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Evening star., 1929-12-03
SLASHES IN COSTS
Of ARMY AND NAVY
URGED BY HOOVER
Message Brings Up Question
of Abolition of Some
Yards and Posts.

BY the Associated Press.
Behind a 22-word sentence in Presi-
dent Hoover's annual message on the
state of the Union lie the elements Of
drama for Congress.
Inconspicuously placed at the end Of a
long section devoted to national defense
appear these words:
81 recommend that Congress give ear
nest consideration to the possibilities of
prudent action which VIII give relief
from our continuously mounting expen-
ditures."
This prudent action contemplates a
survey of the field of Army posts and
navy yards with view to .he elimina-
ton of those which no longer are needed
for the purely defensive purposes to
which the United States has committed
the use of its armed forces under the
treaty renouncing war as an instrument
of national policy.
1t also takes into account an actual
reduction in the land forces and re-
serves, which would renew the age-old
controversy between the National Guard
and the Regular Army with the pressure
from the States bearing upon Congress
for the former.
Abolition of a number of military
posts and some navy yards on the At
lantic seaboard also would bring down
upon Congress representative of the
States in which such posts and yards
are located as well as of those having
other establishments the life of which
might be brought into question in the
political controversy bound to ensue.
Acting on direction of the President,
the Army general staff has submitted
a report as to the military stations
which it holds can be dispensed with,
ard the information therein will be
available for Congress once it sets out
to put into force the general recon-
mendation of the Chief Executive.
Ever since the Nations battle fleet
was transferred to the Pacific Coast
after the World War there has been re-
peated agitation for the abolition cf
some of the Atlantic Coast navy yards,
but it always has had its end in agi-
tation.
There are six naval plants on the
coast exclusive of the Washington
Navy Yard-one in New Hampshire,
one in Massachusetts, one in New York,
one in Pennsylvania, one in Virginia
and one in South Carolina. There is
another at New Orleans, on the Gulf
Coast.
In Atlantic waters are the scouting
feet of several battleships, some cruis-
ers and destroyers and other auxiliary
craft. Now and then the contention
has been raised that such feet did
not require the services of so many re-
pair bases, but this has been met with
the argument that all of the plants
would be necessary in the event of a
naval war in the Atlantic
Evening star., 1929-12-03
FORD FORCE RAISED
$2O,O]O,O()O A YEAR
Minimum Pay of Workers in
Car Plant Increased
to ST a Day.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSoClAleO STeSS.
DETROIT, December 3.-Wage in
creases that will add approximately
$40, 100000 year to the payroll of the
Ford Motor Co. were announced today
by Edsei Ford. president of the COM
pany. The minimum wage of Sc a day
Is increased to 81 a day and increases
graduating on the basis of five cents an
hour were given employees already re-
ceiving between 2 and $40 a day.
The increase, which is effective as of
December /, is confined to employees
within the United States, of these, 49,
643 come in the classification of in
creaSes Of five cents an hour to all en-
ployes who have been receiving 81 or
more per day.
Those whose minimum wage will be
increased from $6 to 81 day. num-
Der, at the present, 24,320.
The increase Is in line with the an
nouncement recently made bv Henry
Ford at Washington during President
HooVers business conference.
Third Raise Since 1914.
The wage increase from a minimum
of Sc a day to 81 is third major step
OF this kind taken by the company
since January. 1914. At that time the
company startled the industrial world
oy raising the scale from an average of
$2.34 day to a minimum of SIS. This
increase generally was considered a
radical industrial move and many
economists contended 1t could not be
successfully ACCOMPLISHED.
simultaneously the company reduced
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1929-12-03
HOOVER ASKS TAX CUT, TARIFF BILL.
WANTS ID. C.. 'EXAMPLE' FOR NATION
Highlights of Presidents Message

Here outstanding President Hoover's
annual message to Congress:
We not only at with all the world but the ounda
future being substantially
The test of the rightfuness decisions
have sustained advanced the ideals
We need to reesablsh faith that the highest interests
country served by insence swift
administration of justice to all offenders whether rich
by people themselves theirs is the
right to work for their repeal but until repeal it equal
duty to observe them and demand their enforcement
We still have Marines foreign SOIL large
do not wish to be represented abroad in such
To internal order freedom from
is the first purpose of government.
The finances of the Government sound condition.
We cannot fail to recognize the obligations of the
ment support OF public welfare but concdentay
bear in mind the burden of taxes and strive to find relief
through some tax reduction.
do not favor the operation the either
manufacturing business unavoidable
product of some other major public purpose.
(FRH Test Of Presidents Message on Pages and ~
Evening star., 1929-12-03
SECOND COLD WAVE
DUE HERE TONIGHT
Weather Bureau Predicts
Low of IL as Ohio Chill
Moves Eastward.

Another cold wave Is expected to
sweep Washington tonight in the wake
of yesterdays rains. which froze where
they fell. The Weather Bureau predicts
the temperature here will fall as low as
IL degrees before morning.
The freezing weather is moving East
from the Ohio Valley, where zero tenn
peratures prevail. The forecast is for
continued clear skies, however, followed
tomorrow by increasing cloudiness and
slightly warmer in the afternoon.
The renewal of the cold should send
the mercury several points lower be-
cause of icy accumulations from the
freezing rains.
Streets Are Free Of Ice.
While most of the streets today had
been freed of ice which tied up traffic
yesterday morning and provided treach-
erous going for pedestrians, trees and
buildings were weighted with ice for
nations this morning.
Among pedestrians injured in falls to
slippery pavementS yesterday were two
Representatives, Sam Hill of Washing
ton and William E. Hull of Illinois.
boCn were reported recupefatlng today,
Mr.. Hill from a cut to his mouth and
Mr.. Hull from wrenched back.
Morris Susel, 80 years old, of 400
Third street southwest, fell while walk
ing on -and-a-half street south
west. He was taken to Emergency Hos
pital in a police car and treated for a
possible fracture of the left leg and
other injuries.
Girl Is Injured.
Miss Mildred Hammond. 10 years old
1916 Sixteenth street. sustained pain
full injury to her arm from q fall at
Fifteenth and NJ streets. Few trafic
accidents of serious nature occurred
yesterday during the slippery weather,
although police were busy with minor
mishaps.
The street transit companies carried
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1929-12-03

which we could not fly? The top of the
pass was partly cloud-covered.
Would Axel Heiberg glacier be en-
tirely cloud-covered? Clouds so fire.
quently hover around the tops OF these
mountains even on the clearest days.
The sun on the bare vertical rocks sent
up warm currents which, striking the
cold above, formed fog while Bernt and
conferred. Would we choose the un-
known glacier? If we should fail to get
over and have to turn back down the
glacier to select another pass, we could
not reach the Pole. The gas would be
too low. We would have to turn back
to Little America. 1t seemed flip Of
the coin. We decided to stake success
on the unknown glacier to the right.
The white clouds around the noun
tains that bounded the top OF the pass
to the right and left merged with white
In the center of the pass. Was 1t snow
or clouds, and II clouds could We H.
above them? Would the clouds stretch
over the plateau to the South Pole,
making flying impossible?
We would have to keep out of clouds
while dodging around among the noun
tains. for in the clouds We almost cer-
tainly would collide with peak. Soon
we had passed near our little cache of
food and gasoline more than a mile
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star., 1929-12-03
HOLIDAY LIQUOR DRIVES MYTH,
DECLARE PROHIBITION HEADS
Officials Claim Utmost Effort Is Being Put Forth Ever,
Day in Year.
Day in Year.

Drives against liquor at Christmas
are myths" Prohibition Commissioner
Doran asserted. THE Prohibition Bu-
reau doesn't indulge in that sort of
thing because we are constantly con-
ducting the most intensive drive our
forces will permit to enforce the prohi-
bition laws"
Customs Service enforces the law
the remainder Of the year just as
earnestly as we do at the holiday sea-
son." Frank Dow, assistant commits
sioner of customs. said I'VE do not
put on drives against smugglers at
Christmas"
Every year about Christmas time
stories are circulated in various parts
of the country that one or the other
of the enforcement agencies is con-
ducting a drive to prevent the sale of
large amounts of liquor. Oficials
chuckle. The fact of the matter Is.
they say. smugglers and bootleggers get
anxious to get the liquor to their GUS
toners and take more chances than
at any other season, with the result
that here and there the oVeranxious
dealers in the Illicit beverage are nabbed
little faster than usual.
Evening star., 1929-12-03

Oficials who enforce the prohibition
law are getting hearty laughs these
days out of stories from various parts
of the country that drives to prevent
increased trade in liquor at Christmas
time are being made.
Liquor drives at Christmas time are
a myth that have never existed, officials
say, because the Government Is oper-
atIng at its maximum every day in the
year to enforce the prohibition laws.
The officials assert there is no more
liquor at Christmas than at any other
time. but the wider use of it during
the holiday season leads. in their opin-
ion, to the belief that the trafic has
increased.
THE Coast Guard is enforcing the
law against the smuggling of liquor and
other goods every day in the year"
Admiral F. G. Billiard, commandant,
said I'VE could not increase our ef-
forts at the holiday season, because we
are expending our every effort to up
hold the laws 365 days every year and
SeS in leap year."
Evening star., 1929-12-03
FavOrs Stronger
Prohibition
Work.
ROOT FORMULA
is INDORSED
Limited Revision
Recommendation
Is Reaffirmed.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

President Hoover outlined his
legislative program and gave an
enlightening and detailed account
of '1the state of the Union" in his
first comprehensive message to
Congress today. 1t was read in
both houses.
Outstanding among his recon-
mendations were provisional re-
vision of tax rates" so as to lop
'$160,000,000 off the income taxes
to be paid during 1880; adherence
to the World Court after the adop-
ton of the So-called Root for
mula"; completion of the pending
tariff bill in accordance with his
earlier recommendations for a
limited revision; strengthening
the administration of the prohibi-
tion laws; legislation to expedite
the consolidation of railroads;
ratification of the settlement OF
the debt of France to the United
States; the establishment of a
"full-time" Federal power commits
sion, and reorganization of the
Government departments.
The message covers a wide field. 1t
Is keen analysis of the problems which
confront peace-time America, contain
cally presented. The President has
drawn for Congress and for the people
a composite picture, dealing with every
section of the country and the interests
of all the people in a nonJsectional
manner. He reveals the general scope
of the administrations policies.
Peace and Foreign Relations.
The President in his recommendation
that the United States adhere to the
World Court, now that the status of the
court has been amended sos rs o.uaeet-
the Senate'S reservations, goes fully INTO
foreign relations and the question of
international peace.
We are not only at peace with all
the world but the foundations for future
peace are being strengthened" he says.
TO promote peace is our long -eStab-
liShed policy. Through the Kellogg
BRAND pact great moral standard has
been raised in the world. BY it 81
nations have covenanted to renounce
war and to settle all disputes by pacific
means"
The President views the entry of the
United States into the World Court as
an essential step and the court itself
rs a means of carrying out the provi-
sions of the Kellogg BRAND pact. He
takes the view that American adher-
ence to the court, as now constituted,
els not the slightest toward entry into
the League of Nations" He promises
to submit the protocol of adherence to
the Senate with special message some
time when it is convenient to deal
with it.
High hopes, the President says, are
held for success of the coming London
conference on naval limitation, at which
the United States will be one of the five
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Evening star., 1929-12-03
MARAGON TO URGE
F|NGERPR|NT CHECK
Scrivener Probe Witness to
Ask Grand Jury to Get
Full Record.

Plans to demand that the grand jury
Sergt. Arthur B. Scrivener ask that
everybody connected with the case in
any way" have their fingerprints taken
for the Department of Justice were an
nounced today by John F. Maragon of
Chicago, as he prepared to testify con-
corning his friendship with Scrivener.
II think the fingerprints of every
witness to appear before the grand jury.
all the policemen on the force and
everybody connected in any way with
the investigation of Scrivener's murder
should be taken and checked with a
print found on the pistol with which he
was killed." Maragon said. I'm going
to insist on this procedure as soon as
I am called before the grand jury"
Maragon expressed the belief that
Scrivener's death undoubtedly was
murder. Explaining he had married the
former Helen Barnes Parker, to whom
Scrivener was engaged at the time of his
death, Maragon said he had been an in
innate friend of the detective. He re-
ported Scrivener told him shortly before
his body with a bullet through the heart
was found in Georgetown alley, that
he was investigating the diversion of
liquor from the police headquarters
property room."
Prosecuted by Police.
The former WaShingtonian said he
k10A tod hNy IA cl a1tn
licemen since Scrivener's death because
Of his public statements that he believed
Scrivener had been murdered. He added
he planned to tell the inquiSitorial body
a headquarters detective attempted
about a year ago to have him dis
charged as special investigator for the
District National Bank by telling an
official of the institution Il was .
crook" Maragon said he complained to
Mai. Henry G. Pratt. then chief of de-
tectives, and that Pratt called Mara
CONS superior by telephone and apollo
gized for the remarks Of the detective.
The announcement of Maragon that
he intended to ask for the checking OF
the fingerprints followed a conversation
with reporters in which he attached
significance to a statement yesterday by
Sergt. Fred Sandberg, chief of the po-
lice headquarters identification bureau,
to the effect that a partial f1ngerprint
found on the Scrivener weapon did not
correspond with the fingerprints of the
detective. IT can't understand why the
police, If they really want to get to the
bottom of this case haven't been more
active heretofore in checking finger
prints against the one found on the
pistol" Maragon declared.
Maragon said police tried Ito coach"
his wife on what she should testify at
the coroner's inquest. Everything they
wanted her TO say was intended to make
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column So
Evening star., 1929-12-03
SENATE CONSIDERS
NORRIS RESOLUTION
ON STATUS OF Ware
Pennsylvania to Present
Own Case in Claiming Seat
in Upper House.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
After three years of intermittent dis
cussion the Senate today faced the
necessity of reaching an early decision
on the question of whether William
s. Ware is entitled to be seated as SEN
ator from Pennsylvania.
BY previous agreement the case auto
matically came up for consideration, to
remain the subject Of debate until a
final vote is reached. Wares right to
a seat is challenged on the ground
that his expenditures in the primary
campaign of 1925, amounting to more
than 100000, were excessive.
His cause was championed by Sem
ator Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania
who announced late yesterday that
Ware himself would appear in the
chamber to defend his claim personally.
Agreed on POstponement.
Action centered upon a resolution bv
Senator Norris of Nebraska to deny a
seat to the Pennsylvania Senator -elect.
This was introduced during the special
session, with a demand for immediate
consideration, but rather than inter-
rupt the tariff debate, Norris consented
to have 1t go over to the regular ses-
sion, under the agreement which
brought 1t UP today.
movement, sponsored by Reed. was
on foot. however, to defer action by
unanimous consent until the end OF
the week, with the Senate elections
committee acting meanwhile on the
contest brought by william B. Wilson.
wares Democratic opponent, who claim
ed election irregularities.
A request from Ware that the ballots
of 81 counties be recounted was denied
by the committee late yesterday, an
action interpreted by Reed as indicating
that the Wilson contest will be over
ruled.
Expect Refusal.
Should this take place, the question
OF seating Ware would hinge upon
whether or not the members of the
Senate consider the sums spent in his
primary campaign as prejudicial, and
there were indications that a settle
ment of the problem on this basis would
result in refusal to grant a seat to
the Senator -elect.
Reed, in commenting on the case, said
that Ware was $50 confident of the JUS
tice" OF his claim that he had no in
cilnation to postpone decision beyond
the time of the election committee S
report on the Wilson contest.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the
Democratic leader. said he was not OPP
posed to deferring the case If there Is
assurance that the elections committee
VIII report within few days. Senator
Norris, however, expressed an intention
OF calling for immediate action on his
resolution.
Evening star., 1929-12-03
Additional $115,OOO,00 for
Capitals Big Program viii
Open Southwest and Clear
the Mall.
EXTENSIONS TO RAzE
OLD COSMOS CLUB
Measure introduced Today Also
Carries $1O0,ooO,ooO for More
Federal Housing Throughout the
Country-Enlarges Yearly Ex-
penditure.

Tremendous enlargement of the
area to be acquired for Federal
building program in Washington
Is provided for in the bill intro
duced today by Chairman Elliott
of the House committee on public
buildings and grounds, which au-
thorizes appropriation of an addi-
tional Sis, 100000 for the program
in Washington and an additional
$100,0O0,000 for the program
throughout the States.
Previous legislation had limited
the area in which land was to be
acquired for Federal buildings, un-
der the $25,OO0,OOO appropriation,
to the triangle area between Penn
Sylvania avenue and the Mall and
four reservations just west of the
Botanic Gardens between Penn
sylvania avenue and Maryland
avenue, Third and Sixth streets,
both north and south of the Mall.
The Elliott bill introduced today pro-
vides authority for acquiring the land
now occupied by the Belasco Theater
and the Cosmos Club for extension of
the Treasury annex building and also
for acquisition of any land within the
following broad areas:
Boundaries Of Areas.
Bounded by Pennsylvania avenue and
New York avenue on the north, Vir-
gtnia avenue and Maryland avenue
projected In straight line to Twining
Lake Tiday Basin on the south and
Delaware avenue southwest on the east.
This includes the right to take over
properties within this area belonging to
the District of Columbia which the Sec
retary OF the Treasury may determine
should be acquired.
This means that extensive public build
ing development for the Federal Govern
ment Is contemplated in the area west
OF the Ellipse between Seventeenth
street and the Naval Hospital grounds
running from B street north to New
York avenue. In this area there are
now half-dozen squares occupied by
temporary wartime structures.
This program also means that the
Federal Government proposes to take
leadership in cleaning out unsiehtlv
cheap buildings in a large area South Of
the Mall running the entire distance
from the Capitol and House once
Building to the Bureau Of Engraving
and Printing. In this area several large
pieces are being acquired for squaring
up the Mall as a new site for the
Botanic Gardens and for the new House
Once Building.
Contains 30 Squares.
The Elliott bill introduced today
destgnates an area containing approxi-
mately 80 city squares in which the
Federal Government is authorized to ac-
quire whatever land it needs. This
means that the Federal Government will
take leadership in acquiring what is
now unslghtly and disreputable prop
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Contains 30 SQUARES.
SEES MORROW TRICKED
INTO SENATE CAMPAIGN
Jersey Republican Leader Says En-
voy to Mexico Did Not Know
Frelinghuysen Was to Run.
By the Associated pres.

BY the Associated Press
NEWARK, N. j.. December S--Jesse
r. Salmon, chairman of the Essex
County Republican committee, today
asserted that Dwight w. Morrow, Am
bassador TO Mexico, had been "oricked
into entering the United States sena-
torial contest against Joseph S. Pre-
linghuysen.
Salmon recently announced he fa-
vored Frelinghuysen to succeed Walter
E. Edge.
Il received word from Mexico" SAL
mon stated, that Mr.. Morrow did not
know that his friend, MIR. Frelinghuysen
was an avowed candidate when he con-
sented to accept the temporary appoint-
ment to fill Ambassador Edges place in
the Senate. Mr.. Morrow was told that
II ne accepted the temporary apnoint-
ment there would ne no contest for the
Republican nomination for the fun
term"
MIR. Salmon expressed the belief that
"if persons who induced Mr. Morrow to
run had laid the cards on the table he
would never have consented"
Evening star., 1929-12-03
CHAIN LETTER CROSSES OCEAN
TWICE TO END IN WASTE BASKET
1t Bears Names of Dawes, Shaw, Ford, Indy and
Macdonald, but Utahan Opposes Method.

Aristide BRAND and Premier Ramsay
Macdonald.
Replying to Mr.. Lukens, yelling in
dorsed the slogan, but denounced the
chain-letter system. II hoped that the
fellow who invented them was dead and
damned long ago" he wrote. Judging
by the pedigree which accompanied
your request to me. the greatest men in
the world today feel that they would be
Justi1ed In restoring this method of ap-
proving a most wholesome slogan
accept the slogan 100 per cent, but what
do with this chain letter business Is
going to be profound secret which i
shall share only with my conscience
aud the waSte h~~'-~t T., NV offlos
Evening star., 1929-12-03
BY COMDR. r. E. BYRD,

Leader Of the Antarctic Expedition.
By Radio to The Star and the New York
Times.
LITTLE AMERICA, ANTARCTICA,
December 2.--We headed for Axel Hei-
berg glacier. We knew that Amundsen
had reported the highest point of the
pass there 1O.50O feet high, with tower
ing peaks on each side, but would they
be so close together that air currents
would dash us to the ground, lowering
as we would be with our heavy load
near the absolute ceiling Of the plane
near the altitude where the controls Of
the plane no longer function?
To the right was another great glacier
we had seen on our base-laying flight.
1t looked passable. But was 1t? 1t ap-
peared wide enough. Were there noun
tains beyond that would block us-over
Evening star., 1929-12-03
BY the Associated Press.

SALT LAKE CITY, December s.
A chain letter designed to spread
the logan Gross Crossings Carefully
which had crossed the Atlantic twice
and bore the names of numerous per-
sons of worldwide prominence rested in
the waste basket at the State capitol
here today.
The letter came to Milton H. yelling,
Utah secretary of state, from Fred E.
Lukens, Idaho secretary of state. and
carried signatures of Charles G. Dawes,
Bernard Shaw, Henry Ford, Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh, Dorothy Dix, Lady Hay,