Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1924, Page 2

LISTENERS-IN HEAR PLANE TALK TO LAND Aircraft, 4,000 Feet Up, Carries on Conversation Here With WRC, TEST IS NEW DEPARTURE Lieuts. Koontz, Bruner and Wright in Demonstration. A new epoch was written into radio’s brief but rapid developing history last night, when a two-way conversation between an observer in an airplane fiying Washington at an altitude of 4,000 feet and Lieut. 1. L. Koontz of the Army air serv sitting in the studio of WRC, was picked up on an antenna atop the Tivoli Theater and rebroadeast through the station of the Radio Corporation of America to thousands of radio fans Despite unusually heavy static, which periodically made the conversation virtually inaudible, the rebroadeasting test—the first ever conducted between a night fiying airplane and a radio station— was distinetly a success. over “Hello ed that you're in the air. Go ahead.” Licut. Koontz's opening signal fashed to the observer in the plane, which then headed in the direction of Alexandria, \a Licut. Wright replied by giving the position the ship and deseribing some of his observations from the air. After the plane had circled Alexandria and was headed back to Washington, Licut. Koonts toid the observer that some enthusiasts at Srd and McKinley strects had planned to set off a Hare Chevy Cha: for the sig Talk was in over as the plane neared and urged him to look al Rebroadenst. conversation at first was continued about twenty minutes, | both the broadeasting station and the plane transmitting on « wave band of 469 meters The two-way | s | The RHODE ISLAND “WAR” WILL GO TO COURT (Continued from First Page.) eltuation that got too hot for them. And the shade of old Willlam C. Dorr must be chuckling. For in 1824 it was the “land owners," fore- runners of the present day Republi- cans, who put him to flight because of his efforts to scize power. in Rhode Island with his ‘‘people party.” Today it is the Democrats, modern incarnation of Dorr's old party, that the Republicans have fled. And the lssue in both cas was the same—greater power for the gencral run of the electorate. The Republicans fled on advice of their state chairman, Willlam €. Pelkey. to avoid scrvice of a war- rant for their arrest which would have compelled them to return to the Democratic filibuster in the | Svuaty, temporarily broken up Thurs- dzy When somebody the nate chamber. sassed Charge Gangsters Menace, The Demoerats say the Republi- cans fled merely 'to block further proceedings. The Republicans insist it was to aveid menace to their lives and limbs from a score or more gangstors and gunmen, who, they say, have infested the senate house since the present filibuster started. The Dorr flight, nearly a century ago, and the Republicun flight pro- vidé an interesting contrast. Dorr fled after being elected governor by his rump “peonles’ party,” through fear of the land owners, Whose de- scendants are the Republicans —of toduy. Later, he returned with a small military force and tried to seize office, but was defeated, cap- tured and tried for treason. issucs triumphed, howeve ; Dorr had stood for the drafting of ‘a constitution to supplant the old charter grant laws which gave prac- tically no power (o the electorate. Today, his syccessors have renewed his fight for still greater power to popular majorities, and this time it is the land owners who are in flight. Culmination of Fight. The gassing and the flight are the oulmination of a political battle that has raged since a Democratic go ernor—Flynn—and Democratic lieu- tenant governor, attorney general and treasurer were elected in 1922 Democrats were elected on a The difficult fea then was succ Lieut. Wright transmitting a band out of range of the average ra dio receiving set. The signals picked up on the antenna and receiving set twp of the Theater, opposite WRG, and rebroad- cast from the radio station on a wave lensth of 469 meters Licut. Wright kept up a interspersing de- varying position of remarks clouds, vy with Wright fans on cold “up of rebroadeasting ssfully eonducted the plane ) meter: in began on wave were speci on Tivoii constant conversation, seription of the plane with about the weather i which at the time, were h rain. On one occasion, Lieut told the sweltering radio terra firma that it was here” that if he did not come down soon he would have to build a fire to keep warm. (The radio audience, however, wgs not aware that Lieut Wright wore a golf suit.) Plane Is Lighted. The plane, high in the clouds, but discernable at all times while over the city, was picturseque in the sky with a green light on the lower tip of its right wing, a red light on the lower tip of ity left wing, and a white light on its rudder, which formed a perfect triangle of light. Hundreds of persons on street cor: ners, rooftops and other points of vantage viewed the ship on its night course. After times, Field at most exten: the facetious the circling the ecity several the plane landed at Bolling 11:05 o'clock, completing the ve night cruise ever taken over Washington by an air- craft. Iin landing, the plane nar-| rowly averted turning on its nose when it struck a sand pile. Maj. | Beverley, flight surgeon at the field, and an ambulance, with the motor idling, were standing ready, awaiting an emerger which was anticipated in view of the difficulty in landing at nipht, coupled with Lieut. Bruner's unfamiliarity with the land- ing field. Preliminary to landing the pilot shot two pistol lights, followed DLy several parachute flares in order to definitely ascertain his location. Up 4,000 Feet. During the plane’'s course over the city it flew almost continually at an altitude of 4.000 fect. Once Lieut. Bruner shot the ship up to 5,000 feet, but became submerged in the heavy rain clouds and descended to the lower altitude. Walter Tesch, chief engineer at WRC, had charge of the rebroadcast- ing feat pecial antenna, erected on the Tivoli at right angles to the one on the towers at WRC, was used to pick up the 7h0-meter signals transmitted from the plane. The re- celving set on the theater was of the simple hoi omb inductance typ A double wave trap also was em ployed to eliminate the sisnals which were being transmitted from WRC at the time on the 464-meter band. Signals Are Amplified, As the 750-meter signals were picked up on the special set on the Tivoli, they were amplified and flashed across the street to the broad- casting room of WRC and again am- plified before being rebroadcast. The transmitter used on the plane was rated at a power of 100 watts and embodied all modern radio equipment. The receiver on the plane was of the superheteradyne type. After landing, Lieut. Wright said that the static was so heavy that he could barely hear the sixnals broad- | cast by Lieut. Koontz from WRC. Lieut. Koontz also found it dificult | at times to hear Lieut. Wright's voice, due to the utmospheric disturbances The two-way conversation test was heard by broadcast listeners in Mary- land and Virginia, as well as those in Washington. ~ One fan in Brandywine, Md., called WRC on the long-distance telephone to tell the officials that the signals were “coming in fine.” MESSAGE FROM PLANE. Successful Broadcast Test Made in New York. Special Dispateli to The Star NEW YORK, June 21.—Lieut. Ken- drick Nobile and Sergt. Irvine Devis of the 27th Division, air force, con- ducted a successful expgriment in broadcasting from an airplane this afternoon at Miller's Field, Staten Island. From a height of 5000 feet they sent out by radio the announcement of the aviation meet at Miller's Field next Saturday. A three-tube messages clearly the 5,000-foot set picked up the on the ground at elevation and also at 7,000 feet, and from a distance of twenty-five miles. The experimenters believe they were heard throughout the metropolitan district and in Penn- sylvania. New York has been_the home state of no fewer than ten Vice P’residents, Aaron Burr, George Clinton, Danfel D. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, Mil- lard Fillmore, William A. Wheeler, Chester A. Arthur, Levi . Morton, Theodore Rooseveit and James . Sherman. Four of these became Presidents later: Van Buren by elec- tion, Fillmore and Arthur to fill ac- cidental vacancies and Reosevelt to £l & vacancy and also by election, | to platform of which the three principal plauks were « farty-eight-hour week for workers, abolition of the old property qualification law for voters, and ibmission to the voters of & proposal for a constitutional conven- tion. The Democrats regarded the third as most important, and they have waged a filibuster sinc the prosent scssion opened January 1, in an _effort to put it through The aim of the Democrats is to re- constituute the Senate, which is made up of representatives from each of thirty-nine cities and towns—no matter how small—in the state. They contend that the Republican Senate majority represents only of the voters, The Senate stands recessed until Tuesday afternoon by which time the Democrats hope the Republicans will have decided to reappear—or at least to poke their noses in the state long enough to get arrested. Unless they come voluntarily, however, (Gov. Flynn's only recourse appears to be | to send the militia after them. Even if indictments could be drawn, the Democrats said, it would prob- ably be impossible to have the nee- essary jury trial before next October. As to the second proposal, Mr. Pelkey told reporters that the Republicans would not return until a guarantee of safety was given them. One demand sald that if the Republicans returned and Sheriff Andrews refused to act against them, the governor might go extremes and call out the state guard to enforce his orders and those of the lieutenant governor. Republicans fssne Defl. A statement signed by the twenty- two Republican senators was given out by the state committee today. In it, they accused the lieutenant gov- ernor of using oppressive tactics as presiding officer, and of failing to preserve order in the chamber. They declared they would not attend the Senate sessions until such time as “we receive adequate assurance that or- derly and constitutional methods of parliamentary procedure will be re- x“l’:“\iw:an learned today that on ac- count of the Senate crisis, Gov. Flynn would not attend the Democratic na- tional convention in New York where he was expected to g0 as ehair- man of the Rhode Island delegation. Lieut. Gov. Toupin, second in rark to the governor on the delegation, would also stay in Providence, it was said, and their places would be filled by alternates. THREE TAKEN IN RAIDS. The vice squad last night made two raids. in one of which 150 quarts of liquor were taken and in the other an arrest was made on the charge of handbook making. The liquor was taken from the home of James Whittingham, jr., nineteen_years old, colored, at 943" T street. Whittingham is a walter on a dining car of the Southern railway. The charge of possesion of liquor was placed against him. His mother, Isther, also was arrested and a charge of possession and sale placed against her. Charles Thomas, forty years old. colored, is held on the charge of tak- ing bets on race horses, following a raid on his place near 7th and 8 streets. Unspoken Remarks From Lawmakers Crowding “Record” They are getting wire with in under the purely campaign speeches in the Congressional Record. The last issue of the daily Congressional Record for the first session of the Sixty-elghth Congress will be printed not later than June 24, In the Record out yesterday, date of June 20, there appears “‘extension of remarks,” being a speech no part of which was delivered in the }fuushv by Representatives James V. McClintic of Oklahoma, which occuples sixty-eight pages of the Record, with about a dozen pages taken up with tables of figures in fine type. ‘The title of this speech is “The Republican robber tariff takes ap- proximately $3,000,000,000 from the taxpayers' pockets ' each year, while the Treasury gets but half a billion in revenue. This condition must be remedied.” At the government printing of- fice they have figured out that it costs about $26 per®page to print the Congressional Record, so that this speech of Representative Me. Clintic cost the government $1,763, as_nearly as can he figured out. But Representative McClintie need not flatter himself that he has made a record by a long shot. Some eight years ago Senator La Follette set up a record that prob- ably never will be equaled. He had a whole Record to himself— an entire special edition, contain- ing some 300 pages. That cost the government from $13,000 to $14,000. It was made up principally of coples of files in the Interstate Com- merce Commission. = His | 20 per cent | An old, crippled woman donated installing the xet, and the invali | eaxt from a Washington radio x | Cover Shut-In’s Face at First Music From Air. Smiles Boy Scouts Install Ap- paratus at Home in | Northeast. | Theres = cripptea on 9th | street northeast whose life has been | made a bit brighter through the me- dium of radio. A special squad of Loy Scouts went to her home yes- terday and installed one tal sets donated to The Star's * Shut-in Fund.” The smiles beamed on her face when she heard the first strains of music from the ether were indicative of the seem- ingly magic transformation®that had come into her lonely life. Six years ago the old woman fell and broke a hip bone. She's been using crutches ever since. Her ad- vanced age, coupled with her ever- failing strength, prevents her from leaving the confines of her home. And radio will now bring to her much of the pleasure in life that has been denied her for the last six years. woman Alone Most of Day. The woman is a widow and lives with her daughter and son-in-law She's alone most of the day, with nothing to do except to bemoan the fate that took away the use of her legs and shut her in from the E:r!i.nl outdoors, its recreation and nature's beauties. 7The crippled woman is but one of the many “shut-ins” in the District who have received the radio sets donated to The Star's fund. Boy Scouts have been working assidu- ously throughout the week installing the apparatus, and will continue un- til every deserving invalid has a crystal set. Cause Forgotten Yegterday, The torrid wave and the half holi- day for government employes appar- ently resulted in an exodus for the beaches around Washington, and the cause of the “shut-ins" was forgot- ten yesterday afternoon. A dona- tion of $5 and a crystal set with head phones and antenna wire were the only additions to the fund yesterday afternoon.. , The cash total stands now at $369.75. The equipment fund has reached a total of 158 sets, 38 pairs of head phones, crystals, pipe for ground connections, antenna and lead-in wire and other essential apparatus for installation. A HOMEOPATHS GATHERING FOR CLEVELAND SESSION Dr. Sawyer Among Speakers Sched- uled to Address Convention of Physicians. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, June 21.—Physicians began arriving here tonight from all parts of the United States for the eightieth annual convention tomorrow of the American Institute of Homeo- pathy, the oldest national medical organization in the eountry. Discussion will include water sup- ply and sewage disposal, plastic sur- gery, some phases of 'appendiciti neutritional problems of sehool c dren and the therapeutic use radium. Among the speakers scheduled is Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, personal physican to the late President Hard- ing. The convention ends with a banquet Thursday night. Officers will be elected Wednesday. — STAR BOYS SEE FILM. Guests of Leader Theater to Wit- ness New Picture. Love, intrigue, mystery and action are blended in the opening chapter of “The Fortieth Door,” the new serial at the Leader, which was seen by virtually all the newsboys and car- riers who handle The Star yesterday. The ice cream was also enjoyed. The boys were the guests of Sid- ney Lust, propristor of the Leader, through an arrangement made by Mr. Lust and Galt Burns, circulation man- ager of The Star, and a strong addi- tional bill was shown with the serial chapter. *““The Fortieth Door” concerns the adventures of an American who dis- covers a rich tomb in the “Valley of the Kings” and who has to battle for it, as well as for possession of a sup- posed Mohammedan girl with whom ho falls in love. Allene Ray and Bruee Gordon are the stars, support- ed by a cast which includes Anna May Wong, the Chinese star. Few Presidents of the United States have remained active in politics afier leaving the White Housey - ' | | | | tening in for the firat time on & eryxtal wet o The Star's “rudio-shut-in fund.” The Boy Scouts have just finixhed ix “picking up” the entertalmment broad- jon. Lonely Years of Crippled Woman Made Brighter by Radio Crystal Set , Radio Fund Receipts | to The Star's received yester- --3564.75 Cash contributions radio shut-in fund’ day afternoon follow Previously acknowledged . Isabell V. Johnson Total Crystal Sets and Equipment. Crystal sets and equipment received vesterday afternoon follow Previously acknowledged—135 sets, pairs of head phenes, 606 acrial posts. crystals, pipe for 20 ground antenna and lead-in wire d other cquipment ! Miss P'auline Murrell, Chevy Chase, €., crystal set, pair of head phone: intenna wire. 1—156 sets, 38 pairs of head . 60 aerial posts, crystals, pipe Zround connections, antenna and lead-in wire and other equipment for installation. D and BEATEN BY “KNIGHTS.” Man Victim of Riot Following Klan Conclave. NILES, Ohio, June 21.—One man was severely beaten tonight and sev- eral American flags were torn from automobiles by a crowd calling them- selves “Knights of the Flaming Cir- cle” in a series of ‘outbreaks, the culmination of a tri-state conclave of the Ku Klux Klan. No arrests were mad The disorders occurred while s were lined with people wait- | ing for a klan parade, which was | abandoned an hour before the sched- uled starting time on advices from state klan hcadquarters. Meanwhile the conclave was held at DeForest, west of here. Large delegations at- tended from West Virginia, Pennsyl- vania and Ohio. Bricks were thrown at autemobiles returning from the conclave about midnight, six windshields bein shat- tered. Later the attackers gathered in the high school vard, lighted a flaming circle and sang the “Star Spangled Banner.! . ORGAN GRINDER KILLED. Run Down While Children Dance to His Musiec. Special Dispatch to The Star. lar melody floated IBBZBMZBM ZBM NE YORK, June 21.—Notes of a popular melody floated gayly through Elizabeth street teday. Children had gathered as oft before, to enjoy the music of Tony Paulish’s hand organ. Tony liked children and smiled at them as he ground out a tune that stirred them to rhymic motion. The rumbie of an approaching seven ton truck was not heard by the children, whose ears were closed to all save the melody. Then suddenly the tune went false and died. Little dancing feet paused, waiting for Tony to play again, but the organ was stilled for ever and Tony lay crushed and bleeding in the street. He died in a few hours in St. Vincents Hospital. Rosa, Tony's wifs, dropped the eup in which she had been collectifig pen- nies and gathered her husband in her arms with a low moan. The children’'s laughter changed to tears. e e All Presidents of the United States ha#ve belonged to the Protestant re ligion, except Jefferson and Lincaln, who were not identified with any particular religion, being termed as GATE-CRASHERS FACE DIFFICULT PROBLEM System Devised to Keep Tiokets in Hands of Rightful Owners at Convention. EXPERT SPOTTERS ON JOB 12,200 Hold Seats to Sessions, 2,500 Are New Yorkers. By the Assoch Press. NEW YORK, June 21.—Madison Square Garden will be so tightly guarded agalnst gate-crashers dur- ing the national Democratic conven- tion that a burglar will not be able to jimmy his way in. As a first precaution, George F. Mars, convention director, has had the tickets prepared with stubs de- tachable for each session, and has Kkept the name of the printer and of the final distribution point a secret, known only to himself. . The tickets will be passed out the day before the convention opens. Each of the nine public entrances to the Garden, as well as the humer- ous secret passageways for commit- teemen, newspaper men, convention officials, house employes and police, will be heavily guarded by uniformed officers and police detectives. “Spot- ters” veteran party workers who know by sight most of the 12,200 ticket holders, will help the authori- ties detect imposters. ldentification Ailded. An identification system has been devised by Stanley J. Quinn of the local citizens' non-partisan conven- tion committee as insurance that the 2,500 tickets for New Yorkers who have eontributed $100 or more each to the entertainment fund wil not fall into alpers’ hands. To each of his prospective ticket-holders, Mr. Quinn will forward a receipt in the form of a certified bank check, to be signed and retained by the re- cipient. An identification card, to be signed and returned to Mr. Quinn, will accompany the check. On the da\ the convention opens the New Yorkers will present their certificates at a place whose location will be kept secret until then. Sig- natures will be compared and, if satisfactory, tickets will be issued. Only a forger could beat this system. and he would have to be well dis- guised, 0o, for most of ,the con- tributors to the conventiol fund are men and women prominent in local Democratic or Republican cireles. Veteran Crashers Hit. According to Mr. Mara, the detach- able session-stub tickets' will abolish a form of gate crashing that has been common at previous national conven- tions. Tt will be impossible, he said, for a bona-fide ticket holder to gain his seat in the auditorium and then dispatch his ticket by a messenger to a friend, or customer, without the Bates. As a final precaution, the 100 hawk- ers to be employed hy concession men will be barred from the main audito- rium and confined strictly to the res- taurants and clubrooms with which the vast arena will be encircled. Mr. Mara recalled that a concessionaire was arrested at the San Francisco sessfon when it was discovered he was collecting his hawkers' admis- sjon pa; boards and sending them cutside to be scalped to highest bid- ders. Madison Square who number 100 Garden employes, or more, will be obliged to stand muster before each convention session. It is intended that there shall be no visiting of the proceedings by proxy this year. . WILL DISCUSS HEALTH. D. C. Group to Attend Meeting in Cafbridge. Dr. S. Josephine Baker, consulting director. ~children's buréau, United States Department of Labor, will be among those who will atiend the conference of health education spe- cialists in session at Cambridge, Mass.. from tomorrow to Saturday. Others from Washington who_will tend are: Dr. Taliaferro Clark, United States public health service, division of child hygiene: Mrs. Ella D. Fleming, junior specialist, burcau of education, Department of Interior; Miss Margaret Sawyer, director of nutrition serviee, American Red Cross; Miss Mary Epencer, depertment of education, National Catholic Wel- fare Councii; Miss Louise Stanley, chief, bureau of home economies, United States Department of Agricul. ture, and Miss Harriet Wedgwood, formerly junior specialist school hygiene, United States bureau of edu- cation. . LOSES $100 IN HOLD-UP. Filling Station Proprietor Robbed at Gun Point. William C. Hunter, proprietor of a gas-filling_station, at 2651 Benning road, was held up by an armed robber at the station last night and robbed of $100. The bandit picked a moment when the station was deserted of patrons, did his work spéedily and escaped down the road where, police believe, an automobile was awaiting m. ARCHITECT WEDS MODEL. New York Art Colony Gathers at Little Church Around Corner. Special Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK, June 21.—Notes of a Harrer, young architect in the office of Alfred C. Bosom, & vear ago turned for recreation from rulers and tri- angles to sketching from life. His model was Miss Pollyanna Goerts, one of the prettiest of her profession mTN:i‘: \'url;k. 01 they were married | Little Church Around the Corner ‘;‘,‘f the Rev. Harrison Rockwell, assistant rector. Miss Cecile Hughes, also a model, was bridesmaid, and Edward Pen- ninston, an_ architect, best man, The bridegroom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harrer, and a group of models from the Art Workers' Club for Wom- en, where Miss Goertz had lived since coming to the city three years ago, liberals. ere present. Hot Weather Advice for Babies It in raw milk that causes wearly all the loowe bowels among bables. Raw milk is hard to digest. Scalded or boiled milk is easily digested and does not constipate. Milk poor in fat is best for babies. Pour off some of the cream when milk appears very rich. Every baby should get small doses of orange juice or strained canned tomato juice, diluted in some water, between bottles, once or twice daily. These substances contain _quantities of vita- mines which help the assimi- lation of food. Give the baby plenty coel, boiled water between bottles. Keep all covered. Dress the baby lightly. Use no flannels. Keep the feet uncovered in hot weather. _Protect the baby against flies and mosquitoes by net- ‘ting. milk cold and Besides the daily bath, sponge the baby off once or twice a day. Kgep the baby in the open air, " in shad places, as much as possible. Do not allow the sun to strike it. Cover lightly or not at all. Do not worry the baby or fondle it. It needs quiet. Get the sanitary rating of your milk supply at the Health Office This Bulletin is poid for by the BUREAU OF HEALTH EDUCATION llvllfl.m Calendar Changers Find Greatest Obstacle in Name for New Month Call It “Sol” and Get Fight Under Way, Says Author of Proposed New System~—One Big Holiday ' in Middle of Summer Is Asked. What 1o aull tha thirtesnth month that 1n one quesmtion which prevents the immedinte culling of wn international congress to considar mmp)ifioation of the ‘calendar by componing ewh yonr of thirteon months of twenty-siehl Gays ench Prof. €. ¥. Marvin, dhief of the weather bureny, United Maten Depart- ment of Agriculture, one of the chief exponents of the idew. belleves the ques- tion has been wolved Call 1t ‘W0l,’ " he waym, “and call the congress now. The United Btates shotld get busy.” And with that suggention before it, the international “Fixed Calendar League,” organized some months ago, probably will issue its call shortly, Ome Big Hollday Asked. The calendar by which we will ar- range our lives, If the congrems suc- ceeds, will consist of thirteen months of twenty-eight days, or exactly four weeks each and an extra day. Frof. Marvin's suggestion is that the 365th or extra day be given a special name, be made a world-wide holiday and placed between the sixth and seventh months teo bring it in the summer when holidays are most welcome. The extra month could be called by a number or just plain “sol” and placed in the summer between June and July where it would least disturb the existing months and the seasons with which they have come to be associated. Leap year day, coming every four years, and placed after the annual holiday, would make a noble two days' vacation. Dr. Marvin and his associates have eollected reams of data on the “follies of the calendar.” Among the rea- sons given for the proposed change are thes. FARMERS’ $25,000,000 GRAIN PLAN PUSHED Committee to Meet in Chicago Next Week to Consider Merger of Elevators. RATED GROWERS' SALVATION Five Big Companies Would Become Co-Operative Body. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 21L—A plan for grain farmers te own and control a huge system of elevators and grain facitities now controiled by five large board of trade firme, which would be merged in a co-operativve association, today was in the hands of a commit- tee of the American Farm Bureau Federation headed by O. E. Bradfute, president of the association, as chair- man of the committee. The merger plan would involve about $25,000,000, it was said, repre- senting the appraised value of the prop- erties of the five companies. The plan was indorsed by George Marcy, presi- dent of the Armour Grain Company, who said he believed it would go through. Patten Not Involved. Although the firm of James A. Patten, known as the “wheat king” until he retired from operations on the board of trade, was mentioned in an announcement from the farm burcau federation late vesterday, Mr. Patten today said he had had no connection with the merger arrange- ment. He esplained that his com- pany leased its elevators from the Bartlett and Frazier es es, which he said might be willing to sell their properties at a good price, but that nothing definite had been done toward their disposal. Mr. Patten made it plain that he himself had no_connection with the plan Samuel H. Thompson, president of the Illinois Agricultural Association, today admitted that he had been meeting with a committee of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which had been considering plans for the control and consolidation of grain elevators by grain farmers. He said he thought the matter was to be treated in the strictest confidence and could not understand why it had been released at this time, when de- tails had not been completed. Belleves Plan Will Succeed. Mr. Thompson was of the opinion that the merger would be accomp- lished and that it would be the sal- vation of the farmer. Members of the farm bureau com- mittee to examine the proposal said before their departure tonight that the committee had begun an_ inten- sive study of the plan. It Is expected that members of the committee will return next week to Chicago. C. E. Bradfute, Xenia, Ohi: president of the federation, and G. F. Reed, vice president, left at noon for New \flork. where they will co-operate with Gray Silver, Washington representative, in placing recommendations of the fed- fration before the Democratic na- tional convention. The special committee of the farm ederation, of which President BT e ehairman, probably will meet within a week, it was an- nounced. Other Farm Bodies Cited. ough the farm bureau is mak- Ing & study of the possibilities of utilizing the services of these firms, co-operatively, other farm organiza- tions also are considering the ad- Vantages which may be derived from he move,” he said in a statement. We are seeking, a5 we have for years, a shorter channel between the Producers of grain and the ultimate Consumer. We feel that the resources of these large companies may be 5o Utilized, if controlled by the farmers themselves, as to result in many economies In overhead operation and in various way cut the cost of mer- handising grain. R sse. if we had ot been at- tracted by the possibilities, we would ot have gone to the trouble of ask- Ing this committee to go_into the de- tails. What they will determine, of course, I cannot predict. The present capacity of these five firms is suf- fleent to make the move of inter- national importance if finally consum- mated. Certainly we are headed to- Wards a greater development of co- operative marketing in this country nstead of a decrease. We are on the up-grade. Only a partial list of co-operative accomplishments in the last few years clearly shows the progress. Market Most of Tobacco. «We now market two-thirds of the entire tobacco crop through co-op- erative channels, 90 per cent of the California raisins, 85 per cent of the prunes and 80 per cent of the peaches and apricots. Approximately 80 per Sent of the entire American produc- tion of dried fruits is marketed in the same manner. Fully 76 per cent of the citrus fruit is marketed co- operatively; 25 per cent of the llve stock sold at terminal markets goes by that route, and more than 5000 farmers' elevators handle more than ,000,000 worth of grain each yea: ‘In _coaperative - marketing - th farmers are merely following the trall of industry. up production. | its_activities have had We earn and pay by the month, hut have not an equal monthly meas- ure —except for prisoners jailed to rye thirty or sixty days. They are ths only class who know what » month really is. Our months evary from twenty- slght to thirty-one days long—a dit- ference of 11 per cent, yet the same monthly msslaries and rents are in- equitably pald. The shifting range of weeks through months burdens business wnd social life with many tiresome references, limitations and troubles, selected days having to be described an the “first and third Wednesday. and “the Friday nearest the twen- tieth” ete. Pive Saturdays are listed thls year in March, May, August and Novem- ber, compelling housewives to buy a fifth weeks' meats, groceries and such out of equal monthly incomes. (Copyright, 1924.) NAVY GIVES CALENDAR VIEW Opposes Any Alteration in Year's Length—Should Begin Jan. 1. The Navy Department is opposed to any change in the calendar which would lead to an alteration in the number of days in the year, Becretary Wilbur said yesterday in a letter to Secretary Hughes regarding a pro- posed a calendrical conference recently suggested by the league of nations. No days should be omitted or In- serted to make the year begin other- wise than on January 1, as under the present system, he said. Navy De- rtment acientists belleve that “while the beginning of the year at the winter soistice might poasess cer- tain advantages, it is believed that the resultant confusion in historical and sclentific matters would impose unending disadvantages’ Farmers May Run Grain Trade Board If Merger Is Made Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, June 21.—The signfi- cance of the proposal of leading Chicago grain elevator interests receiving and shipping houses, to turn over their elevators to the farmer's co-operatives is that business has fallen off, due to competition of the farmers market- ing organizations. There are pros- pects of a further slump. If the farmers’ organizations should take over these funda- mentals of the board of trade, they would take over the board of trade itself, for it is on grain re- ceived by these combined compan- ies that most of the trading on the board is based. group capital and group distribution are normal lines of endeavor in com- merce and indusiry. Farming has been the last to recognize its value, but it is now thoroughly alive to it “A knowledge of the market, recog- nition of the need for quality and standardization, a marketing contract permitting business relations and ac- quisition of necessary storage fac ties and finance and the elimination of the speculative element, make for success. The farmers’ own organiza- tion permits unity of purpose which will o a long way in the merchan- dising of the products from agricui- ture’s $80,000,000,000 investment 200 BANKS GIVEN LOANS. Credit Corporation Also Aids Farm- ers to Buy Cattle. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, June 21.— The $10,000.000 agricultural credit corporation has made loans to more than 200 northwest banks, which have aggregate deposits of more than $30.000,000, it was announced today. Officers of the corporation said that the effect of increasing deposits throughout the northwest to a marked extent The corporation today shipped two cars of carefully selected dairy ani- mals from Barron, Wis, where they had been collected by its buyers, to Bisbee, N. D., for distribution to farmers of that vicinity, to whom the corporation has contracted to sell the cattle on long-time paym¥nts. Another carload was started from a second buying center of the com- pany, Thief River Falls, Minn, to Mantador, N. D.. to assist farmers of that district in their efforts to get away from one-crop agriculture and make a start toward more profitable dairying and mixed farming. —e HOOPER ANSWERS RAIL UNION HEADS Attack on Labor Board Chairman Alleging Misuse of Post Draws Sharp Reply. Dy the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 21.—Ben W. Hoop- er, chairman of the Railroad Labor Board, tonight made public a letter to Warren S. Stone, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and D. B. Robertson, president of the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, in reply to what he termed “personal and political attack on me” by them. Mr. Hooper drew a distinction be- tween Mr. Stone and Mr. Robertson as heads of their unions and as “lead- ers of a political movement in which you are attempting to deliver rail- way employes into an aliiance with socialism.” “I am fully conscious.” Mr. Hooper Wwrote, “that my views on these pub- lic questions do not detract from my cordiality toward you gentlemen as heads of your organization nor di- minish my sympathy for the railway employes in all reasonable efforts to enhance their happiness and pros- perity. “One thing is certain, my desire to obtain or retain public office will never be strong enough to motivate me to surrender my right and forego my duty to glve free and temperate expression to my views in regard to vital public question: Mr. Hooper said such expression in “my public utterances in criticism of the political movement of which you are leaders,” had no relation to this work in deciding railroad labor board cases. The letter was in reply to one from Stone and Robertson charging Mr. Hooper with unfairness and “abuse of his power in dealing with the rail- road employes. : Charse Position Abused. “Your action as chairman of the Railroad Labor Board, your repeated and inexcusable misrepresentation of legislation proposed by railroad em- ployes and your .constant misuse of a public position to promote private in- terests have discredited the tribunal of which you are chairman and di- minished the confidence of organized labor in the falrness of public au- TRAFFIC FATALITIES CUT IN HALF BY DRIVE Westchester County, New York, Also Reduces All Accidents 75 Per Cent in Week. BOOSTS SAFETY MOVEMENT Record Made in Section Marked by Heavy Travel. Reduction of the number of deaths by 50 per cent has just been achieved by a public safety campaign in West- chester County, an area about 407 square miles just outside the city lim- its of New York. The campaign started May 1. Dur- ing the preceding four months an av erage had been killed in accidents; during the preceding year an average of fourteen persons per month had been killed, and during May of 1923 six- teen persons were killed. On May 31, this year, it was found that ‘only cight persons had been killed in accidents during the month in the entire county of forty-one sep- arate communities, a reduction of one-half from the record of the cor responding month of the previou year. All Points Unite. On June 1 the forty-one comm in the county jointly started afety week campuign’—a short, intensive driveethe pur was, first. to attract the attention «f every resident and transient in t county to the ing of the perm: nent “safety campaign: second, convince every man, wuman and chi in the county that accidents can bl prevented, and to convince them this fact 80 strongly that they would show the same enthusiasm for acci- dent prevention throughout the year that they did during Safely week. ‘The result of this one-w can paign was even more striking than that of the first month of the year- round campaign. The record follows: Woek of June 1 to 7, 1923, 4 deaths, 30 serious in- juries; weekly average fir four .5 deaths. Week of June 1 'to 4, 1 death, 6 serious injuries. Shows 75 Per Cent Cut. A reduetion of 75 per cent in deaths and serious injuries in the face of steadily increasing population and automobile registratio was the re- sult. This becomes all the more siz- nificant when it is known that Wes chester County is criss-crossed wi fine roads, over which all the o- mobiles and motor trucks from New York State, Connecticut and points farther north must pass to get tu New York city, and that nearly 100,000 transient motor vehicles pass through the county each day on their way Lo and from New York Not one out of the hundred th sand children in the county was killed or seriously injured du & the week. There was not a street car or a railroad accident n the county during though the forty-one and villages are connected than & hundred miles of & interurban electric railw thousand trains of the New Central and the New York Haven and Hartf railroads threugh the county each day one of the 7,000 comme in the county was invo cident of any sort in t week towns 20 Hurt in Street Car Wreck. DETROIT, June 21-—At least twenty persons were reported injured, some believed seriously, shortly before mid- night when a street car jumped the track and crashed into a tree, wreck- ing the front half of the car. Several amb‘u\fl.n('(s removed the injured to hos- pitals. THE WEATHER District of Columbia —Fair and cooler Sunday; Monday fair and slightly warmer: moderate northwest winds, becoming southerly Monday Virginia—Generally fair and cooler Sunday; Monday fair and slightly warmer; moderate northerly winds, becoming variable. West Virg Fair, temperature Sunday cloudy and somewhat ably showers Mo remperature, nt, $0; 2 a.m., 4; 8 am, 79; 2 p.m., 42 and Maryland with moderate Monday Midni, 6 am, noon, 90 84; 8 pm., $1 92.2: lowest, 73.4 Relativ humidity—8§ p.m.. .43; § p.m., .60. Rainfall (8§ p.m. to § p.m.), trace. Hours of sunshine, 9.6, Per cent of po ble sunshine, .64 Temperature same date last year Highest, 98; lowest, 73. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States coast and geodetic survey.) Today—Low tide, 6:39 a.m. p.m.; high tide, 12:09 a.m. 10 am., S&; 86: 0 p, 77. Highest, am., 2 and 7:08 and 12:29 morrow—Low tide, 7:37 8:01 p.m.; high tide, 1:05 a.m. p.m. am. and and 1.25 The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 4:42 am.; 7:3 Tomorrow—Sun ri sets 7 p.m. Moon rises, 11 am, Automobile lamps to be one-half hour after sunset. ‘Weather in Various Cities. Temperature.— Precips itatior at., § p.m. to sun sets . 4:43 am.; sun pm.; sets, 10:40 lighted Fri Asherille, N. C Atlanta, Atlanuic City, N Haltimore, Md. ... Als 4 Rirmingham, Bismarck, N. D.. Boston, Masx Buffalo, N « Chicago, ‘11l 5 Cincinnati, Ohio . Cheyenne,” Wyo.. | . Cleveland, O Davenporf, Towa Denver, Col...... . Des Moines, Towa.. Detrait, Mich...... Duluth, Helena Indiana Kansas City, Mo... Little Rock, Ark Los Angeles, Calif Lovisville, Ky Marquette, Memphis. Minmi, Fla. . Phoenix, Ariz.. Pittsburgh, Pa... Portland, Me.. ... Portland, Ore.. .. Lake City, Tia 8t. Louis, Mo... St Paul, Minn. San Antonio, Tex... San_Diego. Calf. . 8. Francisco. Calif. Santa Fe, N. M. Seattle, Wash.... Springfield, 111... Tampa, F Toledo. Ohio - %0 68 Vieksbure, Mis. | 88 76 WASH'GTON, D. C. 92 78 thority in the settlement of labor dis putes,” the letter from Stone and Robertson said. “You have objected to the political activities of organized labor and yet no one person has done. more than you to convince the rail- way employes of the necessity for pok litical action. “We are aware that universal dis satisfaction with the board has left] it little to do,” the letter continues. “We suggest, however, that your| present effort to use the board for creating controversies in order to jus- tify its existence exceeds the {mpro- priety of your previous aotion.”. ) 74 &2 2 of elghteen persons monthly’