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] L AIRPLANE CRASHES - COST NINE LIVES Attempting Parachute Res- :gue, Jumper, Exhausted, '* Drops From Rope’s End. By the Associated Press. ' *~ Nine lives were lost in the Nation's Bunday airplane accidents. - Six persons were killed in the Middle | sWest, two in New York and one in iQalifornia. Of these, three died when planes plunged into water and another “dropped to death attempting to rescue & society aviatrix from a dangling, itangled parachute. T At Ruthven, Iows, a plane banked preparatory to landing and crashed *fidm & 50-foot altitude. Kenneth Wil- .&on, 20, the pilot, Sioux City, Towa, was <killed instantly. Vera Hughes, 17, “Ruthven, a passenger, and Ernest Southworth, 24, mechanic, Sioux City, “Were fatally injured. Making her first leap, Mary Fahrney, 18-year-old society girl in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, caught her parachute in the plane and dangled 1,000 feet in the air for nerrly two hours. After one ship unsuccessfully tried to lower a rope ladder, Bruno Schustek, professional parachute jumper, shinned down a_75-foot knotted rope from an- other plane. Just as he reached Miss Fahrney, her parachute became disen- tlng:;d and she floated to a perfect 8. Exhausted After Rescue. Hundreds below watched Schustek try to climb up the knotted rope. They saw him slip slowly, then drop to his death. Friends said he had apparently exhausted his strength and collapsed. Blazing an air route from Chicag to Mackinac Island, Mich., for the Con- tinental Airways, Inc., Bert E. Kogle, 28, and Duane L. Heller, 26, both of Chlclglo‘ were drowned in Lake Michi- gan when their cabin aquaplane plunged into the water south of South Haven, Mich. ‘Witnesses said the plane had veered out over the lake to avoid shoreline bluffs hidden by fog, and was fiying low. Coast Guardsmen recovered the body of Kogle. Dick Dodds of Santa Ana, Calif, wealthy sportsman, was stunting above the Sunday crowds at Laguna | Boer Beach, Calif., when his plane lost alti- tude in a sideslip, failed to right itself and dived into Crescent Bay. Fishing boats and pieasure craft dragged the twisted wreckage ashore, Dodd’s body was in the cockpit. Student Killed. Martin Wilska, 19, a student pilot, and John W. Gorman, 40, his instructor, were killed at Floyd Bennett Field, on Barren Island, N. Y. ‘Witnesses said the two men, both of New York, were flying at & low alti- tude when their monoplane went into a flat spin and crashed. Wilska was at_the controls. ‘The Barren Island Field recently was dedicated by Rear Admiml Richard E. Byrd in honor of Floyd Bennett, pilot on Byrd's North Pole flight. Two brothers, Guy and Harry Coffin, of Estherville, Jowa, were injured, the latter seriously, when their plane hit a ;e,l:phom wire on landing at Clarion, . COURT TO RESUME - MERGER HEARING Bethlehem-Youngstown Steel Bat- tle to Be Reopened by Judge 3 Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. _YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 7—A Jearing on_a petition to enjoin the Bethlehem-Youngstown steel will be resumed in Common Pleas Court here tomorrow after a 10-day adjourn- ment due to the suicide of L. A. Man- chester, June 27, as court was opening for the third day of the hearing. The hearing will resume where it was ! lnterru}:tgd with J. A. Campbell, chair- dnan of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. as the first witness. The first two days of the hearing had been taken up by opening statements and introduction ©f documentary evidence. BOODYEAR ENTRY INDICATED WINNER OF BALLOON RACE (Continued From First Page yhich landed on a farm two and a alf miles northwest of here at 5:45 w. (Central Standard Time) Sunday, ay expressed elation over unofficial reports that they had covered the great- est distance of any of the entries in the national elimination race. Blair said his balloon was in the air exactly 48 hours and that, according to messages he had received from Hous- ton, Tex., the Goodyear Zeppelin had gone 82 miles farther than any other bailoon in the race. “We've got the balloon packed up #hd ready to be put on the L. & N. in at 1:15 this afternoon for ship- 'nt to Akron,” said Blair. “We'll prog- ly stop in Louisville for a short time this evening. Our plans now are to #et ready for the international races.” ‘The Goodyear Zeppelin landed in the barnyard of the Edgar Altman Farm, northwest of here, without mishap. All but a half a bag of ballast had been thrown out. The pilot and the navi- gator had discarded their food supplies, maps and all equipment before landing. “The clothing he had left weighed Practically nothing,” Blair remarked. Blair said storms almost forced the balloons down in Arkansas. “After we crossed the Texas line, north of the Red River, we hit a verti- cal air current and dropped 7.000 feet to within 1,000 feet of the ground,” Blair sald. “Fortunately another eur- rent picked us up and we went on.” FIRED ON BY FARMER. Van Service Balloonists Give Dramatic Story of Experience. HOPKINSVILLE, Ky, July 7 (#—A framatic story of having been forced ascend rapidly to an altitude of more than 12,000 feet when a farmer at & village near Little Rock, Ark., took pot shots at their balloon was told today by George Hineman, pilot, and Milford | Vanik, aide, of the United Van Service | belloon, one of the 15 balloons to take | oft in the national elimination balloon | race starting at Houston, Tex. July 4. | . The United Van Service balloon land- ed in a fleld near Kirksmanville late Sunday and the pilots came to Hop- Kinsville to spend the night. . ‘The United Van balloon was drifting #long at a low altitude in a good breeze on & line about 100 miles off from Little Rock Saturday afternoon just before dusk. Suddenly a gun boomed out be- neath them and bullets were heard whizzing by the balloon. The gun goared again and again as 40 to 50 THE EVENING [CREATOR OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, CONAN DOYLE, EXPIRES AT 71 (Continwed From First Page) have told some such people that he had created Sherlock Holmes not so much for financial gain as to make a reputation for himself that would en- able ‘him to attract more attention when he turned seriously to spiritualism as his subject. He got both the money and the attention, and, being a hearty, affable soul—a typical British “uncle” in appearance—he won not only wealth and admiration, but the love of many in both hemispheres. From Famous Family. Coming from a artists, Arthur Conan Doyle was born at Edinburgh May 22, 1859. He was the son of Charles Doyle, a grandson of John Doyle, best known as “H. B.,” and a nephew of Punch’s celebrated Richard Doyle. All three were well known as artists ‘and caricaturists. When his studies at Stonyhurst College and Edin- burgh University came to an end, Arthur, as was the fashion of the time, went to Germany to continue his book learning. Receiving his degree in medi- cine, he returned home and set up prac- tice at Southsea. During his eight years in his first chosen profession—1882 to 1890—he wrote fiction in his T~ able spare time and success came to him so abundantly that he gave up be- ing a physician and became a full- fledged figure in the realm of literature. He introduced “Sherlock Holmes” in 1887 in his book, “A Study in Scarlet.” The year after his medical kit began collecting dust Sir Arthur's stories reached the zenith of their popularity with the publication of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” He returned to his popular hero in “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,” “The Hound of the Baskervilles” and “The Return of Sher- lock Holmes.” Explaining how the detective got his name, Sir Arthur said he wanted to get away from Dickens' custom of calling every detective Sharpe, or such like appellations. “Holmes was homely,” he said, “and as for Sherlock—well, years ago I made 30 runs against a bowler by the name of Sherlock and I always had a kindly feeling for that name.” Along with his detective yarns Doyle published a series of stories on the Napoleonic wars, entitled “The Exploits of Brig. Gerard,” and one of his 1; plays was “The Story of Waterloo,” in which Sir Henry Irving took the lead- ing role. He also dramatized others of his literary works. When the Boer War began, Doyle :'::“:dl:x:" the penmsnd mkw up ;is e case jain, :oln’ South Africa as chief ;ixyslch%o the Lang- man Field Hospital. e wrote two books in defense of the British Army that fought the Boers,; one, “The Great War,” was a moderate success; the other, “The War in South Africi Its Causes and Couduct,” so impressed the authorities that they had it printed in 12 Janguages and distributed 100,000 ;‘l?plu gratis among the peoples of Eu- pe. Study ef Spiritualism. Between this war and the great one that was to follow in 1914, Sir Arthur, as he had become, studied spiritualism, but it was du the emotional years of the conflict with that he took to it with the intensity of his nature. In 1919 he and his wife an- :flmeed their ‘fnnt}l‘: in the spirit life. Arthur said he possessed papers which he claimed proved “the lupr.vlvll of and communion with the dead be- yond the shadow of doubt.” Some time after he said he had communicated with his son, Willlam Hope of Crew, a cabi- netmaker, claiming special mediumistic powers, sent him a “spirit photograph” of r'ihb:d dead youth, 'hml‘:m{ Aflhbl‘l,l' de- s as “‘a psycograph of my boy.” “The mx person looks into the question of spirit ‘rhmnmphy the more he will find it deserves worthy study B L e e B said. , lectu: A New York, he lhowul' pictures he claim- ed were spirit ‘ghmgnphl. some taken by friends, others {uhmuelf. ‘They were made ble, said, by ecto- plasm, which, he explained, was “the raw material of psychic phenomena.” “Why does not science analyze the material? he inquired. “The answer is that sclence knows nothing of it. It has been analyzed, however, and has been found to consist of materials which are in the human body, and of some- thing else, which is bly the ether, as well as a ma 1 not know nto exist in any anic substance. It dissolves in light. rward he wrote that he “had seen and handled ectoplasm, so that for me, at least, all doubts as to its existence have been absurd.” A letter Sir Arthur wrote to the Scientific American was regarded by that publication as a challenge to make a first-hand investigation of psychic phenomena. In reply it announced two offers of $2,500 each—one to the first person who would produce a psychic photograph and the other to the first person would would produce a visible psychic manifestation of other char- acter—both to be under certain test conditions named by the Scientific American and to the full satisfaction of a jury to be selected by it. Twice during his life, in 1900 and again in 1906, Sir Arthur contested for a seat in Parllament, but without success. His recreations were golf, cycling and billiards. He was regarded as one of the best amateur billiard shots in England. He was married twice, first to Loulse Hawkins of Minster- worth, in 1885. She died in 1906, and the next year, Sir Arthur married Jean Leckle, daughter of James Blyth Leckie of Glebe House, Blackheath. After announcing his faith in spirit- ualism, 8ir Arthur wrote several vol- them being “The Wanderings of a Spiritualist,” “The Coming of the Fairies” and “Our American Adven- ture,” the last an account of the tour he and Lady Doyle had made in the bappy huntin, und of British lec- turers—the United States. Early in 1924 he announced his abandonment of writing as a source of income to de- vote the remainder of his days “to serious work.” Presented Tragic Figure. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle during the latter part of his life, presented an heroic and at the same time somewhat tragic figure. For the t few years, he had devoted virtually all his time to the propagation of spiritualism, and was recognized as one of the great leaders of the world in this belief. Because of his association with this crusade, which he himself characterized as an unpopular one, he gradually lost some of his old-time literary friends who saw no virtue in spiritualism and who were inclined to look upon him ns eccentric. It is not many years ago that this broad-shouldered Viking with his hand- some head and shock of iron-gray hair was the idol of London drawing rooms. As creator of Sherlock Holmes and other great works he was an outstand- ing figure in the realm of literature, and the world paid him homage. After he embarked on his spiritual- istic campaign, however, things changed and he was not so much sought after. Sir Arthur was grieved because his friends could not see eye to eye with him, but he never wavered in his per- sult of the cause in which he believed. He even opened a “psychic bool # and spiritualistic museum in Victoria street in the shadow of Westminster Abbey. Here he created a center for spiritualistic literature and distributed much of it throughout the world. Shop Costly Venture. Almost daily his huge bulk could be seen looming over his desk in his shop. This shop was Doyle’s own idea and it r.ds of ballast was heaved out and balloon drove upward until it struck p-cold strata of air and barely drifted | for -houss. The Detroit Times balloon “lanided at Russellville, not far from the | €ceie of the United Van balloon. The Goodyear Zeppelin landed near Greens- burg, Ky. proved a costly venture for him. Sir Arthur once told the correspond- ent that he spent thousands of dollars of his own money to keep the shop and the museum open. Still this adventure did not worry him. “I am in a position to do it,” he sald with a smile. “I might play 1}. A steam yacht or own race horses. X prefer to do this.” family of famous | umes pertaining to the subject, among | SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. ‘There was no doubt in Doyle's mind about the existence of spiri spirits existed was a huge photograph of himself which depicted the face of his dead son looking over his <houlder. He showed this picture to the corre- spondent and remarked, simply: “I handled the plate for that picture myself. Nobody else touched it. How can people doubt when they have such proof as that?” Not long ago Sir Arthur said, “I pledge my honor that spiritualism is true, and I know thag spiritualism is in- finitely more important than literature, art, politics, or in fact anything in the world.” Doyle had many experiences, claim- ing he had conversed with the spirits of Cecil Rhodes, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and Joseph Conrad. EXPECTS TO MEET HOUDINI. Doyle Writes New York of Plan for the Spirit World. NEW YORK, July 7 (#).—Four weeks ago, fearing he had not long to live, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote to a mu- tual acquaintance in New York about his long debate in spiritualism with the late Harry Houdini. Conan Doyle and Houdini were intl- mate friends, but for 15 years they differed almost bitterly about spiritual- ism. “I expect to talk it all over with Houdini in person before very long,” Conan Doyle wrote. “I view the prospect with perfect equanimity. That is what psychic research does for one.” The letter was written to Bernard M. L. Ernst, New York attorney, who for years represented Houdini and who had served as Conan Doyle's American legal representative. It was written after the English author had been stricken suddenly with angina pectoria, The late Houdini and Conan Doyle became acquainted in 1915, while Hou- dini was playing in London, and their differences over spiritualism _brought them together. Houdini had been salling as a trick the purported com- munication between the living and those in the spirit world, and Conan Doyle wrote to him at his theater. After that the men saw each other as often as Houdini was in London or Conan Doyle was in New York. Houdini was often a guest at Conan Doyle's home in Crowborough, Sussex. But they fought constantly about spiritualism, and when Houdini, in his “A Magi Among the Spirits,” made what was al- most & personal attack on Conan Doyle for his beliefs, the friendship was nearly ruptured. ‘When Houdini died, however, in 1926, Conan Doyle wrote a letter to Mrs. Beatrice Houdini, the magician's widow, expressing his grief and calling Houdini “the most remarkable man I ever met."” Four times Conan Doyle had visited the United States on lecture tours, He came first as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories—stories which, illustrated by Frederick Dorr Steele, New York artist, stamped the great detective on the minds of readers in the image of William Gillette, the actor, who played Sherlock Holmes on the stage and who was Steele’s model when he illustrated the novels. His last two lecture tours here were made as an exponent of spiritualism, although Conan Doyle denied that it was only in recent years his interest turned to spiritualism. The Briton said he had been interested in spiritualism since the middle nineties, and Houdini confirmed his friend's assertion that they had argued the question together before Conan Doyle's son Kingsley was killed in the World War. Conan Doyle, in his last letter to Mr. Ernest, gave permission for the publication of cor- respondence with Houdini about spirit- ualism, letters exchanged over many years. SENATE CONVENES TO ACT UPON NAVY (Continued From First Page.) a committee to notify President Hoover that the Senate was in session and awaited any communication he had to make, were adopted. Also a resolution fixing the hour of meeting each day at noon was put through. Then the Sen- ate took a recess of 15 minutes so that the committee might notify the Presi- dent and his message on the naval treaty might be sent to the Senate. The decks were cleared to go ahead with the debate of the naval treaty as 'u:o;x as the President’s message was ad. Of the 58 Senators who answered their names on the roll call today, 35 were Republicans and 23 were Demo- crats. Those present were: Allen, Kansas; Barkley, Kentucky; Bingham, | Connecticut; Black, Alabama; Borah, Idaho; Capper, Kansas; Caraway, Ar- kansas; Conley. Texas; Couzens, Mich! |gan; Dale, Vermont; Fess, Ohi | Fletcher, Florida; George, Georgia: | Gillette, Massachusetts; Glass, Vir- ginia; Goldsborough, Maryland; Hale, Maine; Harris, Georgla; Harrison, Mis- sissippl; Hastings, Delaware; Hayden, Arizona; Hubert, Rhode Island; Howell, | Nebraska; Johnson, California; Jones. Washington; __ Kendrick, Wyomin; Keyes, New Hampshire; King, Utah; | La Follette, Wisconsin; McCulloch, Ohio; McKellar, Tennessee; McNary, Rhode Island; ; Oddie, Nevada; Over- man, North Carolina; Patterson, Mis- sourl; Phipps, Colorado; Pittman, Ne | vada; Reed, Pennsylvani: Robinson, | Indiana; Shepherd, Texas: Shortrid; | California; Simmons, North Carolina; Stephens, Mississippi; Sullivan, Wyo- | ming; Swanson, Virginia; Thomas, Oklahoma; ‘Townsend, Delaware; ‘Trammell, Florida; Vandenberg, Michi- gan; Walcott, Connecticut; Walsh, Massachusetts; Walsh, Montana, and Watson, Indiant Air Pilot Killed Taking Off. CAMP BORDEN, Ontario, July 7 (#). —Two army planes, one taking off and the other llnd!nf. collided over Camp Borden today, killing one pilot and seriously injuring the other. E. W. Sorenson, 20, is the dead pilot and G. D. Pooler the injured one. i English dancers favor blues, quick-step and fox order named, this season. e waltz, , in the REDUCTION TREATY | LIEUT. W. R. STOKES SETS RIFLE RECORD District of Columbia Trails Other Teams Entered at Seagirt, N. J. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEAGIRT, N. J., July 7—8hooting in the interstate team match, First Lieut. ‘Walter R. Stokes, Medical Detachment, 121st Engineers, District of Columbia National Guard, who was twice world's free-rifle champion, yesterday set a national record for the 200-shot, 200- yard decimal target. Since only his fourth “leaked” out of the 4-inch diameter circle, Stokes tied and outranked the score of 199 points out of a possible 200 which was made last ye at Camp Perry, Ohio, by Henry Gussman, Quinnipiac Rifie Club, New Haven, Conn. The latter's “nine” on his eighteenth shot caused him to be outranked because ties are de- cided in favor of the shooter having the largest number of consecutive bull’s- eyes on the end of the “string. District Trails Other States. Notwithstanding Dr. Stokes’ top- notch work, the District of Columbia trailed the other States with a score of 1,098 out of a possible 1,200 points, the victory and the Spencer Cup going to New York with 1,132 points, Penn- sylvania was second with 1,111; New Jersey third, 1,110; Connecticut fourth, 1,101, and Ohio fifth, 1,099, Participating for the first time in major outdoor small-bore competitions, Pvt. Theodore L. Harrell, Company E, 121st Engineers, captain of the George ‘Washington TIniversity men's rifle team, finished third in the enviable grand aggregate, which comprises the scores made in the individual Palma, Eastern, Spencer and Camp Perry special events. Harrell was a single’ point behind George H. Sittler, Germansville, Pa., who otaled 1,106 points out of & pos- sible 1,125. Other local marksmen to finish in the money were John Mc- Nabb, 2037 F street, National pital Rifle Club, eighth place, 1,101; First Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, Company E, 121st Engineers, fourteenth, 1,095, and Capt. Just C. Jensen, Ordinance De- partment, State staff, fifteenth, same score. 77 Enter Swiss Match. Seventy-seven experts entered the Swiss match, which entitles one to sighting shots at the 7.2-inch 200-yard “C-5" bull's-eye and to as many record shots as one can successively keep in the “black.” Sittler, winner of the grand aggregate, ran 23' consecutive “bulls” for first honors; Stokes, 14 con- secutive, tenth place; Harrell, 11 con- secutive, thirteenth, and W. M. Stuart, jr., Washington, Va., 10 consecutive, tied with one other for fourteenth place with 397 out of a possible 400 points, J. B. Miller, Coudersport, Pa., took the Camp_Perry special event, which en- tdles him to $75 expense money toward a trip to Camp Perry, providing h participates in the international small. bore tryouts. Harrell landed in nint) place with a 393 total and McNabb took thirteenth place with 392 Leon C. Smith, 6307 Georgia avenue, National Capital Rifle Club, took fourth money in the second half of the slow fire pistol re-entry match with 178x200, first prize going to J. E. Terry, New- ]D:;t ;:'awa. Va., Police Department, with X200. Many Enter Unlimited Matches. Since the tournament opened last Wednesday, the 180 ruu'zered com- petitors, a record number, have spent thelr spare time shooting in the any gg:nbem:ll:z:lm rte‘;ent;y ’:uwhe!. The s ets turner constitutes his score. e e Prizes won by District of Columbia sharpshooters are as follows: Fifty-yard match—First place, McNabb and Stokes, 500x500; teenth place, 8 tles, . Harry B, :’;;sonl, Company E, 121st Engineers, One-hundred yard match — Pirst lace, 4 ties, Stokes, 500x500; 1¥y, 1:& X500; eighth, wo-hundred yard match — Pirst place, Riley, 488x500; second, 2 ll:.a Stokes, 486; twelfth, Harrell, i ftteenth, Jensen, 467, 400 and 11 ties, four- MRS. HOOVER AGAIN IS ACTIVE HOSTESS Return to Social and Domestic Duties Follows Recovery From Injury. By the Associated Press. Mrs. Hoover presided again today over the social and domesti '-hz‘zrh"" in) ic affairs of more than a month's absence from the Executive Mansion and three months of virtual seclusion as a result of an injured back suffered in a fall, she returned late yesterday with the lE;x;luident from their Rapidan River ge. Her coming was unexpected. Al- though Capt. Joel T. Boone, the White House physician, had said last week that she had sufficiently recovered, it had been assumed that she would re- main in the coolness of the mountains most of this month. Well and strong again, however, and able once more to take up the chain of activity which she enjoys, Mrs. Hoover decided herself to return. As she stepped from the car onto the front porch of the White House, she smiled warmly and stood momentarily chatting with Senator and Mrs. Mc- Nary, who also had driven back in the President’s car. Then she walked through the doors apparently untired and happy, despite the long drive from the mountain lodge. FISHER BODY PLANT OPERATES UNDER GUARD Police Patrol Streets, Dispersing Strikers, Who Threatened to Block Work. | By the Associated Press. FLINT, Mich, July were resumed in the No. 1 plant of the Fisher Body Corporation here today as State and local police patrolled the street adjoining the factory and dis- persed groups of striking work Although Y:lflau of the strikin men had announced plans to prevent the resumption of operations in the factory, police experienced no difficulty in breaking up the gatherings. Officials of the factory declined to reveal the number of men at work, but the police estimated that between 50 and 60 per cent of the normal force of 5,000 men passed through the gates this morning. Ten more persons. described by po- lice as agitators, were arrested today, bringing the total number held to 39. INVADES ENVOY’S OFFICE Man Arrested in Chilean Embassy at Lima, Peru. LIMA, Peru, Jul{ 7 ®.—A man whom the police said was Felipe San- tiago Valdez today was arrested in the private office of the Chilean Ambas- sador. Valdez, the police said, broke a glass and awoke the Ambassador, who fired three shots, ‘The reports of the pistol awakened servants, who captured the intruder and held him until the police arrived. 7.—Operations | Sets Shooting Record e \“\ LIEUT. WALTER R. STOKES. SEEKS T0 ENJOIN COUNTY OFFICIALS Montgomery Taxpayer Asks Injunction on Contracts With Maryland News. BY WILLIAM S. TARVER, Btaft Correspondent of The Btar. ROCKVILLE, Md,, July 7.—A bill in equity requesting that the commission- ers and treasurer of Montgomery Coun- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1930. W 404 DEATHS TOLL RAIL MERGERS HIT OF TRIPLE HOLIDAY Autos and Drownings Cause of Most Fatalities—Fire- works Faial to 29. By the Assocolated Press. . CHICAGO, July 7.—This year's cele- bration of the Fourth was a triple- jointed affair—Friday, Saturday and Sunday—and the Nation paid with 226 additional lives for the extra fun she had. The three-day holiday altogether cost 404 lives. Fireworks and toy pistols killed 29, & small percentage of the total, yet re- garded as large, in view of the restric- tions against fireworks in most parts of America. The automobile took 178 lives, and 121 persons were drowned. Airplane accldents, heat, heart attacks induced by holiday excitement, light- ning and other causes connected di- rectly with the holiday resulted in 76 deaths. Fourth Fairly Cool. The Fourth of July itself was a day of moderate temperatures in most sec- tions of the country, a circumstance having considerable to do with holding down the number of deaths from drowning and prostration. The week end, however, saw a mounting mer- cury, with a consequent increase in the lure of bathing beaches and a conse- quent increase in deaths by drowning and prostration. In the Chicago territory yesterday there was such congestion on the many beaches as had never before been seen. Conservative estimates were that more than 700,000 persons sought rellef dur- ty be enjoined from letting contracts for county advertising and printing to the Maryland Publishing Co. and from fl!’lnl bills already due on such con- racts, was filed in Circuit Court here this morning by Walter W. Mobley, & taxpayer of Derwood, Md. The bill sets out as reason for re- questing an injunction that three of the county commissioners are stockholders and directors of the Maryland Publish- ., and that the Code of Public General Laws of the State of Maryland ing the day at the Lake Michigan bath- ing places along the Chicago shore. The Oak Street Beach, where Gold Coast and Ghetto meet in bathing suits, was dense with men, women and children m?:‘r‘ufl me‘:;y. xperienced ? its cago, too, e: ced one o most serious traffic jams, with an esti- mated million automobiles choking her highways. Probably because fast driv- only two fatal accidents, both occurring late last night after thinning traffic made speeding possible. makes it an illegal and indictable offense for a county commissioner to enter into any agreement in his official capacity which may react to his personal profit. Publish Maryland News. The Maryland Publishing Co. publish- es the Maryland News, a semi-weekly newspaper in which are published ad- vertisements for bids for county im- provements and other official notices. The bill alleges that, aside from any fezs which may be paid for these advertise- ; ments, the amount paid the Maryland Publishing Co. for the year 1929 for printing blank forms and other papers was in excess of $3,000, according to a published report of the county treas- urer. The defendants named in the bill are the Board of County Commissioners, the county treasurer and each of the incumbents individually. The commis- sioners are: Dr. Benjamin C. Perry, Lacy Shaw, Clagett C. Hilton, Downey M. Williams and Robert L. Hickerson. J. Forest Walker is treasurer. Mr. Mobley, a farmer, is said to be one of the largest taxpayers in the Der- wood section of the county. Attorneys for the plaintiff are Miss Vivian Simp- | New ®n son, John Oxley, E. Barrett Prettyman and Harold Smith, Law Is Quoted. The law on which the bill is based is contained in article 25, sections 17, 18 and 19, of the Maryland code. The :ecuum. as quoted in the petition, fol- low: “It shall not be lawful for any county commissioner, during his term of office, to hold, possess or purchase or acquire any share or interest in any agreement or contract’made, entered into or con- cluded with any party or parties whom- soever by the county commissioners of his county in their character and ca- gscm' as such commissioners, or to ave, receive, enjoy or participate, either directly or indirectly, in any of the benefits, profits or emoluments of any such agreement or contract. “It shall not be lawful for any county commissioner, during his term of office, to accept, hold, purchase or acquire any claim on or against the county of which he is a commissioner, or any share or interest in such claim, which said claim has been or is to be passed upon and approved by the Board of County Com- missioners of which he is a member. “If any county commissioner shall violate any of the provisions of the two fl,“w”“' sections he shall be liable to dictment and, upon conviction, shall forfeit his office and shall also forfeit his share in the agreement, contract or gl:lm as aforesaid, as the case may 1t 1s alleged that Dr. Perry, the pres- ident of the Board of Commissioners; Mr. Shaw, the acting president, and Mr. Hilton are directors of the Mary- land Publishing Co. and that their nhames appear as such on the masthead of the Maryland News. It is further set out that the orator is informed and believes that Mr. Hickerson is & stock- holder of the company. The bill states that the commission- ers “have for a long time past made and still continue to make contracts or agreements for printing and publish- ing with the said Maryland Publishing Co. and authorize the publication in the Maryland News of most if not all of the county advertising, which, in their capacity as county commissioners, they are authorized and directed under the act of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland to publish from time to time in the public press.” In addition, it is alleged, the letting of cintracts for such d;mh lications is wfm- out competitive bidding. ... In another section the bill alleges that ‘most_if not all of the county print- ing, of which the sald county commis- sioners are authorized to let, including blanks and forms for use in the many and varied branches of the govern- ment of Montgomery County, is con- tracted for and ordered from the sald Mufihnd Publishing Co.” e prayer for the injunction is in four parts. The first requests the court to enjoin the commissioners from au- thorizing the pl{m!nt to the Maryland Pubiishing Co. of any sums due for past publications of notices or printing done. The second section seeks to prevent the commissioners from letting future contracts to the Maryland Publishing Co. as long as they remain commis- sioners of the county and continue as stockholders and directors of the pub- lishing corporation, and the third re- quests that they be prevented from including in the tax levy for the year 1930 provisions for the payment of ‘any debts incurred for publication in the Maryland News of notices or printing done by the Maryland Publishing Co. The conclusion of the pstition prays the court to enjoin County Treasurer ‘Walker from payng to the Maryland Publishing Co. any money whatsoever on order of the board of commissioners. MAGISTRATE'AND FIVE INDICTED IN MAIL FRAUD| By the Associated Press. ! NEW “ORK, July 7.—City Magis. trate George F. Ewald, his brother, Dr. | Louis A. Ewald, and four others were indicted by the ¥ederal grand jury | today for mail fraud and conspiracy in connection with the sale of stock of the Cotter Butte Mines, Inc., of Butte, Mont. The company also was named in the indictment. The other defendants are Harry C. Cotter, president of the company; Fr E. Mitterlechner, Francis H. Sc! and Frank M. Bins. Nine Airplane Deaths. ‘There were nine deaths from airplane accidents yesterday, and several injuries. The list of injured through the Nation from all causes was impossible to esti- mate accurately, but most certainly ran into the thousands. In the larger cities many hundreds were treated for burns resulting from fireworks. There were several unusual deaths. A woman parachute jumper was killed in Wisconsin when her parachute failed to open; a Wisconsin man dropped of excitement when a member of “kid” base ball team hit a home run; & brother and sister were burned to death in Duluth in a fire they had started while playing with matches, and an 8-year-old boy was killed at Madison, 111, when his body came in contact with a wire on a pole from which he was watching a ball game. Tabulation of Deaths. TFatalities of the week.end, July 4-6, inclusive, tabulated by sections of the country, were: Pire- Dro works. Autos. ings.ca i 14 55 Mountain Pacific Cos | swotatis B ivta F GEN. BROWN .ASSIGNED TO PANAMA COMMAND 8th and 9th Corps Areas and Phil- ippine and Hawaii Command- ers Are Transferred. Several im| assignment, of Army were announced Department today. Maj. Gen, Preston Brown, deputy |chief of staff of the Army, has been assigned to the command of the Panama Canal depaartment, effective in October. Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, now commanding the Panams Canal de- partment, has been assigned to the command of the Eighth Corps Area at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, commanding the Ninth Corps Area at San Francisco has been ordered to the Philippines to command | that military definmenl and Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commanding the Phtil:pmo department, has been or- der to San Francisco to command nt cha in the general oflxl‘g:l of the at War g WILBUR HAND. [TALY FAVORABLE 10 BRIAND PARLE Note Urges That Russia and Turkey Be Included in Organization. B the Assoclated Press. ROME, July 7—The reply of the TItalian government to the memorandum of the French foreign minister, M. Briand, on the organization of a “United States of Europe” today was handed to the French charge d'affaires here. It declares Italy is willing to participate in discussions. Peace Desires Reiterated. ‘The note probably reiterates purport- rity, to disarm as soon as other nations do likewise, and may very likely contain velled allusions to fears and suspicions which neighboring countries are sup- posed to be harboring against Italy. It was understood further that the note denles categorically that Italy is animated by any provocatory spirit, | stating instead that she is more desirous than any one to see European tran- quillity maintained. The memorandum of reply expresses the view of Italy that special principles must be observed as a basis for the discussions leading to formation of such & union. The Italian principles are: First, a system of co-operation found- ed on the idea of a union and not on that of unity and wherein will be re- spected the absolute sovereignty and political independence of all states, On this principle Italy wishes to give further interpretations that the rights of all minor states will be guaranteed and that the last line of demarcation between victor and conquered peoples will be eliminated. Would Include Russia and Turkey. Secondly, Russia and Turkey should be invited {o take part in the procedure of organization of the union. “Not to invite these two countries is in contradiction with the scope of Eu- ropean solidarity which you wish to reach,” the memorandum says. “The lack of an invitation at this time will prejudice the adhesion of these two countries later.” Under this heading, the reply of the Italian government interprets the prin- ciple of solidarity in the sense that a federal union ought to include all the greater countries of Europe because otherwise it would provoke, not great cohesion, but the division of Europe into hostile groups. ‘The reply also says that every danger tending to weaken the sense of that |be broi solidarity among peoples upon which is founded the League of Nations ought to be avoided. Therefore, Italy is op- posed to any project of reproducing in a European federal union the organism of the League of Nations with an as- sembly general and a council limited to a few states, saying that all ma- jor and minor states ought to have an identical part in the functioning of the union and a permanent post in the council. Disarmament Held Essential. ‘The third principle stated “Italy con- tests the utility of Ilclny at the foundation of any prorecz of a Euro- pean union the concept of security. According to the Fascist government, a European union, in order to con- the Ninth Corps area. Maj. Gen. Willlam Lassiter, commanding Eighth Corps Area at Fort Sam Houston, has | been ordered to Honolulu to command | Hawalian military department, BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band Orchestra this evening at the Marine Barracks at 8 o'clock. Taylor Bran- son, leader; Arthur Witcomb, second leader. Grand march, “Coronation,” ‘Tschaikowsky Overture, “Leonore,” No. 3..Beethoven Saxophone solo, 'al in P Minor” ... . Gurewich (Kenneth ‘Tone poem, “Till Eulenspiegel,” Opus 28 . Richard Strauss “Keltic Suite”. ...Foulds “The Clans, “The Call. Characteristic, “Danse Ne "y Capricclo Espagnal”..Ri “Alborada,” “Variation,” “Albor~ ada,” “Scene and Gypsy Song,” ‘Asturian Fandango.” Marines’ hymn, “The Halls of Mon- tezuma.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Army Band Or- chestra this evening at Garfleld Park at 7:30 o'clock. Willlam Stannard, homas Darcy, second leader. , “The Man of the Hour," Fillmore | “Southern Rhapsody"” Popular, “A Cottage for o.” ‘Waltz, “Le Valse que Nous Anon,” | Blankenburg BK the United States Navy Band | Orchestra this evening at the east front | of the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock. Charles Benter, leader; Charles Wise, second leader. March, “Naval Aviation”. (Dedicated to (Musician Birley ) Grand scenes from the ballet “Sylvia,” Delibes Caprice, “Italien” Introduction to to “Elizabeth" Xylophone sol Alrs” .. form with the League of Nations, ought to have the same political premises of the pact of the League of Nations, that is, the limitation of armaments, guarantees against aggression and the arbitration of international con- troversies. This system ought to be harmoniously developed. Security with- out* disarmament is not based on solid foundations. “A system of security exists now in the triple guarantee of the pact of the League of Nations, the pact for the renunciation of war, and the treaty of Locarno. In order to have progress, it is not necessary to support this sys- tem, but it is necessary to disarm.” Concluding, the memorandum says: “Disarmament, this essential prin- ciple which in the memorandum of the French republic is not expressly nor ineidentally formulated, constitutes, in the opinion of the Fascist govern- ment, the point of fundamental de- arture for efficient work of moral co- esion among the nations, for the in- tegral development of the general prob- lem of security and in order to give practical consistency and elementary reason for being to any project of a federal European union.” BERLIN, July 7 (#).—The final draft of the German reply to the memorandum of Forelgn Minister Briand concerning the formation of the United States of Europe will be con- sidered by the cabinet tonight and dis- cussed in the Foreign Affairs Commit- tee of the Reichstag tomorrow, AMELIA EARHART SETS NEW SPEED RECORD & /181.18 Miles an Hour Over Three- Kilometer Course at Detroit Fastest for Women. DETROIT, Mich., July 7 (#).—Amelia Earhart, transatlantic flyer, established a new international women's speed rec- | ord here yesterday by averaging 181.18 miles a 3-kil course. Earller in the week she had made another record by averaging 174.9 miles an_hour over a 100-kilometer course. The flights were checked by observers from the National Aeronautic Associa- tion and the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. an hour over ometer Gen. King to Imspect Posts. Brig. Gen. Edward L. assistant Chief of 8taft for Operations and Train- ing, and Maj. Ralph Royce, General Staff, will leave here 0rTOW On an SNAG IN CONGRESS Growing Distrust of Holding Company Control Shown in Recent Session. By the Associated Press. Advance toward national consolida- tion of railroads was well nigh brought to s complete though perhaps tempo- rary halt by events and developments associated with the congressional ses- slon just closed. A single proposal came to a final vote in one house and other projects, all of & nature tending to cast doubt on the future of the national merger program, were left hanging. ‘Ten years ago Congress by great majorities ordered the Interstate Com- merce Commission to prepare means for throwing all of the country's rail systems into 18 or 20 giant units, and empowered it to set aside anti-trust statutes for the purpose. Reversal Is Noted. One house of the Congress just adjourned voted by an unexpected ma- jority to withdraw the power the com- mission holds to override the anti- trust laws. The other house of the e Congress, hesitating to go that far, was torn by a demand for action nullifying the only extensive rail mer- ger the commission had approved. Adjournment buried doubts and dif- ferences for the time being, though it left a congressional committee busily delving into the modern methods of rallroad finance which came under hot fire during the controversy. Meanwhile, aside from Congress, the four chief railroad interests which had asked the commerce commission to sanction specific plans for merger ac- tions, withdrew their applications to await developments. ‘The new agitation over railroad cons solidation was incited primarily by an extraordinary report to Congress from the commerce commission last Fall, asking investigation of railroad finance ing. Danger Pointed Out. Joseph B. Eastman, chairman of the commission’s legislative committee, fol- lowing up the report, explained to ing was next to impossible, there were| eq Fascist desires for peace with secu- | House committee that there was “da ger of complete loss of public control of the process of railroad unification” from the remarkable use being made of the holding company device. He said also the “pyramiding” of ownerships ing on ought to be at least thorouah- tvoundemood by the law making Principally, here was cited the markable accomplishments of the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland, who have linked together a string of rail- roads—North, South, East and West— of greater proportions and extent than any of the Hill, Harriman, or Gould empires of transportation. As the congressional inquiry dis- closed, the holding company device has been astoundingly developed in the pro- cess, one coroporation after another being superimposed upon predecessors, and vast quantities of securities being emitted and marketed with the invest- ing public at each stage. Example of Financing. Thus, to give a single example, 53 r cent of the Chesapeake & Ohilo g:uqu voting stock became the chief asset of a new company, the Chesa- ke Corporation, and was made sub- ?::t to a collateral bond issue of $48,~ 000,000, while 70 per cent of the voting stock of the Chesapeake Corporation aume upropeny of the leghany jon rporation, In turn, the Alleghany Corporation, after selling ‘“’t&" cent of its own stock to the public, and bonding its assets under another collateral mort- gage issue, appears to have passed 600, 000 shares of its own common stock to the Van Sweringen Corporation, the third link in the holding chain, Commissioner Eastman indicated that the chief purpose of the procedure was to enable voting control of immense | holdings of rail property to be retained | by investment at the top of a relatively {émall sum of capital, and the various legislative resolutions emitted from the study of the performance had a common character in suggesting that holding | corporation dealings with rail securities . ught under commission super- vision. Some Lines Stay Clear. The Pennsylvania company, through | the Pennroad Corporation, also ap- | peared from the inquiry to have gone strongly into holding corporation play. However, the two remaining of the great Eastern trunk lines, the Baltie more & Ohio and the New York Cen= tral, remained clear and incidentally got during the Winter specific grants of official favor. The Baltimore & Ohio has been per- mitted to make outright purchase of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, and the Buffalo & Susquehanna, fa- cllitating the ambition of its veteran president, Daniel Willard, to create s new Chicago-New York short line in Northern territory, The New York Central got authority to_consolidate its own subsidiaries, the Big Four and Michigan Central, and to buy up & whole group of short lines along its routes. In the West, the congressional re- volt over rail consolidation was fanned into flame principally by the commis- sion’s conditional sanction of the union of Northern Pacific and Great Northern system. That project 25 years ago was banned by a Federal court order, because anti-trust law op- poses the union of “parallel and com- peting lines of railroad.” The protest from the Northwest against its renewal was unabated when Congress closed, and it was reported in financial circles that the management of the two roads would withdraw from the attempt to consummate it. Y 8,000 PICKETERS ROUTED, WITH 25 HELD IN INDIA Crisis Precipitated at Poona by Enforcement of Ordinance Agninst Gatherings. By the Assoclated Press. POONA, India, July 7.—When the lice had arrested 28 of their number, 8,000 Indian Nationalists today were dispersed, and picketing of the homes of Indian ministers was broken up without violence. Enforcement of picketing and parade ordinances precipitated a crisis which ‘med police a strenuous ‘The rvices of troops held nearby in readi- ness for emergencies were not required. Early today picketers had barred the minister’s houses, keeping the ministers from leaving for the Indian Council. The g-ude which was proceeding to- ‘ward the council chamber offered slight resistance to the police. INDIANS HUNT CACTUS Many Families of Arizona Natives Migrate After Fruit. PHOENIX, Ariz. (#).—Several hun- dred families of Papagos Indians have misgrated into the glant cacti “forests” this Summer to harvest the fruit of the cactus bush. Most families will make 3 to 10 *|gallons of sirup and smaller quanties of preserves from these fruits, using no sugar in the process. iy Oppose Razing of Fort. ( Excerpts from “Eileen’ Rhapsody, “Virzinia”,, “Anchor's Awef “The Star Spangled ) ++.Herbert ‘Wood igh. inspection trip to Selfridge Field and Fort Wayne. Mich.; Fort Niagara an Pal Plar, Plattsburg, N. Y., and Fort Ethan Allen, Vt, Part of the trip will be by airplane. MACKINAW CITY, Mich. (#).—Resi- d | dents here organized to oppose the State Park Commission’s project to eliminate the ruins of an old fort burned after o massacre by Ojibway Indians in 1763.