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WEATHER.
ftl 9 Weather Bureau Forecast.l
Rain tonight and tomorrow, not
much change in temperature.
Temperature: Highest. 76, at 1:45 p.m.
yesterday: lowest, 62. at 6 a.m. today.
Full report on page 9.
Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11
V* QA Tl \ Entered as second class matter
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AUSTRALIA FLYERS FIGHT
STORM NEAR FIJI ISLANDS;
STULTZ IS AT TREPASSEY
Southern Cross
Is 750 Miles
From Suva.
BATTLE CLOUDS
OVER EQUATOR
Steady Progress on
3,138-Mile Hop
From Hawaii.
®v the .UweialM Pccm.
HONOLULU. June 4 —Sometimes fly
ing in circles to dodge storm clouds
while soaring 8.500 feet over the South
iPr.cific Ocean, the monoplane Southern
• Cross was endeavoring at 9.50 a.m..
Pacific Coast time, today to reach Suva.
Fin. 750 miles away.
A string of radio messages from the
pl«-ne told of the battle being waged by
the crew of four against the elements
as dawn rose over the South Pacific.
These messages were picked up by
naval radio and the Radio Corporation
■cf America stations here.
The possibility that the flyers might
attempt to alight at the Samoan
Islands, cutting short their projected
flight of 3,138 miles from Hawaii to
Suva, was considered here, but there
was no word from the plane indicating
such a course was contemplated.
The Southern Cross, soaring over
the vast Pacific, was 800 miles from
6uva at 7:30 am. coast time today. It
was encountering bad weather.
A message heard from the plane by
the Radio Corporation of America lead:
‘ Five am , 7 degrees 6 minutes south
latitude. Longitude 179 west. 800 miles
to Suva. Bad weather.'*
. Thus the Southern Cross, which with
four men had taken flight at 7:50 a.m.
Pacific Coast time, yesterday from
y.nci Island, near Honolulu, had
traversed 2,338 miles of Its epochal
3.138-mile journey tward Suva, Fiji.
Os the total journey to Sydney, Aus
tralia. begun at Oakland, Calif.. Thurs
day morning, tHe Southern Cross had
flown approximately 4,738 miles over
the vast Pacific.
Makes Steady Pragma
The Southerly Cross was making
“nice progress-fn Its flight from the
Barking Sands of the Hawaiian Islands
to Suva in the Fiji Island group in the
South Pacific, en tout* to Sydney, Aus
tralia.
At regular intervals throughout long
hours of the night and today the
plane’s radio broadcast its position,
showing a steady progress of about 90
nautical miles an hour.
If this speed was maintained the
plane should reach its objective about
8 pm., Pacific Coast time today, and
the four birdmea aboard will have com
pleted the longest all-water flight in
history, 3,138 miles.
The big monoplane hopped off from
the Barking Sands at 5:29 O'clock Sun
day morning (7:50 am. Pacific Coast
time), and it was estimated that the
second leg of the flight would require
36 hours. The first leg from Oakland,
Calif , to Honolulu, a distance of 2,400
mile*, was made in 27 hours and 28
minutes. The entire distance to Sydney
is approximately 7,800 miles.
Radie Teds of Dangers.
Radio dispatches picked up at Ssn
Francisco and Honolulu vividly desclbed
the second leg of the flight and told
of the dangers. First there were omi
nous dark clouds, a little rain arid then
a sputtering motor caused the naviga
tors temporarily to slacken speed. This
difficulty apparently disappeared as the
plane roared its way through the night
with a full moon furnishing the only
light.
Filing first at a low altitude to save
precious fuel, the ship was forced to
take altitude, the radio measkge an
nounced, to avoid the storm in its path.
They were forced to seek a course
above the clouds. "There's our friend
the moon." one message said, and there -
•after through the night the messages
epos* frequently of the beautiful sight
of the full moon beaming down upon
the clouds beneath the navigators.
Confident that Capt. Charles Kings
ford-Smith, skipper of the Southern
Crcas, and Charles Ulm, who is alter
nating at the controls, Navigator Harry
M Lyon and Radio Operator James
Warren, who comprise the crew, will
r'ach Suva. Harry Marks, mayor of the
little town on the coral dot in the ocean,
announced that the birdmen were to be
his guest* during their sojourn on bis
Island.
Pass Two Island Groups.
i Only two small coral island groups
dot the Pacific between the Hawaiian*
• and Suva, Fanning Island. 1.209 miles
distant from me Barking Sands take
off, was passed early m the night.
The Phoenix group lies 1 -866 miles
aoutiie&st of Kauai, was passed early
today, „
Capt Kingsford-Smith expressed his
Unqualified intention before the take
off yesterday of making Suva, and doubt
expressed by those at Kauai when
he left that an attempt would be made
to land the ship on any of the Phoenix
group unless fuel shortage made such a
landing necessary.
FIJI ISLANDERS AWAIT PLANE.
1 ” ~
Southern Cross to Be First Aircraft i
U Land at Suva.
SUVA, Fiji Inlands, June 4
Natives of the Fiji Islands awaited the
t irth of their lives today the arrival
of the tri-motored Soutiiern Cross,
which cruised through the night at a
r;j**d of more than SKi miles an hour
to reach here before sundown. The
craft wi.i be the first to land here |
MEBBACES TELL OF BATTLE.
Radio Description Picked L’p at Fan
ning Island.
FANNING ISLAND, June 4 UP).
Throughout the night this island in
mid-pacific was treated t/> a continuous
etory of the flight of the Houtherri :
Cross A aeries of radio messages put
i on the air as the plane played tag with
a storm told of the fight the huge craft
was making with the elements.
One* tlie radio man in the Southern
Cross. James Warner, called the radio
elation here, directing the subjoined
.auessa**;
Hello old man Nias place Hope
” 40>“t4nM*4 *+ Paige 4. Column 4,j
Atlantic Flyers
Upper: MISS .AMELIA EARHART.
Lower. WILMER STULTZ.
Southern Cross Log
On Flight to Suva
By the Associated Press.
SECOND LEG OF CALIFORNIA
FLIGHT (Honolulu time)
Monoplane Southern Cross left
Kauai, Hawaii. 5:20 a.m. Sunday
(7:50 a.m. Pacific Coast time), for
a 3,138-mile flight to Suva, Fiji
Islands, the second leg of projected
7,788-mile flight to Sydney, Aus
tralia. Barring accident the plane
should arrive at Suva in about 36
hours, approximately 8 p.m. Mon
day, Pacific Coast time.
First leg of flight, 2,400 miles,
from Oakland. Calif., to Wheeler
Field, Honolulu, starting at 8:51
a.m. Thursday last, required 27
hours 28 minutes.
Sunday.
5:20 am. (7:50 a.m. Pacific Coast
time)—Took off from Barking
Sands, Island of Kauai, Hawaii, for
Suva, in Fiji Islands.
6:12 a.m. (8:42 a.m. Pacific Coast
time)—"Receiving radio beacon
O. K."
6:50 ajn. (9:20 ajn. Pacific Coast
time)—"Average speed good —B2
miles an hour. Altitude, 500 feet.
Otfl generator pot delivering cur
rent. Will investigate later.”
8 a.m. (10:30 a.m. Pacific Coast
time) —"18.45 north latitude; 159.42
west. Elevation. 400 feet. Speed,
80 knots. Slightly overcast."
9 a.m. (11:30 a.m. Pacific Coast
time)—"Speed, 90 knots. Wind
about 10 knots on our tail. Position
about 340 miles on course."
10 a.m. (12:30 p.m. Pacific Coast
time)—"Speed, 88 miles. Going to
fix trouble now. Position about 430
miles on course."
11 a.m. (1:30 p.m. Pacific Coast
time) —"Speed, 82 knots; altitude,
*00." Position estimated 600 miles
from Kauai on plotted course.
11:48 a.m. (2:18 p.m. Pacific Coast
time) —"Rain ahead." Message re
ceived two minutes later said "rain
squalls.”
12 noon (2:30 p.m. Pacific Coast
time)—"Latitude, by observation,
12.47 north; by dead reckoning.
12.56; longitude. 163.13. Running
time, seven hours. Distance, 830.
Average speed, 90. Sea smooth, part
ly cloudy. Occasional squalls. Wind
approximately 15 miles east by north.
Ship behaving good. Motors doing
2 p.m. (4 30 p.m. Pacific Coast
time)—"Position, 10.10 north, 16455
west." Position estimated about 810
miles out.
3 49 pm. (6:10 p.m. Pacific Coast
time)—"One motor sounds bad,
dropped to 60 miles an hour.”
3:55 p.m. (6:25 p.m. Pacific Coast
time)—Message intercepted by naval
radio, San Francisco, indicated posi
tion 910 land miles from Kauai.
4:25 p.m. (6:55 p m. Pacific Coast
time)—Another message through
Ban Francisco naval radio said:
“Have been flying low all day to in
sure gasoline economy. Have en
countered many small rainstorms,
and recently the starboard (right)
motor started fluttering. All O. K.
now. Altitude, 600 feet. Speed, 72
knots. Quartering winds helping us.
Revolutions more economical than
on Hawaiian hop. Regards to all."
5 p.m, (7:30 pm. Pacific Coast
time Cross reported her
position slightly more than 1,100
mile* from Kauai.
6:24 p.m, (8:54 p.m, Pacific Coast
time)- Naval Radio Station at San
Francisco heard: "Black clouds
ahead."
630 ..p m. (9 pm. Pacific Coast_
(Continued on Page 4, Column 8.)
Thief Takes One Policeman s Revolver
And Uses It to Keep Another at Bay!
Entering the home of the two police
> men of the thirteenth precinct last
I night a colored burglar escaped after
! stealing the service revolver of one of
i the officers and using it to menace the
1 other policeman while he made his get*
: away
The burglar made his entrance
through the pantry window of the home
of Policeman Christopher C. Saunders,
1810 Delafteld place, about 0 16 o'clock
He then opened the front and back
] doors to clear the way for his escape
in case he was discovered.
Then, with a lighted cigar In his
mouth, the intruder cogty went upstal r s
and entered the room of policeman Wil
liam C. Oilff of the thirteenth precinct,
a roomer. He turned on the electric
light and gathered up the revolver,
watch and chain and base ball glove of
the policeman who was absent
The light attracted Mention of,
Itienma Siaf.
y J V V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1928-THIRTY-FOUR PAGES.
| Atlantic Plane
Has Woman
Aboard.
PLAN HOP-OFF
AFTER FUELING
Is First Aircraft to
Make the Attempt
With Pontoons.
By the Associated Press.
TREPASSEY. Newfoundland, June 4.
—The plane Friendship groomed for a
transatlantic flight, landed here at 1:28
Eastern daylight time. It left Halifax,
where its flight from Boston was inter
rupted by fog yesterday, at 8:36 a.m.
Eastern daylight time.
The Friendship had been held so ex
actly to her course and schedule in the
flight from Halifax that Pilot Wilmer
Stultz brought the ship down nearly 40
minutes ahead of the time he had an
nounced as he took off.
The plane, carrying Miss Amelia
Earhart of Boston and Lew Gordon be
side Stultz, is a three-motored Fokker,
equipped with pontoons. Leaving Bos
ton yesterday morning, the flyers stayed
overnight at Halifax because of dense
fog encountered.
HOPS OFF FROM HALIFAX.
Friendship Makes Perfect Take-off for
Newfoundland.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 4 UP).—
The monoplane Friendship hopped off
this morning for Trepassey, Newfound
land, on the next leg of a contemplated
flight across the Atlantic to England.
A perfect take-off from the Eastern
passage airport, on Halifax Harbor, was
made at 8:36 o’clock, Eastern daylight
saving time. The plane will be re
fuelled at Trepassey. Just before the
hop-off from here 100 gallons of gaso
line were put aboard.
Wilmer Stultz, who was pilot for Mrs.
Francis Wilson Grayson on her first
attempt to fly the Atlantic last year, is
pilot of the plane. The co-pilot is Miss
Amelia Earhart, amateur avtatrix and
director of Denison House, Boston's
oldest settlement center. She Is of fair
complexion and bears a striking resem
blance to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh,
whose tntil-bltatatf path across the
North Atlantic die hopes to follow.
Louis Gordon of Ban Antonio, Tex„ is
flight mechanic.
Purchased From Byrd.
The plane, equipped with pontoons. Is
a trimotored Fokker purchased from
Comdr. Richard S. Byrd. The expedi
tion is backed by the Mechanical
Science Corporation, represented by the
New York publisher and explorer,
George Palmer Putnam.
With no advance publicity, the plane
took off from Boston Harbor yesterday
morning for Trepassey. Running Into
fog off Halifax, Btultx turned back and
landed In the harbor here.
Present plans call for a stop at Tre
passey only long enough to fuel the
plane, then she will head out across the
Atlantic for London, her destination.
The flight is the first attempted by
a plane equipped for landing on water,
and is expetced to prove the practica
bility of airplane service to Europe.
Called Scientific Experiment.
"It is understood that the backers
of this enterprise are Interested pri
marily in scientific experimentation in
air transportation over water,” said a
statement from Mr. Putnam.
"For the first time in tranoceanlc
flying a tri-motored ship Is equipped
with pontoons, making it possible to
land anywhere in water. It Is this
type of equipment that Comdr. Byrd
has favored from the first as the in
evitable devolpment for long-distance
commercial flying over water." .
Had Not Told of Plans.
How well the secret was kept is shown
by the fact that even Miss Earhart’s
superiors in the Boston social service
work seemingly were unaware of her
plans. She had asked for a leave of
absence, which was granted, but had
not told of her plans for the ocean
flight.
Stultz, a month ago, announced that
he had been retained by Comdr. Byrd
to aid in tests for the forthcoming Ant
arctic expedition. He went to Boston
and has been making tests.
The take-off In Boston, shortly after
dawn, was made without benefit of
newspaper reporters. Even Miss Ear
hart’s mother and sister were not pres
ent, being Informed of the take-off by
telephone. A fourth member of the
party, Lou Gower, who had Intended to
accompany the party to Trepassey to
aid In refueling and servicing the plane
for her ocean flight, was left behind.
Difficulty was experienced in taking
off, and he got out of the plane. Minus
his weight the big Fokker finally got
off the water.
When the fog became dense off here
Stultz turned back and landed In the
harbor, which he saw through a hole
in the fog. When the weather cleared
later In the day he made another at
tempt to get through to Trepassey. but
(Continued on Page” 4, Column 7,)
Mrs, Saunders, who noticed that Ollff's
automobile had not returned. Saunders
got out of lied and went to Investigate.
He discovered that his service pwftol,
which he usually keeps on a chair by
his tied, had been left on the third floor
on the room of a sick grandchild.
Unarmed, he went toward OllfT’a
room and encountered the burglar,
Threatening Saunders with Oltfl’s re
volver, the burglar ordered him to "step
back" several times, prodding him with
ihe gun to emphasise the order. The
burglar then ran down the stairs and
out the back door.
Saunders ran upstairs for his pistol
and fired several shots in the hope of
attracting the attention of other police
men who might halt the fleeing man,
Saunders reported the Incident before
going on duty at midnight.
—" - * • '
, Radio Program* Page 17
WELCH BILL RAISES
EFFECTIVE JULY 15,
M’CARL DECURES
Government Workers Will Not
Have to Await Allocations
by Personnel Board.
OUTLINES ELABORATE
COMPUTATION FORMULA
\
Old “Average Provision” Still. in
Effect, Controller General’s
Ruling Says.
Attempt* of the Personnel Classifica
tion Board to take at least partial su
pervision over administration of the
Welch salary Increase act were blocked
today by Controller General McCarl,
who issued general regulations to all
branches of the Government, ordering
into effect July 15 all increases pro
vided by law, by means of atT" auto
matic system of mathematics, to be
administered by departmental execu
tives.
The McCarl decision means that
Government employes will not have to
wait for allocations by the Personnel
Classification Board, which sometimes
takes a long time, but must be paid the
increases automatically on July 15. un
der the operation of the McCarl math
ematical formula.
Increases Are Mandatory.
McCarl holds the increases are man
datory under the Welch law, and will
not Interfere with other raises in pay
which executive department heads had
planned, quite apart and distinct from
the Welch law'.
Although no appropriations w'ere
made to carry out provisions of the
Welch act, McCarl holds that the sal
aries must be paid and "if deficiency
in appropriations arises hereafter by
reason therof, report thereon is for sub
mission to the Congress at its next
session." Plenty of money exists in
the salary appropriations for the new
year to pay the raises until Congress
meets in December to supplement the
money available by a deficiency ap
propriation.
The heart of the McCarl regulations
is a mathematical formula which is to
be applied in determining the relative
positions in the new salary scale for
employes. Generally speaking, it will
work out so that persons who are near
the half-way mark now between two
salaries in the new pay scale will go
to the new salary to which they are
the nearest. If they are a fraction
over half way they go up; if a frac
tion under half, they go back in the
number of their grade, but with an
increase in pay. »o one is to be de
creased in pay. This mathematical
question is elaborately explained by
McCarl with illustrations. Government
executives were studying the regula
tions today with a view to putting them
into effect for the July 15 pay.
Beard Asked for Reports.
The Personnel Classification Board, it
was learned today, had recently issued
a circular to all Government establish
ments asking for reports on all persons
in certain 'grades, with a view to mak
ing “allocations" under the Welch bill.
Although the Personnel Classification
Board is not mentioned by name in the
McCarl regulations, it is understood, the
board’s attempts are blocked and voided.
An important feature of the regula
tions is that the old so-called "average
provision’’ still operates under the new
Welch law. according to McCarl’a in
terpretation, but the changes of steps
made in the law make it possible for
the increases to be put into effect along
with the operation of the "average pro
vision." This provision requires that
the average of the total amount of sal
aries received by Government employes
in any grade shall not exceed the aver
age of the. total amount of salaries
named by law as the various steps in
that grade. This provision has been the
means of holding down promotions, and,
it is understood, will still be the means
of controlling promotions in the future,
but alii not prevent Increases under the
Welch act.
Explaining the operation of the for
mula which will give all Government
employes their relative positions under
the new law and determine the salary
raise they will receive July 15, McCarl
said;
"In determining what Is the ‘same
relative position or positions within
their respective grades,* as contem
plated by the provision first above
quoted from the amended statute,
there should be a comparison of the
total number of salary rates in cor
responding grades under the original
and amended statutes and a compari
son of the relative place of each posi
tion in each corresponding grade. In
all cases in which the corresponding
grades under the original and amended
acts have the same number of salary
rates, the relative position! under the
new schedule is. of course, the position
having the corresponding salary-rate
number as the rate at which the em
ploye was paid under the old schedule
as of June 30, 1928.
Position Represented by Fraction.
"Where there are a different number
of salary rates in corresponding grades
under the old and new schedule, the
relative place of the position in the
grade under the original schedule may
be represented by a fraction, the de
nominator of which is the total number
of salary rates in the grade and the
numerator of which is the place in tire
grade of the salary rate at which the
employe Is paid, represented by one for
the minimum salary and so on. Then
the relative place of suoh position in
the corresponding grade under the
schedule in the amended statute will be
determined by multiplying such fraction
by the whole number which represents
the total number of salary rates in the
schedule under the amended statute.
(Continued on Page 4, Column 1) "’
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CHANG SERIOUSLY
INJURED BY BOMB
Train in Which Manchurian
War Lord Was Traveling
Blown Up.
- s.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO, June 4.—Dispatches from
Mukden, Manchuria, say that Chang
Tao-Lln, former North China dictator,
who was Injured in a bomb explosion
this morning en route to Mukden from
Peking, is reported in a serious condi
tion.
Mukden dispatches to Rengo. Japan
ese news agency, state that Wu Chun
>heng. military governor of the province
3f Heilungkiang, has died from injuries
which he suffered in the bomb outrage.
lUe dispatch says that his death was
kept secret lest it disturb troops in his
MW vince.
Wu Chun-Sheng was traveling with
Chang Tso-Lln to Mukden when two
bombs were dropped on their special
train as it was approaching the Man
zhurlan capital.
V. 8. WITHDRAWAL ASKED.
Nationalists Promise to Protect Amer
icans in North China Area.
SHANGHAI, June 4 (A*).—The Nanking
Nationalist government has asked the
United States to withdraw its troops
from North China.
In answering the American note of
May 18, regarding protection of Ameri
can property and lives in North China,
the Chinese version of the Nanking re
ply issued today stated the Nationalists
intended to use only well disciplined
troops in Peking and Tientsin “thus as
sisting in the protection of Americans.”
The reply concluded by asking the
withdrawal of the American troops “in
order to Improve the traditionally
friendly relations between the two
countries."
The note was handed to Edwin S.
Cunningham, consul general in Shang
hai. for transmission to John Van A.
Mae Murray, American Minister in
Peking, and to Washington.
Conquered Troops Problem.
A knotty problem confronting the
Nationalist government is how to dis
pose of two of the Northern armies, the
soldiers of which do not wish to follow
Chang Tso-Lln into Manchuria and are,
in fact, not wanted there by the ex
dictator of Peking.
The troops, 70,000 in number, are na
tives of Shantung and Chihli provinces.
One contingent is under Marshal Sun
Chuan-Fang, former ruler of the live
Southeastern provinces. His armies
have always had a reputation for good
discipline. The other contingent is
under Chang Tsung-Chang, a Shantung
leader, whose forces have never been
noted for their orderly behavior.
Fear Trouble in Disarming.
The South China leaders do not wish
to incorporate these troops in their
victorious Nationalist armies and they
fear that an attempt to disarm them
while their nay Is several months in ar
rears. would lead to serious trouble.
Sun Chang-fang is understood to be
in Peking. It was rumored here that
he might attempt a coup d'etat there.
Chang Tsung-Chang is at Tientsin. He
is reported as disinclined to acquiesce
quietly in the transfer of Peking to the
Southerners.
The Southern government officials
therefore, consider that three two men
and their armed followers form a po
tential menace to peaceful administra
tion of Peking and Tientsin,
The bombing has caused some ten
sion between the Chinese and Japanese
an the Japanese declared the Cnlnese
aboard the train fired at random and
mainly directed their "fire at Japanese
K" trmes guarding the railway. The
replied and for 40 minutes there
was an exchange of shots.
At least two suspects were arrested
and reported to have been sununarUy
shot while a number of Mukden officials
also are said to be under arrest. Jap
anese report* say that the bomba were
of Soviet manufacture.
Two bombs were dropped on the train
as it was passing under a railway
bridge at 8:30 o'clock this morning. The
bombs blew up the eleventh coach and
set lire to four others coaches which
were destroyed by the blaae. The num
ber of casualties was not definitely
known.
SUN’A RESIGNATION REPORTED.
General Declared to Have Announced
Withdrawal From Tientsin.
TOKIO, June 4 (A*) A message from
Tientsin today said that Gen. Hun
Chuan-fang, one of Marshall Chang
Tso-Lin'a allies, had resigned hla com
mand of tire Shantung and Chihli
armies and announced his withdrawal
from Tientsin,
EDSON QUITS HOSPITAL
Financier Reported to Be Recover
ing From Injuries in Accident.
John Joy Edson, prominent financier
and philanthropist, who suffered a
fractured skull when he was hit by an
automobile on the afternoon of May 11,
is now out of the hospital, and Is re
covering today at his home, 1324 Six
teenth street.
Mr. Edson spent about three weeks
In Emergency Hospital, near death, but
his vitality was able to overcome the
handicap of age. He spent his eighty
second birthday, May 17, In the hos
pital.
HELENWILLSWINS
HARD COURT TITLE
Defeats Eileen Bennett at
Auteuil —Cochet Downs
Lacoste.
By th* Associated Press.
AUTEUIL. France, June 4.—Helen
Wills of the United States and Henri
Cochet of France today were crowned
champions in the men’s and women’s
Singles of the international hard court
tennlg tournament. Miss Wills defeat
ed Eileen Bennett of England In
straight sett, B—l, 6—2. and Cochet s
final round victory was won over his
countryman. Rene Lacoste, 5—7, 6—3,
6—l, 6—3.
Miss Wills* triumph here today made
her the women’s champion of France
as well as of England and the United
States. It was her first tournament
victory at Parte since 1924, when she
won in the Olympics.
Cochet now holds two of the three
big national titles—the championships
of England and France. Lacoste, whom
he beat today with the Inspired tennis
to which Henri rises at times, holds
the American crown.
Miss Wills won the deciding match,
as she has previous matches in this
tournament, with consummate ease,
dropping only three games, two of
which were on her service. In the en
tire tournament, including the final, she
lost but 13 games and never was forced
to extra sets.
In the first, set of th* match between
La Coste and Cochet games went with
service until they stood at 3-all when
La Coste broke through for the set. The
clash of these two stars of the French
Davis Cup team produced wonderful
tennis.
Cochet. one set down, began in the
second set the intensive attack which
he usually manages to produce when
trailing. Seldom. If ever, has La Coste
done so much running on the eourts as
he was forced to do In this set.
Cochet’s victory was something of an
upset, as La Coste. who holds the eham-
Slonshtp of France and the United
tates, was a popular favorite before
the match. Cochet, however, had one
of his inspired days and played unbeat
able tennis after dropping the first set
In characteristic manner. In the last
three seta he kept La Coate constantly
on the run with trap shots and sharply
angled returns.
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WARREN AT WHITE HOUSE.
Chairman of 1094 G. 0. P. Platform
Committee teea President.
By th« Associated Press.
Charles Beacher Warren of Michigan,
chairman of the resolutions committee
in the 1904 Republican convention at
Cleveland, called upon President Cool
ldge today at the White House.
Mr. Warren said that he had come
from Detroit especially for the Inter
view. and that he wouW return immedi
ately to Detroit prior to proceeding to
the Kansas City convention aa delegate
at large and vice chairman of hts State
delegation.
"Cool, Wet Spring" Complaint Disproved;
Weather Warmer and Dryer Than Normal
Although farmer* are complaining
that the weather this Spring ha* been
too coca and too wet for successful early
planting, record* of the Weather Bu
reau here ahow that the first five
montha of thle year, taken a* a whele,
were warmer and dryer than usual.
Not counting the rain due to fall to
day and tomorrow, the records disclose
that the total rainfall ao far this year
la t <l4 Inches leas than normal. At
the same time the dally temperature
average has been about one degree
above normal.
A steady, light rain la forecast tor to
night and rain or showers for tomorrow,
with little change In temperature.
While April end May were rather wet
And cool. Ithe .preceding three ucaonth*
The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press news
service.
G4*) Meant Aeeociated Prete. TWO CENTS.
PRIMARY EXPENSES
MW SAYS KEEN
Victor in New Jersey Contest
Appears Before Reed
Committee.
By the Associated Press.
Hamilton F. Kean, victor in the re
cent five-cornered Republican sena-j
torial race in New Jersey, informed the I
Reed campaign funds committee today
that he turned over $50,000 to his cam
paign manager and that all but SI,OOO
of it was spent.
With SI,OOO left but unretumed.
Kean said he understood all bills had
been paid. He had "very little infor
mation about where the money went."
Kean, who is also Republican na
tional committeeman for New Jersey,
was the first called in the Senate’s in
quiry Into expenditures hi the New Jer
sey primary race.
Discusses Advertisement.
Senator Reed. Democrat, Missouri, j
chairman of the committee, questioned
Kean and finally asked him directly
if he knew of any other money than
the $50,000 fund which was spent in
his behalf.
Kean then discussed an advertise
ment appearing in a Philadelphia pa- I
per in which Edward C, Stokes, his
leading opponent, eharged him with
violation of the law. He insisted he
did not know who put the advertise
ment in the paper. It might have been
put In by some one In the Camden
organization, he said.
As for the many meetings he attend
ed and addressed. Kean said he didn't
help pay for them, although he had
been asked to.
Other than the advertisement, all his
expenses were confined to the $50,000
fund of his own, Kean added, and no
one else, so far as he knew, contributed
to hla campaign He had no idea, he
said, whether various couhty organiza
tions spent money in his behalf. Pub
licity agents were paid front the $50,000.
Asked why he didn’t help pay for
the meetings, Kean replied he “couldn’t
afford to.”
Senator Reed said It was "generally I
understood you are comfortably’ fixed." ;
Kean chuckled and SAld he would like !
to organize a syndicate to cash in on
the “rumors.” He explained he couldn't !
afford to go beyond the $50,000 limit.
Asked About Business. Y
The primary winner hesitated when
asked to name his business and finally !
said "You better call it merchant and
securities."
He said he had started after the nom
ination about last January, although
he had had the senatorshlp In mind for 1
10 years or more. His Intention to run j
in the primary was reached on January !
5, he added, when his county organiza
tion unanimously indorsed him for Sen- j
ator.
“If that had not happened I would
not have run,” Kean said. “I then;
went to John Scott of Newark, and
asked him to be manager of my cam-1
paign and I went to work.”
Kean described himself in the cam- I
paign as a “chicken with Us head off.
more or less, moving around all over
the State, shaking hands and renewing
acquaintances.”
He referred the committee to Scott
for details of his campaign organiza
tion,
Senator King, Democrat, Utah, ques
tioned Kean about his organization and
tsked particularly about Isaac Knutt
md Mrs. H. Blanch Harris, who he said
were negroes Kean said Mrs. Harris
was employed by his manager and he 1
understood the two were paid about
1250.
Kean had no knowledge of payments
io George Bates and John T Cheshire,
named by King. He dented employ
nent of workers. Admitting that num
erous charges were made against him
tCoatlnued on Page a.’ Column 1.)
were decidedly dry and warm, so that
the general mean hovered near nor
matey, or slightly above It, Forecaster
Mitchell tainted out today.
January's temperature was 3 5 de
grees above normal, February's 3.4 de
ireea above, March's Ift degrees above,
Lprll'a 14 degrees below normal and
May's Just a trifle below normal. Jan
uary. February and March ware gen
erally rainless, but April and May made
up for lost time. The temperature for
June, thus far, has been a Utile above
normal.
Associate Forecaster Weightman. In
charge of prognostication this month,
expects that the peasant rainy spell will
be very brief, Warm weather appears
to be tn prospect for the latter p%rt of
a the wee 4, he said.
Saturday’s Circulation, 99,691
Sunday’s Circulation, 109,424
TALK OF COOLIDGE
REVIVED AS G. 0. P.
CHIEFTAINS MEET
National Committee Gathers
at Kansas City to Decide
Delegate Contests.
75 SEATS ARE INVOLVED
IN FACTIONAL BATTLES
%
Hoover Supporters Claiming Vic
tory—Hughes Shift Is
Humored.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
KANSAS CITY. June 4.—The strug
gle for supremacy In the Republican
national convention got under way here
today. The first round, the contest over
delegates from Southern States and
Porto Rico and the District of Columbia,
involving 75 delegate peats, began be
fore the Republican national committee.
Many of the delegates against whom
contests have been filed are supporting
Herbert Hoover. In the main the con
testants are of the “uninstructed" type,
some of them supposed to be for Low
den or Dawes or Curtis. While the
actual machinery went into operation at
the Shrine temple, the air was full of
rumors regarding candidates and their
chances. The Hoover supporters are
here in force, claiming that their candi-
I date will be nominated within the first
three ballots.
The name of President Cooiidge, how-
I ever, is put forward by Charles D. Hilles
of New York, vice chairman of the Re
publican national committee. Mr. Hilles
has been the chief leader in the en
[ deavor to hold the line against Secre
tary Hoover in the important New York
delegation. Unless flat word comes from
Washington that the Presdient will not
run, the effort will be made to nom
inate him. or at least to bring his name
into the convention balloting.
Hughes Shift Rumored.
Among Missouri Republicans, there is
talk of a shift to Charles Evans Hughes,
former Secretary of State, for the presi-
I dential nomination. But the talk has
1 not spread as yet.
How much the persistent Cooiidge
, movement —it bobs up continuously in
the ’“buzzings” of the party managers
on the ground here —represents real be
lief that there is a chance of getting
1 the President to run. and what part
of it is brazen submarine politics de
signed to keep the so-called "draft”
delegates locked up away from Hoover,
is a matter of opinion.
• But ft is perfectly apparent now that
' unless Cooiidge says something with a
final tone to it. there will be. if not a
real effort to nominate him. at
least an attempt to use his name in
maneuvering for a deadlock. It is also
obvious that a few words from the
White House would blow the situation
; wide open in a second with the very
probable result of a Hoover nomination
in a rush.
So great is the interest shown by
arriving party chieftains in the Corn
Brit protest sind the proportions it may
assume. ”leaders” have their ears tuned
' to catch the White House as well as
the Com Belt revolt. Those clinging
to the • draft" occupy a nervous posi
’ Hon. one apt to blow up on them with
out warning, but they intend to play
it to the end.
Hilles’ Stand Analysed.
As to where Mr. Hilles would go. in
event President Cooiidge spiked an
effort to bring his name into the pro
ceedings here as the Hoover forces
confidently believe he will, either by
public or private word, there has been
no revealing. But, unlike Secretary
Mellon, who has indicated his willing
ness to go to Secretary Hoover, and
Chairman William M, Butler, who. in
view of the primary vote for Hoover in
Massachusetts, will start off voting for
him, Hilles is ticketed anti-Hoover tp
the end. He never has said so—only that
he preferred Cooiidge and that the New
York delegation should remain uncom
mitted until it reached Kansas City.
But he is figured in every anti-Hoover
calculation.
From East, from West, from North,
from South, the Republican party com
mitteemen and eommitteewemen poured
into Kansas City last night. One and
| all are expecting a great convention,
a fighting convention, even though the
prevailing sentiment, as they milled
the situation over with theta party col
leagues on arlrval. was that Hoover
would be difficult to stop, despite the
renewed drive for Cooiidge from East
' ern quarters and the nimble and roar
from the corn belt over the McNary
j Haugen farm bill veto.
Delegate Contest.
Edward F. Colladay, Repub Van na
; tional committeeman tor the District
, of Columbia, expressed confidence to
day that the two delegates from the
District. T. Lincoln Townsend and Dr.
John R. Hawkins, would be seated In
the convention.
Notice of a contest against them has
been given by Aaron Bradshaw and
Aaron P. Prloleau. but there was doubt
today as the committee assembled that
it would consider the contest. The cer
tificates of election of the contesting
delegates, it was said, had not been
properly filed wtthtn the period specified
by the national committee The expec
tation is, in any event, that the Coda
day delegatee will be seated.
The contests before the committee
Involve also the whole Florida delega
tion. 9 seats; 3 delegates from the
first, fifth and seventh districts of
Georgia, 2 delegates from the first dis
trict of Kentucky. 13 delegates from
Louisiana, the whole delegation; 12
delegates from Mississippi, the entire
delegation; 4 delegates at large from
South Carolina. 3 delegates from Ten
nessee. 2g delegates from Texas, tne
entire delegation, and 3 delegate* from
Porto Rico.
The Florida contest brought to the
committee the strife between the
George Bean and anti-Bean factions.
Mr Bean is the Republican national
committeeman front the State. Former
Senator Sherman of Illinois, now a res
ident of Florida, Is Asking the delega
tion against Mr. Bean. Th* anti-Bean
delegates are instructed for Hoover
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Rain Prevents Contest in St. Loot*
With Browna.
Special ivtepaii-a h> TXe star.
ST. LOU 18. June 4. Washington's
game with the Browna was postponed
thi* afternoon on account of rain.
era scheduled te pipy %