Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1926, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. WEATHER. . Weather Bureau Forecast.) cloudy today; tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness, probably followed by showers; not much change in tem- perature. Temperatures: Highest, 86, at 4 pm. vesterday: lowest, 58, at 6§ a.m. today. Full report on page 25 WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION No. 1,103—No. 29,958. Iintered as second class matter post_office, Washington, D. C. BYRD BEGINS DASH DIRECT 70 POLE IN SPECTACULAR RACE WITH ARCTIC FOGS Must Make Minimum Flight| of 1.300 Miles Encircling “Top of World” to Prove| His Achievement. PLANE’S RADIUS GIVES SCANT SAFETY MARGIN Expedition Expects to Be Back ini Kings Bay Today After 16 to 24! Hour Non-stop Journey—Sensa- | tional Shift Is Made in Plans at the Last Moment. BY WILLIAM BIRD. Special Correspondent of The Star. Through Mountain Commander ABOARD MONOPLANE DE ROW, May 8 (By radio to Fairb; Fairbanks we are skimming through Detroit made 90 m feet. As 1 through the Lieut. Wisc from we will be journey. Anaktuvuk Our plane there will close in on business. last 100 m tance in a | “We passed over Wiseman at an elevation of 8,000 feet and this may | enable us to aveld the narrower por tions of the passe: The clouds are hangiug low as we approach the foot- hills. “Maj. Lanphier is navigating alo the old course of the Alaskan and we will soon enter the .John River| Pas If we continue on our direct | course, we should be in Barrow in| | KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen. May 9. ~The Byrd Polar expdition’s three- | . Joscphine Ford, | North Pole from its base here at 1:30 o'clock this (Sun- day) morning, Greenwich time. The airplane is expected back in from 16 to 24 hours The airplane got away on the se ond attempt of the day to take off. The first attempt was made carlier in the afternoon. The weather was periect. but the | airplane failed to rise, its load w i lightened for the second and suc- cessful attempt. At the last moment the com- mander has changed his plans. In- stead of landing first in Peary land | and establishing a base, he is fly-| ing direct toward the Pole and re- turning over Peary land. But with- out stopping there. i engine airplanc, flew toward the { | Byrd Announces Plans. “We are off for the Pole, u...d: Comdr. Byrd at the takeoff. “Our intention is to fly due norih 120 mile in a bee line, the distance from King Bay to the top of the world, and with- stopping the motors to tion. aving done this, our purpose i turn_leftward and circle back [ 10 within sight of the north Greenland | splitting_the opposition to the wets t on the return course, which, be- of the curve, is somew -—approximately 900 miles. i “We intend to explore by going to Peary Lard via the Pole rather than | to the Pole via Peary Land. The | reason for the change is our experi- | ence up here in flying. Landing on | ¢ the snow with skis with a large | three-motored plane indicates that it |s §= inadvisable to land in ter with a heavy load. would have to do if we went di 1o Peary Land. “The course to the Pole is for the |¢ most part over the are: ex- | plored by Amundsen <t vear, but from § ard we shall be pa as we | zect | 44 degrees on- points where we cross Peary’s course of 1909, Will See Huge Area. | “Between the Pole and Peary land | guessing the territory is unexplored, and from | the plane, if the air is clear, we can survey perhaps 60.000 square mi which no human eve has 3 in other words, we « 1d_that mm-hl to the map of the Northern Hemi- aphere. | “We do not know what we shall| find in these regions-perhs but fce. On the other hand strong reasons to infer the of land from the behavior enrrents and from the taken in the neighborhood. land exists, it will be the known land to the Pole and should be an extremely valuable half-way point for future Arctic_exploration. | ““Besides establishing the existence | non-existence of new land in that | regioh we shall have an opportunity | to study the Peary land coast from | the aviation viewpoint. Most of that st has not been expiored since the lane was developed into a prac-i exploring instrument, and we | very little data re, arding the | of the region for landing | ps nothing there are nearest e | planes. Had Plea Long in Mind. i tion that | & ago to ! Cape “It was that impelled me onl dizcard the plan of flying to Jesup and establishing a base there before attempting the polar flight. 1] have indeed always had the alterna- tive plan in mind. “The Greenland-first plan was | hased on the probability that along | the Peary land coast we should find | a suftable place for alighting and | establishing an advanced base. The | idea was to leave at such base sup- | plies and gasoline. returning to Kings | PBay to refuel, thence flving to the | Pole with full tanks and exploring considerably bevond the Pole before veturning empty to Peary land to pick up fuel for the final return to! Kings Bay. “That is an attractive program, but is based on the initial assumption a suitable site for an advanced hase could readily be found. No doubt such sites are there, but finding them in fog and bud weather might be | e The scheme also requires four four landings, all of | wh atly to the risk. | The alternative plan seems our several experiments of sta extremely more logical. Have ent confidence in the plane’s ability to keev In the air 24 hours. We can explore in this flicht ne as much territory as we should otherwise cover and can obtain the information re- quired about Peary Land. Amundsen Party Agrees. #I am pleased to note that Capt. Amundsen and Mr. Ellsworth, my neighbors here, agree with me that it is preferable not to make more land- | ings in the polar regions than are necessary, and when it is possible to make them only on known ground. “It is unnecessary for me to say that hoth Bennett and myself are starting out with the keenest en- (Continued on Page 6, Column 7.) it after | question will determine the outcome 1o X | publican senator | now has Pennsy at | that Representative William & wets, unknown | some of the extreme drys. {and Gov. Isworth | favor teat Gov. sing over regions | ever, than he would Mr. Vare under never before seen by man, except the ! gucn’ circumstances. S |in the air. always a nightmare to the politic ! his unequivocal stand on the prohibi- | tion issue, because g Iutence | of his antagonism to machine poli { miration for the man and the belief K another three hours and a half. “The weather is decidedly colder as | [ROIT have just sighted the Yu | low he WASHING 'WILKINS’ PLANE SPEEDING TOWARD ARCTIC WASTES iant Aircraft Nearing Barrow After Pssing Regarded as Most Perilous Part of Trip. BY CAPT. GEORGE H. WILKINS, Avctic Expedition. R. EN ROUTE POINT BAR- anks, Alaska—One hour out from the clouds at 90 miles an hour and tkon River. We have Our clevation is 4000 send this message | can sce the river e clouds. The Detroiter is going well ly at the controls, Maj. Lanphier is iles exac navigating. We passed over Wiseman, 200 miles | Fairbanks. at 10 am. In anotaer hour nearing the critical point of our his is the narrow gorge of the River with its high canyon walls can make the turns between the 10,000-foot peaks, which will hang over us, but ! Ii very the clouds dangerous little room. will he be very us there it We have made much hetter progress over the iles. The planc has made this dis ittle less than an hour. we push farther into the Arct am quite comfortable in the but { miss the warmth of the ¢ I am operating the radio on an hour- Iy schedule and looking after the big comrass in the cabin. the course and I send a so the Major could on the navigating compass. “I have also a sun compass, but as long as familiar landamrks are be- we can allow the pilot to set his Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) note check BIG PINCHOT VOTE WOULD AID VARE IN RACE WITH PEPPER| Governor Counted Out, But| Size of Balloting for Him Will Figure Heavily. BY G. GOULD LINCOI Staff Correspondent of The PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 8.—What vote Pinchot? The answer to that tas the triangular race for the Re- rial nomination, which lvania in its grip. If the governor polls a big vote, are Vare, boss and hope of the will slide into the nomination. None of the veteran politician think that Pinchot himself has a hance to win the nomination. Few i sthers think so, except the close per-| al followers of the governor and | d to Varism, the probabiliti Pennsylvan In a race confined to Senator Pepper Pinchot or a race in which or Mr. Vare were the odds would distinctly nator Pepper. He would de-| Pinchot more easily, how only the governor entered, Guessing Is Rampant. Today there iz powerful lot of as to the outcome of the senatorial primary. How the inde- pendent vote is going has them all The independent vote is ns. Here it is a kind of super nightmare. How many of the independents are sing to follow Pinchot because of he has cut the tate debt to the bone and because How many are going to Vare bec »f his wet platform? How many are ving to Pepper because of their ad- hat he alone can save the State from Varism? Strenuons efforts have been made to get Gov. Pinchot to withdraw in favor of Senator Pepper. They all have been wasted. The governor declares he is in the race to stay. Senator Pepper is just as adamant in his determination to carry on. Drys Are Divided. The diys in the State themselves are divided as to what should be done to defeat Vare. FKor example, Bishop Barry of the Methodist Epis: copal Church, who may be termed the head of the church in the State has made an appeal to Gov. Pinchot to withdraw. The Bishop halls from Philadelphia. On the other hand Bishop McConnell of the same church, in_Pittsburgh, is out for Pinchot. The W. C U. of Pennsylvania is backing Gov. Pinchot. It is a strongly_organized group among the drys. The Anti-Saloon . League of Pennsylvania has declared that the records of both Gov. Pinchot and Senator Pepper are “satisfactory.” This is the statement given out by State Superintendent Homer W. Tope authorized by the headquarters com- mittee composed of dry leaders from ail parts of the State. It declares thac Pennsylvania faces a calamity in the possible nomnation of Mr. Vare, saying that he is unfit for office, " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) ‘Bal)y’s Neck Broken | In Perilous Climb To Arm of Rocker Losing his balance while climb- ing on the arm of a rocking chair, two-vear-old George Edward Silva fell and broke his neck in the din- ing room of his parents’ home, at 620 Upshur street, late yesterday afternoon. Coroner Ramsay Nevitt issued a certificate of acci- dental death. C Mrs. Ruth Silva, the boy's mother, was in the house at the time of the accident. She rushed with him to the street, where she hailed a passing automobile, but the baby was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Episcopal Eye, sar_and Throat Hospital. Offic H. W. Lineburg of the tenth pr cinet investigated the case. B.0.P.CHIEFS CLASH ON FARM AID BILLS, Madden and Haugen Heated Exchange—1Jardine Returns to Capital. By the Associated Press. Republican leaders clashed yvester- day during debate in the House on farm relief legisiation. Chairman Madden of the appropria- tions committee and Haugen of the| |agricultural committee engaged . while Representa- | in a heated controvers: tive Tincher, Republican, Kansas, au- thor of the hill to cary out Secreta Jardine’s recommendations, assailed certain advocates of the corn belt plan for “unfair propagands When Mr. Madden opposition to any bill that would “take a dollar out of the treasury,” Mr. Haugen asked if Congress had come to the stage where ““no man could hold | up its mandates.” In reply, Mr. Mad- den_deniéd any intention of holding up the will of Congress, explaining that he had expressed a personal opinion as one of the 35 members propriations committee. Attacks Farm Leaders. Representative Tincher directed his attack against Frank W. Murphy of Wheaton, Minn., who, representing several farm organizations, has been a leading advocate of the Haugen price stabilization He charged Murphy with practices which ‘“‘were he a mem. ber of Congress would justify his im- peachment,” adding that “Murphy wrote the Haugen bill and now hovers over us day and night, and writes half the speeches for the House members supporting the measure. Mr. Tincher also attacked the Prairie Farmer, an lllinois publication, for & hat his bill “smells badly, MRS. CAPPER WEAKEH. Baltimore Physicians Report Slight Change in Her Condition. BALTIMORE, Md., May 8 (#). Mrs. Arthur Capper, wife of Senator Capper of Kansas, was reported to be slightly weaker tonight by physi cians at the women's hospital here. Mrs. Capper has been in a critical condition for the past two days. Two relapses have followed an apparently successful operation performed Sev- eral weeks ago. Coolidge’s Choice of Summer Home Narrowing to Sites in Adirondacks President Coolidge is having a finai inspection made of prospective sites for a Summer White House, with the probability that he will spend his vacation in the Adirondacks near Saranac Lake. Mr, Coolidge has sent an assistant to look over three camps tendered him in the Adirondacks and a resi- dence in New Hampshire near the Vermont line. Among the upstate v York offers a cottage owned by Kirkwood, editor of the Kan- Star, is understood to appeal strongly to the President. It was made clear at the White House that he is as yet undecided. The Kirkwood camp is in Franklin County, near St. Regis Lake. One ' N of tne other sites the President is having inspected -is understood to be on Lem Lake, also in Franklin County. About the Kirkwood cottage are several smaller houses which members of the staff Mr. Coolidge will take North with him could occupy. President Coolidge is now consider- ing leaving Washington as soon as the hot weather sets in, provided congress has adjourned by that time. Last vear he postponed his departure until the budget meeting of the de- partmental and bureau chiefs, which he addressed, but he may decide to return to Washington for -the same meeting late in June this year. rosidence to Philadelphia, where he will speak July 4, Any devigtion | in| announced his | of the ap-| Sunday TON, - . SUNDAY £y HEAD OF OCCOQUAN AND BLANTON TILT ON SURPRISE VISIT Capt. Barnard Disparages Job in No Uncertain Terms as Prisoners Cheer. ‘COMMITTVEJEr OBJECTS TO WELDED SHACKLES | Methods Used in Punishment Wing | Disapproved, But General Conditions Found Good. Four members of the subcommitiee | of the House District ommittee which has heen investigating officials nd conditions in the District paid an unexpected and unannounced visit to | the District workhouse at Oeccoquan, | Va., vesterday afternoon and made an investigation of the establishment, which marked at the outset by a heated argument between Representa- | tive Blanton, Democ Texas, and Capt. M. M. Barnard, superintendent | of penal institutions in the District. The argument was brought on when pt. Barnard resented the outspoken iticism by Mr. Blanton in the hear ng of prisoners, who listened in glee as the two exchanged words and set | up a shout of applause. ‘The climax of the argument came when Mr. Blanton reminded Capt. tarnard that he was a Government employe in a governmental job, and | the latter defiantly replied, “Hell with | the job!" i ' Conditions Generally Good. | h the exception of conditions in! | the cells for “bad prisoners” and the | existence of wooden structures, re-| garded, by the investigators as fire! hazards, the institution as a whole | was found to be in excellent shape, | according to the opinion expressed afterward by members of the sub- committee. The inspecting committee, ing of Chairman Gibson, Re) Vermont, and Representatives Hous. ton, Republican, Delaware; Bowman, | Republican, West Virginia, and Blan ton, arrived at the workhouwe during | i the Saturday evening lull which fol-| lows the 4:30 whistle. | Capt. Barnard was not at ministration building whe gressmen arrived and Capt. vard, in charge at the time, started| ! showing the committee through the! plant pending his arrival. Objects.to Leg Irons. As the group passed through # ro.| tunda, Mr. Gibson noticed an inno-{ cent-looking, white.palnted door. “What's in there?” he asked. | “That's for the prisoners who are! specially punished,” replied | ! where about six | prisoners were kept hehind bars, Mr Blanton called the attention of hi colleagues to the leg irons which were {used. The prisoners were clad in| their underwear. Their outer clothing | had been taken away from them at| the end ot the day’s work. There were no cots. ! It was here that Capt. rived on the scene. Chaias Welded On. i Mr. Blanton had been inspecting sores on the legs of one man, who he | id had not had the leg chains off | since February 13, when they hml‘v been welded on. i said “ | 1 Wi | consist. | publican, the a | being i Barnard ar- | “Phat’s an infamous shame,” Mr. Blanton. “I don’t care for such talk here,” ‘apt. Barnard. “If such pe u came through here talking | e'd ever { replied i ! ple & Ilike this, how do you expect be able to handle these men Mr. Blanton replied that, regardless | of ,what the men had done, or why they were be punished, to leave them with only a thin straw mat- tress and a couple of blankets to | sleep on, depriving them of a cot and | making them take their rest ou a | concrete floor, was little short o | “mhuman.’ A | Capt. Barnard made a sharp reply. Mr. Blanton then asked if he realized (hat he and his colleagues were a | | committee from Congress inspecting |the plant. Fears Influence With Men. “I don't care for Congress or for a | committee, when it comes to being I criticized like this in front of these {men. You go in here and make a statement of that kind, and how will [ handle that man after you leave?> | Other committee members intér | vened and the party passed through the rotunda toward the north wing { of the “bad cells Outside, in the rotunda, the argu. ment began anew. Capt. Barnard expressed resentment at the criticism in the presence of prisoners. “I have never been criticized for anything but for being too lenient,” he said. “Well,” replied Mr. Blanton, “we don’t intend to stand for having United States prisoners sleep on a cement floor with less than two blan | kets and a little mattress.” “You just ask any of those prison “(Continued on Page 4, Column 2) | . DAUGHERTY TRIAL SET FOR JULY IN NEW YORK Government to Push Charge of Con- spiracy to Defraud in Ameri- can Metals Case. By the Associated Pres NEW YORK, May 8.—Former At- torney General Harry M. Daugherty, under indictment on charges of con- spiracy to defraud the Government !in the American Metals Co. case, will | go on trial some time in July, Federal | Attorney Emory R. Buckner said to- | day. Mr. Buckner said it was the Gov- ernment’s intention to expedite the} case. Mr. Daugherty, former Alien Prop- erty Custodian Thomas W. Miller and John T. King, former Republican national committeeman from Connec- ticut, were indicted yesterday, charged with conspiring to prevent the Gov. ernment from receiving Daugherty's “honest and unbiased judgment’ in the return of $7,000,000 to Richard| Merton, German metal magnate, in the American Metals Co. scandal 1 b i 1 ! | | | i ! | this | riage | is RIDA JOHNSON YOUNG MORNING, MAY 9, 1926.—114 PAGES. St * MAY 9, 1926 (#) Means Associated Press. FIVE CENTS. HUGE FOREST FIRES RAGING; MAN DEAD Students, Soldiers and Hun- dreds of Others Fight Flames—Big Areas Burn. | By the Associated Press. aging with unabated intensity and | fanned intermittently by brisk winds, three major forest fires in Virginia, nd several smaller ones, the latter believed to be offshoots of the mali conflagrations, have swept clean an area many milds in length, leaving in their wake a trail of destruction and heavy losses of hogs, cows and other animals. A toll of one life has been reported | from the fire front. A message stated that Frank Hurst had been cut off and burned to death in the fire near Blacksburg. The latest force to be thrown into | the battle to check the flames was orps of cadet students from Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blackslmrg. The students, imbued with rea don that every available person | he needed to prevent further destruc tion, were being rushed to the scene of the onsweeping fire in the north end of the county. Soldiers Fight All Night. i A hattery of coast artillery fought | blaze all night and seon after | returning to the armory at Rlacks- | burg this morning was recalled when fresh breeze spread the flames r a ten-mile front. ¢ help trom the fire zone said hle man was needed to | Hundreds are already curb the fire engaged. The area around Turkey Gap, of Crimora and adjacent to Staun was transformed into a raging i terno. Shooting high in the air and | covering a six-mile area, the fire was | progressing in two directions, one salient moving eastward over the into Albemarle County, the burning southward along the sta County side. An effort to the flames at a mountain read proved unsucc Unless there ain by Sunday, experts declared, ast stand must be made at a mountain between Staunton and Char- ed in all prob- it | ast | on, | in- other | the other line lottesville will be re: unless the fire is halted, authoritatively. 15,000 Acres More Burned. Forest fires near Roseland in Nel- son County have covered more than 15000 ac despite the fact that this region is outside the forest area. Numerous dwellings, livestock, to- bacco houses, two school houses and much stock have been burned. A new fire, burning on a snmll‘ scale, was reported to have started; near Irish Creek, in TRockbridge | County, but soon was extinguished. Timber on the entire southern end of the Blue Ridge Mountwin site of | the proposed Shenandoah ational Park is menaced, and unless the for- est fire, which has been raging for seven days, is conquered by the volunteers by Sunday the area will| be swept to total destruction by the flames, experts declare. More than 10,000 acres of virgin} timber are in the path of the flames. | Fire wardens appealed to Gov. Byrd (Continued on Page 6. lumn 1.) DIES IN CONNECTICUT Was Author of “Brown of Har- vard,” “Little Old New York" and “Maytime.” By the Associated Press. STAMFORD, Conn., May 8.—Mrs. Rida Johnson Young, nationally known author and playright, died at her home at Southfield Point today. She had been ill for some tithe. Rida Johnson Young, a native of Baltimore, is best known as thor of “Little Old New York time” and other Broadway successes. Among her earlier plays were “‘Brown of Harvard,” now appearing on the screen; “Glorious Betsy,” ‘“Naughty Marietta,” “The Lottery Man” and “Her Soldier Boy."” She married and divorced James Young, jr.. son of a former Maryland Senator, James Young, who later re- married and was divorced by Clara Kimball Young of motion ~picture tame. Mrs. Young was taken ill during | ment | attorney’s office that he could have | the latter part of last year. In Decem- ber she was reported critically ll, but swiignd TODAY’S ART ONE—11 General News— Laocal, oreign. Schools and Colleges Y Weoch Parent-Teacher Serial, Page STAR PAGES. National and Pages 26 and 2s. s—Page 30. Activities—F Law of the ews Page 33. ¢ News— Civilian Army News- Radjo News Curfent News District National Page 33. PART TWO—11 PAGES. Editorials an1 Editorial Features. shington and Other Notes of Art Reviews of Page ales of Well Known Folk--Page 9. News of the Clubs—Pages 10 and 11 Do A. R. Activities—Page Around the City—Page 13. At the Community Centes Spanish War Veteran PART THREE—14 PAGE Amusements—Theaters and the Photo. play Music in Wa: Motors and and 11. Veterans of the Great War—Page 10. Fraternal New age 13. PART FOUR—1 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and tures. The Rambler—P 4. I hington—Page 4 otoring—Pages 5 Fea Adver! News—Pages 12 and 13. APHIC SECTIO 12 PAGE World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION— PAGES. Betty: Reg’lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. ! nicated CHICAGO INVESTIGATES “LAW CONSERVATORS” Commercial Enterprise Offered to‘ Patrol Suburbs for Half of | Fines Collected. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, May of Law Conservators. to make arrangement; of outlying towns to patrol | highways for a price, was under in- | vestigation today by the State at- | torney’s office. | At Morris, 8—The T, where representa- ttives of the organization paid a visit | and offered to set up a patrol for half of the fines they collected from per- | sons atrested, five men in blue uni- | forms and riding motor cycles were told by the mavor that they would not be welcomed. They had just left when Morris police received orders for their arrest from District High- way Engineer Fleming of Ottawa. | An applicant for a job with the| law conservators told the State work If he would pay $20 and equip | himself with a motor cycle. His pay | was to be 20 per cent of the fines | collected. e BISHOP BAST RELEASED. Scandinavian Prelate Files Appli- cation for New Trifl in Denmark. COPENHAGEN. May 8 (#).—Right Rev. Anton Bast, Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Scandinavia, recently con- victed of misapplying charity funds, | secured temporary freedom today by filing application for a new trial. He was to have begun his three- month prison sentence today, but was given his liberty until the court de- cides whether to grant him a new trial. Such a trial would be by three new judges and.a jury. MAN SHOOTS GIRL ANDENDS OWN'LIF |Jealousy Held Motive of Ed- ward J. Barron jn Shooting Miss G. E. Nelson. After seriously wounding Miss il elson, emplove of the Veterans' ureau. of 14 T street northea Fdward J, Barron. clerk in the water department of the District, of 142 Q et, placed a shotgun under chin and shot himself. in a quiet wooded glhide on the ‘arter estu near the Mount Vernon boulevard, four miles from Washington, afternoon. He died in- his Arlington County in by authorities, «fon of a to Miss it is letter Nelson, tten arning her « another man, n this jealousy is infegred by the authorities as the motive behind the shooting Found By Navy Officer. Comdr. Holloway Frost, 2131 F . was can- alon shortly o'clock afternoon m the Carter esti noticed an antomohile co ne that twists back the wood land He had almost passed the car when noticed 1 man apparently asleep de it. Investigating. he found it as 4 corpse with the head almost blown from the body. A shotgun was beside the body. a short distance from the automobile. Comdr. Frost immediately with Arlington thorities. Coroner B. H af’ investigation immed the Arlington County officials arrived on the scene they discovered the pros ate form of Miss Nelson some thirty feet away from the automobile and finding life not extinct. Deputy Sherift Harry L. Woodyard and Deputy Stan- (Continued on Page 4. Column 3. Lieut Y. vesterday e when ch parked on through commu- County au 'THIRTY INJURED BY HAIL i LARGER THAN BASE BALLS Nearly Million Dollars’ Damage Done in Dallas, Tex.—Tops of Cars Pierced. L By the Associated Press DALLAS, Tex., May § —Thir sons were injured and nearly lion dollars property damage was done by a terriffic bail storm, which bombarded Dallas early tonight with stones larger than base balls and weighingmore than a pound. Nearly half the down town store win- dows on the windward sides of streets were smashed, while street car and automobile tops were pierced. None of the injured is in condition. Several persons were hurt by hail per- serious at the base ball park, where a min- | Houston. | iature tornado halted the Dallas game and carried part of the park fence several hundred yards. TRAIN KILLS 5 IN AUTO. Two Women, Two Children and Man Die in Michigan Crash. MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., May 8| ().—Five persons were killed instant ly late today when their automobile was struck head-on by a limited inter- urban train two miles north of here. The dead are: Mrs. Charles Rank, August Rank, two children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rank and the mother of August Rank. {Navy Dirigibles That Only Whirlwind Can Destroy Are Proposed by Experts By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J., May 8.—Re- searches of five Navy Department techniclans in recent flights of the dirigible Los Angeles justify the de- partment in urging the copstruction of two new airships of a similar type, according to Prof. C. P. Burgess of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology and the Bureau of Aeronautics. The proposed ships will have twice the volume of the Los Angeles and will be designed jointly by the Bureau of Aeronautics and the Good- year Zeppelin Corporation. The tests conducted. Prof. Burgess e shoRTt W e awdesa sigid 5 " airship has great strength and safety for rough weather. The experts de- cided that nothing short of a whirl- wind or tornado could destroy such a ship. Investigation of the stressés in the Los Angeles in the portion of the craft where the Shenandoan broke showed that only circular motion of the air at high velocity could have caused the disaster. Such conditions, it was asserted, are very rare. The technicians in making the tests used ‘instruments_specially developed and constructed by the national ad- visory committee for aeronautics and the Bureau of Standards at an ap- proximate cost of §100,000, st the attentions of | When | mil- | ARMYOF 6,000,060 STRIKERS LOOMING AS BRITISH UNIONS SUMMON RESERVES YLabor Begins Calling Out Second and Third Lines of Defense, Workers in Public Utilities Stations. {BALDWIN REITERATES HIS DEMAND FOR PEACE Pledges Self to See That Both Sides Get Fair Deal, But Hopes Are Slim—Charge That Law Is Vio lated Creates Sensation Amon? Leaders of Labor. By the Associated Press LONDC May 8—Labor's ond fine of defense” is beginning t be utilized in the great struggle be | tween the Trades Union and the t government. These workers were inot included in the general strike i which began at midnight last Mon- | day. | The Trades Union Congress ha not yet issued a call to this sccond line, and there is grave apprehension that the leaders may officially call out both the second and third li | of defense, thus increasing the nuni- ber of strikers to possibly 6,000.000 The second and third lines of de- fense” are composed of electrica and gas workers and those engaged in other public utilities, numbering from two to three million men Such workers are customarily per mitted by the trades unions to re- main at their posts for the purpose of furnishing the absolute needs of | the natim. Govom Covers Islands. Dritain h at war ended ritisn isles o om -uch as Great ot knows since the g settle- over the the first ‘week of the general s Uit drew to & close. It is just one week {ago, May day, that the miners laii | down their tools and abandoned tic i mine fields to the “safety men " They | numbered more than 1,000,008, and th | other workers who joined them i | creased the number to about 3,900,600 | iverywhere the question is b ked now long will the tunds of tl | unions enabie them to feed the stril { ers and their families. L The Trades Union Congress, throug} lits executive council, however, today refused to receive 4,000,000 rubles | (about §2,000,000) from the Russian Red International Fedgration, a checx | for which was received ostensibly i for the purpose of aiding the general strike in Great Britain. In return {ing the check, the council expressed it inability to accept the money. { The labor leaders again emphasized ! that the present movement relutes L) | industry alone and embraces no revo | lutionary ide: | Settlement Hopes Dim. Prospects for any speedy s ment have grown slighter from day t {day. Premier Baldwin refuses to dis {cuss the differences between the miners and mine owners unless the sneral strike is called off, and the ades Union Congress won't call off | the strike. Nelther will it negotiate | until the mine owners withdraw their i.lock-out against the workers. i Robert McNeill, financial secretary jof the treasury, sets forth the situa- | tion from the government side in a |letter to the Canterbury Conservative | Association. He describes Great as “nearer to actual civil war | than it has been for centuries.” | In his appeal to the public to re | the gravity of the issue, he dec { “All the revolutionary elem { the country are doing their utmost to | exploit the situation to their own ad i vantage, and every day the conflict {lasts must increase the danger of an jutbreak of violence, which would have to be met by the employment of | the armed forces of the crown, The Trades Union Council has re- | plied to the speech of Sir John Simon, | former home secretary, that the | strikers in leaving their jobs without notice had broken the law and could be held responsible. “We are bound to repudiate afresh,” says the council's statement, “the allegation that the Trades Union | Congress is engaged in an attack on the community. We are not fighting {the public, no tempting to joverthrow constitutional govern { ment.” Baldwin Issues Statement. Premier Baldwin, ‘in a broad statement tonight, again declares “Before the government can re open the negotiations the general | strike must be called off. It would {be a thousand times better to accept | this than to continue the struggle, | which would only increase misery and | disaster.” | The prime minister said he was a man of peace and was longing, work | ing and praying for peace, but that he would not surrender the safety and security of the British constitu tion to threats of violence. The government, he asserted, was not fighting to lower the standard o living for the miners or any other workers, The prime minister’s full statement is as follows: “I have done my utmost to secure an agreement upon the basis of the commission's report and when the time comes, as 1 hope it will soon, iv discuss the terms under whiich the mining industry can be carried on I shall continue my efforts to see that in any settlement justie is Gone bou to the miners and vai ownéia “Could there be a more direct at- tack upon the community than that a body not elected by the voters of the country, without consulting the people, and without consulting even the trade unionists, and in order to impose conditions not vet defined, should dislocate the life of the country? “Who is attacking the standard of living of the people? Is it the gov- ernment, who have only sought to bring about a reasonable settlement of the mining industry, or the trades ““(Continued on Page 4, Column 5. | ha ize ex