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W (U. . Weather Burcan Fair and coole fair and warme Temperature vesterday; lowest today. Full report on page 7. tiighes ATIHER. tonig| at Forecast.) ht: tomorrow t. 69, at 4 pm, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 D e ) Nos 29 R e - CRANDIURY SCORE TREATMENT OF .4 AT ST. ELIZABETH'S Sensational Report Con- demns Conduct and Condi- tions at Howard Hall. MANY OF SOUND MIND BELIEVED IN ASYLUM Ask Probz of Charge That Some Are Detained From "Ul- terior Motives.” indemning the conduct and conditl +t Howard Hall. where the criminal insane in mates of St Klizabeth's Hospital are fnearcerated. and expressing the Tief that “there are many persons now contined who not il ne. but who have been ulterior motives,” was the District Ly the Fedel A sensational report heve re now never w sent presented Court today jury, of which Daniel A. foreman. Con should be asked he grand jurors point out, to author: iz¢ the appointment by President Coolidge of a1 commission to investi- ite the condition of every ‘“‘question- bl se in the hospi The grand jury inve: tions at the hospital in with an inquiry into the William Green, colored inmate of the he tal, i 1924, but a separate report to the court on the nduct and situation at Howard Hall. Attendants Indicted. At the same time an indictment for manslaughter was returned William MeIntyre and Irwin Sweeney. white attendants at the hos- pital, who are accused of having beaten Green when he refused to sub- mit to having his hair cut. Save for its criticism of conditions Howard Hall, the report generally oved the situation:in other pe of the hospital. As to the charge that sane persons a fined in Howard Hall, which on the testimony of witnesss the port declares that stories of this kind ce heen prevalent in Washington, snd whether true or false are unque tionably injuring the hos estimation of the people of the Dis- trict and “some steps to clear up the situation.” The report of the grand jur Tows: “In _connection with the inquiry nto the czuse of the death of Wi Mam Green, a patient of St. Eliza- beth’s Hospital, on the 17th day of , the grand jury made an in there for connection killing of at apy tions ion as to the general con- | s of life at said institution. he grand jury visited the hos pital in a body and were shown about the grounds and through many of the buildings. As Willlam Green came to his death in Howard Hall, they inspected it with greater care and more closely than they did the other huildings Overcrowding Deplored. “There are 4.400 patients and 1 entire institution, about 1,000 of the patients being veterans of the World War. We found the hospital greatly overcrowded, and most deplorable conditions existing as a result of this overcrowding: there are some rooms tntended to accommodate 20 single heds containing more than 40 bed: there is scarcely enough room to walk hetween these heds, and consequent- Iy there cannot be the least priva for the patients in dressing or un- dressing. The patients should be either sent to other institutions until there is a reduction of from 500 approximately Edwards is | | ted condi made | now con- | is based | pital in the | should be taken | )0 attendants in the | to | ch ’ Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. 'HUNT FOR BIRTH CERTIFICATES i WORRIES U. S. AND EMPLOYES | | fR(‘lfring Workers Have Trouble Finding Old Rec- | ords, While Commission Is Hard Put to Learn ges—May Require Proof to Get Job. True | Put to the task of proving when and | Where they were born in order that i the United States Civil Service Com- | mission may be satisfied they are re- | tired on the correat day of the proper vear, Federal workers in Washington {are being called upon daily to find | yellowed birth certificates, tattered family Bibles or other acceptable evi- ‘(Iwn«-o of the stork’s visit, it was ll ned today. | The present difficulty in ascertain- | ing beyond doubt the birth date of { Government workers, so necessary in the compilation of retirement records, {John T. Doyle. secretary of the Civil ! Service Commission today admitted, | may lead to a ruling by the commis. | sion making the presentation of birth | evidence compulsory upon the ap- | pointment of all future Federal em- | ploves. Desire of both men and women to represent themselves as vounger than they are and determination of youths to advance their age a vear or two in {order to qualify for positions have heen two of the principal barriers in {the quest of the commission for ac- curate birth informatio Many women. it is said at the com- mission, when questioned about their WASHINGT( D. C, MONDAY, ) PRICELESS FILES OF U. §. MENACED ages have maintained they have a right to represent themselves younger than they are, citing the fact their | mothers practiced this ‘“‘warranted” | deceit before them. i Suggestion that the Yivil Service Commission require birth date proof upon appointment in the future was made by Secretary of the Navy Wik bur. He pointed out that the earlier the dates are established the more likely they are to be accurate. Four methods of proving birth dates are approved by the commission. as | follows: Original or certified copy of the public records, original or certi- fled copy of church or family record of birth, by statement from a practic- ing physician certifying that he at- tended the birth, or, as a last resort. the sworn statement, accompanied by 1 affidavits. of two or more persons hav- | ling definite knowledge of the date 1 of birth. | In some instances. it w: day at the Civil Service Commission the commission itself has been com. pelled to decide the date of Federal | employe’s births. This was done in | ses of laborers who could only sup. | ply partial proof of their birth and | , Stored in Fire Traps on Open Shelves. NEW ACCOUNTING OFFICE ROOM IS URGENT NEED of Clerks Is Slowed Down by Searching. < stated to- This Is the second of a serics of articles on the wrgent weed for nei Gorernment-owned huildings in the District of Columbia to house portant Government activitics. The third article will be printed tomor- roi. exact day or year. No. ?—General Accounting Office. MITCHELL IS TOLD O ARMY CHARGES {Colonel Silent After Session With Nugent—Reid to Be His Counsel. against | | BY the Associated Press. | Col. William Mitchell of the Army | Air Service reported today at the In- | spector General's office of the War | Department, where disciplinary pro- i ceedings against him are under coa- sideration. The case at this stage Is in the { hands of Col. George A. Nugent of the Inspector General's office, and the purpose of the visit was to furnish the colonel with copies of proposed charges against him growing out of his San Antonio statements, which precipitated the present aviation in- quir: Before any charges are made Col. Mitchell will be given an opportunity to make any reply he desires in ad- vance. Col. Nugent'y) recommendation as to further proceedings wjll be made after he has considered what Col. | Mitchell has to say. 1 Hall May Sit in Court. Any court-martial would sit in hington and indications are that {Maj. Gen. Summerall, commanding {the Second Corps Area, New York, i would be senior officer and president of the court. At least one air service officer senior to Col. Mitchell is ex- pected to be a member of the court, and Col. C. G. Hall, Army observer ion the Navy airship Shenandoah at | the time of the disaster to that craft, appears to be a likely selection, as the lonly other two officers of the air serv- lice senior to Col. Mitchell are Maj. | Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the air service, and Brig. Gen. James E. Fechet, Col. Mitchell's successor as | assistant chief. | Col. Mitchell spent about 20 minutes in Col. Nugent's office and waved jaside questioners when he came out. | I haven't a thing to say,” he said. “Ask them.” ! “He went to the office of the Judge | Advocate General before he left the | building. Formal Action Delayed. Formal action to convene a court v had no legal means of establishing the | | i T ! BY WILL P. (1) Priceless and ords — Tre: officers’ checl KENNEDY. irreplaceable PN-IPILOT HITS BACK AT MITCHELL Plans Not Work of “Bun- gling Amateurs,” Connell Tells Air Board. vouchers and receipts for practically all the expenditures of this Government. by the destruction of which the United States would suf- fer a staggering loss, being unable to produce positive evidence of payment of any claim—are now stored on open shelves in firetraps or disintegrating in dank, rat-infested cellar: (2) More than half of the 2,000 em s of the General Accounting Of- are working In three rented build ings which cost Uncle Sam $72,200 per annum. (3) Controller General lieves In a saving of § 00 a year and greatly Increased efficiency in handling Federal accounts if, instead of being tered in 21 buildings, t General Accounting Office is housed in a single structure. (4) Congress, in setting up the | eral Accounting Office as a ver: McCarl be. | Fighting back at charges of Col.| William Mitchell that the Hawaflan flight was the work of “bungling ama- teurs,” Lieut. Byron J. Connell, pilot of the PN-9, No. 1, told the President’s air board today that plans for the project were in “complete control of naval aviators,” and that “we would leave tomorrow under the same condi- tions, except we would get two weather reports instead of one.” Lieut. Connell's defense of the flight came at the conclusion of testimony in which he supported the views of brother officers, who had testified that a separate air corps In the Navy was the cure for the existine ills of naval aviation. He was followed on the stand by Comdr. Kenneth Whiting of the Bureau of Aeronautics, who de talled the “Whiting plan” for improv- ing the present conditlons. This plan, in effect, provides for permanent duty in aviation fter a probationary serv- ice, but only when the officers can qualify to command aircraft carriers and tenders. Sees Criticism Unmerited. Lieut. Connell, who sat in the pilot seat of PN-9 No. 1 for 22 hours on its flight over the Pacific, declared he nknows “of no criticism by naval aviators of the actual way the flight was handled.” “A non-flying officer,” he continued, was in general command of the project, but he turned over every- thing to Comdr. Rodgers. If he hadn't the plans for the flight might have resulted in a certain amount of fric- tion and would have worked to the detriment of the undertaking. “The only failure on the entire flight was the failure to find the Aroostok, and this was due to misun- derstanding in radio bearings., The weather for the flight was good and we believed we could make it non- stop. Trade winds in the Pacific blow 15 to 20 miles an hour for weeks at a time, but the wind fafled us and this was not foreseen by weather experts. However. it was an easy matter to n ex tem. sought for concentration of the audit and accounting work, but scat- tered in 21 buildings, wedged in here and there with scores of other activi- tles of the Government cannot be call- ed concentration. Officials Agreed on Need. Considering these four points, after a careful study of the situation that actually exists regarding the work being dofie by the (General Accounting Office and _the housing conditions under which this work is done, practical, good-business argument can be found why the United States should not promptly erect a General Account- ing Office building. President Coolidgs and the Public Buildings Commission have repeated- 1y made this specific recommendation | and favorable action has been taken by both the House and Senate com- mittees on public buildings and grounds. So we have the Federal au- thorities who are best informed on the subject unanimously agreed that busi ness expediency, economy and effi- clency all demand that Congress au- thorize and direct the erection of this proposed building. The general accounting office occu- pies 16 Government-owned building: in 10 of which it is sandwiched in with many other entirely unrelated activitie It has 11,000 square feet in the Treasury Department Building, Fif- teenth street and Pennsylvania ave- | nue: 50,759 square feet in the Winder Building, Seventeenth and I streets northwe: 72,432 square feet in the Post Office Department Building. Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue—here ahout 22,000 square feet are occupied by the Post Office Department division in the open cor- WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening - BYLACK OF SPACE Irreplaceable Records Now Scattered in 21 Buildings, Work | sential part of the Foderal budget sys. | OCTOBER 5, | | rec- | v warrants, disbursing | 1925—THIRTY-EIGHT Star. PAGES. N TAKING YOUR - " ADVICE ! “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system cove every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivercd to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday's_Circulation, Sunday’s _Circulation, TWO 7 SHIP BOARD POST LEFT BY THOMPSON MAY STAY VACANT Coolidge Declared Likely to Wait Months Before Mak- ing Appointment. * CENTS. ns Associated Press. 1 {NOMINATION OF HANEY BELIEVED IMPROBABLE | President Expected to Submit Some Other Name to Senate, Replac- ing Defiant Member. Although President Coolidze Jost no | time accepting the resignation of Frederick L. Thompson as a member {of the United States Shipping Board. | Wwho las been one of the opponents (of Ad. Palmer, president of the Emergancy Fleet Corporation, it is thought he is going to be in no hurry { to appoint a successor, if he appoints | ome at an This is the opinion today of in- Itimates of the President who are | familiar with his attitude toward the | Shipping Board because of its long- ECONOMIC UNITY * OF EUROPE URGED | Abolition of Customs Lines 1; Between Countries Is Pro- posed at Parley. nomic chaos followin in the { wake of the World War has madg (It “imperative” for Iuropean eco- { nomic systems to stop weakening each other and begin considering the advantages of economic solidarity ! through the abolition of international | customs ndaries, Dr.-Adolf Braun. ! German Reichstas member, told the { Interparliamentary Union this morn i ing. | The problem of elimination of eco- nomic frontiers is regarded by many world leaders here as second in im- i portance only to that of disarmament jand the conference gave it lac jon its program immediately before I taking up the question of universal disarmament. The entire session this | afternoon is to be devoted to °d cussion of disarmament. i Special Session Planned. | Brig. Gen. E. L. Spears, a member | of the British delegation, will open the disarmament debate and officers | of the union are so confident it will extend far beyond its allotted tim | that a special session is to be held | tonight. The yalleries at that time { will be opened to the public. Hereto! { fore admission has been by card only. i Admitting that the economic pre- | dominance ‘of Europe can hardly be maintained any longer, Dr. Braun | called for the creation of “a Europe { which, true to her historical impor- tance of the past, will show the way lout of economic separation tow ithe economic unity of the whole world,” and a Europe unfettered by | political definition of customs fron- i ters. ; “Customs Understanding.” | Dr. Braun spoke on a resolution before the Interparliamentary Union rd | ‘Ten Planes Search | Among Mountains For Missing Flyer By the Assaciated Press BELLEFONTE, Pa., October 3 —Ten planes we arching today for Charles H. Ames, the air mail pilot missing since Thursday night. They were doing most of their fiving west of Clarion, Pa., accord ing to General Supt. Egge of the air mail service. The flvers were | going over ground 100 feet apart | in the hope of finding some trace of | the lost airman The weather today was clear for the first time since Ames dis- appeared. This. coupled with the fact that hundreds of persons are searching the mountains. gave Supt. Egge hope that Ames would be found to Clarion is about 100 miles west of Bellefonte. Territory east and | south of Bellefonte is also being searched. Ames was last reported about 20 miles of here. COOLIDGE EN ROUTE T0 ADDRESS LEGION | Party Poses for Pictures as Train Stops 10 Minutes at Cincinnati. ! \T COOLIDGE |EN ROUTE TO | VERNON, Ind., October 3. | and Mrs. Coolidge. on their way to the | American Lecion convention, passed | through North Vernon shortly before noon today. They will arrive in Omaha tomorrow morning. TRAIN, President OMAHA, NORTH | standing controversy with Admiral { Palmer in his operation of the mer- i chant marine and the sale of Govern- {ment-owned ships. Aside from his | personal feelings as a result of the defied him and have refused to co operate with the administration’s mer. chant ma e policies, President 'Would Draft Labor and! Finance Next War, He Tells | Legion Convention. Coolidge is known to believe that the functions of the board, as now prescribed by law, are contrary to the Lasie principles of government President Coolidge has made no se- cret of his desire for legislation which will cither aholish the board or clse relieve it of all its present func- pt those which are of a and regulatory nature. : who are close to the President { feel that he will wait and see what | Congress intends to do before he gives any thought to the appointment of a successor to Mr. Thompson. There E those who believe that the Presi- | dent would be inconsistent if he at- tempted to fill this vacancy while he By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., October 5.—Laws under which a war might be conducted “with no profiteers and slackers urged by James A. Drain, commander of the American Legion. in an address before the National Le-|is at the same time giving his sup- gion convention, which opened here | port to a movement to legislate the {today. | Shipping Board into cblivion. The surest way to preserve peace in Haney's Nomination Uncertain. i 7 il : 2 lAdme:u . he said, is adequate prepar | The President has been outspoken jecues {in his opposition to giving adminis- | “The word of the American Legion | ;aiive and executive authority to a | has always been and alwavs shall be | hody which he contends should func- | pledged for peace,” he declared “But! tion only in a semi-judiclal capacity. | e know the world cannot have peace Moreover, he has on more than one simply by wishing for it and denyins | occ: My;'" t:;thrvssc'dhhirlnmr”m mz:“"i R ‘e know peace | fect that the merchant marine :1:‘: s :"' SRR e "“1“."“ “® | Le operated by one head and not by {must rest upon international justice ' [, oberated ¥ OnT TR SN0 ha that {and preparedness; international jus-|(hose in charge of the operation of |tice by the best means available—pre- | the fleet should come under the Exe- | paredness, based upon a souna mili-| cutive and should not function as an |tary policy for the country, a policy | independent agency answerable to no |consistent” with its history, its ideals | one. sources. | Mr. Thompson is serving on the The American Legion believes | hoard by reason of a recess appoint- peace-time preparedness for a_ war {ment made by President Coolidge | which may be thrust upon the Nation | after Congress adjourned last March, | will on the one hand reduce the proba-land it has been supposed gen- bilities of war and on the other bet-|erally that when the time came ter prepare us for defense of our-|for the President to send this selves if forced into war. The legion | nomination to the Senate for has now a special committee of able | confirmation he would have declined men engaged in making a c to do so. The me is true in the study of peace and the best w | case of Burt E. Haney of Oregon, decure and retain it. who received a recess appointment 2 -, from Mr. Coolidge and who has open- Would Draft Labor and Cash. | from e coolidee and oo B ot “The legion believes a wise provi- | resign from the board following the | sion in peace for the use of all avail- former's request Both Mr. Haney able resources of the Nation to] jcarry forward successfully an un- and Mr. Thompson are Democrats voidable war involves some form of | and, according to advices received b the President. have been the leades adequate Federal law by which ut| | the need of the Nation not only will in the board's controversy with Ad- miral Palmer and fts failure to co- With the speech he will deliver to!here he made available manpower ; the legionnaires already prepared, the | to fight. but manpower to work, fac- | Presiednt took full advantage of the | tory power to produce and manpowe day of rest. After an early breakfast | to finance a war. In short, a way | as his train made its way through |0 carry forward war with no prof- | couthern Ohio, he went into the ob-|iteers and no slack | ! en g The commander prexented a 150- jasiaonpoan (o read angieta With | ge report for eriod of his ¥ | mandership. said the past year| Although the usual precautions had | had been one o success in all legion | Dbeen taken to keep the exact schedule | enterpi | of the presidential train a secret, word | “Service to the community, State had been passed along that it was|and Nation is what the American| travelinz as a section of a Washing. | Leglon savs 1t lives fo which would have this conference! recommend the creation of a “cu toms understanding” between all the nations of Lurope, aiming at a | diminution of import duties on goods | of primary necessity “and at the| abolition of other obstacles to the freedom of trade.” TUnder the resolution the confer- | ence would also request the Inter- parliamentary Union's committee for| economic and financial questions to apnoint a subcommittee, whose duty it would be to draw up concrete pro- posals for the establishment of such operate with the administration. While the President could about for some one go fill the caused by Mr. Thompson's resigna- tion and in entire accord and sym- pathy with President Coolidge’s mer chant marine policies, and by substi- tuting some one of the same type for Mr. Haney when the time comes to nd his name to the Senate for con- firmation and thereby assume a vot- ing control of the board, this does not appear to be Mr. Ciolldge’s in- tention. e does not think the activities of 1.000 under the present total patient | martial probably will not be taken be- population of 4400, or sufficient [fore next week as Secretary Davis money should he appropriated to]will be away this week on an Ohio srect enough additional buildings, | River inspection trip. to the end that these unfortuna Col. Mitchell has retained the serv- : people miy enjoy at least the com- | ices of Representative Frank R. Reld mon decencies of life. 1f the over- [of Illinois to head civilian counsel crowded condition of the hospital is | to defend him before any disciplinary not remedied at an early date, we |proceedings the War Department fear that the percentage of Inmates | may institute against' him. ~Col Lecoming hopelessly insane will be | Mitchell, in annourting this today sreater than those cured, n spite! from the office of Representative Of the best efforts of the superintend- | Reid, also said Col. H. A. White of ent and his @ tants. !the Judge Advocate General's De- onditions in_Howard Hall partment and on duty at San An- ridors about the central court: 2,200 | square feet at 1420 Pennsylvania a enue northwest: 6,745 square feet in the Court of Claims Building, Sev enteenth street and Pennsylvania a: enue: 29,000 square feet in temporary | building No. 6, at Eighteenth street ' and Virginia avenue: 28,000 square feet in the old Auditor's Bullding, | Fourteenth and B streets southwest: 8,000 square feet in the old Land | Office, Seventh .and F streets: 900 ! square feet in the Navy Bullding, ! Seventeenth and B streets, and 3,000 | lay and refuel as we had planned de- spite the wide publicity that it was to be a non-stop flight. Had we found the Aroostok we would have refueled and continued to Hawaii. We would leave tomorrow under the same con- ditions, except that we would get two weather reports instead of one. Praises Rodgers’ Work. “Training was carried on at San Diego and was complete. Comdr. Rodgers spent a great deal of time piloting the plane himself, and he is e & no right to exist as a fonal ins particularly had. This building houses | tonio, would be his military counsel. about 200 patients: it was originally | Il we are doing is for the coun- intended to accommodate about haif | tr aid Col. Mitchell. “I am ready this number. Here are confined not ! for any eventuality that may come only those of the dangerously insane!up. Everything we do is in a broad type, but, as well, those who have square feet the Pettus Building, a very, very good fler. I believe he | Xineteenth street and Virginia avs. did more in the two months there toward developing aerial navigation " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) bu ‘olumn an understanding with a view to sub- mitting the proposals to a conference | of the European powers. Urges Solidarity. “The far-reaching consequences of ton-to-St. Louis limited, and along the route small crowds had gathered to wave a greeting. Poses for Pictures. When a stop was made to change tution save through its capacity | give that service,” he said. | “Within that service its first duty so recognized from the beginning, is tto the disubled, those men who paid !an extra price for the part they play- the board will be greatly disturbed or { harmed If these two positions remain | vacant for any length of time. Be- | sides, the President is known to be | more concerned about obtaining legix- {lation to correct what has been de. hecome insane while serving criminal sentences in Federal prisons and penitent Many of these men are suffering only from the mildest rms of mental disorders, but, ac- cording to the statements of the physicians in charge, are likely to escape if given greater liberties. and are accordingly confined in this build- which is surrounded by very all, 24 feet in height. Recreation Space Small. way for the betterment of the na- Itional defense.” ?WWWW Promises Further Moves. The present agitation by Col. Mitch- ell and his followers for a reorgani- Zzation of the Nation’s defense system iz is only a *“curtain raiser,” the fiery & airman told newspaper men at a con- ! | ference last night in his suite at the Willard Hotel. 1 o T y = < Iznoring references to the impend- | this year’s base bail classic ing disciplinary proceedings of the | The Sunday Star. They are War Department, the colonel declared | 1 | « the question of defense plans is “vital¥ “There is an open court in the cen tar of the building about 100 feet square, called by the inmates the Bull Pen.” This is the only recrea ion ce available. 1 here the dangerous as well as the noisy tients mingle with the hose min » almost normal. This interming must bhe very depressing to the and holds the interest of every Amer- ! ican. “We have just begun to fight,” he red, adding that the word “we” did not imply the existence of any organization, because “that is what we want to keep away from. If | there is an organization for this pur- pose it wil get into the political category,” he said. e JOHN B. KELLER—The pions. BILL McKECHNIE—Ma World Series Bulletin Eight stars, all of the first magnitude, will cover DENMAN THOMPSON—Sports editor of The Star. BUCKY HARRIS—Manager of the World Cham- | the World War, which we are not : yet capable of grasping entirely,” Dr. Braun in a report presented in the | name of the committee for economi- cal and financial questions, “seem to have displaced the center of gravity stop weakening each other and begin mic_solidarity : Even should Europe attain an econ- omic union, however, Dr. Braun point- ed out, it will never reach economic automony, “for it will continue to want, and to want to an increasing | extent, fodstuffs and raw material. “The abolition of custom frontiers within Europe will not do away with the necssity to import corn, petroleum, cotton, wood, copper and tin,”” he de- | clared. Rather than cause a decrease in the importation of materials from the for The Evening Star and Star’s base ball’ expert. nager of the Pittsburgh of the world, and make it imperative | for European economic systems to! considering the advantages of econo- | ed in the war. “After this duty lies to the orphans of the veterans, the children of those | whom the war took out of the world | before their normal time. After that | we call Americanism, or what is more | accurately defined as ‘better citizen- with all that these words im- engines gt Storrs, on the outskirts of Cincinnati, the President went to the observation platform, around which several hundred persons had gathered. There he accommodated photographers v posing with Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. James A. Drain, wife of the American Legion's national commander, who is traveling with them. ‘Without incident, the special train, | which Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge boarded | vesterday in Washington, forged its | way during the night through the! i mountains of West Virginia, hauled by what Baltimore and Ohio Railroad officials_claim is the largest moun- i tain type passenger locomotive in the world. | Before dawn it had crossed the Ohio River, making its way toward Cincin. nati and St. Louis. Although faced with the certainty that crowds would greet the party at various points along the route, the President was deter- scribed in official circles as “this evil ingovernmental organization.” Neither is the President understood to ba con- cerned about the frank statement made by Mr. Thompson in his letter of resignation to the effect that he in- | tendsc to join with others in fighting the proposed change in the Shipping Board's functions. Resignation Declared Pleasing. One assoclate of President Coolidge said today, while discussing the Thomp- | son resignation, that he had reason to feel that the President was pleased that Mr. Thompson saw fit to leave the board This official explained that Mr. Thompson has not only been one of the leaders in the controversy with Admiral Palmer, but that during the {present period, when this row has reached what has been described as a “crisis,” he has permitted articles “omdr. Drain warned the legion- naires against participation in pol- itics as a national organization. | i i Hines Reports Progress. Complete decentralization of its work, resulting in greater satisfac- | tion among the veterans, was cited | as the outstanding accomplishment | of the Veterans' Bureau in the past | year in an address prepared by Gen. Frank T. Hines, its director, before the opening session. Reporting in detail on the bureau’s latter class of ients. The sky The purpose of the conference, Col. visible to the patients while they are Mitchell said, w to “stress” the Pirate: United States, Dr. Braun said such a would I mined to confine himself to one speech work, Gen. Hines said the decentrali- zation had resulted in fewer appeals criticizing President Coolidge and hix ion the trip, the prepared address he i will_deliver to the war veterans at |Omaha. He was willing to appear on | ) < el | the observation platform to wave to which are economically highly devel |10 Fi ™ unwilling to indulge in oped are the best customers. The Ing to reconstruction of Europe is, there. | eXtemporaneous speech-making. | fore, a matter of considerable busi- ! select one from the Gulf States sec | ness interest to the non-European | . it gJudge’ AttaCked by Angry Pl'lSOllel‘, {tion and one from the North Pacific OverpoWers and Then Forgives Him ;se(-llnn. These requirements are made | | European economic union serve to stimulate that trade. “Every- body knows,"” he said, “that countries in ihis court, and a slimpse of the | value of the plan he has advocated for ontside world may be had by looking | the creation of a secretary of national' over the 24-foot wall. As there is no! defense, with subsecretaries for air, | ssembly hall in the buildingz, it is:land and water. Such an organization, but selcom that relizious services are | he said, would prevent a deadlock held, and accordingly the spiritual!on aviation matters, where as now well'heing of the patients is sadly ! there is an “interlocking directorate’ nezlected; there is nothing to break | on matters pertaining to hte air. the dead monotony from one end of the week to the othe 'n the Winter se: in Howard Hall must than in mild weather, as during the , cold months the inmates cannot, be ause of the cold, long remain in the et jonly place of recre-| {he Hawailan flight advocated such a s . 7 : nonths. | department, Col. Mitchell said, al- it 2y and nighi; the patients MUSt | though he admitted In detall the naval O Or A e | officer’s plan differed. President Hard- aeheesiins wpon ihe snmates,| IS s reorsanization plan, while calling S o ieEEE sees Gk pae or an amalgamation of the Army and | especially those only mildly afflicted. | \) <7 4id not make provisions for the Would Affect Sound Mind. {air. but eventually would have in- “After examining conditions in | cluded that branch, the colonel said. tioward Hall, the members of the, Declaring he had not been invited | nd jury could readily believe the to attend the American Legion con- tement of the guard who said: ‘If | vention at Omaha as the guest of the man went in there (Howard Hall) T.egion, Col. Mitchell said he had‘ und mind, he would | planned to o with one of the local | ne in less than three | posts. He will \V(‘I! Column §6.) (Continued on P Column 3.) 1 to the central office, with claims and | merchant marine policies to appear in rating boards traveling from their |the newspaper he publishes in Ala district offices to places where there | bama. is a concentration of disabled veterans | Should the President fill the Thomp- 5 e !son vacancy and substitute a name {for that of Mr. Haney it will be neces- sary for him to select a Democrat in each case. It also will be necessary to JOHN McGRAW—Manager of the New York Giants. ROBERT T. SMALL—Consolidated Press Expert. JOHN B. FOSTER—Editor Spalding Base Ball e Guide. FRED LIEB—Official scorer of three world series. In addition The Star will have the full reports of The Associated Prese. (Continued on Page 3, Quotes Rodgers’ Proposal. the proposed | would have an equal | voice with the “land” and “water” branches, and would eliminate any “tie votes.” Comdr. John Rodgers of War Ruined Progress. “Had it not been for the xrm! War,” he continued, “the develogfhent , of Europe might have continued un-; disturbed for another few decades; but| Angered because of a fine of $10 the World War has been an element; imposed for breaking glass in the of destruction and harm far beyond its | street, Willilam O'Donnell, a young own duration. The example of Great|patient at Walter Reed Hospital, to- Britain, which does not succeed in,day rushed up to the bench muttering mastering her own social crises, shows | threats and attempted to strike Judge that we must reach quite new methods | John P. McMahon. of dealing with economic disturbances.| As a bailiff leaped forward to grab “The hope of securing an economic | O'Donnell, Judge McMahon yelled out, | predominance over the world by a pol-| “Leave him alone, I'll take care of icy of colonization no more exists for | him.” The two clinched, but Judge Europe. The cry ‘Africa for the Afri-| McMahon was the master of the situa- jcans’ and ‘Asia for the Asiatics’ is|tion, and in a couple of seconds held| O'Donnell is about vears old, [ and London last night said a Finnis {heard everywhere and sounds like a | the man so he could not move. medium height and rather powerfully | gunboat, name not given. had foun- | m conditions | Te exin Word Aeronautlcs, plan, he said, under necessary by the shipping act or contempt of court Judge McMahon said, “No, the man didn’t know what he was doing, He is a patient at Walter Reed, Suffering from nervous disorders. He can pay just his original fine of $10. O'Donnell was arrested by Police- man W. F. Burke yesterday when he threw a half-pint whisky bottle into the street, after the policeman had arrested a friend who was under the influence of liquor. | (A dispatch through Copenhagen 153 DROWN AS SHIP SINKS. Finnish Torpedo Boat Goes Down in Violent Storm. HELSINGFORS. Finland, October 5 (A).--Three officers and fifty men {were drowned when the Finnish tor- pedo boat S-2 went down in a violent storm during the naval maneuvers. Beginning Wednesday, each day of the series The Star will issue a noon edition with the official line-up and the latest dope and a score card for use with your radio or at the game. ARG OO GO G OB OG0T NG ONIR0RR A 00 Immediately after each game The Strar will issue with complete box score and play-by-play story of the game. QWWWWGW GHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOF OHOHOHOHOHO O “ . with a perfectly be hopelessly ins " (Continued on Page 2, {death-knell for European predomi-| The judge then turned O'Donnell | built. dered in the Gulf of Bothnia.) { nai From whatever viewpoint we |over to the bailiff, who led him back to | === Three other vessels have taken b ———lthe celiroom. When asked z 3 refuge off the Swedi nish (Continued on Page would hold him on a charge of ..'.‘.a.?.i!Radlo programs—Page 18.! P S AR 4 Column 2)