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WEAT HER. (U. 8. Weather Burcau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature;’ light to gentle variable winds. ‘Temperatures—Hig] yesterday; lowest, 49, Full report on pag hest, 69, at 4 p.m. , at 5 a.m. today. e B-3. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as secos post office, Wa No. 82,164. ¢ Foening Star. ‘WITH SUNDAY NMORNING EDITION nd class matter shington, D. C. CONFESSION DENIAL BY CURTIS FALSE, SCHWARZKOPF SAYS, Alleged Interview With Hoax- er’s Attorney Branded as Misstatement. DEAN INSISTS HE MADE CONTACT WITH GANG Bays He Dropped, Negotiations for Ransom Believing Trio to Be Racketeers. By the Assoclated Press. | Norman Schwartzkopf, superifitendent of State police, flatly denied today that | John H. Curtis, jailed 25 hoaxer of the | Lindbergh kidnap case, had recanted his confessicn. ter a purported interview with W.| C. Pender, Curtis' attorney, was pub- lished (not by the Associated Press) PJrosecutor Anthony Hauck questioned both Pender and Curtis. Then Col Schwarzkopf issued the following state- ment: “Prosecutor Hauck has just inter- viewed Mr. Curtis and Mr. Pender to- gether and Mr. Pender denies that he has given out any statement to the ef- fect that any trickery was used by the investigators. He also denies that hej stated that Mr. Curtis was in contact with the actual kidnapers and says that Mr. Curtis knows nothing about the actual kidnapers and had no contact with them and cannot find them. Mr. | Pender further stated to the presecutor that the only statement he gave to| the newspapers was to the effect that; representing Mr. Curtis and ng 1o arrange bail for him. The prosecutor has just finished talking to, Mr. Pender and Mr. Curtis and this| can be further verified through the prosecutor.” DEAN TELLS OF CONTACT. Says He Dropped Negotiations With Three Racketeers. (Copyright, 1932, by the Associated Press.) OTTAWA, Canada, May 23.—The| statement that he himself was in con- tact with mysterious personages who d for ransom for the Lindbergh 7 is made by Dean H. Dobson-Pea- cock of Norfolk, Va, in a copyright interview published today by the Sout-| ham newspapers of Canada. Dean Peacock says he met “three tough-looking customers” at a New York Hotel, in response to mysterious telephone calls, and they demanded ransom, but he broke off the negotia- tions after he became convinced the men were “racketeers.” The interview, given to C. O. Smith, W ton correspondent of the Scutham papers, says John Hughes ’ conduct throughout the whole{ ations was so_convincing that “I| d do the same thing again if a sim- | occasion arose tOMOIIOW. i Tells of Curtis Deal. irtis has confessed that the whole | a hoax 2nd that none of the | jous persons and places described | Norfolk negotiators existed ex- n imagination. Dean Peacock, who formerly preached ; in Canada, said Curtis brought him into the case by relating how a man | who “had been befriended by him in a otlegzing case” wanted an inter- iary to get in tocuch with Col. Lind- h, woul Lar urtls declared he would not act alone and asked me to co-operate with him,” said Peacock. i Admiral Burrage having also been | brought into the negotiations, the trio finally, on March 21, saw Lindbergh at Hopewell. “Col. Lindbergh remarked that he had no faith in the ciue,” said Pea- cock. “He doubted the story for the reason that our alleged gang had not | exactly mentioned the amount of the| ransom. Notwithstanding his doubt, he | gave written au ¥y to Admiral Bur- rege to continue 25,000 Deposit Proposed. Curtis continued to claim contacts, and announced the kidnapers had pro- posed a plan for depositing $25,000 in | Norfolk, to be released after the baby | was returned. Lindbergh refused to do this, but asked that the negotiations pursued. bc“‘é‘&ms was up North when I got a| Jong-distance call from New York on April 21,” said Peacock. “The speaker asserted he had vital information about the Lindbergh baby. I was instructed to fly to New York at once, register et the Park Central in the name of James 11, and I would get instructions what a do. ¢ “I flew to New York, registered as directed, and a man soon came to my rcom. He said I was to follow him to the party that had telephoned. I re- to leave, The man Went away within a few minutes the original ice called me. He warned me to fol- v instructions. decided first to attempt to reach u . and managed to do so. He ad--l ed me to return and learn more| out what they would say. I did this. hey took me to a room in the Cum- rland Hotel, where three tcugh-]ook-' g _custol joined us. They outlined | plan for milar to the one Curtis’ alleged go- between had suggested. “It included payment of $50,000 ran- som and a cash payment the next day of $500 for a special purpose. I was warned that every step I took would be watched and was threatened if I made a false move. “By that time I suspected them as racketeers. I went back to Curtis and ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) GEORGE W. WALES DIES; PANAMA CANAL ENGINEER Decorated by Roosevelt for Con- tinuous Service During Its Construction. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash., May 23.—George ‘Wilkins Wales, 77, one of five engineers decorated’ by 'President Roosevelt for continuous service during construction { the Panama Canal, died here yes- t-rday. He was a railroad builder and :ved under Gen. Goethals during the of the canal, TRENTON, N. J, May 23.—Col. H.' he Teturn of the child, quite ! |YOUTH UNABLE TO BECOME FLYER KILLS SELF WITH GUN IN PLANE Yeggs Spend Month Drilling Into Bank, But Robbery Fails Bore Way Thl;ough Two Walls and Bind Night Watchman. By the Assoclated Press. CINCINNATI, May 23.—Seven men who spent a month chiseling through walls in the manner of a Sherlock Holmes thriller failed in en attempted robbery of the Western Bank & Tryst Co. early today. The ceven rented a second-story flat adjoining the bank March 20 and pa- tiently bored their way through the two brick walls between them and the banking room next door. Last night their shaft was completed and they crawled through. The night watchman was bcund and gagged and forced to tell them how to make his regular half-hour calls while they went to work on the vault with drills and acetylene torches. five-ply steel defeated them, The however, and at 3:30 am. they fled. HOOVER T0 CONFER WITH PUBLISHERS Summons Newspaper Heads to Discuss Economic Program, By the Associated Press. President Hoover has invited about 30 prominent newspaper publishers to meet with him at the White House next Wednesday night to discuss ‘“co-oper- ative community plens” for aid in both current economic and legislative situ- aticns. the past two days. The aim of the Chief Executive is to gain support from the publishers in shaping public opinion in their re- spective communities. The make-up of the group will be aleng strickly non-partisan lines. number of invitations dispatched could not be ascertained today at the White House. Nor were any of the names obtainable there. It was understood, however, that a majority of those invited live within a convenient distance of the National Capital. In the view of the President, the conference will be along the same line as parleys he has held with representa- tives of other industries and profes- slons. (Copyright, 1932) RADIO ANTI-TRUST SUIT UP OCTOBER 19 Creation of Set and Tube Monopoly Charged in Action Filed More Than Year Ago. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del,, May 23.—Octo- ber 19 was fixed today for the start of the trial of the Government anti-trust suit against Radio Corporation of America, General Electric Co., National Broadcasting Co., Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. and other con- cerns in the radio business. The date was set by Federal Judge Jokn P. Neilds on application of Warner Olney, jr., a special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States. The suit was filed more than a year ago. The Government charges the com- panies have created a monopoly in radio |set and tule manufacturing in re- | straint of interstate commerce. The Government seeks to have dissolved contractural relationships between the various companies. LOS ANGELES FLIES ON PRACTICE CRUISE Leaves Lakehurst on Day’s Jour- ney Which May Include Chesapeake Bay. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J, May 23—The Navy dirigible Los Angeles took off this coast, which is expected to take the ship 2s far as Chesapeake Bay. Should weather conditions become { unfavorable, the ship will return to its base at sunset, otherwise it will remain on the cruise throughout the night. Aboard was a crew of 38 in command of Comdr. F. T. Berry. The crew in- cluded 10 officers and five student | officers. AVON OVERFLOWS BANKS STRATFORD-ON-AVON, England, May 23 (#).—The new Shakespeare Memorial Theater was on a little island all its own today as a result of floods which caused the Avon to overflow its banks. Numerous families living in the city had to move up to the second floors of their houses. Hundreds of acres in Stratford were covered with deep swirl- ing waters. The communications went forth in The | morning on a practice cruise down the | WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1932—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ## PRESIDENT WANTS INCOME- PRODUCING Job Relief Financed With Bonds Meets Opposition of Hoover. DANGER OF LOG ROLLING FEARED IN NEW PROJECTS | Reccommendation of Engineering Committee Is Answered in 2,200-Word Letter. By the Associated Press. The potency of a sharply-worded White House letter has been thr-wn by President Hoover full against proposals to expand employment by extensive public works financed with bond issues. Neither the bond issue plan of Speaker Garner nor that of the Special Senzte Democratic Relief Committee was men- tioned by the Chief Executive. But, in a letter to Herbert S. Crocker, | president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, he asserted bluntly that “a Jarger and far more effective relief to unemployment can be secured by increased aid to income-producing | works.” “If it is contemplated that we legislate more authorizations of new and uncon- | sidered projects by Congress,” the Chief Executive said, “we shall find ourselves confronted by a log-rolling process which will include dredging of mud creeks, building of unwarranted post offices, unprofitable irrigation projects, duplicate highways and a score of other unjustifiable activities.” Speaker Garner last week proposed a $1,000,000,000 bend issue for a govern- mental building program and on Friday the Senate Democratic Committee recommended a $500,000,000 bond issue for public construction. | President Hoover's 2200-word letter | was in answer to a petition of a sub- committee of the Engineering Society (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) 'BOMB INJURY FATAL TO GEN. SHIRAKAWA Commander of Japan's Shanghai Force Wounded in April With Five Others. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, May 23.—Gen. Yoshi- nori Shirakawa, supreme commander of the Japanese army forces during the battle cf Shanghai, who was critically wounded April 29 in a bomb explosion at Hongkew Park, died today. Gen. ‘Shirakawa was one of six high Japanese officials injured April 29 when a bomb was exploded at the Hongkew racing course during ceremonies cele- krating the birthday of the Emperor. Mej. Gen. Kinkichi Uyeda, the mil tary commander he replaced at Shang hai, was injured in the same blast. Gen. Shirakawa was Japan's supreme | war councilor. He was 62 years old and |had seen much military service, in- cluding previous engagements with the Chinese and the Russo-Japanese war. In 1890 he was graduated from the Japanese Military Academy and from that time on his promotion in rank was | fast and steady. From 1922 to 1924 he served as vice minister of war and subsequently was promoted to the rank of general. He commanded the Kwantung army from 1925 to 1927. In 1927 he was appointed war minister in the Tanaka cabinet, bolding that portfolio until 1929. Given Title of Baron. ‘TOKIO, May 23 (#)—The title of Earon was conferred on Gen. Yoshinori | Shirakawe, high commander of the | Japanese army in the battle of Shang- | hai, by Emperor Hirohito today when he learned that the general was dying. 'U. S. ACTS TO CLEAR MAILS AT SHANGHAL Consular Authorities Move to Open Post Office After Chinese Strike. | By the Associated Press. . SHANGHAI, May 23.—Angerican con- | sular authorities moved tonight to estab- |lish independent postal facilities and | thereby -to insure the movement of American mails despite the strike of Chinese postal workers. | Edwin S. Cunningham, United States | consul general, said that postal clerks |from American transpacific steamers had been ordered ashore preparatory to establishing a United States post office. American Navy men here may be called on to assist in landing the mails. The American liner President Van Buren arrived today with a heavy load | of mail, which was dumped in custom | sheds. The Empress of Canada arrives | tomorrow. Mails from all parts of the | world are rapidly reaching mountainous proportions. Other nations were preparing today to take steps similar to those planned by the United States. Post office author- ities said the strike deadlock continued unchanged. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 23.—Several thou- sand feet above the city of Chicago & youth killed himself in an airplane yes- terday, because his dreams of becoming an aviator had come to naught. He shot himself to death. The youth was 19-year-old Ernest Lengyel of suburban Forest Park, = messenger boy employed in Oak Park, who took a $3 sight-seeing ride in the plane and then as the pilot was about to descend, fired a bullet from a sawed- off rifie into his left temple. “I did it in a plane,” he said in a note, “becausc I wanted to die happy.” Financial difficulties, which vented bim from realizing his don, 1o bee ] { Brooded Because Financial Difficulties Blocked Ambition To Become a Pilot. come a pilot, caused the youth to brood, members of his family said. He was still alive when William J. | 1924 when Calvin Coolidge was nomi- “From Press tion is delivered to Sunday’s to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- ‘Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 120,258 Circulation 128,075 e ————— (P) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. 227 7. BORAH WL SHUN G 0.P CONENTION Tells Hoover He Is Not Going to Chicago—Silent on Campaign ltself. By the Assoclated Press. The powerful voice and influence of William E. Borah of Idaho, which played such a potent part in the 1928 campaign of Herbert Hoover, will be missing at next month's Republican convention for the renomination of the President. CANADA FINDS SALES TAX | LEAST TROUBLESOME LEVY Consensus of Editors Is That Method , Used in Dominion 12 Years, Effec- tively Raises Needed Funds. i The manufacturers’ sales tax levied in Canada, despite opposition from many sources, is held by many editors cf Canadian newspapers to be less object- ionable to the pecple than many other forms of taxation. In view of the present attempt to write into the revenue laws of the| of which appeared in The Sunday Star, indicate that the manufacturers’ sales tax is felt less by the people in times of low prices, as at present, than when prices are high. Purthermore, the manufacturers’ sales tax has been ef- fective in raising revenue during the depression when otaer forms of taxation have failed. Aceording to the Canadian editors, | United States s manufacturers’ sales 3 score of whom answerod the query Senator Borah's decision to take no [tax to help balance :he governmental ©0f The Star, the people of their country part in the national conclave of the | Republicans is final—whether Congress is in session or not—and the reasons | for it have led to considerable specu- lation in political circles. The Idahoan himself has no com- | ment to make on th: subject. It is understood his determination has been made known to_President Hoover in response to direct g Doubt He Will Campaign. | As for the election campaign itself, | Borah is silent but his intimates are convinced the chances are very doubt- ful that he will go on the hustings. Eorah not only helped to frame the platform at the last party convention | but he took a leading role in the en- suing presidentizl campaign. However, the President and the Idaho Senator have not harmonized on a major issue since the administration began. Only once before has Borah remained away from the national convention—in nated. H> then definitely rejected an | offer for the vice presidency, but stood by the ticket in the campaign. With Senator Norris of Nebraska, an- | other Independent Republican lcader, | in open opposition to the President there continues to ba persistent specula- | tion over a third party, but that is all | there is to it £o far and nothing on the surface. 1n the face of this opposition, Presi- dent Hoover has marched straight along to certain renomination, with scores more than the number necessary to | nominate already pledged to him. Roosevelt Pushes Ahead. ‘The Democratic picture is, of course, | far less clean cut, but energized by a | “fighting bic” for the nomination made | last night in Atlanta by PFranklin D.| Roosevelt, his bandwagon moves ahcad this week in quest of the convention | majority which in the past has usually | meant victory. The effects of the New York Gov- ernor’s demand for a more equitcble distribution of wealth, his warning that | “millions in want will not stand by | silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach,” and his attack on Wall Street cannot be fully picced together yet. However, it was unquestionably n; direct drive for the favorite son strength which he will not get on the first ballot, | but must gather in later to win. | This week his managers have prom- ised that 26 more delegates will gather | in his fold, six Tuesday, in Dclaware.) and 12 in Colorado, and eight in Utah Saturday. This would give him 599 votes, well over a majority if his supporters’ claims to 105 in New York and Penn- sylvania are included. It would be 171 short of the 770 required for nomina- tion. After this week, bnly 122 Demo- cratic delegates are to be chosen, and of these, Roosevelt men hope to gather 9 in 98. Despite this dominant position of the New York Governor, however, Alfred E. Smith and others of the anti-Roose- velt group are sticking to their con- tentions that the nomination will be plucked from his grasp. If they have agreed as to whom they might toss the crown, though, they have carefully withheld their intentions. KEEPS GERMAN TITLE Fourth Son of Ex-Kaiser Seated in Diet as Prince. BERLIN, May 23 (P).—The seat which August Wilhelm, fourth son of the former Kaiser, will occupy when the Prussian Diet open tomorrow, bears the- inscription “Prinz Von Preussen” instead of “August Wilhelm Hohenzol- lern.” ‘The former prince was elected to the Diet April 24 as a candidate of Adolf Dally, jr., the pilot he engaged, brought | the plane to earth, but he died three | hours later in a hospital. “We had been up about seven min- utes,” Dally said, “when the passenger shouted to me ‘Show me something .’ So I made a couple of banks and he yelled they were fine. We were still preity far up when I heard a shot. The roar of the motor almost drowned the sound. “When I looked back to see what had happened Lengyel had slumped cown in the seat. I was so siartled that I jdon’t even remember landing the plane, [ L% ‘put I got ‘down, Hitler's National Socialist party. 66 Hurt in Rail Wreck. BUFFALO, N. Y., May 23 (#).—Sixty- six passengers “were recovering from shock today following the derailment last night of the New York Central mail train, east bound. The fiyer left the rails at a cross- ovex near Irving and tore up 400 feet of track. No one was reported seri- cusly injured. Radio - PREPAREDBY G.0.P. | not fit the conditions now existing in !ncgg on -Page -A-Sipeq budget, The Star sent telegrams to the Canadian editors asking their views on the sales tax, its measure of succes: and the reasons, if any, for sapporting it. Their replies, the first installment have realized that revenue is impera- tive if the government is to continue stable and generally throughout the country is to be maint _For (Continued cn Page 4, Column 1.) PROHIBITION PLANK “Dry Platform in Wettish At- mosphere” Being Consid- | ered by Leaders. By the Associated Press. Republican leaders close to President Hoover are seeking to perfect a prohi- ition platform plan, the basic principle | of which would allow for slow modifi- cation of present prohibition laws. There is no way of telling, however, just to what extent if at all the Presi- dent is committed on the proposition. | The tentative draft of the plank calls for the retention of many features of | present prohibition and was descrited by one of its promulgators today as be- ing “a dry pletform in a wetiish at- mosphere.” It was designed, it was said, after many and long consultations with both wet and dry leaders and around it ihe sponsors hcpe to rally the widely di- vergent thought of factions within the party. The plank as it stands opposes re- pezal of the eighteentn amenament. It cites advantages as having accrued under prohibition, bui at the same time suggests remedies for “the inher- | ent evils which have grown out of | having a law applying alike to great | urban and great rural sections where | conditions are so thoroughly dissigilar.” | Most of those who have aided the | plank writing are regarded as drys.| ‘They say that it will draw the support of all but “fanatical drys and fanatical wets.” If the Platform Committee sees fit to accept the proposed plank, it was said, it would place the party in the posi- tion of recognizing that prohibition “is a good thing” but that the method by which prohibition was obtained ‘“does the country.” The promulgators of the plank, in- cluding among them scme of Mr. Hoo- ver's close friends as well as Govern- ment officials, do not believe the Re- publican -party should go headlong into prohibition modification without hav- ing first considered “where the path will lead.” The machinery by which modifica- tion could be obtained will be outlined in the plank, but at this time its out- lines are too faint for any one to defi- nitely say what they are. Some of the brilliant constitutional lawyers of the country, it was said, have been and will be consulted on the routine necessary to modify present laws. HUNDREDS FIGHT FOREST BLAZES IN MANITOBA Valuable Timber and Pulpwood Areas Threatened—=Several Build- ings Go Up in Flames. By the Associated Press. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 23.— Forest fires were raging in a dozen districts in Manitoba. today, with hun- dreds of fire fighters, hastily mustered, waging a futile battle to check the destruction. Forestry officials said only rainfall could halt ‘the advance of the flames. Only a few of the ‘fires, scattered over northern, western and eastern Mani- toba, were under control. The others were burning fiercely and threatened to destroy valuable timber and pulpwood reas. 1 Flames in the Porcupine Mountain roserve, northwest of Winnipeg, des- ‘several bulldings, K |passed that a | planned to demand payment of the BONUS SEEKERS UIET AT CAPITOL Police Follow Several Cars About City, but No Demen- stration Is Tried. War veterans from widely scattered Etates toured the Capital in a half dozen autcmobiles today with a detail of police on their trail as word was “demonstration” was bonus. ‘There was no demonstration, and the source of the report that there would be cne was unknown to police and veterans alike, but an extra guard of 15 Metropolitan police were sent to the Capitol Building as a precaution. Stand in Front of Building. One group of about 25, came from Bethlehem, Pa., and stood in front of the Capitol until a pelice inspector con- vinced them they were wasting their time. Then they went downtown again, fol- lowed by a police squad car. California_ automobile bearing vivid signs “We Want Our Bonus,” was parked nearby but the occupants had been lost in the every day crowd of visitors. A report that Communists were plan- ning a demonstration at the Supreme Court brought police to the court cham- ber but all was quiet. The Pennsylvania group was told by Inspector Albert Headley that they could not parade across the plaza with- out a permit. The veterans then were directed to a nearby restaurant, where | they purchased sandwiches and coffee | which they took with them to Seven- teenth and H streets, where two truck- loads of fellow petitioners were wait- ing. Members of this group said they expected to obtain a permit to parade later in the day. Inspector Headley had with him a dozen Metropolitan police, who were kept out of sight in the Capitol wings. He said he brought the men to the (Continued on Page 2. Column 8.) ieenbied s ol e 65 Doukhobors Jailed. NELSON, British Columbia, May 23 (#).—British Columbia’s jailed Doukho- bor population had reached 745 today. Authorities moved another contingent to jail yesterday, when they arrested 65 women and children in a nude parade at Thrums. Thirty-six were children, ranging in age from 5 weeks to 17 years. ADDITION OF FARM RELIEF TO TAX BILL URGED IN SENATE Nye Offers Debenture-Equal- ization Fee as Rider to Measure. FRAZIER LEGISLATION ALSO MAY BE ADDED Threat on Filibuster Draws Smoot Warning He May Request Day and Night Sessions. By the Assoclated Press. The billion-dollar revenue bill today picked up a new arguing point—the combination farm relief bill—as lead- ers awaited a vote on two tariff pro- visions, lumBer and copper. Eenater Nye, Republican, of North Dakota offered the export debenture- | equalization fee agriculture relief meas- ure as a “rider” to the tax measure as debate was resumed. He also opposed the lumber import tax. The farm relief measure is spon- sored by the National Grange Na- tional Farmers' Union and the Ameri- can Farm Bureau Federation. May Ask Amendment. Nye gave notice he might proposc as | another amendment the bill of Sena- | tor Frazier, Republican, of North Da- kota for a bond and Treasury note| issue to refinance at 1! per cent in- terest 2ll the indebtedness of American iarmers, estimated to aggregate from $6.000,000,000 to $10,000,000,000. explained that in view of the tax g “used for cther things,"* re- ng to tariff items, farm relief like- wise had a right to be offered as an mendment The relief bill, he said, had little chance of recelving comsideration at| | this time unless made part of 4 tax| is & bill which meets the cy in Do uncertain terms.” Nye . “and would afford with the Frazier | bill complete recovery.” Filibuster Threatened. | The taxation bill, bearing its tariff | provisions, crawled to the cross-roads | today with a threatened filibuster pos- | sibly blecking its path. Determined to preserve the lumber and ccpper import duties in the meas- ure, the tariff coalition expected to mus- | ter almost the same strength which re- | tained the controversial oil and coal duties. Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah, {in charge of the bill, was ready to ask the Senate for continuous day and night | sessions if the filibuster threatened by Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Mary- | land, develops. He also has given warn- | ing he wouid not hesitate to ask for the drastic cloture rule shuiting off debate. President Hoover kept an anxious eye on developments and was represented |as ready to send a message appealing | ¢y, for speed. wever, the Chief Executive is keep- ncs off the bitter tariff row that t bcth parties. Such Republi- alwiris as Smoot, Jones of Wash- n end Cteiwer of Oregon—all up| re-clection this year—are leading tariff fight. Democrats of the Southwest also are on the front line for the oil and copper tariffs and the Senate contest has all but eliminated tho tariff as an issue in the forthcoming naticnal campaign. Democrats Back Oil Duty. Stoutest edvocates in the Senate of th: nomination of Gov. Roosevelt of New Ycrk for the Democratic nomina- ticn lined up for the oil duty—Dill of Washington, Long of Louisiana and | Walsh and Wheeler of Montana. re was a faint glimmer of hope of a break in the fight over the rev- enue bill that might permit its pas- sage this week. Meanwhile, the Re- publicans, with the support of the Pres- ident, and Democratic leaders, are pre- pared to fcrego next month's National | Convention to stay here and finish the ‘budget-bslancmg legislation before the | start of the new fiscal year, July 1. | ing 1 has csn s | | ing for the DO-X IS IN ENGLAND AFTER ATLANTIC HOP | Giant Flying Boat Completes An- other Stage, Landing at Southampton. By the Associated Press. - SOUTHAMPTON, England, May 23.— | The DO-X, the world’s biggest fying boat, landed here at 7:15 p.m. today (1:15 pm. E. S. T.) after a flight from Vigo, Spain, after having crossed the Atlantic from New York by stages. By the Associated Press. VIGO, Spain, May 23.—The DO-X, largest flying boat in the world. took off for Southampton at 10:45 am. today (5:45 am. Eastern standard time) after the crew had refueled her. ‘The ship got in last night from Horta, Azores, after crossing the Atlantic from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. The DO-X will return to Germany, her home land, after the stop in England. o By way of farewell to Vigo the boat circled over the city, whose rooftops were crowded, and then headed north. The great 12-motored ship landed here last night. It was greeted by huge crowds. The trip from Horta, Azores, was made in 40 minutes less than 12 hours. The 14 persons aboard were taken off for a banquet given by the German colony. WAGE CUT DEPENDS ON “FISHING TRIP” OF 17 CITY COUNCILMEN Advocate Can’t Attend Meeting to Pass Measure Over BRODERICK Veto and Others Plan to Block Quorum. By the Assoclated Press. LIS, Minn., May 23.—If 17 city councilmen can go fishing Friday, they’ll likely catch a 10 per cent wage cut for the city’s employes. And that's why the city employes hope the 17 aldermen have plenty of bad luck that day. ‘The aldermen recently passed an ord- inance cutting the employes' calaries, but the mayar vetoed the measure, Eighteen votes are needed to override the veto and the law prcvides such a step .n;m.slt be Mfléhr the first council meegng following or's E But one of the 18 who favor the wage cut can't attend Friday's coun- cil meeting, so the remaining 17 decid- g o it Hating tepe o b fak- a little p. n"l'h:n they plan to return at a later | | date and re-pass th. crdinance when the needed eighteenth member can at- or po fah, | HOUSE VOTES DOWN 275 BEER BILL BY COUNT OF 228169 i0’Connor-Hull Measure to Levy Tax of 3 Cents a Pint Defeated. WETS HAD CLAIMED CONSIDERABLE STRENGTH One Member Votes ‘“Present.” Ballot Is on Motion to Dis- charge Committee. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Becr raised its head again in the | #House today only to be knocked down. By a vote of 228 to 169 the House defeated a motion to discharge the Ways and Means Committee from further consideration of the O'Connor- Hull bill legalizing 2.75 per cent beer and levying a tax of 3 cents a pint on the beverage. One member voted “present.” The vote as announced by the Speaker did not reveal the toal strength within the House of either the wets or the drys. Approximately a dozen mem- bers of the House who would have voted wet and an equal number who would have voted dry. were reported paired or absent on account of illness. A change of 30 votes from the dry side to the wet side in the House to- day would have given the beer bill a victory. The roll call of those who voted to discharge the Ways and Means Com- mittee from consideration of the bill fcllows: Democrats—Arnold, Auf der Helde, Beam, Black, Bloom, Boland, Brunner, Buchanan, Canfield, Carley, Celler, Chavez, Cochran of Missouri, Cole of Maryland, Condon, Connery, Crosser, Crowe, Crump, Cullen, Delaney, De Rouen, Dickstein, Dieterich, Douglas of Arizona, Douglass of Massachusetts, Drewry, Evans of Montana, Fernandez, Fitzpatrick, Gambrill, Gavagan, Gran- field, Griffin, Griswold, Haines, Han- cock of North Carolina, Harlan, Hart, Howard, Igoe, Jacobson, Karch, Kelly of Illinois, Kemp, Kennedy. Klaeberg, Kunz, Larrabee, Lewis, Lightenwalner, Lindsay, Linthicum, Lonergan, McCor- mack, McMillan, Major, Maloney, Mansfield, Martin of Oregon, May, Mead, Montet, Norton of New Jersey, O’Connor, Oliver of New York, Over- ton, Palmisano, Pettengill, Prall, Relly, Rogers of New Hampshire, Rudd, Sab- ath, Schuetz, Shannon, Sirovich, Somers, Spence, Stewart, Sullivan of New York, Sutphin, Sweeney, Tierney, Williams of Missouri. Republicans—Aldrich, Amlie, Ander- sen, Andrews of Massachusetts, Andrews of New York, Arentz, Bacharach, - mann, Baldridge, Beck, l, Bolton, Britten, Brumm, Burdick, Camp- bell of Pennsylvania, Carter of Cali- fornia, Carter of Wyoming, Cavicchia, Chindblom, Clancy, rry, Darrow, De Priest, Doutrich, Dyer, Eaton of New Jersey, Englebright, Erk, Estep, Fish, Foss, Freemsan, Gif- ford, Golder, Goss, Hancock of New York, Hartley, Hess, Hollister, Holmes, Horr, Willlam E. Hull, James, John- son of South Dakota, Kading, Kahn, Knutson, LaGuardia, Lehlbach, Loof= bourow, McLeod, Maas, Martin of Mas- sachusetts, Millard, Niedrinhaus, Per- son, Pittenger, Ruth Pratt, Ransley, chafer, Schneider, Seger, Stafford, Stokes, Sullivan of Pennsylvania, Tilscn, Tinkham, Treadway, Turpin, Watson, Welch, White, Whitley, Wigglesworth, Withrow, Wolcott, Wolfenden, Wolver ton, Wood of Indiana. Farmer-Labor—Kvale. The bill came before the House as & result of a petition signed by 145 mem- bers to discharge the Ways and Means Commitiee from further consideration of the measure. O’Connor Makes Plea. Representative O'Connor, speaking in support of the bill, appealed to all mem- bers of the House, wet and dry, to vote to discharge the committee, so the beer bill might be actvally laid before the House fcr consideration. Under rules of the House, a majority vote is necessary to discharge a com- mittee and lay a bill before the House. “Surely,” said Mr. O'Connor, “there is sufficient demand throughout the country from the people in every part to entitle them to a real consideration of the bill on its merit. I, therefore, submit to your fairness in approaching this vote not to be frightened by the W. C. T. U. or other similar organiza= tions who have swarmed like locusts in the House Office Building during the last few weeks to intimidate members by saying they would interpret a vote to discharge as ‘wet vote.’ " Mr. O'Connor told the House his beer bill would raise about $500,000,- 000 revenue a year. “The United States of America,” he sald, “stands today as the only nation " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) _ PAYMENT OF BLACKMER $60,000 FINE ARRANGED Absent Oil Witness to Receive Back $100,000 in Liberty Bonds Held. Word was received today that ar- rangements have been completed in New York City for the payment to- morrow in the District Supreme Court of the fine of $60,000 imposed on Harry M. Blackmer, the absent oil wit- ness, who remained in Paris and re- fused to obey summons to appear at thidoll trials. Court costs will also be paid. United States Marshal Edgar Snyder has on deposit in the National Sav- ings & Trust Co. $100,000 worth of Liberty bonds which will be surrender- ed to George Gordon Battle, counsel for Blackmer. Special Oil Prosecutor Atlee Pome- rene is expected to handle the negotia- tions tomorrow. E— MOVE FAILS Motion Made to Drop Indictment in Bank of U. 8. Case. NEW YORK, May 23 (#).—A motion to dismiss the indictment for neglect of duty against State Superintendent of Banks Joseph A. Broderick was denied as the case went into its eighth week today. Both sides rested last week and as soon es the dismissal motion was de- nied the case was ready fcr summat of cmm& . Broderick is charged with neglect 7 not closing the Eank of United States sooner than he i 1