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WEA (U. 8. Weather Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; somewHat cooler tomorrow Temperatures: Hi Full report on paj Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and.15 today: lowest, 54, at 5 a.m. today. THER. Bureau Forecast.) ighest, 72, at noon ge 9. ah red as secol office, Washington, nd class matter DI WASHINGTON, ¢ Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ing Star. The Star’s fast as the paper: carrier every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes “From Press to Home Within the Hour” system covers s are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 108,008 D. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1929—FORTY PAGES. * 7.2 Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. VIRGINIA PRIARY AW HELD BREACH OF CONSTITUTON | R | Barring of Colored Voters Voids Legality of Act, Court Holds. RE!ECTED DEMOCRAT ASKS NOMINAL DAMAGE Violation of Fourteenth and Fif-| teenth Amendments Cited by Judge. va Lawrence D. Groner, in United States District. C here today held the Virginia Jaw contrary to the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Federal Constitution Judge Groner's opinion, in the case of James O. West. colored. Democrat against A. C. Bliley and William Boltz Judges, and William Ricker, clerk of a | Richmond voting precinct, declared that | the State may not provide otherwise| than for equal right of suffrage as well | in the primary as in the general elec- | tion mary State’s Limitations. H “This the statute docs.” he said. “and | all there would be no ground | int, but it goes further and Tecognizes and enforces the right of a| political party to prescribe qualifica- | tions forbidden under the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This a State may not o. Judge Groner's opinion went into de- tail as to the constitutionality of the law, which has been construed as bar- ring colored voters. West in his action claimed nominal damages because precinct officials re- fused to permit him to vote in the last | Democratic primary. Demurrer Overruled. To_this plea the State, through Leon M. Bazile, assistant attorney general, filed a demurrer. The demurrer was overruled today by Judge Groner. | Judge Groner gave the defendant | election officials 60 days in which to plead further, and continued the case after overruling the demurrer. The case was regarded by attorneys as having an important effect on pri- mary legislation in Virginia and possibly other Southern States. West, the plain- tiff, said he was a qualified Democrat, and had voted in previous general elec- | tions in primaries held prior to the enactment of the present type of pri- mary law in 1912. RUSSIANS MASSING ON CHINESE BORDER Troops Prevent Flight of Orientals From Soviet Territory to Homeland. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 5—Russian toops were said by a Peking dispatch to the Express today to be massing on the Manchurian frontier to prevent thou- sands of Chinese from leaving Russian territory. The flight of the Chinese | was in fear of arrest and depflvalioni of their belongings in retaliation for the arrest of Soviet officials in Man- | churia. The Rengo News Agency of Japan | on Tuesday reported that Soviet Con- | sul General N. K. Kuznetzoff of Mukden | was under arrest at Hailar and that intense anxiety was felt in the Harbin| Soviet community, where a complete | break between Russia and China was | feared. | The strained relations between the two _countries began with Chinese raids on Soviet consulates in search of docu- ments to support charges that Com- munists were actively interfering in Chinese internal affairs. The rai were followed by a sharp note of pro- test by the Soviet, virtually suspending | diplomatic immunity of Chinese offi- | cials in its ter CHICAGO IRON WORKERS STRIKE NEARING END and Erectors Reach Agree- | Union ment Granting Workmen $13 a Day for Year. the A CHICAGO. une 5.—The end of the ke. which has tied up in new construction work day, was believed today to | + ‘with the return to work of | of workers under an agrec- | cached late last night. on and Chicago Stecl Erectors' | scociation reached an agreement | hereby bridge and structural steel | wor s will receive $13 a day for a Previously a meeting of union | ntatives and those of the Iron 1e, composed of contractors, ended discord, with the union rescinding | s compromise demand of $13 a day | league its offer of $12.50. ater announced that the joint | tration board of the Chicago Build Trades Council and the Building | uction Employers" Association meet to consider the controversy eek An agreement By Two Miles of Hocus Pocus Paraded ‘ As Magicians From 15 Lands Convene| Br the Associated Press. LIMA, Ohio, June 5.—Hocus pocus, now you see it, now you don't—the streets of Lima were filled with the un- expected today at the convention of 2.000 magicians, who came from 15 countries with their bag of tricks for the annual gathering of hoodwinkers and professors of the black art. Rabbits abounded in profusion and the multiplicity of guinea pigs. geese and playing cards increased with each wave of a magic wand. Hotel rooms rat- tled with the bones of the dead and the air was filled with flying coins as the wizards had a holiday. They were members of the Interna- ticnal Brotherhood of ~Magicians, an «rganizalion, composed of professionals | amendments to the census-reapportion- | reapportionment bill would be uncon- Education Leader | Gets Degree After Delay of 26 Years By the Associated Press. NEWBERRY, S. C., June 5.— James H. Hope, State superin- tendent of education, who has been out of school for 26 years, received his bachelor of arts de- gree from Newberry College here yesterday. Mr. Hope was a member of the class of 1903 at Newberry, but became ill shortly before the end of his senior year and did not graduate. His degree was con- ferred at this year's graduating exercises REAPPORTION PLAN BRINGS HOT FIGHT House Leaders Stirred Over Alien and Colored Voters’ Issues. Ho leaders of both parties were holding feverish conferences today to | straighten out a situation that has arisen as the result of tentative adop- tion by the House vesterday of two| ment bill, one of which ostensibly is aimed at any disenfranchisement of colored voters in the South by exclud- ing from the count on which House re- | apportionment is to be based all per- | sons over 21 who are denied the right | to vote except for rebellion or other | i erimes, The other amendment would exclude | aliens from the census count and might reduce the representation of the East- ern and industrial States. Tense Situation. The situation is described as the | tensest that has existed for some time, and as the leaders sought to settle the matter there was probability that enough Southern votes would be turned over by the Democrats to defeat the alien amendment and enough Northern votes would be turned over by the Republicans to defeat the other amend- ment, which, supporters claim, would cut_the Southern representation. The fight on these two amendments was expected further to delay the final vote on the bill, although there was a probability that the ballot might come late_today. q The former amendment is the culmi- nation a 14-year fight on the part of Representative Tinkham, Re- publican of Massachusetts, in behaif of enforcement of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitu- tion. The House passed the two amendments after a sharp debate yes- terda: The vote on the amendment which Tinkham sponsored was 145 to 118. Tinkham contended that the census- stitutional unless his proposal was adopted. Offered by Hoch. Representative Hoch, Republican, Kansas, offered the amendment to ex- clude aliens from the census count. Mr. kham was the most sur- prised man in Congress to have amendment accepted. The Republican leaders are exercised today because they feel that the Tink- ham amendment will undo at one fell swoop all that the party has achieved in the way of breaking into the solid South. The Democratic leaders like- wise are aroused because they feel that the power of Tammany Hall and the party strength in large Northern and Eastern industrial communities will be weakened by the alien amendment and by the fact that through the action taken yesterday a wider breach has developed between the North and| South. 3 Although in attempted compromises the entire voting strength of the House, 435 members, must be reckoned with, the leaders are hopeful today a sufficient number of Democrats will unite with the Republicans to defeat the alien amendment and a suffiicent number of Republicans will join with the Southern Democrats to defeat the! Tinkham amendment. Other minor changes made in_the bill by the House included one which | eliminated the enumeration of those unemployed and of the number of radio sets. The bill goes to conference with the Senate, after the final vote, and the | House alterations are expected to be the | basis ot further disagreement. BLAINE WILL DIRECT REAL ESTATE PROBE. Senator Capper Says Subcommittee | on Banks Will Pursue | Inquiry. | Chairman Capper of tne Senate Dis- | trict_committee stated today that the investigation ordered by the Senate vesterday into real estate financing operations and methods of selling other securities in Washington, probably will be placed in the hands of the sub- committee on banks and insurance. of which Senator Blaine of Wisconsin is chairman. This is the same subcom- mittee. which considered the original resolution of inquiry, and modified it to lay emphasis on the need for new legislation. Senator Blane is out of the city and it is unlikely anything will be done until he returns. Paris Postmen End Strike. PARIS, June 5 (#).—Postmen, who | struck yesterday for 24 hours in sym-| pathy with feliow workmen who were suspended for a month after a strike over uniforms and pay, returned to work today. Yesterday's walkout, in-| volving about 1.500 men, left three- fourths of Paris without any mail Severe penalties have been threatened | and amateurs from virtually every land |in the world. The feature today was a free open air show in Public Square and a parade two miles long, with the | tricksters trundling their secret cabinets | and other trappings of wizardry down the street. Mony well known performers, who | conduct their own tours were present, as well as headliners in vaudeville and plain amateurs, who juggle balls and | | the bridge deck at neighborhood parties. |Among these were men known in finance and manufacturing, lawyers, accountants and representatives of many other pro- fessions. oughly MDONALD ACCEPTS KING'S REQUEST T0 FORM NEW CABINET Victorious Labor Leader Calls on Monarch at Windsor to Discuss Plans. “THANKSGIVING FUND” IS PLANNED BY PARTY Main ‘Legislative Program of In- coming Government to Await Autumn Session. Br the Associated Press. LONDON. June 5 — Ramsay Mac- Donald. Jeader of the Labor party, vic- | torious in Thursday's polls. at noon today accepted King George's invitation to form a cabinet fo replace that of Stanley Baldwin, Conservative premier who resigned yesterday. Announcement of the acceptance was made at Windsor Castle, where King George was ill. a few minutes after the Labor leader had called and left to go back to London. Remains More Than Hour. He arrived at 11:04 am. with his son. Alastair MacDonald, and Lord Ar- nold. The King's equerry, Col. Sey mour, escorted He remained slightly hour, leaving at 12:18 It was the second cabinet Mr. Mac- Donald has been called upon to form, the first being that of more than five years ago, when the Labor party, with the help of the Liberals, was given its first chance at control of the British government. MacDonald probably will not become more than an active prime minister of Great 'Brllalnl until the latter part of the week. with formal exchange of its seals through the intermediary of his majes- ty, the retiring premier, Mr. Baldwin, handing them to King George, who in turn delivers them to Mr. MacDonald. ‘This formality, which is necessary for each of the cabinet ministers, as well as for the premier. probably would have taken place yesterday with the Tesignation of Mr. Baldwin but for the King's illness, which made it advisable to spread the ceremony attendant upon a change of government over several days Custom in the past has been for the clerk of the privy council to collect the seals and take them to Windsor. where the outgoing ministers go and each hands over his seal to the King, then formaily “taking leave” of his majesty, much as Mr. Baldwin did yesterday. Will Annotmee Cabinet Th The next step has been the arrival { of the new ministers, who take the oath of office and kiss the King's hand, after which the respective seals are delivered to those designated to receive them by the new premier. When these cere- monies are completed the premier—Mr. MacDonald—will announce his choice of ministers to the public. A political lull follows the announce- ment while the new cabinet frames the speech from the throne, with which to meet the new Parliament, convening in this case on June 25. It was assumed in political eircles the speech from the throne would be of somewhat general character, principally emphasizing the government’s intention to work for disarmament and world peace and deal with unemployment at home. Tt was not expected to specify exact lines of policy. Speculate on Selections. MacDonald was pleased today to have the names of those who will compose | his cabinet at hand for presentation to the King in a general war, allocation to their various offices following within a few da: There was as much spec- | ulation as ever as to allotment of the various posts Most_circles agreed Philip Snowden | would be chancellor of the exchequer t0 replace the retiring Winston Churchill. Greatest interest was cen- tered upon identity of the new minister for foreign affairs. a post which Mr. | { MacDonald held himself in 1924 and for which he is known to have a special fondness. _Various names have_heen (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) BINGHAM WILL PUSH D. C. AIRPORT PLANSi Senator to Confer With Budget Director on $500,000 Appropria- tion Asked of Congress. Following his return to the city today Senator Bingham. Republican, of Con- necticut. chairman of the joint airport commission, announced plans to confer ¥ith Gen. Lord, director of the budget, regarding the proposal of the commi sion to have the present session of Congress make $500,000 available to permit an early start and establishment of adequate air terminal facilities for the Capital The *commission, after going thor- into the subject, decided two weeks ago that there is an urgent need for an airport in Washington and that virtually a year could be saved if the present session would make an initial appropriation to purchase a site. EDUCATORS NAMED. Wilbur Ap);nin(s Group to Make National Study. Secretary Wilbur today appointed an advisory committee on education com- posed of leading educators of the coun- try to study relations of the National Government to education and to make recommendations as to a future pro= gram. Greek President Sworn. ATHENS, Greece, June 5 (A).— Admiral Kondouriotis took oath today as_President of the republic. Premier Venizelos was expected to re- sign his ministry tonight and then to reconstitute the cabinet to include sev- eral Senators. Admit Switzerland to Pact. BERN. Switzerland, June 5 (#).—The Second Chamber of the National Coun- cil today voted approval of Switzer- Radio Prqgrnms_——l;qge 27 land’s adherence to the Kellogg renun- ciation of war pact, There were only two adverse volss. p . him inside the castle. | Accession to the office will take place | = i alvrfl | POPEHOLDS DGES " SPEECHHERETGAL i | 1 | Explains Position Relative to Lateran Accords in Let- ter to Cardinal. | By the Associated Press. VATICAN, CITY, Juyne 5.—The Os- servatore Romano, publishes this eve- ning an open letter from the Pope to Cardinal Gasparri relative to the Lateran accords, in which his holiness deplores “worse than heretical expres stons as to the very essence of Christian ity and Catholicism” in speeches of Premier Mussolini to the Italian Cham- ber and Senate. Pontiff Explains Position. The letter contains a complete ex- position of the Pontiff’s position with regard to the Duce's speeches advocat- | ing acceptance of the Lateran accords in the Chamber May 13 and in the.| Senate May 25. [ “We least of all expected heretical | and worse than heretical expressions as 10 the very essence of Christianity and | Catholicism,” his holiness declared in | the letter to Cardinal Gasparri. | ““There been an attempt to rem- | edy this, but it does not seem to us to | have met with full success.” the Pope | commented on the premier's speeches. | “Distinguishing _between _historical | and doctrinal afirmations would be in the manner of the worst and most con- demnable modernism,” continued the Pontiff in reference to the speech in | the Senate on May 25. “The divine mandate to all peoples | antedates the calling of St. Paul; be- fore that, there was the mandate of St. Peter to the Gentiles.”" Defends Church Doctrines. ‘The Pontiff continued by defending the doctrine of the universality of the church and refuting Premier Mussolini’s implied thesis that it was Rome which saved Christianity and not Cristianity the Roman Empire. By implication, the Pope declared that the Duce was badly inspired to cite Mgr. Duchesne’s book, “The History of the Ancient Church.” which has been on the Index since 1912. Premier Mussolini should not have apologized for citing the French au- thor, on the grounds that Italian Cath- olic writers had not been fecund dur- ing the past 60 vears. the Pope con- tinued. but without specifically naming | Mussolini. L5 “To say thus in justification thav Italian Catholicism is not fecund dur- ing a certain period and that intellec- tual production in that field must be found elsewhere is tantamount to launching too summary a judgment to be true and just. whether for the honor of Catholocism in Italy or the honor of Italy in Catholocism,” the papal let- ter explains. His holiness lets it be known that he cannot understand how such language on the part of the premier could be seen as “opportune and generous in the hour of pacification.” ! “We note and appreciate the several | places where sovereignty and independ- | | ence, with consequent rights. are fairly | explicitly recognized to the church any to the Holy See: but even more numer- ous are the places where those things seem to be put into doubt again and not justly interpreted.’ Speaks for All Catholics. In the Lateran Concordat, the Pope points out that there are in presence of each other, if not two states, certain- ly two sovereignties fully such, fully perfected each one in its own kind, which is necessarily determined by its respective ends. Hence it was hardly necessary to " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) NEW QUAKES FELT. Argentina Region i 1 { | | Is Panicky as Tremors Continue. | BUENOS AIRES, Argentina. June 5 ! (). —New earth shocks have been felt in the province of Mendoza, uncon- firmed reports stating that many per- sons were killed and injured in a quake at El Nevado Hill. The Nevado volcano is reported to have entered activity, emiting a great quantity of smoke, lava and flame. The region in San Rafael, recently shaken by a quake, continues panicky because of further tremors and sub- terranean rumblings. Near Villa Atuel there was a continuous eruption of bolling water rapidly undermining the soil and cave-ins were feared. ey gotiashington clearing house, $6,430,- Treasury balance, $139,744,718.83. New York clearing house exchange, $1,421,000,000. i ew York clearing balance, #161,000,000. ¥ i ¢ Woman M. P. Would Limit Military Fund For Schools to $1 By the Associated Pr OTTAWA, June 5.—The only woman of Parliament sought yesterday to limit the appropria- ton for . military training in Canadian schools to one dollar Miss Agnes MacPhall opposed the $500,000 item for ~cadet services in the national defen: measure on the ground that mili- tary training in the schools fostered a_milltary spirit in the youth of Canada. After arguing against military training in the schools, she of- fered an’ amendment to the measure reducing the appropria- tion to one dollar. Her amend- ment was lost by a vote of 56 to 15 AGEUSED FFICER TELSF SHODTNG Crowe Declares He Did Not .See Kendrick in Auto SMITH T0 SUGCERD ALVINW. MILLER Former School Superintend- ent at Millville, N. J., to Be- come Central Principal. Harvey A. Sinith, former superin- tendent of schools at Millville, N. J. who has been pursuing work in philos- ophy at Columbia University this year, will be appointed principal of Central High School to succeed the late Alvin W. Miller, at the meeting of the Board of Education in the Franklin Admin- istration Building this afternoon. At the same meeting the school board will appoint Norman J. Nelson, former assistant principal at Central, to be as- nt principal at School. Nelson resigned from the local school system last year to do graduate | work at” Harvard University and, fol- lowing his recent request for remstate- |ment, he was advocated for the cipalship of Central High School. Other local educators who were urged I for the Central principalship by various | varent-teacher groups included Miss Western High | |May Bradshaw, now assistant principal | at Business High School, and Lawrence | Hoover, assistant principal of Central, | who has been acting principal since the | death last month of Mr. Miller. Meet in Ballou's Office. The Board of Education's committee on personnel met in_executive session When He Fired. By the Associated Press. ABINGDON, Va., June 5.—The de- fense rested today in the trial of James ‘W. Crowe, charged: with murder in con- nection with the fatal shooting of J. W. | Kendrick, after Crowe had taken the stand and testified as to his part in the firing on an automobile on the highway in which young Kendrick is alleged to | superintendent of schools, yesterday afternoon to consider recommendations | for the two positions which Dr. Ballou | was prepared to make. AIl but two | members of the board were in attend- |ance and accord on the appointments in the office of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, | VORK ESINI: STRS SPECULATN 45 10 SUCCESSIR |Good, Williams and Fort Are Mentioned for G. 0. P. Na- tional Chairmanship. POST MAY BE FILLED AT MEETING IN FALL Strenuous Congressional Campaign Looms as Democrats Plan to Retrieve Recent Losses. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. would retire from the chairmanship of i‘.hfl Republican national committee wase followed today by speculation as to hiz probable zuccessor. The election of the next chairman of | the national committe will not take place {until a meeting of the committee in the carly Fall. whi®h Dr. Work proposes teo call for that purpose. Dr. Work ha: ven ample notice of his intention to csign as chairman for a full discussior by party leaders, including the Presi- dent, of available timber to head the national organization. i Good Mentioned as Successor. | The name most tioned today for the place was Secre- |tary James W. Good of the War De- |partment. Mr. Good was the Western manager for the Republican national committee during the last campaign, and his work was most efficient. Whoever becomes chairman next Fall s likely to continue as chairman not {only through the congressional cam- | paign next year, but also through the | campaign for the presidency in 1932. As the expectation is that President Hoover will be a candidate to succeed | himself and that he will be renominat- ed. the selection of the new chairman will doubtles be left in large measure |to him, unless he flatly declines to have anything to do with it, which, in view of his leadership of the party. is an attitude he could scarcely assume. The chairman of the Republican na- tional committee is not necessarily se- lected from the membership of the | committee itself, although there is noth- ing against a member of the commit- tee representing a State becoming chairman. Dr. Work hails from Colorado. Clarence Hamlin is the national com- mitteeman from that State. It is pos- sible. of course, that the present vice chairman, Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, might be elevated to the chairmanship. He has been prominent in Republican councils for years. Fort Also Is Considered. Franklin Fort, Representative from New Jersey, at present secretary to the national committee. also was men- tioned today as a possible selection for the chairmanship. Mr. Fort took a prominent part in the last campaign He was an ardent supporter of Presi- dent Hoover. Reports that Dr. Work had deter- mined to resign the chairmanship of the natiorfal committee because of a possible rift in his relations with the President were attacked both at the White House and at the office of the chairman today. Indeed. it was reveal- ed for the first time through authori- tative sources at the White House that Announcement that Dr. Hubert Work prominently men- | DEBENTURE PLAN 1S ELIMINATED BY JOINT COMMITTEE Conference Group Votes to Drop Farm Clause Passed by Senate. ‘NORRIS AND SMITH WANT PROVISION KEPT IN BILL Revised Relief Measure to Be Sub- mitted to Two Houses for Consideration. By the Associated Presc. A farm relief bill with the export de- benture plan eliminated was agreed upon today by the Senate and House conference committee on the measure. The revised relief measure, composed from the two farm bills passed sepa- rately by the Senate and House, will be formally engrossed by the committee to- morrow and immediately submitted to | the House for consideration. After the House has acted the meas- ure mi 20 back to the Senate for con- sideration. In the conference committee all of t! House members voted to eliminate t debenture plan. . Three of the five Senate conferees, McNary of Oregon and Capper of Kan- sas, Republicans, and Ransdell of Louisiana, Democrat, voted to eliminate, Senators Norris, Republican, Nebraska, and Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, voted against elimination. The measure as finally | after more than a week of | agreed upon f conferences is held by conference committee mem- i bers to de acceptable to President | Hoover. There were no material dif- | ferences except, for the debenture plan | in the Senate and House bills, but the | measure framed by the conference group follows more nearly the House measure. The committee agreed the measure should be known as “the Agricultural | marketing act. | The perfected bill would give the | stabilization corporations a dual func- ‘(lnn such as was proposed in the Sen- ate measure and would permit the cor. porations to acquire and store surplus and also to act as a super-marketing agency for co-operative marketing as- sociations. The bill would provide $1.500.000 for administrative purposes in addition to an authorization for $500.000.000 to carry out the functions of the proposed farm board. Representative Haugen, of Iowa, chaifman of the House agricultural committee, said he believed it likely that the House would approve the con- ference bill tomorrow. Chairman McNary of the Senate agricultural committee said debate | probably would preface a vote in the | Senate because of elimination of the He thought, however, | that final action this week or early next week was likely. COACH SAYS PURDUE ' SUBSIDIZED PLAYERS High School Basket Ball Mentor | Willing to Place Charges | | debenture plan. | the automobile. have been riding. Crowe said that he had two oppor- tunities to see the occupants of the au- tomobile while it was being pursued by himself, W. D. Worley and James Mc- | Reynolds, Washington County officers, | and that he did not see Kendrick in He said he had fired two shots at the tires of the automobile after the occupants had refised to halt and that at least one shot was fired by | | one of the other officers. Halt Order Brings Denial Kendrick, a 16-year-old Emory and Henry College student. was taken to | an Abingdon hospital in a dying condi- | tion on the night of May 6 by Paul Phelps and Sterling Dutton. who said | he had been struck by a buliet fired by | officers on the highway. Phelps and | Dutton denied that they were waved | down or that they had been ordered to halt. Crowe testified that he came to an Abingdon garage on the night of the | shooting in company with Worley and | McReynolds and that Phelps hurriedly | left the garage and drove off in an automobile. McReynolds, he said, | | called him and said that Phelps was drinking. Crowe said he expressed | the opinion that whisky was in Phelps' car and that the officers left in pursuit. Fired Twice at Tires. After pursuing Phelps. he said. they iscovered that another man was in the automobile with him. He said his car ran by Phelps as it was parked both cars turning around and heading back to Abingdon. ; | The officers passed again in a few minutes, halted their car and walked into the road, Crowe said. Phelps hav- ing stopped on the left-hand side of the road. He said McReynolds, wear- ing a uniform and waving a flashlight, called to Phelps not to start the car. McReynolds was almost run over when the car started, he continued, and he fired two shots as the car sped by. Crowe said he fired at the tires, which were plainly visible in the headlights of the officers’ car. BLAST KILLS THREE. Damage of $500,000 Done in Re- finery Explosion and Fire. EAST BRAINTREE, Mass. June 5 (#).—Three deaths resulted from an ex- plosion and fire at the Fore River plant of the Cities Service Refining Co. early today. Frank Ford, an employe, dicd at the Quincy Hospital this forenoon and the bodles of two unidentified men were found in the ruins. Damage was estimated at $500,000. FIRE SWEEPS RODOSTO. Large Part of Marmora Sea Port Is Destroyed by Flames. LONDON, June 5 (#).—A Reuter dis- patch from Constantinople states that enormous damage was caused by a fire which destroyed a large part of the port of Rodosto, on the European bank of the Sea of Marmora, about 8 miles ‘west of Constantinople. I State News, Pages 10 and 11 l was reached at that meeting. The formal appointment will be made at the regular public meeting of the board this afternoon., when the entire board will approve the recommenda- tion of its personnel commjttee. In | the light of the accord which was “committee meeting” | yesterday. however, the results of which | each board member refused to divulge this afternoon’s action was to be little more than a formality. Smith Has Been Principal. Mr. Smith, the new appointee to the Central principalship. has varied ad- ministrative experience to his credit which he gained in Millville. principal there of the Millville High School, subsequently supervising prin- cipal of all the schools of that place and finally was superintendent of schools there. He resigned the superintendency a year ago this month to do graduate work at Columbia University. He is 42 years old and married. Mullville is a manufacturing_town of .000 population in Southern New Jer- reached at the 15, 700 ABOARD BOAT MENACED BY BLAZE | Russians on Japanese Vessel En-| dangered When Benzine Is Ignited. By the Associated Press ‘TOKIO, June 5.—Fire raging aboard the Japanese steamship Ugo Maru, was believed today to threaten the lives of the boat’s 700 passengers, most of whom were Russians. Reports carried in Nichi Nichi Shim- bun, confirmed by a foreign office dis- patch from Vladivostok, said the ship had caught afire between Vladivostok and Kamchatka, Other vessels were said to be rushing to its aid. The Ugo Maru left Vladivostok on May 23 en route to the fishing ban on the east coast of Kamchatka. On May 28, benzine in the hold was ignit- ed, the blaze finally getting beyond the control of the crew. The ship was of 3,682 tons and though Japanese owned had been chartered oy the Soviet fishing trust. It carried 700 Russian fisher folks of whom 380 werc women, and a Japanese crew of 43. It was understood here that t Vladivostok authorities were suppr ing the news fearing that it might in- ;‘trfcre with recruiting for the fishing eet. LLOYD'S HEARS 743 LOST. Message Gives Little Hope for Rescue of Passengers and Crew. LONDON, June 5 (#).—A message to Lloyd's from Yokohama today said tk Japanese steamer Ugo Maru was report- ed a total loss from fire, with the crew and passengers believed drowned. The fire began May 28, off the east coast of Kamchatka. Other Japanese dispatches said the ship was afire, with 700 Russian pas- sengers, 380 of them women, 43 Japane: w members, \ He was | Before Griffith. President. Hoover offered Dr. Work the | post of Postmaster General in his ad- ministration as well as a diplomatic 3 7 g of importance abroad. Dr. Work, how- | =* ionet Brew : ever, declined both. He had made it, CHICAGO. June 5—The Big Ten clfl?r he was not in the field for public | athletic turmoil grew today as Everett office. | Case, basket ball coach of Frankfort, Dr. Work said today he long had| planned to resign from the chairman- 100 High School. advised he was pre- Ship, but that he did not make a prac- | Pared to go before Commissioner John lice of announcing nis decisions in L. Grifith with proof that Purdue, as advance of action. e S no plans for | w, v v the immediate future, he said, except | oo, 107 Was GUilty of subsidizing that he will probably remain in Wash- afhletes. Coaeh Case said he also would prove | ington for about a month and then go | to the Rocky Mountains for a rest. to Cr;rr(\]xn}x]ssmmrd Gr::llm that Purdue = reveale s credit IX-up wi Strenuous Campaign Expected. | because he refused to recrgit r;? \{Ioa‘x: The coming congressional campaign | Piggy” Lambert, boilermaker basket lis expected to be a strenuous one. It |Dball coach. | will follow on the heels of passage of = Charges, presumably coming from Pur- the Republican revision of the tariffi— | due players, were made recently that provided that measure gets through— Case had sent two of his star basket and of the farm relief legislation. The | ball plavers, Doyal Plunkett and Bob G. O. P. will strain every nerve to hold | Spradling. to Iowa in exchange for free its majority in the House and Senate, | teaching credits. while the Democrats already are mak- | Nelson Kellogg, Purdue director of ing plans for an intensive dgive to win | athletics, advised the Associated Press back what they lost in the last cam- | Over long-distance telephone, that he paign and if possible to cut sharply | Would be glad to have Case outline his | into or take away the Repulican lead in the National Legislature. Dr. Work will be 71 years old during that cam- paign and would be 73 in the presi- dential campaign in 1932. Dr. Work is retiring with the Repub- lican organization in good shape. His party won an overwhelming victory last year while he was marshal of its forces. Dr. Work. it is understood. believes that | the chairman of the national commit- tee in the next presidential campaign should have the advantage of having zone through the congressional cam- paign next year. Dr. Work made public two letters in regard to his resignation: one addressed (Continucd on Page 2, Column 2) | BATTLE IS BITTER. Casualties Heavy in Fighting Be- tween Cristeros and Federals. MEXICO CITY. June 5 (#).—Official | reports to the war department today | from the Cerro Grande region. state of Colima, said the third day of the inten- | sive battle between federals and “Cris- | teros” there yesterday was marked with bitter hand-to-hand fighting and heavy casualties. | Federal infantry. protected by air- | planes, advanced and attacked the rebel positions on a hill. Cerro Azul, using bombs and machine guns to ad- vantage. Many rebels were Killed. among them the chieftain, Isais G. Revilla. charges, Named Mayor of Los Angeles by 35,000 Majority. | LOS ANGELES, June 5 (#).—John | C. Porter. former foreman of a county | grand jury that returned indictments in numerous oustanding cases, was elected | mayor of Los Angeles at vesterday's | election. ~ Returns from 1.264 of 1.491 | precincts in the city gave Porter a ma- Jority of more than 35000 votes over William E. Bonelli, president of the | City Council. | In the race for city attorney, Edwin F. Werner was far in the lead over City Councilman Pierson Hall. ACTRESS DENIES FRAUD. Pleads Guilty in Income Tax Case. LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 5 (). —Eleanor Boardman. film star, pleaded not guilty in Federal Court yesterday |to a charge of fraud in connection with | income tax returns. Her husband, King | Vidor, motion picture cirector, entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of fail- ure to pay his income tax in amounts Government_inspectors had_prescribed. Both cases went over to the Septem- | ber calendar of court to be set for trial. | | ? Eleanor | Boardman Not By the Associated Press. Consideration of an executive nomi- nation in open session was given by the Senate today in confirming Joseph P. Cotton of New York to be Under- secretary of State, although the pro- posed revision of the, 140-year-old rule on secret sessions hés not been acted upon vyet. Chairman Borah of the Se: relations committee took. | | fo! Senate Waives Old Executive Rule Confirming Appointee in Open Session by surprise when he reported the nomi- nation of Cotton shortly after the Senate met and asked its immediate consideration in open session. Borah's request received the neces- sary unanimous consent, and without a word of discussion the nomination of Mr. Cotton was confirmed. No opposition whatever was in evie dence against Mr. Cotton ejther in the - tha Senate. .