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May 25, 1928

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-.. ¥ The only newspaper in Washington with the Associated Press news every morning in the year. Gib Se AEA ANY ob ST TE . FO ——— : Oy ty ee ee a ‘ y ay eather ing winds. Temperature 68; lowest, 52. penny etic b Pd Heit ‘hewtts night; tomorrow fair; gentle, shift yesterday — Highest, Weather details on page 8. rfengu hy scindpempebiachlian Satie eR OT EO er a a NO. 18,971. ENTERED AS MATTER SECOND-CLASS POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. ©. WASHINGTON: FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928. * COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY THE WASHINGTON POST CO. ————e TWO CENTS. — POST-SCRIPTS GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN “This same Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks and mummeries and tri- umphs of the’ world half so stately and daintily as candle lights.” Speaking of masks and mum- meries, Congress is about all in, which makes it unanimous. Mr. Coolidge experiences the usu- al fate of the outgoing President, and Congress proceeds to pass a lit- tle legislation over the veto accord- ing to the dictates of its own con- science. “For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.” ~ ’ s 7 Judging by the formidable pro- portions of the selective draft move- ment—page Gen. Crowder !—Con- gress may yet find that Mr. Coolidge is a “comer” and not a “goer.” The deadliest peril confronting the Hoover candidacy is not merely that a Presidency is at stake, but that the nomination of a weak candidate against Gov. Smith, the greatest vote-getter since Andy Jackson, would imperil not less than seven seats in the Senate. With the Western Marches in rebellion, revolt on the Anglo-Saxon border, and the Wet East yearning for King Al, the | truth of the matter is that the whole | stability of Republican rule is threat-| ened. “Let others hail the rising sun: 1 bow to that whose course is run. The fact that Mr. Coolidge did not choose to sign the McNary-hog- gin’ bill is of vastly more significance in the marts of trade and the tem- ples of finance than the fact that he does not choose to run, but just why should it be supposed that the President would be adamant in one instance and yielding in the other? ~ . The men from civil life who be- IGE-GOATED AIRSHIP (0 COMBATING FOG AND WIND IN ARCTIC Nobile, Fighting His Way Back From the Pole, Greatly Delayed. DROPS PAPAL CROSS, Now Before This Afternoon, Due to the Storm. Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, May 24 (A.P.). The dirigible Italia informed the Citta di Milano at 10 o'clock tonight that it was meeting a strong headwind and a dense fog on its way back from the North Pole to Spitzbergen and probably would not reach Kings Bay until to- morrow forenoon. Coated with much ice and fighting a strong southwest wind, the Italia to- day was slowly making her way back to her base at Kings Bay after a bril- Mant filght to the North Pole. Gen. Umberto Nobile, successful in | his second dirigible flight to the top of | the world, sent three historic messages | from the Pole, one to Pope Pius, telling , North Pole from the Pontiff that he had dropped |oaken cross entrusted to him on the Italia and |Others to King Victor Emmanuel : | Premier Mussolini. While over the Pole the flags of Italy and Milan and various | other souvenirs were dropped. The cross, which was about 6 feet | high with a metal base had a repository |40 minutes after leaving Kings Bay _At 2:20 a. m., the return flight was be- | , gun, in which was placed a message written in Latin by Pope Pius. Over the Pole for Two Hours. For two hours the dirigible cruised over the Pole, reaching the spot at 20 minutes after midnight, 19 hours and the dirigible following the 24th came emergency officers’ in the ; meridian to the halfway point about World War went over the top along oan miles from the Pole and then turn- with the West Pointers, slipped on | '"8 for Kings Bay. the same slimy duckboards, scratched the same kind of cooties, had their limbs amputated by the same surgeons in the identical hos- pitals, and were kissed by the same pretty nurses—when the Colonel wasn’t looking. It is to the eternal credit of Congress that in their old age, with their infirmities bearing heavily upon them, they will draw the same pay as retired regulars. We may need other men, some day, in another war. Nobile sends some news messages under a North Pole date line to King Victor Emmanuel, Caesar Augustus Mussolini, and the Pope of Rome, by means of the invention of Mar- coni. The countrymen of Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci are brilliant- ly sustaining the glorious traditions of Italy, but just how much ambi- tion and incentive would there be in that country today if Il Duce hadn’t prevented it from going Bol- shevist? Texas sees New York’s Smith and raises her a Jones. The Capital Traction Co. doesn’t zeem to have heard that the Su- preme Court the other day prevent- ed the New York subway from boosting the street car fare from a nickel to 7 cents. ¥ 4 The flaunting of the Italian flag on Austrian soil on the anniversary of the smashing of the “Triple Alli- ance” thirteen years ago is a child- ish manifestation of nationalism run riot, but old Franz Joseph’s Empire, up to 1915, was equally arrogant, and the remnant that is left for some time to come will have to eat that crow which for so many years un- der the Hapsburgs was on the Italian ration. Europe will not have any more wars until the next one. Chinese Nationalists claim that Japan has negotiated a secret treaty for the gobbling up of Manchuria, and judging from our experience after we had got into the World War, it doesn’t listen un-so. - . ” . We trust that those oceanic waves the radio dictators have allocated do not include any of our favorites at Atlantic City. + * 2 Indiana Republicans nominate a dark horse for Governor, which js the best steed to use in escaping from the political nightmare. The veto AF the ST ee bill means a bitter row at Kansar City, a cooling off process as thoughts turn from June to Novem. ber, and a compromise farm plank in the platform, and 2 compromise platform calls by all the rules of - political logic for a compromise can- didate. Maybe they can think up something more safe, soothing and sure than the nomination of John J. Pershing, and maybe not. There’s many a slip ’twixt the ship and the hip. —— -- | At noon today the Italia wirelessed her base ship, the Citta de Milano, that she was hal: way home and that she would probably reach Kings Bay some time after midnight. Gen, Nobile had planned to land several men at the pole to make ob- servations, but the messages received at Kings Bay indicated that this part of the plan had not been carried out The dirigible kept in touch with the Citta de Milano during much of her | flight, although there was a hiatus be- tween 7:30 oclock this morning and noon. At 7:30 the Citta de Milano gave the Itaila her position and then te- ceived no further word from the dirigible until noon when her posi- tion at the half-way mark was wire- lessed from the airship. (Copyright. 1928. by Associated Press.) Message to Vatican. Rome, May 24 (A.P.).—The Vatican announced this morning that the fol- lowing message had been received from Gen. Umberto Nobile, commander of the dirigible Italia on its successful flight to the pole: “At 1:20 a. m. today. the twenty- fourth, with profound emotion we have let fall upon the ice of the North Pole, CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 6 TEACHER IS INJURED AS AUTO OVERTURNS ‘Mrs. Wagner Suffers General Paralysis in Accident on Georgia Avenue. Mrs. Jeanne Elizabeth Wagner, 24 years old, a teacher at the National Park Seminary, is in a critical condi- tion at Walter Reed Hospital where she was taken early this morning after an automobile accident which occurred at Georgia avenue and Geranium stree! northwest. Miss Aary Roland Clarke 21 years old, of Pittsburgh, Pa., driver of the machine, escaped uninjured. The accident occurred when the wheels of the au;omobile caught in the rails of the street car tracks : .d the wheels were torn loose. The ma- chine careened into an embankment. where it upset, pinning Mrs. Wagner underneath. Passing motorists extricated Mrs Wagner and she was taken t) Walter Reed Hospital, suffering from tajuries which caused. general paralysis. X-ray examinations will be made this morn- ing to determine the nature and extent of her injuries. Mrs. Waygner’s home is in Indianapolis, Ind. Henry Ford Defeated Racing With Manager Chester, Pa., May 24 (A.P.).—Henry Ford finished second 1n a foot race here recently, and although it subtracts some from his glory to report that there was only one other in the race, it is said he finished close to the winner, W. W. Mitchell, general manager of the Ford plant here, a much younger man Ford challenged Mitchell after hiking 7 miles over the golf course of the Spring Haven Club at Wallingford Mitchel! asked if he should run his best and Ford rejoined, “You will have to run your best if you expect to win © The pair ran over a 100-yard course. tc we —_——- ~ . ~ ~~, BUT FAILS TO LAND) Arrival at Kings Bay Unlikely | IN FIGHT FOR LIFE Edmonston. Upper—MISS DOROTHEA CREAGER., Lower—MISS LOUISE OMWAKE. GIRL OLEEPING LIFE AWAY AD DOCTORS FIGHT DEATH Louise Omwake Gives Blood in Attempt to Rouse Dorothea Creager. Miss of 1851 lies in Emer- in almost constant attendance. Dorothea Creager, 20 years old, Newton street northwest, gency Hospital in of a state brought on by the dread and rare sleep- ing sickness, One transfusion been made, Miss Louise Omwake, George Washington University athlete, having given a quantity of her blood in an effort to ald her friend. A dozen other friends and associates of the sick girl have offered to submit to the opera- tion, and the doctors contemplate mak- ing several more transfusions should they be necessary. Miss Creager’s illness is believed to have developed from measles and 1s attributed to exhaustion brought on by overwork and too strenuous study. She is teacher at the Smallwood-Bowen School and in addition is taking an art course at George Washington Univer- sity. She has been studying a great deal, her. friends say, having spent the last two summers at Cornell University while completing her course at the Wil- COLUMN 6. blood already has} ~ a ") aay CONTINUED ON PAGE | | FRIENDS READY TO HELP) With friends volunteering to undergo | | Carolina, blood transfusion and with five doctors | his oratorical burden and took Up | ference report. |} and consequently last effort. coma | ' | © i; { FILIBUSTER HOLDS OENATE IN SESaION THROUGHOUT NIGHT Muscle Shoals Fight On After House Votes to Adjourn Tuesday. TYDINGS TAKES LEAD IN WORDY MARATHON Members of Upper Chamber | Drowse in Cloakrooms as weary Debate Drags. —— eee eee The big light in the Capitol was atill aglow at an early hour this morning, signalizing the longest sion and the most bitter filibuster of, the Seventieth Congress. The filibuster in the Senate was designed to prevent action on the con- ference report on the Muscle Shoals bill. It began early in the afternoon and continued through the night and} into the morning. How long it would continue depend- ed entirely on the physical endurance of the senators who are out to kill the bill. It was not considered likely, however, that the filibuster would in- terfere with plans for final adjourn- ment of Congress on Tuesday. The House early in the day adopted a resolution pfoviding for adjournment Tuesday by a vote of 306 to 57. resolution was presented after a con- ference between House and Senate leaders. It has yet hs acted by the Senate to Tydings Leads Filibuster. Senator Mill.rd Democrat of Marylan liner in the filibuste* youthful head- this Tydings, was At 1 the 30 morning he had been talking for three | hours and was still going strong. Senator Black (Democrat), of A i- bama, entered the chamber about mid- night, carrying a huge pillow. He started to stretch out in front of the orating Tydings, and other mem- bers and the broke laughter. Late~ into the cloakroom, where & of other senators wer: asleep. Early Morning Quorum At 1:30 o'clock this morning Senator Tydings brought his speech to an end by demanding a quorum. Immediate- ly attaches went into the cloakrooms and aroused the senators who were stretched out on the couches. When the: roll was called 950 senators answered their names. This resented more than a quorum When the proceedings were resumed anew Senator Blease (Democrat), South relieved Senator Tydings of the fight against the bill. Under the rules each senator may speak twice on a con- This was Blease’s second A num- tn spectators he went number Found to . CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 3 3 Missing in Plane On Point Barrow Trip ied Seward, Alaska, May (A.P.).—If | 23 ig Jack Robertson, of the Fox “a . who has not been heard from since ‘anal two other airmen, flew on May’ 11 from Wiseman toward Point Barrow in two planes, has not returned Sunday, friends here will urge dispatch. | ing relief expeditions. There are no radio communications between Seward and Point Barrow Navigation will be closed for several weeks and overland travel is almost impossible. The planes were not equlp- ped with skis and it was thought pos- sibie that some mishap might have oc- curred in landing in soft snow at Point Barrow. Pilots Russell H. Merril] and Noel Wein, who flew with Robertson, | are veteran Alaskans. Pay Raise Bill Compromise Meets Views of Coolidge Once Blocked By Boulder Dam Fight, Measure Later Faces Delay Through Muscle Shoals Filibuster. Lehlbach Confident of Approval. A battle in the Senate over the Muscle Shoals bill held up action on the Welch pay-raise bill yesterday President Coolidge is ready to sign the bill, it was learned yesterday after he had conferred with Representative Lehlbach (Republican)), of New Jersey, chairman of the House civil service committee. “] have seen the President,” Lehl- bach said on his return to the Capitol, “and 1 have no misgivings.” Hence 45,000 Government employes in this city and 90.000 in the States can begin now to speculate on what thy will do with their raise. The Sen- ate and House, once they get a chance. will approve the compromise bill with- out hesitancy, and a copy of the measure then will be rushed to the White House. It is’ possible that the House, in addi- tion to approving the salary bill today, will pass the Dale bill to liberalize the civil service retirement law. ._ The Dale bill, which increases the | maximum _ retirement aunniie- from bs ' $1,000 to $1,200 and makes retirement optional after 30 years’ service, already has passed the Senate. Thus when it passes the House it goes directly to Mr, Coolidge, and it is possible that it will be laid before him along with the Welch bill. : Mr. Coolidge may sign the pay Frill tomorrow. or he may put it off to Mon- Gay. The prospect now is that Con- gress will end the present session the following day Luther C. Steward, president of the Federation ot Fede-a] Employes, point- ed out yesterday that nearly every im- portant bill uffecting Government em- ployes has been enacted ‘into law at the eleventh hour. It was so with the classification act, Steward recajied. That measure was signed by the President on March 4, 1923, at 11:42 o'clock, just 18 minutes before the session ended. The retirement act of 1926, Steward recalled, finally was waa approved by Con- CONTINUED ON PAG PAGE 5, COLUMN 4. dome | A compromise tax reduction bill pro- The | upon intad | rep- \ by | ting action at this session. GOWFEREES AGREE ON 222,409,000 CUT FOR TAX MEASURE | Executive Approval Seen for Bill With Early Vote Planned. CORPORATIONS SAVE $135,450,000 BY RATE Whole Program Held in Peril Through Clash on Income Publicity Proposal. (Associated Press.) viding a total annual saving of $222,- 495,000 Federal taxpayers, prin- cipally to corporations, was agreed to to |late yesterday by conferees of the Sen- ate and House. The measure, which will be put to an early vote in the House and then in the Senate, is well over the $%200,000,000 | limitation set by President Coolidge and | Secretary Mellon, but is so far under | the $290,000,000 voted by the House | that it is believed Executive approval , will be given it The Senate voted a $205,000,000 tax | Slash, and so far as actual totals go, tts decision for a lower reduction prevailed in the compromise drafted after two Strenuous days of. conferences between | ,spokesmen of the Senate and House , This ts almost record time for comple- , tion of magnitude Corporation Kate Cut. Corporations, getting thelr first a cut in taxes in the /enue bills, win a slice of $135,450,000 of the §6222,495,000 melon. The cor- poration levy is cut from 13% per cent to 12 per cent, comparec to the 11%, per cent rate voted by the House and the 12', per cent figure set by Senate. In addition, the exemptions allowed corporations is increased from $2,000 to 83,000 Virtually no change is made individual stand now ate bill for downward or last three rev- in the income tax rates as | | ' Texas to Fight for Jones As Presidential Nominee Finance Director for tha Democratic Party to Be Presented at Houston as Head of Ticket, State Chairman Announces. Wiping Out Debt, Winning Convention for Home Community and Stand on Prohibition Cited as Assets to Candidacy. Huntsville, Tex., May 24 (A.P.).—The | Texas delegation to the Democratic na- tional convention wil] present Jesse H. Jones, of Houston, national finance di- rector of the party, for the Democratic presidential nomination and make a determined fight for him, W. L. Dean, chairman of the State Democratic con- vention, said in a statement here +to- day. He asserted such action will be tn obedience to the will of the convention as expressed in the platform and reso- a conference on a bill of this | taste | GRAVE VIEW AT VIENNA lutions adopted. Mr. Dean, author of the Texas pro- hibition law and veteran of State and national Democratic battles, said when the delegation presents Mr. Jones’ name it might well do so in the language of the resolution adopted by the State convention, in which the Houston man JESSE H. JONES. |was extolled as “sterling citizen, loyal | | patriot, civic builder, self-made son of | the South,” and which indorsed him as “the choice of the Texas Democracy for the Presidency.” He described Mr. Jones as a “happy | combination of the qualities that have | CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COLUMN % RIOTING AGAINST ITALY IN THE AUSTRIAN TYROL ny Flag Torn Down and Tram- pled and Consulate Twice ls Attacked. Vienna, May 24 (A.P.).—Serious riot- | ing which continued until after dark _when a heavy rain dispersed the mob, the | i the they . The provision tn the Sen- | revision of the | $urtax rates applying on individual in- | comes over 820.000 ference. Individual some relief, was lost in taxpayers did in get however, the adoption COon- | oi the Senate amendment allowing an | 7 ' increase from 820,000 to $30,000 in the amount per cent may be taken. No agreement , the Senate proposal tax returns to public the conferees asked Senator Smoot. Republican, of Utah, manager of onference and in charge of the Sen- iat bill, to return it to the Senate another vote upon this which was earlier adopted of income on credit for which “earned incume” could be reached to open income Inspection, and JI proposition 27 to 19 Garner Loses Fight. | Representative Texas, Garner (Democrat) his fight tor the grad- uated scale of lower rates on corpora- tions with incomes of $15,000 and less. Or lost the 25): the | for | occurred at Innsbruck, Austrian Tyrol, today It centered about an attack on Itallan Consulate, the flag of that country was down and trampled, but later restored to its staff after a vigorous protest by the Italian representatives Uncensored telephone reports from innsbruck indicate that the mob re- newed its attack on the consulate after a squad of Republican soldiers had been forced to salute the Itallan flag. Many women and children were hurt and numerous men suffered cracked heads when police and soldiers beat back the first mob that stormed consulate and tore down the flag. rnigleaders were arrested When the flag had been restored and saluted in accord with the Italian de- mands, a strong guard was posted about where torn the puilding and the officials thought | the disorders had ceased. The Austrian governor, however, post- ,ed a bulletin at the city hall declaring ' the attack was ‘again, which was in the House bill but which | lost In the Senate on a tie vote. How- announced support | conference report with a view of the to get- Senators | CONTINUED ON “PAGE 5, COLUMN 6 PRODUCING OF FEVER BY RADIO WAVE SEEN | ‘Princeton Experiments Would | Lead to New Treatments | for Some Diseases. Princeton, N. J., May 24 (A.P.).—An- , nouncement was made today at Prince- ton University that it was believed that low wave length radio broadcasting ap- paratus can produce fever in the human body. Richards, of the de- Loomis of the Loomis Laboratory, Tux- edo Park, N. Y., it was said, created an almost maximum temperature in a salt solution of similar concentration to | that contained in the human blood. The perfection of the experiment, tt ' was believed, would lead to new treat- ments of diseases which yield to high bodily temperature, such as paresis, in | which the bacilli will not live at a temperature which the body is able | ment. | ever, both Garner and Senate Demo- | }crats, who fought for %$325,000,000 tota) | reduction, | A six-meter broadcasting set used by | | Prof. Willlam G. | partment of chemistry, and Alfred E to withstand. Sufferers now are given | malaria to produce a fever to kill the | bacilli. If the radio experiment proves suc- cessful, the production of fever will be much safer, as it will be controllable. Socialists’ Nominee To Tour U.S. by Air New York, May 24 (A.P.).—Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Presi- dent, plans a three-months’ campaign tour of the country, his campaign manager announced today. The tour, beginning August 1 in New York, would take him through the Far West for three weeks, with two weeks for cam- paigning in the South. Negotiations are under way to char- ter an airplane to be known as “The Socialist Special,” to take Mr. Thomas across the country, the campaign or- ganization announced, Mayor Daniel Hoan, of Milwaukee, Representative Victor L. Berger and other Socialist leaders also are | campaign tours. oo eae ' “senseless” and “futile.” Th's incensed nationalistic students who had been in the van of the first demonstration and they returned to the | consulate and tried to reach the flag shouting: “Down with our It is trying to kill our national pride.” Only them at bay diers charged the bayonets of the guard kept Then the police and sol- and drove the The cabinet here takes the gravest view of the disordérs, fearing a recrudes- cence of official Italian wrath against CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN i. Head of Land Bank And Aid Convicted | Kansas City, May 24 (A.P.).—Walter | Cravens, former president of the Kan- sas City Joint Stock Land Bank, and Miss Alice B. Todd, former secretary today were found guilty by a jury in Federal court here of misapplication | of funds and false entry. They were convicted on each of the | 88 counts contained in the indictment | against them. The jury had been out since yesterday. The conviction carries a maximum penalty of $5,000 fine or five years in the penitentiary or both, Index to Today’s Issue. Pages. 1—Ice-Coated Airship Fights Fog. Filibuster Holds Senate. Conferees Agree on Tax Cut. Texas to Fight for Jones. Congress Enacts 3 Laws Over Veto. 2—Reduction Fight Looms on Fare.. Dolls’, Court Fete Held. Man Shot by “Unloaded” Gun. 3—Revaluation Fight Looms on Fare. Methodist Parley Deadlocked. Oslo Greets Wilkins and Aid. 4—-Drafting Coolidge Plan Revived. Fund Investigation Halted. 5—Senate Passes Deficiency Bill. Boulder Dam Bill Amended. €—Editorials. 7-9-—-Society. 8—Weather and Vital Statistics. 9—Radio News and Programs 10—Secret Pact with Chang Alleged. 11—Magazine Page. 12-17-18—Finance. 13-14-15-16—Sports. 16—The Post’s Funny Folk. 18—The Legal Record. | 19—Classified Advertising. make | 20—The News in Pictures. Justice Federation Meets. : . o > - ~ -~- — the | Eight | cowardly govern- rioters | down side streets, where the lines were , held until the rain came j H. 6. LESLIE NOMINATED FOR INDIANA GOVERNOR 'Schortemeier, | on | G. 0. P. Ballot, Throws | Strength to Victor. 'LANDIS AMERD IN ot ot AS | Indianapolis, Ind., May 24 (A.P.).— | Riding on the crest of a wave of popular appeal, Harry G. Leslie, of West Lafay- ette, late today | ernor. The victory was gained on the 'seventh ballot, taken the biennial State convention. | To Frederick E. Schortemeler, leading | candidate in the first four ballots, goes | the credit for bending the delegates to- ward Leslie. He passed his strength to at the successful nominee on the seventh | ballot after Frederick Landis, of Logans- | had wrested the leadership from | port, (him. Until | was a back | others. the shift number, occurred Leslie along with six Landis, former Congress and comnuissioner, , Sixth | votes. | Started A representative brother of ballot when It was then that he received 552% his adherents a demonstration which several minutes. Leslie followers, met challenge with an unorganized demon- however, be restored until their outburst equaled ‘that for Landis. When balloting was CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COLUMN 2 Scott Field Balloon. Lands in Louisiana Alexandria, La., May 24 | United States Army balloon on a trial CONGRESS ENACTS THREE LAWS OVER PRESIDENT'S VETO Senate Repasses Four Bills Disapproved - by Coolidge. VOTES EMERGENCY OFFICERS’ PENSIONS Bans on Mail Pay Measures Are Overridden; Will Act on Farm Aid Rejection. made up Democrats of our oldest and | officers’ best traditions. He has the stanch faith | Wuently passed by the House and thus was nominated as the} |Republican candidate for Indiana gov- | in | the baseball | reached his peak on the | lasted | ' the | stration and would not permit order to | {A.P.).—A | ; By CARLISLE BARGERON. The Senate went on a spree against ;the President yesterday, passing four bills over his veto in rapid succession, but in a vote to override expected to- _day on the McNary-Haughen bill it is believed he will win. One of the Dills 'passed by the Senate, the emergency retirment bill, was subse-~ | became a law. | The action of the Senate was said to have been unprecedented and it was not | checked until it came to the Bingham | bill to commission bandmasters. The War Department was against this mease- | ure and social influences also are said | to have entered into its defeat. At that ‘it mustered a 44 to 32 vote. Two of the measures acted upon by Seventh the Senate, one giving additional pay , to night postal employes and the other |granting extra allowances to fourth- _Class postmasters, became law as they had already been passed over the Presi- | dent’s veto by the House. The vote on SIXTH | the first measure was 70 to 9 and that on the fourth-class postmasters. 63 to 17. The emergency officers’ retirement bill was repassed by the Senate by @ | vote of 66 to 14 and by the House 245 to 101. Farm Bloc Is Aroused. The fourth measure on which the President was overriden in the Senate was the,»Oddie bill, passed 57 to 22, aue _thorizing an appropriation of $350,000 annually for the construction of good roads in Indian reservations. It affects / eleven States. It will probably be taken up in the House today Resentment on the part of the farm bloc at the President’s vigorous stand on the McNary-Haugen bill had some influence in the passage of the four bills , against his wishes and was responsible for the change of plans as to the dis- position of the farm bill. It is now planned let the Senate vote on it | again in an effort to override the Presi- dent, but little hope is entertained that this can be done. Absence of senators prevented any | definite decision yesterday at the meet- ing of the Senate agriculture commit- | tee, but enough’ votes on the committee are sa‘i to have been mustered for to- |day “\o defeat the plan of letting the /measure die in committee. to Would Meet -Farmers’ Views. Those | again, who want the bill voted on although not hoping to be able | to repass it, contend that it would look | bad to the farmers if so many other bills were passed over the President’s veto, while no effort was made to repass flight trom Scott Field, Belleville, I. | the most important measure of all. yards here at 1:20 p. m. today twenty hours. Capt. E. W. Hill Fisher were in big bag came to an easy landing. and Lieut. the nationai eliminatiou balloon which starts from Pittsburgh May 30. ‘New Nicaragua Party Seeks Sandino Peace Managua, Nicaragua, May 24 (A.P.).— Th> — } newly formed autonomous party | in Nicaragua is considering a plan ta, businesses, send a commission to Augusto Sandino the rebel leader, to request him to lay ld wn his arms, cease rebel activities au.d assist in the reestablish:inent of | peace. ' Sandino that he will continue fighting as long as American Marines are in Nicaragua The new party, which is opposed to the | Presence of Marines, hopes to persuade | | Sandino to restore p ace in order that | | the Marines may then be withdrawn. Plan your week-end motor trips With the Aid of the Automobile Touring Maps printed next Sunday and every Sunday in the auto- mobile section of The Washington Post The Capital's Greatest Newspaper. landed in the Missouri Pacific Railroad | The | however, out of the failure of the ef- balloon had traveled the approximately | fort in the light of the ease with which 600 miles by airline in little more than | the Henry ! the basket when the); and railway mail clerks are said to be They | affected by the measure increasing their said the flight was in prepara.on for | pay, while the concern of the senator race’; and has declared many times | line. The farmer might also get a thought, four less | passed. Approximately 50,000 postal important bills were clerks member of the House for the fourth-class postmasters is easily un- derstood when it is known that in one 'rural district of Kentucky, for example, there are more than 600. The extra | allowances granted them are for quar- the rentals and lighting, &c. Presi- | dent Coolidge in his veto message | pointed out that they all have other mostly general merchandise ' stores, and their postal work is a side- The cost to the Government is |expected to be about $3,000,000 an- | nually. Millions for Veteran Officers, From $2,000,000 to $3,500,000 annually | is estimated as the cost of the emer- | ency officers’ retirement bill. Under |its terms disabled emergency officers | would be placed on the same retire~ ment basis with officers of the regular ‘establishment. President Coolidge’s main objection was that it discrimi- ‘nated between the emergency officer | and the emergency private, while its | Proponents contended that existing ‘conditions are a discrimination between | the emergency officer and the regular ‘Army officer as wel] as between the |emergency Army officer and the emer- | gency Naval and Marine officers, the ‘latter having already been placed on an equal basis with officers of their tegular establishment. | Veto Action Sets Precedent. Senator Oddie’s party loyalty was put | to a@ severe strain when the President vetoed his good roads bill, and only the fact that the Senate rectified matters mollifiid him. With the administration’s attitude toward farm relief and Secre- tary of the Interior Work’s land poli- cles the Nevada senator is unable to ‘understand how his party hopes to get votes out his Way, anyhow, While Mr Coolidge’s drubbing st a ‘hands of the Senate ts believed to cons! t | CQNTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 5. ‘