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VOL. LXV. NO. 93. copy month MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1929 EH3 San Bernardino Six Slain at Crossing TKAIN W.

MANY III BY EXCURSION TRIP TRAGEDY Eastern States Hit By Cold Wave; Trail Of Misery Reported Middle West Lashed by Bitter Temperatures During Advance of Winter Storms uui a weeK, tne assembling regular session at noon today is arked by so many featuies and so uch of importance is expected to me out of it that the eyes of the itlon turn toward Washington. prhapg there will be disappoint- ients, for one house of Congress lis established the reputation of uch talk and little accomplish-pnt. Yet everything is set for an jcome tax reduction bill, cutting 60,000,000 from the annual tax bill, be put through both houses and nt to the President within two eeks. Legislation can be expe-ted when argument against it 'es not take the form of obstruc-on. II Of this proposed income tax cut, 11 is to be taken off the coma tax paid by individuals, and 8,00000 cut from that paid by 'porations.

But of course much the latter affects individuals, for 6re are many small shareholders the big corporations. Ij It is forecast that prohibition and the recent stock market nash will get much attention in new Congress, but the law-akers cannot help the speculators hose margins were too "thin," id the representative of the Anti-iloon league says this is the driest -ingress that ever came to Wash- gton. Not only so, but he fore sts that it will adopt measures rrngthening the Volstead law, and ake appropriations for enforce-ent. And in the past the legisla- ve representative of this organiza- on has been accurate in his fore- ist. Not only so, but of the four ciferous opponents of prohibition ho formerly sat in the Senate, Ed-ards, Bruce, Edge and Reed, not ie of them remains to orate gainst the eighteenth amendment, ot all of them were defeated, but II of them hfive passed from the eld of senatorial activity.

IT Here in California nothing con- nected with the opening of Con-ress is likely to get more attention lan the forthright declaration of ecretary Wilbur in his annual re-ort as secretary of the interior, pposing Government development pj operation of water power. In lat statement is wrapped up the lmtiistration policy at Boulder im. By the same token, it con-ijns a tremendous disappointment the city of Los Angeles; for Angelenos have held to the hope 1'at the Government would not nly build the dam at Boulder canon, bu? that it would also build nd equip the power houses, and power "at the switchboard" to as Angeles and other customers. ecretary Wilbur betrays a very ositive opposition to that policy, nd doubtless he reflects the Hoov-r attitude. I I.os Angeles' bonding credit will be more or less strained in- ludlng the cities and towns of the telropolitan water district to the money to build the aque- uct from the Colorado river, and he main lines to carry power from here to Southern California, and if that almost staggering sum be added the cost of the pow-rhouses and their equipment, new inancial problems are presented, Wilbur intimates that the uty of the Government will have een completed when it is in a posi- ion to "sell falling water" to inter-sts prepared to use that falling ater in the development of electric dwer.

i They were singing "Deutschland Uber Alles" in the cities along he Rhine yesterday for the first iiiie in 11 years. The French and 5elgian troops were moving out, the flag was run up on the ortresses and public buildings, and hat part of Germany which had een under the control of foreign since the armistice was re-urned to the fatherland, now a re- lublic. It wa3 an odd coincidence hat within a few hours of the ac-ual troop movement out of Ger-nany, the reichstag voted so over-vhelmingly to accept the Young ilan of paying reparations. rif The weather bureau persists in its forecasts of fair weather, and ho earliest hopeful suggestion Is Jiat made by Father Ricard, who iays a big storm will reach Califor-lia just before the middle of December. Not a drop of rain in November In California.

Meanwhile, jjpy are rationing or pro-rating lectrlc power In the state of Wash-ngton, where the water and there-'ore the power shortage is most tcuto, and the city of Tacoim is 'orced to cut street lighting 60 per ent, and to reduce by 25 per cent he electric power sold to Industries. jj has been a matter of historic interest that Mexican revolu- ions generally started with the ac- ivlty of the robbers and outlaws, md yesterday witnessed plenty of not far from the City of Mex- o. FHyn the capital to south- continued on Page Two) ET3 3fr 9fr 3f 9f 3fr ficials started a snow plow through the mountainous drifts in an effort to reach them before they began to suffer from lack of food. Ten persons in Canada and 11 more In the United States were known to have frozen to death while almost two score more died in accidents attributable to the cold. A gale on Lake Superior buffeted 90 steamers from Duluth to the Soo canal, waiting to pass through St.

Mary's river which empties into Lake Huron. The river was piled high with Ice. Six ice cutting ves sels started an attempt to blast out the jam. If it Is unsuccessful, the vessels and their cargoes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars will be icebound all winter. Shipping Generally Stopped by Weather Lake shipping generally was at a standstill except for the "gamblers" who ply the lakes all winter.

Reeu- lar insurance on lake shipping cargoes expired today and only those steamer lines willing to bear their own losses continued to sail the in land seas. Suffering in the slum districts of cities irom tne Kocky mountains to the eastern coast was intense. Hun dreds of the homeless soueht shelter In Chicago police stations while otner Hundreds were given warm places to sleep by various charitable agencies. Firemen generally were kept busy extinguishing blazes started from furnaces. An unusually large number of such fires broke out in Chi cago and in Cleveland while 47 alarms were sounded In Indianapolis in 24 hours.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1. The cold wave continued to hold Its grip on (Continued on Page Two) JOINS SEARCH Two Planes Now Available in Hunt for Missing Airmen In Frozen Northland (By Associated Press) NOME, Alaska, Dec. 1. With the arrival yesterday at Teller, Alaska, of Pilot Joe Crosson, two planes are now available to conduct an aerial search for Pilot Carl Ben Elelson and Mechanic Earl Bor land, missing since Nor.

9. Pilot Frank Dorbandt has been at Teller for several days ready to fly to the rescue of the missing aviators, but has been prevented from doing so because of unfavorable weather conditions. Eielson and Borland were lost while attempting a second flight to the fur trading ship Nanuk, icebound at North Cape, Siberia, ap proximately 500 miles from Teller. Thev were reDorted within 50 miles of the Nanuk on Nov. 9, but since that time no trace of them has been found.

Eielson and his companion were engaged in transporting passengers and furs from the Nanuk to Nome. They successfully negotiated one triD. returnincr here with six passengers and a quantity oi rurs. An almost endless series of storms has hampered efforts to rescue the missing men. They were supplied with food for a period of 30 days or more and carried ample shelter to protect them from the elements.

In the event that they landed without injury, little fear is felt for their safety, unless their rescue is unduly delayed. FASCIST BUILDING BOMBED KOVNO, Lithuania, Dec. 1. Unknown persons threw a bomb at the headquarters of the Fascist organization, VIron Wolf," today, considerably damaging the building. Other Workers Escape Death in Blast When Safety Device Drops Screen of Dust BODIES FOUND IN DEBRIS Relatives of Victims Gather at Tragedy Scene in Spite of Bitter Cold Weather' (Ey United Press) WEST FRANKFORT, Dec.

1. While a blizzard raged above ground today, a terrific gas explosion, 300 feet below ground, shook mine No. 8, of the Old Ben Coal taking the lives of -seven miners. Twenty-two men were in the shaft, which extended for a mile and a quarter underground from the city limits of West Frankfort, when the explosion occurred about 2:30 a. m.

A device which immediately dropped a screen of shale dust, cut the poisonous gas from other sections of the shaft, and enabled rescue workers to take out 15 of the trapped miners. The dead are James Taber, Thomas McDermott, Beto Eardino, Jewell and Dewey Baker, Charles Beardon and Henry Isaacs. Only Two Were Unmarried Men All but McDermott and Jewell Baker were married and had families. Officials said the explosion occurred about a mile and a quarter from the mouth of the shaft. Had it been nearer, all those in the mine might have been trapped, they said.

As soon as news of the accident spread through the town, a crowd gathered at the mine, despite below freezing temperature and a high wind, driving flakes of snow. Not until 10:30 a. did the first of the two rescue crews arrive from Benton. It was soon augmented by another, and together the crews worked desperately clearing away debris. Bodies Brought to Bottom of Shaft One by one the blackened bodies of the victims were recovered.

They were brought to the bottom of the shaft at the mouth, but not brought to the surface until tonight. By then, with more than seven inches of snow covering the ground, nearly all but the immediate members of the families of the men who had lost their lives had dispersed. State Inspector of Mines Lewis arrived to take charge of an investigation into the accident. Believe Robber of Train Is Captured (Rv United Press) CHEYENNE. Dec.

1. Tom Vernon, 44, a "five-timer" ex-convict, was arrested at Pawnee, at 9 o'clock tonight for the holdup and robberv of a Union Pacific train at Cheyenne last Monday night. The arrest was made bv Sheriff Gus Romsa. of Laramie conntv. who wired his office here that vernon nas already confessed to the train holdup.

The Wyoming sheriff trailed the bandit from Cheyenne to the Oklahoma City, where he made the arrest. Vernon, according to rennrta in the sheriff's office, had loitered around Cheyenne 10 days, apparently unemployed, before staging the holdun. When arrestpd. he had In his possession, Sheriff Romsa re ported, a 32-callber revolver similar to that used bv the desoeradn in the train robbery. Vernon was said to be a former convict, who had served sentences In five penitentiaries for various crimes, and authorities here be lieved he was involved in the holdup of a Southern Pacific train at Saugus, California, last month.

Man EXPLOSION IF GAS FATAL 10 SEVEN MINERS 9fr Dies as if. Whether Rail Tampered With or Broken by Extreme Cold Is Not Yet Determined DOCTORS RUSHED TO SCENE Seven Coaches Leave Track and Two Badly Smashed; Other Cars Stay on Rails (By Associated Press) NORFOLK, Dec. 1. Nine persons were killed and 25 seriously injured, two perhaps fatally, in the wreck of the Norfolk-New York excursion train on the Pennsylvania railroad at Onley, eastern shore of Virginia, last midnight. Pennsylvania officials said the wreck was caused by a broken rail.

The dead: Ralph Smith, U. S. sailor, Middle-ton, N. Y. Julia Coogan, Norfolk, Va.

Mr. Frances Breyer, Negress, Norfolk. Leah Meyers, Negress, Edenton, N. C. Gracy Rady, Norfolk.

Aaron H. Calloway, brakeman on the train, Delmar, Del. Mrs. L. J.

Abrams, Norfolk. Mrs. M. E. Diggs, Negress, Norfolk, Va.

Unidentified Negro woman. Wreck Cause Still Unknown It was not known whether the rail that caused the wreck had been tampered with or was broken as a result of extremely cold weather. Officials believed the rail had broken before the train reached it, although the engine and two coaches passed over it without mishap. Seven coaches left the rails and tore up the track for a great distance. The first two coaches to leave the rails were badly smashed by those following.

The steel in struction of the cars prevented a larger casualty list. There were 488 passengers on the train, the majority from Norfolk and Ports taking advantage of the week-end excursion rates to New York. Some of the iniured were hrnmrht to Norfolk today and others were expected tonight. Those too seriously hurt to be moved were in hos pitals at Onley and other points adjacent to the wreck. Passengers who were uninjured were taken to New York, arriving there at 12:10 today.

Sailors Among: Seriously Hurt Among the more serlouslv in. jured were the following from the battleship Oklahoma: Karl F. Chenoweth. chief hnnt- swain's mate, Philadelphia. Teldford Simmons, Green nonntv Arkansas.

Walter Hengge, fireman, Cincinnati. John S. Swetland, seaman, Den ver. The sailor killed. RalDh Sml Middlctown.

N. was a mpmhoi. of the crew of the battleship Utah. ine dead and injured were removed from the wreck with nil sible speed. Doctors from through out tne section were called to the scene to render first aid, while many of the iniured were carrier! the hospital in Nassawadox, Va.

Those who were only slightly hurt and the remaining passengers continued north on another train. Wrecking crews were mniriiv clearing up the tracks this after noon. Boy Charged With Murder of Bridegroom at Celebration GRANTS PASS, Dec. 1. Anthony Yargo, 17, Grants Pass, was in the county jail here today facing a charge of murdering Robert Ingalls, 21, bridegroom of a few days, at a delayed wedding celebration in a rural district Saturday night, and relatives guarded the brido to keep her from ending her life because of grief.

3( 3fc Pfr 1ID BILLS FACE BODY OPENING DATE Tariff Revision and Reduction Of Taxes Heading List to Be Handled by Group SEE JUNE ADJ0URNM'1 President to Deliver Me To Law Makers Tomorrov Other Issues Loomir; By FRANCIS M. STEPHENSCf (Associated Press Writer) WASHINGTON, Dec. convenes tomorrc in the first regular session the Hoover administratis with a host of old and problems commanding tention. Tariff revision, comi over from the extra sessi called last April by Mr. H( ver, and tax reduction, cently proposed by the i ministration with the 2 proval of the Democra head the list of subjects a will receive first conside: tion.

So varied are the legislative 1 posals facing the session, howe that congressional leaders predic today the meeting would carry until at least next June. By time the regular biennial cong sional election campaigns will under way and the top-heavy publican majorities elected President Hoover a year ago be up for the first test of his ministration at the polls. Hoover to Present Message Tomorrow The sessions in both House Senate tomorrow will be conf: to the opening formalities. Tuesday the mesi prepared by Mr. Hoover on "State of the Union" will be and then the work will begin.

The Republican-dominated will plunge at once Into the cor eration of the resolution to $160,000,000 off the dues of ind; ual and corporation taxpayers next year. Its adoption by the of the week Is predicted. The program for the faction-i Senate was less certain tonight. Tuesday it takes up, by prev agreement, the resolution of tor Norris, Republican, Nebra denying Senator-elect Vare Pennsylvania a seat on accoun his expenditures of more than 000 in his 1926 primary race. Norris to Insist On Early Action It seemed certain tonight tha attempt would be made to again the Norris resolution the Senate first could take up contest brought by Vare'3 cratic opponent In the 1926 sylvania senatorial election, liam B.

Wilson. The elections committee which has been in ing into that contest meets to row to consider a report on It. However, there is considemum uncertainty as to when the report on the Wilson-Vare contest can be submitted to the Senate and Senator Norris announced today that he would insist upon going ahead on Tuesday with his resolutin. The committee investigating the Wllson-Vare contest must decide tomorrow on Vare'a request for a recount of ballots In 31 additional counties. If the Vare case Is not decided before March 21, ft successor to him named by the governor of Pennsylvania could serv until the general election of 1932 when Tare's term would expire.

Once the Vare case is nettled, th Senate will turn again to the in-settled tariff dispute. Senator Watson of Indiana, the leader, Is willing to lay ald the tariff long enough for adoption of the tax reduction resolution. It (Continued on Page Two) RAILED William R. DeFord Victim When Automobile Is Demolished By Fast Locomotive AUTO IS HURLED 100 FEET Others of Party Die Instantly But San Bernardino Youth Succumbs to Injuries A light coupe riding through a dense fog carried six young people, including a San Bernardino youth, to their death on a Santa Fe railroad crossing near Santa Fe Springs early yesterday morning. The San Bernardino youth killed Is William R.

DeFord, 22 years old, of 1113 street, driver and owner of the car. He died while being taken to a Los Angeles hospital. The other dead are: Charles E. Bike, 23, of Los Angeles. Joseph J.

McCann, Centralia, Wash. Mrs, Mary Fields McCann, hie wife. Mrs. Audna Day, 23 years old, Los Angeles. Miss Arlene Herr, 21 years old, Los Angeles.

DeFord's five companions, seated with him in the cab of the coupe or in the rumble seat, were all Instantly killed. Automobile Struck On Rail Crossing The automobile was struck on the Little Lake crossing of the Santa Fe by train No. 78, Bouth-bound to San Diego. Striking the car in the vicinity of the right rear wheel, the train tossed it 100 feet to be cut in half by a cement signal post. Mr.

and Mrs. McCann, the latter the former Mary Louise Fields, daughter of a Centralia capitalist, were married in Centralia two weeks ago and were in Southern California on their wedding trip. They had traveled south in an automobile which the father of the bride had given them. McCann was a former Washington football player. Was Assistant To John R.

Ott DeFord was assistant to John R. Ott, manager of the San Bernardino branch of the Commercial Credit with offices in the Andreson building. He had been in the city since last August and was living with Mr. Ott's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Frank G. Ott on street. DeFord had left the city late Saturday afternoon for Los Angeles and during the evening attended a barn dance at the John S. Baker ranch near Norwalk. The group were- returning home when the accident occurred.

He was born and raised in Los Angeles, where his mother and brother are now living. While a high school student in Los Angeles he was well known in scholastic athletics as a football player. The men of the party were members of the Sigmu Nu fraternity and the women members of the Phi Omega sorority, under whose auspices the dance was given following the U. S. State college football game Saturday.

Bike was a student at the University of Southern California. Officers investigating the accident said that the automobile had been struck near the rear, the driver lacking only a few Inches of having beaten the train to the crossing. The bodies were to Los Angeles for a coroner's inquest. RADIUM GREAT CURATIVE LONDON, Dec. 1.

The Medical Research council, in a report to be issued tomorrow, stresses the importance of. radium in cancer treatment. "From being little more than a palliative measure employed in inoperable cases, radium therapy has becomie a curative measure of primary vjalue in treating several types of cancer," the report says. NINE WW ENDS TRIP AS TRAIN HITS MACHINE Fliers Safe As Ship Hits Power Lines (By Associated Press) SAN MATEO, Dec. 1 Plunging earthward out of control an airplane carrying two men collided with 60,000 volt high tension wires near San Carlos today, caught fire and then exploded on the ground with the passengers escaping with minor bruises.

The men are Lee Offield, Burlingame, instructor, and Monte Lyons, student pilot of San Francisco. Except for bruised shins, the two emerged from their experience, crowded as it was with dire possibilities, without harm. The pair took off from Cooley field, San Carlos, in a dual-controlled biplane of a type declared obsolete by the army air service recently. Ly ons was handling the craft, they said, when the plane stalled at an altitude of 150 feet and went into a spin. As it struck the heavily charged wires, the plane burst into flames and dropped to the ground, where the gasoline tank exploded.

Offield and Lyons jumped from the plane and were hurled to the ground by the explosion. Congressman Asserts Federated Council in Washington Is Swaying Government (By United Press) WASHINGTON', Dec. 1. Representative George H. Tinkham, Republican, Massachusetts, has requested Senator Caraway, Democrat, Arkansas, chairman of the lobby investigating committee, to start an investigation of the activities of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, and the Federal Council of Churches.

Tinkham charged the ecclesiastic organization "with attempting to influence governmental policies," in his letter to Caraway made public tonight. He pointed out the board has a $500,000 building just opposite the capitol and that "its principal methods of activity are personal solicitation and propaganda and finally political action." "It employs paid professional servants and agents, one of whom is Clarence True Wilson, its secretary, to communicate with members of Congress, to go before committees of Congress and to solicit departments of the Government," Tinkham wrote Caraway. Tinkham said the board issues weekly a "propaganda sheet" which advocates or opposes legislation and "attacks in abusive language officials who are not in accord with its views." The justice department ha.i been asked to inquire into the political activities of the board with respect to expenditures in violation of the corrupt practices act, Tinkham said. He contended the board interferes with the judiciary machinery of the country by its recommendations of opposition to candidates. Tinkham also charged the Federal Council of Churches attempts to influence Congress on both domestic and foreign policies through propaganda.

Alfred Lucking, Attorney of Henry Ford, Dies Suddenly (Ry United Press) DETROIT, Dec. 1. Alfred Lucking, for years attorney for Henry Ford, died suddenly today after a stroke of apoplexy suffered while asleep. Lucking was 73 years old. He handled Ford's $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Tribune, opposed the Injunction sought by Horace and John Dodge to compel declaring dividends to Ford stockholders, and appeared before the United States Senate against Senator-elect Truman H.

Newberry. KILLED CHURGH II PROBE ASKED ANOTHER FLIER CBy United Press) SAULTE STE. MARIE, Dec. 1. A terrific blizzard raging on Lake Superior caused the grain steamer Kiowa to founder with a loss of five lives off Sable Point near here today.

Coast guardsmen at Grand Marias boarded the battered vessel and at risk of their lives, removed 18 survivors, one of whom said a shift in the cargo made the steamer unmanageable. The dead included the captain of the boat. CHICAGO, Dec. 1. Two bitter cold waves lashed the nation with ice and snow tonight.

The first, after leaving a trail of death and suffering in the Middle West, arrived on the Atlantic seaboard and brought with it sharply lowered temperatures from Maine to Florida. The second zoomed out of Saskatchewan and swept over the Dakotas and western Kansas on its roaring route to the East. Between the two cold waves, most of the Middle West momentarily enjoyed seasonable temperatures al though a heavy snow, which shroud ed much of the area, Isolated several parties of hunters, marooned scores of automobiles, delayed trains and disrupted air mall service. Nine Hunters Are Reported Missing A party of nine hunters, who had braved the Michigan woods for deer, were reported missing on a launch somewhere in the Taqua-menau river near Sault Ste. Marie.

Their provisions were believed to be limited and the storm was so severe that it was impossible to start searching parties for them. Snow drifts more than 15 feet near Eckerman, marooned more than a score of automobiles filled with hunters. Highway of TOGETHCTI $160,000,000 Reduction Measure Goes to House Committee at Once for Report (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. Already assured precedence of consideration in the regular session of Congress, a measure to lower by the nation's tax levies will be dropped into the House hopper at noon tomorrow by Chairman Hawley of the ways and means committee.

The resolution, already prepared by Hawley, will be referred to his committee where it will remain until Wednesday, when Undersecretary Mills of the treasury, whose assistants drafted it, will explain its provisions. Chairman Hawley plans to obtain permission to submit the measure to the House for final action Thursday In the hope that it will reach the Senate before the end of the week. The proposal, which already has the approval of the administration and of both majority and minority leaders of the two branches of Congress, will call for a flat 1 per cent reduction on corporation and normal individual incomes for 1929. The rigid parliamentary rules of thp House, aided by the informal agreement of leaders, will clear the road for quick passage through that branch. Chairman Smoot of the Senate finance committee has planned to defer consideration of the tariff bill for one day, during which final congressional action on the measure is expected.

Apparently there is no opposition in either branch to the proposal, although Senator Borah of Idaho has indicated he might propound some questions as to whom the reductions will affect UK CUT BILL i.