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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
HOOVER TO CALL
SPECIAL SESSION
Senate Will Be Detained to
Deal With London Naval
Treaty.
Hy tha Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Hoover intends to call the
promised special session Of the Senate
to deal with the London naval treaty
on the day after Congress adjourns.
This was the Chief Executives an
swer to suggestions of Republican lead
ers that consideration Of the pact be
deferred until next Winter, as the men,
bers of the Senate were growing rest
less and were anxious to get home for
the campaigns Of the coming Summer
and Fall.
Such word was taken to him by SEN
ator Watson of Indiana and Senator
Moses of New Hampshire, respectively,
the majority floor leader and the
President pro tenn of their branch Of
Congress. They made known the
Chief Executives response late yeSter-
day.
1t was learned, too, that there also
had been a frank discussion Of party
talk of available means of bringing the
President and Congress into closer CO.
operation.
There also were indications that the
complaints Of some Republican Repre-
sentatives against the retention Of
Claudius Huston as chairman of the
Republican national committee were
discussed. Watson and Moses both de-
clined to say what the purport Of the
conversation was, but at the same time
there were no indications that Huston
intended to resign or that Mr.. Hoover
intended asking him to withdraw.
The complaints of the Congressman
arose from Illusions testimony before
the Senate lobby committee that he
used funds collected for the Tennessee
River Improvement Association in stock
market transactions.
Meanwhile Chairman Borah of the
Senate foreign relations committee
submitted to the State Department the
request of Senator johnson of Cali
fornia for additional portions of the
Washington London correspondence
which cleared the way for the recent
Naval Conference.
A meeting of the committee was
called for today. but Borah did not ex-
pect any further discussion of the
treaty until late in the week. He pre-
dicted it would be ratified within less
than a fortnight's debate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
THREE OF FAMILY
KILLED BY AUTO
Seven Relatives of Victims Are
Injured in Same Accident
Fear Keyser, W. Va.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KEYSER, w. Va, June 4-Three
persons were killed and seven others in
jured-all members Of one family-when
they we're run down by an automobile on
the Keyser-C Cumberland road near here
late last night.
The dead-Mrs Faye Walker, Bar
bara Walker, IL, her daughter; Junior
Walker, 8, her son.
The injured-Mrs. Edith Walker
Johnson, %, married daughter of the
dead woman; Sadie Walker, Is, another
daughter; Samuel Walker, s; James
Walker, ID; Ernest Walker, 6; Esther
Walker, 6 months; Betty johnson, 16
months.
Keyser police announced that John
Kiener, KeySer, was the driver Of the
car He reported the accident and was
held pending investigation.
The Walkers were visiting friends at
Dawson, and were returning home on
secluded section of the. road when the
car suddenly turned a curve and ran
into the group, police reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
Sympathetic to Aim, but OBJ
ject to Provisions of Cap
per-BoWman Measure.
BUDGET BUREAU AGAINST
REVOLVING FUND PLAN
Takes View Proposed $4,000, 900
Loan Is in Conflict With Presi-
dents Economy Program.

The District Commissioners today
forwarded to the chairmen Of the
Senate and House committees an adj
verse report on the Bowman bill pro-
viding a $3,oo0,OoO revolving fund for
the purpose of gradually eliminating
undesirable alleys in Washington.
The action of the Commissioners fol-
lowed an adverse report also by the
Bureau of the Budget on the ground
that the proposed legislation was not
in accord with the Presidents financial
program.
While expressing sympathy with the
general object of the bill, the Commits
sioners stated that their objections We're
based on certain methods proposed In
carrying out the elimination plan.
For one thing, they pointed out, the
integrity of the 100000 fund.
Further commenting on the alley Sit
uation In washington, the Commits
sioners said that 1t appears that such
dwellings, If properly supplied with
sanitation, may well be permitted to
be occupied until actually acquired by
the Government with due compenSa-
ton to their owners.
Letter Of Commissioners.
The letter of the Commissioners fol-
lows in part:
"The bill provides that the President
in the interest of health, comfort,
moral safety and welfare, may purchase
or acquire land, buildings or structures
in any inhabited alley in the District
xxyfkI n
tanning an inhabited alley; may replat
any land acquired under this act, and
improve streets and alleys embraced
therein; may lease, maintain, manage,
sell or convey any such lands, buildings
or structures; may make loans to lin
tied dividend corporations or home
owners to assist in rehabilitating such
areas, and may utilize the United
States Housing Corporation for the
purpose of carrying out the provisions
Of the bill, subject to certain restrictions
set forth.
fund Of $3,000,000 to be appropriated
for the purpose of carrying out the pro-
visions of the bill, and certain periodic
and final reports are provided for. The
bill also contains certain prohibitive and
administrative provisions, designed to
further the purpose In view. The bill
contemplates that the object set forth
shall be accomplished on or before July
/, 1910, but provision is made for q
continuance of the work after that
date, should 1t not be completed by
that time.
Designed to Affect Early Law.
'This bill is designed to affect, in an
other way. the purpose of the 1914 alley
dwelling law. The earlier act proposed
to accomplish the purpose by prohibi-
tive measures, to be enforced through
criminal proceedings. This act is still
on the statute books, but has been found
to be ineffective because of the Dis
1Continued on Page 3. Column a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
BREWSTER, SANE,
FACES ARREST ON
MURDER CHARGE
Cloth Prepares to Take Baker
"SIayer" From Custody
of Army.
MEDICAL BOARD FINDS
HE Is OF LOW MENTALITY
Company Commander Plans to
Name Group to Determine if
He Shall Stay in Service.

The special Army medical board ap-
pointed to inquire into the sanity Of
Howard L. Brewster, soldier suspect in
the Mary Baker murder case, found
him to be of sound mind" but of low
mental development, 1t was oficially
announced today by military authori-
ties.
Quickly following the announcement,
Commonwealth Attorney william Q.
Cloth of Arlington County, Va, made
preparations to take Brewster out Of
the custody Of military authorities and
hold him in the Arlington County jail
pending further investigation.
At the same time Capt. A. r. Boiling,
commander of the Headquarters Com
pany to which Brewster is attached, re-
vealed that he planned to appoint q
special board to determine whether the
soldier should be kept in the service In
view of the notoriety he attracted by
confessing and subsequently denying
that he killed Miss Baker.
Boiling Wants Warrant.
Cloth said he would take Brewster
into custody about $3.50 o'clock this
afternoon on a murder warrant, If it Is
found necessary to take such procedure
to have military authorities release the
soldier The warrant will not be served,
Cloth declared, If Brewster agrees vol
UNFAIRLY to leave in his custody. Capt.
Boiling, however, said he could not turn
the soldier over to civil authorities
without q warrant containing specific
charge
The findings of the medical board
which examined Brewster were made
public in Baltimore, headquarters of the
Sd Corps Area of the Army, which
embraces the District. The oficial re-
port containing the findings was COM
pleted last week and coursed its way
through official Army channels to the
contents were revealed for publication.
Statement Of Officers.
A statement issued at the Sd Corps
headquarters regarding the examination
of Brewster read:
1.-THE board of medical officers which
examined Pvt. Brewster held him under
observation from May 20 to May 20 and
found he was of sane mind and was
susceptible to ordinary human motives
and appreciation of right from wrong
and had normal control of his actions,
but was of low mental development.
pvt. Brewster is being held in con-
f1nement by the military authorities
subject to formal demand by the civil
authorities in accordance with the
seventy-fourth article Of war enacted
by Congress"
Capt. Boiling said he had not yet re-
ceived an official copy of the medical
boards finding, but just as soon as he
does he will prefer charges against
Brewster of possessing habits and
traits of character which render him
unfit for military service" and appoint
special board to hear the charges.
Conviction on these charges, it was said.
will result in Brewster's discharge from
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
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Methodist Bishop Persists in
Contention Anti-Smith Work
Was Personal and Not Sub
iect to Investigation.
BLAINE AND WALSH FAIL
TO GET WITNESS REPLIES
Churchman Also Declines to Re-
veal His Checking Accounts on
Ground That They Are Not
the Business of Senate Lobby
Probers.
BIZ G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Bishop James Cannon, jr., head
and forefront of the anti-Smith
Democratic campaign in the
South in 1928, today fatty declined
to tell the Senate lobby commit
tee anything about his own polit-
ical activities.
Bishop Cannon persisted in his
refusal to discuss his work in the
1928 campaign in the face of
scores of questions which were
hurled at. him by Senator Blaine
OF wisconsin, member of the
Senate committee, and Senator
Walsh of Montana, acting chair
man in the absence of Senator
Caraway of Arkansas.
The anti-Smith Democratic
leader, who also is an ardent pro-
hibitionist and bishop in the
Methodist Episcopal Church
South, insisted that he had moth
ing to be ashamed of and nothing
to cover up"
He charged, however, that his in
vestigation by the lobby committee was
persecution. He denied the jurisdiction
Of the committee to inquire into any
thing except lobbying.
Declines to Answer.
At one point Senator Blaine called
upon Bishop Cannon to tell the COM
in banks. Bishop Cannon declined,
saying that his personal affairs were
not the business of the lobby committee.
Not in all the months of its inveSti-
cation has the committee before run up
against witness who had declined to
answer questions or who has denied
the jurisdiction of the committee.
What the Senate committee will do
has not yet been determined
Bishop Cannon himself called atten-
ton to the fact that Senator Caraway
In an Associated Press dispatch from
Arkansas last night had upheld his
contention that the committee had no
Jurisdiction over Bishop Cannon's ac-
tivities in the political campaign Of
1928.
Senator Walsh of Montana, however,
indicated that he took an entirely diff
ferent view of the matter. He said
that he believed the committee wholly
justified in questioning Bishop Cannon
about his activities as a dry opponent
of Gov. Smith in the presidential cam
paign. He called attention to the fact
that other witnesses, especially the head
of the Association Against the Prohibi-
ton Amendment, Mr.. Curran, testified
regarding their political activities.
Quorum Not Present.
obviously there is not a quorum of
the committee present today" said
Senator Walsh, land 1t will be impos
sible to make any order in the premises
II you insist upon declining to answer
the committees questions"
The committee has five members, and
the only two at the hearing today were
IN Dara CNl,VVaY1 I \
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
END ANCESTOR WORSHIP AND ACT.
MEMBER OF S. A. r. TELLS SOCIETY
Speaker Urges Sons of American Revolution Do Some
thing to Make Posterity Proud.

I'm our 40 years we have never been
faced with a crisis with which we were
so peculiarly adapted to COPE" said Nc
Crillis, chairman of the committee of
correspondence and safety. Every phase
of life is attacked. Industry is attacked
by bills of socialistic character; adequate
national defense is threatened by a host
of pacifist organizations: the home IN
endangered by birth control teachings;
,companionate marriages; sex propa-
ganda, and Communist demands that
children be raised by the state"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
10 OF 13 MANIACS
ARE RECAPTURED
Insane Criminals Are Caught At
tempting to Travel at
Night.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
IONA, Mich, June 4.-The work of
rounding up Is men who escaped yes
terday from the State Hospital for
Criminal Insane moved forward rapidly
today. BY noon, 10 of them were back
in the institution or on their way from
the places where they were captured.
Predictions of officers that the fugi-
tives would hide out during yesterday
and try to travel last night were borne
out. Three were captured in the
vicinity of the hospital during the
night; three others were found in a
nearby rye field early today; another
was taken from freight train at
Owosso, Mich, and the tenth was found
is miles north of here in Montcalm
County.
Three of the men were captured by
Sheriff William Franch and four assist
ants, who secured a rye field on infor-
nation received from a farmer. They
offered no resistance, but two Of them
were taken only after long chase.
Those caught in the field were Omar
Hassan, At, committed for murder, who
has killed a fellow inmate since being
sent to the hospital; Joseph Dabajak,
50, committed from Flint Tor double
murder, and John Campbell, 80, COM
mitted from Saginaw for robbery.
Campbell and Dabajak ran as the
posse entered the field and were caught
after a chase. HaSSan was sitting In
the field when the sheriff and his men
came upon him.
The three men told officers they had
crossed a railroad bridge over Grand
River Immediately after their escape at
1880 am. yesterday and had hidden
all day in woods near the Michigan
Reformatory, on the opposite bank of
the river.
Hassan. in a boastful mood, told
Sheriff Franch that he had killed 81
men. His record shows only two.
No resistance was encountered by
the officers and possemen in capturing
the men. Ofhcials of the hospital
pointed out that the maniacs had hid
den In woods and thickets, keeping I'M
der cover and giving no cause for great
alarm.
The first two men recaptured were
taken yesterday on highways near the
hospital soon after the escape.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
S0UCEK TAKES OFF
FOR ALTITUDE MARK
Navy Pilot Out of Sight After Ten
Minutes of Flight From
Anacostia.

Z Lieut.. Apollo Soucek, Navy altitude
ace, took of from the Anacostia Field
at ait pm. today in an attempt to set
a world airplane altitude record.
Plotting the Wright Apache with
which he set the world seaplane altitude
record year ago today, he had as his
goal an altitude of miles to surpass
the present record of Al, 794 feek reached
on May Is last year by a German,
Willix Neuenhofen.
He was out of sight after 10 minutes
in the air. 1t is expected he will be
aloft one hour.
Lieut.. Soucek is breaking into his
honeymoon to make today's flight. He
was married here last week and on
June Is will go to duty aboard the air
craft carrier Lexington on the Pacific
Coast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
Hit-and-Run Driver
Chases OFF Pursuing
Victim With Pistol

A two-mile chase after a hit
and-run machine which damaged
his car last night ended in dis
appointment for Howard E. Pad
gett, 81 years old, of TIC G street
northeast, when he pulled along
side of the machine he was pur-
suing, only to gaze into the
business end of q revolver.
I'm tired of you following me-"
the driver Of the hit-and-run
car snapped. Turn around and
beat it."
Padgett obeyed.
The accident in which the
youths car YVES damaged occur
red at New York avenue and
North Capitol street and Padgett
chased the other automobile to
Kentucky avenue and East Cap
itol street before overhauling it.
Two men were in the car, he
told police.
Padgett obtained the tag num-
Der Of the automobile, but license
records revealed the tags to be
dead" plates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04

An appeal against the decision of
the lower court was filed in the Court
Of Appeals by Mayors, Osterwald 81
Muhlfeld, Inc, a New York firm OF
wholesale dealers In diamonds, pearls
and precious stones. After much de-
liberation, the Court of Appeals decided
that whereas the diamond is an antique,
it is not artistic in a tariff sense, be-
ing merely the mechanical work of a
skilled diamond cutter, and not the
original work of an artist.
The history of the stone goes back
vaguely to the fifteenth century and ac-
quired its name. the Nassak diamond,
from Nassak, on the upper Godavery
in India, where in one Of the famous
cave temples of that place, 1t is said
10 have adorned the statue Of the In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
Three Brothers Held as Robbers.

MANCELONA, Mich, June 4 Dr.
Three brothers, members of a quartet
of robbers who held up the Antrim
County State Savings Bank here Mon
day, were under arrest today after two
days of gun fighting during pursuit by
posses in which flve men were wounded
The turmoil died down today and
shotguns went back to their racks be-
fore the fourth robber escaped by train
covering his tracks. The three men
under arrest are Sylvester, Leonard and
Fred Elliott former residents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
NASSAK DIAMOND IS HELD LIABLE
TO 20 PER CENT DUTY BY COURT
Jewel Is Declared Not Be Artistic Antiquity and
Ineligible for Free Entry.

A diamond, which once adorned the
statue of the Goddess SILVA, in India,
and which has been the subject Of con-
troversy in the customs courts Of the
United States for many months was
States Court of Customs and Patent
Appeals to be subject TO the tariff i'm
posed upon all imported iewels-in this
case, 20 per cent of the value of the
diamond.
The diamond, which was imported
by mail in 1927 at the port of New York
by E. F. Bandler, American represent
alive of Maboussin, French jeweler, was
admitted duty free by the lower Gus
I'd hs Court in New York on the grounds
t6aC the diamond was an artistic
antiotIitv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
CONTRACTOR TELLS WILD
STORIES OF KIDNAPPING
County Officials Accompany Man
Home After Observing Him
Overnight.


CAIRO, Ill, June AFTER spending
a night IN jail here for observation
by physicians, Lawrence j. Miller,
Naperville, Ill, contractor, left for his
home today with Du Page County IlD.
officials to whom he insisted his weird
tales of kidnapping and torture were
not exaggerated, despite belief of Sheriff
Lawrence Bunch of Cairo, that Miller
was suffering from Authorizations.
Miller, who had been missing from
his home since May 81, yesterday ap-
peared in two Southeast Missouri towns.
He had been stabbed, and told stories
of being kidnapped, robbed of $1,l00 and
tortured before he escaped from his cap
tors after killing one of them with a
jack handle. Missouri officials were
unable to verify the killing, which Mil
Ter said occurred about so miles south
of Eikeston
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
Lies AnnOyances
Found in Antarctic,
Byrd Aide Declares
BY the Associated Press.

by Tie ASSOCldbcu -EcbSs
CHICAGO. June MANY per-
sons secretly envied members Of
Byrd's South Pole expedition be-
cause they probably thought it
would offer an escape from some
of life's humdrum annoyances.
Raymond Mercola, 18, a Chi
cago member of the expedition,
however, told a story yesterday
to illustrate the fallacy Of such
a belief. He said:
THE cold Antarctic made some
Of the fellows yield to queer
whims. 1t made one play Cali
fornia, Here I Come over and
over on a talking machine. The
tune nearly drove us mad. Final
ly we grabbed the record and
smashed 1t. Then we had the
trouble Of teaching him a new
diversion"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
BY the Associated Press.

ASBURY PARK, N. j., June A.
Pointing out that hereditary patriotic
societies have been criticized for doing
nothing but worshiping their ancestors"
Arthur M. McCrillis of Providence, r. l.
challenged the Sons of the American
Revolution, at their national convention
today, to stop talking about what our
ancestors did and do something to make
posterity proud of u.s."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
Briton Prepares for Hop.

LONDON, June 4 (P).-Capt. Charles
Kingsford-Smith, noted aviator, and
two companions who will accompany
him on a projected flight across the
Atlantic from Ireland, left Croydon to-
day in the famous plane Southern Cross
for Baldonnel Airdrome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
LAY FIRES TO ARMY
Forest Blazes Are Blamed on Mimic
Wars Smoke Screens.

MOUNT HOLLY, N. j., June 4 R.-
Woods fires, said by fire wardens to
have started from candles used by Army
troops to Great smoke screens for mimic
battles, have burned over about 5000
acres Of Army reservation at Camp Dix
and vicinity and were still being fought
today
The fire for a time swept toward
Brindletown and threatened the Y. M.
c. A. camp at Ochanickos, near Han
over Furnace
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
Advertising as a Force
In American Business

Markets in raw materials
and in many other lines are
definitely off.
National advertising,
with the exception of two
classifcations, has made
definite gains.
Local advertising in The
Star is steadily improving
and is in many cases ahead
of last year.
Yesterdays Advertising
Nocal Display
Lines.
The Evening Star. .40,024
End Newspaper 1907
3rd Newspaper -. 1850
4th Newspaper -. 1889
5th Newspaper -. 3,l3Z
Total other four
newspapers .Z7,548
Judicious advertising
rates for more business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04

Radio Prssams ON Page B-4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04
Yesterdays Advertising
(Local Display

Judicious advertising
mates for more business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04

Continued on Page 3, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-04

Fair, continued warm tonight and
probably tomorrow.
Highest, 90, at 3:4S
pm. yesterday; lowest, 81, at $50 am.
today.
Full report on page Q.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-30

doomed for q while and then turned
over and died a. other boom towns
have done. But not before Bill got
his Briefly. Bill located q gold mine.
laid out the town of Rhyolite and
sold out the whole business for
$500. 600 cash in hand. He went at
once TO San Francisco and hunted
up the biggest restaurant. Bring
me a 1i-pound turkey and six bot
ties Of your best champagne" he
commanded an astonished waiter.
He didn't ever bother 10 look al the
bin OF fare. How many shall I set
the table for7" asked the serving
person. Just one-mer' said Bill.
But the Death VALLEY or today IA
vastly different from the place Bill
Corcoran went to in the early part
or this century. From an inferno
which men feared and birds and
animals stunned It has become one
OF Americas best Fairgrounds. The
wagon trails which were strewn
with the bones OF horses and men
are now ~up-to-date automobile
roads and there are modern hotels.
There Is no wonder tourists are
flocking 10 Death Valley. Its great
uiCuutdiUS dAu taNeDns dIu Governs
do no. nave TO take off their hats 10
the Grand Canyon and over and
about ali there Is a vivid color which
il does not require the eyes Of an
artist 70 appreciate.
Death Valley i 1a5 miles long and
lies between the Amargoaa and the
Panamint ranges. In some parts IL
Is 800 feet below sea level. A days
drive from Los Angeles and an
equal distance from San Francisco
and one Is ready for the tour OF
inspection or the many wonders. Let
us wait until next Tuesday to begin
this inspection trip.