Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1929 — Page 9

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MORGAN & CO. FORMS GIANT UTILITY TRUST Hge Combine Is Built Up Through Mergers in East, Southeast. GREATEST IN HISTORY New Consolidations to Be Effected Soon, Report in Washington. BY RUTH FINNEY. Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—J. P. Morgan & Cos. today dominates the greatest alliance of power companies ever to exist. Through consolidations and alliances, the company has, for all ‘practical purposes, won control of the public utility business throughput the east and southeast. This [ras been accomplished within the last lew months. Attention is called bo it today by announcement that B new power system in northern frJew York just has been acquired, end another is to be acquired soon. Further mergers are rumored. However, through interlocking directorates and through interconnection of semi-independent power systems, such a unified organization 'already has been brought together [that there remains only to strengthen it in minor ways. , The Central Morgan Company Is | .Miaqara Hudson Power Corporation, !* $450,000,000 organization recently ,formed by merging three of the strongest power groups in the northeast, the Northeastern Power Corporation, the Buffalo, Niagara <fc Power Corporation, and the 1 v Mohawlc Hudson Power Corporaition. Another Corporation Bought ’ ' Tills merged organization just has purchased the Frontier Corporation, more than doubling its potential horsepower. It has announced it will purchase the St. [Lawrence Securities Comp. .y. ‘tfchich controls five large operating fcompanies in the same territory. > These have been controlled by the flluminum Company, General Elecric and Du Pont interests. United Corporation and Electric Bond and Share, the two biggest folding company groups in the powsr field, are allied closely with Niagara Hudson Power Corporation. Morgan has a large interest in both j 6f these groups and they own inter- i tests in his. United and Electric Bond and ; Share together control 34 per cent ! fvf all power produced in this country. • United has large holdings in one bf the companies originally merged hy Morgan, the Mohawk Hudson Power Corporation. Owen Young Is Director Gwen D. Young, chairman of the Qeneral Electric Company, is a director in one of the companies. Through these two groups, the Morgan influence extends into Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and far into the south. United has large holdings in the Public Service Company of New Jersey, and United Gas Improve-1 ment, of which one of the directors ! is a director of Niagara Hudson Power corporation. It also has large holdings in Columbia Gas and Electric Company and Allied Power and Light Company. Through United Gas Improvement. it gains control of the • proposed Conowingo development in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Largely through the Electric Bond * Share, the Morgan interests tied in with Commonwealth and Southern corporation, newly merged, to control a large part of the utility business in the sfiuPr. It includes Southeastern Power #jkd Light Company, of which the Alabama Power Company is one etlbsidary, and Fenn-Ohio Edison Company. Reaches Into South The electric bond and share has subsidiaries in North Carolina, also, making the chain of interlocked companies continuous down the At- . lantic seaboard. It reaches out into the northwest, west and southwest, but its greatest resources are massed in the east. In addition to these other affiliations. the lines of the Morgan group connect with those of the New England Power Association the most powerful consolidation in the New England states, and it is rumored a controlling interest in this will be purchased. There also is discussion of possible interconnection with the lines of the New York Edison and Brooklyn Edison companies. Compared with this great interconnecting super-power system, its nearest in size, the Insull group, is a pygmy. According to latest figures jf the Insull companies control 10.4 per w cent of the country's power output. Its resources are concentrated in the middle west and it is the strongest in that field. FUND WORKERS MEET Hotpftal Teams to Plan Continuance of Campaign for $300,000. Workers in the Indiana Christian hospital fund campaign will meet tonight at the Hoosier Athletic Club. Plans will he made to continue the S3oo,C4a> drive. During the summer more than SIOO,OOO was raised. L Robert L. Moorhead will continue general chairman. Other directors are William B. Boatright, Scott R. Brewer and Judge Byron K. Elliot.

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Pretty Lucila de Quiros, above, proves looks are deceiving. Arriving at Los Angeles from Nicaragua for a visit, it might be thought she was headed for Hollywood. She's not—because she has job enough now, being owner of the largest henequen ranch in Nicaragua as well as a cattle owner of no small'fame.

THIEVES HAVE VARIED TASTES Get $75 in Cash, Revolvers and Rugs in City. Approximately $75 in money and :i variety of articles, ranging from rugs to revolvers, were stolen Sunday and early today in holdups and robberies in Indianapolis. Oscar Larm. 63, of Oxford. Ind., was attacked by a Negro at Michigan street and Indiana avenue early today and robbed of his watch and eye glasses. Three Negroes robbed Marvin Taylor. 631 St. Clair street, of $35 Sunday in front of 641 Blackford street. Clothing, a rug and small sums of money were taken from homes of Claude Martin, 4345 Guilford avenue. S. J. Venemann, Meridian apartments and Richard Caddie, 773 Edgemont street. A revolver, S3O in money, jewelry and clothing, was stolen from the home of Patrick Roache, 5665 Broadway, city detective. Two bandits robbed the Standard Oil Company’s filling station at Gladstone avenue and New York street, Saturday night and obtained S2O.

FOUR DIE IN STATE AS VIOLENCE TOLL

STARS’ BROTHER HELD John J. Noonan Charged With Theft of Furs From Ted Lewis. By United Press - NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—John J. Noonan, brother of Sally O’Neill and Molly O'Day, motion picture actresses, was held here today as a fugitive from justice. He was arrested at Hempstead, L. 1., Sunday charged with stealing SIO,OOO in fur coats and costumes from the Los Angeles home of Ted Lewis, orchestra conductor, a month ago. He said a film actor and studio attache had intrusted the clothing to him and that he was innocent. 42 BLAZES RAGING Army of Fire Fighters Tries to Save Redwoods. URIAH, Cal., Sept. 16.—Four large forest fires of threatening proportions kept an army of firefighters active throughout the night and early today in California’s Redwood empire. Indications were the next twentyfour hours would be strenuous for those endeavoring to bring the fires under cohtrol and prevent devastation to the scenic wonderland. Thirty-eight other fires, twentyeight of which w ? ere in Humboldt county and nine in Mendocino county, also occupied the attention of the state forestry service. Three fires which threatened Ukiah were reported under control.

‘MA’ BROWN WEDS BLACK MAN; ‘GOES NATIVE’; SAVES HER COUNTRY’S ARMY

BY RALPH HEINZEN Vniled Press Staff Correspondent PARIS. Sept. 16.—Amid the thumping of drums in the devil bush of a tribal camp deep in the forests of Liberia. Ma Brown, widow of a Canadian missionary, a white woman who for thirty years has been married to a black chief of an African tribe, has been knighted by the Liberian government for supreme bravery. Ma Brown went native upon the death of her husband. She has four children by her black husband. and around her hut now toddle her grandchildren, many of them blond-haired and almost white in color.

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30 AIRPLANES TAKE OFF ON INDIANA TOUR Newcastle Is First Stop of Itinerary Including 20 Larger Cities. FLIGHT ENDS SATURDAY Squadron Led From Hoosier Airport by National Guard Craft. Soaring from Hoosier airport at 10 a. m. thirty-one airplanes today winged their way to Newcastle, Connersville, Union City and Richmond on the initial leg of Indiana’s first good-will air tour. The flight, sponsored by the Indiana Aircraft Trades Association, will end Saturday at Capitol airport. Twenty cities will be visited en route. The aviators had lunch at Newcastle and will spend the night in Richmond. Itinerary for the tour is: Today. The advance plane, a national guard ship piloted by Lieutenant Dayton D. Watson, regular army flying instructor for the guard, with Herbert C. Fisher, Chamber of Commerce aviation secretary, was the first ship to leave Hoosier airport. A Curtiss Robin monoplane, flown by Charles E. Cox Jr., Curtiss assistant general manager, and carrying W. F. Sturm, tour director, was second to take off. Third was the Stanolind 111, Ford tri-motored monoplane owned by Standard Oil Company of Indiana. This plane was to be the flying office for the tour. Among its passengers were F. H. Fillingham and W. R. Kester, Standard Oil Company officials, and Miss Marthagail Mount, tour secretary. Pilots w r ere R. S. Lamont and J. L. Phelps. Because of its size, the Stanolind was to land only on the larger fields. Itinerary for the tour is: Tuesday, Muncie, Anderson, Kokomo and Ft. Wayne; Wednesday, Peru, Plymouth, Goshen and Elkhart; Thursday, Gary, Lafayette, Greencastle and Terre Haute; Friday, Princeton, Boonville and Evansville; Saturday, Bedford and return to Indianapolis The last plane to leave was a national guard biplane, flown by Lieutenant Matt G. Carpenter, tour master, who dispatched the other planes and his assistant, James F. Frenzel. Bloomfield Attorney Dies By Times Special BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Sept. 16— 'William L. Cavins, 74, veteran attorney, is dead at his home here after a long illness. He was president of the Citizens State bank and a vice-president of the Farmers and Mechanics’ Building and Loan Association.

Victims on Week-End List Range in Age From 3 to 60 Years. Violence claimed four lives in Indiana over the week-end, a survey by the United Press showed today. Two of the victims were under 6 years of age, Margaret Riggs, 3, was drowned in Lake Wawasee when she fell from a pier on which she had been playing. Struck by a passenger train at Huntington, 15-year-old Anna Pressler, Anderson, was killed instantly. She was walking along the tracks when the accident occurred. Five-year-old Edna Willis. Indianapolis. was injured fatally at Rushville when an automobile in which she was riding collided with another machine. The child was thrown from a car. Mrs. Louise Spencer, 60, widow of former Mayor John H. Spencer, Washington, committed suicide due to despondency over her husband’s death and illness. COLUMBUS MAN CHOSEN Harley E. Talley, Is Statistician for State Education Board. Harley E. Talley, Columbus, former Bartholomew county schools superintendent, has been employed as statistician by the state board of education. He will work in the office of Roy P. Wisehart. superintendent of public instruction. Mrs. Fay Jones, Owensville, has been employed as assistant supervisor of home economics in Gibson county.

Tp the tribe Ma Brown has been a loyal and faithful “medicine man,” curing ills more by her knowledge of the curative powers of plants and drugs than by evil mutterings, although at times she does resort to witchery. She is feared by the superstitious natives and reigns almost as a queen over thousands of them. Since the American rubber interests moved into Liberia to plant 1.000.000 acres with rubber trees. Ma threw up a hasty general store and caters in fruits, fowls and fresh bread for the Americans engaged in clearing the forest and their thousands of workers.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 16, 1929

‘Hush’ Tactics Are Charged in Chicago’s Campaign to Clean Up Huge Crime Rings

By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—Skeletons of the unsolved St. Valentine’s day gang massacre, the so-far convictionless vote fraud investigation and the ageing sanitary district scandal stalked rrom the political closet of Cook county today to cloud with worry the face of gray-haired John A. Swanson, who was vaulted into the state’s attorney’s office after the crushing defeat of the William Hale Thompson forces in the stormy political campaign a year and a half ago. The rattling of the skeletons was caused mainly by the reported resignation of David D. Stansbury, special assistant state’s attorney, j Stansbury was understood to have j

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Dapper young Earl Francis Peacox of White Plains, N. Y., went on trial today in that city, accused of the murder of his young wife. Peacock was scornful as his trial for life started. GANG ASSASSIN VICTIM BURIED Texas District Attorney’s Funeral Is Held. By United Press BORGER, Tex., Sept. 16.—District Attorney John Holmes, who set out to crush a crime element here which had flourished during the days when Borger was a booming oil village, and lingered on after the prairie town became a well-established city, will be buried today in a quiet ceremony at Panhandle, Tex. Holmes, according to officers, had pushed his tireless investigations to the verge of a death blow against an intrenched underworld, and the underworld removed him from its precincts. That was the version given of the fatal shooting of the militant district attorney Friday night. Holmes was to have appeared befor the grand jury at Amarillo today to reveal his findings in cases he secretly investigated, and believed to involve prohibition law and Dyer act violations. Records of his investigations were gone over by officers, who hoped to find preserved there damaging knowledge against the underworld which had caused his death.

HERE’S CHANCE FOR KIDS IN BIG MOVIE

Hey, kids, do you want to be in the movies? Want to take part In a real, sure enough picture that will be made right here in Indianapolis soon? Here's your chance! The Indianapolis Times Golden Rule Safety Club and the Lyric Theater will film a picture in which all the parts will be taken by Indianapolis boys and girls, as the first of the Safety Club’s activities this fall. And the best part of this movie is that every boy and girl who likes the movies and wants to be in this one, really can take part and see himself or herself on the screen when the picture is shown here. The picture will dramatize the forming of the Golden Rule Safety

TV/I" A was knighted for saving the Liberian army from almost certain extinction in an ambush in the depths of the contest. The army had as its mission the subjugation of one of the smaller tribes, which refused to send men for contract labor work in a Portuguese colony at the instructions of the government. As the army moved through the forest, the tribe deployed in ambush. Ma Brown heard of the ambush and ran ahead, argued the rebels out of their position, and saved the army. She took

announced in a letter of resignation he wished to leave office because of enforced inactivity. Political observers who listened hopefully to Swanson's promises to break the “alliance of politics and crime” in Chicago attached considerable significance to Stansbury’s charge. As second in rank of Swanson’s assistants, Stansbury had been j entrusted with many important investigations through which Swanson had promised to “clean up” Chicago. He had been chosen to lead the allied forces of Swanson and , Charles Deneen in the investigation of the alleged payroll graft in the I sanitary district, which move was j directly at the defeated ;

GERM VICTIM’S MILLION SPLIT AMONGSCORE W, D, Shepherd, Former City Man, Cleared in Killing, to Get Half. By Utilted Press CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—After two years’ litigation, the $1,000,000 estate of young William Nelson McClintock, millionaire orphan, has been divided. William Darling Shepherd, former Indianapolis man, who was acquitted of a charge of slaying his young ward through administration of typhoid germs, will receive onehalf of the estate, according to terms of an agreement to be announced in full later in the week. Miss Isabell Pope, fiancee of young McClintock, and nearly twenty other contesting claimants, will receive the remainder of the estate, which is estimated to have dwindled to less than $500,000 through payment of large attorney’s fees. McClintock’s will gave the entire estate, with exception of an annuity of SB,OOO to Miss Pope, to his guardian. The will was drawn on the youth’s twenty-first birthday by Shepherd, a lawyer. The guardian lost his attempt to probate the will. Ten cousins and Miss Pope filed suit to break the will, charging Shepherd dictated it. Miss Pope charged the guardian prevented her marriage to McClintock by misrepresentations. Faced with rapid dwindling of the estate through the many £uits and counter-decisions in various courts, the heirs and Shepherd finally agreed to settlement. Miss Pope and all relatives have signed the agreement. C, OF C. DEMAND FOR TAX CUT ASSAILED Termed “Catering to Larger Taxpayers by Engineers’ Report. Demand of the Chamber of Commerce for lower taxes was termed “catering to the larger taxpayers,” in a report today of a committee of the Indianapolis Engineering Society. The committee, headed by Daniel B. Luten, charged that the civics affairs committee of the chamber and the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, in appealing to the state tax board for a lower 1930 school budget, were interested primarily in large taxpayers. “A low tax rate is consistent only with a full discharge of a city’s obligations to its citizens,” the report averred. Representative to Speak ATTICA, Ind.. Sept. 16.—The speaker for a joint meeting of farmers’ organizations in Ravine park here tonight will be Fred S. Purnell, representative in congress from the ninth vrtrict. Counties to be represented Fountain, Warren. Benton and IVpecanoe.

Club and emphasize the principles for which it stands. Remember that all the principal characters, the supporting players, the extras, hundreds of them, and those making up the group scenes will be local boys and girls, members of The Indianapolis Times Golden Rule Safety Club. Now watch Tuesday’s Times for full details of this campaign and watch for the entry blank. Health Nurse Employed Bv Times Special ' MUNCIE. Ind., Sept. 16. Miss Elizabeth Ulmer of New York, has been named a member of the health service of Ball State Teachers’ college here. She will act as nurse at the Burris school and assist in the health examinations given all students of the college.

her knighthood philosophically and announced that she did not intend to become Lady Brown, but would remain Ma. Despite thirty years in the tropical forest, she has kept her English and its Canadian accept. She has received newspapers and can converse intelligently on world problems. She has grown large and round, but not lazy, under the blistering sun of the eo.ua- j tor. She never adopted native undress, but clung to her ginghams and wears large, flowing, roomy Mother Hubbards. The gingham she has sent in from a London

■ forces of Mayor Thompson and Robert E. Crowe, former state’s attorney, whom Swanson defeated. Stansbury’s inquiry revealed what ; was said to be conclusive evidence i that Chicago’s taxpayers had been defrauded of millions. Indictments ' were returned immediately against many once powerful political leaders. That was several months ago. Since then, the state’s attorney’s office has announced its intention of dismissing indictments against the former sanitary district trustees and their underlings and seeking new ones. The North Clark street massacre of seven gangsters offered Swanson an excellent opportunity to break

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Lady Diana Cooper LONDON. Sept. 16.—Lady Diana Duff Cooper, one of England’s most noted beauties, hostesses and travelers, and sister of the duke of Rutland, Sunday gave birth to a feon, She is the wife of Alfred Duff Cooper.

ACCUSED SLAYER HALTED IN FLIGHT

Youth Who Broke Jail in Versailles Is Caught Near Osgood. By Times Special OSGOOD, Ind., Sept. 16. —Horace Peters, 19, who escaped from the Ripley county jail at Versailles, where he was awaiting trial on a charge of slaying Miss Mabel VanOsdol, 18, was captured this morning, hunger having brought an end to his liberty. Appearing at the home of Mrs. Edna Vanhaman, two and one-half miles east of here, Peters begged for food. As he was eating, Mrs. Vanhaman recognized him as the fugitive and telephoned Sheriff Albert J. Pelsor. The officer was out with a posse hunting for Peters, but Ross Reed of Greensburg, a state policeman, answered the call and arrested Peters at the Vanhaman home. Peters escaped Friday night as a meal was being served to him by the sheriff’s wife and a servant girl. Miss VanOsdol was shot at Osgood April 24 when she refused Peters’ invitation to escort her to an entertainment. She died in July. Peters attempted suicide, but, after a long stay in a hospital, recovered from bullet wounds. COP FOILS HIJACKING Confiscates Five Gallons of Alcohol in Interrupting Robbery. A five-gallon can of alcohol was confiscated Sunday by police from a hijacker and his victim at Michigan and Pettijohn streets. The hijacker was attempting to rob his victim when Patrolman J. Owens appeared on the scene. Hijacker and victim fled in their cars, leaving the liquor in Owens’ hands. Alleged Slayer Surrenders By Times Special CROWN POINT, Ind., Sept. 16— Nick Sudovich, alleged aid of Al Capone, gang leader, at East Chicago, has surrendered to Lake county authorities following indictment by the county grand jury on a charge of murdering Urosh Marovich.

department store, and its arrival is timed annually to correspond to Easter. a a a MA BROWN has no regret at the turn her life has taken. She has never been back to Canada since she married her black husband, and she has no desire to go. She knows of the ways of the modern world and contends that she can raise her daughters better in Liberia than in America. Several times she has been near death. Once a knife was at her throat, but she threw off her attackers by witchcraft. “You never can kill me; I will

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, what he often had termed the poj litical power of ‘‘Scarface Al” Capone and other gang power. Stansbury | was assigned to the case and soon | announced he had reached its soluI tion. Now, seven months after the massacre, one person is in technical custody. He is “Machine Gun” Jack ! McGum. Capone man, and the case against him is scheduled to be noUe ; prossed. In addition to the three large cases, there war the case of Con- : gressman Oscar De Priest. De Priest ! was indicted as a gambling overlord 1 shortly before the last election. The i case was dropped. Swanson gave up a lucrative private practice of law to take up the responsibility of ridding Chicago of crime and graft.

AIR SAFETY DRIVE ON Cook County, Illinois, Would Prevent Recurrence of Tragedy. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 16—Action by Cook county, which has started an individual drive to make the air safe, will make highly improbable recurrence of Saturday’s air tragedy, which claimed four lives, Coroner Herman N. Bundesen told a jury today which was called to investigate the deaths. Bundesen blamed a 21-year-old, unlicensed pilot, Charles Kron, who flew a wartime plane, for the collision that resulted in deaths of two pilots and their two passengers, one a granddaughter of one of the founders of Mandel brothers, pioneer Chicago department store. RUSS PLANES BUSY Take Pictures of Chinese Border Positions. By United Press MUDKEN .Manchuria, Sept. 16— An official communique issued today said that, although the border where Chinese and Soviet troops are massed in great numbers was quiet, Russian airplanes were flying continuously over Suifenho, on the eastern frontier, photographing the Chinese positions. The communique added that the officials of the Manchurian government resumed their extensive arrests of Soviet employes of the Chinese Eastern railway who are suspected of sabotage. Child Killed, Sister Saved By United Press GARY, Ind, Sept. 16—Twelve-year-old Mary Koran was killed, and her sister, Agnes, 9, rescued today as they stepped into the path of a speeding passenger train at a crossing. Lewis Teboda, crossing guard, clutched the younger girl’s clothing and pulled her to safety. It was said that Teboda yelled at the children, but they apparently did not hear him.

come back and plague your cattle, burn your crops and slay your wives,” she cried, and the knife dropped as her frightened attacker fell on his knees and begged for mercy. From that time on she used witchcraft often. Ma Brown ranks high in the esteem of the government and the people. Her canoidate, Mr. Yantze, was elected to tne vice-presidency. As he prepared to travel to Monrovia for his installation, Ma Brown rebelled against allowing him to go in his loin cloth and from her old dresses fashioned for him the first pair of trousers he ever wore.

LABOR STAND IS BLOW FOR TARIFF FOES Flexible Provision of Bill Approved at Union’s Convention. 0. K. ON OTHER CLAUSES Democrats and Farm Bioo Contend Green’s Letter Is Not Clincher. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept, 16.—The American Federation of Labor gave approval of the disputed flexible provision of the pending tariff bill in a letter from its legislative committee presented today to the senate by Chairman Reed Smoot of the finance committee. Farm bloc members and Democrats, opening a vigorous fight against the provision, were struck a severe blow when Smoot produced the indorsement, dated Feb. 14, which the legislative committee stated had been written “in conformity with the action of our 1928 New Orleans convention and by direction of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor.” In addition to this indorsement the committete also gave its approval to many other features of the administrative section of the Republican tariff bill and condemned only one section, which, it stated, would increase mail order shipments of cigars from Cuba. Avoids Stand on System It avoided any declaration regarding the provision proposing to establish a United States valuation system of fixing tariff rates in the future, instead of basing them on the foreign cost of production. The flexibility provision, one of the jjjost important sections of the pending bill gives the President the right, working through the tariff commission, to increase or lower tariff duties by 50 per cent at any time the commission finds a change advisable. The system has been in force for six years and strongly has been opposed by the Democrats and the farm bloc leaders, like Senator Borah of Idaho, who now are working to eliminate that feature from the pending bill. They contend it gives the President the tariff-making power invested in congress and has resulted only in increases of tariff rates even above the level set by congress. Changes Vote Prospect The coalition group claimed a majority of the senate was ready to strike the provision from the bill, but the federation Indorsement In the name of 35,000 local unions in the United States may change the situation considerably. Items specifically indorsed by the federation included the provisions prohibiting importation of convictmade goods, prohibiting importation of advertising material in individual envelopes, giving labor the right to be heard before the customs courts and the supreme court, and the provision preventing importation of goods falsely bearing American labels. Senators Simmons and Harrison, Democratic tariff leaders, protested the letter did not constitute an indorsement of the whole bill and contended that Matthew Woll, vicepresident of the federation, had objected to many features of the house bill when he testified before the finance committee. Meanwhile, the senate took up the disputed sections of the administrative provisions, passed over last week, and Chairman Smoot predicted a vote on the flexible clause would be reached before the end of the week. Tax Figures Available Smoot today submitted to Secretary of Treasury Mellon the names of nearly 200 corporations whose income tax returns are sought by the Democratic members of his committee. Smoot declined to make public the names of the corporations unless ordered to by the committee. Little likelihood of the committee taking such action was seen, since it is not scheduled to meet soon. The list of corporations was drafted by the Democrats Saturday. They expect to use the tax static tics in their fight on the rates <& the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill . COLLISION DAMAGE TO SHIP TOTALS $250,000 None Injured When Lf’ner Crashes With Freighter in Frisco. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16.—The Palatial Panama Pacific liner Virginia which rent a jagged hole in its bow when it collided with the freighter Hermior, near Golden I Gate. Saturday, will enter drydock today to undergo repairs. L. E. Archer, executive of the Panama Pacific line, estimates the actual damage at SIOO,OOO. It is believed in marine circles, however, that the total damage will amount to nearly $250,000, as delayed passengers have had to be taken care of; raw silk may have to be shipped ! by rail at the company’s exnense and a forfeiture may have to be made for delay caused United States mail, destined for Central America. A seventy-foot hole was tom m the Virginia’s starboard bow. The Hermlon also stove in its bow. The collision occurred during a dense fog. No one was hurt.