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WEATHER Weather Buresu Porecast | fair--continued warm today ~Mighest, 86 at 4 pm i Jowest, 85 At 5 a.m. yesterday. on page 4 “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star s delivered every evening and Bunday morning to Washinglon homes by The Star's exclusive sarrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. wa WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION ) _Means Associated No. 1,318—No. 31,463. Entered a post office, CHANCE OF DEFICT THREATENS EARLY END OF SESSION Moover Conferences and House Caucus Show Uncer- | tain Treasury Condition. VETERANS’ BILL STATUS ‘COMPUCATES SITUATION Imminent Passage by Senate Prom- ises Budget Shortage Unless Remedied Before Adjournment. By the Associated Press. Uneasiness over the thinness of the Mne separating the Treasury from a deficit for the next fiscal year appeared Iast night to be the cause of a rouna ©f conferences at the White House and & call for a Republican caucus in the ise. Raised by the impending action of the Senate on the World War veterans’ bill, the worry threatened plans for sdjournment and sent a secret call to House Republicans to assemble Tues- day night to discuss the veterans’ legis- Iation and the possibility of continuing the present 1 per cent tax reduction on mormal incomes through next year. Already fears had been expressed by proponents of the veterans' measure that the President would veto it, and the suggestion has been made that Con- gress be held in long enough to act upon his message of disapproval if no official statement of the Pres- e t's views. He abandoned his cus- and officials of the Treasury and Vet- erans’ Bureau. Confers With Mellon. ‘He conferred twice yesterday with Becretary Mellon and Undersecretary Mills of the Treasury. In the second conference, Director Hines of the Vet- erans’ Bureau joined and the group of officials submitted figures regarding the ‘measure. cost of the 3 Hoover has been concerned for several months about the condition 7¢4% | gained from the expe will have total in- than $4,000,000,000 this Troxisaately 33 430000050, The busl $2,450,000,025. ness depression, however, is expected to reduce such taxes next year. said yesterday the Tad of . veterans’ pili the kind of a v d 2 rmmltn view of the condition of the Treasury. Not to Use Pocket Veto. He added that he was confident that action was completed e measure did not meet the Executive’'s wishes, he would im- his disapproval and ve his reasons without permitting the }:lfltuon to die through a pocket veto. Two meetings of the unofficial Re- steering committee of the and Chief lican House were held yesterday, and late in | Representative Hawley of Ore- m.d:gakm of the Republican cau- cus, sent out the call for a conference. The word was spread quietly and lead- ers were adverse to the reasons the call. *-such a meeting of the Republican , at the end of a session, is in er said that in view of the belief that the remaining legislative proposals could be cleared away In time to quit before next Satur- day. % 36° SAVED AS WIND WRECKS 12 BOATS 10 Sloops Sink After Capsizing During Squall in Long Island Sound. Br the Associated Pr i +COLD SPRINGS HARBOR. N. Y. June 21 —Twelve racing sloops, with a total of 36 men, women and children on board capsized today in Long Island Sound in & sudden squall of almost hur- ' ricane fofce. All of the sloops’ passengers and crew were rescued, but 10 of the vessels sank and 2 were carricd ashore by the tide. The schooner yacht Varuna, owned by John Bishop of White Plaing, was rundown and sunk off Larchmont the yacht Bhadow K, owned by Carl G. Fisher. Miss Mildred R. Bishop, daughter ot the owner; Jeffries Maxwell, a pas- senger, and the six members of the Varuna's crew were rescued by the Shadow K after they were thrown into the water by the force of the collision. The men, women and children from sloops were participating in the Wweekly races of the beach club. They had reached a point opposite Oyster Bay, about half way mark of the course, ‘when the , accompanied he Sunday Sta -\\';\SIIL\'GTOA\'. D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1930—116 PAGES. ¥ FIVE CENTS l TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS Byrd’s Aides Seek Jobs, Filled During Absence by Others By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, June 21.—Some of the members of the Byrd Ant- arctic expedition are locking for jobs. An employment bureau was opened for them today at a midtown hotel. Among them are aviation mechanics, machinists, carpenters and surveyors, Most of them served the expedition voluntarily or at minimum salaries, and jobs they left to go exploring now are filled by others. LAMONT DEFENDS TARIFF SCHEDULES Commerce Secretary Chal- lenges Assertions U. S. Trade Will Be Injured. By the Associated Press. A formal statement in defense of the new tariff bill challenging assertions that it would be a detriment to Amer- ican business, was issued by Secretary Lamont yesterday, representing re- search findings of the Commerce De- partment. made on the subject this week, Secre- tary Mellon and Senator Watson, Re- publican leader in the Senate, having previously presented their views, but Secretary Lamont introduced primarily & study of the bearings of the new measure’ of international trade. He took up specifically the protests of foreign nations, said many of them in substance had been considered and acted upon by Congress. He told of the remarkable rise in exports of Amer- jcan manufacturers during the last decade, in spite of similar threats to the country’s trade issued during con- sideration of the 1922 tariff act. Cites Opportunities for Others. Lamont stressed also the opporti- nities given foreign producers selling to the Uninted States to seek changes through the Tariff Commission schedules adopted—a privilege which Americans in like position get from no other nation, and he concluded that under the new measure “the people of the United States will continue to buy from and sell to the nations of the world vast quantities of products. “I have been ed what effect the new tariff will have on our foreign trade,” Lamont sald. “Some light on this question may be 'rience after the passage of the tariff act of 1922; that act raised the level of duties, as com- pared with the Underwood act, much more than has been done in the present revision. As many protests were re- | ceived from foreign countries as have been-received in the present year; and there were just as many. of disaster to our foreign “What actually the seven years under the 1922 tariff act, our fotal imports increased 41 per cent Imports of manufactured from Europe rose from $340,000, in 1922 to $581,000,000 in 1929, or by 45 per cent. These gains were not due to increased prices of commodities. Import Increase General. “Our imports from Germany and Czechoslovakia more than doubled; from Italy they increased 83 per cent; from Beigium, 372z per cent; from Spain and Switzerland about 25 per cent each, and from FPrance, 20 per | cent. The United Kingdom is the only European country from purchased less in 1929 than this falling off was not in our rates of duty. the same period, cur ex- ports of finished manufactured goods, the class ‘most affected by ‘he lariff of foreign counthies, increasd prac- tically 100 per cent. Every year fol- lowing the enactment of the 1922 act showed a marked gain until the present . ’E&R is obvious, of course, that the imports and exports wi began in the latter part of last year are not to be attributed either to the discussion of our tariff or its enactment. There has been a reces- sion in business and a reduction in prices throughout the world. Other countries, as well as ours, have seen their trade in both directions decline during recent months. Protests Not Unusual. “Much has been made of the pro- tests presented by various foreign na- tions during the course of the tariff discussion. There is nothing new in such protests. Every country, includ- ing our own, shows concern when other countries propose increasing their tariffs. “The United States is not alone among nations in making changes in its tariff levels. Forty or fifty other countries have made genera) revisions since 1925, including all of those countries which Ia tested against the proposals to increase our rates. “The protests which have been made by foreign governments to us, in con- nection with the 1930 tariff, may seem to indicate a wide sense of grievance. However, they include protests, made over the course of more than a year during the various stages of the tariff bill. In a considerable number of cases the proposed increases to which they related were not finally enacted; as for example in the case of laces, bananas, jute and shingles. In other instances the rates objected to were materially moderated ‘during the progress of the bill so that as finally passeed they are not much different from what they were before, as in tbe case of plate glass, rayon, Swiss cheese, soya-bean oll, Oriental carpets, perfumery and phar- maceutics. The rates on silk goods caused considerable anxiety at times, but the final average increase in duty is less than 5 per cent ad valorem. “Taking these points into considera- tion, we find that those protests which "~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) PLANE STAYS IN AIR : City of Chicago Sails Into 11th Day of Record Attempt. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 21.—Hundreds of spectators visited the Skyharbor Afr- port today as the City of Chicago salled into its eleventh day of flight and approached its own record of 261 hours, set in an endurance flight last Summer. ‘The 10-day mark was passed at 4 pm. (C. D. T) today, with no indica- tion that the plane or its pilots, Ken- neth and John Hunter, brothers, were weakening. The brothe: nounced they intended to remain aloft long as possible in an attem 420-hour record set last The declaration constituted the third | FIERRO REACHES MEXICO CITY AMID WILD ENTHUSIASM Mexican Aviator Completes First Non-Stop Flight From New York. | | | 1 PRESIDENT ORTIZ RUBIO GREETS NATIONAL HERO Lindbergh Time for Trip From ‘Washington Is Lowered by Cool-Headed Flyer. By the Associated Press. VALBUENA FIELD, Mexico, June 21. —The first non-stop flight from New York to Mexico City was completed by a Mexican aviator today. Col. Roberto Fierro, his countrymen’s new hero of the air, covered the distance of approxi- mately 2,300 miles between Roosevelt Field, New York, and Valbuena Field, i Mexico City, in 16 hours and 35 min- utes. He exceeded by only half an hour | the mark of 16 hours he had hoped to | set. Missing an escort of airplanes sent out to meet him, he landed l\onv. taking the spectators by surprise. A previous false alarm had made them cautious about identifying the airplane as his. Slashing down into the muddy field, but making a clean landing, Flerro was greeted with roars of applause. Amid cries of “ Viva Plerro! Viva Mexico!” he and his mechanic, Arnulfo Cortes, were triumphantly carried on the shoulders of the crowd into the Emilio Carranza hangar. Greeted By President. There they were greeted by President Ortiz Rubio, Secretary of War Joaquin Amaro and other officials. Both avia- tors were smiling and sald they were not very tired from their long and in | speedy flight. Col. Fierro not only made the first non-stop flight from New York to Mexico City, but bettered by more than 10 hours the time set by Col, Charles A. Lindbergh in December, 1927, between W ton and Mexico City. Lind- Bergh required 27 hours and 10 min- utes for his non-stop flight from Bolling Field to the Mexican capital. Col. Fierro used a Lockheed Sirius mono- plane with low wings, a duplicate of that used by Lindbergh for his recent Lrl_‘x_xlz‘cox;:u;‘enhl flight. e Mexican ace’s record was made in clockwork fashion. From Roosevelt Pleld he fdlcgd & route by Montgom- ery, Ala, NI Orleans, Brownsville, jTex, and Tampico, Mexico. Between the last two places he successfully dodged a severe electric storm sweep- ing in from the Gulf of Mexico. A crowd of less than 10,000 persons, braving the rain that had converted the field into a slippery mass of mud, broke through the police lines and guards of soldiers as “is plane came to a halt. Rufino Fierro, the colonel’s father, who made his first trip to Mexico City from his home in Chihua- hua today, waited until the first burst of enthusiasm had spent itself and greeted his son inside the hangar. News of the landing was heralded through Mexico City by extra editions of mw?‘peu and the blowing of fac- tory and locomotive whistles and sirens. Cool, Conservative Flyer. Col. Fierro has gained a reputation in the Mexican air corps for being a cool, conservative flyer. In all his feats :‘l:nh“ kept his head and bided his e. for a fortnight in New York until weather reports were favorable, His achievement recalled the untimely death of Capt. Emilio Carranza, killed while attempting the same flight two years ago during an electric storm at Mount Holly, N, J. Ceremonies in honor of the flyers will be held to a mintmum this evening 5o that they can get to bed early and rest. During the next few days they will be guests of honor at a series of functions. Flyer Is Hurt in Crash. LANSING, Mich,, June 21 (#).—Jchn Rodda, 25-year-old Detroit fiyer, was injured seriously today when ths glider he was flying crashed at a Junior Cham- der of Commerce air show at the aii- port here. Rodda, flying before 5,000 spectators, gained an altitude of nearly 100 feel hospital his injuries were reported as critical. ' TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—24 PAGES. 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GRAPHIC SECTION—10 PAGES. World Events in Pictures, COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Moon Mullins; Mutt and Jeff; 311:; Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Little Orpl Annie; Brutus; Somebody's Stenog; High Lights of History, Screen In the present case he waited | when his craft dived to earth. At a| HED EVER BE HEARD FROM J AGAIN ! TARIFF ACT LOOMS AS MAIN ISSUE IN FALL ELECTIONS Republican and Demoératic Leaders Ready to Carry Battle to Polls. EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT WILL FIGURE IN FIGHT Any Improvement in Business and Unemployment Seen as Blow to Minority. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 21— Seized with a maniacal frenzy while on an outing with his family, Raymond C. Spang, 35 of Ansonia, a World War veteran, who escaped yesterday from a hospital for the insane- today hurled his wife and four children to their death down a 300-foot cliff, known as West Rock, and then followed in a suicidal leap. Spang was committed to Brooklyn Naval Hospital nine weeks ago and on April 23 was transferred to Base 81, Kingsbridge, for treatment for psychosis mania depression. He escaped from that institution between 2 and 3 yes- terday afternoon and came gdirectly to ms home in Ansonia. 5 HORLED TO DEATH FROM CLIFF, CELEBRATING FATHER'S RELEASE Crazed War Veteran Plunges Wife and Four Children From Rock, Then Takes Fatal Leap. the air and down the face of the sheer Tock, Spang jumped off a ledge 75 feet below the summit to his own decth. ‘Thousands of spectators and scores of policemen and firemen saw the man | leap from the ledge. Four bodles were picked up at the base of the cliff. Two had already been taken to a hospital. Besides Spang, the victims were his wife, Gertrude Carey Spang, 33, former Ansonia school teacher, and their chil- dren, Helen, 10; Lorraine, 7; Raymond, 5, and Donald, 4. The place of the tragedy overlooks a small base ball park which, like the rock, is in the city's park system, on which groups of children were playing at the time. cliff Yale Bowl can be seen almost at hand, although it is & mile away. On the rock itself, and only a short dis- tance from the cliff’s_edge. is_Judges' " (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) Two hours after he had sent the five | ]‘lrmben of his family hurtling through ' MYSTERY BURGLAR SPURNS RICH LOOT Robs Four Apartments, Leav- | ing Jewels and Silver, But Takes $60. Four mysterious burglaries, in three of which the thief took nothing and in | the fourth only $60 in cash, confronted | police of the third precinct last night. The burglar, who gained entrance in all cases by jimmying doors, first went to the Hay-Adams House, where he forced his way into the apartment of | William D. Hoover, president of the National Savings & Trust Co. Although he jimmied two doors in the apartment and ransacked all the rooms, the thief, despite the presente of val- uable silver and jewelry, apparently took nothing. The burglary was dis- covered by members of the family when they returned from a moving picture show. Two other apartments at the Hay- Adams House, the occupants of which re out of town for the Summer, were ;ll.so Jimmied by the thief. There was no evidence, however, that anything had been taken, although the apart- ments had been ransacked. Employes of the hotel told Officer A. T. Davis of the third precinct that they saw a shabbily dressed man in the hotel last evening. He is being sought by the police. The apartment of John Warren, at 1424 Sixteenth street, was entered in the same manner. Sixty dollars, which bhad been hidden under a dress in the clothes closet, were missing, but the thief did not disturb valuable jewelry in a bureau drawer. GANGSTER NAMED AS LINGLE KILLER Police Expect to Arrest Suspect, One of Toughest Hoodlums, at Once. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 22.—The Herald and Examiner today says the authorities ex- pected hourly to arrest James B. (Red) Forsythe, described as one of the city's toughest hoodlums, as the slayer of Alfred (Jake) Lingle, Tribune reporter. Forsythe, the paper says, has been identified as the blonde youth who shot and killed Lingle from behind in a pedestrian tunnel at the foot of Ran- dolph street, June 8 Forsythe, 24, is known to one of the city’s toughest sociate of killers and racketee: former member of the Capone gang, under Danny Stanton, Capone’s South Side lieutenant. He also is known as Fawcet! Forsythe also was known to police as an intimate of the dapper Frank Foster, to whose hands the gun used to kill Lingle has been traced. Foster was once a member of the North Side Alello- Moran outfit, L) CRIME STUDY ASKED OF DRY LAW ALONE Senators Vote Funds. for Wickersham Body, but Restrict Inquiry. By the Associated Press. President Hoover's Law Enforcement | Commission was given a new lease of life yesterday by a subcommittee of the | Senate appropriations committee—but | with a specific command to confine its activity to the investigation of prohi- bition. The committee wrote into the House deficiency, bill an amendment to pro- vide $50,000 for continuation of -the commission’s inquiry. The House yes- terday struck from the measure a pro- vision for $250,000. Without an appro- priation at this session the commission would be without funds after July 1. Senator Jones, Republican, Washing- ton, dry leader, was the only one of the 10 members of the committee who op- posed the amendment. It was offered by Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, who first proposed establishment of he commission in the Senate about two years ago. Glass said after the meeting that his | amendment would compel the commis- sion to follow the spirit of the law that | created it. “It has utterly disregarded the pri- | mary purpose of the original appropri- ation for it,” Glass said of the comm sion, “it has seized upon a parentheti- cal phrase of the appropriation clause, referring to general law enforcement, and has devoted all its attention to this. Jones plans to report the measure t. morrow and bring it to final conside: ation Tuesday. It contains appropri- ations totaling more than $60,000,000. The measure still is subject to approvai by the full committee. The subcommittee yesterday retaired an appropriation of $10,660,000 for be- ginning work of the Boulder Dam pr ect. ders anticipate a fight by Arizona’s Senators against this section, but have said privately that ‘hey will not hesitate to bring out a cloture rule to limit debate if there are signs of a filibuster. The Glass amendment covering the Law_Enforcement Commission also is " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) . COMA VICTIM PUZZLES GALLINGER PHYSICIANS Youth Falls Unconscious While Walking on Street—Fails to Regain Senses. Physicians at Gallinger Hospital late last night when seeking to ascertain the nature of an illness which seized Simon Cardwell, 20 years old, of 224315 Nichols avenue southeast, early yes- terday afternoon and sent him into a deeé: coma. ardwell was still unconscious 10 hours after he fell over while walking north in the 2500 block of Sheridan road southeast shortly before 5 o'clock. The boy was removed to Casualty Hospital in the patrol wagon of No. 11 police precinct and was given first-aid trea it :)‘Y Dr. Louis Jimal, later being transferred to Gallinger and laced under the care of Dr. Lester From the summit of the | GAS LIGHT MERGER COMPROMISE SEEN Howell Demands Public Be Safeguarded Before Bill Passes. Pending legislation to authorize the merger of the Washington and George- town Gas Light Cos, on which a cut in the price of gas hinges, is the sub- ject of conferences now going on be- tween company officials and Senator Howell, Republican, of Nebraska, who wants certain public safeguards in the measure, it became known last night. Senator Howell was not ready to dis- cuss the situation beyond saying that the points of difference between them are being taiked over. Although Congress is within a week or 10 days of adjournment, there might f" be a chance to enact gas merger legislation if an adjustment can be reached on the questions raised by Sen- ator Howell. *# Definite Sehedule Embodied. ‘The merger bill as reported by the Senate District committee is on Senate calendar, and Senator Howell has pending in printed form his sub- stitute, embodying a definite schedule of rate reductions the companies would have to agree to accept in exchange for the right to merge and other rights granted by the bill. Senator Howell heretofore has ob- Jected to action on the original bill. The company officials predicted in the hearings that the merger would make possible a rate reduction of about 10 per cent, but Senator Howell took the position that the public should know definitely in advance of action on the bill what benefits it would receive. Early this week the company filed with the Utilities Commission pro- posed schedule of rate reductions, to be taken up for action following merger. | *| Senator Howell followed this move by drafting his substitute bill. The Sen- ator omitted from his substitute several provisions in the original bill relating to the financial affairs of the company and the regulation of stock issues. Minimum Monthly Charge Proposed. In its proposed schedule, filed with the commission, the company suggested a charge of 60 cents a month on all meters, which Senator Howell changed in his bill to a minimum monthly charge. A minimum charge would ap- ply only where less than 60 cents worth of gas was used, but would not affect bills above that amount. The Senator also provided that if the thermal value of the gas went below 600 British thermal units the commission would be directed to make further rate reduc- tions. Both schedules would have reduced the price of gas to 85 cents per 1,000 cubic feet for the first 2,500 cubic feet and 75 cents per 1,000 thereafter. For bills not paid within the discount period these rates would be 95 and 85 cents, respectively. The prgsent price of gas is §1 per 1,000 for those who use less than 200,000 cubic feet per month. Just what proposals are now being discussed in connection with the pend- ing legislation have not been indicated. POLICEMAN ESCAPES GANGSTER’S BULLET Shot Came From Car Bearing Six ‘White Men, but Was Wide of Mark. Gangster warfare broke out in the District last night when Patrolman B. R. Burgess of the sixth precinct was fired upon by a member of a party of six white men riding in an automobile. The shooting occurred when the patrol- man_ was talking over the telephone in a police call box at Third and F streets. ‘The bullet, fired at close range, went wide of its mark. So sudden did the shooting take place Burgess said he became bewildered and did not draw, his service pistol to return the fire until the machine got out of range. A squad of detectives and patrolmen, hudza by Lieut. Jerry A. Sullivan, night precinct commander, searched vicinity, but no trace of the machine could be found. Meanwhile a general alarm was flashed to olherrg;tmuw Llin :hesclt L Burgess* re) ieut. Sullivan that )’: ‘was ,:lelndln‘ at the third and F streets call box at about 11:30 p.m., when the car rolled past him and one of the occupants suddenly pointed at him and cried out: “There he is!” Burgess sald he next saw one of the men draw a pistol and, leaning far out of the car, fire point blank at him. He attributed the reason for the shot going wild to_the sudden lx:edln( up of the l}llnnmobue jufi as the gunman pulled the e. His condition was lhké at Gallinger Hospital as undetermined 5 l-utn\ms e said he succeeded in conceal! himself, and the gangsters did not & second shot, A BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The tariff, as exemplified by the new Smoot-Hawley act, looms as the main issue to be fought out by the Democrats and the Republicans in the coming con- gressional and senatorial elections. The leaders of both parties have announced their willingness and determination to g0 to the polls on this issue next No- vember, But there will be plenty of side issues. Take prohibition, for example. Al- though the nominations have mot yet been made in Massachusetts, the great bulk of the Republican candidates have declared for the eighteenth amendment and the Democrats are known to be against it. Gov. Allen and William M. Butler, the latter belleved to be the leading candidate for the Republican nomination, have espoused the dry cause. If Mr. Butler, the former na- tional chairman of 'the Republican party, is nominated, he will fight it out against a wet Democrat. The liquor question looms in the senatorial strug- gle in Illinois, too, where former Sena- tor J. “Ham" Lewis, the Democratic nominee, is demanding repeal of the liquor laws and challenging Mrs, Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican, and dry, on this issue, Unemployment to Figure. Business depression, stock market crashes and unemployment are likely to figure to an even greater extent the November elections than any of the other so-called issues, unless the next few months show an improvement. A real improvement would be fatal to Democratic hopes in many of the States. Out in some of the States of the West and the Northwest, the failure of the “‘debenture” plan of farm ald, against which President Hoover turned his back during the consideration of the farm re- lief and the tariff bills, and the Hoover administration will be the issues made by insurgent Republicans, Democrats and Farmer-Laborites. Ever since the President called a ial session of Con last year to dertake farm relief and tariff legis- lation, it has been apparent the Demo- crats would seek to make the tariff a major isue in the congressional cam- When it appeared that the HOPE OF BREAKING D.C.BILL DEADLOCK GROWS N SENATE Bingham Answers Citizens’ Plea and Again Will Seek Conference. PRESIDENT IS ASKED TO ASSIST DISTRICT Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association Cites Dire Results if Measure Fails. With Congress entering what may prove to be the.final week of the ses- sion, hope of saving the $44,000,000 Dise trict appropriation bill appeared brighte er last might than for several dlyl’ when Senator Bingham, Republic: Connecticut, announced that, in re- sponse to the appeal of a committee of citizens which called on him earlier in the day, he is willing to seek a further conference with the House on the measure. This announcement by Senator Bing~ ham was the most encouraging devel- opment that has occurred since Thurse day, when the House revived the pos- sibility of a new conference by sending the papers relating to the bill to the Senate, in a position where the Senate aould request a reopening of negotia- ons. Senator Bingham tomorrow will make the usual motion in such cases, » to further insist on the Senate o ments and reappoint conferees, If this request is granted, the door will be open once more for man on the part of both houses to ‘I around try to com- the conference table an pose their differences. Deadlocked on Lump Sum. ‘The deadlck arose over what should be the Federal contribution toward ex- penses of the National Capital, with the House insisting on adherence to the present $9,000,000 lump sum and the Senate conferees conten there should be a compromise some be- tween that amount and the $12,000,000 figure approved by the Senate. The hopes of the people of the Dis- trict for an agreement before Con- gress adjourns ' hinge on this latest move toward a new ~onference, and while the outcome cannot be until the conferees sit down together again to discuss their divergent 7iews, the possibility of a new conlerence offered some encouragement n a situa~ tion which had remained virtually un« chxln.eu for a d‘l{kwfl'l;:m n_announc ’fi. steps toward another with the House, Senator paign. Conference report on the tariff might finally fail and there be no legislation, some of the supporters of the bill were buoyed up by the hope that in the end the Democrats, desiring the tariff to be an issue, would permit the bill to get through. A failure of all tariff legisla- tion would have taken the issue out of the campaign, except in a negative way, which might have been harmful to the Democrats. Democrats to Continue Attack. The Democrats’ attacks on the tariff, launched during consideration of the bill in the Senate and House, will be continued, Senator “Joe” Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate, and Representative John Gar- ner of Texas, the House minority lead- er, playing foremost parts in the attack. The Republicans, however, are not letting the grass grow under their feet now that the tariff bill has actually become a law. In quick succession Sen- ator “Jim” Watson, Republican leader of the Senate; Secretary Mellon of the Treasury Department, and last night Secretary Lamont of the De- partment of Commerce, have come for- ward with public statements defending the new tariff law and declaring that it will aild American business, During the actual consideration of the bill in the Senate, Republicans who supported the measure held off in order not to prolong the debate and not to delay further the passage of the bill. Now they feel at liberty to discuss the meas- ure and will not only accept the Demo- cratic challenge, but carry the fighting to_their political enemies on this issue. The tremendous Republican sweep in 1928, which carried Republican con- gressional candidates into office along with Mr. Hoover, is bound to be fol- lowed, if history can be relied upon, by recessions this year. The same Repub- lican losses in the congressional elec- tlons of 1922 and 1926, following the big Republican gains in Congress in the Harding and Coolidge years of 1920 and 1924, may be expected to. take place The swing of the political pendulum has been fairly regular. No hew administration gives the voters all they demand. Expect Four or Five Seats. The judgment of the Democrats, however, when talking privately, is that the most they can expect in the com- ing elections is to make a net gain of fqur or five seats in the Senate and to make such gains in the House that in the latter body it may be possible to form a “coalition” wifh Republican Progressives from the West during the next Congress, which will prove as har- rassing to the Hoover administration as has been the “coalition” in the Sen- ate during the present Congress. For publication, Democratic leaders insist they will win & majority of the House. With only a third of the Senate mem- bership up for re-election plus three extra seats to be fought for on account of deaths in that body, it is practically impossible that the Democrats should gain a majority in that body, no mat- ter how great their strength may prove to_be at the polls. _It is two months and a_ half since (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) KANSAS SUFFERS IN HEAT Over 100 Degrees Registered in ‘Western Part of State. KANSAS CITY, June 21 (#).—A heat degree mar kin Western Kansas today and other parts of the Southwest sweltered in abnormal temperatures. wave carried the mercury over the 100- | p, good can come from it, and I am ulnru!lmmnmnu.wl& e Tetered o the D ‘ot civle e e group o leaders, bankers, Ila and labor representatives, who a few hours carlier presented to Senate leaders a of the petition taken to Speaker 4 worth Friday, of conferences and calli attention to the hardships that would result from adjournment of Congress without an -(mmenmw i - Sengtor Watson iana, Repul I'van “loor leader; Senator Fess of Ohlo, majority whip, and Bingham, in charge of the local appro- priation bill, joined in conferring with the group of citizens and listened to the rea of the memorial. 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- be‘r’s any agreement above the $9,000,~ 00! 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 still on the statute book, and that if that law were followed the Federal con- tribution would be approximately $15,- 000,000. sy o Call $12,000,000 Fair, The Senators pointed out that they regarded the $12,000,000 recomrnended by the Senate committee as a reason able amount, but emphasized again that in conference they were willing to com« promise with the House on some figure below $12,000,000. Among 'those present were Robert V. (Continued on Psge 2, Column 3.) ALLEGED ATTACKER IS SLAIN BY MOB Colored Man Riddled With Bullets After Sisters Identify Him as Assailant. By the Associated Pre young white women as the attacked them last night. A mob of 1,000 men had been unrchln.lnq ‘ol':e the ';olorod man since this morning, when the young women re- ported the attack. Their last were given as Shipman, and were e twe women said they ware walk. WO n ~ R T m wi & pi 3 woman tore her dress jerking away from the man, but he the married woman at the point of his gun. Apparently centering in the heat ?nm" the g ter 102 de- Smn and tgPvecord highs in . Missouri and Eastern Kansas, In City & mark of 98 ees was set, the hottest June 21 ever dstered hy the Weather Bureau, isltls s ¥