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DILLINGER ELUDES HUNT IN BANK RAID South Bend Hold-Up Nets $28,439—Four Are Wounded. (Continued From First Page.) Epworth Hospital it was found a bul- let had struck Soloman in the hip. His condition was termed critical. Leaving an outpost believed to be John Hamilton on guard at their automobile, the man identified by a police detective as Dillinger, with two henchmen, one of them believed to be “Baby Face” Nelson, rushed into the bank about noon. Cowing the 25 customers with a machine gun, the man identified as Dillinger took up a strategic post and sent a score of slugs into the ceiling while his con- federates snatched up $28,459. C. W. Coen, vice president of the institution who took cover under a desk 3 feet from the gunner, declared he was positive the leader was the headlong desperado, Dillinger. Bundling their loot, the trio com- mandeered Stahley, Coen and several other patrons and used them for human shields as they marched out the door. Wagner ran toward them from across the crowded street. The machine gunner shot him down. Three bullets entered his body. Fires From Under Car. Patrolman Nels Hanson sprinted down from a nearby corner. He erawled under a parked car and emptied his pistol at the criminals. In the duel, Stahley and Coen were $truck, each in the leg. Harry Berg, proprietor of a jewelry store, procured a revolver and shot at the outpost, whom he believed to be Hamilton. He said the slugs spun the mob man around as if fended off by a bullet proof vest. Apparently un- scathed, the outpost drove Berg back into his shop with a machine gun spray. Berg plunged behind a large safe, but the stream of lead, shat- tering the windows and raking the establishment, found Jake Soloman, a customer. He was wounded in the hip. The outlaw then turned his weapon on Toth, who sat in a car across the street. The bullet grazed his head. . As the bandits leaped into their small green car after abandoning their hostages, -Detective Harry Henderson opened fire, He reported that the man In the driver’s seat, whom he said he was positive was Dillinger, slumped over the wheel as if shot and & com- panion took his place. Speed Toward Indianapolls. ‘The automobile raced west one block on Main street, the terrorized specta- tors said, turned south and_circled back to Michigan street. It sped south along the latter avenue out of the city toward Indianapolis. With a Federal reward of $10,000 on the head of Dillinger and a $5,000 reward offered for the capture of Nel- son, authorities immediately threw their forces onto the highways in an endeavor to halt the desperate fugi- tives. Officials of nearby cities were notified. Capt. Matt Leach ordered a squad of State police to guard roads leading to Chicago.™ He also directed 35 State officers to patrol all roads in Northern Indiana. BLOOD SPATTERED CAR FOUND. Gun Clips in Aute Deserted 50 Miles From South Bend. By the Associated Press. GOODLAND, Ind, June $Q—A brown sedan, the side of which was covered with blood, and in which were a number of cartridge clips, was abandoned this afternoon by four men 214 miles northeast of here. The car answered the description of the machine in which John Dillinger gangsters escaped after robbing the Merchants National Bank at South Bend. The windshield and the rear glass of the abandoned machine Wwere punctured with bullet holes. The car was brought to a garage here. Goodland is about 50 miles south- west of South Bend on U. S. high- way 24 a main east and west Toute. It is near the intersection of U, S. highway 41 that leads north to Chicago. A sack of tacks also was found in the abandoned machine. Officers ex- pressed the belief these were to be gcattered along the road to damage the tires of pursuing cars, EMPEROR OF U. S. i . GIVEN NEW BURIAL IN SAN FRANCISCO (Continued From First Page) old uniform without charge when it needed it, and for funds he levied “taxes” and issued crazy-looking *“bonds” on his own government. Seldom did he meet with refusal, and it was the exceptional “subject” who failed to pass over at least a 50- cent piece in return for one of the “ponds.” Doubters complained he hoarded the cash, but when he died, no hoard was found in his modest little room. He was buried with ceremony in 1880, and thousands attended the funeral. But there was no grave- stone then, and recently when it be- came known Norton'’s coffin was one of those to be removed from the old Masonic Cemetery, now being aban- doned, a group of civic leaders ob- tained a handsome monument bear- ing on it the emperor’s title in full, and arranged the ceremonies of today. “The story of Emperor Norton and the treatment accorded him stands to the everlasting glory and fame of San Francisco,” declared Ernest Wilt- gee, vice president of the California Historical Society, as the hundreds stood with bowed heads by the new grave. . LAMONT SEES CUBANS Banker Confers With Island Offi- cials, Presumably on 1927 Loan. HAVANA, June 30 (#)—Thomas A. Lamont, partner in the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., conferred today with officials of the Cuben treasury. It was reported he sought to have payment of $900,000 due July 1 on the Morgan short term loan to Cuba excluded from the operation of the moratorium on the foreign debt re- cently declared. The loan, for $900,- 000, was granted to Cuba in 1927, to be repaid in 10 annual installments. NEW CRISIS RUMORED MADRID, June 30 (#).—Rumors of 8 fresh government crisis owing to ptessure from Leftist groups insisting on resignation of the cabinet over the Catalonian situation flooded the corridors of Congress today just be- fore adjournment until Thursday. Right elements scoffed at the possibility of a government upset. b SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH. W IN'RADID FORUM Idaho Senator Will Discuss Certain Phases of the New Deal. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, recognized as one of the greatest orators of all time in the Senate of the United States and a staunch ad- vocate of constitutional liberty, will speak in the National Radio Forum Wednesday, July 4, at 10:30 pm., Eastern standard time. ‘The National Radio Forum is ar- raged by The Washington Star and broadcast over the network of the National Broadcasting Co. ‘The Idaho Senator has taken strong exception to certain phases of the new deal program and legislation. Particularly has he demanded that the suspension of the anti-trust laws uider the N. R. A. be ended, holding that the administration of the national industrial recovery act was tending to huge monopolies and the elimination of all small business men and to high prices for the consumer. He has been strongly opposed, too, to certain features of the A. A. A. ad- ministration, holding that they would be destructive to American agricul- ture in the end. PROBE BARES NEW EVIDENCE OF ARMY FEE ACCEPTANCES (Continued From First Page.) the fee scandal, members of the com- mittee said after conferring with in- vestigators. It was indicated the dis- closure in the hearings that some Army officers have accepted money, dis- counts, entertainment and other “favors” from firms doing business with the War Department will be made the subject of another special p Rk Carrespondence Missing. A previous special report recom- mended the immediate removal of Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois as head of the Army Air Corps. The mysterious disappearance of corre- spondence of committee members on the Foulois angle was revealed yes- terday. ‘The missing data were contained in a letter sent by Acting Chairman Paul Kvale, Farmer-Laborite, of Min- nesota, to Chairman Rogers at his home in New Hampshire. The letter contained a request from Gen. Foulois for certain information in connection with the committee’s demand for his removal, together with excerpts of testimony, memoranda from Kvale and Goss and other documents. “We are sure the papers were mailed properly,” Goss stated. “but somehow or other they appear to have vanished en route to New Hampshire. An effort is being made to trace the correspondence, it was said, as much of the data cannot readily be replaced. Goss said he did not see how any of the material would be of value to any one but the committee, and he is inclined to believe the correspond- ence “just went astray.” The delay in receiving & response to his letter to the committee has prevented Gen. Foulois from send- ing to Secrétary of War Dern a reply to the committee's scathing attack on Air Corps procurement policies and on Foulois personally. Gess en Trip Heme. Representative Goss left for his home in Connecticut late yesterday, but will return after July 4 to resume his work with the subcommittee. Acting Chairman Kvale said he will remain here to conduct the inquiry for another week or two. Chairman Rogers will return here later this week, it was expected. The committee later this Summer plans to mave its hearings to New York City and Boston and thence to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. The hearings in New York and Boston will be in connection with an inquiry into alleged irregularities in the sale of surplus War Department property, it was stated, while those at Wright Field will involve airplane procure- ment. The airplane hearings prob- ably will be conducted in executive session at first, but may be opened to the public if developments war- rant. LINDBERGH LAW HOLDS TRIO IN ILLINOIS CASE Brother of Ex-Senator Glenn and Publisher Aid in Capture of Kidnap Suspects. By the Associated Press. MURPHYSBORO, Il., June 30— Warrants charging violation of the “Lindbergh law” in an alleged extor- tion plot against James Rockwell, pub- lisher of the Murphysboro Independ- ent, and Lawrence Glenn, prominent attorney, were issued here today against three Murphysboro men. ‘Those named in the warrants were Nathan Ripley, 43, a barber; James | hibited, Kennedy Is Named With Pe- cora, Landis, Healy and Matthews. (Continued From First Page.) cannot become operative until such registration has taken place.” Commissioner Landis, who called at the White House shortly before the announcement of the a tments, said he expected the group would meet “very soon” and begin its pre- liminary work. Field Is New One. With the various effective dates of the law, the Government enters a new field of regulation. The act gives it power over virtually every phase of the securities business. This author- ity, however, is divided between the new commission and the Federal Re- serve Board. The latter is given ad- ministration of the law's margin section, with authority to prescribe minimum margins for all purchases of securities. It contains an expres- sion of congressional advice that that minimum normally should be 45 per cent. Other provisions of the law are: All stock exchanges to continue in operation must register with the com- mission, Corporations with listed must submit to the commission an exhaustive analysis of their financial conditions, followed by similar reports at quarterly intervals. New Issues Reporis Asked. New issues of stock for which list- ing is asked, must be accompanied by such corporate reports, “Manipulative devices” are pro- including specifically pool operations, wash sales, matched orders and other practices designed to pro- duce “fictitious” security prices. Options on stocks may be given, to- gether with puts and calls only with the explicit permission of the com- mission. Short selling is made subject to such regulations as the commission may issue, and it is empowered to prohibit such transactions if it deems that action advisable. A dealer may be either a broker or & specialist, but not both, and the commission is authorized to order specialists’ books thrown open to the public, The commission 1is instructed to make a study of the advisability of completely divorcing the function of broker, dealer and specialist and re- port back to Congress. WALL STREET GROWS DULL. Old Regime of Speculation Comes To a Quiet End. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 30.—The old regime of unrestrained speculation came to an inglorious end in Wall Street today. On the verge of Federal control of security exchanges, trading in the New York Stock Exchange slowed al- most to a standstill. Stock prices were virtually motionless. A scant 189,300 shares were traded in the two-hour Saturday session. It was the smallest volume for a Satur- day since August 11, 1923. The turn- over then was 158,800 shares. It made a fitting close for the dull- est month of the Stock Exchange Wall Street has scen since May, 1924. June transfers totaled about 16,800, 000 shares compared with 14,990,000 in May, 1924, Nearly that much trading took place in one day at the height of the 1929 crash. On October 29, 1929, in a five-hour session 16,410,000 shares were traded. Effect of Law Unknown. To what extent approaching Fed- eral regulation of exchanges was re- sponsible for the contraction of trad- ing in recent weeks can only be guessed. The trend of business and corporate earnings lately has fur- nished little incentive for speculation. But Wall Street traders started to shorten their saiis last February, when the first draft of the Federal Stock Exchange control measure much more severe than the bill which eventually became law, was introduced into Congress. Brokers left the Street today still in the dark as to the personnel of the Stock Exchange Commission. Since it is given wide discretionary powers in promulgating regulations and in carry- ing out the principles of the control bill, there has been a disposition to suspend judgment until the make-up of the commission has been an- nounced Law in Action Teoday. ‘The ban on manipulation and mar- ket rigging effective tomor- row. So does the power of the com- mission to lay down rules. Some of the most important provisions, such as those on margin requirements and regulation of short selling, do not take effect until October 1. For the time being, until the com- mission begins to function and to make decisions, not a great deal of change is anticipated for Wall Street elready had begun to live up to the law, as far as speculative operations on the Exchange were concerned. Pool activity has been practically nil for weeks. Meanwhile, until the commission can organize and announce its de- cisions, the administration expects the exchanges and brokers to comply im- mediately with the requirements and principles of the law. The requirements for registration of security exchanges does not apply until September 1. Officers, directors and holders of more than 10 per cent of the securities of a corporation, the so-called “insiders,” will not have to start filing monthly reports showing changes in ownership, as required by the law, until October 1. “The interval also will give the commission time to weight its policies in regard to short- selling, floor trading and special peg- ging operations. PITTSBURGH IS DENIED PRIORITY ON DEPOSITS State Supreme Court Holds Po- litical Subdivisions Not Entitled to Special Favor. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 30—The State Supreme Court today ruled against the city of Pittsburgh in its attempt to obtain full and preferred Small, 37, described as a former boot- | closed legger, and Thurman Walker, 26. The three were arrested near here last night after Rockwell and Glenn had delivered a dummy package, al- legedly according to instructions of the men. The instructions, Rockwell said, were that he and Glenn put $12.000 in the package, under the threat they 4 wouid be kidnaped. Gienn is a broth- er of former United States Senator Otis Glenn. city appealed. It was contended on city that as the bank had not quali- | stocks GEORGE E. ALLEN. VOTE FOR CAPITAL URGED BY ALLEN |Representation and Right to ! Recall Commissioners Proposed by Official. (Continued From Pirst Page) published recently in The Star sug- gesting adoption of provision for the initiative, referendum and recall in| operation of the municipal establish- ment, and emphasized that the ultimate aim should be the granting of represertation in Congress and the right to participate in presidential elections. Appointed & member of the Board of Commissioners last November, Allen quickly \.became aware of the lack of representation afforded local residents. He has declared several times he believes the city heads should conduct themselves in office | just as though they actually were elected by the people, and that he intended tc strive to live up to that conviction. He has taken a number of steps in this direction heretofore. When a draft of the proposed District liquor law was pending before the Commis- sioners, Allen called for public hear- ings on the subject. He joined with Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen in deciding to hold public hearings next Fall on the proposed 1936 District budget betore it is submitted to the Budget Bureau. Favored “Lecal Option.” Also, when the liquor law was being drafted, Allen sought to have a clause inserted to provide for “local option™ for sections of the District, and pro- posed establishment of voting ma- chinery to get a clear showing of neighborhood sentiment. While that suggestion was dropped, the law does contain a clause giving power to the owners of a majority of the property within 600 feet of a proposed licensed place to forbid issuance of & permit. Drafting of the proposed recall legislation has been placed in the hands of Vernon E. West, assistant corporation counsel. Allen plans to have the measure ready some time next Fall, and will urge the Board of Commissioners to send it to Cén- gress for action at the next session. While details of the bill as yet have not been drawn, it is planned to give all Washington residents, who can show legal residence here for a year, the right to vote in any recall move. A vote would be ordered in cases when a petition signed by a certain per- centage of the voting population, pos- sibly 10 per cent, calls for action ca tration and polling places i be established in various sec- tions of the District and careful rules of cligibility and procedure for han- dling voting would be provided. “I am firmly convinced.” Commis- sioner Allen said, “that residents of the District should be given their con- stitutional right to representation in Congress. I “believe they should be given their constitutional right to vote in presidential elections. See# Rights Abridged. “Granting of these rights would in no wise deprive Congress of any of its powers of exclusive jurisdiction over the District, as provided in the Consti- tution. It would rather give to Dis- trict Tesidents & just and proper right | that also flows from the Constitution, but now is withheld bere. “Representation in Congress can be provided by adoption of the joint res- olution which proposes an amendment to the Constitution for election of two Senators and Representatives in the House on the same basis of population as spplied to the various States. ‘This, I wish to emphasize, is the basic remedy, as I see it, for the pres- ent disfranchised condition of the half million residents of the Capital. As & matter of more immediate action, I believe a real step in this direction would be enactment of a measure per- mitting residents of the District, »f and when they find their municipal gov- ermmment distinctly unresponsive, to re- | zall the Commissioners and bring about the appointment of new officials. “And, I wish to add, if I should be the first Commissioner to be recalled, well and good. If I am going counter to the wishes of the majority of the people of this great city and its tax- payers, then I should ro longer be per- ! mitted to hold office.” STRATOSPHERE SHIP TESTED IN BLACK HILLS Using Shaving Cream to See | among Newport dowagers. |me gates opened, they rushed in «| Whether Shell Will Leak in High Flight. By the Associated Press. RAPID CITY, S. Dek., June 30— Tests were in tonight at the Black Hills Bowl near here to determine the airworthiness of the shell of the gondola in which Maj. William E. Kepner and Capt. A. Stevens will make a stratosphere THRONGS DELAY ASTOR'S WEDDING Bridegrdom Forced to Walk to Church as Traffic Blocks Auto: (Continued Prom First Page.) her train trailing under her long tulle veil. Young Astor’s mother, Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte, wife of the Italian boxer, looked on from one of Trinity’s high | box pews. It was her first visit to | Newport since her marriage to the pugilist. Dr. Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl, aide to Adolf Hiller, also was there, ensconced His was one of the two top hats worn to the wedding. The other was worn by Tucky's father, Prancis Ormonc Prench of Dedham, Mass., who brought her to the church and gave her hand. Back of the old “wine-glass” pulpit, Astor and Miss French met at the chancel. ! Her bouquet of white orchids apd lilies of the valley went into the n& of her only attendant, her dark-haired | sister, Virginia French, and Astor slipped & ring on her finger. The two exchanged vows before Rev. Harold St. George Burrell, rector of Emanuel | Church, and Rev. Edward S. Travers | of Rhinebeck, N. Y. | Astor Arrives Early, Astor arrived at the church 25 min- utes early in a big automobile with Leslic Griscom, his best man. Both | wers bareheaded. Unable to get the car through the crowd, the chauffeur stopped near the iron gates to Trinity's old “burying ground.” Astor and Griscom got out and walked. | The crowd of unbidden guests began | to gather an hour before the church | opened, 2 hours before the wedding. | Nearest the gates were about 30 | middle-aged women who said they | ‘werz parishoners of the church. When | semi-trot to the church door, seeking | the vacant seats. Seventeen minutes after the church | opened, the police announced “all thz seats are full except those for the in- vited guests.” I d The sexton, in his black gown. stood | at the gate and identified Trinity | parishoners, the only uninvited guests | eligible for entry. ‘Two women were turned away. They left complaining “plenty who weren't | from Trinity got by.” Others tried to ! push past the police. One moaned, | “My heavens, if we'd been here carlier | we'd have gotten in.” Newsreels Grind. | { Newsreel men who had paid for vantage points worked from windows | opposite the church, from roofs and | second-story porches. An lxrphn“r passed overhead. | The street crowd thickened, police ordered it back; women clung to the | church yard fence, barely missing the | wheels of arriving motors. | ‘The handsome young ushers, who arrived early, watched it all with ! amusement from the church door. | Mrs. William H. Force, Astor's grandmother, turned and cast the| crowd an accusing look as she walked up the strip of crimson carpet from| —They were in liétle white boxes, | the gate to the church door. Astor's mother came with one of her sons. ! As their big car arrived, young Wil- | half-brother, hurried down the walk | from the church door and greeted her, | “Hello, mother.” She went in on his fon. Her face was averted under hzr{‘ big hairbraid hat. Tucky's sister Virginia, the maid of honor, eyed the crowd merrily when her car drew up and flashed bystand- ers a smile over her bouquet of del- | phinfum and daisies. Bride's Mother Grim. But beside her, Mrs. Livingston | French, the ' bride’s mother, pressed her lips in a thin line. As they alighted from their cnr.‘ Virginia bumped her head and Mrs. French stepped on the hem of her' gown. Then they went up the walk, Vir- ginia in peach and pale blue chif- fon with a big peach-colored hat and Mrs. French in a blue, green and white chiffon, with a picture hat of natural straw. Mrs. French wore a | shoulder bouquet of purple orchids. A motor cycle policeman preceded the car of the late arriving bride and plowed through the crowd. An at- tendant held up the bride's long satin train as she stepped from the car with her father, the divorced hus- | band of Mrs. Livingston French. Graciously, she posed for camera- men, slim and erect in her bridal gown. The sun glinted on her red- brown hair. ‘Then she tugged at her father's sleeve. “Let’s hurry,” she said. Hitler's favorite piano-player, Dr. Hanfstaengl, came on foot, gay from quaffing champagne. He was with a dark-haired young man, Nat Simpkins, who said he was Hanfstaengl's secretary. They had driven 100 miles this morning to attended the wedding, Hanfstaengl as the guest of Tucky's father. Club Members at Harvard. He and French were fellow club members at Harvard. i ‘The crowd almost jammed him into | the fence as he came down Church | street in a black sack coat and| striped trousers, his tall hat tilted. | The masculine guests were {n flan- | nels with dark coats or linen suits. | Only the ushers wore cutaways. | ‘The Newport women in the white- painted pews proved that “Newport, wears what .it likes.” ‘Their dresses ranged from fringed velvet to billowing cotton. Some of the old dowagers were in purple, with ropes of pearls. ‘The young, sun-tanned Summer col- onists wore huge hats. Several chauffeurs wore a white gardenia. Their faces were impassive as they tried to maneuver limousines up the packed street. | A red and white striped canopy, | erected over the church walk, was re- | moved just before the wedding. By- standers applauded as the frame which | obscured their view, came down. Astor and his bride will live In Chetwode, & white French chateau, when they return to Newport in August after their wedding trip. The young millionaire, posthumous son of Col. John Jacob Astor, who perisied in the Titanic disaster, bought the estate while he was en- gaged to Eileen Gillespie, his first fiancee. Gillespies Absent. Miss Gillespie, who returned her ring, the Empress Eugenie diamond, in exchange for & handsomely worded apology, was not at the wedding, nor were her parents, the Lawrence Lewis Gillespies. At Maple Shade, the Summer home of Tucky’s aunt, Mrs. Donald MacRae, 300 guests congratulated Astor and his bride, com- | | | three daughters It is & white house, with striped awnings and a spacious lawn, shielded John Jacob Astor. 3d, and his bride, the former Ellen Tuck French, as | they left the church shortly after the wedding ceremony. —Assoclated Press Photo. from bystanders’ gaze by a newly- planted screen of cedar trees. Astor and his bride, standing in a big bay window massed with white flowers, greeted the guests gayly. Out on the lawn, a Hungarian or- | chestra from New York, musicians in | gold-braided red toats, played, seated | on chairs placed on a Persian rug. | There was a special champagne | table, and amid the congratulations 200 champagne bottles popped. The reception buffet in the dining room presented this picture: A huge table, laid with a rare lace cloth, a family heirloom; candles, a floral centerpieceand the food. | | Colored Sandwiches. ‘ Piles of fancy sandwiches in colors. salads, aspics, ices of six kinds and many small cakes, instead of one big cake. NRALEVESTHO. DEMANDS ONMILL | Jchnson Pledges Help Harriman Meets Con- ditions. By the Associated Press, Hugh 8. Johnson yesterday pledged | N. R. A’s support in rebuilding the if | PRESIDENTS AD + ASKED BY ML N. R. A. Boycott Wrecking and Destroying Harriman Plant, Says Wire. By the Associated Press. g HARRIMAN, Tenn. June 30.—The Harriman Hoslery Mill, which closed after its Blue Eagle was removed by the N. R. A, today sent a telegram to President Roosevelt asking him “as our last resort to preserve and protect our inalienable constitutional rights as free-born American citizens.” The mill was deprived of its N. R. A. emblem on recommendation of the | National Labor Board, which charged mill officials with refusing to bargain collectively with striking employes. Plant “Being Wrecked.” { “By an administrative order and governmental boycotting we are being wrecked and destroyed,” the telegram to the President said. “Six hundred and twenty-three American citizens have been thrown out of employment and with their families placed on re- lief rolls. All of this is by the dic- tatorial act of Administrator Johnson. This is a precedent that should not and must not be established because it will confront American industry with unsurmountable obstacles to thus be dictated to by one individual hav- ing more power than a good man wants and more than a bad man should have.” The telegram further said that “we | nave been deprived by Administrator Johnson of our property right in the Blue Eagle in an unjust, unfair and partial manner and the loss of this | emblem is being used for boycotting | purposes by governmental agencies.” { Rights Are Asserted. “Gen. Johnson states,” it added, | “that our refusal to discharge em- i ployes at his demand is a violation jof the spirit and intent of section T (a). Attorney General Cummings states we are not gullty of violating |section 7 (a) and we insist that we have a legal right to select, retain and advance employes as long as we do not discriminate between union |and non-union individuals.” | Blamed for Kidnaping. Executives of the mills were charged by union labor leaders with being re- sponsible for the kidnaping of Fred G. Held, vice president of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers. It was generally known at the mill, a telegram R. L. Gossage, union sec- retary, sent to Gen. Hugh John- son said, that the kidnaping was to take place, adding that the *“mob” | went directly from the mill to the | train. | Previously labor leaders had de- clared at least two mill foremen were in the crowd that forcibly removed Held from a train Wednesday and es- corted him out of town. Grand Jury to Be Told. Meanwhile Held, who arrived in Chattanooga safely after his experi- | ence, was planning to return to King- | ston, the county seat of Roane Coun- | ty. to tell the grand jury about his Tucky dispensed with the cake-cut- | Harriman Hoslery Mills' pay roll if the | abduction. ting ritual, but each guest was given a slice of wedding cake, made by an old recipe. French and Astor, and were tied yith white ribbon. The orchestra, by with one or two airs from popular shows. About the wedding trip, Astor was would go West, return to Newport in August, and leave later for Europe. MISS GILLESPIE HAPPY. Former Fiancee Sails for Europe as Astor Weds. NEW YORK, June 30 (#).—While | her former fiance, John Jacob Astor, 3d, was being married at Newport, R. I, today, Miss Eileen Gillespie was | sailing for Europe and agreeing with her mother that this was “the luck- iest day in my daughter’s life.” The Gillespie family, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Gillespie and their climbed the gang- plank of the steamship Leviathan at just about the time Astor and Miss Ellen Tuck French walked down the aisle of a Newport church. As they reached the deck, a news- paper man commented that the Astor- French nuptials were just about to get underwsy. “Well, I think this is the luckiest day of my daughter’s life,” Mrs. Gillespie declared vehemently. “Yes, and I think so, too.” Miss Eileen interjected. “It also is my first trip to Europe.” “When you get back from Europe this Astor fuss will probably have died down,” it was suggested. “I hope so,” Miss Eileen answered, “I'm certainly sick of it.” JAPAN TO PROPOSE 5-4.39 NAVY RATION WITH UNITED STATES (Continued From First Page.) The London sgreement provides 150,- 000 tons for America and 103,500 for Japan. Ask More Submarines. ‘While advocating the complete abol- ition of the airplane carriers, the Japanese government wants to in- crease the tonnage of the submarine, which they consider a purely de- fensive ship. The London naval agreement provides 52,000 tons for each country. Tokio proposes to raise this ratio to 75,000 tons of subma- rines for both the United States and Japan. ¢ The entire Japanese plan provides a navy of 746,000 tons for this coun- try and 655,000 for Japan, or, in other words & new ratio of 5-4.39 instead of the 5-3 as agreed in the previous conferences. Under this proposal the American fleet would be reduced by 440,000 tons, while the Japanese navy would be reduced by 110,000. According to reports from London, it is out of the guestion that either Great Britain or the United States will accept this Japanese offer for “a real reduction of naval arma- ments.” Naturally, the Japanese pro- posals will be discussed, since every- thing must be discussed at a prelimi- nary meeting of powers. But it is believed that if the Japanese insist cn what is termed in well informed quarters as preposterous demands, the conference will not make much head- way. P SRR, STRIKE IS THREATENED GASTONIA, N. C., June 30 (P)— Operatives of the Dunn, Armstrong and Piedmont Mills here—about 400 strong—today declared they would strike Monday unless an agreement is reached between owners and strik- ers at the Clara Mill, under the same management as the other three, ¢ | | Tennesee plant meets two conditions | for regaining the Blue Eagle. ‘The offer was telegraphed to the ! with a silver monogram “F. A.” for | mayor of Harriman shortly after a i formal statement by Donald Richberg, conflict between N. R. A. and the Justice Department over the Harriman mings hed refused to prosecute. Johnson's telegram said: “To the citizens of Harriman: “The company states that no new employes have come in from a dis- tance of 25 miles, yet it refuses to permit an auditor to check the last pay roll and clear it from such cases. “Second, the company refuses to spread employment, one of the key- stones of N. I. R. A. “The company has tentatively agreed on all other points. Added acceptance of these two points will restore the Blue Eagle immediately and place N. R. A. aggressively be- hind the company in an attempt to build back its pay roll to a point where the people of your town will enjoy all the benefits of their Amer- | ican’ citizenship.” Richberg’s statement was volun- teered by him in explanation of re- ports that N. R. A. “ ” with Cummings as to violation of the law by the Harriman mills. The firm shut down last Monday, adding more than 600 employes to strikers already out of work aad saying it could not operate without s Blue Eagie. Richberg said a National Board finding Mills violated labor’s collective bar- gaining guarantees required with- drawal of the N. R. A. L “Under the law,” he said, “The De- partment of Justice must decide for itself whether evidence presented to it warrants a criminal investigation. ‘The Attorney General reviews the evidence and arrives at an independ- ent judgment. He might agree with the previous finding of fact, but be- lieve the evidence not strong enough for a criminal case, which would re- Labor be necessary in a civil case. “There is no ‘conflict of opinion’ in the action of N. R. A, and the De- partment of Justice in this case. Two entirely different legal questions were nted and the same lawyer could have advised the N. R. A. to take away the Blue Eagle and not to bring a criminal prosecution.” ROOSEVELT ORDERS LEADERS TO TAKE SUMMER VACATION __ (Continued Prom Pirst Page) _ St. Croix, Virgin Islands; July 10, visit Cartagena, Colombia, South America; July 11 and 12, visit Canal Zone and Panama. The itinerary calls for his arrival in the Hawaiian Islands about July 24 with a departure about July 28. Arrival on the Pacific Coast will be about August 2 or 3 and very prob- ably at Portland, Oreg. Confers With Johnson. Mr. Roosevelt conferred yesterday tiring head of the executive council. He instructed each to take a vaca- tion of at least 30 days during the Summer. Cabinet officers were stag- gering their vacation schedules some will be in Washington at all times during the Summer. The President was also busy on the telephone during the day ar- ranging with the men who are to take over the newly created com- missions for the stock exchange and communications and also for the Avistion Investigating Commission. H | case, which Attorney General Cum- | arm, a slim figure in steel-blue chif- | mysterious, but friends said the two | that the Harriman | quire stronger evidence than would | Labor leaders said Held would come back in spite of threats, if he was afforded protection, and appealed to Gov. McAlister for aid. The labor telegram to Johnson de- | nied the mill's contention that it was forced to close because of the with- instruction, | general counsel, that there was no' drawal of its Blue Eagle and said liam Dick, Astor's blond, grave-faced | played Viennese and Hungarian music, | | “the company closed the mill, not {the N. R. A" It the mill would grant workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, the telegram added, “the dispute will be settled in five min- { utes.” | | |HEAT DEATH TOLL - ‘ MOUNTS TO SEVEN; RAIN BRINGS RELIEF | ___(Continued From First Page.) |and suburban areas. In the Silver | Spring, Md., area alone, police esti- | mated 50 trees had been biown down, many of them across electric wires and telephone lines. Severe damage to trees also was re- | ported in Prince Georges County, Md.; | in Chevy Chase and Bethesda. State Road Commission crews were put to work immediately, clearing the debris | to make way for Sunday traffic. Several high-tension wires in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase section fell in the wind and firemen were called out and motorists from electrocution. The Potomac | Electric Power Co. rushed crews to the scenes and made repairs as rapid- ly as possible. Phone Service Interrupted. Telephone lines to the Ashton, Md., exchange were out of commission for about five hours as a result of the storm, and some lines to Leesburg, Va.,, also were biown down. One tree was reported toppled in Alex- andria, Va., and a street drainage sewer was stopped up by rain water. In the District, about a score of trees were blown down and at sev- eral points they fell across electric wires serving residential areas. Trees were reported down at Michigan ave- nut and Quincy street northeast, in | the 4300 block Thirty-seventh street, at Thirty-eighth and Yuma streets, on Twentieth street, between E and F, in the 2400 block Kalorama road, in the 2900 block Forty-third street, in the 1200 block Quincy street, in the 3100 block Tenth street northeast and at Sixteenth and Minnesota avenue southeast & wire was down. KENT IS DETAINED ON KIDNAP THREAT Man, Held' for Murder, Turned Over to Federal Agents Un- der Lindbergh Law. By the Associated Press. ROANOKE, Va, June 30.—Robert C. Kent, jr. who has been held by Botetourt County authorities for the past two days on a charge of murder, was turned over late this afterncon to Federal authorities, who piaced against him a charge of kidnaping Mrs. Mary J. Hastings, proprietor of the Blue Ridge Springs Hotel, who has been missing since last Sunday night. ‘The against Kent was charge brought under the Lindbergh kidnap- ing law. . Kent, taken before United States Commissioner Charies D. Fox, jr., herg early tonight, was ordered held withe out bail for a preliminary hearing on July 30. Joseph H. Chitwood, United g a .mmmmzmm penalty is provided by the law. 1 .