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BURLINGTON, VERMONT, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1929. WEATHER FORECAST: CLOUDY; RISING TEMPERATURE PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. 95. NO. 237.

FATHER TIF 111 1SSW Neighbors Listen In On Party Line To Convict Woman 4 Men, 2 Girls Hold Up Drug Store Clerks, Get $200 and Skip COMMANDER BYRD RETURNS AFTER SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT ACROSS THE SOUTH POLE OLD Ml WINTER OPENS HIS FIRST GEBSLOFFEiSWE Mercury Sinks Rapidly In New England Death and Suffering In Mid-Wrest Unusual Cold In South Warmer Today CONGRESS WILL RUSH LEGISLATION 1 MK1JX CUT Intention Is to Get Measure Through to President As Soon As Possible Will Authorize $160,000,000 Cut on '29 Incomes Voyage Without Mishap and Everything Works Well-Famous Explorer Is First Man In History to Fly Over Both of the Poles of the Earth WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. (JP) Legislative action on the $160,000,000 program for reduction of taxes on 1929 incomes will be expedited by House and Senate leaders in an attempt to get it to President Hoover as soon as possible after Congress convenes next week. Chairman Hawley, of the House ways and means committee, predicted today that before the regular session is five days old the House will adopt the joint resolution, which will call fcr a flat one per cent cut on normal incomes of individuals and corporations. Quick approval by the Senate was forecast by Chairman Smoot, of the finance committee, who.

said he expected only one day would be required for that branch to complete action. He would be willing, he said, to defer consideration of the tariff bill in order to present the tax resolution to the Senate quickly. There has been no apparent disposition in either house seriously to oppose the program, which has been agreed upon by the administration and leaders of the majorities and minorities in both branches. Senator Borah, Republican Independent of Idaho, has intimated, however, that there might be some questions asked with regard to whose incomes would be affected. The Idahoan said he was opposed to delaying the tariff bill for any legislative proposal before the Senate, and would net consent to consideration of the tax resolution unless assured it could be disposed of in one day.

Given the legislative right of way in the House, the resolution will be introduced Monday by Hawley and be brought before the ways and means committee Wednesday morning for hearings. Hawley "to seek a special rule to bring the measure up for consideration Thursday. DR. CUSHING OPERATES ON OWN DAUGHTER BOSTON, Nov. 29.

(JPy Dr. Harvey Cushing. internationally known surgeon, today faced a task that few in the medical profession have ever at-temped. when he operated successfully upon his 12 year old daughter, Barbara, the "baby" of the Cushing fami'y. The operation was described at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital as a imnur one ana authorities there said that Dr.

Cushing had been disturbed by the revealation of his plans with its attendant publicity. Although it is something of a tradition that a surgeon never operates on a member of his own family, Dr. Cushing was said never to have hesitated when consultants declared the girl would have to go under the knife. If an operation must be performed, he decided, he would do It himself. Hospital attaches recalled that it was not the first time the-celebrated surgeon had been called upon to make a decision of a nature that few men are asked to face.

Three years ago as he was entering the same hospital to perform a delicate operation he was handed a telegram announcing the death in an accident of his son, William, a student at Yale. Stopping only long enough to read the message to Mrs; Cushing, who was in New York city, he continued to the operating room where his skill was credited with saving the life of the woman. POLI NEGRI WOULD DIVORCE HER PRINCE PARIS, Nov. 29. (VP) Counsel f0r Pola Negri, film star whose real name is Appoline Chalupec, today filed a petition for divorce against Price Serge Modviani.

The grounds cited were incompatibility and instances of clashes in temperament between the film player and the Prince. FIND DRIFTING STEAMER NEW YORK, Nov. 29. (JP) A radio message from the American freighter Sacuache to its owners, Moore and McCormack, today announced it had found the Norwegian steamer Hertha disabled and drifting in the North Atlantic ocean. The exact position was not given.

MEE TO MIKE THEiyil PEftCE Dispatches From Several Sources Assert That An Agreement Has Been Reached Although It Is Denied by Nanking Govt. tIN YUAN rSWrsl Fresident cf Chinese Eastern Railway who ousted 9.000 Russian employes and started the break between the Soviets and Nationalist China. (By The Associated Press.) Despite earlier emphatic denials by the Nanking government, dispatches from several sources late Friday asserted that the Nationalist govern ment of China had agreed with Rus sia to negotiate directly to settle Ijeaceably the crisis in Mancnurla rhich had resulted in armed conflict. From Geneva, Mukden, Tokyo and -anszhai. came categorical reports it the Nationalist government had fallowed the lead of its Manchurlan Urritory in making an independent k-uce with the Soviet government.

Ind had consented to negotiations ith Russia to end the controversy rer control and operation of the hinese Eastern Railway, the cause of sension. 'Military activities in Manchuria by iussian forces that forced this deci sion to arbitrate, apparently had dwindled to raiding attacks by Soviet bombing planes upon western Manchuria communities. Russian forces were reported withdrawing from Man churia. China and Russia having initiated! movements for peace, said a Paris i dispatch, the United States, France ind ether great powers who had agreed to joint action to pacify the situation by dispatching a note to Moscow, refrained from communicating their views to Russia. With developments toward peace on her extreme northern border, China's Nationalist government gave further attention to quelling the Civil war In her southern provinces of Kwang-tung and Kwangsi, which has threatened the city of Canton.

Nationalist planes dropped bombs upon rebel troops along the Kwangsi border and it was reported that President Chiang Kai-Shek planned to go from Nanking to Canton to take personal command of his troops, of whom 70,000 Iwere reported available. ADVERTISING INQUIRY TESTIMONY ALL IN WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. (JP) De termination of whether national as sociations of advertising agencies and newspaper publishers have been engaged in unfair competition through an alleged conspiracy to compel advertisers to do business through se- lonfoH urprrlPB rtprt tnnlcrht. with thp Federal Trade Commission.

The closing presentations on the matter." which has been studied bv a commission examiner for some time, were made by Eugene W. Burr, for fhe American Association of Advertising Agencies, the American Newspaper Publisher's Association, the southern Newspaper Publishers Association, the Six Point League of New I York and the American Press As- sociation. Thereupon the commission I took the case under advisement. Burr maintained the national advertising business was Interstate commerce and that the listing of approved agencies, the refusal of publishers to give advertisers placing their copy directly a rate less the commission normally paid to the agency, and the demand that agencies not split the commission with their clients, constituted unfair competition In restraint of trade. Curk McKercher.

counsel for the A. A. A. A. said the practices com- lalned of had been in vogue since ong before the formation of the de fendant organizations and that only a handful of special "interests' were attempting to upset the established system.

The commission to advertising agencies, he said, was paid legitimately because the agencies had created a large portion of the great volume cf newspaper advertising now published, while the advertisers them selves rendered no service to the ewspapcr. POISON FUMES KILL 3 SALVAGE WORKERS COBH. Irish Free State, Nov. 29. (JP) Poisonous fumes which had accumulated in No.

4 hold of the wrecked and abanaoned liner Celtic today KUiea tnree sa gravely gassed Several oth a short tiir.f gas. The a ladder v. and fell in destr ivers with lurees n.ij workers and hers en recovered in effects of the climbing down overcome The British nt a launch doctors in answer to a rado apsai for hekk Meanwhile other workmen wearing gas masks entered the hold and. brought the injured vo the ck, two of those at first th dead later recovered in hospital here. WASHINGTON, Nov.

29. Approval of the issuance, of $1,849,000 of irust certificates was talked todav bv the Central Vermont Railway of the ZntCIStaLc Ccmmercs: Commission SEISMOLOGIST, D1ESSUDDEWLY Famous Observer of Earthquakes at Georgetown Is Found Dead In Study Was One of the World's Great Scientists WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. (JP) Father Francis A. Tondorf.

was found dead in his room at Georgetown University today beside a desk on which there were two opened volumes on earth disturbances, a field in which he was one of the recognized authorities of the world. Father Tondorf, for years director of the University's seismological observatory, has been suffering recently from high blood pressure and a heart attack was believed to have caused his death. He was 59 years old. Assigned to study earthquakes by the Jesuit order as a young man, Father Tondorf continued the work after he had shown particular aptitude. At the time of the Japanese earthquake in 1923 scientists generally knew his ability but this disaster brought it sharply to the public attention.

First To Locate Japan Quake Hours before the cables began to quiver with the news of the catastrophe. Father Tondorf had given the Associated Press the news that there had been strong earth tremors about 6,000 miles from Washington and that Japan was probably near the center of the zone. More than 12 hours had passed and the news agencies in the East had carried no word of the disturbance. "Oh, you'll hear from it eventually," Father Tondorf said. "For this one was a whopper." Within three hours the news began to come from Japan and the story of death and destruction continued for days.

One of the sharpest quakes ever recorded in the United States, Father Tondorf said, was that in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1886, when "the earth billowed like swells in the sea." In addition to his specialty, seismology. Father Tondorf was a keen student of physics, pathology and biology and headed the department of physiology in the Georgetown School of Medicine. He was a frequent contributor to scientific periodicals, and was a member of a number of scientific societies. He was a native of Boston. STR01 FOB 111 PUN German Foreign Minister Also Denounces Proposed "Enslavement of the German People" Law BERLIN, Nov.

(JP) Surprising even his friends by his aggressiveness, ur. junus uuruus, uermanys new foreign minister, threw the weight of the German government behind the Young plan today in his first speech to the Reichstag since he succeeded the late Gustav Strssemann. Dr. curtius. affirming that the Young plan was a great improvement over the Dawes plan, opposed on behalf of the cabinet the passage of the so-called "law against the enslavement of the German people," which came up for its first reading today.

He asked the Reichstag to reject the proposed law, which was introduced by the Nationalists, and declared that the recent plebiscite against the Young plan was an attack on the authority of the State. After reviewing the efforts of post-revolutionary cabinets to explain to the world that Germany was not alone guilty of the war, he said that the Nationalist proposal for renouncing the German confession of guilt "attempts to ram open doors, and is based upon senseless assertions that Germany's foreign policy has been hitherto built on the recognition of hT guilt in the war. "The whole Plebiscite demand is based on obvious dishonesty." Dr. Curtius accused the Nationalists of rousing false hopes in the German people "as though international treaties could be trogated and reparations burdens shaken off by a Plebiscite. GEN.

GREELEY LAUDS COMMDR. BYRD'S FEAT WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. (yP) One of the first in Washington to speak in highest praise of Commander Bryd's achievement was General A. W.

Greeley, 86, gray-bearded dean of Arctic explorers, who wrested the three century "farthest north" record from the British in 1882. Tnat man may soar where man once plodded is distinction indeed, the veteran explorer, here of what has become known as the greatest tragedy in the annal of the Arctic, philoso phically pointed out. Twenty-five men went out on his own expedition. Seven were saved. The rest starved to death.

General Greeley contrasted the tragic torturous course that he and his companions followed, 48 years ago, (1881 to 1884). with the smooth-sailing career of Bvrd. "The twentieth century is a new world," said he. "Man does, in an hour, without discomfort, what his predecessors did in a month, often with the severest suffering." SHIP-TO-SIIORE PHONE SERVICE READY SOON NEW YORK, Nov. 29.

JP The Evening Post says the first ship-to shore telephone service on an ocean liner will be made available to passengers on the United States liner Leviathan on Dec. 8, when she is a day out to sea on her way to Southampton. The system was perfected by the American Telephone Telegraph Company after exhaustive tests. The International Telephone 8s i Teleeraph Company already has con- ducted experiments in radio telephony i rm tv, on the Cunard liner Berengaria. Dli.

MUNCIE, Nov. 29. (JP) Convicted of liquor law violation on information supplied by neighbors who listened in on her party telephone, Mrs. Grace Hopping today received a suspended six months sentence to the Indiana women's prison. Her husband, Lewis Hopping, is serving a term at the State penal farm because liquor was found in his home when it was raided several weeks ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Ora Odle, farm neighbors of the Hoppings, listened to "nearly all" the telephone calls to the Hopping home, they testified in Delaware County Circuit court today, and made notes of those from liquor buyers. The Odles created a sensation in court by revealing names of some of the purchasers. "Sometimes they ordered half a red one, half a white one or half a black one.

And then we would see Mrs. Hopping hurry out and get in her car and drive towards town without ever running a chicken down." GIlSWSlTE TO SOLDIER DEAD Bodies of Seventy-Four American Soldiers Who Died In Siberia 10 Years Ago Home at Last NEW YORK, Nov. 29. (JP) Ranks of veterans, fathers of families most of them, approaching middle age. some of them grown stout and a little grey, gathered on a pier in Ho-boken today to receive the bodies of the last of their comrades come home from the war.

There around the walls of a baggage room were ranged 74 caskets of American soldiers, back from Siberia after a journey more than half way around the world. Over one casket, the 75th, set apart from the rest and containing the body of a hero whose identity must forever be unknown, prayers were said, an oration was delivered, and soldiers fired a volley. From nong 24 unidentified this body was selettM to receive the tribute accorded them 'l. More than a decade ago on the dreary Siberian tundar these soldiers fought shoulder to shoulder but for more than 10 years these 75, cut down in their youth, were to lie in lonely graves along the rivers that wind sluggishly through the white Siberian wastes until their comrades could, go back to get t'liem. In the bitter cold before dawn today the liner Roosevelt, bearing the bodies of the soldier dead, came to anchor off quarantine.

Through the morning mist that rose white and cold from the water, the destroyer Kane and the municipal tug Macom, bearing representatives of the United States government and the governments of Michigan, where most of the 75 enlisted, and the city and state of New York, steamed down to quarantine. Up the harbor to Hoboken they escorted the liner, while army airplanes roared overhead, and cannon on Governor's Island thundered a salute of 17 guns a tribute that would be paid to no living soldier below the rank of general. There followed the solemn ceremony on the pier. SHE SAW ROTHSTEIN AFTER HE WAS SHOT NEW YORK, Nov. 29.

(JP) A small, grey haired woman, an innocent bystander at one of New York's killings, today testified at the murder trial of George A. McManus that she heard a "crash" in the Park Ceritral Hotel the night of Nov. 4, 1928. and saw a man staggering down the hallway a moment' later. The witness was Mrs.

Mariana A. Putnam, a cafe owner of Asheville, N. she was a guest in the Park Central the nJght-the state contends McManus lured Arnold Rothstein there and shot him down in retaliation for "framing" a stud poker game against him, a game in which McManus lost $51,000. She told the jury how the man she saw in the hallway was running after her, his hands pressed to his abdomen, and a "terrible" look on his face. She was so frightened, she testified, that she dashed into her own room, slammed and locked the door and remained there the rest of the night.

She did not hear about the shooting until the next day. injured. Doctors ordered him to the operating room. WAKEFIELD. Nov.

29. (JP) House slippers may be Just footwear to the average man but to Henry Ford, automobile magnate, they apparently are an important part of the wardrobe. Mr. Ford has worn slippers manufactured by a local company in the past. Informed that the concern had a new slipper of different design, he came here today from Wayside Inn, Sudbury, to inspect it.

After he had placed an order for several pairs he visited the various departments and rrfade the acquaintance of many employes who help turn out the slippers he wears. ISLE A LA CROSSE, Nov. 29. (JP) With a 30 mile an hour gale from the Arctic tundra whipping the falling snow into blizzard, anxiety was fielt for the welfare of the 50 fishermen who left here three days ago in two groups for northern fishing lakes. The fishermen heading for the narrows, according to dog mushers, had practically exhausted the small supply of food they had purchased here.

The men had hoped to make the 50 mile trip the narrows in two days, and being short of funds had not taken a larger supply of food. The thin ice covered with a heavy blanket of snow has become slushy Cif'ng to the mild temperature. DAN VERS, Nov. 29. (JP) Four men and two girls sipped sodas at a Maple street drugstore here tonight until other patrons had left and then held up at gunpoint two clerks, Arthur Healey of Gloucester, and Harry Barnes of this place.

Barnes they trussed up to a post and Healey they rolled under a counter. They then rifled the safe, three cash registers and the clerk's pockets, securing $200. They fled in a car they had left at the curb. The rear door of the drugstore Is adjacent the police station. HOUSE WILL SIP IMIiKflTOiE Has Well Defined Course for Early Days of Session In Contrast to Senate's Uncertainty WASHINGTON.

Nov. 29. (JP) An unsettled future for the Senate was contrasted today by a well defined course for the early days of the House, which wil lbegin work with the tax reduction resolution and then turn to the annual bills for governmental funds Returning to his post at the Senate, Senator Watson, of Indiana, the Re publican leader, found party and program troubles. After a day of con- ferences it was determined only that the question of seating Senator-elect Vare, of Pennsylvania, would come up, by previous agreement, on Tuesday. An immediate solution of the three-year-old dispute over Vare's right to seat seemed in doubt tonight, however, because of the new demand of the Pennsylvanian for a recount of ballots in 31 counties.

His request probably will not be acted upon until next week. The Senate also has the unfinished tariff bill confronting it. By the end of the first week it also may have the income tax reduction resolution demanding attention, after House adoption Reorganization of the Senate committees among the faction-split Republican majority also is commanding consideration writh several important assignments to be made. Senator Smoot, of Utah, solved an important problem in this connection today by announcing he preferred to continue as chairman of the finance committee, rather than become chairman of the appropriations committee, left vacant by the death of Senator Warren of Wyoming. Senator Jones, of Washington, will become chairman of the appropriations committee.

If he decides to give up his duties as assistant party leader. Senator McNary of Oregon most likely will succeed to that office. The Western Independents who have been opposing the tariff bill reported by the Republicans on the finance committee are demanding representation on this committee in the reorganization, with Senator La-follette, of Wisconsin, as their candidate. A likely contest is expected If Lafollette is not chosen. However, the organization contest probably will go over for a few days, awaiting the settlement of Vare's contest for a Senate seat.

Some recognition is expected to be taken by the old guard leadership of the "young guard" in the reorganization. The resolution of Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, to deny Vare a seat on account of his expenditures in the 1926 primary campaign comes up automatically on Tuesday, after the reading of President Hoover's message. The Nebraskan plans to demand a vote on this resolution, regardless of the status of the contest cf William B. Wilson, Democratic opponent of Vare in the election. BOBBY AND ELINOR WILL TRY AGAIN LOS ANGELES, Nov.

29. (Disappointed, but not discouraged by failure of the second attempt to better the world's re-fue'ing endurance record of 420 hours, 21 minutes, 30 seconds. Bobbie Trout, Los Angeles, and Elinor Smith, New York, girl fliers, today announced plans for a third try tomorrow. Their biplane was' forced down in the early morning hours when the gasoline supply gave out. Failure to make contact with their nurse ship last night was responsible for the landing after the two women pilots had remained aloft 42 hours and five minutes.

The time was a record for women endurance, but was short of the men's mark set at St. Louis by Dale Jackson and Forrest Oojbrine. The flight eclipsed their own previous mark of 18 hours, 26 minutes, set in the first attempt. A frozen motor in the re-fueling plane balked the attempt to make contact with the nurse shipand they were forced to land in a plowed field. MRS.

HELLESTAD FREED BY CHINESE BANDITS HANKOW, Nov. 29. (JP) Mrs. Oscar Hellestad, American missionary who was kidnapped by bandits yesterday at her home in Sinyeh, southwest Honan Province, was released last night and returned to the Lutheran Mission at Sinyeh. Mrs.

Hellestad. who is from Lebanon, S. said banditry was prevalent throughout the countryside. The Rev. Ulrich Kreutzen of the Franciscan Mission at Wuchang, who was captured by bandits several weeks ago.

again has written to his mission saying that his captors were demanding 6.000 Mexican dollars ransom for his release. ICE BLOCKADE WILL HOLD UP FREIGHTERS SATJLT STE. MARIE, Nov. 29. (JP) An ice-blockade appeared imminent tonight in the St.

Mary's river, with 80 lake freighters yet to pass down to the lower lakes from Lake Superior before shipping stops for the winter. Shipping was at a standstill here today and the river below the locks was reported freezing over rapidly. Masters of ships which passed through Thursday reported six inches of ice. It was 12 below zero Thursday night. NEW YORK, Nov.

29. (JP) The New York Times, the St. Loui3 Post-Dii-patch and newspapers affiliated witli them in publishing reports from Commander Richard E. Eyrd's expedition, announced that Commander Byrd has safely returned to his base. Little America, after a successlui flight across the South Pole in whic.i he surveyed much adjacent territory.

The flight wns without mishap and everything worked wsll. (By the Associated Press) Commander Byrd's flight across the South Pole has made him the first man in history to fly across both of the earth's poles. In May 1926. in the tri-motore1 Fokker airplane, the Josephine Ford. Commander Byrd flew from Kmg'j Bay, Spitzbergen, across the Norn Pole and return.

That springtime flight required a total of 15 houis and 30 minutes and the round trip covered 1,600 miles. In addition to being the first to fly acrorc the North Pole, Byrd also was the first man to fly over it in a heavier than air machine. On that historic flight hi3 pilot was Floyd Eennett. who died April 25, 1928 while attempting to rescue the crew of the trans -Atlantic plane Bremen from Greenly Island. Bennett was second in command of tho Byrd Antarctic Expedition and had intended to accompany the commander on the trip.

The flight across the South Pole, begun yesterday, was the first attemp he has made to fly to the Pole, although previously he had used airplanes in flights from his base at Little America in laying sub-bases on th? route to the Pole and in exploration trips. He was the third man to reach th" South Pole. The first was Raolil Amundsen, a Norwegian, who reached it December 14, 1911. A few days later he was followed by Captain Robert F. Scott, British explorer.

Both of them used overland methods of travel. Bernt Balchen, pilot for Commander Byrd on the South Polar flight, also was a pilot on the commander's trans-Atlantic flight of June 29, 1927. With Bert Acosta and Floyd BennetN they flew the monoplane America from Roosevelt Fi3ld, N. to Ver-Sur-Mer, France. Balchen, chief pilot of the expedition, is a native of Norway and has had extensive experience piloting planes under polar flying conditions.

He assisted in all the tests to which the planes destinsi for the Byrd Atlantic Expedition were subjected. Harold I. June, radio operator on the flight, is a petty officer and pilot in the navy and was granted a leave of absence to accompany the expedition. He was chief engineer In the famous "billion dollar crew" of the Vanderbilt yacht during the war. In addition to Balchen and June, Commander Byrd was accompanied on his South Polar flight by Captain Ashley C.

McKinlcy an aerial photographer who, from 1917 to 1926 was in the United States Army Corps. Commander Byrd's expedition reached the Antarctic in December of last year. After various reconnaissance flights from his base, he and his party established winter quarters on the ice barrier about the Antarctic continent. Only recently, with the coming of spring in that frozen territory, activity was resumed PUBLISHERS TO HOLD EMERGENCY MEETING NEW YORK. Nov.

29. W) Directors of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association today called an emergency convention of the association for December 9 In New York city. The session was called in view of the efforts of the Canadian offi-cials to increase newsprint prices for next year. The convention will be held at the Pennsylvania Hotel. Decision to hold the meeting was reached following reports from, Canada that it was imminent that news print prices wculd be increased.

The call was issued by B. H. Butler, president and George M. Rogers, secretary of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. ENDEAVOR TO RESCUE MAN, 91, FROM WELL WILMINGTON, Kent.

England, Nov. 29. (JP) Police tonight were exerting every effort to rescue from a well William Sales, a 91-year-old man. although they feared he had alrradv suffocated beneath the debris which had fallen upon him. Sales yesterday fell into the well, when the stone slab covering It became dislodged as he stepped upon it.

The police succeeded in removing the stone, which had jammed half way ti the bcttom, but a ton or more of earth from the crumblintr sides of th CO-foot hole caved in. The groans nf the man were heard before the sla' was removed, but after the fall of earth the workers labored in ominou' silence. Athens, Greace, has 2,000 barristers and the whole country has 6,000. 3 More Weeks Christmas is ALMOST SeLS HSVE- COMC Ye ah, Thct meams Two TmiwSS SHOP EARLY AwO S3mD a cuec Fo' THGY -CP FIKC worm Christmas Seals Fight Sickness is T5 1)4 WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.

(JP) After several indecisive skirmishes with autumn, winter today had begun its first general offensive "The coldest weather of the season," the forecast said, "will prevail quite generally tonight with freezing temperature as far south as southern California and possibly extreme northern Florida." Some comfort, however, was seen In the prediction that there would be a return to somewhat higher temperatures Saturday afternoon as far as the Appalachian region, with the weather growing warmer Sunday in all sections east cf the Mississippi river. BOSTON. Nov. 29. (JP) New England prepared for the coldest night of the season tonight with the thermometer at Boston dropping steadily as the night progressed.

At 8 o'clock unofficial reports listed a drop of ten degrees in four hours, bringing the mercury down to 20 above Burlington, reported 10 above just before nightfall. Concord, reported 15 above during the day, with the mercury dropping as the sun went down. Four inches of snow were reported in the Berkshires and early weatheT prophesies listed Boston and New England as due for the "worst night in five years and probably the worst this winter." CHICAGO, Nov. 29. (flV-The Icy breath of a premature winter blew down from the northwest today bringing bitter winds and snowstorms and attendant death and At least three persons died as a result of the sudden zero snap that centered over the north-central states; another, with hands and legs frozen, was thought to be dying in Clinton, Iowa, and numerous highway mishaps throughout the western states were attributed to the snow and Ice.

Up In the Minnesota woods where the lowest temperatures in the country were recorded, fear was expressed for the safety of hunters unprepared for "he severe cold. Farther north, near the cradle of winter, a 30 mile ga'e drove a blizzard over the Saskatchewan lakes where 50 fishermen were pushing north on a 50-mile trip. They had been gone three days. ATLANTA, Nov. 29.

(JP) Winter riding on a stiff northwest wind drove into the south with a vengeance tonight and sent the mercury tumbling toward new low levels for the season as far south as the Georgia coast. A. mantle cf snow covered Kentucky where the lowest temperatures of today were recorded and also lay over the mountains of north West Virginia where temperatures of 20 degrees were recorded during the day. Minimums of 20 degrees were In prospect for Arkansas. Tennessee, north Georgia and probably similar temperatures for North Alabama and north Mississippi.

Temperatures generally through the South declined during the day and tonight were steadily dropping. Atlanta with a maximum of 53 yesterday recorded a 32 at 3 p. m. today. Occasional flakes of snow drifted down.

Louisville, where the lowest minimum of 16 was registered today was expected to record ten or less tomorrow. Sub-freezing temperatures also were recorded today at Memphis, Little Rock, and Ashville, N. C. TEL. CO.

ANNOUNCES NEW RATE REVISION BOSTON, Ncv. 29. (JP) The New England Telephone and Telegraph! Company today announced rate revisions estimated to save subscribers more than $300,000 a year. The new rates will become effective January 1. This is the second rate reduction by the company this year, a revision of toll rates having been put into effect in February.

The reduction applies to service connection charges, moving charges, rates applying to subscribers remote from the central office and certain toll charges. The service connection charges where the telephone is not in place, is now $3.50 and will be substituted by a graded scale. In the larger exchanges this charge will be reduced to $3. Only in the case of business main stations and private branch exchange trunks is the $3.50 charge to be retained. In smaller places the charge is stepped down to $2.50, according to the size of the exchange.

When the telephones are In place, the charge fcr connecting new service remains at $2 in the major cities but is reduced to $1.75 in medium sized towns and to $1.50 in smaller places. The service charge for extension telephones wiil be dropped from $3.50 to $2.50 for business and $2 for residences. MONOXIDE GAS KILLED WORCESTER COUPLE WORCESTER, Nov. 29. (JP) Supt.

of Detectives James J. Casey and Mrs. Dora Bingham died from the effect of carbon monoxide poisoning in the summer camp of Supt. Casey at Brooks pond, early Sunday morning. This was the announcement of District Attorney Charles B.

Rugg late this afternoon after all-day investigation into the tragedy which included another trip to the camp and conferences wh Medical Examiner Timothy Iary of Boston and Associated Medical Examiner Ernest L. Hunt of Worcester at the City Hospital and Worcester Polytechnical Institute. Mr. Rugg and Dr. Leary, along with State Inspectors Joseph L.

Fararri and John F. Stokes of Boston went to the Brooks pond camp this morning, made a minute examination of the furnace there and then returned to City Hospital. Dr. Leary said that the analysis disclosed beyond all doubt that the blood of Casey and the woman carried carbon monoxide. It has been discovered that a man with as little as $25.56 can found a bank in Paris.

Mm COM. RICHARD E. BYRD HOOVER SEIS BH CONGRATULATIONS His Wireless Says He Speaks for. American People In Expressing Pleasure at Pole Flight NEW YORK, Nov. 29.

(JP) The New York Times announced tonight that it had been directed by President Hoover to forward through its wireless station the following message to Commander Byrd: Richard E. Byrd, "Little America. "I know that I speak for the American people when I express their universal pleasure at your successful flight over the South Pole. We are proud of your courage and your leadership. We are glad of proof that the spirit of great adventure still lives.

Our thought of appreciation include also your companions in the flight and your colleagues whose careful and devoted preparation have contributed to your great success." "HERBERT HOOVER." WASHINGTON. Nov. 29. (JP) The outcome of the dash by Commander Richard E. Byrd for the South Pole was watched in the capital today from five distinct points the human, the scientific, International, spectacular and The explorer's brother Tom, of the Tom, Dick and Harry Byrd trio, the last named being governor of Virginia, led Washington's watchers in direct interest.

His emotion prevailed too at the White House and among the men on the street. Diplomats watched Byrd's efforts believing they might give rise to the question of title to lands in the ice-locked Antarctic. First to come, however, might be the work of the map makers, who visualize a chance to draw more lines upon the globe. In aviation quarters success by Byrd would mean valuable knowledge in aeronautical construction, navigation and the capacities of ships to perform under severe conditions. Those both in official and private life saw the spectacular side of a 1.600 mile dash over frozen plateaus in an area where no rescue chips hovered to give aid to hapless flyers, and where failure meant probable disasters.

The National Geographic Society, a sponsor and counsellor of expeditions to all quarters of the globe and which cooperated with Byrd, looked to his fTght for further commendation of the sun-compass. Use of this Instrument is credited by Byrd with a large share in the success of his north polar flight, and six were carried to the southern area. It was invented by the society's chief cartographer, Albert H. Bumstead. 30 INDIANS, 25 WHITES FACE FOOD SHORTAGE JUNEAU.

Alaska, Nov. 29. (JP) Thirty Indians and 25 whites, together with the government teacher at Clark's Point are facing a serious shortage of food because of th? severe eale and I tidal wave which swept over the Bristol Bay region November 24, a cable from Dillingham revealed here. The cable from Judge E. Coke Hill, of the third division, to Governor George Parks revealed that the whites had come from the Ekuk and that all of them were living in the school -house.

All are living on the teacher's private supplies. Hill cabled, ai most everything the refugees owned was lost in the arm. Governor PaiivS was awaiting further word from the stricken area as to the assistance needed. planned to send relief as soon as possible. Airplanes were expected to play a large part in the relief work alon with dog teams.

F. J. LOESCH, CRUSADER AGAINST VICE, RESIGNS CHICAGO, Nov. 29. (JP) Frank J.

Lcesch, 77-year-old crusader against crime, resigned today as special assistant prosecutor on the staff of Jchn A. Swanson. State's attorney. Locsch is a member of President Hoover's crime commission. His action had been anticipated since the collapse of the State's case against the nine men accused of slaying Octavius Granady, Negro politician.

The State nolle prossed the case after a clash between Loesch and Judge Joseph B. David. Loesch resigned a lucrative law practice a year ago to undertake a battle against what he regarded a political-criminal alliance in Cook county. FAMILY OF 5 ASPHYXIATED TAUNTON, Nov. 29.

(JP) A family of five, including three small children, was found asphyxiated in a room on the second floor of their home late today. Medical Examiner nr. Charles A. Atwood said that death was caused by accidental gas poisoning. The dead were: Michael O'Neil, 40; his wife, Lena, 35; William, 5: Michael, 2, and Eleanor, 14 months old.

is i IN THE DAY'S NEWS LONDON, Nov. 29. (JP) To cope with increased activity among automobile bandits, the Metropolitan district of London will soon be dotted with S. O. S.

police boxes, where members of the public as well as policemen can quickly summon help by lifting a receiver off a hook. WASHINGTON. Nov. 29 (JP) Exten- sive hearings on prohibition enforce ment and the pudiic Duuouig pru-irrstn oro Mnprterf bv members of the House appropriations committee to de lay the report or uie annual ureasuiy-postofflce departments supply bill until after the Christmas holidays. OSHKOSH, Nov.

29. (JP) Alice Washburn, 68, one of the early motion picture comediennes, died at her home yesterday after an illness of several 3rears. Immediate cause of death was attributed to heart disease. MEMPHIS, Nov. 29.

(JP) Percy Lee of Ludlow, star of the Mississippi College football team, who suffered ft fractured spine in the game here yesterday with Southwestern, and underwent an emergency operation today was in a serious condition. Lee scored his team's only touchdown in the first period. In the second quarter he was knocked unconscious and taken to a hospital where an X-ray revealed his spine had been 0.