Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1932, Page 2

A—2 kxkk RETROACTIVE TAX BANNED BY LEADERS Democrats, in Parley, Deter- mine to Balance Budget. Wil Invite G. 0. P. By the A he d bi I Democra members of the Committee to- g This ap- 11, sed meeting ker Chairn statement was that e and that | be balanced to main- e group Will Invite G. O. P. members of ited to par- 1 bill n be a ntal tax bill tariff Republican- i Means Committee excluded can would y-Smoot act ramed by a tatives of d before the 18 during “of the s definite! of polic ill would not be STORM KILLS ONE, LASHING NEW YORK Eleven Persons Ferries Ha Injured, and Three Small Beats Call for B: Assecia NEW YORK was 1 e ipted. three small r ths | 444 d the | glass and rd boats went e Battery the to almost to METHODISTS PLAN | RELIGIOUS MOVIES| Harris and Bishop McDowell of Washington Will Act in Advisory Capacity Dr first { “The Life rio prepared of New- based me ar d other religiol mea. The pic se in Pr the country Marshall the members of the advisory ich will pass upon all pic- e Bishop W McDowell cis J p Edwin P are Dr. Freder- 11L.; Dr. Ernest terville, Ohio; Dr Delaware, Ohio; Dr. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dr. Kansas City. Chicago. lenburg, Minne- on ry 28 (P).—Arthur Labor party leader secretary, left for 1zerland morning to World Disarmament Con- LONDON, Hendersg and form uch from i, “and I ions will m Film Actress Has QOperation HOLLYWOCD, Calif.. January 28 {7 —Dorothy Lee, screen actress, un- derwent an operation for appendicitis yesterday. The surgeon, Dr. H. G. Rosenberger, said her condition was L &ood. > woman steamer | of the United States as security for the | signed promises to be good. THE EVENING Hospital Group Aids Chest | i GARFIELD WOMEN CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS. group, | 2 nnouncing | the | | from the ATERIALLY augmenting the Community Chest fund are the contribu- tions turned in by the Ladies’ Ald of Garfield Hospital, which has a group of uniformed Social Service aides operating in the Medical Science Building. Pictured here on. Adelaide Harley row, left to right A Elliott, Mrs. Cobat Stevens, ident of the Ladies' Ald, and Adele | Jancke. —Star Staff Photo. | OAN PLEAS SPEED CREDIT BODY PLANS Tow, ryn are, and left to right Fuqua. Front Evelyn Howe, DECLARES FARMER S AGAINST BEER Senate Expected to Confirm Taber, Master of Grange, | First Witness to Oppose | Bingham Bill. | Lt Dawes and Other Heads by Tonight. By the Assoclated Press The American farmer was described today as apposed to beer. Louis J. Taber, master of the Na- tional Grange, was the first opponent to the Bingham 4-per cent beer bill to be heard by a Senate Manufactures Subcommittee. Proponents of the measure already have testified aber said farmers were against the on “social, moral and economic grounds.” We oppose this bill,” he said. “be- cause we favor the eighteenth amend- ment and desire its retention. It's preposterous to say we can have beer and the eighteenth amendment at the same 8. Taber said experience Aad proved the farmer received less for products going into liquor than for any other similar article going into food Pork Chops vs. Beer. Continued From First Page) leaving much of the the corporation on a But it is possible and Undersecretary ct interchangeably as a member of corporati MELLON duties W of getting oing basis to Mi J Secretar OPPOSES WALSH. i"rrn: Objections to Increasing Bank Nete Circulation to Billion. Rep! David L Walsh of M ial bank note might legally be increased by $1,000,000,000, ecretary Mellon in a recent letter op- posed the proposal on the ground it ould affect unfavorably $675,000,000 Government currency privilege bonds now o ding Expla The Treasury Secretary said further present currency issue has been adequate to supply the needs of the country. He expressed his belief the national banks might be unable to in- crease currency circulation $1,000.000.- 000, even if the measure were thought desirable. While to the suggestion of Senator etts that ns Opposition. lion drinks of whisky,” he said, “takes a small amount of grain, compared with a million glasses of milk and a million pork chops.” “Do you mean to say,” asked Sena- tor Bingham, Republican, Connecticu author of the bill. “that if a person wants a glass of beer he will take a pork chop instead? “I'm not making that point,” Taber replied. “I'm trying to show the in- significance of the relationship of grain to liquor and the subsantial relation- ship of grain in food." the issuanee of additional cur- might be advisable as an emer- measure, Mr. Mellon said he » existing conditions to warrant such an action. The text of the letter follows: My Dear Senator “I have your letter of January 15, 1832, in which you ask my comment on the proposal to attach the circula- | tion privilege to an additional issue of United States bonds, so that provision | will be made for an increase in the | national bank eirculation up to its au- | thorized limit. This would mean addi- bonds bearing the circulation privilege to the amount of about | $1,000,000,000 Fears Effect on Outstanding 3ends. here are now outstanding about 5,000,080 United States 2 per cent s bearing the circulation privi- and about $665.000,000 of these ited with the Treasurer at this time takes aw eration the more vit fronting the country.” y from consid- problems con- Calls Farmers Victims. “The farmers have been victimized by the liquor business,” he said. “No nation in history has ever been able to drink itself prosperous.” Representative William E. Hull, Re- publican, Illinois, a former brewer. who was attending the hearings as a spec- | tator, interrupted frequently to chal- lenge the witness. ‘Let the witness proceed; we don't want_him heckled,” said Senator Bulk- ley. Democrat, of Ohio. Taber said a proposal made by Bing- ham would “put the Government mnto the liquor business.” Questioned on Bill. Bingham denied it would do this, and pressed him to “tell exactly what this proposal is, now that you have con- demned it.” The witness said he had read the Bingham plan, but could not now state it exaetly. It provides for distribution of beer directly from the warehouse to the home. o After Taber had finished his state- ment, Bingham questioned him as to whether legalization of beer would not | help the farmer and the Government by increasing barley production and by providing new Federal revenue. The witness contended both are bet- ter off \u;(dfl prohibition . J B “You know the liquor business has Currency Shortage, He Says. | heen 3 Jawless business since history be- he Congress, in the Federal Re- | , o b gan,” he said. ou know it is lawless act, made provision for an elastie : ol sy . pression there has been no cm-rency‘HURLE‘Y AS'SA“-s’ ARMY-NAVY UNION ['3¢ | be lege, | bonds are de) issue of circulating notes by national banks. If $1.000.000,060 additional | bonds bearing the circulation privilege were made available and the coupon rate fixed at 21, per cent, the outstand- 1g 2 per cent bonds would be adverse- affected, unless the tax rate on cir- ation were made to conform Moreover, with a total of $1,675,000,- 000 bonds outstanding bearing the cir- culation privilege, all with a_coupon ate under the market, it would seem that unless all such bonds were used as security for the issue of national bank currency the market for all these | bonds would be adverse. I have no evidence before me that would warrant the belief that the circulation of na- tionai banks could be increased some $1.000,000,000, even were it thought de- sirable N c shortage, and, although therc has been t increase in the currency out- ding. the Federal Reserve System net the increase without strain. If ggestion conveyed in your letter adopted, tho total circulation of banks might be increased, but | of the existing provision for | currency supply any such increase would in all probability be offset | through retirements of Federal reserve notes. I believe such a change would be unwise, as national bank circulation is not elastic, as is the case with Fed- eral reserve notes, and is not imme- diately responsive to changing condi- tions. 4 ‘If the country were confronted with a currency shortage, or if the estab- lished provision for currency supply were deemed inadequate, it might be urged with very good reason that, as an emergency measure, provision be | made for increasing the national bank | cireulation. I do not find the condi- tions now existing would warrant such | action “Very has the wer in view Organization More Top-Heavy. BY the Associated Press. Secretary of War Hurley sald today consolidation of the War and Navy Departments would neither “add to the efficiency of either nor be favorable for economy of operation.” the Army and Navy Departments. in a Department of National Defense, is | inadvisable,” he added. truly yours, A. |YALE FRESHMEN SIGN PLEDGES TO BE GOOD Ninety Per Cent of Class Join Move to Gain Reinstatement of Six Suspended for Riot. W. MELLON.” indorsed by House Democratic leader including Speaker Garner and Chair- man Byrns of the Appropriations Com- mittee. “The Army and Navy already are under a single command, the Presi- dent.” Hurley said. “To displace the two present cabinet officers with one Secretary for National Defense and assistants you would be lengthening the line ‘of command through other offices,” he testified be- fore the House Expenditures Committee. By the Associated Press. ‘l “In t}rde{hto obtain um‘ty "of com- e 7 98 . ' mand in e new organization you NEW HAVEN, Conn, January 28— LU ng create a more top-heavy or- Ninety per cent of Yale's freshmen have | ganization than you now have. |~ *“You would put the new Sccrelalry of in reins National Defense in the approximate In an effort to obtain reinstatement | iy’ the president now has in re- of six members of the class who were | 204 "¢0 both departments.” suspended for participating in a campus | The pending bills would provide that riot December 11, the Freshman Stu- | the new department be headed by a dent Council circulated cards pledging | Secretary for National Defense with the signers not to take part in any dis- | assistant secretaries for the Army, turbance. Navy and Aeronautics. The pledges were sent Tuesday to| “Efficiency can be obtained and main- Percy T. Walden, freshman dean, with | tained under the present orgl.n}'nnon a request that the cases of the su:-lbotm than under t proposed,” Hur- pended students be reconsidereds ley 4 Jean | “A million drinks of beer and a mll-[ Taber said the “injection of this bit | | Testifies That Merger Would Make | “In my opinion, the consolidation ul‘ Hurley was. testifying on a proposa’ | *{ his side of the cab. STAR, WASHINGTON, D THULSDAY, dAi 1552, COMMUNITY CHEST GIFTS BELOW MARK| Only $80,935 Reported To- day Instead of $150,000 Needed Each Day. | | pending on Community Chest funds for | help and then I ask them to ‘now, more | than ever, give."” New Gifts Reported. New gifts reported yesterday included $1,701, Georgetown University; $1,350, | Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. $650, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Aspinwall $600, National Capital Press, Inc; Richard B. Griffin. $500, G. W. Bonnett, George B. Bryant, Mrs. Ralph L. Sabin, Mis Nathan B. Scott, J. Elvans Mayfield, Bliss Electrical School, Bishop P. M. Rhinelander, P. W. Woolworth Co., Mr. and Mrs. Bates Warren, Frank F. Nes bit, $400, Mrs Everett Sand ter S. Ufford. $350, Elwood Street $300. Miss Elsie M. Peterson, H. D. Crampton, Mrs. Edward B. Meigs, Dr. Themas L. Rust, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Brown, J. H. Small & Sons. $275, Jaseph L. Fairbanks 2 nonymous, Charles G. Stott & Harry B. Mirick, Mrs. H. A awley, T. Spaulding. Louis Ottenberg, Corcoran | Fire Insurance Co, Miss Theda Buck $225, Mrs. Agnes S. Parsons. $200, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burt, Mrs. | George M. Eckels, Elizabeth Wilson, Mrs. John C. Wilson, Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Atkinson, anonymous, Mr. and Mrs James S. Boyd, George O. Tenney, Sol Herzog, Russell P. Preeman, Continental Life Insurance Co, er Laundry Corporation, William E. Russell, Sewell | A. Reeves, C. C. Rogers & Son. Milton R. Ney, James Ivris, Mrs. Jennings, Hackett, Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Wright $185, National Cathedral School for Girls; $175, Dr. and_ Mrs. Charles B.! Crawford, J. G. McCrory; $160, Mrs.! Richard G. Davenport. $150, Mr. and Mrs. William P. Mac- Cracken, Putnam Construction Catherine Werber, Col. and Mrs. | comer, Triangle Motor Co. | e Carry Becke, Mrs. M. B. Mr. ‘and Mrs. Pembroke | O. Craig, William H. Clark, | Kempton Cadillac_Corporation trude H. Bowling, Frederick G Mr. and Mrs, Harry C. Gretz, E. Booth, Mr. and Mrs. Byron aham, Mr. and Mrs. Karl La | beck. George Offutt, jr.. Bi: lee Missionary Society, Mr Mir Pilling, Miss Florence Harding n D. Ho $135, Jol am K. Ryan, Willlam S e Hotel, Mr. and Mrs Brown, P. . L. D. Under- W. B. Clar Strong; $ E. P A.l George Cabot Lodge, s, S S. Kresge Co., Wal- Mr. and M Jones, U Miss | Miss Freder Charle: $11 Spes Virg ick B. Pyle R. Riske William er Crosby, D: | wood. son Col land $100 Mrs. C frey K Domestic R Miss G Kr Vi Si ce B! Park A. Mar Mr. h, Mr d Mrs C. Marbur Corporation, Mrs. h McDowell, Mrs. P. H. Sheridan i daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bolling. Mrs. Robert F. M | | Meyer Davis, Dr. Thomas A. C W. L. Rodges Globe-Wernek Mrs Pitney, Dr. Le Mrs oiton, Meyer's M D. W Mrs. Annie Po Ada Brow W. H. Roh mous, Re Mrs. Frances tucker, W mms, Charles G. and Miss Esther Woman's Club of Chevy C fer & Storage Dr. J. A and Mrs. J. Har vey Wattles, Mrs. Frank E. Duchring 1 $100, Mrs. Jofet Mrs. James F. Hood. M and Mary Gaegle {liam S. Campbell, y F. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Harry v, Mr. and Mrs. Harris E. Starr, Ernest E. Herrell, Louise D. Lockwood, W. E. Clark & Co. David S. Barry, Dr. Edward S. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Guider, Frederick M. Bradley, Ho Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. and Mrs. Chauncey Parl r Hoehling, H. L. and J. B. McQ ed W. and Grace Miller, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Mc- Lachlen, George W. Shockey. $100, R. H. Dalgleish, Star Radio Co. Kirkland, Fleming, Green & Martin C Ashmead Fuller, G. P. Plummer, Pranklin H. Kentworthy, Crane Co., International Business Machine Co., | J B. Thomas, Mrs. Frank A. West, | | Percy W. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Abner | H. Ferguson, Mr. Mrs. P. P. Camp- | tell. G. Davis Pearlman, Charles D. | Davis, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Mayer, Fund | Rockport, Inc.: Columbia I\'Dol{mvln»i cal Union, Mrs. Henry Matthews, Mrs Jemes Barnes, Helen B. Handley, Mary | Pauline Flannery. Admiral and Mrs. W. | S. Benson, Dr. Frank Leech, F J anony- Bland- . Mr and ses Kathryn and Mrs. Wi { | FIREMAN 1S INJURED | BY BLAST ON TRAIN; | ’Drivmg Rod Driven Through Cab| t g of Havana Special and i Tears Up Track. Special Dispatch to The Star. | ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 28.— When a firchox in the engine of the | Havana Special, through all-Pullman train from Havana, Cuba, to New York, exploded at Claiborne Station, Va., 12 miles south of Frederickshurg, late last night, Fireman Emmett Sheperdson was Severely injured and several hun- dred feet of track was torn up by a driving Tod on the engine which was broken by the explosion. The train was delayed four hours. Sheperdscn was taken to the Alex- andria Hospital by the next northbound train. He is believed to have sustained a broken back in addition to leg injur- jes and burns about the head. His condition is regarded as serious. All northbound traffic over the main | line tracks of the Richmond, Freder- | icksburg & Potomac Railway was de- tourned over southbound tracks. Cars of the Havana Special were brought into Washington four hours late by another engine. Workmen today were still at work repairing the damaged | track. | Sheperdson was injured by the driv- | | ing rod of the engine coming through He lives at 40 East Walnut street, Alexandria. WRIGLEY TO BE BURIED IN CALIFORNIA TODAY s By the Assoclated Press. PASADENA, Calif., January 28 —Fu- neral services for William Wrigley, jr., who died Tuesday at his Winter home in Phoenix, Ariz, will be held late to- | day at the residence the late capitalist |and sportsman maintained here. Epis- copal funeral services will be read. The body will be placed in a vault where it will remain until the erection of a masouleum on Catalina Island off i the Southern California Coast, which will be the final resting place. During the services all the enterprises in which Wrigley was interested in Southern California will be closed. The body of Wrigley left Phoenix last night,” accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Philip K. Wrigley. The former is $he cnly son of the eapitalist, | the late Edgar Farrar of | are now | of Wingless Aircraft Secretly Built NEW TYPE MACHINE TO HAVE TEST NEXT MONTH. ACKED by private interests, two engineers have been working for months in developing a new principle of flight and behind locked doors at Broadway and 110th street, New York, have constructed a The machine, which has four spindles substituted for the wings on con- “Thiree motors are on the craft, but only one, a Cirrus, furnishes The two others, small two-cylinder air-cooled engines, whirl the spindles is to be tested within the next ventional planes, 1s in the last s traction. the machine were discovered by John pounds, span of 231, feet and an overall length of 18 feet A view of the incomplete craft in SON OF SCIENTIST ENDS LIFE BY SHOT |Edgar F. Goldberger, 24, Dies at Hospital After Being Found in Bed. Edgar Farrar Goldberger, 24-year-old engineer and son of the late Dr. Joseph Goldberger, noted discoverer of the cause and cure of pellagra, died today at Emergency Hospital a short time fter he was found shot through the head at home, 5800 Broad Branch A .25-calib natic was found in bed beside the youth. 1 s issued by th ner’s office after investigatior homicide squad detectives. Goldberger, who was a grandson prominent Nev Orleans lawyer and one-time preside the American Bar Association, Was found in bed about 8 o'clock this morn- ing by his brother, Joseph. He had a bullet wound in the temple. Report of Gun Not Heard. Although his mother, Mrs. Mary Par- Goldberger, and two brothers. and Benjamin, and a sister were in the house at the time none heard the report of They told Dpolice they believed the coung engineer pulled the bed covers a an ar Joseph Mary { over his head and then shot himself. Goldberger was attached to the Sew- erage and Water Board of New Orleans and had come home about three weeks ago on a month's sick leave. Members of the family told police he was de- spondent over the condition of his health. Friends of the family said he had threatened to kill himseif because he felt he was not “getting anywhere | and was not in good health. Attends Movie Show. Goldberger retired about 1 o'clock this morning, after going o « motion picture show with his mother, accord- ing to the family. Early this morning he was seen in the bath Toom by one of his brothers. Leaving the bath room the brother said. he went back to bed, where he was found about an hour later by Joseph Mrs. Goldberger, since the death of her husband, in 1929, has been a fre- | quent contributor to magazines and is aid by friends to be writing a life story ! of her husbard. She is a daughter of Lucy Stamps Farrar and a niece of Jef- ferson Davis. She is now living at Biloxi, Miss.. home of the Confecerate President. The family is one of the mest prominent socially in the South After the death of her husband, Mrs Goldberger was granted a monthly pen- sion by Congress, to continue during her life. Goldberger’s father was a surgeon at- tached to the United States Public Health Service when he made his im- portant discoveries about pellagra dreaded skin disease prevalent in the South. Public Health Service officials believe his research in this disease “one of the most important contribu- tions to medical science” in the history of the service. Experiments Are Recalled. For 15 years prior to his death, Dr Goldberger worked unceasingly with the disease. In 1916-17, he took a group of Mississippi convicts and prcduced pellagra in them within five months by feeding a special diet. This was proof of his contention that the disease was due to diet deficiency. He then cured the convicts, who received par- dons from the Governor of Mississippi as rewards for their contribution to the advancement of science. Edgar Goldberger graduated in civil engineering from George Washington University in 1928 and was president of his engineering class. Both brothers attending the university, one a medical student and the other taking a pre-medical course Shortly after graduating, Goldberger went to New Orleans and became at- |tached to the Sewerage and Water Board. He rendered distinguished serv- ice in his capacity as civil engineer in helping the chief engineer of the board to devise a method of controlling sur- face floods in the vicinity of New Orleans, which for years had caused extensive property damage. It was i principally because of overwork in this | connection that he was granted 2 month's leave to return home to rest. LEE SENTENCED TO DIE TOWSON, Md., January 28 (A@.— Euel Lee, colored, today was sentenced to be hanged for the murder last Octo- |ber 11 of Green K. Davis, Worcester County farmer. Sentence was passed by Judge T. Scott Offutt. chief judge of the Balti- more County Circuit Court a few minutes after he and his two asso- cates had overruled a defense motion for a new trial. Appeal is planned. Lee was convicted only for the mur- der of Davis, for whom he had worked, but was indicted also for the slaying the farmer's wife and their two young daughters. Bodies of all were found in their oil-soaked farm home near Berlin Bandit Sentenced to Die. LEBANON, Ind., January 28 (@.— Charles Vernon Witt, 27, of Bainbridge, Ind, today was sentenced to be elec- trocuted August 1, 1932, for the mur- der of Lafayette A. Jackson, Indian- apolis chain store owner. Jackson Was killed last May during an attempt to hold up his office at Indianapolis. Witt was convicted recently by a jurg. L4 the gun.| month tages of assembly B. Guest, a Pacific Coast physicist and With pilot and fuel it will weigh 1.73¢ pounds and will have a cruising range of about 340 miles. a size which compares with that of a small training plane its Broadway hangar is shown above. Kills Self | | EDGAR FARRAR GOLDBERGER MAGAZINE SELLER 15 FOUND GUILT New Trial Asked by Dealer After Conviction in First | of 133 Test Cases. | | From the 5.30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) In the first of 133 cases growing out of the recent police drive against al- legedly salacious publications, James Carley. 40, of 1809 Nichols avenue | southeast, was found guilty by a jury in Police Court this afterncon on a charge of offering for sale an indecent magazine While three publications were in- volved in the police drive, only one was tested in the case today. Sentence was deferred to allow Judge Ralph Given to take under advisement | a motion for a new trial, which was made immediately after the verdict was rendered. The jury, composed of 11 men and & woman, deliberated about a half hour following the closing of the Govern- ment's case by Assitant United States Attorney Michael F. Kec In his argument, Keogh, who had i troduced in evidence several pages the magazine as being “particularly sa- | lacious,” declared it was the effect the maga: had and the impression it made on the minds of the young which were especially objectionable The defense contended Carley and | other dealers should not be held re- sponsible for the contents of the maga- zine After the trial. Keogh said that his efforts in the future would be confined to obtaining punishment of the dis- tributors of the magazine, whom he held chiefly to blame for the circula- tion of the banned publication. ¥ | ‘; Dives for Mammoth. | At the bottom of the River Trent in England is the skeleton of a mammoth that died some 20,000 years ago, but whose remains may soon be exposed to public gaze in a museum. Two great teeth and a five-foot tusk were brought up by a gravel company working nea | Nottingham. The molars are each as big as a man’s head ana in wonderful condition. A diver is trymng to locate the remainder of the skeleton. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers' Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John §. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner. assistant March, “Marche Triumphal,” Kempinski Overture, “Russlan and Ludmilla.” Glinka ay Day and Gray . .Elliott Leaves." ans “Gray Four contrasts, | Days” ........ | “Lilacland. | “Love's Serenade” | Clouds.” Scenes from the comique, | “Girofle—Girofla” ...... cocq Fox trot, “Have a Little Faith in Me.” Warren opera Waltz song, “For You". aes | An old-timer in a new dress, for the Robert E. Lee” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, January 28.—If Andrew Lebchuck wishes to run, he has the legal authority to do so. And as he’s somethmg of a runner, he may run out of the city, the county or State without encountering a single | legal barrier, Judge Harry B. Miller arranged it | yesterday when he denied Andrew's es- | tranged wife, Parasha, a writ of ne exeat. which was the legal way of ask- ing that Lebchuck be prevented from running away from the jurisdiction of the court and the matter of $2,000 back alimony. red ! proved i had been ying machine which ‘The principles involved in The machine weights 1,429 It has a inventor. —Wide World Photo. PLAN THEFT LAID T0 AKRON ACCUSER Goodyear Official Says Man Was Discharged for Steal- ing U. S. Drawings. By the Associated Press. ‘The head of the Goodyear-Zeppel Co. told the House Naval Committee to- | day one of two men who charge the irship Akron was defective was dis- | charged for stealing Government draw- ings Paul W. Litchfield, president of the Goocyear concern, in ering an accusation that two men had been discharged because they said there was fa material and workmanship in the airship. E. C. Davidson, secretary of the In- ternational Assoclation of Machinists, yesterday said W. B. Underwood of Ten city were the men laid off mad| ar Caught With Drawing. “We never knew who those two men were until yesterday, and I didn't know they had been discharged,” Litchfield testified. “Underwood was discharged June 10 1931, when he was found taking a Gov- ernrent drawing of a naval vessel out | of the shop. We thought that was suf- | tain well defined routes out ficient ground for the discharge of any man.” McDonald, Litchfield added, was * off with two or three hundred men when the job was completed Comdr. Ralph D. Weyerbacher, one >f the naval officers who investigated the alleged defects, said he wanted to “repudiate to this co tee the state- ment that Navy officials broke faith by informing the Goodyear-Zeppelin who had made the charges.” Few Defects Found. Davidson testified yesterday had asked the Navy to keep secret the names of Underwood and McDonald, but that it seemed that had not been done. The Navy's investigators, Weyer- bachey said, found very few defects in the Akron. Those to which Underwood directed attenticn, Weyerbacher added, had been “changed in an ordinary routine manner and would have oceur- similar construction.” n 10 per cent of the flaws Underwood sald existed were found by the naval investigators, Weyerbacher testified “The fact that the Akron since has r airworthiness under the most trying conditions substa: findings of the investigators,” TAXPAYERS' ASSOCIATION HEARS RESEARCH EXPERT Prince Georges Body Told of In- laid other that he Le creased Costs of County Governments. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. MITCHELLVILLE, Md. January 28. | —An address by W. P. Walker, research | expert of the agricultural economics department of the University of Mary- land, showing that increased costs of county governments were general throughout the State during the past 10 years, featured the weekly meet- ing of the Taxpayers' Association of Prince Georges County. Following the reading of a new: paper article describing steps taken b a Virginia county in the interest of economy, members of the association | expressed the belief that similar action | should be taken in Prince Georges ent W. Seaton Belt, Who pre- announced that vice presidents appointed for each of the districts of the county. Seventeen new members were enrolled The assoclation will hold its meeting_at _the Surrattsville next High | School Saturday at 2 p.m. BANS PAID ATHLETES Lutheran Board Opposes Subsidies in Its School. ‘The Board of Education of the United Lutheran Church in America intends to see there is no subsidizing of athletes in schools the church controls A resolution to that effect was passed today at the end of a board meeting presided over by the president, the Rev H. R. Gold of New Rochelle, N. Y. |ALIMONY DEFA{JLTER WITHIN LAViVi IN RUNNING FROM IRATE WIFE Judge Denies Her Plea for Writ After She Greets Husband With Pistol Shots. It was the night before that Andrew got in some practice as & runnmer. He appeared at Mrs. Lebchuck’s home to be greeted by pistol thots, which she | fired at him as he ran down the street. Andrew, when police found him, | begged to be taken to a hospital, but went to jail instead when Mrs. Leb- chuck explained she was only firing blanks. Judge Miller agreed with Lebchuck that it wouldn't do any good to put him in jail because he had no alimony money and no immediate prospects of getting any, the statement | 1 REPARATIONS PACT IS SEENBY FRANGE Paris Convinced That Ar- rangement With Great Brit- ain Can Be Devised. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 28.—France is de- termined to pursue negotiations with Great Britain on the reparations prob- lem and is optimistically convinced |some arrangements will be devised eventually, it was learned on the high- est authority today. It was stated Prance wants to live up to the spirit and letter of the com- munique issued at Washington at the time of the Hoover-Laval conferences, and that as far as inter-governmental obligations are - concerned, and prior to the expiration of the Hoover mora- torium, some agreement may be neces- ary to cover the period of business depression France also is desirous, it was added, of treating the entire problem in an accommodating spirit, but with a full bellef that no real solution can be formulated unless the United States comes into the picture effectively and becomes an integral part of the repara- tions cycle. Favors Payments in King. It was suggested that a temporary so- lution of the problem may be found in having France's unconditional rep- arations payments paid more largely in kind. French officials said they believed that to absolve Germany completei from all future reparations would be unfair to both the United States and France, because it would end in & Ger- man world supremacy inimical to both countries. $1,814,072,132 Paid. Since the war Germany has paid France reparations totaling 8,151,030 570 gold marks ($1814,072,132), Fi- nance Minister Pierre-Etienne Flandin informed the Chamber of Deputies Finance Commission in a report pub- lished today. Of this sum, Flandin said, 5.165.- 144,047 gold marks (approximately $1.- 256,000.000) has been spent to repair actual war damages A recent compilation of reparations payments. made in Paris, showed, on the I basis of the figures of the Reparations Cemmission, that Germany had paid i to all nations having a claim on her a total of $4.829,000.000, but that Berlin contended the total payments amounted | to something like $9.119,000,000. These | estimates included both cash payments |and payments in kind | German official sources in the United States about two weeks ago estimated | the Prench had received a total of 20,~ 1 000,000,000 marks (approximately $4,- | 800,000,000) COLD WEATHER FACTORY | DUMPING GOODS ON ssee and E. C. McDonald of this | (Continued From First Page.) of the | Aretic. One of them is the Mackenzie River Basin. The Mackenzie River flows north | into the Arctic east of the Canadian Rockies and east of the high mountain range which runs east and west across Northern Alaska. It forms a natural trough into the Central and Eastern United States. The cold can't easily overflow to the West because of the Rocky Mountains. So it finally turns eastward in the form of a moving high- pressure area and finally disappears over the Atlantic In the past a great superfluity of cold weather has been dumped on the United States over this route. Now it doesn't seem to be carrying so much traffic. Europe and Asia are reporting more cold weather. The inference is that they are being loaded up with some of the surplus which ordinarily would be carried over the MacKenzie River route. Route Not Abandoned. Not that this route has been entirely abandoned, Dr. Humphreys emphasizes. Cold weather still is coming down in | generous quantities. If all the air routes over North America from the Arctic were blocked, Dr. Humphreys says, it wouldn't be long before the countryside was reduced to a desolate desert. Such probably would be the case if the Rocky Mountains happened turned east and west, like the instead of running north and | says Dr. Humphre is far from | obvious. In weather, generally speaking, that which it tends to persist. The longer a drought continues the less the likelihood that it will rain. When “highs” begin moving along a certain changel they tend to keep it up, like | persons following a worn path, until something happens to induce them to change their route. The longer “highs” continue over a given route the greater the change needed to induce them to follow another path. Nobody knows | enough about conditions in the Arctic to say why the change has taken place | or_how long it is likely to continue. Big cold westher shipments are sti'l coming down and there is a more im- mediate reason why they are not driv- ing the thermometer down more fre- quently. This, it is explained. is what might be called a “blocked high" along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, | the influence of which extends beyond | the Alleghenies. The existence of such |a “high” is well known but ordinarily it tends to drift eastward and become |lost over the Atlantic. This Winter, | especially, it has tended to persist. | Change is Explained. Qrdinarily, it is explained, a weather change would take place somewhat after this fashion A moving high would sweep down out of the Arctic over the Mackenzie River area and enter the United States east of the Rockies, while a current or warm air moved in the opposite direction. It would sweep down over the Middle West to the Gulf where it would be turned northeastward, driving the low pressure area coming northward from the Tropics, where all the warm weather is made, before it. Eventually it would disappear over the Atlantic. But now, west of the Alleghenies, it bumps hea | on into the edges of this “blocked high. | So it simply goes to pieces before it has got a good start away from the Guif and its effect is not felt over the rest of the country. The Gulf States, by the way, have been experiencing espe- cially cold weather. The low pressure area, which ordinarily would be driven North until it was cooled into a high pressure area, remains over the country. This, it is emphasized, is the super- ficlal mechanism. The underlying causes are difficult to isolate. ————— ADMITS FLEEING PRISON Louisville Fugitive Confesses Iden- tity as Michigan Slayer. LOUISVILLE, Ky, January 28 (#).— | John Schultz, alias’ Mitchell, 20, yes- terday admitted he had escaped from the Michigan State Prison, at Jackson, Mich., where he was serving a life term for killing a policeman in Detroit three years ago. Schulz, held on a charge of vagrancy, was identified through finger prints, and agreed to walve extradition. He uldw};% escaped from the prison July 13, 1830, G