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WEATHER. ‘Thundershowers this afternoon eor night; tomorrow mostly fair; not much change in temperature. Temperatures: Highest, 92, at 4:15 p.m. ; lowest, 69, at 6 a.m. to- day. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 31,090. post office, Entered, ag second, class matter Washington, . FRENCH AERONAUTS RADIO “ALL'S WELL" AS AIRPLANE NEARS PORTUGUESE COAST Yellow Bird Changes Her | Course for Azores as Avia- tors Find Fuel Consumption Is Heavier Than Expected. MESSAGES FAIL TO GIVE POSITION OF MONOPLANE Recheck of Tanks Belicved Reas- suring as Flyers Fail to Mention Trouble in Later Reports to British Steamer. The New York Times received word from Paris at 1:07 o'clock this afternoon that the Yellow Bird had been sighted at longitude 22:10 west, latitude 41, at 6 o'clock, Paris time. This placed the airplane 200 miles off the Portuguese coast, op- posite Oporto. 1t is expected to land in Portugual this evening to refuel and proceed to Paris tomorrow. By the Associated Press. Wireless reports from two ocean steamers today indicated that the transatlantic monoplane Yel- Log of the Yellow Bird BY the' Assoctated Press. B a.m, Eastern standard time—Took off from Old Orchard Beach, Me., for Paris, 10:13 am. Eastern standard time—Passed over Matinious Rock Light, off the Maine coast. 5:45 pm. Eastern standard time—Reported by S. 8. Wythe- ville about 850 miles at sea. 11:52 p.m., Eastern standard time—Steamer Americn Farmer hears Yellow Bird communicat- ing with liners Rochambeau and Laconia. June 14: 1 am., Eastern standard time— Tells Steamer Rochambeau she is taking southern route towrd Por- tuguese coast over the Azores, he- cause of diminishing gas supply. 5 a.m., Eastern standard time— Steamer Niagara talks with Yel- low Bird, which reports all well on board. (Position of plane not given.) WHITE WITHIN RIGHT LOWMAN DECLARES Dry Agent Who Shot Man at| International Falls “Has Perfect Defense.” By the Associated Press. Assistant Secretary Lowman of the | Treasury announced today that E. J. White, the customs patrolman who shot Henry Virkkula near International Falls, Minn., last Saturday night, “was acting within his authority under the law and had a perfect defense.” Lowman said that if White was in- dicted, his case would be transferrerd to the United States tourts and added that newspaper accounts of the shooting were highly colored. low Bird was faring well on its air road from the United States ‘to France. The Assistant Secretary said emphat- | ically the Treasury had no intention of | | disarming customs patrolmen and said | The steamer Niagara reported | that should Congress pass a law dis- that at 6 a.m. New York time, it | arming them it would in effect repeal was in communication with the | the tariff laws. The same-rule, he con- plane and that all was well, |tinued holds good with prohibition agents and to disarm them would nul- Three hours later the Laconia Pasettht Rmiehan lify the eighteenth amendment. picked up the plane by radio and | _ The statement issued by'the Assistant received the same encouraging report. $ The Niagara was between 300 and 400 miles northeast of the Azores when -she spoke to the Yellow Bird and the Laconia was 700 northeast of the islands when she raised the plane, Position Is Not Given. In neither instance did the Yeufiwhnli‘rd give dl’mr position, % as oI miles, its jont M‘:&! pe} accurately plotted from the posi- tions of the steamers. But an earlier report from the French liner Rochambedu had said the plane had . decided to take the southern route by way of the Azores and Portugal, so it was sup) d that she was some- where between the Azores and the mainland when she com- municated with the Niagara and the Laconia. The Yellow Bird told the Ro- chambeau that it was taking the southern course because of an unexpected high rate of gasoline consumption. From the fact that it made no mention of its fuel supply in its communication hours later to the Niagara and Laconia it was assumed that a recheck of the tanks had been reassuring. FAIL TO LEARN PLANE’'S POSITION. ! Yellow Bird Heads for Azores as Fllel; Gets Low. Br the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, June 14.—The Frenth | Line steamer Niagara reported by wire- less today that it was in communication with_the transatlantic monoplane Yel- Secretary did not make public details of the official report of the Virkkula shooting made by Assistant Collector of Customs Linderberg at Duluth, Minn. PLANS FOR TRIAL ADVANCE. County Authorities Prepare for Giving Hearing to Dry Agents. INTERNATIONAL FPALLS, Minn, June 14 (#).—County authorities today went forward with their plans to bring first-degree murder charges against E. +J, White, ‘border patrol man, for the slaying of Henry Virkula, Big Falls| confectioner. ‘White, now being held on a complain charging second-degree manslaughter, will be given a preliminary héaring next Monday. At that time David Hurlburt, county attorney, plans to request that :Ihlu be charged with first-degree mur- TH Three reports of the shooting have been forwarded to Assistant Treasury Secretary Lowman at Washington. The reports were made after investigations by Henry A. Roberts, special agent for the United States Treasury Department, and by two special customs agents from Washington. FuEE REIN IS GIVEN IN DEBT PACT ACTION French Government Will Not Put Question of Confidence Before Parliament. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 14—The Havas News | agency said today the government | he Zoening WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY JUNE 14, 1929—FIFTY-SIX PAGES. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes’ as fast as the papers are printed. * Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,584 () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. RUSSIAN WAR MOVE AGAINSTCHINAOVER RAIDS IS REPORTED Soviet Troops Invade Man- churia, Establishing Out- posts, London Hears. CHANG HSIAO-LIANG ASKS NANKING FOR PROTECTION Nationalists Announce No Reports of Action Received, in Offi- cial Statement. Br the A: ted Precs NANKING, China, June 14.—The Nationalist government officially an- nounced today that it had received no reports about an alleged Russian invasion of Mongolia and Man- churia in reprisal for Manchurian raids on Soviet consulates May 27. LONDON, June 14 (#).—The Express today prints a dispatch from Peiping. China, saying that Soviet Russia has launched the first direct war move against China following the recent raids on Soviet consulates in Man- churia. | Soviet troops were reported to have | crossed the Siberian border and to have established outposts east of Manchouli. Soviet Reinforcements Rushed. ‘The Soviets were said to be rushing reinforcements in special trains over the Transsiberian Rallway. Chang Hslao-Liang, dictator of Manchuria in succession to his father, the late Chang Tso-Lin, has sent an urgent appeal to Nanking advising that measures be taken to protect his terri- tory. " A plenary session of the Central | Executive of the Kuomintang has been convened hurriedly to consider the sit- uation, Mongolia Already Russia’s Ally. The Express says that outer Mongolia may be considered diplomatically the ally of Russia, whose next move prob- ably would be occupation of part of Manchuria, to be held until satisfaction for recent raids on Soviet consulates is received and the owne: .of the Chinese Eastern Railway settled. The Government of Nanking was said to have been notified by its consuls in Russia, that the consulates were sur- " Rustian outposts were.uinderstood. to an_out were.; have besn established ' at Khailar, Northwestern Manchuria, east of Man- chouli. Manchuris provineial +tfoops were under arms at Algun or Heilun- kiang, on the River Amur, near Bla- goveschchensk, Northwestern - churia, with others avaflable at Kirin and Fengtien. Khailar 18 on the rail- g:ge;uw Manchuria to Mukden and Forty Arrested al Harbin. Police in Harbin, Manchuria, on May 28, raided the Soviet consulate there, arresting 40 persons, three of them | women, including the eonsul general, B. N. Melnikoff, and the Mukden con- sul general, N. K. Kuznetzoff. It was alleged the bBasement of the building | had been used as a meeting place for the Third Internationale. A considerable amount of literature, which, it was said, proved subversive Soviet activity in China, was confiscat- ed, and it was understood recently was being sent to Nanking after translation and cataloguing. There were reports at the time the Chinese Nanking government authori- ties sought through the raid to establish Soviet connection with the uprising of Feng Yu-Hsiang, former minister of war and Central China war lord. Other reports insisted the Manchurian au- :{mrlues had acted on their own initia- ve. Karakhan Protests to China, A formal note of protest was handed | Sia Wel Sung, Chinese charge d'affaires </ D | FLAG DAY, 1929. " EDGE AND PITTMAN 10 ADDRESS NATION London Shocked, Wales Not Invited To Swedish Ball G [T5 6,0.P. RANKS NEW TARIFF REVOLT -| Capital, it was learned today that the } THO VRGINASTES ARECONSDEREDAS CAPTAL ARPORT 1,000-Acre Tract at Camp Springs, Md., Gets Favor- able Study. WO00D WAITS CHANCE TO OFFER RESOLUTION Commission Hopes to Give Wash- ington One of Best Flying Ar- rangements in World. With Chairman Wood of the House appropriations committe awaiting an opportunity to call up again in the House ths resolution to appropriate 500,000 to begin an airport for the | joint congressional airport commission has under consideration acquisition of | the two small commercial fields in Vir- ginia between the Highway Bridge and | the Arlington Experimental Farm for temporary use. The fields would be com- bined to serve as one airport. The plan for this fleld would include the amuse- ment park nearby and the experimental arm. Chalrman Bingham and other mem- bers of the commission were représented as belleving that it wow'd be most ad- vantageous to secure a relatively small area near the civic and business center which could be used immediaf for an airport and then to proceed more deliberately on the development of a 1,000-acre airpsrt on the outskirts of |Rumors of Engagement the District which would be made one PREDT PASSAGE OF FARM NEASURE BY SENATE TODAY Conferees Agree to Recede From Their Support of Debenture Plan. PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO SIGN BILL AT ONCE Robinson Declares Measure Would Have Been Stronger With Debenture Clause. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The long struggle to enact farm relief legislature is ending in the Senate today. Before that body ad- journs tonight it will have adopted the conference report on the farm bill, it was confidently predicted, and the bill will be ready to go the President for his approval. ‘The House agreed to the conference report on the farm bill, with the de- benture clause stricken out, a few min- utes after that body assembled at noon today. No record vote was taken. It was realized that the House was over- whelmingly in favor of the final pass- age of the bill. | Senator McNary of Oregon, chairman of the committee on agriculture, moved to take up the conference report in ihe Senate soon after the action of the House had been reorted formally. Senate Conferees Agree. The conferees of the Senate and House on the farm bill met this morn- . ground of polities .and policies in the Senators to Discuss Con- gessional Situation to Date in Radio Forum. The accomplishments of the special session of Congress and the political situation in the Senate will be discussed from the Republican and Democratic points of view in the National Radio Forum conducted by The Star at § o'clock tomorrow night. Senator Wa! ter E. Edge of New Jersey, strong sup- porter of the Hoover administration, will discuss these subjects as a Repub- lican. Senator Key Pittman of Nevada will give the viewpoint of the Demo- crats. The Senate has been the batile- specjal session of Congress up fo the present time, and gives promise of con- tinuing to be so. The reapportionment and oensus bill, however, has been pul through its final legislative stages, and the farm bill is expected to be ready for | the President's approval within a few | days. The biggest fight of all, however, is expected over the tariff bill, which is now before the Senate finance com- mittee. Efforts are being made to oring about a recess of Congress for two months while the committee holds its hearings and prepares a report on the tariff measure. Mentioned as Ambassador. Senator Edge was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1916, after having served as his party leader in both branches of the State Legislature. In 1018 he was elected to the Senate and was re-elected in 1924. He has been prominently mentioned as the probable selection of President Hoover to repre- sent the United States as Ambassador to. France. The New Jersey Senator was a strong supporter of Mr. Hoover | for the presidential nominatiop in the preconvention campaign last year and did much to help carry New Jersey in the ensuing election. Leader in Party Councils. | to Princess Ingrid Have Borah Troubles Party Lead- Be;en Quieted. ers in Senate by Asking for Limited Revision. By the Associated Press. ; LONDON, June 14.—London tea time | gossipers had a shock today when it 2 was officially learned that the Prince of | BY the Associsted Press Sales Al ok o Grhaent ke e bhi|. = ToSOSIeNOIe I REpublSAn irAnky | in the Senate, directed against the | | farm in of the Swedish legation tonigh? in honor of Princess Ingrid of Sweden. l‘tl!‘lfl bill passed by the House, con- | ing and were in session only a short .000-acre tract at Camp Springs, | time. The Senate conferees agreed im- Md., about seven miles from the Dis- | mediately to recede from their support trict on the Brandywine road, is said | of the debenture plan .The conference to have .received favorable consider- | report was then signed by all members ation. | of the conference committee, including The possibility of Including a large Senators Norris of Nebraska and Smith portion of the Arlington experimental | of South Carolina, who hitherto have this immediate airport de- | stood out for the debenture clause. velpoment has been considered. With | President Hoover is expected to sign the enactment of the Arlington Me- | the, farm bill soon after it is sent to ‘morial Bridge legislation. it has for zome | him, thus bringing to an end a contest years been the ultimate. plan of the | for farm legislation which has existed city builders, including the Commission | ever since the deflation of agriculture qufl‘iP greatest airports in the world. SPEED OF DAWES Rumors ‘of & possible engagement an- | {ronted Congress today as it settled | nouncement of the tWo popular eli ble““"'“ to work on the two principal | Toyal children seemed to have been | Fecommendations of President Hoover given a ‘dzuflslu qulefius wll:h the if& to the exira session—tariff revision and suance o uest list. was sal L 4 at the Swedish fegation that the Prince | for et RICH st ik s of Wales had not even been invited, only_Prince George, youngest son of | Senator Borah of Idaho, who con- the. British royal family, who regretted | tended for the export debenture plan that he was unable to attend, tion to the i The feature ; gy | OF.Jar Tefiet. n. appg be ‘one of he high lights of (he London | President, gave his party leaders in the season, will be a dance program which | Senate_new cause for concern today wiil contain nathing but waltzes. At a |yyn pig' proposal to put the chamber cent, part: incess Ingrid w - ;\emnd l‘:.ylnyl”t'hlt ll!\e ":es glvlel‘l‘_z on record for limitation of tariff re- betler than any dance, so fox trots and | vision to agricultural and related prod- one steps have all been eliminated for ' ¢ the party, where everything is being dorie o the pleasure of the Swedish princess. H 4 | Similar Motion Beaten. The 11 Republican Senators on the | | finance comunittee already have de- | teated a shnilar motion by Senator ! King, Desocrat, Utah, which won the | | support of the Democrats o.. the com- | mittee. It was then that Borah put | the proposal before the Senate and it | was recognized as the principal issue | before that chamber today, with pros- Ipeets of considerable support from the | Republican independents and Demo- | crats who lined up against the Presi- | dent on debentures. AMAZES BRITAIN _, Rush and Bustle Causes Con- auhian i i, o 8237 | siderable Speculation as t0 | {e. Smdme up his Torces o block Political Significance. 1 !the Borah proposal as soon as it was | introduced. | No Word From White House. | _No dizect word has come from the | White House of opposition by the Presi- | dent to the House tariff bill. He pro- | posed “limited” tariff revision in his | message fto Congress, but he did not | | confine this limitation solely to agricul~ | tural increases. | "In connection with the tariff bill more | is to be heard from the advocates of the By the Associated Press. SOUTHAMPTON, England, June 14.—Charles G. Dawes, newly ap- pointed American Ambassador to Great Britain, arrived at South- ampton from the United States this afternoon and was cordially wel- | & beautiful riv of Fine Arts, to abandon the Arlington | farm west of the Virginia end of the | bridge for enlargement of the Arling- | ton Cemetery, with an impressive en- trance directly from the bridge. Riverside Drive Is Planned. This would obviate in a large meas- ure the necessity for the present high- way from the Highway Bridge past the :xpe;rlmem_ul hon&:l the m_;ihx: a h to n A TY. the ‘joint congressional airpos mission contemplates the development of this airport in connection with the building of the Mount Vernon Highway from the Arl Memorial Bridge along the line of Columbia Istand and ckirting the shore to Mount Vernon. In this way there would be i drive as a result of which the present highwsy from Highway Bridge to Arlington Cemetery could be abandoned. ‘This is one of the related problems | which will be carefully studied. ‘The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission has estimated that the entire 1,000 acres near Anacostia can be secured at & cost of not more than $200 an acre. The commission has been advised that the topography of this area lends itself readily to airport de- velopment.y ‘This is not the area referred to in the House recently by Representative Un- derhill of Massachusetts, who narrated that the commission had under con- sideration a 1,000-acre area which could be secured for $200 an acre, but that representatives of a real estate concern appeared before the committee a few days later stating that they had secured options on all the property in- volved and were holding it for $2,000 an acre. It was learned today that it was the proposed Chillum site to which Representative Underhill referred. Gravelly Point Site Favored. Gravelly Point has been generally considered as the most advantageous for airport development, and the gen- following the World War. * Senator Robinson of Arkansas, mi- nority leader of the Senate, attacked the farm bill in its present form when the conference report was laid before the Senate for action. “In the opinion of many Senators,™ said Senator Robinson. “the elimina- :;im of the debenture clause leaves tife reliet legislation.” He said that the bill. was similar to the imem("e Spo} “during the last session of Congress former Secre- tary Jardine of !hew - partment. orded | said, was generally ¢ m and caused the r!firmefldt‘ ecretary Jardine from the cabinet. Delayed for Direct Vote. Senators who have supported the de- lt::nmntil:n. &"wfbh Roblnm’ son, d;:‘m. lve not ‘en respons| or ) of the farm bill. He & had de! tor longer to prevent a vote on the bill He said, mlm'evet. that nothing has been accomplished in this bill except the creation of a new board and corporation and that the bill would have been far stronger if the debenture clause had been included. The farm bill, Senator Robinson said, was also only an experiment, with or without the debenture clause, and none could foretell how it will work out. Its success, he said, will depend on the personnel of the farm board, which i= "o be appointed by the President. “Further important legislation for agriculture need not be expected in the early future, nor until this measure has been thoroughly tried cut,” said Senator Robinson. “This bill ends the export debenture plan, even though it | has been eliminated as an issue in farm relief legislation. 3 Their pl in process of formation —The meeting in | ever since it became apparent weeks ago that no farm measure which in- | long struggle over farm relief I - | tion with action which many Bem | believe is inadequate and ineffective. No | truthful person can assert that the Re- | publican platform pledges of 1924 and cf 1928 have been carried out. This measure does not on its face promise | redemption of those pledges.” The Arkansas Senator attacked -the | House tariff bill, declaring that “the | business of farming will be hit rather Senator Pittman has for years pl d | an important part in Democratic party | councils and in the Senate. He has ' demonstrated his ability again and | B the Associated Pre: again a3 4 legislator and s debater. He | LONDON, June 14 first_came to the Senate in 1912 and | Scotland Sunday of Gen. Charles G.| continuously sin time. | ’ b cluded debentures was likely to be ap- D e o emton. morwitn: | DAWes, new American Ambassador, and | broved, is o try o put the proposal Minister Ramsay MacDonald | into the tariff bill in the Senate. i ear he was re-elected, notwith- | | standing the Hoover landslide, which | Prime carried his State into the Republican | continued today to absorb political | House administration leaders assert column in the presidential election. cireles | the attempt will prove as futile as did | eral opinion has been that this would be the site taken for the municipal air- port. Several members of the commis- sion would favor development of Gra- velly Point. Chairman Bingham, how- ever, has stated that Gravelly Point is approximately 2 miles from the other riverside ficlds which the commission proposes to acquire and has argued that it would take five years to build up the Gravelly Point field. in Moscow, by L. M. Karakhan, former Soviet ambassador to China. The note also demanded return of property, in- | cluding money. which it alleged had been confiscated. Abount the same time, Sia Wel Sung notified his govern- ment that Chinese sular representa- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) low Bird at 6 o'clock this morning, East- | would give parliament a free rein to e daylight time, and that everything | choose ratification of the interailied was reported well on board the plane. | debt agreements by either decree or by The message from the Niagara was | voting. | not received here until after noon, it| In any event, it was said, the gov-/ having been relayed from one ship to| ernment will not pose a question of | another and then through a land sta- | confidence to the Chamber of Deputies. tion te the French Line. The Niagara | Under the title “Why I Broke Si- gave its position at the time it spoke | lence.” Henri Berenger, who as former the Yellow Bird as latitude 41.14 north | minister of finance was responsible 1atitude 22.10 west, but did not give the | for the accord with the United States,| comed by officials of the city. at to include the proposal in the position of the Yellow Bird. An Associated Press report from Lon- don said: Officers of the Cunard Line had re- eeived a wireless from the steamship Laconia, bound for Liverpool, which | been in communication with the Yellow | Bird, and which reported all well aboard. The message timed “noon G. M. T.” (approximately 8 am. E 8. T.) read: “Noon G. M. T. longitude, 2210 west, Teports all (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) GERMANY, BELGIUM OPEN MARK PARLEY By the Associgthd Press. BRUSSELS. Belgium, June 14.—Ne- gotiations for final settiement of the still outstanding German marks ques- tion began in Brussels today, with the arrival of Dr. Ritter, the German finan- cial expert designated by his govern- ment to discuss the question. The conversation will be secret and no communique will be issued until an agreement has finally been reached. Both delegates, who hope to settle the question next week, will maintain con- | | | | stant touch with their respective gov- | ernments, M. Camille répresents Bel- fum. : ¥ ‘The Bels are demanding 37 an- nuities of 25,000,000 marks (about $6,000,000) each and have made settle- ment. of this problem a condition for their acceptance of the recent repara- tions agreement. | has started a series of articles plead- | treasurer disappeared last March, when ing the cause of ratification. — COLLEGE BURSAR GONE, ACCOUNTS ARE SHORT Loyola University of New Orleans Claims $10,000 Loss by Cash- ier’s Default. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, June 14.—Henry J. Meyer, bursar of Loyola University, has disappeared, leaving his accounts short in excess of $10,000. the Rev. Pather Sullivan, president of the univer- ! said today. The college president said the young ® o sity. 2n audit of his books was ordered. Pri- vate detectives were assigned to the case, but recently it was turned over to the district attorney, who filed an afi- davit in the Criminal Court charging | him with embezziement of $150.50, the first shortage discovered. A bonding | company has paid the shortage. The | trail of the missing bursar has led into the Middle West, Margesson Retains Seat. RUGBY, England, Juue 14 (#)—The only return still outstanding from the general election was announced today with the victory of Capt. D. Margesson, Conservative, who retained his seat with 15,145 votes. J. Morgan, Laborite, polled 11,588 votes and Robert Bernays, Lib- eral, 10,158, 1 | | Blind Roomer Moves About Dead Host . And Wife, Victims of Poison Liquor By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 14.—A blind roomer lived for days in the home of Tom Peterson, 38. and his wife Ada, 35, going and &mlnf and calling to them, and thinking little of it when they fail- ed to respond. ibors saw him moving about, but missed the Petersons and called police. Patrolmen entered and found liquor bottles strewn about the house in dis- order. An ambulance pujled up at the doorway. Tests of the liquor showed that it was poisonous. When the room- er returned later he was told that for 40 hours he had lived in a house ten- anted by the dead, | ENDURANCE FLYER TO USE 3 PLANES | Transfers to Be Made in Brief| Stops, as Fuel Runs Low, by F. C. Anderson. By the Associated Pri DES MOINES, Towa, June 14—F. C. Anderson, Des Moines pilot, planned to start late today an endurance fight | in which he will use a relay of three planes. He expects to stay up for about five hours until the gas runs low, then he ' will land and transfer immediately to a_ waiting plane for the second lap. Anderson hopes to continue this process | for at least 48 hours, spending not more than 10 seconds in changing ships each time. THANKS GERMAN EXPERTS Von Hindenburg Praises Delegates | to n.epantionn Conference. BERLIN, June 14 (#).—President von Hindenburg today received Drs. Schacht, Hastl and Melchoir, Germany's dele~ gates to the Reparations Conference, and thanked them for their painstaking work during the experts’ negotiations. ‘The President also received Puad of Egypt, concluding the of visit of the King in Berlin. lzy;:m clearing house, $5,219,- Treasury halance, $88,072,501.20. New York clearing house exchange, $1,218,000,000. New York clearing house balance, $150,000,000. I&luflem Pmlfln‘lll Senator Pittman is a native of Mis- | sissippl. He went to the Pacific Coast, however, when he grew to manhood and began the practice of law in Seattle. He spent several years in Alaska during the gold rush to that territory and was the first prosecuting attorney of Nome. In 1902 he moved to Nevada. ATLANTA BALL CLUB PURCHASE ‘ON’ AGAIN Griffith to Buy Crackers if South- ern League Approval in Three Days Is Obtained. Like the trolley-riding Finnegan of the ancient ballad, negotiations for the purchase of the Atlanta base ball club by the Washington American League club are off and on again with sud- deness. Declared off yesterday, today they are on again. Clark Griffith, president of the Wash- ington club, this afternoon sent to Rell J. Spiller, owner of the Atlanta club, | the following wire: “If you can obtain within three davs the consent and approval of the South- ern League to the Wi n club taking title to and operating the At. lanta base ball club franchise, will go i’fi’;fl“‘h with contract as of June 14, o . Last week the local club announced it had purchased the Southern. Associa- tion enterprise, lock, stock and barrel. Yesterday, the Washington club de- clared the deal off, President Griffith stating it had been discovered that the Southern Association has a rule for- bidding the sale of a franchise in its circuit to any club in organized base ball unless the sale be approved by a three-fourths vote of the assoclation directorate and that it had been as- certained this approval by the director- ate was not to be had. . Radio Ptg;rgms—-l‘_g‘e_ 50 § | Two Others Seriously Hurt While | thi In speculation as to its significance | fa; rm bill, there was a note of wonder at various | This view is not shared. howcyer, by unconventional aspects of Gen. Dawes' | Tfin&*":’m"fi“‘fiyz’ o4 plans and at the rush and hurry he is | momorert AUSY T “the hope of cxhibiting, hardly covered by ambassa- | gaining support for it in the House. mTh:u:!Ie:w "': ‘;“ Basbiciind :"’”: debenture_certificates be given only to e e he sef 00! n gland al ization col rations which -the Bouthampton at 3 p.un. todsy il After | Fagis e Federal Farm Board will be authorized the Pilgrims’ dinner Tuesday night has | o set up under the terms of the farm iven rise to incrensing wonder at what | reet bil. may be the s urgancy in the back- o Roeh BT Held Benefit to Speculators. His plans, it is remarked, involve his ; : | Chief objection to the debentures presentation to King George within 24' , CRIEE, biection, 1o ihe debeptares T i I O rige | Would never obtain the full benefit of s ride | e money derived from their use. ! President Hoover contended they would benefit speculators but prove ruinous to_the farmer. Senator Brookhart and other deben- ture advocates - now _contend that, | through lssuance of debenture certifi- | cates directly to the Farm Board and addition of their face value to the assets of the stabilization corporations, | the possibility of speculation in_them would be._eliminated and the farmer would bsnefit, through his direct con- trol of the corporations. A number of the House farm leaders who asked for defeat of the debenture (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) |MACDONALD IS UNAWARE OF EMBASSY RUMORS Disclaims Knowledge of Relief of Sir Esme Howard by Gilbert Murray. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 14—The Express to- day says that Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald said emphatically “it is the first time I've heard of it” when. in- formed of a rumor that Gilbert Mur- ray was to be the next British Am- | bassador to Washington. ‘A correspondent. of the Herald ques- tioned Mr. Murray at Oxford and was told he knew nothing official about such an appointment and urally could not fi whether he would accept THREE MEN KILLED IN DRYDOCK BLAST Working on Ship: Cause Is Undetermined. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 14—Three men were killed, two seriously injured and five others slightly hurt in en explosion in & Brooklyn dry dock today. The cause of the blast was unde- termined. The dead are Thomes Kennedy, Christerfer Kelly and Philip Burns, all of Brooklyn. About 50 men were working in the bottom of the Robbins dry dock at the time of the explosion, scraping ths starboard side of the tanker Gulf Penn. It is believed that a leak in one of the compressed air lines might have caused a pontoon to explode. The Gulf Penn, formerly the Agwi- havre, is an American tank steamer, uu‘alin lhe:l" ~ fitlallf- ‘\;(.crudt &l}. and is own e Gul fining Co. here. The tanker wag It still appears to be a controversial question between members of the com- | mission as to whether the Camp Simms | area should be acquired or the building | up of a 1,600-acre, four-way flying field | to match anything in the world or | whether the National Capital and the | Government agencies interested would be satisfied to develop the Gravelly Point area up to & maximum of 600 acres. MRS. COOLIDGE JOINS HUSBAND AS WRITER NEW ' YORK. June i4 (®).—Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has foined her husband in fhe ranks of magazine writers. | Merle Crowell, editor of the American Magazine, today announced that Mrs. | Coolidge has just completed a serics of articles which will reveal many intimate facts connected with the president household during the Coolidge admini ration. | | BELIEVES IN VARIETY. | ‘There's nothing like a variety of service, in the opinion of Lieut. (junior grade) Kenneth O. Ekelund, U. 8. N. Orders made public today at the Navy Dej ment revealed that Lieut. Eke- lund, who has been on duty at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J., will be detached from there tomorrow to g0 on submarine duty. The U. 8. 8. 8-22 will be his next scene of sepvice. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. BOYS TELL OFFICERS OF DROWNING ORPHAN Lads, 10 and 11, Arrested for Robbery, Confess to De-th of Playmate. By the Associated Press. WELCH, W. Va.. June 14.—Two boys, aged 10 and 11 years, arrested on rob- bery charges, were maid today by Me- Dowell County officers to have teld them they drowned Raymond Cooley, | 9, orphan boy, whose body was re- covered from the Dry Fork River at English ‘yesterday. The names of the boys were with- held under a State law. A warrast charging Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hamilton with being aecessories to murder was issued cn_complaint of the county pro- bation officer, who quoted the boys as saying they told their parents that they held the Cooley boy under water and were advised to say nothing about it. Officers said the boys told them the Ccoley lad tried to drown them and that they choked him and held his head under water. The victim’s throa bore marks of ice. 77 * Man, Unmoved by Policeman’s Argument, May Die From Hurts in Leap Off Bridge By the Associated P MILWAUKEE, June 14 (. — Hun- dreds of persoms watched Policeman Raleigh Falbe argue yesterday with a man atop a bridge against suicide—and tHen saw the man leap. g “Let’s be sensible,” the policeman said ts Edward Kluge, 56. “Why not talk 3t over2” “Never mind, just stay away,” saig Kluge. For 20 minutes they argued. - In the meantime word had bee: fire_department. sounded Kluge shouted: catch me in any net,” and leaped 45 feet, to a dry creek bed. He was not killed, but was so badly injured he may not live, “They won't