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WEATHER. (U 8. Westher Bureau Parecast.) Cloudy, probably occasional showers tonight and tomorrow; continued cool morrow. Temperal 5:30 p.m. yesterda; Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 and 13 ures—Highest, 60, at lowest, 47, at 5 a.m. today. gFull report on page 5. ture to- Che Foeni ‘WITH SUNDAY NORNING EDITION ng Star. Associated service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday's Circulation, 123,329 No. 32,152. vost office, Wasl Entered as second class matter hington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1932—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. DEMOCRATIC PLAN OF Z-BILLION BOND Senator Robinson’s Public Works Program Includes $300,000,000 Loans. $500,000,000 JOB AID IS ASKED BY DAVIS President Confers With Dawes and Mills, but Nothing of Discus- sion Is Given Out. A Democratic plan for economic Te- | covery calling for a $2,000,000,000 pub- lic works program and $300,000,000 for | loans to States and municipalities for | relief of suffering resulting from un- employment, was presented to the Senate today by Senator Robinson, the party leader. The financing would be by means of bond issues. While the Senate listened to him, Scnater Davis, Republican, of Penn- sylvania, proposed legisiation to au- thorize the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration to loan $500,000,000 to cities and States for unemployment relief. In presenting the program to an in- tent Senate, the Democratic leader placed foremost in importance the bal~ ancing of the Federal budget. ‘The subject of Federal relief was getting more and more attention in mc’ Capital. Dawes at White House. President Hoover today called into conference Charles G. Dawes, president of the Reconstruction Corporation, and Secretary of the Treasury Mills, principal and almost constant financial adviser. Both declined definitely to speak of the subject matter of their conference. Dawes, as he emerged by way of a side door to the President’s office, was asked if he had discussed reports that the corporation might make loans in con- siderable quantity to needy States and | municipalities. | “1 can't say anything about that,” he | replied. “Why don't you talk to Secre- tary Mills?” Mills, who also left by a side door, likewise declined specifically to say if such a subject or any related topic had Deen discussed. Asked if newspaper men could find out more definitely later, he replied: “You will have to wait and see about that.” ““TH"Giitlining. his plan to the Senate, Robinson said the present session of Congress should make available at least $300,000,000 to the States and munici- palities for the relief of suffering caused by unemployment. “With assurances that the budget will be balanced and with emergency assistance in sight for those in dis. tress,” Senator Robinson continued, well considered construction program may be promptly authorized and en- tered upon by the issuance of $2,000,- 000,000 of tax-exempt bonds to be spent upon self-liquidating or profit- making enterprises, such as tunnels, bridges and the destruction of slum districts in great industrial centers. “In instances where their credit re- sources have not been too far depleted. and where authority exists or can be promptly obtained, the States and cities should deliver to the Govern- ment their own tax-exempt obligations (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) HOPE TO ADJOURN CONGRESS JUNE 10! Benate and House Leaders of Both Parties Agree on Tentative Date for Close. By the Associated Press Congressional leaders agreed today to make a determined effort for final ad-| Journment of Congress on June 10. The decision was reached at a con- ference attended by Speaker Garner, Senator Watson of Indiana, the ma- jority leader. and Representative Snellt of New York, Republican pilot in the House. It was understood Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic chieftain was in agreement on the program, al- though he was unable to be present at | the meeting. } It is the determination of the con- gressional leaders to clear up all busi- ness by the June 10 date so that no ses- | sion will be necessary after the political | conventions in June, M'CANN HOME GUARDED AFTER JOBLESS THREAT Brick Thrown Through Window of Home of Federal Director of Employment. By the Associated Press | WILMINGTON, Del, May 11.—Police were guarding the home of Francis E B. McCann, Federal director of em- ployment, todsy after learning that a brick bearing the words “Give us bread” had been thrown through a window of the director’s residence. The occurrence happened yesterday after Chairman Frank A. McHugh of | the Municipal Employment and Relfef Committee had anncunced the exhaus- tion of funds would compel cessation of relief work at the end of this month. ‘The committee, McHugh s2id, had spent $650,507 in the past six mwcnths, of which $276,000 was for family relie “Under the circumstances,” he said, | “the one thing we must do is to bring | our program to an abrupt stop because we cannct expend funds which we do not have” NAT-INDIAN GAME OFF Rain and Cold Weather Postponement for Second Time. Rain and cold weather for the second time this week caused the postpone- ment today of the game scheduled at Griffith Stadium between the Nationals and the Cleveland Indians. As a re- sult the Indians will move on to Boston tomorrow and the Detroit Tigers will eppear here for a Miree-game series. Cause his | Republican side, | tire delegation, however. | morning, beginning at 10 o'clock !not completed at that time GAS TAX MONEY “SAVED,” BUT ONLY TO LIE IDLE | - i Pressing Projects Stricken Out—Street| ISSUE PRESENTED Maintenance Endangered—Citys Light Fund Cut, Lamps Must Be Turned Out. (This is the fourth of a series of ar- ticles on the District of Columbia appropriation bill for 1933, as passed by the House). ARTICLE NO. 4. F_all items slashed by the House from the 1933 Highw Department budget, the jusii- fication for the cut of $288.900 in the gasoline tax fund is most puzzling to District officials. Here is a fund raised by a 2-cent tax on gasoline, and estimated to pro- duce $1,960,000 in the coming fiscal year. Under existing law, it cannot be expended for any purpose other than for street improvements. Yet the House decreed that only $1.671,000 of the fund could be used, leaving the balance of | $288.900 tied up, useless and languish- ing in the Federal Treasury. In the meantime 13 important street WETS VICTORIOUS IN OHIO PRIMARY: INGALLS WINNING Assistant Secretary of Navy for Aeronautics Nominated for Governor. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Ohio's primary yesterday gave the wets something to crow about. On the cardidates for Gov- ernor and for Senator opposed to the eighteenth amendment, were nominated over their dry opponents. The Demo- crats' renominated Gov. George White, who has come out for a referendum of the prohibition issue, and Senator Robert J. Bulkley, an out-and-out opponent of the eighteenth amendment. When the results in the Republican primary in Ohio are considered in con- nection with what has happened in Re- publican primaries and State conven- tions in the States of Pennsylvania, Mis- souri and Minnesota in recent weeks, it 15 clear that the drive for a resubmis- sion plank in the Republican nationsl platform has assumed proportions which even its promotors scarcely hoped for a few months ago. Ingalls Is Vietorious. The Republican noniinee for Governor | | of Ohio is David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronsutics. He ran far ahead of his two principal dry opponents, Clarence J. Brown, Sec- retary of State for Ohio, and former Gov. Myers Y. Cooper. Attorney Gen- eral Gilbert Bettman of Cincinnati de- feated L. J. Taber, master of the Na- tional Grange, a dry, by a wide mar- gin. Bettman stood for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. The wet and dry issue in the Ohio primaries overshadowed in interest the contests for delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions President Hoover has, it is reported, won the entire delegation to the Re- publican convention. In fact, his dele- gate candidates were practically unop- posed except in a district or two, where candidates favoring the nomination of | former Senator Joseph 1. France were running. In those district, howeve: the Hoover delegates won by a big ma: gin. White Presidential Candidate. The election of delegates to the Dem- ocratic National Convention in Ohio places Gov. White in the list of candi- dates for the Democratic nomination for President, who have instructed for them delegates. He will have the en. tire 58 delegates from the Bucke State, with the possible except of one pledged to Newton D. Baker. Later returns may give the Governor the en- White's can- didacy has been recognized as merelv a “favorite son” candidacy, however, and just where the delegation will land finaily is a problem It has been claimed by Baker supporters that the former Secretary of War will be the second an¢ real choice of the Ohio delegation. On the other hand, Roose- velt managers insist that the Ohio de'- egates will be friendly to the New York (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) HORSE SHOW CALLED OFF Classes Slated for Today Will Be Run Tomorrow. Horse Show was called off for today because of un- favorable weather conditions. An- nouncement to this effect was made by the committee in charge shortly after the hour scheduled for the opening class this afternoon. Classes slated for this afternoon will be run_tomorrow Any be The National Capital will carried over until Friday morning. | improvement projects which the high- way department had planned to execute with the $288,900 will necessarily be de- layed for at least a vear, unless the Senate restores the items. A strange phase of the cut is that the $288,900 was not figured in the re- ductions the House ordered to offset the $3.000,000 decrease in the Federal con- tribution. As a result the $288,900 would become a part of the small sur- plus which will exist at the close of the 1933 fiscal year. Four of Major Importance. Four of the 13 items eliminated from the highway department program by! the gasoline tax fund reduction, ac- cording to District officials, are of major importance, and should not be delayed Officials also insist there is sound justification for the remaining nine, (Continuec on Page 3, Column 2 HOOVER LAUNCHES ‘SENATE PROGRAM FORECONOMYBIL ‘Bi-Partisan Breakfast Pro-, duces Plan Similar to That Riddled by House. | | By the Assoclated Press. At a bi-partisan White House break- fast with members of the new Senate Economy Committee, President Hoover today set under way a new money-sav- ing program in the Senate along the | same lines as that riddled by the House. | The drive specifically is aimed at a | goal of saving $300,000,000 or more through reduced appropriations and | governmental consolidations. Many of the items of the original House economy bill were discussed, m-! cluding the five-day week and payless | i(urlough plan for Federal employes. | Secretary of the Treasury Mills was appointed spokesman for the grou breakfasting with the President, a role | he has assumed following all of the | series of recent White House confer- asked wha what stated slowly, lvpueg:‘g M“m | with care: -~ “We discussed economy along the lines of seeing how, through an omni- bus economy bill, reductions in appro- priations and authority for govern- mental consolidations, savings of $300,- 000,000 or more can be effected for the fiscal year 1933." Newton Nods Affirmation. Walter H. Newton, one of the Presi- dent’s secretaries, stood beside Mills on the rain-drenched White House portico, as he spoke, nodding in affir- mation at each phrase. Others who attended the breakfast conference, which lasted for about two | hours, were Chairman Jones of the Economy Subcommittee, and Senators Bingham cf Connecticut, and Dickin- son of Iowa, Republicans, and McKel- lar, Tennessee: Bratton, New Mexico, |and Byrnes, South Carolina, Demo- | crats. : J. C. Roop, director of the also was present, carrying the | brief case from which he is ceparated Roop later went to the Capitol to | work with the committee which began |its sessions immedistely upon leaving budget, | bulging seldom the White House | 'Mr. Hoover offered alternative sug- | gestions to the senators and left the | fixing of a program entirely in their | hands | Mills said the conference had had | time only to “outline a general plan.” | and that Roop would furnish details | r the committee as he did during the | | ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 3) SWINDLER ENDS LIFE IN DOMESTIC QUARREL | Rum Runner Was Accused of Tak- | | ing $600,000 From Liquor Dealers. | By the Associated Press. OMAHA, May 11.—Arthur Wyss, alias Art Williams, 38, who once was ac- | cused of passing $600,000 in worthless checks to Canadian liquor dealers, ended his life today. Wyss, possessor of & lengthy police | record as a_rum runner and hold-up man, left home last night after a trivial quarrel with his wife, He fired a bullet through his brain oh a down- town street. Authorities said Wyss and his com- panions were on their way toward mak- ing $1,000,000 on their check scheme, | when they were tracked down by Canadian mounted police. Wyss servea a term In Nebraska on a hold-up charge. EXCAVATORS TRACE BURNING OF SODOM Bible Story of Wicked Cities Before 2100 B.C. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 11—The biblical story of the destruction of the cities| of Sodom and Gomorrah by fire and brimstone is believed by Father Alexis Mallon, Jesuit archeologist of the Pontifical Biblical Institute at Rome, to be confirmed by archeological dis- coveries on the site of the two towns. PFather Mallon, who, with Father Robert Koeppel, has spent three years excavating on the north shore of Dead Sea in Palestine, said their in- vestigation has shown that the two cities were contemporary and existed from before 2500 B.C. to not later than 2100 B.C. At the latter date, he said, both had been destroyed by fire and never were reoccupled. Traces of violent conflagrations were found In the ruins, he said, including layers of ashes. He -dded‘hn on the the | cating that the AND GOMORRAH! Correct and Effacement Was , Report to Rome. ) plain below the hill on which the cities stood there was a curious rock forma- tion, about five feet high, which legend assoclates with Lot's wife, who, according to the biblical story, was turned into & pillar of salt at the time | the cities were destroyed. The excavators penetrated 26 feet and dug through three cities, each built on the ruins of another. Under- | neath these three, they said, probably | is a fourth. The houses were rectangular, indi- | inhabitants had de- | veloped out_of the primitive circular | hut stage. The floors of the homes in the upper layer were of stone and those in the lower of brick. In the floor were holes in which grain was stored. Many skeletons came to light, with characteristics as a skeleton burfed in pottery BRITTEN HURLS LIE; GLASS PROMISES BANK HIRE PROOF Virginian Challenges Some One to Be Responsible for Publishing Evidence. GUILTY “CGNGRESSMAN” NOW DEAD, HE SAYS Says Revelation Was Not Made Previously Because of the State of His Health. By the Associated Press Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, offered in the Senate today to prove that a member of Congress had been hired several yeats ago to oppose branch banking provisions of the McFadden bill if any one was willing to take the responsibility for making the evidence public. Replying to an assertion in the House that the charge Glass voiced yesterday was a “dastardly lle,” the Virginian sald evidence that a Congressman had been hired had been unearthed by & Senate committee, but had been with- held because of the health of the man involved. Britten Hurls Lie. Glass made his statement yesterday during debate on his banking bill. He first said banks in the Loop m&u;ect of Chicago had employed the member of Congress, but later corrected his state- ment to apply to banks outside of the L oresentative Britten, Republican, of resentative Britten, Rej 4 Tilingls, said in the House today the charge was a “dastardly lie.” Referring today to the charges he made yesterday, Glass said: “It will be recalled by Senators that rumors to_that effect were so insistent that the Senate passed a resolution di- recting an investigation of them by a subcommittee of the Banking and Cur- rency Committee. Says Man Now Dead. “That committee consisted of former Senator Sackett, former Senator Edge and myself. and obtained documentary proof with respect to one more or less prominent member of Congress. “We had the testimony of this man's P | family physician that any revelation of that nature would endanger his life and, therefore, the subcommittee de- termined not to pursue the investigation further. any “That died T a&p 1 should not have ice I did to it.” The statement came after a pro- longed wrangle over whether, under House rhles, Britten could make a reference to the Glass speech. Fails to Mention Name. The chair, occupled by Representative Browning, Democrat. of = Tennessee, ruled Britten could not quote from Glass’ speech, so the Chicagoan con- fined his remarks to newspaper reports and did not mention Glass by name. “This impugns the honesty and pur- pose of every member of this House, Britten shouted. Glass had said that when the McFad- den branch banking bill was under con- sideration, Chicago bankers “hired a skillful and persuasive professional lob- byist and paid him a high salary to come here to Washington—worse than that, they hired some Congressmen, to my positive documentary knowledge— to op) even that small measure of branch banking.” Norbeck Assails Bill. Meanwhile in the Senate Chairman Norbeck of the Banking Committee at- tacked the branch banking extension provisions of the Glass banking reform bill. \ The bill as approved by Norbeck's committee, would permit branch bank- ing in any State. Norbeck's oppesition is based on his contention this extension would ulti- mately destroy State banks. He as- sailed the Federal Reserve System, which he charged had failed to perform its functions of maintaining an elastic currency. Glass' statements on the bill, Nor- | beck sald, were replete with d'sclcsures the system was “dominated from New York” and that instead of controlling . booms, it had been run away with and then had swung to the other extreme. Representative Britten told the House he didn't believe Glass had “lied” de- liberately, “but nevertheless it was done and I think a further statement should be made.” gislation s _not influenced by 2, Column 1.) ontinued on Page —s FOUNI; SHOT TO DEATH Former Employe of Real Estate Firm Leaves Sealed Notes. Hugh Cramer, said to be a former employe of a local real estate firm, was found shot to death at his home, 3126 Sixteenth street, this morning. A 45- caliber tevolver was found beside the bod: y. Cramer, who was unemployed, left some notes which police delayed open- ing pending arrival of his wife. Ef- forts were being made early this after- noon to communicate with Mrs. Cramer, who is employed in a Government de- partment. Police broke down the door to find the body efter a neighbor had called them , on hearing the sound of a shot. TOKIO RECI'\LLS ENVOY Arita Named Vice Minister of For- eign Affairs. TOKIO, May 11 (#).—Hachiro Arita, Japanese Minister to Austria, was ap- pointed vice minister of foreign affairs yesterday, relieving Matsuzo Nagai, Whose name was placed on the waiting list. It was reported last week that M. Na- gai would be named Ambassador to the United States to succeed Katsuji Debu- chi, who was sald to be planning to return to Japan in June or July. —_— CUBAN ENVOY TO RESIGN HAVANA, May 11 () —It was said officially today that Dr. Orestes Ferrara would resign very soon as to the United States to accept an ap- pointment as secretary of state. Jose Clemente Vivancos resigned from .that office Justice. ‘We pursued the inquiry! ¥ UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | The American people have ready to | | their uses hundreds of millions of dol- | in stemming hoarding, utilizing securi- into the business community. This re- | source is to be found in the Aldrich- Vreeland emergency currency provided by Congress under the act of May 30, 1908. Congress, in the merest faction of the time required to enact the Recon- struction Finance Corporation measure, can revive the currency associations created by the old law and pcur legal | tender into the channels of | almost overnight™ The Aldrich-Vreeland emergency cur- e: | be! 'AMPLE EMERGENCY CURRENCY AVAILABLE ON HOUR'S NOTICE ‘Congress Could Quickly Revive Aldrich- AH[RW |S BUT Vreel;fn'd Act. Specmlly Demgne'd to Meet Two Men Provide $50,000 Conditions Created by Economic Crises. rency was especially designed to meet temporary periods during which the ordinary sources of money and credit have failed. Through simple and in- lars of additional currency to be used | €xpensive machinery new money can be | be put out, but, what is of the utmost importance, the duration of the period tles and infusing a stream of money |of its circulation is sternly controlled | by a tax which requires the banks tak- ing this money to pay a higher rate each additional month they sponsor it The cost goes up cne-half of 1 per cent a month. Action by Congress is necessary to re- vive the law because it expired by limi- | tation. How easily this can be accom- plished is indicated by the fact that the xplration date was extended once ore. The original act was passed as a corrective of the conditions which about the Roosevelt panic in Mat was a panic due to a cur- (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) HOOVER REJECTS | TARIFF MEASURE Sends Back Bill Which Would Have Changed Present Flexible Clauses. President Hoover today vetoed the Democratic tariff bill, which would | have altered the flexible provision by removing from the Chief Execu- tive to the Congress the power to change import duty rates. The President announced his re- Jjection of the measure in a pro- tracted message to the Democratic House, which originated the bill The veto had been predicted even during debate prior to the bill's final passage, | By the Associated Press. | | A caretully planted and nurtured bit | |of Democratic campaign material was | looked to for its first blossom today. It was the new tariff bill, drafted and passed through both branches of Con- gress with deliberate expectation of a & veto by President Hoover. Received at the White House nine days ago. it was sent around to cabinet members for inspection and looked over by the President himself. He set then to drafting his message of disapproval This must be submitted to Congress by tomorrow at the latest to prevent the bill from becoming law under the 10- day statutory limitation on the presi- dentia! veto power. The measure does several things op- posed by the administration and con- trary to Republican principles. Among them it restores to Congress the power now held by the President to pass on Tariff Commission changes in rates. It | directs the calling of an international | conference to consider bringing down all tariff walls, and in other ways alters existing practice, ‘The Democratic leaders sponsoring it considered the measure would serve as an indication of the party attitude on the tariff, and would be a quasi-promise of what would be done if Democrats seize the national administration in the | November elections, | There have been no signs so far of | any serious effort to try overriding the presidential disapproval. ARMY REBEL PLOT BARED IN PORTUGAL Widespread Revolutionary l(ove»: ment Revealed, According to Re- liable London Quarters. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, May 11.—Reports from | Portugal to usually well _informed quarters here said today the Portuguese authorities had discovered a widespread revolutionary plot involving officers and men in the army. It was inspired, the reports said, by military leaders. Rt =ty Police Club 30 Jobless. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, May 11 (#)—Ten men were sent to the hos- pital and twenty others were less seri- ously hurt today when police, swinging their clubs, broke up a riot by 2,000 unemployed. Radio Programs on Page B-6 SMOOT DEFENDS BlE TAX BOOSTS Senate Committee, Submit-| ting Report, Denies It Im- poses Undue Burdens. By the Associated Press. The Senate Finance Committee, in | its report on the billion-dollar revenue | bill submitted today in the Senate, de- | clared the measure must be accom- panied by $230,000,000 in savings to balance the budget next year. The committee unanimously favored | balancing the 1933 budget, pointing to | deficits of the last three years. Rate Boosts Defended. Defending the numerous increases in rates and the new levies provided by | angle developed as a result of argument | | the bill, the report asked the Nation to consider the benefits of a sound Gov- ernment fiscal policy, “Your committee appreciates,” said the report, “that the industries selected, in common with all other industries, have been and are seriously affected by the depression and consequent decreases in business activity and profits. “It is realized that additional bur- dens at this time may seem unjustifi- able and almost insurmountable. “It is not believed, however, that taxes at the rates proposed by the bill as re- ported by your committee impose undue burdens upon industry and commerce or will seriously retard a return to normal business conditions. “The required raised. “Benefits to be derived from the re- establishment of Federal finances upon | an unquestionably sound basis far sur- pass any possible disadvantages from the burden of additional taxes, Budget Met by Loans, “It has been suggested that no effort | should be made to balance the budget in one year, that the process of balanc- ing the budget should be extended over & period of years, and that the inter- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) revenues must be| MEANS RELEASED Separately and Jointly ‘ for Appearance. | Gaston B. Means, indicted on a charge of defrauding Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mc- Lean of $104,000 intended for ransom- ing the Lindbergh baby, was released from the District Jail this afternoon | under reduced bond of $50,000. argument over the amount and charac- ter of the bond. Justice James M. Proc- tor, in District Supreme Court, cut the | bond tn half over the objection of United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, but granted the request of the latter that um:e v.’h:n ‘;wmn bondsman be held responsible for Milton 8. Kronheim amount. and Isaac B. Jones, local bondsmen, were accepted by the judge after he the application of the Public Indemnity Co. of Newark, N. J. Rides in Limousine. Means was met at the jaill by his wife and, in a limousine of expensive make driven by a chauffeur, was brought to court by Deputy United States Mar- shal John J. Clarkson. The formalities in the clerk's office took only a few seconds and afterward Means left to go_to the office of Kronheim. Means refused to answer any ques- tions, and ignored a query as to whether he hoped now to get in touch with the Lindbergh kidnapers. Asked what he was going to do, he answered emphatically: “I'm going home.” The news that Means was coming into court to make bond drew quite a gal- lery. He posed for numerous pictures before leaving the court. Rover had asked for four bonds- men, each individually responsible, but concurred in the court’s suggestion that two be provided. | Means had been in jail since his ar- | rest a week ago by special agents of the | United States Bureau of Investigation, who had been probing the McLean com- plaint. Means also has been mentioned in | connection with an alleged fraud on Mrs, Finley J. Shepard, wealthy society woman of New York, who allegedly had employed him to investigate “commu- | nistic " threats” on her daughter. This |~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) 134 BODIES .RECOVERED Typhoon Victims Washed Ashore in French Indo-China. HANOI, French Indo-China, May 11 (#).—The resident general was informed today that 134 bodies had been washed | ashore in the state of .Annam since a typhoon struck the territory last Wed- nesday. Five hundred lives were lost alto- | gether. 600 houses were destroyed and | fleets of small fishing boats went to the bottom. Berengaria Runs Aground. | SOUTHAMPTON, England, May 11 (#).—The liner Berengaria, putting into this port today, ran aground off Calshot, 200 yards from Blackjack buoy. Six tugs pulled her off and she proceeded to her berth undamaged. Edwin B. Leigh IIL SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 11 (#).— Edwin B. Leigh, 79, Chicago, nationally known in manufacturing and railway circles, is reported seriously ill at his ranch, near Center Point, Tex. COUSIN OF COOLIDGE AND WIFE BURNED TO DEATH IN COLLISION F. D. Pollard, Jr., Boston Lawyer, Dies in Head-on Crash. Youth Also Killed. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, May 11.—Fred D. Pollard, jr., of Newton, prominent Boston attor- ney and a second cousin of former Pres- ident Coolidge, Pollard’s wife and a Boston youth were burned to death early today in a head-on collision of two au- tomobiles. Three others were injured in the accident, which occurred on €ommon- wealth avenue across from the home of William_Cardinal O’'Connell. The rds were so badly burned that definite identification was impos- sible for several hours. The third person burned to death was Thomas McCaffrey, 21, of Boston. ‘The mjunswm: George Heuser, 18, driver of one of the machines; Agnes Collins, 18, and Josephine Carey, 19, all of Boston. John Cassidy, & taxi driver, who ar- rived on the scene shortly after the accident, drove his car repeatedly into the burning machines in an effort to split the cars apart and allow rescuers to drag out those imprisoned within. He was forced to stop his efforts when | the flames threatened his own car. The Pollards were driving toward their home in Newton. The second ma- chine, a sedan containing the two girls and two men, was traveling toward Boston from Marlboro. Pollard was a member of the law, firm of Dallinger, Pollard & Richard- son, which is headed by Representative Means was freed after a two-day THO NN IN AN GROUND CREW DI N ARPLRT WituP Accident Occurs in Attempt to Moor Huge Airship at San Diego, Calif. |NAVAL CRAFT VICTORIOUS IN BATTLE WITH STORM Reaches California After Gale Forces Her to Retrace Part of Course, CAMP KEARNEY, Calif, May 11 (#).—Two members of the ground crew attempting to moor the dirigi- ble Akron were swept into the air by the mooring ropes, lost their grip and fell to their death. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif, May 11.—The dirigible Akron passed over San Diego at 8:37 am. (Pacific standard time) to- day on its way to Camp Kearney, near here, for mooring. The naval communications office re- ported bad weather conditions over Camp Kearney, with a low ceiling and poor visibility. Officers said it may be some time before the Akron will be able to make its mooring. Advices received i i from the Akron sald plans were to re- ! main moored until late this afternoon, | DUE AT GoAL ToMORROW. SAN FRANCISCO, May 11 (#).—The | | dirigible Akrcn advised the Naval Radio Station _here today that she would not reach Sunnyvale, Calif., destination of her cross-continent fiight, before to- morrow morning at the earliest. More likely, however, the message said, the airship would not arrive at her Western base near here befcre sun- set tomorrow. AIRSHIP WILL REFUEL. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 11.—Triumphant over discordant elements in West. 'gen& the glant Navy dirigible Akron was wel- comed by much-improved cruising weather as it sailed into California and made up some lost time, Over Douglas, Ariz., shortly before Comdr. Charles E. the Arlington Naval midnight, Lieut. expected to moor the Rosendahl Radlo Station he 85-foot _craft temporarily at Camp (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. 'TOKIO RECALLS ALL SHANGHAI TROOPS Cabinet and Emperor Put Com- plete End to Warlike Conditions.” By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 11.—The Japanese gov- ernment announced today it had de- cided to withdraw all the rest of its troops from Shanghai, ending with an unexepected suddenness a situation which for four months has threatened the peace of the world. The announcement was made by a government spokesman at midday. He sald the cabinet made the decision at a meeting yesterday. The matter was lald before Emperor Hirohito this afternoon and approved by him, after which the general staff telegraphed orders to Gen. Shirakawa, Japanese Army commander at Shang- hai, to hold all army forces there in readiness to return to Japan. The spokesman said the movement was ex- pected to be completed within a month. From then on, the spokesman said, Japan expected the United States and other powers interested in Shanghal to see to it that the terms of the recently signed truce agreement were observed by China. ‘The troops would be held in readiness to return should a “genuine emergency” | demand it, he emphasized, but he added that the government in the future would probably be slow to decide such an emergency existed and would not consider minor infractions of the truce by the Chinese reason for dispatching | troo) pi.;z decision is due to the Japanese | government's desire to conform to world opinion,” he said, “and to prove that Japan had no territorial or other ul- terior motives in sending the troops to Shanghai.” ' JUGOSLAVIA DENIES MILITARY REVOLT “Personal” Rift Blamed for Arrest of 18 Army Officers—Rumors of King's Flight Hit. By the Associated Press VIENNA, May 11.—Sensational re- ports which circulated in Vienna last night to the effect that King Alexander of Jugoslavia had fled the country in the midst of a military revolt apparently were based on the arrest of 16 officers of the army for insubordination, it de- veloped today. ‘The affair was serious enough, how= ever, to cause Minister of War Stojano~ vic to go to Marburg, the scene of the insubordination. The officers, includ- ing a colonel, were brought to Belgrade for court martial Special dispatches to Vienna news- papers amplified these details consider- ably. The correspondent of the Reich- post said military officers were arrested at several garrisons besides Marbury and that one Marburg officer committ suicide and another attempted it. The dispatch said the conspiracy was aimed at the overthrow of the mon- archy and the establishment of a re- public. Officials at Beigrade insisted the af- fair was due merely to “personal’ dif- ;merencel between the officers and a su- jor, * r i