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WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Burean Forecast.) Fair and warmer tonight and morrow, Temperature—Highest p.m. yesterday; lowest, today. Full report 50, 58, at on page 9 Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 14 ln_fl_l_S ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. Fntered as second class matter office. W ington, D. C. No. 30,376. WASHINGTON, D. C, FLYERS REACH SHORE ON LIFE RAFT AFTER PLANE IS SUBMERGED Vain Attempt to Find Landing Field Forces Return to Coast as Gas Gives Out. ONLY TIPS OF WINGS REMAI ABOVE LEVEL OF BREAKERS FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1927—FORTY-E IGHT PAGES. “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 as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,757 - TWO (#) Means Associated Press. SAFELY IN SEA OFF FRANCE ROUTE OF BYRD’S FLIGHT FROM NEW YORK TO FRENCH COA 70, 60 Map shows down in the water, after vainly circlin LEF: 7 }"IELD S24 AM, Ju.JIJ29 edlevice. G421 .fir)me‘,.‘.un : Reported byS.S.Paris 930AM. Reported by 55-Berlin JWireless Received atCherbourg @wireless Recened at Cherboursy @ wussed over Brest 245 2. 350 g the region of Paris for a landing place. oy chavre -+ Caver Sur-mer OPARIS Documents and Most Valuable h tru- ments Removed—Hosts Guard Crew While They Sleep. PARIS, July 1 (AP).—Comdr. Richard Byrd and his k companions will leave Ver-sur-Mer for Paris this evening, | and will arrive here about midnight, H. A. G representative of Rodman Wanamaker, sponsor of the flight, telegraphed his wife here late today. bbons, personal Br the Associated Press. VER-SUR-MER, France, July 1.—Out of gasoline and grop- ing blindly through fog and rain to find a safe haven, the trans- atlantic plane America descended safely in the sea early this morn- ing near this town, on the coast of Normandy. Successful in their valiant effort to span the Atlantic, but 1 miles west of their goal, Paris, the American aviators, headed by Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, made their way through the sea 200 vards to shore with the aid of a pneumatic raft which they had been able to inflate just before their plane struck the water. Tired by Long Voyage. red by their long air voyage that had carried them across the Atlantic and in a vain cruise in the fog and rain above France | to find the flying field at Le Bourget, the American flyers went to | bed almost as soon as they had made their way to shore with the help of fishermen and the keeper of the lighthouse here. 1t was 2:20 am., French time, that the American fiyers, seek- ing land and ‘safety after their long voyage through the aif; dropped into the sea about 200 yards from shore and were quickly OFFICIALS PRAIS YRD ON FLIGHT Value to Science and Cour-] age of Flyers Stressed in Many Messages. By the Associated Press. Long hours of waiting by official Washington, tinged with the fear of disaster, gave way today to joy and relief with the word that Commander Richard E. Byrd and his trans-atlantic aviators were safe in France. Even the Nation's chief executive, President Coolidge, at his Summer White House in the Black Hills of South Dakota, exhibited his anxiety over the flyer's safety. He instructed his secretary, Everett Sanders, to re- ceive word of the flight from the Washington Bureau of the Associated Press and as soon as definite word of |the safety of Byrd and his compan- jons was received the Assoclated Press advised Mr. Sanders at Rapid City over long distance telephone. Disappointment Is Felt. The relief over the aviators' safety was tinged with disappointment that their huge monoplane America had | been forced down after they had fruit- lessly endeavored to find the Le Bour- get landing field at Paris. But the high “Navy officials, including Secretary Wil bur and Rear Admiral Moffett, chief of Navy aeronautics, who had remain- BYRD IS WORRIEb ABOUT MAIL SACK HE CARRIED ON AMERICA ‘Commander -’fells French Journalist Crew | Did Not Know Location When They | Finally Reached Shore. | | By the Associated Press VER-SUR-MER, France, July 1 An account of how the America came {down and how Comdr. Byrd and his three companions got ashore was given by the commander himselt to Max Mathey, a French aviator and journalist, who brought an Associated Press correspondent here from Paris in an airplane. It was the arrival of the Associated Press airplane which woke Comdr. Byrd up, he told Mathey, when the aviator met him in the kitchen of the home of the deputy mayor of this| village. “Comdr. Byrd,” said Mathey, being awakened, met me in the kitchen, where we had a meal. He sald the arrival of the Associated Press plane -woke him up. He was uneasy about the sack of United States mail which he carried in the| America, and which had been left at the lighthouse after having been | taken from the plane. | CRACE PLANSHOP - FINANCIAL SURVEY |, “Byrd told me that just before the — | America came down he and his com- panions had been turning around and around in the fog without knowing | where they were. Virtually no oil | was left and no gasoline. “‘We had no choice but to seek a | landing,” Byrd said. ‘When we struck water the tail of the airplane was torn off together with the landing wheels. We immediately began to get out our rubber boat. We were up to our breasts in water. We got ashore, but had no idea where we s 1 “ ‘Do you think you'll go to Paris?’ I asked. “*“To tell you the truth, I don't know what we will do,” he replied. Comdr. Byrd, reverting again to his landing, said: “‘We sat on the beach until 4 a.m. and waited until the deputy mayor and the fisherman Marius arrived.’ “Then while the commander and T were talking the assistant prefect of Bayeux came in, and with great seri- ousness and formality presented the congratulati of “on into the water to their elbows. ‘Manning their rubber rowboat raft, which was part of the equipment of the plane, they made several trips to shore, saved all the most impor- tan equipment of their ship and then went to sleep at the homes of their French hosts. Plane Is Submerged. Only the top edge of the plane’s wing was above the surface of the sea, but the flyers, their minds once more easy after their long battle with fog and rain, slept peacefully until called at 3 o'clock this after- noon at their orders. Comdr. Byrd, who had added to 1, laurels of being the first man to fly scross the North Pole the new dis tinction of spanning the Atlantic through unusually unfavorable storm conditions, was very tired, but was not too tired to write up his log of the flight. "liu g(h tted with his hosts and drank a glass of milk before retir- ing in the home of Joseph Criffier, deputy mayor of Ver-sur-Mer. Comdr. Byrd declared on arriving in this little picturesque resort, t the America had encountered bad weather all the way from the United States. Fog had kept them from finding the sir lane to Paris and had forced them to grope blindly in the air until they had no cholce but to make a descent as best they would when their gaso- line ran out. Hosts Set Up Guard. 1hings made as shipshape shoard their plane as possible, the American aviators divided into two groups, going to different houses, to obtain much needed rest Comdr. Byrd and Lieut. George O. Noville, radio engineer and alternate pilot, went to the home of the deputy mayor, while Bert Acosta, the pilot, and Lisut. Berndt Balchen, the fourth mermber of the crew, went to the home of the lighthouse keeper, Lercop. They were sound asleep in a fe utes and their hosts set up a guard to keep them from being disturbed. Compass Went Wrong. Comdr. Byrd, explaining the wander- ing of the -America in the fog over France for many hours and his final Janding in the sea at Ver-sur-Mer, said that his compass had gone wrong shortly after the America had reached the coast of France in the vicinitv of Brest. Then the thick fog held the plane and they did not know where they w He said that thev near Paris at one t could not be sure. When their gas and oil were nearly run out. Comdr. Ryrd sald. the America was headed in the direction where the sea was ought to lie in the hope that a fer landing could made there thar unseen terrain he commander said t fca driven until the 1 virtually used up. He sent down nare and then followed with ¢ plane With m ave been on he Amer fuel v was s he Struck Shallow Water. Comdr. Byrd said that struck shallow water gear was torn off. The plane qu submerged to the wings to which tI fivers clung until they succeeded ln" As|prevented Mrs. William Byrd, grand- jaunching their rubber lifeboat. #oon as this was done they took theit |y iher ot Comdr. Richard E. instruments, personal effects and two hours in rain before discovered by into their homes. Comdr. Byrd e 0 miles from osevelt Field el The commander expressed be-able 1o save his hip. sviators who have seen the plane day expressed the opinion that hopes of salvage are slight, as rlane was hreaking in the sea ated tl e time of 1 his landing t untij ope he woul the |in their flight that lasted for almost | where they were. On three occasions | air, seeking a place to come down. but that they | the plane! \d the landing Iy | BY sack of mail ashore, where they waited iey were ie villagers and taken |crew, dispatches from Baltimore, her | at he flew aving at that Comdr. Byrd said that he would like to fly to Paris from Ver-sur-Mer, but that he had no idea of returning to New York by air even if the plane were in condition to make the journey. The citizens of this little sea resort gave the aviators a reception in the town hall this afternoon and a great crowd was present in spite of the in- clement weather. Flyers Faced Death. Presumably the flyers faced death two day: For hours over the Atlan- tic they were unable to see the ocean or determine with any accuracy, ex- cept with the aid of the radio, just even the tips of the wings were ob- scured from the anxious man in the pilot's seat. But it was over land itself that the greatest peril came. In the darkness of a rainy and stormy night, when their compass failed to work, they literally wandered about high in the | The radio guided them over the sea, but somehow it fafled on land. When their own signals were heard, as they were at frequent intervals, the receiv- ing stations were unable to locate their position in the sky. The most critical time of all came when it seemed to all the observers that they must be over Paris search- ing through clouds and fog for the lights of the Le Bourget Field. Then their signals ceased. At last, at 1:25 o'clock in the morning, came an ap- peal for guidance. But no one knew { Where they were and help was im- | possible. Anxious watchers aground | | were forced to wait helplessly | throughout the remaining hours of | darkn unable even o guess | { where the plane had gone. ! Over Paris at 3 0'Clock. The reports indicated that they lactually were over Paris at 3 o'clock !h\ the morning. and that for some |reason, as yet unexplained, they {turned’ about and went westward again. The last place the plane was actually seen was at Brest, ahout 0 miles west of the spot where it | came down. That was at 8:33 p.m,, when the French cable company an nounced it had clearly seen the dis- tinguishing marks of the craft. The night was one of the worst of the season in Paris, rain fell in tor- rents, the clouds hung low and so thickly that the sky was as completely | hidden as the earth must have been to the men in the plane. Among those at Le Bourget Field, in { Paris, who anxiously awaited news ed awake to receive the reports from the Associated Press, felt that the safety of the naval aviator and his c;]mplnlons overshadowed everything else. Comdr. Byrd's dash over the Atantic through the fog and rain which con- stituted extremely hazardous flying weather was considered to demon- strate the effectiveness of the airplane and transoceanic flights, even though he failed to reach his objective. It was pointed out by aviation authori- ties that night flying, even over fa- | miliar territory, during foggy weathen | was extremely difficult and w] the | terrain was strange, combined with | bad weather, the element of luck | plays a big role in the locating of safe | landing fields. | i 4 in a long transocean jt Radio Phase Tmportant. Grace, “the aviator with a But the chapter written by Comdr. [neck,” planned to hop off today | Byrd in the history of aviation de:|for Califc:nia, accompanied oy l).\'i s unfortunate termination is : rrior deemed of paramount value coming as | 4 Weekold fox terrior puppy. = the climax of a six-week period viewed | Grace attetroon Ins here as the most important period in [specting the two-milelong runway flying progress and in developing {over the “barking sands,” near here, world-wide “interest in long-distance | walking over every foot of the ground flights. After Col. Lindbergh blazed the |anq directing the leveling of the way with his single-handed voyage N rospec for hop-off came that of Chamberlin and Levine, |COUrse: ~The prospects for a hov Then Maitland and Hegenberger |today were declared to be favorable. made the Hawaiian flight. But the | Grace's plane, a Ryon monopl: ~o, is trip of Byrd and his three companions | similar to that in which Col. Charles possessed a remarkable phase in the i v from Ne s York to manner in which the aviators kept in f.;rl,.mdbemh Dok radio communication with the lands = and the seas below them. All of this, coming within a snan of less than two month: has created the ereatest en- thusi m among aviation experts within and without the Government | here. | It 'was a proud day for Uncle Sam's seirvices today. The Army still exultant over the Hawaiian flight, while the Navy rejoiced in her pro- tege, Comdr. Bvrd, who had added to its and his own glorious aviation brolenneckea Ay | achievement of the North Pole con-|er.” after an cident in Hollywood, quest last Summer by the trans.|from which he emerged with a broken | oceanic flighi. 7 I neck vetebrae. His experience con- " sists of some 5,000 hours in the air President Sends Message. and 24 aerial smashups. Sixteen of The congratulations of President |th> smashups were said to have been Coolidge were cabled to Comdr. Byrd | deliberate, in order to furnish material today by the State Department. for the motion picture cameras. “I'send you my sincere congratula- 2 s tions on your successful flight across Plan Admission Price. the Atlantic,” the message said. “I| Grace trained down to 138 pounds have followed your distinguished and |for the flight. He was born in Mor- courageous career in aerial navigation | ris, Minn., in 1898, and is being with interest and admiration. Your|backed by Maj. Grant E. Dolge of Los flight to the North Pole proved the effectiveness of the airplane in add- were announced in Los An- ing to the scientific knowledge of the | geles last night for rushing him there unexplored surface of the world, and | at the termination of his flight, if su |1 am sure that your present flight | cessful, and having him make an ap- will notably advance our knowledge of | pearance in a reception, at which an the conditions which must be met and | admission price was to he charged conquered to make transatlantic aerial | % % navigation commercially practicable | FLIGHT TO JAPAN PREDICTED. FOR COAST TODAY Lone Aviator Prepares to Take Off From Hawaii for Mainland. By the Associated Pres | MANA, lIsland of Kauai, July 1.— Flying the smallest airplane ever used | Ri.ard | broken | Dog Only Companion. The flyer announced the dog would | be his only companion. His landing place on the mainland was not an- nounced, but he is expected to head | for Santa Monica, Calif. He will carry | allons of gasoline. { v several days Grace, formerly a | movie stunt fiyer in Hollywood, has | been testing his plane. He won the | sobriquet of the e Sheldon Whitehouse, charge | d'affaires of the American embassy {in the ahsence of Ambassador Her- | rick: Capt chard E. White, (Continued on Page 5, Column 2 the | and safe. The scientific possessed the greatest “(Continued on Page 4, Column Maitland's Achievement Opens Way, Tal flight for value of the interest Newspaper Says. i Fall Downstairs Fails to Prevent Byrd's Grandmother From Watching Trip Associated Pres RICHMOND, Va., July 1.—A fall downstairs several days ago has not Byrd, from scanning news dispatches of the ht of the America and its gallant {home, shows today. Mrs. Byrd, aged 88, thinks the fall unworthy of notice, but Dick's” flight is another story “That,” the Richmond New quotes Mrs. Byrd as say as it should be. It Little Dick takes it into his head to go some place he sually geis there. “But I'm sorry er ( for one thing. I'm “Little | Lead- | TOKIO, July 1 (#).—The Honolulu flight the United States Army aviators, Lieuts. Lester J. Maitland and Albert Hegenberger, indicates |that a flight between the United States and Japan is now possible, says ]‘M' nichi Shimbun editorially today. | The paper, expressing the opinion | that the enormous development of air- planes and other war implements makes war increasingly improbable, says that “sky quakes,” as it char- acterizes a possible war in the a. avoidable. ‘America need not fear war with Japan, either actual or imaginary, as the Japanese are not so foolish as de- liberately to cause national ruin through evoking a sky quake,” the paper says. ‘“As long as America dominates the air the atmosphere of | the Pacific is sate.” |terribly sorry T can't fly over with | hin I'a love it. “Little Dickey always promised to take me for a ride in his aeroplane, but he never has. He is afraid I might fall or something. But I should not do any thing of the kind. He is a scamp. But he will get to Paris. “I am not concerned in the least about that. He knows what he is |doing. And he is never afraid. When he was a little fellow with us in Win- {chester, hix aunt dared him to go to the graveyard at night. Discussing the flight itself, Mainichi ‘Little Dick was just 7, but he took | Shimbun says: “The accuracy of con- himself o at 9 o'clock, walked around | trol and serenity of mind with which the graveyard three times and came |the adventure was accomplished indi- home just as ool as ever. When he | cates most eloquently that flyers can, was 12 he went around the world by |if 1théy choose, hop over direct from himself.” America to our shore.” | | guide to the amount of ta 1S MADE BY MILLS Warns Part of Surplus Is Due to Postponement, Rather Than Saving. Announcing a surplus of 921.70 for the end of the Govern- | ment’s fiscal year ended yesterday, | Acting Secretary of the Treasury | Ogden L. Mills today made public a comprehensive survey of the year's record. Without mentioning by name th proposed tax reduction program to come before Congress at the next ses- sion, Mr. Mills in his statement of six pages of figures carefully ex- plained in detail how the huge sur- plus, which is the largest in the his- tory of the country, was built up largely from “special and non-recur- ring items” and by a “decrease in expenditures, some of which repre- sents a postponement rather than actual saving.” Interpreted as Warning. His explanation was interpreted as | an administration warning that the surplus was not to be considered a real ! on expected, although the Treasury will| favor some cuts in taxes. { The great public debt of the United | States, Mr. Mills reported, was decreas- | ed during the fiscal year by $1,131,300.- 383.34, to $I18,511,90 31, through operations which also will result in lower interest rates, and a net de- crease in interest charges of $23 000,000. ‘What is known as total ordinary re- ceipts of the government, Mr. Mills reported, amounted to §4,129,394,441.10, and the expenditures chargeable against such receipts were $3,493,584,- 519.40. This brought the surplus of more than $635,000.000 as compared with a surplus of $377,767,816.64 a yeax-" ago. | Revenue From Taxes. “Tolal ordinary receipts,” it was ex- | | plained, “are derived from income |taxas, miscellaneous internal revenue land customs, all of which may be classified as revenue from taxes and so-called miscellaneous receipts. Un- | |der this last head are included such |items as foreign repayments, the pro | ceeds from the sale of capital assets, | las for instance, railroad and othe securities, and a vast number. of mis- | cellaneous resources, such as Panama | Canal tolls and mineral oil and gas @and fees, which in the aggregate yield | a large income, but which must not | be confused with revenues from taxation. 1 “The aggregate of tax receipts,” | sald the Treasury statement, “that is | customs, income tax and miscellaneous internal revenue receipts was $3,475,- 000,000 or $58,000,000 in excess of receipts from these sources in 1926 and $49,000,000 in excess of the amount estimated by the Treasury last October. The excess over the estimate is accounted for by increased collections of income and profits taxes due from prior years. The Treasury’s estimate of current revenue from these sources proves to have been sub- | stantially correct. “Income tax receipts aggregated $2.225,000.000, as__compared _with (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) T Radio Program—Page 33 | for the past two years. | handling civil cases before the Di: | submitted | steamer ORCUTT T DIRECT LOUORLAW CASES ~ormer Aide to Dry Unit Counsel Placed in Charge of Prosecutions. Assistant District Attorney Harold | W. Orcutt, former assist; chief counsel of the prohibition unit, Mon- day will take over complete super- vision of prosecution of liquor cases in the District of Columbia, it was | announced today by Maj. Peyton Gor- don, United States district attorney. Mrs. Rebecca Greathouse and David A. Hart, assistant district attorneys in | charge of liquor law prosecutions at | present, will assist Mr. Orcutt in his new position, it was stated. “Orcutt will not replace an because under the existing system no one person is in sole charge of liquor cases,” Maj. Gordon said. “He will assume a new office, the duties of which include general direction of all | prosecution work affecting the national | pronibition act.” Result of Conferen The announcement follows c several conferences held between Maj. | Gordon and_ officials of the Citizens’ | Service ~Association for Law and Order, as a result of which Dr. E. M. | Ellison, secretary of the association, | stated several days ago that the dis- trict attorney had given assurance that prohibition cases hereafter would be placed in the hands of one assistant attorney. Raymond Neudecker, another as- sistant _district attorney, also will ist Mr. Orcutt in the prohibition es, Maj. Gordon declared. Maj. Gordon gave no explanation for his decision to assign Mr. Orcutt | to supervise the important work at Police Court, beyond the bare state- ment that no one has been in charge and it was deemed advisable to put | one person in complete command of the dry law prosecutions. Orcutt has heen assistant to Gordon He has been rict | Supreme Court and the District Court | of Appeals, including libels, equity cases and civil prohibition cases Five Years with Dry Unit. He came fo the district attorney’s office from the prohibition unit, where e had been connected with the legal division for five years. During the war he was an Army captain and was stationed at Camp Lee in charge of law enforcement work, and later was on staff duty at the War Department. ears old, married and re- sides in Takoma Park, Md. His orig- inal home was in Massachusetts. He has maintained his home in Washing- ton since the war. Maj. Gordon explained that Orcutt will be responsible for the govern- ment's procedure in accepting offers to plead guilty in prohibition cases, by attorneys. All motions and other legal proposals will be made to Orcutt personally, it was said. Gordon made it plain, however, that the district attorney, himself, will con- tinue, as before, to exercise supreme control of prohibition work, and that Oreutt's activities, of course, will come directly under his (Gordon's) purview Mrs. Greathouse was transferred to | prohibition duties more than a year ago. Announcement of her appoint- ment at a greater salary than either | | Mr. Hart or former Assistant District | | Attorney Thomas FE. Lodge, then on | similar duties, resulted in the resigna- | tion of Mr. Lodge a few days later Maj. Gordon at that time explained that Mrs. Greathouse was not “over” the other prosecutors, as had been re- ported. STEAMER STRIKES REEF. MANILA, July 1 (®).. ed here that the French steamer St. Francis Xavier, en route from Houmea to New Caledonia, was aban- doned June 30 after striking a reef. The master, 40 passengers and crew of 55 were picked up by the British | Dol which is bringing | to Manila. It was report- hem BANONUNDERSEA COMPRONISE PLAN CRAFT IGNORED AT TO ASSURE AIRPORT NAVAL CONFERENCE FOR CITY EXPECTED | Experts Fail to Act on Ameri- | Executive Order Permitting can Suggestion for Abol- Use of Bolling Field Held ishing Submarines. Possibility. — | —_— | TWO CLASSES PROPOSED [URGE WAR DEPARTMENT | BY BRITISH DELEGATES! TO REDUCE ITS DEMANDS e traversed by the monoplane America between Roosevelt Field and Ver-sur-Mer, on the coast of France, off which fown the plane came Confidence Results From Agree- | Failure of Business Interests to ment on Destroyers and Smaller Auxiliary Vessels. Guarantee Backing Shows Senti- ment on Project. tha Associated Pres Despite an apparent reluctance ona .)4. .\E'\'A.I July 1.—The 107 | the part of local business interests to |abolishing submarines as engines of | yngerwrite what amounts to a $35,000 |naval warfare apparently has not Yet | guarantee to clinch the War Departs |arrived, for the naval experts of the| oni'g offer of Bolling Fleld, it was | tripartite maval conference failed to-| iaore “voaav that some soft of day to follow the American suggestion, | o mr0 (800 Lt SOT0, T ime | made on the opening day of the con-| " oient” post Offics officials from ference, that the United States would | q; guon o™, B0, G te O e 8t |be willing to consider abolishing the | oG "0, 0 0 m: eb ’" ; submarine if such action were made | i & 2 Iwa¥ service to De opene Bitpp this Summer. :. v“ H» ”-Mm_ cod Hatevar that 1k Two ways appear open out of the |experts agreed today upon the five- S:’;f""f“‘m‘:‘:"f:“ g o “i“'" b |inch gun as the largest cannon’ for| T (0" CEIOR & PACS o hu Haw submarines. | s . Either the War Department The British delegates proposed | .} 4 oo s ereatin two categories of submarines, | ¢4 ItS, demands and turn over one one with a maximum size of 600 tons. | Dorary st T ALt etk D e [ T500 ‘tong, with an ase Hmit of 1 |dent Coolidge can issus an executive years. The Americans are reported | Biitt PRrmiting :.',‘Zh",':?,':,lfi‘s.?um the question of a permanent airport is thrached out in the next Congress. to favor a higher maximum size than | 1,600 tons on account of the paucity | of American naval bases. It also is | said that the Japanese have suggested Tentatively Reject Backi Py r " ng. S sentatives of Washington's three trade Requirements Discussed. organizations yesterday = tentatively A . turne n The morning session of the technical | 535000 ‘or. $40,000 " enarantort Ubed mmittee was given over to discus- | Mai W. E. R. Covell Assistant Do slon of each country's requirements |trict Engineer Commissioner e x\l\xucg:gzg}.”"c it asitih 5‘?!d'\he m?eling_ that in his opinion [ the delegates went over the topic of | ieve, wany bocin® Bolling Fleld will | “characteristics of submarines” and | "CTEE Cme back. g {amplifled thelr earlier proposals Te- |yl i(“‘,;?f:; ,’;‘e;‘;:‘,,"’fl’,fi'""c’,:i garding submarines . o fder “It was decided.” the communique |P3CKIng of tne airport project, accom- nnounced, “that in the light of the | Plished one good purpose which Maj. urther information the various pro. | COVell sought. It served to put all posals should be carefully considered | the cards on the table, leaving no by each delegation and the Subject | F0om to doubt ths feeling that exists continued at 10:30 Saturday morning. | With regard to the taxpayers of the “Up to the present, the discussions | District putting up the money for a temporary air mail service from which the Government admittedly would reap the most benefits. time in the technical committee have been confined principally to the character- |istics of different classes of vessels | the task of reaching an agreement on | which the techni: | erats | with | was Killed. and certain tentative agreements have been reached. Such provisional agree- ments, however, remain subject to rs- vision' after decision has been made by the plenary sessions as to tha major question of the total tonnage and the numbers in different classes of vessels.” Progress on Smaller Craft. The status of such auxiliary craft as sweepers has been virtually agreed upon, promising progress has made on the destroyer question and the regulation of undersea craft ap- pears fairly facile compared with that of deciding on the status of cruisers, ans have already tackled and are still working on. a good omen, C. Bridgeman, first lord of the British Admiralty, in a statement to the As- sociated Press, that Great Britain was not seeking supremacy over America and accepted parity wholeheartedly, is generally interpreted as calculated to speed the conference’s work, causing the American delegation to look for- ward to booking return passage early in August. The Japanese delegates will sail later, as they desire to do a bit of touring before they return. There was a noticeable note of confidence in the deliberations, due without doubt to Mr. Bridgeman's words, when the experts came to an agreement that the maximum size of (Continued on Page 5, Column 'FREE FIGHT STAGED "IN PRUSSIAN DIET Centrists and Democrats Try Vain-| ly to Separate Nationalists and Socialists, By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 1.—The Prus Diet was the scene of a free fight this morning among the Nationalists, Socialists and Communist deputies and attempts by Centrists and Demo- to separate the fighters met little succe: The chamber looked like a battle- | fleld to the gallery spectators, with | numbers of the Diet members show- ing signs of the struggle. | The fight occurred in connection | with a Socialist interpellation concern- | ing recent riots in which one person i Commander Byrd Will Tell of His Great Adventure Crossing the Atlantic by Airplane Appear Exclusively THE EVENING STAR an THE SUNDAY STAR in Washington in d inese river gunboats and mine- | been | The delegates began the day under | The declaration of W.! | Pitcairn Aviation, Inec., to Expect Government to Act. Frank admission by Maj. Covell that the cost of a worthwhile municipal ariport would necessitate an increase in an already burdensome District tax rate, unless some local improvements, perhaps equally desirable, are thrown {out of the budget estimate, caused the business representatives to reserve formal indorsement of the. project pending a thorough research into all | questions involved. While it was the consensus that a | temporary air mail service is not | worth 4000 or $40,000 to the business interests of the city, the position of local business representatives seems to be that the Government, which would be the chief beneficiary of such a service, will not permit Washington to lose its place on the New York-to- Atlanta route. Meanwhile the War Department's offer of Bolling Field has not been withdrawn, though there is a prob- ability that F. Trubee Davison, Ase sistant Secretary of War for Aviation, will construe vesterday's meeting as a curt refusal to take advantage of his offer. Mr. Davison is now in New York and will not return to Washington until next Tuesday. At that time Maj. Covell will confer with him in the hope that the War Des partment will permit the air mail planes to use one of the Army hangars at Bolling Field without & so-called “guarantee.” Regarded as Refusal, While Maj. Covell was anxious to 2 the consent of Washington interests to underwrite the financial offer, he let it be known that it_is possible the War Department will stretch a point in favor of the Capital, rather than see the air majl diverted to Baltimore. . The Post Office Department made it plain today that it considered the acs tion at the business meeting as an unmistakable refusal to meet the terms required for establishing Washe- ington as a port of call on the air mail route. W. Irving Glover, Assistant Poste master General in charge of air mafl,! said: “Washington has swept the baby off its doorstep. It seems uns fortunate, but the baby probably. will have to take Baltimore as a step- father.” He declared that the Post Office De- partment would make no immediate move to take Washington off the air mail schedule, but made it plain that if a temporary fleld is not provided very soon, it would be compelled to. direct the planes to stop at Baltimore. instead. Warns Baltimore May Win. . As soon as the Ford reliability tour is ended, Mr. Glover sald he ex iscertain he situation with regards to a landing field in Washington. one is not’ available, Mr. Glover pointed out, the. company would simply route its planes. to Baltimore, There would be no ale' ternative, he declared. : “It is unfortunate that Washington cannot look farther than its own nose,” Mr. Glover said. “This I J commercial aviation project, freight and passenger service, ing up eventually with Florida, and through the Southwest to- Angeles. The mail service would a small part of it." . The attitude of Washington busi- - ness men was clearly reflected to. Maj. Covell, who said today that he. would incorporate their views in e report he is preparing for the Dis-'"~ trict Commissioners. In the means" time he will confer tomorrow with: United States engineers to det the actual cost of X Gravelly Point site for a airport. Estimates now ra from $1.950,000 to 32,000,000, which D District. u ers_would be od_to (Comtinued on Page 5, (