Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1931, Page 5

0,000,000 LOSS LAID T0 SMELTER V. $.-Canada Parley to Take Up Claims for Alleged Crop Blight. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. One of the strangest border contro- wversies in international history—and the first of its kind in the annals of the United States—will come before the In- ternational Joint Commission at Wash- ington on January 15. It involves a dis- pute between this country and the Do- minion of Canada over damage caused to | American farms in the State of Wash- | ington by a Canadian ore smelter sev- ! eral miles north of the international line. As a result of sulphur gas gen- | erated by the smelter's operations, farm crops have suffered damage over a dis- tance of nearly 50 miles this side of the border. Some 800 land owners, con- sisting mainly of homesteaders, have brought claims for alleged damages, ag- gregating roundly $5,000,000. The United States is stoutly defending the Americans’ rights. Canada will send to Washington for the forthcoming executive session of the International Joint Commission the three distinguished jurists, who repre- sent the Dominion on that judiecial body. They are Charles A. Magrath, chairman of the Canadian section; Sir Willlam H. Hears M. G. and George W. Kyte, K. C. Mr. Magrath has been chairman of the Hydroelec- tric Power Commission of Ontario since 1925. Once upon a time he reprcsented the famous Medicine Hat constituency in the Canadian House of Commons at Ottawa. He is well known in Wash- ington, through having attended many sessions of the International Joint Gom- mission here. Sir Willlam Hearst is a former prime minister of Ontario, head of a leading law firm in Toronto, and an authority on lands, forests and mines. Mr. Kyte, the third member of the Canadian Commission, is a Nova Scotian, and has long been an influen- ml figure in Canadian parliamentary . Nature of Dispute Is Unusual. ‘The members of the American sec- tion of the International Joint Com- mission are former Gov. John H. Bart- lett of New Hampshire, one-time a: sistant postmaster general, chairman; and former United States Senators P. J. McCumber of North Dakota (of Fordney-McCumber tariff fame), and A. O. Stanley of Kentucky. The Joint Commission has been wrestling with the smelter damage case for two years, It is one of the most difficult problems that have arisen between the two governments since the formation of the commission under a treaty made in 1910. Th: nature of the dispute is altogether unusual. rings from the fact that one of the largest ore smelting establishments in | the world, known as the Consolidated | Smelting & Refining Co., is situated in the small town of Trail, British Co- lumbia, about 7 miles north of the boundary line on tne Columbia River. This smelter reduces copper, silver, gold and lead from the ore with which British Columbia {s richly endowed. ‘The smelting process necessarily creates @ sulphur gas. These gases are carried down the mountain-bordered valley of the Columbia River for many miles into the American State of Washington. Experts of both countries have been testing these fumes and experimenting on the damage which they are admitted to be doing to forestry and agricultural crops. Commission Sits as Court. While the 1910 treaty imposes upon the International Joint Commission for its primal jurisdiction the duty of settling matters relating to joint water- ways, the treaty permits Canada and the United States to refer other issues to it. In this way, by consent of both jovernments, the Trail smelter case is fore the commission. The commis- sion sits as a court, and not as a bi- national arbitrating board. It is essentially & fact-finding body. On the basis of its findings of fact in the border case herein described, a “treaty of adjustment” is hoped for. When Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- Donald of Great Britain was in_this | country a year ago, he revealed lively | interest in the workings of the inter- national joint commission and its power for peace-keeping along the | great Canadian-American unforfified frontier. Mr. MacDonald expressed the view that European countries with | common borders might well emulatey the example of Canada and the United | States and set up similar bi-lateral commissions for settlement of frontier | questions of exclusive interest to them- selves. The labor chieftain said the | institution of such tribunals might | e an enormous contribution to the cause of world peace, and of European ' peace in particulur. (Copyright, 1930, ‘ THE WEATHER | | District of Columbia—Fair and colder | tonight with lowest temperature about | 20 degrees, tomorrow fair with rising | temperature, diminishing northwest | winds becoming southerly. land and Virginia—Fair and colder tonight, tomorrow fair with, ris- ing temperature, fresh northwest winds Iself into five classification: 43 STATE LEGISLATURES FACE HEAVY LAWMAKING SESSIO Morals Are Gencral Problems. Money and Taxation, Prohibiti ernmental Reform BY DALE HARRISON. NEW YORK, January 1 (#).—The making of law becomes this month in 43 State capitols a matter of serious concern. By Summer—statute writing is a tedious affair—these 43 Legislatures, joined in April by a forty-fourth, Flor- ida, will have adjourned; and an esti- mated 20,000 new measures will have been acted upon. Only four States— Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana and Mis- sippi—will have no legislative sessions next year. Money and morals are the general| headings under which major statutes will be written. ation, appropriation, debt retirement and public works—dominates. Specifically, the program groups it- Taxation, prohibition, penal reform, unemploy- ment relief, governmental reform. Taxation is a vital business in every legislative hall, but 20 States in par- ticular are looking next month to their lawmakers to do things concerning it. Fourteen States will consider prohi- bition in_one or more of its vexing phases. Not all the contemplated di: cussion, however, has to do with en- forcement or repeal. Prison Reform. The matter of prison rcform and State policing assumes high importance in 10 State: n two of them, Kansas and Massachusetts, there has arisen a difference of opinion as to the merit of the death penalty for capital crime. Kansas would legalize capital punish- ment once more. Massachusetts would repeal it. Arizona, still shuddering over the decapitation of & woman it hanged last , will seek “a more humane method of execution.” Its Governor- elect favors abolition of the death pen- alty altogether. Unemployment Relief. ‘Unemployment relief is promised con- sideration by at least 11 Legislatures. Probably others will ponder the prob- lem, once the work of lawmaking strikes its stride. There has, however, been no advance indication of any State-ap- proved relief program other than the encouragement of public and private construction. What would appear in effect as an offset to any extensive State sponsoring of unemployment relief is the pro- nounced determination of many new administrations to pare expenditures to the core. In several States, legislators have been sent to their capitals with the definite dicta to obtain relief from taxation. ‘The opinion in most of the lawmaking centers is that any movement toward extensive expenditures, even under the Rfln of unemployment relief, will find n economy exponents a forceful foe. Governmental Reform. Governmental reform lacks the “hu- man interest” element of such affairs | of state as prohibition and unemploy- ment relief, but it stands out nonethe- less as a principal business in eight far-flung Commonwealths. Arkansas, among_the eight, has the thost drastic job. It hopes, in the 60- day session beginning January 12, to effect a complete reorganization of its government. The consolidation of more than 100 boards and departments is contemplated, and the abolition of all | State executive offices save those of | Governor, Lieutenant Governor and At- torney General. is proposed. Okiahoma plans further reorganiza- | tion of its government with the elimina- | tion of lesser boards and departments. Wyoming legislators have much the same hope. Alabama's Governor-elect is expected to recommend departmental | changes. Arizona may create the office | of lieutenant governor and abolish that | of legislative examiner. Consolidation of departments, | trend definitely noticeable, also faces | North Carolina. Other States in which | the hope for governmental reform is | felt are New Jersey and Maine. In the | latter State the Legislature will have before it a complete survey for con- solidation and reorganization. Blue Laws. Blue laws, some dating back to the | eighteenth _century, will be challenged determinedly in four Eastern States— | Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Hamp- | shire and Maine. In Maryland the laws, written with | the pen of pre-Revolutionary Puritans, promise, indeed, to become a major matter before the Legislature. In 1920 the laws were liberalized to permit the sale of gasoline and confectionery on the Sabbath, but they still prohibit public p:rformances and gainful labor. In Baltimore, particularly, the laws are strictly enforced. The Baitimore Coun- | cil, however, has indicated it will sup- port efforts at liberalization. Pennsylvania organizations which in Of these, money—tax- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, s BILBERT BECOMES on, Penal and GOV— and Jobless Figure. the past have resisted successfully all efforis to abrogat> the Sunday ~blue laws of 1794 express confidence of con- tinued success. A determined campaign for blue law repeal, however, has been conducted in the large cities. Miscellaneous Legislation. There is hardly a State which, if it pursues precedent, will fail to write legislation that might be classified broadly as “different.” New Hampshire would muzzle rumor mongers whose tongues menace the | business of banking. New York State proposes to investi- gate New York City. California would prohibit married women from working if theirdhusbnnds |of her “$25,000 water bo; | Democrats dub Francis C. Wilson, New | Mexico's interstate river commissioner, Arizona wants a port on the gulf of Lower California with a right of way to it through Mexico. Several States, particularly Vermont, New Jersey and New Hampshire, pro- pose to do something about billboards. ‘Wyoming would repudiate the prima- ry in favor of the convention system. Michigan will reargue the merit of capital punishment and the whipping st. PR ttew Houkioiliden express high- way will be censider>d in Connecticut. Prohibition. | States in which prohibition, in one phase or another, will be a subject of lawmaking, are, Missouri, West Vir- ginia, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, California, Wyoming, Colorado, New Jersey, Delaware, Rhode Island, Penn- sylvania and Connecticut. In Missouri the proposal has to do with & tax on malt products for use in the manufacture of home beverages—a tax which its proponents believe would return the State $3,000,000 a year. Mich- igan’s malt tax will come under the fire of prohibitionists. Definite wet blocs in Indiana and Ohio already have made clear their intention to fight for changes in the liquor laws. Modification or repeal of the enforce- ment act will be sought in Illionis, where the November referendum was dis- tinctly wet. West Virginia would abolish |its prohibition department, not as a social measure but as an economy =2 Repeal of the enforcement act fs sought, too in California and New Jer- | sey. A repeal bill is reported as “al- | most certain” to be presented in Wyom- |ing. Gov.-elect Pinchot opposes repeal |in Pennsylvania, but the proposition oromises a lively fight. Congressional reapportionment will concern legislators everywhere, and promises extensive, expensive debate. | Motor fuel taxes—the “gas tax,” every subject for action in six State, and in | five of them—Alabama, Nebraska, Min- | nesota, Wisconsin and Arizona—it has | been proposed that the tax be increased. Kansas alone presents a sentiment for reduction. |MEMBERS OF KIWANIS CLUB GET KEY BOOKS More Than Score With Perfect At- tendance Records for Year Given Rewards. Pigskin key books were presented to more than a score of members for pera fect attendance records in 1930 at a meeting yesterday of the Washington Kiwanis Club in the Washington Hotel. Recipients of the gifts included James B. Edmunds, Dr. George A. Baker, Z. D. Blackistone, Albert M. Briggs, Burns C. Downey, Edwin H. Etz, William N. Freeman, Edwin F. Hill, lieutenant governor, first division. Capi- tal Kiwanis district; Harry G. Kimball, F. Archibald Meatyard, Frank T. Mitchel, Edgar Morris, Radford Moses, Claude W. Owen, Charles W. Pimper, Fred W. Quinter, John F. Sheiry, Dr. Orville U. Singer, William F. Smith, Arthur P. Steinberg and Claude H. Winslow. Walter Johnson, manager of the Washington base ball team, was an honor guest. . iz Man Arrested for Rum. street, was arrested by third precinct police last night on a charge of illegal possession of five gallons of alcohol found in a machine in an alley at the rear of the 2500 block of K street. The discovery was made by Policeman B. F. Bean and W. B. Jackson. | Efforts are being made to grow South American linseed in Scotland. motorist knows—is considered a certain | Edward King, 43 years old, of 2134 H | | | MORGAN PARTNER Man Who Postponed Honey- moon Six Years to Save Germany Gets Big Job. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 1.—A man who postponed his honeymoon six :years to pull a nation out of a financial morass was back from the honeymoon today ready to take his place as a partner in the banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. at the age of 38. Three days before §. Parker Gilbert sailed for Germany in 1924 to under- take one of the biggest financial assign- ments in all history as agent general for reparation pavments, he hurried to Louisville, Ky., and married Miss Louise Ross Todd. Th-y sailed and he went to work. Began Honeymoon in June. Last June when he returned from Berlin after th: Bank of International Settlements had taken over his work, he was asked what he planned to do. He met all questions with the state- ment that he and Mrs. Gilbert were going on their honeymoon. It was not only a honeymoon but also the first real vacation Gilbert had taken since he left college. A man who was an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury at 27 and dictator of a nation’s fiscal policy at 32 had little time for recrea- tion, After being graduated from Rutgers he ent'red Harvard Law School and was graduated with honors in 1915. Became Government Attorney. ‘When Russell C. Lefiingwell was called to Washington by Secretary McAdoo at the outbreak of the war, Gilbert, unable to fight because of appendicitis, was an assistant to Leffingwell in the New York law offices of Cravath & Henderson. Leffingwell took Gilbert to ‘Washington as an attorney on the war loan staff. Leffingwell returned to New York and Gilbert succeeded him, becoming Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He served under changing administra- tions, which brought Secretaries Glass, Houston and Mellon into office. He was so valuable to Secretary Mellon that the office of undersecretary of the Treasury was created for him. When the Dawes plan was put into operation, Gilbert was back in private life, from which he was called to suc- ceed Owen D. Young as agent general. There are 19 partners in the Morgan firm. Guesses in the newspapers have been that a Morgan partnership at times means an annual income of $1,000,000. CONTESTS FEATURE OPEN HOUSE AT “y” Reception Is Being Held Today for Friends of Young Men’s Chris- tian Association. The Young Men's Christian Associa- tion is holding open house for its friends today, with a program featuring an in- vasion of the men's pool by bathing girls. athletic contests and a demon- stration of simuitaneous chess and checker playing by W. B. Mundell. Girls from the Y. W. C. A. swimming | team will give an exhibition at 3 o'clock | in the Central “Y” Building, preliminary to a demonstration of the “Evolution | of Lifesaving.” | The reception by officials and mem- | bers of the staff of the Y. M. C. A. will | begin at 2 o'clock. Refreshments 'flli be served from 2 to 6 o'clock in the second-floor reception rooms. | Movies for boys and girls, volley ball | games, bowling matches, a basket ball | contest and wrestling also are on the | program. At the Y. W. C. A. headquarters, at Sevenwg‘nlh and K streets, tonight, there will be a free movie show, at 7:30 o'clock, in Barker Hall, while refresh- ments will be served 9:30 o’clock. 1931. MARRIED FIFTY-THREE YEARS TODA Mr. and Mrs. Washington Williams are celebrating their fifty-third weddin, anniversary at their residence, in the Argonne Apartments. They were marri in Columbus, Kans., and resided there until coming here a few years ago. One of their daughters, Miss Lola Williams, Is secretary to Vice President Curtis. —Harris-Ewing Photo. $5,000,000 MOVIE CHAIN Los Angeles Reports Nation-Wide Combine Is Proposed. LOS ANGELES, January 1 (#).— Announcement, of a contemplated Na: tion-wide picture theater chain capi talized at $5.000,000 was' made here by Harold B. Franklin, former presiden: of Fox West Coast Theaters. He announced contracts had been signed between himself and Howard B. Hughes, independent movie producer, for tion of the Hughes-Frank- lin Theaters. 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Pyles as sheriff of Montgomery County, subscribed to the oath of office before the clerk of the Circuit Court here yesterday and en- tered upon a four-year term. He _immediately appointed former Sheriff Clifard L. Howard and Charles C. Orme deputy sheriffs to succeed themselves, both of whom also took the “:’Et of office before the clerk of the court. 3 ‘The new sheriff, at the last two ses- sions of the Legislature, represented the county in the House of Delegates. Long-Time Postmaster Dies. SALISBURY, N. C, January 1 (). — James Hill Ramsay, Salisbury postmaster, who had served in the postal service under every President since Grant, died yesterday. = BUY— AT Well Folks:- ® A-S A. J. CUMMINGS STRICKEN Laurel Race Track President Suf- fers Heart Attack in Home By a Staft Correspondent of The Stas, CHEVY CHASE, Md, January 1.— Andrew J. 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