Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly fair. continued warm tonight and tomorrow: gentfe southwest winds. ! Temperature—Highest, 92. at 4 pm vesterday: lowest, 72, at 6 am. today Fuil report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 10 ,nd 11 ed as second class matter 30,801, Enter e h WASHINGTON, 1 ¢ Fnening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DL AUGUST 29, Star, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 98,3027 news (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. oftic Washington, D. ¢ Artesian Wells BERNSTORFF SEES ‘Srcmie: Revenue {ARMS PARLEY HOPE { FADING AT GENEVA Expresses Doubt as to Wis- C E water have been encountered by engi- dom of Calling Meet as Dif- |neers gettting 1 the foundations for . . . | the new Internal Revenue Building, ficulties Continue. | south of the Post Office Department. | The engineers have ascertained that there is a basin of water-bearing gravel |from 15 to 40 feet below the visible | bottom of the excavation and the water | has given rise to a mystery, as the | engineers are at a loss to explain where | the water comes from and where it Experts Puzzled by Pres- ence of Water 40 Feet Below Excavation. f PLAN FOR PUBLICITY S A | goes to. Would Give Detailed Warship| It may be, they said today, that the b.0.P. SEEKSHEAVY MAJORITY IN MAINE AS NATIONAL INDEX { Election September 10 Ex-| pected to Give Little Hope to Democrats. STATE'S DRY RECORD HURDLE FOR SMITH More Women Regista'ed This Year. water_comes from the bed of the Poto- 1 mac River, but if this is so, the: fIVELE= N N RS Cinck it loses all its salt from the r | route. On' the other hand, the water may | come down from the hills or from the ¥ " | vicinity of Rock Creek. e S Mo = | “The underground conditions south of GENEVA, August Continuing | 110 post Office Department are more difficulties in framing the text of a | -erratic” than any job the engineers | convention for the control of the private | have ever been on, they declared today. | i lay they are encounterin; manufacture of arms prompted Count ;‘;‘1“\"“53‘,‘};’2‘3“ Sk .\hapfi‘ von Bernstorff of Germany, president|of's bowl, but the bowl, they say, has | of the commission engaged in this work, | humps in it. This makes for no end | to voice his doubts today as to the wis- | of trouble, for while one pile may be N ) _|driven down a certain distance setis- dom of convoking an international con- | Srlven down 8 certain istance satic | ference. driven down a much greater distance. 1t will be up to the Council of the|Accordingly, the engineers explain, League of Nations, however, to decide | there is a great variation in the length S of the poles being used by the pile whether the time is ripe for calling drivers to make a foundation. such a meeting. Hugh Wilson, American Minister to | - afmes Switzerland and American representa- tive on the commission, introduced a new provision today which calls for the Japanese. advocated striking out | blicity for the detils of warship arm- | o {Secretary Embarks for Ire- publication of detailed information con- cerning warships, including all their land as Crowds Say Good-by. armaments. This provision was largely . en s 29 approved, but some delegates, especially Russia Holds Out. | Russia has refused to collaborate with | present League efforts to control the manufacture of arms. i Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet vice commis- | ner for foreign affairs, in telegraph- m this decision to the League, pointed out his government’s contention that the League has done nothing toward solution of the problem of real disarma- nt. mefle insisted that urgent steps should be taken to obtain definite results and avoid the risk of future wars. An at- tempt to supervise the production of armaments is calculated merely to mis- Jead public opinion by holding forth false hopes of real disarmament, he - e 1 while United States and u.:c‘;znflng in an effort to| bring about the widest kind of publicity | ‘manufacture of armaments. By the Associated Press. HAVRE, France, August 29.—Secre- tary Kellogg said farewell to France this morning, sailing on the cruiser Detroit at 11 o'clock for Ireland. Havre, which first greeted the Secre- tary on his arrival in France, gave him a fitting good-by. The quay was lined ‘;111':: people when he went aboard the ship. A French regimental band played “The Hymn of Departure,” while the statesman stood at attention on the deck of the Detroit as the American flag was hoisted to the masthead and un- furled in a strong sea breeze. Mr. Kellogg arrived from Paris on a special train placed at his disposal by the government. The train made fast time, as the tracks had been cleared as |far as possible to facilitate his early Q| arrival. trol and| Railroad workers, villagers and coun- ground | ery peotple all along the route were on that it did not go far enough. watch for the special and waved their For Equal Publicity. :?:nmmefs a!x;d iats and cheered as | the went by. Riddell and Wilson favored EWINE| “Thus to the last the Secretary was the same .whli:(gmmm““m’w arms | treated by the French people with the factured br)‘ B; % Dr. Riddell |m0st respectful, dignified deference, made in prival es depending |Making the extraordinary precautions ehonw’l;de_;’ ;r}::!‘ueflufl‘umt e shouldi"ken for his safety look ridiculously rge! manufacture unnecessary. not Be expected to fumish staletics B " Gendarmes were posted at nearly countries depending tted to with- | €Very crossing all the way from Paris, manufacture were permi and when the special neared Havre po- | lice mounted on bicycles fell into line at the side of the tracks, following the train into the city. Mayor Speaks. wmmh:‘l?xamfiww the dock, stopp! ly op] t hat all the Secretary had manufacture of arms, on the into account the differ- regard ences of opinion in to the he Detroit, )ect,nwonldhemwwnwkeln 50 tl to do was step down from his car, walk across the Pattangall Bolt Held Significant. . GOULD LINCOLN, respondent of The Star. PORTLAKD, Me., August 20— Maine's importance in the present national! political campaign is about to be mag- | nified out of all proportion to its six votes in the electoral college. For the Republicans and Democrats go to the | mat—or rather to the polls—in Maine | almost two months before the general | election. Maine is to be the barometer, | the straw which is (o show which way the wind is blowing, toward Hoover or | toward Smith. : ‘The consequence is the Republicans | are going the limit to roll up es large a | majority in the Maine election on Sep- tember 10 as they possibly can; the Democrats are seeking to hold that ma- jority to the lowest possible minimum. None of the Democrats really believes they have a chance to carry the State. That is the impression given by leaders with whom I have talked. They shake their heads and say that Maine has been a Republican State for years—ex- cept when the Republicans have split— and that all of the newspapers in Maine are Republican, and most of the money. Resent Early Vote. Maine's September election does not’ pick the presidential electors. It does elect a governor, a United States Sen- ator, all the members of the House and many State officers. The presidential electors are chosen November 6 at the same time as in the other 47 States. Democrats are resentful that the State elections should be held so many weeks al of the national election. They figure, and they figure rightly, that the Republican forces will make desperate effort every four years to put over their :l‘inefludet “big” just for the yschological effect upon the campaign in the rest of the country. That is what is happening here in Maf today. muln addition to so-call whirlwind rs through every county, partici- pated in by the Republican candidates for governor and Senator and the con- gressional and State candidates, speak- ers of national repute will be sent into the State during these last 10 days of the campaign. The vice presidential candidate, Senator Curtis, is to invade the territory. Other speakers from the outside will include Senator “Jim" Watson of Indiana and Col. Theodore Roosevelt. jr., of New York. Democrats Not Active. The Democrats say they are going through the State campaign with practi- | cally no outside aid this year. Whether the Democratic national committee has decided that there is little or no use in sending money or speakers in or not, the fact remains that few speakers and little money are forthcoming from the New York headquarters. Possibly the Democrats are concealing plans for a final drive, but this is not likely. As the State ele®ion goes, almost in- variably goes the national election in aine. There is little so far to indicate any likelthood of a break in this rule this year. There are those who believe | al conference. 'fnm;:’:ch circles it is categorically denied that the provisional naval umia tation nt between France an Great tain contains any _secret clauses. Both British and French spokesmen deny reports that the agree- ment provides for associated Frenc] ts. mgcmflf‘r:;e the United States, Italy and Japan are awaited before Frzncl; and Great Britain publish the text of the agreement, which is described here as an effort to achieve something pos- sible and practicable by r:fn':nglng what is regarded the unctr]yh’,}g idea of the Washington naval conference, the lmitation of powerful and offen- sive naval fighting machines. Limit Large Craft. ritish explain that the agree- m;rn?vfn laced before the other naval powers in the hope that it would be ac- cepted as & basis for discussion by the League prt atory disarmament com- mission. date of the commission's next meeting depends on the result of iations essence of the accord, in French o-p’sl;:hk‘m. is that an attempt should be made to reach an international agree- ment. limiting construction of large cruisers and large »,u?rmar)ne&h(h‘\x]dl at limitation of smaller units shou e usht for the present fon is regarded here as w0 ac- Great on Franco-British pact cruisers of 8500 tons | and more and submarines over tons LORD HALDON’S SON HELD ON THEFT CHARGE | Was Hungry at Time | Young Man of Alleged Crime, Detec- tive Says August 29 600 | quay and go up a gangplank. Mayor Meyer, who greeted Mr. Kel- logg on his arrival Friday, was on hand to bid him adleu today. There were flowers for Mrs. Kellogg and compli- ments for the Secretary that seemed |to put the vocabularies of the Havre { notables to test The band struck up “The Star | 8pangled Banner” as Mr, Kellogg reached the gangway, where the Secre- tary stood bareheaded until the anthem was finished. He then walked up the | gangplank and was greeted at the top | by the commander. The band then played “La Marseil- | laise.” The Secretary stood at atten- |tion with the ship's officers while the {French anthem ‘was played ~ Then, upon expressing a desire to rest, he was taken to his stateroom. President Cosgrave of the Irish Free Btate accompanied Mr. Kell from Paris and also embarked on De- troit. He stood at attention at the head of the gangplank while the band played “God Save the King.” Crowds Cheer. Bhortly before 11 the Detroft slowly | moved away from her moorings amidst { the strains of “The Hymn of Departure” | played by the band on shore. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg came on deck when they heard the music and |cheering and stood there until the | cruiser had cleared the dock and turned for the Channel. They waved their nds and handkerchiefs to the cheer- owd You can tell every one how I appre- & the welcome I received In France,” | we the Becretary’s parting words. ‘Foreign Minister Briand, the French | government and the people everywhere | have done more than I thought any one ! could do or any one deserve.” that Gov. Smith, the Democratic nomi- nee for President, will do better in the State than will the Democratic State ticket. But that Smith will carry Maine is beyond the wildest dreams of the most sanguine Democrats. Smith and his wet platform—a plat- form of his own making, not his party- !1s playing not a little figure in the cam- paign for the State election, It was bound to be 50 in view of the emphasis placed upon the results of the State election in Maine by the rest of the country. In a measure, this is unfor- tunate for Gov. Smith, particularly if} the predictions now made for a big Re- publican victory o September 10 are borne out. Ploneer in Dry Move. Maine was a ploneer in the prohibi- tion movement, and is proud of it. Its first, prohibitory law was enacted in 1849, 79 years ago. In 1851, the law was strengthened and has been changed since that time also. But Maine's dry n.{ has been waving so long that any talk of hauling it down now is ridiculed by the political leaders. And, generally speaking, the Republican party in Maine has been the party of the drys, and the Democrat'c party, the party of the wets, The selection of the Governor of New York, recognized as a wet, by the Demo- cratic party as it presidential candi- date, has aroused, 1’ is said, many of the |woman voters in Maine as they have | not been aroused in years, and has add- |ed thousands of women to the Iist of reglstered voters— women who have not registered before There 15 wet sentiment in_Maine. Make no mistake about that. It s in evidence today as it was 17 years ago (Continued on Page 3, Column 2. | | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 20.—Gunmen |and bootleggers have figured in a dif- | ference of opinion as to Chicago and | New York The New York World printed a car- | toon lampooning an offer of & prize for {a poster poosting Chicago's proposed hicagoans Indignant Over New York Cartoonist’s Idea for World Fair Poster dward Broomfield | world fair in 1933, and thereby started of Lord Haldon, | something ¥ at the police | The cartoon depicted a gunman lean- wday on & charge of stealing ‘ ing over the dome of an exhibition hall 18 brooch and & sirt from & house | in the act of firing a pistol, the smoke Croydon {from which formed the greeting, "Chi- A detective who brought Palk from | cago Welcomes You” Another part of Bromsgrove said that Palk had told of | the cartoon showed a “British Empire other property stolen from the house | Exhibit” i flames while two gentlemen and bad handed over pawn tckets with sawed-off shotguns exchange mus- At the time of Palk’s arrest in Broms- | ketry in the foreground. Over the main an official said that he was so | hall waved a flag carrying the words Per Cent American—Thompson i roue fi that & doctor had 10 be consulted | “100 Je told the police thal be had been |Hall” without food for more than a week The Chicago Dally News asked the Palk has been in difficulties before, | World: “Will you state for publication being sentenced early last year to four | whether this expresses the sentiment of months imprisonment on & charge of | the New York public regarding Chicago obtaining & small sum uf money under | and its proposed world exposition?” O M IR oo e AR L WG el S catloo) gxpresses only the view of the artist, Will B. Johnstone, who 1s a OChicagoan by birth and who lived there many years.” ‘The World asked the Daily News for an article “on the public excitement in Chicago” aroused by the cartoon. An article in the World contributed by an editor of the Daily News asks how would New York feel if the statue of Civic Virtue in City Hall Park was represented as a night club hostess and the dupper Mayor Walker as a tatlor's dummy. The article quotes comment on the cartoon by Reuben H. Donnelley, president of the Chicago Printing Cor- poration: “The only difference between gang- sters in New York and in Chicago ls that here we ostracize them, while in New York they make them club mem- bers.” And this from Jacob L. Kenser, Chi- Cago estate man: “As for gunmen, New York is just as well equipped with them as we are. From what 1 hear some GOV. SMITH LEAVE TOVISITSTATE FAR Will Return to Albany Tomor- row—May Announce Itinerary Soon. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 29.—Gov. Alfred E. Smith, with members of his family and a few friends, left here today for Syracuse to visit the State fair. He {will go to Albany tomorrow, remaining at the "executive mansion until after Labor day. 4 ‘The governor's daughter, Mrs. John Adams Warner, is en route to Hot Springs, Ark., for Senator Joe T. Rob- inson’s notification of his nomination for Vice President. After a week of arduous attention to his responsibilities as Democratic presi- dential nominee, Smith foday stepped back into his role as Governor of New York, and will play the part, unless something unforeseen occurs in the meantime. until he decides which one of three rough drafts of his speaking itinerary is acceptable. He had an engegement to attend tonight the annual “farm dinner” given by Jerome D. Barnum, publisher of the Syracuse Post-Standard. Tomorrow he ;ll‘ll make his yearly visit 1o the State air, Plans Brief Speech. He plans to say & few words at the Barnum dinner, but not along national political lines. In emphasizing his rea- son for this, the Democratic presidential candidate likes to refer to last year's ex?enence when, he , there were only two Democrats present and he was one of them. Indications today were that Gov. Smith would have something definite to say regarding roposed stumping tour of the country by the end of next week at the latest, probably by Labor day. He has no plans for that holiday, nor has he made any engagements be- tween his Syracuse dates and next Monday. He expects to spend a quiet week end, but may go in for a little olf, as he did here yesterday with his riend Willlam F. Kenny. Campaign duties are to be forgotten, as far as the public is concerned. Prefers to Speak Indoors. Relterating his determination to avold speaking out of doors as much as possible when he begins his swing around the country, Gov. Smith told newspaper men that the only reason he broke this rule Monday night at New- ark was because a large crowd had waited several hours to see and cheer him. He has adopted the principle that it does not pay in the game of politics to disappoint crowds such, as that which gave him a nolsy send-off in Newark, “It's disappointing to a crowd to have them waiting around for you for several hours,” he says, “and then to tell them only how much you think of them. They don't fall for that sort of talk. There is nothing so deadly for all concerned as saying nothing. The people simply go away saying, ‘Our al- derman could do better than that’" TWO LIGHT C.RUISEHS READY NEXT SPRING | First of U. 8. Program of Eight Scheduled to Be in Commission by June—Others Wait Year. By the Associated Press e first two of the Navy's elght 10,- on new light cruisers under con- fon_will be launched early next Spring, the bureau of construction and repair announced today in making its quarterly progress report The cruiser, Salt Lake City, being constructed by the American Brown Bover! Electric Corporation at Camden, N. J, is more than 61 per cent com- pleted, while the Pensacola, being built at the New York Navy Yard, is more than 48 per cent finlshed. Both vessels are scheduled to be placed in commis- ston by July 9, 1929 The other light cruisers, the Chester, Chicago, Houston, Augusta, and the two unnamed sister ships, are 35 per cent or less complete, and none will be finished before June, 1930 The last six will have only nine 8-inch guns, while the Pensacola and Salt Lake City will have 10 of the same caliber . Earthquake Recorded. By the Assoclated Press. The selsmograph of the CGeorgetown University observatory reglstered an earthquake of moderate intensity begin- ning at 5:08 am, today and lasting for an hour, The maximum Intensity was recorded at 521 o'clock, Observatory officlals sald that the of the best importations to Chicego Bangs hiad New York tralning.” quake appeared to be about 2,100 miles Away in a wumwy direction, 'Havana Prohibits [ Unofficial Flying | Later Than 3 P.M.! By the Associated Press. HAVANA, August 29.—All aviation activities over Havana Province after 3 p.m. except for government mail planes will cease today under gov- ernment orders. Gen. Alberto Her- rara, chief of the general staff, ex- plained that the ruling was a pre- cautionary one. “The province is the most densely populated region of the island,” he sald. “It contains the residences of all the high political dignitaries of the republic.” Gen. Herrara said violationls of the order would result in the arrest of the pllot and if necessary in the de- tention of the plane. It is under- stood that complaints had been made respecting three machines in the service of an evening newspaper i | | which have been fiying daily. -— PLAN TO DERA GOLD TRAIN FAILS Trackwalker Saves Limited Carrying 350 Passengers and $2,000,000. By the Assoclated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn, August 29.— Rallroad and city police are today in- vestigating an alleged attempt to wreck the Washingtonian, crack limited of the New York, New Haven & Hart- ford Rallroad, carrying passengers, mail and gold shipments between Montreal and Washington, yesterday. A trackwalker discovered a rallroad spike driven between two sections of rail near this city less than five min- utes before the Washingtonian was due to pass and flagged the train when he was unable to remove the spike, The train, made up of nine sieepers, two day coaches and a baggage and mail car, was carrying 350 passengers and $2,000,000 in gold, representing the semi-weekly shipment from Federal Re- serve Banks in the northern New Eng- land area. VICE CONSUL WORKS PASSAGE ON LINER Lloyd D. Yates of Washington Serves With Crew on Vessel From Buenos Aires. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, August 20.—“Hitch hiking” 1s not confined to automobile highways, it was demonstrated by Lloyd D. Yates of 1620 Sixteenth street, Washington, D. C., United States vice- consul at Buenos Alres, who arrived here today as & work-a-way on board the liner American Leglon, on a vaca- tion leave of two months after two years' service In South America. mein difference between being ! Wway on an ocean liner and ! ing" across the continent, he i said, is that getting rides along auto- mobile roads is mostly a matter of be- ing able and willing to help change utomobile tires while aboard ship he earned his passage by working regulsr shifts in the steward’s department. Mr. Yates is the son of A. Colt Yates, now retired after long service in the State Department. He was met by an uncle and went ashore with the ship's passengers after Capt. Philip Mahady, who signed him on in Buenos Alres as a member of the crew, had compli- mented him on being the most indus- trious work-a-way ever carried aboard the ,Amfl'lnln Leglon. CHINA GAINS DEMAND. | { Tokio Understood to Be Ready to Talk Treaty Revision. TOKIO, #ugust 19 (#). - It Is under- stood the Japanese government has de- clded to accept the Ohinese Natlonalist demand that the question of treaty re- vision be opened between the two countries. The government, however, will {ssue no reply to the las' Chiness note, as it does not desire to prolong the contro- versy aver interpretation of the method of obtalning renewal or revision of the | treaty with China. | Radio Programs —Page 27 DEMOGRATS ALLOT MIDWEST MILLION Raskob Says Fourth of Bud- get Will Be Spent, Half in Rural Counties. By the Assooiated Press. ST. LOUIS, August 20.—The Demo- cratic party’s national campaign budget will call for expenditure of $1,000,000 in the Middle West, John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic national committee, announced here today. The Middle West will receive one-fourth of the total budget to be raised by the party for the campaign, he sald. Half of this sum, he said, would be spent in the 600 rural counties of the 10 corn belt States and the remainder in the industrial and metropolitan com- munities. “The national committee plans to spend $500,000 in selling the Demo- cratic party’'s platform to the farmers of the Middle West,” Raskob said. “It is safe to estimate that it will cost as much more to sell the platform to the non-farmers of the section. Papers Mostly Republican. “Qur reports from rural communities of the Miggle West indicate that a ma- Jority of the newspapers throughout the agricultural section are normally Re- publican in policy. We shall therefore take other means to reach the voters with Gov. Smith’s vigorous advocacy of equality for agriculture. It is our plan to operate snu?rganinuon in each county of these States.” cmzuy encouraged, he sald, by the reports Democratic leaders of eight Middle Western States laid before him, Chairman Raskob today was to confer with Senator Harry B. Hawes, chairman of the Democratic central regional com- mittee, and a few others in the seclu- slon of a country club. After hearing of the political situa- tion in Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Tennessee in a series of State confer- ences yesterday, Raskob sald that nothing he had heard had changed his conviction about the election of Gov. Smith in November. Raskob and other Democrats will de- part late today for Hot Springs, Ark, to attend the notification ceremonies for Senator Robinson, vicé presidential nominee. Barriers Are Reported. Franklin, the fivescore Democrats told Raskob and Senator Peter G. Gerry of Rhode Island, chairman of the Democratic dvisory committee, of the barriers in their States which Gov Smith must surmount to win electoral votes. With optimism the keynote, each of the report bearers singled out one or more of the obstacles confronting Smith's candidacy. Apathy, religious Intolerance, prohibition, farm relief and several other campaign factors were brought out. In his opening speech to visiting Democratic chieftains, Raskob sald he uhderstood the Republicans were seek- g to raise a campaign fund of $6,000,000 to $8,000,000. He added they might not be able to get so large a fund “because of the drift of wealthy men toward Smith." “These business men,” he sald, not afraid of Smith. They are assu! he will keep his pledge not to opp an honest tariff and not to disturb legitimate industries. Farm Problem Not Easy. “The East has never understood the farm problem,” Raskob continued. “I have never met a man, including my- self, who understood the provisions of the McNary-Haugen bill. Gov. Smith has arranged for a survey by one of the greatest students of economics in the United States, Prof. Seligman of Columbla University. If the governor is elected he will be able to recommend an agricultural relief program which will meet the approval of the East and satisfy the West. “The Democratic party plans to ex- pend $500,000 in a drive for the elec- toral votes of the corn belt States” Raskob told the assembled Democrats. re President Lands Elusive Gamefish On Moonlight Trip Rare Montana Grayling| Gives Him Thrill in Nocturnal Battle. “ BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Correspondent of The Star. CEDAR ISLAN‘D LODGE, Brule River, Wisconsin, August 29.—Presi- dent Coolidge has at last achieved his ambition to land a Montana grayling, considered here the most difficult of all | fish to catch. The President is as proud | as a boy over the feat. The President made the catch in the Brule by moonlight last night, and it is doubtful if he was ever before more excited over anything. He was still talk- ing about his achievement today. A hard rain this morning kept the Presi- dent from returning to the section where he hooked the grayling last night. | Catching a grayling is really some- ; thing to be proud of. According to | experts, the swiftness and gameness of these fish, along with their small, ten- der mouths, make them the hardest to land. The President has had several of them slip away from him after striking. Graylings have long since disappeared from these waters. The 10-inch fellow caught by the President was one of 50 turned loose in the Brule several weeks ago by Mr. Lambert, superintendent of | the Cedar Island estate, who has been raising graylings in the private hatch- ery on the estate. The President is not permitting his fishing to overshadow his interest in politics. He is constantly receiving ad- vices from friends regarding the cam- paign. During the past two days he has listened to Secretary of Interior | West, Republican national committee- man from Illinois; Senator Capper of Kansas, and former Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin. | ‘Tomorrow Charles B. Warren, former | ambassador to Mexico and Republican | national committeeman from Michigan, | will be a guest at the Summer White | House. Walter F. Brown, Assistant Sec- retary of Commerce and one of the Re- publican leaders in northern Ohio, will visit the President next Priday. Eu-, gene Meyer, jr.. chairman of the Farm ; Loan Board, is scheduled to arrive Sat- urday to spend the week end. D, FINES TOTAL 9315040 N YEAR Police Court Cases Jump to 71,226 From_ 12,877, An- nual Report Shows. Showing $170,288.36 collected in fines and forfeitures in traffic cases during the last fiscal year, and an estimated the aunual report of the assistant cor- poration counsel’s office at Police Court ‘was made public today. The total collections for breaches of the police regulations amounted to $315,040.60, an increase of $87,741.56 over the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and the total cases were put at 71,226, an increase of 12,877 for the year. The report also shows that the office failed of convictions in more than 50 per cent of the cases tried before juries. Statistics on Trials. Of 162 trials conducted in the 84 $72,000 where intoxication v as charged. | i PLANE SQUADRON LEAVES 10 HUNT MISSING AVIATORS Eight Commercial and Three Army Craft to Scour Route to Ithaca. TRANSOCEAN AIRMAN PARTICIPATES IN SEARCH No Trace of Wrecked Aero Found on Mountainside Near Harrisburg, Pa. By the Associated Press CURTISS FIELD, N. Y, August 2! —Eight commercial planes from field and three Army ships from Mitchell Field took the air at 7:15 this morning to search the country between here and Ithaca, N. Y., for M. M. Mer- rill and E. M. Ronne, missing since Monday night on an attempted flight {rom Buffalo. Planes were the advance guard of what is expected to be the greatest con- centration ever made of airplanes on such a mission. Between 30 and 40 ships will have left the field by noon, if plans carry through. Led by “Casey” Jones, veteran com- mercial fiyer and president of the Cur- tiss Flying Service, the planes took the air at minute intervals from 7:15, the first ones in the air circling the feld until all were off the ground. Form Huge Fan. Joined by the three Army planes from Mitchell Field the ships then formed in a huge fan formation and rapidly disappeared into the north. T will continue in that formation until they reach Ithaca or find the missing flyers. Each plane carried two observers, one to watch the terrain on each side. ‘They will cover the route supposed to have been taken by Merrill and Ronne. Other planes which are being concen- trated here from Philadelphia. Hadley Fleld, N. J, and nther points will take off later in the day to join in the search. The entire route from here to Ithaca has been blocked off into squares with each p' ne assigned a definite ter- ritory to cover. ‘The Sabdelli plane, the Roma, being groomed for a transatlantic flight. also joined the search, and was assigned Island as its territory. Roger Q. , who will be co-pilot on the ocean flight, was at the stick of the big sesquiplane. Other -lanes being sent out of Buf- falo will cover the territory between that city and Ithaca. Reported at Dusk. rrill, manager of Curtiss Field, and Ronne, head of the Buffalo munic- ipal airport, took off from Buffalo at 4 p.am., Monday in Col. Lindbergh's Cur- Falcon. Many hours later no word of their landing had been received, al- though half an hour after their take- off a plane over Raskinville and a short time later in the gathering dusk & plane was seen over Ithaca State police headquarters at Harris- burg, Pa., were notified an airplane had fallen on a mountainside near Clarks Ferry last evening, and a searching party was organized immediately in an effort to determine whether the plane was the missing dbergh craft. The flight from Buffalo should have taken only two and one-half to three hours. When the airmen did not ap- pear at Curtiss Field on schedule little fear was felt, as both men were ex- g:n pilots and it was supposed they d landed somewhere for the night. All points on the airmen's route jury days alloted to the office, 84 re-| were queried. and “Caseyv” Jones, presi- 'ted in verdicts of not guilty, 56 in|dent of the Curtiss Flying Service, or- verdicts of guilty, 19 juries failed to[dered all his flyers on reserve duty. Fog agree and three resulted in sanity | prevented their starting search, but inquiries. The report did not show the com- parative figures on intoxication cases, which are lumped in with other District Court cases, including dis- orderly conduct, violation of the license laws, and similar charges, and for all of which the total collections amounted to $144,752.24. It was on this last fig- ure, however, that the $72,000 estimate in drinking cases was based, A. J. San- ford, financial clerk at the court plac- ing these at about 50 per cent of the total. The greatest increase in cases was traffic violations, the jump being from 7,134 to 41,986. All other cases listed as Dl.ifl‘lx’rl cases went up from 5743 to 20,240, Report Commended. ‘The report was submitted to Cor- poration Counsel Bride by Edward W. Thomas, who, in commending the re- port, declares, “the work of the office is going on as smoothly as possible under the conditions.” He asserts that only two things af- fecting the office during the past year are to be noted. These, he says, are the closing of night Trafic Court, as rec- ommended in the annual report for 927, and the convening of courts at 9 am. instead of 9:30 am. The clos- ing of the night court, Thomas add: has placed additional work on his office. NINE REBELS KILLED. Mexican Federals Capture Three in Routing Band of 60. MEXICO CITY, August 29 (P Nine rebels were killed and three cap- tured when federal troops routed a band of 60 insurgents at Pinal ranch, in the state of Zacatecas Sunday night, say dispatches here. The rebels were commanded by Jose Solorzano. Francisco Salazar, insurgent chieftain, is reported to be among the prisoners, Woman in Speeding Bottles of Liquor at Pursuing Officer Retarded by a fusillade of quart bot- tles filled with liquor thrown back at him at intervals by a woman in & peeding touring car, Motor Cycle Policeman Watson Salkeld of the tweifth precinet early this morning falled in his effort to cateh the speeder after a chase from Michigan avenue rtheast to Water street southwest that left a pungent trail of broken glass. Policeman Salkeld recognized the car as it crossed the Maryland line as one he had pursued unsuccessfully one night last week, and gave chase. Reaching a apeed of 76 miles an hour at times, {ha officer sald, the car whirled through i Auto Throws Fifty Twenty-second street down Bladensburg road Two men and a woman were in the machine, he sald, and at intervals the woman threw bottles back at him, fore- ing him to duck and slow up mo- mentarily. bottles were thrown, 2 of which hit his handle bars. One struck him on the l|||:;lldel: All of them were filled, he sal The pursult lasted until the machine northeast and Salkeld estimated that 50| N they were held available until today. Appeals were made to State troopers of New York and Pennsylvania, and railroads were asked to spread the word of the missing plane through their sta- tion agents along the airmen’s route. Other Flyers Search. Lieut. Nathaniel E. Duffy from Buffalo and flew to To da, P but saw no sign of the missing plane. He landed for the night at Elmira to resume the hunt today. Capt. Fred Becker took off from Mitchel Field late 1in the day, but returned after an hour's flying because of low visibility. ‘The plane had been at the Buffalo airport having & burned-out bearing replaced, and it was believed quite probable that it might have gone wrong again on the flight. Merrill was | fiying it to Curtiss Field for Col. Lind- bergh. Merrill and Ronne were both Army fiyers during the war. After Army service Merrill barnstormed for sev- eral years through the Southwest. He came to New York several vears ago and for some time has been in ¢ of Curtiss Fleld. He has a wife ar-old son. Ronne has been rge of the Buffalo airport since it | was built two years ago. took 0 | MOUNTAIN SEARCH ABANDONED | Ofticers Hunt for Lost P Report Believed HARRISBURG, August Scarch for an airplane reported to have crashed in the mountains at Clarks Fer near here, was aban- doned today. Col. Ira M. Fravel, com- mandant of the United States Army aviation depot at Middletown, and members of the State police, directing the search, sald they believed that the report of the plane crash was er- roneous. With aild of a searchlight on a fire truck a party of 15 men, led by Lieut H. A Mill of the air depot, and six State policenmien, scoured the mountain- side last night without finding a trace of a plane or damaged trees to indi- cate a falling body had struck them The crash was reported by Mrs. Ray- mond Kirk of Duncannon, across the Susquehanna River from Clarks Ferry She sald she saw the machine fall on the mountainside opposite her home When the search was abandoned at Clarks Ferry, Col. Fravel announced that Lieut. Mill and O'Neill had been ordered to fly over the Susquehanna River as far as Sunbury, Pa., to search for the missing plane, flown by M. M h!x‘l'\l’_l" and E. M. Ronne from Buffalo, e in Vain: or. ) Levine Cuts Test Short, LONDON, August 29 (#) —Charles A reached Water street southwest, where it made so much better time than Salkeld over the cobblestones that he | lost sight of it 5 Levine and Bert Acosta, who took off in Levine's new plane Queen of the Alr on a test flight to France this :\\-\rnlng, cut the fight short and re- urs uedp Croydon carly Wis afteraoon. d