Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1928, Page 1

\WEATHER (U 8 Weather Burean Forecast) Fair and much colder with a cold wave today: tomorrow fair and contin, ued cold. Tempora today: lowes —Highest .44, at 6 am at 6 p.m today. Zhe i WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hou The Star is delivered every evening aid Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60) cents per month. Telephone Main 3000 and service will start immediate Botered Post o as second class matter e Washington. D. C. WASHINGTON, D, C., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1928 — S12 \hl‘\'»l‘ll(ill'l' PAGES. £ ns Associated Pre FIVE CENT 30.560. YEAR OF PROGRESS FAILS TO PUT ”NDBERGH H'IE END TO ALL EUROEE;E WAR ILLS FROM BELIZE 10 o SALVADOR TODAY Hop-0ff Scheduled at Dawn.: Trip Expected to Take Thrée Hours. nder of Spread, However. Is Believed Remote — French Rule and Money Stabilized—Tyrol Presents Problem. at bank of issue it was £, with $2,000.000,000 in d securities in its vaults. { hecome the gr on of Eurove s croar p "0 of these pr the budswet has bheen balanced and promptly voted, although taxes are crushing and certainly cannot be maintained for many successive years | it such a figure. Nevertheless, the| country has weathered this crisis | without too much difficulty. thanks to the immense influx of capital to her | markets. | Huge port Surplus. » The trade balance shows an ex-| | port surplus of §100,000,000 during the | first 11 months of the vear and despite lower prices, tax collections exceed | the estimates. From a_diplomatic point of view | Foreign Minister Briand has suc. | ceeded in curing the country of it 31.—The year|war psychosis. Relations iwth Ger: been one of \many are greatly improved. Hatreds} rope, and par. have heen disarmed on both sides of the Rhine, even more on the German |side than on the French, as is shown ov the deplorable incident of the Echo ment, but a stable cur-|js Paris election poster caricaturing The capital which fled abroad | President Hindenburg. has heen largely rep: Rut such Nationali Ban i s “(Continued on Page ¢ - DNEDIES, S0HURT S ASTRANS COLLIDE a small popula- cb FLYER ATTENDS BALL, | BUT FAILS TO DANCE| Governor's Launch Takes Air Hero| for Long Cruise on Hon- | duran River. stable govel attacks against | . Column 2) atl abo the 2 s by two capitals. sit Colony. in tween [0 FROM 54 TODAY Girl. Pinned in Wreck, Directs Bodies in Engine Room to Rescue—Storm Delays Be Brought to Surface Relief Work. if Sea Calms. | By the Associated Press. PROVINCETOWN, Mass, Decem rough a snowstorm nearly 2 hours ber 31.—Rough seas and threat of a | hind dule, the “Hummer.” storm forced suspension of salvage | cago and Alton crack fiver from |operations on the sunken submarine e today plunged into the S-4 late today after everything was of an Alton fast mail and passen- in readiness for removing the en ain from Louis, telescoping |gine room hatch and entering the two sleeper. ng one woman, im- | hull in quest of bodies. It is believed nother in a steel compart- |that 10 of the 40 meh who perished injuring more than 30 when the S-4 went down were in the engine room. Weather permitting, divers will en- vearold girl in one of the coaches, |ter that compartment tomorrow and more than 100 men workad for h,“,,,gwmm- the bodles. A calm sea will torches to hreak |be necessary before this can be done eper in which she was because of the danger to diverse ther car, where at first | Working inside the hull. The menace victimes were believed §m. |10 the divers was illustrated today | when for the third time since salvage | operations began one had to be as- | isted to the surface by a comrade. Br th Associated Press. ICAGO, December 31.—Crawling | ment and assengers. ted by cries of the courage tavlene Taken on River Ride. Legs Crushed, May Die. e girl, Miss & Stekoll, Tulsa, - her legs crushed so badly she Fight Work on Hull. die, repeatedly told her t divers worked on the hull of e body of another woman | the S.4 today. The gratings over the feet Fighting the snow. | engine room and motor compartment he zero weather 83 Wl lhatches were removed with the ob- outed encouragement as|ieCt of getting the air out of these hey burned their way through the|tWO compartments hefore an attempt side of the sleeper, !is made to raise the wreck, under ah Stekoll.” shout. | Which three lines already have been s comiing o /Chy. | Dassed. ‘The e hatch will my brother. The Dext be remove divers to o gee ad. 0 nter. me, seems dead. How | "URl giver who was in difficulties to day was Bradford Bedford, making his first descent to the submarine ! When he reported that he was in dis tress the veteran “Bill r went to his assistanc After the rescue Carr went on with his work on the S4. Divers Tom Camphell and George oh and workers crawled to | Baker went down and removed a bolt of the white.faced girl, held | holding the engine room hatch in in the compartment. She smiled | pince. them wanly, laughed hysterically | The bolt fell inside the compart- nted ¥ ment, and some water passed in E through the aperture. The divers es- nsent. Body Found at Side. ! timated that the rvom was one-fifth v her side the rescuers found th 5 {filled with air. They closed the hole PLANE FORCED DOWN of the woman, having apparen: —_— - ¥ been killed when the crash wax well dressed and ble jewelry, including a ng ring inscribed “From W. to| s about 50 years old. The o) zaid she did not Know the Fe Part of this day on the After his ri ed: fumch At ted back a rescuer, ne the faint reply sliding,—""but . more than four hours the last hit of stee the # nded adorns pain now It w water might cause the wreck to keel over. Later Fill ter I8 was decide om to fill with water and Di Kelly removed the plug. It was be lieved tonlght that the compartment had filled. The last man to wor the submarine was Diver Tom Eadie who removed the covering from the motor compartment hatch, The_purpose of clearing the motor (Continued on P’age 5, Column 7.) Roon i to allow the - on the lining of a dead worn ly as Mrs, W Louix atured in the wreck ¥ two were in the actu A St Louis local passenger had stopped in an isolated xec- rds 1o take water, and £t Louis fast mail and | the orders, struck the iail train and telescoped arriving st the | removed to bos | Costes and Lebrix Will Stop Here After Flight From 1 necldent was the second | South America. wlow before relief hed 1o bhegan hospital later being Shortly hefore | Metropolitan ele hed on a westsid passing over the er ridge, pinning or the wreckage, After work ANTI-WAR TREATY - r Jo it i IS BRIAND'S HOPE ' tn merione and he French Minister & ’ VOIS g other principsl Ameriean citles in Begin With Return - [ the tatter part of thelr nerary, and of Herrick Mahon, 1. Louls, | 1hen will attempt the New York Paris o E Columbis, Ohlo, hon s 5 | Whe aviators announced their ambi i, Ina tous purpose to the Assoclated Press o o toduy, during a reception in thelr honor at a local hotel Forgetting tempe ily the muta- | dores and other colorful bull Aghuing | personages who, usually, fully occupy {the public mind here at this season, il Lima flocked to render homage to the new heroes Coxten and Lebrix could set proximate dates for thelr “calls” upon ihe Americsn cities They intend Nt to visit all the Latin Amertcan ipitale, going Nest 1o Qu und Gusyaquil, it landing Aelds are avail able, and then o Guatemala and Menion | Bk was warm in pralse of Lind bergh “Peihun we may ba lucky enough (o et him et Fanama,” sald Cosien No one can help but adnire the Lone gle's Night, which in emphasizing the imporiance of aviation thiough wull e world, after iated P Peru, Costes .. December snd aviators LIMA donne French Fouth Atlantie fn a nonstop fight ns 2 Joreph who span Dien- Lebrix, 4 the condition | | i | By the As | | | | Injured Are Listed. the Alton worid toor Wi will tnelude hington, New York n part of thelr New Orleans, ys Conversations te Arencieted Pre " ge b, Column b or, compen ge b, Column 6) prospects. in Lt oof the Commening 4 s rigtion pi ot The miar delly within the oty will no ap ha an follume Tiw Esening Bar Dhie Bxenbug und Runday Bias (when & Buns e per Bhw Ksviing wnd Sunday | Bar (when b Bun duye) e per month The Bunduy Ster Be per copy Collection wade ot the end of each wuth 45 per m dnye) Governor's Account Short OKLAMOMA ¢ a Lk that wn e torm oA " & persongl 78 Thet fust ernor cen e For the second time in succession. | DIVERS MAY RAISE * | Senator Walsh ith a wooden plug. fearing that the | k on | DARTIES READY FOR PRESIDENTIAL RACE Democratic Dinner January | 12 Awaited as First Vital Parley. REED BACKERS TO START CAMPAIGN THIS MONTH Edge's Support of Hoover Is Seen Significant Move by Repub- lican Leaders. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The presidential campaign of 192§ in the making for months, is ushered in today. { ‘The nominating conventions of the Jor parties are less than six months n the future. Politics and politicians are on the move, Lines ! are developing more and more. On January 12 the Democrats are to have their first hig national pow- wow since the Madison Square con vention in 1924, The national com ee meets here that day at the flower Hotel to selecc the 1928 ention date and cit he night of Janu 12, in the same hotel, the first Jackson day din- held by the Democrats in this city since 1920, will be given, and Chairman m Shaver of the na tional committee is authority for the statement that from 900 to 1.000 zuests, including party leaders from Svery section of the country, will gather. Smith Asked to Speak. Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, regarded today as the foremost can didate for the Democratic nomination for President, has been Invited to ad- dress the diners, as have William | bbs McAdoo, Senator Reed of Mis souri, Gov. A. Vie Donahey of Ohio Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of ‘Maryland, of Montana, Senator | tobinson of Arkansas, Democratic | leader ,of the Senate; Senator Harri son of Mississippi, Gov. McLean of North Carolina, Gov. Byrd of Virginia and many others. The Democratic headquarters here | i saying nothing at present bout acceptances to deliver addresses at the dinner. But the hope is expressed that | all of those invited will be present and | will speak, Necessarily, it is said, the | speeches must be brief in view of the large number of speakers. Another event of the near future, regarded as of much importance in | Democratic circles, will be the annual | message of Gov. Smith to the New | York Legislature. According . to re- ports from Albany, the Governor is | to break his silence in this message on | 2 number of national issues. If he | does, and does not take himself out of the race, his annual messaga will be | regarded as his first campaign docn ment. The message, it is said, wi!l be | 5,000 words in length | The Reed-for-President campaign is | to take on active proportions soon | ifter the holidays, and a national headquarters in ‘the interest of the nomination of the Missouri Senator is likelv to be established, possibly fn | Washington, it was said last night. | Opponents Busy. | Opponents of Smith and Reed, hoth ro; d as * are casting about o find means and a candidate to head one or both of them off. There is | rumor of a concerted effort on the | nart of delegates to the Democratic convention whe hap) to be mem- | hers of the Ku Klux Klan. or in sym pathy with it. This group, it 18 re ported, may bolt the convention it it | ippears likely that Gov. Smith is to he nominated and set up an independ- | ent Demoeratie candidate. The name | of Senator Heflin of Alabama, who has again and again attacked the Smith candidacy, has heen mentioned 15 a_possible rallying point for the antl-Smith movement it this plan be | arried out There is to be a real contest for the | eonvention city when the commit week from Thursdny. Both cific and Atlantic Coasts e ing for the ¢ vention, as well as entral part _of the country { Miaml, Fla., and San Franeisco ar coming to the ting with generous offers.” Cleveland and Detroit, o and St. Louls, also are in the Irace, not to mention Boston, . Paul |and Houston, Tex. Cleveland is re. ported to stand an exc ent chance | for the convention. Not a few Demo crats would like to take the meeting to_Indianapolis, where the Repub T antinued on Page 4, Column 1) two ¥ TODAY'S STAR PART ONE—16 PAGE! neral News—local, Nationil reign. Nehools and Colleges Around the City—Page 10 At the Community Centers—Page 10 District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Pake 10, Clubwomen of the Nation aws of the Clubs— Hpanish War Vete Radio News and Finar G and Page 10, Page 11. nge 11 w~Page 11 rams—Page 12 I News—TPages 13, 14 and 13 PART TWO—16 PAGES Editortals and Editorial § tures, Washing Other Noclety Classinied tining. No of and Artists — Pag Mteviews of Winte = age 4 Talen of Well Known Folk=1age W Parent Teacher Activities — Page 9 [ 1 Activitles—age Civitian Army News—=lage 14 ‘I'he Daily 1 O] Vage 14, PART T) *AGES rents— Theater and the Photo- Amu Page Motors and Motoring—Pages 8 and 9 Fraternal News—1ge 10 Army and Navy News-—Page 10, Marine Corps Notes—Puge 10 Indian War Veterans—I'age 10 Herlal, “The Amaging Chanc Page 11 Veterans of the Great War—Paga 11 w U Notes—uge 11 Dristeict National atd ~age 11 Y. W, A News co 11 A FOUR—4 PAS Fports Hection PART FIVE Mugnzine Beotion i GRAPHIC BECTION—8 PAGES, Waorld livents in Pletures, COLOR BECTION—4 PAGES, Mutt and Jeff: Reg'lay Fellers M Min; High Lights of History. Pl N PAGES Viction and Lea NEW YEAR REVEALS | the same time Chi- CAPITAL RINGS 0UT OLDYEAR AT IIANY - SOCIAL FUNCTIONS |Watch Night Parties at | Churches Also Form Part of Observance. | ;Weather Prevents Usual Revelry : on Streets in Downtown | | HOOVER STRESSES TRADE STABLITY Swing Toward Lower Costs and Prices Seen by Secretary. ; the tes as tability dominates business world of the United S e New Year is ushered in, Secretary Hoover declared in his annual New Year | statement vesterday. A swing to- ward decreased price costs was seen by the Commerce Secretary, while at the average level of wages and the national buying power { have been maintained. Mr. Hoover's statement follows: “An answer to the usual annual re- «quest of the press for a statement of prospects requires a short catalogue \t the ecomonic forces which domi- nate the business sit ion at our entry into the new yea « “The more general of these forc of course, includes the credit situa tion. the degree of accumulated stocks of goods or speculation in them, the size of the crops, the rate of was | i the outlook in labor relations and em- ployment, the prospects of foreign ade and to these also need be adled the particular forces in motion in the different major industries . Supply of Credits. | “Upon these points it m (hat there is an ample Supply credits at low rates; the somewhat larger stock of goods which were ac cumulated during the Summer are be ing reduced; there is no consequential <peculation in commoditics; the crops lave been abundant; wiges are at a| h level: we are recovering from ome par unemploymer ial Iv in the automobile industry here | is peace in most sections of the labor world except bituminous coal; the {s mom peace in the international world than at any time since the foreign world is recovering | nomic strength and buying power, | therefore, our forsign trade is steadily | increasing. The phenomena usually aceredited as premonitery of a slump | are therefore absent. | “During the past vear there have heen important shifts in our own -onomic world which have an import- it bearing upon the future. While | the aver » wholes: price of all com at about 50 per cent above e-war Is today the same as a year . vet it we div them into agri- ultural and nonagricultural goods, it will be found that the average price of nonagricultural producty has fall \ in the 12 months from ahout 60 cent above pre-war to 51 per cent | | war; while the av o of | cultural’ produets at central umlmnsl‘ {hos risen from about per cent | bove pre-war to about per cent | above pre-war; however, prices on the | farm show only a rise of from about | 10 per to about 39 per | Buying tanufacture and distribution have by savings and diminished profits ac | commodated themselves to this situa tion of decreasing prives without re Liuction i the averuge level of wages \1d therefore In the national buving power. But the great extent to which industey imodated itself to wer prices by decreased costs makes 1 ta a sounder condition for the en suing vear, Despite decreasing prices, production and consumption of manu factured commodities have been matn tained upon a high level, as shown by | car loadings of class of goods, which | have been about equal to those of last vear. “As to particnlar industries, asel | culture, textiles, bituminous conl and some aln—atill lag ind the [others. The contracts et for future ution In the construction indus [ tries nre at ns Wgh a Jevel as at this | thme a year ago Tuken In a broad sense the new yvear with the stability dominant i the workt™ we enter forces ot | business {'FLEDERM “Blue Danube” and Solo Interpo- lated Into Strauss Work. CHICAGO, Decomber 31 () — Had Johunn Strauss heard the Chicaso Civio Opera Cov tonight he would have recognized the muslo of his “Flder maus, but not the Interpretation. foy Iowas In English and the dindosue spokon An a further sueprise for the Year eve audinnva the hallot inter proted the same Strauss' Hle an uhe, " the while Toti Dal Alonts terpolated & ol not in the seore ’ . Quake Felt in Alaska. JAU, Alaska, December 31 (4 ~An earthquake lasting 40 seconds shook Juneau at 1003 am. today Dishes wers vattled and goods on % were shaken AUS’ PRESENTED New agri- | T few feet {re | uated POLICE CLAIM MANAGERS BROKE D. C. SUNDAY RULE 1ces in the ¢ morning to appear Tuesday or to depos eir earliest conven leged violation of a pe which on Sundays, except be of 2 and 11 o'clock p.m. Among those no Wood, manager of Robhins, manager of Kei Motte, manage Jarboe, ma ntown sect in on collateral e hecause een the hour: ager of ANDIT IS FLOORED BY STORE MATRON Woman Frustrates Hold-Up. Thug Caught After Down- | town Chase. Foiled in a daring atte up the Kresge store E stree's late vesterday af the pluck of Mrs. Charles W. French ore matron. who ripped a musk from his face and knocked him sprowl- ng over a chair, a negro bandit smashed through the glass of the sre door with his pistel and made « dash for freedom, only to be ca police at Seventh and F stree Several young women fainted a one girl was cut when she ran \anic against a glass door as tugitive dodged through fiiled only with emp taking inventory. weapon and threatenin cre who intorfered, th through the glass of the entrance. atrolman W. B. Edwards of No. § precinct, off duty, set out in p as he heard Harry H. Walthrop, Naval Hospital, who saw the ne in the street, raise a crv. The two n chased him to Eighth street and then to F, where he was headed nd arrested by Officer E of the TraMe Bureau Just as officer was ahe the man he dropped h was found to be loade fivst cinet. where for further investigation. he save name of Flovd Armstrong, . 1509 Fifth street As the bandit sm: store door he slappéd the barrel his gun against the face of 10 old Mary French, who was w for her mother. Glass from broken door fell on her back Mrs. French was sitting cle window on the second floor heard a noisg behind she saw the masked man emersing from his hiding place behind a door wav, “What do vou wan “Don't say a word or 11l ki led the man, as he moved ne nistol i hand i Thinking she was the victim of a tical jester, Mrs. French tore the K_from his face. He jammed the (Continued on Page 2. Column §) by the ified wage John W., 17 LAST SLAP CHILLS Capital Rather Quiet. the whole. however ced a On Press, owed o the enti ng of the old vear's repared to greet t of zero low 8 vear am helow uth ans pic- tured r's morn in ) y e of Texas helow freezi ey ted the ushering tempera. Sweeps Out of Rockies. of the Canadian Rocky Moun- 1 region, source of many a Win- storm, the cold wave swept, W and subzero weather Rand p tes and then o the Mid- over Costal Reg eastwar on by fas: A nippy Rain was predicted for New E followed by snow. On the comyyx tas I the 20 below 1se talesmen @ of the snowfall n, e beca Ottawa, s New Year AMERICAN ACES OF WAR TOLD Lafayette Escadrille DARING FEATS IN STAR SERIES s Daily With Death Heretofore Lost in Roufine A The ace of American aces | In the Spring of 1917 he was grad from high school 1n a smal Western city. He was a very ordinary | sort of bay—just one of the millions shoveled Into the Jaws of war during the fateful Summer of that year He found himself (n France —a fly g mecond Neutenant tn a squadion | of American avistocrats. They wete mostly graduates of big Pastern unt versitiens with rather vigid standands of culture. They “high hatted the Western high schoot hoy It made N mad. He would show these (ol e, he vowe I the war lasted ton cnough to give him a chance. One Chianee Too Many. ] TC AL His fghting career lasted 40 days, e wax credited oftivially Wwith 18 victortes. Finally he took ane chance (oo MARY in his desperate, | vecklesa life In (he air. A squadion | of Fukkers and several vegiments of | German tnfantry proved teo much for the Fhoenin, Avla, youth Fiom the | | lieved in the [ have been had he lived as long w8 rmy Files. se wat s w aw W was charged as At cas ere vk » cons Places wh atrer Pose volume of rifte chin ¥ which attended LIt was o lines that the German Arvmy started & new affensive, in the fuce of these odds he ser AW n two Getman balloons and landed sately, He w alive today but Werly Wealism that of sutrender more death thice had Richthoten remained in vears and seored 83 e~ the tnpressive total | whieved By any fyer on either sude Frank Luke staved in the ate 40 davs At scored 18 WhAt misht his reow The afuie, W e Mmost pretentious tod supper, dan stuy Was [ Charge Of & oo Witiee headed by Mark Lansburg, The Independent Onter o | Sons of Jonadad hel its sixtioth N the | Year celetration Mst wight at 23 Wintinued on Page & Columa ] R German rival® Richthofen fought colily, cautiousty solentifeally Luke fought—well, there are no wonds to descride fus that aort of Aghting which electiifiad | 8 the American Avmy back Wontinued va Pags 3, Colamn 33 0 -