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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight with ; tomorrow increasing -Highest, .m. yesterday: lowest, 35, at 3:30 a.m. Full report on page 14. y. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages11,12& 13 lowest temperature b No. 31,665. ¢ Foeni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g St The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated service, * Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,583 Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, e D. WASHINGTON, HODVERTO SPEED RELY 10 SENATE - ONPONERISSE Clearly Indicates Refusal to Comply in Message Ex- pected Today. NEW BATTLE FORECAST ‘Watson Prepared to Keep Body in | Session to Await President’s Answer. President Hoover informed Senate leaders he expected to reply today to| the resolution requesting the return of three power commissioners’ nomi- mations. Mr. Hoover also indicated quite clearly that he did not intend to comply. The commissioners are Chairman George Otis Smith of Maine, Marcel Garsaud of Louisiana and Claude L. Draper of Wyoming. They previously ‘were confirmed by the Senate and have taken office. Senator Watson, the Republican leader, was prepared to keep the Sen- ate in session today awaiting the reply of Mr. Hoover. It is expected at the Capitol to be a signal for a new battle between the President and the coalition of Senate Democrats and Republican independents. The President requested Attorney General Mitchell for an opinion even before the Senate resolution reached his desk. The latter dropped all else at once. Further Action Planned. Meanwhile advocates of the motion for recall—sponsored by Walsh, Demo- crat. of Montana—were considering plans for further action in event the President rejects the request which was mdopted yesterday. Senator Walsh said off the floor that @s a “legal proposition the three men are no longer commissioners, but as a Practical proposition there is no way of getting them out unless the President accedes to the Senate's request, as I pssume he will.” Despite the contention of the Mon- ganan that the commissioners were legally out of office, their nominations were not on the Senate's calendar of executive business for reconsideration. ‘The cealition of Democrats and Re- publican independents, which opposed the Hoover policies on tariff and farm relief in the last session, again combined to override the administration forces on the Walsh motion and another battle royal between the President and the Tebeilious Senate is in prospect. Consider Refusing Funds. Refusal to vote appropriations for the ON RECALL OF THREE| D to discuss the situation growing out of contend that their release was illegal. strengthened their position. | william V. King (right) and Charles A. Russell, storm centers in the power | commission fight, as they met this morning in Russell’s office at the commission | the nominations of the three commissioners respon: the Senate actior in moving to recall le for their removal. Both | They said they felt the Senate had | —Star Staff Photo. | PERSHING'S TRAIN - OFTEN UNDER FIRE Rolling Headquarters’ Life Is Revealed by Officer | in Charge. BY GENE MORGAN. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, January 10 (NAN.A)— | It is after the dinner hour in Gen. John | J. Pershing’s rolling general headquar- ters, somewhere in France. The long | table, with its 14 places for host and | guests, has been cleared. Now a great | map of Northern France is spread on | | the table and-the commanding officer of the American Expeditionary Forces | bends over the map. There is a pattering sound on the | Toof of the dining car, like gentle rain- | |fall. Through the 10-car train rushes | an officer, ordering window shades and vestibule curtains drawn and lights ex- tinguished. The pattering sound is | caused by pieces of air bombs raining | on the car. | In Airplane Raid. ‘The G. H. Q. train, carrying the | brains of the A. E. F,, is under fire in | an ‘airplane raid. But the train has RESCUERSSEEK 2 GAVEIN VICTINS Loss of Lives in Slide Averted| by Laborer’s Quick Thinking. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, January 10— Trapped by a cave-in they were work- | ing to prevent, but sawed from death | by the quick wits of a fellow laborer, | 20 men awaited deliverance today from | a tunnel of the Hetch Hetchy municipal water project. Rescue crews boring through the debris were impeded by new cave-ins as they retimbered the tunnel. Rescue | operations began immediately after the first cave-in, which occurred early last night. The slide, 400 feet from the eastern | entrance, occurred near the spot where | 12 men were killed by an explosion of methane gas in the tunnel last July. The stretch where the men were working, 750 feet below the surface, | is known as the most dangerous section of the tunnel through the coast range, | east of San Franeisoo. MOTHER OF GIRL DENIES BODY WAS ON CLEAN BEDDING Mrs. Limerick Contradicts| Testimony of Interne That | Pillows Were Fresh. ALSO SAYS SHE WASHED COFFEE CUPS IN KITCHEN Patrolman Langdon Expected to Take Stand When Inquest Reopens Monday. Testimony in flat contradiction to that offered by the Casualty Hospital | interne, who pronounced Beulah Lim- erick dead, featured today’s session of the coroner's inquest into the fatal shooting shortly before the hearing was adjourned at noon until Monday | morning. { Mrs. Dora E. Limerick, mother of the dead girl, today assured the jury that Miss Limerick's head was lying on ordinary sofa pillows when she was examined by the interne. The interne, Dr. Lyman Green, told the jury yesterday Miss Limerick’s body | apparently had been “laid out” on “im- maculate sheets and pillow slips” when | he examined her. Says She Washed Cups. Limerick further testified that | Mrs. | she personally wiped all coffee cups in the kitchen adjoining_the room where | Miss Limerick died. Patrolman Robert F. 7.angdon of No. 5 precinct, who has | been held for investigation in connec- tion with the shooting since Friday, re- ported he found an exploded shell in one of the cups while detailed to guard | the death house early on the morning of January 2. Mrs. Limerick was positive that the shell could not have been in any of the cups when she cleaned them several | hours after Miss Limerick was found dying in her bed by her brother, Ver- nen. Attorney Harry T. Whalen, who is representing Langdon, said his client would take the stand on his own behalf at the conclusion of the coroner’s in- quest. which is expected some time late Monday. Whalen is associated in the defense of Langdon with Attorneys | Louis Whitestone and W. B. O'Connell. Feared Publicity. Mrs. Limerick, widowed mother of | seven children, explained that she asked her son Vernon and William Paddy to say they all went together to a dance in Capitol Heights on the | night preceding Miss Limerick's death because of her fear of newspaper publicity. The witness denied she made the | suggestion from fear that stories of | Beulah’s “dr] d run around | SATURDAY, JANUARY | several |murder charges. Willilam H. Collins, 10, 1931 -TWENTY-SIX PAGES. (#) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. k SLAYERS OF BUSH GVEN LFE TERHS Carnell and Mahoney Show No Emotion When Penalties Are Pronounced. Sentences of life imprisonment n| the penitentiary were imposed on Wil-| liam J. Carnell and Frank Mahoney | today by Justice Peyton Gordon in Dis- | trict Supreme Court for their partici- pation in the slaying of Louis Bush, bus line owner. | Carnell and Mahoney were convicted weeks ago on second-degree | an assistant United States attorney, | had sought to have the jury find the | defendants guilty of first-degree mur- der, which carries with it a mandatory | death penalty. Before passing sentence, Justice Gor- don gave both defendants an opportu- nity to make a statement. They failed | to respond. No signs of emotion were KERSHA |} Nl‘ofi E TCaMMIS T | { I g Honest Man Found Who Calls Patrol, Scorning to Escape By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash., January 10.—Michael 'McNamara may be the man Diogenes sought. Detective Joe Hoffman staged a single-handed raid on a Chinese lottery yesterday and lined Mec- Namara and 30 other whites and Chinese up against the wall. Hoffman wondered how he'd get them all to headquarters. He singled out Mike and gave him a nickel. “Go find a phone and call headquarters for the wagon—and come _right back when you're through,” Hoffman said. Mike went out—and camé back. And in a few minutes the patrcl wagon came. BETHESDA WOMEN 10 WAR ON SIGNS Plans Will Be Made at Meet- ing Tuesday; Prince Georges CONTROVERSY MAY HALT TRAFFIG BLL Problem of Jurisdiction Seen| | as Bar to Passage by Pres- ent Congress. 1 | day agreed upon the text of a new draft of the much-revised traffic bill, it was| still considered doubtful at the District Building whether the measure had any chance of passage at the present ses- sion of Congress. The measure contains one proposi- | tion to which the Bureau of Efficiency | has not yet consented, and it is not | known whether the bureau will consent | | when the bill goes back to the Senate District Committee next week. The Commissioners are already on notice that only non-controversial bills have muc’h chance of passage at the present session. Jurisdiction Is Problem. ‘The issue has now narrowed down to | the single question of competing juris- | dictions between the Com ers and the Public Utilities . In the criginal bill it was a Although the District Commissioners ‘ and the Public Utilities Commission to- EADERS TOFORCE BILL FOR DROUGHT RELIEF TODECISION Administration Group House to Act as Delaying Tactics Continue. in COL. WOODS’ TESTIMONY CITED BY LA FOLLETTE Government Measures for Jobless Said to Be Inadequate by Wis- consin Senator. The administration leaders in the House decided today to force the drought relief appropriation bill to con- ference under a special rule. ‘The decision was reached at a meet- ing in the office of Speaker Longworth. Chairman Wood of the House Ap- propriations Committee advised the un- official Steering Committee that if he failed to obtain unanimous consent today to send the measure to confer- ence he would ask it be given special legislative status. Chairman Spell said he would call the House Rules Committee together Monday and order out a rule to give the measure right of way. Would Break Deadlock. The agreement promised a break in the several days' deadlock which has held the $60,000,000 loan measure in the House, after the Senate addition of a $15,000,000 amendment for food loans. The Appropriations Committee chair- man has tried daily for several days to obtain unanimous consent to send the bill to conference. Representative La Guardia, Republican, New York, ob- Jjected. Wood had insisted before to- day that he would not consent to the uzf:én‘ of a special rule for consider- Wood did fail again in the House to obtain unanimous consent for a con- ference. Democrats, led by Repre- sentative Parks of Arkansas, joined La Guardia in objecting. Wood Serves Notice. Wood then served mnotice he would ask for special legislative status. The onslaught of those who contend that widespread human suffering is beyond the resources of the Red Cross continued yesterday in both branches of Congress. In the House it met an equally determined counter attack led Chairman who claimed ‘Wood, Com- munists and anarchists, “human vul- m.:flv{:re.ruptanubu_ for the fxad tion and had “staged” dis- turbances. - b Uses Woods’ Testimony, commission. was under consideration by he Senatg” foes of the three | sioners. sidered by a number of Senators, in- inking an ning e late at night” would invalidate a small | @isplayed by either defendant when policy carried on the dead girl. | their sentences were announced. Her fear that the newspapers might | Bush was fatally wounded when shot ‘The night shift was replacing weak- ened timbers to prevent a cave-in on 2 short stretch between concrete-walled Club Joins Drive. commis- | peen darkened and soon it rides safely i these conflicts by referring controversial is_action was being con-|out of the bombardment. Gen. Per- aj orders to a joint board made up of all | the members of both commissions before cluding Dill, Democrat, Washington, | mnd Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, though Walsh said he wanted to talk W hfl&mer members of the group before ciding. Walsh said he takes the view the President can keep the three men on the commission if he wants to, regard- dess of the Senate's vote, and that no legal action can be brought to compel him to comply with the Senate's Tequest. Senator Blease, Democraf, South Carolina, said in_ the Senate, after iL convened, he hoped dent Hoover, for once in his life, will prove himself a man and refuse” to send the Power Commission nomina- tions back to the Senate. Although he voted against confirma- shing, unperturbed, puffs a cigarette. | For nearly two years Earl L. Thorn- | ton of Chicago, now a colonel in the | | United States Army Reserve, as well as | on Gov. Emmerson’s staff, was skipper of the rolling G. H. Q., the special train | | over most of France and Belgium and | into Italy and Germany, traveling alto- gether more than 75,000 miles. | Col. Thornton, a hotel man for 32 years, was moved to recall his war- time “close-up” of Pershing the man, as well as Pershing the soldier, by an- nouncement that the autobiography of America’s most distingished Living sol- | dier will be published serialiy. It begins in The Evening Star next Monday. Guest Rooms in Car. ‘The general's own car contained a | bed room, a dressing room and a library, tion of the commissioners in the first land also four compartments, which at place, Blease contended the Senate, “as true sportsmen, had no right to ask the President to return the ball after th;g had fumbled it to him." o #no jurisdiction” t the men were in office. The resolution for the recall of the fominations of the three commission- ers was adopted by a 44-10-37 vote. During the debate Smith, Garsaud nd Draper were taken to task for the dismissal of two commission workers— | Bolicitor Charles A. Russell and Chief Accountant William V. King. Some ad- | wocates of the resolution contended the | foners had been influenced in | by power interests. | Senator Dill, Democrat, Washington, | contended the Republican party was | being swayed by what he termed “the power trust. __Foes of the resolution argued the d! (Continued on Page 2, Column ITALIAN FLIGHT DELAYED | Balbo Hopes to Have 12 Planes in Trip Down Brazil Coast. | NATAL, Brazil, January 10 (#).— | Gen. Italo Balbo, Itallan air minister, | today postponed until tomorrow morn- ing continuation of flight of his| squadron of seaplanes down the Bra- gilian Coast. He bopes to fly with 12 planes. in- stezd of the 11 now at Natal, since the sec the ocean en route from Bolama, Poriuguese Guinea, is en route here from Fernando to Noronha in the tow of » destroyer and should arrive today. | The next stop of the squadron, which ed here Monday from Bolama, is | also argued the President had | in the matter now | | Mrs. 1d of the two ships forced down on | f various times were cccupied by Secre- tary of War Baker, Gen. Dawes, Gen | Petain, Premier Tardieu and othe: | notables. The rest of the train was made up of sleeping cars and a dining. car for ac- | companying officers, cars for the enlisted | personnel and, finally, an automobile car which carried the two big autos which enabled Pershing to get as close to the front as the Army’s head could be permitted to go. “The general's breakfast mostly con- | sisted of fruit, wheat cakes, boiled eggs, | toast and tea. Breakfast aboard the train was informal—that is, the guests might come in singly, eat and depart at will,” said Thornton. “Luncheon_and_dinner were formal (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) 'TRADE WIND RESUMES FLIGHT OVER OCEAN Hart and MacLaren Leave Bermuda for Azores With Weather Favorable. By the Associated Press. HAMILTON, Bermuda, January 10.— ‘The monoplane Trade Wind hopped off for the Azores at 11:15 a.m. on the sec- ond lap of a “pay load” flight from New York to Paris. Local weather conditions were favor- | able as Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieut. Wil- liam 8. MacLarer: resumed their 2,000~ mile all-water hop across the Atlantic. NORTHWESTERN ALUMNI DIRECTOR SPEEDS UP COLLECTION OF DUES Answers Protests of Old Grads and at Same Time Requests Membership B the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 10.—Northwest- ern Alumni are receiving replies to un- answered letters at the time they get the university’s dun for alumni dues. ‘The university annually sends a bill for $3 Alumni Association dues to all its graduates. This year Charles Wood, @lumni director, inclosed a printed form Jetter of protest, designating a space for the irate graduate’s signature. It Gen. Pershing Will Thrill Nation With His War Story Starting Moriu Remittance. I have just recelved your bill. have never promised to pay the associa- tion $3 or any other sum, so I don't owe you a cent. “I am a loyal Northwestern alumnus and whenever I have any extra money on hand I shall be glad to give if you will ask me instead of bil Yours very truly.” And then ou $3 from himself answering the protest, saving no end of time and postage. 1 ing me. Wood also incloses a lefter sections of the tunnel when cracking timbers and falling rock warned them of the danger. The workers dropped their tools and fled. Several got out before the slide came. None Seriously Hurt. The lives of those who were trapped probably were saved by the presence of mind and daring of Welby Morgan, 28, one of those who escaped. With the first warning of falling rock, he seized a 20-foot length of 4-inch iron | pipe and dropped it in what he thought would be the center of the cave-in. His guess was right, the pipe extended en- tirely through the 16 feet of debris and furnished air to his entrapped fellows. The workmen had scarcely broker for freedom when the roof caved in, hit- ting several with flying rocks knocking others down with the rush of air, However, none was reported seriously injured. va:r{nare headquarters of the Hetch Hetchy project announced shortly be- fore daylight that workers had reached the halfway mark in the rescue opera- tions. Officials said the rescue could not be effected before midday at the earliest. The trapped men were reported “all well” and receiving plenty of air. . FISH WOULD DEPORT ALIEN COMMUNISTS | and House Committee to Recommend Policy, He Tells Anti-Red Rally in New York. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 10.—Deporta- | tion of alien Communists will be rec- ommended to Congress by the Fish In- vestigating Committee. This was disclosed by Representative Hamilfon Fish, jr, chairman of the committee, at a mass meeting to combat Communism at Carnegle Hall Jast night. Representatives of nearly 70 civic, pa- triotic, labor and other societies at- tended under 2 heavy police guard. | Resolutions urged: i 1. Re-establishment of a Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Jus- tice to shadow Communist and kindred organizations. 2. Levying of an embargo against Soviet_exports. 3. Exclusion of the Communist and the Workers’ Party from the ballot. Fish declared in an address that Communism was a menace to the Na- tion and should be driven from our shores, at the same time criticizing what he called “grave abuses” in the capitalistic system. He advocated the abolition of child labor, a 44-hour working week, Federal old age pensions, unemployment insur- ance and longer Summer vacations as means by which capitalism might “clean its Augean stables.” Five Bandits Rob Chicago Bank. CHICAGO, January 10 (#).—Five rob- bers held up the State Bank of Frank- lin Park today, escaping with $7,000 g‘c"&s and $15,000 in non-negotiable nds. | erick assured the jury that the body of | use a story implying Miss Limerick had committed suicide prompted her, Mrs. | Limerick said, to admonish Verno; and Paddy against “talking too much.” Mrs, Julia Bywaters of 116 North | Carolfa avenue southeast, sister of the dead girl, was the first witness today | after Sergt. John Flaherty of the homi- cide squad concluded his resume of the police inquiry. Say Bed Not Rearranged. Bdth Mrs. Bywaters and Mrs. Lim- | the girl was not rearranged by members of the family or any one else, so far as they knew. The two women agreed that when a Casualty Hospital interne | pronounced Miss Limerick dead her head was resting on ordinary sofa cush- ions, which were not covered by pillow slips. The interne, Lyman Greene, tes- tified at yesterday's hearing that the girl apparently had been laid out in a bed covered with immaculate sheets and | pillow slips. Mrs. Limerick testified that Beulah brought to her virtually all the bed clothing in the latter’s home, at 18 Nineteenth street southeast, asking that the sheets and pillow slips be sent to the laundry two days prior to Miss Limerick’s death. Mrs. Limerick said the laundry later was returned to her | residence. _Mrs. Bywaters said she last saw her (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) THREE LOST FROM TUG' | “Expect Some Drowned,” Says Ship After Crash in Delaware River. PHILADELPHIA, January 10 (P).— Fear was felt today for the lives of three seamen, members of the crew of the ocean-going tug Richmond, which was rammed and sent to the bottom of the Delaware River, near here, by the Norwegian motorship Gisla. The tug with seven men aboard was outward bound last night with the barge Lukeoil in tow, when it ran across the bow of the Gisla, due here yesterday from San Pedro. The Gisla and the barge were only slightly dam- aged. Shortly after the accident a wire- less report from the Gisla stated that four members of the tug's crew had been picked up. The dispatch added, “expect some of the tug’s crew drowned.” in Ms garage, October 6, last. Carnell testified his pistol was fired accidental- ly, while he struggled with Bush, after the bus-line operator had refused to be robbed. NYE WILL DISCUSS MONEY IN CAMPAIGN Senator in Radio Forum Talk Will| Tell of Influence of Funds in Political Races. Senator Gerald P. Nye of North | Dakota, chairman of the Senate Cam- | paign Investigating Committee, will | discuss “The Influence of Money in | Political Campaigns” in a talk in the | National Radio Forum, arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over the coast-to-coast network of the | the issuance of the order. That fur- The initiative in an active campaign to remove unsightly billboards and other | advertising signs from the Bethesda | entrance to the National Capital, along { highway 240, second only in importance to the Washington-Baltimore boule- vard, will be taken by the Women's Club ot Bethesda at its regular month- | ly meeting Tuesday. Miss Harlean James, executive secre- tary of the American Civic Association, who is & nationally prominent city planning expert, will be the speak er at| | nished one of the objections of Com- missioner Harleigh H. Hartman of the Public Utilities Commission, whose view was that in traffic matters relating to common carriers the Public Utilities Commission should have the power to issue orders without consulting the Commissioners. | of the order resulted in a traffic snarl, the matter should be referred to the joint board. According to the present draft of the bill, the Commissioners have yielded to the Public Utilities Commission on this ;point. but the Bureau of Efficiency is known to believe that the order should g0 to the joint board in the first place ‘Then, if the execution |l this meeting. The movement to clear B9 0 tbe 1ot boatd In, o Bt Bt the approaches to Washington of road- | to cure. the confusion that would re- tep over that bill by tacking the same food item onto a deficiency appropriation bill the House has . The Senate has yet to vote on the new plan. La Guardia Blocks Bill. Representative La Guardia announced he will yield only when there is agree- ment to extend any food loans that may be voted to all the needy, in the cities as well as the country. The Democratic leaders meanwhile side billboards and “nuisances” in time for the 1932 bicentennial was instigated | | sult from conflicting orders. insisted the Speaker should send the D. P. Evans, investigator of the Bu- by the American Civic Association, |reau of Efficiency, who represents it in which secured the services of Mrs. W, | traffic matters, declined to commit . Lawton, chairman of the National| himself on the proposition today in ad- Council for Protection of Roadside |vance of seeing the actual language of Beauty, in making a survey of condi- |the bill and having time to study it tions around Washington. and consult with his superior, Herbert Brown, head of the bureau. At the Exchange Club Active. District Building, however, the opinion Further evidence that civic forces m;;sieltgnt the Efficiency Bureau will not bill to a committee. Speaker Long- worth maintained a conference with the Senate was the proper and ‘“ex- peditious” procedure. ‘Wood's charges of Communist inter- ference, in which he involved the re- cent England, Ark, incident, were be: littled by the food loan suj 3 argued most of those involved in dis- turbances over food demands ‘“never Columbia Broadcasting System at 9:30 | Maryland are being aroused over these o'clock tonight. The speech will be | heard locally over WMAL. The Senate Campaign Investigating Committee has been active in recent weeks in quizzing into senatorial pri- mary campaigns and general election campaigns in many of the States. The committee revealed large amounts of expenditure in many of the States it investigated, which " included Illinois, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Colorado, Tennessee, North Carolina and New | Jersey. g eds sl STATUE bISAPPEARS. Swiss Sculptor Asks Police Aid in Recovering “Miss Miami.” Prof. Ernest Durig, Swiss sculptor, who is exhibiting his work at the May:- flower Hotel, reported to the police to- day that a bronze head, “Miss Miami," valued at $5,000, disappeared from the collection last night. Detectives were assigned to search for the missing piece. (o= g T R ON AIR AGAIN TONIGHT | Pershing’s Boys ““Over There” | Tune In on WRC at 8 P.M. Radio Prolnn; on Page B-12 Owing to the great hit scored by these: musical artists in their broadcast last night, another program dedicated to Gen. Persh- ing will be given again tonight. Thrilling Songs of the War WITH APPROPRIATE SETTING. | roadside conditions was given yester- | day when the Exchange Club of Prince | Georges County went on record in favor | of beautifying” the landscape within a | 2-mile radius of the District line as | advocated by the Committee on the | National Capital of the Garden Club of | America. In addition to opposing com- | mercialized billboards the club- also voted approval of the plan for the erec- | tion of dignified markers of ornamental | columns in artistic landscape settings | at highway entrances. In the same connection the Exchange Club voted to do all in its power to bring about as soon as possible the| widening of the Washington-Baltimore | Boulevard from the Highway Bridge | over the railway tracks in Hyattsville to the District line and Rhode Island | avenue from Johnson avenue to the District line. It was announced that a meeting of the Park and Planning Committee of | the club, of which Daniel Cox Fahey, jr, is chairman, and the Roads Com- mittee, of which A. H. Seidenspinner is chairman, would soon be held to_deter- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) | NEW CHIEF IS NAMED FOR CUBAN FORTRESS | Commander of Oriente Military| District Goes to Havana to Take Charge. By the Associated Press. ¥ SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Jahuary 10. —Col. Gonzales Valdez, commander of Oriente military district, left here to- day for Havana to take charge of Ca- banas fortress, which includes the po- litical prison., He will succeed Col. Cruz Bustillo. The reason for the re- placement is not known here. All was quiet last night in Central and Eastern Cuba. (Havana heard reports yesterday of disturbances in inland Cuba, where troop movements were sald to be under way.) the District line on the principal| bill, the Public Utilitles Commission has Example Is Cited. | _An example of the kind of controversy which could arise is a case in which the Public Utilities Commission orders the construction of a street car plat- | form. Under the bureau plan, should such an order affect the movement of traffic in the streets, it would be neces- sary to call a meeting of the joint board before the order could be issued. Ac- cording to the wording of the present the power to go ahead and order the platform built.” Afterward, if its loca- tion results in traffic difficulties, the matter would go to the joint board for reconsideration. Corporation Counsel William W. Bride has been intrusted by the Commission- ers with the task of attempting to ob- tain the agreement of all three agencies so that a united front may be presented at the committee hearings next week. 'SPAIN'S KING TO VISIT U. S. SAN FRANCISCO, January 10 (#).— John Steven McGroarty, playwright, said today King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain, despite the recent revolution, would come to California next year to launch a series of fiestas. McGroarty returned recently from heard of Communism.” HOOVER MAY ISSUE APPEAL. Red Cross Said to Need $10,000,000 for Drought Relief. ‘There is a strong likelihood that President Hoover will within the next week or ten days issue a public appeal in the name of the American Red Cross for a fund of $10,000,000 to be used by that organization in extending relief to drought sufferers. The advisability of this was discussed at a conference today between Presi- dent Hoover and John Barton Payne, charrman of the Red Cross. During this conference, Mr.. Payne laid facts and figures before the Executive show- ing the steadily mounting demands in the areas affected by the drought. Mr. Payne sald afterward that ad- vices received by him which he gave to the President today indicated strongly that additional funds will be urgently needed by the Red Cross in a short time. He said there has been a ma- terial increase in the requests for funds from the various Red Cross chapters in the drought-stricken areas. He sald that within the last few weeks, the Red Cross has been called upon in several States, notably Arkansas and Alabama, to feed live stock as well as human beings, and this has cut considerably Madrid. into the funds. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 10.—A revolver in a collection of curios, said to be one of the first of its kind ever manufac- tured, brought death to Preston M. Nolan, 55, clubman, antique collector and authority on real estate and bank appraisals. Nolan, credited with having been the first man in the country to use the Bank of England system of real estate valuation, was exhibiting his collection in [ 0 OLD REVOLVER KILLS CLUBMAN SHOWING COLLECTION TO GUESTS Preston M. Nolan of Chicago, Authority on Real Estate and Bank Appraisals, Shot in Heart. of guns to guests. The old revolver attracted attention. ‘While Nolan attempted to unload the weapon, equipped with an old-style ejector rod, there was an explosion and the bullet passed through his heart. Death was instantaneous. Guns were a hobby with Nolan, al- though he was mot a hunter. He was known as a humorist as well as the author of books on financial topics, including “business first.” The Star