Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. S. Weather Bureau F Partly cloudy with occasjonal light showers late tonight and elightly cooler tomorrow. At 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 57, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 S oy No. 25063, et orecast.) d _tomorrow Highest, 76, Entered as second class muatte: shington, D. C. NORGE STILL MISSING: LAST SIGHTED INLAND FROM POINT BARROW kimos and th e Wilkins Party Watched Airship for Hour Cruising Toward Nome. FLYING AT HEIGHT OF 500 FEET PASSED POINT 35 MILES INSHORE Alaskan Radio Stations Electrify Air in Efforts to Pick Up Dirigible. Amundsen Ruse Suspected. Ry the Associatad Press ATTLE. Wash., May 14.— Dawning of the fourth day since the dirigible Norge left Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, to fly across the North Pole to Nome, Alaska, sa word from her. Chief operators of Alaska na night listening for word of the great airship carrying Capt. Roald | Amundsen and his 17 companions. Radio efforts to reach the Ne ough. Three stations, those at w the world anxiously awaiting val radio stations spent another rge have been particularly thor- St. Paul’s Island, Seward and b WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1926—SIXTY ¢ Foening Star. WO PAGES. * | PILSUDSKIHOLDS WARSAW: 430 DIE INSTREET FIGHTING Reports Say Marshal Has| NINE PLANES READY Hinchinbrook. reported hearing the Norge simultaneously almmi 1 am. vesterday, Fastern standard time, but nothing has been| heard since. _On Wednesday and Thursday the| Norge was called by a'l naval radio stations in Alaska throughout the night Ruse Is Suspected. b from Nome, Alaska, to- inz that ival of the dirigible Norge there might have been | delayed by a ruse of Roald Amundsen directed attention here to two reports that she had been reported at Point | Barrow, 550 miles north of Nome, | afrer pa; ng the North Pole. One of these reports said the Norge | passed T wooat 1:30 yvesterday morni stern standard time. The | other. ay 24 hours later, was that the dirizible floated over or near Barrow noon yesterday, Lastern rvers here waited eagerly for a muggestion_as to why arrival of the | Norge at Nome had not yet been re- ported. since the flight from Barrow | to Nome was figured at about seven hours. Good Weathis Reported. Reports from Al ):a received by the Weather Bureau t“day indicate good fiving conditions north and northeast | of Nome along the probable course of the Norge. The werther was reported clouds at Nome, but with little wind and the only storm in that region was sou of Nome toward the Aleutian Islands. | Nome report was for cbservation taken midnigit May 13, eastern sgand ard time. It show west winds of 12 miles per hour and a baromete: of 2056 inches. Observation 12 hours previous sho: larometer, 290.74, cloudy weather light easterly winds. 2 Should the Norge have t toward Spitzbergen it wou find fairly good weather possible fog. the Wea It _is snowing at Spitzhergen. light northeast winds, but the turbance s described as of a r character and Iocdted southwestwa Toward the Pole and beyond weather is indicated VISIBLE HOUR AT POINT. ed hack probably except for | with dis: nor st to Sight Dirigible Near- ing North America. BY EARL ROSSMAN, 8pecial Correspondent of The Star and the | North American Newspaper Alliance BARROW, Alaska, May 13 | dio).—The Norge was visible | here last night (Wednesday) for ahout She was flving at about nd heading due south. r passing Barrow the big -i down and then rose and on her course, which was | Eskimos continued sonth he Norge was first sighted while Robert Waskey, our radio operator here. was sitting in his shack on the Arctic Ocean shore. Several Eskimos rushed in exei shouting: “Alr- | ship! Afrship® | 500 Feet High. svery one rushed outside to see the dirigible, which was visible fiving 500 | feet high. Wilkins, Lanphier and | Wisely were dining at the mission at the time. They immediately hoisted the Stars and Stripes in salute I began this dispatch at 10 p.m. Barrow time, Thursday (3 a.m. Fri day, Fastern standard time). We are surprised to hear that the Norge has not been heard from vet at Fair- banks. The weather here with occasional snow Wilkins awaits clear weather. William C. Lyon, correspondent of the New York Times, and Leo Bundy, his radio operator, arrived here t night. They were about 35 miles from Barrow when the Norge passed (Lyon, a former member of the staft of The Eve Star, had heen re ported missing fc 10 davs, He had heen mushing across northern Alaska from Nenana tn Point Barrow.) Lyon and Bundy were south of | Barrow. Lyon said that when the | Norge passed them she was flving at BAO feet and dipped and shut off her engine, evidently to take bearings, then rose and flew directly over them across the tundra. He could plainly see the cabins and lettering on the Norge. Apparently the Norge was taking the direct overland route to Nome. 1 obtained a motion picture record while the native village and white settlement were pouring out to view the dirigible. The Eskimo Pres- byterian Mission Church was holding prayer meeting, but this suspended while the mission workers and their guests stood and watched the ship. May Have Ianded. It is apparent that the Norge has either landed, wandered from the course to Nome or made much slower progress than she did in her trans- polar flight. Her total elapsed time for the 2,100-mile flight was 45 hours and 25 minutes, an average of abhout 46 miles an hour. at 10 o'clock last (Continued oh Page 7, Column 6.) remains fogg: fAlurries. Capt. | | tier, | few | Bennett | were on our great BYRD'S OWN STORY AVIVID ACCOUNT OF NORTH POLE FLIGHT Dauntless Courage and Skill of His Men Given Credit by Explorer. rst_installment of Comdr. Byrd's ve. printed heloy. Aas heen delay- transinission from _ Kings Bay. the rommander 1x vritting on the Fhantier the story of his great polar adrenture. by ihe cloggimg of the wire. Tess 1with dainils of 1he Norge's depariure and the necessity for some lime of min Dnunication wirh the airship. ion 1with Kings Bay ix now oring and 'the commander's orn Story. in instaliments, is now erpected (0 veach 1he United Staies more quick’y. I . BY LIEUT. COMDR. R. E. BYRD, Leader of the Byrd polar expedition KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, May 14.— Now comes the hardest part of our polar expedition—telling about it. I only perfences as vivid on paper as they are in my mind. 1t is difficult for me to realize as I sit snugly warm | in my catin on the good ship Chan- that just a hours ago and 1 adventure, flying over the white waste of the Po- lar Sea, aiming at the goal that had lured men for hun- dreds of vears to death. and which COMDR. BYRD. had been reached ° by only one man, and then after a lifetime_of struggle. Yet T cannot feel puffed up or | very enthusiastic about our personal achievement in flying over the Pole. It was not so difficult to do. thusiasm is rather for aviation. What a marvelous thing the air- plane is, to traverse in 16 hours thou- sands of square miles of area, barren, bleak, and almost inaccessible by foot. Praises Bennett's Skill. And from our flight altitude of sev- eral thousand feet we were seeing in these few hours tens of thousands of square miles of ice and snow. But my enthusiasm, too, is for my shipmate, Bennett. He Is the one who, with the assistance of Noville (lieu: tenant and flizht engineer), Peterson | (naval mechanic) and Kincaid (engine expert) has accomplished the most im- portant thing—that of keeping the motors going. Our lives and the suc- cess of our effort depended upon our Wright motors. My job trom the start has been made easy tor me. First, Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller, jr.. Vincent Astor and other patriotic cltizens backed the expedition and made it possible. Then great corporations, like the Standard Oil Co. and Armour, made donations of needed supplies, and practically all the equipment that was not given was sold to me at cost. T cannot agree that adventure of sports are not still strong in the hearts of Americans. Companions Were Sportsmen. Now 1 come to another one of my | enthusiasms—the members of the ex- pedition. It would be impossible to et together by planning or prepara- tion a more sporting, manful, loyal group than that which left New York on the Chantier on April 5. We knew the 40 in our party were just buddies by _some good twist of fate. The personalities of the individual | men have been fused into a_ proper chemical to make just the right com. | posite spirit for Arctic adventure. These fellows have written a story of the do or die spirit seldom equaled, certainly in time of peace, and I have heard numbers of them say they worked harder than they did during the war. The obstacles when we reached here about 4 p.m. on April 29 seemed in- surmountabie. The Norwegiap gun- boat Heimdal was alongside the only avallable dock, taking on cosd @ =33 (Continued on Page | wish I could make our ex-| My en:| | | . |80-Mile Dash to Begin at 4 0’Clock—Star to Give Each Group Prizes. Nine Navy planes are waiting in the water and on the beach of the Naval Air Station at the starter’s gun this afternoon to { send them roaring up and down the { Potomac River for the Curtiss marine | trophy. While the nine racing pllots are giving their craft a final inspection, | the sky above Hains Point forms a stage for numerous aircraft of the Marine Corps, exhibiting all the ma neuvers of military aviation. | At 4 o'clock and in the succeeding 3 minutes four groups of planes will shoot over the starting line for the | 80-mile grind—io infles down the river and 10 miles back, around which course the planes will make four laps. | | | Prizes for Each Group. The chances of winning the trophy {do not lie equally with every pilot, be cause of the presence of two speedy pursuit planes, but, nevertheless. the personnel in the four groups will fiy their fastest for gold wrist watches airmen in each class. Naval airmen here are confident that the mark set in 1924, the last time the event was flown, of 116.1 | miles per hour, will be raised by at east 20 minutes if the two Curtiss ‘hawks” finish the race. The last race was flown at Miami and won by Lieut. F. V. Grant, U. 8. N, flying a Vought seaplane. |~ Observers of the National Aeronau- Itic Assoclation, the governing bod for aircraft contests in this countr: | under whose auspices the event is | being held, will be stationed at the | home pylon off Hains Point and also at the turning point at the other end {of the course, below Mount Vernon Under the rules of the race, planes {must maintain virtually horizonial flight at an altitude of not more than 400 feet when making the 180-degree turns at each end of the course. Army Planes Out. The Army today was forced to with draw from its share in the advanced program of entertainment owing to the fact the personnel and planes it | intended to use are still participat- {ing in the annual bombing and ma- chine gun exercises at Langley Field, Hampton, Va. This last-minute changed turned the entire stage over to the Marine avia- tors from Brown Field, Quantico, Va and four Navy parachute jumpers. The detachment from Quantico in- cluded six Boeing pursuit planes of the fastest type on military duty in the United States; five De Haviland observation planes, and two Martin bombers. One of the bombers is scheduled to drop a smoke curtain around the spectators. The curtain is one of the latest improvements of the Chemical Warfare Service over the old and more familiar type here. SHENANDOAH PARK BILL VOTED IN BOTH HOUSES akansire (Brovides for, IEatabish- mexst of Virginia and Also Great Smoky Mountain Reservations. The House today passed the bill ap- proved by the Senate vesterday pro- | viding for establishment of the Shen- | andoah National Park in Virginla and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. The House took from the Speaker's table the Senate bill and acted imme- diately upon it. as an identical meas- ure had already been favorably re- ported to the House. A separate measure was approved to provide for the Mammoth Cave Park in Kentucky. The bills were reported in the Sen- ate yesterday by Senator Stanfield, chairman of the public lands commit- tee and request was made for their immediate consideration by Senators Swanson of Virginia and Sackett of Kentucky. Senator Swanson explained that the land is being paid for by private sub- scription and will be turned over to the Government for park purposes. The purpose of the legislation, Sen- ator Swanson said, is merely to au- thorize acceptance by the Government amd establisnment of the PATKS. Anacostia for | offered by The Star to the victorfous | Air Field Rookies Steal Plane, Fall And Land in Jail Associated Press. NEAPOLIS. Minn. May 14, Three recruits of the 34 Infantry, 7. S, A.. Fort Snelling. here, “bor rowed” an airplane vesterdav at Wold.Chamberlain _Field, crashed with it and finally landed in jail The trio—Shubert Knapp, Still water, Minn., and Herbert \Vair and Laben T. Feds, both of Little Rock, Ark.. each 21 years old—had just arrived at the fort. Knapp told his buddies he was an experienced fiver and they decided to go for a flight. They boarded a plane and took off. Up about 40 feat the ship fell to the ground The plane was wrecked, but the youths were unhurt and they fled Aviators at the field pursued them and they were captured after Weir had been slightly wounded in the shoulder. They are held without charge. FENNING APPEALS fSays Auditor Misconceived | Law in Disallowing | | Commission. Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning. through Attorney W. W. Millan. to- day filed in the District Supreme Court exceptions to the report of Herbert L. Davis, auditor of the court, in relation to the lunacy case of Adolph Adler. Mr. Fenning objects to the findings of the auditor made public yesterday that he be required to pay the premium on his bonds as committee of the insane veteran and that he be allowed no commission for his services during the past year as committee. Another step in the guardianship inquiry was taken this morning also when the House committee approved legislation to improve conditions in the administration of estates of insane war veterans. The exceptions filed by Mr. Fenning read % “To that part of such report which disallows his expenditure for premium upon his bond and requires him to pay the same from his own funds and denies his right to accept and retain a commission on said premium. Holds Law Misapplied. “Such exception is on the ground that the auditor in arriving at his requires that a rebate on the bond premium shall be made to the ward in direct violation of section 54 of the code of laws for the District of Co- lumbia, has misinterpreted the de- cisions, which he cites, including even one of his own, in that he has found an analogy between the case at bar and these decisions where none ex- ists and has ignored the evidence which showed that the commissions on bond premiums received by the committee were taken as a regular agent of the surety company and did not deplete the estate and has, without giving any weight to such evidence, so mis- conceived the other evidence in the case as to find that there was such wrongdoing on the part of the com- mittee as to justify penalizing him to the extent of disallowing, not only the commission on the bond premium, but the entire premium. 0. 2. In refusing to allow the com- mittee any commission Whatever. “This exception is based upon the fact that the auditor has arred in find- ing that practicaly only routine mat- ters were handled by the committee, such finding being contrary to the evidence and even to the facts shown by mere inspection of the account it- self. and in holding that the fact that (Continued on Twenty-fourth Page.) AIR BILL APPROVED. The Senate and House yesterday accepted the conference report on the bill to encourage and regulate civil aviation and it now needs only the signature of the President. One of the proposals designed to carry out recoinmendations of the President’s Air Board and would es- tablish a Bureau of Civil Aeronautics in the Commerce Department under an assistant secretary. . The conferees struck out a House provision for Government-owned air- ports and lightened the penalties pro- p:!ld by the House for violations of i the act. FROM DAVIS' STAND decision on this point has misapplied ! the law in that his report, in effect, | AUTO THEFT RING Seven Capital Cars Recov- ered in Alleged “Fence” at Conway, Md. An investization inte an out.of-the way transformation post for stolen automobiles by Detectives Davis, Al ligood and Conners of the local auto | mobile squad ended iast night with | the arrest of Allen Morgan, 30 vears old, proprietor of a garage at Con- way, Md.. on the Crane highway, 19 miles from Ann grand larceny involving the alleged theft of seven automobiles from Washington streets. According to police, an inspection of the garage at Conway revealed ap- paratus for changing bodies of auto- | mobiles from sedan tyvpe to roudster | type and vice versa: instruments for | changing engine numbers and other means for disguishing automobiles. Boy 15 Is Arrested. st of a 15-yearold boy, Rob- ! residing near Conway, by | Policeman De Busky of the first pre- | cinct a short time ago led to the in vestigation. 1le was charged with at- a downtow nile Court was placed on probation. Davis decided to investigate a bit around the hoy's home and while | near Conway heard rumors concern- ing the garage. He finally had Mor- | gan arrested and. according to the | police, Morgan has confessed to hav- ing obtained seven automobiles which had been stolen from Washington streets. Seven Cars Recovered. Among_ automobiles recovered by the squad as a result of this arrest neth Gaither, 170 Bryant street; Rob- ert §. Dean, 3 Longfellow street; Mrs. J. J. Boynton, 1773 Lanler place, apartment Raymond C. Eanet of Colmar Manor, Md.; Joseph L. Moore of 712 Seventh street southwest, and Albert A. Zoltrow of the Brill Rent- a-Car Co., 908 Twentieth street. Zoltrow told police that the rented car had been stolen from in front of the house of a client to whom it had been delivered hefore he was able to go downstairs and get the ma- chine. LAND GIFT PROTECTS " MT. VERNON SHRINE Indianapolis Woman Donates 26 Acres Adjoining Washington's Home to Preserve Isolation. By the Associated Pre: INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 14.— has made a gift of 26 acres of land surrounding the estate of George ‘Washington at Mount Vernon to the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, it became known today. The gift, made last Fall, insures Mount Vernon against encroachment of any com mercial enterprises. The acquisition of 26 acres of land adjoining Mount Vernon by gift to the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association by Mrs. Hugh Mck. Landon, of ‘this historic estate, and will forever prevent the encroachment of anything modern close to the shrine to destroy this picture, according to H. H. Dodge, superintendent of the estate. The land starts at the northeast corner of the estate at its junction with the Potomac river, runs north about a thousand feet, and its western line is just east of the present rail- way station and automobile parking space, Mr. Dodge stated. It is a valuable acquisition, he said, from the standpoint of preserving the original appearance of the estate. The land is covered with a generous second growth of a variety of trees, Mr. Dodge said. Favors Washington Plan. A favorable report on the bill to au- thorize the (construction of a replica of the house in which George Wash- ington was born, at Wakefleld, Va.. has been transmitted by Secretary of War Davis to the Senate committee lnn public buildings. -~ FOUND BY POLICE apolis. on charges of | tempting to take an automobile from | street. and later in Juve- were those reported stolen from Ken. | Mrs. Hugh Mck. Landon of this city | Indianapolis, “frames the picture” of | Captured Members of Cabinet. g LABOR AND SOLDIERS | | JOIN REVOLUTIONISTS.! Papers Seized by Dictator, Who Controls Railroads—Dis- | orders Increase. By the Associated Pre. VIENNA, Austria, May 14.—The Polish legation here has received direct advices that the Witos min istry has fallen, but that President Wojclechowski is still maintaining his position. Br the Associated Press. BERLIN., May 14. - Government | oMcials are reportad here to have fled from Warsaw as a result of the revolutionary movement headed by Marshal Pilsudski. | overnment air forces are reported | | to have bombed the revolutionary headquarters of Marshal Pilsudski 1t 18 estimated that 450 persons have heen killed in street fighting thus far. Foreigners are fleeing the country. A Czech Agency dispatch from | Prague says that Marshal Pilsudski's troops are holding up trains coming | from German frontier at Skierniewic, | 50 miles from Warsaw. The tracks | have been destroyed or have been accupied by his troops from that point | to Warsaw | Controls Rail Lines. controlling the railreads into the dispatch says, Marshal has been able to intercept of government rein By | the city Pilsudski the passage forcements. According to this dispatch Premier Witos was reported to have been taken | prisoner. Pilsudski also has con fiscated all Warsaw newspapers, only | permitting the publication of his own | bulletins The 36th Infantray Regiment.| which s supporting Pilsudski. has! occupied Lodz. according to private reports from Danzing. ! The reports stated that Marshal | Pllsudski had captured Belvedere Palace after a terrific battle and that ! several cabinet members were taken | | prisoners. The entire city s now | | stated to have fallen into Pilsudski's hands. | Of the provisional garrisons. the | | dispatches say, the one at Vilna a}nm’i | appears to have voted in favor of | Pilsudski, although its departure from | Vilna is viewed as hazardous in that | ‘it would expose Vilna to invasion by | Lithuania. Advices from Ostrau say Pilsudski’s | | position is growing stronger and that | he is winning numerous recruits from | the army, the majority of the younger | officers casting their lots with him. | Intervention of labor on his behalf is also proving effective, the dis-| patches say, as the rallway workers | i are beginning to halt the transporta- tion of troops. Food Prices Soar. The economic situation is rapidly | | becoming worse. the prices of food | | and other commodities soaring. i Reports from Warsaw received here | at noon said disorders were increas- | { ing. with bands of civilians marching | through the streets shouting, “Long | | live Pilsudski!” Persons who refused | |to tip their hats when the marshal's | | name was mentioned were clubbed. | | A dispatch to the Wolff Bureau | | through Danzig says Pilsudski has | | appointed Roman Knoll, former Polish | | Ambassador to Turkey. as commis- | sar for foreign affairs in the “revo | lutionary governinent. i PILSUDSKI REPORTED WOUNDED | Message to Paris Embassy Says Gen. Sosnowski Tried to Kill Self. PARIS. May 14 ®.—The Paris | Midi reports that Gen. Pilsudski, head | of the military revolt in Poland, has | been slightly wounded. Fighteen persons 80 | wounded are the casualties of the | | street fighting during the last 48 hours |'in Warsaw thus far reported, says a | communication from the Warsaw gov- | | ernment_to the Polish embassy in | Parls. The communication added that | | the estimates of the seriousness of the | fighting varied. | The statement proclaimed Marshal j Pilsudski “a rebel and outlaw. | Sosnowski Tries to Kill Self. ! The message said the government was confident of crushing the revolt and restoring order rapidly. It added that the provinces were unanimous in | condemning Pilsudski for his attack on Warsaw. It declares the morale of the troops in revolt had been greatly | shaken. ~Gen. Casimir Sosnowski, commander of the Posen troops march- ing upon Warsaw, is reported in the | message to be in an exeremely serious | condition because of an attempt at | suicide by shooting. The statement was the first official | communication issued since the out- | break of the trouble in Warsaw. : Prague advices reported serious | fighting yesterday around the palace, saying that 18 persons had been killed and 80 wounded in the streets. The i dead included two officers. The trou- ble is the outgrowth of a demand by | Pilsudki and his adherents for the | resignation of Premier Witos and the establishment of a ministry to be drawn from the party of the left. i Sikorski Reaches City. | A dispatch to the Havas Agency from the Polish frontier said that Gen. Sikorski, former premier and once| | commander of the Polish army on the northern front, with a force of loyal troops, had arrived at the gates of Warsaw and was giving battle to | Pilsudski’s men. i Advices from Berlin quoted a War- saw dispatch to the effect that troops from Posen were marching upon War- saw to uphold Witos. As yet there has been no direct in- formation from Warsaw except a com- munique from the Polish Telegraph Agency. This said: “The ministerial crisis and divers incidents which marked its develop- ments, caused a certain effervescence in military circles.” It added that regiments quartered in_the environs (Cumlnfi on Page 7, Column 4) dead and { thori | the efficiency | nessee at I vision service. Yesterday's (#) Means Associated Press. e S | Assailed by Pilsudski | | PREMIER WITOS of Poland. COOLIDGE VETOES REINSTATING AGT First This Session Refuses | Reappointment in Army to | Capt.C. A. Rothwell. | « exercised the h ng this session of Con- | President C veto power ¢ first time d gress, when he returned to t ate an act passed ng him to Rothwell, forme ngineers of the Army reappoint A a Accompanying this act was statement from he stated that ry for disciy forces that the jt board of President he deemed gme: the Army. | upon whose recommendation Capt R well was disch ed. 1d be accepted by the President and Cor gress as final, unless some info tion developed that not t th time of the bo; which might a different conclusion the Rothwell record such is the case, and t President acted adversel; tr sho! Discharged in Class B This officer. in the regular course of dealing with the personnel of the Army, was discharged by reason of heing placed in class B, which, ac- cording to the President’s statement meant that his work w below average. His case was acted on by a board consisting of Villard, Shanks, Bundy. R. Smith, and Brig The President, i added that Capt. Rot shows that he was re without leave from November December 1, 1919. He was reli from duty at the University the request of the com general of the southeaste: ter, dated mandi department hecause of a 1 April 6. 1920, in which it was stated ‘he does not give the profession of military science and tactics .loyal port.’ Maj. Anderson. Corps of Engineers made an efficiency report covering the! period May 3 to July 30, 1920, which he states that Capt. Rothw ‘tends to reach decisions before ful informing himself.' The efficienc port of Maj. Sullivan, covering period July 1. 1922, to May gives his general estimate as average officer.’ The efficiency report of Maj. Sturtevant, Corps of En gineers, states ‘he requires super administrative details in work or compliance | with written instructions.’ The r port of Maj. Schley, Corps of En- gineers, contains adverse comment on the personal action of the officer, stating that at onme time he was reprimanded orally by the com mandant . Once Confined to Post. “The War Department states that ' ‘there is correspondence on fila in| subject’s record which shows that he has not always given careful atten tion to prompt payment’ of leg obligations. An abbreviated efficienc report by Col. Fischer, Coast Artille Corps. the War Department states, contains ‘an inclosure with this re port showing that subject was reprimanded and confined to his post | for absence without authority from ! 7 p.m. October 7 to 3 p.m. October 8, 1924." “This officer apparently served ac-| ceptably in France and was recom- mended for a decoration, which, how- ever, was not given. A final classifica- | tion board, consisting of Maj. Gens Summerall and Sturgis and Brig. | Gens. Bowley, Callan, Upton and Col lins, on April 10. 1925, finally classified this officer in s B by unanimous| action, the basis of this action by the hoard being ‘lacking in attention to | duty. inftiative and administrative and executive abllity: careless: indifferent fails to take advantage of his oppor- tunities for improvement.’ i Record Justified Action. | | The adjutant general found that the placing of Capt. Rothwell finally in class B was justified by the entire | record and recommended that the findings of the classification board be | approved. This was done by the War Department, and the officer was hon orably disc d with one year's pay | in volving paper dent called attention to the fact that it must be borne in mind that should Capt. Rothwell be rein stated he would deprive some first | lieutenant on the active list of the Regular Army of the chance of pro motion to the grade of captain, to| which he is justly entitled. He added | that only one case had occurred in | which an officer had been restored to the Army after having been dis- charged through class B proceedings, and that was because it was discov- | ered that he should have been retired | for physical disability incident to the | service. Radio Programs—Page 50. RAIL it | dus | the cou | 1evel v | afternoon. | | | The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Circulation, 101,706 TWO CENTS. nv- TURN, L INDUSTRIAL CRISIS CLEARS IN BRITAIN Coal Peace Regarded as Nearer on Basis of New Baldwin Plan. SITUATION IS EASIER THROUGHOUT ISLANDS Employers Mors Reasonable in Of- fering Terras to Strikers, Unions Declare By the Aseor LONDON ated Press May 4—The E 1er began to clear r today The railway men, who had re- notwithstanding offictal nation of the general strike ned an agreement with the com panies. TraMe will be resumed a speedily as possible, Premier Baldwin told the House of Commons he had framed proposals for settlement of the coal miners trike, and that these would be placed immediately in the hands of the men nd the employers. for an agreement are better. Situation Is Easier. ! Union Congress said e was a marked easement in the eness of the situation throughout the employers being in- asona- T ther The easing of the tense posi was explained, was due to tl at ilroad compan es of large num sidered an encouraging meet the union representati ground for discussion of re sumption of work on a reasonable ba sis. The spokesman said Premier Bald- win's statement of last night had been followed by a favorable reac- The Prince of Wales and the D of York entered the peers’ of the House just a gan speaking today said he was very 8 t House should have the latest author- tative information at its disposal hefore the members separated for the week end Negotiations Continue. Regarding the docks and transport, he anno negotiations were still going “I am not aware of any these negotiations. \ are pursuing a nol . An agreement has been reached and work should be resumed tomorrow on the bu trams and tubes of the underground railway. but the terms e settlement are not at present lable Ramsey MacDonald, former Labor premier, said that he welcomed Premier Baldwin's st that he had prepared peace propc mine tie-up. Mr. MacD that he was certain that t was right in saying that if the set- tlement were left to the miners and the owners themselves, agreement would be impossible. Miners' Delegates Meet. ke of miners’ delegate met in Kingsway Hall. Many of the delegates had traveled all night by road and bore traces of their lengthy Jjourney. When the conference met it was understood that important develop- ments had occurred since the execu- tive committee adopted its reso ) pposing the settlement propos: Sir Herbert Samual, chairman of Royal Coal Commission, and that the delegates’ conference might possibiy adjourn to allow the executive co mittee to continue conversations ready started, with the object reaching a settlement basis. The session adjourned shortly aft noon until 4 p.m., after discussion ¢ Sir Herbert's memorandum. The m bers of the miners' executive com- mittee were expected to g0 to Down ing street (where the premier’s offi cial residence is situated) before the conference was resumed. A hopeful sign was seen this morn- ing in an announcement from the headquarters of the underground electric railw: of London that satisfactory strike settlement had been concluded between the com- panies and the unions and was hoped to have normal ser operating by tomorrow on the under- ground railways, the London ge: eral omnibus company routes and the allied tramways. All Men Asked to Return. A notice also was issued at the Croydon Corporation train -depot asking all members to resume work, as “a strike settlement was reached at 2:30 o'clock this morning.” The London county council trams, which operate over the greater part of the city, will function as soon as possible, it was stated this morning, and the council expressed hope that some of the services would be in operation this_afternoon. Meanwhile, London went to work again by motor car, bicycle and afoor, the limited train and bus services being unable to carry all the travelers. Both the government and the un- jons are eager to ascertain what Americans are saying and thinking about the strike and its aftermath. They have cabled thelr representa- tives, requesting the fullest informa- tion, with clippings of both official and unofficial views. It is understood Premier Baldwin was to meet the mine owners this The miners executive also Teceived a communication from the premier, the nature of which was not divulged. The miners’ executive is anxiously awaiting the outcome of the parleys between the rallwaymen and their employers for resumption of worl The confere! | Secretary A. J. Cook said the miners Qecision depended upon that of the railway men. Terms of Rail Peace. The railway strike was settled the following terms, agreed upon tween the companies on cne har and the National Union of Railw Men, Associated Society of wocom: tive Enginemen and Firemen and the Railway Clerks’ Association on the other: Those employes who went on strike —— (Continued on Page. 5, Column &)