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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast). Generally fair today and tomorrow; continued warm. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 88, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 68, at 2 am. yes- terday. Full report on page 7. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. sunda WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION he WASHINGTON, D. C, y Star. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1931—108 PAGES. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS Entered as second class matte: post office, Washington, c. |Bill to End Lashing No. 1 31,834, 7 ,371—No. —e WORLD FLYERS HOP FOR KHABAROVSK EAROUTETONONE Post and Gatty Face 2,000- Mile Non-Stop Jump to Alaska. HALT BRIEF FOR FUEL AND WEATHER REPORTS First Mishap Occurs as Plane Hits Mud Bank in Landing, But Little Time Is Lost. By the Associated Press. BLAGOVESHCHENSK, Siberia, June | (Sunday)—After an enforced delay ' { 14'; hours here, Wiley Post and | Harold Gatty, the American ‘round- | the-world fiyers, roared from the local | landing field at 10:30 a.m. today (9:30 ! pm. Saturday, E. S. T.). | Their next scheduled stop was Khabarovsk, 350 miles distant. which they expected to reach within 213 hours. At Khabarovsk, they said, they would refuel and takeoff immediately _for Nome. Alaska, probably the most haz- ardous_of their record-breaking fiight. From Khabaroysk to Nome is an ail line distance of more than 2,000 miles, frought, with danger of high mountains and seas, and the possibility of storms end enshrouding fog. Lands on Mud Bank. The American fiyers landed here at 8 pm. yesterday (7 a.m. Saturday, E. S. T). The landing field was in bed shape and their plane, the “Winnie | Mac,” seitled down into the Siberian | mud. Throughout the night the swift ronoplane rested in the muck, despite the efforts of most of Blagoveshchensk's small population, patient plow horses and peasants. It finally was removed this morning, however, and the flyers, after inspecting it for possible damage, continued on their way. The flyers today had placed more than three-fifths of their 15,000-mile girdle of the globe behind them. They completed the hop here from Irkutsk, 850 miles, in 5 hours 50 minutes. Favorable weather conditions were believed to await the fiyers on their dargerous fiight to Nome. Khabarovsk rts said the sky was clear, with com- atively littls wind. Latest meteorolog.cal reports will be furnished the Americans while their pian: is being refueled at Khabarovsk. Should unfavorable eonditions de- velop, however, the flyers have the op- tion of landing at Petropaviovsk before crossing the Bering Sea to' Nome. Pet- | ropavlovsk is on the southeast tip of the Kamchatka peninsula. Between it and Nome lies the Bering Sea. Tractor Aids Plane. An American tractor, manned by the | two fiye augmentcd by several teams of horses, lifted the staunch monoplane | from the mud hole this raorning. { The flyers departed apparently in the bast of spirits, despite the fact their boggzd plare robbed them of an an- ticipated night's rest. 'The motor was working perfectly as they rose from the ficld. Post and Gatty labored through- out the night to free their ship from the mud. Almost the entire population of Bla- goveshchensk was at the field to see the tiyers off. Crowds had remained at the field all night, seeking to assist the Americans. 28 In Prisons Passed At Nashville House | Tennessee Torture Use Charged by Author of Measure. By the Assoclated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn,, June Z%.—A bill to “abolish the lash” in penal institu- tions of the State was passed by the Tennessee House of Representatives ay. Representative W. Y. Boswell of Morgan, author of the measure, told the House that conditions at the State Penitentiary at Nashville were in need of correction. “One method of punishment,” he sald, “is to handcuff women and hang them to pegs on the wall.” Representative R. M. Murray told of visiting the prison once and hearing | women “moaning and crying.” He sald he found two girls swinging from pegs to the wall, with their feet “barely touching the floor.” being punished for fighting. HOOVER REQUESTS DEFINITE POLICY ON FARM BOARD GRAIN Group Will Decide Wheat Dis-: posal After Survey Com-* pleted July 1. By the Associated Press. Faced with a request by President Hoover to consider a more definite pol- icy for disposing of stabilization wheat, Chairman Stone of the Farm Board | said last night no decision would be reached until a review of the domestic and foreign situation had been com- pleted. Stone said the survey is now under- way and probably would be completed by July 1. President Hoover today suggested to the board that “in view of the unusual conditions growing out of the depres- sion,” the board should consider a more definite policy for disposing of the huge stocks of wheat held by the Grain Stabilization Corporation. Stone Issues Statement. After hours of conference with board members, Stone issued the following “In answer to requests for a state- ment as to Farm Board policy for the sale of the Grain Stabilization Cor- poration wheat, a review of the present foreign and domestic outlook for wheat has been undertaken by the board. This will be completed by July 1 next and a statement issued at that time or_sooner if possible.” Immediately after the White House‘ statement, Stone summoned the board into the night session. The chairman and Mr. Hoover went over the domestic wheat situation at a conference Friday morning, but both withheld details. Want Wheat Held. | A flood of demands that the board | pledge itself to hold the 200,000,000 or | more bushels of wheat off domestic | markets for a definit> period have come | to the President and the board. Sena- | tors and Representatives from th:! He said they were | | MELLON AND LAVA SPLTONRELOANING GERMANPAYMENT |Premier Reported to Desire Sum Be Made Available to Central Countries. SECRETARY HOLDS REICH NEEDS ENTIRE AMOUNT Bruening and Curtius Are Invited to Paris to Discuss Situ- ation. | - | By the Assoctated Pres | PARIS, June 27.—Andrew W. Mel- |lon, American Secretary of the Treas- |ury, and Premier Laval spent two and one-half hours conferring this after- noon in an effort to iron out the issues raised by President Hoover's war debt moratorium proposal and the French government's reply. ‘The first tangible result of the Mellon-Laval Conference was an invi- tation, issued as soon as the meeting was over, to Chancellor Bruening and Foreign Minister Curtius of Germany to come to Paris. The invitation came from the French premier. The conversations between the rep- resentatives of the United States and | the Prench government will be resumed | soon, probably on Monday. Today's conference took place at the | Ministry of the Interior, M. Laval's residence, on a perfect June afternoon. | At the conference table in addition to Mr. Mellon and the French premier were United States Ambassador Walter Edge, Foreign Minister Briand, | Finance _Minister Flandin, Budget Minister Pietri, Andre Francois-Poncet, | undersecretary for finance and economy (and J. Theodore Marriner, counselor of the American embassy. French Reply Discussed. From the beginning there was an apparent determination on all sides to |arrive at a positive result. | The French reply to Mr. Hoover's| suggestion was made the basis of the | discussion. Otherwise, it was made | clear, Mr. Mellon would not have con- sented to the meeting which was the | opening of negotiations to get the maxi- |mum value out of the Hoover proposal and the Prench partial acceptance. The portion of the French reply be- | lieved to have come in for the major part of the discussion bears on the use of unconditional reparations which Ger- many, under the plan suggested in the | French answer, would pay into the Bank [for International Settlements. Mr. Mellon was repo: to have | taken the position that all such money |would be needed by Germany, while iM Laval desired that it be made avail- able also for other central European jcountncs in difficulties, notably Austria. Seek to Preserve Young Plan. ‘The negotiations also turned on morc | general considerations. The French de- |sire to have some sort of guarantee I'that the Hoover proposal would not; prove fatal to Lhdc Young plan was | T s i 5 i as believed, led to a | | discussion as to whether it would not be desirable to bring the German gov- ernment directly into the negotiations. Premier Laval was Teported to have | taken the position that it was impos- sible for him to conclude finally on a plan for the relief of Germany without first arriving at an understanding with | mately 10 gallons of liquor. v T NATONAL COMMITTEE 57 IT MAY COME T0- THIS! POLICE ARREST 91 INSERIES OF RAIDS Lone Detective Holds 61 at Bay Until Aid Arrives. Ninety-one persons were arrested last night in a serles of liquor and gambling raids. one of which was made by a lone policeman, who held 61 men at bay at the point of a revolver while he telephoned for aid. The other raids were made by mem- bers of Inspector T. R. Bean's vice | squad, who arrested 30 persons on | charges ranging from illegal possession of liquor to trafic law violations and seized 128 bottles of beer and approxi- ‘Twenty- 2ight of those apprehended in the liquor : raids were colored. i ‘The one-man raid was made on an | alleged gambling establistment above | a store at Tenth and E strects by De- | tective Sergt. Howard Ogle. Among those caught in the liquor raid | were Sherman Wiley, 25. said by police to be a former vice squad informer. who | was arrested when detectives trapped him in his apartment at 1717 R street | and reported finding three pints of | whisky and 128 bottles of beer. One Held for Rum. Harry Oliver Sole, 35, of 63 Randolph place, who was with Wiley at the time of the raid, was also taken into custody and charged with illegal possession of the contrabrand. Included in the list of colored persons Weds in Mexico LAMONT OUTLINES - DEPRESSION CURE |Private Initiative, Not Super- Plan, Must Lift Slump, Secretary Says. EUGENTA BANKHEAD MARRIES NEW YORK MAN. Private initiative, not a revolutionary “super plan” of government or indus- trial control, will 1ift America out of | the business depression, Secretary of Commerce Lamont declared last night in the National Radio Forum arranged by The Star and broadcast over a coast- | to-coast network of the Columbia | Broadcasting System. | While the existing economic system may have its shortcomings, Mr. Lamont | said, the present order has made this ; ‘::;e greatest industrial nation of all { fatal, he asserted. | _“Rather,” he announced, “must our | chief rellance for working out a betler } | balance be upon private initiative. This |is the principle on which most of our | economic problems in the past have been solved, as well as that on which we have built our advance in national well being. Business Must Help Self. “The Government can help industry to helfi itself, but business must be its own physician. The leaders of industry MISS EUGENIA BANKHEAD. SAN DIEGO. Calif., June 27 (#).— Miss Eugenia Bankhead, daughter of ELABORATE TITLEHEAT DEATH TOLL To scrap our economic policy in | favor of some drastic change would be | Representative Willlam B. Bankhead of and commerce and finance, the leaders of labor and of agriculture, by individ- ual and co-operative effort, must take up this great task. “They can do far mor: than any government to prevent disturbance of the normal distribution of national in- ccme, to maintaln a proper relation be- Alabama, and Ed Ennis Smith of New | York City, were married tonight at | Rosarita Beach, Mexico, eccording to a telephone message received here. | ~"The bride also said she is the sister of | Tallulah Bankhead, actress. In obtain- PLAN OF VAN DUZER IRKS AUTO DEALERS Proposal Fought as Placing Unnecessary Burden on Manufacturers. REGULATION MODELED ON REALTY PROCEDURE Agents Threaten to Sell Cars Out- side District if Rule Is Adopted. — i Aroused by a plan of procedure for | {itling automobiles sold in the District, | drawn up by William A. Van Duzer, who | Wednesday becomes director of the new | Department of Motor Vehicles and Traffic, a large group of Washington | motor car dealers are planning to pro- test to the District Commissioners | against its adoption, it was learned last | | night. | ‘The dealers, headed by R. B. English, | District manager of the Ford Motor Co. | have arranged a conference with Com- missioner Herbert B. Crosby tomorrow | morning at 9:30 o'clock. Objection to | the plan will be registered at that time, English said, and if the Commissioners insist on putting it into effect, neither the Ford nor the Chevrolet dealers will | comply with it, but will sell their cars | outside the District. ! | 'The plan, according to English, would | make the manufacturer instead of the | dealer the originating source of the title —a procedure radically different from | that in effect in the States that have automobile title laws. Precedent is Set. Mr. Van Duzer has been working on the proposed title regulations for sev- eral weeks and has withheld the de- tails pending the submission of his plan to the Commissioners. He ad-| |mitted last night, however, that thel | procedure he proposes to receommend | |1s a departure from the title regulations | |in the various States, here dealers ini- | | tiate the title. “Under my plan,” he said, “the title | would start at the source of the car— | the manufacturing plant. It is based jon the procedure followed in real |estate transactions. When a piece of property is sold, the title is searched back to the original owner. The same |should be done in the sale of a car.” Burden on Manufacturer. Mr. English insists that the plan would b2 of no particular public benefit, | but would place on the manufacturer an unnecessary burden, because he would be required to set up a special organi- zation to handle_title negotiations for |cars sold in the District exclusively. Washington motor car dealers, Mr. | English declared, are strongly in favor |of the new title law which goes into |effect January 1, but believe it should | be administered as effectively and sim- ply as possible. Moreover, he said it was “unfair” for Mr. Van Duzer to propose the promulgation of a set of tilting regulations without conferring with the dealers. | " The form of application for a title | which Mr. Van Duzer has prepared, according to Mr. English, covers two ! typewritten pages and 'contains 17 blang spaces to be filled in by the | below 90 most of N WEEK HITS 3 GROPS ARE HUR Missouri and Mississippi Val- leys Parched Under Temperature of 100, TEXAS IS IN PATH OF STORM FROM GULF Drizzle in Northern Sections Prom- ises Relief From Blis- tering Sun. By the Assoctated Press The central valleys of the Nation were parched again yesterday as s blistering sun kept steadily at work. ‘Thermometers flirted with the 100 de- gree mark, serious damage was re- ported to crops and the number of deaths from the heat for the week ex- ceeded 90. The Missouri and Mississippi Valleys suffered principally, but other isolated areas felt blasts almost as hot. Some sections in the Arkansas and lower Ohio Valleys had temperatures of 100 or more. Texas Storm Feared. The Texas coast was keeping its eye on the Gulf of Mexico, where a tropi- cal storm with high winds was swirling eccentrically toward land with north- east winds and gales in prospect for the area around Port Arkansas. Weather observers were unable to chart the prob- able course of the storm, but said it might turn and spend itself in the gulf. A drizzle which the Weather Bureau had predicted, might bring relief to the northernmost sections started falling at Duluth Saturday afternoon and - mometers dropped to 70. . Other citles were not so fortunate, however, and the weather man gave them no encouragement for week end comfort. “In general, h tempera- tures will continue Sunday in the North Central States,” was the best he could do. 12 Chicagoans Die. ‘The number of persons who died from heat prostration, or who drowned whiie trying to get relief in lakes and rivers grew rapidly. ~Chicago counted 12 deaths Saturday despite the fact that a lake breeze kept the temperature &2 day. Twelve ad- ditional deaths were scattered over Iliinois. Eight new heat deaths and three additional drownings were re- ported in Wisconsin, and a dozen more in Jowa, Minnesota and Missouri. Serious damage was done to the oats crop in Illinois and Iowa. Oats were in the “milk"” stage and were being pre- vented from proper development by the continued high temperatures. Corn Grows Rapidly. The hot sun sent corn stalks shoot- ing upward, but serious fears were felt for that crop if there were no rain soon. Crop experts sald the subsoll moitsure reserve was short this season. South Dakota was a hot spot again with Sioux Falls registering 100 at 2 o'clock, * Huron, 102, and Pierre and Mitchell, 105. ‘Temperatures of around 100 degrees were general through the Southwest and in Iowa and Southern Illinois. v Ve ing a marriage license MMiss Bankhead First Mishap of Trip. wheat States joined in_this demand. | Hery Bruening and Dr. Curtius, R e o R Y -t |gave et ‘age (s 30, Smith sad Do manufacturer. After the manufac- Despite the shower of mud and water with which the American fiyers greeted the gentry of this town when they landed from Irkutsk, they had a smile through it all, and stepped out of the plane with word they were in perfect condition. It was the first mishap of the flight. Post and Gatty are following the Amur, or great river of Siberia and China, to Khabarovsk. This river, 3,000 miles long, forms the northern border of Manchuria. It is in a fertile basin | and the flight would be but a pleasure | trip compared to what lies behind, and | also farther ahead. Khabarovsk, a city of 5600 in 1928, is the scat of the} general government of Amur and capi- tal of the littoral or maritime province. 9,000 Miles Completed. When the argonauts put the Winnie Mae down in the mud hole here they had completed almost 9.000 miles of their projected girdle of the globe. They roared away on their great | adventure from Roosevelt Field, New York, at 3:56 am. (Eastern standard | time), last Tuesday. Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, was left at 2:28 p.m. that day and at 6:45 the next morn- ing the fiyers had landed at Sealand Airdrome, England, after a safe cross- ing of the Atlantic. Berlin wes reached Wednesday after- noon and Moscow before lunch time on Thursday. The flyers said good-bye to Moscow Thursday night and the next morning reached Nova Sibirsk, Siberia, completing the flight to Irkutsk on Friday. WEATHER REMAINS GOOD. | Flyers to Have Good Break on Nome Flight. KHABAROVSK, Siberia, June 28| (Sunday) (#.—The weather here today appeared to be trying to aid Wiley Post and Harold Gatty on their flight around the vorld The sky was clear, with no wind. Con- (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) PLANE GAS TAX UPHELD Federal Judge Approves Levies by State in Interstate Hops. CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 27 (P).— The right of a State to collect a tax on gasoline used in interstate airplane travel was ruled constitutional today by Judge T. Blake Kennedy in Federal Distriet Court. The decislon was contained in a memorandum issued in dismissing an | injunction action brought by the Boe- ing Air Transport Co.. to have Wyo- ming's 4-cent gasoline tax law, as ap- plied to gasoline used in interstate - plane travel, declared unconstitutional. SEEKS PLANE RECORD French Woman Flyer Hopes to Cut Time to Russia. ORLY, PFrance, June 27 (#).—Mme. Maryse Bastile. one of the best known airwomen_in France, intends to start from Le Bourget flying field tomorrow in an attempt to reach Russia without ‘making a stop and to break the straight line light airplane record, The White House statement said: “Although President Hoover has no authority in determining the policies of the Farm Board he has suggested to the board, in view of unusual con- ditions growing out of the depression, that he thought it wise for it to con- sider a more definite policy in respect to sales of the holdings of the stabiliza- tion corporation. “Th: beard is considering the matter.” The appeals for a promise that the wheat will be held ranged from a fixed period of four months to one year. Some asked that there be no selling until the price had reached $1. The President has been told by grain traders and_growers that the price of Page 2, Column 8.) BALBO DROPS IN SEA; SAVED BY MOTORSHIP Hero of Italy-to-Brazil Flight and Companion Forced Down in Defective Plane. By the Associated Press. PALERMO, 1Italy, June 27.—Gen. Ttalo Balbo, Italian air minister and leader of the recent formation flight from Italy to Brazil, was forced down in the open sea 50 miles north of here tonight by a leaking radiator in his airplane. His companion, Maj. Cagna, radioed a distress signal which was picked up by the motorship City of Tunis. motorship got there first and took the general and major aboard. Gen. Balbo was flying the same type of ship which was used for the flight to South America. He was on the Jast leg of an air tour along the Tripolitan Coast. Al tug was sent to the rescue, but the | | The delicate point then at issue was | Whether Mr. Mellon would participate in the discussions with the Germans. It was recognized that such participa- tion would b> contrary to the American | refusal to enter into reparations discus- |sions and so it was arranged that the | Franco-German negotiations would be | kept apart from the conversations be- | tween Mz. Mellon and the French | statesmen in the event the Germans | came to Paris before the departure of ! (the American Secretary of the| | Treasury. Seek Early Conclusion. It wa hoped the Germans would ar-| rive Monday, thus making it possible to | | conclude the negotiations by Tucsday. | | When Mr, Hoover made his moratorium | | proposal he suggested that it become | effective July 1, which is Wednesday. The negotiations will not be entirely at a standstill over the week end since M. Flandin will have Mr. Mellon and Mr. Edge to luncheon at his home to- morrow. This meeting will not be offi- cial. No other members of the French government are expected to be present. | M. Flandin, who speaks English per- | fectly, will be able to go over the en- | tire ‘ground with Mr. Mellon and to "(Continued on Page 4, Column 6. HOOVER BACK AT CAMP Debt Conferees at White House Delay Week End Trip. ORANGE, Va., June 27 (#)—Presi- dent Hoover left behind the heat of { Washington late today and arrived at | his mountain retreat in the mountains | near here shortly after dark. He was accompanied on the motor trip only by Lawrence Richey, one of his secretaries, and Capt. Joel T. Boone, the White House physician. Mrs. Hoover and the week end guests had preceded the Chief Executive, who was delayed in Washington by conferences upon the .proposed debt holiday among | nations. \POST AND GATTY GAIN ONE DAY FLYING “SUNDAY” ON TWO DAYS Will Cross International Date Line on Non-Stop Flight to Nome—Analogous to Verne’s Traveler. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 27.—Wiley Post and Harold Gatty are approaching that seemingly megical point in their world flight where they will stop flying through tomorrow and begin flying through yesterday. ‘Today’s dispatches about the world fivers told of what they had done “to- morrow,” because as they traveled east- ward they had been gaining on the sun until they were so many hours ahead of eastern standard time that they had climbed ahead one day on the calendar. But between Khabarovsk and Nome they will traverse the international date line and suddenly a day that they have spent, will present itself to 4aem for re- cpending. This date line runs north and south, making & eck bend around the western end of the Aleutian Islands and cutting diagonally across the Behring Sca.. Here Gatty and Post cross it and in one revolution of their motor they will fall 24 hours into the past. | If they reach this point at mldnllhll Sunday, for instance, it will suddenly be only midnight Saturday, with all Sun- | day stretched out before them again. It will be recalled that in Jules Verne's famous book of a race against time around the world the travelers neglected to account for this day of grace at the Pacific date line and so thought they had lost their wager by one day until they suddenly remem- :e'red that eastward travelers gain & illegal possession of liquor, 13 for dis- | orderly conduct, and one each for in-| vestigation, drunkenness, breaking glass | in the street and failing to exhibit an | operator’s permit. | Sidney Baker, colored, 30, of 1428 M | street, and Benjamin F. Dorsey, colored, | 29, of 1312 Sixth street, were arrested | on charges of illegal possession of one quart of whisky when Sergt. Nelson O. Holmes led a squad. of vice detectives | in a raid on a house in the 400 block of | M street. Six others found on the prem- | ises were charged with disorderly con- duct. - ‘Woman Is Nabbed. ‘The same raiding party descended on a house in the 1000 block of R street and arrested Annie Brown, colored, 60. of 1014 R street, and Henry Wages. col- ored, 31. of 1611 M street, for illegal " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—24 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. PART TWO—10 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. District National Guard—Page 5. Army and Navy News—Page 5. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 5. News of the Clubs—Page 8. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Society Section. PART FOUR—10 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Radio. In the Motor World—Page 4. Aviation—Page 5. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page §. American Legion—Page 6. Spanish War Veterans—Page 6. Marine Corps News—Page 6. Fraternities—Page 8. Marine Corps Reserves—Page 8. 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Moon Mullins; Tarzan; Mr. and Mrs. Timid Soul; Reg'lar Fellers: The Hioryuna Seuts il ge e tween prices and costs, between profits d sy and wages and the returns of the Judge Rodrigo Loyo read ceremony. farmer. the marriage | *. 1 ey have it in their hands to check creation of excessive plant capacity, in- The former Miss Bankhead twice tried | vestment in unsound enterprises and marriage with Morton M. Hoyt, mem- } reckless. speculation. They have it in ber of a prominent Washington family, | their hands to build up reserves to tide | and as many times divorced him. They | both the dividend receiver and the wage | remarried in 1928 after a Reno divorce, | arner over tim:s of slack demand. It | but were unable to make a go of the is they who can stifie all that spells S marriage and again secured a divorce in | 'Doom.’ the outcome of which is ‘de- eno. pression.’ - INRUBID SLAYING "Oklahoma Jury Out 22 Hours. | Mexicans Indignant ; Over News. By the Associated Press. | COURT HOUSE, ARDMORE, OKla., | June 27.—William E. (Bill) Guess, glant erstwhile Oklahoma deputy sheriff, was acquitted late today by a jury of slay- ing Emilio Cortes Rubio, 20-year-old | kinsman of President Ortiz Rubio of | Mexico. Out almost 22 hours, 12 fagged mid- | dle-aged Carter County men who had | been deadlocked, 11 to 1, returned the verdict 20 days after Emilio and his student chum, Manuel Garcia Gomez, 22, fell dead before the deputy’s gun- fire on a residential street here late the night of Jgne 7. Pale and trembling with emotion, " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) AMERICAN GIVEN DEATH IN MEXICO W. J. Meers, Who Killed Man, Be- | lieved Slayer of Father Sen- tenced in Chihuahua. EL PASO, Tex., June 27.—Relatives today received word that W. J. Meers, 22, El Paso, had been sentenced to death at Chihuahua City, Mexico, for the slaying of Antonio Visconti, Juarez bartender, more than a year ago. Meers shot and killed Visconti in the Mexican border town across the river from El Paso in the erroneous belief he was killing the slayer of his father, who lost his life in a pay roll robbery seven years ago. For some time Meers was confined in a Juarez jail, pending action on murder charges, but about six months {huahua City. Pessimists Attacked. Mr. Lamont said many of the sug- gestions put forward for curing the slump were of the “boot-strap” variety. involving large expenditures of Govern- ment money with consequent increase in taxes. Other plans were equally im- practicable, he added. Attacking the pessimists who are pre- dicting_dire results of the dcpression, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) KEEL OF NEW CRUISER LAID AT PHILADELPHIA U. S. . Minneapolis Will Replace Namesake in October, 1933, at Cost of $10,000,000. By the Associated Pross. PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—The keel of the 10,000-ton cruiser Minneapolis :(‘;s laid at the Philadelphia Navy Yard ay. “Walter N. Newton, secretary to President Hoover, drove the first rivet. He is a resident of Minneapolis. When it came the turn of Assistant Secretary of the Navy to drive a rivet, he re- quested Mrs. Marie Hunter of Minne- apolis, a White House scretary, to act for him. The third was driven by Representative George P. Darrow of Philadelphia, a member of the House Naval Committee, and the fourth by Mayor Mack:y of Philadelphia. A crowd of about 300 persons wit- nessed the ceremony. The Minneapolis, being built to replace her namesake, is to cost about $10,000,000 and is ex- pected to be launched in October, 1933. .| initiates the application turer has provided the desired intor- matjon, he said, the application would be feturned to the dealer, who in turn, would certify that he is selling the car named in the application, and forward the document to the title office. Declared Burdensome. “Such a procedure requires time and leffort,” Mr. English declared, “and there is no public need for it. The | procedure followed in the various States is simple and affords ample protection to the purchaser of a motor | venicle. | "“In most of the sm:a‘che dealer fop\a title. He merely certifies that he is #ling a cer- |tain car to the person ed in the | application, and indicates whether it |is subject to any liens. The applica- | tion is Sworn to in the presence of a notary _and forwarded to ihe State title office. The procedure is simple and eflective, and can be carried out without undue delay.” The- dealers opposing the plan, Mr. English said, handle 66 per cent of the cars sold annually in Washington. NAVY WILL ASK BIDS ON YACHT MAYFLOWER Vessel Has Been Offered for Sale Four Times Since President Hoover Gave It Up. By 'the Associated Press. ‘The Navy will try again to sell the former _presidential yacht Mayflower. Bids will be opened here July 23. ‘When President Hoover gave up the yachi as an economy move two years ago, the Navy four times offered it for | sale, but each time rejected all bids. It was then decided to recommission the old vessel as flagship of the special service squadron, but last January she caught fire and sank at the Philadel- Pphia navy yard. ‘The vacht was raised. but a survey showed it would cost $210,000 to fit her for service and Secretary Adams de- cided this would not be worth while. |PRESIDENT MAY GET $900 TABLE LEFT BY CRIME COMMISSION Hoover to Get First Pick of $10,000 Furniture Bought for Doomed Wickersham Body. President Hoover can have a $900 conference table, belonging to his Com- mission on Law Enforcement, which will pass out of existence on July 1, if wants it, as well as any of the rest of the $10,000 worth of furniture the commission has been using. Sevcral Government agencies have requested some of this furniture, which the Office of Public Build: and Public Parks will take charge to- morrow or Tuesday when the commis- sion vacates its quarters in the Tower Building, K th :n’dd' K n‘,reet:t. Lieut. . P. 8. Grant director public and public parks, be- lieves the Chief Executive should have the pick of the crime commission'’s fur- niture, however, as it was purchased on White House order. ‘The rtment of Justice, the Gen- erdl Supply Committee and the Library of Congress have put in requests for this furniture, but Col. Grant's office feels that the White House executive offices, which are described as existing largely on borrowed furniture now, should have the first choice. Chairman George W. Wickersham of the crime commission cxpressed a preference for mahogany for his office, and this fur- niture, too, may find ftagwey to the Wkite House ofiyfll. f New Record Set. ‘The sweltering Southland likewise was given no promise of relief during the week end. Two new heat records were established today and two pros- trations were recorded. Knoxville, Tenn., saw the mercury | climb to 101 for a new June high, and Chattanooga recorded 100.5 degrees for & new mark. Memphis had a 96 and & woman office worker was overcome. Atlanta was not so hot, with the official reading at 90. but a woman at- tending inaugural ccremonies of Gov. Russell fainted and caused a ‘‘pros- tration on account of heat” to be re- corded GIRL KILLED BY AUTO; PLAYING IN STREET ’ Feur-Year-0ld Dies in Casualty Hospital of Skull Fracture. Driver Is Held. Hazel Humphreys, 4 vears old. of 618 A street northeast, died last night from injuries sustained when she was struck by an automobile at Seventh and A streets northeast. Kenneth T. Showers, 20-year-old jewelry clerk, of 3036 Park place, driver; of the car involved, removed the child to Casualty Hospital. She died there less than an hour later of a fractursd skull. Showers told investigators he was driving_south on Seventh street when the child suddenly broke loose from a playmate and ran into the path of his machine. He said he was unable to stop the car in time to avoid the acci- dent. The driver said he was going about 18 miles an hour at the tima. Police of the ninth precinct later tested the brakes of Showers' automo- bile and found them to be in good con- ditlon. He was taken into custody pending a coroner's inquest. Christos Lemberos, 6 years old, of 439 M husetts avenue, sustained a frac- tured skull when struck by an automo- bile operated by Joseph Edward Brin- ton, 37, of the 400 block of Eleventh street, northeast, while on I street be- tween Fourth and Fifth yesterday. The boy was treated at Emergency Hos- pital and later taken to Children's Hospital. ‘Thomas D. Truselow, 39, 223 ¥ street, sustained a fractured rib and lacerations when struck by a hit-and- run driver at Fourth and G streets. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. - FLYER KILLED IN LEAP Parachute Fails to Open as Man Jumps—Companion Safe. SAN LEANDRO, Calif., June 27 (®). —Thurston Casey, 19 years old, was killed when his parachute failed to open as he leaped from an airplane between here and mount Eden today. His com- panion, Al Howe of Sutter Creek, land- ed safely in his parachute. Howe said they were Mg‘ ts and that I lost control of N after an outside loop. b o — P