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DEMAND FRANK At ‘Close After ANSWERS FROM JOS R GRUNDY Airplane missing Wifcli 5 On Boalrd In Arizona ' j " “For Lord’s Sake Quit Western Express Liner Bound Eroni Lok Angles to Albuquer que IJnreported For Morq Then 2i Caraway Dodging Calls Out Hours Aiter Passing Navajo- Nuted Ban Francisco Dentil t A W Ward Among Passengers TAKES HAND Millions of Dollars in Backing and Reassuring StateT ments About Sound Condition of Nation Brnigs Feverish Stock Exchange Amazing Recovery in13000000-Mark Is Passed Day During Which ' Steel Declares Dividend BORAH VIEW YORK Oct 29—(AP)— Powerful buying: support set IN in motion by New York bankers today apparently checked the tremendous flood of liquidation which has been sweepweek ing into the' New York securities markets for the lastcarried but not until after another disastrous decline had prices of active issues down $10 to $70 a share and washed away several more billions in quoted Values — — k A brisk raiiy this afternoon WASHINGTON Oct 29— (AP)— For a second time Joseph R Grundy who was interested in tariff legislation long before most of the membership of the house and senate entered congress appeared today fbefore the senate lobby committee arfd testified he was in Washington to see enactment into law of Republican party campaign pledges on brought about recoveries of $5 to $26 from the low levels in many of the leading stocks with' final quo- tations generally well above the the tariff At the outset the questioning of the president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ ciation was conducted by Senator Borah Republican Idaho who had much to do (ith writing the Republican platform at thh Kansas City convention “I take it your Interest in coming to Washington" was for the tariff bill?” Borah asked “In the interest of enacting the Republican platform” replied Grundy “Have you taken any interest in the enforcement plan of that platform?” “I have been interested in the Total stock sales set a new high -- sS y' ur SAN FRANCISCO (AP) SAJI FRANCISCO Oct-29broke 32 points on the opening sale of 17500 shares at 9:50 a m after trading had been allow suspended fifty minutes to enorbookkeepers to handle the mous volume of selling orders corporation is the Giannini Holding company BROOKIIARTWORRIED ‘ WASHINGTON Oct 29— (AP)— Senator Brookhart Republican of Iowa predicted today0 that if the severe decline of stock prices in Wall street continued “banks all over the country’ would go into bankruptcy t Trans-Ameri- ca -- COACH ROCKNE By LORENA A TOCKOK Associated Iress Staff Writer NEW YORK Oct 29— (AP)— In long lines of shining motor cars New York’s 400 journeyed down to the old Metropolitan opera house last night and made their annual obeisance to the glory that was society before the war Once through the flashlight firing line and inside those lofty and disdainfully shabby portals they laid aside the easy casual manners that are the personality of today and fitted themselves Into a scene ritualistic in Its gravity Most renowned of all' the annual spectacles In New York the opening of the Metropolitan opera is least of all like New- York — the crashing stupendous New York of today There in the auditorium last night under the goldena horseshoe that glowed softly like great circular stained glass window in the subdued light Jagged skyscrapers piercing the sky seemed fantastic and very far away The unreal the droning of airplanes the howl and blast of traffic jazz over a loud speaker all the harsh and exciting ‘noises of the New York that is today GLITTER OF JEWELS ' More exciting than all of these too that scene in the Metropolitan Excitement born of mystery and senses set tingling by- passionate music soft furs caressing white shoulders perfume that hung over the auditorium like incense More like tnose golden opening 20 and 30 years ago than any other In recent years must have been that opening of the Metropolitan and New York’s social season last - 1 SHAPE FearLest Clot Leg Will Affect Heart Doctors I I resigned himsel fto his condition and has promised his physician he will not disregard orders as he did flast week when he attended the Noie Tech game at tre Pittsburg further aggravating his ' condition ' Dame-Carneg- ! ' M-- ‘ UTAH PAIR LOST IN HOME BLAZE GRAND JUNCTION Oct 29— (AP) — Overcome by smoke in their burning home J E Worth and his wife were burned to death last night near Sego Utah a mining camp The The home was destroyed couple was married three months ago RomanceAnd Wisecracks is ROMANCE of New Yorkand witO O repartee McIntyre by ty world famous columnist The throbbing pulse of swirling' humanity in the gay white way is held by this entertaining writer The heart beats of those pleasure seekers at night clubs the immigrant life and the native New Yorkers are presented in a real gripping style To read O O McIntyre is to not only be entertained but to be instructed in the ways of this wonder city of skyscrapers His column appears daily with a special feature on Sunday in The Standard-ExaminTurn to his column on the editorial page if you have not done so and enjoy his lively style er UNIONS Banker Loses FACE Six Million TEST OF LIFE i GREEN AVERS I In One Slump —— BOARD CALLS r- - FORIIELPTO LIGHT AIRPORT U j General Opinion Is Decline CfyamLer Invited to ‘Sugin Pricey Will Not Af-Very Existence Threatened gest Way Out of City’s feet Business Much by Codnitions in South Difficulty He Declares 7VTEW YORK Oct 29— (AP)— r i - J — 1Y With small investors and speculators driven out in last Thursday’s debacle and previous declines it was the big operators who were caught in the avalanche yesterday Many of Indefinite the announced bor today wealthiest men in the the postponement of the sixthon country took paper losses runthe labor congress ning into hundreds of millions existence of grounds that “the very George Fl Baker chairman of is movement” the organized labor First National bank took a the threatened by conditions in the papier loss of' $6600000 on his southern states” 22000 shares of First National GIGANTIC CAMPAIGN when the price dropped $300 a share It was quoted at about “The lavor movement Tn the He also owns 64000 south” Green’s statement said $6000 shares of American Telephone “finds itself confronted with one of & Telegraph which lost 34 the most gigantic campaigns ever launched by employes to prevent orpoints Others who took huge paper doing its duty ganized labor from seen that with losses were Fisher Brothers of “Thus It will be more than a million members to Detroit Arthur W Cutten of be called upon the American FedChicago John J Raskob Wilnight of finds necessary it Labor eration liam Durant Harjison Wil— are back skirts that to concentrate all its energies and Long skirts utilities magnate liams public sweep the floor and look even long- resources on this titanio struggle in and Sidney Mitchell head of er hanging down below ermine eve- which the very existence of the orthe Electric Bond & Share comning wraps that were made for ganized labor movement Is at pany short skirts and now refuse to be eta Irp w Wall street operators ex- - ' And with long skirts lengthened POSTPONED WHY pressed the' opinion that the have come long white kid gloves congress in stock prices would not The slump and fans ana tiaras and hair wav- would 6 in 'have business generally but affect January opened at knots back in ed softly graceful Cuba Havana that the condition of predicted the nape of the neck due the is marketi Its the postponement might be reflected And behind these costumes so to the need for a in a slowing up of the purchase feminine after the ygars of no statement added campaign which ' of luxuries special organizing waistlines and knee length skirts has is and launched being been There is speculation whether ‘ gleamed white shirt fronts framed carried on among the working peoautomobile stocks can maintain fora and in black with here there elsewhere and by south dividend rate the their in present ple eign uniform horizon blue and scar- the American Federation of Labor which is based on prices to let where over a million members are yield between 5 and 10 per cent BORl SINGS LEAD industrial stocks are employed in the different industries - while good a on No smart lobby patter here No of the southern states and elseyield basis of less selling ticker tape no mammy songs no where” than 5 per Cent M contract bridge no cocktails built on synthetic gm Just the gentle sophistication of a society that lev- THREE ARE KILLED els its opera glasses at boxes across IN CAR EXPLOSION DOCTOR the golden horseshoe and applauds — — —— with immaculate white gloved palms the wildly - pleading arias of’Manon HOT SPRINGS Ark Oct 29— Lescaut” AGED (AP) —Three men were killed here DEAD Lucrezia Bori surpassingly love- today by an explosion in the car in ly in the white wig and frills and 'which they were riding The blast eighteenth1 century demolished the machine shattered puffs of the was Manon — the Italian Manon of windows and was heard over a wide Fundamentalist O p p o se d Puccini — the role In which she won radius in the business j district Evolution Theory Scrap-jpe- d I her engagement in the Metropolitan where It occurred let19 years ago Beniamino Gigli was The men were identified by With Congregation the lover and Tullio Serrafin con- ters found in their pockets as Roy ducted V Pugh Tulsa W W Sirkel SemSPRINGS N Y Oct — no 29 CLIFTON 4 inole pkla and Clyde Weston — (AP) — The Rev Dr John ’ ' address found Roach Straton noted militant funWEST IS VISITED The cause of the blast was not damentalist Baptist preacher died immediately but author- at a sanitarium here today He BY REAL WINTER determined ities expressed a belief that the was 54 years old machine carried nitroglycerin Though seriously ill with a nerDENVER Oct 29— (AP)— Winter f4 vous breakdown for the last month paid a real visit to the Rocky moundeath came unexpectedly at 5:30 a tain region last night leaving a DEMOCRATS BLAMED m after a heart attack' His wife general snow' from Montana to New was his bedside when he died STOCK CRASH? Heatsuffered Mexico Parts of Montana WyomFOR a slight paralytic ing and Colorado reported snow up stroke last April and immediately to five inches while only mountainSPRINGFIELD Mass Oct 29— after went to a sanitarium at Atous regions In New Mexico had (AP)— “Will they blame the stock lanta Ga for a rest He returned snow market on the Democrats? — Al” to his home a month ago but soon The missing Western Air Express Such was the laconic message sent suffered from a nervous breakdown plane in New Mexico was the only by Alfred E Smith to a meeting of and entered the sanitarium here' serious consequence of the storm re- the Western Massachusetts DemoFOE OF EVOLUTION THEORY ports early today showed Air mail cratic club last night He was pastor of Calvary Baptist on the transcontinThe message was enthusiastically church in New York but by his agtransportation when applauded coming after Governor gressive campaigns against modernental line was paralyzed mountains between Salt Lake City Franklin D Roosevelt of New York ism and especially evolutions he and Cheyenne were blotted out by had declared that if such A market gained nation-wid- e prominence fog and snow Air mail was trained debacle ever took place in a Demo- During the last presidential camcratic administration it would im- paign he took an active part against through the storm-boun- d region Highways were reported open and mediately be hailed as the result of the candidacy of Alfred E Smith passable though some In Wyoming business bungling by the party in were slightly drifted (Continued on Page Two) power WASHINGTON Oct 29— (AP)— The executive committee of the Federation of Labor headed by William Green president of the American Federation of LaPan-Americ- an Pan-Americ- an Pan-Americ- an STRATON If 1 54 - Ogden city has sufficient money to purchase equipment to light airlanding of port Ogden for-nigh- t planes but has dot sufficient funds to install it Unless the field is lighted Ogden probably will be cancelled from the National Parks Airways schedule and the city will have no air mail These facts were brought out at a meeting of- - the city commission this morning when the matter of letting the contract for purchase of $3237 worth of lighting equipment was discussed With this in view the commissioners decided to attempt to arrange1 a meeting for this afternoon with chamber' of commerce officials to learn what if any financial support the chamber has to offer for the project The chamber offered to present its proposal last week but the commissioners assured its representatives that it1 had discovered a probable $9500 surplus will occur this year and the project would be handled by the city i SURPLUS EXPLAINED This $9500 probable surplus figure Was arrived at by estimating all of the city’s receipts and expenditures in all departments Several other demands for the money have been made and are being considered by the commission Among them are $2500 for incidental expenses in connection with the purchase by the city of stock in the Echo dam and $2900 for preliminary Work on a bridge over the' Ogden river at Lincoln avenue Commissioners later discovered that the low bid Of $3287 submitted by the Graybar Electric company was1 for equipment alone and did not include any of the cost of in' stallation Harold R Tripp assistant airport supervisor estimated that installation would cost something less than This added to the cost of $1500 the equipment it was pointed out - i ! today would exceed the' airport budget! Tripp urged however that if the airport is to be lighted some action be taken before winter sets in He"added that it will take about (Continued on Page Two) i f— t 1 t — Western 'Air express officials announced that bad flying weather had been reported ahead of the ship after it left gingman Ariz at :24 a m mountain time The Report they said was not avail able in time to ho the plane at Kingman UTAH AVIATOR TRIES TO FIND 'MISSING i La Mar Nelson Flies Over Region in mall "Plane WOULD MOVE SHIPS TO SHANGHAI AREA i Oct 29 — (AP) — Charles Macveagh American minister! to China today requested the movement of a division of United States destroyers from Manila to Shanghai as the result of disturbed conditions in the Yangtse valley scene of the latest Chinese civil J war ' ‘ Severe fighting was In progress between nationalist forces and the rebellious Kuominchun or (people’s army) along the Lunghai railway west of Chengchow Honan province an important railway Junction The fighting alto- was severe west of Yengcheng 75 miles south of Chengchow! Dispatches from foreign sources at Hankow said the encounters were expected to develop into major engagements SHANGHAI - Senator Thoriias (Republican Idaho) I tried to see you but couldn’t” "“Were you interested ln ' other ' schedules” “Yes the metal schedule" and Grundy named the carpet lace schedules “What farm items did you take up?” Borah asked “Just generally I wanted to see an equalization I wanted to see that the farmer got what was coming to him “What particular item?" “Wool" “Yes you were interested in that in your business” the Before Grundy took the stand committee heard briefly from Whet-mo- re Hodges chairman of the board of th& General Seafoods corporation of Gloucester Massachusetts BORAH QUESTIONS Borah asked for a list of particul items in' which Grundy was inters ested He replied increases in pig iron and carpet rates were given in the schedule he was interested in Grundy persisted that “I ram in- ” terested in carrying out the- entire Republican platform” “You’re in favor of placlngthe farmer upon an economic equality with industry?" “I am in favor of enacting the Republican platform” “Are you in favor of equalizing the tariff duties?” “I am in favor of giving the farmer all the protection he needs to keep the foreigner out”and Senator Chairman Caraway Walsh Democrat1 Montana interrupted to Insist that Grundy give “direct” answers “Don’t talk about cement to this committee when you are asked about farm products” shouted Walsh “Yes for Lord’s sake quit dodging and be candid with the committee” Caraway put in Grundy testified that states “most vocal” on the senate floor in “obstructing the Republican platform" did’ not have “any chips in the game” if income tax returns Were examined “For these men who represent so to oblittle in national-economicstruct and break down our politics seems a tragedy” he went on Caraway -- asked what senators should not participate in tariff leg- IdAtlrtYI ’ “Well let’s start with Arkansas” MisGrundy said “I don’t think so loud be should senators sissippi’s Also Georgia and South Dakota" “How would you go about silencing Senator Borah and" myself?” ) asked Walsh “I think propriety ought to dictate that to you" Grundy shot back as the crowd roared v “Do you think it was a mistake to give each state two senators?” “I think-i- t was unfortunate” Grundy insisted states contributin federal ing insignificant amounts taxes “ought to have a due sense of proportion” in the demands in senate the Walsh ordered a report from the treasury on the amount of taxes paid by Arizona Idaho Mississippi and South Dakota “I know in traveling over the western states" continued Grundy “that you see nothing but public buildings at least far more in proportion to those in the east” “Don’t-yoknow that for every dollar we get from the government asked we are drained" by $100?” Walsh understand “No my I didn’t THOSE ON BOARD Those on board were : Dr A W Ward San Francisco nationally known dental authority enTroute to Fort Worth Texas to fill a speaking engagement W E Merzr Maunt- - V er non N Y en route to : his home James' E Doles Los Angeles chief pilot r Burbank Calif Allan C Barrie R L Britton Los Angeles fori merly of Denver steward Officials of the company placed every reliance in Chl$f Pilot Doles to bring his plane and its human burden to ground saftely if it were possible to do so Despite hopes of officials that! the plane was safe on some isolated plateau with one Of the pilots or steward making his way to means of communication to notify headquarters every means is being prepared to search the rough territory thoroughly The three Arizona points over which the plane was last reported seen or heard are mi the northern border of the petrified forest approximately ' 130 milts west and slightly south of Mount Taylor on which the wreckage jiof the “City of San Francisco’’ was found f- - ALBUQUERQUE NJ M Oct 29— —George Rice Western Air Ex- (AP) FURTHER QUESTIONING Under further questioning by Bor- press pilot who discovered the lost ah the witness said he was inter- T A T plane two months ago left as well as the Albuquerque early today In a ested in the farmers — r —manufacturers plane to search for the lost “Were you interested in the woolAir Express liner unreportWestern con en schedules of the tariff bill” ' ' ed since it passed Hcilbrook yestertinued Borah Yesn day morning with two passengers “Who did you take it up with?” - and a crew of three Visibility was poor Western Air “With your colleague for one — l 11 i co-pil- ot t Express here reported another pilot LaMar Nelson left Los Angeles at 3 a m for Holbrook flying in a small plane SALT- - LAKE CITY Oct — LaMar Nelson1 who left Los Angeles today to search for the miss ing Western Air Express plane gained distinction during the world war as an aviator Ills home is in Salt Lake City After the war Nelson became secBEARS NG NAME retary to Governor Charles R Ma-be- y "I and later engaged in newspaAir line officials sought the aid per work and In the Insurance busiof and fevery railway every airport gfly-taness here before returning to station on or near the plane’s usual route Except for at report of humming motors heard in the clouds about Pinto Ariz however no clue c 29--(- AP) six developed ARE LOST IN:LAKE WRECK Steamer Believed To Have rStruck Hulk of Car Ferry KENOSHA Wls Oct 23— (AP)— With alibut half a dozen persons of a crew of 60 rescued the steam- er Wisconsin sank off Kenosha earthat caused ly today allin ft storm along Lake Michigana damage shores for the second time in The officers of the Wisweek consin’s crew stuck tol the craft until it sank and were taken from life boats a dozen of rafts which rushed to the steamer after the Kenosha life guard had taken off most of the crew One man was reported to have fallen overboard as the rescue was in (progress and five others were unaccounted for Several persons brought from the ship by the life savers were unconwhen they scious from exposure reached shore but they soon reThere were no women vived aboard There was some speculation that the Wisconsin- may have struck the hull of the car ferry Milwaukee which sank in the storm of a week ago with its crew of 48 The car the same ferry went down at about was abandoned Wisconsin the place today f- by-resc- ue 4 J I The lost plane bears 'no name and aside from its department of commerce license number No 591 -- E and its Western Air express fleet number 113 it has no markings to distinguish it from any other of the company’s liners Its wings are silver and its fuselage red with an arrow and Indian head in gold on t either side SNOW STOPS SEARCH ALBUQUERQUE nJ M Oct 29— (AP)— Pilot George Rice of the Western Air Express returned here at 11:10 a m In a snowstorm after reaching as far west as Gallup N M for the missing Wae transport plane without result The blinding snow and poor visibility forced him back j Western Air Express officials held out little hope of any successful air hunt from here today on account of the storm and the failure of lanes from other points to reach ere li - j i 'll MEASURE PROPOSES METRIC SYSTEM USE WASHINGTON Oct 29— (AP)— An investigation by the’ secretary of commerce to determine the possible advantages or disadvantages of the metric system of weights and measures for general iuse in thq United States is proposed in a resolution by Representative Britten t a Republican of Illinois He said the metric system is accepted generally for international trade and its use is required by law by a large majority of the nations of the world In his resolution he citNEW REVOLT FACED ed that the legislatures of CaliforIllinois Tennessee North DaBY SALVATION ARMY nia kota and Utah have asked conproviding LONDON Oct 29— (UP)— Nine gress to enact legislation the adoption of the metric sys- months after its ranks were stirred for late tern by the forced retirement of the SalGeneral Bramwell Booth the vation Army was faced with a new revolt today centering in an attack on General Edward J Higgins and ' charges that his administration has TUESDAY systematically removed all members Senate continues tariff debate of the Booth family from positions Senate lobby committee hears Jo- J of power of PcpnThe exact strength of the opposi- seph R Grundy presidentassociation tion was not known but the dis- sylvania Manufacturers’ 4 m closure that a petition was being ' MONDAY circulated against the present adLeaders of senate factions passed ministration was sufficient to give rise to the rumor that the army's blame around for tariff delay SenPennsylhigh council might be recalled to ator Reed Republican dead vania saying bill Was handle the situation V1? — Senate adopted ! tariff amendment to increase duty on olive oil from 714 to 9 cents a pound FRENCHMAN FAILS Promise of resolution to censure Republican of TO UNITE PARTIES Senator Bingham Connecticut stilled bitter debate pf tariff asPARIS Oct 29— (UP)— The so over his employment T 1 sistant voted cialist national counc today that” Senate judiciary 'committee deWallace’s fanner reported it at against participation n the govem-Daladi- er rad-ha- d feated action on nomination of Alment which Edouard $50 to $JL0O ” continued Walsh Pennhoped to bert L Watson to ber Judge in “Well one can read some very leal socialist leader of coalition of a on basis sylvania some form the of these magfunny things in House met and adjourned left parties azines” was Grundy’s comment s "s -- - ’ i f CONGRESS ‘ ’ J ! - 'J I " ed tri-moto- red i 29— SOUTH BEND Jnd Oct (AP) — Knute Rockne famous Notre Dame football coach probably will be lost to his team for the rest of the 1929 season because of a danger-- i ous Infection in his right leg Fearful lest the blood clot In his leg spread sufficient to affect his i heart his physicians have ordered ‘Rockne to complete rest He has - tri-motor- platform” - IN BAD 1 A: T Western Air Express liner with five persons aboard The plane with two passengers and a crew of three left the air lines western terminus at Alhambra a Los AngeleS suburb at 5:30 a m yesterday Due in Albuquerque at noon it was last seen over Navajo Arizona 180 miles west of Albuquerque at 10:30 a m j I —— - asso- day’s low levels record at 16410030 shares which contracts with the previous record of 12834600 last Thursday and shares yesterday" TRADING ON CURB Trading on the New York curb market also set a new high record with a turnover of 709600 shaies which contrasts with 4152900 yesterday and the previous record of -- more than 6000000 last Thursday Transactions in Cities Service common alone exceeded 1000000 shares--I- t was unofficially reported Tate this afternoon that the five-hotrading session may be shortened tomorrow In order to permit brokers to catch up with the unprecedented accumulation of work arls- ing out of recent record-breakin- g markets DIVIDEND DECLARED Directors of the United States Steel corporation today declared an ’extra dividend of $1 on the common stock In addition to the regular quarterly dividend of $175 Per share earnings for the find nine months of 1929 were $1532 'compared with $317 for the- same period of 1928 SLUMP Pilots Start (Search Resembling That F Craft Manufacturer Insists He Is i Interested Only in PlatOct a ANGELES cold 29— (AP)— Wjnter closing: grip form Pledges LOSon Arizona and New Mexico toda7 obscured tie fate of a J - 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