Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1928, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour" The Star 1s delivered every evening ano Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Sta.’s exclusive carrier service. Phone Main 5000 to start immediate delivery WEATHER. (T. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and shightly warmer today. To- motrow generally fair and continued warm. ‘Temperature—Highest, 85, at 4 pm. lowest, 68, at 6 a.m. Full’ report on page 7. ¢ he Sunday St ( FIVE CEN IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURB_S 3 rtered ¥, post WASHINGTON, D. €, SUNDAY MORN (R0 ket ARdaotated s i _as second class mat office. Washington, D. No. 1216—No. 30,749, o JULY 8, 1928 —NINETY-SIX PAGES. P GERMAN AVIATORS ~ SETNEW DURATION BELIEVED READY FOR ROME HOP MARKOF 65 HOURS Two Flyers Eclipse Record of Italians by 5 Hours and 47 Minutes. JUNKERS IS SPECTATOR | AT DESSAU AIRDROME| st to Congratulate Pilots of His Plane—Crowds Cheer Airmen When They Land. | | | | | d Press. air d 47 minutes, the German | Risticz and Zimmerman, landed plane at 9:30 o'clock to- | Abov | attempt a New York to Rome flight. The plane in which Capt. C Belo: are Sabelli and his crew of two will Left to right, Capt. Peter Bonelli, having been in the air or | pavigator and radio expert; Capt. Sabelli, pilot, and Roger Williams, co-pilot. 65 hours and 21 minutes. The former record of 58 hours and 34 minutes was | ————— held by Capt. Arturo Ferrarin and Maj. | Carlo P. Del Prete of Italy! ! Prof. Hugo Junkers, just back from the United States, was a grateful spec- | teli-tale rounds on the monotonous | shuttle between Dessau and Lelpzig . which meant a new air record, fresh aviation honors for Germany and fur- - ther vindication of his plane. He was | the first to greet the tired airmen as; they climbed from their plane and to congratuiate them upon their achxcve-‘ ment Ocean Being Made at .l tae e s Gbheur Bighe, and | Roosevelt Field. declared that they could have continued | two hours longer with the fuel supply | g | on hand but were forced by darkness 0 oo . A cociated Press. ] 1?3‘ wives and children made their | ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., July 7.— way to the plane as it came to rest.| Hurrled preparations today convinced | while the crowd of 25,000 cheered fran- | the Long Island fiying colony that the | tically. Both fiyers were into | 1ong awaited non-stop flight to Rome of | the hangars dcsn the shoulders of enthu- | cont ” Cesare Sabelli in. the monoplane The official figures for the flight will Roma was imminent. No announcement soon truments | came from the crew, who are with the Be given out a5 soon 2 e aehine reel. | plane in Hartford, Conn., and nothing | checked. The ¢ off 5030 miles in its two and one-half | official could be said here. i days in the air Preparations for Flight Over | | ~Underwood & Underwood Photo. PARLEY T0 SETTLE SHITH'S CAMPAIGN National Committee to Meet Wednesday in Gotham. Nominees to Attend. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July ~During the coming week the machinery will be set up for the presidential campaign of Gov. Alfred E. Smith. On Wednesday the national commit- tee holds its first meeting for selection of a chairman and other business. Both Gov. Smith and his running mate, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, will at- tend, and it is generally expected that when that meeting adjourns the strat- egy of the campaign will have been definitely settled. It is believed that the governor will in a large measure dictate this strat- egy and that the national committee machine. did not know who was negotiating the urchase. H P Tvo Hungarian fyers first p:;r:;g’ at they desired to buy the gq;‘ mkm}selws but when they learned that Zimmerman was a former Bavarian army captain of aviation, they advised the emperor to make 2 ) breast of his plans to the German | Zimmermans was told of the aszed one day to think it over, then agreed to pilot the plane. The royal exiles arrived at the air-| rome October 20, 1921, hopped off un- ed, and landed in Hungary after, voyage during which Zim- mperman was almost foreed by bad weather 10 land in Bavaria | AURORA BOREALIS HALTS TELEGRAMS Press Service Wire Affected by Natural Phenomensa ORK, July 7—One of idespread interruptions of wire experienced in t by earth cur- the aurora sies reported of service, or func- atly over a period of ut of commis- San Francisco were seriously A an important reported its main trunks flected for several hours 0 the Associated Press from from New York w San oo showed that The disturbance apparently from east to west. Lights Visible Here rihiern lights were plainly vis- vashington last night. The the all wires were | 4 §eke gg8 =% THREE INMATES HELD IN JAIL-BREAK PLOT - | Four Others Quizzed as Intercepted Letters Reveal Con- spiracy. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Mich,, July 7.—Three in- mates of the State prison here are in solitary confinement and four others are being uestioned in an effort to clear up a plot for the wholesale de- livery of inmates from the prison. The three convicts in solitary con- finement are Anthony Chibatoris, 22; Jack Gracey, alias Jack Miller, 19, and Philip Tryski, 20, "1 of Detroit. Charles Chibatoris, 22, a brother of the convict, is being held in Detroit on a charge of robbery, while State and city police are seeking two others for questioning. According to Warden Harry Jack- son, the plot was discovered when let- ters from Tryski and Gracey were in- tercepted, asking the outside men to supply arms and ammunition to Tryski, Gracey and Anthony Chibatoris, send- ing them in by a truck driver. MEARS LEAVES MOSCOW. Circlers Take-Off on 430- Mile Flight to Kazan. MOSCOW, July 7 (#).—Escorted by two Soviet planes, John H. Mears aul Charles G. D. Collyer, on a round-the- world air flight for a new record, took Globe | off from here at 1:39 o'clock this after- They will spend the night at Kazan. . Ex-Mayor Kills Self. DOTHAN, Ala, July 7 (#).—De- spondent over Hil health, James Grant, former mayor of this city, shot and killed himself carly today while en route | between Bainbridge, Ga., to Dothan on an_Atlantic Coast Line train Before taking his life Grant dis- | patched a wire to a Dothan undertaking | company requesting that an ambulance | meet the train 64-Ycarx>'-61ci Visit;; Rescu;si(:hi‘ld“ : will function chiefly in devising ways and meaus rather than in originating plans of battle. The governor returned to Albany to- day after a one-day ty to Maryland tg*nttend t‘hs og;ne;l.l William Ras- , 80D 0! . Raskob, chairman of the finance ittee of Motors and a close friend of the gov- ernor. Due in Gotham Tuesday. ‘Tuesday he will come to New York and Wednesday will thrash out with the national committee details of the campaign, the main features of which his supporters have intimated he settled in his own mind. Whether or not decisions reached at that meeting will be made public has not been announced, although the gov- ernor’s consistent repiy since his nomi- nation to questions about his campaign has been that he could not say any- thing until after the Wednesday con- ference. Despite ‘he reticence of the gov- ernor, it has been learned that he will sun::z to the committee an eight weeks’ campaign, during which he will deliver not more than two speeches in any one week. He will tell them that he wants the speeches given at strategic points about the country, and that they should all be broadcast on a national radio hook-up. Each speech will be different, but all will deal with matters close to the interests of the “common man,” little emphasis beifig lald on foreign relations or matters of compli~ cated finance. Opposes Fraud Charges. | If the national committee should by lany chance believe that the campaign should continue the charges which filled the keynote speech at the con- vention, charges of “pillage and privi- lege” against the Republicans, it is known that the governor will oppose them and insist on what his supporters 1hl“e called ‘“constructive statesman- ship.” He ‘believes that a candidate is like a salesman and can best sell his own | goods by telling how good they are in- stead of how bad he thinks those of a competitor are. After the meeting Wednesday the governor will return to Albany, where he will prepare his formal acceptance | speech, in which he has promised that | he will enlarge at length on his posi- {tion on the eighteenth amendment and | the laws enacted to procure its enforce- | ment. |SENTENCED 48 HOURS AFTER BANK ROBBERY | By the Associated Press. MORRILLTON, Ark., July 7.—Less and Commercial | noon for Kazan, about 430 miles from | than 48 hours after they had robbed | Moscow | the First National Bank here of $8,500, | three negroes today were indicted, | pleaded guilty and recelved prison sentences, | Lee Franklin, janitor of the bank, | was given 26 years for the robbery and | five years for a previous theft from the bank, sentences to run concurrently. | John D. Willlams and Alfred Rosser cach received 26 years. Circuit Judge J. T. Bullock pronounced the sentences at a special term of court. | The bank was robbed late Thursday. All the money except $266 Was re- covered yesterday after the negroes had confessed. From Water.as Younger Men Look On | | When he saw a child struggling for | life in the waters of Washington Chan- | nel, off the Pish Market, early last | night, H Aleonm: Hertig, 64 years old, jof New York City, while younger men | When the child came to the surface a second Ume Hertlg grabbed him and swam to the pier, where bystanders reached down and dragged the boy to the dock. Hertig floated until the boy u ok the form of a great | stond by looking, jumped into the water | was taken cave of, and then the men treak stretching from the ) and held the boy afloat until others | helped him up to the wharf, which is horizon to the zenith and di- overnead several smaller strips ght could be observed. So bright he murora that several pastel tints be distinguished in the brightest near the horizon. It varied in fiashing forth suddenly and own s & 15 be almost 1t was still in evidence pulled both over the high runners of | “he dock | Bhortly before 7 o'clock Hertlg saw | 5-year-old George Gobbett, 511 Tenih street southwest, topple off the doclk !mw the water. The boy disappeared immediately, but in s few seconds came struggling Lo the surtace, Others on the dock made no move, but Hertig plunged into the water and sw o the boy. | very high above the water at this point | " Bystanders took the boy to his home ‘unmedlnulyv Hertlg was none the | worse for his experience. He was es- | corted by Prederick E. Gisler, manager of Herzog's restaurant at Eleventh and Water streets, to a walling car and taken to Mr. Gisler's home, Mr. Hertig 15 spending & few days in Washington s & guest of Mr, Gisler, CLUE TO AMUNDSEN FATE REVEALED BY WORKMEN'S STORY Laborers on Ship Say They| Saw Object Fall Into Sea June 18. 'PLANE IN TH;\T VICINITY AT THE TIME MENTIONED | Anxiety Felt at Kings Bay Over Party of Alpinists, Absent in Italia Search. | By the Assoctated Press. | KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, July 7.—A clue to the fate of Roald Amundsen 1and the five men who accompanied him |in the French seaplane in search of missing members of the Nobile expedi- tion came to light today. Laborers of the Great Northern Coal Co., en route { from Norway to Advent Bay, said that June 18, when their vesse. the Inger- fire, was off Bear Island they saw a dark object dropping from the sky into the sea. The distance was so great that they | could not make out just what it was, and they thought nothing further of the incident until their arrival, when they heard other workmen discussing the disappearance of Amundsen’s plane. The big machine would have been in the neighborhood of Bear Island at about the time the men mentioned. Captain Is Pessimistic. Capt. Wisting of the steamship Quest was pessimistic when he was told of the laborers’ story. Anxiety is being felt by the Italian | rescue forces for Capt. Sora, com- mander of a party of Alpinists who have been exploring the north coast for traces of the three members of the No- bile party who left the ice floe camp May 30. The captain has been absent from his party more than a week. He had been warned in a dropped by Lieut. Lutzow Holm, Nor- wegian aviator, not to attempt a foot crossing of the sea ice between him and the Nobile refugees near Foyn Island. Members of the captain's party said that he started despite this advice and another sledge party found a note from him at Cape Brun, saying he was pro- ceeding toward Foyn Island and re- lating Lieut. Holm's warning. Capt. Sora carried very little food and Arctic experts said his lone attempt was against all Arctic experience. (Copyright. 1928.) AIR SEARCH FAILS. Planes Unable to Spot Three of Missing Nobile Party. STOCKHOLM, July 7 (#).—The lead- er of the Swedish expedition at Spitz- bergen has forwarded the information that the Swedish planes have patrolled the whole coast of Northeast Land with- out finding trace of the three men of the Nobile party, headed by the Swed- ish scientist, Malmgren. Anxiety for Prof. Malmgren and his two Italian comrades is growing daily, and any rescue would now be a last-minute one. The Swedish papers criticize the con- centration of all efforts for extending relief to the group on the ice-floes near Foyn Island. The Swedish planes, they argue, should devote their efforts to searching for Malmgren. The Swedish North Pole expert, Maj. Duse, characterizes as nonsense the statement by Gen. Nobile that the Malmgren group had 50 days’ supplies. | If they are still alive, he says, the three wanderers must be found immediately. search for the balloon group of seven men must be suspended until definite knowledge is had of the fate of the Melmgren group. The head of the Swedish expedition has gone to Virgo Bay for a conference with the commander of the Citta Di Milano. A Finnish seaplane is about to join the Swedish expedition in its rescue efforts. | CZECHOSLOVAKIA Al | | ; | Government Orders Flyer to Hunt for Dr. Behounek. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, July 7 (#) Caechoslovakia today joined the nations which are trying to assist the survivors of the {ll-fated expedition of Gen Umberto Nobile to the North Pole. Especial interest here is centered in Dr Behounek, a citizen of this country and one of the two meterologists on the Italia. He is one of the five survivors at the red tent on the ice floe near Foyn Island. __The_government _telegraphed _Capt (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—24 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign, Political Survey of the United States— Pages 18, 19, 20 and 22. PART TWO—12 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Peatures. Review of New Books—Page 4. Parent-Teacher Activities+Page 5 Radio News—-Pages 6 and 7. | Financial News—Pages 8, 9 and 10. PART THREE—14 PAGES. Society. News of the Clubs—Page 8 Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 9 Around the City—Page 9. PART FOUR—14 PAG Amusement Section—Theal and Music. | | | and Screen 7 and 8. Fraternal News—Page 9. Army and Navy News—Page 10 District Naval Reserve--Page 10 Civillan Army News—Page 10, Spanish War Veterans—Page 11 District National Guard--Page 11 Veterans of the Great War—Page 13 Marine Corps News—Page 13. Serlal Story, “The Greene Case"—Page 14. Cross-word Puzezle—Page 14 PART FIVE—4 PAGES, Pink Sports Section, PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. PART SEVEN—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Humor GRAPHIC BICTiON—l PAGES, World Events in Plctures, COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES, Mutt and Jeff: Reg'lgr Fellers: Mr. and Mrs; High Lights »f History, Murder note | News of the Motor World—Pages 5, 6, ON THE POLITICAL SEA. |Emissary Sent by France i Sounds Out Bulgarian Monarch. gToo Busy at Present to Be Wed, Is R.ler’s Re- | ported Reply. By the Associated Press. SOFIA, Bulgaria, July were current here today that King Boris, whose engagement to Princess Giovanni of Italy, was officially denied a few months ago, may marry the beautiful Princess Francoise of France. the 25-year-old daughter of the Duke | of Guise, claimant to the French throne. | It has been learned that a prominent member of the French Chamber came to Bulgaria recently, ostensibly to in- spect the earthquake regions, but actu- ly to sound out the King in behalf of Premier Poincare and M. Briand on 7.—Reports BORIS MAY MARRY PRINCESS, DAUGHTER OF “FRENCH KING"| URGED BY CTZENS - the question of marrying the second daughter of “the King of France.” This emissary also saw Premier Liaptchefl and Foreign Minister Bouroff, who, while expressing appreciation for the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) KING BORIS. MERCHANT ROBBED AT DOOR OF HOME | Israel Burka Held Up by Ban- dit—Suspect Arrested and Money Recovered. Three hours after Israel S. Burka, 28 years old, of 608 Rock Creek Church road. had been held up and robbed of $400 by a bandit who lay in wait for him behind a hedge about his home last night, police arrested Alton P. Beard, 24 years old, of 642 Seventh street northeast, who, they said, con- fessed. The money wa$ found in the grass along the Soldiers’ Home fence on Park place wherg Burka had pur- sued the hold-up mah after the latter dropped his gun as he fled after the robbery. Arrest Is Made. Acting on a description given by Burka, who believed that he recognized his asailant, Detective Oscar Mansfleld arrested Beard. Beard told the police that he had been drinking and did not remember having had a_revolver, ad- mitting, however, that he had attempted to escape with the money. Burka, the proprietor of a meat mar- ket at Second street and Rhode Island avenue, returned home from his store in his delivery truck at 9:30, his usual hour on Saturday nights. His house is at the corner of Park place, and he drove up to the side door. As he stepped from the vehicle, a man who had been lurking behind the hedge stepped in front of him, pointed a revol- ver at him and commanded, “Hand over all you've got!” “He had the gun on me and all I could do was to hand over my money,"” | Burka told reporters later. The man | cketed the money hastily, turned on his heel and fled down Park place. He | dropped the revolver, Burka said, after he ?\-d gone a few dozen yards. | Realizing that since the thief was no | longer armed he could pursue him | without risking his life, Burka rushed | after him. The thief first ran toward | the Soldiers’ Home, as though he con- templated climbing over the fence, but then changed his course and ran into an aliey near Park road. Unable to Find Revolver. By the time Burka and others who had joined in the chase reached the alley he was nowhere in sight. | Burka returned home and notified the police. The police were unable to find the revolver which Burka said he saw the man throw away Burka had with him’ the day's re- ceipts of the store DORAN ORDERS PROBE OF RUM THEFT REPORT | By the Associated Press Prohibition Commissioner Doran has ordered an investigation into reports that large quantity of bonded whisky has disappeared from a Government warehouse in New York Pirst reports to the commissioner indicate that more than half of the 125,000 gallons of bonded liquor stored in the warehouse was missing, but he declared tonight that this figure may bo ‘greatly exaggerated," 751 AR DROWNED AS VESSEL SINKS 80 Victims in Bay of Arauco | | Disaster Were Passengers. Skipper Kills Self. | By the Associnted Press SANTIAGO, Chile, July 7.—Two hundred and ninety-one lives were lost | when the transport Angamos sank to- day in the Bay of Arauco, according to information given out tonight by the ministry of marine. Eighty of the vic- tims were passengers. Only five mem- bers of the crew were saved, according to early reports of the accident. The captain committed sulcide on the | bridge of the vessel. No Wreckage Found. Wireless dispatches tonight said the cruiser Zenteno and the destroyer Wil- liams arrived at the scene of the dis- aster. which is south of Lebu, off the southern coast of the republic, but had found no wreckage. Other ships are | being,sent to the locality. | Details of the catastrophe, beyond the bare announcement of its happen- ing by the naval ministry, were lack- | ing. The ship Tarapaca reported today | that last night at 8:40 it interpreted weak radlo signals from the transport | staung that it was in an extremely | difficult position, but there was no ex- | Planation. The Tarapaca radio man | smd he belicved the weakness of the | | slgnals indicated a storm which has | raged for two days in that vicinity had | dismantled the main set, forcing use | of an auxiliary apparatus. Among the 80 passengers on ship, which was bound northward from the Straits of Magellan, were many women and children. The suicide of the captain, Corbetta Ismael Suares, is sald to have taken place when he r:‘nhm‘d he was without power to save these. Had Crew of 215. Although it is not known what caused the ship to sink it is believed possible the storm, which today had reached a most violent stage, may have been a contributing factor. The boat had a crew of 215 men, and with the 80 passengers there were 295 aboard. The four who were saved were sald on the marine ministry's bulletin ) the | 539000 000 BUDGET |Continuance of $1.70 Tax Rate Is Indorsed by Ad- visory Council. A budget for the 1929-30 fiscal year of $39.000,000 and continuance of the | existing tax rate of $1.70 on taxable | real estate and tangible personal prop- | erty was formally recommended to the | District Commissioners yesterday by the Citizens’ Advisory Council. The council’s recommendations were contained in a 14-page report, based on thé conclusions reached after a hurried | study of the estimates of the depart- | | ment heads calling for appropriations | | amounting to $46,538,082. | Items totaling $6,446,826 were deleted | | from the departmental estimates, leav- ling the budget total at $40,091,256. The council, however, urged a flat rate HOOVER CAMPAIGN CHIEFS LAY PLANS T0 CAPTRE AT ;But No Separate Organiza- | tion Will Be Established, Work Says. MOSES WILL DIRECT POLICIES OF BATTLE Commerce Head S‘lent on Resig- nation—New York Situation Is Discussed. Convening here coincident with Sec- retary Hoover's move to leave the cabi- net, Republican campaign strategists of the New England and Middle Atlantic States laid plans yesterday evening to make the East safe for the Hoover- Curtis ticket next November. ‘The “council of war,” presided over | by Chairman Work of the Republican national committee, was an acknowl- edgment of the fact that the Republic- ans will make the East their principal battleground. The deliberations, held behind closed doors at the Willard Hotel, consumed nearly four hours yes- terday and ran well into the night. At the conclusion of the conference Chairman_Work announced that no separate Eastern organization to con- duct the presidential campaign would be established for the present, but that the campaign in the East would be un- der dme supervision of an advisory rd. Moses Directs Policy. E Senator Moses, Chairman Work also announced, “has been selected and has agreed to undertake the ol tion and direction of the service of plan and policy for the campaign.” It was ex- | plained that the New Hampshire Sen- jator would make his headquarters in i Washington. | The party’s State organizations will have their responsibilities emphasized in the campaign, Chatrman Work said, “to a larger extent than heretofore.” “The plan is also intended to confer more real responsibility,” he declared, national committee and to bring about a more effective co-ordination between the national and respective State com- mittees.” The “Northeastern advisory board,” | national i New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu- setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Delaware, Pennsyivania and Maryland will include in addition Senator ' Moses, Senator Metcalf Rhode Island. chairman of the sena- committee, torial W Repre- jof $39,000,000, pointing out that more ’;;:“W m mm: | could have been deducted if the Com- | missioners had permitted additional | time for a canvass of the numerous items listed by the department heads. Report Is Presented. The report was presented to Com- missioner Sidney F. Taliaferro by |James G. Yaden, chairman of the | council, and William A. Roberts, re- | corder, who worked until 2 o'clock yes- | terday morning typing the document in order to have it at the District Building before the deadline. In a letter of transmittal, the coun- cil said: | ‘““There is submitted herewith a state- | | ment of the recommendations of the | | Citizens’ Advisory Council with respect | {to the budget for the fiscal year 1930. ‘The total amount of $40,091.256 is pro- | posed by the council as a maximum which more time and opportunity for consideration with the various depart- ment officials would have reduced some- | what further. “We are particularly insistent that | | the total should not be so large as to | make impossible the retention of a tax | rate of $1.70, as we are agreed that the | Separate Body Not Needed. Because of the location of the main headquarters of the national committee in Washington, Mr. Work said it was | deemed “there was no immediate ne- cessity for establishing a separate East- ern_headquarters in New York City.” The Western post was taken over for- mally yesterday by James W. Good of Iowa, Hoover’s pre-convention manager, and organization of the Western head- quarters in Chicago will begin im- Senator Mosgs had been specially in- vited to be prdent by Chairman Work, although the meeting was designed principally for national committaemen. Former Gov. Heray Allen of Kansas, who has been made chairman of publicity for the Republican drive, staled following the conference that reports were received on the political situation in each of the States repre- sented and that while some of the dele- gates admitted they faced a fight on their home grounds, all that Hoover and Curtis would emerge from the fray victorious. | mediately. | above rate is the maximum that can be |collected without undue hardship in | view of the high assessment ratio in ef- | fect in the District of Columbia.” In the general report, the councii/ | added: “The council is fully aware of the growing demands upon the revenues of the District as a result of the steady | growth in population and the tendency | |to_develop new areas in the outlying | |territory. The latter factor, however desirable it may be from the point of {view of health and happiness of the people, brings insistent demands for paving, water and sewer extensions, as | | well as increased school facilities and | {police and fire protection. A natural !increase in expenditures follows. Federal Building Program. “On the other hand, the development | of the Federal building program retires | from the total taxable property valuable ! |areas which are important sources of | revenue, while the structures themselves | | increase the cost of maintenance of the |streets and public institutions in sur- | rounding territory. New private con- | struction cannot be expected to make | the phenomenal contributions to the | total taxable property that it has in the | past few years. “It is clear, therefore, that if an in- | | crease in the already high tax rate is to | | be avoided the utmost caution must ist in the operation of the District go ernment and in the promotion of im- provements. True economy will be nec- essary even in the event that Congress comes to the long delayed conclusion {that adjustment of its fiscal relations | with the District is imperative “With these facts in mind, the coun- closely with the recommendations of the department heads. Although we are cognizant of their superior knowl- {edge of the needs of their departments ana greatly regret that the Commis- sioners did not see fit to permit our | consultation with them in this work, (Continued on Page 2. Column 1)) ‘B’remen Fl&ers Snubged at Colc;gne Following Visit to Former Kaiser By the Associated Press. COLOGNE, Germany, July 7.—So plqued were the Bremen transatlantic fiyers, Capt. Koehl and Baron Von Huenefeld, with the frigid reception ac~ corded them here upon their arrival from Doorn this afternoon that they announced they would leave early to- morrow for Eortmunt without walting fo attend the receptions planned for them later in the day. A lone alderman greeted them offi- clally when they landed at the air- but the enthusiastic cheers drome of al crowd made up In @ meas- ure for the lack of official warmth. | They had been on a visit to the former | Kalser, William Hohengzollern, and it | was believed the scanty notice given them by the authorities on their ar- rival had something to do with resent~ ment in cortain cireles at their trip to Doorn. A program of some extent had !been arrangod, but was suddenly aban- fcil has felt it to be necessary to deal| Battleground in East. “We ize that our princ battleground will lie in the East," sald. “We are not worrying about the West and the other sections. Ther~ is no doubt in the minds of any «r @ about the outcome in the East, ho. ever.” Problems which have arisen in some of the States were at the meeting, he explained, and plans were made for overcoming all . The outlook in New York, Gov. Smith's own stronghold. is said to have been one of the major toples of discussion. Charles D. Hilles, national commit~ | teeman from New York, gave an outline of conditions as he saw them in Smith's bailiwick and he exchanged views with his colleagues on how to best meet the opposing forces and insure success for the Republican ticket at the polls. Others who took part in the meeting were Representative Fort of New Jer- sey, secretary of the national commit- tee; James Francis Burke of Pennsyl- vania, general counsel: Louis K. Lig- gett of Massachusetts, Earle S. Kinsley. jr. of Vermont; Frederick S. Peck of Rhode Island, Daniel E. Pomeroy of New Jersey. Albert Hislap of New Hampshire and Judge D. O. Hastings of Delaware, acting for Senator du Pont, who is fll. The committeemen went directly fram the hotel to the home of Secre- tary Hoover on S street, where they were entertained at dinner by the Re- publican nominee. An informal discus- | sion of campaign problems took place | over the table, it is said. | Silent on “Resignation. Secretary Hoover declined to comment | last night on the dispatches from the Brule regarding his letter asking the President for permission to leave the cabinet The announcement came as a sul here, | visits the Summer White week, en route to California. It was learned reliably r:'g.» m;:‘ Hoover’s let- ter avolded use of w resignation, {and simply asked Mr. Coolidge “to re- [ Heve™ him of his portfolio. Hoover’s action comes on the heels of an announcement made at his office several days ago as follo up his affars ot the Department of airs at U President to re- at some so mnlhemax"uktu carly date. " He will Stop O o ‘e the early date. will st President en route Iom mv“- doned on the alleged ground that the aviators had failed to notify the city | ofMelals of the time of their arrival. | _Had they decided to re Cologne they were to have been st of the international exhibition | tomorrow, W