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JOINT COMMITTEE
TO HELP BUSINESS
Group of 54 Members of Con
gress Called for in Erk
Resolution.
EARLY ECONOMIC RELIEF
PURPOSE OF NEW GROUP
President Calls on Reserve Districts
to Form Bodies for Extend
ing Credit.
With the support of many leaders on
both the Republican and Democratic
sides of the House, Representative Erk,
Republican, of Pennsylvania, today in
troduced a resolution to create a joint
committee on industrial and business
restoration.
The resolution calls for a committee
of 54 members. 26 to be appointed by
the president of the Senate, one mem
ber from the majority party and one
from the minority party from each of
the following Senate committees: Agri
culture and forestry, appropriations,
banking and currency, commerce, edu
cation and labor, finance, immigration,
interstate commerce, judiciary, manu
factures, mines and mining, post offices
and post roads and public buildings
and grounds.
The other 28 members would be ap
pointed by the Speaker of the House,
one member from the majority and one
from the minority party, from each of
the corresponding House committees,
and in addition the Ways and Means
Committee. The life of the joint com
mittee would be only for the present
session of Congress.
To Seek Quick Action.
The Erk resolution provides that this
committee shall direct its attention
solely and exclusively to the problem of ]
devising ways and means cf aiding and
encouraging business and industry
throughout the United States, of in
creasing the employment of labor and
the volume of business and of reviving ;
the confidence of both employer and
employe, with a view to recommending
speedily to Congress such action as the |
committee deems necessary’ during the )
present session of Congress to assure
the restoration of business and industry.
This committee would be authorized
to act during the present session cf
Congress whether or not either House is
in session or has adjourned.
Representative Erk suggests a com
prehensive program of some 20 major
proposals as an outline of the scope of
what he believes this joint committee
might consider.
r-resiuem xiuuver yrsi^ruay ataiieu it.
country-wide movement to get hesitant I
bankers, industrialists and others to- |
gether to start credit flowing once more |
into constructive enterprise.
The program is to apply the New York j
Banker-Businessman Committee plan to j
each Federal reserve district. The gov- |
ernors of the reserve banks have been j
asked to step out in organizing the j
groups.
When all are formed, it is Mr. Hoo
ver's intention to call the chairmen to
Washington so as to co-ordinate the
entire program “on a national basis.”
Still Held in Banks.
The situation now existing is that the
Federal Reserve Board has increased
enormously the cash and credit avail
able to individual banks for business ex
pansion, but little or none of this in
vigorating money stream has moved be
yond the bank vaults. Either business
men and manufacturers are unwilling
to incur new obligations until future
prospects are more definite, or the banks
are more anxious to keep a big reserve
than to extend credit.
The program launched in New York
by a committee headed by Owen D.
Young is to find ways of getting bor
rowers and lenders together. It is be
lieved that once credit flow is estab
lished it may be depended on to con
tinue largely of its own momentum.
President Hoover had an active part
lr the formation of the New York group, ,
sending Secretary Mills to bring the !
leaders together.
Tne President's pleasure at the initial
result of this effort, and his desire for
its Nation-wide application, were made
known by him yesterday at a press con
ference
Hoovers Statement.
The President said:
• "I am much gratified at the action
taken in New York by which a joint
committee has been appointed repre
senting financial and industrial leaders
of that city for the purpose, among
other things, of securing the expansion
of credit facilities made available
through the Federal Reserve banks and
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion shall be translated into industry,
employment and agriculture.
"I am in hopes that similar action
may be taken in other Federal Re
serve djsfricts. It would seem desirable
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WOMAN ABDUCTED
IN PHYSICIAN’S CAR
V7ealthy Companion Robbed and
Beaten. He Reports to Derby,
Conn.. Police.
B>* the Associated Press
DERBY. Conn., May 21.—Dr. Royal
Pinney, wealthy retired physician of
New Haven, reported to police today
that two men had abducted Miss Agnes
O'Neil, his companion on an automo
bile ride, after they had beaten him
severely.
The physician, a reputed millionaire,
told police the attack occurred at 11:45
p.m. last night, when he stopped his
machine on a side road in Orange to
enable his companion to light a ciga
rette.
The bandits, one of whom was armed,
dragged Dr. Pinney from his machine,
beat and robbed him of his watch and
$15 and then drove away with Miss
O'Neil after they had thrown him into
a clump of bushes.
Dr. Pinney said he walked to the
main highway afjer regaining conscious
rrss and was picked up by a motorist,
who drove him to the Derby police
headquarters.
Police said they had found no clues
t' to the whereabouts of Miss ONeil
*.nd the physician's automobile.
Arctic Pair Safe,
Letters on Snow
Tell Plane Pilot
Flyer Hovers Over Camp
of Cosmic Ray Party
Awaiting Aid.
By the Associated Press.
FAIRBANKS. Alaska. May 21.—Huge
black letters In the snow, “O and S
sale." Informed Pilot Jerry Jones on a
flight over the Muldrow Glacier camp
of the Carpe cosmic ray expedition
yesterday a long-missing member had
been found.
The "S” he said confirmed his belief
after seeing three men at the camping
spot that Nicholas Spadevecckia, unre
ported for 12 days on a return by foot
through the wilderness here, had re
turned safely to his starting point.
A plane flowm to the camp Thursday
bv Pilot S. E. Robbins was lying on the
snow, Jones added, apparently having
broken an axle in attempting to take off
from the rough surface of the glacier.
Robbins made the flight In an at
tempt to return Percy T. Olton. Jr., who
was left on the glacier when a sick
member was flown out last week to
Fairbanks. The • O” on the snow re
ferred to him.
Within an hour after returning here
Pilot Jones again took off, carrying with
him an axle and tools, which he said
he planned to drop by parachute over
the Muldrow camp.
The black letters were made in the
snow with the use of a package of lamp
black he dropped on circling over the
camp.
Early in the month Allen Carpe,
leader of the expedition, and Theodore
Koven, a companion, last their lives
when they fell into a crevasse.
Schwarzkopf Says Police Are
Continuing Search for
Known Gangster.
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By the Associated Press.
HOPEWELL. N. J.. May 21.—Search
was intensified today for the mysterious
gangster, believed to be connected with
the Lindbergh baby kidnap case, who
recently said in Maryland before the
baby's body had been found, that the
baby was dead
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, super
intendent of State police, disclosed for
the first time yesterday that this gang
ster was being sought and today he gave
him first mention in his morning bul- i
letin.
“Investigators who are investigating !
the whereabouts of the gangster re- ;
ported in Maryland and thought to be j
connected with the case.” he said, “have
been unable to locate him as yet and 1
are continuing their investigation."
Unable to Find "John."
That part of the morning bulletin
dealing with matters other than the
search for the gangster follows:
"Dr. Condon (the Jafsie who paid a
futile $50,000 ransom for return of the ;
murdered baby) was taken to New Ro- ,
chelle (yesterday) by cur investigators
to look over the criminal rogues' gallery j
in an effort to identify the man known 1
as John, but failed to make any iden- :
tification.
"Joseph Perrone (the taxi driver who
took a note from the supposed kidnap
ers to Dr. Condon instructing him about
ransom payment) had formerly looked
over the criminal rogues' gallery in New
York City and failed to Identify any one,
and yesterday he went over the gallery
at the Central Bureau of Identification
at the State police headquarters in
Trenton, but failed to make any Iden
tification. He will be taken to another
police department today.
“The King kidnaping case (a mys
terious case thought to have possible
connection with the Lindbergh case,
mentioned for the first time by Schwarz
kopf yesterday) was gone into by our
investigators yesterday, but no informa
tion of value could be ascertained." |
Confession Doubted.
The possibility that John Hughes
Curtis’ story of his astonishing lie may
in itself have been false in part re
ceived police attention today.
A portion of the Norfolk shipbuilder's
confession that his intermediation in
the case was a hoax already was con
sidered as disproved. That was the
portion in which Curtis explained his
purpose in the elaborate lie was to get
money by the sale of his story to news
papers.
Police pointed out the hoax was three
weeks old before Curtis attempted to
sell his story and that, even so, he
could not hope to find any buyers un
less he recovered the stolen Charles Au
gustus Lindbergh, jr.—which he must
have known was impassible, inasmuch
as his negotiations were not negotia
tions at all.
Other Motive suugni.
An inquiry was quietly under way to
learn if Curtis may not have had some
ether motive, quite removed from the
sale of his ''story,” for inventing the
deception. It was recalled that, due to
the "delicacy” of the negotiations with
a vessel at sea, Coast Guard craft re
frained from their usual careful patrols
in some waters, fearful of causing the
collapse of negotiations for the baby's
ransom.
As a result of this relaxed vigilance,
rum-runners were able to move more
freely and to land cargoes of liquor
without running the customary gaunt
let of Federal craft, authorities pointed
out.
From Norfolk came word that an at
I tornev had been engaged to defend
Curtis from the charge of obstructing
justice on which he is held, in lieu of
$10,000 bail, in jail at Flemington, N. J.
The Rev H. Dobson-Peacock. whose
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EXPECTS TO BE MOTHER
HOLLYWOOD. Calif., May 21 UP).—
June Collyer, motion picture actress,
says she expects to become a mother
in September.
"This is the reason I have forgotten
for the present about pictures,” she
explained.
Miss Collyer and Stuart Erwin screen
comedian, were married last July on
an elopement to Yuma, Ariz.
Rebels Kill 80 Koreans.
MUKDEN, Manchuria, May 21 UP).—
A dispatch to the Rengo News Agency
from the Japanese branch consulate at
Pansbih. in southern Kirin province,
'today said 80 Korean farmers w'est of
there were slain by Chinese rebels who
raided the district.
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CHOSEN TONIGHI
Three Boys and Three Girls
Will Compete for Title at
Constitution Hall.
WINNER WILL ENTER
INTERNATIONAL FINAL
Noted Educators to Act as Judges.
Gen. Fries and Admiral Jones
Will Keep Time.
The champion high school orator of
the United States will be chosen in the
Ninth National Oratorical Contest finals
in Constitution Hall tonight.
Three boys and three girls, each the
j spokesman for a multitude of iesser
orators who were defeated in the trail
of elimination meats which produced
tonight's contenders, will present two
speeches apiece in their bids for honor.
Five scholarly men will sit in judgment
on their efforts and from the forensic
pageant will emerge the boy—or the
girl—who will represent the United
States in the Seventh International
Oratorical Contest finals here next Fall
Girl Represents Capital.
The orators and their respective pre
pared speeches follow in the order in
which they will speak In tonight’s
meet:
Miss Minnie Sadie, 17, of Business
High School, Washington, "The First
Amendment to the Constitution”;
John H. Jarman, jr., 16, of Oklahoma
City, Okla., "Preservation of liberty
Under the Constitution";
John P. Ansley. 17, of Birmingham,
Ala., "Liberty Under the Constitution' ;
John J. Scanlon, n, of Springfield.
Mass., "Washington and the Constitu
U°Miss Lucylle Goldsmith, 16, of Los
Angeles, Calif., on "Our Constitution,
Culmination oi Centuries,” and
Miss Muriel Herzstein, lb, of New
York City, "The Supreme Court and
the Constitution.''
Each to Speak Twice.
' Alter each speaker has delivered his |
prepared address, six minutes being al- ,
lowed lor this purpose, he will be giver. ,
a new topic taken irom his first oration, j
on which ne will be required to speak ;
extemporaneously for four minutes.
Time will be closely watched, and for |
this reason the schedule for opening the
hall has been frequently called to the
attention of tickeiholders. The doors
will be opened at 7:15 o'clock. At i. 4a
o'clock all seats, except those for box
seats, will become void and the gate re
strictions will be dropped to the genet a 1
public. At 8 o'clock the contest itscli
will begin and no person will be per
mitted to enter the hall while a speaker
is talking.
Educators Are Judges.
For the contestants themselves, time
will be so important that it may result
in disqualification for them. Maj. Gen
Amos A. Fries. U. S. A., retired, and
Rear Admiral Hillary P. Jones, U. S. N,
will time each speech. At the expira
tion of the allowed period they will
sound a whistle blast and the speaking
orator will be required to halt at once.
If he continues to speak he will be drop
ped to last place by the judges.
The judges for tonight's contest will
be Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of
George Washington University; Right
Rev. James Hugh Ryan, rector of Cath
oiic Unlveisity; Dr. Vincent Hart, dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences,
Georgetown University: Dr. Leo S.
Rowe, director general of the Pan-Amer
ican Union, and Dr. Walter M. Splawn,
dean of the Graduate School, American
University.
In addition to the judges, the orators'
efforts will be weighed by Dr. William i
Allen Wilbur of George Washington !
University, who will be official scrutator I
for the contest. Dr. Wilbur will check j
the facts as presented by the orators !
for historic accuracy.
School Symphony to Play.
Music for the contest program will
be played by the "Lech Symphony Or
chestra of McKiniey High School under |
tne direction of Dore Walten, faculty .
leader.
The contest will be opened by Ran
dolph Leigh, director general of the !
contest. He, in turn, will present Dr.
W. Coleman Nevils, S. J.. president of
Georgetown University, who will deliver
the opening address.
Following the announcement of the
victor, Henri R. M. Van Hoof. Holland's
victorious entrant in the International
finals in the same hall last Fall, will
award the silver cup. Van Hcof has
remained in Washington since his own
world championship as a student of the
George Washington University.
MAN AND CHILD HURT
IN FALLS AT ALEXANDRIA
Structural Worker Seriously In
jured at New Ford Plant—Small
Boy Tumbles From Porch.
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 21.—A man
and a child were seriously Injured today
when one fell 30 feet from steel girder
work at the new Ford Motor Co. plant
here and the other tumbled off a high
porch.
Jack Martin. 47. of Camden. N. J.,
an employe of Beliron Construction Co.
of Philadelphia, sustained a broken
back and head lacerations when he
j slipped and fell from a girder at the
Ford plant under construction here.
His condition is regarded serious at
the Alexandria hospital.
Two-year-old Charles Loving of 108
North Patrick street suffered a frac
tured skull in falling from the porch of
his home. Attaches of the Alexandria
hospital report his condition as “favor- I
able.’’
HOOVER TO GO TO CAMP
Expects to Join Party on Rapidan
Today.
President Hoover, who was unable to
accompany Mrs. Hoover yesterday when |
she, with a small party of women '
friends, went to the President's fishing
camp on the Rapidan River, hopes to
be able to lay aside his business today
| and go to the camp.
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NEW RELIEF PLAN
Democrats of Senate Favor
Public Works, Direct Aid
and State Loans.
By the Associated Press.
Further compromising must be done
to make possible a program of Federal
relief acceptable to everybody who
counts In Congress, to President Hoover
and to the potential beneficiaries as
well.
A special Democratic Relief Com
mittee of the Senate last night hatched
out the fourth plan for aiding the un
employed and distressed which has b?en
put forward since the relief issue made
its sudden re-entry of the congressional
scene last week.
This fourth plan calls for use of $2,
300,000.000: $500,000,000 for public con
struction, obtained by issue of Govern
ment bonds, $300,000,000 for direct re
lief loans to States and $1,500,000,000
for public and private construction
loans, both to be administered by the
Reconstruction Pinance Corporation out
of capital secured by Issuance of its own
securities.
Close to Compromise.
This plan is sticking close to the com
promise offered by President Hoover and
Senator Robinson, the Democratic
leader, except that the funds are larger
by a billion dollars and that half ot
this is to be raised by bonds. President
Hoover is opposed to a further big ex
pansion of public works at this time.
Meanwhile, Speaker Garner’s own
plan, third in the list, was taking legis
lative form in one bill which is now
expected to be submitted to the House
within two weeks or less. Garner pro
posed a $2,100,000,000 plan, with the
odd hundred million placed in the Pres
ident's hands for outright allocation
wherever need might require it, with
the balance divided equally between a
public construction plan and an ex
panded lending policy by the Recon
struction Corporation.
Administration spokesmen in both
Senate and House are trying now to
bring the Democratic ideas closer to
those of the President.
Outcome of Negotiations.
The outcome of the Democratic com
mittee's long, secret negotiations, was a
compromise, as Senator Wagner of New
York, its chairman, had insisted upon
a $1,000,000,000 fund for public works,
and no such fund was proposed by
Senator Robinson, another member.
Others on the committee w»ere Sena
tors Walsh of Montana. Pittman of
Nevada and Bulkley of Ohio.
The committee recommended that in
order to spread employment the Fed
eral construction c, ’iacts and loans
for State and private construction
should be conditioned as far as prac
ticable on a 30-hour week.
The program, the committee said,
"is designed to aid in preventing suf
fering from hunger, in providing em
ployment. in starting again the stalled
industrial machinery of the country
by reviving actual orders for com
modities, in reviving confidence by
checking price deflation and security
liquidation and by promoting the re
vival of trade, and the increase of de
mand for commodities and credit.”
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SALVADOR SHAKEN
BY SEVERE’QUAKE
By the Associated Press.
SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal
vador, May 21.—A severe earthquake
shook the whole country today. In San
Salvador there was panic as residents
fled to the streets, but only a few old
houses were damaged and no one was
injured.
Most of the buildings in Zacatecoluca
City, capital of the Department of
La Paz. were damaged and many were
destroyed. Reports were that the dead
there totaled tlx and that many per
sons had been Injured.
The town of San Juan also reported
casualties. Red Cress officials sent phy
sicians, medicines and supplies to
Zacatecoluca City.
MANAGUA. Nicaragua, May 21 UP).
—An earthquake of about three sec
onds' duration shook Managua at 5:10
am.. Eastern standard time, today,
scaring residents of the city, but caus
ing no damage.
Cities on a line northwest ot the
capital, including Leon, Chinandega
and Corinto, reported a shock appar
ently somewhat sharper in Intensity,
but with no damage.
MENDOZA, Argentina. May 21 <j'Pi
Advices lrcm Malargue, A’gentlna, to
day said the volcano Des Cabezcdo had
begun to erupt again.
Dense smoke clouds were rising from
the cone, the dispatches said, a rain of
ashes was falling and there were some
cracks in the side of the mountain.
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Carideo to Coach
Missouri U. Grid
Squad This Fall
By the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA. Mo., May 21 —
Prank Carideo. one of the great
est foot ball players at Notre
Dame under the late Knute
Rockne. today was named head
foot ball coach at the University
of Missouri.
YANKEES DEFEAT
Ruth, Lazzeri and Gehrig
Break Up Game With
Home Runs.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.
NEW YORK. May 21. —The New
York Yankees defeated th* Nationals |
here today In the first game of a
double-header.
The score was 14 to 2.
FIRST INNING.
WASHINGTON — Myer singled to!
right. Manush flied to Chapman in
left center. As West fanned. Myer atole
second. Lazzeri threw out Cronin. No
runs.
NEW YORK—Combs flied to West.
Lary singled to second. Ruth took a
third strike. Gehrig popped to Bluege
No runs. ^
SECOND INNING.
WASHINGTON—Reynolds singled to
left and took third when Chapman let
the ball get bj' for an error. Lazzeri
threw out Judge, Reynolds scoring.
Bluege flied to Combs. Lazzeri threw
out Berg. One run.
NEW YORK—Chapman flied to Rey
nolds. Dickey singled to center. Laz
zeri doubled to right, sending Dickey to
third. Crosetti was purposely passed,
filling the bases. Pennock flied to West.
Dickey scoring after the catch. Lazzeri (
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Box Score
(FIRST GAME.)
WASHINGTON.
A.B. R. H. 0. A. E.
Myer, 2b. 4 O 2 2 3 1
Manush. If... 2 O O 1 O O
Friedrich, p... 1 O O O O O
West, cf. 4 O 1 2 1 O
Cronin. « ... 8 O O 1 3 O
McLeod, ss.... 1 O O O 1 O
Reynolds, rf.. 4 1 1 2 O O
Judge, lb.... 3 O O 8 1 O
Kuh-1, lb_ 0 0 0 3 0 0
Bluege. 3b.... 3 O 1 1 O O
Ken, 3b. 1 O O O O O
Berg, c. 2 O O 2 O O
Maple, c. 2 O 1 1 O O
Brown p. 2 1 O O 2 O
Ragland, p... O O O O 2 O
Harris . 1 O O 1 O O
33 2 02413 1
NEW YORK.
A.B. R. H. O. A. E.
Combs, cf-lf.. 5 1 0 2 0 0
Lary, ss. 2 2 1 1 3 O
Ruth, rf. 4 2 2 1 O O
Byrd, ef. O O O 2 O O
Gehrig, lb.... 5 3 3 lO O O
Chapman, lf-rf 4 2 2 3 0 1
Dickey, e. 4 2 2 2 O O
Jorgens, c.,.. O O O 1 O O
Laxxeri, 2b.... 4 1 3 4 4 1
Saltrgaver, 2b. O O O O O O
Crosetti, 3b.. 3 O O 1 O O
Pennock, p.... 5 1 1 O 2 O
3 01414 2 7 0 2
SCORE BY INNINGS.
I7S4647S 9— R.
Washington O I 1 O O O O O O- 2
New York.. O 1 O O 7 3 1 2 x-14
SUMMARY:
Runs balled In—Judge. Pennock (7). West.
Ruth (41. Chapman (7), Laixcrl (7), Geh
rig.
Two-base hits—Lanerl 17). Gehrig, Chap
man.
Home runs—Ruth (7). Lateri. Gehrig.
Stolen bases—West. Chapman.
SaerlTee—Manush.
Donblr plays—West to Judge te Myer; Brown
to Mver to Judge.
Left on buses—Washington. 4: New York. 7.
Base on balls—Off Pennock. I: off Brown,
7; off Ragland, t; off Friedrich. 4.
Struck out—By Pennock. Si ky Brown, li bv
Friedrich. I.
Hits—Off Brown. 9 In 5 Inninga; off Ragland.
7 In 7 Innings.
Hit by pitcher—Ry Ragland (Chapman).
Umpires—Megan. Ormsby. Geiael and Natlia.
G. 0. P. LEADERS SET
Reed and Moses Announce
Intention to Stay Here if
Necessary.
By the Associated Press.
Two Republican Senators, destined to
play leading roles in the Republican
National Convention—Reed of Penn
sylvania and Moses of New Hamp
shire—today issued a joint statement
announcing their purpose to remain at
Washington unless Congress completes
its emergency fiscal program before
June 11.
At the same time, the belief that
Congress would not finish its work by
convention time was expressed by Rep
resentative Rainey of Illinois, the Dem
ocratic leader. He said he would resist
any effort to recess for the conventions
until the 11 annual appropriation bills
were through Congress.
Score Lack of Action.
The two Senators Issued their state
ment as debate dragged through the
third day on the tariff provisions of
the revenue bill. Reed has favored the
tariff items in the measure while Moses
has opposed them, but each condemned
the lack of action.
Reed has been mentioned as chair
man of the Resolutions Committee of
of the national convention. He con
ferred this week with President Hoover,
who is reported to be backing the move
ment for a continuous session.
Moses was chairman of the last con
vention.
Pointing out that only 17 more legis
lative days remain for disposition of
the tax. economy and appropriation
bills before the convention, the two
Senators announced:
“We are firmly of the opinion that
no duty which can be laid upon us as
representative partisans and as dele
gates to the nominating convention of
our party can transcend the duty to
complete this legislation without further
delay.
See Pressing Need.
“Accordingly, we are willing to forego
the political activities attendant upon
Our membership in the Republican na
tional convention if cur work here is
not finished by that time, and we
hereby announce our purpose to remain
in Washington in continuous session
until we have done our part in the ful
fillment of the program which the coun
try not only requires but demands.
“In our opinion, Congress should re
main in continuous session, so that the
end of the fiscal year will see com
pleted a program of legislation which
will assure the solvency of the Federal
Treasury, the maintenance of our mone
tary standard and the speedy re-estab
lishment of the country’s industrial
activity.”
The tariff on oil and another on coal
were carried to victory yesterday by a
coalition which roughly split both
parties in two. The first was voted in
43 to 37. the second by 39 to 34.
The reaction of the most strenuous
opponents of the limited-tariff pro
gram nearly took their foes’ breath
away. Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland, offered 500 tariff amend
ments. Senator Norris, Republican, of
Nebraska, submitted one amendment to
write the export debenture farm relief
plan into the bill.
The two votes sought today to com
plete the bill’s tariff schedule were on
lumber and copper._The same^coali
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its great number of readers about
all the attractive things in the
stores.
Yesterday’s Advertising
(Local Display)
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The Star's circulation yesterday
was 124.293. an increase over last
year of 8,666, a large audience in
itself.
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MRS. PUTNAM FLIES
OCEAN ALONE, LANDS
AT CULMORE, IRELAND
“I’ve Done It,” She Exclaims on
Bringing Down Plane With
Burned Manifold.
GASOLINE GAUGE BROKEN;
i’ARIS FLIGHT GUT SHORT
Pilot Unhurt, Ship Undamaged in De
scent—Flew 2.026 Vi Miles in 15
Hours and 39 Minutes.
By the Associated Press.
CULMORE. Ulster, Ireland, May 21.—Amelia Earhart Putnam
brought down her red-and-gold monoplane in a field on the Donegal
side of Lough Foyle this afternoon, and thereby became the first
woman ever to fly the Atlantic alone.
She landed on this side of the ocean five years to the day after
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at Le Bourget, France, successfully
completing the first solo flight across the Atlantic by a man.
“I’ve done it!” Mrs. Putnam exclaimed when she got out of
her ship.
She had intended to go to Paris, but it was necessary to cut the
flight short because her exhaust manifold had burned out and the
gasoline gauge was broken, causing a little leakage.
The lithe, blonde flyer got a lift by motor to Londonderry, 5 miles
away, where the first thing she did was to get on the telephone to
report her success to London, in order that her husband, George
Palmer Putnam, New York publisher, and her friends back home
might know she was safe.
Mrs. Putnam traveled approximately 2,026% miles between Harbor
Grace, Newfoundland, and Culmore, Ireland, and was in the neigh
borhood of 600 miles north of her set course.
Weather reports from abroad this morning spoke of a persistent
southwesterly wind, which was expected to drive the flyer north of
her goal. A storm was blowing along the Frensh coast in the after
noon.
The flyer brought her plane down at 2:30 D.m. (8:30 a m. Eastern
standard time). This meant that she was in the air 15 hours and 39
minutes. She left Harbor Grace at 4:51 p.m. Friday, Eastern standard
time.
19,251,000 PROFIT
LAID 10 WARNERS
Film Brothers Charged With
Manipulating Own Stock,
at Senate Probe.
By the Associated Press.
Operations intended to show that the
three Warner brothers profited $9,251,
OOO in 1930 by purchase and sale of
Warner Bros', moving picture stock
were traced today in the Senate stock
market investigation.
As Harry M. Warner took the stand,
William A. Gray, counsel for the in
quiry, said he would establish “that
this man through undercover channels
and by covering up his transactions
sold his stock while certain journals
were boosting the value before the pub
lic.” He said the buying was when
the newspapers began to depress the
price.
For Self and Brothers.
The president of the picture-produc
tion concern said his trades were for
himself and his two brothers, Albert
and J. L. Warner, jointly. The busi
ness was done through several different
brokers and through accounts under the
names of Moe Rosenberg and Edward
Charness.
Meanwhile in the House, Representa
tive La Guardia, Republican, New York,
who testified several weeks ago in the
market inquiry, said that Richard S.
Whitney, president of the New York
Stock Exchange, in submitting a com
parative statement of stock taxes in
Canada and England as part of his
opposition testimony to the ',4 of 1 per
cent tax on transfers approved by the
House, had "malicious'v and wilfully”
omitted a real stock transfer tax.
Honest Operation Asked.
Before Warner, the first witness today,
was called. Senator Brookhart, Repub
lican of Iowa, asked Gray to have
Whitney present to the committee a
pool operation which he considered
honest.
“I want to know whether there is
anything honest in this institution,"
Brookhart said.
Gray replied that when Whitney was
on the stand he professed ignorance
of the existence of any pools on the
exchange.
At farookhart's request, the commit
tee agreed to have Gray communicate
with Whitney to ask him to name some
syndicate whose operations he believes
to be entirely honest.
Gray said he would then go into the
activities of the syndicate or take what
ever action the committee might desire.
The counsel remarked that he himself
had data on “50 to 69 pools.”
Warner was photographed as he was
sworn.
"Do you want his finger prints, too?"
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WASHINGTON CADET’S
BODY IS RECOVERED
Alan J. Light Second Victim of
Hudson River Canoe Accident
April 13.
By the Associated Press.
WEST POINT, N. Y„ May 21.—The
body of Cadet Alan J. Light of the
United States Military Academy was
found in the Hudson River off Storm j
King Mountain today.
Light and Cadet Leo A. Skelm had
been missing since April 13, when they
failed to return from canoeing. Skeim's
body was recovered yesterday.
Both bodies will be placed In the
old cadet chapel this afternoon and
it is probable that a double funeral will
be held Monday.
Light’s parents, Samuel and Myra
Light, have been at West Point since
their son was drowned, it was said to
day at their home, 4701 Connecticut
avenue.
Mr. Light is manager of Bartons.
Inc., a woman's apparel store at 925
T atreet. _. _
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I nac to land nere in the pastures
outside Londonderry,” Mrs. Putnam
said.
“I'm not a bit hurt and I think the
plane is all right. I had trouble with
my axhaust manifold, which had burned
out.
"In addition, the gasoline gauge had
broken, probably In the storm last night,
and there was a little leakage, so I de
cided to come down. I landed In an
open field.”
“To my friends in New York,” Mrs.
Putnam went cm, "I want to send this
message: I am very glad to have come
across successfully, but I am sorry, lh
deed, I did not make France. I am
going to speak to my husband as soon
as I can by the Atlantic phone.
“My first thought on getting here,”
she said, “was to call up so that my
safe landing might be known without
delay.”
Crossed Ocean in 1928.
Once before, in June, 1928, the flyer
crossed the ocean in an airplane. But
i that time she was a passenger. Asked
to compare her first flight with her
second, she said: “There is no com
parison. On this go I was flying low
the whole time and had to rely on my
self. I am afraid I am a bit deaf after
the terrible roar of the engine In my
ears all the time, but at any rate I
have done it.”
“I want to find out what I shall do,”
she continued. "I think I may go to
London, but the only clothes I have
weth me are the flying suit on me now.
and I haven't much cash.
“I'll probably go to London after the
week end. but It all depends on what
my husband thinks about It.”
HUSBAND “OVERJOYED.”
NEW YORK, May 21 (jPi.—George
Palmer Putnam was Informed by tele
phone from London today in a conver
sation with the London Daily Sketch
that Amelia Earhart, his wife, had
landed in Ireland. The Sketch told
Putnam that its correspondent at Lon
donderry had interviewed Miss Earhart
: after she landed.
"Of course, I'm overjoyed,” Putnam
said, “but we who know her well were
sure she'd do it:
"She has more calm courage than
any person I ever knew. Please let me
thank the Associated Press warmly for
being the first to break the news to
me.”
DO-X 500 MILES
PAST CAPE RACE
Giant Airliner Signals of Smooth
Passage in Hop to Azores
Islands.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 21.—The Radio
Marine Corporation announced the re
ceipt at 9:50 a m., Eastern standard
time today, of this message from the
German airliner DO-X}
"Position 14:00 Greenwich mean
time (9 am. Eastern standard time)
44.00 north, 41.15 west Winds west
southwest. Speed 90 knots. All clear."
The position given by the DO-X is
approximately 500 miles east, southeast
of Cape Race. Newfoundland.
Radio-Marine attaches interpreted
the phrase, "all clear," to mean that
the flight to the Aeores Islands was
proceeding smoothly.
DO-X OFF NOVA SCOTIA.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia. May 21 OP).—
The government wireless station an
nounced receipt of a report that the
German airliner DO-X, flying to the
Azores, was 300 miles east southeast of
Cape Race at 8 a.m. i Eastern standard
time) today, and the position of the
airship at that time was given at lati
tude 45.30 north. 45.40 west.
The Do-X took off from Harbor Grace
for a transatlantic flight to the Azores
at 3 a.m.. Eastern standard time. The
wind was southwest, blowing moderate
ly, and the weather was clear as the
big ship hopped
She had been lying at Holyrood re
fueling after a 40-mile hop from Dildo,
where she landed Thursay after run
ning short of gasoline.
The Do-X, largest heavier-than-alr
machine in the world, carried 7,000 gal
lons of gasoline, and her commander,
Capt. Frederick Christiansen, estimated
she would use in a single hour more
fuel than Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam's
single motored monoplane carried for
a 20-hour flight The Do-X, however,
was not expected to make half as fast
time as the smaller, swifter plans of
Mrs. Putnam.
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