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Evening star., 1930-06-21
SUN OIL WHARF BAN
FAVORED IN REPORT
House Committee Also Approves
Two Other District Measures in
Executive Session.

The House District committee in exc
utiye session today favorably reported
three District measures. One Of these
Is the Senate joint resolution designed
to prohibit the Sun Oil Co. from erect
ing wharf and storage tank on the
Virginia side of the Potomac River by
requiring that no structures can be
erected on land which the Government
claims to own along the river bank
without approval of the District Com
miSsioners and the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission. It is
claimed that the erection of such struc-
lures on Government land would be
antagonistic to the interests of the Gov
eminent in the extensive park develop
ment project along the river bank.
The committee also favorably reported
the Senate bill to amend the corpora
ton act Of the District and the House
bill granting the District Commissioners
power to close streets and alleys in the
District.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
DRY LEADERS HOPE
TO CONTINUE STUDY
Cramton Thinks Senate Will
Restore Deficiency Bill
Enforcement Item.

Drys in the House were more or less
confident today that some way would
be found to restore to the second de-
flciency bill the $25o,o0 item for con-
tinuing the life of the Hoover Law En-
forcement Commission, which was
knocked out yesterday on a point of or
der by Representative La Guardia, Re-
publican. New York, one of the leaders
in the wet bloc.
Representative Cramton, Republican
Michigan, dry leader, said he was
confident nothing more would be done
in the House to restore the item, but
that he was equally certain the Senate
would reinsert it and the matter would
go to conference. He added, however,
II. might be necessary to secure adoption
OF O. resolution authorizing the COM
mission to continue its work for another
year.
In sustaining the point Of order, Rep
reSentative Chindblom Of Illinois, who
was presiding, recalled that the authori-
eation for the commissions investigation
into law enforcement was only for the
present fiscal year. In addition to the
$25O,000, the ruling eliminated the re-
appropriation of $4,000 remaining as
an unexpended balance from the $780,
600 appropriated for this year.
The prediction was made by Repre-
sentative Christopherson of South Da-
kota that Congress would not ad-
journ without providing funds for the
commission when 1t has only half COM
pleted its work"
La Guardia based his point Of order
upon provision which forbids an ap.
preparation which has not been author
lied by law. Quoting from the state.
ment Of George w. Wickersham, chair
man Of the commission, before the
House appropriations committee that
"our Job was to see whether the eight
eenth amendment was being adequately
and ef1lciently enforced" the New
Yorker declared, "I will say that 1t Is
not necessary to have a voluntary COM
mission to tell us what is going on in
the way of prohibition"
Chairman Wood of the appropria-
tons committee interrupted to explain
that Congress had suggested the crea-
ton of the commission and Congress
should not stop the job which it put
in motion, especially when it is only
half through"
Evening star., 1930-06-21
SENTENCE FINISHED,
ALLEN TO BE FREED

Having completed a To-day sentence
for contempt OF court, former Police
man Robert j. Allen will be released
from the Arlington County Jail at 6
o'clock tonight. His fines, totaling
$39.25 have been paid.
Allen was sent to jail by Judge
Bryan Gordon, associate Police Court
justice. after the former had aSsailed
Commonwealth Attorney William G
Cloth in court. On this count he was
given five days and his later criticism
Of the conduct Of the court resulted in
an additional flve-day penalty and a
$40 fine. The remaining amount of his
fines, $19.25, resulted from his arrest
on a charge of operating his automobile
on District of Columbia tags while q
resident of Virginia.
The eX-policeman got into trouble
when he attempted to obtain hearing
for Howard L. Brewster, who Is held in
the Arlington County Jail on a charge
of numbering Miss Mary Baker. Brewster
refused to accept his assistance.
Fearing Allen might wish to get in
the jail to communicate with Brewster,
Sheriff Howard 3. Fields placed the
former in a cell in the woman's COM
partment. rt Is reported. however. that
Allen has shouted through a window to
Brewster, but has failed to make any
headway toward friendship.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
D. c. PAINTERS SET
MEMORIAL RECORD
Donate $500 in Campaign
Conducted by Central
Labor Group.

Painters Local Union, No. 36s. made
a new record in the District Of Colum-
bia World War Memorial campaign,
conducted by the Central Labor Union,
when in q regular meeting last night it
donated the sum of $500.
This is the largest sum yet to be
contributed from the treasury of any
local union organization 50 far in the
campaign to raise $4,000 to complete
the financing.
The meeting which also unanimously
Endorsed the project, was addressed by
Frank w. Lee, chairman of the executive
committee, and r. F. Whalen, member
of the painters union and also a mem
ber Of the executive committee.
The campaign continues with many
monthly meetings of union organiza
tions scheduled for the near future and
it is anticipated that favorable action
will be taken and reported soon to the
executive committee.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
COOLIDGE TO WRITE
DAILY FOR PRESS
His Brief Comments on Public
Happenings viii Begin
on July |.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 21.-Former Pres
tdent Calvin Coolidge beginning on July
l Will contribute a daily article to the
New York Herald Tribune. This will
average from $50 to 200 words in length
and will be telegraphed by Mr.. Coolidge
from any part of this country or any
part Of the world where he happens
to be
Mr.. Coolidge is not limited as to sub
lect. He will write whatever he feels
like. Some of his articles will be sent
from the Beeches, in Northampton,
Mass, his new home. Others will be
written on fishing expeditions on busi-
ness trips to New York or elsewhere,
and from many parts of the country, If
he does as much travelling in the COM
Ing IL months as in the preceding ones.
Mr.. Coolidge will telegraph these ar
tlcles every day except Sunday for at
least year, and he will write nothing
else for publication during that period.
Usually Mr.. Coolidge will write on
something in current American life
which he feels interesting. He is free
to comment criticize, moraliZe or recol-
lect. Education, religion, business, pro-
h1bltion, fundamental problems of gov
ernment, fishing, farming and hun
dred other subjects are in his field. Mr.
Coolidge has partly banished national
politics from journalism, as he will
practice it. AS he has outlined his posi-
ton in articles and interviews, he fees
that former President should ne care
ful not to make comments that might
embarrass the existing administration
but at the same tirne he does not i'm
pose silence on himself on all questions
that enter politics.
With his power of saying much in a
few words, the brief daily article ought
to be an excellent medium of expression
for Mr.. Coolidge. No man in the pres
ent generation has shown a power of
phrase equal to his famous sentences:
I'VE cannot arbitrate the Government"
and There is no right to strike against
the public safety by anybody, anywhere,
anytime"-two sentences which crushed
the Boston police strike in 1919 as II
by physical force. This was the fight
ing Coolidge.
In the White House he faced no
emergencies which struck fire of this
kind with him. His power to pack
much meaning into few words. how
ever, has always been one Of his chief
characteristics.
The Coolidge articles will appear only
in the Herald Tribune in the territory
comprising New York City, Connecti-
cut, New Jersey and New York State
with the exception of Buffalo.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
NEW TARIFF GETS
|. PRAISE OF MELLON
Watson Joins in Lauding Law
as President Studies Names
for Commission Posts.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Mellon praised the new
tariff law in a statement issued for
publication today, saying 1t had re-
moved an obstacle to business recov-
cry by eliminating the uncertainty OF
the last IS months"
He depicted gloomy prophesies"
made by opponents of the Hawley-
Smoot bill and said "the notion that
this law is going to destroy our foreign
trade is certainly without foundation"
The new law was defended also by
Senator Watson of Indiana, the Re-
publican leader, in a radio address de-
livered last night and a short while
before President Hoover announced he
was contemplating some changes in
the present personnel of the Tariff
Commission in effecting the reorganiza-
tion authorized by the Hawley-Smoot
act.
Decision Due Soon.
He has reached no decision as yet.
he said, but expects to choose the
members of the new commission and
send their names to the Senate before
Congress adjourns.
ut seems to me that fears and criti-
cisms have been greatly exaggerated" l."
said Secretary Mellon, whenever q
new protective tariff law has been en-
acted gloomy prohesies have been made.
They have failed to materialize as far
back as I can remember.
The rates in the bill as 1t passed the
House a year ago were higher than in
the bill recently signed by the Presi-
dent. Yet business at that time did not
take alarm. There seems to be no rea-
son why it should now."
Lauds Flexible Clause.
Turning to the question of foreign
trade. he warned that foreign nations
that do business with US would do well
to remember that the all-important fac
tor is the maintenance of the high pur-
chasing power and standard of living Of
the American people"
He said he regarded the flexible pro-
visions as highly important, and that II
they are "intelligently and courageously
applied" they should go a long way
toward making another legislative re-
vision of the tariff unnecessary for
many years to come"
watson said the agricultural sched-
ules of the Hawley-Smoot law assured
added prosperity and increased pur-
chasing power to third Of the people
Of the country"
Evening star., 1930-06-21
EGBERT w. THOMAS
EXPIRES AT HOME
Was Longtime Federal Employe
and Spanish War
Veteran.

Egbert w. Thomas, 50 years old, Gov
ernment employe for IS years and a
Spanish-American War veteran, died
yesterday at his residence. 1928 Mill
tary road, after an illness Of several
months.
Mr. Thomas, q native Of Monroe
County, w. Va, had served both In
the Government and the military serv-
ice. He was with the United States
Marine Corps for IL years, serving un-
der the command of Admiral Slye.
At the time Of his death he was
rounding out Is years of service in the
supply division of the Department of
Interior.
He was a member Of the Myron
Parker Masonic Lodge, and Of the local
Odd Fellows
Besides his widow, Mrs. Maude l.
Thomas, he is survived by daughter
and son, Miss Elizabeth A. Thomas and
Eugene S. Thomas of this city.
Masonic funeral services will be held
Monday morning at IL o'clock, at the
8. H. Hines funeral home, 1901 Four
teenth street. Interment with military
honors will be in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
DRIVER CONVICTED
IN DEATH OF WOMAN
Hitz Delays Sentencing Rucker on
Manslaughter Charge in
Mrs. Raedy Case.

Convicted yesterday in District Su-
preme Court on a manslaughter charge
in connection with the death Of Mrs.
Mary Raedy, wife of local contractor,
on October 5 last in an automobile ac-
cident at Twenty-fifth street and Penn
sylvania avenue. Charles w. Rucker,
furniture store enploye, today is await
ing sentence.
A jury in Criminal Division before
Justice william Hitz found Rucker,
driver OF the car which inflicted the
injuries resulting in Mrs. RAedy's death,
guilty of the manslaughter charge. JUS
tice Hitz deferred sentence, which may
be as high as IS years In jail
According to the police report at the
time of the accident, Fuckers car, skid
ding, struck Mrs. Raedy as she stepped
from the curb at the intersection. Pros
ecution witnesses told the court Rucker
was negligent in operating his machine.
that the accident occurred about dusk
and that the streets were dry.
Evening star., 1930-06-21

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tariff laws would in all probability prac-
tically close that country to them as q
market.
The statement suggested that Canada,
Cuba and Central America would make
good markets and further recommended
that business interests promote the can
ming and packing industries in Mexico
so as to allow larger consumption at
home OF Mexican products.
Excelsior, leading Mexico City daily
today in an editorial coupled President
Hoover's signatures of the tariff meas
ure and Soviet Russia's abolition of pri-
vate property as the two most sensa-
tional events in the world since the
Great War. Both were said to be euuiva-
lent to declarations of war against the
rest of the world.
Excelsior said: Pseudo o-Marxism in
Russia as opposed to the bourgeois
regimes Of the rest of the world, and
American imperialism as opposed to in
dustraliSm in other countries, present
the strange spectacle Of bolshevism and
imperialism going hand in hand"
Excelsior termed the United States as
q modern Shylock" who, mot satisfied
with one pound of flesh, wants two"
The paper declared that Just as the
former Kaiser Of Germany allowed him
self to be dragged into war against his
own paciflst desires President Hoover
had permitted himself to be Influenced
to sign the tariff bill by group of i'm
perialistS who dream Of economic dorni-
nation of the globe
Evening star., 1930-06-21
Births Reported.

James r. ana Lola Garner. Girl.
Raymond L. and Marian 3. Weber, girl.
Mettelasche w. and Louise Munday, girl.
Robert r, and Mary 2. Cumberland, girl.
Robert H. and Viola v. Fones, girl.
William ]. and Juanita A. HarriEan, girl
Clyde. w. and Mabel M Harris, girl.
joseph and Marie G. Digulimio, Girl.
Aubrey T. and Ella l.. Chason, girl.
George ", ana Thelma L. Russell, EirI.
Thomas ?. and Evelyn l., Boorde, Eirl.
Nicholas and Antonia Manthos, 10y.
Robert e. and Evelyn RuCker, boy.
Allen B. and Margaret Wilson, boy.
Jacob v. ana Diana Gunten, boy,
James and Alice Payne, boy.
william H. and Ilda Gateau, boy.
John w, and Cecilia c. Klein. hoy.
Roland L. and Hazel r. williams, 10y.
kenneth A. and Marsaret E. Breerwood
10Y.
Frank and Evelyn l.. Anderson, boy.
Samuel @. and Ethel l. Breslin, kirl.
Ezra A. ana MAreuerite NJ. Snyder, boy.
Prank spd Maliorie SpriEgs, eirk
Earl and MAS%Coates, Eirl.
Lonnie and Xelma Pugh, boy.
oetnie and Katie M. SPRINGS boy,
Evening star., 1930-06-21
MANIAC MURDERER
SAYS HE IS DONE
"Red Diamond of Russia
Avenged by Two Sayings,
He Writes in Note.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 21.-The letter.
writing maniac who has assumed blame
for two recent killings, and who had
threatened IS more, wrote what he said
was his last letter today, asserting that
his mission was accomplished and ex-
pressing regret that he had stained
the country with blood"
The letter, filled with strange sym
bols composed of combined numerals
and letters, and apparently the work of
person totally deranged, said the
writer was a member of q world wide
secret order known as the Red Diamond
OF Russia, which had no connection with
the Soviets.
Victims Held TRAITORS"
"Any one breaking its rules" 1t con-
tinued. rs marked for death. These
men were dismissed from the order for
treason. One of them stole the docu-
ments mentioned before Word came
to us at the supreme council In Russia
OF the peril In the United States.
Twelve of us picked one card. Mine
was the king of diamonds. was the
one selected to punish and inflict death
II necessary. 1t was when MozynSki
(the first Of the two men slain) died
that they found who I am. Then
things began changing. Now it is all
over"
The writer added that "the papers" :"
which have been mentioned in all his
letters had been returned, and, there
fore, my mission is ended; there is no
further cause for worry" The epistle
also denied that the writer had FISH
eyes" scoffed at the police as brave
but unframed, and praised American
women. The maniac wrote that two
nights ago he watched the police hunt
for him from an atrplane.
Writer May Be Crank.
Miss Katherine May and Miss Eliza
beth Ring, the young women whose
escorts were shot before their eyes, were
described in the letter as "very nice
and brave women" They were escorted
from the scene and forced to ride in q
bus with the slayer after Joseph
Mozynski and Noel Sowley were killed
There Is no one else to begin trou-
ble," the letter ended. II. P. IL w. A.
you to know. Quiet your people and
tell them 3X is no more. BY H. p. IL
w. A."
Suspects arrested yesterday were all
eliminated today and police were still
confronted with the problem whether
the letters were actually written by the
slayer or merely by some crank who
had read of the killing in the news
papers and pretended or perhaps really
imagined that he was the criminal.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
CAPPER UNOPPOSED
FOR SENATE SEAT
Chairman of District Commit
tee Is Only Republican Can
didate in Kansas.

Senator Arthur Capper, who, as
chairman of the Senate District COM
mittee, has become one of the Districts
best friends in Congress. will have no
opposition this year for the Republican
nomination to succeed himself, accord
ing to word just received here from
Kansas. The time in which prospective
candidates for the Republican nomina-
tion could file expired yesterday.
the Senate in 1918, and in 1924 he was
reelected for his present term, leaving
his Democratic opponent far behind.
In addition to having charge of Dis
trict legislation in the upper branch
Of Congress, Senator Capper is a men,
Der Of the important foreign relations
committee, the agriculture committee
and the claims committee. He is one
of the farm leaders in Congress.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
LUHRING AND ]. w. cox
SLATED FOR DISTRICT
SUPREME COURT POSTS
Continued From First Pase.)

ington. He resides with his wife at
the Ambassador Apartments.
Mr.. Cox is probably best known in
Washington for his legal work in con-
nection with the prosecution Of trust
law violations and also for his work in
the interest Of the Mount Pleasant Citi-
zens' Association. His practice IN
washington has been mostly in the civil
courts, and he has the distinction of be-
ing member of the Order of the Golf,
the honorary legal fraternity. He was
one Of three local lawyers recommend
ed by the District Bar Association for
appointment to the Supreme Court of
the District at the time Chief Justice
Walter I. Mccoy retired more than six
months ago.
Mr.. Cox also is known to have been
recommended by number of members
OF the bar and prominent citizens. He
was not an actual candidate for this
appointment and had no idea that he
had been decided upon for appoint
ment until informed of that fact by q
representative of The Star TODAY
Assistant Attorney General Luhrine
is understood to have been personally
recommended by Attorney General
Mitchell because of the splendid record
ne has made since being connected with
the Department of Justice.
Cox Admitted to Bar in 1901.
Mr.. Cox is 81 years old and after be-
ing educated in the public schools in
Grayson County, Va, and at the George
Peabody College In Nashville, Tenn, he
came to Washington to study law at the
old Columbian College. He was grad
uated in 1901 and was admitted to the
par the same year He is q member OF
the District of Columbia and the Amer
lean Bar Associations and q life mem
ber of the National Aeronautical Assoc
citation. He was q member Of the Dis
trict Selective Service Board in the
World War. He is a director and coun-
sci OF the Park Savings Bank.
Mr.. Cox was appointed a special
assistant to the Attorney General dur
ing the war and in 1920 was appointed
regional counsel for the railroad ad-
ministration, serving In that capacity
for two years.
Mr.. Cox married Miss Emma Leckie
and lives at 1850 Monroe street. They
have three sons and one daughter
Joseph w., jr., who is a second lieu
tenant in the Corps of Engineers,
Y. 8. A.; Melville, who is a senior at
washington and Lee University, and
Leckte, who is junior at the Univer-
sity OF Virginia, and Carol, 6 years old.
Evening star., 1930-06-21

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meath the wings Of his plane, remain
ing awake so as not to freeze to death.
Saturday the weather cleared somewhat,
and he saw an airplane fly high over
him. He Signaled, but apparently his
frantic motions were not perceived.
Sunday he started to march through
the mountains toward Mendoza, hardly
hoping he would ever reach there alive
1t was then he slipped on the ice and
fen $50 meters down a precipice, losing
what provisions he had with him and
receiving injuries which made every
minute until the rescue one Of suffering
Aided by Shepherdess.
Half starved and afraid to sleep. he
marched Tuesday and Wednesday over
mountain and through snow-filled VAL
1eys, until Thursday he stumbled into
the presence of a lonely shepherdess
minding her flock on the hillsides not
many miles from Pareditas. She was
amazed, but dressed his wounds, gave
him food and found him a place to
sleep.
Her ministrations partially restored
Gutllaumet and gave him strength to 20
further, She directed him toward
Pareditas, where he finally was discov-
cred Friday by a provincial policeman,
who notified authorities and brought a
plane there to carry him back to Men
doza.
Chilean. Argentine and United States
private and military pilots aided in the
search for Guillaumet, scanning hun
dreds Of miles Of territory on either side
OF the Cordilleras. The United States
military attache at Santiago, Capt
Ralph H. Wooten. and the naval
attache, Comdr. Irving Hall Mayfield
were among those plotting planes In
search of the flyer.
News Of his safety was greeted jubi-
1antly both here and in Chile, where
MS disappearance has been a news
sensation Of the past few days.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
Deaths Reported.

Almirg pspue. 80. Garneld hospital.
Jane .; Weddsrburn: 81, 1886 Fsirmont Ct.
kottie Wsrd: 78. Sibley Hospital,
Ella =. q. LAnahan, n, iS2i Newton st..
Hiram 8, welty. rs. 80 New York eve.
Eobert Donaldson, 10. Gallinser Hospital.
sadie Pope S. Sibley Hospital.
william g. Bauer: a, Casualty Hospital.
Louise Meyers, ~, GEORGETOWN Hospital
st,
Infant Of Samuel and Cecilia cardia, 10
days, Sibley hospital.
Infant o. John k. and Rosie Kane, Georse-
Mary a: Thomas. 81, 1878 d q. Sc.
John williams, So, 62S 2d rt. sc.
Eliza Williams, -, 1907 Sd st. sw.
Laura Grant, 81. Freednaen'S Hospital
Mildred e. Scott, 81. 1918 Gales Sc. ne.