Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1930, Page 2

Mature Reaction to Depres- sion-Is That No Man Could " Have Prevented It. (Continued From First Page.) Republican spellbinders in this cam- paign are hammering home the old argument that if the Democrats are placed in power, with pledges to lower tariff duties, the standard of living on the American farm and of labor gener- ally will suffer greatly in this country. It is an argument that has had its effect in the past, and may be success- ful in many congressicnal districts this year. Many Believe Hoover Handicapped. Many voters say today they do mot believe that the President has had an opportunity to go ahiead with his plans for betterment because of the collapse of the market and business depression, and because of the hostility to him in his own party In the Senate. Criticism of the President crops up, 1t is true, on the ground that.he should have been eble to deal more effectively with the insurgent Republicans. Oi the other hand, when such critics are ressed to show whercin the President ¥.,s falled in his contests with the “coalition,” few instances are found to prove..that: the coalition was actually successful in ‘defeating the President. ‘The Farm Board, set up under the new farm marketing act by the Con- gress and the President, has been the target of the grain trade, the big mid- dlemen, in Kansas City, Duluth, in Minneapolis and St. Paul, in Chicago and other grain market centers. And these traders-have undertaken in many places to disparage the Farm Board to the farmers. The low price of wheat this Summer and Fall has played into . the hands of the traders in this un- dertaking. The grain trade insists that the activities of the Farm Board are merely the activities of Government in busineéss’ when it talks, not to the farm- eré, but to business men. Had it not been for the drop in wheat . prices, however, the farmers themselves might have taken a different view of the board and what it has been doing. In- deed, there are many live stock men and dairy farmers who do take a much more favorable view of the board than that held by the wheat farmers, suf- fering from a wheat crop surplus and low prices forced in’the grain market. Westerly States Suffer Less. The more westerly States bave not suffered this yeAr nearly as much as . Colorado, Nebraska and parts of South Dakota and Kansas and Iowa have dohe well both-on the farm and in their business in the cities, as comypared -to their easterly neighbors. The drought did not hit them so hard, and their crop§ have been b Where conditions have been fair, the criticism of the President and the:ad- ministration has not been nearly so ;re-n Even in Illinois and Ohlo there a disposition to walt and see what happens during the next two years of the Hoover administration before a verdict is brought in. ‘What tgll'(‘vpt)rtlo'm the “protest vote” against the party in power will reach in the congressional elections no one can say definitely. Doubtless the Re- publicans underestimate and the Demo- crats see it larger than it really will be. That there will be a protest is quite sure. It will be’the voters bitting at hard times, hitting at national pro- hibition, somewhat blindly, perhaps, ? zn hng:{ nevertheless. The protest i conditions rather than thzThPGNAdent and his admin- tion. party, how- ever, is likely to bear the brunt of the and the President must suffer with his party. In Ohio, one of the most politically minded States in the Union, there is al talk of presi- dential candidates in 1932. The general belief is that President Hoover can have the renomination if he wants it, though d«g\enflni"ln a measure upon what heppens in the next two years. Ohio Democrats are talking of presenting candidates for their party’s nomination for Presicent at the next national con- vention. A boom has been launched to raise the banner for Former Gov. “Jimmy Cox,” who ran for President in 1920 with Franklin D. Roosevelt, mnow Governor of New York, ning mate for the vice presidenc: far boom has not gone fa would be interesting, however, and Roosevelt, the old team, were con- testants against one another for the presidential nomination in 1932, Newton D. Baker Considered. If Ohio g}u Democratic in November, and there is a good chance that it may, this State, central and in a measure pivotal, may have a good deal to say about who shall be the Democratic standard bearer. Newton D. Baker, BSecretary of War in the Wilson ad- ministration, might have a try for it, his health is good. Cox has been re- |- rded as a wet. So has Baker. The mocrats may be looking for a wet candidate in 1932; indeed, it seems highly probable thet the next Demo- cratic nominee for President will be a wet in sentiment. A suggestion is made that Robert J. Bulkley, the Democratic candidate for Senate this year, might be brought forward as a presidential possibility. But it must be admitted that some of the Democrats do not take this suggestion seriously at the present. Ohioans are looking with some satis- faction to the important part which the State is playing once more in na- tional affairs at Washington. The | chairmanship of the Republican Na- tional Committee is held by Senator Walter Brown is Postmaster General, Joseph R. Nutt of Cleveland is treasurer of the Republicen National Committee, Nicholes Longworth is Speaker of the House. A few vears 8go after the scandals which developed in_the Harding .administration Ohio sang rather small in Republican coun- cils. But that has changed. SOCIETIES T0 HOLD QUARTERLY MEETIN Hely Name Members to Convene - Monday Evening in Georgia Avemie Hall. ‘The quarterly meeting of the Was- ington section of the Beltinore Arch- diocesan Unlon of Holy Name Socleties will be held in the parish hall of the Church of the Nativity, 6000 Georgia avenue, Monday at 7:20 p.m. Caesar L. Alello, p.esident of the Weashington secion, will preside. Reports will be heard from 52 local parish branches of the society and plans will be out- lined for the celebration of the Foa: of the Kingship of Chrit to be held St. Peter's Church, Second d streets southeast, October 26 at 8 p.m. A feature of the Monday evening meeting will be a public reception and demonstraticn in hono: of Right Rev. . P_C. Gavan, pastor of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart and former spiritual director of the Washington Holy Name Union. John F. McCarrom, president of the Baltimore Archdiccesan Union of Holy [+ t | reveal to what actions he referred. MAY VISIT MEXICD IN PROBE OF REDS Fish Committee to Consider Widening Inquiry—South to Get Hearings. Investigation of Soviet Communistic propaganda allegediy belng directed at the United States from Mexico may be undertaken by a group of members of the House committee now probing the extent of Red p:opaganda activities in this country. ‘The possibility of a trip into Mexico by committee members to determine to what extent the alleged propagandizing has progressed was discussed at the Capitol today by Representative Hamil- ton Pish of New York, chairman of the House committee. Fish said he had been assured by Ambassador Tellez of Mexico of the close €0<0] tion of the Mexican gov- ernment -in watching the activities of Communists and added he expected the documents reported seized in that country would be turned over to his committee. Would Go in November. If & subcommittee makes the trip to Mexico City, he said, it probably would sall from New Orleans about Novem- | ber 20, after the full group completes hearings in several Southern States. :I:: sald he did not plan to make the ‘The New Yoiker sald the committce | was considering holding hearings in | Cleveland, Buffalo and Boston between November 5 and 8. After a session in ‘Washington November 10 the group will go to Chattanocoga, Atlanta, Birming- ham, New Orleans and possibly Jack- sonville, Both the Mexican Ambassador and the State Department said they had no information regarding the reported | selzw e of the documents in Mexico. Asked if the authority granted the committee by the House permitted it to 30 into foreign countries, Pish said it did. Under the resolution creating | the committee it could subpoena any person, he continued. Might Call Stimson. Because of certain actions of the State Department, he sald, the pcssi- bility of calling Secretary Stimson had been considered. However, he added, the committee had yet to complete its inquiry into these actions. He did not 1 | Chairman PFish returned to Washing- ton yesterday from hearings on Com- munist activities on the West Coast. He said it was apparent that the “prin- ciples advocated by the Communists in the Far West are identical to those in the Eastern industrial centers, and are directed by the Third International at Moscow.” “The activities of the Communists,” he continued, “have been increasing in the past few years on the Pacific Coast, as they are taking advantage of the business depression and unemployment situation to spread their propaganda and revolutionary doctrines.” Refers to Soviet Deals. Pish said that during the commit- tee's inquiry into the short selling of wheat by the Soviet government at Chicago, “it was disclosed by the three brokerage houses in New York which handled the transactions that no col- lateral or securities of any kind were required from the all-Russian textile syndicate which ordered the sales. ““The action of the Chicago Board of Trade,” he gaid, “in prohibitt ;g the short. selling by a foreign gov:rnment will take care of this situation to a large degree if it is properly enforced.” John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, was praised by Fish for his presentation of “the serious efforts made by the Communists to disrupt the corl mining industry in America.” Preising Willlam Green, president of e American P cration of Laber, in & mezsage gongcatulating him on his re-election, Pish sald the organization under Green's leadership “has been the front line defense in America against the insidious and revolutionary ac- tivities and propaganda of the Com- munists.” . China poss-sses vast coal fields, tin mines, ofl fields and other mineral ‘wealth, BABY DIES IN FAL Hooks Used in By the Associated Press. : LAND, Tex.,, October - 18.— Name Societies, will outline plans for an extension of the work in this distriet. Membershin rallies will be held in each of the local branches of the organizati and new branches will be formed during the Winter months. Y del ubfi"n“m';nm H lelect o1 cittes, - ator pla ) S i Royse Alvin Mauldin, 22 months old, | toddled Thuraday across a plank cover- a newly drilled water well, 14 inches wide the top. v The ‘board slipped, the baby fell into the hole, and Mrs. J. R. Mauldin, the boy's mother, ran to answer the startled Upper, left to right: Dr. Richard Henry Wilson, Dr. Louis J. A. Mercier and Dr. Paul G. Gleis. Lower, left to right: Dr. H. A. Jules- + Bols and Dr. Heary Gratiam Doyle. ORATORY CONTEST JUDGES SELECTED Five Linguistic Scholars to Serve at International Speaking Finals. ‘The five linguistic scholars who will choose the champion high school speschmaker of the world in the fifth International Oratorical Contest finals here next Saturday night were an- nounced today by Randolph Leigh, di- rector general of the contest. Invited to be judges because of their famillarity with each .of the four languages which are to be used in the contest, as well as for their knowledge of history and modern trends in the world of nations, they are: Judges Are Named. . Richard Henry Wilson, head of romance language department of the University of Virginia; Dr. Henry Grattan Doyle, dean of the junior coi- lege of George Washington University; Dr. Louls J. A. Mercler, professor of modern languages at Harvard Univer- sity; Dr. H. A. Jules-Bols, professor of the' L'Ecole de Psychologle at Paris, and Dr. Paul G. Gleis, head of the | department of German at Catholic University. As the author of a number of books that are widely known in educational circles, Dr. Wilson is an_authority on modern language. His department at the university is one of the most fa- mous in its fleld in the Umited States. | Speclalizes in Spanish. Dr. Doyle, besides being excepticnally well versed in all languages cf the con- test this year, is a deep student of Spanish and of South American life. A former instructor in the romance languages at Harvard and former Jec- turer in Prench philology at Johns Hop- kins University, and one-time insiruc- tor in Spanish at Cornell University, Dean Doyle is associate editor of Hispania. He also is associate editor in charge of current history of the Maga- zine for South America. Dean Doyle also is assistant managing ecitor of tac Modern Language Journal, Dr. Mercier, Haryard’s professor of modern languages, is the author of sev- eral bocks on the teaching of Epanish and Prench. He recently Lrought out n France a work, “Human‘sm in Amer- fca,” which is regarded with particular importance in that country with re- gard to the treatment of its subject. -Frenchman Highly Regarded. Dr. Glels, whose educational specialty is German, was graduated from the Universities of Berlin, Munich, Leipzig and Munster in Germany. He is a student of the old and new culture and of the languages of the leading Euro- pean naticns, In Europe he investi- gated unprinted documents of literary history in the British Museum at Lon- don and in the national libraries at Madrid, Paris, Munich, Edinburgh and Heldelberg. According to the Westminster Guard- fan, Dr. Jules-Bols is “a poet, dramatist writer of dainty romances, journalist ef proved judgment, platform speaker of a power and eloguence that distinguishes him even among Frenchmen.” He writes on government, travel, philosophy and the arts, having produced 24 works in French and 4 in English. Dr. h: MORROW’S SUCCESSOR TO LEAVE CITY TODAY| Clark to Return to Salt Lake City to Make Campaign Speeches. J. Reuben Clark, recently appointed Ambassador to Mexico, expects to re- turn today to his home, in Sdlt Lake City, to take part in the congressional campaign. He sald yesterday after conferring with President Hooyver that he would make some speeches for the Republi- can party before the election, but did | not know where, He is to taks the oath as Ambassador before leaving Washington. Returning to the Cepital after the election, he will leave for Mexico City about No- vember 15, L INTO WELL ONLY 14 INCHES WIDE AT TOP Child’s Neck and Arm Broken Apparently by Ropes and Rescue Efforts. %:chehde ultle tlnl' of h;: baby's fingers. en he slipped from her . An ala: l:undgf“ res of COMMITTEE HALTS CANPAIGN PROBE Senate Inquiry Into Fund Ex- penditures ‘Delayed Until After Election. ‘There seemed little possibility today of further hearings by the Senate Cam- paign Punds Committee before election day, when it became known the mem- bership was unable to give more atten- tion to the work. Chairman Nye had intended to re- turn to Nebraska before the elections to inquire further into the circum- stances leading up to the attempt of George W. Norris, the grocer, to file against Senator Norris for the Republi- can senatorial nomination. However, Senator Dale, Republican, Vermont, who conducted the first Ne- braska inquiry with Senator Nye, made it clear today he would be unable to return to the State before election. Senator Nye has indicated to his office here that he may go alone into Nebras- ka and Colorado afier the Tennessee hearings to arrange the work for the committee’s attention later. New troubies confronted the commit- tee today. It was learned at headquar- ters that one of the field investigators had been suspended for improper con- duct. It was sald, however, that the complaint against the investigator had nothing to do with the charges made in Illinois that committee agents had engaged in wire-tapping. POLICY ON ZONING WILL BE SOUGHT Park Commission Wants Questions of Future Plans to Be Settled. A statement of policy on*future zon- ing in Washington will be sought by the National Capital Park and Planning Confhission from the Zoning Commis- sion. ‘This decision was reached today after Charles W. Eliot, 2d, director of planning of the commission, had laid before 1t a report on & review of zon- ing maps and policies. The commis- slon approved this report. Then Mr. Eliot explained that zoning has been in effect in Washington for 10 years now and the planning commission de- sires o know what the future of zon- ing in the National Capital is to be. Among the questions to be tackled. Mr. Eliot sald, are: The policy with reference to small isolated areas in the city, now known as “spot zoning." The situation with reference to in- dustrial areas that are being taken up by other interests, such as the exten- sion of Bolling Field for fying pur- poses. The exhaustion of the apartment- house area in” the Northwest, in the undeveloped sections and in general what the controlling policy of the two commissions, which work in close har- mony, shouid be. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, the park commission executive officer and vice chairman, and Maj. John C. Gotwals, engineer commissioner of the District and a member of the commission, are both members of the zoning commission, The commission approved the pro- gram of the purchase of a unit in_the Rock Creek parkway, north of the Dis- trict line for the extension into Mary- land. This was done in co-operation with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Marriage Licenses. weniiae L, Ohasles 2L Westervitie, ORio: . Dautheri b Ay T ,!G. Payelteville. N. C., Rulnick, Zebest. 23. Baltimore, Md.: Rev. Dumbarton, Vi Richmond, Vi | Rev. John c. Ball Benjamin_ G. Blake, 25, and Mattie M. chibeck. 22, both of Richmond, Va.; Rev. Toeb, Walter B. Paxton, and Jessie M. Blake, 123, 20, . Pritchman, 46, and Mary O. Rev. C. H. Butler. =+ 18, and Gertrude M. Cotter. , and Edith 1. Childs, ev, C. T. Murray Herman P. Riess, 26, and Martha F. Buck- Rev, Henry W. Snyder. and | Tillie F. Bernhardt, 63, Rev. Alfred H. Terry. rey . and Evelyn Light- d. 21: Rev. Ernest C. Smith aham Linzon, 51, Toronto, Cenada, and Ziatovitch, 40, Baltimore, Md.: Rev. 21, this city, and . 20, ‘Oxon Hill, Md.; 29, Atlanta, Ga., bon, 27, this city: Rev. h. | Floyd H. Hunsaker, 30. and Irene v. | willey, 30: Rev, Alfred E. Barrows. | "Rov'S Thompson, 21. this city, and Olive ’g w‘rlfmu. 18, East Falls Church, Va.; Rev. . Emory, nd. 29, and Clara Mobroe, 2! and Christine L. Perkins, 19; Wright. James A. Boykins, 27, and Neitle 8. Smith, 34; Rey. Lightfoot Michaux. Worth E. Shoults, 30, and Hester Botle: 30; Rev. J.'P. Tyler. | “carl 8." Cummings. 40, Richmond, Vi 43, Arlington, Vi and Mamie Campbell, Rey. Henry H. Ranck. John H. Simms, 23, and Lucille Cooper, 1! Rev. Haskell Deal. Births Reported. Lawrence B. and Myrtle Dunn, girls Harry and Dorothy Witt, sirl. E. and Dorothy Merrick, girl, 'and Elizabeth Sjmmons, girl. id Margeret Waterman, girl el Etrl. era n, € thur and Alice Turner, irl. e, Only Restricted Refunds Are Planned Despite Many Cancellation Requests. In spite of the decision of the Com- sioners not to make any wholesale can- cellation of Borland law assessments at this time, their mail this morning was flooded with requests from property owners asking either for cancellation of assessments or for return of money {paid to satisfy assessments under the | laak | Daniel E. Garges, secretary of the plle of correspondence and decided to answer it all by form letter, of which several thousand copies have now been mimeographed. The letter states that the taxpayer's application has been forwarded to the corporation counsel’s office and informs the taxpayer that assessments will be canceled only in cases similar to those already ruled upon by the Court of Appeals. " e Decision Reached Yesterday. ‘The Commissioners reached their de- cision not to order cancellation of all Borland law assessments late yesterday after a long session with their legal adviser, Corporation Counsel William W. Bride. The Commissioners an- nounced their decision in a written i statement, which follows: “The Commissioners feel that the general purposes of the Borland law are good. “There are special benefits accuring to abutting property owners properly assessable to such owners. The Commissioners have been ad- vised by the corporation counsel that the recent decisioh of the Supreme Court of the United States in refusing writs of certiorari in the Borland law cases are not conclusive except in cir- cumstances based upon like statements of facts, and further that the Borland law is operative in all other classes of cases. Under these conditions, the en- forcement of the law must continue until it is changed by Congress or further limited by judicial decisions. “Assessments made must remain in force and no cancellations or recom- mendations for refunds will be made at this time, except in accordance with decided cases. A new law or the amendment of the present law to meet the decisions will be asked of Congress. The corporation counsel, upon his recommendation, has been directed to prosecute the Dodge case in the Court of Appeals, that court not having spoken upon the law as applied to the state of facts therein.” One Assessment Canceled. ‘The case of Crosby et al. vs. Dodge, referred to in the Commissioners’ de- cision, involves a regular rectangular lot with a 50-foot frontage and a depth of 226 feet on B street northeast near Maryland avenue. An assessment was levied against this lot under the Bor- land law to pay for the paving of B street. Across the street from this lot there are other lots of irregular shape, partly due to the proximity of Mary- land avenue. The lots have long front- ages in comparison with their respec- tive depths. The owners of these other lots, who were als) assessed under the law, succeeded in having their assess- ments canceled on the ground that they were inequitable. This was in accordance with the de- .cision of the Court of Appeals in sim- ilar cases holding that where a lot has an abnormally long frontage in com- parison with its depth an assessment on a front-foot basis is inequitable and discriminatory. None of these condi- tions applied to the Dodge lot which is perfectly rectangular and has only a small frontage compared with a very great depth. The owner, however, asked the District Supreme Court to cancel his assessment on the theory that if other lots in the same block were ex- cused from taxation it would be un- fair to tax him under the Borland law. Justice Jennings Bailey held the point well taken and ordered the assessment cancelled. The Commissioners did not appeal this decision to the Court of Appeals, but asked the United States Supreme Court to review it along with two other cases, which had been decided in the Court of Appeals adversed to the District.. Last Monday the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the cases. Appeal Is Pursued. Yesterday Mr. Bride recommended that this case be argued in the Court of Appeals. In a lengthy survey of Borland law history forwarded to the Commissioners at the same time, Mr. Bride ted, “almost a foregone con- clusios that the Court of Appeals would decide the same way that the District Supreme Court decided, but he felt that it was proper to pursue the appeal s0 that before going to Congress for a change in the law or for a new law the Commissioners would be in a position to say that they had done their utmost to make the present law work and had failed. Mr. Bride stated that if the Dodge case is decided adversely to the District, there will be practically no property left which could be assessed under the Borland law, as a decision in the Dodge case would remove the only remaining class, consisting of regular rectangular lots of sizeable depth, which do not now come under the decisions handed down by the Court of Appeals. There is nothing in the report in the way of a suggestion as to legislation to take the place of the Borland act, but two such suggestions have already been made. One was the recommendation in Mr. Brid'e annual report that the law be repealed and its place be taken by in- creasing gasoline from 2 to 4 cents per gallon in the District. Amendments Suggested. The other was the draft of legisla- tion drawn up by a committee, of which Mr. Bride was a member, proposing the re-enactment of the Borland law. with substantial amendments doing away with the front foot basis of assessment and making allowances for lots of irreg- alar shape and those with long front- ages and shallow depthr so that such lots would not be discriminated against in levying assessments as at present. ‘The gasoline tax, he said, would raise about $1,300,000 a'year more than the present tax. ‘The return under the proposed new legislation is somewhat speculative and nobody has advanced an estimate of what it would amount to, 5 Assessments under the Borland law run from $300,000 to $700,000 per an- num. If the law is abandoned it would be necessary to find ‘some means not only of taking care of the revenue to be lost but also of repaying tax- payers who have paid their assessments within the statuatory period of three years the money paid on the assump- tion that the Borland law was good legislation. This could be accomplished by the gasoline-tax suggestion, accord- ing to Mr. Bride. Bty A SENT 5 YEARS TO PRISON Jack Callahan, 26, recently indicted for a second offense of violating the Harrison anti-narcotic law while on probatien for an earlier offense, was p’ven a prison term of five years today Justice Adkins in Criminal Division 2, The court permitted the new sen- tence to run concurrently with the old years for which his . Mullen and James accused asked leni- their client is an- leaded gull had %o the s Board of Commissioners, gazed at the | were injured in the blast. REPUBLICAN CLUB HOLDS “AT-HOME” More Than 150 Men and Women Attend Reception at New Quarters. The recently organized National Capi- tal Republican Club, Incorporated, held its first “at home” meeting, since es- tablishing temporary quarters at 1331 G street, last night. More than 150 man and woman members were present. The affair was entirely social in its aspect and afford- ed an opportunity for the members to become bettter acquainted and also to inspect their club home. There were no speeches, and during the latter part of the evening a number of tpose at- tending played bridgs. The rcams were attractively decorated with flowers and Autumn -legves and light refreshments were served. Samuel J. Prescott, chairman of the Republican State Committee of the Dis- trict, president of the club, announced last night that the club now has a mem- bership of more than 250, the member- ship coming from 28 States, besides the District of Columbia. It has not been decided yet when the club will take up its permanent quarters at the residence it ,recently purchased at Sixteenth stréet and Scott Circle. ‘The committee that arranged for last night's “at home” was composed of Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Republican na- tional committeewoman for the Dis- trict; Mrs. Henry D. Fry and Mrs. Henry Allers. Those on the reception comgmittee were Mrs. Samuel J. Pres- cott. Mrs, William J. Haines, Mrs. Henry Allers, Mrs. F. T. F. Johnson, Miss Mar- garet Lamble, Miss Margaret Helmke, President Prescott, Luther W. Lincolns, chairman of the Membership Commit- tee, and A. E. Chaffee. reading clerk of the House and director of the in- formation bureau of the local Repub- | lican headquarters. . COLDER IN CAPITAL, WITH FROST NEARBY, IS FORECAST TONIGHT - (Conitinusd Prom First Page.) ginia tonight and light to heavy frosts in sections of Maryland and Virginia. PLANE SAFELY LANDED. | Pilot Battles Rain Squall En Route to Capital. Battling & rain squall with ground winds which reached a velocity of 45 miles an hour, Fostsr Tompkins, vet- eran transport pilot on the New York, Philadelphia and Washington airline, brought one of the trimotored passen- ger planes with five passengers aboard to a perfect landing an hour after nightfall last night at Washington- Hoover Airport. The squall, which swept over the | city hours ahead of the time it had been expected, provided the severest test the new transport line has faced this month. The weather reporting service of the line went Into action and | the last southbound plane on the day’s run, following Tompkins, was flagged and held at Philadelphia, its passengers being sent on by rail. SNOW FALLS IN ERIE, PA. Upland Section of Adirondacks Is Also Covered. ERIE, Pa, October 18 (#.—Erie found itself blanketed with the first snow of the season in the East today after a night of rain and rapidly fall- ing temperatures. From a high of 63 degrees yesterday, thermometers re- corded 36 degrees at 8 a.m. today. and ! the mercury was still falling. A 25-mile- {an-hour wind blustered through the city. SARANAC LAKE, N. Y. October 18 (/) —The upland section of the Adiron- dacks was covered today with the first snow of the season. The mercury stood at 28. WEST FEELS COLD WAVE. Near-Zero Mark Recorded As Rain and Snow Fall. SAS CITY, October 18 (#).—Ap- pr::ujng Winter, whose first assault Trouted late Autumnal warmth from the vast tl’lnsm.ladflflé'?ik:rma, today threat- renewed attacks. en)ezmun-. which enjoyed a brief res- pite yesterday; Wyoming and Idaho stood in the path of the presaged thrust. Montana's rains of yesterday turned tn snow flurries as freezing tem- ratures held the State in its grasp & night. A minimum of 10 degrees above zero was recorded at Havre at 6 p.m., with the mercury still falling. Wyor fared but little better, Yellowstone recording 16 above. Snow ranging from a trace to 3 feet in the mountains blanketed Northerm Idaho as hitherto moderate temperas tures in the State joined the down= ward trend. Dry snow ranging up to 16 inches in depth covered the mountains of East- Associated Press telephoto shows police and firemen rescuing victims of explosion in Garment Capital Building, in Los Angeles. More than 40 persons Police believe the explosion resulted from gas and was planned. A garment strike was in progress there. ‘| New Mexico, they sald, as the tariff HAS NOON WEDDING Titled Foreigners and Ameri- can Notables Drawn to Baltimore Ceremony. By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, October 18.—Noon to- day was the hour set for the wedding at old St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church of Miss Anne Seddon Kinsolvieg of Baltimore and John Nicholas Brawn of Providence and Newport, R.I. Rapre- sentatives of generation of wealth in the East and of ante-bellum Virginia sris- tocrgey, together with titled forelgners, arrived yesterday for the ceremony, de- scribed as one of the most imposing i recent Baltimore history. For many wedding sifts fram all corners of the globe have poured into the Kinsolving home, the rectory df the Old Church, cradle of the Episcopal faith in the city. Her father is Dr. Ar- thur Barksdale Kinsolving. He was to perform the ceremony, and Bishop James De Wolf Perry, primate of the Episcopal Church of America, pro- nounce the blessing. Dinner for Bridal Party. Last night a dinner was given for the bridal party by Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, sr,, mother of the bridegroom, once known as “the richest baby in the world.” His grandfaiher, John Carter Brown, founder of Brown University at Provi- dence, left him $10,000,000 of a fortune made as a manufacturer and East In- dia merchant. Other millions came later from the boy's father and uncle, Harold Brown. He had three mansions, one at Newport, another at Providence and a third at Pifth avenue, New York City. His aunts included the Viscountess D'Osmay, Mrs, Peter Goelet Gerry and Mrs. W. W Sherman. While a dent at Harvard his wealth was o: umated at between $20,- 000,000 and $25,000,000. Since gradua-’ tion he has been in travel and GAS LEAK BLAMED FOR INJURY 10 43 Sabotage Theory Weakens as Police Probe Los Angeles Blast. By the Associated Press. study, caring for his fortune. Miss Kinsolving a Writer. Miss Kinsolving is a member of a so- cially prominent family here and in Virginia and made her debut two years ago. Before her engagement, annotunced recently, she was a reporter and feature story writer for a Ball newspaper. The romance was said to have its begin at Amherst, Mass., while Miss - Kinsolving was visiting in the home of her brother, Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving. The couple have planned a ;nr\ honeymoon in Europe, during which Mr, Brown's yacht will join them. Return= :2’ to America they will reside at Prove lence. LOS ANGELES, October 18.—Fire and police authorities today continued their investigation of the 'explosion which virtually wrecked the 12-story Garment Capital Building and injured 43 persons here yesterday, but were in- clined to believe the blast was an acci- dent rather than sabotage, as was first thought. Meanwhile, the 43 injured passersby and garment makers were reported re- covering. Causes $1,500,000 Loss. ‘While sabotage at first was suspetted, as the investigation progressed the au- thorities leaned toward conviction the explosion was caused by the accidental ignition of illuminating gas, which they said had been seeping through the building for weeks. The estimate of damage, increasing with completion of surveys, mounted to $1,500,000. Originally it was $1,000,000. Insurance underwriters declared. the buil alone was damaged to the ex- tent of '$800,000. Its elevator shafts were twisted, partitions were blown out and walls weakened. The fire that fol- lowed th: the fifth floor, originated. Report Escaping Gas. Pire and police officers discovered many workers in the bullding recently r;‘:d wmhegllined o; nausea, believed to ve n caused by escapin . Managers of the building said Lh:y m searched unsuccessfully for a leak in their gas lines. ‘The force of the blast overturned automobiles in the street. Its vagarics were found in the fact that some near= by buildings were unscathed, while others two blocks away lost every win- 0 where the expl w. The explosion preceded by half an hour the arrival of the large majority of workmen employed there. Early arrivals saved themselves by scrambling down fire escapes. Pedestrians were felled in a radius of two blocks. MOSES AND STEIWER END PARLEYS IN NEW MEXICO Declare Tariff Is Main Issue There, With Dry Law Leading in Other Sections. By the Associated Press. SANTA FE, N. Mex, October 18.— After conferences with New Mexican Republican leaders, members of the Re- publican Senatorial Campaign Commit- tee were en rou'> for points Fast today. Senator George H. Moses, New Hamp- shire, chairman of the committee, de- parted for Chicago by way of Tulsa. Senator Fred Steiwer, Oregon, vice chairman, went to Denver. The two expressed disinclination to talk of New Mexico volitics. but said prohibition appeared elsewhere to be the dominant issue of the Fall cam- paign. This situation was not tr was the foremost guestion. WILLIAM B. CREECY, SR., DIES AT RESIDENCE HERE William B. Creecy, sr., 68 years old, wholesale paper dealer here' for many years, died yesterday at his home, 7319 Twelfth street, after a brief illness. Mr. Creecy, a native of Eaton, N. C., came to Washington about 50 years ago. He was established in the whole- sale paper business at 1337 H street. His wife, Mrs. Lily King Creecy, died some years ago. He is survived by two sons, Augustus L. and Willlam B. Creecy, both of Washington. Funeral services will be held at the residence Monday at an hour to be set. Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. | in Colorado, North Dakota, the Great| Lakes region and parts of Utah. Kan- sas and Missouri experienced their sec- ond general frost of the season last night. en New Mexico and Oklahoma failed to escape the cold. At Santa Fe it was but 2 degrees above freezing, and Oxlahoma was only slightly warmer. Texas felt some relief today from the norther which swept across the State, but_the still was crisp and THG weather disturbances which have harassed parts of Canada and swept from the inland empire to the Guif of Mexico have o far claired seven lives. 'BANK PLEA ATTACKS ANTI-MERGER SUIT Petition to ~Dismiss Points Out That Federal-American Would Assume Liabilities. (Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star. | The Merchants Bank & Trust | today asked the District | to dismiss the suit recently the company, of its board, and others to merger with the Federal- tional Bank until the termined a suit of - Joseph Reynolds, local automobile vacate & note of $50, company is seeking to A Mc! lds fer of property last January over two st g % g | ] Fets ite s e blast was confined chiefly to | § losion | asst persons, when he claims that the maker of the notes had suf- fered financial losses and probably would not be able to pay. On the curity of these notes they 5 $50,000, he told the court, which they : now to collect. Through Attorneys Ellis & Fergu-- . :gn the trust company points out not be halted cause “one of its provisions is that the . Federal-American National Bank as- | sumes all the labilitles of the Mer- chants Bank & Trust Go. and Mc] o vy nolds could enf any. right he might may not en negotia n!“& notes in because r are alrcady overdue and' the plain has made no tender of repayment of the $50,000, which he admits he re- ceived from the trust company, the ° lawyers contend. - McReynolds was represented by At- - torney George A. Berry and bearing was held before Justice Joseph W. Cox, who is expected to take me_mniler under | consideration. g? PLAN GOVERNMENT HELP FOR JOBLESS IN WINTER MONTHS N (Continued From Pirst Page.) to make a survey of all the Federal agencies and to map, out a of construction and for the co-o1 tion of all Governmental activities, While the President in announcing this committee and his eagerness to bring about some assistance before the coming of Winter made no mention of the fact, it is understood that his pur- pose in renewing his activities at this time is to have the Government in readiness in case of an emergency aris- ing out of a national ecrisis. cretary Lamont left today for New York City to begin inquiries toward co<ordination of relief work be- tween Federal and State authorities. ‘The Commerce Secretary made no comment, but it was understood at his department that he might make it & point to confer with business men who have undertaken the arrangements for relief in the mettopolis during the . Winter. 3 2 Meanwhile the President last night held another of his business confer- _ ences, when 'he conferred with William ~ C. Ripley, professor of economics at- Harvard. University and nationally prominent as the author of the railroad consolidation plan, and Henry Robinson, bank president of Los Angeles; a per- sonal ‘riend of the President. The President today received rnomas : Campbell, one of the largest wheat . growers in the United States, who has just returned to this country following a trip through the agricultural sections of Russia. r, Campbell told the Presi- dent of his observations in that country ideas he d also discussed with him has for solving the wheat surplus . problem. 1 Bo;\l; Damages Theater. B S il s s With a warm farm house close at hand, five men in & motor car, stalled in a deep snowdrift, froze to death near Regina, Saskatchewan. A Montana stockman perished in a blizzard while attempting.to drive his cattle to shelter. One. th was charged indirectly tc ‘ern Washington, while sicet was fall in other sections, Preezing Were general ling | the f temperature with flurries of snow which visited Chicagg terday. PANAMA CITY, ‘The Panama Canal in three months yesterday passing through and almost two hours by of traffic. yes- The highest monthly a Iast three years figures at the heavy volums- verage for tne a 18