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Sty St WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) “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. (#) Means Associafed Pness. FIVE CENTS [TEN CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS| ELSEWHERE TEST VOTE ON BEER/CONGRESS 70 RUSH ASSURED IN HOUSE; REVENUE, ECONOMY he WASHINGTON, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION No. 1932—102 PAGES. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C CONDON SAYS HE KNOWS 1,417—No. 32,156. D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 15, * KIDNAPER OF SLAIN BABY; U.S. ORGANIZES FOR HUNT] < Jafsie Declares Killer Will Be Caught. GANG DESCRIBED BY NORFOLK MAN Rosner Also Reveals ‘ Part in Effort to Aid Lindbergh. By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, N. J, May 14— Pages of intriguing details, indic- | ative of even more important in- formation beneath the skticld of | police secrecy, came to light to- night in the relentless pursuit of the Lindbergh baby killers. An outline of the two months’ negotiations carried on along the Atlantic seaboard with a five- | man gang by John Hughes Curtis became public even as another intermediary, the aged Dr. John F. Condon, assertec. the child’s “kidnaper” was known to him and would be caught. Then spoke up the police in the | person of Col. H. Norman | Schwarzkopf: “As has been shown in Dr. Con- | don’s own statements he only saw | one member of the gang and the description given of this man does not coincide sufficiently closely to any of those described by Mr.| Curtis to cause us to draw any conclusions.” Maintain Outward Calm. Dr. Condon paid a $50,000 ransom | for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to a man in the dusk of a Bronx (New York City) cemetery on April 2. Curtis and two Norfolk, Va., associates began their negotistions on March 9 and continued them until Thursday night, when the body of the child was found. As these and other revelations were bared the principalé in the tragic drama mainteined an outward calm in their hilitop home. Col. Lindbergh managed a wan smile of greeting when Prosecutor Erwin E. Marshall visited the residence late in the day. Mrs, h, an expectant mother, who wavered close to collapse last regained her quiet demeanor late in the afternoon. The fantastic story of Curtis, supple- mented by a sea captain’s description of the boat trips he made with Col. | Lindbergh, even as late as the night of the finding of the body, set a flotilla of Coast Guard craft to scouring an area off Cape May, N. J. | Carrying Extra Arms. | Officials at the Atlantic City, N. J., Coast Guard station admitted the searching vessels were carrying morel than the usual number of firearms, but | refused to estimate the number of boats engaged in the task. From the office of the Attorney | General in Washington a formal offer | of vast FPederal assistance was dis- | patched speedily to Gov. A. Harry ‘The Governor ed he ‘would accept the proposal. The New Jersey chief executive, who personally has followed the baby hunt since the kidnaping on the night of March 1, took occasion to praise the | Jong hours and strenuous efforts de- (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) CAPT. ROBERT DOLLAR IS SINKING RAPIDLY Bulletin Is Issued From Bedside ofi Dying Ship Magnate by | Doctor. ! By the Associated Press. SAN RAFAEL, Calif, May 14—A bulletin issued at 10:15 o'clock tonight from the bedside of Capt. Robert Dol- lar, veteran ship owner, by the attend- ing physician, Dr. Rafael G. Dufficy, said: “Capt. Dollar is sinking very rapidly.” “He is in an extremely critical condi- tion,” the physicien said earlier. “He has been in a state of coma for more | than 15 hours.” | At his bedside have gathered the| members of his family, including his three sons, Harold, &anley and Mel- ville Dollar, their wives and children. Directs Manhunt J. EDGAR _HOOVER. BANK HOLD-UP TRIO CLEAR OTHER J0BS Confess Falls "Church Rob- bery Among Five Netting $4,000 in Loot. Arrested in connection with the hold- up Thursday afternoon of the East Falls Church branch of the Falls Church Bank, two Washington men and a Fort Humphreys soldier last night admitted not only the bank rob- bery, but four other Virginia hold-ups, the loot aggregating more than $4,000, the police announced. The men. William W. Babcock, 25, of the 700 block of Eighteenth street; George T. Bellew, 25, of the 2200 block of Rhode Island northeast, and John A. Velke, 30-year-oid Army sergeant, at- tached to Fort Humphreys, were taken into eustody here yesterday and turned over to Sheriff Howard Fields of Ar- lington County last night. Besides the Falls Church Bank hold- up, in which they escaped with $1,700 after beating and tying up the cashier, A. H. Barhor, the police said the three bandits admitted: Holding up an Alexandria bus termi- nal & year ago and robbing the cashier of $900; holding up the Clarendor bus terminal of the Washington-Virginia- Maryland Coach Co., and robbing W. S. | Kaylor, night cashier, of $611: holding up the Lacey, Va., station of the Arling- ton-Fairfax Transportation Co., and robbing O. J. Moore, dispatcher, of $252, and holding up the Peoples Drug Store at Fredericksburg, Va, and rob- ing it of $600. Encouraged by Success. They started on their career about a year ago, they told police, and after the four smaller jobs had been success- | 2 " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) LOU REICHERS SILENT EN ROUTE BACK HOME No Further Word Received From Hapless Flyer on Board S. S President Roosevelt By the Associated Press NEW YORK, May 14 —Saved from a watery grave by that hero of many sea rescues, Capt. George Fried, Lou Reichers, Newark, N. J., transatlantic fiyer, tonight was homeward bound on the U. S. liner President Roosevelt His plane, badly smashed. was aban- fJ . Edgar Hoover Put in Charge of Units Here. 'MITCHELL TELLS MOORE OF PLANS Full Co-ordination Is Federal Agencies’ Purpose in Case. BY REX COLLIER. | | ‘ President Hoover yesterday cre- ated in effect a great central de- | tective agency under J. Edgar Hoover, director of the United States Bureau of Investigation, for the pooling and co-ordination of all Federal investigative forces in an unprecedented manhunt for the murderers of the Lindbergh | baby. This is said to be the first time such a drastic move has been made except in time of war. Even as this national, centrally- directed undercover organization | was being organized, its services | were being tendered by Attorney | General Mitchell to Gov. Moore of | New Jersey, with a view to corre- lation of Federal and State activi- ties. | Mitchell advised the Governor | of the President’s action in a let- ter, the contents of which were | read over the telephone in order to expedite delivery. Moore is ex- | pected to repl{ after a conference tomorrow with prosecuting of- gcm.!. according to the Associated | Press. Mitchel’s Letter. “As a result of the recent develop- ments in the Lindbergh case,” the At- torney General wrote, “and by direc- tion of the President, I desire to re- new the offer of the Federal authorities, who hold themselves at the disposal of the authorities of New Jersey, to render ice and the use to ald you in ap- prehending the guilty persons. “We recognize, of course, that the offense is not one against the Federal Government, and that the Federal au- thorkies have no police jurisdiction over the case, but there may be ways in which the various detective agencies of the Federal Government may be of assistance to the police of your State. “Several of the executive depart- ments of the Federal Government have investigal forces whose aid you de- sire to invoke, and in order to avold confusion it has been suggested that Mr. J. Hoover, chief of the Bureau of Investigation of the De- partment of Justice, co-ordinate such service as the Federal agencies are called upon to render. “If you will advise me what police official in the State of New Jersey is to have general charge and control of the investigation, Mr. Hoover will get in touch with him.” All Forces Mobilized. ‘The police official designated will be Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the As- sociated Press sald Gov. Moore has in- dicated. Under the Wkite House plan all of the Government’s manpower and ma- chinery for law enforcement and crime detection are being mobilized in a re- lentless effort to see that “these crim- inals are implacably brought to jus- DEMOCRAIC CHEST. ¢ AND tLIEvE W ? wsELl. s =7 EDEM MORES THAN EVEEE GETTING READY FOR THE CONVE BUREDD KNG W PREAKNESS GLORY Derby Victor Takes Maryland‘ Classic Head in Front of Tick On. By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, Md.. May 14.—Burgoo King, a royalty bred son of the blue grass, moved into the select circle of great thoroughbreds as he capped his Kentucky victory with a driving tri- umph in the forty-second running of the Preakness at Pimlico today. | Coming from behind to nab the de- | cision in the closing strides. the E. R. Bradley colt equaled the performances of the mighty Sir Barton and the great Gallant Fox, heretofore the only two horses that ever won both the Derby and the Preakness. The King, meeting eight crack East- | ern 3-year-olds, was a great horse in his victory. Running over a track at least a second slow, he came within one and four-fifths seconds of equaling the track record, as he reeled off the one and three-sixteenth miles in 1:59 4-5. Tick On Head Behind. A crowd of 40,000, said to be the largest in the history of the classic, | saw the chestnut son of Bubbling Over | nab Mrs. Louis G. Kaufman's Tick On, the favorite, and Walter M. Jefford's Boatswain, an outsider, in the final |stride. Only a head separated the King and Tick On at the finish, while 2 like distance behind was Boatswain, | a son of Man O' War, which won the | race in 1920. | The victory, carrying with it a purse {of $50,375, boosted the King's totai earnings in eight days to $102,690. | Backess of the Bradley green and white | silks received $8.50, $5 and $4 across the board. Tick On paid $3.80 to place, while a $2 show ticket on Boat- swain returned $6.80 Tick On, unruly at the post in the Derby, had no excuse today. He was | tice.” ‘Augmenting the expert corps of scien- | beaten by a better horse, but in accept- tific Ln\'enl‘n‘mrs of ;:em Bureau of In- |INg defeat ran the greatest race of his vestigation will be veteran detectives | Career. Boatswain did not start as a of the Secret Service, special intelli- | 2-year-old last year, but wen two of gence agents of the Internal Revenue | Dis four starts as a 3-year-old, previous Bureau, experienced operatives of the Postal Inspection Service and agents of "(Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) doned where it fell, 200 miles off Ire- | land's scuth coast. His family, their first anxiety re- lieved by news that the daring aviator had suffered only a fractured nose and shock from being forced down almost at his first overseas goal, had heard ne further tidings from him Nor had Bernar MacFadden, pub- lisher, owner of the plane, any further news of the exploit so happily termi- nated when hope for Reichers had be- gun to waver. Mrs, Muriel Reichers, the fiyer's wife, remained N. J, awaiting further details of the flight and her husband's health. Ear- lier advices from the steamship said he was under a physician’s care, and Capt. Pried, in a radio message, said his hurts consisted of a broken nose. faoe cuts and other minor injuries. U. S. ASKED TO OFFER $100,000 FOR LINDBERGH KIDNAPERS Bill Introduced in House by Douglass of Massachusetts Authorizes Attorney General to Act. By the Associated Press A Pederal reward of $100,000 for in- formation leading to the arrest and conviction of the Lindbergh kidnapers was proposed in the House yesterday by Representative Douglas (Democrat, of Massachusetts). He introduced a bill which read “Whereas the President of the United States has ordered, and the American public demand, that the criminals responsible for the kidnap- jng and® murder of Charles Augustus | Lindbergh, jr. be brought to justice; and “Whereas the President United States has directed the law- enforcement agencies of the several secret services of the Federal Govern- ment to exert unceasingly all of their resources to apprehend those respon- sible for the atrocious crime perpe- tret~d upon the Lindbergh baby; and “Whereas already vast of the | amounts of | money have been expended by both the Pederal and State enforcement authorities to bring about the capture of those indictable for the kidnaping and murder of the infant son of Amer- ica's idol, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, with but futile results; therefore be it | _“Resolved: * * * That the Attorney |General of the United States is authorized and herehy directed to offer |8 reward of $100,000 for information |leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons guilty of kid- | naping or causing the death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr. “There is authorized to be apropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise ap- propriated the sum of $100,000 for the purpose of paying the reward provided for in this act, such sum when ap- propriated to be paid to such person or divided among such persons as the Attorney General of the United States may determine.” at her home in Arlingtcn, | PART ONE—26 General News—Local, Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page B-T. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features News of the Clubs—Page 4 Serial Story, “Tangled Lives"—Page 5 Public Library News—Page 5. Spanish War Veterans—Page 5. Organized Reserves—Page 5 Farm and Garden—Page 6. D. C. Naval Reserve—Page 6. | Y M. C. A. Notes—Page 6. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Society Section. PART FOUR—8 PAGES. Amusement Section—Stage, Screen, Music and Radio. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 3. W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 3. D. A. R. Activities—Page 3. Community Centers—Page 3. In the Motor World—Page 4 District National Guard—Page 4. Army and Navy News—Page 4. Aviation News—Page 4. American Legion—Page 5. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 5. American War Mothers—Page 5. Disabled American Veterans—Page 5. Veterans of Poreign Wars—Page 5. Radio News—Page 6. Fraternities—Page 7. PART FIVE— PAGES. Sports Sect PART SIX—I2 PAGES. Financial News and Classified Adver- PAGES Nation: | PART SEVEN—16 PAGES. Magazine Section. Notes of Art and Artists—Page and 12. Reviews of New Books—Page 11. | Crossword Puzzle—Page 12. Bridge Forum—Page 13. The Boys' and Girls' Page—Page 14 High Lights of History—Page 15. Those Were the Happy Days—Page 16. GRAPHIC SECTION—$ PAGES. COLOR SECTION—S PAGES. Keeping Up With the Joneses; Mutt and Jefl; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; The Timid Soul; Little Orphan 10 to_today. Earle Sande, seeking his second | Preakness victory with Walter J. Sal- mon’s Mad Pursujt, finished fourth, four |lengths back of the three leaders. (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) | DANCER GETS LIFE TERM | | Polish Woman Convicted of Espion- age—Two Men Will Die. | WARSAW, Poland, May 14 (#)—| Pana Majewska, a dancing girl, was| sentenced to life imprisonment today on a charge of esplonage “in favor of a neighboring country.” The identity of the country was not disclosed, but it | was generally believed to be Russia. Two men alleged to have been in| league with the dancer were sentenced to death. They are an engineer named Bonkowski and Gen. Stoff, an employe of the engineer. Bar Delegation To Coal Fields, In Fear of Mob Kentuckians Now Face $100,000 Suit Filed by Visitor. By the Associated Press LONDON, Ky, May 14—On the grounds that bloodshed might follow | their visit and a mob that could not | be controlled would form in Pineville, an American Civil Liberties Union dele- gation was barred from the Southeast- ern Kentucky coal fields today. Returning here, Arthur Garfield Hays, a leader of the group, filed a $100,000 personal damage suit against nine of- ficers and citizens named as having blocked his progress at the Bell County line. It would test, he said, whether members of a community can legally prevent citizens from entering. After being halted at the Bell County line by Mayor J. M. Brooks of Pine- (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) WALKER REMOVAL DEMAND FORESEEN Roosevelt Faces Dilemma if Committee Acts to Oust Mayor. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 14.—The Times says recent developments in the Hof- stadter investigation into city affairs have made it virtually certain that Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt will be called upon within the next three weeks to remove Mayor James J. Walker from office. For the Governor to be faced with the task of making such a decision just before the Democratic national con- vention would be exceedingly embar- | rassing, the paper adds. Faces Dilemma. If he removed the mayor he would be accused of acting in a spirit of re- venge for the failure of Walker and Tammany to support his presidential candidacy. Should he dismiss the TContinued on Page 2, Column 6.) OFF ON GLOBE VOYAGE Youth, 26, Sets Sail in 21-Foot Cutter for West Indies. WOODS HOLE, Mass., May 14 UP"__| A 26-year-old youth, Terence Keough, of New Rochelle N. Y. today set sail in a 21-foot cutter on a round-the- | world trip, which he estimates will take two and a half years. He plans to make his first stop at the West Indies. From there he hopes to reach the Pacific by way of the Panama Canal. He has been a practical sailor for 10 years. In apparent defiance cof the grand jury's edict that “it be kept closed for all time,” the notorious gambling estab- lishment just across the District line on Bladensburg I;z:d was reopened—"wide "—yesterday. <,p;e“verll automobiles filled with men were seen to enter the premises in the afternoon and last night the big wooden entrance gates were opeped for the first time in many months. Members of the ling fraternity | previously had confirmed rumors that the place was to open and said it would continue to operate “as long as it can.” Less than & month ago the county grand jury called attention to the fact directed the to keep it closed. The report of the last grand jury was the first to nsen- tion the establishment by name. The forceful language of the report met with widespread approval BLADENSBURG ROAD GAMING ESTABLISHMENT IS REOPENED Resumption of Business by Notorious House Is in Direct Defiance of Grand Jury.s Edict. county, and only last week the county | commissioners received a resolution from tbe County Ministerial Associa- tion calling upon the authorities to see that the recommendation of the jury in regard to all gambling establishments was carried out. An official of Mount Rainier, the town nearest the establishment, linked the reopening with the Lindbergh kidnaping case last night. He said: “I had hoped the Lindbergh kidnap- ing had taught the people of this county some respect for law.” James A. La Formtaine of Washington, alleged operator of the establishment in previous years, was released from the Ellicott City jail some time ago, after his nine-month sentence on of evading income tax payment had been M“tered to 59 days because of poor healtk. The gambi establishment has been closed =ince bfore La Fontaine went to of the | jail. NENO ANDPER Mission in Lima Accused of “Serving Plans of Commu- nistic Elements.” | By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 14.—Foreign Minister Manuel C. Tellez announced tonight that diplomatic relations be- tween Mexico and Peru had been sev- ! ered. The Peruvian government, the for- | | eign minister revealed, recently asked Mexico to withdraw Minister Juan B. | Cabral and his staff from Lima, saying | they no longer were acceptable as dip- | lomatic representatives. Peru’s action, Senor Tellez sald, was ‘bmd on alleged charges made by Haya | de Ja Torre, a Peruvian, that while in |Mexico he Had used Mexican diplo- matic pouches to transfer private cor- respondence to Peru. Intervention Charged. Peru charged that the Mexican mis- sion in Lima had “intervened in in- ternal politics and served plans of ;Comm elements to disturb the public order.” Orders were sent to the diplomatic mission in Lima today to withdraw from the country, and passports were handed to Oscar Barrenechea y Ray- gadas, the Peruvian Minister here, and | to_members of his staff. Foreign Minister Tellez declared Mexican diplomatic pouches had not | been used improperly and asserted that | the Mexican Minister at Lima had not |been friendly with De la Torre, as charged by the Peruvian government. Relations to Stay Cordial. “We wish to make plain that our re lations with the Peruvian people alway: will remain cordial,” the foreign min- ister said. But the maintenance of friendly re- |lations with the Sanchez Cerro gov- |ernment in Peru, Senor Tellez added, no longer was possible because of the attitude of that government toward what he termed a misunderstanding. ‘While relations remain ruptured, the Spanish government will assume charge of Mexican affairs in Peru. RECALL REQUEST EXPLAINED. Minister Accused of Visiting Opposition Leader While He Was Being Sought. LIMA, May 14 (#) —Dr. Alberio Freundt Rossell, minister of foreign affairs, announced tonight that his government had requested the Mexican | government to recall the Mexican Min- | ister because he had visited Victor Raul | Haya de la Torre, leader of the Aprista | opposition, when Haya ~was being | sought by the government authorities. | . The visit occurred, the foreign min- | 1ster said, when the opposition leader was staying at the home of the Plenge family, where he had “taken refuge and was escaping from justice.” Gen. Juan B. Cabral, the Mexican | Minister, denied he had seen the op- position chieftain and later admitted |it, Dr. Rossell said, when confronted by a statement from Senora Plenge. Explanation Unsatisfactory. in a way not satisfactory in any sense,” the foreign minister declared. Another phase of the controversy be- tween the two countries was understood | to be based on documents found by the police in a raid on the headquarters of the Aprista Party (Popularists), which |has been charged by the government with responsibility for the recent naval for eight sailors. The government also "~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) e SUPPLIES SENT NORTH Yoshihara Expected to Start Soon From California to Native Land Via Alaska. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash,, May 14 arrying | supplies for Seiji Yoshihara, Japanese |airman planning a flight from Oak- land, Calif., to Japan via Alaska, the Coast Guard cutter Northland sailed to- day for Alaskan waters. The supplies included 60 cases of gasoline, benzol and lubricating oil, which will be distributed along Western Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. Yoshihara is expected here May 20 from California in his all-metal sea- plane. From Seattle he will fly to Van- couver, British Columbia; Albert Bay, Prince Rupert, Juneau, Seward and over Western Alaska and the Aleutians to Japan. year the Japanese airman was unsuccessful in attempts to fly to the United States from Japan. i SEVER RELATIONS, “He admitted it while explaining it | revolt that resulted in death sentences ! FOR JAPANESE AIRMAN, 145 SIGN PETITION Bachmann Adds Name Call- ing for Showdown Slated for May 23. BROWN IS CONFIDENT OF WET G. 0. P. PLANK Predicts Attempt at Convention to Satisfy Anti-Drys and Strength- en Party. By the Associated Press. The House will go on record Mon- day, May 23, on the beer-for-revenue issue. The vote was assured yesterday when Representative Bachmann of West Virginia, the Republican whip, lhepped‘ to the clerk’s desk as the 145th signer of a petition to call up the O'Connor- Hull bill for & tax of 3 cents a pint on beer of not over 2.75 per cent alcohol by weight. The bill would declare this percent- age to be “non-intoxicating in fact.” A burst of applause from anti-prohi- bitionists greeted Bachmann. Only a few minutes earlier, Representative Kvale, Parmer-Labor, Minnesota, who | represents the district once held by hibition enforcement act, had signed. Marks Second Attempt. It will be the second vote on a legalized beer tax this session, but the first on which the ballots of individual mem- bers will be recorded. Representative Cullen, leader of the Tammany dele- gation, was defeated in an attempt to attach this plan to the tax bill by a 216 to 132 vote. The petition had been lying on the clerk's desk for &onmmm a monthi Sponsors a large measure of their success in obtaining the 145 sig- e have been possible under House rules before the national conventions in June. A few minutes before Bachmann signed, Cullen walked up to Speaker | Garner and In a voice that could be heard in the gallery, said: £ “Sign that; McAdoo's turned wet. Garner’s name was not on the peti- | tion. William G. McAdoo, for years & has been leading spon- | soring the Texan for the presidency. Representative O'Connor, Democrat, 3 L gy w:'fmm o Fi ‘anti- !L!In the 227 to 187 defeat of the Beck-Linthicum submission resolution. said. O'Connor immediately -telegraphed | the House actien to Mayor James J. | Walker of New York, who marched to- ! day at the head of the beer parade. Represent 27 States. House members from 27 states signed | the petition. | Ten more Democrats than Republi- cans joined the move. The party divi- sion was: Democrats, 77; Republicans, 67; Far- mer-Labor, 1. The States not represented were: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) 'PITTSBURGH MAYOR SEEKS NEW -TRIAL : Moves to Appeal Conmviction Call- and $500 Fine. By the Associated Press | BUTLER, Pa, M Charles H. Kline of Pittsburgh tonight faces one-year imprisonment, removal | from office and & $500 fine. ‘The dapper, affable mayor, who has ! tendered many keys to the city to vis- iting notables in Pittsburgh and, in turn, has been knighted and feted abroad, was convicted today of mal- feasance in office. Bertram L. Succop, former Army colonel whom he dis- charged as city supplies director, also was convicted. The charges resulted from an inves- tigation of city buying methods. Kline ‘was convicted on one count and Succop on 29. The law provides a maximum | penalty of one-year imprisonment and a $500 fine on each count. Removal of the accused from office is mandatory. The defense moved for & new trial and arrest of judgment. The mayor, meanwhile, will remain in office. Mayor Kline testified at his trial that his many duties forced him to entrust city purchasing to subordinates. The | law holds him responsible. The trial was held in Butler on a | change of venue. 14 —Mayor Andrew J. Volstead, author of the pro- | ing for Removal, One-Year Term | AND RELIEF BILLS Aim Is to Adjourn Before June | 14, But Completion of i Work Is Doubted. 'SENATE VOTES TOMORROW ON PEAK INCOME TAXES Earlier Sessions Planned to Speed ‘ Legislation With Meetings at | Night, if Necessary. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | Contronted with three major tasks, final enactment into law of the revenue bill, the adoption of a governmental economy program and the passage of | relief legislation, Congress plans to | drive ahead at top speed during the coming week. The purpose of the lead- ers on Capitol Hill is to wind up the work of Congress and adjourn before | the opening of the first of the national | political conventions, in Chicago June 14. With only four weeks before that date, several members of the Senate yesterday voiced their bellef it would not be possible to complete the legis- lative program and it would be neces- sary to have a Summer session, lasting perhaps until Labor day. Work on the relief programs, initiated by the Democrats, was pretty much at | a standstill yesterday. But the commit- tee of Benate Democrats appointed to wrestle with the problem is expected to meet again tomorrow and make all pos- sible haste in drafting a bill. Republican leaders admitted they - were waiting to see what the Demo- crats would bring forth as a relief bill. However, Senator Watson of Indiana, Republican leader of the Senate, de- clared if it was found impossible to obtain a satisfactory bill through co- operation with the Democrats, the ad- ministration forces would bring out a bill of their own. This undoubtedly would follow in the main the program already outlined by the President. Both Programs Under Attack. The chief bone of contention be- tween the administration and Democrats “This will be a real test,” O'Connor | tion me.mumcltkuhm-’ fair to loan Government funds to bne manufacturer and not to loan to all Republican Senators, on the other hand, declare they will never stand for really need. An impasse over the relief program | may be reached unless some compro- | mise plan can be worked out. Both the (Continued on Page 6, Column 1.) THREE MISSING IN PLANE SINCE MAY 4 ARE SAFE | Woman and Two Men Stormbound Nine Days on Flight to Are- tic Ocean Coast. | By the Associated Press NOME, Alaska, May 14.—Mrs. Edna Christofferson and two men, unheard rom since May 4 on a flight to the ["Arctic_Ocean coast, arrived safely st | Point Barrow today. | _ A message received here reported the J Portland, Oreg., sportswoman, Pilot Wil- |llam R. Graham and George Laiblin, plane mechanic. were stormbound nine days at Point Hope, southwest of Point | Barrow. | _They are seeking the derelict trading | ship Baychimo, deserted by its crew in | the Arctic Ocean last November, to re- cover any valuable furs that may have been left aboard. | Business Leader Kills Self. | GREEN BAY. Wis., May 14 (P— | Wilbur R. Whittenburg, 46, who had | planned to leave soon with his family | for Chattanooga, Tenn., where he had | bought a store, died here today of & self-inflicted gunshot wound. He had been a business leader here since 1920. The widow and a son, Wilbur, 19, | survive. A thorities had not deter- mined a motive for the act. 'THREE NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH AS CANOE UPSETS I N POTOMAC Georgetown U. Freshmen Marooned on Driftwood Pile The swollen Potomac yesterday after- "noon threatened the lives of three Georgetown University freshmen, who | were rescued by firemen after their | canoe upset and marooned them on a mound of earth and driftwood, which was rapidly crumbling in the turbulent current about a mile below Chain Bridge. ‘The trio, Hugh Miller, Edward Cuffe and William McLaughlin, all 18 years old and all from Brooklyn, N. Y, caped with a wetting when firemen about half a mile below Chain Bridge. The river was overflowing its banks Until Rescued by Police and Firemen. | strong current caught up the craft and | swept it against the frantic efforts of the paddlers into a grove of trees and piled boulders on the overflown river bottom. The canoe, driven against a ti swung broadside to the current an | tipped the occupants into the water, Miller said they all could swim, but were unable to keep on the surface in the treacherous current. was about 4 o'clock and the roar of the water drowned their cries, while the boys felt their haven crumbling ki beneath them. The castaways were Soflm and it was only [ames m ldiers screened by the by chance that at several points in the vicinity and 4 and J Drother, Columa 1) b