Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1930, Page 1

SEHATOR T0 QU HODVERAPPOINTEES * FORCONFRAATIN Power and Tariff Group Men and Labor Secretary Face Gauntlet. OPPOSITION SUGGESTED IN CASE OF F. R McNINCH North Carolind Democrat Who Fought Smith Disolaims Preju- dicial Previous Interests. ra BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Hoover's recent appoint- ments to the Federal Waterpower Com- mission, the Tariff Commission and to the office of Secretary of Labor will run the gauntlet of the Senate and its committees during the’ coming week. ‘The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee today decided to call before it all five of the newly appointed com- missioners Thursday morning. The committee will question each of the appointees regarding his former con- mections, particularly whether has in the past been connected with the only suggestion of op- of these appointments of nk R.. McNinch of Charlotte, N. C. Mr. McNinch headed - the anti-Smith Democratic organiza- PAIR TIE WOMAN, GET $10,000 LOOT Cook and Masked Man Rob Balti- more Home as Victim ‘Watches Helplessly. By the Associated Press. the g of Jeanne Babrika. e her a week ago, and did not investigate N, J,, reference the woman HUNT INTENSIFIED FOR FREE MANIACS /One of Escaped Convicts Seen Twice in New York Since Leav- ing Matteawan, L] By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 5.—8Search Pages13,14&15 Enter: cond class matter = post m‘:. ‘Vuhln‘tom D. C. 48 Persons Killed By Mysterious Gas Sweeping Over City Assoc BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 5. —Forty-eight persons are dead in the .vicinity of Engis, near Liege, apparently poisoned by a mysterious gas mixed with a fog which swept over the region last night and to- day. Cattle have also been affected by this strange malady of the mist and many of them have died. Today frightened and bewildered farmers drove as many as ble of their cows and horses into warm dry kitchens to shield them from the death outside, ELECTRIC RATES REDUCTION FILED Power Company Gives Pro- posed 1931 Schedule to Utilities Commission. Substantial reductions in the sched- ules for domestic heating and cooking and for commercial general uses were the features of the rate reduction pro- posal submitted by the Potomac Electric Power Co. to the Public Utilities Com- | £ mission today to go into effect in 1931 if approved by the commission. ‘The commission will take the rates under consideration and a decision is expected at its meeting Monday. In schedule X, on which the house- holder gets his current for any house- hold use other than lighting, the re- duction in the rate is from 4.7 cents to kilowatt hour for the first 10 agd from 2.5 to 2.1 cents for all first 10. This involves & re- duction of $36,190 and it affects 6,239 consumers. Lighting Cut Largest. In the commereial lighting and gen- eral use schedule, known as schedule D, the proposed reduction, involving 15,105 687. primary ission, are new and have not been studied. Will Act Monday. justed. ‘This decree, entered in 1924, allows the company to earn 7} pep cent on its agreed valuation and to one- balf of the excess over such earnings, returning the other the following year to the consumers in the way of rate reductions. BYRD PARTY MEMBER TO GUIDE ARCTIC GROUP Capt, Stroem Begins Preparations for American Scientific Expe- dition—Details Not Disclosed. By Radio o The Star, *OBLO, Norway, December 5.—Capt. Sverre Stroem of Tromsoe, & member of Rear Admiral Richard Byrd's South Polar expedition, arrived in Bergen to- day to take charge of preparations for s big American Arctic expedition. ‘The expedition is to drift on its ship through the Northwest under the same as Roald Amuad- sen did aboard is to be (Copyright, 1830.) DOUMERGUE GALLS LEADERS IN QUEST OF NEW MINISTRY Poincare, Summoned Today, Appears Most Likely Suc- cessor to Tardieu. PARTY CHIEFTAINS DOUBT A\ EARLY CRISIS SOLUTION Prosident Advised to Consider Dis- armament and Security in Calling Premier. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 5.—President Dou- mergue today conferred with the presi- dents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies in quest of a man to form a new French government. The next to be consulted were Jules Jeanneney, vice president of the Fi- nance Commission of the Senate, and Jean Malyy, president of the Finance Commission of the Chamber. M. Malvy, upon leaving the Presi- dent, ultdv.y I p‘t)mnu the ministerial erisis will be prolonged.” Victor Bernard, president of the For- el Affairs Commission, also was re- ceived in audience. Poincare Summoned. President Doumergue also called for- mer Premier Poincare to appear at the Elysee Palace this afternon. ‘While President Doumergue was Carry- ing.on his conservations the groups of the Chamber met to discuss the situa- tion. A majority seemed in favor of concentration government, ait! h knowle that this would be ult because ot factional fights. Some saw a possibility of a transi- ‘tionad cabinet formed by Henri Cheron, minister of justice in the Tardieu ‘n;l-x as & way to secure a vol ernment, y ~s te the budget, - until the trouble solved. ‘International disarmament and secur- ity enter dlnd\‘a:nd prominently into the crisis, Paul cour, France's lead- ing suthority on disarmament and former representative at the League of Nations, told President Doumergue. Puts Security First. M. Boncour, who is president of the Affairs Committee ot‘nu;; for a consultation e eholee . of a premier. He regarding the 2 eoulueks the President to choose a cabinet which would give a first place . Sl 20 oty % a ting Marines, will 'nu‘ll-, the ‘Whatever the desires of to the President for a ministry heade by another, it appeared that the answer to the crisis lay in M. Poincare. The veteran statesman's own attitude was believed to have changed somewhat with defeat of his friend and disciple, M, Tardieu. May Change His Mind. Just prior to the vote he told friends in the Senate lobby: “If my hame is put forward to assume formation of & new presen 3 would be & public calamity if the ernment 15 overthrown, and I sha the first to advise M. Doumergue to recall M. Tardieu.” Today the feeling was general that he ‘would induced to change his views and .accept responsibility for & new ministry. Other names suggested for a possible invitation presented %flnfly insur- mountable obstacles. inent among them was that of Aristide Briand, for- eign minister in the Tardieu cabinet, but opposition to him has grown of late, and success would be doubtful. Others_were Henri Cheron and Plerre Laval, Poincare’s close friend. Vagueness Charged. Tt was expected that the President would need at least 48 hours for his preliminary - consultations. Political prognosticators- predicted that a new government would not be formed before the end of next week. ‘The opposition charged the govern- ment with the unrest and menacing sit- uation which it said existed in France and demanded its resignation on the ground that Tardieu’s program was too vague and that he was not in accord with M. Briand on foreign policy. In answering, M. Tardleu pointed to stability of the franc and France's su- perior financial position as compared with other world powers. & smattering of applause, and some one on the extreme left shouted “Get out” as soon as he had finished his first sentence. TUNNEY MADE MAIOR | Retired Champion Appointed to Staff of Connecticut Gévernor. NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 5 (#).—James J. (Gene) Tunney, retired champlon heavywelight fighter of the world, once man with the gold leaf of a major as an aide on the staff of Wilbur | L. Cross, who bewmu_,oovemorotcon- ANOTHER BABY GORILLA TO JOIN N’GI, NOW 4, IN WASHINGTON ZOO Director Receives Cable From Congo Territory Infant Male Will Be Sent Here. ‘The Washington Zoo is to have a be | Work with Mr. "WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION REPRESENTATIVE SIMMONS’ = - [ Tive caly svenlag pigi e | service, e ,.__-__., / Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,278 UP) Means Associated Press, TWO CENTS.: T0 CONDENINATION | MARYLAND RAIDS PROPERTY PRICES| AS DRY ARGUMENT Gives House Fiscal Relations | Director Anticipates Opposi« Committee Instances tion to Request for Larger o@ Increases. Enforcement Fund. SUPREME COURT SITE CHARTS AND MAPS MADE EYALUATION IS CITED| TO DEMONSTRATE WORK Rickards Unable to Offer Remedy | Increased Appropriation of $2, loy’noploud Costs of Acquiring 200,000 and 500 More Agents Lang for Government, Goal of Chief. ‘The higher prices which the Govern-| Anticipating congressional opposition "| ment 1s forced to pay when acquiring to his request for a larger enforcement IDEA OF HOW WE DO IT! SMITH CO. DEFENSE LIMITS TESTIMONY Gets Ruling Holding Wit- nesses of Government to Statement of Facts. An effort on the part of the Govern- ment to show that C. Elbert Anadale purchased a Rolls-Royce automobile with $12,500 of P. H. Smith Co. funds and a euccessful move by the defense to exclude ‘intgrpretations” of technical testimony by the prosecution’s ex| accountants were outstanding develop- ments today in the trial in District Supreme Court of three former Smith Co. officers on conspiracy charges. Counsel for the defendants, G. Bryan Night Club Excuse Satisfies Robbers Victims Are ‘Broke’ By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 5.— When the Simon Cohens got ‘home this morning they found three men in their Brooklyn apartment, bent on robbery. “Give us your money,” de- nded one. ‘Haven't any,” replied Cohen. 've just been to a night club.” ‘I;heu wasn't any answer to CHURCH WEDDING AELD AN TOREDS | Foster Says'Rite Would Ruin Communist—Shelby Ex- plains Police Action. By the Associsted Press. s T, ter | ' Bellet that any man “who would ge married in church” would be of no value ;to Communism was expressed today iry ‘William Z. Foster before the the | special House Communist Committee. Tegarding the _depositing of various checks, but they the sf of these ters. When Mr. Dodds ob) on the ground that such a procedure would not enable the jury to understand the na- ture of the transactions upon which the Government's charges are based, Justice Hitz replied that all interpretations of testimony “are properly a function of counsel, not of witnesses.” Charles T. Malone, an accountant of the Bureau of Investigation, assigned to Dodds in the investiga- tion, said that the transaction involv- ing the purchase of the Rolls-Royce occurred in August, 1928. Checks Are Mentioned. On August 21 of that year, he said, an item of $12,500 was charged to the Smith Co. account in the Commercial National Bank. The check upon which this charge was based, he explained, came in through the daily clearance, having apparently been cashed at an- other bank. He then went on to show that on the preceding day Anadale’s special account in the Merchants’ Bank & Trust Co. was credited with $12,500. On August 22, he testified, this same account shows a charge of $12,500. based on a check of Anadale’s made |7 to “Rolls-Royce ne.” ‘When Malone undertook to interpret these transactions for the benefit of the jury, Defense Counsel Frank G. Raichle (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) STRIKERS ORDERED TO VACATE HOUSES Textile Company Gives Five Days for Virginians to Act Upon Notice. | Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va, December 5.—The textile strike today entered a new phase when the management of the River- side & Dan River Mills launched an eviction policy and served notice on 60 strikers that they must quit company- owned houses within the next five days. It was the move which many had ex- PVord of the development Tan through union circles quickly this morning and ted indigna i ‘The Communist leader had just said Atheism was not a prerequisite of mem- bership in the Communist party. “Can a member of the party be mar- LA GUARDI PLANS FGHT ON PAY BAR Representative to Move to Strike Out Amendment Prohibiting Increases. hibiting any salary increases to Govern- ment employes, A 1tied in church?” Chairman Fish asked. | day. “My opinion is that any member of the party who would marry in church would be of no value to the party,” Foster replied. “Would he be allowed to stay in the party?” “He would not.” Foster refused to give to the com- | big mittee the names of members of the American Communist Central Commit- tee, Qduuuaned at an open hearing, Foster sald: id: “I'm not submitting any names to this committee, if you please.” Asked his reasons he replied that “such evidence could only be elicited for eventual use against court.” had priority over him. He ds E:rpnu of the House Committee was to ve the Communist organization out- iawed. Refuses to Be Sworn. At the outset, Foster refused to be sworn by Chairman Pish of the com- mittee, asserting in.reply to & question that he did not believe in a deity. He consented to affirming that he would tell the truth. Twice a candidate for the presidency and once for the gov- ernorship of New York, he said he was mml in Taunton, Mass, of Irish l;fl ish parentage. He was a member of the American Federation of Labor until expelled less than a year ago. Foster read a prepared statement which said there are 9,000,000 unem- ployed in the United States. “For the last yl:l".”mhf“e%numud. “every newspaper er as been full of fl'.:'p.ol the most bestial and bloody attacks upon crowds of defense- less workers by the police. Only last Monday, o the steps of the Capitol Building, police clubs and gas bombs were used freely to break up a delega- tion of workers coming to exercise th constitutionally guaranteed ht _to protest against further legisla- tion to suppress .Shelby Speaks for Police. Inspector William 8. Shelby, in charge f the Washington Detective Bureau, p Foster before the committee, said there “was not much violence” be- tween police and Communist demon- strators at the opening session of Con- tions at & nearby police station, he said. the | “irhe Comm unists, he said, trickled on (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) ne | BELGIAN-ENVOY SELECTED mills | Paul May Coming to U. 8. to Suc- ceed Prince de Ligne. ¢ us In police | purpose The Communist said he was a mem- | 1 sald: “One of the worst things that this |the Congress could do in the face of the prevailing economic conditions would know about it ‘Woodcock intends to g the d.fif being’ assembled as basis tee numerous instances wherein Drop-|request for an additional $2.200.000 i erty in this city had been acquired by |appropriations and 500 more agents. William R. Blanford, administrator of the ceedings—substantial increases over the prior sales of the properties. Cites Municipal Centef. The price of ‘land in the municipal center, which the District gove: fat! . It ®&8 Searal 0 $6,000 and " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) GIFFORD A. COCHRAN FATALLY STRICKEN Race Horse Owner Believed Vie- tim of Heart Attack in Hall of Apartment. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 8. —Gifford A Ou:hmh:e-lt.hy social ite, sportsman found dead toda: Aot ha body was toud avenue a) en! was by a mm making his rounds. Mr, Cochran, noted for his extensive string of horses, was formerly president ‘of Alexander Smith & Son, ‘Yonkers carpet man rers, and was an official of 'a number of other con- cerns. A Mr, Cochran’s wife, formerly Mahel . Taylor, obtained a divorce in Paris in 1927, They had three children, Jean, race “DEATH TRAP” AT LAST PRAISED; IT STOPS FLEEING MOTOR THIEF Car Abandoned After Crashing Through Barrier on en! under ‘'oodcock will receive $1. - stead of $9.000,000 spent o the outrent (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. BLAST OF GAS MAIN DESTROYS STORES Dung'e From Explosion in Beloit, Wis., Estimated at More Than $500,000. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) SECRETARY OF EMBASSY HERE' WINS. PROMOTION Japan Names Sotomatsu ilto as Counselor Matsuzo Nagai Is Given High Post. By the Assoclated Press. O, December 5.—Matsuzo Nagi, tmrmwrwnel{lm.vulp- pointed vice minister of foreign affairs today. He succeeds Shigeru Y who becomes Ambassador to Italy. By the Associated Press. Sotomatsu Kato, first secretary of the| BELOIT, Wis., December 5.—An ex- , was. promoted to | plosion of a gas main, followed by a A L g ed consul general in New York, vice[!0day destroyed several stores and Setsuzo Sawada, who was named Jap- | caused damage estimated at more than anese representative to the League of | $500,000. Nations. Lester Sheehan thrown thrm‘l plate glass m‘“ cul n'gmwwcmmcmm; el Co., Uni- ;u-l omy and J. A. Anderson's the walls remain of the E. L. t Store and Ice - Bandits Get Pay Roll. NEW YORK, December 5 ()—Hand- cuffing a cashier and two woman clerks, hold-up men escaped with a $1,981 pay roll from the Breslin on Broadway. RUMANIAN CHAMBER BREAKS UP IN RIOT Government Minister and Liberal Deputy Start Trouble in Clash Over Mine Closing. Alexnndru-Wuhmgton Highway. By a Btaft Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va.,, December 5.— Wmm:&m"flufll% crashed through the cal barrier and & o5