Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 1

ATHER. (. 8. Weather Bureau Pnrecact.) Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow: slightly cooler tomorrow: gentle south- west shifting to northwest or north inds. Temperature: Highest, at 5 pm. yesterday; lowest, 73, at 7:45 am. today. Full report on page 9. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star. > h Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 “*From Press t Withi The Star's tion is delivered to V Yes!erdgl' s Circul carrier cvery city block and the regular edi- o Home n the Hour” system covers Vashington homes as fast as the papers are printed. 1,663 lation, 10 Entered as cond_class matt post office 3 ~'No. 30,816 coon. cluse WASHINGTO N ). €, THURSDAY, SE N 1928—F PTEM Hl-}l.\; B FIY-TWO PAGES. () Means Associated Press. TWO - TWORLYERS HURT ] AS AIR RACE PLANE CRASHES IN INDIANA Thaw and Morris Found After Lving in Wreckage for Hours. | | | f FOUR SHIPS REMAIN IN NOM-STOP FLIGHT One Believed Sighted Over Kansas. Los Angeles Crowds Await Arrival. | The ersiwhile leader of the American Expeditionary Forces was pre.wntrd‘ with the decorations of four nations at the War Department today. Secretary of | ‘War Davis is at the left. —Star Staff Photo. LINDBERGH STUNTS JONES ANDVOIGT STOMILE SPEED LEAD MATCH PLAY LUy Army Behhy Sets Record With 70 for First 18 Holes at | Braeburn. | By the Associated Press. | SPOKANE, Wash., September 13 Nick Mamer, Sp entrant in the non-stop transcontinental race from New York to Los Angeles, i down, unhurt. at Rawlins, 2:38 o'clock this moming famer. who was fiying a Buhl Se qui plane, telearaphed to his s acre. Volunteers Lead “Musketecrs™ in Spectacu- lar Mancuvers. | fn £ to TULSA. Okla., Scptember 13 (M) ~—Lieut. Comdr. Jack Iseman, flving Charles A. Levine's transatlantic monoplane, the Columbia, in the New York to Los Angeles non-stop air race, passed over Tulsa at 11 am. BY FREDERICK R. NEELY. By the Associated Press SALINA, Kans., September 13 (P Stafl Correspondent of The Star. BRAEBURN COUNTRY CLUB, —An airplane, belicved to be cne of | MINES FIELD, LOS ANGELES, Sep- | NEWTON. Mass., September 13.—Shat- the transcontinental non-stop racers, - | iember 13 —The magic name and per- | tering the tournament record with a passed over Salina at 4:50 am. |son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh have | sensational 70, two under par, Bobby traveling southwestward at a high to th2 rcsoue of the Army Air | Jones crushed one-half of the British rate of speed. Darkness made its prostige in the 1928 national air threat in the national amateur golf {dentification impossible. s and aeronautical exposition, championship today, when he led John | i | official confirmation has been given ‘o PRESDENT TOAD HOOVER, NOMINEE SAYS AFTER TALK Candidate and Executive| Confer for Hour—Rumor of | Break Set at Rest. ADDRESS MAY BE GIVEN ON NEW ENGLAND TRIP Cll;'tis Calls at White House for Parley—Coolidge Spends Full Day at Desk. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Coolidge may be counted upon to do something helpful for the Republican national ticket between now and election dayv, according to the as- suranee he gave fierbert Hoover, his | party’s presidential nomines, during a | long conference late vesterday after- noon at the White Houz | Tt was not revealed just how :elpful | the President is going to be. or just how definite he was when he gave his | word to Mr. Hoover that he would lend ; assistance to the campaign. The indi- cations are that Mr. Coolidge is going to make a speech, probably in New Eng- land, within the next fortnight, but no this. The President conferred this morning i with Charles Curtis, the Republican | vice presidential nominee. They were together scarcely 20 minutes, but both the White House and Mr. Curtis de- From now until the end of the meet | B. Beck of London by the overwhelming | s 104"to say afterward what they dis- Br the Associated Press. Col. Lindbergh daily will lead a stunt | margin of 12 up at the end of the first | DECATUR, Ind., September 13.—Col. | o rati0n of speedy Army pursuit planes | 18 holes of their 36-hole third-round William Thaw, 2d, of Pittsburgh. and | e he' field and, in the opinion of | match. Capt. John P. Morris, also of Pittsburgh, | ormy pitots here, for the first time since| _Jones, with the best game he has piloting a Lockheed Vega plane in the |0 oront acronautical affair opened, the | shown so far in defense of his title, | non-stop air race, were forced down on | Ay Corps stands a chance of getting an | SWamped the Briton with an avalanche a farm 15 miles south of Decatur, Ind. | eyon reak with the Navy from the | of par or sub-par golf. He led 6 up at st 12:30 o'clock this morning by a ! oac broken oil line. | Up until Col. Lindbergh voluntarily Col. Thaw suffered a dislocated hip | onered his servicos to the Air Corps Certain of New Record. and both were badly bruised =T |in any capacity whatever, the AMmY | At tne rate he was going Jones secm- | | the turn and doubled this margin com- | ing in. Beck failed to win a single hole. Sure enough. the profile of the colone! was easily distinguishable and his tall figure perched him higher in the coc i pit than the other two. His plane borc a large number “13. Leads Chase Around Heavens. Col. Lindbergh had knocked the dope | into a cocked hat again. What sort of a person was this who could walk up to the Army, humbly beg permission to fiy an Army plane and cnd up by lead- ing Woodring and Cornelius for a chase around the heavens? Flying a pursuit <hip is like stepping from the comven- tional automobile and getting into on® of Ralph De Palma’s speedsters for a tour around a race course. Woodring had flown in stunt forma- tion with Lindbergh before, but Cot nelius had not. The fact that Lindbergh was the leader made it easier for th> other two to follow and easier for Lind- bergh to lead. The three had neve: been aloft before for this type of ma- neuver What would happen? The three planes took a “V" shape on the ground. When all was ready. | Lindbergh opened the throttle and Cornelius and Woodring followed suit They rose oft the ground together, gained altitude and, lo and behold, from 5.000 feet Lindbergh was leadine the formation in a steep dive at 300 were unable to summon aid and 1aid in | woc linning a poor third from the | g ser v the wreakage of their plane until found l‘ standpoint of public enthistasm. fic ‘rfl\l‘| o break ?11 records for ::;fcl- by a farmer at 6 o'clock this morning. | cause there was something of the flash | sive defeats in a national amateur tour- They brought to a hospital here {and spectacular lacking in the Army's | nament, the highest previous margin of e E £ o ! fiying, the word “rivalry” could not be | victory was that of Jerome Travers, who When the aviators discovered thelr | thought of for a moment because it | g o W HEL SR HE T mp 14 of il ik ey K 850 AT o 3 and 13 in the first round in Detroit in | n 2n effort to locate a field for landin. | yaley Between Services. o The flare was extinguished, however. o appears.to be rivalry. On 5 | before the plane Téached the ground | e briliant ~three| The threc othér matches all were ce. The plane was | <ea_haw Lieuts. D. W. Tomlinson, | close and hard fought. T. P. (Phil) sl dtAtruok & fence. “The’ Pla s | Y atrs and W, V. Davie—the boys | Perkins, the British champion, had to demolished. | who 1oop simultancously in a V" for- | stoot par golt, 72, to finish the frst half xamination of Capt. Morris | mation at a low altitude over the field : g et a dislocated shoulder and @ §and perform various other hair-raising | Chicago. George Voigt of Washington, Sniag. 5 S . | ubeing "in their powerful single- |D. C.. and New York, the medalist, fracture of the pelvis. | seater fighting planes. ! made a strong finish to become 3 up on Called “Death Trap.” | On th rmy side are the “three Dr. Oscar F .Willing, Portland, Oreg., 5 ¢ Col. Thavw, | musketeers. whos> original leader, | dentist. while Harrison R. (Jimmy) When the plane, owned by Col. Thaw. | T30 ™ ™% willjams “was fatally in- | Johnston of St. Paul was only 1 up on left Roosevelt Field yesterday, others re- | jured in a crash two days ago while Phillips Finlay, Boston, in the remain- ferred to it as a “death trap.” The comi?‘g out ofda s;ow E_arrfl {81‘111 close | ing match. i to the ground. In Lieut. Williams S : great monoplane was so cunstructed‘mace. and at the head of the Army : Afternoon’s Round Bnglns. that Thaw hzd no chance to jump i | formation of three Curtiss Hawks, fs| With the gallery grown to over 5000 ] case of accident. America’s greatcst and most popular | and swarmu‘lg over _the c‘(:urse_ m‘.;_ C: i was at the controls when | airman, Col. Lindbergh. In No. 2 D second 18 holes of today's third round | e s when | EE (e right and rear of Col. Lind- | matches got under way shortly after 2 the accident occurred. The Nog fl)crs}h”gh is Lieut. W. L. Cornelius, a“r;d :1" oc}g;l:‘_ i OIS darin hiti 3 v eld at 8 p.m., % is Lieut. Irvin A. Wood-| 4 Hudl £RgO, 2 5 E s oy e ?};’.g“ Sl e match with Phil Perkins, British cham- e e i ] : | P fiese latter two are mere bos, lit- | pion, by winning the ninetcenth hole, mgrhiw was the biggest man in the|tle second lieutenants who were grad- | 4 1o 5. Perkins bagged a birdie 3 to ce “weighing more than 200 pounds. | uated from the Army's training system | take the second, but Dawson squared | ana his plane % 24 the most powerful en- | in 1925 along with Col. Lindbergh. Cor- | again at the third ine in the race. His ship was a Lock-| nelius and _Woodring, despite their| George Voigt, New York._ starting the B Vega similar to the Yankee Doodle | youth, are rated high in the list of the second 18 holes 3 up on Dr. O. F. Will- n;eA\n Ggoebel the favorite, but it had a | Army’s pflots from the standpoint of | ing of Portland, Oreg., was straight Pratt & Whitney 500-horsepower mo- | pursuit pilots. down the nineteenth fairway. His sec- tor. 100 horsepower more than Goebel's| Like a bolt out of the blue vesterday | ond dropped in the rough beside the w‘;{s £ | afternoon came the announcement that | green. Willing’s drive landed in the a5P. e the take-off some aviators ex- | Col. Lindbergh would lead the (hree- | Fough on the left of the fairway. but he pressed the opinion that Thaw's engine | plane formation of Army Boeing pwi- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) was too heavy for the ship and conS\g; suit ships then \;’armmg tllp on nylww % ssible that the vibration might | field. Interest in everything els: :}rli(l‘te“lgg::‘:asolinc or oil lines. | Geased. Al eves went in that directior. | FRANCHISE FOR WOMEN s s IS URGED BY INDIANS w himself took little heed of the 'aerh:f danger, merely remarking when asked about his chances in case of a dent, “Well, I'm fat and Tl bounce!” | The Thaw ship had a black body s@'lth i orange wings and was marked with race | No. 33. The luselagev wn: the cigar| kheed Vegas. .h?\lpoerfé av\l‘]asu;cne of the two pilots ‘lo; take off yesterday in such expert sty le that the watching crowds were not given at least a moment of trepidation. the other being Goebel. And this dcaplt?‘ the fact that he took off after dar‘k; on a field that has no flood lights. M?&H of the pilots went down the runway; With numerous bumps and breath-tak- ing hops. but Goebel and the Thaw i‘_\fl) | roared from one end to the other with the smoothness of a bird’s flight and | took the air with a bird's grace. | FOUR PLANES STILL IN RACE. | of Ontario Acks| That Squaws and Braves | Be Made Equal. By the Associated Press SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario, Sep- | | tember 13.—The equal-rights-for-women | movement has invaded the tepees of | Ontario. The right of women to vote was dis- | c at a meeting of the Grand | Council of Ontario yesterday in which | 46 chiefs and delegates from all the provincial tribes participated. A deci- sion was reached to petition the Indian | department at Ottawa, “giving reasons | why we, as the Grand Council of On- | tario, wish the franchise for women.” | There are at present no woman mem- bers f the Grand Council, but if the franchise is granted they may hold cats on an equal footing with the| -aves. | Chief J. E. Big Canoe of Georgina | elected president of the | nd Emerson Snake of Naravia | Grand Council Twe Forced Down Soon After Start. One Returns. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., Septem- ber 13 (P).—Four airplanes of the nine which roared into the air at the start of he 2,500-mile, non-stop coast-to- Coast air race were believed to be still {out in Wisconsin that there was some {of the national committee, cussed or the pv >:e of the meeting. Poses With Nominee As in the case of Mr. Hoover's call yesterday, the President escorted Mr. Curtis to the front steps of the execu- tive office and posed with him before a large battery of cameras. The President and Mr. Hoover were rloseted together in the former’s office for more than an hour and there is reason to believe that they went very thoroughly into all the various phases and angles of the campaign and its management. To newspaper correspondents who were waiting at the executive - office, Mr. Hoover said in answer to the many questions: “We talked over the situa- | tion in the country. The President is anxious to be helpful. But otherwise you'll have to get that from the Presi- dent himself." When pressed for something further regarding what the President proposes doing to be helpful, Mr. Hoover in- sisted that that news woulfl have to come from the President. Speech Expected Soon. In answer to this same question Everett Sanders, the President’s secre- tary, said that the campaign had been discussed during the conference, but that there was no announcement to be made of the part the President is to take in the campaign. The general impression is that the President is going to make a speech | very shortly and that he has selected New England, probably Massachusetts. for the setting. It is his intention to visit his old home at Plymouth, Vt., and to go to Nerthampton, Mass., to visit Mrs. Coolidge’s faother, who has been ill since last Winter, within the next 10 days. and he has indicated that he will find an appropriate occasion to deliver | his address in support of the Repub- | lican ticket. The President has been in communi- cation with Gov. Weeks of Vermont | and others in New England, supposedly | in relation to his visit. Some definite word from the Presi- dent as to his personal contribution to the. Hoover campaign is being cagerly awaited in political circles i the Capi- tal. Those prominent in the party's councils here are anxious to know what he is going to do to assist. Some of them have hinted that thev think My. Coolidge has remained silent and ap- parently indifferent long enough. Pres dent Coolidge upon his return to Was ington yesterday soon learned of the existence of this feeling on the part of Republican leaders. He had heard while criticism of his attitude. Hears Reports of Concern. At least he knew iong before return- ing to the Whiic House. that the cam- paign leaders were hoping and longing that he wculd make a speech or two. He was advised of this when Repre sentative Walter H. Newton of Minne- sota. chairman of the speakers' bureau conferred with the President in Wisconsin lasi week, during which time he is under- stood to have put the mattar of a speech or two very squarely up to the President. When he got back to the White House the President heard more about the concern his silence was causing the party leaders. He heard more about criticism of his apparent indifference. He is known to have also heard of ~(Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) “inging their way toward Mines Field.| Los Angeles, today. Two of the nine were forced down not long after they had started and a ihird returned to the field. The fourth crashed early today in Indiana and the | fifth was forced down at Rawlins, Wwo. The others. however, were belie; to be <till headed toward the Pacific Coast and the $22,500 in prizes which await the four making the best time. High in the air and speeding along at 125 miles an hour or better, five of the planes were sighted over three cities along the route. Only one was recognized, the black and orange Lock- heed Vega. piloted by John P. Morris and carrying Col. William Thaw veteran of the Lafayette cscadrille. miles an hour right for the grandstand. Many an admirer of the tall. fair. col- onel suffered during those moments as the three ships plunged earthward. But the cool Lindbergh knew what it cas all about Slowly he decreased the angle of the dive and at 50 feet abuve the ground he and his companions had flattened out and were off into 2 mighty zoom. A deafening, chilling and vibrating blast emitted from the en- SAENZjS éAPIDIDATE. SEVERE HURRICANE cuvo Leon Governor Will Seek, STRIKES PORTO RICO MEXICO CITY, September 13 P .— Ninety-Mile Wind Expected to Although the question of provisional e ) president is not yet settled, e Darer Reach Haiti Before last night annoced that Aaron Saenz, | Ni | Governor of Nuevo Leon, will be a can- | ightfall. gines as the three began their upward | didate at the next regular election for | WA oA Climb. A glance aloft and it was more | the presidency. | than a climb, it was a climbing turn.| Congress has yet to fix a Lindbergh was leading beautifully, but this election or to name the provisional those twe kids to the left and right | precident. who will hold office from De- | were follo ving as dutifully as thoug" it | cember 1 to the inauguration of a regu- | (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) larly elected president time for | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 13.—A se- | vere hurricane struck Porto Rico early |today and was expected to reach the !1sland of Haiti before nightfall, said {cable advices to the French Telegraph | Circles Over Pittsburgh. Thaw, as he had promised, circled over the oir field at Pittsburgh, his, home city, flying low enough so that his ylane was recognized. That was at %0:35 last night. Another plane, be- sieved to be one of the long-distance entrants, had passed over the field W& 9:30 o'clock, but too high to be recos- nized. Two planes passed over the Columbus, Ohio, field, one at 8 o'clock and the owner at 10:50 o'clock, but neither was recognized. ~The lights at the ficld were left burning all night to give the fiyers a beacon and a possible landing field. ~Another plane passed over Terre Haute at 10:30 o'clock, but was too high to be definitely recoznized The planez =)l in the air, the time ~¢Gontinued on Page 2, Column 2. Wlng of Amundscn Plane Believed Found Near Spot Where antoon Was Recovered The relic will be examined later to- day by French naval experts from the cruiser Strasbourg. It was found in the vicinity where, on September 1, fisher- men picked up one of the pontoons of the plane. Discovery of that pontoon {convinced both Norwegian and French authorities that the Amundsen expedi- tion had perished. Identification of an By the Associated Press. OSLO, Norway, September 13.—What is believed to be additional wreckage from the plane in which Roald Amund- {sen and five companions were lost at |the start of their attempt to rescue members of the #obile Arctic expedi- tion was found ‘§s morning in the t rt of %e Strait of Tromsoe. ;?u.%he(:\‘;dmt’rla b(:‘ a mlrtlol a wing from | additional relic of the machine would the French Latham seaplane piloted by | be faken here as confirming that belief Rene. Guilbaud and carrying. besides | ¥ : Amundzen, Lieut. Lief Dietrichsen and . AT {hree French naval airmen. ]R‘dm Pr °‘“nu—P ages 46 & 47 Cable Co. offices. All business has been suspended in Porto Rico, the cable manager at San Juan reported. All land wires were down, and no reports were received as to loss of life and property damage. One message from San Juan said an east-northeast wind of 90 miles’ veloc- ltysxlls blowing, with the barometer at 9.50. [ | | METHODISTS URGE 10 FIGHT SMITH Temperance Board Leader Asks Ministers to Denounce | Governor From Pulpits. By the Associated Press. PEORIA, Ill, September 13.—Speak- ing as a representative of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, Rev. J. E. Skillington of Altoona, Pa. last night made a plea that “the candidacy of Alfred E. Smith be denounced from every pulpit of the Methodist Church in America,” in an address before the Central and Illinois Conference of the Church. Rev. Mr. Skillington said that “Smith’s political practices for the past 25 years cause us to oppose him.” “He is the product of the Tammany machine, and Tammany is & byword in the Nation and a symbol of preda- tory politics,” the speaker said. “Gov. Smith has praised Tammany highly, and when in the Legislature himself was the friend of the saloon.” In an address earlier before the con- ference Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes had defended the church’s activity against Smith's candidacy, saying that “the Methodist Church was on record in favor of temperance 50 years before Gov. Smith was born.” Senator William E. Borah of Idaho refused to make an address scheduled for tonight, because of what he termed the “political aspect” of the church meeting BISHOP URGES ACTIVITY. Titus Lowe Opens Puget Sound Con- ference With Dry Law Plea. TAKOMA, Wash., September 13 (/. —-Bishop Titus Lowe of -the Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday urged every Methodist minister and layman to get into the political campaign this year in opposition to Alfred E. Smith, Demu- cratic presidential candidate, and *‘an move to bring liquor back to America,” in opening the Puget Sound conferencc here yesterday. : The bishop devoted most of his ad- dress to a call to ministers tc make their power felt politically in this cam- paign and in all “civic and politicai activities for righteousness.” Referring to the speech of Senator Joseph Robinson, Democratic candidate for Vice President, who had insisted that the churches keep out of the po- litical fight this year, he said: “I do not think Joe Robinson has the right to put a clamp on the lips of any clear-thinking minister of the church of Christ, no matter if it does interfere with his plan to put some one in the White House.” 'BRICKLAYER FALLS 11 FLOORS TO DEATH Michael Rawzina, 40, Killed in Plunge Down Shaft at New Building. Michael Rawzina, 40 years old, 231 First street, was instantly killed at noon today when he fell 11 stories down an | clevator shaft in a building under con- struction at 1413 I street. ! Rawzina was employed on the job as | a bricklayer foreman. He was taken to the eleventh floor on an elevator by, ing. Kirk said he brought the lift! back down to the ground floor and a | moment later heard the thud of Raw- zina’s body as it landed on the plank | flooring. | ‘Ambulances from the Emergency and | Casualty Hospitals were summoned, but | the man was dead. No one saw the bricklayer after he stepped from the elevator until his body | reached the first floor. Rawzina is mar- | ried. The new building is being erected | for the Capitol Title & Guarantee Co., | Inc. The work is being done by the | Chandler Building Co. WOMEN Long Island Railroad Gives Notice to Hundreds, Effective Dec. 31. NEW YORK, September 13 1P)A—~I The Weather Bureau today issued the following storm warnin “Advisory 10 a.m. Hurricane central about 17 north 65 west, moving west- northwestward. This is dangerous St Great caption advised vessels r will likely pass near path. Its urh of Mona age early tonight and near or slightly south of City of Santo Friday morning.” Newspapers today said hundreds of married women employed by the Long Island Railroad have received notices terminating their employment after December 31. The classes of employes hardest hit include station agents, stenographers, clerks, bookkeepers and typists, it is understood the order will not affect widows or women whose husbands were disabled in the service of the company. 'Science Will Make \ Walking Easier on Feet, Savant Says ew Device Measures Pli- ability of Leather and Will Fix Standard. By the Associated Press SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., September 13. —Prediction that walking will be easier for nearly every one in the United States within a year. as a result of chemical research, was made today at the American Chemical Society’s an- nual meeting. The forecast was by John A. Wilson of Milwaukee, newly elected national president of the American Leathor Chemists’ Association. The ease in walking he attributed to the discovery of a method of measuririg for the first time the pliability of leather, one of the most important factors in walking comfort. Until the device for determin- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) GEORGIA PRIVIARY 1 [ Bl |Upshaw Defeated by Steele | in Race for Congress. Others Back Party. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA. Ga., September 13.—Ver- dict of Georgia Democrats was for | Smith in the only major race of the | State primary yesterday. in which the | had of the meeting was what he read | | candidacy of the New York governor was an outstanding issue. Representative Leslie J. Steele, who stood as a staunch supporter of the partys’ ticket gained a decisive victory over W. D. Upshaw, bitter foe of the national standard bearer, for the congressional | nomination from the fifth district. in- |cluding Atlanta. ¥ its saw the apparent renomination of Gov. L. G. Hardman over the youthful State Senator E. D. Rivers. Upshaw Loses in City. Representative Steele, who wrested the seat mn the House from Upshaw two years ago, on the basis of the pop- ular vote, carried four of the five coun- ties in the district and apparently had is a resident of Decatur. Seventy-six precincts out of 90 gave | Steele a popular vote of 9.554, against 7110 for Upshaw, in unofficial returns. This meant Steele had 16 county unit votes, the actual basis of nomination, {to 2 for Upshaw. 1f a candidate has a_majority of the | unit vote for that county goes to him. ! The unit vote is twice the number of | State legisrators from that county. On the basis of incomplete returns | Gov. Hardman had an indicated unit | vote of 288 to 112 for his opponent in | the gubernatorial race. Loyal to Party. two other congressional districts had| contests among Georgia's 12, and in both instances all candidates were sup- porting the party ticket. Representa- | Lawrence Kirk. engineer of the build- | tive W. C. Lankford of the eleventh dis- trict was trailing his opponent, Dave M. Parker, on returns from only five of the 20 counties in the district. The vote: Lankford, 1,643: Parker, 1,742. Representative W. W. Larsen in the twelfth district led Neil L. Gillis on the face of incomplete returns from five of the 15 counties reporting with a popu- lar vote of 1,250 against 1,198 for Gillis. Larsen led in three counties and Gillis! in two. EIVES SMITH EDEE popular vote in a county, the complete | Besides the Steele-Upshaw race, only | HESSE T0 PROBE PRIVATE' CHARGES That Men Shield Comrades | in Duty Neglect. 1 Policeman R. Allen of the third | precinct, who created a sensation at a | spec-* meeting of the Policemens’ As- | sociation last night by charging that policemen themselves, in some instances, are responsible for existing conditions in the department by failing to report vio- |lations of law and regulations by their | fellow officers, likely will be called be- ent, to explain his statements. Lieut. F. S. W. Burke of the police administrative staff, who attended the | meeting, was directed by Maj. Hesse to- | day to prepare a report containing the | substance of Allen’s remarks. The su- | perintendent said he would be guided in | his action by this report. lien's charges wer> made in connec- tion with his own analysis of the cause of ditions, which have brought crit- e icism on the department, and he cited | one instance where he had been pres- ent at the infliction of corporal punish- | ment on a colored prisoner. The po- liceman said he attempted to interfere and was admonished by a superior to mind his own business. Charges Men Are Silent. “Many of you have seen policemen in- | flict, corporal punishment on prisoners and have seen brother officers intoxicat- |ed and not reported it,” Allen declared. He then explained that the reporting of brother officers guilty of offenses against the department, was a duty of honor. Maj. Hesse said the only account he in the newspapers and verbal reports | made to him by several men. “If these | reports are correct,” he declared, “I in. tend to get an explanation from Alle The association met in special session from Smith on down at No. 6 precinct station ostensibly to | administer a verbal spanking to the newspapers that have headlined the transgressions of the group of officers responsible for existing conditions. | . Calm and cool-headed veterans of the | department carefully steered the asso- | | ciation from such a course, however. | The gubernatorial contest where both | and insteac the policemen proceeded to | ion | candidates were within their party lim- | discuss, seriously and very intimately at | reve: times, methods which they themselves | might adopt to curb the derelictions of their brother officers. | journed without approving any definite | course of action. Allen’s charges made him_exceedingly unpopular, Sergt. Seorge B. Wheelock | of the sixth precinet sought to correct | the impression oy declaring that in his many years experience as a policeman carried Atlanta, Upshaw’s home. Steele jand a desk sergeant he had never ob- | Electric Co., | served condi*ns such as Allen de- scribed. Others rose to deny Allen's | statement, ' Then by a vociferous ave and nay vote, the association expunge | Allen’s “statement from its records as | weil as other remarks inciden’ to it ‘Warns Men. Patrick S. Torney, president of the ! association. warned the members at th. | very outset of the meeting that they | should “go straight” if they want an | increase in pay. “You men go back to your precinet and try and persuade vou: brother officers to do better. Perhaps in the near future Congress may ma the police manual more drastic. don’t want that done.” While it had been rumored through- out the department that the special meeting was called to take the press to task for “magnifying” conditions in the department, the first intimation that this was the purpose came immediately after the association voted to permit newspaper men to listen to the proceed- ings. Sergt. Wheelock warned the as- sociation that the press “could make or break a man.” Lieut. Burke also suggested that the men not be critical of the mnews- papers, because it is their function to print_news. pointing out_that a_police- (Continued on Page 5. Column 1.) i | By the Associated Press | PHILADELPHIA, September District Attorney Monaghan said today that gifts from Max “Boo Boo” Hoff to members of the Police Department, val- ued at thousands of dollars, had been traced. Tags and seals are in the prosecutor’s possession. | The gifts, the prosecutor said, were | in addition to the “salaries” paid police by the bootleg ring for protection. Seals pasted the wrappings of the gifts, MonagHan said, hore these greetings “Merry Christmas and Happy New 13— | Year from “Boo Boo" Hoff and the| Prosecutor Traces Gifts of “Boo Boo Hoff{ Boys,” and “Compliments of Max “Boo Boo™ Hoff and the Boys.” The district attorney stated that an investigation by special agents of the United States Treasury had revealed | that “Hoff and the Boys” had paid| $250,000 for gifts presented to members of the Police Bureau in 1926. “These tags,” he added. “were sent out to police officials_with gifts, deliv- ered to their homes receipted for by the officials, high and lpw. By high and | fore Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintend- | Various sugges- | | tions were made. but the association ad- | FARE RAISE PLEA DISMISSAL ASKED BY R B, FLERARTY :People's Counsel Declares Traction Request Based Only on Dividend Need. {HOLDS BASIS OF “FAIR RETURN" IS OVERLOOKED | Asserts Increase Would Mean De- cline in Number of Passengers With Fall in Income. Dismissal of the Capital Traction Co.’s | application for a higher fare was de- manded of the Public Utilities Commis- sion today by Ralph B. Fleharty, people’s counsel, on the ground that it was based entirely on the urgent neec of the com« pany to pay a 7 per cent dividend on stock, instead of the basis of a fair re- turn. As an alternative motion, Fleharty ask- ed the commission to wtihhold its de- cision on a higher fare until March 3i. 1929, pointing out that Congress would have ample time during the interval to pass on the pending merger agreement between the two street railway com- panies and the Washington Rapid Tran- sit Co. With these two motions before tha commission, Chairman John W. Chii- dress announced that the commission would take them under consideration without passing on them immediately. Hearings were adjourned until Septem- ber 21. On that date the case of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. and other lines will be heard, the Washing- ton Railway and Electric Co. system having been made a party to the hear- ings by recent order of the commission. Statistics Are Presented. Upon the result of the commission’s forthcoming decision hangs the state of increased fares to 10 cents cash or four tokens for 30 cents, which, if granted, would be extended also to th~ ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co. and other lines and busses in the District }l‘mch now charge less than a 10-cent | fare. Fleharty’s motion to dismiss followed swiftly the presentation of a mass of statistics bearing on the financial status of the Capital Traction Co.. which he declared is far more healthy than trac- tion officials _have sought to make it appear “fo_the commission. Closing his argument against an in- crease in fare, Fleharty declared that testimony before the commission tendec to show the non-existence of any ur- gent need of the company. On the contrary, he claimed the record would show a “very healthy condition,” with large reserve, and depreciation fund. He based his motion to dismiss pri- marily on the ground that the company had made out its case on the basis of ::gy;xlwyt Io; the7 purpose of continuing ent of a cent divi sufikl;loldem per dividend to the application of the Capital Trac- i tion Co. had been made on tl‘:e basis of |a fair return on its property values, | Fleharty told the commission, his mo- tion would be clearly out of order. On the other hand, he contended that the application of the traction company had no place in court. i Holds Fewer Will Ride. Testimony purporting to show that a resultant decrease in car riders would offset any financial advantage from a higher fare was produced today by F’l‘t;ha’r;y. . D. Murray. chief accou the Public Utilities Comm!s?ol;fltf"lgf harty’s witness, estimated that a tem- porary decrease of approximately 10 per cent in the amount of trafic would follow the adoption of a 10-cent cash fare or four tokens for 30 cents, as proposed by the car company. Questioned by Fleharty, the public utility accountant declared in his opin- that would wipe out the increased nues estimated from the higher | fare. At the most, he said, the increased | revenue would equal no more than $3.500. which would be wholly insuffici~ ent to enable the company to contin- |ue its 7 per cent dividend on stock without digging into its surplus as it | has been doing in recent years. | Murray said he based his estimate of decreased traffic in part on a state- Iment made by William H. Ham, presi dent of the Washington Railway & | . which would join in the rate increase, if one is granted by the commission. During the hearing on the 1922 rate case, he said, Ham testified | that as rates go up a temporary reduc- tion in trafic would follow. Testimony Held Pertinent. _ This temporary period, Murray be- lieved. would vary from three to six | months. Cross-examined by traction officials, he stuck to his opinion that the decrease in car riders would re- sult in wiping out any increase in rev- | enue that might be expected from the higher “fare. Taking into account the merger sit- uation in Congress, Murray's testimony | is doubly pertinent, in view oi the effect approval of the merger would have on any increase in fares granted by the utilities commission in the pending case. The merger agreement makes binding the continuance of the existing fare of 8 cents or 6 tokens for 40 cents for a period of one year from the effective date of the merger. Should the mer~ | ger be authorized by Congress in De- cember or any period before the expira- tion of the present agreement on June 1. 1929, any increase in fares granted by the commission now would remain |in_effect only temporarily. By refusing to waive the legal 10-day | notice with respect to the order making the Washington Railway & Electric Co. party in the present rate hearing Fleharty has gained some valuable time from the point of view of car riders. 1 | | | | | The case of the Washington company 7L.OS”E J0BS. iTo Police: Valued at Thousands of Dollars{ will be taken up on September 21. Either the commission must postpone the scheduled hearing on the revlmflnn of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. set for September 24, or probably it will be unable to reach a gfltfl.siun on street car fares before that ate. Cites Other Decreases. Assuming that Congress eventually agrees to a street car merger, as trac- tion officials are convinced it will do, the tempor relief proposed by the companies at this time would prove myth if Murray's estimate is He based his estimate of a.10 w low, I mean police of ‘every high rank and the ordin trolman.” reduction in traffic on charts covering (Conitinued on Page 3, Columa &