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—2 wa THIRD PARTY MOVE . APPEARS DODMED Borah, Citing Diversity of| Issues, Joins Norris in Opposing Plan. most of the independents would remain within th> fold until the 1932 national convention at least. Norris yesterday made clear also that he had not prom- | jsed any support to Gov. Roosevelt of | New York should the Democrats pick | him for the presiden Another “status quo” prediction came | from Scnator Moses of New Hampshire, | one of the Republican party leaders, ini a discussion of the row over Norris and, Robert H. Lucas, executive director of | the Republican National Committee. “My present oninion is that Senator Noiris will not be read out of the Re- publican party and that Mr. Lucas w il | not be deposed from his office in the | National Committee,” he said at I Concord home. | From Miami Beach, Fla. Senstor | Nye, Republican, North Dakota, chair- man of the Cempaign Funds Commit- tee, replied to th® demand for an apol- ogy issued by Republican Treasurer Nutt because Nye had described as a “slush fund tional Committee ac- count used as security in financing anti-Norris secret literature “It is barely possible,” said Nye, “that further investigation may reveal that the $40.000 t a slush fund. How- th ee already has as a record testimony that the money was on deposit as security for other funds which were used for bese- less and meful purposes in connec- tion with the fight centering about Sen- ator Nerris.” Diversity of Issues Cited. ‘The diversity of issues attacting in- dependents within the major parties w: cited by Senator Borah as sound reason ! against formation of a third political un: “My observation and my reading.” he commented, “lead me to the opinion that new parties cannot be successfully organized by a few men or by a few Jeaders, however able and sincere they may be. New parties have to come up | from the grass roots. It takes some | single domunating issue accompanied by | & dramatic crisis to swing people from theier old potitical moorings and place | them in new positions. “There are at least four or five vital issues before our people and a mew party could not agree upon a platform on all of them or could not satisfy the constituencies cn all of them any. more than can the old parties.” ntative Wood of Indiana yes- terday revived the attempt of some Republican regulars to uncloak Norris of the party’s mantle. In a statement issued through the Republican National Committee he asserted the Nebraskan has promised support for the Democrats in 1932 if they nominate a “Progressive.” Senator Norris, repeating his denial of promising to support Roosevelt, said: “Some newspaper articles published today based upon an interview which I had yesterday gave the impression that I intended to support Gov. Roosevelt for President in 1932. I regret this, for I made no such statement. I have said nothing upon which such a conclusion ; could be based. F “In the presence of a score of rép- utable Wasbington correspondents: I expressed my admiration for Gov. Roosevelt as & man and expressed my general agreement with him on the power issue. I made that statement in response to the direct question of ‘whether I should support Gov. Roose- wvelt if he were nominated for President on the Democratic ucxe;nm Il;l.'u:i i stated spegifically. that nof made up my mind whom I would sup- port for President in 1832; nominations had not been made; that I am a Republican, and I believe a good Republican, and it is not part of my business to nominate a Democrat for the presidency.” Wood Scores Norris. Wood, after scanning the newspaper interviews, gave his statement asserting that Norris “now s assuming to be a dictator to the Democratic party.” “Although he campaigned for office only last month as a Republican and was elected as such” Wood said, “he throws off the Republican mantle and proceeds to dictate to the Democratic party whom it shall and shall not nom- inate for the presidency in 1932 if it ex- pects to find him battling under its banner in the next campaign as it did in 1928. Does anybody need any better proof that he is not a Republican and obtained his re-election under false colors? “The Democratic leaders are warned by this political chameleon that they must not nominate Owen D. Young of New York, because there is a deep-laid and sinister plot of the ‘power trust’ to bring about Mr. Young's nomination,” he added. “On the other hand, the Democratic leaders are promised that if they will nominate some ‘progressive’ who sees eye to eye with Senator Norris on great public questions they can count on him to fint the political tomtoms for them again.” LR COLORED CIVIC LEADER EXPIRES AT 67 YEARS " S—— | Shelby J. Davidson Lef Govern- ment Service in 1912 to Practice Law—Was Inventor. Shelby Jeames Davidson, 67 years old, long a leader among the colored people of Washington and active in many civic organizations, died Saturda After working for the Government for & number of years, Davidson in 1912 entered the practice of law and the real estate brokerage business. He continued in these until his recent illness. While in the Government service he patented | several inventions for the improvement of adding machines. He was president of the Bethel Lit- erary and Historical Society in 1906 and 1907, organizer of the Boy Scout movement among colored youth in the District of Columbia, president of the Muscolit Club, financial agent for the Central Gymnasium Committee of | Howard University, 1912 and 1912, and | president of the General Alumni Asso- clation of Howard University in 1916 and 1917. He was gradusted at How- | ard University. H He s survived by his widow and two children, Aphelia M. C. and Eugene L. - C. Davidson, and a sister, Mary Hol- | loway. LEAVE BURNING THEATER BAY CITY, Mich.,, December 29 (#). ~—Seven hundred persons were guided safely out of the Washington Theater here last night as flames swept through the lobby. After the fire was discov- ered, Lawrence Reichenback, theater employe, announced from the stage that | peen’ ! | ISIGN GROUP CALLS * CONFERENCE HERE {Threat of Biflboard Regula- |- ART SHIRES, | Base ball star, jailed in Los Angeles i on charge of carrying concealed weapon. NEW NAVAL OFFERS ARE WADE BY RONE Gibson Directs Negotiations for Accord With France, Aided by British. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, Prance, December 20.—A new phase has been opened in the Pranco-Italian naval negotiations, with United States Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson taking a leading part. Franoe has received from the British expert, Robert L. Craigie, following his recent visit to Rome, fresh compromise pro- Mr. Craigie is said to have Foreign r Dino Premier Benito Mussolinl earnest expressions of their desire for ag! ent ‘with Prance first on the naval and then on the colonial ques- tions, but to have encountered a less conciliatory attitude on the part of the Italian minister of marine, Admiral Giuseppe Sirianni. It will be recalled that France at the end of the recent conversations at Ge- neva p! through Mr. Gibson, ton for ton rteplacement by France and Italy of all ships over age or becoming over age between now and 1936. France further asked that Italy promise not to utilize its 70,000 tons of new capital ships allowed both France and Italy under the Washington treaty. Mr. Craigie, it is learned, duly presented these proposals at Rome, where they were refused. Rejection by France Seen. Mr. Craigie's new compromise, trans- mitted to Prance and Italy following his talks in Rome, seems to be that France should limit its replacements until 1936 to some 26,000 tons of con- struction a year and Italy to about 31 000 tons. The differences in Italy's favor would be in submarine and light cruisers, categories in which France would agree not to build. It is not known here whether these suggestions are acceptable to Rome, but indications are that France will re- ject them. According to the French calculations, under the British plan French superiority over Italy in total tonnege would be reduced from the present figure of 240,000 tons to 226,000 tons, of which exactly one-half wouid be over age, making the real French superiority only 113,000 tons. Nothing for Colonial Service. The French naval thesls is that the French navy must equal the Italian in the Mediterranean and the German in the North Sea, and must have in addi- tion certain supplementary tonnage for colonial service. As the German navy is limited under the Versailles treaty to 114,000 tons, the British suggestion, it is asserted, would give France parity with Italy in the Mediterranean and with Germany in the North Sea, but would leave nothing to colonial service. It is notcworthy, however, that while the negotiations are necessarily slow and uncertain, real progress seems to have been made in obtaining conczssions from both France and Italy since Mr. Gibson reopenec the question by his sensa- tional visits to Paris and Rome at the end ot October. It is said here that while British experts are doing most of the intermediary negotiations, it is now really Mr. Gibson, sitting quietly in the American legation in Brussels, who is watchfully holding all the threads to- gether. (Copyright MACHADO WEIGHS PLEA FOR NEWSPAPER MAN May Free Italian News Editor of Spanish Language Publication, Facing Deportation. By the Associated Press HAVANA, December 29.—President Machado, who Saturdey granted the iiberty of Salvador Nieto, alleged Com- munist, at the request of labor leaders, is considering petitions for liberation of Aldo Baroni, Italian news editor of Diario de la Marina, Spanish-language newspaper. Order for Baroni's deporta- tion has been discussed several days. Students are continuing to harass police by placing small bombs in vari- ous parts of the city. While incapable of doing much damage, these small ex- plosives oreate considerable noise and excitement. An order _authorizing severe punishment for those found guilty u‘:‘ rmn; such explosives has ued. there was no dangsr and the fire was under control, and the patrons filed out quietly. Damage wes estimated at $15,000. Leeds Leaves Miami. MIAMI, Fla., December 20 (#).—Wil- liam B. Leeds, who married Princess Xenia of Russia, was en route to New York by train today after his arrival here from Havana in his airplane. the passengers in its tour ago. lans will be ‘taken northward pliot, Bddie Connerton. 11, HARRY W. MAGER DEAD Former Chief of Revenue Agents Victim of Indigestion. CHICAGO., December 29 (#).— Harry W. Mager, 39, former chief of the revenue agents of the De it of Justice, and once collector of in- ternal revenue at Chicago, died sud- denly yesterday from an attack of acute indigestion. He was appointed chief revenue agent by President Wil- son in 1919, serving a year. | | {call for the conferenc j friends and focs of billboard advertising u tion Prcmpts Session. Antis Are Invited. With the outdoor advertising industry | under threat of further regulation and | taxation in many sections of the coun- try, the Industry has issued a call for a confercnce n Washington on January 8 “for the purpose of formulating poli- cles for promotion of harmony between commerce and beauty in rural areas.” The real purpose of the conference, however, appears to be the drafting of model legislation for recommendation to the sev:ral States as indicated in the which 1s being sponsored by the Outdoor Advertising Assoctation of America and the National Association of Real Estate Boards. A score of naticnal organiz fons, being _ab evenly distributed, have been i ond this conference at 10 o'clock in the morning at the Chamber of Commrcree of the United It was announced that the meet:ng would be opened by George Wharton Pepper, former Senator from ng House of Views. of the American Civic Asso- clation, cne of the organizations invited to attend the conference, probably will attend, although doubt was expressed at its headquartery today that there ex- isted much comhon ground for co-op- erative harmony between the billboard interests ana those who are seeking to eliminate advertising signs from rural and city highways. Interest was ex- pressed in the forthcoming c>nference, however, as providing a medium for the interchange of opinions. Another conference of no less impor- tance to the local campaign to clean up the highway #pproaches to the National Capital will be held in Baltimore the muwmg day, January 9, when the ryland Legislatire convenes. Repre- sentatives of a number of the State or- ganizations of women will meet that day at the Southern Hotei to discuss legislation for the restrictioa of bill- boards in Maryiand. The conference is called by Mrs. Charles E. Ellicott, president of the Maryland League of Women Voters. A bill for restricting and taxing billboards was introduced in the last session of the Maryland Legislature at the instance of the League of Women Voters, it was said, bul failed to ‘Teceive a favorable committee report. Those in charge of the measure proposed for the new ses- | ion say that sentiment in favor of re- riction has grown steadily during the past two years and predict that the bill will be passed. ‘Woman Delegate to Aid. The election to the House of Dele- gates of Miss Lavinia Engle from Mont- gomery County, who was in charge of the fight for the anti-billboard legisla- tion in the 1929 session is expected to help in securing favorable action. A vigorous campaign of publicity has been conducted by the Garden Clubs under the leadership of Mrs. Edward McKeon and indorsement by additional organizations thrcughout the State is being reported to the headquarters of the Maryland League of Woman Voters, 9 East Pleasant street, Baltimore. Miss Harlean James, executive secretary of the American Civic Association, which is sponsoring the Washington campaign, will attend the conference. Among others attending will be Mrs. St. George Barber of Annapolis, legis- lation chairman of the league and & former member of the House of Dele- gates from Anne Arundel County; Mrs. L. Emmett Holt, chairman of the Com- mittee on Billboard Restriétion; Miss Lavinia Engle, research director of the league and a member of the House cf Delegates from Montgomery County; Mrs. Heyward Boyce, president of the Garden Clubs of Maryland; Mrs. John Whitehurst, president of the Maryland Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Helen Sherry, legislative chairman of the federation; Mrs. Page Edmonds, president of the Civic League; Mrs. W. M. Maloy, legislative chairman; Mrs, Emil Crcckin and Mrs. Simon Sobeloff, representing the Council of Jewish Women; Miss Gertrude Bressler of the Eastern High School Alumni and others representing the interested civic and | improvement organizations of the State. Officials Also Invited. ‘The call for the Washington con- ference includes invitations to the De- partment of Commerce, the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Pub- lic Roads of the Department of Agri- culture. It was not known today whether any of their representatives would attend. Invitations also have been issued to the American Association of State Highway Officials, whose officers have generally co-operated in efforts to pre- serve rural landscaping from mutila- tion by outdoor advertising signs. Other organizations invited include the American Automobile Association, American _ Nature Association, Art Center of New York, Chamber of Com- merce of the United States, Garden Club of America, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, National Council for Protection of Roadside, Beauty, American Federation of Arts”and the National Grange. Most of these organ- izations have been leaders in the fight against outdoor biliboards. Interests more or less concerned in support of the outdoor advertising in- dustry, which have been invited, include the Advertising Federation of America, the American Association of Advertising Agencies, American Hotel Association, American Petroleum Institute, Associa- tion of Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, Assoclation of National Advertisers, Lithographers National Association, Tobacco Merchants’ Association and the National Electric Light Assoctation. Labor and Farms Included. The American Federation of Labor and the American Farm Bureau Feder- ation also were included in the call. Speaking for the American Civic As- soclation, Miss James said today that the billboard people contend that out- door advertising must be put in the same class with other commercial ad- vertising, while those who oppose bill- | boards claim they should be considered in a class by themselves. She referred to a similar conference held in Boston about a year ago under the auspices of the National Association of Real Es- tate Boards as being fruitless of any worth-while results. “Since it is admitted that only about 5 per cent of outdoor advertising is rural and most of the public resentment is against this form of rural advertis- ing,” she said, “it would be a good business for the outdoor advertising in- dustry to voluntarily give up rural ad- vertising to secure the good will of the buying public.” BALTIMOREAN HONORED Dr. Friedenwald Gets Medal for Contribution to Science. BALTIMORE, December 29 (#).—Dr. Julius Friedenwald of Baltimore last nigkt was awsrded the Phi Lambda Kappa Medal, bestowed annually upon the Jewish physician who has be:n judged to have made the year's greatest contribution to science and medicine. ‘The medal was presented &t the ban- quet of the National Medical Fraternity, which concluded its annual convention. The award to Dr. Friedenwald was in recognition of his position as an in- ternational authority on intestinal dis- eas He Q’n‘ p{’ol‘enwr“ol :rumo-em.-r- ology at_the University of Maryland Medical Schoak » Above: Side of a Washington, Virg inia & Maryland bus which was torn out this morning in a collision with a six-ton Army van at Twenty-first and K streets. The van driver charged the bus driver failed to yield right of way. Center: Another automobile wrecked by the van as it careened away from the bus. Below: Miss Marie Deuhring, a passenger in the b broken leg. who sustained a —Star Staff Photos. FARM UNION HEAD CHALLENGES LEGGE Letter Dares Him to Join in Reguest for Senate Investigation. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, December 29.— John A. Simpson, National Farmers' Union president, has chalienged Alex- ander Legge, Farm Board chairman, to join in urging passage in the Senate of the Walsh resolution calling for inves- ;‘?B"an of the board's marketing activ- ities. In a letter to Legge made public here last night, Simpson asserted that “shout- ing liar” did not clear the chairman of cnarges he sought to break the price of wheat and had testified he opposed an advance in the cotton price. Legge had said any one making the Simpson cnarges was an “unmitigated liar, ‘Were I so inclined,” Simpson said in his letter, “I feel sure that I could win over you in any name-calling contest. | You, sir, may have acquired some slight experience in shouting and bellowiny at underlings while you were head o the harvester trust, but I have driven mules and called hogs to the feed trough.” Challenge Is Tssued. “Your attempt to strut like & 2-ccnt Mussolini when you replied my o charges fails to intimidate me,” Simp- | son_continued. “I challenge you.” said the letter, “if you feel tnnocent of the charges to join with me in urging passage by the Sen- ate of the Walsh resolution calling for an investigation of the marketing ac- tivities of the Farm Board. “Shouting ‘liar’ does not clear you of those charges. A Scnate investigation —though I am convinced it would | “The charges that I made against you were two. “First—I charged that you testified at a recent Agriculture Committee hear- ing that the Farm Board, through its marketing agencies, had bought and sold on the wheat exchange to the ex- tent of 100,000,000 bushels of wheat, and that on November 22 your set-ups also =old on the Chicago exchange 3,- 500,000 bushels of wheat for the pur- pose of breaking the price. Ready to Offer Proof. “You testified that the Farm Board and its set-ups also bought and sold| on the Cotton Exchange You further testified before this committee that you wanted wheat to be kept so low that it could be fed to hogs instead of corn; you further testified that you did not want to see cotton advance in price; that the textile mills need cotton at Just about the price that it is now. “Second, I charged that the Farm Board marketing agencies were using Federal money to force farm organiza- tons to subscribe to and approve of Farm Board policies. “These things, sir, I stand ready to prove to any responsible investigating body, as I have pointed out before.” SENATORS VISIT FLORIDA Committee Group to Inspect Pro- posed Tropic National Park. MIAMI, Fla., December 29 (#)—Six members of the Senate Public Lands Committee arrived here yesterday for a survey of the proposed tropic national park in South Florida. The party will make an aerial in- spection of the Cape Sable area south of here today and tomorrow and will board a houscboat Wednesday for a two day trip through the sector. Senators in the party are Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota, chairman; Tasker L. Oddie, Nevada: Otis F. Glenn, Illinois; Henry F. Ashhurst, Arizona; Peter Norbeck, South Dakota, and Thomas J. Walsh, Montana. Carmody’s Condition Improves. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. December 29 (A).—The condition of Martin H. Carmody, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, {ll of pneumonta in a hos- pital. here, was reported by his physi- cian to be improved today. His con- dition, however, was still serious. —— Hans Swoboda, 21, of Milwaukee, built a model of Cologne Cathedral of 2,500,000 matches. SENATOR' STUDIES NEW BONS OFFER Payment of 50 Per Cent to | Veterans May Be Possible, ‘ Vandenberg Says. Declaring it his belief that there was | for | need for some “rational formula” providing a method whereby needy vet- erans could cash in to the fullest extent |on their adjusted service certificates | right now. Senator Vandenberg, Repub- | lcan, of Michigan announced this | morning that he was giving study to a | plan that, summed up, would provide | for cash payment approximating 50 per | cent of the ultimate value of the certifi- cate as it comes due in 1945. | maximum which could accrue to the | lieves this plan can be said to be re- | ceiving “sympathetic study by the ad- | ministration.” Could Obtain Loan Now. eran could obtain a loan now, which, at the 4 per cent interest compounded ennually, would cover the face value of the certificate at maturity date, provided | the borrower did not pay interest on the loan. The loan itself would come out of the sinking fund set aside annually by Congress against ultimate maturity of the certificates. Under this loan arrangement, Van- denberg pointed out, the face value of [ the certificate could never be exceeded. | Right now each veteran who already has borrowed on the certificatg¢ could | get something like $300. not actually in need taking advantage of this borrowing provision, Senator Vandenberg would leave the loans at the discretion of the Veterans’ Bureau. Cost Up to $500,000,000. Vandenberg belleves the plan would cost between $400,000,000 and $500,000,- 000. The sinking fund now holds some= thing like twice that much. Senator Vandenburg had a lengthy conference with President Hoover this morning, but there was nothing to in- dicate the plan was presented to the White House. He has also conferred with Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, di- | rector of the Veterans' Bureau, and | Ogden Mills, Undersecretary of the | Treasury, on the general subject of vet- | eran relief. | Vandenberg said in passing that his plan_would meet objections advanced by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon against the veterans cashing in on their certiticates. PRINCE'S TRIP DELAYED |Fall From Horse Puts George's Arm Temporarily Out of Use. MELTON MOWBRAY, England, December 20 (#).—The condition of Prince George, youngest son of King George and Queen Mary, was quite satisfactory yesterday after his toss in the hunting field Saturda; }, It was stated the prince’s shoulder had been badly wrenched and it would be some days before he could use his arm. The prince had planned to proceed to the family palace at Sandringham yesterday, but it was thought advisable he take another day's rest at Burrough Court, where he was conveyed after the accident. CLUB CUTS RATIONS Rotarians to Aid Undernourished School Children. MEADVILLE, Pa., December 29 (#). —Wives of Meadville Rotarians may now _cha the words of the once popular ditty to “my husband’s on & diet” and sing it louc and with pride. The Rotary Club has decided to go on short rations to help the under- nourished school children. Members will continue to pay a dollar each for their weekly luncheon, but will eat only 76 cents worth. The difference will to buy a pint of milk each day for 80 children. 2 i Saying that his plan represents the | | veteran right now, he added that he be- | Under the Vandenberg plan the vet- | As a guard against veterans who are | FIGHT HURT AS VAN (LAW COMMISSION ' CRASHES INTO BUS: MAY REPORT DATA 1« 'MOSES SIGHTS PEACE IN NORRIS DISPUTE Seys Senate Should Take No Part in Controversy That Is Committee Matter. By the Associated Pre CONCORD, N. H, December 29.— George H. Moses, United States Sen- ator from New Hampshire, yesterday expressed the opinion the Senate should take no part in the controversy | between Senator George W. Norris, | Nebraska, and Robert H. Lucas, execu- | tive director of the Republican National Committee, | “This dispute, as I see it” Senator | Moses said, “is not one of which the Scnate, as the Senate, should take cognizance. The matter is one for the National Committee to settle. “My present opinion is that Senator Norris will not be read out of the Re- publican party, and that Mr. Lucas | will not be deposed from his office in the National Commigtee. In other words, the status quo will be preserved.” |APPEAL AGAINST RAZING OF POLI’S IS DENIED | Court Denies Theater Men Ban on Demolition to Make Way for Triangle Park. The District Court of Apyeah has denied an application by Sylvester Z. Poli and the Shubert brothers of New York for a special appeal from the de- cision of Justice Jesse C. Adkins deny- ing an application for an injunction to prevent the razing of Poli's Theater, in the triangle between Pennsylvania ave- nue and E street, Fourteenth and Fif- | teenth streets, which is being converted into a park in connection with the Federal building program. ‘The petitioners said they had been required to spend $250,000 before the District Commissioners would allow them to reopen the house after they had made a lease with the Government which had several years to run. United States Attorney Rover, on behalf of Secretary Mellon, pointed out that the demolition of the building had pro- ceeded so far during the six weeks since the court order that it could not be restored except at a great expense and by an appropriation from Congress. BOY CRITICALLY HURT WHEN STRUCK BY CAR Gustave 7, Receives Concussion and Other Head and Body Injuries. Krammer, Gustave Krammer, 7 years old, of 214 Tenth street southeast, was re- gorud by Casualty Hospital officials to e in a critical condition this after- noon after he had been struck by an automobile driven by J. C. Jenifer of 822 O street southeast. The accident occurred in front of the Krammer resi- dence. According to a gollce report, the e Army Machine Tears Hole in Side of Coach—Woman Dies | in Virginia Mishap. (Continued From First Page.) acts Without Dry Argument Expected to Avoid Short Session Trouble. ington, and two sisters. Mrs. Nash and Mrs. Eugene Hart of Alexandria. Visitor Slightly Hurt, Slight injuries were received by Jack Richards, 23 years old, of Pittsburgh at Seventeenth and H streets when an automobile driven by Jess* F. Nicholson of Chevy Chase, Md., knocked him down. Richards, who gave his local address as the Central Union Mission, was treated at Georgetown University Hos- pital. Miss Ethel Hodges, 35, of 2115 Penn- sylvania avenue, was struck by a tas cab at Twenty-first and K streets last night, suffering a fractured rib and body bruises. The car driver, Wilbur Crouch, 24, of 309 Eleventh street southeast, took Miss Hodges to Emer- gency Hospiial. Georgetown Hospital physicians treat- ed Aubrey F. Covington, 19 years old, of Pairfax, Va., for a compound fracture of the left leg. after he had been struck by an automobile while walking along the highway near the Fairfax court house. Emanuel Clark, colored, 48, who said he lives at the Salvation Army Hotel, Teceived a spraingd shoulder when an automobile operatzd by Jake Livingston, colored, 22, of .1611 Thirteenth street, hit him at Seventh and Q streets. Clark was taken to F‘re;dmln'n Hos- pital for first aid. Collision on Viaduct. Three persons who figured in a col- lision of a taxicab and an automobile on the Benning Viaduct last night were given first-aid treatment for minor cuts and bruises at Casualty Hospital. Those hurt were the cab driver, Hugh B. McDonald, 25, of Capitol Heights, Md., and two occupants of the auto, Ruth Rollinson, 18, and Ellen Jones, 20, both colored, and residents of 1631 Cov- ington street. Eugene H. McMichaels, 23 years old, of 1489 Newton street, was given treat. ment by a private physician this morn- ing after his automobile and a bus of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. collided at Monroe street and Holmead place. Mrs. Stella Catlin, 50, of 2008 G street refused hospital treatment for a slight knee injury after a collision of two cars at Third street and Massachusetts ave- nue last night. Three Streets Closed. Military road, Tilden Blagden avenue were closed to traffic by police early last night after many near-accidents and jams had been re- ported there. Three automobiles skidded from the Tilden street hill leading into Rock Creek Park, one breaking a tele- phone pole at the base. Many other automobiles skidded off roads in various hilly sections of the city and countless minor accidents were reported at the 15 precincts. Veteran police officers reported the most dangerous ice coats on record along Rock Creek Park roads and a number of dangerous hills in the city proper were closed. . The condition was particularly acute on Military road between Lodge House and Daniels road and on Bingham drive near the Danlels road intersection. Lieut. H. Helms of the park police recommended that additional material for barricades be placed along the roads near the steep stretches. The metropolitan police barricaded Tilden street at Connecticut avenue and again at Plerce Mill. It was recom- mended that additional warning lights and other safeguards to motor traffic be made available to police. DROUGHT RELIEF LOANS APPROVED BY HOUSE GROUP (Continued From First Page.) $800,000,000 were reported today by | President Hoover's Emergency Employ- ment Committee as ready to be under- taken within a few months. A Nation-wide canvass was taken Franklin T. Miller, head of the com- mittee’s public work section. Efforts were made, he said in a statement, to ascertain the actual condition of spe- cific projects amounting to more than $2,000,000,000. “All of this work,” he said, “has ad- vanced beyond the stage of procuring funds, authorization or selection of sites, litigation and other prelininary steps which frequently delay public construction programs. “Our estimate is based on personal letters and information on specific projects of a public and semi public nature including State, municipal and county buildings, schools and highways amounting to more than $2,000,000,000. It is based on a tabulation of actual jobs which have come before us one at a time during the last three or four weeks, “It has been said that the total normal action construction in this country amounts to some $10,000,000,- 000. Of this, 35 to 40 per cent is for public works and 5 per cent for Federal work. Up to the first of this week we have received reports on $1,853,733,000 of public construction, so our reports are coming in at the rate of approxi- mately $80,000,000 a day. Hence we have a pretty accurate idea today of the status of more than 40 per cent of the public and semi public construction for next year. “This indicates that a very substan- tial amount of work which is not at all dependent upon commercial returns from rentals, manufacturing, etc, will be underway shortly, provided that lans can be completed and contracts et. We are hopeful that bills now before Congress will expedite the work now being done in the office of the supervising architect of the Treasury and permit speeding up of plans and specifications.” Col. Woods said that out of the first 1,000 State, city and semi-public proj ects exclusive of Federal projects report- ed on to the committee as to delays, 25 per cent were awaiting authoriza- tion. Sixteen projects were being de- layed because of lack of appropriations, street and | (Continued Prom First ‘Page.) chinery. The whole prohibition prob- {lem has so many different aspects and is handled by so many different gov- ernmental units that an institution to co-ordinate the information on the progress of enforcement and observance "L‘ regarded as essential. The Wicker. sham Commission itself has been handi- caped by the fact that it could make no plans for permanent employes and ’Pxper's. It has had to depend on vol- unteers and part-time workers. It has not had much mo set up an in- dependent investigating force which could sift the many conflicting bits of evidence that arise from Federal, State and citv ~athorities Mr. W am is known to feel that the work ofe his commission should be carried on by the Federal Government as long as the eighteenth amendment and prohibition law are on the statute book: that the public may have from year to year periodic reports on how the whole problem 1s being handled. This is the first time that such a com- mission to observe the workings of a joint Federal and State job has been set up without administrative or ju- dicial functions. Tie Federal Govarn- ment and the States co-operate in many enterp but the administrative of ficlals work together as a matter of vol- untary co-operation. The Wickersham commission has had | limited funds with which to do the major task expected of it and that is { why the forthcoming report will hardly be “regarded as conclusive by either side. This may give momentum to the recommendation for a permanent com- mission to undertake on a systematic basis the development of data and in- formation on which a judgment as to the merits of prohibition can ultimately be formed, | (Copyright. 1930.) HOUSE DRYS MAY BOLT. Editor Declares Prohibition Forces Need Reorganizing. By the Associated Press. Again from within dry ranks has come & call for reorganization of forces supporting prohibition, coupled with gloomy forecasts for the cause as the alternative. Stanl:y High, editor of the Christian Herald, ‘was the critic. He issued a statement yesterday asserting an authoritative canvass showed at least 40 members of the House who con: fessed themselves “prepared to desert' the drys at the first strategic opportunity. This assertion came on top of rumbles that trouble is ahead in the House for the $2,000,000 additional funds asked by th: Justice Department for next year's prohibition enforcement. Organizations Inadequate. High, however, went further than the possible defections in the House in his pessimistic utteranc:, “The Nation’s dry organizations are not adequate, as they stand today,’ said, “to save prohibition.” “Why not call a layman’s conference on prohibition?” he asked. “Many of them are silent and some of th:m are disgruntled. Not because they are wavering about the prohibition cause, but rather, because they are wavering about the prohibition leadership.” He said that at recent Washington dry meetings the laymen were kept “de- cidedly on the outside,” with the “pro- fessional” dry leaders and ministers dominating proceedings. The same sentiments had been voiced in some quarters before the serics of prohibition conferences here, but a reorganization of the high command effected then showed mostly the same names that have been to the fore in years past, ‘Would Add 500 Agents. The new appropriation for prohibition would make possible adding the 500 dry agents who Director Woodcock says are needed for adequate enforcement. It is understood the provision has been traveling a rocky path in committes sessions. It has not yet been approved by the full Appropriation Committee, which must report it to the House, and apparently it barely passed a o mittee, whose wet members intend to carry opposition to the floor. W. L. COHEN, COLORED POLITICIAN, EXPIRES Controller of Customs at New Or- leans, Long Active in Repub- lican Party, Il for Week. By the Associated Press. NEW _ ORLEANS, December 29.— Walter L. Cohen, widely known colored political leader, who has served as con- troller of customs for the New Orleans district during the past seven years, died here today av the age of 70. He was stricken with illness last week. Cohen took an active part in Re- publican politics for many years, He was a delegate to the Republican Ni tional Convention in 1892 and had a! tended every convention since. He first became a Federal official in 1892 as a customs inspector. He pub- lished the Republican Courier for many years and then was appointed by Presi- dent McKinley as registrar of the Fed- eral Land Office here. He held that office through the administrations of President Roosevelt and President ‘Taft. He was appointed controller of the cus- toms here during the administration of President_Coolidge. Cohen was holding the office of con= troller of customs until a successer could be appointed. His reappointment was blocked by the present Republican organization of Louisiana, created By President Hoover's nomination, whieh Cohen_opposed. Until Hoover’s nomination Cohen was the Republican leader of Louisiana and exercised a wide influence among col- ored voters in the United States. With Hoover’s election, however, his organi- zation was shunted aside, but ane of 20 by preparation of plans, 15 were awaiting bids, 7 selection of sites, 7 ap- proval vl’dpllnl, 2 were held up by liti- gation and 6 for miscellaneous reasons. FINDER MAY KEEP $600 BROOCH AFTER JANUARY 3 Court Invokes Ancient Custom in Behalf of Chicago Man Who Found Jewelry. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 29.—Perhaps the new year is going to mean a lot to Steve Pennick besides mooching nickels. He may be able to walk into the nearest hotel and say: ‘Give me $600 worth of ham and youngster ran into the path of the ap- proaching car and was knocked down. He was carried to the hospital by the motorist. Physiclans say he has a brain concussion and other head and body injuries. Jenifer was not held. — Japanese Official Dies. TOKIO, December 20 ().—Marquis Kinichi Komura, vice minister of over~ seas affairs, died here y after a brief illness. He was 47 years old. Sudce Edgar Jonas ruled that Steve may exercise the ancient law of “find- ers keepers, losers weepers,” if the per- son who owns the $600 brooch Steve found does not it by January 3. The judge impoundéd brooch and instructefl that no description of the article be published. Me: hile Steve is free bond, which ‘the judge allowed him s1gn himself, wondering if it might be Jjust o' dream. ) his last acts was to go to W: n in an effort to strengthen hhm status. Cohen had amassed a fortune as the head of an insurance company. ESTATE OF GEN. BLISS IS VALUED AT $35,000 ‘Will Filed for Probate Leaves Property in Trust During Life of Widow. The will of Gen. Tasker Howard Bliss, who died November 9, was filed today for probate. In addition to premises 1842 Kalorama road, which he owned jointly with his wife, he left an estate valued at about $35,000. The entire esv.a;le Bé;) be helpd g\ trust by his cuughter, Eleanora F. B. Knopf of New Haven, Conn., and his son, Edward G. Bliss, 1736 Q street, during the life of the widow, Mrs. Eleanora E. Bliss. On the death of Mrs. Bliss the children are to divide the estate between them. Gen. Bliss had bonds worth $26,000, insurance, $5,000; household effects, $2,750, and cesh, $1964.88. The tion for the probate of the will was filed by Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert and Dozier A. De Vane.