Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1929, Page 2

PRESIDENT HOOVER SIGNS FARM BILL Provisions Made for $500,- 000,000 to Stabilize Agricul- ture and Stimulate Marketing (Continued From First Page.) most important that 2 chief executive has been called upon to appoint for a long time, because of the seriousness of the farm program in this country and the tic size of the appropriation turned over to the board to expend in the interest of agriculture The farm measure, marking the cul- | mination of years of political and legis- lative effort to solve the economic prob- lems of agriculture, was the last of three major farm-relief bills sent to the White | House by recent Congresses, and the| only one known in advance to be ac- ceptable to the Chief Executive. The other two, the McNary-Haugen bills, both contained equalization fee pro- visions which proved just as odjection- able to former President Coolidge as the debenture plan was to Mr. Hoover The new bill was taken to the White | House personally by Secretary Hyde late | yesterday after Speaker Longworth and | Vice President Curtis had signed it, shortly after the Senate, voting 74 to 8, had accepted the second report of its representatives in the joint conference negotiations with the House recommend- ing elimination of the debenture pro- vision. The House had expressed its ap- | proval earlier without & rell call. Many Democrats for Bill. The vote in the Senate on the eon- ference report found practically all of the Democrats voting for the bill as well as the Republicans. The eight Senators who voted against the bill were Blease, South Carolina; Caraway, Arkansas; Copeland, New York; Walsh, Massachusetts, 2nd Wheeler, Montana, Democrats, and La Follette, Wisconsin. Norbeck, South Dakota, and Pine, Okla- home, Republicans. | Tt wes announced that Senatof | Blaine of Wisconsin was paired against the conference report with Senator Gould of Maine for the conference re- port, and that Senator King of Utah | was paired against the conference re- port with Senator Stephens of Missis- aippi for the conference report. It was elso announced that Senator McMaster of South Dakota would have voted against the bill had he been pres- ent. Nine Senators of the coalition of Republican insurgents and Democrats ‘who supported the debenture plan were all that remained faithful in the end. Both Senator King and Senator Walsh | of Massachusetts. who voted against the | | | |stand. and the aviators answering in | the few minutes we were circling over Arthur Schreiber Astonished by Voices in Strange Tongue. ESpeaks of Three French Fly- ‘ ers and Himself as “We.” { Br the Associated Pres | COMILLAS, Santander. Spain, June | 15.—Youthful Arthur Schreiber, stow- | away on the Yellow Bird, was perhape | the most lost individual in all Spain | when he stepped to the beach at Oriambre yesterday after his stolen trip | across the Atlantic. | He seemed perturbed until he felt the | {ground beneath his feet and then his | face became wreathed in smiles. The | smiles faded and were replaced by a ' look of blank astonishment as he heard hundreds of voices about him clamoring in Spanish, which he did not under- French which he did not understand | either. Armeno Lotti, financial backer of the flight, and one of the three others aboard. introduced him to the erowd as, “our unlooked-for pilot,” a cingle French resident serving as interpreter. M. Lotti was smiling. but Assolant. the pilot, toock the matter more seriously. Considered Turning Back. | ‘We considered turning back duflnl‘i Old Orchard after we found him with us, but when we saw the accident to the Green Flash we thought we would better keep on our way. ! “Once we were in the air we stuck him in a corner where he concealed himself before the start and he stayed there all night. We shared our sand- viches and fruit with him. of eourse. ‘We had not calculated gasoline to carry | him, but here he is, the little rascal.” | The senoritas of Comillas when they discovered just what young Schreiber had done found him fully a: attractive as the older aviators and his lack of Spanish proved no deterrent to amicable relations with them. During the visit to Santander this morning Schreiber spoke of himself and the three aviators as “we’ and even| his Prench companions smiled. Assolant | was explaining to him in his limifed | English what the spectators had to say about the fallure to reach Paris. “Oh, well,” the youth remarked. “T'll | tell the world we're on the other side | of the Atlantic. aren't we? How | about that?” Then he added, “Anyway we have plenty of time to get to Paric after we get some gas.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. SATURDAY JUNE 15, 1929 BOY STOWAWAY NEARLY HALTED! YELLOW BIRD'S OCEAN FLIGHT ARTHUR SCHREIBER. and the welcoming yells of thousands Wwho expeeted to greet “us.” | Rene Le Fevre iold the Associated | Press correspondent : | “He came creeping out from the tail of the ship. He was on his knees at first, but when finallv he stood up he h;d ‘sea legs' and swayed from side to side. “We would have been people of little heart if we had turned back and put him off, or"—laughingly—"thrown him overboard, as we made him believe we were going to do. “But our own fear for nur safety was i as nothing compared with the trepida- | tion we felt for him and the assurance we had that if something happened we | ;finumflbe blamed for not having put P Lotti Was Indignant. Armeno Lotti said: “If I have not committed a crime on this voyage I shall never commit one. My indigna- tion when T saw the boy crawling out | from the tail of the plane was s0 great | 1 was much tempted o throw him off | and lighten our load, which s just sufficient to keep us from achi The youth knew few words of Spanish. With those few he told some who talked to him he was a vaudeville actor and | that his parents were from Budapest. | He said he hid in the tail of the plane | on the night prior to the flight. He was unable to sleep all last night, the clamor of the little town's in-| habitants outside the hotel keeping all four awake. | BOY’'S PARENTS JOYFUL. Night of Anxiety Spent Awaiting News of Yellow Bird. | the down-river rum crews, is swarm- cruising in Canadian waters, he said. | | OFFICER FORESEES SERIOUS RUM CLASH i Ontario Police Chief Declares Liquor Runners Are Girding for Early Battle. By the Associs WINDSOR, Ontario, June 13 (Cana- | dian Press).—An early clash of serious proportions between United States Coast Guard officers and the Detroit River and Lake Erie rum runners is expected by Ohlef of Police Harry | Timmis of Amherstburg, Ontario. | “There’ll be a big row on the rive Dbefore long, it seems from present in- ‘fllb fons,” he said vesterday. Strangers Swarm Town. Amherstburg, recognized by the United States prohibition enforcement {agents as temporary headguarters of | { i ing with strangers from across the river, the chief added. ' Most of these men are identified in various capaci- ties with the liquor industry, he said, although a few of them may be “un- der-cover” men for the United States | Customs or Coast Guard services. He suspects the rum crew lying in | the Amherstburg and Sugar Islands are | armed or are arming with Lewis guns | in readiness for the much-heralded ma- jor offensive by the United Sfates forces. “And it's my opinion that' these new arrivels will use the guns.” the chief | said—"that is, if they are bothered by the Ooast Guard crews.” Charge Attack Without Warning. The runners have charged repeatedly | they had been fired on without warning | by the police river patrols, who did not give them an opportunity to halt for a | search of their craft or-for a surrender. | o Chiet Timmis has not seen any boats | leaving Amherstburg with liquor cargo | and guarded by machine gunners s yet, but the operators naturally would keep their weapons out of sight while docked at & Canadien port or while REITERATES SOVIE]’ IS MOVING ON CHINA Dispatch Declares Report Correct That Russian Troops Are in Manchuria, By the Associated Prees. C0-£ED DEATH QUIZ HOLDS 2 OHIOANS State Employe and Univer-| sity Professor Questioned in Finding of Body. | By the Assoctated Prese. COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 15.—Marion | T. Myers, employe of the Sfate De- | partment of Agriculture and Prof. James H. Snook of the Ohio State University School of Veterinary Medi- | | cine were held on formal charges of | investigation by Columbus police to- day. after they had been questioned in connection with the hammer killing Thursday night. of Miss Theora K Hix, Ohio State co-ed. Two boys found the body vesterday when they went to the rifie range to practice. The head had been punctured 17 times. The throat and body bore deep gashes. Seven hours later Alice and Beatrice | Bustin, sisters, who roomed with the gr] near the university hospital, identi- | ed the hody through personal effeets after notifying police of her absence.| The features were unrecognizable. Visit o Hospital for Work. Police learned that the girl had gone to the hospital Thursday night to in- quire about part-time employment there to defray expenses at the School of | Medicine during the Bummer semester. | At 7:45 o'clock she left, telling Bertha | Dillon, switchboard operator, that she had to keep an r,nfngememv and that she would return before 10 o'clock. | 8he failed to rea r at the hospital or her home, but it was not until late yesterday that alarm was felt for her safety, the girl's roommates believing she had spen’ the night with friends. Their surprise that she had men- tioned a “date” started authorities on a line of investigation which revealed that several times she had been recent- ly with a man about 40 years old, driv- ing with him in a small automobile Her campus friends, in amazement, said | she never had shown interest in univer- sity social life and that she never, to their knowledge, had made ‘‘dates” with the few men she knew.. They said she was secretive, that little was known of her, and that so fer as they had learned she had no confidantes. They knew little more than that her home was in Bradentown, Fla,, they said. Uncertainty of Meeting. Whether she met the man mentioned 10 police was not known. Officials also were uncertain that the assault was committed at the deserted rifie range. but they declared the girl made a ter- rific attempt to save herself. A wrist watch stopped at 10 o'clock, the hour she was due at the hospital. Police said | | RIDDLE CAR DRY DEATHS BRING | CLASH IN HOUSE Third Representative De- mands Order When La Guardia Is Interrupted. Charges by Representatives Pittenger of Minnesota and Representative La | Guardia of New York that slayings by | prohibition enforcement agents and customs patrolmen are “murder” and an inescapable corollary of prohibition. which are leading to civil war and a hatred of the Government, precipitated a furious debate in the House late-y terday. | The spectacle was of a vigorous wet jand an ardent dry shouting bitterly at each other, while a fellow member | clamored for the sergeant-at-arms to | establish order. Scores Lowmian. ‘The clash grew out of the announce- ment by Assistant Secreiary Lowman of the Treasury Department that E. J. ‘White, the customs patrolman who sho to death Henry Virkkula near Interna tional Falls, Minn., last Saturday night, “was acting within his authority under the law and had a perfect defense.” CAPITAL UNITES . INHONOR T0 FLAG iAmwopriate Exercises Com- {memorate 152d Anniversary of Nation’s Emblem. Washington paid homage to the flag | yesterday, commemorating the 152d | anniversary of its birth. Flag day exercises throughout the day in the public and private schools | and among most of the city’s patriotic | organizations culminated last night in | a gala demonstration on the steps of | the Capitol, where as part of the pro- | gram two boys and two girls were | awarded trips around the world for es- says on the flag One of the features of the city’s cele- bration also was the formal introduc- tion into citizenship of 182 graduates of the District of Columbia Naturalization School last night at the United States | Chamber of Commerce. The winners of the national flag contest, who will go around the world were chosen on the east front of the ol during the exercises conducted | by the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's Relief Corps. The contest_was sponsored by the United States Flag Association. Out of the eight competitors, who had been chosen from the entire country, | two boys and two girls survived. They | are Mary McGonigal of Trov, N. ¥ Alma Groves of Byronville, Ga.: Robert L. Sullivan of Syracuse, N. Y., and Merle | M. Clarke of Sault’ Ste. Marie. Mich. | The other contestants were Elaine E Conway of Detroit, Mich.: Lupe Rivera | of Los Angeles. Calif.; Paul Derdock of | Capit | Pittsburgh, Pa., and Ralph Agate of Louisiana. The winners were chosen after broadcasting their essays through Stations WOL and NAA The judges for the girls were Repre- sentative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, Miss Jessie Dell, Civil Service commis- sioner, and Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, in charge of the dramatic_and pageantry departmeénts of the District public schools. % For the boys the judges were Senator {Pat Harrison of Mississipp. Willlam Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, and Dr. Frank W. Bal- lou, superintendent of the Washington public schools. Address by Dr. Palmer. e principal sddress was delivered ng‘.pD!. gohn C. Palmer, pastor of ‘Washington Heights Presbyterian Church,. who said that he “sought to t Old Glory make a plea for pa- riotism, loyalty, respect and reverence James A. Moss, president gen- eral of the United States Flag Associa- bill, also were against the debenture | m as master of ceremonies, paid ute cf the Flag as the standard of . North, South, Bast and West, the of the Union.” Representative Pittenger, in whose dis- | trict the slaying occurred, issued a | tr statement denouncing Mr. Lowman for U “whitewashing” the officer and attempt- | Flag it was broken durlg the struggle. As they set out With Coroner Joseph Murphy 1o solve the slaying they sought | first of all, they said, to reconcile the PORTLAND, Me., June 15 UP).—The | LONDON, June 15.—A Peking dis- | of Arthur Schreib- | batch to the Dally Express today in- y aboard the trans- |sisted upon the correctness of dis- use. The Senators voting in favor of the conference report and the passage of the bill were: Senators Allen, Kansas: Tlipped Coin for Plane. Schreiber said he and his friend | middle-aged paren which each would | &, Who stowed away Yellow Bird, were Bingham, Connecticut; Borah, Idaho; Brookhart, Iowa; Burton, Ohio; Capper, Kansas; Couzens, Michigan; Dale, Ver- mont; Deneen, Illinois; Edge, New Jer- Virginia Maryland; Greene, Nermont; Hastings, Delaware; Hatfield, West Virginia; Hebert, Rhode Island: Howell, Ne- braska; Johnson, California; Jones, Washington; Kean, New Jersey, Keyes, New Hampshire; McNary, Oregon; Met- Rhode ‘'Island; Moses, New Hamp- Norris, Nebraska; Nye, North De- Odie, Nevada; Patterson, Missouri; nia; Robinson. Indiana; Sackett, Kentucky; Schall, Minnesota; Shortridge, California; Smoot, Utah; Bteiwer, Oregon; Thomas, Idaho; Town- send, Delaware; Vandenberg, Michigan: Walcott, Connecticut; Warren, Wyo- ming: Waterman, Colorado; Cutting, New Mexico, and Watson, Indiana, Re- Ppublicans, 47. Senators Ashurst, Arizona: Bratton, | New Mexico;, , Louisiana; Connolly, Texas; ' Dill, 5 Fle lorida; i Kellar, Tennessee; Overman, -North Carolina; Ransdell, Louisiana; Robin-~ son, Arkansas; Sheppard, Texas; Sim- mons, North Carolina; Smith, South Carolina; nia; Thomas, Ol 3 rida; Tyson, Tennessee; Wagner, *New York, and Walsh, Montana, Demo- crats, 27 Many Express Protests. The Senate ratification of the con- ference agreement was made possible by the decision of the Democrats under the leadership of Senator Robinson of Ar] s, and most of the Republican indepen: ; Trammell, dents, who twice insisted upon inclusion of the debenture proposal, to permit the legislation to pass after the House had voted on their issue. Many, however, expressed their protest before Voting for acceptance of the report. Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, said the action wes “not on its | JANEU face a redemption of the Republican pledge to put agriculture on an equality with other industries” reiterating his disagreement with the opposite view expressed by President Hoover. The next step, to be taken by the House probably Monday, will be to appropriate part or all of the $500,000,- 000 revolving fund authorized so that the Farm Board will be able to begin work as soon as it is organized for reltef of the wheat situation and solu- tion of other pressing stabilization | problems. NORMAN S. BOWLES HELD IN CONTEMPT Fine of $100 Imposed on Report! He Represented Himself as Member of Bar. (Prom 5 30 Edition of Yesterday's Star) Norman S. Bowles, a former member of the District bar, who was disbarred July 2, 1921, was today held in con- tempt of court for holding himself out as & member of the bar and writing a letter threatening to bring suit for $20,000 damages. The court in general term so ruled and imposed a fine of 8100 to be paid by June 29, or in de- fault Bowles will be sent to jail for 30 days. The former lawyer is expected to appeal from the court's decision. The grievance committee of the bar instituted the contempt proceedings when it called to the attention of the court a letter written by Bowles August. 13, 1927, in which he said he would bring suit for $20.000 damages. The| stationery described Bowles as an at- torney at law. The court found that as the District Supreme Court, from which he had been disbarred, was the only court that had izance of a suit for $20,000 damages, Bowles com- mitted a contempt of the court by con- ducting f as if he were a duly suthorized member of the bar. ‘BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band, at the bandstand, this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Ziminermann, bandmaster; Anton Point- mer, assistant leader. March, “March of the Siamese”. Lincke Calm Sea and Happy Overture, “A : Mendelssohn Voy: “May- ‘Rombe rk | ot times; we experienced almost every . .Rapee Chambers Steck, Towa; Swanson, Vir- | h take. He drew the Yellow Bird and | crawled into the tail cavity, where he | was sheltered from casual view struts .and the baggage. friend previously had reconnoitered and | remarked that there was room for a person in the tail, noticing also that | none of the aviators ever seemed to look back there. He planned to go aboard just before the aviators reached the plane to pre- | pare for a start. He knew there were ggo le about who might see nim. but he ldly got in and took his chance. He said his ride was not always pleasant. but he was decidedly glad to gel his feet on earth again. He added e was ready now for a parade in Paris ' | atlantic plane Joy- ful today. After a night and day of by | anxious and sleepless waiting for word troops He and his | of the plane they had a night of rest against Manchuria, after learning last night the plane had landed with young Schreiber aboard Morris R. Schreiber, the father, also was elated over the thoughts of finan- | cial gain which he felt would accrue to his 22-year-old son. He spoke of the success which he seemed to feel was assured the youth and made news- paper men welcome at his home Mre. Schreiber again took up the | routine of the household. abandoned | while the plane was in flight. She sald, however, that-she would not be satisfied until she again saw her “boy.” !YELLOW BIRD HOP FOR PARIS IS OFF UNTIL 11 TONIGHT (Continued From PFirst Page.) the fuel shortage and eonseuently the failure to land on soil, explain- | ing 1t had been necessary to release | some of the precious petrol from the tanks as soon as Schreiber was dis- covered aboard, in order to gain weight when I estimated our fuel load, he said. sa. The aviators seemed to have de veloped a real fondness for their un- invited guest, and he for them. Dur- ing the flight he shared what food the aviators carried with them, and he spent last night with them at the 1 hotel. He apparently was laboring under great emotion as the plane landed and expressed complete joy when he set his foot on solid earth. He found no one to talk to among the Spaniards who ecrowded around and seemed lost at the fuss made over him in the strange age. Assoalant explained that he was not discovered unti] the plane was in tull flight, when they decided against turning back to put him off. No Damage in Landing. plane was not damaged in land- | 1t needed only fuel and a new | ‘The ing. “starter” for the landing gear in order to take off and continue its flight. The original “starter” they had jettisoned in the course of their flight in order to lighten the plane after they discovered Schreiber aboard. | This little town, containing but a few | hundred people and decades ago the rendezvous of the Spanish royal family, who came here for sea bathing, gave the aviators a tumultuous welcome. af- fording them their first taste of hero worship. An official reception was hastily ganized, the weary fiyers submitting gr ciously. After stemming the tide of | oratory they were then taken to their hotel, where dark-haired senoritas crowded around and smothered them | with flowers. | Assolant got in touch with the Gov- ernor of Santander Province at Santan. der, 30 miles east of here, on the Bay of Biscay, and asked him for 125 gal- lons of gasoline with which to continue the flight to Paris. The governor im- mediately gave orders that it be brought. from the fuel depot at Astierro, near | Santander, together with lubricating ofl | and distilled water. At Madrid the Spanish dictator, Primo de Rivera, ordered every facility be accorded the Yellow Bird and that the landing gear appurtenance they needed for the take-off be sent to them | by airplane. | Hail Natives In French. | Assolant, Le Fevre, Lotti and young Schreiber appeared well and heppy as they emerged from their eramped cabin. | As they stretched stiff and weary limbs people began to run up to ascertain their identity and the reason for the unexpected visit. The fiyers hailed the natives in French; they replied in Spanish, the aviators realizing for the first time, to their intense disappeint- ment, that they had not landed in Prance after all. | Their chagri) the enthustastic kindliness of the peo- | ple, who trooped up in ever-growing numbers as the news aspread. A lone Prenchman among them acting as in- | terpreter, the town's civil guards formed a cordon around the plane to save it from souvenir hunters as the four ad- venturers left it for town and dinner— | something more substantial than the bananas and oranges on which they had subsisted in crossing. ‘The Spaniards plied them with in- numerable questions which they an- swered as well as they could through their interpreter. They said they were satisfied with their trip, although they wished to get to Le Bourget as soon as ible. Po:'mlmt added: “Tt was hard going variety of weather and climate, but n soon vanished before | gathering TOLLY WINS BRITISH | AMATEUR GOLF TITLE! Defeats John Nelson Smith 4 Up! After Even Match at Eighteenth, By the Associated Press. SANDWICH, England, June 15 —Cyril J. H. Tolly today won the British lnyn:- teur golf championship for the second Efl:melufingfifuhn Nelson Smith, | earpenter, Fife, 4 310 4 to play. e Tolly was the amateur champion in ! 1820, when he defeated R. A. Garuner | of Chicago at the thirty-seventh hole. Tolly, 33 years old and with a distin- guished military record, is one of the longest hitters in golf. In the amateur championthip, at Troon. in 1923, he drove the first green, 350 vards. and ;roledhhu punhltor 2 2. He won the ench open championship in 192 again in 1028 T " Ee Smith. the other finalist, although well known in Scotland, had not played in England until this championship. He was a_semi-finalist in the Scottish | Amateur championship in 1926 and was | runner-up in the Eden tournament in 1927. He played for Scotland against Ireland last fog, wind, rain, a zone of cold and one heavy storm. “The storm obliged us to' quit the | steamboat lane we followed at the start.| and then we flew southward, lengthen- ing the course.” ‘This was all the more regretable, he said, since the presence of the stow- away had obliged them to let out a lit- tle gas s0 as to climb to the proper height when they got over the ocean. ‘When the hospitable Spaniards re- laxed their attentions a little the Aviators went to the post office and de- ;flaned the mail they had brought for aris. There was a noteworthy coincidence in the flight's completion vesterday, June 14, 1929, which was the tenth anniversary of the completion of the first,_non-stop transatlantic flight. from 8t Johns, New Foundland, to Clifden, Ireland. on June 14. 1919, by Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. Arthur W. Brown, British officers. They flew a Vickers Vimy bomber and made the 1,900 miles in 16 hours and 12 minutes, The Yellow Bird left Old Orchard last Thursday after days of waiting, due to unfavorable weather reports and one false start. They first followed the course of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh two years ago. but later switched to veer slightly north of the Azores. From the time the Yellow Bird was heard by steamships several miles northeast of the Azores there was no word until 7 pm. (2 p.m., Eastern standard time) saying it was in sight of Oporto, Portu- gal, and would land in France if the gasoline held out. ‘When finally they landed, the plane's radiator was practically dry, and there were but & few drops of gasoline left in the tank. Had it not been for sighting the beach here they might have con- tinued & few miles farther and had to attempt a forced landing in the fast- dark at a locality totally un- fit for the purpose. WELCOMED IN SANTANDER, Flyers and Stowaway Accompanied by Comillas Dignitaries. BANTANDER, Spain, June 15 (#).— The three French aviators of the Yellow Bird, accompanied by the mayor and other dignitaries of Comillas, made a hurried automobile trip to Santander this morning, and were given an ovation before they returned. They were ac- companied the young stowa s Arthur Schreiber. ‘The governor of Bantander Province left with them to bid them farewell in the name of the government. As they | Menchuria. ! patches yesterday which stated Russian had begun military movements The dispatch today said there were reports in Paking of Russian military | démonstrations from two directions on the northern frontier of China, from a | line between Irkutsk. Siberia and Urga. Mongolia. The Soviet was said to be nding skeleton organizations as a basis for Mongolian native mobilization The express correspondent cited | purported telegram from Chang-Hsueh | Liang, Manchurian dictator, to the Nanking government saying that three divisions of Russian troops were mov- ing to link up with Marshal Feng Yu- Hsiang, who is believed to be heading 2 revolt in Central China. Authorities in Moscow yesterday de- nied there had been an invasion of The National government authorities at Nanking said they had | no information of Altg. | Branch Meets Tonight. The School System Branch of Local No. 8) of the National Federation of Federai Emplo; will meet at 8 o'clock ;r:gg]t n tl Shaw Junior High BOARD OF TRADE TO FIGHT AIRPORT (Continued From First Page.) developed within the boundaries of the District. “We fully expect to carry our fair share in making possible a splendid air- port here, and we therefore respectfully urge that you give serious consideration to our view in this regard.” Consult. Attorneys. It was revealed at the meeting lhll‘! the Board of Trade, following study of the possibllity of the selection of an airport outside the boundaries of the law committee, concerning ecomplica- tions which would arise over the ques- ggg of jurisdiction and control of the It was contended by the law com- mittee that the District government could not have complete jurisdiction over an airport in Maryland or Virginia unless the State in which it was located ceded the property to the District. The Federal Government could take over such a site, but could not turn this pIoPeny over to the District for its exclusive ;enntml o‘r Jurisdiction, it was Asse , because of restrictions by the Federal Constitution. ok Thus, it was argued, either the Ped- eral Government would have to main- tain jurisdeition over the Washington airport or it would have to remain under the jurisdiction of the State in which it ‘was located. The trade body, it was declared, would have to oppose such a plan, if the cost of th Tt is borne, to a large degree, by District taxpayers. The Board of Trade is on record urg- ing the development of the model air- port on the Gravelly Point site in the Distriot. It did not insist on this site, considered, placing emphasis on the fact that Washington needs an airport at an early date. It was said today that the trade body would not oppose a tem- Borlr.v or auxillary port outside the istrict, provided a great cost is not imposed on District taxpayers. It con- tends, however, that the model airport, :;thg‘e':.ml;r;.;hln one, be located in e District e major cost is t on the District. o) Have Reached No Decision, Senator Bingham stated today t) the joint congressional commission m not ‘came to a decision as to location and will not make that decision until funds are appropriated and the cost of developing various sites is weighed The Senator made the atatement when asked concerning reports that the commission might obtain the two com- mercial airports in nearby Virginia for immediate use and then develop grad- ually a large airport near Camp VATCAN-MEXIGAN OUTSIDE DISTRICT | tigion District, obtained an opinion from.its|than however, when other District sites were | - conflict which they saw between Miss Hix’s university life and her statements at the hospital. Coroner Murphy returned a verdict of murder and ealled an inquest today. | | PARLE IS HALTED Observers Puzzied at Turn Taken by Negotiations to - End Church War. By the Assqcisted Pres MEXICO CITY, June 15.—Negotia- tions for settlement of Mexico's church- state difficulties have entered s stage | puzzling to observers of the long con- | troversy between the federal govern- ment and the Roman Catholic Church. President Portes Gil, in & statement last night, apparently answered a story appearing in one of the morning papers purporting to outline the basis of dis. cussion with the Roman Cathclic pre ates, denied there had bLeen “discu! sion of existing laws relating to Meanwhile the day had passed with- out another conference between the President and Archbishop Ruiz y Flores and Bisho) Diaz, representing Archbishop Diaz, p Pascusl the Roman church. o 3 in & statement denying the newspaper's purported revelations, said the next conference with the President would be Believe Attitude Is Unchanged. Some placed the interpretation of the President's statements that he in- ferred something broader than mere laws was under discussion and that the negotiations had revolved about inter- pretation of existing legislation rather changes in it. Others found in it an indication of increasing intran- ! ce of attitude on the part of the iministration. ‘Two sentences in the President's statement received particular attention: “My stand on matter cannot be any other than strict compliance with my duty as chief magistrate of the nation, and in this gonnection the re- sumption of services Within the republic can be accomplished at any time it is desired. However this will always de- pend upon the dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Churc! having previously subjected themselves to the mandates of the general constitution and other existing laws.” Ambassador Leaves for Washington. The fact that there was no confe: ence between the negotiators yesterday and that the ecclesiastics said the next conference would be “on call” was not taken to mean the negotiations had broken down, but that the conferees would get together again when either side had something to present. | Manuel C. Tellez, the Mexican Am. t, after calling on the President last night | to bid him farewell. When he arrived from Washington it was announced he care on a vacation. although the visit | was generally held to be connected with the church conferen: RAIL-PLANE SERVICE T0 WEST IS OPENED; PASSENGERS NUMEROUS (Continued From First Page.) and our city by many agents. These unprecendented abuses | t;]nvel this efvenh;x for a day-and-night | o Los Angeles. | ur planes took off today after the | transfer of passengers was completed. | Three of them were tri-motored 12-| passenger ships, designed for ruular! service on the line, and the other af 8) , Md With retirence to immediate acquisi- ton of the two commereial airports just below the hway Bridge, in Vi , Senator Bingham said that, as he recalled it, the commission was told at the hearings that those flelds would not. be large enough. The pending Tresolution to make $500,000 available for & asite or sites authorizes the National Oapital Park and Planning Commission to juire ;’l'n"e:] rolr t:pmn‘ subject, to the ap- of the airport commission, Sen- ator Bingham said the com- left, the crowds gathered -around and took hundreds of tures. The aviators, Jean Assolant. Rene Lefovre and Armeno Lotti, said generally the wind favored us. The ma- chine behaved splendidly, and drove triumphantly and unfaltering- through surprised -and delighted at the smaller passenger rrier called into service when patronage on the initial flight excesded. the Tegular accommo-' dations. ‘The first stage of the journey was made over the New York Central | Railroad. The Universal Aviation Cor- poration and the Santa Fe Railroad are the other carriers of the system. the trip er Willebrandt, New York. mission would have to weigh the ad- vantages and dissdvantages of the va- rious suggested 1 after the reso- Jution passes and cost figures are ob- Ocean 1o -algnity s closer tween the two coasts. Bullet holes made when Emmet J. White, border dry agent (lower), killed Henry Virkula near International Falls, Minn., are shown above, at the left of the car over the license plate. Glass in the rear window was alse blown out. The picture of Virkula's car was taken where it stopped in the ditch. White was held on a manslanghter charge. SEEK HOOVER'S AID T0 CURB PATROLMEN ALONG CANADIAN LINE __(Continued Prom First Page) of these have included, the promiscuous and un. called for use of riot guns, the risk. ing. of, Annocent lives by the unwarrant charge of pistols, the usurpation | of our police authority in matters whol- ly unrelated to prohibition enforcement, the bully ragging to murder or do bodi- ly injury te various of our policemen, including our police chief.” Appeals Brought A_bus-. ““We have appealed many ti superiors of these heartless Mans, but always our appeals have either been ignored or have actually been answered by increased abusiveness. We have car- ried our pleading for relief through one step and another, even going to an As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury De- | partment.” County Attorney Hurlburt saye he plans to ask for a special grand jury to consider the case after White's ar- ralgnment. ‘White until yesterday was held on complaint charging second degree man- | slaughter. A sudden decision was e by county authorities to dismiss this ‘harge and immediately after the dis- missal the patrolman was charged with second degree murder. This charge carried a penalty of life imprisonment, mandatory on conviction. . Stolen Auto Found in Tennessee. A messa police of noir, Tenn. by Inspector Shelby, chief of detectives, told of the ’ recovery there yesterday of an autome: bile belonging to Roger W. Scott, Wax man Park Hotel. The car was taken from in front of 1910 K street the after- noon of June 5. A man giving the name of Samuel Roberts was arrested in con- nection with the recovery of the car, Lenoir police said. CARRIES ATLANTIC Mayor James J, Walker of New York City (left) presenting Mrs. Mabel it recelved from the chief of | ing to “hush up” the killing. He re- newed his demand for a congressional investigation. Representative LaGuardia, Republi- can of New York; a wet, in a scathing condemnation of this and other killings, | declared that prohibition has become a question of domestic tranquillity, whether communities will be able to live in peace and whether the love of Government and respect for Govern- ment will remain. He cried out: “The United States Government has always been considered by the Ameri. can people as something to love: in stead it has become something hated, something oppressive.” Ohio Dry Interrupts. At this point Representative Murphy, Republican, of Ohio, a dry, leaped to his’ feet and breke througn ‘the parlia- mentary barriers to warn his colleague: “We will not stand for that kind of statement. Don't you say fhe people hate this Government while T am here.” He demanded that Mr. LaGuardia's word be expunged from the Record. | Representative Willlams, Republican, of Ilinois, however, who was presiding, | | ruled that Mr. LaGuardia had not gone beyond his rights. - | It was Representative Schafer. Re- publican, of Wisconsin, one of the | largest men in the House and possessor | jof & deep and rotund voice, who | drowned out the voice of the be!.ug.' erents with the demand that the ser- geant-at-arms restore ‘“order. 'DROUGHT IN HONG KONG BROKEN BY HEAVY RAIN Forecast of All-Night Downpour Promises to Alleviate Serious Water Shortage. By the Associated Press. HONG KONG, China, June 15— There was great rejoicing in Hong Kong today as a heavy rainfall began, promis- ing to alleviate greatly a serious water | shortage troubling the community here. The weather bureau forecast stated that an all-night downpour was in sight. { | Report Missionaries Safe. SHANGHAI China, June 15 (P.— Headquarters of the London Missionary Society were advised today that their representatives at Hwanhsien, southern | Pukien, were safe. It had been feared that roving bandits, who had almost completely burned the village, had done ! them harm. WATER TO PACIFIC One thousand school children, bear- ing American Flags, added to the pageantry of the occasion. The Marine | Band accompanied 1Miss Gladys Price, who sang “The Star Spangled Banner:” The Post Office Department, in ac- cordance with its yearly custom, ob- served Flag da terday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the court of the Post Of- | fice Building with an elaborate musi- i cal program. Senator Oddie of Nevada presented to Postmaster General Brown the flag of his State to be hung beside the stand- ards of the 47 other States in the great sreaway of the department building. | Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy of the h:nsmcr Supreme Court presided at th2 ! naturalization exercises and prese: the certificates to the new citizens. Those who received the awards wer: welcomed as Americans by Representa- | tive Robert Luce of Massachusetts. Wi { come was also extended by Jesse Thom- | as, District director of . naturalization. | sarkis Manoukian spoke on “Obedierx { to the Law” and Ernest Wolff delivered | an address on.the Declaration of Inde- | pendence. Among the new eitizens who spoke were Mrs. Elsie K. Smith, Sydney, Zig- mond, Hugo Kurandt and Michael Levin. | One of the most pretentious-of the | ceremonies held in public schools was at the Garnet-Patterson Junior —High | School. There, Tavloria Dick of Arm- | strong High School and Charles W. Thomas of Dunbar High School, re- peated their prize-winning speeches of the National Oratorical Contest, spon= sored here by The Star, and prize essay? selected in the contest sponsored by the | Flag Association were read by Thelma | Marle Clark, Marlan Burns, Alyce | Hensley and Edward John Harris. |~ The new citizens welcomed at the Chamber of Commerce ceremony were: Miss Flora Alexander, William Schick, PFrank di Laila, Adorno Prosperi, Mrs. . | Elsie Smith, Vincent Moscolo, Milton Werber. Mrs, Renee Robbins Jordan. Mrs. Marie Zalipsky. Antonio Roe | Recolta, Thomas Pugliese, Mrs. Mary | Concetta Curto, Domenico Malatesta Henry Edward_Schneider, Mrs. Libe Poms, Bernard Bobb, Israel Saltzmann, | Mrs.” Rosa _ Citraubaum, Miss Esther | Chernikoff Morris Saltzman, Miss Mar- garet Teresa Crowley, Battista Marconi, Miss Elizabeth A. Ellison, Mrs. Haria Pappas, Albert Weiner, Mrs. Yenola | Manos, Samuel Binder, Mrs. Rita Be- ment, Nathan Sacks, David McDonnell, { Mrs. Katherina Denys, Salvatore Bot- tini, Miss Ida A. Kennedy. Miss Mary Stinchcombe, Miss Helen Furr, John D. Rupsinaa, Miss ' Jansve Van Meurs, | Isador Feldman, Julio Hernandez Horta, | Nicola Calenza, Guiseppe Ardizzone, Constant Mottaz, William .J. Hattie, Mrs, Jane S, O'Connor, Mrs. Eléna Huarte, | Kalmen Dworkin, Louis Rosin, Paul | Cohen, Pasquale ‘di Gennaro, Stanley Lee Gardner, Michael Marrinan, Mrs. Flizabeth M. Loeffler, IsadourDeckelbaum, John Borra, Harry Gordon, Anthony | Filipeli, Mrs. Nazha George, Louise | Rabinovitch, Mrs. Sarah Gerwirz, Rudolf | Nummerrichter, M Esther Cutler, Miss Mary Cosgrove, Gustave Merz, Walter Needham, Sidney Zigmond, Miss | Ethel Agula, Miss Catharine Guthrie, Hugo Kurandt, Mrs. Fannie Bordow. Guistino di Camillo, Blagio di Carlan- tonio, Joseph Mason, Charles Butier George Barnikel, Miss Clara Miersen | Christopher Reardon, Miss Bertha Mc- Affee, Miss Lena Jordan. Mrs. Artemis Papachrist, Miss Dorothy Winchot: Alfred Diena, Misé Ingrid Strom, Isa. dore Gantz, Mrs. Sarah Gantz, Fran- | cisco Citrano, Michael Levin, Mrs. Nora Cahill, Abraham Hiliman, Jeremiah Sheehan, Miss Mary Winkler, Miss Bessie Solomon, Enrico Glannade, Ferdinand Grabner, Merris Shooch. Isaac Avayou, Philip Aronson, Vincenzo Pistone. Dimitry Tuneef, Mrs. Bessic Poms, Mrs. Jennie R. Jurgenssen, Jacob Goldenzweig, Asriel Berry, Duncan Mc- Lean. Miss Hildegard Frank, Guiseppe Giordano, Mrs. Jean Park, Miss Ellen Granville, Giovanni Piagno, Casimiro Ricei, M Emmi Maria Engel, Bruno John Haage. Selig Inbinder, Albert Abraham Foternick, Mrs. - Catherina {Mary Berfolini, John Kernekin, Mrs. | Lydia - Kernekin, - ‘Mrs. - Mary Wynne | Landry, Nathan Niian Kurland, Alex- ander . Chase, Mrs. Louise Karoline Wehner, Edward Richard = Devine, | Thomas Wood, Miss Carolone McCann, ‘ | Nathan Wiener, Jose Docha, Mrs. Agnes United States Attorney General, with a A t, Assistan Mrs. Willebrandt is carry- | bottle filled with water from the Atlantic Ocean, which she will present to the from the Atlantic| mayor of Los Angeles, who, in turn, will dump it into the Pacifie. into the Pacific| marks the inaugnration of service over the Great Circle Line of plane-train contact be- travel in two days and three nights between New York and Los Angeles. The symbol ~—Associated Press Photo. | Herzog Shioutakon, . Isadore Isaac Kramer, Willlam Henry Hampton, Wil liam Stillman Pratt, Miss Rose Lampic: Miss Bridget E. Geagan, Mre. Hele Beattie Slater, Gidali Deckelbaum, An. ‘drea Interdonato. Henrietta McCauley Krarup, Carl Goldenberg, Thomas, Jo- seph- Devine, Mrs, Ida Alloy, Cesare Peluzzo, Prancesco Morea, Harry Cohen, &::h.:nsceno!ngerwum'mcmwm Mrs ._Bonanno, Pletro Sc: Carmino D’Amico, Demi T Regardie, Timothy Mrs. ‘Ramza Meyer, Miss Aristi Marchese and Selma -Jcnson.