Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and cooler tonight; to- morrow fair. Temperatures—Highest, 89, at 12:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 68, at 7:30 p.m. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes yesterday. . Full report on page 2. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages11,12&13 @h ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No, 31,448. 01 Shnie "W Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, o) SATURDAY, JUNE 7, RELANDTOU.S, FLIGHT SCHEDULED TOSTARTATDAWN Kingsford - Smith Receives Reports of Excellent Weath er Conditions. _SOUTHERN CROSS PILOT TAKING CREW OF THREE Bremen Only Craft to Approximate Success in Westward Journey Over Atlantic. By the Associated Press DUBLIN, Irish Free State, June T All indications this afternoon were that Capt, Charles Kingsford-Smith and his crew of three will start on a trans- | atlantic flight to New York at dawn to- morrpw. “The captain's plane, the Southern Cross, which already has spanned the Pacific, left Baldonnel airdrome this afternoon for the Curragh field, whence he planned 'to hop off at the earliest favorable moment. Weather reports were excellent and everything indicated that the plane would hop in the early hours of the morning. A large crowd watched the plane's departure from Dublin. Commandant Tyrrell, head of the Irish Free State air force, escorted the machine across the Curragh Field, which is near lhet i The Australign fly departure earlier in the afterncon than had been | ¢xpected was influenced by the fact| that he had received very news of weather conditions on Atlantic. It was stated that if the; weather reports of this evening con- tinued in the same strain he would leave Curragh about 9 o'clock tonight on his westward flight. The Southern Cross took on only about 100 gallons of gasoline and will load the remainder of approximately 1,200 gallons at Curragh. The machine will weigh about 10 tons. Capt. Kingsford Smith will have as his navigator an Irishman, Capt. J. P. Saul, a sea captain whe has crossed the Atlantic under sail and who also has served as am observer in the British Air Force in the Great War. J. W. Stan- nage will be the plane's wireless op- | erator and M. E. Van Dyk will be as- sistant pilot. Capt. Kingsford Smith with three companions, flew the Southern Cross over the Pacific Ocean from California to Australia in 1928. ‘There has been but one westward flight that approximated success, that of the German craft Bremen in April, | 1928, in whose flight an Irishman, Col. James C. Fitzmaurice of the Irish Free State, was a d_figure. He flew as a pilot n - feld and Capt. Herman Koehl. They took off April 12, 1928, from the Bal- donnel Airdrome. ROOSEVELT FIELD IS GOAL. favorable | the NEW YORK, June 7 ().—Plans for an attempted East-West air crossing of the North Atlantic were announced here by Capt. Kingsford-Smith several weeks ago, while he was in New York. He plans to land at Roosevelt Field, from which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, | Clarence Chamberlin and Rear Admiral Byrd took off on their epic ocean flights. Kingsford-Smith spent some time here working out plans for the flight with Cdpt. Eddie Rickenbacker of the! Fokker Aircraft, Co., builders of the plane. The Southern Cross recently was reconditioned and had new details of plane and engine construction in- corporated at the Fokker plant in Hol- Jand. Capt. Kingsford-Smith plans to take the great circle course across the North Atlantic. When here he estimated that it would take him 34 hours from Dublin to Roosevelt . His plane has a fuel capacity for 40 hours. He expects to make his landfall on this side at Harbor Grace, Newfound- Jand, where a supply of gasoline has been stored in event he should be | forced to land there by shortage of | fuel, enough to permit him to continue | on to New York with only the delay Tequired to put it in the tanks. The Southern Cross, as a plane, has & long history. It is made of parts| of two planes which Capt. Sir Hubert Wilkins used on his first air polar ex- peditions, the wing being taken from one and the fuselage from the other. { The engine is a Wright J-5 of 225| horsepower, blood brother of the one in Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. Discussing the hazards of the flight today Capt. Rickenbacker said he be- lieved that if any one could successfully complete the crossing, Capt. Kingsford- Smith could. ‘He is one of the best,” Capt. Ricken- .backer said. “He is a great organizer and takes no chances. ~Realizing the hazards that confront him I believe he | will be successful. His flight across the Pacific, where he had to hit two tiny jcland groups, is, to my mind, the out- | tanding overwater flight in aviation history.’ OFFICIALS INTERVENE TO HALT DEATH FAST! Man Deliberately Starving Self to Be Placed in State Hospital. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va, June vania County authorities toda pected to take steps to deal with Frank W. Davis, who is deliberately starving himself to death at his shack five miles B ley, commonwealth’s at- torney of the county, will take action today to have the man committed to the Western State Hc at Staunton, advice of Dr. J. intendent of that institution, who Mr. Hundley called, re- questing the services of State psychiar gsts in examining the weakened man. e problem of the “starvation sui- cide” therefore will be transferred to an institugion familiar with such problems Official action comes upon the heels of strong public opinion that the coun- # ty should intervene. Mr. Hundley plans to have the man committed to the Staunton institution some time today CAROL TO BE 'KING OF RUMANIA TONIGHT; 'DARING COUP WINS THRONE Dramatically Returns to| Bucharest by Plane From Exile. QUITS MME. LUPESCU Premier to Resign, but| May Be Asked to Form - Coglition Rule. By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST. Rumania, June 7—It has been decided that former Crown Prince Carol, who made a dramatic re- turn to Bucharest by airplane from ile vesterday, is to be proclaimed King of Rumania this evening. He left behind him in Paris his red- haired companion of several years, Mme. Magda Lupescu, for love of whom in 1925 he signed away his rights to the | hed the succession which led two later to crowning of his infant son, Michael®in his stead He came hack home attired in the uniform of a Rumanian general, al- though bearing the name given him by Parliament after his renunciation of | the throne, Carol Caraiman. Friends | met him at Cotroceni Airdrome and went with him to the royal palace, where he talked with his brother Nicholas, whom he is expected to replace on the regency council. Received by Premier. Later he was received by the minlsh‘r‘ throne and e: ar of interior and Premier Juliu Maniu who immediately convoked an all-night | session of the cabinet. | The cabinet met again early this| morning and adjourned so that M. | Maniu could attend a meeting of the | regency council. Shortly afterward the | premier announced that he would await | |a royal proclamation of Carol's return and then would resign. It was believed | he would be asked to form a new gov- ernment of concentration of all the parties. __The populace and the army received (Continued on Page 2, Column 1 PROCLAIMED Prince Carol, who will be proclaimed King of Rumania, and his son Mihai, w on the throne, who will be deposed. CAROLINA VOTERS VISIT POLLS TODAY Both Simmons and Bailey Predict Victory on Eve of Primary. By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C,, June 7.—Josiah W. Bailey's attempt to wrest the Demo: | cratic senatorial ‘nomination from the veteran Senator Furnifold M. Simmons | dominated interest in today’s primaries. | Predictions were that the vote would be the heaviest ever cast in a Demo- | cratic primary not held in a presiden- tial year. The senatorial contest is a throw- back from the 1928 election in which Senator Simmons refused to support Alfred E. Smith, the party's nominee, | for President. Bailey backed the New | Yorker and made his bid for the nomi- nation on the platform of “party regu- larity,” denying that he was attempt- ing to punish Simmons. Opposed Last in 1912, Senator Simmons is opposed for the nomination for the first time since 1912. Now 74, he has held his ceat since 1901. T. L. Estep of the moun- tain county of Allegheny is the third | aspirant for the party’s nomination. He is running on a platform involving repeal of the eighteenth amendment Both Bailey and Simmons forces pre- dicted victory in final statements. Batley's managers said that he would be nominated by at least 60,000 votes. Allioughs matiey - 1v & “litelong. dry, Simmons’ followers have insisted that the election involves the prohibition issue. In a campaign speech addressed to woman voters and delivered at Ral- eigh last night, Mrs, Howard Camnitz of Shelby charged that “our prohibi- tion cause is in graver danger than it has ever been, and the wets are trying to destroy Senator Simmons, our | brave: defender of the prohibition | cause. First Under New Law. Bailey backers countered with a charge that Mrs, Camnitz was a Repub- lican, which drew a denial. Today’s election is the first State one | held under the Australian ballot sys- tef, enacted by the 1929 General As- sembly. Independent voters are barred from primary participation under a ruling of the attorney general. Representative Charles L. Abernethy, Democrat, of New Bern, is the only | member of Congress standing for re- election who is opposed within his party. Republicans are holding their first primary in the State’s history. There are four candidates for the senatorial nominatign, Representative George M. Pritchard of Asheville, George E. But- ler of Clinton, the Rev. Grady Dorsett | of Wake Forest and Irvin B. Tucker | of Whiteville. Magistrate McAdoo Dies. ~ NEW YORK, June 7 (#)—William McAdoo, chief magistrate of the City of New York and Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the administration of Presi- d;rm6 Cleveland, died today at the age | of 76. ! | shooting. She said she saw a man leave | him down without warning. TONGS SIGN PACT TO EAD WARFARE Conlerpnce in New York Fol- lows Six Slayings Through- out Country. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June T7.—Repre- sentatives of the Hip Sing and On Leong Chinese Tongs, summoned into conference today by District Attorney Crain, signed a treaty,of peace, which t was hoped would end warfare, in which six lives have been lost in the last three days in New York, Newark, N. J., and Everett, Mass. The agreement was signed at the | officz of Mr. Crain before Police Com- | missioner Mulrooney. It read: | “We hereby pledge ourselves to no- tify the United States authorities and the Chinese consul general and the dif- ferent Tongs throughout the country of this treaty of peace.” The conference was called yesterday by Mr. Crain after two killings here, one in Newark, and shooting affrays in Chicago and Boston. Three more al- leged Tong members were killed las night, one in Manhattan, one in Chi- cago, and one in Everett, Mass, SECOND KILLED'IN CHICAGO. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 7.—A Chinese laun- | dry worker was shot to death at-5704 | ‘West Madison street about 7 a.m. today. A revolver was found beside the body. Police believed the slaying was con- nected with recent Tong war killings in other cities. The victim was not identi- | fied immediately. SHOT DOWN IN LA EVERETT, Mass., June 7 (4).—Sing ‘Wong, 40, was shot to death last night in his laundry while at work. Three shots were fired through a partition ! separating the front of his shop from the rear, one hitting him in the head. A neighbor, Mi Pauline owbridge, was awakened from her sleep by the JNDRY. the laundry and disappear into an alley. Police said they believed another Chinese entered Wong's shop and shot Police Commissioner Eugene Holtman of Bosten, which adjoins Everett, today issued warnings to Chinese leaders that Tong warfare must not be allowed to break out. Early yesterday seven shots were fired into the headguarters of the Hip Sing Tong in Boston. CLOSE POLICE WATCH HERE. Because of reports received by the local police of the alleged presence in this city of Chinese from other cities, Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of pelice, today issued an order to the captains of the several precincts to in- struct_members of their command to give particular attention to Chinese restaurants, laundries and other places where Chinese visit or congregate. “There &re -Tumors of impending trouble between the Chinese tongs,” Maj. Pratt said, “and prompt and ef- feciive action will be expected of the police in case there are any tong shootings or assaults.” License at By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., June 7.—A mar- riage license was issued today at Tow- son, near here, to Lionel Atwill, the | actor, and Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, and it was announced they would be Davis early today had not been ap- praised of this proposed action. According to a néighbor who visited him he appeared somewhat weaker and yeiterated his determination to die. He bas not yet felt the pangs of hunger, he entertained no idea of married later at Mrs. MacArthur's home, at Eccleston. The application gave his age as 45 and Mrs. MacAr- thur’s as 36 and stated both had been O vt e Ph) b ¥ wife was s first yllis Relp 274 the serond Flsje Mackav, the ) MRS. DOUGLAS M’ARTHUR TO WED LIONEL ATWILL IN MARYLAND Actor and Former Wife of Major General Take Marriage Towson. appearing in several productions with him. They were divorced in 1928. Mrs. MacArthur's first husband was Walter B. Brooks,, Jr., ‘Baltimore, and her sec- ond. Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, now in the Philippines. Mrs. MacArthur is the former Louise Cromwell, whose mother is now Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, wife of the Philadelphia banker. There were two children by her marriage to Brooks, which took place in 1911. She was married in 1922 to Gen, MacArthur and spent three years with him in the Philippines. They were dfvoreed last June. POLICE PAY BILL APPEARS DOOMED; WORK CONTINUED Unanimous Consent to Send Measure to Conference Is Still Sought. HOPE FOR SPECIAL RULE ADMITTED TO BE SLIM Deadlock Results From Futile Con- ference of House Leaders. Compromise Rejected. The police and firemen’s pay increase bill, which has passed both House and Senate, today seems doomed. House Leader Tilson said again this noon that efforts are being continued to reach an agreement under which the bill can be sent to conference un- der unanimous consent. This means that the House conferees would go into the conference absolutely instructed as to what they must insist upon and what they may yield of the so-called Donovan-Simmons ameridments. It was admitted by House leaders to- day that there is no present prospect of getting a special rule from the rules committee to send this measure to conference with the Senate with the House Tepresentatives free to work out the best comprimise they can in their exchange with the Senate conferees. Tilson Expresses Views. House Leader Tilson admitted today that he believes the Representatives of the House District committee hi shown a fair_disposition to give and take in an effort to reach an agree- ment so that this pay increase bill for some 2,000 police and firemen may be passed without a bitter fight in the House, Acting Chairman McLeod said he has been advised by other members of the House committee and by official representatives of large organizations of citizens that the House legislative com- mittee on District bills should not yield abjectly to the demands of Chairman Simntons of the subcommittee on Dis- trict appropriations. The House District committee repre- sentatives are asking only at this time that the usual procedure be followed and allow each and all of the amend- ments forced into the bill by coercion of Mr, Simmons under threat of filibuster to be voted upon in the House itself. Mr. McLeod said Mr. Simmops, had admitted in conference that he knew the House would vote to Teject his amendments, Conference Fails, * The present deadlock has Tesulted from a conference late yesterday at- tended by House Leader Tilson, Speaker Longworth, Chairman Snell of the rules committee, Chairman Wood of _the appropriations committee, with Chais man Simmons of the subcommittee on District appropriations and Chairman | Zihiman and Acting Chairman McLeod of the House District committee. In that conference Mr. Tilson sug- gested a compromise covering the two amendments still in_ dispute, but was | unable to get a unahimous consent agreement. HOOVER AND PARTY | DEPART FOR CAMP Fifteen Guests Accompany Chief| Executive to Virginia ' Retreat. With 15 guests, President Hoover left the White House at 7 o'clock this morn- ing to spend the week end at his fishing camp in Virginia. The party made the journey in White House automobiles and with the hope that the weather would clear sufficiently to give them ample time for trout fish- ing. The President fished at a camp| in the mountains of Pennsylvania over the last week end, but, due to cold weather and high winds, had poor luck. Mrs. Hoover, who is convalescing from the effects of a fall more than two months ago, went to the camp Thurs- day afternoon. It was the President’s intention when he left Washington today to return te the White House late tomorrow. With him were Secretary of War Hurley, Ogden Mills, Undersecretary of the Treas- ury; Walter Hope, Assistant Secretary of {he Treausry; Charles P. Sisson and Seth W. Richardson, Assistant Attor- neys General; Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico; Robert Lucas, commissioner of internal revenue; Thad Brown, general counsel for the Radio Commission; Ira Bennett of the Wash- ington Post; Hanford MacNider, Min- ister-designate to Canada; Ashmun Brown, Washington correspondent of the Providence Journal; John Richard- son of Boston, Robert A. Taft, son of the late Chief Justice; Lawrence Richey, one of the President’s secre- taries, and . Capt. Joel T. Boone. STOCKS DEPRESSED IN HEAVY SELLING Market Breaks Out of Rut at Short Session and Plunges Downward. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 7.—Stock prices were sharply depressed in today's ab- breviated session of the New York Stock Exchange, as_the persistent bear am- paign which has been in progress dur- ing the greater part of the week finally dislodged a large volume of stock from the hands of discouraged holders. Several issues broke through the low levels of early May and récorded new minmum levels for the year, notably United States Steel, which closed at $164.25. off $2.87. This compares with a previous 1930 low of $165.75 and a bottom last November at $150. A wide assortment of shares lost from $3 to more than $10. The market broke out of the narrow trading area in which it has been strug- gling for nearly a month in decisive fashion. Total sales for the two-hour session were about 3,250,000 ~shares, larger than the turnover during several five-hour days of late, and the ticker was delayed several minutes. 1930—-THIRTY ¢ Foening Sfar, as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 110,119 PAGES. * () Means Associated Press. = TWO CENTS. WALSH REPLIES T0BSHOP CANNDN Senator Says Lack Quorum Did'Not Excuse Church Leader. By the Associated Press. * Senator Walsh of Montana delivered the latest thrust in the give-and-take between Bishop James Cannon, jr., and | the Senate lobby committee today with a contradiction of the churchman'’s con- tention that lack of a quorum at the meeting he walked out on precluded any legal guilt of contempt. In a statement published this morn- ing Cannon sald he intended no dis- courtesy to the committee by walking out at Thursday’s session. ‘The Montanan, acting chairman of the committee, said the fact that only two committeemen were present, did not excuse Cannen from being in con- tempt for leaving without permission. He added the churchman had appeared as a voluntary witness, but could not leave without the committep’s consent. But Cannon believes the contrary to be_true. Indications were that some action against Cannon would be proposed, but a definite plan of procedure will not be determined until the return of Chair- man Caraway from Arkansas. { Caraway has sided with Cannon in his refusal to answer questions about his 1928 political activities. He is ex- pected back in Washington Monday and a meeting of the committee has been called for Wednesday. Close Vote Expected. A close vote is in prospect on any proposal to move against the defiant churchman. ~Senator Robinson, Re- publican, Indiana, is understood to side | with Caraway. Walsh and Senator Blaine, Repub- lican, Wisconsin, tee did not exceed its powers in ques- tioning Cannon about his political activities This would leave the deciding vote with Senator Borah, Republican, Tda- ho, who has not made his position public. Reiterating that Cannon’s “action was plain contempt of the Senate,™ Walsh explained three courses of pro- cedure were open. He said the bishop could be cited fo the Senate, which could then be called upon to submit the record of the proceedings to the dis- trict attorney. This course was pur- sued against Harry F. Sinclair by the Senate lands committee and the wealthy oil man was-sent to jail. A second_course, he sald, would be to ask the Senate for specific authority to_question Cannon concerning his political activities. This would neces- sitate subpoening the bishop before the committee unless he appeared again as a voluntary witness. ‘The third possibility would be to drop the case. Reprimand Maximum. ‘Walsh would not indicate what nc-] tion he favored, but before the bishop refused to answer questions he was warned by the Montanan he - would have to accept the consequences. Walsh said the maximum penalty the Senate could impose on the bishop for walking out on the committee would be 1 reprimand him. When Cannon left the committee room, while being® questioned by Blaine, he said over his shoulder that if the investigators wished to subpoena him he would be at his office. He insisted the committee had no right to ask about his political activities. Caraway said yesterday at Jonesboro, Ark., his home, that he had no inten- tion of subpoenaing Cannon. Walsh and Blaine declined to com- ment on his statement, but were await- {ing the return of the Arkansas Senator. For the same reason, Cannon said he doubted the legality of questions put to him on his activities in the Southern anti-Smith campaign of 1928, after he " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) POISON LIQUOR WARNING FOLLOWS DEATH OF 9 - ) By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 7.—A warning that a flood of poison liquor is sweeping this city was issued today by Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner, after autopsies had determined that alcohol poisoning had caused the death of nine men in the lasttwo days. He said there had been 24 deaths frgm poison alcohol in the city since May 10. *“This,” he Sald, “is an indication that a flood of poison liquor fs sweeping the city. It seems to me that prohibition agents should center their efforts at this time to seeking the sources of sup- ply of this poison.” Seven of those who died lived in_the congested section on the lower East e. Radio I’romnu._:n ;:;c B-15 of| believe the commit- | Blazing Truck Driven From Fire | Threatening Gas | ————— | Harry Markowitz Leaps on Car, Taking It Out of Danger Zone. The alertness of Harry Markowitz, diminutive driver for the Cities Service Co., who jumped aboard a flaming truck drove it from the scene of an explosion |and fire was credited with preventing | serious injuries and property damage in | the vicinity of Tenth and H streets northeast this morning. | Markowitz was standing sevcral feet | from his truck near the Tenth street en- | trance to the Standard Tire & Battery | Co., shortly after 10 o'clock. A sheet | of flame suddenly darted from the en- {trance and ignited the web piping | through which the truck takes on fuel. | Within the building three men stood i the flames on a cement floor coverin | a tank containing 550 gallons of gaso- line—a potential volcano. Markowitz landed 1n the driver’s seat in- one p. Plenty of apprehension was _croWded in his life in the riext (Conti e d on Page 2, Column 6.) PLANS NETVORK OF O PLANES | Oklahoma 0il Man and Air- | line Operator Tells of Ex- tension Plans. By the Associated Press. Earle P. Halliburton, president of the Southwest Air Fast Express and million- | aire oil man, outlined today a proposol topurchése 1,000 airplanes for a Nation- wide air transport network. “I have indicated to Henry Ford and other manufactirers,” he said, “that I will purchase 100 airplanes at $30,000 | each, to be delivered at the rate of two | ships a week, and an additional 900, prices and delivery dates to be 4greed upon. “The proposal is to accept either Ford airplanes, of their equivalent in perform- ance, at a rate of $20,000 or more under their quoted prices now, in an effort to place aviation on a sound basis. “Mass production, operation and use by the public will, to my mind, put aviation on a correct economic founda- tion and develop its commercial value where it will be profitable to the manu- | facturer, operator and the masses who will use it.” It will take from six to seven years, he said, to mold an organization to handle the quota of planes and co- ordinate the vast system throughout the ion has reached the point,” he here mass production and operation can and must be done. There have been no acceptances of my offer and it may be doubtful if there will be any takers. “However, the proposal is my idea of trying to help the industry find itself It has to get down to business and 1ground this suicide squad that is trying to fly the Atlantic.” Halliburton's lines have 11 ships and fly 155,000 miles a month and he aver- aged transportation costs to show that a Gl-cent fare with l4-passenger plahes will bring the highest returns. COL. FIERRO HEADS EAST Mexican Flyer Leaves Montgomery for New York. MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 7 (P).— Col. Robertq Fierro, Mexican aviator, and his companion, Arnulfo Cortes, took off from Maxwell Field at 7:30 am. today for New York, where he will start an attempted non-stop flight to Mexico City next week. The aviator was forced to spend the night, at the Government air port here because of unfavorable weather condi- tions. He left San Antonio, Tex., yesterday. Bombed dn Opening Day. GARY, Ind, June 7 (#)-—The first day's business of the City Bakery and Blue Ribbon Dairy, both housed in the same one-story building, wound up last night witk a bang. A dynamite bomb was exploded on the roof. The shattering of windows in build- ings within the block was the chief containing 2,000 gallons of gasoline and | - PACT FILES DENIED Showing Confidential Notes Held Obstacle to Future Negotiations. By the Associated Press. The administration will not ccmply with Senator Johnson's request that all documents having to do with the Lon- Senate foreign relations committee. To produce these papers would, in the | opinion of President Hoover, be contrary to the public interest and “materially ;1mplh‘ the possibility of future success- | ful negotiations between this Govern- | ment and other nations.” Making this known, Secretary Stim- son at the same time said “no con- cealed understandings” were involved in the treaty and no commitments what- ever had been entered into except as they appear in the language of the pact itself. - ¥ He described as “nonsense” any im- | plication that “these confidential pavers are being kept confidential in order to cover up scme secret understanding or some mistake or indiscretion of the American delegates.” Johnson Wants Full Data. Senator Johnson, who is vigorousiy opposing the ratification of the arms limitaticn agreement, had asked the State Department, through Chairman Borah of the foreign relations commit- tee, for “all letters, papers, documents, telegrams, dispatches and communica- tions of every sort leading up to or re- lating to the London Conference and | London treaty.” Stimsone delivered his reply to Borah in person late yesterday and submitted as well a “confidential memorandum” which he said would answer so far as possible the questions asked by Jnhnfl In his letter of refusal the State partment head went back to the very beginning of the Republic to cite pre- | cedent for declining to produce the documents. From a message sent tothe | House of Representatives by George | Washington, in response to a request similar to that of Johnson, he quoted as_follo “The nature of foreign negotiations requires caution and their success must often depend on secrecy; and even when brought to a conclusion a full disclosure of all the measures, demands or even- tual concession which may have been proposed or contemplated would be ex- tremely impolitic; for this might have a pernicious influence on future nego- tiations or produce immediate incon- veniences, perhaps danger and mis- chief, in Telation to other powers.” Common to All Negotiations. Stimson said the Johnson request called for “the production and pos- sible publication of informal and con- ! fidential conversations communications and tentative suggestions of a kind which are common to almost every negotiation and without which such negotiations cannot successfully be car- ried on.” \ | After remlndlr‘g the committee that both he and Sectetary Adams had tes- tified before it and that two of its members were delegates to the arms conference, familiar with every phase of the negotiations, Stimson said the “question whether this treaty is or is not in the interest of the United States and should or should not be ratified by the Senate must in the last event be determined from the language of the document itself and not from extraneous matter.” Pending a study of the communica- tion, Johnson would not comment. Borah, too, was silent on the attitude of the administration, but announced he would begin on Monday a series of daily committee meetings, which would continue until a vote on the treaty had been taken. ¢ MILLION-ACRE THEFT CHARGED BY INDIANS Six Tribes Prepare Papers to Con- vince President of Right to Northwest Land. By the Assoclated Press. SPOKANE, Wash, June 7.—S8ix tribes of Indians in this region today were preparing papers to show “the Great White Father at Washington” how his paleface children had stolen a million acres of land from them and to ask that it be returned to them. The tribes—the Colvilles, Lakes, San- poil, Nespelem, Ofanogan and Met- hows—represented by “talk men,” have employed attormeys to press their claims for a strip extending from the crest of the Cascades on the west to the Rock- ies on the east. Some of the “talk men” were graduates of Carlisle and others were blanket Indians who pressed their fingers to the documents giving the attorneys power to act for them. don naval treaty be delivered to the | MISTRIAL APPEARS IMMINENT IN BRADY BOMB-DEATH CASE Hopeless Deadlock Reported, but Judge Orders Delibera- tions Continued. LINE UP OF 8 TO 4 TO CONVICT RUMORED Defendant and Wife Exchange Kiss as Crowd Looks on Just as Jury Leaves Box. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md.,, June 7.—A mis- trial appeared imminent here today in the case of Leroy Brady, charged with murder in the Seat Pleasant bomb slayings. g A hopeless deadlock was reported shortly after noon by the jury, which began its deliberations at 8:47 o'clock last night. However, Judge Robert B. Peter o} the Circuit Court ordered the Jury to resume its efforts to reach a verdict. “I understand you gentlemen have been unable to agree on a verdict,” Judge Peter declared. “If we gave you ( more time, do you think you could make | a decision?” “No, sir,” replied William A. Magru- der, the foreman. “We already have taken a number of ballots.” “Don't you believe that you could go back in and arrive at a conclusion i this case?” the judge insisted. “I am willing to go back in,” Ma= gruder answered. No Call for Division. “Of course, if it is absolutely hope= less, I don't want to keep you gentie= men locked up,” said Judge Peter. “Sull,” e continued, “if there is any possibility of your arriving at a verdict, you ought to take more Lime. So you will return to the jury room and resume your deliberations. 1 will have your lunch sent to you there.” As no division was called for by Judge Peter, there was no definite way to determine the line-up between the 10 farmers and 2 merchants. The most persistent rumor was that the jury stood 8 to 4 in favor of a conviction. The defendant was joined by his wife just as the jury left the box. Seeming extremely happy, they exchanged a kiss while the crowd of several hundred per- sons looked on. This was the first dis- play of emotion shown by Brady ‘since his trial began last Tuesday. Precedent Set in Case. For the first time in the history of Montgomery County Circuit Court, a mistrial was not enteredewhen the jury was found unable to make a decision after an -all-night session. Officlals explained that in all previous murder cases here juries found deadlocked after deliberating all night had been excused at 9 or 10 o'clock the follow= ing_morning. While Judge Peter declineq to dis- cuss the situation, it was under- stood that he was taking into consicer- ation the unusual expense borne by the State in prosecuting the case in failing to_d'smiss the jury at onee. The case went to the jury last night at 8:44 o'clock. Chief Justice Ham- mond Urner explained to the jury that under the Maryland law the judge de- llh‘ers no charge, the jury being the judge of both the law and the facts. | He pointed out, however, the possible verdicts. The judge said the defendant could either be found guilty of murder in the first degree, guilty of murder in the first degree without capital punishment, not guilty of first-degree murder but guilty of second-degree murder, not guilty of murder but _guilty of manslaughter or | not guilty. The court stressed the fact tnat the order in which the pgsible ver= dicts were named had no significance. Should the defendant be found guilty of murder in the first degree the three judges presiding could either sentence him to be hanged or to life imprison= ment in the State penitentiary. A ver= dict of murder in the first degree with- out capital punishment would make a life sentence mandatory. Murder in the second degree is punishable by a sentence from 11 to 20 years imprison- ment while manslaughter is punish- able by a sentence of from 1 to 10 years. Half Dozen Arguments. The case went to the jury after a half dozen arguments by opposing counsel. The attorneys for the prose- cution demanded a verdict of guilty of first degree murder either with or with- out capital punishment. Latyers for the defendant insisted he should be found not guilty. Counsel for both sides agreed the case was one of murder in the first degree or nothing. The largest crowd of the trial, which opened Tuesday, heard J. Wilson Ryon of the prosecution: charge Leroy with being an arch fiend in the closing argu- ment for the State. He contended all the evidence pointed to the guilt of the defendant. e made a,bitter at- tack on the contehtion of the defense that steel tubing introduced in evi- dence and said to have been part of the mechanise of the death-dealing device could have received its Neuman bands by having been struck with a hammer. Expert wiinesses had tes fled that the presence of Neuman bands indicated the metal had been subjected to extraordinary force. Ryon said if the tubing had been struck with a hammer it would be flat instead of round. REED NOT TO SUCCEED DAWES, HE DECLARES Avers Ambassadorship Has Never Been Suggested by Respon- ! sible Person. By the Associated Press. Denying a ‘report from Philadelphia that he probably would succeed Ambas- sador Dawes at London, Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania, last night said such a thing had never been sug- gested to him. “So, far as I know,” Senator :Reed said, “Ambassador Dawes will remain in London for another year. Whether he remains longer thay that I do not know. In any event I am-not going to be Ambassador to London. It has never been suggested to me by any re- sponsible person.” Friends of the Sesfator said it was unlikely he would resign from the Sen- ate, but would serve his full term end- ing in 1935, &