Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1925, Page 2

2 * SERIES SEAT SAL OPENS TOMORROW Continues at Base Ball Sta- dium for Three Days—Cards Mailed Applicants. Storm warnings were fiving at Clark Grifith Stadium foday in preparation for the cyclone of humanity that will surge around the diminutive booths of the old ball park tomorrow in frantic search of coveted tickets to the three games of the world series that are 1o be plaved in Washington With the pennani securely nailed to the home mast ance more. the hurd of hard labor out Georgia avenue way has heen abruptly shified from the hroad shoulders of the players to the less hardened hacks of fhe clerical force. whose duty it now hecomes to zive everybody in the United Stites who has reached an eleventh-hour de ®ire 1o see the hase hall classic at least breathinz room in the park. Sale Begins at 1 The thousands of thoughtful ones who prophetically mailed their re quests for seats back in August. when Connie Mack's performing elephante were joyously racing around in the first ring of the hase hall circus, have now received their invitations to come out to the stadium tomo morning and receive their tickets the world series The heoths will apen at 10:30 o'clock And ramain open until around supper | time. Ticket sellers also will he on the joh at the =ame hours Thursday and Friday. by which time it is ex Dected all advarce sales <will he com pleted. In view nf the fact that the cluh officials have given the people three daye in which to obtain their cards. an earnest appeal was isaued hy Edward B. Evnon. secretary of ine Washington hase bhall club, for the erowde to take their time and aot all rush o the park the same day Must Go to Right Window. Practically the same svsiem used last vear will he In force tamorro Those who have received eards w find in the upper right-hand corner a number. This number will guide them to the proper hooth. Tickets will he issued only at booths desig nated an these cards. and it will he necessary for those having such eards fn make sure they are at the right window. they may find they have waited the wrong line for half hour or so. Mr. Eynon and his assistants have heen working day and night in prepa vation for the ordesl they musi face tomorrow He warked pracrically all of Sunday nizhi. and after getting to in a Hi ? Race Unconquerable. | ‘ BY VINCENT SHEEA | | §necial Corraspondent of The Star and North American Newspapar Alliance with the | Riff Armies | ERALL HEADQUAR- RIFF GEN TERS. TARGHZUIT, September 9, by courier o Tangler. September ?8. In closing hix interview with me to- | day Gen. Sidi Mohammed. comman- der-in-chief of the Riff armies, made a fervent and obviously sincere appeal for peace. For the first time in the history of | this North Afvican war a voice rep- | ting the supreme authority of | the Riff suggested intervention by | America on behalf of peace. | | ""To continue war is ruin.” he said. | | earnestly. Is there nobddr—Amer- ica, England or laly—who Is ready [ 1o speak out for peace?” We sat at our ease in the aqua {mud hut which serves as the office | I of the military commander. He bhad | been speaking of the ease with which | he had been able thus far 1o stand off | { the French armies, 4 “What is the explanation of this| succese against the mightiest military power in Europe””’ he asked. ‘P haps topography and climate have a I areat deal to do with it. But. most ot all. it is our manner of Aghting | Holds Rifls Unconquerabl We fight desperately because are Aghting for our existence. for vight to live in peace and liberty What are the French Aghting for? | 1 contess T don't know. They are ox pending essily 2 million dollars datly— Drobably more at the presént rate And for what purpose? Allah only knows' Noi fer conquesi. because even if they do conquer the Riff— which wonld mesn many more months and many more thousands of French lives and hundreds of millions of dol- | lars—it would do them no'good what- xoever. 'They could never hold it! No power since the world hegan has ever heen able to control the Riff and the peonle thers remaln substan. tially as they were before the Arab conquest 1100 vears ago. We are a tenacious people. and France can never conquer us The French responsibility for the outbreak of this-var is clearly proved and my brother, Abd-el-Krim. has all the ociginal documents. which he [ will show vou when vou ses ktim in A few davs. Having hegun this war. whare dol | | n little | we onr SEVEN ARE INJURED 'RIFF LEADER APPEALS TO U. S. TO END WARFARE IN MOROCCO Says—Fight Till Last Man Is Dead Inevitable Unless Powers Intervene, He Declares. THE EVENING 1 i , Gen. Sidi Mohammed, they mesan (o end it? There ia no means of knowing. Has Faith in Painleve. One party, headed by Lyautey,| wants the blood to flow until France | is again bankrupt-—until she has ained her young men. and until) the Riff {s torally ruined. Another | party wishes fo open negotiations a | 300n as the rainy season hegins, in| ahout three weeks. As for myself. 1 have hope for peace. T have great faith in Painle I met him in 1923, when I was in Paris. and he told me then that he was ready to do anything in his pow- er 10 help us achieve both peace and ! independence. Of course, he was only A party leader then, mot a premier, | but undoubtedly he ix an honest man. | 1 hope he will he able to bring| about peace negotiations. To do so is ! extraordinarily simple. All we want ! is independence for the Riff and con-| tiguous territories. Our territorial demands are very | smgll and we are willing to agree to! some formula for retaining the titu- lar soverelgniy of the Moroecan Sul tan. providing he does not with our real independence. “To continue war is ruin for all. depends on the Krench. Tf they want peace they can have it “They have sent us emissaries. ves: but what kind of emissaries? Men vho wanted something for themsely fAirst and were willing 1o talk peace Atterward Can Hold Out Another Year. We are strong enough to stand an. | other year of war at the presant rate. But ean France suppori Another vear's wAr? Is there nobody —Amer ica. England. lialy—-nobody among the government of the great powers Whd is ready to speak oni for paace And call the necess: conference which will give us peace. liberty a chance 1o develop our resouces? “For if peace ia not hrought about 1 give fair warning that war will con tinue for at least another vear, and perhaps two. “To conquer us the Franch will have to invade our country and kill us to the last man. We will never submit 10 slavery. We will fight if necessary until _our whole nation s extermi. ! nated.” (Copsricht. 19 Britain. South Am American Newapapsr o | interfers | It 1y ana ! in United Statss. Great ca and Japan hv North | AlHance. A1l righte i by CRISIS IS REACHED STAR. | principles | dorsed the Cleveland 1924 Lz WASHINGTON, LA FOLLETTE FATE AT STAKE TODAY | Wisconsin Voters to Decide Between Him and Four Independent Rivals. By the Aasociatad Pry MILWAUKEE, W Septamher 29, -Votes cast in a statewide election to- day will decide whether Robert M. La Follette, jr.. is to succead his father as United States Senator, or whether one of the four other candidates will be slevated to this position. The nthers are: Fdward F. Dithmar, George Bruce, John M. Work and George Bauman. La Follette is the Republican nomi nee. but has announced himself as indorsing the platform of the La Fol lette-Wheeler party in 1924. He has at- acked the Coolidge administration and put his issue hefore the public in a terse statement that it was a con- test “between a man who would back up President Coolldge or one who would further the principles of Robert M. La Follette, sr.” Dithmar for Coolidge. Dithmar has confined his campaign to general indorsement of the Coolidge administration, particu- larly emphasizinz the economy pro: gram. Dithmar is running as an inde. pendent, although with the backing of the Anti-La Follette Republicans of the State. Bruce was the Democratic candidate in the primary. but did not receive sufficient voles 1o go on foday’s bal- 1ot under the party banner. He filad, however, as an independent, which is permitted to do under the Iz Bruce haec sald B favors the ¢ Lakes-to-Atlantic waterway, and promised work for that under conditions Backs Cleveland Platform. Work, the Soclalist nominee. in Follstie. Wheeler platform and has accused La Follette of being insincere in his in prsement of the same platform Banman is the Socialist-Labor nee. bt has made no camp n L Folletie hegan his final campaizn Immediately afiar the primary. and on the platform displayed many of the characteristics of hix late rath His delivery regaried as foresful as that of the senior La Follette. Many of the gestures and utterances of Sen ator La Folletie, which had a personal appes. o the vot also were nsed his son, Looks Like Father. While speaking Senator had a habit of running his throuzh his pompadour. Young Rob nomi Willfam ! La Follette ! fingers | D. 05 SAFETY ZONE FIGHT GOES T0 ELDRIDGE Citizens’ Body Calls Painted Street Signs ‘“Menace t~ Pedestrians.” The West End Citizens’ Asrociation launched into the campaign which | has heen waged againsi the painting of safety zones at husy straet inter- ections by Instrueting its sacretary ! to write a letter to Trafic Director ! M. 0. Eldridge protesting against | their use and terming them a "men- ace to the pedestrian.” last night at the first Fall meating of the asso- | ciation held at the Corcoran Hall of George Washington University. The assaelation will petition Sldridze not. to paint any such | ‘safety ones” if the ecity cannof | provide loading platforms where they | Ave needed. 11 was felt the painted | lines do not i adequate protec-| tion to pedestriins and that they do | not take the plice of raised wooden | platforms. The association adopted a resolu- | tion urging that an all-day outing | be held in Potomae Park next Spring | (by all the civic and hooster clubs| |of the city. This resolution will be | Ixent to the Federation of Citizens’ | Assaciations for action. | Officials May Attend. : i G. CC. Ayers, vice pi ident, who Inv‘» {troduced the motlon, said he could se-! | cure the Army Navy and Marine | Bands and that arrangements could be made 10 have ithe entertainment | broadcasi. He assured rthe members | that the President and other high of | Aicials would be prasent. “Nothing of | this kind has ever heen held hefore, | ut | feel sure that it would a«!kh.i | lish a precedent that would he fol.| | lowed all over the country,” Mr. Avers | sald The resolution read: “The object of | {this meeting together of all organiza- tions of the metropolitan district on a [stated date would be to give these public-spirited _organizations the op portunity 10 get hetter acquainted so that they might work together for the ibeantification of the metropolitan dis- rier.” Dorsex W. Hyde. jr. president of | the Monday Evening Club, told of the | club’s vey. which found that the | Capital was far hehind other darge ' cities in providing an adequate medi- | ,ul.y.mn to guard the health of school i childran, i | M | i | Indorse Maove. He added (hat 12 additional doetors and 20 more nurses are needed. A resolution indorsing this increase TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1925. STORI_fi'Y PETREL RENEWS FIERCE ATTACK 1 | | i 1 ] i | JUMILE LIIT SET ON THREE STREETS Signs to Order Slower Speed at Intersections Not in Effect Yet. A spead limit of 30 miles an hour will he put inte effect snon an portions of three outlving highwavs, Traffic Director Eldridge has dacided. They are: Rladensburg road from Mount Ol vet road to the District Line Pennsylvania avenue southeast from Minnesota to Alabama avenues. Alabama avenue from Pennsylvania |avenue to the District Line. Not to Be Amended. Col. 1. C. Moller, assistant traffic director, said today the regulations probably will not he amended, it hav ing been decided that the erection of signs will be suficient to indicate where the increased speed stretch he. gins and ends. Col. Molier also warned motorista t day not 10 exceed the present genel speed limit of 22 miles an hour on ‘(h':'P three highwayvs until they see the signs in place They are heing made now in the traffic shop and the first of them may he put up on Rladenshurg 10ad hefore the end of this week There are few intersecting atreets along the three stretches of roadws: listed above, but wherever there ia an intersection h ax Rladensburg road and Queens Chapel road. other sign will be placed providing for a sl speed, Increase on Sixteenth Street. Col. Moller xtated some increase above tha 22.mile limit probably will he allowed on Sixteenth street 3% soon as the automatie signal lights are ready 1o he turned on early in November. It has not heen decided vet what the speed limit for Sixteenth street will be Officials of the traffic office said 10 day they 1d not predict hox soon | new speed limits would bhe put inte | 2ffect on ‘the houlevard stop streerc that extend through the eity. No change ix likely to he made an these boulevards until thex are provided with permanent “Stop” signs on iren posts in addition the painted !ters on the roadway Mr. Eldridge left tend the National in Cleveland. FRIENDLY RIVALRY also today thai Iaxt Safery night Conference E N FRANCE'S DEBT:; | PARLEY HAS 48 HOURS' hed after 12 o'clock last night. wae hack at his desk in the clubhouse at 5* o'clock this morninz. He had not eaten breakfasi at 9 o'clack. and Clark Griffith fairly threw him oui of his| nffice before the hard-workinz secre-| inherited this characteristic. In per sonal appearance the son reminded hix audience of his father. especially the a Folletie in the davs of his early political activities The only public office hald hy La Follette was that of chairman ! was passed by the association. Other resolutions were passed nurg. ing that the saventh grade he restored e S perent e . OF SCHOOL WORKERS temporary buildings on the Capitol x | nlaza he razed and that a letter of con 5 Claims of Summer Institutions for IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS © Boy on Roller Skates, Pulled by | (Continued from First Page.) | My, tary would downiown for a cup of coffee Protests Are Fruitleas. returning an hour later he line of several score persons clamorinz 1o see him. Most were dis gruntled fans who had made Iy requests for seats, been dissatisfied with the ones that had heen allotted them and were ready to demand some. thing better In each instance. howev Mr. non has heen nbliged 10 inform his callers that the cluh had honored re- quests for seats sxactly in the order of their receipt. and that nothing could he done at this rime. In the meantime. the scarred old battle ground around the grandstands resounded to new echoes today. It was the incessant ponnding of ham- mers, the rasping of saws and the shouted orders of men in overalls, as a corpe of workers prepared the park for the extra thousands who must he taken care of. The temporary stands that are 1o adorn the outfield are he- ing raised during the team’s vislt to Roston RETAIL DRUGGISfSrBACK FROM NATIONAL PARLEY Upon found a Three Members iary Attended Six Delegat and of Women's Auxi Memphis Convention. Members of the National Associa tlon of Retail Druzgists from the Dis trict_of Columbia. who aitended the national convention held ar Memphis, enn.. ha ned here with the pre- Frank T. Stons of hington. The six dele: m the Disirie Paul Pearson af 0 rer Dr iaent tes who were Columbia nreident o <ant were the lo- tion of (he Reiall Druggists Dr. Wiliam 1 Herbsi. Dr. Norman D, Parker S chairman nominatin, mmittee: Dr. AL or. chair n of the bhoard of Diztriet of Columt and Walter. chairman of committee following members of the Anxiliary alo atiended: Mrs, stone, Mrs, I.. Hiltan and C. Teylm 1 is expectad thet ociation o president covetary: Dy on Tay rles The Ladies' Trank ' A Philadeiphia wil niien eity. e SCHOOL FRIENDS HOPEFUL Telieve Budget Bureau Will Treat 1926 Estimates Kindly. Budget Bureau will spare the on the record-breaxing public school estimates for the next fscal year if the reception given school authorities at a hearing before Gen. Lord’s burean vesterday can he taken 2= a criterion. While the details ware not made publie, were snthusiastic today over the re- sults. The officials, it is underatoo jnsisted that the school hudget be left intact when the District’s astimates are pruned. Especially strong was the plea of the officials for the sec- ond installment of the five-vear huild inz program authorized by Congress. which will take approximately $4,000, 000 to carry out The Ynife of the hearing schonl officials CAILLAUX IS HONORED. Made President of General Couneil of Sarthe. September 28 ®).—Joseph ~ Caillaux, minister of finance. who now ix In the United Etates in connection with the French debt funding discussion, vesterday was elected president of the general coun- cil of the Department of Sarthe. M. Caillaux recsived 21 votea as against 12. The outgoing president. Senator Gigon, who relinquished his meat in the upper House to enable M. Calllaux te reenter Parliament. was re-elected. hut immediately re. #igned in favor of M. Caillaux. . Boy Killed at Play. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., September 2 - John Gordon Smith, 8 years of ag LF MANS, France. son of Thomas F. Smith, teacher in|the Polish legation in Lendon, has|Chamber of Deputies when the ques-| mathematics. Alleghany County High ! been selected 1o suceeed M. Wroblew- tion of ratification of the agreement School. was fatally injured late yester day when a large iron flower ura in the front yard at his home fell upon former | Street Car, Hit by Auto When He Lets Go. | | A collision berw of . Raymond Feathers, Tsland northeast. and the bievele of William Morriaette. 10 years | 0ld. 1514 Irving straet northeast, ves terday afternoon. at Rhode Island and Mills avenues northeast. resulted in the Injury of the hoy. Ha was treated #t_home. | Willlam Henry, colored, vears | old. Nauck Station. Va.. was struck by the automobile of Lydia Gatti, 1313 Park road. on Wisconsin avenue near Friendship vesterday afiernoon. and his shoulder and ankle brok: He was treated at Georgetown Hospital. | Margaret Burgess. 7 vears old. 4820 | Wisconsin ave was injured about the hody ves afternoon when knocked down Wisconsin avenue and Belt read the automobile of Walter Harper. 3313 Donaldson street. She was treatsd at homs by Dr. A. M. Ray. | Charles 1 Soldiers’ near the en tha automobile 00 Rhode avenue | Lindquist years old. of Home was knocked down Upshur street entrance fo the hame last nizht by the automobil of Horace Skinner. 11 Rock Creek Church road. and slightly hurt. He wak taken o the hospital at the home. Eusens Langley, 15 vears old. 316 Tenth sireet southeast. on _roller ki beinz pulled along Fighth | sireet northeast hy a street car, 1st go the car and fell in front of the auto mobile of George RBall. 1015 Fourth slreei northeast. and was hit. He re. fused hospital treatment rederick W. Mvers. 43 vears old, Fileventh street northeast, driver ! of a motor vehicle for the jiavannar Jaking Co.. injured abont the heud when the vehicle he was driving was in & collision with another motor le in front of 2914 P street. He vafused hospital treatmeni. Winifred Sparks, & year street. was injured about vesterday when’struck by an auto- mobile at Tenth and H streeis, Phy sfeians at George Washington Univer. =ity Hospital gave fAirat ald. The child | was not dangerously Injured. BANK MESSENGER KILLED BANDITS GET PAY ROLL Man, 0ld. 937 H the body Armed i Gang One Wounds Another and Fle: With $10.266 Cash. By the Associated Preas CAMBRIDGE, Mass., September 8. | —Fdward C. Ross, bank messenger. was shot to death and a companion ! was wounded by three masked rob- bere who held up the pair here today #nd fled with a pay roll of $10,266. The messenger was delivering the {pay roll sent from the Central Trust | i Co. 1o the Ward Baking Co. The rob- | hers fisd in an automobile. 1 TAX HEARINGS DATED. House Committee to Mast From | October 19 to 28. With a tative scheduls of ‘hear(ng- hefore the House wavs and | means committes announced today, | a1l persons desiring to appear at these | hearinzs are advised that they should notity the committes clerk that they may have time assigned them on the | calendar Clayton F. Moore, clerk. made public rchadule, as followa: General statemeénta from Treasury officials and tax specielists will be | heard October 18 and 20, income tax | and individual, 21; income tax and | eorporation, estate and gift taxes, | 23: excise and miscellaneous. 24 and 2 Board of Tax Appeals and general | administrative atures, 27 and 28; ‘v miscellaneous, 29, | NAMED ENVOY TO U. S. Slays { tax I the committee | | | | the tentative Ciechanowski Selected as New Polish Minister Here. WARSAW, September 28 (#).—John Clechanowski, formerly counselor of | ki an Minister in Washington. The| appointment has not been offisially an- nounced, theugh It {8 understood | heen current through the departmental councils and the French press. The French newspapers. according to a private | cable received here today. have heen unanimous in their demand for & se- |eurity clause. While concessions have bean made on | the part of hoth and there were some | expressions from some quarters of both commissions hoping for an agree. ment. the general situation today ap- ! peared to he more critical than at any | time 1o date. Caillaux not only has the welfare of | his country and his program of re. | construeting French finances to look out for, but he has hix very political life at stake. Should he take back to France an agreement which would be nunsatiafactory to the French Par liament, It was sald with some em phasis ioday in Krench circles, it would no doubt be the end of his re cently rejuvenated political career. | Cafllans, it was said. although he had much o gain by a successtul funding of the debi, would have more fo lose | by signing one which would be re. | jected on hie return to Paris. British Understanding Not Up. ! Little has beenindicated from French | circles concerning what, if anything. | has been said by Caillaux about the | Franco-British debt underatanding, | which Calllaux intimated at the time it was concluded in ILondon would depend for its final consummation ! upon the kind of settlement France made with America. ! Unofficially it has been said that' Caillaux has not brought up this fac- tor directly with the American com- mission. From the American side it | has been said that such questions, in- | cluding also the amount France gets from reparations under the Dawes | plan, can be considered only in the | light of what France can pay. other words, the Americans have con tinued to deal with France directly as a single debtor and not to treat her as one side of a triangie v Great Hritain “Two joint sessions between the com [ missions were held vesterday after a | week end recess for informal conter- | ences. Developments came thick and | fast, the Krench presenting their new | proposal in the morning and the | Americans countering in the after | noon. Last night at the Treasury “ndersecretary of the Treasury Win- | Lon. who is secretary of the American | Debt Commission, met a group of French experts to work out details of the American proposal. There was Another meeting between Mr. Wiaston and the French experts at noon today at the Treasury. With time drawing so nesr ana for ihe negotiations, reports have that perhaps the two commissions might come to a tenta- tive understanding and part, leaving | the final working out of the agree- | ment to diplomatic channels and the | writing_of notes. This, however, it was indicated clearly by a member of the American commission, would not he satisfactory to the American Gov- ernment. The United States is striv- ing for an agreement. What the next few hours may | bring forth no one was willing con- | fdently to predict, but the prevailing tone of French sentiment seemed to be gloomy, with th aprospects of their | oing home without an accord. | Desperaie efforta will be made, it in believed. 15 compose differencea he- | tween France and America. CAILLAU POST AT STAKE. i | to an | PARIS, September 23 (#).—The set. tlement of the French debt to the| United States was uppermost in the | deliberations of the councils general| of the various departments throughout | France vesterday. Al Amiens. Blois, Caen, Cahors, Evreux, Grenoble, Laon, Limogres, Nancy, Nice, Orleans, Per. pignan, Quimper, St. Etienne, Tarbes and Versallles, resolutions were adopt- d calling upon the government to safeguard the interests of France at Washington. The words “equitable and just set- tlement”’ appear in every one of these resolutions. Some heseech and im- plore, others warn and threaten. That M. Caillaux at Washington is ataking-hs political life upon an agree. ment seems everywhere apparent.| There are implied threatr in several departments that the minister of finance is courting certain defeat in Parliament if he accepta terms of a settlement far above his original offer. A stiff fight Is promised in the presented by M. Calllaux comes up. The councils general are the strong- est politieal machines in the country; m, injuring his cheat. The boy dled ' American approval of the nomination'they nominate deputies for slection hy 80 nunu:‘u afues the accideat. Bhas been received. 4 the people and elect semators directly. | election | Bricklayers i pact Ha the Republican Siate central commit tee. In private life he has heen secre tary to Senator La Follette and is the present editor-in-chief of La Folleite's mazazine. He is & bachelor In contrast to young Bob. the inds pendent Republican candidate, Dith mar, I8 52 vears old. He has heen three times lleutenant governor of Wisconsin, a candidate for governor and a delegate to Republican national | conventions. He two children HAR SPENT $6,215.54. ix married and has La Follette Files Financial Statement of Campaign. MADISON, Wis., September 2% () -The eost of the campaign of Rob. ert M. La Follette. ir.. Republican nomines for Senator in the special today. has reached $6.901.73 statements filed vesterday Secretary of State show. La Follatte campaign commit fAnancial with the The Follette raported he had spent $636.19 personally. The Milwaukes County Wileox-for Senator committee reported it spent $6.514.99 in the pra-primary campaign | of Roy P. Wilcox. by La Follette. PECKINPAUGH TO GET CUP FULL OF MONEY Testimonial to Be Presented Player at First Game of ‘World Series Here. whe was defeated Roger Peckinpaugh. chosen the most valuable plaver in the American League, will he honored before thousands of his admirers at the firat game of the world seriss held In Washington. on Friday. October 9. The announcement of the time set for presentation of the teatimonial was made today by Charles W. Fair- fax of Wardman Park Hotel, treas. nrer of the Peckinpaugh testimonial committee, in urging that fontribu- tions to the fund be sent to him at the Wardman Park Hotel. Peckinpaugh wil be presented with a =il with a substantial fund of money now haing raised. The money will be used, it is sald, to help furnish hiz new home, which i& now being completed and which he plans to occupy after the wi 1 ser"es ““Pec’s deserves all we can do to help ! him by his home and to look out for the future comfort of hix famil Mr. F:irfax said today. PEACE PACT FOR LABOR. and Plasterers An- nounce Dispute Ended. NEW YORK. September 29 (#) A Washington dispatch to the New York World today saye that a peace baen reached hetween brick- layers and plasterers after a juris- dictional dispute which has tled up 1$250.000.000 in new construction. The pact provides for arbitration of the main question in the dispute— the action of the plasterers in char- tering unions in Florida, which, by a previous arrangement, was brick- layers’ territory. Increased use of stucco led to the plasterers’ action. The dispute has caused strikes on new bufldings in many cities. Clemenceau Observes Birthday. NANTES. France, September 29 (#).—Georges Clemencean, France's wartime premier, quistly celebrated his 84th hirthday anniversary in his simple little seaside cottage on the Vendee coast vesterday. The “Tiger” is busy writing a work on philisophy, dealing with the con- ception of God through the ages. Wife’s Vow to Bob And Paint Goads Spouse to Slay By tha Asociated Press. COLUMBUS, Ga., September 29.—Recause she “threatened” for two years 16 hob her hair_and paint her cheeks, Mrs. R:-L. Shep- herd was killed by her husband, the latter told officials today He cut her throat last night. - loving cup filled to the brim | | gratulation be sent to the winning fire company in the recent speed trials. It was announced that at the next meeting the annual elections will be held and that T J. Dunbar, the sculptor. will give a tulk William P. Herbsi. president of the | association, presided. MITCHELL ATTACKS NON-FLYING OFFICERS HEADING AIR SERVICE First (Continued from Page.) | | raviation consisis of the DH-4 airplanes with the Liberry engines designed| during the war. which are neither fish, flesh nor fowl. as thev are neith- | er attack. hombardment, pursuit nor ohservation planes. ‘Ihev are danger- | ons, they are incapable of performing ‘any functions of a modern air force. Our pilots, the best in the world, real- | 1¥ amount to not over 450 of all cate- goriea who can really go out and fight service airplanes. “The reserves are a myth. They are growing old. We have no corps of ohserver 15 or 20 being carried on the roil. We have no rated machine gunners. Our so-calied mechanics are | recruited according 1o the Army avs tem.” Col. Mitchell said the nation has | “slipped so low in every department | of our aeronautical -endeavor that | were a war cloud to appear on the ! horizon tomorrow with any fi class power of either Europe or Asia, the gathering storm might break without any hindrance from ux and | it might take from three to five years | before we could organize to meet it. | | Declaring the United States hus rend- ered itself dependent on European or Asfatic countries for protection, Col. | Mitchell satd: “What is the fundamental reason ' that this has come to pass® It is| that air matters are Intrusted to the my and Navy, which are handied and governed and dominated by non- Aying officers. They not only know next to mothing about aviation. but regard it merely as an auxiliary of their present activity. and not as a | main force m the nation's military | squipment. Thelr testimony regard- | ing air matters iz almost worthless, sometimes more serious than this.” Defense by Aircraft. Col. Mitchell reiterated his stand for defense of the Atlantic and P: cific Coasts by ajrcraft against at- tack from European or Asiatic powers. He told the hoard Great Britain could land 1,000 ajrplanes in the Gulf of 8t. Lawrence and have them in operation against a vital area of this country which forms a triangle be- tween Bangor, Me.: Chicago and the Chesapeake Bay. He also pointed to the lack of defense plans in Alaska, where he said Japan would enter the United States. Alaska is the key po- sition and not the Hawaiian Islands, he explained, but the latter should be defended with airceaft because they occupy a stragetic position in rel tion to commerc | Sarcastic in Comment. ‘The colonel's statement was punc- tuated with caustic and sarcastic | statements throughout. He declared where air matters are handled for the Unised States they must be handled by air men who know their business and who should define air matters for the executives and for Congress whenever they are touched upon “In- stead of having admirals and generals selected on the principle of ‘Tag. you're it. Go and talk to Confgresa ahout aviation,’ and primed from a lot of hoary data culled from the dusty shelves of the bureaucratic offices here in Washington to tell our people and to stand sponsor for our aeri- nautical development. ‘“This is the basic trouble with the whole proposition: The chorus and understudles attached to these old in- stitutions trim their sails to suit the favoring winds of future advance- merit in the established systems. No important new developments and no future can be hoped for in a system of this kind.” Duty Requires Statement. “We know it is our duty to the country while we vet live to let them weigh what evidence we have to give in accordance with its value,” Col. Mitchell declared. “Were we to he remiss in this duty, we would not he faithful to our oath taken when we entered the service of the United States, that we would defend the Con- stitution against all enemies, hoth for- eign and domestic. As far as I am concerned, there is absolutely and un- v 4 { aualifiedly | plving military power. | relative weight William Mitchell, whose vitrioli President’s aircraft investigation, testi Below: Col. and Mrs. Mitchell arriving at the Capitol, walking jauntily and smiling broadly | Washington. NATTONAL. P o onstaugz®ts brought on the fyng at the Captol today. ! no seeking for govern- mental position. no political afliation or hidden desire hehind my stand. There is no mental hesitation or self reservation. After having served the country wherever necessary for over 27 years, and wherever our flag has called ue, all 1 care to he iz just a plain American citizen. free to give my countrymen my views founded on a store of valued experience obtained in the service of this, the greatest of all countries ‘Will Revolutionize Navy. Afrpower. Col. Mitchell said. has completely changed the method of ap- The use of an alr force at the inception of a war may be decisive and not require the use of one army against another to obtain the decision. but, if the use of | armies becomes necessary. they will still use infantry, artillery, possibly some cavalry, and many of the aux- fliaries that have herétofore heen em- ploved. “Airpower's effect on however, will entirely methods and means former sea forces. No surface vessel can exist where air forces actinz from Jand bases are ahle to attack them.” The conception of “our naval | strategists” is nothing more or less | than the strategy and tactics of the | Punic wars, Col. Mitchell said. The witness declared, however, that the ground man must run the ground, the water man. the water, and ‘‘Let the airmen run the air. Let them work together where one can hold his head as high as the other, where one can voice the sentiments of his branch in accordance with their actual value, not chocked off, bulldozed and held | down like a stepchild. Let's stop the Interlocking directories of the Army and Navy that hold up progress in our aviation, that eliminate competi- tion and distort the facts. the Navy, change ‘all nused by Urges Three Services. “Let us combine these under one agency that will assign each its proper in our Nation's de. fense. 1 myself favor a department of national defense, with secretaries of | air, land and water under it. There need be little or no change in the or- ganization of the Army or Navy, but besides them must be the Department of Air. Col. Mitchell ther went into a de- talled statement of the functions and operations of the proposed depart- ‘ment of national defense. The hoard since its organization has heard from Army Air_Service officers opinions on a tnited air force and a separate air corps in the War Department. Col. Mitchell sponsors the former and Maj. Gen. Patrick. chief of the Army Air Service, advocated the latter. Since Gen. Patrick appeared before the board and openly advocted the separate corps a- noticeable division of thought has appeared within the ranks of the Air Service on what should be the cure for the present admitted conditions, The policy-forming body of the War Department—the Army general staff— was blamed for the handicaps placed upon the Army Air Service by Foulois. Col. Foulois—the first man to fiy an airplane for the Army, in 1903—re- viewed the evolution of ajrcraft and told how n 1916 he was aliowed only $150 to keep the one plane the Army had xotdn iaking it necessary that he spen; “out of my own packet.” “T begged, borrowsd and stole ma. terial from the Quartermaster Corps | fer of the A to keep the plane in condition.” said. | Later. he testified, when aviation hegan 1o develop. was experienced in getting officers, {and “it was very hard 1o convince | any one in the War Department or | civil life that this was a serious mat- ter i Making clear he was not qualified | to discuss naval aviation. Col. Foulois | | declared the Air Service of the - | he military difficulty | ican Expeditionary Forcés at no time had sufficient personnel. Thinks Aircraft Subbdrdinated. | ot Taking up early proposed legisla- | tion for aviation, Col. Foulois | clared there was a deliberate atirmpt | 10 subordinate aircraft to other uili- | tary units and 1o keep fiying oficers | in mubordinate grades. i “In the record of the Army from | | 1908 to 1820 you will not find that| | | |a member of the general staff con- | tributed one hit said “The value of aircraft should have | been appreciated 15 years earlier, If | this had been the case the United | States would have had an air serv-| ice equal to that of England and France .when it entered the war.” | Enumerating many handicaps. he | sald, had heen placed upon aviation he declared it was of “little wonder that fiying officers desired taking air | development from the general staff.| “There has heen no teamwork be- | tween the Army and the Air Service,” he continued, “and nsually the inex- perienced” Arm; the air man and his plane.” The Jack of teamwork, he continied, was due to the “utter ignorance of | the general staff of 90 per cent of the | Air Service problems.” 1 “Is it any wonder.” he added, “that | after 17 vears of trials and tribula- | to air policies,” he | tions Air Service officers are united | behind their chief in urging for trans- | Service into a separate corps?" Favor Separate Corps. Witnesses heard at the late after noon session vesterday were Dr. Wil liam Holland ‘Wilmer, noted eve spe cialist of Washington and Baltimor And a flight surgeon with the Amer- | fean expeditionary forces: Maj. | Thomas G. Lanphier, commanding | Selfridge Field, Mich., and command. | ing officer of the First Pursuit Group, America’s only aerial fighting unit: | Maj. Harvey B. 8. Burwell, com- mander of the Third Attack Group at Kelly Field, Tex.: Maj. John H. Pirie of the staff school. Fort Leavenworth. Kans: Maji. L. H. Bauer of the Army War College, Maj. B. Q. Jones, chief of the Adr Service supply division, and Lieut. H. L. George of the office | of the chief of Afr Service. With the exception of Maj. Jones, all officers favored creation of a sep arate air corps in the Army, as pro. posed by Ma). Gen. Patrick, chisf of the Air Service, as the firat step look- Ing to improving conditions of the | Air Service. Ma). Jones favored sei- ting 1ip A provisional air department to test the merits of aircraft as an arm of national defense. i | ! ment be given a sum of $20,000 procure initial equipment of | suit and 150 bombing planas and that {it_have a personnel of 116 ofcers, 1,263 enlisted men and 200 civilian employes. After the first vear $6.000,000 - would he made availahle during the test perind. Dr. Wilmer advocated creation of % | *Dusk | Blackehorn | Commissioner at Episcopal Church Meeting. Religious Education Presented A friendly ning in the parish hall Episcopal Church onists of the Summer war was waged last av- of St. John = the pretag achoals of re Virginia Maryland put forth the rival claims of when ligious education in an the two schoois hefore an audiencs of 100 of and ehnrch of the Episcopal Church The meeting was callec the delegates from the Dincese Washington te the Summer scho held last June at Sweet Rriar College Virginia. Ahout 13 of the 27 delegater were called by Mre. Mary €. 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Revoke 102 Overall Il 105 L 107 1 10° rthase renti a separate alr corps as essential to the welfare of aviators, who, he sald were employed in “a highly special jzad specialty” which required apecial medical knowledge and the adminis tering of “aviation medicine.” The want of understandinz hy medical of- ficers of the needs of aviators. he testified, menaced the efciancy of the Air Service. He added that an independent air corps headed hy . Ay ers would be in line with modern effcieney.