Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness tonigl to- morrow showers; not much change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 82, at 1:45 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 60, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N.Y.Markets,Pages 10, 11 & 12 Entered as seco! post office. Wa No. 30,351 nd class matter shington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1927—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. NEGLECT OF D. C. ¢ Foeni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 'CHAMBERLIN PLANE FORCED DOWN AT TOWN 70 MILES FROM BERLIN; AIR SERVICE TO EUROPE FORECAST Loses Way After Landing First - at Eisleben. SETS NON-STOP. DISTANCE MARK 3,900 Miles Covered by Bellanca Flyers in 42 Hours. & By the Associated Press. 5 BERLIN, June 6—For the second time in little more than a fortnight an American airplane has spanned the vast Atlantic and landed safely on the European continent. The non-stop flight of the Bellanca monoplane Columbia, piloted by Clar- ence D. Chamberlin, with Charles A. Levine as his companion, ended at Eisleben, Saxony, 110 miles south- west of Berlin, at 5 o'clock this morning (midnight, New York day- light saving time), when the fuel supply was exhausted. Lands in Marshy Field. Taking to the air again, the flyers made a brave attempt to reach Ber- lin, but apparently lost their way in the cloud banks and adverse winds encountered during the morning, and, with a broken propeller, came down at last in a marshy field at the village of Klinge, near Kottbus, Brandenburg, 70 miles southeast of the capital. In alighting, the pro- peller hit the ground, the wheels of the Columbia settled into the marshy ground and further progress was im- possible. The plane had traveled 120 miles from Eisleben, and if headed in the right direction would have landed at Berlin. The flyers failed to achieve their goal, Berlin, but they established a new long-distance sustained flight record, having covered about 3,900 miles from Roosevelt Field, New York, to Eisleben. - Starting_from Roosevelt Field at 6:05 a.m. Saturday, they had been in the air 42 hours when forced to land at Eiselben, as_compared with 33% hours for Capt. Lindbergh's 3,610-mile flight from New York to Paris a little over two weeks ago. Berlin at Fever Heat. News of the Columbia’s start and the subsequent dispatches telling of their progress had brought Berlin to fever heat and the great Tempelhofer Field, nuclues for web of commercial air lines, was massed with crowds waiting to welcome the Americans. Many waited all night. An American flag was run up the main flagsta¥f, the band of the Luft- hansa, or German Air League, played lively airs and officials bustled about making arrangements for the recep- tion. As the morning wore on, rain and winds chilled the ardor of the waiting thousands, and recurring conflicting rumors added to the general incon- wvenience. The airdrome officials ap- peared to be without reliable informa- tion regarding the Columbia’s where- abouts. The plane was first sighted over Germany at Dortmund, in the Ruhr Velley, at 4 a.m., but thereafter be- tom ship until its appear- elben, where it came to earth for fuel, Schurman at Air Field. The American Ambassador, Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, and his official party left Tempelhofer Field at 9 am. after having waited for four hours, but returned when it was re- ported that the Columbia was over Magdeburg, less than two hours’ flight from Berlin. As soon as the landing at Klinge became known the Ambassador con- ferred with German officials regarding arrangements for their care, and a plane_hurried off, carrying American and German officials. This was immediately followed by a half dozen other machines bearing newspaper men. At first it was thought the airmen would be brought to Berlin in a Lufthansa machine, but Jater it was decided that they should be taken to Kottbus by motor and permitted to rest until tomorrow. It was said this afternoon that it was doubtful whether the Columbia could be put into proper condition to permit of the Americans flying her to Berlin tomorrow. Crowds Leave Airdrome, Shortly after noon, when news that the airmen had lost their way and had Janded at Klinge was megaphoned to the watchers at Tempelhofer Field, the erowds there began melting away, and in less than half an hour the great airdrome was deserted. Despite the disappointment, the Americans were credited with a plucky and sensational flight. It was pointed out that Chamberlin encountered thick, muggy weather In_fnul the trail to Berlin was ascribed primarily to the heavy cloud banks and confusing winds. Althouzh a flock of scouting planes went out to locate him soon after he was sighted over Dortmund, he wan- dered too far to the east. Had his <course been a direct one after passing over Madgeburg, he would have ar- rived at the Tempelhofer Field. Pilsener Put on Ice. It was a mysterlous flight from the stait, for when the Columbia hopped off from Roosevelt Field and Levine kept their desti; cret. The possibility was reported of heir swinging southeastward over rope to Rome ol uing as far gasoline carry them. Their fuel supply believed to be sufficient for a flight under normal condi- tions. wes 48-hour LAST LEG OF NEW RECORD FLIGHT (New York- Distance covered by plane (New York to Klinge) sleben, first landing), 42 hours, sleben), 3,900 miles. 4,020. The distance traveled by the plane would have brought it to its destina- tion in Berlin, had it not flown off its course. U. S. Survey Says Columbia Made 3,905-Mile Record By the Associated Press. Chamberlin and Levine were credited with a flight of 3,905 miles today by the Geological Survey, which measured the distance from Roosevelt Field to Eiseleben. The survey's figures, on the Lindbergh flight were 3,610 miles. The computation was made at the request of Carl Schorey, secre- tary of the National Aeronautical Association. o ANTLRADICAL PLAN PROPOSED IN GHINA Fighting Front May Be Brought Nearer Foreigners , by “Peace” Scheme. By the Associated Press, PEKING, June 6.—Sweeping peace proposals, seeking a combination of Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, northern generalissimo, Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, generalissimo of the Nanking Nation- alists, and Gen. Yen Hsi-Shan, Gov- ernor of Shensi Province, against the radical Nationalist regime at Hankow, were officially announced today by the Ankuochun or Northern Alliance. A proposed withdrawal of the north- ern troops would bring the fromt, where fighting has been going on, much nearer to Tiéntsin and Peking, where the situation of foreigners al- ready has caused their governments some eoncern. Unconfirmed reports say Hankow forces have reached the south bank of theYellow (Hwang-Ho) River. % ¥ A spokesman for: the Northetn al- liance, who declared that the Hankow: Nationalist leaders were the only Communists in China, said that Chang Tso-Lin was not opposed to the Ku- omintang (Nationalist political organ- ization) or the principles of thé late Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the Cinese Republi- can leader, but was siug these very principles as a basis for the proposed combine. Defeat Is Denied. % 1t was emphatically stated that the Manchurians had not been defeated, but that, on the contrary, reserves were pouring southward from Man- churia. “We are not begging for peace, but believe that the country is tired of warfare,” said the Ankuochum spokes- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Columbia’s Log (Eastern Daylight Time) SATURDAY, 6:05 AM. — Hopped off at Roosevelt Field,”N. Y. 8:00 A.M.—Passed North West- port, Mass, 8:25 AM.—Long Pond, Mass. 8:50 A.M.—Marshfield, Mass. 12:06 P.M.—Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. 1:10 P.M.—La Have Harbor, Nova Scotia. 1:20 P.M.—Pcggys Point, Nova Scotia. 1:30 P.M. — Chebuckto Head, Nova_Scotia. 1:55 P.M.—Shag Ledge Light- house, Nova Scotia. 3:00 P.M.—Wedge Island, Nova Scotia. 5:30 P.M.—Steamer Salacia re- ported a plane 50 miles south of St. Pierre Miquelon. 6:17 P.M.—Passed St. Shotte, Newfoundland. 6:20 P.M. — Trepassey, New- foundland. 6:30 P.M.—Cape, Race, New- foundland. SUNDAY. 11:30 AM.— Circled steamer Mauretania 360 -niles west of Scilly Islands, England. 3:20 P.M.—Passed Lands End, southwestern tip of England. 3:45 P.M.—Padstow, England. 4:10 P.M.—Plymouth, England. 7:00 P.M.—Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France. . = Dortmund, Ger- Midnight—Landed at Eisleben, 110 miles southwest of Ber- lin. (End of non-stop flight.) MONDAY. M.—Resumed flight. 10 A.M.—Passed over Magde- When it became definitely known that the Columbia’s intended Janding piace was the Tempelhofer Field & crowd began gathering there, in the morning the hrass hand L burg, 80 miles from Berlin. About 7:00 A.M.—Landed at village of Klinge, near Kott- bus, 70 miles southeast of Berlin, MOTOR TROUBLE BLAMED BY PILOT Will Continue Trip to Berlin by Plane, Chamber- lin Says. By the Associated Press. KOTTBUS, Germany, June 6.— Motor trouble and a shortage of gaso- line caused the descent of the. Amer- ican transatlantic plane . Columbia, said Clarence D. Chamberlin, avtiv- ing here by motor this afternoon from Klinge, where the Columbia is im- bedded in mud where it landed. In alighting the 'Columbia’s pro- peller struck the ground, putting the plane out of commission. . Chamberlin and Levine, who had just completed a flight of approxi- mately 4,000 miles, gave little indica- tion that they had passed through a great physical ordeal. “We were forced to come down because of a shortage in fuel and also motor trouble, and while the spot that e, picked out looked good from the air, we soon discovered that we had dropped on dangerously swampy ground,” said Chamberlin. Y Will Continue by Air. The American aviator declared that it was his intention and that of Charles A. Levine, who accompanied him on the transatlantic voyage, to fly. to the Tempelhofer airdrome near Berlin this afternodn in a Lufthansa plane. It is believed, however, that he is likely to decide to wait for repairs to his own plane,- flying to Berlin to- morrow. = The aviators were brought to Kott. bus in a private automobile and went to the Hotel Ansorge, where they were welcomed by local officials and asked to inscribe their names in the town’s “golden book” and handed an elaborately carved goblet and invited to partake of an “honor draft.” The town: officials offered to send the Americans to Berlin by automo- pile, but both: Chamberlin and Levine sald they were “detérmined to make the last lap of their journey by air. Flyers Not Weary. The airmen were in & happy.frame of mind and gave no indication of weariness. Phey freely admitted dfs- appointment over their failure to reach the Templehofer airdrome at Berlin, especially when med of the all-night vigil of the Berlin crowds and the arrangements made; there for their reception. The village of Klinge is 6nly about nine miles from Kottbus and the air- men were brought here a few minutes after the landing. First Concern Is Plane. Chamberlin and Levine told the As- sociated Press this' afternoon they would not decide upon the time for their departure for. BerJin until tonight and perhaps tomorrow. They - will make the trip either in the Columbia after it is repaired or in one of the planes offered to them by the Luf- thansa, Like Capt. Lindbergh, in Paris, Cham- berlain’s first concern was his plane. After luncheon here he went back to the quaint little village of Klinge, a town of only 400 inhabitants, to ex- amine -the extent to which the Co- lumbia had been damaged during his forced landing. He did not even take time to shave. “That will be my first official act after inspecting my ship,” he laugh- ingly told a questioner as he, edged his way through the politely. enthusi- astic crowd of townspeople in front of the Hotel Ansorge to enter an au- tomobile for the return to Klihge. The old market place on which the hotel faces was jammed with the resi- dents of Kottbus, but there was no danger of a repetition of the Le Bour- get and Croyden rushes upon Lind- bergh, as the Kottbus police are calm but firm. Chamberlin was accom- panied back to Klinge by De Witt C. Poole, counselor of the American em- ) bassy in Berlin, who came here as soon as news of the flyers’ landing be- came known. JUGOSLAVIA-ALBANIA RELATIONS SEVERED Rupture Blamed on Failure of Lat- ter Nation to Release Bel- grade Attache, By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, June 6.— Diplomatic relations with Albania were broken Saturday night, it is learned from a most reliable source. The break, it was reported, was due to the failure of the Albanlan govern- ment to accept conditions set forth by Jugoslavia demanding the release of an attache in Tirana, of the Jugo- slav legation, who was recently ar- rested by the Albanian authorities. The Jugoslav charge d'affaires, it was learned, with the entire legation staff, left Tirana Saturday night for, Durasgo by way. of Spaloto, (L Mlagd 1 - sl 1 theemeian vi Second Atlantic Flight Hailed by Officials. OCEAN BARRIER HELD REMOVED President Receives VWireless Reports. Sends Greeting. By the Assoclated Press. Aviation's goal of the commercial possibilities of regular operation of transatlantic airplane service is brought nearer realization by Clar- ence Chamberlin’s New York-to- Germany -flight, in the view of ‘Washington officials. Although regret was generally ex- pressed that he failed to reach his objective of Berlin, in air circles here today Chamberlin’s safe forced fanding at Eisleben was hailed with great rejoicing. ‘World Prestige Seen. The flight, following little more than a fortnight Capt. Lindbergh’s single-handed New York-to-Paris passage, was characterized as an- other manifestation of the future practicabilities of long-distance com- mercial air travel and as giving American aviation undeniable world prestige. : ‘With the North American continent regularly traversed by the air mail and Europe having a network of com- mercial airplane lines, the Atlantic Ocean had been regarded by aviation authorities as the next great barrier to _conquer. The flight assumed, in the opinion of officials, both the cloak of military menace and of international amity. Officials with a military turn of mind regarded it as emphasizing the need for adequate air defenses, while Sec- retary of State Kellogg ranked the transoceanic flights as highly im- _portant events in increasing good &eung and : closer, relations between e United States @nd the European nations. g imber- lin’s flight, by the carrylng of a passenger, was cited as highly signifi- cant of aviation’s commercial possi- bilities, while a predominant thought was that the Atlantic Ocean no longer was an insuperable barrier for the airplane. A telegram congratulating Clarence Chamberlin on his flight to Germany was sent today by President Cool- idge. “Congratulations upon Yyour won- derful feat in setting a new non-stop record in conquest of the air,” the message said. “Our country rejoices with me in vour safely making first sustained flight from America to Germany with our greetings to its people.” The message was sent through the State Department, with these in- structions to the American embassy, written by Secretary Kellogg: “Pleace deliver following message from the President to Clarence Chamberlin.” “ Praised by Cabiet. Congratulatfons on the flight were sent by Secretary of War Davis in a cablegram to be delivered by the American military attache at Berlin. “Please convey to Clarence Duncan Chamberlin my sincere congratula- tions on his remarkable flight from New York to Germany,” the message said. “The Army is proud that a former comrade should so glori- ously demonstrate in peace the ac- complishments he first perfected in war gervice for his country.” The flight of Chamberlin was char- acterized by Secretary Wilbur as a “ngw demonstration not only of the skill of American pilots, but of the reliability of our engines and planes.” Describing the Columbia’s flight +4 marvelous thing,” Postmaster Gen- eral New, whose interest in the spanning by air of the Atlantic Ocean emanated from his pride in the air "5'"“‘ sald the aviation feat. reveals “not of future possibilities but of present day fact in aviation.” If a plane can be flown from New York to Europe “one may also be flown in the other direction,” he said. #Doesn’t it suggest some very fine possibilities and give the world oc- casion for very serious thought?” he cdded. In & cablegram to Chamberlin which was to be delivered by Ambas- sador Schurman -ipon his arrival in Berlin, Secretary Kellogg congratu- lated the jilot on his “splendid achievement.” “Your Alight should be a great im- petus to the development of commer- cial aviation,” his . essage said, “which, cutting down as it eventually will, the time of direct communication between the United States and Eu- rope, must bring the two continents more closely together.” President Recelves Reports. president Coolidge during the cruise of his yacht Mayflower on Chesapeake Bay yesterday, evidenced interest in the flight by receiving wireless re- port on its progress. Stressing the, importancé of the flight in a military sense, Rear Ad- miral Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, said: “By carrying a passenger from New York to Europe, Chamberlin has proved that a useful load, elther commercial or military, can reach America from Europe by a -plane, and that the Atlantic'is no longer the complete barrier it was supposed to be. His achievement should open the eyes of the public to the necessity for adequate air defense and increased confidence in thle practicabilities of reial avi ‘ion.” co;;ra"]? Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Zorps, said the non- stop flight to Yurope would prove very gratifying to the airmen of the ArY s a splendid_tribute to_those . ; L0S ANGELES GETS ORDERS T0 MEET LINDBERGH AT SEA Dirigible to Extend First Wel- come Home Friday Far From Shore. WILL ESCORT MEMPHIS TO NAVY YARD DOCK “President’s Own” to Accompany Flyer Along Avenue—Recep- tion Plans Perfected. great dirigible Los Angeles, bearing many of the sur- vivors of the Shenandoah in her crew, will give the first official welcome to Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the New York-to-Paris flight, far out at sea Friday as the U. S. S. Memphis, bearing Capt. Lindbergh to Washing- ton, approaches the Virginia Capes. The Los Angeles will escort the Memphis throughout the daylight hours of that day and Saturday up to the navy vard dock, Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the Bu- reau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, informed the citizens’ committee ap- pointed by the Commissioners at the request of the President’s cabinet com- mittee, at its meeting today in the board room of the District Building. Richard R. Blythe, was in conference with the executive committee. Thousands to Greet Him. Riding in the President’s car, ac- companied only by John Hays Ham- mond, chairman of the citizens’ execu- tive reception committee, and escort- ed by “the President’'s Own” troop of Cavalry from Fort Myer, Capt. Lindbergh will be welcomed to the National Capital by hundreds of thou- sands of his fellow citizens. At the navy yard he will be greeted by an official committee of Govern- ment officials most interested in aerial progress and by representatives of the greatest national organizations, so as to make the “welcome home” as impressive as possible and one of congratulation from all the people of the United States. His mother, Mrs. Evangeline Lind- bergh of Detroit, is expected to ac- company Miss Maltel T. Boardman, chairman of the women's committee, and will probably be allowed the right to be first to greet her boy. It was positively determined to- day that the ‘Navy Yard will not be open to the' public. The: entire citizens. committee will be admitted to the yard by passes issued by the Secretary of the Navy and signed by the commandant o;;ha yu«xil. News- ,anen _and_photographers . will also Yreceive “a limited number of passes from a list prepared by Frank B. Noyes, chairman of the publicity committee, through co-operation with James .D. Preston, superintendent of the press gallery at the Capitol. American labor was given a prom- Inent part in the preparation for the reception today when William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, was placed on the citizens’ executive committee, and Vice Presi- dents Frank Morrison and A. C. Hay- den were added to the general citizens’ committee. Aerial Plans Perfected. Plans for the aerial demonstration as perfected were made public today after the report to the executive com- mittee by Admiral Moffett. The Los Angeles, Admiral Moffett said, will “meet the Memphis as far at sea as practicable,” leaving to Comdr. Rosenthal the duty of deter- mining just how many miles off shore he should pick up the cruiser. Then the huge airship, the admiral ex- plained, will escort the ship until nightfall, either remaining in the air in the vicinity of the vessel or re- turning to Lakehurst. At all events, the big ship must again join up with the Memphis at daybreak Saturday morning and float majestically above the young captain all the way to the Navy Yard. Carries Many Invitations. The Los Angeles will carry fnvi-| tations received by the citizens’ com- mittee, which will be dropped aboard the cruiser from aloft for Capt. Lind- bergh to study in order that he may determine which ones he can find the time to accept and be prepared to so inform the ecommittee on his arrival, These invitations will be taken to Lakehurst Thursday afternoon in a Navy plane, which will take off from the naval air station at Anacostia. Augmenting the reception to be given Capt. Lindbergh by the Los Angeles’ crew, will be the command- ing officer of the aircraft squadrons, scouting fleet and a number of his planes, “/ho will fly out to sea as far as practicable, estimate a rendezvous 80 that the planes from his force can return to base and land before dark. Sixteen torpedo, eleven fighting and five observation planes will be avail- able for this escort. Saturday morning the aircraft squadrons scouting fleet commander will put his maximum force available in the air, escorting the Memphis up the river,” arranging relays if neces- sary, so that the maximum force will ‘be_available from Alexandria up (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) BEGIN COUNT TOMORROW. Eighty to Gather D. C. Vehicular Statistics at 400 Points. The Traffic Department will start its count of vehicular traffic at 400 points in the District tomorrow, the results of which will be used to de- termine the location of future traffic signals and to aid the National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission in jts plans for the development of a greater Washington. The count will be made from 7 to 11 a.m. and from 3 to 7 p.m. Eighty men and boys. who have been employed to make the count ‘were given instructions in their duties at a meeting today in the board room of the District Building. Four record- ers will be stationed at each inter- section in the husiness district. i gy British Flyers Killed. BOURNEMOUTH, FEngland, June 6 (P).—Flight Lieut. W. H. Longton, one of the best known pilots of the Royal Air Force, was burned to death today when his plane collided in mid- air with one piloted by L. P, Open- shaw, who was also killed. Radio Programs=Page 3. e g Shat. * “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes () Means Associated Press. WAR DEAD MEMORIALS BRINGS PROTEST Trees and Mzrkers on 16th St. for World War Heroes Need Care, Com- missioners Told. Neglect of trees and stone markers placed on upper Sixteenth street in memory of the District dead, killed in th> World ~ ar, today brought a pro- test to the District Commissioners from the 13 Club, composed of prominent Washington business men. The club urged that the memorials be put back in their “proper ap- pearance.” “We feel,” the protest sald, “that as the World War recedes farther and father into history, the busy people of today are too prone to forget the supreme sacrifice made by the men whose lives these stones commemorate, and, therefore, make this request that those who come after us may know that the District of Columbia did not forget.” 7 A recent survey of the stone mark- ers and the accompanying memorial trees by the Victor Post, No. 4, of the Am an Legion revealed that in some LINDBERGH HAPPY AS BELLANCA WINS Sorry Chamberlin Plane Fail- ed to Fly Over Cruiser Memphis. BY CHARLES A. LINDBERGH. By Wireless to The Star and New York Times. ABOARD THE UNITED STATES CRUISER MEMPHIS, At Sea, Jume 5 (Delayed).—~I was very glad to learn this afternoon that the Columbia, with Chamberlin aboard, had swooped down and circled the Mauretania just 150 feet from her crowded deck and then continued its course for France. ‘Wireless messages to the Memphils have kept us all well informed about the progress of the wonderful flight, and we all will be happy to know the expedition has safely reached its des- tination. The Mauretania was about 350 miles out of Cherbourg and gave her posi- tion as 49.23 degrees latitude, 15.01 longitude and the time as 4:20 British Summer time, After qoming down close enough for the passengers plainly to see the machine and its occupants, Chamber- lin headed due east and soon“disap- peared beyond the horizon. Sorry He pllued Plane, %l’nteév “that. I am |naturally the did. for it would have been -wonderful to see it attempting the same flight I As we move 2long" tver the'Atlantie T am thinking constantly of those long silent hourd- which the Spirit of St. Louils spent in crossing from Ne: foundland to the first sight of land— Ireland, and in some.way it seems like a dream which was in the distant past. % I am rapfdly catching up on sleep. and I feel fine, despite the rough weather, ‘We had breakfast, and a good one, at 8 and then a brisk turn on deck, followed by an jimpressive Sunday service, conducted by Chaplain Lieut. Earl M. Criger. Vice Admiral Bur- rage and his own personnel staff, other officers of the Memphis and a large portion of the crew. off watch, at- tended the service. The chaplain spoke of the fact that the officers and men had been fortunate enough to enjoy a vast amount of traveling in many coun- tries_during the European service of the Memphis, beginning Jume 14 of last year, and he urged them to profit by the knowledge gained when they reached home. I could not help feel that I, too, had crowded the experience of a lifetime into my. all too brief Euro- pean stay, and considerable knowl- edge ad well which is certain to be of benefit to me. Climbs to Crow’s Nest. After the services, Beénjamin Ma- honey, president of the Ryan Air- craft Co., who is going back with me, and I with the permission of the «nior watch officer, Ensign Blue, climbed the crow’s nest, 140 feet above the deck. It was an exciting experience, for a 60-mile gale was blowing and the wind was tossing the sea over the forward deck as the sprays gleamed through the sunlight. ‘We stayed up there half an hour. Mahoney said it was just like walking off on the wings of a flying plane, but I had the illusion of the Memphis being top-heavy and about to keel over any minute. The view was great and I wished that Chamberlin could have flown across our path. Had he appeared and come down as low as he did in the case of the Mauretania we might have exchanged greetings. Climbing up and down was a real job, there being only a narrow rope ladder. The crow’s nest is not much use now, it seems, going only as high as the fighting top, about half way up. It was pitching all the time and the seas by this time were rough. I lunched with the vice admiral in his own dining room and later in the afternoon did work on my book about the flight. When the book is published, I want to be absolutely accurate in my account of our exploit from its inception until my return home. We had tea with the Memphis offi- cers in the wardroom mess and among the guests was Hobart Tassie from cases the markers are completely cov- ered, or turned around, that name plates are missing, and that even some of the trees are missing. In general, the post said, the condition of these markers, “is very bad.” The survey showed that the trees planted in memory of Frank T. Fagan, Harry T. Muller, William I. Brooke, L. L. Millican, Samuel Moore and Lula May Thrift have diappeared and that markers for Douglas M. Brown, Ed- ward Joseph Brown, Thomas Brown, Thomas E. Donovan, Tony Dordos, James W, Dorsey and William G. Vidd ar covered up. A sewer pipe, it was said, covers the stone of Albert T. Drake. In other cases it was revealed that the stones have been turned either around completely, come out of the ground or been broken. Although District officials are anx- ious to do anything they can to pro- tect the stones and the memorial trees, it_was said there are no funds avail- (Continued on Page 4, Column 7. RENEWED FLOODS EVICT REFUGEES Crops Jeopardized—South- east Missouri Asks Hoover for Food Now. BY REX COLLIER. Staft Correspondent of The Star. LITTLE ROCK, Ark, June 6.—It looks as though the land of cotton this year is doomed to become the land of corn and sweet potatoes, or possibly the land of no crops at all. An unkind fate, using as its instru- ment the flood-crazy Mississippi, is striking another stunning blow at Mis- souri and Arkansas to undo much of the planting done since recession of the April waters and make uncertain the production of any profitable crops this season. New floods in southeast Missouri have swept within the last 36 hours over large areas of muddy land plant- ed in cotton and corm, have driven hundreds of refugees from their re- cently reoccupied homes and have necessitated postponement indefinitely of active reconstruction work, Secre- tary Hoover has been advised. Picture of Despair. Mr. Hoo;:r and Vice ?hn:llnl:“n Fieser of:the; Red Cross arrive ere this morning from §::'fiuuls to ascer- tain conditions- with- régards-to-veliet and reconstruction in Arkansas. They rrived with a dark picture of despair X y fation “in Missour? Férbwed- desol imprinted on their minds. The second floods have driven. the barefooted - or beoted farmers from thousands of acres of newly planted fields in several Missourt counties and have engulfed the sprouting cotton plantations and corn fields under from two to six feet of water for the sec- ond time this Spring, Mr. Hoover was informed yesterday evening at a con- ference in St. Louis with relief offi- cials from Perry, Cape Girardeau, Scott, New Madrid, Stoddard, Duncan, Penobscot and Mississippi counties. Crops Are Jeopardized. This _ disheartening _development makes dubious the possibility of rais- ing a cotton crop this year in the sections affected, due to the long grow- ing season required for this product, and prolongation of the flood may im- peril also the shorter crops of corn, Sudan grass, sweet potatoes, beans, etc. Arkansas has about given up hope of raising any cotton, Mr. Hoover was_told today. “What are you going to do if you dan’t raise anything at all?” Secre- tary Hoover asked one of the Mis- sourl county representatives. “I honestly don’t know,” he re- plled, gravely. ‘“These people have no money and no credit. They have lost their furniture and their farm machinery and stock. The new flood has presented another urgent relief problem in the way of food and hous- ing. 1f they are unable to plant their lands this Summer, I don't know what they will do. But they’ll pull through, somehow, I suppose. They always have before.” Relief Is Begun. Secretary Hoovar and Mr. Fieser both assured the Missouri farmers that their emergency needs will be taken care of by the Red Cross and plans were set «n foot for erganizing in that Sitate a iar:. loan organiza- tion similar to those already function- ing in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, The conferences which the Secre- tary has hnd so far on this special re- construction miasion, just begun, have indicated that his trip may be turned into one of revived relief instead of as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 98,629 Sunday’s Circulation, TWO CENTS. HUGE U. 5. BUILDING PROGRAN ASSURED START IN SUMMER Commission Gives Approval to Agriculture Department Expansion Plan. FIVE-STORY STRUCTURE OF MARBLE CALLED FOR Will Connect Existing Wings of Main Offices—To Mark First Step in $50,000,000 Project. The first new building in the Fed. eral Government's §30,000,000 pro. gram for Washington will be started this Summer as a result of the action of the Public Buildings Commission today in giving final approval to plans for expansion of the Department of Agriculture quarters on the south side of the Mall. The plans sanctioned call for a fives story marble structure connecting the two existing wings of the main De- partment of Agriculture Building on the north side of B street southwest and two wings of a proposed extensible building for the same department on the south side of B street southwest. In announcing approval of the plans today, Senator Smoot, chairman of the commission, said work might be under way in about a month on this enlargement of the accommodations of the Agriculture Department, but the supervising architect’s office of the Treasury estimated it would take over two or three months to finish the detalls and get actual construction work under way. The significance of today’s meeting, however, is that it cleared the way for an early beginning on the building program, designed to get thousands of Government employes out of tem- porary war structures and widely scattered rented quarters. Senator Smoot announced at the same time that he has called another meeting of the commission for June 16, to tackle the broad question of how the various other buildings that are to go in the Mall-Pennsylvania avenue triangle should be designed. Style Still Big Issue. The big issue to be taken up at the | meeting 10 days hence is whether the new bulldings for the Departments of Justice, Commerce, Labor, Internal Revenue, Archives and a number of other smaller governmental agencies should be modeled after the Louvre plan in France, with a continuous facade along Pennsylvania avenue, broken only by archways over the streets that will run through the tri- angle, or whether the commission should adhere to the layout it ap- proved last year for buildings entirely; se) in appearance. As as the commission settles the question of the general treatment of the whole triangle group the way will be cleared for an early start on the foundation of the Internal Reve- nue Bulding. ‘Within the past month the commis- sion called to Washington a group of prominent. architects to study the ‘whole problem and submit a report. Senator Smoot said he would enter the meeting on June 16 with an open mind as to the value of the Louvre plan as compared with the commise sion’s original layout for the triangle. It is believed likely the commission will endeavor to settle the question at that time so that work may go forward with other portions of the program. Asked today about the recommen- dation that the Department of Justice Building be placed on the Center Mar- ket site, Senator Smoot said a new lo« cation for that building has not been definitely fixed, but that it would be in the vicinity of where the market now stands. Justice originally was slated for the south side of Pennsyl- vania avenue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, but the latest suggestion is to leave that square free for the development of a wide plaza at the western end of the tri- angle. Of the two Department of Agricul- ture projects approved today, the first to get under way will be the central portion of the existing marble build- ing. lying between B street south- west and the Mall, just east of Foure teenth street. Facade to Be of Marble. ‘When this building was erectedl some years ago it was designed as two wings with space left open for the part that is to go up now. The new portion will have a marble facadé to correspond to the ex and will be five stories high. have a 175-foot frontage on the Mall and a depth of 180 feet toward B street, It will cost $2,000,000. ‘The new extensible building for the Department of Agriculture on the south side of B street south- west will cover several squares and conmsist of 10 wings when rehabilitation. He has planned to make a comprehensive survey of the whole area flooded in April and May for the sole purpose of completing plans for replanting the farms anl re. building the houses, but it may now develop that this program is a little premature. In Missouri the counties hardest hit by both the old and new floods are New Madrid, Mississippi, Duncan and Penobscott. In New Madrid County about half of the 190,000 acres from which the previous waters had about receded have been plunged beneath another blanket of water several feet deep, and the level is rising every day. (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) (Continued on Page 7, Column 1.) City's Greatest Display of Fireworks To Emblazon Lindbergh's Name in Sky In one of the greatest displays of fireworks Washington has ever wit- nessed, the name and exploit of Capt. Lindbergh will be emblazoned against the sky in brilliant colors Saturday, according to the program announced today by Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, chairman of the special committee on decorations and illuminations. The day program includes the following: Salvo of 101 mammoth aerial sa- lutes. Twenty-five banner shells with ap- propriate slogans of two lines each. Twenty-five hure American flag shells. Twenty-five huge grotesque figure shells, Twenty-five battle in the clouds, smoke effect, rainbow, lightnihg flash and thunderbolt shells. The pro tion, which will be held on the Monu- ment grounds, follows: Salvo of 101 aerial salutes. Five hundred extra large shot shells, variegated with stars and assorted effects. Other giant shot shells of various sizes in_assortments of 300, 200, 100, 75 and 50, making a bombardment of more than 1,200 giant shot shells. Two hundred and fifty Bengal torches to illuminate the ground. One hundred extra-large batteries of colored stars and assorted effects. Fifty mammoth mines, assorted effects. Twenty-five extra large flery geysers. One of the most spectacular spe- clal devic to-Paris e aisht Wlvmlaa L ga 1 complete, but present plans call for the erection of only two wings, running north and south between B and C streets southwest, near Thir- teenth street. Square 264, on which these first two wings are to be built, is now in process of condemnation, When the time comes to enlarge this structure, the plans call for four wings extending westward toward Fourteenth street and four wings running east from the two wings to be built at this time. The new building on the south side of B street will be six stories high. The numerous activities of the De- partment of Agriculture are housed at the present time in widely scat- tered places, and this initial step is the Government bullding program wiil serve to bring many of those branches together near the main building, FRENCH FLYERS FAIL TO SURPASS LINDBERGH By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 6.—Capt. Rignot and Dieudonne Coste, French long-distance flyers, who took off from Le Bourget Saturday morning for a two-lap air Jjourney to Tokio, were forced to de- scend at Tajil, in the Tobolsk region, said a message received today at the aeronautic bureau of the ministry of commerce. They had flown 29%% hours. Rignot and Coste, whose non-stop distance record ‘of 3,313 miles from Paris to Persia was broken by Capt. 3 ho to rea Chita, Siberia, i