Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1927, Page 2

9.8 AUTO RECIPROGTY - WARIS DELAYED Quiet Prevails in Vienna Sec- .tor As Court Waits for Reinforcements. Formal opening of the much ‘heralded automobile “‘reciprocity war," “scheduled for today in the Vienna Va., sector, was postponed until to morrow by Justice of the Peace James Allen when expected reinforcements from Richmond failed to show up. Edward J. McDermott, State officer assigned, is understood, to “clean up !/ the District of Columbia tag situation {in northern Virginia,” sent word he would be on hand tomorrow, summons book and all, ready to arrest all . 'offenders aguinst Virginia's registra- tion law: In the meantime word was received here today by the Board of Trade from Gov. Byrd that a ‘“conciliation conference” between District and Vir- jji.ginia officials would be acceptable to him, and that he would be glad to {meet a Washinston delegation next Thursday or Friday. Plan Parley on Thursday. The Board of Trade is arranging to thold the conference mnext Thursday ‘afternoon at 2 o'clock. The District Commissioners will be asked to attend \'as official representatives of the local “government. Representatives of the i Board of Trade, the Chamber of Com- {iimerce and the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association are expected to take part in the parley, Officials of the Board of Trade ar- ‘ranged the conciliation meeting in the . belief that a personal conference would iron out the misunderstandings that appear to have arisen as a_result of {/iitho recent ruling of the Virginia attor- ney general that District trucks and |\ passenger automobiles owned by part- {time Virginia residents must carry Virginia tags. Edwin C. Graham, president of the !itrade board, will lay the matter before Jithe Commissioners and request them fiito go to Richmond Thursday or send {authorized representatives. Commis- sioner Dougherty, on learning of the \iboard’s movement today, is said to ' have indicated he would delegate Traf- fic Director Harland as an ‘“official observer” for the District. The breach that has developed be- Wiisociates on the bench over trial of a Postpones “Tag War” | ! JUSTICE JAM TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Driver Is Charged With Hav- ing Liquor in Machine and Colliding. Eight persons were injured vestel day in a series of trafl i i one of which the driver w on numerous traffic ch counts under the prohibi The prisoner referred name as Raymond old, of the Charles Hotel. captured after an exciting chase from Seventh and M streets, where it is al- leged his car crashed into and over- turned another automobile. to Third and E streets, where his own turned turtle in collision with a b of the Capital Traction Co. Glenn was arrested by the pursuing policeman, Pvt. Velt Brazziel of the second precinct, and taken to the po- lice station, where he was charged with collidins, reckless driving, leav- of preliminary tag cases i widened today when Judge Allen an- iiinounced, cryptically, that he was “go- ! ing to see about” the action of Jus- “iitice of the Peace H. Carlin Cockrell 4/in retrying two of the cases and re- I mitting fines assessed by Allen. i Justice Seems Peeved. ‘! Judge Allen refused to be quoted ' as to what he thought of Judge Cock- rell’'s action, explaining that what he aid about it would speak for itself. He evidenced great displeasure over ! his associate’s move, however, Judge Cockrell, in granting a new ing the scene of an_accident without making his identity known and illegal possession and transportation of 60 quarts of liquor. Glenn Slightly Injured. Glenn's car, police say, collided last night with that of Chester W. Davis, 1318 Potomac avenue southeast, in- juring Davis and his wife. Policeman Brazziel commandeered an automobile and gave chase, the pursuit ending in the second collision downtown. Glenn was_slightly injured. Edward Arnett, colored, employed as porter for a local furniture com- pany and residing at 905 V street, and trial Saturday night to T. T. Taylor of the T. T. Taylor Co., builders, of (/! this city, held that Judge Allen’s con- liiviction of Taylor was a miscarriage 4 of justice and the defendant was {" found not guilty, on the grounds that i the warrant should have been served {iion the company and not on a member | defendant, H. C. Ayers, go|without @ fine, although the charges were simiiar to those in the Taylor case. in the Ayers case. As a result of the controversy among the judges it now appears that Judge | Allen will have to direct the tag war ! without the judicial co-operation of ' Judge Cockrell or the third associate, ' Justice Clifton Laughlin. Cockrell’s Attitude. Judge Cockrell has made it plain that he does not approve of any “reci- procity war,” and has indicated his | intention of “wiping his hands of the ‘whole affair.” “‘Officer McDermott will be here in || Vienna tomorrow to begin arresting violators of the registration laws,” | Judge Allen said today. “He couldn’t get here today. I'm going to try these | cases myself.” #' KELLOGRG INDORSES ‘s PLAN TO SIMPLIFY CONSULAR SERVICE (Continued from First Page.) the governng board of the Pan-Ameri- can Union at a luncheon in the Pan- American Building, where all sessions {1/ mre being held. i ., The delegates had before them when they met today a considerable amount of documentary material bearing on the various topics to be discussed, | which had been prepared so as to show them what had been done by | previous Pan-American and other in- ! ternational gatherings looking to a so- lution of some of the problems which | face this conference. {ii Results of the Washington confer- ence are expected to be transmitted to ‘he various American governments in : time for further consideration at the | sixth Pan-American Congress, which ‘will meet at Havana, Cuba, next Janu- Function of Conference. Dr. L. 8. Rowe, director general of the Pan-American Union, in a state- |l ment made public today, declared that {1 the conference sessions are of vital in- i terest and importance to tho develop- #j ment of closer commercial ties be- i}l tween the republics of the Americas. £l During the last few weeks the Pan- .. American Union, he said, had received | & great number of letters from com- % mercial organizations, manufacturers and exporters, emphasizing the im- | portance of facilitating trade be- ' tween the American republics through | greater simplicity and uniformity of procedure. There is every reason to i; Teel, he declared, that the conference ‘ will make an important step in this 7t direction. il “Progress in every field of industry {1 and commerec has been effected in re- | cent years through simplification of processes and standardization of prod- | ucts,” Dr. Rowe said. “In the doma ! of governmental procedure simplifica- " tion and standardization has lagged far bohind the commercial and indus- ! trial world. One of the main tasks of this conference will be to remove the ! obstacles to inter-American trade that now exist because of the complexity of consular procedure. Impediments of Commerce. “It is surprising <6 what an extent ernational commerce is impeded by hat would seem at first glance de-. tails of procedure rather than mat- ters of substance. Both exporters and importers throughout the American continent bear testimony to the real obstacle which the intricacy of consu- Jar procedure presents in the develop- ment of closer commercial ties. Ques- tions of this character can be ade- quately dealt avith only by technical commissions composed of experts and actuated by a real desire to remove unnecessary obstacles,” Dr. Rowe con- cluded. . Permanently. From the Boston Transeript. : “Parsnips,” says and agricultural ct, “are best left in the ground.” ffl\'u agree. his wife were severely injured yester- day afternoon as a result of the over- turning of their motor cycle on the road near Silver Hill, Md. The ac- cident resulted from the motor cycle coming in contact with a log on the road. Husband and wife were taken to the office of Dr. William Hollister, 1412 Minnesota avenue southeast, and given treatment. Six stitches were required to close cuts in'the husband’s ce. ‘Willlam J. Bowman, 70 years old, 3221 Thirteenth street northeast, sus- tained a fracture of his left leg and injuries to his head early last night as a result of being struck by the automobile of C. L, W. McElroy, 2435 Monroe street northeast, while at- tempting to cross Michigan avenue in front of Catholic University. The driver of the car took the injured man to Emergency Hospital. Woman Is Injured. Mrs. Etta Morris, 45 years old, How- ard House, was injured early yester- day morning when her husband's au- tomobile collided with another ma- chine at Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street. She was treated at Emergency Hospital for a cut over her right eye. Nathan Fishman, 1535 U street southeast, was driver of a car that was struck by another machine at Eleventh and F streets northeast early yesterday morning and dam- aged. The other car struck a tree and was damaged, police reported, but its driver failed to stop and make his identity known. Police have not succeeded in establishing the identity of the driver who disappeared. GETS 50-YEAR TERM. Cemetery Bandit Sentenced—Asso- ciate Given 45 Years. NEW YORK, October 10 (#).—Ben- jamin Rader, 18-year-old cemetery bandit, convicted of the murder of Pa- trolman Henry Meyer, was sentenced to 50 years to life imprisonment to- day. Edward Reilly, his 21-year-old companion in robbery, was given 45 years to life. Rader and Reilly pleaded guilty Friday to the robbery of two women as they were kneeling beside the grave of their father in a cemetery. Patrolman Meyer was shot by Rader when he attempted to arrest them. MEXICAN GENERAL AND 15 FOLLOWERS FACE FIRING SQUAD (Continued from First Page.) was some fighting reported in Mon- terey. More Join Rebel Cause. In Hidalgo, Col. M. Rodriguez and three or four members of the State Legislature were said in the dispatch- es to Huerta to have thrown their lot with the rebels. From other parts of Mexico came dispatches telling of rebel sorties, in most of which they were repelled by loyal troops. In the State of Orizaba, Gen. Ed- munda Durand, chief of operations, led the federal forces in repelling a small band of rebels at Huatusco, Ori- zaba, according to government reports. Yaquis Are Well Armed. TUCSON, Ariz., October 10 (®).— The Arizona Daily Star says that the departure of Yaqui Indians from Ari- zona back into Mexico has depleted their colonies here to such an extent that for the last few days it has been imposeible to obtain the Indians for work in the cotton fields, their usual ation at this scason. pite the Me. government report that the Yaqui have - dered following their long against the Calles government, mem- bers of the United States Border Patrol have reported that the Indians returning to Mexico are well armed. Ejected Nuns Reach U. 8. SAN FRANCISCO, October 10 (#).— Fifteen Carmelite nuns today were resting in virtual exile here after fleeing Mexico. They reported having bee ejected from their convent in November, 1924, Father DeWnis J. Kavanagh ar- ranged a refuge for the nuns after meeting three of them wandering In Mexico. Tempotary quarters have been found. for. them in a convent here, - INJURE 8 PERSONG jof Col THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, DILLON, NEW RADIO - OFFICIAL, 15 DEAD Retired Army Officer, Native of Ohio, Succumbs in Coast Hospital. | By the Ascociatea Press. NCISCO, Octoher 10.—Col. . Dillon, a member of the ro- created Federal Radio Commis- terday at Letterman He was 61 years native of Bellevue, Ohio, and Col. Dillon was | Ohio, March 6, 18 Signal Corps on He scrved as a tele- - and general electrici ed in 188 ppointed a Department of Com- g0 and was trans- ant. spector of the merce from Chi ferre pervisor of radio for the where he served until his appointment to the Federal Radio Commi; returned to the military s 1l Corps at the outbreak of the r g w service in France. cd at the end of the nk of major and later ioned colonel in the Re- serve Co . Col. Dillon was named a member of the Federal Radio Commission for a two-year term when that body was formed Ma . by President Cool- idge. His term was the shortest of the five membe ommission. Col. ife and three n Francisco. Fu- neral services will he held Wednesday. day adopted a resolution on the death Dillon and ordered that the following tribute be placed on its per- manent recor “In_memory Francis Dillor, of Lieut. Col. John to whom the art of radio communication owes an endur- ing debt for his wise counsel, his clear vision and his devoted labors as the first member of the Federal Radio Commission from the fifth zone.” Admiral W, H. G. Bullard, chair- man of the commission, today notified President Coolidge officially of Col. Dillon’s death. TARIFF NOTE SENT TOPARIS BY 1.5, Delivery Awaits Final Word From Here—Refunding of Loan Favored. By The Associated Press. The new American tariff note has been transmitted to the embassy in Paris and will be delivered to the French foreign office, probably either late today or tomorrow morning. Its delivery is awaiting a final communi- The Federal Radio Commission to-| cation from the State' Department. While State Department officials emphasized today that there was no connection between the. tariff note and American action with relation to the French refunding. program; it was added that the French ' government possibly would be informed when the note was delivered of American policy in regard to the financial transaction. Informal assurances that Washing- ton officials see no objection to the French desire to refund the $78,000,- 000 still outstanding of the original $100,000,000 floated through American bankers in order to obtain a reduction of the original 8 per cent interest rate are understood to have been given the French Ambassador last week. > ‘Whether a formal communication on the subject will be transmitted through the émbassy or be issued in Washington by the State Department is not certain as yet. — JAMES R. ELLERSON, SR., OF REALTY FIRM, DIES Funeral Services Will Be Conduct- ed at St. Alban’s Episcopal Chapel Tomorrow Afternoon. James R. Ellerson, sr., 73 years old, member of the firm of Ellerson & Wemple, real estate dealers, and engaged in the real estate business here for the past 35 years, died at his home, 2134 R street, yesterday eve- ning. Death was ascribed to heart disease, Mr. Ellerson was a member of the Metropolitan Club and was a vestry- man of St. Alban’s Episcopal Chapel. He was a native of Richmond, Va., and engaged in the real estate busi- ness soon after coming here. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lucy Ellerson, and two sons, James R. Ellerson, and Dr. Edmund M. Ellerson of this city. TFuneral services will be conducted at St. Alban’s Episcopal Chapel to- morrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. Charles T. Warner and Rev. W. W. Shearer will officiate, Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. LAUREL ENTRIES FIRST ol IR maiden RACE—Purse. $1.300; 0ld; 5% furlonga. 5 Not Guilty .... 1 Ruby " Keller "J 1 rue oLove SioroMieon 1 ICOND RACE—Purse. $1.300; claiming ar-olds and up: 1 mile and 70 yards. st 5 & ° Tyson e James Stuari ] e, $1,300: 5% furlongs, Parse, $1,300; claiming; BF< L 0T Queen 1111 105 $2,000: the Fair- fax: 2-yes a Pink Lily Inquisitor Solace 106 Catsplay entry. RACE—Pur 1ds and up: 6 n i Flora M. Dty Toust Ebuford *Word of 1 Also_cligible. Gl *Fenlig 0 Leatheiwood NTH RACE—Purse, $1.300: claim- d-year-olds and up} 1 tile and 70 . 114 1 3 - Breeze. | I 1% Kins O Niell 11 118 Eile PANEE VAL GROUP SESETY 55 Officers and 300 Enlisted Men Arrive From Squad- ron at Annapolis. Fifty-five officers and thrse hundred enlisted men from the Japanese naval training squadron which Is anchored at Annapolis came to Washington today on a sightseeing trip and to pav their respects to officials of the American Government. Rear Admiral Osami Nagano, in_commard of the squadron; Capt. Fujivoshi of the Asama, Cant Isumi of the |wate and two staff fMcers called at the White House and were presented to Presi- dent Coolidge by Ambassador Matsu- daira. The admiral and the four officers who accompanied him _made official calls on Secretary of State Kellogg, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur and the Tapanese in the forehoon. Tomorr ce wreaths on the Torb of the Unknown Soldier, at Arlington, and of George Washington, at Mount Vernon. City Tour Made. Forty-eight of the officers arrived at 9:30 o'clock this morning at Twelfth street and New York avenue on the electric railway from Annapolis in charge of Comdr. Takahashi. They entered sight-seeing busses and left immediately for a tour of the city. After visiting the Treasury, White House, Navy Department and Lincoln Memorial, they went to Arlington and thence to Mount Vernon, returning for luncheon at the office of Capt. I. Yamamoto, Japanese naval attache, 1422 Massachusetts avenue, This af- ternoon y are visiting the Capitol and Libr: of Congress. The en ed men left the electric cars at Fifteenth and H streets north- east and left in busses on a tour of the city. They went to Arlington Na- tional Cemetery, but not to Mount Vernon, as there was not time, Other Half Tomorrow. The party of officers and_enlisted men who visited the city today com- prised only half of the men of the squadron. " The others will make a similar visit tomorrow. Nearly 200 siudent officers, or mid- shipmen, from the training squadron will also visit the city in a body to- morrow. They are expected to arrive at the station of the Washington, Bal- timore & Annapolis Railroad about 8:30 o'clock and will spend the day in touring the city and visiting Ar- lington_and perhaps Mount Vernon. Capt Yamamoto has charge of the arrangements. Captain to Entertain, Capt. Yamamoto will entertair. about 200 guests at the Mayflower at 4 o'cloc’ this afternoon to meet Ad- miral Nagano and other officers of the squadron. At 8 o'clock this ‘evening the Tapanese Ambassador will give a banquet at the Willard for 60 guests in honor of the visit. z officers. Among those who have been invited are Sec- retery of State Kellogg, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Assistant Secre- taries of State Wilbur J. Carr and Willic 1 R. Castle, jr.; Admiral Eberle, Gen. Lejeune, Assistant Secretaries of the Navy T. Douglas Robinson and Edward P. Warner; Adn irals Jones, Long, Leigh, Nulton, McVay and Wil- lard, and other high officers of the State and Navy Departmen’~. Present at the banquet will be Admiral Naga- no, 20 other officers of the squadron, and some of the admiral’'s personal friends. Served in Capital. ‘Admiral Nagano was in this city as naval attache of the Japanese Em- bassy from 1921 to 1923, Untli re- cently he has been commandant of the Yangtze patrol force of the Japanese Navy. He had a brilliant career in the Russo-Japanese War and in the World War., The cruisers Asama and Twate made records in the Russo-Japanese War. During the World War, the Asama was engaged in patrol duty in the Pacific. BIG FIRE AT BEACH LAID TO RUM PLOT Rum Runners Suspected of Causing $300,000 Blaze on Bay "~ State Coast. By the Associated Press. REVERE, Mass., October 10.—Sev- enteen amusement _establishments were i ruins today and police were in- vestigating the possibility of connec- tion between the spectacular $300,000 blaze which swept two blocks of at- tractions, and a reported large rum landing on another part of the short at_the same time. Residents of the Beachmont section said that shortly before the blaze was discovered, motor boats had been heard offshore and trucks were numer- ous on the infrequented roads. The theory on which police were proceeding was that the fire might have been started three miles away to divert attention from the rum landing. Fire department investiga- tors, however,. were inclined to at- tribu’ > the origin to a carelessly tossed ciga:ette butt, The Nauional Gardens, which was a dance hall; the Pit, housing a variety of entertainment devices, and the P..- ace of Wonders, with 14 other estab- lishments, fell prey to the flames. Flames mounting at times 100 feet, were visible from Boston to Marble- head and far at sea. Help was sum- moned from sever nearby cities and towns, » Hundreds of persons vocated dwell- ings in the danger area. VIENNA AGAIN ROCKED BY EARTH TREMORS Five Shocks Follow Saturday’s Dis- turbance and Spread Panic. Other Towns Hit. By the Associated Press. SCHWADORDF, Burgenland, Aus- tria, October 10.—Five earth shocks, coming on the heels of shocks Satur- day night In Vienna and other -parts of the Balkans, shook this town early this morning, causing the collapse of many cottages and the damaging of others. The population, panic stricken, did not dare re-enter their homes today. Families Camp in Streets. By Cable to The Star and Chicazo Daily News. ~ Copyright, 1027, VIENNA, October 10.—Quakes be- gan again today in Schwadorf and En- zersdorf and were repeated for more than two hours, throwing the villagers into panie, All the houses in Schwadorf were damaged, and most off the residents are camping in the open, while the men aid the firemen in propping the walls with beams. The people are cooking and living in the open, with baby beds lined up like a wholesale nursery, The villagers are good na- tured and rejoice that cnly nine per- sons have been hurt, _ 0 o MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 192P. 5 JAPANESE NAVAL OFFICERS VISIT CAPITAL Officers of the Japanese naval training squadron, anchored off Annapolis, who visited Washington today. BOLLDER DA RO SBEFIREALF. 0FL. California and Arizona Dele- ¢ gates Present Rival Reso- lutions to Convention. By the Afisociated Pross LOS ANGELES, October 10.—A storm which has been gathering for the last week, with delegates of two Western States providing the threats of oratorical thunder to come, hung over the American Federation of La- bor convention today. The storm centercd on several re olutions offered by delegates of Cali- fornia and Arizona relative to the de- velopment of the Colorado River and the disposition of the water and power from that source. Position of Arizona. California’s labor representatives have called up the convention for the federation’s support of the Boulder Canyon dam project, which southern California_cities are advocating as a water and power source. Arizona delegates countered with a resolution demanding that the princi- ple of State’s rights be maintained in developing the river. The resolution held that the State should have legal right to receive compensation for the use of its lands and water for any development work and that it should be entitled to a prior right to power generated. Many Other Resolutions. Other resolutions thus ordered brought out on the floor of today's sessions _dealt with labor's opposition to the Sherman anti-trust act in its present form and with the immigra- tion problem. One resolution demand- ed the repeal of the Sherman act, while others asked that it be amended so it could not interfere with organ- ized labor. Two resolutions, which have been advocated, ask for the restriction of immigration from Canada and Latin America. The committee on resolutions has been instructed to report this after- noon, even though its report is not FIND BOMBFACTORY INTENEMENT HOUSE New York Police Investigat- ing Latest Explosion That Caused Five Deaths. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 10.—New York's fourth bombing within four months, which killed 5 persons and injured 11 others, has left in the ruins of a West Side tenement house evi- dence of what police called another bomb factory, similar to those reputed- 1y operated by five men now awaiting trial for the attempted wrecking of the Supreme Court Building in Brooklyn on September 4. The entire personnal of the bomb and homicide squads of the Police De- partment today was searching for two young men, who authorities believe carried on a systematic manufacture of explosives in a room of a West Thirty-fifth street tenement destroyed in the lates blast Saturday. Bomb Held As Evidence. A bomb found intact in the ruins of the building, police said, was identical in construction with one found in the Interborough subway tunnel under the Kast River previous to the wrecking of two subway stations by bombs last July. The failure of the bomb to explode is believed to have saved the lives of many children in St. Mary’s Free Hospital for Children, adjoining the wrecked tenement house in the district of the city known as Hell's Kitchen. Andrew Conviello, whose wife owns the property, said he had received threats from enemies recently. It is thought the bomb may have been ex- vloded accidentally in the workshop of its makers. Two youths carried mysterious pack- ages in and out of the shabby tene- ment daily. They aroused suspicion because they never slept in the place and kept carefully to themselves, Explosive Described. The homb found intact in the wreck- age of the building contained six and one-half pounds of dynamite, with a fulminate of mercury detonating cap and wire lead to carry the exploding current. The case was of 3-inch black iron pipe 18 inches long, with screw caps at the ends. No traces of the exploded bomb or evidence as to how it had been set off were found. Inspector Withers ot the bureau of combustibles of the fire department, believed it was ex- ploded by electric current, when told by Mrs. Coviello that the blast follow- ed almost immediately after she had turned the lighting switch in the hall- way. . Glenn Wright Arrested. PITTSBURGH, October 10 (P).— Glenn Wright, crack shortstop of the Pittsburgh Pirates, was arrested on a reckless driving charge yesterday after his car collided with another i (#). machine. Wright was unhurt. Mel- vin Morgan, 32, driver of the other machine, was slightly injured. Wright and Morgan posted forfeits for a hearing. Augusta Teachers Re-elect. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va., October 10.— Meeting here Saturday, 300 teachers of the Augusta County Teachers’ As- sociation re-elected J. D. Kramer president, R. V. McClure vice presi- dent and Frank Ralston secretary- treasurer. . To decrease the chances of motor 1ccidents, blind gnd dumb persons wear | T. labely in ,Oonn:!!noph. ) Chase, Flying With Gen. Patrick BY MAJ. GEN. M. M. PATRICK,| Chief of the Army Air Corps. : L Getting Asquainted with the Plane 1 was 60 years old when I learned to fly. It was really one of the big mo- ments in my life, as it was contrary to the current belief that one in late middle age could do so. I am sure there are many, old and young, who yet may take safely to the air, whether for military or commercial purpos While flyers recognize such a thing as “inherent flying <e,” the ability to pilot a plane uncer ordinary cir- cumstances is not an esoteric accom- plishment. Flying in many of its aspects is not unlike driving an auto- mobile. Most of us can recall the early days of motor-driven vehicles and the reluctance with which the av- erage person ventured into one of the new contraptions. A feeling some- what akin to this is harbored by many nowadays with respect to the airplane. A better understanding of the plane and the medium through which it travels, I believe, will go far in dis- pelling from the individual’s mind many of the bugaboos about flying. That thought, therefore, s the basis for this and subsequent articles in this series, in_which the novice is made acquainted with the whys and where- fores of flying. No Parking Places in Air. Let us assume that at the air field the sky is slightly threatening. The probability of rain dictates a delay in taking off and affords an opportunity to look about the field and view some of the planes at close range. In the foreground are two giant twin-bomb- ers, newly arrived from the factory and yet to make their maiden flight— huge masses of steel, which soon are to “take wing” with the ease and grace of a swallow. There are smaller craft about—fast-flying pursuit planes, observation planes and training planes. How such masses of steel, wood and fabric can “float” in the air is a mys- tery to the average individual. Truly, it would be bafling if planes weighing 2,000 to 10,000 pounds or more could be made to “float” in air. But before starting it should be borne in mind that flying is not “floating.” Power must be applied to drive an airplane through th . air, and unless it main- tains a certain speed forward—about 40 miles per hour for the average air- plane—it will not retain its position in the air, but will fall to earth. Ob- serve a bird in the air; it is constantly in motion. There are no parking places in the air. Planes Drawn Ahead.. Flight suggests motion. It is ob- tained by driving through the air ‘a surface—in the case of the plane, the wings—inclined slightly upward and toward ‘the direction of motion. A cursory examination of a plane will reveal certain general features char- acteristic of all planes, and will help to understand how one flies by manipu- lating such a machine. At the forward end is the propeller, a steel or wooden surface, about 8 feet long, attached to an axis. The pro- peller, also known as “air screw,” literally serews through the air, pull- ing the airplane forward as it bores its way. When the plane is in mo- tion the propeller advances through the air much in the same fashion as the homely corkscrew proceeds through the neck of a bottle. With every revolution of its axis the pro- peller advances a certaln number of feet forward. Plane Has Big Motor. The wings are the surfaces that pro- vide the “lift” which, ‘combined with speed, produces flight. That part of the plane containing the pilot and his passengers, and to which is atfached the tail-plane, is the fuselage. It may be compared to the hody of an automo- bile. The wheels, or landing gear, are not an integral part of the flying mechanism, although they facilitate taking off and landing. The sky has cleared, and so the flyers prepare to don their suits and “harness.” ready for the flight. While hoping there will be no need for the parachutes, they strap them on and proceed to the plane. The craft is a two-seater Douglas observation plane, equipped with a 12-cyclinder Liberty motor. The pilot walks about the plane, examining it to make certain everything is in flying shape. As they climb into the cockpit, the pilot as- sures his passenger it is perfectly good flying form to sit on one's para- chute. They fasten the safety belts and the pilot tries the controls to make sure all are in working order. He presses the starter button; there is contact; the propeller starts whirring: the engine spits fire. They are ready for the flight. . (Copyrizht. 1927.) ‘This is the first of a series of articles by Gen. Patrick intended to acquaint the public With facts about aviation not gener known. - Following articles will be published daily in The Evening Star. GAVIN WINS TROPHY. Naval Officer Awarded Prize for Superior Flying. The Herbert Schiff memorial trophy, awarded annually to the naval or Ma- rine Corps officer with the greatest number of flying hours without seri- ous accident to personnel or material, has been won by Lieut. Arthur Gavin of the naval aircraft factory at Phila- delphia, He had a record of 865 flying hours. The trophy will be handed the aviator by President Coolidge next month. ’ Lieut. Gavin’s home is in Ashland, Wis. THIEVES GET $100,000. Bank Messenger Held Up, Regis- tered Mail Stolen. LOS ANGELES, Calif., October 10 .—Five pouches of registered mail containing mostly checks, amounting to more than $100,000, were stolen from Frank F. Wilmoth, Bank of Italy messenger, by two armed robbers to- day. The mail was being taken from COVERNNENT OWES SICLARSSL00 Navy Officials Say Court Decision, Makes Royalty Payments Due. Associated Press. avy Department officials declared today that the Supreme Court decision canceling the lease of Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair places the Govern- ment in debt to the Sinclair interests to the amount of approximately $800,- 000, since the royalties accruing to it during and after the receivership from the sale of oil taken from the Dome will be applied as a credit against the cost of storage tanks built by Sinclair at Portsmouth, N. H., for the Government. Approximately $3,000,000 in_liberty bonds, represening he proceeds from sale of oil from March, 1924, when re- ceivers were appointed, to October 1, 1927, will be turned over to Sin- clair's Mammoth Oil Co. The bonds are now in the hands of A. E. Watts, New York, vice president of Sinclair’s Consolidated Oil Co., and Capt. H. A. Stuart, U. 8. receivers for the reserve, About $480,000 of the $3,000,000 will g0 to the Government as royalties. From the time the lease was grant- ed in April, 1922, until the receivers were appointed, the value of the prod- uct taken out of the ground was placed at $2,220,787.52. This will be retained by Sinclair, while the Govern- ment collects $342,278 in royalties on this amount. The estimated cost of the storage tanks at Portsmouth and the filling of them with oil was placed at $1,- 693,000. SR e SUPREME COURT DEPRIVES SINCLAIR OF TEAPOT DOME (Continued from First Page.) change for a personal note featuring the Elk Hills litigation. The “little black bag” transaction between the then Interior Secretary and the California oil operator, as well as one payment of $25,000 in Lib- erty bonds to Fall by the lessee of Teapot Dome, after Fall left the cabi- net, were developed by the Senate committee after months of investiga- tion. Lease Attacked by U. S. It remained for special Government oil counsel, appointed by direction of the Senate, to bring the further star- tfing charge that within a few weeks after the Sinclair-Fall negotiations had been completed, $230,500 in Lib- erty bonds found their way from the oil operator to the then Interior Secre- tary and his son-in-law, M. T. Ever- hart of Pueblo, Colo. The Government attacked the Sin- clair lease as invalid, not only on the greund of fraud and corruption, but also on the ground that it was not authorized by law. The Federal Dis- trict Court at Cheyenne, Wyo., dis- agreed on both contentions and sustained the lease and the supple- mental contract under which Sinclair was to build a pipe line to the Teapot Dome reserve and construct storage tankage for the Navy on the Atlantic coast in exchange for royalty oil ac- cruing to the Government under the lease. In an opinion by Judge William S. Kenyon, a former United States Sen- ator, the Eighth Circuit Court of Ap- peals sustained the District Court on the proposition that there was author- ity in law for making the lease, but canceled it on the ground that fraud and corruption ran through the whole transaction between Sinclair and Fall. The wealthy oil operator and sports- man then appealed to the Supreme Court, contending that the evidence had failed to show fraud and corrup- tion, and insisting that as both of the lower courts had declared that there was authority in the law for leasing the naval oil reserve to protect it against drainage, the lease and the contract must be sustained. On the other hand, the Government asserted that the facts disclosed by the evidence in the trial court were ample to warrant the action of the Circuit Court in canceling the lease and con- tract, and in.refusing to compensate the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. and the Sinclair Pipe Line Co. for ex- penditures upon the reserves because they had been willful trespassers. Sinclair insisted that the questions at, issue before the Supreme Court were materially different from those presented in the Doheny case. The Government contended that under the sweeping decision in the Doheny case the Sinclair lease was invalid for want of authority to make it. It also insist- ed that had the lease been authorized by law, it must be cancelled for fraud and corruption. Counsel for Sinclair urged that the lease was justified because of the danger of the drainage of Teapot Dome, but Government attorneys re- plied that facts did not warrant a con- clusion of danger of drainage and that the real purpose of the lease was to enable naval officials to use royalty oil for the erection of storage tankage for which Congress had refused to ap- propriate. The conclusion of the Circuit Court that there was fraud and a conspiracy to defraud in the Teapot Dome case was based largely upon its finding that Sinclair had bribed Fall with the $280,500.worth of Liberty bonds, which went to Everhart and the Interior Secretary. Signed in 1922, The Sinclair lease was signed on April 7, 1922, and on May 29, 1922, the Government contended, Everhart ap- peared in Pueblo with $230,500 in Lib- erty bonds. By means of their cou- pons the Government sought to trace the Hollywood branch to the bank |these bonds to the Continental Trad- headquarters here when the robbers jumped to Wilmoth's car, forcing him to drive off with them, e D. C. Boys Named for West Point. The President has appointed as cadets at large at the United States Military Academy Walter 8, Trys- dale, jr., 3306 Cleveland avenue; James K. Woolnough, attached to the office of the chief of the Militla Bu- reau, War Department, and Holman Hoover, 709 Elm street, Chevy ' ing Co., Ltd., a Canadian concern or- ganized by H. 8. Osler, a lawyer of Toronto, to purchase oil from A. E. Humphreys, who controlled the Mexia Ol Co. and the Humphreys Texas Co. The Government charged that subse- quently Harry M. Blackmer, chairman of the board of the Midwest Co., a sub- sidiary of the Standard Oil Co. of In- diana; James F. O'Neil, president of the Prairie Oil and Gas Co.; Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Indiana Standard Oll, and Sinclair became parties to an agreement where- by Humphreys' oil was to be pur- LONDONAMAZED - AT ANZAG ANGER Slur on Australian War . Troops, Credited to History, Is Discounted. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 10.—Complete imazement was expressed today by the British authorities concerned over re- ports from Sydney, Australia, that angry protests had developed there over newspaper accounts of the Brit- ish official history of the Gallipoli cam- aign, represented as discrediting the, work of Australian troops. / Entire ignorance of the reported ref= erences to the Australians in tie offl- clal history as “an-ill-trained, ill-led, disorganized rabble,” was, expressed History Held Appreciative. It was authoritatively stated London that the official history, from depreciating the cou Australian and New Zea or making any statement calculate to offend Australasian opinion, scribed in terms of the highest admira tion the bravery, tenacity s sourcefulness displaved by the * zacs” at the Gallipoli landing The Australian authorities are up- derstood to have cabled to Londor de manding the deletion of the offensive passages which were reported in mews- ) paper accounts in Sydney. STORM OF PROTEST RAISED. in Australian Part in Gallipoli Fight Held Depreciated. SYDNEY, Australia,October 10 (). — A storm of angry protest is sweeping Australia over a slur upon-the Aus- tralian part in the landing at Gallipoll on April 25 1915, which newspaper accounts say appears in the British official history of the Gallipoli cam- paign, just published. The history is quoted as referring to the Australian troops at the land- ing as “an_ill-trained, ill-fed, disor- sanized rabble, the majority herded on the beach at Anzac, while others held the heights.” The press is flodded with indignant denials by high officers of ‘the Aus- tralian imperial force, some of whom describe the history as “the vilest libel on Australia’s dead.” Leader Issues Protest. Gen. Sir John Monash, who led a brigade at Gallipoli, and who_suc- ceeded Sir William Birdwood as commander-in-chief of the Australian forces, in a protest says: “It is just another of those deprecia- tions of the Australian soldier which appear every two or three months in England. There were no other troops to do the initial fighting at Anzac Beach but Austraflan and New Zea- land soldiers. - They were the only / troops there for many weeks. It can- not, therefore, possibly be true that, as the history states, others did the fighting for them while they. huddled on the beach. “It is beyond question in the minds of all strategists that the landing at Gallipoll was a magnificent and unparalleled feat of arms. If there are to be any comparisons made be- tween British and Dominion troops at Gallipbli, then may I say that the Dominjon generals ~were unfortu- nately compelled to form a very poor opinion of ths British troops, with the illustrious exception of the famous 29th division at Cape Helles, in the southern portion of the Gal- lipoli pennsiula. This division was a magnificent formation of veteran [ regiments of the regular British army.” Agrees With Currie. Sir John agreed with Gen. Sir Arthur Currie's protest against the original British official record which contained slurs on the Canadian forces. The whole affair may be due to a misunderstanding, in the opinion of Capt. C. E. W. Bean, official historian of the Australian and New Zealand forces, who was at Gallipoli through- out the campaign. The terms com- plained of did not appear in the draft of the British official history which was sent to Australia for correction, it is stated. Some accounts attribute the state- ments to a history of the Dardanelles campaign compiled by two officers of H. M. Aragon, which was the headquarters of the inspector gen- eral of lines of communication and which throughout the Gallipoli cam- paign was moored in Lemnos Har- bor, six hours’ sail distant. ASKS $5,0007 DAMAGES. Mary M. Curtin Alleges Fradulent Realty Transaction. Mary M. Curtin, 3013 Cambridge place, today filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $5,000 dam- ages for alleged conspiracy against G. G. Duty, 1343 H street; Edward Ay Garvey, 1006 Vermont avenue, and Maurice P. Healey, 1024 Vermont ave- nue. She charges that Garvey and Duty entered an arrangement to rep- resent that they had a purchaser for her home at $8,500 and Healey was to pretend to buy the house on certain conditions. Through Attorneys Daniel Thew Wright and Philip Ershler the plaintiff claims the defendants secured a trust of $5.000 on her property and divided the proceeds after getting her to sign a paper which changed the terms of the original agreement, it is asserted. . Ten-Year Pastorate Closed. ial Dispatch to The Star. 'CHBURG, Va., October 10.—, The fo - Central Rivermont Churctws‘ 1a.i night held a union farewell serv- ice to Dr. R. A. McFarland, who closed a 10-yenr pastorate at the River- mont Baptist Church to leave this week for Gaffey, S. C., where he be- comes pastor of the First Baptist Church. chased at $1.50 a barrel and resold to the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. and the Prairie Oil and Gas Co. at an advance of at least 25 cents a barrel. Denial by Sinclair Counsel. Another charge by the Government ‘was that the profits of the Continen- tal were invested in Liberty loan bonds under the belief that no human’ ingenuity could trace their receipt o disbursement. On May 8, 1922, the Government contended Osler drew $300,000 in Liberty bonds, and on May 29 Everhart appeared in Pueblo with $230,500 of the bonds, identified by their numbers, and that they were given to him by Sinclair. Sinclair's counsel persisted in the contention that no evidence was produced tc prove this, and they also denied that he was interested in the Continenia! Trading Co. Blackmer and O'Neil went abroad, and their testimony could not be ob tained in the trial of the eivil suit at Cheyenne. Stewart made a trip to Central America just before the trial began, and Everhart availed himsel, of his constitutional rights, refusing to testify. Osler, being a Canadian { citizen, was not subject to the juris- diction of American courts. Counsel for the Government argued before the Supreme Court that if the transaci#on had been as contended for by Sinclair, he or any one of his four one-time associates in the purchase nd sale of the Humphreys oil could wve made that clear by coming for. ‘ward and testifying. ~ e [