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EUROPE NOT READY
FOR FEDERATION
Holland Holds View in Reply
to French Memorandum
on Proposal.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 4.—The government of
the Netherlands has informed the
French foreign office of its belief that
the ground had not been sufficiently
prepared for a federation of European
states, as recently suggested in a world
wide memorandum of Foreign Minister
Brland.
Holland submitted a formal reply to
the former premier's proposal, which
Was made public today.
The Dutch officials expressed a lively
appreciation of France’s initiative, but
suggested that further exchanges must
take place before the project could
proceed.
The memorandum submitted today
expressed fear that such a federation
might prove an embarrassment to the
League of Nations and that continental
grouping might, in practice, aggravate
differences between the continents.
The Holland foreign office in another
reservation, takes issue with M. Briand’s
suggestion that the proposed federation
should be based first on a political ac
cord and then upon economic grounds
Holland feels, the memorandum says,
that regulation of political issues is not
neoessary to a general lowering of cus
toms duties which by implication it
stresses as the most important problem
confronting Europe today.
In official circles the reply was taken
as encouraging. It was considered that
the objections raised would be in no
way difficult to overcome. French
officials pointed out that Foreign Min
ister Briand always considered that such
a federation must be grafted upon the
structure of the League of Nations and
could not succeed if in any way in
imical.
To the idea that the federation might
aggravate the differences between con
tinents. the French today replied that
it would manifestly reduce the number
of problems separating them.
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COSTE AND BELLONTE
TO CHANGE MOTOR
French Flyer* Say Plane Nearly
Ready for Hop Acrosi
Atlantic.
By the Associated Pres*.
VILLACOUBLAY. France. July 4.
Capt. Dieudonne Coste, French long
distance aviator, and his mechanic,
Maurice Bellonte, will engage them
selves during the next few days in
mounting a new motor in their plane,
the Question Mark, in which they hope
shortly to cross the Atlantic to New
York.
In a 14-hour test flight yesterday the
plane behaved beautifully, Coste said
upon landing here last evening, after
flying all day over Northern France.
When they were not sighted for several
hours, there were rumoss that he al
ready had slipped away on his New
York flight project.
It was not expected today the flight
Will be begun until July 10, when
there Is a full moon.
GOAL OF 570 HOURS
ADVISED FOR CREW
OF RECORD PLANE
(Continued From First Page.)
Indian sign on the elements end took
on more gasoline.
The 214th contact was made at 6:15
•m. (C. 6. T.), with the Big Ben. the
providing plane, sucooring the City of
Chicago with 50 gallons of gasoline.
Shortly after tne refueling contact
had been made the City of Chicago
Boomed low over the hangar and
Stropped the following note:
"Wilson Herren (one of the flight
managers) suggested we stay up 600
hours. What do you think about it?
Maybe we will and maybe we won't.
We’re having some trouble, but that’s
to be expected at this stage of the
game.”
Albert Prepares Reply.
Albert Hunter, who with Walter, arc
the ground crew brothers, prepared the
following reply to go aloft on the next
contact:
"Suggest you stay up 570 hours: that
would equal the records of both the
Question Mark (150 hours) and the St.
Louis Robin (420 hours).”
As a result of elaborate preparations
for a celebration, fireworks vendors be
gan arriving last night. Lunch stands
were erected. Balloon salesmen, pen
nant peddlers and sellers of miniature
airplanes had their wares ready for all
comers. And the ‘'endurance” sand
wich made its first appearance.
But although they have much cause
to celebrate, there will be no fireworks
for John and Kenneth. At least, not
if Herren can prevent it.
Herren Points Out Danger*.
"Too dangerous,” said Herren, when
it was suggested that the brothers might !
wish to shoot off firecrackers. "They
have parachutes, but if a firecracker I
•hould explode under the tail of that j
ship—well, they wouldn't have much ,
Chance.”
Herren predicted the pilots would |
decide to land Saturday night, but i
declared he had no definite reason for j
so thinking. It was generally believed
•t the airport that the plane would be
kept aloft over Sunday, if possible, and
thus bring in more gate receipts, a
percentage of which the flyers receive
Herren also touched upon the much
discussed question of what the Hunter
brothers will do upon the completion
•f their flight.
Irene Wants to Fly.
“They will continue to fly." he said.
“You can’t make actors or acrobaVi J
cut of them. They live on aviation and i
In that I believe they will go far. Be- j
fore the flight began. JoJjn Hunter and I
2 agreed that if the endurance record I
was broken I would back a tour of the i
country for him. We also decided he j
would try a non-stop, rclay-refuellng !
flight around the rim of the country. :
I don’t know how he feels about it i
How. however.”
Irene Hunter, sister of the flyers who
has supervised preparation of their
food since the flight began 23 days ago,
announced hpr plans di finitely last
night. She is going to give up cooking !
for aviation.
"All my four brothers fly, so why
ehouldn’t I fly, too,” she inquired. "My
brother* promised me that when they
made money enough to buy several
ships, so I could crack one up now and
them, they would teach me.”
CORRECTION.
Mrs. Alice G. nil!, 1440 N street, who
was named as defendant in a suit to
recover $51,150 damages filed in the Dis
trict Supreme Court by Fred W. Lay
man. administrator of the estate of
Bruce H Owens, as the result of an
automobile accident at Casper, Wyo.,
was not operating the car, as errone
ously stated in a story of the suit pub
lished in The Star. The suit was di
rected against Mrs. Hill, it is asserted,
because the car happened to be regis
tered in her name. She was at home
% in Denver. 1: is reported, at the time
cf the accident, in which her husband,
James D. Hill. was also killed.
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Tonight's Program
7:3o—Concert. United States Ma
rine Band; Capt. Taylor
Branson, leader.
B:ls—E. J. Murphy, chairman of
committee, will open formal
program.
8 16—Invocation by Rev. John C.
Palmer.
B:lß—Singing of ’’America” bv all
assembled, led by Maj. Lee
S. Tillotson, U. S. A.
B:2o—Address of welcome by
Commissioner Luther H.
Reichelderfer.
B:22—Reading of Declaration of
Independence by William
Tyler Page, clerk of the
House of Representatives.
8 30—Address by Senator Simeon
D. Fess.
B:so—Massing of the colors by
patriotic and veteran or
ganisations; Maj. Gen.
Amos A. Fries, marshal.
B:ss—Oath of allegiance to the
flag, led by Gen. Fries.
B:s7—Benediction, by Rev. Francis
J. Hurney.
B:sß—"Star Spangled Banner” by
all assembled, led by Maj.
Tillotson.
9 00 —Torchlight procession of the
color guards and uniformed
bodies; Aircraft demonstra
tion from Bolling Field:
anti-aircraft demonstration
by 260th Coast Artillery of
D. C. National Guard.
9: ls—Fireworks display.
HOLIDAY FEATURE
PLANNED TONIGHT
Parade, Fireworks and Air
Attack on Program at
Monument Grounds.
(Continued From First Page.)
the trooping of the color* at 7:30
o’clock.
While the municipal program ia in
progress tonight, a number of com
munities, such as Petworth, Takom*
Park, Wesley Heights and Burroughs,
will be staging their own displays of
community fireworks, concluding all-day
programs that started at 9:30 o’clock
in the morning with flag-raising ex
ercises.
Still other organizations, such as the
Association of Oldest Inhabitants and
Society of Natives of the District of
Columbia, as well as numerous organi
zations affiliated with the Community
Chest, also held independent programs
during the day. Edward F. Colladay,
Republican national committeeman of
the District, delivered the address to
the Association of Oldest Inhabitants,
which met at noon in Epiphany Church
Hall, following its monthly meeting.
Members cf the Society of Natives
joined with them in the observance.
Mr. Colladay made an appeal for na
tional representation for the District.
All camps operated by organizations
affiliated with the Community Chest
and by the District Tuberculosis Asso
ciation were conducting patriotic pro
grams and aporting events. More than
5,000 boys and girls are lodged in these
camps and they made the most of a day
of water aports and field event*.
Children Have Parade.
Wesley Heights staged an all-day
community program that started with a
flagraising at 9 o'clock and will con
clude with a fireworks illumination at
8:15 o’clock followed by a dance in
the club house. Athletic events were
being held on the campus of the Amer
ican University and included a base
ball game and finals of a tennis tourna
ment. A childrens costume parade for
which prizes were awarded proved a
diverting feature of the program. The
exodus of Washingtonians began yes- .
terday afternoon after the close of Gov
ernment buildings and most of the
business firms for what amounts to a
three-day holiday.
Resorts on the Chesapeake Bay drew
thousands of week enders, while the
roads leading into Maryland and Vir
ginia were continuous traffic lanes of
incoming and outgoing cars. Most of
the country clubs in the vicinity of
Washington were conducting holiday
programs and some of them will have
elaborate firework displays for members j
and invited guests tonight.
While the children outside of Wash- |
Ington, where Are crackers are sold law- j
fully, have been celebrating the ap
proach of the Fourth for upwards of I
a week, the campaign for a “noiseless" j
and "safe and sane” celebration show- !
ed marked results in the city proper. l
Few casualties were reported from Are-;
crackers.
BRASS MUSTIeXPLAIN
RUM CHASE SHOOTING
Third Precinct Officer Ordered Be
fore Trial Board by
Maj. Pratt.
Maj Henry G. Pratt yesterday ordered
Pvt. F O Brass to appear before the
i police trial board and explain the clr
’ cumstanees under which he shot a eol
' ored man in a chase after an alleged
| liquor car.
Brass was recently named by %Tapt.
; William G. Stott, commanding the
third precinct, to replace Pvt. Spotts- i
wood Gravely as liquor enforcement j
officer of his precinct when Gravely was
sent to the second precinct.
The shooting occurred at Twenty
fourth and H streets, after a chase of
many blocks, in which Brass’ report
claims that the alleged liquor car driver
twice tried to force Brass off the road
and that it was only when he consid
ered his life in danger that he shot.
"From my investigation.” Capt. Stott
wrote in his report on the affair to
police headquarters, “I cannot see that
I Pvt Brass' life was in danger at the
| time he shot Thomas.”
The man who was shot was James
I Thomas, colored, of the 2400 block of
! N street. Thomas was wounded in
j the arm, and taken to Emergency j
Hospital, where his condition Is de
scribed as good." Eleven and one-half I
gallons of liquor are said to have been
taken from Thomas’ car after the chase.
NAMED CRUISER SPONSOR
Miss Jane Kennedy of Louisville i
Honored by Secretary Adams.
MUs Jane Brown Kennedy of Louis
ville has been named by Secretary
Adams as sponsor for the 10.000-ton
cruiser Louisville when it is launched
at the Puget Sound Navy Yard on Labor
day.
The sponser Is a granddaughter of
James B. Brown, president of the Louis
ville Herald-Post.
The Louisville will be the last of eight
10,(>00-ton cruisers authorised by Con
gress in 1924.
Charles Town Flight Ordered.
Three Navy single-seater fighters
from the Anacostia Naval Air Station
have been ordered by the Navy Depart
ment to fly to Charles Town, W. Va , Sat
urday morning to participate In the ded
ication of an airport. The planes will
s be piloted by Lieuts. Matthias B. Gard
ner. Morton T. Seligman and B. C. Ring.
They will return Sunday.
THE EVEXiyq STAR. •n-ASHIXGTOy. D. C- FRTDAT. JT~LY 4. 1930.
PRESIDENT CALLS
SENATESESSION
Ratification of Naval Treaty
Predicted Despite Protest
of Minority.
(Continued From First Page.)
chairman of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, and to Senator Reed of Penn
sylvania and Senator Robinson of
Arkansas, both of whom were members
of the American delegation at tne Lon- i
don Conference. The hope of the op- I
position has been that it would be 1
impossible to keep a quorum cf the
Senate in Washington at this season
to deal with the treaty. But the Sen
at leaders are confident that the Sen
ators, with the spotlight on them, will :
not absent themselves from the Capitol.
Some of the Senators feel ;hat a week
or ten days will see the final disposi
tion of the treaty.
The Senate was in a snarling, quar
relsome mood last night, with anti
administration Senators bitterly criti
cising President Hoover and the House,
which backed up the President. The
pressure for an adjournment of the Con
gress, however, was too great to fore
stall final action on the World War vet
erans’ bill, the second deficiency bill and
the District appropriation bill, all of
which had to be disposed of before the
Congress could adjourn. In the end, a
few of the disgruntled Senators sought
to prevent an adjournment, seeking ap
parently to punish the House and make
it come back to Washington Monday
after the July Fourth holiday, because
of its support, of the President. The
effort failed, however, by a large vote.
President Goes to Capitol.
President Hoover, accompanied by
Secretary Hurley of the War Depart
ment, Gen. Hines, director of the Vet
erans' Bureau, and his secretaries,
George Akerson and Walter Newton,
came to the Capitol after the confer
ence report on the veterans’ bill had
been agreed to by the Senate and it
was apparent that the decks were
cleared for an adjournment. He went
Immediately to the President's room,
just off the Senate lobby. As soon as
the word spread that the President had
arrived a stream of Senators and mem
bers of the House started toward the
President's room. Mr. Hoover greeted
them all cordially. Many Democrats
and insurgent Republicans were includ
ed in the list of visitors. The President
signed the District bill, the veterans’
bill and the second deficiency bill while
he was at the Capitol. Under the law,
however, he has 10 days in which to
sign other measures which were passed.
The House had cleared its decks and
was marking time last night. When it
came time for It to take final action on
the appropriation bills and put through
its adjournment resolution, scarcely
more than a hundred members were in
the chamber. It was a good-humored
crowd in the House, which joked and
heckled and shouted "Louder" when
members sought to speak. Both Speaker
Longworth and Majority Leader Tilson
had already left Washington, turning
over to Representative Mapes of Michi
gan and Representative Purnell of In
diana their respective duties. Vice
President Curtis also was absent from
the Senate in the final session of last
night, and Senator Fess of Ohio occu
pied the chair.
Adopt Conference Report.
Despite the severe attacks upon the
President and the House in connec
tion with the veterans’ bill delivered In
the Senate, that body finally adopted
the conference report on that measure
by a vote of 48 to 14. It had become
clear that this was the legislation
which could be had for the World War
veterans, and no other. The bill acts
up the first real disability pension for
the veterans, as contrasted with the
“compensation” plan of caring for dis
ability traceable only to war aervice,
which has been the underlying prin
ciple in earlier veteran legislation.
Notwithstanding the frequent chargee
made that President Hoover has been
unable to deal successfully with Con
gress, the record shows that during thp
session now closed he has obtained
from the legislative branch many of the
things which he recommended and that
he has met only a couple of real re
verses. He was defeated In the Sen
ate when he sent to that body the
nomination of Judge John J. Parker of
North Carolina to be a judge of the
Supreme Court. He loat also in the
case of the Spanish War Veterans’
i pension bill, which passed over his veto.
But the House sustained his veto of
the original World War Veterans’ bill
Furthermore, the President was sus
tained In his opposition to the "deben
l ture” plan of farm relief and In his
, demand for a continuance of the flexible
j provisions of the tariff law. These were
I the major Issues made against him
. in the Senate by the "coalition” and
in both the coalition failded.
Meet Enforcement View*.
The Congress now closed also put
; through the transfer of prohibition en
forcemcnt from the Treasury to the
Department of Justice, as recommend
ed by the President, and made a begin
( ning generally on the recommendations
I the President for strengthening en
; forcement of the prohibition laws. Pro
vision was made also for the reorgan
ization of the Federal Power Commis
sion and a permanent status was given
the Radio Commission. And, while the
Senate turned down the nomination of
Judge Parker, it confirmed the nomi
nation of Chief Justice Hughes and of
Associate Justice Roberts.
After the Senate last night had dis
posed of ,he veterans’ bill conference
report and the conference reports on
the appropriation bills, there was a de- i
mand from many Senators for action '
wi 1 , legislation. But this was
i blocked by protests from Senator Mc-
Kellar of Tennessee, Democrat, and by
Senator Watson, the Republican leader,
who insisted upon having the adjourn
ment resolution put, to a vote. Only a
handful of Senators were found voting!
against adjournment when the show
down came.
Fail on Tariff Demand*.
Senator Copeland of New York, Demo
erat, did obtain the passage of a resolu
tion directing the Tariff Commission I
to investigate the tariff rates on wool 1
carried in the new tariff law and I
several other articles, other Senator* ;
added to the list. Senator Howell of i
Nebraska insisting upon having boots
and shoes and hides added to those
articles to be investigated. Senator
| Jones of Washington, facetiously, sug
! gested that the resolution be broadened
; to Include all the articles mentioned in '
i the Smoot-Hawley tariff act. Senator
5 Fess declared the resolution adopted
without the Jones proposal, but Senator
i Pat Harrison declared he would be glad
• to have the Jones amendment adopted.
, Finally Senator Jones withdrew his
j amendment and the resolution was al
j lowed to stand.
4,074 CONVICTS IN SPACE
PLANNED TO HOUSE 1,600
Magazine Published by Inmates of
Atlanta Penitentiary Makes Charge
of Gross Overcrowding.
; By the Associated Press,
j ATLANTA. July 4—Good Words.
: magazine of the inmates of th; Federal
Penitentiary here, said today that the
prison, built to accommodate a maxl
j mum population of 1,600, now housed
1 4,074 convicts. This is the greatest
j number in the history of the institu-
I tlon.
I Federal Judges recently-have begun
sentencing offenders to l* ate prisons
and Jaffa because of overcrowded con
ditions in tha Federal institution.
PATRIOTS IN LINE
AT TAKOMA PARK
Residents Stage Elaborate
Independence Day Celebra
tion; Fireworks in Schedule.
The citizens of Takoma Park today
are participating in a mammoth com
munity celebration of Independence day.
A feature this morning was a pageant
parade followed by patriotic exercises.
This afternoon the program includes
! athletic events on the District play
' grounds, at Fourth and Whittier streets;
a double-header base ball game between
the Takoma Tigers and Silver Spring
teams, water battle between members
i of the Takoma Park Volunteer Fire De
partment, concluding tonight with a
display of fireworks on the Takoma
Park, Md., municipal playgrounds,
Maple and Philadelphia avenues.
Parade Starts at 9:30 A.M.
The pageant-parade started this
morning at 9:30 o’clock from the Inter
section of Carroll and Denwood avenues,
disbanding at the Takoma, D. C., public
school grounds. Heading the parade
was an escort of mounted police, fol
lowed by the United States Army Band
the National colors, with color guard
detachment from Walter Reed Hospital;
Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, General Cele
bration Committee and then the array
of floats.
The 31 floats in the parade depicted
various important historic events in the
history of this country.
The children’s escort to facsimile of
“Declaration of Independence,” the
Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Depart
ment and the Takoma Tigers base ball
team followed the last unit.
Victory Post Drum and Bugle Corps
of the Department of the District of
| Columbia, the American Legion and
the Review and Herald Bands partici
pated in the parade in addition to the
United States Army Band.
Patriotic Exercises Outlined.
At 10:30 o’clock patriotic exercise*
were held on the ground of Takoma
Park Trinity Episcopal Church, Piney
Branch road and Dahlia street. Dr.
Horace W. Whittaker, general chair
man of the community celebration, call
ing the meeting to order and introduc
ing Mayor Ben G. Davis of Takoma
Park, Md., chairman of the exercises.
The program Included selections by
the United States Army Band, solos by
Miss Dorothy Skinner, solos by C. Wil
fred Smith, address by Rev. R. Paul
Schearrer, pastor of the Takoma Park
Presbyterian Church, concluding with
“The Star Spangled Banner” by the
Army Band and the assemblage sing
ing. The invocation was pronounced
by Rev. William E La Rue, pastor of
the Takoma Park Baptist Church, and
the benediction by Rev. B. F. Bryan,
pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist
Church.
’’Assembly” was sounded by the Vic
tory Drum and Bugle Corps at 1:15
o’clock, marching to the Whittier Street
Playgrounds, where an exhibition drill
was staged.
Evening Star Awards Distributed.
Later was to come the finish of the
modified marathon there and the pres
entation of awards offered by The Eve
ning Star. Next on the program was
an exhibition tennis match and the
children’s field meet.
The Takoma Tigers and Silver Spring
clubs will cross bats in a double-header
on the District Line diamond at 4:30
o’clock. At the same hour the mem
bers of the Takoma Park Volunteer
Fire Department will battle for honors
in a water battle. At 8 o’clock the an
nual display of fireworks will take place
on the Takoma Park municipal play
grounds, Maple and Philadelphia ave
nues. The display will consist of 30 set
pieces, concluding with eight electric
curtains and 240 bombs, all discharged
simultaneously. In the event of rain
the display will occur the first clear
evening.
LONDON HAD TEN
MURDERS LAST YEAR
Lord Byng Reports Decrease in
Major Crimes, bnt Four Are
Still Unsolved.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 4.—There were only
10 murders of persons more than one
year old committed In the London police
district in 1929, compared with an ave
rage of 22 during the past two year*, the
annual report of Lord Byng, chief com
missioner of the metropolitan police,
shows.
While a decline Is noted as remark
able, the report points out the facts
that the proportion of undiscovered
culprits Is unusually nigh, there being
four such last year. These include the
malefactors In the notorious Sidney
poisoning case at Croydon in which
three persons were killed.
Cases of manslaughter were nearly
double the number of 1928. with the in
crease attributed to motoring. Drunken
ness showed a substantial decrease, the
charges being 23,569, or 2,488 fewer
than In 1928. Gambling increased, and
there were more arrests than In any
j year since 1924.
j There were 17,664 offenses of all kinds
on which Indictment* were rendered, an
Increase of 1,778 over the 1928 figure.
The total of those killed by automo
biles was 1,362, the highest In history.
PRINCETON DEFEATED
BY KENT AT HENLEY
By th* Associated Prea*.
HENLEY. England, July 4.—The
| eight-oared crew of the Kent School,
i Kent, Conn., defeated Princeton Uni
j versity's lightweight eight by half a
length In a quarter final heat of the
j Thames challenge cup competition In
the Royal Henley rowing regatta today.
Jack Guest of Toronto defeated T.
D. Collett, Leander Rowing Club, by
10 lengths in the semi-finals of the
diamond sculls. Guest covered the
i course in 8 minutes 42 seconds, the
best yet recorded in this year’s com
petition.
OBSERVES TWO DATES.
6. B. Cnllahan Celebrates Birthday
and Marshal Appointment.
With characteristic efficiency Chief
Deputy United States Marshal Stephen
B Callahan killed two birds with one
stone today and celebrated the Nation’s
birthday and his own. Not only does
the veteran deputy enjoy the distinc
tion of having passed 64 birthdays on
the Fourth of July, but he has devoted
more than half his life to the duties of
a deputy marshal, having been ap
pointed 34 years ago.
HONORS FOURTH OF JULY
GENOA. Italy, July 4 UD.~- The home
town of Chrlstoph c r Columbus today
celebrated the Fourth of July with the
Star Spangled Banner flying from *ll
American business houses and many
residences.
A garden party for the American
colony was an afternoon feature.
TAKOMA PARK CELEBRATION AND PARADE
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RULES FOR TRAFFIC
IN MONUMENT AREA
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Official Statement Issued on
Arrangements for Celebra
tion Tonight.
For handling the traffic in the vicin
ity of the Monument Grounds, where
the city’* celebration of July Fourth
will center after 6 o’clock this evening
an official statement or the arrange
ments for autnmobl lists and pedestrians
was Issued today by Capt. R. C. Mont
gomery, superintendent of park police,
on behalf of himself, Maj. Henry G.
Pratt, superintendent of the metropoli
tan police and C. P. Clarke of the
American Automobile Association, who
together form the subcommittee on
traffic and safety.
The arrangement* are announced as
follows:
The parking space in the rear of the
Navy and Munitions Buildings, will be
thrown open to the public at 6 p.m.
The grounds may be entered byway
of Nineteenth and B streets or Twenty
first and B streets. These spaces will
accommodate a total of 800 car* and
parking will be free.
Traffic on Seventeenth street will be
as usual. Sixteenth street entrance into
the Monument grounds will be closed to
automobiles entirely, which forms the
main gateway to the grounds for the
vast assemblage of people, who come
to view the formal program in the
Sylvan Theater. The torchlight parade
and followed by the fireworks display
on the grounds north of the Monument.
The Fifteenth street entrance to the
grounds will also be closed. No park
ing of automobiles will be permitted on
B street between Seventeenth and Four
teenth street*, beginning with the late
afternoon because of the possible dan
ger from the fireworks display. The
traffic on the Ellipse will be one wav,
eou nter-clock wise.
The District Fire Department will !
take special precaution in the vicinity.
No parking will be allowed on Four
teenth street south of Pennsylvania
avenue. Southbound automobiles on
Fourteenth street may turn off Into the
Monument Grounds at the park road
way Just north of the Bureau of Print
ing and Engraving to reach the parking
area formed by Fifteenth street road
way in the rear of the Bureau of Print
ing and Engraving. Parking will be
permitted on both sides of the roads in
all of the park roadways in Potomac
Park and about the Tidal Basin, In
cluding Seventeenth street. The park
roadway directly south of the Sylvan
Theater in the Monument Grounds will
be reserved for the use of patriotic
organizations and other persons con
nected with the presentation of the pro
gram in tha Sylvan Theater and the
torchlight parade. These organizations
will be requested to enter off Fourteenth
street directly north of the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving.
The emergency vehicle of the A. A
A. will be stationed in the park grounds
subject to call by the park police in
case of accident. One car will be sta
tioned at the John Paul Jones statue
on Seventeenth street at the Tidal Ba
sin and the other at Fourteenth and
B streets southwest. The American
Red Cross ambulance will be stationed
in the Monument Grounds on the Six
teenth street roadway near the Muni
cipal Bathing Pool.
ONE KILLED IN CLASH
WITH INDIAN POLICE
Officers Ordered to Fire on Mob
When Charges Fail to
Disperse Crowd.
By th* A.ioelated Ere**.
MIDNAPORE, India, July 4.—One
peraon was killed and several policemen
slightly Injured at Khersal Village, near
the border of Ballasore district, when
the police attempted to attach property
for non-payment of taxes. Lathi
charges were ineffective In dispersing
the violent mob and finally the magis
trate ordered the police to fire.
BOMBAY. July V (AP>.—Mrs. Perin
Captain and Mrs. Munshl, both were
sentenced to three months’ simple im
prisonment. today for their issuance of
the all-India congress bulletin In de
fiance of government regulation.
Hoer Mahomen Vallibhoy, editor of
the bulletin, was arrested and sentenced
to five months’ rigorous imprisonment
on the same score.
AMERICANS IN GERMANY
HONOR U. S. ANNIVERSARY
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sons connected with American enter
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I j for an eight hours’ celebration of Inde
pendence day in the sky.
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i Swiss lakes at 7:30 am., with Capt.
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Statue of Liberty.
Below, left to right, on the Are truck: F. M. Fowler, well known down,
and Mis* Alberta Heale. —Star Staff Photos.
CONGRESS PASSES
MANY O.C. BILLS
Million Dollars Made Avail
able for Parks—Other
Funds Provided.
The second deficiency bill, which be
came a law in the closing hours of the
session of Congress last night, makes
available $1,000,000 for beginning the
park development program recently
authorized in the Cramton-Capper act,
and numerous other items of interest
to Washington.
The conferees at the last moment
agreed to the $1,500 000 appropriation
to acquire the Vollbehr collection of
fifteenth century cradle books.
The conferees also agreed to the $20,-
000 item that was in dispute for repairs
at Columbia Hospital. Two other items
in dispute, $2,440 for Garfield Memorial
Hospital and $4,598 for Providence Hos
pital, both for contagious disease work
were dropped from the final report
This bill, one of those signed by Presi
dent Hoover at the Capitol last night,
gives the Police Department $18,500 to
aet up a radio broadcasting station to
keep pace with modern methods of
crime detection.
It also allows the School Board to
use $116,500 of unexpended balances
heretofore made available for buildings
and playground sites.
The measure carries, too, the neces
sary money to remodel the District
Supreme Court building and to pay the
salaries of four additional judges re
cently authorized by Congress Two'
of these Judges are for the Supreme
Court and the other two for the Court
of Appeals.
The bill carries a number of addi
tional expenditure* to meet the routine
requirements of various branches of the
District government. For enlarging and
relocating the Botanic Garden it appro
priates $404,190.68. “
„ defi^" c y act "PPropriates $150,-
000 to enable the executive departments
to keep individual records of the con
tributions made by Federal omploves
toward the retirement, fund, as required
by the new civil service retirement act.
HONDURAS LEVIES TAX
ON ALL GOODS EXPORTED
By the Associated Press.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, July 4.
The Honduran Supreme Court ruled
yesterday that every one, including
American companies, must pay consular
taxes on exports.
The action was brought by American
fruit companies with concessions here,
who protested a hike in the consular
tax to 5 per cent The tax originally was
2 P" "nt. which was paid by the
Americans, but In 1923 Congress raised
1 £A P f r , The Americans ob
jected. but latci decided to pay. When
the rate was made 6 per cent last
March they brought the court action.
PETWORTH CITIZENS
HOLD CELEBRATION
Flag Raising Opens Program,
Followed by Day of Ath
letic Events.
Hundreds of children and their elders
gathered in Petworth today to partici
pate in the twenty-second annual In
dependence day program under the
auspice* of the Petworth Citizens’ As
sociation.
The program was opened promptly
at 9:30 o’clock at Sherman Circle with
flag-raising exercises by the Boy
Seouta, under the direction of Col. E.
L. Mattice. Subsequently, a salute of
"21 guns’’ was fired by sending bombs
high in the air over the circle.
The crowd then adjourned to the
Job Barnard School playground, where
a series of athletic events got under
way. The contests included »oot races
for boys and girl*, ranging in age from
7 to 13 years; three-legged lace, potato
race and a base ball throwing contest
for women. The crowd then adjourned
to Fourth street, between Crittenden
and Decatur, for 100-yard dashes for
older boys, married women and for all
women and girls, to be climaxed by a
100-yard dash "free-for-all.” A horse
shoe pitching contest for a medal of
fered by The Star also was on the pro
gram. This afternoon at 2 o'clock a
base ball game between teams repre
senting Grant Circle and Sherman
Circle was to get under way at the
Job Barnard School.
The next event was to be a band
concert by the Elks Boys Band at
I Sherman Circle at 5:30 o’clock, follow
ing a patriotic address by Brig. Gen.
Henry T. Ansell at 0 o'clock, after
which the band concert is to continue
until 7:30 o’clock.
Charles I. Stengle is chairman of the
Petworth Citizens’ Association Com
mittee for the celebration. Assisting
him on the general committee are
Christopher Lehmkuhl. president of the
association; Earl W. Cooper, John E.
Hamill, Edward S. White, I. M. Lavine,
George W. Potter. John Carroll, J B.
Tlsinger, D. W. Moore, E. H. Bailey,
Jr., and Ollie Viehmyer.
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OKLAHOMA OIL WELLS
PREVENT FIREWORKS
Mayor Denies Boys Usual Pyro
technics as Safety Measure Against
Fatal Conflagration.
By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., July 4
Those poor little boys with oil wells—
to quote the youths most concerned.
While American youth elsewhere
fired rocket and cracker today in the
greater interest* of patriotism and din,
Oklahoma City youths were silent.
Gushing oil wells within th- city
presented >*uch a, Are hazard Mavor
Walter C. Dean banned the usual
pyrotechnic*.
FLYERS COMPLETE
GLOBE TRIP TODAY
Southern Cross Ready to
Hop on Salt Lake City-to-
Oakland Jump.
hr the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. July 4
With his plane, the Southern Crosa,
fueled and groomed. Wing Comdr,
Charles Kingsford-Smith was prepared
to take off for Oakland today, the last
leg of his round-the-world flight.
The Australian and his flying rom
paniono expected to reach their objec
tive in eight hours
The transatlantic and near transcon
tinental aviators dropped In here last
night for an overnight stop, the second
since they left New York City Wednes
day. They paused Wednesday night at
Chicago and made the long jump to
Salt Lake City yesterday.
Only the briefest formal reception was
given the flyers, at their request, al
though thousands of Utahans were at
the field when the plane arrived and
more thousands lined the streets as the
famous four made their way to their
hotel. The visitors were released from
admirers after a dinner.
"It was a bumpy trip.” said the com
mander. “I would rather fly over the
ocean, where there aren't so many hUls.”
The members of the crew said the
worst part of their trip was over the
Western country. Head winds hampered
them in Wyoming, and the Rocky
Mountains, they said, supplied no end of
bumps.
Remarking that there "are some
pretty rotten stretches over the moun
tains,” Comdr. Klngsford-Smlth paid
tribute to the pluck of the airmail fly
ers, w'ho make the trip everv day. "I'm
sure I would -et sick of it.” he said.
However, the Australian said the acenic
grandeur of the mountains impresses
him.
When the Southern Cross lands at
Oakland it will have completed a flight
started two years ago and which will
have taken the veteran plane acroaa the
Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans and
the North American continent.
AMERICANS IN FRANCE
CELEBRATE HOLIDAY
Ambassador Edge Gives Reception
and Other T7. S. Organisations
Observe Fourth.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 4.—Americans in Paris
today celebrated the Independence day
of their country. Sympathetic French
men assisted, displaying appropriate
bunting and offering appropriate menus
and programs in honor of the occasion.
Presence of representatives of 32
American nations here in celebration of
“American Nations week” gave partic
ular significance to the event.
These representatives joined with
members of the Order of Cinclnnatus
and American World War veterans in
paying homage at Lafayette's grave.
Later they attended a ceremony at
Washington’s Statue and at the Amer
ican Volunteers’ Monument.
For the first time since foundation of
the American Chamber of Commerce
there was no banquet under Its auspices,
its place being taken by a reception
given by Ambassador Edge and by indi
vidual celebrations of the various Amer
ican organizations.
THEATER MAGNATE
NOT AMNESIA VICTIM
Body of Man Found Dying Posi
tively Identified as That of
Hospital Patient.
i By the Associated Press.
TORONTO. Ontario, July 4—The
' body of an amnesia victim, once ten
tatively identified as that of Ambrose J.
1 j Small, missing Toronto millionaire, wa*
I positively identified yesterday as that of
| j Joseph Doty, who was until recently an
inmate of the Provincial Hospital here.
Relatives of Small viewed the body
yesterday and disputed the previous
identification, made by a barber who
had served the millionaire.
Doty, an inmate of the hospital for
20 years, wandered away about a month
ago, about the time the amnesia victim
was found dying in the street.
' 1 Small, who was formerly a theatrical
, magnate, dropped from sight about 11
I years ago, and has be*n unreported
since. He has been declared legallv
dead, and his estate of $2,000,000 has
been divided between Mrs. Small, a
half sister and a half brother.
CAROLINA DEMOCRATS
REAFFIRM DRY STAND
; Keynote of Optimism for Success
of Party Sounded by Leaden
at Raleigh Meeting.
By the Associated Press.
RALEIGH, N. C, July 4.—North
, Carolina's Democratic legions yesterday
heard leaders of the party sound a key
note of optimism for the success of the
party and adopted a new platform,
which reaffirmed the belief of the
Democrats in prohibition. The session
was attended by 2,500 persons.
Josiah W. Bailey of Raleigh, Demo
cratic senatorial nominee, pleaded for
party harmeny and assailed the Hoover
administration and the Republican
party for “Hoover prosperity and
Hoover promises, which have been
broken in every Instance.”
He predicted an all-Democratic con
gressional delegation from North Caro
lina after the November election.
CUIJA SETTLES CLAIM
U. 8. Aecepta $330,000 to Pay for
Alleged Rail Destruction.
Ending a long-conteated claim, an ,
offer of $350,000 by the Cuban govern
ment to settle the claims of Charles J.
Harrah, an American citizen, formerly
of Philadelphia, for damages sustained
in the destruction of a railroad operated
by him in Cuba, has been accepted by
the United States.
The claim, which arose when a nar
row gauge rail line operated by Harrah
along the beach of Marianao was de
stroyed upon an alleged order by the
Cuban government, had run the course
of a long arbitration proceeding between
Cuba and the United States before
being finally settled.
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Will Observe TJ. S. Planes.
Lieut. Col. Luang Deves, Siamese {
Army, has been authorized by the Sec- v
retary of War to observe the activities
of the Ist Pursuit Group at Selfridge
Field, Mich., on July 12-15 and the oper
ations of the 12th Observation Squadron
and the 3rd Attack Group a. Fort Sam
Houston and at Fort Crockett, Tex., dur
ing the month of August.
• Another officer of the Siamese Army,
Capt. Prasobari Chirapravati, has be*n
authorized to serve at the Quartermaster
Depot, Baltimore, for a period of three
months, beginning at once.