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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
'27,647 PERSONS SEE
CORCORAN EXHIBIT
Twelfth Biennial Exhibition of
Contemporary Paintings
Closed Sunday.

A total of 27,647 persons viewed the
Twelfth Biennial Exhibition of Con-
temporary American Oil Paintings at
the Corcoran Gallery of Art during the
six weeks of public inspection which
ended last Sunday, according to an
announcement today by G. Powell Min
nigerode, director of the gallery.
This was an increase of more than
5000 over the attendance for the elev-
enth exhibition in 1928, when 22,350
persons visited the display.
During the four special night open
ings, arranged by the gallery in CO.
operation with the Washington Society
of the Fine Arts, q total of 2,249 Visi-
tors were counted.
The night showings were taken adj
vantage of largely by those who had
been unable to attend the exhibition
during the regular daytime hours.
There was one other night OPEN
ing-that reserved for invited guests on
the evening preceding the formal public
showing. On that occasion 1892 per-
sons attended, the records disclose.
Marked by the big increase in at
tendance over the previous exhibition
and by the favorable comments of many
noted art critics, the twelfth biennial
will go down on the records as one
of the outstanding of the Corcoran
exhibitions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
ROAD BUILDERS STUDY
EMPLOYMENT RELIEF
Committee Headed by Macdonald
Preparing Report on Public Con-
struction Measures.
n the AssocIated press.

ST. LOUIS. January 15-Unemploy-
ment, and means Of alleYiating 1t, oc-
cslpied the major attention today at the
Twenty-eignth Annual Convention of
the American Road Builders Associa-
ton, in session here
A committee, headed by Thomas H.
Macdonald, chief of the United States
Bureau Of Public Roads, which has been
at work since Monday on report sug-
costing ways and means of using public
construction TO relieve unemployment,
had its findings ready for presentation.
While numerous recommendations
were likely, the chief ones were expected
to request no diversion of gasoline taxes
and motor license fees to uses other
than road construction. in order to
make available larger sums in the vari-
Gus States for road building, and that
Legislatures of the various States make
the most generous appropriations pos
sible for road building during the de-
preston.
Speaking at the annual dinner Of the
association last night, Charles H. Davis
of New York, president of the National
Highway Association, proposed a gigan-
tic road-construction program, financed
by the Federal, State and county gov
ernments in the manner Liberty bonds
were issued to finance the World War.
Davis urged the money be spent to
build 100000 miles Of secondary roads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
TRUCE REQUESTED
FOR STEEG CABINET
French Parliament Reconvened
With Plea to Allow Ministry
to Start Functions.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 15.--Appealing for
an internal political truce for at least
long enough to allow the Steeg govern
ment to set the wheels of government
business in motion, Fernand Bouisson
president of the Chamber Of Deputies,
reconvened the Parliament today in
what may be session Of major i'm
portance.
It should be a cause for satisfaction,
he told the members, that France has
escaped the heaviest blows Of economic
woe which has affected most Of the
world, but he warned that 1.-The easy
era" was probably closed for q long
time.
Wise Action Necessary.
Much depends upon the wisdom of
the Parliament, he said, as to whether
the continuing economic crisis will
bear out pessimistic predictions as to
its gravity and duration.
1T is necessary" he said, ito act
wisely, especially as concerns our
foreign policies"
He expressed hearty approval Of the
French initiative in the interests of a
constitution for European union which
Foreign Minister BRAND will champion
at the League of Nations Council meet
ing beginning on Monday.
Wants Bank Report.
He urged speedy action on the budget
and projects for extension of public
works to relieve unemployment, and
abiding to the Oustric Bank case, he
called for a complete report which
would throw full light on all its phases,
to determine whether the detractors of
Parliament we're not wrong in their ac-
cusations."
The Oustric Interpolation, fraught
with danger for the cabinet, has been
delayed pending recovery from an ILL
ness Of Henri Cheron, minister of
justice, whose department is under fire
in the bank scandal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
ARMS FARLEY FAIR
TO SOVIET ASKED
Friendly Officials and Meeting
Outside of Switzerland
Sought.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, January 15.-The Soviet
Union has initiated q move to gain con-
ditions in the forthcoming International
Disarmament Conference more favorable
to the union than was the case during
the Preparatory Disarmament Commits
sion sessions just concluded at Geneva.
Identical oral statements have been
made by the Russian diplomatic repre-
sentatives to the foreign ministers of
Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Norway,
Persia, Poland, France and Japan ask
ing that the conference be held in a
city of some country which maintains
relations with Moscow, this request ex-
GLIDING Switzerland, which has no such
relations.
The statement also requests naming
Of a president favorable to an equality
of status Of the various comforting ma
lions, and alleges that the Soviet repre-
sentatives were Disseminated against
by the chairman of the Preparatory
Commission (Jonkheer Loudon OF
Holland).
The statement specifically asks that
election of a chairman for the Disarma-
ment Conference be in the hands of all
members of the conference without ex-
ception and not of group Of powers
or an organization to which all the
members do not belong-that Is the
League of Nations.
It is further argued that the chair
man must not be q representative OF a
state which has already adopted a
clearly negative position toward dis
armament, nor of one not maintaining
normal relations with all participating
states.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15

took place at the fifth precinct station
house.
Capt. Kelly later announced that no
additional information of value was
secured from the women.
Mother COnfronts Son.
At one stage in the proceedings YER
non Limerick, brother of Beulah, who is
under arrest as suspect was brought
before his mother Vernon" she adj
monished him, tell the police all you
know about this matter" He replied
that he had already done so.
In an effort to determine whether
Mrs. Dora Limerick had said anything
to Mrs. Bargfrede about "a gun in the
stove" police confronted the mother
with Mrs. Bargfrede in the station
house. Capt. Kelly said, however, they
gained nothing by this as Mrs. Barg-
frede insisted the remark had been
made, while Mrs. Limerick persisted in
her denial.
Police also were told last nigth that O
taxicab driver, supposedly In love with
Beaulah, had quarreled with vernon
Limerick. Capt. Kelly sud this man
would be questioned if located.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
BAD MAN ENDS LIFE
IN new YORK CELL
Body Of Bum" Rodgers Found
Dangling From Door Bars
by Strip Of Shirt.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DANNEAORA, N. Y, January 49,
The record of Bum" Rodgers, notorious
bad man, is closed. In a solitary con-
finement cell in Clinton Prison q guard
found his body dangling from the door
bars by q strip of shirt.
Rodgers was serving a term for
burglary and for escaping from prison.
Ahead of him, beginning in August 1885,
stretched q life term Is . habitual
criminal.
Although he had more than a dozen
prison terms behind him, John j.
Rodgers really became a headliner In
police bulletins on December IA, 1925,
when ne escaped from a train bearing
him back to Auburn Prison after
standing trial for hold-up in Mineola,
NJ Y. From then until he was captured
again his name was linked with a long
series Of robberies and killings, in New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
He had been in solitary confinement
at Clinton since the prison riots Of last
July when he was accused of having
engineered the smuggling Of enough
dynamite into the prison to blow it up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
THREAT OF WAR SEEN.
Inevitable Unless Arms Farley Succeeds
KenwOrthy Declares.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, January 15.-Comdr. j. M
Kenworthy, Labor member OF Parla-
ment, declared today that another Euro
pean war was inevitable unless the gen.
eral disarmament conference to be held
some time next year is successful.
For the success of the conference, he
said, the age-old problem Of the freedom
of the seas must be discussed at q
preliminary meeting between Great
Britain and the United States, as lead
ing naval powers.
Speaking at luncheon in his honor
given by the American Correspondents
Association, the Labor M. P. declared
the freedom of the seas was not only
an Anglo-American question but
Franco-Italian and American-Japanese
as well.
The conspiracy Of silence" over this
question which he said prevailed at the
washington conference and at all other
disarmament discussions including the
London Naval Conference, should be
ended, ne declared. He added that
European nations were already lining up
for the future struggle, those advocat-
ing revision of the World War treaties
on one side and those opposed on the
other.
Comdr. Kenworthy advocated the re-
vival of woodrow Wilson'S famous
second point" on the freedom of the
seas and the drawing up Of definite
international agreement on the subject.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
FOOT BALL PROFITABLE

Foot ball is valuable asset to a
college for the reason, if for no other,
that it is the only college sport which
makes money for the institution,
Thomas q. Mills, Georgetown Univer-
sity foot ball coach, told members Of
the Washington Rotary Club at their
meeting yesterday at the Willard.
Funds thus obtained defry the costs
Of all other college sports, he said.
Participation in college athletic
sports does not necessitate q lowering
of scholastic records, Coach Mills de-
clared, arguing that. because of in
proved health and personal ambition,
the academic standing OF the partic-
ipants In sports should be raised.
Successful athletes, he contended. must
be endowed with brains, Initiative
and capaS for team work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
ITALIAN PLANES
START FINAL LEG
Eleven of Ia Original Craft
Leave Bahia on Last Stage
of Long Hop.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BAHIA. Brazil, January 15.-The
italian air squadron, led by Gen. Italo
Balbo, air minister, left here at 8:17
am. (6:17 am, E. S. I'd for Rio de
Janeiro, final destination of their trip
of nearly 1000 miles from Orbetello,
italy.
The squadron had IL planes, against
IA which left Orbetello, Italy, Deem
Der II, one Of the planes having been
forced down near Bolama, Portuguese
Guinea; another lost shortly after leav-
ing Bolama and third destroyed while
being towed from Fernando do Noronha
to Nata.
1t is expected that the planes will
be sold to the Brazilian government at
Rio de Janeiro, the flyers returning to
Italy by steamer. The distance to Rio
is something more than 500 miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
EUROPEAN UNION
BEFORE DIPLOMATS
Cooperation by States on
BRAND Proposal Seen
as UnfavorabIe.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA. January 15.--Aristide Bri.
and's framework for q union of Euro
pean nations viii go under the micro
scope of diplomacy here tomorrow when
the European commission for study Of
his plans begins its first session. with
the Ffench foreign minister presiding.
The BRAND scheme is being examined
within the structure of the League Of
Nations and the examining commission
win be stated by members of the league
secretariat. Discussions at the opening
meeting probably will be entirely aca-
demic, dealing principally with the eco
nomic problems common to all the Eu-
ropean states, and with possibility Of
united action in their solution
The members of this commission are
the same ones who participated last
November in the unsuccessful confer
ence for concerted economic action in
Europe. Nothing has occurred since
then to- make international economic
team work any easier.
On the contrary, it is felt in informed
quarters here that the situation in Eu-
rope now is unfavorable to any project
for intimate cooperation among the
states, despite the urgent need for joint
action In commercial and industrial
fields.
Russia and Turkey are not members
Of this commission, although Germany
has asserted that their participation is
essential to success, and DR.. julius
Curtius, the foreign minister, is ex-
pected to ask that both the Soviet and
the Turkish governments be invited to
join the study of the BRAND proposals.
Formed by authority of the League Of
Nations Assembly last September. the
commission now gathering is under in
structions to present its recommends
tions regarding the BRAND scheme 10
the assembly next September.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
PANAMA TO INDUCT
ALFARO TOMORROW
Minister to U. s Recalled to AS
sumo Presidency Will Take Oath
in Simple Ceremony.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PANAMA CITY, January 15-Dr.
Ricardo Alfaro, who was summoned
from has post as Minister to the United
States to become President of Panama
after revolt January 2, will take Cffice
in a simple ceremony tomorrow.
DR.. Harmodio Arias, who has been
serving as provisional President in the
meantime, will step out and return to
private life.
In a press conference yesterday, DR..
Arias asked that Misrepresentation re-
garding his participation in the brief
revolution be set right
II have been informed" he said,
that in some foreign papers it has
been reported that headed or directed
he movement for Panama's redemption.
This is incorrect. The entire honor of
this movement belongs to the brave
youth of the 'Accion Communal
my participation was limited to an
attempt 20 satisfy the aspirations of the
citizens who gave me their confidence
upon my assumption of the executive
power, in accordance with constitutional
precepts, until DR.. Alfaro assumed the
presidency"
Dr. Arias said the country now was
completely calm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
SHIP IN DISTRESS
FAR OUT AT SEA
Coast Guard Cutter Rushes
to Aid of Freighter Whose
Propeller Shaft Is Broken.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, January 15.-The $500
ton Shipping Board steamer Efingham
was in distress 1900 miles east of here
today with broken propeller shaft, and
the Coast Guard cutter Mohaye has
gone to her assistance. News of the
Ehingham's plight was received at the
Charlestown Navy Yard from the Navy
Department at Washington, to which
an SOS sent out by the vessel was
reported.
Local advices indicated another
steamship was not far distant from the
Efingham and probably would reach
it much before the Mohave, which could
not possibly negotiate the distance in
less than three days.
Halifax is the nearest port in case
the ship requires a tow. The Efing-
hams home port is Seattle. She sailed
from Beaumont, Tex, December % for
Bremen, touching several Southern
ports en- route.
The message from Washington said
only that trouble developed yesterday
and the ships plight was considered
serious today.
SISTER SHIP NEARBY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15

Continued From First Page.)
wind up and go home on March 4 viii
resort to every legitimate parliamentary
strategy to keep the prohibition survey
from further stalling the legislative
engine
Both drys and vets indicate In adj
vance that they'll be disappointed II
President Hoover sends up Chairman
Wickersham's bedtime story" as the
prize senatorial wisecracker calls 1t,
without voicing his views upon it.. On
the supposition that the report will be
wholly to the liking of the prohibition
group, the latter has hoped and prayed
that the President would stamp It with
an unmistakable White House o, X.
The vets. on the other hand. holding
that Mr.. Hoover is not deaf to the
liberal" cyclone that swept across the
country at the 1880 elections, have felt
assured he would not fail to indicate
at least some change of heart on the
prohibition issue and exhibit 1t when
sending the Wickersham report to Capt.
toll Hill.
Carries Out Pledge.
What is about to come forth carries
out the pledge Herbert Hoover made
in his Palo Alto speech of acceptance
in August, 1928, viz, the results of IAN
organized, searching investigation OF
fact and causes" which, the G.. o. p.
nominee said, "can alone determining. the
wise method of correcting them
(''grave abuses which have occurred
abuses which must be remediedrO. Il
was on the same famous occasion that
Mr.. Hoover laid down the only prohi-
bition doctrine to which he has thus
far given public utterance: 81 do not
favor the repeal of the eighteenth
amendment. stand for the efficient
enforcement of the laws encated there
under. Whoever is chosen President
has under his oath the solemn duty
to pursue this course. Our country has
deliberately undertaken a great social
and economic experiment, noble in mo-
tive and far-reaching in purpose. It
must be worked out constructively."
Hoover, there he stood; there he
stands" about epitonizes the Anti
Saloon League, professional prohibition
viewpoint of the Presidents attitude.
According to that viewpoint, the CALI
fornian is every whit as dry in 1891
as he was in 1928, and win be found
so in 1882, If and when he aspires to
reelection. The drys do. not remotely
expect that the Wickersham report will
bulge Hoover from that position.
(Copyright. 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
SCIENTIST REWARDED
FOR SHOE RESEARCH
DR.. J. A. Wilson, Who Made Walk
ing Easier, to Receive W. H.
Nichols Medal.

b the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 15.-The
almost unknown scientist who made
walking easier will receive the dis
tinguished william H. Nichols medal
for his services.
The award was announced last night
by the New York section OF the
American Chemical Society, and the
recipient is DR.. John Arthur Wilson
of Milwaukee
In 1924 Wilson, a chemist, started
the first comprehensive measurements
of the properties Of leather. and his
discoveries were translated rapidly in.
to shoes Of greater comfort.
DR.. Wilson Is an alumnus Of New
York University and the University OF
Leeds. England. He was born ir
Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
LUCAS STANDS PAT
IN AL SMITH FIGHT
Promises Apology if Former
Governor Announces for
Prohibition.
By the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCIATED EreSss
Alfred E. Smith had reply today
from Robert H. Lucas, but it con-
tanned only q conditional offer of the
apology which the former Democratic
presidential candidate demanded OF the
executive director Of the Republican
National Committee.
Smith, in letter to Senator Wagner,
Democrat, New York, had asked an
apology from the Republican Commit
tee for permitting" Lucas to distribute
bar room cartoon, which, he said,
contained a quotation attributed to him
which he had not made.
Lucas issued statement last night
saying he would apologize for sending
out cartoon representing Smith and
Chairman Raskob of the Democratic
National Committee as vets II Smith
would announce he now favored pro-
hibition.
The Republican official asked also
whether Smith and Raskob were con-
Sidering "apologizing to the American
people for the action Of Gov. Smiths
hand-picked chairman, Mr.. RaSkob, IN
subsidizing with large sums Of money
an organized campaign extending over
more than a year to misrepreSent and
smear the President Of the United
States"
The letter of the former New York
Governor had set forth that the quo
tation in the cartoon--which was part
Of the literature circulated In Nebraska
in the Lucas effort TO defeat Senator
Norris, Republican independent-was
one which had been presented last
year by unauthorized persons at q po-
litlcal meeting as q hoax and was inn
medIately and publicly disavowed.
Gov. Smith asks me to apologize, -
said Lucas. "He says q cartoon was dis
tributed which conveyed the informa-
ton that he was wet He says the
impression made there was based on
incorrect information. II the Governor
will state that he had done a complete
about-face since 1928 and is now for
prohibition then owe him an apology. +"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
BITTER COLD HANDICAPS
FIREMEN IN NEW YORK
Clothes and Equipment Coated
With Ice During Battle With
6-story Building Blaze.
81 the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 15.--Handi-
capped by a bitter wind, freezing
weather, and a dense smoke. firemen
labored with a hundred hose lines early
today to control a fire in a six-story
loft building on the lower west side.
Their clothes and equipment coated
with ice, they fought the blaze from
the street and the Ninth Avenue Els-
waited, but we're unable to enter the
structure. One fireman slipped on the
icy pavement and fractured a leg, an
other collapsed, and several temporarily
were overcome by fumes.
After four hours firemen said the
flames were under control, but that it
would be hours before they could enter
the building, which is located at Green
wich and DesbrosSeS streets.
With the mercury at IL above zero,
several firemen reported their eyelids
were frozen shut when water concealed
on them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
FINED IN HUNGER MARCH

PITTSBURGH, January is (P).-Two
young men were fined $40 each on dis
orderly conduct charges today as an
aftermath of attempts of the Trade
Union Unity League to hold hunger
parades" here yesterday. Seven other
persons, most of whom had been by
ISLANDERS, were discharged.
Police broke up the attempts to hold
the parades, which, members of the
league said, were planned in behalf of
the unemployed and destitute. Leaders
later appeared before the City Council
and demanded free food, clothing and
fuel for families in need. The council
men promised to investigate all cases
cited
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
SISTER SHIP NEARBY.
Freighter Prepared to Tow Efingham
Into Port If Necessary.

NEW YORK, January Is (Pl.-The
freighter Efingham, owned by the
Southern States Line of New Orleans,
called for aid Tuesday night because
of q damaged propeller shaft.
Another freighter of the same line,
the Nichmama, wirelessed she was about
20 miles from the Ef1ngham and would
start to her aid, prepared to tow her if
necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
Report of Wickersham Body Has Not
Gone to Hoover.

The Law Enforcement Commission
met briefly today with only two of its
IL members present.
Assurance was given that the long,
awaited prohibition report has not gone
to the White House. There was no
indication as to how soon it viii be sub
mitted.
Whether a meeting will be held to-
morrow depends on whether a quorum
can be present. This was doubtful
since Miss Ada Comstock. president of
Radcliffe College, was reported i'll, while
at least five other members were said
to be out of reach.
A third member Nof the commission,
Kenneth Macintosh of Takoma, Wash,
was present at commission headquar-
ters, but did not attend today's meet
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
PRISON SCULPTOR FREE
ON GOVERNORS PAROLE

North Carolinian, Sentenced for
Forgery, Develops Art While
Behind Bars-Models Executive.
BY the Associated Press.
RALEIGH, N. c., January 15.-Free-
dom beckoned today to Jack Landing
ham, State prisons sculptor-the man
who "just picked up his art while
languishing behind the bars.
Gov. Gardner has paroled Landing
ham, who was sent to prison in 1923,
to serve IL years for forgery and false
pretenSes.
One of Landingham's best known
works Is bust of Gov Gardner. Others
VINO posed for the prison sculptor in
Guided the Governors youngest son
and Warden H. H. Honeycutt's daugn-
ter.