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WEATHER. (U.'S. Weather Bureau Forecast), Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 91, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 71, at 6 g.m. to- day. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 No. 31,828, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he Foening Staf. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1931—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. STIMSON ASKS QUICK DEBT ACTION; MACDONALD PLEDGES APPROVAL;| STOCKS SOAR ON WORLD MARKETS World Parley Is ALL. EXCHANGES ADVANCE Declared Out of Question. PARIS APPROVAL SEEN IN CAPITAL Debate Might Defeat Economic Effect, Secretary Feels. By the Associated Press. President Hoover's propdsal for a year's suspension of war debts and rep- arations payments was reflected in a strong upswing on the stock markets of the world today. | In New York prices surged up 2 to i s 15 points. Y G GOULD TANCOLN. | The Berlin Bourse responded with a While the world reacted !avor-imm on all markets, leading shares ably today to President Hoover's| going up to as much as 30 points, while proposed year’s suspension on in- | there was not a minus sign on the whole tergovernmental debts and war|list when the market closed. reparations, the administration| London showed similar activity, stocks ON HOOVER’S PROPOSAL Prices Move Higher as Confidence Is! Improved by Plan to Stabilize International Finances. rallying in Tokio, while catton improved on the Bombay market. ‘There was a general upward move- ment on the Rome Stock Exchange. ‘WALL STREET CHEERFUL. Rise Lustily, With Profit-taking Failing to Slow Pace. NEW YORK, June 22 (#)—Caught up by the spirit of optimism that swept Stocks of President Hoover's proposal, Wall | Street celebrated in characteristic fash- | fon the appearance of the sunshine througlt the clouds of gloom. Stocks boiled lustily, stopping now and then for a bit of profit-taking, but coming out of each recession with re- newed. enthusiasm for the advance and | hundreds of shares touched quotations that were $2 to $10 a share above the Saturday close. Bonds, particularly those of German origin, were buoyant. Cotton, not to be outdone, soared $2.50 " (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) GERMAN COLLAPSE BELIEVED AVERTED Ke); ;o-fielay Is Held By France. MINISTER PLANS Lloyd George Joins Baldwin in Back- ing Premier. By the Associated Pre: While the world’s stock markets | the world’s markets today as a result | SWUng upward today in response to President Hoover’'s proposal for a war debt moratorium, world capitals buzzed politically as the various governments began con- sideration of the part they must play in any acceptance of the President’s proposal. Full support by the British gov- ernment is foreseen in the state- ment made in the House of Com- mons today by Prime Minister MacDonald. The head of the Britsh cabinet warmly praised the | Nine Others Hurt When Bul- Hurts Church Worker; | | Confesses to Ministers. | | proposal and stated that his gov- ernment is anxious to co-operate. When he had finished speaking Stanley Baldwin, head of the op- posing Conservative party, and David Lloyd George, head of the Liberals, both addressed the House, pledging their agreement 'TO ACT AT ONCE| STRIKER: S KILLED IN MINE BATILE lets Fly Between War- ring Factions. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 22.—Ont man was killed and nine other in- jured in a pitched battle early today !Fugitive Slayer, ' Prominent Leader, | | Returns Yo Prison| | Free 17 Years, Conscience By the Associated Press. MARYDEL, Del, June 22—A con- science-stricken man who for 17 years | had been a' fugitive from justice and |had risen to become a civic leader |and ardent church worker is serving a | ife term for murder in Florida today. | every city block $¥% P Means Associated IDENTIFY “HATLESS PAIR" IN ROBBERY Drug Company Employes Pick Out Two of Three Youthful Suspects. Two members of the “hatless bandit trio” have been identified as two of t three bandits who participated in the $6,500 Peoples Drug Store pay-roll rob- | going up 4 to 9 points, while the Liver- awaited the response of France t0|pool cotton market opened sensation- the proposal. tauy":u ?0:1;“"; higher, later advancing Optimism was expressed that;sgumg"s{‘mnz'l‘f“"' Copper and tin | France, with the other nations,| Pari.x’ nm; shnwe‘ddl %?in. the Bourse % | recovering in considerable breadth and would agree to the plan. France, | pi.o."nome instances advancing 10 it was pointed out, will gain ma-| pra rhenc with a very firm closing. g : ther corners of the world also re- terially by enterlmg into the plan'flmed Ao 1o AP T without reservation. improving nearly 10 per cent, stocks | The need for prompt action s by all of the nations involved i, | ‘was emphasized in admlnlstratlon‘ SIAMP | quarters today. It was pointed | r out that the world is to benefité from the proposed suspension and | | the psychological effect which has | | already manifested itself. i | No World Parley Wanted. T “ Secretary Stimson of the State De- partment made it clear that there is no question of an international con- ference on the intergovernmental debts. A suggestion that such a conference might properiy be held is_of French origin. ~ The Secretary of State made 1t clear that to hold such a conference would delay and perhaps make inef- fective the plan, so far as the financial situation is concerned. The hoped-for economic effect on the world situation might be lost entirely if an interna- tional conference should be called and result in bickering and long debate. | It was explained that the nations | #nvolved In the proposed moratorium had_all_been notified through diplo- pels of the President’s pro- tary Stimson is conferring today with diplogatic representstives in Washington of some of the coun- tries. Britain Sympathetic. Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Am- bassador, advised Secretary Stimson | today of the sympathetic attitude of his government toward the President’s proposal. He had a conference with the Undersecretary of State, Mr. Castle, who also conferred with the~Minister from Austria. Ambassador Claudel of France, who | eonferred with Secretary Stimson, was; without information as to the policy his government would follow. The con- sensus, however, among the French diplomatic representatives, expressing private opinions, was that France would accept the proposal. Minister Prochnik of Austria said| after his call upon Mr. Castle that he | had expressed the approval of his gov-| ernment of President Hoover's proposal | for a year's moratorium of intergovern- | mental debts. 3 “We have always felt,” he said, “that things in Europe would not take a turn for the better unless the United States agreed to help in Europe’s economical | recovery. “Our situation is very similar to that in Germany. We are highly gratified at | this step of President Hoover's.” The Minister said the proposal would | affect payments on a $24,000,000 loan to Austria in 1919, shoryly after the close of the war, for the purchase of wheat which the American Government had shipped to Italian ports for use in the war. Ambassador de Martino of Italy in- formed the Secretary of State gtoday that he did not expect a reply from his government regarding the Hoover pro- posal until tomorrow. Minister Radeff of Bulgaria notified the State Department of the “grati-| tude” of his government for the Presi- dent’s move. Started Study June 5. ‘President Hoover, it was revealed at | the White House today, has been work- | 1ng on his proposal for & moratorium of the intergovernmental debts since June 5. On that date he called into confer- ence Secretary Stimson, Secretary Mel- lon of the Treasury and the Undersec- y_of thi ._Ogden Mills. nued on Page 3, Column 3.) . WAR BUILDING SITE | APPROVED BY SMOOT | Senator Says Commission Did Right‘ in Selecting Area Between 18th and 23d. The decision of the Public Buildings Commission in selecting the area from Eighteenth to Twenty-third streets and from New York to Constitution avenues for the New War and Navy Building was upheld today by Senator Smoot of | Utah, chairman of the commission, in commenting on recent opposition to this site expressed by Chairman Wood of the House Appropriations Committee. ‘When he learned of the views ex- pressed by Mr. Wood, Senator Smoot, who has just returned to the city, de- clared the Public Buildings Commission “did the right thing” in the area it se- lected. The Senator made no further comment, beyond reaffirming his belief | in the wisdom of the commission’s de- cision. Mr. Wood had stated he thought the site west of Eighteenth street would cost | too much, and indicated he favored the | southwest site on the south side of th:| Mall between Second and. Seventh streets. Senator Smoot pointed out that the Buildings Qommission considered the southwest along with others Before reaching its decision. Chairman Smoot does not expect to Wave any meetings of the commission at this time. | War Debt Delay Would Help London Views Debt Proposal with the Laborites’ viewpoint. et Gy ooet | sltes 8¢ Trade Revival Here, Says Young Plan Sponsor. (The following was written especially for the Associated Press by Sir Josiah Stamp. one of the men who helped | formulate the Youns plan.) BY SIR JOSIAH STAMP. | LONDON, June 22—Mr. Hoover's| action is in the best American interests because Europe’s indebtedness must be discharged in one of three ways— first, gold; second, goods; third, re- lending. At the moment the American bond market is so bad that there is no con- fidence for foreign lending. This makes | the first and second methods operative. Gold is very inconvenient to America and disastrous to the credit of the pay- ers, and therefore goods must be sent. These are inconvenient to America without any counteracting exports at/ a time when she is seeking a revival of manufacturing. The respite is there- | IoreX in America’s own interests for re- vival. Second, it is obviously in Germany's interests to relleve the present strain. Although there is no important budg- etary influence in England, the revival of confidence in America and Germany is of great importance. % .= DIVORCEE, HYSTERICAL, PLUNGES THREE STORIES Mrs. Juanita Fletcher Crosland, Former Wife of Film Director, | Said to Be Accident Victim. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 22.—Mrs. Juanita Fletcher Crosland, ~divoroed | wife of Alan Crosland, film director, was beln%trened today for injuries received a fall yesterday from the third-story window of a hotel here, Attendants said her fall was due ‘o & fainting spell and that her condition 1s not_serious. Leonard Stillman and John Mace, who were in a room ad- jolning Mrs. Crosland's, insisted, how- ever, that she had been hysterical for an hour, sobbing in a loud voice about asserted injustices leading to'the di- | vorce and loss of her child. The Croslands were divorced in Feb- | ruary, 1930, at Cannes, France, Mrs. Crosland _charging cruelty and de- sertion. He was married the following December to Natalle Moorhead, film actress. FUND BFFER.ED BRUSSELS $1,000,000 Eastman Gift Condition- al on Similar Local Sum. BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 22 (#).— The City of Brussels is considering the offer of a fund of $1,000,000 by George Eastman of Rochester, N. Y., for erec- tion of a great Dentalo Institutommox. One of the conditions of the offer is that the city supply an equal amount toward the project. Mr. Eastman has made similar dona- tions to Paris, Berlin and London. | as Ending Peril of Revolt | in Putsch by “Reds.” BY DEWITT MacKENZIE. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 22.—President Hoover's sensational intervention in the German financial crisis is said in* high diplo- | matic quarters in London to have averted a strong likelthood of the over- | throw of the present German govern- suent and the substitution of a gov-! ernment composed of Communists or | other elements opposed to the present regime. It is said that such a collapse would | have caused no surprise in London, nor | would Great Britain have been sur- gru’ed had the overthrow been attended y_force. | Indeed, in unofficial quarters it had | been rumored recently that an anti- government putsch actually had been planned. Collapse Believed Averted. Official quarters in London refused to take cognizance of such a rumor, but at the same time they said that | the foreign office had been watching the political situation in Germany | with deepest anxiety for a considerable period. . This grave political position was in- extricably linked with the tottering finances of the country. This afternoon it was said in_ofcial circles that whatever danger thére may have been of collapse of the present German government it probatly had been averted by the American move. About a fortnight ago, at the time of the visit of Chancellor Bruening and foreign minister Curtius of Germany to London, a report was prevalent in financial circles in Paris tl an anti- government putsch was abcut to take place in Germany. European Disaster Avoided. Considerable financial transactions are sald to have been effected on the strength of this report. Whether there was basis for this report. has not de- veloped. Authoritative observers here are of the opinion that President Hoover intervened at exactly the psycho® logical moment. They say that possibly earlier intervention would not have been so_effective, but add that any further delay might have been catastrophic. The belief is expressed that had Ger- many collapsed financially, with the possible substitution of an extremist government, the whole of Central Eu- rope would have been involved. In this connection it is pointed out that only last week Austria had a hair's-breadth escape from the economic chaos through the intervention of London with a loan. . MELLON TO GET DEGREE |Cambridge Homnor to Accompany Son’s Graduation. CAMBRIDGE, England, June 22 (®). —Cambridge University will award Andrew W. Mellon, American Seeretary of the Treasury, an honorary degree of doctor of laws at the same time his son Paul is graduated tor ow. Clare College, which his son's school, s conferring on Secretary Mel- lon a college fellowship. EAVERAGE WASHINGTONIAN BUYS $681 ANNUALLY TO LEAD COUNTRY | Census Bureau Retail Sales Summary Places City First Among Purchasers. ‘Washingtonians are the best spend- ers-in the United States. ‘This was brought out today in a retail distribution summary for the United States prepared by the Census Bureau, which showed that the aver- | age per capita sale here is $681.65. ‘The summary covers the year 1929, It shows 5,917 retail stores in the Dis- trict, with net annual sales of $331,- 873,844. ‘The District has 12.1* stores per 1,000 inhabitants, and the annual sales of each of these ls roughly $56,000. Natlonally, the annual sales through Tetail stores approximates $50,000,000.- 000, and there is an additional - 000,000 in direct sales by and other producers, nearly two-thirds of the unofficlally estimated total annual income of the country from all sou: ‘The distribution 549,000 retail stores in the 48 States and the District, or 12.6 per 1,000 in- habitants, while the ave store does an annual w‘m?:.o( ,297. The average per p] retall purchase amotints 0 $407.82, which would mean average retail purchases per family, ranging from three to five persons, of from $1,250 to $2,000 annually. mflf c‘nm;: terially For the States, South Carolina is Paris, apparently, holds the key to the situation and it was under- stood that the cabinet will con- sider it tomorrow. The premier and minister of finance conferred today. While the French government thus far has declined any com- ment, the point on which the; French decision most likely will hinge is on France's willingness or unwillingness to_permit suspen- sion of that part of German reparations paying for devastation in France during the war. London has reacted with much ap- proval to the Hoover proposals, Prime Minister MacDonald, who spoke on the subject this afternoon, warmly indorsing the plan and pledging the full co-oper- ation of his government. BRITAIN PLEDGES BACKING. MacDonald Warmly Praises Move to Revise Debt Payments. LONDON, June 22 (#).—Prime Min- ister MacDonald told the House of Commons this afternoon that the Brit- ish government cordially welcomed the striking declaration on war debte and reparations payments made by Presi- dent Hoover. “The British government,” said the prime minister, “desires at once 1o state that it subscribes whole-heartedly to the principle of the President's pro- posal and is prepared to co-operate in elaboration of the detalls with a view to giving practical effect to it without delay.” “The House will not expect me to say more at present,” said the prime minister in_conclusion. Stanley Baldwin, leader of the Con- servative opposition, who asked the question which drew out the premier's statement, and David Lloyd George, the Liheral leader, both sssociated themselves with the prime minister's declaration. ‘The proposal was recelved in Great Britain with the greatest gratification since the entry of the United States into the World War. Praise Recalls Relief Honors. His picture was widely published by newspapers with comment similar to that accorded him when he was di- rector of Belgian relief work more than 13 years ago. His plans dominated conversation in political circles and were given the feature position by the entire press. Although the proposal has been dis- cussed by Prime Minister MacDonald, Chancellor Philip Snowden and Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, it has not yet come before the cabinet as a whole and a special meeting is understood to_have been called. 7 When the cabinet accepts the propo- sition—assumed to be certain—the sanc- tion of Parliament would have to fol- low and it is understood that a special bill for the purpose will be introduced. British statesmen and business lead- ers approved the President’s offer almost without exception although some sound- ed a warning that a one-year suspension (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) JAPANESE PEER SEES DEBT PLAN TRADE AID Kengo Mori, Crown Legislator, Tells Press Hoover Proposal ‘Would Stem Gold Tide. ‘TOKIO, June 22 (#).—Kengo Mori, crown member of the House of Peers and former government financial agent at Washington, London and Paris, told the Japan Advertiser today he believed President Hoover’s war debt' proposal ought to help check the depression ma- and and ought rees. - nationally shows 1,- | try would benefit to BALL GAME OFF ‘Nationals Idle at Cleveland, Due to Rainfall. wwu post- deputy sheriffs secking to enforce a court order prohibiting picketing of the | Wildwood Mine, near here, of the But- | ler Consolidated Coal Co. | About 100 shots were exchanged be- tween the 10 deputies guarding the mine and & crowd of about 250 men and women who marched on the mine | in deflance of the court order secured a week ago. A few shots were fired, it was re-| ported, and the deputies discharged riot | guns that checked the advance and took | their tolkamong the strikers. The wit- nesses said shots were returned from | the crowd and the officers continued to shoot. | The strikers broke and fled, the offi- | cers pursuing and capturing those who ran into nearby houses. Nearly two | score persons, one a WOmAn, were ar-| rested. The dead man was Peter Zigarac, a striker. Among the injured was Her- | bert Reel, a mine guard. | Strikers gathered in nearby mining | towns long before daylight, moving | afoot and in trucks over the hills to the | Wildwood mine. Miners on their way | to and from work, authorities said, | were stoned and abused. Pitched battle | followed as the crowd milled to the| mine entrance in efforts to prevent| workers from entering. | ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, June 21 () —Offcials of the Lorain Coal & Dock Co. announced today they would | bring strikebreakers into Belmont Coun- | ty this week in an attempt to end the | strike led by the National Miners’ Union. | ‘The men will be placed on duty at| the Blaine mine, where N. M. Us pickets | }llhv: induced 400 miners to leave their jobs. | Approximately 4,000 strikers and thelr | symathizers attended three meetings in | Belmont and Jefferson Countles during | the day, and Robert Sivert, official of the union, announced the organization would attempt to extend the strike over | the entire Eastern Ohio field. BENTON, I, June 21 (#).—Mine! operators and union officials said here | tonight that no headway had been | made toward settlement of a contro- ersy over working conditions which caused more than 2,200 miners of Orient mines No. 1 and No. 2 to strike re- cently. The 1,200 men employed at No. 2 mine have been idle a week, while the | 1,070 men employed at No. I have been | idle since Thursday. i The controversy is over division of | time of men operating loading ma- chines. The mine operators insist on giving the machine full-time employ- ment, while the union officials demand the machine operators divide time on the same basis as other workers. SECOND FASTEST FLYER ENTERS NATIONAL RACES Flight Comdr. R. L. R. Atcherley of England to Participate in Cleveland Show. * By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, June 22.—The world’s second fastest airplane fller, who has taken a plane 332,49 miles an hour, was announced today as an entry in the 1931 National Air Races here August 29 to September 7. He is Flight Comdr. Richard L. R. Atcherley of England. Invitations to leading fliers of foreign countries are being extended by former Lieut. Alford Williams, U. S. N. pilot and speed king of the United States. that the British air ministry had approved Atcherley’s par- ticipation in the classtic, but did not signify in which event the Briton would enter. ‘ Atcherley, a member of the o British Schneider Cup team of 1929, has been topped in speed only by Squad- ron Leader A. H. Orlebar, who flew a gohne at a speed of 357.72 miles an ur over a straightway course. SEEK MISSING BROKER Radio Programs on Page C-3 Last week he surrendered to officials of that State on the advice of three ministers. Benjamin Franklin, fugitive for 17| years, dropped into a church revival | last August and joined the church. That's when he started his trip to the Florida prison. After that he lived over many times the day when, as a leading druggist | of Blountsville, Fla., and as president | of the Blountsiille City Council, he went out with the sheriff to catch a| suspected Negro attacker. He cornered | the Negro and killed him. i He relived the days of his trial, which | ended in a conviction and prison sen- ; the line-up. Consequently, it is planned | tence. | He appealed the case, and while it was pending he escaped. He wandered | del, seven yeal . A month ago he told his story to| three ministers of Marydel. They ad- him to go back to prison and wrote Gov. Buck, who, in turn, notified Gov. Carlton of Florida. They are launching a move to gain a pardon for him. HATHANAY SAY CRLDIED N RS Slaying Suspect Testifies| Death Occurred on Petting- Drinking Party. \ By the Associated Press | EWPORT, R. I, June 22.—Elliott | R. Hathaway, Massachusetts legislator's son, testified today that Verna Russell died in his arms while they were en- gaged In a “petting” party and drinking gin in a lonely Tiverton, R. I, lane on the night of March 23. Hathaway is om trial charged with slaying the girl. He testified that earlier in the day he telephoned the girl and made a “date” after having learned through an employe at Truesdale Hospital, where she was a student nurse, that she would be receptive. He drove to the hospital for her. She was awaiting him, he said, and | Le then had the first conversation he ever had with her, other than a tele- phone call. He suggested going to a dance in Providence, he -testified, but as she had to be back at the hospital at 10. p.m,, this was abandoned. “How about taking a ride and hav- ing a few drinks,” he testified the nurse suggested. She mentioned gin, Hathaway said, and he drove to a bootlegger's and ob- u’;ned a bettle of gin and some ginger ale. Previously Hathaway told of his first meeting with the girl last January when he called at the hospital to see a friend employed in the kitchen. ago. bery last April 1, the police annouhced today. Nicholas Vasilion and Jack Ross, both 22, were picked from a line-up at head- quarters by the two drug company em- | ployes who were held up, police said. ‘The robbery victims—Edwin W. Ed- monston, & buyer, and Seymour J. Stoutenbourgh, assistant manager of the concerf’s warehouse at First ana Decatur streets—failed to identify the other member of the trio, Peter Sala, 23. Third Man to Be Shaved. It was pointed out at headquarters, however, that the members of the trio were unshaven when they appeared in to have Edmonston and Stoutenbourgh scrutinize Sala again tonight, after he has been shaved. Meanwhile, police continued their | over the Nation until he came to Mary- | efforts to link the trio with the slaying of Mrs. Elizabeth S. Jaynes, 57-year- old cashier of the Garden T Shoppe, Eighteenth street and Columbia road. Mrs. Jaynes was fatally wounded dur- ing a hold-up attempt at the tea shop two days after the Peoples robbery. Vasilion and Ross were guestioned in the drug store robbery as the result of an investigation by Detective Sergt. Richard J. Cox, who discovered they answered the descriptions of the gun- men. Revolver Vital Clue. Ross, accor to police, also answers the descriptioh of one of the robbers who participated in the tea room hold-up. Efforts to link the trio with the killing of Mrs. Jaynes hinge on the outcome of an examination of a .25 caliber revolver found in Ross' possession fol- lowing his arrest in De<p Bottom, Va., last week. The gun has been turned over to Lieut. John H. Fowler, Police Depart- ment ballistics expert, for comparison with the bullet which killed Mrs. Jaynes. Employes of the tea room also are expected to be asked to view the trio tonight. The three youths already have | admitted several recent hold-ups here, as well as others in Newark, N. Richmond, police said. Edmonston and Stoutenbourgh were held up outside the People’s Co. and warehouse as they were returning from | |a bank with the concern’s pay roll. The bandits fled in an automobile parked nearby, and all efforts to trace them |failed. Residents of the neighborhood told police they had seen the men loitering near the warehouse for sev- |eral days. A police radio car was in the neigh- borhood shortly before the hold-up, and two officers who occupled it had ob- served two men acting suspiciously. When the robbery alarm was broad- cast, however, the address was given as “PFirst and Decatur streets northwest,” instead of northeast. and the policemen :)::d away from the scene of the rob- V. ‘When they reached the address given, and found everything quiet there, they hastened to the warehouse, but the rob- bers had disappeared BOOTH BURIAL IN JULY BAD GASTEIN, Austria, June 22 (#). —The body of Ralph H. Booth, Amer- ican Minister to Denmark, who died here Saturday of a heart attack and kidney ailment, will be returned to the United States for burial the first week of July, according to present tentative . plans. NEW PLANE BALANCES ITSELF PERFECTLY ON TEST FLIGHT Pilot Confined to Steering Craft Through Fog With Altitude Automatically Set. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 22.—G. Wilbur Cornelius, Burbank, Calif., pilot, said today he had flown a newly designed monoplane from here to San Francisco and back without having fo fog. He said he negotiated the fog without of any blind flying instruments, of & goal. open-cockpit, two- umr.fbfi-ymt affair, is different from others in that the wings are con- nected to the fuselage with only a sin- gle steel tube. Cornelius said this allowed them to change their angles of air attack according to the air forces encountered and permitted the pilot to ignore the control stick. “I set the automatic elevator at 8,500 feet as I left the airport and re- laxed,” said Cornelius. “The ship lev- eled off at that elevation and I kept my course with the rudder. “From to Oakland (about 75 miles) T never caught a glimpse of the ground.” claims the ship will not win spin or stall, its gs the center of lift before fiying is lost. Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 108,696 Sunday’s Circulation, 119,544 TWO CENTS. RUTH NICHOLS OFF ON-FIRST LEG OF ATLANTIC FLIGHT Girl Flyer Leaves Floyd Ben- nett Airport for St. John, New Brunswick. Press. OTHERS ARE DELAYED BY WEATHER CONDITIONS Hillig and Hoiriis at Harbor Grace Preparatory to European Hop. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 22.—Iu the white and gold monoplane in which she hopes to make the first feminine solo flight across the Atlantic, Ruth Nichols took off from Floyd Bennett Airport at 2:22 p.m. (Eastern standard time) today for St. John, N. B. The big low-wing monoplane, twice as powerful as Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh's Spirit of St. Louis, and almost twice as fast, roared about 1,000 feet down the concrete runway and rose easily into a northwest wind. It circled the field and a few seconds later headed north. Miss Nichols will fly directly to St. | John without stopping. She will spend { the night there. going on to Harbor | Grace, Newroundland, starting point for her Atlantic flight, early tomorrow. ‘Three Navy airplanes, which had taken off & few minutes earlier, swung in be- hind as Miss Nichols sped a 3 Seven minutes after Miss Nichols left, Clarence D. Chamberlin followed in his own plane in which he will escort her to Harbor Grace. Meanwhile poor flying conditions held back other flyers who are ready to attempt transatlantic hops. Dr. James | H. Kimball, Government meteorologist, informed Roosevelt Field that poor visi- bility and adverse winds prevailed along i the Newfcundland coast. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, who expect to make a round-the-world flight in 10 days, hoped they might | take off tomorrow on the first leg of their journey to Harbor Grace, New- fcundland. They are living at the field, ready to take off at a moment’s notice, Clyde ngborn and Hugh Herndon, jr., are not expected to start for sev- eral days. | HILLIG IN NEWFOUNDLAND. | Photographer and Pilot Plan to Start 1 Ocean Hop. HARBQR GRACE, Newfoundland, | June 22 (#).—Otto Hillig, Liberty, N. Y., photographer, and Holger Hoiriis, pilot, landed their monoplane Liberty here 4:25 p.m, Newfoundland daylight-sav: ing time. i | Last Friday Hillig, a Liberty, N. Y., photographer and owner of the plane, and Hoiriis, his pilot, flew to St. John, New Brunswick, from Hasbrouck, N. J. They planned to start their flight across | the ocean soon after reaching Harbor | Grace. | " The first stop in Europe is scheduled | for Copenhagen, which Hoiriis left as an emigrant several years ago. Then they planned to fly on to Germany, whence Hillig came to America 40 years " ago. TREASURY DEFICIT DECLINES FURTHER Second Installment Income Tax Payments to Reduce It to $879,168,571. By the Associated Press. The Federal deficit today was driven down to $879,168,571 by additional pay- ments on the second installment ef 1930 income taxes. Income tax payments tabulated for Jure 19 totaled $41,033,048 and caused | & decline of $28,935,000 from the pre- ceding day’s deficit figure. Expenditures mounted to $4.116.- 605,675 for the fiscal year to date, while all Government revenue aggregatéd $3,- 237,437,108, The continued flow of income tax | payments led Treasury officials to re- vise downward earlier estimates of the year-end deficits to approximately $850,- 000,000, or nearly $100,000,000 below estimates of about a month ago. To the close of business June 19, in- come tax collections had totaled $1,- 819,289,800 as compared with $2,355.. 262,844 in the coriesponding 1930 period. Customs receipts aggregated $367,- 586,774 against $574,314,187 last year. FUGITIVE RETURNING ON GOVERNOR’S REQUEST Escaped From Prison Gang in 1919 Record Since Has Been Good. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., June 322.—Gov. Pollard today received word from Youngstown, Ohio, that Jesse 8. Straudeman, wanted in Virginia as a fugitive from justice, was en route to this State and would arrive in Riche mond some time today. Straudeman is returning to Virginia after Gov. Pollard informed Ohio au- thorities that a pardon would be cone< sidered if the man returned voluntarily. Otherwise. the Governor decided, extra« dition papers would be issued for his return. Straudeman escaped from a prison gang after he was convicted and given 2 year’s sentence in 1919 on a charge of stealing clothing from a box car. At that time Straudeman was 18 years of age. His record since is said to have bzen good. DURHAM PUB'LISHER DIES lld'l.l’d T. Rollins, 67, Stricken by Heart Disease. od T otiine. 67 i ‘wal . ins, years l, owner an publisher of the Durham Morning Herald and Durham Sun, died in his sleep here early today. A heart attack was assigned as the direct cause of his death. I For 30 years he published the Morn- ing Herald and in August, 1929, pur- chased the Durham Sun, the cvenla per, mfm the Page interests s