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The recent killings seem to have involved, besides the Hip Sings and On Leongs, traditional enemies, the four other principal Tongs, neutrals in past "wars." Federal deportation-threats and New York City police made the Tongs accept two ineffective peace treaties. Killings continued, baffling police. Last week in Manhattan U. S. District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle decided to set up his own "Benevolent Association." He summoned leaders from all six Tongs, got them to sign an agreement whereby each will appoint delegates to a new committee of arbitration, whose decisions they pledge to abide by. They also agreed to let New York City's Irish-U. S. Police Commissioner, Edward Pierce Mulrooney, arbitrate any case decided by the committee to the dissatisfaction of the disputants, thus gave him supreme judicial power. The committee's chairman will be J. S. Tow, Acting Chinese Consul General in New York, who, not so occupied with tourists & immigrants as other consuls general, may devote much time to keeping peace among the Tongs. Signer of the pact for the Hip Sing Tong was its President, Author Eng Ying ("Eddie") Gong (TIME, June 2). When the six leaders had signed it, scribes translated the document into brushstrokes on cerise paper, sent it to every U. S. Chinatown, proclaiming Consul Tow and Commissioner Mulrooney overlords of all U. S. Chinese.