Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1927, Page 1

. Goebel Increases Flying T WEATHER. 10. 8. Weather Bureau Forscast ) Cloudy. with occasional showers to- night and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. —THighest, S§1, at 4:30 ay; lowest, 63, at § a.m. Full report on page 9. | Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 ch ¢ Foen e o. 30,423, Entersd as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D WEDNESDAY ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITIONg AUGUST ’ it ¢ 1927 —THIRTY-SIX PAGES. - 17, "WOOLAROC LEAD 491 MILES FROM HONOLULU; to Hold Advantage Over Rivals in Transpacific Hop. .POSITIONS OF OTHER CRAFT NOT CLEARED BY REPORT Advices Radioed by Steamships Indicate Machines Cannot Land Before Late This Afternoon. By the Associated Prece. WHEELER FIELD, HONOLULU, August 17.—The flight plane Woolaroc, reported by the steamship City of Los Angeles at 8:39 am. (Pacif as 491 miles from this city, was expected by aviation officia ight at Wheeler Field at about 2:30 o'clock Pacific time (3 o'clock Washington time). Wheeler Field, 25 miles from lHonolulu, was surrounded by thousands of antomobiles, and a crowd estimated at more than 15,000 impatiently waited to greet the flvers. Eight planes took off from Luke Field, used by the Army and Navy, in Pearl Harbor, to escort the Dole flyers to land. Other Planes Nearing Island. Three other Dole planes were reported also approaching this Island of Oahu in the contest for the prizes of $25,600 and $10,000 offered by James D. Dole for first and second planes to land in the 2,400-mile flight from Oakland, Calif.,, which began at noon yes- terday. They were believed not far from the Woolaroc. The Woolaroc, the one plane carrying radio transmitting ap- paratus, was the only one actpall) ) the moonlight ships at sea had discerned other planes passing overhead during the night. Other Ships Sight Planes. These were believed to be the Aloha, with Martin Jensen of | Honolulu as pilot and Paul Schluter of San Francisco navigator the biplane Miss Doran, driven by John A. Pedlar, navigated by Lieut. V. R. Knope, and bearing Miss Mildred Doran, Flint, Mich., school teacher, as passenger, and the Golden Tagle, piloted by Jack Frost and navigated by Gordon Scott. the | fiyers caused two planes o take off il o F i Army aviation ateamship City of Los Angeles and |from Luke Iield, the v a $he steamship Manulani Guring the |field in Pearl Harbor, to escort them “ht were thought by ships’ officers | to their landing plice. They were fol-| Jo be the Aloka, Golden agie and [lowed closely by six other escorting | the Miss Doran, although their identi- (planes. The appearance in the sky | fvine signs-could not be distinguished, | of the Army planes’ from Lutke Field | Yiach steamer reported two planes |caused a veritable stampede among | passing over. The steamers were 150 | the crowds at Wheeler Field. miles apart. At 3:15 o'clock huge Army search-| The steamship Manulani radioed |lights were turned on for the first, that she had sighted two planes at|time during the night. Brilliant 2 a.m. today (4:30 aan., San Francis- | shafts rrchm lhv| ha:‘l-nn}}lmnv(-umlh‘-l ro tin 3 identify the |power lights plerced the sky, in| Cime). She Qi not ientify the | yhicn g few stray clouds had drifted On the basis of radioed reports, the | down from the Waiane Woolaroe was estimated to be 620 | Range. Heavy Clouds Form. suiles from Honolulu at 5:30 zrn,j cal time. Goebel within an hour | s s e oo 5| Toward the east, over the Koolan | Range, heavy clouds were forming. was estimated to have flown i cing his probable arrival at {,(“}]::l:rwrl:::li ]1‘; mn.;n., it was said. | The clouds over Diamond Head, the Honolulu time is two and a ha!ll;ffl"‘_ l;;;l al to Honolulu, appeared to our: cli an San Frapcisco | be lighter. A e . | Noisy crowds stumbled over the | grounds, waiting on the morning. time. | ANl races in the Territory were repre- ¢ sented. Japanese women in kimonos, | Chinese women in jackets and ‘“pa- | jama pants,” Polynesians and Ko- reans, “Haoles” or Anglo-Saxons and ! Filipinos- waited to see the flvers ar- Planes which passed over | Mountain | Reported 730 Miles Out. A radiogram from the liner City o Y.0s Angeles to the Wahiawa wireless station said that the monoplane Woolaroc was 730 miles from its des- tination here at 4:30 a.m. Honolulu |rive. The women's varied costum time, today. | contrasted with the strictly The liner reported that the Wool- | can clothes of the men. fiving in the transpacific air | Y ¥ it for which prizes of 33,000 are | WOOLAROC SHOWS WAY. ake, radioed her position as | — ] about 100 miles ahead of the steam- | Miss Doran Believed Close Upon Heels whip, which was some $30 miles {rom | e —— Honolulu, | On the basis of radio reporis. the! SAN FR ISCO, August 17 (#) Army aleulated that the erage The transpacific air racers soared speed of the Woolaroe since leaving | on through the clouds foday, omkland was 83 miles an hour. They ently in a neck-and-neck struggle for \ated that the plane would | firs’ honors in the first great aviation Yive at Wheeler Field, 25 miles from | derby over the 2400-mile course be- tween the mainland and Honolulu, in this city, about 11 Honoluln - e a time (1:30 pm, Francisco | which $35,000 in prize money is at stake. time). Another message picked up by the il Fave Nix posi- | 1ong journey was in front of at least o Toaeific Const time, ap- | one of the pilots at 4 am., Pacific e m Honolulu, | tme--Art Goebel, in the monoplane 4 ted “everything r | Woolaroe, reporting by radio he was Goebel reported “everything running | 2 /P Sun SO0 RE T en out: Min o lains the Tole | plane is the cnly one of the four still S Il R in the race equipped with radio send- ot were F4portEl by D veir | ing_equipment. pamed the bhalt-way mark le ihe Two other contestants were sighted z;4ll’v-m41-h s tndio trans- | bevond the halfway mark by steam- None of the three carried radlo J27E | ers plving the great circle shipping o { their course. They were thought to 3 a;llng the flight to the island of |}, 5 "o nes Aloha, piloted by Mar- Oahu. tin Jensen, and Golden Kagle, driv Thi aroe were the Golden Eagle, piloted by | " by Jack t Jack Frost and navigated by Gordon Seott: the Miss Doran, honored by the | presence as passenger of Mildred Doran, school teacher of Flint, Mich W piloted by J. Auggy Pedlar, with Tieut, V. It, Knope as navigator, and the Aloha. hope of Honolulu, piloted by Martin Jensen and navigated by »aul Schluter. Honolulu Flight Mad. Honoliln m., n of planes contesting with the Wool Miss Doran Close Behind. vers believed the fourth Doran, in which Miss Mildred Doran is a passenger, wa following the trail of the We The M Doran followed the pace setters after losing an hour and a half through a forced landing after the take-off yesterday The steamers City of Tos Angeles 1nd Manulani, approximately half wa between the mainland and Hav Official obs racer, the Mis All through the night, gone flight mad, watched and waited | each had reported two p for bulletins of the progress of the | over during the night. The nerial race. Several hundred automo-| comses placed them about 180 miles hile occupants, huddled in their s apart on a northsouth Jine, and ob- were parked about the Wheeler Fi crvers here believe that the planes miles from this city, | were fi in pairs. Jack Frost's & schedt i Jden Eagle and Martin Jens Ise-| Aloha to the south and Arthur Gobel in the Woolaroc and 1. A lar and Mise Mildred Doran in Miss Doran,” on the north. The two planes on the southern route were abont 125 miles south of a divect course, officials at the Navy radio station here figured. Dispatches from Honoluln said Army headquar ters there believed all four planes vere within range of the radio he con, two following the northein edg of the & @\ and two the southern, Fear Loss of Course. o the race W inless a plane was forced d whers on this island of Oah Before 5 a.m., George Bustard man of the welcoming committee mated that the crowd had increased to between 10,000 and 12800 with 5,000 automobiles parked ne feld. Hie Thought. 3,000 more would make the v u the Army Military Ped the chair est nes ¥ il to traffi rolled the no delays o veported. The f ralding the appr were visible over the m Field shortly be avy radio officials here agreed th tore A few minutes later | planes might be inside the radio be the ranges began to stand | con field, but feared that the Jwo on the heainst the sky. Diamond beads | the soutbern course were fn the futting out boldly into the Pacific “pocket” where Lieuts, Lester Mait- \ere hidden from sight, but with that | land and Alhert Hegenberger, who exception the Virtually was clear | made the Golden Gate-Honolulu flight, s e | were unable to hear the signals. If i such should be the cade, or if the radio sets on the two southerly planes should get out of order, the radio of. Is 1egarded it as questionable | whether Frost and Jensen would get back on their course. One of the chief dangers of the said all off who discussed ach wn tains east of Wheeler mountain Field Well Lighted. tely lighted by nd additional Army. with the duty of d for the | o he field was comp new o 1i the ook Dole | Iv reporting its position, but in | Ameri-| Less than a thousand miles of the | iaroe, | S AIR RACERS PLANES SIGHTED LOGS OF DOLE FLIGHT PLANE Br the Assoviated Proes TUL Monoplane Gold Al DAY, August 16, Tugle 1akes off a takes off, » takes off, rallones. n takes off on second attempt 5 p.m—Motorship Silver Iir, 155 miles out, reports Aloha head, north of divect course. 2:43 p.m.—Miss Doran reporied passing Farallomes ) p.m.—S. 8. Wilhelmina reports Aloha pulling south toward direct course. i 5 pan.—Destroyer Meyer reports Aloha 200 miles out, still 35 miles north of course. 4:00 pam.—Destroyer Hazelwood reports Woolaroc 270 miles out 4:35 pan.—S. 8. Wilhelmina reports message from Waolaroe 300 miles ont, 800 pm.- 80 pam ont. 11:30 p.m.— ont at Oukland airport. Monoplane over- 300 miles ont. Woolaroc De De MeDonough reports Woolaroc Corry reports message from troyer troyer miles Dextroyer Corry reports message from Woolaroe 750 miles WEDNESDAY a.m Manulani reports two planes, believed the Wools nd Mi edge of course, to ha approximately pidway, am— 8. 8. City of Los Angeles reports in messages received hy the Army Signal Corps, Honoluli, fwo planes, believed the Golden Fagle and Alohx, on the southern edge of the course, approximately midway. 4:00 a.m.—S. 8. Manukai reports Woolaroe 1,485 miles on her cour: All times are Pacific standard, which is three hours earlier than W ington and two and a half hours later than Honolulu time, FARM MARKET SITE} VACATING IS ASKED August 17 through th Army 2:00 $ Doran, e nal Corps on ‘northern 2:10 Ambulance Driver | On Trouble Quest Injures 3 Soldiers| | 1 By the Associated Pross WHEELER FIELD, Oahu Is Iand, August 17.—Look for troubie and you are sure to find it, one am- bulance driver believes. Driving his vehicle on to the flying field here {0 be ready for emergency service when the Dole dash ends he piloted his machine over three sleeping soldiers, The soldiers, the first Dole cas uaities on the Isiand, were quickl placed in the ambulance and rushed to the hospital. | { Treasury Calls on D. C. Heads | to Find How Soon Area Can Be Cleared. Relocation of the Farmers' Market, | 2 problem that has been waiting for | | the return of Congress, loomed as an | urgent matter today when the Treas- | ury Department asked the District | Commissioners for information as 1o | | the ear date on which the land | now occupied by the farmers can be vacated in order to permit work to be | started on the new Internal Revenue | COMMISSIONERS HEAR | NEW STREETS PLAN | triet authorities not only brought the = Area Extending to Albermarle and | market question into the foreground, | | bhut revealed at the same time that the Treasury is ready to make a start soon | on the triangle building progvam. Wants Entire Space. When the moving of the Farmers' | stand was being considered last ¥all | the understanding was that at the out- | | set the farmers would have to vacate only the west half of the site, which -xtends from Tenth to T | between B and Little B streets. In his letter to the Commissioners today, James A. Wetmore, acting | supervising architect, advises the city | heads that the Government is now de- | in the highway plans | : { ghway plans in other sec sirous of having possession of the | may he (aken up by the Netiom] [ entire space at the earliest convenient | Capital Park and Planning Commis ate. sion at its monthly meeting ¥ District officials were not prepared | (he District Commiseioners i to state today what reply they would | o make their reco B be able to make to the Treasury. The | that time. Eos o Enadiions, market is operated by the office of | Other areas in whi 3 office e which certain changes | weights and measures, and _in view | in tha lines of Droposed streer nees of “the fact that Commissioner | considered follow: Property in . the { Dougherty, who supervises that de- | northwest along hoth aides of Vol { partment. is on vacation, it was not | place between Forty-second and Fouts. | certain this morning what immediate | fourth streets, which is proposed io step the District Building would take. | Le eliminated from fhe plan: property Earlier Hearing Probable. i::,’l;&; I‘H)rlll“P.“l along Twenty-seventh hearing some time in October to con-| he affected by pending changes: pro sider the market problem, in erty in the southwest in |‘n:x n'mw rdance i rectio; rive b B e {ieornange Fith Fihe Sl ton e Vel | Bstinven iy Gl vestoni atrat St "mund F .l»-ll;»llp 's’ui ol Ja( nT\: | ('apitvll A iy "N";m‘ Lot 2l s ! econd street, and in the northwest | | b ay In allf avenue, Georgia avenue, Kalmia roa probability will canse them to give 3 ue, Kalmia road | { earlier thought to this question. and Sixteenth street. | "The urgent feature of the matter, — - RAILROAD MESSENGER! i DRUGGED AND ROBBED i provision could be made for | Youth, Found Unconscious, Claims mers if the entire space from | Twelfth has to be given up Bandits Took Mail Pouch. | — S | st | 47th Streets Considered Among Proposed Changes. A proposed layout of new streets on the highway plan in the area bounded by Ailbemarle, Forty-seventh, Massa- chusetts avenue, Nebraska avenue, University terrace, Little Falls road and the reservoir grounds was con- | | velith streets | | sidered by the District Commissioners | at a hearing today., These and a number of other changes | | | o | | | | ress has time to provide | | funds for a new farmers’ market? The controller general ruled some- time that the appropriation made Ly Congress {o begin the Internal Revenue Building can be used to take down the sheds which shelter the ex- isting farmers’ row, but cannot be used 1o erect them again at some tem- porary location. George M. Roberts, superintendent | | of weights and measures, said he | would refrain from discussing _the N E g | problem until the Commissioners have | },PB’“ ’l“\ ROUGE, La., August 17.— | time to consider this latest develop. | Re&inald- Freeman, 16.vear-old mes- ment. |senger for the Yazoo and Mississippi Contest on Sites Developed. Valley Railroad, was found uncon- s (Ol RGIHe LS Nist WiRtee Jsenti| RCLOUB ia L HE. (GAbPIST GARIY. Hoday a bill to Congress which would told police two men had jahbed a autho them to select the drug into his arm with a needle and & new drécmers: MarCeia a ¢ robbed him of a bag in which he car- 500,000, Hearings at the fed Rh il e 8 | however, developed into a keen con. “"L“'“"’“‘"" mail to the post office. | test hetween advocates of different » sald the men accosted him in | propoxed localities, with the result!front of the State Capitol here yes. | Dropoed oo, o o womt. terday and all he remembered was [Tion that the Commissioners should | (hat he was thrown into an automo- | vecommend a definite location to Con-|bile. 1le regained consciousness this | {gress in December of this year. morning on the hanks of a river near | S 16 miles from here. | the youth's arm indicated vear recom-| 7 Jovalities foom | that & needle had been used. mely: 1In in the near the wale mid-city site, generaliy | the market at Fifth | At the hearings he- | By the Associated Press. ning Commission mended three gene: which to choose a the vicinity of | fro and a regarded a= near land K streets, Lindbergh Hops Off in Fog. ST. LOUIS, August 17 (®).—Resum.- | ing his transcontinental air toursun i der the auspices of the (iuggenheim fore the Senate District committee [fund for the promotion of aeronautics, | proponents of the water front and|CoL Charles A. Lindbergh hopped off Those favoring a site somewhere be-|from Lambert-St. Louis fiving fleld in tween midwity and Eckington made|a heavy mist and fog at 10:34 am. to- earnest efforts to have their respec.|day, bound for Kansas City. tive localities approved. Even if Congress legislation s after it meets provid ing funds 0 new Farmers' Mar- ket, it would take some time (o pre- | pare plans and complete construction. If it should develop that the Govern- | ent wants possession of the present | market site hy the end of this calendar year or early in. 1 it appeared {today that the District authorities { wouid have to give some consideration | to providing a_temporary arrangement | for the furmers Trade Best in Last Summer. | Records at the District Building in dicate that the @ of produce is at |itx height at the Farmers' Market dur- {ing August, September and October, followed by a decline from November [to March. In the fiscal year 1926, for | example, there were 9,908 loads of pre {duce on’ the market in August, 7,698 saptember. and practieally the same | | \ should enact | | New Sersal Starts TaJay in The Star on Page 23 i | “Lady Slipper By Ella Wister Haines Author of “Mysterious Sw retheart” A yivid realistic, intriguing mystery love story of today | 1 sait2d approach of the Doly ~ (Coptigusd on Page & myém s (Continued on Page 3, Columa N ¥ CITIZENS PROTEST | Appearance of Former Film| | of these were unsigned and that sev-| M. Bla | viduals | wanted him and will not have him.” | That | THOUGHT fi&s HAg IRE MY Apple Tree Owner Electrocuted by Trap Set for Boys ARBUCKLE VISIT By the Associated Press, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, August 17.—Roys stealing apples from a tree in his back yard exasperated Delbert Lambrix, 25 years old, so he circled it with barbed wire con- nected to a “live” electric light wire, Monday Lambrix brushed against the fence and was electrocuted, 'POMERENE TO SEEK WITNESSES’ RETURN Teapot Dome Counsel Sails in Hope of Getting Former 0il Officials. Comedian on Stage Here Strongly Opposed. ¥mphatic protests, both from organ- izations and individuals, have been voiced against the appearance on the stage of a local theater Saturday of | Roscoe Arbuckle, former een | comedian, who was involved in a | scandal on the Pacific Coast several years ago. The management of the theater, however, announced that, acting in | accordance from instructions from the | New York hooking office which con- | trols the attractions presented here, | Arbuckle would begin a week's en-| gagement Saturday as scheduled origi- nally. By the ated Press. NEW YORK, August 17.—Atlee Pomerene, counsel for the Govern- Protest Letters Received. ment in the Sinclair-Fall conspiracy It was stated at the theater that the | trial, was bound for Kurope today, Arbuckle act was' not bookad for | hopeful of effecting the return of two w”‘v‘““"f:'":h";‘“('h'"° x:]a‘in office was | witnesses who have been sought since convinces A e public 'wanted 0 ", s6s him: basing lts. conviction on. the |1 Atart of the Teapat: Dome investl; reception he is said to have received | Bation. Before sailing at midnight with Mrs. in the 25 cities in which he has ap-| peared. the former Ohio Senator | Pomerene, Although admitting that more than | said the Government probably would a dozen letters of protest had heen | tse new law, permitting United received at the theater, the manag tates consuls to serve subpoenas in ment stated today that the majority | foreign countries, to summon Harry ckmer, formar chairman of the their per-| board of the Midwest Refining Co., sonal approval of his appearance here, | and James 1. O'Neil, former president while s had applauded the ad-|of the Prairie Oil & Co., back to vance announcement of his coming. | the Uniied States. Blackmer was last flashed on the sereen. | traced to Monaco and O'Neil was Representatives of prominent or-|thought to b2 in Czechoslovakia. ganizations, however, as well as indi-| Jailure to obey summons, Mr. Pom- have protested against the |erene said, makes the witness liable to nce of the former acte |2 $100,000 fine, which may be collected by levy on the witnesses' property in this country. The oil litigation already has been a hly remunerative undertaking for Government, Mr. Pomerena as- serted. Between §6.000.000 and $7,- 1 000,000 has been received from the California Naval Reserve, formerly held by the Doheny interests. | added $13,000.000 is yet to be paid for | 0il taken from the reserve during the | Doheny ney. eral patrons had signified appear: Parent-Teachers (Dpnm:«l, Speaking formally o the motion District_of |h the chairman of picture committee of the Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations, and also as chairman of the public welfare committee of the District of Columbi Federation of Women's Clubs, Mr William J. LaVarree stated tod those committees as well ganizations which they represent are unalterably opposed to his appear- ance here, Indignant at reports that Arbuckle had heen invited to attend the jubilee at Silver Spring urday, incident to the opening of the new State armory there, the committee in charge of the celebration, including officers of the Silver Spring Kire Department OF RACE, SAYS WORK | e il and the Chamber of Commerce, met | . last night and emphatically denied | Secretary Declares Coolidge Is that any invitation had been extend- | Happy Over Recent ed tp him. “We do not want him, never have i Decision. e 'PRESIDENT IS OUT stated Capt. Frank 1. Hewitt, spokesman for the committee, Manager Is Surprised. Sidney Cohan, personal representa- tive of Arbuckle, stated today that he was at a loss to understand the pro- test which has arisen in Washi against his coming here. stated that this is the first city where | President. his appearance has been protested and | “Anybody who has seen said that he was welcomed cordially | have no doubt about his position,” he by audiences in Cleveland 110, | added. “The President meant what BOai0n s Do e he said. He has signed off and is as and other cities. - 2 G kgt With other letters received Ly The [PPPY 08 & boy out of school. 3 Star, commenting favorably on its | Secretary Work declined to predict Siitorial hrotesting the appearance | Who would he the Republican nominee, here of Arbuckle, is the following: but jobserven that) Eecretany: Hooyer “The officers of the National Kduca. | had “a fine record.” . o R et lon wish to commend The | He said he had never seen conditions | ivening Star for ity attitude regard- | More prosperous in the West and huckle. At the time of the notorious [ (0% ",'”;“:l;.;m;';:_ef"r::p:;v]‘l:a pio and tragic episode in California the |lem. ‘The e are happy and pros- s.mrw.lgr:du}vmiun Association joined | PEYOUs. C'rops are 1"1")‘(!“'[.‘]1'""‘{ nu;-gs other civic and women's organizations | 21d there s a better spirit in this {FoUEHoNE. tRe). Nation: i) protestmp:| COUNTEY tHAE T Have CHHOWIL -k against the showing of Arbuckle films. | i these protests were effective is | shown by the fact that the films have | not appeared We believe these ef- forts to return Arbuckle to the stage are merely preliminary steps toward another attempt to bring him back to ich will be resented by high-minded citizens who believe that motion pictures should be kept on a high plane. “We like to believe that the theater is one of the great educative forces in modern life_and has much influence on the ideals of young people. The Jvening Star can render'no greater service than to lead in this movement to keep the Washingtor stage clean. We cannot believe that Washington citizens will be willing to patronize a place sponsoring such a feature. “J. W. CRABTREE, “Secretary National Education Asso- ciation.” | By the Associated Press. There is not the slightest doubt about President Coolidge being out of the presidential race, Secretary Work as- | serted today upon his return from the West, where he conferred with the him will NICARAGUAN REéEL BAND | LOOTS VILLAGE STORES Political Chief Reports Gen. Sal- gado and 20 Followers Raid- ing Merchants. By the Associated Press. | MANAGUA, Nicaragua, August 17.— | Gen, Jose Ramon Tellez, political chiet | of the department of Nueva Segovia, | reported today that the bandit leader Gen. Carlos Salgado with his followers looted the village of Somoto, forcing merchants to give up merchandise and money. One civilian, Federico Valez- quez, was killed and several were in- Jured. o be‘ien' Salgado with 20 followers has : n operating in the northwest de- Labor Agitator Loses Plea. partments of Nicaragua since the de- MANILA, August 17 (P).—A writ of | feat of the former liberal Gen. San- habeas corpus was today denied to [dino at the hands of United States Tan Malakka, alias Felix Fuentes, a | Marines and white constabulary last Japanese labor agitator arrested a |night. ‘r::lfl;‘\ l& by the elnnl:tahll.ry as a T e shevik suspect. It is expected » be will ba W}A : — Star. He | as fast as the papers (®) Means Associated Press, TAXI REGULATIO UPHELD BY COURT | | | Judge Hitt Rules Commission- ers Have Power to Fix Stopping Places. Tudge Tsaac R. Hitt in Police Court | today upheld constitutional the | Commissioners’ police regulation pro- | | hibiting taxicabs from stopping or| loitering on the public streets at places | other than designated public hack stands, cxcept for the purpose of ad- | mitting or discharging passengers. The test case was brought before | him following thie arrest yesterday aft- | ernoon of William B. Wolfe of Ben- | ning, D. C., taxicab driver, by Police- | man P, L. Barnes. Upon arraignment | Attorney W. C. Fowler, representing | Wolfe, made a formal motion attack- ing the validity of the law and alleg- ing it repugnant to the fifth amend- ment to the Constitution in that it de- prived his client of due process of law as to his liberty and property. Regulation Held “Arbitrary.” Fowler, in argument, classed regulation as “arbitrary” and made without right by the Commissioners. He contended they had the right to regulate, but not to prohibit such stop- ping or loitering by public vehicles. He pointed out that only two public hack stands are assigned in the down- town section, capable of accommodat- ing only 18 taxicabs, whereas approxi- mately 1,600 are in daily operation. This, he contended, transgressed the regulatory power of the Commission- ers and became a prohibitory matter. Fowler also contended that discrimi- nation was permitted and practiced by the Commissioners, who allowed cer- tain hotels to maintain hack stands for certain classes of vehicles. He termed the law “class legislation.” Assistant Corporation Counsel R. B. Keech contended that the regulation was not class legislation, and that the matter of taxicabs outside of ho tels was a distinet matter from the case before the Court. Judge Hitt, in an oral opinion, stated | that he found no discrimination as | far as the public hack stands were | concerned, since the cabs of all com- panies might occupy them; that he found no discrimination as far as| the law itself was concerned. since it prohibited all vehicles from loitering on the public street | He accordingly overruled the motion. Attorney Fowler noted an exception | to the ruling and announced later t | the case would be brought up on ap- | peal for a test. Drivers Here Organized. While the plans for the court test of the rights of Commissioners to ban taxicabs from parking space except in the specified public hack stands by a police regulation, were being laid last night, a taxi drivers’ union was being | organized at 1006 E, with Organizer J. Ed Toone of the American Kede tion of Labor presiding over a meeting. According to Toone, more than 200 applications were on file this morning from employes of verious companies in the District. A set of officers had heen elected by the meeting as follo Louis Cavaliere, president: J. A. Street, secretary, and Harry C. Davis, treas- | urer. The taxicab union is now ready to function here, Toone said. 1ts mem- bership is not restrictive to any em- ployes of any company, but all work- ing taxicab drivers will be welcomed to the ranks. Plan Improved Conditions. The purpose of the union will he to | better working conditions of taxicab ! drivers in the District, Toone said, and to seek immediate remedies for any tem in force directly affecting the union men disadvantageously. The Police Department, relying | upon the validity of the regulation providing for the establishment of hack stands for operators of public | vehicles in Washington, has already the | Pukow Captured ! Northern Chinese | have heen mobilized. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system” covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,896 TWO CENTS. U. 3. MARINES HELD IN'READINESS FOR CRISIS AT SHANGHA Seizure of British Plane by Chinese - Causes In- creased Tension, | NATIONALIST FGRCES HASTEN TOWARD CAPITAL and Nanking Shelled as Foreigners Flee to Boats. By the Associated Press SHANGHAL China, August 17 American Marines here were confined to their quarters tonight in prepara- tion for a possible emergency as the result of the suddenly increased ten- sion between the British and Cpinese arising out of the seizure of the wings of a British airplane by the Chinese authorities yesterday. NANKING MENACE Army Advanced After Taking Pukow. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 17 (#).—Northern Chinese forces this morning captured Pukow, Reuter's reports, and this afternoon were bombarding Nanking, across the Yangtze. British subjects were evacuating from Nanking to British war vessels lying along the south bank of the river. The Exchange Telegraph's Shang- hai correspondent, forwarding a simi- lar report, adds: “Five broken columns are fleeing toward Shanghai, where volunteers The Shanghai force has occupied the defenses, re- built the barriers and cut the railway. It §s rumored that the Cantonese are attempting a similar coup at Han- kow.” Dispute Over Airplane. Reuter's correspondent, recording the occupation of the defense posts and the cutting of the railway, savs these measures were taken on orders from M Gen. John Duncan, British commander. The action followed re- fusal by the Chinese commissioner for foreign affairs, Quo Tai-Chi, to give up the wings of a British military air- plane which came down on the Kiang- wan golf course, outside the interna. tional settlement yesterday. A royal air force party dismantled the plane after the landing and re- moved parts of it to the settlement. When they returned for the wings the Chinese military authorities re- fused to surrender them without orders from their superiors. A request for delivery of the wings, made this morning by Maj. Gen. Dun- can, through the British consul gen- eral, met with a blank refusal. Ths general gave a time limit, but the wings were not surrendered, where- upon troops renccupied their posts on the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Rail- way and cut the railway south of Soo- chow Cree €. C. Wu, minister of foreign af- fairs for the Nanking Nationalist gov- ernment, declared tonight: “The Brit- sh are criminals in the eyes of the Chinese and international law as re- gards their aviation policy in China. We intend to use this incident to force a showdown in the matter of flights in China. We intend to hold ths wings. We have not the force to meet British imperialism, but we intend to let the world know what they are doing.” . An offer by the French consul gen- eral, M. Naggier, to act as mediator in the case was refused by the Chi- nese. BRITISH MAN DEFENSES. Attack on International Settlement Is Feared. The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 18 SHANGHAT, August 17.—British troops were called out this afternoon to man barricades in the vicinity of the northern boundaries of the inter- ional settlement, and volunteer ma- chine gunners and tank corps members were ordered to stand by when a strained situation threatened to coms to a rapid climax with the advance upon Shanghai of six trainloads of Southern troops. The Nationalist forces are retreating from Nanking, having left there when Northern troops of Sun Chuan-Fang captured Pukow, on the north bank of the Yangtze, and bombarded Nan- King. French authorities closed barricades between the French concession and the native city this afternoon when it was learned that four rival Chinese gen- erals had arrived in the native city and were threatening to stage a pri- vate war of their own added by local Communist worker: Local authorities were confronted with the possibility of uprising within d an attack from without when sev- eral thousand Nationalist troops ap- proached the city. They hastily called a miltary conference and British forces took up posts along the bound- aries. The Nationalists, who are due ibout 10 o'clock tonight, are reported to be without control of leaders. In the meantime, hundreds of refu- gees from Nanking are streaming into the settlement. Owing to the action of the British in cutting the railway running south- By Cable to | and Indicating that the police regula- recommended the establishment of 202 | such hack stands. ! W. W. Bride, corporation counsel, | has rendered an opinion to the Com: missioners stating that they had the power to regulate the parking of taxi- cabs and hacks on the public streets ward, the Nationalists will be bottled up when they arrive here and there is a strong probability that they will attempt to storm their way into the foreign settlements. SHIPS CF;ASH IN RIVER. DETROIT, August 17, (#).—A near- panic among 300 passengers on the Detroit-to-Windsor ferry Britannia re- sulted last night when the boat was rimmed by the lake freighter James &. Ferris in the Detroit River here. A score of passenger boats came to the assistance of the disabled ferry and the combined crews succeeded in safely removing the passengers. The Britannia, which was struck above the water line on the port side, was able to reach Windsor under her own steam. The James E. Ferris was not damaged. A misinterpretation of signads is helieved to have been re- sponsible for the collisiom hl tion against lotering or stopping by taxicabs on the public streets, at place other than an established public hack stand and for a purpose other than to admit or discharge a passen- ger, was valid and capable of enforce- ment. . WOULD IMPOUND BALLOTS An appeal by the contestants them- selves to the Common Pleas Courts of Pennsylvania to impound the ballots cast in the senatorial election of 1926 was decided upon here today at a con- ference in which William B. Wilson, the Democratic contestant, and rep- resentatives of Senator-elect Vare participateds _ | oiiace o