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Yesterday's Total Circulation 9311 Gilbert Widely-Read on New York Life In tbe TIMES I A WEATHER Snow flurries and coldar Sunday cloudy, followed by light and rising temperature In weit portion, Sun today Sun rites tomorrow 7:00. iVOL No. 15. Tha Gw Home SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1930. SIXTEEN PAGES.

PRICE TWO CENTS. Mr. Taft Continues To Improve Former President Sits Up Most Of Waking Hours. Washington, Feb. attending William H.

Taft, former chief justice of the and President, indicated today their patient is out of immediate danger. Today they reduced their dally' bulletin to President Hoover to a single short sentence. It read: "The Chief Justice continues to improve and is very comfortable." It was timed 11:30 A. 11, and signed by Drs. Francis R.

Hagner and Thomas A. Claytor. In addition to the bulletin, which may be the last the physicians will issue for the present, inasmuch as Taft's condition has showing improvement each day since Wednesday, Mr. Hoover was personally advised there was little likelihood Taft will become worse during the President's stay in Florida next week. Mr.

Hoover was much' alarmed over the statesman's condition earlier in the week and he would not have agreed to leave on his fishing jaunt if Taft were considered to be critically ill. He probably will keep in touch with Taft's physicians by telegraph during Ins Florida sojourn. Say Mrs. Hall Didn't Send Note To Mrs. Gibson New York, Feb.

N. S.I --While funeral services were planned today for Jane Gibson, prominent witness in the famous Hall-Mills murder trial, it was denied that Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, against whom Mrs Gibson testified at the trial, had sent a 'note of forgiveness' to Mrs. Gibson just before she died. "A heart without malice sends you forgiveness--Frances Stevens Hall," was the wording of a note received at Mrs.

Gibson's bedside yesterday and read to the woman just before she died. Representatviesof Mrs. Hall, who is Hospital here after an operation, said she had not sent the note and knew nothing of it. Harold P. Meenah Faces Blindness Washington, Feb.

P. Meenan, 21, Georgetown University athlete, and son of Daniel F. Meenan, of Park Avenue, New York City, faces blindness for life as the result of an innocent prank of a friend who carelessly tossed a bit of pecan shell towaid him. The shell struck his right eye and cut it badly. Dr.

Michael S. Kennedy, of the medical staff of the university, ordered the athlete's removal to the hospital where an operation was immediately performed. Notified of his son's injury Meenan sent Dr. Rove, New. York specialist, to consult with the surgeons here.

Grove agreed with Kennedy that it will be known late today wheth er Meenan'3 vision will be permanently impaired. Although only one eye is Injured they explained the other could be affected. Meenan played on both the basketball and football teams, having played in most of the games the university staged last fall and won his letter. WHEN YOUTH TRIED TO ASSASSINATE MEXICO'S NEW PRESIDENT Daniel Florcs, fired six shots at the newly inaugurated president Rubio of Mexico in an unsuccessful effort to assassinate him, Is shown hero shortly after his arrest In Mexico City. Officers who effected his arrest are shown at the left.

This picture shons the croud about the official car of President Pascu.il Ortiz Ituhlo at the hospital In Mcvlro City, where he was taken after hn had been shot liy would-be afciissln less than three hours after taking the oath us president of the Mexican republic. One of siv shots fired at the i inaugurated president by Daniel Flores, 22, struck Rubio, fracturing his jaw. An arrow points to President Kubio's niece with her head bandaged who is about to enter the car. She was slightly wounded by one of the shots. Will Rogers Says Today: New York, Feb.

8. (Spec ial to Clean Times)--Remember in one dispatch I told you I had a red hot tip that Mr. MacDonald might propose something pretty sweeping. He did it. He proposed to sink all our battleships and all France's submarines.

Of course he would sink their's, too. Now here Is the but. They don't need the big ships. They don't have to go as far for their's as we do. We have no naval bases.

We have to go away off and fight all afternoon and then have enough sandwiches and gasoline to get back to Newport News naval bases are monotonous as speakeasies. He didnVoffcr to abolish light, fast cruisers and France's submarines are her ace in the hole, but our dcle- gation knows all these things and we are still in hands. i Youru, WILL ROGERS; j. Vice President of Brazil Shot, Five Are Killed Political Circles Of Country Feel Undercurrent Of Uneasiness After Melee When Vianna Makes Speech. Rio de Janeiro, Feb.

8. (INS)--With the presidential elections less than a month away, an undercurrent of uneasiness was felt in Brazilian political circles today following the shooting of Vice-President Fernando Mello Vianna while making a political speech at Monies Glares, Minas Three bullets from the gun of a supposed political opponent entered the neck and head of Dr. Mello Vianna. Five other persons, including the vice-presidents secretary, were killed and fourteen wounded in the, melee that followed) according to dispatches received here today. The vice-president was removed to a hospital in Bello Horizonte, capital of Minas Geraes.

It was stated his wounds were not critical and that he would recover although it could not be stated definitely how soon he could essay the journey back to this city, more than 400 miles away. Officials refused to state definitely today whether or not martial law had been or would be declared in the state of Minas Geraes which is extremely important in Brazil from a political standpoint. John Kwiatowski Is Found Guilty Perjury Charge BUFALO, N. FEB. 8--(lY N.

KWIATOWSKI TODAY WAS CONVICTED OF PERJURY IN CONNECTION WITH HIS TESTIMONY AT THE TRIAL OF STEPHEN ZIOLKOWSKI, CHARGED WITH THK MUKDER OF A WATCHMAN AT THE FEDDERS PLANT. THE CONVICTION, WHICH CARRIES SENTENCE OF FROM TWENTY TO FORTY YEARS, REACHED BY A JURY WHICH DELIBERATED FROM 3:45 P. THURSDA1' UNTIL 12:30 P. M. TODAY.

Whaling Vessels Aiding In Search Hubert Wilkins New York, Feb. N. --All whaling vessels in the sea of ice at the South Polar region are aiding in the search for Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has been unheard from for ten days, a copyright despatch received today by the New York American states. Victor Olsen, radio operator on the Melville, base ship of the Wilkins expedition, who sent the despatch, revealed that in the last message sent by tho, explorer by radio from his ship, Scoresby, tie said he would send no further news "for several days, due to a change being made in radio equipment." This was taken as a possible ex- Dlanatlon of why radio calls to the, Scoresby have not been wswered (or more Una a Ulbrich Plans Atlantic Hop Oakland, Feb. to the Atlantic seaboard in an effort to be the first transoceanic flier of 1930, William Ulbrich, noted young New York pilot, was winging eastward today from Oakland.

His ultimate goal is Ostend, Belgium. Ulbrich is headed for Whighton, where he will take delivery of a "mystery" plane, constructed by Martin Jensen, Dole racer. A navigator, possibly a girl, will be selected and test flights begun immediately, Ulbrich said before his take-off here. The flight is to be backed by a New Yorlc society woman. Ulbrich was a.

member of the "Three Musketeers" endurance team a year ago. He is the fiance of Viola Gentry, who was seriously injured in an attempt to set a sustained flight record. Radio For Every Cell At Illinois Joliet, 111., Feb. convict's life at Illinois penitentiary here will be made more pleasurable henceforth with the Installation of an individual radio in every cell, Warden Henry C. Hill announced today.

The new radio system has been started already, according to Warden Hill, and when completed each convict will have a connection available. An added feature of the new system will be central connection with a microphone in the warden's office which will permit him to address all of the prisoners or any one cell block of prisoners without having them brought from their St. Clair Case Arouses Interest a NEA New York Bureau Mrs. Ruth St. Clalr New York, Feb.

movement for modification or repeal of the Baumes laws, under which a fourth offender in New York must be sentenced to life imprisonment, was under way today. Aroused by the case of Ruth St. Glair, a fourth offender sentenced to life in prison for shoplifting, feminists, writers and other joined in the movement. Judge Max S. Levine, who sentenced Mrs.

St. Clair, said he would propose that Gov. Roosevelt appoint a commission to study the cases of 100 persons now serving Me terms which were mandatory under the Baumes laws the judge said he "would have preferred to sentence Mrs. St. Clair to about ten years." Judge Levine said after proper investigation Gov.

Roosevelt should commute the sentences of those now serving life who "do not deserve that sentence." SHOCK IS FATAL TO MOTHER Mexico City, Feb. N. --As a result of the shock of learning that her son, Daniel Flores, had attempted to assassinate President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, and that two of his four brothers had been arrested as accomplices, Senora Evarista Gonzalez De Flores is dead at her home in Charcas, State of San Luis Potosi. Senora Flores died of heart failure soon after detectives from Mexico City had called at her home to take her other sons Into custody. Meanwhile, police continued their interrogation of Florcs, who has now admitted His allegiance to the Communist cause, although he previously had insisted he attempted to kill the president for personal reasons.

President Ortiz Rubio, whose jaw was shattered by a bullet from the assassin's gun, was reported to be progress- Ing satisfactorily today. UBERTY BONDS New York, Feb. N. sales of Liberty Bonds In today's market were, at the following prices: 3A. 00.7; 4th 101.5; Treasury Ilia 111.8.

MacDonald's Proposal On Aircraft Carriers Would Hit This Country Will Likely Stir Up Resentment In the "Big Navy" Blocs In United States and House Of Representatives. By HARRY R. FLORY International News Service Staff Correspondent. London, Feb. Premier Ramsay MacDonald's statement outlining Great Britain's aims jplans for naval limitation was viewed today as being generally in complete accord with American views on limitation, it revealed wide Anglo-American differences on the question of aircraft carriers.

Premier MacDonald proposed that the maximum aircraft carrier tonnage for the United States and Great Britain placed at 135,000 tons at the Washington conference of 19211922, should be reduced to 100,000 tons. This proposal is likely to cause a stir of resentment in the "big navy" blocs in the United States Senate and House of Representatives for such a reduction would string-halter the United States and make the American navy decidedly inferior to the British navy in the aircraft carrier category for the next seventeen years. In the opinion of many experts, aircraft carriers, with their scores of death-dealing planes, are the most formidable weapons of naval warfare afloat. The Washington conference fixed the age limit of aircraft carriers at twenty years, but added the proviso that all aircraft carrier tonnage in existence or building on November 12, 1921, should be considered experimental and therefore replacablc at Any time without regard to age, within the total aircraft carrier tonnage allotment. Great Britain has six aircraft carriers, the Hermes, Eagle, Argus, Furious, Courageous and Glorious.

Of these six, only the Courageous and Glorious, which are about 22,500 tons each, were constructed after Nov. 12, 1921. The other four could be replaced by more modern craft at any time Improvement in design warranted such a step. Of the three American aircraft carriers, the IVexington, Saratoga and Langlry, now In operation and one which has been authorized and appropriated for, only the Langley falls into the experimental class. Should naval architects design a perfect aircraft carrier tomorrow, under the terms of the Washington treaty, the United Slates wouid not be permitted for another 12 or 15 years to scrap the approximately 66,000 tons represented by the Lexington and Saratoga and build the improved type carrier.

The Washington treaty clause fixing the age of aircraft carriers at twenty years therefore presents a barrier which Is likely to prove troublesome. If it were repealed at the present London Naval conference, the difficulty might he solved. Without its repeal, however, if the reduction to 100,000 tons were put into effect, the United States would only have 34,000 tons available for building until the Lexington and Saratoga were scrapped. Of this total, 13,800 tons have already been utilized by a small carrier under construction. Britain, on the other hand, would have 55,000 tons available.

Thus, (Iiirinp Iho next 17 years, the United States could huvo a mnvlmum of only five aircraft carriers as compared to possible seven. The American delegation would be willing to reduce the number vidual ships even below 25,000 Ions each since the United States Navy has learned tho value of aircraft carriers depends on numbers and mobility lather than on size. Cairiers of about or 14,000 tons have been found most efficient. The British premier's proposal to the conference also contained a vague leference to the reduction of the calibre of guns to be mounted on carriers. Eight inch guns are now the maximum.

It is understood, the British wish to suggest that the guns be limited to six inches which is the same armament allowed to merchant vessels in time of war. of aircraft carriers to five indl-1 ageuls INDICT LIQUOR BUYER Boston, Feb. 8--(INS)--Buyers of liquor in Massachusetts were doing their purchasing with unusual ileallh today. This was the result of an indictment by a Federal Grand Jury of an alleged purcheser of two pints and a declaration by Federal Attorney Frederick II. Tarr that hereafter every purchaser will be arrested wherover evidence is secured.

Word from Washington was to the effect that the action of the local Federal attorney was being followed with the closest interest as the outcome of the case here tcmay halt action there on an amendment to the National Prohibition law making the purchaser of liquor equally guilty with the seller and liable to severe penalties. Tarr claims that section six, title two of the national prohibition act gives him power to war on liquor buyers, adding that it has always been that way. James E. Farrar, 31, a Boston elevated railway trolley car operator, who was indicated by the federal grand jury in what Assistant Federal Attorney Dlihue Stone said was "a test case," declared at his Waterlown home that he was innocent and would fight the case clear through the United States supreme court. If necessary, although, he added, ho was a poor man and did not know where he would find the funds for a long legal battle.

The grand jury indicted Farrar on charges of unlawfully ano Knowingly purchasing two pints of liquor and with transporting the same to his automobile. Frank Rotondo, siorekeeper in Cambridge, was Indicted on charge of selling the two pints to Farrar In the presence of two federal nrohihltlon Three Rescuers In Utah Coal Mine Crushed To Death Rocks Loosened By Explosion Fall On Them While They Were Conducting Search For Miners Still Missing. Standardville, Utah, Feb. 8. (INS)--Death again stalked this already grief stricken village and today the names of three rescue workers have been added to the list of dead, bringing the total of Standardville's worst disaster to twenty thus far, with three missing--victims of an explosion in the Standard coal mine.

The three rescuers were killed late last night when dirt and rocks loosened by the explosion of Thursday night, fell in and crushed them as they were conducting a search for the three miners still missing. Grief sticken families today prepared to bury their dead as authorities began an investigation into the explosion. Rescue crews from adjoining' mines yesterday managed to bring five of the twenty-nine trapped men to the surface before the deadly fumes could reach them. Four others escaped to the surface Thursday night shortly after the explosion. Two of those rescued are in hospitals undergoing treatment for gas.

Rescuers found the five yesterday after they found notes telling where the trapped miners had barricaded themselves from the fumes far in the mine tunnel. Hoovers And Friends Are Off For Florida And Deep Sea Fishing Tiny Fleet Qf Houseboats Will Sail Out For Isolation and Fishing Grounds Upon Party's Arrival At Long Key. By GEORGE E. Internationa) News Service Staff Correspondent. Washington, Feb.

Hoover sets out today to reward himself with a brief respite jrom the cares of office after eleven months of unbroken labor. Tonight, he and Mrs. Hoover and a very small party of intimate friends entrain for the southern tip of Florida, there to put in a week at deep-sea fishing. Long Key, a fishing camp located midway between Miami and Key West will be their base, but they will remain for the most part several miles off shore enjoying the first complete privacy they have had since inauguration. The party is due to arrive at Long Key early Monday, and will immediately hoard the houseboat Saunterer, chartered by the president for the occasion from his friend, Jeremiah Milbank.

This is the same boat the Hoovers used Inst winter when they spent a month in Florida just prior to March Two other 'smaller houseboats will be waiting for the secret service, and this tiny fleet will promptly sail out to isolation and the fishing grounds. Accompanying the president will be his fishing companions of many seasons--Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, of the Superme Court: Dr. Vcrnon B. Kellogg, old- time Street neighbor, and Harry Richey, of the White House Secretariat. Completing the immediate party will be Lieut.

Commissioner Joel T. Boone, the presidential physician, and taggin, from the shore--will be nine newspaper men and four photographers. Sailfish. Kingfish and all the other hueky denizens of the gulf stream will be the objective of the little group. All of them are expert fishermen.

No stops are to be made either coming or Mr. Hoover has determined to make this a complete holiday and has put his foot down firmly on all invitations to visit, even for a few hours, any of the intermediate points. There is no question hut the executive is in need of the short vacation The high-pressure manner in which he has applied himself to his duties during the last eleven months has registered its strain on his face. He is in good physical condition, thanks to the daily medicine ball workout, but those around him agree along as "official his nerves need a little relaxation. Stimson Plan Disappoints Leaders of Major Parties Washington, Feb.

8--(INS) -While a wave of disappointment swept Congress over the Stimson proposal for naval limitation, leaders "of both major parties today expressed a hope the American plan would lead to a new naval accord at London. The Stimson plan was described as valuable chiefly because it would eliminate naval competition for a definite period between the five great naval powers. This approbation was somewhat tempered by implied criticism that the plan would fail real reduction in naval armaments and would increase the cost of the American navy to the people of the United States. The view of administration leaders was expressed by Rep. Burton L.

French, (R) of Idaho, who commands the appropriations subcommittee dealing with naval appropriations. "The effect of the program would not mean substantial reduction In money cost to the American people, but would check further expansions," said French. "Such program would remove competition In different types of craft, which, in Itself, is fundamental." Senate leaders, however expressed a belief that any treaty, growing out of the Stimson plan, would he ratified by the upper branch of Congress. Senator William E. Borah (R) of Idaho, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, indicated only a half-hearted approval of the Stimson plan.

"I'm in favor of naval reduction," said Borah, "and J'm going to support It in whatever form they bring it to us The "big navy" bloc in the senate though indicated there would be considerable opposition to a. treaty. baseJ on Stimson's plan. They were wrathful at the proposed substitutioi of small 6-inch gun type of cruisers for the great S-mch-gun 10,000 ton cruisers already authorized by congress. One of the Stimson proposals wovU give the United States the right to build eleven 7,000 ton cruisers to achieve "paper parity" ic this class with the British navy, while eliminating three of the great 10,000 ton cruisers, to get "paper parity" in the heavier class.

The big navy men say this substitution would prove costly to taxpayers. "This program would cost more than our present program" will cost," siild one big navy leader. "And besides don't obsolete G-lnch-Riin vessels, America needs tho best fighting craft in tho world as a matter of national defense. There'll certainly bo opposition to plan, if the accord Is based upon it." Senator Hale (R) of Maine, chairman of the senate naval affairs committee, also assailed the Stimson proposal. He was particularly vigorous In his opposition to the Stimson proposal.

Hs particularly vigorous in his opposition to the Stimson suggestion in reference to cruisers, contending It did not provide for naral.