Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1928, Page 1

WEATHE R. (U. 8. Weather Burean Forecast.) Fair and warmer today, with thun- dershowers this afternoon; Possibly showers. tut!—l'l!ghest yes! : lowest, 75, at day. Full report tomorrow 94, at 2 pm. 6 a.m. yester- on page 7. he > N “From Press to Home POLISH SEA FLYERS UNREPORTED: FUEL 15 BELIEVED LOW Craft Last Seen North of Azores, Heading Toward Ireland. FRENCH STORM ADDS T0 FEAR FOR SAFETY Two Airmen Had 56 Hours.as Maximum Time Limit to Spend in Air. rs have passed since fivers, Majs bala rom Le Bourget air field They carried fuel sufficient for a con- tinuous flight at high specd of 48 hours. It was estimated that by traveling at low speed they could remain in the air for 56 hours. This means that at 11:46 p.m. Sat- . eastern standard time. they had d the 48-hour mark. Each hour, fore, puts a heavy strain on the| ihread of hope to which friends of the cxpedition still cling. Reported North of Azores. | The Norwegian tank steamer Aztec | wircless>s than an airplane had been | sightad headed northeast at a point 463 miles due north of the Azores and 1,284 | miles from Le Bourget. This was 138 miles west by northwest of the point | where Ruth Eider was forced down | and rescued last year. The identtly of this plane has not been established with absolute finality. ‘The evidence is overwhelming, however, that it was the Marszalek Pilsudski. ‘The same is true of the plane reported to have been sighted 2 hours and 20 minutes later by the British ship Amakura. The fact that the plane was headed, not toward New York, but toward Ire- land, has added the final touch of mystery to a flight which was planned and carried out from the beginning be- hind a heavy curtain of secrecy. STORMS ARE REPORTED hopped off Anxiety for Fiyers Growns—Friends Doubt Pair Turned Back. PARIS, August ¢ (. —Anxiety for the Polish transatlantic &ghflm tonight with reports of over the | minister made this promise in a letter i which he sent to | the land since it was established as a Entered as second class matte) e. hington, ¢ WASHINGTO D X ) SUNDAY MORNING, ——— AUGUST 1928 —NINET o _EIGHT PAGES. (P Means Associated Press IN WASHINGTON FIVE CENTS Within the Hour” an Shar, === WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE AND SUBURBS President Shows { Good Eye and Aim At Trap Shooting Special Dispatch to The Sta SUPERIOR. Wis, August 4— President Coolidge today tried his hand at trap shooting. and, accord- ing to the reports given to the press, he maintained an average of hitting seven out of nine of the clay pigeons as they were slung into the air. This was President’s debut as a trap shooter, aithough the traps were in- stalled at the Summer White House | two weeks ago He seemed greatly pleased with his | first experience, and was especially gratified to discover that his eyes were still good, and that his hand was steady. This was the first time the President has fired off a gun or | any other kind of firearms for a good many years, and the manner in which he handled his gun suggested that he had lost none of the knowl- edge he acquired as a young man in the hills of Vermont. BALDWINTOBAN PROTECTON SSUE Government Party Will Not Stress Subject During Coming Elections. | | | i | By the Associated Press LONDON, August 4.—Stanley Bald- win today pledged his party not to introduce protection as an issue in the coming general election. The prime Comdr. Bolton M. | Eyres-Monsell, chief government whip | in the House of Commons. | The letter explained itself as having | been written because of “some con- fusion of thought among Unionist mem- bers arising from condensed reports of certain speeches.” The epistle stated the government's attitude on ‘“safe- guarding duties” and on rating, or tax relief. Tt said: “Safeguarding has been the law of | principle by Lloyd George's govern- ment in 1921. It was the policy we adopted at the last general election and it will be continued. “We pledged and shall continue to be pledged not to introduce protection. We pledged and shall continue to be {);:g"ed not to impose any taxes on The prime minister wrote that the boidness and originality of the gov- ernment’s tax plan for permanent re- lief of ive industry has been “no doubt the reason why both oppo- sition parties have been trying to drag in a protectionist red-herring in the vain hope of cai dissension in a party whose unity enthusiasm have aroused their envious admiration.” GUARDSMEN STRICKEN BY PTOMAINE POISON PRESIDENTIAL WRIT ISSUED FOR ARREST OFH M. BLACKVE {Opens Way to Extradite Oil Magnate, Who Fled to France. INDICTED FOR PERJURY IN FILING TAX RETURNS United States Marshal Will Await ‘Word From Washington Before Leaving to Get Capitalist. By the Associated Press. DENVER, August 4.—Legal force was applied today by the United States Government to bring back to this country Henry M. Blackmer, capitalist, oil magnate and missing key witness in | the famed Teapot Dome ofl case, from | | his refuge of self-imposed exile in | France. A presidential warrant was issued em- powering United States Attorney George Stephen to send an officer to Europe to arrest Blackmer and return him to Denver where indictments are pending charging the oil man with perjury in connection with his alleged failure to make proper income tax returns. United States Marshall Richard C. | Callen was designated to return Black- mer as a fugitive from justice. The warrant, addressed to the dis- trict attorney, was signed by President Coolidge and Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. Marshall Callen will await advice from Washington before pro- ceeding on his mission. “You are hereby authorized and em- powered,” declares the warrant, “to take and hold him (Blackmer) in your custody and conduct him from such place of delivery in France by the most direct and convenient means of trans- portation to and into the United States, there to surrender the said Henry M. Blackmer to the proper authorities of the United States of America.” Extradition of Blackmer is authorized under the provisions of existing treaty relations between this Governmalt and France. The charges against the oil man were contained in indictments after Federal tax liens for a total of $8,498,- 935.78, were filed against his property in Denver and New York on June 4. Blackmer went to France several years ago when the Government began its investigation of the Teapot Dome lease and has refused to return since | that time. NOT OIL CASE MOVE. Officials Here Think Matter Dissociated With Teapot Dome. ( | CKING [RRITATION 2 France Considers ‘ Plans for Cooling } The Sahara Desert | | Cabinet to Act on Ameri- can’s Scheme to Create Inland Seas By the Assoctated Press LONDON, August 4—A plan to change the climate of Northern Africa by cre- ating inland seas in the Sahara Desert is being considered seriously by the - | | | INSURANCE FIRM §3900,000 SHORT! International Life’s Assets, However, Are Believed Sufficient. | | By the Associated Press ST. LOUIS, August 4.—The Interna- tional Life Insurance Co., with head-| quarters here, is “apparently short ap- | proximately $3,500,000 securities,” ac- cording to a statement issued tonight by Charles R. Detrick, insurance com- missioner of California, chairman of a committee of investigating officials. “When six of the examiners were in | Chicago July 23 and 24 to check about $3,500,000 of securities alleged to be in possession of R. C. Toombs, president of the International Life Insurance Co., the examiners were denied sight of the securities by Mr. Toombs or access to books of Mr. Toombs,” the statement Evicted Man Keeps Vigil on Furniture Parked in Gutter By the Associaled Press CHARLOTTE, N. C., August 4— W. R. Mills of this city, who ap- parently prefers to go to sleep on his bed in the gutter rather than move his furniture out of the street, was still standing guard over his house- hold goods here tonight. Two twinkling red lights warned motorists that his furniture con- tinued to remain there. Every night since Monday, when sheriff’s deputies put Mills out of his house because, they said, he did not pay his rent, Wayt Thomas, engineer, has dashed out there at sundown and lighted the lights. Reports from the neighborhood to- day indicated that Mills was keep! a shotgun in readiness in the even! any one attempted to force him to move on. MARATHON VICTORY ONE DIES AS HEAT SCORCHES CAPITAL Dr. Thomas D. Chapman Succumbs; Three Others Stricken Before Storm. One man died and three were pros- trated during the intense heat here yesterday before the thunder shower, which broke about 4 pm., causing slight damage to electrical power and telephone lines, lowered the tempera- ture from its official peak at 96 de- grees to 78 degrees, where it hovered throughout the evening. At 3 pm. the kiosk on Pennsylvania avenue reg- istered 101. The Weather Bureau offered the Capital promise of no relief for today, forecasting continued warm with prob- able thundershowers this sfternoon. This morning will be fair, however, offering the mercury unchallenged op- French government. The cabinet is ex- pected to make a decision on the ques- tion in September. : Dwight Braman of New York is the engineer who presented the plan and undertook to raise in America $50,000,- 000 to further the project. He made an intensive engineering study last Spring of the arld wastes lying below the level of the Mediterranean and extending from the Gulf of Gabes westward to Biskra. He formulated plans to cut three ship canals 40 feet deep and 200 feet wide connecting the Mediterranean Sea at Gabes with three dry saline lake beds called “schotts.” It is estimated that Mediterranean | waters by means of these canals would flood permanently some 10,000 square miles, reaching from Gabes westward. This would mean a water route of about 250 miles for seagoing ships through a part of Tunis and deep into ria. The main purpose, however, would be 0 affect climatic conditions and increase rainfall which, Braman undertakes to demonstrate, will be the result. His scheme is based on that of a commission of French engineers, among whom was M. De Lesseps, who in 1882 made a minute survey of the entirc region. The American engineer, however, must have a concession before begin- ning _operations—and on that the French cabinet must decide—of about 50,000 square miles of territory adjoin- ing the flooded areas. These territories are in no sense a no man's land, for they are under nominal spheres of in- fluence of certain Arab sheiks, but as th:y stand they have no productive value. 'STORM KILLS THREE IN MANHATTAN AREA Woman Struck by Bolt; Girl Vie- tim of Third Rail; Patrolman Dies From Live Wire. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, A t 4 —One woman was killed by a It of lightning, an- other was electrocuted on an elevated third rail, and a policeman was killed as he picked up a fallen “live” wire tonight when a violent electrical storm struck the bathing resorts near Man- hattan. Mrs. Edward Connors, 37 of Coney Island was the lightning victim while wading at Coney. A throng estimated at between 800,- REFUSALOF SHITH T0 0K FARM FE MAY AFFET WEST Rumpus in Missouri De- mocracy Aiso Expected to Influence Election. FARM LEADERS’ RETURN TO HOOVER HELD LIKELY Reed’s Fight on Hay Apt to Turn Dry Democrats to Nomi- nee of G. 0. P. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Gov. Al Smith's flat declination to accept the equalization fee and the rumpus in the democracy of Missouri to be settled at Tuesday's primaries promise to have important bearing on the politigal situation in the Middle West. The Smith flat turning down the equalization fee, dear to the hearts of the McNary-Haugenites, is believed by many to take the farm issue out of the campaign; to leave, indeed, Gov. Smith largely in the same category with President Coolidge and Mr. Hoover on that issue. This is disputed by some of the Democrats, among them Senator Harry Hawes of Missouri, who is to leave here Tuesday to open up Smith headquar- ters in St. Louis, from which the battle for the South Midwest is to be fought. Senator Hawes points to the idea con- tained in the Democratic platform, which declares that the crop surplus problem must be solved by the cost upon the producers, to which Gov. Smith also gives rence. Equalization Fee. The equalization fee, how:ver. is s0 accept any legisla- . Those farmers who followed the lead of corn belt committee of 22, head- | portunity to cmb from the storm-in- |000 and 900,000 fled for shelter as reads. duced Iwoer altitudes under which the |hail and rain to fall. Among the coast of Northern France. By the Associated Press. of Majs. Thirty-Six Collapse During Parade To Consider Offers. e I’glfl 1dzi- kowski refused to believe-that the fiyers had turned back toward Paris. The officials of Le Bourget air field rvu;demly share 2 W view th:: tions iven steamshi] It has been by f t the fiyers saw ship from a ko tumed back to show distance and lane was flying without apparent diffi- :ultv has sl this argument, The Pilsudski was 24 hours out of Le Bourget when it was sighted, the fiyers must have had fully half of their fuel left. The big, four-ton sesquiplane, which carried its own weight in fuel and crew, had demonstrated in tests that it was able to maiptain a speed of 105 to 110 miles an_hour. When sighted by the Aztec the piane was flying at only 75 miles an hour. On that basis it is thoughnt that they must have encoun- d headwinds, although the weather bureau here reported that the wind was partly behind them in the morning The decision of the fiyers not to take e radio outfit is cited as another illus- tration of their decision to see fiight through. They considered tal 2 small radio, but prefered to use space and weight for carrying gas. They had long ago. made up their minds to wait until they thought con- ditions were as near perfect as possible. They were resolved to stake everything on their kil and their powerful air- jane " Aviation experts also regard as un- Ykely the theory that they lost their way through the failure of their com- pass. The Marszalek Pillstdski carried three comy es, one of them similar 1o that which Cel. Lindbergh used on his flight to Paris The fiyert’ intimate assoclates admit thai they are puzzied by the reported speed of 75 miles an hour when the plane last was sighted. They say that there must have been a favorable wind king the art and that much of the flying | . at & speed exceeding 100 miles r f the pilots lost thelr way and d mphasized that they still would have eral good chances of Tescue. yeservoirs are equipped with which sre supposed tanks within 40 seconds this it valves ugh ma n t this possibility. They say that of the motor would tip the such a way that the eraft's greatly di- qualities would be s of Any for the the fyer rubber boats MITCHEL VIELD PREPARED rpo MITCHEL PIELD. N. Y. August [ many Nassa County police erowd that gathered to welcome ki at the end of their transatiantic fhight Despite the heat some visited the field during the day, the erowd thinning in the late afternoor when it probably Firone Polish to the The Minister Biaes, Jan Clechanowskl, who remained | 1he field with Polish consular officials | were oftered for sale in Pe ! said | soldiers and that one pearl alone sold | guarded by soldiers and the Nationalls o and the commitiee of welcome st he still had hopes that the land here. 3 when their fuel gave out, it | “Their | to discharge all Theoretically would enable the plane to float, | ny pilots are inclined to dis- 4 A guard of 200 soldiers and as : patrolied Mitche] Pleld today to keep order in Vl'u | the | Potish fiyers, Majs. Kubala and 16zikow- | 2,500 persons was reported that the fiyers | had turned back mw-ml in Erie, Pa., on Return From Summer Camp. By the Associated Press. ERIE, Pa., August 4.—Believed to be suffering from ptomaine poisoning as a result of eating meat sandwiches, 12 members of Company E, 112th Infan- try, Pennsylvania National Guard, fell to the street unconscious here today during a parade after their arrival from Summer training camp. Those afflicted were en to the hospital, where the condition of two was reported as serious. Authorities expressed the belief that the meat was | tainted. The sandwiches were pur- { chased near the camp and eaten while glemmmlers were returning home on a ain, :TRAIN KILLS 4 AUTOISTS. | % S | Man, Wife and Two Sons Die in| Crossing Crash. | | | GREENVILLE, 8. C., August 4 (#).— | {Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Boykin and two | sons, Claude, 18, and John, 14, of Mari- |etta, Greenville County, were instantly killed about 4 o'clock this afternoon when their automobile was struck by a | Piedmont & Northern passenger train at a grade crossing at Golden Grove, on | the Greenville-Pledmont Highway. | | "The automobile was demolished and | | the bodies scattered along the right of | | way, the train not coming to a stop | for 900 feet. MISS HEMPEL TO WED. Estate Operator Is | | Florida Real Prospective Bridegroom. | ST PETERSBURG, Fla. August 4 | (). —“Jack” Taylor, wealthy St. Peters- | burg real estate operator, and Freida | Hempel, grand opera star, are to be | married in Switzerland Monday, August 13, according to friends of the couple | here. Miss Hempel already is in Switzer- land, and Taylor, who makes his home |in New York at the Athletic Club, safled Wednesday on the Mauretania to | join her. CAMPAIGN IS OPENED. Norman Thomas, Socialist, Bfldnni | Presidential Drive, NEW YORK. August 4 (#).—Normapn Thomas, Soclalist presidential nominee, opened his campaign with a speech %0 25,000 persons in Brooklyn bere to- | day. He launched an &itack on both Gov. Smith and Herbert Hoover for Officials available in Washington last night could throw no additional light on the presidential warrant received in Denver yesterday for the arrest of Henry M. Blackmer, except that this form of warrant is issued in interna- tional extradition cases. It was believed, however, that the matter was enur‘eg‘ dissoclated from the oil case, In whi Blackmer has fig: ured prominently as a missing witness for many years. Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Robe1ts, special Government ofl counsel, were not in Washington last mht. Nor were Department of Justice icials who have charge of instruc- tions to marshals in such cases as that of the former western oil official. Green H. Hackworth, solicitor of the State Department, said was not necessary that consent of a foreign governmen® first be obtained before issuing a presidential warrant, but that if the nation in which the fugitive is located refuses to ‘“l him up, such a warrant automatically is canceled. SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT IN VARE'S CONDITION Fact That He Has Not Lost Ground Held Favorable—Comes Out of Coma. | By the Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.,, August 4. The condition of Senator-elect Willlam 8. Vare of Pennsylvania, seriously ill here, was reported as showing slight improvement tonight over what it had been this afternoon, when physicians sald the patient was “practically in a state of stupor.” A bulletin issued at 9:40 pm. by Dr. Elwood J. Kirby, Mr. Vare's personal physician, sald: “There is not much change in the Senator’'s condition. His temperature is down a trifle. He Is resting quietly. He has not lost any ground—neither has he gained any. His temperature s down from 103 to 101.” Later, in an interview, Dr. Kirby sald: “The mere fact that Mr. Vare has not lost any ground and that his temperature is down is very favorable. He is expected to live through the night and may hold out two or three days, His reflexes are back again and he is also talking pretty rationally now.” Dr. Kirby returned to Philadelphia, leaving the Senator in the care of Dr. John J. S8haw, Philadelphia, resident physician at the Vare cotta Dr. | Kirby will return at noon tomorrow. G Notre Dame Star Drowns. their stands on labor, prohibition and other national issues Immediately after the Brooklyn meet- ing he returned (0 Manhattan and en- trained for the fust of a series of pro- jected speaking tours. His first sched- {uled stop at Fairmont, W. Va there he will tour the Middie and Bouthwest West Of pearls, Jadc and | By the Associnted Press. TIENTSIN, August 4.—The vernacu- ¢ | lar newspaper Yishihtao says the tombs yof the Manchu emperors and em- presses al Kwaichow recently were robbed by Northern soldidrs of pearls jade and jewelry valued at millions of United | dollars says precious gems The newspaper eking by the ‘Tientein for $35,000 gold At least 5,000 soldiers were stated to \ v From | | _ BAN DIEGO, Calif., August 4 (). | Max_Houser, 28, all-American end on | the Notre Dame foot ball team in 10 ‘nnd 1926 and athletic coach at Red- |lands University in 1926, was drowned | at Mission Beach, 12 miles north of here, this afternoon. He was playing ball with five others when all in the party fell in a hole. Northern Chinese Rob Emp;ror;‘ Tombs » Gems Worth Millions have participated in the desecration, spending 15 days in rifling the tombs, The tomb of Chien Lung was opened | first, 14 cofns being found In it con- taining the remains of the empresses | and hnrerlll concubines, The coffins | were filled with )Mn, pearls and *old. The tombs of the Empre ‘zehsi, | known as “the old budd also was opened, ‘The tombs are now beiny | Government has ordered the arrest of the ringleaders. “The committee will reassemble on August 10 to consider all offers for re- habilitation, reinsurance, etc., and be- lieves that the assets will prove ample to protect all policyholders, if respon- be parties either rehabilitate or rein- sure the International Life Insurance | Co.” ' Toombs, an investment banker, pur-\ chased control of the company in June, 1927, for a sum in excess of $3,100,000. The alleged shortage is more than $1,000,000 ater than the combined capital stock and surplus of the com- pany, but policy holders and stockhold- ers apparently face no loss as good-will is valued at $4,000,000. Offer to Purchase. The company had $309,115.719 of in- surance in force with 160,000 policy- holders and assets of $43,186,431, ac- cording to the statement of last Jan- uary 1. %‘e Missouri State Life Insurance | Co., also with headquarters here, has offered to purchase the assets and as- sume the liabilities of International. The merger would make the Missouri State the largest legal reserve life in- surapce company west of the Mississippi with more than $1,000,000,000 insurance in force and assets of approximately $125,000,000. The Missouri State Life has offered | to pay stockhelders $107 a share. Par | value is $25. Market value has been | about $75, | Confidence that the matter would be straightened out by August 10 was ex- pressed tonight by W. F. Grantges, first vice president of the company, who said, whatever the outcome, the 160 000 policy holders and 1,100 stockhold- ers would be protected. He said in- surance inspectors representing eight States have been making an examina- | tion of the company for the past sev- eral weeks “It has been explained by Mr. Toombs,” Grantges said, “that the se- curities wére being used in a deal in connection with the sale of certain assets of the company and that the securities or their equivalent would be forthcoming.” ‘When Toombs obtained control of 2, Column 4.) CANADA'S 1927 TRADE GREATEST IN HISTORY Imports Show Improvement, but Exports Decline. Due to Lower Prices. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, August 4.—The total trade of Canada for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1028, was valued at $2,350,- 412,000, the greatest In its history, the Dominion bureau of statistics announced today. The total s an increase of $60,946,000 or 22 per cent over 1927, and $103,383,000, or 4.6 per cent over 1026 Imports In 1928 show a decided im- provement over 1927 and 1926, while exports show a decline due to lower rices, with the result that Canadw's favorable trade balance on March 31, 1928, was reduced to $141,500,000. This favorable balunce was largely with the British Empire. CHAMBERLAIN BETTER. Foreign Secretary, Pneumonia’Vie- tim, Passes Good Night LONDON, August 4 (). 8ir J. Aus~ ten Chamberlain, secretary of state for foreign affairs,. pasied a good night, He is suffering from a mild attack of bronchial pneumonia. While his friends | according EXPECTED BY U5 America Enters Best Olympic Team in Years for the Event Today. By the Associated Press. AMSTERDAM, August 4.—America’s last bid for another Olympic track and field chemplonship will be made to- morrow when the strongest American marathon team in years, led by Jole Ray, meets the cream of the world's distance runners in the 26 miles, 385 yards grind. The Americans are in perfect con- dition and confident of victory. “Theyshave trained religiously, all to their own pet methods and they have not overeaten,” Trainer Tim Sullivan said. The chief obstecles to a victory for the United States, Sullivan believes, will be Harper and FPerrls of Great Britain, CIi; Bricker and Johnny Miles of Canada, and Koski, hailed as the best of the Finns. Sullivan thinks all ords will be broken. “The course is the most level in the world,” he pointed out “It's abso- lutely without elevation. The dirt part has been packed until it is faster than the track at the stadium.” A canal parallels the course for sev- eral miles and officials have prohibited competitors from jumping into it. The race starts at 3 o'clock Dutch time or 9 a.m. Eastern daylight time. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National Forelgn. Cross-word Puzzle’-Page 18 Political Survey of the United States— Pages 20 and 21 Army and Navy News—-Page 22, Parent-Teagher Activities—Page 22. Y. 'W. C. A Activities—Page 23 News. of the Clubs—Page 25. District Naval Res¢rve—Page 25 Clubwomen- of the Nation—Page 26. PART TWO—12 PAGES. FEditorials and Editorial Features. Review of Summer Books—Page ¢ Fraternal News—Page 6, War—Pages § marathon rec- and Veterans of the Gseat and 10. Radio News-Page 7 Financial News—Pages 8”and 9. Comntunity Centers—Page 10. . PARY THREE—12 WAGES Soclety. "PART FOUR—14 PAGES. | f j the | | city slept last night. Official Is Vietim. The fatality yesterday was Dr. Thomas P. Chapman, chief of she di- vision of appointments in the Civil Service Commission, who succumbed to a heart attack induced by the heat in his_office. ‘The prostration casualties, none of which was seriously affected, were: Joseph Redman, 75 years old, of Forest Glen, Md., who collapsed to the sidewalk in front of the Police Court and was taken to Emergency Hospital in a private automoblle for treatment. Henry Wilkes, 48 years old, 2538 Georgia avenue, who collapsed in front of 4701 Connecticut avenue and was taken A passing sutomobile to Emergency Hospital. Willlam H. Diggs, colored, 25 years old, 2010 Eighteenth street, who was stricken while aboard a Capital Trac- tion street car at Eighth and F streets northeast. He was removed to Casualty Hospital in the patrol of the ninth pre- cinct police station. Other Cities Hit. Nine deaths from the heat were re- | ported in other cities on the Atlantic seaboard as they sweltered in the grip of the heat wave that established new high temperature records for the Summer at some places, according to Associated Press dispatches. Mounting here through the morning and after- noon until it reached 96 degrees, the temperature began falling at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and by 5 o'clock it had dropped to 78 degrees. The tem- perature remained in that vicinity and at 9:30 o'clock last night the Weather Bureau reported an official :ecording of 76 degrees. During the two hours required for the mercury's drop of 18 degrees, an intense electrical storm played about the District and metropolitan area of M-rgluud. Little rain fell, according to the Weather Bureau, but fairly ac- tive lightning bursts wrought damage to power and light lines and to tele- phone cables in the northern sector of the city. The Potomac Electric Power Co. re- ported that lightning bolts struck two wer transformers mounted on poles n the 6700 block of Connecticut ave- nue, cutting off current to homes in vieinity from 30 minutes to 4 hours. Homes in sections of Silver ing, Md, were without current for to 15 minutes when a bolt burned out Two pole fuses in that community. Slight fires were caused on the poles but were quickly extinguished by the répalr crews Power Line Blown Down. ‘One of the power company’s lines was blown down at Forestville, Md,, on the recently installed circuit to Upper Marlboro, interrupting the electric service there for several hours. All storm interruptions were corrected and service restored by 9 p.m. Service on the Berwyn and Branch- Amusement Section—Theater, ‘HHN‘H | ville Md., trolley lines was slowed up and Music 4 News of the Motoi World—Pages 5, 6, .7 and 8 ) ‘Aviation Activities—Pages 10, 11 and 14 © PART FIVE—4 PAGES, Pink Sports Section, PART SIX—8 PAGES, Classified Advertising Civilian Army News—Page 7 Spanish War Veterans—Page 7 Serial Story, “The Fortunate fare! Page 8 District Natlonal Guard—Page 8 Marine Corps News—Page 8. PART S N—8 PAGES, Magazine Section—Fletlon and Humor, GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES, Way- have no fear of the outcome, they do not belleve he will be in sufclently rlod health to permit him to take part in the signing of the Kellogg pact in Parls late month. World Events in Plotures. COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES, Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr, and | assimilat Mrs.; High Lights of History, “Column 2. New Law Gives French Foreigners Right to Two Nationalities Spsoiul Dispateh to The Star PARIS, August 4.—French women, married to Americans and other for- olgners are dally besleging the Paris provineial eity halls in order o claim the benefits of a bill just passed, giv- ing them the right to retain their French nationality on condition that their application is filed before August 15, Twenty thousand French women have entered their claims so far. The bill 1s part of France's new policy of tion of children born in France to foreign parents. ¢ Jostling crowd that headed for the ele- vated at Brighton Beach were Ger- trude Neidenberg, 16, and her mother. The girl fell, or was pushed and rolled against the third rail and died. Men held back the frantic mother while a train dispatcher shut off the power. Al and pounding hail ripped from its pole. Patrolman Art! 52, picked up the loose end to carry s I rouy g He died :gre an Ambullglce eu::d’ LABOR COUNCIL PLANS POLITICAL DECLARATION President will Green Says Members Discuss Policy Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. August 4.— The executive council of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor stood ad- | Journed today until Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. 1 Though the absence of three mem- | bers again caused postponement of the | consideration of a political program at yesterday's session, President William | Green announced that politics would be taken up Monday, when the report of the non-partisan political commit- | tee would be read. President Green declined to comment on reports that there had been bitter controversy at informal discussions by members of the council concerning presidential candidates. 3,000 PER DIEM WORKERS DUE TO GET INCREASE Commissioners Expected to Ap- prove Raise in Wages Recom- | mended for District Employes. | Appfoximately 3,000 per diem em- | ployes of the District Government probably will be given a substantial in- | crease in pay this week by the Com-| missioners. The raise is expected to| average about 7 per cent. | The wage increase was recommended | to the Commissioners several weeks ago by a committee of representatives of the various engineering departments, who made a study of the salaries of per diem workers in the Federal Govern- ment doing a similar class of work. It | is understood there is no opposition among the Commissioners to granting the increase. A special meeting of the Board of Commissioners will be held tomorrow morning to consider the committee's recommendation, and quick action is anticipated because Commissioners Dougherty and laferro desire to dis- pose of the case Before Col. Willlam B. Ladue leaves Washington on a vaca- tion trip. \ W omen Who Wed International lawyers are already for- seeing some knouy;;:uknu. The bill works this way: A French woman who marries an American will possess two nationalities Iu the future. She will continue to be an_American under American law dnd French in French law. Therefore she can have two pass- rts, one American and one French. uble will begin when children, par- ticularly sons, grow up, for French au- thevities will claim them as French aw= e Luys will have to serve In the French army (Conyrisht. 1928 | staged a wonderful t Rockaway Beach the high wind | agri 7 | nee of one of his bitterest the pre-convention Mr. Dickinson, too, has launched an attacl on George N. Peek, with whom he co- operated in the past. Towa was the center of the so-called farm revolt against the Republican ad- ministration. But one by one the lead- ers there who demanded the McNary- Haugen bill, have swung to Hoover. Senator Brookhart was among the first. Governor Hamill followed suit, and now r. Dickinson. Iowa appears to be as surely in the Hoover column today as California. ‘The swing to Hoover in Iowa marks a trend. More slowly, perhaps, it is com- ing about in other States of the Mid- west and the Northwest. The wide pub- licity being given the fact that Al Smith has backed away from the equal- ization fee is calculated to give fur- ther impetus to this trend. Missouri Rumpus. ‘The rumpus among the Missouri Dem- ocrats has its bearing on the presi- dential election in that State. It also marks perhaps the last political stand of Senator James A. Reed in that State. Reed is fighting tocth and toe nail to prevent the nomination Tuesday of Charles M. Hay of St. Louls, a dry, for the Senate seat which he himself now occuples. He is supporting James A. Collet, a wet and as ardent a Reed man as Hay has been an anti-Reed. Some of the Smith Democrats .are anxious to see Hay nominated. They figure that Hay, who is an_ exireme dry, will help the national ticket in November, while Collett, who is as wet as Smith, might hurt it, giving the dry Democrats of rural Missouri too big & dose to swallow. Not a few shrewd politicians figure that Hay will win the nomination. If he does, it will be a real defeat for Senator Reed, who litical comeback in the State during the Ars. Should Reed's candidate for the sen- atorial nomination be tor! ever, the probabilities are that many of the dry Democrats would swing away entirely from the ticket in November. Hay has announced he will support Smith for President, although he is wet. He has promised to vote against Smith if elected to the Senate and a8 President, should send a modification bill to the Senate. contends that there is Democratic ticket and in cratic party for both wets This s much the same st Senator Reed took prior tion of Smith at Houston, himself was a candidate for nation and con! that should not be made a party But now Senator Reed is Hay as a dry and urging tha nation on a ticket with Smit rldu:':(l’o\'l‘-l.s ’|l‘hle ‘w! Senator turn vitrio ngue against in the final week of the senatorial cam-