive Supply Co. was made by the Columbia Gas and Elec- | tric Co. which is piping the natural | gas from West Virginia and Kentucky. | It is said to portend the early availa- | bility of natural gas in Washington. | Prank G. Stewart, president of the Automotive Co., which is located at' 1800 Fourteenth street, said the con- cern has already delivered about $75,- 000 worth of machinery at Rockville, Bellair, Conowingo and Woodstock, Md. The Columbia line will extend from | the natural gas fields in Eastern Ken- tucky and Western West Virginia northeastward to New York. The near- publican and Democratic parties. It is quite true that the wets have no chance of gaining control of eithe§ the Senate or the House. Indeed, aftes all the returns are in both houses wild rate extremely dry. This is true whether the Republicans or the Demo= crats have control. But it is also trug that the wets stand to win places im the Senate and House which Litherto have been dry. If they do, even though the gains be comparatively few, the elections will be hailed by the wets as an evidence that the pendulum iy swinging against national prohibition, The wets, through the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, have already claimed that primary elections and announced changes of stand by members of the House who have hitherto been dry, will giv> them an increase of 37 wet votes in th® House. They are hoping, t0o, to ins crease the wet representation in the Senate. McBride Pooh-Poohs Claim. The Anti-Saloon League. through Dr, F. Scott.McBride, general superintene dent. pooh-pooh these claims. Dr, McBride said yesterday that in effeot the wets will have an actual gain of not more than eight or nine votes in the House, and that the drys may not lose strength in the Senate at all. The battle grounds for the wets and drys in this election are found particue larly in Massachusetts, Illinois, Dela= wi Montana, Nebraska, and possibly in’ Oklahoma. 1In the laste named State, the Democratic nomines, former Senator Gore, is claimed by both the wets and the drys. Dr. Mce Bride points to a letter written by Senator Gore to the State superintende ent of the Anti-Saloon League, in which Gore said that he had always supported prohibition legislation, that Oklahoma has d l:\’:‘ referens dums on the subject and gone each Mmekk:mi' !hl:'he. Gore, '(co“ P working for “temperance” in the futu On the other ‘hand, Gore had 'r; | support in the primary election in Oklae homa, and his use of the word “teme perance,” instead of “prohibition,” may be subject to different interpretations, The wets claim that they. too, are worke ing in the interests of “temperance.” Sees Gain in Senate. Dr. McBride sees a dry gain of two seats in the Senate already due to the primary elections, although the recent declaration of Senator Wheeler of Mon= tana, who is not up for re-election but who_continues to hold office for an- other four years, in favor of repeal of the eighteenth amendment is a loss to_the drys. “In Maine," said Dr. McBride, “Rep~ resentative Wallace H. White, a dry, has been elected to succeed Senator Gould, an announced wet. In Pennsylvania, Secretary James J. Davis of the Dea partment of Labor has been nominated by the Republicans for the seat ta which the wet Willlam S. Vare was elected in 1926, although he was not permitted by the Senate to take his seat. Secretary Davis is satisfactory to the Anti-Salcon League.” As a matter of fact, however, Secre= tary Davis, whose election is confidently expected, succeeds Joseph R.,Grundy, appointed by the Governor to' the v cancy caused by the refusal of the Sene ate to seat Vare, and Grundy is a dry. And Davis, who has been strongly supe ported by organized labor, has no legise lative record on the wet and dry question. He has stood by the Hoover administration in its demand that the dry law be enforced. But that is all. Admits Tllinois Loss. The Anti-Saloon League head admits that there will be a less to the “dry cause in the Senate after the senatorial est to Washington that the main will travel is Rockville, Md. The Washing- | ton Gas Light Co. will tap the natural | gas at that point, and eventually use | the natural gas here in Washingion. | The materials delivered for the job | are tractors, pipe laying machinery and { portable compressed air machines, ac- cording to Mr. Stewart. The main for | the natural gas will be a 20-inch pipe At several points along the long dis tance from the Kentucky fields there will be booster stations to maintain | an even pressure throughout the length of the main, Earlier in the Summer the Wash- | ington Gas Light Co. advised the Pub- | lic Utilities Commission that it had | contracted with the Columbia Gas & | Electric Co. to take its natural g here. At that time it was stated by the company that it was expected to have the gas available by January 1 next year. The natural gas, which has a much higher heating value than the type of | water-gas manufactured here, will be diluted to the present heating value | insisted on by the commission before 1 to consumers, election in Illinois, no matter whether former Senator Lewis, a wet Democrat, be the winner or Mrs. Ruth Hanna Me~ Cormick, who has declared she will be guided by the action of her State in the referendum cn prohibition being taken this November. He has no hope whatever of electing the dry, independ= ent Republican candidate., Mrs. O'Nell, But the drys also may lose Senate seats in the elections in Massachusetts, Ohio, Delaware, Montana and Nebraska. In Massachuseits the Democrats have nominated not only a wet senatorial candidate, but wet gubernatorial and House candidates, against Republican drys. Senator David I Walsh of Massachusetts, himself an ardent wel who returned to Washington yesterda from a visit to Cuba, predicted & Demo= cratic sweep in Massachusetts and laid great stress on the fact that the Demo- crats are supporting the wet cause there in making his prediction. Said Senator Walsh “I sincerely believe that the Demo= cratic party of Massachusetts will elect in November a Democratic Governor and a Democratic United States Sen (Continued 0.1 Page 2, Column 3.) 360-DAY JAIL TERM IS GIVEN MAN BECAUSE JUDGE DECLARES HE LIED Milton Winslow Gave Another’s Name in Court When Accused Under Traffic Laws. Milton Winslow, charged with driving | mit. The case was continued for in- without a permit, was sent to jail for | vestigation. ¢ | Yesterday Wheeler came to court and 360 days from Police Court yesterday | confronted. Winsiow. The latter ade by Judge Isaac R. Hitt, because the | mitted to Judge Hitt that he had given latter said the defendant “perjured |the wrong name in his previous visit himself” in court. to court. The judge at first imposed & Winslow was arrested September 11 fine of 823 on Winsiow. but_later change: to lays in jail and by Politeman W, R. Greenfleld of the | $500 T 4 ' Traffic Bureau for a minor traffic vio- | $500 fine or 180 days more. “The fellow deliberately lied to me.," lation. He was arraigned in Police Court under the name of Jack Wheeler, | ;lidd Jud%e‘kll'llb;,m“l X!elhkhnl Iam justi- | fled in giving as heavy a sen who records showed had a driver's per- I s i | as the law permits.”