Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1928, Page 1

WEA’ (U. 8. Weather Mostly cloudy. wi THER. Bureau Forecast.) ith showers tonight or tomorrow; not much change in tem- perature: gentle southerly winds. Temperature—Highest. p.m. yesterday: low 84, at 1:45 est, 68, at 4 am. to- day. Full report on page 9 Markets, Pages. 14 Closing N. Y. and 15 No. 30,815. ntered as sec post office, Wa shington, ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ng Sl The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press service. news Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,489 WASHINGTON. . (. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1928 — FORTY PAGES. (/) Means Associated Pr: TWO CENTS. ess. THREE STATES HELD CERTAIN FOR . 0.P. , N NEW ENGLAND | " Three Others——Massachu-j £ setts, Connecticut, Rhode | Island—Seen Debatable. WET ISSUE BELIEVED SWITH ASSET THERE| National ~ Democratic Victory Would Be Difficult Without Bay State Votes. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. New England's 44 electoral votes have i been for vears safely Republican inj presidential elections. A combination | of circumstances and issues make three of the six States debatable ground this year for which Herbert Hoover and Gov. Smith must fight. Three of the New England Stats may be set down as safely Republican Maine has already spoken in its Stale v yerbert Hoover. the Republican presidentia election held Monday. It will go Re- | publican in November just as it did in September. Vermont will vote for Hoover and Curtis bevond question of doubt. and New Hampshire, unless the | Republicans allow themselves to be | ured into a sense of false security and | overconfidence, should be in the Re- publican column on election day. ! There are left the three debatable | Btates, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. In all three of these | States the Democrats have a chamc; to win for Smith and Robinson. Mas- | gachusetts, with its 18 electoral votes | is the particular prize for which both} parties are struggling in this New | Eneland section. . The three States which may be ac- counted safe for the Republicans have # total of 14 votes in the electoral col- Jege. The three so-called debatable | States have 30. This is not so good from the Republican point of view and makes New England one of the main | battlegrounds of the country in the | presidential election. Indeed, it is almost impossible to figure any way | in which Gov. Smith could be elected if he failed. for example, to carry Massachusetts and one or two.of the other New England States. Gov. Smith might, on the other hand, carry Massa- | chusetts and one or two other New Eng- | Jand States and still fail to win lhe' country. Unrest in Mill Cities. In New England the same issues and | factors which make Smith a strong candidate in New York and New Jersey apply, with an added circumstance ! which must not be discounted—the un- rest in the mill cities due to the depres- sion in the textile industry in this section of the country. Like New York and New Jersey, New | England possesses a strong “wet” senti- i ment. Two of the New England States never ratified the eighteenth amend- ment to the Constitution—Connecticut and Rhode Island. It is doubtful if they would ratify it now if it were put to a | ! vote in those States. Massachusetts | has been dry in various votes, but by | a very narrow margin, and there are ; today not a few Republicans who insist | they will vote for Gov. Smith as a pro- | test against prohibition and the stand | the Republican national candidate has ; taken against the repeal of the cight- | eenth amendment. E In Maine the wet and dry issue is rather a help to the Republicans than | the Democrats, for Maine has been a | pioneer in prohibition and is proud of | it. Vermont is rated dry, but whether it be dry or not, Vermont is so strongly Republican from tradition and its over- whelming Yankee population that not | the most enthusiastic Democrat would | claim even a remote chance of carrying | that State. New Hampshire has its wet spots and doubtless Smith will gain | ;nme votes there on the prohibition ssue. | As the old stock of New England has |§ moved West in large numbers. thou- | sands of newcomers to the United | States have filled up the citics and fac- | tories here in the last half century. All | of these States, with the exception of | Vermont, has a large percentage of | foreign-born white citizens and citizens | of immigrant parentage. Next to Ver- mont Maine has fewer immigrants and relains more of the old stock. Appeals to Foreigners. In the past these groups of foreign- | born voters and voters of immigrant | parentage have been divided, some vot- | ing the Republican and some the Demo- | cratic ticket. For example, the French- | Americans and Canadian-Americans | have followed the Republican standard in Rhode Island. !-assachusetts, New | Hampshire and Maine, while the Irish- | Americans have for the most part been | counted in the Democratic party. This | . Year the Democrats have nominated for | President a candidate who makes a special appeal to the newcomers to America and to the Irish-Americans, who have always been active in politics in this part of the country. Gov. Smith i- himself the son of an immigrant father who came to New York from Ireland. Furthermore, Gov. Smith and his career in New York are almost as well known to the people of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island as to the people of New York. They are located at the back door of New York. And Gov. Smith makes a great personal appeal to the voters in these States. “There is no doubt of that whatever. The conditions growing out of de- (pression in the textile industry prob- ably are more potent as a Democratic #id In Massachusetts than in any of the other New England States, though they exist, 100, in_New Hampshire, Rhode Isiand and Connecticut. The cotton {run-off primary, | wear its same complexion. President and Mrs. Coolidge reac Shwcon 0 Sfesgton 0 o uters aAtNOnce With Cabi-| Wilson of Mississippi Seen Swept From Congress. Assurance that one new face, and probably two, will be seen in the House of Representatives of the next Congress and the upsetting of a political tradi- tion that had become almost law marked the primaries held yesterday in sevem States—Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Mississippi, Louisiana, Associated Press dispatches. Incomplete returns gathered from achington indicate that Representa- Wi ive Albert Johnson, Republican, chair- |man of the House immigration and | naturalization committee, has been de- | feated for renomination by Homer T.| Bone, Tacoma lewyer and former State | legislator. Returns from 184 complete land 30 incomplete precincts show: Bone, 15,554; Johnson, 11,157. Representative Johnson has served in the House since 1912. The effort of former Senator Miles Poindexter to come back seems doomed to failure, as returns from 943 complete {and 82 inComplete out of 2,561 pre- cincts in the race for the Republican give: Judzz Kenneth Mackintosh, 57. 165; Poindexter, 20,613; Austin E. Grif- fiths, 20,393. Dill Is Leading. In the Democratic race for the sena- torial position Senator C. C. Dill, in- cumbent, was running away from his only opponent, Cleveland ~Longstreet. The vote was: Dill, 9,380, and Long- street, 2,534. Other incumbent Representatives seeking renomination were in the lead early today. Returns from 501 compiete and 36 incomplete precincts in the State gave Gov. Hartley 38,603 votes, against 32.- 644 for French and 4,071 for Claude Bannick. A. Scott Bullitt hac nearly a two-ts one lead over his nearest rival, Steph Chadwick, for the Democratic bernatorial nomination. Bullitt had lled 5.818 votes. compared with 3,583 Chadwick. Two other Democrats, gul po fc |C. L. MacKenzie and George F. Cot- terill, apparently were out of the run-| ning. Mizsissippi will send one new Rep- resentative as the result of yesterday's but Louisiana will Nomination Means Election. Nomination in these primaries mea:.s election in these two States,as the Re- publicans do not plan to contest ser! cusly the Democrats in the Novemb congressional elections. g In the run-off primary in Mississippi vesterday Robert S. Hall of Hattiesburg captured the congressional seat formerly held by T. Webber Wilson, who was de- feated trying to replace Senator Huberc D. Stephens. With only 77 precincts missing, Hall was leading his opponent, | T, Price Dale of Columbia, by more than 2500 votes, the returns reading: Hall, |14,451: Dale, 11.817. The regular August | primary unseated Representative B. G | Lovrey in favor of Wall Doxey, who v ibe a neweomer to Washington. | Only one contest over the House w: | held in Louisiana, Representative Jam | 0'Connor_ being opposed by J. A. Bri ilard of New Orleans. O'Connor won in la wal i precincts giving him 12,781 quer Bru- {lards 2,134. | Contest for Judgeships. | Both States contested on State | Supreme Court. judgeships. In the second | judicial district of Louisiana, Associate | Justice John R. Land of Caddo, ap- | parently defeated J. E. Reynolds of | Bienville, returns from 198 of the 259 ! precincts standing: Land, 12801, and | Reynolds, 10.671. i cond judicial district of Mis- of New | Hampshire and Vermont, according to | mills and some of the woolen mills have | ¢c, been hard hit in recent years, due to | the growth of similar mills in the | Southern States, to foreign competition, | . A. Griffith, chancellor rt, held a stout_iead over Judge | | | PRIMARIES DEFEAT PRESIDENT BACK 2 HOUSE MEMBERS - FROM WISCONSIN | pointed to succeed Herbert Hoover as nomination for United States Senator | followed by Postmaster General New. Ik, returns from 118 of the 141 | l | l inz the Capital this morning were greeted rs. Hoover. ar Stafl Photo. nominee, and net Members and Gen. | Lord on Budget. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President and Mrs. Coolidge arrived | back at the White House this morning from their vecation in Wisconsin. Scarcely 15 minutes afterward Mr. Coolidge was at his desk in the execu- tive office, where, during the forenoon, he conducted a series of conferences with members of his cabinet and Gen. Lord, director of the budget. The President has been greatly con- | cerned about the $94,000,000 df‘fldl; Gen. Lord predicted for the present fiscal year, and he did not lose any time upon his return secing what might be done by the administration to cur- tail expenses, with the view to keeping the Treasury on the right side of the} ledger. First he conferred with Secretary ot | State Kellogg, who has just returned from Paris for the signing of the anti- war treaty. They were together nearly an hour. Then ne talked with Secre- tary of the Navy Wilbur and later with William F. Whiting, his old friend from Massachusetts whom he recently ap- Secretary of Commerce; Attorney Gen- eral Sargent, who has just returned to the Capital from Vermont. was the President’s next caller, and he was; Discussed Deficit. Gen. Lord. following his conference with the President, admitted that he had been sent for by the President and that they had discussed the prospective deficit as well as other matters re- lating to. the estimates for the next fiscal year. When asked if he thought they would be successful in cutting down expenses between now and the end of June to avoid a deficit. Gen. Lord said they would try hard to do 50. There is no mistake about the Presi- dent's worry over the prospects of a deficit. He has given it much thought since Gen. Lord discussed the subject with him at Cedar Island Lodge more than a month ago. He announced to| correspondents shortly after Gen. Lord’s deficit prediction that shortly after his return to Washington he would take the matter up with the members of his cabinet to see if something could not be done either to wipe out the deficit or reduce it considerably below the stagger- ing amount included in Gen. Lord's pre- diction. Associates of the President were in- clined to think that the President's conference with the cabinet members to- day was his first definite move with this object in view. Both Appear Rested. The presidential train reached here at 8:30 o'clock this morning, and neither the President nor Mrs. Coolidge showed any signs of weariness from the long trip from Superior. They had been joined in Newcastle Junction, Pa., last night by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, and additional members of the| official family, as well as Herbert Hoo- ver, Republican presidential nominee, and Mrs. Hoover, and Dr. Hubert Work, chairman of the Republican national committee, greeted them on arrival here. Those in the group included also the Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg, Attorney General Sargent and Dwight Davis, Secretary of War. Secretary | Kellogg was the first to greet the Presi-| dent as Mr. Coolidge stepped from his | | private car with Mrs. Coolidge imme- | | diately behind him. The President. bronzed from his stay on the Brule River, smiled broadly as he shook hands with each member of the wel- | coming group, Mr. Hoover being the second one he greeted. The candidate | and the President had time for only a handshake and a word or two, then cntered a waiting car. i The President and Mrs. Coolidge “(Continued on Page 2, Column 2. end to the fact that women in this ntry have taken to wearing less hing, and very little cotton clothing. Strike conditions have existed in New | Bedford, Mass., for months and the end | 45 not yet in sight. The National | Guard was called out to deal with the | sirikers in that city. and calling out the WNational Eeuard in industrial controver- | By the Associated Press sies has been a forerunner to political | CHICAGO, September 12 upsets in New England States in past | & . years. While strike conditions Mave | the sports dress section and George not existed in other cities recently, the mill workers have been forced to take | cuts in wages—which the mill owners | explain is due to the fact that the mills are not making money or are run- ning at an actual loss. New England has been wedded to the Fepublican tarifl system for vears. That <<temy huilt up the great manufacty AContiued on Page 2, Column 4) ear)y this year to join i: Friday. ; Aleka, 23, is Princess Galitzine, Whose | father ‘was the late Prince Paul of | Russta. | of Russia, nephew the Romanofl Czards. the Czar's sister. George, 25, is Prince Rostislav of Nicholas, last of His mother was | Greek Orthodox Church. There will be | Princess Galitzine came tn Chicago mother, ' partnent stores of the novelties counter will be married | ung got a job at Marshall Field’ :Formcr Russian prince and pl’inCCSS, Now Dry Goods Clerks. to Be Married | Princess Alexandra. She has been Prince three months George ago, 's in Carson-Pirie-Scott’s. followed her here the novelty goods section. Prince and princess met several years | ago in London, where the princess was la nursemaid. The wedding will take place at the a three-day honeymoon over the week end, then each will go back to the de- | 2315 Massach | where a conference | | | | | | —Aleka of | working in the sports dress section at | | I HOOVER WITHHOLDS| PLEDGE T0 WOMEN FOR EQUAL RIGHTS Telis Delegation He Muslf Make Study of Ques- tion First. SAYS HE FAVORS EVEN OPPORTUNITY Members of National Woman's Party Quiz Candidate on Pro- posed Amendment. Herbert Hoover today fold a delega- | tion from the National Woman's Party | that he wouid not pledge himself to an | cqual rights amendment to the Con- | stitution until he had completed an | exhaustive study of the effect of such a change in the fundamental law. The Republican presidential candidate said he was now having an investiga- tion made and would carefully consider the results. He added that he wanted to be honest with the delegation and | that he did not know of anything more serious than for a candidate for office | ;)r a public official to pledge himself to work for a change in the Constitution. | He said that any plea for equal oppor- tunity had a strong appeal for him, but | that he had long ago decided not to make final conclusions on paramount | public questions without & very careful study. ‘Women Confer Afferwa rd. | Hoover's address to the delega-| tion was made at his headquarters. | usetts avenue, and after| he delegates returned to ters, at 21 First street from the Capitol, was on this after- | on to determine what steps the party t\?llln take in the coming election to further the interests of equal rights. Mr. Hoover received the Woman s Party delegation in the spacious ba! room on the second floor of his head- quarters and listened to pleas for a constitutional amendment. “I think you will agree that any plea based on equal opportunity and re-! moval of restrictions of any g.x:uupl\ wouid make a great appeal to me. he | said. “I have long regarded that as an ideal of American life. but it has net been my habit to rush into determi-| nations on any public questions. | Opposes Inequality. I would go to any estent to remove restrictions on equality of opportunity. 1 have the utmost sympathy for you in your problems and I have asked some of my friends qualified to penetrate the mazes of this problem to make a thor- ough investigation of the effect of such an amendment as you propose. “There is on the statute, books of all States a mass of legislation designed primarily for the benefit of women and children. I would hesitate to say, with- out a thorough and exhaustive study, that all of these should be brushed aside with one sweep of the hand. “I want to be honest with you. I do not know anything more serious for any public man than to pledge himself to a change of the Constitution. I am not going to pledge myself until I have exhausted my information on the sub- ject. If I find to my satisfaction that this is necessary to obtain equality of opportunity I will be with you. | “I could not be more frank with you and I hope you will receive this in the spirit in which it is given.” The women applauded vigorously as Mr. Hoover bowed himself out of the room. Seventy-five Women in Party. The deputation this morning left the headquarters of the Women's Party to see Mr. Hoover. They left in automo- biles with the party colors—purple, white and yellow—to go to the home of Mrs. Harvey Wiley. wife ol the noted food specialist, at 2345 Ashmead place. where another group of women joined | them. | Headed by Miss Gail Laughlin, Port- land, Me.. a Republican member of the | Maine Legislature, who was re-elected | this week, there were 75 women in the official ~delegation, representing 15 States. Upon arrival at the Republican head- quarters Miss Laughlin presented the case for the equal rights cause in this language: __“Most of the discrin:inations again: (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. Mr. leaving him t! their headquar northeast, across i TRANSNATION BUS LINE INAUGURATES SERVICE| Five-Day Fourteen-Hour Schedule | Set Up, With Daily Departures | From Both Coasts, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 12.—Regu- lar daily bus service between Los | Angeles and New York was started yes- terday with the arrival of the first big automobile. Cars are to leave the two | citles daily, making the transconti- nental trip on a schedule of 5 days and | 14 hours, a day longer than the average train time. Speed is limited to 40 miles an hour. Sleeping chairs make it possible for passengers to ride without stopovers, although they have the privilege of breaking the trip at division points, Albuquerque, N. Mex.: Denver, Kansas | City. St. Louis and Pittsburgh. Busses and drivers are changed several times en route, and there is time out | for meals. Begins Tomorrow A Thrilling Serial Blue Murder By EDMUND SNELL. A suspense-laden story of ~a young secret service man who is commissioned to destroy a flend- ish invention dealing death, in the hands of a cunning criminal. Hero's rescue of his sweetheart is effectively told. | Voigt—Out, | i i | 1 | X FAVORTES QT OF GOLFTLEPLAY Von Elm, EQans, Gunn and| Others Defeated—Voigt and Jones Win. | By the Associated Press. BRAE BURN CONTURY CLUB,| NEWTON, Mass., September 12— George Von Elm of Detroit, 1926 cham- pion and one of the tournament’s big- | gest favorites, was the victim of a sen- sational upset in the opening round of the national amateur golf champion- ship today. He was beaten by Arthur | W. (Ducky) Yates of Rochester, N. Y..! by a margin of 3 and 2 in the first| 18-hole match of the day and .sum- marily eliminated. Playing par golf in a drizzling rain. Yates obtained an early lead on Von Elm, made the turn at the ninth 3 vp and settled the issue on the sixteenth to eliminate lh:exuyer who had.been ! generally expect to reach the finals and there meet the defnding champion, ! Bobby Jones. Von Elm's ragged work around the greens was the principal | cause of his downfall. i Voigt Wins, 3 and 2. George Voigt of Washington. D. C.. and New York, the medalist, got a bad start and was 2 down to his rival, Billy| McPhail of Norfolk, Mass., at the third | nole. McPhail took the first with a birdie 3 and Voigt conceded the second, when he was stymied by a tree and then went into a trap Voigt overcame his bad start, quickly caught McPhail and led by 2 up at the turn. Their cards: McPhail—Out...3 54 5 55 5 4 5—ni 46445344433 Voigt continued to play steady golf and | defeated McPhail, 3 and 2. Jones Wins Match. | Bobby Jones, next to the last to get | away in the morning round, was even with J. Wolcott Brown of Spring Lake, N. J., at the end of three holes. The champion lost the second to Brown's birdie 3, but won the third. Jones and Brown, who holds the New Jersey title, halved the fourth in con- ventional 4s and were still all square. | Bobby drove into the rough ai the long fifth, sent his second into a patch of woods and was 30 yards short of the green in 3. while Brown was on. The champion's approach was well past the | cup and he took 2 putis for a 6, while | Brown got 5 and became 1 up. Jones' | tee shot stopped dead 3 feet from | the pin on the short sixth and he got his 2 to square the match, while Brown took 3. Jones, making the turn in even par, 35, was only one up on Brown. The champion got this margin with a birdie | three at the ninth. The cards: Jones, out...... 44446244335 Brown, out..... 4 364534 4437 Clings to Champion. Brown clung to Bobby's heels on the tenth and eleventh, both getting birdie 4s on the tenth and par 4s on the next, the New Jersey star sinking a 25- foot putt to do so. Jones became 2 up; at the twelfth, when he got down in| par 3 to Brown's 4, and increased his lead to 3 up at the thirteenth, getting par 4, whilc Brown caught a trap and took 6. They halved the fourteenth and the matgh ended on the fifteenth green with Jones 4 up and 3 to play. Pairings This Afternoon. For the second round of 18-hole matchs this afternoon, the pairings in the upper half of the draw put together Yates and Perkins, John Dawson and Fre¢ Wright of Boston, who eliminated the Canadian, Gordon Taylor, 3 and 2; Dr. Willing and Storey, Jess Sweet- ser and George Voigt. In the lower half, the brackets were Finlay and John D. Ames of Chicago: Harrison R _(Jimmy) Johnston of St. Paul and George T. Dunlap, jr. of Maplewood, N. H.: Somerville and Beck. Bobby Jones and Rav Gorton, home club star. Others Fall by Wayside, Two more “seeded” stars fell by the wayside when John Dawson, Chicago, put out his fellow townsman and for- mer champion, Chick Evans, 2 and 1, while Dr. O. F. Willing of Portland, Oreg., conquered Watts Gunn of At- lanta, 4 and 3. Eustace F. Storey, Great Britain, de- feated Max R. Marston, Philadelphia, 1 up. Jess W. Sweetser, New York. defeated D. J. Armstrong, Aurora, (11, 3 and 2. The marathon match between Don Moe, young Portland, Oreg., star, and Phil Perkins, British title holder, was decided on the twenty-second hol when Perkins, with a par 4. to Moe's 5, emerged the victor by a margin of 1 up. The Briton had staged a great rally to square the match on_ th ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) (zled to left. scoring Hoyt: Combs on ' run, Broadcaster Asks } Injunction Against| Radio Commission | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 12.—Suit was filed today in United States District Court seeking to restrain the Federal Radio Commission from en- forcing its order of September 1. rul- ing more than three-score stations off the air. The suit was filed on behalf of Station WORW of Chicago, operated by Clinton R. White, who said other stations were expected to join in the action. YANKS LEAD A'S IN3RD FRANE, 19 Koenig’s Single Sends Hoyt 0Over—40,000 Fans Out to See Contest. THE LINE-UP. PHILADELPHIA. Bishop, 2b. Haas, ef. Cochrane. Simmons. Foxx, 1b. Miller, rf. Dykes, b, Boley. s Bengoush. Ehmke. Hovt, ». Umpires—Messrs. Dineen, McGowan, Owe: and Nallin. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK. September 12. —The Yankees were leading the Athletics ‘n the third inning of today's game, the last of the series. The score was 1 to 0. Howard Ehmke was sent to the mound for the Athletics and Waite Hovt did the pitching for the Yankees. Forty thousand fans were present to witness the last game between the two leaders of the American League. FIRST INNING. PHILADELPHIA —Bishop flied to Koenig Haas flied to Combs. Coch- rane singled to center. Simmons flied to Ruth. No runs. NEW YORK—Combs out, Bishop to Foxx. Koenig out, Foxx, unassisted Gehrig struck out. No runs. SECOND INNING. PHILADELPHIA — Foxx struck out. Miller flied to Lazzeri. Dykes struck out. No runs. NEW YORK--Ruth singled to left Meusel out, double play. Dykes to Bishop to Foxx. Lazzeri fouled back | to Cochrane. No runs. THIRD INNING. PHILADELPHIA — Boley singled to second, a grounder which bounded over the pitcher's head. Ehmke out, sacri- fice bunt, Gehrig to Lazzeri, who cov- ered the base. Boley on second. Bishop flied to Combs. Haas out, Lazzeri to Gehrig. No runs. NEW YORK-—Robertson singled to center. Bengough flied to Miller. Hoyt's attempted sacrifice forced Robertson, Ehmke to Boley. As Bengough slid to second he spiked Boley on the hand, but after hayving it taped Boley con- tinued. Combs walked. Koenig sin- | third. Gehrig flied to Simmons. One Quebec Resort Burns. QUEBEC, September 12 (#).—The Manoir Richelieu, at Murray Bay, 80 miles from here, one of the finest Sum- IFERS EVIDENE ON TRAGTIN TOXK tion’s Condition in Fight on Higher Fare. In an effort to refute the claim of the Capital Traction Co. that it is en- titled to a higher fare, Ralph B. Fle- harty, people’s counsel, offered the Pub- iic Utilitles Commission evidence bear- ing on the condition of the company’s stock, quoted at 109, over the protest of traction officials today. He succeeded later in obtaining an admission that the second year of the fare increase, if granted. would more made from the company’s surplus to maintain payment of a 7 per cent divi- dend on its stock. The Public Utilities Commission to- day was concerned only with the case of the Capital Traction Co. In accord- ance with yesterday's decision, it issued a formal notice today that a public hearing would be held September 21 to determine if the increase in fare, if granted. should apply to the Washing- ton Railway & Electric Co., the Mount Vernon, _Alexandria & Washington Railway Co. and the Arlington & Fair- tax Railway Co. The Washington Railway & Elec- tric Co. has not formally asked for an increased fare, but its officials have informed the commission their com- pany wishes to share in any increase extended to the Capital Traction lines. The commission yesterday overruled Fleharty’s motion to dismiss the hear- ing and at the same time reversed a fromer decision by ordering the Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co. to be- come a party to the proceedings. Heberle Questioned. Fleharty today questioned J. E. He- berle, assistant to the president of the Capital Traction Co., for charts show- ing the trend of stock sales. When Heberle said he had none Fleharty evidence taken from the Stock Ex- change bearing on all transactions in the company’s stock and its quotations. John H. Hanna. president, and G. ‘Thomas Dunlop, general counsel, i mediately objectéd. The former de- clared that the company had not ap- plied for full relief, but had asked only enough to protect its interest. He contended the a-nlication was not based on the maintenance of a dividend, adding that his previous state- ment as to the desire to continue a 7 per cent dividend was made simply as an explanation of why the company did | not ask for all the relief it was entitled to, in filing its application. While the commission decided to admit the evidence for its “informa- tion,” Chairman John W. Childress said it would have no technical bearing on the situation as affecting the Capital Traction Co. “Then it would be useless to offer it,” Fleharty said. The day was largely devoted to statis- ties offered by Heberle in supporting the application of the traction company for a higher fare. Throughout his examina- tion of the witness, Fleharty sought to prove that the company wished merely to keep up payments of a 7 per cent dividend. He obtained from the traction official the admission that the company 1is under no obligation to pay any given dividend on its stock. If a 6 per cent instead of a 7 per cent dividend had been paid in 1926, he brought out that approximately $50,- 000 would have been added to the sur- plus. Assuming a 6 per cent dividend had been paid, the company would have mer hotels in Canada, was destroyed by fire early today. The building had only recently been closed after the Summer season and only a few employes re- mained. None was injured. lacked only $12,546 to meet an equiva- {NCW Process May produce a MOtOl‘ Fuel From Natural Gas and Oxyéeni By the Assoctated Press. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., September 12.| Discovery of a process which may | supersede even the great post-war | achievements of German science in the production of formaldehyde, formic acid and methanol was announced today by Prof. 'T. K. Layng of the University ot linols before the American Chemical Soclety convention. Formaldehyde and methanol are the starting points in the production of synthetic resins and plastics found in radlo sets, automobiles, countless molded materials and in many forms of art. Methanol is used in great quan- tities in many chemical industries and in the manufacture of dye stuffs, paint and varnish. With alterations in the designs of internal combustion engines, | country.” A method metiznal or wood alcohol from hydro- [ which has been under charter, gen and carbon monoxide, Targoly o | bo released. his : e account of the large volumes of natural | di Milano. base ship of the - gas available in the oil fields of this | pedition, will lu\'epKIn‘s B-N‘,b"e th Journey southward, | methanol may become important as a motor fuel, Prof. Layng said. A chiel outcome of the process de- scribed by Prof. Layng, it was asserted. will be its utilization in the oil flelds of the Southwest, where immense quanti- ties of natural gas go to waste. Prof. Layng said: “We can consider that natural gas is virtually thrown away. We have ordi- nawy air, which is to be had for nothing. We have found that by combining these two principal substances in the presence of a catalyst, tkat we can produce torr:\nldthyde, formic acid and meth- anol. “This new process should become a serious competitor of the German of synthetically producing T i Fleharty Cites Capital Trac-| than cover all deductions previously | volunteered to offer the commission | SAFETY RULES TAKE THRILL OUT OF AR MEET EXHBITONS Plane Manufacturers and Army Official Take Action When T_wo Are Killed. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT WARNS RACE OFFICIALS Fear of Adverse Effest on Public Opinion Bars Hair-raisers. in Los Angeles. BY FREDERICK R. NEELY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. MINES FIELD, LOS ANGELES, Calif., September 12.—Rigid enforce- ment of the Army Air Corps regulations requiring all acrobatic maneuvers over public gatherings to be completed at an altitude of 1,000 feet, coupled with a |demand by the commercial aircrafi manufacturers here with exhibits of their products that low stunt flying be rmoved up to a greater height, so as to prevent any more misfortunes to pilots, has had a tendency to take away a large portion of the drawing power from the gigantic aeronautical meet now in progress here. However, the de- mand of the manufacturers and the un- obtrusive and almost unknown inter- vention of the Department of Com- merce yesterday has created, in the opinion of those who view an aero- nautical meet as a vehicle for expand- ing and devleoping aviation, a hopefui atmosphere that something good might result for the affair, after all, When rd was received that Lieut. J. J. Williams, Army Air Corps, ot Rockwell Field, San Diego, died early ;I'uesdly morning from injuries received in his crash on the field in fi thousands of spectators Mondul?n:\':f ning as the last number was being staged, those who are here to sell air- planes, to talk safety in aviation, and, above all, who believe in the art, science or profession. regarded the tragedy as :it:‘co;t l;) nyl‘xgufron'la which it will be or aviation gt recover, at least Public Fails to Regard Causes. The general public, it was argued, is not going to sit down and fry o reason out just why Lieut. Williams' crash occurred, why the crash of Lieut. George Hasselman’s Navy plane hap- pened and how both could have been prevented. All the public knows is t.l;x:z thfi t"gd;lrphnes were flying ng when su they plunge: lhengound. nly they pl d into “How are we going to get the peopl to go up and fly s:nlght" sensibly nn; safely after what they have just.seen?” demanded one aircraft manufacturer. The situation yesterday was tense for a while. The manufecturers’ com- mittee of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce held a solemn meeting and its members protested vigorously against acrobatics by any and all types of planes at low altitudes. The low stunt formation of the three Navy Sea Hawks was beautiful to look at, they agreed; it was superlative flying, it was su- perior skill, it was a demonstration of the ability and agility of the airplane. So was the fying of “The Three M | lus- keteers” of the Army, which by Lieut. Wlllhmsl..m’ s Protest Resolution Presented. The result of the meeting was that 2 resolution was drawn up for presenta- tion to the race promoters protesting against further exhibitions of acrobatics at low altitudes. The Army, in the meantime. through Maj. Henry B. Clagett, in command of the Army's participation in the air races, re- affirmed its adherence to the standing Air Corps regulations, which provide that all acrobatics over crowds, fields and public gatherings must be com- pleted at 1,000 feet. The “Three Mus- keteers” violated that regulation Mon- day. Maj. Clagett said. “What happens te any one when they violate that regulation?” asked an in- quiring reporter. “He usually dies,” replied Maj. Clagerc. Later in the afternoon when the Army’s speedy pursuit planes went aloft, varfous and sundry acrobatics were per- formed, including e’ ht consecutive looj by a three-plane formation, spins fl? unison, slow and fast barrel rolls to- gether but all up high and safely. Nat- urally, much of the thrill for a public that has seen two terrible crashes, was lacking. But the pilots are alive and well and probably will live to a ripe old age if they continue to have a good 1,000 feet between them and the ground. Acrobatics Held Essential. ‘The Army’s strict adherence to a safe altitude was taken independently, but it is known the Department of Com- merce did a little quiet working on the side in other quarters. One official of the aeronautics branch explained that the department was not here in the capacity of a hard-boiled police officer; that military aviation is separate and distinct from commercial and civil flying and that acrobatics, especially with pursuic craft, are essential to military flying. Further, the Army and Navy has been in the flying business longer than the aeronautics branch, they are governed by their own rules and regulations and certainly know or should know how to handle thgir personnel. But the department dealt with the promoters of the race and emphasized that as a “crowd catcher” these blood- " (Continued on Page 5. Column 4. ITALY WILL ABANDON FURTHER ARCTIC SEARCH Vessels in Spitzbergen Waters to Be Recalled—Hope for Nobile Men Apparently Given Up. By the Associated Press. ROME. September 12.—Abandonment by the Italian government of Xurth:l search for possible survivors of the “bal- loon party” in the Nobile Arctic disaster, was seen today when announcement :n mn'i; tmmu‘l? the Stefani News gency. that vessels now in Spitzberge: waters, would be recalled. : i The announcement said that the rapid advance of polar Winter, with the im- m\ne:lce of Zi-mu; darkness and fre- juent recurrence of storms, made fure er airplane search im| o The Norwegian icebreaker, I soon When this is done the Citta y on the