Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1930, Page 2

TEMPERATURE HITS - NEWLOW FORDATE 15 . Degrees Makes Today - Coldest December 16 in 13 Years. With the thermometer at the United States Weather Bureau registering 15 degrees at 8:15 o'clock today, the Na- tional Capital was experiencing the W December 16 within the past 13 years. Not since that date in December, 1917, when the mercury plunged down to 10, has the weather been as cold ‘on a similar date. Only in five out of the past 19 years | has the temperature approached the “Jow level of today on December 16, rec- ords show. Out of these years, Decem- ;ber 15 and 16, 1914, stand out. On ‘those days the temperature was down' %o 11, Colder Last Month. While the present weather may be considered unseasopably cold, colder’ ‘weather has been recorded on a num- ber of occasions earlier in the season |k dn past years. Going back to Novem- .\er 29 of this year there was recorded & temperature of 14 degrees. The oficial {orecast, predicts mini- | mum of degrees for tonight, with | slowly rising temperature and increas- cloudiness tomorrow. | i 1 m forecast district. It Wwill not be quite so cold tonight in the | Jower lake region, the north portion | of the H}ddrl:e Atlantic Bhfc&l. ":;d portions of W Aant - tures will rise quite generally on | odm-a-&” ovg ):hlddle and N!an.hern districts, ‘eather Bureau forecast Ppredicts. 15 BELOW IN VERMONT. Extreme Cold Recorded at Several H Points in New England. BOSTON, December 16 (#).—A pene- ftrating cold that threatened to break! Iong-standing temperature records set- $led down over New England today for what the Weather Bureau believes will Be_a two-day stopover. ‘The lowest -carly tmvrnmg tempera- were iMorgan Partner Says People Stationed at Fort Myer, who will Campagna has seen service in the ant leader of the 3d Cavalry Band. retire Navy, Marine Corps and Army. ASK INVESTIGATORS FOR GRAIN MARKET {Department of Agriculture Advocates Expansion of Control Powers. By the Associated Press. An enlarged flying squadron of con- fidential inquirers to track down and try's grain markets is desired by the Department of Agriculture. ‘This was revealed today when the Agriculture Department's supply bill # | was reported to the House, accompanied MASTER SERGT. APRIANO CAMPAGNA, on December 31 at the age of 69 years. He is assist- —Star Staff Photo. LAMONT DECLARES CITIZENS AT WORK Doing Best to Improve Business Conditions. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 16.—Thomas W. Lamont, partner in J. P. Morgan & femperatures. I Bmwlg ly this . In ear] morning thermometers stood at 4 above sero, 4 SNOW FALLS IN SOUTH. M'l‘-mhml-gluhrm as Northwestern Florida. . ATLANTA, Ga., December 15 STIMSON APPOINTS SPECIAL ASSISTANT Allen T. Klots of New York Added to Personal Staff of Secretary his | “The taxes in Washington and the he prepared the data for most of it g g g courts. The two also were closely asso- clated during the World War, Mr. Klots having served as adjutant of the 305th Regiment of Field Artillery, com- manded by Mr. Stimson, who then held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the National Army. In announcing Mr. Klots’ moxm- ment, the Secretary explained t his duties at the State Department would be similar to those of the junior mem- Mollhwflm‘mth':tmkwo-lfl: do the “research” worl Wfllmmr the final action of the ry. In that work he would have the assistance of Willlam H. Beck, also f&flll assistant to the Secretary. Earl . Mosburg and G. H. Keatley, private secretaries, and Capt.. Eugene Regnier, United States Cavalry, aide de camp. AUTOIST WOUNDED | BY STRIKE TROOPS; TWO HOMES BOMBED (Continued Prom First Page.) wrecked and all windows of the shattered. Fuse Mistaken for Cigarette. A. W. Rake, who lives a mile down the hear Co., has with respect to business one to members of the Exchange yesterday, continued: “‘Our fellow-citizens all over the land have risen to splendid an New York Stock York is a tower of strength. You know that the Association of ‘House Banks is a rful safeguard against trouble. Youmkncw that, despite surface ‘weaknesses which may still show them- U.'S. SHOULD BEAR EXCESS D. C. COST, GOTWALS THINKS (Continued From First Page.) reason why the people in Wash- e those in cities. “None,” answered Maj. Gotwals. should ap- proximate those paid outside,” he added. Questioned by Frear. “Do you think that because people live in the Capital City and do not bave the privilege of voting, ler this should have any influence on the - | situation?” asked Chairman Mapes. “None,” responded the Commissioner. Representative Frear of Wisconsin then asked Maj. Gotwals why it would not be fair 1o the City of Washington to pay a tax rate equivalent to other cities that have a bonded indebtedness, due to the fact that the Federal Gov- ernment pays to the District what could be considered as a sinking fund in those cities that have a bonded in- debtedness. Maj. Gotwals pointed out in reply that if Washington was standing here alone without the aid of the Federal Government it would be forced to get along on its current revenue. “Give us your idea of a practical formula for a relative contribution of the Pederal Government,” asked Chair- man Mapes. “I can go no further,” replied Maj Gotwals, “than to repeat that there should be a separation of operating costs and capital expenditures and the city should bear the ordinary expenses the others.” Says Some Conditions Remedied. The only other witness heard by the committee was Herbert J. Brown of 1122 Thirteenth street, who said he made an examination in 1912 for the House Dis- trict Committee to determine whether the tax assessments in Washington were sound. Some of the conditions which pre- ed in whole or in part, and some are still current. The ‘met and the Federal Government bearing older tha vailed in 1912, Brown said, have been | &X remedi DRINKING ALLEGED IN SLANDER CASE |22 Two Witnesses Say Liquor Was Served at Party in Woman’s Apartment. Testimony that Rev. William Thomas Reynolds, former rector of Grace Epis- copal Church, in Georgetown, was drunk on two occasions in the apart- ment of Mrs. Maude Bell Ford, 2222 N rgue: du Pont Lee, related to the du Pont family of Delaware, for $50,000 dam- ages for alleged slander, was given this afternoon to Justice Prederick L. Sid- dons and a jury in Circuit Division 1 in Mrs. Lee's defense of the suit. Two witnesses testified to the - : develop in the South. by the transcript of hitherto secret hearings of the House Appropriations Committee. It was one of the myriad activities of the department’s branches upon which experts testified. Dr. W. T. Duvel, chief of the Grain Futures Administration, advocated authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to control short selling of grain by foreign governments—a con- sequence of the recently disclosed Rus- sian transactions in the Chicago pit. He said it was essential to keep tab more closely on exchange brokers’ and commission merchants’ activities to pre- vent irregularities in handling cus- tomers’ accounts. Prosecutions Are Mentioned. The department's program declared it “most important” that studies of in prices, including stock market in- gx‘eneu, other commodity markets, vis- ible supply, grain movements and other factors, both domestic and foreign, be extended far beyond the capacity of the present organization, “Numerous cases of irregularities have already been uncovered,” said Duvel, “which require further action by the department. The very nature of this work makes it essential that the de- partment continue to take immediate action on all complaints that appear justified, and to follow through with the most important cases.” official specifically asked funds for “special lnvestigations, mainly in the prosecutions which , and will result.” Other activities reported by the de- partment’s workers ranged from studies on the use of turpentine in mal shatter-proof glass to road building. Synthetic Camphor Possible. Dr. W. W. Skinner, chemical tech- nologist, said the right type of turpen- tine is sought, to be turned into syn- thetic camphor, which in turn becomes celluloid. Placed between two panes it gives the shatter-proof glass for auto- mobiles. “If the turpentine research succeeds,” he added, “I see no reason why a syn- thetic camphor industry should not The stretchlng network of airways on the continent and in the territories has put the burden of furnishing round tions up to the Weather Bureau. So that speeding pilots may take their cargoes of humans and mail safely through stormy nights and befogged days, the bureau, its official told Con- tion of the clergyman and also that Mrs, Ford on one of the occasions was also intoxicated and had to be put to bed and the minister assisted from her apartment by one of the witnesses, who also declared that Rev. Mr. Rey- nolds was intoxicated February 5, 1928, ‘when holding healing services at a fash- jonable church near Washington Circle. It was on the latter occasion tha Mrs. Lee is said to have uttered the alleged slanderous statements against Mrs. Ford. Telephone Operator Testifies. Mrs. Marie Gorsuch, who had been employed by Mrs. Ford as a telephone operator at Corcoran Courts, where Mrs, Ford was manager, declared that she attended a party at the apartment of Mrs. Ford, September 1, 1927, at 2222 N street, when Rev. Mr. Reynolds was present, and that all of them had gress, is planning hourly information service over airways aggregating 25,000 miles. The work will cost a maximum of $80 a mile. Fertilizer Study Under Way. Investigations designed to cut the farmer’s annual fertilizer bill by $60,~ 000,000 were outlined by Dr. Henry G. Knight, chief of the Chemistry and Soils Bureau. Raw fertilizer materials cost $116,000,000 a year, he sald, adding that by a new blast-furnace smelting process, the department forecasts a sav- ing of $17,000,000 on potash, plus $43,- 000,000 on phosphoric acid. Substantial progress was curbing tuberculosis swine and poultry.. F Dr. John R. Mohler, chief of the Ani- mal Industry Bureau, said the disease had been eradicated to the point of less than one-half of 1 per cent in many rts of the United States. However, e added, it exists to some extent among reported among cattle, .| poultry in the Middle Western and North Central States. ‘Thé department’s Bureau of Dairy .| Industry has found a new sweet sugar can be produced from cow’s milk. Sugar Found in Skimmed Milk. Millions of pounds of skimmed milk, h gtenn( to waste, contain sugar that can extrac she had ever seen the rector drunk. She also denied glving him anything to drink on February 5, 1928, when Mrs. Lee is alleged to have made statements that the rector was drunk on that occasion and that Mrs. Ford was responsible for his condition. Claim is also made that Mrs. Lee used language reflecting on the morality of the plaintiff. Letters Are Identified. Attorney W. Gwynn Gardiner for Mrs. Ford called Mrs. Lee to identify a.number of letters said to have been written by her to Mr. Reynolds, which the lawyer asserted were admissible for the purpose of showing “malice” on the part of Mrs. Lee in making the state- ment at a healing service being con- ducted at a fashionable Episcopal Church near Washin n Circle. The letters, several in number, ad- mitted by the elderly widow to have been written to Mr. Reynolds, then about 40 years old, are replete with words of love and affection. Mrs. Lee admitted the authorship, but when Attorneys Mackall and Bur- Toughs, her counsel, sought on cross- examination to show the age of the rector, and that Mrs. Lee had sons n him, and that the missives Were written in a “motherly” vein, Mrs. Ford's lawyers, Gardiner, Edward L. Marthill and South Trimble, jr., ob- | jected and Justice Siddons ruled that they would have to wait until the case for the defense had started. Teach the building, wheras the machin- ery which made the materials has been ited . “Therefore,” , “you have t a ball of yl;n of taxation to which there is no end.” Suggests Important Ald. In concluding his testimoney, Brown said, there is one way in which the Federal Government might aid the m of funds. m,m- reduction in the taxes on the small and the stores ted, said O. E. Reed, chief of the Dalry Industry Bureau. Experi- ments are being carried on to learn ‘what effect the milk sugar will have on diet of humans. A visitor from the Argentine, which has struck up a friendship with a long- time resident of the United States, will cost the Federal Government plenty next year. ‘The mealy bug is the resident and it has been plyln( “milk cow” for the Argentine ant, which Dr. C. L. Marlatt, chief of the Bureau of Entomology, said has “become such an increasingly seri- ous menace in the South that it now d. | presents a very acute problem.” Referring to the tobacco moth, he - 1sald an experimental vacuum store- house may have to be constructed be- fore a satisfactory way of getting rid of it can be found. Farmers are to get many thousands of dollars worth of Pederal protection from cotton insects during the next fiscal year, Mr, Marlatt testified. Seek Boll Worm Parasites. Plowing and irrigation were the best methods for controlling the pink boll worm, he said, with the plowing best done in the late Fall or Winter. While saying parasites to the pink T. bollworm had not been develoj suc- cessfully, he added, the hope that suc- cessful g\;omr.ucm in American sofl will yet secured. Most of the Mediterranean fruit fly research work in Florida has ceased, but the Agriculture Department intends to increase its efforts to learn mare about the Oriental fruit moth, he said. A 193,201-mile ribbon of roads was in- cluded in the approved Federal-aid- highway system on the first day of this month. Thomas H., MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Publi¢ Roads, said that of the complete system, 87,540 miles had been 1mgnved by December 1. Mora than 10,000 miles were under way, and 1,548 miles had been approved for con- struction. Chinese Aviation Improves. Commercial aviation in China has taken another big step forward with the establishment of a new government- controlled company. prepare to prosecute those responsible | for irregular transactions on the coun- | the clock information on flying condi- | i, in [ home 'a put over the’five-year indus- i tion, and charged to the Insurance Ex- | o'clock at the hall. Members of the junior department of Gunsion Hall a ppearing in Dicken's The affair will be under direction of Mrs. Jennie F. Kunst. Baker, Lorainne Littlefield, Jean Benton and Muriel Salmond. Back row, Lucille Sheppard, Helen Patton, Catherine Fordney and Med ora Shores. TEN BANKS CLOSED - 110 PROTECT FUNDS “Christmas Carol” this afternoon at § Front row, left to right: Ann Kiess, Jane left to right: Nancy Fleming, Betty Emmerson, —=8Star Staff Photo. BAN ON WITNESS HALTS RED PROBE Secretary Stimson Refuses| to Allow Visa Chief to Give Public Testimony. By the Associated Press. A surprised House Committee found its investigation of Communist activities halted today after Secretary Stimson’s refusal to let a State Department offi- cial testify at a public session. “The Secretary has instructed me to say that I am not at Hberty to testify in open session, since such testimony if published would be contrary to pub- lic interest,” was the objection relayed to the committee by A. Dana Hodgdon, chief of the department’s visa office, when he was called to the witness stand. He was willing to go on in se- cret session, but the committee refused and asked its chairman, Representative Fish, Republican, New York, to ask to indicate what in particular to having presented pub- Soviet Agent Testifies. In an earlier executive session the committee had obtained data on the operation of the visa system from a for- mer official of the office. It sought amplification of this from Hfidom Just before Hodgdon was led the investigators had heard Boris E. Skvir- sky of the Soviet information office here assert that Russian monarchists “are permitted easy entry (into the United States) for some reason” and are carrying on anti-Soviet propaganda activities. e Witness Subpoenaed. By contrast, he asserted, his ment did not encourage emigral of Boviet citizens and estimated there were less than 1,000 of them in this coun- try. He said all labor was needed af trialization m. Hodgdon had come before the com- mittee under subpoena, because, Fish explained, Stimson had previously re- fused to permit that publicity be given the testimony of John F. Simmons, for- mer visa chief, and Robert F. Kelley, head of the Eastern European division of the State Department. PITTS QUESTIONED BY PROSECUTOR ON EARNINGS SINCE "17 (Continued Prom First Page.) of these subsidiaries and from dividends on his stock holdings. He explained that subsidiary corporations d _a standing account with the Smith Co. and that he was entitled to draw on these accounts to meet the legitimate expenses of the minor corporations. In each instance he submitted a requisition and a receipt covering each particular transaction. In this manner he covered all of the 95 occasions on which the Gov- ;ededrnnmu charged money had been em- “Did Anadale or Edwards ever re- ceive for their own personal use any of the money in question?” Defense Attorney Wilton J. Lambert asked. “They did not.” “Did you ever receive any improper- ly for your own al use?” “I certainly m' “When moneys were paid to you on these authorizations, was the indebted- ness of the Smith Co. to the subsidiary con!)?nuom correspondingly reduced?” “It was.” Pitts then explained the transaction in which Anadale paid $12,500 for an lu'fir‘:&blle purchased for Mrs. Gladys “This was paid by Anadale with a check on his special account in_the Merchants’ Bank & Trust Co,” Pitts sald. “I was in Europe at the time. There was a proper authorization for this money from the Montclair Corpora- | change Building in Pittsburgh. Mr. Anadale did not get a cent of the money. I used it to purchase the auto- { mobile for my wife.” At one point in his testimony Pitts engaged in a heated controversy with counsel for the prosecution. He had been referring frequently to a letter and one of the Government counsel de- manded it be introduced in evidence. “You can read it if you want to,” Pitts said to the llwl'l'lsi.e “I don’t want to,” lawyer an- ;::red,: “but it ought to go in evi- Pitts turned to Lambert and shouted: “Give me that letter. If he won't show me the courtesy of reading it I won't put it in evidence.” Club to Have Turkey Shoot. Members of the Anacostia Gun Club have accepted the invitation to partici- pate in a turkey shoot at the residence of Clarence B. Jett, Lorton, Va., next Saturday morning. There will be 25 contests staged for as many turkeys, and numerous residents of this city who plan to participate in the event ;u.l motor from here early in the morn- iy = BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening, at Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock; John 8. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. Mareh, “For the Freedom of the RAYMOND POINCARE. POINCARE BETTER, DOCTOR DECLARES American Among Distinguish- ed Callers Upon Stricken Statesman. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 18.—Noticeable im- provement was found this afternoon in the oondition of former President Ray- mond Poincare, who is ill at his home here, Dr. Georges Marion announced after,a visit at the bedside. ‘The physician added that he had found M. Poincare’s sfate “more satis- factory.” Police Guard Home. Police in front of the Poincare home kept watchers at a distance, so as not to disturb the former President. Norman- Armour, American charge d’affaires, was among those who called this afternoon to inquire for M. Poin- care. In :describing his illness, the Paris press uses the expression hemiplegia, that is, & paralysis which affects one lateral half of the body. The uremia were former President’s 3 ‘When M. Poincare was first attacked Saturday there were evidences that a small vein connecting the brain was rupturing, but Dr. Boidon relieved his patient by bleeding him. Distinguished Persons Call. Among the distinguished personages calling on him today were M. Tardieu, the Prince of Monaco, former President Millerand, former ministers and other officials. - Mme. Poincare never leaves her hus- band’s bedside. During the night she fell into slumber from sheer exhaustion, but awoke fitfully to watch anew over her patient. e RIGHT TO REGULAT D. C. SIGNS DESIRED FOR DISTRICT HEADS (Continued From Pirst Page.) clations and the Civic Federations of Montgomery and Arlington Counties. At Hyattsville the Chamber of Com- merce pledged support to the campaign adopted resolutions urging that State Senator Lansdale S. Sasscer and members of the House of Delegates take up the matter of billboard regulation with the Maryland Assembly when it convenes. Mrs. W. L. Lawton, chairman of the National Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty, addressed the lunch- of the Women's National Press Club at the Willard Hotel today. She gave the newspaper women many lluminating facts about conditions on the surrounding Washington, a survey of which Mr. and Mrs. Lawton have just completed for the American Civic Association. Letters are being mailed out by the American Civic Association to all cit- izens’ associations in the District and Maryiand and Virginis ureing co-opere. ary] ant 8§ co-opera- tion in this campaign. Letters also are being sent to the leaders of the various county federations of women’s clubs, including Mrs. B. Pey- ton Whalen of Bethesda, president of the Montgomery County Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. R. F. of College Park, president of the Prince Georges County Federation of Women'’s Clubs; Mrs. Swavely of Manassas, Va., president the fourth district, which includes Fairfax and Arlington Countles in Virginia; Mrs. John L. Whitehurst of Baltimore, ident of the Maryland State Federa of Wom- en's clubc.v/-nd Mrs. Ji L 'g. Buck of Hampton, Va. president of e Virginia State Federation. Probers to Go to Memphis. ‘The House commif - Judge Harry Anderson leaves tonight for Memphis to ‘Thi . Chairman said he Orosby | end by Saturday. The amyn--. | appropriations for the WOOD FIRM IN FIGHT ON SALARY RAISES New Department Bills Changed So That Stay of In- creases Will Be Automatic. (Continued From First Page.) authority is restored-for making admin- istrative promotions to the extent of whatever leeway there may be in the particular de- partment or bureau from funds avail- able for salaries. 1t does mean, however, that since no specific e?pvmprht.im: is made as rec- ommended in the budget for 30 per cent of the $14,440,000 estima uired to bring -yeAr program bringing all under-average salaries up to Aurlr will be automatically deferred until 1933 on the Interior the Appropriations Committee today in omitting it from the agriculture ia bill restores the authority administrative promotions which the Wood amendment would have prevented, where funds are adequate for this purpose Increase Is Possible. ‘The next step to secure the promised increases to Government employes is for the House to amend the agriculture ap~ propriation bill as reported so as to in- clude the $223,820 required in the De- partment of Agriculture for the promo- tions during the first year of the three- year program. If the ‘House fals to do that, there is still another chance to defeat Chairman ‘Wood’s the Treasury« Post Office bill, In which the Senate has included necessary funds for increases under the three-year program, reaches conference between the House and Sen- House that what many of them thought they were accomplishing by the Vote last Priday in knocking out the Wood amendment was not automatioally ac- complished and did not mean that salary increases under the three-year ‘They appreciate today lide” the. mecessary” appropriations be- clu ry - fore the three-year program can go into effect. Senate Backs Increases. In the Senate the Treasury-Post Of- fice appropriation bill is ready to go to conference today, having passed the Senate late yesterday. ‘The Senate not only put back in the bill the amounts needed to take care of 30 per cent of the total cost of adjust- ing underaverage positions, but also struck from the ment, which would have prevented any increases within grades of the classifi- y_inserted with the conferees of both houses, who probably will be appointed today. Under the Wood amendment depart- ment officials would have been barred from using the result of deaths or resignations to Eight Are in North Carolina, One in South Carolina and One in West Virginia. By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C., December 16.— Eight North Carolina banks, four in the western part of the State and four in Gaston County either failed to open or closed their doors today. Directors of the institutions explain- ed the action was taken as a precau- tionary measure for the protection of depositors. “Heavy withdrawls” was given as the reason in practically every case. The Pirst National Bank of Gastonia, the largest of the eight, had deposits of ::.m.gz Resources were given at Gaston Loan & Trust Co. of Gastonia, the Bank of Dallas and the People’s Bank of West Gastonia, were com- paratively small institutions. The com- bined deposits totaled $270,052.84. Town Is Bankless, Clost of the Bank of Franklin in Macon $125,000. The Bank of Swannanoa, with de- ts of $182,000, and the Bank of lm‘fltfl its of $105,000, failed to ove_l% T withstane runs yesterday. e Bank of 3 son County, closed in the withdra after hour and half. Its at $103,500. One Fails in South Carolina. YORK, 8. C., December 16 ().—The bank of Olover, York County, closed its doors toda; o > Hender- of heavy open an were listed ,, in face remain! deposits led to open this mornin lll!l’(; of the Clover institution, stock of $25, Tesources were $205,748.72 and - | Posits totaled $127,746. ——. MARKET APPEAL fiEARD District Commissioners Listen to Argument for Dealers. dflm District Commissioners at a spe- W S dealers at em to he Commissior o url took the matter SENATE PRESENTED CONFEREES’ REPORT ON JOBLESS RELIEF (Continued Prom First Page.) bill the Wood amend- | Frank 5 lpfmprhflml left over as|of increase other employes whose pay is | Tread below the average. The Senate approved the action of its Appropriations Committee in eliminat- ing the Wood amendment without a roll call after Senator Phipps, Republican, of Colorado, explained that the increases recommended in the budget for the next fiscal year are intended to make toward carrying out the intent of the classification law by adjusting upward the under-average salaries. that, in accordance with the budget posal, it is planned to take care of 30 per cent of the increases next year and the remainder in the succeeding two years. Phipps Informs as to Bill. ‘When the salary question came up, Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, asked a number of questions about the tion of the class Th- of Government supplied Democrat, of Ten- nessee, and Copeland, Democrat, of New York, spoke briefly in support of allow= ing the salary increases recommended ification law and the | head, Wolverton of West voéul;le: Woodruff of higan, Wyant, Yates. 'rbmour :'55 1, Black of New York. Against susp the : ‘m ::pufin. Tules: 159: Towa, Ohristgau, Gooper of Bhcsimsi Craddock, Finley, Garber of Oklahoma, ginia, Leavitt, Nelson- of “Wisony, of d, Blanton, BI k 3 Brand of e Boylan, Georgla, 3 the lm'nlns. Brunner, Buchana, Byrns, ld, Cannon, cmm wright, Cochran of Missouri, k g:: don. O Collier, Col by the committee. The Senate then | inick, approved the increases and the bill was quickly compl e i FLOODS TAKE HEAVY TOLL of , Evans of Montana, Pitzpatrick, . Fulmer, Garner of Texas, Garrett. Gax n, Glover, Goldsborough, Gran- Hall of 1 onmwo:‘.mry G 30 Reported Dead and 1,000 Home- | Carolina, Hare, less in Adana, Turkey. Adana was not known. a nd homeless in Adana itself. At Mersine the estimated at $25¢ SEEK MISSING LAUNCH GALVESTON, Tex., December 16 ().—Braving the rough waters of the Thirty were reported dead and at least | of thousa: o e |