Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1934, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and much colder tonight and to- morrow with a cold wave; minimum temperature tonight about 16 degrees. ‘Temveratures—Highest, 49, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 34. at 6 a.m. today, Full report on page A-7. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 9, 10 & 11 No. 33,111 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. [5KILLEDINWRECK AS EXPRESS HITS EXCURSION TRAIN 20 fniured as Open Switch Swerves Flyer Onto Sid- ing in Ontario. HEROISM OF ENGINEER SAVES WORSE DISASTER Orders Speeding Locomotive Cut Loose to Prevent Telescop- ing in Crash. By the Associated Press. HAMILTON, Ontario, December 26. —The splintered wreckage of a Christ- mas excursion train was searched to- day for additional victims as officials of the Canadian National Railways opened an investigation of a collision last night which took at least 15 lives. More than a score of persons were injured, some critically, when the De- troit-to-Toronto express tore into the rear of the stationary excursion train on a siding at Dundas, 7 miles from Hamilton, Five women were among the man- gled victims of the disaster whose bodies have been recovered, but as yet are unidentified. Additional deaths were feared. Open Switch Blamed. Officials of the railway said the cause of the accident apparently was an open switch and promised an in- tensive inquiry. Laden with holiday travelers, the excursion train was bound from Lon- don, Ontario, to Toronto. Most of the victims, all of whom apparently were Canadians, were residents of those two cities. Two Wooden cars at the rear of the excursion train, which had been | switched onto a siding because of a | “hot box,” were crushed and many | passengers, screaming in agony, were pinned for hours beneath the wreck- | age. I The alertness and quick thinking of | Engineer B. Burrell of the speeding | train from Detroit, No. 16, was cred- ited with having averted an even greater ‘tragedy. Seceing no hope of preventing the collision, Burrell or- dered his locomotive cut loose from | the coaches behind and prevented | them from telescoping. In contract to the terrific crash when the giant engine struck 1he| wooden coaches, there was only a slight jar when the express cars rolled up to the wreckage. Passenger a Hero, Hailed as a hero was W. C. Rice of Toronto. Although badly injured, Rice, a passenger, removed six pas- sengers from the splintered coaches befere collapsing. Special trains, busses and ambu- | lances were pressed into service to | bring the dead and injured to Hamil- ton. “I can't for the life of me see how eny one could have been in those coaches and lived,” said Douglas Mackie, a_survivor, “It was simply horrible. The screams of the injured were intermixed with the confused shouting of those from the other | coaches.” | A third coach of the excursion train “(Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) ENGINEER FOUND DEAD New Orleans Water Superintend- ent Expires. NEW ORLEANS, December 26 (). —Bryson Vallas, 46, general superin- tendent of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, was found dead in bed this morning at his resi- dence His family said he seemed in good | health until Christmas day when he complained of a digestive disorder. Physicians assigned angina pectoris as the cause of death. Mr. Vallas had served as president of the American Society of Municipal | Engineers and president of the American Roadbuilding Contractors. FLOOD VICTIMS RESCUED Portuguese University City Inun- dated After 7 Hours of Rain. COIMBRA, Portugal, December 26 (P —Firemen and volunteers used sailboats and rowboats on the flooded streets of this ancient university town today to rescue hundreds of persgps irom their homes, imperiled by a flood of the River Mondego. After seven hours of heavy rain, the water rose to a height of 9 feet in the Jower districts of the town. H ch WASHINGTON, D. C, Ellsworth and Balchen Land After Flight Over Antarctic rd Hop azardous to Survey Continent Ends Successfully at Bay of Whales. Party Will Meet Byrd. By the Associated Press. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, De- cember 26.—Lincoln Ellsworth, Antarc- tic explorer, and his pilot, Bernt Balchen, were reported today to have made a successful airplane flight across the Antarctic from Deception Island to the Bay of Whales yesterday. The report did not say whether Sir Hubert Wilkins, Ellsworth’s partner on the expedition, was in the plane. It did, however, say that the members of the expedition intended to have a great time in their encounter with the ex- pedition headed by Admiral Richard E. Byrd at Little America. Ships Will Meet. The steamers Bear of Oakland and Jacob Ruppert of the Byrd expedi- tion and the S. S. Wyatt Earp of the Ellsworth-Wilkins group will meet at the Bay of Whales in the next few ‘weeks. Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his Antarctic expedition are now en- camped at Little America, Antarctica, which is on the icy “shore” of the Bay of Whales. The Ellsworth-Balchen flight appar- ently was about 2,400 miles. In an article published last July Ellsworth said the object of the flight would be to ascertain whether the Ross and Weddell Seas were con- nected, whether the Antarctic “Con- tinent’ is in reality two continents. His “Last” Flight. Ellsworth did not plan to return to Deception Island at the conclusion of the flight. The explorers were to camp on the edge of the Bay of Whales until the Wyatt Earp breaks its way through the ice and com- pletes a 2,800-mile journey around the edge of Antarctica to pick them up. Before he embarked on his present expedition Ellsworth described the venture as the last he expected to (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) TRELIEF WORKERS KILLED IN CRASH |Maps Work Program as Five Women Among Victims as Auto Runs Into Path of Train. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 26.—Seven persons, all believed to have been workers in the Illinois Emergency Re- killed today when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by the International Limited of the Grand Trunk Line at a crossing near suburban Harvey. The automobile was driven by John Burk of Chicago, an employe of the |“ihe left.” They strove to forestall From a list of missing | any rising which might spell a major | employes of the station the other vic- [UPset in the administration’s pro- | | tims were believed to have been Mrs. relief station. Ruth Greenberg, Mrs. Hope Hines, | zqded together. would spell $30,000.- Mrs. Harvey Friedmann, Mrs. Marion | 000.00 more spending D Riggs. Miss Mary McCann and Wen- dell Tarkoff, all of Chicago. The bodies of four women and two men were taken to a Harvey under- taking establishment. extricate another body lodged under the locomotive. Dr. William Burk, a physician, said his brother, John, had left for work|a final series of talks with aides on at 7 a.m. It was his brother’s custom, he said, to pick up several men en route to work and he believed some | eral conference on the congressional of these might be among the victims. The train was held at the scene by | talks with cabinet members, the di- The train was an hour |rector of the budget, the leaders of the coroner. late at the time of the crash. At the company offices in Chicago officials said the engineer was named Henery of Battle Creek, Mich., and the con- ductor was named Mirfield, Port Huron, Mich. MERCURY TO DROP T0 16 HERE TONIGHT Capital to Get First Cold Spell of Official Winter—Christ- mas High 49. The Capital’s first cold wave of offi- cial Winter today is sweeping in from the Northwest. The mercury is ex- pected to drop to 16 overnight. ‘Tomorrow will be fair and colder, the Weather Bureau predicted. Frigid weather is forecast for the South Atlantic States. Freezing tems peratures and light snows are sched- uled tonight for the mountainous sec- | tions of Maryland and West Virginia. The high and low temperatures here yesterday were 49 and 34. o STORM BREAKS HEAT Buenos Aires Swelters in Temper- ature of 85 Christmas. BUENOS AIRES, December 26 (). —Torrential rainstorms accompanied by hail broke Argentina’s recent heat wave last night. The resulting dam- age was widespread. The hot spell was climaxed by a Christmas day temperature of 95 de- grees, Fahrenheit. The sudden storms ruined many Buenos Aires province crops. Coast Guard Refused Help To Disabled Ship, Captain Says By the Assoclated Press. HALIFAX, December 26.—Capt. Freeman Anderson, who held his motor vessel Mary E. Kenney off Barnegat Light, near the New Jersey shore, for nearly two weeks under the surveillance of a United States Coast Guard cutter, complained bit- terly today concerning that sur- Veillance. His ship awaited repairs in port to- day after being towed in by commer- cial vessels. Anderson said he sailed from Hali- fax November 2 for St. Pierre with six men aboard. Leaving the French island, his ship discharged a cargo at sea, he said, then headed for Ber- muda, but the engine broke down off Barnegat Light December 3. The Coast Guard cutters Champlain and Icarus stood by for five days. “They violated every tradition of the sea when they refused to take us in tow,” the skipper declared. “They did offer to take us off and scuttle our ship, but there wasn't a man aboard who would agree to that. ‘They all stood by me.” Storm after storm struck the Mary | E. Kenney. The skipper said his men had to chop up their ice chests, water » ® tank covers, bunkheads and a dory for fuel and that the Coast Guards- men were able to watch them. Captain Explains. NEW YORK, December 26 (#).— Capt. William H. Shea, commander of the Coast Guard here, today described as “a lot of crocodile tears about noth- ing” charges of the master of the motor vessel Mary E. Kenney that the Coast Guard permitted his ship to drift and ‘“refused to take us in tow.” Capt. Freeman Anderson, master of the Mary E. Kenney, said in Halifax that his men suffered a full week from shortage of food, water and fuel. “We didn’t violate any traditions of the sea, because we offered to take the men aboard,” Capt. Shea said, “but we would not assist a vessel into | port which we had every reason to believe was hovering off our coast for | the purpose of landing goods without entering them through customs. “We have very strong reasons for believing that she was a rum runner and that she was towed back to port by another rum runner of the same operating group. We offered to re- lieve the men for humanitarian rea- sons,” ’ | Harvey police |to the floor. safd attempts were being made to|a majority—218—be required. | | mendous import are to be made pub- | lic, worked today on a program which, lief Station in Chicago Heights, were | | luncheon guest. | White House might be trying to steal | the Senate show. | but wouid do so as soon as possible. ROOSEVELT PLANS SWING FROM DOLE Aides Keep Eye on “Leftists.” By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt, approaching the moment when decisions of tre- among other things, is expected to mark a definit: swing from the “dole™ to work relief. While the President labored on the inessage he will deliver—perhaps in person—to Congress on January 3, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill cocked 2 wary eye to what, for want of a better tecm, is generally called Knowing that suggestions which, air, some legisiators are talking again of scrapping the famous “145 rule” under which that number of signa- tures on a petition csn force a bill ‘The proposal is that Confers With Aides. Mr. Roosevelt meanwhile scheduled the legislative program. He said there would be no one gen- program, but rather a number of the Senate and House and others. The President’s first business caller today was Dr. Rexford Tugwell, the | Undersecretary of Agriculture. At- | torney General Cummings was a Dr. Tugwell, who still occupies the | intimate position as one of the Presi- | dent’s closest advisers, came during| the early forenoon. Senator Nye's| visit was his first appearance at the! White House since the President created his special committee to “take the profit out of war,” at the head of which he placed Bernard Baruch of New York, economist and financier. Senator Nye has been engaged in the investigation by the Senate Committee of munition makers’ activities and profits, and at the time President Roosevelt’s committee and its pur- poses was announced, was accredited with a remark to the effect that the Report Still Unread. In response to inquiries at his press conference today, Mr. Roosevelt said he had been unable, over the week end, to read the report of the White Sulphur Springs business conference Mr. Roosevelt also said he was seriously considering charging local communities a share in the cost of a flood control and navigation im- provement. Likewise, he said he was seeking to establish the principle that boats using water highways should pay a small share toward the cost of de- veloping and maintaining these routes. He feels that if Federal, State or local governments make private prop- erty tree of floods there might be a just right in asking that the owners pay a share of the cost. Mr. Roosevelt emphasized that the proposition was still in the study stage. He pointed out that, in the case of city property owners, they shared part of the cost of street im- ! provements. Inflationists to Meet. Those leaders who want to leave money alone for the present are weighing the chances of inflation- ists agreeing cn an expansion pro- gram at a round-table meeting called for January 16. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, other Ilegislators, Father Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit, rep- resentatives of the Sound Money League, the cummittee for the Na- tion and of farm groups are listed among those to attend. The aim, Thomas said, is in accord on a “ra- tional” inflation plan. Should they all agree, most ob- servers feel, their opponents will have (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) ROBBERS GET $18,000 Hold Up Mill Pay Roll Carriers on Highway. LANCASTER, S. C., December 26 (®) .- Four highwaymen robbed three guards of an $18,000 Springs Mill pay roll 4 miles from here today, after shooting the tires of the guards’ automobile, The pay roll was being taken from Lancaster to Chester, where there are other units of the textile mills. ‘Word to the mill's offices here was that the four bandits came alongside the guards’ machine, shot the tires flat, seized the money at pistol point and fled ¢ Foeni n WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1934—THIRTY PAGES. NUMBERS RACKET CURB PROPOSED IN D. C. LEGISLATION Commissioners’ Program Would Convict on Posses- sion of Evidence. AUTO LIABILITY AND LOAN LAWS ADVOCATED Ten-Point Plan Also Includes Limit on Appeal From Rulings by Utilities Body. A 10-point program of legislation for the District, to be submitted to- morrow to Chairman King of the Senate District Committee and later to Chairman Norton of the House District Committee, was adopted today by the Commissioners. Among important measures pro- posed by the city heads are a general automobile liability bill, the same as that considered last session, and a bill to place more effective weapons in the hands of police in their cam- paign against gambling operations. The latter bill would definitely in- clude’ the numbers racket in the scope of District law enforcement, and would make possession of gam- bling paraphernalia prima facie evi- dence of the intention to violate laws against gambling. The automobile liability measure would require that the owner of a motor vehicle show financial responsi- bility in any case in which he had been convicted of driving while drunk, leav- ing the scene of accident or failing to pay damages awarded in a case in which he was involved. In such cases the permit and automobile registra- tion cards would be taken from the motorist until the owner paid dam- ages assessed and showed financial re- sponsibility for the future by obtain- ing an insurance policy, posting bond, or making & cash deposit. Other Legislation. Other legislation proposed by the Commissioners includes: A bill to regulate the foreclosure of mortgages, the same as that proposed last year, requiring the giving of notice to the owner of the property and the passing of an order by a District court prior to any foreclosure sale. A bill to regulate the small-loan business and to bring within the scope of control the procurer of a loan as well as the lender, and placing limits on the total of all charges which may be assessed. A bill to create a lunacy commis- sion, consisting of two psychiatrists and one lawyer, to serve on a part- time basis, to pass upon lunacy cases now handled by juries of laymen. This bill would give any affected party the right to demand a jury trial. The bill proposed by the Public Utilities Commission to place a definite limit on the scope of appeals to court from decisions of the Utilities Commission. This is intended to limit court appeals to tests of legal ques- tions rather than facts. Would Tighten Inspection. A measure to increase the penalty for soliciting prostitution from $25 to $100, or a jail sentence. A measure to amend the law re- lating to distribution of property of a deceased person, to place woman relatives on the same level as male relatives. This does not apply to the children of a deceased person, al- ready standing on the same basis. A measure to strengthen the pro- cedure relating to condemnation of dangerous buildings. A bill to make more effective the action of the District in forcing the repair or the ordering of the razing of buildings condemned as insanitary. It would eliminate a feature of the present law which requires the Dis- trict to pay damages in many cases. This provision, incidentally, has caused the District to abandon efforts to raze insanitary buildings where the owner fights the action. FILIPINOS DEMAND TAX BE ABOLISHED Quezon Asks Congress to Aid " Continued “Economic Partnership.” By the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, December 26.—A Filipino proposal for continued “eco- nomic and cultural partnership” be- tween the United States and the Philippines was laid before a senatorial mission today in a round-table con- ference at Malacanan Palace. Manuel Quezon, president of the Insular Senate, was understood to have urged Senator Tydings of Mary- land and other members of the mission to recommend that Congress abolish the progressive export tax on sugar, copra and hemp during the last half of the transition period. Proceeds from the tax, to become effective in five years, were intended to be used to pay off the insular bonded indebtedness before the Fili- pinos establish an independent na- tion in about 1945. Filipino leaders were also understood to have suggested the Insular Legis- lature be given tariff autonomy during the period of the commonwealth gov- ernment. Members of the United States sena- torial mission plan to sail Thursday for the States by way of Java and Europe. Amusements Comics .. Features . Finance. . Lost and Radio .. Serial Story. Short Story. Society Sports WHAT WONDERFUL CHRISTM AS GIFTS THOSE SCALPS wouLp /% OUR STORIES CONFLICT ONBRUNO BEATING Doctor Declines Comment on Report He Found Body Bruised. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 26.—Dr. Thurston H. Dexter, Brooklyn phy- sician, today declined to confirm or deny a published report that he had found evidence of a “terrible beating” on the body of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann, awaiting trial on a charge of murdering the Lindbergh baby. The physician said he never issued a statement to any newspaper saying Hauptmann told him he had been “beaten until he was unconscious.” Dr. Dexter said he examined Haupt- mann September 25 while he still was in the custody of New York au- thorities at the request of James M. Fawcett, who since has retired from the case as Hauptmann's counsel. The physician said the examination was confidential. Foley Disavows Knowledge. District Attorney James A. Foley of Bronx County, where Hauptmann was held much of the time before his re- moval to New Jersey, said “no claim was ever made to me by Hauptmann that he had been treated badly.” “On the contrary,” Foley said, “he spoke highly of his treatment. I know | nothing about a police beating.” Edward J. Reilly, chief of defense counsel, charged last week that two Federal agents, whose return from the West he sought, knew Hauptmann was “brutally beaten.” NEW PANEL UNDECIDED. Betty Gow Returns to Take Part in Hauptmann Trial. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., December 26. —The possibility that a new jury panel would be drawn for the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann was in the fore- front today as the time for the trial drew nearer. Lending added interest was the return to America of Betty Gow, nurse of the slain Lindbergh baby, whom Hauptmann is charged with kidnaping and killing, and the radio appeal of Hauptmann's wife for the public to withhold judgment of her husband. Both State and defense prepared to confer later today on whether a request for a new jury panel is war- | Service Commission, which ranted in view of the contents of a pamphlet circulated among the pres- ent Hauptmann trial jury candidates. The pamphlet is said to have con- tained an account of a kidnaping and trial which State prosecutors said was the Lindbergh case, thinly veiled. In this pamphlet, written by a Chi- cago woman lawyer, who said she did it for her own amusement, the de- ferdant is acquitted. Nursemaid in Seclusion, Miss Gow, nursemaid of Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., and believed to be the last person to have seen the child before he was snatched from his crib (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) _— PRISON BOLSTERS GUARD Eight Hurt in Christmas Day Riot Over Smoking Privileges. GLASGOW, December 26 (&)- Stringent precautions to prevent a general disturbance among its 800 prisoners were taken today in Bar- linnie Prison, where unrest among the inmates was manifested in minor incidents last Friday, culminating in rioting on Christmas day. ‘Two keepers and half a dozen pris- oners were injured yesterday. The men’s exercise had been cur- tailed. Some long-term prisoners were described as envious of the occasional smoke permitted inmates awaiting trial, but which is denied men serv- ing sentences. e RED DISCIPLINE URGED Kiroff’s Syccessor Would Check BSoviet Terrorism. LENINGRAD, December 26.(P).— Andre Alexandrovich Zhdanoff, suc- cessor to the murdered Sergei Kiroff as chief of the Bolshevik Leningrad region, in an address today made a plea for more rigid party discipline to prevent terrorism. He told party committees the best monument to Kiroff would be a strict enforcement of party discipline and the elimination of treacherous ele- ments which inspired the assassina- tion of the Soviet leader at Leningrad. HAVE BEEN FOR BOYS! 7 7, 57 e Millionaire Rider Of Subway Trains Succumbs at 94 John E. Andrus Turned to Autos, However, After Being Hurt. By the Associated Press. YONKERS, N. Y., December 26— John E. Andrus, “millionaire strap- hanger,” died at his home today at 8 am. He was in his 94th year and had been ill three days. Andrus, who made a fortune esti- mated at one time at $200,000,000 in | ore, timber, medicine, banking and | real estate, gained the title of the “millionaire straphanger” because he rode the subway daily for many years in going to and from his Manhattan office. | for an automobile, but he continued to | take an occasional subway ride in | order, he explained, “to keep in trim.” The subway, he once said, was safer than any other mode of travel. In the Spring of 1927, however, he suf- fered a leg injury when knocked down in a subway jam. Once before he had received an injury in a subway rush, but resumed his straphanging when he recovered. Andrus planned a trip to Europe by airplane whenever aerial travel be- came as safe as riding the subwa He never made the trip. He wouldn't cross the Atlantic by steamship be- cause, he said, he couldn't afford the time from his work. Andrus served in Congress and as mayor of Yonkers. On the 85th birthday anniversary he announced he would leave 45 per cent of his fortune in the form of a | trust fund for endowment of an in- | stitution for poor children in West- | chester County. PRESIDENT FAVORS CIVIL SERVICE PLAN Would Extend Classification to Emergency Agency® Employes. | BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt is favorably in- clined toward that part of the annual | report of the United States Civil recom- mended extending the civil service | classification t> employes of the vari- Oous emergency &agencies. At least the President is partial to the idea so far as it would apply to those agencies, which at the pres- ent time appcar more or less per- manent. The President expressed himself to this extent a. his press conference today. He said nothing definite had been decided upon, but the matter is being studisd with a view of adopt- i an administration policy. He added that his idea would be to have a civil service classification applied gradually and he doubted if the num- ber of emergency employes who would be benefited would be large. Mr. Roosevelt thinks the employes in agencies that are likely to be permanent or in existence for a long time are entitled to the same rights and privileges as the other employes in the regularly organized agencies of the Government. There is one thing certain, however— that there will be no blanket executive order issued by the President, cover- ing the employes to be benefited in this manner, as has been proposed. His idea is to have the step taken gradually, and as for the matter of examinations, he indicated that he would leave that to the Civil Service Commission to decide. MINDANAO TRIBESMEN ATTACK BASE, 21 SLAIN Fanatic Band Murders Five Vil- lagers Before Beaten Off by Constabulary. By the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, December 26— ‘Twenty-one Filipinos were killed when fanatic mountain tribesmen went on the warpath on the Island of Minda- nao, advices to Philippine constabulary headquarters here today said. Sixteen of the dead were members of the mountain tribe, killed when they attacked s constabulary camp. ‘The others were villagers murdered by the jungle warriors before they trained equipped /it States Army, 3 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,891 s Associated Press. GAMBLERS'ARREST ORDERED BY BOARD {No Operators Will Be Al- lowed in County, Police Told. Summary arrest of all persons who attempt to operate gambling houses | dered by the county commissioner to- day. | ©On Monday, the commissioners in- structed the county police force to close Jimmy's place, on Bladensburg | road, keep it closed, and see that its| In 1927 he abandoned the subway ! operators do not re-open elsewhere | in the county. | There have been no raids since | then, the commissioners explained, ibectuse the gamblers were allowed | “a reasonable time” in which to re- | move their equipment. The “period of grace” is over now, | however, members of the county board | | said, and police have orders to ar- rest at once all persons who violate the gambling laws. Prosecution Uncertain. “Efforts have been made to get us to obtain warrants for Jimmy La | Fontaine for alleged gambling law | violations that have occurred at the | Bladensburg road establishment in | the past. but we do not consider that | part of our duty,” spokesmen for the commissioners said. “We intend to see that there is no more organized gambling in the county. but the prose- cution of violators is up to police and the State’s attorney. | State’s Attorney Alan Bowie, who | has pledged his support to the com- missioners’ anti-gambling campaign, said he would lay whatever evidence is presented to him before the grand jury. That body will not meet again until April, however, unless called into Matttingly. La Fontaine Rumors. Reports that Lg Fontaine may have left the vicinity of Washington because of the anti-gambling campaign were proved groundless. It was learned he had been seen by county officials, who delivered the commissioners’ ultima- tum against further operation of his establishment. La Fontaine’s reaction to the county board’s order is un- known. All was quiet on the county’s gam- bling front yesterday. Whether the inactivity was a mere “Christmas truce” or marked the permanent ces- sation of organized gambling in Prince Georges was a matter of speculaticr Chief of Police J. J. Crowicy said today his men are ready to preveni the opening of any new gambling es- tablishments in defiance of the com- missioners’ order. Lieut. George Little, head of the District police vice squad, said he was trict boundary to Jimmy's place to detect any activity within the great gray brick house, officially carried on Maryland tax records as a hotel. SIAM JAILS GENERAL Former Vice Chairman of Assem- bly Sentenced to Two Years. BANGKOK, Siam, December - 26 (#)—Gen. Phya Devahastin, recently was vice chairman of the legislative assembly, was sentenced to- day to two years’ imprisonment for “acts intended to raise disaffection among the people.” Attorneys for the general announced he would appeal. in Prince Georges County was or-| special session by Judge Joseph C.| still keeping a patrol around the Dis- | who | commanded Siamese troops in France | during the World War, and who until | . TWO CENTS. HUGE POWER POOL (INDER CONTROL OF 1. 3. 1S PROPOSED Mississippi Valley Commit- tee Urges Unification of All Lines. PRIVATE OWNERSHIP PERMITTED BY PLAN Report Visions Cheaper Rates and Greater Stability—Cites Flood and Navigation Phases. By the Associated Press. A far-reaching proposal for Federal control of the transmission of the entire electricity supply of America was urged upon President Roosevelt today in a report by his Mississippi Valley Committee. ‘The group of scientists and tech- nicians that the President directed to study - ways of developing resources in the great valley urged unification of all electric lines as a means of creating a giant pool of cheap power and of promoting stability. It also suggested a billion-dollar, 20-fiu program of public works in the valley and recommended that all dams be built to aid navigation or flood control be used to generate power as well. Even the remotest hydro-electric developments would be tied into the common Nation-wide system under the plan. Ownership Not a Factor. Headed by Morris L. Cooke, Phila- delphia consulting engineer, the com- mittee emphasized the plan “does not involve the question of public or | private ownership of either generation or distribution.” “Government control of transmi- sion, however,” it said, “is funda- mental. This goal does not involve necessarily any great increase in the number of publicly owned lines, espe- cially if the private companies co- operate in effecting unification.” | Meanwhile there were other de- | velopments in the utilities field. An effort to find means of stimulat- | ing purchases of electrical appliances through regular private utility chan- nels is being made by President Roose- velt. He said today at his regular press conference that the Government is seeking to be helpful to private util- ities in setting up a program—similar to that of the Electric Home and Farm Authority in the Tennessee | Valley—to aid in financing purchases of electrical appliances. His theory is that by encouraging the utilities to produce appliances for | the home and farms on a large scale, | the price can be considerably reduced. Co-operation Hinted. ‘The presidential attitude was in- terpreted as a distant willingness by the administration to co-operate with private utilities in efforts to obtain cheaper power. Some of the utility heads have pledged co-operation to Mr. Roose- velt. The Edison Electric Institute | has started court action against the | administration power program, seek- ing to test the constitutionality of the Tennessee Valley Authority act. The vast, long-range program ad- vanced by the Mississippi committes included a proposal to spend $100,- | 000,000 for rural electrification. The report also suggested that perhaps 50 per cent of the 20-year, billion-dollar construction program would be for power installations. The remainder would include flood control, navigation aids and other efforts to develop water resources. No list of specific projects was advanced. “Life in the Mississippi Valley of the future need not be poverty stricken or precarious,” said the com- mittee in presenting the report to Sec- retary Ickes, who transmitted it to the President. It said dam-building for flood con- trol alone “may not be economically feasible, but, when given multiple pur- poses such as power, recreation and (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) — e NOT GUILTY IS PLEA TO CHARGE OF GAMING Jury Trial Demanded When Al- leged Numbers Operator Is Arraigned in Court. Carl S. Cummings, 41, pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial to- day when arraigned before Police Court Judge Ralph Given on a charge of permitting gaming. He was re- leased on $500 bond. Cummings was charged in a state- ment of facts signed by members of the police vice squad as having taken | bets on numbers and race horses. He was arrested Tuesday at 1245 D street northeast, where he conducts a restau- rant. His home adress was given as 425 Twelfth street northeast. Americans, Dying of Thirst In Tropical Sea, Are Rescued By the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, December 26.— Adrift on a tropical sea for five days without water, four New Yorkers were reported today to have safely reached Tawao, Borneo. The quartet is composed of Law- rence T. K. Griswold, William H. Harkness, Legrand Griswold and B. E. C. Tate. . They were making an ethnological and photographic tour of the South- ern Philippines when their small chartered motor boat became disabled in Celebes Sea. Details of their rescue were not contained in the telegraphic report from Tawao. Lawrence Griswold and Harkness early this year took four Komodo dragons, rare giant lizards, from the Dutch East Indies to New York. { ‘The quartet, with Potter D'Orsay Palmer of Chicago, who now is in Manila, arrived here November 1, planning to proceed to Szecheun Province, China, in a few months in quest of the rare giant panda, a rac- coonlike carnivore of the Himalayas. The only direct word received from Tawao was a telegram stating: “The Griswold-Harkness expedition, after being adrift five days without water in the Celebes Sea, eventually effected repairs to one cylinder and managed to reach Tawao, Borneo.” ‘The Griswold-Harkness expedition planned to obtain its specimens from the Gobi Desert and the Sulu Archi- pelago for the New York Zoological Garden and the Smithsonian Institu- tion at Washington. <} N