The Post-Star from Glens Falls, New York • 1

COHP. N. THE LATEST NEWS FIRST THE) POST STAR la delivered throughout Warren, Washington and -Saratoga counties on in day ot publication. 1 HE WEATHER FORECAST -Generally fair today; colder at night; Friday fair. Sixteen degrees above zero at 3 a.

m. VOL XXIV Whole No. 6592 Sixteen Paces GLENS FALLS, N. THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 26, 1928 Sixteen Pages Price Three Cents N.

STATE LI8RARY, ALBANY, 1 -O JLjCJIA. "We" Off Again EVIERRY ROW IS ON Reed Projects His Political Castor in Presidential Ring; Campaign Office at Capital IVIRS. KNAPP RESIGNS HER POST; SENDS TELEGRAM TO UNIVERSITY; HER WHEREABOUTS KEPT SECRET WITH ARGENTINE ON LOWER TARIFF that he will not seek" re-election to the senate this year. THERE'LL BE TWO Legislature Intends to Par- allel Governor's Investigation in Labor JITTER CLASH IN ALBANY Senate Holds Up Resolution to Have Evidence Turned Over i. to Prof.

Kogers BUREAU INQUIRIES HER INTEGRITY Formdr Official Declares iff Message She Intends to Clear Good Name. COLLEGE HEAD MERCIFUL1 Chairman Withholds Address So Woman May PftNioity Sierra jae SYRACUSE, Jan. 25, (AP)' Mrs. Florence E. S.

Knapp resigned late today as dean of the College of Home Economic, of Syracuse university. "In full knowledge of my own integrity," said her tele gram to Murlbut W. Smith, chairman oi the executive corn- ALBANY, Jan, 25 MP) An investl- T'4tI6n of the workmen's compensa-lon bureau of the state department labor night by Smith will be paralleled legislative inquiry into the bureau, was decided by the legislature to-i jay alter a sharp clash of opinion fhlch resulted in open warfare be- -een Republican leaders of the sen-te and assembly. Work Is Temporarily Halted Because of Weather; Aunt of Girl Sends CRANKS STILL ACTIVE -ji. 2 W) State police today began to drag the Connecticut river below the Had ley bridge In their search for Miss Frances St John Smith, missing Smith college freshman.

The search had to be abandoned soon after it started, however, on account 'of the unfavorable wea. ther. High winds sweeping across the river threatened to capsize the Iran, ot in Bearc-inrio uiiu I floes were another menace which made it advisable to suspend further grappling until conditions were more favorable. NEW YORK, Jan. 25 Wl While clews from such widely separated places as Atlanta, three New Jersey towns.

New York city and Buffalo, about the missing Frances St John Smith were being run down today, the girl's grand aunt, Mrs. Anna W. Gramm, Issued an appeal to her niece through the press. She pleaded that the girl write saying she was alive and well. Police here today were Investigating report of Mrs.

Florence Hlckey that she had trailed a girl resembling Miss Smith to a Greenwich Village address. About lo letters were received at the Smith home today and Miss Gramm said that ten per cent were from cranks. The letters came from all parts of the country. On from Buffalo, signed R. Jazle, mittee of the university board of trustees, "and in justice to the university, I place my resigns- tion in your hands, until such time as my good name is clear- -ed before the world." The denouement which haa been pending for months, ever since the charges into the former secretary of state's administration into the 1926 census were laid bare last October, broke with dramatic suddenness.

i followed within three days as the climax of Commissioner Randall J. Le Boeuf's report of his More- land Act investigation, recommending grand Jury consideration of serl- ous oharges against Mrs. Knapp and four others, and within 24 hours of i a rumored meeting of the special committee named by the university trustees in New York to handle the case. i News Given Out Chancellor Flint returned to Syra. cub Tuesday night, and Mr.

Bmth this afternoon, rife TrrissW-TiSrrTflW'-air- neunced receipt of the telegram con-: BITTER BLASTS OF Roaring Winds Tear Down Upon Canada, Eastern and Southern States DAMAGE CONSIDERABLE NewYork City Bows Before Winter Hurricane Blizzard and Gold Upstate NEW YORK; Jan. 25 UP) South ern, and eastern states and parts of Canada bowed today under the force of a. more than mUerSwnlnute. gal that left minor devastation In Its wake. During the day there was a gen eral drop in temperature and heavy snow -fell in Quebec and parts of York.

The most serious accident of the two-day storm occurred in Tennessee when a house, was blown over and four children were killed, Near-Catastraphe A far more serious catastrophe was narrowly averted In New York city wnen a great iron water-tank was blown" over and plunged four stories through a lower West Side building crowded with men and women workers. Although 55 men and women were working on two floors through which the tank crashed only three were in jured and they not seriously. The gale was so strong that ships were torn from their moorings, trees were uprooted or snapped like twigs. roofs were ripped away and' whole houses wer, wrenched from their foundations. In many towns power and light systems were put out of commission.

ccmnTimicatlon lines ware destroyed, nd local telephone generally disrupted. 4 Upstate Hard Hit ALBANY, Jan. 25 Upstate New York tonight faced probably the most wintry night of the season as from various' sections of the state told of billiards, high winds and rapid drops in temperature. Stranded automobiles and linei of IsrvssirJxiGiXi; be the most! seiioos-reauHs. Northern Sew York, bore hf brunt of the storm.

A temperature drop of degrees in four boirs accompanied a terrlflo bliaard Which swept over Malone. Traffic was impeded when a strong northeast wind ushered in the most severe storm of the win-. ter. Btreets in Malone, as well as country roads, were piled with drifts. "fiaranac Lake reported that the Adlrcmdacks faced one of the severest nights ot the Winter, A gale from the northeast was accompanied by a heavy fall ot snow and a steady drop of the mercury.

Although at many points In western Iew York and the southern tier the storm was confined to winds of gale force, the Chautauqua was harder hit Highway traffic was crippled, lines of communication were temporarily disabled and several minor mishaps caused by a blizzard which swept Jamestown and, vicinity. Nearly 50 oars were stalled on Fredonia-Cassadaga railroad. The snow ceased about noon and conditions were slowly being restored to normal. The Canisteo Valley also had a breath of real winter, th blizzard ending several weeks of mild weather. Batavla was without light and power for four hours when high wind caused a break In a high power line.

Driven by a thirty-mile wind, snow sweat Rochester and vicinity, delaying automobile and railroad traffic. Signs were blown down and plate glass windows were broken by the wind. Minor damage was also caused in various parts of Blnghamton. At Buffalo gales which Bwept the. Great Lakes region reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour but no serious damage was reported.

BINGHAMTON, Jan. 25 UP). Two were Injured and considerable property damage was reported as the result of the gale which swept this section taday. Meza Grant, a nurse riding by taxlcab to the Endt-cott hospital where she was employed, was- taken to the hospital as a patient after the car hit a tree which fell into the road directly In Its path. Michael Mulvlhlll, 62, crossing tender at Vesta, was struck by a hit-and-run motorist believed to have been blinded by the storm.

He was seriously hurt The roof of the Endicott Municipal building was damaged considerably by the high wind and broken windows, damaged houses and uprooted trees were reported from many seotlons. ftrlonUdJUML tK writer was responsible for disappearance and that she Alter a rest in Panama Col. Charles A. Lindbergh Is ready to set out from the Canal Zone on the last half of his Pan-American good-will night. It will take him from Colon today to Cartagena, Colombia; on Jan.

29 to Caracas, 650 miles; on Jan. 31 to St. Thomas, 575 miles; on Feb. 2 to Porto Rico, 75 mlleB: on Feb. 4 to Santo Domingo, 50 miles; jn Feb.

6 to Haiti, 160 miles; on Feb. 8 to Havana, 700 miles, and. thence homeward to St. Louis, Borne miles away. The flyer plans no between Havana and Sft.

Louis, but may fly by way of Flola, instead of straight across the 'Gulf of Mexico. Defense Attorney Wins First Victory in Disqualifying Judge H. C. Hardy SLAYER LITTLE MOVED HALL OF JUSTICE, Los Angeles, Jan. 25 lP).

Swift and unexpected moves- that ended In the defense scoring prime victory, that of ob. talnlng a new Judge by charging bias and prejudice the Jurist assigned to the case, -marked the opening: day of -the sanity trial of William E. Hickman, kidnapper and slayer of 12- year-old Marian Parker. Superior Judge H. Carlos Hardy filed an affidavit consenting "In the interest ot Justice and the speedy hearing of this trial" to remove himself from the case.

Superior Judge J. J. veteran prominent jurist of California, was to preside over the sanity trial a few hours after Judge Hardy removed himself. Strulnsr swiftly after trial Was called to order this morning, Jerome Wftlnh. KnnsfBR nit trtrnr-nev Hofafirl.

Jng Hickman, entered K'xlwpliaa Judge Hardy. The defense charged bias and prejudice on three BeparatyerounSs and tha court denied that such were true Forty minutes after the triat opened adjournment was taken until afternoon to give the petition more consideration. Disqualifies himself After an hour's conference with Superior Judge Victor McLucas, Judge Hardy decided to file a counter-affidavit In this, although denying the harboring of any bias or prejudice, Judge Hardy in effect disqualified himself from the trial. District Attorney Asa Keyes, chief of the state attorneys vigorously opposed the court's action, and he urged the overruling of the defense's ac tlons. Keys refused the legal opportunity of conferring with the defense counsel to select a judge mutually acceptable, and the procedure of naming Judge Hardy's successor went to the judicial council, empowered by law to so act in such a situation.

Hickman remained quiet and apparently little moved by the court actions. His near-black, wavy hair was slicked back. He was a slight figure huddled in a big chair, between a deputy sheriff and his tall attorney. FOUND DEAD IN GARAGE SYRACUSE, Jan. 25 OP) Auguste Lix, 42, was found dead in his garage at the rear of his home this morning, a victim of monoxide gas poisoning.

The death Is the fourth by monoxide gas In Syracuse in a month. PLAN POWER MERGER PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25 W) A plan for the merger of the Lehigh Power Securities corporation and the National Power and Light company vas announced here today. NEW STOCK ALLOTMENT PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25 The directors of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company today author-, ized a ten per cent stock allotment at par to stockholders of record Feb ruary 4.

CHANGE JUDGES IN TRIAL OF HICKMAN Mrs. Knapp's 1 r- nf 1 i WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. OP) The1 movement to have Senator James Reed, of Missouri, nominated tor president by the Democrats was given impetus today by the opening of campaign headquarters here. They are in charge of Lee Meriwether, 'of St.

Louis, who said he was acting with the "full knowledge and consent" of the Missouri senator. Samuel Fordyce, chairman of the Missouri state democratic central committee, will have general charge of the Reed campaign and will divide Ms time between eastern headquar ters here and western headquarters at Louisiana, Missouri. The head quarters at Louisiana are to be under the direction of Edward Gleen who conducted the late Champ Clark'i campaign for the presidential noml nation In 1912. Meriwether, who described himself i one -of Senator Reed's "de voted supporters," said that he was "rapid ly organizing a staff with which to "ine ataxe ox Missouri is DacK oc him to a man," said Meriwether In a formal statement, "and I am author ized to say that he Is In this contest to a finish." Although Senator Reed has never committed himself publicly as to his presidential candidacy, his friends for some time have declared that he would he in the race for the nomlna tion- thit will be made in at Houston, Texas, and have predicted All Sorts Deadly Weapons Will Come Under Ban in Pro-' posed Legislation ANTI-FIREARMS BILLS ALBANY, Jan. 25 OP).

Machine gunsr pistols, 'revolvers and other typeaXof firearms, will come under tbe provisions of proposed anti-firearms legislation to be introduced in the legislature Carrying on the campaign to curb crime the state. rlme -commission two firearms bills introduction to-raorrow. "The" inclusion of the: machine gun with the plBtol," a commission statev ment said, "is absolutely necessary and proper. "The sections lit which the two are included are those against criminal instruments, 'attempting to use crim inal instruments feloniously or pos sessing them with such intent or carrying them about in a vehicle or illegally possessing them. Need Further Legislation 'It may be thought necessary later to enact further legislation regarding machine guns, as the bill does not prohibit their manufacture or sale or transportation as merchandise." It is pointed out, that the bill does not provide for licensing of tnachine guns, "as they should not bej possessed except by the military oH the police.

Possession of pistols is also allowed by regularly enrolled members of rifle or pistol associations or organizations authorized to purchase or receive pistols from the United States or the State of New York. The commission made public the report of a special commiteo on firearms, in part, as follows: "The- firearms legislation to be found In the penal law of the state of New York has been amended and revised, and the various sections extended and applied to their construction, so that the net result is today a jumble of phrases, and altogether a weak and inadequate piece of legislation, which, however, contains many valuable features hidden among its confusing and ambling phraseology. A re vi ilon and recodification of this statute Is, therefore, imperatively needed. In addition to clarification, the statute needs strengthening and enlarging at manyoints." The assembly codes committee today announced that it had favorably reported the first anti-crime bills of the present session four measures designed to create divisions of parole and of probation within the depart-meniof correction, and to provide for the administration of the new divisions. Routine business in both houses of the legislature tdday was devoted to passage of a few bills and advancement of numerous others, so that the decks could be cleared for consideration of the resolutions proposing an Investigation of the workmen's compensation bureau of the department of labor.

DAMAGED SHIP WILL DOCK BALBOA, Panama. Jan. 25 W). The port captain of Balboa received a wireless message tonight from the Peruvian cruleer Almirante Grau, damaged In collision with, the Peru vlan submarine B-l saying the crusler would dock tomorrow after. noon.

Port authorities are sure there was no loss of life nor injuries to personnel. MRS. ROOSEVELT AT COLON COLON, Tanama, Jan. 25. (if).

Mrs. Theodore widow of the late president, arrived on the steamer Santa Lulsa today to remain a month as guest of Col. M. L. Walker, Canal Zona governor.

8U8PEND OIL CONCESSIONS SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 25 (). The Chamber of Deputies today ap proved a government bill suspending ait OBOMalona except ta BaUn. LEGISLATURE WILL ACT IN CRIME CURB I WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.

OP The efforts of Senator Borah of Idaho to pin all Republican presidential candidates down on prohibition drew from Senator Curtis of Kansas a statement today that he favored rigid enfordement of the dry laws and was opposed to repeal of either the eigh teenth amendment or the Volstead act. It also precipitated another pro hibltlon debate in the senate with contributions from both the wet. and dry camps. Curtis expressed his view on pro hibition in replying to a questionnaire on ine question wnicn no ran is send ing to all avowed candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. Tho Kansas senator declared his opposition to a state determining the alcoholic content of liquor and pointed to his record years ago as prose cuting attorney for Shawnee county, Kansas, in the closing of illicit Ar views.

Later Senator Borah said that he was not prepared to say whether Senator Curtis' reply was satis fac tory as'he had not had time to study his letter. But Senator Bruce, Democrat of Maryland, a leader of the wets, de clared in the senate he was more. orJ less in accord with the Kansan re ply because although it was "unquestionably dry It was not bone dry." ALL OIL PROFITS Witnesses Fail to Disclose to Committee Where the $3,000,000 Went to INQUIRY DRAGS ALONG WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.

WJHalf a dozen witnesses passed In rapid succession today before tbe senate lands committee, but none shed any material light on the main subject of inquiry what became of the $3, 000.000 of profits made br the Con I Canada, in purchase, anj Bijle of Of ibeie prohta CZjS.OOO have Been' traced from Harry Sinclair to Albert B. Fail, after the leae of the Teapot Domenaval oil reserve in 1922, but It appears now that the committee is going to encounter serious difficulties in getting track of the Sinclair Payments The Sinclair payments' to Fall interior secretary, were touched upon briefly today. Everhart testified that to obtain, his one third interest in Fall's New Mexico ranch holdings for which it was claimed $233,000 in Liberty bonds were delivered to Everhart, Sinclair' would have' to depend upon the word of Fall and Everhart. To counterbalance part of Ever- Sinclair liberty bonds were used by Fall to pay off the $30(000 balance due on the-Harries ranch which the former cabinet officer purchased In November, 1921, Senator Walsh of Montana, the prosecutor, read Into the record previous testimony ot Will Ed. Han-las that Fall paid $10,000 in rash; $45,000 In December, 1921, and the remaining $45,000 in April, 1921, a month before Sinclair paid over the bonds.

Want L. L. Stewart Before the inquiry was resumed, Senator Walsh directed L. L. Stephens, general counsel, of the Standard OH company of Indiana, to communicate with Robert W.

Stewart, of Chicago, at Havana, Cuba, ajid devise, him that the committee wanted him to return to Washington forthwith for Questioning. Stewart, who is chairman of the board of the Indiana Standard Oil company was one of the four men who guaranteed the contract ot the Continental company to purchase barrels of oil from the late 12. Humphreys and Walsh wants to find out what he knows about the Continental and what became of Its profits. The Standard Oil official was here for the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trial, which wa abruptly halted last and went to South America with the consent of special government oil counsel. It was explained he was in Havana on business and that he desired to attend some business affairs in Mexico before returning to this country.

Before the hearing was adjourned until next Tuesday the committee finally obtained book of 'the Hyva corporation, Sinclair's personal company, which it sought in vain when the Teapot Dome inquiry was under way four years ago. They were produced by Harold W. Ken-well, secretary and treasurer of tho coir. FIL: KELAWSR CASE Nl. 1 Copy of filed December nes Rnlne-.

from her phlnelander, family, was aere today, herlff'a of-taken so i complaint ider In the New York ever, was with re- sum; Inall. 29 it I landi i'V j-husbj i scion an Bled lt.3 it ix ('line 1 u. that lie a could event ti count, i raid t'i i' 'I'o. tl Jill''' Salvador Urbino at Havana Warns Delegations Mot to Forget Main Factors CODIFICATION OF LAW American Delegation Shows Opposition to Proposal; Judge O'Brien Explains HAVANA, Jan. 25 W).

Hearty response to Argentina's appeal for reduction of high tariff barriers In today by Salvador Urblna, Mexico, who warned tbe delegates not to forget the economic factors in the life of their countries, which where 'the golden key to realization of Pan -American The Peruvian Jesus Sal- azar, despite his belief that Senor Pueyrredon's speech on Mojtday in behalf of Argentina's plan covered only a fraction of economic Ills which required to be reviewed, proposed the Argentina resolution empowering the Pan-American Union to study means to reduce tariffs be submitted to the steering of the conference for appropriate action. Senor Salazar agreed with Senor Urblna that it was lamentable. International Law The of the codification of international private proved a stumbling block at the meeting today. After Eduardo Esplnola, of Brazil, had presented a long study on the question In his report. Judge Morgan J.

O'Brien of the American delegation, caused a commotion by an nouncing the opposition of the United States to the projected code. "The United States delegation," said Judge O'Brien, "is not, free to vote for the adoption of the code as lit Is now presented, because ques tions that are involved would be, to us domestic questions: We have, as you know, 48 states, each sovereign and each having conceded the general government certain powers. But the general government is bound by the UojiBtitutlon of the1 United States," Antonio vlousiy bad endorsed a fixed law code the Amerlcatrepblfcfe and later 6 explained the exact proposal. 4 tonsultation betyeen Judge O'Brien and James Ibwn Scott, Judge O'Brien went into further details as to the- attitude- cf the United States, which, he said, was not one of He requested that the proposals be submitted for full siudy by the American delegation and that its attitude be gauged according to action taken in the future. "Our desire," he added, "is to cooperate in every way possible, but to take no definte stand before an examination." MRS.

HARKNESS' ESTATE WORTH $103,232,408 NEW YORK, Jan. 25. W) Although she gave away nearly during the last six years of her life, Mrs. Anna M. Harkness, widow of one of the founders of the Standard Oil company left a net estate of $103,232,408 when she died nearly a year ago, an appraisal Sled today revealed.

The estate exceeded hy $20,000,000 any In the history of the New York state department of taxation and finance, which dates back to 1885, officials of the department The residuary estate of $93,130,549 was left to Edward S. Harkness, a son, who was made sole executor of the will. Mrs. Harkness Inherited an estate estimated at $50,000,000 from her husband, Steven V. Harkness, co-founder with John D.

Rockefeller of the old Standard OH company. A consistent rise In the value of her securities which Included 564,000 shares of the. common stock of the Standard Oil company of New York, more than doubled the sizs of the estate. GETS MORE THEATRES NEW YORK, Jan. 25.

W). The Fox Film corporation today acquired control of ioo motion picture theatres on and near the Pacific coast and in Wisconsin, In what was described by William Fox, president, as the largest single transaction In history. Theatres valued at $100,000,000 were involved In the deal. and Tube and Inland would provide for a new company, known as the Youngstown Inland Steel corporation, with headquarters here. Under the consolidation Sheet and Tube would receive 2,000,000 shares of common in the new company in exchange for 987,606 shares of common outstanding.

Inland stockholders would receive share for share in the exchange for its 1,182,100 outstanding. In addition Inland would pay a cash extra stock dividend of a Bharo on its common stock. Ac cording to reports in financial circles ownership of the new cpmpany would be about 63 per cent in the hands of present Sheet and Tube stockholders and 8T per cent in Inland hands. Sheet and Tube is the third larg. est steel company In the United States and consolidation with Inland would give the new company a oom aiaodiac plfto It the Indus txfe Amid scenes reminiscent of the losing days of a legislative session, I resolution continuing the life of 1fo industrial surveycommission, a semi-legislative group, so that it could investigate alleged irregularities in the bureau, was iidopted in both houses by strictly tarty votes.

With the exception of single minor amendment, it was Identical with a measure adopted in the senate Monday night unanimous ly: soon after Governor Smiths ap pointment of a Moreland act com Siissioner to make a similar (ration became known. Hopes to Avert Clash Hoping to avert a clash with the governor in the matter of such an inquiry, Speaker Joseph A. McGIn-tiles of the assembly suggested and Succeeded In having drafted another Resolution, which proposed that the legislative investigators turn over to the executive's appointee, Professor Lindsay Rogers of New York, any widence of fraud or fraudulent practices. This v.S adopted to-liay by the lower house, along with the inquiry resolution, but was re- irred to the finance committee In the senate at the insistence of Ma jority Leader John Knight. Uie.

senate was generally inieriucmu tte caoltol as a distinct victory 'Hi Umatoi- Knieht'lri what regarded as avlrtual Rattle for Republican leadership of the That there would be no ompromiae became clear tonight 'vhen Senator Knight, declared that he eeond measure probably never jruld be reported out of the finance eommittee, while Speaker McGlnnles stood Just as firmly for abandoning Ihe Independent Investigation. Battledore and Shuttlecock Throughout the oourse of the legls- 'jtive nma ob-battledore and shut- eoock over the Independent InvestM jitlon resolution, developments came so rapidly that legislators and newspapermen thought seriously of obtaining the services of a scorekeeper a record them. When the Republl-J-V3 leaders retired last night, their differences apparently had been smoothed out with the Issuance of a Joint statement Indicating that the urvey' commission, if It did conduct I investigation, would turn over its 'Vldence to Commissioner Rogers. 'Final action on an amendment to the senate resolution of Monday flight, proposing such a course, was -o have been effected at a meeting it the assembly ways and means committee at 10 o'clock this morning. That hour, however, found Speaker McGinnls and Senator Knight, In their respective offices, feith Chairman Eberly Hutchinson of the! ways and means committee.

Chairman Charles P. Miller of the Assembly labor and industries committee, and Chairman Charles J. Hewitt of the senate finance committee hastening from one to the other a last-minute effort to settle which appeared to have developed over night. Leaders Antagonistic Neither leader would give In, des- olte the "friendship" statement of last night, and both houses waited impatiently while the conferences continued, long after- the hour set itr convening of the session. Senator Hewitt, on one of his trips through corridor filled with newspapermen, denied that any friction existed over the labor proposal, and iaen added: "Well, at least there was hot any friction until you follows started I With this first indication of the ditter clashes behind closed doors, other evidences of trouule followed lutckiy, and finally Assemblyman 'utchinson emerged from Speaker McGlnnles' office, obviously angered over the Insistence of the speaker that compromise measure be introduced.

Me refused to talk to the co-respondents and immediately called his committee Into session over in hour after the time scheduled for Its meeting. Minority la Noisy While the assembly transacted utlne business, the committee remained In session. Tho business was topleted, and Democrats shouted tor adjournment, In order to forestall reception of the committee's report, but Speaker McGlnnles refused to recognize the minority members who kept up their shouting until a five Bilnuto recess was The resort length available, was adopted Ifter Minority Leader Maurice Bloch bad made a few remarks abou "synthetic "members of the ways and means committee run-ling through the corridors like oopy Jorsee," and "smok the answer to two questions on which public Interest hav been Cen- tered during the three days since the release of the Le Boeuf report. The first involved Impending de-i velopmenu regarding Mrs, Knapp's connection with the university. Gives Her Address The second contained the whereabouts of the former secretary of state, who left Syracuse Sunday, a few hours before the publication of the report and has been missing 72 hoursy But tire key to the second question i remained unanswered tonight as far as tho public knowledge was concerned.

It lay in the sending address on the yellow telegraph blank which was in the hands of Mr. Smith. But the university official, to" save Knapp for a few hours at least from the deluge of newspaper embarrass- ,1 ment which the revelation would en-tall, refused to divulge it Mrs. Knapp relinquishes her post at Syracuse University after nearly a decade as head of the college of Home Economics, which she organized as a department in 1918, under the regime of the late Chancellor James R. Day.

Starting with 15 pupils, the school rose to an enrollment ot 600 and Mrs. Knapp became dean when the school was chartered as a college by the regents. ARREST AC0STA FOR VIOLATING AIR LAW NAUGATUCK, Jan. 25. UP) Bert Acosta, internationally famous trans-Atlantic flyer was arrested at the Alrdome Inn, Bethany, late to- night by.

Chief Aviation Inspector George Parnartis and Police Chief William T. Morris, 'of Naugutuck, on a warrant charging violation of the Connecticut aircraft laws. He was held in $500 bonds and will appear before Judge Frank A. Sears In Borough court tomorrow. The arrest, believed to be the first was with him.

Be la Id, be was in financial sttaiik-viwL abouL get some irt)rtrslif fitter agp won ne mu iiic oumu sue fa- south. He asked that the search be called off. Buffalo authorities were notified of the letter, but little credence was placed in it MAKE BIG PLANS TO HALT RUM-RUNNING BUWsm.0, Jan. 25 Wl Organization of TnJ additional coast- guard force In this section to aid the customs border patrol in halting rum-running on the Niagara river and Lake Ontario ha been completed, it was announced tonight. The new group, composed of 50 men, recruited from Lake Huron and Western Lake Erie districts, smuggling has abated somewhat, was built up in accordance with the anti-smuggling plans formulated at a conference here recently between Washington officials and the customs and coast guard departments ot this section.

With the placing in service ot the last detachments of the new lorce or M. W. Rasmusseri, district commander of the coast guard here, said tonight that the men will patrol the Niagara river between Porter avenue, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls, and the shore of Lake Ontario between Youngstown and Charlotte. It was made plain that this was the first step In the extensive campaign against rum runners outlined here at a conference attended by Seymour Lowman, assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition; Fred A. Bradley, collector of customs, and Mr.

Rasmussen. With this campaign in full -force next soring 60 coast guard boats will sail Lakes Erie and Ontario in quest of rum runners. LEADING ACTRESS KILLED BUDAPEST, Hungary, Jan. 25. W) Beautiful Valentta.

Concici, leading actress In the Rumanian theater at Bucharest was shot to death hi her dressing room at a theatre here tonight Her husband, a wealthy merchant, also shot, may recover. FOIL COMMUNIST PLOT LONDON, March 25. CP) A dis patch to the Dally Mall from Hong Kong says that autnonues at canton have frustrated another attempt at a communists rising. The dispatch says that police and soldiers surrounded a suspected district, arrested and summarily shot 44 communists. Chamberlin was forced down twjee and the second time he decided to give the decision to the elements by leaving his small Sperry plane in a MlKlin ball park and complete his Journey to this city by train.

The plane not damaged. His first landing was made at Newport, Pa. "It was the hardest sht I ever ried," said the airman as he was met by a reception committee here. At Mifflin members of the Chamber of Commerce greeted Chamberlin, who after his bumpy ride was slightly nauseateda Announce Two Giant Steel Mergers, Republic -Trumbull; Sheet -Inland Fierce Storm Prevents Chamberlin From Flying Over Pennsy Mountains for such an offense, in this state fol lowed issuance ot a warrant this ternoon by 'Prosecuting Attorne nel Claremont R. Tolles, on complaint of Naufetttuck authorities.

The specifla violation is low flying. Complaint was made to Tolles after what wit nesses said appeared to be an attempt by Acosta to maneuver his plane to go under tbe Maple street bridge. Acosta had not secured bondsmen at midnight, and was taken to the Naugatuck police station to await arraignment. WILL ASK WRIT TODAY FOR REMUS' RELEASE LIMA, Jan. 25 04).

County Prosecutor E. M. Botkln tonight he had been informed that attorneys for George Remus, former "king of the bootleggers" would flU an application In common pleas couurt tomorrow for a writ of habeas corpus seeking Remus' release from tho Lima state hospital foi criminal insane. Remus was committed to the asy. lum from Cincinnati, Hamilton county, where he was acquitted several weeks ago of the killing of his1 estranged wife, Imogens, on grounds of insanity- 70UNGST0WN, Jan.

25 OP). The process of consolidation among the steel of the country was carried forward today with the announcement in New York of the merger of Trumbull Steel and the Republic Steel and Iron and the official announcement here of the combination of Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Inland Steel. In agreeing to the merger of Republic und Trumbull stockholders approved changes of the common stock shares from $100 par value to no par value and Increasing the number from 800,000 to 1,000,000. Terms of exchange of stock provide for one share of Republic common ior five shares of Trumbull common and one and two third Shares of Republic common for each share of Trumbull preferred. Combination pt Youofatowm Sheet ALTOONA, Jan.

25 OP). Clarence Chamberlin, conqueror of the Atlantlo ocean by air, today met on of the hardest tests in his career as an aviator, when in the face of a gale and snow, he attempted unsuccessfully to negotiate the dangerous air line over the Pennsylvania mountains. The rugged mountains, held fast in the grip of winter, with the aid of the wind, threw back the challenger, as he tried again and again to make a hop of less than one hundred miles from MiddUtown, Pa, to AUoona. 1.