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WEATHER / A f (tT. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) ( The Ollly eVeiling paper T1£ in Washington with the moderate to fresh southwest winds. Tem- Associated PreSS NeWS Jt£,T '““y: and Wirephoto Services. Full report on page A-8. SATURDAY'S 117 ill SUNDAY'S 1 3Q fi23 Closing New York Markets, Page 18 ,r* ****”( Borne returns not yet YecVived. I No. 33,634! wc.0sm„cgtonmD,tcr WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1936—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. *** <*> M..n. As.oci.t.d Pr.„. TWO CENTS. INCH SANITY PROBE BEGUN AT GALLINGER AFTER WILD Drives Along Crowded Side walk, Through Red Lights and Over White House Lawn in New Episodes. MIND HELD UNSOUND BY SANITARY OFFICER leaves Empty Beer Bottles, Can of Mothballs and Ping-Pong Balls in Brief Case for Presi dent—Wanted Loan of Tank to Level Hotel. Representative Marion A. Zion check of Washington was ad mitted to Gallinger Hospital for mental observation shortly after noon today. He was seized in the grounds of Naval Hospital by Detective Sergts. Aubrey Tolson and Joe Sincovitz an hour after a broadcast of a general alarm for his immediate arrest. “I’ll go with you,” Zioncheck told the policemen. “I just want a fair examination." He tried to get into his car. but Toison and Sincovitz said, "Come in our car." There was a short struggle between the two officers and the Representa tive, who has slept only a few hours aince Thursday. Sees Hand Grenades. At length he entered the headquar ters squad car and slumped to his seat. Suddenly he began to scream that the floor of the car was covered with hand grenades. Finally he quiet ed down. The officials whisked him to Gal linger. where this commitment, signed by Inspector Bernard Thomp son. was presented: “The admission of Marion A. Zion check (Congressman) to Gallinger Municipal Hospital is requested for observation and a report as to his mental status. The charge of un sound mind is made by E. P. Stump, sanitary officer of the District of Columbia." Things Happen Fast. On the back of the document. Stump had made this notation: This man has been driving his automobile in a reckless manner over the streets of the District of Co lumbia anfi annoying prominent of ficials and citizens and is believed to be of unsound mind." The incarceration climaxed a day of excitement during which Zioncheck drove down a busy sidewalk, sped across the White House lawn, left Police Court at 60 miles an hour and disregarded, according to his pas senger, at least five red lights. Reports of Zioncheck activities came so fast during the morning that shortly after 11 o'clock Commissioner Allen summoned Supt. of Police Brown and Acting Corporation Coun sel Vernon E. West to his office to decide on a course of action. Drives on White House Lawn. Zioncheck sped his black roadster across the White House lawn at 8:30 a.m. and left three empty bottles at the executive offices as a present for Mr. Roosevelt. “Here’s some gas for the President,” he told a Secret Service man. He left a briefcase containing the bottles and two tin cans—moth balls and ping pong balls. The legislator said he wanted to ask the President for some machine guns and tanks to help him blow up a rsee ZIONCHECK, Page A-4.) SEARCH FOR STARK IS PRESSED IN UTAH riyer's Death From Exposure Held Likely as Associates Renew Hunt. By the Associated Press. MORGAN, Utah. June 1.—Con vinced that Maj. Howard Stark could not have gone far through a 5-foot enow and a 30-below-zero tempera ture. men on horseback hunted his body today in a mile-radius circle about his wrecked plane or. a rocky 8.000-foot peak. Interrupted yesterday by a hail *torm. Maj. Stark’s Commerce Depart ment associates rushed plans to renew the search today.- Some members of the party considered the evidence ample that the flyer died of exposure. Four and a half months after the plane crashed in a night flight during a snowstoim last January, the wreck age was found Saturday by a sheep herder. Compasses and a map of the region were missing from the pilot's compartment. The sicene of the crash is 25 miles northeast of here, in country which Is described as virtually Inaccessible, with jagged rocks, steep cliffs and narrow mountain trails. Bureau Awaits Report. The Bureau of Air Commerce today Is awaiting word of the completion of its continous search of 4 Vz months for Howard Stark from Lloyd Juelson, local friend of the missing Alexandria, Va., flyer. After Bureau airline inspectors in the Salt Lake City area had conducted daily flight operations, except during Intervals of bad weather, for more than three months. Juelson, employed here In connection with the develop ment of radio-controlled flight in struments, was sent from Washington to take over the search. For weeks, Juelson has given his full time to the search for his missing fr'end. flying daily patrols and running d ,wn every report offering any pos rf. ie solution to the whereabouts of the missing man. Fights for Life PRESIDENT SACASA._ ING Mussolini to Call Men to Col ors on Eve of League Session. . BACKGROUND— The Italian mobilization, expected to bring several branches of Fascist military service on exhibition, will follow by little more than c month a test concentration of British forces at Malta, naval base between Sicily and Africa. In a two-day practice May 12 and 13, the British land, sea and air forces tested the vulnerability of the strategic insular base. Bv tiie Associated Press. ROME, June 1.—Italy prepared a display of potential force to day to backstop her annexation of Ethiopia before the League of Nations. Premier Mussolini decided to send more than 1,000,000 soldiers in a test mobilization to the northern fron tier, reliable sources asserted, at the same time the League Council re sumes on June 16 its discussion of the Italo-Ethiopian war. The exhibition is intended to prove the Fascist nation stands behind the declaration of its dictator Ethiopia will not be relinquished—even at the cost of a European war. The order for the display of steel and men sent Italy’s trained warriors to polishing their equipment for the bis review. Nearly all of the avail able army of 1,200,000 will partici pate in the maneuvers, it was reported, while part of reserve manpower, esti mated at 6.800.000, may also be in cluded. The Italian military test is expected to last several days. Other details of the war games have not been com pleted. , / TT« 11_ n.'/i/l I’m. peror without a country, left Gibral tar yesterday aboard a passenger ship bound for London. (He was represented by a spokesman in Paris as planning to go to Geneva for the League meeting, although pre viously the Negus himself asserted such a decision must await confer ences between him and the British foreign office. (“While I am not feeling what you might call good." the Emperor said before boarding the ship, "I feel much better than when I landed.”) Ethiopia Is Divided. Meanwhile, all Ethiopia was di vided into five part by Mussolini, cre ator of the new Roman empire. His cabinet approved a project by which each part becomes an admin istrative division. They are: Eritrea—Capital. Asmara. Amhara—Capital. Gondar. Galla and Sldamo—Capital, Jimma. Harar—Capital, Harar. Somaliland—Capital, Mogadiscio. The cabinet announced each divi sion represented a homogeneous or ganism “ethnically, geographically, historically and politically.” Addis Ababa was named the capi tal for the new administrative or ganization of Ethiopia with a viceroy in charge, aided by a vice governor general and the chief of the general staff, the latter handling military matters. Flanking this central government, (See ITALY, Page A-2.) TO GET COMMISSIONS NEW LONDON. Conn., June 1 OP).— Russell Randolph Waesche, Jr., and Robert Wilcox of Washington are among 30 members of the graduating class at the Coast Guard Academy June 8. They will receive commis sions as ensigns in the Coast Guard. SACASA,TRAPPED BY NICARAGUANS. FIGHTS FOR LIFE Americans Warned to Flee as Rebels Fire on Presi dent’s Palace. ■ % INSURGENTS ARE LED BY OUSTED GENERAL Machine Gun Mounted in Spire of Cathedral for At tack. By the Associated Press. MANAGUA. Nicaragua. June 1.— United States’ citizens were warned to seek safety today as rebel troops surrounded the presidential palace, cutting President Juan B. Sacasa and his bodyguard off from the outside world. The warning was issued by Boaz W. Long. United States Minister, to those members of the North American col i ony living in dangerous vicinities. An undetermined number of persons were killed and wounded In yesterday s fighting. An authoritative source in close con tact with the besieged presidential palace said three or four had been killed there and three or four more I wounded. President Reported Calm. This source said, however, that President Sacasa himself was unhurt and "quite calm.’’ Several citizens were known to have been killed by stray bullets In the street and six were reported wounded. Following a day of fighting quiet fell over the city-last night. However, throughout the hours of darkness motor cycles and automo biles filled with army men rushed through the streets of the capital. Genaro Buono, an Italian subject and manager of the Anglo-American Hotel, died suddenly this morning of a heart attack believed induced by excitement. Seek Armistice. The diplomatic corps was under stood to be endeavoring to make con tact with both the President and the leaders of the rebellion in an effort to j reach an armistice, j Col. Reyes, commanding the na j tional army forces in Campo de Marte, I the military encampment which sep arates the presidential palace from Managua itself, stated his men had the situation well in hand. He said he guaranteed safety for non-combatants. Hostilities between armed forces on Tiscapa Hill, site of the President's palace, and Campo de Marte. guards men’s stronghold at the foot of the , hill, started yesterday with machine guns, rifles and some artillery going j into action. The first long-range assault failed, j Unconfirmed reports said four or five persons were killed and a number wounded in the presidential mansion, several died in the Campo de Marte and a few civilians were killed by ; stray bullets in the capital. Aiiacaers ran. The shooting died down later yes terday after the military failed to dis lodge the government from the palace, but the opposing sides remained en camped today in their positions. A concerted movement was reported among United States. Mexican and Central American diplomatic repre sentatives to appeal to both sides to cease the firing between the Tiscapa Hill government defenders and the Campo de Marte guardsmen forces. Residents living near the theater of hostilities moved to safer places. The populace feared sacking and looting, usual accompaniments to civil strife, but officials said loyal guardsmen had well-disciplined control of the rest of the capital. The revolutionary movement spread into the country and reports were re ceived here that rebellious national (SeeNICARAGUA, Page A-15.) 3,000 AT WEDDING Indians in Full Regalia Attend Ceremony in Quebec. CAUGHNAWAGA. Quebec, June 1 (/Pi.—This Indian town of 3.000 per sons went en masse to a wedding to day. Flags and streamers decorated every louse for the nuptials of Cecilia Jacobs and Angus Snow. Indians in full tri bal regalia paraded from house to house, or joined in dances at the Re serve Dance Hall. Bride and bridegroom were feted from early morning with breakfast, luncheon and dinner parties. Two Murder W arrants Asked In Black Leaidn “Execution” By the Associated Press. DETROIT, June 1.—Murder and kidnaping warrants were asked by Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea today for two more men in the Black Le gion "execution” of Charles A. Poole, bringing the number held in the slay ing to 15. The two named in the latest war rants recommended by McCrea are Virgil Morrow and Albert Stevens, who had been detained for questioning over the week end. Capt. Ira H. Marmon of the State police said a former member of the Black Legion told him that three other members of the secret society had entered an automobile factory here to demand the discharge of John L. Bielak, who subsequently was beaten and shot to death. The three charged that Bielak and four other workers were Communists, Marmon said. Bielak’s bullet-pierced body was thrown out of an automobile near Monroe. Mich., March 15. 1934. Marmon said his informant “is go ing before the grand jury here to tell his story and I cannot reveal his name now.” Officials of the automobile plant said Bielak was a member of a shop committee which had presented a petition for higher wages, but they had no record of the incident men tioned, or any information on Bielak's political beliefs. Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea said today another Black Legion flogging had been disclosed in a Detroit suburb, but that "the victim is afraid to come in.” In response to a request from Sena tor Benson, Parmer-Labor, of Min nesota, who introduced a resolution last week demanding a congressional investigation of the terrorist organi sation, McCrea forwarded informa tion on the order's activities to Wash ington today. The supposed suicide by hanging of Roy Pidcock, 24 hours after the Black Legion slaying of Charles A. Poole, was added to the dozen other deaths being investigated today for possible connection with the night riding terrorists. It was Poole’s "ex ecution” May 13 which led to dis covery of the existence of the Black Legion. Pidcock, 32-year-old steel worker, (See BLACK UEGZON, Page A-S.) NEW YORK WAGE BY HIGH COURT 5*4 Ruling Read by Justice Butler Based on D. C. Case of 1923. ACT HELD TO VIOLATE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE Hughes, Brandeis, Stone and Car dozo Dissent—Decision Last of Present Term. BY JOHN H. CLINE. The Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 de cision, today ruled unconstitutional an attempt by the State of New York to prescribe a standard of minimum wages for women and children. This important decision, expected to control similar attempts to fix wages in other States, was one of the court's last official actions at this term, since it adjourns today for a four-month vacation. As has been the case on most opinion days, the court room again was crowded with spectators, several of whom stood on chairs to watch Associate Justice Butler read the majority opinion. Chief Justice Hughes and Associate Justices Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo dissented. The majority opinion held the State act unconstitutional because it violated the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment to the Consti tution by abridging the freedom of contract between employers and em ployes. 13-Year-Old Precedent. In reaching this conclusion, the court was guided by its celebrated opinion of 13 years ago. in which sim ilar legislation for the District of Co lumbia was declared unconstitutional. The New York law was challenged by Joseph Tipaldo, Brooklyn laundry manager, who was indicted on a charge of forgery for an alleged at tempt to conceal a violation of the statutes. He won his freedom on a writ of habeas corpus and the New York Court of Appeals then held the act unconstitutional. The State then appealed to the Su preme Court through the warden of the prison in which Tipaldo had been confined. Arguing in defense of the validity of the legislation, New York officials, through their counsel, contended the State’s statute provided that wages should not exceed the value of the services rendered, while the District of Columbia act guaranteed a wage based solely on the necessities of the workers. For this reason, they said, the court should draw a distinction between the present case and the earlier decision. In discussing the local case, en titled "Adkins vs. Children's Hospital," Justice Butler said: “The State court rightly held that the Adkins case controls this one and requires that Tipaldo be discharged upon the ground that the legislation under which he was indicted and im prisoned is repugnant to the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. Due Process Clause. “The right to make contracts about one's affairs is a part of the liberty protected by the due process clause. Within this liberty are provisions of contracts between employer and em ploye fixing the wages to be paid. In making contracts of employment, generally speaking, the parties have equal right to obtain from each other the best terms they can by private bargaining. Legislative abridgement of that freedom can only be justified by the existence of exceptional cir cumstances." Justice Butler pointed out that physical differences between men and women must be recognized in proper cases and said legislation fixing hours or conditions of 'work may properly take them into account. “But,” he added, in referring to the opinion of the lower court, "we can not accept the doctrine that women of mature age require or may be sub jected to restrictions upon their lib erty of contract which could not lawfully be imposed in the case of men under similar circumstances. “To do so would be to ignore all the implications to be drawn from the present-day trend of legislation, as w'ell as that of common thought and usage, by which woman is accorded (See WAGES. Page A-2.^ COURT UPHOLDS ACT ON TRANSPORTATION Complaint Against Refusal to Ship Convict-Made Goods Is Dismissed. Ej the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, June 1.—The United States Circuit Court of Appeals upheld today the constitutionality of a con gressional act regulating interstate transportation of convict-made goods in affirming a district court opinion dismissing a complaint of the Ken tucky Whip & Collar Co., of Eddyville, Ky„ against the Illinois Central Rail road. The company, which employs convict labor at-Eddyville in the manufacture of horse collars and strap goods, sought to force the railroad to accept such goods and challenged the act of Con gress under which the railroad refused to handle the goods. The company contended the congressional act vio lated the fifth, or due process, ament ment. The court held the act regulated commerce between States, but did not "invade or Interfere with the power of the States to regulate their own in ternal affairs.” Congress, by the act, prohibited the transportation of goods manufactured by convicts or prisoners from one State to another when such goods were sold in violation of any law of that State. District Judge Elwood Hamilton dis missed the Whip <fc Collar Co.'s com plaint ao October 9. i^Now^3TbS^wJ\ Persuade 2ioncmeckto GET OFF FRONT FAQEL, \v*E LL ALL BE HAPPY^y QUEEN MARY FAILS Sails Into New York Harbor, but Won’t Dock Until Late This Afternoon. F* the Associated Press. NEW YORK. June 1—Completing her first voyage across the Atlantic, the British liner Queen Mary put | into New York Harbor today—but she failed to pass the record crossing es tablished by the Normandie last year. The Queen Mary passed Ambrose Lightship at 7:55 a m. (Eastern stand ard time) and proceeded up Am brose Channel to Quarantine. She was not due to dock until late this afternoon. The liner arrived at Quarantine at 9:10 am. (Eastern standard time), where the official welcoming party in behalf of Mayor Fiorello La Guardla reached the vessel. The committee was dr i by Or. Nicholas Murray Bu**tr >ad Samuel Seabury. The British consul general. Sir Ger- j aid Campbell, also went down the bay ; in the special cutter with the wel- I comers to board the Queen. Heavy Mail Delay* Docking. The delay in docking was due not only to the welcoming ceremonies, but to the heavy load of mail carried by the liner. An official comparison of the times of the Queen Mary and the Nor mandie was not immediately available. The comparison was further com plicated by the fact that the Queen Mary's crossing was measured from Cherbourg Breakwater to Ambrose, while the crossing of the Normandie was measured from Bishops Rock Light, at the entrance of the English Channel, to Ambrose, 193 nautical miles shorter. At the office of the Cunara Line. It was stated the Queen Mary, after leaving Cherbourg Breakwater at 7:35 p.m. <E. S. T.) last Wednesday, passed Bishops Rock Light at 1:17 a.m. (E. S. T.) Thursday. On this basis, it took the Queen Mary 4 days 6 hours and 38 minutes from Bishops Rock to Ambrose. Queen's Average 29.133 Knots. The Normandie's record for the same distance was 4 days, 3 hours 13 minutes and 38 seconds. The average speed of the Queen Mary, according to an unofficial an nouncement, was 29.133 knots. The average speed of the Normandie on her maiden trip w-as 29.64 knots. The welcoming for the new queen of the seas opened long before the ship dropped its anchors at quarantine for the official reception. As the liner passed abeam of Am brose Lightship, before proceeding up the channel into New- York Harbor, many airplanes flew overhead and three Army planes circled about in formation. Dozens of small craft hovered about the ship—which, with its’long, straight hull, resembles more the old Maure tania-type of steamer instead of the streamlined ships put into service on the Italian, French and German lines. At the entrance to Ambrose Channel. " (See QUEEN MARY, Page A-5.) 40,000 ON STRIKE Building Workers in Spain De mand Higher Wages. MADRID. June 1.—Forty thousand building workers struck today, de manding higher wages, a 40-hour week and improved conditions. Efforts to effect a compromise dur ing the night and early morning failed and union officials said no fur ther negotiations were in sight. Syndicalist workers also continued on strike, but the Socialist General Workers' Union failed to follow suit. ■«———■—— -—■» -ill a Readers' Guide Page. Amusements . C-8 Answers to Questions_A-10 Comics _C-4 Death Notices_A-12 Editorial _A-10 Finance _A-17-18-19 Lost and Found ....-A-3 News Comment Features A-ll Radio __- C-3 Serial Story. B-13 Short Story_B-10 society .B-3-4-9 Sports_C-l-2-3 Washington Wayside-A-2 Women’s Features ...B-14-15 a Sacrifice of 1,500 Chinese Children t Held Only Rumor •/ Shanghai Authorities Find Stories of Drown• ings Baseless. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI. June 1.—Municipal authorities, after an exhaustive inves tigation into sensational reports that 1.500 children were to be sacrificed for construction of a new bridge on the Shanghai-Hangchow Railroad, de clared today the stories were baseless. The report, which caused a panic last Friday at Woosung. set forth that bandits were organized to kidnap the children and cast them into the Chien tang River at Zakow—a procedure ru mored necessary because engineers were unable to drive piles in the solid river bed. Authorities said the rumors were circulated by “irresponsible persons with ulterior motives.'' _ ' ‘ '- -- - A House Rules Committee Gives Right of Way to Measure. By the Associated Press. The Rules Committee today gave right-of-way to the House floor to the Cuffey-Vinson coal control bill de signed to replace the invalidated Guf fey coal act. Tentative plans of the House lead ership call for consideration of the substitute measure Wednesday. Under the rule granted today, de bate would be limited to two hours, evenly dii*ded between proponents and opponents. The committee action was taken after a brief presentation of the bill’s provisions by Representatives Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky, co-outhor of the measure, and Samuel B. Hill. Democrat of Washington. Representative Treadway. Repub lican. of Massachusets opposed consid eration at this session, asserting there would be no possibility of early ad journment if it were allowed. Stripped of the labor provisions of the original act. which the Supreme Court held unconstitutional, the new measure would provide for re-enact ment of its price-fixing features plus all other provisions not believed inval idated by the court. The only major change in the sub stitute was the proposed enlargement of the National Bituminous Coal Com mission to seven members instead of five. I Action by President Held Necessary to End Deadlock. ay the Associated Press. Predictions that President Roose velt woul£ move soon to avert a threat ened jam over taxes and to speed Congress homeward by Saturday night were heard today among some admin istration supporters on Capitol Hill. As the Seventy-fourth Congress entered what leaders fervently hoped would be its final week, the Senate was tom by internal dissension over taxes, and also found itself at odds with the House on the issue. Moreover, the $2,370,000,000 relief deficiency bill had yet to dear the Senate, and both Houses had much business of a more minor nature to transact, including some vital appro priation legislation. But congressional leaders insisted it would still be possible to adjourn by Saturday night if President Roosevelt would call off the New Deal fight for stiff graduated taxes on undistributed profits of corporations, accept the bill which a rebellious Senate Finance Committee has written, and urge House chiefs to do likewise. Alternatives Weighed. Otherwise, it was held, the session might last well into the Summer. Cap itol Hill friends of the Chief Execu tive believed he was weighing both alternatives and some believed he would choose to end the session quickly. Weeks ago. they recalled, the Pres ident indicated that while he wanted $623,000,000 in permanent revenue, the job of choosing ways and means to get the money was up to Congress. Treasury estimates indicate the Sen ate bill, like the House measure, would raise about the sum wranted. though falling far short of the $500,000,000 in temporary revenue also sought by the President. While the Senate debated the re lief bill today and made arrangements for night sessions if necessary, the leaders moved to take up the tax bill tomorrow. Senator King. Democrat, of Utah, acting chairman of the Finance Committee, planned to sub mit today the committee’s majority report on its tax plan, which is fea tured by a 15'i to 18 per cent levy on net corporation income, a 7 per cent tax on profits undistributed to stockholders, and increases of the in dividual income surtaxes in the brackets above $6,000. Minority Report Prepared. Senator Black, Democrat, of Ala bama prepared to submit a minority report calling for a measure more in : line with administration ideas. Among i other things, Black favored graduated i levies on undistributed corporation \ earnings up to 30 per cent. The House I (See CONGRESsTPage A-14.) Charge of Red “Activity” In W. P. A. Brings Dismissal By tr.p Associated Press. ITHACA, N. Y.. June 1.—Prof Bristow Adams of the New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell Uni versity, said today he had “pro tested against the avowed Communis tic activities” of one "Wallace Miller,’ an official of the Federal Works Prog ress Administration writers’ project. Prof. Adams at the same time dis closed that he had been dismissed as New York State director of the writers’ project. He succeeded Dr Roland P. Gray as director on Jan uary 1. Under the project, writers have been given employment compiling the "American Guide,” a publication de signed to contain historical informa tion and data of interest to tourists Adams said he telegraphed Henry G. Alsberg, Federal director of the project, on May 23 “strongly” advis ing that "the man who calls him self Wallace Miller, class of 1922, Stanford University.” be removed “immediately from Federal service for good of administration” and sug gested that Miller’s present and for mer activities "be Investigated." He received a reply from Alsberg asking him to "specify” charges against Miller, he said, and complied with the request. Later he received a letter from Alsberg, he said, re lieving him of his post, effective May 31. 4 Adams said he had sent copies of correspondence with Mr. Alsberg to Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief ad ministrator. ALSBERG EXPLAINS CASE. Henry G. Alsberg, director of the W. P. A. writers’ project, said today that Bristow Adams had been dis missed as New York State director because the work "has not progressed as well as it should have.” Alsberg, who said that under W. P. A. regulations “political beliefs” could not bring dismissal, appointed Prof. Bertram Wainger of Union College. Schenectady, to succeed Adams. The director said Wallace Miller, a field supervisor, was sent to Albany last month to check up on progress of the New York State guide book and added that Adams, although com plaining against Miller, had not charged him with communistic activi ties. Adams, at Ithaca today, said he had protested against "communistic activities” of Miller. In his letter of dismissal, dated May 26, Alsberg wrote Adams: “It is also apparent to me, and I believe to you, too, that your Cornell duties are so arduous that it would be better if you Cid not continue to carry on also the work of director of New York State. Under the circum stances. I feel ft better that we dis pense with jwur sendees after May 81.” HINTED AS PARLEY ON D. C. DILL ENDS Conferees Adjourn After Brief Session Without Re port of Disagreement. BLANTON DECLINES TO TALK OF MEETING Effort to Fix Federal Share Be tween House and Senate Figure Reported. BY J. A. O'LEARY'. Conferees on the deadlocked Dis trict appropriation bill adjourned after a 40-minute session this morn ing, without signing a formal report of disagreement, indicating some new basis of compromise on the main issue of the Federal payment had been proposed. Senator 'Thomas. Democrat, of Okla homa, head of the Senate conferees, said there was nothing to report at this time. At the invitation of the House group. Thomas departed from the custom of holding conferences on the Senate side, by going to the House Appropriations Committee room for the meeting. The other Senate conferees did not attend, however, and it is probable the next move will be for Senator Thomas to consult his colleagues on what developed at this morning's meeting. Asks Reporters to Leave. Shortly before the conference ended, Representative Blanton of Texas, chairman of the House group and leading advocate of reduction of the Federal share toward District ex penses, emerged from the conference room, to an outside reception room where newspaper men were waiting, and told the clerks he wanted the re porters to leave the outer office. "I want the newspaper men to re tire from this room," Blanton said. “When we have a meeting it's execu tive. We don't want eavesdropping.'' When the conference adjourned a short time later, the Texan hurried toward the House chamber, telling newspaper men who sought informa tion regarding the conference that he did not have time. Senator Thomas said there was nothing to give out, except that a formal report of disagreement had not been signed. Reported Discussion. It waa later reported that there had been discussion of the possibility ol compromising on the three contro-V venial questions in the bill, aa fol lows: By having the Senate agree to leave out character education, as provided bv the House: by modifying the House ban on outside work of District officials, to apply to those receiving $5,000 or more a year, in stead of going down to the $2,400 class, and by fixing the Federal lump sum somewhere between the House figure of $2,700,000 and the Senate figure of $5,700,000. The Senate conferees already had indicated, in the letter Senator Thomas wrote Friday, that they would compromise substantially along House lines on the first two questions. On the lump sum. however, they have insisted repeatedly that they would stand firmly by the $5,700,000 figure, which the President recom mended. although Senator Thomas has offered to attach to that lump sum figure a provision for appoint ment of a commission to determine before next January what the Fed eral share should be thereafter. Just before the conferences met there appeared in today’s Congres sional Record a copy of a long letter from Blanton to Senator Thomas, in reply to the letter in which Thomas had on Friday accepted the Invita tion to meet on the House side. It <See”b7"cTBILLrPage A-2.) 6 DEAD, 1 MISSING IN WESTERN FLOODS Couple and Daughter. 3, Among Dead as Swollen Stream En gulfs Bunk House. By tee Associated Press. GRANADA. Colo., June 1—Subsid ing flood waters left six dead and one missing today in the dust-swept sector of three States where rain prayers were said just a fortnight ago. Official estimates of property dam age were lacking, but it was far less than in last years Memorial day floods that killed more than 100 per sons and caused losses of approxi mately $13,000,000 along the Republi can River, largely in Southern Ne braska. Smaller streams in Southwestern Kansas and the Oklahoma Panhandle left their banks with new rains yes terday after the Arkansas and Re-, publican Rivers started back to normal levels, but the greatest danger apparently had passed. The one missing today was John Garzie. 65-year-old farm hand, be lieved to have drowned when Butt* Creek engulfed the bunk house of the Simon Gonzales family near Spring field, Colo., drowning Mr. and Mrs. Gonzales and their 3-year-old daugh ter. The other victims were Don Gates, 27, of Denver, who perished on a flooded highway near Stratton. Colo.; A. G Baumgartner, drowned near Pritchett, Colo., and Mrs. John Dyatt, who died of shock while fleeing from high water near Goodland, Kans. Italian Senator Dies. ROME. June 1 OP).—Senator Ro berto Forges Davanzatl. one of the most reliable interpreters of Premier Mussolini's policies, died today of pneumonia after a short illness. Senator Davanzatl was managing editor of La Tribuna and a daily radio commentator on contemporary Italian events. A