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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Partly cloudy to slightly warmer tonight. —Highest, 78, at noon Temperature! today; lowest, 56, Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 No. BROCK AND SCHLEE - LAND AT BELGRADE ~ ONWAYTOTURKEY Expect to Complete 1,000- Mile Hop to Constantinople : Later Today. 30,436. FEW SEE DEPARTURE AFTER NIGHT IN MUNICH Flyers Circle Field Three Times Be- | fore Heading Eastward—Honor | Guests at Dinner. By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, August 30.—The round-the-world mono- plane Pride of Detroit, piloted by Willlam S. Brock and Edward F. Bchlee, landed here at 12:03 o'clock this afterncon from Mu- nich, Germany. An immense crowd, including the American consul and many prom- fnent Jugoslav officials. greeted the flyers after their perfect land- ihg, completing the third lap of their world tour. The Americans announced that they would take a few hours’ rest, leaving for Constantinople lates in the afternoon. By the Associated Pres: MUNICH, Germany, August 30.— Favored by ideal flying conditions, the American airmen, William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee, took off in their monoplane, the Pride of Detroit, at 6:35 o'clock this morning for Constantinople in continuance of their flight around the world. They expected to reach their destination, 1,600 kilometers (about 1,000 miles) from Munich, in 12 hours. Thus they would land at Constantinople around 7 o'clock tonight. The plane carried about 240 gallons of benzine. There was a clear sky as the Pride of Detroit soared aloft and no wind was reported to a height of 6,000 meters (about 19,685 feet). Brock and Schlee said good-by to Munich after a stay of less than 15 hours, . they having landed here from Croydon, England, at 4:05 o'clock yesterday afternoon, on the second lap of their globe-circling tour. Few Persons See Take-off. Not more than half a dozen per- sons had collected at the Overwei- senfeld alrdrome to see the plane hop oft on the southerly course toward Turkey? Maj. Hailer, chief officer of the Lufthansa, the German Aerial League, was there with of- ficials of the airdrome and two news- paper reporters. A No time was lost after the American airmen arrived on the field Xn( getul‘:‘g he plane off the ground. Before tak- :n; ‘:hae?r places l= the cockpit Schlee and Brock voiced their confidence that they would make the day’'s objective before sundown. . Both men made a very good impres- sion during thelr brief stay in the Ba- varian capital. ;Theyg ztx}?resn!lid !:::Iel:: reat appreciation of e grenntespto them by the Lufthansa. On arriving at the airdrome from {eir hotel, Schlee was asked about his baggage. He smiled and sald, “Here's my baggage,” proudly exhib- iting a cigar case, pocket comb and razor. Start in Fine Style. TToday's start was made in fine style, and th.y airmen circled the field thrice before heading eastward into the rays the rising sun. ©f Fhe dinner given in their honor last night by Charles B. Curtis, the Ameri- can consul, was a semi-private affair, attended by Councillor Ozeika, repre- genting the Bavarian ministry of trade, also Maj. Haller, local director of the Lufthansa, or German Aerial League, and Munich's traffic chief, Herr Kon- rad, all of whom Bpokedln’ flattering rms of the American’s daring. 'eschlee‘ given his choice of dishes, asked for pork with sauerkraut, which request, according to the Germans present, proved that he had regular Bavarian blood in his veins. Both Brock and Schlee confessed to being tired after their day of air travel and retired early. CONSTANTINOPLE PREPARES. 30 Planes to Circle City as American Flyers Arrive. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 30 (#).—Constantinople was awaiting the arrival of the Pride of Detroit, Amer can round-the-world plane, today as the crowning event of the annual Turkish aviation fete. The program was arranged by the Turkish Aviation League,. the official organization charged with ralsing funds to buy military and commercial planes for key. T"‘I“’hir’ty planes bought by the league this year were to circle over the min- arets of Stamboul, using the occasion to drop propaganda leaflets urging the population to buy tickets for the avia- {ion lottery and join the popular sub- soription - list for the purchase of planes. ‘All shopkeepers agreed to hand over | Tuesday’s profits to the league and cltizens were to pay an extra piastre on trolley and ferry fares for the urpose. same D 'big military parade there was to be a papier-mache airplane on & camion, with girls holding posters eading, ““The airplane is the most re- Houbtable arm in future wars,” “To aid Turkish aviation is to aid victory eace. .n';o:wht there is to be a concert and dance at Seraglio Point Park, where the t harem of the imperial pal- ace will look down upon the dancers. A jazz band will play and the aviation jeague will present a prize to the couple giving. the best exhibition of the Charleston. —_—— HAIL DRIFTS 8 FEET DEEP. gtorm in Craig County, Va., Ties Up Auto Traffic. ROANOKE, Va., August 30 P).— Hailstones as large as pigeon eggs fell in such volume in Cralg County during the storm Sunday that they formed drifts to a depth of 8 feet, Full report on page 9. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, . CONFIDENT OF GLOBE RECORD, Bureau Forecast.) night and tomorrow; at 6 a.m, today. D. C. SCHLEE AND BY WILLIAM S. BROCK, pilot, and EDWARD F. SCHLEE, copilot of the Pride of Detroit. By Wireless to The Star and New York Times. MUNICH, August 20.—If every stage were like today, this trip would be a cinch. We had casy sledding the whole way from London to Mu- nich, although once or twice we ran slightly off our course. The weather was ideal, except. perhaps, for slight winds. They did not hold the old boat back much, however, and c time for the day's run was sati I we had a hard and fast schedule —which we haven't—we would be a little ahead of it. But there is no in- tention of covering a special mileage on any given day or to get around the world in any preseribed number of days. All we are out to do is to defeat the previous round-the-world record of 28 days. Otherwise, we are just a pair of aerial hoboes, flying whenever we feel like it and when conditions are favorable, After plenty of sleep, we started BRAZIL REDOUBLES HUNT FOR REDFERN Flyer Believed Lost in Wilds if Report of Plane at Orinoco Is True. By the Associated Press. RIO JANEIRO, August 30.—Every effort is being made by the Brazilian government to locate Paul Redfern, the American aviator, who started from Brunswick, Ga., last Thursday on a mnon-stop flight to Brazil and of whom no definite word has been heard since. Regular traffic over the na- tional telegraph is being delayed to permit of half-hourly long-distance communications over hundreds of miles of government wires, but all attempts to solve the latest aviation mystery have been.unavailing. The efforts have been doubled since the rumor was received that he had Dbeen seen at 3 o'clock Saturday after- noon plowing through the sky above the northd@n rim of the South Areri- can Continent at the mouth of the Orinoco River. It is pointed outhere, however, thet he should have passed over that region Friday evening in- stead of Saturday afternoon; that if he actually passed Saturday after- noon he must have used nearly all his gasoline. May Be Lost in Wilds. Tt is declared further that if adverse winds delayed him 24 hours in reach- ing the South American continent and he then continued the flight hoping to reach Brazil, he probably had to come down at some place where per- haps days would be required before he was able to reach a point from which to communicate with the out- side world. This is especially true if he landed in the mountainous region, somewhere between Brazil and Vene- zuela, or the Guinas, which are not even well mapped. The Brazilian government has an expedition in that region at the pres- ent time, surveying the boundary, but the central office of the National Tele- graphs was advised at 10:30 o’clock last night that there was absolutely no news. HOPE FOR SAFETY RENEWED. Straight Course Would Have Taken Flyer There, Backers Say. BRUNSWICK, Ga., August 30 ().— A solitary fragment of news—the re- port that an unidentified plane had been sighted over the delta of the | Orinoco River in Venezuela—renewed hope in two continents today that Paul Redfern, missing Georgia avia- tor, may be found alive somewhere in South America. Advices yesterday from Caracas, Venezuela, stating that a mailman Saturday afternoon saw a plane flying southward at an unnamed point along the Orinoco, caused widespread speculation that the craft may have been Redfern’s Port of Brunswick. Course 100 Miles to East. The young flyer charted his Bruns- wick-to-Rio De Janeiro route to carry him a hundred miles or more east of the Orinoco’s mouth in winging his way from the Island of Trinidad to a point about 50 miles off Georgetown, British Guiana, where he intended heading inland. Flight officials here expressed the belief that if the plane sighted was Redfern’s, the airman probably had been blown oft his course or else he had followed the short line to seek a landing place when his gas- oline supply was exhausted. If his plane had been running continuously since he hopped off from here Thurs- day noon, his fuel would have been running very low at that time. Advices from Washington strength- ened the possibility that Redfern may have reached South America. The Weather Bureau announced it had been unable to verify reports of a storm along the route from Bruns- wick to Trinidad, which it was feared | might have ended the flight disas- A seaplane pilot returning to Miami Saturday had reported a tropi- cal disturbance in Redfern’s part east of the Bahamas, when the flyer would have proceeded less than 500 miles along his journey. Orinoco Report Unconfirmed, Lack of confirmation of the Orinoco information prompted Paul J. Varner, flight committee chairman here, yes- terday to request co-operation of the Navy and Coast Guard in a systematic flight for the missing pilot. The Navy, according to Assistant Secretary Warner, has no ships available in the region of Porto Rico from which a ‘h was suggested, and the delay n placing the nearest naval vessels at Newport, R. L, in that area made it actical. Coast Guard headquarters at Wash- ington last night instructed Comdr. Phil W. Lauriat, head of Florida East Coast patrol area, at Savannah, to render such assistance as he might “deem practicable” in searching for farmers of that county declared yes- o otorists reported the hail did dam- S o i 4 548 | Radlo Progeame—Pege 31. Redfern. ah WASHINGTON, D. (., TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1927—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. - BROCK DECLARE Plane Functions Perfectly Entire Way to Munich—Flyers View Battlefields—Find Maps Useless and Miss Stuttgart Field. “roydon at 8:28 o'clock this morn- Ther r v at our arture and comparatively few spec- tators. The Pride of Detrolt quietly took the alr. Probably nobody knew when we were going to leave. An English machine followed us to Dover, and the last thing we saw of England was its pilot waving good-by to us. Over the channel there was some haze—enough to throw us a little off se. Instead of hitting Calais v west of that town and oss France. Our |altitude averaged about 1,000 feet and | our speed 90 miles hourly. The wind kept changing. Once or twice we had strong headwinds—not enough any trouble, though. Oc- we dropped down near the headed caus onally ground to look some old war trenches over, and made detours along the battle-lines. Maps were not much use Rely en- tirely on them and you are liable to find yourself back where you came from. Mostly the earth inductor com- pass guided us. Once in a while we would_drop_down to pick up some (Continued on Page 3, Column 2. FIVEDIEINFEUD OVER RACING COUP Failure of Track Plot Results in Warfare—Four 0th- ers Wounded. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, August 30.—The failure of a betting coup, with suspicion of treachery, as an aftermath, has served to cause virtual self-obliteration of a clever gang of racetrack swindlers, the police believe. The underworld feud, which has re- sulted in the deaths of five persons and the wounding of four others, was unfolded today by offjcers investigat- ing the deaths of Mark Tillery (alias McCall), international sought con- fidence man, and a woman known lo- cally as Clara McCall and thought to be his wife. Operated in South. Banded together several years ago, police records indicate, the gang op- erated extensively in Southern resort cities and Havana until the Winter of 1928, when investigation of a $§55,000 Miami swindle caused them tb drop from sight. Next Atlanta authorities began search for the gang following a “pay- off” swindle there. Prior to one of the races during the August meet at the Windsor race- track last year, track officials were tipped off that an attempt had been made to disable some of the favorites in the race. A man seen loitering about the stables was arrested and punished by Canadian authorities. The man was Oscar Bacon, said to be a member of the gang. Rival Factions Develop. As the result of the suspected tip- off, the gang broke up into rival fac- tions, according to the police theory, and warfare followed. John Lee Masters, alleged leader of 'the gang, was shot to death in a Detroit gambling house a few weeks after failure of the coup. Shortly after Masters' death a man armed with a shotgun invaded a gambling _house here operated by Charles Dubay and killed Earling Norrass, confidence man of Minne- apolis, another alleged member of the gang. Dubay and Roy Browder of Louis- ville were held for a time in connec- tion with the slaying, but were re- leased, only to be made targets of shotgun fire from a speeding auto- mobile, which sent them to hospitals seriously wounded. Two Men Found Wounded. Last week Bacon and Andrew Potts were found serlously wounded in a fashionable hotel, following re- ports of a gunfight. Two men and a woman were seen running from the hotel. Two days later the bodies of Tillery and his wife were found in an auto- mobile, bullet holes through their heads. The same night Harold Brad- ley, alleged confidence man, was shot down on a street and died Sunday night. . Bacon and Potts, questioned yes- terday, claimed that Tillery, crazed with fear that he had been marked for execution, shot and wounded them when they attempted to prevent him from committing suicide and then ended the life of his wife and him- self. TOWN OFFICIALS INDICTED CHICAGO, Ill, August 30 (P).— Twenty-nine persons, including Chief of Police Andrew Bentkowski of Calumet Park, a suburb, were named today in an indictment returned by the Federal grand jury charging vio- lations of the prohibition law. Others indicted were Leonard Kluck, village irustee, and John Yakas, a policeman. Injured Airmam Dies. PITTSBURGH, August 30 (P).—In- jured when_an_ antiquated airplane crashed at Bettis Field, McKeesport, Sunday, Clifford Burnworth, student pilot, died in a hospital today. James T. Claweon, street car conductor and airman, who was piloting the plane at the time, was killed instantly. Army Aviator Skids Without Gear After By the Associated Pre SAN ANTONIO, Tex., August 30.— One of the strangest accidents that has ever occurred at a local flylng fleld took place today, when Lieut. L. E. Hunting skillfully landed his plane without landing gear. Hunting was flying over the fleld at Fort Sam Houston when his plane went into a tail spin at a low altitude. It struck the ground, bounced into the air and contipued t0 BYa e ¢ i v DIL CONSERVATION LAW NEXT SESSION ISURGED BY WORK Overproduction Is Gambling With National Safety, Sec- retary Tells Bar Group. PROPOSES COMMITTEE TO DRAFT LEGISLATION Safeguarding of Nation's Re- sources and Protection Against High Prices Essential, He Says. By the Associated Press, BUFFALO, N. Y., August 30.—The Federal Government should ask the next Congress for legislation to con- serve the Nation's oil resources, Sec- ratary of Interior Work today told the mineral law section of the Ameri- can Bar Association. So as to have “unity in thought, ac- tion and legislation in the interests of economic production and consumption of our greatest natural resource,” the Interior Secretary proposed the con- stituting of a committee of three lead- ing lawyers, three petroleum engineers and three Government representatives to draft a bill for the Federal Oil Con- servation Board to introduce in the 70th Congress. The legislation should be intended to protect the Nation's oil deposits against waste in production, he added, and the public against fu- ture high cost of oil products. Secretary’ Work warned that the present over-production of about a million barrels of oil daily amounts to gambling with national safety and appealed to the legal profession to formulate a “sane and positive course that will protect our national struc- ture in the years to come.” Stresses Conservation Need. The secretary said that the need for conservation of oil in the ground was never more apparent than now it “our future needs would be assured” and “our national life surely safeguarded.” “If Federal or additional State leg: islation is essential as a corrective, he continued, “the sooner such en- actment is evolved, the better, “If the remedy rests with the oil companies themselves, through vol- untary and wholehearted co-operation, or through compulsory unit pool op- eration, or some other method, the time is pre-eminently ripe for action."” The secretary, who is chairman of the Federal Oil Conservation Board, called attention to the tremendous over-production of the Smackover and Seminole pools, with its attendant waste of billions of feet of valuable gas, and pleaded for ‘‘constructive statesmanship to save an overcom. petitive industry from itself.” Urges. Governmetit Ald, “What is needed,” he declared, “is not government interfering with busi- ness nor business meddling with gov- ernment, but government helping in- dustry for its own and the public good.” Unless the industry is able to co- operate in the conservation program, the secretary asserted, huge losses are inevitable. Statistics for which he would not vouch, but which he said were ven- tured by men intimately in touch with the industry, were cited by the Secre- tary as indicating a decline since the peak of 1526 of more than $500,000,000 in the market value of oil company stocks represented on the New York Stock Exchange. Somne, he added, in. (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) o MEXICO TO RELEASE U. S. ARMY OFFICERS Capt. C. H. Reynolds and Sergt. Gus Newland, Forced Down, Ordered Freed. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 30.—Ex- celsior says the Mexican treasury de- partment has instructed the customs authorities at Ojinaga to release the United States Army aviators, Capt. C. H. Reynolds and Master Sergt. Gus Newland, and permit them to fly back to the United States, provided investi- gation shows they were forced to land on Mexican soil and that there was ‘“no smuggling purpose” behind their fiight. Capt. Reynolds and his aide were held by the Mexicans after they had been forced down near Ruidosa, state of Chihuahua. The aviators, members of the second division of the Army Air Service, apparently strayed from their course, which led to Kelly Field, San Antonio, from Arizona, where they had unsuccessfully searched for Alfred Z. Menard, shell-shocked veteran lost in the Arizona desert. — YANGTZE IS CROSSED. Northern Troops Pass to South Side of Chinese Waterway. SHANGHAT, August 30 (#).—The northern forces are said to be attempt- ing to cross the Yangtze River again in force. Fifteen hundred troops are reported to have succeeded in reach- ing the southern bank. A telegram from Chinkiang, Kiang- su Province, states that only 1,000 southern troops remain in Chinkiang. Three hundred others reportedly have deserted and joined bandits in the countryside. Safely to-Landing Crashing in Tail Spin Realizing that his landing gear had been crushed, Lieut. Hunting headed for Kelly Field, where there is more room for delicate landings. He stalled his plane and skidded along the ground, handling the controls so skill- fully that the plane did not overturn or_suffer further damage. Usually aviators would have: used thelr parachutes under the circum- stances, but Lieut. Hunting did not wish to further damage the plane, an /AT-4 pursuit: training ship. __ "3 & -~ 41881 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 4 CHICAGO'S MOVIES CLOSED BY STRIKE Owners Lock Out Men After Few Operators Quit—Films Withheld by Exchanges. By the Associated Prei CHICAGO, August 30.—The strike >f a few motion picture machine opera- tors and the lockout of virtually all the others, affecting 30 theaters in Chicago, was made more stringent today when the film exchange mana- gers decided to cut off all films to all motion picture theaters in the Chica- 30 district, Members of the exhibitors’ associa- tion met today with the assertion that the difference with the operators’ union would be fought to a finish. ‘The musicians’ union, whose contract with the exhibitors expires next Sun- day, also called a special meeting to discuss the situation. Fifteen thousand persons—operators, musicians, ushers and stage hands— were without work today and nearly 400,000 daily movie fans were deprived of a place to go by the dispute over two union movie operators which brought about the row. Theater own- ers estimated their total loss daily during the trouble would be close to $200,000. Exchanges May Take Part. The only theaters not affected were the legitimate houses and a few neigh- borhood movie places, and even the neighborhood houses were periled by the announcement that fllm exchanges may take part in the struggle and withhold films. Going into effect without previous notice at 6 o’clock last night, the clos- ing of the theaters caught thousands of patrons downtown for the evening shows, and crowds wandered through the streets during the evening. The closing of the theaters followed a decision of the Chicago Exhibitors’ Association to discharge all union mo- tion picture machine operators and suspend employment of all other help as a reprisal to a strike called by the Orpheum Circuit Theaters. The strike was called because one of the theaters, adopting a new policy, had cut its staff of operators from four to two. A meeting between the union lead- ers and theater owners yesterday was brigf and ended in disagreement. Both factions announced they would not compromise. Jack Miller, manager of the Exhib- itors’ Association, stated the attitude of the theater owners this way: “The exhibitors are tired of being dictated to by unions and their offi- clals. To hold our self-respect, we can give up no more rights as own- ers. We will remain closed as long as necessary to win our fight, no mat- ter what it costs us.” More complications were predicted, inasmuch as agreements between the owners and the musicians’ and stage hands’ unions expire next Sunday. National Tie-Up Forecast. Thomas Malloy, business agent for the operators, predicted a Nation-wide tie-up of theaters if any effort is made to employ non-union operators. “If that is done,” he said, “the other unlon men will walk out and we will ask the international union to call a strike directed against the 1,600 thea- ters in the Publix group, of which Balaban & Katz of Chicago is the cen- ter.” All the Balaban & Katz theaters here were closed, as well as the Orpheum circuit and other chain thea- ters with one or two exceptions. The Palace, leading theater of the Orpheum circuit, was _affected. The Natlonal Playhouse chain did not close last night because one of its new theaters had made elaborate plans for its for- mal opening, but the group was to be closed tonight. In advertisements in the morning newspapers the Exhibitors’ Associ- ation said: “On account of arbitrary demands of the Moving Picture Oper- ators’ Union all motion picture and vaudeville theaters have been forced to close. We regret this unpleasant situation exceedingly, but we had no other alternative.” Instead of the usual page of movie ads in the morning papers there were only a scattered few today. BALTIMORE FACES FIGHT. Agreement Must Be Reached by To- morrow to Keep Movies Open. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, August 30.—Unless an agreement is reached between the moving picture theater owners and members of the union of motion pic- ture operators by tomorrow night, Baltimore may be without moving pictures on Thursday. In an effort to prevent the impend- ing strike of motion picture operators, a_conference is being held t: be- “Continued on Page 3, Columa 1) - Shar, Z =z f FOR A \|li 7 WINNING @ DEMOCRATIC SLOG o —0 { FIRST(.‘IOO. ; SEconp ~x# 80, THIRD.—. 2 7 5. W Womans | I S NATiona i Jy i DEMocraTc Cwg ¥ Human Fly Burglar Gets $200 Cash and $15,000- in Jewelry v the Associated Pres LOS ANGELES, August 30.—A “human fly” burglar descended from the roof of the Hotel Alex- andria yesterday by finger and toe holds, entered the rooms of five sleeping guests through the win- dows and obtained $200 in cash and jewelry valued at $15,000. Detectives said imprints made by fingers and toes in the dust of window_ledges were their only clues, None of the guests was dis- turbed. - S40 00 CONSPIRACY IS GHARGED T0 FIVE Grand Jury Issues Indict- ment, Accusing Quintet of Bankruptcy Maneuver. The grand jury today charged five persons with a conspiracy to conceal assets valued in excess of $40,000 in connection with the bankruptey of Probey’s, Inc., which conducted an automobile tire business and against which a bankruptcy petition was filed by creditors August 7, 1926. The indictment charges that the ac- cused conspired, combined, federated and agreed to conceal from Lloyd A. Douglass, who was selected as trus- tee in bankruptcy, $5.000 in money, certain promissory notes and accounts receivable to the extent of $5,000 and automobile tires and tubes valued in excess of $30,000. Five Persons Accused. The accused are T. Oliver Probey, vice president and manager of Pro- bey's, Inc.; his son, James M. Probe: president of the company; law, Marion T. Edwards, secretary of Probey’s and president and treasurer of the District Finance Co.; Harry L. Elkins, an employe and clerk of Pro- bey's, Inc., and president and mana- ger of the Henderson Tire Corpora- tion, Inc., and John H. Frankeberger, who is described as a “‘personal friend"” of the four other persons and vice president of the Henderson Tire Cor- poration. The indictment alleges that, in furtherance of the alleged conspiracy, T. Oliver Probey, James M. Probey and Marion T. Edwards formed the District Finance Co., which, after May 21, 1926, acted as a collection agency for Probey's, Inc., and that all five of the accused formed the Hen- derson Tire Corporation, which acted as sales agent and as a branch store of Probey’s, Inc.,, and that the acts, doings and property of all three cor- porations were dominated by the ac- cused. Bankruptcy Held Anticipated. The charge is made that the five men, anticipating that a petition in bankruptey would be filed, entered into the alleged unlawful agreement by which certain property of the Probey company was withheld when a_deputy United States marshal’ was placed in charge of the company, pending the selection of the trustee in bankruptcy. Counsel for the trustes in bank- ruptey, who laid the evidence before the grand jury, stated that two car- loads of tires and tubes were found in a warehouse on Light street in Balti- moremore August 18, 1926, and several hundred tires and tubes located in the | rear of 1010 Pennsylvania avenue. ‘The indictment sets out 52 alleged jovert acts in connection with the al- leged conspiracy. Alleged Spy Condemned to Death. VITEBSK, Russia, August 30 (#).— Vitold Ulkevitch, alleged Polish spy, was sentenced to death by the dis- trict court here today on a charge of military esplonage in behalf of the Polish intelligence service. T PRizE service. * (UP) Means Associated Pre: — ,{v i AN o g The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday's Circulation, 96,833 TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT PLANS 0 REACK CAPITAL ON SEPTEMBER 11 Expects to Leave Black Hills Week From Friday—Opposes Efficiency Bureau Shift, DENIES HE WILL DROP OFFICIAL RECEPTIONS Agricultural Engineers Urge Fed- Y NAVY PILOT GUILTY INLOW FLYING CASE Lieut. Williamson Convicted by Court-Martial Con- ducted Here. Lieut. Thomas B. Willlamson, young aviator attached to the Hampton Roads naval air base, was found guilty of violating low-flying regulations over ‘Washington, July 24, by a court-mar- tial which announced its verdict at the vy Yard today. Two of the six specifications filed against the aviator under the general charge of “‘conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline” were found by the court to have been proved. Un- der court-martial regulations, any one specification proved will support the charge. The finding of the court as to punishment, if any, will not be learred until the case is passed upon by the Secretary of the Navy. Lieut. Williamson, although. greatly disappointed over the outgome of the trial, which opened here Friday, re- mained cheerful as he left the com- mandent’s office at the navy yard, where the court has sat, accompanied by his father, Thomas Willlamson, an attorney of Edwardsville, Il., and Capt. Field Harris, Marine Corps, both his counsel. He stated he probably would return to Fighting Plane Squad- ron 5, his organization at Hampton Roads, either today or tomorrow, ‘Will Present Brief. Mr. Williamson announced it was his plan to present a brief to the re- viewing authorities after having been furnished with a transcript with the entire record of the case. According to Capt. H. N. Potter, trial judge ad- vocate and prosecutor in the case, the findings of the court will be submitted to the judge advocate general of the Navy in about a week. The court opened at 9 o'clock this morning and after Capt. Potter had read the proceedings of the previous trial day, the room was cleared minutes later for the court to delib- erate on the case. At 10:55 announcement was made that the court was open and Comdr. Leo Welch, president, informed the defendant that specifications num- bered 2, 4, 5 and 6 had not been proved by the prosecution. Nothing more wrs said, but the accused officer had to draw by inference that specifica- “ions 1 and 3 had been proved. Gist of Charges. Specification 1, charged violation of article 1524 of the Bureau of Aero- nautics manual which provided: “Air craft shall not fly at low altitude over populousdistricts or over such ter- rain as will endanger life or property in ease of motor failure or temporary loss of control.” Specification No. 3, charged the of- ficer violated article 1306-A of the Bureau of Aeronautics manual pro- viding: “Naval air craft will not fly over populous districts at altitudes less than 2,000 feet, unless authorized by proper authority or in case of em- ergency.” Specification No. 2, not proved, pro- hibited acrobats below an altitude of 1,500 feet at any time and specifica- tions 4, 5 and 6 set forth Commerce Department regulations governing fly- ing and acrobats at low altitudes. After the Court had been out about an hour, James R. Covert the court reporter, was called into the room to read the testimony of Comdr. Ernest N. Pace, of the Bureau of Aeronau- tics, who had testified that a Navy fighting plane of the type used at Hampton Roads and bearing a letter “F” flew at an altitude between 1,000 feet and 300 feet in the vicinity of Sixteenth street and Columbia road. After the lapse of several minutes the court again sent for Mr. Covert and requested a list of all the wit- nesses with their addresses. No Indication of Sentence, After the court had annoumced its findings as to the proof of the specifi- cations, it again went into session for deliberation on what sentence shall be meted out. ' No_indication was (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) Huge WaLterspout Rushes Over Chesapeake -as Excursion Party Watches From Boat By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, August 30.—A huge waterspout, its top hidden in a dark cloud high above its spray-thantled foot, hurtled across the Chesapeake Bay from the mouth of the Magothy to the mouth of the Chester River yes- terday, it was reported last night by returning excursionists. Dozens of people crowded the decks of the little excursion seamer Cam moored at & Chester River pler, as the twisting, writhing funnel ap- peared several miles away, swept on- ward, and in 10 minutes disintegrated in a smother of muddy foam close by. The spout narrowly missed striking a skiff and a schooner. As the column broke up, excursionists said that a lone cloud, rolling around its top, quickly disappeared. Chief Engineer Walker of the Cam- eral Study of Farm Problem on Scientific Basis. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. RAPID CITY, S. Dak., August 30. —President Coolidge announced today that he will leave the Black Hills for Washington next week. He did not specify the date, but it was said at his office that he has selected the night of Friday, September 9, as the date for his departure, which will put him back in the Capital between 10 and 11 o'clock Sunday night, Septem- ber 11. President Coolidge does not approve of the proposal to have the United States Bureau of Efficiency placed in the Budget Bureau. In expressing himself to this effect today while dis- cussing the proposal with callers, the President said that he had not given the proposition much thought, but he doubted if any great results could be attained by such a merger. Bureau Purely Financial. The President takes the position that the Budget Bureau is a distinet- ly financial bureau of the Govern- ment and should be maintained as such, and he would not care to under- take burdening this important bureau with other administrative duties. He thlnk; it has enough work to perform now directly in line with the for which it was created. et The President admitted that there may be some good reason for sug- gesting such a consolidation and that possibly such a consolidation might Dossess attractive features, but at the present time. he would prefer to keep these two bureaus separate and dis- tinct. Inasmuch as the possible advantages are doubtful in his mind, he would be inclined to strongly oppose such a merger. He would rather relieve the Budget Bureau of any unnecessary in- cumberances. According to the ad- vices he has received, these two bu- reaus are performing services which are valuable and he has no informa- tion that would cause him to feel that such a consolidation would be econom- ical or beneficial. Will Continue Receptions. Reports received here that the Presi- dent was eonsidering discontinuing of- ficial receptions this coming Winter were emphatically denied by President Coolidge today. He said he had never thought of such a thing. He strongly favors the custom. He looks upon them as traditions of the Capital and he thinks such official receptions are helpful and are a genuine part of the life of Washington. The many oceanic air flights since Col. Charles A, Lindbergh's success- ful flight from New York to Paris have demonstrated that such flights can be made, but that they are mot easy. Because of the many unsuccess- ful attempts the President is con- vinced that the lesson to be learned from these failures should be helpful in advanchg the science of flying. He thinks that there is much to be learned regarding greater safety and surety of reaching an objective point. The President paid a high tribute to Col. Lindbergh’s flight while discuss- ing oceanic flights today when he said that the more we see of other oceanic flights the more Lindbergh's flight to Paris stands out. He added that Lindbergh started for a definite point and reached it. He added, however, that his reference to this was not intended to detract from other flyers, but to emphasize the difficulties to be met by those attempting such flights. Senator Wesley Jones of Washing- ton came to the executive office to- day with a delegation of editors, lum- bermen and farmers from four States (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) o BANDITS WHO KILLED U. S. WOMAN ROUTED Mexican Military Expedition Re- ported to Have Dispersed Rebel Band. By the Associated Press. A report that the bandits responsible for the death of Miss Florence Ander- son of Los Angeles had been dispersed by Mexican troops was transmitted to the State Department today by John W. Ives, consul at Mazatlan, The message said that th: chief of military operations in the state of Nayarit was In personal charge of 300 Mexican troops which were operating against the bandits in the vicinity of Acaponeta. Miss Anderson was fatal- 1y wounded when the train on which she was a passenger was attacked re cently. 45 REPORTED HELD AS SPIES IN RUMANIA Frontier Guards Involved in New Rumors of Russian Activity ° in Bessarabia. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, Austria, August 30.—Dis- patches from Bucharest, Rumania say 3 army reserve officials, 2 officers of the frontier guards and 40 civilians have been arrested at Kishi nev, Bessarabia (Rumania), on charges of espionage in behalf of viet Russia. The arrests, the dispatches add, have created a lively sensation in Bucharest, following upon a recent raid on the Communists’ headquarters in the Rumanian capital with the detention of 50 persons, and charges against other frontier guards. ‘The Rumanian military authorities bridge sald this was the first spout |are sald to have decided upon fre- he had seen in the Che-p._gko during ! quent changes in the officers serving mADY years' experience. on the Bpssarabian fronties, L