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Evening star., 1930-06-17

ing under the frcnt seat, on the other
half OF which the girl was sitting. Kirby
states that he thinks the gas hit the
hot manifold pipe and exploded. The
leaping flames Immediately cnyeloped
the girls body. The men with the
help OF the station operator pulled her
through the door with dif1iculty strip
ping her burning clothes off her body
Ha1llng passing motorist she was sent
TO Emergency Hospital
The garage is operated by Robert
Larrick, who was at his home in Wash
ington last night at the time OF the
accident. The young operator of the
gas tank, Frank Myers, aged Is, Of 35l2
Tenth street. Washington, stated this
morning that the engine was not Tain-
ming and that he thought the explosion
was due TO q spark from q match
lighted by one of the boys while the
tank was being fllled. He said that
the two boys had gotten out of the
car and were standing one on either
side Of the machine, that the girl was
sitting behind the steering wheel with
the hose crossing In front of her
through the window on the left. Myers
says that last night after the explosion
he heard one of the boys berating the
other for striking a match, and this
morning on the ground beside the car
he found box Of safety matches and
an unlighted cigarette.
Which one OF the two boys was stand
ing on the side nearest the tank he
could not say, as he knew peither uf
them. The car itself was not damaged
except for burns on the front seat
cushion.
Kirby stated this morning that he
will confer Immediately with the assist
ant TO the commemorative attorney,
Hugh Marsh, who is acting during the
absence on vacation of Commonwealth 3
Attorney W. M. Farr, and determine
just whether charges will be preferred
| against the men.
Evening star., 1930-06-17
SIMMONS UNH0PEFUL
PAY BILL WILL PASS
Emphasizes Amounts Involved in
Two Amendments Under Debate
in Conference.

Chairman Simmons of the House sub
committee on District appropriations Is
not at all optimistic that the police and
fremen's pay increase bill will be saved
from the debacle in the closing jam Of
legislation, as a result of his conference
late yesterday with representatives Of
police and firemen who previously had
conferred with members of the Senate
District committee. However, another
conference is to be held today. {.
1t was emphasized by Representative
Simmons today that $230,O0O over q
two-year period and 100000 year are
involved in the two amendments under
debate in the conference yesterday,
which he considers a matter of extreme
Importance for the chairman of the sub
committee on District appropriations 70
negotiate upon. The step-up for in
increases to privates in the Police and
Fire Departments involve, he says,
Sos, ZOO the first year and $130,000 the
second year. while the retirement
involves 500 900 per year.
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of the construction company, did not
call fer any legal services on his part
and that Donaldson was not serving II
his capacity as lawyer.
Robertson also testified that they6
was nothing concealed or hidden about,
the transactions with Donaldson, An4
that he regarded them as ordinary
business deals.
Admits Phrase Omitted.
Questioned by Justice Frederick Sid
dons regarding the deleting from onk
contract of the term legal services
Robertson said that this phrase was
omitted after both he and Donaldson
had agreed that the services to be rem
dered by the latter were not Of legal
character.
He also said that he knew Donald
sons law firm had represented the
Smith Co., and that he had no objection
to this.
Mr.. Robertson said he understood
clearly that his Arm was paying Mr..
Donaldson 100000 to ''use his infiu-
ence with the Smith Co." but that he
neither knew nor inquired as to the ex-
act nature of the service to be rendered.
He insisted however, that the subject a. !
DonaldsonS employment was first
opened by the former bank ofhcial and
not by himself.
On cross examination Henry testified
that @. Bryan Pitts, at that time chair
man Of the Smith company board of
directors, was not faVorably inclined
toward the Boyle Robertson company.
He said that Pitts had been involved in
a controversy with officials of the con-
struction company over a $4,000 COM
mission from the refinancing in 1921 Of
the Roosevelt Hotel.
Cannot Deny Donaldson Request"
He also said he could not deny that
Donaldson had asked him TO favor the
Boyle-Robertson company in The mat
ter Of the contracts.
In the absence from the city of Pitts,
1t was agreed among counsel to submitA
a transcript of testimony relative to
the Boyle Robertson Co. given by him
recently before the referee in bank
ruptcy In substance, Pitts testimony
was that he did not know Donaldson
was receiving fees in connection with
the award of contracts from the Boyle /
Robertson Co. and that Henry seemed
surprised when he informed him of this n
fact.
Robertson Testifies.
Robertson testified on direct exami-
nation yesterday that Donaldson ap-
preached him regarding the contract +
fees. and that the former banker made
ell the suggestions relative to the nego-
tiation.
Donaldson told Robertson, according +
TO the latter'S testimony, that the con-
struction company could not gSS :Ae
contract TO build the Cathedral Man T
Sions Apartment In Pittsburgh without
his assistance.
An effort by Robertson to tell of the
Interpretation he and his associates
placed on this statement was barred by
the court, but he did say that prior TO
Donaldson's intervention his company
already had agreed with the Smith Co.
on contract price. He said he thought
his company could have secured the
contract without Donaldson's aid.
Evening star., 1930-06-17
SENATE MAY FIGHT
ST|MSON ON BONDS
Glass Aroused by German
Issue Competition With
u. S. Securities.

A battle between the Senate and the
State Department over the assumption
by the latter of power to pass upon for
ei1n securities issues marketed in the
United States was in prospect today
with the 1otation of $l0O,o00.00o of
German reparation bonds in this coun-
try imminent.
A resolution by Senator Glass. Demo-
crat, Virginia, calling upon the SecTe-
tary of State to inform the Senate upon
what law or power, express or i'm
piled" the department based Its right
either to approve or disapprove in
vestment securities" from abroad, was
adopted yesterday after the Virginian
had assailed what he termed the State
Departments supervision of foreign Sc
curities.
State Department Aequiescent.
Secretary Stimson announced about
10 days ago he had informed J. P. Nor
gan & Co. American agent for the Bank
OF International Settlements, which is
floating the loan, that the State De-
partnfent had no objection to the mar
keting Of the bonds in this country.
1t was pointed out then that the
State Department does not give it's ap-
proval to any security issue, but it re-
serves the right to voice objection.
1HS pOllCN was DGIOEe N6E
debts had been settled. following a con-
ference with leading bankers. who
agreed not to market foreign securities
which were Objectionable to the depart
ment.
Glass charges the German bonds
were coming in competition with Amer
ican securities.
For the last two years." he asserted,
cit has been exceedingly dificult for
States to float loans on the American
market. Yet here the State Depart
Enent assumes the right to approve for
eign loans which must compete with
domestic loans"
McFadden Fighting Move.
Chairman McFadden of the House
banking committee, who Is strongly
opposed to the sale of the German
bonds in this country, said he hoped
'the Senate has more luck than did
In getting information from the State
Department rs to It's authority to ap-
prove or disapprove the sale of the
securities"
The Pennsylvania added he was
considering holding hearings on the
resolution he introduced last week to
prevent Federal Reserve Banks and
national banks from purchasing the
bonds.
MAY HALT ROND Talk
Evening star., 1930-06-17
CHICAGO RESOLVES
TO CRUSH GANGDOM
Half Dozen Agencies at Work,
With Issue Put SquareIy
Up to Jury.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 1.-THE arm oi
public indignation which yesterday
forced the resignation of william Rus
sell as commissioner of police reached
out today for the slayer Of Alfred
(Jake) Lingle, Tribune reporter, and
the fist was clenched to smash gang
dom.
Half dozen public agencies were di-
recting new energies toward crushing
gang rule, but chief dependence rested
with the grand jury, which was given q
special charge by Chief Justice Nor
moyle OF the Criminal Court to search
out the truth concerning politico-gane
connections and crime profits.
You men do your duty" Judge Nor
moyle told the jurors. You have noth-
ing to fear. Gangsters are inherent
towards, dangerous only when they run
in packs"
Action Unexpected.
The action of Judge Normoyle was
entirely unexpected. Asked later what
had prompted his action, Judge Nor
moyle said:
Why? A man has been murdered
and as a consequence the police COM
missioner and a deputy (Chief of De-
tectives John Stege) have resigned at
the demand Of public and press. I know
nothing about this, but am a law en-
forcement ofiicer in charge of the grand
jury, and the grand Jury functions for
just such situations. These % men
have nothing in common with crooks OF
police, and am sure they will make q
complete job of this"
States Attorney John A. Swanson
win direct the grand jury inquiry, and
the evidence will be gathered by his
special investigator, Pat Roche.
The position Of acting police commits
sioner was taken over last night by
John II. Alcock, called "the Iron Man."
who has been first deputy commissioner.
One OF his first acts was the issuance
OF Special Order No. l." which in
effect rescinded the final order of his
predecessor. The retiring commissioner,
just before resigning, made several re-
assignments Of police officers, including
himself and his detective chief, Siege.
Alcock's order Cancelled these reassign-
mentS.
Special Committee Created.
The Association of Commerce yester-
day created q special committee to en-
large the work undertaken by the "Se-
cret six" which has been at work on
the crime problem. The political action
committee Of the Chicago Church Fed
Grafton insisted upon an expose of any
partnership of crime and politics. The
city council police committee voted to
silt charges OF corrupt alliances of po-
lice and criminals.
The church federation committee au-
thoriZed formation of a facts finding
committee. Dean Shailer Mathews of
the Divinity School of the University of
Chicago called the killing Of Lingle "the
apex OF a pyramid, 80 per cent Of which
Is still under ground"
Evening star., 1930-06-17
ENDS LIFE, BLAMING US

LOUISVILLE. KY, June II R.-
the government drove me out of a
profitable business" by purchasing his
dry cleaning plant as part OF a site for
a new post ONCE here, yesterday shot
and killed his wife, Mrs. Mamie Z.
Driver, 56. then turned the gun on
himself and committed suicide
The bodies were found by their son,
who said his father had been brooding
as a result of inactivity. The Federal
Government paid him $ll7,200 for his
property.
Evening star., 1930-06-17
Confessed Embezzler Sentenced.

ST LOUIS, June II B.-FTank l..
Berryhill, former sales manager aud q
director OF the First National Co, In
Vestment subsidiary OF the First Ma
tional Bank, today pleaded guilty to
embeZZlement and was sentenced to 10
years imprisonment by Circuit Judge
Taylor Company auditors announced
in court the total of his peculations was
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Evening star., 1930-06-17
FIVE DIE IN STORMS
Violent Rain Takes Heavy Toll in
Property ia France.

PARIS, June II tP).-Five persons
were killed and considerable property
damaged by violent transforms in vari-
Gus parts of France Yesterday.
A wall Of water IL feet high sWept
the outskirts Of Bar de Luc, drowning
q woman and q child. Several houses
in surrounding villages were crushed
by the impact of the wave.
There was fear farm and crop dam
age ultimately would be heavy since the
Weather Bureau foresaw continuation OF
the bad weather, which began a eeeE
ago.
Evening star., 1930-06-17
DIES IN HISTORY FALL
New York Man, in Chicago Hotel
Had Only 80 Cents.

CHICAGO, June II Gp).-A man be-
lieved TO be J. II. Morgan, New York
City. either leaped or fell to his death
early today 3rom the sixteenth floor of
the Y. M. G. A. Hotel.
T-,e body was found in a third floor
court. The man had no extra clothing
or baggage, and but 38 cents was found
Ia his room. identification was tenta-
lively made through initials In q hat
and = registration card.
Evening star., 1930-06-17
Plan Memorial to Carol.

ORADEA, Transylvania, Rumania,
June II GP.-The district council has
decided To place q commemorative tab
let N the spot where Prince Carol land
ed Sh his arrival in Rumanta TO re-
claim the throne.
Evening star., 1930-06-17
PLANE UP 1872 HOURS
"City of Chicago" Seeks New Re
fueling Record.

CHICAGO, June II (P).-The City of
Chicago. In which two brothers, John
and Kenneth Hunter, are seeking a new
rcfueling endurance flight record. at
{ 40 am. today had been aloft 1872
hours-exactly ive and one-half DAYS.
SKY H2rbor Airport of1riais said the
7AiFS
Evening star., 1930-06-17
College to Build Home.

DANVILLE, Va, June II (SpeciaD
Decision has been made by the build
ing committee Of Averett College to
dent, DR.. j. w. Cammack. Plans call
for erection of the residence on the
rear campus Of the college.
Evening star., 1930-06-17

Judge J. y. Robinson of MarySville,
kans., was called out of bed four times
during May TO perform marriages.
Evening star., 1930-06-17
HOUSE HOLDS FIRM
ON D. c. LUMP SUM
Continuing Resolution, Carry
ing No Improvements,
Is introduced.

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AUTO FIRE is FATAL
TO VIRGINIA GIRL, 18;
THREE MEN ARE HELD

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FORMER SMITH co.
PRESIDENT QUIZZED
IN DONALDSON CASE

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Representative Grimm, Democrat OF
New York. = former member Of the
subcommittee on District appropriations,
made it clear that this Is not question
OF whether 100000 should be In
creased, but a question wholly OF get
ting at the truth Squarely.
The question of tax rate is not rele-
want, he insisted, and said that ne had
been driven of the subcommittee on
District appropriations because he had
been worn down discussing this misera-
The Kusko times., 1930-06-28

about $1 100000 year is going into Alaskan highways.
 Doubtless the new highway vii prove benefit to Alaskans. Doubt less, too, it will open up territory in British Columbia and in the Yukon that will bring greater prosperity to Canada. But perhaps it's greatest value will be to ourselves, to the rank and ..-e of moto rtourists. For we will have a new travel route opening ap scenic beauties such as no part of the world but Alaska possesses. We will be able to see in comfort those
The Kusko times., 1930-06-28

scenes of which we have tearJ eG often, the Aukon country of .u. And we W Il so learn to think of Alaska not as frigid gateway to the Arctic Circle, but as a real sister State, . live, prosperous and important mem Der of tne American commonwealth.
The Kusko times., 1930-06-28

Los Angeles and vicinity consume some 60,O0O carloads of fruits, nuts and vegetables yearly.
The Kusko times., 1930-06-28

tiring in telling the world about their country's development and about how wrong the world has been in it's, ideas of its climate. Their efforts are be- ginning to bear fruit, and travel into Alaska has increased by leaps and bounds even in competitio nagainst the floods of advertising that other parts of the country pour on the va- cationing public every summer. In late summers Alaska has had almost as many visitors as she could enter tain, and a hotel-building movement has started in an effort to provide more and better accommodations for tourists.
 Alaska is ripe and ready for high way communication with the United States through Canada. As matter of fact, more than half the Interna- tional Highway is now lnished. Of the 1000 miles from Seattle to Fair banks, 1250 are completed and work ing. The problem that confronts Alaskans and Canadians is to link those fragments into one continuous road.
 From Seattle for 1000 miles. tce Hazelton, in northern British Colum- bia, the International Highway fol- lows the route, of the Cariboo High way, which is already completed and in good condition, drawing more tour ists over it every day. The highway follows the magnificent Fraser river to Lytton, then turns through Marble Canyon and continues northward through quaint Quesnel to Prince George, principal town of Northern British Columbia
 Prince George is not a large city as population gpes-it numbers some 5000 mhabitants-but it is an im- portant place. It is the distributing center for an immense territory, and it is a great touring center, for roads leading to various lake and river re- sots radiate from Prince George. Summit Lake, 32 miles north, marks the continental divide-not the one we are used to that divides the waters between the Pacific and Att lantic, but the dividing point for waters that flow south to the Pacific or north into the Arctic Ocean.
 Hazelton, 70 miles west of Prince George and 1000 miles from Seattle, stands oh the sit eof an old Indian village, and the tribes totem pole still remains as one of the chief sights of the place. Hazelton is act ually farther north than the southern boundary of Alaska, for Alaska stretches a long thin panhandle along the coast for some 500 miles south of the bulking shoulders of the Terri tory, where it sticks out of the north western corner of Canada. However, the International Highway does not yet enter Alaska, but continues in land, for the terrain there is compar- atively smooth and much easier to- thaverse than the high, steep noun tains of the coastal range.
 At Hazelton today's motor tourist reaches the end If his trail and the road-builder reaches the beginning of his, for from Hazelton northward there is no road. Only a. dim trail continues as far as Telegraph creek, 200 miles from Hazelton, marking the. course which the International High way will probably folio wnorthward.
 This dim trail also marks the course of the old Telegraph Trail. which possesses a unique and roman tic history. In the late eos daring band of pioneers stanted. out. on the bold project of building a. telegraph. l;ra +o Siheria and Europe. trayerSing
The Kusko times., 1930-06-28

Florida consumed 65,498 tons of commercial fertilizer in February.
The Kusko times., 1930-06-28

there is a highway 'island"-an iso- lated stretch of road 25 miles-and this road will be linked in the, new highway.
 Some threescore miles farther north is Whitehorse, where the new highway first strikes the Yukon river and where the cruelty swift rapids took away the outfits and the lives of many a luckless prospector in the Yukon rush days. At Whitehorse the International Highway will again pick up an existing road, this time a considerable stretch that runs 100 miles to Kluane Lake and brings the highway within 150 miles of the Alaskan border. Fro mWhitehorse, too, a railroad operates south to Skagway, on the Pacific coast, pop ular summer resort among Ameri- cans.
 Having left Kluane Lake, the road builders will traverse virgin country until they have crossed the Alaska Canada border and reach Panama Crossing, only 200 miles from Fair banks. A branch road, leaving the highway just on the Canadian side of the line will lead up to Dawson, Yu- kon Territory, the center of the gold stampede of '98- In perfect comfort tourists will be able to see and cross the river that brought fortune and misfortune to so many brave souls in the mad days of the Yukon rush.
 From the Dawson junction it will be mere 2OO-mile jump across the Alaskan border, over Panama Cross ing, down the Panama valley and on to the Richardson Highway, which the International Highway will join at a point only 70 miles from Fair banks. In two hours more the trav- eler will be at his journeys end in. the heart of Alaska.
 Fairbanks is town that holds the sightseer with fascination all it's, i4vn. for it is modern, busy city much like our own American towns, but set na country that partakes of all the strangeness of the Far North. All around Fairbanks are the hills whose disintegration has given the area it's rich placer deposits, and Fairbanks highways are marked with the tracks of heavy motor trucks and caterpillar tractors hauling mining machinery in an dout.
 The telephone poles near Fairbanks are not set in the ground, but. set up on tripods, which cannot be upset by frost or snow, nor knocked down by stray caribou running against them. :! And speaking of caribou, the resi- dents of caribou are allowed five of the mevery year, and the animals can be shot right on the highway, as they drive into Fairbanks by thou sands.
 A days railway trip will take you from Fairbanks into the Mount Mo- kinley National Park, surrounding Mt. Mckinley, which is the highest peak on the North American conti- nent. A highway will be built soon into the park. In Fairbanks, too, is the worlds northernmost college. And from the city, airlines radiate to every inhabited part of Alaska, for the Territory is one of the most air. minded regions in the world.
 Now when we speak of the Inter- national Highway that will connect remoote, unknown Alaska with the familiar United States by traversing 75O miles of virgin wilderness, we do not speak of visionary project, a fond dream of some far-seeing pro- gressivist. In the first place, more than half of the highway is finished,
New Britain herald., 1930-08-04
LOW WHEAT PRICE
 MAY SAVEFARMERS
Urge Eating More Bread Daily
 to Decrease Surplus

Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. UP) Low wheat prices which confront northwest farmers may be the means by which they escape from the problem of the present surplus, mar ket reports indicated Saturday.
 Reports from 1000 northwest farm Centers showed that for the first time wheat instead of corn and barley was being fed to stock. The reason for this, it was said, is that wheat now is cheaper than the other grains.
 In the Minneapolis wheat pit this weak, prices crashed to levels which not even the oldest traders had ever seen. Only during Civil war days was wheat believed to have sold as low as 1t did during a break last Thursday. Prices recovered some what later.
 With transportation costs to farm CTS living more than 800 miles from the Twin Cities amounting to 25 tc 30 cents, they receive less than SC cents a bushel for their wheat. Corn on the other hand, plus transporta- ton to the Dakotas and Montana brought the total cost 10 approxi- mately Sl.00.
 Used as Fodder
 Little corn and much wheat is grown in western Dakotas and Mon- tana and these are the sections where the surplus wheat is expected to be fed to animals on a large scale.
 Continued drought over the entire northwest also has been a factor ir forcing farmers to use wheat as feed With the unbroken heat wave the crop has shrivelled and the quality has not been equal to that of other years.
 If every farmer in the country would feed ten bushels of wheat tc his stock, the surplus would decline in a most astonishing manner" saiG J. K, Hammond, director of finance of the Farmers Union Tcrmina association.
 B. B. Sheffield, president Of the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce as. sociation, Saturday started a nation. al campaign to obtain farm reliet through increased consumption.
 Eat one more slice of bread eacf day and help the farmer" is the slogan adopted by the Minneapoli: association which is working witt the national food bureau of Chicago Sheffield sounded the appeal We will need the help of all tht countrys patriots to solve the prob lem of farm surplus"