Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1928, Page 2

2 %1 NING F FRIDAY, MAY ® FLEHARTY BACKS - TRACTION MERGER Holds House Committee Has No Authority to Modify Agreement. Ralph B. Fleharty, people’s counsel. Appointed to look after the public interest in the street railwav merger, gave a blanket approval of the merger Pact tn testifying today before the House District committee. Agreeing with Representative Reid of m he District committee sapprove the . Fleharty de- s opinion the comm no authority to modify. the existing pact. Previously he had su geosted that the committee could submit modifications for the approval of the if they reached 1 in executive session that they could written Valuation Figure. lived here 30 ¥ the public o lieved the pe charge He added d have t $50.000.000 Mr ased ended the would be ion, ng | mission doubted Opposes Valuation Elimination. The people’s counsel opposed leaving the valuation out of the agreement Representative Gilbert contended for the insertion of a clause protecting t right ot labor to arbitrate its differ- SO as to protect against the pos- tv of traffic being paralyzed at some time by a strike John H. Hanna, president of the Cap- ftal Traction Co. who was questioned by Chairman Zihlman on this potr greed with Fleharty that the question should be left to panies. So far as the Capital Traction Co. it eoncerned, Mr. Hanna said, it had no objection 1o empowering the Pubic Utilities Commission to order reduced fares for school children. Personally he was opposed to the policy. admitting. however, that his objection to it was not strong, but he did not think such # provisiop should be put in the merger pian Mr. Gilbert warned that Congre: would inquire fully mto the valuation basis if the merger agreement comecs up on the floor of the House. He ex plained that there were others like himself who could not understand how the public interest was protected by a 10-year rate base guarantee. Fleharty took the position that any increase of fares would be based on the $50.000,000° valuation for the 10-year basis and not upon a higher valuation | shouid one be granted. HOOVER GIVEN EDGE MERCURY TOUCHES 88; RELIEF SEEN TOMORROW | Reading Is § Degrees Above Year Ago—Day Starts With 62 at 8 0'Clock. ‘With the temperature shooting up to | 88 by 1 o'clock today. the weather fore- caster promised “fair and warmer to- night,” but with the prospect of local thundershowers by tomorrow afternoon and night. perature reached only 80 degrees, and the thermometer as early as 8 o'clock this morning, standing at 62, was 5 de- grees abowe normal for the day. Relief from the warm spell, however, is promised after the showers tomorrow night. NARY-AAUGEN ACTION FORESEEN Early Agreement in Congress Expected to Send Bill to President in Few Days. A speedy settiement of differences in the McNary-Haugen farm relief bills ated Press. as passed by the Senate and the House | is expected by leaders in Congress and the belief increased there today that | the measure will be put up to President Coolidge with little delay | The bill as passed by the House last | night. 204 to 121, does not differ suffi- cien | the session by the Senate to cause farm | leaders to foresee any deadlock, but Senator McNary of Oregon, chairman of the Senate agriculture committee, said | today a conference undoubtedly would It the expectation that the conferees ve no difficulty in reaching an t is borne out. leaders believed could be sent to the White 1se in about a week. There its fate is undetermined, but inasmuch as the 1 carries the equalization fee dge objected last veto was predicted more freely | than approval Strength Lacking in House. The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 53 to 23—more than the two-thirds required to override & veto—but the House roll call did not show strength enough for such a move. Final action by the House last night climaxed a week of hectic discussion, during which the possible effect of the measure on the coming presidential campaign was referred to. The unsuccessful efforts had been made by opponents of the equalization fee to | eliminate that provision. The vote on | passage found party lines split asunder with 101 Republicans, 100 Democrats 2 Farmer-Labor members and 1 Social- ist joining in support of the bill, while | | 68 Republicans, and 53 Democrats lined { up m opposition. |, Immediately before this, the House had rejected by a vote of 185 to 146 & | motion by Representative Aswell, | Louisiana, ranking Democrat on the | House agriculture committee which | drafted the measure, to pass the bill as | framed except with the elimination of | the equalization fee machinery. | Aswell, long an opponent of the fee provision, two days ago caught the Farm bloc unawares and succeeded in | having the House express its disap- _%gm of the fee by a vote of 141 to Shattered Lines Reformed. This unexpected reverse, however spurred the Farm camp to grester ac- tivity. Reforming its shattered lines. this group got the whip hand at the Today is considerably warmer than the same day last year, when the tem- | from that approved earlier in! be necessary to compose the differences. | vote came aiter frantic but | of | NEW YORK REPEATS TRIBUTE TO FLYERS |Crew of Bremen Meets | Dempsey—Little Patsy Fit- maurice Misses Coney Trip. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, May 4.—Greeted ever | where by crowds, attracted by the wail of the sirens of their motor cycle es- |cort, the German-Irish crew of the | Bremen continue the heroes of the hour | in New York | The feeling of the city was expressed | by a messenger boy who saw them soon |after they landed on their return fiight | from Washington an.. called, “Glad to 1see you back, fellows.” | During the day Maj. Fitzmaurice Capt. Koehl and Baron von Huenefeld | | met and talked with Jack Dempsey and | | his wife. Estelle Taylor, and attended | & luncheon of the Merchants' Associa- | ftion. Last night they were guests at | | { | |a reception at the Metropolitan Opera House. tendered by the United German Societies of New York. { Mrs._Fitzmau and Mrs. Koehl, | | with Patsy, 8-year-old daughter of | | the Irish commandant, also spent a busy |day shopping in a Brooklyn department | store. attending a luncheon and sight- | | seeing. Patsy Misses Coney. | Patsy was taken ill. caused by all the | | excitement, according to her mother, | | but quickly recovered. She was kept |on a diet of ginger ale, however, and | | missed a trip to Coney Island and a ride on a roller coaster. | “What," asked Dempsey curiously of Ma). Fitamaurice, when he was taken {to the fiyers suite by “Duke” Schiller, | “was the first thing you thought of | when you landed on Greenly Island”” "God.” answered the major Dempsey greeted the Germans in halt- ing German phrases, which he ad learned from a German prize fighter When the conversation lagged. Demp- sev asked Baron von Huenefeld and Capt. Koehl i? they spoke English, and. receiving an affirmative answer, the | conversation proceeded more smoothly Sportsmen Are the Same. “You've done a swell job.” Dempsey told them. “Sportsmen are the same the world over,” he observed. { The Metropolitan Opera House was | filled with 3,500 persons, who cheered ithe flyers for five minutes when they | appeared. Some ticket speculators were | said by police to have reaped a harvest, selling the 50-cent admission tickets for as much as $6. The proceedings were entirely in Ger- man, and this tme the two German members of the Bremen's crew had an advantage over their Irish comrade. | This evening the baron is to be pre- {sented with 50,000 gold marks (about |$11,000) offered by the Electroux Co. {of Sweden for the first east-to-west flight across the North Atlantic. They also will attend a theater. On Air Tonight. The crew of the monoplane Bremen | will go on the air tonight to tell the story of their flight, the Columbia | | broadcasting system announced yes- terday. | The flyers are scheduled to relate their experiences, starting at 10:30 p.m., tern daylight time, over a hook-up which will include Stations WOR, New York: WCAU, Philadelphia; WNAC. ' Boston: WEAN, Providence: WFBL, | Syracuse; WMAK, Buffalo: WCAO. Bal- |timore: 'WJAS. ' Pittsburgh: WADC. Akron: WAIU. Columbus, Ohio: WERC, Cincinnati. WGHP, Detroff WMAQ. | Chicago; WOWO, Fort Wayne, Ind: | KMOX. St. Louis, and KMBC, Kansas | City. | 'MRS. RACHEL FULKERSON | Ladue's order, Air view made yesterday showing how the rising water sweeping down from the mountains has completely covered | . The X shows where the Falls are visible in normal the gigantic rocks at the F: The Falls when the river pursus D. C. ENGINEERS’ DUTIES CHANGED BY COL. LADUE Temporary Reorganization of De- partment Due May 10, When Covell Leaves. Temporary reorganization of the engineering departments of the muni- cipal government was ordered today Col. William B. Ladue, Engineer Com missioner, to become effective May 10 when Maj. William E. R. Covell, rctir- ing Assistant Engineer Commissioner, leaves the District service. Ma). Covell's departure will leave the Engineering Department without a Third Assistant Engineer Commissioner until July 16, when Maj. Donald A Davison, his successor, reports for duty. In the meantime, under Commissioner Ma). Covell's present duties will be divided between the two remaining Assistant Engincer Commis- sioners, Maj. Layson E. Atkins and Capt. | H. C. Whitchurst | | its peaceful course. IN BITTER WATSON BATTLE IN INDIAN | outset of yesterday’s proceedings and { held it to the end. With the exception ‘nl changes approved by Chairman | Haugen of the agriculture committee. | and co-authors of the bill, all amend- | of the Electrical Department. To Capt Whitehurst's duties will be added su | pervision over the building and piumb- DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME rag ing inspectors’ offices, the board for the | Wife of Prominent Mason Was Ac- | condemnation of insanitary buildings. Maj, Atkins will take over supervision | (Continued from First Page.) He was one of the prosecuting attor- neys the case of former Senator ruman H Newberry of Michigan, when the latter was charged with violating the corrupt practices act. He prose- cuted, too. the Terre Haute election frmud cases a number of years ago. Dailey, Democrats say, would make strong candidate against any Repub- lican in the November election. If there i€ a real uprising against the ex- isting order on the Republican side, Schortemeier will fail to receive a ma Jority of the votes and the nomina tion will be thrown into the State con. vention. Among the Republican candi dates for the nomination for governor 4s the veteran Thomas H. Adams, Vin cennes editor. who was largely respon- sible-for bringing to light the scandals which involved the Republican organ- ization and the Ku Kiux an two years ago Robinson Fighting Hard or Robin: whose 2 Ku KU Se beer, splashed a er the fighting for his political life nas i He has nomi- Gilliom and s tighting 1o Klux B0 J. Carter, both the Kilan 2 Leagus officials on 3 Fepresent “super-governim been making a whir'wind order oters he rad; n m A it He has tour of the e | Georgia d that they | ¢ | operation ments were turned down. The proposals offered exceeded a score in number. but of these only three were approved. They provided: | Extension of the right of co-operative | associations to decide, through the com- modity advisory councils that the bill | would create. when the equalization fee | would be placed in operation. This was | sponsored by Representative Kincheloe, | Democrat, Kentucky, and is in linc | with the bill as approved by the Senate | Application of the fee machinery to | packers as well as live stock raisers hensver it might be put in operation | upon cattle and swine—offered by Rep- | resentative Jones, Democrat. Texas. Selection of the members of the pro- posed advisory councils from lists of names to be submitted by governors of States. as well as co-operatives and sther farm organizations—by Represent- ative Fulmer. Democrat, South Caro- lina. | Included among the praposals rejected | | was one to exempt fruit from operation of the fee. This would have conform- | ed partially with the Senate bill, which | would exempt fresh vegetables and {fruits. Another discarded amendment would tave excluded cotton and tobacco from farm commodities affected Beef Is Included. The House bill also differs from the | Senate measure in that it does not ex- | | empt_beef and beef products from fec An_ unsuccessful effort was made Representative Brand, Democrat to have the loan privileges of the bill apply to farmers who are not members | | »| To carry out the loan to co-operatives | t Bump, a 4 probabilit the race u,v, jean organiza the K e helping 1 i We neaded wa he campaign, 1he we the all wa sents I refere My war oportion nator Wat ghts 8go, wnd ly extimuted & pon whel e Hoover o were orcupied M esident Coolidge snd were Joudly spplavded It @bl that & consideraile pr Bie crowd were women won spoke here a fe his sudience 1y 3000 and 2000, depending 1he estimate car the el camp Walson meetings pret. snd thi smslier taan in 1) $s one of the (hings thel have giver ceiise 108 WOITY Dewes Atlarked irosd brotherhoods, si vote for Watson s & vole 10 have upleashed s vicious st the Vice Presiden) in e leafie clreilated the Biste. 'The The thet Daver tack on aely [ A game Mz, Hoover a friend of organied pel aiport i Lhe West, \ % » | head of the Central ‘Trust Hoover | of have uting | | proposal the bill would authorize fn appropriation of $400,000.000. ‘This | would be known as the revolving fund | and its use would be controlied by the | Pederal farm board the bill would | ereate During the long debate upponents contended that the bill would receive 2 presidential veto upon two points al + equalization tee and the pro sionx dealing with the right of the m board to enter into marketing greements ‘The farm bloc members also took the | position that the question raised by | opponents of 1Me fee machinery was a matier that only the Bupreme Courl | could decide and that the farmers of | the Nation never would be satisfied un- | that tribu had expressed its spinion On tne other hand, opponents urged farm bloc to accept the bill with the fee contending that the meas- the large revoiving fund would er farm relief than none at all The leafiet embodies an | {eaitorial from the brotherhoods’ organ pul” of Lorimer of Dinots. who was | ousted from the Benate because of cor- i{ruption in his election. It further l'chmrges that the Vice President cako, was lnvolved In the Lor | scandal in 1914 utiack the Vice President on wround thsl sfter the World War g | beceme president of s | of the Constitution " opposed 1o organ | izen Jabor “He has bistantly v Dored the open-shop campmign smarh organized labor [ continues The ralirond the " brotherhoods in | Wide with the farm organizations presidential nominetion . The wirport at Oakland, Cali! over $800.000 and is the Jurgest mun " 1 ) of co-operative associations, | the Vice President as | which calls the Vice President a | ns | ner bk But it bases its chief he the Minutemen sup- the editorial the | | peat have worked in campaigns side by | pory gt Franklin, Pa But i (his Indiens campaign the two are supporting opposing candidates for the ol et | tive in Women's Club Work Here. Mrs. Rachel Leah Pulkerson, wife of Fulkerson, prominent in Masonic jand Kiwanis activities, | | cut avenue, today. Mr. Fulkerson is out of the city, h: ing gone to the Shrine convention Miami, Mrs. Fulkerson was president of the | yra McCoy Andrews Day Nursery, | having served continuously since 1921, | when “she succeeded Mrs. Willam E. | Andrews, the founder and first presi- | dent. Mrs. Fulkerson also was a former | vice president of the Federation of | Women's Clubs here. and was a life | member of the Women's City Club, | Private funeral services will be con- { ducted in Wright's funeral parlors to- | morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Inter- ment will be in Glenwood Cemetery, | "Besides her husband. Mrs. Fulkerson | | leaves three sisters, Miss Margaret A { Evans, Miss Jane Evans and Mrs. M. J Martin TWO D. C. MEN PASS TEST. | List of New Folelgu;-Service Av-% pointees I Given. | Norris B. Chipman of 1319 Nine- | | teenth street and Mannix Walker of | | 2112 B street have been appointed mem- bers of the United States Foreign Serv- | lce as a result of the recent entrance | examination conducted by the State De- partment. | " Other ‘successful candidates at | same examination are Garret G. Ac son, ir. Hackensack, N. J.. Burton Y | Berry, Fowler, fnd.; James E. Brown jr. Bewlckley, Fa. Robert Y. Brown Dothan, Ale; Willlam W. Butterwor(h New Orleans, La.; Wairen M. Chase Gary, Ind.; Edmund O. Clubb, Scuth | 8t Paul, Minn.; Willlam P. Cochran Jr., Wayne, Pa. Robert D. Coe. Cody. Wyo.; Archibald E. Gray, Bethichem, Pa: Willlam Edwin Guy, 8L Louls Mo, Monroe Hall, New York City; | H. Livingston Hartley, Boston, Mews. Robert P. Joyce, Pasadena, Calif.; War- ren M. Kelchner, Millville, PA.; Bertel E. Kuniholm, Gardner, Mass.. Freder- ick P. Latimer, jr., New London, Conn., ! John 8. Littel,” Yonkers, N. Y., Ralph New York Cily, James B cher, Dothan, Al.; Rt Borden Reams, Luthersburg, Pa., Charles 8 Reed. 2d, | Cievelana Ohlo: Arthur R, Ringwalt, Omaha, Nebr. Stanley G. Blavens, Austin Tex.. Horace H. Smith, Xenia, | Ohio, L. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, Alla- | muchy, N. J° Llewellyn E. Thompson . ‘Las Animos, Colo: Edward G “Trueblood, Evanston, Il Henry 8, Vil- Jurd. New York City; Jullus Wadsworth Middictown, Conn erick H. Ward Mountain View, N. J. and Carlos J Warner, Chagrin Falls, Ohlo 0IL PIONEER DIES. A E L’ulh;n"-my. Bent to Russin 40 Yenrs Ago, Buceumbs at 72. NEW YORK, My 4 (%) -Almon Bliss Culbertson, geologist and mining engineer who ploneered in the Rissian ol field, died today after a five-da Niness. He wis 72 years old and was the | He was one of seven young Americans sent 1o Kussia more than 40 years sgo | 1 Investigate ofl prospects. He was eredited with discovering the Gromy Ol Pield there which has one of U | o C e A O NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | a Maypole dance. the architects' advisory council and the Zoning Commission. BEGINS SPRING FESTIVAL Southwest Washington Institution Has Play Program—Pro- cession Tomorrow. With all its buildings flaunting gay colors, Neighborhood House, 470 N street’ southwest, the settlement hcuse of southwest Washington, began twenty-sixth annual Spring festival ye terday afternoon, Beginning at 4 o'clock, the program consisted of short plays, songs and dances, in which about boys and girls took part, ranging in age {rom tiny youngsters to those in their teens. The afternoon program was concluded with Playlets In the gar- den featured the evening program. The | program is being repeated this after- noon and tonight The annual May procession, to be climaxed by the crowning of the May queen, will feature the program lomor - row afternoon, Music will be furni-hed by the Army Band. The festival is Neligh Among the program were Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr, Mrs Charles J Bell, Mrs, Porter H. Dale Mrs. George Barnett. Mrs, Char Denby, Mrs, Curtis D. Wilbur, Mrs. Rob- ert W. Imbrie, Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs. Frederick D. Horne, Mrs. William D. Mitchell, Mrs, Cuno H. Rudolph. Mrs Joseph M. Stoddard, Mrs. Joseph Strauss and Mrs. John J. O'Connor. ASSAULT CASE DROPPED. Complaining Witness Says She Can- not Remember Incident. The charge of assault with attempt to commit criminal assault, lodged week against Isalah Earl tor of 908 Fourteenth street, when Mrs. Anna Plerce, 1241 Good Hope toad colored man had lured her inio the basement of the Fourteenth steet ud- dress and there attempted to Asswill her, was nolle-prossed Loday by Asslst- ant United State Attorney Ralph Given Mrs. Plerce told Mr. Given that she did not remember what happened, ELECTED BY AUXILIARY. Mrs. A, J. McKelwny of Washing- ton Given Presbyterian Honor, Special Disputeh 10 The Star ALEXANDRIA, Vi, May 4.--Mrs, A J Mrl(rlmur of Washingion was elects ed vice president of the Women's Auxil- of the Potomac Presbytery. Synod of Virginia, st the afternoon sesslon of that organization here yesterday ‘The term of Mrs. H. © Briscoe of Washing ton, who ix president of th8 Women's Auxfitary, will ot expire until next year Mrs. O. H Drake of Leesburg wa olected recording secrelary, Mins Louis Davidsan of Bethesda, Md, treasurer Mrs. R C Duff, Leesburg, seoretary of foreign mixisons, and Mra. J, A Do ritten of Wanhington, secretary of semblies home missions, OMoers were installed last night by the Rev, B M Delaney, pastor of the Becond Preshys terlan Chureh of this eity. Rev. B B Patsley of the natlonal hoadquarters at world's largest oulputs. He Iater start-| ed & school for Hussinn boys W teach the rudiments of oll drilling, § Atlunia gave an address on (he as- sembly’s lome misslons st the evening scsslon, under the direction of Mrs. Clara D.| hostesses for the opening Inst | colored jani- | southeast, complained to police that the | | POTOMAC IS RECEDING. Danger of Flood Is Over. Weather Bureau Repor raters in the Potomac are rapidly re- g. and for the present all danger | er. The Weather Bureau received only one report today, from Harpers Ferry, which said that the water had fallen 32 feet since yesterday and was continuing to go down. At the time of the reading the water was 10.2 feet above zero low water It was explained that no further re- ports would be received on the situa- tion, as telegraphic information was sent only when there were dengerous ~onditions imminent MANY DIE IN CHINA AS ANTI-FOREIGN FIGHT IS RENEWED v _(Continued from PFirst Page) not been heard from since the Nation- | alist occupation of that city on May 1 It was believed, however. that the Americans remaining in Tsinan had taken refuge within the protecting cor- | don of Japanese troops. Snipers Fire on Japanese. Japanese dispatches asserted that Chinese troops entered and looted the guarded area of the international settle- ment and the Japanese troops then opened fire. From housetops and win- dows the Chinese poured a steady fire upon the Japanese Heavy firing continued until after dark yesterday and during this time the Chinese brought their artillery into play There are 30000 Chinese troops in Tsinan and 2,500 Japanese. Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Nationalists, who is in Tsinan, was visited by a Japanese delegation which demanded the cessation of the looting and firing A Japanese wireless message said that the consulate was unable to ascertain | { the conditions outside the guarded arca when the message was sent yesterday afternoon. Heavy firing was heard to the north and west of the area, and| prior to the clash the Chinese looted many parts of the city. CHANG'S AID DEC 1 Japanese Send Armored Trains Tsinan-fu With More Troops. SHANGHAL China, May 4 (® - Re- ports from Tientsin say that Japanese armored trains laden with reinioice- ments have left Tsingtao for Tsinan-fu | "Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, chief of the Northern forces, is reported to have ex- | pressed his regret at the clash between | | the Japanese and the Nationalists at Tsinan-fu and to have offered (o assist the Japanese with arms and smmuni- tion | This offer the Japancse declined with the explanation that they intended to suppress the outrages without help from other parties JAPANESE DISARM FORCE. to | alists Ordered to Leave Treaty District by 7 0'Clock. BY B W, FLEISHER o The Wt U ws. kbt 102 TOKIO, May 4. -Japan 8,800 (roops in Shantung by Friday Aght, Including 5,300 there now and 00 additional men ordered there to- | |day from Kwang-tung leased territory, | | together jof the | Tatnan- | The outbreak of Chinese | upon Japunese greatly excited the na- tion for the moment, newspaper | and vague 1 but today ensued with the arri sening the serlousness of the trouble Lintest adviees are that the National st troops In the treaty distriet of Tsinan are submitting to disarmament by the Japanese under an agreeme eached by representatives of the south- erners and Chief of Staff Kuroda and Consul Nishida early this morning A¢ cording (o the agreement, the National- Nati Star o Daily | By Radio will have Chinese-Japanese clash at Natlonalists | more calmness by 7 o'clock, falling which the Japanese will be free to take any steps deemed appropriate, | Cadets Go to Winchester, Special Dispatch 1o The Star POTOMAC, V May 4 Twenty | Aive Gieorge Mason High Behool Cadets, members of Company D, Arlington County Battallon, Reserve Offcers | Tralning Corps, left here at 7 a'cloch (his morning by bus for Winohester Vi, to mareh In the parade at lln'l apple blossom festival, with 10 warships, as a result | extras | o al of reports leas |\ Ists are due to leave the treaty district | ? | N | { times. pyright Fairchild Aerial Survey —Copyright Harr! HICKMAN APPEAL BRIEFS FILED IN SACRAMENTO Young Kidnaper-Slayer Alleges Nearly 20 Errors in Conviction and Death Sentence. OS ANGELES, May 4.—Briefs were fled at the Los Angeles office of the California Supreme Court late yester- day i th> appeal of Willlam Edward Hickman_from his conviction and sen tence to hang for the killing of 12-year- old Marfon Parker. The young kidnap- er-slayer 1s confined to the death house at San Quentin Prison The briefs set forth mearly a score of grounds of alleged error in the trial and conviction, which were made thg basis of the appeal filed before the higher court several weeks ago. Answering briefs will be filed Monday by attorneys for the State in Sacramento, where the case will be argued next Tuesday. Following arguments upon the briefs the Supreme Court will take the appeai under consideration. BRONZE MEDALS GIVEN T0 TWO FOR LIFE SAVING Awards to Baxter M. Davidson, Jr., and James E. Witherite for Res- cueing Gas-Stricken Man, Bronze medals for life saving were presented Baxter M. Davidson, jr. and ames E. Witherite, telephone employes. at the twentieth anniversary banquet the Washington Telephone Socte! composed of male emploves of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., in the Mayflower Hotel last night The reciplents were given what known as the Theodore N. Vail mem rial medals. having won them by saving & man_overcome by gas on April 27, 1927. The presentations were made by Burdett Stryker, vice president of the company Speakers at the banquet were: Albert E. Berry, president of the company; P. O. Coffin. vice president and general auditor: Dozier A. De Vare, general counsel: John C. Koons, vice president, and Mr. Stryker. John C. White, dent of the soctety. was Over 500 members of the society guests attended is er. and Three Killed in Bandit Raid. CORDOBA, Vera Cruz Mexico, May 4 (P —Three persons were killed and one was seriously wounded yesterday when bandits rode into the town of Ixhuatlan, shooting premiscuously. After looting stores they made their escape PIMLICO ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW, FIRST RACH Amhassada Vycarolls and Haniean Nled: 2 miles Dot THIRD RACE st e, 81 b Fiy (e h tye v I Too Hisl A\Bing ton Tatam FOURTH RACE [ ' ol Transit o 118 1 vatal Boom' 1o 1 Kaifa 1o Strathmore: $voa wan 4000 athe $1.000 \ s 110 108 i i I Wilaun Walt FIFTH RACE w Mt uN a R Salman entey Ihe My Hangioan . *LADO, § v Loy Mk » I \ | | 1 I i ause 1 G Bedwell entey carakle amt wpe claim Wil SN Rl *Maviner 1 13 Flagshin \ ) | | 18 ot SEVENTH RACE g mirse. $1 4 A n aliowance chaimed, Woalher clear. trac W fa & Ewing. | Ay Rt (o8 | | FIRE BUG INSANE, ' FLYER PLANS NEW JURY DECLARES ENDURANCE FLIGHT Ex-Policeman Fisher Order-li ed Committed to St. Eliza- | beth’s as Pyromaniac. Undismayed by Failure to Set Mark Yesterday, Thomas to Try Again Soon. | i e By the, Assnciated P John J. Fisher, former policeman, MITCHEL FIELD, N. arrested in connection with the series | of fires here on the night of Janu-| Undismayed by h 8 ary 17, was declared a pyromaniac to- | attempt to set a new er day by a jury in Criminal Division 2| record. Lieut. Royal V before Justice Siddons and ordered | o try again soon | committed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital.| Forced down when the dump The jury was composed of six men and | his gas tank opened, allowin six women. Dr. D. Percy Hickling, | his fuel, he said he would t | District allenist, at the request of | & new attempt as soon United States Attorney Leo A. Rover,| tle sleep and his mo: | examined the prisoner and told the jury | could be put into con Fisher had acknowledged to him that| On his flight. which enc | he had started 200 fires in his career. | at 11:55 o'cloci he fell almost Indicted for Arson. world endurance record | Fisher is under indictment for t%0 air 35 hours 25 min charges of arson in connection with “ i (TR R L | fires In the wholesale district of Tenth S o S ey fEc] | street and at the Lank Woodworking solo flight, bettering by al Co.’s plant, at Fourteenth and W streets. | houts the mark of Col. Charle in January. A third fire on that r;_lghv nergh in his flight to Paris last Ma at the McDowell warehouse, on Eck- ington place and Q street 'northeast Recovers Quickly. was also charged against Fisher, but no T Was groggy w indictment was filed in that case quickly recov | "When arraigned Fisher pleaded | tle the worse for guilty, but Chief Justice McCoy, at the | Sieep. Up until request of Attorneys James A. O'Shea | he had appeared we! and John H. Burnett, set the plea aside | new record. his and permitted the filing of a petition | Smoothly with only for a lunacy hearing. haps of a lost radio aeri Harry G. Fisher and Oscar L. Fisher, | gas gauge r | brothers of the former policeman. When his gas testified as to the change in his mental | made arrangs | condition after the war. Fisher took | ing *“T ha part in eight major engagements, among quick flashes.” he wrote | them the Meuse-Argoune and Cantigny | dropped to Roose Fi , offensives. he circled in t enough gas to | flash last Trapped by Motorists. arrest followed a night of H descent, Fishe: the city | and with conflagrations in all sections of | which brought apparatus here from all | lights had been t nearby towns and Baltimore. A party | here as the of motorists caught sight of Fisher as flight and he left the McDowell warehouse shortly | before the place burst into flames. They | s obtained the number of his automobile | low and he was arrested when he arrived home shortly after daybreak Later at Gallinger Hospital he con- fessed that he set several of the fires. were 75 PLANES STAGE Racio AT LANGEEY EIERLD jiunekicstand; mettages ta 1 his_flight. | _“If there has been an annsur that I will fly over to¥n &t noon. - cel it. Will need to c o above and the latter half continuing on f:",ry,‘:;xé'g going fine | A with the dive and zooming under the | S%ETERG o core carried out big bombers. Had the spectacle been ' but a later message said one of actual warfare the bombing for- | S0 weak he could hare mation would have remained unbroken, | %3, then noticed that | unless a plane or two was destroyed, as | CATHed avay. L the formation is the best defense they | MISRECS VER® Printed On have. Today they presented a smail i CCC I ?;m»n” pipand | target and several pilots on landing | 7 GECC TOC TC : ! explained that they would not have | ports and other - feared real bullets from the pursuit POTS b guns, because of the dificulty In get- = ting a direct hit at such terrific speeds and in such formation | JEWELERS W As a diversion. three crack pursuit | pilots from Selfridge Pleld—Lieuts. W L, Comnelius, 1. A. Woodring and J. J. | Williams—gave an astonishing exhibi- | e tion of formation acrobatics. Flying | L0°*! Delegation of in a “V" alignment the three pursuit | 14th Annual Meet Jus at Salisbury, Md. | Radio Corporation an (Continued_from First’ Page.) _ h /ILL HOLD pilots looped simultaneously, coming out of the loop in perfect formation, and then executed a maneuver never before TR . sétn here. They dived down on the | Washington was se field wide open and zoomed, and as convention of the Mar they climbed they broke open like a and District of Columbia flower, the left plane rolling off in that | Sociation at tbe closing direction. the right doing likewise and A fourteenth annual convent the leader executing a normal loop. | Organization :n Salisb | No one could find a name for the | day. Efforts will be made to maneuver. Then Lieut. Williams broke | ssoclation meet here during off, leaving Lieuts. Cornelius and Wood- | blostom time. it was disclosed 1 ring to execute some remarkable ma-| Gov. Richie of Maryland and neuvers together. Formed one ahead Robertson of Delaware wer of the other. the two planes executed | the convention. which wa the difficult slow barrel roll, fast barrel | about 250 jewelers. roll. loops and upside down fiving. The exhibition drew applause from the official witnesses. Smoke Screen Laid. ors then saw for the first dvancement in the art of | smoke screen laying. In the past, big | =rs’ association: W bombers have been employed for this | ence Pearson, Albe work because of the weight of the Seling equipment necessary. A bomber. it is | Schwartz, J held, on attempting to shut off an'and A C. M: area against an enemy or its own troops. would be raked with shot before | it finished. Four of the pursuit craft, | bearing no identification that they were | other than fighting planes except for a small pipe that dropped vertically from beneath the pilot's seat, took the air | In a regular military, formation they | maneuvered about the fleld and then | disappeared behind the hangars. Without warning, they suddenly ap- | | peared at the far end of the field fiv- | ing over 160 miles an hour and about 10 feet above the ground. Together they opened their smoke tanks and the white, blinding chemical poured out from beneath each plane. In a flash| they were gone and the entire half of | Langley Field was blanketed off from | the other. The smoke clung to the ground for | |10 minutes. oblitsrating a large num- | ber of planes that had been parked at the far side of the fleld. Officers of all branches of the service were elated with | the speed and effectiveness of the maneuver i Shortly before the smoke screen demonstration. a “sausage” balloon, held faSt by a cable. was run up at the far end of the broad airdrome to an alti- tude of about 3,000 feet. After da across the fleld with their smok pursuit planes put on altitude climbed up into the sun Sudde: {they were seen to be diving one beht the other towards the balloon, and | fiving of their machine guns could be heard. As the third pursuit plane | passed close to the balloon and roomed. White smoke could be seen coming from | the tail section, followed by & red glace Then the huge bag, filled with hy |gen. exploded, dropping to earth in & mass of flames and leaving a vertical column of black smoke in its wake 'his concluded the morning exhibition The entire demonstration is under | direction of Brig. Gen. Benjam Foulols, assistant chief of the Air Corps. [ Who aiso is commanding officer of the | 1st Air Brigade, which constitutes the | | independent air force. His chief {staff, who worked out most of | details, is Maj., Carl Spats | PLANES TAKE LEG the convent Sundlun, president l SHRINERS BEGIN EX0DUS FROM CONVENTION CITY Frank C. Jones of Houston ed as Imperial Poter | at Miami. s MIAMI, hos x Shrine had becom re nant today as the 75.000 here al mecting of the 1 | cot The cluded officers CHILDREN'S FARE CUT. d by Public Ser d thor Redus children's peake Bea been authorized by Comy of Mar ro- shore for a day's 40-mile ride ho cost of a city rate is effective Sa O the Beach opens £ the Meore Than 60 Guests Fly te Air Maneuvers in and then for Vieginia. heading South Nearly all of the planes of the big | he lair armada fram Langley Field, Va.| was on | had started back to their home part!ever t from Bolling Fleld by ® o'clock this Two planes morning. The last planes to leave | passengers. one | carried seven more members of Con- | port, piloted by Bress (0 withess the Big demonsiration bank. and an amphuby {at the Virginia fiying fleld today by | piloted by L E R Quesada 1Y [Hu' Army Al Cops the transpart were Represeutatives Me- th A big Lieut Counting those who flew there ves- | Millan of South O Chapma terday afternoon, more than 60 mem- | Kentucky, Clague bers of Congress, War Department offi- | sota, Thurston of lowa clals, newspaper writers and photog- | Bennsvivania, Howa vaphers have gone to the maneuvers commanding ofieer o by airplane. The flght southward ves- | and Capt. H. D, Furlow of th terday was led by Assistant Secretary | Reserve, a brother of War F. Trubee Davidson in charge | Furlow Minnesota of Army aviation phidian Representative Furlow was The fleet of 19 mmhm‘ planes, which | passenger | flew here from Langley Field vesterday | Senators Jones of Washi: | to take some of the War Department's | of Nevada. MoMaster of So guests to the maneuvers, soared aloft | and Sieck of lowa, Re ARAID ADOUL 430 0'vlock yesterday aft- | James of Michigan and ornoan, many of the planes careving [ New Jersey, and Deleg passengers. As they took the air ono ! Hawail flew down v by one, they cireled over the fleld, gain- Army transport plane, : s on, Oddie h Dakota ressniatives Hoftwan ol Houston of rday i an D