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WEA' (U. 8. Weather Fair and continued cool with lowest temperature about tomorrow fair witi perature. Temperatures 3:45 pm. vesterday; lowest, 47. am. today. Full re Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 THER. Bureau Forecast.) 45 degrees tonight: h slowly rising_tem- Highest, 67, at 6:30 port on page @b WITH SUNDAY MORNI NG EDITION ¢ Foening Slar. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday's Circu!flion. 110,388 - No. 31,054 post office, Wa: Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTC IN, . D THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1929—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. *% (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. £.B. PITTS INDICTED ON TESTIMONY IN BANKRUPTCY CASE Board Chairman of F. H. Smith Co. Said to Have Made False Oath. WAS TESTIFYING ABOUT HAMILTON HOTEL DEAL Four Counts in Grand Jury's Spe- cial Bill—Question of Profit Is Raised. G. Bryan Pitts. chairman of the board of the real estate and financial corporation. was indicted today in a special report by the grand jury on a charge of making a false oath before Ralph D. Quinter, former 1eferee in bankruptey. in connection with proceedings con- cerning the bankruptey of the Hamil- ton Hotel Corporation. which formerlv conducted the Hamilton Hotel at Four- teenth and K streets, which went into bankruptcy early in 1926. Pitts is alleged to have committed the crime of perjury by making answer to questions and declaring that the Smith Co.. had no connection with the purchase of the property and that it made no profit out of the transaction. The alleged false statements are al- Jeged to have been made May 10. 1926, and would have been outlawed to- morrow! Indictment in Four Counts. The indictment alleges the facts to be #hat the Hamilton Hotel Co. was a sub- sidiary of the F. H. Smith Co.. and that in floating a loan on the property the F. H. Smith Co. was paid a bonus of £144000. The indictment is in four counts. the first charging that the hotel company was a part of the Smith Co and that the latter company took active part in the purchase of the land and the building of the hotel, and that Pitts denied this in his testimony The second count deals with the hotel company as a separate corpora- tion, but asserts that the Smith Co. was interested in the building and the floating of the loans on which it was paid the bonus. The third count deals with the alleged declaration by Pitts that the company made no profits out of the hotel transaction. when it is Claimed the fact i that i made $144, ‘The fourth count refers back to the first question propounded to the wit- ness regarding the starting of t hotel project and t6”Which he i< Skid to have ‘answered that the company was in no way connected with it. The | F. H. Smith Co.. | FQ;E%(EE}I{IASE%AD IN OPEN DEBATE IS OPENED Leo Chalks Up 69 for Hole Total of 140 to Keep Ahead. 'WALTER SETS MARK ;Alw Mitchell, Briton, Takes Third in 144. as Allis Sinks to Fourth. By the Associnted Press. GULLANE, Scotland. May 9.—Leo Diegel, with a smashing 69, took the lead away from Walter Hagen after 36 | holes of play in the British open golf | championship. Diegel's score for the | two days was 140, while Hagen had compiled a 36-hole total of 142, with 'a score of 67 today. Diegel scored 71 yesterday when | Hagen taok 75. The professional cham- | vion of the United States, who has been playing sensational golf since his ar- rival in Engiand with the American Ryder Cup team. went out in 34 strokes today and came home in 35. Abe Mitchell, after a brave start, faitered on the second nine and finished with a score of 72, duplicating his performance of yesterday. The long hitter was out in 34 and had a chance | to tie Hagen by coming home in fours. | His total of 144 left him in third place. two strokes behind the champion and | trailing Diegel four strokes. RECORD 67 WALTER HAGEN, “Der Haiz" of American golfdom, who today chalked up a new record in British open tournament play when his card of 67 at Muirfield eclipsed Bohby Jones' old-time mark of 68 over the course at St. Andrew's. Percy Allis, vesterday’s leader with 69, took 76, but was in fourth place with a score of 145. The rules provide for elimination of all players 14 strokes and over behind the leader after 36 holes of play. but with a provision that the minimum starters for the final test must be 60, g0 all seoring 157 remain in the com- petition. This will enable George Von (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) WICKERSHAN ASKS ENGLAND OPPOSES * RESPECT FOR LAW NEW DEBT SPLITAP Hoover Press Speech Clarion Commons Reassured on Per- Call to Legal Profes- sion, He Says. President Hoover's recent address be- fore the Associated Press was declared today to be “a clarion call to th profession throughout George W. Wickersham, former Attor- ney General. in an address opening the {annual meeting of the American Law Institute. ‘The greatest of all existing evils was ‘widespread disregard for I part of a considerable part of the Amer- | indictment charges that Pitts knew | ican people and chronic delays and un- | the answers were false and untrue be- cause the Smith Co. had been actively | concerned and took prominent part in | the originating of the venture. | | Inquiry on for Weeks. Investigation has been in progress for several weeks by the Department of Justice, by United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, which resulted in the indict- ment. The witnesses appearing before the grand jury were Raiph D. Quinter, Louis Loebl, Jesse C. Adkins, Felix Lake, George R. Sheriff, William J. Brennan, Henry E. Tudor, Charles T. Malone and Samuel J. Henry. At the time of the alleged false testi- mony, the indictment recites, Pitts a vice president and director of the F. H. Smith Co. The first count of the indictment | Teads: ‘ “The grand jurors for the United States of America, empaneled and | sworn in the Supreme Court of the Dis- | trict of Columbia, holding a criminal | term at the April term of said court in | the year 1929, and inquiring foresaid | District of Columbia upon their oath present, that on May 10, 1926, in the city of Washington, in said District of | Columbia, a hearing was held before | Ralph D. Quinter, who then and there was_the referee in brankruptcy. in the | bankruptcy proceeding and matter of | the Hamilton Hotel Corporation, bank- | Tupt, it being case No. 1591 in bank- | ruptey in said Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and said matter being then and there a matter referred by said court to said Ralph D. Quinter as such referce; that at said hearing, G. Bryan Pitts appeared as 2 witness before said Ralph D. Quinter. referee as aforesaid, to wit. at Wash- ington aforesaid, in said District of Columbia, to be examined concerning the acts, conduct and property of sai bankrupt. the estate of which was then and there in process of adminis- tration in said -court pursuant to the bankruptcy laws of the United States, and then and there and on that oc- casion was duly sworn by and took his oath before said Ralph D. Quinter as such referee in a case in which a law of the United States then authorized an oath to be administered. to wit, in said hankruptcy hearing before said Ralph D. Quinter as such referee that he, the said G. Bryan Pitts, would testify. declare and depose truly con- cerning the matter so then and there under hearing. Charge of Misstatement. “That said Ralph D. Quinter then and there as such referee in bank- ruptey in said proceeding and matter. was a competent tribunal. officer and person to administer said oath to said G. Bryan Pitts, therein; and that said G. Bryan Pitts then and there, so hav- ing been sworn and taken his oath then and there unlawfully and felon- jously did wilfully and contrary to his £aidl oath state a certain material mat- ter which he then and there did not believe to be true; that is to say “In said hearing before said Ralph D. Quinter. referee as aforesaid, it be- came and was a material inguiry and " (Continued on Page 2. Column 7.) i)laguc of 17-Year Locusts on Its Way In Midwest Area Br the A 1ated Press. AMES, Iowa. May 0.—-The plague of the 17-vear locust is on its way in this region. the entomology department of Iowa State College announces. The in- sect, a pest in the history of midwestern agriculture, is due this month for its first appearance since 1912. Already students of the school have come upon the little holes {rom which the locust, or cicadas. will emerge. The department predicts 1t will be only a short time until the insects are swarm- “plague” will not really e harm- . the sxperts say. The increase of the natural enemies of the cicadas- domestic animals, squirrels, fowis apd prosecution and conviction of crime.” centage of Reparations Britain Expects. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 9.—Winston Churchill, e legal | chancellor of the exchequer, told the the land.” by |House of Commons this afternoon that. | the kind of proposals foreshadowed on | the London ! German reparations in press yesterday would be unacceptable to the Baldwin cabinet. Under no circumstances would the he said by Mr. Wickersham to be the government !nterqm such proposals, | o aw on the | Mr. Churchill declared. Mr. Churchill had been asked by Col. | Josiah Wedgwood, Labor member, | certainties in the prevention, detection, | “Whether the terms of reference of the reparations committee covered altera- He urged the institute to exert its tions in the Spa percentages, and fur- influence “in bringing the minds of the ther, whether Mr. Churchill has in- people back fo a recognition of the | formed our representatives on the com essential foundations upon which our | mittee of the views of his majesty’s Nation was builded and upon which our | form of government must rest, which is | respect for law as law.” The institute at its meeting had on | its program for discussion proposed re- forms in judicial procedure and law |revision, One of the principal sub- jects was the preparation of a model code of criminal procedure on which the organization has been working. is now about two-thirds Chief Justice Agrees. government on these alterations.” Has Faith in Delegation. Mr. Churchill replied: “The commit- tee of experts now sitting in Paris is | domposed of independent represent- atives of the various countries con- cerned. We have, of course, kept in It touch with British members through- completed. | out these protracted proceedings and | have been impressed by their admirable | Chief Justice William Howard Taft | 8asp and comprehension of the whole joined Mr. Wickersham in expressing | position. the view that the question of en- forcement of all laws is an outstanding issue of today. BOAT, EIGHT ABOARD, IS REPORTED SUNK “We have not, however, at any time sent definite instructions to these gen- While refraining from mentioning | tlemen nor do we propose to do so on this occasion. The experts committee must be left to reach their own conclu- sions. “These conclusions, whatever they may be, whether agreed to or not, in no way commit_his majesty’s government, | which remains entirely free to review | the whole position and make their own | | decision upon the work and the recom- ! | mendations of the experts committe “It is clear that no urgency exists | and that it would be premature as well | as_inexpedient for his majesty’s gov- | Eernmenl to pronounce upon particular | | aspects, however important they may By the Associated Press. be, at the present juncture. RICHMOND, Va. May 9.—Dripping | Sl | & | ver, revent, m a residence near the James River, e~ ... ooiion abroad and alarm at home. low Richmond, shortly before midnight, | it is perhaps desirable that I should say incoherently told a story of a boat car- | that the kind of proposals which were rying eight persons striking a wharf [oreshadowed in ‘the newspapars yes- h terday would. in our opinion, be un- and sinking and then lapsed Into un- acceptable and that his majesty’s gov- consciousness. ernment wouid under no circumstances J. A. Payne, whose home Brown entertain them.” This announcement was ted with | | found, told officers that he gathered 4 ESice ot th from the man's conversation all on cheers. | | board the boat had life preservers ex- In his answer the chancellor of the exchequer was also replying to a ques- | cept his wife and himself. He said his wife was in the river, Payne told offi- tion by Col. Gretton, Conservative, as to | whether the government would under- | cers. Brown was taken lo a hospital and officers set out for the spot wh take not fo agree to any arrangement e the boat is thought to have gone down. which would entail further or increased charges upon the British public. i There had been no reports from them | at_2 o'clock this morning. Col. Wedgwood pressed Mr. Churchill al Doctors, after vainly attempting to swer whether the question of alter- |ation in the Spa peicentages were cov- | get definite information from Brown | ered in the committee's terms of ref- early this morning, decided not to dis- . |turb him further and issued instruc- | tions that he was to be allowed to sleep. Mr. ‘Churchill replied that his answer had been most carefully and gravely The examining physicians said that | they received only groans, mutterings | considered and that he did not desire and motions. as if swimming. from | to add to it in any way, Brown in reply to all of their ques- | | tions It was raining down the river where the boat was reported to have crashed. Brown lapsed into unconsciousness be- fore he was able to give names of members of the boating party . Viriginian ~ Incoherently Tells Story of James' River Crash and Loses Consciousne | LEAKS INDICATE SINCLAIR| /STILL ALIVE IN D. C. JAIL: Reporters, Barred From Proving If, | Put One Thing and Another Together. While officials at the District »diered strictly foday to the injun yazainst giving out any info {about their most prominent guest, , was enough of a “leak” 1o verify a| | persistent report that Harry F. Sinclai | still is alive and hard at hic job as a| pharmacist The official cloak of censorship drawn | about the jail's new pharmacist by the | Board of Public Welfare prevented. | however, verification of a rumor that Mr. Sinclair would listen in tomorrow on the running of the Preakness af Pimlica race track. The Sinclair colors will oe prominent in the big race, which will be broadcast by radio. Some of th jaii's inmates will be allowed to tune in on the broadeast. Iitnle News, Pages 10 and 11 - 2 Jail . Sc1entlsts Announce ol birds—and the increase in cultication of land all mean that slight damage is to be_expected The life of the locust above the | around is only three of four weeks. In| that time they will deposit their eggs in packets and twigs, then die. The eggs | will hatch and the young locust will | emerge aftcr about seven weeks. They | will bury themselves in the ground, | there to remain uprtil 1946. Little harm results from the cicadas during the vears they are und-rground. They subsist by sucking sap from the roots of trees. Orchards suffer worst. Cicadas, legend says. were a favorite | delicacy ameng the Indians, who roasted large numbers of them. 1 | IN HOUSE ON NEW TARIFF MEASURE Bill Reported Despite Oppo-' sition of Democratic Minority Protest. i l | | i | i | ! DELAY WILL BE SOUGHT | | BY FARM STATES GROUP Decide to Ask Republican Caunens for Concession While Agreement i Is Being Reached. i i ! By the Aseocisted Press. | Without waiting for the adoption of | a rule governing the offering of | amendments, the House today started | general debate on the tariff revision bill with the indications pointing to the | discussions lasting the better part of a | week, Meanwhile Republican Represent- | atives of 10 agricultural States decided today to ask the Republican caucus | tomorrow to delay action ipon a rule | | for consideration for the bill for a | week, while they attempt to agree upon | differences that have arisen. | _ Representative Dickinson, Republican | Towa, was designated to present the r | quest for delay to the caucus. | Hold Informal Conference. | The decision was reached at an in- formal conference of Representatives | from North and South Dakota, Nebras- | | ka, Illinois, Towa, Kansas, Minnesota, | | Wisconsin, Missouri and California. | The dissatistaction arose over provi- ! sions in the bill affecting the drawback on wheat, failure to impose a duty on | ides, cattle and vegetable oils. | | Debate in the House got under way | | after the ways and means committee | had earlier in the day favorably re-| ported to the House the measure | framed by its Republican members, by | the strict party vote of 15 to 9. One | of the 10 Democrats on the committee. | Representative Hill of Washington, a | | new members, voted present. | Representative Hull of Tennessee, a | former chairman of the Democratic | | national committee, and an ardent student of the tariff, said he would file a minority Teport, but was not certain whether any other Democrats | | would join in the report as he had not had time to take up the matter 'llll'\‘1 them. Plans Minority Report, Representative Hull of Tennessee, a| | Democratic member of the commitiee, announced after the meeting at which the bill was reported out that he would file a minority report on the bill with- in_the next two days. Chairman Hawley said after the meeting he expected debate on the bill to last at least four or five days. He added that the full committee would meet daily after the amendment stage was reached to determine what commit- tee revisions would be proposed. A Democratic suggestion that the bill be taken up under the five-minute rule, permitting any member to offer an | amendment at any time, was made at | the meeting, but Hawley said this would not be done. H A Republican conference to sound out | | the majority on the scope of an amend- | ment-limiting rule will be held tomor- row afternoon. Garner Attacks The initial organized Democratic at- | tack on the bill came in a statement late vesterday by Minority Leader Gar- ner, who declared the members of his | party were a unit in opposition to many | administrative provisions of the measure, | some of “which he characterized s “vicious.” The statement was issued after a | meeting of the Democratic members of ways and means committee, who were excluded from meetings during the preparation of the bill, and shortly after | Chairman Hawley announced that the sure would be taken up for debate | Garner's statement declared the Dem- ocrats would continue to oppose the delegation of power to the President to change import duties under the ! flexible provisions and also would op- pose the new proposal to limit the jurisdiction of customs courts in reap- praisement cases. and to give certain (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) SPANISH FLYERS CUT MEXICO OFF ROUTE | | i L COLON, Panama, May 9.—Capts. Ig- | nacio Jimenez and Francisco Iglesias, | Southern transatlantic fiyers, have been ordered to return to Spain by way of Guatemala and Cuba and t omit the visit which they had planned to Mexico. | ed to Return Home by Way of Guatemala. They had planned also previously to | bring their plane, the “Jesus de Gran | Poder,” to New York. Decision Causes MEXICO CITY, Ma .—An- vouncement that the Spanish fiyers, Capts. Ignacio Jimenez and Francisco Tglesias, would return to Sp: in without iting Mexico caused considerable sur- prise here, when plans were being mad~ for an elaborate public reception for them. The foreign office issued a .atement in which it was said “the 'nexpected ana unofficially announced s pensio of the trip” peared “to be ver trange.” The Spanish Minister here said tiwe reasons for the action undoubtedly were | t>chnical. Bank Statements \Vqlsh)n[(inn clearing house, $4,507,- .90 Treasury balance, $197,700,939.72. New York clearing house exchange 368,000,000 | searching for a naval Ny York clearing house balance. 144,000,000, Radio l’rog‘rz.m!s »Page 12 P WHAT 'RE FARM RELIEF AND TARIFF REVISION COMPARED To MY TASK ? DEBENTURE FIGHT - SHIFTED TO HOUSE - WITH DEFEAT SEEN Lower Chamber May Flatly Refuse to Receive Bill on Constitutiona! Grounds. 'PARTY LINES ARE DRAWN, BUT G. 0. P. HAS CONTROL Vote Yesterday Gives Complete Picture of Sentiments of Members of Senate. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The battle over the benture pian” of farm relief shifts today to the House. The prospeet is that it will be badly defeated there. This is by no means admitted. however, by supporters of de- benture. The Republican leaders of the House, opposing the debenture, must determine what line the battle is to take there. They may decide to decline to receive 'SOUCEK'S PLANE LEFT CEILING IN BAD SPIN. HE SAYS IN STORY Navy Record-Breaker Tells Own Tale of Climb to 40,000 Feet—Earth Seen Like Toy World. Lieut. Soucek, the naval aviator who set an unofficial world’s alti- tude record yesterday in his ascent from_the Naval Air Station, writes his own story oj the flight jor readers of The Star. BY LIEUT. A. SOUCEK, U. S. Yesterday was the day we had been waiting for more than a week. sky was clear of clouds, the air cool, the Th- sun brilliant. My Wright Apache plane was on the line, the mechanics giving it the las touches—40 gallons of gas in the tanks, ever flown before. which lifted me higher than man has Capt. Luke Christopher, chairman of the contest committe- of the National Aeronautic Association, with the aid of Chief Electrician’s Mate Fagan, sealed the barographs and placed them in the compartment next to my oxygen bottles. ng suit, boots and mittens, while Comdr. F. H. Sears, flight surgeon of | the Naval Air Station, plugged my nos- trils to force me to breathe through the | mouth; adjusted my goggles, with their | six pin holes through which I should‘ have seen when the glasses eventually became covered with frost, coated them in attempts to slow down the frost for- | mation and adjusted my helmet and face mask. Machinists Test Plane. Chief Machinist Mates Enricksen and | Kidder, who have nursed my plane for | weeks in preparation for today's venture, | gave the engine a last test. Mechanics clung to the tiny plane to | hold it down as I raced the motor. | Everything was ready. The day was perfect. I taxied the plane out into the | fiels e take-off was easy after a run of 25 yards. I slipped my goggles over my f to prevent the collection of CHURCH PAGT SURE. MEXICANS BELIEVE Optimism Prevails as Full Import of Portes Gil's I was almost stified in my heavy fiy-) = moisture until I needed them and head- ed out over the Potomac. My left eye began to pain, a grain of sand driven into it as we took off. which may cause trouble. It was uncomfortable breathing through my mouth as the plane, stepped at an angie of 30 degrees, climbed. It was a long way up, so I throttled the motor down slightly to save it for the big pull at the top. I had determined to make the climb in ever widening circles, with the Naval Alr Station, my home field, at the ce ter. The first 10.000 feet were easy—in about four minutes. Atmosphere Clear as Crystal. The atmosphere was clear as crystal. Off to the north I could see Baltimore clearly. To the west was the smoke ringe of the Blue Ridge Mountains. To the south I could see the dismantled fleet of Shipping Board war freighters (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) GET NOBSTRUCTED VW OF ECLSE Scientists at lloilo Take Pic- tures and Make Other - mission_must have been legal residents | the bill with the debenture plan in- cluded from the hands of the Senate. This they would do on the ground that the debenture has to do immediatelr with revenue and that under the Con- stitution all revenue legislation mus originate in the House, of the District three years prior to their appointment. Because of the general interest in Washington in the utilities subject and because of the $7,500 sal- ‘ = Prerogatives Guarded. ' “Once let the Senate get its nos: | Hoover May Name Succes- whole tent over on us,” said one o btz | the Republican leaders of the Housc sor Within 24 Hours for | todsy. discussing the proposition. ~ B position in the House to permitting the | Senate to “get away” with revenur | legislation, and that the House jealous! Within the next 24 nours President ;ufieulpis'l‘; the .Houbsfil huddecunr i y to receive bills and resolu Hoover will probably fill the vacaney on | ot Ul 10, fecelie bills and tesolu ihe District of Columbia caused by the | it to initiate revenue legislation. retirement of Col. Harrison Brand in|(ne Touse by a vote determined nc March. It is thought doubcful that T teipian TEkh 3 he will be in a position to appoint a | check for the supporters of debentu successor to John Childress. who has I the Senate. and a tie-up temporari: tendered his resignation to become ef- | ast of a1l farm legisiation. sued when the farm bill goes back ! two. | the House from the Senate is for th Out of & list of about 40 candidates 1cuse to receive the bill and send . | for these two places on the local util- course of legislation where difference It i PSR a course which soffie of the Republica: ough the assistance of his three i lor o the Senmte are Hreine ton: secretaries, selected three names from the House leaders today, believing tha another day expires. The White House | 4 that such & course would expedit th n has succeeded in guarding very closely | ¢ Ul Pessage of farm legislation (he names of those who have been put | G. 0. P. Has Big Lead. understood that the President has be- -over the Democrats is practieally an fore him the names of only those who ¢ven hundred. While some of the Re- have had a knowledge of law as well Dublicans might vote for the debenture work. | Democrats from New York and other The President is understood to have | Eastern States may vote against it, jus complained somewhat while casting as they did in the Senate. Represen because of the limitations placed upon leader of the House, has asserted that him by the law creating the Utilities the Democrats will sunvort the deben- Commission, which specifically provides ture plan practically to a man, how- Senate Authority Debated. ‘The right of the Senate to originair the debenture plan in the bill was ce- ary, the fleld of candidates and aspir- Moses of New Hampshire, Republican, ants was large. It is understood that sStated that the House had been “ef- more than 40 persons were proposed fronted” by the action taken yesterday commission. 1In this list were several 'publicans voted to retain the debenture women. plan in the bill SRl A | __Senator Robinson of Arkansas, thr debenture has no relation whatever to A under the tent, and it may turn the insisted that there would be strong op- One of Two Posts. ! quarded its prerogatives. Many time the Public Utilities Coramission of | violated the autherity conferred upo: Senate, there would be an immedia The other course which 1 fective June 1, before the next week or Ll to conference. That is the ordinar: ities commission Mr. Hoover has, Arise between .the two houses. which he will make a choice before’ the House will ‘defeat the debenturr on the preferred list although it is' The Republican lead in the House as being familiar with public utilities | plan, it is also true that some of the about for availables for these two places ' fative Garner of Te: Democrati~ that the civilian members of the com- ever, making it a party issue. bated in the Senate today. Senafor to the President for appointment tc the when a coalition of Democrats and Re- | Democratic leader, denounced the sup $1,500,000 FORGERIES that clause in the Constitution which gestion thal the Senate had exceedc its authority when it initiated the debenture plan “Any lawyer,” said Senator Robinson, ‘will arrive at the conclusion that the City Trust Shortage Found After says that bills raising revenue must Offer Is Realized. B¢ the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, May 9.—Undisguised optimism that a solution would be found for Mexico's church-state difficulties prevailed in many quarters in Mexico City today as the full import of Presi- dent Portes Gil's stand Tuesday night was recognized. The President was seen here as hav- ing issued an invitation to Archbishop Ruiz, regarded as head of the Mexican | Southern Transatlantic Pair Order- roman Catholic hierarchy, to take the | initiative in the conduct of negotiations for a settlement of the three-year-old question. It was believed this might be done by the prelate proposing a meeting himself with Portes Gil. or by laying the entire matter before the Vatican for decision. t was felt that if actual conversations took place between representatives of the government and the church the chances for a settlement were particu- larly strong. The Mexico City press was unani- | No explanation was given of the order. | mous in its wish that a settlement might | grow out of the public statements of Archbishop Ruiz and the President. El Universal Grafico today said the | nun, Mother Concepcion Acevedo de la | Lata. under a | tellectual author | Gen. Alvaro Obregon was on her way to Las Tres Marias prison col- | ony, off the West Coast of Mexico. | The paper said she was included in a aroup of 74 prisoners, 39 of whom were women, who left here yesterday for Manzanillo, where they will be placed aboard a ship which will take them to ! the island prison. Most of the deportees | were charged with aiding the so-called | religious_insurgents in Jalisco or with | other political offenses. i They were guarded heavily. the escort | | being ‘in charge of Gen. Francisco J.| | Mujiga, director of the prison colony. | | He "has been credited with instituting | reforms in the colony procedure such as | abolition of the whipping post, torture chamber and the like. ' The women were the first to be sen | to the islands. | i | | | Japanese Naval Plane Missing. TOKIO. May 9 (#).—The navy office announced that four destroyers were plane missing | since yesterday which was attempting a 600-mile fiight from Nafa. Loochoo Islands. to Nagasakl. Two accompany- ing planes were caught in a storm and forced down. - Observations. By the Associated Press. MANILA, May 9 —Scientists assem- bled in Tloilo, south of here, had an unobstructed view of the solar eclipse today. They took photographs and made numerous observations of the phenomenon in their quest for infor- mation about the sun's corona and the effect of the eclipse upon the earth. A message received here from the Rev. Miguel Selga, director of the Ma- nila Observatory, who headed one of the scientific expeditions to Iloilo, de- clared that the eclipse revealed a beau- titul corona and made visible many planets and stars in the direction of the sun. Mr. Selga reported that the United States Naval Observatory expedition, the University of Hamburg expedition and a group of English sctentists car- ried out their observations as planned under favorable weather. Thousands Turn Out. Tloilo made a holiday out of the oc- casion and thousands of persons turned out to see the phenomenon. All roads leading to the observatory stations were closed to prevent the scientists from be- ing disturbed and traffic in the harbor | was stopped so the United States Naval (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) BANDIT SIGNALS LIMITED TO ROB TWO PASSENGERS Transcontinental Train Halted by Ruse California—Victims Lose $25 to Robber. By the Associated Press RIVERSIDE. Calif., May 9.-A masked man, by a ruse, stopped the Union acific Overland ' Limited, bound from 0s Angeles to Chicago, at a street crossing here last night and robbed two passengers in the observation car. The robber short-circuited a block signal with a_wire on the rails to halt the train. The victims were M. J Nathan, Los Angeles. who lost $13, and in Mrs.Mrs. J. L. Carroll, Chicago, who was | vobbed of £12 The man jumped from the train as it staried to move forward after the brakeman had located and removed the wire, State Examiner Passed Books, Auditors Say. By the Associated Press, NEW. YORK, May 9.—Testimony that private auditors found in one day over two after Frank H. Warder, former State superin- $1.500,000 in forged motes in branches of the City Trust Co. originate in the House | The Democratic leader insisted that | every court decision was to the effect that such a measure as the debenturs | clause in the farm bill cannot be con- sidered a revenue-raising measure, Claims Move to Bar Vote. “No strained construction of the Con- stitution,” said Senator Robinson. “can show that the Senate has usurped the jurisdiction of the House in this mat- | ter. T realize there is a movement on foot to prevent by a parliamentary ruse tendent of banking. had said the bank [a vote on this debenture plan in the was in “good condition,” was given to- day. The testimony was offered at the House.” Senator Robinson said that such s course on the part of the House would referee’s hearing into the affairs of the be an affront (o the Senate. and in- bankrupt Lancia Motors of America, an enterprise of the late F. M. Fer- former president of the trust com- sisted that the Senate had just as much right to insert the debenture plan as bas_the House. | “Before this Congress adjourns.” de- . A. H. Giannini, who said he had clared the Democratic leader emphat- been urged by Warder and others to | ically, trust com- id his take over the affairs of the pany on the death of Ferrari auditors found the forged paper: “this debenture plan will be | voted on. Capitalistic influence, great newspapers that have had the benefits of protection, which is as much a ‘The examination was made two days bounty as the debenture, now seek to after Warder was in good shape, he testified. reported option to lapse. Persia Recognizes Iraq. ‘The Persian gove mandate, the notified- today Iraq Western boundary of Persia. By the Associated Press. pacific airship lines by the Goodyear | Zeppelin Corporation was outlined to | President Hoover today by P. W. Litch- | field, president of the company, who | was presented at the White House by { Senator Burton of Ohio. ! The question of obtaining mail con- tracts for the proposed lines was uis cussed in particular. The Pres i Burton said, was much interestzd and seemed disposed f0 help the projeci with mail contracts if that shonld be feasible Some question. however, has arisen as to whether this can be done without ,-..\’ ~ had told him the bank Dr. Giannini had an option to take over the bank but when his examiners its condition he allowed the He only took it in the first place. he testified, because it had been urged on him a: a “patriotic duty.” ent has recog- nized officially the government of Iraq. a Mesopotamian kingdom under British Persion legation here was lies along the ‘The proposed establishment of trans- | characterize as unsound and unjust the debenture. Now we are told that a construction of the Constitution is to be used to prevent men and women on the farms from receiving equality of {reatment with the capitalists. Senator Robinson insisted that this was a serious issue and one that would be_fought out to the end. | In reply Senator Moses said that he had no doubt the arguments made by Senator Robinson would be heard fre- quently in the Senate “when the House politely returns to us the farm relief The defeat of the administration (Continued on Page 3. Column 2) Transpacific Air Line Plans Interest Hoover as Litchfield Cutlines Project the passage of additional legislation by Congress. Present laws authorize the award of such contracts to steamship and to airplane lines, but Senator Bur- ton said the status of airships had not been clarified. The Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, which is now building two airships for the Navy, proposes to construct a third vessel along similar lines as the first of its proposed transpacific fleet. It is planned first to establish service be- tween Los Angeles and Hawaii and later to extend it to Manila and Javan and possibly Australia and New Zsaland. The company planz to carry mail, ex- bress and passengers.