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THOS. J. OWEN & SON, AUCTIONEERS,
1431 EYE ST. NV.
ESTATE, IMPROVED BY THREE-
STORY SEMI DETACHED BEICK

ONTARIO PLACE NORTHWEST
BY virtue Of a certain deed OF trust. duly
recorded in Liber No. 6167, folio 81 ct seq.
Of the land records of the District Of CO.
lumbia. and at the request of the party
secured thereby. the undersigned trustee viii
sell at public auction, in front OF the prem
ises. on TUESDAY. THE TWENTY-NINTH
DAY OF NOVEMBER, AID. 1892, AT FOUR
O'CLOCK p NJ, the following described land
and premises. .situate, in the city OF Wash,
ington. District of Columbia. and designated
as and being lot three hundred and sixteen
(310) In Harry Wardman'S subdivision OF
lots in "Lanier Heights" as pei, plat re.
fSSsded IL LbfF SoItg Ne 70 fDiS ss of of
the District OF Columbia. together with the
Terms Of sale One-third OF the purchase
money to be paid in cash, balance in two
years. with interest at six per centum per
annum, payable semi annually. from day OF
property sold. or all cash, at the option Of
the purchaser. A deposit Of $500 will be
required at time of sale. All conveyancing,
recording, etc, at cost Of purchaser, Terms
OF sale to be complied with within thirty
days from day Of sale, otherwise the trustee
reserves the right to resell the property, at
the risk and cost Of defaulting purchaser,
after five days advertisement Of such resale
in some newspaper published in Washing
GEORGE FRANCIS WILLIAMS,
Surviving Trustee,
Evans Building, Washington, D. c.
nolT-d&ds, exSu&hol
THOS u OWN & SON. AUCTIONEERS.
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SALE or RENT-sUBURBAN.
RENT-ST0RES.

5-ROOM HOUSE, ELEc., pOROHES. GEL
lar; acre fenced; near car and bus line.
B. H. Smith, Arlington. Ys. Clar. 2oSs.
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69a T. ST NV -..-.-,-. x40.tsg
i5o1 az s.W-Store and dwelling !. SO 90
7s7 gth s.w-stofs and dFellinF g.. SSe'R99
' s'a ~ JAMES r. SHEA, '
e4s Pdisnt Gs. Nv
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s'ss E =; S%9d6sad y i6sS 'ss III ns si ol,
NEAR 18th AND NEWTON STE; E;W-sIMx TX
1T1s Ts.5d stssa5s aSBsts ht1 wifi 1fffss sssssiss ssus L
5000. on exceptional terms. Adams
7s4 18th ss. ~ NV. II WALKER Nat. 1880.
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Located in conyssniient sIin .ct secIion six Hr
hsns"S2Hdi rooias, sdditionsi @ issiossd and hestsS
fss1 oorsp poTshes na bltin hofEateT Fanss. ns sSs
cash payment and only. $50 per month
se,5c6nSEss Slp & ssfss'gss0lsA 81 leABR1E1s CHURCH.
Ses Ss 1a moist dsssy s,tsS eS9ss
70 tootf the dSwntoyn: SIX rooms snd tt: ssth:
ss snG rear rsgerta haasaS Saas seoa
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porehes. fuh.length screens every I'M
Wsll financed and very sood buy at
,ses sol, ! gHssqqs Il, NV. rVgHs sg. sa: s,.s.
Semi-Detached Brick Home.
Never before has home so complete as
these been offered at the low price asked.
SAMPLE OPEN TO Pm.
704 Nicholson St. NV.
Come Out or Phone Us.
We VIII Call for You
WAPLE q JAMES. INC,
Owners and Bniiders,
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HUNTING GROUNDS.
SALE-LOTS.

LOT 36.- SQUARE 1877. s.W. 0oRNER on
4lst and Emery pl. n.W. Sacrifice, $3.50;
terms. NE. 1900; EN- 02lk.
COMMANDING CORNER HoMEsITE, I03x
ury 20 minutes; only SSS5; terms. ADAMS
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CHAPTER 30.
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sANTA's PROPOSITION.

n yExT morning Santa was unsc-
nj countably gay. Give. on the
NJ contrary, was subdued. He was
l Y ashamed that they should
have staged q scene on her
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HOS. J. OWErI AID SON. AUCTIONl
Ii2I Eva Gtrnnt NJ W
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Trustees Sale of the Valuable
Nine Story and Basement
Brick and Limestone Building
known rs the Smith Building
located at 815-817 Fifteenth
Street, Northwest, suitable
for banking and Office pur-
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a brand-neE s-hath brick home in
North PetRorth placed on the market
at S9,450 can now be bought for $7.gbo.
This home is Is feet wide, has seven
splendid rooms, two log-hurning nrs-
places, recreation room and buIlt-m
garage The greatest bargain Of the
year S6D.50 per month VIII carry the
payments.
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HYDE RAPS DEMOCRAT
CONTROL IN HOUSE
Defends Hoover Administration in
Speech at Tennessee Repub-
lican Convention.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, May 10.-Secre-
tary Hyde of the Department of Agri-
culture ridiculed Democratic claims of
the party's ability to effect economic
recovery in an address here today.
THE Democratic House has fully
demonstrated the complete and abject
inability of the Democratic party to
govern itself and the utter folly of in
trusting it with power or responsibility
for governing the country" he said.
He defended vigorously President
Hoovers program for economic recov-
cry and denied the Hoover plan pro
vides ample assistance for banks, rail-
roads and corporations but none for the
little fellow"
The Secretary's address was delivered
at the State Republican Convention.
Critics of the Presidents plan, he
said, should pause to remember, first,
that all such institutions are required
to put up adequate security and pay 512
to 6 per cent interest and, second, that
we are living not in state of nature
but in an organized society in which
such institutions render a vital service
to every one of us"
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RACKETEER Is KILLED
AS TWO START FIGHT
Companion Near Death After Free
for-All in New York
Restaurant.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 10.-Two small
fry racketeeIs quarreled with other
patrons Of West Sixty-fourth street
restaurant early today and decided tc
clean out the joint"
A short time later they were deliver
ed, bludgeoned beyond recognition. to
Roosevelt Hospital by five men who
then fled. One Of the racketeers died
almost Immediately and the other was
near death.
The dead man was James Mullen, 90
who had police record. His compan-
ion, who lost most of his teeth in the
fight and suffered a skull fracture, i,
William Sheehan.
Detectives were told that when the
two racketeers started their cleaning
out" process the proprietor called or
friends for aid, and a free-for-al
followed
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PARK PLANNING STIFLED
BY CUTS In DISTRICT BILL
Halt in Expenditures Would Leave Work
Incomplete-U. S. Fails to Live Up to
"Agreement" of Sl6,OOO,OOO Advance.

Capper- Cramton park purchase act, one
of the major features of which is the
development of the George Washington
Memorial Parkway on both sides of the
Potomac River southwark from Great
Falls to Fort Washington, Md, and
Mount Vernon, Va. The Mount Vernon
Memorial Highway is the first link in
this ambitious project.
Although the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission now has an
unexpended balance of 1882, TAO on hand
from its appropriations, the Collins
amendment would have the effect of
barring any further purchases of land.
AS Col. Grant has explained it, this
would mean that the $4,000 in sight
for the development of the parkway on
the Virginia side of the Potomac River,
as the Old Dominions share, to be
matched with another $4,000 by the
Federal Government, would be lost. The
Virginia Legislature. at its recent ses-
Continued on Page 3, Column 2)
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FEDERAL LIQUOR PLAN URGED
AS TWENTIETH AMENDMENT
Minister Morehead Tells Senators Controlled Sales Would
Keep Dry Advantages.

of what we've got now and get rid of
the disadvantages" however, he recon-
mended adoption of the Bratt system
used in Sweden.
Morehead said this system has proved
both successful and satisfactory" in
Sweden.
1t provides for government monop-
oily under which liquor is rationed out
by a system of allotment books.
The Minister'S words were closely
followed by Senator Blaine, Republican.
Wisconsin, and Walsh. Democrat, Mon
tana, the only members of the COM
mittee present.
The text of the amendment proposed
by Morehead TO supplement the eight
eenth amendment follows:
Section l. Upon ratification OF this
CONTINUED On Page 2. Column ~
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ECONOMIC CRISIS
AROUSES C|T|zENRY
Balance Budget by Sales Tax
and Adjourn in 80 Days,
Congress. Is Urged.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, May 10-What
steps could be taken that would bring
back credit confidence and Danish the
apprehension which is expressed here
abouts about the future of business?
This question, when directed to busi-
ness and financial men as well as mer-
chants, brings an almost unanimous re-
ply:
Let Congress. pass a sales tax or
the Government can be absolutely as
| sured of sufficient revenue to balance
| the budget, and then let Congress ad-
| journ within the next 80 days"
| Citizens Are Indignant.
I Everywhere one goes a misunder-
standing of the problems confronting
Congress is coupled with an indigna-
ton, the intensity of which is unparal-
leled. People who have never before
cared enough to find out the names of
their Congressman are writing letters
and urging their friends to do likewise.
II there ever was an aroused electorate
In America, 1t is to be found today in
the vehement, alert and vigilant cit
izenship which Is gathering momentum
for the day of reckoning that is to come
next Fall.
Voters who have been definitely at
tached to one political party or the
other are saying that they will not be
guided by tradition next time, but that
they mean to vote for members of Con-
gress who have courageously withstood
! pressure from organized minorities and
vote against those who have let Gov
eminent expenditures, particularly vet
erans' expenses, pile up.
Revolt Against Bonus.
There Is an obvious undercurrent Of
revolt against the huge sums, of money
! paid out monthly to war veterans. Many
men who themselves fought overseas
are taking the leadership in a move
ment to revise the whole veterans
| policy. 1t would not be surprising to
discover in the next few months that
climax has peen reached on the whole
| subject of veterans allowances
What the average person outside of
| Washington does not understand is how
| the House of Representatives, after
! hearing the demand of the country for
| economy, passed pension bill adding
! 500, 100000 to the expense for veterans.
| If you attempt to explain that many of
| the members realized that the bill
would be killed in the Senate or vetoed,
| indignation rises and accusations of in
sincerity and political cowardice fly
thick and fast.
Hoover Getting Sympathy.
The legislative chaos in the House
/ of Representatives, the agitation for a
soldiers bonus, with an unwillingness
to make material reductions in Gov
! eminent expense, have served to
! strengthen President Hooyer's position
in his relationship to the legislative
! branch of the Government. Whereas a
! few months ago the same people were
denouncing Herbert Hoover as lacking
in leadership and aggressiveness, today
they are beginning to sympathize with
the Executive in his efforts to drive
Congress.
1t is apparent that parliamentary
procedure and all the various devices
Continued on Page q Column %
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|! !EBRUN ELECTED
FRENCH PRESIDENT
Senate Chief Is Chosen to
Succeed Doumer, Slain
by Assassin.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VERSAILLES, France, May 10.-A-
bert Francois Lebrun, President Of
the Senate, today was elected four
teenth President of the French Repub-
lie. succeeding Paul Doumer, who was
assassinated last Friday. He won by
an overwhelming majority on the first
ballot.
Lebrun was elected by a vote of 633
out of TAT cast. Paul Faure, Socialist
leader, received ia votes and 40 were
blank.
To Visit Doumer's Bier.
In the interest of harmony there was
virtually no opposition to the veteran
statesman whose service as president
OF the Senate had put him in line for
the presidency of the nation.
After the brief ceremony of in
Vestlture, M. Lebrun's first act was to
start for Elysee Palace to pay his re-
spects at the bier of his slain predeces-
Sor.
Then he was to 90 to the Tomb of the
unknown Soldier and later in the day
AAASAAbOdAS W ANICANC
the diplomatic corps and high officials
OF the nation when they made their
calls OF congratulation.
Although there was great spirit OF
harmony when the Senate and the ex-
plrlng Chamber of Deputies assembled
here to elect M. Doumer's successor
there also was considerable nervous
ness
This was manifested in wholly base
less reports to the effect that Senator
Joseph Paul-Boncour and Jean Chiappe
pretect of the Paris police, were dead
M. Paul-Boncour through assassination
and the police prefect through suicide
Police officials promptly issued a de-
MAJ OF the report about M. Chiappe,
and Senator Paul-Boncour Established
the TACT that he was unharmed by ap-
pearing on the tribune at the Joint
meeting OF the Senate and chamber.
Continued on Page 2, Column al
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AL SMITH CRITICIZED
BY WESTERN LEADER
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CASPER, Wyo. May 10.-J. c. O'Ma-
honey, Democratic national committee
man from Wyoming and Western Al
Smith leader four years ago, criticized
Smiths course in the present campaign
last night after the State Convention
had pledged Wyoming's six National
Convention votes to Franklin D. Roose-
welt.
mo person who was member Of the
Democratic Convention In 1924 or 1923
would have believed that he would see
the day when AL Smith would join
hands with William Randolph Hearst
and William G. McAdoo to block the
man who twice placed him in nomina-
ton for the presidency" OMahoney
said.
Hearst and McAdoo are supporting
Speaker John N. Garner for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination.
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LANDSLIDES SPREAD
AFTER "a ARE KILLED
Million Tons of Earth Tumble
Down Mountainside Near
Lyon, France.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LYON, France, May 10.-Landslides,
similar to those which demolished two
apartment houses here Sunday and
buried twoscore persons in the wreck
age, threatened the ! 800 inhabitants of
st. Genix-sur Guiers, 80 miles east of
here; today.
Several slides, in which more than
100000 tons of earth and rocks tum-
bled down, sent residents scrambling
down the mountainside. Three houses
and 1000 trees were fattened and more
threatened.
Reports from Chambery said the
farmers were taking their families down
the slopes into the Guiers River Valley
leaving all their household goods and
cattle behind.
Meantime, "a tenants of the buildings
destroyed here Sunday we're still miss
ing today. They were believed to be
buried
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WILL MELLON, MODEST, RETIRING,
COPY STYLE? COURT IS INQUIRING
Paramount Problem Is Which Is He Going to Wear,
Trousers or Breeches?-And What if ANY, the Hitch Is.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 10-Whether Ambas-
sador Andrew w. Mellon will or will not
wear knee breeches at the first royal
court at Buckingham Palace tomorrow
night when q number of American
women will be presented to King George
and Queen Mary was question en-
bassy officials could not answer this
morning.
Ambassador Dawes aroused consider
able comment when he broke traditions
of the royal palace and appeared in
ordinary evening trousers, but his pre-
decessor, the late George Harvey, cut
a particularly dashing figure at court
In somber, rather tight fitting breeches
Evening star., 1932-05-10
PROBE OF C0LLINGS
SLAYING Is RE0PENED
Boat Found Sunk Near Spot Where
Engineer Was Thrown From
Yacht Last Fall.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RIVERHEAD, N. Y, May 10.-Dis-
trict Attorney Blue of Suffolk County
announced today that he has reopened
the investigation into the staying Of
Benjamin P. Ceilings, retired engineer,
who was bound and thrown from his
yacht Penguin by two men last Sep
tember in the presence of his wife and
young daughter.
The new investigation, he said, was
based on the finding of a motor boat
which had been sunk in 40 feet Of water
about three-quarters Of mile east of
the spot in Long Island Sound where
Ceilings was thrown from his yacht.
The motor boat was identified as the
property Of Albert BENG of Valley
Stream, Long Island. who said 1t was
stolen from him. A motor boat was
supposed to have been heard in the
vicinity Of the Ceilings yacht Just after
the Staying.
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with bows at the knees and patent
leather pumps.
Presentation of the first group OF
American women will be made by SEN
hora Regis de Oliviera, wife Of the Bra
lillian Ambassador. Nine. Fleuriau, wife
Of the French Ambassador, was to have
made the presentation, but because Of
the assassination of President Paul Dou-
mer of France she will not do so.
Chief among the American presentees
Is Mrs. David Bruce, daughter Of AM
bassador Mellon, who has chosen a
beautiful gown Of white georgette with
an overdress of lace, lightly embroid-
cred with rhinestones and silver, and
lace train to match.
Instead of q bouquet Mrs. Bruce viii
carry q white feather fan.
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FORMER BANK employees
BEGIN TERMS IN PRISON
Other Indicted Officers of Somerset
County Bank Will Face
Court Next Fall.
BY tha Associated Press.

PRINCESS ANNE, Md, May 10
Omar j. Croswell, former cashier Of
the closed Peoples Bank of Somerset
County, and its bookkeeper, Mrs. Eloise
MICA. Cosden, today began long prishA
terms for irregularities.
Croswell was sentenced to IS years
in the State Penitentiary on conviction
of forgery and larceny, and the woman
to nine years on her plea Of guilty to
charges of making false statements TO
bank examiners
Vernon E. White and Mark L. Ca
den, assistant cashiers, were released
under $4,000 bail each to answer to
similar charges at the Fall term Of
Circuit Court
A score of indictments were returned
against the quartet.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
BY the Associated Press.

7ISbUDIdICN
The American Minister to Sweden,
John M. Morehead, today advocated be-
fore Senate committee a twentieth
amendment" to permit sale of liquor
under strict Government control and
only in States desiring it.
He testified with the consent of the
State Department Previously the de-
partment had declined permission for
him to appear before congressional
committees to discuss prohibition.
Describing himself as personally
dry" Morehead said "if the question
should come up whether we should keep
what we've got now or 60 back TO the
old conditions. would vote dry again.
In order to keep the advantages
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Three Democrats and Three
Republicans Hope to Bring
Administration Program for
Saving Funds Back to Life.
LEVY ON BEER SOUGHT
BY SENATOR BINGHAM
Debate on Revenue Measure May
Begin Tomorrow, With Night
Sessions Observation-Disclosures
Levy May Be Revived in Case
Of Legislative jam.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

A bipartisan subcommittee of
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee, to deal with the Govern
ment's economy program in a
non-partiSan manner, was set up
today.
The subcommittee, which was
appointed by Chairman Jones of
the Appropriations Committee
after consultation with Repub-
Ican and Democratic leaders, is
composed of Senators Jones, Bing-
ham of Connecticut and Dickinson
of Iowa, Republicans, and Nickel
lar of Tennessee, Bratton of New
Mexico and Byrnes of South Caro-
lima, Democrats.
This subcommittee is to deal
with the general economy pro-
gram for the Government, and
particularly with part two of
the legislative appropriation bill,
which is the economy" amend
ment to that measure added by
the House. In the House, the
economy program was slashed,
however, from savings of $780,
100000 to about $50, ,000, 900. The
duty of the new Senate subcom-
mittee is to bring the economy
program back to life.
WIN Report Quickly.
Senator Jones said the Economy Sub
committee would meet as soon as posi-
Bile and consider the general field for
governmental economies and would re-
port to the full committee as soon as
it could
Senator Watson, Republican floor
leader. said he hoped it would be pos
sible to have the debate on the reve-
nue. bill begun in the Senate tomor-
row or Thursday. This measure is to
be given the right of way. and pressed
as rapidly as possible. with night ses-
sions if they become necessary to COM
plete the debate. While the Senate
itself is working on the revenue meas
ure, the special committee Is to work
out an economy program, to be ap-
piled to governmental appropriations,
which will be ready for the considera-
ton Of the Senate as soon as the tax
bill is passed and sent to conference.
Bingham Asks Beer Tax.
An amendment to the revenue bill,
proposing tax of S6 barrel on 4
per cent beer, was offered today by
Senator Bingham. champion of modi-
3ication of the Volstead act and repeal
of the eighteenth amendment. The
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MEANS IS INDICTED
IN MlEAN THEFT
Charged With Taking S104,-
600 on Promise to Recover
Lindbergh Baby.

CASTOR B. Means, self-styled scien-
tiflc investigator and intermediary in
the Iindbergh kidnapping case, was in
dicted today by the District grand jury
on charges of larceny and embezzle-
ment of $l04,000 from Mrs. Evalyn
Walsh Mclean. who had employed him
to recover the Lindbergh baby.
The indictments, charging fraudu-
lent diversion and secretion of a $780,
600 ransom fund" and $4,000 for "ex-
penses of the kidnapers," were returned
early this afternoon before Justice
James M. Proctor. presiding in Crimi-
nal Division No. /. District Supreme
Court.
The alleged misappropriation of the
100000 fund took place on March z,
Augustus Lindbergh, jr., the indict-
nnent charges, while the $4,000 addi-
tional was obtained allegedly cn
March 1s.
Formality Is Brief
The indictments we're returned with
brief formality and spectators in the
court room were unaware of the action.
The jurors filed into the court room at
1890 O'Clock and stood In a semicircle
in front of the bench. The foreman
handed the clerk thick bundle con-
tanning a total of 80 indictments,
among which were the two affecting
Means. None of the papers was read
and Justice Proctor Immediately dis
missed court
fr-a ~. S1F I~,,k I1fz
ney, j. William Tomlinson, occupied a
front seat. Tomlinson said he would
take up with the court later this after
noon the question Of making bond for
his client. 1t is understood the attorney
will seek to have the bond reduced and
also to have the bonding order revised
so as to permit one bondsman instead
OF four to furnish the security.
United States Attorney Rover, who
obtained the indictments, will oppose
these moves of the defense.
Whispered Eleven
Means has admitted receiving the
100000, but declares he turned it over
to mysterious stranger whom he mis-
took for an authorized representative
OF Mrs. Mclean, after the latter had
demanded return of the money. In
vestigators have been unable to find
this man, who is supposed to have iden-
titled himself by whispering to Means
the secret code number eleven"
Each indictment was in two counts,
one covering the ransom fund and an
other the expense fund.
The larceny after trust" indictment
charged that Means on March last
did have in his possession 100000 in
lawful money" which Mrs. Mclean had
delivered and entrusted to him" for
her use and benefit, and that Means
did then and there, to wit, on the
said seventh day of March and at the
District of Columbia. feloniously, un-
Continued on Page 2, Column S.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
HAROLD BROMLEY PLANS
FLIGHT ACROSS PACIFIC
Aviator Who Made Vain Attempt
in 1880 Asks Permission
to Land in Japan.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, May l0.-The ministry of
communications received request to-
day from Harold Bromley, American
flyer, who made an unsuccessful at
tempt to fly the Pacific from Seattle
in 1880 asking permission to land in
Japan on another flight, which he plans
this month.
The application said Bromley plans
to take-off from Seattle about May &c
in q monoplane.
Ofhcials indicated the permission
would be granted.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
JOBLESS THROW STONES
New Zealand Police Scatter 1000
Paraders at WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, May
10 (R.-Rioters outside the House of
ing with bricks and stones, breaking
$50 windows before the police took
control
The trouble began when a parade
of 1000 unemployed. which up to then
had been orderly, reached the Parlia-
ment square and fight started.
Police said there were only about
so men involved