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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
LABOR INCREASE
CHEERS HOOVER
Gain of 3.3 Pct. for Week of
January Ia Is Encouraging,
President Says.

President Hoover said today that re-
ports to the Department of Labor
showed an increase in employment for
the week ending January IA of 3.3 per
cent, over the preceding week.
This increase, which the Chief
Executive said was eat least encourag-
Ing" extended to almost every indus
try.
The Department of Labor was advised
last week that the trend upward had
begun January and the additional re-
ports indicate a continued climb.
"The upward trend of employment, ;
President Hoover said, 'is current in
practically every industry. There are
some, however, which did not show in
crease, but they generally are classified
as small industries.
THE reports show" he said, "that
the increase of the week was distributed
over the whole industrial world. This ]
regard as an encouraging sign"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
FORMER PREACHER HELD
FOR MISUSE OF FUNDS

BY the Associated Press.
MUNCIE. Ind, January 28-W. P.
Noffsinger, former preacher and Sec
rotary of the Tri-County Mutual Pro-
tective Association, is held in Jail here
today pending grand jury investiga-
ton Of charges that he spent more than
$4,000 of the associations funds on
lavish gifts to Mrs. Margaret Shaffer,
formerly waitress in a restaurant a:
Indianapolis.
Noffsinger was arrested Sunday at
his home in North Manchester and was
brought to jail here. He is guarded
carefully, officers said, to prevent him
from carrying out a threat to end his
life. He has wife and five children.
NoffSinger's arrest was ordered fol-
lowing an investigation made by Milton
K. Alexander, chief inspector of the
State insurance department.
According to Alexander's report Noff-
singer has spent $50, 525.52 of the COM
pany's funds. The report charges that
the populations extended from 1927
through a part of 1929.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
PLOT TO KILL RUBIO
IS BALKED BY POLICE
Portes Gil Also Marked for Death
by II, Who Have Confessed,
Chief Claims.
BY the Associated Press.

Dy tne Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, January 28.-Mexicc
City police claimed today to have frus.
trated a plot to assasSinate President
Emilio Portes Gil and the President.
elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio; blow up sew.
eral public buildings, and seize admin.
istration Of the government.
OF 10 persons arrested several days
ago, Valente Quintana, chief of police
said, II have confessed connection with
the plot and are being held. The two
released were women, who proved then
innocence.
The chief of police said the plotters
we're adherents of Jose Vasconcelos, de.
feated candidate for the Mexican presi-
dency. who charged after his loss at the
polls last November II that the Ortiz
RuhiStas had taken advantage of GER
tain peculiarities of the Mexican cleo
ton laws to win from him.
The plot. he said, was to massacre the
guard at the government power plant
factory in the center of the city, and
subsequently to terrorize the populace
by shooting rockets with large dyna-
mite content into the air. In the con-
fusion the President and PreSident-elect
were to be shot and the government
seized.
Some of the arrested persons were
students. Valente termed the plot the
product of "demented persons" He said
he would hold the prisoners over for
investigation and punishment by the
new administration, which takes office
February 5. Roman Fillan, lawyer. one
OF the prisoners, was charged as their
Etngleader.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
H0WELL'S DRY BILL
READY FOR SENATE
Nebraskan Expects to Introduce
His Measure
Tomorrow.

After several weeks of careful study
OF the need for a local enforcement
act to supplement the Volstead law in
Washington, Senator Howell, Republic
can, of Nebraska, expected to be ready
this afternoon or tomorrow to intro
duce the proposed legislation in the
Senate.
The main feature of the bill will be
to empower all members Of the local
Police Department to take part in the
enforcement OF prohibition by having
a local law on the subject.
1t also will extend the search warrant
authority Of Police Court judges and
local policemen, but the exact nature
Of these additional powers will not be
known until Senator Howell introduces
the bill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
CARAWAY REBUKES
TARIFF WITNESS
Senate Chairman Accused OF
Receiving $500 for Speech
to importers.
Rr the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A sharp exchange took place today
between Chairman Caraway of the SEN
ate lobby committee and Arthur L. Eau
bel, secretary of the American Tariff
League, after the witness informed the
committee that he understood Caraway
had received $500 for a speech before
an importers organization.
AS Faubel finished his statement,
Caraway leaped to his feet, leaned over
the committee table and shouted an
grily:
That's just another one Of your
statements that has no basis of fact"
The Tariff League secretary answered
just as warmly that he had been given
that information.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Montana
interposed at this point. He told Fau-
bel the ''rebuke given you by the chair
man was richly deserved"
''You have no business to retail a
story like that" he said to Faubel
sharply, unless you are ready to sup
port it under OATH"
Caraway Not Modified.
But Caraway was not Modified. Pac-
ing the floor, he demanded that Faubel
tell him who gave the information.
ct know nobody told you," he assert
ed. 81 know you manufactured It."
"Oh, no." Faubel said
ct know you did" Caraway shot back.
Denying this, Faubel said he would
attempt to find out who gave him the
report.
Faubel at his last appearance before
the committee said he agreed with
Senator from Pennsylvania, before the
committee that backward" States
were given more representation in the
Senate than they deserved. The Tariff
League secretary also asserted he ia
vored the English system of govern
ment. This would subordinate the
Senate to the House of Representa-
tiveS, instead Of having both equal, as
at present.
Lobby committee members showed
indignation at this testimony and at
the outset Of today's hearing Senator
Walsh remarked on what he termed
witness had said he could not remem-
Der whether any farm organizations
were asked to join the league.
Greeted With Sarcasm.
Walsh also told Faubel sarcastically,
YOU'RE a wonderful man to run a
tariff league!"
The exchange with Senator Caraway
began during questioning of Faubel con-
corning the employment of Edward N.
Dingley, tariff expert of the Senate
finance committee, and Clayton Moore,
clerk of the House ways and means
committee. Both committees handle
tariff legislation.
Faubel said their employment to
write tariff articles for the leagues
magazine was terminated September Is,
1923.
He read letter written to the two
men which said that since tariff revi-
sion was coming UP in Congress II
might be well to terminate the relation
ship.
Faubel said, however, that Moore
later wrote an article explaining the
procedure through Congress of a tariff
bill, and added that he could see nc
harm in that, since Caraway had re-
ceived $500 for an address before an
importers organization"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
PANTHER" TRAILS
ARE HOT-ON PHONE
Eleventh Precinct Police Are
Busy as Northeast Wash
ington Sets Traps.

That elusive beast believed to be a
panther was being sought over a wide
area today, huntsmen Of the Forrest
vile and La Plata sections of Southern
Maryland combing the fields and wood
lands for the beast and ninlrods Of
Northeast Washington, aided by
eleventh precinct police, doing extensive
tracking throughout that neighborhood
in search Of the animal.
This afternoon, however, the various
hunts had scared up nothing more
fearsome than a few stray dogs, some
rabbits and raccoon.
The only definite evidence of the
presence of a predatory beast came
from La Plata, where the night before
last some large animal clawed dog to
death and ate its head, and the same
night killed two hogs on the farm Of
William Hunt, at Mattawoman Greek, a
few miles from La Plata.
Lots of CaIIs-NO Trails.
Eleventh precinct police, however,
were putting in a busy day, with calls
COIulIlk III GNGIy lew lIilLlubCo 1IOLl BGQ-
pie who claimed to have seen the
panther" None Of these calls has been
productive of a hot trail of the beast.
Meanwhile, Capt. Charles T. Peck Of
the eleventh precinct today was answer
ing with contents noted and being
given every consideration" a 16-page
letter from a Washington resident IN
which it was pointed out that the PAN
Their, or whatever it is, is a divinely
created creature, and entitled to life
without molestation.
And the people of Northeast WASH
ington were preparing all sorts of lures
for the beast. Over the pigsty Of Ber-
nard Chapman, Fiftieth street and Fitch
place, where the panther" first Toasted
on pork about two weeks ago, have been
placed floodlightS, which will be lighted
by huntsmen If and when the beast re-
appears at the scene of its kill.
Noisy Goose Stirs Up Area.
A hurry call last night about mid
night took eleventh precinct police to
Suburban Gardens, an amusement park
in the Northeast section, to rescue a
goose from a tree, where it had been
tied by an overzealous panther hunter.
The goose, set out as lure for the
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BY BYRON PRICE.

LONDON, January 28.-French
global tonnage proposals were
put at the head of the Naval
Conference agenda today, but
italian contemporaries also
will be given their day in court at
the next open session of the full
conference, called for Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock.
Again invoking the alphabet,
the big five at a meeting in st.
James Palace today decided to
call the roll of nations at Thurs
days session, thus giving France
the right of way over her Italian
neighbor.
France win present her pro-
posal to limit fleets as a whole
and not in separate categorieS,
Great Britain will reiterate brief
~ her preference for category
regulation and Italy will then
make her plea that the actual
RELATIVELY of fleets should be de-
cided before all else.
The United States and Japan
have nothing to propose in this
general phase of the discussion
A committee of two from each
delegation will be appointed when
the three addresses are finished
Thursday to study the situation
but it is fully expected the ar
rangement made by the big five
viii be approved eventually.
The decision for an open session or
Thursday was reached on motion
introduced by Henry l.. Stimson, the
American Secretary of State. Some OPP
position had been expressed, but Sec
rotary Stimson insisted that as many
newspaper men as possible be admitted
Delegations Satisfied.
All the delegations expressed salts.
faction after the Big Five had ad.
journed. Dino Grand, Italian foreign
minister, who has been urging Italian
parity with France, said he felt Italy
had received recognition. even If hel
claim was in secondary place on thu
sgenda.
Immediately after the Big Five ad
journed individual conferences we're re-
sumed, Prime Minister Macdonald call
ing at the American headquarters anC
Hugh S. Gibson, American delegate
having lunched with Foreign Minister
Grand.
Afternoon meetings were arranged
between the British and Japanese anC
British and French delegations. Tit
Big Five will not meet again unit
after Thursdays session.
The conference formally entered it
second week today. with delegation
still debating matters of agenda and
as Secretary of State Stimson said
whether the hen shall come before tn
egg or the egg before the hen"
The agenda still is in tentative form
but it appeared virtually certain tn
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fate OF HUNDREDS
UNKNOWN AS FLOOD
|INvADES INDIANA
Flyers Report No Signs of
Life Apparent in Homes in
Affected Area.
WOMEN WITHOUT FOOD
NARROWED ON HOUSETOP
Ice Jam Throws Water Back in
Little Wabash River, Submerg-
ing Many Homes.
b. the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, January 28.-Un-
certainty as to the fate of hundreds If
residents isolated by Southwestern In
diana flood waters held the attention OF
relief workers today.
National Guard aviatcrs, flying low
over many houses, found no evidence OF
life where just day or two before they
had been greeted by hand waving. They
expressed belief that recession of the
swollen streams may reveal bodies in
the homes, Chimneys from where
smoke had been seen rising were report
ed not operating.
Others More Optimistic.
Other persons, however, were more
optimistic. They believed that the
circling planes offered no more thrill 10
the imprisoned residents, and that they
did not bother to greet them.
The avlators flew over the territory
between Evansville and Vincennes and
Evansville and Shawneetown, Ill.
A report by Lieut.. D. D. Watson that
he had seen from 10 to is women in the
upper story of house about Is miles
below Mount Vernon, where it would
have been impossible to obtain food
and fuel supplies, was being investi-
gated: Relief workers hoped to reach
the place.
Fears for Two Families.
Word from Mount Vernon expressed
fear for the safety of two families re-
ported to have sought refuge in a home
near there. The house. according to the
report, has been submerged since the
families entered the place.
The ice jam at the mouth Of the Lit
tie Wabash River showed little signs of
improving. In many places the water
in the territory behind the jam was
said to be at its highest point.
Evansville authorities planned an at
tempt to rescue approximately 20 people
marooned on Cutoff Island, opposite
New Harmony. Seven children and two
women are among those on the island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
BYRD TO HUNT TWO
NORWEGIAN FLYERS
Ice Guards Island on Which
Explorers Are Believed
to Be Lost.
BY BJoRN BUNKHoLDT.

BY Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1880.
OSLO, Norway, January 28.-Rear
Animal Richard E. Byrd will search
Balleny Island by airplane for the
missing Norwegian flyers, Left Lier and
DR.. Ingvald Schreiner, when he starts
on his homeward Journey probably in
February, he has informed the authori-
ties here by wireless.
DR.. Schreiner and Lier disappeared
during flight from the Norwegian
exploration ship, Kosmos. shortly be-
fore Christmas. Lier had left a diary
with the entry that he intended to ex-
plore Balleny Island, but the Kosmos
has been unable to approach the island,
which is surrounded by heavy pack ice
one mile wide.
Plane Is Only Way Open.
There is only one way of reaching
Balleny-by plane-and Admiral Byrd
will have a machine at his disposal to
hunt the two aviatorS when his South
Polar expedition has returned aboard
the ships. There is little hope, how
ever, that the flyers are alive, as their
equipment and food supplies were scant.
Admiral Byrd in his message to
Oslo generously declares that the
search viii be undertaken without any
cost to the KoSmoS. This is considered
here as a generous gesture of thanks
for the Norwegian offer to fetch the
Byrd expedition ship in case it was
unable to- cut through the pack ice to
Little America.
SHIPS NEAR IN ICE PACK.
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schools which are absolutely modern.
These would be, with the new Adams,
the Whittier, Truesdell, Barnard and
the Raymond Schools. Then, in the
background, there is the new w. B.
Powell School, which now is approach
ing completion.
This division also is favored with
eight auditoriums. They are at the
Adams, Cooke, West, Takoma, Bright
wood, Barnard, Raymond and Petworth
Schools.
There persists the strong contrast
which marks the entire school system,
and the third division lists four old
fashioned structures. These are the old
Adams, which will be abandoned next
week; the Force, Keene and Hubbard
Schools. To complete the contrast
there is the Kalnia road portable group.
The nine buildings which separate
these two distinct groups, however, IN
Continued on Page 4. Column ~
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PILGRIMAGE OF WAR MOTHERS
TO TOMB OF UNKNOWN OFFERED
Hefin Amendment Provides for Those Who Do MOI
Wish European Tour.

meals and other arrangements would be
made by the Secretary of War at Gov
eminent expense.
The amendment suggests the holding
of appropriate exercises at the Arling.
ton Memorial Amphitheater during the
time of the pilgrimages.
Another provision sets forth that If
any mother or widow is unable TO
make a trip either to Europe or to
Washington because of illness or other
cause. she could be paid by the War
Department the amount her pilgrimage
to Washington would have cost. The
Secretary of War would determine
whether such payments should be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28

Mothers and widows of men who
died in the World War who are en-
titled under existing law, to visit mill
tary cemeteries in Europe would be
given the option of making pilgrimage
to washington to visit the grave Of
the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Ma
hional Cemetery under an amendment
introduced in the Senate by Senator
Heflin, Democrat, of Alabama.
Under the Helm measure, the pill
tgT!mages to Arlington would be made
during the period from April Is to
June Is Of this year. Transportation,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
High Lights of the
Conference

The big Five" today decided
to call a plenary session of all
delegates to be held Thursday.
The next meeting will be open
to the press, the first such public
session.
The business to be taken up
will be in the following order:
/. The French global tonnage
proposal.
2. French-Italian naval parity.
3. The British plan of limita-
ton by categories.
The Italians made reservations
to the decisions reached today,
but their nature was not dis
closed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
SHIPS NEAR IN ICE PACK.
Shippers Plan Council With WhaIerS
on Forcing Passage to Byrd's Camp.
BY RUSSELL OWEN.

By RUSSELL OWEN.
BY Radio to The Star and the New York
Times.
LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, jan
uary 27.-Just a year ago today the
steamship Eleanor Boiling reached. the
Bay of Whales, and this year she is
not quite to the outer edge of the ice
pack fringing the Ross Sea. which
shows the great difference in conditions
better than man words.
Last year she came through the
broken pack without difficulty, and day
before yesterday the last whaler to be
in the pack managed to extricate her.
self from the ice on the northern side
When the Eleanor Boiling joins the
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
PASTOR USES PENNY COLLECTION
AS BOND TO AVOID PRISON CELL
Rev. Edgar Beckett, En- Route to Bank With Church
Funds Puts Up 1000 Coppers.

Clerk Sanford, very angry, took time
out to count 500 pennies and gave them
back to the minister.
Beckett said that he was rushing to a
bank in this city to deposit last Sun
days contribution when Policeman z.
r. Wright of the Traffic Bureau halted
him. According to Wright. he paced
the preacher for several blocks on
Pennsylvania avenue southeast at IS
miles per hour.
The clergyman reported that The cop
pers we're the only money which he had
with him and he knew his congregation
did not want him to be locked up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
FRENCH ARMY ACCUSED
OF COMMUNIST ACTIVITY
Police Raids Said to Have Revealed
Organization Answering to
Moscow Leaders.
BY the Associated Press.

oy ILIE H50VCIaVEu EItSo.
PARIS, January 28.---Reports in some
been established in the French army
have aroused considerable discussion
here.
A Nancy dispatch to LIE Matin said
that documents giving clear impress
sion of organization and solid establish
ment of Communist cells answering to
Moscow in about 40 regiments" of the
French army had been discovered by
police raids.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28

The Sunday collection of the Forest
vile, Md, Methodist Church came in
han1y for Rev. Edgar Beckett, the pas
tor, when he was arrested for speeding
yesterday afternoon.
Rev. Mr.. Beckett was asked to put up
$40 as collateral at the Fifth precinct
and he surprised the station clerk by
bringing in q bag of pennies The clerk
summoned help, four policemen re-
spending. They finally doled out 1000
copperS.
Judge Isaac r. Hit fined the minister
IS IN Traflc Court today, so Financial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
SEVEN PERSONS BURN
TO DEATH IN SHACK
Family of Six and Would-Be Res
cuer Victims of Fire
in Colorado.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICK, Colo. January 2s.-
Seven persons were burned to death in
a fire today in a two-room shack near
the Slopeline mine. Mrs. Paul Mar
tinez, her five children. ranging in age
from Is months to is years, and a
miner named Newton lost their lives.
Newton discovered the fire, broke into
the shack through a window and was
burned to death trying to rescue the
family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28

SHANGHAI, January % (R.-Nelson
T. Johnson, new American Minister to
China, arrived here today from the
United States. He said he had not
formulated any plans, but likely would
go to Marking, the Nationalist capital.
to present his credentials, and then
journey to PeipinA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
Junior Leaguers Assist.
Pearl Necklace Lost.

LOS ANGELES, January % Dr.
Mrs. Beulah Spiegelberg, New York, Last
night reported to police that she had
lost $3l 900 necklace Of 202 matched
pearls and square diamond somewhere
on the streets of Los Angeles or Holly
wood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
A Man Is Cuckoo
To Steal a Cuckoo
About to Cuckoo
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, January 28.-At
exactly 4 pm. January 81, 1880.
something inside Godfrey Smith
went cuckoo.
Smith had no actual need for
a cuckoo clock, for he gets up
when he feels like it. He could
not, however, resist the time
keeper he saw in the Common
wealth Edison Co. store, so he
stuck it under his coat.
AS he strolled languidly toward
the exit it was just 4 pm. The
clock beneath the coat went
Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Cuckoo,
Cuckoo"
A policeman arrested him, for
it is against the law to take
cuckoo clocks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
GEN. GOMEZ is ILL.
former Venezuelan President Is
Expected to Die in 2 Months.

COLON, Panama, January % R.-
A prominent traveller arriving here from
Caracas yesterday said that Juan vi
cente Gomez, former President of Vene-
Zuela, was seriously i'll and was not
expected to live more than two months.
Gen. Gomez is 20 years old. He
served as President almost uninter-
ruptedly from 1910 until 1880.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
FIGHTS WEIGH BILL.
Hawaiian Governor Asks Delegate
to Oppose Filipino Curb Move.

HONOLULU, January % (P).-Gov
gate Houston at Washington to oppose
the bill of Representative WEIGH of
California, which would prohibit the
immigration into the United States of
Filipinos by placing them in the same
class with japanese and Chinese.
The governor said the bill would be
detrimental to Hawaii Filipinos con-
stitute the bulk Of the unskilled labor
upon Hawaii's sugar plantations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
FRENCH PROPOSALS
ON TONNAGE BASIS
GIVEN FIRST PLACE
AT LONDON FARLEY.
Counter Proposals by Italy
Also to Be Heard at Next
Full Session of All DeIega-
tons, to Be Held Thursday.
PRESS TO BE ADMITTED
DURING NEGOTIATIONS

Subject of Parity and British Plan
of Limitation by Categories Also
Given Places on Calendar Of
Business-U. S. and Japan Are
Silent.
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Radio Programs on Page c-3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
WEATHER.

Rain tonight, clearing and colder to-
morrow; lowest tonight about freezing.
Highest, 81, at pm.
yesterday; lowest, "a, at 7;35 am. today.
Full report on page 9.