Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1930, Page 4

LARGE CROWD SEES | < OTHER WISE MAN" Performance Will Be Repeat- ed at Luther Place Me- morial Church. “The Other Wise Man.” Dr. Henry Van Dyke's legend as transcribed for dramatic purposes by Bess Davis Schreiner, was presented yesterday aft- ernoon and evening at Luther Place Memorial Church, on Thomas circle. The production attracted large crowds and by 8:15 o'clock there were guards posted all the way around the church to keep out a hundred and more dev- otees of this drama who had forgot- ten to arrive ad of scheduled allowed as being drama, inual event in time, One m sections in esenting many re- | and cr ade who were o up the ca The presentat 'y moved smoothly and appearing in the h it is divided since the first two big en- or the sake pearl of ly effective. ¢ Is Told. rpist and nar- of His death, on moving spirit of the ent at all time: f the settings, the nd the earnest- participants _were number of outstanding . Nina Norm: as a and exc he simplic lghting of th girl; Edward Eberly, ain; Ralph Keister, . Keister, Jr., Eberly, as a ed themselves | apt Take Part of “The Voice.” rday’s presentati “The t le of the drama was Rev. Carl C. Rasmussen, pastor r Plage Church. Tonight and t Rev. George F. Dudley, Stephens-Incarnation Church, will be “The Veice.” g of the drama a pre organ numbers will be played by Margaret Hammerness, organist at Luther Place. Dr. Rasmus- sen will give greeting to the audiences on botk hts. The cast follow: Artaba , Denis E. Con- nell; Abdus, Dr. Clark; Rho- daspes, George W. G ‘Tigranes, John T. Keister; another Persian, Frank A. Burger; Abgarus, father of Artaban, Irving Hebrew exile, Ralph er from the Three Wise Men, h k: young Hebrew mother, Nina Norman; ‘Romancaptabn, Edward E ; Roman soldiers, Albert Hall, Georg an, Charles Krisel, ling, George Gates, Richard Millbrook and Donald Moriarty; He- brew rabbi, Geor: R. Eberly; Parthian, slave girl, Judy Lyeth; a beggar at the gates, Esther Cloyd; the crowd ir way to Calvary, Janet Jackson, Anna Martin, Helen Helgeson, Josephine Flor, Charles Krisel, Mr. and Mrs, B. G. Mcliwee, George Towberman, Irma S%rickler, Gustav Nordstrom, Theodore 1, Marjorie Thomas, Blosom Millbrook, At taken Ruth Campbell, Ruth Shoemaker, Eliza- beth Fecht, Frank Bu.ger, Albert Hall, Ruth Byrd, Nadine Thomas, Anna Tal- bert, Wilhelmina Cronenberg, Jim Tay- nenberg, John Gilbert McIlwee, Billy Brown, Mrs. Frank Thomas, Katherine Cronenberg, Ann Lynn, Hattie McIlwee, Mae Mcllwee, Mr n Meyer, N. K. Gardner, Anna Burger, Irving Koch, ‘Thelma Gunderson, Ruth Thomas, Mrs, James B; henck, Bernice b er Cloyd, Luella 3 r, Doro- len Smith, Helen Bur- ton, Carl Pryhling, Leo Wiemer, Jane Davis, David Pritchard. POLICIES OF WILSON REVIEWED BY BAKER Today’s Foreign Problems Would Give War President Grave Con- cern, Ex-Cabinet Member Says. By the Assoc NEW YOF ssing in- c and in our | would state: and the peace which the ation of ndred years hief would have LEAGUE ELECTS OFFICERS| b House at Cal- Md., Approved. held by the | Bargar, | lem, Ella irer; nma E. Head, cor- Almira Lytle, and Benjamin A. Seels respor Yecordir Card, g A res for the league's Beach, sioner for a bond issue completing _the house ~at _Calvert | adopted. Commis~ pu . r Sl phtheria Kills Boy. HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 29 (Special) —Arthur Dunn, _9-year-old son of Richird and Mrs, May Dunn, died at his parepts home at Arundel avenpe and Carfleld street here Satur- day of diphtheria, following an iliness {Lighting Scheme | X-rays Scientists and big game hunters who year's trek up into Brazil's great jungle, the Matto Grosso. New York: John W. Newell, Florida: Capt. Valdimir Perfilie ff, head of the expediticn; Alexander Siemel, Vincent M. Pet- rullo of the University of Pennsylvania, Arthur P. Rossi, Providence, R. I; Alexander Daveron of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, William E. Green, Trenton, N. J., and Samuel Hoops, Glens Falls, N. Y. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, sailed from Hoboken, N. Le! . for Montevideo, Uruguay, whence they will start a to right: David M. Newell, Florida; George Rawls, —A. P. Photo. NEW MICROSCOPES SHOW PROTOPLASM Reveals Minute Life Long Sought by Scientists. Special Dispatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, December 29.—A new type of microscope that makes clearly visible the submicroscoplc de- tails of cell structure, which has es- caped the searches of scientists because they were too small to be seen in exist- ing types of instruments, was recently described by Prof. Willlam Seifriz of the University of Pennsylvania in a recent lecture, This instrument is the latest develop- ment in magnifying images of objects so unbelievably small that millions of them could exist on the point of a pin. New Illuminating Scheme, ‘The main feature of the new micro- scope is a minute mirror of platinum or gold, plated on the upper side of the lower lens so that it reflects light down on the object being observed. The light is then reflected back up from the object and passes around the sides of the mirror through the lens and into the observer's eye. By this illumination and the great clearness ohbtained, the cell walls of a plant show up like a forest of exceed- ingly fine roots or hairs. Living pro- toplasm shows up on this instrument as parallel strands of fibers on a back- ground of gray. First to See Microbes. More than 250 years have gone by since an obscure drygoods clerk became interested in lenses. He made his own lenses and mounted them in his own way to investigate, for his own amuse- ment, such things as human hairs, the skin on the back of his hand and many things that most humans pass over without a thought as to what they are really like. No so with Leeuwenhock, that per- sistent Holland-r, a self-trained looker- in_on the submicroscopic world of things. He ground his own lenses, dis- daining to buy them. He found a way to grind very tiny ones that had a magnifying power never thought of before. One day, after mounting a particu- larly small and finely made lens and turning it on a rain drop, aft:r exam- ining the legs of a louse, the stringer of a flea, he was startled to see inside the _drop number of tiny animals the first time at the subvisible world of microscopic creatures, a world later to be found by Pasteur, Koch, Roux, Bruce and others to contain thousands of 'varieties of terrible enemies and beneficient friends to mankind, He had discovered microb:s—bacteria! Germ Studies by Microscopes. Since Leeuwenhoek’s first ventures into the world of the minute spaces, scientists have discovered the nature of thesé tiny creatures, their births and deaths, their foods, their abilities. They bave learned how to grow cultures of the most rabid kinds of bacill. They have tested cultures swarming in the destroyed bodies of their victims and bave discovered a number of ways to combat these vicious attacks with serums and anti- toxins, which can help the body to weard off these attacks. Seeing Into Matter. And in metallurgy, in the study of minute crystals of metals, in learning how to alioy these metals and how the addition of tiny amounts of other metals make them far stronger, there have been great strides mad: with the microscope It is & matter of only recent years that scient have had to discard ordinary visible light to investigate these “too little” things. They have discovered that they could not see things which were smaller than the light waves themselves. They have discovered they had to use the shorter wave lengths of ultra-violent light, an invisible radiation, in order to see things smaller than could be visualized by ordmary white or colored lights. And the tiny things which have been “seen’ with the ultra-violet microscope are even then invisible directly to hu- man eyes. They have to be caught by |a camera, for the photographic plate is sensitive to light frequencies far | shorter than the human eye can see. The developed plates, however, show human eyes what these things look likz. The phy:icists have even employed Mments of atoms in molecular structures, although these things are accomplished not exactly by a visual method, but rely the theory of interference of light waves. Lens Developments. The first lenses used were crude af- fairs with bulging sides, polished. by hand and often with uneven surfaces. They were held in the hand and focused by moving back and forth be- tween the eye and the object being yiewed until the object showed most elearly. » During the last 50 years improve- ments in grinding and a better under- standing of the optical art have made possible the production of high powered instruments that opened up a world of previously invisible objects and crea- tures. But still up to the present there have been many things, many details that were too small and which have escaped the searching eye of the inquisitive ob- gerver, The ultra-minute - details of cell structure, such as the cell walls in living protoplasm, as small as one-fifty thousandth of an inch or less in width, have up till now been largely matters of ten days. Mrs, Dunn has conducted # kindergarten ecurse for the past, sev- eral -years; Besides his parents the Dunn oy (leayps a sister, Maybe, 8 years He was buried this after- L ajflmngennm. Md. 1 land of conjecture, As a tribute to those who lost their lives in the landslides near Lyon, France, all radio broadcasting in Eng- was discontinued for 10 minutes. that swam around. He was looking for | chemical | to make known the arrange- | on Photographic Aid of BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Special Dispatch to The Star. CLEVELAND, December 29.—Weird “ghost pictures” of butterflies, some of them dead for 50 years, which are pro- duced on a photographic plate by some mysterious emanation which in old times might have been called an escap- ing soul, were displayed before the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science here today*by Austin H. Clark of the United States National Museum. While the nature of this emanation which affects a plate like light has not been determined, there are indications, Mr. Clark said, that it is a gas contain- ing sulphur, originally a constituent of the wing pigments, which is produced by the decomposition of the bodies. The fact that it will not pass through glass | or quartz renders improbable the thesis of some organic light radiation. Further- more, Clark said, butterfly wings pro- duce an image on burnished metallic silver which is strongly effected by sul- phur, Wings Photographed. ‘The method of producing the pictures is to place the butterfly wings on glass and then place the plate, emulsion side down, upon them. They are left in total darkness. Then the plates are developed and prints made, just as if the pictures had been made with a camera. Very dark butterfiles, freshly caught, SECRET LIFE CELL - SHOWN TO SAVANTS; STORM HABITS TRACED (Continued From First Page.) son, Wis. The number of centers of storms and fair areas, he said, is greater in the interior of the continent. dle and Northern Plains States have twice as many as New England. Make Yearly Round Trips. They migrate in yearly round trips from the Gulf States in January to the Great Lakes in July and August and | back in the Autumn. This, he said, | makes a “double maxima of frequency,” | which may explain the “well intrenched | notion that there is an equinoctial storm.” “The minima of frequency in Cali- | fornia, Florida and along the Mexican | border,” he said, “are doubtless impor- | tant_factors in making those regions | popular as Winter resorts.” Unemployment,_insurance as the la- | borer's safeguard against the uncer- tainties of industry was the principal | topic of social science groups conven- | ing today. | Bill Will Be Offered. The American Association for Labor Legislation in particular will round out | | its arguments for a bill which would | set up unemployment reserve funds sim- ‘flar to workmen's compensation funds. The bill will be presented to the Legis- | latures of the 48 States during the | coming year. John B. Andrews of New York, sec- | | retary oZ the association, said the feasi- | bility of the plan has been demonstrated | |in two instances. “One of these,” he said, “is the setting up of reserves for | the paying of dividends in time of de- | | pression. That is a protection for the | stockholders. The other is the setting | up of reserves for workmen’s compensa | tion. ‘That is for the protection of the | | workers.” He said the proposed legislation would | stimulate stabilization® of industry and | would “tide over those who are invol- | untarily unemployed ~during periods | | when they are forced out:of industry | | for one reason or another.” CIVILIZED SOUTH AFRICA | Minister Louw, in Radio Address, Classes His Country as Among | Most Modern of Nations. Contrary to popular opinion in this country, civilized South Africa is a modern ' in every respect as the United | States, according to a_radid address |last night by Eiic H. Louw, the | Minister from South Africa. | Mr. Louw's words were relayed | through the Columbia_ Broadcasting | System to sudiences in Montreal, Cape | Town and other parts of the world. The Minister expressed suprise to | find a general supposition here that South Africa is a Dark Continent | through the jungles of which roam wild animals and, barbarians. He told of South Africa’s civic im- provements, her public bulldings, shopping facilities, residences, cultural advantages and opportunities for sport. With regard to the material wealth of the country, he pointed out that South Africa produced most of the world's gold, 85 percent of its diamonds and was well to the front in agricul- | tural development. AUTO DRIVER SHOT Colored Man Wounded in Arm by Unidentified Assailant. ‘Thomas Jolley, colored, 30 years old, of 233 Four-and-one-half street southwest, was treated at Emergency Hospital early last night for a bullet wound in his right arm. It was reported to the police by the wounded man that he was shot while driving his automobile near Third Mid- | Cri STATUS IS DESCRIBED ‘u,—;xuuw and C streets mthvu'_‘é‘r!olia made an unsuccessful search n R BUTTERFLY “"GHOST PICTURES” MADE BY DEAD INSECTS |Mysterious Emanation Produces Images Plates Without Light. give good results in from 24 to 30 hours, Clark said, but ordinarily satisfactory results cannot be secured except by ex- posures of at least a week. The bright- ness of the image is proportionate to the length of exposure and the amount of pressure against the plate, and in- versely to the age of the specimen, Source Is Mystery. “Butterflies caught 30 years ago,” Clark said, “gave quite recognizable, though faint, images. One caught 50 years ago gave an image which showed little more than the shape of the wings, but unfortunately this was a _lightly tinted South American species. The best results are obtained from very dark but- terflies. Females, if colored like males, usually give a brighter image because of the heavier pigmentation. Nearly all the 47 species used gave equally good and strictly comparable results. The upper surface of the common white cab- bage butterfly affected the plate as if it :;‘r.e a very dark instead of & white in- “If this phenomenon were due to light of a very short wave length—a sorlgol invisible " phosphorescence—this light should pass readily through quartz, but the quartz completely obliterates those portions of the wings over which it lies even in exposures of 30 days’ duration.” SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and Sailings From New York. ARRIVED, Hamilton—Norfolk DUE TODAY. Ulua—Port _Limon.. Clevelan Veendam— - .December 27 December 20 December 18 December 27 December 19 oy December 18 o-Santo Do obal—Cristobal +.... na-—Vera Cruz a—St. John's Yoro—Kingston .. St. Mihiel—San_Fra Munamar—8t. Thomas DUE TOMORROW, Amsterdam—Rotterdam Lopez—Barcelona ecember 24 December 22 December 11 December 24 Nieuw t ~Copenha; Carrillo—Pucrto Barios. vador—8an Prancisce. .. N 2 Sixaola—Santa Marta december 34 DUE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, Munargo—Havana Aconcagua—Valpar: Fort St Georee Teinid Befimida. - ca- Bermidi De GrasseHavre roo December 23 i DUE THURSDAY, JANUARY 1. hira-La . Tachiraila Guara December 23 Deutschiand—Humbars . December 24 DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY Eastern Prince—Buenos g stern 1 Aire MnuretaniaSouthampion ... Deccmpes 33 Morro' Gastie—Haysne®, Bectmber 3¢ DUE SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, American Banker—London December 24 DUE SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, Britannic —Bermuda Calamares —Fort Lims; reeber 23 ess of Beford—West Tndfes cruise, g 3 DUE MONDAY, JANUARY Bimerany Leglon-—Buenos Aires. Defember 19 Carmania—Liverpool - Becempsr 37 dominica—St. John's *Decomber 31 West Indie S uan.. .. - December 31 December 30 -December 20 December 7 cember 17 December 11 December 16 - December 29 OUTGOING STEAMERS, SAILING TODAY. Madison—Norfolk Henrl Jasper—Antwerp, SAILING TOMORROW. [+ Montevid Montanan " Paciic Const, - 0% Alres. ni Titania—Montevideo and’ Buenos Aires, SAILING WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31. Rosalind ~Halifax and_St. Je President Roosevelt—Cobh, Metupan—Kinre a) Guay: i Cabello and Miur.l’::.nbb. e g;l‘bl—Kslm:.\lJcr n Juan and Santo D nar—St. Thomas. e ) Pan Amerig Bermuda. c d Cast = agtillian " Prince~Montevideo and Buenos ohns. Plymouth, Cher- Luckenbach—Pacific C West Calunib--Montevideo and Buerios Aires. SAILING THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, President Wilson—World cruise. NortrZAILING FRIDAY, JANUARY 3. orthern Prince—Ri Montevideo and Baenos Airen o Sentos. Munargo—Nassau, Miami and Havana, Havans -Havana, Aans HeYans, Prosreso and Vera Grus. SAILING SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, Mauretania—Plymouth, Cherbours and South- Ansonia—Plymouth, Ha Grasse_Flymouth and Havrer o™ Fort Bt George—8t. 'Thomas anta Clara—Cristobal, Cailao and Val- Cleveland_-Cobh, Cherbourg and Bremen--Cherboure, Southampton and Brem. —PuertoColombla, Gorlnto. and Sen Franeisca "™ nan. Cristobal and Port Limon, . Kingston, Puerto Cas- c ‘obly_and Liverpool. Calypso— La Guayra, CUracso an Lune—Port au Prince, Puerto Maracaibo. Morro Castle—Havana, Antonlo Lopez—Cadiz and Martinique—Puerto Colom! SAILING SUNDAY, JANUARY 4. Musa—Puerto Cortez. SAILING MONDAY, JANUARY 8. Sl BRI A d Maracaibo. Cabelio- and Barcelona. bia. MERGER IS BARRED Injunction Blocking Billion- Dollar Combination Is Granted Stockholders. (Continued From First Page.) sion possible that the final ratio was adequate.” Judge Jenkins said that the court was without sufficiently supported facts clearly to pass a judgment on the price involved in the merger. Also, he said, the Sheet and Tube directors and shareholders as well were without “any such basis for forming such judgment. “Indeed, to put it mildly,” the decision said, “it must be frankly said that in the present state of the record grave doubt as to the adequacy of the con- sideration exists.” The decision was written in pencil by the judge in a round, careful hand on 19 pages of foolscap paper. He made three copies himself, desiring that no mistake be made in having a stenog-| rapher or typist transcribe it. One copy he filed with the clerk of the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. The other copies were presented {to newspaper men, Dalton’s Presence Censured. ‘The judge also censured the presence of Harry G. Dalton, partner in Pick- ands, Mather & Co. of Cleveland and director of Beilehem, at the Sheet and Tube dirwors’ meeting March 12 when they rati®ed the merger. ‘Whether he wted or did not vote on the merger contract, his presence and approval of the merger at that time “were in equity a breach of trust and against public policy. This was one of the important points of attack by the merger foes. “The evidence is clear to the court,” the decision continued, “that he xnow- ingly was not acting for all the share- holders of Sheet & Tube in that steps were taken to delay advising them of the existence of and the point to which the privately conducted negotiations had gone. “He was therefore in this not acting for Sheet & Tube, but for the other company (Bethlehem), even though honestly intending to act in what he believed to be for the best imterests of Sheet & Tube.” Dalton was also eriticized for not in- forming himself and Sheet & - Tube stockholders of the bonuses paid to Bethlehem executives. It was brought out in the injunction hearing that in 1929 the bonuses amounted to $3,600.000. ‘The court held that “this bonus sys- tem entered materially into the consid- eration for the sale and into the value of Bethlehem stock to be received in exchange for Sheet & Tube stock.” Controversial Topics Outlined. The legality of the voting of shares sold after date of record, the voting of proxies and other controversial points brought out at the injunction hearing, with regard to the Sheet & Tube stock- holders’ meeting were not touched upon in the decision. It was confined to the steps leading up to the Sheet & Tube directors’ meeting on March 12. Having found thet the action of the directors was invalid, he found no point to_considering the subsequent events. ‘Thus confining the decision, he saved himself the trouble of wading through the maze of controversial points grow- ing out of the stockholders’ meeting. Stockholders Assented in April. ‘Terms of the billlon-dollar deal pro-« vided for Bethlehem to acquire Sheet & Tube, a $235,000,000 corporation, on the basis of one and one-third shares of Bethlehem common stock for one of Sheet & Tube. Sheet & Tube stock- holders gave thelr assent April 9, but more than 200,000 of the affirmative votes, a deciding number, were chal- lenged by the anti-merger forces. Qmonz those who led the fight for thé merger were the veteran steel man, James M. Campbell, chairman, and Frank Purnell, president, of Sheet & Tube; Eugene G. Grace, president of Bethlehem, and Henry G. Dalton, a director in both companies. Eaton, organizer of the $350,000,000 Republic Steel Corporation and largest stockholder, through his holding com- pantes, in Sheet & Tube, led the oppo- sition. The actual plaintiffs were the In- ternational Shares Corporation, an Eaton investment concern, and Myron Wick, jr, Youngstown broker, whose heirs continued as co-plaintiff after his death from pneumonia, which was brought on by strain during the court battle, which lasted nearly three months Counsel Commits Suicide. One other death occurred during the hearings, the suicide of Leroy A. Man- chester, chief counsel for Sheet & Tube. His act was laid to overwrought nerves. The object of the merger, according to its sponsors, was to give to Bethle- hem the Youngstown company's busi- ness of manufacturing sheet and tub- ing and the Youngstown interests the greater _diversification and financial power of Bethlehem., Opponents claimed it was disadvan- vantageous to Sheet & Tube. Auditors testified Sheet & Tube’s record of earn- ings was better than Bethlehem's, that it made more profitable products, that its market and plant locations were better and that it was in a more sat- isfactory condition. Auditors for Bethlehem and other defense witnesses said adjustments had been made to compensate for any dif- ferences in the status of the firms, The anti-merger attorneys also charged 200,000 of the stockholder proxies voted for the merger were voted illegally, Stock Bought to Get Votes. Negotiations for the merger started early in 1930. Soon begin the buying of stock to get votes. Meanwhile, di- rectors of Sheet & Tube set March 22 as the “date of record” to determine who could vote at the stockholders’ election. The common belief was that holders of stock on record on the date designated could vote, regardless of whether they sold their stock just after the date of record. Eaton believed otherwise, and after the date of record passed, bought $8,000,000 worth of stock. He admitted he could not vote it, but claimed that neither could the former owners, who were still the holders of record, but who no longer held any financial in- terest Inasmuch as the Sheet & Tube char- ter required a three-fourths affirmative vote' of stockholders, every proxy that Eaton could prevent from being counted as legal, was as good as a negative vote, Many of the 200,000 votes Eaton chal- lenged were in this category. He actual- ly held the proxies on about 300,000 ad- ditional shares, which, if combined with the protested votes, were more than enough to defeat the merger. While the stockholders’ election was in progress, Eaton obtained an injunc- tion restraining the merger pending a trial of his numerous charges. Trial Began on June 24. The suit went to trial June 24. The queestioning revealed much confidential information, including the basis of Bethlehem's bonus system and the fact that its bonuses in 1929 were $3,000,000, of which Grace received approximately $1,600,000. This was one of the many items which the plaintfls charged were “covered up.’ Bethlehem's witnesses countered with the assertion that this would equal only 30 cents a share on the shares to be outstanding after the merger. Campbell, the 75-year-old Youngstown grum:n testified his company would ave to $30,000,000 remodeling if contigue competing as =0 scfiipd Dalton of it were independent. Eat forces MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1930. IBETHLEHEM STEEL GRIGORI ORDJONIKIDZE, Who takes the place held by Alexis Rykoff on the powerful politbureau in the Soviet government. —A. P. Photo. breaking faith with Eaton by mnot con- fiding the merger plans to him until almost on the eve of the director’s vote. They accused him of having arranged the ‘merger chiefly for the benefit of Bethlehem, although he was a director of both companies. Dalton denied this. Eaton also was charged with a counter desire to combine Sheet & Tube with Inland Steel of Chicago, and with form- ing the Republic Steel Corporation along lines similar to those he was criticizing in the proposed Sheet & Tube merger. Eaton denied it. The testimony closed September 24, and after a recess of several weeks, the attorneys made long arguments before Judge Jénkins, who then recessed court again to revelw the case. VICTOR ISSUES STATEMENT. Says Judgment was Only One Possible on Law and Fact. CLEVELAND, December 29 (#).— Luther Day, chief counsel for the forces opposing the proposed merger of the Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Cos. said today: “Personally, I believe it was the only judgment on law and fact that could have been ren- dered. In view of the many novel and interesting questions presented, Judge. Jenkins reached his decision in a re- markably short time. “I cannot discuss any phases of the opinion at this time as I have not seen it. Of course, I am personally happy over the result.” Eaton Silent on Decision. NEW YORK, December 29 (#).—Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland financier, refused to comment today when informed of the decision denying the proposed mer- ger of Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Asked if he would make a statement, the financier, who has led the fight against the merger, said, “Nothing to say. Thank you very kindly.” ——— ‘The Belgian Kongo contains the densest jungle land in the worle | until the end. Beset in 1930 by Worst Storms and Floods in Past 150 Years. Special Disbatch to The Star. . PARIS, December 29.—The year 1930 will be long remembered m France as having beaten all records for bad weath- er for over one and one-half centuries. Not since 1773—the year when King Louis XV still lived in the Versailles Palace—has this country seen as much rain and wind and been swept by as many storms as during the year that now comes to an end. Such unparalleled bad weather has brought to France a range of mournful catastrophies. They have succreded one another from the beginning ot 1930 In January heavy tem- pests devastated the coasts of the Brit- tany Chanele, taking scores’ of lives. For days the light houses on the At- lantic had in the air their signals of distres: In March, after weeks of rains, the rivers broke out of their beds, inundating wide areas. Several hun- dred people died, victims of the floods. June beat all records for rains. Not one day of this month passed without a thunderstorm. Late in August, after the most rainy Summer for 150 years, the sun began to shine over France. fiu:dt\\c spell of good weather was short- ved. Terrific Gales in September. In mid-September came again the terrific gales which exceeded in strength by far those of January and June. Not for a long time had France seen such devastating winds, such showers of water spllt by the skies. Tornadoes swept cver the south, over the north, born by the ocean and dying in the | Alps. A fleet of fishermen near Brit- tany was swallowed by the waves. Houses were torn off the ground. Bridges were ruined by the water, woods were outrooted. France arose out of these gales with her soil so deeply drenched that accidents did not cease to_occur during October and November. In Lyons a hillside slid down, entomb- ing 30 people. Near Nantes & train glided off the track, washed by water. Harvests of cereals were badly dam- aged by the rains. Wheat showed a deficit of about 30 per cent over the previous year. The harvest of wine for the current year appears to be one of the scantiest for the last 20 years. Late in November the Prench Weath- er Bureau observed in various spots of territory a phenomenon considered ex- tremely rare. A rain of mud fell on the Pyrenees, on Paris, Brittany and Bel- gium. It came from Algeria, where a cyclone of particular strength had flung sand far into the sky, carried off to the north, spilling it over Western Europe. Typhoon Devastates Harbor. ‘The month of December was not spared by the enraged elements. The Alglers bor was devastated by a typhoon that eaused disaster in the har- bor. Thus the only real respite from the rain and gales which France had during 1930 occurred near the end of INSENATE AGTIVITY His Committee Reports Out Four Bills Carrying Huge Appropriations. One of the busiest men on Capitol Hill during the three weeks Congress was in session before the Christmas recess was Senator Wesley L. Jones, Republican, of Washington. In that brief period the Senate Ap- propriations Committee, of which he is chairman, studied and reported out four important appropriation bills, aggregat- ing, $1,419,694,103.73. This total in- cluded the $150,000,000 fund for the Federal Farm Board, the $116,000,000 emergency construction fund to aid un- employment, the Treasury-Post Office annual supply bill and the Interior De- partment appropriation bill. As committee chairman Senator Jones had the talk of following up the Farm Board and emergency construction measures until final enactment. The two regular appropriation bills were ad- vanced to a position where they will receive final action by Congress shortly after the session is resumed next week. While these important appropriation bills were being brought from his com- nittee, Senator Jones also was in charge of the bill for the promotion of the health and welfare of mothers and in- fants, which was before the Senate for consideration prior to the recess, and is still the unfinished business. In addition to these duties in con- nection with the legislative program, Senator Jones had office correspondence syeraging 85 letters a day durlng that ime. August, and it is this respite which Coste and Bellonte used for their cross- ing of the Atlantic. The R-101 was not as Jucky in choosing the moment te start its fatal voyage. The abnormality of this year's weath- er over France is best pictured by the figures ' collected by the Paris Meteor- ological Bureau. Whereas the average yearly quantity of rain over Paris cal- culated for the last 50 years is 21.3 inches, during 1930 (the meteorological year comes to an end November 30) it rose to 32.6 inches. 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