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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) ton! Fair with little change in m'fifl”"'“" ight and tomorrow; pi ly local thunder showers tomorrow night. * . ‘Temperatures—Highest, 84, at 5§ p.m. yesterday; lowest, Full report on 63, at 5: page 0 a.m. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 he Fpenin NDAY No. 32,166. post office, Entered as second class matte; Washington, r D. C LETTER OF CREDIT | CHARGE IS DENIED BY MAYORWALKER Said He Never Heard of Bus Agent Who Is Said to Have Financed His Tour. HEARING IN UPROAR OF CHEERS AND HISSES City Head and Seabury Clash Verbally in Acrimonious Session of Probe Committee. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 25.—Mayor James J. Walker testified today that he had never heard of J. Allen Smith, bus company agent, who previous witnesses had said bought a $10,000 letter of credit the mayor used to finance & European trip in 1927. A few days ago Richard R. Hunter, a banker, testified that Smith, who was a contact man for the Equitable Bus Corporation, bought the letter of credit for the mayor 12 days after Walker had signed a contract giving the Equitable | concern a franchise to operate busses in ! three of the city's boroughs. Hunter said the mayor used up the letter of credit while abroad and over- drew it $3,000, an amount which Smith also made good. Denies Influencing Board. The mayor's testimony came at the | end of the morning session of the Hof- | investigating the city's affairs and be- first time today to give an accounting of his stewardship as the city's chief executive. Earlier in the testimony he denied he had influenced members of the Board | of Estimate to vote for the Equitable franchise. He acknowledged he ap- proved of giving the contract to that| iy today at the Treasury that if he | company and voted in favor of it. | In saying he had never heard of | | the stadter Legislative Committee, which is;m“kml., had settled his income tax | Immigrant Girl, 18, Finishes Second in High School Class By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, May 25.—Five years ago Katherine Monori came to America from Budapest, un- able to speak a word of English. On the first day of school she knew two English words, ‘“yes” and “no.” Last night she was graduated with second highest honors in a class of 271 from the Wilkins- burgh High School and delivered the calutatory address on “Law Enforcement in America” with scarcely a trace of foreign accent. “I did no more than any other person would have done in the American school system with such good teachers,” Miss Monori said. She is 18. J3663.784 IN TAX PAID BY BLAGKER Trials Aiso Settles Contempt Fine. By the Associated Press Despite settlement of income tax claims totaling approximately $4,000,000 and payment of a $60,000 contempt of court fine, Henry M. Blackmer, missing witness in the naval oil trials, does not plan to return to the United States. This was made known today by George Gordon Battle, attorney for the Denver oil man, after he had paid the fine for 'rtfu.sing to testify for the Government in the Teapot Dome trials of Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall. A little earlier it was discovered at Internal Revenue Bureau that N 2 | controversy with the Government b |jcans of the North will be sincerely | fore which Walker was called for the | paying some of the claims in full and wet. while the Democrats of the South | compromising others. Still Faced by Indictment. An indictment charging evasion of income tax 'still faces him, however, in the Pederal Court of Colorado. It was ever comes again within the jurisdic- WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, HOOVER WILL RUN ONWET PLATFORM, BRITTEN DECLARES Representative Tells Klein He Is Sure Party Will Adopt Liquor Plank in Chicago. PRESIDENT WILL SEEK UNITY ON PROHIBITION | Plans New Conferences Here to | Reach Understanding Among Leaders of Two Factions. | | | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 25—A letter in which | Missing Witness in Navai Oil represcntative Fred A. Britten, Repub- lican, Illinois, said he was “as certain as it is possible to be” that President Hoover wbuld seek re-clection on a wet platform, was made public today by Julius Klein, Republican nominee for Congressman at large. Britten is now serving his tenth con- secutive term in the House of Repre- sentatives. When the Republicans last controlled the House he was chairman of the Naval Committee. Klein said he | | had been communicating with Britten for sone time concerning prohlbhlnn; and other national issues. In a recent! | letter he quoted Britten as making this | statement “I am as certain as | be that President Hoover will run on {a wet platform which will be adopted | by the Republican National Convention | in Chicago on June 14, so that you and I need have no compunction about supporiing him for re-election, and if he runs on such a platform, the Repub- | it is possible to | | will be but politically wet for campaign | purposes.” | SEEKS DRY PLANK UNITY. President Plans Conferences to Arrive | at Understanding. By the Associated Press Mayor Jimmy Walker of Greater New York Is on the Witness Stand Today. MORNING BDITION Star, 1932—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. “From Press every city block PP TARIFF PROPOSALS ARGUED AS SENATE Hawes Seeks to Exempt From Import Duty Prod- ucts of Philippines. AUTOMOBILE TIRE LEVY IS CUT BY COMMITTEE Group Also Restores Assessment on Sales of All Cosmetics and Toilet Articles. By the Associated Press. New tariff disputes Senate today in debate on bill. At the outset, Senator Hawes, Demo- crat, of Missouri, sought to have Philip- pine products exempted from the im- port tax that has been proposed for vegetable and fish oils and oil-bearing seeds. A little earlier, the Senate Finance Committee had changed its mind again engaged the the resumption of the billion-dollar revenue HOOVER CLINCHES 0P NOHATON Texas Delegation Assures President 578 Uncontested Convention Votes. By the Associated Press In definitely pledged votes to be cast i!hree weeks hence at the Republican National Convention, President Hoover Name New Admiral Of Kentucky River As Governor’s Aide | By the Associated Press i FRANKFORT, Ky.. May 25— | | The first naval aide on his staff, Comdr. Benjamin McCandlish of Newport, R. L. with rank of admiral of the Kentucky Riv was commissioned today by Gov Ruby Laffoon. | During the World War Mc- | Candlish commanded the naval vessel Henry County, named after a Kentucky county. Gov. Laffoon has appointed a number of colonels on his staff since he was inaugurated last December. on another item. It reduced the 10 per cent sales tax on tires and tubes to 2l cents a pound on tires and 4 cents on tubes. The committee re- stored to the bill the 10 per cent sales tax on cosmetics and toilet preparations. Senators Fess (Republican of Ohio) MORATORIM GETS | tee to include tires and tubes in the automobile accessories section where the tax is 2 per cent. The 10 per cent tax on cosmetics and toilet preparations as carried in the House bill is expected to yield about European Nations to Affix Signatures to Agreement $20,000,000. After 11 Months. y It was voted in by the committee to | e make up an estimated loss of that | e e = amount caused by reducing the rubber { | OMNSRAEEEE B | sales tax. The 225-cent and 4-cent After nearly 11 months the Hoo- {levies are expected to yield about ver moratorium has been put into $33.000,000. (P) Means Associated Press. to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yylcdly’: Circulation, 122,664 TWO CENTS. DEMOCRATS OFFER §2,30,000 00 PLAN DEBATES TAX BILL| OF FEDERAL RELIEF Senate Bill Proposes to Loan $300,000,000 to States to Aid Destitute. $500,000,000 BOND ISSUE FOR CONSTRUCTION ASKED Remaining $1,500,000,000 Offered as Additional Funds for Re- construction Corporation. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The relief program of the Senate Democrats, in bill form, was presented {to the Senate today by Senators Wag- ner of New York, Robinson of Arkansas, | Walsh of Montana, Pitman of Nevada and Bulkley of Ohio. The measure contains three ma jor proposals, as follows 1. Three hundred million dollars to be loaned to the States to relieve desti- tution. | 2. One billion five hundred million | dollars is made available to the Recon- struction Finance Corporation to finance construction of revenue-producing proj- ects by States, municipalities and public corporations; housing and slum clear- ance projects, and construction by pri- vate corporations of tunnels, docks, viaducts, waterworks and similar proj- ects devoted to public use, all of which must be self-liquidating ‘The sum of $40,000,000 is reserved, however, to be used by the Secretary ot | Agriculture to finance agricultural ex- ports. 3. Five hundred million dollars is , made available for the construction of i previously authorized Federal permanent improvements. This construction is to be financed not by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, but by a Gov- Smith, Mayor Walker added that he'tion of the United States he will be| Fresident Hoover will hold another effect, the debtor nations have decided Favors Hawes Amendment. ernment bord issue payable in 25 years. did know Frank Fageol, one of the Midwestern backers of the Equitable| Bus Co. and ane of the men who have | testified to hiring Smith to act as New | York agenit in negotiations for the franchise. Hearing in Uproar. The hearthg was in an uproar most; of the morning, the mayor jousting verbally with Samuel Seabury, the committes’s chief counsel, and Demo- cratic members of the Cnn}mfitfl shouting objections to Seabury's lme' of examination. The court room crowd | frequently cheered the mayor, laughed | and occasionally hissed remarks by prosecuted. | Blackmer does not intend to return to the United States,” Battle told newspaper men, “and the payment of the fine should not be construed as in- | dicating that.” | Baftle paid the $60,000 to Frank E.| Cunningham, clerk of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, who instruct- | ed Edgar C. Snyder, the United States marshal to turn over $100,000 in 3i: | r cent Liberty bonds belonging to’ lackmer, which had been seized. This was quickly done. | Coupons Attached. | | ists in both parties coming out for a committee members. The bonds, which have been in the | The mayor received a tremendous!marshal's custody for three years at a | ovation as he rescended the court!local bank, had all of the interest cou- house steps at conclusion of the morn-: ing se&%lrr’;‘, Police estimated there were 5,000 in Foley Square. on which the building fronts. Prolonged cheers! greeted the mayor and the crowd rushed forward, so that he was power- less to move Police formed a flying wedge and| cleared 2 path to his car. He paused for a moment to pose for photographs and then drove' away, smiling and| saluting the crowd. | “Still Mayor of New York.” ‘When Walker had been on the stand | an hour a violent argument arose be- tween Seabury and the mayor in the course of which the mayor wagged his | finger at Seabury and shouted: : “‘Remember—I am still the mayor of New York!” There was an uproar, in which Sen- ator J. J. McNaboe said, addressing the maycr: ¥ “He'll be sorry he ever called you!” Somg one yelled: “Thank heaven you are here!” 4 “In spite of all these statements. I'm glad to sec you here,” Seabury said. ! “Judge, I'm glad to be here." Waiker ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 8. — LINER'S MAIL PLANE SENDS S 0 S AT SEA! Craft Calls for Help When 100 Miles Away From the S. S. Europa. By the Associated Press. | BOSTON, May 25—An 8 O S call| from the mail plene of the steamer | Europa, en route to Boston frcm the | transaltantic liner. was picked up to- ! day by the Castle Island Radio Station. | The call was sent out when the plane was approximately 100 miles from the steamer, and 600 miles east of Boston. ! Coast Guard officials broadcast mes- sages to Coast Guard or other vessels| that might be in the vicinity from| which the call for help was dispatched | calling upon such craft to render aid. | They expressed the opinion that the plane had experienced engine trouble ! and probably had been forced to alight | at sea. The plane was equipped with pontoons and should be able to remain | afloat, they said, until the Europa over-,| took it. | The plane was in charge of Lieut.i Joachim Blankenburg, with Lieut. Karl Kirchoff as co-pilot and radio operator. They flew the plane on the previous trip ; to America and alighted at the Boston Airport, having run short of fuel en| route to New York. The distress call was sent out about an hour after the plane left the Europa. It was due tonight. 2 et o NEGOTIATE NEW TREATY Turkish Oflc\hll Arrive in Rome to Discuss Pact. ! ROME, May 25 (%)—Premier Ismet ! Pasha and Forelgn Minister Tewfik | Rushdi Bey of Turkey arrived here to-| day to negotiate a new and stronger treaty of friendship with Italy. They were greeted in imposing fashion. Premier Mussolini himself went to the station to welcome them. He was ac-: companied by Foreign Minister Dino Grandi and a large array of under- secretaries. The Turkish officials will remain here four days. pr bt T Admiral Von Hipper Dies. ALTONA, Germany, May 25 (#).— Admiral Franz von Hipper, 68, leader of the German scouting squadron in the battle of Jutland, died today .of apoplexy. pons attached. In addition to the fine, Battle paid $87.50 to defray the cost of the safety deposit vault. | Turning over the bonds ended the contempt charges against Blackmer. BLACKMER PAYS $3,669,784. 0il Man Pzys Back Income Tax and | Penaities in Compromise. DENVER, Colo., May 25 (#).—A Wash- ington disvatch to the Rocky Moun- tain News says Henvy M. Blackmer, | self-expatriated oil millionaire, has set- | tled his tax troubles with the Federal | ‘Government for $3.669.784.47. The Treasury Department was de- | clared to have the cash and docket} No. 40,728, United States Tax Board of Appeals, to be closed. According to the dispatch Blackmer | adjusted his civil liabilities to the Gov- ernment last Wednesday. His att neys signed a stipulation which con. fessed judgment for the full amount | of taxes, penalties and interest on his income for the years 1920-1923, which | the Government. in final computations, | held to be due the Treasury. The tax amounted to $1,049.254.17 and penalties and interest amounted to the additional sum of $1,121,530. Be- side payments for this period Blackmer also owed taxes for the years 1916, 1917 and 1919. Compromise Effected. | The story continued: “The possibility of recovering amounts | demanded for this period,” according to the statement of the Treasury, “de- pended wholly on the ability of the Government to establish fraud not con- nected with matters involved in the | oil investigation, Compromise was, | therefore, effected for these years in the amount of $1,500,000 against the revised | prohibition plank in the platform. but| liability for tax, penaltiss and interest | of $2,626.354.22. “Tie Treasury Department further expained that the total of $3,669,784.47 | { paid by Blackmer to dispose of his civil | not at liberty to make it public. cases was $1,080,350.77 in excess of his funds in this, country which the Gov- ernment rad succeeded in impounding. The difference was paid to the lnternll‘ Revenue Bureau in cash.” The News says the payment cf the sum to the Government to settle (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) hu conference soon with party leaders in; continuation of efforts to arrive at an| understanding between wets and drys on the prohibition plank to be included | in next month's convention platform. } This became known today as & high | council of organized dry leaders was) summoned to meet here next week w‘l consider, among other things, how to attack the problem presented by growing list of prominent prohibition- change or an opportunity for the people to express themselves again on the eighteenth amendment. Confers With Leaders. Mr. Hoover discussed prohibition and cther convention matters for nearly three hours at the White House late yesterday with Postmaster General Brown, his preconvention campgign manager; James Francis Burke, gen- eral counsel of the Republican National | Committee, and Charles D. Hilles, Re- publican national committeeman for New York. | While Mr. Hoover is expected to re-| main publicly silent himself on thej subject, some of his advisers are rep-| resenting him as standing firm for en-; forcement of prohibition, but es study-| ing an expression by the party recog- nizing the referendum principle. Will Organize Strategy. After a regular session next week by the National Prohibition Board of Strategy, the national conference of or- ganizations supporting the eighteenth amendment will convene to discuss the individual opinions of prominent drys that some proposal for prohibition change may be inevitable this year. The board will organize strategy for the period from now through the June conclaves in Chicago. Dr. Edwin C. Dinwiddie secretary of the board, said | today it would go to work “on the| thecry that both Republicans and Democrats, cn sober second thought, will refuse to take a position that would | drive away dry support.” Dr. Dinwiddie, who recently turned a cold shoulder to all suggestions for pro- | hibition change shown to him by promi- nent Republicans, said the problem thus presented to the organized days naturally will be considered in next week's meetings. ‘The President during the forenoon today conferred at some length with Representative Beedy of Maine, one of the prominent Republicans of that State and one of the mcst ardent drys i the House. It is understood that the President discussed with the Maine Republican the matter of the so-called Mr. Beedy would not admit this. In answer to questions, Mr. Beedy replied that what he has discussed with the President was confidential and he was French Raise Wheat Imports. PARIS, May 25 (P):—A decree pub- lished in the official journal today increased to 45 per cent the proportion of imported wheat which may be used by French millers in making flour. RULING ON WOMEN’S ‘LINGERIE STARTS FEUD BETWEEN JUDGES Higher Justice Declares Bachelor Is Not Qualified to Decide on Marital Relations. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 25.—Two prominent London judges have become involved in & public feud over the right of one of them, a bachelor, to decide upon the domestic affairs of married people or to designate the proper underclothing women should wear. The dispute came®to public atten- tion yesterday when. Sir Henry Alfred McC:rdic. bachelor judge of the High Ccurt, administered a “public rebuke” to Sir Thcmas Edward Scrutton, lord | Justice of Appeals, in King’s bench di- vision of High Court. It all came about over a decision given by Sir Henry in a case involving marital entanglements. The case was appealed, and Lord Justice Scrutton, in hic judgment. made this statement: “If there is to be a discussion of the proper relations of man and avife, 1 k it had better come from judges who have more than theoretical knowl- edge of such relations. “I am a little surprised that a gen- tleman who has never married should, as he has done in another case, pro- ceed to explain the proper undercloth- ing ladies should use. I think these¢ things had better be left out of legal O endering judgment in another case en 3 Justice Mcard‘gmslid: “I shall take note of the lence which may be given (in the casz under consider- a‘ion) snd it may be thet an appeal will toke place.” If there should be an apreal, I shall not cupply a copy of my ncie: until I am”satisfied Lord Justice Eerutten will not be a member of the court which tries the appeal. A “If it becomes necessary I will mén- tion at a later date the reasons which lead me to make this statement. I regret that it has become my duty to administer this public rebuke to Lord Justice Scrutton.” ! vention is to adopt. held today the strength needed for his | renomination. The mark—578—was passed when Texas yesterday instructed its delega- tion of 49 for him, bringing thg assured Hoover votes to 621, and the total claimed for him but disputed by Joseph | I. France, rival candidate, to 1044 | There are only 1,154 votes in the con- | vention. | ‘The nomination total was reached as the President and party cfficials con- | ferred on the platform which the con-| Prohibiticn was | one of the subjects touched on, the conferees said, but no decisions were given. In the Democratic fold. Speaker Garner yesterday drew the 46 conven- tion votes of his home State, Texas, to take rank as third among the presi- dential candidates with a total of 90. Franklin D. Roosevelt increased his strength to 474 with six from Delaware, while New Jersey’s previcusly named 32 delegates were Alfred E. Smith. votes. No new delegations were named today. but tomorrow Maryland Republicans will pick 19 delegates for Hoover as a result of his primary victory May 2 over France. Besides the White House conference. Republican leaders yesterday anncunced convention preliminaries wil at Chicago June 9, with delegation contests, five days the opening session. HERRIOT AS for a total of 126 “ahead of SURED OF BEING PREMIER Holds Long Conference With Presi- dent and Others on Problems of Republic. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 25.—Edouard Herriot, former premier and leader of the Radical - Socialists, who emerged in triumph from the recent French par- liamentary elections, was virtually as- sutred today of becoming the next pre- mier. M. Herriot was called into a confer- ence last night by President Albert Lebrun to consider prime problems in the foreign, domestic and financial fields and this was taken as virtual essurance he would be called to head the new ministry, which will take office soon after June 1. After a brief conference between the two the President presented M. Her- riot to retiring Premier Andre Tardieu and Finance Minister Pierre Flandin for a two-hour review of the foreign and domestic financial situations, in- cluding the conference on reparations and war debts to be held at Lausanne next month. Bfiy Porch Furniture Now! Enjoyment of the porch, sun room or lawn is a matter of proper furnishings. Furniture and department stores tell from day to day through their adver- tising in The Star of the things that are most attractive and use- ful at the new low level of prices. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) es. 32,661 11,721 6,045 4,268 1,761 23,795 The Evening Star 2d Newspaper 3d Newspaper 4th Newspaper 5th Newspaper (Other fourd pers) The Star reaches, every affer- noon and Sunday morning, prac- tically all of the better homes in Washington and’ the suburbs. Of The Star’s circulation of 122,664 esterday, 22,108 went into subur- n homes. assigned definitely to| ; be begun | ring of | LEGISLATORS RIOT IN PRUSSIAN DIET Several Injured in Most Vio- lent Disturbance in Ger- | man History. | By the Associated Press. | BERLIN, May 25—FPists, inkwells, | water bottles and chair legs were used by members of the Prussian Diet in a free-for-all fight today after Hans Kerrl, a member of Adolf Hitler's Na- tional Socialist party, had been elected legislative president. | Communists and Hitlerites were the | opponents in the battle, at the conclu- sion of which several bleeding com- batants were carried out of the cham- ter. The trouble started when Wilhelm Pieck, a Communist deputy, rose to a point of order and at the top of his voice shouted that there were murderers on the Nazi benches. Thereupon the Nazis arose and made a mass attack on the Communist members, and battlers i cn each side grabbed up whatever weapons they could lay their hands on. Most Violent in History. Witnesses said it was th> most violent parliamentary battle in the histoxy of Germany. After it was over, the chamber looked as though it had under- gone bombardment. Stenographers’ lamps were found over on the Communist side of the hall, where they had been hurled by the Nazis, and numerous heavy leather chairs—or rather the shattered remains of them—were scattered about. The election of Kerrl was in accord- ance with precedent, as the strongest party in the Legigature ordinarily is allowed to name the President. Uproar Marks Ballot. For about an hour before the ballot- ing the Diet was in uproar as numer- ous members interrupted the proceed- | ings by shouting personal recriminations | at each other. | Indications were that Ernst Witt- | maack, President of the last Diet and a member of the Social Democratic party, would be named First Vice President. At a meeting of the Council of Elders | preceding the Diet session the Nazis of- i fered to vote for Herr Witimaack if the ‘Socul Democrats supported Kerrl. The Social Democrats refused to make any such bargain, saying they frequently had been double-crossed by the Hitler- ites in the past, but it finally was agreed the Social Democrats would abstain | from voting for the President and the | Nazis would abstain from voting for the Vice President. 'MARINE FLYERS KILL | | 17 MEN IN NICARAGUA i(}uard Detachment Attacks Rebels at Same Time Airmen Bomb Positions. By the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May 25— Nationel Guard headquarters reported today that United States Marine air- mren serving with the guard killed 17 Sandinistas with bombs in an action Monday near the Neptune Mine in the department of Prinzapolka. ‘While the airmen were operating. the headquarters communique safd, a guard pairol commanded by Lieut. Gray attacked the insurgents on the | ground. The guard suffered no cas- ualties. 2 Earlier in the day there was = haif- hour engagement between Gray's de- tachment and rebel troops commanded by Pedro Altamirano, one of the lieu- tenants of Gen. Augusta Sandino. Radio Programs on Page B-10 | to affix their signatures on the docu- | ments whereby they acknowledge their | indebtedness to the United States. [onk Sna i otk dndial hearing seeds | It was last March that the Treasury | Senate resumed consideration of the bil. Senator Hastings. Republican, of Del- Exemption of Philippine products from the proposed import taxes on vege- requested the State Department to for- ward to the 13 other debtor natons the | > | documents, which, if unratified, would | BNmrcieomen a5 a0 000 g G el have voided the Hoover moratorium in | fish oil industry of the Atlantic Coast. the eyes of the Congress. ‘He urged adoption of the import taxes, There has bsen no Teluctance on the | ¥hich were proposed by Senator Ship- | part of any of the European states to| el g stead, Farmer-Labor, of Shipstead’s amendment calls for 1 ratify this debt agrecment whereby they | cent a poundlmtmpor& uz on eop;:, | hemp ‘seed, palm nuts and a number undertook to pay over a period of 10| S0 or seeds and 2 cents a pound States last year. They had merely not received them until early in April this year. The ratification of these agreements has no ccnnection whatsoever with the future obligations of the debtor coun- tries. It is merely an official confirma- | tion of the Hoover moratorium. In the opinion of experts it does not preclude any future action of the European na- | tions regarding their debts to the United | | States BRITAIN TO SIGN PACT. | Sir John Simon Says “Purely l'nlmll‘ Step” to Be Taken Here Soon. | | LONDON, May 25 (#).—Sir John | Simon, British foreign minister, told the | House of Commons today that an | agreement for resumption of suspended | British war debt payments to the| United States would be signed soon at Washington as a_“purely formal step” to give legal effect to the Hoover moratorium. ciple was involved, the foreign secretary | said. | | "sir John recalled that the London. | conference of last August had provided | for repayment of the suspended por-| | tion of the war debt in 10 equal an- | nuities. The United States Govern- | ment had requested the British govern- | ment to sign an agreement regarding | this portion of her obligation, he said. | Won't Prejudice Parley. He,was asked by Winston Churchill, | former chancellor of the exchequer, whether the carrying out of this par-| ticular formality at the present time might not prejudice the judgment of the conference on reparations and war debts to be held at Lausanne, Switzer- land, mext month. | “No, I don’t think so,” the foreign | secretary said. | The text of the agreement for the re- payment to the United States of the British war debts annuity, has been mailed to Sir Ronald Lindsay, British | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) AKRON SALUTES CANADA Giant Craft, Unable to Enter Do- minion, Cruises Along Border. SAN FRANCISCO. May 25 (#).—The Navy's giant dirigible Akron was back over California today, returning from 8 t:'o-dly cruise to the Pacific North- ‘west. International air regulations pre- vented her flying over Canadian terri- tory without a permit, to grant a Tequest of citizens’ of Victoria, British Columbia. But a flight over the Strait of Juan de Fuca, as she cruised along the northwestern border of the United States, was interpreted by Canadians as a salute of good will. years the amounts due to the United | No decision on any question of prin- |- 1on coconut oil, palm oil, nut oils and fish oils. ‘ It specifies that copra and coconut oils from the Philippines shall be sub- Ject to the levy. Chairman Bingham of the Territories | Committee notified the Senate he would | seek to exempt American possessions from the import taxes already voted into the bill. As the bill stands, th: levies on oil, copper, coal and lumber would apply to all possessions. This section, Bingham said, was “contrary to Uni.ed States policy for many vears.” He urged the Senate to accept the Hawes amendment. Debenture Defeated. At last night's session the Senate made the first dent in the compromise revenue bill after firmly barring ihe vay to further tariff revision in defeat- |ing the export debenture farm relief proposal, 46 to 23. ‘The 1 per cent increase, provided in the compromise measure drafted by the Senate Finance Committee, in the tax on auto trucks over the 2 per cent (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) BOOTLEGGER IS SLAIN AFTER LIQUOR TRIAL Two Men Open Fire From Auto as They Pass Victim in Iowa Town. By the Associated Press. DAVENPORT, Iowa, May 25.—Nick J. Coin, 60, known to the police as & bootlegger, was slain by two unidenti- fled men with shotguns as their car passed him on a corner near his home | early today. Half a dozen slugs struck Coin in the head. He had drawn a pistol, but was killed before he could fire. Mrs. Coin, who had seen her husband leave the house only a few minutes be- fore, gave guarded answers concerning a threatening letter Coin had rceived a week ago. The note, unsigned, threat- ened Coin and his son Jack, co-defend- ants in a liquor conspiracy case in . which they recently were convicted at Peoria, Ill. Coin had been accused of ;_“:q:llellinl" on his associates at the 14 SAILORS MUTINY Deserters Arrested and Put Back Aboard Ship. CONSTANZA, Rumahia, May 25 (#).—Mutiny broke out today aboard the British tanker Saxiona. Fourteen Chinese sailcrs, each of them armed, menaced the officers and then left the ship, preventing its departure. The Rumaniari authorities arrested ‘The Akron was to moor again at her western base, at Sunnyvale, Calif. the deserteérs and put them back on the ship despite their protests. First Night of By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 25.—A research sclentist has found.a way to keep star- light in cold storage and thereby re- a of worry. Announcement that the light of the .star Arcturus, millions of ‘miles away the earth, could be captured and the expesition if the SCIENTIST TO FREEZE STARLIGHT TO OPEN CHICAGO EXPOSITION Beams From Arcturus to Be Captured for Use in Case Fair Is Dark. The light, after coming through the big telescope of the University of Chi- frapped by bwgp:m.gn i phosphoe: y al a lor- substance ‘and. frosen.in 1 escent sul frozen in liquid lh".i then released at will, Dr. Rentschler sal Fair Is selected Arcturus to suj energy for lighting up the e on the opening day because last it takes 40:years for its light to reach the earth and 1933 will be the fortieth anniversary of Chil Iast World ment % of 1803, Hoover Against Bond Issue. The chief differences in the propasal of the Senate Democrats and the plan advanced by President Hoover lie in the fact that the bill introduced today calle for a public works program to be financed by a bond issue and that it does not make provision for loans by the Pinance Corporation to industry. The President and some of the Re- publican leaders in Congress have taken a definite stand against initiating a large public works program necessitaf ing a bond issue by the Federal Go ernment on the ground that it would | merely be increasing the burden of the American taxpayers. The Republican forces in the Senate are expected to offer amendments to the Wagner bill or failing that to present a relief measure sponsored by the ad- ministration. | Senator Wagrer, who headed the sub- | committee of the Democratic Steering : Committee of the Senate, which pre- | pared the bill offered by the five Sena- | tors today, explained the provisions of 1 the measure to the Senate. | Continues to Languish. After declaring that there was “no longer any doubt that before Congress adjourns it will take action to provide a program of relief and construction,” the New York Senator continued: “More thin once we have been re- minded that the resources of the Nation are intact; that the machinery of the ! country is in excellent condition; that | the productive capacity of our people is greater than it has ever been; that our credit facilities are more than ample to finance a prosperous America. Never- theless, America is languishing. There is no demand for commodities, there is no demand for labor, and there is no demand for credit. Prices continue their decline, profits shrink and disap- pear, production is further curtaiied, and more unfortunates are added to the number of unemployed. “There is no point in blinking the fact that this tragic evolution has con- tinued, despite the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, despite the Glass- Steagall act, despite the open-market operations of the Federal Reserve Sys tem. The press reports that the ad- ministration is perplexed by the facy that industry is seeking very little of { the newly created credit. It is not at all_surprising, however, to those who (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) o CALIFORNIAN PICKED TO PRESENT HOOVER Joseph L. Scott, Los Angeles At. torney, to Make Nomi- nation Speech. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCQ, May 25.—Appoint- ment of Joseph L. Scott, Los Angeles attorney, to place President Hoover in nomination at the Republican National Convention was announced by party leaders here today. Word came from the White House that the President desired to be nomi- nated by a member of the California delegation. Mark L. Requa, Republican national committeeman for California and friend of the President; Marshal Hale, chair- man of the Republican State Central Committee; Louis B. Mayer, vice chair- man, and John L. McNab, San Fran- cisco attorney, made the selection. McNab, who presented Mr. Hoover's name to the Republican National Con- vention of 1928, suggested Scott. I8 was the latter who seconded the nomi- nation of Charles Curtis for Vice Presi- dent four years ago. It was said President Hoover, if re- nominated, would return to his home in Palo Alto to receive the official notification and make his acceptance speech. , 70 Rebels Sen;enced to Die. RANGOON, Burma, May 25 (#).— Seventy rebels were sentenced to death today at Thayetmyo and 220 others were ordered deported for life. The sen- tences followed a drive by the govern- to clean up districts in which have been political disturbances.