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Evening star., 1929-12-03
SARNIAD0C'S CREW
RESCUED IN GALE
Valley Camp Takes 90 Aboard, Re-
porting Grain Carrier Smashed
by Heavy Sea.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
KINGSTON, Ontario, December g.
Snatched from the teeth of an angry
gale that was pounding their grounded
ship to pieces, the 20 members of the
crew Of the grain carrier Sarniadoc
were safely aboard the steamer Valley
Camp today en- route to Prescott, On
tario.
A wireless from the Valley Camp
which told of the rescue said the Sar-
niadoc was being badly smashed by the
heavy sea.
The ship ran aground on the reefs of
Main Duck Island, in Lake Ontario, on
Sunday. She was loaded with 2,1OO
tons of grain.
Rescue of her crew was handicapped
by the raging sea and binding snow
storm. The Valley Camp of Cleveland
had remained near the stranded vessel
for hours awaiting an opportunity to
take off the crew. Two Coast Guard
boats, one from OSwego and another
from Charlotte, went yesterday to as
SiSt In the rescue work.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
|ELK HILLS LEASE
TESTIMONY STARTS
Government Sues to Cancel
Contract Granted Doheny
by Albert B. Fall.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December 3.-Testi-
mony in the Governments suit to can
eel valuable Elks Hills, Calf, oil leases
granted Edward l.. Doheny and the
Pan-American Petroleum Co. by former
Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall
will begin today before Federal Judge
Frank H. NorcrosS of Nevada, who is
hearing the case without jury.
Transfer of the leases, involving $50
acres of naval oil reserve No. /. worth
$15,000,000. was made to the Doheny
interests in 1921 during the admins
tration of the late President Warren G.
Harding.
Conspiracy Is Charged.
Former United States Senator Atlee
Pomerene of Ohio, in outlining the Gov
ernment's suit yesterday, said a fraudu-
lent executive order was used to transfer
the Kern County oil reserve from the
Navy to the Interior Department. The
complaint charges that after the oil
lands were placed in control of the In
terror Department Fall and Doheny
entered into conspiracy to lease GER
tain portions of the reserve.
Norman S. Sterry, chief defense coun-
sci, in his opening statement said all
fed the oil leases and denied that any
fraud or conspiracy had entered into
the transfer. The Governments con-
tention that the transfer was made
about the time that Doheny is supposed
to have given 100000 to Fall was said
by Sterry to have nothing to do with
the present case.
Says That Is All Past.
THAT is all past and closed, according
to records" Sterry said. THE vast
amount of oil lands involved in that
proceeding is now adjudicated in favor
of the Government. The present minor
case has nothing to do with the So
called 100000 black bag CASE"
Pomerene said the Doheny-Fall con-
nection would be shown to have had
material bearing on the issuance of the
leases in question.
Doheny is expected to be called as O
witness.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
WOMEN TO SERVE SUPPER.
Proceeds will Be Used to Reduce
Debt of Parish.

Women of Mount Rainier and Wood
ridge will serve a supper tomorrow
night in the auditorium of st. James
Catholic Church, Thirty-Seventh street
and Rhode Island avenue northeast, to
reduce the Indebtedness of the parish
The supper will be served from 4:3O
to $50. Mrs. Octavia Yeomans is
chairman of the supper committee and
she is being assisted by the following
Miss Bernadine, Mrs. Frances Schatz
Mrs. E. M. Edwards. Mrs. Grace e.
Killers, Mrs. Charles E. Monninger
Mrs. Lillian M. Greene, Miss Gertrude
Wedemeier, Mrs. w. II. Beagle, Mrs
Helen Mowatt, Mrs. Lillian Berry, Mrs,
j. L. Padgett, Mrs. Frances Mutzler
Mrs. Daniel Campbell, Mrs. Mary M
Gehardt, Mrs Ellen M. Robicheau, Mrs.
]: Messenger, Mrs. C. c. Longcor, Mrs.
Mary Bailey, Mrs. A. H. Bernabo Mrs.
Rose Graves. Mrs. Blanche Magill,
Mrs. John Klein, Mrs Elizabeth Hast
ings, Mrs. Patrick Casey, Mrs. Augustus
Plummer, Mrs. Clara Speake, Mrs.
Barnard and Messrs. A. C. Whelan,
Joseph Greene and A. Shields.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
Man Becomes Own
Stepfather When
He Marries Again
Marital Mix-up Gives En-.
tire Family New Kind
of Relationships.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, Ind, December 3.-Along
comes Omer Slant with a mix-up that
Is mix-up.
Slant says that through his marriage
yesterday to Mrs. Joseph Lamberson, he
has become his own stepfather and
step-grandfather to his own children.
Stants first wife was a stepdaugh-
ter of the present Mrs. Slant. Prior
to her marriage yesterday, the former
Mrs. Lamberson was married Children
were born of her first marriage and
also OF her second.
Slant figures that children born OF
his own first marriage are now also his
step grandchildren, inasmuch as the
present Mrs. Slant was their step
grandmother. Being step-grandfather
to his own children, he further rea-
sons, makes him Stepfather to him
self.
Then there Is the matter of Stant's
own children becoming ktepbrothers and
sisters to their GeusinAx
Evening star., 1929-12-03
MCDONALD REVEALS
PLANS FOR PARLEY
Premier to Head British Group at
Conference Due to Open
January 81.
Ry the Associated Press.

by LH6 ASSOClhGeu freSS.
LONDON, December 3.-Prime Min
lister Macdonald yesterday announced
the plans and scope of the five-poweH
naval conference which viii open on
January 81 in the royal gallery of the
House Of Lords and then win hold its
subsequent sessions at st. James Pal.
ace on the invitation of King George.
The four chief British delegates will
be Mr.. Macdonald, Arthur Henderson
the foreign secretary; A. ". Alexander
first lord of the admiralty, and Wedg-
wood Benn, secretary of state for India
All of the units of the empire have
been invited to send delegates, but the
names of these have not yet been made
public.
The high commisSionaire stationed in
London probably viii represent some OF
the dominions.
Questioned regarding the conference
program, the premier replied:
There will be only one subject on
the agenda-namely, hcw best the five
powers represented at the conference
can agree upon reduction and limita-
ton of war vessels on the basis OF mu.
tllally accepted strengths.
1.-THE question of the procedure to bt
adopted at the conference is a matter
for discussion with the governments Of
the countries concerned and for dect'
sion by the conference ITSELF"
Evening star., 1929-12-03
LEARY HEADS MOTOR
TRADE ASSOCIATION
Succeeds E. M. Wallace in Election
at City Club-Show Draw
ings Exhibited.

Whitney Leary, well known in local
automobile circles. and connected with
the firm Of H. B. Leary, jr., & Bros.
was unanimously elected president of
the Washington Automotive Trade AS
sociation at the annual meeting last
night at the City Club. Mr.. Leary
succeeds Edward M. Wallace.
other officers chosen for the ensuing
year include Fred Haller, first vice
president; Richard Murphy, second vice
president; L. s. Julien, treasurer, and
Louis c. Carl, secretary. Mr.. Wallace
and Rudolph Jose were elected to the
board of directors. which also COM
prises Paul Lum. Chester H. Warning
ton, oscar Coolican and Stanley II.
Horner.
Drawings for show room space at the
1880 Automobile Show were exhibited
under the direction of Mr.. Jose. Mr..
Warrington reported on arrangements
for the annual banquet December I2
at the May1ower Hotel.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
SINCLAIR SEEKING
/. OIL INSTITUTE POST
Edward |. Doheny Resigns
Directorate Because of In
activity in Business.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 3.-Edward L.
Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair, both in-
volved In Government oil lease invest;-
cations, held interest with Sir Henni
Deterding, Belgium oil magnate. at to-
days session of the American Petroleum
Institute.
Doheny, it was disclosed, had resigned
from the directorate Of the institute, Of
which he was one of the founders in
1919. He explained he was no longer
active in the oil industry. H. M. Storey
another California oil man, also re-
signed as a director.
Sinclair, recently released from Dis
trlct OF Columbia jail after serving a
term for contempt of court, announced
he was candidate for reelection as
director in todays balloting.
he mad little to say regarding any
expansion program his company might
undertake in line with President Hoo
ver's industrial program. 1T is only a
snort time since 1 got out of JAIL" he
said, and I'm not entirely familiar
with things"
Sir Henri head of the Royal Dutch
smell interests, whose companies are in
competition with those belonging 10
the institute, was invited by the insti-
tute as its guest speaker for the first
general session today.
E. B. Reeser of Tulsa, Okla, president
OF the institute, following yesterdays
BOARD OF directors meeting, announced
the following appointments to the boald
to NIL the unexpired terms caused by
the Doheny and Storey designations
and the death of David Ewing: w. M.
Keck of Los Angeles, president of the
superior Oil Co.; Oscar Sutro of San
FRANCISCO, general manager Of the
standard Oil of California, and Clar-
ence M, Fuller OF Los Angeles, presi-
dent of the Richtield Oil Co,
Evening star., 1929-12-03
Mrs. Rogers Defers
Decision on Race
For Seat in Senate
By the Associated Press.

Reports that Representative
Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican,
Massachusetts,, would enter the
Massachusetts, senatorial race
next year for the seat from which
Senator Gillett, Republican,
plans to retire, today prompted
a statement that she was too
busy in my present work to give
1t consideration at this time"
Many persons have requested
me to become a candidate for
Senator to succeed Senator Gill
lett" Mrs. Rogers said. "It is
very kind of them. At present,
however, I am very busy with
work affecting my district and
have been unable to give the mat
ter consideration"
Although Mrs. Rogers did not
say definitely that she would
decline to run, she said she felt
the Importance of the work in
the House would not permit a
decision at this time.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
POLICEMEN BALLOTING
ON ASSOCIATION HEADS
Only Three Candidates Without
Opposition in Departments
Annual Election.

Headquarters detectives and police
men in all the precincts are balloting
today to select efficers for the ensuing
year OF the Policemen'S Association.
The following candidates are running
for Office in the general election:
For president, Detective Frank A.
Varney of the Central Bureau and Capt.
F. S. w. Burke of the. first precinct;
for first vice president, j. L. Dillman
of the fourteenth precinct, and Sergt.
". H. McGrath of police headquarters; !;
for second vice president. j. o. Patton
of the thirteenth precinct and E. S.
Waller of the second precinct and for
financial secretary, j. p. Hendricks of
the second precinct and G. H. Chris
man of the seventh precinct. w J.
Kerns of the first precinct, w. G. Ad-
cock of the twelfth precinct and w. J..
Wagner of the tenth precinct are NOM
mees for the offices of recording secre-
tary-treasurer and trustee, respectively,
to which there is no opposition.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
Admits He Helped Rob Bank.

CONWAY, Ark, December 3 (P>-J.
S. Shock yesterday admitted his iden-
tity as one of a trio of bandits who held
up and robbed the State Bank Of Inola,
Okla, of $3.50 on November and,
after waving extradition, was removed
to Claremore, Okla, to await trial.
Shock was identified from among four
prisoners by Mr.. and Mrs. ]. King, own
ers and oficers of the Inola bank. He
told that with two confederates he rob-
bed the bank, dividing the loot after
driving King and his wife 16 miles from
Inola before releasing them.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
MAN is FOUND DEAD.

Edward Luckett, so years old, roomer
at 313 D street, was found dead in bed
in his room yesterday afternoon. Fail
ure Of the roomer to appear about the
house resulted in visit to his room
and the finding of his body.
Mr.. Luckett, a native of this city. was
unmarried. Numerous relatives resid-
ing in Southeast Washington were
notified and one of them identified his
body at the morgue this morning.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
PATENT IS SOUGHT FOR PROCESS
FOR BURNING COAL Ur0DERGROU
Inventor Says Either Petroleum or Carbon Dioxide
May Be Produced by System.

burned at the mouth of the mine and
transformed into electricity.
While he did not reveal the workings
of his process specifically. Ranney said
the first production work would start
either in Illinois or Pennsylvania.
Ranney Is the inventor Of system
whereby oil fields abandoned as COM
pletely drained can be made TO yield
further through the drying Of subterra.
mean sands. These patents are owned
by the Standard Oil Co. Of New Jersey.
His latest process is said to terminate
many years of experimentation in the
oil industry in attempts to control gas
generated by busning coal underground.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
HOWELL COMPLETES
WORK ON DRY BILL
Measure to Give District Enforce
ment Law Will Be Intro
duced Soon.

Senator Howell, Republican, Of Ne
braska, who has been studying prohibi-
ton enforcement conditions in Wash
ington for several months, announced
today that he has completed drafting
of his proposed bill to give washington
a local dry enforcement law, similar to
the laws most of the States have en-
acted to supplement the national pro-
hibition act.
the details of the bill checked over
and expected to introduce it at an
early date. It is understood to be the
aim of the Nebraska Senator to give
local police full authority to enforre
prohibition law
Evening star., 1929-12-03

and hands-off policy. which she has
followed since the outbreak Of the
Chinese Russian controversy July z.
The declarations from Washington,
London and Paris did not greatly sur
prise official Toxic, since the text OF
the American note had been submitted
to Baron Kijuro Shidehara, japanese
foreign minister, in advance. The Of
fetal spokesman today made 1t clear
that Japan does not intend to be as
sociated with the notes.
Japan, however, stated. through the
spokesman, her thorough sympathy with
the principles and purposes of the
declarations, but believed that, in view
of the realities of the situation, Sucn
action no longer was necessary and per-
haps actually untimely, tending to
hamper rather than assist the present
progress toward peaceable conclusion OF
the controversy.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
By the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
WATERLOO, Iowa, December s.
Patents to cover process Tor burning
coal underground and piping the result
ant gas to the surface have been appneo
for by Leo Ranney, well known III coal
and oil refining circles. ..,,,
SRanney explained that by cohIrolling
the burning COAL either petroleum OF
carbon dioxide may be produced. from
the former, he said, can be refined gaso-
line: while from the latter, dry ice can
be manufactured-both at low cost.
1t was further explained that the gas
can be piped to the consuming area or
Evening star., 1929-12-03
ITALY JOINS PEACE STEP.
ENJOYS Are Ordered to Request Russia
and China to Follow Pact.

ROME, December Pl-Foreign
Minister Grandi has directed the Italian
Ambassador at Moscow and the Minis
ter at Nanking to transmit note stat
ing that Italy, associating herself with
the move proposed by the United States,
"calls the attention Of the governments
of China and the Soviet Union to the
dispositions" of the Kellogg pact in
connection with the Manchurian situa-
ton.
In the course of the note, Signor
Grandi said: Formal assurances that
the aforementioned two governments
have given either by adhering to the
treaty fcS the remuneration Of war or
successfully. by accepting it, give the
Italian government the hope that they
wish to desist from measures Of hos.
tility and will know how to. accord
their means so as TO arrive at peace
full solution of their present contro-
versy."
Evening star., 1929-12-03
DEAD" SOLDIER RETURNS
Parents Had Believed Missing Son
Was Slain in War.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, De-
cember (R.-Patrick Toohill walked
into his home today at Dunedin after
absence OF IS years. His parents had
believed him killed in the Great War.
Toohill, at the middle of the war.
was debarred from enlistment because
of his youth, but succeeded finally in
1916 in getting in with a Canterbury
unit under an assumed name.
He was wounded, gassed, and shell
shocked, and after discharge, subpect TO
frequent losses of memory, he wandered
around the world aimlessly, but only
after many years succeeded in getting
back to fhis little Southern archipelago.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
NATIONALISTS MUTINY.

NANKING, December (P).-A de-
tachment of Nationalist troops belong
ing to the oath Division mutinied today
at Pukow, across the Yangtze River
from Marking. All communication with
Pukow was severed.
It is understood, however. that the
mutineers looted a considerable portion
of the business district of Pukow be-
fore loyal forces succeeded in driving
them from the city.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
CANTONESE CLASH
WITH NAT|ONAL|STS
Battle for Possession of Can
ton Rages as Shipping
HaIts on Sikiang.

LONDON, December 3.-An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Hongkong to-
day said fighting for possession of Can
ton was underway with the first patches
of wounded just arriving in. the city.
Cantonese were said to be rushing re-
Inducements to the front, depending
chiefly upon aeroplanes.
The revolving "Ironsides" were said
to be engaging the Cantonese on the
Peikiang, while Kwangsiites were fight
ing the Cantonese on the Sikiang. Ship
ping on the Sikiang has been held up.
NATKONALISTS MUTINY.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
JAPAN EXPLAINS STAND.
Spokesman Fears Progress toward
paaaa xuiII Rn Hammered

Peace Will Be Hampered.
TOXIC, December E9.--Despite
American, British and French notes
warning China and Russia of their
obligations under the Kellogg anti-war
pact, JaE-aN viii maintain r aloofness
Evening star., 1929-12-03
SECOND COLD WAVE
DUE TO SWEEP INTO
CAPITAL TONIGHT

Continued From First Page !
Evening star., 1929-12-03
EMPLO DYES OF FORD
PLANT ARE GRANTED
INCREASE IN WAGES

CONTINUED From First page.I
Evening star., 1929-12-03

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-15
BID OF $6,782,0O0
MADE FOR BIG LINER
Shipping Board Receives Offer for
Leviathan Among Proposals
Opened Today.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A bid of $6,782,000 for the liner
Leviathan appeared when the Shipping
Board today opened the offers which
had been made for purchase of the
United States Lines and the American
Merchant Line.
Six bids were received for the Mer-
chant Line, consisting of five ships, and
one was received for the United States
Lines, consisting of six. There we're two
offers for the two lines combined.
The P. w. Chapman Co. of New
York submitted a bid of S16,O82 900
for the two lines combined. Their
offer for the individual ships of
these lines was: Leviathan. $6,782,-
600; the Republic, $1,000,O0O the
George Washington, $2,0O0.0O0; the
America. $4,000, 900; the President Hard
ing. 81 ,000, 900; the President Roosevelt,
$1,000, 900, and $460,000 for each of the
five ships of the Merchant line. Ameri-
can Trader, American Banker American
Merchant, American Farmer and Amer
lean Shipper. The bid contained a
clause agreeing to operate the lines for
a period of 10 years.
Gibbs Bros. Inc, and j. H. Win
chester, Inc, both of New York, COM
bined to offer $10,000,000 for the two
lines, except the President Harding and
President Roosevelt, in place of which
they offered SIS, 900 each for the ships
Monticello and Mount Vernon, which
they agreed to recondition at cost of
$25O,0OO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-15
DUTY ON SHINGLES
IS ASKED IN BRIEF
Second Set of Witnesses on
Metals Is Called by
House Committee.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Calling its second group of witnesses
on the metals schedule, the House WAYS
and means committee today received
further requests for changes in tariffs
on steel products. The committee had
100 representatives of the industry to
hear in two days. because it fell behind
It's program yesterday.
Although the wood schedule will not
be taken up until next Thursday,
brief was filed with the committee bv
the tariff committee of the Cedar In
dustry of Washington, Oregon and
Idaho requesting duty of 25 per cent
ad vaiorem on shingles and cedar lum-
Der, now on the free list.
Since 1922, when the present tariff
law was written, the brief declared.
more than half the cedar mills of the
Northwest States had been forced into
bankruptcy, while the remainder are
nearly bankrupt. Since the removal Of
the sh1ngle tariff in 1913, it said, the
CEDAR industry has sustained an average
yearly loss OF IS per cent while British
Columbia shingle production has gained
500 per cent.
Calling attention to the duty of 81 a
thousand feet on cedar logs. the brief
said American manufacturers admitted
the fairness of this duty provided a
talr tax is imposed on shingles and ce-
dar lumber"
AS the tariff now stands, the brief
added. the log tax affords actual
United States tariff protection to foreign
production and foreign competition and
gives employment preference to foreign
ana Oriental labor over the American
workman"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-15
us AER0NAUT|CS
BRANCH HONORED
Commercial Aviatio
Achievements Rewarded
by Collier Trophy.

The Collier Trophy, one of the most
priced aeronautical trophies, which is
awarded annually by the National Aero
nautic Association for ''the greatest
achievement in aviation In America, the
value Of which has been demonstrated
by actual use during the preceding
year." today was awarded to the aero
nautics branch OF the Department of
Commerce for 1928.
The award was made to the person.
mel or the branch, 1t was announced
Dy Senator Hiram Bingham of Connec-
t1cut, president of the association, "for
their outstanding achievement in the
development Of commercial aviation in
America during the year."
The cup will be presented to the aero
nauticS branch through President Cool
idge, probably before the end of this
month. The Collier Trophy donated
oy the late Robert j. Collier, first was
presented in 1911.
This is the fourth time in history
That the trophy has been presented to
the personnel of an organization and
the first time 1t has been presented to
any organization for an achievement
other than in the air. The personnel
OF the United States air mail service
won the trophy in 1922 and 1923. the
first time for flying an entire year with
OUT fatal accident, and the second
Time Tor demonstrating to the world
the practicability Of night flying in
commercial transportation. The Army
AR Service won the trophy In 1924 by
virtue OF the famous round the world
fight made by Army pilots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-15
CHEST IS ENDORSED
BY CITIZEN GROUP
Stanton Park Association, Follow
ing Address by Rufus Lusk, Ap-
proves Community Charity.

Addressing the Stanton Park Citizens
Association, which met in Peabody
School, Fifth and c streets northeast
last night, Rufus Lusk discussed the
Community Chest, and was advised
that the plan would receive the sup
port of the association and that $40
would be contributed to the fund.
The Cramton bill and its provisions
for the establishing of parkways and
Fairgrounds were advocated by George
G. Havenner, president of the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations He adj
viSed the association 1t would be
profitable to use surplus funds to carry
out the project rather than let them
accumulate in the Treasury. The mat
ter was referred to the association
committee on parks.
DR.. Robert w. Mccullough, former
president of the Trinidad Citizens As
ISOLATION, stated that a business di-
rectory for each section of Washing
ton was being compiled in order that
residents might become familiar with
trade concerns of their neighborhoods
An investigation of general fire alarms
was advocated by the association in
an attempt to devise some plan which
would reduce the possibility of all fire
apparatus being called to one section,
leaving other portions of the city with
out ample protection.