Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1928, Page 2

NO STATE TAX - OURTAX RATE 1S HIGH IN SCALE Jf Interest Payments Are| Deducted Our Tax Rate Is Relatively Still Higher. NO INCREASE OF OUR PRESENT TAX RATE Fditarial Correspondence of The Stan, BY THEODORE W. NOYE: g under protest the tax rate as the measure of comparative tax bur- we must make a s s of read- s of tax rates in arder that any &pproach to accuracy and fairness mav be attained in comparing the actual tax irdens of Washington with those of citie: In nominal total tax rate and in tax ted on the 100 per cent basi nsideration of the legal only one city in the list of 36 that were com- pared in our statistical tabies had @& smaller rate than Washington, When admitted divergences from full assessment valuation are considered and the reported relation of assessed to true value is applied, Washington at the $17 tax rate (National Muniogal Review) exceeds in rate 25 cities and is less than n. The' second readjustment deducts from all the tax rates the percentage represented by interest payments on in- debtedness, These interest payments represent heavy borrowing by cities be- !lnn-. during and after the war period. benefiting the cities In varying degrees | in permanent public improvements. Washington was not permitted to se~ cure any permanent public improve- | ments in this way through bond issues. | Sinte Washington does not enjoy the | public improvements corresponding to| {those which benefit these other citfes | and are paid for in interest, etc, the| | percentage of tax rate representing i~ | |terest should be subtracted from the | tax rates of other cities before fair com- | partsons can be made with the tax rate | | of Washington | When interest payments are thus de- | ducted, Washington at the 1688 (Na- | tional Municipal Review) tax rate ex- | ceeds the rates of 29 cities and is lower | than 7 cities. | The third readjustment deducts from | | the total tax rate (city, county. school | | district, State, etc.) the fraction of the | total rate which represents State taxes. On the basis of the 17 tax rate Wash- | ington exceeds 29 citics and is exceeded | by . The final readjustment, made in mr; following table, combines the previ- ous readjustments and deducts from the | total readjusted tax rate, less State tax rate, the percentage of tax rate | which represents interest payments. | In the resulting comparison Wash- Not mglon's tax rate at 16.88 exceeds, NOL@ ( those of 33 cities and is exceeded by 3. | The Iroquois Hotel, at Atlantic City, w! and eight other POLAND TOACGEPT .S TREATYPLI Favoring Arbitration Pact to Be Sent Here This Week. BY JOHN GUNTHER. Cable to The Star and € Newe, Copyright, 108 s36 1 WARSAW, April 16—The Polish note {accepting the American suggestion for !a treaty of arbitration and conciliation between Poland and the United States will be sent to Washington this week, when Foreign Minister Zalewski returns from Italy. The treaty, based on the recent Franco-American treaty, presents no difficulties, especially since Poland is eager to sign and get in on the ground floor of any American pact proposals. Thus Polish opinion, which at first was skeptical, now is favorable to Secretary Kellogg's war outlawry suggestion. Negotidtions Watched. ‘The. Polish forejgn office is watching with closest attention the negotiations between Washington and the capitals of the other great powers and hopes these negotiations will be extended soon to Warsaw. Poland could not give un- qualified acceptance to the outlawry scheme any more than can France, but aso Daily Poland is certain’to chime in with her | When State taxes alone are sub-|the State tax rate the percentage of tracted the resulis shown forth in the | rate representing interest is subtract- rpomdeolumno!melbmtubhmsed“u.l of e tax den At the 17 tax rate of the Municipal | imposed upon the Washington tax- Review, Washington cxceeds in nt!nly;rmo‘(. l:::y is n;rlnl;e:n ‘emm i resd) 3 i 29 of the 36 cities with which it | sumictpal mm‘; ot d;fl"l‘;l o~ .exceeded . The cities which, | Washington, our ‘city’s readjusted rate ien State to. rate s subtracied, It |3 1083, Which exceeds the renducied exceeds, include Cleveland, Cincinnati, |rates of 33 out of the 36 cities with 10 out of 12 of the Ohio cities, all| which it is compared. and is exceeded but 1 of the 7 vmx:l.ldlt‘?&m‘{:’l‘fiimb %Sl‘ lmlh Beaumort, Tex., lnd_ g Richmond: § out o e: Lima. . ¥ :’r‘:e- inclue Antonio, Municipal Re- ‘Houston « Worth, Pro T ’omy Targe city i the st |\ hich exoreds W s 17, | cities not included in the' table of low- When in sddition to deduction of tax rate—high assessment cities. by Prrcentage e opresented 13 nterest. STotal tax rate, Total tax, Diees State. ) 30 i z80 Washington L Ci.lll’! American cit large clpes | Washington 3 i xud;usi; mwlvw:m assessment is compari tax rate (1688) exceeding that of| ‘as| 's - ::dmcmmu qu'n,' Cleveland (14.54) | fively on such a h standard in rela- snd San Prancisco us.flu-wlfilfl.fl tion to true value s tively the same as that of Detroit (16.95) | low nominal tax rate is and in Jess somewnat than those of B 1ouls | yview of the peculiar disabilities under 11726). Les Angeles (17,99), Indian- which it labors its tax rate of $17 per epolis (18.32) and Minneapolis (1888). (housand is high emough and its com- te.— Our Tax Rate Should Be Low. | Mratize fax burden’ k' ndoquate—) Washington's equitable tax burdeny E. gt s S shouid be among the lowest per capitd e 2, Y ot | R. M. KAUFF reial Washington, witl he | il ON CORCORAN BOARD ] smali taxpayers in Government em-!| Art Gallery Trustees Report hrgei loy constiuting. the city's financial | bone, is poorer in taxable resources | Increase in Visitors—Two Gifts Are Accepted. approximating .. read: Note how closely together the re tion and gen- justed tax rates of these zun We have Washington’ than the average American city of its ! gize and is jess able Lo bear the same tax burden No other city has so large a stage of property exempt from #s the National Capital, with a | rge fraction of the city’s realty | o the tax Mst by the United | nd within that exempted frac-| city's only great industrial factories. ] exemption of taxable valu burden weigh the b taxpaying fraction of the No other city, perhaps, has 80 large & percentage of non-taxpeying ents, who fi in the census but | in the tax a5 Washington, which, from its nature as the Na- s City, s unstable The disa- 1al end po- al residerice W cause those n 18 boundaries Lo secure or retain legal residence elewnere and 10 Seep off ihe city's tax list. Thus the BOnAaYDEY dlation, which pite tax levy b contribus and the tax- nimum, with the won. How could Phy At 4 meeting of the board of trustees | of the Corcoran Gallery of Art this morning & large increase in the attend- ance of vidllors was reported, two gifts w the gallery were formally accepted &nd a vacancy on the board was filled by the election of R, M. Kauffmann, Jit- erary editor of The Btar, Mr. Kauff- mann succeeds his father. the late the comparatively population : industr tather, the late Bamuel Kauffmann, voth of whom served as trustees of the gallery, Bamuel M Kauffmann was president of the institution for many | | yeurs ¥rom March 10, when the W, A. Clark collection was opened o the public, o April 10, the number of visitors o the gullery exceeded 37,000, For the cor- responding period of last year the at- wndance was slightly more than 12,000, 50 that the incresse was approximately 25000, “The authorities atiribute this v tie Interest in the Clark collection A bronze statie of the lale Benator WA Clark by Mrs, Sally James Farn- Lam was eecepted. 1L was donated by Mrs. Marius de Brabant, ‘The hoard wlsy accepted a painting, entitled “Bre- dun on the Avon,” by Aifred Parsons, wated by Charles C Glover, president the bosrd MAN OVERCOME AT FIRE SUCCUMBS IN HOSPITAL Colored Butler Felled by Smoke During Bleze in Basement of Kerns Hotel, Overcome by smoke n & fire In the Kerns Molel, 1012 G sireet, Baturda morning, James Jefiyies, b4 years old, lored butler, dled today in BEmergency Hospital. Bobert Downs, 35, 1220 G street cuvered Jefirien 15 suld W have basement W sttempt o extngulsh L ot get, end whet the laxpeayers of blage, but was overcome by smoke wnd other cities do get. For exemple, no | wes unsble o make his way 1o safely Blale Lax here, since no Slate benefits | He wis taken out by firemen. 3¢ 8 generally conceded Uit the Wash. More than & score of prominent wo- wgtonian's equiteble per copdg. tax men here to attend the . A R. cons purden ghould he less than tha! e | vention. were carried down Jadders pns Of the pyerege ndust el #aelp) . cogn pe of Milwaukee s arpayers, the Hacturing owners plants were ouitted from v i one-half of the Clow of the were exempt from Gxation &nd if xiraordinarily Jarge percent- uin v for olber ressuis spilal’s Pecutiar Disabiiities, wiceded B e tax burdens of by wll ressonsble meny factore wiien found here e equitable Am repres ond e hurae: PumiE Tepres e ellminated Wing hese factors may since iLe government by Congress, under netionsl sefeguards prevepis grafl and renders unneces- fary nd unfelr sny compulsory local Wx coptnibation Wwomeel expenses of | Lnds Characier On genersl principies the wonlen's Lax burden, whether figured on Lex rale or per capile tex should fclude payments tor wiel he does Wisshilig it - oy Bagmen. Nons Wwae ajured, | strument between Poland and Rudolph Kauffmann, and his grand- | was Blao gvercome, but bas re- | one o the | signature if France, Germany and the posing the so-called incompatibilities between the outlawry scheme and Euro- pean commitments under the League of Nations. Obviously, in view of Poland's deli- cate frontiers, any proposal wherein Germany bound herself against aggres- sion would be accepted with alacrity here. This also accounts for the pre« liminary Polish skepticism. Secrctary Kellogg's scheme looked too easy. - Trade Agreement Planned. Meanwhile negotiatigns are going Qn in Washington for a thisd sort o! ine the United States—namely, & trade and consular agreement. Only an extradi- tion treaty now is in force between the two countries, The Poles are anxious for a formal commercial accord. No discussion of principle is necessary, but first minor technical differences must be adjusted. i Two American bankers, A. A. Tilney | and Willlam Lippincott, arrived in War- saw over the week end to discuss with Charles 8. Dewey, financial adviser of the Polish governmént, and Polish bankers problems regarding the future financial policy of Poland. Negotialions are expected to begin for an $80,000,000 | raflroad Joan, which is the next portion of the huge amount of American capital Mr. Dewey hopes to attract to Warsaw ‘The bankers also plan strict -budgeting | of Poland’s future borrowings, - ELUSIVE DRY AGENT GIVEN UP TO POLICE. Man Shielded by U. 8. Authorities for Three Weeks From Chi- cago Warrant Servers. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, April 16.—Myron M. Cafs | fey, prohibition agent, who has been shielded by Pederal authorities for three Municipal Court bailiff, was surrendered to police today Beatty was shot durlng a raid by prohibition agents on the and the affair resulted In a clash be- tween local and Federal authorities, Demands of the police for his sur- render were ignored and for the last two days Caffey ate and slept in the Federal Bullding, city oficials being warned he could not be arrested there, A constant vigll was maintained out- side the bullding, however, to see that the agent did not leave It was decided today o vigil by surrendering Caffey, was turned over 1o Capl Bchoemaker. The prohibition agent wis placed In w cell, preparatory to # formal charge of assault with intent 110 kil being placed agatnst him In the meanwhile John E. Northup, assistant United States district attor- ney, ook action to obtain a writ of habeas corpus to transfer the case 1o Federal Jurisdiction ‘The object of the Federal men In | keeping the probibition sgent from the {police for w time, they said, was to | prevent ny mistreatment, When po- lice ngreed not was turned over Federal Judge granted { with wirit of habean corpus, which ors | dered police 1o bring Caffey before the court immediately TUNE IN ON Btation WRC, when Washingt week-day games out of town, the he end and o them James . Wilkerson | i { 4 | Philudelphin G deseriptions by ai | other great powers find a formula com- | | b | ovations. Police detatls covered the ci weeks after shooting Willlam Beatty, a | West Side | Willlam | to munhundle him he | Horthup's request for & forths| Get the Base Edition of The Star and you will have every detall of the Natlonals' contests, | | hich was burned. One man was killed persons injured. WORKER INSURANCE FORD.C. FAVORED House Suhcommittee Orders Favorable Report on Blaine- Underhill Bill. The Underhill subcommittee on | banking and insurance of the House| riet committee today ordered a fa- vorable report on the Blaine-Underhill bill setting up compulsory industrial in- | surance for employes in the National | Capital under the provisions of the | longshoremen's act with administration in the Pederal Compensation Commis- sion. This is a so-called compromise between ihe Fitzgerald workmen's com- | pensation bill and the Underhill work- {men's compensation “bill. which had been in deadlock in Congress for sev- eral years, Representative Jenkins.of Ohio voted | against the subcommittee reporting this | measure ‘favorably, contending that in | mame only does it carry out the orig- inal Mtent of the legislation designec to the interests of employes. He de- clared himself emphatically in favor o: | the Fitzgerald bill. and announced his intention of continuing his oppositior before the full committee, where, if the new compromise bill is reported, he wil' reserve the right to file a minority re- | port. Representative Lampert, Republican, of Wisconsin, said Mr. Jenkins was ab- | solutely right, but that he was joining | the effort to get the bill reported from | subcommittee in order to get it before the full committee. Representative Hammer, Democrat, of North Carolina, also served notice that he might join | With Mr. Jenkins in a minority report | after the Blaine-Underhill bill has been | brought before the full committee. | W. C. Husting, representing the Amer- | |ican Federation of Labor, and Prank | | Coleman, representing the Central Labor Union. said they favored the Fitzgerald bill, but were accepting the Blaine-Underhill bill as the bes! lrnmlu that could ime. NEARLY 30000 00T | t com- | k, be cffected at this | Ten Per Cent Wage Cut! Causes New Bedford Workers to Quit. By the Associated Press, NEW BEDFORD, Mass. April ~Unlon leaders claimed a 100 per cent effective strike this morning when New | Bedford textiie operatives began their | fight against a 10 per cent wage cut. Approximately 30,000 operatives are in- volved, Informal picketing by employes of the | 27 mills today affected by the strike Was' the plan of the morning. Loom fixers who went into the mills and rought out their tools were centers of | but there were ported. A full shift of non-union weavers | :«nm Teported at work at the Pemaguid | Only two big mills, the Beacoy the Dartmouth, were .,muu:?"m:flg without & wage cut. Twenty-six cotton mills and two small silk mills are tar- | gets of the operatives' protest. As this city is primamrily dependent { upon its mills the prospect ahead after months upon months of general de- pression, 15 fraught with serious conse- quences to the whole city. As evidence of this, the week end has seen an- | nouncements of radical curtaffment in operation of the city government. Fm- ployes of the city treasurer are to each have u month off with no pay. The board of health today announced sus- pension of dental clinics in the public schools The wage cut announced by the mills last Monday as effective today, was ex- ‘Mulnrd as necessary to keep the plants running in the face of competition. It follows speeding up of machinery, many pay ndjustments and long discussion of seps necessary to revive the industry Manufacturing opinfon has not been unanimous that lower wages would cor- rect the depression here, and 80 the re. duction notices eame ax something of n surprise, The local action, however, follows cuts in other places which be- gan in Lowell last December, . Veterans Invite Coolidge. President Coolidge has taken under advisement an invitation to attend the wnnual convention of the Disabled Ameriean Veterans of the World War 1o be held In Denver June 23-30. The nvitation was extended by W. T, Hens i, department commander of the sabled Veterans, who wis aceoms panied to the White House today by Benators Phipps and Waterman THE RADIO on's base ball team 18 playing and then Ball no disturbances r | | | | Final es Start 3 PM, The Star's base ball experts are furnishing you graphio ', wire and press, | zet out. INTEXTILE STRIKE : {done and APRIL N DEATHS CAUSE BY THREE BLAZES 16 Injured as Fires Occur in Atlantic City, Altoona and Winnipeg. Ry the Associated Press, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., April 16— An unidentified man other men and two women were serious- {1y injured today when fire destroyed the Iroquols Hotel at South Carolina . nue and the Boardwalk. Ninety-efght persons were iiding. ‘The injured included Celia Boyland of Jersey City, who was believed 1o have ractured her spine in a leap from the third floor into a firemen’s net. Discovered shortly before 7 o'clock, the flames spread quickly to the upper floors of the hotel. The home of the late Mayor Bador on Ocean avenue was among the adjoining steuctures damaged. in 13 Die in Pennsylvania Blaze. ALTOONA, Pa., April 16 P) —Thir teen persons were burned to death at Blair Four, 20 miles north of here, early today, when fire destroyed the home of Embro Krepachalk. The dead included a mother, her six children, another daughter who was just marricd and five men. They had gathered for a wedding in the home of Krepachalk, a quarryman. The bride- groom was also among the dead. The cause of the fire was not determined. The house, a two-story frame, burned rapidly, the only one to escape being Krepachalk, head of the family, who was on the first floor. The others, trapped on the second floor, were en- guifed in the flames before they could All the bodies, burned badly were Tesovered Six Dead, Fight Injured. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, April 16 (/. — Six persons were dead, eight were seriously injured, and one person was missing following a fire which swept the Casa Loma, a five-story apartment and business block here, Saturday. Among the more seriously was Fire Chief David Yeddeau. NOBILE'S DIRIGIBLE. REACHES SEDDIN ON POLAR EXPEDITION (Continued from First Page.) and local governments weicomed him, and tonight there will be a banquet in his honor.at the city hall. The expedition started from Milan, Italy, at 1:55 a.m., Sunday, against the advice of German weather observers and some 13 hours later was forced to buck head winds after passing Brunn, Czecho-~ slovakia. Later the dirigible was caught in a serles of violent electrical storms and for a time the navigators lost their bearings. Col. Fier, air attache of the Italian embassy in Berlin, who made a hurried trip here to meet the Italla, sald he had wired Gen. Nobile that the weather was unfavorable throughout Germany and it was inadvisable to start. He later received a laconic reply reading “Weather Fine in Italy.” “Weather fine in Italy today, Will be equally 80 in Germany tomorrow (Sun- day). I am starting. Comdr. Monico, the naval attache, who was also surprised that the general had ventured forth in the face of such unfavorable weather predictions. said “It's just like Him for he has infinite confidence his ship can ride any kind of weather.” . Heading northward from Brunn over lesia, the Italla bucked head winds. At 8 p.m. she was sighted over Glelwitz some 300 miles from her destination, | which Gen. Nobile had hoped to reach by that hour. Gen. Nobile sent a wireless message to Lindenberg Observatory, near Berlin, asking whether he had better make an intermediate landing or return to Milan and await better weather, Sends Out Rocket Signal. He was advised to try to cross over | the River Oder as metsorlogical condi- tions were more favorable. This was three hours after having passed Glelwitz, the Italia reappeared there. The airship sent out a rocket as a signal It was assumed that Gen Nobile intended to land and preparations were made at Gleiwitz Fleld to recelve the craft. The Italla maneuvered over the field for hall an hour. Then Gen. Nobile signalled he had found his bearings and would con- tinue his flight Two hours and a half later the Italia was over Breslau, 70 miles from Gleiwitz. Her speed was approaching 30 miles an hour During their stay here the Itallans will be guests of the German govern- ment. The expedition will pay only for supplies which they will carry inte the North when the Italia sels out { for Kings Bay, Spitabergen, where the | provincial Afr vessel Citta df Milano a4 moblle base. Hangar Overhauled. The hangar at Seddin was complete- ly overhauled at the expense of the German government. A supply of hy- drogen gas and benzinw has been in- stalled for the use of the dirigible. The fiying harbor at Seddin was an im- portant military center during the World War, serving as the chief base of German airship operations along the northeastern Russian front Gen. Nobile has made arrangements to stay In the Polar reglons the re- mainder of Spring and the larger part of the Summer, operating from Kings Bay. From there the numerous exploring expeditions will set out fan- lke in various directions. Atmospheric conditions will mine the number of these and distance 10 be traversed. Cen plans to touch at the North Pole again, probably reaching there on May 12, will serve as deter- the thus celebrating his first attainment of | sage yesterday afternoon, to be relaved would not bow to its inevitabt that point with the dirigible Norge. Another flight will be made to ascer- tain whether there s more land on either side of the route followed by Peary in his polar expedition in 1000 and whether there really is a land he thought he saw on his homeward jour- ney, calling it Crocker's Land. The Mac- | Millan expedition of 1914 was unable o find this. Another fiight will be made on the op- posite side of the Pole to the islands called Nicholas 11 Land, north of the pentnsuln of Tainir, which were dis- covered by the Russian expedition of Capt. Wilkinki, ‘These lslands, which the Soviet renamed Lenin's Land, ure not well known and Clen. Nobile intends to learn their extent‘and formation, ‘The Italia 18 50 equipped as to prrmit landing on lee. It carries, with other things, tents, aleighs, stoves and poeumatic boats. Tt has a wiveless st with which 1t will keep i touch with the Cltta DI Milano, which has & powers ful station. ‘The ship will Iy turn keep in touch with a sister station in Rome, near the Basilica of 8t Faul's . Peer's Nephow Weds Actress. LONDON, Aptil 16 () The Hon Duvid Tennant, brother of Lord Glens cunnor and a nephew of Margot Ax ulth, the Countess of Oxford and squith, was married at the Htrand reglster oMo today (o Hermione Hadde loy, dl-year-old actvess. Viscountess Gray and Lord and Lady Qlenconnor atlended the eeremony, The Catholie Eplscopalien - P of Ohicaga 1a an killed and six | the injured | hasty | Nubile | ice shoes | 16, 1928, RESCUERS FIGHT WIND AND SNOW TO REACH MAROONED FLYERS | | (Continued from_First Page.) | Islands, Quebec, 230 miles away. At | 2:38 Saturday afternoon Schiller put his ship down at Seven Islands. There was a quick call for workmen to aid in installing extra fuel tanks for the next and last leg of this thrust into the lower Arctic, a desperately dangerous leap which must span 600 stormy miles “We want three extra tanks and want ‘em quick,” ordered Schiller. “We're leaving at dawn tomorrow.” And he cocked an eye at the sky, to see what the weather promised. "He flashed a radio message back to Murray Bay Reports Plane in Good Shape. “Ship all O. K. for take off to Greenly and,” it sald. “Will wireless imme- diately arrival there” But with day- break came vicious weather. An icy wind, howling and slashing, a cold rain driving down at a searching angle, a falling temperature, and then, snow. | Broken me came ' snapping through to Murray Bay from Schiller | They railed at the weather. They ex- | pressed bitter alarm lest the rival plane, | still back in Murray Bay, would over- | haul the Fairchild plane, but they told, | also, of a cold determination to cut | through that storm when it showed the | slightest sign of abating. Schiller need have had no fear of the rival plane, however, for the weather was bad in Murray Bay, too, and there the rest- less, eager fiyers of the second ship were held, as frantic to be away as Schiller and his companions. The pilot of this other plane was Romeo_Vachon. His passengers were | Leslie Roberts and Jackson. New York | newspaper men; Ray Fernston, camera- | man, and Scampton, a Canadian re- porter. The mechanic was Georges Ouetlot. At 10 o'clock yesterday morning Vachon attempted to rt. He did get |away and flew 40 miles. Then he ran |into a spreading gray sea of fog. So | Vachon turned back, and in 50 minutes {he had returned to the landing field at | Murray Bay. Take Off From Seven Islands. | In the afternoon came a flash from | Seven Islands. “In the air again.’ it |said. Schiller and Cuisinier and Thi- | bault were on their perilous way once more. “Facing adverse weather conditions reported another bulletin. Rain, snow, | ice, perhaps fog. but the Fairchiid plane went roaring off into the stormy skies, with one last shout from Schiller. “Greenly Island, between 7 and 8 tonight,” he bawled against the wind. | And then the friends of the three dar-| ing flyers in the gallant plane began the anxious wait which ended with Schiller's brief flash of victory from | Greenly Island A delayed message from Schiller, re- | ceived at Murray Bay, said the plane | was forced to break its hop from Seven Islands to Greenly Island by a stop at Natashquan, Quebec. “Forced down by easterly gale and heavy fog.” the message said. “Taking on more gas and proceeding immedi- ately.” Chosen for Atlantic Flight. Duke Schiller, or Clarence A. Schiller, | as nobody calls him, came into promi- | nence when he was chosen as pilot for | |the projected Windsor, Ontario, to | Windsior, England. flight last Summer. | The flight was abandoned, due to pub- { | | { | | | of two other planes, Old Giory and the | Sir_John Carling. Forbidden by his | Schiller entered the New York-to-Spo- | kane non-stop transcontinental race. | In a thrilling dash across America, | with Eddie Stinson, Detroit airplane manufacturer, as his chief rival, the | Canadian pilot covered almost the en- tire distance. then Janded at Billings, | Mont. Blnded by snow, weighed down by sleet and with his gas running low over t Rockies, Schiller had been forced to draw off his course for fear of erashing into a mountain. He had to fly southward out of the storm until lights indicated a landing place. The distance he covered to Billings, how- ever, was almost as great as he would have flown to Spokane. Schiller was an experienced pilot long before he engaged in these spec- tacular feats. He learned his flying early and kept on flying because he loved it. Tall, blonde, massive, he is i Sweden that he got the idea of using | Winter, | technical director, won the contract for | | trips to the north shore, five to Anti. | without accident. AN, SHOT TWICE LS ASSHLANT Filling Station Owner, Wound- ed, Fires Five Bullets at Bandit—One Is Fatal. Arthur Le Roy Gardner, 66-vear-old jroad stand proprietor, who shot sand killed a marauder after he had been wounded twice in his lonely store Featherstone S Va, at midnight Saturday, ted in excellent in Emergency Hospi- d from da: Although suffering considerable pain, Gardner was able to give a lucid ac- count of the whole affafr, ing how e robber entered the store and shot when he refused to obey a “I p” command and how, when the b dit returned 10 minutes after the shooting. the plucky storekeeper fired five bullets into him, one of which was fatal. =1 “It'sall pilots in Quebec Province, if not in the s him 0 meet such a s entire Dominion, was a French war |the elderly pilot. He served with the air force until | plaining younger days he he was wounded in the right hand. had been a Government surveyor and Then he was transferred to the Medical had fought Indians. He sald he h: Corps and served 18 months at Ver-!later conjunction with dun, where he won the Croix de Guerre. the B force. He was concerned with aviation b ore the war. His interest in it g back to 1908, when Bleriot flew the English Channel. Dr. Culsinier was a boy then. After the wg commercial aviation in Germany, | be held Sweden and Russia, and it was in Gardner Gardn >3 ARTHUR L. GARDNER. he way & man is raised Alone in Store. Prince Wilitam Co recovers from his wo T was alone in b S pontoons and skis, which made a of the h Shore service He came to Canada two y ago, and practiced medicine. He w one of the promoters of Canadian transcontinental airways 1928, and then started giv of lectures on commercial aviation. | the storekeeper went to the cash draw- Dr. Cuisinier also promoted the, er, the man pulled out his re formation of light airplane clubs in the|ordered Gardner to hand principal Canadian cities and he got in | money. The storekeeper t and touch with the post office department|ran for the rear door and the gunman in Ottawa and helped with all the in- blazed away. Two bullets red formation he could gather to speed up' Gardner's back, one lodging behind the the organization of an air mail service | spine and the other passing 2 in Canada the outer flesh. Last November the Canadian Trans- Expected Man to Return ental Airways, of which he is| Writhing in pain, the storekeeper Winter air mails to Seven Islands from | staggered upstairs, got out his 32 cali- Murray Bay and to the Magdalen Is- ber revolver and tried to quiet Mrs. lands from Moncton. Gardner, who had become hysterical. When the service was organized it| He had a “hunch” that the bandit, was considered experimental and its| who fled after shooting. might return, prospects as a practical service were|and It proved to be right. thought remote. Since then Dr. Cuis-| Ten minutes later the man believed mnier has organized and completed 30| to be Johnstone drove up again and began talking to Mrs. Gardner, who had cost! Island, eight to Magdalen Islands gone downstairs. Gardner recognized co! {and five 10 Charlottetown. Prince Ed- | his voice, staggered halfway down the | ward Island. making a total of 48!stairs and fired five shots at the man trips, on which 26,000 pounds of mail | The bandit ran. but was found dead were carried and 30,000 miles flown a little distance from the store. one the bullets having severed a heart { lic opinion after the disastrous failures | SINCLAIR-B'EF‘EN"SE backers to attempt the Atlantic hop, | an easy-mannered giant, and he seems, | {on his occasional visits to his Toronto home. to fill the house at 3 Ostend | avenue. where his parents. Mr. and | Mrs. Donald Schiller, live. parents are both Canadians, Schiller, Wwho is nearly 29. was born in the United States. He grew up in Toronto, how- ever. and entered the Roval Air Force |in 1917, at an age considered under {the 18 to which enlistment officers made him testify. | Detailed to Instruction Duty. | Fine flyer from the beginning. he was detailed to instruction duty at the Deseronto, Ontarlo, Training School Since then he has been flyin ously. Commercial aviation attracted | him after the war, and in 1919 he eon- |ducted & ploneer effort in aerial adver- | tising. Then, until 1923, he flew a pas- {senger plane between Miami and | Nassau. In 1924 he returned to Canada and joined the Ontario Provincial Air Ser- vice as a member of the forestry patrol “He was one of the best pilots we had,” said Capt. Roy Maxwell, director of the Service. | Shortly after leaving this organiza- lon for the Windsor-Windsor fiight hil'er performed a notable feat which |saved & man's life. He was with his bserver, Pineo, and & mecha 1L far from their base. when the ob- |server became acutely il with appen- |dicitls. The nearest hospital was at | Fort William, Ontarlo, 80 miles away {and the weather made normal fiying impossible. Heavy fog and rain made it extremely difficult to see a course, and | misty winds increased the danger | But Schiller placed the sick man in his plane, and flew at top speed & fow vards above the raflroad tracks. almost | skimming tree tops, so he could keep {low enough to find his way. Schiller got his man to the hospital in time for 1l | | Parents Send Message. Through the North Ame | paper Alllance and the Schiller's parents sent their son & m n News to Duke as he fought to be the first to reach the stranded Bremen | " “Our best wishes for success of trip,” | ran the message. “We shall bo looking | forward to your next weekly letter ™ | Mis. Schiller was confident her boy would suceeed | claimed to Greenly Island it's Dy Dr. Culsienter e Name Addrvess Though his | g continu- | | | vented | | | “One thing I am sure of" she ex-|out “If anybody ean get through | proud A | one of the ablest | d | logteal Convrigh me 1028_in all enuntries by North | Newspaver Alliance.) i SCORES AS DOHENY | STORY IS EXCLUDED o i __(Continued from First Page) | Whro., is supervisor of the Mineral Leas- ing Division of the Geological Survey. | He identified the Salt Creek field and | the Teapot Dome reserve on one of the large maps which was pulled down from the rack. E. C. Finney, Assistant Secretary of the Interfor. then was ealled and ugh this witness Hoover placed nto the record the various executive orders and acts of ‘Congress pertaining to withdrawal of public lands and their leasing for oil production. When Hoover attempted to show the circumstances leading up to the executive order of President Harding. dated May 31. 1921, which transferred administration of the ! oil reserve to the Secretary of the In- terior, Roberts objected and was sus- tained by the court Dr. A C. Veatch, former gove i ment geologist, and now preside the Sinclair Exploration Company, was the third witness called. Through him Hoover sought to show the geological structure of the Salt Cresk and Teapot Dome reserves as of April 7, 1922, the | day the lease was signed. In connection | witn thus & model several feet long an a couple of feet wide was carried into! the courtroom with a cover over it | Roberts objected. declaring no geological question was raised by the Government in the tndictment or in its case. Justice Bailey sustained the objec- tion of the Government. Hoover then nade a long proffer connecting up the question of drainage of the reserve and the necessity of leasing with the evi- dence he had attempted to present to the jury The court told Hoover he could do that, but could not agree that the evi- dence just offered had-any bearing on that phase of the case Carroll H. Wegeman, another former Government geologist, and the man who in 1909 located the “saddle™ be- tween Teapot Dome and the Salt Creek fleld. which saddle was to have e the drainage of oil from the dome by private wells operating in the adjoining i then was called. As Hoover began to inguire into his geo- logical examinat of the Teapot Dome Roberts told the court that once again the defense was going into the examinations of the Teapot leasing. He objected to the Wegeman testimony on the drainage question, and was sustained by the court. ‘MACHINE AGE’ KILLS TWO. the hasty operation which saved him. | Elderly Couple Kill Selves Over “New-Fangled" Devices. GO, April 16 ™ ma~ 'd an elderly couple whe was blamed today for the double suicide of Mr, and Mrs. Qust Bjorklund, 76 and 78 years old, respectivel They were found dead of gas yesterday A son satd Riorklund, a shoemake had refused to work with “new machinery and had continued t by hand work of which Machinery won his t him, and the son said Rjorkiy he e {rom 4 was pondent over the loss of his trade Enroll me as a member of @he Foening Star Golden Rule Safe Drivers Club artery. Neighbors, hearing the second shoot- ing. came to the store armed with shotguns and revoivers. Dr. Frank W. Hornbaker of Quantico was summoned and he urged that Gardner be taken to a Was hospital.’ The 22-mile trip was made by George R. Herring, a neighbor. who drove Gardner to Emergency Hospital. The identification of the gunman was made from personal effects found in his pockets. Driver's licenses issued in Richmond and in Centerville. M were among his papers. His car bor Delaware license plates. CARNIVAL HOSPITAL AID. Entertainment at Keith's for Free Wards at Providence. , ‘The annual morning Spring carnival for the benefit of the free wards of Providence Hospital will be heiq, tomor- row morning at 11 oclock at Keiths Theater. Among the features on the bill will be the ballet from the Fox The- ater, the Swanee Syncopators. an ec- centric dancing act by Tommy Mara- han of the Madrillon restaurant. th» Three Co-eds. appearing this week at Eurle Theater: Miss Hasel Art soloist of Sacred Heart Church: George O’Connor and Lawrence Downey. Irens Juno will open and close the program with selections on the new pipe orman GAS FATAL TO WOMAN. Victim Is Found Asphyxiated i Kitchen of Home. Found in a gas-filled kit home today, Mrs. Hat years old, 235 So FOR TU FIRS? 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