Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 6

ER BILL.CHANGE . DECIDED IN HOUSE ovision Tht'Woulrl Tie Hands of PowerCommission and . Halt Werk- o Go. L ; SWEBKS REGISTERS PROTEST . 0 . s Letter of Secretary and Expression & of 0. C: Merrill Prompt Action. | n and the i jirc propoge: unwise, and tely postponin the majority harbors, after a hearing yesterday, ®acided to strike from the rivers and April 26, as a comfiittee amend- nent, when the bill comes up for con- icted into law, would place an em- . Zainst the activiies. -of : the Lup all water-power development. in- definitely; taking the real jurisdic- hands « he ‘Kederal Power Commis- n wuu.; it back ir War e . The Yiots @ mendmen 5 taken after O. €. itive secretary of the | attantion of tha House com- ) Ahe paragraph, .which pro- mits or license: hydrosel of engineers on an tributar blaCeapncity of the stream oficers shall have & u for the me of nav eflicient: develol tentiul watet, power. Strong argument agaltst, i graph Was presented in i letter P War, W, airmun of .the Yederal n, who de- ght re- power §, The Houee cothmittee on rivers and ’h‘nr]vnr~ bill as reporfed to the House @sideration, a provision which, if en- Power Commission ‘and hold Wiion ov T water powers out, of the i Wy the rivers and har- | nmif which voted author- to Chairnign Dempsey to offer the gwer Commisston, Wad call- s that pved by the velopment will affect | ttion on which t . whole War Secreta Opposed. $iho com Secretary of | lared thi egislation is of our | TS, Weeks pointed out to the that “the underlying purpose 4 —that - lcense for navigabie streams ould not, be ed unless in Teason- | nformity with comphrehensive £ .dgvelopment—is a pr o, dud is the very provision contained in the federnl water power ¢ and the ofi in accor with jch the federal power commission is ing in 4ssuing licensés on navigable Ins. Ifkso far therefore, as the para- n rivers and harbors bill is decl tion . of general it adds nothing to the existing contained in the federal water | act. The paragraph-in estion, ®however, goes much further an t mandatory on th ®..nd the the chief of hold approval of any appli @, wer permit or license on any naviga- ‘Iw & ream until such stream has been arveyed and a general plan for its en- gelire development prepared. Two ‘Years Making Sarves. ® rme War Department engaged for.two years {m survey of thé upper Tenn ver. #»If appropriationg are made available| ~“by Congress it expeots to complete # the survey within the next two years| —that s, four years and more than ® o half pgllion dollars will have been - survey the upper water- | * Iver, com- 2 €, or about| f the United | it the com-| of ‘similar syrveys on other s before any waiter. power de- velopments are made upon them, we | will postpone such development far‘ jons. | plower projects * raph s to-with- ation -for a shed o n . ddr the provisions of the fed- Peral wafkr power act, the commission @ !s mivenidiscretion 'to authorize or to declipgjto authorize power devel- 4, navigable stréams. By of the paragraph - d retion woyld nd lodged in the chief | raand ecretary of | War, who .ceuld exercise complete o over ang action of the federal Reion on any project on | stream or its tribu- | *BANDIT’S WIDOW CLEARED | ® Acquitted ‘of Complicity in Fatal L] Ptison Outbreak. ® EDDYVILLE, Ky, May 10.—Mrs .Ll"‘i:\n Walters twenty-two, widow of Monte Walte bandit, killed with .'wfl other convicts in a prison out- break here in which three guards w150 were slain, was acquitted by a cireuit court jury here late today of @ charge of accessory to murder. It 39 the second trial -.The jury de- erated an hour and forty-five Walters had adwmiftéd- she as- ted N proguring pistols which uggled to her hus nd and mpanfons and with w! h the wards were killed Two other in- tments for lesser offenses in con- «tion with the riot remain against > lrll\(’r ndant. She was released on :TRAFFIC EXPERTS UNITE. L3 for'Whole Nation, &,_Stops to co-ordinate efforts of all local trafic safty councils wers thken at a ay between S experts org: a_reduction dopted a plan to seek ite standardization of aceident tatistics gathered from every city and nty in_the count Automobile associations. . chambers of comme mpani nd the ce ding the Commerce I dertaking. fiic coun- | Cited by Rumanian King. €, NEW YORK, May 10—Several | ¥ Americans been decorated by 4 King Ferdinand of Retimanta, it way €:nnounced today by the Roumanian ulate in New York. The decora- | includ rs of the Crown of Roumania <opold Stokowski, conductor o Philadelphia_Symphony Orches- ra; Ossip ~Gabrilowitch, pianist; Tierre Monteux, conductor of the iloston “Symphony Orchestra; _Maj. H John ¥. O'Ryan of New York; Lou S .Imnanager o Cavalier_of tar of Roumaniay-Richard W, i, author; Commander of 'tha vn, Maj. Gen. Roy Hoffman of MOklahoma City, Oklay. ; .. The decorations tweére bestowed ®inrouch the Roumanian minister at '\\'..uhinmon. ¢ Painting Virginia Capitol. Wspecial Dispateh to The Star. " RICHMOND, Va., May 10.—The ex- ‘terfor of the capitol building is re- ceiving a coating of paint known as Q‘ yster white, & sort of dull finish. & Chis is the first time the buildéng has Teen painted in eleven yearh, . The ‘rovernor's mansion also is beiig re- painted. i - g A )§ _The creation of designbe1ok téx- tiles, wall paper and floor coverings I®by mechanical means is a possibility of the near future. This is expected ®to be accomplished by means of%& gZrcently devised projecting machine hich, through its prismatic and con- 1@gtrol arrangements, is capable of pro- ducing an unlimited variation of atterns that are reflected on & “warsyn or as otherwise desived. k. Mof th ° | pilots | they can take the longest jump of a | Lowell | miles to the Kurile lslands of Japan. | trom the United States radio stations | mnshing across the snow and ice and Blanton For Anything Oyster Wants, He Says After Conference Representative Blanton of Texas was bland and smiling after hi visit to Commissioner Oyster the District, bujlding yesterday. He, with Representatives Cramton and Rathbone, is on the subcom- mittee asstgned to handle legis- lation to broaden powers of police officers in making dry cases in rict. walked from Commission- ter's ofice he refused to a discussion of the details which brought him there, but an- nounced as he stepped into an elevator: “You can say that if Commis- sioner Oyster really wants any- thing, I'm for it.” ——— WORLD FLYERS REST FOR LONGEST JUMP To Spend Several Days Preparing for 878-Mile Hop to Isle on Japanese Coast. MARTIN SEARCH CONTINUES Preparations in Readiness for Trip for Months, By the Associated Press. BREMERTON, Wash, May 10.—On Attu Island, farthest west bit of land belonging to North America, three and three machines of the United States Army air service rested tonight, awaiting the moment when fiight around the earth, in which they | have been engaged since March 17. In the meanwhile, on the Alaska peninsula and in the waters of the Pacific Ocean southward and the ice of the Bering Sea northward, 1,300 miles eastward from the pausing adventur- ers. a plodding search continued for their commander, Maj. Frederick L. Martin, missing &ince he took the air ten days ago with his mechanlc, Staft Sergt. Alva L. Harvey, at Chignik, Alaska. No Trace Yet Found, The radio at the Puget Sound navy vard here, through whose hissing and sputtering the world has followed the four flyers since they left Sitka, Alaska. April 13, In four machines together, only to part company two days later between Seward, Alaska, and Chignik, has brought no word of either part of the severed squadron rly morning. believed hers that the fyers Attu. commanded now by Lieut. . Smith, would use several days preparing for their flight of 878 Well rested by hunting, fishing, hik- ing and sailing on Atka Island, they yesterday did the 530 miles to Attu in ten hours and fifteen minutes, For the Teap to Japan, the stopping point of which s on Paramashiru Island. one of the Kuriles, ut the ery north of the empire, elaborute preparations have been in progress for months. Two destroyers of the United States Navy and two of the Japanese Navy have been hovering in the Kuriles,” waiting for the Amer- ican aviators., The United States fisheries boat Eider recefved the fiyers at Attu and the United States Coast Guard cuiter Haida saw them Off at Atka BREWARD SPEEDS SEARCH. Indians and Others Prepare to Look for Martin. BY EVAN J. DAVID, | Correspondent of The Star and the | North Ameri Newspaper Alliance ON BOARD 8. COAST GI'AI".Df CUTTER ALGONQUIN, DUTCH HAR- Alaska, May 10.—Feverish ity has started today in Chignik, Port Moller and the islands in the vicinity as a result of the $1,000 re- | ward offered by the North American Newspaper Alliance for the finding of the lost world fiyers, Maj. Fred- | erick L. Martin and Sergt. Alva Har- v ews of the reward was broadcast as far west as St. Paul on the Prib- iloft Island, and every cannery along both sides of the Alaskan Peninsula has been notified. Many Indtans| have already called in thetr dogs, pulled out their sleds and loaded them on their bidarkas to start up- | stream from Chignik, and all the fdle fishing boats are being put Into the water to proceed to the Bering Sea side of the COASt to_ search for the lost aviators. Find Wore Ice Pack. The Alaskan Packing Company boat arrived here today to report that the shifting wind is beginning to move the impassable ice pack away from the shores south of Port Moller and that boats will soon be able to ex- plore that stretch of coast line, where it was throught the lost flyers might have come down. “That is the right way to do,” sald the captain of one of the fishing fleet here today. “This offer of a reward makes it possible for a fellow to get somathing for the times he loses for the gas he burns in his boat 1 am pulling my schooner into the water this morning. I have nothing 10 do until the salmon begin to run next month and if I find these fel- 11 be that much ahead of the United States Marshal Ross, sta- tioned here, also voiced his emphatic | approval of the reward. “This is a | tremendous country,” he said, “and few people realize the size Of the broad Alaskan shores until they have seen them. I wish I could go over to the peninsula and join in the for Lease 900 19th St. New eight - story, fireproof building, two high-speed elevators, telephone switch- board. Located in a most de- sirable and convenient sec- tion, about four squares from the White House and a short walk to the down- town business and shop- ping centers and all the Government Departments. and bath. . . ' Shannon & Luchs, 713 14th St. MIGNEX TO UMALASKA) After one of the most daring flights on record Maj. Frederick L. Martin, lost commander of the round-the- world flight, reached Chignik, Alaska, from Kanatak on the evening of April 26. At 11 o'clock on the morn- ing bf April 30, urged by a grim de- termination to catch up with his command at Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, Maj. Martin and his mechanio, Alva Harvey. again took the air in their plane, the Seattle, and flew off north- west, in the direction of Chignik Lake. From that day to this no trace has been found of the fivers or their machine. Maj. Martin was expected to take the route along the islands dotting the southern side of the Alaskan peninsula, but, due to a snowstorm hunt. a reward is the only thing which will make everybady get out and hustle.” (Copyright, 1924, in the United States, Canada and Gredt Britain, by the North American Newspaper Alliance.) FLYERS TO GET NEW PLANE. Portuguese Globe Circlers’ Machine of Special Design. LISBON, Portugal, May 10.—A new airplane, equipped with a epecially designed radiator for long distance | ' & verdict returned today flights in the tropics, is being sent| to India to enable the Portuguese aviators, Lieuts. Paes and Beiros. to continue their flight from Lisbon to Macae, China. Papir, in Jodhpur, the aviators hav- ing been caught in a storm. Wilfi sume Office June 5. STERVILLE, Ohlo, May 10— Scott MeBride, Chicago, recently elected general superintend- ent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, will assume that office June it was announced here today. w1 The plane in which | they left Lisbon was badly damaged | lamblie, chief of the state bureau of several days ago when it crashed at | mines, declared that the lesson of the which arose shortly after he had taken off, apparently changed his plans and decided to fly across to the northern side of the peninsula. In so doing he would have had the wind at his right hand when he turn- ed down the 400-mile stretch of coast to Unalaska. The distance across the peninsula from Chignik to Port Moller is 100 miles. After leaving Chignik the plane was sighted by a trapper named Sachenroder, flying north over Chignik Lake, about twenty-five miles west of their starting point. In all probability the flyers were forced down somewhere in the bar- ren mountainous wastes betwe Chignik lLake and the Seal Islands. Indians are now rushing overland from Chignik Lake to the Bering Hea, and it is hoped that they may discover the lost aviators at the vil- lage of Unangashik or between there and the © SOLVE MINE EXPLOSION. | Accumulated Gas and Coal Dust Cost Lives of 117. WHEELING, W. Va, May 10.—The explosion in the Benwood mine of the Wheeling Steel Corporation April | 28, in which 117 miners met death, was caused by the ignition of an ac- cumulation of gas combined with coal dust, a ocoroner’s jury declared | Mining experts in their testimony voiced the opinion that the blast w: due to the formation of a pocket of gas over a slate fall, which was e: ploded when a miner with an open lamp entered the room. M. disaster would call for regulations requiring the use of approved elec- trio lights in all West Virginia mines where gas is liberated. - Society Pia.us Banquet. Woman's Missionary Soc the Park View Christian Churc The | gome | thy give a banquet at the church tomorrow t 8 pm i SMALL GRAND Terms *395 1924—PART 1. Kurile Islands, North of Japan, Bleak Road for World Flyers Many. Uninhabited With Very T;eacher- ous Shore Lines—Form Continuation as Aleutian Chain Like ‘Popcorn String. From this point on, the Bering Sea towering mountains form an almost impaseable barrier. The plane was probably flying low in the blinding #now, and according to some theories may have turned northeast through the only available mountain pass to- ward Port Heiden. Coast guard cutters and cannery boats have explored the entire coast- line on both sides of the peninsula without finding a trace of the lost plane. It is expected that the reward of $1,000 offered by the North Ameri- can Newspaper Alliance will spur the Indians to a more thorough search of the difficult snow-covered territory between Chignik and Port Heiden, th which they alone are familiar. 'he coast guard service is also trans- porting, for the Army air service. unother plane and aviators from Seattle to join the search (Copsright, eth American HAS HUSBAND JAILED. Wife’s Testimony Gets Drunken Autoist Thirty-Day Term. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., May 10.—Declar- ing that she felt it to be her duty to protect the public: from possible injury, Mrs. Charles A. Jackson testi- fied in the traffic court today that she phoned the police when her hus- band insisted on driving his auto- mobile while under the influence of liquor. When the case was called this morning both Mrs. Jackson and her son gave testimony which re- | sulted in Jackson getting a thirty- | day jail sentence for driving while under the influence of liquor. Artist, to Wed. NEW YORK, May 10.—James Mont- | Flagg, artist, today obtained L riage license to wed Mrs. Doro- | Virginia Wadman, nee Freeland, a widow of this city. Fiagg, who is | forty-six years old, is a widower. Mrs. v twenty-five rs old. | Flagg, Her husband died in 1918 She is & native of England. : A Small down payment, balance The Kurile Island group, the first forelaa territory which the Amer- ican rownd-the-world fiyers will reach after leaving Attu, the westernmost Aleutian Island, is the subject of the following bulletin from the head- quarters of the National Geographic Soalety. “Applying a little imagination to the world map” says the bulletin, “one might fancy the ohains of islands that stretch from Alaska to Asia and down that continent's east coust to be a continuous gigantio popoorn string like those hung én Christmas trees. Attached to one \limb’ “at Alaska the string is fes- tooned ~ across to a Kamchatkan “twig’ and is then allowed to make a ascond graceful loop to another hchor point in northern Japan. This second festoon—almost & perfect are of a circle—is the Kurile chain. Isles Sparsely Settled. “¥he Kamchatkan Peninsula is Russian territory. No arrangements were made with the Russian govern- ment in regard to the world flight. Therefore, the flyers will not touch at Patropaviovsk, a real port and | thousand islands. town on the Kamchatkan coast, but will ily directly from the almost un- | inhabited Aleutians to the equally :parsely peopled northern Kuriles. The Kurile group, and therefore Jap- snese texTitory, begins less than ten miles froan the southern end of Kam- chatka, swd the fiyers will doubtiess sight the grass-covered sand hills that mark this projection of the con- tinent of A\sia before they begin their southward flight over the stepping stones of tive Kuriles. _"Shimusha, the northernmost of the Kuriles, diffeas from all its fellows in Dot being mowntainous. It is a small island, not mere than ten miles in length and perkaps seven miles wide, Real Estate Mortgage & Guaranty Corporation made up of undulating hills and swampy valleys covered with grasses and scrub trees. Many Steaming Comes. “Five miles farther south lies Paramushiri, second largest of the islands, where the airmen will make their first stop on foreign land, This island is roughly fifty miles long by ten wide and Is a striking contrast to the first Kurile to be encountered. It is thickly studded with mountains, some of them nearly 7,000 feet high, one of them an active volcano from which steam is ever rising. Streams turrow this island, and in them in season salmon are numerous. Some fishermen and canners journey to Paramushiri ‘in the fishing season, but only a handful of guards reside on the island permanently. “As the aviators fly southward on the next leg of their journey they will pass over island after island which will be small editions of Para- mushriri — mountains, snow, rocks, scrub-covered valleys and now and then a steaming volcanic cone. “Kurile, incidentally, is derived from a Russian word meaning ‘to smoke.’ | The Japauese name for the Kuriles is ‘Chisima’ or ‘Tsi-Sima,’ meaning On_a number of these islands are the remains of de- serted villages abandoned when the fight against nature in her bleak northern aspect proved too hopeles. Southern Kuriles Inhabited. “Yetorofu, the largest and most valu- able of the Kuriles, will mark the sec- ond stop of the fiyers in the chain. This island is more than 100 miles long and about fifteen miles wide. It is close to the southern end of the group where natures kindlier mood is indicated by its dense forests and its permanent set- tiements. About 1,500 people reside on the island and it is divided into four government provinces. Bettobu Bay, Where the flying boats will come to rest, 1 Share of 89/, Cumulative Participating Preferred Stock, Par Value, $10.00. . . 1 Share of Common Stock, Par Value, Behind This Investment —Is land and income-producing buildings thereon—probably the safest security in the world today by virtue of two facts: The loca- tion of this property at the seat of government of the United States, forever growing in population and world influence, and the conserv- ative valuations placed on such properties by our impartial board of expert appraisers. Officers and Directors L. E. BREUNINGER President and General Manager President, L. Copstrictio President. 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There are m half sunken racks off shore while trex erous currents flow between the Island with each flood and ebb tide. Fogs arr frequent and gales may blow at any season. Have Been Wooden Nutmeg. “The chain has been a sort of ‘wooden nutmeg’ to Japan. The Japanese of the dark ages, content with their local ar fairs, did not know of the islands’ ex. istence, except perhaps the souther:; most_two or_three. “When Russian adventurers reached Kamchatka early. in the eighteenth ocentury they pushed down into the Kuriles in search of furs as they later worked their way east ward along the Aleutians, When th Japanese began to take an inter= in the world outside their principal fslands they found the northern part of the Kuriles under Russian con trol. The sume thing had happencd in_Sakhalin, a much more valuable territory. _In 1875 Japan was ir duced by Russia to trade her rights in Sakhalin for Russian rights In the Kuriles. Japan has felt ever sinoe that she was imposed upon in this transaction, and in this feeling some observers ‘'ses the reason for th rapid building up of the modern Japanese army and nayv “The southernmost Kurile fstand Kunashiri, 1s just off the coast of the northernmost principal isla Japan, Hokkaido, and is more ly a part of Japan proper than other islands of the chain. Whe they fly over the island the aviator will again come in touch with civ |lization as represented by ligh houses and telegraph lines. Abc Hokkaido they will again ses a lur patched with fields and lined wit railroads and can look upon the long- | est uninhabited stretch of their rou | as behind them. Judge Guilty of Murder. MOSCOW, May 10.—Judge Kn | chairman of the district court of \« ronesh, who was convicted of the | murder of his young stenographe whom he was alleged to have s when she rejected his advanoces day was sentenced to ten years prisonment, the maximum pun ment for murder. 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