Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1928, Page 1

WE4 (0. 8. Waather Fair, continued row increasing cl showers. Temperature—Highest, v: lowest, 57, at 6 a.m. to- day. Full report on page 9 p.m. vesterds Closing N. Y. Muliets, Pages 14 and 15 HER r Tureau Forecast.) cool tonight: tomor- loudiness, followed by 80, at 3:30 C No.: 30786, . Srivced,ae o Entered as secon®® class matter ashington, D. ¢ W \SHINGTON, e i SWITH ACCEPTANCE SPEECH IS FINISHED Completes Address After Long Parley on Agricultural Problems. YOMINEE CLEARS WAY Benator Glass Due in Albany To- day—George and Walsh to Come Later. BY D. H. OLIVER. Ass o Provt Blal Gov ant cam- —com- om tomorrow conference Western Pie Pe delivered At Middle Democratic st night put the fin- he address and clear- darm leaders 1 nominee uches o1 he Way Roday with part Were pre-convention opponents. Senator Carter Gilass of Virgini aufi an important part in drawing up he law enforcement plank at the Hous- convention, heads the list of promi- for who Democrats Smith has invited here | expressed an unwillingness to meet | tal r the situation. He was due bany today. Josephus Daniels will rrive tomorrow, to be followed by Sen- tor George of Georgia Thursday and Ec:«.a:or Walsh of Montana Friday. All avowed d May Not Take Trip. Further than these discussions, Smith $has no present plans and it is doubt- Ful at this time whether he will find e a week end trip out of st before his notifi(i]lflon The governor’s speech formally ac- fcepting glhe nomination will be “about #s long as Hoover’s,” one of his asso- ‘iates said, adding it would take about an bour to deliver, allowing for brief uses. The word has been passed that E}I\.h will discuss all issues and will at exhaustively t re he prohibition and Sarm relief problems. 3 One of these, farm relief, Sorcibly to the front yesterday when %he governor spent more than five Twours hstening to an outline of the Question as they saw it from 11 farm group heads from the South and Mid- dle West, headed by George N. Peek who recently joined the Politics, both Smith and P e ized, did not the farm leaders emphas! into the discussion, it being pointed out that the nominee had in- the 10 mer:hand 1 woman w‘:;: to obtain their VIEWs, P ¥ - %ymfldered economic, N pfi!flu}, Promises Full Discussion. the end of the meeting, Gov. $mith issued a brief statement reit- erating that he intended to discuss the subject fully in his speech August 22 and ceclaring he had informed the con- ferces that, i tials of the through legislation are covered in the ocratic platform on which I ?1-?:6 > There remained only the de- tails to make those essentials effective, said. In a joint statement the farm lead- ers said they were “pleased with the wvernor’s interest in and understand- —— erni':nb ht about without controf rought al v bsidy, the cost of handling rne by the units benefited. sides Peek, those who attended the meeting were Earl C. Smith, presi- gent of the Ilinois “Agricultural As- sociation; Feank W. Murphy of Min- nesota, legisiative chairman of the corn committee of farm organizations; William Hirth, chairman of the corn )t committee and publisher of the Missouri Farmer; W. H. Settle, presi- gent of the Indiana Farm Bureau Fed- eration; Chester C. Davis, former com- missioner of agriculture of Mormtana, X Caverno, president of the Missouri Cotton Growers' Association; J. N. Ke- hoe of the Burley Tobacco Growers’ As- sociation: Dr. Tait Butler of Memphis, Ter co-publisher of the Progressive Farmer; Dr. B. W. Kilgore, president ©f the American Cotton Growers' Ex- change, and Mrs. Vernie Hatch, head of the women’s department of the In- gliana Farm Bureau Federation FEAR CREW OF 14 IS LOST IN STORM effect. Company Officials Receive Word of Boat's Distress After Leaving Los Angeles be Assoclated Press POSTON, August 14 —An unconfirm report was received here today that embers of the crew of the steam m A. McKenney had been whil An hoard du was four days oul for Boston the Mystic f the boat, said the g a storm of Los ie company t report fr of lum REPORTS FATAL BEATING. §ormer Policeman Bays Patient presi- | came | in his mind, “the essen-| relief they are seeking | Bteamship | axi Driver Killed As He Rams Auto For Fight Revenge ’ ‘FARM HEADS LEAVE By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 14— Frank M. Parr, a taxicab driver, died today of a broken neck when he rammed his car into another automobile in retaliation for a beating he had re- ceived earlier. Parr had engaged in an argument with Christopher R. Murphy and came out the loser in an exchange of blows. Police intervened and sent Parr north in his car and Murphy south. . Parr turned about and chased Murphy several blocks, finally crash- g the machine and sending it into an excavation. Parr collapsed at the feet of a patrolman, who had pur- ed him. The sudden jar broke his k. police believe SHITH DENANDS * DEBATEIN CHURCH Governor Notifies Straton. Report Liquor Sale in Pastor’s Hotel. | Sl | By the Associated Press ALBANY, N. Y, August 14.-—Gov. a series of conferences | Smith today notified Rev. John Roach | leaders, two of whom | Straton that their proposed debate on | his public career must take place in | Calvary Baptist Church in New York City or not at all. In a letter to the clergyman who has Smith in his own church, the governor said he had no intention of conducting ia political debate with him. It was from his pulpit that Dr. Straton re- | cently declared Smith was the “desdli- | est foe of the forces of moral progress {in America,” this charge leading the | governor to demand the opportunity to reply. The text of Gov. Smith's latest letter | to Dr. Straton follows: “ “Dear Dr. Straton: | “I have your letter of August 9, cov- | ering three pages, in answer to my | simple request that I be permitted to | come to your church and there have you repeat in my presence the state- | ments you made about me with such | proot as you care to adduce, and give | me an opportunity to answer you be- | fore your own parishoners and in the place where you made the statements. “Your reply, shows that you misun- derstand the situation. I have no in- tention of conducting a political debate with you. I wrote you not in the capacity of a candidate or personally, but as mmnr g: th;‘:‘t‘aud of Fou have ced. "'lfi answer to my request to ap- pear in your church before your par- ishoners under the conditions I men- { tioned is ves or no. Unless and until | T hear from you in the affirmative the matter is closed.” RUM REPORTED IN HOTEL. Newspaper Man Tells of Buying Quart at Greenwood Lake. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 14.—A dispatch to the New York Evening Post from Greenwood Lake, N. Y. today quoted the Rev. John Roach Straton as saying that “liquor interests” seeking to em- barrass him in his controversy with Gov. Smith may have been back of the reported sale of liquor in a hotel recently acquired by the minister. “The liquor interests may have put | the proprietor of the hotel up to this because of my discussion with Gov. Smith,” the pastor of Calyary Baptist Church was quoted as saying. “If this is so, it is a clever conspiracy.” Christian Assembly Headquarters. | Dr. Straton, who acknowledged that the possibility of a conspiracy was some- | what remote, had been informed by a | reporter that the latter had bought a quart of whisky over the hotel bar. The property passed to Dr. Straton six weeks ago and is to be used for the Greenwood Lake Christian Assembly headquarters. ‘Although he did not indicate what | action he might take against the pro- | prietor of the hotel, the minister blamed | delay in getting action on the repeal of the Mullan-Gage act, the State's en- | forcement law. Gov. Smith signed the { repealer several years ago. | “what can you expect in a State | where there is no enforcement law?” the dispatch quoted Dr. Straton | Sees Disaster in Revocation. | “Gov. Smith has weakened the hand | of officers of the law in the State. This | situation 18 an {llustration of the disaster which has overtaken us on | account of the revocation of the en- forcement law.” said the newspaper added that he had been in the bar of the hotel, but thought it was only dispensing soft drinks. | i - | DU PONT GIVES $50,000. Contribution to Smith Campaign Announced by Raskob. NEW YORK, August 14 (#)—Pierre 8. du Pont of Wilmington, Del., who is on leave of absence, as chairman of the board of the General Motors Corpora- tion, and who recently declared his support of the candidacy of Gov Smith, has contributed $50,000 to the Democratic campaign fund T announced today by John J. Raskob, chairman of the national commitiee ¢ Foening Slar. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Within The Star’s carrier every city block and Home the Hour” system covers the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circnh}iyn, 99,154 " D. C., TUESDAY, 1 4, 1928—FORTY-TWO PAGES. * (/) Means Associated Pre TWO CENTS. HOOVER CONTINUES POLIGY OF SLENGF ON DALY EVENTS 'Helds to Program of Com-| | | | | | | menting Only Through Pre- | pared Statements. WOULD ALSO LIMIT HIS OWN SPEECHES | Candidate to Return Here August 24 to Take Charge of Campaign. | BY JAME STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Calif. qust 14.—Silence still the rule | Herbert Hoover in his campaign for the | Presidency. | | The Republican candidate himself | has dissipated any thought that with | | the delivery of his acceptance address | he would speak more or less freely on | the recurring political incidents of the | day. His utterances for publication will | be confined to his public addresses and | such written statements as he may issue. ‘ While Hoover occasionally has con- | ferences with the correspondents, he | has laid down a rule against quoting | what he has to say. He appreciates | the difficulties thus presented to the. news writers, but insists upon adhering to his official policy. Would Limit Speeches. This is one particular in which his | campaign has differed from most of | those that have gone before. He would make it different in another respect: | That of sharply limiting the number of speeches to be made before election | day. However, most of his advisers| believe he will be unable to realize this | desire because of the great pressure th: will be brought to bear upon him by party leaders. Before getting back to Washington on the afternoon of August 24, Hoover will make two fixed speeches, one at Los Angeles Friday and the other at his West Branch, Iowa, birthplace, on Au- gust 21, and then he will remain silent until perhaps on Labor day. After that time his plans are incom- lete, and no definite place has been selected for his address then. ‘The Republican nominee cannot con- | duct a front-porch campaign, as Wil- son and Harding undertook, for the rea- son that there is not the space around his Washington home to accommodate any appreciable crowd. So the bulk of hhdspeechmkmz will have to be on the : | | e Staft W Au- is of | Finishing Parleys. Conferences with Hiram 8. Corbett, national committeeman, and other Re- publican leaders of Arizona, ut con- cluded his discussion here with party leaders on the matter of orgamization and strategy in his campaign. He will receive courtesy. calls from Republican governors and Senators as his train moves eastward, but his next general conference will be deferred until a week from tomorrow, when he will meet with leaders in the corn belt at Cedar Rapids. The nominee will get as much rest as possible during the next three days preparatory to the seven-day journey back to the Atlantic seaboard, which is | to_be started Thursday night Upon his arrival at Washington he | will receive latest reports on condi- tions, and will assume personal charge of direction of the nation-wide cam- paign machinery he has had set up. This organization finally was com- pleted at a meeting in San Prancisco yesterday of national committeemen from the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States. Chairman Hubert ‘Work now is en route back East via his home in Colorado to hold further con- ferences with Eastern and Middle West- ern leaders. IN BLAST ON YACHT| Craft Wrecked in Portland, Me, Harbor—Only One Aboard Escapes Injury. in By the Associated Press. i PORTLAND, Mec., August 14.—Five men were seriously burned today when an explosion wrecked the yacht Marilyn | in the harbor here. Only one member of the party of six escaped injury. Th yacht was badly damaged above th water line. The injured are Dr. E. W. Webber, Pawtucket. R. 1., charterer of the yacht; Walter McInnes of Boston, yacht designer; James Sulli- van of Boston, Hugh Riley, engineer, and A. Oxer, cook Alexander Carleson of Boston escaped injury. SUED ON INCOME TAX. Wealthy Oli Opor;ln;"ls Named by State of Massachusetts. OSTON, August 14 () —Edgar B avis, wealthy ofl operator and philan- ropist of Brockton, Mass., and Luling, ! Tex., has been made defendant in a sult brought by the State of Massachusctts to recover several hundred thousand sessed against him in 1926 Although the law prohibits the St commissioner of eorporations and taxa- tion from losing the amount in- volved, it was reported today, when the suit became known, that the tax with interest amounted to approximately 1 $400,000. The suit also would determine whether Mr. Davis is liable to payment on 1927 mcome, in which case an addi- tional $350,000 would be nvolved a lieplic of 'Mona Lisa Reported Was Killed in Insane Ward. NEW YORK. August 14 fnat a pate ually was beaten the psychopathic ward of the Hospital in Brookly igated i A7) —Charges | By the Associated Press SALAMANCA, Spaln, August 14— What is claimed 1o be a replica of Leonsrdo da Vinci's Gloconda has been discovered here. ‘The picture bears what 15 said 1o be the signature of the famous painter. It has been deposited tor sufekeeping and will be examined by TUCk | experts formerly was. by the police seph Brown, y Michael J. e Hegarly ward. Gloconda, which is better kuown as - Found in Spain: Held for Expcrts Mona Lisa, 1s probably the most famous female portrait in the World The ac- cepted original is in the Louvre, Paris The picture disappeared from the Louvre in August, 1911 It was recov- ered in Florence in December, 1913 { Vincenzo Perug) an Itallan, was tried for its theft and received a nominal sen | tence | dollars in income taxes and interest as-| 5 | 7 \ . L AUNTIE 7 - 7 i 18 SO 122% B INERVOUS 7 HORNETS I | | { ! NEST. FIRE SPEED TESTS NEAR END TODAY Engine Company No. 5 Makes Nearest Approach to Pres- ent Record. More than a score of fire companies | dashed out of their houses yesterday afternoon and today in an effort to wrest the lead in the annual Fire De- partment speed tests from Engine Company No. 23 and Truck Company No. 14, whose performances yesterday morning remain unchallenged. Less than 10 engine and truck com- panies were left untested when the offi- cial committee adjourned its tour for lunch at noon today. A number of these companies are claiming ability to lower the mark of 62-5 seconds estab- lished by Engine Company 23 yester- day morning, or that of 71-5 seconds hung up in the truck class by Truck Company No. 14 b Interest Keen. With large silver cups donated by | The Evening Star and the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association at stake, to say nothing of the speed champion- | ship of the District, the entire glepart- | ment is keyed to a high pitch as the final tests neared an end this afterncon or tomorrow morning. The closest approach to the mark of Engine Company 23, at Twenty-first and G streets. was made by Engine Company No. 5, M street near Wiscon- sin avenue, and Engine Company No. 21, Lanier place, near Adams Mill road yesterday, whose big aparatus roared out of quarters in 64-5 seconds each. Fireboat Beats Mark. The department’s veteran fireboat, the Firefighter, shaved a fifth of a sec- ond off its previous record for getting away from the dock in a spectacular showing this morning before Battalion Chief Thomas F. O'Connor, W. Dean, fire prevention engineer of the War Department, and a representative of The Star, comprising the contest committee. The big boat churned over a 39-foot course from a dead start in 214-5 seconds. This beat the time made by several fire companies this year. Lieut. S. E. Colvin was in command, Pilot R. D. Ross was at the helm and other members of the crew included Engineer T. W. Reed, Assistant Engi- neer R. B. Balderson and Fireman T. W. Stone Other morning results: Engine Company No. 4, Virginia ave- nue, between Four-and-a-Half and Sixth CHINESE DEMAND RADIO PACT REPEAL Nationalists Hold Agreement of Peking With California Firm Illegal. | BY REGINALD SWEETLA The SHANGHAIL i e Star and C ago Daly | Copyright, 1028 August 14.—A resolu- | tion calling for cancellation of the; | wir agreement signed between th | former Pcking mintstry of communica- | tions and the Federal Radio Corpora-! [tion of Californin has been adopted at {the National communications conven- tion now in n dt Nanking. The | resolution also demands termination of | | the Sino-Japanese wireless cement. | lof 1928 signed ghe former Peking | | mintstry | The au By Cable to New | | less by thors of the resolution declare | [ these two contracts grant practical | monopolistic rights to Amerlca and | Japan in the field of wireless telegra- | |phy in China. The resolution points | out that these contracts did not re- | celve the n ary sanction of the Chinese Parllament and were entered into between the former Peking regime d the companies in defiance of pub- pinion rthermore, - the resolution contin- the existence of such understand- ing 1s contrary to the spirit and letter of the nine-power treaty signed at ashington, of which both America ( and Japan were signatories. Pinally, the resolution states, in spite of & lapse of almost 10 years, nothing has been done by the American con- tracting company, while in the case of Japan, although the wireless station has been completed, it has proved val- 1wele for international use. 'he picture was painted by da Vinel over a period of four years, from 1503- 1506. Radio l’rogr;un———l’hgc 33 | day that he would charge Wassell with 'DAILY RADIO MOVING PICTURES WILL GO ON THE AIR THURSDAY Station WRNY Will Begin First Regular Television Broadcasting Into the Homes EVE!‘ By Consolidated Press. NEW YORK, August 14.— Station WRNY of New York will begin Thurs- day the first regular daily broadcasting of moving images by television ever at- | tempted. Other broadcasts have been made intermittently for the last few months by stations throughout the country, experimentally, but not for the benefit of the fans, who are now ex- pected to hook up their receiving outfits and get their pictures on the air, just as they rigged up their hay-wire radio sets 15 or 20 years ago. Hugo Gernsback, who first used the word “television” in 1909 and who is president of station WRNY, says “tele- vision is here,” but that it will assume a vastly different form and be greatly SLAYING SUSPECT COMMITS SUICIDE Man Sought in Murder of Woman on Street Kills Self as Police Near. By the Associated Press. SOUTH BEND, Ind, August 14— Austin Pavey, 35, an amateur photog- rapher, committed suicide late last night as police entered his home to ar- rest him in connection with the murdef yesterday afternoon of Mrs. Lillie Mae Carmein, 33, a factory worker. Mrs. Carmein was shot four times and her body left lying in one of the principal streets of the city. According to friends of ~the family, the suicide of Pavey was the last act of a triangular love affair. Elmer Car- mein, husband of the dead woman, is grief-stricken, as is a 10-year-old son. The body of Mrs. Carmein was uni- dentified for several hours. No one witnessed the shooting, but two local busipess men said they saw a man carrfing a revolver jump into an auto- mobile and speed away immediately after they heard several shots. ‘The license plates on the automobile had been issued to Pavey and police began hunting him. About 10 hours after the slaying Pavey killed himself. MAN, MISSED BY BULLET, | FACES ASSAULT CHARGE For Refusing to Chase Gunmen, Who Wound Woman, He Is Re- garded One of Gang. By the Associated Priss. NEW YORK, August 14.—Because a bullet aimed at him hit a woman, Thomas Wassell, a self-styled boot- legger, is to be charged with felonious assault. Five gangsters yesterday chased Was- sell Into a_basement in the Bronx. One of their shots hit Mrs. Sally Graham, 21, of the Bronx as she was wheeling a baby coach. Although Wassell fired no gun, his re- fusal to aid in the hunt for the gang- sters caused District Attorney = Mc- ieehan of the Bronx to announce to- acting In concert with the gangsters. B s PLAN ATLANTIC FLIGHT. | Poles Reported Preparing for Mi- lan-to-New York Hop. | increased Attempted. in effectiveness within the next few years. His office, on one of the upper floors of a New York sky- scraper, is decorated with pictures sug- gesting an H. G. Wells conception of a scientific millennium, which reinforce the impression that almost anything may happen, as Mr. Gernsback talks of the future. “This is really television, which means instantaneous sight at a distance,” he sald, “and not telephotography, whicl means the broadcasting of a photograp! or other still picture. Our brief tele- vision broadecasting session will come in between our regular sound numbers, as with the present apparatus you cannot broadcast sight and sound simultane- ously. Then we will make quite ex- tended broadcasts after midnight. “Any person wishing to receivg can (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) COOLIDGE PRAISES HOOVER'S SPEECH Message Comes as Surprise, as Observers Expected No Comment. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. CEDAR ISLAND LODGE, BRULE RIVER, Wis, August 14.—President Coolidge today sent a telegram to Her- bert Hoover in Palo Alto, congratulat- ing him upon his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination and upon the reception it has been given, and in which he described the speech as ranking very high in political discussion. ‘This message was a brief one and evi- dently came as a surprise to assoclates of the President here, who yesterday stated with considerable assurance that they did not think the President would send a congratulatory message to the nominee. ‘The telegram, which was dictated this morning soon after his arrival at the executive office, follows: “Your speech of acceptance ranks very high in political discussion. I con- gratulate you upon it and upon the reception which has been given to it by the country. “CALVIN COOLIDGE." Declines Further Comment. In announcing to newspaper corre- spondents that he was sending con- gratulations to his party’s nominee, the President made no further comment upon the text of the speech. It was obe vious that he was content with what he had said in the message. ‘The President failed to give any in- dication of his intentions regarding the time he will formally accept Secretary Hoover's resignation from the cabinet. The President let it be known today that the n’i)or( of the Mississippi Flood Board dealing with differences in en- gineering policies regarding the flood- control work to be done on the Mis- sissippi River, which was received by him Saturday, indicates that these dif- ferences have been virtually ironed out. The President, following an_explana- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5. Water Ban Lifted For Use on Lawns | Under New System Regulations fixing the hours for watering lawns and sidewalks were abolished toddy by order of the Dis- trict Commissioners. After today Mr. Suburbanite Mr. City Dweller either, for that matter, may ply his garden hose as often and as long as he wishes with- out being under the necessity of | keeping a weather eye cocked for | the neighborliood policeman. i Since the completion of the in- creased water supply system, J. S. Garland, superintendent of _the Water Department, asked the Com- missioners to remove all restraint thus laid on residents of the District. FLOOD WATER BARS HIGHWAY REPAIRS Fresh Breaks Reported ini Virginia Roads—Rail Traffic Halted. Flood water, resulting from the rec- | ord-breaking torrents of Saturday and | Sunday, today is blocking the efforts of highway and railroad construction crews to restore normal communications between the Capital and the South. Fresh breaks in the roads were re- ported today from Virginia points as streams, out of their banks, cut away at the highway foundations. The break on the Richmond, Fredericks- burg & Potomac Railroad between Doswell and Fredericksburg, Va. can- not be repaired until the water sub- sides. Railroad traffic on this line and the Seaboard Air Line, which uses the R., F. & P. trackage, is being rerouted by way of the Southern Railroad to Orange, Va. E Washington is returning to normal| rapidly. Repair crews are at work or many road washouts caused by the 8-inch rainfall, and laborers are work in the parks clearing up the li ter of broken branches and trees. Tele- phone service in the city has been ri stored completely, though many lines | are down in nearby Maryland and Vir- | ginia sections. Detour Is Inundated. | Anti-Serbian Crowd Kills UGOSLAVIATALY PACT IS RATIFIED AS CROATIANS RIOT |Nettuno Accord Passes Par- liament by Margin of One Vote. {SUCCESSOR OF RADITCH IS NAMED AT ZAGREB Man Displaying Belgrade Newspapers. By the Associated Press BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, August 14 —Two important incidents marked the past day's events in Jugoslavia. Bloodshed followed the choosing of a successor to Stefan Raditch, noted Croat leader, and Parliment ratifies the Nettuno convention, which in the past has been the occasion of violent anti- Ttalian demonstrations. Croatian Deputies were absent when the Skupstina (parliament), ratified the Nettuno pact. Meeting in Zagreb with their Demo- cratic allies, the Croats decided that Raditch would be continued as the president of the party despite his death, with Dr. Viadko Matchek as his active proxy. L Rioters Kill Man. Anti-Serbian demonstrations marked the election of Dr. Matchek. A hostile mob wrecked kiosks where Belgrade newspapers were sold. A Ryssian was killed because he displayed Belgrade newspapers. Demonstrations Planned. The newspaper Pravda says a move- ment is afoot to hold great anti-govern. ment demonstrations in Zagreh and else- where, The controversia! Nettuno treaty gives Italians the right to own land in Jugo- slavia within 30 miles of the Adriatic coast. None of the Croat Deputies was pres- ent when the government brought the bill forward for ratification. Serbian Agrarians actively opposed the bill and noisily interrupted speakers. They withdrew from the chamber before the Direct highway communication be: tween this city and Richmond was cut off completely today as the detour via Tappahannock disappeared beneath aunning flood water. Southbound auto- mobile traffic on the Atlantic Coast Highway, route 1, today is being de- toured by way of Fairfax, Warrenton, Culpeper, Orange and Ashland, American _Automobile Asociation an- nounced. The Tappahannock detour is impassable and the direct Richmond road is closed by the carrying away of ‘Water came up overnight over | the annock road between Tap- | pahagnock and Richmond. The 15] miles from Occupacia to Tappanhan- | nock is very rough. The road from Washington to Fred- | ericksburg s open today to light traffic | only. Three temporary bridges have been erected but are not strong enough to carry trucks. The most serious trouble is at Honey Creek, where a large bridge was washed out. The road from Clarksville, Va., to Raleigh and Durham is impassable to-| day because of fresh washouts during| the night, local headquarters of the | American _Automobile Asociation have | been notified. The direct road from Richmond to | Danville, Va., closed during the storm, has not been reopened and last night the detour by way of Farmville and Keysville was washed out by freshets. The only available route from Rich- mond to Danville today is by way of Route 13 from Richmond to Cumber- land, Va.; Route 133, Cumberland to Farmville; Route 60, Farmville to Lynchburg: Route 18, Lynchburg to Halifax, and Route 12, Halifax to Dan- ville. Two bridges have been washed out on the regular Danville road. Route 170, at Alta Vista. Field Car Leaves. ‘The American Automobilé Association is making a study of the situation in nearby Maryland today. The associa- tion's new field survey car, just delivered here, left Washington about 11 o'clock this morning for Mattawoman Creek, where the bridge on the southern Maryland road was washed out, and for other nearby points damaged by the flood. The association has been in- formed that the Mattawoman Bridge is so badly wrecked that even a tempo- rary structure cannot be completed for at least two or three days. ‘There is a very poor detour available around the wrecked bridge from T. B. to a point one mile north of Waldort, the association announced. This detour is not recommended except in case of extreme emergency, as it is very muddy, the association stated. The association’s new field car is be used this Summer in a highw: vey throughout New England equipped with a stretcher, first-aid ou fit, emergency repair machinery, towing rope and other emergency devices, and, in addition to its survey work, will be used for the relief of association mem- bers in difficulty along the highways. The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad today is running local trains between Washington and Fredericksburg. Trains from this city to Richmond, however, still are being rerouted via the Southern tracks to Orange. The rerouting service is run- ning much more smoothly than yester- day, however, and service now is on " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8. { Man Who Left Cloth Sank Hopes of No. 13 Engine Go:| Firemen of Engine Company No. 13, Tenth and G streets southwest, are gnashing their teeth and looking for MILAN, Italy, August 14 (#).—The |the unknown carburetor workman who newspaper Ambrosiano says that a|left 4 piece of cloth in the feed line of flight from Milan to New York in a|the carburetor of their engine and Caproni plane piloted by a Polish civil- ian aviator now working for the War- saw-Leopoli line is planned for the near future. The project is financed by Pol- ish-Americ: ‘The paper adds that after the failure of Majs, Idzikowski and Kubala to fly from Paris to New York the backers of the Milan-to-New York venture decided a Caproni plane was better equipped for the distance They considered a Fokker plane too light and that the motor prasented too few guarantees of security for transatlantic attempts. blasted their hopes of winning the an- nual speed championship today. ‘The stage was all set for the com- pany's momentous dash this morning when the speed-contest committee ai rived with their stop watches for the test. Pvt. E. C. Gasque, driver, toed the chalk mark ready for the big gong to strike. Pvt. F'. E. Updegrove stood ready to throw the crank. Sergl. James A Franklin fixed himself for the leap to the driver's seat. The gong rang out the signal “1- in Carburetor ) and the men flashed to their posts. Pvt. | Updegrove took hold of the crank and began spinning. Not @& snort resulted. Pvi. Gasque pulled the primer, but not even a wheeze was heard. m,Al!er ':‘eve‘;& m::uus o(d fruitless . the usted crew descended mfiltl«! the hood. One of them peered into the carburetor. He discov- ered the trouble there. . A piece of cloth about 3 inches square was stuck in the opening to the carburetor feed line. | Battalion Chief Wolter investigated | and found that the cloth apparently | had come off a stick being used as a mop by some one cleaning the car- | buretor, Hereafter, under orders issued by Chief Wolter, carburetors are to be {of their rights under the treaty. | cation vote, peasants spoken.” son of ote was taken and the only recorded | votes were those of the 158 government supporters. This gave the bill the ma- jority of one out of the whole member- ship of the Skupstina. The treaty was concluded three years | g0, but was not ratified, due to opposi- tion from the Croatian portion of the | kingdom. | Croatia Being Watched. | Serbian press and Jugoslavian offi- cials alike turned their eyes today toward Croatia looking for signs of reaction to the ratifieation. It is acknowledged that the govern- ment action in forcing the ratification will serve the agitators for home rule in Croatia as a good plank. Whether the Croat cause will be strengthened by the government's unpopular action will | depend upon Matchek. Government politicians say the rati- fication will be a good thing for it will | rob Italy of any excuse to interfere in Jugoslavia's present internal crisis. They argue, too, that if the local storm blows over and the government becomes satisfied that new general elec- tions are not needed. the ratification will enable the cabinet to take up the threads of interrupted loan negotiations. ROME HAILS ACTION. Foresees Better Relations on Both Sides of Frontier. ROME, August 14 (#) —Ratification of the Nettuno convention by the Bel- grade Parliament is hailed in Rome as the auspicious sign of the opening of a new era of friendly and mutually profi able relations between Italy and Jugo- slavia after a year filled with misunder- | standings and polemics in the press. The great luster given the solemn signing of the Franco-Jugoslav treaty on November 12, 1 roused Italian fears that Jugoslavia was determined to embark on an adventurous policy. The conclusion of the Italian-Albanian treaty of friendship and defense caused similar fears in the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Despite recent in- cidents in the Dalmatian zone, however, the atmosphere has cleared consider- ably lately, notably after Premier Mus- solini’s speech in the Senate on June 5. which was most moderate in tone. The ratification is also expected to | exercise a moderating influence on the® minority groups on each sie of the frontier, securing for them enjoyment assur- ing prompt repression of any infringe- ments upon these rights and ending the long press-campaigns over them. SEES CROATIAN DISSENT. Vienna Forecasts Move to Nullify Rati- fication of Pact. VIENNA. August 14 (#.—The Cro- atian Peasant party of Jugoslavia is ex- pected to declare ratification of the Nettuno treaties illegal by persons here familiar with affairs in the faction-torn triune kingdom. It is stated that the Jugoslavian con- stitution provides that two-thirds of the National Assembly must be present when a treaty is ratified, although a simple majority vote suffices to carry it. This would have required the presence of 210 Deputies at Belgrade when the vote was taken last night instead of the 158 who voted on the measure. ‘It Italy is satisfied with this ratin- let the Italians take the said a local spokesman for th “The Croations have not yet risk,” GETS 120 DAYS IN- JAIL. $200 Also Imposed on Eliphaley Andrews for Drunken Driving. Eliphaley Andrews of Alexandria, Va Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews, was given a straight sentence of 120 days in jail and fined $200 for driving while intoxicated by Judge John P. .\l(‘M‘len in m:: Court today. The court recommen that Andre n\‘-{nb:;'wglm treatment. i o0l rown, colored, No. 8 Nay! court, sald to be the driver of m“:fulsf mobile which knocked down and injured Mrs. Carmelia Cosimino, 74 years old, 722 Sixth street, was charged with leav- clos:‘\lod "v‘r.!:.hdbmshm only loesn’t help the peace of mind of Company No. 13, g after colliding, reckless driving and operating without a permit. The case was continued to August 20, pending the outcome of Mrs. 0's injuries. [