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ADVISORY COUNCIL DRAFTING BUDGET Will Submit to Commission- ers Final Report Within Few Days. The Citizens' Advisory Council to- day began the draft of its final bud- get recommendations for the fiscal year 192829 and will submit them to the District Commissioners within the next few days. Although the council, at the outset of its consideration of the budgetary estimates of the department heads of the District Governmmnent, tentatively suggested a budget of $41,040,000,p red- icated on a tax rate of $1.80, it is un- derstood the final recommendations are for a budget of approximately $40,000,000. The council also, it is said, plans to recommend a variable tax rate, the minimum of which will be slightly in excess of the $1.65 urged by the Washington Board of Trade and the maximum slightly lower than $1.50. Members Observe Reticence. Members of the council, however, were reluctant to reveal either the maximum or minimum rate to be sug- gested, but pointed out that their rec. ommendations to the Commissioners would contain “a plain_statement of fact” as to the needs of the District for the 1928-20 fiscal vear and what the tax levy will have to be to provide for them. The council has given serious con- sideration to every item in the esti- mates of the department heads, and in its recommendations will indicate to the Commissioners where in its opinion reduction should he made to bring the appropriation requests down from a total of $50.762.343 to its suggested total of $40,000,000, Studying Trade Board's Report. Consideration of the’ Board of Trade recommendations submitted to them yesterday was started today by the Commissioners as they met behind elosed doors to begin the preparation of the District budget. The budge: urged by the Board of Trade tota. $43,500,000, or $3,500,000 higher than the stated total to be recommended by the council. The Commissioners aim to hold @aily budget meetings until their ten- tative budget, which the Bureau of the Budget has requested them to sub- mit not later than July 15, is com- pleted. EDGE GROUP BREAKS EVEN IN PRIMARIES Republican Factions Divide Elec- tion in 67 New Jersey State Contests. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., June 22. from the New Jersey primaries yes- terday in which candidates were nominated for 7 seats in the State Senate and for all 60 places In the House of Assembly may indi- caté an almost even break for sup- porters and opponents of the Repub- lican organization led by United States Senator Edge. The Edge forces were defeated in two senatorial contests and won in two. In Bergen County, where State Benator William B. Mackay led a revolt against the Bdge forces, the Edge organization elected one of four Assemblymen and appeared to have a chance for a second. The result in Essex County, where the chief interest was for members of the county committes, was in doubt. SMALLPOX CASES NOTED. Two Additional Bring Total in Dis- trict Up to 32. ‘Two more cases of smallpox, mak- Ing a total of 32 since the outbreak of the disease, were reported today by the District Health Department. The latest victims are Julius Hope- well, 611 Brewer's court northeast, and Arthur Hudson, 138 Central ave- nue northeast. The latter is an em- ploye of the District trash plant in Ivy City. All employes of this plant were vaccinated last week and are being kept under daily observation by Health Department physicians. DISCUSS ‘DIPLOMA MILLS’ Lagislation to regulate the “diploma mill” type of school will be taken under consideration by a special sub- committee of the committes on uni- versities, colleges and private schools of the Washington Chamber of Com.|with Washington Railway & Electric | congress Heights Ci merce at a meeting tomorrow after- noon, at 3 o'clock, at the offices of the chamber in the Homer Building, according to an announcement today by Dorsey W. Hyde, jr., secretary of the chamber. Charles F. Carusi, who is president of the Board of Education, is chairman of the special subcommittee. DRIVE TO WIPE OUT LEWD MAGAZINES WILL CENTER HERE (Continued from First Page.) atlon hopes to perfect this work so ably begun. We are determined to wipe out of existence the scores of filthy publications which have come into our hands as a result of a can- vass of newsstands in various cities other than Washington, and we believe that the specimens already assembled will shock Congress into taking suit- able action. J. Raymond Schmidt, legislative sec- retary of the federation, stated that the “evidence” is being secured by Menry N. Pringle, assistant superin- tendent of the organization. Mr. Pringle today was in York, Pa., where conditions are reported as “exceeding- 1y bad. The Department of Justice has been asked to co-operate in the drive, but a note received by Mr. Pringle from As- sistant Attorn neral O. R. Luh- ring explained that the department has no funde with which to purchase magazines branded by the federation @s obscene. his partment has no appropria- tion avatlable f or the purchase of al leged obscene books and magazines, and cannot, therefore, undertake to purchase a_copy of the issue to which you refer,” Mr. Luhring wrote, Mr. Pringle thereupon puichased a copy for 25 cents and presented it to the department. Works With Me(hodist Board. Mr. Schmidt sgid that the federa- tion is working with the Methodist Board of Temperance and Public Morals and a number of specially or- ganized committees. Legislation proposed will be care- fully prepared with a view to non-in- terference with freedom of the press, Mr. Schmidt said. Only the most of- fensive of publications are being col- Jacted. He exhibited a pile of nearly 100 “art,” “sex,” “real storles” and othar books and perfodicals which will be laid before members of Con- gress. Dr. Watson characterized the pie- tures in these magazines as “lewd and disgusting.” Much of the read- ing matter also is lascivioup Mr. ~ Scpmidi added, CAPT. D. F. SELLERS. CAPT. D.F. SELLERS 0 LEAD SQUADRON Will Succeed Admiral Lati- mer, Naval Commander in Central American Waters. Capt. David F. Sellers, U. 8. N, | chief of ataff of the commander of | the scouting fleet, has been selected to command the American naval squadron in Central American waters to succeed Rear Admiral Julian Lati- mer, it was announced yesterday. “apt. Sellers will take over his com- mand in two or three weeks with the vank of rear admiral, to which he will be promoted. Admiral Latimer was relieved re- cently, at his own request, hecause of illness of his daughter in Panama. He was normally due for a change of assignment, having served his allot- ted time in his present post of duty. Capt. Sellers was born in 1874 in Austin, Tex. He was appointed to the Naval Academy from that State in 1890. He was made captain in 1918 and has had considerable service as a staff officer. In 1914 he was executive officer of he U. S. 8. Arkansas, and the follow- ing year was in command of the scout cruiser Salem, During the World War he commanded the battleship Wisconsin and the transport Agamem- non. In 1919 he served in the Office ¢ Naval Operations here and later on he staff of the Naval War College. Capt. Sellers returned to this city in 1920 and was assigned to the Bu reau of Navigation, and the following vear became aide to the Secretary of the Navy. Following this he was placed ifi: command of the new naval training station at San Diego, Calif. FAIRFAX RAILWAY OPERATION SOUGHT Local Traction Companies Considering Proposal From Division Option Holders. Negotiations are In process with the Capital Traction Co. as well as the Washington Rallway & Electric Co. for operation of the Falls Church- Fairfax division of the Washington- Virginia Railway, it was learned to- day. The fact that representatives of Arlington and_ Fairfax Counties yes- terday ‘“sounded out” the Capital Traction Co. on a number of pro- posals looking to continued operation of the suburban line indicates that little or no headway has been made officials since the conference of last week. Option Holders Responsible. The interests which acquired an option on the division either will have to operate the line on behalf of the two counties which they represent or reach some sort of agreement, recip- rocal or through purchase, whereby bne of the two Washington traction companies undertakes the operation. Ashton C. Jones of Alexandria and M. E. Church of Falls Church yester- day conferred with John Hanna, presi- dent of the Capital Traction Co h this end in view. Another conference will be held next week. They proposed that the Capital Traction Co. continue its service through Rosslyn over the tracks of the Washington-Virginia Railway, and in event that is impossible or inad- visable, the company was asked to grant and accept transfers to and from the cars of the company on the ralls Church division at Rosslyn. Interests Represented. The negotiations with the Washing- ton Railway & Electric Co. involved operation of the Alexandria-Mount Vernon division, owned hy New York and Philadelphia interests, as well as the Falls Church division. This would give the patrons of the Falls Church division use of the terminal at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue. Operation of the Falls Church line by the Capital Traction Co., it is understood, would transfer passengers over the Key Bridge into Georgetown. Since approximately 80 per cent of rons of the Falls Church line come into Washington via the Twellth street terminal, the Virginia interests naturally would prefer to continue this arrangement. Mr. Hanna has not committed him- elf to any plan, but it was said that the company is sufficiently interested in the deal to continue discussions. iED dONCEET. By the United States Navy Band at the bandstand, navy yard, at 7:30 o'clock tonight: March, “Our Nayy (Dedicated to the of the U. S. N) Overture, “Tannhauser Duet for two piccolos, the Forest”. .. Musicians . Stanley Eurkoss. Grand scenes from the opera men” .. Rhapsody, “The 2d Hungarian : ‘The Beautiful Blue Danube, St Fantasia, “By the Swanee River, Myddleton Excerpts from “No, No, Nanette,” Youmans Fox trot, “Hallelujah”......Youmans From “Hit the Deck, “The Star Spangled Banner,” ...Benter and men ... Wagner of ar- Bizet uss THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1927. LINDBERGH TOVIEW SITES FOR AIRPORT Duke Anxious That Capital Be Given Benefit of Flyer’s Experience. Refore he leaves Washington after his arrival here late tomorrow, Col. Charles A. Lindhergh will he asked to make a flight over the half dozen lo- cations in the vicinity of the Capital under consideration as possible air- ports, primarily to obtain his opinion of these sites from the viewpoint of safe flying. Believing that safety should he the | first consideration in the selection of any site, Lieut. Donald Duke, Army | Alr Corps, who is helping Maj. W.| R. Covell, acting Engineer Com- | lect a suitable site for Washington's airport, is anxious that | the public be given the benefit of Col. | Lindbergh's personal opinion regard- ing that point in particular in con- | nection with prospective sites. Col. | Lindbergh's long experience as an aiv mail pilot, it is believed, will give additional weight to his views when problems of commercial aviation ave | considered in connection with a per- manent airport here. Officials Hope He'll Help. It Col. Lindbergh can spare half an hour, Lieut. Duke said today that he could take the airman over all the available sites within that time While lacking information regarding Lindbergh's plans here, the District Commissioners are hopeful he will lend a helping hand in a problem which is felt to be of immense concern to the development of Washington as an aerial center. Gravelly Point and the Benning site would be the particular objectives of such an inspection, it was sald, for, despite the reluctance of War and Navy officlals to grant temporary use of Bolling Fleld for night air rail landings, the site on the Potomac is still_regarded as the logical location of Washington's proposed air field. Maj. Covell and Lieut, Duke went on another inspection tour today, vi iting the site of the Washington Steel and Ordnance Co., at Gieshoro Point, adjoining Bolling Field, and also tak- ing in the Benning tract. At the lat- ter they made practicak landing tests in an airplane, the results of which would seem almost to eliminate the Benning tract from the running. Safety First Requisite. In the opinion of Lieut. Duke, who has had wide experience in such mat- ters, the Benning tract is hardly what would be termed either a safe landing or taking-off field. “The first requisite of an airport should be safety,” said Lieut. Duke. | “The lives of air passengers leaving or entering a commercial airport should be as carefully safeguarded in every respect as those going in and out of a railroad station.” This matter of safety from the pub- lie viewpoint, Lieut. Duke believes, has not been given the consideration nec- essary in_commercial flying, though he pointed out that the Department of Commerce is laying stress on this factor. An unsafe airport, he believes, would be detrimental to the best in- terests of aviation anywhere. Testing the Benning tract by actual landing_and taking off in all direc- tions, Lieut. Duke said it was his opinion that three sides of the field are dangerous to flying. The field it- self 18 in the hollow of a howl, and in taking off a plane must climb its sides. It is difiéult for a plane to get safely off the field before it comes into range of surrounding housetops. Tests Made in Light Plane. Lieut. Duke made his tests in a light Army plane, and the difficulties, he said, would be increased in the case of heavy commercial type planes. From another runway he took off toward the power plant, some dis- tance away, and said it is hardly pos- sible to get sufficient altitude to clear the tall smokestack. One is compelled to go to either side to avoid hitting it. While this does not constitute much of a hazard in daylight fiying, the risk js increased, he said, in.fog and at night. e ‘Taking off on a third runway in an- other direction, he said. a good szed hill presents another hazard. High trees and houses on three sides of the field add to the danger of flying, he said, and there is no protection af- forded by the marshes at the west end. According to the District officials, the proposed Gieshoro Point site, while adequately large,.is more de- sirable as a center for the manu- facture of alrplanes, than as an air- port. Backed by Citizens. The site has the backing of the izens Associa- tlon, whose secretary, J. Louis Gelb- man, points out that an air field a mile or more in length could he es- tablished there. The Washington Steel and Ordnance Co. owns 385 acres, including buildings on the site, which it would sell for $700,000 or even less. The area I8 large enough to allow type of airport,” Mr. Gelbman pointed out to Maj. ( would afford runways in any des direction. 1t also possesses the ad- ditional advantages offered to sea- planes, besides a rall sideway of the B & O. which would be equally ad- vantageous. To clinch its argnments in favor of the Gieshoro site, the citizens' associa- tion stresses the value of such a site from the viewpoint of national de- fense, being almost adjoining Bolling Field. Edward Richardson and E. C. Purdy, representing the Congress Heights' Citizens’ Association, made the trip to the site with the two Army officers. A number of communications were received by Maj. Covell today, includ- ing one from ihe United Siates Air Force Asgociation, which directed cri ieisms against Gravelly Point and | Hoover Field in urging selection of the Benning tract. The fact that F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War in ¢ of aviation, is apparently unwilling to offer the facilities of Bolling Field for temiporary use of mall planes pending construction of a field at Gravelly Point, did not greatly disturh Distriet officials today. President Coolidge’s support of the idea is re- garded as so significant that hope was entertained that the War Depart ment would, come around to his way of thinking. Economy Is Cited. President Coolidge was said to favor use of Bolling ¥ield temporarily and it is believed the economy of this would appeal to him. Mr. Davison 1n his letter to Maj. Covell courteously offers to assist in every possible way in providing a mu- nicipal airport, and indirectly chides the city when he said: > “Practically every city of impor- tance in the United States has taken | up the mutter of a municipal field, and it must be obvious that until such fields are established there can be lit- tle air transportation to those cities.” Mr. Davison points to the Army’s | rules to say that the only exception | to the policy of using Bolling Kield “is | for a limited duration only.” By that | “limitedduration,” however, he did not mean one or two months, but most usually a day and night. Despite this fly in the ointment, aj. Covell is still of the opinion that avelly Point presents the best pos- sibilities as an airport and is no' to| be considered out of thegunning. @bgections to Gravelly Point were official panied them to Union Station to say farewell, the representation from the American Government including Sec- porting gr than 900 a the past three months, it was said. association formation to the police, who, he said, are willing to act if they have the in- formation. association has dug up, lists of known bootleg establishments, on which evi- dence has never been heen gotten from the police. The asso- ciation makes it its business to get evi- Chu tary, in the t ship U. S. LAWMAKERS STUDY CHINA THREE SENATORS INCHINA FOR STUDY Wheeler, Goff and Bingham Investigate Conditions Due | to Civil War. By tha Aeeociated Press. SHANGHAT, June 22.—Three mem- hers of tha United States Senate are now in China studying conditlons caused by the civil war between the North and South. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Mon- tana has arrived here from the Phil- ippines and is planning to go to Nan- king, headquarters of the moderate Nationalist regime, to confer with Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, the moderate leader. Later he plans to visit Pe- king, capital of North China. Senator Guy D. Goft of West Vir- ginla has arrived here from Peking en route to the Philippines. He also is planning a_ trip to Nanking to see Chiang Kal-Shek. Senator Hiram Bingham of Gon- necticut, who has made an extended tour of China in the past weeks, is procecding up the Yangtze River from Hankow to Ichang aboard a United States destroyer. While in Hankow the Senator held a long dis- cussion with FEugene Chen, foreign minister for the radical Natlonallst regime, which has its headquarters in that city Senator ‘Wheeler said that Presi- dent Coolidge's policy of non-interven- tion in the Chinese civil war was supported by American opinion, and that the use of Amerlcan forces for purposes of intervention undoubtedly would cause a Nation-wide protest in the United States. DIPLOMAT LEAVES CITY. Ambassador de Cartier to Accept Post in Great Britain. Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, retiring Belgian Ambassador, accom- panied by Baroness de Cartier, left Washington yesterday afternoon for New York, whence they will sail to Europe, where the dean of the Capi- tal diplomatie eorps goes to assume the ambassadorship at the Court of St. James, Many of their friends, both from and resident circles, accom- of Commerce Hoover and Wil- liam “R. Castle, jr, Assistant Secre- tary of State. BOOTLEGGERS JOIN. CRUSADERS TO SPY ON CITIZENS’ ARMY (Confinued_from First Page.) activity in raids. More ests have been made in Douthitt said the chief work of the is supplying definite in- In addition to what the secured, have dence on these places, Membership Increases. The membership of the assoclation has increased to nearly 4,000 as a re- sult of its activities since the mass meeting Sunday in Calvary Baptist h, Dr. Everett M. Ellison, secre- said today. About $5,000 is now easury and checks are coming in daily. The hoard of directors at a meeting y laid plans for a member- drive which will be launched the executive committee. at a meeting later this week, probably Friday. The board of directors de- cided to meet regularly the second Tuesdoy of every month. Reports that the Ku Klux Klan had joined the association in a body were minimized by Dr. Ellison. He said the association doubtless had many Klansmen among its' membership, hut that he had no information that the whole organization had come in. Klan headquarters knew nothing of the report either, Dr. Ellison, further denying charges of “snooping” made against the as- sociation, =aid he played golf today with a man who offered him liquor from a hip flask, which he politely refused, e S expressed by J. rd Caseidy, gen- eral director of the United States Air Force Association, mainly on the ground that it would take five to ten vears to establish an airport there, In addition, he pointed out that the Benning tract could be made a first- class airport within six months. At Gravelly Point, he pointed out, it would he necessary for passengers to cross the hu railroad tracks and traffic would have to pass through a “bottle neck” created by Ilighway Bridg: It would also be a mistake to tie up the District of Columbia, he said, to any such restricted fleld as the Hoover Field. Even if the Department of Agriculture should turn over a strip of its experimental farm, 900 feet by 500 feet, the field could only be used by light planes, he added. Develop- ment of aviation in the next four vears, Mr. Cassidy sald, “would make Hoover Field little more than a joke.” Declaring Benning tract could be de- veloped within 6 months as a complete airport at a cost of $600,000, he said that a 1,500-foot runway could be pro- vided in 3 weeks' time, and while the matter is awaiting the attention of Congress, the owner would charge no rent for use of the ground. The steel plant site, he believed, was too inaccessible and “adjoining heights are such as to make it very undesirable.” by UnpERWQO B Upper left: Senator Wheeler. Upper right: Senator Bingham. Lower: Senator Goff. *FO0D BLOCKADE" FOUGHT BY MINERS Coal Town Near Pittsburgh, Laid to Police. By tha Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, June —TLeaders of the United Mine Workers today prepared to combat a “food blockade” they alleged police of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. have established at Mollenauer, a mining town, in an ef- fort to oust union miners from houses owned by the company. Proceedings brought by the company to evict the miners now are pending in State Su- perior €ourt, with a possibility that no decision will be reached before next Winter. Phillip Murray, international vice president of the United Mine Work- ers, declared yesterday that the com- pany police have declared an em- bargo against all deliveries from Pitts- burgh merchants, and that miners at Mollenauer are forced to buy at Castle Shannon, moré than a mile away. Electric lights, he said, have been turned off, necessitating the use of oil Jamps and lanterns. President Explains Rules. Asked for a statement, Horace F. Baker, president of the company, said it had been found “agalnst our in- terests to have every onme going on our property where there were both unfon and non-union miners. and therefore, we laid down rules to ex- clude them.” The Terminal Coal Corporation, which owns eight mines in the Pitts- burgh district, has been seeking to regain possession of its houses for months. With the suspension of op- erations in union hituminous mines April 1, the company announced it would reopen its mines non-union. Its Coverdale mine was reopened April 26. The legal fight over occupancy of the houses began April 20, when the company filed eviction proceedings against 10 unfon miners at Coverdale. Spokesman for the corporation at that time said the company would file sim- ilar proceedings against some 6,000 union minors and their families who were occupying the corporation’s 1,200 houses. Subsequently, such proceed- ings were flled against about 100 miners. With the first 10 suits the union be- gan its fight to prevent eviction of the miners. As each new batch of evietion suits was filed, union counsel gained a respite through some counter-court actions, Cases in Supreme Court. Eventually all of the ejectment pro- ceedings were c ed to the Superior Court by the union. The court will not convene until Fall and a decision may not be handed down for some time after the session begins. The terminal corporation, however, still hopes to bring about a decision in the case hefore Winter. Several days ago counsel for the company peti- tioned the Superior Court to dismiss the union appeals. Argument on the petitions was set for July 7 at Philadelphia. If the court decided to allow the appeals 1o stand, union leaders said the miners would continue to occupy the houses until the Superfor Court decision on the appeals is handed down. Time to Swat Flies To Prevent Disease Has Come for All Summer is here, and so is the pestiferous fly with his nose- rlrlxllnr. germ-aden, disease- spreading feet. lies look forward to but one fate—to be swatted—and if some one dvesn’t come along with a fateful swat early in their lives they are likely to go on a ra page and do all sorts of dam- age. ¥ly swatting is done with fly swatters, So that the people of Wash- ngton may have no excuse for ng to join in the city-wide, erlong fly-swatting cam. paign_ sponsored by health au- thorities, The Star has con- tracted for a goodly supply of handy, dea ealing swatters of the most approved type, which friends of this newspaper may have, free of l‘hll‘fio, by asking for them at the first-floor counter in The Star Building, | Eleventh street and Pensylvania avenue. Get & swatter, get busy and— SWAT ’I‘H‘J‘L"! Restrictions. at Mollenauer, | T PLAN EARLY HOS HGROSS PACF Three Free Lances and Army Flyers Spurn Prizes to Take Off First. | By the Assnciated Press. | SAN FRANCISCO, June 22.—TInter- | est in the coming aerial races over| | the Pacific centered today on those who will spurn the chance to compete in prize ofters aggregating $160.000 and hop off ahead of prearranged con- test dates in pursuit of the glory and adventure that will fall to the first to fly to Hawaii or the Orient. | Besides Lieut. Lester J. Maitland and Lieut, A. F. Hegenberger, Army aviators now in San Diego preparing | for the Honolulu hop, there are at least two flying free lances who are saying little, but sawing much wood Army regulations prevent Maitland |and Fegenberger from participating in & prize contest. Plans Kept Secret. | Untrammeled by fixer hop-off dates and contest regulations, Ernest T..| Smith, local pilot, expects to start| here next week for Honolulu. He ap-| parently s the first threat from this side of the Pacific, but Richard Grace, Onkland aviator, is aboard the steamer Maluskal, which will reach Honolulu Friday. Supposedly, Grace has plane, built in Oakland, with which | he expects to fly back. Preparations | | for this flight have been surrounded | by the greatest secrecy. The other free lance is B. H. Grifiin ot Oklahoma City, who expects to start late in July. Maitland and Hegenberger, with their big Fokker plane locked in a con- crete hangar, aren’t saying much, but are known to be working steadily. They announced last night that they would keep the time of their hop-off to Honolulu secret, but that it would be some time between July 1 and July 5. Many Instruments Carried. “Hegenberger and I have so com- puted our charts that we will know by pre-computation exactly where we are while in flight,” said Lieut. Maitland. “In other words, we won't have to pore over charts to figure out our lati- tude and longitude.” The cabin of the big monoplane re- sembles a combined meteorological, aerological and navigation room, so completely is it equipped with sclen- tific instruments, Lieut. Maitland said the mavigation instruments would imclude a British aperiodic compass, one of the best of its kind in existence; an earth indue- tor compass, a magnetic compass, a standard Army compass and the Noel Davis air sextant, said by Lieut, Heg- enberger to be one of the most valu- able instruments of its kind. This sex- the late Comdr. s Iilled in the crash of the transatlantic plane Ameri- can Legion during a trial flight. ‘Will Test Compasses. During the next week Maitland and Hegenherger will make a number of night flights to test their compasses. The suddeh impetus given to the Pacific conquest threatens to furnish some inconveniences to those who might arrive in the Hawaiian Islands in advance of reception schedules, he- cause of the shortage of landing fa- cilities and arrangements for escort- ing them toward their goal. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin editorial- Iy expressed fear that if the aviators reached the islands hefore the sched- uled time they would be in the posi- tion of guests who arrive before they are invited, finding their hosts unpre- pared to receive them. “Under all these circumstances, we cannot encourage an effort to make a flight here before the officially sanc- tioned contest for the Dole prizes is open. It is, to be frank, a Lit un- sportsmanlike for an aviator to try i the paper said. The entrants in the $35,000 contest promoted by James D. Dole, pineapple king, must not start before August 1 Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, who Tue day announced his intention of at-| tempting to fly from Seattle to Tokio. vesterday said Japan would be the starting point for the proposed hop. Lack of an airport in Seattle, with a runway long enough to enable a heavily laden plane to take off safely, was assigned as the reason for chang- ing the starting point. Seattle has offered a $25,000 purse for the first aviator to complete a non-stop flight from there to the .Japanese capital, and ‘Tokio s raising another $50,000 for the same flight. HELEN WILLS WINS: GAME IS IMPROVED Elizabeth Ryan Takes Her First Match in Wimbledon Tennis Tourney. | | | | By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON, June 22, — Miss Helen Wills, Californfa tennis star, today entered the third round of the Winmbledon women's singles cham- pionship, defeating Miss S, . Lum- | ley Ellis of England, 6—3, 6— Miss Wills, playing a much better game in the bright sunshine than she did in yesterday's drizzle, won com- fortably from the English girl. She experimented with deep cross- court drives and frequently over- drove, hut as a whole her game was sounder and freer from errors Mi zabeth Ryan, American tennis star, playing her first match in the present Wimbledon champion ships, today defeated Miss B. C. Con- nell of England, §—2, 6—4. The American girl played somewhat below her hest game, Spanish Girl Wins. Senorita Elia de Alvarez, the Span- ish star, arrayed in a bright turban and jersey of brilliant red, made her first ‘appearance in the center court | of the women's singles. She was the first woman to reach the fourth round, defeating Miss Peggy Dransfield, McKane Godfree, the ite for the women’s sin- had a ditficult task Miss R. “Billie” Tapscott, outh African playe 2, 10—8. Mrs. Godfree, who is favored to be a finalist against Ilelen Wills, entered the fourth round by her victor “Little Bare Legs,” as Miss Tapscott is becoming known because of her fashion of playing without stockings, threatened Mrs. Godfree, who was last vear's Wimbledon champlon, seriously in the second set. German Is Eliminated. Otto Froitzheim, the first German player to appear on Wimbledon's cen- ter court since 1914, today was elimi- nated by the French star, Jacques Brugnon, 6—1, 6—2, 4—6, 6—3. Froitzheim appeared nervous in the strange surroundings amid the im- mense crowd during the early part of the match, but gave Brugnon a real battle in the last two sets. The German veteran player reveived: a most cordial reception from the spec: tators, | and disc | Power FORMER OFFICIALS BACK GREAT FALLS POWER PROPOSAL | (Continued from First Page.) Dam, Great Falls will focus the atten- tion of Congress and the entire coun- {ry upon water-power development— Muscle Shoals heing a Southern propo- stion, Boulder Dam a Western propo- sition and Great Falls an FEastern proposition, It was included in the famous Murray report of some years A0 as one of the most important units in a great power zoné from Washing- ton to Roston. Tt is hoped by those who are best informed on water-power development ind the power needs of the country at Congress will be forced to show | its hand. So long as no one else wa after the Great Falls opportunity Con- | gress has felt it conld take its time | s the question academically | whenever it had nothing else of spe- | cial interest. But notv the drive is to be started just as soon Congress meets, and with powerful political forces already at worl Of first consideration is the de- sirability of having this project de- veloped for the henefit of Washington and vicinity, and those who are in the bhest position to pass judgment say that there is more probability that the project will be developed properly if licensed by the Federal Commission than it it s al- lowed to wait for Congress to act. And vet It is not likely that the com- mission will issus the license, being a cabinet commission and guided large- Iy by the wishes of the President. Reasons Pointed Out. The reason, It I8 sald, that private enterprise would probably better | achieve the end of supplying cheaper service to the Government workshop | and residents in Washington and vicinity is this: In order for the proj- ect to be feasible and to get the energy at a reasonable cost, it is nec- essary to develop on a large scale, to put in big storage reservoirs, so as to| raise the lov~ flow of the river up to the point where a considerable amount of power can be developed from the head that is available, and nearly all the head available is adjacent to the District of Columbla. This project, for which a license has been formally asked, is even more comprehensive and extensive than was recommended under the famous Tyler report of four years ago. It proposes additional reservoir sites, an addition- al power development in the vicinity of Harpers Ferry and will develop much more energy than was contem- plated in the Tyler report. Now the situation is just this: The City of Washington, or the District of Columbia, can use only a fractional part of the total energy to be develop- ed, either under the Tyler recommen- dation or this new proposal by private capital and industry. If the project is built by the United States Govern- ment, either of two things must be done: The United States Government must license the plant for operation after it has been built by the United States, or some agent of the United States must operate it. 1t the Government attempts to oper- ate the plant it must go into the power business not only in Washing- ton, but in Maryland and Virgin and no one knows how far beyond— for it must sell from the very begin- ning, as there will be more power than'the District can absorb, in order to make the project pay its w 1t is hardly to be supposed that the Government of the United States, even it it operated the plant, d go into the general public utilitiies business and furnish power to con- sumers in Maryland and Virginia. In fact, it couldn’t find a market if it served new customers, and would have to entér into competition with existing public utilitles companies. Means Political Storm. It is easy to imagine what a politi- cal storm would be aroused. The Government's only hope would he to wholesale to some existing pub- lic_utility. Presumably, the corporation that came in and made the development would acquire existing utilities in the territory adjacent to the power de-| velopment and be in a better position to make sale of power or inter of power with existing companies in | Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia or | Pennsylvania than the Government would be, since the Government must sit back and only have something to sell and wait for the companies to build transmission lines to take it. Again, no one knows whether Con- gress would be willing to appropriate money enough to put the project in operation. The Tyler study estimated the cost at ahout $42,000,000. The ex- tended plan for which a lice is now asked would run the cost to upward | of $60,000,000. With the Government it would he taking money out of the Federal Treasury to engage in the power busi- ness to satisfy some political theorists, according to those who have studied the subject most careful rather than because there is any necessity for the expenditure in order to get the henefits of the development for Uncle Sam's workshops here and for the resi- dents of the District of Columbia. The feverish situation on Capitol Hill with regard to Great Falls power development is expected to result principally from activiti of the Public Ownership group. The Norris resolution has passed the Senate sev- eral times, more a matter of | courtesy and hecause it was pretty | generally understood that the House | would not act, so the gesture in the | Senate would not mean much any- 20 Seiators Fearful. This public ownership group of | about 20 Senators who oppose pri- | vate development “on principle” are fearful that the lcense to develop | Falls may be given by the Al Power Commission to a pri- vata concern, It will raise an Impor- | tant political discussion. Of course, the administration is pretty well com- mitted to private initiative, but it is led that it “‘got off the reserva- on Boulder Dam because of the political conditions in California. The tional Capitol Park and | Planning Commission has just In- jected a new element in the problem | Which is arousing the esthetic group in Congress, who are influenced by the thought that the gorge of the river would be more attractive scen- ically in its natural state than with | a lake, as would result from im- | pounding the water hehind the dam. Those who are especially interested | in the power development admit that | this might be so—“if you spent enough in park development.” They argue that after the power develop- ment the region would be more at- tractive for scenery and from a rec ational standpoint ‘“than & rocky e with muddy water.” | hey say that the proposed lake | would be a delightful place for fish- | ing, conoeing and swimming, it prop- | erly treated, and “much better than the itself fs now,” and much cleaner hecause the muddy residue | would be held back in the storage | above. { “How would the householder In Washington be affected”” is a_ques- | tion of general Intevest here. Not at all, except by lower rates with a large development and a constant steady supply. Procedure Ts Described. If the Government makes the de- velopment it will have to sell to the consumers through the Potomac Elec triec Power Co., which has the deliv. vatem. If the private concern gets the license it will deal with the Potomac Electric Power Co, for the land around Great Falls, to which it 80 | MeNa FARN VIEWS PUT BEFORE PRESIDENT Ex-Nebraska Governor Dis< cusses Situation With Cool« idge at Summer Home. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staft Correapondent of The Star, RAPID CITY, 8. Dak., June 22 Since listening to S. R. McKelvie, former Governor of Nebraska, who, with Mrs. MeKelvie, was an overs night guest at the Summer Whit§ House, President Coolidge today proba ably has a far better understanding of the agricultural situation in the West than he had befors leaving Washington. The President at least feels assured that the farmers in Nebraska and nearby States are by no means radical in their ideas of legislation for farm | relief, and that a large majority of the farmers of Nebraska do not want the kind of relief that was proposed in the McNary-Haugen bill, which was vetoed by the President lasy Winter. x-Governor Gives View According to Mr. McKelvle, hq told the President that the farmers of his State, at least the majority of them, realized that the agricultural diffictilties will not be solved by the --Haugen bill or any bill of itg radical and price-fixing nature. “In my judgment,” Mr. McKelvid said to newsaper men, “the remedy lies in legislation for the encourage. ment of co-operating marketing and provision for an extension of credit to enable the co-operatives to carry over their surplus crops and stocks, I believe a bill carrying these two pro posals will be presented to Congress in the next session, and fts chance of passage, I am informed, is good.” Cites Poll of Farmers. Mr. McKelvie, who is-a power In th Republican party of Nebraska .nl who publishes and edits the Nebraska, Farmer, a weekly farm paper with an extensive circulation, said he recently, conducted a poll of the readers of his weekly and his opinions of the senti ment of the farmers in his State are | based upon the responses to that sure vey. He is known to have been one of the leaders in his section of the op- position to the McNary-Haugen bill, and his views are accepted as heing representative of the conservative group of agriculturists. In making his prediction that he, thought farm re- lief legislation would no doubt be sat- isfactorily disposed of during the next session, he intimated that this would in all probability take the farm ques- tion out of the next presidential cam. paign. At least he believes farm relief will not be one of the major issues if a bill along the conservative and sound lines suggested by him is passed in the meantime. Having the conservative view of farm relief legislation, President Cool- idge will confer with those advocating other forms of legislation. It was announced at the Summer White House last Friday that he expected to have such conferences during his stay in the Black Hills. These probably will occur during July and August. McMullen Favors Lowden, Mr. McKelvie said that the outlook for a good Winter wheat crop in Ne- braska this year was bright, He esti- mated at 60,000,000 bushels, compared with the five-year average of 55000, 000,000 hushels and a 33,000,000-bushel crop last vear. Mr. MeKelvie fs a Coolid jov. Adam McMullen, who was at the Summer White House with the na=- tional editorial delegation last Sature ay, openly advocates the nomination of former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Llinois next year. Mr. MeKelvie and the President became acquainted when hoth were governors, and they have frequently ~exchanged visits since then. When the former learned that the President contemplated spending his vacation in the West this Sum- mer, he offered him his eabin on Slate Creek, two miles from Mystie, S. Dak, He has invited the President and \lrs, Coolidge to be the gunest of hunself and Mrs. McKelvie there for a few days this Summer. It is a ‘rip of 65 miles from the Summer White Honse through a tertuous, winding canyon road. ~ The place is 17 miles fi pid Cit vir and 33 by railroad, and Mrs. McKelvie are the first overnight visitors to be invited by the Coolidges this Summer. i By going together on a brief fishing expedition vesterday afternoon the President and Mrs. Coolidge have indicated that it is their intention to share, as much as possible, the d lights and fun to be found angling for the wily rainbow trout, which are €0 abundant in Squaw Creek. man, 1 President Gives Lessons. It was sun-down when the Presi- dent and Mrs. Coolidge went ta gether to the stream. Their bined catch yielded only five very u explained consi time w com- ur or was the President Mrs, € sssons in how her rod and in casting, to properly bait her hoe The President made that he was glad to see Mrs. in for this form of sport. fearing that she wonld ngain the creelk fishing withont i telephoned from his office to the vesterday morning, asking her to o to the ereek until he returned did not her to postpone her ing =0 as to give him the pleasu her company, but instead said it clouding up and there e reports that there was to be a storm in the mountains. Whether or not Mrs. Coolidge sur- mised the true meaning of her hus. band's message was not divilged. At any rate, she put off her own littla fishing trip and waited for the President. Likes Trout Fishing. Mrs. Coolidge is highly enthusiastic now over trout fishing and has inti- mated that she wants to indulge fre- quently. She has said also that she wants to be in the open air as much as possible, and that she will divide her time hetween fishing and tramp- ing over the mountain trails, A huge bouquet of flowars grows the Government experimental farm Newell, S. Dak., was presented to Coolidge today by a delegation to invite the President and Mrs, Cuo idge to the Newell Farmers' pict July 16, the same date as the Arde more farmers' pienie. Tartarian, honeysickle, peonies, snowhalls, roses nd tleur de lis made up the piece. President Coolidge sald he wo! take the Newell picnie invitation vn- der consideration, the date is charged he pr will not ko, for it conflicts with the Ardmora gathis ering of farmers, which he ‘s an%ious to attend. Furthermore, Newell {8 near Bellefourche, which he will visit when he g;wn to the tri-State roundup July 4. e ———— to supply it with the energy for dis. tribution in the District to supple- ment the nower produced in the ex. isting steam plant. The situation is just this as regards local_distribution. “The Potomao Flec. trio Power Co. couldn’t afford aot to to b Iso in b holds title and which will be flooded after the§nlam is constructed, and it will deal with this loepl wpo it take_the new and » DOWSF SUD- oly; the new oration making th