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W8 Wesiner Partly ot y: Jowest, 7 e —— No. 31,471, Entered as post office, w Iocal thundershowers, Il--nurqunl nT' Pull yeport on page . Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 Puresu Forecast ond class mat! ashington, . r C. PRESIDENT HONORS ~ KINGSFORD- SHITH - AND PLANE'S CREW Capital Pays Tribute Fearless Australian Flyer i on Arrival. .‘GIANT PLANE BRINGS AVIATORS TO CITY Reception at Bolling Field Is Fol- lowed by Luncheon at ‘White House. ‘The National Capital today paid its tribute to Maj. Charles Kingsford-Smith, veteran of three of the greatest flights ever made, and the three members of $he crew of the Southern Cross. The party was welcomed at Bolling Pield by a cheéering crowd and was @reeted officially by aviation officers of the Government and diplomatic repre- tatives of the three nations repre- §nted by the Southern Cross fiyers. eir arrival at Bolling Field at 11 oclock marked the beginning of four crowded hours of official honors and Feceptions. President Hoover took the lead in honoring the Capital's distinguished visitors. _He had them for luncheon at the White House and afterward posed with them for photographers in the rear grounds of the White House. The expedition leader told Mr. Hoover he expected to take off from New York in the Southern Cross on Wednesday for the Pacific Coast to complete the last lap of his flight around the world in the plane. He expects to make a » stop at Chicago, he said. He did not “say who woulu accompany him on the flight. b Planes Escort Craft. * The flight of the party from New York this morning was made in Amer- dca’s largest plane, a four-motored Fok- ker monoplane, capable of carrying 30 Escorted passengers, y there Army attack planes, which went from Bolling Field to meet the visitors over Balti- « more, the big Fokker appeared over the Capital promptly at 11 o'clock. pla d over the dome of the Capitol, down a followed by its escort, and flew Pennsylvania avenue over the ‘White House before circling to land at Bolling Field. | Maj. E. Bertrandias of the Reserve| Corps piloted the plane and set the big ship down to a perfect landing in front of a roped-off inclosure occupied by the K‘e;lwmmg party, at 11:10 o'clock. As plane rolled to a stop in the middle of the field, Licut. Louis M. Merrick, operations officer at Bolling Field, ran out and climbed aboard to direct the taxiing plan> up to the reception com- | ttee. | As Kingsford-Smith stepped from a | side door of the big. plane. 3 2 Band broke inte the str: “God while the crowd Evert Van Dyk: Capt. J. Patrick Saul, | Southern Cross navigator, and John W. Stannage, radio operator. | Balchen Is Aboard. { ‘The Fokker also brought as passengers Bernt Balchen, chief pilot for Admiral Richard E. Byrd on the Antarctic ex-! pedition; Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, | America’s leading war ace; Anthony H. G. Fokker, designer and builder ol the, ' Southern Cross and of the plane used son today’s trip; officials of Western Air Express, owners of the big Fokker and| New York newspaper men. | In the party which welcomed the fiyers was F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics; Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, chief of the Army Air Corps: David S. Ingalls, as- i to! TANKS ALMO |Contact Made at Dawn With Only 5 Minutes’ Supply Left. N AIR 452 HOURS Hope to Keep on Flying Until Fourth of July in Second-Hand Ship. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 30.—The Hunter boys—two farmers who turned from the plough to the plane—roared onward today in triumph through the skies, piling more hours on the new world's | endurance record they established =arly | Sunday. The 166th refueling contact was made at dawn in response to an urgent note from the fiyers. When contact was accomplished, the tanks of the City of Chicago, which then was in its 445th hour of con- tinuous flight, contained only enough fuel for five minutes more ‘n the air. Fifty gallons—enough for about threc | and one-half hours’ flight—were trans- |ferred to the endurance plane. ‘The old mark of the St. Louis Robin, 420 hours, 21 minutes and 30 seconds, was passed at 5:0130 (Central atlnd-! ard time) yesterday. At 12:40 p.m. the | Hunter brothers—John and Kenneth— | had kept their plane City of Chicago continuously in the air for 452 hours with no signs of immediate descent. | ‘The record exceeded that of the St. | Louis Robin by 32 hours. Bucking time and tiredness, the| brothers hope to remain aloft at least | until July 4. [ Although the record set by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine last July 30 in St. Louis was equaled at a minute and a half after 4 am.. yesterday, it (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) ST RUN. DR Above: JOHN HUNTER. Below: KENNETH HUNTER. SMOOT ANNOUNCES MARRIAGE PLANS Utah Senator to Wed Mrs.| Alice T. Sheets in Near Future. £ T By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, June 30.—Sen- Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets of Salt Lake City would be married soon. The date was not made known. The ceremony will be performed in the Latter Day Saints Temple here. Senator Smoot, chairman of the Sen- ate finance committee, arrived Satur- day from Washington. Rumors of the engagement have been circulating for several weeks, following Mrs. Sheet’s recent trip to Washington where she was seen with Mr. Smoot on_various occasions. Mrs. Sheets, prominent in activities of the Latter Day Saints Church, of which Mr. Smoot is an apostle, has been a widow since 1918. Her first husband, Edwin S. Sheets, a bishop in | the Latter Day Saints Church, died | during the influenza epidemic of mn| year. sistant Secretary of the Navy for A-ro- | nautics: Rear Admiral William A. Mof- | fett, chief of the Navy Burcau of Aero- | nautics; Capt. Ernest Clark, col mandant of Bolling Field, and secre- taries of the British embassy ana the Irish and Netherland legations. | After the visitors had been welcomed by the few members of the “United | States air cabinet” and the diplomatic Tepresentatives, they were escorted to ‘waiting automobiles sent by the em- ssy_and legations, and left, under | " (Continued cn Page 2, Column 8.) ANTHRACITE MINERS | STUDY WAGE SCALE Operators’ and Workers' Groups Meet to Draft New Agree- ment for Industry. i By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, June 30.—Committecs | ¢ were named today by anihracite miners | and operators to draft a new agreement | on wages and_working conditions in | the industry. They went at once into | secret session. « The scale committee of districts 1 and 9, all in Pennsylvania, gathered today and designated as representativ of the miners John L. Lewis, interna. tional president of the United Mine | Workers of America; Philip Murray, vice president: Thomas Kennedy tary and treasurer, and the presidents of the three districts. The miners were informed that the operators’ committee would consist of W. W. Inglis, Scranton, president of the Glen Alden Coal Co.. Richard P. Grant, New York, president of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co.; A. J. Maloney, Philadelphia, president of the Philadel- hia & Reading Co.; Michael Gallagher, t Coal Co.; W. H. Suendey, New York. vice president and general manager of “the anthracite subsidiary of the Madeira-Hill Co., and J. B. Warriner, general manager of the Lehigh Naviga- tion Coal Co. ew York, president of the Pittston | Senator Smoot’s first wife died more | than a year ago in Washington. futerstir e e | VON LUCKNER SCHOONER IS DAMAGED BY FIRE No One Is Injured as Flames Sweep | Galley and Mess Room | of Craft at Pier. y the Associated Press. NEW YORK., June 30.—Fire early| today damaged the galley and mess | room of the Mogpelia, the four-masted | schooner of Count Felix Von Luckner, German “sea devil,” at her pier at Sev- | enty-ninth street and the Hudson River. | No one was injured. A city fireboat extinguished the blaze. Count Von Luchner said he expected to have the damage repaired at once and that there would be little if any delay in the ship's departure, which was scheduled for tomorrow. Two of the passengers were heating water in the galley, when oil from the stove ignited. The flames spread to| the wood work. SEVILLE AUTHORITIES | BELIEVE STRIKE OVER| | Industries Function Normally, but | B: Police Patrols Continue Vigil. By the Associated Press SEVILLE, Spair June 30.—All in-| |dustries ia Seville were functioning | normally today and the authorities ex- pressed the belief that the strike, with its last week’s violence, was ended. | . Police patrols will continue their vigil | day and night to prevent further at- | tempts to disturb the peace. | The Tablada Airfield has erdered two | lplancs to scout the countryside and re- | | port any efforts of laborers or syndical- ists to hold mass meetings. NEAR-VICTIM OF ROBBER DEMANDS| JAIL FOR MAN WHO SPURNED COIN “Dime Is Dime,” He Tells Policeman, After Lengthy | | | | Pursuit of Evanstonian. i b By the Assoctatea Fress. ‘xvms‘rou. 7L, June 30.—J. D. = ST ed in low tones. y Noble b pistol disgustedly back into pocket, got. in. his automobile and AWRY. k. Bekberg ran for a policeman. He i faclly found cne. They started pur- poked a pistol into the ribs of D. L. Eckberg yesterday. | suing Noble and eventually caught him “Arrest that man,” said Eckberg, pointing a furious finger at Noble. “He tried to rob me.” “My, my,” said the policeman. “You | must be carrying a lot of money to go to all this trouble to catch the fellow. “The amount of money on my per- | son,” replied Mr. Eckberg, “was a dime. And a dime, officer, is a d.\me.)" 4 ator Reed Smoot of Utah announced |The monoplane Columbia, veteran, of a at his office here today that he and" transatlantic fight and once holder of |a low-lying spot in the Atlantic and naldez, Spanish priest, FLYERS COMPLETE BERMUDA FLIGHT Monoplane Columbia Reaches Island and Returns Without Stop. By the Associated Prese. VALLEY STREAM, N. Y., June 30.— a world endurance record, had another exploit to her credit today, a non-stop flight to Bermuda and back. Roger Q. Williams, a transatlantic pilot, and Errol Boyd, steering the Co- lumbia by the navigation of Harry E. Connor, hopped off from Roosevelt Field at 4:01 am. (E. S. T.) yesterday, found the speck of an island 800 miles away, circled above it in a tropical downpour, then headed back, landing at Curtiss Field at 9:03 p.m. Drop Mail Sack. At Hamilton, Bermuda, the fiyers dropped a sack of mail. In it was a cablegram addressed to Dr. James H. Kimball, New York meteorologist, con- gratulating him on the accuracy of the weather reports which he had fur- nished the fiyers before the start. The flight to the island required 9 hours and 19 minutes, the plane ar- riving over Hamilton at 1:20 pm. The return flight was made in 7 hours and 3 minutes, ‘The flyers said they had no trouble in finding the island, although it is they were troubled with fog part of the way. The purpose of the flight was to test the feasibility of commercial air travel between New York and the Winter re- sort of Bermuda. Columbia Flown to Germany. The Columbia was the plane in which | Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine flew from Roosevelt Field to Germany in June, 1927. Earlier that year Chamberlin and Bert Acosta es- tablished in the Columbia an endur- ance record of more than 51 hours, bringing the record to this country for the first time. Williams and Capt. Lewis A. Yancey flew from Old Orchard, Me,, to San- tander. Spain, last year in the mono- plane Pathfinder, _After refueling, they continued on to Rome. Boyd 15 a veteran of the Canadian Royal Air Force, with 16 years' flying experience. Connor is a Navy trained navigator. ALLISON DEFEATS CHAMPION COCHET| American Upsets Net Dope to, Eliminate Favorite at Wimbledon. By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON, England, June 30.— In a day of spectacular tennis featured by a smashing victory by the young | Texan, Wilmer Allison, over the world champion, Henri Cochet of France, the United States today placed three men in the semi-finals of the British cham- plonships. ~The fourth survivor was Jean Borotra of France. Allison amazed the b'g gallery of 15,000 by stopping Cochet in siruight sets, 6—4. 6 4, 6—3, in a match that marked the French star's first defeat at the hands of an American since 1927, Bill Tilden' ripped through the first set against J. C. Gregory of England and then toyed with the big Yorkshire- man to win at 6—1, 6—2, 6—3, and John Doeg, Santa Monica, Calif., turned back a rival from the United States, Gregory Mangin, Newark, N. J., 6—3, 1—6. 6—3. 6—4. The American forces met with a re- verse in the fourth quarter-final when George Lott of Chicago was beaten by Borotra, 2—6, 6—3, 6—3, 6—4. The Americans had expected Lott to win and Allison to lose. ¥ 400-Year-0ld Columbus Mememto. he & WASHINGTON, 'CHICAGO FLYERS STILL UP; PLANE REFUELED AS GAS inight fireman at the apartment, told | police he heard a man and woman NEW_YORK, June 30 (#).—Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach has acquired a 40 year-old manuscript by a friend of Co- lumbus which indicates that the di; coverer was once a dealer in printed books. The author is Andres Ber- b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D e, HUSBAND, ENRAGED BY ALIMONY, KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF Fires Fatal Bullets After She Refuses to Relieve Him of Payments. DEAD WOMAN’S SISTER WITNESSES TRAGEDY Victim, Shot Twice in Body, Dies on Way to Emergency Hospital. Flying into a rage when his wife refused to relieve him of alimony pay- ments, Charles R. Craddock, 38 years old. of Alexandria, shot and killed his wife and then fired a fatal bullet through his own heart in an apartment at 1819 G street this afternoon. The wife, Mrs. Blanche Craddock, died on the way to Emergency Hos- pital. She had been shot twice in the body. The shooting was witnessed by Miss Frances Marshall, 28-year-old sis- ter of the slain woman. Miss Marshall told police the husband came to the apartment shortly after 1 o'clock and immediately began quarreling with his estranged wife. “Blanche had been awarded a tem- porary divorce with alimony from her husband several weeks ago,” Miss Marshall said. “She was afraid of him and came to live with me and my sister Gladys in our apartment several weeks ago. Her husband had made several demands, first that she come back to live with him, and second that she re- lieve him of alimony payments. She refused to do either and he came to see her this afternoon. Tells ‘About Shooting. “Almost immediately he started to quarrel with her and struck her when she tried to escape. He grabbed her by the throat, throwing her around the room and striking her head against the wall when I tried to force him to leave her alone. He threw her to the floor and grabbed me, forcing me out of the apartment and closing the door in my face. I ran for help, but before I could get down the hallway I heard two shots and Blanche screaming. She said in an agonized voice, ‘Oh, my God. don’t shoot me again.’ I heard several more shots and then I ran into the street. I was mad with fear and hor- ror and didn't know where I was going or what I was doing.” Eye witnesses said they saw Miss Marshall running madly up Nineteenth street, her hair streaming in the wind, t her sister had been Alive When Police Arrive. ‘When police reached the apartment they found Mrs. Craddock lying in the front hallway. She was still breathing, but died as she was being carried downstairs, where an ambulance was waiting. The husband was lying across a davenport in the front room. He was dead. A .32-caliber black auto- matic pistol was lying by his side. ‘The apartment was in a state of wild disorder, overturned chairs and tables indicating that the woman had strug- gled desperately to escape her enraged husband. Police found cards in the man's pocket which indicated that he was employed as an engineer on the Southern Railway. Just at the moment the shots were fired, 1l-year-old Evelyn Grissett, whose mother runs a cafeteria in the apartment house, was descending the fire escape opposite the apartment in which the shooting occurred. Her at- tention was attracted by two pistol shots, and, glancing through the win- dow, she saw the man and woman grappling in a death struggle. The frightened child ran back up the fire escape to the third floor and out into the corridor. There she met a man whose name she did not know. She | told him of what she had seen. The man went to apartment 210, occupied by the Marshall sisters, and opened the door. He saw the bodies on the floor but before he could render any assistunce police had arrived. Hialmer H. Carper, driver of the police car, was the first to reach the apart- ment where the killing took place. Run- ning to the prostrate form of the wom- en, he raised the body and as he did so two bullets fell to the floor. Plumber Also Hears Shots. The officers were called to the apart- ment by Mrs. Blanche Gilbur, tele- | phone operator, who received her first | information of the tragedy when Miss Marshall ran screaming through the lobby of the apartment. The shots were also heard by John Pinkham, a plumber, of 1926 Lawrence street northeast, who was working mn the basement of the apartment house. Leaving his work, he ran to Nine- teenth and H streets where he notified a policeman on traffic duty at that point, Aaron Johnson, 46-year-old quarreling in the Marshall apartment last night. It was not known, however, whether Craddock had visited his Wlfcl at_that time. The Craddocks have one child, a boy, who is said to be in school at Alex- andria. SOVI"ET AIDES ARRIVE. U. S. Engineers to Install Modern Systems in Coal Areas. MOSCOW, June 30 (#).—Five prom- inent American coal-mining engineers, connected with Stuart, James & Cooke of New York, arrived here today to assist Soviet authorities in installing the most modern American systems of organization and management for the development of Russia’s extensive coal areas. The group is headed by Carel Robi- son of Lexington, Ky. The others, all of whom hae two-year contracts, are Roy M. Harrah, Pitisburgh, Pa Gordon-Getty, Shamokin, erick G. Hatch, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Frederick T. Repp of Scranton, Pa. Bingo's Crime Is Forgiven. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 30 (#), —Since Bingo lived for nearly two years on fish mostly there is an inclination to forgive him. He stole and ate thelnot locate Chazaro and roast beef that had been bought ;or.mlnuuu. oe a. welcome dinner by relatives to de Ganahl, who was with Byrd. Bingo is a dog. 8 ening Star. MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1930—FORTY PAGES. b DR. HARVEY W. WILEY, CRUSADER FOR PURE FOOD LAWS, IS DEAD Fought 30 Years to Protect Public From Harmful Adulterations. Succumbs to Heart Disease at Age of 86—Had Been Il Since June 4. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, famous pure food authority, through whose 30 years’ campaign the public is now protected by law from harmful food adultera- tions and methods of food preservation, died at 2:30 o'clock this morning at his residence, 2345 Ashmead place, from heart disease. He was 86 years old. ‘His lifelong interest in pure food regu- lations and health never waned, even during the last eight months or so w%n he was pncuuu{.ln invalid from the heart malady thai finally ended a (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) EX-KAISER 1S EAGER 70 FACE WAR TRIAL Would Submit Guilt Issue to Court-Martial—Ready to Resume Throne. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 28.—Former Kal- ser Wilhelm is willing and even eager to have an international court-martial determine whether he was responsible for the outbreak of the World War in 1914, Poultney Bigelow, American his- torian, declared today on his return from a visit with the self-exiled ex- emperor. For three days and nights, said Bige- low, he and Wilhelm sat in the former Kaiser's great library at Doorn, Holland, studying documents from imperial files. At the end of that time, Bigelow said, he concluded that Russia primarily, and England secondarily, were responsible for the conflict. Knew Ex-Kaiser as Boy. ¥ “Such is the case if the Kaiser’s docu- ments are authentic,” Bigelow said, “and I believe they are, for in 60 years of friendship I have never known him to have done a crooked thing.” Bigelow went to Deorn to mend a friendship between the two which was ruptured at the beginning of the World War—a friendship begun when Bigelow was 17 and Wilheim 13. Their amity ceased when Bigelow blamed the Ger- man Emperor, in 1914, for starting the war. ‘The venerable American, who is 75 and as tall and straight as a steel rod, is distinguishable by a beard cut square, brown but streaked with gray. ‘The son of John Bigelow, United States Ambassador to France under Lincoln, Poultney Bigelow, met Wilhelm when the latter was a student at Potsdam and out of a friendship based on the young German prince's interest in James Fennimore Cooper’s books. Tears in Their Eyes. “‘My friend,’ was the former Kaiser's greeting to me on my arrival, and there were tears in both our eyes,” said Bige- low. “Then you apologized to him for the letters you wrote during the war?” Bigelow was asked. “It was less an apology than admit- ting to an old friend that I was mis- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) DEPUTY WITH GUN HUNTS MEXICO PRESIDENT’S AIDE Fires Shot in Air at Entrance of Theater—Not Arrested Be- cause of Immunity. .| By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 30.—Gonzalo Santos, state deputy and former head of the House of Deputies, caused a sen- sation today by appearing at the er- trance to the Lirico Theater with. four followers, where he fired a pistol into the air and said he wished to “find and kill” Herhandes Chazaro, private secre- tary to President Ortiz Rubio. Santos entered the theater, but did left in & few Police reserves were called out, but did not arrest Santos, who ecnjoys official immunity, DR. HARVEY W. WILEY. HOUSE VOTES FUND FOR PAY INREAS jloint Resolution Authorizing Appropriation Permits Raise Tomorrow. On motion of Chairman Simmons of | the subcommittee on District appropria- | tions, the House today passed a joint | resolution authorizing appropriations sufficient to pay the increases in salary allowed to police and firemen under the substantive law recently enacted. Chatrman Simmons reported that the appropriations for salaries of police and firemen for the fiscal year 1931 in ihe pending District of Columbia appro- priation bill are made in accordance with the act of May 27, 1924. The legislation recently passed changes this salary rate. The joint resolution approved today | will permit the new rates to be paid | commencing tomorrow under appropri- ations for the fiscal year 1931, whether such appropriations are carried in the regular District of Columbia bill or are provided through a joint resolution continuing the 1930 appropriations dur- ing the fiscal year 1931, FIVE ARE ARRESTED ' AS COUNTERFEITERS | Printed and Passed $300,000 in $20 Bills Throughout East, Fed- eral Agent Says. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 30.—Allan G. Straight, head of Federal secret service operatives in New York, announced to- day that Saturday night and yester- day his men arrested four men and one woman who had printed and distributed through the East $300,000 in $20 bills. The five prisoners, all of whom he said admitted the charge against them, are Joseph Minkin, arrested Saturday night with one of the plates on his person; his brother, Isadore; Samuel Weiss of Coney Island, a coffee shop proprietor; Benjamin 'Grabownitz, a bookbinder, and his wife, Bertha, Mr. Straight said that a falling-out be- tween the Minkins and Grabownitz led to_the round-up. The notes, which bear the portrait of Andrew Jackson, are excellent counter- feits, Straight said. They were largely distributed in Eastern States. A few got as far West as Detroit. WOMAN FALLS TO DEATH Employer Asserts She Had Been Nervous for Some Time. PHILADELPHIA, June 30 (#)—Miss Mable Snowden, 55, private secretary to Joseph Wayne, jr., president of the Philadelphia National Bank, jumped or fell to her death today from the coping around the roof of the 23-story Phila- delphia Bank Building. Mr. Wayne said Miss Snowden had been in a highly nervous condition for several months. Radio Programs on ?ue C-4 2 b X ¥ UM Means Associated Saturday's Cireulation, Sunday's Clreulation, " M AN — Press. TWO CENTS, e HOUSE SUSPENDS RULES TO CONTINUE D.C. APPROPRIATION 10 PREVENT CRISIS Simmons Resolution Passes Pending Compromise on $3,000,000 Difference Be- tween Conferees. STAFFORD IS HOPEFUL FOR HOUSE CONCESSION Lengthy Discussion Reveals Senti- ment Shifting to Favor Increas- ing Lump Sum Contribution of United States From $9,000,000 POLICEMAN KILLS - GOLORED FUGITIVE Youth, Being Pursued as Purse-Snatching Suspect, Is Felled by Shot. A colored youth fleeing from the vicinity of C stréet and New Jersey avenue southeast, where he was alleged to have snatched a pocketbook from a woman, was shot and wounded fatally shortly before midnight last night by the patrolman on the beat, Pvt. L. D. Peyton of No. 4 precinct, who had chased the fugitive for several blocks. Peyton was being detained at his precinct today while police completed their investigation of the case pending a corner’s inquest tomorrow, He was not suspended. According to Peyton's report, the col- order youth, Edward Little, 18, of 913 | Four-and-a-half street southwest, sped on, despite the pol n’s repeated | orders to halt. The fleeing youth fell {from a bullet which struck him in the thigh and ranged upward through the lot oft Canal street, near § street, | Peyton was patrolling his beat in | company with Policeman L. G. Scrip- | ture when he heard a woman’s screams. | As the two officers hurried toward C | street and New Jersey avenue southeast, | which is just inside No. 5 preeinct, | they saw two colored men running |away from the intersection toward | them. ‘The colored men separated, when they say the officers and Scripture went off in pursuit of one fugitive, while Pey- ton ran after Little, who turned south on South Capital street, then west on S street and east on Canal street. Scrip- ture did not see the shooting. The injured man was taken to Emer- gency Hospital in the automobile of John Thomas of No. 51 D street south- east, where he died shortly after 4 o'clock this morning. The woman al- leged to have been robbed by the two men was Ida Martin of 934!> Twenty- fourth street. The pocketbook, which was snatched from her arm later was recovered by Scripture in the vicinity where Little fell. TAXICAB INSURANCE BILL IS FAVORABLY REPORTED The House District committee today reported out the Senate bill providing for compulsory insurance or proof of responsibility by taxicab companies as passed by the Senate. This was done to expedite completion of this legisla- tion since the House bill now on the Speaker’s desk contains one paragraph :fi\llch was stricken out in the Senate The action taken by the House Dis- trict committee will thus eliminate the necessity of this bill going to confer- ence when it is passed by the House, either - under unanimous consent or suspension. The House District committee also favorably reported the anti-vivisection bill which has been the subject of lingthy hearings throughout the ses- slon. Name Change Approved. The Senate voted today to restore the Spanish name of Puerto Rico to Porto Rico, in response to a petition of the island legislature. Chairman Bingham of the territories committee, sponsored the resolution. It now must be approved by the House. abdomen as he turned into a vacant | )\ to $10,000,000 for 1931, By a vote of 182 to 3 the House today suspended the rules and passed the continuing resolution offered by Chairman Simmons of the subcommittee on District ap- propriations to provide funds starting tomorrow to pay current expenses of the District govern- ment on the same basis as during the fiscal year which closes today. This action was taken by the House, however, only as a stop- gap measure in order to prevent District activities being stopped for lack of funds until a com- promise can be reached on the pending District appropriation bill for the fiscal year which begins tomorrow. Chairman Jones called a meef f the entire Senate lpprnpnluommc’m:- mittee ';or 2:3& o'clock tomorrow after- noon to cons v er the continuing reso- A lengthy discussion in the showed that the sentiment has chlncedflom and the suggestion was made by Rep- Tesentative Stafford, Republican, Wisconsin, one of the vt‘;‘utugw " unreasonable for the House conferces to meet the Senate conferees by increasing the lump sum sgll"lgéguflm from $9,000,000 to $10,~ I:er--nent Agreement Held Need. Was also s number of :pnr.‘z‘ru:d m'f;" 'l‘lx:l’pt:g’gn: geadloek on. the bill has em~ e present system fiscal relations is un b o rm:r 't\he ti;:m:re. e three who voted against continuing resolution are Repmun?: tives Bowman, Republican, of West Vir- ginla; Hall, Republican, of Indiana, both members of the House District committee, and Representative Patter- son, Democrat, of Alabama. Chairman Simmons of the House subcommittee on District appropriations first asked that the continuing resolu- tion be passed by unanimous consent, but Representative Bowman objected, The debate was started by Repre- sentative Hall, who asked if the pres- entation of the continuing resolution meant that no further attempt for con- (erednces with the Senate would be made. Mr. Simmons replied that he was perfectly willing to confer with the Senate managers any time that they asked for a conference. Simmons Approves November Parley. Representative Hall asked if any at- tempt has been made to determine Whether the $9,000,000 lump sum is & fair and equitable contribution by the Federal Government. Representative Simmons said that the House conferees had informed the Senate conferces at to come back to Washington in Novem: ber and go thoroughly into the fiscal set-up with a view to determining what is a fair and just Federal contribution, and that in the meantime studies could be made by the Bureau of Efficiency, the District assessor, the Burggu of the Census, and other agencies, so as to make reports on any facts that have a bearing on the question. Mr. Simmons said that at that No- | vember conference the House conferees meeting with the Senate conferees would try to reach some conclusion as a basis for future District bills to avold the continual dispute over the Federal contribution. He said that he had fur- ther told the Senate conferees that if at that time $9,000,000 was found to be an insufficient amount that what- ever additional amount might be deter- | mined upon could be carried in the District appropriation bill next year. This suggestion, he said, has neither been rejected nor accepted. Unemployment Threatened. Representative Hall asked if Mr. Sim- mons and his advisers had considered the position in which the people of the District will be placed if the District appropriation bill i alloved to fail. He pointed out that thousands of persons (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Department Proposal Seeks By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C,, June 30.—A plea for the press’ support for the Post Office Department’s proposal to increase the postage rate on first-class mail as & means of reducing the annua deficit was made before the twenty-eighth an- nual convention of the Southern News- paper Publishers’ Association today by Frederic A. Tilton, Third Assistant Post- master General. The arguments against the increase, he said, were: First-class mail is carried at a profit; the deficit is due to franked mail and mall from other departments, and_the political administration of the Post ‘asserted. that of & $93000,000 postal deficit for the year ending to- day, some $30,000,000 was attributable to non-postal items, or those for which LN PRESS ASKED TO AID P. O. MOVE FOR RAISE IN FIRST-CLASS RATES to End Big Annual Deficit, This Year Totaling $93,000,000. no revenue was received, and the re- mainder to second-class matter under a cost ascertainment on the theory of direct apportionment. The competition of express and mo- tor busses has reduced the percentage of daily and Sunday newspapers car- rlcdt by mail, he added, to 18.44 per cent. “The only conclusion which can be rclcgzd,"‘sh! cnn!dlm;ui, “is that unless a policy is pursued of sacrificing volume at any cost, which policy would dis- locate the whole service, the rates on second-class matter may not be again increased.” Turning to the question of franked mail, he asserted it cost the Post Office Dej ent the fiscal year 1929 only $637,000, while the cost of han- dling mail for other Government de- partments was only $3.300,000.