Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1927, Page 17

e Aviation Achievements Stand Out Am BUSINESS REVIEW G & F ° WASHINGTON, D. C, []g 1 ntnlng %taf SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927 REAL ESTATE 17 ¥ PARIS-MEXICAN FLIGHTS MAKE “LINDBERGH YEAR” Other Remarkably S . Laurels—Floods Give to U. & uccessful Flyers Add Counter-Balancing Effect. BY EDWARD W. PICKARD. INDBERGH'S YEAR™ misht well be the designation given 1927, for it was distinzuish- ed erpecially by the achieve men that _admirable young American aviator. His trans atlantic flight, the first from An to Europe: his triumphant progress abrond and afterward in his home country, his nonstep flight to Mexico City, and his gallantry and modesty made him the most famous man of his &« of time. Both b and after he win o his way to France numerous other transoceanic fli were tempted Several of them succeedeg. while v interest centered to bring about re- . President Cool idg tion to the nations sizna tory to the Washington treaty to con- ) means to extend the provisions of that pact was accepted only by Great Britain and Japan. and ended in compiete failure. The League of Nations' preparatory disarmament mission was more or less busy throughent the vear, but seemed to make little progress meeting was attended by Russian representatives, who blandly proposed immediate and total disarmament. This plan was squelched and the matter of international security taken up. The League Council, convening to- ward the close of the year, had to dea! with the old quarrel between Po-| land and Lithuania and with strained | relations between France and Italy. United States marines were busy help- ing suppress a revolutionary move- ment in Nicaragua and protecting our nationals in China At home the vear was notable for the steady growth of our national economic prosperity, which. however, was halted in some sections by agri- cultural depression and by the devas- tating floods in the Mississippi valley. INTERNATIONAL. At tbe opening of the vear Presi- dent Diaz of Nicaragua asked Amer- ican aid against the Liberal rebels led | by Doctor Sacasa, and naval forces | and marines were promptly sent, since | our rights to the Nicaraguan canal ) route were deémed imperiled. After numerous skirmishes all Nicaraguans were ordered to surrender their arms | 1o the American forces, and the back- hone of the rebellion was broken in a| battle at Ocotal in July. Encounters with scattered guerrilla bands con- iinuved through the rest of the year. | Relations between the United States! and Mexico improved steadily and | Dwight Morrow -went down there as | Ambassador late in the Fall with high | hopes of settling all the differences | amicably. Secretary of State Kel- logg's plans for ending the Tacna- | Arica dispute between Chile and Peru ‘were rejected by the latter country in January. The ~ three.power _conference on naval disarmamént ¢alled by President Coolidge was Yldim Geneva. Prac- | vical agreement was reached concern- ing submarines, but Great Britain's @demands in the matter of small eruisers could not be accepted by America and Japan, and American de- mands for eight-inch guns were re jected by the British, so the whole af fair collapsed on August 4. Viscount Cecil was %0 incensed by the stubborn ness of the British delegates that he resigned from the cabinet and from participation in the doings of the League of Nations. Soviet Russia, more and more tak $ng part in international affairs, made emall progress into the good graces of other powers. Her proposal in the dis armament conference of the League, mentioned above, was scoffed at as not only fmpracticable, bu. also as dis- ingenuous. In Febru: Britain warn ed Moscow 1o cease its antl-British propaganda, and in May the London police raided the Soviet trade head wuarters and seized incriminating éo-uments. The Russian representa es were deported and all relations tween the two nations severed Soviet Active in Ch 4 e alive, though needed, of the CI virtually suppressed by the moderate wing. the Bolshevike had mo few friends left that the practically withdrew from the countr na the je1 keeping the When 'n in Ko wisraries were nese civil war = were mcarcely he radical faction Nationalists was The war in ( made an inter- affal attacks on for and n exsions 8nd aln the treaty pourts ritist. ¥rench and Japa niese forces were ser re and are for the o conftict ] protect rests wight » deter nals uria No be made no 1 distr Wik Col ination o a large ente with China the powers, for there vernment ed cou Germany kept pe ments, wnd her noe were bettered by et her repar relations a commercial pucts the control 1o the ag ust F over amient vations, a4 in A Jhinelar Vrance and Jugoslavia slgned Vieaty which Premier Slussolin sght wak simed a1 1 3 1alated with a militar Jusly and Albania whic wiaied, waxr designed 1o san control of the Ad much A1 feslt danger of b ¥ i be =i the 110 v and snd Lithuants Kach of the ations socused the Uther of fomenting I and the Lithusnians etleved Premier Pieuoskl bad desizy on their pendene izure Vilna by Poland seversl yesrs ago wap the underiying vause of the 1ow Marshs: Plsudski snd Fremier Walde maras of lLithusnia ent 1 snd Were perzunded 1o make porary peuce agreement. \he detai oF 8 permunent pact 1o e worked oul Iser FOREIGN oul sirike. W hi st confiicr did 1 he country wae sted by the tas et in Janusry, for the Dim time i many yeure, Lhe teal balance of irade was sgainst the British, the defich amounting 1o $66,000,009 In April th wovernment introduces s bill LG smeno vather drestically the low relating irade unions end strikes. The mes re was supported by the Conserve the defense of and worial wye ves sr necessary for the existing politics e, but 3t wis sksalled bitler tne fuices of who seseried | Its December | was desizned not to protect the state. | but to take away the rights won by | the workers and to destroy the unions, After many weeks of violent debate the measure, considerably modified, was passed. Another plan of the gov- ernment, proposed in June. was to re- duce the number of peers in the House of Le and at the same time to so tren r that it would be an impregnable defense azainst the growing power of labor. This was so strongly opposed by the Socialists and Laborites that the scheme was ndoned for the present. In April Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill introduced the budget for the year, destgned to meet a deficit of $110,000,000. Its proposals shewed that. despite her enormous burdens, Great Britain's financial po ion was fundamentally sound When the Da Eireann or | - ment of the Irish Free State met in June, De Valera and 44 of his follow- ers were excluded because they re fused to take the oath of allegianc King George. Later they ch d their minds and were sworn in, he ®eneral elections in September gave the government a plurality of six votes, and Pr elected dent Cosgrave was re- In July Ireland was shocked by the assassination of Kevin O'Hig- | gins, vice president and minister of justice. The murderers were not | caught. New Australian Capital. Openinz of the Parliament buildings in Canberra, the new capital of the Australian commonwealth, on May % was an event of importance for that southern continent. The British royal family was represented by the Duke and Duchess of York. Canada’s importance was con ably amplified by her election a member of the Council of the Lea of Nations, Senator Raoul Dandurand being given the seat, and by the send- ing of An American Minister to Ot- wa in the person of William Phil- 1 the Dominion cele- brated the sixtieth anniversary of its birth as a self-governing unit of the British Empire. Ontario abandoned prohibition, and on June 1 substituted the system of selling liquor in govern- ment stores to persons possessing per- mits. Prince Edward Island, the smallest of the provinces, voted in June to re- main dry. Government statistics showed that the total trade of Canada was steadily increasing. A pleasing event in August was the dedication of the Buffalo-Fort Erie Bridge as a me- moriai to 100 years of peice between Canada and the United tes. The ceremony was graced by the presence of Vice President Dawes, Secretary of State Kellogg, the Prince of Wales and Prime Minister Baldwin of Great Britain. That France is still nervously afraid of attacks from the East was made plain when the superior war council in February announced plans for the construction of defenses on the Ger- man and Italian forntiers calling for the expenditure of 7,000,000,000 francs. The project will give France the most « formidable frontier defenses in Eu. rope. Parliamept passed a bill in March providing for nationalization of all needful industry in time of war, and in April President Doumergue #igned a bill under shich France will | build 1 cruiser, 6 destrovers, 5 sub marines and other war craft. Poincare’s Prestige High. Premier Poincare, despite constant opposition in Parliament, malintained his prestige, and his financial meus ures proved so successful that many wondered why he did not proceed to the stabilization of the franc. Instead, he sought only to maintain it at fts present level, thersby actually pro- longing the life of his “ministry of national union,” which was formed to bring about stabilization. In Septem ber a new tariff was published which Americans protested would put them out of the business of exporting goods to France. Washington asked an im mediate revision after an ex change of notex 3 temporary compro mise was agreed upon. Beigium grew rich and prosperous during the year, and the populatic became so fond of speculating on th Bourse that it was warned that that way disaster lay late in the y the Socialists in the cabinet compelle itx resignation by opposing the gov- ernment's plans for army reorganiza- tion. Premier Jaspar formed another ministry, leaving out the Socialists, and went ahead with his projects, but more cautiously Under the firm hand of Mussolini the Fawcist wtate of ltaly began to functior. fully in 1927, Measures that though severe, seem wholesome were put force from time to time, and the country prospered beyond denfal tactors of the Duce. In April the premier proclaimed a Fus cist “charter of labor,” which was re. ded ax 4 wubstitution of the prin. le of co-operation for that of com. lon, and thus a step in the abo. The govern- ment in the § undertook to force reductions in both wages and prices, and since it ix all powerful, wages and prices went down. Rents also were forced down and eviction of tenunts by ndlords practically forbidden The difcult process of deflation re auired also a considerable reduction of 1 but it was rigorously carried pet Htion of class wtruggl Axer n Spanish Kconomie Policy, The kovernment Epaln devoted much attention 1o Nberating the coun 1Y from the economic exploitation by Heigners One decres wis designed 1 encourage Bpantards to purchuse s miaJority of the stock of forelgn enter and wnother extablished o mo of the petrolcum industry snd noConcerns from enter ot tracts (o lease. In ad | follo isurgents. Jutor Willis ditlon Ihe government spent fup .,‘.‘1“1:,;.. hrew nis Imlslmu the .u‘m INCKRR DR e sxaguLbRLdh Sial slinie for public improvements and for | atter the President in December told | ¥0# delayed for months by every rubmidizing national industvinl enter. | the nutional committes he had “olimi: | 108 I the power of the defenso. | prises, O s 55 the Tiihary | o s o The Huprems Court and Gov. Ful versrorats, headed by Premisr do Ktl- | Kanmis City was awardsd the Re. | (or declined to iInterfore and the men crd. war mudified Anto u wemimill | publican nutions) convention after w | Wohe put to death on August " 10y ministey operating without u par- | spivited contest with Nan Francisco, | The annual convention of the Amer lament. and on Getober 10 the King | ana the call was fseaed for June 12 | 1000 Leglon, which was held in Paris, openad the nuw Nations) Aol wan n great success und the former hich hid lung been promised by the Al Smith Aoughtoys thoroughly enjoyed thelr At e Land picked by the AL Smith wt W foucth dnwugura | retuen fo the scenes that hecame fo Euvernment and hae no legislative or | Uon as Governor of Now York, de. | millar to them during the World War administntive wuthority, being purely | clired hin candidacy tor the Demo | After the convention adjonrned most Hative The practica) control of | cratic nomination and throughout the [of the thousands of ien vVinite s country 16ft in the hiunds of | yeur he weemud to u iy n bt tenields and w W Helglim Ivers shiength. Of course of the diye igland A lurge party Journeyed rdinand of Rumanie died on | 0 We party opposed hlm, Among Rome. Bdward E Spafford of and his grandson the infan | Hvel candidates 1s Benwtor James W York was elected commander o wak proclaimed his succossor | 1eed of M Legion and Ban Antonfo, Tox I noregency riends of Carol ‘“lu I:I‘:;u rens r.u the fwas wwarded the 1928 convention. e crown prince and futher of | MONary Hauken fann velier bl and | the child king,' stirved up & ot of | President Coulldge promptly vetosd i Grand Aviny of Republ excitement and 1ouble with schemes |ecause be and his oficlal advisers | What remalns of the Grand Avmy of 19 biing Wi back trom exile and put | considered iU cconomically bad Dur |the Republic held the national en tim on the throne, but little came of Ing the year the varloun agricultural | campment of that organigation in L dn November Premier Lonel Bra [organizations triea 1o get together on | Grand Rapids, Mich, in September tanu, unrelenting enciny of Carol,|some meusure thiat would serve thelr |15 L. Hawk of Haoramento, Callf. fied wnd wan succeeded temporarily needs and meet the President’s objec | was chosen commander-in-chisf, nnd by Wie brother Bloody revolts by | Uonw, but falled. The matter came p | Denver win soieoted for the encammp Comuniniete in Vienns and by royal (again i the Neventeth Congress, [ment of 1924 lete tugal were suppressed i which met in December When the Heventieth Congiesn an 1 he Bunimer o Boviet Huswla. Stalin b Hennte i Junuary refused 1o [sembled tn December President Cool Lana hiv asmor andectook 4ol adimie ok 1, I Henator shict [ idge sent inow message Inowhich he pagiielch ey the apportt faction "G At becavse of alivged poliie | atood pet on 4 angber of controveraial hen the powers of that cham- | i) mERicay MURIVES , _SALTOR GHINA | EPADIO-TELEPHONE. ON ! B JOMERCIAL. BASIS | wiTH LONDON (Al SEGRAVE - 203.79 bt MILES PR HOWR Worp Eolomic PAYs INSTALLMENT CONFERENCE ENDs OF 77 BILLIoN MARKs i« INTERNATIONAL | / POLO L\ eF & ¢ \& 7 A?.‘-"’DFNYVAL RNG THAT CAL DICKED &0 S PASSES CEMURY MIESTONg and Leon Trotz ! his followers cal corruption in his campaizn and topics. He again called for the cren- and A, H. Bichwaldt, whoe flaw in were cxpelied from the Communist tion. Senator Reed of Missouri | tion of a Federal farm board to ad- search of them, nlso perished in the party considernhle time during the | minister a revolving fund to B oo ocean. Hefurs the start of the race Calles Suppresses Foes. Summer investizoting the case, and | operatives. and again urged the strict- | three ent were killed in acci- Sianiient Mexico con. | When the Senate convened on Decem- st economy. He recommended a dents. Yet another bold aviator who tinued his suppression of the Catholic DPF 3 the battle for and against the [moderate reduction in taxes on the disappeared was Paul Redfern. who opponents to his rule. Many prelates | 2dmission of Smith and of W. 8. Vare [lines favored by Necretary of the undertook to fiv from Brunswick, Ga.. gl el e fille of Pennsylvania was resumed Treasury Mellon, adequate works on fo itio de Janeiro, Brazil Then. in Rodtin Apnl, Arciiliston Mors. vt resident Coolidge declared himself the lower Mississippi to control September, Pilots Bertaud and Hill, Rio and others were capelied from | ®rIV in the year in favor of adequate floods, legislation permitting the Pres.| with . Payne, a New York news- the country national defense, and Congress in its | ident 1o act during coul mine strikes, Piper man, ax passenger, umertook Mexico's mast serious revolutionary | Army and Navy appropriations was | the turning over of the Government's the transatlantic fight, heading for movement came in October and was | fairly liberal, zoing even beyond the |merchant marine to private capital, | Rome; they fell into the sea and led by Gens. Gome ano, both |Chicl Executive’s recommendations by f and the projection of the Guif-to- | perished. In October Ruth Elder and tivals of Gen. Obregon for the presi- |Providing for three light cruisers. In | Atlantic waterway through the St | George Haldeman tried to duplicate dency. Within a few weeks the move- | October “Admiral Magruder severely | Lawrence Lindbergh's feat, but were forced | VléWm ST HOURS CONTINUOU'S ment had been effectually put dowr | criticized the management of the Navy | of the naval station at Philadelphia. Fall Ol Lease Scandal. a of Chile was| by Premier Iban, ected to succeed hi President Figuer: forced out of offic who was later Virtual collapse of the Kuomintang | The Fall oll lease scandal came to revolution in China, so far as achlev. the front again al times. T ing Its objectives wasx concerned | United States 8 reme Court o marked the y in the Oviental re- the leuses given by Fall public. The Nationalist party wis Leny on the ground of fraud hopelessly split into factions, while | sident Coolidge turned the naval Marshal Chang maintained hix oil reserves back to the Navy Depart supremacy in leking and was 1o ment In October the Supreme Court ported tu be preparing o prockim canceled tne Teapot Dome lease held himself emper The civil warfare | Harry Sinclalr In that month the went on unceasingly without definite conspiracy case against Fall and Sin result falr went to trial in Washington, but Generally speaking, conditions were 'u mistrial was ordered when it was conducive 1o proxperous year in|discovered xome of the juro the United States. Industry and | being shadowed by Burns dete commerce flourished and the Govern | employed by the defense. Sincluir ment piled up a huge reserve that| 1 Burns and several others were cited made u reduction of tuxes u certainty. | tor contempt of court Adv were the un »e dented floods in the Mixsimsippi V features ere wan n | machinery for reorganization of the nforcement of prohibi | FLIGHT. The Houe ways and means commit and Gomez, Serrano and many others | in A magazine article and paid the pen- | tee did not agree with Mr. Cool.d. had been executed by firing squads. | 4lty, being removed from his command [and Mr Za;% i A NZw RECORD ~ \ DMBE SWNGS ToR ~ down near the Azores and picked up by a steamer. Pilots Schlee and Foundland Mellon and submitted a bill | Brock stirted from New that would reduce taxes by about| August 27 for a fiying tour of the | $232,000.000. Most of the Mellon rec. | World. They landed In England the ommendations were ignored in next day and continued their trip preparation. The Mouse itaclf went| Successtully as far as Tokio. Japan even further and before the boliday | HY that time the conditions over the recess passed a measure calling for | ’acific were such that they wisely tax reductio ckregating $290.000. | Made (he crossing by steamship. 000, or 365 00 in excess of the Vilots Tully and Medcalf of Canada maximum by the administration 105t their lives in trying to iy from The Government budget submitted HA Grace, New Foundland, to to Congress by the I'reside Londoen in September. ontinued through somewhat amelio- | tion in May. Seymour Lowman suc rated acpression in the ultural | ceeded €. Andrews uw Assistant industries, the long conl strike in the | Socr of the wsury In charge of bituminouy fieldx which was ended that job, and Dr. J. M. Doran replaced | in meveral Staten fn the Autumn, und | jtoy A, Hay as commissioner of a strike of coal miners in Colorado | prohibition. The AntiSaloon League under leadership of the 1. W. W. [ jou fts gulding hand when Wayne B Presidentinl politics occupled the | Wheeler died in September, but under o a considerable olidge, 1t wian Iepublican minds of the pec extent, President C conceded, could have the | other leaders it went ahe to raise millions for the wet candidates for office A with plans defeat of all nomination for the asking, but during | In April the President vetoed the his vacation in the Black Hills of phijippines Assembly act for a plebis South Dukota he rvather awtonished | oty on independence for the islands the Nation by issy the mimple | Lager Gov Gen. Wood came home to statement: "1 do not chuose 1o run for | report to Mr. Coolidge at the Summer President in 14 Thus the vace White House in the Black Hills, The was mide un open one. though many | yoyeral was in poor health then ar of Mr. Coolldge's adinirers insisted | oy Aygust 7 he died in Boston, uni thiat he would uccept the nomination | versally lomented. In December Pren M “drafted” by the party. Of the gy Coolidge appointed Henry L, | other possibilities those most (avor | Suimson to suceeed Gen. W as | ably considered w Frank O Low- | coverner general of the Philippine den, Herbert Hoover ind Viee Preaident | #0000 EEEEE G wnd Vanzettl, Charles Duwes. Chnrk Hughes also Hallan Communist= stirved up their | wan liked by miny. Senator Chiarles | rellow. feds all over the world, and | Curtin of Kansas, announced thit he (" eiied “pinks” ax well They | war u candidite for the honor, and u () gavlsiad. ot Toordes. I JiR00IR SSon Wanator GoorEe Nopniyiot wnchusetts and sentenced to death | Nebrasku waw started by some of his falFnean of the trinl Judge WAR at tor approprintions totaling $3.33% luropean aviators wege almost as 957.031, and he gave his approval to Aclive as thoxe of America. and the Navy Department's 20-vear build Some of them also paid the extreme ing prokram requiring penalty for their boldness, Capts. of 000,000 in the first five v Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli, famous French aces, undertook 1 non-stop flight from Paris to New AVIATION, York In May, and were lost off New . Foundland. In August Capt. Leslie Hamilton and Col. F. Minchin, with Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim Detalls of Charles A. Lindbergh's ux passenger, started from Upavon epochal flight, alone, from New York | England, for Ottawa, Ontario, and 1o Parls ure stlll fresh in all minds. | were never seen again ting his plane by fiving fr Sports Achievements. tornin 1o Long Isline ¥ oo [e 2 ekt sy e ook e ey In respect of attendance all records | France on May 20, wnd 33 hours ang " AMErican sporting events were |21 minutes later Le landed safely qr | Droken in 18 The outatanding | Lo Bourget fleld. The French | €Vonts in this way were the prize | people went wild over him. an 1y MU for the heavywelght champlon: | Francs, Belglum and England. honors were Leaped upon him., He k head wonderfully, and his modesty tion to his business and after his triumphant veturn him to all n his great achievem g all offers that would have Ithy, he took a position in the Gugkenhelm Foundation for the e rop home, endea even more th Re) made him w bot it th in Amerie; ship n Chicago, between Gene Tun. ney und Jack Dempsey on September 2" and the foot hall game, also in Chicago, between Notre Dame and the University of Lower California on Nou vember The Aght, It 1s needless (o sy, wax won on points by Tunney the champlon The football gam sulted fn a victory for Notre Dame In the squared clrcle during the vear nt advancement of aviation, und fn his| Vet Latzo lost the welterwelght famous plune, the Spirit of 8t Logts | Ule o Joe Dundee: Bud Tavlor re. de u tour of all the States tained the bantamwelght chumpton. In - Decomber Lindbergh was (n- | ship by defeating Tony Canzonert; Mited (o Mextco Clty by President | Mickey Walker, world middleweisht Cullew and responded by making the flest non-stop Aight from Washington to the Mextcun capital, where he was Ived most enthustastically as the unofictal ambassador ¢ ! [t rec n fow by tros tate e July, landing on Molokal Island out of gas ALy the Brazll, later Aiying up to the United 1 thence to the ho Army's pan- and Canuda Azores and home. De sout hoat Race to Honolulu. Many Augus wo of these was manned hy Art Goebe Frane lennia team captured the | and Lieut, Willlam Davis and Davis Cup from the Americans, and other by Maviin Jensen and Paul [one of s members, Lacoste. again Hehlutier he other two starters, | won the Awerican champtonshin. ste CALPYINE four men and one woman | feating B Tiden. However Fikden were luxt, and Capt W B Bewin | M Pl vace from Califo were entered Mia to Honolulu in and four started, rade the trip sucoesstully of lantie n but « 1wl Italy only chi o, of ew Jersey, beat Tommy Milligan, European champion, in Lon don. and Sammy Mandell kept his | liEhtwelsht title by whipping MeGraw, There was an futeresting vace in the | National Haseball League. which wis won by Pittaburgh Amertcan League pennant was taken by the New York Yankees, and that club defeated | the Pivates handi W Hob Stein of Seattle the Weatern ama teur, Mua Harey Pressler the wame on'a Weatern, Tommy Armour the Ca. nadian open, Walter Hagen the Weat. ern open and the professional, Mvs Miviam Horn the women's national, and G @ Duncan the French open France Wina at Tennls, a e ‘um Misses Wity and by on re- | in the world we | ong Many Notable Events in 1927 PROSPERITY FOR NATION 9 -~ POLITICS GROWING ACUTE |Effort 10 Reduce Navies Fails at Geneva. China and Nicaragua Still Unsettled Issues. made a fine showing in European tour-| Ameri Carlotta, ex-Emn | naments. Mexico; Lyman J. Gage, former | It wan dificult to pick the best of | retary of the Treasury. |the year's college toot ball teams, for| In February—Willam E |several were undefeated. Yale beat| New York banker: Charles Harvard in thelr annual match. and| capitalist; Dr. C. D. Waleotr, S University of Illinois won the West.| iary of Smithsonian Institution: F ern Conference championship. The| Dr. Percy S. Grant, New York di Army-Navy game in New York result- | Oliver Dennett Grover. artist: ¢om- ed in victory for West Point | modore Elbridge T. Gerry of New Horse racing had a prosperous year | York: Dr. George Brandes, Danish and a number of new tracks were| critic. Judson Harmon of Ohis, Rear opened. two of these were in the Chi-| Admiral A. M. Knight: Sir Lul cago region, for Illinois’ Legislature| Fildes. English artist |had legalized pari-mutuel betting.| In March: Brig. Gen. Le Ra The Kentucky Derby was won by |ton: Dr. Nathaniel Butler. Dr. H. P. Whitney's Whiskery, and the| Remsen and Dr. Harry Pratt American Derby at Chicago went to|%0n. educators; Gov. H. L. Whitfield Hydromel. Handy Mandy captured|of Mississippi: Katy Em: act- the Latonia Derby. ress; W. S. Cherry, explorer; W. | "George Souders of Lafayette, Ina.,| Dil§. founder of Izaak Walton Leag: won the 300-mile auto race at Indi. Perry § Heath; Geos Wheel anapolis, ~ Maj, H. O Seagrave of| Hinman, journalis England brought g Sunbeam car oves} 10 April: Capt tic explorer: Rev A | ham: Eliot F. Sheppard. m sportsman; All J. Beveri | Senator from Indiana. | In May: Dr. Benjamin lde Wheel- | er. educator; Hudson Maxim, inven- : Bruce McRae. actor; Anna Eva mind reader: Sam Bernard, | 1t was another year of disasters alcror:flchol T.‘;r Kno‘:{, veteran In » . : .| dian fighter: Payne Whit capi- |and convulslons of nawre. Earth-| (3% fghters Pavne Whitne | auakes, volcanie eruptions, furicus In June: Martin Roche. Chicagn | storms and devastating floods were architeci: Marquess of Lansdowne: | numerous and took a terrible toli in|Dr. Joseph Schneider, world-famed lives and property destroyed. The|oculist of Milwaukee: Rear Admirai Mississippi valley floods that started | Hugo Osterhaus: Coles Philipps. art- | in April were the worst in the history | ist: Jerome K. Jerome, English of the United States. Vast areas, author: Clara Louis Burnham. author: from central Illinois to the Guif of | Henry Clay Pierce. oil magnate Mexico were inundated, hundreds of| In July: Ke nalist | persons drowned snd hundreds of | John Drew. actor; Henry White, dip- | thousands rendered homeless. ihile | lomat: King Ferdinand of Rumani, | the property losses ran into the hun- Con, E Crumpacker | dred millions. Al relief agencie | Oregon: g. Gen. G. M. Moultor | from t Government departments | Cardinal Czernoch. primate of Hun- down, were employed. with Secretary | £ary: David C. Cook. publish, Hoover in general charge, and the | Hurry Johnston. English author and people of the coun contributed | explorer: Walter Travis. former golt most liberally for their unfortunate champicn | fellow citizens. An immediate result | Rear Admiral Bowles. was the formulating of plans for flood e T i controi for action by the Seventieth | powiea: Jonn Do, o et Congress. X 3 sh 2 | Of other disasters the wars: were: | nul Joa Gen. Leonsrd Wood. sov | In January—Seventy-seven children | Giiver Curwood. author. Judge E. £ killed in movie theater fire in Mon-| Gary head of the Unied States Sicsi treal. In February—Earthquake and' Corporation: Ogden Armour of Chi- snuwslides killed hundreds in Juso-. cago. Mrs. Fannie Bloomfeld Zete: <iavia: tornadoes in Southern States|ier; pianist: Zaghlul Pasha. Egypiian and along the Atlantic seaboard. nationalist: Cardinal Rieg v Ca to 66. In March—Sixty-rine killed in |nova. primate of Spain . wo mine explosions in England and " [ Ssptember: Amelia Bingham. Wales, nearly 2.500 perished in Jap- | uctress: Way B Wheeier. general anese ' earthquake and _tidal e tornado in Arkansas. 33 dead. In|cus Loew April—Mine explosion in West Vir- ol ¢ J ginia. killed 94. In May—About 200 | eronautical pioneer- died in storms in Middle West: earth- | can. dancer: Brig. Gen. Llovd quake in China ruined Liangchow | Brett: Baron Ago von Maltzan, G | to Daytona Beach, Fla., and mad | world’s record of 202.79 miles an hour. DISASTERS. Wave. | counsel of Anti-Saloon League: Mar- ion picture maguate: telephone and Isadors Dun- M. n Glidden. and other cities and killed about 100.-| man = Ambassador to the Un 900 persons. In July—Flood in China | States. Lew Shank. former maver | killed 1,000 and in Saxony 200: eatth- of [ndianapolis | quake in Palestine took 268 lives. In| In October: Prof. A September—Storms and tidal waves' Swedish scientist ravaged west coast of Mexico and|of Tennessee parts of China and Japan; tornado_in St. Louts. Mo.. killed §9 and did $75 | 000,000 damage to property. In Octo- ber—Italian steamship sank off Brazil coast, 314 lives being lost. In No-! vember—Disastrous and fatal floods {tn New England and Algeria: ex plosion of xas storage tank in Pitts burgh killed about 40 persons In | December there were furious zales on Gov rporal” James Tan- ner of Washington: John Dalzell of Pittsburgh: Bishop P. J. Muldoon of Rockford. ML: Col J. F. Dillen of Federal Radio Commission Cardinal O'Donnell. primate of Ireland: Maj Gen. J T Dickman: Davies Warfield president Seaboard Ai* Line Railway: Jok J Mitchell Cricago banker Rear Admiral J. M. Kel John Lu- ther Long. author and plavw t In November | the Great Lakes that destroved mue Dr M C J 25 shipping and cost some lives. In 2 ethadist Book Concern. orphanage fire in Quebec about &6 New York financier: children and 1 nun perished NECROLOGY. mier of Rumant Admira} H. Bullard. chairman of Federal Radio Commission: Cardinal Bom- Notable among the deaths of the |zano: Henry W. Savage. theatrical | year were: producer. { In January—Capt. M. E. Trench.|" |n December: Herbert S. Hadler. { Governor of the Virgin lslands:| chancellor of Washington University { Frank L. Stanton. Georgia poel:.nd former Governmor of Missonr: Arnold Duly, actor; David R. Francis | g Brainard of Pitisburgh, noted | of St. Louis. statesman: Miss Juliet giockman Low founder ‘of @Girl Scouts of et 1907 MERGER PROJECTS IN DISTRICT ADVANCED IN PAST FEW MONTHS Renewa! of negotiations toward the y finallv decidad to adhere to & poliey lonk sought merger of the transper-|of the former commission and net tation_systems dominated the events jpermit an increase fn the total num- 1927 in public utility afairs in the |Der af this type of Car Dow in service District. As a result, three radically | Permission was given to the Wash. different plans of consolidation were | ington Railway & Electric Company, developed—one by Harley P. Wilson, however, modernize its old type owner of the Washington Rapid Tran: |oneman cass by equipping them with o sit Co.: another by B. McK. Bachman |rear exits controlied by automa chisf_accountant of the Public Utili- treadles ties Commission, and the thind by the | While consideradle discussion was Charles Hansel Specialists, consulting | heand during the vear of mcreased engineers street car fares, the companies tailed Thus far the preparation of these 10 make RPPlicAtion to the commis. | plans has served only to focus public | SON for any chamge in rates The attention once again on the subject | Washington Rapid Transit Ca was of a street car merger. No def the only transportation utility whieh step has been taken either by the sought and ined a higher rate. Utilitles Commission, the car This was done by aboltahing t [panies or the authors of the re [0f tokens, which sald at 30 cen spective plans to carry them any fur | WX, and estadlishing a straight 1 {ther, with the exception of Mr. Wil [cent cash fare. [son. who. it is understood. is still The commission alse provesdad to | making a determined effort to make & revaluation of the propecties of the Washington and Georgetows Gas Light Cos. and this work is e pected 10 de completed within severs! |the owners of the transportation to_accept his scheme of consolidation, The year also witnessed the crea.) |tlon of a new Public Utilities Commis. | monthe. A new schedule of gas rates |sion, replacing the former commis. Drodablv will be ardered as soon as [sfon] which was composed of the Dis- | the commission fixes the valuation {trict Commissioners The new com. - B 2 [misson was formally inducted into | g mpyy CONSUMPTION |ofce and organtred March T and im | mediately proceeded to salve some of the lmportant public utility problems which had been left by the ol com- ||||I slon pending the selection of its personne!l by President Coolidge. | Members of Commission. | As now constituted the commission | consists of two civillans and the En sineer Conunissioner The present | members are John W. UChildress. (ol SETS NEW HIGH MARK Makers Report Profits Running From T to 10 Per Cent Over Last Year. By Comealidaiod Presa Mors candy was consumed i the Aterlcan wie squadron lost” two of | vies. Hun B. Johnson retived trom the | Havrison Brand, jr. and Col. William | United States in 1927 than & 0 o o w Hu ol W fro | . > 4 . 27 n any 1tn members n a colliston &t Ruenos : presidency of the American League "":‘n-li’-:“:wh"m"' Chmmissioner of | year of the country's history. - The [ on In May. . D Cham- | Barnard of Cleveland. | s e 1 R O the sweel toodd . X » Sup i . verlin and . Lovine flaw from | Hobby Jones maintained his Place | Roen ¥ '“‘r“:"'\:"‘“:":':“:"‘;“;‘“{“‘"“‘: Dmerice UL radts sy ang Island to Germany 1o June, es “,., leader In the worll of golf, for ["“_ St et e o |‘|'\:. m\m\ T 10 10 per cent i excesd © {ublishing a non-aton distance vecord [he not only won again (he British [ e ot § . D! Ao | thase tor the wrevieua yean Thm OF 3,906 mis. . The sehie el A [osed 0f By the new commission. 1n | wats due Dot oniy to the tnerease i Liontw 3. 1. Mattland and Alert | oot champlonahip, | but ate the jinia case the commismion entorat Into | populmtion. In (he \aieg Steres. oad Heuonhorgor of the Army tlew from Nouthern open and |.h;- natlonal amas fy - compromise Agreement with the 1o the impreved selling methods and an Franciso 1o Honoluln, and | reor,itles. - Howover, he loat the na: |Chesnpeakie & Potomue Tolonhone (1. | heightonwed demand. sat amo t the mar. Byrd und his crew hopped off ‘[{‘;I.l.l.‘ mu-"""\l\:‘ml:\‘ \‘\‘:::h\\;‘:‘ll-: ‘I_\'l:‘\:‘l\ \‘\Ixnfl;\ the Nvlupu-r:\ METOAd o with: steadiness of the sugar and chocalie ut Ne ok for 12 e, S o draw fts case Iy the court Q@ ac | ot ltllm\"\:l t..-“. l”' ““r l‘\f"llK ] Hebby Crulekshank won the Novth feep: the rates andered ;‘-u‘: \‘nz:“e‘fl;lvl ‘N\'Ih\' ‘l-‘lm cumpRies profiiad Bt a5 D Tironre e (i [0 Houth open, Juhnny Fwreell the LIun, 10 1030 The mates theraters | trom the em ros o e thrvua | AIght from Nan Francisco to Hawatl | SEropolitan open and Bastern open. | were reduced s of that date and an the remarkadle populity of the Limpounded fund collected by the tele- Phone company was reiurned to sub. wribers. The reduction amounted to 4 cents & month in untimited service and an Increase from 3§ Jo 40 calls in the wa Hmited tocal service. These rates will continue 1o June 1, 1339 under the compromise agreement One-Man Cars Studied, The commisaion devoted vonsiter ahble thie (0 & sludy of the oneman stieel car question. which was agt ated soon atter e cveation, awmt \ sweet cakes and crackens wakh ey peduest L The unusual weather comditions Which existed (h many sections of the countey had a detrimental effect oa 0 Cream sales The saft deink manutactocing dustey prospered remarkadly. Oae Snger ale concern shewed am b Vrease of aver % per cent in peod A% compared with the previous year. While alhers roparted SAiRs ranging from % per cent up CHOWING UM Consumpion oo Tnued on the upgrads. N\ -