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a. WFATHER FORECAST Moderate winds; becoming colder; local snowfalls or flurries. For complete weauier report see pa go seven. TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY 42; 36 SAME DAY LAST YEAR 22; 4 VOL. CLIV.

No. 313 LATE EDITION SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927. TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS BIG AIR LINER DOWN RESCUE WORK PROBE SAILED FOR HOLLYWOOD NEW MORGAN PARTNER LONDON GETTING ANXIOUS ABOUT FOODSUPPLIES Trallic Conditions Improve, But Intense Cold Prevails DARING LANDING WAS CLIMAX TO TRICKY FLIGHT Lindbergh Descended to Small Sports Field at Belize NEW LAWS IN BRITAIN WILL -AFFECT MANY Pensions and Trade Unions Acts in Force January 1 STRIKES MADE ILLEGAL LINER, 2 PIERS, 8 BARGES AND 2 PLANTSBURNED Spec War Fire in Hoboken Caused Great Damage FLAMES JUMPED WATER Clyde Liner Seneca, Laden With Oil, Was Beyond Help and Was Abandoned (Special to The Gazette.) New December 30. Flames that spanned a seventy-fiye-foot strip of water on floating timbers and oil-soaked refuse, wrecked two piers in Hoboken this morning and burned the liner Seneca to a hollow, drifting shell of red hot metal. This the flames did In two hours.

At noon with another ninety minutes headway, this was their toll: the bow of the Hendrlk. Hudson, the Albany day liner was charred by flames. Eight barges were destroyed. Two Industrial plants, housed on the piers, were wiped out. And the Are still burning.

At 1 p.m. half the fire-fighters were removed and it was announced that the flames' were under control, but two hours later the flames burst again out of the hull of the Seneca and the piling of the piers and the firemen went at it again. On their first out.ieaK the flames swept up with paralyzing fury from pier No. 1, at the loot of Eleventh street. The entire Hoboken fire department, three Lackawanna Railroad tire boats, two from the New orK Central Railroad, and the James Duane, of the New YorK city tire department, with more- than luu lines of hose among them, were as powerless to stop the blaze as pygmies spitting on a volcano.

Meanwhile the Seneca with 600. barrels ot fuel oil aboard, floated, helpless and abandoned. In her slip, and the fireboats. gathered about her at a respectful distance, played water on her after hold, where explosion alter explosion had burst oil containers. She listed forty-five degrees, her superstructure was a torch that went roaring up Into the morning fog and her, 2,000 tons were, burdened with perhaps half that weight-of water.

Tugs, running close under her sides puffed frantically to shove her out Into mid-stream, where the fire, boats could aim unimpeded at her flame-belching hatchways. But she was stuck In the mud and would not move. Precariously, she escaped what at one time seemed certain to be her fate turning over and going to pieces to add still further to the 32,. 000,000 fire toll. As It A.

A. Kennedy, superintending engineer ot the Clyde Line, estimated the damage to the vessel at $700,000, and declared he believed she could never be re-conditioned. The fire started at 8.30 a.m. just how, no one knows. Gasoline and oil In the plant of the Union Ship Scaling Company at the foot of Eleventh street may have exploded.

But by the time the first alarm had been sent in, refuse and burning oil, floating across the slip that separ. ates the pier from that of the W. and A. Fletcher Company, known as Pier No. 1, had ignited that 'structure, too.

and both were furiously blazing. Within two hours, the roof and walls of the Scaling company' piers had fallen In, and 175 firemen were playing their hose on a heap of ruins, out of which spouted bright, tall flames fed by gasoline and chemicals. The roof of the Fletcher company's pier was still standing but the flames were eating away at its supports and firemen dared not venture within. To the north tugs had hitched lines to the Hendrlk Hudson and heaved her unceremoniously out Into the river. Her bow was blazing where sparks from the fire had fallen.

The Spartia and India Arrow, of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, lay beside her In midstream, with, the ferries dodging round them to keep their course from Hoboken to New York. These ships, too, had been drugged from their berths when the fire began, ss had the W. T. HannH. of the Labor Party Menaced by Loss of Funds for Political Purposes (Associated Press Cable.) London, December 30.

Among much new legislation which will become operative January 1 and will affect many classes of the community, the principal measures will be the Pensions Act of 1925 and the Trade Unions Act of 1927. The Pensions Act grants an a.iow-ance of ten shillings weekly to all insured men and women at the age of 65 years, regardless of whether the recipient has a private income. Heretofore such allowances could only be obtained at the age of 70, and were scaled according to the recipient's private income. It is estimated that more than half a million new pensioners will be brought in, and as an aged married couple can now obtain a united pension of a pound sterling ($4.85) a week, it is expected that many of the older workers may retire and so relieve unemployment. The Trade Unions Act wUl work a revolution in the industrial world.

It renders strikes and lock-outs illegal, and prevents -a man from being penalized by his union for refusal to participate in them. More important, however, is the clause affecting a political levy. Members" of unions previously have had "contract out" of subscribing to political funds. Henceforth if unionists desire to contribute to such funds, they must sign a paper "contracting in." This is almost certain to bring about a large diminution in the number of political contributors snd a loss to trade union All unions have been busy In the past weeks printing and distributing about forms for signature, but it is feared that much apathy will be shown, despite the strongest efforts of the union executives and, should a general election come within the next year or two, this loss of funds may have a serious effect on the prospects the Labor party. Other legislation operative with the new year includes acts fostering the British film industry, prohibiting the use of preservatives in articles of food, and placing heavy restrictions on the transactions of money-lenders and their interest charges.

PREVENTION OF USURY Money-Lenders Must Be Vouched for by Magistrates (Canadian Press Cable). London, December 30. New Year's Day brings a special responsibility to the professional money-lenders of this country. They must all take out. excise licences at a cost of 15 each and, what is still more Important, such licences will be granted only upon a certificate from the locals bench of magistrates that the applicant is of 'good character.

For some weeks past local police courts have been busy hearing applications from money-lenders for such certificates. The applicant is required to advertise In the local press his in. tentlon of applying for a certificate, In order that objectors may upppar and present their objections. At Glasgow the firwt group of applicants Included no fewer than f7 most of them carrying on business among their poor neighbors. The weak spot in this attempt to cut the talons of the usurious lender seems to be that people who have been fleeced will hardly care to come into open court and tell their grievances.

The majority of the public, probably, will leave the objecting in the hands of the police, and while the latter will no doubt be as watchful at possible. It Is obvious that there will be difficulty In producing evi. tlnre of extortion by the applicant which may have been perpetrated at a place far distant from where the application la made for a certificate. Of course, magistrates will be entitled to auk the applicants them. eelvea whether judges under the old money-lending act have ever set IT Bl Rigid Inquiry Into Operations on Submarine Waehlngton, Dee.

30. Secretary Wilbur today ordered a rigid inquiry Into rescue operations on the submarine S-4 to supplement the order directing a naval court of inquiry Into the accident which sent the vessel to the bottom off Province-town JVTelsb" At the same time the "secretary announced that a board of experts to study rescue operations and safety devices for submarines would be appointed soon. He said he was unable to say at this time whether this board would be composed ot civilians or naval officers. PROVINCE WENT AHEAD FAST IN PRESENT YEAR Progress Summarized in TasGh-ersan's New Year Message New Era of Prosperity for Quebec Opened in 1927 Water Power Development (By Canadian Pres). Quebec, December 30.

Premier Taschereau issued the following New Year's message today: "The year 192T has marked a new era of prosperity for the province ot Quebec. The federal bureau of statistics reveals that the figure of our population has grown to 2.604,000. The number of students attending our schools now exceeds 600,000, and the fund reserved for public instruction by the Government has practically attained this year the figure of "Our agricultural domain is increasingly great. Land under cultivation In 1927 amounted 6,867,000 acres. The value of the harvest is estimated at more 'than $147,000,000, and the gross revenue derived from agriculture can be estimated at Our cattle alone are valued at $131,700,000, while our milk products represent a gross value of Exports of cheese amounted to 41,500,000 pounds and exports of butter to 31,000,000 pounds during the year.

"Fifty thousand acres of new land have been thrown open to colonization, being the equivalent of four parishes. More than a thousand miles of new roads have been put at the disposal of the farmers by the Department of Colonization. "The Minister of Highways has built 1.300 miles of new roads and has repaired and maintained 7,800 miles. "The year has not been prosperous for our fishing Industry, although th lutter represented a revenue of "Revenue from the lands and foqests amounted to $6,600,000, and magnificent arid fine mills have been erected at strategic places In the province where our working population has found employment and where have grown up small villages already prosperous and filled with modern habitations. "The most remarkable progress has been in the dominion of electric power and in the mining Industry.

"While preliminary work has been completed at Chute a Caron, ten turbines of 46,000 horsepower are functioning at lie Maligne, Hnd when the installation of two additional units has beeh completed the total capacity of the plant will be brought to 640,000 horsepower? "The Shawinigan Water and Pow- (Contlnued on Page 6. Col. 5.) INDEX TO THE NEWS Pne Two Hickman to plead Insaiiky. Page Three Viscount Cecil on League of Nations. Problem of the Woodland.

Tage Four p.nv admits causing $1,000 fire. Aid. Trepanler on referendum. RS. Ltngan blamed for collision.

$45,224,367 building permits. Page live Board of Trade's entertainment. Receptions by navy and military. City laborers' pny Increases. Paire Six Pride of Detroit again falls.

Ex-soldier scores Foreign Legion, I'ntco Seven Kealty Bales down $741 007. Page K.lglH Soclul and personal. Page Nine Vews of in'erest to women. Tuge Ten -News of stage and screen, Pago Eleven V'eek-end radio programme. Pago Twelve Editorial.

Page Thirteen The Raconteur. Page Fourteen Canadian and world events of 1927. rag Fifteen Pres' view new Chevrolet car. Thick fog blankets Npw York. Page Sixteen Pirenuous hockey In Hunkers' Iagut Lafrunce goea to Chicago team.

Pago Seventeen Racing results. l'uge Mghtwn New hooks The Gazette's London letter. Pg Nineteen River atlll open down to the tea. Page Twenty-two Review of stock market, Page Twenty-thre Review of New York murket, Sir fhomas Catt-o Has Intimate Knowledge of East Special Cable to the New York Times nnd Montreul Gazette. London, December 30 Sir Thomas S.

Catto, well-known In the United States, where he acted as the Russian Government's purchasing agent of munitions during the war, is to became a partner in the, firm of Morgan, Grenfell and Company, according to an announcement today. The Importance of his addition to the firm, it is Said, lies chiefly in the executive knowledge Sir Thomas possesses of the East, where his experience of conditions and his knowledge of the Russian language proved of great service to the Al lies. After America entered the war Sir Thomas took over control of buying allied foodstuffs there. He is a member of the board of the American Tobacco Company. ONTARIO GASOLINE TAX NOT CHANGED Increase Bound to Not During Coming Year, Says Ferguson (By Canadian Press.) Torortto, December 30.

At the conclusion of a lengthy cabinet meeting held here today, 'Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, Ontario premier, definitely announced that there Is to be no Increase in the gasoline during the year of 1928. The Increase was bound to come, said Mr. Ferguson, Aut wculd not come during the comina year because current road expenditures were not being met out of current revenue, but out of the capital fund.

The highways department in the meantime was studying the situation carefully with a view to securing a revenue which would provide" for the perpetuation of the roads, and for their payment over a period of years. Until this permanent basis for revenue was worked out, Mr. Ferguson stated, the highways department' hoped. by careful economical methods, to manage without any inqrease in the taxes which it imposed. Mr.

Ferguson also stated that there would be no changes in the motor vehicle licence fees, which it was reported would be reduced if the increased gasoline tax had gone into effect. 20 Years to Beach Toronto Toronto, Dec. 30. Posted on April 29. 1907.

a postcard arrived here today. The card was mailed by Harry of Montreal, who died thirteen year ago, to C. L. Drury, a brother. HISTORY GARBLED TO AID JINGOISM American Professors Condemn Attempts to Foster It in Schools (By Associated Press.) December 30.

Falsification of history in public schools in the interest of patriotism came Under the' guns of the Historical Association here today, and a demand was made that the truth be taught even though It might contain unpleasant facts. The association, which is made up of a membership of college and professional historians, went on record against what was termed a widespread-effort to force the fabrication of history and urged the development of genuine- intelligt it patriotism. Attempts to foster n.iti tnal boaet-. fulness, arrogance and Indi (criminate, worsnip ot nauunai nuiup only served to promote a harmful pseudo-pa trlotlsm Instead of i reai love of country, the historians declared. Genuine and intelligent patriotism, no less thsn the requirements of honesty and sound scnoltirHliip, they held, demand that text-book writers and teachers should strive to present a truthful picture of the past nnd present, with due regard to this different purposes arid possibilities of Elementary, secondary and advanced Instruction.

BRITONS LOSING TRADE American Machines and Autos Win East Africa Market Special Cable to the N.Y. Times and Montreaf Gazette, London, December 30. British manufacturers of machinery, particularly of automobiles and farm Implements, are losing trade In Eat Africa to American manufacturers, warns the report of Trade Commin-aloner Kemp for 1027, published today. He lay American gains first to conatant Improvements and new models with branch British manufacture: second, exploitation of trade mark and advertising; third, the practice of American producers of maintaining brunches and fan-torlee In Canada and nelllng to patriotic Britons, gtoda as Canadian, which are really American. Outside of the machinery market Britain's trade in Africa Is reviving.

Berlin's Fatal Accidents Special Cable to the Times and, Montreal Gazette, Berlin, December 80. No less than 17 Berliner, 103 men and 77 women, were accidentally asphyxiated by gas during the pnat year, while 1.471 persona' ttirned on jets voluntarily and atlll live. The number of people killed throughout Prunsla by electrlo current waa 773. pne thoimand and four were burned to death. Carrying Passengers and Mails, Is Missing in Desert Bagdad, Irak, Dec.

30. Carrying mails and passengers, a big aeroplane in the Cairo-Bagdad service is down in the desert about 200 miles west of Bagdad. The pilot of the plane reported his plight by radio. Another liner, piloted by Captain Warner, whose wife is a passenger on the stranded plane, has searched vainly'for it and three military planes have left Bagdad to Join in the search. Some uneasiness is felt owing to the presence of Akhwan tribesmen to the south of the liner's track, because of fear that their attitude If they are encountered, might not 'be friendly.

BITTER COLD YIAYE-IS SWEEPING WEST Weather" Man Fully Justifies Forecast Vancouver Is a Cold Spot (By Canadian Press.) Winnipeg. December 30. The weather man has fully Justified his forecast of a bitter cold wave throughout western Canada for the closing days of 1927. frigid blasts' which swept out of the distant north yesterday had brought extreme drops in temperature today over an area extending from the Paoific coast to western Ontario. Edmonton felt the maximum sting of King Zero's assault the mercury there dropping to thirty below zero during the nlgfyt.

Elsewhere on the estern prairies, dips ranging from 10 to 25 below zero were general. As an indication or the storm's severity, Kamloops in British Columbia, reported a low mark of 16 below. Vancouver experienced 22 degrees of frost and Victoria 14. Heavy snowfall has blocked roads and interfered with transportation generally in the Okanagan Valley. In the three Prairie Provinces snow-flurries were reported over an extended area, i According to the official forecast of the Dominion Weather Bureau no Immediate relief from the cold wave is in sight.

Vancouver a Cold Spot Vancouver, December SO. Clear, cold weather was general along the British Columbia coast today while in the Interior zero temperatures are reported. On the coast. Vancouver was the coldest spot last night, with a mini mum of 10 above zero, victoria reported 19' above zero, while Prince Rupert recorded 16 above. Hazelton, in the north, registered 20 below zero, and Kamloops, 250 miles east of Vancouver, reported 16 below.

Decidedly cold weather will continue for several days, according to the yeather man. 1 Cold in Middle West Kansas City, December 30. A severe cold wave, with scattered snowfalls and temperatures of zero or below, swept Into the middle west nnd southwest today the northern Rocky Mountain region, where the wunlng year recording the most severe weather of the winter In some sections. A.lthough the1 snow generally was light, the fall at Kansas City was expected to reach two Inches during the night, being the heaviest of the winter. First effects of the cold snap were felt in western Kansas last night, when thermometers dropped quickly, with a minimum of two degrees above zero at Good land, near the Colorado line.

Only light snow flurries were reported. Temperatures of zero to five below were predicted for Kansas tonight. Coldest in Ten Years Vancouver, December 30. North central British Columbia Is In the grip of the coldest weather In more than ten years. At.

Prince George this morning the thermomete recorded 52 below zero; Quesnel 48 below, and Cottonwood and Beaver Pass 60 be. low. East of Revelstoke, on the main line of (he Canadian Pacific Railway temperatures ranging from 20 to below zero were reported. LESS DOGMEAT EATEN Odd Testimony to Return of Prosperity in Germany Special Cable to the N.Y. Tlmea and Montreal Gazette.

Berlin, December 80. Peculiar evidence of Germany's return to prosperity Is" found In official statistics showing that the numbrY of dogs slaughtered for purpose of human, consumption was only 676, or proportionately leas than half the total attained during 1 624.. the first year after currency stabilization. In the Inflation year of 1823. eighteen thouennd "hot dogs" were eaten by German gourmand.

Canine" meat appears on menu chiefly In the Ku Mountains of Suxony, whose Inhabitants consider It both a-wholnsome and toothsome dish. In the pitJtt four years slaughtering horaes for ties as food also has hsrply decreased from 160,000 a year to about 100,000. Louvre Lending Pictures (Hperlul Cable lo (he N.Y. Times and Montreal Onsetta.) Copenhagen, I)no. 30.

A unique art exhibition will be, opened at Copenhagen In April. A nuuvber of I ti re' i fiimoun masterpiece that bava never been lent and a aeries of ffifnftlM Titt'furea frrnn tmnntt Ft I vate collection will he conveyed to rnpenhagi-n aboard Daman warship In clues ustudy, and comprehensive precautionary measures will be taken during (he exhibition, Lady Georgiana Sholto Douglas Insured Legs for $100,000 SpeciaJ Cable to the N.Y. Times aitd Montreal Gazette. London, December 30. The Smallest and among the most Valuable feet in English society have turned tewards Hollywood.

They belong to Lady Georgiana Sholto Douglas, who before sailing on the Majestic Wednesday has had her feet and legs insured for $100,000. Georgiana weaT 2 shoes, which she has to have made specially. She has been divorced four times. One of her husbands was Prince Durhan-ed-Din, s6n of Abdul Hamid, ex-Sultan of Turkey. She inherited $40,000,000 from her grandfather, George Dorrepal, an East Indian merchant.

Douglas has had no film experience, but hopes "to obtain some on arrival at Hollywood. BAN ON DANCING HAS BEEN LIFTED Quebec Prohibition Has Resulted in Improvement in Moral Standards (Special to The Gazette.) Quebec, December 30. The ban on dancing in the archdiocese of Quebec has been but dances considered as immoral still, naturally, fall under the condemnation of the Church, according to authoritative information now at hand. Three years ago His Eminence the late Cardinal Begin, acting on the advice of hie chapter, decided to condemn all dancing in his archdiocese and in quite a number of other dioceses of the province. At the last Catholic synod held In the Ancient Capital, the prelates present had recommended that a severe move be made to deal with the alleged abuses which had crept Into modern dances.

At the time no definite move was made but finally -certain dances were found to be not only lacking In good taste but to have developed into a danger according to the morale of the Church. An energetic attitude was adopted by His Eminence Cardinal Begin and the faithful were advised that dances of all kinds except the old-fashioned quadrille and minuets were banned on all occasr Ions. Some priests went so far aa to forbid dancing between peraone of the same sexes or relatives. Concurrent with the action of the Church, which was endorsed by other denominations, an Improvement in moral standards has been noticed. It has been decided in view ot the int-provement to withdraw the ban.

STEPS TO GUARD PRINCE'S CATTLE All. of Staff on Alert to Fight Menace of Foot and Mouth Disease (Associated Press Cable.) Lenton, Nottinghamshire, England. December 30. Stable help, farm workers and everybody else employed In an active capacity arqund the Prince of WaleT farm here were on the alert today in a fight to keep the foot and mouth disease away from his famous herd of prize shorthorns. This dread malady of cattle was spreading in Nottinghamshire and other Midland counties.

A suspected case was discovered In the herd of a Wilford farmer whose place is within a quarter of a mile of the Prince's land. Some of the Prince's cattle are In-tended for the Royal show and the strictest precautions are being taWon. Everybody approaching the estate Is required to dip his boots In an antiseptic preparation. There Is also a natural barrier which msy prove more effective the Rive Trent which separates the two farms. Anxiety for the safety of the Prince's cattle was intensified this afternoon when a suspected ease on the adjoining farm was confirmed aa Sbflng an actual case of the foot and mouth disease.

In the Midlands where the "standstill" order has been In force for several days owing to the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease among animals 1.200 cattle, 600 sheep and 150 pigs have been slaughtered by order of the Board of Agriculture, The estimated "compensation to be paid the owners of hes animals is Under the "standstill" order no cattle, sheep, pigs or goats In affected area are allowed to be moved to nn unaffected area, and a licence Is required to move an animal anywhere within 'an area when there Is foot and mouth disease Stabber" Active Bridgeport, December 80. The 2th attack In three years of Bridgeport's "phantom slabber" occurred here tonight when Mrs. Chnrles A. Ulnmnn. 35 was 'slabbed jtwit above the right breat.

She rleMcrlbed her iixsailiiTit as a short and eitocky man who wore a Itimhi-r-mim'a Jacket, The stabber escaped. Cardinal Eeturns January 31 (Speclu! The Giizelte.r Quebec, December SO. A cable re-reived ut the Carilinal'a Piilnce today announces that Ills Eminence Cardinal Rouleau will sail from Cherbourg nn the Kmprcfti of Scotlund on January 21., Ills Eminence will reach Now York on the Jinh and will be In Quebec on the Slat. Sir Robert Borden IU Ottawa, December 30. H'uitun.

wur-tlnie prime minister of Canada, Is III ut his home here. It Is undxratood that the Is not serious. WAS A MARVELLOUS FEAT Trip From Guatemala City Was Through Fog and Over Bad Country By Col. CHARIiES A. LINDBERGH Copyright, 1927, in the United States, Canada, Mexico.

Cuba, Central and South America, Europe and the Rrituh lolo. u-o the New York Times. All rights reserved. By Tropical Wireless to the N.Y. unes ana Montreal Gazette.

Belize, December 30. I denarted from Guatemala City at daylight at 6.18 o'clock this morning. A light fog had set in during the night and the visibility was not very good at the time ot the take-off. Guatemala City was covered with fog, and I could only catch 'glimpses ot the houses through breaks in the fog, and fog continued for about sixty miles out to the base of the mountains. Upon Reaving Guatemala City, I set a compass course directly for Belize.

This carried me over a great deal of mountainous and uninhabited country. At interval, however, there were isolated small' grass huts, with miniature cultivated plots beside them; but there was no possibility of landing without injury to the plane during the entire flight. At one time 1 parsed over a native village -consisting of a dozen or more of these dwellings. Upon nearipg the Gulf Coast, where the country was less mountainous, a heavy fog set in which made it necessary for me to fly at about 6.000 feet in order to clear It. At times, however, there were holes in? the fog through which the ground appeared rather indistinctly.

At the end of the second hour I changed my course to the east, hoping that the fog did not extend beyond the coast line. ,1 tried twice to get between the clouds and the ground by circling down through more or less open spaces. Upon nearing the grofind cn each eccasion, I found that the fo? was In. the tree tops, making It necessary to navigate by Internments until I was again able to reach the top of the tog tank. Tht third at-turnpt was over coast.

In every direction the fog was much lower. Apparently I had como into a Mi-re -r clear spot of several miles di'irnetcr. I located my position as being about twenty-five miles south of Bc- livA anil hv fvncr iniv beach, I found it possible to reach the cuy, aiinougn visinmiy or me time was very poor. The coast lino was entirely tropical, with many cocoanut along the beach. Upon arriving at Belize, I found the field ta liotn tn liu miituhla for landing, although narrow, and very siiuri.

whh iuiu uiHi no lanuing nau ever been made In British Honduras. The field Is about 400 yards long, tapering from eighty yards at one end tn fiftv at thA nrhar with each end, and lying in a slight curve. vvuii a prevailing cross wina my plane stopped rolling about ten yards from the end of the field. I received one of the most enthus- tnntii1 VAl rtrrfftilv mmnHnn- Kir Citizens that I have ever witnessed. haIr-raising landing First Time Plane Had Descended to Small Sports Field (Associated Press Cuble).

Belize, British Honduras, December 30. Undaunted by the perils of the improvised landing field here, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today swept from the sky on his promised visit to British Honduras In continuance of his goodwill flight to Central America. 1 Although officials had been frank, ly skeptical of a landing on the Sports Field, the only available land.

Ing place, Lindbergh made a 250-mile Jaunt from Guatemala City to look the field over for himself. To the great Joy of the. eagerly-awaiting crowd he came down. Instead of turp Ing south for San Kilvador. The landing the first ever made by a land plane here whs halr-ralftlng, for the American flier appeared to escape mHhap narrowly He Just m'ssed the telephone wires on the northern end of the 4011-yard field and then swerved skilfully to keep his plane from the grandstand that had been erected for the New Yeur horse races.

Then he taxied over the narrow fllj, swampy In spots, and came to it etop In the midst of deafening applause from the crowd, the largest that haa ever gathered on the sport! field at Newton Barracks. Lindbergh circled the field several times as though groping to determine the best place to land, and flnnllv he swept down gracefully nml skilfully to safety. The lunillng vhh a marvellous feat, and the crowd that had ben completely under control during tho tense minutes filled with anxiety thHt accompanied It, went wild with Joy. The broke through the cordon of police end special constables emollel for the occaxlnn, end warmd-on eurrotimllnj the Spirit of St. Louis.

flu exuberant was the crowd with relief that their guest had landm! safely thai the reception committee wan forced to link arms and to form a protecting cordon abount the aviator Lindbergh made the 250 mile flight In three hours end 26 minutes, landing here at 3.46 a.m. hval time (14.41. a.m. Eastern Standard Tlt.ie). He was (Continued on Page 6, Col.

6.) COUNTRY IS HARD HIT Rural Districts Having Great Difficulty in Getting Necessary Food (Associated Press Cable.) London, December 30. Traffic conditions created by England's worst winter storm of years were Improved tonight, but Intense cold continued with forecasts of probable enow et the week-end. While milder weather is forecast for the western and northern districts, severe frosts were expected again In the southern counties, which are now fighting their way from vast snow drifts. In Dublin, which enjoyed, balmy weather while" England shivered, winds were bitter cold tonight and snowfall threatened. Channel steamer service was almost normal today with calmer seas and kindlier winds after a tempes-tioua week.

The steamship Majestic arriving at Southampton reported a quiet voyage across, and her passengers were astounded to find Eng land snow-covered. Railway service which -was severely crippled by snow and ice also was nearly normal today as a result of continuous work by an army of snow ploughs and shovel wield-ers. There are stretches of important highways, however, that are still amoassable and many motors stand half covered in snow drifts where they were abandoned three or four! days ago. A few isolated villages In Monmouthshire, Devonshire and Kent remain lost to the outer I world with only aeroplanes to bring emergency food supplies. Aeroplanes which yesterday deposited bread, butter and tea in the front yards of marooned KelHish citizens, today supplied condensed milk to their weather bound charges.

The problem of getting fuel to these Villages is becoming an important one as motor trucks or horse-drawn vehicles could never make the trip. London began to get anxious about food supply today as snow fell again in some of southwest Kngland and "the weather bureau pounded the ominous warning that there was a possibility of a further general fall. Produce and vegetables are already scarce and expensive. Dairy far.ners some districts were unable to send their milk to the city and poured hundreds of gallons away because of lack of transportation. Should the predicted general fall of snow occur the plignt of tha rural district Mould be most serious A.eroplanr-s ond armored tanks are being used in relief work since there is a lack nf r.l-'h appliances as gr.ow lough'.

Since big snow storm. in southern England are the means of combatting them are not ioveloped and this accounts for the prolongs! tie up of transportation. The present fall was said to be greater In Quantity and extent than tiny since 1881. Reports from the rural districts today continued to tell of the diltl- ulty of getting needed supplies. Inconvenience was general, although at no point has privation reached the starvation point.

A further prolonged fall of enow may lead In that direction as etocks of food In isolated villages are lessening i-onstantly and cannot be replenished yet on any considerable scale. A shortage of coal Is causing hardship also In some places. Contrary to overnight predictions of milder weather. Great Britain was established more firmly than ever In the grip of the snow king today, while still colder weather was forecast for tonight. With the mercury at II above zero (Fahrenheit), London-and its envl-rons experienced the coldest day of the year.

Today the gale had abated in the English Channel. With Lord Templemore, who has for two days voluntarily carried the malls from Winchester to Alresford, Miss Ann Elliott, riding one of two pack horses, Is making the ten-mile trip from Winchester to Alresford daily, carrying as great a quantity v( food supplies as Is possible. A Lloyd's despatch from Yokohama watf that the -Japanese steamehl palnlrhlzan Maru Is reported to hav been with all aboard during a snowetorm, December 28, nrfar Otiiru. The despatch aUto reiortN that two other steamships went ashore during the atorm, the Miwu No 11. going ashore near yesterday and the Shofuku Miiru going aehore at Tsuchlzakl Akltaken on Wednesday.

tr warmer down below" says a poster appearing at the entrances to Jondon fcubway. as an Inducement to people to travel via mm unutir j'utlnit the cold wave. A Dartmoor convict who had serv ed a sentence, was Wednesday, but could Uo Unvn the prison because it wag blockaded by anew, lie braved the elements tills however, but made hU way atoot a no aocom-nwwiiittnns were avulluble. The llrst visitor to the ruhurb of Fetchnm, which had been nowd in for three caya, was a tax collector. Intense Cold in Belgium Antwerp.

December SO. Harbor truffle Is being seriously hampered by the snow and Intense cold weather that two held this shipping town In lis itrlp for several days. Hundreds of ships and barges are (Continued on Poge Col, 7.) h. In ay be Standard Oil and the Ford Motor Company ship, Lake Benbow. 8.

E. Smith, 'the seventy-five-year-old cuptain of the Seneca, and an employee of the Clyde Line, had come over, her side on a rope, hfa white moustache singed to a cinder. His companion, Staff Captain John Chadwlcl and a watchman were saved with him In a daring rescue by workmen, who pushed a flat boat alongside the bluzlng liner. eTrtl held It there until the' three men had scrambled over the rail. Four barges of the Fletcher Coin-pany were floating wrecks, too worthless, now, to hold the attn-tlnn of the flreboata.

swarming about tha more Important Seneca. One fireman hit name was given only a Scully had been aeverely burned about the hands, but he was able to return to duty. TANGLED CIIIIONOLOGV. The chronology of the fire Is a tangled tale. tut.

however It was mimed, Albert Drown, of Klmwood, N.J.. a foreman on the Baling Com. pany pier, saw the smoke, sounded the first alarm and ordered hi a five men to run for safety. Police got there flrrt; and the flret official, on the act-no saw thai the flames hail skipped to gap Imtwnen the Scaling company's and the Fletcher pier, Bednnd and tjilrrt alrants tvaht In once, and the entire Hoboken Are department responded, Fire Chief J. J.

tllldny took charge, aeeleted by Deputy Chief M. J. Ken-nedy, They had alx engine companies, three (ruck com pan lea and the railroad Are boat a under thnlr oiimmard by noon. The Reneta caught fire soon after (Continued on Page Co), ,) aaide their as harsh such a case a usurious lender convicted out of his own mouth Anijther provlalon of the new act forbids mnney.lendera from sending circulars through the poet office. Pre.

vlously this restriction applied only to sending circulars to minors! There are many who think the new provision does not go far enough, and thnt It nusht to have forbidden moneylenders from advertising In any way. HOLLYWOOD IN BRITAIN Film Suburb of London Has Changed Its Name (Knorlal CaM to the VewYoik Times and Montreal Gnxette.) Iindoiy December 10. Apparent -ly believing that a rose under any "ther name never siyella nn sweet, the village of Itoreham Wood, 13 mites north of London, today rc-(hrlitened Itself Hollywood and thereby Issued a defl to the whole norld on behalf of Pr'tlsh films. A number of the leading plrture rnmpanlf are already emnl Imhed there, and others are eald lo be willing to trtlernte. Plans hnv.

bten prepared envleealng a to'a with a population of lo.ooo..