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THE EVENING TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929, GAR FARE INCREASE PROTESTS ENTERED Engineers and Citizens’ Groups Urge Revaluation | Before Action Is Taken.. E The Public Utilities Commission today received resolutions from the Washing- | ton Chapter of the American Associa- tion of Engineers and the Conduit Road | Citizens' Association, each asking that car fares be not increased unless & new | valuation first is made of the Capital Traction Co.'s property. | The association of engineers, in its resolution, said that the value of the properties is not as great as at the | time the Court of Appeals made its | decision allowing a value of over $26.- 000,000. The resolution said that an increase at this time was unwise. un- necessary, and against public policy. If, after revaluation the commission should find that the company needed | more income to make a fair return on its value, then this should be accom- plished, not by raising the fares, but by reducing taxes on the company. The| resolution suggested that the 4 per cent tax on gross revenue, the expenses of | paving between car tracks and the salaries of crossing policemen should be the taxes of which the company should be relieved in whole or in part. The resolution of the Conduit Road on said, in part: “The so- | aluation established by ! courts in the case of the Capital Trac- tion Co. not only is out of date, but is not_based on the principles governing such cases as enunciated by the United States Supreme Court.” The resolution then continued by asking for a re- valuation. LAMONT SELECTS | SAFETY DRIVE BODY Committee to Investinate Maintenance to Be Headed | by Atlantan. By the Associated Press. Secretary Lamont today announced | the appointment of a special committee | to investigate automobile maintenance | and to determine steps to be taken to reduce the number of accidents from faulty mechanism. William Candler of Atlanta, Ga. is chairman of the committee, composed of 38 representatives of manufacturers, automobile dealers, motor clubs and operators, which met here today to dis- cuss its program. Secretary Lamont, who is chairman of the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, said that esti- mates indicate that from 5 to 40 per | cent of all serious accidents on the highways are due to faulty maintenance. Inspection of 5057480 cars in 10 Sta during 1927 and 1928, he de- cli , showed that 1,694,758 required ‘brake correction to comply with existing laws, 230,547 had defective lamps, 77,643 had defective steering gear, and about 200,000 were below legal requirements in other respects. In addition to Mr. Candler, the mem- bers of the committee are: Howard M. Starling of Washington, secretary; R. 8. Arm&onsuNev York City; E. T. Philadelphia; Col. E. Baltimore; N. H. Leon Austin Baughman, N Boynton, Cleveland; ‘Walter J. Buettner, Chicago; Oscar G. f WHERE SIR ESME MAY ENTERTAIN' PREMIER MACDONALD Sir Esme Howard (inset) and Lady Isabella Howard (right) probably will he hosts to Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- 1d (below) of England if the latter makes his American vi pretentious country estate (above) in nearby Maryland, w drawing room (below, left) mirrors the magnificence of the plac Donal t TRIAL IS STOPPED MPDONALD VST BY JURY ELATNE - STIRS SOCIAL SET Finding of Nephew in Box | British Envoy Leases Estate Causes Suspension of | in Prince Georges Which May McCunn Case. Be Premier’s Residence. By the Associated Press By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 20—A mis-| The proposed visit to America of trial was declared today in the case of g‘nlr;lsui.v léd:cl’)onnld. Isvmsrll %flm° min- « g " , is causing a pleasant flurry over James McCunn, “rich man's bootlegger,” | ;o usually glassy surface of Washing- and three associates when it was dis- | ton's social sea. covered at the opening of the third d-yl E\flir; one is vrr,\}'| rixcnmspcct lbflk‘]" .| predicting just what will or might of the trial in a Federal court that Ed- | FIECCINE U0 FRat Wit of T win J. Carroll, & clerk and a member | taining, an integral part of any offi- of the jury, was a nephew by marriage ' cial visit, and there is little precedent of McCunn. | of recent years to serve as a criterion. » . ! The projected visit, however, an event When the jury was drawn Carroll | of “ynparalleled importance to official, had declared he did not know MeCunn, | diplomatic and social Washington, is a but this morning he told Government | ::l n‘fibl:m':gt hg:fl e\:nfi‘:gstng 135"'5' counsel he had learned that McCUND'S | Circle and out Massachusetts avene brother had married his aunt. and Sixteenth street. On motion of Government counsel Envoy to Be Hoet. Judge Dwin R. Holmes of Mississippi, Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador who is presiding, declated the mistrial | to the United States, who, with Lady berfebytyiitoge: - 1.at tne | I5abella Howard, probably, will be the July term. The prosecut! d com- MacDonald host, has leased for the Summer a pretentious and beautiful pleted its case yesterday and the de- fense was to have opened today. country estate in Prince Georges Coun- !yMMd. 8 miles from Washington. Sivsre Mkeg;: Traat Oclitos and r. MacDonald may stay there, or | he Olander, Lansing, Mich.; Edmond O. | he may make his home at the British Carl, Washington; Charles P. Clark, | John H. Spellman were on trial with lembassy on Connecticut avenue. If his Wi n: E. C. Orittenden, Wash- | McCunn. The four were indicted for | daughter Ishbel accompanies him it is conspiracy to violate the prohibition law after dry agents seized $500.000 worth of high-grade liquors and lists of wealthy patrons last February in raids. They denied that there was any conspiracy. Eugene R. O'Brien, a special agent of the Treasury Department, one of the final witnesses, was unable to explain ington; Ed A. Donahue, Cleveland; Mrs. Louis T. De Valliere, Trenton, N. J.; R. N. Falge, Detroit; F. W. A. Fitzsimmons, Detroit; R. F. Goebel, New York; A. V. Hall, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Val Hares- nape, Washington; T. A. Horrocks, Min- nu%ollrls Charles D. Hastings, Detroit; Russell Huffman, New York; Carter B. Hull, regarded as likely that the country estate—Langley Park—will be their residence. The belief also has been ex- pressed that President Hoover may have them as White House guests. Langley Park, owned by McCormick Goodhart, is famous in Washington society and _diplomatic circle for its spacious gardens. The house, furnished Baltimore; Prank Jack, Chicago; Hol- ger Jensen, Baltimore; Claude Klugh, Harrisburg, Pa.; W. F. Little, New York; L. L. Miles, Louisville; Henry J. Mineur, Brooklyn; M. A. Moynihan, Detroit; | John R. Oishei, Buffalo; L. H. Palmr, New York; George A. Parker, Boston; [ K. Schnaitter, Cleveland; P. K. Wads- worth, Cleveland; Prof. A. W. Whitney, New York; Sidney J. Williams, Chicago, and Richard J. Wall, Toledo. OFFICIALS GRILL SNOOK 24 HOURS IN DEATH PROBE (Continued From First Page.) gave to their questions, but he says he has not confessed.” Snook was taken into the inquisi- | tortal session at 1 o'clock yesterday | afternoon and was confronted con- | stantly by questioners who remained with him from that hour. Police Chief Aids Prosecutor. | “I asked Dr. 8nook if he had any! explanation for the blood spots on his | car,” County Prosecutor John J. Ches- | ter said. “He replied that they might have been caused by a dog. Then 1 asked him if he ever had a dog in his | machine and he admitted that he never | had. He was uneqe to offer any ex- | pianation of the spdis.” Snook served in the university veter- inary clinic until dismissed. The stains were analyzed as blood by C. H. Long. | a chemist, in a report delivered to au- | thorities yesterday. He announced fur- | ther tests would be necessary to deter- | mine whether they were made by hu- | man blood. | The prosecutor was aided in the ex- | amination by Police Chief Harry E.| French. Twice he left the council, but | the questioning remained in the hands | of police during his absence. | Follow Story Closely. Announcements made from Snook’s xamination room indicated that Ches- | ter and police were following closely | the former professor's statements in | support of his denial of knowledge of the slaying He admitted taking two pairs of pa- | jamas and a pair of women's slippers from the room and burning them in the furnace of his home Saturday, in- | vestigators said, adding that previously | Enook's wife had told them that they | were burning rubbish. 1a; that he released the room a few hours efter her death because he was going away on a vacation, detectives said. The long session was the first occa- slon on which Snook had been faced with officals seeking to solve the slay- ing. Previously he had been allowed to occupy his cell undisturbed and his only statement had been given out through newspapermen. ey ¢ S CREDIT MEN TO ELECT. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 20 (#).— The National Retail Credit Association, in annual convention here, todsy had before it the name of Justin H. er- ton of New York as candidate for the presidency of the organization. Mr. Edgerton was named for the &r:ildency by the nominating commit- , which reported yesterday. Others nominated by the committee included A. D. McMullen of Oklahoma City for first vice president and Frank Batty of Gan Fran for second vice president. the disappearance of 1,000 bottles of the 3,644 which were seized in one of the raids. The bottles disappeared in the transfer of the liquor from the raided premises to the Army’s base in Brooklyn. on a grand scale, contains 30 rooms, and there are 500 ‘acres of grounds. The only recent, event of comparabie scope was the visit two vears ago of Premier Mackenzie King of Canads, but his trip lacked the important offi- o | clai aspects of the projected MacDonald NEWSPRINT RATES ORDERED HELD UP I. C. C. Delays Proposed Increase; of 71-2 Cents From Quebec to Washington, Tea Every Afternoon. President Hoover, who undoubtedly will be & luncheon host to the prime | minister, was a guest with Mr. King at the White House luncheon for the former. Other guests were the Secre- taries of State and War; Willilam R Castle, the Assistant Secretary of State; | Col. “Blanton Winship, . White House military aide, and Capt. Wilson Brown, | White “House, naval_aide. |~ There was’tea virtually every after- | noon for Mr. King. By the Associated Press | _As a rule there is only one social The Interstate Commerce Commis- AfTAir given by a private citizen for a sion today ordered suspended from June | Visitor of Mr. MacDonald’s. importance. 21, 1929, to January 21, 1930, a pro- | There is not even any speculation & posed increase in freight rates on news- 'O the Washington hostess who might print paper and other paper .md“‘grt the honny on this occasion. Much, frofa points in (Canads to New York, (of course, will ‘depend:‘on “Mr. ‘Msc- Chicago, Washington and a large num- | Dqnald’s wishes. ber of other cities in the United States. | The increased rates were to apply in general from the producing territory in luncheon one day with Senator Gerry of Rhode Island, who is a personal ‘ates | friend. Included in the guests at din- Canada to points in the United States | {fiend. Inchuded in the guests at din; east of the Missouri River, and they | and the British Ambassador at that were ordered suspended pending an In- | time were several Senators and their vestigation by the Interstate Commerce | [IM? Were feveral Sepafors sng, thel Commission. i eonls " " The present rate on newsprint paper PCOPIe. from Three Rivers, Quebsc, to New | York is 34 cents per 100 pounds, while | the proposed rate was 4015 cents. . present rate to Washington is 40 cenis and the proposed rate 4715 cents. From Port Arthur, Onterio, to Chicago the present rate is 341, cents, the pro- posed rate was 48 cents. The increased rate to other points in the United States would be proportionally in_conformity with the rates to New York, Chicago and Washington. Teachers to Get Final Checks. Since tomorrow is the last day of the 1028-29 school year for the teachers, they will receive their salaries then | instead of June 30. The salaries of the | teachers are received in 10 equal pay- ments and the one due at thefend of thi= month is the last of the current vear. BOSS REPORTS AT NAT, CLUB HEADQUARTERS First Baseman, on Sick List fur% Several Months, Is Ready for | Base Ball Service. 10100 gume 10130 aes, 10115 Senator Tyson Soos 10125 a,m0 10450 vt 10140 a.m, 10145 8,y 10150 841, n-wkn.-. 11615 aum, | 110%0 aem, : Nus -_.a:"ylb{ Dr. 3. Bep, Strong Bap. Oross, exas Rop, Oroen, Plorids Sevator Smith Rep, Buth Prats Harley Boss, member of the Washing- ton Base Ball Club, who has been on, the inactive list while recuperating af, his home in Jonesboro, La, from & se-| vere influenza attack suffered last Win- ter, reported at club headquarters thi morning and was to engage in practice with the Nationals this afternoon. A 20-year-old first baseman procured last year from the Little Rock Club of the Southern Association, Boss was ex- pected fo be of much’value to the ashington club this season. In play | last, year he was impressive afield and at bat. The influenza attack, however, 50 weakened him that he was sent back | to his home a few days after he joined | the Nationals at training camp in Florida in"March. told President This _morning Boss Clark Griffith of the Washington club he had fully recovered from the illness | and its after effects, however, and be-| lieved he would be ready for service| after a few days’ drilling with the club. If Boss is returned to the active list one of the Dllfilfl'l now on the Wash- ington roster will have to be dropped, as the club now has 25 actives, the maxi- mum allowed. 22015 p.a, Kore] visitors called on the ‘When Premier King was here he had | WELSBIDAY, JUER 18, 1929 Senator Broussard, Louistans Minister 12010 pun, Repi Sesmer st dalogation It is regarded as likely that Mr. MacDonald will stay ich the ambassador has leased for the Summer, The PRESIDENT GREETS H CLUB MENBERS Farm Boys and Girls Call at White House as Part of Con- ference Program. \ { Delegates to the convention of boys and girls’ 4-H clubs, holding sessions in the auditorium of the National Museum were received by President Hoover at the White House today at 12:30 o'clock Earller in the day they were ad- dressed at the museum by John Alex- ander, director of the American Youth Foundation, who stressed the impor- tance of youth developing a well bal- anced life. Wealth, the speaker declared, lies in the well developed life mentally, so- cially and physically, and discounted the idea that money alone constitutes | wealth, by referring to it as “merely a | | medium of exchange.” He then polnted out that it is the purpose of the 4-H | clubs to develop a well balanced lif The “4-H” stands for health, head, heart and hand. | Group Meetings Held. | Prior to the trip to the White House | and_immediately following the general assembly in the Museum. junior group mveun{l were held, led by Eugene Mer- ritt, who was in charge of the adut group meetings yvesterday. The genera! subject for discussion was “Satisfying Farm Homes.” Meanwhile adult groups were addressed by Dr. R. G. Foster of | the Department of Agriculture on "‘Som- of the Social Aspects of 4-H Clube.” The delegates’ itinerary today also included a visit to the Washington Cathedral and educational tours of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the Smithsonian Institution this after~ noon. Mrs. Owen to Speak. Tomorrow morning they will be ad- | dressed in the National Museum by Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida and Sir Esma Howard, the Brit- issh Ambassador, will address them in the National Museurs Saturday morn- ing. A feature of the program tomor- row will be selections by the Newsboys n.nnd from Orlando, Fla., now in this city. Yesterday afternoon the delegates went on an educational tour of the United States Department of Agricul- | ture Experimental Farm at Beitsville, Md., and concluded their day's activities with a “campfire” program at their | headquarters in the Army tents on the Depertment of Agricuiture ~grounds | glong Fourteenth street near the Wash- | ngton Monument last night. The con- Jentian will continue through Wednes- ay. BOYS’ CAMP TO 6PEN. Site on River Near Mt. Victoria to | Be Occupied for 2 Months. | The Boys' Club camp, near Mount | Victoria, Md., on the Wicomico River, | will open July 2, to continue until Au- | gust 27. | _C. M. Fyfe will direct the camp, with | E. Abrams and J. W. White as assist- | ants. There also will be a number of boys acting as camp leaders. Dr. D.| Hess will take care of the sick list, while Theodore Tiller, jr.. will direct the program of entertainment. | Some of the activities of camp are | | boating, hiking and swimming. i PLANESTOWAWAY *STARTSFOR HOME | Lotti Accompanies Contrite | | Youth to Boat Train to § Take Leviathan. | By the Associated Press PARIS, June 20.—Only one of the | Yellow Bird fiyers. Armeno Lotti, jr., | accompanied _Arthur Schreiber, 'who | stowed away on the plane on its trans- | atlantic flight, to the Leviathan boat train today as he left Paris for the | United States. | ~The stowaway seemed contrite and | somewhat anxious. He shook hands with Lotti before the photographers and they kissed each other on both cheeks “Did a Fool Stunt,” He Says. | Schreiber said: “I am glad to go home, but I am sorry I can’t go with | a littleadifferent story.” | “I did a fool stunt and I am heartily sorry for it,” he said. “The only conso- lation is I have found such a good friend in Totti here, one of the men who suffered from my foolishness.” | He was handed his ticket at the last minute. He wore a new striped blue suit with a gray fedora hat and carried | a new suit case in which was belleved to | be his new evening clothes, ordered for him by M. Lotti, but never used. Byrd Congratulates Flyers. The three flyers of the Yellow Bird were congratulated by Comdr. Richard | Evelyn Byrd in a message relayed from | the Antarctic today. | The radiogram was addressed to Jean | Assolant, pilot: Rene le Pevre, naviga- tor, and Armeno Lotti, radio operator | and financial backer. It said: “My heartiest congratulations to you all for vour blilliant flight in the Yellow Bird. | MRS. ASSOLANT SAILS. | | | | | Bride of Yellow Bird's Pilot Leaves New | York to Join Husband. i NEW YORK, June 20 (#.—Mrs. Jean | Assolant. wife of the pilot of the Yellow | Bird, transatlantic airplane, sailed early | this morning on the Tle de France to | join_her husband in Paris. | Others on board the liner as it sailed were Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. | Miss Anne Morgan, Mrs. W. K. Vander- bilt and Princess Cantacuzene, grand- daughter of Gen. Grant. | CANNON REFUSES TO COMMENT ON | STOCK FIRM CRASH | (Continued From First Page.) Co., the officers of which are under in- | dictment for using the mails to defraud. The firm's books indicate that between August 14, 1927, and April 30, 1928, | Bishop Cannon, with an investment of £2.500, bought and sold stocks at prices running fhto five and six figures. Had he closed his account before the firm's books were seized, he would have made $6.100. | So far he has made nothing and is| {out his $2.500. The ledger shows pur- chases of $158,254.92 and sales of $66,- 000 in one month alone. The World, which printed a facsimile of the ledger sheet. carrying the bishop's | account, uoted the bishop as admit- | ting the stock purchases, but saying | that he believed he was buying stock for investment of the ' partial payment plan. Disclosure of the bishop's stock deal- ings was made by Judson Campbell, at- torney for Charles H. Kable, after United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle had refused him access to the | firm’s books. | The Kable firm filed a voluntary pe- tition of bankruptcy in April, 1928, but no action has yet been taken in the case. Assistant United States Attorney Ella Mayra Marye Failor said the delay merely was due to the press of more important cases. After the filling of the bankruptcy petition, indictments were returned against Kable, who, Campbell maintains was a mere figure- head in the firm, and Harry L. Gold- hurst, who Campbell alleges was the actual owner. Bishop Cannon told the World he made the stock purchases through Goldhurst. “I thought T was buying stocks for investment, buying on the partial p: ment plan as any man may,” he said. “I did not know there was any gam- bling by the company. I did suppose, |and I suppose now, that the company found itself in debt and failed. “T cannot see why these transactions are of public interest. The only reason for printing such things, I suppose, is that T occupy a public position in trying to get the prohibition law enforced. do not feel that I did anything wrong in buying stocks on the partial pay- ment plan, and I certainly did not in- tend to gamble, I hoped to finish my payments and so invest my money.” VlSITINE NEWSBOY BAND BROADCASTS AT WMAL | Having played before President Hoover at the White House_ yesterday. the Reporter-Star Newsboys Band, here on a trip from Orlando, Fla., continued its program today, and this afternoon broadeast over radio Station WMAL at 4:10 o'clock. The members visited the tomb of the Unknown Soldier during the morning. Yesterday afternoon the band at- tracted a large crowd at Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street, playing several lively selections in serenading employes of The Star. Made up entirely of carrier boys, the band deeply impressed the crowd. One of its smallest members, aday. drum major, gave a notable ex- hibition of leadership. Tomorrow morning the band will play for the 4-H Clubs, meeting in conven- tion here. The band is directed by Edgar A, Ball, who, with J. C. Brossier, one of the owners of the newspaper it represents, accompanies it. THE PRESIDENT’S CALENDAR FOR A DAY w:aew-i ottt dogte t S0 tion Pumeylvevia Shoparatie Assoolaf Baslirosd = 125 - photo, SO GROUNDS Hoto with Bl es of ‘%A to *48 Keotrical School = 300 = Hor, John Bays Wwmmond Serator Joanes Serator Bye aod Seator Prester Gointttas Proshybertan Qemeral Assestly B 7 . ~ %0 present s Aol friend - Lioense, eto, The list of engagements for President Hoover at the White House yesterday. Presidente. Seventeen hundred and thirty-one « war—P. & A. Photo, Tn their initial public appearance since their marriage, Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh posed for photographers at Mitchel Field, Long Island. first picture taken of them since their surprise wedding three weeks ago. RETURN OF NOTED HONEYMOONERS 1t was the | HEAT WAVE GRIPS - MRS, HAYNES PLAYS ENTIRE COUNTRY Years Spreads From Coast to Coast. Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 20.—From coast | to coast, virtually the entire country to- day continued in the grip of the sever- est June heat wave in years. In the East, disastrous electrical | storms that caused many deaths brought a drop of 20 degrees in temperature at some points, but the mercury again be- gan a steady climb. One the Pacific Coast, from San Fran- cisco south, and in the Midwest the highest temperatures for June in years " CHAMP INFINALS |Severest June Weather in Wins Rignt to Meet Mrs.| Nicolson for ‘Women’s District Title. HOOVER WINS FIRST ROUND IN GONGRESS Farm Law to His Liking, but Tariff Outcome Is Un- certainty. President Hoover has had his first experience in dealing with Congress and found the going anything but easv during the first part of the special session he called to enact farm relief and tariff revision legislation. Afier much maneuvering and an open controversy with the Senate, he got about the cort of farm aid measure he wanted, but just how close the tarif bill will come to his views remains for the future. The measure passed by the House is regarded by some of friends as not being in accord with ideas of either limited or necessary revision Although Republican majorities in | both houses were increased in the elec- tion which swept Mr. Hoover into the presidency. he found a situation on Capitol Hill very similar to that faced by his predccessor, with the Republican independents in the Senate able to wield the balance of power as between the regular Republicans and the Demo- crats. Fight Over Debenture. Early in the session it was found that the independents and the Demo- crats were standing together for the export debenture pian of farm relief which the President denounced as dan- gerous to agriculture, but the big sur- prise to many came when both Senator Borah of Idaho and Senator Brook- hart of Iowa-came out for the deben- ture proposal. These two Senatars were prominent in the campaign, stumping the agricul- tural West in behalf of Mr. Hoover and the Republican party platform, which, the President holds, is interpreted in the administration farm relief measure. As some political observers here con- cluded, the Chief Executive was obliged to look to the House for the bill he wanted, and at his suggestion it finally permitted the debenture plan to come to a vote there, despite the possibility of political embarrassment to some of the Western Representatives’ standing with the administration, and it was over- whelmingly rejected. No Tariff Statement. President Hoover has made no_public expression regarding the House tariff bill other than to refer inquirers to his message to Congress at the opening of the session. In that he urged a limited revision in the industrial schedules to meet changed conditions since the pres- ent law was enacted and a general re- vision of agricultural rates. The House received and passed a general revision bill, with changes in duties_affecting hundreds of commodi- ties. The Senate declined by the mar- | gin of a single vote to limit the finance | committee in its work to agriculture and related schedules. Besides the farm bill the President obtained one other measure which he desired, providing for reapportionment | of the House and the taking of the next | census, but was blocked in the Senate in his effort to postpone the coming into force of the national origins quota pro. visions of the immigration act, and it will automatically become operative | | | Mrs. Dorothy White Nicolson Washington Golf and Country and Mrs. J. M. Haynes of Columbia are the finalists in the District woman's golf championship. They will play an 18-hale final round tomorrow over the Columbia Country Club course for the title now held by Mrs. Nocolson and which she has won for the last three of the Club years. Mrs, Nicolson played brilliant golf | today to defeat Mrs. L. B. Chapman | of the Congressional Country Club by |8 and 7 in one semi-final round, and Mrs. Haynes went to the nineteenth hole to defeat Mrs. J. M. Hodges of | the Army, Navy and ine Club. Mrs. | Nicolson, 'who broke the woman's re {ord for the Columbia course on Tues | day with & card of 79, was out in 39| | today and was 6 up on Mrs. Chapman. | shower. | She ended the match on the eleventh The electrical storm was especially | hole. Mrs. Haynes was 2 up on Mrs. | severe in Pennsylvania, where lightning | Hodges playing the sixteenth hole, but| bolts killed four persons, put power | Put her ball in the ditch and lost the | lines out of commiSsion and damaged | hole to a 5. She took three putts | were experienced. | In New York City the temperature | | rose to 92 degrees, the highest in the ‘Weather Bureau's annals for the date, and but slight relief was afforded in the late afternoon by a brief thunder July 1. ‘SOCIAL EQUALITY NOT ISSUE SAYS DE PRIEST Holds Wife Was Invited to White | House Because She was Wife of Congressman. | Representative Oscar De Priest, col- ored member of Congress from Illinais, declared in a_statement today that no aquestion of social equality was involved in his wife’s attendance at a White House tea recently. There can be no question of social equality as between races, he declared., There are per: of both races with ;':wn';dhe would not care to associate, said. Jack Hock- | barns and trees. Temperatures in the | On the seventeenth hole to lose to & storm area dropped 10 to 20 degrees, but after a few hours started to rise again. At Reading the temperature dropped from 97 degrees to 65, but in | the next two hours climbed again to 74. The temperature at Newark rose to P4 degrees. In upper New York State the rain fall was so heavy that it washed out bridges near Center, marooning a two-coach passen- ger train of the New York Central. Prospect of an early end to the heat wave in the East was seen in reports from New England, where the descent of cool northeastern winds from the Grand Banks brought a slight break in the torrid weather. Nevertheless the temperature at Springfield and Law- rence, Mass,, reached 90 by noon and schools were closed for the day. At Boston the maximum was 86. ‘Thundershowers in the Midwest fail- ed to provide any adequate relief. Ka sas City had a high temperature of 8! Cincinnati, 86; Milwaukee, 84, and Chicago, 80. The Pacific Coast, which escaped the heat earlier in the week, reported such temperatures as 98 in Los Angeles, 84.2 in San Diego and 84 in San Francisco. ‘The heat wave extended into the South- west with 108 at Phoenix, 94 at Okla- homa City and 90 at Denver. "TYPOTHETAE LEASES OFFICES IN CAPITAL National Headquarters Will Be Moved Here From Chicago on August 1. Washington will become the home of the headquarters of another outstand- national organization August 1. when the national offices of the United Typothetae of America, now located in | Chicago, will be transferred to the Na- | tional Capital, it was learned tod ! The national Typothetae has just closed negotiations for the leasing of { commodious quarters on the top floor |of the Tower Building, recently com- pleted on the northwest corner of Four- teenth and K_streets. The H. L. Rust Co., agents for the owners of the building, a syndicate rep~ resented by Maj. W. L. Browning, an- nounced this morning that the Typoth- etae had leased for a term of years, with the privilege of a renewal of the lease, the twelfth floor of the building, comprising about 6,000 square feet. The staff of the Typothetae is to be located here early in August, possession to be given August 1. The national Typothetae, a part of the International Association of Ma: ter Printers, was represented in mego. tiations, closed this morning, by Frank V. Smith of Rochester, N. e n: tional president; George R. Keller, na- tional vice president, and John J. De- viny, national secretary, who formerly was located in Washington when he Engraving and Printing. e et Bill Tilden in Semi-Finals. LONDON, June 20 (#).—Bill Tilden | entered the semi-finals of the London | | tennis championship at the Queens Club today by defeating his American countryman, Wilbur F. Coen, jr., 6—2, Dickinson | was assistant director of the Bureau of | 5, and the eighteenth hole was halved in 5. At the nineteenth Mrs. Haynes topped her second shot, but laid her | third shot within 2 feet of the hole to |win the hole and the match with a | par 4. | In the first flight consolation Mrs. | | Y. E._Booker of Washington, defeated Mrs. Peery B. Hoover of Indian Spring, 1 up, and Mrs. E. R. Tilley of Indian | Spring, defeated Mrs. H. A. Knox of Congressional, 1 up. The second flight was won by Mrs. W. 8. Corby of Co- lumbia, who defeated Mrs. C. 1. Put- man of Columbia, 4 and 3. In the consolation Mrs. Herman Stabler of Co- lumbia, defeated Miss Elizabeth Braw- ner, of Columbia on the nineteenth hple. The third flight was won by Mrs. L. L. Steele of Indian Spring, who defeated Miss Dorothy Hunter, a club _mate, by 3 and 2. Mrs. George H. Parker of Columbia, was victorious in the third flight consolation, defeating Mrs. G. T. Bell of Washington, 5 and 4. H Mrs, B. C. Hartig of Congressional | defeated Mrs. J. F. Gross of Indian | Springs, 3 and 2 to win the fourth | | flight, and Miss Ora Emge of Beaver | | Dam defeated Miss Helen Fav of Manor, | 6 and 5, to win the consolation. | In the fifth flight Miss Sue E. Gantt of Bannockburn defeated Mrs. E. L. Powell of Manor, 5 and 3. | | GAS DRIVES MINERS OUT. s From Underground Fires! Tie Up Arizona Force. BISBEE, Ariz., June 20 () .—Gas ac- cumulated from fires of several years' | standing in secluded sections of the | Sacramento mine of the Phelps Dodge | Corporation necessitated removal of the | entire shift of 450 men late yesterday | when the fumes became intense at the 1,400-foot level. | The men filed from the min€ in or- derly fashion, after the odor from the ‘had been released into the air lines, warning them of danger. An alarm sounded in the business dis- trict of Bisbee caused a report to be | telephoned to the State mine inspector | in Phoenix that the mine was afire. nocked Down by Auto) Fume | | | | | His wife was invited to the White House simply because she “happened |to be the wife of a man who was a | member of Congress,” he pointed out. The statement in full follows: “It's all a lot of moonshine for any one ‘to suggest that & question of social equality was invplved in my wife’s go ing %a_a White House tea. My wife was not because she was white or black, Republican or Democrat. She was not invited because Mrs. Hoover thought anything _of her personally. She was invited because she happened to be the wife of a man who was a member of Congress. That's all there was to that. “These Southern Democrats, these haters, are trying to stir up prejudices and help themselves politically in those Southern States that voted against Al Smith and gave electoral votes for Hoo- ver. The political effect will be to drive all colored votes back into the no social equality question as between races. Social equality is all a matter of individual taste. It isn't national or racial. For instance, there are men and women of my own race with whom I wouldn't care to have any social relations or contact. There are boith blacks and whites with whom I would not want to associate. I associate with persons }“like. 1 keep away from those I don't LIGHTNING DAMAGES JENKINS RADIO TOWER Television Inventor Declares Loss slight—Assistants in Lab- oratory Unhurt. Lightning yesterday afternoon struck one of the 128-foot radio towers of the Jenkins Television Laboratories on the Brookeville pike, in nearby Maryland, and casused slight damage to minor equipment. The red globe around a beacon on top of the tower was shattered, several lightning arrester fuses were burned out and an inexpensive radio receiver of the audible type was put out of commis- sion by the charge, it was disclosed to- day by Dr. C. Francis Jenkins, owner gt the station. Repairs were made to- ay. Two of Dr. Jenkins’ laboratory assist- ants and the station caretaker were in the building housing the experimental laboratories when bolt struck the nearby tower, but were uninjured. They were Paul Thompson and Richard Bat- tle of the television staff and Lewis Colvin, caretaker. The Jenkins station is vreplnns to conduct preliminary tests of Dr. Jen- kins' latest invention, the so-called “aerial eye,” which he expects will en- able persons at ground receivers to tune in ‘on airplane scenes transmitted by television. The “eye” is being installed on & “flying laboratory,” a Stinson-Junior cabin plane, in which Dr. Jenkins re- turned vesterday from a trip to Rich- mond, Ind. after receiving an honorary degree of doctor of science from Earl- ham College. i~ SR At London's dog show this year more than ten thousand high-bred canines competed.