Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (1. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) toni asional showers; not cloudy possibly in t owest, Full report on 1 it and tomor- ure; Monday 81, at 4:45 p.m | t 5 a.m. today Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 19,20 & 21 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ikl a . (D C. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 1927—TWEN 9 AWERCAN FLYER BYRD COMPLETELY LOST 6 HOURS, 'HE SAYS IN OWN STO FIGHT THEIR WAY 11 com THROUGH CHEERING THRONGS N PARIS, X-Ray Taken at Hospital Shows Acosta Has Frac- tured Clavicle as Resuit of Fall—Byrd Fatigued. WANAMAKER’S GRANDSON EXTENDS GREETINGS Reception in French Capital Equals That Accorded Lindbergh—Le- _vine Is Among First to Shake Hands With Commander and Comrades on Arrival. PARIS, July (P). — Comdr. Richard E. Byrd today presented to President Doumergue of France 2 copy of the first American flag, made by a great-gre: co of Betsy Ross, which he b 1 ried with him on his transatlantic flight from the United tes_and_ * had salvaged from wrecked America. By the Associated P ? PARIS, July 2—Comdr. Richard E. Byrd and his three companions on the transatlantic flight of t}_w giant monoplane America arrived in Paris jrom Caen at 12:28 p.m. lnd::)u re- ceiving a tremendous ovation from a huge crowd that filled the St. Lazare railroad station. So dense was the throng that Comdr. Byrd and his companions, after a short reception upon their arrival on the station platform, had to fight their way to waiting auto- mobiles, while the crowd cheered wildly and threw flowers in their path. Comdr. Byrd and Bert Acosta were taken to the American Hospital im- mediately after the luncheon t dered them by the American ¢ daffaires today to have 3 v pic- tures taken to determine whether they suffered any serious effects from the shock of their plane hitting the water at Ver-sur-Mer. . Acosta Found Injured. Acosta is suffering from a frac- tured clavicle and must wear his arm in a sling, it was learned after an_examination. g i Comdr. Byrd, leader of the expedi- tion, is so fatigued and nervous from the strain of the flight through storm and fog that he must forego all soctal affairs for the next few days to de- vote his time to complete rest and rehabilitation. Physicians, after a thorough ex- amination, said that Comdr. Byrd had nothing the matter with him except nervousness and great fatigue and that he must give most of his time 1o resting for the present. He entered the Continental Hotel on the arm of Dr. Bainbridge, who insisted that the aviators must have t immediately after the luncheon given by Charge Affaires Sheldon IWhitehouse at the Interallied Club at 2 o'clock this afternoon, the l'l_rs[ item on the program of their Paris social calendar, Child Extends Greetings. Gurnee Munn, 9-y 1d grandson of Rodman Wanama sponsor of the transatlantic flight of the America, 1oday formally welcomed Comdr. in behalf of his grandfather at the en- trance of the Eugenie suite at the Con- tinental Hotel. : After shaking the commander hand, the little chap resol id: “On behalf of my grandfa man Wanamaker, ulate you on the suc and welcome you to Fr ; Gurnee then shook ( Byrd's hand again and the av anked him and asked him to give kindest re gards to his grandfather. Guinee is the son of Mrs. Mary Louise Wana- maker. A great the Continental rival of the av station. Lieut the first to arrive. Then Bert #na Lieut. Bernt Balchen gether and had an enthusiastic tion from the thou people who m: ed he corner of the hotel so they eco a view of the windows in the suite occupied ¥ 1 : arrived much later than his associates because of the dif ficulty of getting through the en thusiastic erowds, and the ov ion he Jiad at the hotel 1 tes. He stepped to the ihe Tuileries noyed becau: found e in bowing apprec Dtion since his comi already <clothes and co: “I want m as much himself o itehouse urged him to crowd which was it of him and he comy minutes later the othe scrambled into i o and joined Com cony. flags and leading to ! with a profusion palms. m. geas cause of his ex gallant_Americ: ntinued on condition, insisted , Column s d & new am the Garden Cit shooting the 13 Roland Mac in final { the golt | champ! Wighteen -holes remained to be played. have D | course, and to { Parliament Hill yi | founding of the Canadian federation ume looking | urged | RY OF FLIGHT pan i ons. Rendered Deaf. Thought Others Lost After Plane Cable to The Star and New York Times. SUR-MER, Frar July 2 k., and the anythi with rain pourin eing near the village of Ver-sur-Mer. We landed volunta er than BY (OMDR. RICHARD E. BYRD. in the ibility At 2:30 morning, clouds o low there was no pos vesterday v, our transatlantic flight ended in the sea, 200 yards from choosing the sea as and then swam and ily, unknown ground, ddled the 200 yards to shore, while our plane, ¥ the Amer But o men could damaged. and we are as near] filled and partially sank. ur plane is safe on land, though badly all right as four be who went through such a strain as we did through those 40 hours. of our fl stand out in my Were Completely Lost. t, these are the salient facts that mind now We flew for more than 40 hours, and through 19 consecu ship. Right tive hours we never saw land, sea nor near the start we feared we would have to dump half our gasoline and turn back, but, Juckily, just at the critical moment, our ship ifted and Lieut. Noville, who was all set to empty one ga During the last earth indus COMDR. BYRD. LN oline tank at least, held his hand. ix hours of our flight our ction compass, for some unknown rea- s thrown out of position and before we knew it we had swung in a half circle out of our ate it frankly, we were completely lost. Once before during the day we had become much alarmed for we found we had drifted 1 with our radio w shape our course. As it was, we altered our course course to Finisterre. v Compass W That was entirely successful, and with everything in good order. further south than we expected, and it was only by asking our position was that we were able to get a reply and considerably from that originally set, ind instead of steering for Ireland as we had planned, decided to shape our ent Crazy. we arrived over the region of Brest Then after so much of our voyvage was completed we got into trouble. T do not make any effort to say where we flew exactly. the dark steering by a compass which ‘We were there in had gone crazy. We must have been near Paris at least twice in those five hours of wandering in the pitch blackness with We tho we were onl; There was no way for us to know lowness of the clouds and the darkness, we were hopelessly lost. have been near Paris, the city of light, but we saw no light. cht we were going right, but we were not. a few miles from Le Bourget, but we could see nothing. the rain pouring. At one point I think ‘where we were going. Because of the We must ‘We saw nothing. ‘We did not know whether we were over town or country, over fields or mountains. ‘We never once saw the lights of Le Bourget. ‘We never once saw the Eiffel Tower. We never once saw anything of Paris. (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) LINDBERGH ESCORT 15 KILLED IN CRASH Plane Falils to Ground as Squadron Arrives Over Ottawa. 2 OTTAWA, July #P).—Lieut. G. Thad Johnson, a member of the escort of airplanes accompanying Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to Ot- tawa, was instantly Kkilled today when his plane crashed as it was making a landing here. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, July 2.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his escort of 12 United States Army airplanes arrived over the Canadian capital at 1:13 p.m. to- day Flying in front of his escort, the American transatlantic flyer . swept gracefully over the city and circled the Parliamentary Victory tower. One of the airplanes accompanying Lindbergh crashed while making a landing. The second day of Canada’s three- tieth anniversary celebration had as its central figure Col. Lindbergh. The lone fiyer of the Atlantic landed terday at Mount Clemens, Mich., where he spent the night before con- tinuing his flight here. There was a huge influx of visitors to see him. Railroads arranged many special trains. 60,000 Hear Carillon. Sixty thousand persons gathered at terday to hear the new carillon of Victory Tower ring out the notes telling the entire Do- minion that the celebration of the was under The chi and the ing of the national anthem peech of Premier McKenzie- ¢ heard perfectly in Halifax nd rouver via a Dominion-wide hook-up. A tablet, as a testimonial of devo- n from the 1,250,000 Canadians liv- in the United States, was pre- ited at the confederation dinner by W. Colpitts, president of the hadian Club New York, to Viscount Willingdon, the governor general, “We have one common ancestry, age, one common . Colp d when is upon us it is quite gs 1t we move southward as g it William Phillips, who formally as sumed his post United States Min- ister to Canada, and Mrs. Phillips ac: ompanied the zovernor general at the P and functions of he Canadian Minister at Vincent Massey, re- for the celebration. VETERANS SEEK POLICIES. With the curtain falling at mid- bt tonight on the Government's of- to reinstate and con war-time nt insurance hotn the Veter- au and the American Legion fer r of applicants endeav- o get in before it is too late. s at the Veterans' Bureau, cor- Vermont avenue and T street, ican Legion’s national n committee, 417 Bond New York avenye and Four- reet, will remaif ~pen until COMMUNITY FETES T0 MARK HOLIDAY Capital Assumes Festive Air, Hundreds Depart to Observe Fourth. The National Capital took on a fes- tive aspect today in observance of an unusual combination of holidays, be- ginning with the governmental half- holiday this afternoon and concluding with the grand Independence day climax Monday. Although showers were predicted for tonight and tomorrow, the weather man was confident of fair skies Mon- day, and the general prospects were encouraging enough to warrant the general exodus by motor and train that, as always, features such holi- days. The hundreds who betake themselves to other fields of recreation will mis: an elaborate series of community patriotic celebrations at home, As the principal highways out of Washing- ton began to feel the congestion this afternoon, the folks who remained in town were undraping flags, rehearsing pageants, or otherwise making ready for “the Fourth.” Transportation Facilities Taxed. Transportation authorities have bP(’n_l:LXf‘d to the limit of their facili- ties in an effort to accommodate the prospective pilgrims planning week end trips, and stores catering to va- cationers have found business exceed- ingly profitable. Nearly 1,550 persons have called at the touring information bureau of the American Automobile Association dur. ing the past week, an increase of al- most 100 per cent’ over the demands during a normal week, it was stated today at the bureau. This figure does not take into account the innumera- ble telephone inquiries received re. (Continued on Page 4, Column 2,) ATTACHE’S WIFE HURT BY EAGER THRONG Paris Crowd Breaks Auto Windows With Canes—Glass Enters Her Eye, By the Associated Press, PARIS, July 2.—Mrs. Richard White, wife of the naval attache at the American embassy, suffered in- Jjuries to her eyes today when a crowd eager to the American transatlantic flvers shattered the win- dows of the motor car in which she was riding with Lieut. George O. Noville from the St. Lazare Station to the Continental Hotel The cheering erowd surrounded the automobile and in its desire to make its enthusiasm known beat on the windows with hands, umbrellas ana canes. When the glass broke under the strain those In the car covered their faces, but Mrs. White, whose husband is a grandson of former Chief Justice White, did not dodge quickly enough. Physicians who examined Mrs, ‘White's injuries said that a plece of see when the offer will close. glass had entered an eyeball, | Aerial Express Service Over Continent Will Start August 15, Cowie Declares ted Press TO, Calif., t the Ame would inaugurate across the ¢ 15 was made here M. Cowie of New York, its president. towie stated that contracts for the new service already have blen let tand that the fast exprgys planes will 2w York, Chicage, Dallas, Tex:; San Francisco and Los Angeles as the principal Between 75 and 100 airplanes will mployed nscontinental wie declared. The ‘greatest growing development in transportation. through the air now is taking place,” Mr. Cowie comment- ed, “not because of Lindbergh’s ac- complishment especially, hut because of the practicability of this new ex- podited service. GOVERNMENT A SOUGHT IN FUTURE AIR EXPERIMENTS Congress to Be Asked to Pro- vide Funds to Develop Aerial Navigation. ARMY AND NAVY ANXIOUS TO PIONEER IN AVIATION Expeditions to North Pole and Europe Privately Financed—Of- ficials Discuss Rewards. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Army and Navy officers are hope- | ful that one of the concrete achieve- ments of Comdr. By transat- lantic flight will be to persuade Con- gress that the time has come to ap- propriate funds for further experi- ments instead of depending on the generosity of private citizens. Although flights by dirigible and rplane hawe in the past been re- arded by many members of Con- gress as stunts, Comdr. Byrd has succeeded in emphasizing. the scien- tific importance of better informa- tion on conditions in the air. The Government for many generations has recognized its obligation to chart the seacoast and locate ocean cur- rents as an aid to ship navigation. Now it is felt that the Government may undertake the task of develop- ing aerial navigation, co-operating with other nations s may be lighted properly, or such de- vices introduced as will enable visit- ing planes to land not only with safety to the aviators, but to the persons on the surface. Flights Privately Financed. Ever since the Navy wanted to send a_dirigible to the North Pole and the plan was abandoned because of pos- sible criticism in Congress there has been a certain feeling of hesitation about undertaking hazardous flights. Comdr. Byrd, for example, was ob- liged to ask leave of absence from the Navy when he went to the North Pole. That expedition was privately financed, just as was his transatlantic journey The Army flyers who went to Hawali under the auspices of the War Department really established some- thing of a precedent, for not since the round-the-world flight had there been any lengthy journey officially spon- sored. by the Government. The trip to South America was .accomplished in_short hops. Both the Army and the Navy are anxious to pioneer in untried paths so as to determine the maximum utility of air craft. The reason for this is that private capital cannot always be found to undetrake apparently profit- less adventures and unless the Govern- ment comes to the rescue, commercial aviation will not progress as rapidly as is desired from the viewpoint of national defense, Despite the tradi- tional confidence in other weapons of warfare, the importance of finding out just what the airplane and dirigible can do from a defensive as well as an offensive standpoint is beginning to be regarded as paramount. Discussion Over Rewards. Both the War Department and the Navy Department officials realize that it any of the hazardous experiments should result in tragedy they would be bitterly criticized and yet they know that unless funds are available for re- search the instruments and devices necessary to aid navigation in the air may not soon be perfected. here is a good deal of discussion here as to the reward that should go to the individual flyers who distin- guish themselves in the various ex- ploits. which are developing the science of aviation. Published reports that Col. Lindbergh might decline the Congressional Medal of Honor if it should be tendered him are accepted as plausible because technically he did not face the enemy in the sense in which other medals of honor have been awarded. A suggestion is being made that Congress might amend the law 50 as to establish a Congressional Medal of Honor for peace-time achieve- ments, which aid the cause of nation- al defense, (Covyright. 1927.) COOLIDGES TOP LIST. Family Leads Boston Social Regis- ter With 39 Names. BOSTON, July 2 (#).—The Summer edition of the Boston Social Register, just out, shows the Coolidge family topping the list by virtue of 39 mem- bers catalogued, The Shaw and Curtis families come next with 33 each. while the Cabots are fourth with 32. The Lowells, once far more numerous, muster only 10 names, TIENTSIN SEES WHEELER. TIENTSIN, China, United States Sena Wheeler of Monta family, accompanied by Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, were aboard the - United States transport Henderson arriving here this morning from Shanghai. Aviation ~details were landed at Hsinho, while the remainder of the detachment was expected tomorrow. Y July ). — Burton K. Explorer Lives On Snakes, Ants And Crocodiles By tho Associated Press. © NEW YORK, July 2.—Having lived in the wilds on fried snakes nd ants and other such food, Giles G. Healey, youthful Yale explorer, has returned from Venezuela and Brazil with six pounds of “cuare,” a deadly poison used on arrow tips by South American Indians. The poison will be distributed to chemical laboratories of the United State and Europe for analysis and experiment, Healey said. The poi- son was obtained from the natives by barter through the sign lan- guage. For part of his six months in the wilds, Healey asserted, he lived off the country, sometimes eating ants, fried snakes, electric eels and a small species of the crocodile. AIRPORT SITUATION STUDIED BY GROLP Subcommittee of Joint Civic Body Discusses Plans to Save Project. Feeling that the airport situation in Washington is far from being as hopeless from the viewpoint of secur- ing adequate support from local busi- ness men as it has been made to ap- pear, the special subcommittee of the joint civic airport committee met early today in the offices of the Chamber of Commerce to go over the entire situa- tion that confronts the District with threatened loss of air mail service. Before the meeting it was pointed out on behalf of the three trade bodies that failure of the recent meeting to indorse the airport project was due chiefly to the suggestion that District taxpayers shoulder the entire burden of establishing a field at Gravelly Point at a cost of approximately $2,000,000, when the committee had heen led to believe earlier that the cost would be insignificant. In the first place, it was said, they had been led to believe that the Gov- ernment virtually would donate the land and that the necessary filling could be done by Army engineers by dredging the Potomac under the ap- propriations carried in the rivers and harbors act. Then, too, it was said to be the understanding that prac- tically the only expense which the District would have to stand would be the actual cost of equipping the field with hangars and lights. Final Decision Withheld. When estimates ranging from $1,- 500,000 to $2,000,000 became known, necessitating an increase in the Dis- trict tax rate, it was said that it was the feeling of those present at the meeting that a final decision should be wihheld until a formal proposition could be put up to the District. In view of the benefits to be derived by the Government from an airport, advantages greater than those likely to be enjoyed by business Interests here. it was felt that the Govern- ( inued on Page 2, Column 7.) HELEN WILLS WINS WIVBLEDON TITLE Defeats Senorita de Alvarez, Spanish Star, in Straight Sets, 6—2, 6—4. By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON, England, July The United States and France shared the honors of the singles champion- ships at Wimbledon today, Helen Wills capturing the woman's singles crown, while Henrl Cochet scored for France with a victory over his fellow countryman, Jean Borotra. The American girl's victory over Senorita Elia_de Alvarez of Spain by a score of 66— 6—4 brought the woman's isingles crown to an Amer- ican for the first time in 20 years. Cochet, repeating his feat of cap- turing a match after losing the first two sets, just as took place when he eliminted Willlam T. Tilden in the defeated Borotra in a dra- matic after the latter had the match point to win no less than seven times. The score was 4—6, 4—6, 6—3, 6—4, T—5. William T. Tilden and Francis T. Hunter entered the final of the men’s doubles, defeating H. W. Austin and Randolph Lycett of England, 6—0, 10—8, 6—4. Helen Wills won a_decisive victory, the climax of a march through a field composed of the world’s foremost woman amateurs. It put Miss Wills at the top of the tennis heap once more, undisputed successor to Suzanne Len glen, after a brilllant comeback from the illness that forced her out of near- Iy all championship competition abroad and at home in 1926, In the women's doubles, Mrs.. Kitty McKane Godfree and Miss Betty isvur- hall defeated Miss Joan Fry and Miss Peggy Saunders, 8—6, 6—2, 6—1. The winners went to the semi-finals, where they will meet Miss Wills and Elizabeth Ryan. Will Tel! of His n a Appear Commander Byrd Crossing the Atlantic by Airplane Series of Signed Articles to Exclusively Great. Adventure in in Washington in ¢ Foening Slar. Y-EIGHT PAGES. service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,753 s () Means Associated Press. S ———— WO CENTS. WORK ON BIRTHDAY MAY BE PROGRAM, PRESIDENT HINTS First Lady Goes Ahead With Plans to Celebrate, Hop- ing for Change. FARM TIDE IS TURNING IN FAVOR OF COOLIDGE| Timberlake Says Veto Action Has Failed to Lessen Regard for Chief Executive. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Correspondent of The Star. STATE GAME LODGE, BLAC HILLS, 8. Dak., July 2.—With things humming along nicely at the Summer White House preparatory to an ap- propriate celebration on Monday of Independence day and the fifty-fifth anniversary of the birth of the Presi- dent, the latter has not yet agreed to declare a full holiday on that day for himself. On the contrary, Mr. Coolidge inti- mates that he will go to his desk and his executive office in Rapid City as usual and work until noon. He is ac- customed to working on holidays, es- pecially so since becoming President, and although he thinks it is a grand idea to celebrate the anniversary of the day upon which the American col- onies declared themselves free and in- dependent, and gets a certain thrill from the fact that his own birthday falls on this same day, he knows of no reason why any one, most of all the President, should neglect impor- tant business just because of a holi- day. Works on Christmas. Not once during the long period he has been President has Mr. Coolidge failed to put in an appearance at his office, not even on Christmas. Some- times he has remained at his desk only an hour or so. There is some- thing in his nature that makes it difficult to forget his work on such occasions and to enter whole-heartedly into the spirit of the day. Regardless of the President’s reluc- tance to lay off Monday, Mrs. Coolidge is going right ahead with her plans for a glorious Fourth at the State game lodge. She has let him know in advance of some of the “big doings” she has planned, but she has held back some surprises. The latter will be incidental to that part of the day's celebration to be given over to the President’s birthday anniversary. Knows About Band. The President knows about the com- ing of the cowboy band from Terry, Mont., and the Boy Scouts from Cus- ter, S. Dak., the only mounted troop of Scouts in the United States. He knows that the cowboy band is com- ing prepared to do itself proud in the matter of serenading the President and Mrs. Coolidge and otherwise making the day a lively and interesting one. He is looking forward to having some of the immediate neighbors pres- ent and he has invited the newspa- per correspondents and photographers who are “covering” his vacation in the Black Hills, to be on hand Monday for the fun. It was he who suggested to Mrs Coolidge that it would be a nice idea to serve ice cream and cake and sand- wiches on the lawn, but he doesn't know anything about the big birthday cake Mrs. Coolidge is helping to make for the occasion. Goes Fishing. Mrs. Coolidge may have been dis- appointed when the President today talked about spending the morning of the Fourth at his office, but she ex- pressed no surprise. However, she is hoping he will change his mind when the time comes. Incidentally, too, Mrs. Coolidge may have thought it peculiar that the President this morning decided to pass up the office and left right after break- fast with his fishing companions for Squaw Creek. The clouds were heavy, and it looked like it was going to rain, but this did not cause the President to stay away from the lure of this pic- turesque mountain stream. He pre- pared himself for the weather by wear- ing a slicker and rubber boots. The President and Mrs. Coolidge had as dinner guests last night Representative Timberlake of Colo- rado, Willlam Olson, a practical dirt farmer from Wisconsin, and H. A. (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF AFTER SLAYING WIFE Husband Said by Police to Be Brother of Jack Dempsey. Quarrel Ends Fatally. By the Associated Press. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., July John Dempsey, 38, of Los Angeles, aid by police to be a brother of Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight cham- pion, ftoday shot and killed his estranged wife Edna, 21, and then turned ' the gun on himself, dying almost instantly. The woman had heen living in a rooming house here for several months and Dempsey had been an infrequent caller. 3 After a brief conversation 'with the woman today both went upstairs and a few moments later the landlady heard three shots. She found the woman still hreath- jng and called an ambulance. Demp- sey was dead. The woman died before the ambu- lance arrived. A 3-year-old daughter, Ruth, survives. a2 THE EVENING STAR and THE SUNDAY STAR By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, Ky., July 2—The en- tire village Columbus, ‘once pro- posed as the Nation's Capital, is slow- ly sliding into the Mississippi River. ve occurred since the April h completely inundated the I rmhy a section 2 feet, crumbled into the Village Proposed as Nation's Capital Slowly Sliding Into Mississippi River of | which it has begun. __ RICHARD GRACE. DISSENSION DELAYS HOPAOFF BY GRACE Quarrel Develops Between Aid to Flyer and Mechani- cian Over Arrangements. By the Associated Pres HONOLULU, July 2.—Adverse weather reports and dissension in the camp of Richard Grace, Hollywood stunt flyer pr ring for an aerial dash from Hawaii to southern Cali- fornia, dimmed his hopes for a take- | off today. Weather reports broadcast last night indicated that conditions would be highly unfavorable for a take-off at Mana, Island of Kauai, at dawn, but there was no comment from Grace's lay the start. ‘What effect a quarrel between Lieut. | Eston B. Koger of the Naval Reserve, mechanician for the flight, and Charles C. Spang, who is in charge of rigging Grace's plane, has had on the pro- jected trip was not known here. Inefficiency Is Charged. Spang accused Koger of inefficient management and failure to make the proper arrangements for handling the plane here. Spang also blamed naval | officers and social activities on Kauai | Island for delaying Grace's take-off, and declared the reserve officer had “bungled the flight plans from the start.” Naval officers who had been assist- ing in the flight preparations left the camp and returned to Pearl Harbor when the storm broke loose. Grace re- mained uncommunicative regarding the dissension, evidently trying to | keep pace by refusing to take sides. Charges Not Replied To. Nelther Koger nor the naval officers have publicly replied to Spang’s charges. Grace's safety equipment consisted of a pneumatic float and a pistol to fire 12 white and 12 red signal flares. The gasoline supply—322 gallons—is capable of carrying the plane in the air for 29 hours. His food supply is comprised of six cans of raisin bread, chocolate and water sufficient to sustain him for four days. TRAFFIC SIGNALS PAYMENT URGED Settlement of Contract Rec- ommended to City by Ef- ficiency Bureau. Complete settlement of the District's contracts with the Crouse Hinds Co. ot Syracuse, N. Y., for automatic traf- fic lights and accessories was recom- mended to the District Commissioners today by the Federal Bureau of Effi- ciency. The recommendations twere con- tained in a 10-page report deseribing the results of an investigation of the account of the District with the Crouse Hinds Co. by Malcolm Kerlin and Frank J. W n, special investi- gators of the bureau. The report came as the final episode in the bureau’s sensational expose of irregularities in the traffic department in connection with the purchase of traffic lights, which resulted in the demotion of M. O. Eldridge from di- rector to assistant director of traffic and the forced resignation of Col. I C. Moller, traffic engineer and as- sistant director. Would Keep Equipment. The total net amount due the Crouse-Hinds Co., the bureau report- ed, is $7,749.95. This amount, the bu- reau said, would pay for the traffic light equipment legally ordered as well as that part of the equipment not legal ordered, but needed for Washingtor tem of traffic lights. The bureau, however, recommended the return to the contractor for credit certain equipment valued at several thousands of dollars for which it said there is no apparent need. The report was accompanied by various - exhibits showing how much equipment had been delivered, the amount paid, #nd the amount used. Specific recommendations were made for the use of the equipment which it recommended for retention. The traffic equipment was purchased from the Crouse Hinds Co. under two contracts. The net amount due on the initial contract, based on the credit the bureau recommended, according to the report, is $435.25. On the sec- ond contract, which has not yet been paid, the bureau found that $7,314.70 is due, of which $7.066.90 is for items e being orn down to save the material | j, (st ] SUBARN headquarters on whether he would de- | h By Radio to Th News encountering ties are unfounded. mally American viewpoint. 14 PLANES IN PITTSBURGH Reliability Tour Flyers Make Hop The 14 airplane =The Premier Bracken will have 30 seats PLANS DIVIDE DELEGATES ATNAVAL PARLEY America and Japan Take Stand Against Limits Urged by British. PROBLEM OF CRUISERS IS FAR FROM SETTLED Question of Changing Washington Treaty Expested to Be Discussed Before Disbanding. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, Difficulties have arisen fn ite naval conference the submarine problem. Both the United States and Japan are reporied to be insisting upon more elas in the sizes of undersea t than would be permitted under the British project of dividing them into two categories of 600 and 1,600 tons maximum, respectively. Urgent dispatches were sent today to Washington, London and Tokie asking advice on the various counter proposals submitted at today's meet- ing of technical experts, Wants More Swift Boats. The Associated Press learns that Japan is backing her demand for a igher proportion of auxiliary war- ships than was established at the Washington conference for capital ships, by emphasizing the claim that the political situation in Russia ren- ders it advisable for her to have a considerable number of swift war craft, including cruisers and de- strovers. That the tri-partite conference will become one of naval augmentation rather than limitation is asserted by the mysterious *Admiral B” in a caustic newspaper article today, com- menting on Great Britain's reported demand for cruiser strength far in ex- cess of any existing figure. Admiral B” remarks that the ship- building yards will have a merry time turning out cruisers if the British request is granted. Cruisers Are Problem. While a further discussion on sub- marines by the technicians was the chief matter engaging the conference today, the cruiser controversy re- mained far from settled. Creat Britain is understood to be asking for a total cruiser tonnage esti- mated in semre quarters as equal to what the United States had in mind, both for herself and for Great Britain —namely, something like 78 cruisers, totaling 580,000 tons. The opinion is prevalent that the British are likely to ask for a maximum strength of 500,000 tons, their plea being based on com- mitments to protect the dominions and the far-flung trade routes. No one 1s ready to predict just how the differences will be composed, for the Japanese are understood to be on the side of the Americans in their de- sire to fix a total tonnage for this ¢ :h‘l" warship at as low a figurs as . Refuse to Air Controversy. The American delegation has stead- fastly refused to allow the controversy to be aired in the press. Hugh S. Gib- son, heading the Americans, said. “We are asking the other delcga- tions for highly confidential informa- tion in order to adjust our own de- mands. We would not be playing 1air if we gave out these projected figures and used them against the other in- terets. Admiral Hilary Jones, his chief naval ddviser, said: “The divergences of opinion on cruisers were at first very great, but we are gradually get- ting closer together.” Will Discuss Reopening Treaty. Although the United States has re. peatedly emphasized its opposition to bringing up the question of changing the Washington treaty as it relates to capital ships during the present con. ference, the understanding today wa that developments indicated the sub- ject would be discussed before the conferees disbanded. It was thought likely that at the conclusion of the deliberations on auxiliary wareraft, for which the con- ference was called by President Cool+ idge, the delegates would frame & resolution or preamble to the treaty which it is hoped to adopt, setti forth the desirability of a technical stud of the sizes of waships as & preliminary to the second conference July 2.— the tri- concerning e at Washington in 1931. RUMORS OF CRISIS DENIED. American Delegation Says No New Difficulties Have Arisen, e Star and Chicage Daily Copyright, 1927, PARIS, July 2.—The American dele- gation to the Geneva naval conference advised the writer by telephone today that rumors of a new crisis and the of unexpected difficul- The conference is progressing nor- and satisfactorily, from the From Baltimore. PITTSBURGH, Pa.. July 3 (P).— of the national air arrived at Rodgers reliability tour Field, Aspinwall, today from Balti- more on the eighth leg of their 4,110- mile flight. The flyers will remain {n Pittsburgh | until tomorrow, when they will take remainder. | off for Cleveland. An informal dinner, followed by a theater party, has been arranged in their honor for tonight. * WINNIPEG, Manitoba, July 3 UM, Progressive government of n the Legislature, giving it a clesr from the water. In some spots along [ majority over all other groups, re- the river front the earth has crumbled | ¢ to a depth of nearly 100 feet. The in- habitants of the town are in no im- tion indicated today. hold 13 of the 25 seats of the Bracken urns from the general provincial elec- Conservatives mediate danger, and it is estimated | cpposition. that several months may elapse before the water completes the destruction Sale of beer by the glass, and can- cellation.of case delivery from brewer to pe; it holders are expected to re- sult Tm the beer referendum, returns a 0o § - Aol