Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1927, Page 2

> FLAXSEED STUDY IN ARGENTINA OFF Protests Against Sending of Tariff Agents Leads to Can- cellation of Plans. By tha Ascociated Press Plans of the Tariff Commission to gend agents to Argentina to investi gate production costs of flaxseed and corn, an activity not welcomed in the South An an republic, were changed today and the committes will September 24 as scheduled e Chairman Dennis of sion announced the deci: afte visit to President Cool The investigation will be continued in this country, with a view to, making adjustment on flaxseed and corn tariffs Mr. Dennis 1 a statement say- fng “the Argentine government does | not refuse admission to our exports, | sut has mada it plain to the amis- | sion that their presence in Avzentina | would be unwelcome. While the com- | mission has taken no formal action | pending the return of Chairman Ma absent from the vin, temporaril ft goes without say i mission will eancel the sailing orders by Prof. Warren of of the crew, e Cornell. Will Push Inquiry. o the attitude of gentina. the commission will push the corn and flaxseed investigations and no doubt complete them sooner than | would have been done if cost agents Ar erred hy had been sent to Argenti as- | certainment of dome: costs for both commodities is already approach ing completion and we shall have to obtain evidence on Argentine costs from such secondary sources as may be accessible in this country “The emphatic protest which we | have received from Argentina came | to us as a_matter of routine through | rezu diplomatic channels. and | from my own discusgion with the Ar-! gentine Ambassador, Senor Pueyrre don. It is quite evident that nothing could be hoped for hy dispatching cost agents to Argentina under the adverse conditions of public opinion which now prevail in that country.” | Feeling Is High. Mr. Dennis said that inform: of the attitude of the Argentine ernment and people came th the State Department to him, follow- | Aires by | ing advices from Buenos Ambassador Bliss. The American Chamber of Commerce in Buenos Aires, he said, also cabled a protest | to Washington against a visit of | cost agents at this time. The feel- ing in Argentina, Ambassador Puer- rydon told Mr. Dennis, was motivated by the Department of Agriculture’s restrictions on frozen meat and the | recent Sacco-Vanzetti agitations there. Mr. Dennis said that the & course was not dictated by President Coolidge, but that he had ed Mr. Coolidge to approve the declbion. “This is the first time that a foreign country has held up the Tariff Com- mission in sending agents to deter- mine production costs of their ar- ticles.” said Dennis. Agitation against the flexible tariff, involving investigation of production costs abroad, has cropped up recently in Europe. KING ALFONSO’S RIGHT | TO THRONE OF SPAIN | CHALLENGED BY LEADER| (Continued from First Page.) ange of resents a minor branch of the Bour- bon family, as the major branch is embodied in Prince Jaime of Bour bon, who is its actual representative.” Sanchez-Guerra says the King could easily put an end to the present situa- tion if he wished and expressed belicf that public opinion in Spain will not be convinced that Alfonso is forced to follow his present course by the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Tt is stated that the former premier will live in France on his salary as counselor to a French corporation. As a former premier of Spain he is en- titled to an annuity of 10,000 pesetas, but this will probably be terminated when he leaves the country. By his letter, Senor Sanchez-Guerra ranges himself with the Carlists, or those supporting the claim of the lineal descendant of Don Carlos to the the Spanish throne. Prince Jaime, present pretender, grandson of the original Don Carlos, was born at Vevey, Switzerland, in 1870. He makes his home in France. WOMEN MAY SERVE. Oratory Will Not Be Encouraged in | New Parliament of Spain. MADRID, September 14 (#).—Wom- en are eligible to membership in the new National Assembly, decreed by King Alfonso, but neither they nor the | male deputies will be encouraged in extended oratorical efforts. The rules for the body, as published, show that each assemblyman is given but 20 minutes to speak on a subject and 10 minutes for rebuttal. As a further curb on ortatory, the Assem- bly, as a whole, must not consume more than three hours in debating a question. he members will be appointed by roval decree before Qetober 6. While not enjoying parliamentary immunity from arrest, they are guaranteed full liberty of speech. aside from the time restrictions mentioned, and are prom- ised speedy action in case of detention. In commemoration of the fourth an- niversary the Primo de Rivera regime, amne 2l newspaper men convieted of v has been decreed for | | | | JOHN DWI Western High School student won gold medal at the recent Citizens' Milit Training Camp at Plattsburg, | 1T SHEA, | where he w 1 honor man. \'numzi Shea, the son of J. William Shea, Capi- tal atta ¥, lives in Montgomery County. He is a member of the Cadet Corps at Western. ToROSKYWARD AT AIR CARNIVAL Columbia Heights Business | Men and Friends Have Big | Day at Hoover Field. Members and friends of the Colum- | bia Heights Business Men's Associa- | ion of about 300 are at Hoover Field this afterncon in full possession of the -facilities 6f the Potomac Flying Service, Inc., engaging in the first aerinl carnival ever held in Wash. ington. Beginning at 9 o'clock this morning, | members of the association, their families and specially invited guests ived at the field, and all day long the d was augmented by more par ants in the aeronautic ex- cur Up until 1 o'clock today out 75 of the participants, one-third of whom were women, had made a plane flights in the two *“touring’ and the one *cabin” type airplanes wkhich re at the disposal of the organization. The flights, especially mapped out for the cecasion, run from Hoover Field to the Monument, then out Fourteenth street to Park Ros where a circle is made over the Co. lumbia Heights section and return to the field by way of Sixteenth street. Trips for About 300, Before dark, when the carnival is scheduled to close, officers in charge of the entertainment expect at least 300 persons will have been carried aloft. At 1 o'clock Aviation Chief Ma- chinist Mate “Jimmy” Clark of the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, went aloft in the Fairchild cabin mono- plane, airplanes, for a parachute descent. At 4 o'clock. he was scheduled to make another jump. Clark made a delaved jump from ahout 2000 feet, falling ‘about 300 feet before he opened the parachute. As he plunged down at a great sped his descent was accompanied by shrieks and screams from the spec- tators, and lixngn the center of the field he was r - ly applauded. Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty, Commissioner Taliaferro and Traffic Director William H. Harland have heen invited to attend the carnival and although pressure of business has kept them at their desks early this afternoon they signified their intention of visiting the field before nightfall if possible. As soon as every one has made a flight the field will be cleared for the purpose of staging several contests of the character accompanying every outing and picnic. rank J. Sobotka, president of the association, and most of the officers and the various committees in charge of the carnival features arrived early and will remain at the field until the close. BATTLE ON TAX CUT SEEN, INSURGENTS HOLDING BALANCE (Continued from First Page.) ing that the levy be reduced from 13% per cent to 11 per cent. Just how much the new Congress will take off the total annual tax bill still is a subject for speculation. There are those among the Demo- crats who insist that a cut of from $400,000,000 to $300,000,000 can be mada without imparing the opera- tions of the Treasu Some of the Republicans estimate that the re- duction_can be between $300,000,006 nd $350,000,000, while others hold that the maximum can not exceed the former figure if large sums are to be authorized for flood control and relief end naval expansion. TAX CUT NEXT TO FLOOD. Curtis Believes Reduction Should Be | Guided by Relief. Tax reduction should come next to “press crimes” against the regime. SPECIAL COUNSEL NAMED IN $2,500,000 TAX SUIT Herberet Clark of San Francisco to Represent U. S. in Ford Stock- holder's Appeal. The Government has retained as special counsel Herbert Clark of San Franelsco, to represent the Bureau of Internal Revenue in a suit brought by Mrs. William R. Kales of Detroit, to recover $2,500,000 in taxes, which she paid as one of the nine Ford stock- holders, who are contesting the Gov- | ernment’s right to the tax. Mrs. Kales, it is has retained Charles Evans Hughes, former Secrotary of State, and Hal 11, £mith of Detroit. The case, which promises to ba one of national prominence is a companion g the eight other who carried their fight Appeals here instead of to the Federal Courts. The | eight stockholders elected to refuse to | pay the tax, and fight it out in the hoard of tax appeals, while Mrs. Kales decided to pay the tax and fight her case along the same lines, and involv- ing the same questions, in a United case of that involvi stockholders, to the Board of Tax Btates Court. 1s still pending before the oard o tax appeals, & . understood heré | The case of the eight stockholders food relief on the program of the new Congress and should be guided in no small measure by the amount necessary for readjustment in the | Mississippi Valley, in the opinion of | Senator Curtis of Kansas, Republican | leader in the Senate, expressed this | morning after an extended conference | with Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon. | There gire several ftems to be taken |into conkideration in planning a tax { cut, but the flog te is in the fore- front, Semator Curtis said, adding that it would be impossible now to forecast the extent of any tax reduc. | said he had request- nator Jones, chairman of the | Senate commerce committee, to call | his committee into session late in | October or early in November to take up the question of flood control. | _On the llouse side, Representative {Reid of 1llinois, chairman of the | flood control committee, has personally Visited much of the flooded area, and is expected to return to the Capital considerably before the opening of | Congress. There was no indication to- | day, however, as to when his commit- tee may be called into session. Thus, by the timo the flood control program gets into shape, Senator Cur- tis also thinks, from iwhat he had learned, the Treasury would also he |in shape to estimate more accurately what the prospects for future revenue may be, and how much may he con- sidered as available for tax reduction. Treasury officials are known to be studying the situation carefully from all sides, but Secretary Mellon him- self has emphasized since his return from Europe that the program is mot In any shape yet to estimate the prob- able size of the tax cut, nor Where the -heaviest slashes may bs made. f % THIE FEVENING SPEED BOAT RACING PLANS COMPLETED Coast Guard to Patrol Course and Arrangements Made for Spectators. ven Coast Guard boats will pa- trol the course off Hains Point over which speedboats will race for the| President’s Cup and other coveted trophies Friday and Saturday. Final ns to care for the 100,000 specta- expected on the two days were made public today by the Corinthian | Yacht Club, which is staging the regatta. The 11 hoats will he stationed at intervals along the course and will keep it clear for the racers. The boats will do taxi duty before and after the races, carrying spectators to and from the boats anchored out in the stream. Several thousand will ba cared for on the boats and barges in the water, The Mayflower, presidential yacht, will hold the commanding position | among the hundreds of hoats anchor- ed along the course. The Mayflower will he directly in the middle of the course. The Sylph, Secretary Wil- bur's yacht, will have the second posi- tion, guarding the lower end of the course, Provision for Officials. s of the race, starters, timers, L ete., will be in a Coast Guard | anchored directly opposite the finish line. The Manning, another Coast Guard boat, will eontain the | honorary judges, Government officials and other guests of honor. The avy's Porpoise will shelter other guests of honor, contributors to the | regatta fund, program advertisers and others who have helped the yacht club put the races across. In an effort to raise money enough Offici: scqrer boat directly opposite the sea wall and to charge admission of §1 to spectators who want to see the regatta from one of these points of vantage. The barges will hold 300 persons each. The yacht club has taken other heroic measures to finance the regatta, Sandwiches, pop, ice cream and other things will be sold on the barges and regatta there will be no regatta next ar, In addition to facilities provided for guests on the boats the club has made arrangements for the comfort of those who watch the races. from lHains Point. Three huge amplifiers have been put up and through them the crowd can hear the concerts by the Navy and Marine Bands, description of the races and immediate announce- ment of the results. The broadcasting is being done by the National Broad- casting Co, Holders of boat passes will be ad- mitted to the course from the Corin- thian Yacht Club’s clubhouse upon presentation of the passes. The Coast Guard patrol hoats will take care of STAR. WASHINGTON. 1o put the races across without a def. |recovered wreckage, the searching icit the club decided yesterday to[steamer Kyle was continuing the anchor two barges at the finish line [ gearch. Thers was no trace of the boat in the wreckage. the waves. the main tank holding 900 gallons of gasoline, so this huge weight prob- ably went to the bottom. on Hains Point. In addition camp chairs will be for rent on Hains Point. Wreckage Described. ‘hus, nickel by nickel and dime by | “The ship's undercarriage and left | d_l_nw. the club hopes to make up the |wheel are fairly complete,” said the )‘.J‘»gu deficit now hanging over its|dispatch received by the New York ead. Daily Mirror, owned by \W. R. Hearst, §1,000 Raised in Week. ker of the flight, from Douglas Since last week $1,000 has been ir, its correspondent aboard the raised and the club hopes to pull |Kyle. *“But the wings and supports through. Unless enough cash is|are a tangled mass of stays, giving gathered In to pay for this year's|cvidence of hoisterous weather in this the fate of the three brave men who editor of the Mirror. of 34 feet of wing, with the stars and stripes tanks still containing of gasoline, and the major portions of the undercarriage and the left wheel. search was uscle: Sun’s Promptness In Setting Saves 3 Caught With Rum By the Associated Pre CHICAGO, September 14.— The sun set last July 2 at 8:20 p.m. in- stead of 8:30, for which P. H. Mec- Mahon, roadhouse owner, and two ;mpluyes were duly thankful to- ay. The men wers arraigned hefore a United States commissioner on charges of possessing llquor. Pro. hibition officers testified they rald- ed McMahon's roadhousa July 2 at 8:30 p.m. on a “day” warrant, McMahon's attorney produced weather records to show that the sun set at 8:29 that day, and that | the prohibition agents ' therefore acted without proper warrant, The commissioner agreed, OLD GLORY FLYERS BOAT NOW SOUGHT Hope Remains That Crew May Be Afloat in Rub- ber Vessel. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 14.—Only the faint hope that a small collapsible rubber boat with three daring air ad- | venturers had survived the storm- | tossed Atlantic since Jast Wednesday today remained to searchers for the accupants of the monoplane O1d Glory | after discoverey of the wrecked hulk of the glant craft 600 miles off New- foundland. With a detafled description of the The Kyle indicated the steel fuse- lage of Old Glory was shattered either by the force of its fall or the blows of No mention was made of vicinity, which may give a clue to old Glo il this ompanied ted endeavor. Aboard the plane when it left Old hard, Me., for Rome were Lloyd vaud and James D. Hill and their nger, Philip A. Payne, managing on pas; The messages told of the recovery underneath; three large supplies painted Shipping Men Lose Hope. Shipping men believed continued They pointed to the course. Races to Start at 1 0 newest of the flying services' | the arrangement of the boats along "Clock. The races will start at 1 o'clock each day. Up to half an hour before they begin boats will be in readiness to carry guests from shorefto the boats. At 12:30 the Coast Guard boats wfl{ take up their patrol duty. utes before the races start. During this time the Marine or-Navy band will be providing music. Boats for the races have heen ar- riving at the v Yard for the past two or three days, and by tomorrow all are expected to be here. It is not Hammersley will bring his Cigarette IV, which ‘won the President's Cup last year. The regatta committee plans to show one of the racers on a float to- morrow to stimulate interest in the regatta and to remind people that it is still $2,000 short. DE LUXE COACH LINE AGITATION RENEWED Dispute Over Route May Be Re- Utilities Body. So many protests have been re- ceived by the Public Utilities Com- mission since its approval of the application of the Capital Traction Co. for authority to establish a new 25-cent de luxe motor coach service between Cleveland Park and the heart of the downtown shopping dis- trict that the case probably will he reopened, it was indicated today hy John W. Childress, chairman of the commission. A majority of the pro- tests have come from residents in Cleveland Park. A recent petition from the com- pany proposing a change in the orig- inal route suggested, Mr. Childress said, may pave the way for another public hearing, at which the whole question of establishing the new line most likely would be considered. The company pointed out in its latest petition for a change in route that a study hy its representatives, the Traffic Bureau and engineers of the commission, has shown the desirability of modifying the original route proposed. The petition asked that the line be routed down Con- necticut avenue to S street, thence to Kighteenth street, instead of across Kalorama road from Connec- ticut avenue to Eighteenth street. PLAN RECORD AUTO TRIP. St. Paul Policemen Will Try to Reach Gotham in 50 Hours. ST. PAUL, Minn., September 14 (#). —A trip from St. Paul to New York by automobile in 56 hours with their sleeping quarters housed in a_ trailer is planned by two St. Paul policemen | A. M. Christopherson and 0. J, Stut | man. The two men will leave here at o'clock tomorrow morning in the hope of reaching New York, 1,500 miles away, by 3 p.m. Saturday to spend their vacations with relatives. They will alternate turns at the wheel and at sleeping, stopping only for gas and meals. French Tax Reply, Due Tomorrow, Is Feared Unfavorable By the Associated Press, PARIS, September 14.— The French reply on the tariff ques- tion will be transmitted tomorrow, the French foreign office today in- formed the American embassy. tion lifeboat. renewed hope to M Mrs. Payne for the of the plane has been found, with the exception of the engine Bertraud. came down could have cut the engine from the were at all possible.” known yet whether or not Gordon | ¢ clinging to the slightest hope and are still unwilling to admit, even to oursclves, that the worst has happened.” ments of information concerning the fates of recent aerial expeditions that evidently ended in tragedy. The latest came from the Pacific, where wreckage painted a bright yellow like that of the Golden Kagle of the September 1 'by sailors aboard the fishing schooner William H. Smith. and its tragic features, thought the wreckage merely a plece viewed by D. C. i of driftwood, and did not pick it up. 7 b S They sighted it about 1,000 miles east of or through the action of wind and British Officials Doubt Wreckage Is the observation of masters of vessels who looked for the plane last week that the stormy waters would prevent the survival of the strongest regula- Finding the ruins of Old Glory gave Bertraud and urvival of thelr husbands and James D. 1ill, co-pilot. “It appears that the greater part said Mrs. “I am sure that when they in the water the pilots plane to get rid of the weight, if it St. Petersburg, Fla., father of the Old “We are still Tom Payne, lumber dealer, ilory passenger, said Dole Wreckage Believed Found. The seas continued to yield frag- Dole flight casualty list, was sighted Ignorant of the transpacific flight the seamen the Aleutian Islands at a spot which the plane might have reached if it had been blown off its course, tide, by Jack W. race to Honolulu with Gordon Scott as navigator. GLIDER ON BEACH. From Transocean Plane. LONDON, September 14 UP).—Afr ministry experts who have examined the wreckage of an alrplane found several days ago on the beach at New- quay are understood to have decided that it is not that of any of the miss- ing transatlantic planes, n.’l)'!‘n. d patch from Newquay to’ the Evening News. Part of the wreckage and the rud- der, covered with a silver-gray fabric, are being brought to Leondon for further examination. A private message from Newquay savs that the wreckage has heen iden- tified as that of a glider. MOST CHICAGO LIQUOR _DECLARED MADE THERE Yellowley Tells Lowman Suppres- sion of Breweries and Stills Is Big Job. Ninety-eight per cent of the liquor drunk in Chicago is made in that city or ita environs, E. C. Yellowley, pro- hibitlon administrator for Illinols, Indiana and eastern Wisconsin, told Assistant Secretary Lowman today. “The supply of liquor comes largely from wildeat breweries and stills, Yel- lowley wald, with very little whisky coming through from Canada. Suppression of the wildcat enter- prises offers the most serious enforce- ment problem in lllinois, Yellowley declared. Through increased vigilance on the part of the enforcement squad a number of seizures have been made and “materinl advances” toward ex- terminating this class of law violators accomplished, he asserted. Conditions in other sections of his district were described by the adminis- trator as “very, fine.”’ e Man, 98, Plans Wedding. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Towa, Septem- ter 14 () —Giving his age as 80 years to the marriage clerk, but confiding to friends that he was really 98, W. H. Indications are that the reply may not he so favorable as was frst expected, __i_ ons The Golden Fagle was piloted in |, the Frost of New York, D. @, TWEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11 '1927.. BURLEITH ZONING BATTLE AVERTED Realty Firm Withdraws Its Request for Right to Build Apartment and Stores. A threatened fight before the Zon- ing Commission over a proposal to| rezone the north side of Reservoir road between Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth streets from a resi- dential to first commercial area was averted today when the application for the change was withdrawn by Shannon & Luchs. The change was proposed by Shan- non & Luchs in order to erect an apartment house with stores, but op- position to the invasion of commercial establishments in Burleith became so vigorous that the firm decided to with- draw the application. Action Is Prevented. When announcement was made at | the zoning hearing in the board room | of the District Building this morning that the petition had been withdrawn, S. Duncan Bradley urged the commis- sion to consider the proposal anyhow and deny it. Iugh Frampton, who said he represented 180 of the resi- dents of Burleith. who wera opposed to the change, interposed an objec- tion on the ground that many of the interested property owners had pre- viously been advised of the decision of | the real estate firm to withdraw its ition and were not present at the ing. The commission denied Mr. | dley's request hy taking the posi- | tion that the withdrawal of the peti- | tion had left nothing before it to con- sider. Considerable opposition was regis- tered to an application for rezoning property on lHarvard street near Adams Mills Road from residential B restricted to residential B, which would permit the erection of apart- ment houses. The principal protest came from the Mount Pleasant Citizens’ Association, protests were neard by the com- | sion on an application for chang- | ing the height limit on the Arcade | Market lot near Fourteenth strect and ark road from 60 to 90 feet. The applicant for the change plans to en- | large the Arcade Auditorium into an Indoor sport arena. The principal change in zoning which involves property on both sides of Counecticut avenue between Cal- vert street and Cathedral avenue is being considered at the commission’s afternoon session, wheih began at 1:30 o'clock. Applicants for this change want the property rezoned from residential to first commercial, and a lively hattle is anticipated, in view of pre- vious opposition to attempts to de- v the residential character of ous sections of Connecticut ave- nue north of Calvert sireet. SMITH DRIVE IN UTAH COMES AS SURPRISE Proposed Demonstration in His Be- half in Presidential Race Worries Anti Forces. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 14.—The New York Herald-Tribune (Repub- lican) says today that arrangements | for a Smith-for-President demonstra- tion in Ogden, Utah, September 23 and 24 took anti-Smith forces by sur- prise. Commenting on the announcement of Fred W. Johnson of Rock Springs, Wyo., at Ogden yesterday that a con- | ference of 50 or more representative Democrats has heen called to meet in Ogden, the Herald-Tribune says the Western Smith forces have heen or- ganizing secretly and have stolen a march on the anti-Smith forces. The conference, the paper says, is | intended to be a demonstration to con- vince prospective Democrat natio convention delegates that Gov. Alfred E. Smith has so much strength no other candidate can overtake him. The September conference is expected, it says, to be preliminary to a later and larger demonstration. The Ogden conference was arranged with the knowledge, but without the assistance, of Kastern Smith sup- porters, according to the paper. PRESIDENT THEATER LEASED BY SMITH Concert Bureau Head Is in New York Arranging for Winter Program. Leasing of the President Theater, at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania ave- nue, to T. Arthur Smith of the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau for the Tall and Winter season was an- nounced today. Mr. Smith s in New York today, arranging for attractions to be booked for the theater and his office was without knowledge of the character of productions to be staged under his direction at the President. The theater closed late in the Spring for the season, after having been operated during the Winter. Several popular successes, including “Abie's Irish Rose,” have been produced at the President in the past few years. Closing of the lease for the President consummated a deal that has been in negotiation by Mr. Smith with the Columbia Amusement Co. for several months. Mr. Smith believes the house has several distinct advantages to recom- mend it for orchestra and concert work, among them its acoustic proper- ties and the fact that it is compara- tively small. The theater occupies the site of Washington's first playhouse. 1t gtands on the site of the old Wash- ington Theater, which was built in 1804, It has been known in former years as the Comique and Kernan's. STIMSON PROGRAM SHOWS PROGRESS IN NICARAGUA Agreement Being Carried Out and Peace Conditions Held “Better Than Expected.” Provisions of the Stimson agree- ment are gradually being carried out in Nicaragua_and conditions as to peace and order on the Pacific side of that country are better than ex- pected, Brig. Gen. Frank B. McCoy reported to the State Department in a message made public today. Return of political exiles and of the members of the property-owning classes to Nicaragua was regarded as particularly significant of the im- proved conditions by Gen. McCoy. 1is report pointed out, however, that a_violent political partisanship exist- ed in connection with the elections next year which are to be supervised by American forces. Active operations for the sion of the Sandino and other outlaws” in the Province of Nuev Segovia are now in progress with ippres- hronie Martin, a farmer, has obtained a license to wed Ella ¥, Nichols, 58, of Tulsa, Okla. . ", AW T 4 the National Guard and the Marines protecting garrison towns, Gen. Mc- Cay added. & - 4 et at §60,090,000. EXCAVATION WORK TOBEGINNOV. 1o Digging on Site of New Com- merce Building to Inter- fere With D. C. Sewers. Confirmation of earlier reports that excavation operations on the site of the new Department of Commerce bullding would start November 15 was received by the District Commission- ers today from C. 8. Dewey, assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Dewey also called attention to the fact that the excavatlion work would necessitate the removal of the underground construction in the area between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets and E street and Ohlo avenue, where the new huilding s to he erect- ed, and that it would be necessary for the Commissioners to provide special connection of water and sewer mains to the House of Detention, which is to he allowed to remain untid the I trict procures funds from Congress to rent guarters for this bureau. Mr. Dewey’s Letter. Mr. Dewey's letter to the Commlis- sioners follow: “Referring to the proposed new building for the Depattment of Com- merce, it Is the intention soon to make a contract for the excavation— which involves the land between 1ith and 15th streets south of E street, e to the temporary building (Treas- ry Annex No. 2). On this property there is located a building which although under the control of the easury Department is occupied hy the Iouse of Detention of the District of Columbla. As it is understood that this building cannot be cated im- mediately the Treasury Department will consent to postpone the excava- tion of this part of the site and leava enough space around this building to give access thereto temporarily. Must Make Connections. “However, the sewer connection to this building is with a large sewer on D street running east, and probably there are no other utility lines on that street connected to the House of De- | tention. As it is intended to include | the excavating of D street in the con- traet, it is necessary for you, at your own ‘expense, to make other connec- tions, and it is requested that this he done before November 15, when it is intended to start the excavation.” Mr. Dewey pointed out that the ex- cavation plans have not yet been pre- pared, but his letter was accompanied by two prints of the diagram showing bulldings to be removed, which he said would give the Commissioners suffi- cient information. BIG LOSS OF LIFE FEARED IN STORM ON MEXICAN COAST ued from First Page.) (cont Vera Cruz, on the Gulf of Mexico. Tt swept the west coast states of Chia- pas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacan, Colima, Jalisco, Navarit, Sinaloa and Sonora. Guaymas is about 300 miles form the United States border. Radio messages from the liner City of Panama last night told of the ship putting into port at Mazatlan after riding out the storm. The ship's surgeon aided in relief work there. The liner Corinto also was ordered to proceed to the relief of Mazatlan, these reports indicating that the loss there might exceed that indicated in dispatches received overland. 400 DEAD IN JAPAN. Typhoon and Tidal Wave Hit Island of Kiushiu, TOKIO, September 14 (#).—Four hundred persons are dead, 2,300 in- ured and 700 houses destroved Kumanoto - Prefecture, Island of {iushiu, in consequence of yester- typhoon and tidal wave, re- to the Japanese home office stated today. In IFukuoka, Nagasaki and Kana- gawa prefectimes there were few casualties, but numerous _houses were inundated and damaged. At Yatsushiro the tidal wave washed some hundreds of houses from their foundations. The inmates climbed to the roofs, crying for help. Numerous houses were submerged in Kumamoto Uity ki, Omuta and Urakami, but the casualties are unknown. The governors of the Fukuoka and Kumamoto districts in_their reports to the Japanese home office say merely that a heavy rainstorm and tidal waves damaged the river banks, sev- eral thousand houses, the telephones and telegraphs, and that some fishing boats were sunk, with loss of life. Yokohama also was hit by a storm this morning. A number of houses were damaged and several persons in- jured, none seriously Pilots Report Loss. OSAKA, Japan, September 14 (P).— Alrplane 'pilots ‘who flew over the typhoon-devastated areas of Kiushiu returned today with photographs graphically showing scenes of desola- tion. One report estimates the total dam- age at 20,000,000 yen (about $10,000,- 000), including the loss of large areas of reclaimed agricultural land which is now under the sea owing to the tidal waves. Graphic storles of how homes were wrecked in an_instant and whole families perished together in yester- day’s tidal wave were told today by survivors. A resident of one of the coastal vil- lages where many perished, said: “At 1 o'clock in the morning in the midst of the raging typhoon, the sea suddenly rose mountain high. I had barely time to climb a tree on the embankment with my wife and chil- dren. Tmmediately after a_tremen ous billow tore them away from me. 30 Villages Swallowed Up. More than 30 other villages of the same place were similarly swallowed up by the raging waters. The tidal wave was accompanied by a terrific gale and torrential rain. The City of Kumamoto was para- lyzed and electric light, gas and water ervices crippled. This morning no tram cars were running and no news- papers appeared. Railways, telephones and telegraph service were interrupted in many places, but repairs were being push- ed forward energetically today. “0IL HEATING WEEK.” Public Told of Growth in Home- ‘Warming Methods. This week is being observed in Washington as “Oil Heating week” under a proclamation issued by the oil heating section of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association of the District of Columbia. By radio talks, special newspaper ad- vertising and meetings of members of the industry with building associa- tions and architects, the publc is be- ing told of the recent growth of the ofl burning industry of the country. Members of the Merchants and Man- ufactuers’ Association report that to- day there are more than 500,000 Amer- ican homes heated with oil burning equipment. ‘The estimated investment in ofl burning industry of the country is o A Veteran Is Unable To Prove He Wasn’t| Killed in Argonne By the Associated Press. SCOTTS BLUFF, Nebr, Sep- tember 14.—John W. Pugh, after a decade, has stepped from the | “killed in actfon” list, still very | much alive and with a complex problem ahead. Pugh lost his memory im the Argonne. Besides, his right arm was o injured that he now must write with his left hand. As a re- sult his signature has been denied by the Government, and Pugh has been unable to collect a $4,000 in- demnity for the suffering he has gone through. John Pugh remains “killed in action” so far as the ‘War Department is concerned. That is why Pugh is here, seek- | ing a sister and an Argonne | “buddy,” John Cline, to prove to his Government that he still lives. . EXPERTS CONSIDER HIGHWAY PROBLEM Conference Today Planning to Meet City’s Future | Transportation Needs. The report being prepared by ex- perts of the National Capital Park ington’s future transportation needs is being gone over this afternoon at a conference between Maj. Cary H. Brown, executive nssistant to the commission, and officials of the local tailway systems, The track layout of the two com- panies has been the subject of care- ful study for a perlod of weeks by Earl O. Mills, engaged as a consultant by the commission, and he will mak> is report to the Park Commission ing the monthly meeting, which |'begins Friday and will continue until Monday > An outline given today by Maj. | Brown of what the park cormissidn | plans to take up at the sessions be- | ginning Friday indicates that this | September meeting will be one of the | most important the park commission has held this year. Major Thoroughfares Scheduled. The morning session Friday will be devoted to further discussion of | the plan of major thoroughfares for | the future Washington. This sub- ject has been taken up at previous | meetings, but L. D. Tilton, the e pert eonsultant on this phase of cit planning, is ready to submit an ad- | ditional report. The park and planning experts will meet jointly with the Fine Arts Com- mission day afternoon to go over proposed treatment of the ground surrounding the Lincoln Memorial in connection with the approach to the Arlington Memorial Bridge. The conference today is to lay be; fore the railway executives in an informal way an outline of the work of Mr. Mills in order that they may study his data and make recommenda- tions to the Park Commission at some later date. Considers Physical Layout. It is understood Mr. Mills has con- fined his study to the physical layout of the various car lines and how routes might be improved as the city The problem of how best to afford transportation to and from the nia triangle when the Gov- ernment’s building program has been carried out also will form an impor- tant part of the forthcoming report. It is not expected that the railway officials will be ready to make sugges- tions at the conference this afternoon, but they will begin a study of the Mills survey., The conference is to be attended by William F. Ham, presi- dent of the Washington Railw & Electrie Co., and John H. Hanna, head of the Capital Traction Co. The commission will devote all of Saturday to the transportation report to be submitted by Mr. Mills. It is understood that after receiving the report the commission plans to wait several months before taking final action on it in order to obtain the views and recommendations of all in- terested groups. Water Power Project Opposed. Officials of the Potomac River Cor- poration of Delaware, whose applica- tion for a preliminary permit to de- velop water power on the upper Po- tomao met with opposition from the Park and Planning Commission on the ground that it would prevent preservation of a park of great nat- ural heauty along the river, will con- fer with the park and planning au- thorities during this monthly gather- ing. The desire for such a conference was indicated by the power company representatives following the public hearing recently at which the park and planning hoard presented its argu- ments agannst the power develop- ment. The final session of the commission Monday will be taken up with miscel- laneous matters that have arisen lately. . Ely to Head Board. Maj. Gen. Hanson Ely, president of the Army War College, will head an Army board just appointed by the President to meet in this city to make classifications of officers of the Army under the provisions of section 24, chapter 1. of the act of Congress ap- proved June 4, 1920. The other mem- bers’ of the board are Brig. Gens. Albert J. Bowley, Robert E. Callan, Richmond P. Davis, Edward L. King, Hugh A. Drum and Edgar T. Collins. MARLBORO ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. (Florses listed according to post positions. First race, 2 p.m.) FIRST RACE—Purse, $800; all ages: 5% furlongs. Rough Sea Shelton . 103 Paganetta May 118 Mountaineer Suppertime Sun Sweeper . Sun Kin .. Starray .. Have a Care ... SECOND RACE—Purse. $500: B-year-olds and up: 6% furlongs. Sea Sand 111 Sarako Zeonite 110 Hat claiming Button_Bri 111 Copey B *May Bar 104 Star Cu THIRD RACE—Purse. $500: claiming: 3- vear-olds and up; 5's furlongs. Allev O0p ..... 110 *Jedburch Abbey 106 | *Toiler D108 Muskall gy U *Rock 10 10| Ben = 112 FOURTH RACE—Purse. $600: claiming: Ayear-olds and up: 7 furlongs. May Roma.... 103 Bonsky 2 31k *Rars . D105 sCamilla 01100 103 Prodizal ... 111 111 Little Papoose... 107 *Going Home .. 99 *Lulu . 105 FIFTH RACE—Purse, olds and u Subtle *Invigora e Ruban Rouge. . | Kensington Lad. $600: for 3-year- | claiming: 7 furlongs .. 108 *Bud Bud 108 7zeod .. 13 D SIXTH RACE—Purse. $600; claiming: vear-olds and up: 1 miles. Chula, a 111 Comic Artist 111 *Poor. Sport 108 Elkcrest 13 Sam_ Smith 106 *Harlan . 106 Meridian Hill SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $600; claiming d-year-olds and up: 114 mile i | terest in the many legislative proj. and Planning Commission on Wash- | ias anxious for M |coming, it means di |for harmonious development | Excerpts from “Erminie”. ——— SITUATIONING.0.P, BECOMING URGENT Statement for Hughes, At- tributed to Mellon, Further Unsettles Outlook. BY DAVID LAWRENOH. Although there are literally dozens of problems on the doorstep of the White House, thers is no escaping the fact that the most urgent of all is the political situation in the Republtcan party. Mr. Coolidge has met the Washing- ton correspondents in his first confere ence, has revealed his usual kesn ects belng brought forward, but had not shown any perceptible change in attitude either toward his work or thg question of accepting renomination, Some of the correspondents who have heen traveling with him lave professed to see a change in manner, a sort of loosening up from the rigidity of previous years, a sort of manifestation of freedom as if a load had been lifted from the President's mind. Mr. Coolidge has picked up in weight and looks heaithier than e His responsibilities have by no mea ceased even if he does feel that has only a little more than 15 monthe to serve on his present term, Mellon Report: Unsettling. | The very fact that efforts are heing |made to draw from him some I | encouragement for some of the ca he | didates mentioned as successora | enough to keep Mr. Coolidge c« cerned. For instance, today's lished reports speak of Secretary Mel- lon's determination to back former | Secretary Iughes. Mr. Hughes himself has said he | still favored Mr. Coolidge's renom!- nation. The inference is that Mr, Mellon does not. The truth is Mr, Mellon, who will eontrol the Penn- vlvania delegation, and who will have a big influence on the New York and New Jersey delegations, is Coolidge to run |again as is Mr. Hughes. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, feels the same way. Yet if the published reports of Mr., Mellon's plans were to he ac- cepted as an indication of what's sion fmmedi ately in the President’s own cabi a situation that hardly can mal e vlans of the Executive in the next several months, Hughes Is Popular. Mr. Hughes is popular with the members of the cabinet, as is Mr. Hoo- ver. It is going to be a difficult thing for cabinet members, directly or indi- rectly, to espouse the cause of any- body except Mr. Coolidge, anyhow. | No member of the cabinet thus far h: derived any further information from the President than was con- tained in his own statement that did not choose to run, and the likel hood is that no further information will be forthcoming. The President has expressed his personal preference, hut the Republican party has not. Under the circumstances the prevailing im- pression now is that unless Mr. Coo- lidge in some striking way stops the movement, the effort to have him re- nominated will soon supersede every- thing else political. Business men are indicating their desire to have uncertainty removed and Republican leaders in all pacts of the country are asking cabinet mem- bers and others here for guidance. v will not get it from the White House. They may get it from cabinet members, who, so far as can be ascer- tained, are unanimous for the renomi- nation of Mr. Coolidge, despite his re- cent statement. (Covyright. 1927.) HEALTH CAMP TO CLOSE. Mrs. Margaret J. Hilleary, superin- tendent of the Children’s Health Camp, conducted by the Washington Tuber- culosis Association, at Fourteenth and Upshur streets northwest, announced today that the closing exercises for this season will be held at the camp at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, when parents and friends will be welcome. The children have made remarkable gains in_health, it is stated, and prizes will be awarded, including such 1ecovery cards as the physician in charge and the Health Department may find justified. At the same time there will be an exhibit of the han work done by the children as a pa of their Summer program. BAND CONCERTS. TONIGHT. By the United States Navy Band, at the navy yard bandstand, 7 o'clock. Grand March from the opera ““Tannhauser” ..... Wagner Suite, “Peer Gynt, No. Grieg March, “Militaire Francaise, Saint-Saens oman Carnival,”” Berlioz ‘hant du_Rosig- e .Filipovsk Poem Symphonique, “Danse Maca- bre” . caen Saint-Saen Grand scenes from the opera, “Jewels of the Madonna Wolf-Ferrar| Vollsted| the Rose Jesse Star Spangled Banner. Overture, * Solo for piecolo, nol” Valse, “Jolly Fellows” Intermezzo, ““Wedding o “The By the United States Army Band at the Sylvan Theater, Monument| Grounds, at 7:30 p.m.: March, “Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Elv, Dahl Suite de ballet, “Antony and Clec patra’ . .Gruenwald umpet solo, Bravura"..Rodrigue Trumpet solo, “La Bravura,” Rodriguez second leader. Lake Thomas F. Darcy, Waltz medley, “Old-Timers’ American sketch, “Down South.’ Myddleton ouvenir de Beethoven.” Arranged by Tobant “Huntingdon Selection, Municipal puve March, Band” . i Overture, “‘Semiramide”. Rossini Mexican waltz, “Te Amo, Te Adcro (L Love You, I Adore).....)Martinez Two popular songs....To be seiected Characteristic, “Cortege du Sardar, Ippolitow-Twanow kobowskl March, “Hands Across the Ses.’ “The Star Spangled Banner. a By the United States Marine Band, at the Capitol, at 7:30 p.m. March, “6th U. S. Cavalry T C “Les Preludes”. Trombone solo, * Robert E. Clark. Caprice, “Eglantine”......Van Loock Cornet solo, scherzo, “Showers of Goldr il ...Clarke John P. White, “Capriccio Espagnol,” Rimsky-Korsakow Clarinet solo, “Introduction and Va- riations™ .Kalllwoda Lugaresi Terz Scherzo, “L'Apprenti Sor Finale, “Fourth Symphony. Tschaikowsky “The Star Spangled Banner.” otice—This will be the last concert of the Summer season at the Capitol hy the Marine Band. The band will leave Washington on September 19 for its annual Fall concert tour, re- turning on November 19, after which Dukas Seth's Lemon ... 111 AT A the regular series of orchestral con. certs will be resumed in the band auditorium at the Marine Barrackp. | ’