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Evening star., 1930-06-24
GIRL IS EXONERATED
INBROTHER'S DEATH
COroner's Jury Gives Verdict
in Five MinuteS-HeId Un-
avoidabIe Homicide.

Deliberating only minutes, coro-
ner's jury today decided that the killing
yesterday of David Berman, 1O-year -olo
schoolboy of 914 Irving street northeast
by his sister Hilda, IS, was an unavoid-
able homicide.
Acting on the advice of her attorney
N. II. Glueck, the girl declined to take
the witness stand. She arose, however,
to permit%the coroner'S jury to examine
her features. The girl, rather plump,
showed no signs of emotion as she
looked straight ahead.
FIaherty Is Chief Witness.
Sergt. John Flaherty of the homicide
squad was the chief of more than a
dozen witnesses questioned He told of
talking with the girl for more than half
an hour in the Child Welfare Home
shortly after the shooting. Explaining
that. she was hySterical, he said he ex-
perienced difhculty in obtaining her
version of the affair.
Flaherty added that the girl said she
had been washing dishes when she
tired of the task. She asked her BROTH
er to assist her. He refused. An argu-
ment ensued. At one point the boy
threatened to call his father by tele-
phone, not knowing where to reach
his mother, who was visiting friends.
The girl took the telephone away from
the boy.
She said he then ran upstairs, threat
ening to obtain his fathers pistol and
shoot her. AS he had failed to execute
similar threats on previous occasions,
she thought little of it until he came
running down the stairway from the
second floor short time later with a
pistol in each hand. She wrested the
weapons away from him.
II was standing there talking to him, -
the girl was quoted as saying, when
the pistol was holding in my right
hand went off accidentally"
A bullet from the 80 automatic pistol
entered the boys head, causing death
one hour later. Meanwhile Hilda sum-
moned Eric o. label. a next-door neigh
Dor. He called police of the twelfth
precinct and an ambulance
label testified he heard the pistol
report, but made no investigation until
his conversation with Hilda because he
thought at first that some child in the
neighborhood had set of a firecracker.
Lieut.. James w. Mccormick of the
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VIRGINIA SENATORS
DISAGREE ON DIALS
Swanson Answers Glass Resolution
With Move for Optional
Telephones.

Virginia's two Democratic Senators
have broken on the dial telephone ques-
ton.
Senator Glass resolution calling for
removal of the new phones from the
Senate wing of the Capitol and Senate
once Building has just been complied
with.
Saying he preferred both dial and
manual telephones in his office-the
dial apparatus for his Secretary-Sena-
tor Swanson offered a resolution today
to authorize reinstatement of the dial
phones where Senators want them.
Glass was on his feet to object to i'm
mediate consideration, but Senator
johnson of California beat him to it,
and the resolution went over until
tomorrow.
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REFUELING PLANE GOES TO MEET
CROSS IF GAS IS NEEDED
Ship Leaves New York for Maine to Be Ready ii
Emergency.
Emergency.

chanic and refueling technician. They
have worked together on several refuel-
ing jobs:
II was planned to give the Southern
Cross at least 200 gallons of gasoline.
Paul Gibson, manager of an oil COM
pany. said he had been advised that no
landing would be made at Old Orchard
Beach, but that the Southern Cross
would proceed to the airport at Scar
boro. Me, where an attempt would be
made to retuel 1t.
Should the fuel of the Southern Cross
be running low as the plane comes
down the Maine Coast, it is planned to
send the refueling plane 20 The airport
attempt the transfer of fuel at that
point.
The crew of the plane has strict
orders not to attempt any He1Neltng -
sea.
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WAR VETERAN MINUS FEET RATED
AS PARTLY DISABLED BY BUREAU
Court Decision Ignored in Case of D. c. Ex-Servce Man.
Review Is Asked.

World War veterans found in court
proceedings to be totally disabled are
interested in case fled in the Supreme
Court today by Joseph S. Kalasanckas
of this city.
He was wounded in battle, and was
found by the courts to be totally dis
abled under the law which provides such
a rating for the loss of both feet.
The director of the Veterans Bureau
notwithstanding the court decision, gave
him q rating Of culR partial disahilit&
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LAWMAKERS PLOW HANDS LIKE US,
TELLS TEXAS DELEGATION
Attends Luncheon Honoring
Himself, Marberry, West
and Brown.
Satisfied as Long as He
PIeaSes Art Shires, Player
Says, in Speech.

Art Shires told the Texas congress
sional delegation at luncheon given in
honor of four Texas players on the
Washington American League team that
he had decided that Representatives
and ball players could not satisfy every
body and that as long as he pleased
art Shires I'm satisfied"
Art Shires of Italy, Fred Marberry of
Corsicana, Lloyd Brown of Beeville and
Samuel West of Rule, Tex, and Speaker
Longworth were the guests at the lunch
con attended by group of native Texas
newspaper men.
Asked to address the group, Art
Shires, the Sandy-haired Texan, said he
was not much of a speaker, but added !:
II can tell you few things whether
you like them or not
Coming down to the Capitol in the
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TO DISCUSS
CRAMTON PARK CUT
Deficiency priation
Measure Comes to Floor
With Amendments.

The Senate will begin consideration
this afternoon of the second deficiency
appropriations bill, from which the ap-
preparations committee yesterday elm
mated the $1,000, 900 approved by the
House to make a start on carrying out
the Cramton park development pro-
gram.
The Senate committee added a num-
ber of local items, but the chief inter-
est in the Senate action on the bill will
center around the striking out of the
park appropriation, because of the rela-
tion which this bears to the dispute over
the Federal contribution in the District
appropriation bill. 1t was learned yeSter-
day afternoon from an authoritative
source that the park item was cut from
the deficiency bill because of feeling
at the Senate end of the Capitol that
additional parks are desirable primarily
because this is the National Capital
and that unless Congress is willing to
make some increase in its share of
maintaining the city, public schools and
similar local needs should be met ahead
OF park extension.
Fate May Rest in Conference.
If the Senate approves the commit
tee action in striking out the park
fund the fate of this item would rest
finally in conference, and the indica-
tionS in Senate circles were that the
final decision on the park item would
depend somewhat on the outcome of the
question of the Federal share in Dis
trict expenses.
The deficiency bill has been amended
to make the following sums available
for the District Supreme Court and the
District Court of Appeals, as a result
Of legislation providing for four addi-
tional justices; Repairs to the District
Supreme Court, $4,000: bailiffS, $6,48O;
salaries, District Supreme Court, S25,-
200; and additional expenses in the
Court of Appeals, $40.220.
The Senate committee added $40, 900
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
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Measure Discriminatory and
Violates Integrity of Gov
ernmentaI Action" Says
President, indicating Veto.
HOUSE LEADERS TO HOLD
PARTY CAUCUS TONIGHT
Tilson Indicates compromise Bill
More Acceptable to President
Will Be Submitted, but Doubt
That House Will Drop Pending
Measure Appears.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

President Hoover indicated clear
ly today he would veto the veter-
ans bill which passed the Senate
yesterday by a vote of 66 to 6.
"This bill is just bad legisla-
tion," was the comment of the
President made in statement to
the press today. "It violates the
very integrity of governmental
action"
The President said the bill was
not in the interests of the veterans
themselves or of the American
people.
He made it clear that he was not
opposed to legislation which would take
care of the number of marginal cases
Of veterans now suffering disability and
he pointed cut that such a bill could
be enacted into law within the finan-
cial resources Of the Government and
without the danger of bringing about
a deficit in the treasury.
freo1cated on FalSehO0d.
Discriminatory was the adjective
used by the President in scoring the
measure, which was put through the
Senate by an overwhelming vote yes
terday despite the protests which he
himself and Secretary Mellon of the
Treasury Department and Gen. Hines,
head Of the Veterans Bureau, had
made.
He said that the bill was "untruthful
and predicated on falsehood." He de-
scribed it as mere Subterfuge. It
singled out, he said, group of from
$4,000 to 100000 veterans to benefit
and Disseminated against another
group of 100000 who were just as much
entitled to aid.
President Hoover predicted that the
country would disapprove the veterans
bill If 1t should be enacted into law
While the President was scoring the
veterans bill, the Republican leaders
OF the House were preparing for the
party caucus tonight which Is TO con-
slider the Presidents objections to the
veterans bill. The majority leader, Mr.
Tilson, indicated today that a COM
promise bill, more acceptable to the
President, would be submitted to the
caucus There appeared to be doubt
however, that the House members could
be weened away from the pending bill.
Soon after the House met today the
veterans bill containing the Senate
amendments was received and laid on
the Speakers table. It was believed
that no action would be Caken on it
until after the Republican caucus has
been held tonight.
Unless the caucus should determine
to back up the President and support
the compromise measure, it is expected
that the veterans bill will be sent to
conference in an effort to adjust the
difference between the House and the
Senate on that measure.
Text Of Statement.
The Presidents statement to the press
follows
In this problem we are dealing with
sick and disabled veterans. Except for
some marginal cases the Government
has long since generously provided for
the men whose disabilities arise from
the war itself. These cases before us,
except for a comparatively small num-
Der of marginal ones, are in reality men
Continued on Page 2, Column ID
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Nv the Associated Press.

~ the associated Press.
VALLEY STREAM, N. Y, June "a
A plane which win refuel the Southern
Gross over Maine If additional gasoline
is needed, took on from curtiss Field
today for Portland, Me.
Using Portland as base, the refuel-
ing plane will be prepared TO 90 as far
out as necessary or as its gas supply
permits, to meet the Southern. Cross.
> Preparations were made to obtain
quick action from Canadian authorities
for a permit to pass over Canadian ter
ritory II Capt Kingsford- Smith should
desire q refleIing contact before reach
ing the United States.
The plane, used ss refueliug ship
for some time by the Curtiss- Wright
Eorporation, was piloted by Harold
4Sher. with Aerne MelftSeit as me.
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GODFREYS LICENSE
TO FIGHT REVOKED
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June 24.-George
Godfrey, the giant colOred fighter, who
last night fouled Primo Camera, the
ambling Alp, in the fifth round, to-
day lost his license as a boxer.
In addition to revoking his license
permanently, the Pennsylvania Ath-
letic Commission allowed him only
SIS, 900 for the bout. He was to have
received $4,000 for the 10 rounds, but
under the commissions rule this was
cut to the pro rata basis of the num-
ber of rounds he fought.
The commission withdrew from God
frey the status as a heavyweight con-
tender, 1t having ruled some time ago
that a heavyweight worlds champion
would not be recognized in t'ennsyl-
vania until the giant Negro had been
eliminated hxe@ battle ID taae sang.
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the great races of people of Europe and America.
I regard this endeavor as less strenuous than the
flight in the same machine from California to
Australia. the reason being that know what
our plane can do and have the benefit of all pre-
vious experience and known factors entering into
the project. 1t is not simply guesSwork and 1
have no qualms about it. 1 have motto. 1t is
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst"
Failures Are Explained.
I think people attach too much Importance
to the difficulties of westward crossing of the
Atlantic because of previous difficulties. Not that
there are not difhcultieS-on the contrary. But
to my mind those failures in the past have
been largely the result of insufficient organiZa-
ton and inadequate preparation.
1t has been too much a matter of simply hop
ping off and trusting to luck You trust to luck
altogether in backing other sorts of winners, but
before starting an Atlantic fight you have got to
know what you are doing and be prepared for
whatever emergency may arise.
There is no doubt about the fact that crossing
the Atlantic from this side is far more difficult be-
cause of the prevailing westerly winds think
in
Evening star., 1930-06-24
DOCTOR SUES CAPONE
FOR BILL OF So, 500
$4,000 for Attending Brother-in-
Law Is Asked in Action That
Adds to Legal Troubles.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, June pa suit for
$4,000 for doctors bill is the latest
of Scarface AL Capone's legal troubles.
Capone was named in a suit filed in
Civil Court of Record by Arthur Fried
man, attorney for DR.. Kenneth Phillips,
who listed various items of medical
service.
OF the amount alleged due, DR.. Phil
lips suit said $l35 is for services in
1929 in treating Costello, Joseph,
Coughlin and Boswell whose first
names are unknown. During the same
period, the suit alleged that the ply
sician attended "the cooks wife, the
assistant chef and the mate on the
boat"
Two thousand dollars of the bill is
for services in attending Dennis Cough
lin, Capone'S brother-in-law, who suf-
fered severe injuries when his auto
mobile struck trailer at New Smyrna
two months ago.
Evening star., 1930-06-24
BANK HEADS AND STATE
OFFICIAL NAMED IN SUIT
Charges Officers Knew Institution
Was Insolvent Nine Days Be-
fore It Was Closed.
BY the Associated Press.

MIAMI, Fla, June 24-Claims that
the officers of the Bank of Bay Bis
cayne knew 1t was inSolVent nine days
before 1t was closed and that Ernest
Amos, State controller, was derelict in
his duty were made In suit for a
receiverShip filed in United States Dis
trict Court here today by James G..
Hawkins and his wife, Mrs. Rosa Haw-
kins, depositorS.
The petitioners asked that a receiver,
appointed by the court, take charge OF
the banks assets and issue a detailed
inventory and appraisal OF assets and
liabilities.
Judge Halsted L. Ritter designated
next Monday as the date for hearing.
The suit claimed that when The bank
closed, June IL, $10,00000O in deposits
were protected by a reserve of only
$780, 900, although Florida statutes re-
quire reserve of 20 per cent of de-
poSitS.
Evening star., 1930-06-24
CHICAGO GOING STRONG
Thirteenth DAY IN AIR
BY the Associated T ess.

BY the Associated ess.
CHICAGO, June 24.-At $40 am.
&C. D. To today Kenneth and John
Hunter, plotting the refueling endur-
ance plane City of Chicago, had been
aloft 302 hours in their attempt to
break the world record of 42O hours
plus, held by the st. Louis Robin.
It was the thirteenth day in the air.
At the 300-hour mark, 109 refueling
contacts with the ground crew had
been made. To escape the bliStering
heat the flyers yesterday and last night
hovered around an altitude OF 2,000
feets
Evening star., 1930-06-24
New Low Records in Wheat.

CHICAGO, June "a (P.-Wheat
harvest and collapse of prices gathered
momentum today and once again new
low records were set in the futures
market here. July wheat dropped to
8814 cents a bushel, only a quarter
cent above the June, 1914. high price
and the close today was at the bottom
for the session, showing losses of ga
TO 4. cents q buehAa trom NopdAE'S
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in fixing his compensation, finding that
while one foot and portion Of one leg
had been amputated, a stump of the
other remained. and that with a spe-
cially built shoe and q crutch or cane
he could walk.
Counsel for the veteran in the petit
ton for review take the position that
the director was controlled by the court
decision as to total disability, q ques-
ton on which the highest court has
never passed although freQuantlwN xIrea
-sentAa khA lower enkHgt
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THREE ARE RENAMED
TO SCHOOL BOARD
Rev. Abram Simon, Mrs. Philip S.
Smith and Rev. F. A. I. Bennett
Again to Serve.

Rev. Abram Simon, Mrs. Philip Sid
ney Smith and Rev. F. A. I. Bennett
were reappointed today for an addi-
tional term Of three years as members Of
the Board of Education. The appoint
ments are made by the justices of the
District Supreme Court and were an
nounced by Chief Justice Wheat.
Rev. Simon has been serving out the
unexpired term of Isaac Cans, who re-
tired some months ago from the board
because of the press of other duties.
The new term begins July /.
Evening star., 1930-06-24
Boys to Hunt Devil Fish.

WEST PALM BEACH Fla, June "a
R).-George w. and Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt with six schoolmates have
left on an all-Summer hunt for devil
fish of the West Coast of South Amer
lea. Specially constructed motor boats
have been shipped ahead. Alfred, ls,
and George, 16, are the sons of Mrs.
Charles Minot Armory and the late
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.
Evening star., 1930-06-24
Everything Going Well, Radio
Messages From Kingsford-
Smith Say After Ships Are
Passed at Sea.
EXPECTED TO ARRIVE
OFF CAPE RACE TONIGHT
Heavy Fog Off Southern Tip of
Newfoundland to Offer First
Taste of Bad Weather-Speed
Reported Faster Than Had Been
Calculated.

ny the Associated Press.
5. s. 1NGOMA, June "a (R.-
The westward-bound airplane
Southern Cross reported her
position as 900 miles from Cape
Race, Newfoundland, in a mes
sage to the steamship Ingoma
at 10 am. eastern Standard
Time).
The following message was
received:
Latitude 51.20 north, longi-
tude 20 west. Steering 26I. True
speed 100 miles an hour. 3 pm.
Greenwich Meridian Time).
300 miles from Cape Race"
BALDONNEL AIRDROME, Irish
Free State, June 24.-AS cheerful
as crickets, the crew of the IA
nous airplane Southern Cross to-
day were racing across the North
Atlantic with their radio keeping
up a aspirited streak of messages
and their propellers eating up the
mileage between Ireland and New
York.
. At 1880 am. eastern Standard
Time) the tri-motored plane
which already has a triumphant
crossing of the wide Pacific to its
credit was 800 miles out on it's
daring voyage and was rapidly
approaching the halfway mark on
the overwater lap between the
coast of Ireland and Cape Race,
Newfoundland.
The plane had averaged little
more than 80 miles an hour since
It's departure from Port Marnock
4k 1927 pm. Monday eastern
Standard Timel and had increased
ns speed up to 105 miles an hour
O. her heavy load Of gasoline
erew lighter.
The four men aboard her-Capt.
Charles Kingsford- Smith, J. w. STAN
mage, radio operator; NJ. z. Van Dyk,
assistant pilot, and Capt. j. T. Saul,
nayigator-were in gay spirits, as was
indicated by their many messages
picked up.
Sea Is Calm.
The sky was slightly overcast, but
the ocean was calm and conditions
seemed favorable for fast hop across
the North Atlantic, which already has
taken SO heavy a toll of brave airmen
and several women who sought to make
the westward crossing.
Undeterred by these tragedies of re-
cent years, Capt. Kingsford-Smith
flooded the air with cheerful messages
slightly overcast" said a message
picked up in London at lis pm
ocean like min pond. Travelling 10O
miles an hour. If conditions were like
this always, ocean flying would be easy.
1t was cold high up there over the
Atlantic, but the flyers were dressed
for it, and their messages showed nc
loss of zest for their great adventure.
Shooting suns and things!" said one
message received SnorJly aIter 1U o CLOCK
"Geel Icy cold outside. I bet Var
and Smith are feeling it. We are al
wrapped up like polar explorers, but II
Is still pretty nippy."
1900 Miles Of Water.
The Southern Cross left the Irish
coast at 1915 am. (E. S. T) and ther
sped westward over the Great Circle
course on a line toward Cape Race, ths
southeasterly tip of Newfoundland. Il
is approximately 1900 miles between
the coast of Ireland and Newfoundland
10000 SEE TAKE-OFF.
Big Plane Leaves Ireland at 1927 PM.
K. =. I'll Amid Cheers.
Evening star., 1930-06-24
TARIFF PAYS $24, 600, 900
Importers Rush to Get Shipments
Ahead of New Law.
BY the Associated Pres,

BY the Associated Press.
Whatever else the new tariff bill
does or fail to do for the country, it
already has added a temporary in
crease in revenues of $4,000, 900.
The estimate was made possible when
the Treasury Department in its regular
daily statement of Government receipts
for the close of business June 20 re-
ported June incomes from tariff duties
$35, ,00O, 900 in the\same 20 day last year
Virtually all the increase in the
customs is attributed to the usual last
minute rush of importers to get ship
ments into the United States before
the law becomes effective.
Evening star., 1930-06-24
BYSTANDER is WOUNDED
Bandits Shoot Him in Robbing
Grand Rapids Bank.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, June "a CP).
Harm Broene, bystander, was shot
and probably fatally wounded by three
bandits who this morning robbed the
B Street Branch Of the Grand Rapids
Savings Bank of approximately $4,000.
Evening star., 1930-06-24
WESTWARD OCEAN FLIGHT
DIFFICULTIES MINIMIZED
KingsfOrd-Smith Holds Fuel and Navi
cation Problems Can Be
~ Overcome.
BY CAPT. CHARLES KINGsFoRD-sM

setting
not the slightest desire to lose life doing
an horSeh O
is IN
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10000 SEE TAKE-OFF.

Big Plane Leaves Ireland at 1927 PM.
(E. s. IT, Amid Cheers.
PORT MARNOCK, Irish Free State,
June "a CRl.-The take-off OF the South
Continued on Page 3, Column g.
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quantity
100 miles an
nave their miles hour by
is
described floating tank
Continued on oumn2)
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Radio Programs sa Page c.
Evening star., 1930-06-24

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.