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. GOURT DECREE HIT (. IN RATE CUT FIGHT ;G rade ¢ Box and Cushions of His ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., January 17.—Perched in the coekpit on a soap . box and two cushions so as to sce over The Federation of Citizens’ Associa-|the side of the plane. Joseph Sheehan, +<--tions last night decided to take & hand | jr., 2 12-year-old Suffern. N. Y.. sixth i = 4n the forthcoming legal battle to secure | grade schoolboy, made a half-hour solo igwer ejectric rates in Washington by | flight today. attack on the consent decree of [ It was late in the afternoon that he * dquity eourt under which the rates are | went aloft with only members of his “Axed. Battle on Electricity Cost “‘Joined by Federation of Citizens” Associations. family and airport attendants wateh- mg, and darkness had almost closed in when he made what pilots said was a perfect landing. Son of a bank cashier, who owns two In a resolution adopted by the body the decree was deseribed as “patently anfair to the public, beyond the lawful " authority and jurisdiction of the court. BOY OF 12 MAKES SOLO FLIGHT COMING TO “PERFECT LANDING School Pupil Perches on Soap " to See Over E&ge Plane. planes, the lad has spent much of his short life flying. He took his first jesson in August from Okey Bevins, a West Coast flyer, employed only to t;nich the youngster how- to manage & ship. “It felt natural” was Joseph's only comment when he brought his solo to an_end A rented. unlicensed Bird biplane with a 90-horsepower Curtiss motor was used. Aviation laws require fiyers to be 16 or over before they may han- dle the controls of a licensed ship. obviously unrcasonable, unjust and arbitrary.” The federation instructed ts Committee on Public Utilities to take : immediate steps to obtain an abroga- tion of the decree. ‘Wordy Debate Takes Place. A wordy debate preceded the adoption of the resolution offered by George E. - Sullivan. People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech HEARING T0 BEGIN ON . . SEN BIL Representative Hall Favors| Clearing City Streets of Unsightliness. < B, informed the federation that hé was not in accord with the action proposed to be taken by the Public tlities Commission in seeking a modi- “fication of the decree. He said he had purposely reframed from stating his position hitherto be- cause he was waiting to see what action *'the commission would take. The at- tack on the decree was led by James G._Yaden. William McK. Clayton. chairman of the federation’s Public Utilities Com- mittee, counseled the federation to be cautious, and did not appear enthu- i- siastic about the form of the resolution - as_adopted. Nevertheless, when the " yote was called for, it was unanimous. Abrogation Is Urged. The full text of the resolution fol- lows *The federation advocates and urges in the strongest possible manner the - ‘tmmediate application to the Supreme - Court of the District to abrogate the so-called consent decree of that court relative to the rates of the Potomac Electric Power Co, on the following A vigorous supporter of governmental | plans for the beautification of the | National Capital, Representative Albert | R. Hall of Indiana, declared yesterday | that the elimination of unsightly signs | from the streets of Washington, as sought in proposed legislation, unodubt- edly would pave the way for the neigh- boring States of Maryland and Vir- ginia to get rid of the array of bill- | boards on every approach to the Cap- | ital. As chairman of the House District Subcommittee that will conduct hear- ings tomorrow on the recommendations of the District Commissioners for authorily to promulgate regulations to “correct the sign evils in Washington,” Mr. Hall said he would make every | endeavor to get the measure through | the House at this session. He consid- ers the campaign to abolish or con- trol the promiscuous growth of the outdoor advertising signs on Washing- ton’s streets as directly in harmony, | he said, with the plans of the National Government to make the city eventuall the most beautiful capital in the world Steps Just Taken. Mr. Hall said that the District Com- R"'l'be method of fixing rates outlined in such so-called consent decree is pat- ently unfair to the public, in that with’| a steadily developing and increasing business and profit inuring to the com- pany the company is not only allowed the full benefit of all proft in a given ear above the prescribed 7'2 per eent imit, but is put in a position also to reap again a full one-half of such ex- - cess for the ensuing year. “Said so-called consent decree was beyond the lawful authority and juris- -"diction of the court in that the + gress of the United States did not au- thorize it, nor empower the Public Util- - ities Commission or any other public mittee yesterday had approved the last authority to consent to it. link in the Mount Vernon Memorial | Commission Autherity Favored. |, 10vard, and that on Friday Repre- | © _“The whole matter of the fixing of | sentative Cramton had introduced a | rates of the Potomac Electric Power | pill to spend $3,000,000 more to develop | >+ Co. should be relegated at once to the |the parkway system which would » Public Utilities Commission to énable | extend on both sides of the Potomac, 1t to deal 'lt:\mlh! subject from year |in Maryland and Virginia. “Certainly to year upon actual conditions and is & very real need for our neigh- | facts as ‘&mmvhmd by the public|pors to eliminate the glaring billboards | utilities i B the land other unsightly structures along g‘frmn-v e e ufllflg the 5o |this territory” Mr. Hall said, “so that trary method forth 80- | tourists need not be offended by such mm m‘ ""“‘ roadside conditions in going into this | ederation .:F“"" s P“’W':g besutiful park area when it is devel- authorization of appropriation $200,000 of Pederal funds for the pur- | chase of 128 acres of land near Hickeys Hill in the northeast section of the for an addition to the National federation Believing that Washington can no | afford to permit its streets to | be defaced by the flagrant dispiay of signs_advertising every known product, i | trict Building as a Federal agency which 'E- H : H i : £ H 3 H E et neei ooy ‘The adopted mmonmamm: hw"mm-k Lodge, who Introduced 'what if ex- of both were m‘m‘ e. s cutoreny rastive b £ [ to the Community Chest. J. Lewis Gelbman offered a resolution Chest and ~ |and hot-dog stands and other nuisances | te the moved to ‘whether g the drive passed or not. He said the fed- eration had plenty of money in its treasury and $500 in the building asso- ciation fund. B It turned out, however, that the federation only had $125 in this fund, and the remark is reported to have en- raged A. H. Gregory, the treasurer, so that after the meeting he and Mr. Gelbman are said to have come near to blows. Two delegates, however, one of them a woman, interposed. ‘The resolution indorsing the Com- munity Chest was approved after the resolution calling for an appropriation had been defeated. ‘The federation voted to invite the International Association for Identifi- cation to hold its 1932 convention in ‘Washington, and also to ask the School Board to allow the use of school build- for entertainments and Olhfl'i fairs conducted by reputable organi- zations where admission is charged and !hle’ lr)rnflt is given to aid unemployment velief. HAVANA PAPER FREED! OF GOVERNMENT BAN; Observers Believe Suspension De- cree to Be Lifted From Other Publications. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, Janpary 17.—The govern ment ban on the newspaper, Inform elon, one of 10 publications suspended January 9, was lifted tonight and the presses were permitted to turn out a eomplete edition for distribution. With this early return to normaley in the Cuban newspaper situation was n. Observers believed President | ‘hado would comply with publishers’ Yequest and issue, within the next day or two, an order countermanding the puspension decree. Employes of El Mundo, another of | the -umapd journals, announced to- night had_nearly completed ar- rangemenis to finance and publish an | independent newspaper. GRIMY OIL WORKERS DEFY DEATH TO SAVE TRAPPED COMRADE (Continued From First Page) above hole, had slipped and trapped him in a stooping position. From all over the fleld men raced ‘with equipment. Menaced by explosive they applied the flame so close body that he was burned and several times. n, women and children from eamps throughout the fleld crowded gases, to his shacks and hovels on Pennsylvania cf Mr. Hall said he would endeavor to | hasten the passage of the desired legis- lation as a part of the Government's for improving Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall. “Tt is only right to expect that the development of this type of beauty should emanate from the itself,” he said. Mr. Hall explained that he had re- ceived & pamphlet from the American Civie Association depicting the road- side conditions within a 20-mile l‘adius‘ of Washington. “The scenes showed a large number of unsightly billboards | alo Was] the highway gton,” he added. Visitors Are Astonished. “At the present time the greatest criticism that members of Congress hear | about Washington from out-of-town | visttors,” Mr. Hall said, “is directed at | the approaches, which are far from | beautiful, and the terrible looking approaches to CLASH OVER POLICY THREATENS RIFT AT DISTRICT BUILDING —_— (Continued From Pirst Page.) the old custom which was actually re- garded as a policy after many years of | practice, of ironing out controversial ints in proposed legislation before ts_introduction in Congress. But this procedure was not followed in the case of the traffic bill. There were no preliminary conferences be- tween the Commissioners and the Pub- lic Utilities Commission before _the original draft of the bill went to Con- gress. Since its introduction. the meas- ure has been a veritable storm center, with the congressional committees un- expectedly taking the role of a medi- ator in a dispute that under ordinary circumstances would have been adjusted long before the bill had taken final shape. And what has been the result? A series of modifications have been made upon direction of the committees in an effort to get the agencies into complete accord. Action on the bill necessarily had to be delayed, and even now, after the various changes, the Public Utilities Commission stands ready to fight one of the major provisions at the first opportunity. This situation, it is feared. may jeopardize the passage of the bill at_the present short session. What has gone on behind the scenes at the District Building since the battle started has not been revealed. At any rate, a feeling is kKnown to exist between various officials that is not as pleasant as it might be; there are mutterings of “double ecrossing” and the Bureau of Efficiency is being criticised for inject- ing itself into the controversy. In fact, he bureau is looked upon at the Dis- has nothing whatever to do with the regulation of traffic in the District. Utilities Group Opposed. According to last reports. the traffic bill in its present form, has the approval of the Commissioners, the Bureau of Efficiency and all others concerned, with the sole exception of the Public Utilities Commission. A great many of the commission's objections to its pred- ecessors were removed in the seven re- visions, but there is one major provision which the commission still most vehe- mently opposes—a provision whieh it claims ties its hands in emergencies by requiring that whenever a regulation is made relative to the routing of com- mon carriers, the location of their stops, or to the establishment or change in location of platforms or loading zones, it shall be served on the District Commissioners prior to promulgation. The bill further provides that If the| commissioners fail to approve the pro- | posed regulation within 10 days it shall be referred to a joint board composed of the Board of Commissioners and the Public Utilities Commission. In effect, the commission contends, the provision would prevent it from ! passing any order until it had been! approved by the Commissioners. In practice, it was pointed out, if it is found necessary to rerdute a bus line or street cars because of a public cele- bration, the commission would be com- pelled to await the pleasure of the Commissioners to indorse the change. ‘The Commissioners, % was explained, could hold the plan for 10 days before it would automatically revert to the joint board for action, resulting in an unnecessary delay. Support Is Indicated. Aside from this feature, the com- mission indicates it will support the bill in its present form. It will, how- avenue at the foot of Capitol Hill and | in the vicinity of the Mall. Congress has taken steps to remedy these latter conditions in an effort to make Penn- | sylvania avenue the beautiful boulevard | that many tourists believe it is until | they see it.” he said. H “When the work of cleaning up the ity and its outside areas is completed | it will be hailed with delight by Wash- | ingtonians and thousan of vis OFs | who come here annually.” he said. “As | a matter of fact, there are few cities in the country that have a more offensive view along its approaches.” Congress, he believes, stands ready to give the District Commissioners | here long before the bicentennial cele- bration in 1932 when Washington hopes to put its best foot forward. 8Since the bill for the regulation and controf of the outdoor advertising situa- tion here involves no appropriation, Mr Hall expressed the opinion there should be no dificulty in geiting it through the House as emergency legislation. | Representatives of the District’s engi- neer department, the American Civic | Association and others will appear at | the subcommittee hearing at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow to urge immediate | action and lay before the committee the facts about conditions here and | close to the District line. S 2 W. B. HUNT RESIGNS Democratic Official Will Return to Private Business. LEXINGTON, Ky., January 17 (#).— Walter B. Hunt, for the past year as- sociated with Jouett Shouse at Demo- | cratic national headquarters in Wash- | ingtori, has resigned and will return to | his home here. It was said here today | he was returning to assume manage- | ment of a furniture store in which he has an interest and that the death of Harry S. Brower, manager of the store, made Mr. Hunt's return necessary. GIRL TAKES OWN LIFE Blames Parental Reprimand for Drinking Party. PROVO, Utah, January 17 (#).— Blaming a parental reprimand for an alieged all-night drinking party, 18- year-old Myrtle Brown took he: life With a rifie here today. Sheriff George Dunnell said no in- quest would be held, but that an in- vestigation of the party would be made. A youth who is declared to have been PEONAGE IS CHARGED Five Arrested on Complaint of Man Claiming Beating. SHREVEPORT, La., January 17 (®). —Charged with violation of the Fed- eral peonage act, flve men were ar- about. Hissing steam hoses were kept resdy to shoot at any fire. One man stood with an ax upraised to sever the arm and release the prisoner if gases exploded into the flame. - Crayne collapsed as the ring was cut. He hurried to a hospital, Doctors Ilfll arm may be saved. rested yesterday in Union Parish on complaint of Ciiff Ham, colored, who said he had been beaten and forced to undergo hospital treatment. ' Those arrested were released under $500 bondg each. They were D. M | led to the preparation of the new authority to clean up sign congitions | gal ever, fight vigorously, it was said, any provision which prevents action on public utility matters as they arise. Where there are questions involving the conflict of authority, the commission declares it is willing to submit them to the joint board for final adjustment. The obvious lack of co-operation in the preparation of the traffic bill, which is belleved to be responsible, partly at least, for the present feeling, goes back to the creation by the Com- missioners of the Traffic Advisory Council, the recommendations of which measure. At that time the Commis- sioners invited the commission to dele- te a representative on the council. but it declined on the ground that it had no one sufficiently qualified to take part in the proceedings. The com- mission, however, sald it would like to be officially advised of the findings of the councll. The Commissioners, it was said, promised that a copy of the council’s report would be submitted to the commission. Still Awaiting Report. But the commission claims it is still walting for the report, although it did receive a copy of the new traffic bill several days after its introduction. In the meantime, the commission kept posted, solely on press reports, on the plans of the Commissioners to draft a new traffic bill. No attempt was made in the actual framing of the bill, it was declared, to obtain the views of the ‘commission, though it was to be vitally affected by the proposed legislation. For this oversight, the Commissioners apol- ogized profusely. They saild they had no intention of ignoring the commis- sion, but in the press of business and the haste to get the bill introduced as early as possible, they had inadvertent- ly overlooked the commission. Before the hearings on the bill start- ed, however, the commission and the Commissioners met in joint conference and discussed its provisions, and agreed to certain modifications. In this con- ference the Commissioners yielded to the objections of the commission, and the bill was revised. ‘Then it was learned that the Bureau of Efficiency objected to certain fea- tures of the bill. The bureau contended that while the avowed purpose of the legislation was to avoid divided author- ity, it would in operation make for further confusion. In spite of this opposition, the Commissioners sent the revised measure to Congress. Measure Again Revised. ‘When hearings began before the Sen- ate Committee on Traffic opposition de- veloped, and the bill was again revised. Then, when it came up for consider- ation again, other objections were found. The Senate subcommittee, how- ever, did not decide what to do with the revised bill. In the meantime the subcommittee on streets and traffic of the House Dis- trict Committee held several hearings on the much-revised bill, and it was modified several times. Finally, the com- mittee ordered a favorable report to the House, and Col tion Counsel Bride was intrusted with the task of attempting to obtain the t of all three agencies so that a united front may be presented when hearings are resumed belore the Senate Committee. 1INGTO BRIAND'S UNION PLAN 5 DELAYED Participation of Russia and Turkey Referred to Sub- committee. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, January 17.—Representa- tives of 26 European nations debated all day a proposal to invite Soviet Rus- sia and Turkey to participate in their examination of Aristide Briand's project for a federation of European states, but at the end of the session they turned over this problem to a subcommittee with instructions to report on Monday. This evening they turned again to the economic situation, seeking a basis for concerted action to remedy the ills of industry and commerce. They dis- cussed tariffs, the possibility of pref- erential rates for agricultural countries and the application of the “most fa- vored nation” principle. Its work must go over now into next week and the commission will have to divide time with the League of Nations Council, which convenes on Monday, facing the grave questions of disarma- ment and minority interests. Arthur Henderson, the British for- eign minister, supported the original suggestion of Dr. Julius Curtius, Ger- many’s foreign minister, that Russia and Turkey be asked to sit in. He went even further and proposed that all the nations of the world, particu- larly the United States, be asked to co-operate with the commission. Question Authority. Turkey and Russia are not members of the League of Nations and, since this commission is operating within the League structure, some of the delegates questioned its authority to invite non- leaguers, Briand himself was one of these, al- though he and those who supported his views, indicated that they might be willing to invite the two outsiders at zme future time. Holland held out the grounds that she and Russia are not friendly, and Jugoslavia and Rumania also took a definite position against the invitation. Belgium and Switzerland sided with them, pointing out that they have no diplomatic rela- tions with Russia and do not wish to work with representatives of Moscow. In explaining his attitude, M. Briand asserted there were questions in regard to which *“close and brotherly co- operation is impossible” with non- Europeans. The commission, he “sald, was competent to discuss article 16 of the League Covenant, which deals with sanctions, but the Soviet government obviously was not competent to join such a discussion. He concluded: “France maintains courteous rela- tions with Soviet Russia. but there is no object in discussing their scope. In any case these relations will be utilized to the best of our ability. But for friendly relations there must be two parties. Grandi Makes Reservation, “M. Grandi very prudently made reservations on this subject. It is pos- sible that an invitation to Russia might be coldly received. The com- mission has no right to expose the nations to such an affront.” Grandi, replying, said he was not worried over the result of such an in- vitation. ““The commission must show that it does not wish to create a division in Europe and that it will leave to the states in question the responsibility of refusing the commission’s generous offer,” he said. The Italian spokesman asserted the commission would run two risks if it declined to invite Russia and Turkey on equal footing with other members: First, it would disregard its mandate from the Assembly, and second, it would run the danger of having the invitation refused because no govern- ment would agree to co-operation limited both as to time and object. Tax Promises Not Redeemed. After the commission had turned from the Russian to the economic ques- tion and resumed its public session, Mr. Henderson pointed out that 29 nations had promised at the 1927 economic conference to seek reduction of taxes. These promises had not been re- deemed, he said, and added Great Britain and other free trading nations were under heavy pressure to adopt protectionism and might yleld if other states continued their present policy. Foreign Minister Marinkovitch of Jugoslavia replied that Jugoslavia's promise to reduce tarifis had ot been carried out because such action was economically impossible without sacri- ficing the existence of four-fifths of the population of his country. He favored preferential rates for agricultural products between countries of Southeastern Europe and said that the United States, Canada and the Argentine would not be hurt by such an arrangement. a series of developments which followed the hearings on the electric rates for this year. After these hearings the commission announced that under the present_decree the Potomac Electric Power Co. was earning too much money, and declared its intention of going to court to secure a modification which would allow more of the profits to go to the consumers, by way of reduced rates, rather than to the company. Find Parallel Case. Shortly afterward Justice Jennings Bailey of District Supreme Court wrote an opinion in another case involving a consent decree—the decree regulating the conduct of certain meat packers under the S8herman anti-trust law. The commission secured a copy of this de- cree, and on January 7 asked Mr. Bride for an opinion, based on the decree, as to the best method of procedure to fol- low inegelfln( the electric rate decree amended. About noon Friday Mr. Bride notified the commission that his opinion would be ready for it early yesterday. About four hours later the commission sum- moned him, gave him written instruc- tions on how to proceed and told him that his opinion would not be neces- sary. In the meantime Vice Chairman Harleigh H. Hartman of the commis- sion, who is also a lawyer, had studied the decision in the Packer case and come to the conclusion that the way to proceed was to file a petition in Equity Court asking to have the decree modi- fied. Mr. Bride informed the commis- sion that this was not the best way to proceed, and sald that he would insist on filing his opinion, so as to have it on record. Then if the commission still insisted in proceeding along the lines decided, he would yield and prepare the petition. 3 Chairman Mason M. Patrick of the commission told reporters that the commission’s summary action was not meant as an affront to or a criticism of Mr. Bride, but Mr. Bride left no doubt in their minds that he considered him- self affronted. While he would not make a statement on the plan he in- tends to suggest to the commission, it was reported he will advise that the commission proceed either to a re- valuation of the company's property, or summarily order a reduction in rates, acting under the powers granted it in section 18 of the Public Utilities Commission act, and without reference to_the consent decree. If the company decides to resist this step it would have to take the case to court, placing on it the burden of es- But Bride's task seems hopeless as far as the Public Utilities Commission concerned. and Law McCuller, Ben Green, T. C. Books Hicks, electric rate ‘The open break over j a sequel to consent decres somes tablishing its case. The shoe is on the is | other foot, according to this doctrine, should the commission itself decide to become a moving party in bringing the case into NUARY 1 REDS ARE TERMED AMERICAN MENACE Fish Committee “Submits Plans to Legislate Against Communism. ‘The Fish committee yesterday termed Communism a grave threat to demo- | cratic goverrment, reported the Com- munist party extremely active in | America, and outlined legislative means of sombating the radical cause. After eight months of study, the committee submitted a voluminous re- port, recommending that aliens who advocate overthrowing the Government by force be refused admission to the United States and more stringent de- portation laws. Individoal Report Made. It was signed by Chairman Fish, Representative Bachmann, Republican, West Virginia, and _Representatives Democrats. ‘The fifth member of the committee, Representative Nelson, Maine, filed gn individual report. Bachmann immediately introduced a bill to prohibit the entry of avowed Communists into the United States. Fish said he and other committee members would place in legislative form other recommendations for which law is required, They include: Deportation” of alien Communists; denial of naturalization and the can- cellation of citizenship of Communists; empowering the Justice Department to investigate Communist activities; a prohibition against sending propaganda for revolutionary Communism in the mails 6r in interstate commerce; a law to prosecute Communists or others spreading false rumors to cause runs on banks; immediate consideration of an embargo on Russian manganese. In addition, the committee recom- mended that the Treasury seek permis- sion to Investigate through agents the alleged production of lumber and pulp- wood by convict labor and the use forced labor in Soviet Russia. Tliegal Ruling ¥s Asked. The Pish report also recommended that the Communist party of the United States be declared illegal and that States be requested to take ap- propriate action to have the party ex- cluded from recognition. Nelson'’s recommendations include more stringent administration of the visa laws, the deportation of undesir- able and criminal aliens, the encourage- ment of organized labor and more care- ful postal supervision of radical publi- cations. He also indorsed giving the Justice Department power to follow up radieal activities. New economic and social conditions, Nelson said in hi= report. require “a new attitude of thought and a more %meral approach to some of our prob- lems. “The erisis that American industry and American labor is facing today speaks in no uncertain terms of some- thing wrong in our social and industrial system, which calls for further and deeper study of causes, effects and cures,” he added. (] vism, he said, “was born out of a social and political chaos that can never obtain here in America.” “There will be no weakening in our ideals of democracy—simply an ex- tension of those ideals into other fields.” Laber Publicity Is Urged. “In proportion as we work out eco- nomic justice here in America and so order our social system that labor shall share in the economic life of the Nation as fully and fairly as it now shares In its social and political life, in just that proportion will radicalism fall of its own inaction god the threat of Com: munism cease disturb us.” “The United States has more to lose from the economic system in Russia if the five-year plan succeeds than any other nation,” the Fish report said. “We find there is not sufficlent com- petent legal evidence in the record to prove the connection of the Amtorg Trading Corporation with subversive ac- tivities.” The committee outlined the Com- munist youth movement here and said ?ub!:’l;d‘:ylhnndbe::lppor! of organized al e means of combatiny Communism. e FIGHT ON REDS PLANNED. Seek to Co-ordinate Functions of Patriotic Organizations. PHILADELPHIA, January 17 (#).— Plans to co-ordinate the functions of nearly a dozen patriotic organizations into a single unit to combat Commu- nist_propaganda were discussed today at the annual meeting of the Pennsyl- vania Society of Mayflower Descendants. ‘This was revealed after the meeting by Robert Hunro Boyd, jr., of Mont- clair, N. J., governor general of the national group, the general Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mr. Boyd and Dr. Herman V. Ames, deputy governor of the national group, were the principal speakers. e $921,715,000 CONTRACTS LET BY 16 STATES Construction Summary Published for Southern Section Shows Records Broken. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., January 17.—Con- struction, engineering and building contracts awarded last year in 16 Southern States had an aggregate value of $921,715,000, a summary com- piled from reports in the Daily Con- struction Bulletin and the Manufac- turers’ Record, published here, revealed today. This was said to be the highest amount on record. exceeding Southern construction contracts awarded in 1929 by $141,000,000, and surpassing by $30,000,000 the previous peak, reached in 1926 Only those projects were included for which actual figures were available as to the cost. No effort was made to es- timate the contract prices of hundreds of varied engineering projects and struc- tures on which no cost figures were announced. Projects under $10,000 each were not reported. Inclusion of these would bring the contract award total in the South to more than $1,000,000,000, it was estimated. BRITISH OFFICIAL RESIGNS Sir Harry J. Armstrong to Leave America January 30. NEW _ YORK, January 17 (#).—Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong has retired as British consul general in the United States. Completing his duties last night, he received from the Right Hon. Arthur Henderson, secretary of state for for- eign affairs, the following cablegram: “On the occasion of your relinquishing your post of his majesty’s consul gen- eral at New York I wish to offer you my personal thanks and those of hi majesty’s government for your eminent services to British interests during the course of your distinguished career.” Sir Harry will sail for London on the Majestic January 30. DO-X TESTS PLANNED Leave German Flying Boat to January 28 for Brazil. LISBON, January 17 (#).—The Ger- man flying boat DO-X will begin_tests Monday for the flight toward Brasfl scheduled to January 28, Eslick, Tennessee, and Hall, Mississippi, |, Republican, | of {1t up.” is [ sald 20 had been killed, 1931—PART ONE. Clara Bow Grows Up Daisy De Boe and All Her Mean Old Charges Have Changed Filmdom’s Flapper—But Her Hair Is Red. OLLYWOOD, Calif., January 17.—The flickering films will no longer ex- headed Clara Bow as hibit 1e Imcst_overnigh! La Bow, Daisy De Boe, cha t, has grown up, with the theft of $15,000 from Clara Bow. their latest model madcap flapper, for d all because of the trial of 'So Clara solemnly averred to the Associated Press tonight in one of the first interviews granted by her since matic lead in a forthcoming picture and friend. while secretary=con- fidant ~ and illness caused her to relinquish a dra- flee the scene of the trial of her erst- “best that drooped pathetically. ] “All this me. has aged 1 was getting tired of being a flap- per anyway. to grow up 1 had sometime. But being put on the pan by the has last trace. hired removed flapperish Emotional parts for me now. emotion on ness Daisy De Bos. The new ferring to sessions of I learned that wit- stand—and T Clara, re- the De Boe trial, looked as though she meant it all. Clara was asked about future engagem ents. “Nope, engagements, boy friends and all the rest are the bunk. Oh, I may have a boy friend now and then, but I'm going to be all wrapped up and going some place—wrapped up in my art and climbing emotional heights. “Believe it or don't, I'm tired of this | kind of publicity. I've never had a| break. Other people never had to stand | up under the old spotlight like this. | Every time I leave the house things happen. Now for the simple life and | drama. The part I just missed is the kind I've been waiting for a long time. Gee, but it'’s tough to have to pass La Bow's part in the forthcoming pic- ture, “City Streets,” has been taken by Sylvia Sydney, New York stage actress. ‘This has hurt Clara. “But it's just because I have this cold and the trial has made a mess of my nerves. Theyll have another pic- ture for me after I have rested up a few weeks. Then maybe Il get a| break—s'pose s0?" Has Heavy Cold. Clara is being paid for time off the “lot” while testifying and being sick. | The studio allows her eight weeks of absence, under her contract. The little red head has a heavy cold. | Her coughing interrupted sessions at| the De Boe trial and punctuated her | sentences tonight. But she forgot to| cough when asked about Daisy's hen- | naed-hair assertion, in which the for- mer secretary said she colored the Bow hair with bottled gold. ““Of course she hennaed my hair, for | studio takes. My hair has always been genuinely red—look. But its dark red genxinelv red—look. But it's dark red lighted up. I don’t pay any attention to such silly statements. “But Daisy—she's a peroxide bleached blonde and is really plenty dark.” The ominous look indicated a woman .in a battle to the finish with another of her sex. “I know plenty about Daisy and I'll tell it all if they call me to that stand again. She finds herself in a trap and tries to disgrace me in order to get out. OK. I'll ruin her then.” Lucky at Cards. Clara readily admitted Daisy's charges that she drank liquor and played poker. ‘dAnd'. 7ho'.hmny modern young women don't?” she challenged. “I wish every one could understand that I'm just a modern girl trying to iet along.” How many of 'em play cards or fun? 1 was lucky at poker, too, in spite of what Daisy said to the con=- trary. “I don't think I have been very un- lucky at love, either,” murmured the new Bow, reminiscently. “But I've only been engaged three times. Pirst it was to a young Span- ish fellow, when I was breaking into !fllms: then to Gary Cooper, four years ago, and then to Harry Richman—how that boy can sing. But it's all over now. Vo—Bow—De Boe—Oh!" Clara said she saw something “fine” in Daisy and took the hairdresser to live with her and be her secretary. “When she ‘falled me everything turned sour. It was really the com- panionship of a friend I needed, not a secretary. I was lonesome. I ami now, too. I get afraid at night.” La Bow looked very small in her big canopied bed. She began to ery. OUTSIDE CONCERNS AID WAR ON SIGNS National Advertisers Glad to| " Co-operate With D. C. in Improving Highways. Two national advertisers who make use of the highways within a 20-mile radius of Washington to call attention to their wares have indicated to the American Civic Association their inten- tion to co-operate, if possible, in the removal of their billboards in this area. These two firms are the Pillsbury Flour Mills Co. of Minneapolis, Minn.,, and the Colin B. Kennedy Corporation, makers of radios, of South Bend, Ind. Replying to a communication from Frederic A. Delano, president of the Civic Association, the Kennedy Corpo- ration, through its own president, C. B. Kennedy, sald the work in behalf of restoring roadside beauty was “a very splendid one.” Will Not Renew Leases. “The placing of our billboards is not altogether under our control in view of the fact that we co-operate with our distributors_in this respect,” he wrote. “However, I believe our leases on the various boards in your territory have, expired and it is hardly likely that we will renew them. In any event, we will ive every consideration to your letter fore doing 80.” A. C. Loring, president of the Pills- bury Flour Mills, wrote: “I can assure you that I am most sympathetic in the movement you are sponsoring, and if members of your organization will call my attention to any signs of ours that are not in accordance with your under- taking I will use my best endeavors to see that they are disposed of.” In the cases of all advertisers wif which the American Civic Associatio communicated in an endeavor to clean up the entrances to the Capital, bill- boards bearing their names been included in the survey made recently by Mrs. W. L. Lawton, chairman of the National Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty. The Davidson Transfer & Storage Co. of Baltimore, one of these firms, through Joseph Davidson, general man- lfil’. requested that it be advised as to which of its signs are within the desig- nated 20-mile radius. “We would be more than glad to co- operate with you in eliminating such of our roadside signs as are within the re- strictive area at the expiration of our existing contract,” Mr. lano was In- formed. CHURCH COLLAPSES ON 71 AT WORSHIP IN MEXICAN QUAKE! (Continued From First Page.) ish churches were destroyed or dam- aged, but the main cathedral was left intact. Mexico City itself had only three deaths. These unfortunates were killed in the first quake of Wednesday night and rl’operty damage was comparatively small in the series of minor tremors which followed on Thursday and Fri- day. First Aid Bridage Sent. A first ald brigade was on the way to the town of Miahuatlan, about 50 miles south of Oaxaca, where reports and other rescue parties were moving toward other centers in the State of Oaxaca. Seismologists describe the quake as almost continual while it lasted, re- porting eerie subterranean rumblings which preceded the quake itself. At the Oaxaca Observatory all the instru- ments were thrown out of gear. ‘The volcano Popocatepetel showed plainly visible signs of activity when viewed from Mexico City today, the first clear day of the week. ‘The crater was smoking constantly and a large cloud of smoke was settled F00D AND BANKING PROBES ARRANGED | Separate Senate Committees to Begin Investigations Tomorrow. | By the Associated Press. Senate committees arranged yesterday | to begin tomorrow Investigations into | food prices and banking conditions. The two inquiries will occupy separate committees, whioh are looking for in- formation on which to base legislation if it is deemed necessary. Senator Glass, Democrat, will direct the study into the banking uation. His inquiry also will cover speculation on the stock exchanges, Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas, the chairman of the Food Investigating Committe'z. called a meeting for to- morTow map out the for work he intends to start lmmprmly. This inqu! will be directed first into the cost of bread and r. Senator Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, yesterday proposed that a study of milk and dairy products prices be included. Capper said he favored a later study of other foods, including meat prices. In the banking hearings, Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and J. W. Pole, controller of the currency, will be heard tomorrow. Witnesses Tuesday and Wednesday will include George L. Harrison, governor, and J. Herbert Case, chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Charles 8. Hamlin and Adolph C. Miller, senior members of the Federal Reserv: Board. Capper plans to call among the first witnesses representatives of the big banking companies which have formed mergers and combinations. He said he wants to find out whether these combi- nations bave prevented the price of bread from declini “p nately with the price of wheat." Senators Wagner, Democrat, New York, and Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, authors of the resolution under which the Food Committee is acting, have been asked to appear Lomorrow. BANK REVIE-W PLANNED Chesapeake Institution to Studied by Grand Jury. BALTIMORE, Md., January 17 (®). —Announcement that the grand jury will review the affairs of the Chesapeake Bank, which closed December 9, was made here today by Herbert R- O'Con- or, State's attorney. ‘The bank had resources as of last June 30 of $5859,344. J. Monroe Hol- land was president. George W. Page, State bank commissioner, was appointed receiver. Mr. Page yesterday filed a petition asking authority to enter into an agree- ment with the Union Trust Co. whereby the latter would take over all assets and pay 40 per cent on every dollar without delay. WALKER NEAR COLLAPSE Mayor Is Urged by Physician to Take Extended Rest. NEW YORK, January 17 (#).—Mayor Walker's ghyalchn sald today the Mayor was on the verge of a breakdown. He urged an extended rest. The physician, Dr. Willlam 8. Schroeder, jr., sald he had examined the Mayor twice during the past week and found he was in very poor health. g:!would not discuss the nature of the Three Escape Mine Fire. CENTENNIAL, Wyo., January 17 (#). —Three men four hours in a gold mine near here y by a fire at the portal were rescuedwalive shortly after 1 p.m. They were Bermard Holtum, owner of the mine, and two brothers named Crites. The men were working around the base. A dark: column of vapor rose Intermittently several hun- dred feet into the air. in the -foot shaft whem the fire started. ROGERSGVESFAET ABOUT CLARA BOW “It Girl” Happened to Be In- vited to Reno Dinner, He Tells Press Club. He was just going out to lunch with & fellow actor and merely suggested that the friend take Clara Bow along, d that's the fact of that thing, fellows. At least that'’s the way Will Rogers explained to the National Press Club last night how he happened to be in a Reno, Nev., gambling house with the red-haired “It Girl" several months ago when she lost thousands of dollars and then is said to have stopped payment on the checks she gave to cover her losses. * Rogers was speaking the installa- tion of the Press Club's new officers. He had ‘“covered” everything from the Marines in Nicaragua to e “fool things they do up in Congress,” and was stalling for “a good joke to go off on™ when a club member asked him to tell about Clara Bow. Just Happened That Way. “I knew somebody was goin’ to ruin this evening,” the humorist replied. “Well, I'll tell you about that business. I met a friend of mine who was work- ing in a picture with Clara, and I asked him to come along and go over to this place for dinner. Well, Clara was there and I just asked him to bring her along, and that’s the fact of that thing, fellows.” But that wasn't all. Will Rogers is married. “And then the papers came out with that thing about Will Rogers being out gamblin’ with Clara Bow an—an when I got home——! Well, sir, those kids of mine read the papers and they yelled foyal husband—as far as I know—for 25 years now, and I must that when he did out he sure picked a live took the Press Club auditorium fMicers :;d“been the be there, He was glad, he said, because the Ma- rine Band was there lghyi.nl. and he hadn't expected to it because he thought all the Marines were in Nica- ragua. Pinch Hitting Easy Now. ‘Then the humorist explained that he was pinch hitf in his appearance at the club. Pinch hitting, he said, was a thing he had become pretty adept at since the time “me and Coolidge opened that dam.” He said he was pinch hit- ting for “Nicholas Alice Longworth, the Speaker, and Jack Garner, majority leader of the House.” No, that was not a mistake, he explained, “Garner is the majority leader because they haven't recounted 'em up there recently.” “You'll have to go up to the gallery to see them,” he explained. “They do the same fool things up there in Congress that they're too dignified to do up here.” Commenting upon Congress, Rogers said they're talking about an extra session. “The Democrats are pushing it,” he commented, “because they want to hurry up and get in again so they'll all counted. You see, they're afraid one two of 'em wil die, and the thing is close they need every one they've got. You-all have noticed, haven't you, how the good always die first.” Reminder of the Zoo. Returning for a moment to Con Rogers said the Capitol reporters i the press galleries become so familiar with the members that “they can sit there and tell you just what each one’s goin’ to do; sort of like you parents who take your children to the zoo real often can tell your kiddies just what each particu- lar monkey is " to do next.” The Press Club officers who were in- stalled prior to Will rs’ talk were Eugene S. Leggett, president; Bascom Timmons, vice president; Oliver B. Lerch, secretary; Willlam L. Bruck- hart, financial secretary, and Charles A. Hamilton, treasurer. New members of the board of governors, who also took their places, were Willlam C. Murphy, Aubrey Taylor, Ralph A. Collins, George L. Stimpson and Robert S. Allen. Nor- man Baxter was the retiring president. P DOAK ASKS TIGHTER DEPORTATION LAW FOR U. S. PROTECTION (Continued From First Page.) duty is to safeguard the interests of our own people.” Explaining further, Doak said that in the early days of the Government here was hecd{or Both gricuiiurel was need for both agricultural and_industrial labor. . “But of late years,” he added, “there are comparatively few of the immi- grants arriving who go to the farms, and there is generally sufficient other labor here for practically all our needs. ‘There may be instances where a par- ticular kind of labor is required for the best interests of developing a new industry, but even these instances are very much limited in the present emer- gency. “Modern methods of production and improved labor-saving machinery have curtailed the oggm'tunltles‘ particularly for common labor. The at bulk of all immigrants who come here come to work, and where we have enough labor in this country we are proceeding upon a false premise when we accentuate our employment problems by encouraging & flow of immigration which cannot be absorbed and will only increase the number who must be provided with employment.” Many Aliens Deported. Detailing then the legislative enact- ments set up in the past decade to curb immigration, and the consequent efforts of those held out by law, to evade the barriers, Mr. Doak said that in the 10 years 92,157 aliens have been deported under warrants and 95,147 subject to deportation have been permitted to de- part voluntarily, after apprehension. But deportation, he sald, is not a simple matter, and it is not “safe to g:edlct""tel’dllt I.l.'l“ deporw‘g{; l}lem could expelled “in any period of years.” ' Some of the problems he outlined in this connection were first of all, locatin, the alien; making a case that woul stand court test: finding out thecountry of origin, and then getting the consent of the country to which deportation is ordered. be or 80 Problem Is Perplexing. “Let me impress you the growing perplexities with which we are con- fronted in the influence which immigra- tion wields upon our economic situa- tion and the future of our native born and naturalized workers,” he said in conclusion. “While it may be to many a matter of regret that the United States can no longer be regarded as a refuge for the oppressed ples of the world, as & matter of fact the restriction of migration was not adopted by the United States until its absolute necee- our country did not lead in ll.l'lnlét'l.lels immigration but rather that it fol the example of practically every civilized nation on earth.” (The complete text of Secretary Doak’s speech will be found in the edi- torial section of this issue of The Star.) Gotham Woman Dies in Miami. MIAMI, Fla, January 17 (#).—Mrs. Johanna Gleisch, 64, of New York died after a brief illness at her Winter resi- dence here today. Her husband, Joseph H. Gleisch, survives.