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A WIE RAIDS STACED BY DETROI POLCE Nation-Wide Condolences Re- ceived by Family of Slain Radio Annuancer. By the Associated Press, DETROIT, July 25.—Bolice axes fell heavily on saloons, race track hand books, and beer flats, throughout De- troit last night in a series of raids which started after Police Commission- er Thomas C. Wilcox had abolished the centralized vice squad. Wilcox announced his change in policy to the city council when the lat- ter called on him to tell what was be- ing done to find the men responsible for the killing of Jerry Buckley, radio orator, and for other recent crimes. The raids resulted in the arrest of 133 men and 40 women. In places where liquor or betting apparatus was found, the squads broke up furniture and fix- tures ruthlessly. { Many saloons and gambling houses were reported to have closed down be- fore the raiders reached them. Released Prisoner Shot. Jack Brown, 34, released recently from the Detroit House of Correction, where he served 60 days for assault and battery. was shot and killed early to- day while sitting in an automobile on Fourth avenue with a_woman compan- fon, Miss Evelyn Littlefield, 34 Police said Brown was slain by & fealous suitor of Miss Littiefield. She Tefused to name the slayer. Twenty thousand persons waited si- fently in line last night and early today to pay tribute to the memory of Gerald E. (Jerry) Buckley, announcer for radio Station WMBC, slain Wednesda7 by gangsters at the close of the successful campaign to recall Mayor Charles Bowles ; Police sought to connect Buckley with packeteering and claimed to have an afidavit which states that he extorted money from & confessed bootlegger. Persons he had aided financially sent gcores of floral tributes, The manage- ment of Station WMBC announced that telegrams had been recaived from Yisteners-in in a1l sections of the Middle Wast expressing sorrow and sympathy at Buckley's death. Had Championed Causes of Poor. Jerry Buckley in his radio addresses had championed the causes 3 !éwem;])'?:. vocating old-age pensions - ;?nvr;tm“re!mr.‘ Many floral tributes came from poor people, it was Aan- nounced. ¢ Seven men ware in custody in connec- tion with the slaying of Buckley. Six ©of them were reputed gangsters. Police sald they expected to issue a warrant for one of them before the day s Over. ‘.Publlc funeral services for Buckley will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow at St. Gregory'® Catholic Church after 'aj rivate service at his home. The pall- gemrx include two circuit judges and & judge of Recorder’s Court. HOOVER TO DISCUSS DISTRICT AFFAIRS AT RAPIDAN CAMP| ontinued From First Page.) early last, April, have many times form- ed opinions and have conceived some ideas for improvements in the District government and in the treatment of the city itself. Will Discuss Budget. The Commissioners have been en- gaged principally since takirg office with the preparation of t'.c buaget esti- mates for the year conmencing July 1 next. Inasmuch as this task has just been recently completed and their esti- mates lodgad with the director of the Bureau of the Budget, this will form a fubject of a part of the conference i3 the mountains, and especially regarding the question of a possible tax increase in the future. 1t it known also that the President, in his efforts to push forward the public buildings program in the District, is interested in the proposed Municipal Center for Washington and it is there- fore expected that he will discuss this subject at some lengcn Mr. Hoover has intimated during eonversations regarding local ~affairs that he has some well defined ideas of what he _believes will be an improve- ment in the present method of working out, a bucget for the public schoel sys- tem for the District. He has not yet revealed his ideas, but he has made it plain that he is of the opinion that there is room for improvement. Interested in Water Program. Mr. Hoover also is interested in the successful carrying out of the five-year water distributing program as well as all other programs for the physical im- provement of the Capital City. He has made it very plain that he does not favor economizing to the extent of im- pairing the physical development of the city. Stinting in this respect he is understood to consider poor economy. Although the total figures for the District budget estimate for next year have not been officially announced, it is understood that they aggregated ap- proximately $47,000,000 when y reached the hands of the director of the budget. This total is understood to be about $7.000,000 less than the total amounts requested by the various department heads of the District gov- ernment. It will be explained to the President that the purpose of the Com- missioners in keeping the estimates dovn to about $47,000,000 was to avold the necessity of increasing the present tax rate of $1.70 The wives of Commissioners Reichel- derfer and Crosby are in the week end party. They motored with Mrs. Hoover to the camp dwing the forenoon. The men in the party accompanied the President when he left after Juncheon. Maj. Gotwals' wife has not yet joined him in Washington. Others in Camp Party. s who will make up the week p are Senator and Oth end party to the ca Mrs. David Baird, jr., of New Jersey, who were recently married and who hurried back to Washington from their honeymoon trip in Europe so that Sena- tor Baird would be on hand to support the administration in getting ratifica- tion of the London naval treaty; David Lawrence newspaper publisher and writer of this city, and Mrs. Lawrence: Mark Sullivan, newspaper editor and writer of this eity, and Mrs. Sullivan; Howard Heinz of Pittsburgh, Pa.; A. 8haw of Chicago, magazir and chairman of the Pr y Recent Economic [+ one of the President’s pt. Joel T. Boone. White House physician, and Mrs. Dare McMullin of Palo Alto, who has been & house guest at the White House for more than & month. For the first time this Summer Presi- Ment Hoover will exiena ais week end £rip % uis Rapidan Cump to Monday morning. He hus generally returned to the White House Sunday night, but his plans for this week end call for his return to Washington during the fore- noon Monday. nges; Anniven;n-y Is Observed. NEWTON, Conn., July 25 (#)--This 1ittle Connecticut village of 2,631 popu- lation today observed the 225th anni- versary of its purchase “for and in con- sideration of various articles includm, four collars, 10 shirts and 10 pairs o » | winl (left PLANES ON SHS PLANNED BY NAVY Aircraft Being Constructed to| Be Folded and Stored on Submarine. By the Assoclated Press. Naval limitation has led to experi- | ments which eventually may mean at least one airplane will be carried by every ship in the battle line. The Navy now is .undertaking, or planning, tests to ascertain the feasi- bility of equipping submarines and destroyers with airplanes, All other types of ships of the line now carry | their complements of planes. An airplane to be folded and stowed away inside & submarine is under con- struction. This small, fast, scouting plane is to be experimented wiih as soon as it is completed. So far, & sub- marine has not been designated for the | work, which would require the con- struction of a watertight compartment with an opening large enough to elevate the folded plane to the surface of the water, the submarine launching its air- plane by sinkipg into the water under- neath the flying boat. Former Tests Unsatisfactory. Similar tests several years ago were unsatisfactory, but it is hoped the new | folding plane, replacing one that was dismantled and reassembled before | flight, will prove more successful. A | submarine, tacticians believe, could get very near an opposing fleet in the | night, launch its airplane and sub- merge to await the return of its scout. | The plane, because of the necessary | limit to its size, would not be useful for other missions than scouting and ob- The babies of Mrs. Charles Bamberger and Mrs. William Watkins were believed to have been mixed at Englewood Hospital, in Chicago. started by the parents and carried on by the city health authorities said they were, but the parents of the babies, along with six physicians, met today and decided otherwise, and the problem apparently has been settled. Photo shows i, Mrs. Bamberger and Mrs. Watkins with the bables. —A. P. Photo, | Immigration Officials Will Give| THE EVENING An investigation PARENTS AGREE BABIES WERE NOT EXCHANGED IN HOSPITAL MIX-UP (Continued From First Page.) bathed and that a nurse, in haste, had put them back on the wrong infants. The shape of the babies’ heads was responsible for, the final agreement. The Bambergers' baby was their third. The Watkins baby was a first born. A committee of physicians who met with the parents -last night agreed that & temporarily oval-shaped head, such as the Watkins baby has, is natural in the case of a first born. The Bamberger baby’s head is round. Conference Brings Agreement. ‘The agreement as to parentage was reached at a conference held “at the STAR, WA ASKS ELIMINATION OF NIGHT PARKING Group Includes Ban in Con- gested Area in Morning Among Plans. (Continued From First Page.) governmental agencies, which form the Automobile Parking Committee, in the belief “that the automobile terminal problem is of such importance as to chailenge the best constructive efforts of those who are responsible for com- munity developments.” The committee believes that the prob- lem can be solved economically and ef- fectively only on the basis of adequate facts, and the survey was undertaken with this idea in mind and with the further idea that “henceforth buildings and city planning might take cognizance of the implications of the parking and garage problem if serious consequences are to be avoided.” The committee states in its report that the Government building program in thé® triangle area and other critical traffic_conditions have rendered “im- perative_and immediate evaluation of the problem.” “The Automobile Parking Committee of Washington presents these conclu- sions,” declares the report, “in the be- lief and hope that their application will bring immediate relief and eventually & complete and permanent solution of the troublesome and costly problem of parking.” Expects Problem to Grow. Tie committee believes that the fu- ture development of Government arcas and a more intensive use of land areas within the central district, even without the present height limit of buildings, will greatly increase the automobile terminal problem. According to the report, street widths in the central dis- trict offer no special advantage, for the roadway area available for traffic move- ments and street parking is relatively limited. In comparison With other cities, Washington is revealed in the report as a “community of distinctly more than normal automobile ownership.” The report contains figures showing the population and number of automobiles owned in Washington and several other cities of similar size. Based on the 1930 census and automobile registration there are three persons for every au- tomobile in Washington, which shows a greater number of automobiles than in Boston, Buffalo, San Francisco and St. Louis. “Automobile registration,” continues the report, “is substantially higher with respect to population than is the case in_other cities of similar size. The cordon count reveals the movement of 268,671 vehicles in and out of the cen- Keystone Hospital participated in by the parents and six physicians. Following the action of Dr. Kegel's commission yesterday, Watkins an- nounced himself willing to agree and to switch babies. Bamberger, however, re- fused and with Mrs. Bamberger and the baby disappeared. He also announced that he would resist any attempt to take the baby by force. This brought a statement from Watkins to the effect that he would seek the child by court action. It was while Dr. Kegel was attempt- ing to locate Bamberger last night that the parents met at the Keystone Hos- pital and finally accepted the decision of the physicians that the babies they each have are really their own. John Loughnane, attorney for the Watkins and the Bambergers, an- nounced that if Dr. Kegel took any steps to force the parents to exchange babies & writ of injunction would be filed against him. —e CARNERA MUST SEOW REASON FOR U. S. STAY Italian Fighter Chance to Ex- plain at Hearing Here. taining -essential information. Assistant Secretary Ingalls, in charge | of naval aeronautics, also has promised | to experiment with airplanes on| destroyers. Heretofore, vessels of this | type have been too smail for satis- | factory smerial work since they bob | about in & swell or heavy sea and are not large enough to provide a lee in which the plane can land in rough! water. Limit of Destroyers. The largest destroyer now in service is of 1,051 tons, but the London naval treaty 'allows each nation to build & limited number of 1.850-ton vessels. It is hoped these, when built, will be although experts have expressed the opinion it would be difficult for the planes 1o get back to the tiny destroy- ers. ‘They believe the scouting air- planes would have to perform their duties and then land on an aircraft rier, returning to the destroyers at an_opportune time. Naval experimenters, however, place their hope for immediate development treaty would permit the construction of | these undersea craft of 2800 tons, larger than any now in the fleet, and it is believed possible that at least these be able satisfactorlly to carry airplanes, ATLANTIC HOP DELAYED Coste Must Wait at Least Two Days for Good Weather. PARIS, July 25 (#).—Dieudonne Coste, noted French airman who is planning a flight to the United States, must wait at least two days more for weather good enough for the transat- Iantic hop. At_the Meteorological Bureau today weather conditions were described as “deplorable,” with no chance of a start large enough to accommodate airplanes, | in the submarine tests. The London | Primo Carnera, huge Italian pfilfi{ fighter, will be given an opportunity Monday by immigration officials to show why he should not leave the United States. Carnera’s six months’ leave in this country has expired and he has been ordered overseas. , His representatives protested and the Board of Review to: day fixed the date for the hearing. Meanwhile no penalities will be imposed for his remaining here. Carnera has been fightingg over the country under a permit given many foreign entertainers and visitors, en- titling him to remain stx months. If he wished to stay here permanently | he would be obliged to obtain a status |as & quota immigrant from his own | country, but the Italian quota at pres- | ent is very difficult to enter. The hear- | in will be held in Washington. WEAPONS PROHIBITED Hindenburg Signs Measure Barring Arms at Political Gatherings. BERLIN, July 25 (#)—President von Hindenburg today signed the first de- | cree under the dictatorisl power con- | ferred by article 48 of the constitution since the dissolution of the Reichstag. | The decree prohibits participants in political ~gatherings from carryin | weapons of any kind under penalty of three months’ imprisonment and more. NEW ZEALAND ROCKED WELLINGTON, New Zealand, July 25 (#)—A sharp earth shock lasting one minute was felt at Westport in the | Karamea area today. The shock was | preceded by a loud rumbling sound. The earthquake was felt here in & slight degree. No damage and no casualties were re- ported. for at least 48 hours. Mongclian Bog, By the Associated Press. PEIPING, China, July 25.—On the shores of & dried-up inland sea near the outer Mongolian border, Roy Chap- has discovered what he believes-one of the most amazing fossil deposits ever revesled to human eyes. In & death trap formed by & bog of sticky, & most bottomless mud, the ex- pedition has found the remains of 25 to 30 great shovel-toothed mastodons with 6-1oot jaws, one of which had pre- viously been found near the same lo- cality in 1928. Mr. Andrews. who re- turned here last night on a brief trip, said that so far four skulls, & number of jaws, 25 to 30 tusks and the hun- dreds of ribs found indicated one of the most extraordinary adoptations in the whole animal kingdom. He said that the animals must have roamed Mongol!a 3,000,000 years ago. Another pit filled with the remains of 10 to 18 baby mastodons Whs dis- AMAZING MASTODON REMAINS REPORTED FOU Animals WithA Six-Foot Jaws Found in Hopes for Human Signs. man Andrews, noted American explorer, | ND BY ANDREWS Where Scientist covered. ‘The young animals apparently had come there with their mothers to themselves from the treacherous quick- sands. The andrews expedition now has a whole age series of shovel-toothed mus- todons (platybelodon) from the new born to the oldest. The explorers this made &n unusugl museum exhi comparable only to the dinosaurs found in 1923, The expedition will work carefully along the shore line of the lake in the hope of finding some place where primi- tive man, even older than the Pelping y id feed but were unable to extricate | tral business district on a typical day. Comparison with earlier counts indi- cate that vehicular traffic through the central district is growing rapidly. Other cities of similar size show a lesser vehicular concentration. A study of personal movements indicates that the automobile serves necessity as well as other riding requirements. The de- mand for parking facilities now exceeds the effective supply, and additional provisions must be made if this form of transportation is to develop.” Results of Check Reported. ‘The report states that not only are the curbs of the central business district “saturated” with parked cars, but much of the surrounding area carries almost as heavy a burden. In reaching this conclusion, checks were made on the area bounded by Rock Creek, Florida avenue, U street, First street northeast and F street southeast. The check was made on June-d, 3, 4 and 5 of this year and over 12,240 cars were recorded in this study as parked at the curb, with more than 110 additional double parked. Thirty typical blo ks in the central district show parking overload from 9:30 am. until 4 pm., ranging for 30 se- lected blocks to as much as 9 per cent in excess of the legal capacity. In cer- tain individual blocks the overload was found to be as much as 100 per cent in excess of legal capacity. It is stated that of 40,653 parked cars observed 7,- 212, or 17.8 per cent, were in violation of the letter or intent of the regulations ;erfioml.x::]lh; mnnnrer of parking. Ap- y 1 out of every 2t Vi m‘.’\ndl"a double line. it study of 16,857 cars, parked in 2 business blocks, revealed l‘k’le fact lhsz approximately 60 per cent stayed less than minutes and that 988, or 7 per cent df the total, stayed from 3 to 10 hours, occupying 32.9 per cent of the avallable one-hour spaces. Summarijzed for Stores. “The customers’ transportation study,” continues the report, “as summarized for seven department stores, reveals the fact that at least there is some basis for the tradition respecting the special value of so-called ‘carriage trade,’ as sales to sutomobile customers average more than $4 each, as compared to an | average of $2.67 for other classes. The relative purchasing power of automobile customers, as well as their unusually large numbers. present the question of adequate automobile terminal facilities as one of the critical merchandising problems of downtown Washington. “It is to be questioned if even the present number of automobile cus- tomers can be accommodated indefi- nitely under present parking conditions, which are far from convenient. Cur- rent tendencies in decentralization would seem to suggest a negative answer. Business, however, cannot re- main static—it must continue to grow or decline. A very pertinent question would be: How can an additional 10 or 15 or 25 per cent increase in auto- motive patrons be expected, with an existing practical saturation of ter- minal spaces?” ‘The report goes on to say: “Parking saturation is a definitely limiting factor on the accessibility of the central dis- trict. Unless relieved, it will tend to discourage continued or increased nse of the district by the automobile shop- per, who is shown by the study of de- partment stores to constitute 41 per cent of transbuying power. If not en- couraged these shoppers will tend to seek markets with greater terminal con- venience and will, thereby, foster the movement toward decentralization.” Inconvenlence Found. The report declares that actual field operations of the experience of custom- ers with curb parking “shows delays and inconvenience of sufficient sever- ity to warrant immediate action.’ “Store employes,” adds p report, “show & substantiai use of the automo- bile as a means of personal transpor- \ation, and in use of curb space are deemed to be in direct competition with potential automobile patrons.” The transportation requirements of Government employes, according to the findings of the committee, form one of tl. “most important and critical aspects” of the traffic situation in this city. The committee says that eflicient operation of the Government and main- tenance of a reasonable degree of bus- iness accessibility combme to demand that & solution of these problems be found “before physical changes render adequate treatment impossible.” It 1s proposed that as soon &s & sub- stantial number of the Government buildings in the triangle are occupled by the Government departments, park- ing should be prohibited in the Ellipse and the Mall, except in spaces imme- diately adjacent to the Museum en- trances, to which two-hour limits should be made applicable. The committes | man, may have been trapped. Later the expedition will move over to Cen- tral Gobi in an effort to bring out the skeleton of & huge baluchaterium lo- cated there in 1928, i “We have :::u:‘:h:lrudy 30 that | we stopped wt now 2 tion would still be & huge success,” Mr. Andrews sald. says that the use of these park areas for dense automobile parking is “in- consistent with their purpose and will detract materially from the character of the whole central development of the city.” “Purthermore,” adds the committee, the are so limited in number that cannot accommodate more SHINGTON, PROTESTS QUTSIDE WORK BY POLICE iDeIegation Tells Croshy City Employes Have Side Lines During Off Hours. A delegation from the Congress Heights Citizens’ Association waited on Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby today and complained of the practice of members of the Police and Fire Depart- ments taking on work during their off- duty hours and, as they said, thereby keeping other persons out of work. Commissioner Crotby agreed to a conference at which representatives of union labor will be present to thresh the matter out. It is expected that John B. Colpoys, presidnet of the Cen- tral Labor Union, will be invited to the conference. At the same time Chief Engineer George S. Watson of the Fire Depart- ment had occasion to inquire into a rumor as to whether one of the lieu- tenants of the department was operat- ing an employment agency recruiting firemen for work as pallbearers at various funerals. The report reach- ing Watson was to the effect that the lieutenant charged & 10 per cent com- mission fee and that the firemen got $2 per funeral for either acting as pallbearers or for driving automobiles in the funeral. It is understood that the fireman denied that he operaied such service saying in fact that the service was operated by his wife. This was not brought to Commissioner Crosby's attention by the delegation, but Mr. Watson said later that would try to discourage the entire bu ness of firemen working on their off hours and keeping other people out of Jobs. “In the old days,” Chief Watson said, “when I did not consider that our men were receiving adequate pay, I steadfastly refused to have anything to do with the question of whether they were working during their off hours. But now I consider that they are re- celving adequate pay. I do not believe it is & wise thing o allow. firemen to keep other hardworking people out of Jjobs, especially at a time like the pres- ent when unemployment is acute. I shall _do everything in my power to prevent it “It may be that I have not the legal power to order the firemen not to take jobs while not on duty. Even if that turns out to be the case I can still do a great deal to discourage it. Assum- ing that the result of the conference with Commissioner Crosby is favorable to such a course, I shall do everything that I can to prevent members of my department from working when they are off duty.” J. Lewis Gelbman and E. M. Richard- son were the delegates from Congress Heights who called on Commissioner Crosby. DERBY PLANES OFF FOR SAN ANGELO Little Rock Entry Leads Houston Getaway, With Eleven Followers. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., July 25.—The_Lit- tle Rocket, Little Rock, Ark., en Lee Gehlbach, pilot, left this field at 9:00:50 a.m. tcday on the Houston-San Angelo lap of the all-American Air Derby. Ten of the otuer 11 entrants left at one-minute intervals. The Little Rocket whined across the finish line yesterday far in advance of other entrants. Gehlbach was timed of- ficially at 3:01:34. Herman Hamer, Chicago entrant, winner of the New- York-to-Cincinnati leg, was forced down yesterday for the second time. Lack of gasoline brought him to earth 50 miles from Houston. The order of arrival here, official time from Little Rock, and unofficial lapsed time since the beginning of the derby, compiled from pilots’ logs, follow: Gehlbach, 3:01:34, 15:22:32 (won $500 lap prize). Stub Quinby, Moline, ., 3:03:06, 16:58:09 (won $300 lap prize) J. R. Wedell, New Orleans, 3:07:55, 17:06:44 (won $200 lap prize) Loweil Bales, Springfield, Mass, 3:16:37, 16:53:39. Stanley Stanton, Blackwell, OKl; 3:25:40, ~ 17:26 Charles Meyers, Cleveland, 3:46:04, 18 Joe Meehan, Ironton, Ohio, 3 20:01:22. Bill Cahill, Cleveland, 4:10:: 20:00:52. Harry Ogden, Englewood, Calif., 4:25:23, 21:08:01. Larry Brown, Los Angeles, 5:51:53, 24:42:39. Coffrin and Hamer totals unavailable. BARRERE TO SEEK RELEASE AS GLOTH SAYS HE’LL STAY (Continued_From First Page.) outcome of a second test. ¥ the services of a Washington officer are not avail- able to take the weapon to Chicago, I may go myself."” Dr. Souder i said to be temporarily out of the city on leave. On his re- turn, Gloth plans to ask him if he de- sires to make another check on the bullets and gun. Dr. Souder is regarded by the De- partment of Justice as one of the coun= try’s leading authorities on ballistics, and it was at the suggestion of depart- ment operatives that the Campbell gun was sent to him for examination Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, head of the homicide squad, who has been work= ing on the Baker mystery incessantly, did not appear at the county court house, today and was said to be taking a rest. Mrs. Campbell's Story Checked. Gloth and Talley expected today to visit a department store at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue in which Mrs. Herbert Campbell states she purchased a Boy Scout belt for her son, Edwin Callahan, about 5:30 o'clock on the evening of April 11, date of th? Baker crime. They also will endeavor to check on Mrs. Campbell’s statement that she boarded a bus at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue at 5:20 or 5:40 o'clock that afternoon, en route to her home in Virginia Highlands. These statements were made in Mrs. Campbell’s corroboration of her hus- band’s accounting of his whereabouts on the evening Miss Baker was being driven to her death. than a small fraction of those who de- sire to use them.” The committee made a study of all- night parking and declared that Wash- ington is unique in the size and char- acter of its all-night parking problem. It states that all-night parking offers an “unreasonable interference with street. cleaning and snow-removal and is encouragement to thievery.” “This practice has been accepted and indeed encouraged,” continues the re- port, “by builders through the failure to provide off-streets garage facllitles. It is not an unreasonable expectation that the owners of private sutomobiles should provide garaging at or near their place of residence. It Is Tecognized that an immediate enforcement of a prohibition against all-night parking would work . undue hardships. It is recommended, however, that in the pro- gram of park and traffic relief it be mdlu::d ‘tlrlubte.';the !Xpln&l,nn of two years it wi e purpose to rigorous- ly enforce regulations against this prac- A When Ivan Moline's plane failed to gain speed and altitude in a take-off at Polk, Nebr., the pilot “sat her down” on a rooftop with the result shown above. Neither the pilot nor his two passengers was injured. —A. P. Photo. 'SAD SITTERS IN The perches of the United States en- durance sitters, less sheltered than that of Washington’s own endurance sitter, grew uncomfortable yesterday from five reasons—electrical storms, the apathetic attitude of certain newspapers, a pole cat and the police. The police were the last two reasons. ‘But while his rivals sat and suffered ‘Washington's own Frank Kilmartin sat and gnawed fried chicken bones. While the most promising tree sitter in Lexington, Ky., abdicated in favor of ia pole cat, Frank, according to an As- beach chair and harkened to a serenade of feminine voices. In addition, while a real Kansas elec- trical storm broke over the head of the town of Hutchison's pride, and sent his mother scrambling up with overshoes, hot lemonade and an umbrella, Frank slept blissfully in his perch 40 feet above Fourteenth street, near Chapin. Tree sitters of the best in other local- ities, like White Plains, N. Y., say, have to sit and answer the questions of men in blue coats and brass buttons, who are great fellows for asking questions. Yesterday in that town—and Frank probably is glad he doesn't live there— the police quit asking questions and began to saw limbs off trees, particu- larly the limbs which the tree-sitters considered most essential to their gen- eral welfare, privacy and shelter. Yet 17-year-old Frank, . 1o shall have spent two days in a tree if he’s still up at 10:25 tonight, shouldn't grow agitated over all that. He's getting a break—and it isn’t a limb, either. While news photographers in other clties never passed up an opportunity to miss a tree-sitting assignment, Frank took a bow from all angles this sociated Press Dispatch, lolled in his | OTHER CITIES SUFFER AS D. C.'S OWN STAYS UP Frank Kilmartin Gnaws on Chicken and Vells for Banjo—Other “Endurers” Call for Help. morning while cameramen shot at him from the ground, from adjoining trees and from the roof of a nearby apart- ment building. Only yesterday, in Chicago, a gent telephoned a newspaper office, saying pardonable pride: 'm Sitting Buck. Get the name spelled right—Sitting Buck. I'ma tree- sitter—the world’s champion tree-sitter. I was up 247 hours. The cops made me come down. They said if I didn’t they'd turn the hose on me.” The reporter asked Sitting Buck what about it, and Sitting Buck replied that he thought maybe the public ought to know. However, he kept it a secret. Or at any rate he only filed it on the wire to 48 States and Canada. Over at Coney Island, N. Y., the city fathers are somewhat exercised over a popular fad called beach sitting. People came and brought their chairs and sat and sat. The “sitting bull” squad was organized but the policemen of the sit- ting bull” squad learned that the sit- ters were standing firmly on their con- stitutional rights. ‘The police thought they'd like to give them a wetting, but they couldn't move the ocean and the sitters wouldn't move either. Not even when the tide came in. It wasn't a very high tide, and the sitters, by lifting their chins and hold- ing their noses, managed to weather | the waves. |~ The tree sitters, the base ball pitch- ing endurance boys, the bicycle racers with a month yet to go and the Scot- tish tight-rope walkers, with months | at their disposal, are trying the ingenu- ity of custodians of the law everywhere. Meanwhile, Frank Kilmartin yelled for | his banjo and continued to sit. 0. VOUGHT, PLANE PIONEER, APRES Aircraft Designer and Manu- facturer Was One of Cur- tiss” School. By the Associated Press. # | _NEW YORK, July 25.—Chance Vought, aircraft manufacturer and de- signer, died today in the Southamp- ton, Long Island, hospital after a long iliness. He was 42. Vought was one of the “early biras” of aviation, a contemporary of Glenn Curtiss who died two days ago, of the Wright brothers, Lieut. Thomas Self- ridge and other pioneers who flew the old “box kites” of 20 years ago. Designed Fighting Craft. He was the designer of many fighting planes and developer of the first stand- ardized planes capable of withstanding the stresses of “shooting” from cata- pults on floating aircraft carriers. At the time of his death he was presi- dent of the Lewis & Vought Corpora- tion, which he organized and which became this year a division of the United Aircraft & Transportation Co. His widow, the former Ena Lewis of Pittsburgh, and their two sons, Chance, jr., and Peter, were at the bedside when he died. The funeral probably will be held Monday. Death was due to septi- cemia. He was taken to the Southamp- ton Hospital two weeks ago. Born in New York City, February 26, 1888, Vought was educated at Pratt Institute, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania, and left college in 1909 to become consulting engineer to Harold F. McCormick of Chicago, later the first man in the United States to employ an airplane for. commuting to his work. ‘Was Daring Flyer. Vought became identified with the Wrights in 1910 and attracted promi- nence by his daring flights. He was consulting engineer for the Aero Club of Illinois in 1912 and left that post to be aeronautical engineer and pilot on the staff of the Lillie Aviation School. In 1914 he became editor of one of the earliest journals of aviation—Aero and Hydro. He joined the Mayo Works in the next year and desigied and built the first of the fighting planes which now b his name. 1In 1916 he became chief engineer for the Wright Co., and in 1917 went to the same post in the merged Wright-Martin Corporation of New York, and for it he designed and built many famous airplanes and fly- ing boats of that day. During the ‘World War he was consulting engineer for the Bureau of Aircraft Production. Vought scout seaplanes and observa- tion planes now are standard equip- ment on the big naval aircraft carriers. MRS. CLIPPER EXPIRES Illness of Five Weeks Ends Fatal- ly for Washington Woman. Mrs. Christine Kohlos Clipper, wife of J. Howard Clipper, died yesterday in Providence Hospitai after an illness of five weeks. The Clipper residence is at 3744 Jenifer street. Besides her husband, Mss. Clipper is survived by her mother, Mrs. Mary Esther Kohlos, and two ' sisters, Miss Ernestine Kohlos and Mrs. Harry R. Stringer. Funeral services will be held tomor- row morning at 11 o'clock at the resi- dence. British Budget P;;Sed. LONDON, July 25 (#).—The House of Commons today concluded debate on RED INVESTIGATORS ONWAYTODETROT “Whalen Documents” De- i clared Forgeries at Hearing in New York. By the Associated Pre NEW YORK, July 25.—Carrying with it evidence purporting to show the “Whalen documents” were forgeries manufactured in New York, the con- gressional committee investigating Com- munist activities was on its way to De- troit today to continue its hearings. Printer Testifies. Max Wagner, a printer, testified he had set up the letterheads on which appeared the letters published by for- mer Police Commissioger Grover Whal- en as evidence connecting the Amtorg Trading Corporation with Communist propaganda in this country. Another witness, John Spivak, New York newspaper man, said he obtained from Wagner an affidavit affirming that he had printed the letterheads. Spivak said he had given proofs of the letter- heads to Representative F. H. La Guardia. He said that six weeks before their publication the Whalen documents had been offered for sale to a Wash- ington newspaper man, Harold Horan, who refused them. Joseph Michael, attorney for Amtorg, the Soviet commercial agency in the United States, said there were many discrepancies in dates, names and word usage. It was significant, he said, that words misspelled the same way appeared in letters supposedly written in Moscow and New York, indicating that the let- ters were written by the same person. Secret Police Investigated. Further testimony connecting Amtorg employes with the Russian secret po- lice was taken. George Djamgaroff, a, captain in the White Russian Army and now head of a news service engaged in anti-Soviet propaganda, identified Michael Feodorovitch Ziavkin, general manager of Amtorg, as having been head of a flying squad of the Cheka, the Soviet secret police, in 1920. Ziav- kin, on the stand earlier in the day, had d*‘lnh’d he ever was connected with the Chcka, AMTORG OFFICL 1S HELD. American Citizen Suspected of Soviet Propaganda in Mexico. MEXICO CITY, July 25 (A)—Mark | S. Lulinsky of New York, an American citizen, representing the Amtorg Trad- ing Corporation, was held in a hotel under heavy guard today while officials examined confiscated papers seized in his room a week ago. Authorities said they suspected Lulin- sky of being in the pay of the Soviet government to spread Communist prop- aganda in Mexico, but Lulinsky replied that he was not & Communist and was here to clean up business affairs for Amtorg, following the recent closing of the Soviet legation and commercial re- lations after the Russian representative had been expelled from Mexico. The investigation is progressing slow- ly because, some of the. papers are in Russian. “Lulinsky's detention followed infor- mation- from New Yok, it was said, and he was held incommunicado and secretly for & week before his American citizenship was learned. He was born in Odessa, but was naturalized in New York in 1922, Firemen Can Play Checkers. STRATFORD, Conn., July 25 (#).— Stratford firemen now can go back to their checker games between fires. The the finance bill—the national budget— which passed its third reading by 225 votes to 18! town council last night rescinded an order requiring the fire fighters to clean the streets in their spare time. MIDDIES' DISMISSAL - IS URGED BY ADAMS Secretaty Recommends That Hoover Expel Two Who 3 Smuggled in Girls. | By the Assoctated Press. The dismissal of two Annapolis mid- shipmen for taking two Washington girls into the mess hall of the Naval Academy has been recommended to President Hoover by Secretary Adams, THe youths in question are Lawrence L. Myatt of Quincy, Mass,, and Miller & Burgin of San Antonio, Tex. An appeal for less drastic action has {been presented by Senators Walsh of Massachusetts, Sheppard of Texas and Fletcher of Florida. They sald their information was that after the two girls had expressed a desire to dine in the mess hall the mid shipmen accompanied them to the dormitory and supplied them with uniforms which were worn into the dining hall. Detection followed and Rear Admiral |S. S. Robison. superintendent of the academy, recommended dismissal. His recommendation was approved late yes- terday by Secretary Adams. The case now awaits action by the President. LUCAS TO DIRECT G. 0. P. ACTIVITIES; /HUSTON TO RESIGN (Continued From First Page) W. Mulvane, Kansas: J. Henry Rora- back, Connectifut; Mrs. Worthin, Scranton, Pa.; William G. Skelly, Okla= homa; Patrick Sullivan, Wyoming; Nathanie! Thajer, Massachusetts, Mrs, Ellis A. Yost, West Virginia. Availability Questioned, Mr. Huston's availability as national leader of the Republican party’ was seriously questioned by many of the Republican leaders after the Senate Lobby Committee had conducted am investigation of his activities as dent of the Tennessee River Improves ment Association, which was concerned with the development of Muscle Shoals among other things. For months therp has been a demand from these Republie cans that Mr. Huston resign. Mr. Huse ton stood pat, however, on the ground that he should not be expected to quit “under fire.” It had been expected that he would take himself out of the picture at & meeting which he called a couple of weeks ago of officers of the National Com- mittee and the chairmen of the Senate and House Republican Campaign Com= mitees. All that came out publicly fol- lowing that meeting, however, Was & statement from Mr. Huston that the question of his resignation had been discussed and that he woulg issue & statement “after the Senate adjourned.” ‘The Senate was then in special session considering the London treaty. It is understood that Mr. Huston at that time pleaded the fact that Democratic Senators might deliver speeches on the floor of the Senate which would be frankable during the campaign all over the country. At all events, his an- nouncement of retirement was post- poned. Felt Huston Should Resign. President Hoover, despite his friend- ship for Mr. Huston, has felt that for party harmony Mr. Huston should re- sign. What was said at the confer- ence 'b:iween the President and Mr, Huston at the White House last night has not been revealed. But the state- ment made by Mr. Burke for Mr. Hus- ton later shows that the matter was brought to a head. What further statement Mr. Huston may make regarding his withdrawal as chairman of the National Committee is not known. He will have full oppor- tunity at the time of the Executive Committee meeting on August 7, if he wishes to avail himself of it. The chairman was not at headquar- ters this morning and no further state= ment was made on his behaif. Mr. Lucas, now slated to become chairman of the Republican Executive Committee, was appointed to his pres-, ent post, commissioner of internal reve enue, by President Hoover. He had fore merly been collector at Louisville. Mr. Lucas has made a fine reputation as an organizer and executive. His friends are enthusiastically recommending him for the executive head of the party organi- zation. Staunch Hoover Supporter, Senatbr Fess, who is apparently the choice for national chairman, is a regu- lar Republican and a staunch supporter of President Hoove? and his administra= tion. He served as a chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee when he was a member of the House. Senator Fess today left Washington for Springfield, Mass., where he is to de liver an address. He will go later to Ohio. He has canceled reservations he had made for a trip to Europe next month, it was reported: The Republican National Committee is at present without a secretary, Rep- resentative Franklin Fort of New Jersey having’ resigned that office several months ago. It is possible that the Executive Committee may give this of- fice consideration at its meeting here August 7. Another New Jersey man, George deB. Keim, of Edgewater Park, has been recommended by the New Jersey Senators for the post. It may be that the National Committee will be asked later to fill this place. Work at Standstill. The Republican National Committee work has been. largely at a standstill owing to the uncertainty for eeveral months over the Huston situation. Mr. Huston has been absent from Washing: ton a good deal of the time. gressional campaigns the committee raises the money, through its treasurer, for use in the congressional and senatorial elections. Mr. Nutt will take care of this part of the work this year. There has been an insisteit de- mand from many quarters, however, that the national organization begin to function more aggressively with the ap- proach of the congressional campaign. By- the United ‘States Army Band, Capt. Curtis D. Alway, Infantry, com- manding; William J. Stannard, band leader, and Thomas F. Darcy, second leader, at 7:30 o'clock tonight, on east Capitol steps (first half hour broadcast through stations WMAL and WJSV): March, “The Washington Evening Star” 3 Stannard Overture, “Tannhause .. Wagner “Little Sweetheart,” Solo for 'piccolo, : Brockenshire Master Sergt. Alexander Lutekiewitz. Election, “High Jink: eIAIN Silhouettes A (Conducted by Thomas (a) Spanish. () American. i®) Bg iral . Hadler R. Darey.) Finale, “The Star Spangled Baniter.” By the Community. Center Band, James E. Miller director, at 7:30 o’clock, at Franklin Park: March, “Brook's Trium . Seitz “Valse des Fleurs” “The Perfect Song”. March, “Call Me Hen: “Ballet of the Flowe) Fox-trot, “Should I Selection, “The Magic Overture, “Light Cavalr “‘Master Trombone” phal”. ch: