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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, continued cool tonight: tomor- row partly cloudy, slowly rising tempera- ture; gentle to moderate north winds. Temperatures—Highest, 83, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 49, at 6 today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 he #n WITH SUNDAY NORNING EDITION — No. 32.180. Entered as second class matter Jost office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1932—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. RADICAL VETERANS PREPARE T0 STAGE SIEGE ON CONGRESS Workers’ Ex-Service Men’s League Plans to ““Storm” Both Houses Friday. BONUS MARCHERS TO GET LAST MEAL TOMORROW Representative Black Asks Fund of $125,000 to Feed Men and | Send Them Home. Banned by the veterans from last night's peaceful parade of the bonus| army and rebuffed at every turn by| city and Federal officials, self-styled | Communist leaders today planned to ignore Capitol barriers and stage a vet: erans’ siege on Congress Friday. The demonstration has been substi- tuted for the parade to Capitol Hill that radical organizers had announced for today. In a defiant mood over the Tough reception accorded members of the Workers' Ex-Servicemen's League, & radical organization, its officials de- clared the “rank and file” of the vet- erans would “storm” the Capitol and carry their demands to the Vice Presi- dent and the Speaker of the House. Permit Is Refused. e President Curtis and Speaker Garner yesterday authorized David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, to refuse a permit for any demonstration at the Capitol h5s The league decided to take decisive gction after hurriedly summoned Red recruits from several large cities were ejected summarily from ranks of the prospective marchers in last night's strange procession down Pennsylvania avenue. The reds claimed a membership of several thousand of the encamped vet- erans, but police estimated their strength at a few hundred. Meanwhile, ap- proximately 8000 of the non-radical bonus advocates have arrived on the banks of the Potomac. and Associated Press dispatches told of thousands more en route from as far as the Pacific Coast. u Seeks Appropriation. Meanwhile, a bill authorizing the ap- propriation of $125,000 to be expended by the District Commissioners for the subsistence and housing of the ncn- resident veterans here &nd for their transportation to their respective homes on the adjournment of Congress Was introdyced today by Representative Black, Democrat, cf New York. “The plight of the veterans who are here in a strictly American fashion urging legislation calls for help from the Government for which they fought,” Black said in presenting the bill. “The economic pressure of those men has been almost unbearable and yet during their stay here they have manifested great respect for our au- thority and a confidence in Congress which far more prosperous Americans could well emulate. “The Committee on Appropriations should immediately report my bill for the care of the bonus marchers.” The Army's commissary was nearly bare and police have announced they will distribute the last municipal meal tomorrow morning. District authorities will offer trucks to the campers tomor- | row for transportation out of town, but indications arc that few will ac- cept the proffered ride. Cox to Make Plea. Father James R. Cox, who led a job- less army here last Winter, will fly here from Pittsburgh tomorrow to urge the Veterans to return home “like soldiers, according to an Associated Press report. Father Cox said*he would address the men at the Tcmb of the Unknown Soldier. i “T want the boys, my buddies, to make their demands in an orderly way and Teturn to their homes without trouble, the priest said. ; Representative Rainey. ~ (Continued on Page TEMPERATURE OF 49 NEAR JUNE LOW MARK Slowly Rising and Fair Tomorrow Are Predictions of Weather Democratic Bureau. The bottom dropped out of the heat market last night when the thermom- eter reached a 49-degree level at 5 am., 41 points off from the Monday high for this week. This morning the mercury made only & moderate recovery, reaching 60 at 10 am. as contrasted to a 79 reading of otter days. o Wea!he)r Bureau officials predicted tonight would be cool, with slowly ris- ng temperature tomorrow and con- tinued fair weather probably until Fri- day morning. “The low of 49 last night was only six degrees above the all-time June mark, | established in 1897. | Colurn 1.) | L U. S. CHARGES MEANS TRIED TO DEAL WITH Said to Have Talked to Col. M. R. Guggenheim Before Seeing Mrs. McLean. Proposed to Use Minister Prochniks Auto in Meeting Baby Kidnapers. Gaston B. Means had sought to as- sume the role of intermediary in the Lindbergh kidnaping case in secret nego- tiations with Col. M. Robert Guggen- heim, friend of Col. Lindbergh, before Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, by extraor- dinary coincidence, approached Means for the same purpose, the Government will charge in the Means $104,000 fraud trial. which opened today. The unexpected appearance of Mrs. | | McLean caused Means to drop an orig- | |inal plan of dealing direct with Col Lindbergh through the introductory | channel of Col. Guggenheim, evidence ncovered by special agents of t United States Bureau of Investigation alleges. The private limousine of Minister Prochnik of Austria, with liveried chauffeur, was to have been used in the scheme Means broached for return of the Lindbergh baby, the prosecution, through United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, expects to prove. | Guggenheim Is Called. Col. Guggenheim of Bethesda, brother of Harry Guggenheim, who has been closely associated with Lindbergh in aviation enterprises and who is con- nected with the Guggenheim Fund for Promotion of Aeronautics, has been | summoned as a witness against Means. | Robert F. Fleming, real estate man | of Edgemoor, Md., also has been sub- | poenaed. It is said that Means com- municated with Col. Guggenheim through Fleming, who at one time was a neighbor of Means. : { Mrs. McLean, it is understood, got in touch with Means a few hours after le | —(Continued on Page 2, Column 6) | COL. LINDBERGH Col. M. Robert Guggenheim (above) | and Minister Edgar L. G. Prochnik. —Har wing Photos. COUNTER ACTIVITY DENIED BY DAVILA Chile’s New Governmenti" Pledged Support of Several | Thousand Workers. | By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, June 8—Per-| sistent reports of internal dissension among the members of the Soclalisi | junta that has seized the Chilean gov- | |crnment were flatly denied today by | Carlos Davila, the junta's head, in an | interview with the Associated Press. | He also denled widespread rumors that he threatened to resign from the | governmental group, and insisted there was no unrest_or a counter-revolution- ary movement in the southern provinces, although meager reports from that area | | said the disaflection there continued to | smoulder | | several thousand workers gathered before the presidential palace lest night and pledged their co-operation !with the new government in its plan to provide every Chilean wi ith a job by taking over the economic machinery and taxing the rich to pay for it. Jobs Promised All. Senor Davila predicted that within a month there would not be a single mar: in Chile wio would not have a job. ‘We will create three state com- panies.” he said, “one for agriculture, | one industriz] and one for mining. Each of these will hire the unemployed of| | the country. We will impose on_the | | fortunes of the rich and those who have | big incom-s sufficient taxes to bring in | | the money we need for this purpose. | | ““After all, our revolution was against | these people, who comprise less th‘ani cne-tenth of Chile's population and who | for years and years have ruled the | country with an ircn hand, never heed- | ing the needs of the workers or the | people at large. i | “They have had all the money. All| | the privileges and they never paid taxes. | They are going to help provide living | and happiness for those people Who ! have been trod upon.” The Government, he said, had nct yet decided on its program for the nitrate | | industry, which is in the hands of the | $375.000,000 American-controlled Cosacl | | combine. Foreign Investors Reassured. | “Foreign investors may be certain, he added, “that we will give the prol | lem our fullest and fairest consideration. | What we will do will be fcr the best | interests of all sides and we hope for |and expect the co-operation of private | interests in the Cosach in the stucy we | | intend to make.” | | Provincial authorities were instructed by the junta today to bring rationing | | gasoline, which is scarce cn account of a lack of foreign exchange. | * Ofl companies were told to give the | authorities daily lists of the amount of | | gasoline available for sale. The officials | |are to apportion this amount, giving | | preference to busses, taxicabs, trucks | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) SP:D EXPERIE;ICE OF OFFICER BAUER,| WHO TRIED TO DRIVE A MIDGET CAR i He Wedged Himself In and He Couldn’t Get Out, but He Got to Headquarters by a Circuitous Route. Vice Squad Officer R. A. Williams was even more embarrassed than his partner, H. G. Bauer, With the midget automobile which they seized last night after arresting the driver on charges| of possessing and transporting liquor in the little machine. The two officers, who brought their prisoner_into police court this morn- ing, said they confiscated the car at Davenport street and Wisconsin ave- hue last night, when they arrested Robert S. Dyke, 42. said to have been in possession of four pints of liquor. Disregarding the fact that he stood | well over 6 feet, Bauer wedged himself into the little car and set out for head- quarters. In his confusion the large o ficer piloted the small automobile down a one-way sireet in the wrong direction. Stopping at Seventh and Q streets in | traffic, the officer and his car were quickly surrounded by a swarm of col- ored boys who failed to recognize the policeman in plain clothes. Bauer told them to go away, but was unable to do anything about it as he | was securely wedged inside. The boys | picked up the front end of the automo- | bile and headed it in the other direc- | tion Bauer, more than a little angry, had to drive in a circle to get back on his course to headquarters. The policeman was assisted from his prize at the police garage and shortly thereafter Williams, who is equally as robust as his partner, entered the ma- chine to take it to the warehouse. Williams threw the unaccustomed gears into reverse, gave the car rather more gas than he expected and was alarmed to find the brake would not | catch or retard his speed, he said. A heavy motor truck was approach- | ing as four policemen rushed to Wil- liams' rescue, scizing the rear end of the car and hfting it into the air while the wheels spun harmlessly. shut off the engine and allowed a small- er man to proceed to the warehouse. Dyke, although deprived of his auto- mobile, was at liberty today under Williams | DICTATOR RUMORS FOR PRUSSA GA Von Papen May Break Dead- lock by Emergency Step, Despite Denial. By the Associated Press BERLIN, June 8—Reports that Chancellor Franz von Papen would use { the emergency article 48 of the German constitution to declare a dictatorship in | the State of Prussia persisted today. | although they were officially denied. | The reports said the plan was to set up a dictatorship by emergency decree, | namjng a commissicner to head the government with dictatorial powers, if | the present deadlock in the Diet over | the selection of a new premier con- | tinues. Deadlock Follows Voting. i The deadlock followed the recent Diet elections, when the parties of the | Right. chiefly Adolf Hitler's National | Socialists, made notable gains. but failed to secure a majority which would | have enabled them to name a new | premier. The Republicans maintain that such an emergency decree would be uncon- | stitutional because article 48 permits | such a step only when public peace is | menaced. but the plan was being openly | | advocated in Rightist circles. With a man named by Chancellor von Papen at its head. the government of Prussia would be expected, naturally, to fall in line with the Rightist policies of the new federal regime. Hope of Intervention. Thepresent state of Prussia’s finances | gave the Rightists another hope that the federal government would intervene. Chancellor von Papen informed Hein- rich Hirtsiefer, Centrist head of the acting government, yesterday that the Reich would not pay some $25.000.000 now due Prussia for realty transfers, and this declaration seriously com- plicated Prussia’s financial condition. The chancellor also asked the presi- dent of the Diet to call a session of the Council of Elders on June 10 to set a date for a Diet session so the question of the premiership could be settled as soon as possible. “DEABLINE” REACHED IN UTILITY BATTLE Statement From New York Inter- ests on Disposal of Gas Properties | Still Awaited at Noon. i Today was the “deadline” for the re- ceipt of a statement from the New York interests controlling the Washington | and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. as| | to what they would do to comply with | the order of the Public Utilities Com- | mission to divest themselves of their control of the local companies, but up | to noon today no statement had been | received. Arthur Dean, counsel for the West- | field trust, one of the chain of owners | of the local properties, was to have pro- duced the statement last week, but at that time said it would be ready not later than today. | Tie crder was issued on the eve of | the annual meeting of stocckholders of the Washington company last month, the commission holding that the then stock ownership of the companies was in- violation of the La Follette anti- merger act, prohibiting ownership or control of local utilities by foreign util- ity or holding corporations, and the stockholders’ meeting was adjourned. Several meetings of the board of direc- tors have been held since, however. FOUND AFTéR 20 YEARS ‘Wedding Ring of Minnesota Wom- an Recovered in Field. BUFFALO, Minn, June 8 (#).— For 20 years Mrs. Henry Olson hoped for return of her wedding ring, lost SO IORELEF NEASIRE S 0.1 BY SENATE CROLP Democratic Bill Is Approved After Administration Plan’s Defeat. GARNER PROPOSAL FACES WALL OF OPPOSITION Tilson Holds Presidential Veto Cer- tain if Speaker's Program Is Approved. By the Associated Press. The Democratic unemployment relief bill, providing for a $500,000,000 public works bond issue was approved today by the Senate Banking Committee, which shortly before had voted down the administration proposal for loans through the Reconstruction Corporation to private industry. Meanwhile, Speaker Garner's giant relief plan faced a stone wall in the Senate, and a prediction of veto by President Hoover if enacted was made by Representative Tilson of Connecticut. The bill passed the House yesterday by a 216-to-182 vote. Competition Clause Out. In approving the Democratic bill, the Senate Banking Committee voted to eliminate provision for loans to com- peting private industries. The bill pro- vides for increasing the borrowing paper of the Reconstruction Corpora: tion by $1,500,000,000 for loans on self- liquidating construction projects. The committee vote was 7 to 4 in favor of the Democratic bill, including the bond issue program. | Provision was retained in the bill for allocation of $40,000,000 from the Re- | construction Corporation for financing | agricultural exports. The committee voted 9 to 6 against the administration proposal strongl; recommended yesterday by Secretary | Mills for loans to private industry on self-liquidating construction projects. This was a feature of the Barbour relief bill, but was not included in the Democratic relief program introduced | by Senator Wagner of New York. Representative Tilson said he was/ sure a veto awaited the Garner | measure, if it should reach the White | House. ! The former majority leader made his statement after talking to President Hoover, but said he had not asked the | President what he would do if the bill | should pass Congress. | The Chief Executive, however, has| already assailed the bond-issue phase of the Garner bill in stinging language, calling it a “pork-barrel” measure. Relief Situation Talked. | Tilson said he discussed the relief | situation with the President and told the Chief Executive he was pleased | l\)\fit]n the large vote against the Garmer The Connecticut Republican added | that he believed the measure in its | present form would not get through the Senate | Leaders of both parties in the Senate | sought instead immediate passage of the non-controversial bill permitting the Reconstruction Corporation to lend up to $300,000,000 to States for relief pur- poses. This was just one section of | the Senate Democratic relief program, the remainder involving the $500,000,- | 000 bond issue for public works and a | $1,000,000,000 expansion of the recon- | struction unit's capital, being left for | later consideration. | ‘The Garner plan was put through by | an almost solid Democratic House vote | with the aid of some insurgent Repub- | licans. | Heeding President Hoover's denun- ciation of the bill, all but 21 of the! Republicans voted against it. Though the outcome was inevitable, they tried | but lost before this an attempt to re- | commit the bill and have the Presi- dent's relief program substituted for | that of the Speaker. Picturing to President Hoover the | growing seriousness of the unemploy- | ment situation, the mayors of five | cities and spokesmen for two others| today laid before the President a peti- | tion urging a five-billion-dollar Federal rosperity loan to provide employment and to bring direct aid to those in want. The petition was presented to Mr. Hoover on behalf of the mayors of 31 cities who adopted it at a conference last week in Detroit. Mayor Frank Murphy of Detrolt said | that the President’s plan, which pro- vides for $300,000,000 for direct relief | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) THREE QUAKES FELT San Salvador Observatory Regis- ters Tremors. SAN SALVADOR, June 8 (#).—Be- tween Sunday and today the national observatory here registered three earth tremors. They were felt in Usutlan, south of San Miguel, in San Salvador and along the Costal Cordiller. There were no reports of damage. The Evening and Sunday 2d Newspaper.... 3d Newspa}zer“.. 4th Newspaper.. 5th Newspaper... combined. shown by the statement below: in a potato field. The men who plowed, cultivated and harvested, scanned the soil each year. Mrs. Olson searched too. Yesterday her son found it while | hoeing. $1,500 bond, fixed in Police Court, for a jury trial June 14. Radio l’rolnn;: on Page B-8 . May, 1932. May, 1931. Gain..... ening Stae. | “From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 121,432 . kokok (UP) Means Associated Press. e TWO CENTS. BIG DEFICIT FEARED IN FRENCH BUDGET Finance Minister Reveals Grave Situation and Urges Slashes. By the Associated Press PARIS, June 8—Louis Germaine- Martin, minister of finance, said today that France is confronted with a seri- cus financial eituation and that prob- ably the 1932 budget deficit will be between six billion and seven billion francs. He called attention to the probability that Germany will not resume repara- tions payments when the Hoover mora- torium expires, and said that the gov- ernment intends to introduce a meas- ure for major reduction of expendi- tures and reorganization of administra- tive services. Thus, he sald, it may be possible to balance the budget with a minimum of sacrifice. Herriot Voted Confidence. Premier Edouard Herriot faced the Lausanne Conference on War Debts and Repararations today with a clear- | cut mandate to represent France, ac- quired when he was given a smash- ing vote of confidence last night in| the Chamber of Deputies. The vote was 390 to 152. It foliowed a fervent appeal from the premier for support in which he declared his new | administration was founded on a basis of close international collaboration in the fields of economics and politics. He also had pledged his government to put into effect immediate economies in the war budget. The vote of support came from the left and well over to the center right, including several members of the for- mer government of Andre Tardieu, which he displaced. Leaves Way Clear on Debts. The premier declared he and his colleagues would take a determined stand at Lausanne against violation of | treaties and contracts, but he left the way open for negotiations and repa- rations payments from Germany. “The government is ready,” he said, “to discuss any projects or take any | initiative likely to provoke, by reciproc- | ity, greater world stability or peace- | ful reconciliations.” U.S. CHARGE.IN PARTY VISITING PREMIER SAITO Future Status of Japan and Other Foreign Interests in Shanghai Thought Topic. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, June 8—Edwin L. Neville the American charge d'affaires, visited Premier Saito with the French, British and Italian Ambassadors today, pre- sumably to discuss the future status of Japanese and other foreign interests in Shanghai. For the past two weeks the four West- ern powers have been conferring about certain proposals regarding Shanghal's future which were advanced last month by Kenkichi Yoshizawa. It was re- ported that the Saito government may drop that part of the Yoshizawa plan which would provide for a five-power conference on Shanghal without attend- ance by a Chinese representative. Local Display Newspaper Advertising MONTH OF MAY Lines. cer....1,282351 409,338 238,613 233,991 191,531 Star...... Total ..coovr....1073,473 During the month of May Washington merchants used more local display advertising in The than in all other daily and Sunday Washington newspapers Evening and Sunday Star The reason for this is that The Star’s circulation, both daily and Sunday, continues to increase to an astonishing degree, as Circulation of The Star MONTH OF MAY Stnday Average. 126,405 120,932 5473 Daily Average. 121,232 113,871, Trailing MRS. RUTH BRYAN OWEN. 'MORRISON TO INSIST ON SECOND PRIMARY North Carolina Faces Bitter Battle as Losing Candidates Sup- port Reynolds. | By the Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 8.—With friends of Senator Cameron Morrison announcing that he will demand a run- off primary for the Democratic United States Senate nomination against Rob- | ert R. Reynolds, leader in Saturday's | ap- | balloting, North Carolina today | peared headed for the most bitter battle over prohibition in 25 years. Reynolds, who is seeking the nomina- tion on a prohibition repeal platform, announced that former Judge Thomas C. Bowie of West Jefferson and Frank D. Grist, State commissioner of labor, would actively support him should Mor- | rison demand a second primary. Bowie and Grist ran third and fourth in the race. Reynolds polled some 150,000 votes while Morrison received 138,000 "TRAIN WRECK PLOT | | Wife of Discharged Pennsy Em- ploye Takes Poison Near Annapolis. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, June 8—Believed to have attempted suicide after a war- | rant had been issued for her arrest on |8 charge of attempting to deraii a Pennsylvania Railroad train, Mrs. Laura Neary, 45, is in a serious condition in Emergency Hospital here. Mrs. Neary took poison tablets, ac- cording to Maj. Elie Brown of the Fort George G. Meade Hospital, when Dep- uty Sheriff Peterson went to the Neary Home, at Putuxent, to arrest the woman on charges preferred by Lieut. Paul Lancaster of the Pennsylvania Railroad police. The warrant charged she placed on iron bar on the tracks near Patuxent. According to Sheriff R. Glenn Prout, Deputy Peterson obtained a statement from the woman. Sheriff Prout said he understood Mrs. Neary’s husband, for many years in the employ of the rail- road, recently had been discharged and the alleged act was believed to be in revenge. The bar and obstructions failed to de- rail the train. Mrs. Neary, the mother of eight children, is said to be destitute. CONGRESS ADJOURNMENT IS LIKELY BY JUNE 20 Representative Rainey Sees No Earlier Hopes and Blames Senate Delay. By the Associated Press. Representative Rainey, the Demo- cratic leader, believes there is no hope for Congress to adjourn before June 20. “The Democratic House has done everything it can to complete its busi- ness, but the delay has been caused by the Senate,” he told newspaper men today. “We can’t adjourn by the end of this week, but we ought to get out of here by the 20th or 25th at the latest.” ‘That would permit attendance at the R;x:mgx_"nuc convention, which convenes e 27, ' CHARGED TO WOMAN M. ONEN TRALS NFLORDA VOTI cate, Has Lead of 2,900 in Race for Congress. By the Assoclated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June 8.—With the preferential vote for Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York mounting steadily in returns from yesterday's Demccratic primary. chief interest to- day centered on the fourth congres- sional district race in which Mark Wil- cox. champion of prohibition repeal, is leading Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen. Returns {rom 183 precincts of the 419 in the district gave Wilcox, West Palm Beach lawyer, a lead of 2,973 over Mrs. Owen, .daughter of the late Wil- liam Jennings Bryan, who is seeking renomination on a platform including a prohibition referendum plank. The count from those boxes stood: | Wilcox, 17,547; Mrs. Owen, 14,574 Drane Has Lead. Increasing returns made obvious Gov. Roosevelt was the over- whelming choice for the presidential nomination over Gov. William H. Mur- FURLOUGH HOPES SEEN IN SENATE ON NEW ROLL CALL La Follette Leads Move to Reconsider Plan Lost by Narrow Margin. CONFERENCE TO OFFER MODIFICATION CHANCE Green and Flaherty Make Final Plea Against 10 Per Cent Pay Cut. With only a few votes needed to change the result, advocates of the fur- lough plan as a substitute for the flat 10 per cent pay cut for nearly all Fed- eral and District workers will seek an- other roll call on that issue before the general economy bill goes through its final parliamentary stages today. The furlough plan lost yesterday by the slender margin of 41 to 36. A change of three votes would reverse the outcome. The result either way, there- fot‘se, is likely to be close. enator La Follette, Republican, of Wisconsin, will sponsor the movement to obtain another test of sentiment on the furlough method in lieu of a flat pay cut. The first vote will come motion to reconsider yesterday’s :c':xgr‘xs This is believed to be the last con- troversial subject to be disposed of, fol- lowing which the Senate may ' vote quickly on the final passage of the bill, Another Chance in Conference. Even if the 10 per cent pay cut ol 2 n all salaries of $1,000 or mgrg is sus- tained again, there would still remain the chance to modify this in conference | since the House adopted a much more Mark Wilcox, Repeal Advo- liberal salary provision, which allowed an exemption of $2,500 on all salaries, with an 11 per cent cut from that part of the salary above that figure. The House could either accept the Senate's | more drastic pay cut, or work out some it appear | ray of Oklahoma and L. J. Chassee of | Milwaukee, Wis. Representative Herbert J. Drane of the first congressional district con- tinued well in the lead of two oppo- nents, Sumter L. Lowry, sr, and J. Hardin Peterson. In their campaigns all advocated a referendum on the pro- hibition issue. Returns from 119 pre- cincts of the 373 in the district gave Drane 6,166, Lowry, 2,683; Peterson, 4,046. Representative Tom Yon. advocate of retention and enforcement of the prohibition laws, took the lead today over two champions of a referendum cincts out of 283 in the third district. The count stood: Yon. 4.510: Mil- lard Caldwell, 4,328; R. G. Patterson, 2,411, Sears Gains Lead. W. J. Sears, former fourth district Representative, pulled out ahead of John T. Alsop, Jacksonville mayor, in the race for Representative from the State at large. The vote from 325 precincts out of 1283 in the State showed Sears, 11,208, and Alsop, 10,696. Trailing them ceme three other can- didates for the congressional seat, W. 4,145, | outright repeal, and Bell campaigned as a staunch dry. _ Former Gov. John W. Martin is lead- ing seven other candidates for the 511 of the State's 1,283 precincts placed him 4,552 votes ahead of his opponents. SHOUSE WELL PLEASED. Cites Bigger Democratic Vote in Sev- eral State Elections. Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Dem- ocratic National Executive Committee, | issued a statement saying that if yes- | " (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) | GIRL BECOMES AVIATRIX Makes Perfect Flight After Only Seven Hours’ Instruction. | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 8 (#).— {Dreams behind & “5-and-10” counter have come true for 18-year-old Mary Ann Campana, clerk in a downtown store here. Today she is Youngstown's first aviatrix. After only seven hours’ flying in- struction, bought with nickels and dimes earned at the counter, Miss Campana /Nade her first solo flight in a little | monoplane at Municipal Airport. Her | instructor said she made a perfect take- off and landing. gubernatorial nomination. Returns from ! compromise in conference. The fur- lough plan would mean a salary cut of only 8.3 per cent, and would apply only to_salaries of more than $1,200. William Green, president of the American Federation of Lahor, last night issued an appeal for the fur- lough plan in preference to the hori- zontal pay cut “It is my opinion,” his statement said, “that the five-day work week-fur- lough plan for Government employes, surrounded with such safeguard’s as 1 bor’s friends in Congress might be able to impose, would be much more pref- erable and advantageous to Federal em- ployes and to labor generally than & horizontal reduction in salaries and’ wages,” N Flaherty Makes Plea. At the same time Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary-treasurer of the National Fed- eration of Post Office Clerks, also came out for the furlough plan as more ac- ceptable, if employes must accept one or the other. He emphasized that it means a wider diffusion of available work, and maintenance of existing wage standards. “There is a serious unemployment sit- uation in the postal service, of which the public knows little,” Mr. Flaherty added. “Twenty thousand substitute | clerks and carriers are virtually with- out work due to the falling off in mail- ings. The furlough plan, provided serv- ice is given to the public at present rtandards, should provide work oppor- tunities for these substitutes, many of whom are in actual distress, and are being supported and aided by other em- | ployes.” as returns were counted from 134 pre- | | Large Reduction in Savings. As the econcmy bill stood at adjourn- ment last night, the savings contained in it had been reduced from $238- 605,000, as reported from committee, $186,605,000. Most of this reduction in estimated savings occurred when the Senate late yesterday adopted the motion of Sen- ator Brattcn, Democrat, of New Mex- ico, striking out provisions which would have curtailed war veterans' allowances to the extent of $48,000.000. When the 10 per cent pay cut in Government sal- aries was being voted on several days ago, the Tydings’ amendment exempt- ing those employes who get less than $1,000 a year, reduced the estimated D. Bell, with 5,165 votes; Asher Frank | S&Vings cn salaries from $121,050,000 to with 2,181, and Lester W. Jennings with | 8Pproximately $116.500.000, In other words, much more than half Alsop and Sears made prohibition |of the total economies still left in the referendum a plank in their platforms, | bil while Frank and Jennings advocated |Government salaries. 1l consisted of the 10 per cent cut i Annual Leave Cut. Among other provisions in the bill acted on yesterday were: The section permanently reducing an- nual leave of Government employes from 30 to 15 days was approved, with amend- ments. One would allow unused leave to be carried forward from year to year. Another would exempt from the (Continued on Page 2, Column HONAN BATTLE RAGES WITH 20,000 BRIGANDS Chinese Provincial Army Engage- ment Reported in Drive to Crush Bandits. By the Associated Press. HANKOW, China, June 8.—A great battle petween 20,000 brigands and the provincial army is going on near Kwangshan, in Southeastern Honan, the military authorities here reported today. Provincial troops of Central China have launched a campaign to crush the bandit menace which appears to be en- gulfing a great area of the Yangtze Valley. - Reinforcements, including. a i squadron of amplanes, have been sent up by the garrisons at Hankow and Keifeng, By the Associated Press. “Jim” Watson of Indiana, the Re- publican leader; has the “blues.” For the first time since 1884, an In- diana Republican State Convention as- sembled today without Watson on hand. That isn't the worst. The national convention opens next week and it looks as though Watson will not be there for the first time since 1876. Republican political conventions, State and national, without “Jim” Watson are “JIM” WATSON MISSES HIS FIRST INDIANA CONVENTION SINCE 1884 Republican Leader Has Blues at Prospect of Not Getting to Chicago. like world series with Babe Ruth listen- in over the radio. ‘oday’s Indiana Republican convey- tion wil renominate Watson for an- other term in the Senate. He felt im- pelled by duty as party leader to stick his here. As a boy Watson sat on his father's knee at the 1876 national convention. He was a delegate to the 1888 State convention and has figured in every State and national conclave since. v /