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D i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGT pe ON, D €, FPRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929, HELEN WILLS GOES INTO SEMHFIVALS U. S. Star Defeats Miss La Faurie of France by 6—4, 6—1 Score. Br the Associated Press. | PARIS, May 31.—Helen Wills forged into the semi-finals of the French tennis championship ahead of the field today, defeating Mme. Helen La Faurie of France with case, 6—4, 6—1 Rene Lacoste sought to withdraw from the championships today because of a severe sore throat, but finally was prevailed upon to in the tournament at le tomorrow The French star s ad a hard time finishing his match with his coun- tryman, Paul Feret, yesterday, and felt N0 _better today. Taking the courts against the Hun- garian, Baron von Kehrling, in the quarter-finals, Rene played poorly with every evidence of being in pain, but won the first set, 8—6. Lacoste, bare- | Iy able to hobhle about. continued the | mawch on sheer grit and lost the sec- | ond set at 16, Only the entreaties of his father that he finish the match and seratch this evening if he es not. feel better kept the great tri-color Davis Cup player on the courts Lacoste b the semi-finals | when he captured the | third and fourth sets to win the match | by scores of 8—6, 1—6, 6—0, G His easy progress through the two sets appeared to be due not to any notice- able improvement on his part, but rather to a slump in the playing form of Von Kehrling. Whether La Coste will remain in the tournament to meet the winner of the | Whether Lacoste will remain in the | match between Bill Tilden and Baron H. L. De Morpurgo of Italy in the next improves overnight Tilden lost the first set. was 11—9. ‘The score Will Discuss Senate SENATOR LA FOLLETTE, Speaker in National Radio Forum to- | morrow night. SENATOR LA FOLLETTE TO TELL NATION OF SENATE SECRECY _(Continued from_First Page.) that a majority of the Senate may order consideration of nominations in open | executive sessions. It is expected that this proposed amendment. will come up | for consideration in the Senate next|assault on them is continued. | week. Undoubtedly efforts will be | on the floor of the Senate fo liber: ade o still further the rule. One of the re- GALS ON EUROPE | * TOUPHOLD PAET Hoover, in Address, Agrees | Critics May Make Kellogg | Treaties Worthless. | | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Like his predecessors, Preside: Hoover selected Memorial day as th {occasion for an expression of foreig: | policy. The speech was intended more for consumption abroad than at home. | Senttment for peace and limitation ot |armament needed no stimulus inside | | the United States. But the stabilizing | | of European currents of conflict was | Mr. Hoover's obpective, with the idea, | too, that the American initiative would be greeted with more support if the public opinion of the whole world were prepared for real sacrifices in limit- ing armament. < It has been represented to the Presi- {dent that when the Kellogg treaties were signed, the wave of enthusiasm | that swept Europe was such that im- mediately thereafter almost any rea- | sonable proposals for limiting “arm ment would have been accepted. But since that time those who constantly | see war as an inevitable instrumental- ity of national policy have begun speaking lightly of the treaties and pointing to them as vague and am- biguous and meaningless. Depend on Moral Force. ‘The true significance of Mr. Hoover's | speech s that he agrees the Kellogg | treaties can be made Worthless if such | He | asserts, in effect, that the Kellogg | | treaties depend entirely on moral force | | for their sanction and if the critics get | PRESIDENT HOOVER DELIVERING MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS _ IIATION LEADERS HONORED FORWORY Twelve Men and Miss Earhart Awarded Trophies for Feats in Aeronautics. the Assoriated Press. ST. LOUIS, May 31.—A dozen men and a woman were honored Wednesday night by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for their contri- butions_to aviation, The first “Spirit of St. Louis” medal presented by proxy to Daniel Gug- , founder of the Daniel Gug- d for Promotion of Aero- | medal is to be presented occasionally in the future to those who make outstanding contributions to the advancement of aviation in the United States Watches for meritorious service in ious fields of aeronautics were pre- ted to Amelia Earhart, woman trans- atlantic flyer; William Boeing, airplane | manufacturer and transport operator: Lieut. James H. Doolittle of the Army Afr Service, now engaged with the Gug genheim Fund in the solving of the fog problem: Brig, Gen. Willlam E. Gfll- more, chief of the material division of the Army Air Corps; Capt. F. C. Hings- burg, chief of the Airways Division, United States Department of Com- merce; Prof. Alexander Klemin of the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics New York University: Dr. G. W. Lewis director of aefonautical research of the National Advi for Aero- nautics; William P. MacC n, As- sistant Sec ry of Commerce for Aeronautics; Igor Sikorsky, airplane manufacturer; Ralph H. Upson, dirigi- ble expert, and Lieut. Alfred J. Williams of the Navy for flight reserach work. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, famous Arctic explos who arrived in the United States yesterday from England, made a flving trip here to address the so- cicty’s banquet. His subject dealt with transarctic travel to Europe and Asia VETERANISHELD * INFRIEND'S DEATH ‘Coroner’s Jury Charges F. F. | Damron With Killing fin i Avenue Brawl. | Forrest Fletcher Damron, 35-year-oli | World War veteran, was held for the ! grand jury by a coroner’s jury this | afternoon which inquired into the dea early yesterday morning of a friend of | Damron's, fatally injured in a drunken | brawl before a hotel at 601 Penhs vania avenue. After Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, deputs | coroner, - had testified the victim had i died of hemorrhage of the brain and shock, Damron made a statement to the jury, in which he recited’the amc story he told headquarters detectives | who arrested him | Picked Up By Driver. The dead man, Albert Kirby, 30, an | emplove of the Navy Yard, who lived at | 2005 Benning road northeast, was picked up from the sidewalk in front of the Atlas Hotel, 601 Pennsylvania avenue, by a_taxicab driver, Ira R. Neely, of 1334 G street southeast. Neely and a companion put him in a cab and took him to Emergency Hospital, where he was pronounced dead by Dr. Walter { Gladdin Damron was arrested by | headquarters detectives about half hour later and booked at headquart on a charge of manslaughter. He was found in the office of Dr. R. B. Bacon in the Bond Building, having his left hand put in a cast for a frac- tured thumb. = According_to Detectives |H. K. Wilson and O. W. Mansfieid. | Damron expressed surprise on hearing that Kirby had been fatally injured. Damron, who is a World War veteran and was wounded in action, told officers | the dead man was a friend of his, and that he and several others had been { the upper hand and take the view that | sults of th 8 - | | e recent flare-up 0, e the treaties were mere lip service the Senate over the so-called “leak” in drinking together for several hours be- Baron De }forpurgo also took the fore Kirby's death. second set fro® Tilden. 6—3, gaining a commanding leatl of two sefs to nome. Tilden, using a shop stroke aimost exclusively, started off like a quick win- ner and was soon leading at 3-love, | Morpurgo getting only one point in the | first three games of the first set. The Italian then managed to make it 3-all and the deadlock continued | through game after game. Tilden took the lead, 9—8, by capturing the sev- enteenth game, only to have the baron come back strong, win his own service twice and break through the Ameri- can’s for the set, 11—9. The long set appeared to have taken more out of the younger man than out of Tilden. Morpurgo was limping slight- 1y as they prepared to start the second. ILLNESS OF KING SILENGES THRONGS Gay Election Crowds Read| Word of Relapse Anxiously Under Street Lamps. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ®pecial Cable Dispatch to The Star and the Chicago Daily News. | . LONDON, May 31.—Tens of thou- ! sands of people packed the London squares last night and today, cheering and jeering every time results of the | elections were amnounced. It was a| sporting crowd, and the cheers and Jeers were good humored. London was having a little bit of fun. ‘There was a dead silence, however, toward morning, when the newsboy instead of shouting ‘“Another Tory Eaten Up,” announced “The King Iil| Cold Contracted Sunday. ‘There was a rush and evening papers ‘were actually snatched from the boys' hands. Groups gathered under street lights reading anxiously the informa- tion given the press from Windsor Castle. “The King is suffering from a fever- ish cold, and Lord Dawson of Penn, Wwho returned to England by air om ‘Wednesday, together with Sir Stanley Hewett. are in attendance again.” ‘The feverish cold was contracted by | the King presumably on the Queen’s birthday last Sunday, when the royal family went picnicking at Frogmore. It is, in itself, not serious. But every one realized immediately that even a slight clod might prove fatal to the man who almost miraculously escaped death only a few months ago. Lord Dawson told the King's en- tourage that they were ill advised to let the monarch attend the npicnic, which was held under a yew tree in Frogmore Pdrk. It is true that the sun ‘was shining, but there was a cold wind which caused the feverish attack. Slight Fever Noticed. When Dr. Martyn, surgeon apothe- cary to the King's household at Wind- =or noticed that the King had a slight temperature, he ordered him to stay in | bed and got in touch with Hewett. | Later. when no distinct improvement made’ its appearance, Hewett wired to Lord Dawson, who was spending a Toliday in France, urging him to return to England at once. The King's principal physician ar- rived at Croydon Aerodrome yesterday and proceeded to Windsor immediately. On the first examination the patient seemed satisfactory. The public remembers that last No- vember the first announcement was “The King is suffering from a cold with some fever.” The fever then was due | 10 infection of the lung by streptococcal germs which found their way into the blood stream. This time it appears so far that the fever is not due to any in- fection, but to an ordinary chill. So the public anxiety is not so great as it might be. The fact, however, that the King has | just recovered from a very severe ill- ness, naturally causes apprehension throughout the country. (Copyright, 1929.) | KING SEES PREMIERE. ‘BOGNOR, England (#).—The “make- your-own-movies” movement has spread | to the British royal family. ‘The Duke of York, second son of King George, has become an amateur cine- matographer. One of his latest home- made productions features the Princess Elisabeth, his 3-year-old daughter. The | “world premiere” was held at Craigweil house, where the King and Queen heart- vention at Kansas City last year, when he |KING’S ILLNESS AND VOTE the publication of the Lenroot vote | has been the exclusion from the floor | of the Senate representatives of the press associations which had had the floor privileges for years. Senator La Follette has pending an amendment to the rules giving these press associations the right to send rep- resentatives onto the floor of the Sen- ate, in order to better expedite the work of news gathering. Makes Mark in Senate. Senator La Follette, a Progressive Re- publican, like' his distinguished father whom he succeeded in the Senate, al- ready has made his mark in the Upper | House. When he entered the Senate in 1925 he was just 30 years old, the Con- stitutional age limit for a Senator. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1928 for a term which expires in 1935. The vote by which he was elected was 635,~ 376 to 81,302 for his opponent, W. Markham, a regular Republican run- ning as an independent. Senator La Follette is a sbeaker of ability. His ad- dress at the opening oft he national con- presented the Wisconsin platform, was recognized as one of the most inter- esting of the convention. RADCLIFFE HEARS PRESIDENT'S WIFE Mrs. Hoover Extends Greet- ings at Celebration of Fiftieth | Anniversary of College. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 31 (#)— Mrs, Herbert Hoover extended the greetings of the President to Radcliffe College on the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary today. It was Mrs. Hoover's first visit to New England since her husband became President. She arrived here this morn- ing from Washington, and before her address was entertained by Miss Ada Louise Comstock, president of Radcliffe, and woman member of President Hoo- ver's National Law Enforcement Com- mission. “The President of the United States,” sald Mrs. Hoover, “appreciated the kindliness and the significance of your, invitation to him to be with you today, and much regretted that the business upon which he is engaged does not per- mit him to go so far away just now. So, by me, he sends his greeting on this occasion, and then I bring one not only from myself with the greatest joy, but from three of those institutions of higher learning out in the far, far West. One, I think, is perhaps the farthest re- moved from you of any such institu- tions in the United States proper. An- other one was a cotemporary of yours in those early struggles a half century ago. And for them I bring not only a word of greeting for today, but as we say when we go to a birthday party, “Many happy returns of the day.” SLOW UP STOCK TRADING Gilt-Edge Stocks Weaken as Result of Labor Party's Victory at Polls. By ths Associated Press. LONDON, May 31.—Stock Exchange trading was exceedingly dull today from the combined effects of the King's illness and the Labor gains In the gen- eral elections. Some disappointment was_expressed by Conservative members and through- out the exchange quotations were wid- ened or marked down in. British secur- les. Gilt-edge stocks weakened a fraction and speculative shares ruled inactive. YELLOW DOG BILL SIGNED. Kohler , Sponsored by Labor. MADISON, Wis, May 31 (#).—Re- jected by every other State, the drastic vellow dog contract bill" sponsored by the American Federation of Labor, has been signed by Gov. Walter J. | Kohler of Wisconsin, himself a mil- lionaire employer. | " The measure voids all contracts in which employes agree not to join labor unions, or whereby farmers agree not Gov. Approves Measure ily applauded the young star and the technique of the dike-director. to become members of co-opekative marketing organizations iVIexican Railiroa;ir Men Refuse to Eat When Court Fa ils to Restore Union tendency of the natlons.of the world will be not necessarily to discard or repudiate them, but to ignore them. Mr. Hoover began, therefore, the first of what might be called successive steps to remind the world that the declara- tions of purpose contained in the Kel- logg treaties meant what they said. He is trying, in other words, to bind the nations morely close to the professions of those treaties than perhaps was even originally intended. By declaring that large armies and navies are ificonsistent with the spirit and the letter of the Kellogg pacts, Mr. Hoover has taken the initiativ ments to prove that their armament is defensive and not offensive. The Presi- dent focuses attention on the need for a “rational yardstick” with which to| measure the defensive armament of nations. He hints at the importance of dis- cussing national aspirations which may be taken to mean that the fleld of treaty making has not been narrowed but enlarged by the Kellogg pacts. For if the only claim for defensive arma- ment, is the possibility of being attacked, then the next step is to bring the poten- tial foes together into further arbitra- tion or_conciliation treaties. Mr. Hoover's emphasis on limitation of armament as a natural sequel of the Kellogg treaties is not unexpected, but it clears the air for the whole world and makes it evident that the foreign policy of the United States is to be maintained aggressively in the direc- tion of world peace as developed by American Presidents of both political parties since the war. (Copyright, 1929 HOOVER ADDRESS PRAISED. President Gratified by Messages From All Parts of Country. President Hoover's Memorial day ad- dress, delivered yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery, in which he strong- ly stressed the need for world peace and called for reduction in naval arma- ment as & means of fulfilling the Kellogg pact to outlaw war, made a profound impression throughout the Natlon, judging from messages receiv- ed at the White House. The commendatory nature of these messages, which have come in the form of telegrams, telephone calls and let- ters, along with the editorial treatment of the speech by the press, is known to have been gratifying to the President. He spent considerable time and took great pains in the preparation of his Memorial day message to the world. He | endeavored to state what he had to s as briefly and as clearly as possible. He purposely refrained from platitudes so familiar to the usual patriotic as- sembly. As “a great hope” that there may be avcided “those frightful fruits of men's | failures that have blotted with blood 50 many_chapters of the world's history,” Mr. Hoover pointed to the Kellogg- Briand treaty as one springing from the aspirations and the hearts of men and women throughout the world “But if this agreement is to fulfill its high purpose, we and other nations must accept its consequences” he warned. “We must clothe faith and idealism with action. That action must march with the inexorable tread of common sense and realism to accom- plishment.” Disarmament as Paramount. Paramount in this action he held disarmament; not a limitation of arms, but an actual reduction. And in that connection he expressed deep regret that in spite of the Kellogg-Briand pact to renounce war as an instrument of natioral policy and the lessons of the Great War the nations are engaged in_strengthening their naval arms. If the Kellogg-Briand covenant be genuine proof that the world has re- nounced war as an instrument of na- tlonal policy, Mr. Hoover sald, this means at once an abandonmert of the aggressive use of arms by every nation signatory to the pact, and “becomes a sincere declaration that all armament hereafter shall be used only for de- fense.” “Consequently if we are honest,” he added, “we must reconsider our own naval armament and the armaments of the world in the light of their defensive and not their aggressive use.” After twice emphasizing that ade- quate preparedness “for the protection of our own people” is the only assur- ance against aggression, the President called attention that the United States has undertaken to approach the prob- lem of naval disarmament with a new | program calling for actual reduction in existing commitments in place of a building up to specific limitations. Another reminder of the obligations of the signatory powers under the Kel- logg-Briand treaty was given by Mr. Hoover with the declaration that “it implies that we will conduct our daily intercourse with nations in keeping with the spirit of that agreement; it implies that we shall endeavor to de- velop those instrumentalities of peace- ful adjustment that will enable us to remove disputes from the field of emo- tion to the field of calm and judicial considgration. Third Public Speech. This was Mr. Hoover's third public speech since becoming President. He spoke with solemnity and feeling. in challenging all govern- | Below speaker of the day, in the white suit, for poem. On Representative French's left, Above: The President photographed in the Arlington Amphitheater yesterday. The Memorial day exercises at the Battle Ground National Cemetery. Representative French of Idaho, urth from the right. At his right, John Clagett Proctor, who read an original Dr. C. V. Petteys, presiding officer and chairman of the committee in charge. —Star Staff Photo. WOMAN T0 CLAIN INSANTY DEFENSE | Macon Landlady Mixed in Rum Traffic as Well as in Slaying, Police Say. By the Associated Press. MACON, Ga., May 31.—Insanity will be the defense of Mrs. J. C. Powers, 71-year-old Macon rooming house pro- | prietor, who Earl Manchester, 21, con- | fessed induced him to kill James Parks, 25-year-old boarder at the woman's | house. | Atorneys for the woman announced | the insanity plans just as police learned | she had been engaged in liquor trans- | actions as well as insurance plots. Solicitor Gen. Charles Garrett sald he had “a perfect case” against the woman and Manchester to present to a special session of the grand jury | which has been called next Tuesday. | The prosecutor also urged an extra | Court early in June, In addition to complicity in the mur- | der of Parks, whom police said she paper advertisement for “a young man who desired a home,” officers said | they had unearthed other various in- | stancés where she had insured young | man roomers in her home. | Manchester confessed he shot Parks to death at the insistence of Mrs. | Powers, who he sald promised him $1,000 after she had collected $14,000 on a $7,000 double indemnity policy she held on Park's life. Mrs. Powers confessed when con- fronted with Manchester's statement, but after conferring with an attorney, | repudiated her confession. Today she | remained in a hysterical condition, firandmg the charges as “a pack of | les.” | listened to the Executive. In this great audience were uniforms of American soldiers of three wars. Before entering the amphitheater the President and Mrs. Hoover went to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where he placed & wreath of lilies and peonies | and she a single white magnolia flower. The services at Arlington were con ducted under_auspices of the Depart- ment of the District of Columbia of the Grand Army of the Potomac, assisted by other veterans' organizations. The ceremonies started at 1 g'clock with the sounding of assembly by a bugler | of the United States Marine Band, which furnished the incidental music throughout the services. Capt. Frank ! Lockhead, commander of Veterans of | | Foreign Wars of the District of Colum- | bia, introduced Samuel G. Mawson, de- | partment. commander, G. A. R. After calling the assembly to order he intro- duced Hosea RB. Moulton, past depart- ' ment commander, G. A. R., and presi- dent of the Memorial Day Corporation, who presided throughout the remainder of the program. Another address was delivered by | Representative Moore of Ohio, substi- | tuting for Senator Dale of Vermont, |who was prevented by illness from | being present. |MEETS APPROVAL IN GERMANY.' | i Foreign Office Spokesman Praises | Hoover for Disarmament Speech. | BERLIN, May 31 (®)—While no! ‘ormal statement could be obtained | immediately _ concerning President | Hoover's speech at Arlington yesterday Wilhelmstrasse officlals_left no doubt | but that the whole German foreign | office, including the forelgn minister, was greatly pleased at the President’s | encrgetic defense of disarmament. | “We welcome every initiative in the |LABORITES CRUSH | tained his seat at Horsham, Sussex. COMPSTON DEFEATS BALDWIN CONTROL IN BRITISH VOTING ___(Continued from First Page.) a plurality of more than 3,000 from his father's party. One of the government whips in the House, Maj. Sir William Cope, was de- feated in Glamorgan by C. E. Lloyd, | Laborite. Lord ‘Winterton, undersecretary for India in the Baldwin government, re- British Star Takes First 36- Played Tomorrow. Walter Runciman, one of the Liberal | s leaders, was re-elected. | i 4@ Dover, Kent, Maj. .}smr. Conserve-| MOOR PARK, England, May 31 (@) ive, defeated Labor and Liberal oppo- | __, 2 ish pro- L L S PPo- | —Archie Compston, huge British pro The Labor party this evening had | foSlonal golfer, won the first of two captured 278 seats, scoring a lead of 42 | 36-hole matches from Walter Hagen. seats over the Conservatives, but need- | American pro, today, 8 up and 7 to ing 30 of the 47 seats still unreported to | Play. They will play the second and obtain a clear majority. The count was |final match at Birmingham tomorrow. Labor, 278; Conservatives, 236; Liber: Compson was 2 up on Hagen at the als, 47; others, 7. | end of the first round of their 36-hole With 615 seats in the Commons and | match play. 308 necessary for a clean majority, the | Hagen won the first hole after Comp- Laborites were still 12 short of the com- | Ston sliced his drive into the rough. bined vote of the other parties. Hagen was bunkered on his second, but At this hour, the Laborites had | 80t down with two putts for 5. —Associated Press Photo. " WALTER HAGEN, &7 Hole Match, Another to Be ‘“’“ et ! Krenz, 1a: scored a net gain of 111 seats in the | Compston squared the match on the House of Commons; the Conservative | party had lost 107 and the Liberals had | gained 1. | Malcolm MacDonald, son of the | Labor leader, and Oliver Baldwin, the | term of the Bibb County Superlor | premier's son, were returned to Com-| The sixth also Tmons. | Col. Wilfrid Ashley, minister of trans- | port, was returned by a 10,000-vote | tary of state for Scotland, had the wide | margin of 12,000. | Jack Jones, the flery Labor leader, was successful at West Ham. #inston Churchill, the outstanding personality of the Conservative party and chancellor of the exchequer in the Baldwin ministry, was re-elected in his Epping constituency, in the agricul- tural county of Essex. All three male members of the Hen- derson family triumphed for Labor. Arthur Henderson himself was yester- day re-elected in Burnley, while Arthur | Henderson, jr., today captured the South Cardiff seat from the Conserva- | tives. Another son of the former Labor | home secretary was also elected yes- terday. STANFORD ATHLETE Harlow Rothert Hurls 16-Pound Ball 50 Feet 1 7-8 Inches in College Meet. By the Assocated Press. FRANKLIN FIELD, PHILADEL PHIA, May 31—Stanford, favorite tc win the intercollegiate A. A. A. A. trac! and field championships for the third year in a row, got off to a good star' todoy when the Cardinal weight acc Harlow Rothert, hurled the 16-poun iron ball to a new meet record of 5 feet 17; inche: Rothert’s toss barely displaced th former 1. C. A. A. A. A. record, 50 fer 1 inch, made by his teammate, Eri year. Krenz was off form and did no bette than about 46 feet on his first twc attemplts. Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all- around star, excelled anything he ha: ever done before in the shot putt by tossing 49 feet 3% inches. He hac never surpassed 48 feet. previously. Scarcely a handful of spectators braved the boiling sun to witness the trial events, which pave the way for tomorrow’s championship finals. The javelin trials also saw Stanford’ stars to the fore. Leo Kibby got off the best of the early throws, about 260 feet, closely followed by his teammate Bill Sparling. RECORD HEAT DUE ~ THIS AFTERNOON ‘Mercury Expected to Hit 95. | Two Dead, One Prostrated, ‘ Yesterday’s Toll. With the temperature rising 10 de-| avees in five hours this morning, the hottest weather of the year was in sight for Washington this afternoon. A ten- | tative maximum for the day of 95 de- grees was fixed by the Weather Bureau, which means that the temperature in | the downtown streets will be around | the 100 mark. The weather yesterday was indirectly | responsible for two deaths and one| prostration, according to police and! hospital records. | Succumbing to the heat as she m-; | tered Griffith Stadium at 1 o'clock yes- | terday afternoon, Mrs. Cora Lee Pope, | 44 years old, of Baltimore, died & few | minutes later of a heart attack brought Colored Boy Is Drowned. An ambulance was summoned from | Casualty Hospital and Mrs. Pope was pronounced dead on the arrival of Dr. . A. Jordan. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt issued a certificate of death from | natural causes. ‘Thirteen-year-old James Johnson. colored, of 1310 C street southeast, was drowned late yesterday afternoon in the Anacostia River near Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, where he had gone to seek relief from the heat. The boy had been wading with several com- panions near the bank, but ventured out beyond his depth and sank im- mediately. He drowned in 20 feet of water. Several hours later, police of the harbor precinct recovered the body. Alvin Winbish, colored, a chauffeur, | | door. Cooler Weather Due Sunday. Compston broke the string of four| No substantially cooler weather is In halved holes by winning the seventh | prospect before Sunday, the Weather with a birdie 3. The eighth was halved | Burcau said. ninth, | region, will be over the city by that Compston played a difficult recovery ' time, bringing with it much more com- to halve the tenth in 3s. The eleventh | fortable temperatures. was halved in 4s, but Compston broke| The extremely hot weather will con- through again to win the twelfth with | tinue through tonight, moderating 3. | slightly tomorrow. Local thundershow- Hagen, however, was undaunted and ers are expected this afternoon and to- got a hole back with a par 4 at the| night, but they will not serve to drive thirteenth. Hagen lost the fourteenth. | the temperature down. lflk;m! a 5. The fifteenth was halved| If the temperature climbs to the 95 m 4s. The two stars halved the sixteenth| passed by one degree the record of 94 in 45, but again Hagen came through | g = : {0 capture the seventeenth With & 4. | toimmiture 1 I in fhe : - Al | temperature is mounting today was in- The eighteenth was halved in 3s, dicated by the Weather Bureau ther- e mometer, which stood at 69 degrees at More than $60,000.000 worth of drugs. | 6 o'clock*this morning, and at 88 five | medicines and medicinal preparations | hours later. The highest official tem- were consumed in Great Britain in the | perature reached yesterday was 86 de- past year. | grees. LABOR DEPARTMENT VETERAN HONORED | pital in an ambulance and treated b)" : A high-pressure area, | lured to her rooming house by a news- | margin, while Sir John Gilmour, secre- | i 4, but Compston went 2 up on the | which is moving down from the Arctic | | mark this afternoon it will have sur-| By the Associated Press | MEXICO CITY, May 31—Two hun- dred and fifty Mexican railroad me were on a hunger strike in the cham- | bers of the National Supreme Court today in protest at the court’s having rendered a judgment adverse to them The court’s decision was rejection of | an application to overrule an arbitra- tion committee which took from them their status ac union employes after a | Supreme Court into a plena strike in 1926, . to seck a solution of the ! All seemed aghast when the Supreme Court handed down the decision. In the demonstration which followed decision was made to go on a hunger |strike and not to leave the room until the court’s judgment was reversed. A commiitee drafted and sent to President Portes Gil a_telegram urging | him to use his good offices to call the session o There were no outbursts of applause direction of limitation or the abolition during his speech, but it was evident|s{ armaments,” a foreign office spokes- that his vast audience was deeply im- | man told the Associated Press, “but pressed. As he stood on the rostrum, | particularly when that initiative comes the rays of a blistering sun beat down | from as powerful and important a man upon him and several times he paused [as President Hoover. to_wipe his forehead and neck. “The speech, of course, s mainly Mrs. Hoover and George Akerson, one | concerned with naval armaments re- of his secretaries, and & number of |duction and must therefore primarily cabinet members 'occupied seats just |be considered an earnest warning to back of the rostrum. The huge amphi- [ England. _Germany naturally hopes, theater was packed and the slopes be- | however, that it will react also upon _yond were . with .others -who land armaments. | “VOYAGING CHURCH. TRIESTE, Italy (#)—By special dis- pensation of Pope Pius XI, the motor- | ship Vulcania of the Consulich line, ply- | ing between this port and New York, | henceforth has its chapel aboard raised | the department, his assocfates there thi to the rank of a “voyaging church.” ‘ and vr!_plred a birthday cake, while Se This means that it will be considered as | felicltation. In the group are Eva Desm Celebrating the seventieth anniversary of Dr. W. A. Bevard, physician at s morning presented him with a watch cretary of Labor Davis sent a letter of ond, holding the cake; Theodore Risley, a permanent place of worship, and that | solicitor of the department, who presented the watch and letter; Dr. Bevard the sacrament can be “reserved’ in it. | and Lolla Kalmbach, —=Star Staft Photo, Door Glass Shattered. Damron said he retired to his room in the Atlas Hotel some time after mid- night, and that Kirby subsequently fol- lowed him there, calling through the door, asking if any one had seen his automobile keys. Damron said he re- plied in the negative and the man on the outside shattered the glass in the then turned and walked down the steps. Damron followed, he said, to ask an explanation for the act. Damron said he had words with Kirby as he was standing in the entrance, that blo passed and Kirby was knocked down by a blow in the face. Kirby fell backward from & concrete ep, striking heavily on his head. Damron, who described himself a chauffeur, is receiving compensation from the Government for disabilities suffered in France. Part of his face was shot away by shrapnel during the war, Damron said, and the nose struc- ture was restored by plastic surgery. TWO ET 19 YEARS ON GIRL'S CHARGES Men Accused of Assault on Chain Bridge Road Change Plea to Guilty. st Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va.,, May 31.—Guy Elmen- dorf and William Coulter, 24-year-old Washington youths, indicted last ‘Thursday afternoon at Fairfax County Court, House by a special grand jury on a_ charge of criminally assaulting 2 16-year-old Washington girl were today sentenced to serve 19 years each in the Virginia State Penitentiary. Coulter and Elmendorf, who were represented by Morris T. Wampler of Washington, and Judge Robenson Moncure of Alexandria, originally pleaded not guilty and the trial was et for June 14. They appeared this morning to withdraw their plea of not guilty, and pleading guilty submitied their case to Judge Howard Smita i sentence. The attack took place last Thursday morning on the Chain Bridge road, in Fairfax County, 150 feet over the A lington County line, a speciai survey being necessary by County Engineer De Lashmutt of Arlington County to determine where jurisdiction lay. The two boys were arrested in Washington | Thursday morning by Washington po- lice and turned over to Fairfax County authorities, who immed!iately summoned a special grand jury, which entered two indictments against each youth the same afternoon. The girl and a friend had attended a dance at Glen Echo, Md., and on the way home accepted an invitation from several boys. Their escort invited Elmendorf and Coulter to ride with them in his car. When the defendants attacked the 16- year-old girl, her 19-year-old com- panion fled to Georgetown with her e: cort, where they summoned the Wash- ington police and friends, who later took the girl to her own home. CHARLIE HALL LEADING SOUTHEASTERN GOLFERS ROEBUCK COUNTRY CLUB, BIR- MINGHAM, Ala, May 31 (#)—Con- | tinuing the sensational brand of golf |that put him in the lead over the several score professionals and amateurs seeking the Southeastern Professional Golfers’ _ Association championship. Charlie Hall, Birmingham pro, today scored two birdies and a par on the | first three holes of the day's final 36 holes of play. Hall's card for the 39 holes was 156. Hall's triumph in the early stages of ! the final round added to the confidence: of his followers that the championship is his. Bill Moughon, Birmingham amateur, still was in the reckoning. | however. scoring a birdle, a par and one over par on the first three holes for a total score of 159. Lee Fowler, Atlanta amateur, turned in two pars and one over par for the first three and a total score of 160. ‘The first three holes of thé Roebuck course are par 4s. living at 2145 ‘N street, collapsed from second hole with a par 4. Hagen's putt | the heat at his home yesterday after- | for a 2 hung on the edge of the cup | noon. He was taken to Emergency Hos- at_the third, which was halved in 3s. The fourth hole was halved in birdie | Dr. Leon Gordon. 3s and the fifth was halved in par 4s. | as halved in 5s.| WRIT. Wife Tells Court Mate Failed to Carry Out Terms. Mrs. Lillian B. Fowler today sasked the District Supreme Court to ccmpel her husband, William A. Fowler of Oxon Hill, Md., to perform specifically the terms of a separation contract ex- ecuted April 7, 1927, by which he agreed to place their children—William H., 10 { vears, and Catherine G., T—in 8t. Jo= seph's School and St. Vmufléi Home. | " The wife telis the court that Fowler took the children to the home of his mother in Oxon Hill and she has been denied the privilege of having the chil- dren visit her. She wants temporary custody of the children for two days a week and requests the court to compel Fowler to return the children to this jurisdiction. She is represented by At~ torney Walter P. Piumiey, ’