Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. Occasis morrow; not much ture. 8. Woather Bureau Forecast.) al showers tonight and to- change in tempera- Temperatures—Highest, 82, at noon today; lowest, 63, at 4 p.m. Full report on pa esterday. ge 9. he WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Shar. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed.* Yesterday’s Circulation, 104,266 Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 { . 30,716 post office, ntered as second class matter Washington, 3 nC WASHI GTON, D. N Yo JESDAY, JUNE 5, 1928 —FORTY PAGES. * PACIFIG AVIATORS, AT SUVA, SEEKING RUNWAY TO START HOP TO AUSTRALIA Find Field Where Southern| Cross Landed Too Small for! | Miss Earhart, Pilot Wilmer Stultz and Mechanic Louis Gordon in conversation | here this morning. They said that their plans for a landing place on the other side of the Atlantic were indefinite. Their purpose, they added, was to fly until their fuel was exhausted and then descend, and they hoped to make a longer | flight than any of their predecessors over this route. Wind Too Strong for Fueling. At 8 am., Eastern daylight time. the wind was still too strong f - The visibility was perfect. SR e Start of 1,700-Mile Trip to Brishane. NEXT JUMP HELD MOST DANGEROUS OF FLIGHT Four Airmen Cheered by Thousands of Many Nationalities on Ar-| rival at Fiji in First Plane Seen by South Sea Islanders. Public Holiday Declared. | Br the Ascoviatod Press SUVA, Fiji Islands, June 6 (Wednes- day).—Having successfully traversed approximately 5538 miles of ocean be- tween Oakland, Calif.; Hawaii and Suva, the fiyers of the monoplane Southern Cross today start preparations for the nmext 1,700-mile hop to Bris- bane, en route to Sydney, Australia. They secured a long rest last night o make up for the more than 33 wake- ful, tempestuous, anxiety-fraught hours that were passed during their flight from Kauai, an island of the Hawalian the refueled plane can for its flight over the sea toward Aus- tralia, examination of the three motors that labored fali through miles and storms and to study weather charts and maps to decide the time and course of the shortest but perhaps the most hazardous of the unprecedented Sight. % "Chapt, Charles Kingsford-Smith, Aus- tralian pilot; Charles Ulm, Australian co-pilot; Harry W. Lyon, former sea skipper and navigator, and James Warner, radio operator, were &s quite important personages in Suva today. They were objects of admira- tion by all, from bushy-haired na- of beach near mfl: sandy, level bit of ground Y aocommodate the plane during Possibly, he thought, there places even more suit- = Jow tide. ht be other ¢ | responding to the Italia’s radio. he could not have trip successfully Praises Kingsford-Smith. “Then Warner spoke by saying that ing the crew's anxiety during the thunder and lightning storm night when the plane was ween the Hznm}’.‘z‘dmlfn”:' sland it was fully reall | - nithy” was the only man that could have brought them safely through. Warner referred to Kingsford-Smith's maneuvering of the controls so that the huge plane dodged and wove through 1he storm clouds up from an altitude of 600 feet to nearly 8,000 feet, seemingly fiying in circles at times,” in the effort miss the full fury of the tropical to Lyon, e da; midway bet biasts. Kingstord-Bmith referred L who as navigator of the plane ‘shot what stars be could find through the plack clouds W chart the course to the tiny dot of land. Deviations from the eourse meant, wasted gasoline and pos- sible disaster. The plane left Kaual Sunday morning with & bare 200 miles gasoline safely margin. The fiyers did not try o conceal the fact that t storm had them worried mith declared that he wver have w fiy through such 7 again in 8 the Next Leg Dangerous. The course between Buva and Aus- comparatively ific fiight, 1 0 as being particuls s time of the year storms peculiar to the known 10 # he and the ¥ | By the Associated Press was completed this afternoon. The avial their transatlantic flight. | delayed plans for completion of fueling. An intimation that the Friendship tion of refueling operations. Knocking off work at sundown yest rested through the night for the arduous Clad in brown knickers and high | plane has three motors, any two of which will keep it in flight. Ever | given extensive tests lasting over a period of seven weeks as to fuel consumption, It is equipped with pontoons and carries two An emergency one can be operated even if the plane is forced down lifting capacity and air speed. radio sets. and the motors are silenced. ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) WINDS DELAY WOMAN FLYER'S TAKE-OFF ACROSS ATLANTIC Newfoundland Gales Hold Up Start of Friendship From Trepassey—Refueling TREPASSY, Newfoundland, June 5—Refueling of the monoplane Friendship tors, Miss Amelia Earhart, Wilbur Stultz and Louis Gordon, were awaiting an abatement of the high wind before starting The monoplane was buffeted by strong northwest winds early today, which might fly beyond England was given by erday, Miss Earhart, Stultz and Gordon hours ahead of them. laced boots, Miss Earhart appeared to be in high spirits on the eve of her great adventure—backed by an organization headed by George Palmer Putnam, New York publisher and Arctic explorer. Every precaution was taken to make the flight as safe as possible, The It has been BELIEVED ITALWS Soviet Rescue Commission| Convinced Nobile Descended in Franz Josef Land. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, Russia, June 5.—The So- viet meteorological station in Siberia reported today that it had picked up what was believed to be an SOS from the missing dirigible Italia, but that the location could not be secured. Two other Siberfan stations, SOB and PUR, reported hearing the same call. ‘The Soviet rescue commission, which is planning to send an expedition to Pranz Josef Land to seek the Italia, was furthér convinced today that Gen, Nobile had descended at that place by reports of wireless messages picked up as late as 7:55 last night, thought to be directly from the Italia. Picks Up Italia Call. Advices receifed from Murmansk to- from the Italia h the message was | as the wave length in Like Italia Wave. The supposed message from the Italla was ‘picked up by a radio amateur at Voznesensk, in North Dvinsk province, and was received on & 33.35 wave, cor- Unschlicht ordered two Soviet ships, Land. with airplanes and aerosleighs. The text of the message as confirmed by the radio amateur who picked it up was as follows: “Italia Nobile Pranz Josefs 8 O S, B80S, 808, 8O0 S8, terri teno ehn.” No explanation was offered for the last three words, which may have been garbled In transmission. KINGS BAY SKEPTICAL. Searchers Doubt Italia Landed on Franz Josef Land. KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, June 5 (#). —Reports from Russia that wireless messages had been picked up from the dirigible Italia, stating that she had landed on Pranz Josef Land, are meet- ing with much skepticlsm among the searchers at Kings Bay. The theory supported by Lieut. Luet- zow Holm, Norweglan fiyer, who 1s now | en route to North Spitzbergen to take up the search from the air, is that the Jtalia descended on the polar ice north | of Bpitzbergen, and that there was very little chance she was blown to Franz Joset Land. There is a possibility that dog teams will be sent to Northeast Land, across Hinlopen Straits, from West Spitzber- gen, 1o explore this seldom-visited re- lon, ¥4 e Hobby, with Leut, Holm aboard was believed 1o have reached Virgo Bay | this forenoon, and it was thought prob- | able that the Norwegian plane would | make a reconnaissance, since the weath- | er was favorable for flying | Lieut. Holm also intended to wateh the progress of some of the Alpine gales who successtully crossed Ouiland and Hawall Hawail and they would not fail and 33 minutes re- fight from Hawall, the s had u wial fying time 4 one minuwe e 7800-004 miles 1o ered the 2400 miles f., v Wheeler Field, urs and 28 minutes ¢ nveraged sbout £9 from Os. Homoiulu v ¥ Brishane the avi- fiight of sbout 500 miles Public Holiday Declared, holidsy was declared here honor of the Bouthern four men of 18 Au- jan-American crew i plane was the first ever seen in i end it excited the wonderment of {housends of natives and the admire- of thelr more traveled Europesn merican {riends grinning, temporartly deaf eiy- plinuvd on Pege 4 Columu 69 Buva were | troops hunting the crew of the Italia | by land. One group headed for Mossel | Bay, on the northern coast, has not THREESOSCALLS TOKID HEARS CHANG 1S DEAD OF WOUNDS Japan Fears Bombing of Train May Lead to Uprising in Manchuria. By the Associated Press. ‘TOKIO, June 5—The Mukden cor- respondent of the Japanese newspaper Jiji Shimpo today reported that Chang Tso-Lin, once northern dictator, had died from injuries received when his train was bombed yesterday. There was no confirmation of this from any other source. ‘The correspondent said that news of Chang's death was being kept secret. Another Japanese newspaper also re- cetved the report that Chang Tso-Lin was dead. Impossible to Verify. Because of the secrecy being main- tained in official quarters it was im- possible to verify these reports. If they should prove true itf was feared that the bombing of the train might lead to serious consequences threatening peace in Manchuria. A Japanese war office dispatch, how- ever, wnl:“med the death of (Wu Chu kiang. Wu had risen from the to become virtually the acting gover- nor of Manchuria. Mo Teh-Hui, Chang's minister of agriculture, and Yu Kuohan, one of Chang's advisers, were in a serious con- dition today. Premier Pan Fu was re- be ported to be suffering from shock. Japanese Not Blamed. Both Chinese and Japanese authori- ties at Mukden were investigating the outrage. Press dispatches said that demonstrations of anti-Japanese feel- ing among the Chinese had calmed down when it was established that the Japanese had no conectiof with the bombing. Japanese official quarters appeared confident today that there would be no serious disturbances necessitating the sending of additional Japanese troops. Five thousand soldiers are in Mukden at present and it was thought that this force would be sufficient to deal with any emergency. BRIDGE REPORTED BLOWN UP Rallway Span Wrecked to Prevent Withdrawal of Troops. SHANGHALI, China, June 5 (#).—The rallway bridge at the Yangtsun, 18 miles northwest of Tientsin, s reported to have been blown up, thus holding up the withdrawal of two Manchurian army corps to Mukden The bridge was said to have been de- stroyed by 20,000 troops which formed part of the Northern armies. The Manchurian troops were brought to Peking by Chang Tso-Lin and had long formed the chief part of his army. These 20,000 troops are part of an army of 70,000 men, made up of forces from the provinces of Chihli and Shan- tung, which bitherto formed part of the Northern armies under the com- mand of Gen. Sun Chuan-Fang and Chang Tsung-Chan, but have now been placed under Marshal Chi Hsieh-Yuan after an intrigue among the officers, Chang Hsueh-Liang, son of Chang Tso-Lin, who left Peking with his staff last night, 15 trying to negotiate a peaceful passage to Mukden, but wheth- er he will find his trip to the Man- churian capital cut off remains to be seen. GATES OF PEKING CLOSED. Flood of Deserters from Chang’s Army Causes Uneasiness, PEKING, June 5 ().~ Because of the many deserters from the Mukden armies of Chang Tso-Lin, untll Sunday dictator i Peking, the north side of the c of Peking were ordered morning The order was issued by the commit- tee of public safety under Wang Shi- Chen, whom Chang requested to ar- range for peace and order in the city ¥, closed the gates this | reached there yet. No fear was enter- (C 2, Column 8,) By the A o1 Press | " CHICAGO, June 511 the spirits of | two infant Egyptian mummies in the | Pield Museum read newspapers they | may lewrn they suffered from scoliosis | und malnutrition | Pathological studies of X-ray photo | raphs of clent Egypuan mummies wave been made for the first time, The results, made known yesterday by Act- ing Director Stephen C. Bimms of the | Field Museum, showed the two Egyp- tien children, whose mummies have g been familisr 1o museum-goers | here, suffered the same childhood ills that prevail lllday‘ Dr Cora A Matthews, dingnostician o Ui Cook County Hompitel, conduets (Continued on Page 6 umn 2.) " X-Rays of Baby Egyptian Mur;lmics Show for the | | They Had Childhood 1l Is of Present Day % . ed the studies. One child, she found, had that same scollozls, or spinal curv- ture, #0 commn ¥ school children of the present day, due to a slouched sitting e Photographs of the other, by, revealed transverse lines | of Srregular calelum development in the banes, typleal of the eondition caused by dmproper and inadequate feeding among many children of poor familles today. Use of the X-ray 15 & new dr’mflllrr nuseumn practice, Bimgs said, and up w new avenue of anthropo- . botanical, geologlcal and w0~ logteal vesearch, muking possible exam- ination of specimens without damaging e wandering about | Lh SLAYERS OF BUSCH LOSE REVIEW PLEA INSUPREME COURT Tribunal Closes Door to Their Rescue—Trio Doomed to Die Friday. HEARING _POSTPONEMENT IS GRANTED BY JUDGE Woman Attorney for Proctor Says Petition for Clemency Will Be Sent President. The Supreme Court of the United States today refused to review the case of Nicholas Lee Eagles, Samuel Moreno and John Proctor, young men now under death sentence at the District jail for the murder of Policeman Leo W. K. Busch. While the decision erased the last hope of the slayers to escape the elec- tric chair through the courts, a_post- ponement by Justice Jennings Bailey of a hearing on their motion for an extension of the sentence effective Fri- day brought encouragement to the trio. Justice Bailey, at-an informal confer- ence with their counsel, requested that they make their motion Thursday, the lay before the execution. At the conference it was announced by Miss May T. Bigelow, counsel for Proctor, that a petition for executive clemency would be filed with the Presi- dent immediately. Inasmuch as this petition must en- counter much legal machinery in the Department of Justice, it was felt by the defense counsel that it could not be delivered to the White House prior to Friday morning,,the date now standing for the electrocution. Smile at News. The condemned men, apprised of the decision at 12:40, took the news with a fmile. They appeared to have expected an adverse decision. “1 thought the news would be black,” Eagles declared with a shrug of his shoulders. Neither Proctor or Moreno had any- thing to say but also appeared philo- sophical as they learned that their last hope for life had been denied. The three slayers were brought to the courthouse shortly after noon from the District Jail in order to be present in open court when the motion was made, but as the subject was taken up in- formally at the bench, the condemned men were not brought upstairs into the courtroom. Miss Bigelow, who was present at the Supreme Court, when the motion for re- view was denied, said that Proctor ap- peared to be shocked by the verdict of the highest court. “I don't think they've been Kkids themselves too much,” Miss Bigelow ob- served in commenting on the manner in which they veceived the information that their last legal chance of escape from the electric chair had vanished. Taken from Cells. At o'clock the three were taken from their cells, on the ground floor of the courthouse, and placed in the “black maria” for conveyance back to the jall. Proctor, with a new straw hat tilted on the side of his head, a flashy necktie and a neat blue suit, carried & folded newspaper, which he swung jauntily as his eyes danced all over a little assemblage of court at- taches which had gathered to watch them on the few steps between the cell and the “wagon.” Eagles, wearing glasses with one lens frosted which indicated his blind eye, wore the same gray suit and cap he stood trial in and looked straight ahead. Moreno, likewise in his trial day garb, glanced about and nodded to one or two famillar faces. The prisoners were hustled into the wagon, Proctor first, Eagles second and Moreno third, and as Moreno mounted the steps, he waved to his mother, who was standing in the roadway and shouted “good-by.” The three men were handcuffed to each other and to Gus Cerlmele, deputy marshal who has escorted them from courthouse to jail and back again from the first day they went on trial. He rode in the closed compartment with the three prisoners. The highest court in the land refused to enter Into the case as forwarded to it through a petition for a writ of review based on the action of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which upheld the conviction of the three men. The court did not take its place at the bench until 12:30 o'clock and after disposing of two matters be- tore it, Chief Justice Taft reached the “Busch case” on his schedule. He stated that the petition for a writ of review had been filed and added: “After full consideration thereof the court denied the application.” Lasts Four Minutes. ‘The entire sesslon lasted but four minutes and the court adjourned until the Fall. In disposing of ghe petition, the court departed from a long established pro- cedure. It had been announced that the court would adjourn yesterday for the Summer, but Chief Justice Taft at the last minute postponed this action hecause it had not had sufficlent time to inquire into the petition. In delay- ing adjournment Chief Justice Taft carried out a recently expressed inten- tion to facilitate the disposition of criminal_cases awalting ‘action before e court. The action of the court today ended the chapter in criminal procedure here which began on the morning of Sep- tember 26, 1926, in Petworth when the ree men opened fire on Policeman h after he had atempted to ap- them in connection with a serles of highway robberles, ‘Their trial began January 18, 1027, and ended seven weeks later. PFive months from the day of the shooting a jury returned w verdict of first degree murder to Justice Willlam Hitz, who sentenced the three to die in electric chair in July this year, It was the first sentence pronounced by any justice in the District courts un- der the new law, which changed execu- tlon from hanging to electrocution. The case was appealed and an extension was granted the three slayers until May 26 of thin yewr. The Distriet Court of Armlll April 2 upheld the verdict and the case was taken to the highest court on a petition for a writ of review, The date of execu- tion was again postponed until June 8, 2 v . Ping Sails for Kongo. BRUSSELS, Belglum, June 6 (M) The Belglan royal family, whioh is muking & visit to the Kongo, sailed from Antwerp late today aboard the steam- ship Thysville, The party (raveled incognito, Radio I’r«»g;';n‘)u —:l;lulc 2 A FARE RAISE MOVE IS EXPECTED SOON Capital Traction Head Indi- cates 10-Cent Rate May Be Asked Next Week. The Capital Traction Co. probably will carry out its threat to seek an increase in fare the latter part of next week, jt was Indicated today by John H. Hanna, president. There are several important detalls yet to be worked out in connection with the drafting of an application for & rate increase, Mr. Hanna intimated, and this likely will be done at a meeting of the directors of the company, June 14. The fare increase petition would be filed with the Public Utilities Commis- sion after that meeting under present lans. " The most important of these detalls concern_the new rate of fare to be asked. While this is still a moot ques- Ing | tion, Mr. Hanna even declined to divulge the rate which he thinks the com might ask, Attaches of the Ut Commission, however, calculated several weeks ago, when the street car fare question was revived, that a 10-cent cash fare or six token for 50 cents would be necessary to give the Capital Traction & fair return on its present valuation. Rumors since that time were that the company would not ask for a rate that high, and that it probably would be sat- led with a 9-cent cash fare and a token rate of 6 for 45 cents. This would raise the present token fare from 6 2-3 cents to 71, cents. No definite indications have yet come from the Washington Rallway & Elec- tric Co. as to whether it wil be a party to the prospective Capita' Tratclon Co.'s fare-increase application. Willlam F. Ham, president, indicated some time ago that the question had not been consid- ered. Whether the matter has since been discused is not known, as Mr. Ham is in Atlantic City attending the annual convention of the National Elec- tric Light Association. LINDY LATE FOR DEGREE. Spends Night on Farm in Flight to St. Louis for Commencement. ST. LOUIS, June 5 (#).—Unreported since 1 pm. yesterday when he left Fort Worth, Tex, Col. Charles Lind- bergh landed at Lambert-St. Louls field at 10:30 a.m. today, a half hour after the start of Washington University commencement exerciscs at which the degree of master of sclence was award- ed “in absentia” to the famous fiyer. ©Col. Lindbergh sald he spent the night on the farm of T. C. 'wis, 45 miles southwest of St. Louls. He land- ed there in his Ryan monoplane about nightfall with his two passengers, Maj. Thomas G. Lanphier of the First Pur- suit Group and Col. Henry Breckin- ridge, his attorney. DIVORCES VANDERBILT Wife Granted Given Custody of Daughter, NEWPORT, R. I, June § (#).—Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt was granted a divorce from Willlam H. Vanderbilt in Superior Court today on the ground of neglect to provide Mr. Vanderbilt was granted custody | of & minor daughter, Emily, by agree- ment, and alimony was left to be ad- Justed by an agreement between partios. Chamber Head Re-Eleoted. PARIS, June § (#).--Fernand Bouls- son was re-elected president of the Chamber of Deputies today. He de- feated M. Franklin-Boulllon, 327 to 244, | Decree—Father “Golden Rule” R PRODUCED BY The Evening Star Ta further traffic safety is i shown today along with the regular program at The Palace Theater 307 9th Street N.W. Tomorrow the film will be shown at The Leader §07 Ninth 8¢, N.W, (#) Means Associated SOROPTIMISTS IN SECOND FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION IN CAPITAL Scrapping of Consti tution Kills Session; No Authority Left to Adopt New Laws, So Year Is Turned Back. ‘The second annual convention of the International Federation of Soroptimist Clubs, which opened with a great flourish at the Mayflower, Sunday for a week's meeting, today found itself non- existent. This paradoxical state of affairs came about as a result of a decision of the majority of the 150 odd delegates yes- terday afternoon to scrap the con- vention and by-laws adopted at the first annual convention a year ago. This left the convention with no authority under which to meet. When the delegates assembled this morning they were in a hectic con- dition.- It was pointed out that if there wasn't any constitution there couldn't be any organization, and therefore there wasn't any convention. Others WELCHBLFGHT TOGOTOCONGRESS Personnel Board ‘to Submit Classification Dispute at Next Session. ‘The Personnel Classification Board at & meeting today decided to submit to Congress at the next session the problem presented by the action of Controller General McCarl, whose reg- ulations on the Welch act, the board admits, has supplanted the board’s authority over classification to that extent. It was declded by the board not to rescind circular No. 25 issued on May 29 to all branches of the Government asking for information on which to allocate positions to grades under the Welch bill. But, according to W. H. McReynolds, representative of the board from the Bureau of Efficlency, the board recognized that McCarl's authority controls, in this instance, not only for the expenditure of funds, but in the allocation of the positions which he has accomplished in his regulations. issued yesterday. The board by not rescinding Its circular 25 will still pxpect to receive from departments and establishments data on certain grades and will pro- ceed, McReynolds said, to allocate the positions in question according to the procedure established and In use by the board for years, Disagrees With McCarl. ‘The board disagrees with the con- troller general over the disposition of certain higher pald positions, according to McReynolds and will probably pro- ceed to allocate the positions, and do its work as though McCarl's regulations were not in effect. But the work will be done by the board, it was explained, with the full knowledge that the dis- bursing officers must pay employes, un- der the McCarl orders from the begin- ning of the new fiscal year July 1, un- tl Congress determines the matter, “We shall lay before Congress the question s to who exercises authority over the determination of grades,” sald MoReynolds. “If Congress agrees with McCarl, then the rates which go into effeot July 15 pay day will continue, but If Congress agrees with us, then we shall be ready with our data to put our position into operation.” Detalls of the classification board's efrcular disclosed today show that the (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) insisted that there must be a conven- tion since they were all there. had to be there for something. It was unanimously admitted that there would have to be a constitution. Then somebody suggested that they couldn’t adopt a constitution because there wasn't any convention. The sec- ond annual convention had been de- clared non-existent. It was then pro- posed that this be called the first an- nual convention, and in spite of the fact that the first annual convention adjourned a year ago this was carried. Whereupon the second first annual con- ventlon got down to business. Everybody admitted that the first thing to do was to gét a constitution and get it quick. Immediately there de- tween two factions. One wanted a con- stitution which would be effective for " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) ISTEWART DEFENSE HITS INDIGTMENTS Hogan Overruled on Challenge of Four Counts Against 0il Man. By the Associated Press. The case against Robert W. Stewart for refusing to answer questions in the Senate Continental Trading Co. inquiry was rested today by the Government, and the defense got under way imme- diately. The Government introduced several routine documents before giving way. Prank J. Hogan, counsel for Stewart, then launched into an argument against holding Stewart accountable for each refusal to answer a specific question. He recalled that Stewart had refused to answer the same two questions in two successive days, and contended that under the law this did not justify the four counts for refusing which are in- cluded in the indictment. The jury was excluded during Ho- gan's argument. Hogan's Challenge Overruled. Hogan's challenge of two counts in the indictment, on the ground that they represented Stewart’s refusal to answer the same question specified in the two other counts, was overruled by Justice Stddons. The first defense witness was W. W. Stickney, & court clerk, who produced the docket showing when con- spiracy indictment and trial of Harry F. Sinclair occurred. Leo A. Rover, United States attor- ney, contended that this was imma- terial, but his objection was overruled. Hogan examined Stickney regarding the various dates, noting that Stewart's refusal to answer the questions been made while the Sinclair trial was pending. On cross-examination Rover developed that Stewart had not testi= fled in the Sinclair conspiracy trial. An afMdavit by a St. Louls newspaper correspondent was excluded from evi~ dence. Hogan had produced the afidavit in an attempt to show that the questions which Stewart refused to answer had been prompted to the Senate commit- tee by newspaper men, but Govern ment counsel oblected to it as imma- terfal. After a lengthy conference at the bench with lawyers for both sides Justice Siddons sustained the objection, Willilam E. Leahy, counsel for Albert B. Fall in the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy mistrial, sald no witness had testified directly regarding the Continental Trading Co. In the conspiracy trial, President Coolidge Iieclared Pleased With Work of Recent Senate and House President Coolldge views the results of the short session of Congress, just ended, in a satiafactory light and he be- Illeves both House and Senate deserve commendation. The President, it was sald today, re- alired he was a little late in making this comment, but he has calmly re- viewed the work of Congress since its adjournment and he feels confident that the people of the country can feel con- tent that Congress did a b not only in the nature of the leg! en- aoted, but from the fact that the many u)lpmt\l'lllhll\l were kept well In a with the recommendal contained in the budget estimates. Among the more lmportant pleces of e leglslation enacted, tn the President’ opinion, were the allen proper m‘:ut labor o“’l;'mm.. = e Distriot of o regretted that the n program which had M"‘M"flgh&' did not become a law, and was disap- pointed also over the fallure of Cone gress to enact the necessary legislation for the refunding of the Austrian and excep! of the Shoals resolution, President Coolidge has only two or three more or leas o mied as st 8 Musole Shoals bl v TWO CENT Press. COMMITEE FAVR GANEDBY HODVER NDELEEATEFGHT Fiorida Supporters of Com- merce Head Seated and Antis Turned Down. ACTION SAID TO FORECAST CONTROL OF CONVENTION Secretary’s Foes Claim East Is for Smith—Farmer Issue Stressed. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Sta KANSAS CITY, June 5.—Hoover for President sentiment predominates in the Republican national committee, This has been indicated, Hoover supe porters insist, in the settlement of th¢ Florida delegate contests, in which ai of the delegates instwucted for Hoovet were seated and the antls were turned down. And if Hoover sentiment predomi« nates in the national committee, thd Hoover managers argue, it also will predominate in the Republican national convention, and Mr. Hoover will be the nominee of the G. O. P. on an early ballot. Some of them insist he will b veloped a sharp line of dissension be-| the choice on the first ballot. First Victory for Hoover. Hoover drew first blood in the c tests yesterday with nine of Florida's delegation, under instructions for the¢ Secretary of Commerce. This quickly followed by the seating of tw more Hoover delegates from Kentucky, representing the first district, against whom contests had been filed. Contest: involving some 75 delegate seats are tq be settled by the national committee. and the indications are that in the great majority of cases Hoover dele- gates will be seated. This will add by no means unimportant group of dele- gates in the convention to the Hoover standard. The vote in the national committes on the Florida delegates was significant The Hoover delegates at large were seated by a vote of 47 to 36. Not a few of the 36 votes cast against the Hoover delegates were so cast because of tac friendship of the committeemen for George W. Bean, who for years hac been a member of the Republican na- tional committee. Mr. Bean plans to take his contest to the credentials committee, and, if possible, to the floor of the convention. But in view of the overwhelming vote !in the national committee, it is not likely the further contest will be suce ces The Hoover delegates from Florids are in the convention to stay, in a probability. Georgia Disputes Settled. { Apparently stil in control of its | Hoover-for-President members, the Re- publican national committee today drove ahead with its consideration of the contested delegations. Two dele- gate contests from Georgia, first and fifth districts, were settled by agree- | ment in a manner satisfactory to the | Hoover people, and the third contest | involving one delegate from the seventh district was postponed with the un- derstanding that a settlement would be reached by the parties involved by to- mOrrow morning. The Georgla contests involve a fac- tional row in the State, aimed at Ben Davis, the Republican national com- mitteeman, rather than a Hoover and anti-Hoover fight. The agreement in the first Georgia district delegate case was reached by awarding to each of the contestants one-half vote. This caused Chairman Willlam M. Butler to announce that the call for the na- tional convention did not look to the election of more than 1089 delegates to the convention and that fractional voting was not authorized. He said the comm called upon to pass on t a later date. Louisiana Fight Taken Up. The Louisiana contests were heard by the committee, inve delegates. It was a Hoover a | Hoover fight, with the Hoover de representing the Kuntz faction so-called uninstructed delegate senting the Cohen faction the Republican national commit from Louisiana, and Walter Co the colored collector of customs at New Orleans. Prediction was made wh the hearing began that the Ku delegates would be seated. On seating district delegates from Florida, the committee went even strongly for the Hoover instructed de gates than it did in the case of the de gates at large. The committee stood 3 to 38 for the Hoover delegates. Whil | & score of the members of the con | tee were not in attendance today | presence would not have mate: v tered the line-up for the Hoover dele- gates. Charles D. Hilles o} New York, vice chairman of the national co: tee, led the fight against the Hoov gates in the Florida cases be expected. Mr. Hil nomination of the Secretary merce. He is clinging tena the idea of drafting Preside idge. But more tenacluosly he is ing to the idea of defeatingk for the presidential nomir er Mr. Coolidge be now He would turn to Charles E in & fifty, if the former State were in the runuil Teceive the support of otk 1t is Mr. Hilles, more than any leader, who is blowing the breath of into the Coolidge draft move: has supporters in this anti-Hoover a pro-Coolidge attitude, even in Sta where Mr. Hoover has strong popu! support, tncludnig Maryland, where entire State delegation has bee structed for Hoover. b D. C. Vote Split The representatives of the D! Columbia on the Republican committee split their votes on the ida delegates, Edward F. Collad publican national committeer ing for the Bean faction and e would b is matter & vict of the Hoover delogates. vote, however, Is not nece construed as an anti-Hoover vote. fell in line for his fellow commitive- man, Mr. Bean, and voted also with Chalrman Willlam M. Butler of Massa- chusetts, Who was one of those voung 10 seat Mr. Bean and his delegates. ‘The contest for the two delegates from the District of Columbia, filed by Aaron Bradshaw and Aaron Prioleau against T, Linealn Townsend and Dr - R. Hawking, representing the Colladay-Prescott faction of Distriet (Conthued b Page 3 Columa 80 L