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WEATHER. er Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 87, (U. B. Wi p.m. yesterday; today. Full report Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 11,12 & 13 lowest. 65, at 3 am. at 2:30 on page 16. b ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. Wit The Star's tion is delivered 10 “From Press to Home hin the Hour” carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed Yesterday’s Circulation, 111,438 No. 3 31,46: post office, Entered as second class matter hington, D. LUHRING AND GOX SLATED FOR EXTRA DISTRICT SUPREME COURT JUDGESHIPS Senate Probably Will Receive Assistant Attorney Gener- al’s and Prominent Law- yer’s Names on Monday. TWO NEW POSTS CREATED IN BILL SIGNED RECENTLY Both Recommended to President by lgitchell After Careful Study of Records of Score or More Persons Suggested—No Decision on Ap- peals Tribunal Appointments. Oscar R. Luhring, Assistant At- torney General of the United States, and Joseph W. Cox, promi- nent Washington attorney, are understood to have been selected for appointment to the two addi- tional judgeships on the Supreme Court of the District, provided by the bill signed by the President this week. It was learned at the White House today that their names have been placed before President Hoover and that the nominations | probably will go to the Senate Monday. Both Assistant Attorney General Luhring and Mr. Cox were recommend- ed by Attorney General Mitchell. It is known that Mr. Mitchell made these Trecommendations only after he and his @ssistants had carefully studied the qualifications and records of the score ©or more of persons who had been sug- gested for these two bench appoint- ments. Mr. Luhring, who is a native of In- diana, has been a resident of Washing- ton since 1919, when he came here as a Representative in Congress from the first district of his State. - Cox Is Virginia Native. Mr. Cox is a native of Grayson Coun- ty, in the southwestern part of Virginia, t of this city there in 1900 to enter the George Washington Law School, which was then the Columbian University. He was a_member of the Jaw firm of Fulton & Leckie and later of Leckie, Cox & Sherier. He prob- ably is best known for his work as a special assistant to the Attorney Gen- eral during the war in the enforcement of anti-trust laws, particularly in the cases of the International Harvester case. He also gained considerable prominence for his work in connection ‘with the litigation to establish the con- stitutionality of the Federal employes 1ability laws in which cases Mr. Cox ‘was the representative of several groups ©f employes. The two additional members of the Court of Appeals for this district also provided for in_an act of Congress signed by the President early in the ‘week have not yet been decided on, and it is doubtful if the President will be in a position to reach a decision regarding the appointment of these two members to the higher court for at least twc ‘weeks. Slated for Judgeships JOSEPH W. COX. —Harris-Ewing Photos. DISBARMENT TRIAL Among Charges. Five members of the Washington bar will face disbarment proceedings this afternoon when a general term of Police Court judges is to be called for trial of the men for alleged irregulari- ties in practice. ‘The men, four colored and a white attorney, are ‘charged with using the halls of the court building to solicit practice, obtaining fees under false pretenses and other similar charges. Two of the lawyers, it is understood, have had complaints filed against them since last Fall. f Many complaints have been received at court about attorneys using the anterooms of the assistant District at- torney’s office and the halls of the building for their own offices. In re- cent weeks court balliffs have been stationed to keep the halls cleared. Another of the charges, of which there are several instances, is the ac- ceptance of fees to represent in court and then failing to appear at the trial without suitable excuse. One attorney is alleged to have rep- Political Complexion Unchanged. ‘The selections of Mr. Luhring and Mr. Cox will not change the present political complexion of the local Su- reme Court. The former is a Repub- lican and the latter a Democrat. Mr Cox, however, has never been active in his party's politics, and is described as a Democrat more by inheritance than anything else. Mr. Luhring is 51 years old. He was born in Gibson County, Ind., and after receiving education in the public schools of his State was graduated from the Law School of the University of Vir- gnia in 1900. He began the practice of law the same year in Evansville, Ind. Three years later he was elected to the House of Representatives of In- diana, where he served for one year. In 1904 he was elected deputy prose- cuting attorney for the first judicial ecircuit of Indiana, serving in that c: pacity for four vears, when he was elected prosecuting attorney in the same circuit and served tor four years. Mr. Luhring was elected to Congress in 1919, serving two terms. During that short period he won for himself a place among the rore promiaent members of that legislative body. After leaving Congress he became spe- cial assistant to the Secretary ot La- bor, and personally handled a number of important immigration cases. In 1925 he was appointed Assistant At- lcmei General, which position he has held Since. Mr. Luhring in the poast few ‘ears of his connection with the Department of Justice has been in charge of vir- tually all of the important criminal prosecutions. Mr. Luhring is well known to the President and many others prominently identified with the official life of Wash- ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) ADJOURNMENT SEEN BY END OF NEXT WEEK' Final Vote on Veterans' Bill Due Monday—Rivers and Harbors Measure 0. K.'d. ‘With a final vote on the veterans’ re- lief measure slated for Monday, Senate leaders today expectea an adjournment of this session by the end of next week. This optimism over termination of the long session developed with the passage by the Senate of the rivers and harbors bill and the subsequent agreement on the veterans' legislation. Earlier Re- blican congressional leaders had fixed g:leyucllu (hsrelrllest possible date for resented a client, who was given a long term in jall. The sentenced man's father came from South Carolina to this city and talked to the judge in behalf of his son. He promised that if the sentence were suspended the boy would leave the jurisdiction. The father returned home before the judge took action. The lawyer is alleged to have discovered that the magistrate was go- ing to free his client and immediately wired the father that $75 was needed to secure the release of the son. The desired money was sent and the boy subsequeritly released. The charge is that the attorney accepted money for | securing the boy's release though actu- | ally having no part in the affair. He had been paid a retaining fee before | the trial. An effort will be made to prevent the | accused men from further practice in | the Police Court. It is said that if this attempt is successful other action will follow. The four judges of the court will occupy the bench jointly in the United States branch of the court, with Gus A. Schuldt, presiding magis- trate, in charge. BOLIVIAN TROOPS DRIVE REBELS OUT OF TOWN Kind of Communistic Regime, Con- fiscating Goods, Had Been Set Up by Group. By the Associated Press. LA PAZ, Bolivia, June 21.—Villazon, border town, today was once more in the hands of loyal Bolivian troops. At dawn yesterday they drove ouvt the Communist revolutionaries, headed by Roberto Hinojosa, a former member of the diplomatic service, who had held the town since Wednesday. During his tenure he established a kind of communistic regime, seizing goods in the stores and distributing them among the residents. A government communique said that the revolutionaries, except one lieuten- ant, who was captured, fled with about ;36.00: which they took from the cus- toms house. IS FAGED BY FIVE Soliciting in Court Building' and False Pretenses Are | WASHINGTON, P .C, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, FRANCE 70 DEMAND TARIFF REDUCTION INNOTE TO HODVER Normal Relations Between Nations Depend on Reciproc- ity, Minister Says. COMMISSION’S ACTION SEEN AS HOPE FOR CUT Flandin Declares “We Will Be Ob- liged to Deal With Situation” if Protest Fails. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 21.—A global claim for reduction of the new United States tariff rates on a certain number of French products after careful investi- gation is the French government aim made known in a formal interview with the press today by Pierre Etienne Flandin, minister of commerce. The official stated that in case the Tarift Commission should prove unable to give satisfaction to the demands of France it will be necessary to “face the situation.” He added significantly that “normal relations between the United States and France can be guaranteed only by strict reciprocity.” 'M. Flandin said he beileved such mod- ifications might be secured from the Tariff Commission. “Otherwise,” he sald, “we will be obliged to deal with the situation. “It is incontestable that the Hawley- Smoot tariff involves considerable in- creases on a number of products,” he sald, “considered at the beginning as a measure for the protection of the farmer, the project was extended notably to cover the industrial interests. Cites Trade Shrinkages. “It is only just to recognize,” the minister added, “that we have obtained appreciable satisfaction on some points during a long discussion of the bill. For instance, Congress renounced proposed increases on lace from 90 to 300 per cent, ad valorem and we thus safe- guarded our industries in Calais and Caudry. But on certain other points our protests were unavailing.” He pointed out a growing shrinkage in Prench trade with the United States, stating that the balance in favor of the United States which amounted to 2,900,000,000 francs in 1928 had in- creased to 3,900,000,000 in 1929 and that this year the first three months’ busi- ness showed a balance unfavorable to France at a rate of 5,200,000,000 francs. “Invisible” Exports Considered. “Of course,” M. Flandin continued, “this unfavorable balance is offset in & certain measure by invisible exports. ‘The minister qualified the statement by saying: “But purchases made in France by tourists, even in normal times, are insufficient to make up such a deficit, and besides it is reasonable to take into account that the tourist movement has singularly slowed up in France. “We must not overlook on the debit side of our account with the United States sums which we are obligated to pay on war debts which amount to an average of 30 million dollars a year.” ‘The minister said his office was work- ing closely in co-operation with the French commercial attache in New York scrutionizing the new tariffs. com- paring them with former rates and with French duties and consulting all eco- nomic associations interested in the question. Demand to Be Made. Minister Flandin said that a global demand will be made to the American Government. “As soon as the results of these ex- aminations and consultations are in hand,” M. Flandin said, “they will be transmitted to President Hoover. Two eventualities are to be considered. “The American authorities will either give us satisfaction or refuse. If we obtain modification of certain tariffs we shall have no reason to seek to change our relations with the great country which rendered us such emi- nent service during the war. “We hope America’s sense of justice and traditional comprehension of busi- ness will bring it to a reasonable ap- preciation of the situation. Neverthe- less, if the Tariff Commission should not take our complaints into considera- tion we must face the problem.” ‘The minister of commerce said he was unable today to foresee what meas- ures might be taken, but he declared in conclusion: “I can only say that normal relations between the United States and France can be guaranteed only by the principle of strict reci- procity.” LOOK FOR NEW MARKETS. Mexican Foreign Office Advises Pro- ducers on Tariff Troubles. MEXICO CITY, June 21 (#)—The consular department of the foreign office today in a published statement advised Mexican producers, especially growers of vegetables and breeders of cattle, to look about for new fields of exports. It was said that the new United States (Conlinued on Page 2, Column MOUNTAIN CLIMB STARTS | of Lofty Alaskan Peak. | JUNEAU, Alaska, June 21 (. —Their | geal the scaling of the highest peak of | Mount Fairweather, 14,580 fect, of the | St. Elias Range, five Harvard Univer- | sity students today were on the Gulf of Alaska coast, a few miles from the | mountain. They will remain in the | Mount Fairweather region all Summer to make explorations. ‘The students are H. B. Washburn, jr.; | Kenneth Olson, Arthur Emmons, Bu- gene Kraetzler and Richard Hodges and the guide Ralph Batchelder. Answers Indicate Freshman Greater Proportion T By the Associated Press. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., June 21.— heir labors. '"32’3‘{&: McNary of Oregon, the assist- ant Republican leader, sccured the reement for a vote on_the veterans Talisy measure Monday. Senator Reed, Keganfican, Pennsylvania, who previ- sly obiected to a definite hour for a & veiced mo cemplaint Answers to a questionnaire distributed at the New Jersey College for Women show that the young women’s ideas of marriage and a career subject to change during four years as & student. ‘The proportion-of freshmen students at the college who preurre?‘ marriage %0 8 career was 3 to 1, while'the figures MARRIAGE LESS DESIRED AFTER COLLEGE, QUESTIONNAIRES SHOW Girls Hoping to Wed Are in han in Upper Classes. were exactly reversed for students in their fourth year. Four-fifths of the seniors, however believed the girl who wants both mar- riage and career could combine them successfully. Seniors believed 25 the ideal age for marriage, while freshmen thought the best sge was somewhere betwen 18 and 25. 1 KNOW IT, TAKES A LOT > TFALK To DO =24 w2 JusT A ",?"m 1930—-THIRTY PAGES. * (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. AN L =y 3 R -2, THINGS '3 Frenchman, Missing Badly Injured After Crash in Andes. ‘Aided by Shepherdess. By the Associated Press. MENDOZA, Argentina, June 21.—Suc- cored by a lonely shepherdess, Henri Guillaumet, French air mail aviator, endured the hardships of a plane crash, & fall down a precipice, a blizzard, star- vation and days without sleep, and lived to tell the tale today. An airplane brought him here during the night from a mountain village, Pareditas, where he was discovered yes- terday by a provincial police official, more dead than alive. He had been missing for a week, and a widespread | Five Harvard Students Plan Ascent| search for him would have been aban- doned today in the bellef that he and plane had been burled in the snows which Trive fallers in the Andes for days. BLIZZARD, HUNGER AND PLUNGE OF 400 FEET FAIL TO STOP FLYER for Week, Turns Up A medical examination revealed that the flyer was suffering from various injuries, principally severe bruises, in- curred when he lost his footing on a mountainside glacier and tumbled 400 feet down a precipice. The equal of Guillaumet's story of privation and hardship has rarely been | heard here. He set out a week ago yes- terday from Santiago de Chile with mail and cargo for Mendoza, Argentine bor- | der city. The trip under any circum- | stances is difficult and dangerous, due to the high peaks of the Andes, which must be surmounted. On this trip the ship's wings gathered so much snow | that it finally made a forced landing on the side of a Winter-swept mountain. The plane turned over and was de- stroyed, but Guillaumet crawled out of the wreckage unhurt. The blizzard still raged, so he spent the night be (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) | ATTEMPT NON-STOP Fierro and Mechanic Take- off From New York on 2,200-Mile Trip. MONTGOMERY, Ala, June 21 (#).—Col. Roberto Fierro, Mexican army ace, passed over Maxwell Field at 8:42 am. on his non-stop flight from New York City to Mexico City. Maxwell Field aviators estimated that he had averaged approximately 130 miles an hour. By the Associated Press. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., June 21. —With Mexico City—-2,200 miles away— as their goal, Col. Roberto Fierro, one of Mexico's foremost aviators, and his capital in 16 hours, thus achleving the first non-stop flight between New York and Mexico City. . Col. Pierro planned to follow the- trail blazed by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in 1929 on his non-stop flight from Wash- ington to the Mexican capital. Col Lindbergh took a course that led along the Gulf of Mexico to Tampico, and thence inland across the mountains. He lost his way over the mountains and the trip took him 27 hours. Fierro sald he decided on a take-off at night so that he would have day- light for the 10,000-foot climb over the Sierra de Pachm:lc ‘l:lnle between Tam- ico and Mexico y. i Col. Flerro's plane is a Lockhead Sirfus, similar to the one in which Col. Lindbergh recently established a trans- continental record. He carried 475 gal- lons of gasoline and 27%: gallons of oil The plane is a white low-winged mono- plane with an open cockpit. Col. Fierro is 33 years old and is chief of the civil areonautical depart- ment of the Mexican government. He learned to fly at the government's aero. | nautical school at Mexico City, and saw service in the recent rebellion. Cortes is 37 years old. MEXICANS WATCH FLIGHT. Recall Failure of Native Aviators in ‘Major Ventures. By tne Associated Press hoped today that Col. Robert Fierro's l!t‘:mpt to reach Mexico City from New York would prove a success, and som.e- what balance the accounts of Mexican aviation with , which thus far has not allowed a single one of its major international ventures to succeed. Considerable interest attached here to the flight and a large crowd was expected to assemble at Valbuena Field afternoon to welcome him. Since death two years ago of Capt. Emilio Carranza in attemnting a sim- ilar fiight, and the recent death of Col. Pablo Sidar and his flying companion in an attempted flight to Buenos Aires Col. Fierro is regarded as Mexico's pre- mier airman. Plant Superintendent Killed. PUEBLO, Colo., June 21 (#).—Mer- vin Calhoun, a superintendent at the Colorado Puel and Iron Co. steel mills here, was found shot to death near his home early today. Police believe Cal- houn was the victim Drl disgruntled employe. FLIGHT T0 MEXICO mechanic, Arnulfo Cortes, took off early | today on an attempted non-stop fiight. They hoped to reach the Mexican | MEXICO CITY, June 21.—Mexicans | STOCKS DEPRESSED T0 NEW LOW LEVEL | Market Breaks Again Under Bear Attack—Leaders Beaten Down. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 21.—The specu- third week of almost steady declines. | Important shares on the New York| Stock Exchange tumbled $2 to $15,! scores reaching new low levels for the year or ionger. ing commodity markets. At Chicago| July wheat sagged more than a cent a | bushel to the lowest level in about 15 years, Cotton broke sharply on the New York market, recording losses of about $2 a bale. At London bar silver again dropped to new low levels. | Selling was not in especially ]-rge\ volume on the Stock Exchange, sales| for the two-hour session barely aggre- | gating 2,000,000 shares, but the market | was almost entirely without support. In | the last half hour, moderate recoveries | occurred, but brokers attributed them | largely to covering purchases by shorts who had sold at higher levels. Professional bear selling was regarded as an important factor in the further decline, as it was felt in brokerage cir- cles that the selling out of weak hold- ings of stock had been fairly well com- pleted in the heavy liquidation earlier in the week. United States Steel common tumbled $4 a share to $154, a new 1930 low, $1 under the previous low established earlier in the week, and only $4 above the November minimum. It closed at $155.25. American Can, _however, closed at $110.12, virtually the lowest of the day, off nearly $6. American Telephone dropped more than $4 to $202, only 75 cents above the resistance level established early In the week, but closed at $203. West- inghouse Electric lost about $6, then rallied nearly $2. Shares losing about $2 to $4 included Radio, General Motors, Columbia Gas, Public Service of New Jersey, Para- mount, Loews, Vanadium, Case, Bethle- hem, General Electric, Sears Roebuck {and Standard of New Jersey. | WAGE PARLEY CALLED | New Anthracite Agreement to Be Sought in New York June 30. PHILADELPHIA, June 21 (#).— {John L. Lewis. international president, {of the United Mine Workers, today an- {nounced that the conference for a new i wage agrcement between the anthracite |operators and miners would begin in {New York June 30. PLANS SEA HOP MONDAY Kingsford-Smith Waits for Over Atlantic to Clear Up. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, June 21 ().—Capt. Charles Kingsford-Smith today expressed a hope that he would be able to start his proposed trans- atlantic flight on Monday morning. Today's reports of a 25-mile westerly wind over the Atlantic, with fog cover- ing a_wide area, offered little prospect of & hop-off tomorTow, Fog SENATORS RECENE. * PLEAFOR DISTRIGT Group Urging Passage of Ap- propriation Bill Told Com- promise Possible. While the status of the deadlock District appropriation bill remained unchanged today, Senate leaders grant- ed an audience to a delegation of out- standing local citizens, who presented & petition similar to the one given to House leaders yesterday, urging re- sumption of conferences and calling at- tention to the hardships that would re- | sult from adjournment of Congress without an agreement. Senator Watson of Indiana, Repub- lican floor leader; Senator Fess of Ohio, majority whip, and Senator Bingham, in charge of the local appro- priation bill, joined in conferring with the group of citizens and listened to the reading of the memorial. After the petition had been read the Senate leaders discussed- the situation briefly, going over the history of the lump-sum controversy that led up to the present deadlock. Senate View Stated. ‘The three Senators all emphasized that the Senate conferees have not been insisting on the $12.000,000 Fed- eral contribution approved by the Sen- ate, but have been willing to meet the House on some middle ground between that figure and the $9,000,000 lump sum insisted on by the House. ‘The Senate leaders indicated that they felt the Senate conferees have taken a reasonable position in offering to meet the House half way or even better, but that thus far they had not been able to get from the House mem- bers any agreement above the $9,000,- 000 All three Senators emphasized the law requiring District expenses to be met 60 per cent by the District and 40 per cent by the Federal Government is lative markets again broke under se-|still on the statute book, and that if | BTanted the motion of Attorney John vere selling pressure today, ending the | that law were followed the Federal con- | E. tribution would be approximately $15,- 000,000. 00 Fair. ‘The Senators pointed out that they regarded the $12,000,000 reccmmended by the Senate committec as a reason- ! - | able amount, but emphasized again that | jury trial and would be content to have Ttie seling agater e raoed Lt el et STt I | e A D o promise with the House on some figure below $12,000,000. The delegation of citizens presenting | the petition included bankers, lawyers, | tween defense counsel and Assistant civic leaders and labor forces, Among those present were Robert V. Fleming, John Poole, Charles C. Glover, jr; Joshua Evans, jr.; Sidney F. Taliaferro, (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) FLYERS ALOF?230 HOURS All Reported Well With Chicago Pilots Seeking Record. CHICAGO, June 21 (#).—In their quest for a new endurance refueling flight record Kenneth and John Hunter had completed 230 hours in the air at | 6:40 a.m. (Central daylight saving time) today in their plane, the City of Chi- cago. At 8ky Harbor Airport it was reported at that hour that all was well with the plane and its crew. CRATED AN HURS FVE N FAMILY TO - DEATHOFFCLF | Father Joins Brood in Leapi From Rock in New Haven Park System. THREE BODIES FOUND AT BASE OF PRECIPICE Boy Tells New Haven Police He Heard Woman Plead With Slayer. By the Associated Pre NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 21.—Ray C. Spang of Ansonia, mentally unbal- | anced, today threw his wife and all four of their children to their deaths over the edge of West Rock, & high cliff in this city's park system, and later jumped to his own death. Spang, who was 35 years of age, was & war veteran and recently returned home from the Brooklyn Naval Hos- pital. He had been employed by a manufacturing concern in Seymour, the adjoining town to Ansonia, ‘Three bodies were recovered from the base of the cliff early this afternoon. Ansonia police reported that Spang and his family left home this morning for a day's outing, and apparently came here and went to the rock for a pienie. Spang clambered 75 feet down the | face of the rock after he had thrown his victims over and sat down on a protruding ledge.- He was there more than an hour, occasionally tossing a pebble into the air. A city fireman was lowered to within a few feet of him and tried to engage him in conversa- tion. He was not successful, he re- ported later. At 12:10 Spang took off his shoes and jumped 70 feet or more. From above he was seen to roll over and over and then disappear, and half an hour later he was not to be found. Police were certain he had been killed and his body was in the drift rock at the base of the cliff. They also be- lieved the bodies of the wife and of one child were somewhere in the seams of the cliff. The man with a woman and several | children had been seen walking up the rock in the morning. A boy reported to the police later that he had heard the woman pleading with the man, but he did not know what the trouble was between them. It was the police theory that the | family started to the picnic at the top of the cliff and that Spang seized them one by one and hurled them over the edge. e — |CHINESE WINS CASE TRIED WITHOUT JURY Narcotic Charge Is First Fought in D. C. Before Judge Only. ‘The first felony case in the District of Columbia to be heard by a judge in the absence of a jury has been decided | In favor of the defendant. Justice Wil- | lam Hitz in Criminal Division 2 today Laskey to acquit Lee Jeu, a Chinese, of a charge of illegal transportation of oplum. | When the case was called for trial | last Thursday Attorney Laskey an- }nounced that his client would waive a After the | Government had put in its evidence | Laskey asked the court to dismiss his | client.” Because there was a conflict be- | United States Attorney James F. Hughes as to a portion of the record, the court deferred action on the motion | to read a transcript of the testimony. He announced his decision this morning. According to the evidence offered by the Government, Jeu was crossing | Pennsylvania avenue May 17, 1928, when he was hailed by narcotic ‘agents, | whom he ‘did not recognize. They searched him and found a small quan- tity of opium on him. Laskey pointed | out that Jeu had a previous good record and the officers had no probable cause | for the search and seizure, Building Owner Shot. KANSAS CITY, June 21 (#).—The |body of Peter McKay, owner of two apartment houses, was found, shot through the abdomen, in a roadside thicket late last night, police attribute | the slaying to robbers. SUN ENTERS CRAB IN ZODIAC 7 AND SUMMER BEGINS TONIGHT Theoretically This Should Be Longest Day, but Compli- cations Make Sunday and Monday Longer. Summer begins tonight. At 10:54 p.m., Eastern standard time, the sun crosses the Summer solstice, or enters the constellation of the Crab in the Zodiac, or reaches the point midway between the vernal and au- tumnal equinoxes, where it ends its long journey northward from the Equator and starts its slow trek backward to the point where nights and days are always equal. Actually, of course, the sun does nothing of the kind because it does not move at all relative to the earth. The earth moves relative to the sun, but to an observer who is part of the earth it looks as if the sun were moving and it amounts to the same thing. Theoretically this should be the year's longest day but because of the peculiar astronomical complications this year, both tomorrow and Monday will each be one minute longer. From tonight until December 21, the sun Wil be moving southward, to the eye of the earthly observer, but it will remain {Summer until it’ crosses the autumnal equinox on September 23. So far us Washington is concerned, it appears to have been Summer for some time, But the astronomical calen- dar is not rned with such earthly things as vegetation, birds, electric fans and Summer resorts. Summer starts when it is beginning to decline. When the International Geophysical Union_meets in Stockholm in August. with Dr. H. H. Kimball of the United States Weather Bureau as the Amer- ican delegate, the British delegation will propose another sort of seasonal calendar for adoption by the world. This would make the vernal and autum- nal equinoxes and the Winter and Summer solstices the middle rather than the starting points of the respec- tive seasons. Under this system June 21 would be the middle of Summer, March 20 the middle of Spring, and so on, The proposal was brought at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union here last month, but several ob- jections were advanced. although it was admitted that it would be more in ac- cord with the actual condition of nature in the temperate zone. | 'Nearly everywhere the first signs of Spring begin to appear in February, such as the budding of the pussywilicws, and the first signs of Summer come in May. The calendar would be made to | ture rather than with the traditional changes in the face of the night sky. American delegates will n neutral. | agree with these manifestations of na-' NEW HONORS AWAIT BYRD IN VIRGINIA; GETS MEDAL HERE Award Presented by Hoover as Audience of 6,000 + Cheers Tribute. ADMIRAL LEAVES CITY EN ROUTE TO RICHMOND Will Receive Sword From Gov. Pollard—Goes to Home Town of Winchester Tomorrow. Bedecked with another medal of distinction and deeply touched by the extraordinary honors showered upon him here for his latest exploits” at the bottom of the world, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd today went home to his native Virginia—to find more honors awaiting him. I, as President Hoover told him last night before a notable audience gath- ered for the medal presentation, Byrd is “beloved by the American people,” the young explorer was to witness in the Old Dominion a display of neigh- borly affection that only home folks of the Southland could extend. ‘The white uniformed, winged ad- miral took leave of the Capital about midday, en route to Richmond, capi- tal of his home state, where a glis- tening “sword of honor” is to be be- stowed upon him by Gov. John Ga land Pollard. And tomorrow he wi end his homeward trek from the far corner of the globe in his own homs town of Winchester. 6,000 See Medal Awarded. Such a group of official and private dignitaries as has gathered but seldom to pay homage to a returning hero watched, enthralled, last night while the President of the United States con- ferred upon the aerial adventurer a special gold medal of honor struck off by the National Geographic Society. The enthusiastic assemblage, packed 6,000-strong into the Washington Audi- torium, broke into spontaneous ap- plause frequently as the President, presenting the unprecedented award, sald of the intrepid fiyer: “He has demonstrated the traits of the born commander—boldness at the right time, comradeship, those heroic qualities that endear the captain to his men.” And again: “All these achievements are the capstone of a career whose ‘)ro'reu Americans have watched with nterest and pride. Admiral Byrd has been first to conquer the difficulties of reaching the poles by heavier-than-air flying. He has flown the Atlantic ocean. Success has followed upon suc- chm in life, and this is the greatest of Congratulates Admiral. ‘Then, turning to the abashed hero, he concluded: “I congratulate you, Admiral Byrd, upon your success, upon your safe re- turn to your country and home and friends, upon your services and the lift you have given to the spirit of your countrymen. I am hl&)py to present to you this special gold medal of the National Geographic Society, awarded to you for ‘the first attainment of the YMKrlphlcll South Pole by alr, and or distinguished contributions to world knowledge of Antarctica.’” In accepting the handsome medal, Admiral Byrd thanked all who had aided his expedition, and proceeded to summarize what he considered the prin- cipal achievements of his aerial venture in the South polar regions. In addition to the discovery of vast expanses of new land and several new mountain ranges, all of which were claimed for the United States, he said, the expedition proved the practicability of aerial exploration in the Antarctic, demonstrated the usefulness of the aerial mapping camera as a new explor- ing tool and established the value of radio in exploration. These things are satisfyiig to the mind, Byrd said, but “of deeper mean- ing is the fact that every man who " (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) [PLANE HITS YACHT; 3 ON SHIP HURT Coast Guard Aviators Rescued After Collision in New Lon- don Harbor. By the Associated Press. NEW LONDON, Conn, June 21.— Three men aboard the yacht Whiz of St. Louls were injured and the vessel was damaged to the extent of more than $7,000 when it was raked forward by a Coast Guard seaplane taking off in the harbor here yesterday. The sea- plane somersaulted following the crash, nose dived and came to rest bottomside up in the water. Two aviators crawled out from beneath the plane and were rescued. FIVE SUSPECTS JAILED IN POKER GAME SLAYINGS Georgians Accused of Killing Thry Men Held to Grand Jury by Inquest Verdiet. By the Associated Press. ROCKMART, Ga., June 31.—Accused of participating in a triple slaying aris- ing from a poker game, in which each of the victims was shot In the back of the head and the bodies disposed of in gangland fashion, five men were held in today on murder charges. Denied bail, Bill Hulsey, his two sons, Fred and Ray; his son-in-law, Tom Hicks, and L. C. McCullough were ordered held for grand jury action by the verdict of a coroner's jury. ey were accused of killing ClLff Jones, Lige Harper and Ernest McCullough, eaca about 30 years f age Building up = :hain of circumstan- tial evidence, authorities advanced the theory that the men engaged in a poke: game and that the victims enraged the Huiseys by winning the greater part of the money at stake. Complications, au- thorities sald, which grew out of the game and attendant drinking led to the slaying and disposal cf the bodies in an abandoned well. Radio P;ogn-s. o P;ls B-13