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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12
GENERALS AMONG
F|DAC DELEGATES
Seven World War Com.
f. manderS to Attend Con-
| cIave Here Thursday.

Seven World War generals will be
among delegates from nine European
nations expected here Thursday to at
tend three-day session of the eleventh
annual congress Of Fidac, an interna-
tional association of ex-service men who
saw duty on the battlefields of France.
President Hoover will receive the Wis
itors at the White House Thursday
afternoon.
The European visitors, who arrive in
New York Monday, are bringing as a
present to the American Legion a ia
iniliar souvenir of the war, an ancient
French box car bearing the inscription,
40 hommes-8 chevaus." The car.
prototypes of which were known to
every doughboy, will be exhibited at the
American Legion Convention in Boston
next month and then placed perma-
nently in New York City.
The visitors. at the opening session
here Thursday, will hear addresses of
welcome by Map. o. L. Bodenhamer,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12

national commander Of the American
Legion; Mrs. Lowell f. Hobart, presi-
dent general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution; Mai. Gen. Her
bert B. Crosby. District Commissioner,
and Mrs. Donald Macrae, president OF
the American Legion Auxiliary. The
White House reception will take place
at pm. and in the evening of the
same day they will be rendered dinner
by Gen John j. Pershing at the Ward
man Park Hotel.
During their stay here the delegates
will be quartered at the Carlton and
willard Hotels At the close OF the
washington sessions Fidac special train
will bear the Legion's guests on tour
which will carry them to many OF the
principal points of interest in the East,
including the West Point and Annapolis
Academies.
The washington Fidac Committee on
arrangements is headed by Mai. Juilus
I. Peyser.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12
HOOVER TO SELECT
FLETCHER AIDES
President to Complete Tariff
Commission Before
Next Tuesday.
BY TIE Associated Press.

BY tire Associated Press.
President Hoover is to complete be-
fore next Tuesday the new Tariff Com
mission which is to administer what
he considers the outstanding step" Of
the revised tariff legislation-its flexible
provisions.
With Henry p. Fletcher of Pennsyl-
vania as its chairman, the new COM
mission will supplant the old upon the
expiration on September l6 of the 90
day period allotted the President by
Congress for recognizing the personnel.
The Chief Executive has selected al
ready, in addition to Chairman Fletcher.
Thomas Walker Page of Virginia, a
Democrat, who was chairman of the
commission under President Wilson.
The names Of the other four members
selected are to be announced after
week end conferences with Chairman
Fletcher.
Reports have been current for some
time that chairman and vice chair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12
Texas Man Executed.

HUNTSVILLE, Tex, September IL
CF).-Jesse Lee Washington, colored
was executed at the State Penitentiary
here at 1913 am. today for the murder
of white woman. Luz ARGOS, Mexican.
sentenced to die in the electric chair
early today, was granted weeks stay
by Gov. Dan Moody.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12
TARGET SHIP BURNS
UNDER TORPEDO FIRE
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KEEL. Germany, September 1.-THE
German naval target ship Zaehringen
was set afire when struck by. a torpedo
yesterday and six FIRE boats were UNI
able to quench the flames after the
veteran vessel was lowed into the har-
Dor. Authorities believed that only the
hull could be saved.
The zaehringen was constructed as a
ship of the line about 80 years ago and
after the World War was converted into
a target ship directed by wireless.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12

italy expects larger corn crop than
last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12
FORD PLANT INCREASES
Atlanta Unit Will Add $50 En-
ployes and rs Cars.

ATLANTA, September IL P).-The
Atlanta Ford Motor Co. plant, accord
ing to announcement today, will start
Monday on an increased production
schedule With $50 additional employees.
The new schedule calls for 25 additional
car units a day in the plant, bringing
the total to 1856 cars day.
The birth rate for England and Wales
last year was the lowest ever recorded.
1853 per 1000 population.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12
Mems Plain and Fancy Socks

Silk hose reinforced with rayon, in black navy II -
and grey fancy hose in celanese and rayon -Four -
mixtures; Isle top and heel; sizes 10 to H. Pairs
w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
TEMPERATURE OF "A
FORECAST TONIGHT
Drop in Mercury Here Will
Be Preceded by Light
Rains.

The return of wintry weather to
Washington was foreshadowed by the
Weather Bureaus forecast today that
temperatures should drop to "a degrees
tonight. preceded by light rains.
1t will be partly cloudy and much
colder tonight and tomorrow, the bu-
reau said. Yesterday a high mark of
20 degrees was recorded with the lowest
recording 81. A 24-degree mark to-
night would mark 46-degree change
in 80 hours. At 1890 o'clock today
the recording was 5s degrees.
Temperature Above Normal.
The mean temperatures in the Wash
ington area In November, December and
January through the 9th was given
as 44.8 degrees, 4 degrees higher than
the same period q year ago.
Only the Middle Atlantic and South
eastern States were immune from cold
wave which spread over the country to-
day.
California and the Pacific Coast
shivered in subnormal temperatures as
heavy snow fell in the mountains.
Billiards swept eastward from the
Rockies, spreading cold and snow lar
into the Southwest and across the West
ern plains and prairieS.
A second edition of a blizzard which
visited the Midwest just before Christ
mas held that section in its spell and
the countryside lay covered with from
8 to Is inches Of snow.
Streams Out of Banks.
Unreasonable rains fell from chilly
gray skies in the Central Mississippi
Valley and streams In Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Arkansas and Mississippi were
out of their banks.
Tumbling mercury heralded the re-
turn Of Winter to New England as fall
ing rain turned into sleet and ice.
New York, Philadelphia and other
points southwark along the Atlantic
also reported declining temperatures
which during the past few days have
brought Spring-like weather.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
REGIONAL MARKETING
BODY IS DISFAVORED
Six Kansas Co-operatives Object to
Establishment in Southwest
ern Wheat Area.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., January 10.-Six
cooperative grain marketing agencies
operating in Kansas were on record to-
day as opposed to establishment Of
regional marketing association in the
Southwestern wheat area under auspices
of the Federal Farm Board and the
Farmers National Grain Corporation.
Opposition of the cooperative organi-
cations was expressed yesterday in a
formal resolution presented at a con-
ference attended by James G. Stone,
vice chairman, and Samuel r. McKelvie,
a member of the Federal Farm Board;
officers of the Farmers National and
sntatives of Kansas farm organi-
cations.
The six organizations went on record
as opposing "the establishment of any
other association or agency contrary to
the plans and policies adopted by the
Farmers National Grain Corporation
and approved by the Fedsral Farm
Board"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
STUDENT COMMITS
SUICIDE WITH GAS
Leo Chase Seals Doors and
Windows of Room to
Insure Death.

After deliberately insuring death by
Theoretically sealing window and door
crevices, over which he had pasted
heavy wrapping paper, Leo Chase, 49,
year-old student at Emerson Institute
and brother of Drs. Alexander and
William Chase of ITO Rhode Island
avenue, was found dead this morning
in a gas-filled room of rooming house
at 1908 H street.
Applying for a room at the house
early yesterday evening. Chase. Mrs.
Elmer Sunderman, the landlady, said,
stated he was resident Of Baltimore
seeking employment in Washington.
Though slightly disturbed by the
nervous manner of the young man, who
asked if the folding doors to his room
could not be more securely closed, Mrs.
Sunderman noticed nothing untoward
in the house until 10 o'clock this morn
ing, when she detected the odor of es-
Gaping gas. Tracing the fumes to the
second floor room of Chase, she broke
through the paper-sealed door and
found the body PROSTATE on the bed.
The Rescue Squad and Emergency
ambulance responded to the emergency
call, but death had resulted several
hours previously.
Investigation of the room by Detec-
tive Thomas F. Sweeney, of the homi-
eide squad, revealed a death" note,
written in Russian. Fragments of
destroyed letter lay scattered about the
room. The name of Leo Chase was en-
graved on a black pocketbook, which
contained the record of Christmas saw
ings account at the Franklin National
Bank.
At the first precinct. following the
identification of his brothers body at
the morgue, DR.. Alexander Chase said
that Leo had been respondent and un-
nerved during the past few weeks. How
ever, he could advance no leading mo-
tive for his brothers act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
HOOVER SUGGESTS
STAGGER SCHEDULE
War Time Scheme Relieves
Traffic Congestion Caused
by Rush Hours.

The proposed staggered schedule for
opening and closing of Government
offices, relieving the rush-hour burden
on Washington's downtown highway
system, received recognition from the
White House today when President
Hoover forwarded the suggestion to
Government department heads for
their consideration.
The staggered schedule was used here
during the war. According to the pro-
posed scheme, one-third of the Gov
eminent offices would open at s:45
am. and close at AIS pm, one-third
would open at 9 and close at 4;3o as
at present. and the, remaining third
would open at 9:15 and close at 4.45.
At intervals of perhaps six months the
opening and closing dates would be
interchanged among the various Offices
so as not to work a hardship on any
particular class of employees.
Whether the scheme will ever be
worked out is not known at this time.
At present it is simply in the stage
where the White House has requested
opinions from all of the executive
branches in the various independent
establishments. It is not known
whether the response has been favor
able or otherwise.
This proposal has been taken up
many times in the past with the Public
Utilities Commission. Street car heads
have complained that since most of the
population riding the cars wishes to be
delivered at point opposite some Gov
ment building between $50 and am
the burden put on the rolling stock at
this time is heavier than it can COM
fortably bear.
Although this problem has been much
discussed in the past, no move has ever
been made toward solving it.
Looking towards the future, however,
when great many Government units
will be collected on either side of Penn
Sylvania avenue, 1t will appear that
the problem will be intensified rather
than otherwise. This has given the move
for staggered hours new impetus.
Acting Secretary Jahncke, on behalf
Of the Navy Department, has recon-
mended, in response to the inquiry
that his department begin work at 8:45
o'clock In the morning and quit at
AIS o'clock. He considers, after in
vestigation among the various bureaus
of the department, that the proposal
to stagger traffic is feasible.
Maj. V. l.. Peterson, assistant direc-
tor of public buildings and public parks
who is studying the recommendations of
the various Government agencies, has
not as yet received replies from all con-
cerned The Office of Lieut.. Col. U. S.
Grant, Sd, director of public buildings
and public parks, has not made public
the content of any of the recommends
tions thus far received.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
HELD UNCHRISTIAN
BY SCTIAFER IN SCATT1ING SPEECH
Wisconsin Legislator De-
CIares Dry Law Is Cause
of Corruption.
Also Charges Supporters of
Liquor Act Fear Open
Hearings on Subject.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press,
The assertion that prohibition has
"ushered in an age of corruption, in
temperance, disrespect for law and con-
tempt for government such as this Ma
ton never before witnessed" was made
today in the House by Representative
Schafer, Republican, Wisconsin.
Making a charge that the "Consti-
tuition has been changed from charter
Of rights and liberties into a criminal
statute book" the Wisconsin Repre-
sentative asked:
How can people respect a Constitu-
ton that makes the act of temperance
crime?"
Granted an hour by consent of the
House, Schafer spoke on the subject of
Prohibition Versus Christianity"
You must choose between prohibition
and the Christian religion" he said.
You cannot have both, for they are
eternal opposites.
AN unbridgeable gulf separates one
from the other, with God and Christ
standing on one side and the drys on
the other"
without mentioning names, Schafer
said: THE recent hysterical outburst of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
SMOOT RECOUNTS BLESSINGS
AS HE CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
Dean of Republicans in Senate Is Honored by Sons or
68th Anniversary.

Of Indiana, Harrison of Mississippi, La
Toilette of Wisconsin and Halves Of
Missouri, Ogden Mills, Underecretary
Of the Treasury; Ariel F. Carbon, chief
examiner of the Federal Farm Loan
Board and son-in-law of the Senator:
l.. e. Jeffries, vice president of the
Southern Railway: Robert Fleming,
president of Riggs National Bank; D. C.
Green, Electric Bond g. Share Co.;
Royal r. McKenna, Washington attor-
ney; A. M. Nevius, vice president Of
Riggs National Bank; Clarence Biting,
managing director Of the Fisher Cor
poration, Detroit; John L. Hopkins and
Roy j. Barnett, Chicago attorneys; Max
Wulfsohn of New York and Clifford
Bergman of The Washington Star.
whose cartoons of Smoot have delighted
the Utahan for years.
Secretary Mellon, William A. Fisher
Of Detroit and DR.. Francis Trudeau of
Saranac Lake, N. Y, expressed regret
that they could not attend because OF
previous engagements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
First Lord of Admiralty, in
Address, Says Latter Fig
ure Represents Minimum
Needs.
NAVY EXPERTS OF US.
HOPING FOR SUCCESS
Franoo-Italian Breach Over Rome's
Naval Parity Proposal Clouds
Forthcoming Arms Conference
Which Opens This Month in
London.

By the Associated Press.
SHEFFIELD, England, January
10.-A. v. Alexander, first lord of
the admiralty, and one of the
British delegates to the forthconl-
ing Naval Disarmament Confer
ence, announced in an address
this evening that Great Britain
would go to the conference pre-
pared to agree to reduce her cruz
sers from 10 to so. The latter
figure, he declared, represented
the minimum needs of the empire
under present conditions.
Mr.. Alexander said that while, after
the washington conference, the ad-
nliralty had agreed that 70 cruisers
were necessary for defense OF Great
Britain's worldwide vital sea commune
cations, 1--WE now have taken to account
the new situation which has arisen
through signature of the pact OF Paris
outlawing war by most of the nations
of the world"
"The admiralty, therefore, having re-
gard for all the circumstances of the
dav and especially the pact OF Paris
and the improved world relationship,
are prepared to agree to so cruisers as
the minimum of the empire up to the
next date for conference and revision
which we expect will be near 1885," ne
added.
The first lord further explained that
this figure is the lowest we feel can
he fixed to meet even the peace condi-
tions in present world circles"
He added, however, that "f, unhap-
pily. the international horizon should
become in the future less unclouded
than it Is today, IL viii he upon the
board of admiralty to review their posi-
ton and make further proposals to his
majesty's government"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
PRESIDENT YIELDS
ON CRIME REPORT
Will Submit Enforcement Re-
port Monday for Considera-
ton in Irregular" Way.
BY the Associated Press.

Faced with a Discrimination of House
Republican leaders to have prohibition
matters considered by joint congress
sional committee, President Hoover de-
cided today to transmit the first report
of the Law Enforcement Commission
to Congress on Monday.
Previously, announcement had been
made that the recommendations, which
deal with several different phases Of
the prohibition enforcement problem,
would be sent to Congress as soon as
the joint committee had been created.
The Senate adopted resolution for
such a committee, but the House rules
committee has failed to act upon 1t.
Chairman Smell having announced,
In agreement with Speaker Longworth
and Majority Leader Tilson, that it
was desired to handle the commits
sion's recommendations in the regular
way, it was stated at the White House
that the President would place the
various administrative officials Of the
Government at the disposal Of the
regular House committees.
Quick Action Suggested.
It also was stated at the White House
that the whole question in its present
tangled form could be expedited by the
several regular House committees tax
ing up the proposals directly and i'm
mediately.
It was added that the White House
had no interest in the question of par
liamentary procedure, desired only ex-
petition of legislation and would adapt
itself entirely to the wishes Of the
House leaders in any method they
might adopt for early consideration Of
the recomme ndations.
The nature of the recommendations
which the Law Enforcement Commits
sion made to the President last month
commission Offices and the White
House. The reports will be made public
with their submission to Congress.
Firm In Support of President.
Speaker Longworth in formal state
ment today said 1.-The majority party OF
the House stands firm in its support Of
the President upon all measures which
he deems necessary for the proper en-
forcement of all laws Of the United
States"
If any one has received the impress
sion that there is any "break" between
the House and the administration it
should be corrected, the Speakers state
ment said.
Some of us thought that prompter
and more effective action with regard
to various phases of law enforcement
could be had through the regularly
organized committees of the House
rather than through special joint
committee, because, as provided in the
Senate resolution, even after action by
committee the bills would have to
be referred to various standing COM
mitteeS for final action
Perhaps the most important of the
various enforcement bills on the ad-
ministration program is that transfer
ring the prohibition enforcement divi-
sion in the Treasury Department to the
Department Of Justice. I understand
Continued on Page Q, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
ORTIZ RUBIO VIEWS
SCENERY OF CANYON
Declines to Tell His Plans Other
Than Pacific Coast Trip
Will Be Omitted.

BY the Associated Press.
GRAND CANYON, Ariz., January 10.
Scenic spots in the Grand Canyon
country today held the interest of Pas
cual Ortiz Rubio, President-elect Of
Mexico, who, with members of his fam
lily and official staff, is resting here be-
fore returning to the Southern republic.
Senior Ortiz Rubio yesterday declined
to forecast definitely what his future
would be, beyond the fact
that he plans to return to Mexico with
out visiting the Pacific Coast.
Gonzalo N. Santos, president of the
permanent joint committee of Mexico's
Congress, said in Los Angeles that his
information was that the Ortiz Rubio
party would 60 from Grand Canyon to
Nogales, Sonora. via Prescott, Phoenix
and Tucson, and thence to Mexico City
by way of the Mexican west coast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
Kansas City Gold
Prospectors Quit
After Striking Pay
BY the Associated Press.

KANSAS CITY, January 10
Kansas Cityans, whose civic pride
has been rocked recently with
such frontier manifestations as a
wolf hunt and a forest fire, both
within the city limits, gasped sew
eral times yesterday when two
gold seekers with shovels and a
sieve commenced prospecting OPP
erations on a downtown street
corner.
A puzzled crowd collected as
the two miners industriously
sifted shovel after shovel of snow
through the sieve.
PAY snow" was struck in the
form of a gold watch. The time
piece had been lost earlier in the
day by Joseph Neal as he was
Shoveling snow from q sidewalk.
The two miners" left the scene
after splitting a $40 reward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10

Reed Smoot OF Utah, dean of Repub-
rcans in the Senate and indefatigable
worker, celebrated his sixty-eighth
birthday today with these words:
ct am drawing dividends on the life
! have lived since boyhood. I've never,
never drank liquor in my life. I've
never smoked. I've always eaten GOOD,
plain food and loved work. never was
lazy and never saw a time when I
didn't have plenty to DO.
1--WE wronged nobody. was for
tunate in marrying as perfect young
woman as ever lived. My children have
had q marvellous mother, a superb
homemaker. OF all the blessings re-
ceived by me, she was the greatest.
! Senator Smoot added the last with
. touch Of feeling. His wife, who was
Alpha May Eldredge, died November z,
1928. There are two sons, Harold and
Ernest. Both gave a luncheon at the
Capitol today in honor of their fathers
birthday. Those attending included:
Vice President Curtis, Senators Watson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
DECEMBER RETAIL TRADE SHOWN
LARGER LAST YEAR THAN IN 1928
Federal Reserve Board Review Reveals Richmond District
Including D. c., First in Country.

Christmas trade in the department
stores of this Federal Reserve district,
which has headquarters at Richmond,
was far ahead Of any other Federal Re-
serve district in the country, according
to a review of December retail trade in
478 stores In leading cities made by the
Federal Reserve Board.
While the department store sales for
December throughout the country suf-
fered a decrease of 2 per cent from
December year ago, these sales for the
Richmond Federal Reserve district, in
GLIDING the National Capital, showed
an increase of 2 per cent.
The percentage of stores in this dis
trict showing gain instead of a de-
crease was larger than for the country
at large, 10 stores In this area showing