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WEATH (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast) Fair and somewhat tomorrow increasing warmer, followed by showers tomorrow sfternoon or night. Tem| est, 7l 7:30 a.m, it noon yesterday; lowest, 58, at . today. Full report on page 4. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 ER. warmer tonight; cloudiness and peratures—High- @he Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION —— g “From Pre The Star’s carr every city block and the regular cdi- tion is delivered to as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, Circulation, Sunday’s to Home Within the Hour” ier system covers Washington homes l 112,766 122,423 FEntered as secon post office, No. 31,793. Washington, d class matt or D C Q WASHINGTON, D. MONDAY, ) MAY 18 1931—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. #%# TWO CENTS. ~ CUSTOMS ACCORD | WILL G0 T0 HAGUE * COURT FOR RULING Henderson’s Move for Test of Legality Approved at Geneva. INTEGRITY OF AUSTRIA IS BACKED BY -SCHOBER Denies Threat to Most Favored Nations Clause, Secret Deal and Economic Surrender. By the Associated Press. | GENEVA, May 18.—Germany and | Austria, France, Great Britain and| Italy today agreed to submit the pro- | posed Austro-German customs accord | to the World Court at the Hague for | an advisory opinion as to its legality. Arthur Henderson, British foreign gecretary, proposed the move pointing out that legality of the accord was questioned under the treaty of St. Germain and the Geneva protocol of 1922. Dr. Johann Sriaober, Austria’s gray- haired foreign minister, agreed to the | proposals, but placed a spirited defense of Austria's integrity on the record. He denied the French charge that his country was violating the Geneva protocol guaranteeing Austrian politi- | cal independence when she negotiated with Germany for the projected union. He denied also that the Austro-German arrangement threatened the most- favored nations clause, and he denied that the negotiations had been con-, ducted in secret. | Austrian Surrender Denied. ‘The projected "treaty, he said, does not lsave it to Germany to regulate the economic -policies of the two con- tracting states, for the respective parli- aments retain equal authority to ar- range customs agreements with other nations. _Throughout their negotia- tions, he declared, Germany and Aus- tria had constantly in mind both the Geneva proctocol and the St Germain ty. “I must declare strongly,” he said, “that our announcement that this egrecment was constructed upon an exactly equal footing of both natins must be taken seriously. Austria will by no means surrender her economic independence. “If the powers are so greatly con- ccrned over this matter as to infringe | Austria’s sovereign right to negotiate treaties, then indeed is our ecimomic independence déstroyed.” The two. ic states agreed also with their negotiations He emphasized Council, guardian of Austria’s inde- pendence, knew nothing of the customs accord until it was an accomplished fact, and he quoted the Great Austrian statesman, Prince Metternich, “A na- tion cannot maintain its independence if it forms too close relations with ancther.” Dino Grandi, the Ttalian foreign mihister, agreed for his nation, assert- ting that it is not always possible to distinguish between political and eco. nomic elements. Italian economists, h ®aid, are not convin that the cu toms union system is the best for ti rehabilitaticn of Europe. Julius Curtius, for Germnay, defend- ing his own position, reiterated that the arrangement does not threaten Austria’s independence, but pledged Germany to Mr. Henderson’s propozal The Council of the League later in the current session will attempt to name a president for the approaching world disarmament conference. Hender- | #on appears to be the more general| selection for the post, which informed | quarters said that he was not seeking because of the pressure of other duties, | but would accept if the League states- | men really want him. | BEST STOCKS DROP | IN RECORD DECLINE American Telephone Lowest Sincei 1927—VU. S. Steel and Ameri- can Can Under $100. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, May 18—C-mmon | stocks of the country's largest and oldest corporations broke severely onj the New York Stock Exchange today, | ishing new lows which in many ces had not been seen in several | y selling of American Telephone, | h sold under $169 a snare for the | ¢ time since 1927, and de- lives in most of the railro were outctanding features of the sc sion. Trading, however, was not un- ally active and the day’s sales were | % 2,500,000 shares. | United States Steel common. after | z+iling under §100 in the morning, re- covered part of its Joss during a gen eral midafternoon rally, but the im provement was short-lived and the day's lowest quotations were established in the final dealings when Steel sold under $99 for a loss of $3. American Can also broke par for a loss of more than $3. Stocks losing about $6 included American Tobacco B, Union Pacific, Northern Pacific and Norfolk & West- ern. National Biscult, Lambert, New York Central, Southern Pacific, New | Haven and McKeesport Tin Plate drop- ped $4 to $5. Atchizon’s loss was $10. A large number of prominent issues | showed net declines of §3 to $4. A sharp drop in cotton today carried all futures contracts to new low records for the season, and the market closed at net losses of $1.25 to $1.35 a bale, ‘The drop was ascribed to better weather in the South and weakness in stocks. Beached Cruiser Refloated. BATAVIA, Java, May 18 (#)—The PDutch cruiser Sumatra, which ran on | @ reef near Billiton Priday, was re- floated last night and headed Bourabaya under her own power, ictims of Tragedy| | Upper: Robert S. Montgomery. who shot Charles Garbeit, manager of the Club Chantecler, and then killed Po- liceman Jesse Taylor, below. ONLY 280 PLANES READY FOR DEFENSE Review Shows Most of Na- tion’s Air Force Have Limit- ed Fighting Facilities. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON, Aviation Editor of The Star. FAIRFIELD, Ohio, May 18.—If the| i New York family, to shoot Garbett, kill MANAGER OF CLUB NEAR DEATH AFTER Robert S. Montgomery’s Father Provides for Family of Slain Policeman. ORCHESTRA KEE PLAYING TO PREVENT STAMPEDE Witnesses Tell Killed Patrolman Taylor and Himself. How Clubman While Charles Garbett, manager of | the fashionable Club Chantecler, on Thomas Circle, continued to figrt for his life at Emergency Hospital today, rolice were endeavoring to learn what c>used Robert S. Montzomery, 26-year- old scion of a prominent Boston and a policeman and then commit suicide early yesterday. That Montgomery, who had twice failed to nass an examination to become AP ROPOS OF ACROBATIC a certified public accountant, was in the | = e depths of despair was indicated by sev- | eral otes found in his room at the! W]FE KILLS FIRST Racquat Club, where ha had been stay- | ing for the last three months. Admitted Inferiorty. In one of his letters Montgomery had penciled an admiss'on that he could not hepe (o rankewith his father, Col. Robert H. Montgom ry, well known at- torney, clubman and expert accountant, whom he termed a “genius.” “There’s only one genius in a num- ber of generations.” he wrote. “The colonel is it. The next one can't be ex- pected for 10 years. I've tried to live | up to it. I can't. He ranks I don't.” Another note, written to Montgomery by Dr. George D. Reynolds, a Boston physician, warned the worried young | man he was in poor health and pre- scribed treatment for him. Montgomery fircd two bullets into his chest, just below the heart, after he gy the A iated Press. had wounded Garbett and killed Police- | = NEw — ORLEANS. f NEW ORLEANS, May 18—Edgar man Jesss L_Taylor of the third pre- cinet, who, with Policeman Lest-r Parks, | Bouligny, 43, a photographer, the first had been detailed to watch the night | American wounded in the World War, ClUb. men called at the Tavior home | "% ot and killed early today by his e Tavior home | today and, after identifying themselves | *.fe: Mrs. Della Bouligny, 37, at thelr as representatives of Col. Montgomery, | aPartment in the French quarter. father of the slayer, said they wanted | Bouligny recently returned to his to arrange to pay the expenses of the | home city, New Orleans, from New York | and had been unable o obtain employ- policeman’s {ungral Mrs. Ada Taylor, widow of the police- | ment as a commercial photographer. Mrs. Bouligny said she shot her hus- man, was absent, however, having gone band as a climax to years of quarreling Edgar Bouligny, Unemployed Hero, Displays Stamina Despite Fatal Wound. drille Threatened Her Life, Woman Says. WOUNDED IN THE WORLD WAR Member of Lafayette Esca- ALLEGED CUNMAN SLANINSPEAREASY |Fatal Fight Starts With Gin Throwing in Row Over Blackjack Game. AMERICAN | Shot_through the brain in a drunken brawl Tollowing a gambling game last night, Talley Day, 23 years old, de- | scribed by the police as a gunman and small-time racketeer, died early today | in Emergency Hospital. 4 8hortly after his death police Broad- | cast a lookout for t&o of his €om- | panions, both of whom have ciinunal / |records and are wafited on a charge of | murder in connection with Day’s death. The fatal shooting of Day brought | the total number of slayings here over | the week end to five. Witnesses told police the three men | had bzen playing black jack and drink- ing in a speakeasy at 1523 M street. Day, they said, quit after losing & few dollars. The of twitted him with to complete afrangements for the | funeral, and the men said they would | and threats against her life. They did not give their{ - She claimed -he was adva ‘to- ward her with clinched fisis. One of Argued Over Table. the three bullets struck him in the | The triple shooting, according to wit- | iead, = Displaying stamina that won names. EDGAR BOULIGNY. taken to Paris. There he met the wom- an who Bécame his wife and finally his slayer. Eleven years ago they went to New being a “poor r.” In a rage, he snatched a glass of gin and threw it in the face of one of the men being sought. Fight Resumed Later. | international borders of the Nation, | the club, where they met Miss Norvell | United States were to be attacked to- morrow the Army Air Corps, intrusted by recent agreement with the aerial| Earlier in the evening Montgomery and Mrs. Eugene Smith, a socially defense of the entire coast line and | prominent, Washington matron, visited ter's refusal to seat him at a table; next to the dance floor. 14 muster only 280 actual fighting | Mupford, a Capital debutante, and H s o e combliehment ot ity | Irvine Keiser, 2d. of Baltimore. Keisef | planes for the accomplishment of s’ ng Miss Munford, who is a member of trust, it was revealed here yesterdaya prominent Virginia family, had met | stairway and into an alley, where he York, where he engaged in commercial fell dead, face downward. | photography. the bas's of her self-defense plea, | After the shooting Mrs. Bouligny Mrs. Bouligny was exonerated by the came to a balcony and shouted, “T've State’s attorney and all charges against ' killed my hushand!" her were ordered dropped. | She ran down to the alley and was Bouligny returned 0o New Orleans stroking her dead husband’s hair when fter the World War and was acclaimed | the police arrived. hero. He was officially designated the | The couple, childless, lived in a small rst American to be wounded in the studio apartment at 409 Bourbon street, The others intervened and a fight | was aver.ed at this stage, but, porce weie ioid, the quarrel was resumed a lidle laler. The man who had been | drencined with liquor then threw a gin | buck on Day. “That makes us even,” he said. Day, who was standing behind the | bar in the speakeasy, took a .32 caliber for wnhe afterncon as the might of the Air Corps from every section of the coun- try was assembled for the first review | of an air division ever held in the United States. \ Of the 280 fighting planes 51 are of | a type already regarded as obsolescent. | Of the remainder 36 would be heavy bombardment planes, unfitted for of- | fensive action against enemy fighters. | This would leave but 200 pursuit planes of a type suited to action in beating ?n the planes of an attacking enemy | orce. 400 Not Battle Planes. i Though more than 650 planes were | assembled here for the review yester- | day afternoon, nearly 400 of them are | of the type which could not be called | upon for battle service in resisting an | enemy aerial attack. About 250 of | them are observation planes, which have an extremely limited combat use- | fulness as they are primarily designed | for observation use and not for fight- | ing. They carry machine guns, which | are intended for defensive purposes Others are transport and cargo types. With 200 serviceable pursuit plaues | ready to take the air against attacking | enemy planes, even though they all| were concentrated for the defense of | | but one pcint on the far-flung coast|Garbett repeated his previous state- | and border line of the country, the Air |ment that nor Corps could be certain of beating off completely only an attack by 50 enemy planes or less, since experience shows | that a determined fighting air force can | penetrat: a defensive wall formed by : up to four times its own number of | planes with sufficient force to attain its objectives, The 51 planes which are regarded as | becoming obsolete are of the attack type, composing the entire strength of | the 3rd Attack Group, from Galveston, Tex. The Air Corps does not expect to buy any more planes of the present | attack type. They all must be replaced ! as soon as work now in progress at | Wright Field develops a type of plane | upon which the Army can place abso- lute reliance for the important service of attack The experimental work, it has been learned, is o well along that there is definite assurance in the near future | of a plane which will form the most deadly weapon man ever devised fol use against ground troops, machine gun (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) CROWLEY MURDER TRIAL | DELAY IS REQUESTED| Defense Attorney Says Time Not Sufficient Questioning. i for Proper By the Associated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y., May 18.—Trial of Francis Crowley for th: murder of Pa- trolman Frederick Hirsch was post- poned today until next Monday at the | request of former District Attorney, Charles Weeks, counsel for the con- fessed killer. Crowley was not in court. Mr. Weeks said he had seen his client only twice and had had insufficient op- portunity to question him. He pointed out also that with the concentration of Armymnhnu at the flying fields here late week to might be 50 noisey as to make the conduct of court difficult. Crowley was captured 10 days in rtment with - Rut lm Bronx for t] irginia Brannen, 4 'mipmzv‘&v | home of Mr. and Mrs. John Whalen, war. While a member of the Lafayette | at the Shorcham Hotel a short time| pecagrille he was shot four times and fore. “The party danced until about mid- night, when Mrs. Smith asked to be taken home. ~Montgomery, according | to Mrs. Smith, had been drinking before | he called for her at the Chevy Chase | with whom she had dined. While at| the Chantecler, Mrs. Smith added, Montgomery took three more drinks from a flask which he carried in his | pocket. Asked to Be Taken Home. E— Because Montgomery was drinking, Mr th. who lives in the 2400 block | Hearings Postponed * Unti' of road, explained, she asked | h.m to take her home. As they rode August or Later, BiShOD Is Told. WILL CALL CANNON away from the night club in a taxicab, Mrs. Smith added, Montgomery insisted h2 was going to return later, because he did not fcel Jike sleeping When he returned to tne club Kelser and Miss Munford had gone. Never- theless, he asked for a table, but Gar-| bett told him no tables were available. Warning the manager *‘there be some shooting around here,” omery left. He is believed to have gone to his room and obtained his re- volver, which he carried in an arm holster. He returned a few minutes later and repeated his demand for a table. When BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The Nye committce investigation of { the handling of the Jameson contribu- |tions to the anti-Smith Democratic | Committee in 1928 by Bishop James Cannon, jr., will be postponed, so far as open hearings are concerned, until Au- gust or later. This was the informa- | tion given Bishop Cannon by Chairman | Nye of the Senate Campaign Investigat- ing Committee when the bichop called this morning at the Senator's ofiice 1o !learn what the plans of the committee were. Senator Nye said later that it had | been determined by the committee at a meeting last weck in New York to sum- mon Bishop Cannon himself and put him on the stand before the investiga- tion closes. Originally it had been the purpose of the committee t go ahead with the investigation without summon- ing Bishop Cannon unless tie bishop would waive immunity. | Just what Bishop Cannon would do {1f he were put on the stand, Chairman (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) \A.nla\'allablc, Mont- pistol, Garbett cried. response was to level the gun at the manager and pull the trigger. Garbett dropped to the floor with a wound in his right side, gomery drew his “Don’t shoot! Montgomery's ' Orchestra Drowns Noise, Without & word, Montgomer: e and started down the sglam.y.\'r‘.‘mmcd‘ time of the shooting the orchestra, led | by Harry Albert, was playing “You're Driving Me Cr: with ‘such enthu- siasm that the report of the weapon, if &was ?R}rad sl all by the couples who ronged the dance fi v thronged the dance floor just s few feet It 'was heard, whose presence of might have develop knew there had (Continued on P Vi by Albert, ind averted what ed into a panic. * L shooting,” Column 5.) TWO DIE AS BURNING BUILDING COLLAPSES he Injuries Received by Several Others Pinned Beneath Front Wall of Texas Structure. By the Associated Press. ANGELS CAMP, Calif., May 18— Mark Twain's immortal story of the jumping frog has been re-enacted in this sun-baked mining village and to- day Budweiser, the greatest piece of frog flesh that ever swung a leg down Main street, was the toast of the mother lode ‘country. The lead pellets of Twain’s jumping contests were missing yesterday, just as were lead bullets in the six guns flourished before 20,000 spectators. The mottled Budweiser, which brought victory to his master, Louis Fisher of Stockton, Calif., leaped 11 feet 5 inches to stage a comeback and defeat 150 other entries in the fourth annual Cala- veras frog 1umm\l contest. Three years ago Budwelser won the meet. building, housing the Trew Beats Out Puddle Jumper. Brothers Motor Co., and the Kennerly = - Between lines of screaming ‘women, Hardware Co., was destro; wit it men and children, estimated & 100,000, | N 0SS e eiser stretched o o ] By the Associated Press GAINESVILLE, Tex., May 18.—Two men were killed and several others were injured early today when the front wall of a burning building collapsed, burying firemen and spectators, The dead: H. C. Talley, 37, fore- man of the Texas Power & Light Co., and Wayrie Williams, 28, railroad tele- graph operator, William Block, Erick Giles, Raymond Powell, Morris Finley, all of Gaines- \rll’l;..1 wea:'mjurcd seriously. e , of undetermined origin, started sboit X am s e SENATE COMMITTEE VOIGT WINS FIRST SRR : SRR «BUDWEISER” HOPS 11 FEET 5 INCHES WOMAY TO CAPTURE FROG JUMPING TITLE| Angels Camp, Calif., Is Scene of Repetition of Mark Twain’s Immortal Tale; 20,000 See Unique Contest. | pistol from his pocket and fired at the man. | Befcre he could pull the trigger a second time, the gin thrower’s com- | panion fired once. Day collapsed be- | hind the bar, a bullet in his brain, and the others ran. Polic2 arrcsted as witnesses Carleton G. Willlams, 24, alleged operator of the spe@keasy; John Cameron Kelly, | 31, a waiter in the establishment, and | Joseph Demar, 21, who gave his cc- cupation as a plumber. Convicted Eight Times. | Since his nineteenth birthday, Day hes been arrested 24 times and ccn- victed on eight, cccasions. He had half-a-dozen aliases. Although the convictions against him were princi- pally for such offenses as assault, transporting liquor and disorderly con- duct, he had been arrested several times in connection with robberies and | homicides. last arrested five days ago ction with the theft of liquor from the Salvadorean legation and an assault on Dr. Don Carlos Leiva, charge d'affaires. He was later absolved of in the artist and author section of the Vieux Carre, with a dog an MATCH |NMATEUR' Bouglas Fairbanks, * Film | Star, Is Defeated, 1 Up, in British Golf. { | By the Associated Press. | WESTWARD HO. Devon, England, May 18—George Voigt of New York. chief American hope in the British | amat-ur golf championship, defeated | any connection with this crime. |7, H. Bowman, Norfolk champion, 4| _The man who is alleged to have killed Day has an even longer criminal rec- and 3, in first round match today. | Gra 'On his ‘card at police headquar- After a shaky start, Volgt settled | ters are recorded 27 arrests and five | down to steady, consistent golf. | convictions, | all within the ,‘;"“ four . 4 | years. Included are such offenses as | "Douglas Fairbanks, the film star, tried | Jbre, INCCSRd are ek SRS o8 | his hand at championship golf only 10| violations. The man said to have pre- | bow to J. R. Abercrombie of the Royal | cipitated the shooting by throwing gin | Liverpcol Club, 1 up. | on Day has been arrested three times. | Another Ca'ifornian, L. R. Phillips of | Known as Resort Doorman. Santa Barbara, lost & close first round| Day was best known to the local | match to N. €. Selway, 1 up. | sporting fraternity as doorman at “Jim- | mie’s,” a gambling house just across | Thomas Maguire of Stockton, Calif..| {ie Maryland Bne." He was arrested by | advanced to the second round at the Maryland authorities in 1928 after a | expense of H. L. Archibald of St. Cloud, | fight in the Blue Grass Inn when Wil- | Srarion: & wida: | liam Bailey of Waskington was shot | A ' | several timés. Bailey, \owever, refused | Ross Thompson of Uniontown, Pa..| o testify, and the matter was dropped. | was defeated by L. R. H. Hornby of | The dead man's wife of 18 months, | saltford, 1 up in 23 hole (Continued on Page 4, Coluwma 2.) RECOVERS $90,000 NECKLACE Converse Strong's Found on Steamship at Seg | Mrs. Jewels | | By the Associated Pres | NEW YORK, May 18.—The $00,000 | pear] necklace of Mrs. Converse &trong | of Santa Barbara, Calif., was found today. Mrs. Strong lost the necklace Friday when she saw Mrs. E. C. Converse off | on the liner Roma. She discovered it Antloch, Calif. | was missing after she returned to her Zenobla, & king of frogdom from | suite in the Sherry-Netherland. Kinston, N C., backed by the Kinston| Tcday a radio message from Capt. Kiwanis Club, placed fourth with a leap | Angelo ‘Saglietto, master of the Roma, of 8 feet 6 inches. Smoke, the Wash- | said the jewels had been discovered. ington, N. C., Fire Department’s entry, | Details of the message were not made did his best at 7 feet 1 inch. public, but it was said it indicated no Sally, the soulful-cyed amphibian, | theft was involved. Mrs. Strong had entered by the Ladles’ Auxiliary the | offered a $5,000 reward and said Capt. Calaveras Fire Department, misuljder- | Saglietto would decide who should re- Mmg. regulations and jumped back- | ceive it. wards. AR P For the benefit of those : ? ; not have seen 5 firet-clone trar Jume? | 100,000 in French Textile Strike. LILLE, France, May 18 (#)—One ing contest, a Vigilante Committee with le arm and side whiskers governs the | hundred thousand textile workers went Jumps. on strike today because their pay had An'lell Camp was jammed. The |been cut 3 to 4 per cent to cover 1 town’s hotel was packed to the rafters. | insurance. About one-fourth of Them as had chairs kept ‘em, and a| workers in the Lille region bed was a luxury, . the job. seize victory from Puddle Jumper, entered by John Decchenino, Oakdale, Calif. Puddle Jumper leaped 11 feet 1 inch. Joe placed third with a leap of 10 feet 6 inches for Joe Cesar of i UPHELD IN RULING OF SUPREME COURT Arizona Loses Fight on Con-] stitutionality of Boulder Canyon Project Act. CHARGED STATE WOULD LOSE RIGHTS TO WATER Way Left Open for State to Renew Fight if Later Developments Show Impairment of Powers. By the Associated Press. The law authorizing the construction of Hoover Dam on the Colorado River was sustained as constitutional today | by the Suprems Court. Arizona's bill of complaint was dis- missed by the court without prejudice to her right to procezd further in the matter should it later develop that any of her rights were being impaired. Arizona succeeded in showing, the | court declared, that it may suffer injury as a result of distribution of water from | the reservoir. If at’any time in the future her rights to water from the river should be impaired, the court said that the | state might take appropriate legal ac- ticn, but that it could nct deliver a judg- ment based on the assumption that the | State's rights would be injured. Work Under Way. ) ‘Work on the dam, already under way, will go forward as a result of the de- cision although it may eventually be halted if Arizona should bring other | court action with regard to distribution of the water. ‘The act authorizing the construction of the dam was passed in December, 1928, over the bitter opposition of Ari- zona's Representatives in Congress. ‘The cost was estimated at $165,000,- 000, with rcimbursement to go to the Government from revenue from the sale of water and hydro-electric con- tracts, which have already been let by the Interior Secretary. Arizona attacked the validity of the Boulder Canyon project act and asked; the Supreme Court to prohibit Secre- tary of Interior Wilbur from construct- ing the Hoover Dam under its provi- sions, contending Congress under the act proposed to deprive Arizona of ‘water from the Colorado River in viola- { tion of its quasi-sovereign rights. Arizona asserted that while the act declared it was in ald of navigation and ’!or the reslamation of public lands. it was, in fact, for irrigation and power | purposes and not in aid of navigation. Admit| ress had jurisdiction i under the Constitution to pro- | mote interstate commerce and had con- trol of navigable rivers for that gilrpou | Arizona insisted the Colorado River is not, 4 never ‘was, navigable and de- claj navigation on a non-navigable river was not promoted by diverting one-half of its naiural flow, as was under the present act. Compact Is Challenged. The six-State compact between Cali- | fornia, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Col- | oraco and Wyoming was <challenged by | | Arizona on the ground it proposed to take water to which she was entitled. Particular emphasis was placed by Arizona on the charge that under the Hoover Dam act Secretary Wilbur, a party to the suit, was proposing to di- vert under contracts large quantities of water from the river into Imperial Val- |ley, Los Angeles and Southern Cali- { fornia. Arizona declared that not only would {1t be deprived of water rights, but that the project contemplated the diversion cf water over a mountain range into ano.her watershed. The lct.gl Congress was _described by Arizona promoted to furnish Southern California with water from the river to which it was not entitled, and also for the generation of hydro-electric current for the benefit of others than citizens of Arizona. It also denied that the act could benefit navigation on the river by flcod eontrol. Califernia, Nevade, Utah, New Mex- | ico, Colorado and Wyoming, the six States parties to the Colorado River compact, and Secretary of the Interior when served with the complaint of ' Arizona asked the court to dismiss it, contending it presented no Federal question within the jurisdiction of the court. i No Injury at Present. ‘They declared that Arizona at the present time was suffering no injury under the act of Congress for the con- struction of Hoover Dam which would. permit it to maintain a suit to enjoin the construction of the dam. The complaint was based, they insisted, upon injuries Arizona anticipated would arise from the’construction of the dam. It would be time for Arizona to come into court when it could show that it actually was being deprived of some constitutional right under the dam act. The dam act had properly been | designated by Congress as an aid to ! | navigation, they stated, asserting thz} court had no right to question the ac- curacy of the designation, but must ac- cept the construction given by Congress. The impounding of water at Hoover | Dam would create a lake, they explain- ed, which would permit navigation ayound Boulder and B! canyons, now " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) — UPRISING REPORTED IN CUBAN PROVINCE Thirteen Nationalists Seized in Santa Clara Move to Over- throw Government. By the Assoclated Press. HAVANA, May 18.—Dispatches to Havana newspapers today from Sanoti Spiritus, Santa Clara Province, said that a score of Nationalist party mem- bers had armed themsclves and risen against the government. Army officers sent to Santa Clara {ness conditions, it is considered unlmg HOOVER DAM LAW |FCONOMY SURVEYS ORDERED FOR MORE FEDERAL BRANCHES Hoover Requests Treasury, Post Office and Agriculture Departments Studies. $17,000,000 IS SEEN: AS CUT FOR INTERIOR Presidential Ax to Be Felt Heav- iest on Hoover Dam Work. By the Assoclated Press President Hoover has instructed Treasury, Post Office and Agriculture Department officials to survey their re- spective fields with a view to cutting | down expenditures. With economies laid down for the War and Interior Departments, the President will choose from among these three the governmental branch that will be taken up at his next week end meeting” The $17,000,000 savings to be effected by the Interior Department between now and July, 1933, under the program adopted 'at the President’s mountain camp Saturday, will be virtually all achieved through postponement of non- essential capital outlays. Hoover Dam Work Cut. The efficiency of each branch of the department will be kept absolutely in- tact, Secretary Wilbur said today, and no vitally important work will be post- poned. None of the officials would dis- cuss details of the program, but it was indicated some of the $17,000,000 saving would be shown in Hoever Dam con- struction. Appropriations for this work for 1931 and the next fiscal year have amounted to about $25,000,000, which is more than the engineers of the Reclamation Service believe can be spent efficiently during that 5 To secure absolute safety in construc- ipsist that abundant time tion they will be given the concrete to set and cyre. Indications were that the :gn‘ll policy would be reduction of projects under a pro rata system rather than outright elimination of any. Both the Park Service and Geological Survey have considerable funds appro- priated which may b2 spent only when matched by local communities or pri- vate initiative. Because of present busi- that much of this money will !exmtng varks and monument i survey has matchable funcs for stream d similar activities. The ang ’ Eark Servioe also has con and trial building which may be ynder- taken at a slower rate. ‘Work to Provide Jobs. All burcaus of the department which have construction programs have been urged by the President to push work in the communities having the most un- employment. War Department economies are to be effected largely through abandonment of obsolete posts to save not orly the amount necessary to keep ug the posts but by the concentration of treops in a few places to economize in buying and in freight costs. A number of the posts which Presi- dent Hoover plans to abandon are lo- cated in climates where it is possible to train troops onlg about six months of the year. As part of the program, President Hoover has asked the Agriculture and Justice Departments and the Veterans' Bureau to study the possibilitics of using the abandoned camps. No Large Items. ‘The Interior Department officials, who had fsund no unusually large items they believed could be stricken, presented heir savings outline at conferences Sat- urday and Sunday. They expect to save $4,000,000 this year, $6,000,000 to $7,000,: 000 next year and $7,000,000 to $8,000,- 000 the following year by restricting some activities and deferring other work. The Indian Office, which received for the fiscal year 1932, a net appro- priation of $25,000,000, was not ex- pected to provide much of the saving, for Secretary Wilbur and his aides have inaugurated a new policy in that branch calling for first-class personnel at substantial salaries. Material cut would hinder the work, officials hold. On his trip to Virginia, the Presi- dent was accompanied by Mrs. Hoover,« his son, Herbert, jr, and the latter's wife, It was the first time the youriger Hoover had been to Rapidan since he went to Ashville, N. C., last year for treatment for incipient tuber- culosis. _ Secretary Wilbur and other Interior Department officials alzo were present. RICH MILLER RETURNS AFTER BEING LOST Refuses to Give Details of Strange Disappearance Preceding Bankruptcy Action. By the Assoclated Press. STUTTGART, Ark, May 18—A. U. McGill, prominent Arkansas rice miller, missing since his automobile was found in the White River last Tuesdss night, returned t his home here today, but refused to explain his disappearance. Friends said he told them he spent much of the time wandering around in the White River bottoms. He said his automobile p! over acc- : c:flfl’ into the river “partly lent.” His disappearance was followed by receivership and bankruptcy actions against his company, the McGill Bros.' Province last week as a precaution against trouble drove them from the city and are pursuing them. Both Na- tionalist leaders in Havana and the government denied that the upifsing had taken place, but credence was given reports of a disturbance of some sort by presence of the secretary of 1;1t¢rlnr at his desk most of the Santiago dispatches early today said that 13 persops were arrested during the night held on mili- l'.lry 3 ‘They in- cluded o members. s of reb? Standing Nlflnn! N Radie! Programs on Pag Rice Mill DIAMOND’S TRIAL SET Gangster and Two Aides to Be Ar- raigned on June 8. CATSKILL, N. Y., May 18 (#)—Jack (Legs) Diamond and two members of his gang, who are under indictment on c growmng out of alleged racket. - — in:}rcmcounty.wmpu une 8. The date set