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which he believed necessary for Ger
man economic recovery.
THE Reichsbank ought to do every
thing In its power to curtail demand
for foreign exchange and to keep the
parity Of gold" he said.
Second, Germany should make every
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Opened First Offensive.

The 1st Division launched Americas
first drive IA years ago on the Lorraine
front. During the war the division had
more than $4,000 casualties.
Gen. Holbrook announced the veterans
would establish their reunion headquar-
tiers Friday at the Hotel Claridge, Forty
fourth street and Broadway
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BANK ADVISER ASKS
INTEREST IN GERMANY
DR.. Melchior Palvi Declares Amer.
lea Should Study His Ma.
tons Economy.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 17-Intellectual
interest In Germany on the part Of the
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The libraries Of the country spend
$40, 900 900 yearly for books.
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at Cantigny and now is in command at
Governors Island, and Maj. Gen.
Stephan o. FuQua, chief of Infantry
and one of the divisions wartime chiefs
Of staff, are among the prominent ON
GERS who have announced that they will
be present.
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MISSING WEDDING RING LOCATED
BY X-RAY IN GIFT FRUIT CAKE
Happy Proposal of Annapolis Doctor Ends Anguish
of Wife of Officer Stationed There.

came from her. "Look," she cried,
holding up her hand to father, my
wedding ring is gone"
"I'll wager it's in the cake" ventured
father
mo; I'm sure 1t went down the drain
when I washed my hands," she de-
clared.
Plumbers were brought to the house.
Drains were opened and pipes were
searched. To no avail-the wedding
ring worn for rs years was gonel
That evening four friends, all med
ical men, dined with the couple. The
story of the wedding ring was It'd by
the mother, certain 1t was an omen
of bad luck.
Quietly one Of the doctors suggested:
Lets X-ray the two cakes before you
send them away"
The doctor who took the pictures
came back with a large X-ray plate, a
broad grin on his face. We have To-
Gated your ring" he announced.
On the shadowy negative which he
held up for them to see q Sturdy little
circular band was stown-the wedding
rims
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WALSH SEEKS VOTE
ON POWER SHAKEUP
Wants Senate to Reconsider
Confirming Those Who
Caused 3 Vacancies.

Senator Thomas j. Walsh of Mon
tana said this afternoon he would move
reconsideration of the vote from the
Senate confirming the nominations of
the Federal power commissioners who
recently declared vacant the Offices
held by F. E. Bonner, secretary; Charles
A. Russell, solicitor, and William ".
King, chief accountant, OF the old power
commission.
Senator Walsh is recorded in favor
of the confirmation of DR.. George Otis
Smith, whose nomination as chairman
Of the commission was confirmed, and
of Commissioners Draper and Garsaud.
These three members of the commission
acted to declare the positions Of Bon
ner, Russell and King vacant.
ProgresSives Are Aroused.
The elimination of Russell and King
aroused progressive Senators on both
sides OF the chamber, who insist that
both Of these officers of the Power Com
mission have stood for the public
against the So-called power trust.
OCA1dOO1 "d1SI1 . ulOIlOIl 10 ISCOIlSIQSI
must be accompanied by a resolution
requesting President Hoover to return
to the Senate the nomination of the
power commissioners A vote on such
resolution under the rules must be
decided without debate.
Senator Walsh may make a statement
to the Senate, however, regarding the
power commissioners before he sub
mitS this resolution for a vote.
First Meeting Held.
The complete personnel of the Com
mission met in executive session shortly
before noon today and after nearly an
hour given over to discussion of organi-
zation details, adjourned until tomorrow.
Chairman George Otis Smith of Maine
described the meeting as one given over
wholly to consideration of routine.
The commission today had before it
applications for permanent employ
ment of IS of the IS members of the
personnel of the old commission who
were notified on December % that their
employment would be terminated. At
that time they were given temporary
positions for 80 days. None of the ap-
plications before the commission today
was for the five important executive
posts on the power board.
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CONGRESS TACKLES
PROGRAM TO AVOID
AN EXTRA SESSION
New Controversial issues
Added to Burdens Left
Over Holidays.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Congress reconvened at noon today
after a two-week recess, burdened with
new topics for debate and with contro-
versies which have arisen during the
Christmas holidays.
The program laid out by the leaders
was largely cut and dried affair of
essential legislation, but many members
have different ideas. Serious efforts
were in prospect for passage of relief
bills not included in the administra-
tons plans. The question of payments
on World War veterans bonus certifi-
Gates was in for strong agitation in both
branches. Numerous other controversial
projects found supporters.
Will Debate Rail Plan.
Critical debate on the proposed plan
of unifying Eastern railroads into four
systems and move to reconsider the
nominations of some members of the
Power Commission were imminent In
the Senate.
Yet the administration steersmen
spoke hopefully of passing before
March 4-the mandatory adjournment
date-all IL Of the departmental appro-
pristion bills, deficiency appropriations
and such other measures as they have
included in their program.
They believed the World Court issue
would be removed definitely from among
their worries, anticipating a formal an
nouncement from President Hoover that
he would not call a special session of
the Senate alone to consider ratification.
More nominations also are to come
up in the Senate. It has not passed
yet on the Presidents appointees to
the reorganized Tariff Commission,
some of them opposed by various Sena-
tors, and the naming Of Eugene Myer
as governor of the Federal Reserve
Board is to be considered.
There will be further repercussions
of last Falls political campaigns also,
for the Nye special committee tomor-
row is to start probing again into efforts
by Republican regulars to defeat Sena-
tor Norris, the independent Republican
from Nebraska. Of1cials Of the party's
national committee, linked with the
campaign at recent hearings, are to
be questioned further.
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The x-ray has again proven Its USE
fitness.
A post Christmas story, which has
just filtered in from Annapolis tells of
peace and joy restored to an entire
family through one treatment of the
X-ray administered to a fruit cake.
1t was a few days before Christmas
Gloom overshadowed the home of one
of the officers stationed at the Naval
Academy. The son Of the family. who
was expected home for the holidays,
had Just wired he was unable TO leave
his business in New York
Mother and father sat silently sor-
rowing.
Lets make a fruit cake and send 1t
to Charlie end another for Ethel"
rro9osed the mottcr.
While the FIST ccke baked, the Sec
ond was mi:;ed end prepared for sister
Ethel. also unable to come home for
the holidays
The mother then washed her hands
and sat down to wait until the cake
was done.
Suddenly an exclamationSof dismay
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ALASKA RAIL DEFICIT
LAID TO LOOSENESS
Senate Committee Reports on In
vestigation of $1,213,oo0 Loss
by U. S. Line.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
"Looseness and inefficiency Of con-
duct" was one of the causes for the
$1,213,o 900 deficit in the operation of the
Government-owned Alaska railroad, a
special Senate committee appointed to
investigate the roads finances reported
today.
The committee recommended an i'm
mediate increase in rates on the road
from to 10 cents a mile for passenger
traffic and so per cent for freight traffic.
It also recommended an appropria-
ton Of $1,000, 900 for taking care of the
deficiency, improvements and study Of
Alaska'S resources.
The report, submitted by Chairman
Howell of the special committee, said
the undeveloped region, the severe cli-
matte conditions and lack Of outgoing
freight, as well as inefficient operation,
contributed to the deficit.
Members of the committee went to
Alaska last Summer to inspect the
road and its operations.
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DECISION DELAY SOUGHT.
Counsel Supporting Clark Opinion Asks
Hearing Postponed Until April Is.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Supreme Court was asked today
to postpone until April Is the hearing
of the Governments appeal from the
New Jersey decision holding the eight
zenith amendment invalid.
Counsel supporting the opinion handed
down by Federal Judge Clark said other
engagements would prevent their ap-
peariIlg before that date.
Frederic M. P. Pearse, as their spokes-
man, criticized the brief filed by Solic-
itor General Thatcher as incomplete.
He said the Government seemed to take
for granted that the Supreme Court sis
foreclosed from considering the points
raised by us and favorably passed upon
by the court below"
Pearse submitted memorandum say
ing his side Of the case would Shcw that
the question presented by the appeal,
that of ratification of constitutional
amendments by State conventions rather
than by State Legislatures, had never
been passed upon by the Supreme Court.
He contended no previous decision of
the highest court prevents 1t from CIV
ing the question the consideration its
importance demands
Pearse insisted the Clark decision was
in no way interfering with enforcement
of the law. There was, he declared, no
good reason for the haste with which
the Government was attempting to
bring its appeal to hearing before the
Supreme Court.
He said the prohibition amendment
was not proposed by Congress in the
usual form TO the Legislatures or even
generally, but was, in turn, proposed to
the States for their adoption-the only
instance of such q PROPOSAL"
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RULING ON RADIO
VALIDITY DECLINED
Questions Whether Broadcast Sta
lions Have Property Right in
Air Not in Proper Form.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Supreme Court today declined to
pass on the validity of the law under
which the Radio Commission operates.
The controversy reached the court in
questions submitted by the Circuit Court
of Appeals and involved whether radio
broadcasting stations had a property
right to the air
Justice Roberts had repeatedly refused
to answer the questions regarding the
validity of the radio act because they
were not presented in proper form.
The commission required Clinton r..
White to reduce the power Of Station
WCRW, at Chicago, and refused to re-
new the licenses of Stations WMBB
and WOK, the former at Chicago and
the latter at Homewood, near Chicago.
The owners of the stations challenged
the validity of the radio act and cle&ne2
property rights to the air, which they
said could be taken from them only by
compensation.
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BODY OF WOMAN
FOUND IN CANAL
Identified as That of Miss
Kathleen Bailey, For
mer Actress.

The body of Miss kathleen Bailey,
2s-year-old former vaudeville dancer,
was taken from a nnillrace trap of a
water-power plant on the Chesapeake
& Ohio Canal directly beneath the first
span of the Key Bridge this morning.
She was identified by two police women.
Partial Identification of the body was
effected when Mrs. James Coleman of
Foxhall Village and Mrs. j. G. AIRING
ton of 1908 Connecticut avenue de-
scribed the clothing worn by Miss Baxley
when she disappeared November 20. The
apparel tailed exactly with that on the
body taken from the canal.
Miss Ina Baldwin of the Evangeline
Hotel, where Miss Bailey lived some
time ago, viewed the body, but was UNI
able to. declare positively that 1t was
that Of the missing girl, although she
said that from the appearance Of the
hair and general stature she believed 1t
was she.
Ray Stevenson, an operator for the
D. C. Paper Mill, discovered the body
floating in the icy water against an iron
grill through which water flows into the
turbines of the power plant of the paper
concern and the Crystal Ice Co., few
minutes before o'clock. Because of
the thick coating of mud, Stevenson
f1rst thought his ind was a wad OF
burlap bags but on closer examination
he discovered it to be a woman.
An hour before Stevenson inspected
the trap, which is designed to catch
debris before it strikes the blades of
the power plant wheels, Paul Preston,
an employe of the paper company, took
a discarded Christmas tree from the
same grill. He said he saw nothing
else which resembled the gruesone find
of an hour later.
When taken from the water the
woman's body was clothed in a blue
dress with a red-figured border at the
neck. Although she wore stockings,
there were no shoes found on her feet.
The body was in an excellent state Of
preservation
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YEGGMEN CRACK CHURCH SAFE.
GET 5000 IN CASH, $500 IN CHECKS
National City Christian Strong-Box Smashed With
Sedge and Fngerprnts Removed

Entering through a side window be-
neved to have been left unlocked, yegg-
men last night smashed the new safe
of the National City Christian Church
and made of with 5000 In cash and
$500 in checks from yesterdays collec-
tons.
After literally pounding the safe to
pieces with a sledge hammer, which
they left in the church, the intruders
carefully mopped the remains of the
strong box to remove possible finger
prints, and departed.
The men demonstrated they were
thoroughly familiar with the plan of
the church structure. They hrst Sc
cured the MOB from q closet where it
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BOMBAY BUSES STONED
TO FORCE FULL HARTAL
Disorderly Elements Mark Compile
ton of Gandhi's Eighth Month
in Prison by Violence.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOMBAY, January 5.-Crowds stoned
tramcars and buses in some parts Of
town today in an attempt to enforce a
complete Hartal or stoppage of work to
mark completion of Mahatma Gandhi'S
eighth months in prison.
The Hartal conceded with the closing
of so cotton mills employing 100000
operatives, to mark the death of Mu-
hammad Ali. Moslem delegate to the
rouna table conference in London.
Shops throughout the city were closed,
and by means of coercion the stone
throwing disorderly elements attempted
to make the tie-up complete. Trans
and bus services we're suspended.
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ITALY FEELS QUAKE
WITHOUT CASUALTIES
Several Walls Fall in Town Of
Barile-Shock Lasts About
Five Seconds.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MELT, Italy, January 5.-A strong
earthquake Of about five seconds dura-
ton was felt here at 4:25 o'clock this
morning. No victims were reported.
Several walls fell at the nearby town
of Barile, where one house was wrecked
and several others severely damaged.
Government civil engineers were rushed
to Barile Immediately.
Melh. one Of the centers which suf-
fered the most during the earthquake
of July %, was just beginning TO re-
cover and 70 rebuild Several slight
earthshockS were felt here during the
last half of 1880, but none was as heavy
as that of this morning.
This mornings shock was preceded
by slight tremors during the night
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is stored by the janitor and then got
the necessary water from a small ante
room some distance away
The robbers might have been less
successful but for the fact that church
officials, when closing the building last
night, neglected to lock the inner COM
partment of the safe, where the money
was stored. Consequently the yegg-
men had only to break the outer door.
The wrecked safe was discovered at 8
o'clock this morning by the janitor,
Ernest Knausman. He Immediately
notified police of the second precinct
and church officers. Knausnan said
the safe was purchased less than q
month ago.
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P. O. ROBBED AND BURNED

MEMPHIS, Tenn, January (P.-
The post Office at Millington, Tenn, a
suburb OF Memphis, was robbed and
burned early today
Postmaster Clyde Jamison found
looted registered mail sacks scattered
along a railway track after the fire and
expressed the belief the robbers, disap-
pointed by small loot, set fire to the
postOf1ce.
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Four Missing on Fishing Smack.

MEXICO CITY, January OP.-A
report from Progreso, Yucatan, to the
department of interior today said the
fishing smack Leandra II, with a crew
of four, was thought lost. The boat
put to sea December 20 on fishing
expedition, and it is believed was lost
in a heavy storm December %.
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Hydraulic Robber
Floods Money Vault
To Take Currency
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, January s.
The hydraulic robber Is threat
ening the safe blower here.
An investigator for an oil con-
Germ reported to police yesterday
$57 had been f1oated from the
safe in one of the company's
filling stations. The robber, the
report read, flooded the money
vault with water, removing the
currency through a slit in the
top.
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81 KILLED IN TYPH0oN

Fifty Missing Since Recent Storm
in Philippines.
MANILA, January (PD.-Reports 20
night indicated at least 80 persons were
killed and so missing as result Of a
recent typhoon in the Central Philippine
Islands.
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TRIO HELD in AUTO THEFT
Said to Admit Tax ing Car in Elk
ton, Md.

ton, Md.
TRENTON, N. Y. January L9.-
Three young men who police said adj
mitted stec ling an automobile lc-t night
in Elkton. Md, while hi -a king
north from Savannah, Ga, were ar
rested today.
The trio, Michael Corso, 20, Of Hart
ford. Conn, and John Duyan and
justice and win be turned over to Mary
land police tomorrow.
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Radio Programs on Page b
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WEATHER.

Rain this afternoon and night: to-
morrow fair and somewhat colder; low
est temperature tonight about 40 degrees
Highest, 81, at $3.50
pm. yesterday; lowest, 80, at am. today.
Full report on page 4.
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BEDTIME STORIES 81 Y. r ssSs1s'

a good fat Rat. When I can get Rats
1 don't bother with any other hunting.
Tell me, are there any rats around
here?"
Jumper shook his head. mot over
here in the Green Forest" said he.
You might find some around Farmer
Browns barn. I've been told that Rob-
Der the Rat and his family live there.
Why don't you 60 over and find out?"
at don't trust those two-legged crea-
lures" replied Whitley. IT don't want
to be around where they are. II can
pick up enough to live on, where none
of them will see me, prefer to. You
know I have been down this way before,
and the wonder to me Is that / ever
managed to get back to my home IN the
Far North. There seldom are any OF
those two-legged creatures up there and
when we do see any they do not bother
us That is the place to live" Whitley
sighed in the most mournful manner.
IF you think so much of it up there,
what did you leave for?" demanded
Food" replied Whitley cit was all
a matter of food. Even an Owl has to
eat in order to live" He tried to look
pathetic when he said this.
What has become of your usual sup
plv of food?" demanded Jumper.
and Jennings, on whom depend for
most of my food. seem to have almost
wholly disappeared, and your cousins,
the Northern Hares, must have suffered
from a sickness of some sort, for they
have disappeared like the Jennings
and Mice. Once in while its happens
that way and then the rest Of us who
depend on them for food starve. At
such time one is doubly thankful for
wings. Little by little I moved along
South until arrived here. But unless
you take pity on me and come out from
that bramble tangle and stop lodging
I fear I shall have to once more move
on. Such dinner as you would make!"
He snapped his bill two or three times.
Thanks" replied Jumper. II would
rather eat a dinner than furnish one,
so if you have it in mind to wait for
me you better move on. But what about
those two-legged creatures? Haven't
they treated you right?"
Treated me right? should say not!"
retorted Whitley promptly. II haven't
done them any harm in any way what
ever, yet they are always hunting me
and shooting at me with their terrible
guns. lost two feathers from my right
wing only a few days ago. Shot cut
them out. But for that I might have
caught you"
Jumper grinned. That's your hard
luck" said he. II hope you bear me no
i'll will"
None whatever" replied Whitley
promptly.
(Copyrisht, 1879
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way, takes the business Of picture max
ing quite seriously and has done sufh-
GENTLY we'll to warrant this-doesn't
want to give the picture box-office
title if such a move would be regarded
as disrespectful to a classic by the
audience world in general.
Most changes in titles which are
regarded as Objectionable are silly
changes. In my opinion, If there was
dignified change (and certainly be-
lieve that any one who has thought
over the matter as seriously as this has
been would not make a silly change +,
no harm would ensue A subtitle could
carry the information that this is Toll
stoi's Resurrection" and all tastes be
served.
OF course, box-office titles-or what
are regarded as such-are one of the
most interesting phases of cinema in
two favorites. The public loves to
think they are going to see something
naughty, and sex and sex-conficts still
continue to be the paramount subject
Of interest to the world in general, as
they have been since Adam and Eve.
One can't blame producers, since
motion picture making is an industry
and not a philanthropic institution, for
naming pictures in a manner that will
bring the greatest number Of people to
the theater.
And even that public which writes
high-minded letters from time TO time
runs breathlessly to the theater when
Red Hot Girl'' is in electrics over the
door.
paper All1Hnce.l
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MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
BY MoLLIE MERRICK.

HOLLYWOOD, January Z (NAN.A.).
If Dorothy Janis wrote the burning
love letters which have landed her in
q suit which sounds like the annals Of
Solomon Grundy, she may have to pay
an irate lady $4,000.
The irate lady wife of Sidney Lund,
q cinema technician, claims that Dor
othy Janis is the black-eyed beauty
who broke up her marriage. Mrs.
Lund claims she married in May, Lund
left in July for a South Sea location in
a company including Dorothy Janis,
and the romance of the Lun1S was
over in November, when the company
returned; for at that time, says the
wife, she found in her husbands pocket
q love letter from the lovely Janis.
As for little Miss Janis, she says she
didn't know LInd any better than any
one else in the company.
Well, it all makes for advertisement.
There is evidently no society among
actors of the cinema to take care OF
their down-and-out breth en-. Accord
ing to Mexican dispatches yesterday,
Art Accord. once a favo.ite of the cam
eras, will be buried II. Mexican pot
tiers field, since there has been no
claim for his body, either from that
country or from Hollywood.
Hollywood is very busy keeping the
world entertained.
And yesterday morning a letter from
Junior Laemmle, asking what we think
about changing the name Of "Resur-
rection," by Leo Tolstoi. 1t seems the
title under which the Russian wrote
one of his greatest works is not box
Office.
But young Laemmle-who, by the