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~ DISCREPANCIES FOUND WEATHER, (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and slightly cooler today; tomor- row fair. Temperatures: Highest, 82, at 6 p.m. yesterday. yesterday; lowest, 69, at 4 a. Ful 1l report on page 7. —No. ‘31,1417 No. 1272 GRAF HOPES T0 END SEA TRIP BY NOON UNLESS HELD BACK BY RAINY WEATHER Head Winds Are Lessened,| But Squalls Appear Ahead and Giant Craft Turns South on Course to U. S. IN MESSAGES FROM SHIP, Under Present Rate of Speed Second Transocean Flight of Zeppelin | Expected to Be Completed With- in 90 Hours—First Journey Took | 111 Because of Storms. By the Associated Press. The dirigible Graf Zeppelin as Sunday approached was making a bee-line across the last reach of the broad Atlantic with the hope of making New York by noon, at the earliest estimates. The opposing winds which had | retarded her during much of her| air voyage had lessened, but there was a prospect that squally weather with rain might be en- countered near the American shore. At 9:29 p.m. (Eastern standard time) Saturday, the third full day was completéd in the air so that it appeared that the total voyage would require at least 90 hours. The 1928 flight | took 111 because of storms. i Radio messages received by the Navy Department late last night, indicated that the Graf Zeppelin was turning south in its course to avoid stormy weather. The airship was abcut 810 nautical miles from Lakehurst at 10 p.m., Eastern standard time, when the dirigible communicated with the | Navy. As the giant airship narro}ved the gap between her and the shores of the United States, radio contacts with American stations grew more frequent and more and more often came the message of reassurance, “All's well.” The passengers, according to direct messages to the Associated Press, were in no hurry to land, although it was apparent that their first demand at Lakehurst would be for cigarettes. The inflammable lifting gas rates smok- ing out during the fight. Meanwhile the guests amused themselves by watch- ing whales, leviathians of the deep, sport below them. There was some discrepancy in the positions given in messages received by various American stations early last evening, but the expectations of ar- rival at Lakehurst early Sunday after- noon was confirmed in a direct message to the Associated Press from Herbert S. Siebel of Saginaw, Mich., a passenger on the dirigible, His message, received at the Cape Elizabeth Naval Station at 10 p.m. (Eastern daylight time) gave the posi- tion of the dirigible as 55 degrees, 5 minutes west, 35 degrees, 32 minutes north. EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON Present Speed Would Put Zeppelin in New York About 1:15 p.m. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Me,, gust 3.—The Cape Elizabeth naval wireless station at 10 pm. (E. D. T.) picked up the following message from the Graf Zep- lin: L 2 he Associated Press, New York. “Position 35 degrees, 32 minutes north, 556 degrees, 5 minutes west; speed, 115 kilometers. Expect to ar- rive at Lakehurst early Sunday after- noon. “Seidel.’ ” The position given is about 1,100 miles from either New York or Lake- hurst, N. J. If the present rate of flight were maintained the dirigible could be expected over New York at Au 1:15 p.m. (Eastern standard time) but | 1, weather reports told of adverse winds and rain off the coast, which might re- tard her or cause her to turn south toward the Virginia Capes. LAKEHURST GETS REANY. Additional Naval and Marine Men De- tailed to Aid in Zeppelin's Landing. NAVAL AIR STATION, Lakehurst, N. J., August 3 (#).—The arrival of the dirigible Grat Zeppelin here tomorrow will_be an “all ds maneuver” for’| tgg Nw{, l:nnmng e‘tilnt every m:’n oxé the assigne task, and no evenm:hc lowliest or or Marine rookie is excepted. ‘The normal ground crew has been MOSES WILL LEAD expanded from 275 to 400 men. Twen- ty-five Marines from the Philadelp) (Continued on Page 6, Column 7.) Phia | riage Entered as post office, ’etonfl - matter Washington, D. C. . WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION g WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1929—-122 PAGES. * M'COY'S POSSIBLE RETIREMENT STARTS TALK AS TO SUCCESSOR Chief. Justice Beclieved Plan- ning to Leave Post This Year. Hoover Expected to Name Republican in Keeping With Precedent. ‘BY THOMAS M. HARVEY. /The office of chief justice of the Su- preme Court of the District of Colum- bia may be vacant before the close of the calendar year and President Hoover may have the opportunity to name a successor to Walter I. McCoy, who will be 70 years old December 8 and will be eligible for retirement. ’ ‘While Chief Justice McCoy has mad> | no announcement of his intention to retire~1t is generaly believed at the| courthouse that he will do so. Only five persons have held the nf—l fice of chief justice of that tribunal since its organization in 1863 and only one of them has retired from office, one resigned and the other two died in of- fice. David K. Cartter, the first chief justice, died in office April 16, 1887, and was succeeded by Edward F. Bing~ ham, who retired May 15, 1902. Harry M. Clabaugh, the third chief justice, died in office March 6, 1914, and was succeeded by J. Harry Covington. Cov- ington resigned to resume the practice of law May 30, 1918, and Walter I. McCoy succeeded him. Chief Justice McCoy has the dis- tinction,of being the only chief justice to be promoted from the position of as- soclate justice, where he had been serv- ing since October 5, 1914. Should N JUSTICE WALTER I. McCOY. President Hoover follow that precedent and name one of the present justices to the position the promotion probably would go to Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford, who is the senior associate justice and also is a Republican. Some doubt has been expressed that Justice Stafford would wish to undertake the additionel duties of chief justice since he has less than two years to serve be- fore becoming eligible for retirement. Justice Peyton Gordon is the next oldest Republican in term of service on the bench. Justices Siddons, Hitz and Bailey are Democrats. Although Chief Justice McCoy is a Democrat, it is not expected that Presi- dent Hoover will select a successor from that political faith. It is pointed out that President Wilson appointed only Democrats to the bench. SEAATECANPAGN Republicans Name Chairman for 1930 Fight to Increase Control. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator George H. Moses of New | Hampshire, who played a proml.nenti part in the Republican high command | during the last national campaign, was | named yesterday afternoon chairman of the Republican senatorial campaign committee. It will be his task to plan | the campaign which will be waged by the Republicans to retain and to in- crease their control of the Senate in the elections next year. Associated with Senator Moses on thel campaign committee will be Senators | Patterson, iMssouri; Herbert, Rhode Island; Hatfleld, West Virginia; Nor- beck, South Dakota; Vanderberg, Michi- gan, and Steiwer, Oregon. None of them is up for re-election next year and so can give their entire attention to aiding in the campaign to elect Re- publican colleagues. Ordinarily, one-third of the Senate membership comes up for election every two years. Because of the resignation of Charles Curtis of Kansas to take the office of Vice President, Kansas next year will elect two Senators instead of one, and the total number of Senate sets to be contested for will be 33 in- stead of 32. Senator Henry J. Allen, Jjunior Senator from Kansas, is serving now under appointment by the gover~ nor. He has announced his intention of seeking election, just as Senator Ar- thur Capper, the senior Senator from the Sunflower State, has thrown his hat in the ring for re-election. -~ Seats Believed Safe. There is little danger that the Re- publicans will lose either seat in Kan- sas to a Democrat. But there are sev- eral senatorial seats now held by Re- publicans where the race is likely to be close. Senator Gillett, for example, comes up for re-election in Massachu- setts, wiiich went for Senator Walsh and Al Smith in the election last No- vember. Senator Gillett so far has not said whether he intends to be a candi- date to succeed himself or not. Several other Republicans have been mentioned in connection with the senatorial nomi- nation, including Calvin Coolidge. But it is not expected the former President will get into the race. Former Gov. Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts has intimated he will be a candidate, If he goes after the Senate seat he is likely to bes nominated and to win despite Democratic opposition. Of the 33 Senate scats to be fought or next. year, the Republicans today hold 20 and the Democrats 13. The Republicans who come up for re-elec- tion are Allen, Kansas; Borah, Idaho; Capper, Kansas; Cougzens, ‘Michigan; (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) REPRESENTATIVE TO WED. Vincent Carter of Wyoming to Have Gettysburg Ceremony. CHEYENNE, Wyo.,, August 3 (P).— Representative Vincent Carter, Wyo- ming's lone Representative in Congress, Torthcotning marriage in Me. Mary & ma; Crowley of Stonsburg, Pa. The mar- will be solemnized at Gettysburg, Pa., August 12. i NEW AXLELESS CAR, 5 FEET LONG, TO BE SOLD Mary | g DEATH OF BERLINER RECALLS TRIUMPHS Famous Inventor Came to America as An Obscure German Immigrant. Emile Berliner, inventor of the tele- phone transmitter, the gramophone and the microphone, died at 10:30 a.m. yesterday in his apartment at the lytic stroke, in his seventh-ninth year. Thus passed one of the greatest of the miracle workers of the age of whose genius made the human volce limitless and immortal, bound together the continents with chains of music and caused “the dead to speak.” The inventions of this penniless Ger- man immigrant and clerk in a Seventh street dry goods store made possible the telephone and the radio. He found the former little more than a curious toy and supplied the one missing link necessary to transform it into the in- strument which has revolutionized civilization. He supplied the mechani- cal principle upon which is based the microphone, without which transmis- sion of voice by radio would be impos- sible. Almost Unknown To PubMt. Philanthropist and philosopher, Ber- liner remained almost unknown to the general public. It is only within the last decade that the magnitude of his work, both in its realization and its potentialities for the future, have been widely known. has been devoted to a field far removed from that in which he won fame and fortune—the prevention of infant mor- tality through education of mothers. He was a ploneer in the fight for pasteurization of milk in Washington— a movement which has spread through- out the world. = With an inflamed enthusiasm but with practically no technical training, Berliner started his career as an in- ventor in his third floor room in a Sixth street boarding house. Throughout his career he has been intimately asso- wiated with Washington. ' Berliner’s “Greeting to Death.” His wife and family were at his bedside when he died. Death was not unexpected because of his advanced age. A few years ago Berliner himself (Continued on Page 4, Column PLANE T0 ATTEMPT . TO BEAT “ROBINY Three to Start Today in Flight Over Chicago, With 700 Hours as Endurance Goal. 3 By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 3.—With a goal of 700 hours in the air, a Stinson-De- lane, carrying three pilots, will go aloft tomorrow to begin an en- durance flight over the municipal air- port, weather pernfitting. An effort will be made to better the world endurance record set by Dale (Red) Jackson and -Forest O'Brine at BY MAIL FOR $200/3% & Inventor Claims Auto Will Do 5? Miles Per Gallon. :::::m Shipping Box to By the Associated Press. Serve as Garage. NEW YORK, August 3—The New |spring. York Times tomorrow will say negotia- tions are under way for the large-scale production of a new “baby” automobile mkh wouxd‘bem through a mail house for $200. he is the invention of James B. ‘The car Garaen ity B, whde.the modes “fi'{:"nfi‘b&g the cars that it has each, Bar Eaviator ‘oo Tn used 18 , - Rub- sus- TAKES AIR IN PAJAMAS. Oklahoma Starts Flight:to Convert Men' to “Sensible Clothes.” ST. LOUIS, Mo, August 3 (P —Clad ‘Wardman Park Hotel, following a para- i miracles—an obscure, unheralded man | Much of his attention in recent years ! YOUNG DEBT PLAN SCUSSONS TO B STARTED TUESDAY [ 'Reduction of = Reparations ! Total to 37 Million Marks ! Is Principal Item. INTERNATIONAL BANK QUESTION HOLDS STAGE Evacuation of Rhineland and Other Problems to Be Taken Up by Statesmen. § By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, August 3.—Statesmen of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Japan meet here Tuesday to wipe the international slate clean of troubles hanging over from the World War. The first item on the agenda is the | adoption of the Young plan for repara- tions payments. The principal feature of the new scheme, which is to replace the Dawes plan, is the reduction of the amount charged against Germany for repara- tions from the original total of 132, 000,000,000 marks to about 37,000,000,- 000, payable in 58 years. Acceptance Has Been Indicated. A new organization which the finan- cial experts who met in Paris early this year named the “Bank of International Settlements” is to be substituted for the reparations commission and for the | agent general for reparations. The Young plan also calls for the restric- ton of deliveries in kind on reparations to a period of 10 years, beginning with | a2 maximum of 750,000,000 marks and | | decreasing gradually to 350,000,000 the ! tenth year, when they cease altogether. Most of the governments interested already have signified their acceptancé ! | of the plan as far as concerns the re- | i duced amounts Germany must pay. | _The Government representatives here | first of all will decide whether they, jaccept the Young plan of annuities; & | then they will pass upon the proposed bank as substitute for the old repara- tions organizations. ! The only criticlsm of the plan is that the proposed bank would have powers that might make it an im- iportant rival to all the central state banks, and perhaps able to exercise a controlling influence over international ! finance. Owen D. Young, originator of the plan, held that some institution of the kind will become necessary, whether it is accepted in connection with the ln;p‘n‘nunnx scheme, or independently {of it. Young Cites Economic Union. | Mr. Young declared the time has come when capitalists must consider how to put an end to such anomalies in the capitalistic system as famine in | some countries while wheat was rotting {In others. The bank for international | settlements, he thought, if given power to interest itself in the development of world trade, would be able to help poweriully in correcting such evils. With these questions out of the way, the conference can fix the date for the n;:rllcnuon of the Young plan, and then will come up the consequences of the reparations settlement; complete evacua- tion of the Rhineland, and an agree- ment as to the constitution of a com- mittee of conciliation, temporary or permanent, to watch over any arma- ments on the left bank of the Rhine. N BARGE EXPLOSION KILLS 5; 2 MISSING! 0il Fumes Blamed for Explosion | That Sinks Ohio River Craft. . By the Assoclated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky, August 3.—Ter- rific explosion of ofl fumes this after- noon wrecked a 170-foot steel tank barge moored at Kosmosdale, Ky., 20 miles west of here on the Ohio River, Ikuung four men. Two other men who .were on the barge were miss- ing and were believed to be dead.” The seventh man of the craft was seriously | injured and was expected to die. The blast reduced the big barge to a twisted mass of junk which sunk at its ‘mooring. One of the dead men, Leslie Under- wood of Loulsville, was blown to the top of loading crane, 75 feet above the river level, while the body of Murray ! Jockel, West Point, Ky, was found in the river. Alfred Sauer, e, was seriously injured when thrown from the wreck, and died in a Louisville hospital. E. O. Joplin and Steve Skeeters are the other dead. United States Coast Guardsmen from Louisville, sent to the scene, believed the bodies of the:m been thrown o e barge: hag discharged rge a cal of oil and two inches of ofl rvmnlmlr!? in the tank. The seven men were mem- bers of a repair crew and were believed to have been engaged in burning paint from the barge. | The missing men are Franklin Reeder :{nd William ~ Welderdiey, both of 08m( $25,000,000 CANAL ‘AIR DEFENSE URGED Representative James Says Single Enemy Bombing Plane Could in vy, News Note: Today Senator Smoot is a guest at the President’s Summer camp, where Mr. | Hoover is said to be showing great skill with the frying pan and skillet. A '\\\\\\l\\ TR “From Press to Home W ilhfn the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morniiig to Washingtoz homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone Main 5000-to start immediate delivery. s _Associated Press. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS FORMER EMPLOYE STEALS PLANT PAY $1,000 Is Taken by Colored Man in Daylight Hold-up in Nearby Virginia. An armed colored bandit yesterday escaped with most of the $1,000 pay roll | of the Washington Brick & Terra Cotta Co., of South Washington, Va., near the Virginia end of the High-| way Bridge, after holding up W. H.' Hampton, superintendent of the plant, at pistol point. A full description of the man has been broadcast to Washingion and other nearby police, and a wide- spread lookout is being maintained. | In his haste to escape, the thief drop- | ped $166 of his $1,000 loot. This was | pro-rated among the more needy of the 60 employes. The hold-up took place | after the banks were closed, and had | the bandit been able to keep all he took, | all of the employes probably would ' have been compelled to go home empty handed. H Hampton Describes Robbery. Mr. Hampton said that he was mak- ing up the pay roll yesterday afternoon when a former colored employe of the plant came into the office and asked for & job. The man was told to come back Monday, when he suddenly whip- ped a pistol out of his pocket and forced Hampton and the shipping clerk, J. T. Wilber, to the wall. He scooped up all the money, including the silver. and sauntered gh the door. As soon as the thief got outside, Hampton gave the alarm, and a hot pursuit followed. About 25 colored men, who were working nearby. were in the van, waving picks, shovels, and any- thing else handy. He was chased along a narrow-gauge railway and lost to sight in the heavy undergrowth near the Z g In his flight he dropped the bills. Capture Is Expected. A long search was conducted in the Hiolay of Amington Gounty, with 1 of unty, uniformed force, m&d by the tomac and Jefferson district volunteer fire departments and nearby residents, but the man good his escape. Since the man is known, and many of his victims are his former fellow employes, Sheriff Fields is confident that he will be caught sooner or later. Up to late last night, however, he still was missing. TODAY’S STAR “NPART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. - Serial Story—“For the Love of a Lady"—Page 28. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Review of New Books—Page 4. ° PART THREE—16 PAGES. Society. News of the Clubs—Page 10. At Community Oenten——hg': . Parent-Teacher Activities—] 11, District of Columbia National Guard— | T Plg 12, lq.t Columbia Naval Reserves— Clubwomen of ‘the Nation—Page 10. Army and Navy News—Page 10. PART FOUR—14 PAGES. ‘Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Music. E In the Motor World—Page 4. Aviation Activities—Page 8. Frterritios age 10, Veterans of the Great War—Page 11. nized Reserves—Page 11. Radio News—Page 12. PART FIVE—10 PAGES. Sports and Financial. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. M Y. W. C. A Activities—Page 7. PART SEVEN—34 PAGES. Pos | pape 'DOUBLE ROUND TRIP NON-STOP FLIGHT ACROSS U. CAPT. IRA EAKER. WRITERS DESCRIBE NEWS GATHERING ' Correspondents Recite Trials| and Joys of “Covering” Capital. ‘The gathering of news of national importance in Washington was discussed during the National Radio Forum period last night on a national hook-up of Columbia Broadcast System stations ! throughout the country. Byron Price, head of the Washington bureau of the Associated Press, diseussed methods of news-gathering practiced by the large press associations here. Robert Barry, Washington correspondent | for the New York Evening World, spoke jot the methods of the special Washing- ton correspondents of out-of-town news- rs. The National Radio Forum arranged by The Evening Star and sponsored by the Columbia Broadcasting Sm is staged each week over station Wi Romance Not AH Gone. The whole secret of covering Wash- ington from the standpoint of a press association, Mr. Price said, was having an organization large enough and sharp-1 witted enough to have a reporter wherever any news may develop. There are 39 reporters and editors on the Associated Press’ Bureau in Washing- ton, he said. It took about 100 re- porters to cover the political conven- tions in Houston and Kansas City. Al- though the organization necessary now- adays has robbed the newspaper men's g of much of its old-time hap- hazardness, Mr. Price.said, it has by no means taken the romance out of it. He went on to tell of the roundabout way several of the big stories of the past have come to light. President Hoover, according to Mr. Barry, has reverted to the methods of dealing with newspaper men practiced by President Roosevelt. The Roose- veltian method, Mr. Barry said, was to gather certain favorite correspondents at the White House from time to time to tell what was on the presidential a:‘wg.p.per men were left “holding the Shows Differences. The duty of the differs from that the tion reporter, in it & m::u lfimenfl'l'! A little more a 128 mep e onlookers are said to hat IN CEN ELSEWHERE HOOVER CRITICIZED BY SWANSON FOR CRUSERCUT ROER 'Virginia Senator Declares | President Without Legal I Authority in Act. HOLDS ONLY DISCRETION LIES IN FIXING DATES Democratic Naval Committeeman Believes Parity With Britain Will Aid Peace. President Hoover was severely criti- | cized because of his announced inten- ion to suspend work on three of the cruisers authorized, and in part appro- priated for in a statement issued last night by Senator Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat member of the Senate naval affairs committee. Senator Swanson declared flatly that #he President has no authority under the law to suspend the construction of these cruisers. The announcement of the President that work on three cruisers would be suspended was made after Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain had announced the suspension of work jon three war vessels for the British. S. PLANNE Flane to Carry Mail, Refuel- ing En Route, in En- durance Hop. Yapt. Eaker, Who Flew Ques- tion Mark, Will Be One of Pilots. By the Associated Press. ~ | OAKLAND, Calif, August 3.—A transcontinental endurance flight, in which an air mail plane will attempt two round-trip coast-to-coast flights be- fore hovering over the Cleveland, Ohio, ! Afrport until forced down, nounced here today by P. G. Johnson, | president of the Boeing Air Transport, Inc. the third week of August with the par- | ticipation of the Army Air Corps, the | Post Office Department and the Boeing | companies, which have the Government the San Francisco Bay district. Four Refueling Planes. Johnson said the project would be the fist endurance, non-stop flight at- tempted with a commercial plane hav- | ing a high-powered engine, flying on an established airway on a regular schedule. ‘The endurance ship will be a Boeing model 95 mail plane, named The Shut- tle. Pilots will be Capt. Ira Eaker, chief pilot of the Question Mark, and Lieut. Leonard Thompson, who was & pilot of the Army's Pan-American good will flight in 1926. Four refueling air- craft will supply the endurance plane at regular intervals. Under the terms of a tentative sch pl- ule announced by the Boeing Co., the endurance plane would leave here at 10 a.m., refuel at Elko, Nev, at 2 p.m., at Cheyenne at 6 p.m., at Omaha at mid- night, discharge bags of air mail at | Chicago en route to Cleveland another | Chicago en route to Cleveland, another N. Y, about 6 am. There the ship would take on mail and discharge other bags and fly back to Cleveland for re- fueling at 10 a.m. “Route” Would Be Safe. After two round trips across the con- tinent the plane would go to Cleveland, where the national air races will be held, and remain aloft until forced down. ‘There are 111 emergency landing fields along the route of the flight and 232 revolving beacons to mark the way at night. There are 529 blinker lights as well on the 2,700-mile span separat- ing the two seaboards. Capt. Eaker and Lieut. Thompson will go to Seattle next week to take delivery of the Shuttle, Johnson said tonight. They then will fly the plane here for the take-off. MAN SLAIN BY ROBBERS. BRADLEY BEACH, N. J., August 3 (#)—Four robbers today waylaid George Danielson, a 65-year-old bank messenger, wantonly shot him down and escaped in an automobile with a pay roll of $7,100. Danielson received two bullet wounds in- the abdomen, which caused his death within an hour. A reward of $2 for the capture was offered—$1,000 by of Bi Steiner o(ysulner & Sons, ., Who complained that a State statute which prohibited the payment of his workers by check was responsible for the slaying and robbery. was an-| The flight will be attempted dufln(| air_mail contract between Chicago and | The statements by both the President | and Premier MacDonald were hailed as | forerunners of an agreement on naval limitations between the two countries. H Favors Construction. | Senator Swanson, in his statement, said he did not believe that the step taken by the President would bring | about any agreement on naval reduc- tion with Great Britain. He said he | believed the construction of the 15 | modern cruisers authorized by Congress would be far more conducive to such an agreement. | “The President,” said Senator Swan- son, “under the Constitution, is the executive to carry out the will of Con- gress, not his own will. This is a Gov- | ernment by law, and the will of the President is subject to the law just as much as the wilf of our citizens. “There is too much disrespect for law in America, and it behooves the Presi- dent, especially when he has appointed a committee to study law enforcement, to obey the law himself. “He would set a good example to the community if he should reconsider the { matter and state that he will proceed to construct these three cruisers as di- rected, unless Congress should repeal the direction given him.” ‘The statement issued by the ranking Democratic member of the naval affairs | committee may presage a warm fight | over this matter when the Senate reas- sembles. The President is confident that he has authority under the law to suspend ‘construction of the cruisers, and he is backed up by favorable ex- pressions of opinion from many of the | Republicans. Senator’s Statement. Senator Swanson’s statement, with the exception of the quctation already given, follows: “The announcement made by the President stating that he would sus- pend the construction of three of the cruisers appropriated for in the last Imval appropriation bill is contrary to aw. “The last appropriation bill appropri- ated and made immediately available toward the constructicn of these three cruisers $200,000. Under the appropri- ation bill the President was directed to spend this money between July 1, 1929, and June 30, 1930, toward the commencement of these cruisers. “The language of the appropriation is clear and explicit for this purpose. No discretion is given the President in the appropriation bill to suspend the expenditure of this money for this pur- It is sought to find power for the President to suspend building under the authorization bill which passed a short time prior to the appropriation bill This bill, it should be remembered, is an authorization empowering Congress to make appropriation as therein authorized. *This is necessary under the new budget system, as Congress is pro- hibited from having new increases for the Navy except where authorized. The authorization bills give authority to Congress to appropriate money as therein provided. “The authorized bill is not directed to the President but is directed to Congress in controlling its appropria- tions. Congress had the authority in case it failed to make the appropriations in any year indicated in the bill to make it in the next succeeding year. This authority belongs to Congress and not the President unless Congress in its appropriations so gives him this authority. Nb Discretion Left. “Congress made this appropriation for these cruisers and directed the Pres- ident to expend the money in this fiscal year, and no discretion is left him in this matter. He can expend it for this purpose any time he may deem propes during the fiscal year from July 1, 1929, to June 30, 1930, byt he is compelled to begin the work and any amount unex- pended is still available. “The President has no authority to suspend this appropriation except upon the completion of an international agreement, which must be ratified un- der the Constitution before it becomes effective. Efforts were made in the Senate to eliminate the time limit, to extend the time limit, and to give the (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 3.—Men are to have the privilege next Winter of paying for women's expensive silk/ stockings and then . paying again to <cover up the stockings with even more expensive long skirts, and when Paris says long it means lon, In the Rue de la Paix and its en- virons, where foreign buyers are gathered for new styles, “long” in skirts toes and drag- -mwl.ll n.floclarn::nluwm e somewhere between the knees an ankles "mmwho_hnnm SKIRTS LONG ENOUGH TO TOUCH 2| -~ GROUND LATEST EDICT OF PARIS Men to Have Privilege to Buy Silk Stockings Then Hide Them Under New Styles. long-skirted, high-waisted models by the dozens, seem to think there is no doubt women will wi them, At a gala opening Held by the favo- rite dressmaker of Helen Wills, who is famous for his American mannequins, the masculine element was loudest of S Bt e The for the th-like dresses, with normal waistlines, which are the most exa ted of the new models, is a corset reaching above the waistline and far below mt.:um hipgu style experts , however, women will make over their ideas to fit '.heh“;m bem:vemum stateliness digmty in dress re- place the free and easy styles of the