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Bennett TO BE SET
FREE IN $4,000 BAIL
Teller, Held in $104, 900 Embezzle.
ment, Understood to Have
Restored $4,000. y

George Willard Bennett, 25-year-old
teller Of the Farmers g. Mechanics
Bank of Georgetown, who has been in
the District jail since last Thursday,
charged with embezzling 100000 of
the banks deposits, will be freed this
afternoon on $4,000 bond.
Meanwhile, it was learned that the
Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York,
under whose blanket insurance the bank
is protected, is conducting o thorough
investigation In the hope of salvaging
a part Of the money young Bennett
has admitted, -embezzling during the
course Of the past seven years. It Is
understood that approximately $4,000
has been restored by Bennett.
William e. Leahy, who has been re-
tanned as counsel for the bank clerk by
relatives, arranged for his release with
ly before noon. Milton S. Kronheim,
professional bondsman, went on Ben
nett's bond In the amount Of $4,000.
Neither Leahy or Bennett would dis
cuss the case today, the latter having
informed interviewers at the District
Jail that he had been advised by coun-
sci mot to talk" -
The District attorneys ONCE f1rst had
asked Benefits bond be set at 100000
and on Saturday, when it was learned
that the teller had returned $4,000 Of
the embezzled funds, his bond was
reduced to $4,000.
Mr.. Leahy said today when ques-
toned about the smaller bond ON which
Bennett was ordered released, that 50
far as he knew, no further amount had
been recovered. @
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PATIENT ENDS LIFE
At WALTER REED
Found Suspended From Cell.
ing With Sheet Around
Neck Early Today.

Apparently unable longer to endure
the pain he was suffering, Denner A.
PARCEL, a years old, patient at Wal
ter Reed Hospital, early today looped
q bed sheet around his neck, tied the
other end to q steam pipe overhead and
kicked his cot from beneath him.
He was found suspended from the
ceiling at 4:20 O'Clock this morning by
Arthur Biggs, an attendant at the hos
pital, who had become suspicious at
the continued silence in Parcells room
and went to investigate. The man was
quickly cut down, but death had come
q few minutes previously. according to
Maj. G. G. Hillman Of the staff, who
pronounced Parcell dead. ~
PARCEL had been removed some time
previously to a private room when his
groans disturbed other patients In the
i1eufophSycopathic ward where he had
been confined Doctors said that al
though PARCEL had never been under
conservation as . potential suicide, he
had been given close attention and
ayailed himself Of the opportunity only
a few minutes after an attendant left
his side.
Parcell was said to have been a vet
eran Of the World War and he was
committed to the hospital at the IN
stance Of the Veterans Bureau, where
he was under treatment for nervous
disorder. Coroner j., Ramsay Nevitt
issued certificate Of suicide in the
case.
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RECALL AS TRAFFIC
PENALTY is URGED
Caraway to Ask Senate to Act
Against Diplomats for In
tential Infractions.

Senator Caraway of Arkansas de-
clared today that he would ask the
Senate to refer to the State Department
a request that all members of the
diplomatic corps guilty Of "inten-
tionally" violating traffic ordinances In
the District be recalled by their gov
ernment.
Not only does he propose this dras-
tic step be taken in regard to any
diplomats arrested in the past for viola
tions and now in Washington, but 1t
would apply in any future cases where
members of the corps were arrested.
Senator Caraway, author Of the reso-
luton under which Maj. Henry @.
Pratt, superintendent of police, recently
made available information as to menu
bers of the diplomatic corps arrested In
the last 13 years, has not studied Maj
Pratt'sN report. He will do so at his
If 1t discloses any diplomats who now
are IN washington, his request that
their governments recall them win be
made. he said.
Senator Caraway, who arrived Ia
Washington today, said that the time
has come, "to put stop to abuses by
persons who have privileges Of i'm
munity." THE man who abuses
privileges accorded members Of the
diplomatic corps is not worthy of the
privilege" the Arkansas Senator said.
Senate to request Of the State Depart
ment that members Of the corps be
made arnenable to carry ordinance and
regulation to which our people are sub
tect when cases of violation indicate
Enthusiastically that the violation was
intentiohal or resulting from care
IeSsRssss
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SCORES BELIEVED
BURIED BY CAvE4N
Two Large Mercantile Houses
in Montgomery Collapse
Without Warning.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 15.-Sev-
eral score persons were believed buried
under debris Of two large Montgomery
mercantile houses which collapsed sud-
denly and without warning shortly after
noon today.
Every available physician and the
entire forces Of the city fire and police
departments were rushed to the scene
to aid in rescue work.
The buildings we're occupied by the
Bullock Shoe Co. and Pizitz Depart
ment Store, on Dexter avenue, the citv's
principal thoroughfare. Both were
three-story structures.
Witnesses Of the cave-in expressed the
belief that not single occupant Of
the Pizitz dry goods store, the first
building to collapse, escaped. Hope was
held that q few Of the employees Of the
Bullock shoe store. next door. had time
to gain the street before the falling
timbers caught them. It could not be
readily ascertained how many persons
were employed by the stores. although
the majority Of them were believed to
be young women.
Onlookers expressed the belief that
excavations being made for new store
next door to the dry goods establish
ment caused the collapse Of the build
ings, but firemen and city authorities
refused to be quoted until q thorough
investigation could be made.
Seven ambulances were ut the scene,
but IS minutes after the collapse res
cuers had made little headway in re-
moving the debris. Police threw I'D a
human barrier around the buildings to
hold back the MONDAY mob that sought
to congregate around the structures.
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HOOVER REVIEWS
VETERANS OF AID
President Takes CIaudeI to
Baltimore With Him for
Ceremony.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 15.-President
Hoover arrived by automobile from
Washington shortly before / pm. to-
day to take part in the reunion Of the
Rainbow (42d) Division veterans. He
was taken to the Maryland Club, where
he was guest Of the division at a
luncheon.
The reunion program reached its
climax with parade, reviewed by the
President, later in the afternoon, y
A reception attended by the Presi-
dent, Gov. Albert c. Ritchie, Gen. Henri
Etienne Gouraud and Col. William p.
Schrews preceded the luncheon.
The Presidents car was on the road
only little more than an hour from
Washington until he entered the city,
where Baltimore motor cycle police took
over the escort duty from State officers.
President Hoover took Ambassador
Paul Claudel Of France to Baltimore
with him today for the review Of the
Rainbow Division.
In addition to Ambassador Claudel,
the President was accompanied by his
two sons, Allan and Herbert, jr.; his
secretary, George Akerson; Col. Camp
bell Hodges and Capt. Allan Buchanan,
his military aides, and Lieut.. Comdr.
Joel T. Boone, his personal physician.
The Presidents participation IN the
Rainbow's celebration does not include
a speech on his part. That was under
stood at the time hes accepted.
Following luncheon at the Maryland
Club, where the presidential party was
received by the Governor of Maryland
and Mayor Broening Of Baltimore and
officials of the Rainbow Divisions cele-
bration, the party went to the official
reviewing stand in front Of the City
Halt s 81
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Utilities Commission to Probe
Economies That Would
Follow Move.
BUS SERVICE ALSO
TO BE INVESTIGATED
Probable Returns Under Other
Rates Than Requested by Capital
Company to Be Studied.

A strong indication that unified op-
Grafton of the street railway systems
would be ordered by the Public Utilities
Commission rather than to consider an
increase In fare was seen today when
the commission notified the companies
st.at 1t would at once start an inquiry
to Determine as nearly as possible the
econonfsee s3ht would result from uni
fed operation either as a result of a
merger of the companies or else as a
result ''of action which the commits
sion is empowered to take under the
basic law"
Statement for Press.
The commission sent out a formal
statement embodying the above to news
paper men shortly after / o'clock today,
but continued in executive session TO
work out the details to be followed in
pursuing the inquiry. The statement
said:
"At its meeting today the commission
discussed the pending application of the
Capital Traction Co. for an increased
fare. 1t was decided that, in order to
have available certain necessary in
formation, the commission would at
once institute an inquiry to determine
as nearly as possible the economies that
would result from unified operation of
the street railway companies, either as
result Of a merger or as the result of
action which the commission is en-
powered to take under the basic law.
THE commission further decided to
investigate the probable returns under
other rates of fare than that requested
by the Capital Traction Co.
THE commissions inquiry also will
take into consideration the buses or
bus lines operated by the street rail-
way companies. the fares charged. the
service rendered. the operating expenses,
the transfer arrangements and transfer,
charges"
Companies Given Notice.
Earl v. Fisher, secretary to the COM
mission, explained that the companies
had been served with a notice con-
tanning the same information as the
public statement. He said that the
commissions object was to put the COM
panies on notice that even If they show
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WRECK KILLS TWO.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, July Is Op).-
Two men were killed and several others
seriously injured in two train wrecks
in Wisconsin today.
A Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul &
Pacific equipment train was derailed
near Tomal1, crushing two trainmen
to death when the engine toppled over.
and seven others badly hurt in the
other accident. when q Chicago &
Northwestern passenger train crashed
through a wooden trestle and fell into
creek near Princeton.
The trainmen killed were Benjamin
Schultz Of Portage, fireman, and Ben
jamin Clark Of Milwaukee, brakeman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-15
WANTSCOMM|SS|ON
TO FIX DUTY RATES
Farm Federation Would End
Presidents Power Under
Flexible Tariff Clause.

BY the Associated Press.
Withdrawal of the power given the
President under the flexible clause of
the tariff act to change import duties
and establishment Of a non-partisan
tariff commission to act as the agent
Of Congress was advocated today by
the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Appearing before the Senate finance
committee at the opening of hearings on
the administrative provisions Of the
House tariff bill, Chester H. Gray, leg
islative representative of the Federation,
said his organization favored setting up
the tariff commission as a rate-making
body similar to the Interstate Com
merce Commission instead Of a fact
finding body alone, with its decisions
subject to review or repeal by Con-
gress.
The House bill liberalizes the flexible
provisions by allowing the Tariff Com
mission to take into consideration con-
ditions of competition instead Of cost
of production in determining recon-
mendations to the President as to rate
changes and retains the authority CT
the President to raise or lower duties
as much as so per cent. -.
Gray indorsed the bill provision SUBJ
stituting competitive differences FOR
production costs in studying rates, but
said the so per cent limitation should
be eliminated and the commission
authorized to remove articles from and
to the free list.
Trade Treaty Repeal Urged.
Levying of rates against Philippine
and Porto, Rica imports and ternlina-
ton Of the Cuban-American preferen-
tial tariff agreement was urged by the
witness.
The preferential trade treaty with
Cuba, he added, should be repealed
! "for reasons similar to those advanced
relative to the Philippines"
'It is not too much to say that a
great deal Of the prosperity Of Cuba
since the Spanish American War has
been endowed at the expense Of the
American producers Of sugar and to-
bacco," he said.
Gray asked retention of. the House
provision making Canadian wheat
milled in bond in this country for ex-
port pay a duty equal to the amount of
any tariff preference granted American
-four II shipped to q country granting
the United States such duty reductions
Further indications that the COM
mittee Is not likely to have its report
ready for the Senate's consideration as
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BUSINESS MERGERS
DUE FOR [ SCRUTINY j: |!
Administration Will Inquire
Into Trade Combinations to
Guard Against Violations.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The Hoover administration is going
to inquire into the mergers and COM
binations which have been or will be
consummated in the industrial and
mercantile fields as we'll as every other
classification that could possibly come
within the jurisdiction of the Sherman
antitrust law.
It can hardly be said yet that a dis
tinct change in policy from that fol-
lowed by the Coolidge administration
has been worked out, but in anticipa-
ton of possible adverse sentiment in
Congress, the Department of Justice Is
planning to possess itself of all the
facts.
The policy instituted under Col. Will
liam j. Donovan, which had the full
approval of the President and the At
torney General, was to discuss infor-
mally the details of the merger, espe-
cially the question of stock control. and
in the event that no violation OF the
antitrust laws was in prospect the de-
partment would give the measure q
clean bill of health in advance. All
Justice carefully pointed out. however.
that in the event the facts or circum-
stances changed in the future the de-
partment would feel free to reopen the
case and prosecute, If necessary.
Effective Prosecution Doubted.
1t is believed that III some instances
corporations have taken the original
assurance of immunity too literally and
that in the intensive working out Of
plans and details of the mergers have
occasionally transcended the limits
originally prescribed.
There has been no test case in which
a corporation, having In the first in
stance conformed to the law, later
departed from it. 1t is being dis
cusSed among corporation lawyers
whether the Government could really
make its prosecution effective in those
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Flivvering Youth Clears Road to Jail
With Too True Imitation of Police Siren

at a snappy clip when he cut loose
with his siren imitation.
It was more than an imitation. It
was what the lawyers would call .
true copy. More sedate motorists heard
1t and drew discreetly to the side, 70
permit George q wide path. Motor
cycle policemen heard and were de-
ceived. They lent the authority Of their
The imitation was working fine until
Georges voice cracked and the siren
went soprano.
That wss how George happened TO
get arrested
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-15
HOOVER SETS JULY "a
FOR PACT CEREMONY
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. "a
President Hoover has authorized the
arrangement Of q ceremony for the
proclamation of the general pact for
the remuneration Of war at the White
House July "a.
The ambassadors or ministers In
Washington whose nations have signed
or adhered to the pact have been in
vited to attend the ceremonies. Frank
b. Kellogg. former Secretary of State,
whose. name the pact bears, has ac-
cepted an invitation to be present.
Senator Borah, chairman Of the Senate
foreign relations committee, and Sem
ator Swanson of Virginia, ranking
Democratic member Of the committee,
also will attend. President Hoover win
give Q luncheon Immediately after the
ceremony Of proclamation.
Secretary Stinson indicated today
that French Ambassador Claudel win
represent the Soviet government, which
has adhered to the pact, but which does
not have representative in Wash
ington.
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QUESTION MARK SAFE.
Frenchmen Turn Back In Time to Es-
cane Possible Disaster.

Frenchmen Turn Back In Time to Es-
cane Possible Disaster.
HORTA, Azores, July Is Up).-The
first TRANSATLANTIC air race has ended ir
tragedy and failure, with the pilot Of
jured, and the plane destroyed. The
French plane, its competitor, averted
destruction only by turning tail and
running before wall of wind" into
which It tried in vain to head.
Mai. Ludwik Idzikowsh was killed
Saturday evening when he attempted
to bring his plane, the Marshal
Pilsudski to earth on a rocky field at
Graciosa Island, 35 miles northeast Of
here.
His navigator, Maj. Casimir Kubala.
was injured. The plane crashed and
exploded It was presumed Kubala
it slid to earth in q wobbly fateful
descent and escaped thus the dis
astrous blast which took Idzikowskfs
life and wrecked the plane.
Frenchmen Turned Back.
The French plane, the Question
Mark. after battling hEadwindS for
hours and finding fuel going and speed
cut to a third, turned back at 6.10 pm.
Saturday Q:18 pm. Eastern standard
tine) and at 9:27 am. yesterday (3:27
am. Eastern standard time) landed
safely at Villacoublay, France, a few
miles south of Versailles.
Don't cheer boys, we just missed
out, that's ALT" its pilot, Capt.
Dieudonne Coste, conqueror Of the
South Atlantic, told the few who met
him there. But we will try again,
when the chances are more In our
favor" =
Flew ~ Hours.
Capt. Coste's landing came ~ hours
and SIS minutes of flying after the take
OF at LIE Bourget at daybreak Saturday,
when he chivalrously allowed the slower
Polish plane a 45-minute handicap In
the transoceanic race. At the time OF
turning back he had flown to q
locality northeast of the Azores about
as near the American Atlantic sea-
board as to Europe.
The winds that blow from west to
east in Midatlantic cut his speed from
1875 miles per hour to less than so, and
after trying vainly to ny below them
and around them, he and his navigator,
Jacques Bellonte, turned their plane
around and headed back home. de-
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SEE MOTHER KILLED.

FAYETTE, Ala, July IS p)s-The
children of Louis G. Nichols, 50-year-
old farmer residing near here, saw him
cut their mothers throat and then take
his own life at their residence today,
MRS. Nichols died instantly. The chill
dren, three Of whom are married. said
Mr.. and Mrs. Nichols continued quar-
rel begun yesterday at breakfast this
morning and after Nichols attacked his
wife with pocket knife he went to the
back yard and killed himself.
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CONTINUED on Page
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 15.-For 13 months,
George Bohlin has been trying to sound
like a police siren. Last night he did.
George is just q young fellow, goes
to high school and drives q fiivver.
The urge to make noise like siren
came to him last Summer, and he has
been perfecting his technique ever
since.
Last night, he decided heEwas pretty
good. so he boiled forth I'M {his vehicle.
he was steaming down Sheridan road
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MILITARY HONORS
GIVEN |Dz|KoNSKI
ON AZORES ISLAND
Message From Horta Con-
firms Death of Polish Flyer
in Plunge.
FUNERAL IS ATTENDED,
... BY ENTIRE. PoPuLACE
Disaster Overlook Disabled Plane
as It Sought to Land at
Graciosa.

IORTA, Azores. July Is Cp.-Of-
fetal announcement was made to-
day that Maj Ludwik Idzikowski
was buried yesterday afternoon with
full military honors on the Island
of Graciosa. The entire populace
attended.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 15.-The Polish
committee in New York today received
a message from Maj. Casimir Kubala,
at Santa Cruz, Island of Graciosa in
the Azores. stating that his COM
panion. Hal. Ludwik 1dzikowSki.
was still alive. but so severely burned
that no hope was held for him.
and sent from Santa Cruz, chief city
OF the Island of Graciosa. was timed
at 7:45 o'clock this morning. Green
wich time, or 2:45 am. Eastern standard
time.
Both Rescued From Plane.
In his message. Maj. Kubala informed
the committee that both he and his
companion had been rescued from
their airplane, the Marshal Pilsudski
in flames. Maj. Idzikowski had both
feet burned and was in so critical q
condition that 1t was not expected he
could recover.
Previous advices received at Horta
from Graciosa have stated that Mai.
Idzikowski was dead and had already
been buried. Communication with the
Island of Graciosa Is extremely difiicult
and no confirmation Of Maj. Idzikowski's
death was available.
Consulate Gets Word.
The text of Maj. Kubala's message,
addressed to Edward Weisblat, American
representative Of the Polish flyers,
follows:
Motor was missing. we turned back
toward the Azores, while landing. motor
stopped. Plane burned down. We were
extricated from the burning machine.
"Idzikowski seriously injured, his legs
burned. little hope for his life:
The message was addressed to Weisblat
at the Polish consulate In New York.
Death Stin In Doubt.
In view of the numerous reports from
the Azores that Mai. Idzikowski was
killed, there was much uncertainty here
as to the fate of the flyer. despite the
There was some belief that hospital
authorities might have kept the news
of his companions death from Kubala,
or that his message might have been
held up for many hours due to the
crush Of business at the cable ONCE and
that Maj. Idzikowski might have died
subsequently.
So uncertain was the situation that
the flag which had been at half staff
at the Polish consulate was taken down
entirely until the Polish committee
could learn definitely whether Maj.
Idzikowski was dead.