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Titre : The Chicago tribune and the Daily news, New York
Éditeur : [s.n.] (Paris)
Date d'édition : 1930-01-05
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Chicago Sunday Tribune
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TODAY IN SOCIETY
BY MAY BIRKHEAD.
; Evoking the past has become a leading
£' }• , If the dock could be turned
about 15° years, and take the Paris
' Ifinn of the Chicago Tribune along with
this estimable sheet would naturally
Lote much attention to the doings of
r» Franklin. The celebrated philosopher,
tfter pro his eight years of résidence heue,
Lch became in time almost an apothe-
"j«is left Passy on July 12, 1785. Loin s XVI
' L; him his sedan chair for the tnp
from Passy to the city gates. Franklin
• W Lched Havre ten clays later, on July 22:
ffd° days later still was in Southampton;
after a crassing of fifty-one days,
'fached Philadelphia. Ail that the
(eJebrated American did here, and
roughout his life, from his birth in
Boston in 1706 to his death at Phila-
delphia in 1790, forms the subject of a
«markably Ínteresting book. The author
• j4 Bernard Fay, who is a professor at
University of Clermont-Perrand, and
w taught French literature at Coiumbia,
Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State, and
dther American universities. Althlougii
I11znY biographies of Franklin exist, Pro-
fessor Fay was amply justified in produc-
ing this work, which incorporâtes his ■
own extensive researches and his fresh 1
interpretation of Franklin's career. He
has used nearly 9°0 hitherto unpublished ;
letters Much of his best matei-ial was ;
found in t,he W. S. Mason coilection oi 1
Franklin documents in Evanston, Illinois. «
He has also made much use of the
famous H. B. Huntington library in ^
Pasadena, which happens to possess the i
original manuscript of Franklin's auto- <
biography. The J. P. Morgan collection £
in New York has an interesting series of (
letters dealing particularly with Franklin's <
last years.
1 :On Mardi 17th. at the Théâtre de la
Madeleine, Sacha Guitry is openÍng in
his new play dealing with the life of
Rranklin, on which he. has been engaged
Ér many months.
«The appearance of the Vicomte Alair
(p Léché's new book, Mr. Goldberg.
blJrty, reveals that Mrs. Henry Syme
ISehr has been hiding her light under :
fcushel. She drew the oover design fo
liç book, a satire on European personage
and American social life. This is th<
first time that any of her drawings hav(
feeen published. The design shows a
group of four figures, Mr. Goldberg, Mrs.
G9.ldberg, the Count and the Countess
ljfen.ng over the rail lof a liner pulling
dût for New -York. Mrs. Lehr is leaving
$ January 20 by motor for Madrid and
X extensive tour through Spain. She
vflll be accompanied by her cousin Mrs.
J!m€s Watson Benton, who has been her
Jùest in her Paris house for the last few
Mfeeks. Mrs. Benton's son, Mr. James
ifcbb Benton, has recently been transfer-
r|d from Warsaw to Madrid as Secretary
(§■ Che American Embassy and took his
ptost in time to take part in the ceremonies
t'jr the officiai reception of tour new
Itmbassador, Mr. Irwin Laughlin.
§Mr. Edmund Clark, who has lon&been,
président of Paris, invited his numerous
rnds to tea yesterday at his apartment
the Rue de Longchamp to meet his
sîster, Mrs. Howell, who is his guest for
the winter. This reception gave almost
the entire American colony a chance to
! meet for the first time our new Consul-
General and his wife who happen to be
1 Mr. Clark's next-door neighbors. In
February, Mr. Clark and Mrs. Howell
are leaving Paris for a motor trip, first to
Pau and t!hen on to the Riviera where
tsfrey will spend some weeks, and from
■ tJhere are planning to go to Rome for the
. earlv spring.
'Mr. and Mrs. Robert Appleton left
Paris yesterday for Cannes taking with
tbem their two handsome Chows, Wooff
abd Whoppee, who have become quite
sonie personages about the Ritz since they
arrived from New York just before Christ-
nias. The Appletons are going directly
tf their new villa, Le Domaine de St.
lfartholemy, at M'ougins les Barroques,
#ich is up in the mountains back of
Cannes and not far from Grasse. This
l' rticular region -has become much favor-
by Américan villa..,holders in recent
years.
;;|The Prince and Princess Poniatowski
Have the Villa Sperenza at Mougins and
spend a part of each winter there. The
Princess, who was Miss Elizabeth Helen
Sperry, is a sister of Mrs. W. H. Crocker
and the aunt lof the Comtesse André de
Limur, née Crocker. who is already
occupyin.g her villa in Cannes. Not far
%>m here is Mr. Evander B. Schley's
tooperty, the Château Castelaras, and
Éso that of his brother, the Villa La
Bastide San Francois, belonging to Mr.
Barney Schley.
fcastelaras lies between Mougins, Val-
bonne and Mouans-Sartoux and is near
the Mougins golf course. Fur.t'her on
toward Grasse—in fact just above this
Village of flowers and perfume—is the
Château de Malbosc, another very hand-
some property, belonging to Mr. and Mrs.
George BlumenthaI.
EXCHANGE RATES
LATEST OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS
Dollar in New York Fr. 25.4125
Dollar in Paris Fr. 25.4125
Dollar in Berlin M. 4.190
Dollar in Rome L. 19.09
Pound in London $ 4.8766
Pound in Paris ......... Fr. 123.945
U.S. OPPOSES
ADDITIONS TO
PACT OF PARIS
Hope Grows For London
Conference Despite
French Demands
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The Ad-
ministration does. not intend to sup-
plément the Pact of Paris with an
extra security clause as a means of
winning France over to a naval dis-
armament agreement at the London
Conférence, it was learned from reliable
sources here today.
America is now extremely optimistic
as to the outcome of the London meet-
ing and the general opinion here is
that France will prove much more
amenable to signing the Naval com-
pact than its recent memorandum in-
dicates.
Only a week ago, on receipt of the
French note, President Hoover and
Secretary of State Stimson were ex-
tremely pessimistic beeause of the many
controversial issues raised , by the
French. France demanded a security
pact as the price of her signature to
the Naval agreement. Premier Tardieu,
it was indicated, would insist to
Secretary Stimson that . a. clause be
added to the Pact to provide for con-
certed action by the signatories in case
of war.
But the Administration no longer ap-
pears to be worried àbout the French
tëmands and the outcome of the London
meeting. The notion that Premier Tar-
3ieu is ready to throw a monkey wrench
i!to the conference machinery is scoffed
GIFT OF HOOVERS
TO PRINCESS IS
RARE SEAL FURS
Knew Marie-José Well
As Child During
War Days
(Tribune Press Service)
BI^USSELS, Jan. 4.—Président and
Mrs. Hoover, who used to bring Pi'in-
cess Marie José candy during the war
days wheh she was a little blond' tot
t)laying about the beach at La Panne,
the last bit of Belgian soil left uncon-
quered by the Germans, sent her a per-
sonal wedding gift of ten of America's
choicest sealskins, The Tribune learned
today when the precious furs were
packed and shipped with other présents
in a special baggage car to Turin, the
future home of the young bride-to-be of
Crown Prince Umberto of Italy.
The Hoovers, who did war work in
Belgium, were frequently invited to the
humble cottage where the Belgian rulers
ma.de their home during the tragic days
of the war, and knew the little Princess
well.
It has been learned here that ex-
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and
his wife will attend the wedding at
Rome. Rupprecht who is the cousin of
both the Belgian and Italian Royal
Families at first refused to go to the cere-
mony because since the war he and
King Albert had severed ail relations.
However, upon being assured that he
would not be given the cold shoulder in
Rome he finally accepted.
Radio Corporation
Chooses New Officers
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
NEW YORK, Jan. 4. — Mr. David
Sarnoff was elected president of the
Radio Corporation of America yesterday
at the first 1930 meeting of the board
of direotors. General James Harbord
was appoinited chairman of the board
f:ucceeding- Mr. Owen D. Young, who had
resigned in order to become chairman
ot the newly organized executive com-
mittee, authorized at yesterday's meeting.
Mr. Sarnoff is 39 and hitherto has been
vice president and general manager.
Mencken Seeks A Naval Holiday In London —
For Himself—And Purple Spats For Paris
BY LEIGH HOFFMAN.
A little group of ship 'news reporters,
armed with an extra supply of pencils
and reams of copy paper, assem.bled
yesterday afternoon ta meet the jovial,
waggish, bad boy of Baltimore, Henry
L. Mencken, upon his arrivial at the
Gare St. Lazare from Cherbourg, where
he disembarked from the North Germa.n
I .loyd liner Columbus after crossing from
New York.
Snortin.g, fuming, bellowing', and
spluttering. Saint Henry of Hollins Street
—for he has already beén canonized by
the young Amerkaaii révoltés, ^ altho-ugh
he is still very much alive-hopped off
the boat train fully three leaps before
it came to a s>tandstill in the sta,tio.n.
Thus the enfant terrible of American
lierature, the nemesis of ail right-
thinkers. forward-lookers, boob-bumpers,
and reformers. the everlasting foe of
puritanism, prohibition, and democracy,
and the editor of American Mercury, ar-
rived in Paris for a brief visit before
proceeding to London to attend the com-
ing Naval Disarmament Conference and
write spécial articles about it for the
Baltimore Evening Sun.
Whatnell ?
"What the hell's happened to France?"
he snorted, in a series of staccato
explosions sounding like the discharge
of a rapid-fire gun. "Happened? Why
between Oherbourg and here there's
no,thin,g but a hideous, obnoxious, obscene
stretch of billboards. The beautiful
Norman countryside, once the glory of
France, and formerly one of the most
exquisite, fertile, su.mptuous, and restful
landscapes to be found in the' entire
wcrld, is being polluted with an endless,
uninterrupted chain of cheap, tawdry
billboards and gaudy advertising signs.
What a:n eyesore! A real tragedy. An
unmitigated swindle perpetrated to rob
and cheat the land eut of the lavish
dowry that nature bestowed upon it!"
Bang! Boom! Bangity-boom-boom-
boom!
"The scoundrels who perpetrated such
Pershing Sought By Republicans
To Force Norris Out Of Senate
War Hero Seen As Hope
To Beat Insurgent
From Nebraska
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 4.—A movement
to draft General John J. Pershing to
run for United States Senator Qii the
Republican ticket in opposition to Sena-
tor George Norris, insurgent Repub-
lic-an, was announced today at the close
of a conference of Nebraska business
and political leaders. General Pershing
lias refused to discuss his possible
candidacy.
The move to replace Senator Norris
by General Pershing is seen as an effort
by members of the Nebraska Old Guard
to regain prestige with the national party
by substituting a man - more in accord
v-rith Administration, ideas.
Senator Norris, although always run-
ning as a Republican, has long been a
veritable thorn in the side of the party,
killing measure after measure backed by
the Republicans. It was largely through
his efforts that the sale of Muscle Shoals
to Mr. Henry Ford failed during the
Coolidge administratiom.. In the 1928
élections he stumped Nebraska for Al
Smith, the Démocratie presidential can-
didate.
Nebraska Republican leaders have fe'tt
considérable embari'a&siment in their
oealings with the national party, for
inturally a state with two insurgent
senatbrs ca:n,not expect as much con-
sidération as even one with two Demo-
cratie senators. However, ail previous ef-
forts to replace Senator Norris or his
lolleague and protégé, Senator Robert
Beecher Howell, with regular Republican?
have proven futile due to Senator Nor-
ris' immense 'popularity in Nebrask?..
which has the primary élection System
of nomination. Senator Norris has
always had sufficient strength to carry
the state not only for himself, but also
for his less popular brother senator.
Republican leaders have seized whai
must have appeared to them to be their
only hope in General Pershing who, as
a popular war hero, may be expected
to put up the first serious résistance
that Senator Norris has known for
years.
Italian Master's Painting
Is Found After 100 Years
(Tribune Press Service)
THE HAGUE, Jan. 4.-In clean-
ing an old painting of comparatively
little value, the missing canvas Ecce
Horno by the Italian master Gior-
gone, teacher of Titian, was discover-
ed underlying it by a restorer at
Nimeguen.
The painting, which ia more than
400 years old, is estimated to be
worth $100,000. It has long been
sought by the art collectors of the
world, no record of it for more than
a century being known.
Two Die When Fire
Follows Blast In
Park Avenue Hôtel
Brokers Wife Escapes
Flames But Succumbs
To Weak Heart
(International News Service).
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Fire which fol-
lowed an explosion today at the Hôtel
Marguery, one of the most exclusive
hostelries on famous Park Avenue, re-
siulted in the death of two persons. The
fire occurred in the basement of the
building-, following a short circuit ex-
plosion which blew out windows and shut
off the electric current throughout the
hôtel, plunging the building into dark-
ness.
An elevator attendant was caug'ht be-
tween two floors when the current failed
and brought his elevator to a sudden
hait. He made heroic attempts to free
himself, but was suffocated by the smoke
which poured up the shaft.
Mrs. Louis Lichtenheim, wife of a
wealthy broker, who was lying in her
apartment on the l1th floor, got up
from a sick bed and walked into the
street, where she fell dead. Doctors cer-
tified that her death was due to an over-
taxed heart. Nine firemen were overcome
by smoke fumes while subduing the
blaze.
TWO KILLED WHEN
WAREHOUSE FALLS
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—An ancient and
condemned warehouse on the East Side
collapsed today, killing two men and bad-
ly injuring three others, one of whom
may die. The two dead men were buried
for several hours under tons of heavy
debris before their bodies could be re-
covered. The owner and contractor who
were engaged in repairing the building
were both arrested on the charges of
homicide and criminal négligence.
One Suit Against
Stutz Dismissed;
Second Is Pending
Bankruptcy Request
Fails For Lack
Of Basis
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 4.-A suit in
involuntary bankruptcy filed by three
creditors against the Stutz Motorcar
Company of America was dismissed in
Federal Court today on motion of the
automotive concern's attorneys, who
declared there was insufficient basis for
bankruptcy proceedings.
The suit was brought but five days
&go by the E. C. Atkins Company, the
Hide Leather and Belting Company, and
the Vonnegut Halldware, Company. They
alleged that officers of the Stutz oom-
;P»ny had^Jransferred assets- to other
creditors, and chargred that this àIleged
action constitutçd. an act in bankruptcy.
They asked for appointaient of@ a re-
ceiver and judgment for $2,175.98. Their
suit was thrown out of court shortly
after the concern's attorneys made their
motion. Stutz officiais had been given
20 days in which to file their answer.
Another suit still is pending against the
company in the Superior Court. It was
brought by Standard Automotive Parts,
Inc. Stutz officers gave out a statement
at the time the suits were filed a.sse
ing that merger negotiations with an-
other large automobile manufacturer thnn
were in progress, but did not indicate tne
name of the company. '
Five Drowned When
Dutch Vessel Sinks
(Tribune Press Service)
OSLO, Jan. 4.—Five persons were
drowned when the Dutch steamer Hof-
plein, from Rotterdam, sank after
striking the rocks near Stad, on the
West Coast of Norway last nig.ht. Dis-
tress rockets were observed at 3 o'clock
this morning, and S.O.S. signais re-
porting the steamer sinking and her en-
gine room flooded also were pic'ked up.
The ship could be seen drifting among
the rocks but heavy seas prevented
boats going to its assistance. Boats
were seen being lowered from the ship,
one of whiieh C'ontained 34 members of
the crew, who wére rescued. The
wreckàge of another boat which con-
tained five men was found, but ail those
aboard were drowned.
7 CHILDREN DIE
IN GRADE CRASH
LONDON, Jan. 4.—Seven (Ihildren
were killed and eight others seriously
injured when an express train today
crasbed into an automobile load of
children at a grade crossing near Woos-
ter. The accident was caused by a
snowstorm which blinded the car's
driver so that he could not see the on-
coming train.
EDGE MAKES FORMAL
CALL ON M. LEYGUES
Ambassador Walter Evans Edge called
on M. Georges Leygues, French Minister
of Marine, on Friday afternoon.
Mr. Ed'ge's visit was purely one of
courtesy and questions connected with
the fortheoming Naval Conference in,
London were not discussed in the course
of the cordial interview between the two
statesmen.
TICKETS FOR ALL THEATRES
FRENCH IDENTITY CARDS
are obtainable and
GABLES FOR AMERICA
are accepted at
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U. S. REDS RIOT
IN CAPITAL AND
ON WEST COAST
Police Break Up Mobs
Protesting Hoover
Foreign Policy
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The déter-
mination of the Communist Party to
bring itself into the public eye in the
United Statesi was shown today when
two serious demonstrations were held,
one in this city and one in Los Angeles.
The Mexican Embassy here was the
scene of the more important affair. A
party of fifty young men marched sol-
emnly to the Embassy building and
proceeded to stage a demonstration.
They were bearing heavy placard.s-:.::o
large that they could scarcely hold them
aloft—which bore such incendiary in-
scriptions as: "The Hoover Government
is responsible for the murder of our
Mexican brothers;" "Smash the bloody
puppet alliance between Calles, Portes
Gil and Machadü;" "Hoover and Rubio
are both enemies of the Woorkers" and
"Down with American imperialism in
Mexico."
Police reserves were hastily called up
but before they arrived a ho&tile crowd
had formed and several of the Reds'
placards were seized and smashed.
About half an hour after the démonstra-
tion began the police had arrived in suf-
ficient numbers to cope with the Com-
munists, of whom they arrested 35.
The latter insisted on singing the
Second Capitol Fire
Loss Is $7,000 And
Many Documents
Blaze In South Wing
Thought Result Of
Short Circuit
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Preliminary
estimâtes now place the damage done
bYf:re, which br0ke out in the sout.h
w;ng of the Capitol building last n'ght.
at approximately $7,000, of which $3,000
was callsed to the wooden interior of
the rooms and $4,000 to documents, in-
cluding hundreds of volumes of bills
mtroduced by Congress.
It was the second fire on Government
property within the last 10 days and
occurred when a conflagration, which
presllmably originated in the artists'
room adjoining the surplus document
storage building, broke out in a wing of
the House of Représentatives. The fire.
which was discovered shortly after 7
o'clock at night, is now believed to have
been due to a short circuit in the artists'
room, in which the firemen saved sev-
eral paintings of historical value of for-
mer Secretaries of States and War.
Thousands of persons gathered in the
vicinity of the Capitol. drawn by an
assembly of 20 companies of fire' fight-
ers, who rushed to the scene in response
to two alarms. The firemen experienced
serious difficulty in dragging the hose
up the winding staircase in order to
reach the blaze whjch was speedily
extinguished. The firemen continued to
pour tons of water on the smoulderlng
documents for some time after the blaz(,
was quelled.
The third floor ceiling and also the
elevator shaft were damaged, while an
artist, Charles Morley, was occupying
the artists' room, suffere.d from cuts
received from glass and was given first-
aid treatment. Numerous lower House
documents were destroyed, however, by
the flames which forced through the
roof of the building, enveloping the en-
tire dome in smoke. The fiâmes were
confined to two rooms.
COTTON ACTS FOR STIMSON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Mr. J. P. Cot-
:on, Under Secretary of State, today took
charge of the State Department although
he will not become acting secretary until
Henry L. Stimson relinquishes his office
temporarily to attend the London Naval
Disarmament Conférence. Mr. Stimson
leaves Washington Thursday.
Garbisch, Ex-Grid Star,
Weds Chrysler Heiress
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—Mr. Edgar
William Garbisch, former captain of
the West Point football team, the
son of a country doctor, today mar-
ried Miss 'Bernice Chrysler, daughter
of Mr. Walter P. Chrysler and heir
to the motor magnate's millions.
Many prominent guests, including
Mr. John J. Raskob and former
Governor Alfred E. Smith of New
York, attended the ceremony.
Mr. Garbish had an intercollegiate
football career of seven years, three
years at Washington and Jefferson
and four at the Army. During ail
of the seven years playing at ce.n.ter
he never failed to attain a place on
either the first or second AII-Amer-
ican team or honorable mention. He
also played tennis and was the
number one player on the Army
team. He resigned from the Army
a short time ago and is now working
in the financial enterprises.
FIVE OHIO STUDENTS
KILLED AT CROSSINC
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
SHREVE. O., Jan. 4.-Five high
school basketbali players and the
driver of their autobus were killed
today when a train ètuck the bus at
a grade crossing. Six students in-
cluding three girls were seriously in-
jured. The students were return-
ing to Burbank, O., from Prairie, O.,
where the team had played a game.
Site Of World Bank
May Bring Trade On
New Belgian Areas
Brussels Will Insist On
Getting Young Plan
Institution
BY HENRY WALES.
(Tribune Press Service)
THE HAGUE, Jan. 4.—The row over
the location of the International Bank of
Réparations Settlements, which resuited
in the Belgian délégation walking out
on the Baden Paden organizatioll eom-
mittee when the latter decided in favor
of Basel, Switzerland, instead of Rru.s-
seJs, is smouldering and threatens to
break out into another open split.
The Belgian de'e'gates here received
orders from their Government to re-
open the demand that Brussels be select-
ec"i as the site of the Super Bank, and
not to accept Base!, and considerable
informai pourparlers already are under
way.
Germany Wants Trade.
Germany, which opposed Brussels for-
! mally at the August Conference and at
Baden Baden, hinted its readiness to
accept the Belgian capital in return for
rétrocession of the districts of Eupen
and Maimedy whieh were lopped from
the Reich territory by the Versailles
Treaty and handed over to Belgium.
In October, Dr. Schacht invited sev-
eral political leaders from Eupen and
Malmedy to Baden Baden to discuss the
possibility of inducing the Belgian Gov-
ernment to hand back the two districts
in return for the Berlin Government's !
support of Brussels as headquarters for
the Bank.
A certain sympathy for the barter is
rr.anif,é.st among sevena! members of the
Belgian Government who foresee Brus-
sels gaining a prominent position in the
banking world and international finance
through acquiring the Super Bank.
The French oppose the scheme bitter-
ly because as the first alteration of the
territorial clauses of the Versailles
Treaty, it might constitute an opening
wedge for revisions of other frontière.
The treaty provided that a referendum
be held in Eupen and Malmedy giving
the population an option either for Bel-
gium or Germany but when the refer-
endum was held, it merely gave the in-
habitants an opportunity to register on
open lists and those refusing to vote in
favor of Belgium were obliged to tell
why they preferred Germany.
Handle War Claims.
Dr. Schacht's suggestion for the solu-
tion was that another and secret refer-
endum be held in the districts, If this
were done it is believed, the majority
of the populace would ballot in favor
of i«:attachment to the [teich.
Today, the non-German Reparations
Commission met and decided to handle
Austria today, Bulgaria on Monday and
Hungary on Tuesday.
An informai conversation 'was started
this afternoon between Austria and
Czechoslovakia, Roumania, Serbia and
Poland separately toward a separate
agreement on their various claims.
Meanwhile, unofficial pourparlers are
going on with Bulgaria and 1 understand
that the Sofia delegates were offered
11,000,000 gold francs for 20 years far
final settlement.
VARE STILL ENTRANT
IN RACE FOR SENATE
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4.—William S.
Yare, rejected as a rnember of the
Senate at the last session, a,nnounced
today that he is still a ca.ndida'te for
the seat which he lost and that his name
will appear on he Republican primary
ballot next May despite the récent action
in the Senate. Vara was excludei
bcca.u.se of excessive campaign expendi-
tures, and was suoeeeded last month by
Joseph R. Grundy, appointed to serve
duriing his unexpired term.
2 COAST GUARD
MEN BEATEN UP
FOR VENGEANCE
G.O.P. HopesToAvoid
Dry Wrangle; Fess
Sees Hoover
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
JN iiiW LONDON, Conn., Jan. 4.—Two
Coast Guardsmen were attacked and
severely beaten here today by a group
of men who, it is believed, were bent on
avenging the killing of three rum run-
ners off Newport, R. I., last Sunday.
Police rus.hed to the scene but the
attackers had fled.
The Coast Guard patrol boat No. 290
did not fire a warning shot apross the
bow of the rum runne-r, Black Duck,
in which the three men, later slain, an.i
a fourth who was wounded, were con-
veying holiday liquors, it was admitted
today. United States District Attorney
Henry Bose, Jr., said that the law of
the United States did not demand such
a warning, and that no such claim would
be made in the eA
the slayings.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Organization
of the Republican majority in the Senâte
to stall off a prolonged discussion of
Prohibition atrocities at this time will be
attempted by Majority Leader James p.
Watson, of Indiana, at a party conference
either Monday or Tuesday.
Without expressing any particular
enthusiasm for Prohibition, Senator Wat-
son placed his current efforts on a basis
that he desired to hurry passage of the
tariff bill, which the Demoeratic-In-
surgent Republican Coalition has been
rewriting over the Finance Committee's
opposition sirice last September.
But the Insurgent group fighting the
old line tariff bill, has ideas just as ob-
stinate in regard to Prohibition and is
expe.ct.ed to make a strong fight to bring
up methods of enforcing the dry law
uh4er the leadership. o£.§enator William
E. Borah, of Idaho.
Senator Borah, himself a darling of
the drys, would demand stricter enforce-
ment of the law, whereas other "sons of
the wild jackass," as the Insurgents have
been called, prohably would be disposed
to kick the majority plan aside because
they question the law on.its merits rather
than on its lack of enforcement.
Expectations in some quakers that
Senator Simeon D. Fess, Regular Repub-
lican of Ohio, will head a joint Congres-
sional Committee which will conslder re-
organization of Prohibition enforcement
machinery gained momentum today be-
cause of a visit which Senator Fess made
a.t the White House last night.
Before his conference with President
Hoover, the Ohioan said that he did not
want the job and would take it only
under compulsion.
Senator Borah has been considered for
the position also. but many think he will
not get the opportunity to serve. Borah
today denied that Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt. former chief of the Prohi-
bition prosecution division of the Depart-
ment of Justice while Assistant Attorney
General, had turned over to him informa-
tion regarding dry enforcement condi-
tions.
Find Movie Planes
In Which Ten Died
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4.—Naval air-
planes scanning the Pacifie Ocean today
suC/ceeded in locating the two planes
which crashed while making a movie
stunt film, resulting in the loss of 10
lives, including those of Director Ken-
neth Hawkes and Max Gold. A mine
sweeper was sent to the scene and re-
covered the wreckage.
Col. Roscoe Turner, famous long-dis-
tance flyer, who was piloting the third
plane in the S'tunt, offered a l'evised so-
lution of the calamity, declaring that the
ill-fated machines crasbed as a consé-
quence of one suddenly climbing from
underneath, thereby becoming inter-
locked with the other. Previously it had
been said they met in a head-on colli-
~ sion.
Police Sought Head Of British Oil
Firm—Found Him In Paris Carnival
A "flying pig" on a merry-go-round
may solve one of the great financial
debacles of England, due to the fact that
a Paris detective knew the weakness of
Francis Lorang, director of the Blue-
bird Petrol Co., for carnivals and
whoopee, and placed him under arrest to
await a request from London for his
extradition.
Last May there was a suspected déficit
in the affairs of the Bluebird Petrol
Company and an order for compulsory
liquidation was made. In June, the af-
fairs of three other concerns affiliated
with the Bluehird concern were com-
pulsorily wound up. An order went out
seeking the presence of Francis Lorang,
director, as necessary to explain the con-
dition of the companies. It appears,
,however, that he had gone to his native
Luxembourg, with which state Great
.
Britain does not have agreements for
extradition.
Gay Paris in the holiday season, how-
ever, proved irresistible to Mr. Lorang.
Paris police learned of his entrance into
THE WEATHER
Skies generally cloudy, with inter-
spersed showers and occasional brÍght
spells, strong southwesterly wind, is to-
day's forecast for Paris and vicinity.
Yesterday the highest température
was 50 degrees F. (10 C.) ; and the
lowest was 41 degrees F. (5 C.).
English Channel: cloudy and rainy,
sea rather rough; further outlook unset-
1 tled and showery.
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BY MAY BIRKHEAD.
; Evoking the past has become a leading
£' }• , If the dock could be turned
about 15° years, and take the Paris
' Ifinn of the Chicago Tribune along with
this estimable sheet would naturally
Lote much attention to the doings of
r» Franklin. The celebrated philosopher,
tfter pro his eight years of résidence heue,
Lch became in time almost an apothe-
"j«is left Passy on July 12, 1785. Loin s XVI
' L; him his sedan chair for the tnp
from Passy to the city gates. Franklin
• W Lched Havre ten clays later, on July 22:
ffd° days later still was in Southampton;
after a crassing of fifty-one days,
'fached Philadelphia. Ail that the
(eJebrated American did here, and
roughout his life, from his birth in
Boston in 1706 to his death at Phila-
delphia in 1790, forms the subject of a
«markably Ínteresting book. The author
• j4 Bernard Fay, who is a professor at
University of Clermont-Perrand, and
w taught French literature at Coiumbia,
Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State, and
dther American universities. Althlougii
I11znY biographies of Franklin exist, Pro-
fessor Fay was amply justified in produc-
ing this work, which incorporâtes his ■
own extensive researches and his fresh 1
interpretation of Franklin's career. He
has used nearly 9°0 hitherto unpublished ;
letters Much of his best matei-ial was ;
found in t,he W. S. Mason coilection oi 1
Franklin documents in Evanston, Illinois. «
He has also made much use of the
famous H. B. Huntington library in ^
Pasadena, which happens to possess the i
original manuscript of Franklin's auto- <
biography. The J. P. Morgan collection £
in New York has an interesting series of (
letters dealing particularly with Franklin's <
last years.
1 :On Mardi 17th. at the Théâtre de la
Madeleine, Sacha Guitry is openÍng in
his new play dealing with the life of
Rranklin, on which he. has been engaged
Ér many months.
«The appearance of the Vicomte Alair
(p Léché's new book, Mr. Goldberg.
blJrty, reveals that Mrs. Henry Syme
ISehr has been hiding her light under :
fcushel. She drew the oover design fo
liç book, a satire on European personage
and American social life. This is th<
first time that any of her drawings hav(
feeen published. The design shows a
group of four figures, Mr. Goldberg, Mrs.
G9.ldberg, the Count and the Countess
ljfen.ng over the rail lof a liner pulling
dût for New -York. Mrs. Lehr is leaving
$ January 20 by motor for Madrid and
X extensive tour through Spain. She
vflll be accompanied by her cousin Mrs.
J!m€s Watson Benton, who has been her
Jùest in her Paris house for the last few
Mfeeks. Mrs. Benton's son, Mr. James
ifcbb Benton, has recently been transfer-
r|d from Warsaw to Madrid as Secretary
(§■ Che American Embassy and took his
ptost in time to take part in the ceremonies
t'jr the officiai reception of tour new
Itmbassador, Mr. Irwin Laughlin.
§Mr. Edmund Clark, who has lon&been,
président of Paris, invited his numerous
rnds to tea yesterday at his apartment
the Rue de Longchamp to meet his
sîster, Mrs. Howell, who is his guest for
the winter. This reception gave almost
the entire American colony a chance to
! meet for the first time our new Consul-
General and his wife who happen to be
1 Mr. Clark's next-door neighbors. In
February, Mr. Clark and Mrs. Howell
are leaving Paris for a motor trip, first to
Pau and t!hen on to the Riviera where
tsfrey will spend some weeks, and from
■ tJhere are planning to go to Rome for the
. earlv spring.
'Mr. and Mrs. Robert Appleton left
Paris yesterday for Cannes taking with
tbem their two handsome Chows, Wooff
abd Whoppee, who have become quite
sonie personages about the Ritz since they
arrived from New York just before Christ-
nias. The Appletons are going directly
tf their new villa, Le Domaine de St.
lfartholemy, at M'ougins les Barroques,
#ich is up in the mountains back of
Cannes and not far from Grasse. This
l' rticular region -has become much favor-
by Américan villa..,holders in recent
years.
;;|The Prince and Princess Poniatowski
Have the Villa Sperenza at Mougins and
spend a part of each winter there. The
Princess, who was Miss Elizabeth Helen
Sperry, is a sister of Mrs. W. H. Crocker
and the aunt lof the Comtesse André de
Limur, née Crocker. who is already
occupyin.g her villa in Cannes. Not far
%>m here is Mr. Evander B. Schley's
tooperty, the Château Castelaras, and
Éso that of his brother, the Villa La
Bastide San Francois, belonging to Mr.
Barney Schley.
fcastelaras lies between Mougins, Val-
bonne and Mouans-Sartoux and is near
the Mougins golf course. Fur.t'her on
toward Grasse—in fact just above this
Village of flowers and perfume—is the
Château de Malbosc, another very hand-
some property, belonging to Mr. and Mrs.
George BlumenthaI.
EXCHANGE RATES
LATEST OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS
Dollar in New York Fr. 25.4125
Dollar in Paris Fr. 25.4125
Dollar in Berlin M. 4.190
Dollar in Rome L. 19.09
Pound in London $ 4.8766
Pound in Paris ......... Fr. 123.945
U.S. OPPOSES
ADDITIONS TO
PACT OF PARIS
Hope Grows For London
Conference Despite
French Demands
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The Ad-
ministration does. not intend to sup-
plément the Pact of Paris with an
extra security clause as a means of
winning France over to a naval dis-
armament agreement at the London
Conférence, it was learned from reliable
sources here today.
America is now extremely optimistic
as to the outcome of the London meet-
ing and the general opinion here is
that France will prove much more
amenable to signing the Naval com-
pact than its recent memorandum in-
dicates.
Only a week ago, on receipt of the
French note, President Hoover and
Secretary of State Stimson were ex-
tremely pessimistic beeause of the many
controversial issues raised , by the
French. France demanded a security
pact as the price of her signature to
the Naval agreement. Premier Tardieu,
it was indicated, would insist to
Secretary Stimson that . a. clause be
added to the Pact to provide for con-
certed action by the signatories in case
of war.
But the Administration no longer ap-
pears to be worried àbout the French
tëmands and the outcome of the London
meeting. The notion that Premier Tar-
3ieu is ready to throw a monkey wrench
i!to the conference machinery is scoffed
GIFT OF HOOVERS
TO PRINCESS IS
RARE SEAL FURS
Knew Marie-José Well
As Child During
War Days
(Tribune Press Service)
BI^USSELS, Jan. 4.—Président and
Mrs. Hoover, who used to bring Pi'in-
cess Marie José candy during the war
days wheh she was a little blond' tot
t)laying about the beach at La Panne,
the last bit of Belgian soil left uncon-
quered by the Germans, sent her a per-
sonal wedding gift of ten of America's
choicest sealskins, The Tribune learned
today when the precious furs were
packed and shipped with other présents
in a special baggage car to Turin, the
future home of the young bride-to-be of
Crown Prince Umberto of Italy.
The Hoovers, who did war work in
Belgium, were frequently invited to the
humble cottage where the Belgian rulers
ma.de their home during the tragic days
of the war, and knew the little Princess
well.
It has been learned here that ex-
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and
his wife will attend the wedding at
Rome. Rupprecht who is the cousin of
both the Belgian and Italian Royal
Families at first refused to go to the cere-
mony because since the war he and
King Albert had severed ail relations.
However, upon being assured that he
would not be given the cold shoulder in
Rome he finally accepted.
Radio Corporation
Chooses New Officers
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
NEW YORK, Jan. 4. — Mr. David
Sarnoff was elected president of the
Radio Corporation of America yesterday
at the first 1930 meeting of the board
of direotors. General James Harbord
was appoinited chairman of the board
f:ucceeding- Mr. Owen D. Young, who had
resigned in order to become chairman
ot the newly organized executive com-
mittee, authorized at yesterday's meeting.
Mr. Sarnoff is 39 and hitherto has been
vice president and general manager.
Mencken Seeks A Naval Holiday In London —
For Himself—And Purple Spats For Paris
BY LEIGH HOFFMAN.
A little group of ship 'news reporters,
armed with an extra supply of pencils
and reams of copy paper, assem.bled
yesterday afternoon ta meet the jovial,
waggish, bad boy of Baltimore, Henry
L. Mencken, upon his arrivial at the
Gare St. Lazare from Cherbourg, where
he disembarked from the North Germa.n
I .loyd liner Columbus after crossing from
New York.
Snortin.g, fuming, bellowing', and
spluttering. Saint Henry of Hollins Street
—for he has already beén canonized by
the young Amerkaaii révoltés, ^ altho-ugh
he is still very much alive-hopped off
the boat train fully three leaps before
it came to a s>tandstill in the sta,tio.n.
Thus the enfant terrible of American
lierature, the nemesis of ail right-
thinkers. forward-lookers, boob-bumpers,
and reformers. the everlasting foe of
puritanism, prohibition, and democracy,
and the editor of American Mercury, ar-
rived in Paris for a brief visit before
proceeding to London to attend the com-
ing Naval Disarmament Conference and
write spécial articles about it for the
Baltimore Evening Sun.
Whatnell ?
"What the hell's happened to France?"
he snorted, in a series of staccato
explosions sounding like the discharge
of a rapid-fire gun. "Happened? Why
between Oherbourg and here there's
no,thin,g but a hideous, obnoxious, obscene
stretch of billboards. The beautiful
Norman countryside, once the glory of
France, and formerly one of the most
exquisite, fertile, su.mptuous, and restful
landscapes to be found in the' entire
wcrld, is being polluted with an endless,
uninterrupted chain of cheap, tawdry
billboards and gaudy advertising signs.
What a:n eyesore! A real tragedy. An
unmitigated swindle perpetrated to rob
and cheat the land eut of the lavish
dowry that nature bestowed upon it!"
Bang! Boom! Bangity-boom-boom-
boom!
"The scoundrels who perpetrated such
Pershing Sought By Republicans
To Force Norris Out Of Senate
War Hero Seen As Hope
To Beat Insurgent
From Nebraska
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 4.—A movement
to draft General John J. Pershing to
run for United States Senator Qii the
Republican ticket in opposition to Sena-
tor George Norris, insurgent Repub-
lic-an, was announced today at the close
of a conference of Nebraska business
and political leaders. General Pershing
lias refused to discuss his possible
candidacy.
The move to replace Senator Norris
by General Pershing is seen as an effort
by members of the Nebraska Old Guard
to regain prestige with the national party
by substituting a man - more in accord
v-rith Administration, ideas.
Senator Norris, although always run-
ning as a Republican, has long been a
veritable thorn in the side of the party,
killing measure after measure backed by
the Republicans. It was largely through
his efforts that the sale of Muscle Shoals
to Mr. Henry Ford failed during the
Coolidge administratiom.. In the 1928
élections he stumped Nebraska for Al
Smith, the Démocratie presidential can-
didate.
Nebraska Republican leaders have fe'tt
considérable embari'a&siment in their
oealings with the national party, for
inturally a state with two insurgent
senatbrs ca:n,not expect as much con-
sidération as even one with two Demo-
cratie senators. However, ail previous ef-
forts to replace Senator Norris or his
lolleague and protégé, Senator Robert
Beecher Howell, with regular Republican?
have proven futile due to Senator Nor-
ris' immense 'popularity in Nebrask?..
which has the primary élection System
of nomination. Senator Norris has
always had sufficient strength to carry
the state not only for himself, but also
for his less popular brother senator.
Republican leaders have seized whai
must have appeared to them to be their
only hope in General Pershing who, as
a popular war hero, may be expected
to put up the first serious résistance
that Senator Norris has known for
years.
Italian Master's Painting
Is Found After 100 Years
(Tribune Press Service)
THE HAGUE, Jan. 4.-In clean-
ing an old painting of comparatively
little value, the missing canvas Ecce
Horno by the Italian master Gior-
gone, teacher of Titian, was discover-
ed underlying it by a restorer at
Nimeguen.
The painting, which ia more than
400 years old, is estimated to be
worth $100,000. It has long been
sought by the art collectors of the
world, no record of it for more than
a century being known.
Two Die When Fire
Follows Blast In
Park Avenue Hôtel
Brokers Wife Escapes
Flames But Succumbs
To Weak Heart
(International News Service).
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Fire which fol-
lowed an explosion today at the Hôtel
Marguery, one of the most exclusive
hostelries on famous Park Avenue, re-
siulted in the death of two persons. The
fire occurred in the basement of the
building-, following a short circuit ex-
plosion which blew out windows and shut
off the electric current throughout the
hôtel, plunging the building into dark-
ness.
An elevator attendant was caug'ht be-
tween two floors when the current failed
and brought his elevator to a sudden
hait. He made heroic attempts to free
himself, but was suffocated by the smoke
which poured up the shaft.
Mrs. Louis Lichtenheim, wife of a
wealthy broker, who was lying in her
apartment on the l1th floor, got up
from a sick bed and walked into the
street, where she fell dead. Doctors cer-
tified that her death was due to an over-
taxed heart. Nine firemen were overcome
by smoke fumes while subduing the
blaze.
TWO KILLED WHEN
WAREHOUSE FALLS
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—An ancient and
condemned warehouse on the East Side
collapsed today, killing two men and bad-
ly injuring three others, one of whom
may die. The two dead men were buried
for several hours under tons of heavy
debris before their bodies could be re-
covered. The owner and contractor who
were engaged in repairing the building
were both arrested on the charges of
homicide and criminal négligence.
One Suit Against
Stutz Dismissed;
Second Is Pending
Bankruptcy Request
Fails For Lack
Of Basis
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 4.-A suit in
involuntary bankruptcy filed by three
creditors against the Stutz Motorcar
Company of America was dismissed in
Federal Court today on motion of the
automotive concern's attorneys, who
declared there was insufficient basis for
bankruptcy proceedings.
The suit was brought but five days
&go by the E. C. Atkins Company, the
Hide Leather and Belting Company, and
the Vonnegut Halldware, Company. They
alleged that officers of the Stutz oom-
;P»ny had^Jransferred assets- to other
creditors, and chargred that this àIleged
action constitutçd. an act in bankruptcy.
They asked for appointaient of@ a re-
ceiver and judgment for $2,175.98. Their
suit was thrown out of court shortly
after the concern's attorneys made their
motion. Stutz officiais had been given
20 days in which to file their answer.
Another suit still is pending against the
company in the Superior Court. It was
brought by Standard Automotive Parts,
Inc. Stutz officers gave out a statement
at the time the suits were filed a.sse
ing that merger negotiations with an-
other large automobile manufacturer thnn
were in progress, but did not indicate tne
name of the company. '
Five Drowned When
Dutch Vessel Sinks
(Tribune Press Service)
OSLO, Jan. 4.—Five persons were
drowned when the Dutch steamer Hof-
plein, from Rotterdam, sank after
striking the rocks near Stad, on the
West Coast of Norway last nig.ht. Dis-
tress rockets were observed at 3 o'clock
this morning, and S.O.S. signais re-
porting the steamer sinking and her en-
gine room flooded also were pic'ked up.
The ship could be seen drifting among
the rocks but heavy seas prevented
boats going to its assistance. Boats
were seen being lowered from the ship,
one of whiieh C'ontained 34 members of
the crew, who wére rescued. The
wreckàge of another boat which con-
tained five men was found, but ail those
aboard were drowned.
7 CHILDREN DIE
IN GRADE CRASH
LONDON, Jan. 4.—Seven (Ihildren
were killed and eight others seriously
injured when an express train today
crasbed into an automobile load of
children at a grade crossing near Woos-
ter. The accident was caused by a
snowstorm which blinded the car's
driver so that he could not see the on-
coming train.
EDGE MAKES FORMAL
CALL ON M. LEYGUES
Ambassador Walter Evans Edge called
on M. Georges Leygues, French Minister
of Marine, on Friday afternoon.
Mr. Ed'ge's visit was purely one of
courtesy and questions connected with
the fortheoming Naval Conference in,
London were not discussed in the course
of the cordial interview between the two
statesmen.
TICKETS FOR ALL THEATRES
FRENCH IDENTITY CARDS
are obtainable and
GABLES FOR AMERICA
are accepted at
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U. S. REDS RIOT
IN CAPITAL AND
ON WEST COAST
Police Break Up Mobs
Protesting Hoover
Foreign Policy
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The déter-
mination of the Communist Party to
bring itself into the public eye in the
United Statesi was shown today when
two serious demonstrations were held,
one in this city and one in Los Angeles.
The Mexican Embassy here was the
scene of the more important affair. A
party of fifty young men marched sol-
emnly to the Embassy building and
proceeded to stage a demonstration.
They were bearing heavy placard.s-:.::o
large that they could scarcely hold them
aloft—which bore such incendiary in-
scriptions as: "The Hoover Government
is responsible for the murder of our
Mexican brothers;" "Smash the bloody
puppet alliance between Calles, Portes
Gil and Machadü;" "Hoover and Rubio
are both enemies of the Woorkers" and
"Down with American imperialism in
Mexico."
Police reserves were hastily called up
but before they arrived a ho&tile crowd
had formed and several of the Reds'
placards were seized and smashed.
About half an hour after the démonstra-
tion began the police had arrived in suf-
ficient numbers to cope with the Com-
munists, of whom they arrested 35.
The latter insisted on singing the
Second Capitol Fire
Loss Is $7,000 And
Many Documents
Blaze In South Wing
Thought Result Of
Short Circuit
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Preliminary
estimâtes now place the damage done
bYf:re, which br0ke out in the sout.h
w;ng of the Capitol building last n'ght.
at approximately $7,000, of which $3,000
was callsed to the wooden interior of
the rooms and $4,000 to documents, in-
cluding hundreds of volumes of bills
mtroduced by Congress.
It was the second fire on Government
property within the last 10 days and
occurred when a conflagration, which
presllmably originated in the artists'
room adjoining the surplus document
storage building, broke out in a wing of
the House of Représentatives. The fire.
which was discovered shortly after 7
o'clock at night, is now believed to have
been due to a short circuit in the artists'
room, in which the firemen saved sev-
eral paintings of historical value of for-
mer Secretaries of States and War.
Thousands of persons gathered in the
vicinity of the Capitol. drawn by an
assembly of 20 companies of fire' fight-
ers, who rushed to the scene in response
to two alarms. The firemen experienced
serious difficulty in dragging the hose
up the winding staircase in order to
reach the blaze whjch was speedily
extinguished. The firemen continued to
pour tons of water on the smoulderlng
documents for some time after the blaz(,
was quelled.
The third floor ceiling and also the
elevator shaft were damaged, while an
artist, Charles Morley, was occupying
the artists' room, suffere.d from cuts
received from glass and was given first-
aid treatment. Numerous lower House
documents were destroyed, however, by
the flames which forced through the
roof of the building, enveloping the en-
tire dome in smoke. The fiâmes were
confined to two rooms.
COTTON ACTS FOR STIMSON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Mr. J. P. Cot-
:on, Under Secretary of State, today took
charge of the State Department although
he will not become acting secretary until
Henry L. Stimson relinquishes his office
temporarily to attend the London Naval
Disarmament Conférence. Mr. Stimson
leaves Washington Thursday.
Garbisch, Ex-Grid Star,
Weds Chrysler Heiress
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—Mr. Edgar
William Garbisch, former captain of
the West Point football team, the
son of a country doctor, today mar-
ried Miss 'Bernice Chrysler, daughter
of Mr. Walter P. Chrysler and heir
to the motor magnate's millions.
Many prominent guests, including
Mr. John J. Raskob and former
Governor Alfred E. Smith of New
York, attended the ceremony.
Mr. Garbish had an intercollegiate
football career of seven years, three
years at Washington and Jefferson
and four at the Army. During ail
of the seven years playing at ce.n.ter
he never failed to attain a place on
either the first or second AII-Amer-
ican team or honorable mention. He
also played tennis and was the
number one player on the Army
team. He resigned from the Army
a short time ago and is now working
in the financial enterprises.
FIVE OHIO STUDENTS
KILLED AT CROSSINC
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
SHREVE. O., Jan. 4.-Five high
school basketbali players and the
driver of their autobus were killed
today when a train ètuck the bus at
a grade crossing. Six students in-
cluding three girls were seriously in-
jured. The students were return-
ing to Burbank, O., from Prairie, O.,
where the team had played a game.
Site Of World Bank
May Bring Trade On
New Belgian Areas
Brussels Will Insist On
Getting Young Plan
Institution
BY HENRY WALES.
(Tribune Press Service)
THE HAGUE, Jan. 4.—The row over
the location of the International Bank of
Réparations Settlements, which resuited
in the Belgian délégation walking out
on the Baden Paden organizatioll eom-
mittee when the latter decided in favor
of Basel, Switzerland, instead of Rru.s-
seJs, is smouldering and threatens to
break out into another open split.
The Belgian de'e'gates here received
orders from their Government to re-
open the demand that Brussels be select-
ec"i as the site of the Super Bank, and
not to accept Base!, and considerable
informai pourparlers already are under
way.
Germany Wants Trade.
Germany, which opposed Brussels for-
! mally at the August Conference and at
Baden Baden, hinted its readiness to
accept the Belgian capital in return for
rétrocession of the districts of Eupen
and Maimedy whieh were lopped from
the Reich territory by the Versailles
Treaty and handed over to Belgium.
In October, Dr. Schacht invited sev-
eral political leaders from Eupen and
Malmedy to Baden Baden to discuss the
possibility of inducing the Belgian Gov-
ernment to hand back the two districts
in return for the Berlin Government's !
support of Brussels as headquarters for
the Bank.
A certain sympathy for the barter is
rr.anif,é.st among sevena! members of the
Belgian Government who foresee Brus-
sels gaining a prominent position in the
banking world and international finance
through acquiring the Super Bank.
The French oppose the scheme bitter-
ly because as the first alteration of the
territorial clauses of the Versailles
Treaty, it might constitute an opening
wedge for revisions of other frontière.
The treaty provided that a referendum
be held in Eupen and Malmedy giving
the population an option either for Bel-
gium or Germany but when the refer-
endum was held, it merely gave the in-
habitants an opportunity to register on
open lists and those refusing to vote in
favor of Belgium were obliged to tell
why they preferred Germany.
Handle War Claims.
Dr. Schacht's suggestion for the solu-
tion was that another and secret refer-
endum be held in the districts, If this
were done it is believed, the majority
of the populace would ballot in favor
of i«:attachment to the [teich.
Today, the non-German Reparations
Commission met and decided to handle
Austria today, Bulgaria on Monday and
Hungary on Tuesday.
An informai conversation 'was started
this afternoon between Austria and
Czechoslovakia, Roumania, Serbia and
Poland separately toward a separate
agreement on their various claims.
Meanwhile, unofficial pourparlers are
going on with Bulgaria and 1 understand
that the Sofia delegates were offered
11,000,000 gold francs for 20 years far
final settlement.
VARE STILL ENTRANT
IN RACE FOR SENATE
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4.—William S.
Yare, rejected as a rnember of the
Senate at the last session, a,nnounced
today that he is still a ca.ndida'te for
the seat which he lost and that his name
will appear on he Republican primary
ballot next May despite the récent action
in the Senate. Vara was excludei
bcca.u.se of excessive campaign expendi-
tures, and was suoeeeded last month by
Joseph R. Grundy, appointed to serve
duriing his unexpired term.
2 COAST GUARD
MEN BEATEN UP
FOR VENGEANCE
G.O.P. HopesToAvoid
Dry Wrangle; Fess
Sees Hoover
(Special Cable To The Tribune.)
JN iiiW LONDON, Conn., Jan. 4.—Two
Coast Guardsmen were attacked and
severely beaten here today by a group
of men who, it is believed, were bent on
avenging the killing of three rum run-
ners off Newport, R. I., last Sunday.
Police rus.hed to the scene but the
attackers had fled.
The Coast Guard patrol boat No. 290
did not fire a warning shot apross the
bow of the rum runne-r, Black Duck,
in which the three men, later slain, an.i
a fourth who was wounded, were con-
veying holiday liquors, it was admitted
today. United States District Attorney
Henry Bose, Jr., said that the law of
the United States did not demand such
a warning, and that no such claim would
be made in the eA
the slayings.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Organization
of the Republican majority in the Senâte
to stall off a prolonged discussion of
Prohibition atrocities at this time will be
attempted by Majority Leader James p.
Watson, of Indiana, at a party conference
either Monday or Tuesday.
Without expressing any particular
enthusiasm for Prohibition, Senator Wat-
son placed his current efforts on a basis
that he desired to hurry passage of the
tariff bill, which the Demoeratic-In-
surgent Republican Coalition has been
rewriting over the Finance Committee's
opposition sirice last September.
But the Insurgent group fighting the
old line tariff bill, has ideas just as ob-
stinate in regard to Prohibition and is
expe.ct.ed to make a strong fight to bring
up methods of enforcing the dry law
uh4er the leadership. o£.§enator William
E. Borah, of Idaho.
Senator Borah, himself a darling of
the drys, would demand stricter enforce-
ment of the law, whereas other "sons of
the wild jackass," as the Insurgents have
been called, prohably would be disposed
to kick the majority plan aside because
they question the law on.its merits rather
than on its lack of enforcement.
Expectations in some quakers that
Senator Simeon D. Fess, Regular Repub-
lican of Ohio, will head a joint Congres-
sional Committee which will conslder re-
organization of Prohibition enforcement
machinery gained momentum today be-
cause of a visit which Senator Fess made
a.t the White House last night.
Before his conference with President
Hoover, the Ohioan said that he did not
want the job and would take it only
under compulsion.
Senator Borah has been considered for
the position also. but many think he will
not get the opportunity to serve. Borah
today denied that Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt. former chief of the Prohi-
bition prosecution division of the Depart-
ment of Justice while Assistant Attorney
General, had turned over to him informa-
tion regarding dry enforcement condi-
tions.
Find Movie Planes
In Which Ten Died
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4.—Naval air-
planes scanning the Pacifie Ocean today
suC/ceeded in locating the two planes
which crashed while making a movie
stunt film, resulting in the loss of 10
lives, including those of Director Ken-
neth Hawkes and Max Gold. A mine
sweeper was sent to the scene and re-
covered the wreckage.
Col. Roscoe Turner, famous long-dis-
tance flyer, who was piloting the third
plane in the S'tunt, offered a l'evised so-
lution of the calamity, declaring that the
ill-fated machines crasbed as a consé-
quence of one suddenly climbing from
underneath, thereby becoming inter-
locked with the other. Previously it had
been said they met in a head-on colli-
~ sion.
Police Sought Head Of British Oil
Firm—Found Him In Paris Carnival
A "flying pig" on a merry-go-round
may solve one of the great financial
debacles of England, due to the fact that
a Paris detective knew the weakness of
Francis Lorang, director of the Blue-
bird Petrol Co., for carnivals and
whoopee, and placed him under arrest to
await a request from London for his
extradition.
Last May there was a suspected déficit
in the affairs of the Bluebird Petrol
Company and an order for compulsory
liquidation was made. In June, the af-
fairs of three other concerns affiliated
with the Bluehird concern were com-
pulsorily wound up. An order went out
seeking the presence of Francis Lorang,
director, as necessary to explain the con-
dition of the companies. It appears,
,however, that he had gone to his native
Luxembourg, with which state Great
.
Britain does not have agreements for
extradition.
Gay Paris in the holiday season, how-
ever, proved irresistible to Mr. Lorang.
Paris police learned of his entrance into
THE WEATHER
Skies generally cloudy, with inter-
spersed showers and occasional brÍght
spells, strong southwesterly wind, is to-
day's forecast for Paris and vicinity.
Yesterday the highest température
was 50 degrees F. (10 C.) ; and the
lowest was 41 degrees F. (5 C.).
English Channel: cloudy and rainy,
sea rather rough; further outlook unset-
1 tled and showery.
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