Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Fair and somewhat warmer tonight m mm;rom; lowest temperature to- t about 30" degrees. Temperatures—Highest, & :b noon to- day; lowest, 22, at 6 Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 [Entered as secol shington, No. 31,664 Mu"ohes nd class matter D, C. he WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ) FRIDAY, JANU ARY 9, GIRL'S BODY FOUND ON NEWLY-RONED SHEETS, QUIZ TOLD No Signs of Stains Seen,| Interne Testifies at Limerick Inquest. DECLARES FACE SEEMED ARTIFICIALLY BLANCHED Greene ‘Says He Blamed Hemor- rhage After Noticing Blood at Corners of Her Mouth. The Casualty Hospital interne who | pronounced Beulah Limerick dead OI‘ natural causes, six hours before an un- | dertaker found a bullet in her brain, told a coroner’s jury inquiring into the fatal shooting today that the girl’s body apparently had been placed upon im- maculate sheets which clothed the bed on which she was found. Under cross-examination by Assistant District Attorney William H. Collins, the interne, Lyman J. Greene, insisted that there was no sign of blood upon the sheets or upon an “immaculate” slip on the pillow where the dead girl’s head rested. It has been the contention of police | that the body was found on dirty sheets | and that two stained sofa pillows lay 8t the head of her bed. Deputy Coroner Testifies. The first witness to be summoned be- fore the crowded board room at the | District Building was Dr. A. Magruder MacDonald, deputy coroner, who per- formed an autopsy at the Deal funeral home shortly after the death bullet was found. Dr. MacDonald said the bullet entered near the back of the head and somewhat above the ear, forcing a sec- tion of the skull into the brain. ‘The cause of her death, he said, ‘was a battered .25-caliber steel-jacketed | bullet which he removed. The doctor testified there was a slight indication of alcohol in the stomach. He discovered a small scratch near the girl's nose and a bruise on her arm at the shoulder. Greene followed MacDonald to the stand. He said he was on duty at Casualty Hospital when he received in- formaticn from the switchboard op- erator at 10:15 o'clock on the morning of December 31 that a young woman was badly ill at “1819 Nineteenth street southeast.” The girl in question, the doctor explained, was at No. 18 Nine- teenth street southeast and he was somewhat delayed in there with the ambulance. Greene said he arrived about 10:30 o'clock and found s outside the house. Young Man in Room. Going inside, he said, he found 8 “heavy set” young man in the yoom with the girl. The young man re- marked to the doctor that the girl had been living when the call was put in for an ambulance, but now appeared to be dead Greene testified the girl was dead when he first examined her, although there was still some warmth in the body. She lay, he said, upon freshly laundered sheets. The girl’s face seemed to have been artificially blanched and her arms were folded across her breast beneath bed clothing, which was pulled well up over the body. After he completéd his examination the doctor said the policeman inquired of him, “Natural causes, Doc?"” “I told the officer,” the interne con- tinued, “that it was a coroner’s case. 1 did not teil the officer anything about the circumstances of the death except to instruct him to notify the coroner’s office.” Girl's Mother Arrvived. The Rescue Squad was called to the scene, but Greene said he left be- fore he saw of the firemen at the home. He testified that while he vas meiking the examination tie girl's mother, Mrs. Dora E. Limerick, and her two sisters came in. The interne said Mrs. Limerick informed nim her daugh- | ter had been dancing until 5 o'clock | that morning. He sald there was a slight amount of blood at the corners of mouth and this fact coupled with information that the girl had been ing all night led him to believe dezth had been due to hemorrhag d by Collins with regard to late sheets” the saw tho’creases bad just come out He said he had a occasion to lift girl's head while making the nination saw 1o sign of blood Tesponse to another Green: said he was not a graduate of medicine, He explained he was in the third year of his medical course. The doctor was unable to say who first sum- moned his ambulance. H: explained the telephone operator at Casualty Hos- pital received the call and he doubted if she obtained the name of th> person who gave it. Conflicting testimony as to whether there was blood on the pillows under the girl’s head arose between investigat- police officers of the fifth precinct members of the Fire Rescue Squad. Corroborates Dr. Greene. cer Raymond L. Eubank testified he received a telephone call at precinct that a woman was dying the Nineteenth street address. He ~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) ZA in them as if the from under an ir: But Manager Says International Relations Are Improved | interne said he | question | RO AGHA, 156-YEAR-OLD TUR SHOWS $6,000 LOSS ON U. S. TRIP I Limerick Witne: | MRS. ROBERT F. LANGDON. —Star Staft Photo. PERSHING BACKED REPORTERS IN WAR |Insisted They Go Forward| When 1st Division Was Entering Front Line. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. | By Cable to The st BERLIN, Germany, January 9.— | When the 1st Division was ready to | enter the front line to complete its training the correspondents at Neuf- chat:au were Rcbert Small, Lincoln Eyre, Ray Carroll, Edwin James, George | Patullo, Cal Lyons, Heywood Broun and Floyd Gibbons. It was a French sec- tor and the French corps commander | expected them patizntly to sit there. He be suggested. H2 sald he would have a report sent back to them. Ths world knows how near any official eommunique can come o telling nothing. Perhaps the follow- ing 'B& ‘the correspondents might be escorted forward. “The accr:dited correspondents have a right to by with a division when it goes in,” Ged. Pershing insisted. Such a situation was unprecedented in any well regulated war. (The cxp:riences of Gen. Pershing as written by himself will appear in | The Star daily beginning next Monday.) Army Phones Puzzled. “Lala, les Americains, quelle blague,” the corps command:r sputtered. The Prench liaison officer at the American headquarters at Chaumont, a count in soclety and a colonel in uniform, ex- plained less volubly and also less hope- fully. It was zero hour for him and he kn Gen. Pershing was a tough ective. | “When the 1st Division goes in the | American _correspondents will accom- pany it.” Gen. Pershing replied without many changes of wording but consider- able in m:aning. The nct go until the is Army telephcne | was settled. was surprised that anything else should | division would | §2,000,000,000 MOVE 10 UNITE BIG STEEL FIRMS 15 REPORTED |Bethlehem, Youngstown Tube, Republic and Two | Other Concerns Mentioned. | REST AN WOULD BECOME RIVAL OF U. S. CORPORATION Minority Stockholders of First Listed Company Attack $36,- 000,000 Bonuses to Officials. By the Assoctated Precs. CLEVELAND, January 9.—The Cleve- | land News today says a proposed for- | mation of a two-billion dollar steel | merger to rival the giant United States Steel Corporation is being considered | by a number of prominent steel men and financiers. According to the News, the new merger “talk” includes the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Jones & Laughlin, Corrigan-McKinney and Otis | Steel. The News says Cyrus S. Eaton of Republic Steel, James A. Campbell of Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Eugene | G. Grace of Bethlehem met in New | York yesterday and discussed terms | and tities for the two-billion-dollar deal, | and mentioned for the first time as a | purgh, Leaders’ Purpose Stated. Quoting one news source, the News | says: “Bethlehem leaders are undaunted |in their determination to establish a | corporation rivaling the United States Steel Corporation and exceeding that leading interest in some capacities.” Tae reported embryonic two-billion dollar dcal comes close on the heels of | the injunction which Eaton won re- cently to restrain a merger of Sheet & | Tube and Bethlehem into a one-billion- | dollar concern, The News says that Newton D. Bak:r, | who as attgrney for Bethlehem and | Sheet & Tube, unsuccessfully opposed | Baton’s “injunction attack, has sailed | away on a Mediterranean cruise. Sharcs Take Spurt. & Tube and Republic, has been fighting “for a pure Midwest consolidation,” the News says. It asks then: “Is Eaton tired of fight- ing the battle to keep a new and worthy competitor trom making it interesting {;)r ,tlk.xe United States Steel Corpora- ion? After reporting the Eaton-Campbell- Grace conterence in New | News' potnts out~ " f!‘awn-commlhd Republic Steel yester- | day flared upward. The common lifted a couple of points, and the preferred bounced up from around 38 to 45. Eaton’s shares, which include many of | the Eaton steel interests, also climbed from around 45 to 51. $36,000,000 BONUSES HIT. inority Bethlehem Stockholders Ask Restitution. NEW YORK, January 9 (#).—An up- | skot of the Bethlehem Steel-Youngstown | Sheet & Tube merger controversy ap- |peared today in an announcement by |a committee of Bethlehem minority | stockholders that they would seck res- I‘muuan of bonuses paid to Bethlehem officals. The committee is composed of Henry participant Jones & Laughlin of Pitts- | Eaten, who is powerful in both Sheet | Yo tha stocks 6 the| o e EEHINB ALL IS A\ REAT§ITY R | ING BLE ? ) | THAT OBJECTION | EYE S@@A | D HiGiy f N e/ 'i"l"’, 7 N Ay AS ' THE §rim o fl DONT LET THE BILLBOARDS FOQL.YoU. o oy oWt CLEANS RINE 9 PREMISES WITH OUR_ | PANTI This WAY To THE BEAUTIES OF THE i | :M;‘;?;i[ . % R l i'f“h\. i VISITOR APPROACHES THE CITY. 1931—FORTY-TWO PAGES. ER a AT | nmig Star. *kk The Star’s cairi every city block a tion i3 delivered to () Means Associated “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ier system covers nd the regular edi- ‘Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,359 Pre TWO CENTS. BALTIMORE BANK ROBBED OF §15,000 |Six Bandits Escape After| Holding Up Employes. Customer Faints. | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., January 9.—Six men armed with pistols and an :um-i | matic gun held employes of the Com- | | mercial Savings Bank on North avenve | at bay today, seized cash estimated to | | total $15,000 and fled in an automobile. | The robbers sped. away in a ma- | | roon-colored Packard sedan, bearing | | Maryland license plates, the police were told. State police put special patrols on roads leading from the northwestern | section. When the bandits entered the bank | one ointed the automatic or sub- machine gun at Isaac Roscn, & cus- tomer, and he fainted. ‘While three men pointed revolvers at | ?'mm the others seized all the. cash n 3 ‘Police sald the robbery had been care- | fully planned for a time when North avenue, an outlying business artery, had less traffic than usual, the peak of the morning rush being over. ITALIAN AIR ARMADA | POSTPONES TAKE-OFF Gen. Balbo Decides to Wait Until Tomorrow for Plane That ‘Was Forced Down. | By the Associated Press. 4 | NATAL, Brazil, January 9.—Gen. Italo Balbo's fleet of transatlantic air-| ires buzzed across B. H. Ripley, Edwin D. Levinson, Sam- | planes swung at anchor in the harbor France between the American and the | uel B. Hopkins and Benjamin M. Rob- | here today, while theivacrews polished Frinch general headquarters. The Frenca general headquarters was amaz-d at cuch a naive suggestion. The American general headquarters ex- plained that this was an Amcrican inson, secretary. This group, as stock- | holders of the Midvale Co. received Bethlehem stock for part or the Mid- vale assets several years ago. division—which the French admitted— | and that consequertly the American command should de ment, including who, when and how— which required more thought Only Marshal Foch could d:cide the momentous issue, and he took several | hours and probably consuitation with | Paris, for the answer came a scant half i hour before the time set for the division to move. Approved by Foch. “Of cours’, mon general, vous avez raison,” that general-militarist agreed over the telephone, and the correspond- ents moved forward. So also did the Salvation Army with it d the Y. M. C. A. with its “I. O. | None who was there will ever forget that night of rain and mud, and thou- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) | BOATWRIGHTS AT MIAMI | Washington to Refuses Grant Interviews. MIAMI, Fla., January 9 ().—Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lee Boatwright, jr., of Washington, are spending a part of their honeymoon in Miami. Mrs. Boatwright is the former Su- zanne Pollard, daughter of the governor of Virginia. The marriage took place | Saturday in the executive mansion at | Richmond. They refused to grant interviews to ! newsga, men Couple K, and That Is Something. ide as to its equip- | | Grace Got $1,623,753. At a recent hearing of the injunction sult to prevent merger of Bethlehem Steel Grace, president of Bethlehem, testi- fied that he had received a bonus of $1,623,753 in 1929. The minority committee statement |seid that bonuses “‘aggregating in ex- |cess of $36,000,000" had been paid chiefly to officers of the corporation | who were also directors, and that the committee, after investigation, believed that the stockholders had “a meri- torious claim for redress.” Invite Others to Join, The committee “has decided, th:re- fore, to make its representation gen- eral for all the common stockholders and is ready to receive authority from any other common stockholders of | Bethlebem to act upon their belief.” | *“The committee proposes,” the an- | nouncement continued, “to protect the |interests of stockholders by making | proper rcpresentations upon their be- | half to the Bethlehem directors with a view to bringing about proper ad- justment of the bonus practice and proper restitution, and, failing that, to take such other or further steps as | counsel may advis: LOCKOUT OF 200,000 WORKERS THREATENED ;En,r:lish Mills to Act January 17 Unless Labor Dispute Is Set- tled in Meantime. By the Associated Press MANCHESTER, England, January 9.—The Central Committee of the Cot- ton Spinners and Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation today advised affiliated members | to close their mills on Saturday, Janu- |ary 17, unless a labor dispute with | weavers has been settled In the mea { time. If carried into effect the recom mendation would mean the lockout ot | and Sheet & Tube Eugene G.| | the ships in preparation for continua- | | tion of their flight to Bahia tomorrow. Originally they had intended to start | | this stage of their journey today, but| | the leader decided to wait for ‘the ar-| rival of one of the ships which was forced down off the coast. The plane is being towed to Fernando do Noronha | Island, 125 miles from here, where it will be refueled, joining the body of the fleet before the end of the day. | A thousand miles of tropical coastline |to Rio de Janeiro and conclusion of a 7,000-mile flight lies ahead of the flyers. Twelve planes will make the flight to | Rio and Bahia. The first of the two | | planes to come down en route from | | Bolama, Portuguese Guinea, was towed |into Fernando do Noronha, prison is- | | land 125 miles from Natal, by an Italian | | destroyer. Shortly afterward it set out for Natal and reached here yesterday | afternoon. Gen. Balbo and his companions, four | | to “each of the 11 planes, have been | feted and dined since they reached here Monday after a flight of 17 hours and | 10 minutes across the ocean. | POSSE CAPTURES PAIR | g s | Accused of Taking $1,000 in Ken- tucky Bank Hold-up. JUNCTION CITY, Ky. January 9 (#)—A posse of 100 men tracked down and captured today, two youths who shortly before had held up the cashier of the Citizens' Bank of Junction City and escaped with $1,000. Seven shots were fired at them before they sur- rendered. The youths gave thelr names as Roy Davis, Indianapolis, and Robert Fields, Hamilton, Ontario. They were placed in jail at Danville on bank robbery charges. The loot was recovered. Neither of the youths was hurt, al- though bullets pierced the coat of one. Two Bears and Bull Wager on Weather Market in Chicago By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 9.—There were two béars and one bull in the cold-weather market in Chi- cago today. Norman Morris and George McKerr, members of the Board of Trade, were the bears. John F. Barrett, head of a grain firm bearing his name, was the bull. It all happened when Barrett started to speak highly of the cold weather they have in Canada and slightingly of the kind they have in Chicago, going so far as to offer to wager $500 that there won't be any %ero weather in these parts before April 1. Mor- ris and McKerr “covered” the bet. GILLBOARD OWNERS ADMIT ZONE POINT i Single -Concession Virtually Saves Conference on Road- side Beautification. For the first time in years of com- bat for the protection of rural land- scape from defacement by outdoor ad- vertising, representatives of the organ- ized billboard industry were driven yes- terday to a verbal concession that there exists ground for differentiating be- tween billboards and other kinds of roadside businesses in considering the question of regional zoning. It was their yielding on this point, although not binding upon the indus- try, that saved the conference called for’ the promotion of harmony between commerce and rural beauty from dis- ruption during the closing afternoon session. Up to this time the represen- tatives of the American Nature Associ- ation, the National Council for the Pro- tection of Roadside Beauty and other public groups were on the verge of walking out of the conference. Former Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, the chairman, took the side of the clvic forces and declared that he could not conceive of any pro- posal coming from the conference which does not involve or cede the matter of differentiating between road- side businesses. Senator Pepper Thanked. Although yest-rday's conference re- sulted in only one other point of apparent accord, an agreement that reglonal zoning of stretches of roads provides perhaps ths best solution of the problem of roadside protection, it| did serve to bring the advertising and civic groups closer together and pro- | duce a degre: of harmony which few of the latter group had anticipated. This was due in large part to the diplomacy and fairness of former Scnator Pepper, delegates of th: civic groups pointed out later, as well as to the force of a rising tide of public opinion which the bill- board industry realizes must be con- ciliated. On the motion of Albert S. Bard, counsel for the National Council for Prot:ction of Roadside Beauty, Chairman Pepper was given a rising vote of thanks for his services as pre- siding officer. Despite the. refusal of a number of civic bodies and the United States Bureau of Public Roads and the Ameri- can Association of State Highway Officials to take part in yesterday's procecdings, it was the consensus that the conference had made sufficient strides toward harmony to appoint a committee to serve as a continuing body until another conference could be called. With the appointment of this committee, on which five of the eight members represent public groups and of which Senator Pepper is chair- man, the session was brought to a close. In' an effort _to reconcile differences " (Contihued on Page 2, Column 1.) Pershing’s Boys “Over There” FISCAL COMMITTEE S VOTED $10000 ’House Unanimous in Grant- ing Request After Effort to Cut Sum. | ‘The House today approved a resolu- | tion authorizing an expenditure of |$10,000 from the contingent funds of |the House by the special committee, | headed by Representative Mapes of | Michigan, which is making a study of | the fiscal relations between the United States and the District of Columbia. The Committee on Accounts, headed by Representative Underhill of Massachu- setts. sought to reduce this amount to | $7,600, but after a brief discussion the House authorized the full amount as requested by the Mapes cammittee. presentative Underhill emphasized | that this committee had already ac- complished a deal and_that the | subject of their study is of “extreme importance.” It was emphasized during the debate that the Mapes committee expects to continue its investigation beyond March 4, when the present Congress closes. | Experts Chief Expense, It was brcught out on questions by | Representative Parks of Arkansas that the principal expense will result from the ‘employment of taxation experts, and it was explained by Chairman Mapes that it is “quite probable that such a tax expert will have to visit comparable citles throughout the coun- | try and make a study of a tax plan so | as to get a true_comparison on the tax | | burden for the District of Columbia.” The testimony of representatives of | the Bureau of Efficiency before the | Mapes Committee was described by Rep- | resentative Prear of Wisconsin as hav- | ing “embarrassed our committee by the |report they made.” Representative Blanton, Democrat, cf Texas, first sug- gested the qualification “so called” Bu- reau of Efficiency, and this was quoted | later, by several other speakers, includ- ing 'Representative Stafford, Repub- | lican, Wisconsin. He and several other | members of the House appeared greatly | interested regarding how the Bureau of | Efficiency as a Government agency came | to testify before the Mapes Committee. Unanimous for Allowance. Chairman Mapes said that the re- | quest for $10,000 allowance was by unanimous approval of the select com- mittee and that every one on the com- mittee wanted to do the work credit- ably and that thus far the committee had had no assistance and now realized | the urgent need for the services of a | tax expert. Representative Frear discussed at length taxation in the District, and Representative Chindblocm, Republican, | of Tllinois wanted to know if full con- sideration was given to sentimental and | historical values as a part of the lia- | bility charged against the Federal Gov- | ernment. 'TRADE WIND READY FOR HOP TO AZORES Mrs. Hart and Lient. McLaren At- tend Reception and Dinner on Bermuda Stop. | | | | By the Associated Press. HAMILTON, Bermuda, January 9.— A tail wind and fair skies were hoped for today by Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieut. | William " 8. McLaren as they prepared | for an early takeoff for the Azores on the second stage of their transatlantic Journey. ‘The aviators yesterday repaired the | oil supply feed lines of their plane, the Trade Wind, which they brought here Wednesday from Norfolk, Va., after a flight of six hours and 55 minutes. They attended an official reception of Acting Gov. ans and a dinner by their hotel last night at which they were guests of honor. Promised better weather today, they hoped to be the first to fly with a com- | week. TRAFFIC CONTROL MEASURE HELD UP BY UTILITIES GROUP Senators Ask District Heads| and Protesting Body to Get Together. PROPOSAL IS TO CREATE VEHICLE DEPARTMENT Complainants Fear New Bill Would Restrict Commission Power, ‘Will Consider It Further. The bill to co-ordirate control of | traffic in the Districi in a new degnn-} ment of vehicles and traffic, which was rewritten at a conference last night, | was outlined by District officials to a | Senate subcommittee today, but action | was put off until next week when it de- veloped that the Public Utilities Com- mission found itself unwilling to agree | to the redraft. Harleigh Hartman of the Public Utll- itles Commission expressed the willing- ness of the Utilities Board to co-operate in bringing about legislation for co- ordinated traffic control, but said this commission could not approve the re- written measure because of a fear it | would hamper the commission in reg- | ulating public utility operations. | Corporation Counsel Bride and Assist- | ant Corporation Counsel Roberts ex- pressed belief that the redraft gave am- ple protection to the powers of the Util- ities Commission. Senators Suggest Later Report. Senators Kean, Republican, New Jer- sey, and King, Democrat, Utah, sug-| gested that the utllity commissioners and representatives of the District Com- missioners get together and try to iron out their differences over the method of handling problems that relate beth to traffic and utilities and report back next Mr. Roberts testified the redraft was worked out with a view to overcoming objections voiced at a hearing before the House subcommittee yesterday. The revision was completed after midnight and submitted to the Utilities Commis- sion at 9 o'clock this morning. Mr. Hartman said his commission had ap- proved the former bill, but could not accept® the language of the redraft without further ccnsuitation. An essential feature of the redraft is that it contains a specific provision for the setting up of the new department of vehicles and traffic. It was the in- ten! of the Commissioners to create such a department under the old bill but that intention was not stated di- rectly. The new bill says that this de- partment, under the direction of the Commissioners, would issue and revoke drivers’ permits, would register and title motcr vehicles, would make traffic studies and plans, install and maintain traffic signals, and such other matters as may be determined by the Commis- sioners. The present office of traffic director would be abolished and the| Commissioners would appoint a director | of -vehicles and traffic as head of the new department. Minimum Penalties Hit. Another important change in the re- draft is the striking out of minimum penalties for certain serious traffic of- fenses, leaving in the law the maximum penalties. Mr. Roberts explained that by having only the maximum penalties written into the law, the judges would have wider discretion. He said it was felt that more con- victions could be obtained in this way, because with high minimum penalties written into the law juries sometimes hesitate in reaching a verdict. This| plan_transfers more power with regard Juries to the judges. To handle’ matters which have a close relation, both to traffic control by the commissioners and public utility control by the Utilities Commission, the bill provides for a joint board composed of the commissioners and the Utilities Commission to reach a final decision. On_such questions either commission | could ask'to have a disputed matter acted on in joint session. Engineer Commissioner Is Arbiter. Commissionsr Crosby pointed out to the Senators that the Board of Com- missioners and the Utilities Commission | are organized alike, in that each is| composed of two civilian commissioners, with the Engineer Commissioner as ths third member of both boards. This, he said, tended toward a co- ordination and would make the En- gineer Commissioner the final arbiter if the other Commissioners on each board could not agree. Dr. George Havenner and Edwin S. | Hege of the Federation of Citizens’ As- | sociations and A. J. Driscoll of the Mid- city association attended the hearing, | but most of the session was taken up with the explanation of the new bill by various city officials. _Chairman Kean will fix the date later f6r the next meeting. to the size of the penalty from the | SENATE SEEKING 10 END DEADLOCK OF POWER DEBATE Motion to Curtail Time of Discussions Swamped in Arguments. NO PROGRESS MADE SINCE YULE RECESS | Night Sessions Impend Unless Ac- tion Can Speed Up Legisla- tive Measures. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senate leaders today sought to bring to an end the debate on the Federal Power Commission which has cramped the legislative wheels of the Senate for nearly a week, Immediately after the Senate ase sembled at noon Senator McNary, as- sistant Republican leader, proposed unanimous consent agreement provid- ing that after 4 pm. today no Senator should speak longer than 15 minutes or more than once on the motion of Sena~ tor Walsh of Montana to request the President to return to the Senate the nomination of Chairman George Otis Smith and Commissioners Draper and Garsaud, and that at not later than 6 o'clock the Senate should vote on the motion without further debate. Walsh Raises Question. Senator Walsh of Montana immedi- ately raised the question as to the form of the unanimous consent ®gresment, pointing out that his motion was to re- consider the vote by which these nomi- nations were confirmed and at the same t'me to request the President to return them to the Senate. e Vice President Curtis expressed the opinion that the motions should be sepa- rated, and that the Senate should first vote a motion requesting the Presi- dent to return the nominations. At once there was apparent disagree- ment to this construction of the rules, with Senators Walsh, Norris of Nebraska and Johnson of California and the Dem- ocratic leader, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, taking the view that the unanimous consent agreement should cover votes both on reconsideration of the nominations and on the motion to request the President to return the nomi- nations. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, while he did not discuss the unanimous consent agreement, announced that he proposed to speak fcr an hour in the Senate today on a subject not related to the power commission. Night Voting Opposed. Senator Hi of Alabama suggeatgl that the vote be taken at 7:30 pwm. instead of 6. At this juncture, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic « leader, proposed unanimous consent agreement that the vote be taken be- fore the Senate adjourned on this cal- endar day. This proposal was accepted by Sen- ator McNary as a substitute for his original request for unanimous consent. It wcs opposed, however, by Senator Borah of Idaho and Senator Couzgns of Michigan, both of whom declared they did not propose, if they could help. it, to be kept in the chamber until midnight tonight to vote. Senator Couzens objected, and called for the regular order, until unanimous consent agreement proposals could be written and submitted. Senator McNary announced this would be done, and he would ask the Senate to agree to vote before adjourn- ment today. Vigorous Fight Foreseen. Senator Broussard of Louisiana b gan an argument in defense of Come missioner Garsaud, who hails frem ‘Louisiana. It is understood that Sex ators Norris, Borah, Brookhart, Dill and George all desire to speak before a vote is reached on the Walsh motion. __Even if the Senate agrees to reach Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) REMOVAL OF SWALLOWED OBJECTS IS FACILITATED Recently Invented Enables Surgeon to Get Two Views Simultaneously. Flouroscope By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 9.—Pins and other articles swallowed by an infant can be removed with greater speed than ever before and without shock to the patient, it was revealed today by doc- tors at a hospital where a new type flouroscope was used for the first time, The machine, it was explained, af- fords simultaneous views from two di- rections. Using this new type flouroscope and an esophaguscope the physicians | Femoved a pin from the esophagus of & 7 months' old baby in less than 3 min- utes. Figures of Weather Bureaw The District of Columbia, Maryland | and Delaware were in the driest of the drought-ridden States during last year’s record-breaking dry spell, .having # total rainfall of only 56 per cent of the normal figure, it was revealed in a pre- liminary compilation of data issued by the Weather Bureau today. Neverthe- D. C.,, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE FORMED DRIEST AREA IN U. S. for 1930 Show Zone Had Only 56 Per Cent of Normal Rainfall. according to the bureau’s figures. These States received only 59 per cent of their normal rainfall, while Kentucky came third with 60 per cent. Other States in which new dry ree- ords were established for 1930 are Penn- sylvania, 60 per cent; Ohio and Oregon, 71; Michigan, 74; Indiana and New Jersey, 75; Misscuri, 78; Tennessee, 79: New York, 82, and the six New England States, considered as a group, 83. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, which were very hard hit by the’ drought, showed average precipita- tions for the year near normal. Heavy rains throughout the Fall did it. Lynchburg, Va., was the driest city, with 49 per cent of normal, and Parkersburg, W. Va., second, with 50. ‘Wytheville, Va., fourth, with 54; Louis- ville, Ky., sixth, with 55, and Lexington, Ky., seventh, with 57. g '“';u;«(‘;;: Pwa T “I am the man who has to pay the | 200,000 workeen L gy NEW YORK, January 9.—Affairs of » says e -r,| The textile industry has been - | Zaro Agha, the old Turk, are in the | Sooys; ta¥s Asin Redvan, his manager. | 5 uye;“for “eeks because of the Yed. So far he's a total loss of $6,000. Put I am charging it up to improved | weqvers' refusal to accept the mill own: He came here months ago from Con- | Turko-American relations and forget- | ers’ demand that each man now oper- |- stantinople to stimulate the interest of | ting it.” 5 | ating four looms take over twice that sclence in his Jongevity, improve Turko- | Agha is ‘writing his memoirs, but the | number. The owners have offered an American relations and pick & few | book isn’t.coming along very fast, says | increass in pay amounting to about $10 #heckels from the golden bushes. Redvan, what with Agha taking time|a week, but the weavers contend that The news films made him pose, spe- | out for heavy meals and dashing off to | the sysiem would throw meny men out clalists X.rayed him and the public|the movies. He is crazy about pie and |of work. rubbered its fill—all without admission. | candy. That for a man whose passport shows | He will return to Turkey as soon as him to be 156 years old. & his writing is finished. Gen. Pershing’s Own Siory of America’s War Effori mercial load from America to Paris. CASHIER IS KIDNAPED less, Washington and Baltimore, the figures disclosed, ranked only third among America’s most arid cities. Both citics had an annual precipitation of 51 per cent of normal. The rain sho continues, the bureau reported, in the area bounded by the Appalachian Mountains on the east, Ohio River on the south and the Mississippi River on the west. Next to the District, Maryland and Delaware, Virginia and' West Virginia were the driest sections of the country, /TheStar Monday - Tune In on WRC Tonight at 9:45 O'Clock AND HEAR THIS STRIKING PRO- GRAM OF WAR-TIME SONGS OF THE DOUGHBOY IN FRANCE. They Will Interest and Thrill You MOVILLE, Iowa, January 9 (#).—D. E. Wilkins, cashier of the First Trust & Savings Bank, was roused from bed this morning by a robber, who forced him to go to and open the safe. The man escaped with $6,000 after faorcing Wilkins * to accompany him almost to Sloux City. Ihd;u éroznm; on Page C-3 Starts i