Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1927, Page 2

fi 10 BEAUTIFY THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, CITY GATES URGED - poses Association to Co- operate on Park Plans. ~With the purpose to “proper frame the beautiful picture of Wash Ington, the Nation's Capital,” an Sociation of nationally known civie Jenders who will co-operate with the Commission of Fine Arts, the National Captial Park and Planning Commis #lon, the District Commissioner o1 1= for beaut P: »n s proposed b U.8. M, nginser 1 Pavk Willia o Commission: Col. L er Commi: District ounds will ning week by 1o formulate plans as to wers can best assist the i ot public sought dur Kane Just when red the City of Washington, s been in contemplation for In the famous McMiilan report ark system of the Distriet printed in 1902, and edited Moore, now chairman of nmission of IMine Arts, which gs the \Washington and L’Enfant #lin up-todate, the placing of me- morial markers on the principal ap- proaches was urged. McMillan Report Quoted. In discussing the radial avenues the weport states: “Several of the great radial ave- Bues extending rrom the Capitol and the White House climb the hills en- sircling the city and on the crest of these hills superb sites ore found for g memorials standing out st the sky. Oflten these vistas terminate on some far-off hill, where & simple white shelter will prove the mios: effective treatment. In other instances the hill crests are in the Jnidst of a populous region, and in Xhese cases the treatment should be ©n & more comprehensive scale. I example, at the head of North Yol street, a monumental enirance to Xthe Soldiers’ Home shculd be built; #ad the sharp of Sixteenth street Sshould carry an imposing arch, such &s the one projected as a memorial $o William McKinley.” This is quoted by Gen. Kane as ?lusu'nung the specialized study to made of each particular approach nd the topography of the land =o that each entrance would have indi- ¥idual treatment, to take the utmost 2dvantage of its particular conditions 204d opportunities. Commission to Study Project. » The improvement and beautifica- jon, landscaping and Iimpressive Amarking of these approaches to the iCapital City will be one of the prin- icipal projects in the Washington de- aelopment program to be given inten- ive study this Winter by the Com- sion of Fine Arts. Dr. Moore for 80 years has been interested particu- Aarly in such a framing of the Capi- #al and to impress all visitors. Now hat he has resigned from his former uties as chief of the manuscript Mivision in the Library cf Congress #o devote all of his time to duties s chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts, he will specialize on the Mtting adornment of the approaches. i The National Capital Park and Planning Commission is ready for zconcerted action on this same proposi- #tion. Maj. Brown has just made an E jon of these approaches, and Is having studies made of how to get fthe best vistas from ail these points tof vantage in the outskirts of the city. ¥The National Capital Park aend Planning Commission is desirous of ipurchasing as soon as possible a suffi- clent area around all of these en- itrances so as to afford a parkway ‘entrance as well as a site for a imemorial arch or such other struc- ure as a survey of each particular wegion shows is most desirable. i Gen. Kane, who is @ native of sAnnapolis and throughout his entire life interested in the growth and de- elopment of the Capital, who is an Annapolis clasemate of Secretary Wil- ur and of Maj. Gen. John A. Le- eune, commandant of the Marine #orps, believes that every resident of ‘the Capital and every visitor to the i and every resident of the United States should be v supporting this plan “to roperly frame the beautiful picture f our Capital Cit; Being a re- “tired officer, he has time which he is villing to use in furthering this plan v bringing civic zeal into co-opera- jon with the work planned by the fofficials, Extensive Research Planned. Extensive research at the Library of Congre and elsewhere s planned Ly other great cities have done in the way of setting up memorial en- trances and embellishing the ap- Iproaches, and to provide material for & series of lectures before organiza- tions here and throughout the oountry. “It i shocking to find the entrances to Washington now marked most con- #picuously by ‘hot dug’ stands, tobacco and cigarrette advertisements and what-not glaring placards,” he said. “Tiis 1S true of other cities, as well e5 Sashington, where the first view in worst and gives visitors the lagting impression that the city is dirty and unkempt. But Washinston 1s different and should be kept differ- ent. - Visitors come bere from all over the'world and from every State in the Unin, drawn by love of country and 2l Xhet this city epitomizes and visual- Izas. ¥ach vititor should know just when be crosses the line entering the smat of government. His first view of the. city from which radiates the selt-governing power of the greatest Nation in tte world should be as im eseive as possible. The vista down 8l the great avenues of entr: should be opened up and be e have here the most beautiful city in the world, nd we must properly frame it. We must not allow the ed o be fraved “T kenow t elvic workers patriotic citizens who will b 1 to support a drive for beautification of the approaches 0 Washington. We want to concen- trate and emphasi nd register th 2eal in support of what the Comui Blon of ¥Fine Arts and the National Capital Park and Planning Commis. sion are tryirg to do.” —_— SPRUCING UP ORDERED. ‘War Department Insists Trainees Present Soldeirly Appearance. Instructions to spruce up the ap- pearance of ypungsters in the Re. serve Officers’ Training Corps uni and at the citizens' military trainin, camps, have been sent by the War Department to corps area and de- partment commanders. Army regulations permit consider- able latitude in the issue of uniform clothing to these training units and the War Department has urged the of | en. Kane to show what | I | many | o ing & weman w he d shows hed of le VIEWS OH TAX GUTS REMAIN UNCERTAIN { Two Factions Are Definite in Stands, but Independent G. 0. P. Are Doubtful. | sig! {gra By the Associated Press. Three political shadows hovered over members of the House ways and means committee who returned to Capitol Hill yesterday to prepare a new tax bill. Positions to be taken by factors. the administra licans and the Democrats, already have been defined <“airly well, but some uncertainly remains concerning the views of the third element, the independent Republican group in the Senate, The Treasury Department, charged with admi: ration of the nation’s fiscal business, has indicated it will insist that the prospective tax cut be held well under $300,000,000 and in the drafting of previous tax bills the views of Treasury officials alway have carrfed considerable weight with the committee. Committee Meets Tomorrow. ‘Whether Republican leaders in the House and Senate will be prepared to support a reduction far below the $300,000,000 mark remains to be seen, but all of those who have spoken pub- licly in recent weeks have indicated that they would give serious consid- eration to such recommendations as Secretary Mellon and his assistants might make. The actual recommenda- tions of the Treasury will not be made known until the committee meets to- morrow to begin drafting @ measur The Democrats have announced through their spokesman on tax mat- ters, Representative Garner of Texas, ranking minority member on the ways and means committee, that they would insist upon a reduction of between $400,000,000 and §500,000,000. The Texan in a recent statement declared that he was convinced that the con- dition of the Treasury would warrant such a cut. On the other hand, the Western independent Republican Senators, who hold the balance of power in the Senate, have intimated that they did not look with sympathy upon a large tax reduction at the present time. Some members of this group believe that the minimum of reduction would be advisable on the ground that the country at the present would benefit more by further reductions of the national debt. From discussion so far it is apparent that the administration Republicans and the Democrats are virtually in agreement that the corporation levy and the nuisance or excise should first receive the benefit reduction. of views over how should be cut. Estate Tax Opposed. While the Treasury is expected to give its approval to a slash in the corporation levy, there is some ques- | tion as to whether it will sanction { the repeal of all the war-time r ance taxes. Althouzh | Treasury prc two of the of a far these rates the exact details of the am are not known, is regarded s probable that th: partmen: again will scek repea the estate or inheritance tax. both Chairman Green of the committee and Mr. Garner opposed this recommenda- | tion at the time the present revenue | law was writzen and both are against any reduction in this tax at the pres- ent time. Considerable interest is manifest at the Capitol over what estimates the Treasury will make tomorrow regard-. ing the prospective surplus. The su plus for the kst fiscal year approxi mated $635,000,000, and there is pro of another large fayvorable gin at the cnd of the current fiscal but the Treasury has held that me from non ems and not through an 1 of thix ize between Government expenses and receipts. Green Doubts Big Cut. een the wu nd ee expressed douit if a tax cut as high as 300,000,000 could Tected What Conzress must decide is the mt of the reduction,” he “which can be made aud le deficit for the fisc ensuing year. Larze paid into the Treasury roads and received from back taxes duriy e fiscal year 1928, but th sums should not be consid termini amount of t tion. L it any., will be puid hy the railroads in 1 nd the amount receivable from back taxes, now de- s, will rapidly decrease after of 1928, as the big ack to the war times e being settled and the Treasury Department is becoming nearer cur- rent with its work in auditing the other cases, Y ing by the situation from this standpuitt. it becomes doubtiul whet jer the sum of $300,000.000, wh have heretofore mentioned, can veached in 1ax reduction withuut cre ating a_deficit.” Mr. Green added that he hoped the new revenue bill would be ready for | Cor few days after it convened {and could he passéd by the House be- fore mas and the Senate shortly ,-corps commanders to see to it that ‘sthe boys present a soldierly appear- fim et al tuues, thereafter, xo that it would become Jaw “in time to apply to the taxes of this year yaya\’%n 1928, which the colored me taxes | There is a wide divergence | nhed the vieinity of Wheaton, Md jeseription of Mrs. Ann Bamsey Forbu: saw (he woman. LEAFY BED BELIEVED LEFT BY MRS. FORBUSH last night after two colered sh, missing since Octob TOMB OF GENGHIS KHAN FOUND "IN GORI DESERT, Seven Silent Lamas Guard_Silver Coffm, Resting on Crowns of 78 Princes By the Associated Press. LOND explorer, Prof. Peter Kozloff, says the | Asta’s s archeological my { by the dis f the tomb of Gheng- Khuan (Jenghiz Khan), Mongolian conquetor, 700 years after his death, | near the ruins of the dead city of | Khara-Khoto, in the Gobi Desert. Prof. Kozloff has devoted P0 years to the search. He found the great { Kkan's remains In a silver coffin rest. | ing on the crowns of 78 princes and khans whom he had conquered. The secret wonders of the con- queror’s tomb says the Express, vie | with those of Tut-ankh-amen. Seven silent lamas guard the secret place | and every seven hours one of them | strikes seven times on a huge jade bell hanging above the sarcophagus. For seven centuries the priests have | preserved the mystery. Jewel-studded weapons of Genghis Khan and his own has solved darkest | stery | EXPLORER SAYS | He Conquered. ory of his reign nd horse in pink jade the Bible written by an F | were also in the tomb. a life size lion, tiger nd a copy of slish monk Prof. Kozloff also visited the tomb | | of the Genghix' favored wife. the in-| seription on whose white marble cof- fin sets forth that “The zreat khan re- ased her by placing his dagger In her breast.” The tomb lies bevond the lal a spacious hall square, the whole carefully preserved. Once every vear certain privileged mongzols and the khan's descendants vepair thither to make sacrifice to his memory. Once a year, Prof. Kozloff was as- sured, on the anniversary of the khan's death, his ghost ses and blows out the lamps, leads the chiet of the guardian lamas to the huge black slab at the rear of the shrine and writes with the accompanying priest's hand prophecies for the com. ing year. OHIO MINER SLAIN INUNION QUARREL Four Held Atter Youth Is Shot in Auto Chase of Men Seeking Work. By the Associated Press, BENVILLE, Ohio, October —Jefferson County chalked up it first death today in the labor troubles between union sympathizers and non- | union coal miners. Joe Petitti, 19, was shot and kilied one mile from Dillonvale by one of four non-union workmen who were en route to a mine of the Winston Deer Co., 10 seek employment. Four Are Arrested. An organized search of county roads, in which bands of idle miners took part, ended an hour later in the capture of the four mnear Martins Ferry, 20 miles from Dillonvale, They were registered as Linza May 27, of Ironto W. L. Cupp, 40, of | Salamanca, N. Orville Heugel, 19, ew Wingzold, and John Lange, of Toledo. is alleged to have fired the fatal shot. | Dillonvale Saturday afternoon is a congregating place for scores of idle | union “men” in the settiements and Petitti was among the crowds in the streets, He was talking with @& roup of fellow workmen when the | four non-union miners drove up in an | automobile and inquired the way to | the Winston Deer mine, which has | When Petitti,and his friends learn- |ed the men were seeking employ- ment at the mine they followed them in an automobile. One mile outside of Dillonvale they pulled up alongside the car contain- | ing the nen-union miners. A shot rang out and Petitti fell over, fatally wounded. He died a few minutes rl:«lm. he other car da®hed up the road. MARTIAL LAW LOOM | Colorado Threatens Force in Mine Strike, DENVER, October threat of martial law in the Colerads 9 coal fields today put a dawper on acts | of violence, but the mine strike ~alled by the I W. W. tightensd its hold. Three airplanes of the 1l Guard circled over nps of southern Colorado, keepine | watch for any trouble, whiie preparations were complet is- { pateh troops in the event ¢ | Adms decides the tion w military action. Bt te a second detachment of New Mexico troops was sent to Raton, N. Mex.. a% o result of the attempt of 1. W. W. leaders to spread the strike to mines near Raton and Diwson. Gov. . C. Dillen of New Mexico | said he had no reports of outbrenks hut wanted to be prepared for any | emerzency With 2 martial law proclimation ready for his signature, Gov. Adams «aid be would not act until he felt | it was absolutely necessary. No out- hreaks were reported anywhere in the State, | ™ Calling out of the guard depended comewhat on the weather. the exec- id. With coal supplies in Cdlorado cities dwindling, a old wave and snow would cause L <uffering, it was explained. Operators in County where the T have centered netivities, today gave up the fight to keep the mines going, and there was A complete suspension of work in an area where normally 3,500 men are emploved. Twenty-six mines were I shut dowa. Colorado | miring | VISITING NURSES' APPEAL IS PLANNED Personal Solicitation to Be Made for $65.000 Needed for Year’s Work. Details of ita money-raising appeal November 1 to 5, when an attempt will be made to obtain $68,000 for next vear'’s work, were arranged yesterday at a special board meeting of the In- structive Visiting Nurse Society, Mrs. Whitman Cross, president of the society, made it plain that the appeal this year will not be madé through the medium of a drive, with organ- ized teams, but that individual board members will endeavor to raise the money by mall appeal and personal solfcitation. “The Community Chest would be an ideal method of doing this thing,” said a spokesman for the soc ty, “but until such time as W’ hington decides on this form of financing its health and social work, mone; must be | raised through personal solicitation. One of the greatest causes of pov- erty i8 sickness and when we relieve sickness, we remove the cause of financial distress,” ‘\_l S. Coolidge is chairman of the '8 honorary board. Members of the board of agers are: Mrs, Whitman Cross, prosident; M G. wn Miller, Mrs. Franklin H. Ellis, John W. Davidge, Joshua Evans, . Mrs, Mandeville Carlisle, Mrs. Richard Aldrich, Miss Cora Barr Mrs. Paul M. Bastedo, Mrs. Mont. gomery Blair, Prin mpagn, Mrs. J. Davis Brodh Dwight Clark, Mrs. Charles Crawford, Mus, Northup Dean, Mrs. William C, Eustis, Mvs, Louis A. Frothingham, AMrs. Charles C. Glover, jr.; Miss Mary 1 Hale, Mrs. R. M. Kauffmann, Samuel | M. Kauffmenn, Mrs. Emory Scott Land, Mrs. Geory Lockwood, Miss Julia Mattis, Mrs. George B. McClel- {lan, Mrs. Keith M I, Mrs. A, C. George H. Myer Mrs. whold, Mrs. Hem £, ewcomer, Mrs. Amory kins, harlex W, Pimper, Mrs, Pot. Ord Preston, David W. W. Spalding, Mr - Weeden, Miss Eleanor Wil- son and Mrs, Charles Wilson. David Mrs., WILSON TO REVEAL TRACTION MERGER PLAN TOMORROW (Continued m_First ! their property at the end of imonth period, then the Pul { it Commission should ¢ {trolleys the xame rate as Baltimore, with its overhead svstem, namely, § or two for 15 cents. 1ie people, howaver, should care- jfully consider and Congress nay wisely debate the question of the elimination of all competition and putting all the trolleys under one management so that the people bave no choice and the very valuable prin- cipal of competition in 11 traffic mat- ters is wholly eliminated.” HONOR FOR LINDBERGH. Correxnondence of the Assoclated Press. PARIS.—Lindbergh's Spivit of St. Louis has its memory perpetuated in an old antique shop along the river. The enterprising owner really has a claim to the name, for his shop for ars has heen called “L’Esprit de aint Lonis” an exact ¥French trans- lation of the transatlantic airplane’s D. €, OCTOBER 0, 1927—PART 1 TRAFFIG PROGRAM OPPOSED BY KLOZ Extension of Lights Not Needed, Engineer Tells Utilities Commission. commission was Capt. . G. Klotz, 10 oppos: the fon program of Traffic Director William 11, Harland on the ground that it would delay chedules of the public transpor- ion compani The recommen The public uti urged vesterd: it _chief en: traflic light installs ¥ ation of Capt. Klotz was contained in a report which de elred (1 neral trathic conditions do not now, and probably will not for some s to come, justify such ex stallations as proposed by nd. The transportation re in aceord with the ons, according to letters which were attached to thy report. The traffic light program, which in volves the expenditure of approxi- mately was referrd to the commis ntly by the District Commissioners for the purpose of ob- taining ity views before takin In view of the adverse report of Capt N a joint hearing probably will 1d by the commission and the Commissioners to give the transporta- tion agencies an opportunity to ex- plain their opposition. Opposition to Plan Urged. recommended that the pro- affie light installations as out- list_ submitted traflic, be opposed ount of the resultant dela which will be imposed upon the and vehicles operated by the trans- portation companies under the juris- diction of this commission,” said the report of Capt. Klo “While it is recognized that there are cerfain specific locations at which, on account of peculiarly con- gested or hazardous conditions, the s incident to the use of traffic lights would be commensurate with the advantages to be gained from their use, general traffic conditions here are not now such, and do not promise for some yvears to become such, as to justity extensive installa- tions such as are here proposed. Even where, as above stated, the peculiar conditions at specific intersections would justify the use of such lights, their installation should be made only ifter thorough investization and con- sideration by this commission, as rep- sentative of the portion of the pub- is {lic much concerned, with the advice of the companies by whom that por- tion of the public is bheing served, “The ommend: ns of the di- rector of traffic for the approval of the list of lights submitted states that: ‘In general, the method of signalling will be the same as that approved for Rhode Island avenue except as to time and distance, the division of total cyele, the specd of vehicles per hour, which will vary in accordance with the length of the block, traffic flow and other local conditions.” Timing Limits Called High. “From observation of traffice move- ments under existing Installations, it would appear that the timing limits of 30 to 80 seconds for the proposed timers are entirely toq high. There are few, if any, intersections included in the proposed list at which a period in excess of 30 seconds would be neces- | sary or desirable, at least under pres. ent conditions, and the minimum period obtainable should be at least as low as 15 seconds." Capt. Klotz also ohjected to the use of the amber light in the traffic signals, pointing out that the use of the red and green lights only, with a short “clear up” period during which the red lights are displayed in both directio Eives much more definite and satisfactory control, “The oper- ators of all of the utilities do not. however, agree entirely with that contention,” added Capt. Klotz, “and I offer it here as a suggestion rather than a definite recommendation. Capt. Klotz fncluded in his repoit a list of the locations for the proposed installations designed to show the extent to which the various utilities are involved. At three of the inter- sections—Seventh street and Rhode and avenue, Vermont avenue and U street, and Eighteenth street and Columbia road—the utilities involved, nccording to his reporf, have ten- tatively agreed to the advisability of installinz trafic lights, but no agree- ment has been reached, it added, as to the character, arraugement or timing of the lights proposed. Hazards at Other Points. At 12 other intersections, however. Capt. Klotz explained that the neces- 'y street car and bys movements such that operation, “except under me fal arrangement for which no s to have been made, would be extremely hazardous because of conflicting movements which would normaily be made, on the same lgihts,” ections were listed, th and E reets, nd K streets, Massachu- setts avenue, Fourth and H_streets; Maryland avenue. Sixth and C streets northeast, Maryland avenue, D and Seventh streets northeast, INighth and Penns; i enue southes enth street and Florida avenue, First and B streets southeast, Massuchusetts avenue and North Capito] street, Massachusetts and New .Jer: nues, Calvert strest and Connecticut venue nd Park road and Hampshire avenue. COMMISSION TO HEAR GREAT FALLS REPORT Maj. Somervell Will Lay Proposal Before Power Body in Near Future. The report of the district engineer on the feasibility of power develop- ment at Great Falls, as prope 2 Cleveland development company 10 he laid before the Federal ‘ommission before the con ngress and probably pri cember 1. The report is now being drawn up in the office of Maj. Brehon Somervell, the engineer for the dis- trict of Washington, and will he com- pleted late in Nov It is the outgrowth hearings held at Harpers Fer Vi, two months 20 There has heen no intimation as to the contents of the rveport, which s said to deal solely with the engi- necring phases of the project and whether or not it Is worth while for the Government to lease certain por- tions of the upper Potomac for hydro: electric development by a private cor- tion. Much opposition has de- ped to the project from various official and unofficial organizations in Washington, some of it centering around the expected damage to the beauty of the upper gorga of the viver. ‘When the report {s laid before the Federal Power Commission for tion it will come before « meeting of the full commission, to be ecalled by the Secretary of War as chairman. is Power = et Kann Store Wins Award. 8. Kann Sons Co. of Washington was given first place in the recent nation-wide contest among large de- partment stoves for- window displays during Humming yBird National Dis- Pplay week, & Governor General Willingdonj Will Be Accorded Honors Due Ruling Sovereign. Fremier Mackenzie-King Also Planning Trip to Capital. * Coming in November. ; BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. I “The King of Cana Viscount Willine . will make a state visit to Washington on December 6 and 7 and | he received by President Coolidge and the United States Government with the full hono: lue a ruling Viscount Willin status is that of governor Canada, now functions as t head of the Canadian nation. in of the repre: ive of the British vernment, as governors general in the past have done. Under the reor- | ganization of the *“British Common- | wealth,” which the imperial dominions | have just brought about, the Canadian | movernor general is, in fact and in | effect, the personi: ation of the crown at Ottawa. He reports no longer to Downing street, in London, but direct- Iy to Buckingham Palace. Ie has I the prerogatives and authority of King of Canada. Premicr Also Is Coming. Preceding Viscount Willingdon's ar- rival, the political 1uier of Canad Prime <t of the Do Massey, and devote him- self, it is understood, clusively to soclal and private activities, The | President and Mrs. Coolidge will en-| tertain Premier Mackenzie-King at a White House luncheon and Secretary Kellogg is expected to give a dinner party in his honor. Suggestions that Mr. Mackenzie: King I8 coming to tackle St. Law- rence waterway and other pending Canadian-American questions are scouted in authoritative quarters. When he was premier six years ago the Canadian statesman pald his r speets to President Harding, and he | desires now to leave his card upon President Coolidge. At one time Mr.i Mackenzie-King planned to be in Washington on the occasion of the Armistice day Canadian monument unveiling, but conditions made a later date necessal His arrival will fall almost midway between the monu ment ceremonies and the Canadian governor general's visit. | Minister, M Epoch-Making Sojourn. “King” Willingdon's sojourn in Washington will be epoch-making and is designed to emphasize the “nation- hood” of Canada and the diplomatic independence exemplified by the estab- lishment in February, 1927, of a Ca- nadian legation here. Viscount Wil linzdon will live at the legation on Massachusetts avenue, not as the guest of the Canadian Minister, Vine cent Massey, but as a sovercign dom- | iciled within his own castle. Acting | as his own host in the magnificent mansion recently purchased by Can- ada, Viscount Willingdon will receive a call from the President of the United States. It will be the first time that Mr. Coolidge has crossed the thresh- old of the Canadian legation, as it is not customary for our Presidents to set foot upon foreign diplomatic prem- ises as a_caller upon a minister or an ambassador. Details of the governor general's stay in Washinglon are not yet worked out. It is expected that his program will include a function at the Canadian legation, at which Viscount and Viscountess Willingdon will en- tertain, perhaps at a state dinner for \"KING OF CANADA" TO VISIT U. S.; PRESIDENT TO CALL ON HIM! VISCOUNT WILLIN the President and Mrs. Co is also within the range of ties that the White House, i ince with tradition, will be the sc | of an equaily brilliant party. Has Notable Carcer, Viscount Willingdon, whom King Gieorge sent to Canada a year ago, will not be the first governor general to visit Washington, but he will be the only who has ever come pano ed in rank, The late’ Larl Grey Duke of Connaught boih visited Washington while on Juty at Ottawa, but tarried here mercly as guests of the sh em- 0 aug! i th unt Willingdon's notable career in British politics was achieved under his born name of Freemun Freeman- Thomas. IHe was ralsed to the peer age in 1910 and made a viscount in 1924, Lord Willingdon has been a member of Parliament, belonged to a pre-war cabinet in London and from 1913 to 1919 was governor of Bombu From 1919 to 1924 he was governor of Madras. The Canadian governor gen- | was an English prep school and university foot ball star in his youth, having had the distinction of being aptain of both the Eton and Cam- elevens, foot ball The viscount has a daughter-in-iaw, the Forbes-Itobertson, celebrated London rhes-Itobertson, wite, the former sister of Maxine as his ecreation. half-American former daughter actor, Sir J and his rtrude Elliott, Zlliott, iscount Willlngdon i new deal virtually impos t overnment at lust ye: nference in London. Under the old Svstem the governor general of any of his Britannic majesty’s over- seas duminions was nothing more than a medium of communication between the dominfon prime minister and the colonial secretary in London. How Change Came About. But the late imperial conference, at the Instization of the independent “daughter nation,” completely altered things. The change came about ad a result of a report by the interim- perial relations committee, which said “In our opinion it is an essential consequence of the equality of status existing among the members of the Eritish commonwealth of nations that the governor gencral of a dominion is the representative of the Crown, holding in all essential respects the same position fn relation to the ad- ministration of public affairs in the dominion as is held by his majesty the King in Great Eritain, and that he 18 not the representative or agent of his mafesty’s government in Great Britain or of any department of that government,” (Copvricht, 1927.) roates th upon the SCHOONER CRASH LAID TO MISTAKE Misunderstanding of Signal Given as Cause of Loss With 11 of Crew. By tho Associated Press, BOSTON, October 20.—A mysteri- ous misunderstanding of a routine “couse signal” was given tonight as the anparent cause of the loss of the Gloucester fisherman Avalon with 11 | members of her crew. The schoomer was cut in two off Cape Cod this morning when rammed by the Cosulich liner President Wil- son, in a dense fog. In a statement issued after consul- tation with Capt. Antonio Martino- lich, the agent for the line here de- clared the liner's course had been altered when a white light was re- ported dead ahead and that a sign was given to show that the steame se had been changed. For some unexplained reason the hing schooner chansed her cours in a simflar dircction.” the statement said, “and came across the beam of the President Wilson, which at that time was almost stopped, precautions | having nlready been taken to slow her up. Schooner’s Dory Overturns. The schooner sank in four minut but not before efforts had been m to lower two dories. One overturned. The three men—only survivors of the crew of 14, were in this boat. | According to the story of the su vivors, as reported by Medical I3x- nminer George B. McGrath, after | examined the men abeard the steam- | ship on its arrival here, the schooner hud come across the bow of the sident Wilson and was on the star board tack when the stenmship struck her amidships. The s prow plowed through the fr craft and she went down before men could iake to the boats. The three survivors were picked up within a few minutes, The President Wilson hunted for others but found only th two bodies. The crash occurred | fore daylight, shortly after 4 welodk According to the told by th survi the ooner’s running lights were in good order, but & heavy fog cut down visibility. Steamer Searches Hours. The steamship remained at the! scene for several hours but hope of | rescuing any others of the crew | finully was abandoned and she headed for Boston, where the three rescued men re put ashore and sent to a hospital. The Avalon was a two- masted auxiliary schooner owned by the Willlam R. Jordan Co. of Glou- cester. She was typical of the fishing fleet which works from that port, manned by . hardy crew, old Glou- cestermen and fishermen from the Canadian maritime provinces. She had brave dthe storms of the Atlantic seaboard for nearly a quarter of a cen- ile the unlike that which has overtaken many of the Gloucester fleet. Only a_few weeks ugo the schooner Columbia set out from port and never relurned. An- nually the toll of lost fishermen has fate was not |annour, THREE DIE AS TRAIN HITS FOOT BALL BUS Eight Others Killed in Crash in Fog on Way to Game in Chicago. By the Associated Press, ARY. Ind. October ed from the University of M a St. Louis youth and an unidentified man were killed and eight others, some of them DMissouri students, were Injured today when a Purple Swan motor coach was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train in Calumet City, Ind. The bus driver, blinded by the fog, drove the vehicle fn front of the train. The bus, carrying about 20 passen- gers, most of them Missouri students en route to Chicago for the Missouri- ‘orthwestern foot ball game, was on fts way from Davenport, lowa. It was trailing a truck and passed it st as the crossing was reached. Train Hits Rear of Bus. railroad officials saild, was traveling only about miles because of the fog, and reay end of the bus, 5 ¢ part of it and jam- ming the rest into a concrete post. The dead are: Miss Margue 19, Okla., Missouri Ralph Rhoads, The train, t Moss, Pawnee, udent. 1, son of a St. Louls | employe of the American Telephone & ph Co. . An unidentified man ahout 60 v old with the initials “I. M. A." In his | clothir Trainmen Help Injured. Those injured, none of them fatally. included Kugene Spencer, 21, and his sister, Winifred, 19, both Missouri tudents of Houston, Tex.; Miss Marie Holmbers, St. Louis, und Edward | Allen, 22, driver of the bus, Carlin- ville, 111, | e train was stopped after it had ceded about 100 vards and train- helped extricate the {njured, who to Hammond and Calumet city hospitals, “The unidentified man and M died in a hospital. Rhoads was killed outright. e U. S. GETS BIG MEETING. First International Hospital Con- gress to Conveen in 1929. The first international hospital con- gress will be held in the United States in June, 1929, under auspices of the American Hospital Association. The Public Health Service an- nounced yesterday that during the congress representatives of countries belonging to the International Hos- pital Association would visit hospitals in ew York Philadelphia, Balti- more and Washington for the purpose of hecoming acquaintéd with Ame ican hospital method Besides the United tes, countries represented in the association are grown, but the death list of the Avalon today was one of the highest recorded in any disaster this year, eat Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Sweden, Den- mark and-Czechoslovakia, DRIVER IS KILLED - AS TRUCK CRASHES Witnesses Say Auto Forced Big Machine Off Road. Virginian Is Held. 23 va late Cecil Brown's most Altman, Chapel. instantly years old, of was Killed nal- yesterday after [ noon when the truck he was’ driving ashed culvert through a guard o I rail of a ut Kun 15 feet below, - T, Ward, resident of Mi .. ix heing held without bail Arlington County jail mony by w o3 that pass the truck in the narrow ro 1y was responsible for th gedy. Ward's lizht automobile came with- in inches of following the truck over the brink of the deep culvert. Ward was arrvested by a county oflicer, de- spite his protests that he s not to blame. He will appear journed inquest tomorrow the Arlington County Cous and give his version of the acciden Two Accuse Ward. Athey of Clarendon, Va., and m R. Wiliams, of 3001 P street, who were driving their own cars to- ward Washington at the time of the coliision, gave damaging testh against Ward at a prelimina «quest last night before Coroner of Arlington County. Eoth dec Ward's car struck the truck and forced it mto the ravine. Ward wis not sworn, and the inquest that he had been running abreast of the truck for “some distunce trying to pass it, and that the truck speeded ried the truck struck his You hadn't any right to be trying to pass anybody on that narrow stretch of road,” Sheriff Ficlds broke in. “You were violting the law when you did it.” With the body of Altman still under the truck in the mud of the creek Williams and other passers-by tried unsuccessfully to lift the heavy ma- chine from its driver. While making these efforts engine of the truck exploded, veloping the machine in flames, passing moatorist sped to the Cherry- dale fire house, half a mile away and the volunteer firemen, under their president, C. C. Donaldson, extinguish- ed the biaze and extricated the body of Aluman. The big truck was raised through the combined eflorts of the { firemen and spectators, who shoved lit with their hands and shoulder Body Badly Burned. The yourg man's body' was badly burned, and there was a deep cut across his head. It is believed he was dead before the fire broke out. The body lay under the culvert for nearly an hour, awaiting, the coroner and th an undertaker. The remains Wi taken to Vienna by E. W, Fol- lins, undertaker of that place. The truck was owned by the ‘Wheeler Milling Co. of Vienna, Va. of which firm Altman was an e ploye. Altman was returning to Vi- | enna from Washington with a load of " meal. At the preliminary inquest Mrs. Athey. testified that she thought Ward’'s car was going to hit her own machine, instead of the truck. “I saw the truck coming toward me, with a long line of cars following it,” Mrs. Athey said. “Suddenly I saw Ward's car try to pass the truck. I thought sure he would draw back when he saw me coming, as there wasnt' room to pass, but he didn't stop. He tried to pass between the truck and me. I slammed on my brak and pulled over as far as I could and stopped. I thought he was going to hit me. As I looked back I saw the truck drop over the brink. I didn't actually see the collision, but Ward's machine struck the the en- Williams, who was driving immedi- ately behind Mrs. Athey, testified substantially the same. He d Ward's car “cut around” the truck and “tried to get between the truck and the lady.” It hit the truck, caus ing it to swerve into the railing, the witness declared. Says He Has Witnesses. Informed by the sheriff that he ced not be sworn, as anything he id might be used against him, Ward insisted on denying that he was at fault. He said he wanted to get an attorney and that he wanted to lo- cate two colored women, who, he con- tended, were in his car and would testify for 'him. Williams and Mrs. Athey told the coroner they didn't notice any one in Ward's car, and Willlams declared he saw no colored women around the scene after the ent. . The sheriff obtained the names and addresses of two colored women from Ward and promises to have them in court tomorrow morning. “If I don’t find them, you'll stay here until I do find them,” Fields re- marked as the hearing was concluded rd said the women worked for at Midland. . A. Wheeler, Altman’s emplo: arranged for the removal of the b from the scene. He said Altman was a4 model employe and the sole sup- port of an aged mother and father. He sent a friend to advise the par- ents of their son’s death. The Lee Highway in the vicini of the accident has a serles of curves dnd grades, and the roadway is so narrow that only two cars may pass abreast. Civic interests of the have consistently advocated widening and straightening of heavily congested road, hut the highway department has an- nounced that no funds are available for the work. H. G. Shirley, yer, v b chairman of the highway commission, has admitted the urgent necessity for improve- ments to the road, and Is expected to urge an early appropriation for the work. . TWO “CAVE-IN VICTIMS” REPORTED UNSCRATCHED Mrs. Catherine Campbell Ordered Daniel Simms, Fatally Hurt, Rushed to Hospital. Special Dispateh to The Star. SEAT PLEASANT, Md., October 29. —In connection with the collapse of & gravel bank on the farm of Mrs. Cath- erine Campbell near here Tuesday afternoon, when Daniel Simms, col- ored, 21 years old, of Capitol Heights, s killed, Mrs. Campbell declared to- day that S. C. Woodend and George F Fowler id not recelve a scrated. Continuing, she said: “I personally ordered those who took Simms to the hespital to rush him as fast as they could to th asualty Hospital The car was driven and owned by E. Woodend: George F. Fowler, his cousin, sat in the rear seat and held the hody of young Simms, and Harry Edelin, the county road supervisor, sat beside the driver, Woodend. An Investigation made by The Star disclosed that besides the death af Simms Woodend was slightly hurt, being struck by a plece of clay, and f Fowler had his foot injured, although neither required medical attention. It appears from Mrx. Campbell's state- ment tha§ The Star s in error In ts story of October 26, in which it was fmplied that Harry Fdelin drove the car to the hospital and in the pos- sible implication that the injury to Woodend and Fowler was of a serious nature. f »