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“From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers cvery city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, not so cool tonight; tomorrow probably showers; gentle to moderate south winds. Temperatures—Highest, 70, at noon today; lowest, 63, at 2:15 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 he Fy WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening tar. Ci Circulation, as fast as the papers are printed. rculation, 117,362 125,980 No. 32,192, k st office, Wai red as second class matter shington, D. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1932—THIRTY PAGES. (#, Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. LAUSANNE MOVES T0 GENERAL SLASH IN WORLD TARIFFS Belgium, Holland and Duchy of Luxemburg Sign Customs Unie- MACDCNALD AND HERR!OT DISCUSS REPARATIONS Seek to Work Out Europe’s Own Solution Before Asking U. S. to Play Its Part. Switzerland, June 20.— nd and the Grand Duchy ng tariffs by 10 per a stipulated level is nt was designed as the advocated yesterday by the six n nations which are parties to the Oslo protocol of 1930. The larger swers are much more likely to accept than the combination which and Germany sought .to effect nths ago, inasmuch as the new as none of the political ch made the Austro-German Discuss Reparations. | me Minister MacDon- | 1 and Premier Her- | ed in a long talk | was assumad they negotiations | y to put into pe's own solution of the problem before asking the s to play its part talked this matter over s cabinet colleagues during the consulting them as e go in giving up the French reparations claims lous assurance that the ing to_co-operate. a letter from King Albert ministers of the six pted a resoclution at | 1g vestercay proposing the tariff one means of easing the | sic crisis. end of the war.” King wrote Premicr Jules Renkin of “all ex- the governments expressed the opinion prosperity of peoples and peaceful arc dcpendent upon freedom circulation of goods, capital and Warnings Ignored. “Unfortunately, these grave warnings were not listened to. Consequences of olicy of restriction have been the Oslo protocol these states 1 to respect as far as possible ciprocal interests and to act in ert with & vicw to general improve- nt of trade. The necessity of rem- nization of monetary -establishing interna- | it was urged in the foreign i The six countries are agreed, the resolution caid, that “the on of new tariff barriers and va- T restricted measures has con- ited in great measure to aggravate » present crisis.” The big four B:itain, France, ned an f the conference, Great Italy and Germany, intensive effort today to ite plan which they id end in a permanent set- of the war debts and repara- The indication was that vs would continue through- k and that it would take at least, to iron out the dif- 2mong them { them have come out for but France has insisted ugh Germany cannot pay | > treaties must be observed. | i2n headquarters here issued this e today: csentatives of the Dutch, Bel- (Continued cn Page 2, Column 3.) HARRY HILL AND TWO alth |all Chnese customs offices, including ‘Walker Is Preparing ToWrite ‘Something’ To Vindicate Self -By the Assoclated Press. NEW YO! June 20.—Mayor ‘Walker may Tite something to vindicate the faith of the people in the mayor of New Ycrk City,” he told the graduating class of St. Francis Xavier's College last night, “The present mayor,” hs said, “is hardly an inspiration to a graduating class in the opinion of some of tke ‘visiting firemen’ in our midst. Please be patient with me. If necessary I shall write something that will vindi- cate the faith of thcse mothers and fathers who still believe in me.” ROOSEVELT CALLED “RADICAL" BY FOES ASPARTY GATHERS Effort to Raliy Business MenI Against Him Scen at Chicago. FRIENDS THREATEN WAR ON TWO-THIRDS RULE OVERTURES MADE [ Action to Depend on Convention Support—Traylor Urged as Run- ning Mate to Quiet Fears. LN BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent of The Siar. GHINA CUSTOMS Stimson Reported to Have|New York, leadizg Democratic candi- 5 3 date for the presidential nomination, is Called Debuchi’s Attention |“radical” and that h's nomination = to Confiscation. election would be detrimental (o busi- ness, have been ely spread among business men in Chicago, as they have in other cities of the country, by the anti-Roosevelt propagandists. As a consequence there is consider- able opposition to the Roosevelt nomi- | nation in business circles here. The at- tacks on Roosevelt are hooked up, it is 1 said, with the efforts of the power and other interests in New York to defeat | Roosevelt for the Democratic nomina- tion. The Roosevelt forces are doing all they can to dispel the fear on the part of busicnss interests that the Go error, if he became President, would be hostile to business or that his election | would postpone a return to more normal | conditions of business and employment. | It has been reliably reported that efforts | have been made to obtain Melvin A.! Traylor, president of one cf Caicago's biggest banks, to take sezond place cn | the ticket, as an evidence of the fact that the Roosevelt outfit is favorable to | busienss. Smith Out for Repeal. Al Smith will stand for a plank in the Democratic platform pledging the party to straight out repeal ol the| c:ghteenth cmendment, it was said by Jozeph Israel, who opened Smith head- By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 20.—The question of | confiscation of the Chinese customs | revenues in Manchuria by Henry Pu- Yi's government has been called to the |attention of Japanese Ambassador | Debuchi at Washington by Secretary of | State Stimson, 1t was learned from an cfficial quarter here today. | Secretary Stimson, this source said, called the Ambassador’s attention to American ccnsular reports from Man- | churia describing efforts of the Pu-Yi| overnment to establish a customs autonomy there and assume control of that at Dai leased territor: British Take Notice. The British Ambassador, Sir Francis Lindley, also visited the foreign office here and discussed the s2me situation. It was understod the powers fear th> matter threatens the integrity of the Chinese maritime customs, by which a which is on Japanese ! The foreign office here takes the | it would b2 wise to voze for submission | pan in any way. Japan cisclaims all much as did the Bingham plank, dis-, 1 Montana, is th Japan, liks America and Great Bri- | Mooommt o for The. Tonertant File Committee, James A. Farley said to- | terested that the service on its Chi- the Roosevelt flooa leader in the con- | Pu-Yi government, although claiming of the country. the cebt services. 0 | candidates for the presidential nemina- | the Pu-Yi regime demanded that all | field marshal for the Roosevelt forces, | Nanking, where they were paid in en- are prospects of a stern battle. Admit- | Chinese government at Nanking to ne- sible. | | Sino-Japanese treaty of 1907, the cus- | Fukumoto who, although he is a Japa- | The issue, the spokesman said, is en- | ward position both Collector Fukumoto | | deposited Fukumoto would act in a manner least | |large portion of China’s forelgn in- debtedness is secured. | quarters today. | |, The Roosevelt forces take the position | atti t| i ”;‘de thej e ]m““”"" n:;;;s MOt 0f the repeal question and not under- ! {Justify the powers in reproaching Ja- |gke to commit the party to repeal, | | responsibility in the matter and all in- | carded by the G. O. P. convention. N erlionior Intextesing | J. Bruce Kremer, Democratic nation- Roosevelt choice for the important rules |tain, is a creditor cf China, a gov- |committee of the Democratic National ernment spokesman said, and is in- o !day. Mr. Farley also said that Arthur F "Mullen of Nebraska. who is to be | nese credits be secured on the customs. But she is confident, he said, that the | vention, will have six to ten assistants on the floor. picked from various parts |a customs autonomy, wouid continue | somehow to pay Manchuria’s share of | With the national convention open- ing one weck from today, the oppcsing | Crisis Reached. | tlon are already digaing in here. The question reached a crisis because | _ Notwithstanding the claims of Farley. customs collected at Dairen be re- that the New York Governor is going | mitted to Changchun instead of to cver the top on the first ballot, *here | tirety up to May 31. The Changchun | tedly Roosevelt will go into the cerves | Tegime charged that the refusal of the | | gotiate the question made the compro- | mise which Changchun cffered impoes- | Japan is especially interested in | | Dairen because, in accordance with the toms house there is located in Japanese- | leased territory under Commissioner | | nese subject, is technically an employe | of the Chinese government. tirely between Changchun and Nanking, | but he added that it placed in an awk- and the Yokchama Specie Bank, in which the Dairen customs receipts were | The Tokio government has no inten- tion of interfering, he said, but it hoped embarrassing to Japan. CALAMITY DECLARED FACED. tion with a majority of the delegates back of him. Unless the two-thirds rule is abrogated and a majority rule| imposed, Roosevelt must still pick up a | | hundred delegates cr mcre after the balloiing begins. Farley, who arrived here yesterday, declined to discuss at this time what may be done by the Roosevelt forces regarding the two-third rule. The abrogation of the rule is a threat which | the Roosevelt forces, having a majority of the delegates, holds over the heads of the rest of the presidential candi- dates. However, it is understood that the Roosevelt people will not go to the extent of proposing majority ru'e until and unless it becomes evident that Roosevelt, although he has a majority of the convention with him, cannot ob- tain two-thirds. Farley, himself, insists that the two-thirds will be obtained by the New York Governor. Smith Due Wednesday. The Roosevelt forces have gone to New York for a man to make the nominating speech for Roosevelt and to Nebraska for a floor leader in the con- | RN NN TRY \\ \;Q\b‘ \ AR \\\\\\\‘ \ \{\ N SEMTE AMENDS RELIEFNEASRE RUSHI 10 V0T Congress Is Warned at Hear- ing to Provide Aid Before | Adjournment. 'LOANS FOR PUBLICLY | OWNED BRIDGES 0. K.'D Manufactures Ccmmittee Hear Protestants, Cathclics and Jews Urge Building Program. Driving forward to a vote, the Sen- | ate today considered amendm: | $2,000,000,000 Democratic unempl | ment relief bill, while a Senate commi | tee was besieged with pleas for its nate. GANG GUNS MENACE WITNESSES. COURT FREES ROBBERY SUSPECT linois Bankers A;aid to Press Charges After Identifying Defendant - $60.000 Hold-Up. B the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 20.—Machine gun threats prompted Cook County cfficlals today to dismiss a bank robbery charge against Danny McGeoghegan, beer hustler. Assistant Etate’s Butler asked Judge Jchn Prystalski to | dismiss the charges of robbing the State Bank of Clearing of $60.000 cn Dece: ber 6. 1930. A jury recently disagree “If your reasons are not secret, would like to kncw them,” the court said “Lamber Bere and John Camphause, officials of the bank, who identified Mc- Attorney Walker ! Geoghegan in his first trial, asked me to do it.” Butler z have been under guard in a Loop hotel since April 29, and their families and the bank need them.” don't believe the State's attorn should st-nd here confess he is n big encugh to keep t tected,” the court s re is big enough to take care of him- “N:t when he is faced with a ma- chine gun, your honor,” Butler replied Judge Pr i signed the (Continued on Pags 3, Column &.) SANDERS CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT Campaign Discussed at Brief Meeting, First Since Convention. President Hoover today conferred for the first time since the Republican Na- tional Convention with Everett Sanders, who, as the new chairman of the na- ticnal committee, is to conduct his cam- paign for re-election. This conference, which was held in the President's office, was a very brief one. According to Mr. Sanders, who was with “the President on this occasion, | hardly more than 5 minutes, they dis- | cussed the forthcoming campaign cnly casually. He indicited that other con- ferences will follow, when they will go into more details. | Mr. Sanders announced that Chicaxo} would be mein headquarters for the Republican campaign_and that the headquarters for the Eastern activities| would be in New York City. The chair- | man himself will occupy a desk at the| Chicago office. He said he expects however to make frequent visits to New | York and intimated that probably he would have occesion to come to Wash- ington at various times. SENTEHOLDSFOX SUBJECT 0 CALL Film Man’s Testimony in Stock Deal Insisted on if He Is Able to Leave. | By the Associated Press. The Senate Banking Committee, by a unanimous vote, today refused to re- lease Willlam Fox, the former film capitalist, from a subpoena to appear before it in its stock market investiga- ton. Chairman Norbeck explained after the committee’s session that no action | was taken on Fox's Tequest that he be permitted to return to New York to recuperate from illness that is prevent- ing his appearance. Promise Given Senators. In this request, made through a per- sonal representative of Fox, the latter promised to hold himself subject to the call of the committee. Norbeck said the ccmmittee did not refuse or accede to this request, feeling “you can’t make a sick man talk,” but indicated that failure to act was tanta- mount to permitting Fox to go back to New York but remain under subpoena. LASSFORD URGES VETERANS RELEF |“Up to Congress to Do Some- thing” for Benus Marchers, | Protestants, Catholics and Jews, told | the Manutactures Committee that it | was the duty of Congress to provide | Jobs through a building program. Soma | argued for the $5500,000,000 La Follette public works bond issue bill. | Opposed to Bond Issue. ‘The administration is opposed to a bond issue as provided in both meas- Its leaders are seeking a com- omise. The Senate adopted an amendment to the $2,000,000,000 bill, sponsored b; Senator Wagner, Democrat, N permit loans for ges paid for partly by tolls| by taxe: Couzens, Republican, of entered a motion to recon- s saying such projects would not be sel{-liquidating. The amendment was offered by Senator Broussard, Dem- | ozr isiana. acd pertly Sen M An amendment by Senator Fletcher. | Democrat, of Florida, was adopted add- ublic projects for which loans could Says Chief. | be made to private construction cor- Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, itencent of police, today reiterat- w that “it is up to Congress t2 do something” for th> members of the Bonus Expeditionary Farce encamp- ed here. “These men were in the employ of | the Federal Government during the " Gen. Glassford said, “and I am convinced that the leaders are pared to ke>p between 8.000 and 9,000 men here until they get relief by pas- sage of the bonus bill or some other relief measure. | “There has been a tremendous fall- ing off in donations. Receipts yesterday amounted to $90, while expenditur amounted to $300.” On a tour of inspection at one of the camps Saturday afterroon, Glags- ford stated, Comdr. W. W. Waters asked his hearers how many of them intended to stick it out and remain here, and every man raised his hand. Scouts Political Program. Weters today repudiated the ambitious political program for the organization, which was announced yesterday by the | Legislative Committee. i |, In substance, the committee proposed to formulate a platform which was to lbe submitted to the Democratic party, and, lacking action there, the veterans were to be urged to support a possible third party. The only plank that had been definitely decided upon for this i)}uform called for repeal of the dry 2w, Waters said the committee had acted without authoriiy. He proposes, he said, | that no action toward the formation of | a third party be taken until after th veterans have tested their strength in the November electicn. In the mean- | time, he said, it is his idea that the veterans should support members of both parties who are favorable to their cause. ‘Waters is meeting with the committee "thfi afternoon seeking sanction for his t plan, which calls for Nation-wide or- | ganization of the B. E. F. He is proposing that units be organ | ized in every city. with national head "~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 3. ‘ LISTS BELASCO MILLION | Attorney Says Government Bonds | porations. | _ An amendment by Senator Bingham, of cticut, providing for loans to t es as well as to States, was adopted. Me:nwhile, Mark T. McKee, execu- ctor of the American Le National Employment Commission, urged the rove the bill Found Jobs for 950,000. In his message McKee reminded the Senate that the veterans' organization, the American Federation of Labor and allied groups had found jobs for about ©50.600 men in the last four months, adding: ‘We feel that the limit of accom- plishment has been reached unless prerapt action is taken now by the Fed- eral Government to save the situation.” McKee estimated the Demccratic !program would put at least 2,000,000 men to work. Roy Wilkins, assistant secretary of the Natioral Association for Advance- ment of the Colored People, New York City, sald colored persons, losing pa- tlence with existing conditions, were listening to Communist and Socialist party leaders. v E. Goldstein of New York urged the Manufacturers’ Committee to pass unemployment relief le; ion, warning its members that Congress dare not adjourn without meeting the situation. He declared that “despair leads quick- Iy to a state of desperation, and out- actment to ease the lot of the unfortu- | A long line of witnesses, including | canals to the list of self-lquidating | Senate in a telegram to ap-, MDUFFIE OFFERS GRADUATED SCALE OF PAY REDUCTIONS ‘Cuts Would Range From 10 Per Cent on $1,200 to 20 on $20,000 Upward. HOUSE VOTES APPROVAL | OF CONFERENCE REPORT La Guardia and Shafer Assail Ala- baman’s Amendment to General Economy Bill. A graduated sca) vernment empl 10 per ce pay cuts ranging frem of $1200 or mere to 20 per cent on salaries in ex- s of $20,000 was recommended to day by Representative Mc- of Alabama, as a substitute for McDuffic's amendment was offered immediately following adoption by the House of the conference report on the general economy bill. The vote was 216 to 36 The McDuffie scale of salary follows: Salaries from $1,200 to less than | $12,000, 10 per cent; salaries from | $12.000 to less than $15,000, 12 per cent; salaries from $15.000 to $20,000, 15 per cent, and salaries of §20,000 or more, 20 per cent. McDuffie's new pay-cut proposal im- mediately wes made the object of points of order bv Representatives La Guardia of New York and Shafer of Wisconsin. were promptly overruled by the cuts Calls Motion Improper. ring the floor before McDuflie could speak after his plan was read, La Guardia protested that the motion improper, as there was nothing to |show that the attitude of the House ! had changed from its original pay-cut plan sitions befo: own pro- | posal for a $2,500 exemption and the urlough plan. The gentleman seeks to have the { House concur in the Senate plan with | an amendment that is not to remain,” he said. | La Guardia protested that the con- { ference chairman was secking to force an entirely new proposition on the House. Shafer's point of order declared {that the proposal went beyond the | range of the differences between the | two_houses. l With the favorable ruling from the chair, McDuffie declared that his plan { would save the Government $112.500.000. Granted an hcur to debate the { amendment, McDuffie said: “We are dealing now with a very | sericus question. It is an unhappy task | to either think or act upon the reduc- { tion of salaries, but the people of | America are demanding that we cut | down Government expenses.” i McDuffie Scores Steward. | _ During debate on his amendment, | McDuffie unloosed a bitter attack on her C. Steward, president of the ionai Federation of Federal Em- | ployes, describing him as a “highly paid | propagandist whose salary probably 1 i breaks and explosions are nearer than | Won't be cut.” Steward has been con- our leacers realize.” | sistent in opposing a flat-salary cut. Dr. Goldstein, chairman of the Ex-| McDuffie declared Steward wants ecutive Committee of the Joint Com- | Coneress to get away from a business mittee for Unemplovment relicf, said: | proposition on which his preposed sal- | “Those of us who are nearer to the working classes, know that th: 2r is changing and that they o suffer much longer wit| No eaping a revolution. “Congress dare not adjourn without meeting this national catastrophe in an adequate and statesmanlike manner. M:. Hoover and his associates start a the wrong end. What is needed is not (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) AIR LINE PLANS CHANGES American Airways Moves Head- quarters to St. Louis. NEW YORK, June 20 (P) —Announce- ment was made today by American Air- ways, Inc., that its general operaticns | reduction is predicated. “We regret to sec wages come down,” | he said, “but we are face to face with facts. Before the Hcuse had convened. the | Government e Mr. McDuffie’s | request for unanimous consent to have |a_statement of the conferees read, ex- | with volumes in view of fight drastic pay | serving the right to make | orcer against various provisions fere: report ntative Bani | Speaker Garner and { Rainey. abruptly shut t n In the (Continued on Page 3, Column 5) K"'I'ED BY PI'ANE Financial Danger Seen in Japan's ln-i terference. He added with a smile, however, that | and traffic headquarters would be trans- vention. Streator, 111, Man Tried for Al- leged Siaying of Mother in 1927. he Associated Press. OTTAWA, 1il, June 20.—An airplane C brought_death to Hairy 1., former Knox . and heir to the estate nother tor whose slaying he was companions, Bert . and John Marshall, . Calif., were Kkilled yes- 1 the airpiane Hill was pilot- the local airport. The plane > ground from an_altitude Hill and Lorenz dizd two w0 th 2.0 feet instantly. jury which tried young Hill for icide, diszgiced, but the case is still he docket for retrial, having lain ant for several years due to & of county funcs to finance its Meanwhile Hill, who ned his innocence, had been at A flyer for several years, he private pilot's liconse, and twice nad been injured in airplane mishaps within the past year and a_ half. Hill was scized in Seattle, Wash., nber 3, 1927, after the body of his Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, was found a grave in the basement of her home. Her known opposition - son’s fricndship with a_young weman, financial troubles and e from the city, turned suspi- toward him. He asserted he fled the city bscause feared he would be suspected. A LONDON PROBES BOMB Explosive Found Under Platform Where Notables Had Spoken. ST. BEES, England, June 20 (#).— Scotland Yard is investigating the dis- cove of an unexploded bomb yester- under a platform from ~which Jord Lloyd, former high commissioner for Egypt: the Bishop of Carlisle and other prominent men spoke during a &chool commencement. The bomb was discovered after the svercises. A homs office official said \-day that it had been made by an axpert, PEIPING, China, June 20 (#).—China | is facing a major financial calamity as a recult: of the Japanese government's | interference with the Chinese customs | administration in Manchuria, T. V. Soong, finance minister of the National government, said today. Minister Soong is here from Nanking |to confer with the League of Nations ilnqulryhcomamas]lo:. o ol He charge at under Japanese in- - stigation Suthorities of Henty Pu-vis Good-Will Tour. Tegime had” agggop{i;l!:dmth;‘ mt'gm; CHARLESTON, S. C., June 20 (®). revenues collected at Harbin, Newchang | _. % x and Antung and are now preventing the | The Britich cruiser Dragon, with a | dispatch of remittances to Nanking | ccmpiement of 450 officers and men, | from Dairen, which is in Chinese ter- | arrived here today for a five-day visit ritory leased to Japan. of good will to this port, | The total revenue at Manchurla ports| = g, ittees representing the City of | T cent of the entire cus- S ue Do soa, oo e " | Charleston and the State of South Car- | tional government stands to lose about olina welcomed the visitors, after the ! $10,000,000 a year if the Japanese action | cruiser had exchanged national salutes is allowed to go unchallenged by the | with Fort Moultrie as it steamed into other powers. | the harbor Roosevelt's name will be first present- ed to the convention by John E. Mack of Poughkeepsie, who nominated the " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) _ GREETS BRITISH SHIP Charleston Welcomes Cruiser on 120 BRIGHT’S DISEASE VICTIMS OFFER EBBING LIVES TO SCIENCE 1 Incurables Volunteer Remaining Days to Medical Obser- vations to Chart “Steps to Death.” By the Associated Press. (ease. had been obtained and the ex- CHICAGO, June 20.—Twenty persons | perlénzx;t was about to start was made s - | yesterday. doomed to die of a disease called in. B wii be fhe fisk maior atiant curable by the medical science h“"smdy the malacy end it was made volunteered the rest of their lives 50| possible by a gift orl $1,000,000 from scientists may chart their “steps to|A. D Lasker, wealthy advertising " i | executive, and Mrs. Lasker, with the death” and possibly benefit others simi- Drovision” the money be used for re- larly affiicted search Into degenerative diseases of the To the 20, the experiments cf the middle age. Lasker Foundaticn for Medical Reseagch | The usefulness of the 20 volunteers at the University of Chicago will be a|will end when they di2, and while they rendezvous with death, but to cclence|live they will receive the best of medi- their contributions may mean a cure czl attention. or a preventive for the strange Bright's| The foundation has b2en making disease. | studies of “middle age diseases” for It is one of the “diseates of the four years and its director, Dr. Frank- middle age” which accelerate the path lin C. McLean. s2id: of millions who have pacsed 40 years| “The unders'anding we h2ve reached ot 2ge to death. conzernins i diceace; mey l22d, in Announcement, that the 20 volunteers, | 25 years. to a great increase in the all in the early stages of Bright's dis- | span of iife after middle age.” | Moving of Quarters. ‘The national chairman was unable to |say just when the Republican head- quarters would be removed from the Barr Building in this city to Chicago. He thought that within two weeks & start would be made. He was unable to_say whethes not a skeleton force " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) HEFLIN DENIES SAYING HE'D BACK AL SMITH | Fermer Senator Says Hoover Will | Ee Hard to Beat if Busi- ness Recovers. Former Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama denied today he told an audi- ence in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Saturday that he would “even support Al Smith” if he decided to bolt the Hoover ticket, which he supported in the 1928 cam- paign. The Alabaman, who was read out of the Democratic party as a result of his support of Hoover, was quoted in an Associated Press dispatch from the Pennsylvania city as saying: “I am now giving the economic situation deep thought. If I reach, as I expect, the cenclusion that President Hoover is per- sonally responsible for the depression, I will support the Democratic nominee, whoever he may be. support Al Smith.” Mr. Heflin, in a letter to The Star, asserted: “I wish to say I made no such statement, either publicly or pri- vately.” In a statement issued later he added: “I was also incorrectly reported in rame reports as to what I said about the presidential elections. What I said wes: ‘If conditions remain as bad as they are today and a good Democrat is nominated at Chicago, one that will ccmmand the united support of the party, he will win. But if conditions greatly improve and cotton, corn, wheat, cattle and hogs are bringing a good prize and labor is employed, Hoo- ver will be hard to beat.” I would even | if he (Fox) took a motor trip to New | York the “committee will feel that he | was sufficiently well to testify.” | _ The committee has been attempting for several days to get Fox to appear. | Persists in Refusal. ‘The film operator, however, ill in his hotel here, has steadfastly refused to | attend and has sent to the committee | statements from physicians that his ap- pearance would endanger his life. He is suffering from diabetes. F. A. | Hornaday, his doctor, notified Norbeck | today that he had examined him this |morting and that his condition was about the same, except he has contract- ed a head cold. Norbeck said the stock market in- |quiry hearings would bz resumed ‘Thursday with “the lambs” to be heard. He would not name the witnesses sched- uled to appear. MAN PLUNGES TO DEATH FROM THE TAFT BRIDGE A colored man, identified at the Dis- trict Morgue as James A. Moore, 43, of the 600 block of Third street north- east, plunged to his death frgm the Taft Bridge early today. Several pass- ersby are faid to have seen the man l“}? from the bridge and reported to police. ‘The man'‘s body struck in the creek, more than 100 feet below the bridge level. The body was identified at the morgue by his brother, Marcellus Moore. The dead man had been out of work and sick, according to his rother. e TWO INJURED, 23 HELD IN COAL MINE VIOLENCE By the Associated Press. FAIRMONT, W. Va, June 20.—Two men were injured and 23 were arrested when violence flared today in a new strike in the Northern West Virginia coal flelds. State and county officers broke up a clash between strikers and men going to> work at the Monongah mine cf the Czacrlidated Ccel Co. Other miners citack=d 2% Tracticn Park os they left a street car on their way to the Radio Pragrams on Page B-14'mine. 3 Are Large Part of Estate. NEW YORK, June 20 (#).—The es- tate of the late David Belasco will be worth more than a million dollars if present values are maintained, his at- torney, Joseph Bickerton, jr., said to- | day. " Its paper value at the time of | his death last year was about $1,500,000. A large part of the estate consists of Government bonds. In addition there are royalties from 60 plays which still are being performed. After bequests are made a trust fund will be formed for his daughter, Mrs. Morris Gest. ferred from New York to Lambert Field, St. Louis. | The transfer of the two principal de- | partments is part of a general central- | 1zation plan. La Motte T. Cohu, presi- | dent of American Airways and of Avi- ation Corporation, holding company for the Airways, will maintain an office here, as well as the treasurer’s and | controller’s offices. Two of the Air- | ways' four divisions will be dropped. | St. Louis, known as the central division, | will also become headquarters for the | New York and Cincinnati divisions. “The headquarters of the Southern division will remain at Dallas, Tex. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Science Editor. SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 20.—Micro- photos, magnified 2,500 times, showing human white blood cells which had lost half their heredity, were exhibited for the first time here today. They were part of the scientific ex- hibit of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, beginning a five-day Summer meeting at Syra- cuse University. More than one thou- sand scientists are expected, some with proposals for mitigating economic de- pression. The magnified pictures gave a new insight into the nature of leukemia, a fatal disease, due to “wild” growth. They were made by Willlam A. Groat, M. D, professor of clinical pathology of Syracuse University. Losses by “Haploids.” Every cell was a “haploid.” It had lost half of its chromosomes, half of a little krot of fibers resembling a bunch of keys, each missing fiber a real key, \':hlzémh;!;&x present v‘muld have :5 sures y growth of one more s MICRO-PHOTOS REVEAL LOSS OF HEREDITY BY BLOOD CELLS Magnified 2,500 Times Pictures Are Part of Exhibit by American Science Association. These haplolds were like idiots that never could develop fully. Each grew to the point where it could reproduce, and no more. This may explain the wild multiplication. Leukemia is widely studied not only in seeking a cure, but because of the analogy to cancer in unrestrained cell growth. Dr. Groat said Dr. Raphael Isaacs of the University of Michigan when treated with X-rays sometimes develop into normal cells. Tmportant Heart Muscles. Another exhibit shows a pair of im- portant heart muscles never fully mapped before. They lie lengthwise of the two auricles, the chambers for re- ceiving blocd from veins. They were explored by Jane S. Robb, M. D, of Syracuse University. ‘Their contours contain a possible ex- planation of why all hearts are heart- shaped. This is one of evolution’s in- triguing points. Men and warm-blooded animals have hearts nearly all of the familiar form. The theory, which the details of the new! 1 3! seems to lustify, h: €. e gnd the cur presurz on @ hbo\n any embryonic heart woul wtimately to the has shown that the leukemia haploids 'BOY, 14, ARRESTED "IN WCRONE SHOOTIKG | Young Fisherman, 13, May Die as Result of Bullet Wound in Abdomen. A 14-year-old boy was arrested here | today on a charge of firing a bullet i which may cause the death of Joseph | McCrone, 13, of the 1600 block of | Trinidad avenue northeast. | _ The McCrone boy was taken to a hospital suffering from a wound in the abdomen. He said he and other boys were fishing in the Eastern Branch of the Potomac near Benning Bridge, when several boys swimming nearby began firing a rifie. He said they pro- tested it would scare away the fish. One of the swimmers, unclothed, fired at the young fisherman from behind a rock, McCrone said. The bullet struck him down. Police later arrested Charles Tebbe for investigation. They said he ad- mitted firing the shot. NEW CLUE IS'REPORTED IN MOTHER’S SLAYING Police Declare Blood-Stained Knife Was Found en John R. Boyle. By the Assoclated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 20.—Dis- | covery of blood on a pocket knife taken from John R. Boyle, socially prominent attorney, shortly after he reported a bandit stabbed his mother to death and wounded him last Monday, was an- nounced today by police. Boyle was charged with murdering his mother the day after her body was found in a thicket near a mountain t He is under guard in the hospital ward of the county jail. C. W. Austin, chief ¢ the county homi-ire squad, rald 's clothirg bote no sign of having t end doctors declared & boe en _cul ’