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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
B. & 0. MUST SELL
". ND. HOLDINGS
|. C. c. Orders Disposal of
Stock in Smaller Road
Within Six Months.
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad was
ordered to divest itself of the capital
stock of the Western Maryland Rail-
way in an order Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission today, holding that
the Baltimore & Ohio had violated the
Clayton antitrust act. The Baltimore
& Ohio was ordered to dispose of its
holdings in the smaller road within six
| months and none may be sold or trans
ferred to any stakeholder, officer, di-
rector, or any one otherwise connected
in any way with the Baltimore g. Ohio
or any of Its subsidiaries or afiliated
companies.
Own $1S,673,o4s of Stock.
A total of $ls,673,049 has been In
vested in stock of the Western Mary
land by the Baltimore a. Ohio. In
ordering the Investment the commission
held the Western Maryland to be a
competing road.
Commissioner Farrell dissented from
the majority view, holding that the
Clayton act was enormously interpreted
more 81 Ohio has important lines which
substantially parallel the principal lines
of the Western Maryland. The West
ern Maryland Is engaged largely in the
transportation of bituminous coal, that
commodity having furnished during re-
cent years approximately two-thirds of
its total freight tonnage. Coal from
the several districts served by this road
and the Baltimore g. Ohio is shipped
fn he he MI Nf
Baltimore being presented as a typical
example.
These carriers largely afford the rail
transportation for the Myersdale, Cum-
berland- Piedmont and the West Vlr-
GINA coal fields, the commission added,
and both engage in transportation of
merchandise between Baltimore and
other wholesale and jobbing centers
served In common.
Hits Consolidation Plan.
Daniel Willard, president of the
Baltimore g. Ohio, testified at the hear
ing that while in its consolidation plan
the commission had assigned the West
ern Maryland to the New York Central
System, 1t was his opinion that better
plan would make 1t part of the Balti-
more & Ohio
AS a result, he said the Baltimore &
prepared a plan under which the car
riers in Eastern territory would be
divided into four systems. with the
Baltimore 81 Ohio and the Western
Maryland a part of the same system.
He added that plan had been brought
informally to the attention of the COM
mission.
Planning eventually to present to the
commission his program for joint opera
nf I1n fxa,r hot
when the opportunity presented itself to
purchase the Western Maryland stock
his company had done so with view
of insuring success" of the plan for
joint operation. He commended that no
violation of the Clayton act was
involved.
In January and February. 1927, the
commission said the Baltimore g. Ohio
Continued on Page 2, Column Sd
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RIVERS FALL IN INDIANA.
Swollen Streams Receding Except In
Southwest Section.

INDIANAPOLIS, January 16 R9.-
Hope for early flood relief in most sec
tions of the State rose today with re.
ports from John H. Arlington, CHIEF
nieteorologist of the United States
Weather Bureau, that the swollen
streams are falling everywhere except
in the Southwest portion. Still higher
levels of the Wabash River at Terre
Haute and Vincennes, further South
are expected.
At Lafayette this morning the Wa
bash level was 239 feet and was falling
At Logansport the level was 1874 feet
q drop of IA feet during the night.
The crest at Terre Haute, where the
level was 1913 this morning, will be
reached late tonight or tomorrow, Ar
mington said The Wabash probably
will reach a crest of "a feet there
At Vincennes the level was 24.9 this
morning, 8 feet above the 1918 level,
he said. The crest cannot be expected
before tomorrow or tomorrow night
with possibility of further levee breaks.
The crest will not be passed at Mount
Carmel, Ill, for two or three days yet.
The level today was 26.6 and level
of % feet is expected. Cold weather
has aided considerably in reducing the
water levels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
Levee in Mississippi Smash
ed--St. Francis Over
Banks in Arkansas.
HOPE HELD FOR EARLY. .
RELIEF IN INDIANA
Swollen Streams Are Reported
Falling Everywhere Except
in Southwest Portion.
BY the Associated Press

by the ASSOClbteu Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, January 49,
Swollen streams broke their bounds to-
day in two States in the Lower Missis-
sippi Valley, smashing a gap in the
levee between Lambert and Marks,
Miss. Water from Coldwater River was
spreading over several thousand acres
of farm land in Quitman County. In
Arkansas the st. Francis River over
topped its banks in Greene County,
near the town of Bertig.
Approximately 5000 acres of farm
land were in the path of the water
pouring through a cave-in which came
in the wake of the overlapping of the
st. Francis River embankment. Two
thirds of the area already is under
about 2 feet of water. A force of 80
men under the supervision of United
States levee inspector we're attempting
today to stop the flow of water with
sandbags.
Convicts Work in Shifts.
The break in the Coldwater River oc-
Cured near the Jamerson plantation.
More than 100 convicts from the
State farm at Parchman had been
working in night and day shifts in
what proved to be a futile effort to
hold the embankment. A portion OF the
Ouitman County Prison farm was with
in the area threatened by the spreading
water.
Cessation of rains along their water
sheds and sub-freezing temperatures
over a wide area have checked the rises
of the major streams in Arkansas. The
White, Cache, Black and ST. Francis
In Arkansas had reached a stand along
their upper reaches or were falling to-
day.
Families living in inundated areas or
sections threatened by the streams all
have evacuated. along with live stock
and other movable property endangered.
So far there has been no loss OF life.
RIVERS FALL IN INDIANA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
DEATH IN LOS ANGELES
LAID TO PARROT FEVER
Two Women Are Seriously Ill From
Psittacosis, County Health Of
ficer Says.
Bv the Associated PICS.

BY Ine AsSUCiatcu EdSeS'
LOS ANGELES, January 16.-De-
claring one man had died and two wom-
en- were seriously i'll here from disease
believed to be psittacosis, or parrot fever
Dr. j. T. Pomeroy. head of the Los An
reles County Health Department, today
reiterated a warning that all recently
purchased parrots must be quarantined.
The death last week of B. o. john
son, at first ascribed to pneumonia, now
is believed to have been caused by par
rot fever, DR.. Pomeroy said. A parrot
brought home by Johnson's son from
Rio de Janeiro on December died a
few days before johnson became Ill.
Mrs. johnson now is Ill, apparently with
the same disease.
Mrs. A. Fl. Stewart. who was taken to
a Santa Monica. Calf, hospital a few
days after her recently purchased par
rot had died, is believed to be AFFLICTED
with parrot fever, the symptoms OF
which are similar to those in pneumo-
mia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16

Declaring that Substantial progress
has been made" DIR. James NJ. Doran,
commissioner of prohibition, stated on
this tenth anniversary of prohibition
that with the large-scale operators out
Of the way the lines are gradually
Tightening with certainty on the smaller
groups of violators of the prohibition
law" He said economists were agreed
prohibition had brought tremendous
economic advance"
Asked for statement at the end of
10 years of prohibition, DR.. Doran re-
viewed the situation as hS finds it. re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
RIVER WATERS FREEZE.
Misery of Flood Refugees Increased by
Near-Zero Weather.

Near-Zer0 Weather.
CHICAGO, January Is (P.-The
Central Mississippi Valley was the land
of freezing waters today.
Near-zero temperatures settlings over
the broad valley choked rivers into vast
rough mirrors of ice and sluSh and
made misery more rampant among those
driven from their homes in the flooded
regions.
Unseasonal mildness filled the valleys
of Mississippi tributaries with melting
SHOWS and rivers ran wild beyond flood
stages, but the freeze today halted a
further rise.
Swirling into Illinois, the flood
grasped the Little Wabash, Kaskaskia,
Embarrass and Vermilion Rivers. Near
Danville levee across Lake Vermilion
was damaged, while farther north, near
Rankin and Hoopeston. backwaSh OF
the Wabash closed two State-line high
ways.
Southern Illinois Safe.
In Southern Illinois, along the
Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi, little
danger was feared AS Cairo. the con-
no serious situations resulted from the
flooded upper tributaries.
At ShaWneetown the Ohio is expected
to reach a crest of As feet the last OF
this week. The 1evees are in good con-
dition and there is no immediate
danger
The melting snowdrifts widened the
flooded regions into other States
At Ottawa, Ohio, near Cleveland
more than 200 people were safe today
only after being removed from second
story windows as the Blanchard River
crept up the banks.
Highways Under Water.
Missouri and Kentucky also came into
the scope of the flood; In Southeast
Missouri, near Poplar Bluff, highways
in two places were 3 feet under water
But today's frozen blast brought O
change; the Central West suffered
bitter cold with the Northwest. Instead
of melting SHOWS, Minnesota was ex.
periencing widespread snow that piled
drifts in roads, disrupted highway travel
and closed schools. Throughout the
Northwest conditions were similar.
In Chicago forecasters predicted zero
by night and below tomorrow
the polar climax of Winters southwark
blare from the 40-below regions of the
North. ....s.,........
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
Lindbergh to Make
High Altitude Tests
To Learn of Winds
Colonel to Work With
Weather Bureau to
Hasten Flights.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Col Charles A. Lindbergh will see
for himself whether aviation can link
arms with the winds in the United
States for speedier West-to-East air
travel.
That is the way the announcement
made in Los Angeles that he would
make number of experimental high
altitude flights in cooperation with
naval meteorological experts at the
Lakeilurst, N. j., naval air station and
the United States Weather Bureau was
received here today.
It is understood at the Weather
Bureau. which will furnish forecasts of
meteorological conditions, that Col
Lindbergh plans O transcontinental
flight. in which he will test in his new
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
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SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS MADE.
DR.. DORIAN SAYS OF PROHIBITION
Commissioner Says Lines Are Tightening on Tenth
Anniversary of Dry Law.

ported Improvement and predicted for
the future:
due regard for the underlying
scientific facts relative to alcohol as 1t
affects human activities. benefcially as
well as adversely: patriotic regard for
maintenance of the integrity .of our
Government. and. above all. cool heads
and a brave spirit, are required for the
future.
When constitutional prohibition be-
gan ten years ago-Jan,lary Is. 1920"
said DR.. Doran, "the Federal Govern
ment embarked upon nation wide police
and regulatory activities, concurrently
Continued on Page ., Column 50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
MACHAD0 SAYS CUBA
NEVER PAID CROWDER
Report Involving Sugar Lobbyist
Is Denied by Islands
President.

By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, January 16.-President
Maclado. referring to the Washington
lobby investigating committees report
to the United States Senate that Gen.
Enoch Crowder was apparently en-
ployed by Cuban sugar interests
through the Cuban chief executive yes
terday issued a denial that the general
had been in the service of the Cuban
government on tariff matters.
Il can assure you finally that Gen.
Crowder never has been at the service
of the Government of Cuba on tariff
matters or any other" he said, land
that neither has he received a single
cent from the Government of Cuba"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
SENATE APPROVES
EXISTING TARIFF
ON SUGAR, As TO 50
Cuban Embassy Is JubiIant
as 1.76-Cent Rate Is
Retained.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BY a margin of 10 votes, the Senate
today rejected the Republican proposal
for an increase in the controversial
sugar tariff.
The amendment of Senator Harrison,
Democrat, of Mississippi, forcing the
retention In the tariff measure of the
existing rate of 176 cents pound on
Cuban sugar was adopted, 48 to SO.
Eighteen Republicans, including some
Old Guard regulars from the East, de-
for rate of 2.2O cents q pound on
Cuban importations.
House Rate Was 2.4O.
The House voted a rate of 2.4O cents
a pound on sugar, and the difference
between the Senate's demand for no
increase and this advance must be
threshed out In conference between the
two chambers.
The Western independent Repub-
licans, who combined with the Demo-
Gratis to knock out of the Republican
bill all rate increases except those on
agricultural products, split on the sugar
duty. Senators Borah of Idaho and
Norris of Nebraska, leaders of this bloc,
we're among those voting against an in
creased rate.
However, Senators Nye and Frazier of
North Dakota, and Howell, Nebraska,
voted against Harrison's proposal to re-
tain the existing sugar rate.
Senator Howell Immediately sought to
offer an amendment extending to
sugar producers in this country a
bounty.
Senate galleries were filled for the
roll call The sugar tariff has been a
sore point throughout the year of tariff
discussion and this week the Senate
lobby committee reported expenditures
of more than 100000 by those inter-
ested in the sugar contest.
Cuban Embassy Is Jubilant.
The Cuban embassy was the scene of
the greatest enthusiasm when Informed
by the Associated Press of the Senate
vote retaining the present tariff on
sugar.
Ambassador Ferrara declared that
more intimate commercial relations
would result from the vote, which he re-
garded as favorable to the Island Re-
public.
II believe" he said, "that the vote of
the Senate is the first step toward more
intimate commercial relations between
the United States and Cuba. remem-
Der always the words of Elihu Root that
the wealth of the United States is the
wealth of Cuba.
If politically. the United States and
Cuba are two separate entities because
that is the will of the American and
(Continued on Page D Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
MURDER TRIAL OPENS.
Former Deputy Denies He Slew
South Carolina Sheriff.

GREENVILLE, s. c., January Is up.
j. Harmon Moore, former deputy
sheriff of Greenville County, went on
trial this morning charged with the
murder of Sheriff Sam d. Willis
The slightly-built 42-year-old man
pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Blair Rock, colored, whose confession
that he had been hired by Moore to
shoot Sheriff Willis on July IL, 1927,
caused Moore's arrest, will not be tried
until later D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
BOY, IA, CAUGHT DRINKING
AT SCHOOL KILLS HIMSELF
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CORINTH, N. Y, January 16.-Sus-
pended from high school for drinking
home wine In the school building;
Eugene Clothier, IA, committed suicide
last night.
Principal Herbert A. Becknan of the
Corinth High School said he found
young Clothier and another boy drink
ing the wine in the cloak room yester-
day and suspended Clothier when inves-
tigation disclosed he had brought the
wine to school.
Clothier was found dead in bed at
his home this morning. with a bullet
wound in his chest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
Yesterdays Advertising
local Display

Merchants use The Star to
a greater extent than all
other papers combined. be-
cause from Its use they get
the greatest results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
R-100 on Test Flight.

CARDINGTON, England, January iS
tE1.-The new British, dirigible R-100
left It's hangar today for a test fight
which was expected to keep it In the
air for five hours or more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
Yesterdays Circulation
~----->-~>~~~---~--~- -
The Evening Star. 49,. .ll3,325
Year ago yesterday. lOS,S76
Increase 4,449

increase -. 4,44
The growth of The Star
surpasses the growth of the
city and suburbs, figuring
four to the family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16

Radio Programs on Page D.4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
WEATHER.

20. .. WeNLhBt 6uFeNu FOfEcASL.T
Fair and colder, with lowest tempera-
ture about 20 degrees tonight; tomorrow
fair and continued cold Temperatures
Highest. S. at 2:30 pm. yesterday;
lowest, SO, at 7:45 am today.
Full report on page 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
Cuban Embassy Is JubiIant.

Continued on Page 2, Column 80
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CONTINUED on Page 5, Column -
The Washington times., 1930-11-01
Chatterton, Playwright

Ruth Chatterton has been in
formed by cable that her adapta-
ton and translation of the French
play, Monsieur Brotonneau," by
Robert de Flers and G.. A. de Call
lavet, has been successfully pro-
duced for the first time In Lon
don.
Receiving the news on the
Paramount studio stage where
she is filming her current We
hicle, "The Right Of Love-" Miss
Chatterton expressed desire to
witness a performance OF the play
when she makes a contemplated
trip to Europe in the near future.
The translation Of three French
plays are credited to Miss Chat
terton. LA Tendresse," by Henry
Bataille was produced by her in
New York four years ago and
opened here in washington
'TiHomme En- Habit" by M. De
Chatdau was translated for Henry
Miller, and later brought to the
screer for Paramount by Adolphe
Menjou under the title OF Eve
ming Clothes"
The Washington times., 1930-11-01
NOVEL
MADE INTO
PICTURE

The stern code Of the hills,
that inexorable, unwritten law
which holds young womanhood
inviolate, is the basic theme of
Eyes Of the World" the Inspira.
ton United Artists dramatization
of the Harold Bell Wright novel
now playing at Rialto Theater.
Henry King, the director, uses
this stern, ethical law as the
foundation for q beautiful ro-
nance and a dramatic story Of
the conflict between two diverse
stratas in the social scale-the
simple, kindly-natured dwellers
Of the hills and the sophisticated
urbanites.
Eyes of the World is a
wholesome story Of an outdoor
girl who meets a young artist
and falls in love with him at
first sight. Their romance is
temporarily impaired by the
Vaccinations of an unscrupulous
woman of the cities who attempts
to wean the affections Of the
artist.
Una Merkel, who startled Broad
way with her vivid characterize
tions in "Coquette" and Pigs"
and who was chosen by D. w.
Griffith to play the role Of Ann
Rutledge in Abraham Lincoln, "
plays the part of Sybil in Eyes
Of the World"
John Holland is seen as Aaron
King, the artist. Nance O'Neil,
who is one of Americas greatest
emotional actresses, portrays the
grim role of Myra, who hauntS
the memories of her past, seek
ing revenge.
Others cast are Brandon Hurst
as Mr.. Taine, Hugh Huntley as
the profligate James Rutledge,
Fern Andra as the love-starvcd
Mrs. Taine, Frederic Burt as Con-
rad LAGRANGE, and william JET
frey as the ranger.
The Washington times., 1930-11-01
GIVING
VOICE TESTS
THIS WEEK

Today is the big day at the
Rialto Theater for Washington
ians who wish to have their
voices tested in the national
search to be made by Car
Laemmle, president Of Universal
Pictures, for voices that will con
tain the distinctive qualities for
screen recording.
It was because Of a real and
serious shortage Of voices on the
part Of the silent motion picture
screen stars that producers of
the motion picture industry have
been caused many an anxious
moment.
Producer Laemmle, who has al
ways been famous for quick act.
ing in times of stress, saw the
possibility Of a new invention of
voice recording and decided to
go out into the United States
and find new voices. Everyone
is eligible in this test, men and
women, young and old. The
voices Of any VINO desire to make
records viii be considered.
This testing win continue this
week during the run of Eyes of
the World" from the famous
book by Harold Bell Wright
There viii be men and women
present who represent the radio
dealers and who are expert in
giving advice and who will aid
all those who desire to take the
test.
Free tickets can be secured
from various dealers whose ad-
Vertising appeared in Fridays
Times.
The Washington times., 1930-11-01
All about "BallyhOO''

A little bit more about ''Ba1ly.
hoo" the new w. c. Fields show
which Arthur HammerStein is pre-
pairing for December debut at
the National Theater.
Earl Lindsay win stage the
dances of the piece and Reginald
HammerStein the book. In support
of the star, w. c. Fields, the fol
lowing players have been engaged: {:
Don Tompkins. Jeanie Lang,
Grace Hayes, Janet Reade, Andy
Rice, jr., Will Aubrey, Colby and
Murphy, Floria Vestoff, Rialto
-Four and Ted Blacks Band.
''Ballyhoo' will have its New
York opening December Is at
Hammerstein's Theater.
The latest film player to ap-
pear as a candidate for Broad.
way stage nonorS this season is
Lois Moran, Fox Films star. Ar
thur Hopkins will give her a
chance in a production to be seen
in the near future, it was an
nounced yesterday.
Hit films which play the Earle
Theater will be given a second
week at the Metropolitan Theater
under q new policy. First feature
to win a repeat is Winnie Light
ner's Life Of the Party due
next Friday.
The Earle next week plays its
first Metro -Goldwyn picture. 1t
is Love in the Rough" with
Robert Montgomery. In the
silent version it was called Spring
Fever" and featured William
Haines.
The Washington times., 1930-11-01
THESE, ACTORS
ADEPT WITH
LANGUAGE

Barbara Leonard, with seven
languages at her command, leads
the cast Of Scotland Yard" in
linguistic accomplishments, al.
though the seven featured play.
ers averaged three languages
apiece. This Is considered a
record of some sort. even in these
days when screen players are
chosen for their ability to speak
fluently various tongues.
The locale Of Scotland Yard, u
dramatic Fox Movietone thriller,
now at the Fox Theater, is laid
mostly in England, with the ex'
ception Of one very important
sequence in a French hospital
and in a little French inn. AL
though very few lines are spoken
in French, it is interesting to
learn that Joan Bennett, the
leading lady; Georges Renevant
the French surgeon, and Miss
Leonard, the French nurse, all
attended school in France and
speak the language fluently.
Edmund Lowe, featured in a
dual role in which he portrays
both a clever English criminal
and an educated gentleman, does
not speak French. He has, how
ever, a knowledge Of Latin, Greek
and Spanish which he studied at
Santa Clara, his alma mater.
Scotland Yard" directed by
William K. Howard, Is a drama
tiZation Of Dennison Gifts cele-
brated stage play Of the same
name.