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WEATHER. Weather Bureau Forecast.) with light rain tonight and u Cloud, probably tomorrow change in tempe Temperature-—H s morning, not much ture. ighest, 60, at 5 p.m. E a.m. todax, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 The Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Staf. service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Pres: news Yesterday's Circulation, 104,064 iol po \tared of o. 30,314. o “Washington. nd_class matter 0. C. WA SHINGTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1927 —-FORTY-TWO PAGES. * () Means Associated Pres: TWO CENTS. GING MISSISSIPPI BREAKS TWO MORE - LEVEES AND PERILS FIVE OTHER POINTS River Gradually Creeping Upon Second Line of Sand- | bag Defense at Vickshurg, With Swifter Rise Forecast FLOOD WATERS’ SPREAD DRIVES OUT LOUISIANANS Dynamiting of Dikes to Save New Orleans Opens Only 60-Foot Gap, But Engineers Express Opti- mism—Demands for Greater Re- | lief Efforts Are Voiced. | By the Associated MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 30. wo new levee breaks, and the threat of at least five more, under the slow surge of the highest crest the Mis- sissippi River ever has recorded, added today to the steadily cres- cendoing demands for relief which have caused President Coolidge to| appeal for a fund greater than tiat of $5,000000, first asked for the| American Red Cross. 3 | With the scope of, the disaster constantly enlarging as the rushing| water inundates additional towns,| some of them ordinarily far from the river, the President was await- ing a conference with Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, who has spent a week in touring the flooded zone from Memphis to | below New Orlean | Hoover to Give Facts. Hoover, himself an engineer, to-| night will lay before the Nation a word picture of what he found, in a radio_address from Station WMC of the Memphis Commercial _Appeal, which will be hooked up with prob- ably 30 other stations in two national networks of the National Broadcast- ing Co. Mr. Hoover will go on the air at 6:30 p.m. central standard time, talk- ing 17 minutes. A few minutes later he will leave for Washington to report personally to President Coolidge. Red Cross officials at disaster relief- headquarters in Memphis said today that more than 200,000 refugees had registered, and that the figure doubt- lessly represented hardly more than half of the total number affected. A relief fund of $4,600,000 was necessary after south Florida was struck by a hurricane last September, when fewer than half as many as have been victims of the flood were affected, the Red Cross announcement said. When the Arkan broke at South Be hundreds of workers lost a 1 tle and the evacuation of e town in southeastern Arka made necessary. Arkansas City Gehee, Lake Village and Dermott, al- veady suffering from the high water, were indicated as the chief sufferers In the new inundation. The other levee break was the in- tentional one below New Orleans. Danger spots fought today were at Vidalia, La., opposite Natchez, Mis &t Glasscock, La., 22 miles below Vidalia; St. Joseph, La.. and both north and south of Vicksburg, Miss. Only two towns previously untouch- ed by the flood were inundated by the South Bend break, Dumas and Gould. McGehee, already under 3 to 17 feet of water, was apprenhensive in the face of the new danger, and at Lake Village, a further rise would make necessary removal of 1,000 person: garded as safe at the previous s At Vicksburg, the Miss i ually was creeping up a second sand- bag defense, and was slopping over portions of the north Vicksburg levee, with a bureau prediction of a further of nearly a foot a week hence. Last night the river was 56.73 feet, as against the previous record of 54.9 ix 1922, Supplies Are Concentrated. The crest of the flood was slightly south of Greenville, Miss., today, and working ahead of if, the Red Cros had ordered concentrations of supplie at Vicksburg, Natchez and New O ieans. “Provisions, equipment have we believe condi our fullest services, from W. P. Simpson, chairman of the | New Orleans Red Cross Chapt lenry, M. Baker, di velief. medical and been supplies, provided ippi delta many eported clinging trees and roofs, and fleets ief boats were being rushed Seventy refugees wers found w amall boats went into the section lated by the levee break at Dorena ere found a white en and four n M white persons w thout food. All had polluted water and In one barn loft n and fou drinking were sick Greenville, Miss § | committee cl Nat-Mack Ball Game Postponed Today On Account of Rain The Washington-Philadelphia base ball game was postponed to- day on account of rain in the Penn- vania city. M Harris and McGilli- cuddy ( for Cortnie Mack), put off the decision to postpone the con- test until the outlook was hope- The Nationals come to Wash- ington tonight for tomorrow’s tilt at Griflith ~ Stadium, which will open the home ' stand before the first invasion of the West. CHINESE PLANNING WORLD MOVEMENT Nationalists Seek to End Tong Wars as Part of Drive to Win Favor. B; “SHA tang, Associated Press. FHAI, April 30.—The Kuomin- or Nationalist People’s party, | has formulated a plan, which has the backing of the Nationalist govern- ment, to organize Chinese throughout the world in a vast movement to aid China and, as they say, put her in a better light in the various foreign communities. 1t is proposed, among other things, to put an end to tong wars. The Nationalist government has issued an order prohibiting vessels to enter or leave the Whangpoo River by way of the Yangtze between sun- down and sunrise and is insisting"that the order be obeyed. Would Exempt Warships. The foreign consuls sent a note,to the foreign office agreeing to the or- der as regards passenger vessels, but declining to comply as far as gun- boats were concerned, saying it was necessary for these war craft to move at any hour deemed necessary. To this note the foreign office has replied insisting that all vessels com- ply_with the order. The Hankow Nationalist govern- ment is reported to have created a ged with administer- ing justice, preserving peace and espe- cially preventing anti-foreignism. FactionabWar Under Way. Actual warfare between Cantonese forces under command of Gen. Chang Kai-Shek, the moderate Nationalist leader, and the left-wing Cantqpese troops appeared to be under way yes- terday. Chang was reported also to have succeeded in cutting the Nanking- Kiukiang Railway, which virtually parallels the Yangtze River, his cbject being to eliminate the possibility of escape by Chen’s men. Chen was the general who occupied Nanking when the Cantonese captured it from the northerners. He has dis- claimed responsibility for the attacks on foreigners which followed upon the Cantonese occupation and which drew the fire of the American and British warships off shore on March 24, Nevertheless, Chang Kai-Shek's ad- herents in Shanghai insist that the action against Chen is part of Chang’s mpaign to “Punish him” for the Nanking outrage. According to advices from Nanking, where moderate Cantonese govern- ment was set up by Chang in opposi- tion to that at Hankow, Gen. Yang- sung has been delegated by Chang to proceed against the Hankowites with a punitive expedition of 80,000 men. The special court Peking which is dealing with the alleged Com- munists arrested in the recent raid on buildings in the Soviet compound, is dealing severely with the prisoners. Peking reported that the court, fol- lowing up the sentencing of 20 Chinese to death by strangulation yesterday, the sentences being carried out im- mediately, decreed today that four Chinege, among them a woman, must serve 12 years’ imprisonment. DOCUMENTS HELD FORGERIES. Moscow Denies “Seized Papers” Were Taken From Soviet Embassy. MOSCOW, April 30 (P).—The secre- tariat of the executive Communist Internationale yesterday denounced the documents. which are alleged by the Northern Chinese authorities to have been seized in the Peking raid early this month, as gross forgeries intended to excite public opinion against Soviet Russi Early tached (Continued on CHICAGO CRIME CUT BY ‘GO-GET-’EM CHIEF’ By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 30.—Police Chief “Go-Get"Em” Mitchael Hughes may vet compel a revision of the common report that Chicago is the criminal’s paradise, a city where, as the para- graphers delight in saying, bullet- proof vests are the approved garh for pedestrians, The police department today re- | vealed that robberies and hold-ups here have decreased more than 25 per cent in the first fortnight of Chief Hughes’ regime. Five men with criminal some “with records as long as your arm,” as one detective phrased it, | were arrested last night as the de: | tective bureau steamed ahead in the effort to make good Chief Hughes' this month police and soldi to the | records, olis of the encouragement in water und assura rise was in typhold feve nd there 1 the refu, s that no furthe ion agair been was no conta, > camp. se Peril Pointed Out. The next six months will k ds from dise aecord Dr. William Allen ¥ the disaster M who emphis, slems it caused constitute and away biggest calamity we had in this country and the most diflicult to han dle,” b ‘It is the flood far that we r of epi nest six mon have to watch, as the dar such typhold, x and dysentery ted Cross reported that 50 loads of supplies were en 1o Memphis for distribution from va ous points. They included 27 carload: of vegetables rloads of fish, promise to “drive out the crooks in Methodists Choose Kansas City. CHICAGO, April 30 (P).—Kansas City, Ma,, yesterday was awarded the | 1828 Quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Memoirs of Uncle Joe Cannon A _fascinating story of the inside” of things over a || period of half a century. || In daily installments, with illustrations by Berryman, be- ginning Monday in The Evening Star SOVIET WILL TAKE PART IN ECONONIC PARLEY AT GENEVA Participation in Conference Marks Russia’s Return to International Stage. TWO WOMEN NAMED IN DELEGAT!ON OF 16 Collaboration of Moscow Govern- ment Expected to Be Big Factor in Development of Europe. Switzerland, April 30 1 confirmation of Soviet Russia’s intention to participate in the inter- national economic conference opening here this month was recefved by the League of Nations secretarlat today from Maxim Litvinoff, acting Soviet foreign minister. The announcement created extraor- dinary interest, as Soviet participation will give the conference new impor- tance. 1t also will » the return of the Soviet to the international stage, which they abandoned after the failure of the Genoa and Hague con- ference M. Litvinoff_announced that settle- ment of the Russo-Swiss differences over the s nation of the Soviet delegate, Vaslav Vorovsky, at Lau- sanne in 1923 permitted Moscow to collaborate in the coming conference. Two Women in Delegation. The Soviet delegation, he said, would comprise 16 persons, including two women, Anastasia Bairoulepiva and Emia Bolchakova. He asked Sir Eric Drummond, the League's secretary general, to exercise his good offices with the Swiss authorities to secure passport visas News of the Soviet decision caused feelings of satisfaction and apprehen- sion—satisfaction because it indicates that Moscow is definitely to enter the sphere of international relations and apprehension because the Soviets rep- resent a school of economic thought different from that of the remainder of the world. Expected to Be Big Factor. There is speculation in some quar- ters whether the chief Soviet dele- gate, Valerian Oboloensky will attack the capitalis when he addresses the conference, It is agreed, however, that Russian participation is likely' to prove a weighty factor in the development of Europe, both economically and po- litically. FUTILITY 1S PREDICTED. Official ~ Soviet ewspaper Denies Trade Principle Change. MOSCOW, Russig, April 30 (#).— Izevestia, official Soviet newspaper, says the Soviets are going to the In- ternational Economic Conference in Geneva, convinced in advance of its futility. Participation by the Soviets, it adds, should not be regarded as indicating any faith in the measures undertaken to cure the world's economic ills or as an intention to relinquish the principle of state monopoly of foreign trade. Several of the participants in the conference, the paper asserts, believe that as Russia will be faced by the delegates of more than 60 nations, she will be forced to modify her foreign trade principle. “We wish to say in advance, how- ever,” it continues, “that no such modification will be made. The Soviet union is ready to follow any course which will promote development of economic relations with the capital istic_countries, but such can only be developed provided our system of mo- nopoly shall remain unchanged.” AGREEMENT TO NAVAL PARLEY IS REPORTED | United States, England and Japan to Confer in Geneva, Authori- ties Declare. ated Press. | NEVA, Switzerland, April 30.—A definite agreement has been reached n the United" States, Great 1in and Japan to hold the tri- partite naval conference at Geneva, the Associated Press learned from an authoritative source last night. Thus the site of the conference named in President Coolidige’s original invita- tion will he adhered to, There had been reports that a deli- cate situation arose in connection with the definite choico of a meeting place, it being said that the British desired Losdon instead of Geneva. reat Britain and Japan, as mem- bers of the League of Nations, it is understood, will arrange for thi con- ference to be held at League head- quarter; WILL CURB EMPLOYERS. British Cabinet Declared to Be Planning Labor Bill Change. LONDON, April 30 (). inet, says the Daily Jxj ing an amendment to its trade union bill, which comes up on the second reading in the House of Commons on Monday. The amendment would make combined lockouts by emplo illegal, the same as general strikes. This move, the newspaper adds, is expected to offset the contention of Laborites that the bill is aimed solely at the trade union movement and, therefore, one-sided. SAUSAGE PLANT BOMBED. Two Hurled From Beds by Force of Chicago Explosion. CHICAGO, #).—A bomb explosion which hurled two persons from their beds, and the force of which shattered windows for two blocks in all directions, caused several thousand dollars’ damage early today to a building occupied by the Engle- wood Sausage Co. The dynamite bomb wrecked one April 30 pointment was held up pending a de- PRESIDENT STUDIES FLOOD AREA TRIP ok K Senator Harrison Asks Exec- | utive to Visit Missis- sippi Valley. | ] President Coolidge today took under consideration an invitation from the | of four States in ricken presented area. in- personal visit to the s The invitation was by Senator < s 3 who explained to Mr. Coolidge that the | flood situation is far more serious than | the people throughout. the United States imagine and that the Governor in question are of the opinion that the flood has reached such national significance as to warrant a personal inspection by the head of the Govern- ment. Says President 1s Interested. | Senator Harrison told the President that such n visit at this time would undoubtedly bring the real seriousness | of the situation more definitely to the| country at.large. He added that the | people in every section would be more | forcibly impressed of the need for as-| sistance if the President made this trip and would be more ready and| more liberal in their response to the Red Cro: ppeal for funds t) carry on immediate relief work. The Mississippi Senator said after his intervie th the President t (Continued on Page 8, Column %) BEN. JE OF TRAFFIC RAGE Withdraws Name as Candi- date to Succeed Eldridge as Director. The District will have to resume its search for a new traffic director. Brig. Gen. Henr Jervey, retired Army engineer, to whom the Commis- sioners had planned to give the post, today withdrew his name as a candi- date, leaving the field open to the 40 or more applicants for the position which was made vacant by the demo- tion of M. O. Eldridge to assistant trafiic director. The selection of Gen. Jervey was made several weeks ago, but his ap- feneral McCarl the Com- sion by Controller v question put to him by missfoners as to whether a _retis ¢ officer in a compensable pos uld continue to draw his re- tirement pay. The controller general has not yet ruled on that question, however. It had been understood that Gen. Jervey would not accept the posi tion at the sacrifice of his retirement vay. The withdrawal of Gen. Jerve announced by Commi L. Daugherty, who has administrative supervision over the traffic depart- ment. Gen. Jervey, he said, had de cided not to take the position because of the pressure of private affai WILLIS TO BACK HAYNES. After a_conference at the Capitol today with Roy A. Haynes, acting prohibition commissioner, and a_group of his supporters, Senator Willis, Re- publican, Ohio, predicted Haynes’ ap- pointment would be made permanent. The Ohio Senator said he would “lay the situation” before President Cool- idge immediately and urge him to give Haynes the job for good. | the Panaman registry of the steamer $400000,000 COST | Financiers | not be below 800 to 1,000 million yen, PANAMA AWAITS PROBE. ‘Withholds Action on U. S. Request Concerning Rum Ship. PANAMA, April 30 (#).—The Pan- aman government has decided not to accede to a request by the United tes Government for cancellation of Federalship, seized some time ago off the California coast as an alleged rum runner, The government is completion of an inv ter Alfaro is making in W regarding the vessel. awaiting _the tigation Minis- shington OF WASTE IN JAPAN Urge Budget Economy in Lieu of Tax In- crease for Rehabilitation. BY RUSSELL KENNEDY. By Cable to The Star and Chicazo Daily News, . Copyright.-1927. TOKIO, April 30.—Croups ‘of the most influential men in Japan, after analyzing the present situation, have arrived at*the definite conclusion that the cost of past follies of waste, ex- travagances and mismanagement can- $400,000,000 to $500,000,000. Conserva- tive and practical financiers believe this amount is easil in a decade upon th ent budget of 1,700 million yen, ap- proximately $800,000,000, without any increased taxation. Policies Are Advocated. A platform of policies being power- fuily advocated and under serious consideration by influential groups follows Economy and more economy. Reduction of all items of future budgets, especialiy for the army and navy, but excepting finance, to which must be added a minimum of 200,000,- 000 yen, about $100,000,000, for the imports, and ex- in increases unnecessary with in industry ports. No indirect, classes. Rigid stoppage of all unessential government expenditures for new or doubtful undertakings. Weeding out of political and off cial subsidies, graft, corruptién and favoritism. Encouragement of closer euonomy and greater industry.' Issuance of an edict by the young Emperor himself urging these points upon the whole people. Other Measures Proposed. Suggestions for a capital levy and a special bank are under considera- tion, but it is pointed out that under the present exposure, a few real capitalists are bearing the burden, though there is a legion of im- poverished paper millionaires. Elder statesmen and financiers as- sert that strict economy and honesty, especially on the part of the govern- ment departments, will place Japan in a far better position than at present. increase In taxation, direct or upon the middle or lower “VIKINGS” SUPPRESSED. Dissolution of Baltic Marine Order Decreed in Germany. LEIPSIC, Germany, April 30 (#). Dissolution of the nationalistic ing” organization today was de by the special tribunal for defense of the republic. The suppressed order was one of the illegal organizations recruited from the remnants of the mnotorious Baltic Marine Brigade under Capt. Khrhardt, which staged the Kapp r volt in 1920, It also was suspected of complicity in the assassinations of Vice Premier Mathias Erzberger in August, 1 and Dr. Walter Rathenau, foreign minister, in June, 1922 By thie Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April 30.—Indian war hoops emitted by Dr. Clifford S. Trimmer of Philadelphia, after he had smeared his face with red paint, caused a Chinese mob at Nanking to flee in terror, he said on his arrival here with 40 other refugees. Dr. Trimmer said a group of natives approached his home with the appar- ent intention of looting it. Belleving a ruse would prove more effective than a display of arms, he hastily ‘‘made side of the building. Neither police nor officlals of the company could of- for ® WOUYO, o iimdin, 2 up” with red paint and staged his ver- sion of an Indian on the war pi Indian War Whoops and Red Paint Save American From Hands of Chinese Looters Mrs. John B. Williams, widow of the Vice president of the University of Nanking, who was shot and killed by a soldier seeking to rob him, headed the party which arrived yesterday aboard the S, 8. Tenyo Maru. James M. Speers of Montclair, N. J,, physical director of Nanking University, who was with Dr. Willlams when he was shot, was a member of the returning party. The refugees belleve raising of a $10,000 bribe for the invaders of Chris- tlnhr‘lz Chinese at Nanking saved all the white d : 4] RADIO GENSORSHIP UP 70 STATIONS Bellows Says Licenses Will Be Issued Only on Basis of Service to Public. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The future influence of radio in the making of public opinion and the Gov- ernment's function in regulating broadcasting stations present many complicated problems and the speeches of Commissioner H. A. Bellows of the Federal Radio Commission and M. H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting before the National League of Women Voters' conference here may be taken as an index of what lies ahead from the viewpoint of both the Government and the broadcaster. Mr. Bellows announced that his speech had been fully approved in ad- vance by his fellow members on the Radio Commission. 1In a nutshell, he insists that the censoring of programs wlil have to be done by the broadeast- mg stations, which in turn will be di- i"is‘clly responsible to the listening pub- c. Public Service is Criterion. The matter of issuing licenses has been decided, and will continue to be decided, on the basis of public service and public. convenience. The number of licenses is limited. hence a station will in a sense be on its good behavior, for ngress may at any time pre- scribe rules definitely eliminating sta- tions that are misusing their priv- ileges. It is suggested, for instance, that a station whose sole purpose is to pro- voke religious controversy or to give offense to a large number of its hear- ers through such controversy may find itself on a low wave length, and ulti- mately perhaps crowded into a nar- row sphere of influence. So long as the stations maintain the good will of their listeners they will be able to justify themselves and keep their licenses—this is in short the doctrine on which the Federal Radio Commission has been working. It must at the outset, Mr. Bellows said, decline to actept the applications 11 the radio stations as too many have applied, but there is, on the other hand, uncertainty as to how long cer- tain stations will consider it worth- while to furnish programs to the public as the element of cost must be offset by a corresponding advantage to the station. Gives Minority a Voice. One of the interesting points raised in this connection was the opportunity Qf the minority to get a hearing. Wil- liam B. Wilson, ecretary of Labor in the cabinet of President Wilson, was in the audience and asked how organi- zations which could not pay for space on the air would be able to use the radio. Mr. Aylesworth, speaking for the Natlonal Broadcasting Co., ex- plained that his company expected to render a service to the public and to open its facilities to debate of the pro and con of public questions, establish- ing ultimately sort of “university of the air.” He said that for the present the cost of broadeasting was being borne in two ways—by sponsored pro- grams paid for by those who wished institutional advertising and by the three constituent corporations whis own the National Broadcasting ¢ namely, the General Electric, the Westinghouse and the Radio Corpora- tion, all of whom are interested in the increased sale of radio sets and the continuous purcha ; He declared t National Broadeasting (o.’s deficit of more than & million dollars would be met by its constituent companies as a commercial expense justified by the advantages to be derived in promoting the sale of radios and the preservation of interest by the listener who already had bought his radio. Offers Free Use, A certain part of the National Broadcasting Co.'s programs will be offered without charge to organiza- tions making up interesting programs for the education of the public. Mr. Aylesworth offered, for instance, to the National Ieague of Women Voters the use of broadeasting facilities, He pointed out that the National Broadcasting Co. owned very few stations itself, but depended on the many other stations to accept or re- pect the programs. In a sense, he said, the National Broadcasting Co. would occupy a position similar to that of press assoclations which supplied service to newspapers. The broad- casting stations independently owned would be, he said, the judges and censors of what programs they wished to receive on a network with other stations, so that indirectly the public would be the final judge of whether certain types of program would be continuousl; eptable. on t. 1927.) Poet Laureate New State Office In West Virginia By the Associated Prees, CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 30. —The State office of poet laureate, paying $900 annually, has been cre- ated by the West Virginia Legisla ture, which early today ended its 1927 regular session. A three-day extra session will be inaugurated today to dispose of the biennial_appropriation bill, which was fn dispute at the conclusion of the regular session. BUDGET REFORMS URGED BY BUREAU Changes in Accounting and Administration Said to Be Necessary. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. To give the national budget sys tem the character that it should have two reforms are necessary, each de- sirable in itself: (1) Improvement of the accounting and reporting system, and (2) improvement of the organiza- tion of the administrative branch of Government, according to the recom- mendations of the Institute of Go ernment Research, which are await- ing the return of Congress. This re port was written after extensive re- search by Dr. William F. Willoughby, director of the institute. Five other suggestions made by this institute for perfecting the budget system have previously been explained in this series of articles: (1) To give the Budget Bureau the legal status of an agency accountable only to the President. as it now operates upon, instead of a technical status in the Treasury Department; (2) to broaden its jurtsdiction into a bureau of general administration, which would absorb the duties of several existing agen- cies; (3) to employ supplemental budg- ets for the revenue-producing agencies of Government; (4) elimination of the District of Columbia from the Federal budget, and (5) improvement of the appropriations system in Congress by nine svecific changes in the present method. Information Document. The budget is essentially an informa- tion document. It has as one of its major functions to furnish that in- formation regarding the financial con- dition, operations and needs of the Government that will enable those in authority intelligently to judge past performance and frame future finan- cial policies. The budget in presenting information is dependent upon the character of the accounting system of the Government, Dr. Willoughby argues. If that system is defective and-dees not produce the information that it is desirtble should be presented in the budget, then the budget to that extent will be unable fully te perform its mission. The accounting system of the Na- tional Government, though materially improved over what it was a few years ago, is still far from satisfactory, the study by the Institute for Government Research shows. Probably the great- est defects from the budgetary stand- point are: The keeping of the accounts on a cash instead of an accrual basi: the failure to keep proprietary a counts; the failure to make proper fund distinctions, and disregard of distinction between ‘“revenue” and ‘“non-revenue” receipts and between xpense” and “outlay” expenditures. The remedying of the two first- nanted defects would require an im- portant modification of the whole ac- counting system; the other could eas- ily be remedied by a change of practice under the existing system, according to Dr. Willoughb; To illystrate: receipts and expendi- tures of such special funds as those for reclamation, forestry and the like are treated, or at least reported, as receipts and expenditures of ‘the general fund; income received through the sale of assets, such as bonds given to the Government by railroad companies for advances made to them, are treated the same as income re- ceived in the way of taxes, and e: penditures made in the way of mak- ing such advances or the purchase of other securities, such as Federal Land ‘Bank bonds, are treated exactly as if they were the same in kind as ordi- nary disbursements to meet the cur- rent costs of operating the Govern- ment. Under this system of book- keeping a surplus of some millions might be shown as a result of the operations for the year when in fact the operations for the yvear had pro- duced a deficit, or vice versa. Figures Misrepresent. _ This procedure makes the figares in the budget statement misrepresent the balance between the true annual income and expenditures. The pro- ceeds of the sale of surplus war material and of the liquidation of war loans made to foreign governments, railroads, etc., have been treated as though they were current annual in- come and have swollen the surpluses. In the budget for 1926, for example, it was estimated that the fiscal year 1925, then half over, would show surplus of $67,000,000. But tion of the figures used in arriving at that result reveals that included among the receipts were items of §90,- 000,000 resulting from the repayment of loans made to railroads dur- ing the war, and of $60,000,000 from the sale of farm _loan bonds which had been purchased during the war to keep the Federal Land Banks in operation. Both these transactions represented the liquida- tion of capital assets, as much as it an individual had sold some bonds, and_should not have been available (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Nearby Counties of Maryland and Virginia Are Rich in Lore and Business A Star staff correspondent now is visiting them and writes interestingly of the things he has found. The first story will be on Montgomery County, Md., and will appear in tomorrow's issue’ of " The Sunday Star FOUR NAVY FLYERS DIE AS LIGHTNING BOLT HITS PLANE Crew of Companion Craft See Blinding Flash and Cloud of Smoke. ONE BODY RECOVERED FROM CHESAPEAKE BAY Airmen Were Flying Through | Storm on Way From Philadel- phia to Hampton Roads. By the Asso 0.—The elements have won another grim victory over man in his battle to conquer the air. During a severe electrical and rain storm, lightning struck a seaplane 1,200 feet above New Point Comfort late yesterday and sent it hurtling into Chesapeake Bay, killing four Navy airmen—two lieutenants and two petty officers, Plane Is Splintered. The plane was a splintered and scattered wreck. The dead are Lieut. tor F. Marinelli, Lieut. George Watson Lehman, L. E. Poyner, avia- tion chief machinists’ mate, and ieorge M. Nicheals, machintsts’ mate, second class. The disaster was witnessed by Avia- tion Pilot P. J. Byrne, who, like the occupants of the illfated ship, was flying from Philadelphia to Hampton Roads. The planes were proceeding through the storm when, suddenly, there was a blinding flash. A puff of smoke and then the fatal fall into the Chesapeake. Byrne and his com- panions immediately descended, but neither thev nor a tender, which soon after was dispatched from the Norfolk Air Station, could find any trace of the ship or its passengers. One Body Found. The body of one of the airmen was found later, but has not been identified, it was stated at Hampton Roads Naval Air Station today. Efforts are being made to locate the bodies of the other three flyers, and the mine sweeper Teal is trying to raise the plane. Lieut. Marinelli was a resident of Pensacola, Fla., and Lieut. Lehman's mother lives in Warsaw, Ind. WAS NATIVE OF CAPITAL. Lieut. Marinelli Was Graduate “Teck” High in 1915 Class. Lieut. Marinelli was a native of this city, his father having been engaged in business here for many years. The naval aviator attended the ‘Washing- ton public schools and was graduated from the McKinley Manual Training School in 1915, going thence to the University of Cincinnati. However, while in the midst of his course there the United States entered the World ‘War, and he joined the naval aviation forces, receiving his ground training in Boston. Subsequently he was sent to Pen- sacola, Fla., where, throughout the war, he was an instructor at the naval air station. He was for three years aboard the cruiser Detroit, in the aviation upit attached to that vessel. Lieut. Marinelli was in Washington Jjust before he started the fa trip, haying left here Wednesda Both his father, G. Marinelll, and his mother, Mary Loui Marinelli, are dead. The following sisters and brothers survive him: Mrs. A. L. Morra, Mrs. Frederick P. Hinkel, Mrs. C. M. Ingraham, Mrs. Vincent Hughes and Miss Beatrice M. Marinelli, and Max Marinelli and Dante Marinelli. Lieut. Marinelli married Miss Mary Robb of Pensacola, Fla., five years ago, and besides his widow he leaves one son, Victor Marinelli, jr., two and one-half years old Lieut. (junior grade) George Watson Lehman was born in Warsaw. Ind., March 26, 1901. He was appointed to the Naval Academy from his native State, June 14, 1919, graduating in the class of 19 He was sent to the battleship Oklahoma for duty, remain. ing until March 20, 1925, when he was sent for a short period of duty with the scouting fleet and then to the Pensacola Air Station for instruction in aviation. He was appointed a student naval aviator September 22, 1925. June 28, 1926, he was sent to the aircraft squadrons of the scouting fleet. He was promoted to lieutenant junior grade, July 3, 1926. Lieut. Lehman is survived by his widow, Margaret Brooks Lehman of Warsaw, Ind. RIOTING CONTINUES OVER PLANE CRASH Crowds in Rio Janeiro Fired On During Disorders Over Blame for Barros' Accident. of By the Assoc RIO JANEIRO, B April 30— Further disorders and casualties re- sulted from continued agitation here vesterday and last night over the question of responsibility for the ac- cident to the Brazilian Transatlantic plane Jahu, which fell into the sea off the coast Thursday on an at- tempted flight from the Cape Verde Islands. The disorders began Thursday night when a report was circulated, al- legedly by the newspaper La Patria, that the accident was due to incom- petence by the crew of the plane. One person was killed and several were wounded when a mob attacked the of- fice of the paper. Crowds again gathered yesterday. and feeling grew as the day wore on. Strong forces of police, cavalry and Infantry were called out to preserve order. Many shots were fired at the office of the Correio do’ Manha. At one time during the night the police and soldiers fired on the rioters. Two persons were wounded. Several others were injured by bullets, swords or in charges by mounted men at other spots. Comdr. Jose de Barros and his three companions in the Ja'.u were re- ported yesterday to have reached the Island of Fernando dv Noronha, off the Brazilian coast, on a steamer. ir plane was towed in. New pro- pellers have been seut from Pernam- A ted Press.