Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1927, Page 23

D. C., » B. & 0. WILL MARK EDISON ENTHUSES As the result of a comprehensive |an officer spends approximately seven made of proniotion in the | YeArs in each grade. This rate . ir Corps by I Trubee Davi.|maintained by either voluntary trans- | ps Believes Industry May Be Revolutionized by Plant on His Florida Land. = HE SUNDAY STAR. W CREW IN RUM CASE OUTAGAI,INAGAN e ?SIxteen, Freed by City, Lose in Foot Race to Avoid Fedaral Warrants. T THE STARRY SKIES IN MARCH BY PROF. SAMUEL G. BARTON OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. ASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 27, 1927 | /| { PART 1. . Venus, Evening Star. Venus is now far enough from the SuR to be seen easily. 1t will be in! mueh better position in the months follow—at Its best in July. In | figure 2 we represent the motions of he earth and Venus during the time | thal Venus is an evening star. The | dates at which the earth is ih varfous | positions are marked. At each of these | times Venus is at the point of its orbit, | PHILADELPHIA. February 26.—!which it jolned with that of the earth | The captain and 15 members of the | by a struight line. Venus was fivst an | crew of the British steamer Clackamas. | ~vening star November 11, 1926, when, { scharged with smugg!ing 10,000 ca®eg|ac may be seen from the figure. it wag | s.of liquor into the port of Newark, !in line with the sun on the side of the | S about a week ago, were “out {orbit opposite the earth. This position | today and then “in again.’ is called superior conjunction. Venus | studv i} Ay | ters from th tive 18t to the fetil 01, . ARa1H b f \War for | fers from the active liat to the fel son, Ancistant: Becratary Of War {91 iat, or fo the Resseve, of sufficlent | brought ont that officers each ep the flow to tiere Frend minimum 400 now | The officers “orps | move than 30 vears' to o L [ to the retired list direct and all athers | periods in exceas|®0 to the Marine Corps Reserve. Of | of three months | this latter class those who have more have caused thém |than 20 vears' total service stav in the | gy e Assaciated Precs to be in sube | Reserve until they comblete 30 years'| poRY MYERS, Fla., merged positions | total service, including service on the | o5 fhomas A, Edison on the promotion | active list and in the Reserve, and |}l on an experiment list. | then go on the retired list, and those | yoves will revolutionize the world Mr. Davison was | With less than 20 years' total serv rubbar trade and change the South confronted with | serve seven years in the Reserve and ' ¢ ;n tha jana of cotton to the rubber serfous objections |are discharged at the expiration of | . g, tio) ce the United Railroad to Celebrate Found- | ing of System by Mary- land Business Men. to 1te. transferred who have | al servige go | By the Associated Press By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, February 26.--One hundred years ago, on a February evening, a group of Baitimore busi- ness men At the home of (leorge Brown, prominent Baltimore banker, seriously discussed weird rumors com- February Is at work which he be- th The officers who have 20 ar ot { so-After local warrants against them * were dismissed for hick of jurisdict.on there was ederal Bufiding 1o the Pennsylvanic tation In order to avoid the wervice lof wartanis issued at Trenton, N \ and the seamen lost. Twft Conts Behind. i Before they could board & train for ~-New York and points north, deputy marshals from Tienton. veinforced by Federal officers in this furisd ction Tounded up the men In the station and returaed tnem to the Federal Buildink. “.where they were given a hearing on . the new warrants and held in bail for & further hearing next Tuesday. The men had left the Federal Build ing without overcoats in thel ‘1o elude the new warrants, which * ¥eached the bu:lding w thin 10 minutes “after they had been discharged. They hurrfed through the crowded streets *dnd were wailing at the swation for their lickets to be purchased when the marshals arrived Capt. J. H. 8. MacDonald and crew of 27 men were arrested last night Jaboard their ship, anchored down the “Delaware River unloading wood pulp Jfrom Mulgiave, Nova Scotia, on in- formation by M. J. Long, wireless operator on the vessel Says 10,000 Cases Were Landed. Long. who gaid he was not ireated right, left (he ship while at anchor in the Delaware. told the Federal authori- ties that af the Clackamas left Mul- grave she met a steamer supposed to be the Beatrice, The Clackamas, ac. cording 1o Long, threw over part of her wood pulp cargo anfl tock on the 10,000 czses of liquor from the steamer +and landed them at Newark on Feb- ruary 13. Sisty trucks were used to trdnsport the liquor from the dock, Long said - Of the 28 men rounded up last night v« Capt. MacDonald and 15 men were held In bail, six were kept aboard the ship, four were discharged, one was sent to a hospital, and Long, the in -former was not accused. 5. C€ol. Ira I. Reeves, prohibition ad ministrator for New ' Jersey, today said the stor told by Long was “poppyeock.” 1t would be almost im- ossible for 'hat amount of liquor to landed in Newark and hauled away ! without his agents learning of it, ac } cording to Reeves. :SWATHMORE COLLEGE ‘MUSIC CLUBS MAKE HIT Harmonious Combination Is Wit- nessed Uunder Direction of ‘Car] Nocka. The mustcal clubs of Swarthmore College were heard in an entertaining concert last night at the Raleigh Hotel, under direction of Carl Nocka. The Glee Club, in & variety ranging from negro spirituale to the liveliest numbers, proved tizelf a harmonious Combination. “On the Bea” (Buck)| was presented in & variation of robust. swashbuckling volume and -delicate legato shadings, in which the club performed at its best. Close harmony with a fine volume was noted in “In 8ilent Mend,” which also displayed the real feeling which the organiza- ~tion appeared to have for genuine .tfntabile singing. Unaccompanied in ‘several numbers the voices held to key, and under the Nocka baton, , especially in the negro spirituals, blended " into one melodious unit. {“Among the numbers were “The Jolly Roger"” (Candish), “But They Didn’t” ‘{Rogers), “Tell Me Not of a- Lovely lass” (Forsythe), “Lassie o' Mine" V' AWalt) and “Talk About Jerusalem Morning™ (O'Hara). . A quartet. composed of Walter Stud- diford, ‘Thomss M. Brown, Ralph | Gram and Morton Milne popular in several selected The College Band, under Paul M. Kistler, student Jeader, presented a lively and stirring series, including “Our Director” (Bigelow) and “On Wisconsin” (Purdy). Mr. Gram, baritone soloist, in “Road- ways” (Densmore) and some popular encores disciosed a voice of good range, and a promising quality, un- usual to college clubs. Miss Cathe- sine Emhardt, accompanist for the club, was heard to advantage in “Warriors’ Song” and “May Night.” Dancing, with music by the Garnet Serenaders, followed. The clubs are under the management of Ellwood R. Burdsall, manager, and Thomas Mpore, jr., assistant. ““RIGOLETTO” T0 BE SUNG | Production Saturdey Night Will| Probably Be Last of Season ot Civic Opera. Rigoletto,” 1o be given by the ‘Washingtion National Opera Co. at ithe Washington Auditorium Saturday enight, probably will be the last per. iformance of the season, according to «General Director Edouard Albion :‘The cast is to be headed by Luella :Nelius, termed by eritics one sgreatest coloraturas of present-day ohn Charles n contralto: Sigurd = BY AMERICAN ARTISTS nd Doris iroile, [hasso, all 2 © The national character of the Wash- sington National Opera Co. was shown 35 a poll of the chorus taken last week iby General Director Albion, which re- lvealed, with 38 present, a total of 25 States, in addition to the District of Columbia and one foreign countr. were represented. The District led, naturally, with Pseven members, and Texas came sec- fond with four.” New York had three Jand Pennsylvania, Illinol New Jer- ey, Maseachusetts and Italy had two ) The others had a single rep- resentative. Raiph Niissen, e Dilion, believed to be 3 age director of the professional stage, has been engaged y Mr. Albion to act as stage direct ifor the performance of “Rigoletto. Miss Dillon has been associated in the past with the Washington company. but later formed a group of players ‘of her own (o give a season in New IYork. With the closing of that season “she was available for re.engagement shere with the Washington Natfonal 1Opera. ol ] : Burglary Suspects Have Record. 4 Special Dispatch to The Star. * RICHMOND, Va., February 26 . Merber. Roberts and John Morgan, *who were arrested in Washington in & connection with a lunchroom burglary here and brought back for a grand fjury hearing, have extensive police records, according to a police report . today. Roberts operated on the Pa- { cific Coast and Morgan, who has but “one leg, at Norfolk, according to the police. baritone, | than the On moves in its orbit faster I carth, as it is closer to the sun. with the sun, but about 24 degiees cast of It. Thus it will set after the sun sets, and may be seen in the west after sunset. Al Philadelphia it sets 7 . and the time is nearly in the United At the end of the month it wiil set at 854 pm. The difference in Aireciton of Venus and the sun, which we call the elon; continues to i se until July when it reaches a maximum value of 45 Aegrees, as indicated on the figure. The angle then decreases until Venus 'S again in the same direction as the sun on September 11, but this time on he same side of the sun as the earth. tion of the planet, | l a hot foot race from the | March 1 Venus i8 no longer in Hné | | “his position ix known as inferfor con- | unction. will be a morning star. The signifi “ance of the figure will be understood if the eve {8 thought of as in the posi- tion of ‘the earth, and then the paper held so that the symbol for the sun is in the direction of the real sun. The line for March 1 is made so that when held in the natural position to read it will be horizontal, which is the direction of the sun at sunset. Since the orbits of the earth and Venus are each very nearly ecircular, the relative motion can be indicated eastly. This will be done in a figure next month. Both figures should be preserved for use in succeeding months. N The Race of Venus and Mars. Mars i now in the constellation Taurus, as indicated in figure 1. It sses the bright star Aldebaran on March 13. The star and the planet are both reddish. and at that_time will be of the sume brightness. It will be in- "teresting to compare their redness. Both Venus and Mars are moving rapidly eastward. Venus moves 34 de- grees during the month and Mars 18 degrees. It will be interesting to watch Venus gradually overtake Mars. It reaches Mars June 9. Saturn rises at 1 a.m. March 1, and at 10:59 p.m. March 31. It is in the constellation Ophiuchus, just above the bright star Antares of the con- stellation Scorpius. The moon passes very close to Saturn March 24 about a.m., Eastern standard time. The planet will be occulted at places farther south. Jupiter changes from | an evening to morning star . on March 1. It is now too close to the sun to be seen. The sun crosses the Equator March 21 at 9:59 a.m. Spring begins at that time. Early Astronomy. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences. No one can set a date at which astronomy was unknown. As- tronomy is an observational science, since there could be no science of as- tronomy if we had no eyes with which to observe. The rotation of the earth, which appears as an apparent revolu- tion of the sun about the earth, is so striking that there was no escape from observing it. It was also obvious that the phenomenon was repeated in intervals which seemed regular. The motion and phases of the moon were likewise striking, and the moon afford- ed a meane of reckoning time. Calen- dars regulated by the moon were the first to appear, and such calendars are still in use. The recurrence of the sea- sons likewise would very soon become evident both by the changes of tem- perature and vegetation. The neces- sity for sowing and reaping, for the preservation of life, was naturally seen at a very early date, and the connection of the seasons with ‘the After September 11 Venus | of the map is the point overhead. < g affairs being thus evident, It was but natural that attention should be paid to other heavenly bodies and influ- ences ascribed to them. The most natural bodies to expect to produce in- fluences on the earth were the moon and the planets which moved about. The motions of these bodies were watched until man was acquainted with them in the case of each of the planets visible to the naked eye before the days of history. The fixed stars, too, were naturally observed and grouped into consteélla- tions. Their positions could be used to indicate the time during the night. ‘“While shepherds watched their flocks by night” represents a typical scene. Another correct idea of the times is given by the lines “Work, for the nigh! coming, when man’s work is done. The setting of the sun gave men leisure and darkness, both of which were conducive to the conter- positions of the sun established. The influence of the sun upon terrestrial plation of the heavenly bodies. Mod- ern sclence, has largely turned the night into day for the large numbers Figure 1—The constellations at 9 p.m. March 1, at 7 Hold the map to the sky so that the direction faced is at the bottom; that is, if facinz east hold east at the bottom as south now is. The center 7’ Figure 2—Positions of Venus and the earth while Venus is .m. March 81. & b =~ < > S = n evening star, of people who live in cities, and the muitiplication of activities has divert- of their attention from the sky to such a degree that Prof. Aiken. di rector of the Lick Observatory, could say, “I think it no exaggeration to say* that the North American Indians in the days of Columbus knew more about the apparent motions of the sun, moon and planets, about theé configura- tions of the atars and the relation of their appearance In the night sky to the seasons of the year than does th average university graduate of today. 1 believe that he is right. True, some of the conclusions reached by primitive peoples with re- spect to the. heavenly -bodies were incorrect, but what of that? They could profit by their errors. The his tory of astronomy is full of cases where incorrect ideas have'led to the truth. - There is probably- no selence in which the truth so frequently dif- fers from the corclusions from super- ficlal evidence. Some cases of these errors will be discussed later. By the Aessociated Prese. COLUMBIA, 8. C., February 26.— Playing of golf or any other game of sport will be unlawful tomorrow in Shuth Carolina under orders issued by Gov. John G. Richards for the first state-wide enforcement in many years of century-old Sabbath laws. The governor has declared emphati- cally against the sale of soda foun- taln and bottled poducts. He han‘ sent telegrams to each of the 46 county sheriffs to prevent the sale of everything on Sunday except milk, ice and medicines. Sale of gasoline and motoring supplies are alzo banned except in emergency, the officers to be the judges of what constitutes an emergenc "Nouth Carolinfans today filled up | their gasoline tanks and replenished | their supplies of “smokes” in pre] | {tfon of the first state-wide “blue Sun- | i tomorrow in many years. old laws on Sabbath obs to be enforced from the Piedmont to the sen, Gov. Richards said. Al Svorts Prohibited. Next to the motorists the golfing | SOUTH CAROLINA CLOSED TIGHT TODAY UNDER OLD BLUE LAWS Governor Warns Police to Prohibit All Sports and Sales of Anything Not Considered as Essential. | classed as a necessity. lature, now in session, should modify the existing statutes. “I think any person should know on Saturday if his tooth paste was out.” sald Attorney General John M. Daniel, when asked for an opinion on the constitutionality of the laws. “Therefore I hardly think it could be The law is in- sale of things purchased on the tended to forbid the which can be previous days.” He said that membership in golf clubs would not exempt the players. AUDIENCE IS QUIET WHEN FILM EXPLODES Alexandria Operator Suffers Burns Tearing Reel From Project- ing Machine. Special Dispatch to The Star | fraternity is expected to be the most | hampered. | sheriffs sports were to he permitted. The only indication of a possible test of the laws has come from Greenville, tion to play regardless. The sherift of Cireenville was told by the gover- nor io swear out warrants for any persons playing on the links Sunday. The Winter tourist colony at Aiken is sald to be interested in the effect of the laws on plans for an exhibition golf match scheduled for tomorrow with Joe Kirkwood, trick shot artist, as one of the performers. Governor Richards said he would not attempt to interfere for the pres- ent with newspapers or the operation of raflroads and other public service facilities. Began Last Week. The lid was clamped on last Sunday in Columbla but in the other cities of the State the usual Sunday obser- vance was followed. The governor said he wanted to give everybody fair warning before adopting stringent measures. Announcement was made from the executive’s office that hundreds of telegrams have been recelved com- mending him for his program. On the other hand mass meetings Columbia have urged modification -of the laws, and Charleston druggists have petitioned him for a lightening of the ban which allows only the sale of medicines by them. Some news- papers in their editorial columns have expressed the opinion that the Legis- In his telegram to the' the governor sald that no| where some golfers are | sald to have announced their inten- | in! ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 26.| Chester Boran, motion picture {operator at the TIngomar Thegter, |suffered burns about the face, arms land body this afternoon when fire broke out in the magazine of a pro- {Jecting machine, destroying 8,000 feet tof film and causing damage to lh.‘ | booth. Patrons excitement. {can and members of the department iarrived quickly on the scene. Water |leaking through from the projecting {booth caused some damage to the {lower floor, Boran was Injured by the explosion of a reel of flim torn from its magazine when it caught fire while being shown. He was given medical attention. The damage ex- cept to the films is covered by insur- ance, left the theater without PRSI STATE APPEALS VERDICT. 1$1,050 Allowed for Two Acres in | Virginia Road Controversy. | Special Dispateb to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., February 26.—It Fire Chief James Dun- was announced today that the State department of highways would appeal from a Circuit Court verdict in Prince ‘Willlams County awarding owners of 2 acres of land near Dumfries $1,950 for the property if it is taken by the State for use in high construction, The owners had asked SIM BEATEN MAN OFFERED ing from England of a road of rails upon which ran an iron horee, pelled by “‘vapors of steam.” A resolution is how hefore the Mary- land Legislature ‘“commending the General Assembly of 1927 for its fore. sight in crediting the vision of these hard-headed dreamers with the grant- ing of the Balumore & Ohio Railroad's charter, and Monday night, at a ban- | Balt.more’s largest theater. | quet in industrial leaders from all parts of the countty will help celebrate, with pomp and ceremony, the Baltimore & Ohio's 100 years of lite. A pageant will depict ~historic episudes in the road's development. Planned Horse Cars. The men who gathered at Brown's home to reduce their vision to workable proportions—Will.am Pat- terson, Philip E. Thomas, David Win- chester, Robert Oliver, Benjamin Howard, Isaac McKim, Talbot James and John V. L. McMahon, who wrote the charter—knew but little of rail- roads. The shriek of a locomotive had never, In 1827, echoed against the New World's hills. On the first crude little railroads, at Quincy, Mass., and at Honesdale and Mauch horses drew the cars on their roughly flanged wheels. At the outset the directors of the Baltimore & Ohio planned to use horses to pull their cars all the way over the mountains from Baltimore to the then distant Ohio, with the help of incline planes and giant wind- lasses. But heeding the vague rumors from across the Atlantic, they dispatched two of their numbers to England to investigate. Meanwhile at home the surveys went on and the first stone was laid on the farm of James Car- roll, “just west of Baltimore, with Charles Carroll of Carroliton, the last living signer of the Declaration of independence, turning the first earth. The stone remains where it was placed 99 years ago, on July 4, 1828, Tom Thumb Invented. The reports of the emissaries to England revised the directors’ plans, and on an August afternoon at Mount Clare, Baltimore, saw the first steam locomotive completed in America— Tom Thumb, invented and built by Peter Cooper, alderman of New York. Some of the industrial leaders who will witness the centenary pageant themselves have had romantic roles in the road’'s history. Among them Col. J. M. Schoonmaker, chairman of the board of directors of the Pitts- burgh & Lake Erfe Railroad, as a private in the Unlon Army, guarded one of its bridges. “One of my first duties as an en- listed man was standing guard over the Relay bridge to prevent its de- struction by the Confederate forces, and the interruption of rail travel to and from Washington,” Col. Shoon- maker sa “Our camp was on the outskirts of Baltimore and overlook- #d the yard there, and I remember with much interest the shifting of cars by the little walking beam yard engine.” Banker CEa 2 Y S ‘Wage increases in every branch of he building industry in San Francisco will come into effect January 1. SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and_Sailings from New York. ARRIVED YESTERDAY. arsetlle remen -Rotterd: Providen Muenchen—I Binnend k- AS TERRORISM PROOF | iiis: Jugoslav Peasants Demand Premier |V Resign—Police Chief Is Acoused. By the Associated Precs. BELGRADE, February 26.—-A man with bruises all over his body and giv- ing other evidences of having been beaten, was carried into the Na- tional Assembly in the middle of the session by supporters of Stefan Raditch, Peasant party leader. ,The man was exhibited as living proof to Minister of the Interior Maximovich, that “the third degree” or worse had been practiced by his subordinates, in- cluding the ‘chief of police. The resulting uproar from the majority party caused suspension of the session, The incident occurred immediately after M. Maximotich, replying to in- terpellations by Raditch arherénts charging terrorism during the recent elections, had declared that the op- position’s accusations were not sub. stantiated by any documentary proof. Hardly had he uttered the words, when the alleged victim was borne in, amid the cry: “Here is the evidence: now resign. The man said he had been arrested early In the day on a trivial charge ind had been beaten by the police. “MAR UNFROCKED, IS DEAD Fatal Breakdown Follows Action |4 Against Rev. Paul Blakeney, Cumberland. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND. Md., February. 26. —Word was recejved today of the death of Rev. Paul Blakeney, late of this city, in a sanitarium at -Olney, Il Several months ago he suffered a nervous breakdown following. the action of the Virginia Conference of the United Brethren. Church, which met at Harrieonburg last Spring, in withdrawing his credential He had been pastor of the Becond United Brethren Church here and was left without ap appointment by the conference which met in the Spring of 192. le continued to live here and perform the rite .of 3 although he . had no regular. church charge. Then the conference of 1926 unfrocked him, actlon having been due, it is stated to his alleged unethi- cal actlvity . In securing itinerant couples to marry. 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Tiradentes—Buenos Aire: SATLING FRIDAY. b B, un; 0] pleSonthampion Tt ST SAILING SATURDAY. Aidan—Para > “.:r'mn s Hami pro- | Chunk, Pa.,! |enworth, Kans., where they to all remedies suggested. These | objections ave| based on the helief that they would cause upheavals and vislent changes of the existing order in the Alr Corps itself: changes that would be inimical | to the interests of the corps and would | produce an arrangement of its officers no more satisfactory than the present. Among the remedies investigated were the following: Crediting some 400 Air | Corps officers with the actual time in excess of three months they were in | training for commissions; = crediting | these same officers with the average Axcess time they were in training, or, assigning these officers to running | mates for promotion. Any one of these | remedies, it wax found, would produce new inequalities and new injustices and none of them would be produc- tive of a materially improved distri- bution of Air Corps officers on the promotion list. Any of them woula | materially improve the present deplor able promotion prospects of some 400 Afr Corps officers, but none would | establish a satisfactory rate of flow | of promotion. | Seeretars Davison. | | The following orders affecting Regu- lar Army officers on duty in Wash ineton were fssued last week by the War Department: Maj. Dwight F. Johns, C. E., upon the completion of his present ‘tour of foreign service, will proceed to this city for assign- ment to Auty in the office of the Chief of Engineers. Upon the completion of his present course of instruction ac the Air Corps Advnced Flying Sciool, Kelly Field, Tex., First Lieut. Walter J. Reed will proceed to this city und upon his ar- rival in Washington will be assigned to duty In the office of the chief of air corps. He is expected to report for duty in that office 'on March 1. Capt. Bryan L. Milburn, who has been on duty in the office of the chief of coast artillery, this city, for the past two or three years, has been crdered relieved of this duty and assigned to duty with the Coast Artillery Corps in the Pana- ma Canal Zone. He will sail from .New York for the Canal Zone on June 2. The following infantry officers will be relieved from their duties in the War Department general staff, effec- tive on the date indicated after their | name, and will procsed to Fort Leav- | will_as- | sume instructors’ duties at the Com- | mand and General Staff School. They are Lieut. Col. Hiram M. Cooper, June 30, and Maj. Martin C. Wise, May 8, nd Maj. Harry L. Twaddle, April 26. Capt. nan L. Simms, who has been on duty in the office ot the chief of finance, this city, has been ordered to duty in the Hawaiinn Department, sailing from New York on May 18 for San Francisco, thence' from that port on July 23 for Honolulu. War Department special orders an- nounce the relief from duty in the general staff of a number of additional officers. They are, tozether with the dates of their rellef, as follows: Col. Charles B. Stone, jr., May 26, and Col. Jamer H. Reeves, April 80. The for- mer's new assignment 18 the inspector general's department, . while Col. Reeves is the same. 1.ieut. Col. Jossph A. Baer, June 12, who gues to 11th Cavalry; Lieut. Col. Olan C. Aleshire, June 30, who is assigned to 13th Cav- alry; Lieut. Col. Guy Kent, May 10, who goes to the Gth Cavalry, and Lieut. Col. Walter O. Boswall, May 28, who is assigned to the 224 Infantry. Upon the completion of his present tour of foreign service, Capt. Law- rence P. Worrall Is assigned to duty in the office of the chief of finance, this city. Maj. Russe!l H. Brennan is relfeved from duty in the office of the judge advocate general of the Army, this city, and is assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division. Fort Bliss, Tex., ef- fective May 4. The following student officers now at the Army War Colege, all majors of field artillery, will be re- lieved of this assiznment upon the completion of their present course of instruction and have been assigned as follows: Charles I’. George, to Field Artillery School, for duty with the staff: Raymond E. iLee, to Tth Field Artillery (18t Division), Fort Ethan Allen, Vt.; Donald C. Cubbison, to duty in the office of the chief of field artii- lery, this city, and Joseph R. Davis, to 10th Field Artillery (3rd Division), Camp Lewls, Wash. Navy. An even flow of promotion, based on service of about se years in each grade (the two lowest grades be- ing considered as oneé). to be obtalned by separation from the active list of a number of officers, In addition to the normal attrition, sufficient to main- tain the desired rate of promotion, in brief the principles which the board, composed of Marine Corps offi- cers, headed by Brig. Gen. Ben H. Fuller, who have been engaged in studying the commissioned personnel problems of this corps since last Sep- tember, have agreed should be applied in remedying the unsatisfactory pro motion situation in the Marine Corps. | The board’s proposal provides that all promotions, except to the grades of major general and first lisutenant, be made from promotion lists prepared | Overstreet, who recently was on du |as a member of the American naval time. vears' service receive 214 per cent pay | for each vear of total service at the time of transfer from the active ilst (service in the Recerva does not count for pay) and continue to receive that rate of pay upon transfar to the re. tired Lst. Those with less than this service receive in the case of cap- | tains three vears' pay A& a lump-sum | payment at’the time of transfer and | one-third pay for seven vears, and in | the case of first lieutenants two vears’ \ pay as a lump sum and onesixth pay for seven years. Brigadier generals are promotad to | major generals by seniority, while | second lieutenants are promoted first | lieutenants after completing three vears’ service. All additional number line colonels (now two in number) ave their additional number status emoved and retain their present po- | uition on the liat of colonels. Under | the board’s proposal, proviston fe | made for the retirement of one line | | general when in any vear there-are | no vacancies among the generals of | the line from other causes, and pro- | vision is also made for the tranafer | of an extra number staff colonel when | he is not on a_staff eligible list and when a line officer junior to him is transferred from the active list. Whils the proposal does not provide for any increase of the total author- ized number of commissioned officers | on the active list, it will in effect provide an increase in the total num- ber of trained officers avallable for use in a national emergency. These officers will have had at least six years of regular service, training and experience, and would be of great value in augmenting the active list should the occasion arise. The board's proposal {ncreases the cost over the present system for the first six vears | by an erage vearly amount of | $70.428 and after that starts show- | ing & progressive decrease, 8o that by the twelfth year a net saving of $32,388 s shown. This decrease in cost continues to accumulate until | about the twentieth yéar when the annual expenditure for the active list, the transferred reserve and the addi- tions to the retired list under the pro- | posed law, all combined, will stabilize | at a figure that is $557.000 less than | would be the cost of the active list alone by that vear under the present law. The net saving to the Govern- ment during this time is wel] over ! $3.000,000. | . Capt. Austin Kautz, who has been | in command of the Wyoming, has| been relieved by Capt. Luthe mission in Brazil. In all probability Capt. Kautz will be assigned to duty at Berlin, Christiania, Stockholm and Copenhagen as the relief of Capt. John V. Klemann, now on duty as naval attache at those places. The latter officer is due for sea duty. Or- ders have been istued to Comdr. Ros- coe C. MacFall, detaching him from command of d!fltroxer division 31 of the battle fleet, to' become effective upon the arrival of the fleet on the east coast, and assigning him to duty at the Naval Academy. After the | battle fleet arrives at Guantanamo | in March, Comdr. Ormend L. Cox will be detached from duty as aid | and engineer officer on the staff of the commander-in-chief of that fleet, and will be assigned to duty in the Bureau of Engineering, Navy De- partment. His duties with the fleet will be taken 6ver by Comdr. Mijles A. Libbey, who is now on duty iIn that bureau. - Preparatory to his possikle assignment to the next aviation class at the naval air station at Pensacola, Fla., Comdr. Worrall R. Cater, who has been on duty in the office of naval intelligence, Navy Department, has been ordered detached from his duty and will go to duty at the Hampton Roads naval air station. ! —— TWO HURT IN COLLISION. | Automobiles of Richmond Victims Consumed by Fire. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., February 26.—De Witt Selzie and Willlam J. Paul of this city arg in the local hospital in a serlous condition as a result of a colli- sion late yesterday on the Richmond- ‘Washington Highway between their automobiles. ~ The machines caught fire after the accident and . T were con: Dr. Luclus C. Clark. chancellor of | American University, entertained lag: night at a banquet at the University Club for the American University basket ball squad, Coach G. Baflie Springston and Manager Seeley N. Grey. Informal speeches reviewed the past season, in which the team was successful in winning 16 out of 20 games. Following the banquet there | was a theater party. New Holland was the name orig: Basket Ball Squad Given Dinner. b States Bubbling over with enthusiasm, the 1wus inventor today showed a small groun of newspapermen over a three. acre rubber tract of his estate here and briefly outlined his plans for a machine which will equeeze the julce from the rubher plants and greatly re duce the costly American labor charge, which has been one of the chier stumbling blocks to previous domestic rubber projects rd 1s His Partner. “Henry Ford is a sort of partner of mine in this business, the inventor sald, “and were going to work to gether on the experiment. [ hope that 1 will be able to drive the first Ford equipped with tires made from the domestict rubber out of the shops before so very long." Tt probably will ba twe and one half vears, he said, hefore he will be ready with the pressing machine and other devices necessary to make rubber production in the South practical. Since he came ta Fort Myers for his Winter vacation a week ago he has been working far, into the night on plans for his mackine. Often Mrs. FEdigon has found him after midnight pouring over designs or strétched out on the floor of his tiny labora- tory near his house snatching a few minutes of sleep before returning to his work. Started Year Ago. A _start in the experiment was made nearly a vear ago when he re- ceived a shipment of Madagascar rubber vines and had them planted in‘a corner of his lawn. Since then the vines have come safely.through the September hurricane and three cold snapg. LEdison believes the vine will grow over the entire portion of the United States south of Savannah, Ga., and in Mexico. He is now making plans for the building of a reaper similar to the one used in the wheat fields of the northwest which will cut the crop without the employment of much labor. . s The vine after being cut close to the ground, grows again and can be harvested annuall; TWO FLYERS HURT IN FORCED LANDING Martin Bomber From Langley Field Consumed by Fire After Crash at Cumberland, Md. Special Dispateh to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., February 26.— Two Army airmen were injured here this afternoon when a Martin bomber twin-motor plana from Langley Field, in a forced landing at Bowling Gree crashed Into a telegraph pole and wa hurled on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks. finally Ihnding in a fleld where it was consumed by fire., The injured are Lieut. Willlam K. Andrews, 30 vears old, pilot, Air Corps Reserves, hurt about the head: Staft Sergt. Joseph F. Garcia, eréw chief, injured about the- ribs; H. 8. James of the commanding officer's office, Langley. Field, a passenger, was un- hurt. The injured men were taken to Western Maryland Hospital in ambu- lances. The plane was en route to Fairfleld, Ohio, but: after reaching . Uniontown, Pa., weather eeriditions were such that it was thought best to return to Langley Field. HILLES PRAISES VETO OF McNARY-HAUGEN BILL Political Effect Against Coolidge May Result in Dozen States, He Believes. By the Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Cal Febru- ary 26.—Charles D. Hilles of York. ex-chairman of the Republican national committee, declared today the vetoing of the McNary-Haughen farm rellef bill was the only consis! ent thing President Coolidge could do, although his action probably will hurt the President’s chance in 1928 for fe- election in a dozen Middle Western States. Hilles is president of the Ni tional Republican Club. He praised the President's action and pated by all who had followed the President’s stand against price fixing. 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