Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1927, Page 1

WEATHLER, 1U 8 Weather Bureau cloudy much Partly fair; not ture. Temperature—k p.m. yesterday a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as seco: post office. Wa No. 30437 PRINCESS' PLANE wrecast) ! tomorrow tempera- tonight change in at 3:30 at §:15 Highest lowest, 85, 62, | nd class matter shington. D C. Ch WASHINGTON, '‘BROCK AND SCHLEE REACH ! CONSTANTINOPLE ON FLIGHT WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. WEDNESDAY, NAVAL CONFERENCE CROSSES IRELAND Reovnd.-the-World Pifors Make Quick Hop FAILURE T0 HAUNT | F N CANADA FLIGHT Wirtheim - Hamilton-Minchin Craft Encounters Fog Bank 0ff Eastern Coast. FLIES TO SEA AT RATE OF 100 MILES AN HOUR Weather Then Causes Pilot to Re- duce Speed and Ship Is Sighted | Sailing Very Low. i Be the As d Press. BELFAST. Ireland, Auzust The transatiantic plane of Capt. * lie Hamilton and Col. F. F. Minc! reporied from Galway to have p over Inveran, near the coast of Gal-| way Bay, at 12:10 pm., proceeding | due west. Later the commander of the Civic Guard at Thurles, Tipperary, report- ed that the plane passed over that town at 10:40 a.m., fiving low and ap- parently headed northwest toward Galway. The weather was clear, fine and sunny. Plane Reaches Eastern Coast. The plane, after passing over the| Irish Sea, reached the Eastern Irish Coast at about 10 a.m. and passed over Barty Castle, South Wexford, at about 10:03. It was then flying it a height of about 500 feet and going rather slowly. Some distance farther on it encoun- tered a bank of fog and circled thre: ! or four times, afterward proceeding in | a northwest by west direction. The police chief at Thurles, Tipper. | ary, 3N— Les n el | v, says that when the plane passed | over that place the weather was very hazy and Capt. Hamilton was main- taining an altitude of only 800 or 1,000 | feet. The chief added that the plane | appeared to be going very slowly. The above dispatch indicates that the fiyers at the time given were about to leave land behind them and begin the actual overseas part of their jour- ney. 400 Miles to Coast. From Upavon to the Galway Coast 1« slightly under 400 miles in a straight line. Apparently, however, the flyers deviated slightly to the south, succes- sive reports showing them to have reached the Irish Coast at County Wexford, thence bearing northwest through County Tipperary to Galway. The elapsed time from their hop- off at Upavon to the reported passage over Inveran is 4 hours and-38 min- utes, indicating maintenance of a speed close to 100 miles an hour. MAKE BEAUTIFUL TAKE-OFF. British Fiyers Defy Weather to Start Canada Voyage. UPAVON, England, August 31 (®).— After waiting at the army airdroms here for 10 days for favorable weather, Capt. Leslie Hamilton and Lieut. Col. F. F, Minchin, with Prir- cess Lowenstein Wertheim as a pas- senger, left here at o'clock this morning in a monoplane, the St. Raphael, in an attempt to,fly to Canada. They had fuel for a 44-hour flight, but expected to reach Ottawa in 37 hours. After landing at Ottawa they hope later to go on to London, On- tario, to claim the prize of $25,000 for a flight from London, England, to London, Ontario. They made a beautiful take-off after running about three-fourths of a mile. They circled over the flying fleld and headed westward. Rain was falling and it was very misty, so the plane was lost to sight to the numerous watchers almost immediately. Crash Narrowly Averted. | At the east end of the field the | fiyers narrowly missed hitting the roof | of a hangar. The air field officers, | fearing a crash, had an ambulance | and fire engine ready, but the acci-| dent was averted. Minchin had the wheel at the start, but Hamilton expected to do most of the fiying. | When the princess, who is financing | the flight, entered the plane, she took off her cloak, revealing she was wear- ing a_purple leather flying outfit of knee breeches and jacket, black silk stockings and brown leather bools with black fur around the tops. She | rried her own supply of food in a leather hatbox and wicker basket. She drove on the field while the air- | men were preparing to leave, but said she had decided not to accompany them. She became so interested In the | preparations and prospects, however, that she announced that she had sud- denly altered her mind and would go after all. With her on arrival at the field was the Most Rev. Francis Mosiyn, Ro- man Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, Wales, who blessed the plane, bade the fiyers Godspeed and said he wis cd he might join them. Fat Substantial Breakfast. Hamilton and Minchin had forti- fied themselves for the flight with a substantial breakfast in the officers’ mess, eating the time-honored Eng- lish morning dish of fried bacon and eggs, for which the fresh morning air and their activities on the field xince 5:30 had given them a hearty appetite In spite of the fact that British military flight officers expressed their suspicions over the weather, the avia- tors continued their preparatiors Among the supplies placed aboard the plane were emergency army rations for two strong coffee in a vacuum jug and ‘“sleep averting” tablets. Then Hamilton made a detailed ex- amination of the plane and pronounced it in excellent condition. Good-bys were said, and the plane was off on its hazardous venture, cheered by a large crowd, which had gathered be- fore daybreak, largely attracted by the | issue might possibly be taken up for | National Bank of Belgium, left to- pleted Sixth | By the Assoctated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 31.— | The American round-the-world mono- | plane, Pride of Detroit, piloted by Wil- | tiam S, Brock and Edward F. Schlee, arrived here (rom Belgrade, Jugo- slavia, at 11:45 o'clock this morning. The pilots have now completed ap- proximately one-sixth of their pro- posed flight around the globe in slight- 1y more than four days and are well up with their schedule. They are trying to complete a cir- cuit of the world within 28 days. FLYERS OBTAIN MAPS. Assists Brock Sclilee on Trip. GRADE. Jugoslavia, Sugust With one world 1ecord to their credit—from Harbor Grace, New- foundland, to Belgrade in four days— the American aviators, William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee. hopped off for Constantinople this horning in | ontinuation of their globe-circling | venture. The start PONCARE PLAN T0CAL I BOROS Eight Per Cent Issues in U. S. May Be Replaced Soon by 6 Per Cent Notes. . Jugoslav Ace and | s made at the early| By the Associated Pre | PARIS, August 31.—Premier Poin- care has virtually decided, it is under- stood in banking circles, to convert or call in part or all of the French government, 8 per cent bonds, issued in America, of which there are up- ward of $70,000000 outstanding. The transaction, it is said, will not begin until late in the Autumn. ‘Whether the undertaking will he the large one of conversion at a low rom Belgradc—Have Now Com- rate of interest dr the smaller one of redemption, it will in any event be carried out in some form, according to the understanding of the present determination of the French treasury. ‘The next call day for the 8 per cent bonds is Januvary 15, with a 60-day notice. Consequently the call must be announced by November 11, " Premier Polncare is saild {6 regard French government credit in America as pearing the 8 per cent basis; there- fore he deems it rather absurd for France to pay 8 per cent on redeem- able paper. U. 8. MAY RELAX POLICY. Mellon Mly Consider Removal of Op- position to French Loans. Administration officials here today were represented as being without di- rect word of Premier Poincaire’s re- ported intention of retiring or convert. ing $70,000,000 in French 8 per cent bonds held in the United States. At the State Department it was said that on the return of Secretary Mel- lon, who has been spending his vaca- tion in European waters, the question of relaxing the American policy of opposition to French loans so as to al- low flotation of a French refunding consideration. So far as State Department officials were advised, however, there hag been no approach by American bank- ers on such a subject. FRANCK TO VISIT U. 8. Governor of Bank of Belgium Will Make Unofficial Tour. BRUSSELS, Belgium, August 31 (#).—Louis Franck, governor of the day for Cherbourg, where he expected to embark on the steamship Homeric for New York. It is understood that during his trip to America he will meet financiers and bankers in various parts of the country, although the trip is said to be purely unofficial. | CUBA MAY JOIN COUNCIL. Island Republic Considered for | Non-Permanent Member. GENEVA, August 31 (#).—Cuba is regarded in League circles as being the probable candidate for the place of Salvador as non-permanent mem- ber for the Council of the League of Nations. Three non-permanent members are elected for one year cach. The others who are going out at the forthcoming assembly are Belgium and Czechoslovakia. The opinion is expressed that Belgium | may be re-elected. Delegations to the assembly, which convenes next Monday, already are arriving in force. Dr. Gustav Strese- mann, German foreign minister, was due this afternoon, and Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minis- |ter, s expected tomorrow. | Prince to Sail September 7. | NEW YORK, August 31 (®).—The Prince of Wales and_his party will | sail from Quebec for England on Sep- | tember 7 aboard the liner Empress |of Scotland, offices of the €anadian Pacific Railway announced today. report that the princess would be a passenger. 1 Just before taking her seat in the plane she said to friends: “Of course we are going to make it; there's no doubt about it. you a cable from Canada.” Carries No Wireless. The course set by the aviators wa for the coast of Ireland after whic! they expected to make about 20 miles south of Dublin, thence to Clitden and Galway, where ihey were to strike out over the Atlantic for St. Johns, New tonndland. The pla it the type used daily in we & Column 3. I'll send | | By the Associated Pres | JUNEAU, Alaska, August 31.—On | a bleak and windswept Alaskan beach, 50 passengers of the disabled liner | Princess Charlotte.awaited reliet to- | day following their safe landing from | the ship, which had been refloated at | midnight, several hours after striking 2 rock In the Wrangell narrows of southeastern Alaska. 3 Radio advices received here today told of the plight of the passengers, who had heen on an Alaskan tour. A tezzed hole was tgén in the prow v 250 Stranded on Bleak Alaskan Beach 20 Miles From Village as Liner Hits Rock of Journey. cial tarewell, but their plane, the | Pride of Detroit, was accompanied | tor some d nee by an escort of three Jugoslav military machines. | Prevented from continuing on to the former Turkish capital yester- day afternoon by the receipt of ad- verse weather reports after their ar- rival here from Munich, Germany, the Americans made all their prépa- rations for an_ early hop off. before retiring last night. They found maps for the next few stages of their flight all_ready for them, provided by Capt. Sonde- mayer, Jugoslav ace, who also gave them a number of valuable personal | pointers, he having traversed part of their route earlier in the year. Brock and Sc of the ordeal they have been through thus far. Their plane also appeared in firsi-class condition as it roared way this morning, and the aviators expressed the hope of making the en- | world trip without replacing the ne at Tokio. After covering (he 500 miles to antinople their route will take to Aleppo. ia; Bagdad, Irak, to Bender Abbas, Pers to India th and thenc on the wa GERMAN IS LEADING IN MARATHON SWIM George Young Among Scores Forced Out of Ontario Race for $50,000 in Prizes. By the Associated Press. | TORONTO, Ontario, August 31— Ernst Vierkoetter, the steel-muscled German conqueror of the English Channel, passed the 8-mile mark on the 21-mile marathon this afternoon, still 2 miles in the lead of 101 en- trants in the $50,000 Lake Ontario swim. Battling brutally cold water and a slightly increasing choppiness, en- trants fell by the wayside by the scores, the last few miles of the first third being figured by rescues more thrilling than the water classic it- self. . Since the drop out at the 5-mile mark of George Young, Toronto, leader of the first 4 miles of the race, Vierkoetter continued to increase his distancefrom- his closest followers. At 7 miles Edward Keating, New York, winner of the Lake George marathon, dropped from the running and his place as third was taken by Mark Burditt, who, like Young, previ- ously the favorite, is a Toronto man. Summers Still Second. Byron Summers of California con- tinued steadily in second place, but made no advance on Vierkoetter, whose handlers shouted themselves hoarse with encouragement as the German shot gracefully through the blue waters far in the lead. Leading the women, 30 of whom | started, was Miss Ethel Hertle of New York, swimming strongly and | easily and promising and looking for the finish. She was fourth from Vierkoetter. After the drop-out of Keating, the others shot up a place, John O'Halloran of Barrie, Ontario, taking fifth place; Georges Michel, Paris, swimmer of the English Chan- nel, sixth, and Howard Chdffee of California, seventh. The contest was enlivened around tlie lead men by the English-German “Hochs!” and “Hurrahs!” of Vierkoet- ter's handlers, and by music in the “camp” of “flying fish" gummers. In the California bpy's boat a band, to encourage the swimmers, kept up an excited concert of lively and popular airs, Wallace Mullin Moves Up. At the end of the firgt third of the race some of those in the scattered vack to the rear advanced consider- ably, chief among them being Wall Mullin, Kansas City; Jack Hahn, De- troit, and Peter Meyer, Cincinnati. Outdistanced by miles but gamely pounding through the water came many swimmers, some of whom had been first favorites for lead positions. May Elwell, Revere, Mass., was second woman, a mile behind Miss Hertle. Lucy Diamond, Jane Sion and Lottie Schoemmel were placed thirty-second, thirty-third and thirty-fourth, re- spectively. Summers dropped out, a little after o'clock relinquishing the second place he had held for several miles. By noon the following competitiors in the marathon swin were included among those who had dropped out: C. Johnston, Ocean Park, Col.; M. A. Gartland, Cleveland; R. A. Bush, Woodland, Wash.; J. Nanzenrieder, Washington, D. C.; T. Adams, Youngs- town, Ohio; J. Carion, Detroit, Mich.; H. - Miller, Dayton, Ohio; O. Weker, Ashtabula, Ohio; J. Shervenek, Tay- lor Springs, Il Young. who made the first four miles in the fast time of 1 hour and 36 minutes, lost to Vierkotter half a mile further on the course. | The German, swimming very smoothly, 55 strokes to the minute, | nosed out Summers, Californian, from | second place, and at 11:05 was ahead | of the Toronto youth. Cramps Put Young Out. | Young, swimming 51 strokes to the | minute, continued for some distance | further at a cool pace, making no | effort to retain the lead. | At 11:22 a.m. he quit the water, | suffering with the cramps. Young's_withdrawal created great (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) 2 of the liner, according to radio re. ports, and although the vessel seemed in no immediate danger of sinking, it appeared advisable to land the pas- sengers. The unsheltered beach on which the passengers were landed is more than 20 miles from the nearest village. At the time of the mishap the liner was returning to Vancouver, British Columbia, from Skagway, Alaska. Among the round-trlp passengers who left Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday on the Princess Charlotte were NEW ARMSPARLEY ‘Shadow of Tri-Power Ses- (hour of 4:30 and there was no offi- | sions Clouds Gathering of League Council. OCCUPATION OF GERMANY TO BE AMONG BIG ISSUES Absence of Lord Cecil Likely to Have Profound Effect on Geneva Sessions. BY \. R. DECKER. By Radio to Th ad News. $rizht, 1027 GENEVA, August #1.—Weeks have passed since the end of the Geneva tri-power naval conference, but its ghost lives to dominate the September meeting of the League of Nations Council and Assembly for reduction of all armaments, The military occupation of Germany provides food for reflection as the powers measure each other’s forces. Otherwise, the Council and Assembly agenda, as provisionally outlined, is quite an innocucus and fnnocent list of banal subjects, including, for ex ample, the League budgét, intellectual co-operation and study of the results of the press conference. However, the League session may prove interesting because of what is not on the agenda, with representa- ives of various powers choosing Gene- s a place to continue the game of international intrigue. Lecil’'s Absence Deplored. The biggest shadow hanging over the | meeting at present is the resignation of Lord Cecil of Great Britain, long considered a League fixture, his work having the most profound influence on the League next to Woodrow Wilson. Lord Cecil's absence from Geneva will be greatly deplored by League support- ers, but the international situation does not permit his presence. The naval conference is the main reason. Great Britain has affirmed her intention of maintaining her navy on a war footing in peace time. Lord Cecil has consistently preached reduction of armaments and even labored success- fully to place France in a position where she would be obliged to accept reduction of the Rhineland army of occupation. Later the British government be- came radically conservative and na- tionalistic, demanding that Lord Cecil put through moves perhaps against his conscience and better judgement —not that Lord Cecil was a peace-at- afy-price man. He was able ‘to ‘guide the post-war pacific movements to the best interests of Great Britain, something that cannot be said for the American pacifists, who sank the Ametican Navy. Proof of Lord Cecil's patriotism is that he was responsible for the begin- ning of Great Britain's hundred-mil- lion-dollar Singapore naval base. But Lord Cecil is seen now as impossible as a British league representative, with his previously avowed disarmament views, while a 35,000-ton British dry- dock is being towed to Singapore to be ready for the Rodney, the Nelson and three other dreadnaughts when they are moved to the Pacific to start a naval chess game for control of Chi- nese trade. Diminishes British Hope. Paul Boncour, the French orator, could tear the British position to pieces, and probably would, should Lord Cecil come to Geneva. With Great Britain's avowed policy for four times as many commerce destroyers as the United States, her demand for a decrease in continental aircraft, sub- marines and land forces makes oppo- sition to French alliances absurd and even diminishes the British hope of building a sanitary cordon around Russia. Hence Lord Cecil is replaced by the British war minister. Onslow. Bearing in mind Lord Cecil's con- sistent patriotism, one can forgive his efforts during the first league assem- bly meeting to have the United States take the Armenian mandate for the purpose of having American troops act as a buffer between Mesopotamia and Russia. But the tenacious Brit- ish will not yield. It is thought they will attempt to throw Lhe onus for the failure of disarmament upon the United States, claiming that the United States insists on building of- fensive ships and increasing gun ele- vations, thus causing the failure ot the tri-power conference and entail- ing failure of the whole idea of world reduction of armaments. It is thought the burden of moral responsibility will be thrown upon the United States with all possible prop- aganda methods. Compared with the above, the ques- tion of a few thousand more or less allied troops in the Rhineland pales into insignificance. Lord Cecil has served his country well, but he does not fit into the picture any more. AMERICAN JUMPS T0 DEATH OFF SHIP | Sister Sees Oscar Petty, 32, of Lex- ington, Ky., Leap From Liner Paris. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 31.—Oscar Petty, 32 years old, who was return- ing to America from Paris with his er, Mrs. S. A, Boles of Lexington, committed suicide by jumping from the deck of the French liner Paris, officials of the line announced today. - Petty had been studying at the Sor- bonne in Paris for the past two years and was returning to America to join the faculty of Columbia University. It was on Friday, the second day out from Havre, that Petty was walk- ing with his sister on the sun deck of the second-class accommodations. He leaned over the rail to watch the wash created by the propellers and sud- denly threw off his ulster and leaped overboard. The liner came to a stop and for an hour circled over the spot whete he was supposed to have gone down, but to no avail. Ship's officers believed that he must have been drawn into the propellers. The 60-foot leap alone would have stunned him, they said. Mrs. Boles sald her brother had been highly mervous aboard the ves- ¢ Foening Slar, AUGUST 31, 1927—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. PRESIDENT'S SHIP PLAN DISCOUNTED Senator Jones Doubts Ability | of U. S. to Drop Merchant Marine Soon. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staft Correspondent of Ths Star. STATE GAME LODGE, S. Dak. August 31.—In the face of President | Co®lidge’s recently reiterated determi-| nation to have the Government dis- pose of the American merchant ma- rine Wesley L. Jones, Senator from Washington and chairman of the Sen- ate commerce committee, declared here yesterday that prospects of get- ting the United States out of the ship- ping business are not promising. The Washington Senator, who is also Republican whip of the Senate, shares the President’s desire to have the mer- chantmen taken over by private cap- ital, provided the American trade routes are maintained and the ships operated under thé American flag. But there are so many conditions that the Senator doubts if private cap- ital can be interested. Therefore, he looks to continuance of Government operation of the ships and takes issue with the President’s stand that the Government ought not to build ships to replace United States liners as they become obsolete or deteriorate. Mr. Coolidge believes that the mer- chant marine can draw on the many Government ships not now in opera- tion for such replacements as are nec- essary, and is firm for the mainte- nance of a strong merchant marine for possible use in emergency as well as for promotion of American com- merce. | [ | Senator Has Program. Senator Jones, interviewed after a conference with the President on oth- er subjects, holds that the Govern ment will have no choice in the mat- ter if it is to prevent the ruin of ex- isting American lines. Heé expects to present a merchant marine program in the next session of Congress. President Coolidge this afternoon will motor to Custer, 14 miles from here, the oldest town in the Black Hills, to participate in the exercises incident to the dedication of the Black Hills Boy Scout Camp, named in honor of the Chief Executive's visit to the hills, Although the President is not expected to make a speech, he has sig- nified that he will have a few words 10 say to the hoys, principally in the form of thanks for the presents the Scouty of Custer gave to him on his birthday. Some national figures in the na- tional Boy Scout movement will be on hand, including Dan Beard, the veteran Jeader of this American or- ganization. All Scout troops in the Black Hills will participate, and a spe- fal guard, of honor will meet the presidential party upon its arrival at Custer and escort it to the scene of the ceremonies. Besides some speechmaking, the | program will include drills and games by the Scouts and a cavalry drill by the famous Black Horse Troop from Fort Meade. President Prepares Speech. President Coolidge remained away from the executive soffice in Rapid City today, not for the purpese of in- dulging in trout fishing, but to work on the address he is to make at Brookings, S. Dak., on his way back to Washington September 10, incident to the dedication of the library at the State Agricultural College. This will be the second set speech for Mr. Cool- idge during his Summer in the West, and it is understood he has selected this occasion to include several sub- jects of major importance in his address. He started the drafting of the speech vesterday and succeeded in making such headway that he had Irwin Geisser, his personal stenog- rapher, accompany him to the Sum- mer White House to take his dicta- tion. The President resumed his dic- tation immediately after breakfast this morning. and indicated that he ex- pects to keep hard at it until] luncheon time. To See Irrigation Project. The President and Mrs. Coolidge and thelf son John journey to the | Bellefouche_ irrigation project at Newell, S. Dak., tomorrow. After an inspection of the great dam, said to be largest dirt dam in the world, and of other features of the project which includes more than 1,000 farms with a total of 75,000 acres of irrigatable land, and 650 miles of canals, the party will stop off at Nisland, nearby, to pay a brief visit to the county fair. The trip will be made by train. The party will leave Hermosa, 12 miles from the Game Lodge, at 9 o'clock in | the morning and is scheduled to be back at_that point about 6:30 tomor- row night. T. G. Foran and Rev. E. B, Jordan, Washington, D. C. : + i sel and she was considering having 4 him placed in the ’I_p 's hospital. Mu____-..-—a__ o i . e i o Radio Prpgl"%}_aje 36 7 REGRET, %ouet%nma‘ 1 uVE GVEN /= ME A GREACYYS , 597 5 <) as fast as the paper: * () Means Associated Pri z <| GREATEST OF SUMMER RESORTS BEAUTIFUL SCENERY EXCELLENT D Officer “Borrows” Car to Get Speeder; Rockefeller in It By the Associated P MATAWAD August 31.— When Officer Leroy Sproul saw an automobile speed by a stop signal he commandeered the next car and overtook the offender within a few bloeks. Today the policeman exhibited five new dimes handed him by John D. Rockefeller, owner and passen- ger of the car he used in catching the speeder. ASKS CLEARER LAW ON CONDEMNATION Surveyor Hazen Assails Dis- missal of Cases on Tech- nicalities. Enactment of legislation to prevent the dismissal of condemnation caszes by the courts on mere technicalities is advocated by Melvin C. Hazen, Dis- trict surveyor, in his annual report to the District Commissioners, made pub- lic today. ‘“‘Some difficulty seems to have been experienced during the past year in prosecuting some of the condemnation cases to a satisfactory conclusion, due to the dismissal by the court on some mere technicality which it seems might be corrected by legislation,” de- clared Mr. Hazen. "It seems to be getting more and more difficult suc- cessfully to prosecute a condemnation case so that it may reach the final stages in the proceeding where it may be finally ratified and confirmed on account of some unimportant ques- tion raised by objecting property owners of which the court, according to existing law, must take cognizance. Expenses Pointed Out. “This not only makes these cases doubly expensive on ‘account of the necessity of refiling the cases in court, but it causes great inconvenience to the property owners and the general public and retards needed improve- ment and creates waste of funds. It is believed a study of this question should be made with a view of deter- mining whether some remedial legia- lation cannot be suggested which will enable the District successfully to mrosecute these condemnation cases without danger of defeat in the courts on account of unimportant and tech- wical questions being raised by some objecting party.” The most recent condemnation case dismissed on account of a technicality threatened to delay a number of street opening and street widing proj- ects involving more than $1,000,000 worth of property. The corporation | counsel’s office has sought to have this case reopened on: the ground that the court did not have complete information before it when the dis- missal was ordered. 3 The surveyor's report showed that of the 68 condemnation cases pending in court last year, 17 were dismissed one more than the number confirmed. The remaining 35 cases are still pending. Damages Reach $142,739. The damages awarded by juries in the cases confirmed amounted to $142,739.97. Out of this amount $120.- 326.60 represented the amount of damages for the miscellaneous cases and $22,413.37 the amount of damages in_the alley cases. In addition to these cases, Mr. Hazen said, a number of others were ordered by the Commissioners, but were not filed prior to the close of the last fiscal year. However, he said, cases have been prepared e, the work completed, the maps drawn, and it only remains for the cases to be filed in court. Mr. Hazen also recommended in- ased appropriations for the acquisition of small park areas at the intersections of streets which are constantly in likelihood of being im- proved. DISTRICT AGENCIES - TORETAIN HOMS | Three Branches of Govern- ment Remain in Buildings | Until Congress Meets. A tentative agreement has been reached between the supervising ar- chitect's office of the Treasury and District officials, whereby the house of | detention, the woman's bureau of the | Police Department and the medical clinic of the Health Department, will | be allowed to remain in their present buildings until after Congress con- venes, although all other occupants on the site of the proposed new De- partment of Commerce Building, will be forced to vacate by October 1, it was revealed today by Maj. Layson E. Atkins, assistant Engineer Com- missioner. Originally, it had been planned to force the District activities on the proposed Commerce Department site | to move with the other occupants, but | the inability of the District govern- | ment 1o find other quarters, because of the lack of funds, led the Treasury officials to grant an extension of time. In the meantime, however, the Public | Buildings Commission will endeavor | to locate temporary quarters for the woman’s bureau, the medical clinic | and the house of detention in a build- | ing under its jurisdiction, and if space should be found, the District activities | will move before the convening of | €ongress Rental Items in Bill. As the Commissioners will be re- quired to rent quarters for these three bureaus pending the develop- ment of the proposed municipal group of buildings in the area lying be- tween Pennsylvania avenue, Indiana avenue and Third and Sixth streets, an item is expected to be inserted in the deficiency appropriation bill for rental of the necessary buildings throughout the remainder of the cur- rent fiscal year. Another item for rental also will be added to the reg- ular appropriation bill for the 1928- 1929 fiscal year. The supervising architect’s office of the Treasury, according to informa- tion given District authorities, has planned to start excavating for the foundation of the new Commerce De- partment Building by November 15. If the three District activities on this site have not been rehoused in a Federal Government building by that time, it is proposed to confine the excavation work to a section which | will not disturb them. The Treasury Department, however, has served spe- cific notice on the District officials | that the buildings occupied by the | municipal bureaus must be vacated just as soon as Congress provides a deficiency appropriation for rental of | privately owned buildings. The building now occupied by the Medical Clinic, Woman's Bureau and ouse of Detention have been owned by the Federal Government for some time, and the District has rented them for the sum of $1 a year each. in arrears on the rent. | Seek Detention Building. The rehousing of the Woman's Bu- reau and the Medical Clinic in a pri- vately owned building will not be so difficult, according to Maj. Atkins, as will be the finding of a suitable build- ing for the House of Detention. The building chosen for the latter will have to be of such construction that it can be converted into a detention home by the installation of bars at windows, etc. Several buildings which might be used for the House of De- tention already have been suggested to the Commissioners, and the one that appears to meet with most favor is on New York avenue between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, near the Emergency Hospital Maj. Atkins plans to devote most of his time in the next two weeks searching for privately owned build- ings which could be rented for the three municipal activities to be ousted. Real estate firms also will be asked to recommend buildinge. Perry’s Ship -Again to Sail on Lake Erie If Ohio Committee's Drive Works Out By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 31.— Members of a committee, headed by Frank Wilford of Elyria, Ohio, will meet here tomorrow to formulate plans for a campaign to restore the old brig Niagara, flagship of Commo- dore Oliver H. Perry in the battle of Lake Erie, The old flagship has heen tied up at the pyblic docks of the Park Com- missi 1* Erie, Pa. The City Coun- cil of Erle has assured Wilford it will co-operate with his committee in restoring the famous old craft. Sailors who have seen the Niagara say that she could not be trusted on the Lake today. Engineers estimate that between $25,000 and $50,000 is needed to make her hull seaworthy. Plans will be discussed tomorrow for securing the funds. There are 23 members of the committee, which consists of members of Congress, mayors, lawyers, baQkers, bishops, editors and Dbusine: 2L~ | Tt 18 understood that the District is/ “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular ed tion 1s delivered to Washington homes s are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,727 TWO. CENTS., oo BV STATEG, 0.0, 10 BAGK CO0LOCE INTSBCONENTON | Will Be Ready to Do Anything President Wishes, One Leader Says. DEMOCRATS SEE HOPE FOR SMITH CANDIDACY Fuller's Popularity Puts Him in | Running as Possible Vice Presi- dential Nominee. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. STON, Ma August 31— chusetts will send a Coolidge delegation to the Republican national conventoin next June. | “The delegation will be ready to do | anything that the President wishes,” according to one of the most influ- ential of the party leaders in the Bay State, and especially it will be ready to vote for the renomination of Presi- dent Coolidge if opportunity offers. While some of the Republicans here proféss to have believed that the President would not stand for re- nomination even before he issued his “I do mot choose” statement in the Black Hills, most of them have scarcely yet recovered from their dazed surprise which followed his an- nouncement. This is 8o far true that it may be said Massachusetts at this time has no second choice for Presi- dent. | Hope for Renomination. Many of them still cling to the hope and the belief that circumstances will arise which will force the renomina- tion of the President. All of them, however, credit the President with be- ing absolutely sincere when he said that he did not choose to run for esident. PrHers and there, however, is talk | of Hoover and Hughes and some of Dawes. Lowden has little support, apparently. Secretary Hoover appeals to many of the business men and to a large group of Massachusetts Re- publicans who admire him for his work during the war and aftérward and because he is a picturesque fig: ure as Uncle Sam’s “trouble man. Those who discuss the situation are talking also somewhat of Hughes. Much will depend upon whether the President maintains an absolutely neu- tral attitude toward the various presi- dential possibilities which the G. O. P. hoasts. If it should become known that Mr. Coolidge favored any. candi- date for the nomipation. the leade: say that beyond a doubt the Massa- chusetts delegation would back that candidate. Sees Hughes Favored. One very astute Demoeratic poll- tician, who believes implicitly that Gov. Al Smith of New York will be the nominee of the Democratic party next year, ventured to predict that the Massachusetts Republicans would favor Mr. Hughes. His reasoning, which is not unsound, is that Massa- chusetts will prefer an Eastern man to a Westerner; that the State is so close to New York that it will sup. port Hughes rather than another, particularly if it appears fairly cer- tain that Smith is to be the Demo- cratic standard bearer, and the Re- publicans wish to carry New York. If Mr. Hughes had not said shortly before he went to Europe that he was “too old” to run for President, it is not unlikely - that by this time more Hughes sentiment would have been stirring here. As it is they are wait- ing for a further statement from the former Secretary of State to clear the atmosphere. Politics around Boston, and, indeed throughout the State, halted for sev- eral weeks to give the right of way to discussion of the Sacco-Vanzett! case. That case, by the same token, has brought Gov. Fuller more prom- inently into the consideration of the people for political preferment than ever hefore, and he has been one of the greatest vote getters the State has produced for many years. v, Fuller is not talked of now as a pos- sible nominee for President. No on believes that Massachusetts could suc- cessfully offer another candidate f | the Republican nomination after hav- ing had Fresident Coolidge in the White House for a term and a half. But many of them are asking them- selves why Gov. Fuller is not material for the nomination for Vice President, particularly if Secretary Hoover or some other westerner | should bhe nominated for President. There is reason to believe that Gov. Fuller would welcome the vice presi- dential nomination, although he has said that he has no ambition to go to Washington as Senator. Resented Outsiders’ Efforts. The Sacco-Vanzetti case aroused even more interest and excitement in this State than did the Boston police strike, which brought President Cool- idge so strongly into the limelight while he was governor, and resulted finally in his nomination in 1920 for Vice President. The people of Massa- chusetts generally resented bitterly the efforts of outsiders to have the verdict against the convicted men set aside. They regarded these efforts as an attack upon the laws and courts of Massachusetts. Gov. Fuller up- held the verdict, and gained in strength thereby. He stands forth to- day as the defender of law and order, just as Mr. Coolidge did after the police strike. ‘The governor, in spite of his evi- dent popularity with the voters of the State, has not been a favorite in the past of many organization Repub. licans. They have regarded him as an outsider, an interloper. But Gov. Fuller’s appeal to the people has been too strong for the politicians. He has one element of strength which other Republicans nominated for of- fice have lacked. He is strong with the Catholic vote in the State. His wife {s a member of the Roman Cath- olic Church. ‘The Fullers are enormously wealthy and have been generous in their con- tributions to charity and the church, dividing their gifts between the Prot- estant and Catholic Churches. Be- cause of this connection with the Catholic Church, the governor is sald in some quarters to be as strong and as acceptable to Cathollc voters as Senator David I. Walsh himself. In the last election, in 1926, Gov. Fuller rolled up a great vote against Col. Gaston, his Democratic opponent. The vote stood 595,006 for Fuller to 407,389 for Gaston. Yet Gaston had come within a few thousand votes of (Continued on Page 3, Columa %) _