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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Foreeast.) Fair and cooler tonight and tomorrow. 3 Temperatures—Highest, 73, at noon today; lowest, 54, at 4 am. tod: Full report on pag ! Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 ay. e 9. Che ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 31,438. vost office, Entered_as second class matter Washington, 553 Tt WASHINGT ON,. B: G, WEDMESDAY, Foening Star. Associated service. MAY GRAF HEADS NORTH AFTER RAIN DELAYS CRAFT FOUR HOURS Dr. Eckener Expects to Be in| Lakehurst by Sunday Night. ROUTE TO_TAKE SHIP . OVER POPULOUS AREA Zeppelin Circles Pernambuco Be- fore Leaving for Trip Over Havana. By the Associsted Press PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, May 28— The Graf Zeppelin left for Havana at 11:13 am. today (9:13 am. Eastern standard time.) ‘The Graf’'s start had been delayed several hows by rain which made her too heavy to lift. ‘The present flight is a leg of approxi- mately 4,500 miles, mostly along the North Coast of South America. This will be the most populous stretch of country over which the Graf has passed since bidding Spain good- by. The Graf is expected to include the ‘West Indies in the present stage of the voyage. In U. S. by Sunday. Comdr. Eckener expressed the hope | of reaching Lakehurst, N. J,, by Sun- day night and Friedrichshafen by| June 9. ‘The Zeppelin circled over the City of Pernambuco and then headed toward the north. After hours of waiting the skies light- ened shortly after 10 o'clock and the passengers, some of whom had been in a cafe on the landing field, again climbed aboard. Eager for Start. All were eager for the start of the fifluflque lap of their voyage along Brazilian coast over the mouth of the mighty Amazon, above the Guianas and the West Indies. Every one had been aboard before daylight. Dr. Eckener, Mrs. Mary Pierce of New York and Don Infante Alfonso de Bourbon, cousin of the King of Spain, were the first to arrive, shortly after midnight. It had been expected the ship would leave at 7 am., but the weather at that time was unfavorable. ‘The rain, which had been light during the night, turned into a heavy down- pour and it looked as if the start must be postponed many hours, so several of the company went to the cafe for breakfast. PAPER SCORES ECKENER. Commander’s Skill Praised. Despite Personal Attack. - RIO JANEIRO, May 27 (#).—A bitter personal attack on Dr. Hugo Eckener ‘was published this afternoon by the influential newspaper Anoite. ‘The paper, though paying tribute to the sclence and skill of the Graf Zep- pelin’s commander, asserts - that his “bad manners” led to disagreeable inci- dents during the Zeppelin's brief visit t Rio Janeiro on Sunday. “Comdr. Eckener by his bad man- ners eferywhere causes disagreeable in- eldents with other peoples and his own eountrymen who live in foreign coun- tries.” it says. “When the time came for the tri- umph of the flight to Brazil, he failed to live up to the code of civility and manners of his mission, but acted as director of a commercialized voyage, which could have rested on a high plane above the little interests to which it degenerated. “He is solely responsible for the re- strictions imposed on newspapers and the disgust of the Brazilian authorities and of the members of the German eolony.” Brazilians complain that the Graf Zeppelin remained stationary at Campo dos Affonsos only an hour and a quar- ter and that Dr Eckener did not even get out of the gondola. JUDGE SAYS EXECUTIONS REDUCE MURDER RATE Chicagoan Expresses Views at Cap- ital Punishment Hearing of House of Commons. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 28.—Judge Marcus | Kavanaugh of Chicago told a special | committee on capital punishment at the | House of Commons today that he fa- | vored the death sentence, although there were certain circumstances where it was not advisable. | “Every time the death sentence is not earried out, the murder rate goes up,” he said. “And every time there is an | execution the murder rate goes down.” | Questioned by members of the com- | mittee, Judge Kavanaugh asserted that | UNdkert and Muluya and and inter- | 0 was a “normal city” except in its crime phase. 1 Dead, 29 Hurt in Blast. | BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 28 (#). ~—While attempts to extinguish a burn- ing oll gusher were proceeding today, s from the well ignited and caused an explosion, killing 1 workman and in- | Juring 29. FORD DECLARES i BY DAVID J. WILKIE. | By the Associated Press. DETROIT, May 28.—The shortest cut to relief from the present business de- pression, in the opinion of Henry Ford, is ‘an intensive development of agri- culture and manufacture. Looking to quantity production from the sofl. “This lis not just a fanciful idea,” Mr. Ford |told the Associated Press today. “It is the way out of stagnation.” | Coupling with this the statement that | “it will take just as long to get rid of the depression as it took to accumulate it,” Mr. Ford added: “We need to keep up the people’s spirit and you cannot do that with talk: | you must do it by action. One ex- | penditure made in faith in the future is worth all the words any one can MORE FARMING WILL BRING BACK PROSPERITY| ¥Cutting Wages and Comparing Conditions With Those of Year Ago Scored | as Blow to Country. say. Issuing optimistic statements on the one hand and lowering wages on | the other is a sure way to prevent bet- | terment. This is no time to lower | wages. Those who are lowering wages now don't know what they're doing. They are hitting the country when she |is down. They will see the time when | wages will be higher than they ever ' have been.” “Can any one man, President Hoover tor example, do anything to hasten the urn z{ business prosperity?” Mr. Ford asked. | _“President Hoover has done every- | thing any one could do to bring about | improvement in business and industry,” | he replied. “Everything President Hoo- ver has advised or tried to put into ef- |fect has been sound. He asked in- dustry and business to keep wages up. He's right and he knows what he is talking about. Wages are too every- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) LEFT-TURN CHANGE BEING CONSIDERED | Harland Announces New Rule to Conform With Other | Cities Is Under Study. W. H. Harland, director of traffic in | Washingion, said this morning that he had under “serious consideration” a | recommendation that Washington's ro- | tary left turn system be eliminated. Harland, a delegate to the National | Conference on Street and Highway | Safety, now meeting here, and a mem- ber of the conference’s drafting com- mittee, said that he proposed to recom- | mend adoption in the District of this provision: “Approach for the left turn shall be made in the lane of traffic to the right of and nearest to the center line of the highway, and left turn shall be made by passing to the right of such center line when it enters the intersection, and upon leaving the intersection by pass- ing to the right of the center line of the highway then entered.” ‘Would End Disputes. ‘This left turn is practiced in every city in the country except Washington and Cleveland and its adoption would do away with a practice long contro- verted in Washington. “I still believe that our system is the safest,” Mr. Harland said. “Before any action is taken, the matter should be referred to the various trade bodies and the District traffic-governing body for detailed discussion before any recom- mendations are made to the District Commissioners. | _“While I think our system is safest, ¥ am inclined to think we should make the change in the interest of uniform- ity. This matter has been studied for a long time and we have been waiting for this conference to state the consen- sus of experts finally before we take a definite stand.” Uniform Act Adopted. ‘The uniform act regulating traffic on highways, embodying the left-turn pro- vision, was adopted in a report to the conference late yesterday and will be formally atted on when the drafting committee makes its recommendations tomorrow. Mr. Harland said that the drafting committee undoubtedly would recommend the provision. One section would provide that local authorities in their respective jurisdic- tions might “require and direct that a course be traveled by vehicles turning left different from that specified, but that where it was permitted, markers, buttons or signs should be placed within intersections, clearly directing the traffic. > | This provision left a loophole through | which the present system in Washing- | ton might be continued, even though | the code was adopted, but Mr. Harland said that the unanimity of opinion was | such that he had " (Continued on Page 2, C {RESCUE SHIPS SENT | TO RELEASE AIRMEN | African Desert Tribesmen Hold Three Spanish Flyers Forced to Land. By the Associated Pre. LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, May 28.—Three ships today were sent from here in an attempt to effect the rescue of two. Spanish aviation officers and their machinist, forced down and cap- tured by wild tribesmen on the African desert. The vessels are the coast guard ships peninsular steamer, which went to Cape Juby to land a force that will proceed to the interior. The aviators are Comdr. Ricardo Bur- | guete and Capt. Nunez Maza and Vin- cente Ferrer, Spanish and Arab messengers on camels are scouring_the sun-scorched desert region, while fiyers of the Span- ish African forces are patrolling the waste reaches in an effort to locate the missing aviators. INCOME GROWS TO $150 DAILY; ‘ ' POLICE STUDY “PSYCHOLOGIST” Bombing of Practitioner’s Home Results in Probable Prosecution for Illegal By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 28.—“Dr.” John Galandak’s “psychology” and the prac- tice of cwring “by the laying on ot hands” today was under investigation of the State Department of Registra- tion and Education as an aftermath of the bombing of his $35,000 home and office early yesterday. ‘The State expected to interview his #patients,” described by neighbors as mumerous and wealthy, with a view to prosecuting him for practicing medi- cine without a license. His divorced wife, Mrs. Susan Galan ¥ak, 33, told police Galandak zose ' Practice of Medicine. | within two years from a pickle packer | at $15 a week to a “practical psycholo- gist” earning $150 a day. He has been in the psychology business for the last seven years. She said that in 1921 they were destitute and she became ill. ‘They visited a psychologist, who, the wife said, failed to help her ailment, but who taught her husband ‘“practical psychology™ for $100. Two year: later, the wife said, Galandak was e rning it e bombing, the opinion of po- lice, was done in behalf of some dpl:- apfbinted “patient” or probably by some husband whose wife was a patient | Lan of Galandak. Two persons, tenants of the first floor, ‘were injured by the blast, 1 Griffs Idle Today; Game Called Off Due To Rain and Cold After running their second long winning streak of the season to seven games the Nationals finally were stopped today, but not by the Yankees. A combination of rain and cold weather caused the tilt listed at the Bronx Stadium in New York to be called off. As this is the first visit of the Nationals to Gotham this year it is unlikely a doubleheader will be scheduled there tomorrow, the final day of ‘the series. ‘The postponed game probably will be taken care of with a bargain show on the occasion of Washing- ton's next invasion of the me- tropolis, early in August. JONES VNS 1340LE FGHT FROM TOLLEY Voigt, Ouimet and Von Elm Advance With Him in British Matches. By the Associated Press. ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, May 28.— Bobby Jones eliminated Cyril Tolley, defending champion, in the fourth round of the British amateur golf cham- plonship, 1 up, 19 holes, The battle of the open champion of United States against the amateur cl of Great Britian was a ding- dong match, square at the end of nine holes, Jones went 1 up at the fifteenth, but Tolley squared the match again at the sixteenth and the seventeenth halved with birdies. The home hole, too, was a half and the extra hole was neces- sary. Jones, by his victory eliminating the title holder, advanced to the fifth round, Jjoining his Walker team mate, George Voigt, who won his fourth round match before Jones finished his titanic strug- gle with the gigantic Tolley. Ouimet Shares Glory. Francis Ouimet shared the glory of the day with Jones, winning a_thrilling 21-hole morning match in the third round, after being 4 down. The former open and amateur champion of the United States had to sink a putt for a birdie 3 at the home hole to square his match, then return to win from A. G. Bower of Bromley. George Ven Elm won his way into| the fifth round by beating W. H. Ri- cardo, West Cornwall, 5 and 3. Voigt defeated Maj. G. N. C. Mar- tin, a fighting Britisher, at his own game on the windy greens. The New Yorkey’s natural shortness from the tee gave him plenty of work on the out- ward route into the teeth of the gale. He three-putted four greens, not so many compared to the performances of other players. Voigt hit one of the few fine tee shots at the short eleventh to get a par 3. Ten thousand madly excited Scots and all the Americans who could get here from London and other centers saw the spectacular finish of the match | of the champions. Jones Wins With Par 4 on 19th, All St. Andrews was packed about the home green and hanging from windows of the hotels and buildings nearby. After the seventeenth was halved with { birdie 4s and the home hole developed |® pair of par 4s, the crowd followed Jones and Tolley across the Swilcan Burn to the nineteenth, At the extra hole Tolley was stymied and barely missed when he attempted to jump Jones ball with a mashie. Jones holed a 3-foot putt for a par 4 |and the match was over. | Jones Outdriven. i Jones was outdriven by the long- hitting Tolley on most of the holes on | the seccnd nine, but he offset Tolley's | superfor length from the tee by his putting, Roland Mackenzie, Wilmington, Del,, was eliminated by Kenneth Greig, St. Andrews, 4 up and 3 to play, in the fourth round. The defeat of Mac- kenzie marked the first Walker Cup | team casuaity of the day and the third | of the week, Dr. O. F. Willing and Donald K. Moe losing yesterday. Francis Ouimet, Boston, won his sec- | ond match of the day and advanced to | the fifth round when he stopped J. Llyndun Jones, Cardiff, 7 up and 6 to | play. Johnston Wins Third Round. Jones reached the fourth round by feating _his PO oy DETECTIVES SUSPENDE| Two Lost Prisoner in Cleveland ‘While Visiting. | JAMESTOWN, N. Y., May 28 () — Police Chief Axel Levin today an- nounced he had suspended Detectives Elmer A. Lee and Franklin Fox pending invegtigation of their loss of a prisoner in Cleveland on Monday. ‘The detectives denied they permitted their prisoner, Leonard Boal Lancaster of Peebles, Ohio, ut’: & a re::nu‘;:nt unaccompanied, while they a a private home, but admitted that he es- caped from the home of a relative of Fox, where the three were to have eaten. caster was being brought back to Jamestown on & charge of grand lar- ceny, second degree. GIVIL AUTHORITIES PLAN T0 ARREST BREWSTER IF FREED Gloth Fears Baker Murder Suspect Will Vanish if Dis- charged From Army. STORY TOLD BY SOLDIER STILL UNDER INQUIRY Arlington Prosecutor Declares Cer- tain Details Justify Holding Man for Further Scrutiny, Disturbed over reports he said he had gotten that Pvt. Howard L. Brew- ster, suspect in the Mary Baker murder case, would be declared sane by an Army medical board and probably dis- charged from the service, Common- wealth Attorney William C. Gloth of Arlington County today conferred with Inspector William S. Shelby, chief of the Washington Detective Bureau, over plans for detention of the soldier by civilian authorities. Despite Brewster's denial of his origi- nal confession of having killed Miss Baker, Gloth said there are certain de- tails of the soldier's story which justify his continued detention and examina- tion and he did not want him to get out of the jurisdiction of the authorities at this time. “I am confident that if Brew- ster is released from the Army he would disappear,” Gloth declared, “and I pro- pose to take him into custody as soon as the military authorities release him.” Plans to Arrest Him. Gloth said he planned to arrest Brew- ster and hold him for investigation im mediately upon his discharge, if that procedure is followed by the Army in punishing the soldier for the notoriety he has attracted in connection with the Baker case. “I will take him over in Arlington County and put him in jail there,” Gloth declared, “until I am completely satisfied that he has no connection with the crime.” While the investigators have been un- able to find any evidence to corroborate statements made by Brewster and later repudiated. Gloth sald the fact that the soldier has been identified as the man who tried to force his attentions on women in Potomac Park, coupled with his admission that he struck a Wwoman in an automobile near Seven- teenth and B streets and led the au- thorities to the exact spot where Miss Baker’s abandoned car was found in Arlington County, are factors which warrant his detention while further in- vestigation is made of his con: stories, ke While Gloth was in conference with Inspector Shelby the special Army medical board appointed to inquire into Brewster's sanity submitted a report-of its findings t§ Capt. M. S. Daniels of the brigade headguarters of the Army. “The report not made public, but it is understood ‘that the board reported that the sol ley 1s of sound mind and responsible for' his acts. -The report will go to corps headquarters. Removed ¥From Hospital. Brewster was removed from Walter Reed Hospital at 10:30 o'clock this morning and returned to the barracks of the Headquarters Company to which he is attached. He had been at the hos- pital since Monday morning. The doc- tors gave him a series of examinations end kept him under close observation. Army officials would not confirm or deny reports that Brewster is to be dis- charged from the Army, but Capt. A. R Bolling, commander of the Headquar- ters Company, said the soldier could not be retained in his company “undeér the circumstances.” investigation of Brewster in connec- tion with the Baker case had developed circumstances under which his dis- charge likely would be recommended. A board of officers would first have to pass on such recommendations and then his dismissal would have to be ap- proved by the commandant of the Washington Corps Area, whose head- quarters are in Baltimore, it was said, before the soldier could be relegsed. ‘Washington police officials made it authority in drafting a compromise on the ions. Specifically, it was tules of procedure had |been violated by the insertion of lan-, al Army officers pointed out that the clear that they would not be a party to the action Gloth plans to take in the event Brewster is discharged from the Army. The detective bureau, however, 1t was sald, would continue its investi- gation of the case, in co-operation with Arlington County officlals and the De- partment of Justice. NEW WAY TO MAKE SILK Water and Carbon Dioxide Process Described. OTTAWA, May 28 (#)—How arti- ficial silk can be produced from water and carbon dioxide gas was described before the annual Canadian Chemical Convention yesterday. Dr. Harold Hibbert of Montreal said in carrying further the experiments of Dr. E. C. C. Bailey of Liverpool Uni- versity, England, “who discovered a method of producing sugar from car- bon dioxide and water, it was found that by the addition of a common bac- teria to sugar cellulose could be formed. It is from cellulose that artificial silk Is manufactured. He said it was still too early to pre- dict commercial success for the new process. Gas been listening over WMAL today. K cluding base ball scores. Hereafter, tune in on WMAL at 6:15 to get these news flashes, “FLASHES from The Evening Star” —That interesting radio feature to which you have will heceafter go on the air at 6:15 P.M,, beginning After the great newspaper presses cease their busy roar this radio feature will bring to you last-minute news and give you a summary of the day’s events, in- 28, 1930 —FIFTY-SIX PAGES. &% (P Means Associated The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,943 Press. TWO CENTS. TARIFF MEASURE S RECOMMITTED Smoot Hopes to Submit New Report for Debate in Senate by Monday. By the Associated Press. The tariff bill went back to confer- ence today for another revision of its carefully written but much disputed flexible clauses. Chairman Smoot of the Senate finance committee called the weary conferees together for a meeting tomorrow, at which the task of drafting a new com- promise will be undertaken. He hoped to submit a new conference report for debate in the Senate by next Monday. ‘The bill was returned to the con- ferees as the result of an unforeseens development in the long series of .ech- troversies that has attended the paaking ! of the measure. Vice Presi sustained a point of or Democratic opponent of . This was ~tipon & contention that the confereés had exceeded their guage contained in neither the Senate | nor House draft of the bill. Point Raised by Barkley. ‘The clause in question was that to make emergency changes in the toms rates proj by the Tariff Com- mission effective after 60 days unless | disapproved or put into operation sooner | by the President. The point of order | was raised by Senator Barkley of Ken- | tucky, ‘This provision, proposed by Minority Leader %lrnet of the House, had the approval of President Hoover, but met with vigorous objection from the Demo- cratic-independent Republican coali- tion of the Senate. It represented an agreement worked out with much difi- | culty to reconcile the conflicting views | of Mr. Hoover, the House and the Sen- | te. ‘The House measure provided tariff changes recommended by the commis- sion should not become effective unless approved and proclaimed by the Presi- dent. The Senate bill restored to Con- gress the Chief Executive's authority in this connection. Mr. Hoover was in favor of a wide degree of discretionary action for the President, but willing to make concessions in the interest of a compromise. ‘The flexible clauses were contained in a supplemental conference report and this only was open to revision by the (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) FLYER LOSES WAY Miss' Amy Johnson Lands at Quil- berry on Australia Hop. SYDNEY, New South Wales, May 28 (#)—Miss Amy Johnson, English girl aviatrix, who has flown from Croydon, England, to Australia, lost her way to- day flying from Long Reach to Charle- ville, en route here, and landed finally at Quilberry. After refuellng she will follow the rallway to Charleville, where she will spend the night. ENVOY’S SON NAMED Will Become Secretary of Spanish Embassy Here. MADRID, May 28 (fl’m—Rlnavn Padilla Satrustegul, son of Ambassador Padilla, today was named secretary of the Spanish embassy at Washington. He has been employed in the ministry of state at Madrid. each evening at 6:00 P.M. HORSESHOE PITC FOR CONGRESS CHAMPIONSHIP Representatives Open Tourney With 17 Matches Scheduled Today—Senators to Play Preliminaries Tomorrow. While vacation-hungry Senators con- tinued strife over the tariff today, warfare of a vastly different nature occupied members of the House. Party lines we=2 withdrawn and politics for- gotten as stald legislators went about the business of determining a horse- shoe-plitching champion of Congress, The battle opened at 10 o'clock this morning on courts pitched on a lot near the main entrante to the House Office Buildings® Tt appeared likely that : play would edntinue until darkness, with 17 first>r6und matches scheduled for the [Retffesentatives and many more for | members of the “Little Congress,” com- posed of secretaries and other Capitol | employes. ‘Tomorrow the Senators will play their preliminaries to determine the quartet | that will have it out in a grand finale | HERS BATTLE with the House's four best Friday at | Grifith Stadium. The National Broad- | casting Co., with is full chain hooked up, will broadcast the first barnyard BOIf “show” ever put on the air, It will start at 11 am. One of the feature matches listed for today was to bring together two “big shots” of the House, the Republican floor leader, Representative John Q. Tilson, and the minority leader, Repre- sentative John N. Garner of Texas. Representative Clyde Kelly of Penn- sylvania, was one of the championship favorites. Several years ago Represent- ative Kelly took first g:mora in a horseshoe - pitching tournament at Kansas City, Mo, held in connection with_a national postal convention. In the final match he vanquished a player who held the mailmen’s championship of . four States. A belt emblematic of ;‘;fil triumph adorns his office on the The Senate will have a strong con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) HUGE COUNTERFET SEIZURE IS MADE Three Prisoners Taken, With More Than $1,000,000 | in Bogus Notes. | B the Assoclated Press. ! NEW YORK, May 28.—Expertly | counterfeited $10, $20 and $50 gold cer- tificates, with a spurious value of more than a million dollars, were seized to- day with a large lithograph press by secret service operatives on an upper floor of a Brooklyn apartment house in Eighty-fifth street. Three men, caught in the act of oper- ating the press, were arrested. Secret service men assigned to pursue a tip on the counterfeiters located the plant ! some days ago and watched the opera- | tions of the band until last night from | a room a block away. ® Three Surrender. The raid was made shortly after mid- night by seven agents, who rushed the apartment with drawn revolvers, They took Pericle Mannerini, alleged head of the ring; Joseph de Negros, also known as Joseph Ross, alleged financier of the band and chiet distributor of its wares, and Mattio Mattera, alias “the Doctor,” whom they identified as an exper: en- graver and lithographer. The three sur- rendered without resistance. Many sheets of counterfeit notes were still wet from the presses. Each sheet contained $540 in bogus notes of all three denominations. The agents also found special paper ample for the print- ing of $4,000,000 more in counterfeit money. The press, Allan G. Straight, chief of the Secret Service, said, weighs 3,500 pounds and occupled the entire side of a wall. It was one of the largest ever seized and experts will be called to dis- mantle it. Prisoners Silent. The three prisoners were locked in the customs house. They declined to talk. Agents said Mannerini and De Negros had been arrested for counter- feiting, but never convicted. Straight declared plans were complete for distribution of the bogus notes on a large scale. They were to have been sold to “dealers” at 15 cents on the dol- lar by heads of the gang and dealers would dispose of them at .25 cents on the dollar to “distributors,” who, in :'“r;n’ would get 40 cents on the dollar Evidence in the case is to be pre- sented to a grand jury in Brooklyn to- morrow. PLANS LAID CAREFULLY, Detalls of Raid Not Yet Received By Secret Service Headquarters. Arrest of a counterfeit gang in Brooklyn by the Secret Service came as a result of careful plans laid to catch the gang which had been passing the spurious bills in New York City. The crowd was believed to have been old of- fenders, and their arrest followed Secret Service trailing of members of the gang. o roDiale, ot the st hid ot been Ve al ref t m’f" expected during the | o'clock. RETIREMENT BILL 1S SENTTO HOOVER President Expected to Sign Dale-Lehlbach Plan Tomorrow. President Hoover is expected to affix his signature to the Dale-Lehlbach bill liberalizing the retirement act for Fed- cral employes tomorrow morning at 11 The signing of this popular legislation will be marked by a ceremony, which will include the presence of the co- authors of the bill and officers of the Federation of Federal Employes. The bill was sent from the Capitol to the White House late yesterday and was this morning sent by the President to the director of the budget for & review and report, and later during the day to the Secretary of the Interior, who administers the act. It is under- stood that both of these officers had completed their review shortly afte: noon and that their respective reports would be sent to the White House late today or eaply tomorrow morning. President Hoover has been repre- sented as favoring the legislation and there is every reason to feel that he will sign it, thereby making it 'a law, unless the reports from the director of the budget and the Secretary of the Interior of such a nature as to ehdnge his views. This latter, however, is thought to be highly improbable. RADIO PHONE TESTED Miami Station Hooked Up With Central and South America. MIAMI, Fla, May 28 (#).—A voice over the first public service radio tele- phone system between Miami and Cen- tral America and South American points has been heard in tests at Panama City, Santa Marta, Colombia; New Orleans and Boston. ‘The tests were made with the new short wave radio telephone equipment installed at the Miami station of the Tropical Radlo Telegraph Co., L] MITCHELL IS RATED DRIEST YET 10 BE ATTORNEY GENERAL Deets Pickett Testifies of At- titude Before Senate Lobby Committee. WILSON REPORT PRAISES MELLON FOR DRY STAND Treasury Secretary Said to Have Been “Hands Off” in Doran Regime, By the Associated Press. Belleving Attorney General Mitchell “by far the dryest Justice Department head we ever had,” Deets Pickett tes- tifled to the Senate lobby committee to- day the Methodist Board of Temper- ance had supported the legislation to take prohibition enforcement from the Treasury. President Hoover signed the bill transferring jurisdiction to the Depart- ment of Justice yesterday. Senator Blaine, Wisconsin, produced & report by Clarence True Wilson, gen- eral secretary of the Methodist Board, in opposition to the transfer. It devel- oped this had been made before the ;l:::denn announced he favored the Pickett sald he thought President Hoover, who was w:flble for en- forcement, should be given a free hand, Says Mitchell Driest, The Wilson report said prol n had been better handled e Mellon than it would have been by A. Mitchell Palmer, Harry M. Da “the easy-going Sargent,” Attorneys General. In that connection, Pickett expressed his opinion that Mitchell was “driest” of them all. The research secretary sald an or- ganization ought “to go slow” in op- Pposing the President. “Mussolini would be happy with that ' PICKeR taniined s orpaStcomentec ef e organization a card index of the votes of the mem- bers of Congress on mmbmm and of their religious afliations. Pickett said the board has “full faith in President Hoover.” Mellon “Hands Off.” guutloned about Secretary Mellon, he said: “Our observation in recent years, es- %e:rhuy since the appointment of Mr. Kept 1 fiumx:.b?.nof!m& mrenr‘ R T €] Nt hibition. e James M. Doran is ition - missioner at the prohlh e Pickett said “eve: knew Mellon at on time was relat indirectly to e B e 2 e e sal 9 - eteral." ‘'would have done his utmost , ive to enforce prohibition. n are as board,” he said, s 3 o :] “Some ‘who drink favor law because mm the economic and ket Sontended Gongressmen ahouid con! obey the prohibition law despite per- sonal preferences. Keeps Card Index. “Do you have & card index of Con- gressmen?” Blaine 3 “Oh, yes,” Pickett sald. “It shows their votes on ition.” Pickett said the board had lpm: priated $1,000 to the Anti-Saloon in connection with a prohi- ‘The witness kept 4 card index of the religlous afliations of members of to show how our laws “It is a happy circumstance that the Government §s to fall into the hands of a consistent ‘Quaker and a Methodist Vice President. “It was very interesf to watch the schemes of the wets and the nullifiers (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) GIRL DIES OF FRIGHT AS TRAIN MISSES CAR Auto Escapes by Inches on Grade Crossing When Driver Fails to See Train. Special Dispateh to The Star. )AH JUNCTION, W. Va, May 28.—Dorothy Sager, 15 years old, died of #ight in the automobile of J. ¥. Blackford, merchant. here this morning when she thought the car was about to be hit on a grade-crossing by an ap- proaching Norfolk ‘& Western pasenger train, The train missed the car by inches. | l:hckford, driving n:i car 'll': 'l.!hf.l r on the :wu.u notnk’:lr or see th:.’tnln but aded "dhd the girl did. She was luated from the school Tuesday. Two sisters have suddenly within the past two years, one while playing with children in the yard and another while playing with Christ- H. Rogers the superintendent said. mas toys at her home. ANOTHER EARLY AMERICAN HERO IS MADE TARGET OF “DEBUNKERS” Indian Chief Lawyer, Generally Acclaimed as Patriot of Northwest, Called *“Yellow.” By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash:, May 28.—Nets-e- ta-la-ke and At-sin-sin have joined the ranks of modern critics who have proved none too gentle with other early Ameri- can heroes, and the honor of the late Chief Lawyer hangs in the hdlne:’.fl“ ision of stu nw";llt.mmm eiles d.“l ‘Walla Wfl& Redio Programs on Page C-8) 1 4 le: A epted credits Lawyer with mov- ing his tribe to Walla Walla in 1855. cb@ protecting Gov. Isaac Stevens and a small band of troops from a red- skin Net‘:l-o::u-h-h and At-sin-sin have sent an affadavit, Nelson W. Dui , !m-u his- w'ofllne, who wil] deliver address June 6, dedicating the tablet. h’rho!r version, summed up briefly, fol+ ws: La was not even enough of & mu'grpmmm 5 Ly 1 with the whites. quarre! ) It was preservation of a redskin his own, that motivated the cmm in Ris oclion, i -‘..