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* LINGLE DEATH GUN FOUND VTAL CLUE Weapon Believed “Planted” to Incriminate Vacillat- ing Gangster. { By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 21.—The gun used to slay Jake Lingle, Tribune reporter, had become today a vital clue in the hunt for his assassin. Prank Foster, a dapper gangster of vacillating allegiances, was the original owner of the pistol, police revealed to- day, and Foster has disappeared. Painstaking efforts had been made with & file to destroy the serial number stamped upon the weapon and thus - prevent police from tracing its owner- ship. But the file failed. Acid, micro- scopes and infinite police patience final- 1y revealed what the number was. Foster, the police believe, disposed of the gun prior to the Lingle murder on June 9. They want to know to whom, and they have started a country-wide hunt for Foster to that end. Foster Deserted First Gang. Foster, they said, was formerly a leader in the North Side gang banded together under the joint chieftaincy of George (Bugs) Moran and the Alellos. But Foster deserted the Moran-Aiello outfit and enrolled under the Capone banner. Police believe Foster learned that it was his gun that killed Lingle, and that he figured the town would be “too hot” for him, even though he had no part in the killing. So he fled. Discovery that Foster originally owned the gun led to a new police theor: that the killer, or Kkillers, planned not only to kill Lingle but to involve Foster as well. Substantiating this, police sald, are the stories of witnesses that the slayer, instead of flinging the pistol aside, placed it almost deliberately on the con- crete floor of the Illinois Central Sub- way in which Lingle was killed. The Moran-Aiello connection is the original police theory. It is recalled that when the then police commissioner, ‘William Rusgell, and his chief of de- tectives, John Stege, reached the scene of the murder, Stege turned to Russell and said, cryptically: “Shall I make that spot?” Russell replied: Machine Gun Found. “Give them about 25 minutes to get back there, then make it.” ‘Twenty-five minutes later lice raided a flat on Grand avenue. It was known as a headquarters for the Moran-Aiello gang. Three men, including Dominic Aiello, were seized, and a ma- chine gun and other weapons were found. The men later were released. l COL. FIERRO. Mexican fiyer on non-stop flight from Roosevelt Field, N. Y., to Mexico City. SENATORS RECEIVE PLEA FOR DISTRICT APPROPRIATION BILL (Continued From First Page.) ‘Thomas P. Littlepage, Robert J. Cottrell, Dorsey Hyde and Frank Coleman. Senator Bingham today reiterated his belief that the House should be willing to compromise with the Senate on the Federal contribution. “Inasmuch as the $9,000,000 figure now in effect was originally the result |of a compromise, I am unable to see why the new figure should not be a cfl;:proml.u now,” Senator Bingham said. Recalls Figures of Past. He had reference to the situation five years ago, when the House at first pro- posed to make the lump sum $8,000,000, and the Senate advocated $14,000,000. The $9,000,000 lump sum was finally agreed upon. At the present time the House is in- sisting upon the $9,000.000 figure, while the Senate voted for $12,000,000. The Senate conferees, however, are not in- sisting upon their figure, but have in- dicated they would accept any reason- able compromise. Appeal Put in Record. House Leader Tilson has had printed in the Congressional Record the appeal submitted to Speaker Longworth and to the majority and minority leaders of the House yesterday appealing to ‘The police believe that the Aiello- Moran gang, seeking revenge upon Foster for his desertion to their gang foe, Capone, may have planted his pistol by Lingle'’s body, knowing that modern science would be able to trace ownership of the weapon, despite the filing away of the serial number. With the police department being vigorously reorganized under the acte ing commissionership of John Alcock, Federal prohibition agents took a hand rday in the Chicago crime scene raiding 12 Cicero distilleries, be- lieved to glvewbnr;n ope;lkld ?y ‘:‘eek, Ozi pone syndicate. the last wi &tills in Cicero have been raided. REMARKABLE ESCAPE IS MADE BY FLYER CRASHING IN ANDES (Continued From First Page.) neath the wings of his plane, remain- ing awake 5o as not to freese to death. Saturday the weather cleared somewhat, and he saw an airplane fly high over him. He signaled, but apparently his frantic motions were not perceived. Sunday he started to march through the mountains toward Mendoza, hardly hoping he would ever reach there alive. 1t was then he slipped on the ice and fell 150 meters down a precipice, losing ‘what provisions he had with him and receiving injuries which made every minute until the rescue one of suffering. Aided by Shepherdess. Half starved and afraid to sleep, he marched Tuesday and Wednesday over mountain and through snow-filled val- leys, until Thursday ke stumbled into the presence of a lonely shepherdess minding her flock on the hillsides not many miles from Pareditas. She was amazed, but dressed his wounds, gave hllm food and found him a place to sleep. Her ministrations partially restored Guillaumet and gave him strength to further. She directed him toward Pareditas, where he finally was discov- ered Friday by a provincial policeman, who notified authorities and brought plane there to carry him back to Men- Chilean, Argentine and United States private and military pilots aided in the search for Guillaumet, scanning hun- dreds of miles of territory on either side of the Cordilleras. The United States military _attache at Santiago, Capt. Ralph H. Wooten, and the naval attache, Comdr. Irving Hall Mayfield, were among those piloting planes in | search of the flyer. News of his safety was greeted jubi- lantly both here and in Chile, where his disappearance has been a news gensation of the past few days. DEPORTATION SPOILS STOWAWAY’S ROMANCE Belgian Girl Returned to Antwerp After Being Torn From Hus- band of Fortnight. By the Associated Preas GALVESTON, Tex., June 21.—Her Tomance balked by deportation, Fatma Petrowits, 18, was returning today to Antwerp, the port from which she crossed the ocean as a stowaway to marry her lover, Alexander de Fleron, De Fleron attempted to remain with his bride by the same method she employed in reaching him, but yester- day was discovered hiding aboard the Ehipping Board vessel Waban, upon which she was being deported. In jail much of the time since her arrival here May 11, the girl eluded immigration authorities long enough to marry her lover two weeks ago. She was unable to substantiate a claim of Alaskan birth, by which she sought the right to remain in the United States. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band, this evening at the bandstand, at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Point- ner, assistant. March, “The Adventurer’ . Woods Overture, “Coriolan -Beethoven Sulte de ballet, “The of Flowers,” “Red Rose” “Marguerites,” mine,” “Heather.” adley Hi “Jas- 89 | widespread unemployment, leaving un- Congress not to adjourn without pass- ing_the District appropriation hill. When the delegation waited upon Bpeaker Longworth, by appointment in his office, he assured them of his interest in the matter and his desire to see the District appropriation bill passed. He said that he would have their appeal as presented to him in writing printed in the Congressional Record for the perusal of members of the House. The gathering who saw Mr. Long- worth included merchants, officers of the city's leading banks and trust com- Y:niu, Tepresentatives of organized labor, the reonsible officers of the em‘n most active trade and commer- 91' S omml:m(}nu and m(euion:;lmen. y spoke for a larger gathering which had met yesterday morning to con~ sider what steps, if any, could be taken to bring about age of the District appropriation bill and to avoid the seri- ous situation which would result if the bill failed. Presented in Writing. ‘The appeal, as presented in writing to the Speaker, was, in part, as follows: “This gathering resulted from a deep concern over the certain fallure of the pending District of Columbia appropria- :!k’ln z;m for the fiscal year beginning uly 1. “'As a result of that concern, and of the discussion caused thereby, the un- dersigned committee was designated to present to the Congress the following: “We urge: “1. A resumption of conferences be- tween the two houses for the purpose of making further effort to bring about the enactment of the above-mentioned bill, including the appropriation of the sums which, in equity and fairness, should be borne, on the one hand, by the national Government, and on the other by the taxpayers of the City of Washington, Gain in Idieness Seen. “2. ‘That earnest and careful con- sideration be given to the extremely de- plorable effects of the faflure of the pending legislation, not only locally in the City of Washington, but nationally. “3. That the Congress of the United States do not adjourn, in this time of enacted legislation the failure of which would increase unemployment. “‘We directly and earnestly invite your attention to the fact that if the regular np{;mprlluon bill for the District of Columbia for the next fiscal year is not enacted, but that the running ex- penses of the municipality are merely provided for by legislation continuing the ordinary appropriation of the cur- re?t fiscal year, the following will re- sult: “There would be a failure of appro- | priations for greatly needed additions to and repairs in the public schools of the City of Washington. Entirely aside from the importance of efficiently main- taining the public schools, this would deprive several hundred men engaged in the building trades of employment. “For projected improvement, such as the Public Library Building, extensions and new equipment in the city's sewer and fire departments, and for the new buildings and extensions to buildings needed to carry on the work of public welfare, including a children's tubercu- losis sanitarium, the pending bill car- ries appropriations, Here, again, needed employment will be unavailable, unem- ployment increased, if these appropria- tions fail, and this entirely aside from the deplorable consideration of mark- ing time when work of this vital nature should be going forward. Street Work Involved. “The bill provides for important street improvements. Among no class ! is the present problem of lack of work &0 vital as among the laboring men, of whom it is estimated from 1200 to 1,500 would fail of employment if this work of street improvement is not carried on in the Capital City during the ensuing 12 months. We stress, as we think should be stressed, the hard- ships which would result from this un- employment, but we do not overlook, as we submit it should not be overlool the resulting condition of disrepair and of failure 1o provide the street improve- ment which will confront the Capital during the period of the contemplated ‘Washington Bicentennial. “The greatly increased future cost of highway work !ol\owln’ a riod of neglect is as obvious at it is inevitable. ‘The unemployment which would result THE EVENING COOLIDGE T0 WRITE DALLY FOR PRESS His Brief Comments on Public Happenings Will Begin on July 1. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, June 21.—Former Pres- tdent Calvin Coolidge beginning on July 1 will contribute a daily article to the New York Herald Tribune. This will average from 150 to 200 words in length and will be telegraphed by Mr. Coolidge from any part of this country or any p‘:r& of the world where he happens Mr. Coolidge is not limited as to sub- ject. He will write whatever he feels Some of his articles will be sent from the Beeches, in Northampton, Mass., his new home. Others will be written on fishing expeditions, on busi- ness trips to New York or elsewhere, and from many parts of the country, if he does as much traveling in the com- ing 12 months as in the preceding ones. Mr. Coolidge will telegraph these ar- ticles every day except Sunday for at least a year, and he will write nothing else for publication during that period. Usually Mr. Coolidge will write on something in current American life which he feels interesting.. He is free to comment, criticize, moralize or recol- lect. Education, religion, business, pro- hibition, fundamental problems of gov- ernment, fishing, farming and a hun- dred other subjects are in his fleld. Mr. Coolidge has partly banished national politics from journalism, as he will practice it. As he has outlined his posi- tion in articles and interviews, he feeis that a former President should ne care- ful not to make comments that might embarrass the existing administration but at the same tirne he does not im- pose silence on himself on all questions that enter politics. With his power of saying much in a few words, the brief daily article ought to be an excellent medium of expression for Mr. Coolidge. No man in the pres- ent generation has shown a power of phrase equal to his famous sentences: “We cannot arbitrate the Government,” and “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime"—two sentences which crushed the Boston police strike in 1919 as if by physical force. This was the fight- ing Coolidge. In the White House he faced no emergencies which struck fire of this kind with him. His power to pack much meaning into a few words, how- ever, has always been one of his chief characteristics. The Coolidge articles will appear only in the Herald Tribune in the territory comprising New York City, Connecti- cut, New Jersey and New York State, with the exception of Buffalo. SUN OIL WHARF BAN FAVORED IN REPORT House Committee Also Approves Two Other District Measures in Executive Session. ‘The House District committee in exe- utive session today favorably reported three District measures. One of these is the Senate joint resolution designed to prohibit the Sun Oil Co. from erect- ing & wharf and storage tank on the Virginia side of the Potomac River by requiring that no structures can be erected on land which the Government claims t6 own along the river bank witnout approval of the District Com- missioners and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1t is claimed that the erection of such struc- tures on Government land would be antagonistic to the interests of the Gov- ernment in the extensive park develop- ment project along the river bank. ‘The committee also favorably reported the Senate bill to amend the corpora- tion act of the District and the House bill granting the District Commissioners Bo‘;e:- :o close streets and alleys in the ric . FRANCE TO DEMAND TARIFF REDUCTION IN NOTE TO HOOVER (Continued From FPirst Page.) tariff laws would in all probability prac- tically close that country to them as a market. The statement suggested that Canada, Cuba and Central America would make good markets and further recommended that business interests promote the can- ning and king industries in Mexico 80 as to allow a larger consumption at home of Mexican products. Excelsior, leading Mexico City daily, today an editorial coupled President Hoover’s signatures of the tariff meas- ure and Soviet Russia's abolition of pri- vate property as the two most sensa- tional events in the world since the Great War. Both were said to be equiva- lent to declarations of war against the rest of the world. Excelsior said: “Pseudo-Marxism in Russia as opposed to the bourgeois regimes of the rest of the world, and American imperialism as opposed to in- dustralism in other countries, present the strange spectacle of bolshevism and imperialism going hand in hand.” Excelsior termed the United States as a “modern shylock™ who, “not satisfied with one pound of flesh, wants two.” The paper declared that just as the former Kaiser of Germany allowed him- self to be dragged into war against his own pacifist desires President Hoover had permitted himself to be influenced to slfln the tariff bill by a group of im- rialists who dream of economic dom! on_of the glob Ime nor space suffices for an adequate reference to indirect results involving manufacturing and transportation. The numerous indus- tries producing materfals which the projected improvements require will readily come to mind. Their employes are concerned. Called Nation-wide Problem. “The ‘existing unemployment prob- lem, we repeat, is unfortunately Nation- wide. We are sure it is temporary, but while it exists it is very real and cer- tainly our National Legislature will do nothing to increase it, nor leaving nothing undone which can appropriate- ly be done by that body to diminish it “It is not possible to increase the se- riousness of that situation here with- out indirectly affecting it all over the country. ‘'We realize that in the above we have stated nothing that is new and nothing of which the members of our legislative bodies are not fully aware. We here emphasize them, however, that their seriousness may not be overlooked in the closing days of this extraordinarily busy session of Congress.” No Action Before Monday. The Senate having recessed last night until Monday, no definite action toward reopening conferences with the House can be taken over the week end. The among laboring men who, should the pending bill be enacted, would work on the public streets, cannot be made good by legislation enacted at the next regu- lar session of Congress, for, as it is well known, that character of work cannot be done in cold weather. “We are informed that a provision for the District of Columbia expenses Fox trot, “Love Valse petite, “Rendezvous”. § Finale “Last Night I Dr Kissed Me"” ... 2 “The Star Spangled Banner.” ulueta | continuing ed You the Lombardo 000.000 less for the ensuing fiscal year is made by lution, ‘rather than by bill, approximately $14, Il be available. “We have spoken only of direct re- endin; papers relating to the bill are still on the clerk’s desk in the Senate. If it is decided to renew the conference, the bill could be taken from the desk at any time and a request made for a further conference. ‘Those in ch:r%e of the measure on the Benate side, however, indicate that they have heard no intimation yet of a possible compromise. The previous conferences ended in a week ago because, accord: Ate conferees, the House proffers of compromise, refused STAR, Unopposed SENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER. CAPPER UNOPPOSED FOR SENATE SEAT Chairman of District Commit- tee Is Only Republican Can- didate in Kansas. Senator Arthur Capper, who, as chairman of the Senate District com- mittee, has become one of the District's best friends in Congress, will have no opposition this year for the Republican nomination to succeed himself, accord- ing to word just received here from Kansas. The time in which prospective candidates for the Republican nomina- tion could file expired yesterda: Senator Capper was first elected to the Senate in 1918, and in 1924 he was re-elected for his present term, leaving his Democratic opponent far behind. In addition to having charge of Dis- trict legislation in the upper branch of Congress, Senator Capper is a mem- ber of the important foreign relations committee, the agriculture committee and the claims committee. He is one of the farm leaders in Congress. .. MANIAG MURDERER SAYS HE 1S DONE “Red Diamond of Russia” Avenged by Two Slayings, He Writes in Note. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 21.—The letter~ writing maniac who has assumed blame for two recent killings, and who had threatened 13 more, wrote what he sald was his last letter today, asserting that his mission was accomplished and ex- pressing regret that he had “stained the country with blood.” The letter, filled with strange sym- bols composed of combined numerals and letters, and apparently the work of & person totally deranged, said writer was a member of & world-wide secret order known as the Red Diamond of Russia, which had no connection with the Soviets. Vietims Held “Traitors.” “Any one breaking its rules,” it con- tinued, “is marked for death. These men were dismissed from the order for treason. One of them stole the docu- ments mentioned before. Word came to us at the luPreme council in Russia of the peril in the United States. ‘Twelve of us picked one card. Mine was the king of diamonds. I was the one selected to punish and inflict death if necessary. It was when Mozynski (the first of the two men slain) died that they found who I am. Then things began changing. Now it is all over.” ‘The writer added that “the papers,” which have been mentioned in all his letters had been returned, and, there- fore, “my mission is ended; there is no further cause for worry.” The epistl also denied that the writer had * eyes,” scoffed at the police as brave but untrained, and praised American women. The maniac wrote that two nights ago he watched the police hunt for him from an airplane. Writer May Be Crank. Miss Katherine May and Miss Eliza- beth Ring, the young women whose escorts were shot before their eyes, were described in the letter as “very nice nd brave women.” They were escorted from the scene and forced to ride in & bus with the slayer after Mozynski and Noel Sowley were killed. ‘There is no one else to hegin trou- ble,” the letter ended. “H. P. 12 W. A. This s final. You know what we want you to know. Quiet your people and lvcvll them 3X is no more. By H. P. 12 A Buspects arrested yesterday were all eliminated today and police were still confronted with the problem whether the letters were actually written by the slayer or merely by some crank who had read of the killing in the ne papers and pretended or perhaps really imagined that he was the criminal. MEXICAN DIVORCE EDICT UPHELD BY LEGISLATURE Threat of Illegality of Americans’ Decrees Removed by Official Enactment of Measure. By the Associated Press. CUERNAVACA, Mexico, June 21.— All djvorces, including those of several hundred Americans, granted at Cuer- navaca under the widely-discussed Puente divorce law will be freed from any taint of illegality under a bill ap- proved by the Morelos State Legislature. ‘The bill ratifies all laws enacted by provisional governors of the state dur- ing the period 1917-1930, and provides for keeping them in force. Its signa- ture by the governor is considered cer- tain. ‘The Puente law issued in 1927 by Act- I ing Gov. Ambrosio Puente, was declared unconstitutional by the Mexican 8u- preme Court a fortnight ago. Under this law, hundreds of Americans obtained divorces here during the three-year period. 32 AWAITING -FATE Participants in Idaho “Rum Re- bellion” to Hear Verdict Today. COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, June 21 (@) —Thirty-two defendants in the ‘Wallace, Idaho, “rum rebellion” trial, including county and ecity officials, awaited today to hear their fate. ‘The Federal jury which heard the case reached a verdict last night shortly after being locked up, but was not per- mitted to report to the court. ‘The Government charged that the defendants collected a tax under the gul of fines from bootleggers and resort proprietors with which municipal expenses were defrayed. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, ROBINSON DEFENDS PACT PROVISIONS Hits Charges of Naval Treaty Foes That American Safety Is Involved. By the Associated Press. Senator Robinson, Democrat, of Ar-| kansas, who helped negotiate the Lon- don naval treaty, sald today it was “dif- ficult to comprehend” the argument of the pact's opponents that it involved a sacrifice of American safety. The Arkansan, who was one of the delegates to the London Conference, de- livered a radio address under the aus- pices of the National Grange, continu- ing the serles of such speeches by sponsors and foes of the treaty that has kept the issue before the public while 1t awaits consideration in the Senate. Explains Relative Strength, This address was confined almost en- tirely to an exposition of the terms of the pact, in the course of which he took the various categories one by one, ex- plaining the relative strength of the three signatory nations as provided by the treaty. The controversy over the cruiser clauses, he sald, “narrows itself down to the choice between 8-inch guns as against 6-inch-gun armament on three ships under the General Board's pro- posal, and an additional 8,500-ton 6- inch cruiser under the treaty. “It is respectfully suggested that the choice s0 far as combat power is con- cerned, is in favor of the treaty ar- rangement which gives us the addition- al ship. “The claim, advanced by. some high authorities, that eight-inch cruisers are 80 much more desirable for the uses of the United States than six-inch cruisers loses the greater part of its force when it is recalled that under the treaty the cruising radius of the latter may equal that of the former, and that six-inch guns for the United States will presumably carry as far and hit as hard as they will for any other power.” Difterence Held Trivial. As between the United States and Great Britain, he said, the net dif- ference in cruiser tonnage was 15500 tons in favor of the latter. He termed this difference trivial in view of Amer- ica’s advantage in eight-inch gun cruiser: ‘The series of radio addresses was be- ponent of the pact, spoke in reply. Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl- then spoke in defense of the treaty, and, last night, Johnson re- plied to him. The Californian com- pared the treaty to “a dose of bitter medicine, which it is insisted cur peo- ple must swallow at once with their SCANELIVG AGREES 0 RETURN MATCH Says He Will Fight Sharkey in Fall if McNamee Is Kept From Microphone. By the Assoclated Pres: NEW YORK, June 21—Apparently not satisfied with his questionable world heavyweight boxing title, Max Schmel- ing has agreed to meet Jack Sharkey in a return bout at the Yankee Stadium in_September under certaln provisions: Before he steps into the ring again against the man who gave him the champlonship on a foul in the fourth round, Schmeling says he must have an outright release from Arthur Bue- low, German manager, whom he dis- posed of over a year ago, but whose contract does not expire until October. The German heavyweight also says “he will have no part of Graham McNamee &s a radlo announcer,” on the grounds that the National Broadcasting Co.'s announcer was partial to Sharkey and made errors in their June 12 bout at the Stadium. As the Garden has already agreed to take care of the Buelow settlement as well as finding a suitable broadcaster, there appears no reason why the heavy- weight title will not be at stake once more. ‘The proclamation of Schmeling, com- ing through Joe Jacobs, his manager of choice, follows close upon the New York State Athletic Commission's ad- vice that Schmeling give Sharkey an- other bout before the end of the Sum- mer. The State commission recognized the German as champion at its meet- ing Tues Sharkey has already in- formed the commission that he is will- ing to meet Max again on almost any terms. DRIVER CONVICTED IN DEATH OF WOMAN Hitz Delays Sentencing Rucker on Manslaughter Charge in Mrs. Raedy Case. Convicted yesterday in District Su- preme Court on a manslaughter charge in connection with the death of Mrs. Mary Raedy, wife of a local contractor, on October 5 last in an automobile ac- cident at Twenty-fifth street and Penn- sylvania avenue, Charles W. Rucker, furniture store employe, today is await- ing sentence. jury in Criminal Division 2 before Justice Willlam Hitz found Rucker, driver of the car which inflicted the injuries resulting in Mrs. Raedy's death, gullty of the manslaughter charge. Jus- tice Hitz deferred sentence, which may be as hrxgh as 15 years in jail. According to the police report at the time of the accident, Rucker’s car, skid- ding, struck Mrs. Raedy as she stepped from the curb at the intersection. Pros- ecution witnesses told the court Rucker ! was negligent in operating his machine, that the accident occurred about dusk and that the streets were dry. - Births Reported. fames R, and Lola Garner. girl aymond L. and Marian &' Weber. wirl oy B A hW gir) i . Harrigan, girl. bel M. Harris, girl. 73 igulimio. " girl. Aubrey hason. girl . ol nt Manthos. toy. and Evelyn Rucker, boy. nd M Wi avel R. Williams. boy. Margaret E. Breerwood, g0, I Angerson. boy. thel 1 Breslin, irl. rauerite M. Snyder, bo rie Spriss, sirk i yaContes. sit] and Velma Pugh. boy. and Katle M. Springs, bor, JUNE 21, 1930. Following arrai| based on_alleged ment before Commissioner Turnage yesterday in a case isrepresentation in dealing in Smith Co. stocks and bonds, Gustav C. Hertz (right) is shown here in custody of Deputy Marshal G Cerimele. —Star Staff Phot DRY LEADERS HOPE D. . PAINTERS SET TOCONTINUE STUDY. MEMORIAL RECORD Cramton Thinks Senate WiIII Restore Deficiency Bill Enforcement Item. Drys in the House were more or less confident today that some way would be found to restore to the second de- ficlency bill the $250,000 item for con- tinuing the life of the Hoover Law En- forcement Commission, which was knocked out yesterday on a point of or- der by Representative La Guardia, Re- publican, New York, one of the leaders in the wet bloc. Representative Cramton, Republican, Michigan, & dry leader, said he was confident nothing more would be done in the House to restore the item, but |Frank that he was equally certain the Senate would reinsert it and the matter would go to conference. He added, however, it might be necessary to secure adoption of a resolution authorizing the com- mission to continue its work for another year, In sustaining the point of order, Rep- resentative Chindblom of Illinois, who was presiding, recalled that the authori- zation for the commission’s investigation into law enforcement was only for the present fiscal year. In addition to the $250,000, the ruling eliminated the re- appropriation of $80,000 remaining as an unexpended balance from the $250,- 000 appropriated for this year. The prediction was made by Repre- sentative Christopherson of South Da- kota that “Congress would not ad- Journ without providing funds for the commission when it has only half com- pleted its work.” La Guardia based his point of order upon a provision which forbids an ap- mfln on which has not been author- by law. Quoting from the st ment of George W. Wickersham, chair- man of the commission, before the House appropriations committee that “our job was to see whether the eight- eenth amendment was being adequately and efficiently enforce the * New Yorker declared, “I will say that it is not necessary to have a voluntary com- mission to tell us what is going on in the way of prohibition.” Chairman Wood of the appropria- tions committee interrupted to explain that Congress had suggested the crea- tion of the commission and Congress “should not stop the job which it put in_motion, especially when it is only half through.” EGBERT W. THOMAS EXPIRES AT HOME Was Long-Time Federal Employe and Spanish War Veteran. Egbert W. Thomas, 62 years old, Gov- ernment employe for 25 years and a Spanish-American War veteran, died yesterday at his residence, 3928 Mili- tary road, after an illness of several montks. Mr. Thomas, native of Monroe County, W. Va., had served both in the Government and the military serv- ice. He was with the United States Marine Corps for 11 years, serving un- der the command of Admiral Slye. At the time of his death he was rounding out 25 years of service in the supply division of the Department of Interior. He was a member of the Myron Parker Masonic Lodge, and of the local 0dd Fellows. Besides his widow, Mrs. Maude L. Thomas, he is survived by a daughter and son, Miss Elizabeth A. Thomas and Eugene S. Thomas of this city. Masonic funeral services will be held Monday morning at 11 o'clock, at the 8. H. Hines funeral home, 2801 Four- teenth street. Interment with military honors will be in Arlington National Cemetery. a SENTENCE FINISHED, ALLEN TO BE FREED Having completed a 10-day sentence for contempt of court, former Police- man Robert J. Allen will be released from the Arlington County Jail at 6 o'clock tonight. His fines, totaling $39.25 have n paid. Allen was sent to jail by Judge Bryan Gordon, associate Police Court justice, after the former had assailed Commonwealth's Attorney Willlam C Gloth in court. On this count he was given five days and his later criticism of the conduct of the court resulted in an additional five-day penalty and a $20 fine. The remaining amount of his fines, $19.25, resulted from his arrest on a charge of operating his automobile on District of Columbia tags while a resident of Virginia. The_ex-policeman got into trouble | Z when he attempted to obtain a hearing for Howard L. Brewster, who is held in the Arlington County Jail on a charge of murdering Miss Mary Baker. Brewster refused to accept his assistance. Fearing Allen might wish to get in the jail to communicate with Brewster, | 4 Sheriff Howard B. Fields placed the l former in a cell in the woman's com- partment. It is re ,_however, that Allen has shouted through a window to Brewster, but has falled to make any headway toward friendship. Donate $500 in Campaign Conducted by Central Labor Group. Painters’ Local Union, No. 368, made & new record in the District of Colum- bia World War Memorial campaign, conducted by the Central Labor Union, when in a regular meeting last night it donated the sum of $500. This is the largest sum yet to be | contributed from the treasury of any | Tocal union organization so far in the campaign to raise $20,000 to complete the financing. ‘The meeting, which also unanimously indorsed the project, was addressed by ‘W. Lee, chairman of the executive committee, and R. F. Whalen, member of the painters’ union and also a mem- ber of the executive committee. The campaign continues with many monthly meetings of union organiza- tions scheduled for the near future and it is anticipated that favorable action will be taken and reported soon to the executive committee. TINKHAM MODIFIES ATTACK ON CANNON Answers Bishop’s Defi in Signed Statement, Repeating Some of Former Charges. By the Associated Press. Differences between Bishop James Cannon, jr, and Representative Tink- ham continued today to command in- terest in Washington. A move by the churchman in response to & public statement issued by the leg: islator attacking him was being awaited. Tinkham, a Republican opponent to prohibition from Massachusetts, recently made charges against the Southern Methodist dry leader in the House. Can- non called him a “blustering cowardly Congressman” for doing so under the cloak of congressional immunity and dared him repeat the assertions off the floor. Statements in the Senate and g:u‘u are immune from prosecution for el. Tinkman issued a statement over his signature repeating some of the charges which he previously had made on the floor of the House. Bishop Retains Counsel. Cannon last week announced he in- tended to take action for libel, both civil and criminal, against newspapers printing editorials, cartoons and news dispatches which he considered a de- famation of himself. He indicated he had retained counsel to study the pos- sibility of bringing such action. Whether ‘he would do so sult of Tinkham's latest assertions wa: subject of specu- Iation at the Capitol today. In his speech in the House which prompted the Cannon challenge Tink- ham said the bishop had violated the corrupt practices act by failing to re- port the disposition of $48,300 given him by E. C. Jameson of New York for pro- moting the anti-Smith camJulwn. A statement in the House address that until this sum is accounted for Cannon “will stand convicted in the eyes of all honest men of having appropriated that money to his own uses,” was not con- tained in his signed statement just published. This phase of the Cannon-Tinkham controversy arose from the churchman's refusal to answer questions on his po- litical activities at the time of his ap- ])Ql:{lnC! before the Senate lobby com- mittee. Jameson Testifies to Gift. | Tinkham had previously asked the committee to call the churchman and had accused him of violating the cor- rupt practices law. Jameson testified he gave Cannon 466,300 and Cannon reported the ex- penditure of $17,000 to Congress. The $48,300 remaining, he contended, need not be reported as it was all spent in Virginia and so, he contended, not sub- Ject to the Federal law. After his appearance before the lobby committee, Cannon issued a statement giving in fump sums what he said was the apportionment of the $48,300 for general campaign purposes and among the individual congressional districts of Virginia. > i Deaths Reported. 1, 89, Garfleld Mogpital. rhurn. 1, 1308 Falimont st. e \i'. rcd) _" yubk?!lfl'vidt‘l::! Hoespital, Ry o 7.8 “Laninan, 11 B Newton st. Hiram E. Welty, 75, 39 Robert_Do; k! iy New York ave. naldson. 70, Gallinger Hospital. adle Pope, 66. Sibley Hospital. illiam C. Bauer, ¢, Louise Meyers, 4 Marion E."Collier, 19 el Infant of Samuel and Cecelin Oardla, 18 Sibley Mo y: ospital nfant of John K. and Rosie Kane, George- n Hosoital s Willlams, 49, v e ?;:r: A58 Bisaven’s Gomital Fed E Beott, . LA A les 5t n.e, o - | They NEW TARIFF GETS PRAISE OF MELLON Watson Joins in Lauding Law as President Studies Names for Commission Posts. By the Associated Press. Secretary Mellon praised the new tariff law in a statement issued for publication today, saying it had re- moved an obstacle to business recov- ery “by !l\mlnllln‘ the uncertainty of the last 15 months.” He depicted ‘“gloomy prophesies” made by opponents of the Hawley- Smoot bill and said “the notion that this law is going to deatroy our foreign trade is certainly without foundation.” The new law was defended also by Senator Watson of Indiana, the Re- ublican leader, in a radio address de- ivered last night and a short while before President Hoover announced he was contemplating some changes in the present personnel of the Tariff Commission in effecting the reorganiza- tion authorized by the Hawley-Smoot act. Decision Due Soon. He has reached no ‘decision as yet, he said, but expects to choose the members of the new commission and send their names to the Senate before Congress adjourns. “It seems to me that fears and crit! cisms have been greatly exaggerated, sald Secretary Mellon, “whenever & new protective tariff law has been en- acted gloomy prohesies have been made. ave falled to materialize as far back as I can remember. “The rates in the bill as it passed the House & yvear ago were higher than in the bill recently signed by the Presi- dent. Yet business at that time did not take alarm. There seems to be no rea- son why it should now.” Lauds Flexible Clause, ‘Turning to the question of foreign trade, he warned that “foreign nations that do business with us would do well to remember that the all-important fac- tor is the maintenance of the high pur- chasing power and standard of living of the American people.” He sald he regarded the flexible pro- visions as highly important, and that if they are “intelligently and courageously applied” they should “go a long way toward making another legislative re- vision of the tariff unnecessary for many years to come.” Watson said the agricultural sched- ules of the Hawley-Smoot law assured “added prosperity and increased pur- chasing power to a third of the people of the count $18,600 FOR POLICE RADIO IS APPROVED House Acts on District Project Aimed at Preventing and Detecting Crime. Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star, Appropriation of $18,500 for instal- lation of lice radio system for the District of lumbia, including receiv- ing sets on police automobiles, was ap- proved today by the House. The project, intended for the “pre- vention and detection of crimes,” was included in the second deficiency bill, as recommended by President Hoover. — LUHRING AND J. W. COX SLATED FOR DISTRICT SUPREME COURT POSTS (Continued From First Page.) ington. He resides with his wife at the Ambassador Apartments. Mr., Cox is probably best known in ‘Washington for his legal work in con- nection with the prosecution of trust- law violations and also for his work in the interest of the Mount Pleasant Citi- zens’ Association. His practice ‘Washington has been mostly in the civil courts, and he has the distinction of be- ing a member of the Order of the Coif, the honorary legal fraternity. He was one of three local lawyers recommend- ed by the District Bar Association for Agpolnlmenb {0 the Supreme Court of the District at the time Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy retired more than six months ago. Mr. Cox also is known to have been recommended by a number of members of the bar and prominent citisens, He was not an actual candidate for this appointment and had no idea that he had been decided upon for appoint- ment until informed of that fact by a representative of The Star today. Assistant Attorney General Luhring is understood to have been personally recommended by Attorney General Mitchell because of the splendid record he has made since being connected with the Department of Justice, Cox Admitted to Bar in 1901. Mr. Cox is 54 years old and after be ing educated in’the public schools in Grayson County, Va., and at the George Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn., he came to Washington to study law at the old Columbian College. He was grad- uated in 1901 and was admitted to the bar the same year. He is a member of the District of Columbia and the Amer- ican Bar Associations and a life mem- ber of the National Aeronautical Asso- ciation. He was a member of the Dis- trict Selective Service Board in the World War, He is a director and coun- sel of the Park Savings Bank. Mr. Cox was appointed a special assistant to the Attorney General dur- ing the war and in 1920 was appointed a regional counsel for the railroad ad- ministration, serving in that capacity for two_years, Mr. Cox married Miss Emma Leckie and lives at 1850 Monroe street. They have three sons and one daughter— Joseph W., jr, who is a second lieu- in_ the Co of Engineers, U. 8. A.; Melville, who is a senior at Washington and Lee University, and Leckie, who is & junior at the Univer- sity ot Virginia, and Carol, 6 years old. - KIDNAPED BOY’S FATHER LEADS RESCUE OF 120 A. Frank Ranieri Sees Smoke Pour- ing From B8chool Roof and Di- rects March to Safety. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 21 —A. Frank Ra- nieri, father of Billy Ranieri, who fig- ured in a sensational kidnaping case here two years ‘fo Thursday led the rescue of 120 children imperiled by & fire at the Niles Center Public School. Ranier!, a_sewer contractor, was su~ pervising work on a job near the school when he saw smoke issuing from the roof. After turning in an alarm, the con- is crew on a truck and to the place in time to usher the children safely to the street. When the village fire-fighting force arrived, the two crews combined and extinguished the flames. German Editor Resigns. BERLIN, June 21 (#).—George Bern. hard, widely known economist and jour. nalist, yesterday resigned the editorship of the Vossische Zeitung, which he has held for many years. He will be second president of the board of the German Department Stores Federation, « 10"~ '