Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1927, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular e tion is delivered to Washington homes WEATHER I 3 Weather Bureau Fo hily cooler tonight; emperature—Highest, $0. at noon vesterday: lowe Full report on , 68, | | ¢ | at 6 am H page 9. today Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 14 nnd_lE ¢ Foeni Enterad as seco; post office, Wa No. 30421 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION nd class matte shington. D. C. WASHINGTON, B. MONDAY, JUDGE GARY DEAD oo BREMEN RETURNS . AT GOTHAM HOME AFTER LLNESS OF MORE THAN MONTH Chairman of Steel Corpora-! tion Board Passes Away at Age of 80 Following Attack| of Myocarditis. HAD RECENTLY ROUNDED i OUT 25 YEARS OF SERVICE Noted Financier Leaves Remark- able Record as Captain of World Famed Organization Which He Planned and Led in Formative Period. | | Br the Associated Press. W YORK, August 15.—Eibert H for 25 vears executive head of the United States Steel Corporation, died at his Fifth avenue home today. He was 80 years old. Death, which followed an illness o a month, and from which only tw weeks ago he was reported to be re- | covering, occurred at 3:40 a.m.. but was not officially announced until mid- | forenoon. It was believed in Wall Street that the intention had been to withhold | news of Mr. Ga death until after | the close of the stock market lest | there should be a break in prices. But when persistent rumors at last| hrought official confirmation, there was only a slight flurry of selling. Speculation on Successor. st definite announcement of Mr. ‘s death gave only the time, the and the cause—chronic myocar- ditis—but it was said that a more de- lailed statement would be issued later. Interest was centered on the con- tents of this statement because of the possibility that it might indicate who would succeed Mr. Gary as chair- | man of the board of directors of the Steel Corporation. Mr. Gary’s body will be taken Wed- nesday to Chicago for burial near his | old home, gt Wheaton, 11l Mr. Gary was credited with originat- ing the United States Steel Corpora- tion, which in many quarters has been considered as the barometer of the country’s business prosperity. It was he who eliminated the 12- hour day in the steel industry on the appeal of President Harding. He was known as ‘“‘Czar Gary” by the steel strikers, but was noted for his kindly treatment of subordinates and was considered by many of his employes as a conciliator who stood half way be- “ween capital and labor, desiring only the greatest good for both. Reported “On Mend.” On the 25th of July, Mr. Gary, 'who at that time had been ill for about a week, was reported “on the mend,” and it was expected at that time that he would return to his office within a few days. One of Mr. Gary’s last public acts on the 16th of June, when by passing his hand over an electrically- -nsitized mechanism, he set in op- ation the gigantic electrified Home- stead steel plant near Pittsburgh. To perform this operation he sat in his office at 71 Broadway and the feat involved building up a minute quan-; tity of energy released from his hand into great enough electrical strength 1o control the operation of the steel plant. | The home where Mr. Gary died is| uptown on Fifth avenue from the famous Gary mansion at 956 Fifth avenue, said to be one of the finest residences in New York, which is now in process of demolition. The Gary mansion contained a marble staircase valued at $150,000. Because the con- 1ractor tearing down the mansion esti- mated that it would cost the full value o the great staircase to remove it, however, it was offered for sale for §1 to any one who would take it away. Resignation Rumored. | er since Mr. Gary passed his eightieth birthday anniversary rumors | of his impending resignation as chair- man of the Steel Corporation have been recurrent. Time after time rumors which appeared 1o be based on authen- tic information have been circulated, | only to be proven bascless. | The general belief that Mr. Gary was considering resigning became more pronounced after the last meet- ing of the Steel Corporation’s stoc holders, on April 19, when remarks hie made at that time were con- sidered as valedictory. On February 25 last Mr. Gary cele- brated his twenty-fifth anniversary of his incumbency as an executive officer of the corporation. The news of Mr. Gary's death was telephoned to the offices of the Steel Corporation by F. A. Sites, Mr. | ;‘ rv's secretary, from the Gary | A month ago, when Mr. hecame ill, it was unde suffering from ptomaine poison- Two weeks ago. when it was be- | lieved he was rapidly regaining his health he received in his sick room executives. who had recently been yromoted. Shortly after this he suf- fered a relapse and it was considered possible that the ceremony of greet-| jng his subordinates had proved too great a strain. After the relapse no | ne was permitted to visit him but wife and 7 lants. Death Report Confirmed. Gary’s home, at the northwest | corner of Fifth avenue and Ninety- | fourth street, presented a deserted pearance, except for one of his au tomobiles standing idly at the curb, | when reporters arriving for confir- juation of the Wall Street rumor broke its morning calm. Hesitancy +.a the part of employes divulge official _information Iy overcome and the t Mr. Gary had died was finally elicited. They would neither deny Gary first | 10 1h | violent overturn may mnot be attempt- | { ed, but conditions favoring an attempt | Squthern troops with artillery crossed <tood that he | f was | bare fact| | IxpERWeRs B UNDERWGAR . GARY. SHANGHAI COU PLANS BREWING Strong Group Seeks Return o Gen. Sun and Former Prosperity. | BY PAUL WRIGHT. Br Cable to The Star and Ch; News. Copyrigt, 107 SHANGHAT, August 1 of the resignation of Gen. Kai-Shek, who as head of the Nan- king government has had control of this section of«China, Shanghai faces the possibility of a coup detat. A certainly are here. Indeed, such a thing may come from either one or both of two opposed sources, The followers of Gen. Sun Chuan- Fang may endeavor to anticipate a military victory north of the Yangtze, or the so-called “Communists,” whose hopes center in the old Hankow | clique, or “Christian General” Feng Yu-Hsiang, and all of the Hankow group, may make a trial. Sun Is Favored. Sun Chuang-Fang, who ruleq Shang- hai before the Southern Nationalist successes of last Spring, and who now is fighting to get across the Yangtze River from the morth, 1as abundant followers both in the Nanking and here. A sign of the times has been not only the virulence of anti-Chiang Kai-Shek propaganda at Nanking, but the boldness of propaganda favor- ing Sun Chuang-Fang. In Shanghai which welcomed Chiang so effusively last March, there always has been a strong element wanting Sun's return. They remember the amazing pros- perity which existed under the North- ern militarist, Sun Chuan-Fang, and little but disaster under the Nationalist generalissimo, Chiang Kai-Shek. Mag- nificent promises made by Chiang Kai- Shek and the Kuomintang they have seen go to nothing. It is true that Chiang could not possibly usher in the millenium in a few short months, but Chinese are not inclined to accept excuses for failure. Business went to pieces under Chiang. They want pros- perity and a change. Expect to Take Shanghai. Shanghal radicals scout the idea that Hankow leaders will mever co- operate with Nanking. They look to the “Christian General” as their lead- er now and expect to stilke for pos- session of Shanghal as soon as Nan- king has collapsed or is about to col- lapse. They expect {o take Shanghai before Sun Chuan-Fang can get here. Then they plan to settle victoriously | with the Northerners, | Shanghai s quiet today. The| French are constructing new block- | houses for machine guns at strategic intersections along the southern boundary fronting the Chinese district. News from the up-river districts fa- vor the Northern drive. Two thousand the Yangtze at Chingkiang. Virtually all the foreign buildings inside and | outside of the Chingkiang concession | are occupied by troops. H CHIANG RETURNS TO HOME. ' | Sixteen-Year Career Ends With l‘lnai for Nationalists to Unite. SHANGHAI August 15 (P).—Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, formally has se ered all connection with the National- ist revolution and is returning to pri- vate life. The general arrived yesterday at birthplace, Fenghwa, in Kiangsu prov- ince, 100 miles south of Shanghal, Chiang Kai-Sh k last night issued a formal statement, addressed “to the prople of China.” resigning his posi- tion as commander-in-chief of the Na- tionalist armies and also all other po- sitions connected with China’s tionalist revolution. The youthful | general states: 1 am retaining mem- | .rship in the Kuomintang and will assist the revolution merely as an in dividual.” Simultaneously with Chiang K. Shek’s action in resigning, five mem- bers of the Kuomintang central ecutive committee, with headquarters in Nanking. announced their resigna-| tions, also Hwang Fu May, | whose resignation was indicated Sat- | urday night. | Gives Three Suggestions. 1o statement issued by Chiang Kai ick is u lengthy one, the equal of | about 7,500 words in English. It re-) viewed the part he played in the revolution thus far, which he cli- maxed, by saying to the Associated Prags that no longer was there confi dence in him, and this, coupled with | ill health, necessitated his resigna- tion. The general, in his statement, er_giving a long list of reason | teft Dessau | that, 1 Junkers W-33 planes, having stocked Na- | & 0 DESSAU; MEETS ATLANTIC STORMS German Plane, Forced Back. " Arrives Safely at Home Airdrome. SISTER SHIP, EUROPA, DAMAGED IN LANDING Encounters Engine Trouble and Dense Fog Over North Sea in First German Attempt. By the Associated Press Germany's first hid for transatlantic honors has failed The metal monoplane Bremen, which at 6:20 nizht, returned to the airdrome and ifternoon, foregd back by the stormy conditions over the Atlantic. ller sister ship, the Kuropa, the second in the aerial argosy of Junkers planes, had already landed, being forced to turn about by engine trouble | and dense fog over the North Sea. The Europa, in landing at Bremen last night, was badly damaged. but Herman Koehl and Friederich Loose brought their ship. the Bremen. down unharmed on the Dessau air field this afterenoon. The Junkers' officials had stated after making sure of the mechanical defects of the planes, they would take no chances with unfavor- | able weather, but the pilots had not progressed far over the North Sea when they encountered fog so_thick that, according to Cornelius Edzard | ible to of the Europa, it was impos see the hand before the eye. Despite these conditions, the crew | of the Bremen kept on, and she was thought to be well on her way across the Atlantic when first reports came of the sighting of a Junkers mono- plane off the Norfolk coast of KEng- land, bound in the direction of Ger- many. Denial by the Fufthansa, or Ger- man Aerial League, that the plane was the Bremen seemed at first to set rest to these reports. Then after a period of silence came the news from Dessau that the Bremen had returned and landed safely. TURNED BACK BY WEATHER. | Bremen Runs Into Storm After Pass- ing Irish Coast. DESSAU, Germany, August 15 (P). —The German transatlantic plane Bremen returned here this afternoon, landing at 4:20 o'clock. The Bremen came_down safely and undamaged at the Dessau airdrome. The pilots stated that they were com- pelled to return because of bad weather. Midatiantic storms and heavy fogs formed the barrier that presumably turned the two German Junker planes Bremen and Europa back in their at- tempt to fly the westward course from Europe to America. The Bremen, with its pilots, Herman Koehl and Friedrich Loose, and the passenger, Baron Gunther Von Huen- icld, apparently passed off the Irish Coast before running into the advanc- ing edge of the Atlantic storm, which has been moving eastward for several a The Buropa found itself bat- tling with thick fog in the North Sea Sunday and, developing motor trouble, put back to Bremen. Aviators generally believe it was an Atlantic storm that sealed the fate of Nungesser and Coli in the first at- tempt to fly westward over the At- lantic. Plan for Third Start. Negotiations were under way today | the dispatch of a third starter in soceanic flight to replace the Kuropa. The Junkers Co. was in communication with the North Ge man Lloyd and Darmstaedter N: tional Ban! project, with a proposal to put Junk- ers D-1198 in flying condition. If an agreement is reached, the plane will be ready to hop off within two days. It will be piloted by Edzard and Risticz and probably will also carry Knickerbocker. The D-1198 was first selected to accompany the Europa and Rremen, but later was removed from the flight plans. Fuel for 80 Hours. The Bremen and Kuropa, hoth up with fuel sufficient to keep them the air for 80 hours, hopped off m the Dessau airdrome Sunday at 17 and 6:23:13 p.m., respectively. The planes got off to a quick start, shot across the fleld and soon disap- peared in a cloudbank. No ceremonies preceded the start, only a few Junkers and North German Line officials being on that part of the field from which they took the air. The crowds which rushed to the airdrome when it be- came known the double transatlantic effort was to get under way gave the flyers an ovation as they passed over- head. In the Bremen were 2,000 letters and postal cards for the Un es, while the Kuropa I s of mail. The pilots ¢ their own lunches, made up of sand- wiches, vacuum flasks of coffee nd milk. They also had eme ions—hardtack and distilled water. One of the last things the airmen did before climbing aboard was to «nd a message of respectful greetings to the mother of Charles Nungesser, who was lost with Francis Coli after taking off from France in an attempt to make the first transatlantic cross- ing from East to West. are filled with heroes, and to Nungess the memory of hoth “ntl respectful greetings r's mother.” EUROPA MEETS MISFORTUNE. Pilot Forced to Return by Storms After Good Start. BREMEN, Germany, August 15 (). —Misfortune dogged the Junkers monoplane Europa after her excellent | why he must resign, brings out three points which he declared vital if the yior confirm, however, rumors that it Jiad been intended to withhold the ry's death until aft stock market which the 1 is a four-story red brick str with windowg trimmed in white e §n striking contrast with the ostent tion of imposing limestone structyres ahat bear away to north and xouth of 51, On hoth the avenue and the vfourth street side it is shaded Taeinned on Pag financier cture mar- 3, Colimn ) 1t is a peaceful appearing house | on is to succeed. First, he 1 to the leaders of the fan- t to go to Nanking e of the latter nt, consolidating the two | ments, thereby -strengthening | front ‘against the Northerners, the second place he asked the Han- Kow troops, now scattered through- out the provinces of Hunan, Hupeh and Kiangsi, the In hound to the Northerners, wh ! will strug- succeed if all concein «le to the utmost. to lay aside prejudices | | and continue the campaign against | start from Dessau last night with her | sister plane, Bremen, in an attempt to | be first to make a westward non-stop | izt s the North Atlantic. Luropa and Bremen flew to- Magdeburg, but sing over that city lost touch {with such other. Corneliu:_Iidard {and Johann Risticz, the Europa’s | crew, then decided to shape their | course tarther to the north in hope of | meeting better weather. The motor went wel ine at a speed of 220 kilometers ut 136 miles) an_hour, until the 1 iomtinied on I'ags 2, Column | after pa who are financing the | driving the | o'clock Sunday | |landed at 4:20 o'clock this (Monday) | AUGUST 15, >, O WATSON SACCD ENDS FAST CONTINJED 2 AYS {Drinks Quart of Beef Broth| When Forcible Feeding Threat Is Made. | By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 15.—Niccola Sacco broke his fast today after starting upon the thirtieth day of his hunger strike by refusing breakfast. During the forenoon he took a quart of beef | broth. The end of the fast came when Dr. Joseph McLaughlin, prison physician, threatened Sacco with forcible feed- ing it he did not eat. Mrs. Rose Sacco, wife of the condemned man, and hael Musmanno of counsel for the | defense were present. For several days Mrs. Sacco has been urging her husband to eat, but he had steadily refused and started the day today in h¥§ usual manner by paying no attention to the breakfast that was brought to his cell. He drank several glasses of water, however. Although Sacco showed the effects of his long abstinence from food his condition was reported as fairly good. He is weak, but otherwise appears normal, Similar Strike Four Years Ago. #our years ago he went on a similar strike while in the Dedham jail, but brought it to an end after having been | fed forcibly. Before the arrival of Mrs. Sacco at the prison this morning Dr. McLaugh- lin had talked with the prisoner and urged him to eat. “I don’t want to,” was Sacco's reply. ‘When Mrs, Sacco arrived at the prison Warden Hendry ordered both Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti taken to the prison barber shop in the Cher- *y Hill section. Sacco and Vanzetti sat on one side of the wire screen separating prison- ers from visitors, while Mrs. Sacco, the physician and Attorney Musman: {no sat on the other. Threatened by Doctor, “The time has come, Sacco, when you must eat,” Dr. McLaughlin told him. He explained that the process was an ordinary medical treatment and then sent for the beef tea. Vanzetti joined in the pleas to Sac- co, who merely shrugged shoul- ders and insisted he did not want to. When at last the doctor told him he would have to, he gave in and as he started to drink a cupful of the broth, he held it up and said: | “Well, I hope this in no way affects | 1 have to! | the success of the case. eat under compulsion.” Appeal Up Tomorrow. | Arthur D. Till, chief of defense| counsel, is to piead for his clients to-| morrow before the State Supreme | Court. Powers Hapgood, Harvard graduate and member of a wealthy family, had to appear in a municipal court today to explain why he persisted in ad- dressing a throng on Boston Common yesterday without a permit. Hap- good, who has been active in the mine workers’ ranks, continued to harangue the crowd in favor of Sacco and Van- zetti while awaiting the patrol wagon and was unsilenced when placed in a cell Later both he and Cosmo Carvotti | of Kast Boston, charged with attempt- g to rescue him, were bailed by persons avho accompanied members of the defense committee to the station. The Citizens National Committee for Sacco and Vanzetti is attempting to | bring about presidential intervention | to open the Department of Justice | files on the case. A “study class” is to | be opened at the fashionable Beacon Hill home of Edward H. James, who | has been arrested twice for activities in behalf of the prisoners. EMBASSY EXPLAINS CASE. United States Envoy at Buenos Aires “Enlightens” Argentine Opinion. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, August |15 (#).—The United States embassy has sent to all the newspapers a com- plete account of the case of Sacco and Vanzetti to “enlighten public opinion on the subject.” State Department officials said that the only information provided to American missions abroad regarding acco-Vanzetti case was a sum- ¢ sent out two years ago and com- plete up to that time for the informa- tion of all American diplomatic officers abroad. 1t was said at the State Department { that nothing had been distributed to American embassies and legations since then, and also that the summary sent out two years ago was not specifically intended for publication. | but the use to which it might be put | was left to the discretion of the mis- sion chiefs. Radio Pragraips—Page 2. -~ Children Barred From Theaters in Paralysis Epidemic By the Associated Pres LEXINGTON, Ky., August 15.— Children under 16 years of age will be bared from Lexington theaters for an indefinite period, beginning today, as a precautionary measure against the spread of an epidemic of infantile paralysis which has broken out in central Kentucky, Dr. C. H. Voorhees, city health of- ficer, announced last night. The decision to close the theaters to children was reached after a consultation with Dr. W. L. Ay- cock, authority on infantile paraly sis, and Dr. A. T. McCormack, sec- retary of the State Board of Health. DRY FORCES FIGHT ILLICIT BREWERIES Near Beer Makers’ Protest| Brings Federal Drive on “Wildcatters.” A drive on “wildcat” was announced today by Treasury officials _after Prohibition Commis- sioner James A. Doran reported to Assistant Secretary Lowman the re- breweries !sults of an extensive inspection tour in the West. Strict check on the great breweries of the country proved that the manufacturers of near beer are holding alcoholic content below one-half of 1 per cent, it was also an- nounced. Commissioner Doran reported on the seizure and destruction of several unusually situated “wildcat” brew- eries in the West, which were caught in operation while the commissioner was on the inspection trip. The survey showed, Mr. Lowman said, that the legitimate breweries were sticking close to the law, but w protesting bitterly against the activities of the mushroom *wild- cat” breweries. These breweries, it was declared, are selling an alcoholic beer which makes serious inroads in the market for near beer. Beer Production Cut. The legitimate near-beér production at the present time, Dr. Doran es mated, about one-tenth of the total pre-war beer production. Before prohibition about 60,000,000 barrels of 31 gallons each, or nearly 2,000,000,000 gallons, of real beer was produced. The breweries which continued in tion after prohibition and switched to near-beer now are turn- bout onartenth of the pre-war | r about 6,000,000 barrels, Dr. | n estimated. The alcoholic content of heer going on the market today is being care- fully tested, not only after it has been 3eized and brought to the laboratory, Dr. Doran explained, but in certain parts of the country cruising squads of prohibition agents are testing the beer on the spot. Chicago Supply Tested. In Chicago two of these squads under Cel. E. C. Yellowley, the pro- hibition administrator, alternate day and night shifts and are on the con- stant watch for beer truck They stop the trucks and put into operation a little machine known as the ebullio- meter, which is used for detecting the alcoholic contents of the beer by boil- ng it. The instrumnet has an alcohol lamp | and thermometer to indicate the boil- ing point of the beer. As the boiling point of alcohol is 78 degrees centic grade, and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees centigrade, the agents can easily tell by boiling a small sam- ple out of one of the kegs from a truck the relative percentage of al- cohol. The lower the temperature at which the product boils and the nearer that temperature approaches “(Continued on Page 2, Column 3. FIVE ESCAPE PRISON. Jailer Locked in by Gang Fleeing Magnolia, Mise., Cells. MAGNOLIA, Miss., August 15 (#).— Five white prisoners escaped from the Pike County jail here today by over- powering the jailer, taking his gun from him and then locking him in a 1l. The men were said to have rushed at the jailer, Dan Martin, when he went to let the prisoners ex- ercise in the open air. Andrew Zawiski and Steve Boss of Chicago are said to have been the ringleaders. They were held for the alleged robbery of a McComb City store. Others who escaped were Clark Irwin, Kenneth Reid and Richard Brown, held on charges of violating the prohibition law. Sheriff Guy start- ed with a posse in search of them. ng Star. 1927 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. (OLUMBIA (UP) Means Associated Pr Boy Stays Asleep As Thieves Steal And Abandon Auto By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Kv., August 15.— Driven away unawares by a motor thief as he slept last night on the rear seat of a sedan, Ben Wilson, 6 vears old, was found four hours later, still asleep, in the abandoned car at Prospect, Ky. He was brought to his home in Louisville by county polic The hoy declared he had not awakened during the ride and he was unable to tell anything about ORVEY 1S S ! Final Report on Proposed FOURTH MAN HELD IN ROBBERY SERIES Police Claim Three Suspects| Have Confessed Parts in Burglaries. The arrest of a fourth man today | is declared by the police to have| brought nearer the solution of scores of recent safe and store robberies in the downtown business section, fol- lowing the capture Saturday night of two men after they broke through the plate glass at the Cinderalla Boot Shop, 1211 G street, in an effort to escape from the police within. | Randolph Rowlett, 35 vears old. | arrested at his home, 1483 Newton street, at 3 o'clock this morning, ad- mitted, according to the police, that he acted as lookout for the three men held in the robbery of the G | street store. 'The police also de- | clared that he confessed to a part in a safe robbery at an Old Dutch Market branch, where, he admitted, he transported burglar tools and kept watc?x outside while the burglars worked. = Although police. would not explain just how they managed to locate Rowlett, it was said that ‘“‘certain ad- missions” made by one or more of the | men already under arrest led to the fourth man’s apprehension. All four will be further questioned today regarding their activities hers and in other cities. Francis A. Kloss, 30 years old, and Edward Tate, 38 vears old, both claiming to be from New York, and Gregory Wilson, 25 years old, of New Bedford, Mass., the first three men to be captured, have confessed to robberies committed in New Bedford and in Scranton, Pa. Kloss, Wilson and Tate, according to the police, have admitted robbing Peo- ples Drug Store at Tenth and F streets also, and police are inclined to believe that these men are responsible for the veritable “wave” of safe-crack- ing in Washington business establish- | ments during the past two months. ‘With the exception of Tate, who re- ceived severe lacerations across hi abdomen when he dove through a plate glass window of the Cinderella Boot Shop yesterday, in a futile at- tempt to escape, and who is now held under guard at Gallinger Hospital. the suspects are lodged in cells at No. 1 precinct police station. N {BOMB WRECKS OFFICES | OF POLICE IN AUSTRALIA| | Fire Follows Blast Believed Due| | to Attempt to Destroy Records | of Crime at Brisbane. By the Associated Press. BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia, | August 15.—Offices of the criminal in- Vestigation department were wrecked by an explosion at midnight. The roar aroused the whole city. The roof was blown off and fragments of wreckage were hurled long distances. | A detective was severely injured. LONDON, August 15 (P).—A dis- patch from Melbourne to the Ex-| change Telegraph Co., telling of the | explosion at Brisbane, says fire fol- lowed the detonation. The explosion is attributed to a| criminal bomb outrage, believed in-| tended to destroy crime records and exhibits, many of which were dam- | aged. Two Freed in Irish Plot. LONDON, August 15 (#).—Owen Donnelly and Thomas Merrigan, the Dublin correspondent of the Press As- sociation reports, were discharged on recommendation of the police, when they reappeared in police court today in connection with a charge of con- | spiring to assassinate Kevin O'Hig- | When Nelson T. Johnson of this city. was formally installed as Assis- tant Secretary of State this morning at brief exercises by Secretary of State Kellogg, it developed that Mr. Johnson by the promotion suffers a salary cut of $1,500 a year under the pay he drew as a foreign service of- ficer, class 1. Ir. Johnson's salary in the *‘subordinate” position was $9,000, while the promotion gives him au an- nual compensation of $7,500. In extending his congratulations to the new assistant, Acting Secretary William R. Castle, expressed his re- gret over Mr. Johnson's financial loss. that the appointment of Johnson, gional basis for the first time. sistant Secretary Castle was chief of the western European division; sistant Secretary Francis White was chief of the Latin American division and Assistant Secretary Johnson was chief of the Far Eastern division. Park Asked as Dredging Nears Completion. Moving toward establishment of an- other great public park along the Po- tomac River similar,to East Potomac | Park, the National Commission of Fine Arts has asked the National Cap- ital Park and Planning Commission to make a survey of the final devel- opment of Columbia Island so that from “made” land dredged out of the bed of the river can be developed an- other great recreation park for Wash- ington. Where now lie marshy and mud- covered areas of land along the Vir- ginia shore of the Potomac River, stretching almost to the Highway Bridge, will rise another man-made island, from the northern end of which will stretch the magnificent Arling- ton Memorial Bridge. The central and southern portions, under present plans, will be given over to places of recreation. The whole scheme fits m with the plan of the Commission of Fine Arts for creation along the Virginia shore of the Potomac, between the Highway and Key Bridges, of a waterside park- way, with a magnificent roadway con- necting the two bridges and running through to tie in with the Mount Ver- non Boulevard on the south. Dredging Nearly Complete. Dredging work to make Columbian 1sland a 200-acre piece of land is now nearing completion, with most of the work going on near the south- ern end. From the northern end the piers of the new memorial bridge are moving their lengths of masonry and steel out into the middle of the | river to meet similar construction from the Potomac Park side of the | river. James L. Greenleaf, landscape architect member of the fine arts body, Is now engaged in a study of treatment of the bridge head area between Columbian Island and the east wall of Arlington National Cem- etery. East Potomac Park itself, which now is-one of the two great parks in Washington, is made from land wrested from the bottom of the river more than two decades ago. The entire Columbian Island proj- ect is expected to be well under way by 1932, the two hundredth anni- versary of the birth of George Wash- ington and the year which will find many notable projects for develop- ment of the National Capital well on toward completion. Other Projects Planned. In addition to the Columbia Island project these include the following: Completion of the Mount Vernon boulevard, tying Washington up with Mount Vernon over a magnificent stretch of roadway skirting the Poto- mac River. Completion of the Arlington Memo- ial Bridge. Completion of the Lee Highway through Arlington County over the Memorial Bridge. Completion of at least two of the monumental approaches to Washing- | ton on the western and northern axis of the Capital plan. Partial completion of several of the public buildings provided for in the public building program. 5 Completion of the plan for finish- ing the approaches to the Washington Monument, for which field work is now going on. Completion of the Anacostia Park and partial completion of the National Arboretum. All these projects are under way with the exception of the arboretum plan, Congress having failed to ap- propriate the money to purchase the Mount Hamilton and Hickey Hill areas to _carry out this scheme. Tentative plans for utilization of Columbian Island call for golf courses. tennis courts, base ball diamonds and other sporting features of the type that have made East Potomac Pa one of the most popular spots in ‘Washington. There is not yet under consideration a plan for a driveway around the island, similar to the Speed way around East Potomac Park. UNDERTOW CLAIMS FOUR. | CHICAGO, August 15 (®).—A sud- den undertow in Lake Michigan be- tween Chicago and Milwaukee yester- day swept four persons to death and periled the lives of nine others who were saved by life guards. Emil Vernon Schives, 9, and Scharje, 20 of Chicago, drowned along | beaches here; while at Milwaukee Les- lie Gossen of Milwaukee lost his life endeavoring to rescue his nephew, John Hall, 13 of Flint, Mich., who also was drowned when caught by the undercurrent. Nelson Johnson's Salary Reduced $1.500 Through State Department Promotion ary of his entry into the foreign ser- vice as a student interpreter in Chipa. The installation ceremonies were at- tended by members of the official s'Aff and a few personal friends of Mr. By the appointment of Mr. Johnson the State Department or- ganization Is put on a practical Are~ s- As- ‘Therefore, each of them is especially well informed on the affairs of those as fast as the papers are printed. TWO CENTS. LOWER TAX RATE FOR WASHINGTON IS HELD POSSIBLE Lord’s Estimates, $2,500,- 000 Below Requests, Ex- pected to Cost Less. | SUPPLEMENTAL LIST | MAY BE ALLOWED !Lnter Hearings on Needs of Dis- | trict May Result in Some ! Changes of Figures. Washington's present tax rate of $1.70 would not have to be increased {and possibly might be reduced slightly | next. year on the b: of the report from the Summer White House, at Rapid City, that Budget Director Lord | has fixed a limit on District estimates for the next fiscal year, it was indi- cated at the District Building today. | It was pointed out that the tenta- ive esimates amouning to $41,997,000 | were submitted to the budget office some time ago on the theory that that amount could be taken care of on the $1.70 rate. Gen. Lord’s announcement in Rapid City means that approxi- mately $2,500,000 will' have to be cut from that tentative total. District of- ficials were not prepared today to speculate as to the exact effect on the tax rate of limiting the next Dis- trict appropriaion bill to $39,500,000, but it is believed that such a limit on next year's expenditures would tend in | the direction of a lower rate. Supplemental List Permitted. Although the fixing of this limita. tion of $39,500,000 means the cutting of $2,500,000 from the tentative fig- ures, it has been customary in the past few years for the Budget Bureau to permit the Commissioners the priv | lege of submitting a list of supple- mental items made up of the most im- |portant amounts looped from the tentative estimates in bringing them down to the Budget Bureau limita- tions, and there is always the pos- sibility that before the budget finally | oes to Congress the total might be raised somewhat. The Commissioners will not begin the task of blue penciling the tenta- tive estimates until they receive a let- ter from Gen. Lord containing official notification of the limitation that has been fixed. If the practice of recent years is adhered to this year, there will be a list of urgent accompanying the | timates when they are submitted to { the Budget Bureau about the middle | of September. i Next Step Is Hearings. The next step after that is the | hearings before the Budget Bureau, ! at which the Commissioners and their | department heads explain not only the need for the sums asked for in the regular estimates, but also the rela- tive merits of the regular items and the supplementals. These hearings may result in some change in the total of District estimates ultimately to be submitted to Congress. The Budget Bureau may, for instance make further changes in the revise} regular estimates in order to reinset some of the projects placed on the supnlemental list. When the final budget reaches tI appropriations committees of th House and Senate still further visions usually are made. Because these various stages through which the estimates must go before the next appropriation bill becomes law Dis- trict officials hesitate to comment on the probable affect on the tax rate next year as a result of the limitation Just announced by Gen. Lord, other than to venture the suggestion that since the tentative estimates were pre. pared with a view to keeping the tax rate from exceeding $1.70 a substan- tial cut in those estimates would at least be in the direction of a slight reduction. Last year the tentative estimates of | the Commissioners amounted to $42 | 091,225 and the Budget Bureau at that | time ordered a reduction of $3,600,000 in the tentative figures. The Com- missioners, therefore, have a less dif- ficult task before them this year than they had a year ago in curtailing the tentative estimates. —_— 24 MEN INJURED | AS BUS OVERTURNS |Six of Victims Near Hagerstown May Die—Brakes Fail in Descending Hill. | Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., August 15.— | Twenty-four men were injured, six | probably fatally, when a bus turned over at Weverton, in the lower sec- | {inn of Washington County this morn- { ing. The men were employes of the | Baltimore and Ohio transfer sheds at Brunswick, and had been picked up along the route from Keedysville. Those who are not expected to sur- vive are: Jesse Nichols, Rohrsville, Md., in- | ternal injuries. T. F. Ridenour, Brownsville, shoul- | der broken and internal injurie Paul Miller, Rohrsville, internal ine juries. Theodore Griffith, Hagerstown, inter- nal injuries. Harry Easton, Rohrsville, back probably broken. J. R. Thompson, Boonsboro, ankle and head crushed. All were treated on the scene, and Griffith was brought to the hospital here, the other seriously injured being taken to their homes. Samuel Snyder, driver and operator of the bus, said his brakes failed to work as he was descending a hill on the main Washington highway, and the bus gained momentum, dashing across the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at a curve at the rate of 50 miles an hour and over- turning at the bottom of the hill. All of the 24 occupants were injured. but some were able to extricate others from the wreck. Passers-by stopped, particular regions of the world which are submitted to their. special consid- He recallt Mr, Jol n as Assistant Secreta eration as assistants to the head of the | vas - n the twentieth annivers-|department. & summoning physicians and nurses, and lending aid in removal of the vie./ tims. The accident. occurred about ¥ - dor*. L RS, S IR e