Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1927, Page 17

FRENCH PILOT BESTS GERM. N IN DAREDEVIL FLYING DUEL. THE EVE A view of the recent s stunt-flying contest at Berlin between Doret of France and Fieseler of Germany for the “‘championship of Europe.”. Doret is executing the hazardous low-flying upside-down stunt in the plane at the left, while the German pilot is risking his neck in the plane making the sharp nose ascent. the edge on his rival. BRITISH EDITOR CALLS AT WHITE HOUSE. left) and Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, at the White House yesterday, where the British editor and publicist was presented to President Coolidge. Mr. Steed is making the interest of world peace. U.5. WORKERS SET RETIREMENT PLAN Civil Service Employes to Open Drive in Congress for New Program. More liberal civil service retire- ment will be urged at the next Con- Bress as a result of a meeting last night of the joint conference on re-| tirement of civil service employes at ‘Typographical Temple. | Senator Porter H. Dale of Ver- | mont, chairman of the Senate civil mervice committee, speaking ‘in- formally, expressed his general ap- proval of aims of the conference for higher maximum annuities and re- tirement after 30 years of service. The conference will fight for a maxi- mum annuity of $1,200 instead of the present $1,000. This was the attitude of the conference before the last Con- ‘The conference authorized its execu- tive committee to prepare the draft of & bill to be presented to the en- tire conference at a meeting some time before Congress meets. Senator Dale, who indicated he would sponsor such a bill, declared he was opposed to the movement introduced in the last Congress to appoint a commission for investiga- tion of the retirement problem. Such an_ investigation, he thought, would only serve to delay the day when Government civil workers would re-) celve more adequate retirement pay. Informal round-table talk devel- oped that the retirement fund has reached $67,000,000, a growth of $17.- 000,000 during the last year. Should this continue, it was pointed out, the Government, w , under the law is supposed to contribute to the fund in addition to contributions of employes, would not have to add a cent. Robert Alcorn of this city was re- elected chairm: Thomas F. Fla- herty. of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, secretary,and Wil-| liam M. Collins of the railway mail clerks, treasurer. These new mel tive committee were elected Gainor of Muncie, Ind., N sociation of Letter Carriers; A, ¥ranklin of this city, International Pressmen’s Union: Dale C. Sheriff of this city, International Typographical Alifas of this city, Association of Ma- nbers of the execu- | sdward tional As- 1 chinists, QUAKE MUDDIES SEA. Alaskan Fishermen Say Temblor| Started at Ocean Bottom. JUNEAU, Alaska, Novem —Belief that the earthq rocked Southeastern Alaska October 24 had its origin in the ocean bottom received some substantiation today after fishermen reported that the waters west of here to Cape Spencer had been discolored since the Ic‘x):hlqr, In the vicinity of Point Adolphus, Cape Spencer and Yakobi Island, the fishermen said, deep-sea fish have been found n the surface of the vater. Fishermen on the banks oft Cape Bpencer reported that in past years they had experienced considerable trouble with gear on account of the Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. sey 1.\1—xhur C. | George S. rock bottom, but that after the 'quake the gear was covered with mud when Uted. Doret was conceded to have Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Wickham Steed (at speaking tour of America in OFFICERS ELECTED BY RELIEF BODY Mrs. Mussey Succeeded by Mrs. Rudolph as Vice Presi- dent—Work Gains. Col. Herbert J. Slocum, president of | the Citizens’ Relief Association, and all | present officers except the seccnd vice president, who had resigned, were re- elected at the annual meeting of the association, held yesterday ut the So- cial Service House, 1022 Eleventh street. Reports were presented, show- ing tremendous growth in the relief work accomplished by the assoclation during the past year, and the annual budget was approved. Evan H. Tucker was re-elected vice president, William J. Flather, treas- urer; Walter 8. Ufford, secretary, and other incumbents on the board of man- agers with the exception of Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, who resigned as vice president. Mrs. Cuno H. Rudolph, wife of the former president of the board of District Commissioners, was elected to succeed Mrs. Mussey. 527,373 Relief Disbursed. Reports showed $27,373.61 dishursed, of which $25,695.27 was for necessities of life, 767 families here being aided. The statement of the past year's work submitted by Mr. Ilather, the treasurer, showed that $22,430 was ex- pended for food, $1,878 for fuel, and $1,386 for shoes and clothing. A com- parison showed that the relief total has increased rapidty since 1919, when the total expended was $6,046. * Announcement was made that the District Commissioners had issued an order appointing new members of the board of managers as follows: For the term expiring in 1928: George DeNeale, O. J. DeMoll and J. B. Jones; for the term expiring in 1929, Bertram G. Foster; for the term ex- piring in 1930, Walter S. Pratt, jr., Rudolph Max Kauffmann and Rad- ford Moses. Hold Over Members. Other members of this board hold- ing over are Coleman Jennings, Dor- W. Hyde, jr.; John B. Larner, Moses, Col. H. J. Slocum, les A. Spalding, an H. Louls Brownlow, William McK. Clayton, Walter C. Clephane, A. J. Driscoll, William J. Flather, Fred 8. Lincoln, Mgr. C. ¥. Thomas, Wilson, John C. Wineman, John Joy Edson, Wallace Hatch, Mrs. Loren B. T. Johnson, Dr. William C. Rives, Mrs. Cuno H. Rudolph, Mrs. James Brown Scott and Corcoran Thom. Mr. Tucker was re.elected as the delegate of the association to the Council of Social Agencies and the board voted its thanks to him for his services as chairman of audit com- mittee in examining the monthly ac- counts. Thanks also were voted to the custodians of the funds, Mr. Flather, and his assistant, Miss Vir- ginia G. Marks, to Ord Preston as treasurer of the joint finance commit- tee of this association and the Asso- clated Charitles and the assistant treasurer, C. P. Carpenter. Mr. Tucker, as vice president of the association, presided over the session in the absence of Col. Slocum. . Passengers on seven liners leaving Southampton, Liverpool and Glasgow for America in one day recently num- bered 7,000 and tneir fares totaled nearly $1,260,000, » Mrs. Cl Tucker, WASHINGTON, right), the French stunt title of “air king” in his stunt- Fieseler, at_Berlin. AND THE WINNER LIVES TO TELL THE TALE. D. ¢, THURSDAY, Marcel Doret (at ilot, with his mechanic just after winning the ying contest with the German pilot Sixty thousand enthusiastic flying fans crowded Tempelhof Field to witness the contest. Underwood & Underwood. NOVEMBER 3, 1927. " LN MRS. COOLIDGE DONS NURSE UNIFORM TO VISIT DISABLED VETERANS. trim uniform of a Red Cross nurse, pays a visit to the disabled veterans at Walter Reed Hospital in the interest of the annual membership drive of the American Red Cross, which opens on Armistice day. Coolidge is shown here inspecting the basket-weaving work of some of the veterans. The First Lady, in the Mrs. ‘Wide World Photos. REPORTERS PURSUE TEAPOT JUROR. Edward J. Kidwell, jr. (sec- ond from left), who has leaped into the limelight as the juror named in the jury tampering charges resulting in dismissal of the oil trial here, finds himself a “hot” news source for reporters. This photo was taken Just after the jury was dismissed. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. UNCLE SAM OPENS SCHOOL HERE FOR PROHIBITION AG! tion unit has opened a school in Washington to train them in the other operations, This shows Webster Spates, the instructor, explaining a blackboard diagram of a brewer KELLOGG AGAIN HEADS PAN-AMERICAN UNION Dr. Alfaro Chosen Vice Chairman of Governing Board—Uniformity Plan Approved. Secretary Kellogg again heads the governing board of the Pan-American | | were able to discern two infants, and Union. The annual election held yes- terday chose Dr. Ricardo J. Alfaro, Minister of Panama, to succeed Di Enrique Olaya, Mintster of Colombia, as vice chairman. Architects of all countries will be permitted to enter a competition to submit plans for a lighthouse to be erected in the Dominican Republic in honor of Christopher Columbus, the board decided. The report of the commission on uniform consular pro- cedure was indorsed. The board for- warded to the governments, members of the Pan-American Union, the T port of the Pan-American Rallway Committee, which submits for the consideration of the conference at Havana on January 16 a proposal that the route of the Pan-American Railway be changed from that originally fixed along the crest of the Andes and that it follow a line to the east of that range. LANGHORNE PRAISED. Filipino Asks Return to Islands of Meaj. Gen. Dorey. MANILA, November 3 (#).—Re- assignment to the Philippines of Maj. Gen. Halstead Dorey, aide to the late Governor General Wood, and reten- tion of Col. George T. Langhorne, also of Wood's staff, in service here, was urged in a letter to President Coolidge today by Abdulla Piang, insular representative from Mindariao, Sulu. Piang's letter declared Gen. Dorey and Col. Langhcrne were especially qualified to handle the Moros, TS. BOTH SEEK CONGRESSION mick (at left), widow of Senator M L SEATS. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor- cCormick_of Iilinois and daughter of the late Mark Hanna, who aspires to a seat in the House of Representa- tives from that State, meets Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, William Jennings Bryan, who seeks a seat from Florida. daughter of Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Sweden dons his war bonnet after COAST INDIANS ACQUIRE ROYAL CHIEF. Indian tribe on his visit to Seattle, Wash. into the tribe with due ceremony as Chief Lone Eagle. F Prince Willlam of being made a chief of the Quilayute The prince was inducted Copyright by P. & A. Photos. SMITH HELD PARTY FAVORITE IN SOUTH Aswell Tells President Gov- ernor Would Carry States if Nominated, By the Associated Press. To improve the efficiency of its corps of enforcement agents, the Prohibi- st methods of trailing bootleggers, uncovering stills, inspecting breweries and ry to his class. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Two, Maybe Four, Baby Leopards Born At Zoo, but Mother Keeps Close Guard Two, or possibly four, baby leopards arrived at the Zoo yesterday. The mother leopard, one of the an- imals captured by the Smithsonian- Chrysler expedition last year, is keep- ing her progeny in seclusion inside the box provided in her cage, and it is not safe to go inside to determine the size of her family. Attendants yvesterday indications that there were more. The birth of these cubs is consid- ing to Dr. William M. n, Zoo di- rector, since both parents were adult animals suddenly transferred from the freedom -of the jungle to captivity. Leopards do not often breed in cap- tivity under any circumstances. Leopard mothers have an unfortu- nate habit of eating their cubs, and this animal is being kept well fed in the hope that she will have no tempta- tion to make a meal off the brood. GERMAN-BUILT AIRPORTS ASKED AS REPARATIONS French Senator Proposes Plane Terminals in France as Part of War Payment. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 3.—A proposal that Germany should be asked to equip a system of airports and airlines fn France and her colonies, as pay- ment in kind under the Dawes plan, has been put forward by Senator de Lubersac. In a letter to Maurice Bokanowski, minister of commerce, de Lubersac says he got the idea. when he learned that the government con- templated equipping freight trains with airbrakes by this procedure. De Lubersac points out that the Germans have established more than 80 airports, equipped two airlines with beacons for night flying, and are build- ing at Bremerhaven, Geormany, a colossal airport destined to be the terminus of an air_line between Eu- rope and America. He claims that cli- mate, geographical position and ter- rain all indicate that France should be the point.of departure for Furopean airlines to America, Africa and even the Far East, ——e The origin of the Masonic ritual has never been A SALVATIONISTS LAUNCH “SIEGE” AGAINST DEVIL Gen. Booth Leads One of Thousand Meetings for Conversion of Britain, By the Associated Press. GLASGOW, Scotland, November 3.— A night of ‘prayer, with 7l-year-old Gen. Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army on the platform for five and a half hours, has launched a great na- tion-wide “salvation siege” for the conversion’ of Britain. More than 2,000 men and women fllled the city hall here during remark- able scenes of fervor and religious de- votion. One thousand other meetings were held simultaneously throughout the country with 100,000 members of the Salvation Army participating. The “siege” will last for n. month and meetings will be held in “the ene- my's territory,” such as public houses and other drink emporiums. Tanks and armored cars from which Sal .- tion Army musicians will sound their message will run through the country, Coommen s Eastbourne Corporation autobus service af England has announced that during the past year it broke all rec- ords b):i clrri’ins 11,500,000 v‘puleu- gers and earning a net. p! 3 s ot proft.of ¥ U. S. FIRM REPORTED PLANNING BIG DAM ered a rare event scientifically, accord- } $20,000,000 Project in Abyssinia Would Irrigate British Sudan. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 3. — Negotiations for the construction in Ethiopia of a $20,000,000 dam, to be financed by American capital, have been practically completed between the Ethopian government and the J. G. White Engineering Corporation of New York, the New York Times says today. This invasion of American capital into a new fleld has for its object, the i Times says, the erection of a dam | across the blue Nile where it emerges | from Lake Tsana. The dam will pre- { vent floods, which are now frequent, and will irrigate the British Sudan to the west. The White Corporation, the Times says, will build the dam with its own money and plans to sell water for ir- rigation to the British possessions through which the river flows. The government of Ethiopia, also known as Abyssinia, represented here by Dr. Wargneh C. Martin, envoy ex- traordinary, will receive a royalty on the profits and, after a period of years, title to the dam. ‘The Times says the project is un- derstood to have the approval of the State Department at Washington. Poison Cream Puffs Kill 2 Children PROVIDENCE, R. I, November 3 (®P).—Two Pawtucket children are dead and six persons, members. of two ;;milfis-, J:.l;- ill as ‘:ha result, Hoam: epartment officials _say, eal cream puffs, purchased in a -n:‘fi bakery in that city Saturday night. of the baker t Gov. Smith of New York leads all| other Democrats in the race for the | presidential nomination in the South, | Representative Aswell of Louisiana asserted today after a call upon Presi- dent Coolidge. Aswell made it plain that he was merely reporting sentiment and was not declaring himself necessarily in favor of Gov. Smith’s nomination. He said that, according to information which he has gathered, Smith had a very good chance of being nominated and elected and he felt that in case he was nominated the Southern States would vote the Democratic ticket as they always have done. Sees Farm Fight Renewal. The Louisiana Representative, who is the ranking Democrat on the House agricultural committee, declared that he felt the farm relief fight in_the next Congress would be waged along substantially the same lines as it was last_year, with the advocates of the McNary-Haugen bill opposing the sup- porters of the Curtis-Crisp measurs, which failed of substitution for the McNary-Haugen plan in a bitter fight last Winter. He considered, however, that in the next Congress the administration would be able to muster enough strength to put over the Curtis-Crisp bill, which it was generally credited with tacitly supporting last Winter. This bill in many details is similar to the Jardine proposal for a $300,000,000 revolving fund with which to make loans to farmers and strengtnen co- operative marketing assoclations. Urges Federal Aid. Aswell declared that he was as yet i undecided whether he would reintro- duce his own farm-relief measure, a proposal which sought to aid the farm- ers in controlling crop surpluses them- selves by proper restriction of produc- tion. The St. Louis conference, which yesterday reaffirmed its faith in the McNary-Haugen bill, was declared by Mr. Aswell to have been made up largely of paid lobbyists of agricul- tural organizations. The Louisiana Representative called upon Mr. Coolidge to urge support for the Government taking over farm demonstration work, half of whose ex- penses formerly were paid by the State and half by the Federal Gov- ernment. He said the President was keenly appreciative that Southern States. were unable to take care of their share of the burden and that he was sympathetic to the proposal of the Government taking over all of it. He said this would entail an ad- ditional appropriation of $500,000. PEARERARE ‘Will Speak on Cancer. Dr. Simeon Carson will speak on cancer at the first lecture in a series planned at Dunbar Community Cen- ter this evening at 8 o'clock in the auditorium of Dunbar High School by the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia. Parent-teacher associations of schools in the vicity and the public areginvited to attend WAL MAY SEEK BETTER FREQUENCY Radio Commissioner Agrees That Capital Should Have Two Good Wave Lengths. The Federal Radlo Commission 1s In entire accord with the proposal that Washington should have at least two “good” wave lengths for radio broad- | casting, the air control body declared today in a letter to H. J. Odenthal, executive secretary of the City Club, who had written to the commission a week ago urging that WMAL be given a better position in the broadcasting band than its present location at 242 meters. On behalf of the commission, O. H. Caldwell, one of the members, told Mr. Odenthal that the WMAL management has been urged to make formal application for a more desir- able wave length and the commission then will hold a hearing at which full evidence can be taken from all parties. Mr. Caldwell's letter follow “Answering yours of October 26, I find that you and I are in entire ac- cord on the proposition that Washing- ton should have at least two good wave lengths for the dissemination of news of interest to the surrounding territory and as an outlet for the im- portant features which can be put on the air in the Capital City. “I have recommended to the man- agers of Station WMAL that they make application for a wave length now in use in one of the other Eastern cities which has an excess of broad. casting stations. There is a provision of the law which requires that wave ilengths be distributed proportionally 0 communities, and under this clause it would seem that the city of Wash- ington has a good claim. “‘As you are aware, the commission cannot take a wave length away from a station and put another station on that wave length without a hearing. In ord-r to give WMAL a wave length now in use elsewhere in the East, it will be necessary to deprive the other stations now operating on the wave and full testimony must be heard. I have, therefore, urged the WMAL management to select the wave length and frequency on which they desire to operate, make application for it in writing, and the commission will set the date for a hearing when full evi. dence can be taken from all parties interested, and the channel assigned in the interest of the best service to the publi FEET FRENCH AWAIT ANSWER TO LATEST TARIFF NOTE By the Associated Pre Restoration by France of the tarift rates on American goods which exist- ed prior to the decree of August 30, which precipitated the tariff conver- sations between the two governments, apparently awaits action of the State Department on a tariff note received from the Paris government last night. The French note hds not been ex- amined in detail, but indications are that while it may contain some state- ments not entirely satisfactory to the State Department, these are not - ous enough to prevent American ceptance of the modus vivendi out. lined as the basis for discussions of & l