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WEATHER. (IT. 9 W-ather Bureau Foiwcaat.) Occasional showers tonight and to morrow; not much change in tempera ture. Temperatures—Highest. 82, at noon today; lowest, 63, at 4 p.m. yesterday. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 i Entered as second class matter : AO. «)U,<lll. post office. Washington. It. t\ PACIFIC AMORS, AT SUVA, SEEKING RUNWAY TO START HOP TO AUSTRALIA Find Field Where Southern Cross Landed Too Small for Start of 1.700-Mile Trip to Brisbane. NEXT JUMP HELD MOST DANGEROUS OF FLIGHT Tour Airmen Cheered by Thousands of Many Nationalities on Ar rival at Fiji in First Plane Ever Seen bv South Sea Islanders. j Public Holiday Declared. Br the Assisted rr**s». SUVA. Fiji Islands. June 6 < Wednes day).—Having successfully traversed approximately 5.538 miles of ocean be tween Oakland. Calif.: Hawaii and Suva, the flyers of the monoplane Southern Cross today start preparations for the next 1.700-mile hop to Bris bane, en route to Sydney, Australia. They secured a long rest last night to make up for the more than 33 wake ful, tempestuous, anxiety-fraught hours that were passed during their flight lrcm Kauai, an island of the Hawaiian group, to Suva. There were many things to be done; checking of the gasoline supply remain ing in the fuel tanks of the Southern Cross, locating of a site from which the refueled plane can take off safely for its flight over the sea toward Aus tralia examination of the three motors that labored faithfully through miles and storms and to study weather chart* and maps to decide the time and course of the shortest but perhaps the most hazardous leg of the unprecedented tight. Capt. Charles Kingsford-Smith, Aus tralian pilot; Charles Ulm, Australian co-pilot; Harry W. Lyon, former sea skipper and navigator, and James Warner, radio operator, were regarded as quite important personages in Suva today. They were objects of admira tion "bv all, from the bushy-haired na tive Fijians to the white inhabitants. The four men who flew in from the sea yesterday afternoon in the strange, powerful blue and silver bird of cloth, wood and steel were centers of attrac tion wherever they went. Seek Take-Off Place. One of the most important problems before the flyers was to select a take off point. Albert Park, where the Southern Cross landed yesterday after noon, was barely large enough to ac commodate the plane on its arrival. Unweighted by a large store of gaso line, the pilots missed running into the side of the taclosure but by 20 yards, and then only by making a sharp left turn up onto a rise ground. Taking off with 900 gallons of gaso line and ofl. the amount estimated re quired for the flight to Australia, will require a straight lengthy nanway heading into the wind. Kingsford- Ensitb intimated that he intended look ing over a stretch of beach near the city, a sandy, level bit of ground that might accommodate the during low tide. Possibly, be thought, there might be other places even more suit 6l3The flyers were unanimous in agree ing that'each member of the crew con tnbuxed invaluable service toward the success of the flight thus far. Dur ing a reception in the Grand Pacific Hotel shortly after th* P*? ne the mavor of Suva lauded Capt. Kings ford-Smith. pilot of the expedition The captain parried the compliment by saving that had it not been for his two Sr. friends. Lyon and Warner, he could not have accomplished the trip successfully. Praises Kingsford-Smith. Then Warner spoke by saying that during the crew’s anxiety during the gf-rere rain, thunder and lightning storm of Sunday night when the plane wax midway between the Hawaiian and Ei. i Ir lands, it was fully realized that “Smithy" was the only man that cornd have brought them safely Warner referred to Kingsford-Smith s maneuvering of the controls so that the huge plane dodged and wove through the storm clouds up from an altitude of mi feet to nearly 8.000 feet, seemmgly * fliing in circles at times, in the effort to mb* the full fury of the tropical Kingsford-Smith referred to Lyon, who as navigator of the plane shot what stars he could find through the black clouds to chart the course to the tiny dot of land. Deviation* from trie course meant wasted gasoline and po*- tiijx disaster. The plane left Kauai early Sunday morning with a bare zoo (rues gasoline safety margin. The flyer* did not try to conceal the feet that the storm had them worried Kingsford-Smith declared that he "would never have to fly through tmen Weather again in a thousand years.“ Next Leg Dangerous. Tiie course between Suva and Aus tralia although a comparatively snort of the transpacific flight, is consid ered by many here as being particular ly dangerous at this time of tiie year jbnort, violent storm* peculiar to the South Seas are known to sweep the seas drring tne Summer montji* when cool s r currents swinging north clash with tropical currents and the result* are nnghty. swirling gales. But the flyers who successfully crossed the u-». between Oakland and Hawaii aid between Hawaii and Suva were confident that tney would not faii. With H hours and 33 minutes re- s gfuired for the flight from Hawaii, the | fb/utherr, Cross in ad a total fly big time • of Vi hours and on* minute lor tlie j flyrfet two legs of the 7 800-odd mile* to j S.ydiiey. fone O'/’rered the 2 400 mile* from Oakland. Calif., to Wheeler Field. Honolulu, in 27 labors arid 28 minutes •fnu* far she ha* averaged about 89 griff** an hour After ho- hoj> t/> Brisbane »he avl- ; irt fare a flight of about 500 mile* to Sydney. Fublir Holiday fl*<J»r*4. A public holiday was declared here yesterday in honor of the Southern r;rore and tlie four men of it* AO- S' ralian - American ere w •} he plane wa* Ui* first ever seen in I- * arid St excib d the wonderment of thousands of natives and the admlr*- t.,./, of their more traveled European »-,d American friends Four grinning temporarily deaf alr tCuhtinus# on hag* A Coluaan 8^ WINDS DELAY WOMAN FLYER'S • j TAKE-OFF ACROSS ATLANTIC I Newfoundland Gales Hold Up Start of Friendship From Trepassey—Refueling of Monoplane Completed. i By the Associated Press. [) TREPASSY, Newfoundland. June s.—Refueling of the monoplane Friendship j w - as completed this afternoon. The aviators, Miss Amelia Earhart, Wilbur Stultz | n nd Louis Gordon, wore awaiting an abatement of the high wind before starting I j their transatlantic flight. j The monoplane was buffeted by strong northwest winds early today, which .; delayed plans for completion of fueling. • An intimation that the Friendship might fly beyond England was given by , Miss Earhart. Pilot Wilmer Stultz and Mechanic Louis Gordon in conversation here this morning. They said that their plans for a landing place on the other side of the Atlantic were indefinite. Their purpose, they added, was to fly until their fuel was exhausted and then descend, and they hoped to make a longer i flight than any of their predecessors over this route. Wind Too Strong for Fueling. At 8 am . Eastern daylight time, the wind was still too strong for a resump tion of refueling operations. The visibility was perfect. Knocking off work at sundown yesterday. Miss Earhart. Stultz and Gordon rested through the night for the arduous hours ahead of them. Clad in brown knickers and high laced boots. Miss Earhart appeared to be in high spirits on the eve of her great adventure-—backed by an organization headed by George Palmer Putnam. New York publisher and Arctic explorer. Every precaution was taken to make the flight as safe as possible. The plane has three motors, any two of which will keep it in flight. It has been given extensive tests lasting over a period of seven weeks as to fuel consumption, lifting capacity and air speed. It is equipped with pontoons and carries two j radio sets. An emergency one can be operated even if the plane is forced down | and the motors are silenced. (Continued on Page 3. Column 4.) 1 THREE S 0 S CALLS BELIEVED ITALIA’S Soviet Rescue Commission Convinced Nobile Descended in Franz Josef Land. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW. Russia, June s.—The So viet meteorological station in Siberia reported today that it had picked up what was believed to be an S O S from the missing dirigible Italia, but that the location could not be secured. Two other Siberian stations, SOB and PUR, reported hearing the same call. The Soviet rescue commission, which is planning to send an expedition to Franz Josef Land to seek the Italia, was further convinced today that Gen. Nobile had descended at that place by reports of wireless messages picked up as late as 7:55 last night, thought to be directly from the Italia. Picks Up Italia Call. Advices received from Murmansk to day said that a message from the Italia announcing her descent on Franz Josef Land had been picked up by the wire less station at Obdorsk, Tobolsk, Siberia. The trawler Loutohinski, off the Mur man coast, also reported hearing calls believed to be from the Italia, but that she was unable to pick up actual com munication because of atmospheric in terference. The rescue commission published this morning a statement giving the full text of what was supposed to be the call of distress of the Italia and expressing the belief that the Italian language, in which the message was couched, as well as the wave length in which it was received, indicated with a fair degree of certainty that Gen. Nobile and his crew would finally be located on Franz Josef Land. The statement was signed by I. S. Un schlicht, vice commissar for war. Like Italia Wave. The supposed message from the Italia was picked up by a radio amateur at Voznesensk, in North Dvinsk province, and was received on a 33.35 wave, cor responding to the Italia's radio. Unschlicht ordered two Soviet ships, the Persey and the Taimir. to proceed as soon as possible to Franz Josef Land. The vessels will be provided with airplanes and aeroslelghs. The text of the message as confirmed by the radio amateur who picked it up was as follows: "Italia Nobile Franz Josefs 8 0 8, S O S. S O 8. S O 8, terri teno ehn." No explanation was offered for the last three words, which may have been garbled in transmission. KINGS BAY SKEPTICAL. Searchers Doubt Italia Landed on Franz Josef Land. KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, June 5 <A r ). —Reports from Russia that wireless messages had been picked up from the dirigible Italia, stating that she had landed on Franz Josef Land, are meet ing with much skepticism among the searchers at Kings Bay. The theory supported by Lieut. Luet zow Holm, Norwegian flyer, who is now 1 en route to North Spitzbergen to take up the search from the air, is that the Italia descended on the polar ice north of Spitzbergen, and that there was very little chance she was blown to Franz Josef Land. 1 There is a possibility that dog teams will be sent to Northeast Land, across Hlnlopen Straits, from West Spitzber gen, to explore this seldom-visited re gion. r The Hobby, with Lieut. Holm aboard, was believed to have reached Virgo Bay this forenoon, and it was thought prob . able that t/ie Norwegian plane would make a reconnaissance, since the weath \ * er was favorable for flying ‘ : Lieut. Holm also intended to watch ‘ tire progress of some of tire Alpine : troops hunting the crew of the Italia , by land One group headed for Mossel I Bay, on the northern coast, ha* not 51 Hatched there yet, No fear was enter* (Continued on Page 2, Column H > 1 ‘ * X-Rays of Baby Egyptian Mummies Show They Had Childhood Ills of Present Day Hf the A**ori*l4Xt l*( "»* CHICAGO, June 6 ft the spirit* of j two infant Egyptian mummies in the Field Museum read newspapers they it, ay team they suffered from scoliosis arid malnutrition Pathological studies of X-ray photo graphs of ancient Egyptian mummies have been made for the first time The results, made known yesterday by Act ing Director Bteplwn C. Rimma of the i Field Museum, showed the two Egyp tian children, who** mummies have long been familiar to museum-goer* here, suffered the sam* childhood ills that prevail today, Dr Cora A Matthew*, diagnostician tA 'At* Cpwa Count* Hospital, toudu«c ©he eratta Jfe. v J WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TOKIO BEARS GUANG IS DEAD OE WOUNDS Japan Fears Bombing of Train May Lead to Uprising in Manchuria. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June s.—The Mukden cor respondent of the Japanese newspaper Jiji Shimpo today reported that Chang Tso-Lin. once northern dictator, had died from injuries received when his train was bombed yesterday. There was no confirmation of this from any other source. The correspondent said that news of Chang’s death was being kept secret. Another Japanese newspaper also re ceived the report that Chang Tso-Lin was dead. Impossible to Verify. Because of the secrecy being main tained in official quarters it was im possible to verify these reports. If they should prove true id was feared that the bombing of the train might lead to serious consequences threatening peace in Manchuria. A Japanese war office dispatch, how ever, confirmed the death of Wu Chun- Sheng, military governor of Heilung kiang. Wu had risen from the ranks to become virtually the acting gover nor of Manchuria. Mo Teh-Hui. Chang’s minister of agriculture, and Yu Kuohan. one of Chang's advisers, were in a serious con dition today. Premier Pan Fu was re ported to be suffering from shock. Japanese Not Blamed. Both Chinese and Japanese authori ties at Mukden were investigating the outrage. Press dispatches said that demonstrations of anti-Japanese feel ing among the Chinese had calmed down when it was established that the Japanese had no conectio* with the bombing. Japanese official quarters appeared confident today that there would be no serious disturbances necessitating the sending of additional Japanese troops. Five thousand soldiers are in Mukden at present and it was thought that this force would be sufficient to deal with any emergency. BRIDGE REPORTED BLOWN UP Railway Span Wrecked to Prevent Withdrawal of Troops. SHANGHAI, China, June 5 OP).—The railway bridge at the Yangtsun, 18 miles northwest of Tientsin, is reported to have been blown up, thus holding up the withdrawal of two Manchurian army corps to Mukden. The bridge was said to have been de stroyed by 20,000 troops which formed part of the Northern armies. The Manchurian troops were brought to Peking by Chang Tso-Lin and had long formed the chief part of his army. These 20,000 troops are part of an army of 70,000 men, made up of forces from the provinces of Chihli and Shan tung. which hitherto formed part of the Northern armies under the com mand of Gen Bun Chuan-Fang and Chang Tsung-Chan, but have now been placed under Marshal Chi Hsieh-Yuan after an intrigue among the officers. Chang Hsueh-Liang, son of Chang Tso-Lin, who left Peking with his staff last night, is trying to negotiate a peaceful passage to Mukden, but wheth er he will flr»d his trip to the Man churian capital cut off remains to be seen. GATES OF PEKING CLOSED. Flood of Deserters from Chang’s Army Causes (’neasiness. PEKING, June 5 OP) Because of the many deserters from the Mukden armies of Chang Tso-Lin, until .Sunday dictator in Peking, wandering about the north side of tin* city, the gates of Peking were ordered closed this •morning The order was issued by the commit tee of public safety under Wang Bhi- Chen, whom Chang requested to ar range for peace and order in the city (Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) « ed Ur* studies One child, she found, had that same scoliosis, or spinal curva ture, so common among school children of the present day, due to a slouched sitting posture, Photographs of the <(ther, a baby, revealed transverse lines of irregular calcium development in Ure isineM, typical of the condition caused by improper and inadequate feeding among many children of poor families today. Use of the X-ray is a new departure in museum practice, Htniyis said, and open* up a new avenue of anthropo logical, botanical, geological and zoo logical research, making possible exam ination of specimen* without damaging UvtMk WASHINGTON, D. 0., TUESDAY, .TUNE 5, 1928-FORTY PAGES. * SLAYERS OF BUSCH LOSE REVIEW PLEA IN SUPREME COURT Tribunal Closes Door to Their Rescuer-Trio Doomed to Die Friday. HEARING POSTPONEMENT IS GRANTED BY JUDGE Woman Attorney for Proctor Says Petition for Clemency Will Be Sent President. The Supreme Court of the United States today refused to review the case of Nicholas Lee Eagles, Samuel Moreno and John Proctor, young men now under death sentence at the District jail for the murder of Policeman Leo W. K. Busch. While the decision erased the last hope of the slayers to escape the elec tric chair through the courts, a post ponement by Justice Jennings Bailey of a hearing on their motion for an extension of the sentence effective Fri day brought encouragement to the trio. Justice Bailey, at an informal confer ence with their counsel, requested that .they make their motion Thursday, the day before the execution. At the conference it was announced by Miss May T. Bigelow, counsel for Proctor, that a petition for executive clemency would be filed with the Presi dent immediately. Inasmuch as this petition must en counter much legal machinery in the Department of Justice, it was felt by the defense counsel that it could not be delivered to the White House prior to Friday morning./the date now standing for the electrocution. Smile at News. The condemned men, apprised of the decision at 12:40. took the news with a Anile. They appeared to have expected an adverse decision. "I thought the news would be black.” Eagles declared with a shrug of his shoulders. Neither Proctor or Moreno had any thing to say but also appeared philo sophical as they learned that their last hope for life had been denied. The three slayers were brought to the courthouse shortly after noon from the District Jail In order to be present in open court when the motion was made, but as the subject was taken up in formally at the bench, the condemned men were not brought upstairs into the courtroom. Miss Bigelow, who was present at the Supreme Court, when the motion for re view was denied, said that Proctor ap peared to be shocked by the verdict of the highest court. don’t think they've been kidding themselves too much,” Miss Bigelow ob served in c ommenting on the manner in which they received the information that their last legal chance of escape from the electric chair had vanished. Taken from Cell*. At 2 o’clock the three were taken from their ceils, on the ground floor of the courthouse, and placed in the "black maria” for conveyance back to the jail. Proctor, with a new straw hat tilted on the side of his head, a flashy necktie and a neat blue suit, carried a folded newspaper, which he swung jauntily as his eyes danced all over a little assemblage of court at taches which had gathered to watch them on the few steps between the cell and the “wagon." Eagles, wearing glasses with one lens frosted which Indicated his blind eye, wore the same gray suit and cap he stood trial in and looked straight ahead. Moreno, likewise in his trial day garb, glanced about and nodded to one or two familiar faces. The prisoners were hustled into the wagon, Proctor first, Eagles second and Moreno third, and as Moreno mounted the steps, he waved to his mother, who was standing in the roadway and shouted “good-by." The three men were handcuffed to each other and to Gus Cerlinele, deputy marshal who lias escorted them from courthouse to Jail and back again from the first day they went on trial. He rode in the closed compartment with the three prisoners. The highest court in the land refused to enter into the case as forwarded to it through a petition for a writ of review based on the action of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which upheld the conviction of the three men. The court did not take Its place at the bench until 12:30 o’clock and after disposing of two matters be fore it, Chief Justice Taft reached the "Busch case" on his schedule. He stated that the petition for a writ of review had been filed nnd added: "After full consideration thereof the court denied the application.” Lasts Four Minutes. The entire session lasted but four minutes and the court adjourned until the Fall. In disposing of the petition, the court departed from a Tong established pro cedure. It had been announced that the court would adjourn yesterday for the Summer, but Chief Justice Taft at the last minute postponed this action because it had not hud sufficient time to Inquire Into the petition. In delay ing adjournment Chief Justice Taft carried out a recently expressed inten tion to facilitate the disposition of criminal cases awaiting action before flhe court. The action of the court today ended the chapter in criminal procedure here which began on tire morning of Sep tember 2ti. 1920, in Pctworth when the three men opened fire on Policeman Busch after ire had a tempted to ap prehend them in connection with a series of highway robberies. Their trial began January 18, 1927, and ended seven weeks later. Five months from the day of the shooting a Jury returned n verdict of first degree murder to Justice William Hits, who sentenced the threw to die in electric chair In July Mils year. It was the first sentence pronounced by any Justice in the District courts un der the new law, which changed execu tion from hanging to electrocution. The case was appealed and an extension was granted the three slayers until May 25 of this year. The District Court of Appeals April 2 upheld the verdict and the cake was taken to the highest court, on a pet ition for a writ of review. The date of execu tion was again postponed until Juno 8 Ping Bails for Kongo. BUUHHELH, Belgium, June ft The Belgian royal family, which 1s making a visit to tire Kongo, sailed from Antwerp late today aboard the steam ship Thysvllia. The party traveled incognito, Kitdio l*roj{rafiiii-~J > Mc 27 V FARE RAISE MOVE IS EXPECTED SOON Capital Traction Head Indi cates 10-Cent Rate May Be Asked Next Week. The Capital Traction Co. probably will carry out its threat to seek an Increase in fare the latter part of next week, it was Indicated today by John H. Hanna, president. There are several important details yet to be worked out in connection with the drafting of an application for a rate increase, Mr. Hanna intimated, and this likely will be done at a meeting of the directors of the company, June 14. The fare increase petition would be filed with the Public Utilities Commis sion after that meeting under present plans. The most important of these details concern the new rate of fare to be asked. While this is still a moot ques tion, Mr. Hanna even declined to divulge the rate which he thinks the company might ask. Attaches of the Utilities Commission, however, calculated several weeks ago, when the street car fare question was revived, that a 10-cent cash fare or six token for 50 cents would be necessary to give the Capital Traction a fair return on its present valuation. Rumors since that time were that the company would not ask for a rate that high, and that it probably would be sat isfied with a 9-cent cash fare and a token rate of 6 for 45 cents. This would raise the present token fare from 6 2-3 cents to IV2 cents. No definite indications have yet come from the Washington Railway Ac Elec tric Co. as to whether it wil be a party to the prospective Capita l Tratclnn Co.’s fare-increase application. William F. Ham, president. Indicated some time ago that the question had not been consid ered. Whether the matter has since been dlscused is not known, as Mr. Ham is in Atlantic City attending the annual convention of the National Elec tric Light Association. -— LINDY LATE FOR DEGREE. Spends Night on Farm in Flight to St. Louis for Commencement. ST. I.OUIS. June 5 (/P).—Unreported since 1 pin. yesterday when he left Fort Worth. Tex, Col. Charles Lind bergh landed at Lambert-St. Louis field at 10:30 a.m. today, a half hour after the start of Washington University commencement exercises at which the degree of master of science was award ed "in absentia" to the famous flyer. Col. Lindbergh said he spent the night on the farm of T. C. Lewis. 45 miles southwest of St. Louis. He land ed there in his Ryan monoplane about nightfall with his two passengers. MaJ. Thomas G. Lannhler or the First Pur suit Group and Col. Henry Breckin ridge. his attorney. DIVORCES VANDERBILT Wife Granted Decree—Father Given Custody of Daughter. NEWPORT. R. 1.. June ft (4>).-Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt was granted a divorce from William H. Vanderbilt in Superior Court today on the ground Os neglect to provide. Mr. Vanderbilt was granted custody of a minor daughter. Emily, by agree ment, and alimony was left to be ad justed by an agreement between parties. Chamber Head Re-Elected. PARIS, June ft (4*).- Fernand Bouls »on was re-elected president of the Chamber of Deputies today. He de feated M. Franklin-Bouillon. 327 to 344. "The Penalty" | “Golden Rule" Film 1 f PRont'CKD nv [ he Kvening Stur To further traffic safety is being shown today along with the regular program at I The Pul nee Theater 507 9th Street N.W. Tomorrow the film will he shown at The I.trader 507 Ninth St. N.W, SOROPTIMISTS IN SECOND FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION IN CAPITAL Scrapping of Constitution Kills Session; No Authority Left to Adopt New Laws, So Year Is Turned Back. The second annual convention of the International Federation of Soroptimlst Clubs, which opened with a great flourish at the Mayflower. Sunday for a week's meeting, today found Itself non existent. This paradoxical state of affairs came about as a result of a decision of the majority of the 150 odd delegates yes terday afternoon to scrap the con vention and by-laws adopted at the first annual convention a year ago. This left the convention with no authority under which to meet. When the delegates assembled this morning they were in a hectic con dition.- It was pointed out that if there wasn’t any constitution there couldn’t be any organization, and therefore there wasn't any convention. Others WELCH BILL FIGHT TO GO TO CONGRESS Personnel Board *to Submit Classification Dispute at Next Session. The Personnel Classification Board at a meeting today decided to submit to Congress at the next session the problem presented by the action of Controller General McCarl, whose reg ulations on the Welch act. the board admits, has supplanted the board’s authority over classification to that extent. It was decided by the board not to rescind circular No. 25 issued on May 29 to ail branches of the Government asking for information on which to allocate positions to grades under the Welch bill. But. according to W. H. Mcßeynolds, representative of the board from the Bureau of Efficiency, the board recognized that McCarl’s authority controls, in this instance, not only for the expenditure of funds, but in ihe allocation of the positions which he has accomplished in his regulations. Issued yesterday. The board by not rescinding Its circular 25 will still yxpect to receive from departments and establishments data on certain grades and will pro ceed. Mcßeynolds said, to allocate the positions in question according to the procedure established and in use by the board for years. Disagree* With McCarl. The board disagrees with the con troller general over the disposition of certain higher paid positions, according to Mcßeynolds and will probably pro ceed to allocate the positions, and do its work as though McCarl’s regulations were not in effect. But the work will be done by the board. It, whs explained, with the full knowledge that the dis bursing officers must pay employes, un der the McCarl orders from the begin ning of the new fiscal year July 1, un til Congress determines tire matter. “We shall lay before Congress the question as to who exercises authority over the determination of grades." satd Mcßeynolds. "If Congress agrees with McCarl, then the rates which go into effect July 15 pay day will continue, but If Congress agrees with us. then we shall be ready with our data to put our IHisUion into operation ’’ Details of the rlasatfleatlon board’s circular disclosed today show that tire (Continued on Page 2. Column 8.) President Coolidge Declared Pleased Witk Work of Recent Senate and House President, Coolldge views the results of the short session of Congress, Just ended, In a satisfactory light and be be lieves both House and Senate deserve commendation. The President, it was said today, re alised he was a little late in making this comment, but be has calmly re viewed the work of Congress since It* adjournment and he feel* confident that the people of the country can feel txm (ent that Congress did a goad Job not only In the nature of the legislation en acted. but from the fact that the many appropriation* were kept well In accord with the recommendations contained In the budget estimates. Among the more Important pieces of, “From Prat to Home Within the Hour ” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed.' Yesterday's Circulation, 104,266 f/p) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. insisted that there must be a conven tion since they were all there. They had to be there for something. It was unanimously admitted that there would have to be a constitution. Then somebody suggested that they couldn’t adopt a constitution because there wasn't any convention. The sec ond annual convention had been de clared non-existent. It was then pro posed that this be called the first an nual convention, and in spite of the fact that the first annual convention adjourned a year ago this was carried. Whereupon the second first annual con vention got down to business. Everybody admitted that the first thing to do was to g#t a constitution and get it quick. Immediately there de veloped a sharp line of dissension be tween two factions. One wanted a con stitutlon which would be effective for (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) STEWART DEFENSE HITS INDICTMENTS i Hogan Overruled on Challenge of Four Counts Against Oil Man. By the Associated Press. The case against Robert W. Stewart for refusing to answer questions in the Senate Continental Trading Co. inquiry was rested today by the Government, and the defense got under way imme diately. The Government introduced several routine documents before giving way. Frank J. Hogan, counsel for Stewart, then launched Into an argument against holding Stewart accountable for each refusal to answer a specific question. He recalled that Stewart had refused to answer the same two questions in two successive days, and contended that under the law this did not justify the four counts for refusing which are in cluded in the Indictment. The Jury was excluded during Ho gan’s argument. Hogan's Challenge Overruled. Hogan's challenge of two counts In the indictment, on the ground that they represented Stewart’s refusal to answer the same question specified in the two other counts, was overruled by Justice Siddons. The first defense witness was W. W. Stickney. a court clerk, who produced the docket Rhowtng when the con spiracy indictment and trial of Harry F. Sinclair occurred. Leo A. Rover. United States attor ney. contended that tills was imma terial. but his objection was overruled. Hogan examined Stickney regarding the various dates, noting that Stewart's refusal to answer the questions had been made while the Sinclair trial was pending. On cross-examination Rover developed that Stewart had not testi fied in the Sinclair conspiracy trial. An affidavit bv a St. Louis newspaper correspondent was excluded from evi dence. Hogan had produced the affidavit In an attempt to show that the questions which Stewart refused to answer had been prompted to the Senate commit tee bv newspaper men. but Govern ment counsel objected to it as imma terial. After a lengthy conference at the bench with lawyers for both aides Justice Siddons sustained the objection, WUliam E. Leahy, counsel for Albert B. Fall in the FVli-Slnclair conspiracy mistrial, said no witness had testified directly regarding the Continental Trading Co. in the conspiracy trial. legislation enacted, *n the President's opinion, were the alien property tun, flood control, tax reduction and the btil regulating child labor in the District of Columbia He regretted that the naval building program which had passed the House did not become a law, and was dwap ixdnted also over the failure or Con gress to enact the necessary legislation for the refunding of the Austrian and the Greek debt* With the exception of the Muscle Hhoala resolution, President Coolldge has only two or three more or it's* un important bills awaiting his disposal He was represented as still studying the Xivtttota foIVV UUMMIII tt rAVUn GAINED BY HOOVER IN DELEGATE FIGHT Florida Supporters of Com merce Head Seated and Antis Turned Down. ACTION SAID TO FORECAST CONTROL OF CONVENTION Secretary’s Foes Claim East Is for Smith—Farmer Issue Stressed. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of Tbe Star. KANSAS CITY. June s.—Hoover for President sentiment predominates in the Republican national committee. This has been indicated. Hoover sup« porters insist, in the settlement of thf Florida delegate contests, in which a j of the delegates instructed for Hoove! were seated and the antis were turned down. And if Hoover sentiment predomi nates in the national committee, thf Hoover managers argue, it also will predominate in the Republican national convention, and Mr. Hoover will be thl nominee of the G. O. P. on an early ballot. Some of them insist he will b the choice on the first ballot. First Victory for Hoover. Hoover drew first Wood in the con tests yesterday with nine of Florida ! delegation, under instructions for the Secretary of Commerce. This wa* quickly followed by the seating of two more Hoover delegates from Kentucky, representing the first district, against whom contests had been filed. Contests involving some 75 delegate seats are tc be settled by the national committee, and the indications are that in the great majority of cases Hoover dele gates wil! be seated. This will add s by no means unimportant group of dele gates in the convention to the Hoove: standard. The vote in the national committee on the Florida delegates was significant The Hoover delegates at large were seated by a vote of 47 to 36. Not a few of the 36 votes cast against the Hoove: delegates were so cast because of tnc friendship of the committeemen so: George W. Bean, who for years ha; been a member of the Republican na tional committee. Mr. Bean plans to take his contest to the credentials committee, and. il possible, to the floor of the convention. But in view of the overwhelming vote !in the national committee, it is not I likely the further contest will be sue- I cessful. , _ . I The Hoover delegates from Florida | are in the convention to stay, in a probability. Georgia Disputes Settled. Apparently still in control of its Hoover-for-Presidcnt members, the Re publican national committee today drove ahead with its consideration of the contested delegations. Two dele gate contests from Georgia, first and I fifth districts, were settled by agree t ment in a manner satisfactory to the | Hoover people, and the third contest i involving one delegate from the seventh district was postponed with the un derstanding that a settlement would be reached by the parties involved by to morrow morning. . The Georgia contests involve a fac tional row in the State, aimed at Ben Davis, the Republican national com mitteeman. rather than a Hoover anc. anti-Hoover fight. The agreement in the first Georgia district delegate cas was reached by awarding to each of the contestants one-half vote. ThU caused Chairman William M. Butler to announce that the call for the na tional convention did not look to the election of more than 1,089 delegates to the convention and that fractional voting was not authorized. He said the committee would b called upon to pass on this matter a a later date Louisian* Fight Taken I p. The Louisiana contests were nex heard by the committee, involving 12 delegates. It was a Hoover and anti- Hoover fight, with the Hoover delegates representing the Kuntz faction and the so-called uninstructed delegates repre senting the Cohen faction Kuntz Is the Republican national committeeman from Louisiana, and Walter Cohen is the colored collector of customs at New Orleans. Prediction was made when the hearing began that the Kun:.* delegates would be seated. On seating district delegates from Florida, the committee went even mor strongly for the Hoover instructed dele gates than it did in the ease of the dele gates at large. The committee stood 61 to 33 for the Hoover delegates While ; a score of the members of the commit • tee were not in attendance today, their presence would not have materially al tered the line-up for the Hooter dele gates. . Charles D. Htlles of New York, vice chairman of the national committee, led the fight against the Hoover dele gates In the Florida cases This was to be expected. Mr. Hilles is ‘agin - ' the nomination of the Secretary of Com merce. He is clinging tenaciously to the idea of drafting President Oool tdgv. But more tenaoluosly he is ding ing to the idea of defeating Mv Hoover for the presidential nomination, wheth er Mr. Coolldge be nominated or not He would turn to Charles Evans Hughes in a Jiffy, if the former Secretary of State were in the running and could receive the support ol other delegations. It is Mr. Htlles, more than any other leader, who Is blowing the breath of U: into the Coolldge draft movement. He has supporters in this antl-lUvvcr and pre-Coolldge attitude, even in States where Mr, Hoover has strong jvpular support, including Maryland, where the entire State delegation has been In structed for Hoover. t». t\ Vote Split. The representatives of the District ot Columbia on the Republican national committee split thetr votes on the Flor ida delegates, Edward F. Coffaday, Re publican national committeeman, u*s tog for the llean faction and M>' Han> Wardtuan. through a proxy, voting tot the Hoover delegates Mr. Colladay x vote, however, is not necessarily to be construed as an anti-Hoover vote He fell to line for his fellow committee man, Mr. Bean, and voted aho with Chairman Wtfflam M Butler ot Massa chusetts. who was one of those voting to seat Mr. Bean and hta delegates The contest tor the two delegates from the District of Columbia, tiled by Aaron Bradshaw ami Aaron Prloleau against T. Lincoln Townsend and Dr John R Hawkins, representing the Oolladav-Pveseott faction of District tContinued ou ibtge A, Column W