Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1927, Page 2

- < B . = APITAL CITY URGED FORPLANE BUILDING [Facilities and Advantages :Offered Aviation Industry in Washington Are Portrayed. ! The facilities and advantages of- fered by Washinzton to the develop. of aviation as forth minutely | iment ard m: ¢ fdn industry were set fin a letter aaar throushout the the Joint Industrial !‘nm\—g C. Phillips Hill ers iStates by jeil, of %¢hairman 77 Pointi iated SYork, fthe tSouth, which is wat that the Capital is situ 1fac of urers nan » seat Fed: of both set forth | ed hundance of ‘engineers and S “here and facilities | in the | andards, | of Scienc nmerce, Post Of- nt, Army, Navy and| s_and the museums. | strial Council con- | s from the Board of | ber of Commerce, Mer- | Manufacturers’ Associa ard and Arling- | Chamber of Com- | afforded the airer presence of the Rur N my iohants and tlon, Real ton County merce. Addresses Manufacturers, va ' In addressing Zturers the body e Zthat that indu: gh technical cz mble for W . fram. its letter concl . “While Washington is not an in- Sdustrial city, airplane manufacturing $ifould well fit into the general plans $for the National Capital, and the acilities of the city with its peculiar Hituation as the Federal Capital, Avhere mi are to be spent in viation, particularly commend it- elt to your industry.” FELLOWSHIP FORUM BUILDING COLLAPSE LAID TO EXCAVATING (Continued from First Page.) aircraft manufac- pressed the opinion by virtue of its r, would be suit- = : £ 'fifinll. 1 searched carefully the rec- rds in our office and have been un- ble to find any permit for excava- fon work. This should have been btained, and then we would have d an inspector on constant vigil i consult and advise with the con- fa ctor.” % ! The law provides penalties for fail- fre to secure a building permit, Zehmann said, but he refused to scuss what action he might take § connection with the case. Z I want to see the contractor first,” e explained. i .+ Klan Makes Inquiry. % James S. Vance, editor of the Fel- Z4wship Forum, a fraternal publica- fon friendly to the- Ku Klux Klan, tirloughed all employes of the paper #ntil further notice at the suggestion %f the building inspector. He said here was no insurance to cover the oss, as the building was insured only inst fire. He estimated the dam- e as from $50,000 to $100,000.” T'A delegation of men said to be from he national headquarters of the Klan Misited the scene today and made in- iguiries regarding published reports hat the building had been bombed. Ihey departed shortly after learning hat the ggnsensus now was that there ;:’;.d been no explosion. Streams Make Little Progress. 5 ,Firemen began playing their hose P the weakened walls shortly before mpon and an hour later had made But little headway in razing the stand- 3og ruins. Maj. Hesse, superintend- Ent of police, took personal charge of fhe situation and directed the exclu- $ion of spectators to a point out of ange of flying bricks and timbers. he garage of the Joseph Phillips Sau- Fage Co., 10 feet away from the stand- ing walls, was ordered vacated during 2he razing operations, as were also keveral alley houses. A note found by a policeman in the @lley after the crash, purporting to be # warning by an anarchist that he 3vould blow up the ci ughed Pt today by police offici ‘ridicu- Jous” The opinion prevailed that $ome one was trying to play a practi- Zal joke. Survey Revealed Danger. In a feature article in The Sunday $tar, March 19, 1922, a partial history of the building was given, showing ¥hat for many vears it had been un- afe. The bufiding at 339 Penn: §~anm avenue is described as follow: 3 +“Not at all modern, well ventilated Pr lighted, and not fitted with sani- fary equipment of modern type. “This buffding is well worth special attention. It was erected in 1844, and Avas the scene of receptions, banquets gnd inaugural balis for Andrew Jack- on, Martin Van Buren and Abraham giAt Puilding I ‘ernment’s 30 years #‘there are #he buildin ¥ the Gov- that time d b seed The descri three floors in the front of \d five floors in_ the ond and third floors have 1d 10 The third floor, the banquet hall, is sus: r 2inch fron b nd 5 43 by 88 feet. This was done 0 there would not have to he support- 4ng pillars from the floor below, which Avas the ballroom. Presidents Ducked Door. “The only entrance that the Presi- Pent had to the ballroom was down a pvinding stairs and through a small Foor not more than 5 feet in height, $o it must have been an‘interesting Bpectacle to see Andrew Jackson and braham Lincoln hending their tall rames to duck through this small five years ago, Ause during the Spanish-American $f ammunition were piled without a floors fell through. This is not a Go i a seed warchouse. 85,000,000 packages of seeds.” % Forty-five arrests for sale, posses- #5 hours ended at 8 o'clock this morn- the two days included 115 quarts ,|and frightened THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO AIR PILOT LICENSE NO. 1 UNITED STATES OF AME DEPARTMENT GF COMYERCH AERDNAUTICS BRANL RICA € x PlLOT’?’é IDENTIFICATION CARD 3 This Identificaric 1 hodavef doril Pilot's License No. 1 Ads S8 Woeight 00 Color bair Height 51 zd, is IRT il ‘Color eyes UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEPARTNENT OF COMMERDE AZRDNAUTICS RRANTH FORA R TE P ile views of license to operate cCracken, jr., Assistant Secretary cense is med by Secretary Hoover, signature appears instead. % ed on the ¢ accompanies Tivow e a civilian airplane issued to William of Commerce for Aeronautics. The li- but in ¢ cases Mr. MacCracken’s EXTRA GUARD PUT N BUILDINGS HERE Despite Quiet, Police to Con- | tinue Vigilance Until Radi- | cals Are Executed. Although not an made nor any rved in connection with the gu g of public buildings here ags outbreaks by Sacco-Vanzetti pathizers, police of the city forces today continued to exercise lance to prevent disturbances. details of police will patrol the v ity of public buildings and the homes | of high Government officials until | ad been oh- after the executicn of the two mflbi v cals. | “We have experienced no trouble | and we don't expect to find any,” said Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, super; tendent of police, today, “but if any thing happens we will be ready for it.” Two Forces on Dut; The city police are guarding the | vicinity of all the principal public | buildings, while the park police are |2 watching the more important struc-| tures and the Washington Monument. Extra men from all precincts with Government buildings in its jurisdic- tion are on duty to supplement the regular patrolmen. The emergency schedule will be in force until 24} hours after the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. The park police are out in extra force in the grounds of the Capitol and near the Monument. have been added to the det: temporary White House, and others are in_readiness for additional duty if needed. Packages Are Inspected. Guards in all the public buildings | today were watching to see that no | suspicious persons entered. All per- sons with packages were stopped and the parcels inspected. Additional men are on duty at the Bureau of En- graving and Printinz. With Con- gress oyt of session the regular force at the Capitol was considered more than sufficient, The Capitol was open today as usual. Arrangements have been made to summon troops from Fort Myer and Quantico_in the event of an emer- gency. While no such call is ex- pected to be necessary this step has been taken to carry out the program of full preparedness. . ALARM HALTS THIEF AT BLAIR MANSION Cut Wire Brings Police to Historic | Home as Intruder Flees, A burglar alarm, sounding when a wire was cut, foiled an attempt short- 1y before noon today to rob the hi toric Blair mansion at 1631 Pennsyl- vania_avenue, built by ¥ es Pro ton Blair, and now owned by his de- | scendent, Gist Blair, who is away for the Summer. Within 3 minutes afier the alarm had sounded, in the offices of Mutual District Messenger Co., pol reserves from the third precinct reached the house, headed by Capt. L. Sheetz, who was nearby when the door was tampered with. Detectives Ed | | Entrants in Contest Draws Places To- |flag at noon next Frid: | offi { major of -110 day | Hill, ass ! planes and crossed to San Francisco | | The other entrants indicated they | SIX PLANES READY FOR RACE OVER SEA WESTWARD TO U. S. “ontinued 1 Pa, of the yet been an- The name drequet nounced. HONOLULU FLIGHT FRIDAY. of the navigator plane has not day; 14 Listed to Fly. SAN FRANCISCO, August 8 (P).— With the $35,000 prize Dole air derby Honolulu awaiting the starter’'s and three long-distance flights in the American aviators today forward with plans for a nsive against their beloved enemy—c stance. Sharing interest with the Dole Derby | the plan of Edward F. Schlee, siness man, to take off at ace, Newfoundiand, within , in an attempt to lower by at least eight days the present ord time for travel around the world. ee’s plane, to be christened the f Detroit, will be piloted by | m Brock, a former air mail flyer. will seek to lower the present ay record of Evans and Wells, Bertaud Plans Test. At Curtiss Field, New York, Lloyd W. Bertaud was tuning up the mono- | plane Old Glory for a test flight to Cleveland on Wednesday, for his non- stop flight to Rome, with James D. iate pilot. Paul A. Redfern was perfecting ar- rangements at Brunswick, Ga., with Southern weather bureaus before:at. tempting his non-stop flight - from Brunswick to Brazil. Redfern will fly alone and plans to take off within the next 10 days, the Oakland airport today four nts in the Dole race parked their to other moved Detroit I Harbour entr to attend the official drawing for places in the Dole take-off. They were: Maj. Livingston Irving of Berkeley, John Pedlar, Flint, Mich.; Lieut. Bennett Griffin of Bartlesville, Okla., and Lieut. Norman Goddard of San Diego. Two others, Frank L. Clark, Holly- wood stunt flyer, and Martin Jensen, Honolulu's Army entry in _the race, had their machines in San Francisco, ready for assignments to places in the runway at either Mills Field here or Oakland airport. Small Plane In Race. Clark, who has a _small plane, in- dicated that he might not start for Honolulu' if all the tentative starters et under way on Friday. However, if but thre or four ar able to 80, the Hollywood flyer is willing to pit his small plane against the field. If the three planes within striking distance of San Francisco put in to locil airports before nightfall, nine es will be ready for the line.up on uness they encounter unfor- seen difficulties. Fourteen planes are entered. Art Goebel, Hollywood stunt fiyer, who came through with his monoplane from Oklahoma without a mishap, was at Santa Monica at daybreak ding toward the hop-off point. Charles W. Parkhurst, Lomax, I, also planned to get into the daybreak with the idea of reaching n Francisco in one hop. He is fling Airking biplane, capable of de- veloping 100 miles an hour in the 1,700-mile journey to the coast. Jack Frost, flying the San Francisco | Examiner’s entry ready for the | hop-oft for San Angeles. would not be in sight of the starting point before Thursday. Triplane Among Entries. Kelly and Wilson made a careful ex- amination of the furnishings of the|p, mansion, but could find nothing miss , el CEANE R T LIV would fly to ing. ‘A rear door had heen opened, neces sitating the cutting of the burgl alarm wire, which sounded th the intruder Several hundred persons were att ed to the scene. The Blair house one of the historic mansions of the |, city. Tt has hou: distin zuished person: it that Robert E. Iee was offered the command of the Union arnkes before he cast his lot with the South. HIGH SCHOOL GIRL DIES. Miss Helen M. Thompson, 17, Was Student at Holy Trinity. Miss Helen M. Thompson, 17-year old high school student, died a lumbia Hospital v iy, 8 the daughter of Howard I ence Thompson of 4 Conduit road. tudent at 1 fiss Thompson the Holy Trinity Hi sides her parents, sh 3 two broti Howard Franci Dalton Thompson, both of this city. Funeral serv will be held at the Lome of her parents Wednesday morn- ing at 8:30 oclock. R mass will be sung at Church at 9:15 o'clock ¢ be in the Mount Olivet Ceiietery. is RUMANIAN PROTEST SENT.| BUCHAREST, August 8 ().—Reso lutions in protest against the execu- tion of Sacco and Vanzetti, adopted at various mass meetings at and other Rumanian cities yesterday, have been sent to William S. Culbert- son, American Minister here, An armed guard I the American I he third floor is now braced from loor collapsed due to the fact ghought of weight until about rnment-owned building, but has been !E"I‘here are €4 big seed hins which, . fon and transporting intoxicants were $ng, and 109 persons were arrested on hisky, 438 bottles of beer, 100 gal- cond floor with big timbers be. space U3 b feet hoxi *urs was too much of load, and the ented by the department and used $hen less than half full, contain about 154 Dry Law Arrests. $oade by the iocal police during the harges of intoxication. ares dur- s of wine and 16 quarts of gin, was ! at Co- | Bucharest | s been posted at | yt. Arthur V. Rogers of Long ch, flying a full Cantilever mono- ! Sun Diego tomorrow to go on the com- z table before coming to | “Pride of Los *\was at Long Beach, with no | from Capt. J. L. Giffin, her | pilot, when she would move up to the rting line. Capt. and waited in not to le las, bou for the $25,000 perfect tune, reg ing date of the Dole flight. is a Dole ent Licut. George kept down at S William win today, determined until their Spirit of Dal- hd from Dallas to Hongkong terwood prize, is in ardless of the start- Erwin M ovell, U. . N., was 2 Dicgo while he was Attempting to switch navigators be- wuse of the illness of Lieut. Leo \likowski, his navigator, who under- went o Lieut. Comdr. Fr: may relieve Licut. Palikowski. All Plans Drawn Today. All entrants in the Dole race were represented today by proxy at the (o be held for starting posi- Iast-minute provisions for e storage space was t of the { ruling by Capt.” Wi the Department of Commes | entranis must earry a minimum of 400 gallon and an aux- of planes the race shows that Mar- must find 90 more gallons. miner’s plane, t, has a 350-gallon y capacity; Lieut. Parkhurst's City of Peoria y 372 gallons, and Lieut. Nor- {man Goddard’s carries but 360 ,gal- |lons, data supplied by the entrants entered in { tin Jensen, Honolulu entr loted by Jack Fr asoline-carrying w. All other planes in the flight have e ion and consulate 15 guard agninstpy possible disturb- |a gascline capacity. of more: tlln: 400 ances. | g«llons, C.MEN INLIST OF PILOTS Assistant Secretary of Com- merce Gets Number One License. TWENTY D.C.! Twenty civilian airmen in Washing- ton are licensed airplane pilots under the regulations of the air commerce act of 1926, according to the latest compilation of the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Com- merce. William P. MacCracken, jr., Assist- ant Secretary of Commerce for Aero- nautics, heads the list of the civilian airmen who have passed the rigid tests of the Department of Commerce, andavho, to date, number 243 through- out the United States. Hundreds of other applications for licenses in the three classes—private, transport and l—now are on file, and as the examinations can be given v the Inspectors the coveted licenses will be iswued. Mr. Cracken’s license is No. 1 t, while No. 2 is held by Maj. Clarence M. Young, director of aeronautics of the department, which office includes direct supervision over the air regulations di List of Pilots. Fifteen of the 20, including Mr. Cracken and Maj. Young, are connect- ed with the aeronautics branch of the Department, while the remaining five are civilian airmen, who fly mostly on_their own account. These pilots, and the number of their licenses are: Stephen A. McClel- lan, 822 18th street, license No. 21; Walter V. CI: , 900 12th street south- east, license No. 88: Lowell S. Hard Macomb street, license No. 2015 Nichols aven- license No. 242, and Edward M. aight, 800 18th street, The Department of Commerce aif- men and their license numbers are: Ralph G. Lockwood, No. 3; Parker D. Cramer, No. 4; Frank H. Jerdone, No. Robert Gasi, No. 7: W. N. Breigan, No. 8; Richard H. Lees, j ue southeast, 1 s, No. 20; Thomas B. and William T. Miller, No. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh holds pilot's license No. 69 on the list. Philip R. Love, close friend of Col. Lindbergh and brother pilot on the St. Louis-Chicago mall route, holds license No. 64. IHis address is given as Anglum, Mo. Other well known pilots listed include Paul B. King, son of Senator King of Utah, No. 70; Wil- liam D. Tipton, commanding the Maryland National Guard Air De- tachment and _special aeronautical writer for the Baltimora Sun; Leslie P. Arnold, assistant pilot of the Chi- cago, flagship the Army world flight, who resigned several months ago from the service and now is living in Hollywood, Calif., No. 250, and C, S. (Cascy) Jones, chief test pilot of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co., Garden City, Long Island, who holds license No. 13. Local Firm Included. The list of licensed aircraft shows {only one local firm whose airplanes have passed the inspection tests—the Berliner Aircraft Co. of College Park, Md. This concern operates the Poto- mac Flying Service, Inc., at Hoover Field, and its planes are assigined the license No. C242. MOVE FOR STRIKE CONFERENCE FALLS Goiernor Holds Mine Parley Plan Turned Down by Operators. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August.8.—Gov. Donahey today conceded his attempt to bring about a conference between miners and operators of the central competitive soft coal field to negotiate on a wage scale had failed and said that at present he has no further plans for attempting to settle the coal strike. Gov. Donahey, after asking the sup- port of the Governors of Illinois, Ind- jana, and Pennsylvania, had asked miners’ and operators’ organizations to meet in conference at Toledo August 15, to resume discussion of the wage scale where it was terminated at the Miami, Fla., conference. The miners generally were in favor of the plan, but the operators did not acree to the conference, declaring the central competitive has been broken up as far as a unified wage is concerned, and asserting they beleived it better for the operators and miners in the various districts to attempt to get together. Quiet prevailed in Ohio coal fields over the week end following reports to the governor's office that 250 men had been deputized by sheriffs in the seven counties in which there have been recent disturbances. The governor Saturday was noti- fied by Rice Miller, head of the Illinois Assoclation, that Illinois operators had rejected his proposal. 8. H. Robbins, president of the Ohio -ators’ Association, in a statement Friday also pointed out difficulties in the way of such a meeting. 215 LATN ASPIRANTS PASS EXAMINATION "FOR WASHINGTON BAR (Continued from First Page.) Allan Huston Pottinger, Richard J. Powers, Elmer W. Pratt, Thomas Wallace Quinn, Maurice Rabinovitz, Mary A. Reazan, Craig L. Reddish, Ralph A. Ricketis, Daniel S. Ring, George Rose, 3d; Israel Harry Rosen- berg, William T. Rosenbusch, Clement Taylor Rtobertson, Samuel Robinson, Sol Rohthard, John K. Russell.. Truman 8. Safford, Harry Saidman, Charles McKinley Sammons, Lewis Sneed Sasser, John G. Sbarbaro, Georga A. Schwegmann, jr.; Orin R. Severn, William 1. Share, James Shenos, Roy Vance Shope, Carl Fred- erick Sibbe, George Harold Souther, Emily Sutherland Steele, Schubert A. >reston Swecker, Nolan Robert C. Thaxton, Edward F. Tierney, B. Adrian Trammell, George F. Unmacht, A. Floyd Vosburg. Edward B, Wagner, S. J. Wallace, Sidney L. Wardwell, Robert H. Was- son, James J. Waters, Vincent B. Waters, Edward Hood Watson, Bessie Wendroff, Ralph E. West, John C. White, William Thomas Wilkinson, Gordon . Willard, Robert H. Winn, Marshall C. Wiseeheart, William B. Wolf, Wayne W, Wolford and G. L. Woodruff, . Gloves were introduced into Britain by Romans, C. & 0. AGAIN PLANS EXTENDED MERGER! Brief Filed With I. C. C. for Consolidation With Erie and Pere Marquette. Another step in the long drawn-out fight to merge the Chesapeake & Ohio with other railroads was taken today when a brief, drafted for presentation to the Interstate Commerce Commis- a§ made public by attorneys for the C. & O. A proposal to merge the Erie and Pere Marquette into the | C. & O. is made in the brief, which is expected to be followed by a similar statement of position from rep s of a group of minority stockhold- ers of the C. & 0., who opposed the merger. Preparation of the document constitutes one more appro final conclusion of the lengthy troversy which has waged over first large scale attempt to consolidate Eastern trunk line railvoads. Scheme as Outlined. Under the scheme now pending he- fore the commission, the Chesapeake & Ohio proposed to buy out:isht con- trol or stock amounting to control of the Erie and Pere Marquette systems, at prices agreed upon nearl: year ago. The brief stressed the argument that O. P. Van Sweringen of Cleveland, the chief promoter of the plan, and his associates have sought no personal profits from the transaction. As owners of huge blocks of stock of the Erie railroad, they have of- fered to sell the s ies to Chesapeake & Ohio at a pr per share for common stock, “ bargain,” the brief said, and to mit to a commission fixing of th price at even a lower figure, if it is found justified. Profit Is Anticipated, The Chesapeake & Ohio Co., it was further declared, stood to make a profit of $15,000,000 or thereabouts by purchasing these stocks, considering the recent market advances and to make even more by the efficiency and economy which, as a larger railroad unit, could be attained by the con- solidation. The prices contemplated for the Erie stock, it was ued, were more than reasonable, the brief hold- ing_that the lowest possible valuation {of Erie common, on the basis of earn- ings, was in excess of $40 per share, and that on the basis of the book value of Erie asscts, it reached much higher sums. C. & 0. “Hemmed About.” The brief also argued that the : if not permitted to expand by taking in the Pere Mar- quette and Erle, “‘will be hemmed about by its comp; s, its business narrowed, and its future limited.” In hearings on th: proposal before the commission, the brief declared, the officers of the railroads concerned had clearly demonstrated that the merger projected weuld work to public interest by betterinz and making more economical present transportation fa- cilities, while their opponents, the mi- nority stockholders, had been “critical rather than constructive” in attacking the proposal. TWO DEAD, FOUR HURT IN SEA RUM FIGHT OFF BAHAMA ISLANDS (Continued from First Page.) leggers and rum runners had been wounded in battle over rum boats, an order had gone out from here to catch the bootleggers and rum runners, i but to do it without the use of fire- arms if possible. Policy of “Gentleness.” It was this policy of “gentleness” in catching the law violator, which was believed by officials here to have been partly responsible for the increasing savageness of the rum runners who have been encountered recently. The weaker ones, who were unwilling to engage in gunfire battles with the Government, it was explained here, have been pretty welk retired from the business in Florida waters, officials said, and there seems to be engaged in the smuggling business there now, a band of desperados, who have de- termined on a policy of shooting to kill, when captured, if they have to shoot " thelr captors’ in tha back to o it. Officials here would not say that a relentless warfare with all guns brought into play would be authorized in Florida waters, but it was evident that the death of two Government men has set them grimly to consider- ing such a policy. Should such a policy of open warfare with gunfire be ordered, the battlefront on the sea against rum runners, it was predicted here today, would likely see some marine battles unsurpassed in the history of prohibition enforcement. According to official reports received here of the killing of Sidney C. Sande lin, Coast Guard boatswain's mate, e shot in the back by Horace Alderman, the alleged rum runner, while Sanderlin was entering the pilot house of the Coast Guard boat, and after the boatload of liquor and its crew had surrendered to the Government men. Alderman was said to have had two pistols. The fight later turned to a free-for- all, with the odds turning strongly in favor of the alleged rum runners. Two-gun Alderman had the situation almost in his own hands, it was re- ported, when Jodie L. Hollingsworth, Coast Guard seaman second class, in- tentionally went overboard during a scuffle, and swam around to the back of the boat. Hollingsworth in some fashion obtained an ice pick, and at- tacking two-gun Alderman, stabbed him sufficiently to disarm him. So the tide of battle turned on Hollings- worth's bravery. Tried to Sink Boat. The rum runners had threatened the Coast Guardsmen to exterminate the entire crew, reports said, sink the Government boat, and thus destroy all evidence of their crime. Robert E. ‘Weech, another of the rum runners, actually succeeded in flooding the bilge of the Coast Guard boat Wi h gasoline from a broken line, it was said, and had lighted a match. But the match went out. The rum runners succeeded, how- ever in scuttling their own craft, which eank with all of the load of about 150 cases of liquor, except 6 bottles, which the Government men saved as evidence. ‘Webster, the secret service agent, was shot and killed in the second stage of the battle, reports said. He was on a special mission to investi- gate the origin of $20 and $50 counter- feit bills, believed to have issued from the Bahama Islands. The Coast guard boat was out on this mission, | taking Webster, when it encountered | the rum runner. Webster was a vet. eran of the World War, trained b. the Government as a secret servi agosnh He was appointed in Mnrch,i 1923. Births R:eported. | The following births have been reported to { the Health Department in the vast 24 hours imothy W, and Alice 1 Gales. &irl. " and Margarel nes. "bo, George and_Helen Lampros. girl. Saifico and Florench MeClanaan. wisl, T ‘and Agnes M. Weiman. girl and Al Rinehart 1. B. t. . e B\ nds Atiha Croan, Bipy U rl G and t E Al " Tiota Willia Workmen repainting the statue of Gen. George H. Thomas at Thomas Circle. LARGER NAVY PLAN MAY BE DISCUSSED BY COOLIDGE TODAY (Continued from First Page.) series which will give the President one of his busiest weeks since coming into the Black Hills. Other White House visitors of the week will in- clude Secretary Work, Representative W. E. Hull, Senator Fess and Director Lord of the budget. PRESIDENT FACES PROBLEM. Coolidge Enters Upon Busy Week at Summer Capital. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staft Correspondence of The Star. STATE GAME LODGE, BLACK HILLS, S. D., August 8—President Coolidge today entered upon what promises to be the busiest week he has had since coming to the Black Hills for his vacation. Not only are a number of important conferences scheduled for this period, but there are problems confronting the Presi- dent which must necessarily be given time for study. The death of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, governor general of the Philip- pines, which was a great shock to President Coolidge, adds to the prob- lems before him, as it is believed the President will desire to fill this highly important post as soon as possible. Immediately following Gen. Wood's briet visit to the Black Hills Presi- dent Coolidge let it be known that he was given to understand that the general’'s condition was not serious and that he expected him to return to his post in the Philippines in the Fall “‘and remain there indefinitely.” ‘Wood's Successor, Although the President felt very hopeful of the general’s recovery and resumption of his duties in the Phil- ippines, he it known to have given some iittle thougat to the matter of a_ successor and now that the task of filling this post is before him he is not entirely empty handed, so far as possible available material to select from is concerned. The persistent reports that Gen. Wood planned to retire when he vis- ited the President here, but which were denied both by the President and Gen. Wood himself, nevertheless brought numerous suggestions to the Summer White House for the succes- sion. Henry L. Stimson, former Sec- retary of War, and who several months ago, as the representative of the President, brought about a ces- sation of warfare in Nicaragua, is known to have been suggested. Other names presented are those of former Senator Means of Colorado, Col. Carmi Thompson of Ohio, who last vear made a political, economic and ocial survey of the Philippines for the President, and Fred Fisher, for- mer member of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Associates of the President are in- clined to think that he is in a better position to appoint a new governor general to the Philippines than he is a successor to James R. Sheffield, \\‘}hoxhfls resigned as Ambassador to Mexico, President Coolidge had a very high regard for the ability of Gen Wood and liked him personally. He was delighted with the general's reqent visit at the game lodge and he was happy to receive from him such a clear, unbiased and intelligent report upon the Filipinos and the Philip- pine situation. Although the general was helpless to walk unaided, the Pres- ident understood it to be only a tem- porary condition. When he learned Saturday that the general had under- gone a surgical operation in Boston he gave instruction to keep htm in- formed of the general's condition. The news of the latter's death was communicated to him as he walked into the breakfast rc m at the lodge yesterday, During his visit here Gen. spoke lightly of his physical dition, referring to himself as banged-up freight ear that is still run- i He was positive that he would soon recover and would be back in the Philippines in the Fall. The talk about his resigning he_ at. tributed chiefly to ‘interested Fili- pinos.” ‘Wood Dr. Work Expected. Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, who has been traveling in the West, will arrive at the Summer White House tomorrow for an over- night visit, during which time he will take up with the President the more important matters affecting his depart- ment which are now pending. Gen. Lord, director of the budget, who has been going over the preliminary esti- mates of the departments, prepara- tory to make up the national budget which will be presented to the next Congress, will arrive Friday. On Wednesday President Coolidge will make his first formal speech since coming to the Black Hills. It will be upon the okcasion of the exercises marking the beginning of the memo- rial to be corved into the stone of Rush- more Mountain, a short distance from the Lodge. Gutzon Borglum has been commissioned by the State to carve the figures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt intg the side of the mountain, as a memorial to these American patriots. ‘The President and Mrs. Coolidge at- tended church as usual yesterday at the little church at Hermosa. The President arose at his customarily early hour today, but he did not leave for his office in Rapld City until nearly 9 o'clocks SIX PERSONS HURT INWEEK END ROWS Knives, Pistols and Fists Vigorously Used in Number of Personal Encounters. Six persons were more or less seri- ously injured in rows over the week end, in which knives, pistols and fists were wielded. Dr. Albert Smith, 119 Massachusetts avenue, went to the aid of a colored woman in a row near First and E streets shortly after midnight this morning and was taking her to the sixth precinct in his automobile, when a colored man jumped aboard the car and pushed his hand through the windshield. Dr. Smith, deciding that the man was more in need of assist- ance than the woman after that, took him to Freedman’s Hospital, where his arm was treated for a cut. He was arrested and held on a charge of as- sault. He gave his name as Thomas Luckey, 117 E street. Forty stitches were required to close scalp wounds received last night by Oscar L. Thomas, 912 New York avenue, incurred during an altercation at 1111 Fourteenth street in which Raymond Bibney, 1365 Newton strect northeast, and a third man, partici- pated. Thomas was taken to Emergency Hospital, where Dr. Adler closed his wounds, while Gibney was treated at Freedman's Hospital for less serious scalp wounds. Three colored men engaged in an altercation in Dingmam place last night, one of the trio receiving a bullet wound in his left arm, while another was cut about the face and body. William Bolden, 25 years old, 1604 Thirty-third street, received the bullet wound, while Charles Williams, 33 years old, 30 Dingman place, was cut. The wounded men were treated at Casualty Hospital. The man who did the shooting escaped. . MILLS CASE SEARCH RESUMED IN COUNTY Man of Name Similar to That Heard in Dream by Widow Is Sought by Police. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 8.—Fol- lowing a visit to Washington on & hunt for a man named in a dream by Mrs. Edward L. Mills as the slayer of her husband, Officers Gingell and Cla- gett returned to Montgomery County today. to continue the search. The name, which the police have not made public, is similar to that of a county resident, it is said. Mrs. Mills told a neighbor last Thursday that her dead husband's spirit leaned over. her as she slept and whispered the name of his slayer. He was shot to death on his farm, five miles west of here, early July 7, by a mysterious stranger in black who pinned on his coat an un- gigned confession of intimacy with a married woman. Earthquake Recorded Here. A sharp earthquake was recorded on the Georgetown University seis- mograph at 8:09 o'clock last night, Director Tondorf reported today. He said the tremor lasted an hour-and-a- half, reaching maximum intensity at 8:48 o'clock. The distance was 5,400 miles from Washington, but the di- rection was not indicated. -—s BAND CONCERT. TONIGHT. By the United States Army Band at Franklin Square, 7:30 o’clock. March, . Overture, * Euphonium solo, “. Technical Sergt. Frank Jakubec, soloist. Idyll, “Midsummer Night's Serenade” Albenis Selection, “Sari”. .......Kalman Two popular hits, (a) “Rosey Cheeks,” Simmons; (b) “Me and My Shadow,” Jolson. Fantasia, “My Maryland™ .Short March, “Battle Royal”.. Jewell “The Star Spandgled Banner.” | By the United States Navy Band, at ‘(he Capitol, 7:30 o’clock. March, “Fairest of the Fair’ Suite de ballet, “Coppelia”. (a) March of the bell. (b) Dance of the automates. (c) Valse of the doll. (d) Hungarian dance. Reve angeleus, “Kamenoi Ostrow,” Rubinstein Overture, “Der Freischutz,” Von Weber .Sousa Delibes PRINTERS JUBILEE CONVENTION OPENS Typographical Union Meets in Indianapolis for 75th Session. By the Assoclated Pre: INDIANAPOLIS, August 8.—The diamond jubilee convention of the International Typographical Union opened here this morning. More than 2,000 delegates had arrived for the six-day session and more were ex- pected today. Union policy and financial affairs of the organization will be discussed this week. A special commission ap- pointed at Colorado Springs, Colo., a year ago to investigate the condition of the union's old age pension fund and make recommendations for its financial rehabilitation will submit its report. Among notable figures of the labor world who will address the conven- tion are Willlam Green of Washing- ton, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor; Frank Morrison, secre- tary of the American Federation of Labor; John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America; John B. Haggerty, president of the ternational Brotherhood of Bookbind- ers; Matthey Woll of Washington; president of the International Photo- Engravers' Union; George L. Berry of Washington, president of the Interna- tional Printing Pressmen and Assist- ants’ Unfon: W. T. Keegan of New York, president of the International Stereotypers and Electrotypers’ Union; William L. Hutcheson, general presi- dent of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; T. N. Taylor of Terre Haute, Ind., president of the Indiana State Federa- tion of Laber, and John J, Manning of Washington, president of the Labor Trades Department. Reports of officers will be made at the business session today. The ve- port of the committee on laws, which has been in session here for a week, will also be submitted. Important changes in basic laws of the organiza- tion will be proposed, according to Charles P. Howard of Chicago, presi- dent. ‘Whether the “administrationists” or the “progressives” will have the con- trolling voice in the convention had not been determined thiy morning. The question of seating delegates or a test vote on some issue during the sessions today or tomorrow, it was sald, would show which faction was in_the majority. President Howard was elected on & “progressive” ticket, but the other high officers of the organization are listed as “administrationists,” so that the question of control has remained uncertain. MEAT ASSOCIATION OPENS CONVENTION Retail Dealers Welcomed to Capital for Sessions ' by Ladue. The National Asociation of Retail Meat Dealers, representing 10,000 members from throughout the United States, opened its forty-second annual convention in the Raleigh Hotel this afternoon, when an address of wel- come was delivered by Col. William B. Ladue, Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia. About 400 dele- gates are attending. The convention was called to order by T. M. P. Preston of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the convention committee, and response was made to Commissioner Ladue's address by Wil- liam M. McGonigle of Cleveland, president of the national organization. “T-Bone Club” to Be Hosts. The “T-Bone Club,” the play body of the organization, will he hosts at a dinner in the Raleigh Hotel tonight at 7 o'clock. s Sessions will be held tomorrow and Wednesday, with the convention being brought to a close with a banquet ‘Wednesday night. One of the principal questions to be taken up during the sessions, it : pointed out, will be the standard tion of classes of meats to insure t the customer will get first grade meats when they are so advertised. The question of installing vocational ed- ucation courses for retail meat deal- ers also is to be discussed at length during the convention. Dr. J. C. ‘Wright, director of the Federal Board for Vocatioaal Education, will deliver an address on this subject tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Dr. E. W, Barnhart, chief of com- mercial education service of the Fed- eral Board of Vocational Education, and R. C. Pollock, manager of the National Live Stock and Meat Board, are listed among the speakers for to- morrow night’s session. Sightseeing Trips Planned. Besides the business sessions, sight- seeing trips around Washington are arranged for tomorrow and Wednes- day. Officers of the national organization are: William M. McGonigle, president, Cleveland, Ohio; Emil Priebe, financial secretary, Milwaukee, Wi John A. Kotal, executive secretary, Chicago; Charles Schuck, treasurer, New York; Emil Schwartz, vice president, De- troit; George Kramer, vice president, New York; I. W. Ringer, vice presi- dent, Seattle, Wash., and V. F. Kuncl, vice president, Omaha, Nebr. 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