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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
BIBLE GROUP ENDS
BUSINESS SESSIONS
Women's Mission Association
ConveneS-Ministers Hold
Conference.

Group conferences of the General
Sunday School Association in the Hotel
Mayflower this morning concluded the
business sessions of the first three large
conventions under the auspices of the
UniversaliSt Church being held here
this week.
DR.. Jessie LaSalle of the District of
Columbia Public School Department
stressed the need Of the early training
of children along proper lines at the
children'S group conference meeting.
Young peoples and adult group meet
ings also were held. The first was pre-
sided over by Rev. DR.. A. Gertrude
Earle and the second by Carl A.
Hempel
The second convention, that of the
Womens National Missionary Associa-
ton, held its first session in the Hotel
Mayf1ower this afternoon, while min
listers conference of the UniversaliSt
Church general convention marked a
preliminary feature of that organiza-
TONS general sessions, which begin to-
morrow evening with session at All
Souls Unitarian Church, Sixteenth and
Harvard streets. There are approx
mately TOO delegates to the UNIVERSAL
1st general convention, representing
Universalist Churches throughout the
United States and Canada.
IbOullu JtUlt ulSCuSSlOIlS OH ways
That Win in Building Up a Church"
featured the ministers conference OF
the general convention this afternoon
The Woman's National Missionary
Association will have banquet in the
Mayt1oWer tonight
The General Sunday School Associa-
ton elected officers for the coming year
at a session late yesterday. Rev John
M. Ratclitf, professor of religious edu-
cation at Tufts College, Massachusetts,
was elected president and Rev. w. A.
Cate of New Hampshire was elected
first vice president.
The other officers were reelected.
They are Rev. Laura Bowman of Iowa
second vice president; Carl A. Hempel
of Massachusetts, secretary, and AL
bert II. Romans of Ohio treasurer
Rev. George E. Huntley retired from
the presidency of the General Sunday
School Association after continuous
service for 16 years. He was presented
with more than 1900 and a number
of presents late yesterday, in token
OF the esteem in which he Is held by
the association members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
REPORT ON ALLEN
AWAITS SACKETT
Suspension Data Won't Be
Given Out Until Sub
committee Meets.

The report submitted by Supt. Of Po-
lice Pratt to Chairman Sackett of the
Senate subcommittee investigating po-
lice affairs, setting forth the reasons
for the suspension of Policeman Robert
j. Allen several weeks ago, will not be
made public at the Capitol until the
next meeting of the subcommittee.
Senator Sackett will be out of the
city for the next few days, announcing
before his departure that the reports
called for on several different matters
would be laid before the subcommittee
before they are given out.
The chairman of the subcommittee Is
expected back Friday, and If all OF the
reports have been received, he probably
will call meeting soon after his arrival.
Suspension of Policeman Allen fol-
lowed his action in launching an in
dependent investigation into the Nc
Pherson case. The policeman was
restored to duty later, but the sub
committee decided this did not remove
the necessity for inquiring into his
suspension.
Senator Blease of South Carolina,
author of the resolution under which
the subcommittee is working, said today
he turned over to Senator Sackett all
information that came to him relating
to the investigation. The subcommit-
tee started out by calling for written
report on the various different questions
raised in the resolutions, and will wait
for these reports before holding any
hearing Senator Blease said that at
the proper time he would have some
witnesses to call before the subcommit-
tee in regard to the matter referred to
in the resolution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22

appeared before the House ways and
means committee seeking lower tariff
and the times the Senate finance COM
mittee was asked to adopt a so-called
seasonal tariff which would provide a
higher tariff en- certain varieties at sea-
sons of the year when the supply Is
least
In voluntary statement later Bryce
said he wished to point out that his
corporation had no negotiations with
the Canadian companies at the time of
the House committee hearings
You didn't have to take advantage of
the tariff on your American fish did
you?" Senator Caraway asked. You
could sell the fish at any price in this
market regardless of the tariff" Bryce
agreed.
lower tariff was SO you could get fish in
from Canada at lower prices?"
After pause, Bryce said: Yes"
CaraWay developed that it was Bryce's
attitude that while higher tariff would
give his company greater immediate
profits as long as the supply obtained,
a lower tariff would enable the company
to develop its Canadian business.
Senator Blaine, in interrogating the
witness at length with regard to the
effect of supply and demand, as be-
tween the company's Canadian and
American interests, caused Bryce to
agree that If fish products were on the
free list. the company's Canadian out
put could be diverted to American con-
sumers at profit.
The employment by Bryce's corpora
ton of r. Meineset, formerly fish ex-
pert on the Tariff Commission, about
June last, was asked about by Senator
Walsh, who was told this had no rela.
ton to tariff legislation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
RUSSIAN PLANE
OFF FOR CHEYENNE
Arrange to Change Motors
in Event 1t Is Necessary
at Next Stop.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OAKLAND, Calf, October 22.-The
Russian monoplane Land of the Soviets
took off here at $50 o'clock this morn
ing for Cheyenne, the next scheduled
stop on its flight from Moscow to New
York
The Land of the Soviets, with it's
crew of four, arrived here Saturday
from Vancouver, Wash. A. V. Petrofx
of New York was aboard the plane.
The airmen, Shestakov. commander Of
the flight; Phil E. Bolotov, second pilot;
Broris E. Sterligov. navigator, and
Dmitri v. Fufaev, spent the night at
the airport here.
Another plane, piloted by L. G. Ger
shevich, a representative of the Amtorg
Corporation took OF with the Land
of the Soviets and accompanied the
monoplane eastward a short distance.
The flyers announced prior to the
take-off that while they did not expect
any motor trouble, they had arranged
TO change motors at Cheyenne in event
it becomes necessary. The motors had
been shipped ahead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22

respect to the total that may be ex-
pended"
In order to centralize executive re-
sponSlbility, 1t is recommended that all
the executive power now conferred on
the District Commissioners be lodged in
single executive head to be known as
the city manager. 1t is explained that
he should devote his time to the actual
running of the municipal government
and should not be called upon to per-
form the ceremonial duties such as ordi-
narly fall to the lot of a governor or
mayor. The presiding officer of the
council, as the titular head of the Dis
trict government, would be available for
the duty Of representing the District of
Columbia on formal occasions.
It Is proposed that the manager be
appointed by the council withou0 def.
mite term, and should be fefloyAHie
only by vote of five members OF the
council, and that he should receive an
adequate salary in order to command
the services Of a man of outstanding
ability. In order to widen the field
from which the manager may be SCI
lected, the institute recommends that
there should be no requirement tnat a
candidate must be resident of the
District.
The manager would be required 10
decide all matters of executive and al
ministrative character not lodged in
any OF the existing boards or commits.
Slons which may be continued. He
should make appointments and ren1ov-
ais, under the Institutes plan, OF the
administrative personnel of the District
government, which, however, the report
states. should be placed in the classi.
ned civil serYice... A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
COALITION FIGHTS
CHEMICAL DUTIES
Senators King and Ia Fol-
Iette Launch Attack on
Rate Increases.
BY the Associated Press.

1 BY the Associated Press.
A sharp attack from both wings of
the Democratic Republican independent
Senate coalition was directed today at
proposed increases in chemical duties
the moment the rate schedules Of the
tariff bill were reached.
Rumblings of discomfort over these
have been heard for weeks as the Sem
ate plodded through one controversy
after another on administrative fea-
lures. At the outset of debate today
the dispute promised to rival the heated
discussions precipitated by revision of
the flexible provision and incorporation
of the export debenture proposition over
the protest of the President. Starting
off. Senator King. Democrat, Utah, de-
scribed the chemical industry as q
powerful giant" in no position to seek
increases in duties. Decreases in rates
were more justifiable, he Numbered
Senator La Toilette, Republican, fol-
lowed him.
In the face Of renewed declarations
of the steadfast purpose of the Senatc's
Democratic independent Republican
coalition. administration leaders today
began a vigilant and hopeful watch for
indications of any break in the ranks
of the alliance which might result from
the rate schedules of the bill.
After seven weeks devoted TO the ad-
ministrative provisions of the measure.
the schedules today were at last the
official and unfinished business of the
Senate. with but six weeks of the spe-
cial session left for their consideration.
The coalition is determined that the
rates shall be so revised as to accord to
agriculture the extent of protection
which it believes Is necessary. B0rah OF
Idaho, a leader of the independents, Is,
in fact on record with statement that
this will be done. II not at the special
session, then certainly at the regular
session. regardless OF the attitude Of
President Hoover toward prolonging the
tariff debate.
The Republican regulars foresee,
however. disintegration of the Goa
lition with the controversies of the rate
schedules and their highly disputed
features They look forward to the
sugar schedule as one of the certain
rocks upon which they believe the al
lance must split.
The confidence of the leaders Of the
Democratic insurgent-R Republican group
that they can hold their lines together
through the impending controversies
was the basis of their refusal to sup
port a motion, brought to a vote late
yesterday, under which the tariff bill
would have been given back 20 the
committee with instructions that rate
changes be restricted to the agricultural
section. The proposal was defeated, 81
to 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
BROKER IS FREED
OF LARCENY CHARGE
District Attorney Holds James Cor.
don Yates Did Not Commit
Criminal Act.

A charge of larceny after trust
against John Gordon Yates, investment
broker, with Offices in the wilkins
Building. was nolle pressed today by
Asst. United States Attorney Charles
Murray, who held that the man had
committed no criminal act.
Yates was arrested in his office late
yesterday afternoon by police from the
Detective Bureau after Mrs. Aida M
Bird, 1923 Garfield street, had sworn
out a warrant against him. She re-
ported that she gave the broker 81, 10C
in stock to be converted into stock In
another company She said that she
had never got the latter stock or heI
money.
Yates says that he is willing to give
Mrs. Bird the stock which she claims
tIe said that he offered it to her or
another occasion and that she refused
It. Murray said that the stock In ques-
ton is practically worthless.
The assistant United States attorney
says that, from what he has seen oi
the case, 1t is not one for q crif1ira
court to handle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
MAN DIES FROM BLOW
ON HEAD; ANOTHER HELD

Earl Mitchell, colored, 81 years old,
who was struck on the head with q
piece of wood Sunday while engaged
in an alteration at Thirteenth and q
streets with Theodore c. MiIburn, also
colored, 81 years old, of PAPA N street,
died at Gallinger Hospital shortly after
10 o'clock last night.
Miss Mabel Pettingill, Of Addison
Heights, Va, witnessed the affair and
furnished her name to Detective Henry
M. Jett, who arrested Milburn. She
declared Milburn had acted In self
defense when threatened with a razor
and expressed a willingness to appear
as witness for him.
Milburn was released on $500 cash
collateral on charge of assault. This
morning he was rearrested in order to
insure his attendance at coroner's in
quest at the morgue tomorrow morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
BOARD SEEKS RAISE
! IN COTTON PRICES.
Farm Group Prepares to Ad-
Just Market and Advance
Loans to Growers.

by the Associated Press.
As the first major step of its career
the Federal Farm Board has worked Out
q plan for improving the present price
Of cotton and is prepared to take similar
action on wheat under a scheme to bt
announced later
The board is of the opinion that pre-
Vailing cotton prices are too low, and
believes the solution lies in more order
~ marketing of this years crop. 1t is
prepared to lend an unlimited amount
of money to the cotton growers. that
they may hold their product off the
market.
Too Rapid Marketing.
Analysing the present cotton market
the board is of the opinion that open
Fall weather in the Southern States has
led to too rapid marketing, with world
consumption meanwhile on level equal
to that of last year and the total supply
of American cotton at a lesser stage
than a year ago. More cotton, it be-
lieves, has been rushed into the market
than it can temporarily absorb, with
resulting depressed prices and lack OF
confidence Ill cotton values.
To assist the growers to hold back
their crop and meanwhile meet their
financial obligations, the board proposes
to lend to cotton co-operativeS. qualified
as borrowers under the Capper- VolSteai
act. sums sufficient to bring the total
amount borrowed from all sources by
such associations to 16 cents per pound
on graded and classed cotton, basis mid
ding seven-eights inch staple, less
proper deductions to cover freight
charges.
To Draw Advances.
In A statement announcing its plan,
the board pointed out that there is
cotton cooperative in every cotton
growing State open to membership Of
every cotton farmer. The grower may
Join the cooperative, the statement
continued. ship his cotton to its con-
centration point and draw his advance
after it has been graded and classified
The cooperative will market the cot
ton in orderly fashion through the year.
said the board. and will finally settle
with the farmer ION the basis OF the
final price obtained"
The statement went on to express
the boards confidence in the soundnesS
Of the scheme. asserting it to be COM
pletely safe basis for making loans"
from the revolving fund established by
the farm relief law.
THE board places no limit on the
amount of Government money to be so
1OdLlSu, IIlS SIhJtUl6Ilb SdtQ. NcdIly
$l00,000,000 is available for the purpose,
and. II necessary, the board will ask
Congress to appropriate more"
Spot Market Designated.
The board said 10 designated South
ern spot markets would be used for
classification of the loans.
The loan per pound will be approx
mately as follows at the different mar
kets Norfolk, Va, 1854 cents Augusta,
Ga, 1875 cents: Savannah, 1923 cents;
Montgomery, Ala. 1854 cents; New Or
leans. 1889 cents; Memphis, 1899 cents;
Little Rock, Ark. 15.41 cents; Dallas.
Tex, 1894 cents Houston, Tex, 1919
cents, and Galveston, Tex, 1859.
At all other concentration points
loans will be made on the same basis
with proper adjustments on account of
freight and other expenses.
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Continued from First Page)
posedly the last person to see her be-
fore she fell. was represented at the
hearing by Attorneys Wilbert McIrney
and l.. Henry Vandoren. The witnesses
were questioned to considerable eX-
tent by H. H. Newman, assistant United
States district attorney.
"Open- Minded Attitude"
Although the circumstances indicated
accidental death. the homicide squad
has been diligent in bringing to light
all information with a bearing on the
case and was expected to insist all wit
nesses be heard.
An "open-minded" attitude has been
maintained, it was pointed out at head
quarters yesterday, SO the six-man jury
could get the entire result OF the police
inquiry.
No one saw Mrs Dreyfus go over the
balcony rail- A young couple nearby,
Anna Leonard and Edward Wilson,
heard the woman's body strike the
platform below Neither could recall
having seen or heard Mrs. Dreyfus and
her companion previous to the time
they heard a thud, looked over the
guard rail and spread the alarm among
the dancers
McBrien, who has been held by po-
lice for the inquest, had gone to the
dance with Mrs. DreyfuS and her
brother and sister, William and Freda
Fischer of 1904 Olive street, KenilWorth.
McBrien Goes After Wraps.
While William and Freda were
dancing together McBrien said he re-
NAMED on the balcony with Mrs. Drey-
fIs, going inside to the cloakroom to
get the wraps of the party when the
orchestra struck up Home, Sweet
Home" the final number.
Returning across the floor with the
coats and hats, McBrien said he heard
some one shout that woman had
pitched from the balcony. He fastened
below with the crowd and found his
companion lying unconscious upon the
platform at point where 1T sloped to-
ward the Potomac River.
McBrien admitted to police that there
had been some drinking in the party OF
four. They left the Fischer home in
Kenilworth some time before IL o'clock
Saturday night. The time Mrs. Dreyfus
pitched from the balcony was about
1870 am. Sunday.
Members of the family informed po-
lice that Mrs. Dreyfus and McBrlen
had been friends since the woman's
divorce, in 1924, from Herbert Dreyfus,
New York broker and former dollar
d-yebI HldH WIFI IiiE OIlICu
Shipping Board during the war Mrs.
Dreyfus met her husband while EN-
ployed in his office here.
Funeral Services Today.
Police were told Mrs. Dreyfus was
receiving $500 month alimony from
Dreyfus. She diviued her time since
her divorce between the residence OF
her family in Washington and her New
York home, at 1913 West Fifty-ninth
street. next door to McBrien's residence
Funeral services for M Dreyfus
were to be held at 2 o'clock this after
noon at the Fischer residence, with
burial in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
The police investigation has been
in charge of Lieut.. Joseph Morgan new
chief of the homicide squad, assisted by
Detectives Joseph F. Waldron and
George Darnall. Police of No. pre-
cinct, in which the fatal injury oc-
CURED issued some 20 summonses ir
the case to the inquest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22

ton and International Paper g. Power
Corporation
"By1lesby & Co. of New York and
Chicago are considered one of the
largest public utility controlling COM
panies and are said to control the Sea-
board Gas & Electric Co. of PittsburS.:,
their activities extending over 10 diff
ferent States.
The American Founders Corporation
of New York was organized October /,
1928, under the laws of Maryland, and
took over the American Founders Co.,
a voluntary trust organized in January,
1922, under the laws of Massachusetts.
1t is an investment corporation and
controls various securities and corpora.
tionS in the United States and Europe,
has many general security holdings and
purchases securities for afflliated com.
panies. They deal in bonds, stock, ia.
dustrials, insurance and are large
holders of public utilities.
"Schoelkopf, Hutton & pomeroy Of
New York City and Buffalo are q gen.
eral investment house interested in
power development at Niagara Falls.
1t Is holding company and handles
many 1ndustrials and deals in public
utilities, having wide experience par.
tlcularly In Western New York"
Awaits Assistant.
Mr.. Brides report to the commission
withholds any recommendation as to
what form of action should be brought
pending the return to his desk of his
principal assistant, Vernon E. West,
who is at present on sick leave. Mr..
West is expected back about Novenn-
Der l. Mr.. Bride states that he is conf.
dent that the action can be brought
within week of Mr.. Vests return.
Mr.. Bride states that the Depart.
ment of Justice is still expecting to
interview Dana Pearson of New York
City, who actually did the negotiations
in Washington leading to the purchase.
Mr.. Pearson is in Europe, but Is ex.
pected back soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
KING GOES HUNTING.

SANDRINGHAM, England, October
% (P).-King George went hunting in
Sandringham preserves today with q
number of his friends.
His majesty, who is acknowledged to
be one of the best shots in the king
dom, found his eye undimmed and his
hand as steady as ever after his long
illness, and many birds fell before his
gun 3.
1t was understood the royal house.
hold will return to London sometime
in November for stay ct Buckingham
Palace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
TCHITCHERIN TOO ILL
TO RESUME SOVIET POST
Foreign Affairs Commissar May
Remain in Germany for Medical
Treatment.
BY the Associated Press.

BY The ASSOCIATED Press.
MOSCOW, October %. George
Tchitcherin, commissar for foreign af-
fairs. who has been i'll in Germany for
more than year, is still unable, with
out risk. to resume his duties at Mos
COW, says a medical bulletin published
in todayS Izvestia. The bulletin IS
signed by four professors who are treat
ing him at Wiesbaden.
The bulletin discloses that Tchitch-
erin for the past four years has been
suffering from diabetes, Inflammation
of the nerves and rheumatic infec-
ton which requires constant special
lied treatment, unavoidable in Russia.
Attending physicians say that only If
the treatment progresses satisfactorily
will 1t be possible to raise the question
of the veteran statesman's return to
Moscow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
Rains Ground Mail Planes.

For the first time in many days the
airmail planes on the Pitcairn Atlantic
Coastal Line remained on the ground
last night in the face of heavy rains.
fogs and low clouds over a large part
of the line. There was no flying on any
part OF the New York Richmond sec
ton passing through this city. accord
ing to reports received at the Boiling
Field office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
GRID GAME POSTPONED.

Because of the heavy rain, which
turned the gridiron in Central High
Stadium into veritable quagmire, the
public high school championship foot
ball game scheduled this afternoon be-
tween Business and Western was called
off. 1t probably will be played at the
end of the series schedule.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
Falls Nine Floors to Death.

CHICAGO. October % P).-Quincy
v. Young, manager of the Container
Corporation of America, either leaped
or fell to his death today from the ninth
floor of the Conway Building, across
from the city hall He fell in an alley
and was killed instantly Young's Offices
were In the Conway Building. He was
married and the father of three
children
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22
ScOrned Youth Wins
Schools Hero Crown
By Catching Mad Dog
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex. october "a
Scorned by his playmates and
nicknamed "Doggie" because his
father was the municipal dog
catcher, Herbert Baird. Is, has
become a hero among his friends
by catching a mad dog.
The dog ran amuck. biting IL
pupils at Herbert's school. He
dived at the animal, catching 1t
just back of its ears and holding
it until 1t could be tied.
City health officials said the
dog was suffering from rabies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-22

Kitty Quill, who used to supply King
Edward with flowers and vas permitted
to use the royal arms on her basket
died recently ct Eastboufne, England,
aged SO,