Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1928, Page 2

igEBnER HENY . OF SHOWING FAVOR W% PRBIRTERS SR EeT T 2 & - HARLAND ACCUSED Simmons Charges Preference Displayed in Placing Traffic Lights. Charges that Traffic Director Harland | i is showing preference to street car com- | panies in the placing of automatic traf- fic signals . were made today by | Representative Simmons of North Caro- | chairman of the subcommittee on ations of the House ap- savs that the Commis- and the Trafic Bureau have | faith with his committee in not | orram of traffic light | {govern themselves and the Nation. Opposition to National Representation Analyzed and Fully Answered ARGUMENT BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY BY PAUL E. LESH, MEMBER BOARD OF TRADE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL REPRESENTATION AND MEMBER JOINT CITIZENS' COMMITTEE. It seems to us proper in closing our]enough to sit in a swivel chair long arguments for the passage of this reso- | enough to have his picture taken that lution to express our view on the argu- | aid not get a commission in the Army, ments which have been brought for-|when the boys from the Sunflower ward against it. 5 and the West and the Mid- It seems to us that the gentlemen west and the East were over in the who have appeared here, opposing our | trenches.” proposition, have based their case| We of the District of Columbia are prineipally upon a distrust of or at|rather used to being unjustly maligned, least an indifference toward the [but I do not believe that any Wash- American system of self-government, | ington_organization, not even the Du- rather than any specific objection to |pont Citizens Association, would spon- our proposal that the people of the|sor or intentionally permit such a District of Columbia in national affairs | statement to be made as an argument shall be counted among the people of | against giVing the residents of the Dis- the Nation who in national affairs |trict of Columbia their proportionate | control, according to numbers, in_the Let me explain what I mean. It|decisions made by the Nation. Such has been pointed out by the only one (a statement nceds. of course, no refu- of our opponents who spoke for others | tation before this committee, but it is than himself that the contfol of gov-{convenient here to remind the com- d out when the ap- ked, and that he s/ sue of it, and fight | ave the lights placed | they should go| ocated. | ¥ldridge Revised Plans, | t the con- and Penn-| v years ago when | recommenda- | ons subcommittee, au- o for traffic signal light | the $350.000 that was| ne in from renewal of . with the understand- as to be used in the down- M. O. Eldridge, then traf- ified. Mr. Simmons said. | s could be installed and relieved from permanent and 41 from temporary duty | Mr. Eldridge co every corner he proposed to place these lights. | t year. Mr. Eldridge and Col. 1. C. the traffic director, | : committee | d said the money was not coming, as fast as was anticipated. They bhad received $274.000 and submitted revised plans which in effect controlled | trafic in the congested area. { When the Commissioners and Traffic | Director Harland came into the hear-| 1ngs this year on the question of hiring | additional policemen, they seemed sur- prised. Mr. Simmons declares, to think | that they were expected to put in these downtown traffic lights and relieve the policemen from traffic duty there., so! that they could be assigned to other duties. Cites Control Program. During the hearings on the District | appropriation bill, Mr. Simmons told these officials that they were expected to place the lights where for two years they had toid Congress, through the| Simmons subcommittee, that they in-| tended 1o put them. | In discussing the new downtown | scheme, announced by Mr. Harland several days ago, Mr. Simmons calls attention that under it, K street is traffic light controlled. H and I streets are one-way streets, largely light con- trolled and G and F streets and Penn- svlvania avenue, the three streets east and west that carry the heaviest traffic zn fi:l; cxk?'. are Enot to be light con- rolled. whereas, E street is controlled. e Considering the north-and-south #treets, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, Four- leenth and Fifteenth. are not to be light controlled, and Sixth, Tenth and nth streets are to be light con- trolled. as well as Pifteenth street north of New York avenue. “That means,” Mr. Simmons explained, “that every street with double car tracks, with the exception of two blocks on E street. is not ™ be controlled by lights, but that every street that carries a great vol- ume of auto traffic, where there are no street cars, fs to be light controlled. “This gives right of way to the street cars,” Mr. Simmons stresses, “making them exempt from the regulations that :Ipply to automobile and pedestrian the Insists on Downtown Lights. Mr. S8immons says he is insistent that the traffic director and the Commission- ers “keep their word with Congress and place the lights downtown without re- gard to street car locations and treat everybody alike.” Mr. S8immons has collected data show- ing what has been done with traffic sig- nal light control in other large citles, 2nd points out that New York City has Just finished installing $1.000,000 in traffic lights and is controlling traffic with those lights that if police-con- trolled would cost annually $12,500.000. He says that more than one-half of these lights are on streets carrying street car traffic. “In Washington four lights can be maintzined on any one street intersec- tion for less than $80 a year,” Mr. Sim- mons says. “It costs $4.200 a year to maint. a policeman 16 hours a day | 2t an intersection. While a part of | these policemen are paid by the street tar companies direct, they can be trans. ferred o other places wh Do proposals for signg MAIL PLANE CRASHES. Chicago-Cin nati Pilot Unhurt in | Nose Dive. | March 16 (P).— | cag innati alr mall crash- first in a clay bank amid a sand derrick and a|of one or two members would not en- | hix contentions nber at noon woday. i Bevins of Cincinnati was | { R o | Toppling Mountain Peared. Faring people of the Arbedo Valley, | warned by y that they | with all possible sent Mount Ar- in the valley. | the mountain has been ing. At first fts sum- sbout one ineh every 12 it has tr the coming year rous earthguake w & ing the val it moved sronths, 1t e here this morning i NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICES KEITH'S THEATER 12:20 10 1 O'Claock Auspiees Washingun FEDERATION OF CHURCHES SPEAKER THIS WEEK Bishop WilliamFraser McDowell of the Methugist Episcopal Church ernment of the American people was | mittee that there are a number of sons indirect. He said that it ‘was so in-|of District of Columbia parents and direct as to be negligible. {men who were the husbands of Dis- We admit that the American people . trict of Columbia widows who remain only indirectly _control their National | in or near the trenches of a war which Government. - We nevertheless believe | was declared by this free people with- in_the system that we have. {out any representative from the Dis- That svstem contemplates the elec- | trict having opportunity to concur in tion_ by the people of only n!m{\nnu‘me decision to make war. of the persons who constitute the Gov- . ernment. The. people of the unncd1 An Internationalist Opponent. States elect only their representatives | 1t seems almost impossible to keep in the House and Senate and the our opponents close to the matter at resident and Vice President. A great|jssye. Mr. Demarest Lloyd, another deal of important govegnmental ma- | internationalist. who has been with us chinery which operates very directly | about two years, and whose lack of and practically to govern the people |Jocation with regard to occupation is officered by persons who are mot makes us doubtful whether he is really elected and who are not directly Te-|a permanent Washingtonian, sees in sponsible nor responsive to popular the grant of national representation contiol [to the District a “threat” (and I am Nevertheless. this is the American again using an opponent's words) “to system and we believe in it. If it is the dignity and orderly development said to be wrong, it is outside the scope | of the District of Columbia.” of the present discussion even to at-| If the participation by the people tempt to defend it. | i national elections and’ politics gen- i i . {erally in the American sense are un- e | Qignified, so undignified as to be un- | The representatives of the people desirable, Mr. Llovd is right about the | who are elected, and I refer now to | threat to the dignity of the National Senators and members of this House, Capital. His statement that it would are so elected by people who are di- | interfere with the orderly development vided for the purpose of expressing of the District of Columbia rests solely their choice by territorial lines. The | for its support upon the fact that he political units for the purpose of elec- | said it. We are not enlightened as to tion under our American system are | how this step which we consider to be not accomplished by dividing the peo- | a part of the orderly development of ple into classes, nor are they made the District of Columbia will interfere | along occupational lines. We do not | with anything that is good for the| believe in the Soviet system, which Nation's interest in the Capital. elects. as I understand, representativ Following a lead given him by a of different trades and occupations member of the committee, which does rather than representatives of all |not. I hope, represent any settled con- classes living within a certain terri- viction on the part of the member of torial limit. ! the committee, he stated that the con- Therefore, in every territorial sub- | trary system in force in the other great division which is a political unit under capitals of the world had proven less ou: system, we have people of all kinds. | desirable than our system. He said, in There are in each State undesirable | effect, that the government of France voters. Some of them are not useful in | had been interfered with by the self- assisting to elect desirable representa- | government of Paris. Whether the| tives because they are ignorant or irre- | speaker had in mind the disorders in sponsible: some because they are not | Paris during the French Revolution, or in sympathy with our institutions: and | some other incidents, we are not in- some because, though well educated |formed. It is a fact, of course. that and well circumstanced, they consider | Paris has a municipal council with au- the business of politics common and | thority over taxation and loans, and low and distasteful to them. | the natfon's control is asserted prin- ‘There is not a Representative on the judiciary committee who has not in his congressional district people who you or I might think were better with- out the vote, and people who, like some | of the persons who have appeared here to oppose us, do not value the vote, and | consider politics dirty and distasteful, a business in which one must mix with the rabble and give unwilling ac- quiescence to a theory of equality of men. Such supposedly superior peo- ple, who are in greater or less numbers in every congressional district, are the ! ones who stay away from the polls| because they think their vote will not| count anvhow, and then deplore the result. They are the people who think that one vote does not count, and the ones among them who hold such views to an extreme degree think that the vote or presence of one voting repre- sentative in Congress does not count. The Non-Voting Citizens. ‘We have such people in the District of Columbia. We are not proud of | cipally by the appointment of the | mayor and the official corresponding | to the superintendent of police. Also, | of course, in common with the practice | of all great nations excepting the| | United States, Paris has its proportion- ate representation in the national | government. |7 ANl that we are asking is our pro- portionate representation in the Na- tional Government. Local autonomy is not under discussion. Federal Power Not Affected. By no possible stretch of the imag- ination could the physical safety of the Federal Government or its power over its Capital be in the least impaired or affected by what we are proposing. Yet an apparently learned man, and | certainly a much traveled one, stood | before this committee and with the apparent encouragement of a member of the committee urged interference between Paris and the national gov- ernment of France as an argument against permitting the residents of them, but we have to admit that they | are here because this committee has had a few samples appear before it in the persons of our opponents. Such people who would not go to! the polls and do not go to the polls | in the congressional districts that al- | ready exist, of course, do not consider | it important that the only remaining | territory on continental United States | which is not divided into congressional | districts should be so divided and rep- | resented in Congress. They would be perfectly satisfled with a vigorous and splendid despotism, | and more or less unconsciously would | prefer it; provided only it did not re- sult in an increase in the tax rate, My point, gentlemen, is that the only | person who came before you authorized | to represent else than himself was not opposing us and our proposal, but was opposing the American system of gov- ernment, in which he does not thor- oughly belleve. No other interpretation can, in my wopinion, be put.on what he sald, and in order that you may know that I am not exaggerating or misrepresenting our opponent's argu- ment let me give you a direct quota- tion copled from the stenographic re ord of February 16. Our opponent said: “In a population as large as this, where government by suffrage is not direct, but representative, the voters are far from governing themselves. The vote merely serves to permit the | voters 1o have new rulers when dis- satisfied with the occupants. But as Congress rules the District, the presence | able the people of the District to l'"l'l'l‘l a change in congressional policy in District matters The amendment will | merely serve as a basis upon_which | {may be organized an irresponsible ma- | sent of the governed, and that taxation | chine rule such as disfigures 100 many | without representation is tyranny, yet, other large cities.” | At another phase, referring to an alleged small {& local legis | opponent satd They did not | they now.” T am inclined to admit that there are persons of the type of mind of thix opponent of ours who will noL vote s residents of the Distriet of Columbia, but such persons are here in no greater proportion than they are in the dis- icls which elect the representatives | from the balance of the United Btates. | Non-Voting Hinols Critle, i Whsle Admirsl Rogers, the repre- sentative of the Dupont Citiens' Asso- cistion, from whom 1 have been quot- Ing, urgued, s shove quoted, that our vole would be so ineffective as o be tile, his associate from the Dupoht eitizens, Mr. Lineburger, who turned out 1o be a citien of the State of Diinois and s potential voter there - {ana note that he did not claim e {10 have svailed himsel of that privi- lege ~an nternational lawyer and globe trotter sbout i take his eleventh trip around the world, with some pride, up- parently, in bis Chinese viewpoint die t his long residence in that eountry, teared, contrary o Admiral Rogers, that 3 our proposal were adopled, we would (1 wm using his words) “take over the Capital * 1 do ot for & moment question that citiwn of the United States, s us any citizen of the Districr, has 4 right U bave his views on this question considered by this committes 1 do resent, however, & man clalming L peuk for e Dupont Citiens' Assi- ciation of the Distriet of Columbla, and {doubitlens having wuthority from them, Leoming wtore this copmitiee pod {speaking Trom the viewpoint not caly {of sn outeider, but a hostile onte of {the Distiict of Colambia My Linebsiger bus w right o be- Heve wnd, unless this commities sees fit o expunge i from e tecord, o sy agwin I oguote the exart words) | Uhere wan ot w single resident of Washiongton who had sy sort of fam Uy pul v s b ure in the 18708, our vote then, nor will any wel) | the most time, Mr. Ayers, put into the | pretend allegiance to such canons of ote on an election 101 ot true of all of us, but it is true of Washington to elect members to the National House of Representatives and Senate. It seems to us that to state plainly such an argument is to answer it. ‘The only other example of a dis- enfranchised capital of an enfranchised nation is Canberra, Australia, which Is cited with approval by our upponents: and even that capital is in the situation in which this amendment would put us. There is no constitutional or other bar to the granting of the franchise to the future inhabitants of Canberr: There are as yet no permmnent i habitants. At present the government is retaining not only political do- minion, but also ownership of the land itself within the federal district. Ex- cept for these differences Canberra is comparable to Washington of 1801, If and when the city shall be built and there shall be in it a substantial number of permanent inhabitants, I| have every faith that a free people there will demand, as we demand here, participation in their government. And all that the proposed amendment will do will be to put us in the favorable position in which Canberra already is, that 1s, capable of being enfranchised by a simple legislative enactment. Answers Opponent Ayers. The speaker against us who occupied record of the last hearing without read- ing much materfal we have not read. But from what he sald to you, and what he has said in [)ro‘\‘)uufl hearings, are the: Flrst. We are Insine because we free government as that governments derive their just powers from the con- he says, we are most of us opposed o {local ‘self-government, His premise s do not advocate the transfer islative and taxing power In local matters to a local elected as- sembly, And why? Because 1 will not be 0 insincere, merely to get approval, as o advocate what T know we cannot get, and because, us citizen of the Nation, I am not willing that the Nation should surrender control of a capital which It established for the ex- purpose of having a place In which it should be supreme, As practi- cul Jdeallsts, we are advocating the a i plication of cardinal prineiples of free government to the extent, and no more, o which they nre practically applicable to this Natlon's Capital, We see no nconsistency, despite Mr. Aver's attack on our sincerity and conslstency, - making the people of the Capital a part of the people of the Natfon, and at the same Ume keeping the Cipital under the control of the (then) whole Ration Negro Domination Bo, Becondly. He holds up the bogey of negro domination. i this he s the concurrence of his Tory supporters, who s thoroughly distrust the vabhle, black and white. They do not agree with Lincoln, who is sald to have said that God must love the common people be= bie made 5o many of them, In Intng thelr terrifying plcture of w [Capital ruled by the mob, prineipally newrors, he and they biandly disregard the fact that the’ Natlon will still govern the Capital: shut thelr eyes 1o (e cold Tacts of the gradually dimin shing proportion of negroes here, e the fact that the whites outnumber il othier vaces 3 o 1 cand e Hguren Mr, Hersey put n the record indicate that those of votlng wge, nelther negro, nor Celestial, nov - anytibng but pure white, ure 16-plus [ier_ pent of the totaly; point o munleipnl elections of 1170, o which the city was subdivided Linio small districts for local eloetions oy a petty tervitorial Jeglslature, dis Lreginvd the fact that the definlifon of the qualifications of voters would ve- me, 1 of the | Was BUOLE | ks Wil Coukiess W m WDOle: MRS Wil {proof is on those who say its people 1132 EAST'S RAIL HEADS ‘DISCUSS MERGERS Loree Expected to Abandon Fifth System Idea at Conference Today. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, March 16.—Executives of the great Eastern railroads went into conference here today ostensibly to formulate plans for a new trunk line merger. L. F. Loree, head of the Dela- ware & Hudson, and sponsor of a fifth trunk line plan over which previous conferences are believed to have ended in disagreement, was present. The conference, closely guarded, was held in the private offices of W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania lines, who, with Elisha Lee, vice presi- dent, represented the Pennsylvania in- terests. O P. and M. J. Van Sweringen and G. H. Ingralls appeared for the Nickle Plate. Daniel Willard _and George Shriver represented the Balti- more & Ohio, Patrick Crowley the New York Central and John J. Bernet the Erie. The presence of Mr. Loree, concern- ing whose attendance there had been some doubt because of his illness, pro- vided foundation for the belief that some definite announcement of an agreement would be forthcoming, al- though it was expected not before aft- ternoon. While Mr. Loree controls the Wabash, key road of virtually any Eastern merger plan, reports were current he would abandon his proposal for a fifth trunk line system, thus enabling the executives to agree upon a plant suit- able for presentation to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Under such circumstances, it is believed, Mr. Loree would become chairman of the Nickel Plate. At noon the exccutives still were in closed session and no announcements vere forthcoming from the conference. It was expected they would adjourn for luncheon and resume their delibera- tions in the afternoon. —_—— conclude that negroes would dominate an_election on national issues for Representatives and Senators. We ask You to compare our opponent's word pictures with our cold statistics. which Ume and probably the limit of your patience forbid my repeating. An “Illogical Segment.” Thirdly. He says we are not such a segment of the American people as may logically become a unit for repre- sentation in the Senate and House. He compares us with dock yards and arsenals, because we happen to be dealt with in the same paragraph of the Constitution. The sites of such Federal structures are owned by the Federal Government. The very pro- vision of the Constitution which he cites refers to the purchase of title to such land. We, the people of the District, own our own homes here, and the purchase of the sites of our dwell- ings by our predecessors in title pro- vided funds for the building of the Nation's first buildings here. The population of no arsenal can be com- pared with the half million and future milifons of citizens here. Whether Mr. Ayers is right, and he belleves it would have been wiser to have kept title to all the land in the District, or whether, on the other hand, the fathers who founded the Federal City were right, does not now matter; the existing fact is that a real resident community exists here, and the people of it are but a fair, though above the average, cross- section of the Natfon at large. It is & territorial unit, neighbored by other territorial units, not all so populous, who are represented. The burden of should not be likewise represented. If the technical and legal argument is made that we are not a State, that is, not a unit for political purposes, we can best answer it by referring the committee to the Supreme Court, in Bank of Alexander vs. Dyer, 14 Peters, Nl?uMeémpoll(nn Railroad vs. D. C., . 8., 1; Geofrey vs. Riggs, U.' s, 258, £ BeERcE The Right of Suit. Convenlently here, though it is some- what of a digression, let me respond to a request of one of the committee | and cite the authorities on access by District. residents to the Federal courts, The case in which it was authorita- tively denied was Hepburn vs. Ellzey, 2 Cranch, 445, wherein the Supreme Court had before it the question whether plaintiffs who were residents of the District of Columbia could sue the defendant, a resident of Virginia, In the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Virginia under the act giving jurisdiction tn cases be- tween the citizens of different States. Chief Justice Marshall said: “But as the act of Congress ob- viously used the word ‘State’ in refer- ence to that term as used in the Con- stitution, it becomes necessary to in- quire whether Columbia s a State in the sense of that instrument, The re- sult of that examination fs the con- viction that the members of the Ameri- can Confederacy only are the States contemplated in the Constitution, ® * * It is true that as citizens of the United States and of that partic- ular district which is subject to the jurisdiction of Congress, it is extraor- dinary that the courts of the United States, which are open to allens, and to the citizens of every State in the Unlon, should be closed upon them, But this is a subject for legislative, not for judicial, consideration.” The present provision relating to Jurisdiction of Federal courts based upon diverse citizenship, is United States Code, Title 28, Chap. 2, Section 41 (1) (b) (), and Chap. 3, Section 71, Cases bearing on the constitutional Inabllity of Congress to delegate legis- lative authority over the District, which our amendment does not change, are: Roach vs. Van Riswick, McArthur & Mackey (D, C. Sup.), 171; Stouten- berg vs. Hennick, 120 U, 8, 141; Coughlin vs. D, C., 25 App. D, C,, 251, Action Urged. Finally, let me urge you to act, 1 am convinced that if a member of this committee would undertake to frame a logleal report against this proposs) (und such a report would, 1 hope, be A minority one if ever written), he would become a convert, Bacon sald “Writing maketh an exact man.” We espectfully submit that no exaet or accurate statement of the opposition can be made, Generalities may be in- dulged In. One may say: "Washington is well governed” But to state the in- consistency between good government In Washington und our proposl is more difficult. One may way: “The one for which the District was set apart must be preserved,” but to state whereln our proposal infringen that purpose 15 impossible. Ones may_sny: “We will not set up u State here,” but we do 1ot wsk the status of citizens of W Blate, except on nutional elections, One may say: “When these people came here they knew they would Lose thele vote'; but uside from the fac that this {5 not generally true, thin advance knowledge does not make a wrong system rlght Without understunding or giving el study 1o our proposul, ohe may oppose I, but §f you gentlenien set yourselves o the task of recommending to the House whether this proposal shall be approved or disupproved, we are con- fident that. the unconvinesd will find difculty I framing their opposition in words which will satisfy them, . Coechostovalda, with a population of 14,000,000, now hins six automoblle face SRR WY LA DAM BREAK LAD 10 FAULTY BASE Disaster That Took 206 Lives Blamed on Improper Foundation. By the Associated Press, SANTA PAULA, Calif., March 16.— With the known death toll standing at 206, several sets of investigators dug deeper into the avallable evidence to- day in an effort to unearth the cause of the St. Francis dam disaster. Although two coroners' juries found yesterday that the victims came tu their death by drowning as the result of the breaking of the dam, they did not attempt to fix the blame. From two offictal investigating sources, how- ever, came reports that the foundation upon which the great structure was built was faulty. The report of State Engineer Edward Hyatt, jr. that “had the dam had a sufficiently strong foundation this great tragedy never would have happened;” was echoed in a report by Ventura County Engincer Charles Petit. And on the heels of these reports Gov. C. C. Young telephoned B. B. Meek, head of the Department of Public Works at Sacramento, to select a group c‘;l competent engineers to examine the am. Hostility Denied. ‘The action, the governor said, was “not taken in a spirit of hostility toward any one.” He added that there were “three parties at interest—those afflicted by the disaster, the people of Los Angeles and the California public at large.” A Federal slant was given to another investigation of the disaster when El- wood Mead, director of the United States Reclamation Service, agreed to head a board of engineers to be selected from the meml hip of the American Society of Civil gineers. Forces of iron and steel—steam shov- els and tractors—today came to the ald of men in searching the path of the runaway water for the bodies of its victims. The call for the machines came yes- terday from the weary workers who de- clared they belicved all of the bodies on the surface of the flood area had been found. The last report showed the hodies of 206 of the dead recovered and the num- ber of missing persons at 196, a total of 402 as the possible death toll. Beaches to Be Searched. Searchers today also were ordered to sharpen their watch along the beacn. This was due to the belief that bodies carried to sea would rise on the third day and would be brought to th2 beach by the tides, Four bodies found at the mouth of the Santa Clara River yester day strengthened the belief that many were carried out to sea. A boat took up the patrol of the waters at the mouth nllflthc river, which runs into the Pa- cific. Leaders of the rescue work believe many more bodles will be found when huge piles of debris in the lower valley are torn apart. This is the job for the steam shovels and tractors. One of the tangled masses of brush, lumber and uproated trees covers 50 acres at an average depth of 20 feet. Machinery for the rescue work was rushed from Los Angeles and neighbor- ing cities, tractors and small power shovels being placed on trucks to speed them to the valley. Inquests into the deaths of the flood victims in Ventura County brought the same verdict—that the victims came to their death by drowning as a result of the breaking of the dam. The coroners’ Jurles were instructed that there as yet was unsufficient evidence upon which to inquire into the causes of the disaster. Scores Location of Dam. Ventura County Englneer Petit issued his statement on conditions at the St. Francis dam after he visited it yes- terday, accompanied by the county supervisors, “It is my opinion that dam never should have been constructed at this point,” he said. “The rock all seems to be largely of decomposed or altered granite, which crumbles when subjected to water pressure. 1 doubt if a firmer bedrock would have been encountered even at lower levels, even if it had been souht.” A group of geologists named by the Los Angeles bureau of water and power inspected the site of the broken dam, but refused to make public any state- ment of its findings. Typhold vaceination of refugees and workers in the flood district was begun here yesterday, and nearly 500 were treated. J. Arthur Jeffers, assistant national director of the Red Cross, who is in charge of the Western division, an- nounced that an appeal for funds with which to rehabilitale the victims of the flood would be made. The amount re- quired, he estimated, would run into several hundred thousand dollars. 500 Hit by Disaster. “There are approximately 500 persons in the valley whose homes have been seriously damaged or entirely wiped out,” he sald. “The loss in homes alone will run around $750,000. The number of survivors who will need assistance probably will be 2,500." Announcement was made by Adjt. Gen. R. E. Mittelstaedt that the State Natlonal Guard would not be called out for patrol duty in the flood area unless unexpected developments oceur, “I have been in communication with authorities in several cities in the flood zone and they all tell me that there will apparently be no necessity for call- ing out the militia,” sald Mittelstaedt, RED CROSS GIVES AID. Experienced Rellef Workers Sent to Scene of California Disaster, ‘The American Red Cross natlonal headquarters announced today that six experlenced disaster relief workers, who huve been engaged in the Red Cross work in the Mississippl Valley follow- ing the flood, started toduy from St Louls for Callifornia to ald in the Red Cross work In the area devastated by the flood following the St Francis dam break J. Arthur Jeffers, manager of the Pa- cific branch of the Red Cross, on long-~ distance telephone reported o the na- tional headquarters that he had sent Paul Dettmer, & trained disaster reltef worker, who had just returned from the Mirsissippl Valley, into the fleld with elght other experlenced workers from the national headquarters staff to ald J, W, Richardson, assistant divector of disaster rellef. Jeffers today was engaged In making a personal survey of the aren affected by the rush of the waters from the dam. Reports that a typhotd epidemio might follow the flood were discounted in ad- vioes recelved here from the area, ‘The State health department sent an opi~ demiologist to the devastated aren, who reported the water supply to be good, With no fmmediate cause for alarm on aeeount of sanitary conditions, oMelals notified K Cross headquarters, However, the Red Oross Iy standing by, In onse there should be an outhrenk of Miness, and today an appeal was made (o the Red Oross nursing service committee of the Los Angelos Chapter nish & number of graduate nurses to ald In glving typhold fnoculations, which started yesterday at (he seves refugee atations a canteens maln- talned by the Red Oross, . The Ohlness tree of Allanthus, grew in North areds of Lhousands of i vl alowa by heaven, the pilots. Lower, left to right: H. . Bailey and Corp. H. C. Chappelle, mechanics. 'BORAH OFFERED AID' IN PAYING SINCLAIR Senator Goff Wires Willing« ness to Contribute to Fund. | 1 | | | i ! i Senator Goff of West Virginia today | telegraphed Senator Borah of Idaho his willingness to contribute 81000 or $5.000, if necessary, to help pay back the Harry F. Sinc $160.000 cone tribution to 1ift the deficit of the Re publican party in 1923. Senator Goff Is in Atlanta, gone South because of ill healt offer to the Idaho Senator came he learned that Senator Borah | ready to receive contributions to ree iturn to Sinclair of Teapot Dom he contribution to the Re; | cause which has created such ssion in recent days. Text of Teiegeam. The Goff telegram follow “Will gladly be one of 160 tribute $1,000, 5,000, to make tn co to g b3 t e scious of the of his part makes haste to t donor.” The first contrib e fund was reced morning, wh repudiates a0 n back to its orig ion of $1 toward b | telephone promise to haIp raise the fun to pay the money back 1 ator Borah eid not_giv the man who_ had telephon Although the Idaho S eriticize any present | his formal state | possible presidential candidate this year. Has Received §5.000. with _{friends COOLIDGE HOLDS PORTO RICO UNFIT FOR AUTONOMY NOW Has Enjoyed More Advantage Than Any| Territory, He Says ment Over 30-Year Pgriod. In disapproving of the agitation in| consuliing statement last night said. concluded to make an effort to raise this money. I have already re- ceived some contributions voluntarily of more. s not seem to me that it is a matter about which we can delay ai tion. To hesitate is almost as bad 2s to not act at all. Not over a.dozen men perhaps knew of this transaction until recently. but it is now known and it is up to the party to repudiate the whole business and do so without deley. “T shall appeal, therefore, to Repu Iicans over the country to come forward and lift this obligation of shame. The money will be deposited in the Rigzs National Bank. at Washington, D. C., as fast as received.” Borah said that since his appeal to in Citing Improve- my part, to discourage any reasonable Porto Rico for complete self-govern- | aspiration of the people of Porto Rico. ment and internal independence, Presi- | The island has so improved and its dent Coolidge contends that no terri-| people have so progressed in the last tory in the world has received surhluncranon as to justify high hopes for considerate treatment or greater ad-| the future, but it certainly is not un- vantages as has that island during the : reasonable to ask that those who speak 30 {enrsrlthhm:’ m snn insular pos- | for Porto Rico limit their petitions 'fl session of the Uni tates. | those things which may be grantes It 1s his opinion that the pleas for | without a denial of such hope. Nor is internal independence are b?.wg on a| it unreasonable to suggest that the complete misunderstanding of the con ople of Porto Rico, who are a part! crete facts and that the- alleged eco- | of the people of the United States, | nomic flls in the island are due to the | will progress with the people of the! people themselves and not because of | United States rather than be isolated | United States supervision. | from the source from which they have | | Chairman Butler had gone out, con- tributions and promises of more than $5.000 had been sent to him. He de- clined to make public the names of the donors and explained that when the Republican committee saw fit to g0 ahead with a similar plan he would gladly give it up. | INDBERGH PARTY The President expressed himself in | a letter to Horace M. Towner, Governor of Porto Rico. In response to a resolu- | tion adopted by the Porto Rican Legis- lature, and to a cablegram signed by | the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, appealing for freedom to devise means of recovering from whst is termed the ¥'grave eco- nomical situation” existing there. Hos More Aptonomy. According to Mr. Coolidge’s point of view, the Porto Rican government ex- ercises a greater degree of sovereignty over its own internal affairs than does the government of any territory or State of the United States. Moreover, the President pointed out that the peo- ple of the island enjoy liberty and the | protection of law and at the same time | they, and the island government, are | recelving material nssistance through | their association with the continental | United States. He reminded the people of the island that they are citizens of the United States with all the rights and privileges of other United States | citizens, and that these privileges are | those which were invoked “when de- | claring for independence at the mem- | orable convention at Philadelphia.” The President followed up this re- minder with a recital of the conditions and tendencfes found by the Uniced States in Porto Rico 30 years ago and compared them with the situation in that island toda He recalled the pov- erty, misery, discase and pitiable eco- nomic conditions that prevailed when the island became a ‘possession of the United States and then pointed to the wonderful improvement that has been brought about since. He sald also in this connection that before Americay occupation the Porto Rican people ha received practically no training in self- government or the free exercise of the franchise. Points to Progress. “I have set down,” he wrote, “a few scattered facts, which, however, suM clently ‘show the consequence of Porto Rico's unfon with the United States. We found the people of Porto Rico poor and distressed, without hope for the future, ignorant, erty stricken and diseased, not knowing what constituted | a free and democratic government and without the experience of having par- ticipated in any government. We have | progressed fn the relief of poverty and distress, in the eradication of disease and have attempted, with some success, to inculeate in the inhabitants the ba: fdeas of a free democratie governme We have now In Porto Rico a govern ment in which the participation by Americans from the United States s indeed small. We have given to the Porto Rican practically every vight und privilege which we permitted ourselves to exerclse. We have now progressed to the point where discouragement s replnced by hope: and while only 30| years ago one was indeed an optimist 1o see anything promising in Porto Rico, todny one 18 indeed n pessimist who can see any reasonable human am- bitlon beyond the horleon of ity people, “It 15 not desired to leave the impres- alon that all progress fn Porto Rico was due (o continental Americans. Without the co-operation and assistance of Porto Ricans progress would indeed have been negligible, but the co-operation is I ly due to the encouragement of American nxalstans American methods and an ncroase I (he reward of efforts made. here has been & natural hesitation 10 veenll and dwell upon the unfortu- nate condition of Porto Rico in the past. There 15 & feeling, however, that he United States 15 entitled to o good name fn its deallng with Porto Rico and to protect itselt from any vefle ton on Ms good name. Perhaps no territory in the world has recetved such constderate treatment fn the past 30 yeurs us has Porto Rico, and perhaps nowhere el has progress been 30 marked and so apparent as tn Porto Rico, We ave certalnly entitled to » large part of the eredit for this stiu- atlon,” In concluston the Prestdent gave a veview in some little detall of just what has been done for Porto Rico in a material way, prineipally tn the mat- ter of sohools and roads, taxes, refund- fng of tarilt dutlies and the develop- ! mother sald she had a vision in which received practically their only hope of | progress.” FLIES TO NEW YORK Colonel -Is Accomparied by Four Guests on Hop - _ From Capital. HOPE FOR SAFETY OF BRITISH FLYERS NOW HELD REMOTE | _(Continued _from First Pa; It was arranged that he receive a sal- ary of 100 pounds a month and should 80 to America to buy a machine. “A few weeks ago there was a little dispute, the naval officer who acted as Elsie’s organizer wishing to accompany the pair, but he eventually withdrew automobile for New York City. Apart from the necessity of secrecy > o due to possible family intervention, a | The Colonel, accompanied by Maj. second reason for secrecy also devel- | Thomas G. Lanphier, J. T. Trippe. head oped. The friend was quoted as say- |of the Pan-American Airways, and Co! ing, “The agent in America with whom | Henry C. Breckinridge, his counsel, flew negotiations were conducted decided | from Washington and en route made ¢ that, from a publicity point of view, 1t fon ot Baltim would be better to spring a surprise | m. i nl , upon the public and this was agreed | The colonel taxied his plane up t* upon, although not by Elsie. who was | the entrance to its hangar, where tw: ok Conearne T S Chee T | friends waited in an automobile. ! % | turned the plane over to the mechanict Realized Great Risk. | and with his campanions entered thy ‘The Express also quoted an expert :mxmmnb e and drove away before ans fator friend of Capt. Hinchliffe, who | Other persons at the field were aware was aware of the plans, as declaring the | °f his arrival 4 machine and instruments were perfect | Before leaving Washington he sent in every respect and not a single thing | ons to the members of both the was overlooked. Hinchliffe, however, | and the Senate to go far rides was stated to have realized the risk|¥ih him March 20, 21 and of fce or snow forcing the machine | N€ Plans to make a number of 2 down. “That is the one snag.’ he sald, “and there is no data available about it. I shall just have to plod on.” ‘The father and mother of Capt. Hinchliffe, in Liverpool, are buoyed up in their hopes for his safety by n dream Brooding over her son’s flight, the By the Associated Press, CURTISS FIELD, N. Y., March 16.— Col. Charles A. Lindbergh landed here last night and left immediately in sn par by M. Thon | commander of the fi | Selfridge Field. Mich.: J. T. New Yor VS, 3 attorney, and Col Baltimore aeron ing Fisld yest after 3 o'clock he flew low over the ocean. A huge white cloud—interpreted as & good | omen—confronted him and he went to the left, the direction which the'cloud | monoplane. seemed to indicate, Prior to the dej re, Col The father dreamed that his son | William P MacCramns i oo reached Ameriea I A woman as a | Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics companion Mr. Trippe and William B. Mavo, chie? The mother remarked that it was|engineer of the Ford Motor Co strange that her son began his fight on | a brief visit on Postmaster General New the thirteenth | which was deseribed as being in the na “All his ltfe” she said, “he had|ture of an informal conference on ¢ avolded the number 13." | ture afr transportation in Latin Amer i [ can countries. Mr. Trippe's MOTHER NOT TOLD. | operatars. of & mallpacee : | service between Key W Lady Incheape Kept fn Tgnorance of [NO I8 engaged in a survo | Pose oate \ X Vest to Py Daughter's Flight Over Sea. | B OOk, EiRerehi e e AIRO, March 16 (9 Lady Inch-|ME {0 glve the department the ben not know yet that her daugh- | ©f DS experiences and observations re- the Hon, Disle Mackay, 18 missing | SWUUE {rom his recent Latin American on a transatlantic fight in the plane | 1OUY Endeavour. News of the exploit and [ Inasmuch as the departm its apparently tragle ending fs being | V¢! contemplating the grant of an kept from her because of her indiffer [ #F mail contract (o Latin America ent health. Lovd and Lady Incheape [ PrICIpally because of the lack of ap are staying at Heloup, near Caivo. propriations, nothing leading towar Lord Incheape, while iting lmm-,"‘"‘“"“-““ action with respect to & by hour for nes alr mail route to the Canal was db has been obliged to |3 Mt mamntain & courageous frant befare his | W It was asserted At about the same time Cul wife despite his anxiety and distress. | When news leaked out last week that | his daughter contemplated taking part | I Capt Walter Hinchlifte's fiight, Lord Incheape made & most urgont appeal to her by telegraph to vefrain (\nn\}\“‘\“:;l“‘} After undergoing te such & perflous undertaking. Ho was (8 1‘-“{”“‘1 shock which profoundly affected when he h-mnn\‘::“‘:‘n‘:,“‘"“"‘l‘&;‘(“’x";"‘\ ~;‘>‘":“‘,fi“‘;;fl . that his daughter had actually started | Pittsburgh, financial backer of the Wi [dertaking,” and both chocked out at | the d ce House last night . e <L They left no furwarding Add Steawship Fassengers Tell of Snow | it was thought at the hospital Encountered in Midatlantie, !“"“,“l'“‘*: '~‘n“"‘;l“"’~'" p A i 8 s % ; oL Lindbergh will return to this CHERBOURQ, Fran Mar 16 fclty Tuesday morning and_will spend () Passongers areving aboard (e far least thive davs here. O ‘Tuesday steamship M « 'xl\i( Walter afterncon in a Ryan brow paid of & pro- nt I8 not Ling ter . inventor of & t the former has been reported identified. tett Emergency e today sald that 1] and Wednesday afternoans he will eany Hinehlitte and the Hon | ihose Senatars and Reprosentatives Elsls Mackay gob as far as midatantio [ wha respond (o his vitation, extended on thelr transatlantie attempt, ey | vesterday, to make fights with i must have run intoe a snowstorm over the oity, and the entire day of They sald that the weather was ex- 5 tremely bad on ‘Tuesday, the day of | Mareh 23 lkewise will be so devoted. (he sacret hop-oft of the Endeavour, . < Pilsudski Asks More Power Three Hurt in $150,000 Five, WARSAW, Mareh 18 (- Premier INDIANAPOLIS, Mareh 16 (4 | PlsudskE, conferving with the governs ive of undeterimined origin last night mental bloo of the new Died Weiwmws oansed a loss of $130.000 o the builds ment of agrieulture and Industries and commeroe Thera 18 no dlsposition In America* AN sertalaly ek on | iwsd by e TN day night, declared he wishod to change g and stoek of the Bethard Wall [ the canstitution o incvease the presis Paper Oo, In o the downtown district fdent's powers by enghling him o de- hove, Thiee fromen were alightly s olde ceviain matters of policy indes M‘h-n-‘.—-\w- . \ ’