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Evening star., 1929-11-15
ATTORNEY QU|zzED
BY LOBBY PROBERS
Says Senate Finance Gorup'S
Questions Baked Argument
on Cuban Sugar Duty.
BY the Associated Press.

Edwin P. Shattuck of New York, at
torney for the United States Sugar AS
sociation, told the Senate lobby commit
tee today he appeared before the SEN
ate finance committee to argue against
a higher duty on Cuban sugar in con-
nection with the pending tariff legisla-
tion.
He said he did not get an oppor-
tunity to present much of an argyll
ment" since he was answering questions
most of the time, and added that he
and means committee in connection
with the pending tariff bill, but made
no argument.
Asked by Chairman Caraway IL he
told the finance committee he was a
paid representative Of sugar interests,
the witness said he thought he did.
He said the United States Sugar As
ISOLATION maintained a Washington or
flee to handle statistical information
and dealt with tariff matters only "in-
cidentally."
His employment with the sugar asso.
citation, he said, started in 1923, when
he appeared before the Tariff Commits
sion in an effort to obtain reduction
In the Cuban sugar duty.
Worked for Lower Duty.
Shattuck said all his activities had
been toward obtaining lower duty on
sugar. In answer to questions about his
compensation, he testified he had re-
ceived $4,000 year for "three or four
years" from the Czarnikow Co. of New
York and $4,000 or $25,000 from the
United States Sugar Association for his
work before the Tariff Commission. He
added he had also represented the
american Association of Mill Owners in
Cuba and the American Chamber of
Commerce Of Cuba, but added he had
received nothing from the sugar inter-
eSts this year.
How much do you expect to re-
ceive?" Senator Robinson, Republican,
Indiana, asked him.
Expects $25,OOO or More.
Shattuck replied he expected to get
$4,000 or more, including pay for his
appearance before the lobby committee.
The witness said he was formerly in
the employ of the Government with
the sugar equalization board from 1917
until a couple of years ago." when its
affairs were nquidated.
Caraway told the witness he was
curious to know why so many persons
having employment with the Govern
ment are employed later by interests
seeking Government favor"
Evening star., 1929-11-15
NO COMMENT HERE.
Proposal Of 10-1O-7 Ratio Is Regarded
MS Dangerous, However.

No comment has been Forthcoming
from Washington officials on the ad-
vices from Toxic that the American and
British governments would object to q
10-10-7 ratio in auxiliary naval ships
for Japan at the naval conference In
London.
State Department ofacials declined to
comment, but authoritative circles made
it known that the principal objection of
the United States to q 10-10-7 ratio is
based on the belief that q demand by
the Japanese for such an increase over
the $3.50 ratio set for capital ships at
the Washington arms conference might
have a generally unfavorable effect on
the naval parley.
Question for Conference.
The question has been discussed be-
tween department officials and Ambas-
Sador Debuchi OF Japan, and 1t Is un-
derstood that officials here consider 1t
one for the conference. It also will be
taken up with the Japanese delegation
when they arrive here en- route from
Toxic to London next month.
It was pointed out that the attitude
preaching the conference is one Of IA
Voring reduction in naval tonnage.
Danger in Proposal.
For one nation, whether it be Japan,
italy or France, to enter the conference
with a demand for a higher ratio might
lead to similar demands by other pow
ers, it was said. These demands could
thus become sufficiently large to cause
the agreement to be much higher in the
assigned tonnages than had been hoped
for under the reduction policy Of Presi-
dent Hoover.
The question is considered a particu-
Iarly delicate one, In view of the fact
that France and Italy are involved In a
similar one.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
BOY Of IS GETS
DEATH SENTENCE
CoIored Youth Convicted of
Killing Filling Station At
tendant in HoId-up.

James Elmer Crawford, 1s years old,
colored, was sentenced to death today
by Chief Justice Mccoy in Criminal
Division 3 for the killing of Philbert
Bitner, manager of gas filling sta
ton at Sixth street and Rhode Island
avenue, last Thanksgiving night. The
electrocution was set for February 26,
1890. q "IIEHH
The chief justice characterized as
lacking in humanity" the form Of SEN
tence made necessary by the law sub
Stituting the electric chair for the gal
lows in this District.
Under 1t the prisoner is obliged to
listen while the court directs that he
be returned to the jail and there kept
in close confinement until the date for
his execution, when he is to be placed
In the electric chair and a charge of
electricity of specified voltage Is caused
to pass through his body, and in the
event he is not dead after the first
charge that a second application be
made of the death-dealing current, to
be continued by recurring charges until
he is dead. The reading of the sentence
takes about 10 minutes, it is estimated.
Crawford, with three companions, at
tempted to hold up the station man
ager. Bitner was shot and killed. Carl
M. Terry, also colored, was tried with
Crawford, but was acquitted by the jury.
Benjamin Branson, colored, obtained a
separate trial, and testified for the
putting the pistol In the
hands of Crawford. Joseph Hardy, coll
ored, the fourth member of the gang,
has never been apprehended.
Assistant United States Attorney Neil
BurkinShaw represented the Govern
ment, while Attorney John H. Wilson
appeared for Crawford. Wilson noted
an appeal to the Court of Appeals.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
HONOR PAID MEMORY
OF Won STEUBEN HERE
Concord Club Conducts Exercises
at Monument on 199th
Anniversary.

The 199th birthday anniversary of
Gen. Won Steuben, staff officer Of
Frederick the Great and military dici-
plinarian under George Washington.
was commemorated this morning at the
Van Steuben Monument, Jackson place
and H street, at exercises arranged by
the Concord Club.
Two wreaths, presented by the Con-
cord Club and the German embassy,
we're placed at the base of the monu-
ment. DR.. j. G. Lohmann, first Secre-
tary of the German embassy, repre-
sented his country at the exercises. DR..
Paul Gleis, professor at Catholic Uni
versity, was master of ceremonies.
Two commemorative addresses were
delivered. DR.. George M. Kober, dean
emeritus of the Georgetown Medical
School, and Dr. william Notz, dean Of
the Georgetown Foreign Service School,
in their respective addresses, stressed
the historic and moral value Of Won
Steubsn's example of patriotic service.
The Concord Club anniversary COM
mittee included: DR.. GleiS, Alfred
Machler. Richard Brauner and H. G.
Winkler.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
SENATE INCREASES
TARIFF ON CHERRIES
Finance Committee Propo-
sails Are Rejected and
House Rates Used.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Increases in the tariff rates on cher
.SAs ranging from l to 200 per cent,
we're approved today by the Senate.
Finance committee amendments rec
ommending increases over present rates
on cherries. Sulphured or in brine, and
on the smaller varieties imported from
italy and used extensively by Eastern
manufacturers, were rejected and the
higher House rates adopted.
THE House provided duty OF S12
cents a pound on these with stems and
pits, as against cents in existing law,
and a rate of 9l2 cents pound on
cherries with stems and pits removed,
as compared with 3 cents now in
effect.
Maraschino Levy Is Increased.
Approval was given the committee
proposal to increase the levy on Mara
schino cherries and cherries preserved
or frozen with sugar added, from 40
per cent ad valcrem to 5H2 cents
pound and 40 per cent, the same as
provided in the House bill.
The finance committee had proposed
lower duties on sulphured cherries
making over 900 to the gallon and
higher tariffs on those counting less
than 900.
This subject was raised as considera-
ton of the agriculture schedule was re-
sumed with Senator Edge, Republican,
New Jersey, the American Ambassador
designate to France, insisting the Italian
cherry had a peculiar taste most pleas
ing to Americans. He asserted the pro-
posed rate on the product would be
tantamount to an embargo.
johnson Wakes Sarcastic.
Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New
York, Joined him in his argument. The
New Yorker explained this type OF
cherry was used extensively by Eastern
candy, pastry and ice cream manufac-
turers.
Assailing Edges position, Senator
johnson, Republican, of California, said
protection to some Eastern high tartn
advocates seems to depend upon
whether within shotgun distance OF
them there is an importer or Gamer
of an imported product"
That's not my idea of the principle
of prote ction," johnson asserted, adding
that domestic growers virtually had
been eliminated from Eastern markets
because manufacturers in New Jersey,
MARYLAND and other Eastern States
could obtain Italian cherries at a lower
price.
Senator Dill. Democrat, Of Washing
ton, said small cherries could be grown
on the Pacific Coast, but at present this
was not profitable. The higher tarIn,
he argued, would raise the price and
make domestic production OF the small
cherry profitable.
Evening star., 1929-11-15

following would be fruitleSs when they
came to Lewark and heard his story.
The motorman of Lewark'S car was
j. T. Green. He was questioned by the
Department of Justice, but is under
stood to have given no information Of
special interest.
Lewark declared today that a myste-
riouS motorist attempted to run him
down near his home the other night.
I'm prepared for anything that
might happen to me-" Lewark remarked.
Mcpherson, when first questioned by
police. said he attended an athletic club
meeting about o'clock on the night of
September IL, accompanied some Of the
club members to their homes after the
meeting broke up late at night, stopped
in to pay visit TO the home of his
aunt, Mrs. Donald Mcpherson, and re-
tired at the home of his parents some
time around 1 o'clock. Club members,
the aunt, and the parents Of the ac-
cused youth have verified his account
OF his movements.
A large numberNof the club members
and other friends of the husband were
summoned to testify today. Mrs. Dom
aid Mcpherson and her daughter, Miss
Alice Mcpherson also appeared at the
grand jury room with subpoenas.
Among the club members were Rob-
=
nor. James White, D. G. Lockett, w,
j. Armstrong, Adrian Smith and Give
S. Wilson.
Policeman Lawrence Bolts, former
partner of Robert j. Allen, suspended
policeman, was questioned by the grand
jury this morning regarding Aliens
claim that Bolts was with him when he
saw a man on low roof outside the
Mcpherson apartment early on the
morning of September IS. Bolts failed
to corroborate Aliens assertion when
hrSt questioned by reporters and by his
Super1orS. 1t Is reported he denied to
the Department of Justice that he was
with Allen when the incident is sup
posed to have occurred.
Others who testified today or who
awaited their turn were Policeman Ruby
Downs OF No. precinct, who inVesti-
gated an alleged attempt of Mrs. Nc
PherSon to commit suicide by inhaling
gas during her residence at the High
View apartments; S. NJ. Perkins, colored
janitor OF the High View, who says he
was called by Mcpherson to help re-
strain Mrs. Mcpherson from beating
her head against a wall during q ut
of hysteria; Detective Sergt. Joseph
Waldron, who went to New York to
interview DR.. Thomas Ballard, close
friend Of Mrs. Mcpherson: Inspector
William s. Shelby, former head of the
Detective Bureau, who lost that command
after the previous grand jury had ac-
cuSed him of inefaciency in investigat-
ing the Park Lane case, and Eugene r.
Weisbender, occupant of an apartment
across the corridor from that of the
McPherson'S in the Park Lane, who told
the previous grand jury he did not hear
any screams on the fatal night, al
though the door to his apartment was
open all night; Herbert r. Corn, city
editor Of The Star, and Rex Collier
member. Of The Star staff.
Evening star., 1929-11-15

-
irrespective Of the sound value of such
securities.
The effect Of such an enhancement.
in the opinion of the investing public
toward bonds and first mortgages. is ex-
pected to be stimulus to many busi-
nesSes which have been planning ex-
pansion and which are capable of being
bonded or mortgaged on a basis of 6
per cent. The readjustment in money
rates, therefore, being accomplished by
the Federal Reserve banks has definite
relationship to an expected improvement
In business.
Significant Lesson.
Perhaps the most significant lesson
that has been learned by the Federal
Reserve In the last year is that the
direct pressure" policy will no longer
be disputed, II 1t is necessary to put
1t into effect in emergencies Impor-
tance OF reducing the number of collat-
eral loans was emphasized by the Fed
eral Reserve banks in their contact
with member banks, but the policy was
accepted reluctantly. Now that q sud-
oen collapse In the stock market has
Illustrated the dangers of making loans
on what appeared at the time to be
sufficient collateral it Is considered
that the banks themselves will be eau
ttouS in any new loans for stock market
speculation in the future.
The existence of the direct pressure"
period in Federal Reserve history this
year viii constitute precedent which
1t Is believed will make unnecessary
any specific legislation or further au-
thority for the Federal Reserve Board.
In any respect. the whole episode may
be regarded as part of an evolution of
the Federal Reserve system itself, so
much so that the Federal Reserve is
reducing rediscount rates now with
abundant confidence that it is no longer
running the risks that cheap money
has brought in the past.
(Copyright, 1a39)
Evening star., 1929-11-15
LANDS COMMISSION
LIST MADE PUBLIC
James A. Garfield Heads
Presidents Conservation
Administration Body.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Wilbur today made public
the full list of the Presidents Commis-
sion on Conservation and Administra-
ton of Public Lands. They were:
James r. Garfield, chairman, Cleve-
land, Ohio; Elwood Mead, Commissioner
Of Reclamation, Washington, D. c.; I.
NJ Brandjord, Helena, Mont; r. K.
Tiffany. Olympia, Wash; Rudolph
Kuchler, Phoenix, Ariz.; Charles j.
Moynihan, Montrose, Colo; George w.
Malone. Carson City, New; william
Peterson, Logan, Utah; I. H. Nash,
Boise, Idaho; Perry Jenkins, Big Piney,
Wyo.; E. c. Van Petten, Ontario, Oreg.;
Wallace Townsend, Little Rock, Ark; |;
H. o. Bursum, Socorro, N. Mex; George
Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday
Evening Post, Philadelphia; James p.
Goodrich, Winchester, Ind; Gardner
Cowles. Des Moines, Iowa; Huntley
Spaulding, Rochester, N. H.; Col. W. B.
Greeley, Seattle, Wash, and Mary
Roberts Rinehart, Washington, D. c.
Secretary Wilbur and Secretary Hyde
will be eX officio members of the COM
mission. For the present the group will
operate upon the basis Of voluntary
service. Congress, however, will be
asked to provide funds and congress
sional authority as early in December
as possible.
The commission viii have before 1t
as one of the flrSt problems for con-
sideration a proposal made by both
e. lkasSrs
that the public domain be turned over
for management to the public land
States.
The ckairmen of the House and Sem
ate committees on public lands and on
agriculture have been asked by Chair
man Garfield to attend the first meet
ing, to be held here November %.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
DARING THIEVES LOSE.

DANvILLE. KY, November is (P1-
Two or more daring, husky and un-
lucky burglars selected the Boyle County
courthouse, in the middle of this city's
business section, for their scene Of oper-
ations last night.
They bored auger holes around a
window lock and got into the county
clerks Office. They smashed open the
vault door with big hammers and used
their auger to remove locks from all
the inner compartments and drawers.
Apparently they got nothing for their
trouble.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
TO DISCUSS RATING
Rules on Working Conditions tt
Be Placed Before Meeting
Tomorrow.

A meeting of the School System
Branch of Local No. 80, Federal En-
ployes' Union, is to take place tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Business
High School.
The purpose of the meeting is outlined
by the president of the local organiza-
ton, Mr.. j. A. Johnson as follows:
To bring the custodial employees into
closer relationship with one another, for
the establishment of a maximum wrok-
ing day of hours with pay for all over
time, for 80 days annual and is days
sick leave, the sick leave to be cumula-
tive to 100 days, for the establishment
of an equitable efficiency rating system
so that employees eligible for increases in
salary may receive them when due, and
to increase the efficiency of those em-
ployed in the custodial service and CO.
operate with the Board of Education
and school officials in their efforts to
raise the standard of the service.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
DEATH OF WORKMAN
is HELD ACCIDENTAL
Coroner's Jury Gives Verdict on
Fatal Plunge From Treasury
Scaffolding,

A coroner's jury today decided that
Carlton L. Wright, 36-year-old work.
man, of Baltimore. Md, met his death
when he fell from the roof of the
Treasury Building, on which he was
working, shortly after noon yesterday
as the result of an accident. The man
died at Emergency Hospital, without
regaining consciousness, a few minutes
after he had been taken there. Death
was due to a fractured skull.
Testimony brought out at the in
quest this morning disclosed that
Wright was securing the scaffold near
the roof of the building preparatory to
support gave way and Wright plunged
four stories.
His body landed IN the northwest
courtyard Of the Treasury Building.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
YALE-PRINCET0N GAME
TO BE HEARD OVER AIR
University Club Has Been Secured
by Old Grads to
Listen In.

For the benefit of Yale and Prince
ton old grads who will not be able to
attend the annual Princeton foot
ball game at New Haven, the Capital
Alumni Associations of the two univer-
sites have secured the lounge room of
the University Club, fitted it with radio
and will hold an informal reception
there tomorrow afternoon during the
broadcast of the game.
The broadcast, it is announced, will
begin at 2 o'clock and continue until
the final whistle of the game, coming
over Station WRC.
Evening star., 1929-11-15

cided to slow down construction Of the
Singapore base.
Mainichi Shimbun in q cynical vein
remarked freedom Of the seas means
gle"
Hochi Shimbun saw in the British
American agreement on parity IAN In
tention to sacrifice Japan to their own
selfish interests"
These comments were taken rust as
straws in the wind in some quarters TO
indicate growth Of slightly resentful
feeling that Great Britain and America
are immersed in solving their own con-
sufficient attention to those with which
Japan IS faced.
NO COMMENT HERE.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
Children Die of Food Poisoning.

ST. LOUIS, November IS @.-A
final examination of the viscera OF Del
mer and Elmer Reppy, 3-year-old twin
sons of Mr.. ard Mrs Eugene Reppy,
who died suddenly November at Cuba,
Mo. disclosed that their deaths was
caused by food poisoning,
Evening star., 1929-11-15
Engineer Crushed to Death.

WILLMAR, MINI, November is [P1.
George Rothwell, So. of Sioux City
Iowa, engineer, was killed today when
two Great Northern passenger trains
sideswiped at an intersection here. He
was crushed under his locomotive, which
left the. rails and. turned. over.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
APPOINTED A CADET.

AA"A'Sy d AAAsAeJ' "A'' N"Nueu Uy
President for West Point Honor.
Harvey D. Higley, jr., of the Cordova,
Florida avenue and Twentieth street,
has been appointed by the President a
cadet-at-large at the United States Mil
itary Academy, subject TO qualification
at the entrance examination next
March.
Similar appointments have been
given to Robert H. Lacey, Stockton,
Calf: William Brinsmead, jr., and
Wash; John L. Throckmorton, Kansas
City, Mo-; John A. Watson. Newport,
r. l.: Shelby v. Gamble, Omaha, Nebr.,
and william B. Roberts. Philadelphia,
Evening star., 1929-11-15
HEAD OF CLASSROOM
TEACHERS VISITS D. C.
Miss Eula F. Hunter Here on
Plans for Summer Meeting of
National Education Association.

Miss Eula F. Hunter, president of
the department of classroom teachers
of the National Education Association,
arrived at the National Education AS
sociation headquarters in Washington
today to confer with members of the
headquarters staff on plans for the
Summer meeting of the association to
be held in Columbus, Ohio, in July.
Among other matters for discussion at
this conference are the research pro-
ject on character education undertaken
by the department Of classroom teach
ers and the Fifth Yearbook, the annual
publication of the department.
Miss Hunter is a teacher of mathe-
MATES in the Stripping Senior High
school at Fort Worth, Tex She was
elected president of the classroom de-
partment, enrolling 100000 members
at the Atlanta meeting Of the National
Education Association last July.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
One Auto in 1904 Parade.

There was only one automobile IN
the Roosevelt Inauguration parade In
1904.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
TOXIC INTIMATES
CRITICAL STAGE IN
NAVAL CUT PLANS

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Evening star., 1929-11-15
CONDUCTOR TO SAY
HE SAW MCPHERSON
NIGHT OF TRAGEDY

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Evening star., 1929-11-15
DRY CASES PAPERS
ARE MISSING FROM
POLICE COURT FILES

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Evening star., 1929-11-15
Expects $4,000 or More.
"STABILlzER" SEEN
IN RATE REDUCTION
BY RESERVE BANKS

Continued From First PaRel
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-29
Plane Smokes Start Fires
EOrcS1

SnIlcI VI CUJCStSp
During the last year reports ascribed an occasional
forest fire to burning cigars and cigarcts thrown from
passing airplanes. Recently there has been some dis
cussion of this possibility among f~oresters and ~aviators.
A wide difference Of opinion has prevailed as to whether
a butt dropped from q swiftly moving plane would con-
tinuc to burn until 1t reached the ground. Many be-
lieved the propeller blast might snuff out the fire.
For the purpose Of securing some dependable informa-
ton on tho subject experiments were conducted at
Spokane. using a forest patrol airplane and ordinary
cigars and cigarets.
Tests were first made from attitudes Of approximately
1000 feet. To enable observers to trace the cigars and
cigarets from the plane to the ground a brightly colored
cotton cloth streamer was attached to each smoke" OF
six lighted cigars dropped. five were recovered. all burn
ing when picked up from the field. OF seven cigarets
dropped one was not recovered. two were out when recov-
cred, two were still burning when picked up from the
field.
These tests demonstrated convincingly that a large
percentage of smokes thrown from planes at attitudes
up TO 1000 feet above ground are still burning after they
have landed.
With the growth Of commercial aviation 1t may be-
come desirable to adopt measures to prevent the throw
ing OF lighted butts from the windows Of ~airplanes.
Possibly the easiest and most effective steps will lead
along the lines Of placing warning placards in the
cabins Of planes during danger periods and inducing
operators and plane manufacturers to provide convent
ent rcceptacles for butts II smoking is to be permitted
in the cabins Of passenger carrying planes.