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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
REPAIR lob HOLDS
RUTH NICHOLS BACK
Plans Departure Later Today
en- First Leg of Solo Flight
to Paris.

NEW YORK, June 10 (P.-Ruth
Nichols, society girl aviatrix, dam
aged her plane in landing at Floyd
Bennett Airport today and as re-
suit the first leg of her proposed
transat!s ntic flight was postponed
for several days.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June ia faulty navi-
CATION instrument caused Ruth Nichols
to postpone until later in the day her
take-off from Floyd Bennett Airport for
Harbor Grace. Newfoundland, whence
she will start in few days on her
fight across the North Atlantic.
Miss Nichols had planned to leave
for the North this morning, stopping
overnight in st. Johns, but at the fac
tory of Clarence Chamberlin in Jersey
City, where her monoplane has been
undergoing tests, she discovered a di-
rectional gyro was not functioning
properly.
To Portland Tonight.
She said she would take off from
Jersey City at o'clock this afternoon
(E. S. To- and, after stopping at Floyd
Bennett Airport for more fuel, head
North, spending the night in Portland
Me.
Good weather prospects today gave
other flyers hope of starting trans
atlantic flights soon.
DR.. James H. Kimball, Government
forecasteE;, noted general improvement
in conditions and the absence of head
winds over the Atlantic. He advised
that there be no start till visibility at
sea improved.
His announcement started activity at
various Long Island fields.
Post and Gatty Ready.
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, who
want to circle the globe, hoped to be
the first to get away. Their plane was
already loaded and fueled at Roosevelt
Field. They intended to fly to Harbor
Grace, Newfoundland, before crossing
the Atlantic.
Miss Nichols tested her plane in a
dash from New York to Baltimore yes
terday.
Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon,
jr.. are conducting tests at Floyd Ben
nett Field in preparation for flight
to Moscow, and thence round the
world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
CATHOLICS PROTEST
ANTI-RELIGIOUS BILL
Urge President Ortiz Rubio to In
tervene Against Passage of
Measure Limiting Priests.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, June 18.-President
Pascual Ortiz Rubio today was receiv-
ing constant stream of protests from
Catholics throughout the country urg-
ing him to intervene against the enact
ment of an anti-religious measure in
the State Of Vera Cruz.
Dispatches from Jalapa, the capital,
said the bill limiting the number of
priests to one for every 100000 inhab-
itantS had passed its second reading In
the state Legislature yesterday and was
almost certain to be adopted.
The legislative halls rang with shouts
of an anti-clerical nature when the
measure received favorable vote. One
deputy went SO far as to propose an
amendment cutting the proposed num-
Der of priests to half, but this move
was defeated.
The bill would have the effect of re-
stricting a population of more than a
million to IL priests, including three
bishops already provided for. The same
restrictions are placed on other reli-
gions, but there are few non-Catholic
churches in the state.
Archbishop Ruiz y Flores, the papal
nuncio, is leading the attack to the door
of the government In the hope OF pre-
venting the passage of the legislation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
|DRY ARMY BEGINS
BIG DRIVE JULY Is
New Agents to Concentrate
in Dozen Cities Two Weeks
in Advance.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The zero hour for the biggest sus-
tanned offensive in prohibition history
against leaders Of the illicit liquor in
dustry has been set for July Is by
Federal officials.
Exactly Is days before that date,
Prohibition Director Woodcock said, a
corps of $50 new dry agents will be
concentrated in dozen cities spread
from coast to coast for an intensive
two-week training course.
Added to the present force of more
than $500 to make 1t the biggest and
best trained Federal dry army in his
tory he said, they will be instructed
specifically to concentrate on the large
scale commercial violators and the
higher ups Of the liquor gangs, leaving
the speakeasy and small-time bootleg
ger principally to local enforcement.
Col. Woodcock acknowledged that for
the past two or three months his ONCE
had been bending every effort" to-
ward the date when these new men,
selected from among thousands of APP
plicants, could be thrown into the held.
Efforts to Be Stronger.
IF we don't make more and better
cases with our force increased by nearly
ne-third," he said. then something
Is wrong with our force. There is no
denying that our effort will be stronger.
The results should speak for them
selves"
The Federal dry chief made clear,
however, that the new offensive should
not be considered az drive" in the
sense that it would be spectacular CT
fort confined to any one period. He
stressed his idea of keeping "a steady
pressure" against the men he seeks to
convict.
Already $50 of the new agents au-
thorized by Congress have been thrown
against the Volstead law-breakers.
Woodcock held out for this number
against the criticism of the Wickersham
Commission and its recommendation to
President Hoover and to Congress that
his figure be doubled.
The commission asserted in its con-
illusions and recommendations that
there is yet no adequate observance
of enforcement" criticized the dry army
as inadequate" and at one. point said:
Our conclusion is that there should
be go per cent more agents and so per
cent more storekeeper-gaugers indus
trial alcohol, that the number of pro-
hibition Investigators and special agents
should be doubled, that there should be
a proportionate increase in the Customs
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
DO-X SOARING SOUTH
ALONG BRAZIL COAST
German Air Giant on Way Toward
Bahia After tSay at Natal
Since June 6.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NATAL, Brazil, June 1s.-The Ger
man flying boat DO-X, reSuming her
flight from the Old World, was soar
ing down the coast of Brazil today
toward Bahia on the first stage. Of .
trip to Rio de Janeiro.
She rose from the l1arbor at $50
am. (2:30 am. e. S. T.) and set her
course due south. Fifty-five minutes later
she was sighted over the city of Para.
hyba, about 100 miles from here. About
40 minutes after that she circled above
Pernambuco, IS miles farther, and then
continued on her course at 7:O6. She
had then fiown nearly third Of the
total distance Of approximately 500
miles.
The seaplane landed here June with
Is passengers, under command Of
Friedrich Christensen. She had come
from the Island of Fernando Noronha,
of the coast of Brazil, after q 1,40O-
mile flight across the South Atlantic
from the Cape Verde Islands. It marked
the climax to an adventure which be-
gan In Alternrhein, Switzerland. In No.
vember. 1880.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
HARDING'S FAITH IN FALL FIRM,
WIFE DECLARES, Barring LETTER
Correspondence With Former First Lady
Made Public After Hoovers
Remarks at Marion.

miss you here.
while my coming on to Washington
was an experiment, am as happy here
as would be anywhere, and my friends
have been so good to me-. hope you
will be coming on while am yet here. "
The letter was signed "Your friend,
Florence Killing Harding
Mrs. Fall recalled that after President
Harding'S death in San Francisco and
burial in Marion, Mrs. Harding returned
to Washington and through a friend
invited Mrs. Fall and Mr.. Fail to lunch
and spend the afternoon with her.
Fail in London on Fatal Day.
ION that day Mrs. Harding told Mr..
Fall and myself repeatedly how often
the President had said on his Western
trip that he wished Senator Fall was
with him." Mrs. Fall said.
She quoted Mr.. Harding as saying
Fall was one of his closest friends and
he knew that en- Mr.. Falls return from
ebro,d he would receive accurate in
formation as to the Russian situation
Fall was in London at the time of
the Presidents death and returned to
the United States Immediately when
he learned of it.
ut has always been understood gen.
orally in Washington" said Mrs. Fall,
that Mr.. Harding took his wife into
his closest confidence and any reaction
in his mind would have been known to
her."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
MELLON CONFERS
WITH MACDONALD,
CALLS ON NORMAN
Purely Social Nature of Sec
= retary's Visit Doubted
After Long Talks.
BRITISH PRESS OPENS
"INFORMATIVE" CAMPAIGN
Economic and Political Situation
of Europe Discussed at Length
for U. S. Benefit.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 18.-Andrew w. Mel
lon, Secretary of the United States
Treasury, today had a long talk with
Montagu Norman. governor of the Bank
of England, and afterward the two were
together at luncheon.
There is feeling here that the Sec
rotary in this informal visit is gather
ing first-hand knowledge of European
financial affairs and probably is going
into the issue of reparations and war
debts.
He has consistently declined, how
ever, to discuss his meeting with i'm
portant men of England and has in
sisted that he is here only for pleasure.
After luncheon with Mr.. Norman,
Secretary Mellon went over to the House
of Commons for another conference
with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon-
aid and Arthur Henderson, the foreign
secretary. He spent an hour with them
in Mr.. MacDonald's Office yesterday,
later describing the visit as purely a
social CALI
Prime Minister Macdonald has ac-
copied an invitation by Chancellor
Bruening of Germany to visit Berlin
with Foreign Secretary Arthur Hender-
son on July IT..
SOCIAL CALL" DOUBTED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
FORD co. ASKS JURY
TO PROBE CITY DOLE
Detroit Public Welfare Department
Accused of Neglecting
Duty.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, June l8.-The Ford Motor
Co., through its director Of service.
Harry H. Bennett, today demanded a
grand jury investigation of Detroit's
81, SOC, 900 monthly municipal dole dis
bursements; charged the Department
of Public Welfare with negligence and
accused Mayor Frank Murphy with try
ing to draw red herring across the
trail"
These demands and charges we're con-
tanned in a letter sent to Thomas E..
Dolan, superintendent of the City We'll
fare Department. The letter was in
reply to one Supt Dolan sent Edsel
Ford Tuesday requesting that the Ford
company assume the care of the fam
lilies of 5000 former Ford workers now
drawing municipal doles.
Bennett said the welfare department
"has been run with degree OF negli-
gence, which, when completely known,
will shock the city of Detroit"
The Ford official told Supt. Dolan:
''It VIII take grand jury to disclose
all the frauds perpetrated on your de-
partment during recent months and
years. And a grand jury is a better
method of getting at the bottom OF this
thing than your method of making
newspaper statements which you admit
you cannot prove"
: The interchange Of letters between
the city and the Ford company began
after Alex r. Lewis and Charles j.
Mccormick, former welfare clerks, were
arrested on charges Of stealing sos, 900
from the department. Bennett charged
that the city had been paying doles to
hundreds. of men who were actually at
work at the Ford factory at the time.
He also said that the Ford company
cares for It's own welfare cases. The lat
ter statement resulted in Supt. Dolan's
letter to Edsel Ford.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
HUNGER MARCH PLANNED.

PITTSBURGH, June 18 (P1.-Leaders
of the National Miners Union an
nounced today that striking coal miners
in the Pittsburgh district would hold a
hunger march" on Tuesday, June 80,
to the office of the Allegheny County
commissioners here. They asserted they
would have between $4,000 and 10000
men, women and children In the march
to the City-County Building.
A crowd estimated at 10000 persons
marched to the washington County
commissioners Office Tuesday and de-
manded a dole for unemployed miners.
The first disorder reported in Arm
strong County during the present strike
occurred this morning. Miners on their
way to work fer the Buffalo & Sus-
quehanna Coal Co. were stoned. Six
men were arrested and jailed in default
Of $500 bail each.
Men, women and children were in-
volved in the demonstration. One man
was reported to have suffered . severe
cut on the head. Strike leaders from
the Kinloch mine district, in West
moreland County, visited Sycamore re-
Gently and held meeting. The miners
divided on the question Of whether they
should Join the strike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex, June 18-After
reading President Hoover's address at
Marion, Ohio, and newspaper comments
upon it, Mrs. A. B. Fall today made
public certain correspondence exchanged
between her and Mrs. Warren G. Hard
ing.
In his address, Mr.. Hoover said
President Harding had dim realiza-
ton that he had been betrayed by few
Of the men whom he trusted ="
In letter written to Mrs. Fall by
Mrs. Harding on February Is, 1924,
after Harding's death, in the late Sum-
mer of 1923, Mrs. Harding said:
II am just getting to my Christmas
acknowledgements, for these weeks since
I reached Washington have b:en so full
OF interruptions that I have had to
neglect my correspondence.
Phone Call Made to Hotel.
IT am greatly pleased to have your
telegram, and it meant a great deal
to me to know that my friends were
thinking of me at that time.
It am now in Washington for a
time at least, and called up the Ward
man Park to see if you were there, and
I was disappointed to hear that you did
not come on with Senator Fall. al
ways recall so many pleasant associa-
tions of the past with you both and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
MOTHER WOUNDED
BY STUDENT OF G. U.
New York Police Probe Incident
in Home of Perry Dawson,
in Bayside Section.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 18.-Police are
trying to find out what Harry Conover,
20, said to his host, Perry Dawson, 20,
while th:y were eating dinner in the
Dawson home in Bayside last night.
Whatever it was, they said, it caused
Dawson to begin shooting at his guest.
Conover ran to neighbours house and
escaped, but Dawson's mother, who
sprang between them. was slightly
wounded in the scalp.
Dawson, who was charged with felo-
NOUS assault. said he is law student
at Georgetown University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
OHIO MINE BATTLE
INJURIES s men
800 Pickets Stopped by Tear
Gas Bombs Thrown by
Deputy Sheriffs.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, June 10
Eight men were injured today in a
battle between mine guards and pickets
of the National Miners Union at the
Florence mine of the Youghiogheny e.
Ohio Coal Co. The fight started after
800 pickets had attempted to march
to the mine, but were dispersed by tear
gas bombs thrown by deputy sheriffs.
The trouble at Florence was the most
serious of a number of disorders in
the coal strike region today. At the
Blaine mine deputy sheriff was at
tackled by two pickets, but he arrested
them.
Pickets Try Flank Attack.
When the 800 pickets approached the
Florence mine. deputy sheriffs halted
them about a quarter of mile from the
workings and told them to diSperse.
When they refused to do so, tear gas
was used. About Is of the pickets
skirted the spot by going over hill
dIlu IllIOO6u q WOOdo. 4AlCy cPPAOoNAACO
the mine from the rear where company
guards met them.
A pitched battle occurred, and eight
of the pickets we're injured. Emil Mar
do, 10, picket, was struck over the
head with crowbar and was taken to
Martins Ferry Hospital. The others
while suffering injuries, remained on
picket duty.
More Men at Work.
Twenty deputy sheriffs at the Flor
ence Mine did not participate in the
fight between the company guards and
the pickets. At the Blaine Mine Of
the Lorain Coal g. Dock Co., Deputy
Sheriff Joe Cocky reported he was at
tackled by two pickets, Steve Hornik
and his son Frank, who refused to get
off road when ordered to do so. He
subdued them and took them to the
county jail.
Reports throughout the field were
that additional men had been put to
work and that the mines were oper-
ating on increased schedules.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
Newspapers Declare Military
Coup to Overthrow Re-
public Is Planned.
DON JAIME De BOURBON,
PRETENDER, WOULD RULE
Gen. Anido, Rivera Cabinet Mem.
Der, to Form Army for March
on Madrid, Stories Say.
ny the disseminated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, June 13.-Published re-
ports that a military movement was
under way to overthrow the Republican
government and make Crown Prince
Jaime de Bourbon King of Spain were
being tracked down today.
A number of newspapers, including
Heraldo, said Gen. Martinez Anido,
military governor of Barcelona under
the monarchy, was on his way to the
Province of Navarro to organize an
army which would march on Madrid
and place Don Jaime. son of the late
Pretender, on the throne.
Gen. Anido, who was a vice premier
in the cabinet Of Gen. Primo de Rivera
and long captain general in the army,
was forced to resign his post when
King Alfonso gave way to the re-
public. His official acts later were
scrutinized by the provisional govern
ment with an eye to prosecution.
Jaime Cheered at PamplOna.
Prince Jaime, whose headquarters are
IN Paris, was roundly cheered at q
meeting of 20 900 Catholics in Pamplona,
capital1 of Navarro, last Sunday for
his sympathy toward the church, A
telegram from him felicitating Catholics
in their cause against the government
was read at the meeting.
Shortly after the fall of the
monarchy, Prince Jaime issued a mani
festo to the Spanish people asserting
his rights to the throne and urging
them to support a Royalist government
which would be renewed, progressive
and decentralized," but which would
not be headed by Alfonso.
Wants King Above Parties.
MY desire is to have king head a
federation, a king above parties" he
said at that time. "A great part OF
the Spanish people favors the monarchy,
even the Republicans admit. 1t is
unjust to suppress the monarchy be-
cause one King did not know how TO
make the people love him."
Don Jaime, 81 years old, Is the great
grandson of the first Cariist pretender
to the throne and the latest OF long
line of Bourbon princes who trace their
claims to King Charles ~ They were
succeeded by another branch OF the
family in the person of King Ferdinand
VII and later by AlphonSo XII. father
of the present fallen monarch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
On Way Back to White House
"Appreciative" of Welcome
Given by People.
PLATFORM is COMPLETE,
HIS FRIENDS BELIEVE
Chief Executive Holds Good Crops
Will Eventually Break
Depression.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
EN- ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT
HOOVER TO WASHINGTON, June 10.
President Hoover was on his way
back to the White House today, "ap-
preciative" Of the welcome given him
by the people Of the Central States.
In the last three days he has spoken
as many times to vast audiences in
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and he has
been the central figure in receptions 1T
the capital cities Of all three States.
In the Central States President
Hoover laid down his program and
upon it he Is determined to stand.
ConndantS OF Mr.. Hoover asserted he
will stand on the issues he has de-
flned in this region and remain hence.
forth in his post at the White House.
He has no speaking engagements for
the next two months and his close
trends are OF the opinion that his
platform has been completed.
Crops viii Break Depression.
Crops in the section, the President
observed, are unusually good, and be
believes the depression will be broken
eventually by good crop Admins
tration ofncials pointed out hopefully
today that every depression in the last
SO years has been broken in June or
July.
In his speeches in the Central States
Mr.: Hoover outlined what he believed
to be the causes Of the depression: de-
clared this to be the dominant" issue:
asserted that confidence in the place of
rear and apprehension would lead the
Nation TO greater era of DroSDeritv
tnan ever before" and specified some
proposals ne has for the future.
he proposed tightening up of the
Federal Reserve act and the banking
system to protect investors against
failures and to block the now Of money
into the speculative marts.
Scores UnfaithfuIness.
At the tomb OF Warren @. Harding he
scored unfaithfulneSS in public Office
and demanded integrity Of Government
otncials. At the remodeled tomb Of
Abraham Lincoln yesterday In SPRING.
held, III. he cited the teachings Of the
Civil War President for observance and
enforcement Of the law.
Relaxing from his strenuous three
days, which included the most extern.
siVe tour he has undertaken during his
Term, Mr. Hoover was on the rear
platform OF his special train early to-
Gay TO greet those whom he passed in
reGTaclng his route to WASHINGTON
The President In response to an In.
qliry said he intended to stay at Wash.
tngton the rest of the Summer.
Secretary of Commerce Lamont and
Senator Glenn Of Illinois were with the
President ON his return to the Capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
HOOVER is HEARrENED.
Much Happier to Know That People
Have Not Lost Hope.
By J. RUSSELL YOUNG,


StaA c. respondent Of The Star
ABOARD PRESIDENT HoovERs
SPECIAL TRAIN EN- ROUTE TO
WASHINGTON, June l8.-president
Hoover is returning to Washington to-
day after his brief speaking trip to the
Midwest greatly heartened and much
happier since he came in close contact
with so many of the people. When he
gets back in the Capital late this after
noon he will have Travelled 2,4O0 miles.
made three major speeches and a score
OF. informal and impromptu talks,
chattsd with hundreds of political and
business leaders and shaken hands with
thousands.
1t was a strenuous Undertaking. but
ne said today he enjoyed it. and it was
evident that he felt compensated. Be-
sides the great numbers of people who
turned out In each place visited, the
kindly way in which they welcomed
him and the complimentary manner in
which his speeches we're received, both
by the public and the press, the Presi-
dent had an opportunity to see condi-
tons at this stage of the business de-
preston at first hand. It may be true
that many of the people in the terri
tory through which he passed and Wis
tied have been, and still are, suffering
from the depression, but he Is coming
home with The feeling that the people
are not depressed themselves; that they
can smile. and that they have not be-
come embittered or lost hope.
Can Depend on People.
Reaching this conclusion in the an
alysiS of his observations, naturally
meant much to Mr.. Hoover at this par
ticular time,
From now on in doing what he can
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
Enjoys Feet Suffer
Only If Head Isn't
Used, Says Fletcher

Rather definite ideas about the
strain of being a diplomat are
harbored by Henry p. Fletcher.
chairman of the Federal Tariff
Commission and former Ambas-
sador to both Italy and Belgium.
A reporter strolled into Mr..
Fletcher's office today and asked
him to comment on the recent
remark of Ambassador Charles
G. Dawes on his return from the
Court of st. James that service
as a diplomat "is easy on the
brains and hell on the feet"
III depends on whether you
use your head or your feet"
Mr.. Fletcher responded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-18
SIXTH SENSE OF BLIND
RECOGNIZED BY COURT
osteopath Gets Divorce on Testi-
mony He OWNED Wife Was
Hugging and Kissing Man.
" the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 18.-Juris>
prudence took cognizance of a sixth
or "divining" sense blind persons are
rsputed to have and granted divorce
here yesterday to DR.. Ernest r. Cleaves,
an oSteopath, because Of his testimony
regarding that which the sixth sense
disclosed.
He told the court he heard. sensed
and OWNED" that his blind wife, Mrs.
Lillian Cleaves, also an ostsopath, was
hugging and kissing another blind man
on certain occasions.
The Cleaves we're married secretly
while attending a medical school for
the blind in Chicago in 1926. Mrs.
Cleaves, now in Chicago, did not ap-
pear at the trial.