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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-09
MINERS ARE ROUTED
At WHITE HOUSE
Banners Taken Away From
Picketers as Operators
Talk to Lamont.

A group Of members Of the Ma
front Of the White House today
bearing banners which were taken
away from them by the police.
The police said they did not in
tend to make any arrests, but or
dered the crowd to keep moving.
In the meantime. Frank Borich. sec
rotary Of the National Miners Union,
appeared at the White House execu-
tive Offices to present q petition
protesting against the conference
being held today between Secretary
Lamont and n group Of coal ep-
orators.
BY the Associated Press.
Bituminous coal mine operators II
conference today with Secretary Lamont
expressed the belief that little could bt
accomplished toward betterment OF the
industry by a general conference Of al
elements interested.
The conference, attended by IA repre-
sentatives of operators. Secretaries Doak
Bureau of Mines ended this afternoon
without any further meeting being
called.
None Of the operators would discuss
the situation when they came from the
conference room.
Lamont Silent.
Secretary Lamont said no decision
could be announced at this time as TO
any possible further conferences.
Additional police protection was
thrown around the White House today
when two truck loads of miners and
their families from Pittsburgh and
other Pennsylvania cities parked behind
the executive mansion.
The truckloadS of miners came to
Washington this morning with the an
nounced intention of picketing the con-
Government officials, headed by Secre-
tary of Commerce Lamont and Secre-
tary of Labor Doak.
Unable to find four other trucks
which had started with them from
Pittsburgh, the mine leaders ordered
the two trucks to proceed out of town
shortly before noon.
Trucks Plan to Return.
POIlce were tOlQ JnaC Lney planned tC
return as soon as their companions
were found and leaders emphasized they
would attempt to be heard at the con-
ference at the Department of Com
merce.
The group Of miners. with their
wives and children, arrived in the Capt.
tai about the time the conference
started.
The secretaries were endeavoring ia
ascertain the attitude of the principal
operators toward q general conference
with labor to solve their economic
troubles.
Attending Conference.
Among the operators present from
Pennsylvania. West Virginia, Kentucky
Ohio and Virginia fields were F. H.
Taplin and W. L. Robson Of Cleveland
Howard Showalter, Fairmont. w. Va:
P. N. Snyder. Mount Hope, w. Va: F.
r. Lyon and w. w. Stevenson, New
York: c. E. Bokus, New York j. D.
Morrow, Pittsburgh, and C. P. Richard
son, Sturgis, KY.
Others invited who sent regrets in
cluded Walter Barmen of New York
Ira Clemens of Pittsburgh, and H. T.
Debardeleben of Birmingham.
C. P. White. chief economist OF the
Bureau Of Mines, was called into the
conference.
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PROPERTY
OF PITTS ENJO|NED
Justice Bailey Impounds
Trunks and Box in Fed
eraI Custody.

Justice Jennings Bailey Of the Dis
trict Supreme Court today granted an
injunction, pending further order OF
the court. preventing any use Of the
property seized in private vault at
West Palm Beach. Fla. belonging to
G. Bryan Pitts. former head of the
F. H. Smith Co.
The injunction order named Nugent
Dodds. Assistant United States Attorney
General; Neil Burkinshaw. special as
sistant; Leo A. Rover, United States dis
trict attorney: Edgar C. Snyder. United
States marshal, and Frank E. Cunning
ham, clerk of the District Supreme
Court.
Property Is Impounded.
The court directed that the seven
trunks and one box seized by agents
of the Internal Revenue Bureau, on
charges that Pitts and his wife failed
to make proper income tax returns.
shall be impounded in the custody of
the United States marshal When As
sistant United States Attorney William
A. Gallagher, for the defendants, point
ed out to the court that the property
the United States Revenue Bureau. the
court said the order would direct the
marshal to repossess the goods.
IF the Revenue Bureau" said the
court, wants to intervene it would pre-
sent a matter for further consideration
by the court. As the record stands, /
think the seizure was Illegal"
Question Of Appeal.
Mr.. Gallagher said he will consider
whether the defendant can appeal from
the temporary injunction.
Among the contents OF the trunks
were two typewriters, which were shown
to the grand Jury, on which Pitts was
alleged to have fabricated the las au-
thorizations which formed the basis Of
the perjury indictment returned against
him and four others last Monday.
Pitts was represented at the hearing
by Attorneys Leon Tobriner and Dogier
A. De Vane.
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Cracked Stern Post Castings
Found on Five of Latest
Navy Ships.
DESIGN is Different,
DEPARTMENT DECLARES
Cost Of Correcting Flaws in Con-
struetion Estimated at
$4,000 Each.

The discovery of cracked stern posts
in five Of the Nays newest light
cruisers will not cause a change in
plans for seven cruisers now under con-
struction.
department announcement TODAY
said the ships now being built were of
somewhat different design and were
believed stronger
Five OF the seven are being built by
contractors that turned out the defec-
tive ships, but Rear Admiral George H.
Rock, chief of the Bureau of Construc-
ton, said he expected no repetition Of
the trouble.
X-Ray Showed Defect.
Defects in the sternpost castings have
been uncovered. with the aid of the new
X-ray process. which looks into the in
terror OF the castings. aboard the u 8.
5. northampton, Chester, Louisville
Chicago and Augusta. No trouble has
been experienced, however, on the
Houston Of the same design, nor on the
Pensacola and Salt Lake City, which
have somewhat different designs astern.
Navy Department officials made light
planning that ships are still able to
operate afoat and that something is
bound to show up as flaw in q ST.
100000 job. when it is first given rigid
battle condition tests. The cost of re-
casting and installing new sternpostS in
each vessel Is put at $40, 900 as an aver
age.
While the U. s. s. Houston, con-
structed at the Newport News Ship
hlIildin0 Il v,I~
at Newport News, Va. has DEVELOPED
no flaw. the U. S. S. Augusta, built in
the same yard, has experienced trouble
The Chester, which was constructed at
the yard of the New York ShipoulIdine
Co.. at Camden, N. j.. has been re-
paired at q cost Of about $4,000 and
this work was done at the Norfolk, Va,
Navy Yard by the service, at the re.
quest OF the contractor, officials here
said today She has now been operat-
ing satisfactorily for more than q
month.
Source Explained.
The Navy Department today ex-
planned the stern post castings were
not made in the shipyards where the
vessels were built. The department
stated that the three private concerns
obtained their stern post castings from
one Subcontractor, while the castings
for the two vessels built in navy yards
were obtained from other sources.
OF these seven new cruisers. the New
Orleans is being built at the New York
Navy Yard. the Astoria at the Puget
Sound (Wash). Navy Yard: The In
dianapolis at the New York Shipbuild-
ing Co. plant at Camden. N. j.; the
Minneapolis at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard. the Tuscaloosa at the New York
Shipbuilding Co.'S plant. the San Fran
cisco at the Mare Island (Calif). Navy
Yard and the Portland at the Bethle-
hem Shipbuilding Co. plant at Fore
River, Mass.
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MAN HELD FOR MURDER
EIGHT YEARS AGO is SLAIN
Carmelo Leconti Found in New
York Hotel With Throat Cut
and Moose Around Neck.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 9-Carmelo Le-
CONT. who eight years ago was arrested
for the murder Of Biagio Giordino. but
exonerated. was found dead in a hotel
room today with his throat cut and
moose around his neck.
Leconti giving the name of w. Har-
ris. registered yesterday with a man
who said he was G. Grossman of
Bridgeport, Conn. They were given adj
joining rooms. Grossman had left be-
fore his companions body was found.
Leconti was identified by his finger
prints.
Earlier in the day Michael Arogano
of Los Angeles was found with his
throat slashed in another hotel. He
was takes to a hospital In q serious
condition.
Giordino for whose murder Lecond
was arrested in 1923, was killed by shot
gun fire as he sat at the open window
Of his Brooklyn home.
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LUTHER STARTS ON TOUR
TO FLOAT GERMAN CREDIT
Reichsbank Head Visits
London in Search of
Loan.
PARIS is NEXT STOP.
Will Go to Basel Later i'm
Effort to Stabilize Home
Industry.
BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER.

nI EDOA2 ANSEL MOWhEh.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Uailr
BERLIN, Germany, July 9.-Hat in
hand and with an empty sack over his
shoulder, Reichsbank President Hans
Luther began last night money-hunt-
ing pilgrimage that began in London
and will deal thence to Paris and Basel
His ahm-on which the immediate flu
ture Of Germany would seem to de-
pend-is to obtain large loan.
Meanwhile the position here is bound
to remain unstable. Yesterday it was
announced that the government owned
bank had opened credit to one of the
largest private banks, but the fact was
Immediately ofacially denied. This
morning a new story appears, which is
that the Reich treasury is making an
advance Of $4,000, 900 to the bankrupt
North German Wollkaemmerei Co, OF
which the two chief creditors are pre-
cisely the two banks that most need
help. This, too. Is denied.
The fact remains that no banks in
the world could long stand the strain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-09
TWINS, JOINED TOGETHER, LIVING
AFTER SURGEON SEPARATES THEM
Children Apparently Recovering Following Unparalleled
Operation at Baltimore.

I'VE found the babies had colon in
common, contained in the flesh which
Joined them. We called in DR.. Pes
sagno. q surgeon, and he continued the
operation on the babies.
EFT was necessary to remove all but
an inch of colon from each, but 1t Is
possible to live without a colon. DR..
Pessagno was forced to repair breaks
in the abdominal walls, sewing parts
of vital organs to the walls and replac-
ing them in the abdomen.
THE other operations are less diff
cult than the FIRST" he said.
Johns Hopkins obstetrics authority,
author of a text book, said Siamese
twins occurred about once in $4,000
births. In most cases an operation Is
impossible. When 1t is possible, and
one is performed. the chances are 10
to that the babies will de he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-09
MAYOR WALKERS NEPHEW
SUMMONED IN INQUIRY
legislative Committee Seeks to
Determine If Relatives OF 70
litical Leaders Get Jobs.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 9.-The Legisla-
tive Committee investigating the mu-
nicipai government t 70 ucy,,nanies doing
business with the city employed rela-
tives Of politically powerful men In
preference to others. .,
AS a first move in that dlrectlon'
Samuel Seabury, counsel to the COM
mittee, has subpoenaed WlLIam n
walker, jr., nephew of Mayor walker.
and Donald Byrne, a nephew of John
H. McCooey, Brooklyn Democratic boss,
Of a late Tammany leader, already has
been questioned about his jon with
cement company which oio large
business with the city. 80 - -
Mr.. Seabury revealed that John o.
Lewis. missing Inspector of buildings,
banked $4,000, although MS salary
was $500 a year.
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AUSTRALIAN LABORITE
WOULD CANCEL DEBT
Eldridge Proposes Measure to Re-
lieve Burden of Overseas
Obligations.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CANBERRA, Australia, July O.
Cancellation of the entire overseas debt
of Australia was proposed today in the
House of Representatives by the
Laborite Eldridge, one of those who
have broken with Labor government Of
Prime Minister James Scullin.
The time has come for the govern
ment to open negotiations with a view
to cancellation of the overseas debt, or
failing that, a reduction in the rate of
interest or else extension of the condi-
tons of payment-or such other acton
as would enable Australia to be relieved
of her crushing burden he declared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-09
u. S. ATTACHE AND FAMILY
ARE RESCUED FROM BOAT
Brazilian Consul and Family in
Party Saved by Tug After
Sea Crash.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ISTANBUL, July 9.-Julian Gillespie,
American commercial attache, of Balti-
more, Mrs. Gillespie and their child, and
the Brazilian consul and his wife and
child were rescued by a Turkish tug
boat from sinking American embassy
motor boat off Seraglio Point Tuesday
night.
The motor boat hit the hulk of a
wrecked ship lying off the point and
began to fill. A hazardous current in
the Bosporus at the entrance of the
Sea of Marmora made the situation
perilous. After Commute wait. the
tug boat heard their calls of distress
and rescued all the occupants. A few
seconds later the motor boat sank.
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Tourists Trapped
When Guide Nears
Danish CrOwnCem
Protective Device Slams
Doors and Calls Police
Automatically.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, July 9.-The fate of
those who tamper with the crown jew
els Of Denmark was revealed today to
party of foreign tourists.
While inspecting the collection in the
Castle of Rosenberg their guide got too
close to the treasure and accidentally
set of a device installed to protect it.
There was q deafening outburst of
bowling sirens and jsngling bells. The
cabinet sank through the floor and all
doors automatically closed.
An attendant drew his revolver and
comma nded every one to stand where he
was. Car loads of police, who had been
summoned Immediately, rushed up in
fast cars and surrounded the castle.
Explanations finally resulted in the
party being released and the tourists
departed with respect for the efficient
system of guarding the country's treas
ureS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-09
STORY OF HOOVER'S FAST TRIP
FROM RAPIDAN BRINGS PROBE
Secret Service Men and Reporters Asked to Tell How
Information Leaked Out.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secret Service men and newspaper
men covering the White House we're UNI
der investigation today as a result Of
stories published of President Hoover's
sudden departure from Rapidan Camp
Sunday.
Who ordered the investigation could
not be learned definitely, but several re-
porters and all the Secret Service men
have been questioned as to where the
facts came from. Chief Moran Of the
Secret Service was in conference with
White House officials several hours yes
tsrday.
The stories dealt with the fact that
the Chief Executive did not wait for
his Sunday dinner. to which Attorney
General Mitchell had been. invited. Sc
cret Service men were fore TO run from
their quarters buttoniIs VI their shirts
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have been subjected since May 26.
The Reichsbank statement, published
today, shows that on July Z the cur
rency cover was still above the legal
figure. 1t is probably lowering on the
edge at this time.
But what the country needs is cred
its-and, as reported in these dis
patches, the figures must be large. The
Gold Discount Bank will attempt to
serve as a credit medium both for the
Reichsbank and for the cooperative
credit guarantor organization created
yesterday to relieve pressure on indus
tries. If these funds are forthcoming
American bankers in Berlin believe that
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in order to catch up with the speeding
car of the President.
There also was said to be objection
to reports of the fact that the l0O-mile
trip from the camp to Washington,
some OF 1t over, dangerous dirt road, had
been made in two hours and a half.
The White House Secret Service has
been called on to explain how newspa-
per men become apprised of the facts
Five reporters who regularly cover
the White House and were staying in
the vicinity Of the camp were told that
the President would leave at 2 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. He left at l:2S
O'Clock, and the reporters, who usually
keep him in sight during the automo-
bile trip, were 40 minutes behind him
when he arrived in Washington.
The transfer of John J. Fitzgerald
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BALTIMORE, July 9.-Baltimore's
"Siamese" twins, severed by an opera
ton called unparalleled In local medi-
cal history, were alive and apparently
recovering today.
Physicians at Mercy Hospital, @tere
the operation was performed Vested
said the sisters, who weighed Az
pounds each, had good chance to pull
through.
However, other operations are in
prospect, as they had only a single
colon.
DR.. Kyle w. Solley, DR.. Edward p.
Smith and DR.. Daniel j. Pessagno were
in charge of the birth and the opera
ton.
The babies were joined by a thick.
fieshly legament, said DR.. Collery. 1T
was Necessary to operate to save the
mother, 50 I'VE cut the ligament.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-09
CHINESE CONSULATE
IN KOREA ATTACKED
Mob Reported to Have injured 500
Who Sought Refuge on Prem
Uses at Seoul.

BY the Associated Press
PEIPING, China. July 9.-The Chin
csc consulate at Seoul. Korea, was re-
ported attacked today by a Korean
mob, which inflicted injuries on at
least 500 Chinese who had taken refuge
on the consular premises.
Chang Wei Cheng, Chinese consul
general at Seoul, was reported TO have
fed to the palace of the Korean gov
eminent. These reports we're uncon-
firmed but were contained in Chinese
dispatches from Korea
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-09
CAPONE TO PUT MONEY
IN RACING BUSINESS
Chicago Paper Says Gang Leader,
on Eve of Sentence, Plans
Shift From Dog Tracks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 9.-The Chicago
Herald and Examiner said today that
Alphonse Capone has gone into the
horse racing business on the eve Of his
departure for the Government penisen-
tiary at Leavenworth, Kans.
The papers said that members OF Ca
pone's organization admitted they pro-
pose to convert their legally banned
dog racing tracks in this territory to
law-protected tracks for horse racing.
Capone recently PLEADED guilty in
Federal Court to charges of violating
the liquor and income tax laws, but was
allowed 80 days to put his affairs into
shape before receiving the sentence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-09
MOVIE RIVALRY KEEN
Panama Wants Patrons Barred
From Canal Zone Theaters.

PANAMA CITY, July 8 R.-In-
creasingly keen competition between
Canal Zone and Panama movie theaters
has resulted in a decision by Secretary
of the Treasury Jimenez to request zone
oficials to bar persons not employed
in the zone from zone theaterS.
Canal Zone movies are cheaper than
those of Panama. AS a result they are
attended by American residents of
Panama City and also Panamanians.
condition held responsible for the clos
ing of two thesters in the capital re-
Gently.
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DUCE's BROTHER FOR TERMS.
DeplOres Fascist Violence Against
Church Clubs.

MILAN, Italy, July (P.-Arnaldo
Mussolini, brother of II Duce, continued
his editorials in Popolo D'Italia today
with plea for peaceable settlement Of
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"The Singing Earl" Dies.

CITATION, Northumberland, Eng
land .1uIv . iP.-The Earl of Tanker
Vile sometimes called the Singing
Earl" died today after four days III
ness. He was 70. He possessed . nne
tenor voice.
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FLIGHT TO NOME SUCCESSFUL.
Five Refueling Contacts Made by For
Worth on Way to Alaska.

Five Refueling Contacts Made by Fort
Worth on Way to Alaska.
BY the Associated Press.
NOME, Alaska, July 9.-Refueied IN
the air over Nome for the fiftn Time
sincs their rendezvous with their re-
fueling plane at Fairbanks, Alaska, reg
I Robbins and Harold s. Jones, Fort
worth Texas, aviators, headed out over
Rering Sea carly today ON the last
lap of their nonstop flight from seattie
to Toxic. ,,.x.s
at $3.50 am. $3.50 am. Eastern stand
ard time) and the refuellng SNIP,
piloted by Jimmie Mattern ana Nrck
east of here, to take on add1tionai
gasoline for another possible contact
over Eastern Siberia.
THE two ships, the trim white mono
plane, Fort Worth, and the large trl-
motored mother ship few together
from Fairbanks down the Yukon River
Valley.
Two More Contacts.
After filling the Fort Worth's fusel-
age tanks over Fairbanks. two more
refueling contacts were made between
Fairbanks and CLOWN on Norton Sound.
The refueling ship landed at solomon
for more gasoline, made another con.
tact with the Fort Worth there and
both ships came here for a maj re-
fueling over American soil.
It had been planned for the relueing
ship to reload again and follow tne
Fort worth over Boring Sea for an
other refueling contact over Siberia be-
fore bidding Robbins and Jones good
nv and returning to Solomon or Nome
to await word of the arrival OF the
Texans in Japan.
If the flyers found favorable weather
they planned to skirt the Coast OF
Kamchatka Peninsula and then ny
over the Kurile Islands to Japan. In
the event of bad weather they expected
to follow around the Gulf of Anadir
and fly toward Japan about 100 miles
inland from the Siberian Coast.
Robbins and Jones followed their out
lined course from Seattle to Prince
George and Vanderhoof, British Column
bia. along the Frazier River. but from
there struck straight toward Fairbanks,
not being sighted until they passed over
Coffee Greek, $50 miles north OF White
Horse, Yukon Territory.
Ready for Weather.
They were next seen at McCarty, 80
miles south of Fairbs INKS, where the
first refueling contact was made From
Fairbanks the Fort Worth headed d.
rectly for Nome and Solomon.
After the refueling over the Boring
Sea or Siberia Robbins and Jones esti-
mated the fuel supply CT 435 gallons
would carry them to Toxic with mar
gin of 10 hours.
This supply. they said before leaving
Seattle, was ample to meet any weather
conditions they may encounter.
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Weather Prevents Fort
Worth From Making Con-
tact With Mother Ship After
Passing Over Nome, Alaska
2.1OO MILES OF JOURNEY
OVER MOUNTAINS ENDED
Tokio-Bound Flyers Convinced
Hazardous Route Over Boring
Sea to Japan Blocked by Ele-
ments-Record Made Between
Seattle and Fairbanks.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SOLOMON, Alaska, July Sine
projected Seattle-Tokio flight OF
Reg L. Robbins and Harold s. Jones,
Texas aviators, ended here at
$50 am. (9:50 am. Eastern
standard time), when unfavoraoie
weather forced the monoplane
Fort Worth down, unable to make
a final refueling contact for the
long dash.
Bumpy weather made it impos-
sible for the two ships to estao-
lish contact long enough to trans
fer enough gasoline to the tanks
of the Fort Worth, the flyers said
The refueling ship landed soon
after the Fort Worth came down
The flyers were convinced the
weather prospect ahead on the
hazardous route over Boring sea
to Toxic was bad, and Tor that
reason gave up the fight.
FLIGHT TO NOME SUCCESSFUL.
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The tranSIer OF John j. Fitzgerald
Continued On Page 2. Column a.
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Continued on Page 2, Coli
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10. 9. Weather Bureau FoTecast).
Mostly cloudy tonight ana tomorrow;
little change in temperature.
Temperatures-Highe 81, at $3.50
pm yesterday; lowest, 70, at A am to
day.
Full report on page 9.