Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. ». (1. 8. Weather Bursau Forecast.) Faif tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler tonight; moderate northwest ‘winds, becoming gentle variable, High- L% x est, 91, Entered as post _office, 51 G0ES AGROUND INEAST RVERAST NEARS NAVAL BASE Submarine Raised at Sea and Towed 135 Miles Hits Ferly Reef.\ REFLOATING MUST WAIT FOR WATER AT HIGH TIDE Missing Buoy and Error of Civilian Pilot. Blamed. Crowds Homor Craft. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK;July 7—The United States submarine S:51 went aground today Dbetween the Williamsburg Bridge and the Queensboro Bridge, in the Bast River, while being towed to the navy yard here. The 8-51 had just passed through ‘what were belivede to be her major perils of the journey here, possible sinking again in the deep waters of the sound and loss in the swirling ‘Waters of Hell Gate. All seemed to be in order for a speedy and a safe u‘o‘sond class ashingto: at 3.p.m. yesterday; lowest, 70, matter DG Boy Holds Finger In Leak and Keeps BoatFrom Sivking Y ssociated Press. Pl JLAKE NORDEN, 8. Dak., July 7.~Vernon . Tenold, - 14, today knows how the Duteh ' boy felt while holding his arm in a hole in’ the dike to save the lives of His" countrymen. - ‘errion - stuck his finger in a hele in the bottom of an old boat and kept it there until he and his brother Melvin, 8, had drifted Lake Norden in & high "o bo d tound ty © boys found an. em) boat on lyhols;‘cl(mbtd in and L fore they realized sit were, far out in the lake, They had no ‘oars * and four inches of ‘Water: through a hole in the bott Intil - Vernon stopped the inflow his finger. DEBT PACT SCORE SHARPLY INFRANG Frankiin-Bouillon Declares Acceptance Without Safety . Clause Was Mistake. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 7.— France’s great ! * - dent occurred Lieut. Comdr. E. P. ) 1 % arrival when the undersea boat sud- denly piled up on Ferly reef rock be- fween the two bridges. Civilian Piloé in Charge. ‘The 8-51 was being towed in tandem * by the tugs. Iuka and Sagamore. A elvillan pilot who had joined the es- cort during the night was in charge of guiding the flotilla to the navy yard. A. second civilian pilot was on the Falcon, lead ship of the convoy. Although the navy had ordered river traffic to be turned aside to permit a free lane for the ralsed submarine and its convoy there had apparently been some hitch in the orders, because the usual heavy traffic was steaming up and down the river when the ac- cident happened: The rock where the submarine ‘went aground is off 38th street south of Welfare Island. “ At the time of the grounding the tide was at flood. Officers said the average depth -of the course being followed at the time was 31 feet. The had a draft of ‘Capt B. Tomb, command- | ing the Vestal, that a buoy which | should have nated the Ferly ! Reef Rock was missing. Up to three or four minutes before the S-51 went ! aground the Vestal had beén leading the flotilla. L. drop behind. The &f pilot her the rest of the way.” The Vestal veered aside to permit | the sah o492 - 8.0 - A signal had been flashed from the Vestal, “We have been ordered to ivilian pilot wil " Veeixi 'ana srens . frantic warning. imn The Falcon, unable to-check sven |1 st 150-mile trip to the the where the submarine was after nine months’ submersion | mistake in the Washington debt agreement was her acceptance of “such astronomical figures” without safeguard and transfer clauses, Henry Franklin-Bouillon; former mihister of missions abroad, told the Chamber of Deputies today. His statement was made in the course“of ‘a strongly-wo protest against the government's for ratification of the agreement nego- tiated by ‘Ambassador Berenger, ‘“The nature of the debt should be discussed as well as the figure,” M. Franklin - Bouilion continued. cited the alleged opinions of “4 num- ber of American Senators” to the ef- fect: that America did not enter the AT SUMMER CAP: GREETEDBY CROWD Long Trip' to ‘White Pine ‘Made . Uncomfortable -by Heat of Ballmad Train, FLOWERS PACK CABIN FOR MRS, COOLIDGE| Comdr. Boone, Medical Officer, and Lieut. Stack, in Charge of Ma- | . rines, at Station. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staft Correspondent of The Star.’ WHITE PINE CAMP, N. Y., July 7. ~—After an 18-hour journey from ‘Washington, President and Mrs. Cool- idge arrived at their Adirondack camp a fow minutés after 9 o'clock this morning. The trip for the *greater part had been made uncomfortable by the heat and humidity, /but they showed no ill effeets when they alighted. Several hundreds of persons, mostly front among the Summer colony, were on hand to weicome the distiaguished couple .at the railroad station at Ga- briels, the nearest railroad point to ‘White Pine Camp. He | happ; There was some cheering, but the demonstration - consisted chiefly - of handelapping. A large Ameri flag had been hung in front of the q t QAKEANDFLO .{Many Are Killed as Water Devastates Areas in Eu- rope, Japan and Mexico. World War ‘on behalf of the allies, a but on her own account. Says Sentiment Has Changed. Sentiment in America has changed since the war, he declared, adding that both . former _Senator Kenyon and Senator Smoot- have expressed themselves once in favor of cancella~ uo:v::; the I French . and_ cl were made, he wont.m jca' had fadled to take into ac- ocount the relative pared with Joi mit _the. United States to P to. pay, but your following its collision last September | from Washington with the stéamer’ City of Rome was considered by Navy officers to be the area near Execution Rock. This had been safely passed. When the accl Sauer, who had piloted the Vestal’s | th course among the dangerous shohls and reefs, had just lighted a eig- arette, saying: “I've done my job. oI'm sorry 1 couldn’t take her all the ‘way through.” Made 135 Miles Safely. He had brought the S-51 135 miles through open seas, fogs, coastwise traffic and other dangers, the longest tow of its kind on record. ° ‘Ten minutes before the 8-51 went aground Admiral Plunkett, comman- dant of the New York Navy Yard, had left the Falcon, where he had com- plimented the captain and other offi- cers, including Capt. E. J. King and - Xdeut. Comdr. Edward Ellsberg, for their skill, and had declared that the The {Continued on Page ; Column 6. Dt * SCIENTIST TO LEAVE mll Rossignol, with s EGYPT DISCOURAGED {fia: %"t of TR Declares Officials Have Put Too, Many Hindrances in Way of Foreign Archeologists. By the Associated Press, , LONDON, July 7.—~The tfamous egyptologist Sir Flingers Petrie has Mfl, to abandon research work in m and transfer his archelogical ities to southérn. Palestine, be- oause of the “dog im the manger at- titude of the Egyptiad Gepartment of antiquities under the Franch director Tacan.” Sir Flinders is quoted Express in.an interview drances imposed upon research © ers as saying that skilled American ‘excavators at Thebes have abandoned - thelr work and'are compelled to spend’ .their time'stodying discoveries they made two years ago. s # > .’ 3 ., . Archeological work in Egypt by ‘Then, retorting to from the Right, the premier. his conviction that tion of the foreign debt of the franc could not be PARIS, July 7 Deing brought to today to rescind its m&us""“"hm WRr w terms of the Washington debt agree- Jean, E associations he . i ted, such as the ‘mutiiated, v political d of mem- The_veterans were not inspired 1l will - toward- Ame he sald. Quite . the. . conrary, was the Dally |1 %nmc':::: z ty T it - | ing that they had breakfasted on the By the Associated Press. ‘. VIENNA, _Austria, July 7.—An it of the t, too, appeared in . The Pres- iden! Py He looked a trifie paler & happy mood. than usual, but and he Little time was lost at the station before to the- 4 E i il I £ 1 X 2 prepared in case treaties from the camp cook, explain- & £ 8 gEE ! Among those who had gathered at (Continued on Page 6, Column'2) URGES RAY EXPLAIN “DRY LAW CHARGES E . ik Pittsburgh ‘the ‘case. | Firebug Is Sought Fire in 7 Months_ KALAMAZOO, Mich., July 7.— State police joined local officers to- day in & firebug hunt following the destruction by fire of the fourth Kalamazoo church in 7 months— the . First . Presbyterian, which burned early today. It was the third downtown church destroyed by’ fire since December 29 last. A fourth, the East Avenue Method- ist_ Church; was partially burned December 17. The loss in today's Prohifitiofi Chief Goes to Plug British Leak-—Denies » He Will Resign. land on the Aquitania today, reiter- ated his denial of any intention.of re- post. “I don’t see why it should have any UP) Means Associated Press. '|May Move House To Get 450-Pound TWO CENTS. ILLINOIS PRIMARY- | e o e Y W PEN In F:fignh Church‘ IF[]UR S"ES BHUS[N FORNENBULDINGS Commerce, Revenue, Ar- chives and Agriculture Locations Confirmed. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Location of four of the new Fed- eral bulldings in the $50,000,000 pro- gram, as previously announced ex- The new office building for the De- . iture, to contain r'somflm ,‘q:.‘,:fi;m the, first unit, located on the square betweer B ‘Thirteenth more effect over there than here, and | V. I don’t think it had any effect here.” inmates of Dade County farm today were transferred to their new home at Kepdall, near here, “Fatty” Palmer was left.be- hind temporarily because he was t00 fat. “Fatty,” tipping the 'scales at 450 pounds, has beeén confined to a house on' the farm for several years because he was unable to am through either door or County officials announced that ~the house, with “Fatty” occupy- a specially constructed chair ithin, will be hoisted on a port- able derrick and conveyed ‘to the TS PTG TOKEEP TAX DOWN ' Council Sets $40,000,000 as Maximum Sum for the 1927-28-Budget. Apparently awed at the size of the record-breaking budget for the fiscal year 1927-28 recommended by depart- ment heads of the District govern- ment, the Citizens’ Advisory Council has tentatively fixed $40,000,000 as the maximum sum for that period and immediately sef out to trim the esti- mates to that amount. A $40,000,000 budget, the council believes, will pre- clude an increase in the tax rate above the $1.80 on $100 assessed valuation set by the Comissioners for the cur-| rent fiscal year, George W. Wales made a vigorous to put the council on record fiscal year. Several other councilmen, however, thought an increasé should allowed in View of the “era of prosperity” confronting Washington as a result of the Federal Govern- ment’s contemplated $50,000,000 build- J. Donovan of the reasons for the 10- cent increase in the rate of taxation year, together with a pm::;:: recommended ;:num of the newly In an effort to trim the estimated propriations to the approved tenta- tive total of m.mw. before the Com- tax | containing INCHGAGO LY % Testimony on Pennsylvania -Ends After Morin Appears in Answer to Order. DENIES HE RECEIVED PREVIOUS SUBPOENA Insists Martin Was “Confused” _ When Telling of Receiving $22,000 ¥rom Him. By the Associated Press. The Senate campaign funds commit- tee virtually completed its inquiry into the Pennsylvania Republican primary today by hearing Re tive John M. Morin of Pittsburgh testi.' fy that he had nothing to do with th money end of the-campaign except too transfer funds for William 8. Vi from one campaign worker to anothe At the same time it announced its investigation of the Illinois pri- mary would begin in Chicago on July 26. Morin Takes Stand. Representative John M. Morin of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House military committee and western cam- paign manager for William 8. Vare, in , his successful campaign for the Re- publican senatorial nomination, final- ly appeared today before the Senate campalgn funds committee and was questioned about his part in the three-cornered primary fight. The Representative arrived during the morning from Atlantic City in re- sponse to a telegraphic subpoena from the sergeant at arms. Previously he had failed t pear when directed to do so by the committee itself. He took the stand and was sworn after the committee had delayed open- ing its session for an hour, awaiting his arrival. He then told the com- mittee that he never had received its subpoena, and that he was not “dodg- ing.” He called attention that he had eral ockpsions without betag <aied he e out being , he said, and he had notified Chairman Reed that he would appear whenever called. Was in House Saturday. ~ “I was in the Fouse Friday Saturday answering roll calls,” said. “If I had been trying to dodge service I would not have been there.” he had “nothing to do with the money,” having collected no funds and made no contributions, but under questioning by Chalrman King he said he acted on transfers of funds among campaign officials and also had custody of a safe deposit box" campaign money at the ‘William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh. Put $22,000 in Box. Into the safe. deposit box, to to questions by Senator he had a bank ac-