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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight, with lowest temperature about 32 cloudiness Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 Entered a: No. 31,727, PROGRESSVES N PROGRAMT0 OFFER ATNEATCONERE Parley Shuns Third Party and Fails to Line Up, Behind Any ’32 Candidate. RAP TAKEN AT RASKOB, ALONG WITH PRESIDENT One Speaker Turns Thumbs Down on Young, Calling Him “Genius of Radio Trust.” BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Progressive group in Congress, Rided by the deliberations of the two- day conference which closed here late yesterday, today is squared away on its course toward a comprehensive legisla- tive program. This program will be urged upon the next Congress and of wourse, upon the national conventions of the two major political parties when they assemble next year. The Progressive conference kept re- ligiously away from any suggestion that a new liberal party be organized. Its leader, Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, declared emphatically that the organization of a successful third party “can’t be done.” That is, not as long as the electoral college and the present political system is permitted to cist. ¢<\Bu'. while the conference did not at- tempt the organization of a new party and did not line up behind any can- didate for President, its speakers did lambast President Hoover and his ad- ministration and took a crack at the leadership of the Democratic party by Chairman John J, Raskob of the Demo- cratic National Committee. At least one of the speakers also turned thumbs down on the supposed candidacy of Owen D. Young, head of the General Electric Board, whom he termed the “genius of the radio trust.” Norris Electrifies Audience. Senator Norris electrified his audi- ence yesterday afternoon when he de- clared the need of “another Roosevelt’ in the White House. He was ref( 3 however, to the late Theodore Roosevel when he made this demand, although v:lt "l;: New Y‘ of fleld o for presidential nomination seemed to wer problem. lm'rhe pl"rvolresflve Conference its knitting. It was not led consid:ration of similar controversi comi Congress, one wluaml'trlwlwn another with the tariff, & third with “return to representative ." a fourth with unem‘:l:y; h and N x'—fi.‘.“mpect'l’v’ely are to rah an 01 a draft their recommendations after ?’5}"" study during the Summer and all. Labor to Seek Work Week Cut. ‘The Committee on Unemployment and Industrial stabilization, headed by Senator La Follette, in its report to the conference announced that a sub. committee would be appointed on “in- creased purchasing power and the shorter work day week.” The sub- committee is to bring in a concrete pro- posal for legislation. Willlam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, in an address to the confer- ence, declared that his organization was to wage a campaign for the five-day work week, and that it would seck to have the Federal government take the lead in this matter by the establish- ment of a five-day work week for Gov- ernment emploves. Mr. Green, a Dem- ocrat, is heartily in accord with other leaders in his party on this matter. smong them former Gov. Alfred E. Smith cf New York. This same committee on unemploy- ment and industrial stabilization an- | nounced that it would make a study of conditions in this country and that if improvement is not shown a demand would be made for an extra session of Congress to enact legislation to pre- vent economic chaos and starvation. “It s the consensus of opinion,” said the report of this committee, “that with- out, full use of the resources at the com- mand of Federal, State and local gov- ernments, it is impossible to meet the problem of the present emergency. While the speakers at the confer- ence assailed the industrial, political 2nd financial leadership of the cquntry and attacked the administration on the ground that it had been inefficient in meeting the unemployment situation, the reports of the committees were com- paratively mild. The recommendations sorts covered & wide range. to the abolition of the elec- | e and the extenslon of the dential primaries, to a sclentific re- the tariff, to the passage of is lame-duck resolution and an 262 LIVES BELIEVED | LOST IN SHIP BLAST| Explosion Occurs When Chinese Soldiers Throw Cigarette Stubs Into Cotton Cargo. By the Associated Pre SHANGHAI, March 13.—Additional Teports on the sinking of the coastwise Steamer Pachi indicated today that 262 lives had been lost when the ship ex- ploded 60 miles north of the Yangtze River mouth Wednesday night. The remainder of the 722 persons abéard ‘were saved, First reports gave the death list at 200 and the number rescued at 180. All who perished were Chinese. The explosi soldiers aboard tossed burning cigarette stubs into the cotton cargo. The ship was anchored immediately, but a second blast blew out her stern. Many were burned to death. The vietims drowned as the ship went down. second post office, . Washington, class matter D. C he Foening Htar, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1931 —FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. ##% Alaskan Proposes On Finding Balloon Freed by Nebraskan By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Nebr, March 13.— ‘There's romance in the air of the north country. . After a dinner party last No- vember Mrs. Robert Tunberg, re- leased a toy balloon, bearing her name and address, and thought little more about it. Imagine her surprise when she opened her mail and found the following let- ter from Henry A. Prentice, a miner, in Fairbanks, Alaska: “We were out of fresh meat and I tracked a bear up the canyon and finally dropped him on a high ledge 50 or 60 feet up the side,” wrote Prentice. “It sure _was tough getting to him, but I made it. On the way up I found the balloon.” “You don't happened to be single and unattached, white and 21, willing to cook the grub for a couple of lonesome old baches away up here in no man’s coun- try?” the miner asked. THEFT OF 720,000 INGEMS REPORTED Palm Beach Police Hear Loss May Reach $1,000,000. Store Manager Kidnaped. By the Associated Press. PALM BEACH, Fla, March 13.—A | statement from the office of the sheriff of Palm Beach County this afternoon said jewels estimated to be worth $650,000 to $750,000 were stolen last night or early togay from a safe in the Palm Beach store of Charlton & Co,, New York jewelry firm. Officials said the loss might run into '$1,000,000. The building had been unlocked and the safe opened. Sheriff R. C. Baker, police and in- surance detectives are investigating a story by Otto Wegener, New York and Palm Beach, manager of the store, that he was kidnaped in front of his hotel last night by four men, who forced him to give them the keys to the place and the safe’s combination. REVOLVER IS FOUND IN NIRDLINGER CASE tes | Discovery Strengthens Police Be- lief in Beauty’s Story of Slay- ing in Self-Defense. By the Associnted Bress. NICE, France, March 13—Police found a loaded revolver this afternoon carefully hidden in the apartment of Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, Philadelphia theater owner, who was shot to death Wednesday evening by his wife, former St. Louis beauty. They believe the weapon belonged to Nixon-Nirdlinge: ind said it was concealed in such a way that he might | have ready access to it. ‘With the discovery officials believed they had checked up on every salient point in the story cf the 26-year-old wife, but ate Vachier had mnot decided whether to have charges pre- ferred against her for the killing of the husband who was 28 years her senior. The police had been inclined, until today’s discovery of the hidden revolver, to doubt the beauty's story that she purchased for her cwn pro- | tection the weapon with which she slew | her husband. Attorney Bonifacio was engaged to- day as “counsel for Mrs. Nixon- Nirdlinger. Examination of the apartment, police said, seemed to corroborate her version of the affair. A magistrate today began an independent investigation of Nixon- Nirdlinger's grounds for jealousy. An autopsy was to be performed to- day. The theatrical magnate's body | will be sent to Philadelphia later. YARD WHERE.POE RESTS SCENE OF CHURCH FIRE Historic Damaged—Marker on Poet's Baltimore Structure Is Grave Escapes. By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, March 13.—Historic| Westminster Presbyterian Church, on the grounds of which is the grave of Edgar Allan Poe, the poet, was dam- aged by fire today. Starting from a defective furnace, the flames wrecked the pulpit, destroyed the organ and damaged a portion of the balcony. ‘The entire structure seemed doomed when firemen arrived on a dozen pieces of apparatus, but the flames were con- fined largely to the basement. Beneath the floor of the basement ancient graves and vaults of many former parishioners. PILOT DIES IN PLUNGE When Turns Over in Air. VAN NUYS, Calif, March 13 (#).— Thrown from an airpiane he was pilot- ing near here yesterday, Eugene Car- son, 25, plunged 800 feet to his death The unguided plane flew a quarter of a mile before crashing. Thrown From Plane It lie the | HACKED BROTHERS T0 AVENGE “SLAVE' SALE, SAYS CHINESE Pair - Are Badly Wounded With Meat Cleaver in Fu- rious Night Battle. HOLD ASSAILANT UNTIL POLICE COME TO RESCUE Relationship Admitted, but Vict: Deny Charge of Selling Pris- oner in China. | A strange tale of having followed his two brothers to this country, seeking revenge because they sold him and his wife into slavery in China, was toid today by Lee New Young, 35 years old. who is held at the twelfth precinct po- lice station while Casualty Hos| physicians endeavor to save the lives of the brothers, whom he sllegedly at- tacked with a meat cleaver. The story of the sale of Young and his mate was told to Detective gts. Thomas W. Sweeny and Carlton Talley, who questioned the Chinese in his ceil at the police station. The victims ad- mit they are his brothers, but deny the <harge of selling into slavery. Sweeney and Carlton questioned Young. who does not speak Engli through an interpreter. The latter | quoted Young as saying he had decided |to wield the meat cleaver because he | was unable to forgive his brothers for | their act. ! Suffer Severe Cuts. The brothers, Lem Ben Lee. 37, pro- prietor of a laundry at 2127 . Rhode Island avenue northeast, and Tom Bow Sing, 23, who assisted him, are suffering from compound skull fract: and | severe “cuts about the face, Lee also | was badly cut on the back of his neck and on his right forearm and more than 100 stitches were required to sew his wounds. ‘The attack occurred this when Young, said to be-a doy,” or hatchet man, crept into the room in which Lee and Sing were sleep- ing and pounced upon them the cleaver. ‘The ensuing struggle was a furious one, but Lee succeeded in breaking away from his assailant long enough to run to a telephone and summon police. He then returned to the melee, attempting to pull Young off of Sing, whom he had thrown to the floor and was beating with the cleaver. ‘When police arrived a few minutes later, they found the Chinese in a knot on a blood-stained bed, still fight- ing furiously. Two Taken fo Hospital. ‘The struggling figures were disen- tangled, gnd Lee and Sing were taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Young was Jocked up, pending the outcome of the wounded men’s condition. . Lee and Sing came to this country about 10 years ago, it is said, and later were joined by Young, who is said to have participated in a tong war here several years ago. The wounded men told police Young came to the Rhode Island avenue ad- dress last night, and, after explaining he was homeless, was given permission to spend the night there. Young, however, told police he had (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) ARCHBISHOP SCORES SUNDAY FILM SHOWS Curley Enters Battle Over Mary- land’'s Ancient Closing Laws in Legislature. morning, “boo how By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., March 13.—Arch- bishop Michael J, Curley today entered day closing laws, in progress in the Legislature for weeks, with a statement of opposition to Sunday motion plc- tures “The average moving pictures pre- sented to our American audiences,” the Catholic prelate said in a statement, “are so full of salaciousness, and so de- structive of moral standards, that they should not be shown to decent people on any day. “Educating our youth is costing us millions. Immoral movies tear down what our schools are trying to build up.” A bill giving local option to_ Balti- more and the 23 counties on the en- forcement of tho so-called blue laws passed the House of Delegates this week and is now in the hands of a Senate committee. Archbishop Curley’s statement was indorsed by Right Rev. Edward T. Hel- fenstein, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Maryland, and by Rev. Robert Davids, executive secretary of the Baltimore | Federation of Churches. | The archbishop said he was well dis- | posed to “clean and wholesome recrea- tions” on Sunday and even toward mo- ton pictures “if they are consistently clean.” | o e e Statues Found in Egypt. CAIRO, Egypt, March 13 (#).—Exca- vations on the site of the ancient city of Hermopolis have uncovered several statuettes of Troth, god of writing and sclence, and a number of Egyptian and Roman sarcophagi. ;I‘REASURY LIFTS CUSTOMS BAN ON FIVE BOOKS HELD CLASSICS ;Taboo Ended on Unexpurgated Decameron, Casanova’s Memoirs, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” and Others. By the Associated r’:-:‘u it Five literary cl once Uncl‘;eanm hr.y" obtained official suffer- ance in this country under liberalization of censorship effected by the 1930 tariff a “The Memoirs o-mnu‘u n.o?:d tagruel,! “The meron of ~ cacio” and Apuleius’ “The Golden Ass’ have been recognized by the Treasury Department as classics and admitted for importation. Under this decision faith- ful and unexpurgated translations have a clean bill of health. Certain editions, as those mnlnln( illustrations deemed bscene, ma; excluded. # ity of books deal- Soon the Ing with birth control b?‘l"lmt in a New York Federal district court. Marie Stopes' British viewpoint on “married love” is the point of conten- tion and the outcome will set a prece- dent. ‘The third class of forbidden reading, |Sedmoua matesial, seems to have dropped out of -the export trade. Cus- | toms Bureau officials say their only recent experience with it involved Soviet | posters which were found inocuous. | Under the 1922 law the three classes were excluded on the judgment of customs rs. The new law allows the Treasury Secretary to use his dis- cretion in exempt from exclusion “the so-called cl ics or books of recognized and established literary or sclentific merih” the battle over the State's ancient Sun- | | UTHS AGCUSED A Cousin Held—Youth Will Be Questioned About Kid- naping Here. ’ A taxicab driver's story of being robbed and beaten by two young men who “took him for a ride” in an ex- pensive sedan, resulted today in the arrest of Laurence Joseph Auth, 25, on charges of assault and robbery. ‘The police announced that they had received assurances from Anton A. Auth, general manager of the Auth Provision Co., that he would surrender his son, Francis Auth, 22 -year-old cousin of Laurence, who is said to have accompanied Laurence last night. Laurence was taken into custody early this morning at his residence, 405 Sixth street southwest, by Detectives H. K. ‘Wilson’ ‘and Richard J. Cox, and later released on bond at No. 4 precinct. The taxi driver, John R. West, 28, of 943 K street, confronted the prisoner and de- clared ke was one of the men who rob- bed him. Traced by License. Polige traced Auth through the li- cense number of a sedan furnished them by West, and which was found to have been issued to Anton Auth of uncle. a hearing in Police Court tomorrow. ‘West, who declared that he was badly beaten, bore no marks of the encounter and did not require hospital attention. He said he was robbed of all the money he had—ebout $3 in change. Tell Different Stories. The two boys, Lawrence and Prancis, tell a different story about the affair than the taxi driver. According to the story they told at their homes, they were driving in the vicinity of Fourteenth and H streets when a taxicab narrowly missed their front fender. ‘The boys said they shouted: “Where did you learn to drive?” ‘They said the cab driver cursed them and continued cown Fourteenth street. |The Governcrs of the oil States like- | The boys said they followed the cab in their car until the taxi stopped at Twelfth street and Ohio avenue and discharged his passenger. They said they walked to the taxicab and asked the driver just what he meant by call- ing them names. Pull Driver From Cab. They said when the cab driver “got sassy” they pulled him from his cab, slapped him with open hands and put him in their own car and proceeded around the block. ‘The boys said they tried to “smooth things over” and when they did the cab driver, they said, offered them money. Both boys told their fathers that they threw the money back at the driver. They said they let him out of the car and left. According to West's statement, he noticed that a Cadillac sedan was trail- ing his cab as he passed Fourteenth and H streets. He picked up a fare a moment later at Fourteenth and K streets, depositing the passenger at ‘Twelfth street and Ohio avenue. ‘West declared the sedan was idling in the street behind his cab and fol- lowed when he drove away. On Elev- enth street. between I and K. West ““(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) FEAR BUBONIC PLAGUE Turkey Closes Frontier to Georgia to Ward Off Disease. ANGORA, Turkey, March 13 (#). Considerable alarm is felt in official cir- cles here ai the possibility of spread of bubonic plague in Turkey from Georgia, Southern Russia, where an epidemic is T sons coming from Russia. The Provinces of Artvin and Kars in the Georgian republic were known to be especially hard hit by the disease. The epidemic extends from Karabagli to Djolga. There have been many deaths. INDIAN IS SENTENCED Woman Gets One to Ten Years for Blaying Wife of Artist. BUFFALO, N. Y, March 13 (#).— Nancy Bowen, 65-year-old Seneca In- dian, today was sentenced to impris- onment for 1 to 10 years for man- slaughter, first degree, in connection with slaying of Mrs. Clotilde Marchand, wife of Henri Marchand, an | artist, in Buffalo, Jast March. Radio Programs on Page D-8 OF TANI ROBBERY 5302 Colorado avenue, the young man's | Laurence Auth probably will be given | aging. | The frontier has been closed to per- | Liquor in Sausage | | Revealed by Fired Butcher in Raid By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Ind., March 13. —Revenge may be sweet for Al- bert Szymoniak. Albert is a butcher. He used to work in the shop of John Briggs until Briggs discharged him “T'll get my revenge,” said he. Yesterday, the police said, he did. He led the officers in a raid on the place of his erstwhile employer, pointing to a string of sausages. Inside the sheaths, the police said, there was moonshine. CONPANES TO 0T OL IPORTATINS Secretary Wilbur Announces Voluntary Agreement by Major Firms. | By the Associated Press. | _ A voluntary agreement with the | Government by major importing com- panies to reduce oil imports several | million barrels yearly was announced today by Secretary Wilbur. Secretary Wilbur said only the Stand- ard of Indiana remained outside the agreement, but that difficulties pre- venting it from joining in the program were being worked out as rapidly as possible, The Gulf Oil Co. and the Standard of New Jersey were included’ in the | agreement, he said. No Written Agreement. He also sald he had been advised, unofficially, the Royal Dutch Shell Co. |and the Pan American Petroleum Cor- | poration had said they would co-operate as_much as possible. Wilbur pointed out today there was |no written agreement between the com- | panies or between the companies and |the Government, but that the agree- ment was a pledge of each individual company to do all it could to curtail | imports in line with domestic restrictions | through proration. “All we can do,” Wilbur declared, “is | to present the problem to the oil com- panies and ask them to work with us. | wise are doing all they can to harness | the flow of domestic production and th two ofl supplies should be harmonize Handled by Lamont. ‘The limitation curbs primarily the {inflow of South American petroleum, ! which has been protested vigorously by the American independent operators, | who asked the last Congress for a par- tial embargo. ‘The negotiations with American im- porting companies were conducted by Secretary Lamont, member of the Oil Board, acting under instructions from President Hoover. Secretary Wilbur declined today to say to what extent the agreement would reduce imports, but said it was “several millions of barrels yearly.” German Counselor Shot. HAMBURG, March 13 (#).—A police t under questioning in a depart- al trial for political offenses today whipped out his service revolver and fired at Herr Lassalys, the government counselor, wounding him serously. . | Operator Burns to Death. WEWOKA, Okla, March 13 (P).— | Horace E. Brough, motion picture oper- | ator, burned to death here last night in a projection room film blaze. The the- ater was cleared without confusion. | Damage was estimated at $5,000. | Pershing’s Final Defiance of Foch This amazing episode of American partici- pation in the war in Tomorrow’s installment of PERSHING'S MEMOIRS m The Evening Star JURY DELIBERATES - DENISON EVIDENCE Maximum Penalty Is $500 if Ex-Representative Is De- clared Guilty. ‘With & $500 fine the maximum pen- alty possible should he be convicted, a jury in District Supreme Court retired this afternoon to deliberate in the case of former Representative Edward E. Denison of Ilinois, charged with pos- sessing liquor. Charging the Prohibition Bureau has “passed the buck” to the United States attorney’s office, Willilam E. Leahy, chief of defense counsel, had demanded shortly before that the jury aequit Deni- son, ‘The defense attorney made hjs plea after John J. Sirica, an assistant United States attorney, had character- ized' the defense explanation of the selzure of a liguor-] trunk in Deni- sow's-office as a° tale” in de- manding the defendant’s conviction. Case Described as Comedy. “It is your duty,” Leahy said, “to acquit this defendant in order that the Prohibition Bureau will know in the future that the Government’s money cannot be used to wash out the bu- reau’s own dirty linen. The Prohibi- ticn Bureau also should know they can’t drag an innocent man in here and ruin his life.” Leahy asserted the entire case con- stituted a comedy of errors. He contended no two Government wit- nesses had told the same story. Sirica contended Denison’s explana- tion of the seizure of a liquor-laden trunk in his rooms in the House Office Building January 19, 1929, was obvi- ously fictitious. The defendant had tes- tified the whisky trunk to some switched with his h&ue by express company. employes. nison said his trunk had contained dishes. The' prosecutor, referring to testi- mony that J. J. Quinn, a Government witness, had Feen dismissed from the prohibition service since Denison’s ar- rest, declared the jury should believe the other prohibition agents, regardless of what they might think about Quinn. Siraca’s reference to Quinn was seized |upon by E. Hilton Jackson of defense | counsel, immediately after he began his argument. Denison Termed Victim. | pivotal witness on behalf of the Gov- | ernmert, is referred to by the prosecut~ | ing attorney as & man who is no good,” Jackson remarked. | _Commending Denison on his long service in Congress, Jackson said he had filled important committee assign- ments with exceptional success. He in- sisted the Government had failed to make out & case and that Denison was a victim of circumstances. - New Spanish Party Formed. BARCELONA, Spain, March 13 (#). —Formation of another Left Republican party in Catalonia was announced to- day. It will be called the Catalonian Republican Socialist party and will be }hehthlrd Republican party in Cata- onia. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's cairier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion i3 delivered to Washington homes one else and had been inadvertently | has “It is surprising that J. J. Quinn, the | (®) Means Associated, Press. U.5. AGENTS ASKED 10 AID N PROBE OF GAS TRANSACTIONS | Roberts Reaches Boston for Inquiry Into Transfer of Company’s Ownership. TO EXTEND PROPERTIES Department of Justice Sought to Help Commission Ascertain if Law Was Broken. William A. Roberts, assistant eor- poration counsel of the District, arrived in Boston today to begin a sweeping fact-finding inquiry into the high finance involved in the transfer of own- ership of the Washington Gas Light Co. to determine whether the negotia- tions conflicted in any way with the provisions of the La Follette anti-mer- ger act. At the same time Cor) tion Coun- sel William W. Bride, ge: 1 counsel for the Public Utilities Commission, re- quested the Department of Justice to assist in the investigation. The aid of this Federal agency was sought because of the commission's lack of funds, as well as an organization to make such a thorough check-up as is planned. Richmond B. Keech, people's counsel before the commission, also is co-oper- ating with Mr. Bride's office and the commission, and turned over to them this morning information given to him which he declared purports to show that the owners of the Washington Gas Light Co. had planned to get a monop- oly on various gas operating utilities within a radius of 150 miles of Wash- ington. These steps apparently were taken, he said, in the face of a state- ment by the Seaboard Investment Trusy when it acquired control of the Wash-~ ington Gas properties more than a year ago, that it did not propose to take over any additional operating companiss. Sought Charleston Plant. Mr. Keech said the source of his in~ formation was Wallace Dunn, 2402 'In.!"ly employed by the Washi ’)I;he l:;unttmnm arnmé m:mv ) pnlgn r. Dunn, according to counsel, suit in the Dh.'-l’nw preme Court for compensation for his its services agamnst the Washington Light Co, George A. G. Wood, mmt. and the Seaboard Investment , which recently transferred con- trol of 2: W to the Wash- ton ‘Gas Cos. . Dupn told him, Mr. Keech said, that he was instructed’ to' Quy the 'con- trolling interest in the Charleston plant in his own name, and subséqliently transfer it to the gas company. The Charleston plant, he is said to have re- ported, was to be but one link in a huge gas system embracing Harrison- burg. Richmond, Frederisbui and Farmville, Va., and Pocomo and Cam- bhm:n on the eastern shore of Mary- nd. The plan of operation, Mr. Keech was informed, was the maintenance of skeleton forces at ‘these plants, with the Washington office serving as the engi- nering, supervisory and accounting headquarters. Sale Authorized Yesterday. ‘The plant ab Cambridge, Mr. Keech said, was recently acquired by the Cen- tral Public Service Corporation, which taken over the operating manage- ment of the gas properties in the Washington .area formerly held by the Seaboard Investment Trust. These in. clude the Washington and Georgetown companies. the Alexandria Gas Co. and the Washington Suburban Gas Co. ‘The Washington Suburban Co. was formerly known as the Hyattsville Gas & Suburban Cos. was authorized yes- terday by the Maryland Public Service Commission. Under the order of the Maryland Com- mission, the Washington & Suburban Cos. acquire al Ithe outstanding capl- tal stock of the Hyattsville utility, which consists of 8,600 shares without par value, and all the outstanding bonds of the company consisting of $231,000, the principal amount of the first mortgage gold bonds 6'; per cent series due in 1948, and to pledge this stock as part security for its 52 per cent collateral trust gold bonds. In authorizing the sale, the Mary- sien for the transfer to the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. as trustees and the holding by it, as trustee, for the property, of collateral security only of all the outstauding capital stock of the ‘Washington Suburban Gas Co. All of these developments, Mr. Keech and public utility officials believe, show a relationship beiween the Central Pub- lic Service Corporation, a gigantic pub- lic utility concern, and_the Washington (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) | | ‘The airplane is to be used by Uncle Sam to aid in the forecasting of weather conditions. On April 14 bids will be opened at the Weather Bureau for daily high altitude flights at various points in the United States by planes carrying meteorological equipment. ‘The service at first is to be on a test basis, only a few -airplane observation stations being established. If successful, the service probably will be materially extended and airplanes in all parts of the country will take off at fixed hours each day, climbing fhousands of feet above the earth so that the Weather Bureau may know of conditions in the high upper air which may affect the ‘weather below. ‘The service will be the same as that which has been carried on by the Navy at the Anacostia Naval Air Station and other naval shore bases for many months. Each morning at Anacostia a Navy. plane takes off and climbs high bove the station, carryl recording apparatus to learn in detail the facts concerning: atmospheric pressure, tem- perature and humidity at various levels. At first_the use by the ‘Weather Bureau will supplement the use of kites, now sent up daily at five stations in the United ites to carry meteorological instruments for upper- air observa 3 It will not'be determined until after PLANES WILL AID FORECASTING BY STUDYING WEATHER AT CEILING | Bids for Altitude Flight With Meteorological Equipment to Be Opened April 14. the bids are opened next month and the costs ascertained the number and location of cities where the observa- tions are to be made. In each case the Weather Bureau will contract with commercial airplane operators to make the daily flights. . The ‘Weather Bureau regards the present kite system as slow and expen- sive, requiring the maintenance of large fields, a squad of men and expensive housing facilities. It takes three hours or longer ul’-n n_nAd p‘l" a uu‘)‘d :m:m- meteorograph. ane co o the same work in than an hour, it was explained, and could ascend to :‘etl:.hu beyond those reached by the The Weather Bureau also will have the benefit of the airplane observations made by the Navy at Anacostia and other naval stations. ‘The Weather Bureau contracts .for that the daily flights are to Invital for e probably will be obtain separate re. noeffort service e as fast as the papers a Yesterday's Circulation, 118,477 ‘Thirty-seventh street, an engineer for- ington Gas | In Co. and its sale to the Washington | land Commission also granted permis- | H¢ printed. TWO CENTS. WARDMAN FINANCE CORPORATION PUT IN RECEIVERSHIP Alexandria Judge Grants M nority Stockholders’ Petition. PARLEY ON SELECTION TO BE HELD TOMORROW Mismanagement, Fraud and Col- lusion Were Among Charges Contained in Suit. A receiver for the Wardman Mort~ gage & Discount Corporation, a Vir- ginia company, was granted by Judge William P. Woolls of the Corporation Court at Alexandria, Va., this morning on the basis of the suit filed last Oeto- ber on behalf of minority stockholders of the corporation. ‘The decision, which was handed down orally and only in the presence of at- torneys for both sides, was merely to the effect that sufficient evidence had been introduced to warrant the appoint- ment of a receiver for the corporation. Mismanagement, fraud and collusion were among the charges contained in the suit brought against the corporation and Harry Wardman, Thomas P. Bones and James D. Hobbs by Attorneys H. F, Kennedy and Harry A. L. Barker on behalf of Robert B. Smythe, Theodore S. Grape and Charles D. Davis, minority stockholders. Appraisals Were Criticized. Granting of the receiver is taken as further evidence of the collapse of the elaborate financial structure set 1928 to take over the operation ‘(:fD :: Wardman-built properties in Washing- ton, which followed the authorization of a $16,000,000 bond issue, of which $11,000,000 were sold, on which the et the TErelt paychents dhs Mo’ X e payments due March 1. Sharp eriticisms of ith the “‘excessive” bond issue were made recently before the Blaine subcommittee of the Senate %Lut.at{n( rn:;e estate conditions here. o is controlled by !lllmm — & Securities Col tion. This com- pany is said to_control the sfock of the Wardman Realty & Construe ction Co., which, in turn, controls ‘ardman Real Estate Properties, Xacn.w e an effort to agree on & receiver. . In ,the event: that they are unable to Teach a decision, a receiver will be named by the court. < Attorney Kennedy anncunced follow- ing the decision that he planned to g» into Equity Court here at once and seek the appointment of a receiver to take :nhlrle.m of any possible assets in Wash- The receiver to be named at Alex- andria will take charge of any assets of the corporation in Virginia, the only Visible assets being 8320 shares of Wardman Realty & Construction Company non-voting preferred stock. Stockholders, however, contend that they have a claim against the prm of the old Wardman Corporation, wi includes the Wardman Park Hotel and other properties in Wi on which the Mortgage & Discount Cor- poration criginally held liens, pricr to the action of the board of directors substituting the present stock at the time of the refinancing in 1928, Held Liens on Hotel. The Wardman Mortgage and Discount Cororation, which was formed in 1924, was organized for the purpose of a finance company, and nflfnfl!y held liens on the Wardman Park Hotel. It was the contention of the plaintiffs that the Wardman interests, e: the 22,991 shares of common stock issued to them without cost, used this vote in having action of the board of m exchanging the liens for stock of the realty and construction company so that the latter company might meet $500,000 interest payments due. On this o action is based the contention of at- torneys for the plaintiffs that the stock- holders of the discount corporation have 2 Dt‘:‘l" claim against the Wardman Park o During the trial the books of the Wardman companies were subpoenaed and brought into court and a certified public accountant employed by the plaintifis sought to show from these books that stock had been irregularly issued and transferred. Dividend payments were also sub- Jected to attack by plaintiff attorneys who sought to show that dividends had been paid some stockholders and not to others, that they had been paid whem funds in the treasury were not suffi- cient to meet them, and that funds had been obtained from Harry Wardman and from the Annapolis Hotel at vari- ous times to be applied to the payment of dividends. Case Opened in November. ‘The case, which opened in the Alex- andria Corporation Court in early No- vember, consumed about 12 days in hearing, and was not closed until Janue ly | from the ary 7, at which time Judge Woolls an- nounced he 1d re (Continued on DEATH ENDS CAREER OF LORD PRIVY SEAL Vernon Hartshorn, M. P., 59, Dies Suddenly at His Home in Maestog, Wales. By the Assoclated Press. MAESTOG, Wales, March 13.—Ver- non Hartshorn, lord privy seal since 1930 and formerly president of the South Wales Miners’ Federation, dropped dead at his home here today. ‘The Right Hon. Vernon Hartshorn, lord privy seal since 1930 and M. P. Ogmore division of Glamor- ganshire since 1918, was 59 {un old. He was postmaster general in 1924; member the Indian Reforms Com- is | mission from 1927 to 1930; served on e tion Commit-