Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (0.8 Weathe: Cloudy tonight ably showers; ne temperature. Temperature— lowest, 57, at 4 Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ! No. 30,417. post office, r Bureau Foecast.) and tomorrow, prob- ot much change in 80, 430 am. Highest, at 5 ch Enteéred as second class matter Washington, C. . WASHINGTON, SACCO GRANTED REVIEW AFTER WINNING RESPITE; U. S. CONSULATE BOMBED Full Bench to Hear Appeal Tuesday. FULLER GRANTS 12-DAY STAY ‘ Reprieve Rushed to Prison as Death March Nears. B 1he Associated Press BOSTON, August 11.—Judge San- derson of the Massachusetts Su- preme Court today announced that he would allow eptions to go be- fore the full bench on his denial of # writ of error in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, granted a respite of 12 days by Gov Fuller late last night. The announcement came aiter 1200 Demonstrations | Planned, Strikes Urged for Week End By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 11.—Demon- strations of sympathy for Sacco and Vanzetti will be held in 200 American and foreign cities this week end, James P. Cannon, secre- tary of the International Labor Defense, said today. Strikes are being urged, Cannon declared, and a walkout in the an- thracite coal fields is expected. T.ocal organizations of the labor dizfense are forming delegations to “to picket the death Cannon announced. The laboring masses will reply to the i of Sacco and Van- stti with a more determined spirit.” VANZETTI HOPEFUL, - SACCO STLL FASTS |Condemned Prisoners Last to| Receive News of Respite Granted by Fuller. j | | By the Associated Pre | BOSTON, August 11.—Bartolomeo | Vanzetti awoke this morning with a | more cheerful outlook on life because | of the 12-day respite granted him, | Nicola Sacco and Celestino Madeiros a | short time Lefore they were scheduled | to be executed last night. Vanzetti drank the coffez brought | nim at breakfast and in other ways, according to prison officials, evidenced that he derived real hope from the respite. Sacco, however, remained apathetic and refused all food. for the twenty-fifth consecutive day. Whether the three prisoners also would obtain a brief respite from the death house, where they have been confined for more than a week. was still undecided this morning. Their cells in the main prison have been oc- cupied by others since their removal, and some rearranging would be neces- sary if they are to be returned. ‘While it is customary for condemned men to be lodged in the death house for 10 days previous to their execu- tion, such con%nement lies entirely within the discretion of Warden Wil | | | sulate are under heavy guard, both | Blast in Sofia ‘ Causes Little i Damage. | | WOMAN DIES IN EXPLOSION Three Others Dying After Outrage in Switzerland. | By tha Associated Press. | SOFIA, Bulgaria, August 11—A | |bomb was exploded late last night | in the garden of the American con- | sulate here. No one was injured and there was little damage. The authorities, after a hasty in- vestigation, expressed the belief that the bomb was thrown as a protest in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, but with- out the intention of causing material damage. Strenuous cfforts to cap- ture the bomb throwers are being made by the police. Heavy Guards Placed. The American legation and con- uniformed police and secret agents being on duty. PARIS, August 11 (#).—One of the {wo women injured late last night | in the explosion of a bomb in Basle, Switzerland, died this morning, savs a Havas dispatch from Berne. The woman was the mother of five children. Three other victims were so seri- ously hurt that they were being treated at hospitals today. BERN SWITZERLAND, August 11 (®).—The city of Basle was aroused today over the explosion of a bomb in a telephone booth at the street car station in the Barfuesser- platz late last night, which injured 15 _persons. Thus far the police have no clue to the authors of the outrage, but they believe it was intended as a protest against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, ruirs. Earlier in the day there had been liam Hendry. 1In view,of the facl that the respite only slightly exceeds this 10-day period, it was regarded as a possibility that the men might re- { main where they- are. | Last to Hear of Reprieve. Chronologically, Sacco, Vanzetti and | Madeiros were the last interested per- sons to learn that their electrocution | this morning had been deferred by | executive respite until midnight ou | August 22 i They were told exactly 15 minutes | before the first of them, Madeiros, was | to have gone to his death. That was | at_11:45 o'clock. But at 10:22 newspaper men had re- ceived the news and before that War- den William Hendry had been told. The fact of the respite, however, was not officially announced until 11: The diverse announcements from the warden's office of the Charles- town State prison and the resuitant | confusion among nearly two score newspaper men and telegraphers who had been assigned to cover the triple execution, created one of the most unusual scenes in Massachusetts death-house_history. tonierence of more than two hours I chambers with Arthur D. Hill, ticfense counsel, and Attorney Gen- eral Arthur K. Reading. A bill of exceptions was finally agreed upon, and after this had been formally worked up and approved. Judge Ka son indicated that he would alow it, Sanderson Signs Bill. This afternoon Judge Sanderson signed the bill of exceptions and at- cd this memorandum : “These exceptions I allow so far as I have power to do so.” Immediately afterward Attorney General Reading got in touch with Judge Braley, who is at Edgartown, With reference to calling the session f the full bench. It is understood t the court at that time will con- Bider both the exceptions to Judge Banderson’s action and those filed in the Norfolk Superior Court today to Judge Thayer’s denials of motions. Later the time of meeting for the ‘ul! court was definitely fixed for :30 Tuesday morning. It was said at the courthouse that € the full bench should sustain the pxceptions to Judge Sanderson’s Senial of a motion for a Wlt-ef trror the case then would go pack to Judge Sanderson for a hearing cn the verits. So far Judge Sanderson has beard only offers of proof in support 3 the motion. New Trial Is Issue. | After the hearing’ on merits, if ap- proved, the case would again come | pefore the full bench, which might drder one of several things, the most probable being either that Judge Web- tter Thayer, trial justice, was not in trror and that conviction and sen- tence must stand, or that he was in bror and a new trial should b: had. Chief Justice Arthur P. Rugg of torcester is ill_in a hospital and Instica Henry K. Braley of Boston Kill serve as acting chief justice. Justice Crosby of Pittsfield is in Furope and Justice Sanderson, fol- pwing the custom of the court, also will be absent. “Those who will sit on the case. in| didition to Justice Braley, are Jus- ices Edward P. Pierce of Brookline, Lmes Bernard Carroll of Springfield ind William C. Wait of Medford. Dr. McLaughlin, the prison phy- , after his daily visit to Saces zetti and Celestine Madeiros, aut: lly reprieved with the two rad- id that each appeared in much | its today. | Sacco Refuses to Eat. 1cco, he said, expressed the hope .t he would be strong enough to palk unassisted to the Cherry Hill yaction of the prison if they were fransferred from the death house, as Appeared probable, later in the day. “You ought to eat,” the physician bid him. Sacco replied, “that's my mind. 1am not going to eat.” .co is now in the twenty-fifth day hunger strike and refused food {oday. although Vanzetti drank his At 10:22 Warden Hendry burst out | of a private telephone booth to an- nounce, “Well, boys, there's a respiie for two anyway."” He started for the death house. ap- | parently to tell the prisoners the good | news, was recalled to the telephor | for a moment, and sang out, "It | three,"” | Seeks to Hold Up News. Recalled for a ‘second time, he ushed, visibly shaken, through the | prison lobby and into the rotunda of | the prison, shouting, *“Hold that | story up.” | In the meantime reporters were | rushing from the lobby to the prison | )jum:lion of Suisuin and San Pable i Vanzetti. | preakfast coffee ; I Do tRe AT T Ao S s M Rose Sacco was again 2 |of direct telegraph and telephone wires visitor at the prison today, apparently | hud been set up. Confusion reigned | fecovered from her reported collapse | as the successive bulletins went out | N Yesterday. She not only saw her |only to be countermanded a few sec- | husband and Vanzetti, but spent a|onds later. lew minutes with Madeiros. Whenthe warden next appeared ft o S | was with the flat announcement th Last Respite, Councillor Says. L mre;a:yl The belief that “August will |to the governor's council, had made park the close” of the Sacco-Vanzetti | public the reprieve and that the papers ase was expressed today by Eugene | were on their way. *raser of Lynn, a member of the| A few minutes later Capt. Charles council. ad approved Gov. Fuller's | through the cordon of armed men e mendation for a further Tespite fabout the institution and handed xplaining that | T. Beaupre of the State police dashed | an hour’s strike of Basle workers out of sympathy with Sacco and Vanzetti. Plot to Blast Bridge Suspected. VALLEJO, Calif., August 11 (P).— The big Carquinez Bridge across the Bays here and all power lines in Solona County were under guard to- day as the result of a report from the Mare Island navy yard that 16 sticks of dynamite were missing there, BOMB FOUND IN LONDON. Police Break Up 10,000 Staging Dem- | onstration Before Embassy. LONDON, August 11 (#).—A time bomb was discovered this morning in a public telephone box in the fish shop of Robert Isaacs, in famous Petticoat lane. Isaacs’ daughter, who found the ticking package, plunged it in a buck- et of water and called the police. Isaacs said that as far as he knows he has no enemies. and he has never ressed an opinion on the Sacco- anzetti case. (Petticoat lane, visited Sunday morn- ings by numerous American tourists, is known for its old shops, most of them displaying second-hand clothing.’ Crowd at Embassy Dispersed. All was quiet this morning, after an | oxciting night, when news reached | London that a respite had been grant- to Nicola Sacco and Bariolomeo v Only a few hours before the news ame mounted police, riding four and | six abreast, had to charge to break up a demonstration of sympathy for the condemned men before the Ameri- an embassy. Scores of persons wers injured or bruised before the mani- festants were scattered. Singing the “Internationale,” wav- inz red flags and carrying red ban- ners, the crowd, estimated at 10,000 persons, packed Grosvenor Gardens, opposite the American embassy, after a protest meeting in Hyde Park, where a succession of speakers de. nounced the execution cf Sacco and Vanzetti. Their remarks were met with applause, although there were | occasional boos from the fringe of the | crowd. A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners “ederation, who was one of the prin- cipal speakers, had to contend with a e felt there was a moral | Hendry the formal documents. | eier, although no legal one, to the | AS the crowd broke up and the State e n” ocause action was pend: | exccutioner and witnesses took their s courts, he ahded | leave, the warden made hix way to the 1 helieve tha: the council would | cells of the condemned men. be inclined not to extend the respite | Vanzetti told Hendry he was wlad 1 | hecause his sister, who hax started from Italy for this country, might vet urrive in time to see him alive. | ~cause the refusal ant a | “teps to br Waebster Thayer a revocation of sentence of execution before the were taken to: anno of de- the Norfolk m exceplions Sacco Uncommunicative. Sicco said nothing. Madeiros, 1o whom the respite was even more un expected than to the other two, also was_uncommunicative. “Be men now. start in and eat” Hendry admonished them as he lefc the death hguse It was not necessary to tell Madei ros, for the youthful New Bedford Fi],n’;‘l‘ 7;;\1 never missed a meal in the - g v deat ouse. He ate vas ht Sacco and Vanzetti word that | Lo,y % 5oy "win sust nounced a respite until and including | 37 With little apparent concern about fanze counsel filed ir Fuperior Court at. Dec to Judge Thayer's ruli Ready for Death Fifteen minutes before their march , the death chair was to have stari- he warden at Charlestown prison March. was ordered to permit the a writ 0; err:m {:)‘ Jusllce} HOHSES D'E OF THIRST. signed with the N The dela yuling on Sanderson. A third respite, current would have been switched on | + gor the first of a triple execution, ported Near Extermination. staved for the same 12-dav period the e of Mudeiros, convicted of an.| PORTLAND, Oreg., August 11 (P).— piher murder and self-identified with ' Between 30,000 and 40,000 wild mus- the case of the other twc " tang horses in eastern Orgon are the hes&"»’fi‘«?f]’:@ *eimaxed o dying of thirst in Deschutes and Crook eharged with increasing tension. Counties, A. L. Cross, head of the It came after Gov. Fuller, who once | State work of the Oregon Humane So- tefore had respited the condemned| ciety, declared todav. A dearth of mep and who only last Wednesday | water already has hrought death to haf turned down a plea for clemency ' pyndreds of the roaming mustangs, Sntinued on Page & Column 39 ke said | trom ! day pthers less than an hour before the!30,000 Wild Mustangs in West Re-| constant heckling by a part of a {crowd. When at tle conclusion of | his dress, he seized a banner and | raised his volce in the strains of the Communist anthem, some of the crowd | the oined him while others British national anthem. Threatens to “Get Even."” “I warn you and T warn Americans.’ !'he declared. “that if they murder these two men we shall get even with them T ask vou to take off your h Vl' i pledge yourselves to get even I am not anti-capitalist. America. “British justice is no different from merican justice. 1 am more con- | cerned with the results of this execu- tion. If it takes place, than with the murder itself. sang We must boycott | | Ar 1f America kills these two men, it will be murder, and we shall reply and we shall repay.” The speeches ended, the march to the embassy began, picking up re- cruits all along the way. Many women, old and young, were in the procession. Except for chorus shouts of “Sacco and Vanzetti shall not die” and an occasional derisive outburst against the mounted officers, the parade was orderly. DYNAMITE IN POST OFFICE, | Halt Stick, Found in Entrance, Laid | to Sympathizers. | ALLIANCE, Ohlo, August 11 (#).— Half a stick of dynamite was found The station is a mass of |. | standing _opposition anti-American, but ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, THURSDAY, | \ e AUGUST 11, 1927 —FOR! ny Star. -FOUR PAGES. DE VALERA SWEARS FEALTY TO BRITAIN Forty-Four Other Fianna Fail Deputies to Take Seats in Dail. August 11 ~hange Telegraph reports that Eamonn de Valera and the other Fianna Fail deputies elected to the Dail Eireann took the oath of allegiance to the King this afternoon, making them eligible to take their seats in the Dail. The decision of Valera and his entire following among the members of the Dail Eireann to take thelr seats in the Assembly tomorrow after subscribing to the oath of allegiance, threatens to produce an immediate po- litical crisis in the Free State and pos- sibly may have important reaction in the relations between the Free State and Great Britain. Exactly what will happen when the Dail meets Friday can only be con- Jjectured, but the present assumption is that the government’s defeat is in- evitable, because deputies will add greatly to the op- position, and that its resignation necessarily will follow. It is not yet clear here as to how far the reservation the Fianna Fail- ers are making as regards their in- terpretation of the oath may affect the position, but they leave no doubt s to that interpretation. After last Dublin of the Fianna Fail party, a formal statement was issued an- nouncing the intention of the deputies of this party to comply with the ar- ticle of the constitution which re- quires the oath of allegiance as a pre- liminary to the taking of a seat in the Dail Eireann. The Daily Ex- press version of this statement quotes it as saying with regard to the reser- vation: “So there can be no doubt as to their duty and no misunderstanding, the Fianna Fail deputies hereby give public notice in advance to the Irish people #nd to all whom it may con- cern that they propose to regard the declaration as an empty formality, and repeat that their only allegiance he given to no other thority.™ CONSIDER IT “FORMALITY.” Fianna Dail Issues Statement on Tak- ing Oath, DUBLIN, August 11 (#).—Eamonn de Whlera and 44 members of the Fi- anna Fail Republican party, of which he is the leader, have decided to ta the oath of allegiance and their seats in the Dail Eireann Friday. | The decision, taken unanimously at | a meeting last aight, was qualified by | the announcement that the party | would consider the oath mereiy as an “empty formality”: that the Fianna Fail would consider its only allegiance to_the Irish nation. Notwithstanding this, there was gen- eral surprise that De Valera had allied himself with the decision for, of all the Republicans, he has been most persistent in his refusal to take the oath. Only a few days ago he was reported to have declared that rather than pledge allegiance to “a foreign sovereign” he would resign leadership of the party. The oath of a Republicans giance to which the directed their Tong- is llej _"T_do solemnly (Continue i | | | | | | | the Fianna Fall| is to the Irish nation and that it will | power or au-| d|lis represented by Attorney Bank Officer Tries In Vain to Get Self Indicted in Tampa | By the Associated Pre: TAMPA, Fla., Augu: V. Grose, former as of the Exchange here, who resigned a month ago and admitted a shortage of $£8,000 in his accounts, has sought indict- ment since then, but thus far has been unable to obtain court action. irose asked to be indicted by the Federal grand ] v in Jacksonville, according to William Y. Grober, district attorney, but the body was sitting at the last day of its meet- ing and the case could not be pre- pared in time for presentation. Mr. Grober said it w. unlikely that any action would be taken until a complaint was filed. D.C. BUILDING MARK DROPS $13000L00 11.—Sidney Abnormal Record of 1926 | Commented on in In- | spector’s Report. The value of building operations au- thorized during the last fiscal v | declined by more than $13.000,000 from night's conference in| p, high record set during the fiscal |24 cents straight and | vear 1926, according to the annual re- port of Building Inspector John V | Oehmann, submitted to the Commi sioners today. In 1926 the value of all permits is- sued totaled $63,599,280, while for the last 12 months the total value of work authorized was $49,776,865. The build- ing inspector points out, however, that construction activity was con- jdered abnormal during 1925 and 1 He stated that the 1924 record of $39,403,000 is normal for Washington and that therefore the total for last vear of more than $49,000,000 is a substantial increase over the normal volume of building in Washington. The building inspector declares the | number of permits issued for this al year, as compared with the pre- vious year, emphasizes that the vast amount of work was of a remodeling nature rather than the larger projects. Permits were issued for 2,397 | family houses, a decrease of 1,365 | compared with' the previous year. \WIFE, HURT, SUES MATE. Mrs. Herman Blames Husband for Auto Injury. Can wife obtain damages from her husband when she is injured by his reckless driving of an automobil This query was put up to the Dis trict Supreme Court today in a suit filed by Mrs. Alice Herman, 1132 Fifth street northeast, against her husband, John Herman, 911 Pennsylvania ave- nue. Mrs. Herman says her husband inveted her to ride with him January 15 last and claims it was his duty to s achine as not to in- jure her. She claims the machine was so recklessly driven and at such great speed as to collide with a tree and pole on the road and inflict seriou |and permanent injuries upon her. She T. Morris a Wampler. | | To Protect Their | Members of the Irish race are | wrought up over what thev believe to be a recent tendency b motion picture producers to caricature their people, and they are going to meet here to- morrow night to see what can be done about it. Organization of a permanent society for the uplift of Irish dignity, or com- mittee of censors for Irish films, plays and books, or .omething along these lines will be discussed at the meeting, to be held in the K. of C. Hall at 8:15 o'clock. The tide of indignation reached a crest recently when a local theater showed a picture dealing with neigh- borhood life among Irish-American families, but which was anything but a true picture of condition:. according to those who wear the green. A committee was formed and a pro- test registered with the management of the theater. According to Andrew I. Hickey, chairman of the local commit- “ontinued on tee, a Nation-wide movement of pro- test is under way, with the result that § District Irishmen Plan Censorship Race From Ridicule a demand has been made on the Metro- | Goldwyn Corporation for withdrawal of the picture from the screen. Now ‘it appears that another local theater has planned to exhibit the film, with certain deletions. The de- leted film was displayed to the com- organizations, but Chairman Hickey announces that th» picture still is ob- jectionable. The theater manager has been requested not to show the fiim here at all. At the meeting tomorrow night dele- gates from various Irish-American and some other organizations of the Dis- triet will consider formation of a per- manent censorship committee, Mr. Hickey states. It is planned to cen- sor “motion pictures, plays, books and other literature that in any way have to do with the Irish race and national- ity,” he explained today. The committee of protest includes Miss Julia Linsky, Thomas W. Lyons, Mrs. George Fagan, Mrs. C. H. Mur- phy, John F. Finert: McDonough, M. J. Lynch, A. Collins, Edward L. Tucker and D. J. Burke mittee, representing a number of Irish | VIRGINIA RALWAY ~ FARESTOBE CUT Substantial Reductions to Many Points Announced | by New Operators. Extensive reductions in fares be- tween Washington and Alexandria and ‘Washington and Fairfax were an- nounced today simultaneously by the V‘ Mount Vernon, Alexandria and Wash- | ington Railway Co. and the Arlington and Fairfax Railway Co., the two companies now operating the lines of the old Washington-Virginia Railway Co. The reductions also apply to in- termediate stations on the two lines and to the Mount Vernon, Alexandria and Washington Railway Co.'s line all the way to Mount Vernon. The reductions will become effec- tive on the Mount Vernon line August and on the Fairfax line the first | week in September, at the expiration | of the 30-day period from the date of the filing of the reductions with the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Virginia State Commerce Commis- | sion at Richmond, unless they should Dbe protested. | Alexandria Cut Drastic. | The most drastic cut is in the round- | trip rate between Washington and Al- xandria, which has been reduced to | 25 cents. The straight fare rate will |be 20 cents. The rate was formerly 40 cents for the nd trip. The cent round-trip rate applies to all stations between here and Alexandria except those to whichk the straight fare is only 10 cents. The round-trip rate to these | stations is 20 cents. On both lines the fares have been reduced from 3 cents a mile to ap- proximately 21, cents a mile, except the Alexandria-Washington round-trip rate, which represents a reduction of about 40 per cent. The new rate to Mount Vernon is 45 cents straight. | The new rates on the Mount Vernon {line run from the south end of the { Highway Bridge and on the Fairfax |{line from Rosslyn, Va., just across | the Key Bridge. | Increase Employes’ Wages. At the same time the reductions were announced the two companies an- nounced that they had increased the | wages of their conductors and motor- | men 2 cents an hour. These increases become effective with the newx rates. | Aaditional cars have been put in | operation between here and Alexan- |dria, the cars now running every | minutes. The new policy of the com | panies as outlined today by M. E. Church of Falls Church, president of | the Fairfax line, and J. W. Rich, gen- {eral manager of the Mount Vernon |line, is to speed up operation and re- | duce fares as much as possible over ilh» more congested parts of the lines. principally between here and Alexan- dria. The two companies were formed to take over the property of the old Washington-Virginia Railway Co., which went into receivership. The new companies began operation Au- gust 1. They are directed entirely by Virginia men. 56-POINT STOCK DROP 'UNSETTLES EXCHANGE General Reaction in New York ; Market Follows Manhattan Elec- trical Supply Break. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 11.—A violent sreak of 56 points in the common stock |of the Manhattan Electrical Supply | Co. started a general reaction in the | stock market just before midday after |an opening outburst of buying had |lifted a dozen specialties to new high levels, A handful of other high-priced pool specialties broke from 5 to 15 points, while declines of 1 to 3 points took place throughout the general list. The break in Manhattan Electrical Supply came while the Stock Exchange was investigating reports of a “tech- nical corner” in that issue following its sensational advance from a low of 13 this year to a high of 132 a few weeks ago. The stock closed last night at 1203, and fluctuated errati- cally within a §-point range in the first” hour, then broke precipitiously to 75, rallied above 80 and then col- [lapsed again to 6413 early in the after- noon. Houston Oil dropped 15% points to 128 and rallied to 135; Timken Roller Bearing dropped 10 to 123 and snapped back to 130, and Du Pont, Commercial Solvents B and Delaware & Hudson sold down 5 points or more. Radio Program—Page 38 service. DOLE CONEST OFF AS AVITORS AL *TOMEETDEMANCS $35,000 Flight to Honolulu Delayed Until Rules Can Be Met. COMMITTEE INSISTENT ON REDUCING HAZARDS Majority of Entrants Held Unpre- pared to Begin Trip Tomorrow. Entry List to Remain Closed. AN FRANC Postponement of tomorrow’s $35,000 Dole flight from San Francisco Bay | to Honolulu because the entries who ih’\\e thus far presented themselves | “are not now properly equipped or | aualifier” was ordered today by the | light committee and the Department ;nf Commerce, subject to the approval |of the Honolulu chapter of the Na tional Aeronautic Association. The committee announced its deci- | sion to the Associated Press after a meeting which lasted well into the arly hours of the morning. The following statement was given out: Postponement Favored. “The starting committee of the Dole Honolulu flight, upon the recommen- dation of Lieut. B. H. Wyatt, an ex- perienced mnavigator; Clarence Young, director of aeronautics, De- partment of Commerce; Maj. H. D. Clagett, a member of the committee; Valentine Gephart, secretary of the National Aeronautic Association; Capt. C. W. Saunders, chairman of the starting committee of the Dole flight, and H. E. MacConaughey, representa- tive of Mr. James D. Dole, concluded to recommend the postponement of the start of the flight for a period not exceeding two weeks. “A request for authority from Mr. Dole and the Honolulu Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association. to make the postponement effective was cabled to Honolulu last night. New Entries Barred. “The recommendation was premised upon the opinion that the planes and participants which have thus far pre- sented themselves are not now prop- erly equipped or qualified and that there is not sufficient time remaining in which to qualify; that even though some of them might be able to pass the preliminary navigation tests, to start August 12, the scheduled date, would present hazards never con- templated by the donor or the com- mittee and the result could easily be unfavorable. “It was further recommended that no additional entries be accepted for the postponed date.” The postponement order closely fol- lowed the crash of one of the entries near San Diego yesterday in which Lieuts. George W. D. Covell and R. S. Waggener of the Navy were killed when ‘their monoplane plunged into a clift in the fog, fell to the bottom and burned. Although the direct cause of the accident was not deter- mined, defective equipment was sus- pected. Disaster Held Easy. “This flight is something different from other transoceanic flights,” Lieut. Wyatt declared. “This is a supreme test of aerial navigation. The planes are shooting at a target 300 miles wide in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and an error of but a couple of degrees on the part of the navigator would send a plane at least 200 miles oft the course and such would spell disaster for the flyers.” The outcome of test flights by the seven entries now here was reported to have shown compasses several de- grees off in some instances, rendering them practically useless. Some of the pilots arrived here with the announcement that they planned to depend on “dead reckoning” in their flight toward the islands. The success questionable considering the small tar- | get at which the flyers aimed. Difficulty With Planes. Lieut. Wyatt complained early in | the week that he experienced difficulty in getting the planes into the air for their navigation tests. In view of this fact members of the committee were urged to postpone the flight. Another factor that presented itself in regard to the planes that had not arrived at the Oakland or San Francisco starting lines. If the planes of Capt. William P. Erwin of Dallas, T Arthur V. Rogers of Los An- geles, Charles Parkhurst of Lomax, IIL, and Fred Giles of Detroit should arrive here before tomorrow noon was doubted that they would have time to undergo the tests, and officials of the flight declared they were cer- tainly not in favor of permitting any ent to fly over the ocean without qualifying as to fitness of planes, pi- lots and navigators. PILOTS' VIEWS VARY. | | Entrants Express Regret and Favor | Over Postponement of Flight. SAN FRANCISCO, August 11 (4).— | News of the postponement of the | Dole San Francisco-to-Honolulu flight | was received variedly with disappoint- | ment and satisfaction by pilots in the race today. John A. Pedlar, pilot of the Flint Mich., entry, which will carry Miss Mildred Doran, school teacher of that city, registered an exception. “I do not think it is fair to those who are prepared,” he told the San Francisco Examiner. “We may go anyway, particularly if they postpone it two weeks. I have a girl to take over there. I am going whether there is any money in it or not.” M.” W. Welty of the Phillips Pe- troleum Co., backers of the planes Oklahoma and Woolaroc, declared both entries would remain in the race, “despite the inconvenience and disap- pointment.” Art Goebel, pilot of the Woolaroe, declared the good of aviation was in- volved in the delay and that the post- ponement might benefit those not pre- pared for the flight. Jack Frost, pilot of the Examiner’s entry, and Martin Jensen of Honolulu | subscribed to the committee's action. . Pope Receives Monsignor. ROME, August 11 (#).—Pope Pius yesterday received in private audience Monsignor Joseph Bosetti, chancellor of the Diccese of Denver, s | { | The only evening in Washington wil Associated Press news M. | of this method was regarded as highly | per the Yesterday’s Circulation, 97,445 TWO CENTS. DISTRICT'S INCOME 1S §30.291,667.8, SETTINGNEWMARK City’s Receipts for Year Go $3,685,020 Above Previ- ous Period. $16,628,454.65 REALTY LEVY IS BIGGEST ITEM $1,057,850 Is Paid Into Fund by Gasoline Users—Insurance Pro- vides $282,333. The District Government collected 8 from all sources during 2 over the previous year, and the largest total on record, accord- ing to the annual report of Collector of Taxes C. M. Towers, submitted to the Commissioners today. The increase was distributed as follows: Real estate taxes, $16,628.454.65, an increase of $2.275,849.21. Tangible personal taxes. $3,636,- 188.78, an increase of $246,585.90. Intangible personal taxes, $ 915.13, an increase of $202,571.79. Insurance taxes were $282,333.99, an increase of $22.115.09. | Penalties on various classes of taxa- | tion, $261,757.42, $59,812.98 more than last year. Miscellaneous 283. | | collections, 2,239, Gas Tax, $1,057,850. The foregoing items comprise what is known as the general fund and aggregated $25,309,070.18. Four other items enter into the calculations to make the total of more than $30,000, 000, namely: Trust and special funds, §3,777,132.20; gasoline tax. $1,057,850.02; miscellan ous collections (United States), §104,- 691.95, and repayment to appropria- tions, $42,923.23. The gross increase over the previous year was $3,729,096.66. In three items of revenue, however, there were de- creases amounting to $44,075.91, which brought the net increase for the year down to $3.685,020. Collector Towers recommends to the Commissioners that in view of the great difficulty in collecting personal taxes on automobiles, this tax should be levied and collected on all motor vehicles at the time the annual regh- tration fee is paid. Record Set by Sales. Mr. Towers told the Commissioners that the tax sale of real estate for non-payment of taxes last January brought in $842,392.23 on 11,406 parcels of real estate sold. This also estab- lishes & new record. The total amount coming into the Water Department fund, including rents, was $1.451,910.67. The gasoline tax collected chiefly from automobile owners increased $115,900.63 over the previous year. Although the total collections on real estate and personal property for the past fiscal year were greatly in excess of collections the preceding vear, it does not mean that the Dis- trict collected all of the real estate and personal property taxes levied for the last 12 months. Every year the collections coming in include iarge sums of taxes in arrears from pre- ceding years. The report showed that the balance of uncollected real estate taxes for the fiscal year 1927 is $2,643,- 663.05. On the other hand. the collec- tor took in during the fiscal year 1927 more than that amount in taxes that were due from preceding years. POLICE ARREST FOUR | AFTER CELLAR FIGHT “Saw-and-Hatchet” Gang of Burglars Believed | Broken Up. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 11.—In the arrest of four men after a hand-to- hand fight in a dark cellar early today police believed they had broken up a band of “saw-and-hatchet” burglars who have been rifling Brooklyn stores for weeks. The burglars operated by prying their way into cellars with a large as- sortment of tools and then cutting through the floor to the store above. On patrolman was injured in today's fight and another when he fell off a roof in a subsequent chase. Police were summoned when & householder heard sawing in the store building back of his home. Six officers entered the cellar and fought with blackjacks as the burglars, also num- bering six, attacked them with theif tools. Two of the men were subdued there, the four others fleeing. Two of the latter were caught, but the others escaped when Patrolman De Nyse, who was pursuing, fell off a roof. He was found unconscious by his com- rades. Detective Capt. Cone had two fingers fractured in the cellar fight. The prisoners said they were sea. me! NINE 0UAKE§ RECORDED. Canal Zone Instruments Indicate Disturbances. PANAMA, August 11 (#).—Nine earthquake shocks were recorded on the Canal Zone seismograph between 9 o'clock Tuesday night and 5 o'clock yesterday morning. Officials esti- mated the center of the disturbance * 250 miles southwest of Balboa, pre- sumably in the Pacific Ocean. Though the quakes were quite noticeable here no damage has been reported except for the stopping of a number of clocks. . The most severe quake was the one sistered at 9 o'clock Tuesday night; it dislodged the seismograph pen. An earth disturbance lasting about three and one-half hours was reported last night by Director Tondorf of Georgetown University. He estimated the disturbance, which reached a maxi- mum intensity at 7:30 p.m., at ap- proximately 5400 miies from Wash- ingtome