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Evening star., 1935-06-23
LEHMAN WILL PROBE
VICE PROSECUTIONS
Studies Grand Jury Request for
Substitute Attorney to
Conduct Cases.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 22.-Gov. Her
bert H. Lehman, Democratic but non
Tammany, came down from the capl-
tai today to "get to the bottom OF
the whole situation" in which q
runaway grand jury, unable itself
to delve far into vice and racketeer-
ing, sought a special prosecutor TO
supplant the Tammany district at
torney.
After conferring two hours with
Mayor F. H. La Guardia and police
authorities the Governor decided to
study the full minutes of the grand
jury before determining whether TO
take the matter in his own hands.
Twenty of the % members OF the
March grand jury petitioned the
Governor to impanel q special jury
under a prosecutor of his own desig-
nation to continue their inquiry.
They said District Attorney William
C. Dodge showed no willingness to
cooperate.
Dodge denied tiai& .s.i.ast i.ast,
Evening star., 1935-06-23
(See TAXES, Page Sd
CLIPPER is LANDED
BLIND AT ALAMEDA
Head Winds and Dense Clouds
Conquered on 2,400-Mile
Stretch of Pacific.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALAMEDA, Calf, June 22.-Com-
pleting its fourth flight between Ha-
wall and California, the Pan-American
Airways' pioneering clipper seaplane
came in 'blind" today-ending an easy
conquest of headwinds and clouds over
a 2,400-mile stretch of the Pacific.
The big four -motored craft, return
ing this time from an experimental
flight which had taken it halfway
across the ocean to tiny Midway
Island, SKINNED gracefully onto San
Francisco Bay at $40 pm. eastern
standard time).
Their compartment covered by a
blind" flying hood when $50 miles
out, the flyers headed the plane direct
ly into port, with only instruments
and radio signals to guide them.
Despite headwinds and dense cloud
banks, the plane made the 2.40O-mile
fight in I8 hours and 80 minutes. The
record time of Is hours and 80 min
utes was set in 1884 by Sir Charles
Kingsford- Smith.
No new record was sought, however.
The plane was purposely headed into
the winds and clouds as part OF the
experimental work Of Capt. Edwin @.
Musick and his crew OF nye.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
BANK LOOT RACKET
SMASHED BY i. S.
&c Mems" UnderCover Drive
Reduces Number of Hold
ups Sharply.
BY REX COLLIER.

Working quietly in a field OF In
vestigation less spectacular than their
widely publicized kidnapping roundup
special agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation during the first year
of operation under the Federal bank
robbery law have administered a
smashing blow to the once profitable
bank robbery racket.
Since entry just year ago of the
&C men, into the bank sector of the
Federal war on crime there has been a
sharp and steady drop in Pumber OF
bank robberies throughout the coun-
try, records of the Justice Department
show.
This has been due not only to elm
ination from the racket of such no
torious gangsters as John Dillinger,
Pretty Boy" Floyd and the Barker
brothers, but to faltering morale of
professional bank robbers who have
grown to have wholesome respect for
what gangland terms the IF. B. T." and
its Sharpshooting agents.
96 Of 126 Gases Solved.
OF 1875 robberies which fell within
investigative jurisdiction Of the bureau
since enactment of the Federal law on
May 18 a year ago, 96 are listed on
bureau records as solved. In these
cases SO persons have been convicted,
seven have been killed and about
$I27 500 of the $683, 900 in loot has
been recovered.
So impressive has been the decline
in the bank robberies since passage OF
the Federal law that official cog
nizance of it has been taken by the
American Bankers Association, va
riouS State bankers associations and
national surety companies.
In a letter to Attorney General
Cummings the American Surety Co
pointed out that bank roberieS have
been decreasing steadily since the
Government launched its intensive
drive on crime in general more than
a year ago. In 1888. the firm said, the
bank robbery frequency dropped 81
per cent, as compared with the year
before, and during 1884 there was
further drop of comparable degree.
Loss to banks likewise has decreased
by 80 per cent in 1888 and by "a
Evening star., 1935-06-23
HOLDING COMPANY BILL
REPORTED WITHOUT TAX
AND DEATH SENTENCE
Reuolt Ouer NeU Deal Bills
Feared by Democratic Chiefs
Wagner Bill, Passed Without Roll Cal,
Reuealed as Opposed by Actual
Majority in House.

Ways and Means Committee were
openly expressing doubts of the con-
stitutionality of the Guffey coal bill,
which is on the Presidents must"
list.
4. A private poll in the House in
dicated a substantial majority against
abolition of all unnecessary utilities
holding companies, despite presidential
pressure to swing things the other
way.
On the House side, it was learned
that before the Wagner bill was taken
up a private poll on the 319 Demo-
Gratis showed SO noes" and 10l non-
committal. Usually, the leaders. fig
ure on losing so to 10 per cent OF
the non-committal when the roll is
called. With those absent and i'll, the
rs votes which Republican chiefs said
their side would cast against that
(See REVOLT. Page 81
Evening star., 1935-06-23
MOVE TO DEPORT
ALIENS IS PUSHED
Dies Would Enlist 10 Mil
lion Citizens to Back
Measure.
ay the Associate Press.

by Jne hhSOCldtcd EIeos.
A Nationwide campaign for legis-
lation to deport approximately 6,000,-
900 aliens as a partial solution to the
United States unemployment problem
was pressed yesterday by 155 organi-
cations. estimated by Representative
Dies, Democrat, of Texas to represent
100000 people.
Plans to organize 10000, 900 native
born and naturalized citizens for a
drive to get congressional action on
the Dies deportation bill were re-
ported by the Texan as he thumbed
$4,000 letters and kilograms received
in support of the measure.
The organization is to be called 'the
Americans" and is to be found
in each State on non-sectarian and
partisan basis, he said.
European Example Cited.
"At least $50 Congressman have
pledged themselves in favor of the
bill, which provides that no alien can
hold a job in this country that can
be filled by citizen" he said. 1T is
about the same legislation as the alien
deportation laws enforced in England.
France. Germany and Italy, to reduce
unemployment.
IF there were no aliens in this
country, we would not have an unem-
ployment problem" he continued, as
serting there were around 16,500,00
foreign-born in this country, more
than 100000 of whom have not been
nationalized."
II have authentic information that
Germany deported 5000, 900 aliens and
France 100000 and has started
drive to deport million more" he
said.
Measure Is Reciprocal.
Saying his bill, pending before the
House immigration Committee, was
on reciprocal basis" Dies explained
I'VE should let as many French aliens
work in this country as France lets
American citizens work in France"
His measure has been urged on Pres
ident Roosevelt by many leading citl-
zens," Dies said. In outlining it, he
explained:
FIRST, it bars all immigration OF
pioneer immigrants, who do not nave
relatives in this country.
Second, it makes mandatory de-
portation of $500 900 aliens estimated
of illegal entry.
Third, it gives about 4,OOO,OOO
aliens legally in this country IL
months in which to become citizens,
or go home.
Fourth, all aliens must secure La
Dor Department permits to work ana
permits would be issued only when
employers show they can't find United
States citizens to do the job.
Fifth. it provides for gradual re-
union of families not likely to become
public charges when the economic sit
uation is improved"
Evening star., 1935-06-23
Trade Ignores N. r. 4. Death
Commerce Department Finds

ness index reached its highest point
since 1888, while retail trade in St.
Louis, retarded by cool and wet
weather, registered a gain of seven
per cent over the previous week.
"Chicago's retail trade continued to
be adversely affected by unfavorable
weather, with particular reference to
seasonal apparel lines"
In discussing the N. r. A. situation,
the department said:
Memphis reported wage cuts and
increased working hours over wide
front. In New Orleans, it was stated
that departure from N. r. A. codes
resulted in increased demands on re-
lief agencies.
Denver reported that N. R. A.
standards Of wages were being main
tanned in that city, but that a de-
cided breakdown had begun in Colo
RADIO Springs and small rural towns
Of Northern Colorado. In Jackson
vile larger firms we're said to be con-
tinuing N. r. A. provisions, but among
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Evening star., 1935-06-23

Copyright. 1895. by the Associated Press)
New signs of undercover dissatis-
faction with several New Deal meas
ures arose yesterday, leading some
congressional chiefs privately to ex-
press fears of a major uprising in
Democratic ranks unless the session
ends soon or different tactics are
adopted.
Concrete evidence of the discomfort
included there:
l. Fourteen of the % Senators who
signed the petition for action before
adjournment on share-the-wealth
taxes were Democrats, some of whom
expressed "off-the-record" fears that
the Presidents advocacy of the taxes
might have been only political move.
2. Disclosure that an actual majority
of House members had opposed the
Wagner labor disputes bill, which was
passed without roll call.
8. The fact members of the House
Evening star., 1935-06-23
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Commerce Department said
yesterday there is no indication that
the N. r. A. situation is exerting any
pronounced effect on trade one way
or the other.
In the face of code abandonment, 1t
reported widespread gains in retail
trade in its weekly survey of. 33 cities.
The same survey. however, noted a
breakdown In code wages and hours
in many sections.
"The trends in wholesale trade"
the survey said, were of no special
significance, with gains and losses
being about equally balanced through.
out the country.
New York gave evidence of larger
volume in substantially all lines, al
though actual increases were not
large. Department store sales In
Philadelphia showed some improve
ment over the previous week, but the
volume was seven per cent below that
Of last year.
an Los Angeles, the weekly busi-
Evening star., 1935-06-23
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 22.-Two wealthy
Young Portuguese noblemen planning a
nonstop flight TO Rome as "a sport
ing proposition" wrecked their plane
when they tried to take on from
Floyd Bennett Field today, lat es-
caped without a scratch
Returning to the hangar, they
bought champagne for every one in
sight and blithely announced they
would try it again-in their blue and
yellow monoplane, if it can be re-
paired; in another if it cannot.
'T Just simply coul6n't get it up, u
said Count Alfred de Monteverde, Is,
who was at the controls. His brother
George, 81, a marquis. was to have
peen the navigator and radio oper-
ator.
Gas Load Blamed.
"There,s only one thing to it-too
much gas" (The snip carried $50 gal
Ions of gasoline and 80 Of oil
The monoplane was named the
Francisco de Pinedo after the Italian
Evening star., 1935-06-23
R. F. c. MAN DIES
SHOOTING RAPIDS
Companion SWimS Ashore
as Canoe Is Smashed at
Little Falls.

An attempt to shoot the rapids of
Little Falls above Chain Bridge early
last night cost the life of Horace Err
skine, young employe of the Recon-
struction Finance Corp, when his
canoe was smashed to pieces on the
rocks in the narrow channel of the
Potomac. A companion, France
Fraze, 1922 Twelfth street, swan to
shore.
Harbor precinct police dragged the
river for two hours last night, but
failed to recover the body.
Erskine, Fraze and two young woman
companions rented two canoes early
yesterday afternoon from Joseph
Fletcher, veteran riverman, and pad
died away up the c. & o. Canal toward
Little Falls.
Shortly after 6 o'clock, James r.
Montgomery of Clarendon, Va, and
Cyril Hillman of Washington, fishing
on the Virginia shore, saw canoe,
manned by man and girl, shoot down
the rapids. They drew up to the shore
and asked him to hold the canoe
while the man went back to bring
down another one. The girl followed
along the shore.
Parts of Canoe Seen.
A few minutes later Montgomery
caught sight of parts of canoe COM
ing up out of the water. Then heads
of two men appeared. One of them
tried to help the other to shore, but
failed, and his companion drowned.
In short time the two girls appeared
on the shore. Montgomery took them
and the man to the nearest telephone
and one of the girls called for help.
Then the man and two girls en-
tered the remaining canoe and start
ed back to Fletcher's boat house, after
one of the girls had told Montgomery
that they had driven to the river in
her automobile and that the keys
10 her car were in the drowned mans
pocket.
Joseph H. Fletcher, son Of the pro-
prietor of the canoe establishment,
said that when the three returned
to the boat house he was told that
the second man was still padding
the other canoe out on the river and
one of the young women informed
him she had dropped the keys to her
car overheard.
Return in Another Car.
After a futile attempt to get in the
car. the three, all dressed in bathing
suits, went up to the Cabin John car
line, were gone about a half hour and
returned in another car. They then
got their car started and left. Later,
after Fletcher was told by reporters OF
the accident, he said man telephoned
him and said: Il have bad news for
you. 1 have lost a canoe and have
lost a friend"
Late last night a Star reporter
found FraZe as he boarded New
York train at Union Station. He said
he had made a report TO the police
and refused to divulge any informa-
ton about the drowning or identity
of the young women in the party.
Erskine lived at 1926 M street. He
was a member of Shrine temple at
Charleston, W Va.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
Baby Does Estate,
Once 100 Million,
Brings Only 500
Her MementOes, Includ-
ing $1,000 Wedding
Dress, Sold at Auction.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, June 22-The Tabor
trinkets-remnants of a fortune once
estimated at 100000, ,OoO-sold at
auction today for a little more than
s700.
Most of the mementoes that the
late Elizabeth (Baby Doe) Tabor
cherished for more than a third Of
a century after the decline of the
Tabor luck and the death Of H. A.
w. Tabor went to group of wealthy
Denver persons. who announced they
would be donated to the Colorado
State Historical Society. Among them
was the $1,000 silk brocaded wedding
dress in which Baby Doe was mar
ried to Senator Tabor in a Washing
ton ceremony attended by President
Chester Arthur.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
LAWYER CLEARED
BY MRS. ENGLISH
Starr Released When Wife
of Byrd Explorer Explains
Plunge From Window.

From her hospital bed where she
lies with a broken back. Mrs. Lucille
T. English, pretty 28-year-old wife of
the commander of Admiral Byrd's
Antarctic flagship, rallied sufficiently
yesterday to take responsibility for the
five story leap which may end her life.
Immediately after her statement to
the police they released on nominal
5000 bond as a witness Howard Wayne
starr, former counsel for the builders
code authority of the N. r. A., who
was in her apartment Friday after
noon when she tumbled from the
window sill of the kitchen. Starr, 26
years old, had been questioned by the
police since the fall.
Capt. B. w. Thompson, acting chief
of detectives. in announcing the state
ment made by Mrs. English at
Emergency Hospital, said she told
Detective Sergt. Walter Beck, in the
presence of her husband, Lieut.. Robert
English, U. S. N, that she had jumped
from the window intending to end her
life. She did not give any motive.
as a friend" Capt. Thompson quoted
Mrs. English as saying. I'VE have
been friends for some time and he
always has been a gentleman with me.
1 don't know what made me do it, but
I just decided to jump out of the
window. Mr.. Starr did not touch me
or have anything to do with it"
Capt. Thompson said Beck went
into the room with instructions not
to question Mrs. English too closely
for fear of exciting her in her present
condition.
There is one thing that can
say" Capt Thomas told newspaper
men, "and that is that within very
short time we will have the whole
thing cleared up"
Mrs. English, who was an artists
model in Hollywood when she mar
ried English two years ago in San
&C.. T7HJFST TCu T3o1o <
Evening star., 1935-06-23
n. R. A. HEADS TURN.
TO 4O-HOUR WEEK.
Overtime Pay Part of Plan
Considered Instead of
30-Hour Limit.
BY the Associated Press.

A 4O-hour work week. with time
and-half pay for overtime, emerged
yesterday as a possible standard for
all voluntary codes under the new
N. r. A.
Despite organized labor's demands
for a 30-hour week, the longer period
apparently was gathering support as
N. r. A. and Federal Trade Commits
sion officials continued their studies
of how jointly to prepare voluntary
agreements.
One important official contended
the 30-hour goal of the American
Federation of Labor-even If practical
economically-wo be impossible of
attainment on a strictly voluntary
basis. Business groups have opposed
it both at N. R. A. and before con-
gressional committees in hearings on
30-hour week legislation.
The same spokesman contended the
4O-hour, overtime plan would repre-
sent a definite step forward even
though labor would consider it only
stop-gap while continuing its legisla-
tive drive for the shorter time.
Many old N R. A. codes had 40
hour weeks. The new overtime pro-
vision would not limit the number OF
hours. but would make it expensive
for all over 40.
Business Men Favor Plan.
Some major business leaders were
reported to approve the 40-hour over
time plan, and some labor officials
we're said to be regarding it with favor.
Methods of cooperation between
the commission and N. r. A. were ex-
pected to be fairly well worked out
by early this week. The commissions S
experience in handling fair trade
practice agreements probably will give
them a dominant share of this re-
sponsibility, while NJ R. A. would be
mainly concerned with labor pro-
visions. Exact division of response
bility, however, remained to be worked
out.
At N. r. A., definite progress was
being made in reorganization. The
Division of Review, which is the eco
romic section, has completed its set
up, and expects to be functioning
fully in another week. Leon Mar
shall, division head, already has
started special studies.
Evening star., 1935-06-23

Rev. Harold Bush Safe in China
After Long Captivity.
PEIPING, China, June % Sunday, 1,
[P).-The Rev. Harold Bush Of Med
ford, Mass, who was in the hands OF
Chinese bandits for seven weeks, was
turned over to American authorities
at Canton yesterday, according to in
formation reaching the United States
legation here today.
Chinese rescuers reached the clergy
men near Kwantung, on the Kiangsi
border, and then travelled to Canton
with him. The information from Can
ton was to the effect that Bush was
in good health, despite his period OF
captivity. Cantonese military author
tiles were given the credit for the
rescue.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
LAKE BECOMES GHOST
Fish Caught With Hands as 20
Acre Pool Goes Dry.

ASAS 6OOA NoCS AJ
HOPKINSVILLE, KY, June % (F).
-Crofton Lake, which went dry after
flood was ghost lake today with
only a mass of mud and useless
dam to show for what yesterday was
an excellent spot for a swim.
Before the heavy rain washed the
water out of the 20-acre lake, many
persons took advantage of fishing
paradise. Several took fish by the
bucketsful. Junior Mitchell caught
a 5-pound bass with his bare hands.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
BREACH AVERTED,
ENGLAND PLEDGES
PEACE AID TO PARIS
Eden Agrees to Co-opera-
tiOn for Security After
TeIephoning London.
LAVAL URGES CAUTION
IN MUSSOLINI PARLEY
Rift Apparently Healed, but Fur
ther Paris Talks Will Be "Dif-
fcult," Officials Say.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 22.-France today
won England back to cooperation,
temporarily at least, in building the
big, complex system of peace pacts
this nation holds necessary to guar
antee her against attack.
A wide Anglo-French breach was
bridged when Premier Pierre Laval
induced Capt. Anthony Eden Of Great
Britain to get the London govern
ments pledge to work with France
along the lines of the nations joint
declaration at London February 3.
That statement contemplated stimuli
taneous negotiations of Western
aerial, Danubian and Eastern security
agreements as parts of one indivisible
security system.
Further Talks Difficult"
Britain's separate naval agreement
with Germany. allowing the Reich
naval tonnage 35 per cent Of the Brit
ish, apparently had upset this pro-
ceeding and caused France to fear
England was merely seeking sea and
air accords for her own protection,
leaving France to shift for herself.
Although the rift apparently was
healed, French officials said further
conversations, scheduled to take place
when Eden returns next week from
Rome, would be most difficult.
The French premier, in saying fare
well to the Briton, was understood to
have advised him informally to go
easy" in trying to talk to Premier
Mussolini about his quarrel with Ethi-
opia "lest the Italians be offended and
further shake the united (Anglo-
Italo- French front" worked out at
Stresa in May.
In today's meeting, Laval an
nounced, the two reached an agree
ment ito recognize that France and
England should remain faithful to
their common duty of working to-
gether in the closest manner for
the achievement of the peace Of Eu-
rope through increasing collective Sc
curity."
Compromise Tentative.
This compromise, it was understood,
was tentative, to be discussed further
when Eden comes back from Rome.
A telephone talk Eden had with Lon
don apparently paved the way to the
agreement after deadlock threatened
during the morning talk.
Laval gave clear indication that he
had not abandoned one whit OF his
opposition to the Anglo-German naval
accord, saying, II exchanged with
Capt. Eden all useful explanation"
regarding it.
1t was understood Eden sought to
have negotiations for an aerial West
ern Locarno," making Britain, France,
Italy, Germany and Belgium guaran-
tors of each signatory against aerial
aggression, at once, but Laval in
sisted that matter be treated sirnul-
taneously with other phases OF the
security plan.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
MISSIONARY RESCUED

(See BANKS, Page ~
Evening star., 1935-06-23
WEATHER.

co. o. Weather Bureau Foreeast)
Fair, slightly warmer today: tomorrow
fair, gentle to moderate west winds. Tenn
peratures-Highest, 50, at pm. yester-
day; lowest, 81, at 2:30 am. yesterday.
Full Report on Page Be-.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
Congressional Club
To Have BUSY Week

Mrs Flora McGill Keefer will give
a song recital at the regular tea Friday
afternoon at the Congressional Club.
Tomorrow there will be a 1 o'clock
matinee luncheon and Tuesday at z
o'clock the second bridge dinner of
the season will be given.
The club had a delightful program
at the tea Friday, when Mr.. Harry
Schouranka, baritone, sang, accom-
panied by Mrs. Dorothy Rodde Emery.
The guest lecturer was Mrs. o. w. Nc
Neese, who asked, Are we modern?"
and then answered her question with
humor and philosophy. Mrs. McNeese
is a sister of the late Representative
H. Garland Dupre of New Orleans.
Before coming to Washington Mrs.
McNeese had for several years given
weekly lectures in New Orleans before
the Orleans Club and lie Petit Salon,
representative organizations of a city
noted for its social and cultural
traditions.
Mrs. Genevieve Clark Thomson is a
former president of the Orleans Club,
and LIE Petit Salon, founded by Miss
Grace King, a distinguished Southern
writer, who died several years ago, is
now presided over by Mrs. Elizabeth
M. Gilmer-Dorothy Dix to beloved
circle of readers all over the world.
Alternating at the tea table Friday
will be Mrs. Thomas D. Schall, Mrs.
Milton Romjue, Mrs. John N. Sandlin,
Mrs. William N. Roach, jr.; Mrs. James
Brown Scott, Mrs. Henry w. Seymour,