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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Local thunderstorms this afterncon or to- oight; - tomorrow partly cloudy; slightly cooler. Temntun&—fli‘hnt. 91, at 5:30 pm. yeste! ; lowest, 69, at 5:15 a.m. today. y Full report on page Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 [ ¢ Foeni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 31,465. post office Entered as second class matter Washington, D, C. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SOUTHERN CROSS HALF WAY ACROSS ATLANTIC ON WAY 10 UNITED STATES Everything Going Well, Radio | X Messages From Kingsford- Smith Say After Ships Are| " “Passed at Sea. EXPECTED TO ARRIVE | OFF CAPE [RACE TONIGHT | | Heavy Fog Off Southern Tip o{‘; Newfoundland to Offer First TFaste of Bad Weather—Speed | Reported Faster Than Had Been Calculated. By the Associated Press. S. 8. INGOMA, June 24 (®).— The westward-bound airplane Bouthern Cross reported her position as 990 miles from Cape Race, Newfoundland, in a mes- sage to the steamship Ingoma at 10 am. (Eastern Standard Time). The following message was received: “Latitude 51.20 north, longi- tude 29 west. Steering 261. True speed 100 miles an hour. 3 p.m. (Greenwich Meridian Time). +990 miles from Cape Race.” BALDONNEL AIRDROME, Irish Free State, June 24.—As cheerful as crickets, the crew of the fa- mous airplane Southern Cross to- day were racing across the North Atlantic with their radio keeping up a-spirited streak of messages and their propellers eating up the mileage between Ireland and New York. | At 7:30 am. (Eastern Standard | Time) . the tr-motored plane| which already has a triumphant | crossing of the wide Pacific to its credit was 800 miles out on its daring voyage and was rapidly approaching the halfway mark on the overwater lap between the| coast of Ireland and Cape Race, Newfdundland. The plane had averaged a little fnore than 88 miles an hour since its departure from Port Marnock 10:27 p.m. Monday (Eastern| ndard Time) and had increased +#bs speed up to 105 miles an hour her heavy load of gasoline =¢' lighter. ! The four men aboard her—Capt. harles Kingsford-Smith, J. W. Stan- thage, radio operator; M. E. Van Dyk, assistant pilot, and Capt. J. T. Saul, mavigator—were in gay spirits, as was indicated by their many messages picked up. Sea Is Calm. The sky was. slightly overcast, but the ocean was calm and conditions seemed favorable for a fast hop across | the North Atlantic, which already has taken so heavy a toll of brave airmen and several women who sought to make the westward crossing. Undeterred by these tragedies of re- cent years, Capt. Kingsford-Smith flooded the air with cheerful messages. “Slightly overcast,” said a me:u(ei picked up in London at 1:15 pm. “Ocean like mill pond. Traveling 100 miles an hour. - If conditions were ll‘(s this always, ocean flying would be easy.’ It was cold high up there over the Atiantic, but the fiyers were dressed for it, and their messages showed no loss of zest for their great adventure. “Shooting suns and things!” said one message received shortly after 10 o'clock. “Gee! Icy cold outside. I bet Van and Smith are feeling it. We are all wrapped up like polar explorers, but it | is still pretty nippy. 1,800 Miles of Water. ‘The Southern Cross left the lflshi goast at 12:15 am. (E. S. T.) and then #ped westward over the Great Circle course on a line toward Cape Race, the southeasterly tip of Newfoundland. It is approximately 1,800 miles between the coast of Ireland and Newfoundland. | 10,000 SEE TAKE-OFF. Big Plane Leaves Ireland at 10:27 P.M. (E. 8. T.) Amid Cheers, | PORT MARNOCK, Irish Free State, " (Continued on Page 3, Column 6. | customs is attributed to the usual last- DIFFICULTI gation Probl BY CAPT. CHARLES I regard the odds as 25 to 1 in our favor chance than any horse had to win the the great 1 regard flight in have no tion and It has ‘whatever the Atlan CAPT. KINGSFORD-SMITH, Cause of the plane will weigh 15,400 pounds. is described as a floating gasoline tank. WESTWARD OCEAN FLIGHT ES MINIMIZED I‘Kingsford-Smilh Holds Fuel and Navi- ems Can Be Overcome. KINGSFORD-SMITH. BALDONNELL AIRDROME, Dublin, June 23.—Before setting out on an east-west crossing of the Atlantic in the Southern Cross, I wish to say that I have not the slightest desire to lose my life, nor have I any intention of doing so. of getting across safely—surely a better Derby. ‘There is enormous interest in all Atlantic flights, much more so than in Pacific flights, because Atlantic flights are undertaken for the purpose of linking races of people of Europe and America. this endeavor as less strenuous than the the same machine from California to Australia. the reason being that I know what our plane can do and have the benefit of all pre- vious experience and known factors entering into the project. It is not simply guesswork and I qualms about it. I have a motto. It is “Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.” Failures Are Explained. I think people attach too much importance to the difficulties of a westward crossing of the Atlantic because of previous difficulties. there are not difficulties—on the contrary. to my mind those faflures in the past have been largely the result of insufficient organiza- Not that But inadequate preparation. been too much a matter of simply hop- ping off and trusting to luck. You trust to Iuck altogether in backing other sorts of winners, but before starting an Atlantic flight you have got to know what you are doing and be prepared for emergency may arise. ‘There is no doubt about the fact that crossing tic from this side is far more difficult be- the prevailing westerly winds. I think | Wwe can overcome any difficulties in this respect by our large quantity of fuel, sufficient for 37 to 38 hours at a cruising speed of 100 miles an hour—an ample margin because the journey is less than 2,000 miles over water. Although our three engines have done more than 73,000 miles, we have increased their speed seven miles an hour by refinements in stream- | lining. ‘We are taking 1,300 gallons, which weigh 7,800 pounds, and fully loaded Certainly it is not far wrong if our machine (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) DR MORGAN SCORES LIMITS IN DRY LAW Tells Medical Association Curb on Prescriptions Is Insulting to Doctors. Special Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, June 24.—Declaring that the restriction placed by the Volstead act on the prescription of alcohol by physicians is “a reproach to our pro- fession,” Dr. Willlam Gerry Morgan of ‘Washington, incoming president of the American Medical Association, in his presidential address today, asked to have “these humiliating provisions wholly done away with” and the matter left entirely to the judgment of the in- dividual practitioner. Activities of the “bootlegger doctor,” he said, can be guarded against by ap- propriate provisions without casting a stigma on the entire profession. He said that a recent questionnaire showed that a majority of the members of the American Medical Association who answered it believe whisky is “nec- essary” in the treatment of disease. Congress, he declared, broke faith with the. medical profession in enacting the Volstead act. “The American Medical Association can take no part in the prohibition con- troversy so_ strenuously and, perhaps, acrimoniously under discussion by the American people,” Dr. Morgan declared. “For physicians, as well as laymen, have varying opinions on the subject; and there are some physiclans who even doubt the therapeutic value of whisky. “As your president,I do not-propose to take sides in this acute controversy, but I have something to say which repre- sents my conviction that it is our bounden duty to urge strenuously upon Ccngress that there be a radical change in those parts of the Voistead act which forbid the practitioner from following his trained judgment in his ministry to the patient. Such a prohibition, in -my judgment, is a reproach to our profes- sion. “To be able to say this with emphasis, I am not obliged to give my personal views as to the therapeutic value of al- cohol. ““We have in our keeping the honor of cur profession and when a substantial number of that profession does believe in the use of alcohol and their right to its us: is denied by Congress, we are summoned to decisive action. “A _tecent book of guickening signifi- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) TARIFF PAYS $24,000,000 Importers Rush to Get Shipments Ahead of New Law. By the Associated Press. Whatever else the new tariff bill does or fail to do for the country, it already has added a temporary in- crease in revenues of $24,000,000. ‘The estimate was made possible when the Treasury Department in its regular daily statement of Government receipts for "the close of business June 20 re- ported June incomes from tariff duties of $59,000,000, which compared with | $35,000,000 in the‘same 20 day last year. | Virtually all the increase in the | | minute rush of importers to get ship- ments into the United States before the law becomes effective. REFUELING PLANE GOES TO MEET| ‘SOUTHERN CROSS Ship Leaves New York fot Maine to Be Ready in Emergency. STREAM, N. Y., June 24— A plane which will refuel the Southern Cross ovér Miine if additional gasoline is neéded, took off from Curtiss Ficld today for Portland, Me. Using Portiand as a base, the refuel- ing plane will be prepared to go as far out ds N or as its gas supply , to the Southern. Cross. » Preparations were made to obtain action from Canadian A\ldt‘l'mrl‘l:;s to over Canadian ter- X’m:ry- T!flzl“pt. ingsford-Smith should desire & u(ug!dnls;onuc: before reach- the Unif tes. ng plane, used as & vefueling ship for some time by the Curtiss-' nrll:t with Aerne Melfteelt as me- By the Adsociated Press. ALLEY IF GAS IS NEEDED chanic and refueling technician. They have worked together on several refuel- ing_jobs; t was planned to give the Southern Cross at least 200 gallons of gasoline. Paul Gibson, manager of an oil com- pany, said he had been advised that no landing would be made at Old Orchard Beach, but that the Southern Cross | would proceed to the airport at Scar- boro, Me., where an attempt woula be | made to refuel it. Should the fuel of the Southern Cross be running low as the plane comes down the Maine Coast, it is pianned to send the refueling plane %o the airport at Rockland, 80 miles up the coast, snd attempt the transfer of fuel at that BRYANT ST. BILL Simmons’ Charge of Attempt to Saddle Cost on Public Met by Zihiman. Chairman Zihlman of the House Dis- trict legislative committee and Chair- man Simmons of the subcommittee, Dis- trict appropriations, clashed vigorously in the House this afternoon when Rep- resentative Simmons objected to pas- sage of the Senate bill for elimination of the Bryant street grade crossing uii- der unanimous consent. Representative Simmons, in explain- ing his objection, said that this legisla- tion was changed so as to relieve a Maryland community which would be beneficiary, from any costs and saddle the entire expenses on the District tax gnyem He said that this improvement on the program of the District high- way department to be carried out within three years, Representative Zihlman protested with heat that the improvement is recommended by the District Commis- sioners and the Budget Bureau and that the plans were altered at the direc- tion of the District Commissioners, Mr. Zihlman said that within a relatively short period four deaths have occurred at this grade crossing and that Mr. Simmons had told him that he cut it out of the District appropriation bill in order to substitute the widening of H street in the business section. During the altercation, Representative Simmons warned the District legislative committee members that as long as they continued to pass authorizations with- out consulting the proper officials and the condition of District finances they must expect to have their measures met by his tions. IS STOCKS DEPRESSED IN DRIVE ON RAILS Bear Pressure on Carriers Results in New Market Sinking Spell. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 24.—A bear drive against the rail stocks depressed the general level of these shares close to the resistance points of last November on the Stock Exchange today, several individual issues breaking through the bottom prices of last year. A long list of important shares from all groups sold off $2 to more than $5. Before the unsettling downturn of the rails the market had been dull, fluctuating uncertainly. During an in- terval of short covering in the morning many important stocks gained $2 to $8, but practically all of these advances were canceled by early afternoon. Re- newed weakness of the wheat market was disappointing to Wall Street and made stocks vulnerable to bear drives. July wheat dropped more than 2 cents, establishing another new low for the past 16 years, under 90 cents a bushel. Southern Railway sold off more than $5, Teaching the lowest level since 1925, St. Louis-San Francisco dropped nearly as much, recording the lowest point since 1926. Rock Island sagged more than $3, getting back to the levels of 1927. New York Central, New Haven, Missouri Pacific, Reading and Delaware & Hudson dropped about $2 to $4 to new low levels for the year or longer. Atchison sold up 4 in the early trading, only to drop more than $10 from the top. Sears, Roebuck dropped $5 to the lowest price since 1927. United States Steel,. American Telephone, General Electric, Westinghouse Electric, West- ern Union, Consolidated Gas, American Can, A. M. Byers and Warner Bros. sold off from $2 to more than $3. o b Boys to Hunt Devil Fish. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., June 24 ().—George W. and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt with six schoolmates have left on an all-Summer hunt for devil fish off the West Coast of South Amer- ica. Specially constructed motor boats have been shipped ahead. Alfred, 18, and George, 16, are the sons of Mrs, point. ‘The crew of the plane has strict Charles Minot Armory and the Iate Al Gwynne Vanderbilt. RESULTS IN CLASH d or“nen'mmnumpsmrftunfu Programs on’ Page “\m«aus SENATE ROLL CALL HOLDS §9,000,000 SUM INSUFFICIENT Conferees’ Effort for Com- promise Called Fair in Debate Preceding Vote. BINGHAM RESOLUTION IS APPROVED, 54 TO 5 Robinson, Arkansas, Consents to Plan if Others Regard It as Way to End Dispute. By a decisive vote of 54 to 5 the Sen- ate this afternoon adopted the Bingham resolution declaring that $9,000,000 is not a sufficient Federal contribution for District expenses. ‘The roll call vote came shortly before the conferees were scheduled to reopen negotiations and was in effect a vote of confidence in the Senate conferees who take the position that the House should be willing to meet the Senate on some compromise between the $9,000,000 and the $12,000,000 figure. ‘The record vote was preceded by a general debate in which Senator Bing- ham of Conecticut, Senator Phipps of Colerado, Senator Capper of Kansas and Senator Glass of Virginia, all vig- orously defended as fair and reason- able position of the Senate conferees in seeking a compromise, Minority Leader Robinson of Arkansas, while re- garding such a resolution as a bad precedent, said that in view of the eir- cumstances that have developed in the pénding case, he would not object to this resolution if Senator Bingham re- garded this as the only way to bring about a conference with the House cal- culated to result in a settlement of the disagreement. 3 Phipps Answers Howell. The resolution was opposed by Sen- ator Howell, Republican, of Nebraska, who sought to show that Washington has a light tax burden in comparison to other cities. Senator Phipps took issue with him on this argument and answered it. The overwhelming vote in support of the Senate conferees was taken at the request of Senator Bingham as the answer to the claim advanced in the House yesterday by Representative Crampton, Republican of Michigan, that there had been no record vote of the Senate’s opinion on the controversy. The resolution read as follows: “Resolved, 'n&‘b is the sense of the Senate that $9,000,000 is not a sufficient contribution to be made by the Federal Government to the expenses of the Dis- trict of Columbia.” ‘The roll call resulted as follows: In’ favor of the resolution: Republi- cans—Allen, Bingham, Borah, Capper, Cufting, Dale, Deneen, Gillette, Glenn, Goldsborough, Hatfield, Hebert, Jones, 1a Follette, McCulloch, McMaster, Met- calf, Moses, Oddie, Patterson, Phipps, Pine, Reed, Shortridge, Steiwer, Sulli- van, Thomas, Idaho; Townsend, Van- denberg, Walcott and Watson—31, _ Democrats—Ashurst, Barkley, Brock, (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) THREE ARE RENAMED T0 SCHOOL BOARD Rev. Abram Simon, Mrs. Philip S. Smith and Rev. F. A. I. Bennett Again to Serve. Rev. Abram Simon, Mrs. Philip 8id- ney Smith and Rev. F. A. I. Bennett were reappointed today for an addi- tlonal term of three years as members of the Board of Education. The appoint- ments are made by the justices of the District Supreme Court and were an- nounced by Chief Justice Wheat. Rev. Simon has been serving out the unexpired term of Isaac Gans, who re- tired some months ago from the board because of the press of other duties. The new term begins July 1. VIRGINIA SENATORS DISAGREE ON DIALS Swanson Answers Glass’ Resolution With Move for Optional Telephones. Virginia’s two Democratic Senators have broken on the dial telephone ques- tion. Senator Glass' resolution calling for removal of the new phones from the Senate wing of the Capitol and Senate Office Bullding has just been complied with. Saying he preferred both dial and manual telephones in his office—the dial apparatus for his secretary—Sena- tor Swanson offered a resolution today to authorize reinstatement of the dial ‘phones where Senators want them. Glass was on his feet to object .to im- mediate consideration, but Senator Johnson of California beat him to it, and the resolution went over until tomorrow. . BYSTANDER IS WOUNDED Bandits Shoot Him in Robbing Grand Rapids Bank. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 24 (). —Harm_Broene, a bystander, was shot and probably fatally wounded by three bandits who this morning robbed the B Street Branch of the Grand Rapids Savings Bank of approximately $10,000. New Low Records in Wheat. CHICAGO, June 24 (#).—Wheat harvest and collapse of prices gathered momentum today and once again new low records were set in the futures market here. July wheat to 881, cents a bushel, only a quarter cent above the June, 1914, high price, and the close today was at the bottom for the session, 0 ¢ 1 aq JUNE 24, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to * Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 112,637 : 1930 —THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. |s ozr YOURSELF- I'™M FoR LOOKIWNG INTQ 'T! \\ 4 AW i ®) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. Attends Luncheon Honoring | Himself, Marberry, West and Brown. Satisfied as Long as He | Pleases Art Shires, Player Says, in Speech. Art Shires told the Texas congres- sional delegation at luncheon given in honor of four Texas players on the Washington American League team that he had decided that Representatives and ball players could not satisfy every- body and that as long as he pleased “Art Shires I'm satisfied.” « Art Shires of Italy, Fred Marberry of Corsicana, Lloyd Brown of Beeville and Samuel West of Rule, Tex., and Speaker Longworth were the guests at the lunch- eon attended by a group of native Texas newspaper men. Asked to address the group, Art| Shires, the sandy-haired Texan, said he was not much of a speaker, but added: “I can tell you a few things whether you like them or not. | “Coming down to the Capitol in the ' | LAWMAKERS PLOW HANDS LIKE US SHIRES TELLS TEXAS DELEGATION ART “THE GREAT” SHIRES. automobile some of the' other boys | seemed kinda nervous,” Shires said. “I told them not to"worry, because these Representatives are just a big bunch of plow_hands like we are, and used to _(Continued on Page 2, Column 5. BIRLIS EXONERATED INBROTHER'S DEATH {Coroner’s Jury Gives Verdict. in Five Minutes—Held Un- | avoidable Homicide. Deliberating only 5 minutes, a coro- | ner's jury today decided that the killing | yesterday of David Berman, 10-year-old | schoolboy of 914 Irving street northeast, by his sister Hilda, 13, was an unavoid- able homicide. Acting on the advice of her attorney, N. H. Glueck, the girl declined to take the witness stand. She arose, however, to permitethe coroner’s jury to examine jher features. The girl, rather plump, showed no signs of emotion as she looked straighi ahead. Flaherty Is Chief Witness. Sergt. John Flaherty of the homicide squad was the chief of more than a dozen witnesses questioned. He told of talking with the girl for more than half an hour in the Child Welfare Home shortly after the shooting. Explaining that, she was hysterical, he said he ex- perienced difficulty in obtaining her version of the affair. Flaherty added that the girl said she had been washing dishes when she tired of the task. She asked her broth- er to assist her. He refused. An argu- ment ensued. At one point the boy threatened to call his father by tele- phone, not knowing where to reach his mother, who was visiting friends. The girl took the telephone away from the boy. She said he then ran upstairs, threat- ening to obtain his father's pistol and shoot her. As he had failed to execute similar threats on previous occasions, she thought little of it until he came running_down the stairway from the second floor a short time later with a pistol in each hand. She wrested the weapons away from him. “T was standing there talking to him,” the girl was quoted as saying, “when the pistol I was holding in my right | hand went off accidentally.” A bullet from the .32 automatic pistol entered the boy's head, causing death one hour later, Meanwhile Hilda sum- moned Eric O. Zabel, a next-door neigh- bor. He called police of the twelfth precinct and an ambulance. Zabel testified he heard the pistol report, but made no investigation until his conversation with Hilda because he thought at first that some child in the neighborhood had set off a firecracker. Lieut. James W. McCormick of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) o CHICAGO GOING STRONG THIRTEENTH DAY IN AIR By the Associated T ess. CHICAGO, June 24.—At 6:40 am. (C. D. T) today Kenneth and Hunter, piloting the refueling endur- ance plane City of Chicago, had been aloft 302 hours in their attempt to break the world record of 420 hours plus, held by the St. Louis Robin. It was the thirteenth day in the air. At the 300-hour mark, 109 refueling con! ground crew had been made. To' escape the blistering heat the fiyers yesterday and last nw aroupd an altitude of 3. hn | letic Commission allowed SENATE T0 DISCUSS CRAMTON PARK CUT Deficiency A ppro priation Measure Comes to Floor With Amendments. The Senate will begin consideration this afternoon of the second deficiency | appropriations bill, from which the ap- propriations committee yesterday elim- inated the $1,000,000 approved by the House to make a start on carrying out the Cramton park development pro- gram, The Senate committee added a num- ber of local items, but the chief inter- est in the Senate action on the bill will center dround the striking out of the park appropriation, beeause of the rela- | tion which this bears to the dispute over the Federal contribution in the District appropriation bill. It was learned yester- day afternoon from an authoritative source that the park item was cut from the deficiency bill because of a Jfeeling at the Senate end of the Capitol that additional parks-are desirable primarily because this is the National Capital, and that unless Congress is willing to make some Increase in its share of maintaining the city, public schools and similar local needs should be met ahead of park extension. Fate May Rest in Conference. If the Senate approves the commit- tee action in striking out the park fund the fate of this item would rest finally in_conference, and the indica- | tions in Senate circles were that the final decision on the park item would depend somewhat on the outcome of the question of the Federal share in nu-} trict expenses. 3 The deficiency bill has been amended to make the following sums available for the District Supreme Court and the District Court of Appeals, as a result of legislation providing for four addi- tional justices: Repairs to the District Supreme Court, $22,000; bailiffs, $6,480; salaries, District Supreme Court, $25.- 200; and additional expenses in the Court of Appeals, $40,220. ‘The Senate committee added $20,000 "(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) . GODFREY’S LICENSE TO FIGHT REVOKED By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 24.—George Godfrey, the giant colered fighter, who last night fouled Primo Carnera, the ambling Alp, in the fifth round, to- day lost his license as a boxer. In addition to revoking his license permanently, the Pennsylvania All;- only $5,000 for the bout. He was received $10,000 for the 10 rounds, but under the commission’s rule this was cut to the pro rata basis of the num- ber of rounds he fought. ‘The commission withdrew from God- frey the status as a heavyweight con- tender, it having ruled some time ago that & heavyweight world's champion would not be d in rennsyl- | S S g s to have | HONELL PROPOSES NEW EAS SEDLLE 60-Cent Net Rate on Mini- mum of 500 Cubic Feet or Less Is Provided. Another alternative schedule of gas rates to be considered by Congress in connection with pending legislation to, authorize a merger of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies has been drafted by Senator Howell, Re- publican of Nebraska, who has been making a study of the gas merger bill. HOOVER DESCRIBES PENSION BILL AS BAD LEGISLATION, BASED ON UNTRUTH “Measure Discriminatory and Violates !ntegrity of Gov- ernmental Action,” Says President, Indicating Veto. HOUSE LEADERS TO HOLD PARTY CAUCUS TONIGHT Tilson Indicates Compromise Bill More Acceptable to President Will Be Submitted, but Doubt That House Will Drop Pending Measure Appears. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, President Hoover indicated clear~ ly today he would veto the veter- ans’ bill which passed the Senate yesterday by a vote of 66 to 6. “This bill is just bad législa- | tion,” was the comment of the President made in a statement to the* press today. “It violates the very integrity of governmental action.” 4 The President said the bill was not in the interests of the veterans themselves or of the American people. He made it clear that he was not opposed to legislation which would take care of the number of marginal cases of veterans now sufféring disability and | he pointed cut that such a bill could | be enacted into law within the finan- | clal resources of the Government and witheut the danger of bringing about a deficit in the treasury. Predicated on Falsehood. Discriminatory” was the adjective Senator Howell's latest amendment, which will be printed and placed on file as one of several propositions to be weighted when the gas merger bill is taken up in the Senate, provides for thy {following scale of rates beyond which the company ‘could not go if it accepted the privilege of merging: For the first 500 cublc feet or less (per meter per month) 60 cents net rate and 70 .cents .gross rate; for the next 1,000 cuble feet, 80- cents net, $1 gross; for the next 1,000 cubic feet, 85 cents net, 95 cents gross, and for all over 2,500 cubic feet, 75 cents net, 85 cents gross. The net rates would ap- Ply to those who pay their bills within the discount period and the gross rates on bills paid -after that time. Senator Howell's previous proposal,’ drafted last week, provided as follows: For the first 2,500 cubic feet, 85 cents net and 95 cents gross; for all over that amount, 75 cents net and 85 cents gross, and a minimum charge per month of 60 cents. His new amend- ment, therefore, provides a sliding scale of rates on gas below 2,500 cubic feet, with the same rates as in his previous | amendment for all gas used above that | amount. The new amendment, however, would require the company to agree to abide by certain additional restrictions in the matter of valuation and rate of return if it accepted these terms of merger. It states that if the company avails itself of the privilege of this plan it would thereby agree: 1. That in any valuation for rate-making purposes nothing shall be included on account of franchise or going value; 2, that the return on value for rate-making purposes shall not ex- ceed 7!, per cent and that the rates for gas after July 31 would not exceed the schedule outlined in the latest amend- ment. The new amendment retains the pro- vision for a further reduction if the thermal value of the gas drops below 60C British thermal units, and also re- tains the charge for reconnecting service within six months after it has been dis- connected for the same customer at the same premises. The new amendment contains some other variations from the prior one. . |DOCTOR SUES CAPONE 182,000 for Attending Brother-in- Law Is Asked in Action That Adds to Legal Troubles. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, June 24.—A suit for $2,500 for a doctor's bill is the latest of Scarface Al Capone's legal troubles. Capone was named in a suit filed in Civil Court of Record by Arthur Fried- man, attorney for Dr. Kenneth Phillips, | who' listed various items of medical service. Of the amount alleged due, Dr. Phil- | lips’ suit said, $135 is for services in 1929 in treating “Costello, Joseph, | Coughlin and Boswell,” whose first | names are unknown. During the same period, the sult alleged that the phy- sician’ attended “the cook’s wife, the assistant chef and the mate on the boat.” Two thousand dollars of the bill is for services in attending Dennis Cough- lin, Capone's brother-in-law, who suf- fered severe injuries when his auto- mobile struck a trailer at New Smyrna two months ago. FOR BILL OF $2,500, used by the Preésident in scoring the | measure, which was put through the | Senate by an overwhelming vote yes- terday despite the protests which he himself and Secretary Mellon of the | Treasury’ Department and Gen, Hines, im-l(;l of the Veterans' Bureau, had |~ He said that the bill was “untruthful and predicated on falsehood.” He di scribed it as a mere subterfuge. It singled out, he said, a group of from 75,000 to 100,000 veterans to bemefit and discriminated against another group of 200,000 who were just as much entitled to aid. President Hoover predicted that the country would disapprove the veterans’ bill if it should be enacted into law. While the President was scoring the veterans' bill, the Republican leaders of the House were preparing for the party caucus tonight which to con- sider the President’s objections to the veternas’ bill. The majority leader, Mr. Tilson, indicated today that a com- promise bill, more acceptable to the President, would be submitted to the caucus. There appeared to be doubt, however, that the House members could | be_weened away from the pending bill. Soon after the House met today the _ veterans' bill containing the Senate amendments was recelved and laid on the Speaker’s tahle. It was believed that no action would be caken on it until after the Republican caucus has been held tonight. Unless the caucus should determine to back up the President and support | the compromise measure, it is expected that the veterans’' bill will be sent to conference in an effort to adjust the | difference between the House and the Senate on that measure. Text of Statement. ‘The President’s statement to the press follows: “In this problem we are dealing with sick and disabled veterans. Except for some marginal cases the Government has long since generously provided for |the men whose disabilities arise from | the war itself. These cases before us, except for a comparatively small num- ber of marginal ones, ality men (Continued on Page 2, Column BANK HEADS AND STATE OFFICIAL NAMED IN SUIT | | Charges Officers Knew Institution Was Insolvent Nine Days Be- fore It Was Closed. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, June 24—Claims that the officers of the Bank of Bay Bis- cayne knew it was insolvent nine days before it was closed and that Ernes: Amos, State controller, was derelict in his duty were made in a suit for a receivership filed in United States Dis- trict Court here today by James G. Hawkins and his wife, Mrs. Rosa Haw- kins, depositors. The petitioners asked that a receiver, appointed by the court, take charge of the bank's assets and issue a detailed inventory and appraisal of assets and | liabilities. Judge Halsted L. Ritter designated next Monday as the date for a hearing. The suit claimed that when the banl closed, June 11, $10,000,000 in deposits were protected by a reserve of only $300,000, although Florida statutes re- quire a reserve of 20 per cent of de- posits, WAR VETERAN MINUS FEET RATED AS PARTLY DISABLED BY BUREAU Court Decision Ignored in Case of D. C. Ex-Service Man. ‘World War veterans found in court proceedings to be totally disabled are| interested in a case filed in the Supreme Court today by Joseph 8. Kalasanckas of this city. He was wounded in battle, and was found by the courts to be totally dis- abled under the law which provides such @ rating for the loss of both feet. m{h&hd.l!!cwr Oih'lhe Veterans’ Bureau, Wi gourt at onls. him & ‘eckial G g Review Is Asked. in fixing his compensation, finding that while one foot and a portion of one leg d been amputated, a stump of the other remained, and that with a spe- clally built shoe and a crutch or cane he could walk. Counsel for the veteran in.the peti- tion for a review take the position that the director was controlled by the court decision as to total disability, a ques- tion on which the highest has never