Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 2

e - THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN €. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, Y928, - MRS, WILLEBRANDT PUSHESDRY CASES Prepares io Forestall Pad- lock Removal in New York. More Raids Expected. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, September 13.—The play-by-play record of prohibition en- forcement here continues to give Mrs. | Mabel Walker Willebrandt either a put- I out or an assist in every frame. With CURTIS CALLS her padlocks smashed, or at least badly bent, by a Federal Court ruling, Mrs. | Willcbrandt and her assistants promise | legal action which ought to kecp the; night club cases in the court until | Texas Guinan goes to the old ladies’ | home—with rivers of sucker money flowing down to the sea in the mean- time. 1t is not United States Attorney Tut- ' tle, who does the pinch hitting for Mrs. | Willebrandt, but Norman J. Morrison, | her own special assistant from Wash- | ington. Robert B. Watts, Mr. Tuttle's assistant, was in court here this week, but it was Mr. Morrison who did most { of the heavy work in a case involving alleged violation of the court’s orders | by one club in removing property from its barroom. Imports Sleuths. Today attorneys for the clubs were | expected to prepare the necessary | orders for the removal of the padlocks | | from the 26 clubs raided June 28, in | K eccordance with the ruling of Federal | Judge Thomas D. Thacher, who ex-! pressed himself as “shocked” by the action of the Federal authorities. | Prominent ginmen were rejoicing over this when, late last night, the whisper | was waifted up and down Broadway | and its damp by-ways that Mrs. Wille- | brandt had routed several carloads of * sleuths right through to Forty-second and Broadway. The word went out that it would be best to stand by until Mrs. Willebrandt subsided. ‘There are no -indications that she has any idea of subsiding. Night club owners frighten their children by telling them that Mrs. Willebrandt will get them if they don’t behave. The recent Federal enforcement activ- fties have undoubtedly been responsible for the decentralization of the booze racket in New York. One defunct night club is the germ of a score of speak-easies. This is the golden age of the “speaks” as they call them here. Sedate old residential neighborhoods are Jike ‘grand dames suddenly taking to gin. There is a quaint intermingling of new and old current# of life in these surviving strongholds of the old van Hoophen-hyphens. Here is an inventory of one exclusive residential block. Zoning for Saleons. One placid old church with colonial illars; one high-brown literary publica- &m; one exclusive private school; the headquarters of an ethical culture so- ciety: the residence of a dean us of the Episcopal Church; 15 speak- easics. This observer saw an austere O bt Trom her camiage i torian style, ali rom her ca! tmtof{lfinfldeminfllllblfl&lnd survey with her lorgnette a double row of taxicabs, brincina“w their night's revels the patrons of the adjacent speak- easies. Her n indicated that she would like to deal some kind of misery to There- is- serious talk here of some kind of plan for a_eity zoning for saloons, to meet a situation which has arisen not only in this but in other cities. There seems to be little hog: that Mrs. Willebrandt’s broom will back the waves of the The problem is ted by the fact lem i AgETavA p that, with their larity and success, $he speakeasies no longer . The once rather office of throwing out drunks is now performed lustily and noisily. So far as one can observe, the speak- easies have no reason for secrecy. the crowds pick up the old sen- timental songs where they left off 10 years ago, are multiplying in numbers almost daily. They are jammed to the gunwales and needled beer is now 25 cents a stein. TOOMBS SURRENDERS. Gives Self Up to St. Louis Officials on Embezzlement Charge. CHICAGO, September 13 (#).—Roy C. ‘Toombs, Chicago and St. Louis financier, surrendered himself to 8t. Louis authori- ties today for arrest on warrants charg- ing h.m with embezzlement as president of the International Life Insurance Co., of Bt. Louis. Counsel for the stock broker and in- surance man immediately instituted for a writ of habeas corpus estall Toombs extradition. SIX CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE.Z fore Parents Escape With Two Other Offspring. SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario, Sep- tember 13 (#),—Six children of Mr. ll’;;‘d Mrs T. Peyeur were burned to death early today when the children’s cousin. | Maria Peyeur, tried to revive a smol- dering fire in the kitchen stove with kerosene. The woman suffered burns from which she may die. | The parents, with a baby and a 13- year-old daughter, escaped MARLBORO ENTRIES | | FOR TOMORROW. (Horses Listed According to Post Posiilons ) FIRST RACE, 2 P.M. FIRST RACE—Purse, $500; claiming; - en Tveatolds; 1 furlongs. T mald *Chick L. ; isk hooting “Alex Beal SECOND RACE—) , § el T 3. year-olds sad ap; S5 Turiongs. 0 ¥ 1 113 103 13 High Seas Mexican Pete “Capt. Jac *Edns Truesdaie Castby Hovel Bpring . 3 *Royal Spring *Bess Mariin THIRD RACE—Purse, year-olds; 5a furlongs *Wandering Star. 107 So Long Emplette - 118 “High Class . Dalila . 112 Seif’ Defense Ers .. 110 “Ob, Me - FOURTH RACE—Purse. $500; claiming; 3- year-0lds end up; % furlongs. 121" Guernsey 107 “Skirmicher 113 Mappy Juck $500; claiming: 2- FIFTH RACE—Purse. $700: claiming: year-olds and up; 7 furlongs *Donetta . 115 *Evelyn Sawyer el Handsel - 111 Evancls Hoek *Son Ami . Zuker 13 *Aversion 11 SIXTH RACE—Purse. §500: claiming: 3-year-olds and up; 1. miles. . 112 *Delusive *Jacques . SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $600: claiming {be awarded the prizes in the hotly 3 | dance temporarily was going the ON PRESIDENT The vice presidential candidate confers with President Coolidge at the White | House for the first time since his nomination. Photograph taken there today. —Associated Press Photo. TWO FLYERS HURT AS AIR RACE PLANE CRASHES IN INDIANA ___(Continu irst_Page) of their take-offs (Eastern standard time) and their race numbers follow: 26. Orange Buhl sesquiplane, N. B. Mamer, Spokane, pilot; 12:10:52. 206. Black and orange Bellanca, Emil (“Hard Luck”) Burgin, pilot; 1:19:46. 199. Scarlet Bellanca, George Halde- man, pilot; 3:35:85. 185. Silver and yellow Bellanca Co- lumbia, Lieut. Comdr. Jack Iseman, U. 8. N, pilot; 4:07:40. 44. White Lockheed Vega Yankee Doodle, Col. Art Goebel, pilot; 6:30:10. The other three planes forced out of the race were: ‘The Stinson, piloted by Clifford Mc- Millin of Eyracuse, N. Y. which was forced down near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., by €l e trouble. 3 e Stinson Junior, piloted by Ran- dolph Page of Northville, Mich.,, forced down at Allentown, Pa, by a clogged gas line. Mrs. James A. Stillman's Bellanca North Star, piloted by Oliver Le Boutil- lier, who said he could not navigate with the emergency compass which was installed when the regular coul?uswu stolen just before the start. He asked to be allowed to start today, but his request was overruled. LOS ANGELES AWAITS ARRIVAL. LOS ANGELES, September 13 (#).— The array of flyers assembled here for the 1928 national air races were keyed today for the show’s climax—finish of of the non-stop transcontinental race from Roosevelt Pield, where nine care. fully-g: p! o yesterday. The non-stop flight was the last of the five long derbies of the five-day pro- gram. A record crowd was expected to be in the grandstand at Mines Field this afternoon when the first of the fon- stoppers was due. Hm of the West were pinned on Art bel and his huge Lockheed-Vega monoplane, Yankee , back- tri on the trail he blazed to & new transcontinental non-stop record a few weeks ago. Goebel, favorite of the long derby, whirled over the course from Los geles to New York in 18 hours and 58 minutes with a healthy wind at his ship’s tail. The short cut which he claimed he found on the Eastern jour- ney was kept to himself for use in the return flight, in" which he hoped to claim first prize money of the $22,500 cash prizes posted. Four planes, if that many finish, will share. in the pm course record holder captured the hearts of his native: Californians in August, 1927, when he flew to vie- tory in the Dole air race from Oakland to_Honolulu. With the class B and C transcon- tinental flights, the international race from Windsor, Ontario, and a short coast sprint ended at Mines Field yes- terday, protests filed by some pilots competing east doubts on who would contested class B New York to Los derby. Several pilots protested that the Waco planes flown were not stock models- and therefore ineligible. John Livingston of Aurora, Ill, conceded by most of the racers to have chalked up the bestelapsed time, flew one of the protested models, as did John H. Wood of Wausau, Wis., apparent winner of third prize money. CONDITIONS 600D, Secretory Sees Business Brisk, Despite Bad “Snots.” By the Associated Press | Secretary Mellon has given to Presi- | dent Coolidge a report that business is in a satisfactory condition and on a sound basis. The Secretary holds that while taking the country as a whole conditions are good, there are ‘spots” in the general industry which are suffering through natural causes. In the coal industry economies in the. use of coal and too large a number of mines were largely responsible for a slump, but he felt that conditions will improve from now on. In advancing reasons for believing the coal industry is now on the way to a better condition, the Secretary sald that the industry itself was solving its difficulty. This was being brought about, he said, through the shipment and sale of better coal and a decrease in the overproduction which brought about the slump. He also pointed out that the costs of production of coal are | t] being lowered, and that by-products of the fuel are being used to greater ex- tent, thus eliminating wastage. In the textile industry, the Secretary holds, overstimulation during the war is causing a reaction. The industry also, he declares, was feeling the effect- of the manufacture of artificial fabrics, which to some extent is closing some branches of the market to the textile manufacturers. “There is nothing unfavorable in prospect for the farmers,” the Secretary said today. “The year 1928 should be a good one for agriculture. Of course, there are farmers who never make a profit and others who make money every year. “I canot foresee the effect of the many economic laws of the world, but at present there is certainly no cause for worry.” Secretary Mellon does not hold that the high money rate has effected busi- ness. He said that business men rarely had to pay the peak prices for money, but generally obtained the over-counter rate, which is lower. He believes, how-, ever, that if the high rates continue too long it might have some effect on business. KING ZOGU RECOGNIZED. U. 8. Extends Relations to New Albanian Government. By the Associated Press. Formal recognition of the new King- dom of Albania, Secretary Kellogg an- nounced today, has been extended by the United States Government. and Charles C. Hart, the American Minister to the republic of Albania at Tirana, has been accredited to the government of King Zogu. George oi England Calls Time Out While Maid Plies Needle. 0| Guest at West Coast Party { Then Resumes Program. Visits Hollywcod. By the Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Calif, ber 13.—The tale of a tear in a pair of royal trousers that held up a dinner rounds today among those who have enter- tained Prince George of England during the visit of his warship to this port. A snag on a rustic bench ruined the royal nether garments during a dance given for the prince and other officers of H. M. 8. Durban. Dancing was stopped and a hurry-up Y it while brother officers escorted ce George to an anteroom. In a few mo- ments the princely hand thrust the garment through the door for a maid to mend. The prince resumed his in- -year-olds and up; 1.s miles. ppie Pie ontclair “Sea Lady .. “Gay Farl 03 Altisamino . Weather clear: track fast, *Aprentics ailowance. ;knupud dancing program somewhat ater. Barred by pafrnal edict from flying to Hollywood ™ visit the film colony, the prince motorzd down at the invi- Septem- | 'PRINCE FLEES DANCE FLOOR WHEN ROYAL TROUSERS RIP| call for needle and thread was sent out | Prin PRINCE GEORGE. tation of Lily Damita, Prench film star. They were guests of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford at dinner last night. Miss Damita said she met e prince in Paris more than a year ago while he and his brother, the Prince of Wales, wgre visiting there, |age Battery Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; E. | MOSES SEES HARD WORK N BAY STATE G. 0. P. Leader Confident of New York—Says New Jer- sey “Looks Better.” Senator Moses of New Hampshire, | | chairman of the Republican campaign | | advisory committee in the East, an- | ‘(nounced today his confidence that New | York will go Republican next Novem- ! ber, but added that he had encountercd | “all kinds of trouble” in Massachusetts. E | Interviewed as he was leaving Hoover | headquarters on Massachuseits avenue, ’mllowmg a conference on the Eastern | situstion, Scnator Moses, with charac- | teristis terseness, | “Trouble? Certainly there is trouble. | We have all kinds of it in Ma ! setts. Much more so than in New York. I confidently expect New York will be |tor Hoover. I never have had any | doubts about that.” The New Jersey outlook, he said, is | “better,” because Senator Edge “has | jazzed it up some.” He refused to b2 | quoted about Delaware, however. | New York Marking Tim: | New York, the Senator explained, is “marking time” until the Stat> ticket |1s disposed of September 29. The Re- | publican campaign work up-State is | progressing_satisfactorily, he declared. “My watchword everywhere I go | through the territory assigned to me |is prudence,” the Eastern leadcr stated. | “My final admonition to every State or- ganization 1s ‘be prudent.”” Asked what comment he had to make about Gov. Smith's statement cntitled “Nailing a Lie in the Whispering Cam- paign,” Senator Moses replied: | {" “{ 'have nothing to say. If Gov.} Smith wants to give publicity in ihat | way to the fact thai somebody said he was drunk, he is welcome to do 0. Personally, if anybody said I was jingled last night, T would want to ignore it. Salesmen to Organize. A delegation of sales managers of a large number of industrial corpora- tions called on Hoover today to an- nounce plans for organizing themselves into a pro-Hoover committee, similar to that formed by leading engineers of the country. Ameng those in the delegation were: Charles F. Abbott, New York City; George N. Ackerman, manager retail shop department, Doughnut Machine Corporation, New York City; W. R. Cummings, vice president, Monroe Cal culating Machine Co., Orange, N. H. B. Gay, sales director. Electric Stor- | | i D. Gibbs of Sales Stimulation, New York City; Charles W. Hoyt, president Chas. W. Hoyt, Inc, New York City: Bevan Lawson, executive sales manager Dictaphone Sales Corporation, New York; E St. Elmo Lewis, Detroit, Mich.; A C. Monagle, general sales manager Roval Baking Powder Co., New York; John H. Moore, sales manager Pfophy- lactic Brush Co., Florence, Mass.; W, R. Hill, president Sargent-Greenleaf Co., Rochester, N. Y.; R. G. Richmond, general manager the Waterbury Co. New York; Winslow Russell, vice presi- dent Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co., Madison, Conn.; Seymour N. Sears, vice president the Turcker Co., New York; John T. Spicer, manager Gen- eral Auto Equipment Division, Johns- Mansville, New York; G. H. Voelker, vice . president, Primrose House, Inc., New York: H. S. Whittlesey, vice presi- dent and director of saler Sherwin- Williams Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Speaks for Labor. David B. Robertson of Cleveland, pres- ident of the Brotherhood of Railway Firemen and Enginemen, and chair- man of the Railway Labor Executives’ Assoeiation, gave to Hoover today an op- timistic view regardinz trend of senti- ment among laboring men in the cam- paign. “I hope that some one during this campaign will dispell the fallacious idea hat the wet stand of the Democratic candidate has an_ appeal for laboring men,” he said. “It is annoying to be confronted with Democratic claims that they expect to carry such and such a State with the support of labor, accom- panied by the inference that their can- didate’s demand for modification will win that support. They may as well understand that the support of the rail- way brotherhoods cannot be bought with liquor. The railroad worker who drinks to excess loses not only his job but his membership in the union as 115 why, then, should any of them support a presidential candidate on the illusory wet issue?” | | | | COURT DELAYS CASE OF POLICE INFORMER Perjury Charges Against Lee Con- _ tinued Until Thursday at " Government's Request. The preliminary hearing of the per- jury charges against Marion F. Lee, 42-year-old police informer, of 715 Mount Vernon place, was ordered con- tinued until next Tuesday by Police Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt today at the request-of the Government. Attorney C. W. Mason, counsel for Lee, asked for an immediate hearing and reduction of the bond, but Assistant United States Attorney Neal Burkinshaw informed the court that it would be necessary to sum- mons four out-of-town witnesses for {a hearing_and requested the con- | tinuance. Burkinshaw also stated that the charge was a serious one. recom- mending the continuance of the $1,500 bond set when Lee was arrested by Headquarters Detectives Richard Mans- field and Curtis Trammel yesterday. Judge Schuldt approved the recommen- dation. Lee has been an informer for Detec- | tives S. F. Gravelly of the third pre- »inct for about four weeks, during which time he has sworn out search warrants in approximately a dozen cases, all now pending in Police Court. A warrant for his arrest for per- jury was issued Tuesday following a hearing before United States Commis- sioner Needham C_Turpage in the case of Mrs. Lovena Odell, 1416 Sixteenth street, charged with selling liquor. It was proven that Mrs. Odell was out of town on the day Lee swore he made a purchase from her, and the charge of illegal sale was dismissed. RENEE ADOREE CHANGES MIND ABOUT DIVORCE| Film Actress Withdraws Charge of Cruelty Against Husband, William Gill. By the Assoclated Press. . LOB ANGELES, September 13.—A few hours after Renee Adoree, film ac- tress, filed suit for divorce against her husband, William Gill, she announced she had instructed her attorney to with- | draw the proceedings. The dismissal had not been filed when the courthouse closed for the nigh* last night, ilthough the lawyer had fi'ed a document, the nature of which was unknown. | played a brilliant sccond to tha green. | AIR DERBY PLANE FALLS IN INDIANA Above is the Locklced-Vega craft, entered by William Thaw in the trans- continental air race, which crashed carly today at Decatur, Ind. Thaw (right) and John P. Morris were the pilot: Both flyers were injured. —A. P. Phot: JONES AND VOIGT } LEAD MATCH PLAY FOR FIRST 18 HOLES (Continued from Tirst Pag:) They halved the hole in par 4s. | Both were well up the twenticth fair- way from the tce and their seconds made the gresn. They used two putts and halved 23ain in par 4s. | They both approached the twenty- first poorly and again had a half, in 5, one over per. Bobby Jones, starting 12 up on John Beck of England, fired a greal pitch seven feet from the cup at th: nine- | teenth, but Becck ran a great approach putt from the edge of the green to the lip of the hole and they halved | in 4s. Voigt Again Loses First Hole. Dr. Willing won the first hole from Voigt when he sank a 10-footer for a birdie 3. ey halved the second in par 4s, both missing 12-foot putts for | attempted birdies. The third also was halved in 5. | Voigt squared his match with Willing | on the fourth green by sha'ng an 8-| foot putt for par 4 to Willing s 5. Voigt's | second shot was in the rough, and Wil- | ling's was short, but the New Yorker | pitched beautifully to the green, while the dentist was 15 feet away and needed i two putts. ‘Voigt took the lead on the fifth hole, getting a birdie 4, while Willing smoth- sred his second shot with the wood, sent his third into the rough and fourth into a trap off the green. On in 5, he conceded the hole, but Voigt rammed a 14-footer into the cup anyway. Voigt was in bad rough off the sixth | green and his approach left him 12 feet | shert. He missed the putt, and Willing, | down in a cenventional .3, squared the match. It was a ding-dong battle be- | tween the rugged, thick-set Oregonian and the slim New Yorker, and a big gallery seemed to enjoy it. The seventh found Voigt and Willingi short of the green in 2, but the New Yorker shoved his approach within a foot of the cup to clinch a 4 and win while Willing missed a 3-foot putt. Voigt had a chance to win the eighth, but couldn't get down a T7-footer and they halved in 4s. The ninth went to the Portland dentist, squaring the match, when Voigt took three putts from the edge of the green. Voigt Plays Sensational Golf. Voigt got his half on the tenth in spite of being in the rough both from th: tee and on hi; second shot, plac- ing a gcod third on th» green. He sank a :-foot putt to take the eleventh and the lead. At the short twelfth Willing was inside Voigt from the tee, but the latter's putt jumped the eup and it was a half in 3, Both were putting for birdies at the par 5 thirteenth, where Voigt was 5 feet from the cup in 3 and Willing 4 feet away. The New Yorker dropped his, but the doctor missed and George became 2 up. Willing left Voigt a par- tial stymie on the fourteenth green, but the latter got his half in 5. Drives Few Feet Apart. Their drives were only a few feet apart on the fifteenth, but Voigt pitched to within three feet of the cup and dropped the putt for a birdie 3, going 3 up, while Willing took par 4. Voigt's second carried over the sixteenth green te the muqh and he needed 2 more to get on, Willing winning the hole when he laid his approach dead for par 4. Voigt was on top of a mound to the left of the seventeenth green, but chipped to within 8 feet of the cup and got his 3 to become 3 up again, Willing landing in a trap, shooting his second shot 15 feet past the cup and requir- g 4. Willing missed the home green with his second, while Voigt was just on the edge. Willing’s putt was at the cup. Voigt also took five and went to lunch 3 up. Voigt took a 74 for the 18 holes. POOL WEALTH TO FIGHT PAYING OUT $1,700,000 Mayor William Hale Thompson and County Treasurer Harding Resist Restitution to Chicago. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 13.—Mayor William Hale Thompson and County Treasurer George F. Harding have pooled their resources to carry on their ht against paying back to the city $1,700,000 alleged to have been taken out of the treasury by them and five others in a conspiracy to defraud. The mayor and Mr. Harding yester- day filed an appeal bond of $2,500,000 scheduling property, jointly, worth $2.- | 600,000 to guarantee the bond. The appeal is from a decision by Judge | Hugo Friend, who found them and the | five others guilty on the conspiracy as charged by the Chicago Tribune on its suit against the seven instituted as & taxpayer. CHICAGO APARTMENT IS DAMAGED BY BOMB! Rent Troubles Blamed After Own-| ers Threaten Tenants Who Are in Arrears. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, September 13—A black | powder bomb exploded early today in | Rogers Park, .recking the rear of a! 34-apartment building and jarring’ many persons from their beds. | No one was injured. Rent troubles, tenants said, might have furnished a ‘motive for the bombing. Owners of the | building, they declared, threatened | tenants who were in arrears on rent, but several had deferred payments due to reports that the building was in the hands of a receiver. i YOUNG SERENADER KILLED Chicago Man Held After Firing| Shotgun From Window. CHICAGO, ‘September 13 (#).—An- noyed by the singing of boys below his window last night, -Joseph Czahore blazed away with his shotgun, “to Miss Adoree later refused discussion of her action other than to say she would not push the divorce action. Cruelty was charged in complaint. g the original frighten them,” ajfhe told police later. | Today he was Held for the death of Joseph Kasowskl, 17, one of the singers, | whose body was found in the street in ront of Czahore's home, | agriculture for human food,’ SCIERCE WILL MAKE WALKING EASIER ON | FEET, SAVANT SAYS __(Continuxd from First Pagz. ing exactly the pliability was perfected, he said, tanners had no way of fi a standard, but catered to individual | tastes. | Foed Taste Changes. i Chemists reported that the public's taste in foods was changing, due partly | | to the ability of food producers through | | chemical aid to improve the quality. | The change was described by Dr. Fred | 0. Blanck of the United States Depart- | ment of Agriculture, Bureau of Chem- | istry and Soils, as a demand for higher | quall “There is an immediate interest in the utilization of waste products in id to “In the past our efforts have use this waste for animals or feriilizer. | For example, our farmers fll their| silos with peapods. But the peapod | has a high protein and sugar content. | We are working to put the enormous | food energy of the protein and sugar | in the pods into a form in which it can be used in food Industries. Waste Turned to Pro | “It formerly cost the California | citrus indusiry a dollar a ton to gel rid of its waste produsts. Today the | citrus fruit growers sell these culls for $12 a ton. This former waste now converts into citric acid, orange and lemon oils, orange juice beverages and pectin, the jelly principle in fruit.” Another food problem is ‘“bootleg chemistry,” which means adulteration that the real chemists often have diffi- culty in detecting. Th2 work of these chemical detectives was described by Dr. P. B. Dunbar of the Unit~d States Department of Agriculture, Washing- ton. He said that of all adulterants water is the most prevalent, and often one of the hardest to detect. The adul- teration extends to imitation of . fruit flavors, mixing field corn grains with real sweet corn and cocoa ciels in cocoa, clever artificial colors and even false products masquerading as eg3 derivitives. _ FARE RAISE PLEA DISMISSAL ASKED BY R. B. FLEHARTY | (Continued_from Pirst Page.) | the reductions in other years of in- creased fares. Murray made it clear, however, that it is almost impossible to tell what per- centage of the decrease would be attributed to casual riders. The rate hearing, so far as it deals directly with the Capital Traction Co., comes to a close this afternoon. It devolves upon Fleharty, as people’s counsel, to refuse statzments by trac- tion officials that the company is in financial straits. If the commission upholds the con- tention of the Capital Traction officials that it is in need of increased revenuss, then it probably can take no other course but to extend the higher rate to all lines and busses in the District now charging less than a 10-cent fare. Consideration of the rate question was suspended yesterday afternoon while the commission heard arguments on two related matters pertaining to bus operations. Citizens of Hillcrest had petitioned to be relieved of having to pay an extra fare at Pennsylvania avenue and Thir- tieth street southeast, instead of beina permitted to travel all the way down- town for one car fare. The Capital Traction Co. had petitioned to be per- mitted to place a charge of two cents for each transfer on the Randle High- lands bus line for passengers from street cars at Pennsylvania avenue and Seveniccnth strect southeast. Free transfers are now_issucd, The company offered to compromise. By taking off the extra fars on the Hillcrest line, Hanna proposad that the free transfers to Randle Highlands be eliminated. The Hillerest citizens agreed, but John Hohn, secretary of the Randle Highlands Citizens' Association, protested. The commission reserved its decision. STEAMER PLANE MISSING. CHERBOURG, France, September 13 | (#).—All semaphore stations and other iookout points along this section of the French' coast have been warned to watch for the postal hydro-airplane from the steamer Ile de France. The machine was launched from the liner at 9 am. today when she was 800 miles west of the Scilly Islands. No news had been received from the plane at 6 p.m. tonight. “BIG S DISEUSS RHIE EVACUATON Meeting Called “Hopeful.” Uelegates Will Assemble Again Su:day. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 13.—What one of the participants described as “a hope- ful meeting” of the “big six” to discuss Rhineland evacuation was held today. It was brief, but it adjourned with an agreement to sit again Sunday morning. It was officially stated that several points arose which require further elu- cidation. It is believed that these had to do with a French plan for new provi- sions for security in the Rhineland fron- tier zone in case troops are either re- duced or withdrawn entirely in accord- ance with German demands. Briand Goes to Paris. Aristide Briand, French foreign min- ister, presented the ideas at today’s con= ference. He departed for Parls immedi~ ately after the meeting had adjourned in order to attend a cabinet conference there which is to fill the vacancy cre- ated by the accidental death of Maurice Bokanowski. He announced, however, that he would return to Geneva in time for the parley next Sunday. Besides M. Briand the participants in today’s “conversation” were Lord Cushandun for Great Britain, Chancel- lor Hermann Mueller for Germany, Baron Moncheur for Belgium in place of Paul Hymans, who was obliged to re- turn to Brussels; Vittorlo Scialoja for Italy and Mineaicho Adachi, Japanese Ambassador to France. The latter, as in the case of the first conference on. the subject, attended as a representa- tive of the ambassadors charged with watching over the carry- ing.out of the Versailles peace treaty. Japaness statesmen said that all as- pects of the problem were reviewed at the brief session. When asked if the Sunday gathering would be held before or after church, Baron Moncheur ex- claimed, “During church!” Demand Investigation Rights. Pointing to the meager results of the League of Nations' investigation into the gun-running incident on the Aus- tro-Hungarian frontier when two car- loads of munitions were seized, French insist a more effective and es- | pecially more speedy operation of the “right of investigation” by League com- missions is needed for the Franco-Ger- man border. The investigation system functions when complaints are filed that fcr-r_enemy countries are vio- lating isarmament terms of the peace t Ths ¥r_ach proposal follows the regu- lar foreign policy of that government of throwing everything pertaining to peace treaties into the League, which it re- gards as a bulwark against violence. The French explain that if the plan were adopted and an investigating com- mission had made its report the League machinery of penalties against aggres- sor nations would start into motion, provided the nvestigators had found | conditions which threatened the peace of Europe. This machinery would turn against the French or the Germans n accordance with the nature of the in- vestigating 7&3)0!& after the latter had been approved by the League council. France, in other words, wants the Rhineland frontier zone made strong than is possible under existing treatics The Germans, on the other hand, say they would resent any new form of se- curity as offensive to German pride and prestige. This African lemur, who hunts only at night, arrived at the Zoo thi He was presented by Harvey iirestone after his capture on the Plnmnehr:{::é Phote. plantation in Liberia. —®bar Stafl who are, | Intermezzo, PERSFING HONORED - ONGATH BIRTHDAY Mecals Jf Four Nations Pre- sented in Simple Ceremony. Gen. John J. Pershing, on hiy sixty« eighth birthday anniversary today, re- ceived the acclaim of a Nation grateful |for the health and vigc: of the man who | led its leglons to victory across the seas in its great war. Still the clear-eved, dynamic mili- |tary figure that planned and pushed the forces of the United States to victory and cverlasting glory in the great St. Mihiel drive 10 years ago, it was, never- theless, hard to reconcile the soft- spoken, faultlessly mufti-clad man of today with the “Black Jack™ of the doughboy-in-the-trenches days only & decade ago. Hundreds of wires, cables from his friends across many waters, and other tokens of the esteem from his own countrymen and those of other na= tions who feel honored to call him their friend poured into his office today, in the State, War and Navy Building. Greeted From Afar. Felicitations came from the rulers of England, of France, of Italy and all the rest of the allies of the World War. And in the office of Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis he was presented with |the medals of four nations—Poland, : Czechoslovakia, Peru and Venezuela— {In a quiet, informal ceremony. The decorations conferred today were: { . Dec ation and diploma, the Order of { the White Lion, Class I, conferred by the President of the Czechoslovakian government, September 14, 1926. Peruvian Medal, commemorative of the first centenary of the Battle of Avachucho. Conferred by the President of Peru, December 2, 1925. Decoration and digloma, Knight Com- mander’s cross of the Order of “Virtuti Militari.” Conferred by the President of Poland, April 29, 1925. Venezuelan decoration, “Bust of the Liberator,” two lapel buttons and al- bum of photographs. Conferred by the Prestdent of Venezuela, July 2, 1925. Only Secretary Davis and his aides attended the simple ceremony that marked the only official incident of the birthday anniversary o® the commander of the American expeditionary forces during the war. . Retired four years ago'from active Army service, Gen. Pershing still occu-~ pies a handsome office in the State, War and Navy Building. Has Glorious Record. Now, in retrospect of a life rich in the retrospection of deeds done and seer: on many battlefields Gen. Pershing works for that ideal he voiced 11 years ago in Paris when he said: “There can be no peace excent a last- ing peace.” On the occasion of his birthday 10 years ago, amid the tumultuous days Wwhen his soldiers had just brought the 8t. Mihiel drive to“a successful close. his friend, Woodraw Wilson, President of the United States, cabled the Na- tion’s gratitude to the-sol ‘whose name was on every tongue. As a captain in the United States Army Pershing was raised to the rank of brigadier general after he had sub- dued Moro insurgents in the Philippines. When the United States entered ths World War Pershing, who had fought in the frontier campaigns, in the Span- ish-American conflict with Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, and with Gen. Nelson Miles il the war against Chief Geronimo and his Apache braves, had scen war service in the jungles of the Philippines and had chased Vil'a into the fastnesses of the mountains of Hexico, was chosen .to lead the Amer:- can doughboys against the Germans and their allies. What he did in the United States’ last great conflict is his- tory that every schoclboy in the Nation knows. After the war ho was brought back to work out plans for the defense of the Nation and became chief of staff of the Army. Later he was assigned the dif- ficult task of straightening out the dif- ferences of Peru and Chile over the Tacna-Arica area. It has been the custom of the United States, from the time of Washington, to bestow upon its victorious generals the highest administrative office of the Nation. With the precedent of Wash- ington, Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Grant. Harrison and Roosevelt before him, he Iswp d all moves to boom him for the lprcs idency after the war. Drives Through Crossing Gate. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., September 13. —Caught between the gates on the grade crossing here with a train ap- proaching. Henry Ripple of Edmonston last night put on speed and sent his automonile crashing through one of the gates, according to Chief of Police Carl M. Blanchard, who investigated. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band, Sylvan Theater, at 7:30 o'clock tonight: Overture, “Carneval,” Opus 92. Dvorak Nocturne, “Dreams of Love” Liszt Cornet_solo romantique, “The South- ern Cross”. Clarke Grand scenes ier,” Gilordano .Coleridge Taylor Enchantment,” ‘Trombone solo, Pryor “Prelude in G _Minor”. .. .Rachmaninoft “Carneval in Paris,” Opus 9..Svendsen “The Star Spangled Banner.” This concert will close the open-air season of the United States Marine Band. The annual concert tour will b2~ gin Monday at Baltimore. By the United States Army Band, at the Capitol tonight at 7:30 o’clock: Spanish march, “Serenito” .Losada Panama danza, “Chesterfield”. Galimany Caprice of Panama, "’l‘yplnlumlru." a Pasillo, “Merced Galimany Danzon, “Lastenia” . Quesada Selection, “Le Del Soto Del Parral,” Danzon, “Fuerza y Luz” “Himno Nacional de Panama.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band, at the bandstand, at 5:30 o'clock: 3 March, “Flag Day"” Overture, “A Hunt in the Ardennes,” Gabriel-Marie Suite, “In a Lover's Garden”. . Kettelbey Selection from the grand opera, “La Juive” (The Jewess). . Halevy Characteristic, “By the Swanee River,” Myddleton Waltz song, “I Can't Do Without You” ... .. Berlin Finale, “Pass in Review" .Safranek “The Star Spangled Banper.” By the United States Navy Band, at the navy yard bandstand, at 6 o'clock tonight: “March of the Toys,” from “Babes in Toyland.” rom “‘Sweethearts.’ Entr'acte, “Miss Dolly Dollars.” Waltzes from “The Red Mill.” | Excerpts from ‘he Irish ‘musical come- dy, “Elleen.’ here Once Was an Owl."” Song, "Gipsy Love Song.” Melody, “Dream Melod: Characteristic. ““Al Fre: March, “Panamericana. £ Star Spangled Banner.”