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WEATH (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair and night and tomorrow. ‘Temperatures: tor y. Full report on Closing N. Y. Markets, No. 31,133, [o"omée “Wa Highest, 90, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, toda; IER. continued warm 72, at 5:30 am. page 5. Pages 10 and 11 @b WITH SUNDAY MORNI Entered as second class matter shington, D. C, WASHINGTON, D. C, BRAND 1 CALLE T0 RGANZE NEW FRENGH NS Poincare Cabinet Resigns When Premier Insists Upcn Retiring. Presidents of Senate and House Consulted Eerly on Next Government's Selection. PARIS, July 27 (#).— Aristide Briand, foreign minister in the Poin- care government, was called to the Elysee Palace late today, this being considered tantamount to announce- ment that he had been called to form a cabinet. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 27.—The French cabinet resigned in a body shortly before noon today after Raymond Poincare, pre- mier, refused to reconsider his own de- cision to resign. An impending opera- tion, made necessary by exhaustion and fatigue from his long fight for the debt agreement with America, was behind the premier’s action. ‘The cabinet’s resignation was handed to President Doumergue, who presided at the meeting, by Louis Barthou, act- ing premier, who drafted a lctter read- ing as follow “The efforts we have made with M. Poincare to persuade him in the inter- ests of his country to retain cirection of public affairs has not met with the re- sult we had hoped. “We must bow to his decision with the regret of not being able to continue a collaboration that was accompanied by our admiration and respectful devo- tion. Therefore we beg you, M. Presi- dent, kindly to accept our resignation and the expression of our profound re- spect.” All Ministers Sign. ‘The letter was signed by all the min- Isters and subsecre.aries. Prior to appearing at the cabinet meeting, Aristide Briand, foreign min- ister, and Louis Barthou, who is vice premier, had gone to the home of M. Poincare and sought to have him change his mind about leaving the ministry. ‘Their quest was hopeless, however, and they returned with their bad news. M. Poincare himself had sent letters announcing his resignation last night both tp the cabinet and tc President Doumergue. That to_the President read: “The fears that I expressed to you have been realized. It is impossible for me to be restored to nealth com- pletely without a surgical operation. The preparations for which and the con- valescence will condemn me to enforced rest for two or.three months. “T cannot, therefore, especially under the present circumstances, fulfill as I should the functions that you have been good enough to intrust to me the last three years, and I find myself, to my deep regret, in the necessity of pre- senting to you my resignation. “I remain profoundly grateful to you for the good will you never ceased to show me and I beg you to receive, M. President, the renewed assurance of my Tespect, 3 (Signed) “RAYMOND POINCARE.” Resignation Accepted. President Doumergue, after the usual exchange of compliments, accepted the ministry’s resignation, asking them to continue their work until a new min- istry can be formed. He then summoned M. Fernand Bouisson, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and M. Paul Doumer, Presi- dent of the Senate. to ask their advice about a successor to M. Poincare. No one doubted he would choose (Continued on Page 2, Column LAMONT WILL SPEAK IN RADIO FORUM Commerce Chief Has Part in De-| scribing Business Aspects of 1930 Census Tonight. The Government's pioneer work in providing an authoritative source of ex- pert opinion on the ramifications of American business, a work that is tobe an important phase of the taking cf the 1930 census, will be described this eve- ning by Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont and Frederick Morris Feiker of New York, in radio addresses in the ‘National Radio Forum, arranged by The Evening Star and sponsored by the Co- lumbla Broadcasting System. Distinctive features of the act aue thorizing the taking of the decennia. census are provisions for the taking ot sn_unemployment census and a So- called merchandise-distribution census. Secretary Lamont will devote his re- marks to the distribution census espe- clally. His topic has been announced as “Preparedness for the Census of Mer- chandise Distribution.” Mr. Feiker, who will discuss interest- ing features in connection with this im- portant work, has been associated with the Department of Commerce at inter- vals since 1921, and frequently is re- tained by the department as expert con- sultant. He is managing director of the Associated Business Papers, inc., and is noted as an editor and publisher. He served as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce under Mr. Hoover. The addresses will be broadcast locally through Station WMAL beginning at 9 | Military Leaders, Headed by | Verdict Exonerates Financier, but VAN RYN AND OVER FRENCH, 6-1 American Doubles Stars Down Cochet and Borotra in Straight Sets. AIM SHOTS AT BASQUE, France’s Attempt to Clinch Victory Fails, Leaving U. S. Bare Chance. By the Assoclated Press. ROLAND GAROS STADIUM, PARIS, July 27.—The sensational American team of John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison checked the rush of the French today and won the doubles match of the Davis Cup challenge round from Henri Cochet and Jean Borotra in straight sets, 6—1, 8—6, 6—4. ‘The victory of the youthful American collegians over the French pair, which had scored two singles triumphs yes- terday, put the United States back in the running in the battle for the famous | tennis trophy. However, with a lead of two to one, France needed to win only one of the two remaining singles con- tests tomorrow to successfully defend | the cup. First Year in Cup Battle. The victory for the young American team—Allison is only 24 and Van Ryn 23—was the climax of one of the great- est winning streaks ever scored in doubles play. Their triumph today fol- lowed capture of the Wimbledon cham- plonship and defeat of the Germans in the inter-zone finals at Berlin. This is the first year either has participated in Davis Cup competition. ‘The Americans outplayed the French veterans consistently, capturing 11 of the first 13 games with a whirlwind attack and then possessing sufficient reserve to offset French rallles in the last two sets. Their teamwork was superior at all times. Allison's dynamic service was a vital factor in the victory. It was broken (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) ALLISON WIN , 8:6, 64 JOHN VAN RYN. HOOVER STUDYING ARMY CUT AT CAMP Good, Accompany Presi- dent on Trip. Although President Hoover has with him the military heads of the Govern- ment on his week end camping party in the Virginia mountains, word to- day indicated that he will by no means devote his entire time to studying economies in the Army, but that some time will be devoted to recreation. ‘With the President at the camp are Secretary of War Good, Assistant Sec- retaries Hurley and Davidson and Maj. Gsrfnr. Charles A. Summerall, chief of stafl, The party arrived at the camp on| the Rapidan River just before dark last night, after a motor ride of four hours. The President was up at 7 o'clock this morning and shortly after 8 o'clock the party had completed breakfast in the cool air of the mountains. The President went for a stroll along the rugged edge of one of the Rapidan headwaters and later returned to the camp for a conference with the mili- tary heads in his party. According to Mr. Hoover's plans, he will return to the White House shortly hefore noon Monday. Mrs. Hoover did not accompany him on this outing. Despite the remoteness of the Presi- dent’s mountain camp, he not only is in close touch with the Government by medium of the telephone and telegraph but he is receiving the daily papers and his personal mail just about as soon as he would if he was back in the White House. Quick deliveries have been made possible this week end by use of an airplane, HUGO STINNES CLEARED OF WAR FRAUD CHARGES Implicates Secretary, Ending Sensational Berlin Trial. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 27.—Hugo Stinnes, {l; son of the' German post-war industrial magnate, was declared not guilty today of attempting to defraud the German government in operations with German war loan bonds. ‘The verdict completely exonerated him, but his secretary, Wolf von Wal- dow, was sentenced to four months in prison, of which seven weeks were al- lowed for his incarceration during the seven weeks' trial, He was released for hth‘e hl;emnnder of his term on good be- vior. Eugene Hirsch of Paris, described as 8 “business man,” was fined $750. Erich Nothmann of Hamburg, Joseph Schneid and Leo Hirsch, other “busi- ness men,” were acquitted. Dela Groos was sentenced to four months in prison. Stinnes was charged with an at- tempt to defraud the treasury of 2,- 000,000 marks (about $480,000) through operations in revaluated war loan bonds. His defense was he was left b I | o’clock. his secretary, Von Waldow, in ignor- ance of the transactions, NUPTIAL PACT REQUIRES O’NEILL TO RESIDE IN Famous Chateau Near Tours Leased by Dramatist| and Actress Bride. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, July 27.—Eugene O'Neill, who recently was married to Carlotta Monterey, the actress, is booked for. 13 years’ residence in France. He made a short prenuptial contract with his bride and executed it before they were married and then signed a Jease for the famous Chateau de Plesses at St. Antoine Du Rocher, 35 miles from Tours. There he and his bride FRANCE 13 YEARS dramatist can hunt on a 600-acre game best in sented. Miss Monterey also wanted some mod - ern improvements and the countess agreed to the installation of & swim- ming pool, & roof garden and a - nasium, although she herself was not i favor of such modern things. i Shoe Pitching Fever Spreads to Marines At Hoover’s Camp Marines guarding President Hoover’s camp at the headwaters of the Rapidan River, in Vir- ginia, have caught the horseshoe- pitching fever. During the President’s last week end visit to the camp, the Ma- rines’ interest in this form of i sport was arouséd while looking on at the tournament participated in by members of the President’s party. There were only two sets of shoes in the camp then and the Marines had to be content with merely looking on. But now the Marines have their own horseshoes, and according to word received back at the White House today they are making the shoes hum. The horseshoes of the Marines were furnished by The Evening Star when it was learned that these presidential guardians were eager for some- thing of this sort to play with during their idle moments. WU TELS STINSON OF STEP FORPEACE Chinese Minister Informs; Secretary of State of Pro- posed Berlin Parley. By the Assoclated Press. Minister Wu of China informed Secretary Stimson today that the Chinese and Soviet governments were taking steps toward direct negotiations in Berlin for a settle- ment of the situation ‘over the Chinese Eastern Railway. By the Associated Pres:. LONDON, July 27.—Moscow dis-/ patches today continued to relate “atrocities” of Chinese in Manchuria against Soviet citizens there and to tell of demonstrations throughout the U. 8. 8. R. seeking redress for insults to the Russian proletarian state. Advices from China put an entirely different aspect on the situation in Manchuria and emphasized the feeling of Chinese officials that the altercation growing out of the seizure of the Chi- nese Eastern Railway would be settled peaceably. There were only meager reports from either country, but those from China were taken as indicating a preliminary conference took place Wex y tween Chang Tso-Hsiang, governor of Kirin division of Manchuria, and the Soviet consul general at Harbin, B. N. Meinikov. Returning to Moscow. M. Meinikov was said to have started thereafter for Moscew to recount the events of the past seven weeks to his government. The Chinese were report- ed in one dispatch to be determined on peace and to be pleading that the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway, was an unauthorized action of the road'’s president, Lu Yung Huan. ‘This ination clashed with earlier “ROBIN" CONTINUES AS MOTOR FORCES TEXANS T0 GROUND St. Louis Flyers Start 15th Day in Quest of 500-Hour Endurance Recordc CYLINDEI; BLOWE ouT ON PLANE AT HOUSTON Minnesota Aviators Complete First 100 Hours Complaining of Heat on Flight. How They Stand By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS—Monoplane St. Louis Robin, Pilots Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest O'Brine, rec- ord holders, still aloft after two weeks in air. Time, 340 hours 43 minutes, at 12 m,, C. 8. T. MINNEAPOLIS—Monplane The Minnesota, Pilots Owen Haugland and Capt. P. L. Crichton, 113 hours 20 minutes, 12 m., C. 8. T. HOUSTON—Monoplane Billion Dollar City, Pilots Glenn L. Loomis and Joseph Glass, forced down by “blown cylinder” at 6:45 am. (C. 8. T.) today, after flying 233 hours 44 minutes. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, July 27.—The mono- plane St. Louis Robin began the third week of its record endurance flight to- day with its pilots, Dale (Red) Jack- son and Forest O'Brine, reporting that the engine was “just getting nicely broken in.” Both men were cheerful and apparently in good physical con- dition. The start of the fifteenth day'found the plane far out in front in the cur- rent endurance flying season, its chief rival, the Billion Dollar City of Hous- ton, Tex., having been forced down at | 233 hours, and well on the way toward an epochal performance. Jackson and O'Brine had been up 340 hours and 43 minutes at 12 m. (Cen- tral standard time), and were near to adding 100 hours cnto the old endur- ance mark of the Angeleno. The goal of the flight was still held at 500 hours plus. Spectators Cheer Plane. More than 1,000 persons were on hand at 6:30 a.m., when Jackson brought the Robin within 125 feet of the ground and tossed overboard a cylinder contain- ing the usual morning notes and orders for supplies. The spectators broke into & cheer as the plane swooped overhead and Jackson waved in response. *Well, hello, everybody,” said one note. “How is everything down there? Everything is O. K. up here. We feel just fine after two weeks in the air. I believe the motor is running just as good as it did the day we took off. Just get~ ting nicely broken in.” The message, written by O'Brine was addressed to “Shorty” Chaffee of the refueling crew. A letter written by Jackson to C. Ray ‘Wassal, pilot of the refueling plane, was marked confidential. Almost in Collision. A supply of 60 gallons of gasoline and breakfast was taken up to the flyers shortly after 7 a.m., and the endurance ship climberd back up to a higher and cooler altitude to resume cruising above the airport. The sky was clear. The too-close presence of a plane bearing a movie cameraman interrupted the refueling contact last night and re- sulted in an order today that no more refueling pictures or aerial photographs of the endurance plane are to be made. The movie plane, faster than the other two, forged ahead and the backwash of the propeller caused the refueler and (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) BRITISH VESSEL SENT TO PROBE EXPLOSION 16 Dead and 9 Injured Now Toll of Cruiser Devenshire Turret Blast in Malta. By the Assoclated Press. VALETTA, Malta, July 27.—The British admiralty has taken such a serious view of yesterday’s explosion in a gun turret of the cruiser Devonshire that the dreadnaught Queen Elizabeth, with the commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean fleet aboard, today was steaming at full speed to Volo, Greece, to hold an immediate inquiry. ‘The death of another marine during the night brought the number of fa- talities up to 16, with 9 injured. The loss of the submarine H-47, with 23 lives on July 9, quickly followed by an explosion aboard the submarine X-1 and the bursting of an air bomb on the cruiser Vindictive, which killed 1 and injured 2, together with yesterday’s disaster, have made this month the blackest in many years in the British .| Navy. After the inquiry aboard the Devon- shire vessel will return to Malta and probably will be ordered to Eng- land. The dead will be buried today on Greek territory. The ‘injured are being brought to Malta aboard a hos- pital ship. Llaiztof Chinese statements regarding the seizure. | & In Shanghai there was a series of disorders and nstrations which it was believed were forerunners of other disturbances on August 1, Soviet holiday. Says Raid Bared Plot. ‘The Kuo Min News Agency, Chinese Nationalist organ, published Shanghai telegrams that the raid on the Soviet consulate at Harbin May 27 revealed plans of 2:‘ ‘Communist 'l‘hlfl:hengfi- nationale to destroy eompme.lh - nese Eastern Railway and govern= ment organizations in Manchuria. It was said the mmbemuhcmmmu‘hm- i “The docu- | £ ation of a secret cont it by the Third Internatios 5 Thunist Plans. 5o ring about wm’ m [y between Nanking and Mukden with the rekellion in South China recently. NG EDITION SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1929—TWENTY-EIGHT. PAGES. ¢ Foening Star, B FLY-SWATTING SEASON. Associated service. / FARM BOARD PLANS GIANT GO-OPERATIVE |$20,000,000 Marketing Cor-| poration Would Be Eligible | for Agricultural Loans. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 27.—A $20,000,000 world-wide co-operative marketing cor- poration is the prescription of the newly | formed Federal Farm Board for the "‘\nlnclll 1lls of grain farming and sell- ing. Although members of the board and | representatives of approximately 50 co- operative marketing associations de- clared last night after their meeting that no agreement had been reached, it been made toward founding the mam- moth co-operative and that details might be expected soon. Yesterday's was the first meeting of the board outside of Washington, and was to consider the grain marketing problem. All eight members attended, although Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture and ex-officio member, could not be present. The ninth mem- | ber has not yet been appointed. He | will represent Wheat growers. ‘The meeting was behind closed doors, and all persons not specifically invited were asked to leave. Among them was Senator Smith W. , Repub- lican, Iowa, who was passing through Chicago on his way to Washington. Would Be Intermediary. The proposed new co-operative, as envisioned by the farm leaders, would act as an intermediary between the Farm Board and the smaller co-opera- tives, which would be invited to join the larger organization. An international chain of officers for the collection and correlation of imj t data would be established throughout the world. ‘The official statement, issued by the board at the close of the meeting, de- cl 3 “The board has proposed to repre- sentatives of the farmer-owned grain assoclations and pools that, as a part of the long-time program for the de- velopment of agriculture, all of them should join in the creation of a sales corporation with an ultimate paid-up capital of not less than $20,000,000 which shall operate for all grain co- operatives in all markets of the United States and foreign countries for the collective selling of such portions of the grain crop as are now or may here- after be marketed co-operatively at country points. Eligibility for Loans. “The board has Yropoled that the new corporation shall be so organized as to be eligible for loans under the agricultural marketing act, and it has further proj that the new corpor- ation shall be an intermediary between the board and all in grower co- operatives in finan transactions.” The statement explained that “the plan is so large and details of its de- velopment so many that a great deal of time will be necessary before such a corporation could in any event be placed in active operation.” Carl Willlams of Oklahoma City, who ‘was_autho; by Chairman Alexander H. Legge to be official spokesman for the board, explained at a press con- !uhr;nz w-ngr B‘u‘:fie ma:uu that the cen! and strengthen, all farm co-operati in_the country. ‘The $20,000,000 capital “h‘e‘” prlla- super-co-operative, sald, l”Med'llmld be l.)bhl.l’lexe by \3 pected to be worked out at today's meeting. {5 ot oo bl GG ST D AL e R Do you build model airplanes? Would you like to know how? De you know hundreds of sturdy youngsters in the District of ‘Columbh are doing s0? The Star is going to let you have a eleslofis g‘l’ usmmon. news of what erything. It will t’t:e model airplane gm artment of your own— ou are doing and “up with developments in Turn to the Aviation Section of The Sunday Star BE SURE AND GET A COPY EACH WEEK. was understood that much progress had | Youth, in Swimming Without Suit, Fears To Ask Aid; Drowns By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 27. Afraid to call for help becaus: they had gone swimming in Lake Michigan without bathing suits. John Kosec, 17, was drowned and Tony Garin, 14, had a narrow escape yesterday. A sudden squall carried them off shore opposite a pler where several fishermen were gathered. Fearing to call for aid, they tried to swim back where their clothiny wlskcnched, Garin made it. Kosek sank. SPEEDER IS FREED ONMATTINGLY PLEA Schuldt Suspends Sentence, but Comments on Judge’s Intercession in Case. | in Traffic Court was marked by im- | position of stringent penalties for vio- | | 1ators, today obtained leniency for a frignd arraigned on a charge of second | offense speeding, but provoked com- ment from Judge Gus A. Schuldt, pre- siding in the court. Arrested by Policeman A. H. Pool, David N. Miller, 5529 Sherrier place, appeared before Judge Schuldt and ex- hibited a letter from Judge Mattingly. “When presiding in Traffic Court, Judge Mattingly imposed fines of $50 second-offense speeding,” Judge Schuldt declared. “Today, when I am presid- ing, he sends me a letter requesting leniency and asking that I suspend sen- tence for his friend.” After considering the matter at length view of the request, he would as a | favor to Judge Mattingly release nim | under a suspended sentence. 'BANK AUDIT ORDERED 'BY GRAND JURY PROBE Report Charges Former President, Now Dead, Is Indebted to Closed Institution. By the Assoclated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 27.—An audit under the direction of Attorney General C. C. McCall was under way today in the closed Woodlawn Savings Bank following a partial report yes- terday of a Jefferson County grand jury of “grave irregularities” in han- dling of that institution’s funds. ‘The grand jury’s report and the start of the official audit came almost simultaneously with apparently well founded reports that the attorney gen- eral has been investigating the drown- ing of Dr. A. W. Bell, president of the bank, and whose death followed its closing by about an hour. In its partial report on the Wood- lawn Bank the grand jury declared its opinion that “the estate of Dr. Bell is indebted to said bank in the sum of many thousands of dollars.” R QUITS VENEZUELAN POST. W. C. Cook, American Minister There for Eight Years, Resigns. SIOUX FALLS, S. Dak,, July 27 (®). —Willis C. Cook, American Minister to Venezuela for eight years, Cook, a former Sioux Falls newspaper blisher, is visiting here. He an- wmncefl no definite 'pluu for the fu- ture [ e | Judge Robert E. Mattingly, whose | recent term of 10 days on the bench | and $75 on defendants convicted of | Judge Schuldt informed Miller that, in | BROMLEY WATCHES FOR FAIR WEATHER ‘Iver, Who Would Hop Pa-| cific, Waits for Favor- able Reports. BY LIEUT. HAROLD BROMLEY. .-ritten Exclusively for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. | TACOMA, Wash., July 27.—The City | of Tacoma is ready for this contem- | plated non-stop fiight from Tacoma to We are now walting only on | | the weather. | Tokio. Preferably the take-off | will be at dawn, following the first| favorable weather bulletin. | The weather from Tacoma to Dutch | Harbor will be the only worry after | the hop-off. During this lap of the flight the plane will be carrying an enormous load of gasoline, decreasing | as the motor whirs the ship westward over the Pacific Ocean. Once past Dutch Harbor the ship will be light enough to fly easily and there will be no occasion to worry about being able to go through or around almost any kind of weather. The fiight, however, will be dan-! gerous as far as Dutch Harbor. It would be difficult to fly the heavily ladened plane and use the navigation instruments as much as I would have to do in case of fog. Fighting a 9,000~ pound machine through bad air is a big enough job, without any navigation problems added to it. ‘The tail skid of the City of Tacoma was replaced by a small wheel yesterday, in order to give the ship more speed at the take-off. When it is out over the ocean I will drop the wheel, and (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) HEAT TO CONTINUE, WITH FAIR FORECAST | One Prostration Yesterday That of Harry A. Ourand, in Govern- ment Printing Office. | | | | | Although generally fair weather has been forecast for the week end, no re- lief, is in sight from the heat, which has been prevalent here during most {of the past week. One case of heat prostration ~was reported yesterday about the time the mercury touched a high mark of 90 degrees at 3 o'clock. Harry A. Ourand, 55 years old, of 88 K street northeast, collapsed yesterday afternoon while at work in the Govern- ment Printing Office. Fellow employes summoned an ambulance, and Ourand, who was employed as a bookbinder, was removed to Casualty Hospital, where he was treated and discharged last night. His condition, attributed by doctors to the heat, was not regarded as critical. From a minimum of 71 degrees early mthememuryr'zoewlel:;oo:d was expected to approxima later in the day. i The local forecast sald, “generally fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow.” () Means Associated Press. | affair. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,225 TWO CENTS. BRODKHART SCORES LEADER OF LECION ON CRUSER STAND Senator Calls Comdr. McNutt “Principal Propagandist for War Profiteers.” PRESIDENT’S ORDER SEEN CONGRESS FIGHT CAUSE Organized Machinists Also Add Protest on Suspension of Building Plans. By the Assoclated Press. Commending President Hoover for suspension of construction of three cruisers, Senator Brookhart of Iowa, who opposed the cruiser construction bill, today voiced a vigorous protest against opposite views expressed by National Comdr. McNutt of the Ameri- can Legion, on the question. In a fighting mood on his arrival from Chicago, where he was excluded from an executive meeting of the Farm Board yesterday, Brookhart said that McNutt “is only representing a little, bloodthirsty coterie at the head of the Legion, which has become principal propagandist for the war profiteers.” The Iowan is a Legion member. “I am in complete accord with the President,” Brookhart continued, “and I hope these cruisers never will be built. They are useless when they are built, and the construction of them is an unnecessary threat of war. Rank Against War. He asserted that a “vast majority of the rank and file of the Legion are afillnst war and useless war prepara- tion.” “The same is true,” he said, “of a still larger ,number of World War soldiers who are not members of the Legion at all. “The Legion conventions that in- dorsed the cruisers and other warlike programs are a packed and controlled Resolutions are usually passed by a picked committee and indorsed by a small number of organized dele- gates. They never present the facts or the whole truth about the situation and they never represent the Legion membership in its sober judgment.” N. P. Alifas, president of District 44 of the International Association of | Machinists, said today that his asso- clation opposed the suspension by Presi- ent Hoover and that a formal protest was planned. The Chief Executive acted without authority, Alifas said, when he called a halt on construction work on the three ships to be built in navy yards. Alifas asserted that the order would work a great hardship on union work- ers in navy yards. He said he talked the situation over with A. O. Wharton, president of the International Associa- tion of Machinists, and that Wharton approved his stand. Alifas also said he had presented his union’s view to Sec- retary Adams. ;: Controversy Expected. ‘The prospect that cruiser building again will raise a point of bitter con- troversy in Congress is rapidly becom- ing more and more definitely indicated in the discussion which has arisen over President Hoover's right to suspend | construction to match the similar ac- Uon of Prime Minister MacDonald. The discussion already has disclosed the White House under Mr. Hoover holding much the same attitude toward the efforts of many members of Con- gress who advocated mandatory con- struction of the vessels within fixed time limits that it maintained under Calvin Coolidge during the last two years of his administration while the 15-cruiser law was under consideration. Coolidge’s desire that the President’s hands be not tied to a rigid construction program in the law was the pivot of most of that two-year dispute, and the comment which has followed President Hoover’s action suspending construction (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) BLERIOT FLIES CHANNEL AS HE DID 20 YEARS AGO French Pioneer Lands Close to Monument in England, and Will Be Feted Tonight. By the Associated Press. 5 DOVER, England, July 27.—Louis Bleriot, French aeronautical pioneer, flew the English Channel today. ‘Twenty years ago the same was flashed around the world and recorded the first flight ever made between France and England. ‘Today Bleriot landed close to the monument which commemorates his historic_crossing and then hurried on to London where he will be feted to- night on the twentieth anniversary of his first air trip across the Channel. Old timers recalled the first flight and how watchers on the down saw a dot in the sky which shaped itself into a tiny airplane and then landed on a spot so small and steep that few aviators would chance it today. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 27.—Miss Anna Pennypacker, daughter of the late Samuel W. Pennypacker, who was Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, passed the night in a police cell. She was one of 55 persons arrested last night when po. lice raided a radical meeting in Grand Fraternity Hall. Miss Pennypacker was offered her nlanonnegpyorundamz.wc declined to accept, unless all the oth- ers were given their freedom. Ten persons were freed last night and the others, inch Miss Pennypacker, were released morning on coples of the charge., . Permit Not Obtained. The prisoners were charged with hol 3 without a it lndmu some nlmthm with WM m— ting sedi litera- MISS ANNA PENNY PACKER JAILED WITH 55 FOR RADICAL MEETING Daughter of Late ex-Governor of Pennsylvania Refuses Release Before Others. Workers’ International Relief to devise means of helping a group of textile workers in Gastonia, N. C., who are cl with the killing of a police- man during labor disturbances in that city. A quantity of literature and a card announcing a meeting to be held next Thursday night under auspices of the Communist Party of America and the Communists’ Youths’ League were seized by the raiders. Miss Penn; er said she had at- :rnded the meeting merely as a specta- Interested in Affair. “I went to the meeting,” she declared, “because I was interested in the Gas- tonia affair. I would not have believe it M&Ie that this could